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PEACHES ARE ALL RIGHT
Cold Waves Came In Time to
Prevent Disaster.
TREES HAU NUT DUBBED
Brightest Prospects in View for Some
Fine Fruit Reports President Bagley
of the Georgia Fruit Exchange.
Atlanta, Ga. —The fruit growers ali
over the state, so President Bagley ot
the Georgia Fruit Exchange reports,
are glad to have the cold wave come
at this time, for it prevents what
" as feared, to be a disaster to the
peach crop in this state.
The rather immoderate hot wave
which had been existing until recent
ly throughout the state had put the
growers in a state of fear, because it
was thought that a continuance ol
such conditions vvoutd cause tne buus
to grow to such a state mat wnen a
coiu wave aid come they would bo
killed. As the buds had' not uevel
oped to the dangerous state when
lias cold wave presented itself, there
is now danger of an off year as tar
as peaches are concerned, but the
brigntest prospects for ,some fine
lruit.
hit tltmSH SVSlt.il.
Agricultural Training in an English
County.
The education committee of Chis
hire county thinks that the schools
should aid in the vocational training
of the youths of that county.
In England the girls look after the
therefore, maintains one school for
special instruction of women in the
dairy and the poultry. The county
dairy work and the management of
poultry. Each course extends over
thirteen weeks and three courses are
offered each year. Eighteen students
are provided for in each course. Not
great numbers are sought, but solid
preparation for those actually expect
ing to engage in the vocation. Peri
patetic courses are given in these
subjects in the elementary schools in
a more elematary manner.
I Then there is the county agricul
tural and horticultural school with ac
commodations for forty-live students,
with a three years’ course of instruc
tion in all subjects connected with
farming and gardening and care of
farm animals. Theie is a faculty of
ten instructors. The laboratories are
well equipped for chemistry and bi
ology. The school owns its own elec
tric light and water plant. The farm
is worked by the students. A herd of
dairy shorthorns, a flock of sheep
and white Yorkshire pigs are kept.
The “duty list’’ is prepared each
week for the students’ work from
ti:3o to 8, and again in the evenings
under the following heads: Corns,
dairy, stable, cattle and calves, pigs,
poultry. In this way by actually at
tending to the various sections the
students become practically familiar
with the wants of the live stock.
We have a somewhat similar ar
rangement in our district agricultural
schools. In fact, these schools should
fill somewhat, the same place as the
county agricultural school in Chis
hire. Ours still lack sufficient scien
tific and thorough textboon
and laboratory training to supple
ment the outdoor work. This was
planned, but as yet the equipment
and teaching force has not been suf
ficient. I believe that the counties in
each district should give scholar
ships to those district schools, and
the state should grant one scholarship
from each county to the agricultural
college. _ i,
The school hours are as toliows.
A. 30 —Farm and garden duty,
x-’oo—Prayers and breakfast.
9'oo-12:30 Lectures, laboratory
work, etc.
I:oo— Dinner.
2; 00-4:o*0 —Lectures and practical
work.
r . o A
7-00 —Revision of lecture work, etc.
8 ;O0 —Prayer and supper.
i°consider ht the county agricultural
school at Holmes Chapel a practical
schoo well taught, and eminently
fitted for the needs of the agricultural
Cl A Se new feature in this county was
A VT npnt of a lecturer on sick
nursing Each course consists of six
lectures and these are given in dif
ferent school centers in the order of
application to the director of educa
ti0 The work in nature study is more
t v o iiv carried on than I have
systematica y The instructor
seen in . ho j ds c i aS ses in va
in natuife for instruction in na
rious count o s f teac hers in chemistry
tU H e nX The ordinary classes meet
SC ra' wlek and consist of lecture
once a inns followed by bo
and demonstration lecturer algo
tonical ®f^ mPntarv schools to give
att l K S t three lectures on these sub
al least thre fare Qf teachers
to° the lecture centers is paid by the
issr "-° rk
throughout issues a physical
The
drill mauu^ tinn in the elementary
out the na n , g M much a
SCb °° f'the day’s work as arithmetic,
part of the a > distl system ar
& I» * &. We might
ranged h> " « 6on here . we should
learn an °„ medica l examination and
drill la all of our
schools. g stbWA rt, Athens, Ga.
