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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-02
At MILLEDGEVILLE
WI TING FANG
SPOKE
HIS ADDRESS WAS A FEATURE OF
THE COMMENCEMENT ExER-
cIsEs OF GEORGIA MILL
TARY INSTITUTE.

MILLEDGEVILLE. Ca, May 29.-The
commencement exercises of the Georgia
Military college came to a brilliant close
yesterday with the annual grafton deliv-
cred by the Chinese minister WI Ting
fang. AIilledgeville was thronged with
visitors from Eatonton. Sparta, Macon.
Sandersville and all portions of the state.
They began pouring into the city on Tues
day. and by yesterday morning the hotels
and boarding houses were crowded.
Minister WI arrived on the Georgia
train at 1880 a. m. from Augusta. Mayor
Julius A. Horne, Aldermen Kidd and
jackson. and Mr.. George d. Case. OF the
board OF trustees OF the college, went to
Camack and met the minister. aceompa-
nying him from that point to Milledge-
vile. The minister was the guest of DR..
]. Harris Chappell while in the city. and
was driven TO his home before going to
the college. Minister WI wore the COR
geous robes peculiar TO the orient during
his entire stay. The scene on the beauti-
ful Elm covered campus as the minister's
carriage arrived was a truly inspiring one.
All the children Of Milledgeville, num-
bering many hundreds. were formed in a
double row on each side OF the driveway
through the campus 10 the main building.
Each tiny tot had an American flag or a
tiny Chinese flag. which they waved en-
Enthusiastically as the minister's carriage
passed. The corps OF cadets, commanded
by Cadet Captain Conn Carr, escorted the
minister along this driveway. AS the am
bassador approached the college the artil-
lery squad fired a salute of seventeen
guns. BY the booming OF cannon. the
waving OF flags and the cheers OF the as
sembled crowds. the envoy extraordinary
and the minister plenipotentiary from the
Chinese empire TO the United States was
welcomed TO Georgia's old capital.
An audience OF 100 people. composed of
persons from all over the state, was gath
cred. in the college chapel TO hear the adj
dress OF the distinguished foreigner. The
audience arose en- masse as the ambassa-
dor, accompanied by his special aide. Ma
jor A II. Marchant. and his host and hos
tess. DR.. and Mrs. j. Harris Chappell, en-
tered the vast auditorium.
Seated on the stage with Minister WI
and the faculty were many distinguished
gentlemen from all portions Of Georgia.
The minister delivered his address. hold
ing his manuscript in his hand. His adj
dress was eminently appropriate for a
commencement and showed deep thought.
He was frequently interrupted by ap-
plause as he proceeded. He spoke of the
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-02
MThe God Of ThInas.' p

1.-THE God of Things" novel Of modern
Fgvpt by Florence Brooks Whitehouse;
Little, Brown & Co., publishers, Boston.
AS the title would suggest, The God OF
Things is built upon the theory-not
very pleasant one-that there must come
a time in every ones life when he loses
faith. II he ever had 1t, In his power to
mold his destiny, and feels himself at the
mercy of a blind, resistless, overpowering
force which he calls Fate"
1t is a horrible thought, and as Dorothy
is made to remark, makes one feel like
a little kitten held over tub OF hot wa
ter-it Is useless to squirm; you are bound
TO drop" But the author has managed her
theme delicately and clearly working out
a very charming and intensely interesting
story. It is a simple plot, with modern
Egypt In all its picturesqueness and
wealth Of romance, its brooding past, and
its pyramids 'doting with age, as set
ting. Two women love one man, and the
man loves the weaker woman, who sacri-
fees him sternly and unrelentingly to her
narrow views Of life and Its duties, while
the stronger woman, who strives and suf-
fers and finally gives up life itself to make
him happy is despIsed and scorned. And
right here the author has exercised her
subtlest spell in giving us the psycholo-
gical study of the strong woman-the
Baroness Won Hausheim-in winning the
-
Philip and Dorothy, and then turning on
the whole battery of her powers to enlist
a greater sympathy for the Baroness Won
Hausheim.
The story bears none Of the earmarks
of q first effort; IL Is fine in conception,
graceful of diction, subtle in character
portrayal and clever in its sustained dia-
logue. 1t viii not fail to win the favor Of
the reading public. The book Is very pref
tt1xy fIlrrafraf fed nv tha author hergolf.
Mrs. Whitehouse is native of Augusta
Me. She went abroad In 1892, visiting Spain,
Italy, Switzerland, Greece, Turkey, Afri-
ca, Egypt Syria and the Holy Land. She
spent an entire winter in Egypt, and while
there gathered much of the material for
this book. She was married in 1894, and
since that time has written three plays
which have been presented with marked
success in different parts Of Maine, and
is also the author of many charming short
stories, but THE God of Things" Is her
first book. She is a woman of unusual
talent, bright and versatile; a musician,
artist and writer, combined with a grace
full personality that makes her great
social leader. She has always acted in her
plays whenever they were produced, and
at these times her lovely voice has been
heard to great effect. For four or five
years Mrs. Whitehouse was a member of
the Cecilia club, musical organization in
Augusta. but when she went to live in
Portland transferred her allegiance to the
Rossini club, the largest musical club in
Maine and which has the distinction of
being the first ladies' musical club organ
lied in the United States.
1t would seem that Mrs. Whitehouse' S
talents are largely inherited, as she is a
direct descendant of John and Betty AL
den, and in the same line with Phillips
Brooks.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-02
Bishop Candler,s Estimate
Of Henry Ward Beecher
By J. s. PANcHEN.

