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White House closed in a storm of exeera- tlons, which proceeded from both the great parties, and with almost equal bit terness. So thoroughly was he disgusted that he would not even stay to see his successor inaugurated, but hurried in hot haste from the capital, when the ink on his midnight appointments was barely dry.
 Madisons administration was opposed by nearly all of the ablest statesmen of New England and, for once in his life, John Randolph took sides with those men whom he cordially hated, and often and scathingly denounced.
 Madsons administration was largely the outgrowth of Jefferson's: and no statesman in our history has ever been more bitterly hated, nor more severely denounced than was Jefferson. The ha- tired of the federalists pursued him to his grave, and even beyond it. Cow ardice, uneeanness in his private life, dishonesty infidelity, atheism, and divers other vices and villainies, too tedious to mention, were publicly charged against him. Long after he had retired to pri- vate life, and was known as "the sage of Monticello" federalists refused to send their sons to the University of Virginia because '1t was founded by that inhdel, Tom Jefferson"
 MT. Jefferson hated controversy and took pains to steer clear of conflicts in the newspapers; but pacific as was his disposition he was obliged to be "a man of war from his youth.'
 Mir. Monroe seems never to have at tained any very high degree of popu-
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the creature wears out and passes away iE the use of it. Not only so but the sphere of feminine activity so changes with time that the individual of George Washington's day would be utterly lost velt's. The 'isa of the century is the rights" and that is all we may claim for it.
 The other division of the mind of cul- tured society denies that harmony is es- sential to the human duty of progress. To come toAthe point with MT. Dale. I give an extract from a speech of the dem- agogue among demagogues, so to speak, Yancey: Tt is not uncommon to hear those who hold my opinions denounced as agitators I for one accept the appella- tion. Error and ignorance occupy more primitive relation to our lives than en- lightenment and truth Agitation, incen- tives to exertion, inducements which im- pei inquiry are sources of knowledge and wisdom. The prophets of old were agita- tors. Nature disturbs the peace which broods over the land and the sea, like slumber, with the restless rush of the hurricane and the mad pillows wash the shores of the hemisphere in their fury. Languishing beneath tropical sun, anil mate nature pantingly seeks shelter from it's burning gaze. The green slime covers the still waters; the deadly miasma rises. Suddenly, the heavens are overloaded, the blazing electric meteors shoot, the deep-tone thunders roll through the great vaults above, the torrents descend, the unrestrained winds career in madness, and, as suddenly athwart this gloomy as- pect nature resumes a smiling face and purified breath overspreads her dominion The Divine Master dying, died amidst convulsions of nature which shook the earth in it's foundations. His last in junction to His disciples was to go forth
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HNHE Dale of Wilcox possesses @ meas
 ure of personal "reminiscences of
 4 public events running back for half century. He gives the press some elaborately prepared reflections upon times past and present under the some- what unsettled caption, "The Reign of Demagogue.' Evidently he means to be understood as at variance with the majority who prevailed in cer- tain interesting episodes in the history of Alabama and is left full of sorrows. The demagogue of Farmer Dale Is the orator of the majority.
 And Moses said unto the Lord, o Lord, am not eloquent neither heretofore or since thou hast spcAen unto thy servant; but I am slow of speech and of slow tongue" Nevertheless the great God had present need of "demagogue" Time had come for the children of Jacob to as- sert the inchoate principles of Jefferson's s declaration of Independence, to change their form of government at will. In four centuries residence in Egyptsthey had in- creased to 600,O00 that were men besides children" This census gives approxi- mately the number of white people in Alabama, who, according to Farmer Dale, were overpowered within the period of his memory by demagoguery and behaved very badly, to-wit, seeded.