THROtGfIODT THE STATE
At a banquet in his honor, given
by the Augusta chamber of com
merce, Mr. E. H. Harriman, the rail
way king, outlined the policy of his
railroads in the state of Georgia, and,
in condensed form, they are as fol
lows: If the people of the state will
cease to be antagonistic to the rail
road interests he will spend ten mil
lion dollars on the Central of Geor
gia railroad, of which road he is the
controlling factor, and that if he im
proves his property, the other roads
will have to do likewise. His address
was impromptu and he took up state
ments of the leading speakers of the
evening and defined ins future atti
tude in this state. He complimented
the people of the state upon the elec
tion of Honorable J. Brown to the
governor’s chair, and said that he be
lieved it would result in prosperity
to the entire state. Mr. Harriman
came to Augusta for health, and he
says that he has gained back his
health. “It is up to Georgia to raise
the embargo,” he said. He only
vouchsafed a promise of railroad ex
tension in this state insofar as the
attitude of the law and public senti
ment will justify.
The Farmers’ National Bank of
Monticelio has been authorized to be
gin business with $39,000 capital, E.
H. Jordan, president; J. A. Kelly,vice
president; D. N. Harvey, cashier.
Rev. B. F. Fraser of Gainesville,
since November the North Georgia
Conference missionary evangelist,was
notified by Bishop Hoss of his ap
pointment as presiding elder of
Augusta district to succeed the late
Dr. J. W. Heidt, whose death occur
red a few days ago.
Evangelist Burke Culpepper of Val
dosta, though not a very strenuous
preacher, has succeeded in making it
necessary to deny some very sensa
tional reports which it is said that
a street preacher has been circulat
ing about him in Florida. The re
port was th®t during one of his meet
ings in the upper part of this state
he became involved in an affray with
a man in his congregation and that
he shot at the man, striking a woman
and killing her.
Much has been heard of the alleged
cruelties of the prison system of
Georgia, but the negro who has just
been pardoned after fourteen years’
Service as a convict in a coal mine,
and received w r ith his pardon SBOO in
cash which he had earned in that
period by working overtime, evident
ly has small reason to make com
plaint.
in the clerk’s office in Bibb supe
rior court, a large mortgage given by
the Central Georgia Power company
to the Windsor Trust company, of
New York, for a loan of $3,000,000 is
being placed on record. The agree
ment covers an issue of bonds bear
ing interest at 5 per cent, the last to
expire in 1918. The funds are going
into a large power plant now in con
struction on the Ocmulgee river near
Lloyd’s shoals, in Butts county.
Fifteen indictments were returned
by the Ware county grand jury
against alleged night riders, for tak
ing part in the recent shooting up of
the town of Beach, that county. In
the trouble, Miss Maggie Taylfcr, aged
14, was shot and very seriously
wounded. The indictments charge a
viidemeanor, riot and assault with in
tent to murder. The indictments are
against five young men, who, it is
said, are not under arrest. They, it
is alleged, rode into the little town at
night and fired over five hundred .bul
lets from pistols, firing into houses
at random, and into groups of per
sons on the streets, throwing the en
tire community into terror.
President J. J. Connor of the board
of trustees of the SIOO,OOO Agricul
tural college at Athens and also the
president of the State Agricultural
society of Georgia, while in Atlanta
recently announced, definitely, that
the “Agricultural College on Wheels”
would not be operated this year, as
first contemplated. The reason giv
en for this action is not on account cf
any lack of co-operation by the roads
in Georgia or opposition by the rail
road commission of Georgia, or lack
of interest in the train by the plant
ers of the state; for these three ele
means were heartily in favor of the
train, but because of the splendid
growth in the interest of the Agricul
tural college, which would prevent
Dr. Soule -and his able corps of as
sistants from devoting the time ne
cessary to the trip at this juncture.
President Connor had just returned
from Athens, where he has been in
attendance at the farmers' institute
and that of the Farmers’ wives. He
declared it has been so successtul
that it had been decided to repeat
the conference next year. At this
conference some of the best known
authorities on agricultural topics in
the state w-ere heard in lectures. One
of the chief industries generally dis
cussed at this conference was that
of cattle raising in Georgia. Dr. Soule
is bending all of his energies in this
direction. He is an ardent advocate
of the use of cotton seed meal ffiixed
with hulls as a feed, having made ex
periments whereby it has been prov
en that by feeding a ton of this mix
ture, properly proportioned, five hun
dred pounds can be added to the
weight of the cattle fed. It is accept
ed as the cheapest as well as the best
feed on the market, and has been
pointed out in using it the southern
planter helps himself wffio furnishes
to the mills the seed from which it
is made. Dairy demonstrations, too,
proved its splendid qualities for mak
ing more and richer cream. Thrf> soil
tests where cotton seed meal is used
in a commercial fertilizer, demon
strating its value there, will be made
early in the spring.
