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Georgia Culiiogs
Curtailed Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
To Rebuild Car Plant.
At a joint meeting of the creditors
and directors of fche South Atlantic
Car and Manufacturing company, held
in Wayeross, arrangements were per
fected whereby the plant which was
partly consumed by (ire recently, will
be rebuilt at once.
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Postmasters Get Leave of Absence.
A Washington dispatch says: Post
masters of Georgia, of the first, sec
ond and third classes, have been grant
ed a leave of absence, not exceeding
five days, to attend a meeting of post
masters of the presidential class of
Georgia to be held at Macon, Novem
ber 25 and 26, 1907. At that meet
ing a Georgia State Association of
Postmasters will be organized.
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Pomeroy Succeeds Anderson
Major E. E. Pomeroy, commamimg
cue of the battalions of the fifth in
fantry, Georgia state troops, is select
ed to head that regiment as the re
sult of votes polled at the armory
In Atlanta. Major Pomeroy’s promo
tion will serve to fill the vacancy cre
ated by the promotion of Colonel Clif
ford Anderson, who was recently com
missioned brigadier general of the
state militia.
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Peonage Case Fails Through.
The federal grand jury adjourned
at Athens without taking up the charge
of peonage against James M. SmPh.
the big Oglethorpe county farmer. The
government did not submit the case
to the grand Jury.
Colonel Smith was bound over a few
Keeks since on this charge, and It, is
believed that the failure of the gov
ernment to put the case to the grand
Jury for investigation means an aban
donment of the prosecution.
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No License In Locker Tax.
An a letter written to Tax Collector
T. P. Thompson of Chatham county,
Comptroller General Wright declares
that the SSOO tax Imposed upon clubs
having lockers in no senso of the word
is to be construed as a license to sell
liquor, but simply as an occupation
tax.
He writes: “You will therefore re
ceipt for this tax as an occupation
tax. and designate the same in your
returns. This in nowise lias even the
•emblance of a license by the state for
the conduct of the business.’’
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College Appropriation Held Up.
The commissioners of ■ roads and
veveneus of Pike county, at their No
vember meeting, were served with an
order signed by Judge E. J. Reagan on
the petition of a number of citizens
of the county restraining them from
paying to the sixth district agricultural
college, located in Barnesville, the $Cv
000 which the P!ko county grand jury
recently recommended should be paid.
The treasurer or the county was also
served with a copy of tha order. Judge
Reagan set a hearing for the matter at
McDonough for November 18, at which
time it will be fought out. The col
lege is scheduled to open on January 3.
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‘•Dog Fall” in Land Dispute.
Secretary of State Phil Cook ha 3
announced his decision in regard to
the disputed county line between
Johnson and Laurens counties, giving
the land in dispute, some 500 acres, to
Johnson county. This land was sup
posed by many to belong to Laurens
county, but the decision of the secre
tary of the state merely sustains the
survey recently made by Captain L. M.
Roberts.
By running the line out, however,
Laurens county is given some o* ')
acres, which, beforo this time, was
supposed to belong to Johnson county,
so the matter Is about equalized at the
finish.
The dispute was brought up by r<a
son of a homicide, which took place
on the contested territory. Iloth coun
ties claimed the prisoner, anC con
tended that each bad the right to try
the case.
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Memorial Shaft Broken.
A granite shaft, which was being
erected at Decatur, in memory of h
confederate dead, was broken by a fail
while workmen were engaged in hoist
ing it into place. The slipping of a
rope caused the shaft to topple ov
and the fall broke it in Lalf.
The shaft, which cost $2,500, w> -
bought by the DeKalb County
crate Memorial Association, and th
unveiling exercises were to have taken
place on November 9. A new shaft will
be secured, and the date for the un
veiling exercises will be postponed un
til some day, probably In April. The
shaft was being erected by the But
ler Marble company of Marietta, and
that company will make a new one
free of cost.
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Agricultural Exposition Planned.
If the plan of a number of prominent
agriculturalists is carried out by the
tJeorgia State Agricultural Society, the
agricultural'premiums for the annual
Georgia state fair, which will probably
be again held in Atlanta next year,
will be divided among the three sec
tions of the state, north, south and
middle Georgia.
