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Presidents.

When elected, eighteen Of the
presidents were practising lawyers;
two were statesmen; two soldiers;
two planters or farmers; and one,
Theodore Roosevelt, was a public Of
fetal.
OF these, four had been teachers in
early life; two tailors (Fillmore and
Johnson). and one a farmland CAB
raham Lincoln).
Washington, Jackson. Van Buren,
Taylor. Fillmore. Lincoln, Cleveland,
and Mckinley received only common
school educations; the rest were all
college graduates, having received
their degrees from the following in
stitutions:
William and Mary college, g. Har-
ward, 3; Princeton, L; Williams, l.;
University of North Carolina. l: Bow
doin. /: Dickinson, l; West Point, l.;
Union, /; Miami University, /; Hamp-
den-Sydney, l; Kenyon College, l.
Buchanan was the only president
who never married.
Champ Clark. of Missouri, one Of
the Democratic leaders Of the nation,
said in a published interview recent
": There are one thousand men in
the United States who would make
good presidents. | could name a cou-
pie of dozen in the house; and al
though | am not so well acquainted
i'm the senate. | might pick out few
there"
Under our party system, as devel-
oped up to the present time, no man
can be elected president until he has
been nominated.
To be nominated for president, a
man must. as a rule. be a member of
one of the great political parties, and
such membership must be known to
the majority of the voters of that par
ty,
There have been exceptions to this
rule. General Grant was not a Re-
publican when he was nominated by
the Republicans in 1868. 1t is even
said by competent historians that he
never voted the Republican ticket un-
til after he had been eight years pres
ident. 1t is we'll known that the Dem
ocrats wished TO make him their can
didate in 1868
Admiral Dewey was seriously con-
sidered by many leaders of the Demo-
cratic party In 1900 for the nomina-
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me. except my private secretary, made
a sound or gave a sign of life, it
must have been when l was down in
that first wild plunge in the sea-
THAT was the end for them, them
1T seems so. l suppose most of
them were dragged down. without a
chance to make manly struggle for
lfe-drowned like rats in a trap"
And you? What happened to you
when you came to the surface"
1T was a night of pitchy blackness.
l could see nothing. l could hear
nothing but the sound of the tempest
and the work it was doing with the
waters. But, full of that instinct
which prompts a man to try to save
his life, no matter how great his dam
ger may be, l struck out and tried to
swim. Almost as soon as | began my
hand came in contact with something;
found it would support me, and l
clung to it without making any exam
ination of it until after l had rested a
little and recovered my breath and
some of my courage. Then l felt it
carefully all over: it was the substi
tute for Il raft on which you found me
today. the side of box in which
had taken certain supplies for my
yacht voyage, and which had, fortu-
nately for me, been broken up by the
same blow which destroyed the Home
ward Bound This side of the box
was. 50 ! found. still strong and unln-
jured. The boards which formed ii
were strongly cleated together with
thick pieces placed crosswise. In two
places the boards were far enough
apart. the cracks wide enough, to al
low the passage of the belt l wore. l
passed the belt through the cracks,
and attached it to my clothing. l
had the ramrod still in my hand when
l came to the surface, and l had dis
covered a number Of nail-hOles in the
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We herewith present Il cut OF the
handsome new church building that
was dedicated last Sunday by the
Neely's Creek congregation, a full ac-
count of which was published in The
Enquirer of Tuesday. The Neely's
Creek congregation was organized in
1890 and this is the fourth church
building that has been erected on prac-
tically the same spot The first pastor
was William BlackstOck, who at the
same time occupied the same relation
to Steel Creek in North Carolina and
Ebenezer. Other ministers were RevS.
William Dickson, Abraham Anderson
ID. d., Thomas Ketchin, John MuShat,
4 White and supplies sent from the
north These last named ministers
served during the period from 1904 to
1S47. when the congregation was con-
nected with the Associate PreSbytery.
In 1S47 the congregation left the As
SUciate Presbytery and became an As
sociate Reformed church again, the
reason of the change being because of
the inSistence of the northern end of
the Associate PreSbytery that the
brethren of the south were committing
a great sin in Sanctioning slavery. The
first Associate Reformed pastor after
the reorganization was Rev. r. +. Tay-
ur He served until 1851 and was sue
ceeded in 1858 by Rev. l.. Mcdonald,
,l,. tln fll |
OF 1870. Rev. c. r. Belts was installed
pastor in 1871. and miniStered to the
congregation until the fall of 1889.
There was Il vacancy of three years
after which Rev d. G. Caldwell was
installed. He served until 1891. and
was succeeded in 1894 by Rev Oliver
johnson. who resigned few months
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feel that warm pressure on my fingers
yet.
'GoOd-by' he said, suddenly: good
by, and God bless and keep you.
He swan away from my side, the
long. vigorous sweep of his arms Civ
ing audible evidence of his earnest
ness of purpose and the quiet deter
minatOn Of his pronunciation. |
did not speak. l could not"
And you heard no more?" asked
Bolton.
And 1 heard no more. Not a cry
from those lips Of truth and kindness:
not a stroke from those vigorous
arms, after the time they swan out Of
my hearing
And you saw nothing of him in the
morning." he asked.
Nothing"
Nor Of the wreck"
no"
We'll, l think you never will"
Il fear it,
And your private secretary stood
his test nobly.'
"Glandly; perfectly"
He was q noble man."
Was? Oh. my God. can 1t be-?
Was? | fear You are right. And the
world can i'll afford to spare such men
as he."
You are right But what of his
trouble? You spoke Of a shadow on
his life: what was it?"
He was accused of 4 terrible crime" ."
Yes"
And arraigned and tried for it,"
Il see. And condemned, suppose?"
NO, he was acquitted-by the jury.
The world pronounced him guilty, and
made him an outcast"
And you. his friend, still trusted
him, and took him into your service
and cared for him. and made a fair
test of his character, full of faith as
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THE OLD CHURCH AND PARSONAGE.

