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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 27, 1909)
1/N THE WORLD OF SPORTS Advices received in New Orleans from Jackson, Miss., say that the baseball association of that city has announced that it has secured an op tion on a Southern League club fran chise. The association in its an nouncement, guarantees Jackson a franchise, if the citizens will sub scribe SIO,OOO towards it. One-flfth of the amount was raised within one hour after the announcement, the re port says. The baseball promoters of Jackson further guarantees that if the people desire it, the franchise can be delivered immediately and the present season finished out. The news from Jackson created great sur prise at the headquarters of the New Orleans association, as it was not thought that any club in the league seriously considered disposing of its franchise. President Chambers, of the Montgomery team, which was re cently reported as being willing to dispose of its franchise, asserted here last week that it had been decided to retain the franchise. Manager Billy Smith of Atlanta ex ercised his options on the four play ers he let go to the South Atlantic league at the early part of the sea son, and will recall these players, and they report for practice at Ponce de Leon next spring. The men in question are Griffin, pitcher with Au gusta; Hanks, pitcher with the same team; Hale, inflelder with Columbus; and Henn, outfielder with Columbus. James McGuire will succeed Napo leon Lajoie as manager of the Cleve land American League baseball team. S. Barnard, secretary of the Cleve land team, issued a signed statement to that effect. McGuire was former ly manager of the Boston Americans, and joined the Cleveland team a year ago. Since being connected with the Cleveland team, McGuire has been scouting for new players. He will manage the Clevelanders from the bench. Charles Schmidt of the Detroit baseball team threw a 10-cent base ball from Vermont avenue over an eight story hotel, which faces on Fif teenth street, in Washington, D. C. The ball went up until it disappeared over the roofline of the hotel. It was later found in Fifteenth street. Wheth er it cleared the building entirely or bounced from the roof to the street is not known, but it was a splendid l,hrow, for the distance from where Schmidt stood to Fifteenth street is nearly four hundred feet. Three leagues, the South Atlantic, the Virginia and the Carolina, all of which have prospered through one or more seasons, are about to unite and are after the services of Michael Joseph Finn, at present manager for the Little Rock Southern League team, according to the Memphis Com mercial-Appeal. It is understood that negotiations have been made by .the South Atlantic league to the other two and that Finn will be offered the leadership of the combination which will continue under the protetcion of the national agreement, as at pres ent, but under one president. Dis patches from Little Rock state Finn has been retained as manager of the Little Rock team for next season. The South Atlantic league, assisted by the city of Rome, Ga., has called the bluff of the Jacksonville team. When this team became peeved over decisions of the umpire, forfeited two games and then made a bluff of sur rendering its franchise, the league agreed to take over the team and players, and immediately Frank Mof fett offered to buy the franchise for Rome. When the show-down came Jacksonville refused to give up its franchise and will continue in the league. Anent the talk of securing a new president for the South Atlantic ieague, a Southern league manager is spoken of in that connection, and al ready there are three cities who fa vor him. The man in quetsion is Mique Finn, Little Rock’s manager. Augusta, Savannah and Knoxville are the cities who favor Finn’s being head of the Sally league, and they are going to use every effort to put him there. Finn would make the league a good head, no doubt. He has done some work for the league before this time, drafting several schedules for them, which have all been adopted. Captain W. R. Joyner of Atlanta is another man for the place, and it seems to rest between these two, as It Is doubtful if President Jones, the present incumbent, will be considered for the place again. Here’s something you can get a bet on most anywhere and win: Make some remark about John L. Sul livan and thep add: “He deserved to be the champion of the world.” Then watch yourself get a rise out of about a dozen people who think they know all about sport. John L. Sullivan was never champion of the new world. This is the decision of the sporting sharks —the fellows who know. The great John L. was champion of Amer ica, but he only fought one foreigner —Charley Mitchell. He fought Mitch ell twice, once in France to a draw, and once in this country, beating him. The conditions were bad in the French meet, and everything went under the rules then. Corbett was a world’s champion, and Fitzsimmons and Jeffries were, but Sullivan was not —so say the authorities. The Chattanooga South Atlatnic baseball club has sold First Baseman Wheeler Johnston to the Cincinnati Nationals and Pitcher James Baskette to the Cleveland Americans. John ston and Baskette brought $1,500 each, and Alcock $1,200. They