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“Christianity as Taught by Christ" The First of the Sepes of Sermons on This Subject Was Preached at Trinity Methodist Church Yesterday by Rev. H. S. Bradley, D. D. The Second Sermon Will Be Printed in The Constitution Next Monday. Subject, “The Child Is Father to the Man.” Text, “Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?’’ Luke, ii, 49. Men have always taken the keenest in terest in the childhood and youth of those who in after years have become great. We Inquire with interest into the parent age, the environments and the education of tlxe child that grows from helpless babyhood to wisdom, power and great ness. And we arc specially interested in nnv circumstances that seem to have had a marked bearing upon the development of the qualities of greatness. From tills standpoint, the childhood and youth of Jesus lias a. deep and peren nial Interest, but in his case we have to . .intent ourselves witli two or three brief glimpses. A short story of bls mother's embarrassment in giving birth to her child In a cattle cave, the more than recompense in the angels' song and the shepherds' visit, an account of the tlight into a foreign country to escape the fool ish anger of a jealous king, the return, and then all is silence till the child has reached the age of twelve. Even here the glimpse is short. Two Inches a newspaper column would contain the brief account of a journey to Jerusalem, and one short sentence from his lips gives us our insight into the boy Jesus' spiritual development ami His sense of divine relationship and obligation. And yet we shall begin our study of His great life and teaching by dwelling for an hour upon that brief and pregnant sentence. But, before taking up the words, let us I iok for a moment at the circumstances of the visit. Jesus had reached the time of life at which. by Jewish reckoning, He passed from boyhood to manhood. With the close of Ills twelfth year He was no longer regarded as a child, but became a "Son of the Law’.” Considered natural ly, It was a critical period In His life. Children tn eastern countries developed more rapidly than with us. and at this age the mysterious powers of manhood and womanhood were reached, and the world always assumes a new aspect and has a profounder meaning when once the mystery of reproduction becomes possi ble. The ago that Jesus had reached had come to have a sacred aspect. It was in the twelfth year that Moses was said to have left Pharaoh’s house for his course of training In the Egyptian unlveristy; at that age the lad Samuel had heard the voice that called him to his prophetic office; at that age Solomon had displayed Lis gn at gift of wisdom; and at that age <ii his life work as God's reformer. Since the return from Egypt as the litib < ' id, Jesus h:-M never made an extevil 4 wurti’-y from the humble home hard carpenter shop at Nazareth. ... - ..m’-d to visit the # », • • Temple once a year At the -,f the Passover. The law really elite to appear at the >emp ■ a- euch of tnree great feasts, iistance that some of the worshipers had to go, the trll gency and , ;h one attendance w. s require.'.. Near all the worshipers selected the , the n >st magnificent ot Israel’s festivals, as the occasion of their animal visit. Os course little children were not carried as great a distance as that from Nazareth to Jerusalem. But, at the age of 12, the parents of Jesus decided to tak. Him with them. V> e may imagine the flutter of excitement In the lads breast when He learned that He was to be allowed to see with His own eyes the historic and sacred spots along the way to Jerusalem, some of which Ho could see dimly from the plateau near His home, and then, greatest of all, to behold th’- sacred city itself and Its great temple, the pride of a nation's heart and the center of a nation's worship. The distance from Nazareth to Jeru salem Is about eighty miles, and pedes trians only required three days to make the journey, but there was scarcely a mile of the road that was not eloquent of stirring deeds and great lives. rhe road led past Shunem, where lived the pious widow whom Elisha had com forted; past Jezreei, whose name brought before the mind the picture of Naboth's vineyard and the dogs lapping the blootfc of the dead owner and the king; past Gilboa, upon whose heights brave Saul and faithful Jonathan were slain by the Philistine archers; past G-erizim and Jacob’s Well; past Ebal and Shiloh and Bethel and Gibeath, which called back to memory stories of battles, stones of promise and dreams of ladders that led Irom earth to sky. The Passover came In the spring, about the Ist of April, when, in