The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, February 05, 1909, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextHenry County Weekly. J. A. FOUCHE, Publisher. R. L. JOHNSON, Editor. Entered at the pestoffice at McDon ough as second class mail matter. Advertising Rates: SI.OO per inch per month. Reduction on standing contracts by special agreement. , ■ • ■■ ■ ... “A little farm well tilled and a lit tle barn well filled” is ju3t as condu cive to comfort and happiness now as It was ijj the last century, declares the Farmers’ Home Journal. Small farmers, who are good farmers, come about as near being independent as any class of people on earth. The farm value on December 1 of the crops for the last two years is giv en by the Department of Agriculture in figures which aggregate $7,397,- 814,000. The farm uplift seems, to the New York Sun, to have made pretty good progress before it was tackled by Executive commissioners. Perhaps the difficulty which the com missioners experienced in arousing farm interest in their uplifting en deavors is explained by the foregoing financial facts relating to crops alone and taking no account of other farm products, cattle, hogs, poultry and the like. While Wall Street throws Itself Into spasms, finance becomes disrupt ed, banks totter, mills close and rail ways go into receivers’ hands, the green old earth proceeds placidly about her settled mission of supply ing things to eat to troubled human ity. The common soil, remarks the Richmond Times-Dispatch.is the most wonderful asset that this country has. It knows no panics, is troubled by no scares, maintains no relations with maniplation and Jobbery. And during the fiscal year it yielded to the nation, directly and indirectly, new wealth valued at no less than $7,778,000,000. To arouse the student’s interest is well, but, after all, it is the student who must learn, objects the New York Sun. His education cannot be poured into him; he must work at the pump himself. Nobody can give to him what he will not take. And if, as some persons hold, the most valu able thing about an education is the discipline involved in the labor of getting it, why should this value be deliberately thrown overboard? Fath er Pardow’s experience leads him into foreboding: ‘‘Are we developing men tal acumen? We have iiiany readers but few thinkers. I have taught thousands of boys, and I say we are turning out a degenerate race. We need sturdier stuff to make inventors and other great men. By reading books we do not develop mental life. W r e must digest what we read. It has been said that the man of one book was to be feared, and it is the man who works along a single line who becomes a specialist.” No mutter how carefully the mur der be planned, though no human eye see it, can the murderer evade a remorse which prompts him to cry out, “Am I my brother's keeper?” Greek mythology personified the Eu menides, “Avenging Furies,” forever pursuing the shedder of blood until he gave up his guilty secret. Every age, insists the New York World, has its writer who repeats the story. Eu ripedes relates the tragedy of Orestes, Shakespeare has portrayed the agony of Macbeth, Poe has told of the “Imp of the Perverse” and “The Black Cat,” Bulwer of "Eugene Aram.” John H. Prentis in “The Case of Dr. Horace” puts the question squarely: Is it possible for a murderer to re main silent? Even though the guilty secret may never be confessed in words, the impulse to revisit the scene of crime can rarely be resisted. True, there may be exceptions. Lombroso speaks of “moral imbeciles” who lack entirely a sense of right and wrong. The Sicilian bandit and the Kentucky feudist of to-day, who to all intents are “throw-backs,” may escape the vision of their crime. But a conclu sion cannot be drawn from abnormal types. The ordinary murderer cannot elude his sense of isolation, and with maddening iteration the blood of the victim "crieth from the ground." Week's cleverest cartoon, by C. R. MacaUley, ir. the New York World. CAPTAIN Til.! .5 01 ; THE WRECK ————— Ship Sank Under Him and He Was Rescued From the Sea — Williams, the Second Officer, With Him to the End — Fished From the Water First, He Directed the Search For the Captain —Praise For All the Ship’s Men. New York City.—Captain William I. Sealby, of the wrecked White Star liner Republic, told the story of the disaster. One thing he did not tell was why he had elected to stay with his ship until it sank. Being an offi cer of the Royal Naval Reserve and a commander for the White Star, Captain Sealby presupposed that this act needed no explanation. “Before 6 o’clock on Sunday night we knew that the Republic would never live to reach Martha's Vine yard,’’ was the way Captain Sealby began his tale. “By 7 o’clock she was way down in the stern, and wal lowing with long, painful rolls, that meant there was very little more life left in her. Williams (R. J. Will iams, the second officer) and I stood on the bridge and kept our eves ahead on the lights of the Gresham and Seneca, which were towing. -The ship was so low in the stern that the waves were breaking over her at that point and the water was swashing clear up to the ladder of the saloon deck aft. “I think it must have been just about 8 o'clock when we both saw that she was going to drop under us within a very few minutes. First thing we did was to prepare a Holmes distress light, which burns when it touches water. This we left on the bridge with us so that when we went down the men on the revenue cutters could be directed to the spot where the Republic went down. While we were working over the light Will iams, who has a bit of sporting blood in him. joked about our situation. “ ‘What do you make of it, Will iams?’ I had asked him. “ ‘I don’t think it will be a long race to the bottom,’ he laughed. ‘When you are ready let her go and we’ll make a sprint of it.’ “Before we had finished with the Holmes light we began to hear a roar ing and cracking of the deck seams back of us. It was the air driving out ahead of the advancing water. That is the last call of a sinking ship. I directed Williams to burn two blue lights, the signal to the revenue cut ters that we were going down and fOr them to cast off. Then I let loose five shots with my revolver. “We were going down steadily then and pretty fast. I veiled at Williams to make for the fore rig ging. We both dropped down the ladder to the saloon deck, each carry ing a blue light in one hand. By the time our feet touched the saloon deck it was at an angle of nearly thirty degrees, wet and slippery. We could not keep our feet, so we grabbed the rail and crawled. The water was rushing up on us from behind and the explosions and rending of the tim bers from ’midships told us that al ready the stern was under water. “We had reached the forecastle bead when Williams slipped to the deck and grabbed a post of the rail with bis elbow. That was the last I saw of him until after it was over. 1 managed to get forward to the fore mast and to climb the rigging as far as the forward running light, about 100 feet up. Below me about half of the ship was visible and she was tipped up like a rocking chair about to go over backward. “My blue light would not burn be cause it had become wet. I fired one more shot from my revolver, the last. Then everything dropped and T was in the water with the foremast slip ping down beside me like an elevator plunger. “There was a boiling, yeasty mass of water about me and a great roar ing. I went under, but came up again, for the air had gathered un der my greatcoat and buoyed mo up. I guess I went around spinning for a time: then 1 hit a spar. From the spar I managed to get to a hatch cover. Things were flying around in the wat er and I came near being*badl'* banged up before I managed to pull my body up on the hatch cover and lie there all spread out with nothing but my head and shoulders above the waves. “It was very cold. I saw the searchlights on the Gresham and Sen eca trying to pick me up, but they went around and around and misled me. I managed to load my revolver again and it went off, although it had had a ducking. Soon after that a boat manned by four of the Repub lic’s crew and four sailors from the Gresham commanded by Gunner's Mate Johnson slid up near me. 1 waved a towel 1 had picked up out of the water. They saw me and came and picked me up. I was weak and cold—quite finished. Williams was in the boat when it picked me up, I was glad to see. He was quite done up, too. We were quite back on our feet again after the men on the Gres ham had ministered to us. T cannot speak too highly of the work of the revenue cutters that were trying to tow us; it was magnificent.” Captain Sealby had a word to say about his officers and crew. “I have nothing but praise for the actions of the,officers and crew of the Republic both at the time of the col lision and subsequently during the very trying task of getting the pas sengers transferred to the Florida. The success of this maneuvre t at tribute to the remarkable discipline and cohesion between officers and crew. The passengers themselves aided greatly by their conduct. There was absolutely no panic among them and the women behaved splendidly.” The Republic’s commander also paid a generous compliment to Binns, the wireless operator, who liad stuck to his key although part of the wire less cabin on the boat deck bad been carried away by the Florida’s prow. Second Officer tVilliams told of his, experiences after he had become sep arated from bis superior on the slant ing deck of the Republic. He said: “When I fell down on the saloon deck on the port side I hung onto the rail with my elbow. In three minutes it. was all over. I felt her lift straight up in the air and saw the prow right over my head: then she just slid down. I felt the stern strike bot tom, for there was a jar and then I felt something give. I believe she broke in the middle where she had been rammed by the Florida. “I was pitched off the deck before the last of her drooped out of sight. I just caught a glimpse of the keel dropping past me as I hit the water. I tread water for a second to get my balance, then I struck out for about a dozen strokes before the boil of the water got me. “A grating hatch hit me and I held on. I couldn't climb onto it because the seas rolled me off every time I scrambled up. I was getting tired of trying when another grating came along. I grabbed it with one hand and held on between them. I guess I was in the water almost