The Waycross herald. (Waycross, Ga.) 18??-1893, October 15, 1892, Image 1

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Cheap Suburban Lands SBAR WATCOOSS, 1ST TAB OOLUilKS OP THIB PAPER. FOR NEKT Job4*Fi«inting! CULL RT THE heraud office, j CITY PRICES. vol. xm. WAYCROSS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1892. NO. 46. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. j yi. jam. c. ■III'PAIIII. Physician and Surgeon, WALLACE MATHEWS, H. D., I'HYHK fAX ASI* HriWJEOX. WAYCWMS, : : : : GEORGIA. j*n23-ly JJK. I>. K. MeMMTKU, Physician and Surgeon, WAYCROSS. - - - UBOmilA. gJWT* All falls prompt.)- attended to. -t*:f D ie. V. FOI.KH, Pliy-irimi ami WayrPM.iia. OflM. MUrl. K. Lsxita' sMewt-lry U l EITIcv lioiirn from 0 to lO^E.I 'anjie found nl my nwl.li ii(v, romrr IVndUton stmt nml llrtiiumrirk avenue, * whi-n not pn>fi-s Mousily tngagrA. JyLly DR. J. E. W. SMITH, Office Reed's Block. HpeeUI attention Riven diseases of IlieKye. Far. Now ami Throat. WAYCROSS, - GEORGIA. | )lt. A. I*. F.SUI,Ui|l t Physician and Surgeon, WAYCROSS - - OKOltOIA. SW All calls promptly attended. OFFICERS OF WARE COUNTY. Warren I/»tt—Ordinary. W. M. Wilson—<1erk Superior Court. R. F. Miller-Sheriff amt Jailor. K. If. C rawley—Treaaarer. Joe D. Hmith—School Commissioner. W Ih»vwl«*on Address, Wa CITY OFFICERS WAYCROSS, GA. Arthur M. Knight. Mayor. Aldermen. W. A. MeXiel. W. W. Sham. J. II Gillon J.G. Justice. R. ||. Murphy W. D. Hamilton, lierk of tlty Council. W. K. I'urker, City Assessor ami Collector Wamm Lott. City Treasurer. J. L. Sweat, tlty Attn tlty Marshal, rille, tlty Engineer. « Herald, Official Oiran. Secretary; Hitch ’* * t High S-InMil htiildir DR. RICHARD B. NEW. PI IYHIC TAN AN !> SC RGEOX. Office at Miss Remshart’s, WAYCROSS, : : OKOROIA. Dr. J. P. PRESCOTT, Practicing Physician IIOItOKKN, GEORGIA. All calls promptly attended. Jy.Mtm S. L. DRAWDY, ATTORNEY AT LAW. IlOMKIlYILLK, : : : GEORG I DR. J.H. REDDING, offick. folks block, •nr lintel Plmenix. npr,<»-Iy HITCH & MYKRS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Up Starrs Wilson's Ulock. WAYCROSS, GEORGIA. •Religious Persecution of Ike Seventh \ Day Adventists. W POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream of tarter baking powder. Highest of all in leavening strength.— Jjrteat U. 8 Government Fhod Report. ISot.il Baking Powpeb Co„ JOG Wall St. X.Y. F. and A. M., i us lays at 730 M.; H. 11. IWd, BLACKMHICAU CHAPTER NO, 9, It. A. Meet* at Masonic Hall. Plant Avenue. 1st Friday in each month at 7:.‘*» p. m. Fx. t oinp. W. W. Sharpe, II. I*.; Rt Fx. Comp. K. If. JU-od, Secretary. WAKKPIKLD UIIM1E NO.«, K. of P. Meets every Monday night at 7210 o'clock. Krwl Fickcn, C.C.; Ixiwther, K. R. and S. KIIOT1IKIIIHMII) MHO.MOTIVK E\> vtary. Meets 2d and mntli at B. L. K. hall. apt. J. >IcP. l'urr; Isl Secretary. John Ho; nth. Drill nights Tuesday ul Thursday of each week. 730 WAYCROSS LODUK ! J H. WILLIAMS, Attorney at Law. WAYCROSS. .... GEORGIA. JOHN €'. McOONAl.O, Attorney and Counselor at Law, WAYCROSS, - - - GEORGIA, Owe* upstairs in Wilson Bl.sk. A. WII.SON, Attorney at Law, WAYCROSS, - - - GEORG U JJ < CANNON, Attorney at Law, WAYCROSS, - - - GEORGIA, t >rri< a up stairs in Wilson Block. Will practice in the Brunswick Circuit and elsewhere hy special Contract.. Nor 15-W-ly. Meets ,^ry Monday evening at 7:30oYl.uk, J. J PH.’S, y. G.; 1). Williams, Secretary. AMONG TIIE CHURCHES. PUKSBVrKHIAN chvbch. \Y«liiains Street, Rev. W. S. Porter, Pastor Services^on every Sabbaths except t!l< Prayer meeting Thursday night at 7:» o'clock. Sahhatli .school at 1G50 a. in. ever) S.-,00 Will lie Riven For any ease of rheumatism which can not he cured hy Dr. Drummond’s Light ning Remedy.’ The proprietors do not hide this offer, but print it in bold type on all their circulars, wrappers, printed matter and through the columns of news- papers .everywhere. It will work won ders—one bottle curing nearly every case. If the druggist lias not got it, he will order it, or it will be sent to any address by prepaid express on receipt of price, $5. Drummond Medicine Co. 48- 50 Maiden L*uie, New York. Agents anted. A Cuie for Twenty Cents. Any remedy sold at one dollar a liot- tle which claims to cure rheumatism, is ply an imposition, for when all ex- penses are deducted it leaves not more than twenty cents to represent the medi cine. Dr. Drummond's Lightning Rem edy, which is performing such wonder ful cures that it is being prescribed by the medical faculty everywhere, is com pounded at great expense from rare drugs and cannot he sold for less than Five Dollars a bottle. Rut it always cures. Sent prepaid to any address on receipt of price. Drummond Medicine Co., 48- 50 Maiden Lane, New York. Agents wanted. bSod^Fraocur Vmbtj ^£TJg£i , £i!KaSSlisa,Sga15S! Bwda ewnui.TwmiamiWiinHikiiBiiii 01. HARTER MEDICINE CO.. St. Ltuls. Mo. O*. X*. ORAWUEY, ATTORNEY LAW. WAYCROSS, GEORGIA. Office Tn the Wilson Building. DR. T. A. BAILEY, DENTIST, 01151*0 over Hank, On Plant Avenue, WAYCROSS, ; GEORGIA. »«■ *7. ly WARREN LOTT, Fire, Life and Accident In surance Agent, WAYCROSS, - - - UBORQIA. —Nothing but first-class companies nprv- i*t«l on all cla.’cs-s of Time Tried and Fire Tested Fir&JLife and Accident Insurance Com panies, and REAL ESTATE OFFICE. KNIGHT A ALLEN, »nrl9 ly Waycross, Ga. W. A- WRIGHT, J. P., And Agent For National Guarantee Co Securities obtained on easy terms. Special attention riven to tl»e collection of claims. Post Office Building, Waycrosa, Ga. HOTEL PHOENIX, + Flrtl-clan In Every Keeper*. WAYCROSS, GA. One Minute Walk from Union Depot. ^ J, W. Strickland, ArW-.j Paorairma. BAPTIST CHURCH. Albany Avenue. Rev. W. II. Scruggs. Pastoi. Pmicliing . very ttahliafli 11a. in. and 7 hi. Sunday School every Sahhatli 8 p .in. ry Thursday 7:30 p. ni. Prayer’ ill SAVANNA 11 ADV ERTISEM ENTS. EDWARD LOVELL’S SONS, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. Hardware, Tinware, Plows, Tnrpentinc Manufacturers’ Supplies, liar, Bandand HoopJRON. Wheels, Axles and Wagon Material, Guns, Pistols and Ammunition. dIO-ly Lloyd & Adams. DEALERS IN Paints, Oils, Doors, Sash and Blinds, Terra Cotta and Sewer Pipes, BUILDERS HARDWARE, Lime, Plaster and, Hair and Cement. Comer (\>ngress and Whitaker Sts., Savannah, : : Georgia. Pole Ajrents for Adamant Plaster, best preparation in' tlie world for plastering wafts and ceilings. Write for cfaenfam. dec 19 A CUT ON RATES. Ladies are rnforlnnate. Brans* the higher tliey rise in society tl»e weaker tliey find themselves bodily. KiiJey’s lNiilotokeuxontrols the nerves, aids nature in various functions, and thus combats with t he many ills of womankind surer*** fully. If your druggist has not got it he will order it lor you Ihr $1 a bottle, from Cliss. F. Rbley, Wholesale Druggist, (t» <\irtland Pt.. New York. Pend fi*r a des criptive pamphlet. with directions and tUicates fturo many ladies who have-used it and can't say enough in favor Kisley s Philo token. mrl2-ly From June to October $1.50* PER DAY, Tlie Old Reliable WE CAN! GIVE YOU AS NEAT Job Printing In any other city in Georgia, and at as low rates. We Use The Best of Stock. Anything in the Printing Line The Newspapers Taking Up Tfcetr Casa. Mate meat af XV. 8. Lowry. In addition to the unenviable promi nence in which *he has been placed by the lawlessness of her miners,Tennessee U in danger of incurring the public censure of the civilized world through a recur rence of cases of religion* persecutions in her courts. Those cases are a travesty on justice and a disgrace to the age in which we live, and we cannot hut add our mite to the censure that is justly Wing meted out to her by an aroused and iu- dignant commonwealth.- We quote from a pamphlet in our pos session : The Grand Jury of Henry county, Tennessee found indictments for working Sunday against five members of the Seventh-day Adventist church who live near Springville, Tenn. The cases were tried at Pari*, Tenn., May 27, 1892, be fore Judge W. H. SwiggarL The de fendants did not choose counsel, hut ap peared in their own behalf. An illustration ot the defense of the accused, the statement ofW.S. Low- whose case was heard first, is here appended: “I would like to say to the jury, that, has been stated, I am a Seventh-day Adventist. I observe the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath. I read my Dible, and my convictions on the Bible that the seventh day of the week is the Sabbath, which comes on Saturday. I observe that day the best I know how. Then I claim the God-given right to days of labor. I have a wife and four children, and it takes my labor six days to make a