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ONLY A COLOItED GIRL WONDERFUL TEN-YEAR-OLD PICKA NINNY PREACHER. itald ta tiara Mada Many CoDTerU 8h Tell How She Vint Cain to ITaacb, Talk! Llk an Adult. Wonderful stories have come from the wroth about the power of a little colored girl who bus -been converting hundreds df pontons, both white and colored, from the error of Iheirways. It is intheCuro JiniiH t!mt niost of her work hus been done, and tlie poople there call her the pickaninny preacher. Her name is Cle re'.ta Nora Avery, and she in 10 years old. Wherever the girl preached, she stir red up a sort of religions frenzy among the pnoplo. and the mere auuouucemeut of her uume was sufficient to crowd the laraost hulls beyond their capacity. What made this the more remarkuble was that the girl herself went into none of the ecstasies of emotional excitement so common to revivalists of her race. Her sermons were temperate, dignified, appealing, and her command of language snch that it was difficult to realize that a child and uot a grown woman was i-peaking. In her prayers she seemod to be particularly nioviug, and of those who came forward upon her call for the penitent a very large proportion became trne convert. She is now in New York, where a reporter culled on her. On the way op the stairs the reporter passed a colored baby and a little colored girl playing together on the landing. A wo man was at the head of the stairs. "Is the girl preuoher here?" asked the reporter of her. ' ' Yon jnst passed her, ' was the reply, "the is looking after the baby. Cleret- ta, come op here for a moment" "Yes, I'll be there right away," came the answer, and a moment later Cleretta and the buby were in the front room, whore the reporter ex plained his er rand. The preacher sat down on a chair which couldn't have been very comfort utile, be cause her feet duusled clear of clerktta AvfcET the floor, al though it wus a chair of ordiuury height, -while the reporter looked at her. He saw a girl about tho sizo one would ex iwot a child of that age to be, rather plump and clad in a heavy clouk. One of the noticeable things about hor is that her heud is very large, like the lioud of an adult person, in fact, with plenty of brain room above the forehead. In the face there is uot au African char acteristic except the color, which is thut of the African negro. All the feutures are flrioly cut The eyes are large and rather widely set. under a broud and high forehead. Tho uose is rather sniull, with nostrils by no means thick, and the mouth is sensitive and delicate. There is none of thut broadness or Out ness of feature so generally seen in the negro faoe. On the other hand, thero is nothing distinctive to show the inter mingling of Oiiuousiun blood, and, as fur as the girl knows, sho is pure negro. But hers is a refinement of the type. It is no exaggeration to suy thut she is a very pretty child. "I am deciding where to begin," she said. "I huve talked for the newspapers before, but each one wauts soniothiug a little different. One gentlomuu wunted me to preach hi in a sermon, "aud she smiled. "You might liegin at the beginning," suggested the roporter, "uud tell me whero you liva " "My home is really iu Washington, butlhuven't been there since 1 wus a buby. My mother hus hud to travel about for her health, and she und papa and I went about iu North and South Carolina giving a Bible picture exhibi tion with a magic lantern until I begun preaching. Papa died last summer. He was a preuchor and a lecturer, aud he taught me to lecture. " , "Did he teaoh you to preach too?" asked the report. "No one taught me to preach, " said the ohild gravely. "The Lord told me to preach aud I took heed to do as he bid." "How long had you been lecturing be fore yon begun to preach?" "Well," said she reflectively, "I real ly can't toll you exactly. I was such a child when I began aud I huve so many things to think of that I don't remem ber all those matters. But papa used to lecture while the pictures were being fhown and my mother would sing. My part came before the pictures begau. I would lecture for half an hour on dif ferent subject, 'Our Young People,' 'Noah,' 'Work aud Play, ' aud other sub jects. Papa would help me on the sub jects and I would study them." "And from that you went to preach ing?" " Well, not just iu that way. It wasu t like stepping from oue thing to another. It was more sudden. One day the Lord called me to preach, do preach my gos pel saith the Lord, aud call sinners to repeuteuoa My first sermon was on Aug. 17, 1893, in a church at Raleigh. I was to lecture as usual and there was a very big audience. " "Have you any favorite text that you preach from?" " Wellno. I think not The Lord tells me what to preach