Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1935-11-28
Thinking OF Friends In Morgan
County. Sends Letter

Says some old friend back in
Morgan, 1--WE haven't read anything
from you in the paper in long
time," to which we plead gull
Ity. For 121 nights the past sum-
mer we worked till 1914 a. m. cav
erage) and really there isn't much
time for sending items to the paper
after that. Recently we made a run
into Florida and Georgia. One is
Impressed with the poor looking
soil in Georgia, and the wide open
spaces seemingly undeveloped. Had
Sherman made his raid in 1895, he
would have found vast areas that
did not need raiding. Jacksonville.
Fla, friends took good care of us.
In st. Augustine. we viewed that
"oldest house" of which we had
learned somewhere in our Morgan
county school days. The gateway
stands. The old fort, built of rock
composed of small shells, is inter-
esting. First there is small fort
to guard the entrance to the larger
place which is across the mOat from
which the draw bridge has disap-
peared. You are shown where an
Indian prisoner climbed up to the
small window and slipped out be-
tween the bars; the chapel, the
beautiful ferns growing on the
walls from moisture of the air; the
dungeon with it's low entrance (fa-
cilitating suffocation when it was
desirable to make away with the
inmates), and the range where
prisoners were shot-with many
bullet marks in the rock!
Perhaps many of you have taken
note of the gigantic statuary with
a horse about half block long, pa
triotic southerners have begun to
carve upon the massive side of gi-
gantic Stone mountain, near Allan
ia, Ga. Half million dollars were
expended before the operations
ming was made, but the heads of
Jefferson Davis and General Lee are
about finished. This one vast lump
of granite is something like 1000
feet high and several miles in cir
cult. An auditorium to be cut in
| to the interior is part of the me-
| mortal.
! BY the grace of my host, I was
taken to the Cyclorama of the Bat
tie of Atlanta, a great painting of
| that historic event wrought on a
curtain about 400 feet long and so
feet high, suspended around cir
cular room erected especially to
house it and viewed from a plat
form in the middle. Just below
you and all around is natural earth
as nearly like the terrain in war
days as possible, occupied by the
| railway with it's torn up and we'll
| twisted rails, and soldiers and can
non. Just out there somewhere
you know the real objects leave off
and the canvas begins, but You
| know not where, and an expanse of
perhaps 80 miles greets your eye so
| natural in appearance that wom-
| an hearing an attendant speak of
where that unfinished house" stood
in the city, said, "And they moved
it here for the moment not real
izing she was looking at a painting
The picture enables one to study
| the technique of battle in Civil war
Gays. There is the saddest thing
| in the picture.'' says the lecturer,
| as he points to a wounded Confed-
crate calling for water which was
supplied by passing Yankee
who happened to be his brother!
A visit to Brother B. G.. Good
pastures private library, collec-
tion of some 5000 to 10000 vol
umes, some of them very rare and
including complete set of we'll
preserved Millennial Harbingers,
| was very interesting and tantaliz-
ing, as there was not time to satis-
fy the book hunger That evening
as we went to the depot in the rain,
traffic was so slow that we had to
"debark" from the auto, secure a
porter, and hasten two or three
squares to make the train.
Recently we have visited several
| communities in southern Indiana
including Martinsburg where lies
buried Elder Lemuel Martin, au-
thor of ''The Voice of Seven Thun-
ders," and noted pioneer preacher
whose grandson, o. D. Bixler, has
preached the gospel for IT years
in Japan. stopped at a persim-
mon orchard in the Martin family
| place and gathered supply of the
ripened fruit. About half the har-
vested crop was yet in the store
house ready for shipping, and yet
the trees did not show their loss
A very tasty and rich pudding is
made from persimmons.
| Mrs. James, who has been in fail
ing health for many years, had a
bad break in February, and has not
been able to take step alone
since. Besides experiencing Sc
we're operation she has suffered
much in other ways, but has borne
up well, sustained by the teaching
of the scriptures and the grace OF
our loving heavenly Father. Now
that we have full-time help in the
house, can be away some. We
are distributing considerable auan.
titles of free tracts (samples OF
which we send upon application) a
work we have followed since 1906.
| One of our numerous interesting
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