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Georgia Culiings
Curtailed Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
Hudson Buys Big Plantation.
Hon. Thomas G. Hudson, commis
sioner of agriculture, added to his
landed interests near Americus a few
days ago by purchasing a desirable
plantation of 500 acres.
Commissioner Hudson considers
plantation property an excellent invest
ment and already owns extensive in
terests in the vicinity.
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Special Election Ordered.
An election has been ordered by ihe
governor for December 4 to Jill the va
cancies in the general assembly caused
by the death of President John W.
Akin, of the upper house; the death
of Representative N. L. Galloway of
Walton county, and the resignation of
W. H. Rogers, the negro member of
the house from Mclntosh county, who
resigned following the passage of the
disfranchisement bill.
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Daughters Elect New Officers.
The Georgia division of the Daugh
ters of the Confederacy, at their ses
sion in Augusta, elected .Miss Alice Bax
ter of Atlanta, president; .Mrs. R. L.
Nesbitt of Marietta, first vice presi
dent; Mrs. Walter Lamar, Macon, sec
ond vice president; Mrs. T. D. Cas
well, Augusta, third vice president;
Mra. R. G. Stevens, Atlanta, record
tug secretary; Miss Mattie B. Sheib
ley, Rome, corresponding secretary ;
Mrs. C. C. Saunders, Gainesville, treas
urer; Mrs. Lee Trammell, .Madison,
registrar. The honorary presidents
and historian’s place are for life and
are held by the same officers.
Savannah was selected as the next
meeting place.
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Church Deacons in Clover.
The use of wine in sacraments will
not be a violation of the law when
prohibition becomes effective in Geor
gia, according to an official opinion
rendered Governor Smith by Attorney
General Hart.
Recently a church in Harris county
asked the question, if the use of wines
was not prohibited under the new law,
and so interrogated Governor Smith,
who turned the matter over to Judge
Hart for an official opinion.
Judge Hart holds in sub-tance that
while wine cannot be manufactured
or purchased legally in Georgia after
January 1, 1908, that there is no law
against its purchase outside of the
state and use In the sacrament.
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Atlanta Wants Fair Again.
At a meeting of the Atlanta Fair
Association held a few days ago, a
vote was taken and it was declared
the sense of the meeting that the
fair can be secured for Atlanta in 19 ! 'S,
provided the 'city does not tear down
tho fair buildings now in Piedmont
park.
When the city bought Piedmont park
it was with a view of converting it
into a pleasure park, and the conse
quential removal of all fair buildings.
A committee will shortly appear be
fore the city council and urge them
to let the buildings stand.
The success of the fair has aroused
the merchants to a great desire to du
plicate the feat next year.
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Farmers Called to Meet.
President R. F. Duckworth of the
Georgia State Farmers’ Union has is
sued a call to all county unions in
the state, instructing them to meet it
10 o'clock Saturday morning. Novem
ber 9. to consider matters recently re
ferred to in a call of National Pres
ident Charles S. Barrett. The call of
President Duckworth follows:
“To the Members of the Farmers’
Union of the State of Georgia: Follow
ing call of National President C. S.
Barrett for all counties throughout the
cotton belt to meet on November 9th,
1 hereby call a meeting of all county
union in the state of Georgia to meet
at li) o'clock a. xr... Saturday, Novem
ber 9th. for the reasons mentioned in
President Barrett’s call. Where it is
deemed best you may invite non-union
farmers and others interested in ob
taining the Farmers’ Union minimum
to meet with you in the afternoon.’’
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Pension Commissioner's Report.
Commissioner of Pensions John W.
Lindsey has submitted to the governor
his annual statement in regard to the
pension fund paid out for the year
1907, and the amount to be paid out
for 1908.
The report shows that 15,706 pen
sioners were paid this year and that
iu 190 S there will be only four more,
15.710 to be paid. The amount paid out
for 1907 was $932,638.85, and the sum
appropriated for 1908 is $935.177.which
Colonel Lindsey states will be amply
sufficient for the purpose.
Beginning next year, under the new
pension law passed at the recent ses
sion of the general assembly, these
payments, instead of being made all
In a lump sum, once a year, are to
me paid quarterly on the first of March,
June, September and December.
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Johnson Appeals to Growers.