Palestine, the fields and woods wore their softest greens and the mountains cut the edges of the bluest skies, so that nature, which He had already come to love and with whoSe ways He was familiar, spoke in sweetest tones to the boy Jesus, as the caravan, with which He traveled, wound through valleys and over mountains toward the Hr.iy City. Who can imagine the thrill of sacred emotion felt by a pious Jewish lad who beheld Jerusalem fur the first time? Who ran tell th ■ emotion of Jesus when, rounding th shoulder of the Mount of Olives, He came Into full sight of the city of L>:'vl 1. gr."it king, and caught ■h-' first view of th- tempi’ that crowned Its central hill ml sent back the bright- GEORGE W. 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The humbler folks, who could neither afford the expense nor the waste of time, and while listening respectfully to the teachers in the synagogues, still held to the simpler forms of worship that spoke of the love and mercy of God. Week after week the child Jesus had j heard the scriptures read In Hebrew and translated into Aramaic by the leader of the liturgical service in the synagogue. And it is not Improbable that some vil lage scribe in Naainth had taught Him Hebrew Possibly a copy of all, or of Important parts of the Old Testament, belonged to His family’ anti He had real and pondered for Himself. But so much that He had read and so much that was told Him bore upon the great tem ple at Jerusalem that we need not won der that, on Bls first visit to the city where the famous rabbis like Hillel. Simeon, Gamaliel and Snammal lived, the boy Jesus sought out the "Hall of I Squares” of the temple and spent many I hours where they taught. ; On these Passover occasions the city of Jerusalem was overrun with the mul titudes of pious visitors and tens of thousands, unable to find accommoda tion within the walls, spent the week in booths or succoths erected along the roadway outside. With the expiration of the week the temporary’ shelters were removed and the pilgrims began their homeward journey. It is not hard for us to imagine the scene that Luke, describes We can easily understand that In the confusion attendant upon the departure of such multitudes, when the groups of travelers that had made th.-, journey’ together from distant towns and villages were setting out at the same time, a lad might be overlooked, especially if. as In this case, bis spirit at independence and ability to care for himself, were well developed. -x nay’s journey nau ueen made to ward Nazareth before the parents be came aware that Jesus was not in the party. Failing to find Him with any of the neighboring companies, tin y be came alarmed and set out lor Jerusa lem again in search of Him. A day was consumed in the return to Jerusalem, another In fruitless Inquiry, and it was only on the third day that they be thought themselves of the temple and Hie rabid’s teaching j>la<-c. Going there they- foutnt Him ‘'sitting in the midst of the doctors, both heat ing them and asking questions: and ail mat heard Him were astonished at His understanding and answers.” J'liis story seems so rias-n,... straightforward that it bears the stamp of truth upon its face. We tak. no stock in th.- wild and fantasti. stories told in apochryphal gospels of how Je sus was found explaining to trie astrol ogers and students of ph,vsi> al science the deep secrets of i.i’-ir scion. -. Neither do w> give any i reuenee to Hie stories like those found in "Alary’s Birth and tit.- Childhood of the Re deemer.” One of these describes liu.v Jesus was once, playing with 11.3 little companions and they wet-” all me King clay animals, such as cows, donkeys and I>irds. Each was boasting that his own productions wen better than the others' when Jesus said to them, "I shall com mand my animals to walk aboil." Tiny ridiculed Him, but He commanded Hie ‘ animals to walk, or fly. or < at. or drink, I and they did whatever ll<- t >id them to do Another tells of how one day His I playfellows went into a large oven that ' was standing in front of tin- houses. A j woman asked Jesus if the children were . In the oven and lie replied, "No. there | are goats in the ov-n." Whereupon lie ‘ rtally turned the little boys and girls l into gouts .ami they eame jumping out. ■ But. being prayed to by the mothers, He turned the goats back into children I again. Many stories are also told about ‘ His miraculous aid to His fatner in the I work of carpentering. For instance, Jo ' soph made one of the legs of a couch for a rich man too short, and Jesus stretched it out by’ His word. Jesus was a normal child. The gospel pictures tn us His healthy physical, intel