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Vienna News. Published Semi-Weekly. VIENNA, GEORGIA. ’/he recent coal-mine explosions, fol lowing Mont Pelee and La Soufrlere, suggest that the earth objects to man's probing Us Inwards. The Immensity of Siberia, which runs through 120 degrees Of longitude, Is not often realized. It possesses one- ninth of all the land of the globe. The United Stales, Great Britain, and all Europe, except Russia, could be dumped down upon Siberia and there ■would be a small rim of uncovered area all around. There are mow artificial teeth made in the United States than In any other country.. Formerly the’jr were made from bono nnd Ivory, and carved out by the dentist himself. Now they are made of porcelain, and are produced In factories. All shades and shapes of teeth are possible of Imitation. It Is Bald that oven the temperament of the patient Is taken Into consideration In the selection of artificial teeth. The population of the entire Aus tralian'commonwealth Is but a few thousands greater than that of New York City, viz.: af,775,128. This Is made up as follows: New South Wales, 1,- 350,000; Victoria. 1,201,178; Queensland, 408,120; South Australia, 303,157; West ern Australia, 184,000, and Tasmania, 172,475. New Zealand, which does not now belong to the Australian common wealth, has a population of about 800,000. In a clever book called "To-morrow” un English writer has presented the possible Ideal of tho future “garden city." To his mind such a city would be arranged In concentric rings. Tho outer circumference would bo tho rail road lined with factories. Within there would be concentric belts of parks, bouses, churches, schools and shops. At the centre there would be a beautiful garden with tho public buildings that served the whole city. Many public conferences have been held In England concerning Ideal city construction. _ An adequate Idea the high value of a modern Atlantic liner may be gathered from the fact that the In surance valuo of tbo North German Lloyd steamship Kaiser Wilhelm II., now In.coprso of construction at the Vulcan shipyard, Stettin, is $1,501,150. This represents only the launching value of tbo baro bull. X A further In surance sum of $3,540,480 Is required to cover the ship for tho first trial trip, while the company require a total sum underwritten on completion of the vessel of $0,175,000. The risk of launch ing, river work and trials Is to bo cov ered by the policies. DR. CHAPMAN’S SERMON A SUNDAY DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED . PASTOR-EVANGELIST, , ^ Subject: A Msn Wltliont * Country—A Text Which le the Saddest Expression Possible In Human Language—Flty For Those Without a God. New Yobk Cirr.—The Rev. Dr. J. Wil bur Chapman,. the noted pastor-evangel ist, continues to excite popular interest by the series of remarkable sermons he ia delivering in the Fourth Presbyterian Church. Apropos of patriotic celebrations he has prepared the following discourse for the pr»«» entitled “A Man Without a Country." It is preached from the text. ’Knhesians • 2: 12. "Having no hope and without God in the world." This is one of the saddest texts in the New Testament, for-while it describes our own condition when we were aliens from Christ aiid strangers to the covenant and promise of God, yet I take it in my pre sentation of this subject to describe those who have wilfully rejected Christ nnd who have deliberately decided that they will not accept Him as aJSaviour. With this interpretation put upon the Scripture \ the saddest expression e have in the text , , libie in humnn language. I suppose there is no one of m.v hearers to whom the words may be strictly applied, for if we take hope out- of a man's life it is not worth the living. The young man may have failed yesterday, but he has hoped that he may succeed to-morrow; the busi ness man who has lost his fortune in the wreck of* past days is not discouraged be cause hope buoys him up, add he is confi dent that prosperity will be his once again. Take, hope from our lives and we ‘ ’ ’* * if in are of ail men most miserable, and addition to being deprived of hope we have no God we are not only hopeless for time, but hopeless also for eternity, for since we were made to he filled with God and all our being