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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12
SURRENDERS-By B. F. Riley

him. While Weatherford bowed his head
with his rifle still in front of him, jack
son strfded forward with indignation and
in a stentorian voice commanded silence.
and then in severe rebuke said; Any
man who would kill as brave a man as
this, would rob the dead The crowd
was sternly ordered to disperse, and jack
son subdued by the eloquence of the brave
chief as well as by his courage, invited
him into his tent and extended to him
all the civilities due distinguished guest.
The horse was given in charge of an
orderly, and the brave men sitting face
to face forgot the strife of the past and
were now friends A prolonged interview
followed. in which a treaty WAS entered
into, and the war between the red and
white races was over in Alabama. Jack
son arranged to provide for the women
and children of the Indians, and when
all was duly settled, Weatherford kindly
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Want job--a big job--one paying $4,000
a year?
If you can fill it the government is
looking for you. 1t is going to make a
physical valuation of the railroads of the
country, and it needs the men who can
assist in the work 1t is willing to pay
them well. according to government
standards.
OF course the men who could earn I'm
Gle Sans $4,000 year are earning more
In private employ, and will give up their
patriotism. Some have already done So
The point is, the government needs $1,000
men, and others need them too There
are plenty of 5000 men and $500 men,
but $1,000 men are scarce.
1t is so all over
A man of large affairs once said to the
late J. Pierpont Morgan:
II am tired out and should like to take
a trip to Europe, but 1 can't get away
from my business. ] should like to find
a man whom l could intrust with it for
awhile, placing him in charge of the de-
tails. If could get such man l would
be willing to pay him s25,ooo year. The
rest from business would be worth much
more than that to me. Perhaps you have
in your employ some such man whom
you could spare for year.
Morgan, keenest of judges of men. an
swered:
IF had such man I'd pay him $780,.
900 q year And couldn't spare him
for year."
Another man was talking about young
women stenographers:
Il need a good stenographer, and an
willing to pay her WE'LL" he said. II car
find plenty Of cheap stenographers. but
can't seem to find one who will bt
worth $50 a week to me-"
The moral Of all this is Make your.
self worth the higher salary.
Every bit of knowledge gained. every
instance of good judgment exercised
every case Of alertness displayed, means
higher valuation of the man in the case
| OF course higher value of man to hi.
employer. public or private means higher
value to himself. You cannot seek t.
make yourself worth more to someon,
else without raising your value to your
lself.
: A good way to size up" your value
commercial and otherwise. IL to ask your
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lines Take examples The BoysN club
and the juvenile court need msn to he
big brothers" to certain boys. OrAa
group of boys needs an older boy to
be Interested in them as a playfcilow\
Among the thousa nds of Christian boys
in Birmingham are there any cf these
to be found? We are still looking. Is
it not even difficult to find teachers
who will Loyalty teach. learn how to
teach. learn how to serve, the classes in
the Sunday school? What show then
is there for the institution that lies
outside the churches?
| Again, what attempt is made by vol
unteer workers really to understand
the problems of poverty and reIiefs
Many impulsively rush in and often
get bitter and saddening experiences,
because they knew not what they did
But why should not the church call
young men and women to thoughtfully
and carefully learn how help the
broken in health. the broken in charac-
ter. the broken in home? These are
but few instances. Christians gem
erally are not con their Job" when IL
comes to saving the world
The world IS dying for lack of intelli.
gent love. The church is suffering be-
."oss sne mas iost the art OF pouring
her Intelligent love upon the wounds
of the dying world. And it is these con-
Vefts who themselves must be the oil
and the wine which the Good Samari-
tan applies to those wounds. Not for
the service of the church, but for the
service of the community are men
called, Even the church itself lives not
by being ministered unto, but ny min
lster1ng. and giving her life ransom
Tor many. When she converts men to
this and when her children lead the
way to the myriad lines OF social good
ness, the battle VIII begin to be won.
Preaching won't win It. Nothing will
but practicing. In this one thing We
al err In every land. But there is
coming the race for the Kingdom, ard
every people will be in the running.
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beings. Our lives are like the asymn-
| tote, the straight line which constantly
approaches curve, but, no matter how,
| Indefinitely extended. never touches IT.