lectual and spiritual development, Be "in- THE WEEKLY CONSTFrUTIO^: ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1903. creased in -Bisdom and In stature and in favor with God and men.” For twelve years Be had kept Bis mind bright and His soul pure. When Joseph and Mary found Him. Mary reproached Him for His conduct, saying. "Son, why hast Then thus dea't with us? Behold Thy Father and I have sought Thee sorrowing." It was then that Ho gave expression to the only re corded sentence that fell from his lips during Ills first thirty years, "How is ■ it that ye sought Me? Wist ye not that 1 must be about My Father's business?” It Is truly said that the child is father . to the man. The 12-year-old lad here ! epi'.omized in prophecy the splendid, the matchless principles of life that He after- I ward? wrought out in detail. No wander that it is said of His parents, '"l'li’-y understood not the saying which 11. spake unto them.” What parent un derstands his child! No two children are alike. Tliey differ widely in intellectual powers and spiritual aptitudes. What a i misfortune it is that so many children are foredoomed to lives of emptiness and misery’ by th. dullness, tiie wicked Im patience and sinfjd neglect of parents and teachers' Os all the world’s wrecks, none are so mournful and pitiful as the blight ed hop’s and aborted lives of men. Many a child lias given expression to a thought timt was far-reaching in its indication of greatness and usefulness only to be si lenced with harsh words or cruel blows, his words and his spirit being misnnder st ood. Fortunately for Jesus. Be had parents who, while not understanding Him, were yet. tender and patient with Him. A parent has great authority over his child, but no relation, parental or other, gives any one the moraj right to call one of God's children dolt or fool. We often read of great men that they were dull and stupid when young. The explanation is often i that the parent or teacher was too dull or too careless o know the child and dis cover his jajent or bent, and only some fortunate circumstances In after years called it out. Blessed is that child who has some one who believes In him and has high hopes for him! Ret us look at these words, "Wist ye not that 1 must be about My Father’s busi ness." 'l'hr y are the brief programme of Christianity. They imply: First, a conception of God as Father of the Individual. Jesus does not. employ any of the words, Excess Os SraoKing Affected My Heart So I Had To Sit Up To Breathe. Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure Cured Me. There is nothing that lias a more deleter ious effect upon the cardiac or heart nerves i than the excessive me oi tobacco. 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"Shepherd of Israel.” "King of Kings." "The IJolj’ One," "The Great One,” "The. Mighty One," "Most High,” "The Creator," "Ruler," "Judge," "‘fhe Almighty." and gives expression for the first tlrne In the history of the world to the undisputed appellation "M.v Father." Others before Him.had spoken of God ns the Father of the nation and tender poetry has been written about that general relation, but no one had ever dared to say. if he ever conceived the Idea, that Man is God's offspring and each individual His child. Some have said that. Jesus here only made a natural deduction from previously recognized relations, but we had as well try Io minify the work of Newton by seylng that he only made de ductions fxom previously recognized phe nomena. that others had seen apples fall before he did There Is as wide difference between-the conception that, the lad Jesus had of God as His Father and the prevailing concep tion. as between the relation that 1 sustain to my own father and that which I sustain to Adam. The child is father to the man. Jesus never grew away from that great fact about the Fatherhood of God. but in after years developed it till today it is like sun rise to a world. Before it darkness, and superstition, and fear, and hate, and prejudice flee away. Second, recognition of self As a corollary of this idea of God as His Father, Jesus recogniz’d the dignity and worth Qf Himself. “Wist ye not that I?" Humility Is a grace. But a cowardly shrinking that Is produced by a. conscious ness of guilt or worthlessness is a miser able simulacrum of humility. Real hu mility Is the modest sense of one’s own merit. Oqe who feels himself a nobody is sure to accomplish nothing. I make no plea for arrogan’ic QC pride, but 1 do make a plea, in the name of the example of the Lad Jesus for self-recognition and self respect. If you are God's child, you are somebody. Let no man despise you. Let no man despise God's son. Ihe apostlo Paul caught thl* kh'a -vhen he wrote to Timothy, using almost these words. The recognition of myself as God s son should inspire me to show myself wot thy of the high relation. The “worm theor>’’ of humanity has i once discouraged lofty aspirations in the youag and furnished an excuse lor neg lect ”f high duties to the old. "Third. God has work that needs doing. "In laying momentary emphasis upon the words -about My Father's business,' I follow tbe authorized version of the Scriptures in prel ’rence to the i”\ ise.l version, which r ids 'ln M.v F.ithers house. The Greek has no word for either ‘business’ or ‘house.’ Literally trans lated, the senten ■ would be 'Wist ye not that It beho'ves Me to be in My Father's'' I think that the word 'work.' 'affairs' or 'basin' -s should be supplied rather than the word 'bouse.' for the reason that Jesus i .>uld hardlj have -said that the. necessity of His being in His Father's house should regulate His con duct, for almost Immediately Be left the temple and went back to iho home life at Nazareth, and there spent the next eighteen years. He Impll’H by His ques tion to H.s parents that Ills previous conduct should have convinced them that Ills Father's work lay next to IBs heart. Here again we have the child father to the man. '1 must be about My Father’s business,’ was the bud that, In later years, burst into tbe bloom, .My meat Is to do the will of Him that sent Me and to finish His work.' “Subsequent events showed what He conceived to be His Father's work. It was not wearing sareedotal robes in the temple and whittling on proof texts. The eighteen subsequent years In tin- car penter's shop were a part o’" God's busi ness, as well as preaching the gospel to the poor, healing the broken-hearted, re storing the sight of the blind and open ing the prisons of the bound. “There are few things that would bless the modern world so much as that men should come to regard their work, all necessary work, as God’s business. If the work needs to be done it Is God's work and God wants somebisly to do It. If the work you are doing does not help and bless God's children, it s not God's work and you have no right to do it. Jesus conceived of His Fath’-r as a. great worker, and his conception differentiates Christianity from most of the religions of the world. Our God Is a busy* God, and His children are busy people. There is nothing that lightens life's lo:-i.!< more than the feeling that the work in which we are engaged is God’s work. There is no possibility of the feeling of drudgery to one who feels that he is in cooperation with the Divine. "If done t'obey Thy laws E’en servile labors shine; Hallowed is toll, it’ this the cause. The meanest work divine.’ "Fourth. Sense of obligation. “‘I must,' said the lad Jests. Here is one element of every truly great life. The 'animal may exist, but the man can not be said to live until there comes a deep sense of <»!iligation. What we are and where we are, our capacities and our circumstances nearly always deter mine Tor us the work we ought to do. But neither ability nor opportunity makes us great. Along with these, 'here must be. as there was with Jesus a. divine 'must.' No man can be said to live his best life until there stands In bold out lines upon the sky of his futur- the word 'duty.' Tiie aimless do little; tie shirkers do perhaps even less. The wsrk of the world is done by men ami wanen who feel that, they have a mission Had an ob ligation to fulfill It. "Agwln the child is father to the man, A.t twelve years, we find the boy Jesus saying, 'I must be about My Father's business,’ and Be never eseared from this imperious 'must.' Later, find it written of Him, lie must meds pass through Samaria.’ lie himsel: said, 1 must preach the kingdom of God,' '1 must work the works of Him hat sent me,’ J must needs go up to Jerusalem.' ' '1 must be lifted up.' "What an example for tve yoph of our land! a Lad of highest spir. ual en dowments, thit>king pure thougits, busy wit li the humble duties of tt. home, obedient to parents, quietly maturing great life plans, fitting Himsef bv fi delity’ to duty for the work tiat God has to do. No wonder it was said of Him, 'He increased in wis.lom and in favor with God and men ' " Gov. Peabody Sued for $2<)0,000. Cripple Creek. Colo., October 3.-Govern or Peabody was made defendant todav in two damage suits for SIOO,OOO etch, tiled by Patrick H. Mullaney and Th,mas 11. Foster, union minors who were irrested by military officers on duty in ths camp, and confined in the guard house for fif teen days, and wore set at liberty last Wednesday after habeas corpus Proceed ings were, instituted in their behilf. Ad jutant General Sherman Bell, brigadier Genera] Chase and Major ThOnas E. McClaland were also made defendants to the suits. SEABOARD SECURITIES WEAKENED. Embarrassment Due to the Recent Course of Stock Market —Hitch Has Occurred in the Rock Island and Seaboard Deal. I Baltimore, October I.