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PROGRAM FOR
CHAUTAUQUA
The Third Annual Assembly of Newnan Chautauqua
Association Promises to be Interesting
and Inspiring.
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SUNDAY, JULY 20.
—Music, Mr. Abe Kronfeldt, soloist, ami Otterbein Male
(Quartette.
—Sermon, Rev. R. r L'. Duncan, D. D.. of Birmingham,
Ala.
Song service, Otterbein Male Quartette and Mr. Howard
Davis.
M.-Sermon, Rev. R. T. Duncan, D. 1).
MONDAY, JULY 30.
M.—Open Air ('oncert by 1’. S. Marine Uaifd.
M.—Grand Concert bv Otterbein Male Quartettee.
the government protect each per
son in the enjoyment of his earn
ings.
“In 1S96 the party lost many
Democrats and was recruited bv a
through the latter became public. No shamefaced outcast ever sank so deop
Justice to Senator Ingalls’ memory
demands that this narrative shall
But yet might rise and bo again a man !
thy lost youth all
be kept in the record.”
It would not be difficult to
be-
great many who had been Repub- lieve that the talented Ingalls
licans up to that time and we wel- meant what he wrote when he gave
coined them. In 1900 some came these beautiful lines to the world,
back who were against us in 1896
and we did not shut the door
against them. I have no idea that
the party will require tickets of ad
mission in the coming campaign.
Usually, parties are so anxious to
secure recruits that past differen
ces are not emphasized it there is
He was not the only one in his
time, prior to his time and since j
his time,who has taken the gloomy
view that there is a “master of hu
man destinies" who knocks but -
once at every gate and forever af
ter turns a deaf ear to those who
then failed to heed him. A greater
8:00 I’. M.—Music, l'
8:30 I’. M.-
Malc Quartettue, Mr. Abe
Kronfeldt, Mrs. Willa Holt Wakefield and C. S. Marine Hand.
TU USD AY, JULY 31.
10:00 A. M.—Music. U. S. Marine Hand ami Otterbein Male Quartette.
10:30 A. M.—Lecture, “True Nobility,” Rev. William Spurgeon, of
Cardiff, Wales.
S. Marine Hand and Mr. Abe Kronfeldt.
soloist.
Impersonations by Miss Clestelle McLeroy.
Lecture, “Politics and Politicians,” Morgan Wood, of
,< Cleveland, Ohio.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1.
10:00 A. M.—Music, U. S. Marine Hand. Otterbein Male Quartette
and Mr. Abe Kronfeldt, soloist.
10:30 A. M.—Lecture, “Is Life Worth Living,” Rev. William
Spurgeon.
8:00 P. M.—Otterbein Male Quartette, U. S. Marine Band, Mr. How
ard Davis, soloist, and Mrs. Willa Holt Wakefield.
8:30 1’. M.—Lecture, “Song and Story,” Luther Mahsbip.
, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2.
10:00 A. M.—Music, U. S. Marine Band and Otterbein Male
Quartette.
P. M.—Lecture, “Is the World Growing Better?” Morgan
Wood.
. M.—Music, U. S. Marine Band, Otterbein Male Quartette, and
Mr. Abe Kronfeldt, soloist.
M.—Songs, readings and impersonations, Mrs. Willa Holt
Wakefield, of New York.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 3.
10:00 A. M.—Music, U. S. Marine Band and Otterbein Male Quar
tette.
10:30 A. M.—Lecture, “Mistakes of Life Exposed,” R. S. Seeds, of
Pennsylvania.
8:00 P. M.—Music, U. S. Marine Band, Otterbein Male Quartette,
Mr. Abe Kronfeldt and Mrs. Willa Holt Wakefield.
8:30 P. M. Humorous lecture, Ralph Bingham.
a sincere agreement on present is- than Ingalls took a mighty gloomy
sues. I do not know that we can
adopt a better plan than the Bible
plan, which admits the eleventh
hour comer to a place in the vine
yard, and to share the reward with
those who began earlier.