We may approach perfection, according
to the light that is within us. but the
fallibility of our nature will prevent our
touching it.
Make your house of life as rich as YOU
can. Adorn it with the treasures of love
and understanding. There will always
be some unfinished corner
But if you honestly and sincerely en-
deavor to build 1t WE'LL to have within 1t
nothing that you feel to be unworthy, you
need not be ashamed of its unfinished
state.
No man has ever had finished house
of life The final touches are put on
after what We call death makes master
workmen of us.
Every one who knows anything about
the world knows that it moves in an
elliptical orbit around the sun. The path
of the world has been calculated with nice
| exactitude by the astronomers. or course
way, way back in the mental woods there
are folks who are so far behind that they
still think the sun revolves around the
earth. y.
But they do not count.
Neither do those who think thut the
world moves, but that its progress is in
straight line forward, and that they
can retard it by getting in the way.
If they are one of these, step aside,
lest the world run over you.
OF such is the man in a southern state
who would not pay his share of the In
creased taxes demanded by his county
for new school house. He went in the
night and applied the torch to the build
| ing.
| Foolish man. The school will be rebuilt,
despite his opposition. and the children
of his county will have the benefit of
newer and better quarters in which to
study
| Once there was a governor of Virginia
in the old colonial days who said, refer
| ring to the colony:
Thank God. there are no free schools
nor printing presses, and I hope there
| will be none for a hundred years, for
| learning has brought disobedience and
| heresy and sects into the world, and
printing has divulged these and other
| libels'''
He was a rare old fossil. wasn't he:
The world moved on and past him, even
in his own day, for the planters of Vir'
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presented to General Jackson the buck
which he had shot, and they shook hands.
when Weatherford mounted his horse and
rode away jackson and not Weather
ford became concerned about the safety
of the other. for he knew the tempel of
the people and the vengeance which they
bore for Weatherford. In truth. Jackson
was charmed by the spirit of the chief,
and resolved on saving him from the
fury of those who had suffered by rea-
son of the Fort Minis massacre
Weatherford now sought his home at
Little River, in Monroe county. where
his brothers had kindly divided their ef-
fects with him and established him COM
fortably on a good plantation stocked with
negro slaves. Gen. William Henry Har-
rison having resigned as major general
in the regular army General Jackson was
appointed to succeed him. The war with
the Indians being over, the Tennessee
troops were mustered out of service, the
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MED him, he intended to kill Jackson on
the spot, and boldly take the conse-
quences. Reaching the outposts he polite
ly asked the way to the tent of the COM
mander. when the pickets chlded him.
without knowing who he was, and gave
him no satisfaction. A gray-haired civil
ian being near, kindly pointed out the
tent of General Jackson. who was sitting
just within it. talking to some of his Of
ficers. AS Weatherford rode up, Jack
son spied him. but few yards away,
and rising from his camp chair greeted
him with--"Well. Bill Weatherford. we've
got you at last" This was followed by
some abusive language to which Weather
ford made no reply till he had finished,
when he said: II am not afraid of you,
General Jackson. | am a Creek warrior.
and fear no man. l am not here to be
insulted, and If you undertake that. |
shall put a bullet through your heart.
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large or small scale, that he has brought
very high ideals into the minds of his
hearers? There is the ideal of constant
prayer the ideal of constant fellowship
with God, and the ideal of sustained
Christian usefulness particularly along
the line of winning others to the Chris
tian life. 1t is as though the evangelist
had put the community into a spiritual
greenhouse or even dollhouse, planted
them there and cultivated and enriched
the soil, and made them put forth green
shoots, and astonished them with glori-
Gus flowers of spiritual experience that
have suddenly bloomed in their own
souls, formerly so arid. Convicted of sin.
entering into an experience of pardon and
new power of goodness and usefulness,
multitudes have walked upon what Bun
yam calls 'Beulah Land" They have
climbed spiritual Pisgah and have seen
the promised Canaan, into which they
may hope to enter and forever abide.
But how about the after time, when this
intensive culture ceases, and the hot
house environment is supplanted by the
ordinary dangers of exposure to tenn
pestuous and chilling conditions? VIII
not the flowers and the foliage fade?