was so adjusted,as to be at tune to His nnture. there is no sadder picture than to be without Him. Some years ago I came across that interesting nnd pathetic story written bv Edward Ev erett Hale entitled "The Man Without a Country." and tt has furnished for me an illustration of this text to which your at tention is invited. I found in the man who drifted everywhere across the sen without being able to enter a harbof a I iresentation of many a man Who has bur- e<T Christ out of his life. The man was Philip Noland by name. Whether the story be truth nr fiction it does not mat ter. for the illustration is the same. This young lieutenant Jn the armv had come under the influence of Aaron Burr, and he had fascinated him. The young soldier wrote to Burr long letters' expressing his hopes and his desires that he might serve him, but had no letters from Burr in re ply. At last he came one day to see the young man. and then his hold upon him was complete. The regular life of the sol dier became tame; he was utterly un fitted for service. There came a time when in company with Others who were also under the influence of Burr he must nppear before the army court to be tried for misdemeanor. The others for one rea* son or another escaped sentence, but Philip Noland was pronounced gnllty. He was asked by the juage if he bad any- iti £ A Supremo Court Judge fins decided that New York'City need not pay for plain, ordinary water, outside of mill privileges, reservoir rights, vested in terests and tbo like. Ho boldf in bla decision tbat just simple water, with out regard to pressure or power or dam sites or claims of individuals or compa nies. is *not taxed as property, aud therefore the city of New York should not be compelled to draw upon Its treasury to buy water of tho bumble, unassessed quality any more than it should baud over tho mouey of the tax- paycro to somebody for tho breathing of tho large, free, general atmosphere. This looks like common sense. It Is an odd week indeed that slips through tho present without leaving behind a record of tho founding of a library some place In tho United States by Andrew Carnegie. Rooks nro being fairly rained on us, apd but tow States have so far escaped tho literary flow, and they have no desire to escape it. The figures are becoming intensely in teresting, and are dally growing mors so, ns the rain* of hooks promises ts bring a reign of literature. Jiut think of It I There are now 370^ cities and towns In the United States that are rejoicing over the possession of Carne gie libraries.' Every State has-them, With the exception of Rhode Island, Delaware, South Carolina, Mississippi, Arkansas nnd Idaho, and In every one of these States steps are being takes to profit by Mr. Carnegie's liberality. thing to say why sentence should not be basted nnon him because he had been false to his country and had sinned against the United States: His reply was nn oath, and in the presence of the court he cursed his country and said that he wished he ntight never again hear the sound of the name United States; that he hated his native land. The judge, with a white face, answered, "It shall be as yod i;y, »rjd subject to the approval of the this Philip Noland laughed, but no one else did; there was a deathlike stillness over ths court. He was taken to New Or leans. given over into tho charge of ' i, with the commander of one of the vessels, distinct understanding that no one was ever again to speak to him of the United States, and he was to he -allowed to speak to no one of his old home. He was at last put upon a Government vessel and given quarters befitting his lote rank. It was expressly stipulated that he was to be exposed to no indignity; he was not to be reminded of the fact that he was a prisoner, nnd while he could wear the uni form vet he must not have the buttons of the United States Government upon this uniform. Indeed lie was to be a man .without a country from this time on. He wos permitted once esrh day to dine with ths officers, but they did not care to have him. because when he was present they not talk of home; under no circum- could stances was he to ever see Ms country again and never was he to hear of it. He wai not permitted to go on ahore wher ever the landing might be. - If he 'read hooka at all