to what the result would be-"
NO, had never seen nor heard Of
him until after his trial
But your goodness of heart went
out toward him in his trouble. | sup
pose the one who had been most in
strumrntal in bringing him tn trial
followed and prosecuted him to the
full extent of his powers"
No: on the contrary, he gave him
a letter of recommendation | should
never have hired him if it had not been
for that The man who brought him
to trial was his second best friend in
all the world. if I--who gave him home
and employment-may modcStIy call
myself his best one
And what was his crime"
We'll. there was woman-'
Yes" said Mr.. Bolton. dryly; there
usually is"
And he was accused Of
Mr. Bolton shrugged his shoulders.
Il dent think we need waste our
time over that" he said; 1T is one
variety of the same old story as has
been acted out. over and over again
ever since God put men and women
upon earth and dared trust them with
one another and one anOthers happi-
ness"
Not quite, Mr.. Bolton: he had nev-
en- known her"
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Sharpshooters of the Revolution.

SharpShooterS or the heVolu1Ion.
As soon as a pioneer boy was big
enough to level n rifle he was given
powder and ball to shoot squirrels.
After Il little practice he was required
to bring in as many squirrels as he
had received charges under penalty
of Il severe lecture or even of having
twelve the boy became n fort soldier,
with loophole assigned him from
which to fight when the settlers ral-
lied against an Indian fOray. Growing
older. he became a hunter of deer,
elk. buffalo and bear, skilled in trail
ing and i'm utilizing cover. capable of
enduring long marches through
trackess mountain forests. At night
he was content to curl up in a single
blanket beside a small fire and sleep
under the roof of heaven. If it rain
ed, in few minutes he built him a
lodge of bark or boughs with no inn
plement but his one pound tOma-
hawk. lnceSSant war with the In
dians taught him To be his own gen.
eral, to be ever on the alert, to keep
his head and shoot straight under
fire. Pitted against an enemy who
gave no quarter, but tortured the liv-
ing and scalped the dead. he became
himself a stanch fighter who never
surrendered. The wilderness bred
men of iron.
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ago to accept q call to Winnsboro. He
is succeeded by Rev. w. H. Stevenson,
Just graduated from the Erskine Theo-
logical seminary and who accepted
call put in his hands at the meeting of
presbytery in YOrkville last Tuesday
The first elders of Neely's Creek were
Alexander Harberson, Samuel Lusk
and Thomas Spencer They were sue
ceeded by Thomas Wylie, John Camp
bell. William Campbell and Jackson
Spencer. In 1S47 ruling elders have
been inducted into office as follows: In
1S47, Thos. Boyd, John Roddey, Will
liam Wylie Samuel Wylie. In lS49. A.
Templeton Black, David ROddey, JON
athan McFadden. In 1851, Matthew S.
Lynn. In 1861. David C. ROddey. In
1868, d. r. Lesslie, John Y. Boyd.
In 1874, ]. r. Patton, w. w.
White and A. ]. Walker. The ell
ders' bench at this time consists
of w. w. White, A. ]. Walker, T. M.
Allen, G. A. Gettys, w. S. Lesslie, w.
S. Boyd, ID. +. LeSsie, d. p. Lesslie, j.
w. Simpson, n. f. Patton. The dea-
sons are: j. S. GlasScOck, J. II. Spcn-
Ger, J. Wylie Roddey, ]. r. Gettys, T.
f.. Lcsslie. n. b. Williams. w. Fl. Spen-
cer T.. b. Patton. The new building
cost something over $1,000. 1t is COM
plete in all of its appointments, has
stained glass windows, handsome hard