AS matter of experience this is what
often happens.
2. Is anything more distressing than the
sight of those who have, time and again,
been exposed to the hothouse environ
ment and have subsequently withered in
the chills of daily life? Your middle
aged Christian or church member goes
into the inquiry room weeping over his
GOODNESS, longing for the 'blessedness ne
knew in other days, and nearly despair
Ing of ever making continuous the spir-
itual bliss of which he has tasted, and
for which he is always longing. What
can be done for him? Is 1t not evident
that he needs some standing ground for
daily life?
8, There is another way of approach
to the same problem: What work is
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and the rich had too much. Oppres-
sive laws made the lot of the poor even
worse than they should have been.
irony, and he wrote verses which
awakened the minds of the poor and,
through the awak kening, brought about
in time betterment of their condition.
The verses were simple and easily
remembered. Some of them have lived
to this day. In them we find:
When Adam delved and Eve span,
Who was then the gentleman?
Let the advertiser and others who
think as he does about "genteel' work
ponder the words.
In all ages and in all lands, whenever
and wherever men have thought on the
things of life and death. they have con-
ceived the idea of a life to succeed this
one. They have pictured to themselves
lives of everlasting Bliss for those who
are righteous on this earth and of eternal
torment for the wicked.
This life has been considered a part of
a whole. 1t is only a fraction, say the be-
levers in future state. 1t is incomplete,
unfinished
To symbolic this belief the ancient He
brews, who were wise in their day and
generation, ordained that mans dwell
ing place should be left incomplete IN
some detail. They made it a law of re-
ligious observance that the synagogue
should contain some rough corner, some
place obviously left unfinished. To this
day orthodox Hebrew synagogues contain
the. unfinished place.
Moreover, some orthodox Hebrews
strict in their observance of the ancient
laws, leave portions of their houses in
complete. Even wealthy men among
them follow the law.
In the house of Lord Rothschild of Lon
don, one of the wealthiest men on earth
| there is an unfinished corner left thus
purposely to indicate the belief of the
owner of the house that it is only a tern
porary resting place for his body. HI
believes that for his soul there is a higher
better. finer resting place elsewhere.
| al of us leave our houses of life un
\ finished
| There is always something to complete
There is always some idea to strive for
There is always something higher an,
better still unattained, but attainable.
Perfection is not for imperfect humal
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been destroyed by your people, and they
are wanderers in the woods without an
ear of corn. All that I now ask is that
you win send out parties and bring them
in and feed them. I know that I am
held responsible for the massacre of the
women and children at Fort Minis, but l
could not stay the fury OF my warriors
there. though I sought to do so. How
ever. take what view you please of that,
I am no longer concerned about myself
] am done fighting, but these helpless
women and children in the woods are my
chief concern. They never did you any
harm, but | did all could. and only the
lack of men prevents me from continuing
the struggle I have done my best Would
have done more If could. | am now in
your hands, and if 1t is the wish of the
white people, you may kill me-
The crowd reused by his defiance rushed
about him with cries, XIII himi Kill
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SELF and to answer truthfully, the ques-
ton:
How much am worth to myself?"
Evening or night employment de-
sired at any kind of GENTEEL work
by American. 27, good education
cation
The capitals are the writer's; other
peared in city newspaper not long
ago.
The writer wants "genteel' work,
notice. He does not say that he wants
hard work or honest work. To his
credit be it said that he asks for
work
But it must be "genteel."
There is no definition of gentility in
the advertisement. but the presumption
is strong that the applicant wants
work that will not soil his hands. He
wants employment of the sort that will
not "lower him in the eyes of his
friends"
He wants work such as is not gen.
orally looked down upon.
There are too many like him-toc
many consumers of the goods produced
by others, too many to whom the
thought of hard, honest. willing toll
close to the soil and close to the ma.
terials Of life itself. is abhorent. The
cities are full of such.
