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THE GEORGIA CRACKER.
Gainesville, Ga., June 4, 1393
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t he
Bible
propositions; 1st. It is fron
as rea d a ad interpreted a eV .".stian
people that we derive our more correct
ideas of right and wrong 1 as expressed
in our ethical aud legal systems. As
evidence, many quotations might be
given from writers on ethics. I pre
sent only the following: In a recent
publication on ethics from the pen of
Paul Janet there appears in the intro
duction this general statement- of the
of Janet, “He cannot conceive of
morals without religion, and he holds
that practical faith in the existence of
God is the postulate of the moral law."
We learn from thar. profound eommen-
tator on the common Law, 3ladcstonej|
that ideas of right and wrong as ex
pressed in the law are essentially de
rived from the Bible. ‘‘For, says he,
“upon these two foundations, the law
of nature and the law of revelation, de
pend all human law. It is a well
known fact of history that Alfred the
Great incorporated the Ten Command
ments and the Golden Rule into the
early English Constitution. Paul sug
gests the same truth when he says: “I
had not known sin but by the law."—
(that is the law of God) “for I had not
known lust except the law had said,
“Thou shall not covet. The iaea
being that our more accurate knowl
edge of what sin or wrong is comes
alone from the law of God.
Our knowledge then of what is wrong
as well as what is right comes to us in
its fullness from the word of God. So
that all that is enobling and pure and
holy in our ethical and legal sy stems
all that is noble in our civilization
comes to us from the Bible, through
the influence and teaching of that mi
nority of the population of the earth,
who hold that the Bible is the book of
books and that the word cf God is a
lamp to their feet and a light to their
path.
The second proposition is, that the
moral sentiment necessary for the en
forcement of law and order is .also de
rived from Christian sentiment and
influence. I could weary you with
quotations from the Bible, showing how
the heart of the multitude is set in
them to do evil and with quotations
from learned iudges showing that the
enforcement of all law depends upon a
healthy moral sentiment that emi-
naies chiefly if not entirely from the
influence and teaching of Christian
men. To the church then no : ts peo
ple we are indebted for the maintenance
ot order and the enforcement oi law.
Only the other day the Prime Minister
of England said; “Take the Salvation
Army out of London and it would re
quire 4,000 policemen to take
place.’’ Destroy these churches then
and scatter these Christ’ar congrega
tions. and silence the rule- f the
Christian ministry if you will, and. you
will find a pandemonium of lawlessness
and anarchy will come in their stead.
The next proposition is that the
world is indebted for its civilization
and culture to the churclj and to
Christian influence. Hence we find the
highest civilization and the broadest
culture in those countries' where the
Bible is most read, and. where Christ
ianity is most general and influential.
Christianity is the great civilizer, and
is the mother of schools aud colleges.
Under her fostering care homes for the
orphan and asylums for the unfortun
ate grow and flourish. * She lifts the
burdens from the shoulders of the weak*
and inspires hope in the’ oppressed.
She holds up the hands that hang down
and makes strong the-feeble knees so
that: . | ..
“A million dim eyes pnee weary with
sadness k?
And a million daj-.k lashes once c wet
with their tears,
Are raised to the light with a glimmer
of gladness
White Joy smiles again thro’ the mists
of the years." *
And yet there are those |jvho them
selves enjoying the security an<E free
dom that comes from Christian influ
ence and the culture which they
received at Christian schools, do seek
with impious hands to rend the cross
asunder, and with blasphemous tongu^
denounce the word of God.
One thing more—whatever of influ
ence there goes out from the church
and Christian people, comes not from
the majority even of Christians. Here
as elsewhere it is the conservative in
fluence of :he few—of a small minority
that really counts. Every church
maintains its own .existence through
the support and contributions of only
a few, and the influence of the church
is but the influence of a minority of its
members. Of roost churches it may be
said as the spirit of. inspiration said of
the church at Sardis: “Thou hast a few
names which have not defiled ’ their
garments, and they shall walk with me
in white.”
In conclusion allow me to suggest
that the world is a great and wicked
Sodom, whose inhabitants have fallen
into all manner of vilene^s and un
speakable sin. The divine wrath is
kindled against the wqrld as it once
did against Sodom, and God has pur
posed to destroy it. AY hy is it not
destroyed? Why does not the Sre rain
down upon it and consume it as the fire
of a furnace? Because forsooth there
are ten, Sftv. an hundred, an thousand
perhaps a million righteous men living
in it, and for their .sakes aud because of
their influence even though they are
but a small part of the great popula
tion of the world, the hand of justice is
stayed and the fires of wrath are held
back. But it will not always be so.
