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THE EYES OF THE WORLD.”
(Rbv. W. H. Fagst.)
For a long while It has the
custom of the writer to read all off
the 80-caUt <l “best sellers,” for a
minister who is a minister must
know what his people read in order
to minister to their mental welfare.
Two present day writers are great,
Tom Dixon and Harold Bell Wright.
Both of them were at one time
preachers (and w'ho will say they
are not so now), Dixon a Baptise
and Wright a Christian, both now
preach to mill ons where they former
ly preached to thousands.
It would be great if every man,
woman, and child in Winder would
read “The Eyes of the World”
thoughtfully and studiously, it is a
gem of a sermon, a powerful plea for
sanity of purpose, and amidst the
foul materialism of the age i a bul
wark of OPTIMISM. Aaron King,
“Tall, with an athletic trinmess of
limit, a good breadth of shoulder,
a fine head poised wLth that natural
unconscious pride of the well-bred,
he kept Ills feet on the unsteady piat
form of the car with that easy grace
wlhich marks only well conditioned
muscles, and is rarely seen save in
those whose lives are sanely clean,”
Ik an ideal character, fresh, pure,
pleasing and his splendid optimism
shows off to fine advantage set over
against the would-be cynicism of
Conrad LaGrange, the satiated man
of the world.
A Lovely Bit of
Description.
And now l from the car window the
passengers cauight tantalising gliimiises
of.bright pastures with their herds ol
contented dairy cows, and with theii
will It e ranch buildings set in the
shade of giant pepper and eueallptus
trees. On the rounded shoulders
and steep flanks of the foot-hills
that form the sides of the canyon,
the barley fields looked down upon
the meadows; and, now and then, in
the whirling landscape, winding side
canyons—beautiful with llveoak and
laurel, with greasewoodi and sage—
led the eye away toward the pine
fringed ridge s of the Galenas; while
above, the higher enow-cladl peaks
and domes of the San Ikrnadinos st.i.
shone coldly against the blue. In the
flying pictures trained by tlio windov
the dairy pastures, and meadow:
were being replaced by small vine
yards ami orchards; the canyon web
on the north side, became higher am
steeper, shutting out the mountain
in the distance, and showing only i
fringe of trees on the sharp rim,
while against the gray and yellow
and brown and green of the c.haiwiral
on the steep, untilled, bluffs, shone
the silvery softness of the olive trees
that border the arrovo at Jheir feet
Vv'ith a long triumphant shriek, the
flying overland train —from the land
of ice and enow, from barren desert'
and lonely mountains* —rushed frou
the narrow mouth of the canyon, an
swept out into the beautiful Berna
dino Valley where the travelers won
greeted by wide, green miles of or
a age and lemon and walnut and oliv<
-groves, by many aeres of garden, 1
.ant vineyards and orchards.”
Mrs. Taine whose portrait King
wag to paint ns “The Quaker Maid,"
came in "She deliberately turned
herself about for his critical' in
spection. Moving to and fro, sitting.
half reclining, standing—in various
graceful pose she invited, ehalleng
ve<L, dared his closest attention)—pro
fessional attention, of course, to ev
ery curve and detail, in spite of its
simplicity of color and line, the gowi
still bone the unmistakable stamp of
the wearers world. The severity ol
line was subtly made.to emphasize th<
voluptuousness of the body, that was
covered but not hidden. Tilie Quiet
color was made to accentuate the
flesh, the dress concealed only tc
reveal.
The very lack of ornament birt
served to center the attention upon
the charms that so loudly professed
to scorn them. It was worhlliness
speaking in t: he quiet voice of reli
gion. It was vulgarity advertising
itself in terms of good taste. She
had made modestly the handmaiden of
blatant immodesty, the daring impu
dence of it all fairly stunned the
painter.”
King painted the picture of this
woman as she was, not as an inno
cent Quaker Maid. He afterwards
painted a picture of Sybil Andrea^
which showed life at its best, and
also showed LaGrange that true gen
ius and true manhood was yet left
In the world.
A pure, noble, mother’s influence
can never be overestimated as Is
shown in the life of King.
“Ambition, my boy, is like to all
other gifts that lead men Godward.
It must be a noble ambition, nobly
controlled. A mere striving for place
and power, without a saving sense
of the responsibility conferred by
that place and power, is ignoble. Be
came I would have your ambition
safe and worthy, I aek that the su
preme and final test of any work
that comes from your hand may be
this; that it satisfy you, yourself;
that you may not be ashamed to siil
down alone with your work, and thus
look it squarely ijL the face. Not crit
ics, nor authorities, not popular opin
ion, not. even of religion, must be
the court of f'nal appeal, when you
are, by wliat you do brought to bar;
but by you, yourself the judgment
must be rendered.”