Beecher was not a man of scholarship,
and also a careless student. Nevertheless,
Beecher was carefully educated for the
ministry at Andover under the strict dis
cipline characteristic of the Presbyterian
ministry, and he also had previously re-
ceived a thorough academic course, fol-
lowed by large travel and study in sub
sequent years. In all OF his pulpit ca
reer he always appeared amply equipped
for the work before him. His Yale lee
lures on preaching, comprised in three
volumes, evidences hsJ ability as think
err and scholar, and is acknowledged as
an indispensable help to every student Of
homiletics. For quite a quarter of a CEN
fury he generally preached twice every
Sabbath to an audience of 5000 people who
listened enraptured and instructed by the
power and beauty of his discourses. An
ecdote, illustration, quotation, epigram
or proverb-uttered under the volition or
his poetic and imaginative temperament.
were not soon forgotten sand effectively
drove home the truth. AS to the charge
of Beecher's carelessness in preparing his
sermons, the present writer is the fortu-
nate possessor of two of his manuscript
sermons, and the emendations and inter-
lineations contained therein, evidences his
scholarship and his careful preparation
for his pulpit work.
To the ordinary reader, who may care
little for published sermons, many have
found Beecher's Life Thoughts and Roy
al Truths" delightful excerpta of his pull
pit utterances, while his Letters to
Young Men" has become a classic in our
literature.
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THE LIGHT is EVER SILENT.

The light is ever silent;
II calls up voices over sea ana EARN,
TThe iarlss CAV chant the note of forest dove,
The lambs quick bleat and the bees earnest
The sea birds winged wall upon the wave,
II wakes the voice OF childhood. soft and clear;
Ana tbs worlds mighty murmur that had sunk,
For short hour. TO sleep upon the down
That darkness spreads for wearied limbs and
But sin it sounds not. speaks not. whispers
No one faint throb of its vast pulse is heard
By creature-ear. How silent is the light;
Even when of old II Weakened Memnons Tyre,
1t breathed no music OF Its own; and still'
when at sweet sunrise. on its golden wings.
1t brings the melodies of dawn to man,
1t scatters them In silence Ger the earth.
The light is ever silent;
It sparkles on morn,s million gems s sol OF oe"'
II weaves It's gold into the cloud Of sunset
Yet not sound is heard: it dashes full
on yon broad rock, yet not an echo answers;
1t lights In myriad drops upon the flower.
Yet not blossom stirs. It does not move
The slightest MIN OF to,5eb Snsnct wing
would shiver.
The light is ever silent:
Most silent of all heavenly silences;
Not even the darkness stiller. nor so stiH;
Too swift for sound or speech, II rushes on
Right through the yielding skies. massive
OF rnuItitudinous beams; an endless sea.
That flows but Gibbs not. breaking on the shore
OF this dark EARTH with never ceasing wave,
Yet in it's swiftest flow, or fullest spring tide
Giving less sound than does one falling bios
som,
Which the May breeze lays lightly on the
sward
Such let my life be here;
Not marked by noise but by success alone;
Not known by hustle but by useful deeds,
Quiet and gentle. clear and fair as light;
Yet full Of it's oft-penetrating power;
It's silent but resistless influence;
Wasting no needless sound. yet ever working
Hour after hour, upon needy world
-Horatius Bonar.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-02
"rhe Coast of Freedom. ;,

