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Friday, Nov. it), 1900
The weather in Milledgoyillo foi
November has been like that of April.
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Now is a good t me to get in some
early work in the gulden and it will pay.
lire Pi trlltunton.
Without ail the glare that so many
modern millionaires require when thev
made donations Charles N. Crittenton,
founder of the Horer.ce Crittenton
homes accomplished his work. Almost
without a single intimation of his illness
the great philanthropist died in S«n
Francisco last Tuesday night.
In his death the countrv loves a vain*
hie citizen. He weal about, working
where he could do most good, establish
ing homes for the most unfortunate of
all humanity. He only asked that they
bo rolled Florence Ci ittenton home, in
memory of hi» dead daughter.
He is dead, but his work is not end
ed. In Mil’edgoville and throughout
the ci untry there are worker., who will
strive to perpetuate the good to hum-
atity and there is no doubt but that n
hundred y»ars from now his glory will
he no less brilliant than it is today.
The flowers that bloom in autumn are
almost as sweet as those that come in
the springtime since science has been
applied to flower growing.
All the MiHedgevillo folk attending
the auto races in Atlanta came safely
back to the told and they report u splen
did time.
Autumnal glory was noyer half ro
glorious before as it has been this sea
son.
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Every boll of cotton In Georgia this
year has been gathered in favorable
woather conditions.
The grain crop needs rain, for this
sure lias been a dry tall time in Cleor
Prohibits nistsr.ro beginning to won
der if springs are going dry.
The state campaign will open up soon
judging by the way tho county cam'
paign has started in warren.
Indications go to show that Baldwin
enmity w’ll have enough candidates
noxt yoar.
The sanitrvium investigation is over,
but the report is yet to bo rendered by
the committee.
Georgia newspapers have shown much
interest In the sanitarium uutl tho public
readily reads everything.
,1
From what can bo gleaned from the
sbaff preso’itet in the sanitarium in
vestigation the institution is solid.
THE riiRGRESS IN RELIGION.
i;:l uiam in Methodism.
Recently tho questior of limiting the
time in w hich a Methodist preacher may
serve a charge has been considerably
discussed by the church in tho South
and it is thought that when the genera!
conference of that body is held next
year the matter will he among the most
important to come before tho meeting.
There is a great deal to be said about
the matter, but from time immemorial |
the gospel of man has been against
moving. The best people in the world
advocate homo and its beautification
and they discourage the idea of roaming.
While the Methodist minister cannot
be classed as a homeless man, yet he in
variably has tho weighty subject of
changing his place of residence thrust
upon ids mind. And we know of several
eases where open rebellion to this idea
has caused dissolution, so to apeak, of
lies that bound the preachers to thp
church. It would seem to a man of
another church, or of the world, that
boir.g a minister for Methodism means
giving up much of that which is nearest
and dearest on earth, that winch savors
of something akin the divine,the build
ing up of a little earthly Paradise, call- I
ing il home until tho eternal resting
place opened up over yonder where the
pastures are fair and where tho pearly
waters gleam. Pul in these days of
progress the ideas that prevailed in the
olden, golden days must be placed in
the background. Wo must do whatever
comes along that fuithors the advance
ment of our er.usc, even if it be the
Methodist chnroli. We must not think
of the hundreds of men who travel hero
and there and everywhere, wearing out
their lives that men may know of God.
In religion ns in politics, war, or other
material things, the gratest good to the
greatest number must bo considered and
wo must sacrifice these men,their wives
a id their children because tho edict of
tlie church ssys they must move and
keep moving.
HOME MISSIONS.
By Mrs. .M. S. Lawrence.
Our Work.
There are 86,348 women and children
in Southern Methodism interested in
this work, they build oarsonages and
churches in the poorer districts, send
supplies, have Deaconesses to help in
the City Missions, Home Missionaries,
Immigrant Homes, Cuban work, Negro
work, f’acfic Coast, work, Industrial
Schools, Rescue Homes, Home for the
Friendless, S >ciol< gy, Philanthropy,
Literature an ! Press warl., Tithing and
Education.
We need the other 813,612 wom^n alid
children in the church. If each member
will get nine others interested then the
Southern Methodist church will be alive
with the spirit of God. and we know the
work will make rapid btrides forward.
Mo ye in her Homes.
