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WHAT / SA " AND HEARD

passengers, some on pleasure bent. while others had weary faces bespeaking toll and grime. Across from me sat two women with little four-year-old girl. After the lunge of the car, and a few turns of smooth running. cry of pain reached my ears I looked around and saw this little girl with bowed head, sobbing as if her heart would break. I became interested, and listened to the conversation, which ran this way:
 "Ohl my dolly, l left my dolly, and l know she's crying her eyes out for me, my best. my new dolly. Oh, oh, what shall I do? Who will put her to bed to- night?
 Then the tears would flood her cheeks. and the mother would wipe them away and try consoling her by saying:
 'Oh, sister will take care of your dolly, pu- her to sleep, and tomorrow send her to you
 '',So, no, I wants her right now, she misses me so greatly every minute. she will
 Again great walls of grief, till the sympathy of all the passengers was en- lis ed, while some strove to comfort the
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BY R. M. RAWLS.

The gunboat which had been such ter TOT to the suffering citizens along the river came up at the sound of firing to lend her aid, but a few well directed shells from Osborne crippled the bird of prey, and she drifted helplessly down the river
 The next morning Colonel Patterson at the head of his command passed through his home village, Somerville, then Nor gan countys seat of government. with his prisoners and booty. but only spent a few minutes with his wife and children. then hurried to join Roddy down the val ley.
 Maj. Lany C. Allen was a Franklin county man. He and his brother, l.. M. Allen, owned extensive property there. He was a miller of cotton His mill was burned by the federals during the civil war. but was restored after hostities, and Is running prohtably at Phil Campbell, Franklin county, Ala. Major Allen died
 In 1902 deeply -nourned. He was very careful of his men in the army, and was much beloved by them. He was not even wounded during the war, but escaped in- jury singuarly being so shocked by the bursting of a shell on the field of battl in Tennessee that he had 10 be borne off the field on the shoulders Of a comrade. and at Selma he received two bullet holes in his hat
 Athens. Ala.
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trenched infantry Blair's entire army corps was at Athens, Ala, only eighteen miles away Qwth outposts, of course), on its way to Decatur to cross the Tennes- see and reinforce Sherma Il at Chatta- nooga. Of course that force could hear the firing at Madison, and of course 1t would come to the rescue of Gorgas, and afterwards pursue Patterson. And now Patterson saw the wisdom of the precau- tion he had taken in leaving Warren and Osborne's gun at Fletchers ferry. thrilling, dramatic scene followed. En- cumbered with provisions and prisoners Patterson must haste If he escaped Blair 5 men in pursuit. Now the road to F1eeher ferry is almost parallel with the road to Gillsport, over which Patterson passed on that morning The roads are not more than a mile apart Patterson arrived at the ferry about clock. He went across the river in those rickety concealed boats, all and everything except the dismounted soldiers While that was being done he made nasty preparations for defense against his pursuers-there was not tme for so many men to cross in those two boats At the river the roads were not so near each other. A lake extends for two miles from Fletcher's ferry down and near the river About two or four nun dred yards from the head of this lake q bayou runs at right angle to the river. The ConfederaLeS constructed hastly
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citizens will remember the marauding of those federal gunboats. Old men and boys were forced to turn out with shot guns to protect their perishable stuff from the indiserimnate and unrecorded plum der Patterson, however as far as ferry boats were concerned, had prudently sunk two under water at Gillsport, ten miles above Decatur. 1t was we'll very well; for he soon learned that a force of fed erals who were at Madison Station, Mad ison county, were ravaging the surround ing country, threatening its devastation. Madison is ten miles north of Gillsport. Patterson had with him eco men and one section of FerrelFs battery, commanded by Lieutenant Osborne. He sent Major Gibson the brave Lawrence county off cer, with one gun and three companies, to Fletcher's ferry, three miles above Gillsport, to occupy a high bluff on the river, from which Gibson might give him assistance if he should become hard pressed by the enemy while on the north side of the river With the other gun and 450 men he went to Madison Station. At Madison was strongly entrenched, in a formidable stockade, the Thirteenth 1lli- nois regiment, one of Grants veteran reg iments of infantry, numbering 554 men. Patterson crossed the river at Gillsport, and on the ten mile march up to Madison, perfected the plan of attack. Colonel James Warren, when the pickets were
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the circumference towards the center; from above and from beneath. It's wealth and it's poverty reach the limits in both directions.
 The estimated population of London to- day is between five and six millions. These are figures which no human mind can comprehend so far as entertaining any idea of what that number of human be- ings represent. Every one of the units which compose this vast entity is an entity in itself. a living, struggling or gasm acting and re-acting, influencing and influenced London's greatness is London's weakness; the vast throng is daily becoming more unwieldy: the depths and heights in the social fabric have reached, if not passed, the danger point This was the possibility Macaulay fare saw when he prophetically drew the pie ture of the savage sitting on the broken arch of the lonely fisherman mending his nets on the banks of the river of ten thousand masts.
 London has it's attractions for the visi- tor, but even greater than it's attrac- tions are its dangers Some years ago three young girls, sisters, left their home In Ireland to go to Australia When buy ing their tickets in Dublin, they asked the agent to direct them to a hotel where
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driven in, invested the place on the right, dismounted and charged on foot Stuart Stuart mad seen. some service in Nirginia) made the same movement with his battery on the left. Patterson. with all the Fifth Alabama cavalry, his regi- ment, engaged n the affair, attacked in the center dismounting all the companies except one squadron under Maj Lany C. Allen, who on the rout of the enemy pursued the fugitlves. There was but one rise surrounding the stoekade, and Stuart the first shell so successfully, right into the stockade, that the federals at once abandoned it. Major Allen commanding the mounted squadron, did so admirably, picking up about 150 prisoners.
 The enemy threw away their arms as they fled, leaving 300 stacks the ground. A dozen army wagons were cap tured, several ambulances and many stores of provision Colonel Gorgas com manded the Thirteenth Illinois. Colonel Patterson rode Colonel Gorgas' saddle the remainder of the war. Patterson's loss was one killed, five wounded The enemys was more considerable. After loading the wagons and ambulances with booty. the depot at Madison. containing thousands of dollars worth of stores, was committed to the flames.
 During this signal victory of Patterson's s cavalry over superior force of en-
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BY J. C. HIDEN, D. D.