wood pews. rich carpeting, necessarT
desks, book cases and tables, session
rooms. Sunday school room, vestibules.
etc. There is Il beautiful and costly
chandelier spacious choir loft. and in
fact all the conveniences that are sup
posed to belong to Il modern city
church.
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pose of being ready for an emergency
And when the emergency came"
Mr.. Jahnway laughed. Now, he
could afford to.
When the emergency came, matters
shaped themselves as they usually do.
was glad enough to let the boat go
with the blankets and clothing, the
food and drink, and be glad and hap
py and thankful that life was left me-
THE boat was lost, them"
Il suppose so. l have never seen 1t
since"
And your private secretary? What
of him? You have not forgotten your
promise to tell me of him."
Jahnway sighed. The tears came
into his eyes.
Il have not forgotten" he replied;
Il have not forgotten. But, somehow,
il is harder work to speak Of 1t than
l thought it would be. l had fastened
myself to my raft: l had secured my
ramrod l was beginning, in the
darkness and silence, to plan for the
future, for the new day which was
coming, when a ripple stirred the va
ters near me. ripple which L knew
was not made by the forces of nature
and night. having their way with the
sea. | strained my eyes in that di-
rection, but | could see nothing. | did
not speak, for | did not think of the
sound as being made by a swimmer.
And thcn--without warnng-a hand
was laid upon the edge Of my light
support, almost on my own hand.
"'Thank Cod said a fervent voice.
1T was the voice Of my private Sec
retary.
Then the raft, unable to bear a
double weight, went under. He let go.
We came to the surface again, l on my
raft. he, so l judged by the sound,
floating on his back, and holding on
TO the raft enough to prevent the
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Are you sure ,"

Are you sure?"
| Positive. He had not even seen
her. And she was killed. and"
Killed? Murdered?"
| Exactly"
And he was tried for it?"
He was"
Mr. Jahnway, if your story is true,
he never, never did it,"
My story is true. and you are right:
he never did it. But it wrecked his
happiness, and has cost him his life!"
Picked up at sea! Saved from a
terrible fate! Seen when the chance
was slightest-when a difference of a
single mile would have turned the
scale against you, perhaps for ever
when a less painstaking man on the
lookout. or Il man with less acute
eyes. would have passed your signal
| by, thinking it the foamy crest of a
wave, or the CLINT Of the sunshine on
the white slant of some seabird's wing
saved when a less vigorous consti-
tuition might have left your eager res
cuers nothing to find but an unavail-
ing signal floating above the deed.
Saved. Jasper Jahnway: are you
saved?
Shall you thank God for what He
has done for you. or is it better to
pray that He will do more wonderfully
Iyet?
Saved! There is that coming into
your life which may make it char
ity to write no harsher word against
it than lost BE prudent; be watch
full be vigilant. 1t would be so terri
BILE. O man who has braved the hor-
rOrs of shipwreck not once only-nor
twice-nor thrice-to have to sit down
in the darkness some night, with a
lost soul, despairngly regretting that
you were picked up at sea.
To be Continued.
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feel that warm pressure on my fingers

s. O.. FRIDAY. MAY 8
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PICKING The PRESIDENT.
How the Two Great Parties Select
Their Nominees.