There is the keenest rivalry between
these three sections and plan would
decide the competition. It would also
do away with the contest among the
different counties and the awarding of
nine premiums among as many coun
ties.
If the fair is held in Atlanta next
year, as in all probability It will be,
avarv effort will be made to make a
•till gnSter success as an agricultural
exposition. The fair this season was
the biggest agricultural display ever
given In the state’s history.
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Government Experts at Work.
Quietly and successfully government
experts, assigned to Georgia by the
United States agricultural department,
are mingling with the farmers of the
state, giving them instructions in for
estry, dairy work, seed selection, cul
ture methods, crop rotation, road build
ing and soil survey.
There has bem so little said of (his
work in the newspapers that Georgians
living in the cities of the state have
hardly been aware of the movement,
but the farmers in many sections have
already felt the good effects, for the
number of experts placed in the state
by the government has increased so
rapidly that there are now in the
neighborhood of forty men engaged in
this work.
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Plans for Cotton School Complete.
No movement has been started along
educational lines in Georgia duriug
the past decade that has attracted
more attention than the proposed cot
ton school that is to be held in Athens
for ten days, beginning January 6,
1908, and under the auspices of the
State College of Agriculture and Me
chanic Arts at Athens.
The object of this school is to help
all the farmers get much useful in
formation at a minimum cost.
There will be no entrance examina
tions, and any person over sixteen
years of age can enter the school. The
registration fee will be SI.OO and the
incidental expenses necessitated by the
school work need not be more than
SI.OO. The cost of taking the work
will therefore be confined to railroaa
fare and board and lodging, which
means that the school is virtually free
to every student of Georgia.
The course of instruction provided in
the cotton school is as follows:
Ten lectures on the soil.
Ten lectures on fertilizers.
Five lectures on the cottcn plant.
Five lectures on seed selection.
Five lectures on cotton insects.
Five lectures on feeding cotton by
products.
Five lectures on cotton machinery.
Ten demonstrations on cotton grad
ing.
The cotton grading feature of the
school will be emphasized above every
other. Two hours or more each after
noon will be devoted to the work.
Moreover, every farmer who becomes
thoroughly acquainted with the grading
of cotton puts himself in a strong, de
fensive position, a position which vuli
not only enable him to improve the
grade of cotton raised on his farm be
cause of his knowledge of the subject,
but to obtain a fair price for his crop
as wall.
FAILURES TO BE KEPT SECRET.
No News Will Be Given Out Regarding the
Collapse of National Banks.
The treasury department has decid
ed that it will no longer make public
announcement of the failure oT nation
al banks, nor give out any Information
concerning such banks after they have
failed. Neither will any announcement
be made of the name of the receiver
nppeintd or any other official action
tliat may be taken.
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ELECTION BET CAUSES TRAGEDY.
Gae Participant in Duel Killed and the
Other Mortally Wounded.
As the result of a quarrel over an
electiou bet, William Hopkins, son
of Rev. Thomas Hopkins, and Frank
Foley fought a bloody duel at ;
Fernanda, Ky., Sunday. Hopkins was '
instantly killed, and Foley is fa..\ll.
wounded.
THE TV IT IT.
AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY
THE REV. JOEL B. SLOCUM.
Subject: The Church and the Men.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—“ The Church and
the Men” was the subject discussed
Sunday morning in the Greenwood
Baptist Church by the Rev. Joel B.
Slocum,whose text was Ezekiel 10:8:
“And there appeared in the cherubim
the form of a man's hand und»r
their wings.” Mr. Slocum saia,
among other things:
It is significant that in the midst
of the complicated celestial forces re
vealed to Ezekial there was the ap
pearance of a ma®’s hand under the
wings of the cherubim, as though
supporting their flight.
There has never been a time when
the multiplied machinery of Chris
tianity did not disclose, somewhere,
the hand of a man. Never was the
presence and power of that hand,
and all that goes with it, more needed
than now. No reflection is intended
upon the great host of faithful
women and earnest men who, in all
ages, have carried forward the bur
dens of the church: but the need of
the hour is more men. I saw, the
other day, in the window of a grocery,
this brief but pressing request:
“Wanted—A strong boy.” And the
thought flashed upon me that we need
in our churches strong boys who will
grow up to be strong men. Not
strong boys to tarry awhile in the
Sunday-school and then graduate
away from it and from everything
else connected with the church, but
boys who will stay and put their
manhood where it will continue to
count for the most.
