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WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS are t wo Big Bargain Days of the week in Athens. The Herald of Tuesday and Friday always
carries the “VERY SPECIAL” offering of Athens’ leading and mostprogressivemerchants. From a dollar and a cents motive it
FORGET
THE ATHENS
ERALD
THE WEATHER
Fair
LOCAL COTTON
floUday-
ATHENS. GA„ FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1913.
DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. $5.00 PER YEAR
der, who died here Wednesday .night,
was sent bo Omaha, Neb., Root’s home,
yesterday . A-son who hurried herb
wheh Mr. Root became ill accompa
nied the body. V* _ K : 'j.
Intestinal trouble was given as'the
cause of death. Root had been trav
eling in the south in the interests of
the order and his condition was #ot
considered grave until three days ago.
Mr. Starr, is stopping at the Geor-
- gian. x
| Mr. George Walton Reab returned
n the child, they shed their
ipon the peaceful tomb. They
irents of beauty, of melody,
is their voice. They are the
are less than beasts and crucify pur
Lord afresh; but with them earth is
heaven and we are gods.
J. M. LINDSAY.
buy from the dispensaries. The sales
there amount only to about $50,000 a
month. Richland leads the state in
the amount of whisky sold.
[from Augusta at noon where he spent
I Christmas day with his sister, Mrs.
Rosignol.
Wouldn’t it be awful if Monaco
should refuse to accept Mr. Bryan’,
peace plan?—Ex.
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Be Sure <to/Read the Opening Chapters of This Great Serial in Monday’s Herald,
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MATTERS ARE TO
OCCUPY WILSON
BORING JACATION
Will Consider Selection of Fed-
eral Reserve Board and Also
Write a Special Message to
Congress Dealing With Regu
lation of Trusts—Will Lay
Stress on Increasing Desire of
Business to Reorganize in
.Conformity With Sherman
Anti-Trust Law.
(By Associated Press.)
Pass Christian, Miss., December 26.
.—President Wilson has mapped out
a program of rest and recreation
while here. He will deep nine hours,
play golf in the morning, clear up his
correspondence at noon, auto with his
family later and spend his evenings
reading. He hopes to regain his
rugged health.
* Two important matters will occupy
his mind. These will be the selection
of a federal reserve board personnel
and the writing of a special address
to congress dealing with the regula
tion of the ^usts. In selecting the
federal reserve board it is believed he
' will employ the sifting process used
in selecting his cabinet. It is brought
there will not be any nominations un
til the sixty days allowed by law have
about expired.
In drafting his address it is thought
the president will lay stress on the
increasing desire of business men to
reorganize their, concerns in conform
ity with the Sherman law.
A recommendation for creating an
^ interstate trade commission is also
1 believed likely. This commission
would not have regulatory powers,
but will merely be a bureau of infor
mation and investigation, assisting
the court by observing whether dis
solution decrees lye actually obeyed.
The president expects to deliver the
address immediately after the holi
days, probably January 19, after can
vassing the subject with his official,
family-
REFUSES TO SERVE
(By Associated Press.)
London, December 26.—Andrew
Puruseth, president of the Interna
tional Seamen's Union, has cabled his
resignation as a delegate to the In
ternational Conference on Safety at
3ea to President Wilson. He is dis
satisfied with the report of the com-
wittee of which he is a member and
:laims it lowers the safety standard,
de refused to sign it.
JACK BOCOCK HOME.
Mr. Jack Bocock, who is attending
the University of Virginia, is spend
ing the holidays with his parents, Pro
fessor and Mrs. Bocock, on Miiledge
ivenue. Mr.’ Bocock is being warmly
greeted by The Herald staff, with
whom he was associated last summer
in the capacity of city editor of The
Herald.
SCHOONER SAFE.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, D. C., December 26.—
Wireless reports from the revenue
cutter Seminole, report the schooner
Augusta W. Snow, reported distressed
last night off Diamond Shoals, safe
ind proceeding north.
Mr. J. Smith, of Winder, is in the
rity.