Sometime, we know not when, the
angels of God will come to these right
eous men as they came to Lot in Sodom
and taking bold of theirhandsjwiHsay.
“Up! get - you out "of this place for the
Lord will destroy this city,” and has
tening their flight they will not dare
like Lot’s wife to look back upon the
burning world—they shall fly to the
bosom of Abraham, to the city of God
where they shall dwell in? love and
peace and joy forever.
I address today a company of young
women who are about to leave the
halls of their Alma Mater to take their
place in the busy world about us. C JI
trust that your minds have been so
filled with lofty ideals that you have
determined to be “not dumb driven
cattle, but heroines in lifes battle.’
Going hence, you owe it to your teacn-
ers. who like skillful artisans have
sought to fashion your lives and char
acters into forms of loveliness; you owe
it to vour parents whose spirit of self-
sacrifice has surrounded you.with op
portunities so priceless; you owe it to
yourselves, endowed as you are with
gifts immortal; you owe it to the God
who made you and blessed you, to all
these you are bound to do in life the
very best you can, to all these you are
bound to be, not a part of the unthink
ing heard, but to be a part of that love
lier chivalry of thought and influence,
to be, not of the many, but of the few.
May you return to the homes which
have sorely missed you to be centers of
influence for good, to be lamps of
knowledge in the darkness about you,
to be moons and stars in the night of
death and sin that enshrouds the world,
to be guardian angels and ministering
spirits in this wilderness of tears. To
Consecrate and cultivated womanhood
life has a thousand posibilities. I had
almost said that any attractive, cult
ured and consecrated woman could win
her way to a throne, and I will say it,
for if not to a throne of political power
she can win her way to a throne in the
hea^£.s of her family and live enshrined
in the affections of those who know her.
and from these go at last to wear a
crown of fadeless glory, which shall
new luster boast when victors wreaths
and taonarehs jems shall blend in com
mon dust.
An earnast prayer by Rev. J. M.
White followed the sermon. Mr. Ellison
D. YanHoose, who has made a wonder
ful reputation in the music world, sang
a magnificent solo which was thorough-
their ly enjoyed. After the announcements
by Prof. YanHoose. and a chorus.
“The Twenty-third. Psalm,” the bene
diction was pronom ced by Rev. A.
YanHoose, and the commencement
services of Sunday were at an end.
FORAGE CROPS THE
HOPE OF FARMERS
Best Means of Supplementing
Food Supplies.
NESBITT GIVES POINTERS
such general use,
Serious Runaway.
The two horse team of Mr. A. H.
Howard ran away on the public square
Saturday afternoon throwing Mr. and
Mrs. Howard and two little boys out.
Mrs. Howard was badly hurt, the wheels
of the wagon passing over her body,
and the wagon body fell on Mr.
Howard. The little boys were consider
ably bruised. Medical attention_Avas
given the injured ones, and they were
carried home. The runaway was very
unfortunate aDd the injured ones have
the sympathy of friends.
Mr. YV. L. Baker of Clarkesville,
has moved to the city and is now oc
cupying the house of Mr. J. H. Gun
nell’s on YY'est Washington street.
Delicate
Children
They do not complain of
anything in particular. They
eat enough, but keep thin and
pale. They appear fairly well,
but have no strength. You
cannot say they are really
sick, and so you call them
delicate.
What can be done for them ?
Oiir answer is the same that
the 6est physicians have been
giving for a quarter of a cen
tury. Give them
Seotrs Emulsion
of Cod-Liver Oil with Hypo-
phosphites.' It has most re
markable nourishing power.
• It gives color to.the blood. It
brings strength to the mus
cles. It adds power to the
nerves. It means robust
health and vigor. Even deli
cate infants rapidly gain in
'flesh if given, a small amount
three or four times each day.
$oc. and $1.00; all druggists.
SCOTT & BOW ME, Chemists, New York.
Agricultural Commissioner on the
Course to Pursue In View of the
High Wheat Prices and With the
Prospect of a Continuance of Such
Market Conditions.
Department of Agriculture,
Atlanta, June 1, 1898.
