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April 22, 1915 PINEY WOODS SKETCHES QUATRAINS. By Arthur Goodenough. “SELF MADE.” Some worship gods of stone and brass, Some bow to pleasure, some to pelf, While others, still, for lack of these, Bow down and worship self. WHEN BOUGHS ARE BARE. When December coughs are bare Let the watcher not despair For the milder April skies Shall behold them green and fair. LIVING AND DEAD. Oh! the Shadow of Death is a thing to dread And dying with doubt and remorse is rife, But I doubt in my secret heart if the dead Would exchange their peace for the cares of life. THE GOOD DIE YOUNG. The good die young, the proverb says and so I deem it is; what ever may be told Our lives are measured, not by years, for lo! It is iniquity that makes men old. THE CHILDREN OF WISDOM. Who then are Wisdom’s children? They are those Who covet nothing which they may not win, Disown alike life’s worries and its woes And seek no Heaven but the one within. “In our previous conversation you said that while God is your owner I can do as I please with you while in my possession. What are my relations to God in the use I make of you?” “four relations are those of stew ardship. You are a steward for my use. In other words a trustee. “Am I a steward for all of you that comes into my possession or for only a part?” “For all, but your stewardship for one tenth of your gains or income is very different from that of the other nine-tenths.” “In what respect is it different?” “As evidence and acknowledgement of his ownership of all that enables you to make gains or have an in come, God requires that you return, pay back, as it were, one tenth of the increase by acting as his stew ard for its use in making his other children in the world outside of your own family and those naturally de pendent upon you better and happier. This tithe or one-tenth of your in come God asks you to regard as holy, and the use of it as an act of wor ship, of divine service.” “Can I worship and serve God by the use of money?” “You might well ask if you can truly worship, and serve him without the use of money. Remember that TALKS WITH MONEY By Thomas Kane. Stewardship of God’s Tenth. THE ROSE AND THORN. God made the rose—l know it well— But some times, when my hand is torn, It is so hard to understand He made as well the cruel thorn. THE LETTER E. The letter E is at once the most fortunate, and the most indispensa ble letter in our alphabet. It is al ways in debt, never out of danger, and in hell all the time. Upon the other hand, it is the beginning of ex istence and the end of trouble. With out it there would be no life, no heaven. It is the keystone of hon esty and makes love perfect. With out there would be no hotels, money, automobiles, edibles, water, ele mosynary institutions, or excellence in anything whatsoever. CRIMES LAW SANCTIONS. Killing time. Hanging pictures. Stealing bases. Shooting the chutes. Chokiiig off a speaker. Running over a new song. Smothering a laugh. Setting fire to a heart. KnKifing a performance. Murdering the English language. A CONDITION. “Will you register on your party’s side?” “Yes, if it isn’t a cash register.” I not only measure value, I am a re ceptable of value. Can there be any real worship or service where there is no added gift or sacrifice of value? Which has most value, words or deeds? Prayers for missions, or money for missions? Words of sym pathy for the poor or money to buy the food and clothing they need?” “Don’t you believe in prayers for missions and missionaries?” “I most certainly do, but it must be real, genuine prayer, not mere words and good wishes. Mission schools, churches, hospitals and the necessary equipment for them, cost money, and missionaries, teachers, physicians and helpers are as much entitled to lib eral pay for their work as you are. Prayer for the success of missions, unless you give your full share of money to enable them to succeed, is exactly like counterfeits of me, they are of no value. In giving of me for the success of missions and other good causes, you are acting as a wise and faithful steward of God’s tenth of your increase and at the same time you are giving to your fellow men the only conclusive evidence that your prayers are anything more than words.” “Is the amount of money we give from God’s tithe to help in making his other children in the world hap pier and better a correct value meas- THE GOLDEN AGE By MARGATET BEVERLY UPSHAW MOTHER WIT. Walking about the streets of Paris, a Scotch tourist found he had taken a wrong turning and lost his way. Io make matters worse, he could no’ command enough French to make his trouble known. When a happy thought struck him, says the "Weekly Telegraph." By dint of signs he made a bargain with a fruit hawker for a basketful of goose berries, and to the amazement of all who heard him, went about shout ing: “Fine Scottish grossets! A penny a pun’!” This went on for a while, until a fellow countryman rushed forward and asked: "Man, d’ye think ye're in the streets of Glesca, that ye gang about like a manmad, crying crossets?” “Ech!’’ replied the hawker, wi s h a sigh of relief. “Ye’re just the man I was looking for. D’ye ken the way to the Hotel.” I HON. CLIFF WALKER AT BLAIRS. VILLE. (Continued from page 8.) College and Hiawassee High School. We are all much in love with him. Efforts are being made for improve ment and enlargement of our school plant. We are making plans for a Normal School this summer. The attendance of the session just closed was good and we look very hopefully to the opening next fall. T. E. ELGIN, President. urc of the good we do and the good we receive in thus using it?” “Emphatically no. The penny from the little child’s dime; the ten cents from the clerk’s or the laboring man’s dollar, which may represent a whole day’s work; the dollar, a duplicate of me, the tenth of the lawyer’s or physician’s fee of ten dollars; or the thousand dollars from a man whose income is ten thousand dollars a year, are all on exactly the same footing. They all represent sacrifice, a gift of value. By the payment of God’s tithe each, in addition to the act of worship, has made acknowledgement, not in words only, but in deeds, that God is the owner of all that enables him to produce an income. As He expresses it, ‘lt is God that giveth thee power to get wealth.’ ” “Yes, and the payment of it by act ing as God’s steward in doing good with it is one of the sweetest as well as the most enduring pleasures in your lives.” “Are the people who spend one tenth of their income doing the most good they can with it, happier and more prosperous as a class than oth ers in like circumstances who do not?” “Without question, Yes. 1 ought to know and I do know. I know who possesses me and what is done with me. I know with what interest they plan to use me wisely, and I know the happiness, peace and pros perity God sends to those who use his share of me in doing good.” “Is not a desire for gain a low motive to appeal to as an incentive GEORGIA —Fulton County. The petition of H. C. MONTGOMERY and M. A. BAKE, of Fulton County, Geor gia, and W. G. POLK, of Louisville, Ken tucky, respectfully shows: 1. That petitioners desire for them selves, their associates, successors and as signs, to be incorporated and made a body politic under the name and style of “AT LANTA OPTICAL COMPANY,” for a pe riod of twenty years, with the privilege of renewal at the expiration of said time. 2. The object of said corporation is pe cuniary gain to the stockholders thereof. 3. The particular business to be carried on Is the manufacture, purchase and sale, at wholesale or retail, oif spectacles, eye glasses and other optical instruments, and of photographic instruments and supplies and such other articles and merchandise as is usually dealt in by optical houses. 4. Petitioners desire that said corpora tion shall have the right to buy, own, lease, mortgage and sell such real estate or per sonal property as may be necessary or useful to said corporation in connection with the business in which said corpora tion is to be engaged as aforesaid; and that said corporation shall have the power to lend or borrow money and secure the repayment of the same by loan deed, deed of trust, mortgage or other lien upon its real or personal property, or both. 5. The minimum capital stock of said corporation shall be Fifteen Thousand ($15,000.00) Dollars, but petitioners desire that said corporation shall have the right to increase its capital stock to any sum not exceeding the sum of One Hundred Thousand ($100,000.00) Dollars by a ma jority vote of the stockholders, said capi tal stock, or any increase thereof, to be divided into shares of the par value of One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars each, and petitioners desire that said stock may be paid in in cash or in property necessary or useful to said corporation at its fair and reasonable value. 6. Petitioners pray that said corporation may, at any time, have the power, by a vote of a majority of its capital stock at the time outstanding, to liquidate its af fairs, surrender its charter and cease the functions confered upon it. 7. Petitioners pray that said corpora tion shall have the right to have and use a common seal, to sue and to be sued in its corporate name, and to exercise all of the powers, rights and privileges above enumerated, and such other privileges as usually appertain or belong to commer cial corporation under the law of Georgia. WALTER McELREATH. Petltoners' Attorney. Filed in office this 3d day of April, 1915. ARNOLD BROYLES, Clerk Fulton Superior Court. GEORGIA —Fulton Connty. I, Arnold Broyles, Clerk of the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, do here by certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of the application for charter of Atlanta Optical Company, as the same appears of file in this office. Witness my official signature and the seal of said Court, this 3d day of April, 1915. ARNOLD BROYLES, Clerk. for doing good?” “That depends entirely on what you want to do with gain when you get it. If you intend to spend your gains upon yourself or for selfish purposes, yes, it is a low motive. If you de sire gain that you may be more use ful, that you may do more good, that you may be a faithful steward for larger amounts, your motives are high and pure.” “To what purpose and causes would you advise that I give God’s tenth of my income?” “My mission as an agent and as a measure of value naturally gives me a wide outlook. The usual an swer to your questions is, give it to the church or to some cause of the church. Most people interpret that answer to mean their local church or the religious work of their own denomination. The Jews were di rected to devote God’s tithe to the support of the priests and Levites whose business it was to instruct the people in the law and to min ister in holy things. “As I look at it, the church of Jesus Christ is immensely broader than Judaism and has an immense ly larger work laid out for it to ac complish. It is entirely too big for (Continued on page 13.) 9