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Georgia Callings
Curtailed Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
Ex-Coroner Acquitted of Murder.
W. S. Green, former coroner of
Richland county, charged with the
murder of Mose Tucker, a negro hack
man, of Columbus, about six months
ago, was acquitted of the charge by
a jury. Green, who is well connect
ed, has been in jail since the killing
of Tucker, having been twice refused
bail.
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New Laws Confuse Druggists.
Druggists over the state have con
fused the provisions of the anti-nar
cotic law with the prohibition act, in
that many of them think it is neces
sary to file all narcotic prescriptions
with the county ordinaries. No such
provision is incorporated in the anti
narcotic act. The druggist is only
required to keep all such prescriptions
on file.
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Agricultural Text Books.
A list of the text books to be stud
ied in the eleven district agricultural
schools of Georgia has just been is
sued. The course of study includes in
addition to agriculture and its allied
branches, English, mathematics, his
tory, geography, spelling, manual
training, cookery, needle work, gov
ernment in the state and the nation
and industrial drawing.
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Fertilizer Bulletin Interesting.
There has been delivered to the de
partment of agriculture at the state
capitol 25,000 copies of the fertilizer
bulletin, which is the most exhaust
ive and instructive yet issued by this
important branch of the state gov
ernment.
Containing 196 pages, it is replete
with interest from cover to cover, and
will prove instructive to all classes
and conditions of citizens.
The bulletin begins with a reproduc
tion of the fertilizer law as it now
stands on the statute books, and this
is followed by a number of rulings
made by the commission of agricul
ture in interpreting this law.
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Recruits for Atlanta Pen.
Word has been received at the fed
eral prison, near Atlanta, to the effect
that 125 United States prisoners from
the federal penitentiaries at Mounds
ville, W. Va„ and Columbus, Ohio,
would probably be transferred to the
Atlanta institution. There are already
528 prisoners there, and accommoda
tions are ready for 70Q. The additional
force will come for the purpose of
helping to do the great building work
which is going on. It is seen that it
will take quite a long time, and the
officials have decided to push it as
rapidly as possible, and for this rea
son more help will be sent from the
north and east.
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Tech Opens on Twenty-Fifth.
President Matheson of the Georgia
School of Technology has returned
from a visit to his old home in In
diana, and is getting everything in
readiness for the opening of the school
on Wednesday, September 25th. It
Is announced that the matriculation
will be the largest in the history of
the institution, and that the school
will be taxed to its fullest capacity.
Applications have been received in
considerable numbers from Cuba and
Mexico, as well as from all parts
of the United States. Several have
come from even more distant lands,
and two have been received from In
dia. Since the close of the last ses
sion, a number of improvements have
been made cn the campus, and practi
cally all of the buildings have been
placed in prime condition.
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Eryan Coming to Georgia.
William Jennings Bryan, twice a
candidate for president of the l nited
States, and a possible leader of the
democratic party at the next national
election, will visit «*Atlanta Saturday,
October 19, when he will he a guest
of the Atlanta fair association and
will speak at noon.
“The Atlanta fair this year will be
better than ever before,” is the state
ment made by President J. J. Con
nor of the State Agricultural Society
and the Georgia Fair Association.
“I expect it to be the greatest agri
cultural demonstration that the state
has ever seen and many of the most
prosperous counties will take pari.
The exhibits this year will be bigger
and better than ever. The crops are
all fine and the display will be moie
elaborate than ever. ’
The fair has offered generous prizes
of $1,200, SI,OOO and SBOO for the first
three premium-winning exhibits. Purs
es of S2OO will be offered for the next
six.
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Will Donate Exhibit to State.
President J. J. Conner of the State
Agricultural Society of Georgia and
head of the State Fair Association, has
perfected a plan for novel exhibits to
be located in the state museum at
the capitol. They are to be composed
of articles of all descriptions ana
products of all kinds, manufactured
in the state of Georgia. He has been
at work getting up this exhibit for
some time and now states that it is
a sure success. They are to be
shown first at the state fair and after
the fair is over the manufacturers are
going to donate their exhibits to the
state.
“We want Georgia for Georgians,
and we want the people to see that
this is not only an agricultural state,
but a manufacturing center as well.
It Is my purpose to have located here
all .sorts of articles made in the state,
especial attention being given to tex
tiles and feedstuff*. Georgia is noted
throughout the United States for her
fine grade of cloths and we propose
to have a sample of each.
“There is another branch of the
great southern staple which will have
our attention. This is the cotton seed.
We farmers know that cotton seed
meal and cotton seed hulks make the
best possible' cattle feed. We pro
pose to have an exhibit of feedstuffs
with these two playing prominent
parts. Then that other cotton seed
product, eotton seed oil, is to come
in for an exhibit. Cotton seed oil, as
you know, is a good cooking oil, a fine
condiment and now it is to be used as
a medicine in cotton seed emulsion.