1.-THE Coast of Freedom" by Adele Marie
Shaw; Doubleday. Page & Co, New York.
Beginning with the time the hero over
hears. but does not understand, a con-
spiracy against the life of the Little
Maid" an English girl of some fortune,
who stands in the way Of her Cousins
gaining the fortune left her by her father,
this volume abounds in adventures of an
unusual but not necessarily improbable
kind. Roger Verring. the son of Puritan
parents, goes to England on one Of his
fathers ships. On account of i'll treatment
he is taken from 1t by a friend of his
father, who carries the boy with him on
a search for buried treasure he is engaged
in. On this trip the ship is attacked by
pirates. who are defeated. and on board
whose vessel the Little Maid" who has
been kidnapped, is found by Captain
Phips. Rogers friend and commander.
The story goes from this point back 10
the new world. still filed with adventures
for the pair, ending with a trial for witch
craft for the Little Maid" otherwise
Frances Bellingham. and her fight with
Roger from Boston and its grim rulers
to a cabin in the woods surrounding the
town. The happy defeat Of her cousins
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ly discovered the elixir of life. That he is
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-02

. HE eruption Of Mt. Pelee by
which the city of st. Pierre
on the island of Martinique
was destroyed. upheaved
some moral products as revolving as
the physical destruction was horri-
BILE.
Crawling through heated ashes
over charred remains of men and
women. looters carried off treasures
Of the dead and thus was thrown
TO the surface a consuming covet-
BUSINESS as blasting TO the moral ma
ture as burning lava is to every
form of life.
Scientific experts inspected the
volcano a few days before the awful
catastrophe and assured the unset
entifc community that no danger
was imminent. At the same mo-
ment moralists might have affirm
ed that looting under the shocking
circumstances which followed would
be unthinkabIe. But volcanic peaks
and human depravity are alike ca
pabIe of exceeding all predictions
made by theorists in peaceful, quiet
moments.
The seismologists for several years
past have been predicting an erup-
ton OF Mt. Pelee; but their depart
ment of science is, comparatively
speaking so young, the experts IN
older branches of science have
lightly esteemed their predictions.
Orthodox theologians for centuries
have been asserting the doctrine Of
human depravity only to be derided
by the progressives for teaching
such an unprogressive dogma, and
one so uncomplimentary to human
nature. The delicate tests OF the
seismologists noted pulsations in
Pelee which foreboded terrOrs out
going all the conceptions OF the
conservative scientists and the Bib
Iical tests of orthodoxy discovered
in unregenerated humanity powers
of evil that make possible the dark
est deeds OF crime.
Civilization may form crust over
the visible side of mankind which
restraints indecencies and enormi-
ties within the secret caverns OF the
soul. so perfectly as TO lead some
minds to think such moral horrors
are impossible; but a catastrophe
of nature like that in Martinique
or circumstances Of war like those
in the Philippines or South Africa
break the crust and behold, what
monstrous deeds are put forth! HUI
manity when unregenerate is capa-
BILE Of the worst things. It has surely
fallen from some great height or 1t
could not fall with such fearful We
locity and bury itself so deeply in
DEGRADATION. It can be saved by d.
vine power only. 1t must be born
from above, or burn beneath.
This revolving looting IN Mar
Unique shows how fixed is charac-
ter. II is sometimes supposed that
impressive and awful phenomena
have power to change character. So
thought the rich man in torment,
when begging that Lazarus might
be sent from the dead to his IA
Tiers house to warn his five breth-
rem lest they also should come to
that place Of pain, he affirmed IL
one went to them from the dead
they would repent But he was
truly Informed. IF they hear not
Moses and the prophets neither will
they be persuaded though one rose
from the dead"
Character is changed by the pow
er Of truth and not by spectacles,
however awful. He who despises
truth and loves evil will rob the
dead while streaming lava flows
about him and the most heart-rend-
ing scenes lie before his eyes. In
deed, amid such terrible surround
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-02
"Moral Products Thrown Up
By the Eruption of Mt. Pelee"
BY BISHOP WARREN A. GAMBLER.