—A persistent ru mor pervaded the financial district here 'today that J. William Middendorf & Co., of this city, and J. L. Williams & Son, of Richmond. Va.. were financially em barrassed. Those in Interest declined to discuss the master during the afternoon and evening, but late tonight after a ■ conference which lasted several hours, gave out the following statements: "In view of the extraordinary and un expected financial situation now rxlgtlng in New York. Messrs. John L. Williams &• Sons, of Richmond. Va., and J. William Middendorf A.- Co., of Baltimore, have found it necessary to ask for temporary indulgence of their creditors. "J'b.e undersigt eil have, ."t the request of these two firms, consented to act as on adylsory committee to examine into tlieir condition ami promptly report an appropriate plan of extension. The com m'liw will proceed to the immed: ite> p' - fcmiance of this duty. In the nmanwhile they believe it to be to the interest of ell concerned that no legal or other steps he taken by individual creditors to com plicate the situation, but that the present status should in all respects be main tained for common protection and ben < fit "The above firms estimate that tli■ ir as sets. inventoried at currint quotations, i xeeed their liabilities by a very large amount, which, will be naturally aug mented by the r-storation of normal I c Or di tion:-. I "In view of the official relations of .1. j L. Williams and J. W. Middendorf with ■ the Seaboard Air Line they’ desire to state that neither firm, nor any member I thereof, is indebted to that company and that the Seaboard Air Line railroad will be in no wise affected by the action of their respective firms in this matter. ' Iti ’CGLAS H. THOMAS. "DOCGLAS H. GORDON. "ROBERT C. DAVIDSON. “JOHN H. RAMSAY, "111 GENE TEVERING, "Baltimore. • JIPPA HI’NTON. JR., “Richmond, Va. "FRANK O. BRIGGS, "Trenton, N. J." Raid Made on Seaboard. New York. October I —(Special )—The feature of the trading in outside securi ties was Hie weakness of the Seaboard Air Line issues. Recently it was announced that tho capitalists who held options on the con tinuing interest in the company, failing to transfer their holdings to the Rock Island Company, had formed a syndi cate and taken the stock up themselves. A hitch is alleged to have occurred in their plans, but is being straighten’d out There were conferences on during the greater part of tiie day between eupi ; talists identified with tiie deal. While ' they wire in ses.-loti th, stocks wore tut ; det 3- ivy pressor- of liquidation un i I selling for short account. The common, which sold near the opening at 17 1-2. dropped to 15, and i the preferred, which opened at 30 1-2 declined to 27. of the common stock 3,000 shares were dealt tn, and of the praferred upward of 2,000 shares. Willlains To Stay with Seaboard. Baltimore. Mil., October 2.- (Special.) - Members of the advisory committee which has taken in charge the affairs of J. W. Middendorf &• Co., this city, and John S. Williams A- Sons. Rich niond. Va.. today expressed confidence that, tho two embarrassed firms would emerge from their troubles stronger than ever. Creditors called in person and gave assurance that, they would not. press their claims nor complicate the situation. ■ According to the las: balance sheet of I the two firms they could cluse out at ’ th’* present low prices of securities and I still have a surplus of considerably over i a million dollars. .Among many telegrams expressing sympathy and tenders of assistant’ re ceived by i’resident John Skelton Wil liams today was one from Edwin Gould. Mr. Williams denies that he has re signed from the Seaboard presidency’ or intends to do so. Seaboard securities formed the bulk of the trading done on <‘xchange today, but tho fall was less than expected. < ommon losing only I 1-4 and preferred 2 1-2 Are You Hard of Hearing or Deaf? Send stamp for particulars how to re store your hearing by one who was deaf for 30 years. Dep. 0, John Carmore, Mt Lookout, Cincinnati, Ohio. DEATH OF GEORGE W. SCOTT. Prominent Citizen and Capitalist Died Last Saturday. Colonel George W. Scott, of Decatur, a prominent real estate investor, and the founder and supporter of the Agnes Scott institute, is dead. His death occurred Saturday morning about 10 o’clock at the Elkin-Cooper sanitarium, after an ill ness of nine days. He had been in