they must contain no refer ence to hit borne, and if he read the for eign papers it was only after some one had carefully cut out every reference to the United States. If the vessel upon which he was a passenger came near hit country It must wait until it would be overtaken by another vessel going sen- ward. Philip Noland became a passenger with hit face set away from his home. It has ever been to me one of the saddest illustrations I know, and yet a perfect pic ture of tbo men who has deliberately re jected Christ, has said, "I will not have this man to rule over me.” and who is, therefore, described by the words of the text at "having no hope and without God in the world." * We hare rejected Him. He has.said In His word. '*He that ia not with Me it -I. against Me," and not to accept is to re ject. It is true we have.never said In co many words that we would not have Him at our Saviour, but we have resisted the the prayers of our loved ones, and what wc have not been bold enough to say with yarn, in our hearts, and the lips we have yaU ... vu. ••<=«•-*, —- Goi knowai.h the language, of the heart ay men know the language of the lips. T n very sure tbat Philip Noland did not mean what he said. He had spoken in a passion, and I am perfectly positive that no one here could for a moment reject Christ if he felt that Christ would take him-at hit word, and possible he might iin. Mr. ” * in* ii God this Sunday evening I received a pressing invitation from one of your serv* \ would yon sign this? “Sitting in the house of' God this Sunday evening I re ceived a.pressing invitation from one of your servants tolbe present at the Mar ti.ice Supper of the Limb. By the grace of Cod I will-be there.” If you could but sign that there would be joy in heaven mid joy in your own heart. If. We arc by saturo afar off. Our hearts are deceitful above all things and desper ately wicked. Our minds are carnal and therefore at enmity with God; our wills arc stubborn and will not yield to the touch of His power; we are in midnight darkness, and it is in this condition that He comes to us. Iri the 13th verse »f the second chapter of Ephesians we read, "But now in Christ Jesus, ye who some times were-afar off. are made high by the blood of Christ," and to all -the unsaved it ia my privilege to say that -by the grace of God you are brough nigh to Christ; This is true because you iiave been under the influence of the Spirit, and you may be saved if you will, but if you reject Christ no word can describe this sin of which you are guilty. In the Old Testa ment the man who despised Moses’ God died without mercy among two or three enemies, of how much greater need of mercy shall he be that hath trodden.un der foot the Son of God. hath counted the blood, whereof He was glorified a common thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace. Noland, In this picture of Pbilin Noland, a sailor on the sea without a harbor, I find an illustration of the man who in spite of God’s grace has rejected the offer of mercy. m. . We begin to break away, not by great gins,, but by small sins. Have you ever noticed In the three verses in the first that - - - - chapter of Romans that wonderful de scription of sin, indeed the most remark able of any the world Ha* ever seen. In the 24th verse we read, “God gave them up to uneleanneas;” in the 28th verse, "God gave them up to vile affections,” while in the 28th verse we read. "God gave them up to a reprobate mind." The uncleanness may have been sin of an insig nificant character: to lxr given up to vile affections Is to be permitted to set our hearts upon those things which are not right, and draw them to us as with hooks of steel, but to be given over to a repro bate mind is to be hoDeles*. I make an anpeal to-day in behalf of those whose lives are in the least touched by sin; it is a dangerous position. IV. What is the greatest' sin in all the cata logue as written in God’s word? ' If this ouestion were put to men there would be Mir-out as many answers as there are men. It is not impurity, nor dishonesty. These thine* are not oven to he considered in ♦he light of the greatest sin' of ail, which is iinbMief. When we read in the gospels ♦hat the Holv Ghost is to come, it is said that He will remove the world of sin, and that sin is