With wheat quoted at an almost un
precedented figure and prices of other
food crops advancing, and with the
prospect of snch market conditions be
ing sustained for at least some months
to come, prudent farmers are now cast-
abont for practical means of supple
menting their food supplies. There is
no section of the world in which a
greater variety of
FORAGE CROPS
may be grown than in the south, and as
a measure of safety it would be well for
Georgia farmers to put in such of these
crops as our surroundings aud opportu
nities render possible* First and fore
most comes
FORAGE CORN AS A FODDER CROP OR FOR
SILAGE.
As to the best methods of managing
jhis crop there are somewhat conflicting
opinions, but these result from a mis
apprehension rather than from any real
difference in the proper plans for plant
ing, cultivating, etc. It depends upon
the purpose for which the crop is in
tended, as to which method should be
adopted. If the crop is intended for
fodder, that is, to be cut and cured, the
object is to secure a large yield of small
and medium sized stalks, having an
abundance of leaves and little grain.
The plants may, therefore, be planted
in narrow rows and crowded in the drill.
In curing this'crop the surplus moisture
is dried out and we have a nutritions
forage, which, supplemented with grains
makes a good and complete ration. But
in planting com for the silo, the object
is to secure a good yield of well de
veloped stalks, each one bearing at least
one well grown ear upon it. The plants
must not be crowded too closely to
gether. The rows should be at least h to
4 feet apart, and the plants should stand
from 15 to 20 inches in the row. If the
plants stand closer than this the stalks
do not have room to mature sufficiently
and the consequence is watery stalks,
and the ears which form are not well
filled with grain. Silage made from
snch corn as this is apt to be very unsat
isfactory—sour and innutritions. From
thin explanation we see that fodder corn
should be crowded as close as the
strength of the land will admit, while
a corn crop intended for the silo should
have sufficient distance to produce a
heavy yield of stalks and ears suffi
ciently matured to be cured into good,
sweet silage.
THE fea crop.
Field peas give us another crop for
forage, of which too much cannot be
said. Among the many advantages of
this crop is the fact that it can be sown
from May until July, and also that it
can be utilized as a three-fold food, for
man, for beast and for the land. No
matter in what way we decide to use it
it will return with interest whatever
amount we have invested in it.
MILLET.
Millet also may be seeded at any time
from May to August, and though:-it re
quires richer land and more thorough
preparation than com or peas, it is a
good investment where forage promises
to be short. One bushel of German
millet, sown on an acre of land, well
prepared and the seed harrowed in, will
make a heavy yield, and when cured at
the proper time, that is before the seeds
nature, will make a most acceptable ad
dition to our forage supply.
SORGHUM.
Sorghum is a crop which should find
a place on every Georgia farm. It is
not affected by drouth to the ruinous
degree that our com crop often is, and
the stalk and the grain are both ex
cellent food for cattle and hogs, besides
which there is usually a good demand
for the syrup. With the improved sys
tem of evaporating, now in general use,
the syrup has become a desirable article
of food in most farm households. Dur
ing the hot season the man who is for
tunate enough to have a sorghum patch
is assured of green food for his stock
when every other crop is drying up.
while the cured fodder makes a nutri
tious and appetizing feed for the winter
months.
It is not too late to plant any of these
four crops—indeed, all may be planted
later than this date, and under favor
able conditions will be very satisfactory.
Though there are other crops, which
in time may supersede them, we would
advise, as we .have, these four forage
crops of snch well known value, and
with the cultivation of which we are so
thoroughly familiar, that we do not
venture, except by way of experiment
on a small scale, on the culture of new
and untried crops. It is well for ea«h
farmer to give-his attention to these
new crops and to thoroughly satisfy
himself as to their merits before under
taking their culture to any large extent.
In these days, when inquiries are
constantly being received at this de
partment as to the value and efficiency
of certain insecticides, and when Paris
green i i coming into
the following
CHEAP SUBSTITUTE FOR PARIS GREEN,
which has been thoroughly tested at
the Ohio Experiment Station, may be
of service in reducing the cost in cases
where large quantities are used.
White arsenic, in a soluble form, costs
about one-third as much as Paris
j green, and unlike the latter gives no
trouble in the way of settling. Paris
green does not dissolve readily and needs
| constant agitation to keep it from set-
| tling. Here is the formula:
Dissolve 2 pounds of commercial white
arsenic and 4 pounds of carbonate of
soda (washing soda) in 2 gallons of wa
ter and use 1& pints of this mixture to
50 gallons of Bordeaux mixture. This
will be found sufficient for any purpose
where a combination mixture for fun
gus and insect pests is required. As for
instance, potato blight (fungus), and
potato bugs (insect); apple scab (fun
gus), and apple worms (insect).
