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WEEKLY STATEMENT.
We have received the following amounts this
week:
M. T. Waters, Bell, Fla $ .20
W. F. Wolfe, R. 1, Washington, Ga 50
Jno. Thomas Ervin, Terry, Miss 25
Allen Lindsey, R. 2, Coleman, Ga 5.00
Alpheus Sturdivant, Chipley, Ga 15
J. E. Radford, R. 3, Dresden, Tenn 1.25
A. H. Chappelle, Gainesville Fla 50
Miss Eddie Mae Jackson, Waylanzo, Fla. . .Io
J. M. D. Waggoner, Vienna, Ga 25
Miss Little Waldine Jackson, her brother,
mother and grandmother, 1.00
Tom Lockhart, Wellington, Mo 50
Mrs. Blanche Holloway, R. 3, Lincolnton,
Ga 25
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A BELATED CHRISTMAS LETTER.
Dear Daddy Jim: Enclosed find two dollars
for poor Mrs. Whitefield and hei' two afflicted
daughters. I am very enthusiastic in the cause
of home missions, but do not believe in contribu
ting to foreign missions, as long as there is so
much suffering and destitution among our own
people. I see that the general foieign mission
committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
which just ended its meeting in Boston, asked
for one million and five hundred thousand dollars
for foreign missions for next year. Brothers just
think how much suffering would be alleviated if
that amount was contributed to the poor and af
flicted of our own country. I hope every brother
of S. S. B. will contribute to our worthy cause
whatever he feels able. When you sit down to a
good meal, think how many are hungry. If you
are enjoying good health, think of the poor and
afflicted without any of the comforts of life, or a
penny to buy medicine. Brothers let’s make
this a happy Christmas for as many of the poor
unfortunates as we possibly can. If we donate,
Daddy Jim will uo the rest. —T. J. HAND,
Slidell, La.
(This letter and the two dollars were received
in plenty of time for Christmas, but our page
has been so crowded that the letter had to wait
its turn for publication. What Mr. Hand says is
emphatically true. It’s 'a shame —a burning
shame, and a blot on our intelligence—to send
our hard-earned money abroad, while so many
thousands of starving men stand in the lengthen
ing bread lines of our cities, night after night,
in the bitter cold, within the very shadow of the
bitter cold, within the very shaddow of the
churches that were built to honor the name of
the Homeless One. —DADDY JIM)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS.
Our old friend. Mr. Thos. J. Cannon, whose
left arm is almost useless now, asks that his ad
dress be changed from P. 1. Bremen, Ga. to R.
5, Carrollton. Ga., care of M. E. V. Spence.
OUR WARD, JEWETT BARNETT.
Dear Daddy Jim; lam glad to tell the Brother
hood how God has blessed me since Mr. Smith
made that appeal for me. I received another
book from Mr. J. W. Murphy, of Burlington,
lowa, making a toal of five nice books. Many
thanks to Mr. Murphy for the books as I appre
ciate them very much. I received ten cents from
Mr. Tatham Dailey of Commerce, Ga., ana 25
cents from Miss Florence Barnett, also three pest
cards from Miss Essie Patrick, One from Miss
Bertha McDaniel, and one from the Brother
hood. Many thanks for these cards for I love
A Desperate Case
A difficult case has just been dealt
with by a New York court. A man
30 years old was sentenced by the
court to life imprisonment for steal
ing SB9 worth of jewelry. This ap
pears to be an exceptionally severe
punishment out of all proportion to
the nature of the offence, but the
man sentenced has been so frequent
ly convicted for larceny he had spent
nearly half of his life in prison and
was regarded as an incorrigible.
Under the New York law—and
there is a similar law in other states
—provision is made for this drastic
treatment of persistent criminals.
The theory upon which such a law is
based is that the state is put to un
necessary trouble and expense in con
ducting a constantly recurring num
ber of trials to protect society from
The Sunny South Brotherhood
By DADDY JIM =============================
THE JEFFERSONIAN
to receive cards like them. School will start soon,
and I will go when the weather gts fair, If God
permits me to go.—JEWETT BARNETT, R. 15,
Nicholson, Ga.
TWENTY-FOUR YEARS.
My Dear Friends: I thank you so much for
the dollar. It came in time of need. I am still
in bed, and I grow worse and worse every day.
The doctor has no hopes of my ever getting any
better, and it breaks my heart to know there is
no chance for me. I have suffered for twenty
four long, wearisome years with chronic rheuma
tism and spinal curvature, unable to work or
earn a cent. I have some pretty post cards and
will mail some carls stencilled with name in
gold to anyone who will send me 25 cents. I
also have some pretty silky quilt covers for sale.
The price is $1.50. My father is dead, and my
poor old mother is getting very sick and feeble.
It seems hard to give her up. Dear friends, I
hope to meet each one of you upon the golden
streets.—Yours in Christian love, MISS CALLIE
D. BAREFOOT, R. 2, Four Oaks, N. C.
THIS IS A PITIFUL CASE.
I received the money that was sent me for
Christmas. I am very thankful to you all. It
will have to go for something to eat. The weather
is very cold and bad, and I am not able to work.
