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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1907)
MOROCCO LOOMS BIG TO FRANCE Restoration of Order Proves Great er Problem Than Was Expected. SULTANS IN CONFLICT Both Have Many Soldiers and Battle ia Imminent—Franco-Spanish Army of 50,000 is Needsd. According to dispatches from Tan gier, events in Morocco are marching on with great rapidity. Saturday both the sultans, Abbel Aziz and Mulai Hafig, were reported to be leaving the rival capitals, Fez and Morocco City, at the head of armies which had been levied in hot haste and with which may be decided within a fortnight the destiny of the Moroccan monarchy. The immediate objective of these forces is the ancient city of Rabat, on the Atlantic side, the prior pos session of which great center of west ern Islams, national life probably would have an important, if not a decisive bearing upon the struggle for supremacy. Half way between Fez and Morocco City, Rabat is the nat ural frontier port, dividing northern and southern Morocco. Both sultans are sons of the same father, and they are daily issuing pas sionate appeals to the patriotism and religious enthusiasm of the nation, each denouncing his rival as being worse than an infidel, a traitor to Islam. In the meanwhile the powers have not yet decided whether to rec ognize Mulai Hafig, his correct name, as sultan of the south, seemingly awaiting the result of the appeal to civil war. The general impression in Tangier is that France and Spain have resolv ed upon the immediate occupation of all the. Moroccan seaports, which has caused consternation, for it is feared by those who best know the charac ter of the Moors that any extension of the intervention of France and Spain will infallibly provoke fqrther massacres of Christians and Jews. In other words,’ a situation has devel oped which never was contemplated at the time of the Algeciras conven tion, and it appears that serious events will follow. A Paris special says; The French nation has suddenly come to the real ization that Morocco looms up bigger every day. In Pnris the situation is now the main subject of discussion by the people, who feel that momentous events in which France is bound to play a leading role are inevitable. The question is, Will France be compelled, in order to crush the hos tile Moorish tribes and insure the safety of Casa Blanca, to dispatch an imposing expeditionary army into the interior? For it is generally ac cepted that General Drude, with his force of seven thousand men, is power less to make a punitive trip into an unknown country and against the en emy which number now over 20,000 men, and whose forces are reported to be constantly growing. Moreover, even if the French army moved against the Moors, Casa Bianca could not be left without a strong gar rison, as otherwise it would be seized by the Moors. Another serious feature of the situa tion is that the time is approaching when the warships will be unable to safely land on the Moroccan coast, ow ing to severe gales and heavy seas. The Madrid correspondent of the Echo de Paris says it is reported in military circles that France has pro posed to Spain to send a Franco- Spanish army of 50,000 men to occupy the Moroccan ports, and to go as far as Fez, if necessary. The correspondent at Madrid of The Matin says it is believed Spain will decide to send 5,000 infantry and 500 cavalry to occupy Tangier and estab lish a police force there. MURDER STOPS A WEDDING. Groom Assassinated in Road While on His Way to Claim Bride. D D. Owen, a prominent young man, was murdered at Linn Flatts, near Na cogdoches, Texas, while his fiancee, clad in wedding garments, awaited him at her father’s home. The guests, after waiting over an hour organized a searching party, and on the way to the young man’s home found his dehd body, still warm, with a rope tied about his neck. A negro, who was trying to sell the victim’s horse, was arrested a few hours la ter several miles from the city. CONDITION OF COTTON CROP. Government Report Places Average on August Twenty-Fifth at 72.7. The crop reporting bureau of the board of statistics of the department of agriculture at Washington finds from the reports of the correspondents and agents of the bureau that the av erage condition of cotton on August 25 was 72.7, as compared with 73 on July 25, 1905, 77.3 on August 25, 1906, 72. on August 25, 1905, and a ten-year average of 74.5. The following table show's the con dition of August 25 In the various states: Virginia 77 North Carolina 78 South Carolina .. 83 Georgia 81 Florida 80 Alabama 73 Mississippi 72 Louisiana 69 Texas 67 Arkansas 65 Tennessee 78 Missouri 75 Oklahoma 72 Indian Territory 70 Average for the United States. 