M. L. Johnson, president of the
Georgia division of the Southern Got
ten Association, has addressed a com
m unication to the cotton growers of
Georgia, requesting that each person
who will agree to hold his cotton or
a part thereof write to him stating the
number of bales he agrees to hold and
the length of time he will hold it, to
gether with the price he will demand.
At the same time, President John
son calls the attention of the farmers
to the fact that they have on hand a
hard fight to secure the price which
they should receive for their cotton. He
states that the recent frosts have prac
tically destroyed the bolls in the north
ern and middle sections of the state,
and that this fact makes It all the
more necessary for the growers to hold
their cotton for 15 cents.
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Free Passes Doomed.
No more free tickets, free passes or
free intrastate transportation can be
issued by any railroad company or
other common carrier under the juris
diction of the railroad commission of
Georgia, nor Is any railroad company,
express company or any other carrier
of freight allowed to transport the
same free of charge, after December
31, according to the sweeping and gen
eral orders 3 and 4, issued by the rail
road commission of Georgia, a few
days ago.
The “anti-pass” order came as no
surprise, for there had been warnings
that such would come, following the
failure to enact a law at the recent
session of the general assembly.
The commission also amended its
general order No. 2, previously issued,
covering the matter of train schedules,
the changes and publication thereof,
so that the words, “not to exceed the
regular sheriff's rates,” and inserted
in lieu thereof "the voluntary payment
now agreed upon between the roads
and newspapers, but not on a trans
portation basis.”
A number of railroad men had call
ed at the office of the commission and
stated that the newspapers in the cit
ies would not publish their train sched
ules at the same rate as charged for
sheriff's advertisements and in conse
quence there would be a number of
roads not properly advertised. It was
pointed out to the commission that all
sheriff’s advertisements throughout the
state are uniform in price, regardless
of circulation. The commission then
amended the order ( and inserted the
clause that this was not to be upon a
transportation basis. In other words,
au effort is made to keep the papers
from getting transportation at a less
ratd than is paid .by any one else.
KILLED HER SLEEPING HUSBAND.
Crazy Wife Than Slashed Her Own Throat
With Same Razor.
While suffering from temporary in
sanity, Mrs. Marie Hickey, wile or
Hon. Patrick Hickey of Apalachicola.
Fla., early Saturday morning cut the
throat of her husband who lay asleep
in bed and then committed suicide by
cutting her throat from ear to ear.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Hickey were
prominent aiul wealthy residents of
Apalachicola and connected with some
of the most prominent families of that
section of the state, and the tragedy
created considerable interest.
The body of Mrs. Hickey was round
ir front of the home. The head had
been almost severed from the body
with a razor. The people making the
discoverey quickly gave the alarm and
when others arrived and the home was
entered the husband was lying uncon
scious upon the bed with his throat
cut. At first there was a suspicion o!
foul play, but after an investigation
the coroner's jury arrived at the coim
elusion that Mrs. Hickey had first cur
the throat of her husband while he lay
asleep in bed and then committed sui-c
eide. That Mrs. Hickey was insane
at the time there is no doubt. Three
weeks ago she was taken by her hus
band from a private asylum in Geor
gia. She had several times been un
der treatment In sanitariums and the
last time remained for several mouths
and was dismissed as being sound of
mind.
TO LAUNCH BOOM FOR BRYAN.
Democratic “Love Feast” Arranged foi
November 26, in Washington.
The formal launching of the William
J. Bryan boom for the presiden
cy takes place in Washington Novem
ber 26th at a "love feast" to be arrang
ed by the Nebraskan's friends in the
south and east. It is expected 50(
prominent and loyal democrats will
participate.
THE PULPIT.
A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY
DR. CHARLES EDWARD LOCKE.
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Subject: Crime of Unhappiness.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—Dr. Charles E.
Locke returned to his unipit in tho
Hanson Place Methodist Episcopal
Church Sunday. Dr. Locke’s subject
was “The Crjhne of Unhappiness; or.
Where Tlanninrss ’Toy be Round.”
His text was Isaiah 35:10: “They
shall obtain joy and gladness, and
sorrow and sighing shall flee awav.”
Dr. Locke said in the course of his
sermon:
It is our duty to be happy, it Is our
right to be happy. The philosopher’s
stone, which can transform all the
dross of life into purest joys, is hope.
The fabled fountain which will in
sure eternal youth and beauty is con
tentment. True happiness is not only
a duty and a right, but it is a pos
sible possession; it is the sure prize
of those who seek aright.