living. I go about my work quietly, do not £make any unnecessary noise, but do my work as quietly as pos sible. It has been proved by the testi mony of Mr. Fitch and Mr. Cox, who live around me, that they were turbed. Here I am before the court to answer for this right that I claim as a Christian. I am a law-abiding citizen, believing that we should obey the laws of the state; but whenever they conflict with my religious convictions and the bible, I stand and choose to serve the law of my God rather the laws of state. I do not desire to cast any reflections upon the state, nor the officers and au thorities executing the law. I leave the case with you.” On refusing to pay their fines which were #25 each, these four men were lodged in jail'June 3, where they re mained from forty-five to fifty-three days each. The sheriff, Mr. Blackmore, a kind-hearted man, was loth to take them to jail, and remarked to the judge that the convicted were conscientious in the matter, to which the judge replied, “Let them educate their consciences by the laws of Tennessee.” This statement is strangely out of harmony with tlie con stitution which the judge is sworn to up hold, which says, “No human authority can in any case whatever control terfere with the rights of consc and that “no preference shall ever be given by law to any religious establish ment or mode of worship.” Not satisfied with this punishment, the prosecution,Rafter a diligent search among obsolete statutes and decisions, finally arrived at the conclusion that the county jail was the county work-house, and consequently, on the morning of July 18, three of them were marched through the streets of Paris in company with three colored criminals, and com pelled to labor at shoveling on the streets. These cases are not the first convic tions of the kind under the Tennessee statute. In 1886, W. H. Parker, another Seventh-day Adventist, spent seventy- four days in the same jail for Sunday work. At the same time James Stemm, judication, the better for the honor of Tennessee and every state ridden by Bad laws, passed in violation of individual liberty.—Chicago Daily Globe. Let us be careful how we let in camel’s nose of religious legislaton, lest the brute crowd his bulky form in and occupy the whole shop. If the laws by which these were legally imprisoned be a right- law, then may any state, nation or country set up a religious creed and en force it; then France treated properly the Huguenots; Russia the Jews; and early New England and Virginia the Baptists and Quakers. Protestant America had better be careful how she lays founda- tions for other men to build upon. Rome has as good a right to build in her way as we have in our way.—Church Bulletin (Baptist), South Chicago. It is high time for the community in which Mr. King lives, to discipline its moral sense, and for his State to re-ar range its laws in conformity with that principle of individual liberty which lies at the foundation of Americrn institu tions. The principle involved is simple, and its application plain. The State has nothing to do with religion, except to protect every citizen in his religious lib erty, It ha* no more right to prescribe the religious observance of Sabbaths and ami holy days, than to order sacraments ami to ordain creeds.—New York World. VISITING CARD T04 FOSTER Commercial Ftinllng Try The HERADD OFFICE HAismiw, fun Jon Prtnting. SAM JONES OX “GET THERE.” “Get there,” he said, with his Ala bama twang, “was born amid the click of the telegraph, ami puffing of steam engines, and the bustle of life. And its meaning is various. When we get there socially we have not got very far. “When we get there financially we haven’t got very far. The man who hasn’t got anything but money is the poorest dog in all the land. “When we get there politically we haven’t got very far. Eight years ago the democrats saved the country. Four years ago the republicans saved the coun try. If this is salvation we’ve made a mistake. “Did you ever see a real grand, true man or woman ? There are 65,000,000 ladies and gentlemen in the United States but men* and women, are mighty scarce. People nowadays ain’t jest made right. Like the little girl whose daddy said: Now, Mary, you’ve got a new little brother.’ ‘Where is lie from V she asked. ‘God made him’ replied her father. ‘Bring him in to breakfast, so’s I can see him.’ ’Oh, he hasn’t any teeth. Why don’t you send him back to be finished?’ That’ trouble with most men nowadays—they ain’t finished. “You can always tell whether a preach er will get there by the subject he dis cusses. Hear a little Methodist preacher talk on ‘infant baptism,’ mistaking per spiration for inspiration. All the babies in town are asleep and the old people are going to hell. Another Ipreacher bores his crowd with ‘apostolic succes sion,’ telling them where they come from. He’d letter tell them where they’re going to. We want a gospel founded on the ten commandments. Why, if all the members of the churches of Brooklyn get to heaven, many of us will have to sleep there with our breeches under our head. “Now, it takes enterprise and grit to get there. When I say grit, I don’t mean a fellow that would fight. A fights poor business. I have the pinfoundest contempt for a fellow who goes around with a pistol. There is no lietter evi dence of a fool or a scoundrel than the fact that he carries a pistol. 'A southern man will fight every crack if you call him a liar. He’s a fool. If a man calls me * liar—well, either I am one or I ain’t. If I am, I ought to take it, and if I ain’t he’s a liar, and I just let that fellow go on lying himself till he gets blue in the face. Speaking of Tammany Hall, he said: “If Tammany went to hell now, do you suppose the devil would let ’em in in a body ? Not a bit of it. He’d take ’em in one by one and get them accli mated. If he let them in in a lump they’d break loose, knock his head off, e of the four men recently imprisoned, f and elect their own devil. and William Dortch, father of the J. H. Dortch recently imprisoned, spent three months in the same jail for doing farm work on Sunday; and in 1890, R. M. King, of Obion county, whose case was carried to the United State* Supreme Court, but suddenly terminated by the death of the defendant,* was fined seventy- five dollars and costs by the same judge (Judge W. H. Swiggart) for performing his usual farm work on Sunday. These persecutions instead of destroying them selves by their own -venom, have steadily increased in frequency and severity; and it now rests with the people of Tennessee to decide whether they will so adjust their laws as to make such persecutions impossible, or allow this outrage on the inalienable righta of God-fearing men and industrious citizens fo go on. • NEWS PA PEE COMMENTS. It seems absolutely incredible that in this age of enlightenment, in these free United States, men should suffer and families be plunged into sorrow 'because they have exercised a right of conscience guaranteed them by the constitution of their country^ The sooner a test case is appealed to the highest tribunal in the land for ad- ‘•If you have grit, call things by their right name. Taint always pleasant and people don’t like it, but don’t be afraid like the man walking along the road with the pitchfork on his shoulder. A big vicious dog jumps over a fence and flies at him. The fellow raises his pitch- fork and pins the brute to the earth. Out rushes the owner full of wrath. “Whatdid yon hit my dog for?” “Couse he came at me for fair.” ‘•Why didn’t you hit him with the other end?” “Why didn’t he come at me with the other end V (Laughter.) “Just one word more, and I’m done. Have patience. Never say an impatient word to your wife or children. Put your arms around the old woman and say, My dear, you’re the sweetest, dearest girl on earth. Some of you may have to tell a whoppin’ lie, but tell it, anyway. It won’t do you any iunq, and it’ll do the old girl good.” Stem Parent—How do you expect to support my daughter? Youth—Well, I’m pretty shrewd at guessing the thing* the papers give prizes for. TEACHERS MAY LOSE THEIR PAY. Captain Brad well, (hr School CommIc •Oonrr, Lays Dawn the Law to Connty Board*. Captain 8. I>. Bradwell, state school commissioner, issued a circular letter yesterday which will make a stir among the teachers and boards of education •er the state. The commissioner has embodied some important features of the school law in the form of instructions to county boards of education. Under his construction of the law, a number of studies are illegally pursued. History, for instance, is not prescribed by the state