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A BOY LABOR LEADER BUT FOURTEEN YEARS OLD AND A WALKING DELEGATE. • A Hew York Prodin Brought to Publle Hotioe by k. Strike of Cloekmakert—He Tlka Earnestly on Labor Topics l nbeads to Bea Lawyer. Marcus O. Braff, Jr., of New York is only a boy, but he does a man’s work. He is just 14 years oldaud hasn’t yet graduated from the juvenile shirt waist that makes him a boy. He is the walking delegate of the Striking cloakmakers, whose headquar ters are in Rivington street. He is lead ing grown men and women on to vic tory. He is the youngest walking dele gate in a big, troublous world peppered with walking delegates—that make! him a man. Many of the strikers believe Marcus Kus been providentially sent to them as a leader. They bow to his opinion They call what he says wisdom. It is a strange spectacle to behold this boy in knickerbockers seated on a high stool in his grimy little office, giving advice to bent, wrinkled men and wom en and receiving their initiation fees and dues, for Marcus is also assistant secretary of the union He rose to this position among the strikers just as an able man does in the big world. His father is a striker and was for merly secretary. The boy helped his fa ther in the routine office work. In that way he first attracted attention Then it was discovered that this bc*s was the man for the placa A reporter went to see Marcus the other day. The youthful delegate was seated on his high stool, whistling. Ha has a wise look about his eyes—sad black eyes. He has a well built head, massive, out of proportion to his slen der neck and his undeveloped body of a child of 10. He knits hfis brows when he thinks, like the grown man whose part he i* playing. The authority vested in him has re vealed no weakness of conceit or vanity. He is as yet unspoiled—a boy one minute, whistling, the next a man in deep thought, revolving the problems of the strike. He showed no false pride, nor did he hesitate about being inter viewed. He talked readily about the trike, a* another boy of his age would have done about tops. “What do you think about the strug gle between capital and labor in thil strike?” he was asked. “The capitalists will have to give in,” he said, clasping his small hands over one knee. “It is only a question of time. The cloakmakers’ strike is virtu ally won. The busy season is coming on, and the contractors can’t hold out much longer. It has been a glorious victory for the workingmen, because they have won all the issues they strove for. “Eight hours are enough for any workingman,” he continued wisely. “Heneeds rest and recreation. He cau’l get it by toiling away into the night foi a mighty small wage. Next year we shall see the cloakmakers in a moro inde pendent. position than they have evei been in before. ” “What about the coal strike?” “I can’t express any opinion about the coal strike or the engineers’ strike in London, as they are rather deep foi me, "he said ingenuously. “I have no one here to converse with who keepf abreast of topics of general interest. “The men around here, ” sweeping his hand over the room, ‘ ‘ have so many troubles of their own that they take but little interest in matters that do no! directly concern them. ” The sad look about his big, wistful eyes deepened. “I hope that when their temporal oondition is improved they will become more enlightened and take more inter est in their brother workingmen’ l Stoves Stove M CA.B LOAD of STOVE Kff| i j • e P are to offer some vory good Bargains. Wo carry the bes t line in town. We also handle a Complete lino of GUXS, PrSTOLS, CUTLERY, AMMUNITION. BUGGY and WAGON MATLuIAL we CAN SELL YOU THE BEST MAKES 0F BLWB StJCfI AS OLIVER, CHILL, ATLANTA, and SYRACUSE. We are exclusive agents for the HANCOCK ROTAUr DISC PLOW Endorsed by the"beßt*Farmers. teed EV Calu ll !f B ° ld at P^°u k Bottom P rice3 - Satisfaction guaran teed. Call and see us and be convinced. Your’s for business BENI ON-ADAIR HARDWARE CO.. HARMONY GROVE, GEOEGIA. affairs and lend their aid to &apn>rin| the oondition of workers in other trades, but far the present that is out of thi question. ” “Do yon hope to be a labor tatdef some day?” ‘*No; I have no aspirations in that direction, ”he answered frankly. “My leanings are all toward the law, and 1 have set my heart on becoming a mem ber of the bar. I have no doubt that atf an attorney I could do no end of good in helping the workers. “I always had a love for things of • legal nature, and the cases in the oourts, both legal and civil, as reported in the ?kpera, deeply interest me.”