will be delivered at the eud of the sea son. Tho pennant race in the Carolina association draws to a close with a neck and neck finish that for interest and excitement has been unsurpassed in these diggings for a number of years. The start of the season brought forth many promises from the management as to the quality of the teams put forth and the class of ball to be expected. The salary limit was raised, competent managers se cured and it was thought safe to c;aim that the interstate was the 'fastest Class D league in the coun try." And the class of ball handed out this year has very nearly verified that beast. There has been no bush league work, and all bush leaguers that showed up were weeded out rap idly. Some of the teams in the cir cuit could make many a Class C league aggregation sit up and take notice. Another first-of-the-season boast that has been verified was that the Carolina teams would advance more men this year than ever before. All of the teams have had offers from larger cluubs for some of their men, and in one case there was sharp bid ding between two National managers for an infielder. The clubs are prof iting considerably financially in this way. Tbe pennant race has been one long guess since the first game. Near ly every club has pushed to the top and then slid gently downward. It is only lately that the present order has been established—Anderson, Greensboro and Greenville bunched lor the pennant, with Winston-Salem, Charlotte and Spartanburg fighting tor last place. There is talk of sev eral radical changes in the league next yar. One plan is to retain the North Carolina towns, with probably Greenville or Spartanburg and the ad dition of another Tar Heel burg and Danville from the Virginia state, that town being out of place thre on ac count of the distance from the other clubs. Still another dream is the tak ing in of Columbia, provided that city gives up its Sally franchise. Both these plans would raise the asoclation a notch higher. Augustans generally are pretty well discouraged over the situation in the South Atlantic League. With Jacksonville in the hands of the league, the season bids fair to close darkly. It is believed in Augusta that Chattanooga does not want to win the second pennant for financial rea sons, but is endeavoring to have Sa vannah get it, as a contest between these teams for the season’s honors would net more at the gate. Every body is thoroughly disgusted at Pres ident Jones’ vacillating manner of conducting things, and it is believed here he has "it in for Augusta,’’ giv ing this club the worst of every de cision referred to him. It is certain that Augusta will not be in the league next year if he is to be at the head of it. Meantime, the suggestion of Jake Wells that the South Atlantic, the Virginia and one or two other of the minor leagues unite under one president, is looked on as the only hope. That the Cotton States Baseball League will be revived next season seems a certainty. Algiers, a suburb of New Orleans, has a franchise in that league, and the owners are head ing a movement for the re-establish ment of the association. Advices from Jackson, Miss., say that city can be depended on to go into the league since it tailed after a strong effort to get into the Southern League. Gulf port, Miss., has signified its intention to come in, and an authentic report from Hattiesburg, Miss., is to the ef fect that that town desires to get into the league. Robert J. Chambers, president of the Montgomery baseball club, said that the Montgomery directors had de- ’ cided not to sell their franchise, al though they had good offers from both Chattanooga and Jackson, Miss. Advertising the franchise for sale, to gether with the winning streak of the Climbers, brought the fans out iu larger numbers,” said President Chambers. “We were up against it and simply had to tell the people that if they did not support the team bet ter they would lose out in the league. At one time we did seriously think of selling if we could get a fair price.’’ It is estimated that something like $300,000 will be spent by the 16 ma- | jor league clubs this season for new playing material. This money will go into the coffers of the minor league clubs. There are more clubs in the market for playing material this year than ever before. The failure of sev eral teams which were supposed to be in the race this year has made the demand for good ball players greater than it has ever been. Of course, all the clubs that go afier bail ; players are net going to get what they ; want. A large majority of the youn<;- > sters that will come up will go back ! because they iaca ability “The greatest fault with a majority : of poor batters,” said Manager Chas. j Carr of the Indianapolis team, the ! other day, "is that they try to out- i guess the pitcher. They try to call the turn on the other fellow's game, when the chances are overwhelming ly against them. What they should do is to keep their eye on the ball, watch where it is coming and try to meet it there with the bat. Many j players apparently cannot help from 1 trying to outguess the pitcher. They I say they will not attempt it, but J they get up to the plate and do that ; very thing. They make up their ! minds that an out-curve is coming, ! and then they are made to look