The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, November 22, 1907, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextTHh PULP n. A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY DR. N. M. WATERS. Subject: Choice of a Profession. Brooklyn, N. Y.—At the Tomp kins Avenue Church, the pastor, the Rev. Dr. N. M. Waters, preached the first of a series of even ing sermons to young men. He laid down certain principles according to which a man should choose his life work. He said, among other things: In a current book a college presi dent tells this story: A traveler in Japan says that one day as he stood on the quay in Tokio waiting for a steamer he excited the attention of a coolie doing the work of a stevedore, who knew he was an American. As the coolie went by with his load, in his pigeon English he said: “Come buy cargo?” By which he meant: “Are you in Japan on business.” The man shook his head. The second time the coolie passed, he again asked: “Come look and see?” By which he meant to ask if the American were a tourist seeing the country. Receiving a negative re ply, the next time he passed he tried one more question: “Spec’ die soon?” By which he meant to ask if the man was there for his health. This the writer used to describe three different classes of people in the world. There is the young man who seems to be in the world for his health. He wants to be coddled. There is the young man who seems to be in the world as a traveler. He wants to be amused. There are the young men who are in the world for business. They mean to do some thing and be somebody. These are the young men to whom I want to speak on “How Shall I Choose My Life Work?” The others are not worth our time. The first question concerns the young man himself. What are my possibilities? You cannot make a gentleman in a single generation. It was Oliver Wendell Holmes who said that in order to make a gentleman you needed to begin two hundred years before he was born. Bj' which he meant to state the great law of life called heredity. This unlocks man’s birthright and shows from what source his gifts of mind and body come. The second great fact is environ ment. “I am a part of all I have met.” Born in Africa, you are a sav age; born in this city, you are cul tured. We are children of our sur roundings. There is a third great fact. There Is something in }ou stronger than heredity or circumstances. I mean the human will. “When among the Romans do as Romans do” is the saying of a multitude who have taken their first step toward hell. Men may control circumstances. You come from the country—so did Da vid. You are poor—so was Paul. -You have no influence or friends—• nor did Joseph. You have no one to send you to college—Garfield had none, but he went. Robert Burns had none —he was a plowman, but he became Scotland’s greatest poet. Listen! In this country any able-bod ied boy can go through college if he will work, and wait, and even with out college he can become a scholar in the school of his daily toil. The second question. concerns the vocations of men. How shall I choose? This is the first thing. You shall require of your life-work that it shall gain you bread and butter. There are three ways of getting food and clothes and a roof in this world, and but three. A man may steal them; he may beg for them, or he may earn them. The first way makes him a robber, the second makes him a pauper and the third makes him a worker. There are always in the world many men who steal their living. Some of them are very low in chac acter. and we know them as tramps, burglars, pirates. These are afraid of the light and they skulk through the world, recognized as enemies of ,the social order, and for them there is neither rest nor respect. But all who prey on society are not so. So great is our regard for success that many men to-day imitate their methods. Men there are to-day who seized upon the strategic crag 3 and passes in the world of business and grew rich by levying toll on the passing rags. To hold one man up is highway robbery. To hold up a whole city for ice, for milk, or bread, simply because one has the power, is an act that seems to me to be a crime. This is the second great law —you shall require of your work that it shall make a man of you. If the first requirem nt von make of your work is that it shall give you bread, the second is that it shall give you cul ture. No man has any right to en gage in any occupation that izes him. No factory or mine should be allowed to run that degrades the toilers. The first question a young man will ask of his work is “Will it ennoble or degrade me?” This is not too high a requirement. Any honest work, honestly done, is a liberal edu cation. There is no genuine culture out side of work. Oftentimes the hard est task is the best teacher. “The Man With the Hoe,” we need not pity him. Moses was a herdsman, David was a shepherd, Jesus was a carpen ter. Benjamin Franklin knew no col lege. He was a printer's devil. Even college gives culture only through work, and there are some things col leges never can teach. Latin and art and history and literature are the decorations of man. Even reading and writing and the rule of three are but conveniences, and these come only through labor, whether in col lege or outside of it. But these are fundamentals. In dustry, thrift, courage, good cheer, fidelity, honesty, truth —these are the qualities that make eternal the life of man, and they are had for the hearing in every labor and calling open to man. If you have not gotten these things, though you have gained the whole world, you have lost youi soul. It