 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth and teach thee what thou shalt say" spake God to His chosen ora tor. That was a mistake of great na- tional weight, of course. Farmer Dale bewails oratory: He fails to tell how, or by what influence or process he would or ganize the people to effect the benefits of organization or to change the form in government which revolving time must
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Charley Adamson is as southern as pod of okra or pod of cowpeas, or a cotton plant, or a corn pone, or wa termelon. It it a splendid race, and speaking of their ancestry, in the Old World, Sir Walter Scott puts in the mouth of the grim, the stern, the pitt less Cromwell the most flattering com pliment. Horace Greeley. within few weeks after Appomattox, expressed the wish that Davis and Toombs, Benjamin and Wigfall, Stephens and Mason, Hun ter and Iverson, and all the rest of the trusted southern leaders surviving the war, would be invited to return to their former places in the councils of the
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make imperative and inevitable. Doubt less so prosperous a farmer as MT. Dale is patient and reticcnt only of his concep- tlon of substitute for the orator. We shall hear from him later.
 The very worthy gentleman of Wilcox writes beautifully when saying Tn the year 1860 all that strip of country south of Masons and Dixons line known as the Southern States was a veritable gar den of Eden; a regular Beulah's land; a vale of Cashmere. Her pastures were clothed with fiocks, her valleys were cov- cred with corn. Hers was a land the most fruitful, a climate the most genial and salubrious the sun ever shone upon. Her vineyards bore fruit like unto the grapes of Eschol, whose golden fields of grain were ripe for the sickle, and wide fields of cotton were white unto the har- vest, fit emblems of purity. Upon the bosom of her rivers and lakes floated steamboats, palatial in all their makeup, carrying the commerce of the land to the seaport towns and cities"
 Pursuing this historical narrative for the space of a column or two, the ardor of the writer reaches a climax as follows:
 '"All of a sudden on the borders of this Beulah land appeared small cloud about the size of a mans hand. Behind that cloud stood the demagogue who like the serpent in the garden of Eden was soon to spread devastation and woe. On the stump, in the forum, in every state and national convention his voice could be heard combating some imaginary evil. With his silvery tongue, with his match less eloquence-and what demagogue is not eloquent-he stirred the people, poor and rich alike. His exordium was: Hell is afoat, and the river is risingl'; his peroration was:
 Strike till the last armed foe expires
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AN OFFENSIVE DISTINCTION.

From Puck. If an enterprising burglar cracks your
 quiet little cot, And when interrupted shoots you in
 very vital spot; If he fails to make a getaway his shrift
 Is very short, And he gets a cold reception when he
 comes before the court Then it's, stand forth, William Sykes!
 For the blood that you have shed You are sentenced to be dangled by the
 neck till you are dead!' A common malefactor, devoid of influence. He is guilty, proven guilty, of criminal
 offense. If an enterprising banker plays safer
 sort of game, If he takes your hard-earned money and
 juggles with the same If he comes a sudden cropper, and ap-
 pears before the court, The greeting that they give him is of
 quite another sort Then it's, 'Howdy. MT. Banker! You are
 looking well todayl'' And his honor waits indulgently to hear
 what he may say. And counsel for defendant pleads, in easy
 confidence. ."Mr Bankers merely guilty of tech
 nical offense."
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Orleans, to buy arms for the Confeder- acy. The cotton was worth fin gold s1 ,000,- GOO.
 We owe debt to history in the South and that is to present fairly the facts in- volying the revolution which destroyed the conditions of 1860 so graphically de- scribed from memory by Farmer Dale. It is not my purpose in this place to write down those facts but 1t is impossible .o reflect upon the rebel yell' without sense of the injustice of Farmers Daleis conclusions, that there was nothing there more than a lot of gallant l1naves and ehivalrous fools: demagogued into an ar my with banners.
 Washington, with a small army in New Jersey, heard of CornwalIs marching from South Carolina upon his rear, while the British occupied New York on his front. He detached Lafayette with a force and orders to join Greene in the South and meet Cornwallis. Lafayette reached Richmond and decided not to obey the order to join Greene, then in South Carolina. He awaited the slow ap- breaches of the British, met them and drove them to Yorktown. Thus the "demagogues," Patrick Henry, Otis Ad- ams, Rutledge and the others escaped the class of Yancey, Toombs, Wigfall, Rhett and the others. We now have .dema- gogues where we should have had can onized saints had not Johnston fallen at Shiloh, had not Stonewall Jackson failed in physical endurance in the Richmond battles, had not Jackson fallen later at Charlottesville, had Gordon been more trusted at Gettysburg or Oates not been short there 15O men, had Hood been equal to the execution of the great strategies of Joseph E. Johnston.