—New ork Journal. ODDS AND ENDS. An English typhoid fever patient ha* been fined for leaving the hospital with* out leave while sick. Where Is Heaven? "Perhaps the first question that pj* sents itself regarding heaven is its loea tion, ” writes Evangelist Dwight L Moody in The Ladies’ Home JournaL “For my part, I am not satisfied with the vagueness that describes my future homo as everywhere and nowhere. 1 read that the Master promised his dis ciples an abode in his Father’s man sions, whither he was going to prepare them a place, and in the Revelation the Apostle John described the ■wondrous beauties of the city of God. The Evan gelist Luke tells us that Christ ascended from the little group of his disciples as they followed him out toward Bethany and that while they stood gazing up in to heaven there appeared unto them two messengers to cheer them with the promise of his coming again, and so it is with the child of God when the earth ly pilgrimage is over. The soul ascends to those mansions which Christ has gone on before to prepare for those who love him. The location of heaven is not an important matter. Christ said very lit tle about its situation, but a great deal about its being with God. To be sure, God is everywhere, but heaven is his home; it is the Father’s house. It is not the homestead that makes home the most attractive place on earth, but it is those who live there, and so it will b# with heaven. ” Women Bullfighters. Two of the most popular and richest bullfighters in Spain are women, the sisters Lola and Angelica Pretel to wit, natives of Brandenburg, in Germany. As girls they were circus riders, and then It occurred to their manager to mako them toreras. The Pretel sisters were successful from the beginning. Now they are owners of a large troop, or quadrilla, composed of women bande rillos—fighters on foot—and picadors, or horseback riders. They take this troop from tow T u to town in Spain, giving exhibitions wherever they are booked during the season, which lasts from May till October each year. Each of these women earns about 500,000 pe setas in a singlo season ( £25,000). Out of this amount she must furnish all her elaborate costumes, for indeed she is dressed in “spangles and gold,” and pay all expenses of the quadrilla. They have a magnificent villa near Madrid, with training quarters unsurpassed ii’ Spain. A Bright American Girl. Miss Marie McNaughton, who went to Paris as stenographer and translator with the peace commission, is a western girl. She is the same youug woman who passed the examination for trans lator in the bureau of American repub lics a year ago, and who, with another young woman, Miss Mary Kirke, gets the highest salary paid by the govern ment for women —the sum of $2,500 a year. She is a native of the state of Michigan and is a young woman of beauty and great charm of manner.— Chicago Tribune. * MAMMON WORSHIP. A CLERGYMAN’S INDICTM ENT AGAINST LATTER DAY CHRISTIANITY. , * ' y .j* What the Hatter Taught la Not Praetteed or Taught Todaj—The Church Hae Sur rendered to the Usurer*, and Chriefa Command! Arc Forgotten. It seems remarkably strange that so few people understand the nature of the crisis that is now on the world. Minis ters of the gospel, of all men, ought to comprehend it, but they do not. Notone in a thousand does. Any reflecting mind must see that with the present surroundings—a con tinuation of present systems of business —that the world, society, will remain as it is or grow worse. There is no counteracting influence in our form of Christianity of sufficient force to remedy our evils. There is nothing in the church now calculated to bridge over the gulf between capital and labor. The church unfortunately approves and practices the originating cause, the thing which digs the gulf between Dives and Lazarus—viz, usury. The practice of usury breeds poverty, poverty demoralizes the masses, this, hanging like a millstone about the neck of society, depresses and drags down with greater force than the uplifting influence of the church. Hence society is elevated as high as it can be by our present defective form of Christianity. It is a fact of universal application that the religion of any peo ple governs and molds the civil govern ment of that people and fixes the condi tion of society. Our form of Christianity is