72.7 The census bureau also issued its first bulletin on the cotton crop of the season as shown by returns from the ginners, showing a total of 191,416 bales up to September 1, as compared with 407,551 bales up to the same period last year; in this statement round bales are counted as half hales. The great falling off is at tributed to the lateness of the crop. The report shows that there were only 4,067 ginneries in operation Sep tember 1. this year, as compared with 6,628 in 1906. The product by states for the present year is as follows: Alabama .. 7,345 Arkansas 815 Florida • • Georgia 1,207 Indian Territory ...... 3 Louisiana Mississippi .. .. 1,128 North Carolina 43 Oklahoma South Carolina 3,040 Texas 145,101 Last year Texas had ginned 328.586 bales before September#!. CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN In the Second Georgia District Opened by Griggs and Roddenberrv. The liveliest political set-to which has taken place in Georgia in many months occurred in Tifton Monday be tween Judge James M. Griggs, repre sentative in congress from the.second Georgia district, and Judge Anderson Roddenberry, who would like to be. Judge Roddenberry bases his cam paign upon his record as a prohibi tionist and his desire to wipe out the liquor traffic in other states in the union, while Judge Griggs stands upon his record made during the last ten years in congress. MUST BE UNANIMOUS CHOICE. Taddy Will Run Again if Entire Country Wants Him,. Savs Nick. A dispatch from Honolulu quotes Congressman Longworth as saying: “President Roosevelt will not be come a candidate for renomination un less the entire country demands it. He has firmly made up his mind to stick to this course and only a more widespread demand for him to accept j the nomination will alter his determi- j nation.” i REFUSED TO WORK WITH NEGRO. White Men Employed in Euilding Big Lock and Dam Quit Their Job. The contractors at Hales Bar locks and dam power plant at Chattanooga, Tenn.. Monday morning discharged a white elevator lioister and put a ne- j gro in his place, and as a result 34 white workmen struck, refusing to work under tho conditions. One hun dred Italians on the same works struck a few days ago. ONE RESULT OF PROHIBITION. Terrell County, Georgia, to Pay Taxes for First Time in Seven Years. For the first time since 1900, Ter rell county, Georgia, will this year pay county taxes. The county for the time mentioned has had the unique dis tinction of paying no county taxes at all. and being supported solely by the profits which accrued to the county treasury from the dispensary located at Dawson. With prohibition coming on the county commissioners have fixed the county rate fer ISO 7 at $9 a thousand. i The Puijo/fl A SERMON cSsP'&h tAe re\4- r [FA\/ Subject: Life. Brooklyn, N. Y.—Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church, Hamburg avenue and Weirfleld street, on the above theme, the pas tor, Rev. Ira Wemmell Henderson, took as his text John 1:4. He said: Last Lord's Day we discussed in some measure and manner the fact of death. To-day we shall discuss for the moments that we are together the fact of life. The reality with which we have more presently and immediately to deal. Life is among the mightiest reali ties with which humanity is familiar. It thrills and suffuses every living one of us. It energizes all that is active and moving and sentient round about us. It is at the source of all that is; at the centre of all crea tion. It is divine, for it is of God and Imparted from Him. It is real and the one thing in all the world of which we are conscious. For we see it outworking itself into the pulsat ing, throbbing universe about it. All nature sings the praise and mani fests the force of life as it chants the glory and the might of God. In it we live and move and have our being. It is at the centre of humanity’s ex istence. All of which is trite and obvious and old. There is not much that is new that we can tell about concern ing life. For the primal man knew life In its fullness and its beauty as do w'e. He heard the songs of the feathered host and witnessed the manifestations of the majesty of Je hovah as He revealed it in the heav enly galaxies and expressed it in the varied forms and the diverse beauties of nature. The primal man may not have been so familiar with so many of the actual law's operated in life as we are. He may not have been so conscious of the subtler forms of life that modern scientific investigation the revealed to the w'orld of to day. But taking in the broad w’e may safely say that there is not much that is new that w r e can say about life. In fact, life is so intangible that it Is in reality properly indefinable. We