If this man had the power uf think
ing deeply he would know that his life
and my life and yours and the lives
of all of us depend entirely on the mer
and women who do work that is no,
"genteei"
Flowing is not genteel, for it hardens
the hands and soils them. Making
shoes is not genteel for there is weary
back break in 1t. Digging bitches ii
not genteel, for 1t makes a man ge,
right down close to muddy, ungentee
Mother Earth.
Yet all these things and many. many
others that are disparaged must bs
done lest the advertiser and all others
perish from the face of the earth.
The disdain of any sort of homes
work is a cancer that eats into a ma
tion's life. 1t is the force that tend:
directly and inevitably toward the
creation of upper and Tower classes
1t divides and alienates men from theil
brothers.
Many centuries ago there was trouble
in England. The poor were too poor
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You can't awe me, but l wish to say
some things. and when I am done, you
may do with what you please, but these
things you shall hear. have come volun-
tarily to surrender, and you shall not
insult me, sir. till I am through speak
ing. 'Jackson's eyes We're flashing in
anger while Weatherford spoke eoolly as
he sat on his horse. Meanwhile large
crowd gathered about the scene.
Continuing. Weatherford said: 1T is
plain that can no longer fight you. II
l could, | would. 1t is not fear that leads
me to surrender, but necessity. My brave
warriors are dead. and their war-whoop
is silent. Could I recall them, | should
fight you to the last. | come to ask
nothing for myself. | am now your pris-
oner. | am Indifferent about what you
shall do to me. but am not about the
women and children of my dead warriors.
These helpless ones are now starving in
the woods. Their fields and cribs have
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0NHEY need the sharp stimulus of a
positive command to face about
4 the folks who live in the past and
let the years that have gone govern the
present.
or such are those who hug their grief
until it becomes part of themselves. The
fusion is not and cannot be complete, and
the body of the living acquires and re-
tains resemblance to the dead.
When time has made of your GRIEF the
sacred memory that it should become, in
time
Bury it.
No man. no woman has the right to
live in constant, cold, chilling shadow OF
a sorrow that is long past. Get out into
the sunshine of the present.
If you must cherish your grief. If you
feel that 1t is tribute forever due to
the memory of the lost. seek out others
of more recent bereavement and share
their sorrow. The benevolence will help
you to bear your own trials and will al
leviate theirs.
In 1898 the French steamer La Bour-
gogne was lost at sea. More than 500
persons were drowned in one of the worst
marine disasters in history. Many persons
in America and Europe lost loved ones
who were among the passengers and
crew.
Now, many years after the wreck. when
II requires an effort of memory on the
part of most persons to remember it,
every day an old, old gentleman goes to
the pier of the steamship line in New
York to ask whether La Bourgogne has
arrived. The ship lies at the bottom OF
the ocean, but still he puts his pathetic
question daily.
His wife and his son were on the YES
sci and were never heard from. They are
dead beyond the possibility of a doubt. vel
still the husband and father asks fol
them.
1t is sorrowful. of course. We must
eympathize with the old mans grief. In
his case it Is the expression of a disor.
dered mind.
But in many others the cherishing Of {
grief that should have received decent in
terment years before Is the outward and
Visible manifestation of weakness of the
will, Of an inability. real or assumed, tc
Mace the world bravely.
A"SorroW's crown of sorrow Is remem-
ring happy things" says Tenpyson.
But 1t 10 crown Of thornss not Of gold
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army was disbanded and the troops re-
turned home.
In the southern part of the state the
Mississippi militia was still held in or
ganization, large body of which WAS
located at Fort Claiborne on the Alabama
river. This was about one year before
the battle of New Orleans was fought
AS this does not come within the COM
pass of this narrative, we lose sight of
General jackson here, excepting as he
will appear in the succeeding article in
new relation with Weatherford, VINO
did not find his surroundings the most
congenal. in the outset of his residence
at Little River. OF the hazards which
menaced him in that quarter we shall see
in the article next succeeding this. With
the presentation of that article Weather
ford will vanish from the narrative. But
that which follows reflects the spirit
which animated both Weatherford and
Jackson to the end.