responsi ble for the status of society all over the civilized world; hence a religion that cannot lift society to a higher, better, happier state than society now occupies is not the religion which the world needs, and it will be repudiated. Min isters and all who study the Bible and believe it must see that the churches are not true exponents of the system of religion or system of living tanght and practiced by the Master. Ho taught the world how to live. The church teaches how to die. The Sunday side of our religion is all right The weekday side is not all right. “Ephraim is an unturned cake.” Our Christianity needs turning over. We need, the world noeds, pure Chris tianity, as taught and practioed by its Founder and the early church. Pure Christianity would lift society as high as it could be in this world. “Oh, fools, so slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have written. ” The trouble is, the church don’t believe, teach nor practice all the Master taught. It is no pleasure to be compelled to so write. The Master taught after this manner: “If you love those that love you, what thank have ye, for sinners also love those that love them, and if you do good to those that do good to yon what thank have ye, for sinners also do even the same. ” And then he adds the great central law, rejected and ignored by the church—viz: “And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye, for sinners also lend to sinners to receive as much again. But love ye your enemies, and do good and lend, hoping for nothing again.” This is as plain a command as any given by the Master. No one can misunderstand it. Yet who believes that Christ meant that his followers should do it? Who practices business on this line? The church has lowered the standard, struck its colors, surrendered to the god of this world on this business question of Mammon worship, so that the very men tion of this as being required is scouted and sneered at, and the man who pre sumes to claim this course as a Chris tian duty is ostracised, denounced and called a crank, a lunatic or a fool. But the apostles and early church understood that their Master meant business, and they practiced it. When they sold houses and land, they laid the money at the apostles’ feet, and distribu tion was made so that none lacked any thing. They were not compelled to sell, as the case of Ananias shows, but the tie of love and brotherhood was such that they had all things common to the extent that none were allowed to suffer need. This was no spasmodic movement produced by persecution, as commenta tors would have us believe, but it lasted. Justin Martyr, who wrote about ICO years after, said the church practiced the same system. This system taught by the Master and practiced by the early church would have prevented all poverty, all want, for no one “lacked anything.” Such a thing as a tramp would never have ex isted, no homeless human, and the very idea of millionaire never would have entered in the brainpan of any one. Poorhouses, paupers, souphouses, houses of charity, jails, prisons, workhouses, slavery,war, competition, tariffs, usury, rents, speculation and the whole brood of evils that ourse our world, born of individualism, greed and selfishness, would never have existed. The world will come back to that happy state in the coming ages, one oomrnon Father above, one earthly family, one brother hood and the music of life set to the golden rule.—Rev. D. Oglesby. —To — ATLANTA, CHARLOTTE, AU* GUSTA, ATHENS, WILMING TON, NEW ORLEANS, CHATTANGOGA, AND NEW YORK, BOSTON, PHILADELPHIA, RICHMOND, WASHINGTON, NORFOLK, PORTSMOUTH. Schedule in Effect May 8, 1898. SOUTHBOUND. No. 403. No. 41. Lv! New York *ll 00am *9 00pm “Philadelphia, 112 pm 12 05am “ Baltimore, 315 pm 2 50am “ Washingtou 4 40pm 4 30am ' * Richmond 356 pm 9 05am “Norfolk *3 30pm *9 05am “ Portsmouth 8 45pm 9 20am Lv. Wehlou *ll2Bpm *ll 55am Ar. Henderson *l2 56am *1 43pm Ar. Durham £7 32am £4 16pm Lv. Durnaai ,£7 00pm £lO 19am Ar. Raleigh *2 16am *3 40pm “ Sautord 333 am 5 05pm “ Southern Pines 4 23am 5 58pm “ Hamlett 5 07am 0 56pm “ Wadosboro 5 53am 8 10pm “Monroe, 6 43am, 9 12pm “ Wilmington * *l2 05 pm Ar. Charlotte *7 50am *lO 25pm Ar. Chester *8 03am *lO 56pm Lv. Columbia, C. N. &. L....... *6 00pm Ar. Clinton, *9 45am *l2 14am “Greenwood 10 35am ,107 am “ Abbeville 11 03am ,1 35am “ Elberton 12 07pm 2 41am “ Athens 1 13pm 343 am “ Winder 1 56pm 4 28am “ Atlanta (C. TANARUS.) 