science. and entered guess-land, where one mans guess is as good as anothers.
 Without a revelation we are at a loss to answer the first questions of the cate chlsm Who made you?" With ths Bible closed don't know. and cannot give even an intelligent guess. What Is to become of me when I leave this world2" outside of revelation. I don't know. How should l behave while I am here2" Without the Bible cannot reason out any satisfactory scheme of life. A traveller who does not know whence he came, nor whither he Is going, can hardly have intelligent views as to his road. nor as to his gait. One Of the most pathetic sentences ever uttered by mortal man Is attributed to the great philosopher Aris- totle. who lived and died a heathen. We are told that on his dying bed he said: T came into the world in sin: l have lived In ignoranee l die in terror; Cause of causes, pity mel When old Andrew Broaddus was dying. some dear friend, seeing a bright smile upon his face asked: What is It, Brother Broaddus?' And he replied: "The angels are teaching me how to behave myself in glory"
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and lost than in London. One in five million It would be Just as easy to miss 8 leaf from an oak tree or a blade of grass from a garden plot as to miss one of the poor or unfortunate in London.
 Few people in America would believe that in London, the greatest shipping port In the world, there are thousands of men and women who never saw ship; that there are thousands of men and women in that city who never saw live sheep or COW; that there are thousands whose lives are so narrowed down by the strug- gle for daily existence they never get be- yond few blocks from where they were born. In the Minories, Whiteehapel and Rateliff Highway specimens of every CIV ilized nation on earth may be found and the children playing in the street afford the very best opportunity in the world for the study of ethnology
 Advocates of greater cities with million or more inhabitants should Vlslt those cities which already boast of those conditions. Great cities are fomdee oa factories and factories. as rule, pay lit- tie better than famine wages to their employees. No one who walks at night through the streets of London in those districts where factories give employment
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- EALERS of Macaulay's essays can not fail to have noticed that the 1 A writer in two of these essays prophecies the destruction of London, pro- phecies which at the present time appear to have as much likelihood of fulfillment as the extinction of the suns rays to- morrow morning, and yet he makes them. Macaulay judges of the future by the past and Is not unmindful of the fact that "Troy was.
 Residents in London know it only In part Visitors to London know it only as a great city with theaters. museums, picture galleries, cathedrals and shipping. Statisticians know if as a great field for the compilation of figures upon which to base deduction and theories in politi- cal economy. The novelist finds it an in exhaustable mine of inspiration, and the philanthropist an unlimited opportunity for the exercise of his charity. London is like Niagara, it takes time to understand it. It's influences must grow upon the mind. It must be viewed from the cen ter towards the circumference and from
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was humilated as no other party has been in our history. It's own lack of principle and its own moral poltroonery mad oocasioned the enactment of the Sherman law. and now cruel clrcum- stance made 1t the abject slave of n dem ocratlc president to force 1t to a confess sion of it's own infamy and n reversal of it's own statesmanshp. And here again the immortal Picker slipped the halter and got away from Reeds leader ship.
 After the democratic party deposed Cleveland from the leadership. cashiered Carlisle, Turner Mills Villas, olney Bay ard Lindsay, the Breckenridges, William l.. Wilson, and men of that flk, and set up in their stead the agrarian- socialist gang that drenched 1t with all manner of profigate isms, unthinkable to any demo- crat of Tildens time, the republican par ty went from victory 10 victory. Pater- nalism was installed and the only thing the democracy opposed to it was more vicious and more expansive paternalism The inglorious war with Spain was fought forced by yellow journals and the minor
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"HE sentinel of the Tennessee river
 in middle Alabama during the civil \ war was Josiah Patterson, the able lawyer and congressman in later life. The native manhood and inborn chivalry of this fine soldier endeared him to his men, as it also won the admiration of his lieuten- ant colonel, J. l.. M. Curry, graduate Of Harvard, congressman author, Baptist minister educator and agent of the Pea body and of the Slater educational funds. Patterson, commissioned brigadier-gener- al, but preferring the more useful service as colonel was the watchman of the Ten nessee river crossings and protector of the Tennessee valley people from the ravages of the federals in those bloody and troub- lous times.