The rapt prophet Isaiah boldly
foretells the time when the people
“shall obtain joy and gladness, and
sorrow and sighing shall flee away,”
and “everlasting joy shall be upon
their heads.” The radiant promises
of the Word of God are not to torture
and to tantalize mankind into woes
and slaveries more abject, but are
intended to awaken our lethargic
natures and somnolent consciences
that we may be aroused to claim our
high and holy and happy estate. Un
happiness is a crime against God and
our fellows, as well as against our
selves.
There is an intricate and exquisite
conspiracy in the universe to make
men happy. There are carnivals of
beauty, panoramas of splendor, ora
torios of music, laughing waters,
dancing sunbeams, singing birds,
chanting seas, delicious fruits and
enchanting flowers. Nature is not
cruel, health is contagious, there is a
survival of the fittest. “The com
mon course of things is in favor of
happiness; hapDiness is the rule, mis
ery the exception.”
As God made the sun to shine and
the flowers to bloom and the seas
to ebb and flow, so He made man to
be happy. “If any man is unhappy,”
said a wise man, “this must be his
own fault, for God made all men to
be happy.” The very law of our
being is happiness. A crime is an
offence against the laws of God and
man; unhappiness is such an offence;
hence a crime.
Happiness may be discovered in
life’s activities—in unremittirig en
deavor, not in the bluster and haste
which enervate and defeat, but in the
constant use of our capacities. Un
rest and atrophy occur when ener
gies are allowed to become stagnant.
An aimless life is always an unhappy
life. Leisure and rest have exquisite
flavor where they are the punctuation
points of duties faithfully discharged
and ambitions steadily realized. Ac
tivity defies infirmity, and octogena
rians like John Wesley and John
Whittier, Gladstone and Pone Leo
XIII hold old age at bay while they
elaborate the closing achievements of
eventful careers. The benevolently
inclined young lady who cut off the
tail of the pollywog to hasten the
stages of its evolution wept in dis
may when she found she had ended
the life of the little dismembered
creature. It needed the labor of get
ting rid of its.tail to develop strength
for the responsibilities of its promo
tion. If there are stunted growths
and undeveloped lives among the
youth of these prosperous decades,
may it not be that our educational
and domestic methods are affording
too much assistance, or ease, or lux
ury to these little human pollywogs?
Every faculty ef our being is made
more robust by constant and sensible
activity. To be able to bring things
to pass conduces to true happiness.
What real joy is stored away in a
good book! Study may be found an
unfailing source of pleasure. The
culture of the mind brings forth the
flower and the fragrance and the
fruitage of our intellectual natures.
Truth invigorates; it makes buoyant
and youthful. Truth is never old,
never discordant. Then. too. what
perennial fountains of sparkling hap
piness are music and art and poetry.
And what shall be said about nature?
If people would be hannv, they must
get out of doors. God made the
heavens, but man made the houses.
Many houses are devices of Satan to
shut man away from his God. All
nature is redolent of divinity. It is
hard for a naturalist to be an un
believer. Some great nature students
have despised creeds, but it was be
cause their great God was too mighty
to be bounded and measured by man’s
dialectical tape line or foot rule. Let
us get out of doors. God, music,
might and men are out of doors, and
if we would be happy we must asso
ciate much with the world outside,
for we have a divine commission to
subdue the earth. The “flower in
the cranied wall" has yet many beau
tiful lessons to the thoughtful visi
tor. Like the story of Edward Row
land Sill, let us fling open the win
dows of our grim towns and let in
the gust of sunshine and the sum
mer scent of rose, and be sure that
the window sill stands open and shall
never be shut again!”
Exquisite happiness is found in
life's true friendships. The widow
of Schumann says that whenever she
was to play in public any of her hus
band’s music, she would read over
and over again the dear love letters
he had written her during his life.
Ail true love is divine, and what we
call human love is really divine love,
and is one of our earthly faculties
which is the sure prophecy of the
estate of infinity to which we are
going, as it is the token of the in
finite heart from which we have
sprung. No man can be truly happy
who does not love or is not truly
loved. The greatest of these is love!
