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THE ATLANTA (iLOKtil AN AND NEVVfcj.
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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OCR PLATFORM.—The Georgian
and Newe stands for Atlanta’s owning
Its own fie nnd electric light plant.,
ns It now owns Its waterworks. Other
cities do this and get go; ns low as *0
rents, with a proflt to the city. Thin
should he done at once. The Georgian
end Newt belltrem that tf street rett-
ways can he operated tucceajfully hy
European cltlea, an they ere, there Is
no good reason why they can not be so
operated here. But wo do not bellern
this can bo done now, sad It mny he
Some years before we tiro rendy for eo
Mg an undertaking. Still Atlanta should
■eta Its taco to tbit direction NOW
be little need to press | the appeal of selflah Intercat to the f fearleasly^sUtea to the public that It is paying a noble per cent upon
world, helpless snd struggling upon $8,000,000 worth of stock.
I and there should
home this appeal.
"Honor thy father and thy mother"
Is the one commandment with a prom
ise In the decalogue that came down to
us from Ml. Sinai through the thun
der and the clquds. If we have moth
ers of our own. for their sakes and
for the possible time when they them
selves. spent and Infirm, may need the
help of human kindness, let us heark
en to this appeal.
If we have no mothers of our own.
then for the sake of those who have
given rrnm their Inins strong men to
the struggles of our race, and who are
now without usefulness and without
the edge of declining years. If we have
In us one spark of the filial touch
which should make the whole world
akin, let the best and highest and no
blest that is in Atlanta and In Its peo
ple rally to thla tendereat and softest
and noblest of all charities, and help
these good women of the Gordon Clr
cle of the Daughters of the King to
provide a home, rest and peace for the
aged and passing women whose years
are so few, whose necessities are so
simple, but who need at least to live
and be comfortable and to lie cared
for with reverence while they do re
main.
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ruption, except such as it debarred by
The Georgian's established policy to
txoludo all objactionabla advertising.
The Gentlest of Our Charities.
Personally appears before tho pub
lic Mrs. Sarah J. Purtell, philanthro
pist and promoter of good deeds, who,
upon the strength of her long service
and her noble character, faithfully de
clares that the Old Woman's Home of
Atlanta la In vital need of practical
and prompt assistance In order to pro
long Its usefulness If tint to preserve
Its life.
There is no other Institution In At
lanta which haa been more heroically
fought for than this Institution found
ed in noble motive and sustained by
heroic diligence and philanthropy.
The Old Woman's Homo Is located
on East Mitchell street, anti its pres
ent building Is both Inadequate In
scope and unsanitary In condition to
be longer Inhabited us a place of ref
uge for the aged and needy mothers
of this generation.
The Old Woman's Home has on
hand 15,000 which, through diligent
day by day and almost night by night
endeavor. In season and out of sea
son. on the part of the good women of
the Gordon Circle of King’s Daughters,
bis been gathered as a nucleus for a
permanent home.
If the Institution can secure $5,000
more it will have a sufficient sum to
make the first and leading installment
upon a new and permanent home in
which It can be housed for further use
fulness snd for durable eare of the
•fed and infirm. This money ao
much needed ought to be forthcom
ing promptly and cheerfully from the
pockets of men and women In Atlanta
who have enough of this world's goods
to contribute some of the surplus for
the respectful care and tender consid
eration of some other man's mother
who has done her part and suffered
her sorrows and palna and fought her
fight, and now watts with folded hands
for tbe summons to another world.
There la not one touch of maudlin
sentimentality In this appeal. If any
class of human beings on thla earth
appeal to tbe heart and to the help
fulness of those who are still vital fig
ures In this world's strenuous strife, it
la the woman whose beautiful hands
may be neither white nor small, but
are worn with ceaseless service for
Children, who are perhaps In distant
lands or more likely under the sod.
which they have served In days
gone by.
Every man and every woman wbo
has a mother or had one before she
was translated to her reward, will feel
that here Is a charily which touches
nearest the whole thing with us—tbe
filial reverence for the sainted being
who gave us birth and the imper
ishable tenderness which through evil
•nd good report has lingered with us
•o long as it lingers In the world.