“Every article made in Georgia that
we can secure will have a place in
this exhibit if we can get it.”
JAMESTOWN
Ter-Centennial Exposition April t
November, 1907.
Exceedingly low rates have been
authorized by the Southern Railway
to Norfolk, Va., and return, account
Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposi
tion.
Stopovers will be allowed on sea
son, sixty day and fifteen day tickets,
same as granted on summer tourist
tickets. Tickets will he sold daiiv
commencing April 19th, to and incul
ding November 30th, 1907.
The Southern Railway is taking a
very great interest in this exposition
and doing everything within their
power to promote its welfare for the
reason that it is located on historic
and southern grounds, and has evi
dence of being one of the most import
ant and attractive affairs of this kind
that has ever been held.
Through train service and sleeping
car service to Norfolk during the ex
position has not yet been announce 1
but it is expected that most excel
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and satisfactory in every way.
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Subject: Death.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—Preaching at the
Irving Square Presbyterian Church,
Hamburg avenue and Weirfield
street, on the theme, “Death,” the
Rev. Ira Wemmell Henderson, pas
tor, took as his text those words
which are found so frequently in the
earlier part of the Old Testament
scriptures, “And he died.” He said:
Death is a subject of which we do
not like to speak. It is a subject we
avoid. The most of us endeavor to
forget that there is such a fact for
us. Many of us live as though we
had eliminated it from our lives.
It is the fashion in the church
nowadays not to preach about death
with any frequency. For the people
quite largely do not desire sermons
on that theme. Ministers forbear to
press home its consideration. They
do not care to urge men to come to
Christ by playing on the element of
fear in their characters. And strange
ly enough death and fear have been
correlative terms for generations.
Death used to be a forceful and
popular subject for pulpit presenta
tion. The divines of a century and
more ago made their lasting reputa
tions because of their masterly expo
sitions of the scriptures about death.
a soul was swung into obedi
ence to God by the impulse of an in
tense and vivid sermon on death.
However unwise it may be to lead
men to God and to Christ through
fear of death, it is much more un
wise never to bring this fact to their
attention. For the life after death
is the major part of our existence.
The days that God allots to us here
are but a minute fraction of the ages
we shall live, if we be righteous,
within Him forever. This life is not
all of life. Nor does death end all.
However difficult and distasteful a
subject death may be to discuss, it
repays investigation and considera
tion. We may not care to study it,
to face it, to analyze it. But we
ought.
For death is inevitable. It is cer
tain that as we have come into this
world we shall, in all human proba
bility, go out of it. We cannot es
cape death. We cannot avoid it. We
ought not to hasten it. We must
give it consideration. For it Is sure
to come. We do n<ft Ijnow the day
or the hour. We cannot forecast the
time. No man can tell the order In
which we shall go hence, you and I.
But the last day will dawn upon earth
for each of us. r ßhe chimes will ring
a last farewell upon our ears. The
call of relentless death will ring
through every soul. We may not be
able to forecast death’s coming, but
he will arrive. We may not be able
to enumerate the order of our going,
hut we shall go. For death is in
evitable. His coming is inescapable.
He stands waiting at the terminus of
every life. And we should not fear
if we fear God.
For death is natural. It is as i;gt
ural as it is inevitable. It is as nat
ural as birth. There is nothing un
usual about it however mysterious it*
processes may be. It is as natural
to die as it is to be horn. Men talk
of death as though it were a hiatus.
Death is not a break. It is a method
of procession. They speak of death
as something that ought not to be.
We shall not discuss that to-day.
But we shall assert without fear of
contradiction that in the world as it
is at present constituted death is a
valuable asset to humanity.
For death is not final but tran
sitional. It is not a goal. It is but
an incident in the life of the soul
as it flies through life into eternity.
Death is not ultimate. It is not ter
minal. Death is not an end itself.
It is not the last of life though it
comes at the end of this life. For if
death is final it Is at least question
able whether it were any use to live
at all. If death is absolute and ulti
mate, if it writes finis to the close of
every man's life, then in the words
of Paul, “of all men most miserable.”
There may be use and there may be
wisdom in living simply for the sake
of living and then dying, with no
hope of eternity, with no expectation
of a life beyond, with no promise of
immortality. But such a philosophy,
however sound it may be for some
minds, does not appeal to me. For
I am persuaded that we live to some
greater purpose than just to die, and
go back into the dust and be forever
forgotten—forever. I am persuaded
that we are more than the flower of
the field or the grass thereof, which
to-day is and to-morrow is consumed
by the quenchable fire. For God has
written in my heart, and I hope He
has in yours, a promise of another
life and of a nobler and a fairer
world. I look for a land and a life
that is 'eternal, a heavenly country.
