The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1902-02-06

maintenance of the truth. Just think
Of 1T. Within the past nine years
twenty-five States have been chartered
as grand divisions, including California,
New York, thu District of Columbia,
| Oklahoma and the Indian Territory.
In all these there have boon chartered
chapters with membership of 10000
good loyal Southern women. The
largest federation Of women IN the
world. OF this membership Texas has
the largest number, 2,435, Georgia
comes next with 1,750 members. But
my friends, tins great army Of daugh-
tcrs had mothers who, whether alive
or now dead, lnstillcd this love Of truth
and unstaincd Confederate honor in the
hearts of their children. They arc the
ones who sacrificed and suffered and
still were strong. For more than fifteen
years / have observed a trait in wo-
mans nature that is lacking in most
men. Sho never gives up. Tho sad
results OF the war that wrecked the
fortunes Of Southern men fastened
thousands of them to untimcly graves,
| bat their widows still dot the land from
Virginia to Texas. The mothers of
these daughters endured more hard
ships and privations than their hus-
bands and cons who were in the army,
but they never complained.
Goldsmith wrote:
Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long"
But some cynical old bachelor para
phascd it:
Man wants but little here below,
For 30 the poets say,
But woman wants it all, you know,
And wants it right away"
Well, she docs want all she can Gel
and wants 1t as soon as she can get it
if not sooner, but if she can't have il
she surrcndcrs chccrfully and acc0mmo
dates herself to the situation. During
the war they actually smiled at then
own pltlful and distressed condition
| They boiled down tho dirt from the
smoke house that had long been satu.
rated with the drippinss of the hang
ing meat and made pretty good salt rut
OF II and divided with their ncIyhbors.
| They parched rye and gubbcrs for cof-
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them IN for there want y nail IN ,hr
county. But GOOD old Mother Akin
whom everybody loves and likes I,
listen TO, told how three Of her nc,vh.
bors yot out Of meal and had somehow
got hold of three bushels of corn and