Happiness is always found in ser
vice. He who would be “happy”
among you, as well as “he who would
be chief among you, must be the ser
vant of all.” When the old French
nobility chose as their motto, “No
blesse Oblige,” they simply accentu
ated one of the .finest principles of
the social organism, that “rank or
privilege is obligation.” Autocracies,
feudal systems, wars and all selfish
ambitions must gradually go down
before such a sceptre. He who is not
capable of serving is r.ot capable of
joy. Any man who wears uuon his
helmet “Ich Dien” will coon have a
crown and a kingdom. ’
Since all clouds have a silver lin
ing and every dark shadow a bright
side, for there would be no shadows
if there were no sun, if any one would
be happy, he must look for the bright
side. It may be his duty, unlike the
sun dial, to mark other than the
hrivht hours, but he w’ill not be wise
(Unless he adopts the motto of a ven
erable English bishop, “Serve God
and be cheerful.” It is hard to per
suade some people to be Christians
when it is seen that occasionally the
most unhappy and most disagreeable
people pose in a community as Chris
tians. One of the first things true
religion does for people is to make it
possible for people to live with them.
It may be probable that fault-finding
and complaining people will escape
purgatory, but it is certain that those
who have to live with them do not.
I am sure God has a special crown
of beauty in heaven for those people
who are compelled to live on earth
with disagreeable peoole.
In possessing Christ as our life
and our truth and our way, we have
a specific for the world’s unrest and
care and a sure prescription for hap
piness. He was a wise and skillful
doctor who, when one of. his patients
described to him her symptoms,
wrote this prescription for her; “Go
home and read your Bible for an hour
every day.” I notice that somebody
is proposing that the office of priest
and physician he combined. I should
have no objection if there could be
a correspond ! ng doubling of time and
capacity. Ther n is no doubt that,
soul sickness ! s the cause of much of
the world’s ailment. Christ came to
heal the world’s woes, and the bur
dens of humanity contemplate that
men shall be wise enough to accept
divine help in carrying the loads
which would not have been laid upon
the race without a Great Burden
Bearer. It must be remembered that
true happiness is a celestial exotic, as
Sheridan sings:
True happiness is not the growth of
earth,
The soil is fruitless if you seek it
there;
’Tis an exotic of celestial birth.
And never blossoms but in celestial
air.
Sweet plant of paradise! Its seeds
are sown
In here and there a breast of heav
enly mold,
It rises slow and buds, but ne’er was
known
To blossom here —the climate is
too cold.
And however Bobbie Burns may
have failed to fulfill in his own pa
thetic career the theology of his
songs, it was not because his lips or
his lyre lacked the true gospel of
happy and useful living:
It's no in titles nor in rank;
It’s no in wealth like London hank,
To purchase peace and rest.
It’s no in making muckle mail’,
It’s no in books; it’s no in lear,
To make us truly blest.
If happiness hae not her seat
And centre in the breast,
We may he wise, or rich, or great;
But never can be blest.
In the advent the angel said he
brought good tidings of great joy.
David sang long ago, “Happy is that
people whose god is the Lord!” The
Christian religion has set the world
to singing. Christianity is truth set
to music. Sin and death go out of
the world when Christ and life come
in. A little boy understood his father
to say that children should be brought
up in the "fear and ammunition” of
the Lord. There is an old classical
adage that “Every lover is a sol
dier.” Horace dedicated to his
favorite deity his lyre, his torch and
his bow. So if we would bo happy
we must he useful: knights of the
Cross, armed with the shield of faith
and the sword of the Spirit, and girt
with the truth according to Jesus
Christ!
MOBILE BANK GETS MONEY.
Increase of Its Circulation Authorized by
Comptroller Ridgely.
Comptroller Ridgelev has authorized.!
the Bank of Mobil? at Mobile, Ala., to
increase its currency circulation two (
hundred thousand dollars—by indicat-;
ing methods of depositing security oth
er than government bonds. This con- ,
cession of the national government
places in circulation in Mobile an ad
ditional $168,590, the local bank hav
ing drawn on its reserve from the gov
ernment but a small extent.
CAID MACLEAN IS SHACKLED.
English Prisoner Escapes from Bandit
Raisuli But is Recaptured.
Dispatches received in Madrid,
Spain, from Tetuan, Morocco, convey
a native report to the effect that sev
eral days ago Caid Mac Lean escaped
in the night, but was recaptured and
put in chains by order of Bandit Rai
suli.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM
MENTS FOR NOV. 10 BY THE
REV. i. W. HENDERSON.
’t
Subject: Joshua Renewing the Cove
nant With Israel, Joshua 24:14-
28—Golden Text, Joshua 24-15
—Memory Verses, 22-24.
