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CORRY, M. D., BARNESVILLE, GA. Office: Mitchell building. Residence: Greenwood street. J. P. THURMAN, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, BARNESVILLE, GA. Office over Jordan Bros' drug store. Residence, Thomaston street; Phone, No. 1. Calls promptly attended. GEO. W. GRICE, PHOTOGRAPHER. Work done promptly and neatly. over Middlebrooks Building. A. A. MURPHEY, LAWYER. BARNESVILLE, GA. r C. J. LESTER, Attorney at Law BARNESVILLE, - - - - GA. Farm and city loans negotiated at low rates and on easy terms. In of fice formerly occupied by S. N. Woodward. R T. Daniel. A. B. Pope DANIEL & POPE, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW Offices at Zebulon and Griffin. EDWARD A. STEPHENS, ATTORN E Y-AT-LAW, BARNESVILLE, - GEORGIA. General practice in all courts—State and Federal. Loans Negotiated. W. W. LAMBDIN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, BARNESVILLE, - GEORGIA. Will do a general practice in all the courts —State and Federal —especially in the counties composing the Flynt circuit. Loans negotiated. 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The following sermonette was I in the Atlanta Journal last Satur-; jday from Rev. S. R. England.’ land will be read with interest, by j many people who knew and loved him when he was pastor of various Methodist churches throughout! this section. He is now pastor of St. John’s Methodist church, of Atlanta. The following was the text and j sermon: j Te**— l As every man hath re ceived the gift, even so minister the same to another as good stew ards of the manifold grace of God. "- Peter 4: 10. In the 12th chapter of Ist Cor inthians. Paul speaks to us con cerning spiritual gifts and their uses in the church of God. The text under consideration re- j veals the responibility of every individual for the proper use, of j the gift received. There comes a time when God j calls upon every man to give an account of his stewardship. Happy j the man who, when his Lord j ! cometli, shall hear the plaudit ‘•Well done. Thou hast been j faithful over a few things, be thou ! ruler over many.’ A variety of gifts in the church is the ordering of God, and is i therefore necessary. In the car rying on of the great work design led of God, iu the establishing of | the church, in the world, all of ! the different aspects of human life must lie met. To do this there must be an agency employed 1 which will meet the various con j ditions of lit’. No one man can lie expected to possees all of the qual | ifications necessary to meet these various conditions. “All have not the same gift, but the same Lord is over all. ’ Every man, therefore is respon sible for doing that which belongs to him. As each member of the human body has its respective functions to perform, ho each member of Christ’s body, the church, must act his part. The bestowment of these gifts upon individuals is according to the good pleasure of God. “To one he gave five talents, to another i two, to another one. To every | man according to his several abil ities.’’ He has made these gifts | exceedingly different. Someone lias said, “He who taught the lark to trill also taught the eagle to ! scream. He who molded the dew | drop and caused it to hang in ! silence on the fringe of the flowers made also the flowing rivers and the boundless sea.” These gifts are so distributed that the most highly gifted shall not feel independent of those less [highly favored. The highest and j the lowest are dependent the one ' upon the other, so that neither lean say to the other, “I have no | need of thee.” In the great reformation of the I sixteenth century Go and called Luther and Melancthon, two men unlike in many respects, to be the great leaders. God was the strength of each of these, and the reforma tion was the result of their com bined efforts. Every Christian is responsible for making his or her contribution for the good of the church in the generation in which they live. All that a man has he holds in trust as a steward of the grace of God. “Occupy till I come,” is I God’s command. This being true he should consecrate himself and I his substance to the service of his Lord, that he may thus promote the cause of Christ upon the earth. Though there be a variety of gifts, the same spirit is revealed in all, the same God is over all. “Paul plants, Apollos waters but God gives the increase.” The same spirit is in all to illuminate,' the same in all to give life and force to service rendered. Man may have other qualifications for service without the spirit, and all is vain, “but where the spirit of the-Lord is, there is liberty.” “If any man minister, let him do it as of the abilitvjwhich God giveth, that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ.” j We are workers together with \ God, and therefore need not fail i in any of the work assigned us. Having received of the Lord | gifts suited to our individual cases, we should go forth ministering to ! others, till God shall say to us one |by one, “Well done, good and : faithful servant, enter into the joy of thy Lord.” “I have used Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy for a number of years and have no hesitancy in saying that it is the best remedy forcoughs, colds and croup 1 have ever used >n my family . I have not words to express my confidence in this Remedy.