fool- I ish and have to dodge for their lives ; when a fast inshoot is put over the j plate. The thing to do is to watch the pitcher and the ball every second." • LATE NEWS NOTES. General. Mrs. George Frey of Phillipsburg, who, for fourteen years, suffered un der the suspicion ’of her neighbors that she had foully done away with her husband, is now enjoying her day of triumph. With the long missing husband seated beside her, she is driving through the country side call ing the farmers’ wives from their hemes and exhibiting the man for whose strange disappearance she had suffered so much. She cries: "Here Reports received at the government bureau of entomology at Dallas, T«x as, from the boll weevil areas of \,is sippi and Louisiana show an average of 90 per cent of the cotton boll squares are infested at present with the weevil. In the Baton Rouge neighborhood, Dr. W. D. Hunter, who is in charge of the southern field crop investigations, says that 95 per cent of the squares are infested, while in the vicinity of Natchez, Miss., 90 per cent is affected. This, Dr. Hun ter says, is as bad as the worst years of the weevil ravages in Texas. In all sections of the Mississippi bot toms where the weevil is at work, Dr. Hunter has established sub-stations, and it is from these that the above reports came. Former President Eliot of Harvard has replied again to the numerous criticisms of his five-foot book shelf because it omitted the Bible and Shakespeare. He now says that he left out the Bible because many things in it are antiquated happenings of a bygone day, and that it is a ques tion whether either the Bible or Shakespeare should take the place of many other good books. He denies that he has consented to the exten sion of his shelf to six feet. The top of the Philadelphia City Hall tower, which is over five hun dred feet above the street, will be utilized as a wireless telegraph sta tion, to be controlled by the munici pality. News has come to Louisville, Ky„ of the death at Greenbrier, Nelson county, Kentucky, of Basil Hayden, who had not stepped outside the pick et fence bounding his yard since Pres ident Lincoln freed the slaves. It was not resentment at this act that caus ed Hayden’s seclusion, for neighbor hood tradition is that he shut him self in a little room that day in 1863, after his sweetheart died, and looked no more upon men. A Munich, Germany, servant girl has given notice to quit, because she says that her mistress persists in playing classical music for a couple of hours every morning, although she has not the slightest notion how it should be interpreted. Washington. By requiring letter carriers to “dou ble up" their routes during the dull season of July and August instead of employing substitutes, Postmaster General Hitchcock expects to save the government no less than $250.- 000 in the cost of carriers’ vacations during the present fiscal year. Post office employees are allowed by law fifteen days’ leave of absence, with pay, each year. A proposal to make smaller the size of our paper money is receiving favorable consideration at the hands of Secretary of State McVeigh and along with this change new designs are to be made in a way that will give to every note of the same de nomination the same portrait. The size of the bills will be near to that of French paper money, or about a quarter smaller. Director Ralhow of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing has reported that he has found a chemical solution or wash in which old and dirty bills can be made al most as good and quite as clean as new. Economy is the main point in both these proposed plans for the currency. Answering a recent magazine stric ture on its abilities as a prognostica tor, the weather bureau has issued a bulletin intended to disprove the the ory that the bureau “has not made good." Instead, however, of giving its own opinion of its work, the weather bureau has gathered togeth er in this sixty-five page bulletin opinions expressed in hundreds of newspapers throughout the country, in letters from representatives of va rious commercial, agricultural and maritime interests, all tending to up hold the work of the bureau. Of more than five hundred newspaper criti cisms received by the bureau, all but three were favorable. There is more pellagra in the coun try than at any time since the new disease was discovered and from in formation received, it apparently is on the increase, especially in the south. This statement was made by Sergeon General Wyman of the pub lic health and marine hospital service when asked concerning the visit of Dr. Lavindar, the pellagra expert, to Peoria, 111., where the disease is be lieved to have developed at the Illi nois insane asylum. By direction of Postmaster Gener al ffftchcock, the period within which devices for the tying of mail pack ages may be received by the post office department has expired. The plan is to save the government up wards of $150,000 a year. Twine is now used exclusively in the postal service for the tying of packages of letters, and it costs $225,000 a year. Approximately one thousand devices have been submitted. Believing that deaf and dumb mutes would make good operators for the puncturing and tabulating machines to be used in making up the returns for the next census, Sec retary Nagel, of the department of commerce and labor, is inclined to appoint them to such positions if ca pable ones apply for the places. THE PULPIT, A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY THE REV. ED. M. PARROTT, JR. Theme: Friendliness. Brooklyn, N. Y.