from, and I preach. I don t study the Bible for texts, but there is always one ready when I want it People used to ask me if I wasn't frightened, speaking to o many people, but I can't see anything to be afraid of in that I never have to stop and think for word or an expression It always come to me right off. " "You have converted a great maay i people, ha ven 't yon V asked the reporter. "No, indeed. I can 'toon vert any per son. No oue can do that They mnst be converted in themselves by the power of the Lord. But many have been convert ed through me. I have held many re vivals, und at one of them about 800 persons came forward when I called for mourners. " "Huve yon heard of Schlatter's work?" asked the reporter. After a momout'i thought the child shook her head, and upon being told of (Schlatter's so called miracles she shook her bead again. "I don't know anything about that," she said "I have never seen it done, that healing. No. I would never try it myself. I am a preacher and nothing else, and I shall always be a preacher. As yet my future pluns are uncertain, but I shall enter the Charleston Indus trial school soon, and after that I may go to college. " "Where have yon been to school?" "Nowhere; my mother taught me reading as far as the Fourth Reader. I'm in that now. I've done a little arith metic and eeocruDhv. When I go to Charleston, I'll go into the Fourth Read er class there." The speaker had suddenly become child, and that encouraged the reporter to ask how she amused herself here. "In the morning I read, and in the afternoon I dIuv." she said. "I play oh, I don't know what I pluy, but I just play. I ve been around the city too. It's vetv bin: bicraor than any other I've seen. I don 't know any other little girls up here. Anyway, I generally play aloua "New York Sun. A CRIPPLE MADE HAPPY. Bis Bobby of Keeping Clipping Lead to the RecoTery of a Diamond. The old adime. "Truth is stranger than fiction," received another exem nliflcation at Marshall. Tex., a fow days ago. Some three years since a young physician named rouara, resiuing in NHxhville. was a nassencer on a lexas and Pacifio train from El Paso. Between Vnrt Wnrth and Marshall he discovered the loss of a valuable diamond, which formed tho setting of his scurfpin. A vionrniiRsenrch was instituted. but Wltn- ont result, aud the loss was advertised in the Marshall Duners. a luree reward being offered for the recovery of the stone. Kevpral flT3 ncro an emrjloyee of the curshops, while overhauling a coach w)iih ind been run in lor repairs, came across a large diamond firmly wedged in between the cushions of one 01 tne seats. Now it happens that this man, hv namn. haa a little crippled o - ' - ami whn has n nassion for everything connected with his futher's business, and who ia in the habit of clipping out nf the iiewsnannrs notices of advertise ments relative to railroad affairs and pasting them into an old scrapbook. When Mr. Hagan spoke ot nis una, nis mtln hnv Rpnmnd struck with uu idea, and asking for his scrapbook he begun tnrnina over the leaves. .Presently ne showed his father Dr. Pollurd's adver tisement of three years ago. The doctor was commnnioated witn, tne oinmona WHS idmitified bv fitting it into its old setting, and the little cripple was mode buppy by a handsome reward. rmia delphia Times. BIG PAPER MILL. Largest In the World to Be Erected at Sault Ste. Marie. Within a short time the lurgest paper mill in the world will be erected at Sault Ste. Maria It will be built by the Sunlt Ste. Marie Fulp and roper company, of which F. H. Clorrrae it presideut. J. P. Morgan 6S vo. are tne backers of the new compuny, oi wuicn the Cramps, the Philadelphia shipbuild ers, are the lending stockholders. A representative of a Hew York ma chinery manufacturing company stated thut the compuny hus olreudy placed or ders for machinery that will give it nearly double the capacity of any paper mill in the world. The company, wnicn already has a mill on the Canadian side, has cm-chased the water power rights on the American side for a08,000 with the added condition that within five years there shall be constructed on the American side a grain elovutor of 4,000, 000 bushels capacity and a flouring mill with a enpuoity of 10,000 barrels a day. New York Tribuna Woman Really AdTanclng. Rev. Dr. Charles H. Eaton, pastor of the Church of the Divine Paternity, New York, in a sermon on "'ihe iindoi the Age Woman, " speaking of the Stan ton celobratiou, whore a number or la dies gave addresses from five to eight minutes in leugth, remarked, "I do not believe that at any meeting of men, pol itical or otherwise, the addresses could bava been restricted to any such limits. " He also affirmed that uot one of the ad dresses fell below a high standard of lit