 It Is idle to say the Confederacy was too weak for independence.
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"HE Rue de la Paix, the Mecca of
 expresses and queens as well as
 X of the democratic daughters of the Stars and Stripes, is already be- ginning to blossom with spring models, and soon there will be the annual invasion of ladies, royal and loyal, who, however much they might prefer to patronize the modistes. and milliners of their own country, find a visit to Paris indispensable. You will see sooner or later what the American women may buy here, and here are some interesting facts concerning the royal pur- chasers.
 Queen Alexandra spends a week or more among the Parisian shops in the early spring of every year. Including her state robes and her jewelry, the En- glish Queen spends about $S0,0OO year Queen Alexandra, who is learned in gem lore. is extremely fond of inspecting the treasures of the Parisian jewellers, and makes frequent purchases of diamonds and pearls, Her court gowns are made in Paris but her tailor-made dresses and her hats the Queen prefers to buy in London. All her gloves and stockings are Parisian. She spends about $500 a year on gloves at $3.60 a pair, and for her stockings a special loom is kept contin- ually running
 Poor Queen Amelie of Portugal, one Of Nhe best dressed women in Europe, used
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READING
ONE OF THESE LITTLE ONES.

ONE OF THESE LITTLE ONES. From the Smart Set o little child o widereyed wondering
 child!
 Well do I know you are a captured wild Bird from the outer blue. that beats it's
 wings Against the barriers of material things. How many miles into the awful vast Your mother must have soared-to seize
 you fast And bring you back with her. to be
 white
 Proof of the fearless journey The sum-
 light
 Still half bewlders you, and in your sleep You smile because the darkness is so deep After the earth-glare, and the rest so kind After the search for One you cannot lind. You are the Dream made flesh. You are
 the grail Pilgrim-another, passionate and frail, Leaving the House of Beauty for the
 quest | Of that high Vision by no man possest. Indomitable must be Gods desire To realize Life 8 secret and acquire Mastery, when He sends you one by one, Externally, to question the bright sun And the dark earth and the indifferent
 stars!
 O Baby. will you pass the golden bars Guarding the pathway to the great abode? Or will you leave your dust to make the
 road
 Softer for one who follows? l am blinds Even as Love or Justice, and l find No answer to the riddle that has wrung The souls of mothers since the world was
 young.
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to proclaim His word until every heresy should yield. If we have the right on our side, it is our bounden duty to agi- tate. If we are in the wrong agitation will prove the truth. No good cause has ever been delayed by agitation and every error has trenbled before it.
 Farmer Dale of Wilcox, evidently de- slres to be classed with the receptive and passive section of the intellectually of the age in which he lives. In that atti- tude toward the revolving world of na- ture, many men are useful and ambitious, to the length of their tether. Carlyle says: Alas, nothing continues In this, mechanically considered, we have contra diction of the dogma, whatever is is right" Why does the right" thing perish?
 If we consider medicine and surgery, war and famine, tariffs and the republi- can party it looks as if whatever is is wrong.
 Disunion would not have transpired by nullification of the free states and CO., temporaneous secession of the slave states, had the Northern people of 1860 been as much like the Southern people of that time as they are today like the Southerners then. But have a clear recollection from personal contact, that the educated people of the two sections were, in the decade before the war very much more unlike than they are now English travellers of the higher class are astonished at what they declare to be the improvement of the society of the Northern higher classes even within the last three decades. The ''yardstick dem- ocracy" of 1860 has lost the nasal whang of tone, the men have learned to ride and shoot and, doubtless, tell the truth. Before the war, a gentleman's saddle and saddle horse could not be bought north of Baltimore. I have it from an officer of
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strong point of his own case ana tne weak point of his adversary's; but this was not alI and not enough Adamson has mind that engages in forensic com- bat like a bulldog in a dog fight. He seizes on the material issue, casting away everything not vital, and clings to 1t with a persistent energy that will take no denial. This it was that gained him suc- cess in the state courts, superior and in- ferior, and in the federal courts.