Party Government and How II Works
to Make the Big Men Kill Each Other
Of For the Benefit of Men of Less
Capacity.
The constitution Of the United
States provides that any person, to be
eligible for the office of president,
shall have the following qualifica-
tions:
He must be citizen born. and not
a naturalized citizen.
He must be at least thirty-five
years Of age.
He must have resided in the United
States during fourteen years prior to
the day Of Inauguration as president.
Technically and i'm theory, women
are eligible to the presidency. Judge
Bradley. Of the New York court of
appeals, in the case of Wainwright
versus Low, wrote a decision in 1890,
containing this declaration: IAN alien
woman. by marriage to a citizen, be-
comes herself a citizen"
This is recognition Of woman's
citizenship by the state of New York.
In political practice her eligibility to
the presidency Is very remote, but
not inconceivable. Belva Ann Ben
nett Lockwood, a woman lawyer,
born at Royalton, New York, in 1880,
h,r q
party in 1884 and 1888 for president.
She was not an appreciable factor In
either contest. for she received only
handful Of votes.
The best definition Of "citizen" in
American Jurisprudence is found In
the fourteenth amendment to the
constitution. which declares: "All
persons born or naturaliZed In the
United States. and subject to the
'urisdiCti ton thereof. are citizens of
the United states and Of the state
wherein they reside"
A citizen Is not necessarily voter.
man might be elected president
and serve. though he might never
have had the right to vote. Each
state makes its own franchise qualif-
atiOns. 4 man who kept on moving
from state to state might never at
tain voting residence" though al
ways eligible to the presidency.
In our public schools the teacher
truthfully says to the small boy:
You can become president" At
some time in the life Of every normal
,merican-born boy and man the de-
sire to be president takes possession
Of him, and with it the definite hope
that he will some day sit in the chair
at Washington. What are the chances
Of the young American?
The census Of 1900 counted thirty
nine million males in the United
States. OF these, approximately six
million were foreign born and could
not be considered for the presidency
OF the remainder, eleven million had
reached the age Of thirty-five years
and were actually eligible. There
were nine million males between the
ages Of twenty-one and thirty-five
years who were prospectively eligible,
and thirteen million under twenty
one years who were remotely eligible.
The number ineligible by reason OF
residence out of the country for four
teen years was comparatively insight
ficant.
For those who estimate chances by
what is colloquially called the form
system" the following table Of states
that have produced presidents and
ce-presidents Is Of value:
Preeidents
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Continued on Fourth Page)
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-09

Experiment shows mat with the ex'
ception of small portion OF the ar
near an open window and what miehe
be called the leakage of air at tne
rear end, or when both doors are open
the draft of air through the car moves
with the car.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-09
When Explosives Explode.

A popular notion that explosives
will go off" by any simple method is
wrong. Many of the most powerful
explosives imaginable may be kicked
about, may be set CT fire or may be
shot out of a gun, and unless the
proper agency for exploding them is
employed they will not "go off," and
will do no damage. The reason for
this may be explained by an illustra-
ton. Consider a CRATE full of coal.
There is there enough of what we
may call explosive energy to throw
thousand pound weight through foot
of solid steel-if only it could be lib
Grated. But there can be no explosion
without oxygen, and the coal in the
CRATE will not burn faster than the
supply of oxygen in the air which
reaches it will permit. If the coal
could be furnished all at once with
enough air to cause it's complete
burning, it would explode with as
great violence as if it were so much
dynamite.-St. Nicholas.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-09
NO GUSHER
But Tells Facts About Postum.