—The Rev Ed na, d M. Parrott, Jr., of Lake Gecge, N. Y., occupied the pulpit in Holy Trinity P. E. Church, Sunday morn ing. The subject of his discourse was "Friendliness,” and for a te?,. he took the passage of Scripture, Deuteronomy 23:27: "The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.” He said: There is an instinct in humanity, which may almost be called uni versal, toward friendliness. We have a tendency from our earliest recollection to make friends with something or somebody; oftentimes with things. It may be a doll, a toy, a post by the wayside, or a chicken coop. We find in that thing a cer tain kind of homeliness. There is a tendency all the time in us toward becoming friendly with our surround ings that answers to a yearning in our hearts and which makes us feel that the world in which we live is lovable, and for us a home; and it is one of the evidences of the knowl edge which God has meant us to at tain here. He has meant us to feel that friendly feeling toward our sur roundings; to have it as a part of our education and part of our pre paration for whatever of life there may be in store for us when we have passed into the more glorious radi ance of knowledge of God. As this is true of things, it is even more true of faces and people. For the faces we see, although we know but little of the personality behind them we get to have a certain friendliness; and when we have gone by—say, the same apple woman—often, and seen the face, we have acquired a sort of affectionate interest in the welfare of this and that person; and it is only when some change comes that we realize how strong has been the influence of the personalities of whom we know very little. Again, as this is true of things and whom we do not know, It is all the more true of God, of whom, though we think we know a great deal, we know little, and with whom we may have had sweet inter course, but yet have not attained to anything like intimacy, and as this is so of things and people and of God, it is surely to be part of that life which we are to live forever, and the eternal God is showing us a path by which we may attain immeasur able love. The problem before us Is whether we can carry this friendliness all through life. We know what it is, but to many the past is only a mem ory, and to-day we are not being as friendly as we would like to be. The universe now is such a big place. Our childhood world, when this feeling of friendliness became strong, was a large world, but by and by we outgrow the toy and the chicken coop and there comes the difficult prob lem of how to become friendly with things afterwards. It Is not so easy to become friendly with the office desk, and, moreover, the population of the country is constant ly bringing to us a greater difficulty in understanding what it is to love mankind. When we are young among our friends, we come to un derstand what God means by “lore all men;” but when we see all classes of men coming here and jostling us and pushing us, it is harder for us to realize that we are to keep upon a friendly relationship with all, and we have not fathomed the meaning of the brotherhood of man. But when we do realize the greatness of the demand of human sympathy, we see that, as Brierly tells us, the uni verse is much vaster than our fathers thought it. We find that the sun and moon and the light were not ap pointed for our sole benefit. We have discovered that we are an in finitesimal speck in the universe amidst vast consellations, and that our sun is only one of many and our planet a tiny one in the Immensity of space. We have learned that the way to discover the distance of dis tant stars is to measure the time which it takes for the light to travel. We move 180,000,000 of miles be tween January and June, but the stars do not change their position to us by a hair’s breadth, and so we see how small we are in the whole heavens. When the microscope has brought us a great realization of the life about us, of the vast interests conveying all around us. When we discover these things we see that this universe is far greater than men of a generation ago ever dreamed. Are we, then, less friendly? Have we moved God afar off, and cannot think of Him as sitting intent upon us and our prayers, but as all the time doing something to carry out and maintain these magnificent powers and forces all around us? Are we less friendly when we think of the vastness of our surroundings? I think if we go along certain lines of thought we shall not lose our friendliness. Let us try to maintain the open heart of childhood and keep in our selves that friendliness that may be in danger of escaping. The first thing is this: that friendly relation ship does not consist of anything in trinsic. It consists in the first place in the human heart. We are friend ly because God made us friendly, and if that is so, what do things matter? If things pass away as long as we have the spring in ourselves the water will bubble forth. The thing is to look to the thing inside ourselves and not to the thing outside. ‘Jfct Sanba:j-£>cft<xf INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM MENTS FOR AUGUST lit). Subject: Paul on Christian Love, 1 Cor. 13: t-13—Golden Text: 1 Cor. 13:13—Commit Verse 8— Commentary. TIME.