fail ing health for a number of years, and about a week ago was brought to the sanitarium from his home in Decatur, Ga. The news of his serious illness was known in the city, but it was announced that his condition was much improved, and consequently the news of his death comes as an entire surprise to his many friends in Georgia, Florida and In othei parls of tiie union, wh’-re he was well known and appreciated. Particularly will his death be felt in Florida, where ho was as well kuown in the years before the war and immediate ly after as he has been in Atlanta, ami Savannah in the last twenty years. He was one of the most influential men in j the state and numbers his friends by ; thousands in both Georgia and Florida. Colonel Scott leaves five children. G. 1-1. Scott. Mrs. 'l'. L. Cooper, Mrs. Mur phey Candler, Mrs. Nellie Candler, Mrs. C. E. Harmon. The fun»":tl arrange meats have not as yet boon made. Colonel Scott was born in Alexandria. : Ba., and comes from a distinguished and I prominent family, who took an import- I ant perl in the politics of tfeis state. His , brother was ex-SenatOr John Scott, of I Pennsylvania, and his father was John ' Scott, a member of congress. John Scott, the brother, was for many- years the gen eral counsel of the Pennsylvania railroad. In 1850 Colonel Scott came south on ac- SEEDS. We are the largest Field Seed deal ers in Georgia. . Genuine Georgia raised Rye, sl.lO bushel: Barley, $1.15 bushel; Wheat, purple straw or blue stem, $1.4(1 bushel. Full line of Grasses: write tor prices. Onion Sets, yellow $1.40 per bushel: white $1.75 per bushel. Reference Fourth Na tional Bank or any wholesale house in city. Send us your orders and same will receive our prompt attention. McCULLOUCH BROS. ATLANTA, GA. Statistics of Thirty-two Days. Port Receipts Appear to be Only 65 per Cent, of Last Year’s Receipts. Secretary Hester’s crop statement that appears on she market page is an in teresting study. The current report cov ers the llrsi thirty-tfcvo days of the cotton year. The port receipts so far this year have been 637,900 bales, as against 980.- 565 last year, 524,194 bales year before last and 730.206 bales in 1900. As com pared witli hist year’s port receipts this year so far shows up only 65 per cent. The total port receipts for the period of the contest, according to Secretary Hes ter’s figures, last season were 5.315.879 'bales; taking 6$ j” r cent of this number, the present indications are the total port receipts during this year’s contest would be 3,455,321 bales. As compared yvith year before last, the port receipts so sap this year are 113,706 bales ahead and yet thr port receipts year before last for ths period of our contest amounted to 5,2/9.507 bales, only 36,000 short of last, year’s port receipts for the same period. As compared with 1900. this year's port receipts are at present short, but in that year tile total port receipts for the period of the contest amounted to only 4,846,741 bales. Tlijs was a gain of a little over one-half milliim bales over tbe 1899 s’-ason tiie same period. The figures and tlm comparisons are given showing the results that have been. Those crops wer- harvested under differ ent conditions from the present. This season is acknowledged to be a month late. Reports are current that the boll weevil in Texas will cause griat damage in that crop. Some predict an early frost, some say there will be no top crop, others say that. th.e drought a few weeks since cuj, off the crop nearly oni - h.alf from the prospects at that time, and that the bolls are shedding and that there will be a very small crop. Il is CONDITION OF COTTON SHOWS SHARP DECLINE Washington. October 3. The monthly report of the chief of the bureau of sta tistics of the department of agil:-ulture will show the average condition of cotton on September 25 to have been 65.1, us compared with 81.2 one month tjgo, 58.3 on September 25. 1902; 61.4 at the cor responding date In 1901. and a ten year average of 67.4. These figures Indicate the condition on September 25 and no attempt Is made to anticipate the results from future weather e’'ncl!t ions. Reports of damage during September from rust, shedding, drougnt, aterpil inrs and worms are general ihtougii.ut tiie cotton :>:.