half an hour when the boat from the Gresham came along and pulled me out. I di rected the men where to look for the captain and we found him in another five minutes.” Williams saved a brier pipe and a pocketoiece out of the wreck and that was all. Jack Binns. the wireless operator who flashed the news of the Repub lic’s ramming to Siasconset wireless station and who subsequently kept at his place communicating with the shins hastening in relief, seemed to believe that the loss of 500 cigarettes he had with him when the Republic left New York on Friday was one of the most serious features of the wreck. “Part of the wireless cabin was torn away in the crash,” said Binns, “but the instruments were not hurt. As soon as the captain heard what the damage was he sent me orders to send out the distress signal. T found that the instrument was dead. The electric motors had gone bad with the flooding of the engine room. I | knew where the accumulators —stor- age batteries you call them—that are carried for emergencies just such as that one were kept, and T groped for them in the dark. When I got them coupled up I tried the key and found that the spark was right.” fJTst eCinbaij-thcftocT INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM MENTS FOR FEBRUARY 7. Subject: True and False Brotherhood, Acts 4: 32-."5:11 Golden Text: Prov. 12:22—Commit Verses 32, 33—Commentary on the Lesson. TIME.—3O A.D.or later. PLACE. Jerusalem. EXPOSITION I. A Spirit-filled Church, 4:32-37. Some time has passed since Pentecost, perhaps a year or more, but still the unity and love of the early church abide. It was deep seated and permanent. Its origin is snown in the immediately preceding ve-se, “they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.” This is the spirit of genuine Christianity in every age. The forirf of expression may dif fer, even as it did in the early church, for we find no community of goods outside Jerusalem, but no true Chris tian regards aught of the things which he possesses as his own (1 Jno. 3:14, 17, 18). “And with great power gave the Apostles witness of the resurrec tion of the Lord Jesus.” Here was another result of being filled with the Holy Ghost. There is much witness ing to “the resurrection of the Lord Jesus” in these days, but is it “with great power?” There is evidently nothing more needed by the individ ual believer and the church than a new filling with the Holy Ghost, that there may again be love, unity and power. The word translated “gave” in this verse occurs forty-seven times in the N. T., and always has in it the thought of giving something due. “Their witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus” was something the Apostles owed to the world, and It is something every one who knows Jesus Christ owes to the world, to give their witness to Him (Rom. 1:14, 15). “Great grace was upon them all.” It is not said whether it was God’s favor or man’s favor that was upon them. It seems, therefore, to imply both (cf. Luke 2-52). The rea son why "great grace was upon them all” was because love and self-sacri-, fice abounded. No man looked upon his own interests, “but every man on the things of others” (comp. 2 Cor. 9:7, 8; Phil. 4:15, 1»). “According as any one had need.” Not according to distinguished abilities or notable services, but according to need. That is the Christian principle of distribu tion. 11. A Devil-filled Hypocrite, vs. 1- 11. It is an exceeding fair picture we Jiave been looking on up to this point, but the serpent again enters Eden. Up to this point the church’s danger had been principally from without, hut now it faces the greater peril of foes within. No wonder God, who loves His church, dealth with this matter with a stern hand. The atmosphere of love and entire conse cration in which the deed of Ananias was done, made it the more unpar donable. The same language is used in describing his action and that of Barnabas, up to a certain point. But what a difference: the one the deed of self-forgetting love, the other the deed of closely calculating hypocrisy. The early church was not perfect (Jno. 8:44). But the lie of Ananias was more than an ordinary lie. He had seen the whole hearted love of Barnabas (cf. ch. 4:36. 37), how he had literally brought all that he had and laid it at the apostles’ feet. He had seen the admiration the conse crated Barnabas had awakened In the apostolic company. He decided to gain the same applause for himself, but without paying the full price. He. too, sold a possession, but se creted part of the price and brought the rest with the intent to deceive the church. The Holy Spirit guided the early church and the attemnt to de ceive the Spirit-guided church was an attempt to deceive the Spirit ITimself. This presumption brought swift and awful judgment. Ananias fell dead the moment his sin was uncovered, an awful warning to all who attempt to deceive God. Not all lying can be called lying to God. But when there is a false pretence of entire consecra tion. when something is knowingly held back for self, that is lying to God; for consecration is not unto men, but unto God. Peter's question is very solemn, “why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost?” It implies that while the plan had originated with