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One of the first things that he will learn la that of himself he cannot live that life, nor walk in the way thither, but is dis posed to an altogether different. life, and Inclined to an opposite way—thus in and of himself he is lost. Now the nature of man is the nature of all men. the nature and disposition of the world, and so the word and Its doc trine are given for the instruction and enlightenment of all men throughout the world. Why. then, it may be asked, is the word among only a few of the inhab itants of the earth, and the heavenly doc trines of the New Jerusalem among still fewer? The Lord neglects no one. He came into the world to save all. and He is perpetually coming for that same pur pose, but He made His appearing to those who are in the lowest and most hopeless state of evil and to these He comes di rectly. but to others He comes indirectly, that is. they are saved by virtue of the salvation of the former. For example: The Word has been among a class of people which are called Christians, but this class is composed of few in compari son with the rest of earth’s Inhabitants who have not the word. The salvation of this latter class, whom we shall call guil ty, depends upon the way the M ord is received and believed among the Chris tians. The peoples of the earth are as sociated together in the sight of the Laird as the members, organs and viscera of the body in man so that all men taken together constitute greater men, and if all men on all earths be included, the greatest man. The region whers the Word is is the heart and lungs of this greater or greatest man, and In this region is call ed Christendom. But at His second coming the Lord msde ail things new and therefore He revealed Himself in the interior of His word to an altogether new people. 1. e., to a people who had not the word, but would perceive its inmost sense. And at the same time He opened the interior sense or the spiritual- sense to the few who were left in Christendom with some affection of truth, I. e.. some desire to know and live the life that leads to Him. Thus He revealed the word to the men of Celestial genius in the interior of Afri ca and to the man of splendid genius in Christian lands In Europe and America. Altogether the Word was among the people of Christendom, still it had ceased to be received and believed aright. It had become the means of teaching and con firming falisity and that means that it was used to support and defend evil. On account of these reasons and many others which might be given, the word has become totally perverted and falsified among Christians, and therefore it has be come necessary for the Lord to come again to open its interior in oriltr that they may be seen and received. For the Son of Man is come to save that which was lost. What think ye? If a man have a hun dred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine and go into the mountains and seek that which is gone astrey?’ The sheep on the mountains are celeatlAl, who are in the good of life, thus in innocence and truth, but that one gone astray is the spiritual church or the man of spiritual genius, who is not In the good of life because he Is in the falsity of ignorance and evils thence. In a general sense those words refer to the man of the old church who has been misled by the false dogmas of his faith into evils of Use and persuasions of thought that are against the Lord and contrary to the truth of His word. In a less general sense they refer to the man of the New Church who Is continually being led away from a true understanding of and obedience to the precepts of the word by the evil affections and false judg ments of his natural disposition—that Is, the old church, which he has either in herited from his ancestors or acquired by his own habit of thought and life. The sheep assembled together on the mountains grazing peacefully are like the men of the celestial church who live In mutual love and are perpetually sustained out of the abundance of spiritual food stored In the word of the. Lord. They live in innocence and perfect trustfulness, con tent with their lot and they are led from day to day by their Master, who is the true and only Shepherd of the sheep. But the one who has strayed away from the Hock is like the man of the spiritual church, who has followed after self-devis ed theories, or mere human notions and conceits and by them formed for himself false judgments which have persuaded him and seduced him. The man of the spiritual church has lost his way, he has separated himself from the flock, he has turned back from following the leadership of the Shepherd. He thought he could do better for himself alone, he would go the way of his own desire and pleasure, and so he began to descend from the mountain and at length lost himself in among the dark valleys of death’s shadow; the night of despair came upon him, and the cold mists of false dogmas settled down around him. In such a plight man finds himself, and into such grief and misery he leads himself when he forsakes the mutual love of his neighbor, which is the haven-sent bond of safety for each and for all. and when he turns away from following the precepts of the Shepherd by which each and every flock is tended and defended. Now ye all are sheep in the