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Christianity as Taught by Christ
Third of the Series of Sermons Delivered by Dr. H. S.
Bradley and Published by The Constitution. The
Fourth Will be Printed Next Monday.
Subject: Conscious Power and
How To Use It, or Religious Sanity.
Text: “Thou shalt not tempt the
Eord thy God.”—Matthew, 4:7.
■i The second temptation that came to
Jesus In the wilderness was. in its pri
mary aspect, the opposite of the first;
the first suggestion was to doubt the
voice of God that spoke in the heart
and to refuse to trust for support the
God that called, the second was to
presume upon Gpd, to throw Himself
recklessly upon His Father. The pen
dulum of temptation swung from doubt
to presumption.
Who that has ever gone through an
agony of soul over his Ufa plan does not
remember how his Imagination ran from
extreme to extreme and the refusal of one
course of conduct called up for con
templation its diametrical opposite?
The mental picture which Jesus drew
for His disciples of His experience was
like this. Having determined that He
would risk starvation for the sake of
His Idea and die rather than prove false
to God’s voice in His soul, lite sugges
tion came. "Well, you have made up your
mind to do God’s work, you are going
to risk that idea you think you got
from Him. You justify your proposed
course of conduct by a quotation from
the scriptures, written by men whom
God inspired. Now, why not carry the
matter of confidence to a logical end 1
If you are going to trust, trust In a
fervent fashion, show a spirit of fine
Abandon. If you are going to quote scrip- '
cure in Justification of your course of : i
conduct, why not take that fine passage ! 1
from the Psalms that, tells of how God >
will care for His darling? It says, yon ■■
know, that He will give His angels a
special commission to look after one that 1
has in hand the Messianic work, that
they shall surround Hint with such a
miraculous atmosphere that He will not
be able to dash His foot against a
sione. God’s Messiah shall live a charm
ed life. lie shall put Jlimself so In
touch with God, so in tune with the
Infinite, so in harmony with the Omnipo
tent that He. shall fee superior to the ■
common laws of life and the danger.-,
that threaten the rabble. ’1 hat passage
of scripture may sound unreasonable to
you but If you .are going to trust, yotrr
reason shall not play any part. bit
yoin- reason and your common sense, out
of sight and give it your unreasoning
""Considered ft™ the standpoint of
t.onsiitiiu lt will b e a wise
V ,nr Messiante s, it cunl .
thing or you exhibition of !
by a *1 c n> whoin
vouir power. rvur xi P «_
von hope to save, are looking for
- that is a great miracle worker. They ,
expecting one. who can show'
wonder-provoking signs fro ™™ the '
wl’l compel universal recognition and the
Pollowing Os all the Jews. You can t hope
to <u. e<ed without their confidence and
their following. It is in wltll
v..ur conception of trust, and with
Jews' idea of the Messiah that you
should inaugurate your heavenly kingdom
with a great sign. M’-n love the mi
raculous. Most of them believe that God is
pledged to the strange, the weird, the
incomprehensible. Pander to their idea
of God and show yourself God’s Son by
producing ’signs from heaven.’ Now, Je
rusalem is the holy city and the temple
' is the most sacred spot In it, if the
God whom von trust will keep His prom
ise anywhere it will be there. It offers.
i , the finest opportunity for an inaugu
ral miracle Its courts are thronged with
pious worshippers. Their prayers are
’ t the appearance
of the Messiah and they expect Him to
show the open heaven from this building
that is sacred to God. Suppose you go
there climb to the pediment of the three
s-ori.d hall erected by Herod on the
edge of the precipice overlooking
the valley of Hinnom, and, hav
ing given a" signal to attract
the attention of the multitude
below, leap over the balustrade and float
gently down like a feather from the dizzy
height. Trust! Don't be afraid to try
the God. to whom you have committed
your life. By this plan you will have
thousands of followers in a moment."