Satan. Ananias was none the less responsible, that he had given place to Satan and permitted him to fill his heart. The fact that the sin originated with Satan did not lessen but aggravated his guilt. He had entered into partnership with the devil. And that is what every liar is doing, every teacher of error instead of the truth of God (1 Jno. 2:22). In chapter four we spe the true disciples Spirit-filled (ch. 4:31), here we see Ananias devil-filled. The heart that is opened to the Holy Spirit He will fill. The heart that is opened to Sa tan he will fill. The one who pre tends to an entire consecration that does not exist is “tempting the Spirit of the Lord.” It is a dangerous thing to do It may not bring physical death in every instance—indeed it will not in many; for God gives an illustrative example of His feeling to ward certain sins (as, e. g., in the case of Achan and here) then does not again visit with immediate Judg ment, but there will be great loss none the less. The effect in this case was most salutary. Those who were thinking of joining the church for mercenary motives were held back from so doing. Would that the Spirit were present in such power in the church to-day that hypocrites would .regard it with terror. -.HOUSEHOLD TO REMOVE INDELIBLE INK. Soak the ink in strong salt (use rock salt) water over night or half a day, wash in clear, strong ammonia, then rub dry and the next washday they will be all gone.—Boston Post. LOAVES FOR SANDWICHES. Half fill pound baking powder cans with bread dough, and let rise until nearly level. Bake as any bread, and you will find neat, round slices with no crust; suitable for sandwiches, luncheon .boxes, parties and picnics. ■—Boston Post. A CURE FOR STAINED WALLS. We have a large chimney which stained the wall paper in spite of successive coats of size, paint, varnish and shellac. A paperhanger reme died the matter by pasting sheets of tinfoil over the spot, taking good care to smooth out all wrinkles. When this was thoroughly dried the chim ney was repapered. We have not been troubled or bothered with any stains since. The foil is so very thin that it may be used under any paper without danger of showing through. Of course, the wall was first cleaned of the old paper.—Good Housekeeping. COTTON CURTAINS IN STYLE. Among the draperies offered for side curtains are cotton prints that are excellently done. They are imi tative of the best designs in the fine old French and East Indian cottons, and they make an effective note in a bedroom. They are not expensive, they wash, and keep their color, and they are wide enough to hang well. Many housekeepers prefer them to stuffs that do not wash, as there is always a feeling of cleanliness about a sleeping room where the draperies go to the tub. Even in the most carefully kept houses curtains that do not wash are not taken down, shaken and aired as many times a winter as they should be. They, collect dust germs, cob webs and all manner of unclean par ticles at the.top and in the^gathers. When a curtain shows soil quickly, it is taken down and goes to the tub and, therefore, one feels well assured of its cleanliness. These cotton prints are also used for covering large armchairs using a valance around the bottom. Cushions of the same material are heaped up in a seat, and other cushions of it are put on couches and on the other chairs. These covers should never be at tached to cushions; they should be made into separate slips with buttons and* buttonholes at one edge; they can be sent to the wash whenever it is necessary. The woman who puts a cotton print cover—and many of them do—right over the stuffing and stitches it in, has a cushion that will not be fit to use more than two or three months at best. She can’t wash it, and whatever cleaning fluid she uses to take off the soil soaks in the stuffing and makes a most disagreeable odor. —New York Times. it Heavenly Gems—One egg, one cup sweet milk, two cups bread flour, two teaspoonfuls cream tartar, one tea spoonful soda, one-third cup melted butter, or partly beef drippings; mix in order given; bake in gem pans. Cafe Parfeit—One cup sugar, one half cup water, one-quarter black coffee, six egg yolks, one pint heavy cream. Cook sugar and water five minutes and add coffee. Pour slow ly on the beaten egg yolks, add whip from cream, turn into mould and pack in ice and salt. Let stand four hours. Spiced Apple Jelly—Cut up the apples without being cored or peeled. Make a bag of mixed spices (cinna mon, cloves, ginger root, etc.). Cover the apples with two-thirds water and one-third vinegar, add the bag of spices and let boil until the apples are well cooked, drain and add equal quantity of sugar, let boil until it jel lies (about half an hour), and you will have a firm jelly. Oatmeal Bread One cup rolled oats, one quart water; boil twenty minutes; add one cup molasses, but ter size of an egg. one teaspoonful salt; boil a little while longer, then put aside to cool; when cool add one half yeast cake, two quarts of wheat flour; let it rise over night; in the morning add one cup of raisins; let it rise again, and bake. I usually put the seeded raisins in one loaf dip it in my baking tin, and the other two loaves I leave plain. This recipe knakas three loaves.