sheepfold of the Good Shepherd, who is Jesus Christ your Lord, and If ye will obedient ly follow Him ye will feed In the moun tains of His holiness and never go astray. He will lead you dally to pastures of tender herbs and make you to He down by the side of restful waters, for He will refresh you with heavenly meat and drink when your souls are awearied by their burdens. Confide in Him then, I be seech you. trust Him and He will lead you out of ail your miseries by the great power of His infinite love according to the way of His tender mercy. Though you seek the fulfillment of your own desires and are led in consequence by its false light of human conceit and error, yet will He go down to search for you there In the pit or the thorn thicket and lead you gently back jnto the fold. How often have you strayed away in times passed and been recovered! By this ye may see and believe in His eternal mercies, and how it is true that the Bon of Man is come to save that which is 105 t... Remember that it is the divine love and the divine truth of your Lord and Shepherd which make the sheepfold of the church, that He is striving to lead you therein, to keep you there in perfect safe ty, and to give you more and more to en joy the bliss of innocence and peace. There ye may see Him standing before you the only divine man and your only Father, your only Lord and Master. There you may hear Him discoursing out of the book of His holy word, telling you the great mysteries of His glorification by which He has made it possible for you and all His human creatures to be bom anew, to be redeemed fro'm the hell of ■in, and then lifted up for ever and ever into eternal happiness in His heavenly kingdom. There you hear Him teach ing you about yourself, showing you the \dle and hideous nature of your selfhood and how you must be lost Inevitably un less you truly repent and forsake the way of your own chojce and the judg ments of your own conceit and pride. There you perceive His holy presence en lightening your mind to see clearly the nature of His all-embracing love and the wise way of Hia eternal care and providence of your souls. There only THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1902. L_ How Manis Saved By the Lord. | :• TEXT—“FOR THE 3ON OF MAN IS COME TO SAVE THAT £ :• WHICH WAB LOST."—MATTHEW XVIII: 11.$ ;i BY REV? mCKARD "h/ KEE~<PABf OR CHURCH'bF THE % :•* NEW JERUSALEM. g you are enabled to realise His love and great mercy whereby He tenderly draws you out of your selfish Inclinations and iittle by little leads you away from world ly pleasures. When you stand on a moun tain top you may see the nature of tha land beneath you far and wide—but from the plain below it is not posAble* to per ceive It extensively. . ‘ Just so is it with the man of tnekhurcb. He who looks down upon from the vantage ground of the truMra of rev elation illuminated by the divine light proceeding out of the sun of heaven may clearly see the nature and quality of his disposition and habits, but not so he who is not lifted up onto the mount of Zion in Jerusalem. The general lesson es the text then may be divided into two phases which are yet distinctly one and mutually dependent. First, the man who is willing to be re generated and saved must see and con fess that his wickedness, his self-hood, his own desires and his own conceits are in fernal and vile and therefore that they could destroy his soul In hell, if the son of man had not come to save that which was lost. Secondly. There is a church which the Lord has established on the tops of the the mounts. 1. e., in which is the essential good of the life of heaven and the essen tial trujh of the doctrine of heaven where in man is prepared for life everlasting. If, however, he should stray away from the mountain and go down into the villages, if he should forsake the principles which make the church, the Lord will go to him and will show him the way of return. The man who is willing to he shown this way and to return by means of It is he who is ready to submit himself entirely and un oonditlonally to the leadership of the di vine doctrines now sent Into the world by him who Is doctrine Itself because he Is the one only divine teacher. This lesson seems a hard one for the men of the spiritual church to learn, but Primitive Schools of Georgia Reviewed. I THINK that during the last year, in our article on “Education in Georgia,” I gave a glance at an old field school, but this fea ture of Georgia life is too important to be passed over so hurriedly. The first schools in Georgia were the primary schools of Savannah and Ebene*er. The first school teacher in Georgia was in all likelihood Charles Delamotte, who came with his friends, John and Charles Wesley, to Savannah, expect ing to go among tha Indians as a mis sionary. He went back to England with Mr. Wesley, and James Haber sham took his place as the parish schoolmaster. The Germans at Ebenez er had a school from their first settle ment in Effingham county, and the Dorchester people In Liberty brought their teacher with them to the Midway settlements in 1760. It is certain that the Scotch-Irish who were in Jefferson and Burke had schools, but of them we know nothing historically. My friend, Cx»l. James Barrett, says his great grandfather, a Mr. Hays, taught a school in upper Burke, and in an