"I think this sound politics as
well as sound religion, provided
the new recruit comes to work and
not to interfere with the other la
borers. But, of course, when an
overseer has to be selected, expe
rience cannot be left out of con
sideration.
“The worker who came late
would, if honest, be too modest to
assume an attitude of superiority
over those who bad toiled during
the earlier hours. While the ques-
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tion is one of purpose a man who watchman. O11 other men's dures
it knocks an’ runs away, an’ on th’
dures iv some men it knocks an’
whin they come out it hits thim
over th’ head with an ax. But
ivery wan has an opportunity.”
The “one time and out" idea on
the opportunity question has been
all too persistently cultivated.
Neither is it difficult of cultivation
in this day of conspiracies in re
straint of trade and conspiracies
against the lives of men. Now
that man-made law would relegate
to idleness and obscurity the man
recognizes the dangers that
threaten our country and is anx
ious to avert them, will not find it
difficult to establish friendly re
lations with those who saw the dan
gers at an earlier date.
“If the differences between the
sincere and the protended friends
of reform cannot be discovered be
fore, they will become apparent
when the platform is written; for,
it present indications count for
anything, that platform is likely to
be so plain that no one can mis
take it and so strong that no ene
my of Democratic principles will
be drawn to the party.
“I will discuss the trust, tariff,
railroad and labor questions, im
perialism and other issues at
length when I reach America.
WILLIAM J. BRYAN
NOT “CONSERVATIVE”
Probable Democratic Nominee
for President Announces
No Change in His Polit
ical Views.
London, July 13 —“I am more
radical than I was in 1896, and I
have nothing to withdraw on econ
omical questions which have been
under discussion.”
and urged the free coinage of sil
ver as the only means then in
sight for securing it. The produc
tion of gold has brought in part
the benefit we expected to secure
from the restoration of silver.
“The per capita volume of money
in the United States is almost 50
pe* - cent greater now than it was
in 1896, and the benefits brought
by this increase have not only
vindicated the quantitive theory of
money, but have proven the bene
fits of the larger amount of money.
No advocate of the gold standard
In these words William Jennings can claim the triumph of his logic.
Bryan who papers in the United | “I believe in bimetallism, and I
States'declare will be the Demo-j believe that the restoration of sil-
cratic nominee for the presidency ver would bring still further pros-
in 1908, set at rest all rumors that I perity, besides restoring par in ex-
he has’changed his platform on j change between gold and silver
public questions or moderated his using countries; but I recognize,
epposition to corporate aggrandize-1 as do all other bimetallists who I
have met abroad, that the unex-
ment.
THE MASTER OF
HUMAN DESTINY’
“Dost thou behold
aghast? *
Dost reel from righteous retribution’s
blow?
Then turn from blotted archives of the
past
And tind the future’s pages white as
snow.
"Art thou a mourner? House thee from
thy spell;
Art thou a sinner? Sins may be for
given ;
Kncli morning gives thoe wings to flee
from hell,
Knob night a star to guide (by feet to
heaven?"
It was Robert, Hruee who, rest
ing in 11 ruined hut in the forest
and considering whether he should
continue the strife to maintain liis
right to the Scottish throne, ob
tained inspiration from a spider.
The spider was trying to lix its
web on the rafters, and was swing
ing itself from one cave to another,
ll had tried six times to reach one
place, and failed. Suddenly the
thought struck Rrnce, "I have
fought six times against the enem
ies of my country.” lie resolved
that he would be guided by the
failure or success of the little in
sect. The next effort of the spider
was successful, and Bruce then de
termined that he would make till
seventh attempt to free his coun
try.
The most inspiring tales an
those that have not been written;
the most heroic deeds are those
that have not been toldjthe world’s
greatest successes have been won
in the quiet of men’s hearts; the
noblest heroes are the countless
thousands who have struggled and
triumphed, rising on “stepping
stones of their dead selves to high
or things.”