Other appeals touch us In a general
way. This comes home to the hearth,
U> tbe memories of childhood, to the
recollection of the thousand hours and
tbe thousand little griefs and cares
and worries which wo carried to this
unfailing source of sympathy and
healing and regard.
Mo need to prolong the explanation,
THE FIFTH REGIMENT AND RALPH BINGHAM.
The Fifth Regiment of Georgia must surely go to Jamestown.
The Fifth Regiment represents the flower snd the chivalry of north
Georgia. Including Us wonderful capital city, and at this dress parade in
old Virginia of all that Is best and brightest tn the volunteer and regular
soldiery of the republic, Georgia muat have 11 crack regiment to represent
the spirit and the progress of the state.
The Fifth Regiment has come to lie perhaps the best known of all
the military organizations of the state. It has borne Itself superbly
in most of the great military gatherings of the psst deende, and Its gal
lant Colonel Clifford Anderson, with his brilliant staff of officers- and
men, has always brought home laurels of high repute for gallant bearing
and faithful service on the mlmle field.
A part of the Fifth Regiment, too, was the strong force behind the
restoration of law and order in Atlanta's recent riot, and has demon
strated Ha capacity to do something more llnfi ornamental service to the
honor and safety of the state.
The Fifth Regiment la host on Thursday at the Grand opera house
to an entertainment of the most delightful type.
• It has brought here Ralph Bingham to entertain Us friends, and
among entertainers u|K>n the platform of today Ralph Bingham la easily
the chlefest of them all. No fun so contagious, ao magnetic, so sustained,
no program more altogether delightful, Is to bo found upon the entertain
ment list of the American lyceum than of this genial and gifted gen
tleman whose talents arc placed at the service of tho Fifth Regiment.
Atlanta then, In full recognition of the services and of the splendid
record of Its own gallant regiment, and In appreciation of the gifts and
graces of the incomparable entertainer of the American platform,
should pack the Grand opera house on Thursday night with an audience
of beauty and of loyalty to match the grace and chivalry upon the
stage.
Ralph Bingham and the Fifth Regiment should have nothing less
than a packed house at this entertainment whose piwved* are set to tho
sending of the Fifth Regiment to stand for^ Georgia at the Jamestown
Exposition.
WE JOIN THE CONSTITUTION FOR CLEAN STREETS.
It gives The Georgian unusual pleasure to join with its esteemed con
temporary of The Constitution in the demand for clean streets and bet
ter sanitation of public and private premises.
The Constitution Is entirely right Itt this matter and the heartiness
with which we unite with Its demands Is in no wise diminished by the fact
that The Constitution started the crusade along this righteous line. We
must learn to get over in Atlanta the picayunish habit of eith
er opitosing or treating with apathy a thoroughly Just and
proper movement because It happened to be Instituted by a
competitor either In journalism or In business. The common weal Is the
plane iqion which we can unite our various factions and no private jeal
ousies should Interfere wllli our public advocacy of matters which re
late to the general safety or the general welfare.
We sincerely trust tlmt The Constitution's appeals for municipal ac
tivity along this wholesome sanitary line will be promptly met and an
swered, nnd we commend our contemporary for Its Intelligent concep
tion of public Interest.
Meanwhile we trust lu confiding reciprocity that our esteemed con-
tenqtorary will not withhold Its Influence and its energy from a full co
operation with The Georgian In fighting that vast and menacing danger
of the Great White Plague which is deep enough and terrible enough In
Its present ravuges and tn Ita future threat to demand the co-operation of
all forces which look to the safety and welfare of the state.
The two crusades are In fact akin. The Constitution's plea for
local cleanliness mnkes a wholesome preliminary for our own plea for that
larger sanitation In which the Great White Plague must be stayed.
LET THE RICH REMEMBER THOSE WHO MADE THEM SO.
It Is In no captious but rather in a congratulatory spirit that wo note
that our contemporary of Tho Journal has broken Its long silence with
a direct appeal to the Georgia Railway and Electric Company to allure
Its unparalleled prosperity with the people who have made It.
