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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1909)
STORM WRECKS KEY WEST Gulf Hurricane Hits Island City Causing Great Damage. TROOPS ARE CALLED OUT Vandals Loot City---Gov*rnment Asked to Send Troops---Property Loss Runs Into the Millions. Key West. Fla. —As a result of the hurricane which struck the southern coast of Florida. Key West is a mass of wreckage and the damage to prop erty is estimated at $2 i»JU,00»). .Mar tial law was proclaimed by the mayor and tfie Key West Guards patrolled the city. The United States government has been asktd to dispatch troops here without delay to assist in pat;oiling the storm-swept area. Chaos reign d on every hand and few people remain in tueir home., htmdieds of widen have either been totally wrecked or damaged. Jt h known mat many received morej or less serious lnjuty, and reports are curient that several lives have been lost, hut these have not been verified. While the hurricane was the worst that Key West has ever experienced, utc local weather observer announced that the entile east coast of Florida suttcred terribly. Of 100 local vessels in the har bor but five remained at anchor, the others having gone to sea or be a washed upon the beaches. The streets along the water front are a mass of wreckage. Brick as well as frame buildings throughout, the city suffered aline from the fury of the heavy wind and! man. miiaculous escapes from death or serious injury have been reported. Besides the several score of resi dences, either totally wrecked or blown from Ihcir pillars, nine fac 'd ories were partially destroyed. As soon as the wind had subsided] vandalism began. The city police force] was unable to cope with the situation and the mayor decided to take strin gent measures to suppress the loot ing, his proclamation of martial law resulting. Havana, Cuba. —The most serious cyclone since the big blow of October 17, 1905, struck Cuba, causing exten sive devastation through the whole western portion of the island. In the! city of Havana many minor buildings j were blown down or unroofed; almcai all th('> trees w'ere uprooted and five rersons were killed, one by an elec trie wire and the others by falling buildings. About twenty-five persons were injured. The greatest damage done was mj the harbor, where forty or fifty light-1 <rs, launches and sntal Hugs wore ei ther suuk or blown ashore. The total! damage in Havana and vicinity is es timated at $1,000,000. The greatest individual loss lias been caused by the destruction of half the coal ele vator conveyors of the Havana Coal Company at Casa Blanca, estimated at $200,000. II will be possible to raise the greater number of the wrecked lighters and oilier craft. C< •imunlcatlon with the interior of the island was interrupted except with parts of Havana and Pinar del Kio provinces, in which the orange and other fruit crops suffered se verely. The tobacco crop lias not been seriously affected, beyond the washing out of the seed beds, which at ibis season of the year are cap able of renewal. SIMPLE LIFE A FAILURE. Colony in Europe Becomes Entirely Bankrupt. London, England.—The famous •'simple life" colony at Ascona, above Locarno, has become bankrupt, and Us German promoter, Herr Aedenwo ken-Hofman, announces that the san atorium, chalets and hunts on "Monte Verita” are for sale. This colony, which was started on the simple life plan about six years ago. was at first a great success. Ger man, Austrian, Italian and other dis tinguished foreigners of both sexes went in for the simple life, but the fair sex always predominated. Several duchesses, many baronesses and countesses, clothed in a kind of while sack, with bare feet and flowing hair, lived on wild fruits and vegeta bles, and took sun and snow baths. They sold their jewels for the benefit of all in the colony, and were the chief adherents and supporters of this simple life society. The men. with their flowing robes and uncut hair, resembled Indian fa kirs. The views of most of them on social problems were too advanced even for the colony, and several of ihein were asked to leave. MEXICANS ILL TRtAT AMLRiCA\S. Crew of Fishing Schocner Relate Sto ries of Cruelty. Pensacola. Fla. —Relating stories of injustice and cruelty on the part of Mexican officials, in whose custody flicv remained for eighty days without being given an opportunity of seeing the American consul or getting word to him Captain Joseph Schlease and the crew of the fishing schooner ('aid well H. Colt, reached here from Pro gresso. Tney were then released by the Mexicans, but the latter held the ves sel on the charge of poaching. The men claim their vessel was caught in a storm and that they put in under a lee to make repairs when seized. MORSE III:,MID MW TRIAL. New York Financier’s Sentence of 15 Years Sustained. New York City.