THE PULPIT.
A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY
DR. J. LEWIS PARKS.
Theme: A Sermon (o Churchmen.
Brooklyn. N. Y.—The third annual
union service of the Men's Parish
Clubs of the P. FT Church in Brook
lyn was held Sunday in St. Ann's
Church. The Rev. .T. Lewis Parks,
D. D.. of Calvary P. E. Church, Man
hattan, preached the sermon. His
text was the vision of the prophet
Ezekiel and his discourse was an
earnest exhortation to the men of
the church to stand fast by the faith
as it is in Jesus, and to Scripture
study. It received close attention
from the congregation. Dr. Parks
said:
In oantivity Ezekiel sees the glori
ous God, the Almighty, in the like
ness of man, seated upon His throne,
borne upon His chariot. Strange liv
ing creatures sustain it at each cor
ner. Four faces there are: The face
of a man, the face of a lion, the face
of an eagle and the face of an ox.
And we are warned that the human
element is the one upon which we
should fix our attention, for the sym
bol is of the ideal man, with all his
rich variety of gifts: Courage and
force, like the king of beasts: patient
in toil, like the ox: the eagle’s eye, to
pierce into the hidden things of na
ture and scan the mysteries of God.
This kind of man, with his reason I
and his conscience and his heart, this
ideal man, is the representative of all
humanity in ail his generations: and
his business is to serve the Lord God
Almighty and to show forth His
glory. But, as the beasts in the Rev
elation of St. John nave their place in
heaven, these have theirs on earth,
and the chariot hath its wheels,
wheels in the middle of wheels, so
that they go whithersoever they will
without turning, and they go and re
turn as the flame of lightning, and
the sword of the living God is in the
wheels. And all th.s represents our
humanity as organized. It has a vital
organism. It has a vital mechanism
—men bound together for the service
of God. The Spirit moves the wheels
and moves the whole chariot; moves
the entire humanity.
In very truth the Holy Ghost is |
imminent in man. In very deed the |
body of Christ is the temple of the j
Spirit of God in every age just gs the |
needs of the time demand. He |
blows, as it were, the breath of man !
upon the hearts and minds of men, j
quickening, reviving, energizing: !
throwing them collectively and
unitedly into the work of the da>. j
It is one of the most patent and !
one of the most consolatory of his- i
torical phenomena, and you arc in
the midst of one such great revival |
of the Spirit now. Not that I forget
the wickedness of the world. That is
the very reason that I perceive the
hour of God; the Holy Ghost fighting
against anti-Christ; and the spiritual
revival shows itself in some very vis
ible, unmistakable signs. First,
there is the marvelous revival of the
missionary spirit to carry the Gospel
to the four quarters of the globe.
Then there is the yearning for the
unity of Christendom. Then there
is the calling of the multitude of
workers into the field, not clerical,
alas, but lay. Not women only; but
the Spirit pf God has made man
somewhat see that he must serve and
work for God. And finally, more
strange still to anyone who has pon
dered human nature, there has taken
possession of our time a passionate
desire to serve mankind, to better
human life, to make happier human
conditions, to plead for justice as
between man and mar., to teach
mercy and rejoice against judgment,
that the intolerable and individual
and unseen suffering of the dr.y might
little by little be done away.
But, alas, my brethren, strangely
error and uisruption balk the steps
of man. Every light has its shadow;
every virtue its corresponding vice;
every movement of the Spirit tempts
men to pervert and misunderstand
His works; and I think most of you
will bear me out when I say that the
very spiritual movements of the day
in each and all of the tendencies
which I have pointed out tempt the
present age to deny the faith and
to belittle the body of Christ. It is
easy to see how it should be so. Here
are men worried with sectarian the
ologies, worn out spiritually but alive
still. Men forget, in their impatience
and desire for unity, that all these
creeds, as we call them (and falsely
called), are merely ephemeral efforts
to express the fundamental truth of
Jesus, and, putting aside these
transient expressions, they forget the
truth as it is in Jesus. And men,
consumed as men are to-day to work
for their brothers, are ready to say
that social service is the gospel, that
it is not only the fruit of the gospel
but exclusively the whole of it, de
claring that the Spirit of Christ i 3
social service; that any man that
hath this spirit is a Christian, let
him call himself Jew or Agnostic or
Mohammedan or Buddhist, it matters
not, he is a Christian. Is it not easy
to see how such a condition of things
may presently lead to the pervertion
of conduct? And men in their zeal
for men, and desire to co-operate
with all good men for all good things,
may come to think of little impor
tance the body of Christ. And yet
not possibly could the social aim of
the day be more injured and jeopard
ized than by anything that should
forget the faith or weaken the Church
of God.
