The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-03-18

GO4AlAn lOl tue purpose OIL
- making an appeal that I be-
lieve will find a lodgment in
the hearts of all loyal patriots who
read it.
The saddest thing in all our Ameri-
can life is q homeless, friendless girl,
yet we find them in every community.
When Rev. VIM. Black went to Hot
Springs. Ark, to lecture, a girl of
this kind came to him with an ap-
peal for help She was cultured re-
fined and beautiful She had re-
Gently made her escape from one of
the POpe's slave pens called '"The
House Of the Good Shepherd" To-
Gated in that city. Mr. Black was
quick to recognize her splendid quail
ties and after due deliberation he
took her before the court and adopted
her as his daughter
She was in the fatal room in the
hotel in Marshall, Texas, when the
Knights Of Columbus went there
armed with high-poWer pistols and
with murder in their hearts, and shot
her father to death because he had
dared to defend his country against
the entertainments of the emmisaries
of the man god On the shores of the
Tiber.
When the ball fred by the Knights
of Columbus pierced the heart of this
brave man, this little Arkansas girl
threw her arms around her murdered
father and tried to prevent his fall
ing and stood her ground amidst that
terrible battle of bullets until the
last shot was fired and then remained
~ hn I0I e
had rescued her from the clutches of
Rome until kind friends took her to
their homes to try to heal the wounds
IN her broken heart. [ have been for
many days with Miss Sadie Black. [
made the first public appeal in her
behalf in the great mass-meeting ar
ranged by Billy Parker in Texarkana,
Texas, and know her purity of life
and her goodness of heart. She is
tit to grace the best home in the
land, and will have her in my home
with my family for at least a few
weeks in the near future. But here
is the situation: Rev VIM. Black has
gone to his reward and God will be
good to this man who died so bravely
for bis COuntry's good. But you and
] have duty to perform toward the
little girl he saved from the Roman
taskmasters, and when we talked to
her as to what would please her most
in our plans for her good, she ex-
pressed desire to go to school that
she might be better qualified to
serve in some way the cause that she
has learned to love. She is a work
1ng mans daughter and has not had
tho chance she should have had in
educational matters We are going to
see to it that she gets that chance
now. Billy Parker and myself have
her in our care and we are now, and
viii continue in the future to care
for her as we care for our own chill
dTen. If you could meet her and
know her as we have done you would
know why we think so much Of her
and we feel that she belongs to the
cause. To speak in a broader sense.
we feel that she belongs to all of us
and that all the patriots in the land
will want to help in raising the
funds necessary to place her in some
good school that she may acquire the
education that she SO much Graves.
To raise an educational fund we
are selling her photo. And now that
you know what she has suffered and
that her desire is to acquire an edu-
cation, we are confident that every
patriot who reads these lines will
want to help to the limit of his abil-
1ty and will desire one Of her pic
lures and in this way see something
OF the culture and refinement of the
adopted daughter Of our fallen
BROTHER They sell ~Or ONLY ton cants