We are facing a somewhat startling
fact—the fact that, as a rule, men
do not go to church. Vastly more
serious is the fact that the church no
longer enters into the serious con
sideration of most men. Mine is not
the mission of the alarmist and the
pessimist. I do not seek to over
emphasize an unpleasant truth. It
is the purpose of the speaker this
morning merely to look this condition
squarely in the face as he passes to
some other considerations. It is
enough for our present purpose to
recognize that the men are not with
us; and, without discussing the rea
sons for their absence, hasten to con
cern ourselves with the all-important
business of bringing them back.
The church that succeeds in this
great restoration will be the church
whose all-absorbing objective is the
kingdom of God. “But,” exclaims
some hearer, “do you mean to Imply
%hat any Christian church could have
any other goal than the kingdom?”
Most assuredly that is my implica
tion. Have you not known a church
whose aim was centred, not in the
kingdom, but in the church, the local
organization itself?
There is great danger lest we miss
the proper point of view. It is one
thing to be so absorbed in the pros
perity of the individual church of
which we are members as to lose
sight of anything beyond its advance
ment. It is quite another thing to
see, with so clear a vision, tlffe majes
tic opportunities and obligations of
the kingdom of God, that we shall
never fall into the error of supposing
for on instant that even so sacred an
institution as the church itself can be
than a means to that sublime
end.
I would not leave the impression
that the Christian is to be a vision
ary, and, fixing his eye on some far
off glory, succeed in neglecting a
nearer duty to his church. But Ido
mean to suggest that the church
that accomplishes the return of the
men from their exile will be the
church that is so moved by a spirit
of devotion to the great ultimate pur
pose of carrying forward the kingdom
to its earthly culmination, that non
church men will catch the irresistible
contagion of such a motive and join
ranks with the advance guard of the
soldiers of the cross.
There is recorded in Chronicles a
touch of patriotism that has always
made my blood course a little quicker
when I have read it. I refer to the
gathering* of a mighty host of war
riors, veterans all of them, who came
from near aud far. animated by a
common purpose that made them one. i
That purpose was to make David
king. The brief and yet thrilling
narrative is thus concluded: “All
these men of war, that could keep
rank, came with a perfect heart to
Hebron, to make David king over all
Israel; and all the rest, also, of Is
rael were of one heart to make David
king.”
The members of the Christian
church will one day come together
with a perfect heart to make Jesus
king. And when they do, the cita
dels of sin will topple into dust and
the royal diadem of the world’s sur
render will be put upon the brow of
our Lord. There is yet much to be
done. The forces are only gathering
for the final advance. If all who
can keep rank will take the field, not
for self-glory and not even for the
glory of the special church, but for
the glory aud triumph of our king,
then victory is assured. Then will we
comprehend the imperishable truth,
that men do not now attend our
churches are needed by these same
churches, not primarily to swell the
membership and meet the current ex
penses, but to enlarge the army of
those who with singleness of spirit
are moving on to make Christ king.
Let us take our inspiration and our
example from Him who made no at
tempt to found a visible church, but
who gave His very life to inaugurate
a spiritual kingdom. The church is
already organized; it now becomes
our duty to fling it into the great
cause of subduing the world to Him
who is the living head of the church.
This leads me to say that the
church that secures the return of the
nu*n will be the church that develops
an intense enthusiasm for humanity.
It is not merely because they are men
that we want them back, biit because
they are among those Tor whom
Christ died. I am not filled with
alarm at the prospect of a manless
church. It would still be an effective
organization committed to a great
work. No, lam not so much afraid
of what will happen to the church
as I am concerned about what will
happen to the men who thus ignore
the sweetest privileges of their life.
There are some hopeful signs of
the times. Indications favor the im
pression that the church is awaking
to her opportunity. If you look
closely at the record of the life of
Jesus, you will not be long in discov
ering that He was not satisfied with
the conditions that everywhere pre
vailed. His whole strength was reso
lutely set against the tide of igno
rance and worldliness that threat
ened to sweep men to destruction.