I suffer all the time, but I try to work and keep
a little something for my children to eat. Please
ask the members for money enough to move to a
warmer climate. The doctor says I can never
get well in this cold place, but in a warmer cli
mate I would stand a chance. I don’t want to go
to the poor-house and leave my little children; it
will break my heart. If you can help me, please
do so at once, as I am fearful the cold will get
me down so that I can’t walk. I hope you all will
not think hard of me. lam not able to get warm
clothes to wear, and my children are now about
barefooted.—Your crippled friend, R. J. COLLINS,
Albertville, Ala.
FROM MRS. WESSINGER.
I received the dollar you were kind enough
to send me, but I was in the hospital and not
able to write. Please do not think me ungrateful,
for our dear Father in heaven knows that I
appreciate anything that will brighten my life
a little. lam a helpless cripple. I can move my
right arm a little, but cannot use my feet or my
left arm at all. God bless all the poor shut-ins.
Mrs. N. L. WESSINGER, 1650 Brinson St.,
Augusta, Ga.
UNCLE JOHNNIE MCCARTHY.
You remember Uncle Johnnie McCarthy at
Tazwell, Ga., —the little old Irishman, who makes
a living by pulling a plough over a little bit of
poor land, and sometimes he doesn’t live, just
starves. H e is seventy-five, and his wife, Aunt
Charity, is 89. She was very sick for several
months, and the old man had to part with his
cow, two acres of peas and a lot of fodder to pay
for medicine and nursing. The old couple were
right on the verge of absolute starvation when
Mrs. Nelson wrote to us about them, and the
Brotherhood did exactly what it ought to have
done—sent money and food. Now Uncle Johnnie
writes a letter of thanks —only a few words
about their distress and of joy at their relief,
but it’s a letter that could bring tears of gladness
to the eyes of all who have helped these two
old people out of their trouble. Don’t forget
them. Let us try to keep the wolf away.
the depredations of a professional
and unreformable criminal, and that
it is better to put him in permanent
imprisonment out of the way of op
portunity for mischief.
There may be sentimental objec
tions urged against such a drastic
policy but the purpose of the law is
the protection of society, and when
a criminal persists in crime whenever
opportunity offers he should be put
out of the way in some fashion. In
every penal system there should be
ample and well-advised provision for
the reformations of criminals, but
when the law has to deal with a
desperado or a pervert there must
be some means for repressing him
either in an asylum or a prison.
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FROM A LITTLE GEORGIA FRIEND.
I received my certificate of membership in the
S. S. 8., and I feel honored to belong to so noble
and grand a brotherhood. Brothers, let’s do all
we can to make this the grandest organization
of its kind, and let’s try to live up to its rules,
and by so doing I am sure our lives will be made
better and others will be benefitted. —TESCHON-
NA POWELL, Elza, Ga.
THANKS FROM TEXAS.
Dear Brotherhood: We received the two dol
lars sent to us in December, but we did not have
enough to get my husband an artificial limb.
We are very thankful for what we did receive and
thank each one for their kindness in remember
ing us, and we also thank our neighbors and
friends for their kindness. May the blessing of
God rest on each one.—Mrs. IDA PEOPLES R. 1,
Sherman, Texas.
(We still have to raise enough to give this
man an artificial limb, so that he can go to work
again. We have made arangements to procure
these linbs at a low price, and we feel sure that,
with the help of our friends, we can do what we
started out to do. —DADDY JIM.)
FROM TWO LITTLE SISTERS.
Dear S. S. B: Here Comes two litt’e sisters
aged 10 and 13, and we send fifteen cents each to
go to anyone who needs it most. If we are en
titled to a button, pleas e send one to each of us.
'We did not get our little mite for Christmas,
but hope it will reach them for the New vear
OCIE and ETHEL WATTS, R. 4, Pelham,'Ga.
FOR MRS. RABURN.
Enclosed please find 2 5 cents for the Brother
hood. Send it to the woman at Blythe, Ga.,
whose husband was killed in a caving well, leav
ing six little fatherless children. I think she is
an object of sympathy.—Mrs. BLANCHE HOLL
OWAY, R. 3, Lincolnton. Ga.
(Contributions for Mrs. Raburn, whose hus
band was killed last month, may be sent to Mr.
W. L. Morris, R. 3, Blythe, Ga.)
A CORRECTION.
Tom Lockhart, of Wellington, Mo., writes that
we made a mistake in the price of his book
“Twenty-four years in a mattress grave’’, which
sells for 20cents, instead of 50cents, and one
chapter in the book is called “My experience with
Quack Doctors’’. Poor Tom!—every muscle in
him as rigid as a block of marble, all but one fing
er, a thumb and one eye; even his jaws are locked
tight. He is always cheerful, and writes the
happiest letters you ever read. Isn’t it wonder
ful, almost beyond belief? But he must have
his black moments. Can’t you help him to meet
them by writing a letter of sympathy, or even a
card of remembrance?
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FROM THE LITTLE SUNBEAM.
I spent a quiet Christmas day, did not get
much mail. I received what you sent me, and
Mrs. Ward, of Washington, Ga., sent me a box
of good things to eat. She was the only one of
the Brotherhood that remembered me, so far as
I know. I hope Uncle Charlie of “Comfort’’ will
soon get better. Someone asked me how I can
be so cheerful. Life is just what we make it.
I try to give sunshine not clouds—always look
up, not down. Dear friends, write to me. I need
your letters these long cold winter davs.—Your
little sunbeam, MARY ELLEN WILLIS, R. 3,
Barnesville Ga.
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