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THE SANDERSVILLE HERALD. WELL DONE. Sleep, happy peoplo of fleUl nnil wood— Rush :mil creeper and herh and trot— The Master judRi s thy ofC'rlnu pood And Si nils his steward to care for thee. Doff thy festival pnrb of pold— Plum and saffron and plowing red— Winter hastens ndown the wold To tuck thee warm in thy-waiting hod. Sweet thy dreams ns the winds rush by And vainly pluck at thy coverlet. And streams are fettered, nnd chill the And town and country are frost beset; Dreams full throiiffed with the breeze's tale, The bee's bassoon and the ring-dove's call: With vista of meadow nnd hill and vnle From butstinp sprinp to the brimming fall. Sleep, happy people, where all Is still Save the crow's hoarse caw nnd the squirrel's bark ; The spn swings low o'er the leafless hill And short prows tlie mot - 1nt from dawn to dark. Sleep, 'tie the Master who bids thee rest And holds thee fast In his loving ken. Till the doors fly open at His beln st And April summons to work again. - Edwin I,. Sabin, 'n Woman's Home Companion. HOW MR. PRESTON PUT IT TO THE BOYS. By EYDNEY DAVRE, •> »•!■ »;• -s--;--:--:--:--;- »;« »;■ Mr. Preston liad a wAy of giving (ho boys In Ills room a little talk at the close of school in the afternoon. One day he began; "Once, when I was not as old as some of yon, and older than the rest of you. I played truant to go fish ing, nnd 1 had a very bad time of It.” This was a good beginning, the boys thought, and it is fairly supposed that they listened eagerly to hear what he had to say about that day’s fishing. "I objected a little when Peter dar ner proiwised it. 1 knew 1 ought not to go, for I had recently been ill, and the weather was damp—very good for fishing, hut not good for health, and it didn't need two thoughts to tell me it would he wrong all round. But— well, why will boys sometimes, in the face of all such knowledge, go and do the thing? I suppose I shall have to leave It with the boys. "We stole away from school at the noon recess. Peter had brought his tackle and hidden It under a hush in the strip of woods, one corner of which came to a point close up to the country schoolhouse. Going through thiB woo’ds we came to the little brook in which were were to fish. "The sun shone all about the school- house and the yard, but in the woods it was cool and damp. We sat on a rock to fish, and I can remember still hoV cold and wet that rock was. We had fairly good sport, though the fish were very small. But at length a fine big fellow \pme swimming along near Power's hook, f <? •V. only take your word, or, rather, your deeds for It. Actions speak louder than words, you know. Now, when people see a boy away from school to go fishing, they naturally have their opinion of his mother. They know it is poor business, and they begin at once to wonder what kind of influence is brought to bear on him in his home. If they are the right sort of people, they know what is true and frank and honest and honorable in a boy, and are sorry for a hoy whose mother has not taught him these things.' ” Mr. Preston paused for a moment, looking around on the half hundred hoys, more or less, whose eyes were fixed on him. Then he resumed. “Boys, wasn't he hitting me hard? As you may guess, I simply hadn't a word to say for myself at first. Then 1 blustered a little. ' T suppose,’ 1 said, ‘that you al ways minded your mother when you were a boy.' “ 'I am sorry to say 1 did not,' he said. 'In thinking of it since, it gives my heart a stab to think how often I must have hurt her by my careless ness and undutlfnlness—my heedless- ness of her teachings. 1 think of it more. 1 suppose, because 1 lost her be fore 1 was as old as you are.’ “I was pretty stiff and miserable as I got up to go home. * I wasn't going to ery, of course; hilt a sob seemed to sob itself as 1 turned away. The gen tleman stepped after me and took my hand. " ‘It’s a well-off hoy who has a mother to grow up with,’ he said. ‘I nlways look at such a one with envy, thinking of the chances still granted to him of being all that is loving and loyal to her—of how he tan he her true knight, paying her tlie small at tentions that count so large, holding her always in dear respect and rever ence, taking her closely into his life as his best chum. Good-bye!’ "That was the last I ever saw of him. But he set me thinking, and I have always believed he did me some good—and my mother.” As the boys were dismissed, It was quite evident that Ihey, too, were in clined to do a little thinking.—From the Christian Register. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. Idleness always envies industry.—- Italian. The world is too small for the cove tous.—Latin. Beyond their power the bravest can not fight.