<tes. the damagf i , 'jexas being caused -.lore by bou weevii and i boll worm. Ti lv crop is report ’d as from two to four weeks late, and many ■orre xpondents report there wl i be no t ? crop. count of his Iraltli. and while traveling to Florida, his ultimate destination, h > came through what is now the city of Atlanta, then Marthasville, and Dei atur, a::d stayed here for a. week or so Filial ly he resumed his journey on horseback and went on to Florida. In Tallaliassee. Fin., he settled, and soon v good busi ness management and persistent work, built up a large tradt in cotton and niTeliandisi . and at the time of the war had si expanded his inisinec that it was the largest house in western Flor id a. After (lie war he so tn.l himself i lined from a financial standpoint, as was every oilier southr-rner. but lie had gained the good opinion and regard of every man in bls state, for In 1868 lie was nominated by th" democratic party for the position o’ governor over his most vigorous pro test. lie was elected, but the military authorities were not in favor of j .-rti.it ting a southern soldier and sympathizer holding a political office, and h was counted out by the military power con trolling Florida Aft"i this election in 1870. preferring to try his fortunes in a new field, he left Florida for Savannah, and hem formed a great friendship for 11. M. Corner, one of the most prominent citi zens of this south Georgia city. He en gaged again in the cotton business and met with marked sue .ss on account of his close application to work and his un failing good judgment. C'lom-I Scott laid tin- foundations of his fortune by purchasing large track- of land on Peace Creek, Fla., where vakiable , phosphate deposits had been discovered TILLMAN TRIAL VERY SLOW. End of First Week and Prosecution Not Rested Yet. Lexington, S. ('.. October 3- I’he tt’sl of former Lieutenant Governor James H. Tillman has been in progress just one week, and as yet the state has not form ally rested its case. Solicitor Thurmond announced, however, when the last wit ness for tho pros -eution exarnhi "I today had left the stand that the state , pra<Uicall.v was reaT to close, but de- I sired to piss the closing until r xt week, as there is further t’.-timonv the state mac desire to submit One of the witness’s forth" defense was heard today, the state having dis posed of all its witness' s present some ; little time prior to the hour app ‘mted 1 for adjournment. No afternoon session i was hold t'i’la’.- aii’T ”he trial will not b • : resumed until Tuesday morning b’ -'ause - of other matters (!em >nding the ,i t'<mti-m I of the court Monday Only four wit- I uesses for the state wen examined to- I day. HAYWOOD ON TRIAL FOR LIFE. — j Great. Interest Is Being Shown in the Case. Raleigh, N. C. Oct ber 2. Tw.mty-fiV’ ’ witnesses: wore oxamined loday in th< tri ll of Ernest Haywo < 1 forth- murd r [ of Ludlow Skinner With th ox 'oji'i n of two witnesses, none testified to hav ing seen anything of the killing until I they wore attracted by the sound of .1 ; pistol shut and saw Haywood standing | on the s'dewalk mar he south end of I tho post’d.: "o with his smoking r» v Ivei levelled at Skinner, who was moving rapidly across tiie street. As he came near to the oent’-r of it. the s-eond shot came as Skinner siightlv turned, and then he continued stumbling in a half circle till li” fell to tbe ground on his face, dying almost at once Th” defense has summon’d over two hundred wltm—s. The court house is nm-kc-' at each ses sion and interest increases as tiie case proceeds. New Witness on the Stand. Raleigh. N. <’.. October 3 (Special 1— The state rested its c.aso in the 11. iv wood-Skinner murder trial after putting on a medical expert to slWov the location of the wound in Skinner's body, a negro who saw the shooting after the first shot, and a hitherto unknown witness This is Hon Jones Fuller, of Durham a member of the hrgislat tire and prom inent politician. He was in the corridor on the third I floor of the Yarborough hotel the after- j noon of the killing, talking to Miss I Matty E. Pace, who was seated m the • window. Suddenly she exclaimed "They i are going to tight.” and left the window. | He looked out and saw Skinner retreat- I ing in the street, while Haywood was I back against the wall of the postoffice i In the act of firing the first shot, while I best in making your decision to read all the reports, disregard local condition:--, except where they compare with the average and make your figures to suit yourself. One prominent contestant of last spring stated that if he had not too clos’iy on the matter he be lieves Jie would have hit th” exact number of 'bales. It. is best not to totally disre gard what .others say and what, the pa pers report, but to be your own judge of conditiops find give your estimate in an intelligent, why ris you see the crop prom ises to out. There Is a tendency on th” part of some to misunderstand, after all our explan ations. what this contest is about. We record estimates every week of 10,000,000 and 20.000.000 bales. This indicates that the parti’s appear to b’Jieve they are figuring or. what th” total crop is pil ing to be. Th’ «• figures euri not be know until the. 30tji of August, 1904. 