Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-04-22

When I say backWoods I mean the isolated places, long-neglected and waste places of the country. In the of ours, there is today people of as of ours, there is today people of as pure Anglo-Saxon blood as ever cours, ed the veins of morta! man; though they live in poverty. obscurity, ignor- ance and neglect, they are made of good material, such as English Puri- tan, Scotch Coyenanters and French Huguenots-unreco but none the less genuine lineage. Men of these backwoods districts fought With honor on both sides during the Civil War but the greater number were soldiers of the Lost Cause At the close of the war they returned to their homes, dropping communication and contact with the outside world and for them the hands of the clock of Christendom stood still, and will " Illlilut lV SIdlill SlIti uliiGSo IIt women of the south give them a start
 According to what We read and learn the women are beginning to take in the situation of this much needed work. The southern women are taking stock of what is now on the ground and they find this stock possibilities Miss Minnie Boykin, who belongs to the great army of home mission women of the M. E. church, south, says of the backwoods of the southern states: There are many places in the rural districts where they are in just as great need Of missionary as they are in China. know of places where the people never saw a Methodist preacher nor a Sunday school. In some of these places there are only four homes out of ten that have a Bible in them and those who have one do not know any more about it than if they did not have it. Culture and refinement arc things unknown. Ignorance and in difference prevail. How does this sound for a Christian land and count ry, the south that produced Washing ton. Davis. Alex Stephens. Lamar, Grady and the world-renOwned Gen Lee. with a host of others of blessed memory. This condition occurs to me as being a dark cloud rising to shut out perfect day, if We do not seek a remedy for such conditions before it is too late. By saying too late, l mean that these people. after living that way so long, will become so hardened to their condition of buried hopes, deadened ambition and with no future to look to, that they will be careless of better condition for themselves or their children. The nind thus isolated must totter to it's ruin, or become so thoroughly selfish as to be at variance with all nature.
 John Sharp Williams, the Demo cratic leader in the house, has ln- ,troduced bill to incorporate the "ln- dustrial Educational League of the South" The purpose is "to promote the elementary and practical educa- ton of such unfortunate white per sens in the southern states as are not at present provided with suitable in- struction in either the public or other schools" The bill also provides that the government of said league shall h., vested in a board of trustees to be composed of the chief justice of the United States, who shall be presl- dent of the board, the secretary Of commerce and labor, the commission e1 of education and nine other mem bers to be chosen by the members of the league at public meeting. 1T this bill becomes a law 1t will be star in MT. Williams crown. If he never receives another in this life h< will have one star in his crown in eternity. "A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things.
 The Federation of Women's clubs Of Tennessee is taking up this work in the mountains of their state, and are establishing settlement homes in the isolated districts as far as they are financially able. Others nearing os their good work resolved to enter Tennessee mountains and the women of Massachusetts State federation established a settlement school all their own in East Tennessee. Good work for the Federation of Women's clubs.
 Miss Margaret F. Henry says; "rhere are 100000 young people or $, hool age in southern mountains and