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T3Z ELSIES EK Bmtr *J thrxich tha jlilUlg»vJll p<r«tj flea • ««** ir.<]<cL» mall matter. All this week's news in The News aitJ when you sec it In The News vnu Icnvw It's so Th/it me.i is reliability, Best advertising medium In t4iis sectloni ot Georgia, larges! circulation in Baldwin county ol any papcii J. r. M. If. E. Mi \ i : 1.1 FFG. Editor. AULIFT Associate. ADVERTISING KATES: Display 2J - , ccr.tH p<T inch. special discount:' for time an i amice. Heading notices five cents per line brevier, each insertion. Subscription $1 .00 Per Year. Friday, Nov. it), 1900 The weather in Milledgoyillo foi November has been like that of April. 1 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. I 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. Run your Sewing Machincewith ELECTRICITY. Try a Smoothing Iron run with ELECTRICITY. For Sale (’heap. One Oak flat top office desk one Fox ( J Typewriter, nearly new. Apply Mi:, edgevdie News office. ALL DAY ——AND—— ALL NIGHT CURRENT AT YOUR SERVICE —FOR— LIGHTS ID POWER Oconee River Mills Electric Department Run a fan with ELECTRICITY. Cook with ELECTRICITY. ADVERTISED LETTERS NOV. Ifi, -00. H. F. Adams, Mr3. Bessie Benjamine. Alta Blalock, Mi«s Eunice Brnes, Mrs Lizzie Brown, Miss Maud Bunens, Mathis Banks, W. E Benton 2. Alex Carter, Mrs. Birta Carter, Fiorenct Creech, T. J. Cooper. Miss F. C. Daven port, Jno. Early. Berry Finch, Misr Aney Hicklin, Howard Hill, Miss Mar tha Hutchings, M. L. Hubert, Salhe Harris, Mrs. Dinah Jones, J. M. Jones. Laster Lewis, Miss Maria Lane, Mrs Viela Lockett, Sarah Leah, Mrs. Burtit McCurtie, Emmer McPhail, May Mo bley, I.euiH Miliner, Mrs. Leila Owens, Miss Doilie Palmer, J. B. M. Perkins. Alonza Redding, Mrs. Anna Richard son, Miss E. Lamar Riley, Lee Riee, Miss Maud Spinks, M. S. Stephens, Mrs. Nancy Sharpe. T. L. Smith, Prof S. V. Sanford. Miss Lizzie Thomas Miss Mattie Tilly, O. E. Tripp, W. Henry Tarver, Miss Lucy Underwood, Mrs. AUle Wiiainson, Allen AVashington, Goss Woolfolk, J. M. Weston, Sol Ward, Maggie Williams. Willie Young blood. ADVERTISED PACKAGES Fannie Miller, Geo. J. Page, Elvira Pearson, Lucy Prescott, Miss K. C Smith. James L. Sibley, P. M. Browu. Capt. an I Mrs. Andrew J. Miller cele- irated their fifty first anniversary last xeck and <11 their children wer • present xiththeex e; tion of tw> 'J •!o Unadorned Beauty Plant Napier’s genu ine appler seed oats. For sale by Horne-- Andrews Commission C n. can compare in attractiveness with the one w earing a Necklace, a Locket and 2hain, a Watch, a Brooch or oth er article of Jewelry bought at this store. The Good Taste Of Our Jewelry is undeniable. The quality we guar antee. Its price we leave to your own good judgement to say if it be not reasonable. 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