What is opportunity? It is life.
In the language of Bishop Spald
ing: “Our house, our table, 0111
who has reached his fortieth year, our Hooks, our city, our
country, our language, our busi
ness, our profession—the people
view when he wrote: “There is a
tide in the affairs of men, which, J,
taken at the Hood leads on to for
tune; omitted, all the voyage of
their life is bound in shallows and
in miseries; and we must take the
current when it serves or lose our
ventures.” Also: “Who seeks and
will not take when once ’tis offered,
shall never find it more.”
Going from the sublime to the
ridiculous, Mr, Dooley framed a
companion piece for the Ingalls
classic when he wrote: “Oppor-
chunity knocks at ivery man’s dure
wanst. On some men’s dures it
hammers till it breaks down th’
dure an’ thin it goes in an’ aflher-
ward it wurrks f'r him as a night
it would not be strange if the In
galls verse should appeal to a man
who, although at the very threshold I who Um . „' s am i those who hate
Mr. Bryan has been reading pected and unprecedented increase
what the American press has had
to say about him recently, and the
foregoing expression was made af
ter he had found he was being de
scribed as “conservative.”
“I always have been a conserva
tive,” said he. “The Democratic
policies are conservative in that
they embody old principles applied
to new conditions. There was
nothing new in principle in either
of the platforms on which I stood.
We were accused' of attacking
property, when, in fact, the Demo
cratic party is the defender ot
property, because it endeavors to
draw the line between honest ac
cumulation by honest methods on
the one side and predatory wealth
and immoral methods on the other.
“It is to the interest of every
honest man that dishonesty should
Edmund J. James, president of
the University of Illinois, rendered
a distinct service to society when,
in his baccalaureate address, he
paid his respects to John J. In
galls’ famous poem, saying: “I do
not believe that there is an equal
number of beautiful lines in the
English language which contain
more unmitigated nonsense than
Ingall’s ‘Opportunity.’” President
James told the graduating class
that opportunities come in
never ending procession.” As a
result of his protest Ingalls’ verse
has been widely discussed. The
discussion will be helpful because
of the necessity for stamping out
the disposition to look on the dark
side ot things.
The lines to which President
lames referred follow:
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“Master of liainan destinies am I!
Fame, love ami fortune on my footsteps
wait.
Cities and fields I walk ; I penetrate
Deserts and seas remote, and passing by
Hovel and mart and palace—soon or late
I knock unbidden once at every gate.
If sleeping, wake—it' feasting.rise before
I turn away. It is the boar of fate,
And they who follow uie reach every
state
Mortals desire, and conquer every foe
Save deatli; but those who doubt or
hesitate,
Condemned to failure, penury and woe,
Seek me in vain and uselessly implore:
I answer not and I return no more.”
Although for years these lines
have been made conspicuous in
every publication of Mr. Ingalls’
writings, it is claimed by some of
his friends that he never intended
of life, finds his way to livelihood
barred by the absurd decree of a
system that treats man as a lemon
to be squeezed and thrown away.
But this man-made law can not long
prevail if the greed and dishonesty
to which it owes its origin are
frowned upon by intelligent men,
and the system by which it is en
forced is stamped out of existence.
In the meantime, the efforts of
men and women who understand
that they owe a duty to society
can not be employed to better pur
pose than in an effort to persuade
men to remember that the sun is
ever shining behind the clouds.
The newspaper poets are giving
the shade of Ingalls something to
think about these days.
in gold production has for the
present removed the silver ques
tion as an issue.
“While the money question has
waned in importance, other ques
tions have been forging to the
front, and to these questions we
must apply the same principles we
applied to the money question and
seek to secure the greatest good to
the greatest number by legislation
which conforms to the doctrine of
equal rights for all and special
privileges for none.