The Journal's appeal Is timely and clear, and Is sound enough really
to have appeared In The Georgian. We are glad to have our neighbor's
full and valuable co-operation In the endeavor to persuade this great cor
poration to a Just and wise consideration of the people from whom Us
princely revenues are derived.
But the Journal, walking as usuaal velvet-footed on any question which
touches the Georgia Railway and Electric Company, fnlls to carry Its com
ment to s legitimate conclusion or to point the logical and splendid moral
of municipal policy which its statements make plain.
The Georgia Railway nnd Electric Company grew out of an original
company owned some years ago by Joel Hurt. Mr. Hurt's company was
capitalized at about $5,000,000, of which as we romemher, only SO per cent
or $400,000 was paid In by 'he original stockholders. Mr. H. M. Atkinson
and his colleagues established a rlvtl line which compassed a number of
the streets in Atlanta, although not as many ns the original lines owned
by Mr Hurt, and a little later on tbe Atkinson lines absorbed by purchase
the Hurt lines and consolidated them In the present Georgia Railway and
Electric Company. At the time of the consolidation the Atkinson lines
and the Hurt lines were promptly capitalized at $6,000,000, although It
Is doubtful If $000,000 had been net unity spent by the stockholders In
both of tbe companies put together. So that by enlargement of stock this
street car system, costing In one case about $400,000 to the stockholders,
and In tbe other case a probably smaller amount, leaped at a bound to a
capitalization of $6,000,000 and proceeded nt once to cam dividends upon
this Immense volume of ''water."
And now the same corporation, after a few years of consolidated ef
fort, openly announces to tbe public that out of Ita magnificent earnings
it is enabled to Increase Its slock by an Issue of two million dollars to
Its stockholders and is now capitalized at $8,000,000. This carries with It
the turther startling announcement that even with this addition of $8,-
000,000, the Georgia Railway nnd Electric Company Is able to pay the div
idend which It has heretofore paid upon the $6,000,000.
Wonderful figures these! Marvelous story of prosperity! Thrilling
statistics of superb earnings—and nil from the pockets of the iieople!
It may be ustunied ns a fact without positive assertion, that never a
dollar has beeu paid out of the pockets of the stockholders since the origi
nal purchase, and that this property which In so small a number of years,
has grown from approximately an $800,000 stockholders' Investment to
an $8,000,000 investment, has been paid for entirely by the patronage and
support of the people of Atlanta and the casual visitors who come to this
town.
Surely in til our local history there has been no story of marvelous
Increase and majestic receipts to equal this!
If It be argued that within this time the company has built other
lines and carried other Improvements, It may be assumed that every dol
lar of these Improvements has been paid for by the profits derived from
the support of the people.
Add to this the fact that with its bond Issue of $10.000.00D and ita
slock of $8,000,000. making a total valuation of $t8,000.000, this princely
corporation by the record of 1804 returns ils properties to the tax receiv
er at the meager sum of $3.6C4.0lM a year.
Our contemporary of The Journal parades with emphasis the fact that
the street railway pays taxes upon Its gross receipts, but The Journal
doubtless remembers to forget that the returns of this property to the
St.'ti is at about $5,500,000, while lu the lace o( that return It openly and
Heaven knows it Is a small enough apiieal (hat our contemporary
makes to the Georgia Railway and Electric Company to let the people
share a part of the magnificent prosperity which they have made.
Yea, verily, the people are entitled to some consideration at' the
hands of those whom they have enriched beyond measure aud beyond
computation.
These patient, tired shop girls, and weary working men who every
morning between 6 and 8, and every evening between half past 5 and
7 o’clock swing In and out of the city hanging by straps and jostled in the
aisles and trampled by crowding men, In vehicles filled with unsanitary
negroes—every one of them, shop girls, clerks, accountants, workers and
laborers—have paid every day and twice a day for years the tax which
has made these people Immensely rich.
Even the faintest touch of human justice should appeal to these na
bobs of finance to put back Into the pockets of these patient and long
suffering people who have worked for their advancement, something I11
comfort and something in convenience to pay the measureless debt which
the corporation owes to the Individual.