described as rot believing on Him. Tf> reject Christ, therefore, is the chiefest of all transgressions. V. Raving no hope. I cannot imagine that nnv of my hearers would for a moment think of giving way to unbelief or taking refuge in infidelitv. That is. indeed, hopeless. It is said that Adoniram .Tnd- son when he was a student in Brown Uni versity eame under the influence of a fel low student who was an infidel. On his return to Providence at one time he was obliged to ston at a country inn. The inn- keeoer told him ho had but one room, and tbat was next to a man who was sup- nosed to dying. .Tudson cared nothing for this, and said he would take the room. All through the night he heard thi« man crying out to God for mercy, shrieking in terror because of bis unbelief, and at Inst Judson utterly worn out fell asleep. When the morning came all was quiet in the adjoining room, but the man was dead. What was the student’s horror to. find out that the dying man wan his companion in infidelity, and when he came to the end there was no hope for him, and infidelitv prevailed him nothing. It is an awful thing to be without Christ in the world. ^ Without God. If yon could imagine God taken out of your life for a moment it' would be a position of terror. No one would ever again say no to Him if they realized that they might say no for fhe last time. To have no help in temptation and no comfort in the honr of sorrow, and no aupport in the day of death would indeed be an awful thing. A friend of mine told me of a man in the West whb had been constantly besought by his MANY MANGLED I IN CRASH OF GARS Fourth of July Accident In New York - State. FIFTEEN KNOWN TO BE DEiD Trolleys, Loaded With Pleasure Seekers,Meet on Mountain Side. Three Die in Another Wreck. On an electric railroad near Glovore- vllle, New York state, Friday, was a collision between two cars crowded with passengers by which fifteen per- Bone were killed and twenty-nine n- jured. For a distance of four miles north of Gloversvllle the Mountain Lake rail way, an electric road, connects Glov ersvllle with a popular place of resort, or picnic ground. As It was the Fourth of July the place was crowded with pleasure seekers. The ears were filled with people-re turning home from the grounds. At 10:30 p. m., at a distance of about two and a half miles north of Glovers- vllle there was a collision between two cars, one bound north and one bound south. As a result fifteen persons were killed outright and twenty-nine Injured the latter more or less seriously. Be ing a general holiday there were many business men among those on the cars. The Mountain Lake railway tracks followed the side of a mountain, the grade being about 1,000 feet In four miles. Coming down the incline the motorman of one car carrying about seventy people lost control of the car, which In a short distance acquired a frightful velocity. Then it met a cav ascending the mountain, aud also car- 1 Time Table Effective May 25, 1902, WAYCROS3 TO CORDELE. "NoTsr Dally. No. L Dally. rnents neither car left the track, the ascent of the one being overcome by the rush of the other, and for a dis tance of several hundred feet they went on down the Incline.- Then they left the rails and the dead and wound ed were hurled together In an Inex tricable mass. , At 2:30 o’clock Saturday morning ten bodies, mangled beyond recogni tion, were removed to Gloversvllle. Among the victims there were more women than men. Three Detectives Mangled. Three detectives employed by- the Central Railroad of New Jersey were killed by a train between Claremont and Jersey City early Friday. Their Lv. Waycross .. . 8:00 am 4: 00 pm Lv Beach ...... .*.8:47 am 4:47 pm Lv. Sessoms ... . 9:00 am 6:00 pm Lv. Nlcholls ... , 9:12 am 5:08 pm- Lv. Douglas ... . 9:*1 am 5:38 pm. Lv. Ambrose .. .10:03 am 6:01 pm. Lv. Wray .10:0$ am 6:10 pmi Lv. 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Cincinnati .. . 4:20 pm 7:20 am Lr. Cordele .... . 6:00 am 4:00 pm Lv. Fitzgerald . . 7:43 am 5:43 pm Lv. Douglas .... . 8:42 am 6:42 pm. Ar. Waycross .. .10:20 am 8:20 pm Ar. Jacksonville .12:50 pm 8:30 am Ar. Brunswick . .. 7:30 pm 10:00 am I Ar. Savannah .. ..12:45 pm 12:20 am Ar. Columbia .. . 6:05 pm 6:00 am Ar. Charleston . .. 5:10 pm 6:40 am Ar. Washington- . 