For, to me, death is a portal.
It is a gate. It Is a boon, a gift of
God, a blessing. To my mind it
writes “to be continued” after the
last word of the last chapter of the
record of every soul’s earthly life has
been inscribed upon the pages of
human history. For death is more a
beginning than *an ending. It is a
door through which w r e enter into the
undiscovered country. It affords us
a vision of another world the view
of which is withholden from our mor
tal eyes. It releases us from the cir
cumscriptions of earth. It unlocks
the mystery of eternity. It unfolds
the future existence before us.
Through it we achieve a knowledge
of the unknown. To thnse of us who
have endeavored sincerely, however
partially we have succeeded, to do
the will of God and to submit our
selves to His divine control, death
comes as a friend over whom we may
rejoice. Not that we should desire
to die. For this is a good life. Not
that we should regret that we have
days aßead that we must fill full of
action and of holy living. Not that
we should pray for death as a sur
cease from care and f.rotu pain and
from disciplines. But we welcome
and expect death, if we he in Christ,
as a friend, because it augments our
days, and expands our opportunities,
and clarifies our vision, and intensi
fies our knowledge. And tlat is
good.
This death, which is inevitable and
natural in the career of every man,
whether he be rich or poor, wise or
ignorant, good or bad, may be ter
rible, doubtful or beautiful, accord
ing to the manner of our lives and
the quality of our characters. For
death cannot be bought off by riches.
Neither does he pass the hovel. He
is no respecter of intelligence. His
hand is heavy and his arm is long
to seize and to project into eternity
that which is immortal in good and
evil men' alike. And it simply de
pends upon the kind of man you are
whether death will be terrible, doubt
ful or beautiful to you.
To a had man death must be ter
rible. That is to say, if he possesses
the least spark of moral conscious
ness or spiritual susceptibility. Aye,
it is terrible. And it ought to he. A
had man ought to he afraid to die. A
man whose whole life has contra
vened God’s law, whose continued
and cumulative effort has been to /-al
low the lusts of his own heart and
the dictates of his own will, who has
sought not to please God, hut to find
favor with men, who has construct
ively planned and effected overt sin.
who has denied the call of conscience
and deified Satan daily, ought to be
afraid to die. Death ought to be ter
rible to him. In his last hours such
a man could best evidence that he
was a man and not a beast by elevat
ing the fear of God to supreme prom
inence in his mind. A man whose
whole life as a consciously active
free moral agent has been dedicated
to the stultification of the mandates
of the Almighty and to the exalta
tion of sin as a method of living
ought to he anxious to reverse the
call of death and the decision of fate.
He ought to want another chance in
this life to fit him for the next life.
It would be strange if had men were
not afraid to die. It would be curi
ous if they could face eternity un
abashed. For death to a sinful soul
must he terrible. To go forth into
a new life unprepared, to enter into
the presence of eternity at enmity
with God; what could be more aw
ful?
Death may he doubtful. Many
men there are who, obeying the dic
tates of God as they hear them and
His laws as they read them, have at
tained a moral eminence that is not
inconsiderable; hut who, as they
stand in the presence of the usual
but inscrutable mystery of death,
confess that they await its power
without hope and with simply a sci
entific spirit of inquisitiveness. There
is for them no certainty of a future
life. They do not protest that death
necessarily ends all. They simply ex
press the opinion that, so far as they
are concerned, death is a locked gate,
a sealed portal, a bolted, barred, im
penetrable door. They declare that
while there may he a life beyond this
they have no valid ground for ex
pressed hope therein, no reason to
stay their souls in the expectation of
eternal existence. They know not.
Theirs is the philosophy of agnostic
ism. (Still others deny that there is
another life in another world. Theirs
is the negative philosophy of atheism.
And neither is scientific or satisfying
in the largest or most enduring way.
For we need and desire and demand
as rational and expectant human
beings something more than inde
cision and negation. The soul re
quires a true soul food. It does not
thrive on agnosticism or infidelity.
Death may be beautiful, it may he
welcome, it may he an inspiration.
It is so to godly men, men of faifh
and of vision, men who are versed
in the philosophy of heaven and who
are acquainted with the scientific for
mulae of the discipline of the soul.