Surely the cars that carry the people to work to build tho prosperity
of the city and to pay the princely dividends of the corporation should
afford better facilities for these people to sit and rfst when they have
worked all day, and to have clean cars and comfortable seats In order to
enable them to continue to work and toll and stand and to pay and to en
rich the street car company and to make good the dividend of 5 per cent
upon the $8,000,000 which they, the people, have enlarged front the com
paratively Insignificant Investment of $800,000!
Beyond this it is an appeal to justice, an appeal to equity and an ap
peal to the better spirit of the twentieth century that the commodity
of light aud of power which this great corporation holds in monopoly,
should he made cheaper to the people who have been so loyal In their
beneficence to them. Surely a pcpple who have made $8,000,000 grow where
only $800,000 were planted, are entitled to share in this prosperity to
the extent of getting cheaper lights and cheaper power, and better com
forts In their weary hours of travel.
We recognize all the good things that the Georgia Railway and Elec
tric Company has done. We have been swift to record and applaud them
every one. But all the little things that they have done In the past are
as fine dust in the balance compared to their obligation to the people
who gave them their franchises and gave them the swelling millions In
whose possession they rejoice today.
If yon are thiuki'ig of saving a part of your income for a
“rainy day,” or fyr investment, we would like to call your
attention to the features of our Savings Department.
Conte aud get acquainted, nnd let us explain the little de
tails about the rules, etc., even if you are not ready just yet to
open your aecount.
We pay 4 per cent interest, compounded semi-annually, on
savings accounts.
MADDOX-RUCKER BANKING CO.
THE REAL LESSON OP THE $2,000,000 INCREASE.
No thoughtful man can blame the Georgia Railway and Electric Com
pany for its wish aiul inclination to make money.
There is not one of us who under the same circumstances would 1 not
make as much money as the Georgia Railway and Electric Company is
making and rejoice in the achievement. The company and its able and
accomplished president is simply playing a great business game In a bus
iness way for the money that is in it, and is making every dollar that the
law and the people behind the law will permit it to make.
The point that we make is that the recent magnificent exhibit of the
company's prosperity is a direct object lesson to a patient nnd long-suf
fering and almost stupidly apathetlcpeople.
, If this company upon an actual stockholders’ investment of about
$800,000 can, in the course of a very few years, openly announce a pros
perity which they capitalize at $8,000,000, and pay 5 per cent dividends
upon it, what could tho city do if it owned this magnificent property?
What could the city pay if It owned this princely and profitable in
vestment? How many thousands and millions of dollars of taxes could be
saved to the plain people of Atlanta if they themselves were the owners of
this gold mine dug every day under the trolleys of the street railway?
A people deserve no more than they have the intelligence and cour
age to attain, and if Atlanta is today paying taxes more than it ought to
pay, if its people are paying Into the treasury taxes that are unnecessary,
If they are paying for the commodities of life in electricity and transpor
tation more than they ought to pay, they have nobody to blame for it but
themselves.
If the people sit still and are apathetic while these magnificent profits
are reaped from their franchises, and are Indifferent when the facts
are made plain to them, then the peo pie are by nature and by choice the
burden bearers ami are only fit to support the rich nnd powerful and to do
their will.
The people of Atlanta.have already had a magnificent object lesson
of the value of their ownership of public utilities in the super!) figures of
growth in the water works system that they own, and in the record of the
- revenues derived from the water works system which diminishes their
taxes, decreases their rates and helps to pay for the support cf other de
partments which their taxes would otherwise lie compelled to maintain.
Now the people are beginning to sec just what their dullness and
blindness in past years have caused them to'lose.
If the Georgia Railway and Electric Company were a school master
with the bended skies of Atlanta as a blackboard, they could not trace In
letters of light a more splendid lesson, a more Inspiring demonstration of
the beauty, and the value, the profit, the saving, and the municipal
riches of municipal ownership, than in the magnificent announcement of
the Croesus wealth which they have amassed’out of the franchises and
out of the patronage of the people In this public commodity of transpor
tation within these recent years.