2 50pm 6 20am NORTHBOUND. No. 402. No. 38 Lv. Atlanta (O. TANARUS.) *l2 Ot'u’n *7 50pm “ Winder 2 40pm 10 40pm “Adieus 313 pm 11 19pm • Elberton 4 15pm 12 31am “ Ahbeville 5 15pm 1 35am “ Greenwood 6 41pm 2 03am “ Clinton *6 30pm *2 55am Ar. Columbia, C. N. & L. *7 45am LvChester *8 13pm *4 25am A. Charlotte *lO 25pm *7 50am Lv. Mouroe *9 40pm *6 05am “Hamlet *ll 15pm 8 00am Ar. Wilmington, *l2 05pm Lv. Southern Pines 12 00am *9 00am “ Raleigh *2 lOaui 11 25am Ar. Henderson, 328 am *l2 57pm Ar. Durham £7 32am £4 16pm Lv. Durham £7 OOpm £lO 19am Ar. Weldon *4 55am *2 45pm Richmond ( 8 2oam 7 35pm “ Wash’ton P.R. R. 12 31pm 11 30pm “ Baltimore “ 1 46pin 1 08ana “ Philadelphia “ 350 pm 350 am “ NewYork “ *6 23pm *6 53am Ar. Portsmouth 7 25am 5 20pm Ar. Norfolk *7 35am 5 35pm *Daily. £Daily Except Sun. Nos. 403 and 462. ••me Atlanta Special,” Solid Vestibuled Tram ol Pullman Sleepers and Coaches between Washington and Atlanta, also Pullman Sleepers between Portsmouth and Ches ter, S. C. iNos. 41 and 38.—“ The S. A. L. Ex press,” Solid Train Coaches, and Pull man Sieepers between Portsmouth ano Atlanta. Company Sieepers between Columbia aud Atlanta. Both traius make immediate connec tion at Atlanta for Montgomery, Mo bile, New Orleans, Texas, Caliioruia, Mexico, Chattanooga, Nashville, Mem phis. Macon, Florida. For Tickets, Sleepers, etc., apply to B. A. Newiaud, Gen. Agt. Pass. Dept. Wm. B. Clements, T. P. A.. 6 Kimball House, Atlanta, Ga. E. St. John, V. Pres, and Gen’l Mg’r V. E. Mcßee. General Superintendent H. W. B. Glover, Traffic Manager. T. J. Anderson, Gen’l Passenger Agt. General Offices, PORTSMOUTH, VA. Mill KAILHOAD AND CONNECTIONS., For information j“as to Routeß, aud Rates, both Passengnd Ht. wnte to either of the’undersigned You will receice prompt and re liable information. JOE_W. WHITE, A. G. JACKSON T. P. A.j G. P. A. AUGUSTA, GA S. W. WILKES, H. K. NICHOLSON. C. F. & P. A. G. A. ATLANTA. ATHENS. W. W. HARD WICK j S. E. M AGILE, S. A O.JF. A. MACON. MACON. M. R. HUDSON, F. W.COFFIN, S. F. A. 5..F.:& P. A. MILLEDGEVILLE. j AUGUSTA . PROFESSIONAL CARDS. L. C. RUSSELL. E. a ARMISTBAD , RUSSELL & ARMISTEAD, Attorneys at Law. Winder, Ga. Jefferson. Ga. W. H. QUARTERMAN, i Attorney at Law, Winder, Ga. Prompt attention given to 73 1 legal 1 matters. Insurance and Real Estate agent. JOHN H. SIKES, Attorney at Law. Winder, Ga. Offloe over Harness factory. J. A. B. MAHAFFEY, Attorney at Law, Jefferson, Ga. Silman’B old office. • Winder Furniture Cos. UNDERTAKERS AND— —FUNERAL DIRECTORS. C. M. FERGUSON, M’g’r. WINDER, GEORGIA. A. HAMILTON, Undertaker and Funeral Director, Winder, EMBALMING By a Professional Embalmer. Hearse and attendance free. Ware rooms, cor ner Broad & Candler sts. DR. W. L. DkLaPERRIERE, DENTAL PARLORS, In the J. C. DeLaPerriere building, over Winder Furniture Cos. Call and see me when in need of anything in the line of Dentistry. Work guaran teed. Honey to Lend, We have made arrangements with brokers in New York City through whom we are able to placa loans ou improved farms for five years time, payable in installments. If you want cheap monev come in and see us at once Shackelford & Cos 100 Broad St., Athens, Ga. LOUIS SMITH, ” The oldest & Horse Shoer in Winder. I will appreciate your patronage and give you good work at reasonable prices. OIBIIDSNBS* Lodge No. 333, (wiuaer) Officers—N. J. Kelly, W. M.; J. J. Kilgore. S. W.; A. S. Adams, J. W.; J. H. Kilgore, Sec’ty. Meets every 2d Friday evening at 7 o’clcck. J. H. Sikes, N. G. ;J. T. Strange, V*. G.; S. T. Ross, Secretary; H. S. Segars, Treasurer. Meets every Ist and 3d Monday nights. RUSSELL LODGE No. 99. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. Meets every Ist. and 3d. Thursday vening in each month. R, B. Russell, P. C. and Rep., C. B. Almond, C. C., H. C. Poole, V. C., A. A Camp, K. of R. undA.S., W. B. Dillard, P., W. H. Toole, M. of E., T. A. Maynard, M. of F. J. J. Smith. M. of A , F. L. Hoi land, L G., O. L. Dabney, O. G. ROYAL ARCANUM. | Meets every 4th Monday night. J. T. Strange, R.; J. H, Sikes, V. R.; J. J Kilgore, Secretary. . (COLORED). WINDER ENTERPRISE LODGE, No. 4282. G. U. O. ofO.F. Meets every Ist and 3d Friday night in each month. Dudley George, N. G.; G. W. Moore V. G.; L. H. Hinton, Secretary. Honey to'Loan. We now have plenty of money to loan on improved farm property in Jackson and Banks counties. Terms and interest liberal. Call and see us. Dunlap & Pickrell, Gainesville, Gp. Sept. 12th, 1898.