This wonderful book so ably writ
ten, dealing with fundamentals in
so clean, pure and powerful a way,
and read by millions ought to be a
great stimulus to nobler living, and
to the formation of higher ideals. Foi
pleasure and profit I know of few bet
ter books.
DEATH MISREPRESENTED.
(W. H. Faust)
During the Holidays it was my
g)ol pleasure to read “St. Cuthberts’
by It. E. Knowles. It is (a helpf"l
siory of Scottish life in Canada, and
is a book of more than ordinary in
spirational value. A passage on
death caught me, it is worth read
ing and pondering.
“O Death, how- unjustly thou hast
been maligned. Men have painted
thee as crutl, monstrous, hateful, the
enemy of love, the deepoiler of the
home, the spirit of harshness, the
destroyer of all poesy and romance.
And yet thou hast, done more to fill
life with softness and' with gentle
beauty' than all the powers of life
and light whose antagonist thou hast
been called. Thou hast heaped coals
of fire on thy tradueers’ heads. For
hist thou not made the heaviest foot
faill lightly with loves considerate
tread. Hast thou not made the rougl
coarse palm Into a sanctuary and pa
vilion wherein the dying hand may
sheller. Hast thou not taught the
Hud and boisterous voice the new
song of tenderness and pity, whisper
ing Ike a dove. Within thy school
the rude and harsh have learned the
nurse's gentle art, and the world's
swaggering warriors serve as alcolyte
before thy shadowy altars. The
peasant’s cottage owes to thee its
transformaion to cathedral splendor,
the censors gently swinging when
thou sayest the soul’s great mass
at even, or at midnight, or at the
cock crowing or in the morning. Tlioi
hast classed together the hovel and
the palace, glowing with equal sol
emn granduer so that no one can tell
the one from the other when the
crepe upon the door betokens tliat
thou tarries! there. Thou hast pro
moted sodden sleep to be the most
awtful metaphor of time. Thou hast
stripped wealth and grandeur, leav
ing them but a shroud, and hast
clothed obscurity and poverty with
their etennally suggestive robe; thou
hast affirmed, and thou preserved,
that grim average of life which great
ness refuses, which littleness fears,
to realize. Romance and Poetry and
Fancy are thy wards, making as thou
dost the most holden eyes to overlap
Times poor horizon, and following de
parted treasure with wistful and un
resigning love, as birds follow their
ravaged nests, crying as they go, ‘O
ombre Enchantress. Thou hast filled
the world wrt,h song, plainitive and
piteous though it be.’ ’
We have been, accustomed to think
of death as an enemy instead of
thinking of it as the golden key that
in the hands of God's child opens all
the great treasure house of eternal
glory and blessing. From now on let
us* think of it as did Knowles, the
eternal keeper of Romance, Poetry
and Fancy.
The way to improve the human race
is to improve the children that we
now have, who are to be the mothers
and fathers of the race of the future.
The Winder New*, Thursday, January 6th, 1916.
Can You Chop Cotton? ,
t '■ "A
No, not with a shiny-handled hoe.
With an axe, like you and cut stove-wood.
Can you?
Of course you can—after a bale of it’s gone through our compress here in
Atlanta. Because when the cotton leaves that compress, it’s as hard as oak
wood. You’d need a sharp axe to cut into it with, like you and need a good e g©
and a hefty swing to make the chips fly from a solid oak log.
Thirty-two pounds to the cubic foot, same density as oak that s what our
compress mashes cotton to. Other compresses on the average make it 22 1-2
pounds.
Know what that means to you? SAVING IN FREIGHT. BETTER PRICE. S
and a half bales from our compress can be stored in the space four and a half bales from
some other press would take up. A 5,000-ton ship can carry 32,500 oales cr it, wsls
of 22,500 of the other. Ten thousand bales more in a ship cuts the cost of the charter
down. That figures up a saving of about $1 a bale in ocean freight. That’s equal to a quar
ter of a cent a pound on a 400-pound bale. And that’s the same as an advance over the
market price. Same comprcwing saves land freight, too. Lead more bales in a car..
You won’t find another Webb high density compress east of Texas. That’s our kind.
Two cf ’em give us a capacity of 6,000 bales a day.