The following letter of appreciation
for the excellent Christmas dinner
which Sheriff Jackson placed before
his charges yesterday has been re
ceived by The Herald for publication:
The Athens Herald: On behalf of
the inmates of the Clarke county jail
\ wis hto express the sincere appre
ciation of all for the kindness shown
us and the splendid Christmas dinner
—fit for a King— servAl us today by
our genial, big-hearted Sheriff Jack-
Though the dinner was all that
could have been desired, it
spirit that prompted it that brought
the spotless Star of Bethlehem into
the gloom of our unfortunae lives.
Oh, that society would accept the
splendi dfact in nature, demonstrated,
for nineteen hundred years, that with
the magic wand of kindness the hard
est human heart may be touched—
that even the thief on the cross may
be saved.
For a thousand years we have tried
the thumbscrews and the stocks—the
rack and the faggot, the bloodhound
and the dungeon, the curses and
kicks of overseers and wardens, star
vation and privation, and they have
all yielded to intelligence and human
ity—all relegated to the inhuman
abyss of the dark ages. In shame be
it said that we still roll the fiendish
.word “chain-gang” under our tongues
as a sweet morsel; still permit mon
sters to wield the strap, and still heap
ostracism and scorn and contumely
upon poor, helpless mortals. But the
world is growing better. Intelligence
has deposed ignorance, reason
throned upon the world -brain has
forced superstition to abdicate and hu
manity like, a plumed knight marches
down the bloody aisles of persecution,
we would better men and women
must change their condition; if
wp would heal ths crimea of earthy an
intelligent diagnosis is imperative,
and humanity in its broadest sense
the treatment indicated. A discuit
will do more good than a lash, and
kindly help an dencouragement more
good than chains.
Give them more whitewash, more
light, more air, better food and better
shelter; give them a present and make
them a future. You have to change
physically before you can change
them intellectually, and you have to
change them intellectually before you
can change them morally. Fear and
punishment have never succeeded
either.
I believe the time is near when the
prison will no longer curse the earth,
when every instrument of torture, in
cluding unkindness, will be relegated
to the dark ages that gave them place,
that the shadow of the gallows and
the shock of the electric chair will no
longer contradict our boast of civili
zation.
I believe the time is near when
every criminal will be treated as we
treat our sick, when every peniten
tiary will become a reformatory; and
that if criminals go there with hatred
in their bosoms they will leave them
without feelings of revenge. r ~
Let me tell you the beautiful story
of Orpheus and Eurydice. Eurydice
had been carried away by £he god of
hell, and Orpheus, her lover, went in
guest of her. He took with him hi3
lyre, and played such exquisite music
that all hell was amazed. Ixion for
got his labors at the wheel, the daugh
ters of Danaeus ceased from their
hopeless task of filling their Sieves
with water, Tantalus forgot his thirst,
even Peuto smiled, the eyes of the fu
ries were wet with tears and for the
first time in the history of hell the
fires sank and the melody of love
weaved its magic spell over the last.
Oh, give us love and kindness—the
evening "and mc’" : "~ » '*’**-«
shine upon the <
Republican Leaders Who Reduced Southern Representation in Session
The action of the republican na
tional committee in Washington in
reducing the number of delegates in
the next national convention from
southern states may prove one of the
most important political developments
From Left to Right—Senator Reed Smoot, William'
Remmel of Arkansas, Senator Borah of Idaho, F. W. 3
Wyoming.
, former Senator Newell Sanders of Tennessee, Senator Clark oi Wyoming, H. L.
abrook of^ewHampshire, R. B. HowelL&f Nebraska, and Senator Charles B. Warran of
in recent years. Tliis action was tak
en despite the adverse report of a'
committee named |o,5t.udy the ques
tion. The republicans leaders here
shown in session—except Senator Bo
rah—are among thoseknown in pres-
MARY STUDENTS
HERE ON VACATION
Number of Athenians Back From
School in Other Places—City
Has Great Record.
In addition to the large number- of
Athens boys attending the University
of Georgia, there are-quite a few at
tending other institutions throughout
the country. This is easily noticed
during the holidays, for the streets
without being greeted by young men,
who have come back home to spend
their vacations.
Athens has representatives at many
schools, the most prominent being
Tech, Vanderbilt and Sewanee, while
in addition to this, many of the young
ladies of this city are attending col
lege elsewhere.