I'VE have used Postum for the
past eight years" writes Wis. lady,
and drink it three times a day. We
never tire Of it.
For several years l could scarcely
eat anything on account of dyspepsia,
Dloating after meals, palpitation, sick
heaoache-in fact was in such misery
and distress tried living on hot wat
er and toast for nearly year.
! had quit coffee, the cause of my
trouble, and was using hot water, but
this was cot nourishing.
Hearing Of Postum / began drink
ing 1t and my ailments disappeared,
ana now can eat anything want
without trouble.
MY parents and husband had
ABOUT the same experience. Mother
would often suffer after eating. while
yet drinking coffee. My husband was
a great coffee drinker and suffered
from Indigestion and headache
After he stopped coffee and began
Postum both ailments left him. He
VIII not drink anything else now, and
we nave 1t three times day. could
write more, but am no gusher-only
state plain facts"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
creek, Mich. Read 1.-THE Road to
Wellville," in pkgs. There's a Rea-
SON."
Ever read heabove letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full Of human
interest,
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-09
The HousekcepeTs Error.

A young married woman walked
into grocery store the other day
angry to the roots of her hair. Throw
Ing a piece of yellow substance on
the counter she shrieked forth to the
grocer's clerk who had taken refuge
behind the counter:
Here, you swindler, is the soap
that does the washing alone; the
soap that makes wash day thing
of joy, when the housewife may sit
In her easy chair and receive callers;
the soap that makes a lather fine
enough for man to shave with, but
which takes out every stain-no mat
ter of what nature-from the linen.
Here is the soap
Il beg your pardon, ma'am," be-
gan the clerk.
Never mind, sir; don't interrupt
me-" broke in the irate bride.
"But, a'am," insisted the clerk,
picking UP the piece of yellow stuff
the woman had thrown upon the coun-
ter, this isn't soap, this is cheese"
"Cheese!" exclaimed the astonished
woman. 'Cheese?"
Eyes, ma'am, your husband bought
three pounds of soap yesterday, and
also three pounds of cheese. This
is the cheese, ma'aln."
"Well, that accounts for the 9th
er thing also" said the young house
keeper, becoming milder in, temper,
That's why couldn't get suds
today and why-the welsh rabbit
tasted so queerly last night.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-09
Aerial Topccraphy.

This is not such a contradiction in
terms as it may seem. Recent explor-
alton of the atmosphere has revealed
an astonishing defniteness of arrange
ment in it's layers, although, of course,
the details are continually changing.
Recently Capt. c. H. Ley, in England,
has directed his studies of floating bal
looms to solution of the question of
the influence on the state of the air
above it. He finds, among other
things, that the disturbances produced
by hills and valleys are transmitted
to an Unexpectedly great elevation, af-
fecting the lower and middle strata
throughout. A general effect noticed
is that the velocity of the wind, or Of
current of air, is increased over a
hill and diminished over valley. He
thinks that similar observations, gen.
orally distributed, would furnish us
with a real topography Of the air.
Youths Companion.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-09

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces lnttamm IA
ton. allays pain, cures wind collie, 25c bottle
Bad luck doesn't bother the man
who makes the best of it.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-09
Il PAID.

A little boy of five years, playing
with his sister one Gay, leaned too
far out of the second-story window,
lost his balance, and fell into the yard
below. Very miraculously, he escaped
being injured, and his parents and
friends were so delighted that they
gave him quite number of pennies,
nickels and dimes.
The next day, after he recovered
from the shock or the fall, he was
counting his money, and on seeing his
little sister enter the room, exclaim-
ed, Gee, Gladys, look at all the mon
ey got for falling QUO of the window!
Why don't you try it?'-The Delin-
Gator.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-09
A Bad Rarualn.

A story is told of the famous Rich.
ard Brinsley Sheridan that one day
when coming back from shooting with
an empty bag and seeing a number of
ducks in pond, while near man
was leaning on fence watching them.
Sheridan asked:
What will you take for shot at
the ducks?"
Well" said the man thoughtfully,
"I'll take half sovereign"
Done" sid Sheridan, and he fired
into the middle of the flock, killing a
dozen or more. "I'm afraid you made
a bad bargain" said Sheridan, laugh
ing.
81 don't know about that" the man
replied. They're not my ducks. The
Christian Advocate.