Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

)' A CONVICT THAT MADE GOOD. * 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. Flanigan & Flanigan’s GIGANTIC DISPLAY PIANOS, ORGANS, BUGGIES and AUTOMOBILES. Two solid car loads (72) Organs just received. Car load Pianos will be here Monday. Nothing makes a more lasting Xmas present than a Musical Instrument. No house com plete without one. All these must be sold within the next two weeks, as we move into our new building January 1, 1910. Prices guaranteed. Terms to suit. Yoursto please, . FLANIGAN & FLANIGAN. OF 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 | 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 inteed.