—Homer. A man who wants bread is ready for anything.—French. God hath often a great share in a little house.—German. God hnH chosen a poet generally when he has a message to give.— French. Cowards falter, hut danger is often overcome by those who dare.—Queen Elizabeth. He hath a tear for pity and a hand as open as the day for melting char ity.—Shakespeare. Did ever a shadow sit on one side of the hearth without an angel on the other?—James Buckham. He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them how to live.—Montaigne. God does not cease to speak, hut the noise of the creatures without and of our passions within confuses us, and prevents our hearing.—Fenelon. Ar. act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a lov- Georgia Callings ^Curtailed Items of Interest Qathered at Random. To Vote on $100,000 Bond Issue. The commissioners of Ben Hill county have ordered an election on December 20 for the purpose of voting upon the issuing of county bonds to the amount of $100,000; $05,000 to be used for a new court house, $15,000 for a Jail and $20,000 for roads and bridges. There is no doubt but that the people will endorse this action of the officials at the polls. Action at this time was taken upon the recommendation of tlio last grand Jury, • « • Statesboro Gets Station. A letter received In Statesboro from the agricultural department at Wash ington olllcially confirms the nction of fho government expert who visited the , section some time ago and recommenc ed that a corn'and cotton experiment station be established. The station la to he conducted by ex perfS from the United States depart ment of agriculture. It Is to be ing inner life of joy and contentment; j located on of the Klrst distrlct it tells of peaceful hours, and days on ...... A the summit heights of the soul.- agrl(ultural school property, about on G Maeterlinck. j f,om town ’ I * * * The Lord said two things to Abra- I ham: "I will bless thee.” and ”Be Work on Colle 9 e Buildings Stopped thou a blessing.” When God makes us i recent meeting In Carrollton Keep still,’ he whispered. He stood up nnd I stood up, neither of us daring to breathe as we tiptoed to watch him. He played about Peter’s hook, and we thought he surely had him, when all of a sudden he turned away. I quietly dropped my hook In and he quickly swallowed it. " ‘I say,’ said Pete, angrily, ‘that was my fish. You had 110 business to put in your hook.’ "Perhaps he was right. I had no time to discuss the matter; for, as I raised the fish, just poising myself on the edige of the rocks, Pete gave me a little shove. Whether he meant to push me In Is another of the ques tions I have never been able to settle, but In I went up to my neck in that cold water. Pete was scared. “ ‘Grab hold of my pole,’ he cried, holding It out to me. 1 did so and climbed out, gasping and shivering. “ ‘You’d better scoot home as fast as you can,’ said Pete. But j didn’t 'want to go home": I thought i would like to get my clothes dried first. I went higher up where the sun shone on the bank and , lay down. It was a dry, warm place when I first did so, hut before long the water dripped down and made a mud puddle under me. “I got up and took a look at myself, concluding presently that I was about as forlorn a looking boy as could of ten be seen. I called to PeteJ but he was gone, and in his place, some o-ne else was fishing—a very nice, pleas ant man. “ ‘It seems to me you had better hurry home, my boy,’ he said, and his tone was kind and friendly. 1 was cold and miserable, and half whim pered as I said: “ ‘I wonder what my mother will say when she sees me.’ “ ‘Oh, it won’t much matter what she says,’ he said. His tc.ne was so indifferent that I stared at him, it seemed such a queer thing to say. " ‘Do you think so?’ 1 asked. “ ‘Well, It is very plain that you think so,’ he said. ‘But there are all sorts of mothers, you know. I just concluded that yours is one of the kind that don’t count one way or the other.’ I was angry, as you may guess. “ ‘You’d—better not talk that way about my mother,’ I said. ’She not count! She’s the best mother in the world. If I were as big as you are you wouldn’t dare to talk so.’ “ ‘Oh, come now, my hoy,’ he said ‘You needn’t sputter and bluster about it. I’m only taking your own testi mony in the matter. If you’re going to put in a plea for your mother, you have no case at all.’ “ ‘What do you mean,’ I asked. “ ‘Why, as I understand it, you would like people to think you have a good mother—’ “ ‘That’s what she is,’ I said hot THE OLD SOUTH. Quaint Customs Still in Vogue in Con- ’■> servative Charleston. The South is very conservative, and Charleston most of all. In many re spects Southerners are like the Eng lish. Family portraits are a cherished part of their possessions. Marv is pronounced Malry. A dress waist is called a bgdy, and the man that waits on talife the butler. His other dutms may include milking and cooking; still, he is the butler. By the old school a married woman is spoken of and to as mistress. Many members of the aristocracy (?) live in tbe country on Jarge estates, to which they assign naffies ;thoy employ governesses and tutors, ride horseback, have house par ties, and go long distances to attend balls. Hedges are in general favor. Around the old churches are burial grounds or churchyards; but, as a rule, burial in them Is no longer per- jniU?d. Ancestry is of much consequence in Charleston. It is the sole basis of so cial distinction. After having been there, one understands perfectly how literature was preserved by tradition. No college of heraldry is necessary; the memory Is an infallible repository. The point of a story is sometimes lost sight of in genealogical digressions. In loyalty to state and in rigid social distinctions Virginia and South Caro lina claim precedence. Large families have not gone out of fashion In the South. Usually the number of children In a family is from si^ to ten. glnd the gladness is not to end with ourselves—we are to pass It on.—F. R. Miller. To live In the presence of great truths, to he dealing with eternal laws, to he led by permanent ideals; that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.—Francis G. Peabody. Our present difficulties and hard questions will soon he solved and passed by. Even the world itself so difficult to penetrate, so clouded with mystery, will become a transparency to us, through which God’s light will pour as the sun through the open sky. —H. Bushnell. The life worth living is the life of the man who works, of the man who strives, of the man who does, of the man who at the end, can look hack and say, I know I have faltered; I know I have stumbled; but, as the strength wus given me I strove to use it, I strove to leave the world better and not worse because I hud lived in It.—Theodore Roosevelt. of the hoard of trustees of the fourth district agricultural college suspension of the work on the buildings was or dered. 1 This step was found to he necessary, and was unanimously agreed upon by i the trustees, In view of the decision ot 1 the superior court that county funds are not applicable to this school. Suit 1 was made by taxpayers of the county some time ago to prevent the collection ot a special tax for the construction of j \y e are a t peace with all the world these buildings, and the decision hand- j an d n0 strife disturbs the tranquility 1S6G, and that in accepting the pro- vsions of the federal act the company became obligated to handle all govern ment dispatches by preferred service and at reduced rates, to be fixed arbi- tuirily by the postmaster general of the United States hnd became hound to surrender its entire lines, system and property to the government at any tiff)' on a basis provided by the act. In return, the hill alleges, tile gov ernment guarantees to the telegraph company the right to construct, main tain and operate lines of telegraph in and through the various states of the uplon, without Improper interference. Further on the hill nttacks the const!- tuionallty of the entire franchise tax act passed by the Georgia legislature In the year 1002, and asks that said act he decreed null and void. • * • Thanksgiving Proclamation. Governor Smith has Issued the fol lowing Thanksgiving Day proclama tion : "The people of Georgia have again approached the season when, in ac cordance with time-honored custom, the governor Issues his proclamation setting aside a day of prayer ami thanksgiving for the blessings which Almighty God lias so bountifully be stowed upon us. “This duty is not performed in a perfunctory spirit. “We nre so signally blessed that ev ery day should find our hearts filled with reverent gratitude, nnd wo should hold Thanksgiving Dny in special re gard and fittingly observe It, remem bering in the midst of our own good things the less fortunate of our people, so that every heart may rejoice In this festival of the harvest time. "We live in the enllghtenement of the highest Christian civilization, with the cTnirch hells of a thousand spires call ing us to worship God, each according to the dictates of Ills own conscience. CORPORATION SOLICITUDE. ed down in favor of the taxpayers has made it necessary to discontinue work, and accordingly the opening of tin school will he indefinitely postponed. * * * Finley Sheds Little Light. President Finley of the Southerti 1 Railway, In his long letter to the ! railroad commission, states that the Southern sold the Central of Georgia j to Oaklelgh Thorne and Marsden J. | Perry on June 26; that it was a bona' I fide transaction and so far as the South- [ I