“On the new question many will
act with us, who were against us
on the money question; for, not
withstanding the discussion of that
question, millions did not under
stand it and were frightened into the verse to be taken seriously. A
opposition. We cannot expect the | writer in the Dubuque, Iowa, Tde-
‘Senator In
bringing hope to the hopeless by
writing in pleasing verse the truth
about opportunity.
S. E. Kiser writes for the Chi
cago Record-Herald:
Master of human destinies am I!
Fame, love and fortune on my foot
steps wait.
they who help and they who op
pose—what is all this but oppor
tunity?”
What is opportunity? Ask who
wrote the classic bearing that ti
tie and you will he told that it was
the work ot the talented Ingalls
who represented Kansas in the
United States senate. But who
can tell the author of that little
verse: “If at first you don’t suc
ceed, try, try again?” Yet the one
who gave that fine note to the mu
sic of the world rendered service
greater than any given by Ingalls;
for where the author of “Opportu
nity” killed hope, the author of
“Try, try again” revived it; where
the one stood for the doctrine of
They are | f ] ea th, the other stood for the gos
pel of life; where the one who be
lieves that opportunity knocks and
(lees, wrote a classic that, while
adding to his fame in literary cir
cles, contributed to the world’s
woes, the other penned a homely
verse that gives hope and courage
to the sons of men—a verse that
Cities and fields I walk, I penetrate
Deserts and seas remote, and passing by \ hns inspired the children of many
support of anyone who is interest- graph-Herald, says:
rTxoosed ^nd"punished; other-1 ed in taking advantage of the peo- galls himself recognized the poem
th- deserving are apt to suf- pie, either through trusts or any as sophistical. He was a man of
W ' S f th undeserving. . other illegitimate form of business, great talent and dashed off the
fC “The only question we discuss-1 Our efforts should be to distin lines one day while at his desk in
1 gqg U pon which there hasguish between those corporations the senate chamber. Impressed
CC m 1 9 apparent change is the i which are legitimate and those ag- with the
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Hovel and palac
I knock a million times at. every irate.
If sleeping sleep, if feasting feast, there
fore:
Don’t think my call portends the hour
of fate;
I'll come again, whatever he your state;
I’ll give you strength to conquer every
foe
Save deatli. And if you doubt or hesi
tate
You may expect me in a day or so
To call again and hammer at your door.
I'll come a million times and then some
more."
Walter Malone, another well
known newspaper poet, writes this:
“They do me wrong who say I oome no
more
When once I knock and fail to find
you in;
For every day I stand outside your door,
And hid you wake, and rise to fight
and wiu.
pressed
untruthfulntss of the
been any
been'a change"in the advocates of j gamzed for purposes of public | once at every door, he threw the
Bimetallism, but in conditions. , ,
“We contended for more money.'those only who are willing to have jit was rescued by
id that has not gregations of wealth which are or- idea that opportunity knocks only
gamzed for purposes of public once at every door, he threw the
plunder and appeal for support to poem into the wastebasket,whence
a page and
“Wail not for precious chances passed
away,
Weep not for golden ages on the wane!
Each night 1 burn the records of the day;
At sunrise every soul is horn again.
“Laugh like a boy at
have sped,
To vanished joys be blind and (leaf
and dumb;
My judgments seal the dead past with
its dead,
But never bind a moment yet to come.
“Though deep in mire, wring not your
hands and weep;
arlv, also late— generations and that yet
service to the world.
Wnat is opportunity? Bishop
Spalding says: “Wo find ourselv
es where we 3eek ourselves—in
matter or in mind,in the low world
of mere sensation and base desire,
or in that where souls are trans
figured by truth and love. Nothing
touches the soul but leaves its im
press and thus, little by little, we
are fashioned into the image of all
we have seen and heard, known
and meditated; and if we learn to
live with all that is fairest and
purest and best, the love of it will
in the end become our very life."