Not only that. You save in other ways when you use our warehouse. We could
have speni $75,000 and had a warehouse big as the one we’ve got. But we’re spending
close to $1,000,000 to get one of the very best in the world. We’ve covered 40 acres of
ground with a concrete floor and a concrete roof and everything else concrete. The drain
age from that 40-acre roof is Dumped into our tall storage tank. The water mains of
Atlanta are connected, too. We’ve got automatic high-pressure fire sprinklers under the
roof, and automatic fire alarms. Fire extinguishers everywhere. You might build a fire
and not start anything but a lot of excitement. The thing’s rIREPRGOF.
That’s why we can insure you for two cents a bale a month. Storage costs
25 cents a month. Handling in and out, 10 cents a bale.
You share with us the advantages of maximum economy and maxi
mum safety.
Atlanta Warehouse Cos. *
ASA G. CANDLER. Prwident
P.O. Box 1463 AiltnU, Ga.
B-5 Write for Old Bill Bobbin’s Say-So on Cotton
TEMPERANCE.
(By M rs. Harry Segirs.)
BEER DEALER IS FiNED
FOR SELLING WHISKEY.
Recorder Johnson Tuesday* after
noon fined W. R. Pitts, proprietor ot
a near beer saloon at 159 Peters st.
and his negro porter $15.75 each and
bound them over under bonds of
SIOO to the state courts on charges
of selling whiskey. The arresting
officers testified they had found sev
eral bottles of whiskey in the saloon.
Another victory for woman suffrage
has been scored in Illinois. Tile su
preme court of the state denied to
attorneys of the liquor interests in
the Ma'.coimb case the right to file a
brief attacking suffrage act. This, it
is believed, settles for all time the
constitutionality of the IltnoLs suf
frage act.
Pike County (K.y.) Stays Dry.
Pike county, Kentucky, Which oil
May 15 of this year voted 4,686 to
553 against the licensing of sa
loons is dry. The court of appeals
in an opinion by Judge Hurt, affirm
el the Pike circuit court in holding
the local option election valid. One
of the criticisms of the election, made
in the suit of the liquor men that
nere was not an equal division of
officers between wets and drys. The
court held than ‘‘the fact that they
were a!u chosen from those favoring
prohibition would not be a valid
reason for setting aside the election.’
Will Hep in Nebraska's Statewide
Prohibition Campaign.
At a recent Billy Sunday meeting
in Omaha, 9,000 men standing, gave
their silent pledge to vote agaXnst
the liquor traffic in Nebraska.
More than a thousand dollars was
raised at the meeting toward the
prohibition campaign.
Montana County Outlaws Saloons.
An overwhelming victory for the
foes of John Barleycorn was won
recently in Richland county, Mon
tana, which gave a vote of two to
one against the liquor traffic in this
the first county option election in
the state. The liquor men put tip
a hard fight with five orators work
ing overtime to hold the territory.
Montana, one of the blackest states
on the prohibition map, is waking up
and the days of the Liqour traffic
in the state are numbered.
Against the Liquor Business.
(Modem Woodman)
Modern Woodmen of America, thru
the Head Camp delegates, has tak
en a very decided stand against the
liquor business. No one engaged in
the manufacture or sale of intoxi
cating liquors, to be used as a bev
erage, can become a member of the
Society. Any member who indulges
in the excessive use of intoxicating
liquor, lays himself liable to suspen
sion. Serving intoxicating liquor at
any meeting of Modern Woodmen ol
America is prohibited. With the
insurance
Your neighbors home burned only a few days, or months ago, and
a cyclone is likedy to strike this section at any time, so INSURE with
US and lie down at night with a clear conscience and a peaceful mind.
Don t DELAI. It may mean the loss of your home. Any man can
build a home once. A WISE man insures his property in a reliable
insui ance company so that when calamity comes he can build again.
He owes the protection that it gives, to his peace of mind and the
care of his loved ones.
Kilgore, Radford & Moore
Modern Woodmen it is both a mor
al and a financial question. W. J.
Bryan, who has been a member of
Modern Woodmen of America for
more than twenty-five years, makes
this strong indictment of the liquor
business and of those who are con
nected with it;
The brewer, the distiller and the
saloon keeper are in conspiracy*
against all that is pur© fn society,
against all that is sacred in the fam
ily, against all that is good in in
dustry and desirable in government.
I do not mean to say that every brew
©r, every distiller or every saloon
keeper is consciously conspiring, but
the business in which these men are
engaged, is the enemy of progress
and civilization and they are not in
position to oppose the influence that
dominates it. Those who represent
the liquor interests are conscience
less in their methods; they debauch
the individuals through whom they
act, and any party to which they
detate.
Another Minnesota Town Dry,
New Canada, Minn., has outlawed
its two saloons by a vote of 72 to
37 against a proposition to evade the
roadhouse laws by incorporating part
of the community into a village.