7:35 am 9:00 pm Ar. New York ...1:43 pm 6:13 am friends to come to Christ, and had resisted all their entreatiee. He had been en treated by God Himself ns He called him in prosperitv and in adversity, and at last the calls became so marked that it wa* as if God had actually spoken to him. and at last in a heat of pasaion he cried nut as if he were speaking to God. “Ob. God, let me alone." and He did. and until the dav of his death it is said ho never again had even a faint deiire to go to Christ. It ia dangeroua to resist. God pity the man who says no to Christ and speaks for the last time, and then comes to the place where he had no hopo and is —I ILa,,! 1iL. mamIjI without God in* the world. SPORTING BREVITIES. The Washington Athletic Association, of Newark, v N. J., has organised a cy cling team. Yale won the ’varsity boat race; the freshmen rowed a dead lieat. Harvard won the substitute fours. "Gus” Rubliu knocked out "Torn*' Sharkey in the eleventh round at the National Sport lug: Club, London, Eng land. Automobile racing will be one of the attractions of the New York State Fair to be beld at Syracuse beginulug September 8. The Uncle Sam, owned by Francis R. R'ggs of New York City, won the first of the International special class races at Kiel. Victor Itlgal covered a mile on n mo tor cycle at l’iymouth, England, In 1.37. lowering the world’s standing start elsb r record by eight seconds. Uavcrford. College has again' turned out the best team of college cricketers. TUe$ defeated both the University of Pennsylvania aud Harvard. The Paris-Vienna automobile race was won by. Marcel-Renault. who cov ered the distance In fifteen hour* and twenty-two minutes, or at the rate of firty-one miles an hour. Towns, the ‘Australian sculler, who wrested the world’s championship from Gaudaur at Rat Portage, will shortly return to. the Antipodes vln Canada. He takes with him from Englaud a bride. an hour in the parks. The penalty for violation ts a fine of not less than $5 uor more than $500. bodies were found alongside the rails by a track ~ iy a track walker. The men were Rob ert Smith, John Cosgrove and William J. Hanson. The men were watching for freight thieves. SUSIE JiElY PENSIONERS. Foldier* Farced into Confederate Ser vice Now Met a Draw-Down. Among the numerous bills which were rushed through In the closing hours of congress was one Introduced by Senator Pritchard, of North Caro lina, providing that those confederate veterans who enlisted and served In the federal army prior to January 1, 1865, shall be eligible to receive pen sions from the United States govern ment By the passage of this bill about $3,000,000 In pensions will be disburs ed In North Carolina and Tennessee. At the time of the war there were many northern sympathisers who were forced to join the confederate forces but who afterwards deserted and join ed the union army. Train Flange* Ihto Washout. Two men were Instantly killed and three were Injured Thursday In the wreck of a double-header Michigan Central freight train near Thomas, N. Y. The train ran' into a washout President in Pittsburg. President Roosevelt left Washington Thursday night via the Pennsylvan' railroad for Pittsburg, Pa., Where ho attended the Fourth of July celbra- tlou at Schenly park. A SrSFICIOCS PROCEEDING. Newly Harried Couple May Have Used Poison as Aid to Wedl ek. A news Item states that Mrs. Flem ing and a Mr. Jenkins, living near Lau rel Bluff. Roane county, Tenn., are suspected of being Implicated In the poisoning of Mrs. Fleming’s husband and Mr. Jenltln’s wife. Mr. Fleming and Mrs. Jenkins both died suddenly about a month ago. In less than three weeks Mrs. Fleming and Jenkins were married. Suspicion 'was aroused by tho inter ception of a letter written by Mrs. Fleming to Jenkins. GEORGE DOLE WADIiEY, Vice President & Gen. Manager. H. C. McFADDEN, Gen. Freight and Pass. Agent. ALEX BONNYMAN, Superintendent J. G. KNAPP, . Trav. Freight and Pass. Agent A. B. DEMONT MOLLIN, Agent, Cordele, Ga. .01 itua siur GEORGIA SOUTHERN & FLORIDA RAILWAY. a.m.a.c m Effect Mar 4, lOOli. SOUTHBOUND. Stations. IQutVk) Dlxlel I Step! Flyer! ShuolValdo FlylExp*. Lv. Mccon . .... Kathleen . . Grovanta . ... Cordele . ..., Arab! Ashburn . ... Ar. Tiflon lv. Tit ton .... 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