era Is concerned Its connection is at an end. It is stated that President J. F. 1 Hanson of the Central called upon the j commission on November 8th and ask- ! ed for an extension of time in which | to file with the commission documen- The Concern Felt for the Small In ventor and What Happens to Him. After declaring that with each rail road reorganization more water is in- joe ted into the stock, Will Payne, in 1 t,ir -V evidence and statements called Everybody’s says; I for by the commission and his request "They will tell you that it would was S ranted amlTy ties are rendered complex by not he fair to squeeze out the water in a reorganization. For example, a great many small investors had bought Union Pacific, Northern Pa cific, and Atchison stocks during boom times. Times turned bad. The roads could no Division Affirms Sentence, Recause there is a division among the six associate justices of the su preme court of Georgia in the case of James S. Yates of Decatur county, sen * j UttHl x->o KJ. 1 liu.n Ui L/Cvauu LUlllllJ , OUI longer carry the overcap- : ^ ence( i to serve a life terra in the pen, orwl nrofiHoua hrimph . .. . . . .. ‘Well, as 1 don’t know her, I can Fi the not unusual Intermarriage of cou sins, and thus the members of the aristocracy are more or les closely related to one another. The breakfast hour is from 8 to 9, an earlier hour being hardly possible, even if desired, owing to the fact that negro servants go home at night. They prefer to go, even when they live sev eral miles away. Until a late hour in the night they indulge in social and religious demonstrations and do not ar rive very early in the morning. Din ner is whenever it is ready, which is any time from 2 to 4. Dinner is hard ly ever over before tea is announced at 7.30 or 8. This division of time makes the days all morning, the peri od between dinner and tea being by some included in the word evening. Calls are made from 12 to 2 and from 5 to 7, but in hot weather only from 6 to 8 in the evening. Labor is very cheap, but it takes several negroes to accomplish as much as one Swede or German, who is paid from five to seven dollars a week for general housework. In small towns $5 a month is paid for domestic ser vice; in Charleston, seven or eight. A very competent cook and laundress commands ten. Fifteen dollars is a big price. A dollar and a half or two dollars for making a dress, even though it is much trimmed, is a not uncommon charge by dressmakers in small towns.—Rosary Magazine. italization and the profitless branch lines with which financial geniuses had loaded them. Bankruptcy follow ed. But the small, innocent inves tors must not he frozen out. They must he permitted to exchange their old stock for new, and so given a chance to recoup when good times come again. Such is the argument. “As a matter of fact, it doesn’t work that way. The ordinary innocent In vestor gets frightened when he sees the road approaching insolvency, and dumps his stosk on n falling market for what little It will fetch; or he is pinched in his own small business nnd has to sell; or he can’t pay the as sessment. In any event, he throws over the stock. The opulent reorgan ization syndicate or individual flnnn- cers scoop it in. Thus Kuhn-Loeb and their reorganizing associates, includ ing Hnrrlman, emerged from the Union Pacific reorganization with great blocks of stock, which they had taken in at bottom prices. Northern Pacific reorganization landed almost half the stock in the hands of Morgan, Hill, and their crowd.” Misplaced. Mr. Husky went' into a chemist’s shop and bought a bottle of patent stuff which was advertised thus: “No more coughs. No more eolds, Is. 1 l-2d. the bottle.” Three days later lie went to the chemist, complaining that his throat was stopped up and that he could scarcely breathe. “I've drunk all that patent cough mixture, and I’m no better.” “Drunk it? Why, that’s an India rub ber solution to put on the soles of your boots!”—Tit-Bits. A Hillside Bungalow. The Ideal location for a bungalow is on the side of a hill where a view may be had for miles over a broad, undulating country; where one may sit and watch the ever-changing color and shade of a beautiful landscape as the clouds passing over a radiant summer sun cast their shadows over valley and hilltop. You have often, no doubt, in your rambles picked out (he spot that suit ed your fancy, but found no houses there, nor any likelihood of develop ment by enterprising builders, so in this illustrated article a general out line is given of how one may become his own builder, and erect in almost any place a quaint artist home for a very moderate expenditure of time and money.