Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-08-02
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S CoHOcTrO Vr14es xl1IErToH
THE RCD WAS h1sAPPLIED AND TIE MAN DIS
GRACED.

last week by indignant father of young
the. law in his own hands and dis
graced himself officer of the court when he
stepped outside of and decency to punish the
young woman with. whom his had become infat-
uated, story of the beating he gave the help
has rung all Georgia to the discredit
of both father and for all time The father took
a number of with him to help him lash the wom-.
an He made a negro man hold a light while they
gagged their victim with part of her night gown,
and the wretched woman nude and tortured to mad
ness was entirely their mercy, and these brutesS
showed her mercy in their fury
enough TO say of the at this time
whose character under cloud it seems but her
character young character were about on
the level, and if the woman needed lashinS
the young needed it much, and his father
needed beating with coat of tar and feathers on
top of body for his share in the transgres
sion.
The notoriety which has given to this case
demonstrates certainty the need of rigid reform
laws in Georgia in regard to crime and its punish
ment There has been much lynching of negroes
attacks white women, and the law has been
so often outraged by Infatuated who took the
their hands to punish rapiss, or supposed
rapsts, this county official could not why
he might do everything but murder this young
because his hayward was intent on living
Illicit life with her His brute nature has been in
him all the time and his wrath vented itself on the
female rather than his .growp-up son. If he
had securely tied the with leather thongs in the
barn and piled the lash his naked body there
might been a loud Amen! heard in the commu'
nifty. His right chastise his own family might
have been contested somewhere but he would have
kept within the limit of parental authority when he
corrected child with the lash for it's good
But he of authority to correct the woman
to reclaim his own child! The courts were to
him to protect society adulterers male and female,
and when he, as an officer of the in his
county. attempted become a law unto himself, his
case should be promptly heard and his punishment
quickly given.
And what of the young man?
Was cowardce plainly illustrated? Did
the world discover such craven thing in the
guise of a white man? Was there ever such a cow
ardly man before? The woman, no matter what her
reputation be proven to be. is better specimen
than either father son. and both disgrace to
Georgia manhood, the father for his brute tyranny,
and the for his inability act the in such
crisis.
ITO err is human" and passions said to
oftentmes ungovernable, but this erring
despicably well a coward.
He did not go to this woman's protection from the
whips of six eight white especially the
whips were professedly piled because he himself
considered the injured party and whatever punish
may be hereafter given to his british parent
he should not unwhipt of justice.
The whole affair is eye-opener to the posi-
ton Of erring white and equally errng white
men, before public opinion in Georgia.
DUTRUL DAUGHTERS.
OF all the comforts which aged mother counts
most highly is daughter who consuts her, respects
loving authority and gives her genuine affection
Lies journey down the decline cannot be effectu
ally smoothed and comforted except in this way. Ny
own dear little daughter went home to heaven when
she little tot, but my memory goes back to her
times without mention and of all the things tina
most (after theescore and ten) is the loving
consideration of a daughter who might for
otIT fapdY in lave aft
the end in old and feebleness.
This subject has been brought my mind by the
burdened mother-woe which reached me in letter
received this forenoon, Perhaps my little daughter
might have disappointed me Also but do not think
so. My faith in her strong, and
precious to my young motherhood while she with
a..
Listen to the story it to me from a far
away city and from those I in my
life. Perhaps the story will work good other
thoughtless daughters shall despair OF the benefits
higher education for girls if it leads making the
young women selfish and undutiful. No education
desirable which will daughters to look down
upon Their faithful care-worn mothers. Our youns
people do mt understand of
mandment: Honor thy father and thy mother" with
it's pledge of long life, etc.
There doubtless unworthy mothers in the
world but the great majority are loving
ed and self-sacrificing to the limit MAY the kind
Heavenly Father bless these words Of exhortation to
those who ma be benefited by wholesome ad-
vice:
Mrs. w. II. Felton,
My Dear Friend: For think I may address you
although 1
something heart, and from your writings Z
you like to help people. A neighbor has just
been opening her heart to me- because there
other friend to whom she could go, but
pwerless to help her, and 1t came to me like
inspiration while she talking that possibly you
might help her. The story has to do with mother
and daughter First VIII tell you about the mother
She is widow and teaches to support herself and
daughter and also has help other children She is.
suppose, than years old in very frail health
I should not be surprised to hear of her death any
minute for she has serious heart trouble.
about the daughter Perhaps between 20
years DID, very accomplished, of the finest
pianists In this country has cost small fortune,
spent years in studying Latin, French, German,
but her mind way for time and she
laid by with nervous prostration. She is nervous
Still she need be utterly useless in the
world. She is supremely selfish. Her mother spent
S6 lesosn for her music; she won't play, either
her her friends She cook n nice dinner,
but her mother has that and everything else to do
she home exhausted from her school,
work. And nothing mother do pleases her.
that her mother is nothing to her but