Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-26
MRsFfLTONS TALKS
CONDUCTED 6Y
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A Highly Priced Letter
Concerning the Early Days of The
Sami-WeaklY journal
Mayodan. n. c., 9-14-19.

A Good Time" of August 20, moves
me to write you. It has indeed
been a long time and a good time
to me since I began to read The
Semi- Weekly Journal eighteen years
ago, and 'some." 1 wonder how, many
readers of same are now living. l
am constrained to believe that you
have been the one that has helpe1
to make the paper what it is, more
than any other contributor. l do
not forget Mrs. Thomas, for she
is great in her chats, l just wish
the editor would give both of you
the space in the paper you once
held.
l am aged like you and my eyes
are growing dim. / have passed my
three score and ten years, and
RIGHT here will say ] am a Metho-
dist and am so glad you write up
the church of the present day and
that of sixty or more years ago
In those days we loved to go to
church and Sunday school. My, gone
are the class meetings and live
feasts of the long ago. Truly have
we gone away from the ordinance
of our forefa thArsi 1 wrote you soma
tine ago, telling you that l have
pasted in my scrap book many of
your articles, with your picture of
course. the oldest being kept in
SiemiWeekly Journal of October
1905, said paper containing ac-
count of Rev. Sam P. Jones death
ana his latest photo, also his home
and one with his children, and an
other of himself on his favorite
horse.
You have two articles in said pa
per "Grumblers" and when the
Circus Came" Here are a few of
later date. After the Battle" Your
versary." Letter from Washington
d. c., April IL, 1914" "a Beautiful
Easter Sunday" Should Methodist
Women be Given the Rights of the
I.aity." What Does The Full
Moon See" 1 will not weary you
with reading so much by adding
more. Hoping that THE Old Lady"
may have her tax adjusted to the
right proportion. I just want you to
plead that case.
With love and best wishes, I am
with You to the end of our journey.
o. A. u.
CAM ANYONE HELP HER3
war between the states with my
husband, Thomas Castor, please
write me. He volunteered at Car
tersville, Ga, 1864, in Company H,
Fourth Georgia reserves. His officers
were Colonel Gambler, Major Burke
and Captain Bob Saxton; was mus
tered out at Montgomery, Ala, July,
1865. Mrs. Thomas CASTOR, Cur
ryville, Ga.
The Hopeless House of the Haps-
burgs.
Emperor Joseph, of Austria, reign
ed a long time. He died about tn.
beginning of the late European war.
The house of Hapsburg was the most
aristocratic of all the royal houses
of Europe. By the royal rules and
regulations of Austria-the royal
-scions could only marry into Aus
trians or with the Wittlebacks--the
reigning rulers of Bavaria. Emperor
Joseph married his cousin, Elizabeth
of Wittenbach. After they had been
married more than a quarter of a
century, she was stabbed to death in
a public place by an anarchist in &C.
neva, Switzerland. He was an Ital-
ian anarchist, who hated the emper1
perhaps, the very best one of her
family. In spite of her money and
position, she was stabbed in a pub
lie street. They had two children,
Crown Prince Rudolph and Maria
valeria. The crown prince was a
ConfirmedIy epileptic. Both his faith
er and grandfather had it. Maria
valeria, the daughter, married
Wittilback, cousin, who inherited
the family disease. Two cousins, the
king of Bavaria and Ludwig, who
became violently insane and commit
ted suicide. Francis Joseph had q
sister, Carlotta, who married Maxi
MILAN, who aspired to be emperor
of Mexico. She became violently
insane and lived and died in an in
sane asylum, where she was impris-
oned for nearly half a century. He
was shot to death in Mexico by
squad of Mexicans. A nephew or
Franz Joseph was lost at sea.
girl cousin was burned to death by
a lighted cigarette. The niece de-
serted her husband, ran away with
a BELGIAN singer, DESERVING her chill
oren.
The crown prince married his cous-
in. but became infatuated with an
other woman and they suicided to
eether, or were assassinated togeth
err in a country palace.
The italians and the Hapsburgs
disagreed. Austria passed laws dis '
allowing any marriages between the
Hapsburgs and the royal Italian
family of Savoy. Whence, their war
with Italy. Serbia took sides with
Italv. Hence, abe Serbians were
ot war with Austria. Crown Prince
Rudolphs wife was a daughter OF
Leopold, king Of Belgium. Hence
Austria joined with Germany against
Belgium, simply to destroy Belgium
after Grown Prince Rudolph met MS
untimely fate. .1...
And it was these people in Austria
and Germany that set the old WORM
on fire in the year 1914
FAsKIoNGEAnHs