I will not say that modern civiliza
tion is the product only of Chris
tianity; I will not say there are not
other factors that have made for the
present state; but I am bold to main
tain that modern civilization never
couid have come to pass without the
faith of the Church of Jesus Christ.
Look at it. Did not the great doc
trine of the incarnation bring into
the world personality, fraternity,
equality, charity? Is it not the doc
trine of democracy? The Lord took
human nature, not of any class, not ol
any race. In Him there is neither
Jew nor Greek, barbarian, bond or
free; but Christ is all and in all. How
naturally slave and 'master went to
the altar side by side! How natural
ly, since the days of Philemon, the
Christian spirit set itself to break
down slavery! How naturally wom
an was elevated and honored foi
M" |-y’<S t.-pU*»! fi Wl®® T»iwq ol
the East says that according to the
status of the women of a nation, so
Is its civilization; that, the reason
that Mohammedanism, the most pro
gressive effort of the human race,
came to naught, is the harem. Natur
ally Christianity made the hospital
the normal appendage of every civic
state. It sought to break down the
terrors of privilege before the law
until it worked out in civic liberty
and democracy. Naturally, too, be
cause of the infinite pity of .Testis
Christ men are pitiful and loving to
day toward their brethren. And
mark you, only in Christian lands
has this thing come to pass. There
have been great civilizations of old,
in Nineveh and Babylon and Romo
and Sennacherib was no
puny, petty sovereign. Rome gov
erned and administered the world,
but the care of man for ma- and self
sacrifice for a brother were never
taught as the duty of man until Jesus
came. I believe these things concern
the men of the church.
I have ventured, with some bold
ness no doubt, to invite the attention
of an assembly of lay churchmen to
what I believe to be a most serious
danger. Never, believe me, will the
selfishness of men be moved to altru
ism, and what the Gospel calls the
love of our brother, if you break
down the church that carries the
Gospel, the teaching of God’s love to
man; and your duty in this regard
is very simple. But if you will per
form it. it is potent for goon. You
have church clubs. You have been
organized for some special service or
other, but you are a church organiza
tion. Never forget that nothing that
you can do in this world that, en
feebles the Church of God, or ob
scures the truth of the Gospel, will
count for man for long, ncr between
you and God for much. Your duty is
to maintain the Church of Christ, to
reverence her Sabbaths conscientious
ly as in the fear of God. not for your
own pleasure disregarding the great
commandment. Your duty is rever
ently to feed upon the Word of Life,
and never to forsake the assembling
of yourselves together, as the manner
of many is. As for your duty toward
the State, it. is equally simple and
briefly to be stated: “If any man
will do My will, he shall know,” and
if any man will seek to know God’s
will, he will be sufficiently instructed
in the truth as it is in Jesus. When
the largest of all our lay organiza
tions for men (St. Andrew’s Society)
was initiated, always the Bible class
was thought to be a natural and in
separable adjunct. I know not how
it is now. but I am certain that the
study of the Word of God is the very
best foundation of the faith. I do
not care for geographies and archael
ogies, but bring your common sense
to bear on the Holy Scripture, and
ask what it has to say to you for your
own life; how you can follow out the
teaching of the blessed work; what is
its application to the problems of
the day; what comfort it has for your
sorrows; what hope for your reward.
Believe me, no man who reads and
prays over and tries to live the Word
of God is in any danger of forgetting
his faith.
JTow to Be Encouraged.
“David encouraged himself in the
Lord”—Sam. 30:6.
These words concerning him reveal
to us the secret, of his joy and suc
cess. Like Abraham, he believed in
God. Trusting people are a happy
people. They are contented and sat
isfied whatever their let may be.
They encourage themselves in the
Lord and therefore have a continual
feast. Their joy does not depend,
upon what people think or say about
them, neither do they depend upon
friends for comfort and encourage
ment, but they lean hard upon God
and stand upon the promises.