This nimber of Our Homes gives us
much information on the mill, the mine,
and the lumber camp, more than a
million people are engaged in these
three industries and millions are de
pendent upon them, and the number is
increasing. What is the duty of
the Christian Churches to this vast con
course of people. The Home Mission
Society is keenly alive to the situation
and has trained workers doing work in
Atlanta, Augusta and Lindale. I give
only names of cities in our Htate. As
the yeara go by nnd the number of our
workers increase we hope to measure
up to our opportunities and responsibil
ities. Their greatest need Is net money
for in the majority of coses the wages
earned by people would be sufficient for
comfortable maintainancoif intelligent
ly expended. It is this informed intelli
gence that they need to secure for
themselves physical health, sanitary
homes and needed comforts. It will oe
difficult to secure this for the adult, if
not impossible, but it can be given to
the children and the results will be
seen in the next generation.
A WKEtTII OK SONNETS.
(To Rhea Hajne)
Stanley Vann, one of the be3t known
poets of the Mississippi Valley, and a
co-iaborer with the Editor of The News
on the special sta* of Home and Farm,
writes the following in that Journal in
scribed to “Rhea Hayne,” the pen
name of Mr.. McAulilfe. it is given
here as an expression of appreciation:
You-uc oracle of rural c-iersr.
Without the feint of footman or of caH.
from rustic haunt. I bnng for j yjr rcserf
This Lunch of flimple*. »If you have near Ly
A vtutc whore pr<-/*nt .tore is dead and d-y.
Why let me net three spjnHter* of the yard.
And alien, pilfrred from the froeted .ward.
And purple dainties that w *re booked to d.e.
Upon your deek. Oh. let the cry.tal dew
Of friend.hip fall upon *.he offer;nv».
And ail the visor of their youth renew, there
clings
Making them immortelle. Even now
Something that hints an amaranthine hue
About the petal, of the wilted things.
Amid the scenes that whisper of rurceaae.
I feel an inclination in my blood
To form with men a mutual brotherhood
And temper every faction into peace.
Not that the sheep that wear the snow-white
fleece
Are not preferred to those who. unsubdued
To nobler life, still Lear the servitude
That makes them callous a. the years increass;
But that the solemn and the aomVr calls
Of dotard autumn cry for tenderness;
And lessons of the foliage as it falls
Are urged upon the aoul to murmur les,--
To pass the wine of life, and not the galls.
And c 1.01...' to censure where we cannot bless.
A Unde of silvered grass: s distant line
Of leafless forests: a moraaa: a Us! vs:
A clump of evergreen; a stretch of sedge;
A country road: a tall and aighing pine,
A flight of g**cae--the unfailing sign
That winter's at the door: a ruaset ledg,
Of drifted loaves anchored from edge to edge
O' the sleepy creek, like Milton, ssw recline
In Vallambrusa. Far from foe or friend.
That apeak my tana'-Jag*. I am not alon<*.
Hut in fair company, walking with the hlcnd
That (•<>! made baauliful. Fluting* from the
flown.
And whi*|>erlnga prophet'c of the m l.
Have yet a temporal and a tender ton*.
Illiteracy is disastrous to both man
and woman, but the burden of child
labor bears mote heavily on the little
girl than on the little boy. His task
ana “dofTer boy” i«intermittent, allow
ing him frequent intervals for play.
The little girl is set to work at the
spindles. She must always be on the
alert. Her toil is incessant and mostly
solitary. She is always on her feet,
consequently becoming tired nnd de
pressed, Sho loses the child joy and
gladness. She begins to feel and look
prematurely old. It is sad to see these
little girls, who should be playing with
dolls and kittens and learning to read
and write, thus early bearing on their
delicate shoulders the burden of life.
THE GRAND JURY’S WORK
Notice to Turulp Growers.
The turnip contest closes Saturday
Nov. 2oth at 12 o'clock. We will give
Sf> in gold for the four largest turnips
without tops raise I from our seed.
Culver & Kidd.
IF HE TVEIIE ABSENT.
Hiajlttl* muddy footprint* stain the hall!
His scattered playthings litter up th« flojr;
He leaves dark flngerprinta upon the will.
And never yot was kn iwn to close a door.
H's little jsrjtct anywhere is flunjr.