is not the vocation so much as It is the way its work is done. When you skimp, cheat, slight or sham it your work, you injure your em ployer; but you ruin yourself. Every stitch is a lie woven in your char acter. Is your work making s man out of you? The third great requirement is that your life work shall enable you to utter a message. Painting merely to preserve wood or decorate it, is to be an artisan. Painting to manifest ideals is to be an artist. To work at a task for bread or gold is drudgery, but to find jo> f in your work because through it you can utter what is in your heart, is in spiring. A musician was sick, as men thought, unto death. He was caught away in a vision. He saw things too deep for words. Weeping, shouting, he came back from his delirium. But when he was well, tne vision dwelt in his brain. He could not utter it —such knowledge was too wonderful for speech. A night came, and he sat still, brooding over the mystery at the organ. His fingers found the keys, and directly he sobbed out all he had seen. He wrote it down, and we call it “The Messiah.” His work had become his language. The drudgery of life is that we work like dumb, driven cattle, with never a syllable of our heart secret told in all our work. The joy of life comes when we can make our voca tion, whatever it may be, publish to all the world the truth God has given us. Every man who hath found his true life work hath found a ministry. God hath chosen every man to be His servant and hath put some message the world needs in his heart. Choosing a profession is as holy as an ordination vow. GEORGIA TECH ALSO SUSPENDED. Football Team Under Similar Charges as Those Against State University. Professor E. T. Holmes, acting for the Southern Intercolegiate Athletic Association, suspended the Georgia School of Technology from further foot ball playing, as members of the as sociation at the conclusion of a long conference with President Matheson and Hon. N. E. Harris, president of the board of trustees, Monday after noon in Macon. The deliberations were not too tran quil, as far as President Matheson and Professor Holmes were concerned, for the charges preferred against Tech in volve the college president himself, Coach Heisman of the football squad and six players. Immediately following the suspension of Tech Professor Holmes called for a meeting of the executive committee of the association. The members are: Dr. W. L. Dudley of Vanderbilt, Professor W. M. Riggs of Clem son and Profes sor Holmes of Mercer. No dates was announced, but the meeting of the committee will be held before the Thanksgiving games are to be played, and the Georgia State Uni versity which was suspended last week, as well as Teclv will have op portunity to clear up the charges lead ing to suspension. Professor Holmse will then have op portunity to lay the responsibility for whatever action is taken at the feet of the full committee, instead of- his own door. Professor Sanford of Georgia was in conference with Professor Holmes on Monday morning, and through him the complete charges' against Tech were formulated. He brought affidavits, and, what he claimed to be absolute proof, so f pro fessionalism through the retention or men who were receiving money for becoming and remaining players at Tech. The principal fharges arise out of the commission cards said to have been used for the benefit of the play ers. f The charges against Tech’s players were made by a University of Georgia man. • ■— r “ LABOR LEVIES FIGHTING TAX. All Organizations Assessed to Oppose Anti Boycott Injunctions. The American Federation of Labor, in session at Norfolk, amid great en thusiasm, Monday, adapted, without £ dissenting vote, the report of its spe cial committee on the anti-boycott Van Cleave-Buck Stove and Range compa ny injunction suit, now pending in Washington, the report making provis ion for the immediate assessment of a 1 per cent per capita tax on all af filiated organizations, international and local, to be used in fighting this suit, and as a general fund for defense against any other attacks by the Man ufacturers’ Association. OPINIONS VARY ANENTBRYAN Prominent Democrats Comment on His “Lid-Lifting” Statement. WATTERSON A KNOCKER Courier-Journal Editor Thinks Nebraskaa Should Step Aside and Give Others a Chance. A Chicago dispatch says: Expres sious of opinion on Bryan’s announce ment that he will accept the presiden tial nomination are contained in the fol lowing dispatches from prominent dem ocratic newspapers and politicians: Clark Howell, Atlanta Constitution: “If the party cannot win next year with Bryan it would win with no other man.” Editor American, Nashville: “If he Is nominated he will be defeated. The south shopld continue to organize for the purpose of nominating a southern democrat” Editor of the News and Courier, Charleston, S. C.: “He would be the weakest candidate the convention could name. He can t be elected if he is nominated.” Editor Age-Herald, Birmingham: “Standing squarely on his platform, he cannot be defeated.” Norman E. Mack, Buffalo: “In my mind he is the strongest man the dem ocrats could name.” Colonel Henry Watterson, in giving the Associated Press his opinion, declared that he had labored with Mr. Bryan to have him decline the nomi nation and to quit his “dog in the man ger” attitude. Colonel Watterson real ized that Bryan had it in his power to demand the leadership of the dem ocratic party in 1908 or “defeat any other candidate by knifing him as he did Parker.” Bryan’s acceptance is no more than he expected, however, greatly as he re gretted the action, because he thought Bryan