Athens has long held the distinc
tion of having the largest number of
students at the University and adding
to this the number of students, resid
ing here who are attending other
istitutions, the Classic City has a
ord, which is probably unsurpassed by
any city of its size in the south.
radiance upon th<
are t’
and i
FIREWORKS FACTORY
ent'political parlance as “standpat
ters.” Among them were Senator Reed
Sihdot of Utah, who was first aid to
Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island; Wil
liam Barnes, Jr., leader in New York
Statu, whom Theodore Roosevelt has
lieen fighting for several years, and
Senator Warren of Wyoming, an old-
line republican.
MASONS TO CELEBRATE FESTIVAL
ff OF ST. JOHH, THE EVANGELIST
Mount Vernon Lodge Meets at S'
O’CIock This Evening to Carry
Out Elaborate Program—Ad
dresses Will BeS Made, by Rev.
Troy Beatty, Itev. Eugene L.
Hill, Rev. C. C. Jarrell, Colonel
joe Df-adwyleriPast Master
•Caw*,' totet -IBSkiR. Uab&tS-
and Others.
POSTAL RECEIPTS
■SHOW INCREASE
[ASTHMAS
fOMMEES
*(By Associated Press.)
Rome. December 26.—No addition
al bodies have been recovered from
the ruins of the fireworks factory
which exploded yesterday. The fac
tory was at the foot of Mount Vesu
vius. Fourteen employees were killed
and five unfatally injured. The cause
unknown.
builders of every hope, the kindlers
of every fire on every'hearth. They
are the enchanters, the magicians that
change worthless things .to joy tind
make kings and queens of common
clay. They are the perfume of that
wonderous flower, the heart. They
are the apostles to all generations, the
reformers,, the regenerators. Without
Tonight at 8 o’clock the Masons of
Athens together with visiting and .so
journing brethren will meet at the
temple of Mt. Vernon Lodge to cele
brate the festal occasion qf St. John
the evangelist.
The 27th day of December is a* red
letter day' with the Masonic frate
nity throughout the world, but tha
duty falling on Saturday, Mt. Vernoi
Lodge will observe the festival to
night-
A splendid spread awaits the gath
ering of the craft, and addresses will
be delivered by a number of prominent
local Masons.
The meetings will be called to order
promptly at 8 o’clock by the newly-
elected Worshipful Master, Dr. L. N.
Betts, when such business as is nec
essary will be transacted. During^the
evening addresses will be made by
Rev. Troy Beatty, Rev. E. L. Hill,
Rev. C. C. Jarrell, Past Master V/. A.
Capps, Past Master H. R. Palmer, Col.
Joe Deadwyler and others.
During the exercises the head of
“good of the order” will be called and
it 13 expected that quite a number of
impromptu talks will be given.
Mt. Vernon Lodge invites every
qualified brother in the city to be
present
DISPENSARY SALES.
Columbia, S. C., December 26.—A
rough estimate of the sale by all of
the dispensaries in South Carolina
places the amount at about $3,000,000.
The final figures will be announced
a few days by Harvey W. Mitchum,
state dispensary auditor. The fea
ture of the report to be issued is
great falling off in the sales
Charleston. It is said that the “blind
While no definite figures regarding
the sales of the local postoffice have
been as yet compiled, the authorities
state that the business this year has
been enormous, and that it is safe to
say that the sales will outstrip those
of last year by at least 20 or 25 per
cent.
The number of packages sent out
has been exceedingly large, and the
force has been greatly rushed for the
last few weeks
Figures of this and previous years
will probably not be issued befor
Monday.
The growth in postal receipts to ,
great extent shows the growth of the
city, and the great increase over last
year simply illustrates the fact that
the city is growing in remarkable
proportions.
Ml! GOOD WISHES
FOR THE PRESIDENT
Christmas Mail at White House
Yesterday Was the Heavi-
M est Ever.,.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, D. C., December 26^—^
The taskof the white house postman*
yesterday was~~n6V easy. The postal
officials Say the Christmas mail there
yesterday was the biggest ever,
retary Tumulty was swamped. The
majority of the Tetters were messages
containing good wishes for the presi
dent.
PERSONAL
MENTION
REV. M. A. JENKINS
SPEAKER FOR MEN'S
Former Pastor of First Baptist
Church Will Deliver Address
on Subject, “Running Past the
Signal Lights”—Treat Prom
ised Men of Athens—Walter’s
Orchestra Will Render Music
Program.