And so finally, let the people, If they have any pith, if they have any
stamina, if they have any intelligence or resolution worthy of the ex-
.alted duties of citizenship, study once and for all time the inspiring les
son of the water works system, and the many times more inspiring lesson
of this six and a half million increase which the Georgia Railway and
Electric Company has made in Its stock, and in the spirit of the age, bear
ing the shibboleth of the times, let them resolve that this twentieth cen
tury city shall move to the twentieth century policy of municipal owner
ship of public commodities in the speedy years to come.
ONCE MORE ABOUT HELL.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
In late Issues of your paper I see
several communications from different
parties giving »helr Ideas in reference
to hell. It seems that we have hell
stirred up. but ns none of their ideas
quite coincide with my own. I beg for
short space to give my view of the
subject. Many of the ancients’ Idea
of hell was evidently the grave, but the
word, since it found Its way Into the
orthodox creeds of n later day, seems
to convey a very different meaning.
Most of the Greek and Trojan war
riors slain In battle are represented
b> Homer as going to hell or the grave.
To illustrate:
••Full twenty In a moment fell.
Sent by great Ajax to the shades of
hell.*’
John Milton’s idea was a personal
devil and a burning hell—a horrible
dungeon on all sides round, into which
the arch fiend and Ills rebellious hosts
were cast after disastrous warfare on
the plains of heaven, and as he strikes
this burning caldron there comes from
him something like these words:
•Farewell, happy fields, where joy
forever dwells; hail horrors, hall In
fernal world and then profoundest hell
receive thy new possessor." Seems to
have been a right gritty old fellow.
Pity It was he made his escape and
discovered our little world to tempt
Mother Eve. through the serpent! But,
alas! she plucked. "She ate: earth
felt the wound and n;ture sighing at
her seat through all her works gave
signs of woe that all was lost."
Now. If this Is all literally true, won
der If he is still wandering through
infinite space, wrecking worlds as he
did ours. John Milton’s hell of ' re ami
brimstone is true only in a figurative
sense, and the old ancient idea of eter
nal burnings has about gone out In the
light of our twentieth century civitizn- I
tion. Vet, while holding to this Idea.!
alt through his work. "Paiadlsp Lost." j H. was tin? of the first pilots
he strike' 1 a key-to the I »glc of the * Bmnswic k bar after the war.
situation when he jays: "Me mL-rra- and seven children survive.
hie, whither shall I fiy, which way I
fly, Ih hell; myself am hell." It Is
true today and has been In a!’ ages
ajul will he true until the end of time,
tlmt hell comes to the human heart
and conscience only as a natural con
sequence of violation of law.
The materinl universe Is governed
and controlled down to the smallest
atom hy the operation of wise and In
finite laws, and any violation produces
discord, nnd to some extent puts us
out of harmony with nature and her
laws. The same is true of divine law
Let no tnan think he <nn violate and
escape a just penalty, for the day of
retribution surely cometh. and all the
happiness or misery that vomes
each individual life nnd character is in
exact proportion to obedience or \
iatlon of natural or divine law.
takes hut a glance over the pages of
anc.ient history to convince the ra
tional man of today that the world Is
growing better; that mankind has
evolved from the Ignorance, supersti
tion and fanaticism of past ages to a
higher plain of moral, physical and
pirltual life, and today Is just at the
dawn of a civilization that Is to be
without a parallel In all history. This
Is In keeping with Goii’s plan and pur
pose. ns He gradually unfolds Himself
to the world through the highway of
the human soul, giving mankind a
clearer conception of natural ami di
vine law, and bringing him back in
harmonv with His own law In recon
ciling the world unto Himself. A
proper understanding and obedience to
law would drive hell (If not out of the
universe) out of the hearts, minds and
consciences of mankind.
A. 8. J.
Winston. Ga.
Aged Pilot it Dead.
Mpeeial to The Georgian.
Brunswick. Ga.. March 27.—Captain
J. \V. Tabbott died yesterday morning
$tt his residence, on Cnlon street, after
»» long*illness. He was 75 >ear* of ago
a id had **i»ent 42 years In Brunswick
A wife
DEATH OR ETERNAL TORTURE?
