The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1901-12-26

top of tho wSsll and etling the plank
lap up instead Of ddTn,, so that his
wife could pour hot wAtel in the cracks
and kill the bedbugs.\ reckon that
Tom Benton, who wrotb his biography,
got his anti pension Arinciples from
Macon, for Benton iuh great speech
in tho Senate opposed \a pension ito
General Harrlson's widdw and caIlt,l
it ga new departure thAt woll,, l,aflt
to the bottomlcss gulf Of ponsiona aud
gratuities." We'll iLv is b !ttoinless
gulf both to the ;Stnte andthe nationa
In this connection ISruminated On
who were our greatest men in Gtor2in'
who most deserve n midhe in ihe
temple of fame. by common couscnt,
Oglethorpe seems entitled tp the, first
place, but dozen or more have advn-
Gates for the second place. reckon,
however,. tina, Crawford Long viii get
it-nOt as II Statesman or soldier or
inventor or philantiiNYpi>t, hui rather
IA u thoughtful dlscoverer like yeuner,
who discovered The healing art OF >yac-
cination. The question Is very poiSaN
picking one, for some ale great in ono
phase of character and some in aDoth-
er. My wife thinks that Bishop l'oarce
was the greatest man, because he had
the greatest calling and filled, it as no
other man has cone, and she quotes
that verse from Daniel which says,
" They who have called many 10
righteousness shall shine as the stars
forever and forever" MY wife grew
up under his matchless preaching, and
is pretty good Methodist yet.
This reminds me of a delightful
sketch l find in the proceedings of the
last Georgia Bar Association held at
Warm Springs In July. The subject
is "The Georgia Lawyer" viewed by
q woman. The woman IL Mrs. A.
Render Terrell, of Greenville. The
papers generally read at these annual
meetings arc dry and prosy TO every
body save the lawyers, but this paper
is charming, entertaining and lnstruc-
tive from beginning TO end. The first
sentence attracted me, and kept Cn
to the last, and my feeling at its close
was-well, that woman is a trump, she
is historian, a philosopher and first
rate lawyer, even though she be wo-
man. | read it aloud TO my female
family. She closes with poetic apos
trophe to the Georgia lawyer which
many an unfortunate defendant will
| appreciates:
"The parson points the way to heaven.
And then with tender care
The doctor consummatcs tho work
| And sonds tho patient there.
/" But tho Georgia lawyer would delay
| Departure with such criUs:
Holdl Can this man read his title clear
| To mansions in the skies?' ....
In doubt he tilos brief and seeks
To hold the ignOramus
And stops his flight to heavenly bliss
BY injunction or mandamus.'
A1d 30, while looking around for
the greatest man, we might we'll pause
and hear what Mrs. Terrell says about
John Fors, til. She says, " Forsyth
was champion for the establishment
of our supreme court, and earnestly
advised it in his message in 1928"
He SAID, lit is an awful reflection that
lite, liberty and reputation are depen-
dent upon the decision of single
Judge uncontrolled and uncontl ollable
in his circuit" ThLn she continues,
" Forsyth's matchless oratory and the
purity of his private and political life
won for him n anne that will be
honored and 1evered always. While
in the United States Senate he had no
superior % an orator, and was called
the equal of Lord Erskine." If had
paper of my own l would publish
every line of Mrs. Terrcl's delightful
paper. And the next Sunday would
publish the paper read by j. H. Mer-
rill, of Thomasville, on "The Bible in
the Lawyers Library" Why, this
paper ought to be read and studied not
only by the lawy ers, but by every
preacher in the land. 1t ls fit for a
textbook in the colleges, and it Is 80
lnterspersed with gems of good wit
and huTor that one does not get tired.
And there is an admirable paper On