Tho golden curls* are ever twistod on hu
hi ad;
His cap upon Its peir if seldom hung:
Ho always plnads to gc unwashed to bod.
He o'ten provokes mo with his careless ways;
He nearly drives me frantic with his shout;
And. selfishly. I often rue the days
That I must watch him playing ’round
about.
A thankless tnsk at best. I nay it is.
And yet. should I not hear his dear yo.cn
call,
Nor catch the eager boyish Isugh of his.
And listen all in vain for his footfall.
Should I not sec his rosy face at night
To mine upheld for one last bedtime kiss;
Were he to pass forever from my sight;
Should l Ms lisping prayer at even miss;
Ah. God. how 1 would plead to feel once mors
His little restless hands upon my face,
j And see him running thru the open <l«or
To greet me with the old-time glad embrace.
—Loa Angeles Express.
Positively, 25 per cent be
low' cost on underwear at-
The Babb Shoe Co.
Up In Put ram county there is a Primi
tive Bapt-st church ami last week
John Jenkins, husband of one of the
member*; it’ not a member himself,
published an advertisement stating
that the members had become disorder
ly and were iji't practicing Gospel rule.:.
Her Orthodox 0 alright but her prac
tice is not moral, says tho advertise
meat, usin r the personal pronoun re
ferring to tho church. That is sadly
out "f place these days.
We don’t profess to be critic of that
Church, or any other church, but
nowadays die man who provisos to
arraign a church, or any of its members
for and action they see tit to take
fights the inevitable and sooner or
late: must go down in ignotninous de
feat. These are days when churches
are sovereign bodies, when Catholics
feast with protestsots, when Meth
od, str (ill ii.q>ust pulpits, when man
is nearer to man, when the universal
brotnerhood is being strengthened,
when no man or set of men candissuads
humanity from following the path of
perfection nnd primitive:.*** must give
way to progress.
KARDKllh'i SVifeUlKli TOOL.
The Saturday Evcnii g Post last week
had the following to sav of Thomas W.
Hardwick, congressman from the Tenth
district:
Representative Hardwick, of Sand-
ersville, Georgia, is the smallest man,
physically, in the House of Representa
tives. Colonel “Ike" Hill, late Demo
cratic employee of the House, said
onct of Han!wick: "You could drown
him in a fountain pen ”
Congressman Hardwick, by the way,
was initiated by the Knights Templar
order in Milledgeville a couple of weeks
ago.
Last week The MiHedgevillo News
by direction of tho grand jury and by
order of Judge II. G Lew is hud the
distinction of publishing the present
ments of that body. Tho report, on
the whole is short, but it shows also
that the grand jury made short woik
of its task. The reports of tho offi
cers are in keeping with the balance of
the document.
If Baldwin county grand jurors do
not find it necessary to render a more
detailed statement, to invostig ite the
ntTairs of the county further than
they report, then ‘hey have full confi
dence in the management of its affairs,
or rather of the men in charge.
Perhaps the people are satisfied
and prupabl.v tho great majority of
grand jury reports are farces anyway
and lengthy documents are not needed.
Not that the Inst presentments were
not long enough, but that some folk
declare thev did not contain any con
tents, so to speak. But the grand jury
is sort of n sovereign organization.
It has eminent domain over the af
fairs of Baldwin county. It was com
posed of Baldwin county’s best cit
izens—though a few good ones, to our
certain knowledge, did escape serving
their county - and nobody else ought to
coin plain
And yet, gentlemen of the grand
jury, upon you rests n responsibility,
fester by far, for Baldwin county nnd
Milledgevillc, than rests upon Gov.
Joseph M. Brown, of Georgia, or Pres
ident Wm. 11. Taft, of the United
Stales. Your duty was and is to your
home people. We do not say the duty
was not performed wisely and well,
but folk want information of more ex
plicit character nnd if you will tell it
to us we will tell it to them
As a newspaper we thank the jurors
j and the court for tho consideration
I given u », as taxpayers we’ll pay the
other three miil* levied, as a citizen
we’ll trust every county official just as
I you have done. And yet our paper is
intended to be the'voice of the people
and lorg ago that has been likened urto
the voice of God.
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Try a Smoothing Iron run with
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edgevdie News office.
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AUle Wiiainson, Allen AVashington,
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Ward, Maggie Williams. Willie Young
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