 Adamson, like all southern gentlemen, took a keen interest in politics. The policy of the republican party in the days of reconstruction left no election to any man of the cotton states, who had a spark of self-respect, as to the party with which he should affiliate. He was bound to be a democrat or Pariah. Sir Robert Walpole never said that every man had his price. What he did say was that "Some men have their price" The history of the seeding south vindicates the grim old statesman-some hundreds had their price; countless thousands had no price. Had Lincoln survived, or had Chase succeeded Andy Johnson in the White House, there is little doubt that there would have been formidable, and, what is better to the purpose, respect able republican party in the cotton states. but Sumner, Stevens, Wade, Morton, Chandler and that set made it so that to be a republican in any one Of the se- ceding states, other than in the moun- tains of Tennessee, a man had to cease to walk on his legs and crawl on his belly.
 Hence, the south remained democratic as much from memorable necessity as from sincere conviction. Adamson stuck closely to the bar, however, and, except term as city judge, he held no office until 1892, when he was chosen presiden- tial elector on the Cleveland and Steven son ticket. In 1896, atSthe age of 4l, he was returned to the Fifty-f1fth Con gress and has been five times reelected, a tenure on the seat unprecedented in that district, where the vicious practice Of rotation in office' so long maintained. There is no more sense in. rotation in of flee than there is in rotation in the guilds. As well say that as soon as man gets to be a good shoemaker, he should drop that trade and turn blacksmith, as to de- cree that when a man has well served constituency in Congress he should be made to take up something else. Your new member is at great disadvantage, unless he has gained eminence before he gets to Congress, as was the case with David Dudley Field, and as is the case with Philander c. Knox. The old member, by sheer force of seniority, gets. de- sirable committee assignments. The rule is that the new member must take years
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THE MOONS MINIoN.

By Andrew Lang. Thine eyes are like the sea, my dear The wand'ring waters, green and gray; Thine eyes are wonderful and clear And deep, and deadly. even as they' The spirit of the changeful sea
 Informs thine eyes at night and noon, She sways the tides, and the heart or
 thee,
 The mystic, sad. capricious Moon. The Moon came down the shining star Of clouds that fleck the summer sky, She kissed thee, saying. Child, be far, And madden mems hearts, even as l; Thou shalt love all things strange and
 sweet,
 That know me and are known of me; The lover thou shalt never meet, The land where thou shalt never be!' She held thee in her chill embrace
 She kissed thee with cold lips divine, She left her pallor on thy face.
 That mystic ivory face of thine; And now I sit before thy feet.
 And all my heart is far from thee. Dreaming of her I shall ont meet
 And of the land I shall not see!
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" HE west borderland, midway be-
 tween Tennessee and Florida is
 the Fourth Congress district of Georgia, composed of 10 counties, ex- tending from Carroll on the north to Marion on the south, and having a population in 1900 of 1S5,956. There is no fairer land no better cline in our hemisphere. The soil is generous. and there Is produced in prolific abundance, corn, oats, many of the grasses, cot ton, vegetables, fruits and melons It abounds in springs, some fresh, some mineral, some hot some cold, and when the virtues of these waters shall be well known to the wealthy classes of our entire population, the Fourth Geor- gia district will become a perpetual health and pleasure resort during each and every season of the year. It can be made an immense game preserve, while the tens of thousands of springs of pure, fresl1 water form rivulets, brooks and creeks, abounding in game fish of many species. There, too. the flowers are from Christmas to Christi mas. It could be turned into a vast dairy farm, surpassing anything of that kind in New York or Wisconsin, Illi- nois or Iowa. And yet the land would be valuable in New England for it's vast deposits of granite and marble if the soil were absolutely barren Why the farmers of Iowa emigrate to Can ada and voluntarily become subjects of Edward VII rather than go to Georgia and acquire cheap lands susceptible of more diversified crop rotation than even Iowa affords is mystery, for the northern counties of the Fourth Geor- gia have even a smaller percentage of negro population than some of the counties of Illinois round about Cairo. The Georgia peach and the Georgia watermelon attain to their highest ex- cellence there, and there's millions in them.