—Unless the su pn me court of the United States re verses the decision or the president of the United States interferes, (’has. \Y. .Mortis, one time ice king, coast wise steamship line organizer, banker and capitalist, will serve fifteen years at l i.nl labor In tlie federal prison at Atlanta, Ua. After having been at liberty under $125,000 bail since June 17 last, he is back in the Tombs pris on, where he contemplates the decis ion of the United States circuit court of appeal.-; rendered sustaining the judgment ot the lower federal court, which found him guilty in November last of violating the national banking law's. There was solace in the decision of the court of appeals, however, in that only ten of the fifty-three indictments on which he was convicted were sus tained, and on the strength of this ids counsel, Martin VV. Littleton, will im mediately carry the ease before tite United States supreme court on a writ of certiorari. To this etui the United States court of appeals has granted a 40 days’ stay of execution, and, pending a decision by the sup-* preme court, application will be made to have the prisoner again admitted to bail. Mcrse took th? decision calmly, but he was plainly grief stricken arid* per haps urprlse-J. He beard the news in the: office of the United States mar shal, and was almost immediately tak en to the Tombs. Mrs. Morse was with her husband in the marshal’s office during the entire morning. One of Morse’s keenest; regrets at. being forced to return to prison is the interruption of his beaver-like strug gle to rebuild his fortune. Since his liberation under bail he had been re elected president of the Metropolitan Steamship Company, a New England eornoration, and of the Hudson Navi gating Company, operating a line of boats on the Hudson. He is credited with having discharged 1 lie bulk of his debts. From the big transportation lines that within the week elected him their president there was no of ficial statement forthcoming after the decision. It is understood that for the time being, at laast, the elections will stand. WANTED TU liO TO JAIL. Man Made Bogus Money to Get Into Prison. Cincinnati, Ohio. —Confessing that lie had made and passed counterfeit money, William B. Pettus, a former school teacher of Carter county, Ken tucky, was sentenced by Judge Sater, in the federal court, to 30 months in Leavenworth prison. Pettus told the court that he entered a counterfeit ing business because he wanted to get into jail “to keep from starving.” During the trial it w'as discovered mat Pettus had served a term in the Col orado state reformatory, and that he had been incarcerated in a Virginia insane asylum, after having tried to clean up a whole family with a half dozen razors, as lie expressed it on the witness stand. WILL BUILD AIRSHIP LANDINGS. Atlanta Church, in Erecting New Building, Prepares for Future. Atlanta, Ga.—-Anticipating that air ships will he in common, every-day usage 20 years hence, the board of stewards of the Wesley Memorial Church, which cdifiice is rapidly near ing completion, adopted a motion in structing the building committee to so arrange the roof of the building that there will be no difficulty in adapting it to commodious airship landings. The committee was requested to see to i' that a large staircase runs all the way to the roof and that the electrical wiring be so installed that pi oner lights ran be displayed about the landings, and wire taps will be convenient for the recharging of ex hausted dry battries. Cleveland Children in Europe. Lausanne, Switzerland. —Mrs. Gro ver Cleveland, accompanied by her daughters, Esther and Marion, and sons, Francis and Richard, arrived Imre. It is understood that the chil dren will he placed in a school here, and that Mrs' Cleveland will take up her residence nearby for an indefi nite period. Auto Only 31-2 Feet Long. New York City—What is said to he the smalest complete automobile ever constructed has arrived here. It is the property of W. .1. Durand of New Iberia, La., president of the Lou isiana Automobile Club. It is 3 1-2 feet long and 18 inches wide, most of (lie parts being made in France by special order. Unknown Ship Sinks at Sea. Beaufort, X. C. Au unknown schooner has mysteriously sunk in 14 fathoms of water due west of the Dia mond Shoal lightship. Just when the vessel went down is not known. No where is there visible any signs of the crew of the foundered schooner, and not vet has there been any voiA to indicate their fate. Received Bomb Through Mall. Stockholm. Sweden. —Through the bursting of a bomb received by post. lon Hammer was severely but not dangerously injured. The bomb, con tained in a neatlv made-up package, exploded as the wrappings were re moved bv Mr. Hammer. sTit c>un<>a:)-cbcf;oof INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM MEATS FOR OCTOREIt 17. Subject: Paul a Prisoner—Before Felix, Acts — Golden Text: Acts 24:1ft —Commit Verses 125, -ft—Commentary on the Lesson. TIME. —A. I). 