To the Editor of The Georgian:
While we can but admire the zeal,
earnestness and honesty of purpose of
all of the Lord’s dear people in their
efforts to lift up and elevate the fallen
human race to a higher plane of being,
yet we deplore the fact that many are
trying to accomplish this great end by
teaching doctrines that are altogether
foreign to the teaching of Scripture,
doctrines that originated in the "dark
ages’’ and have been handed down to
us as a legacy. We should be sure of
nur position before we attempt to teach
others the way of life, and we can only
know that our position is tenable hy
following the teaching of the Scrip
tures. It is not enough that we are
honest and conscientious in what we
believe and teach, for conscience is not
an infallible guide unless it is In har
mony with the teaching of God’s word.
One of the many false, upscrlptura!
doctrines that Is being taught by the
(’hrlstlan world is the doctrine of Mis
eternal torture of the wicked some
where in a place called hell. Some go
so far as to say that Christ came to
save people from eternal torment, and
while a person may honestly believe so,
yet there is no warrant of BcrJptur?
whatever for such a belief, and I must
say with all candor and with all due
respect for the opinion of those who
thus believe, that such a statement Is
as false as the devil himself. Jesus
Christ never has nor ever will save any
one from eternal torment, because n
one 1ms ever been condemned to such
a punishment, not even the devil him
self (for he is to be destroyed - Hen.
2:14), and It would he Impossible to
save one from that to which he had
never been condemned. The Scripture
record ns to the punishment Imposed on
Adam is very plain nnd unmistakable,
nnd there is no renson why anyone
should try to place a false construction
on it.
When Gbd created Adam nnd placed
him in the Garden of Eden He placed
him under a law, the law of obedlcnc v,
He said to Adam, now, Adam, obey
Me nnd you shall live—that is, he
would continue to exist, but dijobey M
and you shall die; you shall cease to
live, "for in the day thou eatest of the
forbidden fruit thou shalt surely die."
Now. can any sane person deny that
death, the extinction of being, was to
be the punishment for A.lam’s sin of
disobedience? Surely not; yet, ac
cording to the teaching of present day
theology, God deceived Adam, bm eter
nal life in a hell of torment was In
store for him and his race, instead of
death. God is unchanging and un-
changable, and when H$ told Adam
he would die, eease to he. He m*ant
Just \ybat He said. He didn’t Intimate
to Adam any other punishment would
be Imposed on him or his race. Now.
then, will some of our wise theologians
tell us when, where and by whom has
the sentence been c hanged from cleatii
to eternal life in a place of eternal tor
ture called hell?
The doctrine of eternal tor.ure in
volves the doctrine of human Immor
tality. which is Just as urscrlptural as
the doctrine of eternal torture*. God
told Adam he would die if he ate the
forbidden fruit. Satan came along and
accosted Eve about the mutter and said
to her. "Hath God suld you may eat
of the fruit of all the trees of the gar
den?” "Yes.” she says, "we may eat of
all the trees except one, but o? that
we must nnt eat nor even touch it.
lest we die." "(Veil." says Satan, "you
shut! not die, for God doth know that
In the day thou eatest thereof your eyes
will be opened and you shall become n»
God. knowing good nnd evil."
So he deceived Eve with this old lie;
she ale of the forbidden 'fruit, and gave
to her husband also, and he did eut
and brought ruin and death, not eternal
torture, upon themselves and all their
posterity. Now, my Christian friends,
which are you believing—God or the
devil? God said you shall die; Satan
said you shall not die. It Is n most la
mentable fact that a vast majority . f
professing Christians arc believing and
teaching that old Satanic He, "thon
shall not die, 1 - virtually making God
out a liar, because the advocates of ths
eternal torment theory say that man Is
Immortal and cun not die, notwlth-
standing the plain teaching of the
Scriptures to the contrary.