The men’s meeting to be held Sun
day afternoon at the Colonial Theater
should prove to be one of the best of
the entire series being.held under the
auspices of the religious committee
of the Young Men’s Christian Asso
ciation.
The reason for this is that the
speaker on that occasion is one of the
ablest men in the ministry of God in
the southern states today; & man who
has proven his ability and his worth
by his work; a man who has won his
way into the hearts of hundreds and j
hundreds 'in .this city.
Rev. Millard A. Jenkins was for j
•er two years pastor of the First
Baptist church in this city, and while
here accomplished a wonderful work
for the Kingdom of God, has consent
ed, as he has always been interested
and in the work of the Young
Men’s .Christian Association, to give
them a Sunday afternoon. He has se
eded for- his subject for the meeting
a most unique and interesting theirfe.
Running Past the Signal Lights,”
will be the subject of his address. To
those who know Mr. Jenkins they can
lanticipate with gieat pleasure what
he will bring to them on this subject
jHe is a cultured man, having had the
best of educational advantages; a man
Who is widely • raveled, and who has --
the special advantages; a.man who£
w;de$\,traveled, aiid /wbof hao
special evangelistic gift; a remarkable ‘
Bible student, and a man with a t
strong personality and a loving heart
for humanity. Some of the best ad
dresses to men that the writer has
heard have come from this man of
God. He knows the need of the hu
man heart and is fearless and direct,
yet tender, and he has no uncertain
note in his gospel message. He
preaches the power of a redeeming
Saviour applied to the heart and
lost and sinning
THEATER RECEIPTS
TAKEN BY THIEVES
(By Associated Press.)
New York, December 26.—The $2,-
000 receipts of the Christmas day per
formance were stolen from the Or-
pheum theater box office this morn
ing by four men who hid under bal
cony. seats last night. -They overpow
ered the watchman, pried the door off
its hinges, ro-bbed the safe and es
caped.
CONVOY TRAIN DESTROYED
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, D. C., December 26.—
The state department learned that the
rebels Thursday destroyed a Mexican
federal convoy train, killing thirty-
seven. The Tampico situation is re-
Mr. J. A. Morton, of Maxeys, Ga.,
was in the city today.
Mr. J. H. Adams,of• A tlanta, is
Athens for the day.
Mr. R. C. James, of Oklahoma,
here on a short business trip.
Mr. H. J. Thrunk, of Jacksonville,
Fla., spent yesterday in the city.
science of a lost and sinning man, and
he has that wonderful knack of mak
ing his hearers admit Th t his gos
pel message is true, and that they
should act upon and knowledge same.
The religious committee is anxious
that every man in our city should hear
this address on the last Sunday in the
old year, and a cordial invitation is
extended to all to be present.
Walter’s orchestra will render their
AT J rr . r, .J -XT i usual musical program giving a half
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Reid, o{ Nor-l hour , s concert> bsKinnin!J at 3;30
o’clock, the lecture beginning at four.
folk, Va., spent yesterday in tne city.
Mr. Robert Burns and family, of
Cincinnati, spent Christmas in the
city.
Mr. George Keese, also of the Gate
City, is spending the day at the G or-
gian.
Mr. J. A. Sorrells, of Gainesville,
among those registered at the Geor-
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Stevens, of Cin-.
cinnati, are registered at the Geor
gian.
Mr. W. S. Tucker, a prominent-citi
zen of Royston, was here today on
business.
Mr. R. C. Williams, of Atlanta, is
in the city for a few days. Mr. .Wil
liams is here on business.
Mr. William Eberhardt, one of the
most prominent and*well known citi
zens of Gesnelia, is visiting in the city.
Mr. S. H. Starr, of Memphis, Tenn.,
JACK WOOFTER IN ATHENS.
Mr. Jack Woofter, who is now en*
gaiged in government statistical work,
arrived in Athens Wednesday evening
from Jacksonville. Mr. Woofter-is
making a success in his new field and
speaks enthusiastically of the work.
He left this morning on a hunting trip
and will return to Jacksonville in a
few days.
FOUNDER OF WOODMEN
OF THE WORLD x »
Hendersonville, N. C., D,
The body of Joseph Cullen 1
founder of the Woodmen of the T*
and sovereign commander of
der, who died here T” ’
was sent to Omaha,
yesterday . A-son who