erary excellence. A Thaok;tTln Song. It's corotn 'long Thauksgtvin, with it plea An we're all a-lookln forward to the meetln with the boys; An Bue will oonie from college, an Jimmy win ' t f.iriM't An we'll all fool mighty thankful th w'r all a Itvlu yetl The turkey' bean a-proadln of hi feather fat an fine. An hi "gobble, gobble, gobble" teem a-darln u to dine. But the verdict' been agin him, an hi execa- An he make u feel right happy that we're all alivin yetl Then' folk will com from Tex, from nil noi an Maine; New York will send n Billy, an Hampshire'!! We'll hare a great handahakin when all th friend are met An won't wo feel right happy that w'r all a livtn yetl It' eomln long ThanksglTln. with all It lor an light. It dinner In th daytime. It aelodle at Th turkey' fat an juicy th tab! llvr'( AawTr leelin mighty happy that w'rall aliTUtyetl -rraak U Staktoa la Chicago Tim Herald. MITCHELL'S MIXTURE ANOTHER DISCOVERY OF A 80 CALL ED ELIXIR OF LIFE. The Fluid a Reanlt of Ten Tear1 Experi mentingApplied Both Externally and Internally Bl Great Ambition. Not for many years has the medical world been so interested in uny discov ery us it is interested toduy in what is now known among the profession as "Mitchell's fluid." Its scope u ambi tious and its cluim apparently well founded. Physicinns not only in New York, but wherever medicine is prac ticed, huve been deeply interested In this mixture, which, it is belie, ou, will core consumption and will prove a most val uable uid in the treatment of specific discuses. And while the world is discussing this new discovery Dr. Mitchell, who practices in New York, talks froely of the "mixture," as he carelessly culls it, and visits and receives his patients as he bus done for years. He goes on expert menting, for he is not satisfied yet He believes himself on the eve of making a discovery which may be the means of blotting out a hideous disease. To do this is the dream of the doctor's life. As he emptied a small quantity of iodides into a vial containing a small amonut of his uow fumous mixture aud watched the chemicul operation by which tho yellow fluid was transformed into a darker liquid, he remarked : "I don't want to be too sanguine, but I honestly believe that before many months I will have so fur advanced in my researches thut something very like thut rod fluid yon see there will do mnch to lessen the misery of this un happy world of ours. I hope so any how. " He goes out each day with the con ventional silk bat und the conventional instrument case, but when the last call bus been made und the lust office putieut is gone he descends to the cellur of his home with J. W. Higgius, a chemist, und in the stuffy, darkened room below the pavement the two work, sometimes until duwn. Dr. Mitchollhnsahabit of patting his left knee as he tnlks, and when he be comes interested iu his conversation he pats it so vigoronsly that should a stran ger tuke the sume liberty with thut left knee it would cull for an apology or a duel. "Phthisis," said the doctor, patting the kuee with the regularity of a pendu lum, "is consumption or tuberculosis it's all tho sumo uud the Moid which 1 cluim cures this disease is a chemical combination of the hologen, or boloid group of salts in solution, and the re sultant fluid is what- is now called by physicians 'Mitchell's fluid. ' "This fluid is a pule yellow some thing like churtreuse. . I'll show you a new brew." The doctor stopped putting his knee and brought forth a large bottle, from which he poured into a gluss a small quantity of the flaid. "Now, this, " he resumed, "has a hy drochlorio acid reaction and a specific gravity of 10.23 to 10.25. I made my discovery after years of patient research and experiment It makes me tired al most to think of the lubor I performed,, but Higgius and I kopt at it, and we succeeded. Yes, we have certainly suc ceeded. "I first used it in October, 1803, not for consumption, but for carbuncle. Mr. S -, so years old, cume to me then as patient. He hud on his neck a carbuncle 2 inches in dinmeter, greatly inflamed and swollen, leaving him totally incu publo of exertion. I applied the fluid with cotton, and in three days he was able to resume work, and in two days more he was cured. "Do uot make any mistake now in this fluid. I cluim tbut it cures phthisis and heals the exrernul evidences of spe cific diseases. For the former it is taken internally, for the latter it is applied with cotton. I huve yet to meet with a single failure in either disease. Since its discovery I huve treated nine oases of consumption, and eight of the patients were women. The cases were, with one exception, fur advanced, both lungs be ing affected. In each of these eight cases complete cures were effected in from four to six