Those who encourage themselves
in the Lord are a great blessing and
stflttulant to others in many ways,
but they carry sunshine with them
wherever they gj. Such people will
always be needed. They never need
to seek a place or position, but places,
positions and people, both friends and
enemies, will seek them. They have
no troubles and sorrows to burden
other people with, but they become
real burden-bearers for others, and
like Paul are able to comfort them
that are in any trouble by the com
fort wherewith they are comforted
of God.
Friend, if you have not yet learned
to encourage yourself in the Lord,
begin to-dav and the result will be
glorious. (Read Phil. 4:4-7.) —G.
W. S. Herald.
Time Enough For Every Duty.
No man has any more uuties to do
than he has time to do well. God as
signs all duties, and all time, and all
strength for the doing of duties; God
expects good work from all His chil
dren; and God never expects more
than is reasonable. Therefore when
we think that we have not time
enough to do all our duties as well
as we ought, we are eiti.?r wasting
i our time, or borrowing trouble, or
| trying to do what we ought to let
! alone. The honey-bee has a heavy
burden of work to do, and only lim-
I ited time to do it in; but ue gets it
j done, and well done; and he gives no
I evidence of worrying ovc it. We
ought to do at least as well. —Sun-
j day-School Times.
Women as Weil as Men Are Mad?
Miserable by Kidney and
Bladder Trouble.
Kidney trouble preys ujxm the mind,
discouragesaudlessensambition; lieauty,
i vigor and eheerful
ness soon disapj>ear
when the kidneys are
-T ml. ~ T out of order or dis
’’ Iff Kidney trouble has
IfflihiiL )] become so prevalent
that it> s not urieora
/ T nion for a child to be
born afflicted with
*-~^i kidneys. If the
child urinates too often, if the urine scalds
the flesh, or if, when the child reaches an
age when it should be able to control the
passage, it is yet afflicted with bed-wet
ting, depend upon it, thecause of thedifli
culty is kidney trouble, and the first
step should be towards the treatment of
these important organs. Tins unpleasant
trouble is due to a diseased condition of
the kidneys and bladder and not to a
habit as most people suppose.
Women as well as men are made miser
able with kidney and Madder trouble,
and both need the same great remedy.
The mild and the immediate effect of
Swamp-Root is soon realized. It is sold
bv druggists, in fifty-
cent and one-dollar
size bottles. You may JfißSjjNjf
have a sample bottle
by mail free, also a Home of Bwamp-Uoot.
pamphlet telling all about Swamp-Root,
including many of the thousands of testi
monial letters received from sufferers
cured. In writing Dr. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghamton N. Y., lie sure and mention
this paper. Don’t make any mistake,
but remember the name, Swamp-Root,
Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, and the ad
dress, Binghamton, N. \ r ., on every
bottle.
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THE BUND SWIM STRAIGHT.
Keep Course With Marvellous Direct
ness, Guided by Sound.
Just as some professional singers
with magnificent voices never learn
to sing in perfect tune, so do the
trainers of really fine swimmers of
ten find it impossible that men with
every quality for racing otherwise
can be made or taught to swim
even in an approximately straight
line.
v Many a splendid swimmer is beaten
ojj this account, for his inveterate habit
<it getting ofT his course naturally
giv?3 him a roundabout journey. But
the remarkable fact remains that
blind swimmers—of whom there are
in this country a considerable num
ber in connection with various insti
tutions for persons so afflicted —uni-
versally and without exception swim
with marvellous directness; Indeed,
in as perfectly straight a line as is
humanly possible even when the dis
tance covered is very considerable.
So much is this the case that Dr.
Campbell, of tho College for the
Blind at Upper Norwood, who par
ticularly interests himself in the
physical education of the blind and
has noticed this curious fact, recom
mends that swimmers who persistent
ly 'foul each other on any course
should practise experimentally when
blindfolded.
Blind swimmers can, it appears, on
hearing -a noise in any given direc
tion not only swim absolutely straight
to the piiint whence the noise pro
ceeds, bui when left to themselves
their steering is just as accurate.—
From Tit-BiU.
GROUNDS FOR COMPLAINT.
“Any complaints, corporal V' said
the colonel, making one morning a
personal inspection.
"Yes, sir. Taste that, sir,” said the
corporal promptly. f
The colonel put the liquid to his
lips.
“Why.” he said, "that’s the best
soup I ever tasted!”
"Yes. sir.” said the corporal, “ajid
the cook wants to call it coffee!”
Argonaut.
The green goods that grow on the
farm help to fatten the green goods
men of the cities.
