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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1907)
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. * * * 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. • * * 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. * • * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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.’’ * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. « 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.