months. A young man, who bad a large cavity in the rnidlobe of the right lung, wus cured in three months. "I now have five patients, all men, under treatment of phthisis, and in each rase rapid progress is being made, so I feel much encouraged. "The fluids, are given internally, in doses of a dram to 1 drams, four or five times a day. When taken on an empty stomach, it is immediately ab sorbed and carried into the blood vessels and conveyed to the lung tissua There it seems to act by destroying the bacilli and rendering them incapable of farther increase. "In the treatment of specifio diseases having a coutugious external eruption, such as ulcers, mucous patches in the mouth and elsewhere, I have been uni formly successful. The affected parts have been treated by an application of the fluid, aud healing at once without difficulty has been the result Ulcers of the leg of a specific character and ulcers dependent upou accident, which have been obstinate and difficult of cure, have healed very rapidly under a local appli cation of the fluid. I have treated over 80 cases aud huve yet to record a failure. "In the domain of gynecology, or dis eases of women, the fluid has been of most signal benefit Ulcerations and in flammations have been promptly cured by local applications. Iu ulcerative tonsilitis, or old fashioned quinsy sore throat, or putrid sore throat whatever yen wish to call it the symptoms have promptly subsided after applications with a brush. I use a common camel's hair bruxh, which I affix to a glass rod. This, you see, is perfectly antiseptic. An atomizer can be used, but it is not near ly so successful "The formula of the fluid I am will ing the whole world should have, for there if nothing secret about it I am experimenting constantly with a mix ture of iodide of potassium and the fluid, which I believe will positively oure specifio diseases. " Professor William O. Lnsk of Belle vue hospital, New York, ia not willing to commit himself for or against the discovery until he hus personally seen some of the experiments tried. Ho said : "It ia a difficult matter for any phy liciun to talk upon the subject of this discovery in the absence of proper knowledge. I cannot imagine how a combination of magnesium, calcium, potassium, sodium aud forio chloridos with bypochloride of potassium and hy pocbloride of sodium dissolved in water is going to have any effect on a con sumptive." New York JouruuL MRS. POLEAT RETRACTS. Constrained by Ber Bnaband' ParUliion r to Explain Her Word. Mrs. E. M. Poleut, wife of, the Rev. E. M. Poleut of the Calvary Baptist church of New Haven, sprang into no toriety recently by her utterance, "I would rather send my boys to hell than to Yule oollege. " She has this letter in The Yale News : Editor Yale New: 1 hare been Informed that my words are be ing twed on the campus to discredit Christian lty aud Christian work, nnd I have been asktd to auy in The New what 1 sulci to the repre sentative student in conversation. This I cheerfully do. Two statements have been at tributed to me: The flint, that more young men are ruined at Yale than at any place 1 know of ; the aecond, thut I do not consider it a safe place to send boy. Many persons have interpreted these two statements u an indiscriminate charge of lm morality against the students of the college. No such churge has been made or Intended. In saying whut I said 1 am not unaware of a strong Y. M. (J. A. in the college and of high religious life maintained by a lurge body of students. 1 rejoice in these things, and I should be sorry to eniburruHs one whit, by any words of mine, the noblo young men who up preciuto the high edueutlonul and religious privileges afforded them, and who ure using these for the best self culture and the best good of their fellow students. All honor to these yonng men who stand for Christ and true culture In the midst of the university. 11 statements were made In view of flirts of which you are well aware, for in your issue of Nov. Id you suy: "There unquestionably are excessive drink ing, gunibling and dissipation among some un dergraduatea here. " Mas. Edwin M. Poleat. This letter is regarded as a partial retraction on the part of Mrs. Poleut Several influential members of the Cul vary Baptist church hud signified an in tention of asking for the resignation of their pastor unless his wife mude a re traction. New York Sun. THE HOUSESMITHS' STRIKE. A New Trade That Baa Sprang Dp Within a Few Year. The strike of the Housesmiths' union, which now threatens a general inter ruption of building in New York city, is indirectly due to the fact thut science and invention have recently produced the new industry of converting iron in to "house timber." A new trade has been the result Employment is being