law and teachers who have history classes are liable to forfeit their pay for all students who are taking it. Captain Bradwell does not approve this, but it is the law. He be lieves that history should be taught, but the law is explicit on what shall l»e taught. These instructions bring out clearly the hardships of the present law and arc calculated to create a sentiment which will compel its modification hy amend ment. Captain Bradwell advocates a uniform system of text books for the entire state. Now each county board adopts its own books. There lias been too much man ipulation in getting the books changed and the state school commissioner wants that prevented. Georgia’s schoolbooks in use represent a total investment of #800,000. Every year the parents have to spend $300,000 to purchase new books. A uniform system for the state would save the parents $200,000 a year. Here is the commissioners letter: To the County School Commissioners of Georgia: It is made my duty to transmit to the subordinate school offi cers such instructions as 1 may deem necessary for the faithful and efficient execution of the school laws. I consider this an opportune time to issue, through you, to the county beards of education, instructions relative to textbooks for use in the common schools, as inquiries and complaints from school board officers, teachers, patrons and pupils come to this department almost every day. While I have nothing to do with the selection ot textliooks, I am charged with the ad ministration of this law as well as other laws pertaining to the common schools. The question is not whether the law re quiring county uniformity is good or bad, hut as long a* it is the law it is my province to see that it is properly ad ministered, and—if it found to be de fective—to recommend to the law-mak ing power such alterations and amend ments as in my judgment will be to the interests of the-common school system. This will be done at the proper time. From tha school laws mainly section 23; I deduce the following rulings . The county board of education has the exclusive right to prescribe what text-books and books of reference shall be used in the common schools. The county school commissioner has neither vote nor voice in the selection of the book*; nor is the board under any legal obligation to consult teachers, patrons agents. This power is delegated to the board alone, and the board must shoul der thejentire responsibility. 2 It is made mandatory. The law says:” That the county board of educa tion shall prescribe.” boards refusing neglecting to prescribe textbooks are d relict in their duty. 4. The board has no right to prescribe textbooks outside of the branches speci fically mentioned by the legislature constituting the curriculum of the corn- schools, viz; Orthography, read ing, writing, English grammer, geogra phy and arithmetic. Any board which has prescribed history, physiology, song book o f any kind, no matter how elemen tary in its compilation, has transcended its power, and such prescription must be revoked. The law makers have defined the “elementary branches of an English education only,” and neither you hare any right to go beyond the bounds they hare set. The board has no power recommend; that term is never used in this connection. 5. There are three limitations to be observed by the board in the exercise of this power: (1.) “The Bible shall not be excluded from the common or public schools of the state.” The proper construction of this provi so is a matter of Tery grave importance, for this is the only place in the common school laws where the Bible is directly ailnded to. The exclusion of the Bible from the schools by the board is posi tively prohibited, and any board that has made any requirement that the Bible shall not be used either by teacher or pupil, is in open violation of the law, and such requirement should be immediately withdrawn. The use of the Bible is per missible, not mandatory, and the law leaves it to the option of the teacher. (2.) “When the text ltooks are pre- scribed, they shall not be changed for five years thereafter, except by a three- fourths vote of all the board.” This proviso fixe* the period the pre scribed books are to continue in use, and a change cannot be made without the votes of four members of the hoard. If the