—Circle. following his conviction for murder, this sentence stands affirmed and no new trial will be given him. Three judges on a side split the court. Three hold that the judge in charging the jury so stated the case as to mistake the defendant’s contention and calculated to lead the jury to be lleve that the defendant had admitted that the homicide was an unlawful act. The law in cases of this kind Is to the effect that the decision of the lower court must stand affirmed. This de nies him a new trial, and, in conse quence, he must serve the balance of his days in the pen. * * * On Dollar-for-Dollar Basis. In u letter addressed, to H. E. Har-. wan, president of the Southeastern Trade Press Association, Chairman Mc Lendon, speaking for the commission, declares: “It was not the purpose of the order of the commission in ques tion, nor has this board authority, to prohibit newspapers or any other par ty from entering into contracts with railroad companies.” This Is in regard to newspaper advertising contracts. Continuing, he writes: "The purpose ef this order is to prevent the issuance by railroad companies of transportation except upon a strict dollar-l’or-aollar basis.” of our state. No famine brings hun- gc/ and starvation; no shock of earth quake lays waste; no floods desolate; no pestilence scourgies. Bountiful Providence has filled our barns and plenty has showered her blessings ev erywhere. "NVhat more could a people ask than has been vouchsafed to Georgia? Can we not, then, with the deepest grati tude to the Giver of All Good Things, lift our hearts with thankfulness and ask Him, ‘lest we forget,’ to guard us against pride, vainglory, selfishness and Ingratitude? "Folclwlng the custof of my hon ored predecessors, 1, Hoke Smith, gov ernor of Georgia, do hereby set apart and proclaim Thursday, the 28th day of the present month of November, a day for general thanksgiving and prayer, and 1 recommend that on that day the people, as far as they can do so, shall cease from all their dnily labors and In their homes and In their houses of worship shall ponder upon the many blessings which they have received, give thanks to God and pray that they may not become unmindful of His goodness and mercy. “In testimony whereof, I havo here unto set my hand nnd caused the seal of the executive department to he at tached. "Done at the capitol, in the city of Atlanta, this the 14th day of Novem her, in the yaar of our Lord one thou sand nine hundred and seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thir ty-second. "HOKE SMITH, Governor." TO END MONEY FAMINE Government Somes to R escite w Treasury Notes and Canal Bonds ' to Extent of $150,000,000. A. Washington special says* Spcpp tary Cortelyou Sunday night made^’ important announcement that as means of affording relief to the fi„ an . cial t,'(uation. the treasury would l S!iu „ $^0,000,000 of Panama bonds and tin,, 000,000 certificates of indebtedness 0 ’r so much thereof as may be necesr’ lrv The certificates will run for one >‘ rar ' and will hear 3 per cent interest The secretary’s action in coming to tlio relief of the financial situation meets with President Roosevelt,, hearty approval, nnd the plan | s Uln outcome of the several white house conferences which have been held with. In the past few days when tile financial situation wns under consideration Secretary Cortelyou says that the Panama bonds will nfford most sub stantial relief, ns the law provides that they may be used as a basis for additional national hank circulation He also states that the proceeds f rom the sale of the certificates can be made directly available nt points where the need is most urgent, and especially f or the movement of the crops, which he says, "If properly accelerated will g| ve the greatest relief and result in the most immediate financial returns." The secretary calls attention to tlm at- tractiveness of the bonds nnd certifi cates as absolutely safe investments, Secretary Cortelyou adds that these relief measures will enable him to meet public expenditures without with drawing for that purpose any appro- ciable amount of the public moneys now deposited in national banks ail throughout the country. Two treasury circulars, one inviting proposals for the issue of bonds and the other ash ing for certificates, will he sent out under date of November 18. In his letter to Secretary Cortelyou, approving the treasury plans, Presi dent Roosevelt states that he has been assured that the leaders in congress have under consideration a currency measure "which will meet in perma nent fashion the needs of the situation, and which 1 believe will be passed at an early date after congress convenes, two weeks hence." WOMEN OPPOSE PROHIBITION. Five Thousand Residents of Mobile Ala., Sign Monster Petition. Five thousand women of Mobile, Ala., representing the women of social position, wenlth and leaders In church