given to an increasing uumber of me chanics who are to structural iron whut carpenters are to woodwork, what ma sons are to brick aud stona They are called housesmiths. : Within the past ten years the business of manufacturing iron and putting it in pluce as the framework of business buildings hasuss'umed greut proportions and developed still greater possibilities. The fireproof building supported by a structural iron frume is already the business building of the cities. It will be still more the building of the future. Progress is often unnoticed until it develops snch friction as is a result of the relutious between members of the Iron league, who Bupply the iron frame work for modern buildings, and the housesmiths, who put it in place. Inconvenient us such frictiou is, it is an indication of the remarkable growth in the building trade which hus tuken place so recently that the public hus hardly had time to realize it New York World. A Nicaragua Canal BI1L Representative Barham of Culiforuia said recently in Washington: "In my opinion theNicaraguan canal question will be the most important matter brought to the attention of the next congress. I have drafted a bill which I will introduce to provide for the construction of this canal. This bill, 1 think, will not be open to objec tion. My bill will provide for absolute government ownership of the canuL Un der its provisions bonds will be issued as fast as necessary to carry on the work of bnilding the canal. The total issue of bonds is not to exceed $100,000,000. I believe in paying the Nicaraguuu Ca nal company a fair price for their con cessions from Nicaragua and Costa Rica, and paying them in cash or stock, as they elect I do uot believe in giving them any exorbitant sum, however, for what they have already accomplished. "If the United States do not build this canal, they will be the laughing stock of the world. " New York Sua. Eugene Field's iJMt Poem. The last poem Eugene Field ever wrote is in the form of an introduction to a little book of childish sayings, apt ly entitled "Wee Wits, " gotten out by the Lake View Woman's club. It is as follows : The thing the children say. Whether in earnest or in play. Whether in an Inquiring mood Or burdened with solicitude. Or be it but in jest what thing tbey ay, We parents store away Against a time we feel may come When, weary are our hearts and nnrob, We hunger for a presence gone for aye. Within this heart of mine 1 have set np a shrine. And round about It I have wreathed remem brance. They took my boy. What words (Urpawing dear Fell fmm his baby lip and rooted here Hi thousand word of tenderness and cheer Thank tod, they could not rob niy parent heart of theeel A Minnesota girl of 15 can diftin guich no color, everything being white to ber, and she is compelled to wear lark glasses to protect her eyes from the glare. A VENETIAN PALACE. ROBERT BARRETT BROWNING'S BEAU TIFUL HOUSE. A Bnilding Filled With Memories and Ilello of Two I'oet Dear to Thousand. Tba Owner Regard All Visitor a Bit GbmU and I Unusually Kind. On the Grand canal at Venice there it A singularly interesting group of build ings. First, at the corner of the small canal which every tourist travorsos ou his way to and from the station is the great rod pile known us thoPaluzzoFos cari. It is uow nsed as a sort of business college, and young Venetians learn bookkeeping iu the banquet halls of the old doge. Next to it are two gray and ancient buildings, leaning against each other and the Foscuri for support They form one of the Uustiniaui puluoes and burbor a mosaic factory. Beyond is a solid and ruther gloomy looking bnild ing somewhat aloof from the neighbors aud with a broud semicircular flight of steps leuding from the pillured entrance down into the wutor of the Urnud cauul The posts outside for the convenience of the gondolas ore painted a dull brown in contrast with the blue and white pHtt of the other pulucus. High iron gates close the entrance. The first trip you muke on the wutery highway of Venice your curiosity will be sutisliod in rcgurd to this palace, if on no other point, for every gondolier knows the Browning palace. Get him to poke tho none of his gondolas between those brown posts, und if the custodian is not in sight ring the bell beside the iron gates. A ruther crabbed looking muu will let you in, und with a gratf uess which is only, us it were, skin deep tell yon to go through the court und up tho broud staircase ut the reur. In the court yon will find a bronze statue of a beautiful woman, about whose undo body a serpent Las coiled its folds. She holds its heud to her bosom und looks ut it with a strange fondness. If you like speculation, yon will begin to wonder whut manner of mail it is who modeled this figure, and