'lliis contest is upon what number of lull's will be received at all United States ports from September I 1903. to January 12. 1904, both inclusive. Wh.n people write us to know what, port receipts mean we are forced Io sav that the ex • prcss.'oii means tTie receipts at the ports. As we understand it, the ports are Gal vest.pn, New Orleans. Mobile Savannah, < Charleston. Wilmington. Norfolk. Balti more. New York. Bctilon 1 'hiladelphl.a. Brunswick and Pensacola. In our ad vertisement of tho contest, wo give the total port receipts for the past six sea sons ti.al. cover the p-’rioci o£ the contest from September I, each year, to tho 12th of the following January, both inclusive. Read the rules of the contest and lot us have your estimate at once, with your subscription and remittance address ed t o THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION Atlanta, Ga The following table shows the condition of cotton, by states, on September 25, tn each, of rhe last three years, and that on Aujrqst 25, 1903, with the ten-year aver age'’:’ Sep. Aug. Sep. Sep. Ten 25 55 55 Veil* STATE— 1903 1903 1902 1901 Avge Texas 54 76 47 51 64 Georgia 68 81 82 73 70 Alabama 68 84 52 65 69 Mississippi.. . 69 87 63 66 68 South Carolina 70 80 68 67 63 Arkansas 69 81 68 51 66 Louisiana.. . 71 86 64 72 69 North Carolina 74 83 68 63 70 Tennessee 71 91 76 60 70 Ind. Territory.. 71 81 65 61 68 I Oklahoma.. . 72 75 61 57 69 Florida 70 83 63 65 72 i Missouri 74 81 73 61 77 Virginia 77 86 73 73 76, I lilted Yeates.. 65.1 81.2 58.3 61.4 67 4 Skinner's back was to him. He so s the first shot did not seem to strik”. ■:f that as Skinner retreated and turnel the second shot struck. Ou cross-examination he said Ml.-s Pace sain Haywood was ge 4i<:ulating < - she looked, his hand striking Skinn’ ■ on tiie breast, and that Skinner stri: k up into HayW'Od's face, but did not knock him down. Both Mr. Fuller and Miss Pace are prominent and their engagement has been recently a nnmmeed. 'i’he young lady is visiting in Baltimore now. Th” defense consider the testimony drawn out about what Miss Pace saw vtv valuable and say that the state ha’ endeavored to keep it back by not having Fuller divulge it and allowing Miss i' < :” to leave the state. The defense introduced three eharae •' r witnesses concerning other witnesses after th” state rested, and then the trial was adjourned until Monday. DAUGHTER OF W. J. BRYAN BECOMES BRIDE OF ARTIST Lincoln, Neb.. October 3 —The marriage of Miss Ruth Baird Bryan and William Homer Leavitt, of Newport, R. I . was solemnized at 8 o'clock tonight at Fair view, the country home of William Jen n.ngs Bryan. Tiie chancellor of the Ne braska Wesleyan university. Dr. Hunting i ton, an old-time friend of the Bry -.n family, was the officiating clergyman. The wedding was extremely unostenta tious and was attended by about one hundred and twenty-five young people • f Lincoln and the more intimate friends of the Bryan family. The only relative of the groom present was Mrs’. A. I- Leavitt, of Newport, R. I. Miss Bryan wore a traveling costume and was un at tended. Miss Bryan Is tall and handsome, a young lady of many charms and of sunn.', disposition. Although but 18 years of age. she has already displayed an un usual literary abiliiy. Iler husband, who is fourteen years her senior. Is an artist. Mr. Leavitt first met Miss Bryan when he came to Lincoln several months ago to paint a portrait for Mr. Bryan. Mr. and Mrs. Leavitt left immediately after tho ceremony for St. Louis, whore they will visit friends. They will trav"l for a time in the east and will live In Newport. Judge Hansell Back in Harness. Thomasville, Ga.. October 3—(Special.) .At the age of more than 82 years, Jn*ge Augustin H. II. 1 :: ."11 has formed a part nership arid again entered upon the active practice of law. Thomasville and this entire section has been surprised and in terested to learn of the fact that Judge Hansell has formed a partnership with Messrs. H. .1, and W. I. Mclntyre, under tho firm name of Hansell. Mclntyre & Mclntyre. Judge Hansell is known over the entire state to be the one man who ever sat upon tho superior court bench for a practically continuous term of fifty years. He only retired this year at his own re quest. to b< succeeded by Judge R. G. Mitchell. Although he regarded h.s strength as unequal to the arduous duties ot the bench, he very soon determined not to retire from active life. Lan-.l of Clover Won Rich Purs?. New York. 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