old Journal of Jdhn Andrew, the father of Bishop Andrew, I find a graphic picture of a county school he taught in Wilkes in 1792. There was a provision made in the first constitution in 1777, for a system of public schools like to that in New England, for the most in fluential element in the religious and educational features of early Georgia was the Puritan, and the views of the New England Puritans en the Sabbath and on educJation were incorporated in to our earliest laws, but when the rev olution came and the overflowing flood of Immigrants poured into Georgia from Virginia and North Carolina a new order of things obtained. Virginia and not New England then gave direc tion to the new society. The Virginia people had had no com mon schools, and while many of the gentlemen were educated and well edu cated In private schools, the plain peo ple had few advantages, and the old field school was brought from Virginia to North Carolina into upper South Carolina and Georgia. We got a glimpse of it In Governor Gilmer’s Georgians In John Andrew’s Journal, in Judge Longstreet’s stoj-y of the “Turn Out,’ 4 and in Malcolm John son's story of how “Berry Whipped the School Master.” The school house was always in the country, generally at the cross roads, if there was a good spring nead by. It was of logs with very large cracks between them, sometimes the more pretentious had a stick and dirt chimney—none of them had glass windows, and the light came tn through the door, and two openings which were without sash, but were closed with board shutters. The seats were made of split logs, or when saw mills came in, of puncheons. The chil dren had the privilege of' bringing chairs and often brought split bottom ones for better seats. The was of split logs or coarse boards. There was nothing attractive* about the school rooms, or its surroundings, but schools were not places to be enjoyed. They were places for very hard work, and the little fellows found not a little suffering. The teacher was often a young boy, which having learned how lo read and write and cipher was seeking a place and sometimes he was a preacher, who had no Income from his srork in the pulpit, and taught a subscription school, to add to whaLhe made by his work on his little farm, during hie spare time. Sometimes he was a trifling adventurer, who taught a three months’ school and then went on a debauch*, and left the com munity. Some of these schools and some, of the teachers were much bet ter than others. Andrew B. Stephens, the father of Alex H. Stephens, taught one of the best of these scheols in Wilkes county, and among some old papers In Wilkes, I found a bill made out to the “estate of Wyllle Wright, for teaching two students twelve months. >16.00.” The account Is dated Christmas day, 1806. The tuition paid John Andrews was >6.00 for 12 months. This was the gen eral rate. The studies were nearly al ways, as the country folks used to say, in the three R’s—“Readln’, Ritin’ and Rithmetic”—but the girls were not generally taught to cypher. The first book was sometimes a horn book, of which I never saw but one. It was made of two pieces of transparent horn, between which there were letters and short syllables, or a paddle on which were pasted the A, B, C, D’s. The old Dilworth’s speller then came, and in later days the. picture primers, and then the blue-back speller. School began at 8 in winter and 7 in summer. The picture of the village school mas ter in "The Deserted Village” is the picture of the higher order es old field school masters. He was very rigid in his discipline. In many of the schools, as in China now, the little fellows were compelled to study aloud, and If one was caught keeping silent the teach er touched him up with a switch. There were first the a, b, c. duicans, as they were called, then a first, second and third classes In spelling; then the reading from the spelling book, and perhaps from the Young Reader or the Testament. The discipline of the school was very rigid. To spare the rod was to spoil l not for the man of the Christian church, i Why? Simply because in the one case man does not quickly yield his persuasions and deny his pleasures and follow the master, but in the other he does. The spiritual man labors in his regeneration, the celestial man performs st once the principles of goodness and truth which are Inscribed on nis heart. The spiritual man may make the labors of hM regen i eration easier for him by holding ms judg ment in suspense before being persuaded that it is sound and safe for him to fol low. So he will £-rov7 more and more de i liberate and careful lest he should lead i nis Ideas into error and be mistaken in his opinion. He takes this method of safe guarding others .rom the natural con- ■ celts, contempts, enmities and hatreds of his inherited disposition. And he may cheek the love of self which incline him to permit na other way but his own, by consulting the pleasure or convenience, or , satisfsetien of ot-.