 Again, the white population of the Fourth Georgia can show greater per- centage of pure English blood than any other constituency in America, or in old England itself. That is why the cotton they produce Is the very best long stample, and that accounts for the fact that the Fourth Georgia grows it's own corn and fattens it's own pork. Moreover, every pound of cotton grown in the 10 counties is fashioned into the finished fabric in mills within their borders the capital stocks of which are owned at home.
 The Fourth Georgia is the native land of Bishops Warren and Candler, clergymen in the rank of Pierce, Breck- inridge, Broaddus, Tn ompson and Pur-
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IMMORTALITY.

By Matthew Arnold. Folied by our fellow men, depressed, out
 worn, We leave the brutal world to take it's
 way; And patience! in another life. we say, The world shall be thrust down, and we
 upborne. And will not, then, the immortal armies
 scorn The worlds poor routed leavings? or will
 they, Who failed under the heat of this life's
 day, Support the fervors of the heavenly morn? No. mol the energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who Jagged not in the early
 strife, From strength to strength, advancing
 only he, Hi. soul well knit, and all his battles won, Mounts. and that hardly, to eternal life.
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cell, David B. Culberson, the Texas, giant, was native of Troupe county. Ben Hill, the Ajax at the bar and the Achilles in the forum, lived for many years in the Fourth Georgia. That oth = CT typical southerner and Georgian of the purest English strain, James M. Griggs, man of many sides and many gifts, was born at La Grange. Churches, schools, and colleges abound, and in no other community is there a greater percentage of church members. In the old days, what is now the Fourth dis trict furnished many more memb than her numerical population justified, sometimes as many as four. It was the home of Seaborn Jones, Haralson and Towne. It was here lived the Col quits, Affords, Cooper, Holt, Holsey, Foster, Chappell, Dent, Iverson and the Warmers. The district also gave judges. Henry R. Harris, yet remem- bered in Washington as one of the ablest men of numerous congresses of the double decade, 1S7O-90, was from the Fourth Georgia. I believe he is yet living in retirement. Henry Persons was also a representative of that con- stituency. Later Thomas w. Grimes, Charles l.. Moses and Hugh Buchanan represented the district in Congress. George Foster Peabody and Oscar SJrauS, now Ol iCoietChS cabinet, are natives of the Fourth Georgia. Several members of the pres ent House from other states went from the same section.
 The present member is William .. Ao- amson of Carroll county. He was born on a farm, the sixth of nine children, and his father and two elder brothers were soldiers of the Confederacy, volunteering when the future congressman was but years of age, and John, his older brotner' 10 The labor in the fields of these two lads produced the food and supplied the clothing for the family until the end or the war. When peace came. their father sold a small quantity of cotton they had grown at the phenomenally high price or 1865, and with the proceeds bought stock of general merchandise and opened store.
 The boy Charles was given good Eng fish education. and was graduated from Bowdon college in 1874 at the age or 2O. Though a farmer, welded to the soil or his nativity by ties as strong as ever bound the rural farmer of sunny France. voung Adamson studied law and came to the bar in 1876, but he never ceased to be a farmer, a practical farmer, and yet delights in agriculture.
 His success at the bar was rapid and substantial, due mainly to a common sense that unerringly taught him the
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republic to help cement the nation anew and restore the full and ekual partner ship of the two sections in constitution al liberty and devoted patriotism. It is with pleasure that I recall that one of my earliest, and by all odds my most enthusiastic, votes was given to that same Horace Greeley in 1871.
 For 70 years the south had in keep ing the political destinies of our coun- try What she made of it is shown by the millions of men who volunteered. and the billions of money that were ex- pended to preserve 1t.
 Copyright 1908, by D. w. Newman.)