The easiest way, says the bulletin, to
make the solutions is to put both the
white arsenic and the carbonate of soda
in a gallon of boiling water, keep boil
ing about 15 minutes, or until a clear
liquid is formed, and then dilute to 2
gallons.
This is the season when it is neces
sary to wage an unceasing warfare
against all kinds of insect and fungus
pests, and the above combination of
Bordeaux and white Arsenic is effective
destroying a large proportion of these
most annoying and destructive enemies.
The horticulturist or farmer, indeed any
man, who looks to the products of the
soil as the reward of his labor, would do
well to study the diseases and insects
which are liable to attack his special
crops and at the first indication of their
presence use active and prompt meas
ures to prevent serious injury. Some
times^ few days’ delay in using proper
remedies is fatal, more especially in the
rapidly maturing crops. Personal ob
servation in the different sections of the
state confirm the reports of promising
crop conditions, although in some sec
tions the dry weather has retarded the
satisfactory development of the young
plants and cut off the oat crop.
R. T. Nesbitt, Comissioner.
CONDITION OF THE CROPS.
V
Reduced Cotton Area and Corn Small
Throughout the State.
COTTON.
This crop somewhat retarded by high
winds and cool nights in May. Acreage
! less than last year. Stands not good in
many counties on account of dry
weather. Some fields have had to be
replanted. Plants small. Cultivation
good. Will improve with the advent of
warm nights and hot suns.
CORN.
Small throughout the state, on ac
count of cool weather in 'April and want
of rain. Stands fairly good. Some dam
age from cut worms.
OATS.
Have suffered greatly from drouth,
particularly in South Georgia, where
many fields have been ruined.
The crop is so injured by dry weather
that the yield will not be up to the
average.
WHEAT.
Largest acreage planted in years. At
least twice as much as last year. Pros
pects fine for the best crops in many
years. Very little rust reported and the
crop is almost assured. The good price
will be a great boon to the farmers of
North Georgia.
CANE.
Acreage greater than last year, stands
not good on account of the unprece
dented drouth through South Georgia.
RICE.
Increased acreage and plants doing
well were irrigation is used. Upland
rice small and backward.
Minor crops, such as potatoes, hay,
•to., have suffered in many counties for
V&nft of rain.
FRUITS.
The peach crop promises to be one of
the largest ever made. All other fruits,
except tipples^ promise well. The straw
berry crop, thohgh somewhat injured
by the cold snap in April, rallied later
on, and an immense crop will be mar
keted. Blackberries and other small
fruits are promised in profusion. Mel
ons are doing well.
PAPER MONEY.
The Kinds of Currency That Jure Used bj
Foreign Countries.
The Bank cf England note is 5 inchei
by 8 in dimensions and is printed in
black ink cn Irish linen water lined pa
per, plain white, with ragged edges.
Thenctes of tbs Banque de France ara
made of white water lined paper, print
ed in blue and black, with numerous
mythological and allegorical pictures,
and running in denomination from the
25 franc note to the 1,000 franc. Sontb
American currency, in most countries,
is abont the size and appearance oi
American hills, except that cinnamon
brown and slate bine are the prevailing
colors and that Spanish and Portuguese
are the prevailing languages engraved
on the face.
The German currency is rather ar
tistic. The bills are printed in green
end black. They Tun in denominations
from 5 to 1,000 marks. These lattes
bills are printed on silk fiber paper.
The Chinese paper currency is in red,
white and yellow, with gilt lettering
and gorgeous little hand drawn devices.
The bills, to the ordinary financier,
might pass for washing hills, but they
ere worth good money in the Flowery
Kingdom. Italian notes are of all sizes,
shapes and colors. The smaller bills, 9
and 10 lire notes, are printed on white
paper in pink, blue and carmine ink*
and ornamented with a finely engraved
vignette of King Humbert.
The 100 ruble note of Russia is barred
from top to bottom with all the colon
of the rainbow, blended as when shown
through a prism. In the center, in bold
relief, stands a large, finely executed
vignette of the Empress Catherine L
This is in black. The other engraving i*
not at all intricate or* elaborate, but ii
well done in dark and light brown and
black inks. The Australian bill is joint
ed on light colored thick paper whict
shows none of the silk fiber marks oi
geometric lines used in American cur
rency as a protection against counter
feitimr.—Golden Daw
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