ings depravity seems to harden into
the most CHASTITY and repulsive
forms.
The scriptures teach us that IN
hell the awful passions OF anger
and despair break forth in the en-
ergetic manifestations of gnashing
teeth and wailing cries. But no tears
of penitential grief nor motions OF
renewed character are seen there.
The moral manifestations at the
base of Pelee give psychologist proofs
of the truth Of the Scriptural reve-
lation of hell
The case of spiritualism also fur
nishes parallel proof. There are
doubtless sincere spiritualists who
really believe they have communica-
ton with the invisible and eternal
world. But when did belief in spir-
ituaIism ever destroy a vice or
nourish a virtue? The men and wo-
men who trifie with II come away
from their seances as unchanged
as the gloomy and desperate Saul
emerged from the cave where he
met the witch of Endor. Spiritual
ism, seeking after a sign, loses in
terest in moral truth and ends in
moral undoing and despair.
Again, in the moral horror of the
looters at st. Pierre we discover
what is the most base and incura-
bic of moral maladies. 1t is not
drunkenness nor RIGHTEOUSNESS; but
covetousness. Here is the most de-
"A 1NpN. al OF
all the base possessions which dehle
and disgrace human nature. 1t
made the sin of Achan and brought
TO Israel the first defeat in Canaan.
II tainted the souls OF Annanias and
Sapphira and gave rise to the first
shame and sorrow in the early
church. It reached a climax In ST.
mon Magus, who would, If he could,
have made the Holy Ghost himself
the servant OF greed. Covetousness is
capable of any crime.
It will corner grain and withhold
meat while helpless hunger cries in
the streets, and 1t will chucxle over
dividends strained with human
blood.
1t has three degrees of COMPARE
son and If treated as an adjective
might be compared in this wise:
Positive covetousness, comparative
gambling, superlative stealing. 1t
has also a sub-position in selfish
ness which is related to covetous-
ness as blaclxish is TO black. It has
also a super-superlative which was
reached in the footing at st. Pierre
and which is also manifested In the
extortions Of the meat trust In
America. Beyond this last stage of
greed hell is no farther off than the
blazing Mt. Pelee was distant from
the shameless hooters who scorched
their hands to rob the dead.
It is monstrous to suppose that
such depravity could by any possi-
bility find a place in heaven or be
content If allowed to enter there.
1t is incredible that even the fires
of hell can purge it of its vileness.
Pelee's portents could not awe it
as perdition's penalties cannot puri-
fy IL. If there is no hell in which to
conflne 1t, there ought to be.
Closely inspected as it appears in
this world even it shows itself
filthy and undying worm fit only for
a quenchless flame. This is the ir-
resistible conclusion which Is de-
manded by the moral products
thrown up by the eruption OF Mt.
Pelee. ,.a
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New York Press.

New York Press
Pleasure is only comparative; pain is posi-
tive.
Going into politics means going out of every
thing else.
1t is so easy to make friends that nobody
has any that genuine.
Mans path to duty leads from the school;
womans from the church.
The next proudest thing TO being mother
for most women is being an aunt.
A fox terrier can discount philosophy and
COW with her cud knows more content than
is in the bosom Of the church.
The longer man argues to make woman
see the reason of q thing the surer she Is TO
trust her instinct about 1t.
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Certain Republican congressman con-
tinue to insist that they don't believe Cen
eral Smith gave his widely execrated
sl<iil and burn order. This is equivalent
TO calling the general a liar.
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SICK MADE WELL.
WEAK MADE STRONG
Marvellous Elixir Of Life Discovered
by Famous Doctor. Scientist That
Cures Every Known Ailment.
Wonderful Cures Are Effected That
Seem Like Miracles Performed
The Secret of Long Life of
OIden Times Revived.
The Remedy Is Free to All Who Send Name
and Address.

After years Of patient study. and deiv-
ing into the dusty records of the past, as
well as following modern experiences in
the same realms of medical science. DR..
James w. Kidd. Sls Baltes building
Fort Wayne. Indiana. makes the
startling announcement that he has sure
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-02

It is announced by a Vienna paper that the
kaiser has arranged to pay visit to Emperor
Francis Joseph at the beginning Of September.
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evil plans, the recovery of her rights and
the completion OF her love story and
Rogers is well told, and the book. while
not thrilling. is of deep interest to the
reader.
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y HE eruption of Mt. Pelee by
which the city of st. Pierre
on the island of Martinique
a.~4~,rraI rtrlhao Und