you will climb the staircase with more than ever of anticipation, for the sculptor is Rob ert Barrett Browning, the sole heir to the names of two grout poets and the muster of the house you have come to see. At the top of the brood stairs the cus todian will be waiting for you at the doors leading into a great hull with a high frescoed ceiling by Ticpolo and a polished wood floor. If you ore as young as it is to be hoped you are, yon will take on experimental whirl across this shining expanse while the custodian's back is turned. Result, an envious sigh when he announces that this is the salle du baL You sigh again even more wist fully when he tells you that a fow years ago Emma Eumes ppeut a month as a guest in this palace, uud that every even ing she sang to her host and his friends as they sat in the great easy chairs you see on thut island of rugs at the other end ..of the hall. As if it were not enough to have this delightful old pal ace without ulso having one of the great singers of the world come aud , fill it witti music I You become more than ever orthodox on the subject of "to whom thut hath shall be given. " The custodian unwittingly helps to ground yon in the fuith by lending you through one apartment after another, filled with beautiful old wood carving, old frescoes, inlaid cabinets aud pic tures and statues by the owner of it all More interesting than the works of art, however, ore the reminders of tho two poets whoso personalities are so dear to thousands of people. Here is u bust of Elizubeth Barrett Browning, modeled by her son, and her portrait by the sume careful hand, and there is an earlier portrait of her, more beautiful than those oue generally sees, and a bust of her as a young girl, with the curls in the same way that she wore them all her life. In one corner is the small writ ing desk she nsed, and near it is the bust of her husband. In a small alcove, is a reproduction of a memorial tablet in Florence. One is surprised to find bow livable this big palace hus been ' mude. In the first place, tho owner in addition to the kind ness of permitting people to visit the house has added the courtesy of regard ing them as probably honest Most "show" houses ore scrupulously swept and garnished of everything which makes them homelike and real. They contain a barren array of chairs, tables, . and so on, bnt thut is all Mr. Drown ing bos been kinder to the visitors, whom he evidently regards as in a way his gnests. There ore books on the table, there is music on the rack in the musio room, and there are interesting photo graphs of his father and mother. He makes you feel as if he understood why yon came and was glad. You look at his own photograph with a kindly interest and are uot sorry, after all, that he has a palace, und thut Emma Eanies came and sung to him. He is, as shown by this photograph, a man of 30 or 35, with dark hair, which iu your present kindly mood you regret to see so thin on top. He has a dark mustache and seems a well built fellow, quite as capable of riding across country as of painting the pictures aud model ing the statues with which the adjoin ing hall is filled. The dining room, looking out on the cunaL has a fine big fireplace, lined with polished brass. You long to ee bow the light would dance iu it The butler's puutry adjoining is as large as the dining room itself, and the walls are covered with row after row of polish ed china and glass. The library is being made over to suit this fastidious young man and will be most attractive with tho old carved pillars and woodwork he has pirked up, he knows where. The flour above is occupied by bedrooms. while the gr-jund floor is the home of the custodian, the "boathouse," and general storeroom. Yeaioa Cbr. New York un STORIES OF THE DAY. Ike Confederal and Fedsral tUlla at Vk Atlanta Fair. "Oh! yon needn't mind," aaid pleasant voice over my shoulder as I wiped a few tears from my eye. "Great big men come in here and cry like ba bies. Why, it was only the other day that I looked around aud saw way over in one comer of this little room a man at least 60 years old, a tremendous, sin ewy man, burying his face in bis bands ud sobbing like a child." I bit my lip and turned to the speak er, who hud caught me bonding over aa old snit of soldier's clothes in the Oon foderute Relic building at the exposi tion. Sho was a tull, slender, aristocrat io, blond girl, and she volnnteered the information that she was the daughter of the late General Kirby Smith and was iu charge of the bnilding. ."Somotimes," she said, "I just can't stand it, and I have to go out I don't think I can stay in here Confederate day, because then all the old soldiers will be here. My, my, " she went oi, "what stories I could write of my ex periences