It is beautiful and gracious to those
who are God’s in Christ —supremely
so. For the Christian knows that
death is not only inevitable and na
tural, but that it is simply transi
tional, that it is a portal. The
Christian is certain that eternal life
is. The Christian believes from a
conscious experience in the fact of
God. He hopes, not without reason,
for eternal life and eternal blessed
ness within Gou in heaven. For has
not Christ assumed him that God and
heaven are? Has He not said: “I
go to prepare a place for you. And
if I go and prepare a place for you I
will come again and receive you unto
Myself?” And Christ not only has
said that to the Christian through the
medium of the Scriptures. He has
also spoken these words of comfort
presently to the human hearts of
Christian believers. And God has
ceasele. sly thundered the truth of
immortality through the recesses of
human souls. “Blessed are the pure
in heart, for they shall see God” eter
nally.
Death, for the Christian, is to he
welcomed, Whensoever it may come,
with a holy awe, without fear. For
death is sublime. It is the cap of
the climax of the Christian earthly
life. It is our illumination, our in
spiration, our reward. It enlarges
our joys and certifies our hopes. We
should await it in the spirit of that
man of God whom the other day, in
the presence of a multitude of men,
as he stood upon the eminence of
four score years and upon the bor
derland of eternity, I heard say, “I
await death with joy. To me the
thought that I shall die Is sublime.
For 1 know that if I die I shall live
again.” His hearers were electrified.
His tones thrilled. His hope was con
tagious. We, too, should await death
with a cheer.
FOR KILLING HUSBAND
Mrs. Ethel Blair is Found Guilty in Co*
lumbia, S. C., Court With Recom
mendation to Mercy.
Mrs. Ethel W. Blair, charged with
the murder of her husband, M. V.
Blair, a conductor on the Columbia,
Newberry and Laurens railroad, in
Jauuary last, was convicted of man
slaughter in Columbia, S. C., with a
recommendation to mercy.
Inasmuch as the verdict was not
reached until noon Sunday, sentence
was postponed.
Mrs. Blair, who is about thirty years
of age, and the mother of two chil
dren, is an unsually handsome wo
man and stood well in the community.
When Mrs. Blair was brought tnto
the court room there were no visible
signs of the ordeal that she has passed
through, but, on hearing the verdict,
she faiuted and had to be lifted from
the court room.
Within an hour after the verdict,
Mrs. Blair had recovered sufficiently
to be taken to the county jail.
On the 16th of last January McCul
ley W. Blair, conductor on the road
between Columbia and Laurens, was
shot to death at his home on Marion
street in Columbia. The fatal wound,
it was charged, was inflicted by Mrs.
Blair.
Columbia was thoroughly shocked
by this great tragedy. At the inqui
sition made by the coroner there was
startling evidence and the wife of the
deceased was placed under arrest. A
term of court has intervened, but in
terest has been none the less flagging,
and this tragedy is still fresh In the
minds of the people of the state.
Captain Blair was 53 years of age,
his wife 39. He was a victim of s.
terrible disease of the stomach which
required constant medical treatment.
There was apparently no affinity be
tween the two. The homicide pre
sented many points of interest, not
alone from the criminal side, but from
the psychological. Evidence submit
ted shows that Mrs. Blair appreciated
the lack of affinity between herself
and her husband. Three brothers
married three sisters, and two of the
others met death by violence.
In the most sensational trial of the
year only a day was required. The
jury in the case assisted very ma
terially by denying itself of several
privileges.
The prosecution produced no evi
dence to prove the infidelity of the
wife, although there were insinuations
in the testimony. And on the other
hand, the defense’s witnesses contra
dicted contradicted nearly everything
to which they had testified at the in
quest.
Mrs. Blair, who was not required to
make any statement at the inquest,
but nevertheless made at that time
a declaration which she contradict
ed in several particulars, declared
that she had no recollection of some
details of her statement on the night
of the killiug. Mrs. Neal, another
.very important witness in the case,
denied some statements she had made
at the inquest.
Since the killing Mrs. Blair had
been out on bond. The trial was de
layed for some hours at the beginning
on account of five state witnesses be
ing absent.
Bench warrants were issued for
them and Judge Johnstone directed
that these aud all other witnesses In
the future ignoring their bonds be
arrested and held in jail until they
have testified, regardless of who they
are.
Captain Buck Arms, a conductor
on the Sotuhern railway between
Charlotte and Washington, was one
of the principal witnesses in the trial.
Arms was a close friend to Captain
and Mrs. Blair, find it was alleged
that there were improper relations
between the two.
The case went to the jury late Sat
/
urday night.
NEGRO WOMAN UNDER BOND.
Siren of Thief Letten is Held in $50,000
Bail for Trial.
'Bail was fixed at $50,000 in New
Orleans, Saturday, for Virginia Reed,
the negro woman to whom the default
ing tax clerk, Charles E. Letten, says
he gave nearly all the SIIB,OOO he
stole. The woman is charged with
receiving stolen property. A charge
of perjury has also been made against
ner.
Letten, who has confessed, will be
used as the principal witness against
her.