53 or 39. PLACE. —GaeIs rea. EXPOSITION.—I. Paul’s Defense Before Felix, 10-2;5. Paul was in the best sense a gentleman and a diplo mat (cf. ch. 2G: 2). By all proper moans he sought to gain the favor of thosfe lie would win for Christ. One cart be faithful without being brusque and boorish. This Spirit-given raet and winsoineness is as much needed by the one who would acceptably serve Christ as is Spirit-filled boldness of utterance. Paul took up the terms of the indictment brought against him (v. 5) and met them with a flat and unanswerable denial. It is one thing to make accusations; it is anoth er thing to prove them (v. 13). Paul was a model preacher, he believed “ail things which are written in the law and the pronhets" (v. 14). Hap py is the man who can say what Paul says here (cf. Luke 24:27, 44; John 10:35; Matt. 5:18: Mark 7:13). His enemies accused him cf departing from their ancient Scriptures; he showed them that, on the contrary, he believed more fully than they did. It is often the case that the real infi dels call the believers heretics. As an athlete keeps himself in rigid phy sical training, so Paul kept himself in rigid spiritual training (v. 16; 1 Cor. 9:24-27). The object of this spiritual discipline was “to have a conscience void of of fense” that, is, a conscience that did not stumble or cause others to stumble. He sought diligently and disciplined liinuelf strenuously to have such a conscience, not only to ward God but. also toward man. He sought to have it not only most of the time, but all the time. The kind of athletics Paul cultivated are sorely in need of cultivation to-day. It was to bring alms to his nation and not to do wrong to his nation that Paul had come to Jeflisalem. * IL Felix Terrified, 21-2(5. The schemes of the enemies of Paul and of Christ had already resulted in giv ing Paul an opportunity to preach Christ to persons who would other wise been beyond his reach (cf. Ps. 7(1:10). There were few who more sorely needed preaching to than this same man Felix and this same woman Drusilla. How- many preachers have received inspiration and instruction from Paul’s dealing with these two profligates in high society. How many hesitating peonle have been brought to an immediate decision for Christ through the study of the folly of Felix. Felix had a mere specula tive curiosity in the matter (v. 24). but Paul gave a very practical and personal turn to his exposition of "the faith in Christ.” He show-ed Felix it was not some faraway thing in the region of metaphysics and speculation, but something close home to his own misconduct. Paul always adapted his preaching to his audience, but not in the way some modern preachers adapt their preach ing to their audience, studying to say nothing to offend. He w r ent right af ter the conscience of the people before him. Righteousness and self-control were .just where Felu aud Drusilla were offenders. Paul had an influen tial audience of high social standing, but he preached the preaching that some w'ould have us believe is only adapted for the slums. '“Felix was terrified.” Well he might be. He was conducting himself in just the vay that makes “the judgment of God” a terror. We would do well if we would so preach that we should strike with terror, offenders in high places. Terrifying preaching is great ly needed to-day. Indeed, just as much in our fashionable churches; where there is many a modern Felix, as in our mission balls. It is true the terror of Felix did not do him much good, but it came near saving him, and there are many rich sinners and many poor sinners to-day whose only hope is that they may be so terrified that they will forsake their sins and accept Christ. What a fool Felix was. He had seen the blackness of his sin; he had seen the certainty and the aw fulness of the judgment to which he was hurrying; he had been terrified and there was but one wise thing do, turn from sin and accept Chrisr, and only one time to do it —at ones. But he waited for a convenient sea son, which never came. It never does for those who w ait for it. With many it is now or never; repent to-day or be lost eternally. In a few days all that Felix was thinking about was how he could make money out of the man w ho had opened to him the gate of heaven. A Writing in the Heart. As men and women add year to year of patient and loving service, there writes itself in their hearts and in their faces the language of a di vine and eternal life. To the seeing eye, what beauty is there in the faces that have been lined and w rinkled by troubles bravely borne, by the sor rows of other lives shared and light ened. by unconscious heroism and sainthood!—George S. Merriam. The Law of Moses. The law of Moses was, in every part, tinged with mercy; it stood for liberty and it bad for its ul’imate goal freedom from ignorance aud despotism.—Rev. C. Ross Baker. ICASTORIAI The Kind. 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