in this building I Oue mora ing on old conntrymnn came in and sat down for some moments without saying a word, and then, his eye lighting on my futher's old coat there, I heard him soy to himself, 'By George, if that tea't Kirby Smith's out, and I fought under bim in every battle from the beginning of tbe war to the end. ' And when I told bim I was Kirby Smith's daughter tho old man looked us if he wonld em brace me on the spot. " "The women, too," I said, "mast show lots of feeling, don't they?" "Well, not so mnch as the men. They oome in, the old ladies who remember those days and the young who bave beon told about it, bite their lips to keep buck the tours, and just as they leave yon hear tbem say something. Sometimes they are rebellious and say, 'I declare, I'd just like to have them fight it all over again ; it makes me so mad I' But generally tbey are quiet and tearful and putbetio, and yon bear them gay as they puss ont in quivering voices 'Well, it's a long time over, but some way I just can't keep from crying. ' " "Aud the northern people, " 1 asked, "what do they think of these old flags and swords, these proclamations of se cession ?" "Oh, most of them are very mnch in terested, and the majority are sympa thetic too. Now and then a woman will come along and be disagreeable. One-af the sweetest experiences I bave had was with a woman from Denver. She came in and seemed so affected by the things that she saw that I asked her if she had lost any dear one in our army. She cried over those poor, old patched clothes there, but she turned to me and said, No, my dear, my husband was in the Federal army and was killed at the bat tle of Chickanianga, but my heart goes out to all of tbe blue and gray, for I know well how both sides suffered. ' And she gave me this budge of the Worn-' en of the Grand Ainiy of the Republic to keep as a memento between us. . "So often," said Miss Kirby Smith, "the old soldiers who own different relics here will pay the place u visit. General Bulger, the man who owns that sword there, called tbe other day. ' Ho is the oldest Confederate veteran living, being 96 years and having lived under the administration of all tbe presidents except the first two. The Chinamem: flock here too. Having been conquered ' themselves, they have a kind of sympa thetic instinct toward the place, andj they look at the poor old flags axelj swords and pictures with the moetap-. preciative interest. "Yon see that horn there," pointiagi to a horn that lay in tbe case beside the' Bible which Alexander Stephens car-! ried all through tbe war; "tne mam that owned it paid a visit here recently, and he told me its interesting history. The horn was presented to him by a famous old hunter whom he bad never seen he simply fell heir to it through the will of tbe man bequeathing it to the greatest hunter in the neighborhood next to himself. It gave tbe first blast for secession in Charleston. It has been tbe means for a number of years of whi ning for its owner $300 to bis income. This good fortune came to him through the exchange of courtesies with a wealthy northerner of his neighborhood, to whom be loons the born for hunting, and in return the northern gentleman transacts all his business through the old soldier's post-office, which in some way assists his revenue. Over there is the fiddle which the same old man car ried through the war, and which be tween tbe hours of carnage cheered many a lagging and homesick spirit." Jnst here tbe owner of the Georgia barbecue, an old soldier who served un der General Kirby Smith, carried his pretty daughter off for dinner. And so I was left to investigate the pathetio se crets of this sacred little pluce alone. Not alone, but at least without this pretty human guidebook of information. I tell you the old things there will make anybody's heart ache, be tbey from north, south, east or west There is the cradle in which Jeff Davis was rocked, there the swords of Stonewall Jackson and Robert Lee. There is an old spinning wheel, one of the few things left of Sherman's bonfire of At lanta, and tbe Eaddle from which Gen eral Paul Simmes fell, wounded to the heart, in the battle of Gettysburg. In the midst of all these signs and symbols of sorrow now and then there is a lighter note. A pair of satin ship pers made by a plantation shoemaker for a bride during the war; a wedding I uicw, ryuu, n.i.Lu .uju ujew m wauw I bearing tbe aristocratic name of Cal i houn such a poor, pitiful, little wed i ding dress of brown homespun, corded along the seams and ornamented with 1 homely brown buttons ; such a poor, ! pitiful, little wedding dress as the yonng mistress would not bave ooneid i ered fit fir one of her slaves ia the prosperous days. Maude Andrews ia Pittsburg Dispatch.