— Mrs. J. A. Moor*, North Star, Mich. For sale by Jno. H. Black burn. BATLv£s\HLLI; inEMIL-GAZETTE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1902. Parental Responsibility (by lady cook, nee tknnksseb ex. A KLIN.) It is a grave reflection upon our sense of justice and of moral re sponsibility, that it should he necessary for any public writer, at this stage of Christian civiliza tion. to advocate the claims of children upon their parents. One class of them is by law fairly pro vided for, although even here some gross defects exist, but there is another and extensive one to which the English laws are more than cruel —they are positively barbarous. The illigitimates are treated as though they themselves were answerable for their. own being. It is not enough that the Angel* of social scorn is pointed at them; they are also, because of their birth, deprived of many of the ordinary privileges of citizens, and in these respects are treated worse than criminals. But when, in addition, they meet with paren tal heartlessness or neglect, their position becomes most deplorable. The result of these public and private wrongs is that natural children have the smallest chance of living to maturity, while those who survive are often needlessly and willfully driven into the ranks | of vice and criminality, and thus bring upon the community a moral retribution. Let no one be deceived. There I is a moral as well as a physical j world, and every injury done to another must ultimately recoil upon the community. The unjust degradation is produced. And the longer it is protracted the greater will bd the evil. But it should not be forgotten that a bad law is infinitely more pernicious than private misconduct. A vicious individual must do evil, it is true, but only to a limited degree. There are hardly any bounds, how ever, to the ruin which a vicious law may effect. And it needs no Deus ex machins , no hand in the clouds, to punish the evil doer. The avenging Nemesis accompan ies both, for evil acts by their own nature bear within themselves the seeds of retribution. “By their fruits shall ye know them.” We have in former articles point ed out the special law-made disa bilities under which the illigiti mate lie in this country, and so need not re-numerate them now. That these laws survive at all is a reproach to the head and heart of a great people. That we alone in Europe possess no law of legitima tion is another. And it is due to this legal dullness of head and hardness of heart, perhaps, more than to anything else, that so many fathers are destitute of any sense of parental obligation. They beget children, but do little or nothing to provide for them. In many cases they would not even know them were they to meet them. They make love with a light heart and leave the consequences to an outraged God and to the deluded mother. And in this they prove themselves more brutal than the brutes, who are never without as full a share of parental affection or protection as their offspring re quire. Let us take a typical case, one of many we have know. A young man, struck by the appearance of a good-looking girl, makes her ac quaintance under an assumed name, pursues her with attentions and persuades her of his love, which is as false as the rest. De ceived by his pretended regard, she, guileless and warm-hearted, responds to it, and eventually gives him the highest pledge of her affection. He enjoys her so ciety it may be until their inter course is followed by the usual i result, and then he abandons her to shame, and their unborn child to the parish and to a life of un merited hardship. What requital can be too severe for such coward ly conduct as this? Yet it is of daily occurrence, is scarcely notic ed, and seldom punished. Indeed, there exists no statutable means of punishing it. VVe noticed a short time ago a case not so utterly heartless as this, yet cruel enough, although the world generally would not judge the father too harshly. A charming little girl, fair, innocent, intelligent—an unconscious patri cienne—seemed out of place in a frowzy boarding-house. Her moth er was the landlady and when younger had been on the stage. Her father was a man of rank and ! wealth, accustomed to fashionable | society, and the daily luxuries of | high-bred life, amongst which an actress is occassionally reckoned, i Like an honorable man he admit jt-ed his paternity, and made a | small yearly allowance to the | mother for his child. But there Ihe stopped. He never sees her. He does not know her. He is ut j terly indifferent as to what be- How Uneeda Biscuit Fresh, crisp and dainty. When Uneeda Biscuit Whenever you are hungry. Where Uneeda Biscuit Wherever you are. Why Uneeda Biscuit Because good digestion waits on appetite. Sold only in In-er-seal Packages. comes of her. His solicitor pays the.annuity, and this his measure of bis parental responsibility! Yet he is decended from men who were knights in the days of chival ry, and whose mothers, when their sons received the accolade, em braced each, saying: “Be thou brave and upright. Remember that you spring from a race which should never be false.” One of the four rules which every knight had to observe all bis life, in or der to preserve his honor untarn ished was: “Never lead astray dame or damsel, but on the con trary, respect them and defend them against all injury.” Yet this descendant of a knightly race, like thousands of his class, now ami aforetime, makes seduction a pastime, and is deaf to the cry of natural affection. His little daugh ter, surrounded by light charac ters, will probably be early cor rupted, and lead an immodest life, when an inversion of the old pagan tragedy of Oedipus and Jo casta may occur by no means for the lirst time in Christum London. May we not say to such men in the words of Pope: “Go! If your ancient but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the Hood, Go! And pretend your family is young; Nor your fathers have been fools so long. What ean ennoble sots or slaves or cowards? Alas! Not all tl>e blood of all the Howards.’’ Who is there who does not per sonally know of cases in which men of all degrees have behaved shabbily to the women whose fa vors they have sought, and with heartless neglect towards the fruit of their armours? And we ask, is Stop the Blight It is a sad thing to see fine fruit trees spoiled by the blight. You can always tell them from the rest. They never do well afterwards but stay small and sickly. It is worse to see a blight strike children. Good health is the natural right of children. But some of them don’t get their rights. While the rest grow big and strong one stays small and weak. Scott’s Emulsion can s t op that blight. There is no reason why such a child should stay small. Scott’s Emulsion is a medicine with lots of strength in it—the kind of strength that makes things grow. Scott’s Emulsion makes children grow, makes them eat, makes them sleep, makes them play. Give the weak child a chance. Scott’s Emulsion will 'make it catch up This picture represents the Trade Mark of Scott’s Emulsion and is on the wrapper of every bottle. Send for free temple. SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Pearl St., New York. 50c and fi. all druggists. it not consistent with the policy of an honorable people that such crimnal misconduct should con tinue without redress? Does it not offer an incentive to wicked ness when it may be thus commit ted with impunity? And why should honest men and women be heavily taxed for t he murders, the suicides, and other public evils caused by profligates, and for the support of their abandoned chil dren? Whether married or un married it is the moral duty of every father to provide for his off spring in a proper manner, and the state should enforce it by every possible measure. But we fear that so long as men alone make the laws they will con tinue to deal tenderly with what they euphemistically term the “softer vices,” and look with a venial eye on seduction, fornica tion, adultry, and desertion, as more or less a joke. Even the poets, whose pens should be always wielded for Wright, sometimes ex hibit the same want of moral sense. Witness one whom we honor in other respects; —Robert Burns. A notorious adulterer dies and Burns writes a witty epitah “On a wag in Mauchline,” from which we observe that, according to the poetic idea, adultery and waggery may be synonymous, it. goes on : “Lament in Mauchlino huabands a’, H <• often did aaxiHt ye; For hu<l you stayed whole week awa’ Your wives they ne'er bad missed ye. Ye Mauchline bairns, as on ye pass To school in bunds thegither, O trend ye lightly on his grass, Perhaps lie was your father.” We open at random the pages of Debrett, and the first name on which the eye alights is that of a well-known Baronet, rich and no ble in his life, and loaded with honors and public offices. But no genealogy is given. Even his father’s and mother’s names are unnoticed. Why ? He was illi gitimate—nobody’s son. There fore the courtly Debrett is dis creetly silent. Yet his manly and princely father not only recog nized his child, but gave him all the support possible, and would have made him the heir of his high rank and great fortune, did our laws allow it. Then why this contemptible mppressio veri ? Be cause our virtue is assumed ; be cause we practice in private what we condemn in public; because we have neither the candor to confess our vices nor the courage to rectify them; because Society is a living lie. But if we would reform we must first be honest. 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THE SWirr SPECIFIC CO., AtUnt*, G*. open brow and transparent soul, learn not only how to die for the truth, but learn also, what is much more difficult: how to live in it.” PLANT'S Wild, KHOREN. Kstste of the I,ate H. B. Plant. Wilt Be Treated as Though He Died Intestate. Tim estate of the lute IT. B. Plant, amounting to about $20,- 000,000, is being divided accord ing to the laws of the state of New York among the surviving heirs. The bulk of the property is held in the state of New York in the form of stock in the Southern company, which Mr. Plant estab lished. The widow will get one third and the remainder will go to Morton F. Plant, only son of the deceased. The testator endeavored to pre serve the estate intact until the child of the his grandson, Henry Bradley Plant, now only 7 years of age, should arrive at his major ity. Had the intention of the testator been carried out the es tate would be at the time of the proposed division one of the mam moth fortunes of the country. It Ims increased about one-third in value since Mr. Plant’s death in 1800. The laws of no state in the country permit the entailment of property in the manner proposed by Kir. plant, with the single ex ception, it is stated, of Connet icut. In furtherance of his plait Mr. Plant went to Conneticut, where lie had formerly lived, in the hope af being able to make his will as a resident of that state, although he had lived in New York city foivyears. Ppon his arrival within the borders of the state he declared himself a resident of Con netieutt, hut immediate ly returned to New York, which he continued to speak of as “home.” It is said that seven hours covered the time of his ab ecence. The attorneys for the widows proved that Mr. Plant had moved to Conneticutt for the sole pur pose of proving the will in the pro bate courts of that state, and that the status of probate courts was not such as to entitle their acts to “full faith and credit” in the courts of New York. It was decid ed that the will was invalid and the division of the estate will be made according to the laws of New York. Conneticutt has already receiv ed SBO,(XX) from the estate and New York will receive $200,00(> more as an inheritance tax.