This is one of the sublimest mo
ments in the history of Israel. The
account which forms our lesson 5= as
fine a piece of writing of its sort as
can be found. The situation is he
roic. The simplicity of the language
of the record simply heightens its
majesty. In a few words, and they
well chosen, a mighty moment in the
national and religious life of Israel is
conserved to posterity.
Joshua has finished his work. The
call of eternity is sounding in his
ears. He is about to ford another
Jordan/ He feels that his labors are
not consummated until he has sealed
Israel by her own consent anew to
God. Therefore he gathers the peo
ple together. He relates the bless
ings of God to Israel. He pictures
the glories of fealty to Jehovah and
the woes of disobedience to His holy
will. He makes a masterful, a mov
ing speech. Pleading, lecturing, al
most insulting, he throws down the
challenge. “Choose ye this day.”
Israel follows in the footsteps of
her aged and inspired leader. The
fidelity of himself and his family and
his declaration of his steadfastness
in the service of Almighty God
awake a responsive note in the soul
of the nation. “We will serve the
Lord.”
“Choose ye this day whom ye will
serve” comes as a clear call to the
world to-day. Never before has
there been such prosperity, such rea
son for giving God glory. This is the
richest age that the world has known.
In spite of its sins, in spite of its
manifest wickednesses, in spite of the
sufferings of multitudes in every cor
ner of the world, this is the finest
epoch in the history of humanity. No
age has possessed so much. No age
has had a greater future. No age
has had so many reason to front to
morrow with hope unquenchable.
The achievements, the opportuni
ties, the future of the age, however,
are the gift of God. And humanity
seems forgetful often of the fact. We
exalt wealth, we magnify men, we
serve sin, we trust self. As though
wealth or men or we could have
done the work and accomplished the
results that are at hand without the
counsel and the co-operation of Al
mighty God. As though sin had done
it. But humanity should not be al
lowed to forget its indebtedness to
God. It should be called into His
presence even as was Israel by
Joshua. And humanity should be
compelled individually and collective
ly to take a stand, to decide for or
against, to affirm its allegiance. For
we cannot serve two masters. We
have no business to talk about our
indebtedness to God while we refuse
Him the service of our souls and hug
idols to our hearts in secret.
The world to-day as Israel talks
about its debt to the providence of
God while it secretly yields homage
to idols. And there can be no hypoc
risy much worse than that. Israel
thanked God. but many of her people
served the Egyptian deities and the
gods of the Amorites in secret. And
Joshua knew it. And so he brought
them right up to the point where
they w T ould have to make a declara
tion for or against God. Any intelli
gent man knows that the conditions
are the shme to-day inside and out
side of the church. The world should
be compelled to take a stand.
What is true of the world at large
is equally true of America specifically.
We owe more to God than perhaps
any nation on the face of the earth.
We have more reasons than most peo
ple apparently have to glorify Him.
And we are not slow at certain sea
sons to acknowledge our obligations.
We are forced to admit that God has
been good to this land and that we
owe Him a debt that we never can
repay. But while we hail His grace
we hug idols to our hearts.
We must make a decision, we must
take a stand. We cannot serve Him
while we hold our idols close. Wheth
er the idols be money, or power, or
lust, or pride, we must abandon them
for God.
And we ought. For God is worth
serving. His providence is able. His
grace is sufficient for all. His co-op
eration will insure our future. Amer
ica cannot do much that shall be
memorable except He aid her.
Neither can the world. There is no
force so influential as the mind of
God. There is no service that is so
profitable as His. There is no lead
ership so grateful to those who fol
low as is the leadership of God. For
Jehovah is the supreme molder of the
destinies of the world# The God and
Father of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ is the supreme artificer of this
world’s affairs. We cannot fool Him,
for His eyes penetrate. We cannot
deceive Him, He is too wise. We
cannot balk His plans. For we are
mortal. Wo had best serve Him.
Not because it is policy to do so,
though it is, but because it is right.
Our happiness lies in our fealty to
God. Idols are a delusion.
Let us serve Him and hear His
voice to obey it. Let us incline our
ears toward Him. Let us not deny
Him overlordship in our lives. Let
us exalt Him. For if we will exalt
Him He will magnify us. And it will
be well for us here and hereafter.
Courage.
The highest courage is to trust in
the power of the spiritual qualities
over the material.—Rev. Frank
Crane, Congiegationalist, Worcester*
Mass.