cannot define life exactly. We may appropriate a definition, but w'e can not compass in the forms of finite speech the fullness of life itself. For life is divine and limitless. Language is finite aiid circumscribed in its scope and possibilities. Life knows no bounds. Language is confined. Life is the creation of God and is co extensive with Him. Language is the method of human intercommuni cation, and as such it is hemmed within the horizons of humanity. Life per se is intangible. It is as in tangible as it is ultimately indefin able. We may touch a man’s hand that is sentient with life; we may look into his eye that is alive with life; we may hear the sound of "his voice and witness the exhibition of his strength; we may see the various expressions of the life that vitalizes him. But w'e do not see his life. We may roam the fields and sail the seas and climb the hills and till the pas tures till God calls us home. We may see the evidences of life, but life it self we do not see. Life is intangible. Wc may know it in its manifestations and through them. But we shall not know life—that mysterious, wonder working energy that enlivens us— until we enter into the presence of Divinity hereafter. For life is as in tangible as God. Life is indefinable. We may de fine life in the terms of life’s expres sions. Whether w r e see life in cloud or tree or drop or bud, this is ever so. For the beauty of the cloud is not the life that brings the beauty into being. The grace and dignity and charm that is manifest in humanity is not the life that animates humanity. We may define human life in the terms of life’s self-expression, through the medium of humanity as wc may de scribe its manifestations in the nat ural world about us. But when all is said and done, to define life in the terms of its manifestations is not en tirely to define life. For life is more than its manifestations, as is God. Life is more than what we see and know of the expressions of life. And yet, for the sake of definition and in the interest of the culture of the moral and spiritual life of man, it is not really necessary that we shall be able to do more to-day than define life in the terms of its expres sions and relations. For it is not necessary to know all about the con stitution of the world in order to live happily within it. It is not need ful that w'e shall know' all about the inner and hidden laws of electricity in order to ride on an electric car or to enjoy the illuminating pow'er of the electric light. It is not necessary that we shall be able to define God with comprehension and finality in order to draw near to Him and to enjoy the pleasures of communion with Him or enter into the realization of the potency of His love. Not oth erwise is it with life. We may not understand it all, we may not be able to define it with finality, we may not be competent to penetrate its mys tery, but we know that it is, that it is central In ourselves and in our society; we are aware that we are in the midst of it; w'e view its mani festations and experience its expres sions. We may state our experiences and the results of our investigations and observations in the terms of hu manly understandable speech. And that is enough. We shall know more. But that is enough for now'. We may, therefore, define life in the terms of opportunity, responsibil ity, possibility, divinity. Life is definable and to be grasped in the terms of opportunity. To be alive to have a chance. A chance to be a man, to do a man’s work, to follow’ in the footmarks of the Al mighty as we tread through life, to be kind, to be gentle, to be noble and pure and holy. Existence correlates opportunity. To be a live man is to be a man divinely gifted. For the whole world is the field of living humanity. And opportunity is not only within the reach of every living soul. It forces itself, whether we will or no, upon us. It Is insistent. It is inescapable. It is omnipresent. Whether our position be high or low, our labor great or inconsequential, our capacity much or small, oppor tunity enters into the sphere of our I activities. It dominates our vision. | He is a dull man w'ho cannot hear j the insistent call of opportunity to ! the soul. We may in our wilfulness close our ears and shut our eyes to the entreaties of opportunity. But w’e shall be held to account by God. Life is determined in the terms of responsibility. To be alive with ! pressing and eager opportunity at ; hand is to invested with responsibil ity. For the opportunity implies our ability to use It. For God never sends opportunities to men that they are unable totally to use. For God never jests with men. And to call a man to a hopeless task is to jest with him, to make light