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A CONVICT THAT MADE GOOD.
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Countless pages of romance have
been written of convict heroes who
redeemed themselves in their moral
aspect by vicarious suffering and
sacrifice to aid those who had be
friended them. Benign philosophers
have preached the doctrine that
there is some residual good in eyery
man no matter how deep in sin he
may have fallen. An English bishop
took the work of a confessed thief
as against the word of a minister of
state because of faith in ultimate
human goodness, and he was justi
fied. It is possible and indeed in
some phases of the matter custo
mary to become maudlin in sympa
thy for criminals. This, of course, is
merely an excess of sentiment that
is quite as unjustifiable as the lack
of it.
Out from the whirl of our mater
ial life come occasionally strange
stories of human goodness in those
whom society has cast out. Con :
victs with hearts and loves and
fine impulses are by no means rare.
James G. Pogue was of this class.
He was a convict in the Kansas
state penitentiary at Lansing, where
he was sent for grand larceny. It.
appears that his only sister had
mortaged her home to provide funds
for his defense.
But nevertheless he was sent to
prison. His conduct as a convict was
so good that he was made a “trustv,’
an office that is something of a sin
ecure and is the only thing that
makes prison life endurable to some
men. But he never forgot about
the sacrifice made for him by his
sister, and when the mortgage be
came due he knew that the little
property must be sacrificed.
James Pogue wasn’t a hero. He
was a convict with years of impris
onment before him. Asa trusty he
could almost enjoy these years. If
he sacrificed the confidence of the
warden he knew that the* future
would be black and terrible. But
there was his sister’s home that was
in danger because of his wrong-do
ing. After weighing all the ele
ments of the problem James Pogue
decided to make a supreme effort.
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He escaped from prison and went
to work. Wandering over the
country, he did whatever his hands
found to do. But always he saved,
and remitted regularly all he could
spare. He worked in coal mines,
in harvest fields, in railroad section
gangs. Nothing was too hard for
him, and through it all he never
drank liquor or spent a cent that
wasn't necessary. At last he had
saved the amount needed to redeem
his sister’s home. In all it was a
little more than 6950. After that
James Pogue could have gone far
away and lost himself. But lie
didn't. He was no hero, hut he
knew his obligations to society, and
he was tired being in constant dread
of capture. When his purpose was
achieved he again returned to prison
and to a servitude worse than he
had before known. He could not
boa trusty again. He could have
no benefit for good behavior. But
somehow James Pogue rises out of
the muck of dishonor and claims
respect. If he isn’t a hero he did
something that was almost heroic.
—Kansas City Journal.
REFLECTIONS Of A BACHELOR
Lying is a natural gift; truth is
an acquired art.
One woman knows another is just
a hateful old cat to smile so sweetly.
Next to foreign politics, a man
seems to find it easiest y not to un
derstand home polities.
It’s better to have been educated
and learned nothing than not to
have tried athletics at all.
The Next Best.
“Yon were a little shy on facts in
that speech of yours.”
“I know I was,” admitted the
new congressman. “That’s why 1
put in plenty of gestures.”
His Idea.
“What’s your notion for running
a newspaper?”
“I’d go the yellow papers one
better. I wouldn’t have anything
whatever onHhe front page but the
headlines.”
THE OLD SONG.
Chicago Post.
That brain that dreamed the magic
strains
Is dust these many, many years,
Yet still the 'music swells and wanes
And works its spell on him who hears;
The melody is clear and sweet
With dulcet gladness in each tone;
Of haunting swing and rhythmic beat
Are murmured chords that sing alone.
The hand that wrote the olden rhymes
These many, many years is dust:
The sword is held in olden times
A century ago was rust—
But here today as fair as then
We have the song that holds the heart
Which throbs again and yet again,
Because of this undying art.
And they who wrote this song, they gave
The world no conquest of their hands
They caused no battle Hag to wave,
They trampled through no alien lands
Their fame came not through women’s
terrs,
Nor through the heaping of their
gold
And yet through all the bygone years
The simple song their fame has told.
So sing it softly, when the night
Flings shadows from the drowsy west
For all its measures, shadow-light,
With comfort and heartease are blest.
And it may be to some fair star
Will float an echo of some strain
To telj the two who bide afar
They do not write their song in vain.
The Careful Lawyer.
“1 want a little legal informa
tion.”
“Go ahead.”
“If an automobile runs over a
man, whose fault is it the pedes
trian’s or the driver’s?”
“One moment. Were you in
the automobile or in the street?”
A Bad Boy. '
“I fear that boy of mine is incor
rigible.”
“What now?”
“He wants to send Santa Claus a
Black Hand letter.”
Classified.
“The Hon. Thomas Itott believes
every man has his price. ’
“Eh-yah!. And he himself has
been on the 10-cent counter ever
since i have known him!” —Puck.
CALL TO CHRISTIAN LAYMEN.
Rev. Julius S. Rodgers, executive
secretary of the Laymen’s Mission
ary Movement, sends out the fol
lowing call:
“Every Christian man in Georgia
of every denomination is cordially
invited to attend the interdenomi
national laymen’s missionary con
vention for Georgia, to be held in
Macon, at the city auditorium, on
January 21st to 23d, 1910. The
pastors of all the churches in Geor
gia are urged to come and bring
strong delegations from their re
spective churches.