Again, the advocates of a hell of tor
ture ought to be able to give some ac
count of the creation of such a place,
either In sacred or profane history. In
the first chapter of Genesis. Moses
gives os a general history of the crea
tion. He tells us what was created on
the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and
sixth davs. but don't say a word about
the creation of a hell of torment or
anything at all akin to It. And If such
a place has been created, God created
it, and surely If God had created siJJPh
a place Moses would not have Ignored
the fact entirely, hut would have given
It a verv prominent place in Ills history.;
Hut .Moses clinches the whole matter
by saving In the Inst verse, "and God
saw everything that He had made, and
behold! It was very good." good In deed
and in truth.
No the advocates of the eternal tor
ment theory should either show up . r
shut up and quit misrepresenting the
Divine I'haincter, ami quit blasphem
ing His holy name, for "God is love."
J. C. C. CARLTON.
College Fark. Ga.
Army-Navy Orders
—and—
MOVEMENT OF VE88ELS.
Washington. March 27.—The follow.
Ing orders have been Issued:
Army Orders.
Private Fred J. Grant, military acad
emy detachment of cavalry, in con-
flnement at Fort Strong, transferred
to Forty-sixth company, a epast artil
lery at that post.
Recruit Henry I. McKim, recruit de
pot. Jefferson barracks, having enlist
ed under false pretenses, discharged
without honor from the army.
Private George W. Klntzle. Company
H, Third Infantry, general hospital.
Fort Bayard, to proper station, Fort
Lawton.
Following transfer enlisted men of
coast artillery made:
First-class Electrician Snrgeant Jaa.
M- Lewis, Fort Fremont to Fort Schuy
ler; First-class Electrician Sergeant
Ernest Kuehn. Fort Hamilton to Fort
Mansfield: Second-class Electrician
Sergeant Harry B. Stillman, Fort Scre
ven to Fort Fremont; Sergeant Major
Charles C. Quigley, junior grade, coast
artillery, report to commanding officer.
Fort Monroe.
Naval Orders.
Warrant Machinist W. B. Cothran,
detached Franklin to Texas; Paymas
ter’s Clerk E. S. Addlance, appointed
to West Virginia; Paymaster’s Clerk
R. R. Bolles, appointed to West Vir
ginia.
Movements of Vessels.
ARRIVED—March 23, Hannibal anJ
Sterling at Guantanamo; March 25,
West Virginia at Kobe, Dolphin at SL
Thomas.
SAILED—March 24, Potomac from
League Island for .Portsmouth, N. H.;
Caesar from Guantanamo for Key
West, St. Louis from Hampton Roads
for Guantanamo bay; March 25. Mary
land from Woosung for Olongapo, Wil
mington from Woosung for Klngpo.
HELL CAN*NEVER BE
DONE AWAY WITH.
A PLEA FOR CLEAN SIDEWALKS
To the IM it or of T no Georgian:
The Antl-Tuheroiiloitls League nnd other
public-spirited bodies lire making valiant
..(Torn* townnl preventing the spread of
tld* Justly dreaded "While Pimple.*’ The
tusk I** herole, it lid. /’eternal vlgllaiiee Is
he price, “
t la I*
nrd tile
millennium is being
of tld*
erlooked.
alks in the bind
neglected t
* Mtlew.1
tuisctio
If we
father*
forbidding the pro
ration on her sidewalks?
then It'** up lo our elty
of which would i*urtb»
ha*
In"
did
I* It
but
ir fair eitv. but tie
eroding* la sitrelj
ot entirely iiuiiittm
gainst this practice. I’pott several wen
ion* recently I happened to see the win
down-town a
itol aesthetic
ely. 1 kwbw of no elty
re haring such elatum
enlightenment lhat
suteli laxity in regard
either he
M. F.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
You are publishing a courageous and
clean paper, and I encourage and con
gratulate you.
I have noticed recently some articles
In your paper regarding hell. The anti-
hell pieces I pay no attention to, for
there Is r ithing In them. But, on the
other hand, the recent grandly ortho
dox pieces from Rev. W. O. Butler and
Mr. C. P. Cousins I most heartily in
dorse.
