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This Company's property is located near Villa Rica, Georgia, on a continuation of the same vein of Ore of the Sulphur Mining & Railroad Company's mine. The demand for this Ore is constantly increasing, and as the fertilizer business is just in its infancy, the demand will be greater as the years go by. The Company is offering a limited amount of Treasury Stock at the par value of $10.00 per share, and confidently expect to pay large dividends to their stockholders. For further information call on or address. W. W. Wisdom, Sec. and Treas., Georgia Pyrites & Manufacturing Company, No. 529 Candler Building, Atlanta, Georgia. In writing to advertisers please mention Watson's. Send Your Boy or Girl to Me If they are ambitious, desirous of The Goal of Success & * EDITORIALS* G By THOS. E. WATSON The Story of the South and West (Copyright by Thos. E. Watson, 1911.) CHAPTER VII. OD moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform." The better your acquaintance with history, the more ready and unreserved is your acceptance of this homely couplet. A mother's tears melted the heart of Coriolanus, and saved Rome. Another matron, looking in terror from the roof of her dwelling saw Pyrrhus slaying her son, in the street below, and she, with avenging force, hurled a tile at the head of the great warrior, striking him and killing him-thus changing the course of Grecian story. Had Anne Boleyn been less pretty, there might not have been any Church of England. A grain of sand in the groin of Cromwell, altered the fate of Europe. A leg of mutton, seasoned with garlic, prostrated Napoleon with a fit of indigestion, wrecked the Dresden campaign and thus led to the triumph of the allied Kings over Republican principles in France. That the great Marlborough was willing to act as waiter at the table of the petty monarch of Prussia, gained to the Allies the formidable troops without which Louis XIV might not have been checked in his victorious march to European dictatorship. But for a trivial brawl in Corsica, which made Pozzo di Borgo the relentless and implacable foe of Napoleon, the Bonaparte dynasty might have kept their thrones. Because Cassius envied and hated Cæsar, the imbecile usurer, Brutus, was persuaded that he must save his country by the cowardly assassination of his own benefactor and his country's greatest statesman. And so I could go on with tiresome citation, illustrating how the events of the world's life hinge upon seeming trifles-the stumble of a horse, the barking of a dog, the cackle of geese, the misunderstanding of an order, the mistake of a uniform, the downfall of rain, the early coming of snow, and the indispensable Somebody, who at the critical, fateful moment is sick, or asleep, or drunk. Are there any dramatic episodes of this kind in the story of the South and West? Why, it teems with them. Like the pearls and the precious metals which the Aborigines possessed in abundance, without knowing their value, the most thrillingly interesting incidents of our national life have been passed over so negligently, so coldly, that almost every American would rather clean a sewer than to really read a history of America. Most men would gladly serve a term on the chaingang, rather than read Bancroft, Hildreth, Schouler, etc. And this is not to be wondered at when we take into consideration the style in which most of the histories have been written. The indispensable Man in the successful planting of Protestantism in this country was Captain John Smith; and all of his labor, heroism and genius would have been expended in vain, had it not been that Pocahontas was one of the bravest, tenderest, truest, hearts that ever beat in a human breast. In the careers of those two, is as dramatic a romance as ever was told-and it never has been, and never can be, properly told. We feel that justice has been done to the memory of John Hampden, to that of Du Guesclin, to that of Sir William Wallace, to that of Robert Emmett, to that of Sir Walter Raleigh; but in the very nature of things it is perhaps beyond human power to fitly class the characters and the deeds of the gallant Englishman, John Smith, and his maiden friend, Pocahontas. First of all, is the difficulty of recreating the age in which they lived, the standards of that age, and the manners and aims of people of that age. Let us try to picture the stage, and some of the leading actors that appear on it: There is Philip II, the mightiest monarch of his time, who is exhausting the resources of his vast empire in the effort to make Roman Catholicism the sole religion of mankind. He lives a hermit-never mingling with his people, never showing a plume in the rush of armies, doing nothing to add to the joy of the world, doing much-horribly much-to increase its woe. He is the huge, invisible octopus of his century, his tentacles thrown, now at Holland, now at France, now at England, now at America. A hideous monster, he seems to me; and I sometimes wonder if his blood was red and warm. He squats there in his gloomy, enormous, convent-palace, with never a laugh in his eye or on his lip-save on the day when they brought him the tidings of the massacre of the Huguenots on St. Bartholomew's. With fire and sword, he has extinguished "heresy" in Spain; that is, he has burnt, or tortured into apostasy every Spanish Protestant. No spectacle is more gratifying to his royal eyes than that of one of his subjects, dying amid the flames-dying because he differs from his King on a matter of religion. With herculean persistence and power he has sought to crush Protastantism in the Netherlands; doing so with a ruthless barbarity that still causes the reader to turn sick with shame and horror. He connived at the murder of Coligny; sent butchers to exterminate the Huguenot colony in Florida; paid the assassin of William the Silent; and eagerly waits to pay for the murder of Queen Elizabeth, if it can be done. Not long ago, the inhuman bigot and destroyer, despatched his "Invincible Armada," against Protestant England, and on board-anticipating a joyful period of burning and torturing-were ninety executioners, equipped with their |