 From perfectly reliable source the fol- lowing interesting facts, interesting espe- cia1ly to your readers because of the fa- miliar locations and personal names, your correspondent is happy to relate, for This is my own, my native land.
 The railroads and river crossings in northern Alabama were frequently made use of by the federals approaching east Tennessee and moving southward. The people of the country were sorely taxed by the federal supply hunters, and mili- tary strategy demanded conflicts. Gen
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the house the hall door opened and a woman came out who very cordially greeted the young girls.
 This is not the place at all that we want" said the youngest of the three, aged II. and we won't get out" "Oh, but you must" said the driver. laying his hand on the girls shoulder to pull her out. At that moment she made a plunge at him with the knife which, he luckily avoided. In the meantime several young men had come out of the house and tried to persuade the girls to get out of the cab, but 1t was all in vain. If you don't take us to the hotel" said the girls, we will sit in this cab all night, so the driver resumed his seat and start ed back towards the city. On the way they policeman and called him. He took a seat beside the driver and brought them to the hotel after which he arrested the hackman. What became of the case afterwards the girls never knew, as they had to be on board their steamer al o'clock that morning.
 Many young country girl goes to London In reply to advertisement for help, and falling into such trap Is lost. Not In the depths of the ocean could person be more completely swallowed up
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as ever was the response of soldier on parade. The compact minority was a machine under his touch and the only revolt was some handful, including the im- mortal Picker. from the far west, when 1t was not Reeds fight though he par ticipated, as the last of the Bland silver bills was put to sleep by a combination of Cleveland men, Tammany, the mug wumps, and some 90-odd per cent of the republicans The Hon. Julius Caesar Burrows was nightly disposed to faeil- itate the passage of the bill, but thought better of 1t.
 1t is not too much to say that Dalzell was the most valuable assistant Reed had when the house was in action, though 1t is likely that Reed depended on Ding ley more In council. Cannon. Grosvenor. and Hepburn were not members, all hay ing been engulfed in the democratic del- uge of 1890. when but two of the New England states-Maine and Vermont remained in the republican column. The Fifty-third congress repealed the pur- chasing clause of the Sherman silver law and then 1t was that the republican party
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TT WAS one of those rare days in mid
 winter when the sun awakened the x world to his smile, and threw over 1t his golden mantle of warmth, when boarded car for a suburban town to visit a friend.
 After the days of rain and gloom, my hopes were high in anticipation of what awaited me at the other end of the line Those pent-in daJs did much to open hidden wounds, to retaste the bitter sweet. and turn thought back on life's dim track.
 Now! the glorious sun seemed but a part Of my spirit, for l was awake to love and song.
 The day brought me the true compan- ionship of a kindred mind. We dwelt upon scenes of sirlhood, womanhood and motherhood. Memory was never more lndulgent to wayward souls; her lamp burned bright illuming long lost strings of lfe's harp; we wept, we laughed, till the hour drew nigh for my homeward turn.
 The car stood wonder at the foot of the street. 1t was already filled with
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they could go to on their arrival In Lon don, about 10 o'clock at night. He gave the name and address of hotel which, he said, was about a quarter hours drive from Euston station As the girls had previously forwarded their baggage they had nothing with them except a small handbag in which they had carried their luncheon and in which they had also knives and forks.
 In due time the train reached London. and they engaged hack to carry them to the hotel as, directed and which the hack driver said he knew very well. Instead of reaching the hotel in fifteen minutes il was nearly F o'clock when the hack stopped in front of a private house in the residence section of the city. Sev- eral times the young girls asked the driver if he had lost his way, and where he was taking them, but to all their in quiries he answered by telling them it was all right, that he was going to the place directed By the time they had reached the place where he finally stopped, their fears were thoroughly aroused, and each girl had armed herself with knife and fork in case of emer- gency.
 When the hack pulled up in front of
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THE GOSPEL A REVELATION