could no longer create enthusi asm as he had done before the people too many times. . Asked about the assertion, often made as to who the next president would be, Roosevelt or Bryan, colonej Watterson said that the nomination of Roosevelt was all Bryan supporters wanted, because they could then go to the people on the third term slogan. Bryan could carry New England in such a campaign, he thought. Roose velt, by such an act, would Mexicanize this government, holding himself as greater than Washington. As for himself, much as he disliked to do so, Colonel Watterson would vote for Bryan against Roosevelt in such a dilemma. He believed, how ever, that Roosevelt would decline an other nomination, as he had nothing to gain and the republican party had many men of presidential calibre. He mentioned especially Taft, Hughes and Crane of Massachusetts. He said Senator Crane would l/iake a strong man on the argument that New Eng land had not had a president for a long time. STREET RAILWAY STRIKE ON. Union Men at Louisville Walk Out and Con test is Under Way. For the second time in seven months, Louisville, Ky., is suffering from a street car strike, the 850 union em ployees of the Louisville Railway com pany having walked out shortly after midnight Thursday night. The Aral day of the strike, however, was not marked by anything approaching the disorder that attended the strike last April, and when the partial service furnished during the day was discon tinued nt nightfall only twenty aireßte had been made, virtually all of them for “disorderly conduct,” which charges covered mainly the throwing of an occasional brick or jeering at tile non-union men. The company operates on a normal base between six and seven hundred cars. It was announced by the officials that when service was suspended Fri day evening they had forty cars run ning. Only a dozen cars or so were running during the morning, and only a few passengers were carried during the day. The service was suspended at nightfall in order to give the police a rest, the entire force having been on duty for over twenty-four hours. Five hundred strike breakers arrived during the day from Chicago and In dianapolis, with two hundred more ex pected. Adding to these the two hun dred non-union employees who did not go out, the company officials claim they will have almost a full force, and will give practically a normal service. Modern Farm Methods As Applied in the South. Notes of Interest to Planter, Fruit Grower and Stockman .. Feeding. The great majority of those who try to raise poultry seem to think that when it comes to feeding chick ens any old thing will do to give them, writes Frank J. Story in the Southern Poultry Journal. Decayed grain, spoilt meat, etc. If I send to the butcher for some meat for my poultry he will invariably send that that is almost rotten. I have to go myself before I can get some good fresh scraps of meat. I tell him what is not fit for me to eat is not fit for my poultry, and it is not because I think so much of them either. I say that the very best grain you can buy and the very best of anything you give them is what they should have, and I will say further that in the end it is as cheap. A peck of sound corn will go further and do them more good than two pecks of damaged corn, and it is no cheaper to feed the damaged corn. Wheat cost here for the best $1.25 per bushel, and oats sixty-five cents per bushel, and it is cheaper to feed the high priced wheat because the wheat will go more than twice as far toward feeding them. The wheat is sound and meaty and every grain counts. 1 have seen a flock eat two bucketfuls of a mixture of wheat bran and some cracked corn and oats mixed in which cost about twenty cents, and I saw the same flock fed fed fifteen cents’ worth of a high grade mixture of grains, and they did as well. Then the point is, do not be afraid on account of expense to buy good feed for your poultry, for it will do them a vast lot of good and really cost no more. Feed no cheap, shoddy stuff to the old stock, nor the young I have come to the conclusion that some green stuff should be fed fowls, for they are fond of it, but that it is not essential; and that it is essential that they be given meat in one form or another regularly, especially if confined. That is to say that in feed ing laying stock if they have no green food it could not be told in the egg yield to any marked degree, but that If they had no meat at all the egg yield would show it unmistakably. 1 believe that meat is the greatest thing in the world for poultry from the time they are three days old on, and if they are not on a range, it should be supplied to them, and if on a range it would do them good to eat it often. It is pretty certain you can have no success with brooder chickens without it, and it is good for the laying stock. This is my ei perience, and the best thing is to try it and see for yourself. If you have some pale pullets that do not seem to be growing, give them some fresh meat, beef scrap, and plenty of it, and you will see them come around in a little while, I think for this climate that wheat and oats are the best feed for laying stock with the wheat as above stated. Some corn, but not much. You can put the grain in litter if the fowls are closely confined and that will give them the necessary exercise. 1 supply them grit by covering the runs with gravel. I keep oyster shell there. I give them other things, of course, hut this is the main feed. Going back to the meat again. 