—A. D. 57 (Spring). PI ,ACK.—Ephesus. EXPOSITION.—I. lane Exalted, 1-3. Paul brings forward In rapid succession five things that were held In great esteem in Corinth and shows the pre-eminence of love over them, all. If love be lacking, these all count’ for nothing. (1) The gift of tongues. The saints in Corinth seem to have been peculiarly gifted In this direc tion, and to have been very proud of their gifts (ch. 14:2-23). Each was eager to outstrip the other in the dis play of the gift (ch. 14:23, 26, 27, 28). Paul tells them that their much boasted gift amounts to little. That the grace of love is so far "a more ex cellent way” than (hegift of tongues; that, if love be lacking, speaking with the tongues not only of men but even of angels would leave them only sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. (2) The gift of prophecy, in its very highest potency. Surely that is some thing to be greatly coveted and much admired. The man of great theolog ical and spiritual insight must oc cupy a very high place in the mind of God. If he has love, yes; jf not he is just “nothing.” (3) Miracle working faith. A man can have that in the most powerful form conceivable, and yet, if he has not love, he is “noth ing.” (4) Beneficence. You can give all you have, and that for the most philanthropic purpose—to feed the poor—but, if you have not love, you will gain by it just “nothing.*’ How many false hopes that annihi lates! (comp. Matt. 6; 1-4; 23-5). (5) Martyrdom. If I give my body to die at the stake, that will surely bring me great reward. Not neces sarily. The “more excellent way,” tbe supreme gift, the one and ouly absolutely essential thing, is love. 11. Love Described, 4-7. Love has fifteen marks that ars never want ing: (1) it “suffereth long,” it en dures injury after injury, insult after insult, and still loves on. It wastes itself In vainly trying to help the un worthy, and still it loves on, and helps on (comp. Gal 5:22; Eph. 4:2; Col. 1:11). (2) It “is kind.” It knows no harshness. Even Its neces sary severity is gentle and tender | (Eph. 4:32; Gal. 5:22, R. V.). (3) It “envieth not.” How can it? Is | not another’s good as pleasant to i “love” as our own? Do you ever se , cretly grieve over and try to discount another’s progress, temporal or spir itual (Jas. 3:14-16, R. V.)? Love never does. (4) "Vaunteth not it self.” If another’s greatness is as precious to us as our own, liow is it that we talk so much of our own, and are so anxious that others see it and appreciate it? There is no surer mark of the absence of love and pres ence of selfishness than this. (5) “It is not puffed up.” If we love, we will be so occupied with the excellen cies of the others, that there will be no thought of being inflated over our own (Phil. 2:3, 4). (6) “Doth not behave itself unseemly.” Love Is too considerate of the feelings of others to do indecorous things. Nothing else win teach us what is "good form” so well as love. Those Chris tians who take a rude ileiight in trampling all conventionalities under foot and playing the boor would do well to ponder these words. Love will make a perfect gentleman. (7) “Seeketh not her own.” That needs exemplification more than it does comment (cf. ch. 10:24, 33: 1 Jno. 3:16, 17. R. V.; 2 Tim. 2:10). (8) “Is not provoked.” It may be often grieved, but never irritated. (9) “Taketh not account of evil.” Love never puts the wrong done it down’ in its books—nor in its memory. (10) “Rejoiceth not in unrighteousness.” Why is It we are so fond of dwelling upon the evil that exists in church and state? (11) “Rejoiceth with the truth.” Oh, if we love, how are hearts will bound whenever we dis cover truth in others! How gladly we will call attention to it! (12) “Beareth all things.” (13) “Believ eth all things.” How proud we are o! our ability to see through men and the impossibility of gulling us. (14) “Hopeth all things.” No hoy is so bad but a mother's love, with eyes of hope, sees in him a future angel. (15) “Endureth all things.” Let Jesus and Stephen stand as illustrations (Luke 23:34: Acts 7:60). 111. The Permanency of Love, 8- 13. Prophecies, tongues, knowledge, have their day. Love has eternity. “God is love,” and love partakes of His eternal nature. Our best knowl edge is only partial, and the divinely inspired prophecy tells but part of what is to be. When the perfect knowledge comes in, our partial knowledge will become idle and be laid aside. When the event comes to pass of which prophecy gave us only outlines, prophecy will be ren dered useless by fulfillment. We are now, the wisest of us, but children; but a day is coming when we shall be men knowing all things. In a com parative sense we are some of us men now, and if we are we should have laid away childish things. Our clearest vision now is but as in a mirror, as “in a riddle” (R. V. Marg.). But a time is coming when we are going to see “face to face” (cf. 1 Jno. 3:2). We now know "in part,” but a time is coming when we shall know even as we have been known, i. e.. we shall know God as perfectly as God now knows us.
