The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, September 20, 1907, Image 9
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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. 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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.