1 was very much interested in an article in the June issue of Poultry, from which I quote the following. “A cake of butcher's cracklings was kept before these fowls Constantly, and every morning they received all the green bone and lean meat they would eat. At noon one quart of oats was fed to every eight hens. Onions and beets furnished the suc culent food. Oyster shell, grit and ■water always accessible. No mashes were fed. This composed the day’s ration. While I have lost the origi nal figures, the birds averaged nearly 200 eggs apiece for the year.” ¥ Women in Poultry Work. The Southern Fancier is mistaken in a recent article on poultry schools when it says the Rhode Island Agri cultural College is the only one hav ing a women's course. The Univer sity of Tennessee poultry courses are open to women all the time, at the summer school course. This last summer there were seventeen women enrolled in the course. It is right and proper that women should have access to the poultry courses, as we venture to say that if an accurate census be taken it will be found that there are many more women than men engaged in the rais ing of poultry. In the case of the farmers the business is almost en tirely in the hands of the women. This is right, too, for women are by nature the better suited for. carrying on the business. She has the patient application and constantly daily ap plication to detail, the lack of which wrecks many a poultry venture, where made by men. When it comes to the raising of little chicks, she is su preme; her maternal ministrations will make a man turn green with envy at the number she will raise strong and healthy, to vigorous ma turity. In East Tennessee she is the poultry raiser. The fact that the business is in the hands of women is the salvation of the Industry. With no capital, little facilities and little time, they have made the poultry in dustry in Tennessee the greatest in the South. Another point in their favor, they stand for Improvement and advance; while the men stick stubbornly to antiquated methods, the women stand for progress, for Improved betterment along improved and modern lines. Usually, too, when a poultry paper is taken by the far mer it’s the good wife who reads it and profits thereby. I never had success in raising young chicks as the year I was away from home and my wife did the raising. All hail td woman, the sovereign of the poultry world, as of many others.—lndus trious Hen. , i ll * I Light a Necessity. All who are planning to build poultry houses should remember that light Influences laying on the part of the hens. Put a flock in a dimly lighted poultry house, and no matter how comfortable it may be, fowls will cluster together in soma corner outside, and brave all the storms that may come, in preference to remaining inside a dark and gloomy house. Chicks also prefer light, and will remain outside of the brooder, and become chilled rather than go under the cover where it is dark, although warm. All birds have an instinctive dread of darkness. As soon as the sun begins to set they seek a safe retreat before darkness comes, and bright, and early in the morning they seek to go where it is light. They seem to attribute dan ger to their natural enemies asso ciated with darkness, and they detest dark quarters Itecause they cannot see clearly unless it is very light. The poultry houses, therefore, should have large windows. There are those who affirm that too much glass radiates the heat, but it also admits heat and light', as well as renders the interior of the house cheerful and inviting, and the hens will be more thrifty, have better appetites, be less liable to disease, and will produce more eggs during the whole winter. —Nashville American. ryr* - Importance of Cleanliness. Everything about a poultry house should be kept reasonably clean. As a rule droppings should be removed daily, for the accumulation of ex crement harbors parasites, contami nates the air and breeds contagion. After the dropping boards have been cleaned, they should be sprinkled with road dust, coal ashes, land plas ter, or air-slaked lime to absorb the liquid excrement. Nests in which straw or other similar material is used should be cleaned out and new straw put in about once every three or four weeks, or oftener if it be comes damp or dirty. The quarters should be thoroughly whitewashed at least once a year, late in summer ©»• early in the fall. The whitewash can be made by slak ing lime in boiling water and then thinning to the proper consistency for applying. The addition of four ounces of carbolic acid to each gallon of whitewash will increase its disin fecting power. The runs should be plowed occasionally in order to bury the accumulated droppings and also turn up fresh soil.—Nashville Ameri can. Preservation of Eggs. A Southern correspondent writes: “Please send me a good recipe for preserving eggs.” A ten per cent, solution of water glass made by taking one part of water glass to nine parts of water that has been carefully boiled is an excellent preservative for eggs. The solution should be put in crocks and the eggs added every day as they are gathered until the crock is well filled. Care should be taken to have the solution cover the eggs to a depth of at least two inches. Only clean, fresh eggs should be used. This is a very important matter. Another good method of preserving eggs is to make a solution by slak ing four pounds of good lump lime, and while hot stir in two pounds of common salt. When the solution is cool add five gallons of boiled water. Stir thoroughly several times the first day and let settle. Decant off the clear liquid and place the eggs there in as directed for the water-glass so lution. —Southern Farm Magazine.