He succeeded, as no ODe ever since
has, in giving personal illustration of
what Paul means by advising that
we do not allow ourselves to be con
formed to this world, but transformed
or transfigured by the spiritual forces
within us.
The mission of the church is not
to be conformed to the customs and
conditions of this age, but to stand
in the midst of this age as an effective
agency for the regeneration of so
ciety. Not to be a lump of clay to
be molded in the fingers of every
passing trickster, but to be an artist
\vith a great ideal and a trained eye
and hand to execute his will on the
waiting marble.
The work of the church does not
grow more easy, but when she comes
Into her rightful heritage—the con
-1 viction of her divinely ordained privi
lege as the lover of men—then she
will begin to realize her mission. But
first, last and always, she will gain
her adherents in the ratio of her
enthusiasm for and devotion to hu
manity.
I ‘ Finally, the church that brings
back the men will be the church that
j takes Christ to the needy world. It
sometimes seems as though there are
so many other voices that the cry of
the church and her Christ will be
drowned in the din of materialism.
But there are still some listening ears
That will not be stopped. Into the
midst of this wild storm of buying
and selling, of loss and gain, of cry
ing and laughing, of sorrow and sin,
will come, once more, the humble
Nazarene, and His voice will turn
the tempest to calm: “Be still, and
know that I am God!” Jesus left
an unanswerable argument to His
interest in humanity when He gave
Himself to men. Anything else that
He might have given would have
been criticised; but when He gave
Himself, that softened the hard heart
of the world because they saw that
only love could do that. The fellow
ship by which Jesus is to unite men
with Himself in His everlasting king
dom is the fellowship of love.
The duty and opportunity of the
church is to put forward the kingdom
of God, to make sure the enthrone
ment of Jesus Christ in the affections
of men; to cultivate a fervid enthu
siasm for their souls; to take to the
world’s sicknesses the matchless
Physician who never lost a case in
trusted to His care. When men know
that the church is praying and long
ing and laboring, with a divine pas
sion. for their souls, they will come
to the Christ and to the church.
The hour of victory seems long j
delayed, but every soldier must keep I
his place and by and bv the warfare
will be accomplished. We re
member that not only was the man’s
hand under the angel’s wing, but the
angel’s wing was over the man’s
hand. God and the church will work
side by side. The human and the
divine will supplement each other.
It is said that Napoleon once ap
pealed to his guards in the interests
of a forlorn hope. He made request
for only a hundred men. But they
must all be brave. Every man would
be exposed to the enemy’s fire, and
nothing but death could be expected.
“Let a hundred men step forward out
of ranks! Forward, march!” At
the word of command, not a hundred
men, but a regiment sprang forth as
a single man and were ready for duty
and death.
And shall Christ ask in vain for
volunteers? Has His cause come to
be a forlorn hope? Ah, not to die.
not to die, but to live for Him, is all
He asks. To the front, O church of
the victorious Christ!
RAIL HORRORS OF A YEAR.
Ctusalties in United States 5,000 People
Killed and 76,000 Injured.
The interstate commerce commission
bulletin on accidents on the railways
of the United States during the year
ended June 30, shows total casualties
81,286, or 5,000 killed and 76,000 injur
ed, an increase of 10,352 casualties, or
775 in the killed and 9,577 in the in
jured, as compared with the previou*
year.
JAPS ENTERTAIN ROOSEVELT.
Champion Wrestlers Show Their Skill la
Bout at White House.
President Roosevelt Monday witness
ed an exhibition of Japanese wrestling
given by Mr. Hitachiyama, the cham
pion wrestler of Japan, and his assist
ant.
The bout was arranged by the Jap
anese ambassador, and took place at
the white house, a number of the pres
ident's friends having been invited tc
be present.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM*
MKNTS FOR NOV. 17 BY THE
REV. I. W. HENDERSON
'Tiasj
Subject: Gideon and His Three Hun
dred, Judges 7:9-23 Golden
Text, Deut. 3-22 Memory
Verses, 17, 18.
The lesson deals with one of the
famous characters of Israelitish his
tory. It exemplifies how powerful a
few Spirit-filled souls may be in the
face of seemingly Insuperable diffi
culties. It shows how thoroughly
God can help us, how thoroughly He
keeps His word. It is a revelation ofj
what we all might do if we so de-!
sired.