-re. Not only where it I is jeasy for him to so deny himself but | where it is naturally very difficult. By such sacrifices this love Is broken of its tenacious persistence and by no other means. Until then man calls the slavery o. lust freedom and enjoys its insane pleasuses. But by regeneration the laws of self and the world are removed and man loves the Lord and his neighbor. WATCH THE LABEL ON YOUR SEMI-WEEKLY AND IF IT HAS THE MARK OF A BLUE PENCIL YOU MAY KNOW YOUR SUBSCRIPTION HAS EXPIRED AND THAT NOW IS THE TIME TO RENEW. BUY A SI.OO MONEY ORDER OR SEND US 100 ONE-CENT STAMPS, SELECT YOUR PREMIUM AND GET YOUR READ ING MATTER FOR THE NEXT YEAR. the child, and punishment was very sure. Sometimes the little fellow was whacked on the shoulders, sometimes his bare legs eaught the rod. and some times, in aggravated cases, a stout boy took the eulprit on his back and carried him around the room, and his teacher had a fair ehance at him. Sometimes he was tapped on the head by the teacher’s knuckles, and some times his unkempt hair was pulled very vigorously. In some way or other his derelictions received their just re ward. The stricter ths discipline, the higher the estimate in- which the teacher was held by ths parents. Ev erything in tbs school was awfully dig nified. and the master was the auto crat from whose decrees there was no appeal. The barring out of the master as It was called in England, was called the "turning out of the teacher” in Geor gia. It was the great event of the year in the old field schools. The graphic sketch of the "Turn Out” in Judge Longstreet’s Georgia Senses, was an accurate account of one which the judge had doubtless seen. The scholars, soma of whom were grown, came to the school house and took possession They barred the windows, fastened the door, and were ready for an attack. The teacher was not to surrender without a struggle. Ha refused to capitulate. He demanded, ifnmedlata submission, but the scholars held the fort. Ho broke ini; they tackled him, and at last he surrendered and gave the treat, which was, alas, .sometimes, a gallon of brandy and sometimes a holiday, and was released. Writing when steel pens were un known and paper was very scarce, was a rare art. Few country boys learned to write well and few coun try girls learned to write at all. A grammar, a geography, a philosophy, were never heard of. The cost of the books of one third grade school in At lanta would have supplied the entire school of 30 boys and girls In the first of the century. There would have been needed 30 spelling books and five arithmetics and ten Testaments, for all of them, and the whole outfit would have coat less than >5. There was no provision made for those who could not pay tuition. The school was a subscription school and the 50 cents a month had to be paid, but could be paid in work on the teacher's farm, or with a bushel of corn, or with ten pounds of pork, o> by splitting 200 rails, but it had ta be paid. These old field schools were the beginning schools of many who afterward went to Dr. Waddell or Mr. Springer, and learned the classics, but they were the only schools ever attended by many a man who became the leading planter in hia county, and who went to the "legislatur,” as ke called it, when he chose. There are many of The Journal readers who find in thjs description of old field schools a picture of schools such as they have known in the last twenty yeans. When the state began to make ap propriations to education some coun ties received twice as much from the state treasury as they paid into it tn taxes and it was a bonanza and many an old squire, who ruled his “dees trick,” but could not read, got the “scute” for his '‘darter.” who “could read and rite and wphur,” a better day has dawned and perhaps my old friend. Professor Glenn, would have been more popular if ho had been less relent less in his fight against the inefficiency of teachers. Despite all the humble surroundings of these schools of our fathers, and though they were far from being up to our modern ideas, thsre came out of them a body of men who feared God and wrought righteousness, and who rever enced both the laws es God and man. The people were poor, for rich people don't settle on frontiers. High schools were few and far apart. The settlers were scattered, they had come from the frontiers of North Carolina and Virginia, where they had had a few ad vantages, to Georgia, where they had nothing. They had fought the British and tories and Indians. They had no chance to secure mental training and did not secure an education from books, but one of these sturdy boys, who wrestled and ran races, and climbed trees, and hunted possums and coons, and studied Dillworth’s speller, the Young reader and Smythe’s arith metic by tallow candle light and light wood fires, was worth a thousand of these modern, cigarette smoking, beer drinking, theatre-going dudes, who descended from these worthy people, is anxious now to deny that he came from any other than ducal parentage, and had ever any connection wltn anybody who signed his name, his JohnxSmith *Mtrk. YOUR RENEWAL MUST BE RE CEIVED AT ONCE OR THE PAPER WILL BE DISCONTINUED. YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, SO SEND YOUR RENEWAL AND GET A PREMIUM. 