“Nearly two thousand years have
passed since Christ gave to His dis
ciples His last injunction: ‘Go ye
into all the world and preach the
gospel to every < reature.’ After all
these years of opportunity, be it
said to our shame, we have succeeded
in carrying the tidings of salvation
to only one-third of the inhabitants
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of the earth
“These results have been chiefly
accomplished, however, by a few
consecrated men and women who,
as missionaries, have devoted (and
often sacrificed) their lives to the
cause, ami by a handful of faithful
women, who, through their foreign
missionary societies, have made it
possible for the few missionaries to
continue their work.
“Until now the wealth of brains
and riches l>elonging to the men of
the church of God have never been
expended in obedience to the com
mand of their Leader, but about
two years ago a spontaneous move
ment began amongst the laymen of
several of the great Christian de
nominations, under different names,
without any concert of action, but
having the same great purpose in
view’, viz: the evangelization of the
world in the present generation.
When it was discovered that these
several forces were flowing in the
same direction, hut in separate
streams, it was wisely decided to
unite them in one great channel,
and so at a general conference held
at Now York City in November,
1907, was born the ‘Laymen’s Mis
sionary Movement,’ which has taken
hold of the hearts and minds of
men as nothing has ever done l>e
fore in the history of the church.
“The movement has so far oeen
primarily educational in character,
and as a result great gatherings of
laymen have taken place at Bir
mingham, Ala.; Washington, 1).
C.; Clinton, S. C ; Richmond, Va.,
and Harrisburg, Pa., and various
other places, at which the needs
and possibilities of the work have
been discussed and considered and
the enthusiasm has been unbounded.
“A series of about seventy con
ventions has been planned to take
place during the present winter, at
centrally located points in practi
cally every state in the union, and
Macon, Ga., has been honored by
being selected as the convention
point for (ieorgia.
“Some of the ablest speakers of
America have already consented to
address the convention on live
topics, amongst whom are: Rev.
H. F. Williams, editor of the Mis
sionary, Nashville, Tenn.; Colonel
E. W. Halford, chairman of lay
men’s missionary movement, M. E.
Church, of New York City; Rev.
Wm. A* Guerry, I). I)., of Charles
ton, S.C.; Mrs. George Sherwood
Eddy, missionary to India; Rev. T.
B- Ray, I>. IT, educational secre
tary of the Southern Baptist Con
vention; Mr. W. B. Stubbs, secre
tary of the laymen’s missionary
movement of the Southern M. E.
Church; Rev. R. W. Patton, dis
trict secretary of the hoard of mis
sions of the Episcopal church; Rev.
Walter W. Moore, I). 1)., LL.D.,
president of Union Theological Sem
inary, Richmond, Vi.: Mr, T. H.
Yum, a native Corean; Rev. Dun
bar H. Ogden, l). D-, of Atlanta,
Ga.; Rev. R. J. Willingham, D. I).,
secretary of foreign mission l>oard
of the Southern Baptist Convention;
Rev. S. P. Parker, D. D., a mis
sionary to China; Dr. W. H. Park,
medical missionary and authoi;
Ex-Governor W. J. Northen, of
Georgia; Rev. I). Clay Lilly, I). 1).,
special field secretary of laymen’s
missionary movement, of Nicolas
villo, Ky.
“Let Georgia join hands with her
sister states in the triumphal pro
cession, which, like a tidal wave,
gathers volume and power as it ad
vances, and in the providence of
God shall sweep into the remotest
parts of the earth, carrying light
and hope to untold millions of
starving souls, for whom Christ
died.”
THE WOMAN BEAUTIFUL
She walks unnoticed in the street ,
The casual eye
Sees nothing in her fair or sweet,
The world goes by
Unconscious that an angel’s feet
Are passing hy,
SI le does a thousand kindly things
That no one knows.
A loving woman’s car she brings
To human woes,
And to her face the sunlight clings
Where’er she goes.
And so she walks her quiet ways
With that content
That only comes to sinless days
And innocent,
A life devoid of fame or praise,
Yet nobly spent.
—I jeon, in “The Woman Beau
tiful.”
WHAT A WOMAN CAN DO.
(From The Boston Times.)
She can come to a conclusion
without the slightest trouble of
reasoning on it, and no sane man
can do that.
Six of them can talk at once and
get along first rate, and no two men
can do that.
She can safely stick fifty pins in
her dress while he is getting one
under his thumb nail-
She is cool as a cucumber in half
dozen tight dresses and skirts,while
a man will sweat and fume and
growl in, one loose shirt.
She can talk as sweet as peaches
and cream to the woman she hates,
while two men would be punching
each other’s head before they had
exchanged ten words.
She can throw a stone with a
curve that would be a fortune to a
baseball pitdier.
She can say “no” in such a low'
voice that it means “yes.”
She can sharpen a lead pencil if
you give her plenty of time and
plenty of pencils.
She can dance all night in a pair
of shoes two sizes too small for her,
and enjoy eyery minute <>f the time.
Speaker Cannon and the other
defenders of his autocratic power
are the arch-pessimists of the Ihiited
States. The success of the insur
gents will mean the triumph of
optimism. —The Kansas City Star.
Schedule Seaboard Air line
EASTWARD.
No. 62—For local stations,Mon
roe and Columbia... 9:45 a m
No. 32—For Norfolk, Washing
ton and New York... 2:49 p m
No. 58—For local stations to
Athens ... 6:55 p m
No. 38—For local stations north
of Athens, Richmond
and East 11:20 p m
WESTWARD.
No. 41 —For Atlanta, Birming
ham and west 5:40 a m
No. 57 ror local stations and
Atlanta , 7:52 a m
No. 33—For Atlanta, Birming
ham, Memphis and
West '. 4:02 p m
No. 53 For Atlanta and west 6:55 p m
These arrivals and departures are
given as information a id are not guar
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