change is legally made it ean be done as often as the tionrd may see pro per ; and there is no restriction as to notifying book agents, publishers, teach ers or the public generally. This is an absolute grant of power, if it is exercised in a legal manner, f hold that it is nec essary to have a meeting of the board— not the consent in writing of the indi vidual member of the board, It is necessary that this action making a change in the textbooks should he taken at a regular meeting, or at a meet ing called for the purpose, in which the object of the call is mentioned. The change can only hold good tor the l»al- ance of the unexpired period of five years. A second period of five years is not a change, but a new prescription, and therefore would require only a majority vote. When a contract is made, it should be “for five years unless changed by a three-fourths vote of the board.” This contract as well as others should be signed by the county school commission er as agent for the lioard. There is no necessity for the board to sign it. The prescription of books is not a subject matter of review by the grand jury, un less it can lie shown from the exercise of that power, that members of the lioard are liable to the charge of “inefliciency, incapacity, general neglect of duty. (3.) “The county I wards shall not lie permitted to introduce into the schools any text or miscellaneous lwok of a sec tarian or sectional character.” It is history which is mainly subject criticism on account of its sectionalism but history is ruled out in the preseript- of liooks, as it is not in the curricu lum of tha common schools. Sectional ism may sometimes appear in the read ing liooks and against such liooks boards of education are warned. Sectarianism may sometimes appear in the same liooks il great care should lie exercize*l by the 1 wards in this partieular also. The state does not allow any partieular de nominational doctrine or tenet to lie taught in the schools, hut she does not only allow, hut require that morality shall lie taught and enforced, liotli by precept and example. I’roof of good moral character is a requisite before a teacher can obtain license to teach. The board has the same authority to prescrilie books of reference. But such books are chiefly for the guidance of the teacher in tlie elucidation of principles the best plans and methods of im parting instuction. The county school commissioner is charged with the duty of seeing that none but the pjescribed textbooks are used. 8. No teacher shall receive pay for any pupil who is allowed to use any other than the prescribed text books. This applies to the individual pupil and not to the whole school. The teacher is entitled to his pay for those pupils who do use the prescribed book*. In the payment of a teacher’s account, tlie county (school com missioner in auditing the account should deduct therefrom the proper proportion for each pupil using other books, whether the contract is for salary or pro rata. 9. Among the requisites for eligibility to membership on the board, great stress is placed upon the following: No publish- of school books, nor any agent for such publisher, nor any person who shall be pecuniarily interested in the sale of school books, shall be eligible for election as a member of any board of education or as county school commissioner of any county in this state.” It follows that whatever is disqualification before election is pro hibited after election and is a just cause of removal from office. 10. In the case of county line schools, the prescribed books of the county where the schoolhouse is located mast be the ones used. These instructions apply to all schools which receive aid from the state except the local systems and such schools as are the creatures of special legislation. They may seem hard,bnt they are in accordance with law. I direct you, the subordinate school of ficers of the state, to carry out the above instructions. I beg leave to refer you to section 6 of the common school laws, wherein the proper course for you to pur sue is pointed out if you are dissatisfied with the above rulings. S. D. Baa dwell, State School Commissioner. gome bill will be passed at the coming session of the general assembly to thor oughly amend the present law and to pro vide for a uniform system.