endeavor, headed by Mrs. Augusta Ev ans Wilson, the southern authoress, signed a monster petition to be pre sented to the state senate urging that no statutory prohibition hill be passed. The business then and school teach ers also petitioned the board of edu cation for holidays for the purpose of permitting the teachers to go to Mont gomery in a body and plead against the passage of statutory bills. NEARLY ALL MARRIED MEN, Exempted Him. A Scotchman in New Zealand was giving a visitor some account of his experiences during the earthquake shock. “1 suppose,” remarked the visi tor, "It was rather a surprise to you to find the crockery Jumping off the shelves.” “Aye. it was that. But the wife wass mair surprised thill. I've been marit near thirty years, ail’ it’s ahoot the only trouble in the boose she hisna’ blamed me for.”—New Or leans Picayune. Jury for Mrs. Bradley Case is Finally Secured and Trial Begins. With the completion of the jury, the presentation of the government’s side of the case in which Assistant United States District Attorney recited the details of the tragedy and what the prosecution expected to prove and the testimony of a number of witnesses, mostly hotel employees, the trial of Mrs. Anna M. Bradley, charged with the murder of former United States Senator Arthur M. Brown, made rapid progress in Washington Thursday. The jury that will try Mrs. Bradley are nearly all married men with fam ilies. Much difficulty was experienced in completing the jury, a large ma jority being excused on the plea that Tills letter would seem to settle the I they were opposed to the death pen- question whether a newspaper has a < alty for women, right to exchange advertising for trans- < Th© testimony covered th* details portatlon, and the commission holds ] of the shooting, and Mrs. Bradley was that this can be done when, carried out on a strict business basis. * * * Comptroller General Restrained. Under the application of the West ern Union Telegraph company, Judge Newman of the United States circuit court for the northern district of Geor gia, at Atlanta, has granted a rule nisi enjoining Hon. ’WlTliam A. "Wright as comptroller general of Georgia from certifying or taking any steps toward the collection of any franchise taxes against the Western Union Tel egraph oompan^n Georgia setting the main case for hearing on Wednesday, November 27, 1907, at Atlanta. The complaint alleges, In substance, that the telegraph company operated In Georgia under and by virtue of the pest roads act of congress passed in visibly affected by some portioas of It. She shuddered at the sight of the pis tol with which the shooting was done and at one time was moved to tears, WOMAN SUFFRAGE FAVORED And White Slave Traffic Condemned by National W. C. T. U. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union at Nashville Tuesday morning declared unanimously for woman suf frage; adopted a resolution favoring the same standard of morals for both men and women; condemned the white slave traffic and came out strong, as usual, on prohibition and total absti nence. The old officers were re-elected,with the exception of Mrs. Seberry, secre tary of the Y branch, who declined to stand for re-election. DEPUTY 8HERIFF IS HELD For Murder of Woman In a Birming ham, Ala., Hotel. Maud Parsons, a woman of about 23 ears of age, was shot and killea just before midnight Saturday night, at the Victoria hotel In Birmingham, Ala., and John Dagmer, a deputy sheriff, is held, charged with the crime. There were no eye-witnesses to the tragedy, but Dagmer was heard to say several times early in the evening that he was hunting the woman to shoot her. He claims she took his pistol from him and killed herself. BLAZE IN BAY ST. LOUIS Wipes Out Property Valued at Twe Hundred Thousand. Fire which started in Bay St. Louis, Miss , shortly before 5 o’clock Satur day morning was swept by a high gulf wind through the town, burning to the ground everything in its path and caus ing a damage of about $200,000. RUSSIANS WELCOME TAFT. Secretary of War and Party Reach Vladivostok Safely. Secretary of War Taft arrived at Vladivostok, Russia, at noon Satur day. When the American vessels enteree the Golden Horn they were met by the Russian gunboat detailed to cort them up the harbor. Salutes " pre exchanged with the land batteries. Secretary Taft hopes to reach S Petersburg at noon of December . and he sayB he must leave not Ia ,rt than December 6. Taft’s audience o the czar will probably be on the 4 MEXICO CEDES A BAY. Will Be Used by United States M Coaling Station. Mexico has ceded Magdalena buy, on the coast of lower California, bo used for the purpose of a station by the United States navy. 1 '’ is considered the first fruit 01 1 recent visit of Secretary of State Root to the republic.