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Never sold in bulk. Genuine tablet stamped OO O. Sample and booklet free. Address Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York. » Trials of Youth Reviewed by the Chairman of the Tipe Dreamers. WELL, SIR,, this Is great weather, gentlemen,” remarked the secretary, after he had settled comfortably In his chair and had thrown up a .billowy fog o! smoke about him. ‘‘This crisp, fall air makes a man feel powerfully good. He takes new Interest in everything. He feels ambi tious and energetic, and he wants to get out and take a few good, deep breaths and jump up and kick his heels together. The world seems happier when it is painted in the bright, clear sunlight of autumn and the aid is full of the old-fashioned, healthy smell of burning leaves. I tell you, gentlemen, I love to see the fields and woods all purple and golden and feel the snappy tingle of the cool air on my cheeks.” • The fall takes me back,” remarked the janitor, wistfully., ‘‘to those good old days when I was a little boy in new boots, wading and kicking in the clean, dry leaves of the woods. I al ways used to go nutting about this time of the year." "You used to go how?*’ asked the secretary, who was" somewhat of a wa«. ' “When I went in the hickory tree groves for shell-barks and hazel nuts,” responded the janitor, oblivious of the secretary's vulgar attempt to be hu morous. “Ah, those were bully old days!” The members smoked in silence for some minute's. Presently, a faraway light came into the chairrnan’s eyes. “Fall always makes me .blue,” he said, musingly. “There’s a kind of something in the air that makes me feel solemn and depressed-like. I have the same feeling every year and I s’pose I’ll always have it if I live to be as old as Methusalum. It’s not an unhappy feeling—Just a kihd of mourn ful, blue feeling, like geing out of the bright, warm sunlight into the gray shadow*. "There's something in the air that always reminds me of the time when I was a little boy and had to start to school. I tell you, those were days of and sorrow for me. When the summer waned and here and there a leaf began to fall, I’d begin to count the days until school would begin. One week—six days—five days, and so on, getting more depressed every day. I think it must be pretty much the same when a man is to be hanged and he feels that each passing hour is bring ing him closer and closer to >.ae end, and yet nothing in the world that he can do can stop that pitiless march of time. He is simply helpless. He can howl and rave and shake the bars, but the minutes go trooping by and the day of execution comes slowly and grimly nearer. , “That's the way I used to feel, gen tlemen, about tha beginning of school. They were days of grtat sadness for me. The world looked drear arid cheer less. And at last there came the dreaded day when I could see the final preparations—when my mother got my little tin bucket down from the shelf and fetched my slate and books out* of the bureau drawer. “That’s a gloomy morning that first Monday was. I can still see the kitch en and the stove and the boiler bubbling away above the flames. I can still smell the wash day atmos phere and see the white bleached piece of broomstick with which my mother used to stir the boiling clothes.” "I can remember the sinking feeling that came over me. Would nothing, happen to delay the evil moment? I can remember how I earnestly diag nosed myself for some friendly symp toms of disease. Sometimes if I thaught real hard. I could fancy that I felt a vague, uncertain, fleeting pain down around my stomach and then, oh. how 1 encouraged and rvrsed it! It would leave me if I diJ-.ft constantly think of it. ao J had |o try very hard to keep my hand on it. It was a sort of Chris tian Science reversed, for in this case I had to create pain where there was none. Something told me that there was no actual suffering,, but still I didn’t despair. In the meantime, the old clock had tolled the solemn hour of eight like a funeral dirge. . The death march would soon begin unless the kind Providence that looks out for drunken men and little children would strike me low witn some dread malady' lliilh olS* GOLDEN ACE MM whiskey We, the Distillers, guarantee these goods to be pure and 7 years old. None better at any price. We will ship in plain boxes to any address, EXPRESS PREPAID, *t the following distiller's prices: MH It Full Battle, $9.76.J 21 Full Battles $15.90. wy* Free glass and corkscrew in every box. Your money back if not as represented. AMERICAN SUPPLY CO., 662 Main St., Memphis, Tenn. I ■|||lM»—■ ■■■* that would last until a few minutes af ter nine. “I remember how I envied my little brother playing cut in the yard. He was too young to go to school. And I can remember so distinctly sitting there in the kitchen, sitting so still and solemn, while my mother fixed up my dinner bucket. First , she cut tour pieces of bread and then sne buttered them very calmly. Then she cut two pieces of cold beef that had been left over from the Sunday dinner. It was boiled beef, if I remember correctly. She put these between the pieces of bread and stowed them away in the bottom of the bucket, and then she put in a hard boiled egg and two little pa per packages of salt and pepper. Let’s see, now. what came next. I think she put In a large squashy pickle and two red apples. Oh, what mlserj- I en dured! There seemed to be some heavy weight bearing on me. How sick at heart I was and. oh. how lonely and unsympathetic the whole world seemed to be! What a mockery was the sun light and the joyous clucking of the chickens out in the yard! “I can see mother now. She worked away at the lunch with averted eyes. I know she was axraid she’d cry if she looked at that forsaken, persecuted, crushed little figure over on the wood en chair. She tried to hum something, but the song died on her Ups. Oh, why could she be so relentless ? Why couldn’t she tell me that I needn't go until tomorrow and then we could both be so happy again. I could see that she was set hi her purpose. I could feel the tears well into my eyes and her figure swam mistily before me. The lid of the bucket was put on and fast ened down tight. And.even then she couldn’t look me straight in the eyes. “ ‘There,” she said, "see what a nice dinner I'vs fixed up for my little man.