of him. But upon every man to whom the golden opportunity comes is laid the respon sibility to utilize that chance to the glory of God and to the best of his own ability. The church, not other wise than man, is under compelling responsibility to make use of the op portunities that are hers. She can not still the appeal of those oppor tunities; she ought not to deny them; she ought not to endeavor to avoid or evade them. She should gather the opportunities to herself with joy and welcome the responsibilities thereto attendnnt with happiness un feigned. Life is determined in the terms of possibility. That is to say, that, life is hope. “While there Is life there is hope,” is no mere catch phrase. It. is profound philosophy in a sentence. For live men who are really living are expectant. They look ahead. Their faces front the future. They are interested in that w'hich is un attained. that w’hich may be achieved, that which is not yet realized. For ; life is full of possibilities. And pqs | sibilities made progress possible. To he alive is to progress. But where there are no possibilities there is no i progress. Life is delightful because of its possibililies; possibilities for i self-culture, for moral and spiritual | advancement, - for constructive ser | vice, for the doing of deeds both doughty and glorious for man and i for God. This is the salt of life. This lends life zest and gives it llavor. Life is determined in the terms of divinity. For life is of God. And every soul that lives may partake of the character and of the beauty of the personality of God. Whatever you and I are not, of this we may be sure, we are the children of God, we are divinely born. Our life is the Father’s gift. Therefore, if we are children we should be obedient. We should enter into such filial relation ships with God that our divinity shall he manifest, that we shall show forth the heirship with Christ that is ours. Let us, then, be alive to our op portunities, glorying in our responsi bility, augmenting our forcefulness in the achievement of our possibilities, maturing the divine life of God that indwells us. For this is life. Better Than Ten Thousand Pounds. Give me ten thousand pounds, and one rev.erse of fortune may scatter it away. But let me have a spiritual hold of this divine assurance, “The Lord is My Shepherd, I shall not want,” and then I am all right, I am set up for life. I cannot break w'ith such stock as this in hand. I nefer can be a bankrupt, for I hold this security. “The Lord is My Shepherd, i shall not want.” Do not give me ready money now; give me a check book and let me draw what I like. This is what God does with the believer. He does not im mediately transfer his inheritance to him, but lets him draw w’hat he needs out of the riches of his fulness in Christ.—Spurgeon. Development of the Divine. The highest aim is the develop ment of the divine in man. Those who have the keen sight of love may detect its presence in every one. They know that as the slime hides the lily root and blossom, as the hard rock holds the precious ore, as the acorn encompasses the oak, so every hu man life contains the potentiality of the divine. They are not deceived by the external slime and hardness and meanness, but perceive and have faith in the inherent and the ulti mate. To be aware of the divinity of the soul and of every soul is to know the sublimest truth disclosed to the human mind. —Paragraph Pul pit. How Divers Escape Drowning. “The diver at the sea’s bottom lives still, though in a foreign ele ment, because his close-fitting armor with its air-tube reaching up above the waves, keeps him surrounded with another and finer element suited to sustaining life; otherwise he would be speedily suffocated by the briny waters. And so the Christian, immersed in the world’s choking wa ters, can preserve his spiritual life only by fencing them away from him by “the armor of righteousness on t.he right hand and on the left,” and by keeping up constant communion by faith with the heavenly world. — Rev. F. E. Tower. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.) INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM-f MENTS FOR SEPT. 15 BY THE REV. I. W. THAN I)ERSON. ■ Subject: Moses Pleading With Is rael, Dent. 6:1-15—Golden Text, Deut. <»:12 Memory Verses, 4-7—Commentary. This speech of Moses to Israel, of, which the lesson is only a fraction, is, to the mind of the writer, one ot the greatest addresses in literature.; Profound in its philosophy and; searching in its call for the recogni tion of the rights of God in His re lationship to humanity it is an Im perishable contribution to the litera ture of the world. It 13 majestic. The whole hook of Deuteronomy Is as majestic as this speech. Profes sor Moulton, in his introduction to the book of Deuteronomy, in the Modern Reader’s Bible, says: “It is not an exaggeration of literature to that no work of literature which, has ever appeared has produced a greater sensation that the book of Deuteronomy. Everyone knows the romantic episode of its first appear ance in history—a discovery or a nes cue from oblivion which would bp the equivalent of a discovery. King Josiah with youthful fervor is medi tating a repair of the temple; the treasury is cleared out, and in It Is found a book. Whether this was Deuteronomy itself or a larger roll including It we have no means of de termining; but it was certainly the [ contents of Deuteronomy which pro duced the effect that followed this discovery. The book was read before the king; he rent his clothes as be listened; a thrill of horror went through the nation at. the denuncia tions of woe against idolatry comii g to light when the idolatry was fully established in the land. There en sues the most sudden reformation movement in all history. First, there is the great gathering in the temple, ‘all the men of Judah and all the in habitants of * Jerusalem, and the' priests, and the prophets, and all t.he people, both small and great.’ The book is read before them; they enter, into covenant with the Lord, the king leading them from his lofty plat form. Then they turn to a fury of purging zeal; there is breaking of idolatrous vessels, shattering of obe lisks, defiling of high places through out the land and the slaying of thxar priests. Then with a recovered semW of national purity the people feel able to keep the feast; ‘surely there was not kept such a passover from the clays (>i the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah.’ ” The lesson is so full of meat that it is hard to cover it with justice in a column. We shall consider three points that are suggestive: 1. Versa five, Love foi God. 2. Verse seven. Teaching Children. 3. Verses ten and eleven, God's Gifts. Love for God is the one thing that from the human standpoint is neces sary to-day. Men will not much de sire to do God’s will unless they have affection for Him. They will not love their fellow creatures as they should 1 unless they have a thorough-going love for God. They will lend them selves to all sorts of wickedness,and practice every variety of meanness ! if tlieir souls are not surcharged ! with such a love for God as shall ; make them amenable to the control l of the divine decrees. Nations need this as much as do individuals. Wo shall never beat our armaments into agricultural implements until we get’ the world in an attitude of love to-; ward God. The world knows that; God loves it, especially the civilized world. What we need is to secure a : reciprocity of affection from the man ward side. Without it the world is doomed. It is not sufficient that men shall be lovers of God themselves. It is necessary that they shall teach their children the principles of moral and religious truth that dominate their, lives. And the Protestant church has much to learn along this line. Thej Catholic church, however much we may disagree with its theological tenets, is the greatest success that' the world has ever seen in the matter, of the direction and control of the child mind. And the Protestant church might well learn a lesson from that success. Proper direction and instruction during the first ten years of the life of a child will, almost in variably, determine the movement of its mind during the rest of its life.' Our children are entitled to the most cultivated, intellectual and spiritual nourishment and guidance that the world affords. To-day may direct the destiny of to-morrow. Another thing that we had well re member, especially in this land, Is that God has given us the land with out any effort of our own. It Is no less true of us than it was of Israel. America needs this message of Moses to Israel beyond any nation in the world to-day. We had best be care ful not to forget God in this gift-land of our inheritance. The religious heritage of America is her pearl be yond price. May sbe not barter either her inheritance or her heritage for a mess of pottage. The danger is that in our prosperity we shall for get the Providence that four cen turies ago unveiled this land to the gaze of Christendom. The danger Is that we shall let go our grasp on God. The danger is that in the last an alysis we of to-day shall forget that we did not build the land, or fill the houses with good things, or dig the wells. The danger is that being filled and satisfied we shall become self satisfied; that being secured of God in our prosperity we shall become self-sufficient. Let us beware.