When the armies met Gideon was
outnumbered. When the battle be-j
came imminent he was in a hopeless;
minority. It was a handful against a;
multitude. But the 300 were Spirit!
filledr divinely chosen, consecratedj
They were without fear, they had;
courage. And because they had cour-l
age and faith in Almighty God, be-j
cause they had trust in the capacity!
of their God to deliver the Midianitesj
into their hands they were victorions.j
And they won by the simplest and
easiest of means. They didn’t even
have to use their weapons. Then
bravery brought consternation to the
hearts of the enemy and the rout be
came complete. They were stout
hearted and victorious because they
were Indwelt of the presence of God.
God had promised to deliver Mid
lan into the hands of Israel. And
He kept His word. Without His help
the conflict might have resulted dif
ferently. But when God helped the
victory was assured. It didn’t make
any difference whether or not the
Midianites and Amalekites were like
the grasshoppers for number and
their camels as numerous as the
sands of the seas when God gave
promise and aid. In that contingen
cy numbers were a secondary quanti
ty and great supplies inconsequen-j
tial. For their power was augmented
by the personality of God. Theirj
strength was in no sense dependent!
upon the commissariat.
Gideon earned a reputation for
consummate intrepidity that night.'
His 300 consecrated, divinely com
missioned followers enshrined them
selves for all time. Their dauntless
ness has become historic. They are
the epitome of daring. They are sy
nonymous with surpassing fearless
ness.
Now what Gideon did in his way
any consecrated soldier of the Lord
Jesus Christ may do according to his
opportunity and his power. The trou-j
ble is that most of us are like the 1
20,000 and more who went back to!
their tents. We are without thoj
necessary courage. We are too much!
consumed with fear. We don’t dare:
to dare. And no man can do any
thing who lacks heart, who hasn’t
nerve. No man certainly can war
against the principalities and powers;
of the empire of unrighteousness who!
has no faith in God, and who is lack-1
ing in a necessary trust in divinity.
But putting our faith and trust in!
Jehovah we may do anything. For!
God trusts those who sincerely put!
their trust in Him. He has faith in!
the faithful. It could not be other
wise. And with Him with us we!
need fear no obstacles. Whatever
may be the difficulties and oppositions
that confront us He will guarantee
us the victory if we will do His will.!
And we shall find that His methods!
are the simplest. We shall find howj
utterly cowardly and inefficient are|
the forces that oppose us and how lit-!
tie it takes to put them altogether to
rout.
The lesson ought to be an inspira
tion to every man who in the name,
and for the glory of God and the con
servation of the interests of human-’
ity wars against wickedness in any
place. It ought especially to be an)
inspiration to those who have banded
themselves to fight the plunderers in
every walk of life are laying plans to,
rob the people of their birthrights, as
Midian attacked Israel, or who al
ready have annexed to themselves the
properties and the possessions of the
people. For as sure as God lives if]
we do God’s will we shall confound
them all. And by the most unex-j
pected and simple methods. And it
will need but a few valiant souls to
do it. A host is no more necessary
to-day than it was that famous night,’
when Gideon led the 300 against the
multitude.
It is necessary that we shall have
faith in God. That we shall band to
gether the men whom God has fitted!
to do His holy work. It is necessary!
that we shall take our orders froml
that Spirit of truth who is the light!
of the world and the salvation there-!
of and do His bidding and remain)
steadfast. For God is helping usJ
God has promised us victory as truly
as He promised victory to Gideon.
Whenever we get discouraged let
us look at Gideon. When we are in-:
dined to doubt God’s capacity and!
promise fulfilling power let us read
anew what He did for Israel and for|
the endless fame of Gideon. When
we think we are few against the 1
hosts of sin that are oppressing us let
us receive courage from the victory
He insured for Israel. For He is!
with us as He was with them. If we
trust Him He will trust us. If we
will have faith in Him He will glorify
us. For the God of yesterday is the
same to-day and forever.
The Preacher.
A preacher's worth in the world
is laigely measured by his estimate
of what the pulpit should be. —Rev.
M. E. Harlan, Church of Christ,
Brooklyn.