that he did not understand what the preacher was talking about.
 The 10th chapter of Paul's first epistle to the Corinthians gives a more eabor- ate discussion of the doctrine of the res urrection than does any other passage in the New Testament. The truths here set forth are revealed truths. The light of nature does not enable us to discern, much less to prove them.
 Now, be it remembered that this argu- ment is intended to refute Greek skepti- csm, such was common at Athens as well as at Corinth. When Paul preached on the streets of Athens, some of the philosophical people called him bab- bier. When he spoke of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked.
 That the Greeks did not believe in an- initiation Is proved by the very structure of their language 1 have taken the trouble to collect to examine and to compare all the Greek words for die and not one of these words gives the slightest hint at the idea of annlhilation. Most of them are notifications of the verb ito go." or to depart and thus indicate that death is going or de- parture from one place, or state, to an other place or state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-25
BY MRS. SAM WILL JOHN.

little tenderheart by gifts of flowers, candy, etc., but no the anguish of sep aration surmounted the ehilds whole be- ing. The strong toil-worn men looked, and wanted to speak some words of help; the women opened their arms to hug the grleved child to their bosoms, but in vain, the cry rang out;
 "Oh. oh. my booful, my preciousest dolly. She will be freezed tonight, with no body to cover her up.'
 The car stopped, the sympathetic moth CT and big sister took up the little girl and went out to their home. Many eyes followed them until they were lost to vier
 Now this memory takes possession of me- l see and hear again the infant mother in her deep distress, and the picture teaches me at it did of yore would like to know the sequel; If the chf,d and dolly were ever reunited.
 How typical of the true mother this child was, How some lonely, aching child heart would love to feel the warmth of such affection, and be covered up by tender hands, and not ''be freez- ed next morning.
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THE TABLES TURNED.

By William Wordsworth. Up! up, my friend and quit your books, Or surely you'll grow double; Up! up, my friend and clear your looks! Il Why all this toll and trouble? The sun, above the mountains head. A freshing turtre mellow, Through all the long green fields has
 spread,
 His first sweet evening yellow. Books, 'tls q dull and endless strife:
 Come, hear the woodland linnet- How sweet his music! on my life,
 There's more of wisdom in It. And hark. how blithe the throstle sings! He, too is no mean preacher; Come forth into the light of things Let Nature be your teacher. She has a world of ready wealth.
 Our minds and hearts to bless Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health. Truth breathed by cheerfulness. One impulse from a vernal wood
 May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good.
 Than all the sages can Sweet is the lore which nature brings: Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beautioVs forms of things We murder to dissect Enough of science and of art,
 Close up those barren leaves; Come forth. and bring with you heaSs That watches and reseivS
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To reproduce the people, the manners,
 the customs, the sayings and 4 doings-ln word. the environ ment--of a long-past age, is one of the most difficult tasks that any human being ever undertook. As a many-sided intellect Shakespeare leads the world, and yet he did not alweYs succeed in this task. In the play # Julius Caesar when the conspirators are gathered before day at the house of Marcus Brutus, one of them says: Peace! Count the clock The clock hath stricken three" We can hardly imagine that Shakespeare did not know that there were no clocks for cen- turtles after the time of Julius Caesar. He simply blundered here in moment of inadvertence It was what we call slip of the pen.
 Further: He makes Hector quote Aris- totle's philosophy; and if there was any Hector he died hundreds of years before Aristotle was born
 Sir Walter Scott was one of the great est of modern antiquarians, and yet he now and then makes slips in his repro auctions of the manners of the early days of Scotland and of England.
 Samuel Johnson was a genius and a
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THE DREAM OF HOME.

By Thomas Moore. Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals O CT the heart too soon, too fleet, When far O CT sea or land we roam? Sunlight more soft may OCT us fall. To greencr shores our barks may come; But far more bright. more dear than all That dream of home. that dream of
 home. Ask of the sailor youth when far His light bark sounds OCT oceans foam, What charms him most when evenings
 star
 Smiles OCT the wave? To dream of
 home. Fond thoughts of absent friends and loves At that sweet hour around him come His hearts best joy, wherer he royes That dream of home. that dream of
 home