Hell! Hell! And Is there an eternal
hell? some one asks. I reply: Of
course, there is an eternal hell! The
Bible plainly states that there is a hell
of punishment, and that this hell of
punishment Is eternal. And no wise
man disbelieves Bible statements! I
believe "my mother's Bible,” and mine.
Yes, sir. every word In my Bible I
steadfastly believe! And I know that
there Is a hell of eternal punishment,
as truly as I know that there Is a
heaven of eternal Joy, or that Christ is
God. Why do I know these facts? Be
cause Jesus, In His Bible, says so; and
that's enough for me. What Jesus of
Nazareth says Is absolute and final
truth. And, oh, what a shame and sin
for any one to doubt Him, who is the
Truth!
It pains my heart, unspeakably, to
see the wicked and daring drift of
things today. For Instance, how some
Georgia ministers will betray the
blessed Jesus. These same unorthodox
preachers of “higher criticism” claim
to be called of Christ to preach His
"whole counsel” to dying sinners. And
then they get up tn their pulpits and
not only betray their Lord, but destroy
their listeners by never mentioning
hell.
1 wonder If such preachers are not
afraid they will hear In the awful fina*
judgment from the Christ they betray
ed: "I never knew you," etc.?
Yours sincerely.
F. W. M’CLESKEY.
Pastor Flovilla Circuit.
Fiovlllo, Ga.
“8TILL HARPING ON HELL.”
. . our correspondents. Ii
Ing hell. say*. "Christ gave If in life hl«od
to save men frnuchell.** Now. we rend tlmt
"tin* blood of Christ eleanseth iis from nil
hIiis. rills Is My Monti, shed for man/
for the remission of sin.” Mntf. xxrl, 2s.
Now, wo claim that If the Mood of Christ
Hennseth us from nil sin, it also releases
us from the wages of sin. which is dentil.
Homans vl. 23. Min, Where It Is finished,
brlugefh forth death. James i, 15. Mia
hath reigned unto death, even so might
grace reign through righteousness unto
eternal lift* by Jesus Christ our Lord. It"*
mans v. 21. Again. If the Idood of Chri-t
eleanseth us from all sin. we are no
longor condemned to death, lull have pn***
ed from death unto life. John v, 24. "e
■lain* that the Bible does not speak
and Greek show Hint it is not n pises
of suffering. "He that hath the Mon hath
life, ami If«* flint hath not the Hon of «I'»«I
bath not life" (everlasting In torment n"C
vbere
rare is
The
and
only way to escape Ibis death
toller Ik to nreept Christ, the l.ife tfiver,
wherefore, ns by one mail, sin entered into
the world, nnd death hy «ln: nnd so dentil
passed upon all men for that all hnv
Ml. U<
hath
Into eoiu
death unto ill
Greenwood,
.. 12. Hr that hwnviti Mr
I belleveth In Him that seat M-
ibisilng fife, and shall not emn«
SOME HISTORIC CORRECTION.
To the Kditn
home of Go
"r lived the
r of The Georgian
eut In the editorial. •*(»eer*isl
nt Jamestown,” In your bs|’*
le. Ilmt BiilliH'h ll:itl iM
rrnnr llullm h l» .vrinltilr t ■
cruor Arihltmtil Biillti. li
moment, but II'
tl the I»e.
/mumii. (in., to i
assembly, being the first man to
doetiuient In Georgia
nan did not live to w
«ruggle for liberty, f»*
year after the deelarntli
Ii!h eountry hail
It
elt. bm i
always l***t.
di to
. $ are fa
Please g!v
his death.
made
Grand Jury to Meat.
he Fulton county grand jury will I pia«-
meet again «»n Thursday, nnd nt that I
time a large number of case* will come}
for investigation. There Will be ariwuma in I,...,,.. ■■
business enough to keep the jury at* ” A GKOKGIA.V
ork for a couple of days ut least* Columbus, Ga., March 2.’, 1JW7.
iis. and t
* this left-
^ ... . tumns, ns this
. gnrding ’IliilbH h Hall has M*e
ml ilines lief ore. In various
n<l never eontradieted. and
mu n*«-*»rUhig to tdsti