What is opportunity? Some one
has said: “Occasion may be the
bugle call that summons an army
to battle, but the blast of the bu
gle can never make soldiers or win
battles,” and the man who makes
the soldier and win-, the battle of
against a stone. This so encour
aged the student that wedding pa
tience and energy he became one
f China’s greatest scholars.
What is opportunity? Michael
Davitt, one of the world’s greatest
figures, died recently. In all his
life he had never known, what real
comfort was. So far as money was
concerned, he was born poor and
died poor. As a lad he saw his
widowed mother evicted from her
small holding. At the age of ten
he lost his arm in a cotton ma
chine while earning a livelihood
for his mother and her family. At
the age of twenty he joined the
Fenian movement and for his ac
tivity therein was, at the age of
twenty-four, sentenced to fifteen
years penal servitude. After seven
years of imprisonment, during
which he was treated to all man
ner ot indignities, he was released
uid began the work which culmi
nated in the Irish Land League.
At various times he suffered im
prisonment. As one writer says:
•Every moment of his life was de
voted to the redemption ot his peo
ple, to their material and intellec
tual advancement, and through
years of painful suffering, impris
onment, contumely and degre-
ation, he wrought courageously,
unceasingly, for the creating of
better conditions in the storied
land that was the idol of his hopes
mil dreams."
Where was Michael Davitt’s op
portunity? When did he grasp it?
How did he realize upon it? His
whole life was one of service to
his fellows and sacrifice to their
cause, and when he died he left a
will concluding in these words:
"My diaries are not to be pub
lished as such, and in no instance
without my wife’s permission; but
on no account must anything
harsh or censorious written in said
diaries by me about any person,
dead or alive, who has ever worked
for Ireland, be printed, published
or used so as to give pain to any
friend or relative. To all my
friends I leave kind thoughts; to
my enemies the fullest possible
fotgiveness, and to Ireland the un
dying prayer for the absolute
freedom and independence which
it was my live’s ambition to try
and obtain for her."
Surely “opportunity” fairly bat
tered down Michael Davitt’s doors,
so anxious was it to be grasped by
that fathful soldier ot liberty. No
need to say that with all its sor
rows, its privations and its sacri
fices, Davitt’s life was a success;
and no wonder that when he died
men of every race and creed paid
loving tribute to his memory. It
was eminently fitting that this man
who lived for his fellows should
die with a message of love and lib
erty upon his lips: to his friends,
kind thoughts—to his enemies,for
giveness—to his country, inde
pendence! What a bountiful be
quest and what a precious legacy!
Dying as he had lived that testa
tor seized his opportunity. During
all his career he seemed destined
to give where others seemed des
tined to receive. Service was his
heritage—even as it is the heritage
of all who would win from life
its greatest prize.
“ Rost) - wear*) r and rose (river,
We meet them both today:
One gathers joy, oue scatters it,
Along the trodden way.
Which are you, little maiden?
The flower-crowned lass is fair,
But the oue who scatters roses
Is the oue we cannot spare."
Riohard L. Metcalfe, in The Commoner.
Rose on an Apple Tree.
One of the most remarkable
freaks of nature that one could see,
was being shown by Dr. R. H.
Jenkins Monday. It was a genu
ine rose, double and coned in the
center, which was found blooming
on an apple tree in his yard. The
fe, follows the example of An- j rose, was pink in color, about an
plunders that; drew Jackson, who was known a
“the boy who would never stay
throwed,”
as inch across, and with a hue per
fume.
fust how this strange hybrid was
What is opportunity? In a story produced would take a better na-
of Chinese life we are told that a turalist than we are to state, but
Chinese student was attracted to
the efforts of a woman who was
trying to make a needle from a
I lend my arm to all who say ‘I cau!’ | r °d ot iron, by rubbing tne rod
the fact is that the rose grew on an
apple tree. The tree is now nearly
full of mature apples.—Hogans-
ville N jws.