* “Oh, what a pitiful attempt at cheer fulness it was—what a hollow pre tense. “And then I remember the sudden feeling of desperation that seized me. I must do something and do it quickly. I hastily diagnosed myself as a last resort, as a drowning man would grasp at a straw. My head, my arms and my legs—not a sign of a pain in any of them. Even my ankle that I had sprained during the summer would not come to the rescue. It was hopelessly well and I did not twinge the least bit when I twisted it around. “My stomach—ah! what was that? It surely did feel kind o’ funny. Yes, sir; hooray! That was a pain, sure enough! Only it didn’t stay in the same place all the time. Part of the time it would be on this side and then it would skip over to the other side. Supposing it was cholera or diphtheria or something awful; you bet. mother would be sorry then that she treated me this way. She’d feel mighty sorry if I died and the hearse came and took me away to the burying ground down near the church. Oh, what joy seized me as I eagerly. tried to corral this vagrant pain that hurt awful when I kept my mind fixed on it. I decided to make the appeal before the pain deserted me entirely. “ ‘Mother,’ 1 said, twitching my face, ‘something hurts awful down here. Oh. gee, how that hurts! Don’t touch it.” , “But she hadn’t tried to touch me at all. She was still standing over near the kitchen table and when I peeped at her through an eye half dosed by the throes of agony, I could see that she was smiling. ‘Well, it does hurt,’ I exclaimed, angrily, but I could feel the ground slipping away from under my feet. " ‘Poor boy,' she said, softly, and she put her arm around me and kissed me and said she hoped I’d be better soon. And then presently I felt her open my hand and ’put the handle of my dinner bucket in it, and then she tucked my books and slate under my arm and gave me the gent’? shove that started me on my sad trip to school. “ ‘Be a good boy,’ she called out, as I slowly disappeared around the house. . I never even looked back or smiled, for I hoped that I could hurt her feel ings by repelling any conciliatory at tempts to 'make up.’ I half wished that .1 would be run over by a run away farm team, so that I would have my revenge when they carried my mangled remains in through the gate and up on the porch and then told mother that her little boy had been killed Then you bet she’d be sorry she treated me'this way. “That’s the way I felt aH morning in sehooj. If I forgot and cheered up a little bit. I would impredlately smother my joy and to my un happiness. I wasn’t to allow myself to be happy if I could heip it. "But, oh, what a revelation when I opened my dinner pall! There were two beautiful crulls, two fine big cook ies and a fine pkee of fcrow.v butter scotch. And besides that there was a little glass half full of blackberry jam. So then I forgave my mother ard allowed myself to Le happy once more. And when I Went home that night I gave her a fine big bvekeye that I foend near the schbdl .’rije.’* The cnairmpn ceased and the room was quite still. , ’ WANTED—Two traveling ralesmen ta each state; permanent position; >6O and expenses. Central Tobacco Works Co.. Penicks, Vx Imitation Jollies. Minneapolis (Minn.) Tribune. The selling of Impure preserves has mafia but . little trouble in Minnesota until recently, but the state dairy and food commias'.on ptJ poses to look after it cloaely. The impure preserves put on the market ars made from a basis of applq pumice. Tha pumice is the refuse of apple parings and ap ple cores that are thrown aside by the can neries and evaporators. This refuse material is baled and sold to concerns that are Inter ested in getting cheap products on the market. The refuse is fed through machines that re duce it to a pulp. The pumice Is then given an addition of glucose and a dash of flavor ing and coloring extracts. 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Mr. Depew glanced at the card and shook his heed in the negative. Although the upper part of his body was hidden from public view bv his desk, the senator’s legs were plainly visible as he sat with his side to-.md im desk. , ■ _ ' “Mr. Depew is out,” said the attendant. / • 9 ’’Wei!.” said tbs insurance solicitor, glanc ing through the half open door, “I wish yok’d tell him when he comes in that I think my company would positively refuse to accept him as a flrst-class rirk unless he will agree to al ways take his legs with him when he goes out.” New Georgia Postmasters. WASHINGTON. D. C., Nov. JO.—Postmaster* appointed: Creighton, Cherokee county. Ella O. Priest, vies James W. S. McGulUson. resigned, Oswald. Telfflir county. Quitman Cook, vies Berry H. Crawford, resigned.