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side of the road. as one descends the
hill, there is a beautiful spring of water
that is always cold as ice. and clear as
crystal. Around it are innumerable
ferns. growing in vast mats of rare
beauty, while among them tiny, silver
stream tinkles its way down to the river
and at last out to the boundless sea. AS
| hear it's silvery music in passing, |
easily cali to memory Tennysons song
of the brook, and think that my little un-
sung stream may also boast,
Il steal by lawns and grassy plots,
| slide by hazel covers;
I move the sweet forget-me-nots,
That grow for happy lovers.
| slip, ] slide, | gloom, | glance,
Among my skimming swallows:
] make the netted sunbeams dance
Against my sandy shadows
I murmur under moon and stars.
In prambe wildernesses;
| linger by my slaingly bars;
Or loiter round my crosses;
And out again / curve and flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may 60
But l go on forever
Still we are descending the road to the
mill. The soil is now moist, and chill is
in the air. but we stop to notice one flow
er that we have not seen farther up the
road. 1t requires a constantly wet ground
from which to spring. | refer to the
Queen Of -the-Meadow. This plant has
strong stalk from which grow numer-
GUS lance-lilxe leaves, which look very
much like the oleander leaf enlarged. 1t
grows from four to six feet in height,
and then puts forth sprays of splendid
purple blossoms. 1t is a very stately
flower, and one of the most beautiful
that we have in the fall. Sometimes the
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EoR some time following the battle
OF Tohopeka, the warriors
came in and surrendered to
Jackson None of them seemed to
Know anything of Weatherford, for
he had not shown himself since the
1atal contest. Determined not to be forci-
bly, taken. Weatherford resolved on going
voluntarily to the camp of Jackson, make
d Plea Tor the women and children, and
1'Hn surrender to be dealt with as the
american commander might desire.
issuing from his solitary retreat in the
mis- he mounted his fine gray, with his
rifle we'll loaded and turned toward the
american camp. On his way, a large
deer came within rifle range which he
shot' strapper it behind his saddle, re-
loaoed his rifle, and proceeded to the
camp OF jackson. His full purpose was
10 present himself as a prisoner. and to
demand proper treatment, which If de-
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-26
|OREGON HOPARANS
WILL Be SWIFT BUNCH
VIII Boost Willamette Valley and Ore
gon Hops and Organize Perma-
nently in July.

What promises to be one of the
swiftest lunches of boosters ever or
ganized in the northwest is now plan
ned by both local and other hop mer
of the valley. The new club will be
known as the "Oregon Hoparians, u
and will be composed of hop men from
Salem, Silverton, Portland and many
other cities.
The purpose of this organization will
be to boost "like blazes" for the val.
ley and particularly Oregon hops.
There is no doubt but that hop men
hoppers and the Salem representatives
of the popular product are sure live to
the core.
A temporary organization has al
ready been effected. The officers are:
Max Wolf, president; julius Pincus,
vice-president, and Jos. Harris, secre
tary. The following members have
been enrolled so far, and many others
will be requested to get in the big
swim; Max Wolf, Julius Pincus, Jos.
Harris, Julius Wolf, H. L. Hart, Geo.
Dorcas, Ross Wood, Geo. Irwin, T. l..
McNeff, Alva Zeller, j. j. Metzler,
Dean Ray, ]. W. Seavey, Frank John.
son, H. A. Talbot, Louis Lachmund. F.
w. Durbin, B. o. Schucking, Hal ".
BOlam, T. A. Livesley, II. A. Cornoyer
James R. Linn, A. G. Crossan, O. C. Nc.
Clellan and Chas. Werner.
Will Organize Permanently.
The "Hoparians will hold the first
official meeting in Portland on July 10
at the hop offices of Julius Pincus, and
at that time the permanent organiza.
tion will be effected and final arrange.
ments will also be made for uniforms
The bylaws of the club will be adopt
ed and when the organization is per.
fected, the members will make negotia.
tlons with other booster clubs and join
as one in doing good things for Oregon
in general.
At the present time, the intention is
that each Riparian" contribute $50
to be used as fund from which to
start with. The chief aim Of the new
club will be to advertise Oregon s lead.
ing industry-hops-and the social fea.
lures will be considered as an adjunct.
The " HOparians are going in the
proper direction and The Capital Jour.
nal wishes them unlimited success.