In its highest reaches,this temptation
seems not to have such a direct applica
tion to many of us as the first temptation
had. We are so materialistic, so sordid,
so phlegmatic, that we are disposed to
nay. ".My trouble lies in the difficulty 1
have of ever arousing myself to spiritual
contemplation at all. There is far graver
danger that I will leave God out of the
count entirely in my lite than that 1
shall trust so recklessly." And it is true
that highly developed spiritual natures
are in greater danger from the presump
tion and fanaticism with which Jesus
was tempted than those of us witii torpid
circulation and sluggish minds. Tills
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temptation to Jesus was very real. It
called for the most heroic effort to bring
the material and the spiritual to a bal
ance and hold it there. It was no easy
thing for Him to bring His body and His
spirit to a perfect poise, and it has never
been an easy thing for any of His fol
lowers to maintain o>i equilibrium be
tween the Instincts of the human body
and inherited common sense, on the one
hand, and psychic aptitudes and spir
itual affinities on the other.
This temptation, stripped of its figura
tive dress, presented this aspect to Jesus:
"As the Messiah, you can afford to neg
lect judgment, prudence and caution and
trust to the supernatural intervention of
God. In sotting up a heavenly kingdom
that is so different from popular concep
tion, you will have to encounter opposi
tion and prejudice, but run rough shod
over that. Don’t hesitate, if you are j
God’s appointed Messiah, to dare'any sort
of danger.”
There is also a secondary aspect of
this temptation that corresponds very
closely with the first in its relation to
doubt. "If,” said the tempter, '’you are
God’s Son. prove it by turning stones
into bread;” "if,” said he in the Second
Temptation, "you are God's Son. prove
It by leaping from the temple.’’ This
suggestion carried with It this Idea:
"There is something surer than your own
consciousness You can be more certain
of God and God’s favor, if yon have a
sign that appeals to your eye, or a sound
that your ears can hear, or something
that your hands can feel. It is not suffi
ciently convincing that God is, that He ■
speaks to you. and that you are in bar- :
mony with Him that you experience this i
in your consciousness. You ought to have
some physical proof. You cannot afford
to rest this matter, upon which so much
depends, upon simple conviction of soul. ,
Jesus answered all these suggestions in
one short sentence, "Thou shalt not
tempt the Eord thy God.' In the first
place, the reply discloses Jesus’ attitude
toward the scripture. He taught us. by
His example, that wo cannot afford to
select some high poetic passage of scrip- ,
ture as a life motto and shut our eyes to
all the rest. In dealing with scripture,
we should be careful to get all the pas
sages that bear upon the point undei
consideration and give each one its <lu<‘
weight in the light of our own highest
reason. Jesus was not willing that the
tempter should use the Bible as a sort ot
text grab-bag with which to settle the
all-important matter of life. Jesus trh d
passage with passage rind then b,ought
His own highest reason to bear upon
them in deciding His course of conduct.
His answer to the tempter was a pledge
at once of conformity to law and of
modesty of conduct. The tempter had
suggested that He press forward with His
work regardless of danger and heedless
of the call of prudence, as heedless as If
He should throw Himself from the pin
nacle of a. temple. Theudas, the Jewish
patriot, sought to usher in the Messianic
kingdom by giving himself over to high
fanaticism, and not many years later .
Bar Cochba yielded to the same tempta
tion. Both failed. Jesus showed His I
perfect sanity, mental health and spirit- !
ual balance in answering the tempter. ”1 I
will not be a fanatic.” Subsequent events
in Jesus’ life make clearer to us the '
meaning ot His refusal here to presume
upon God. Time and again He withdrew |
Himself from the multitudes when He |
found that His life was in danger. nn<i
He never yielded Himself to His enemies
till He had completed His mission and ,
was ready to say, "My hour is come.
His answer reveals again His concep
tion of His duty towards His fellow
men. He said by His refusal, "I have not '
come to astonish men. I do not care to
excite their surprise. I am her
them. My business is to seek the lost, and
lighten the burdens of the heavy-laden l
and bring happiness to the distressed ’’ -
If He had fhc power to do what the I
tempter suggested and had yielded to it, j
He would have alienated His brethren. ;
I find that I must reckon with natural I
laws, both physical and moral. If Jesus |
had lived as one holding in contempt all I
physical and moral laws, He would at I
once have placed Himself beyond the pale |
of my sympathy.
By pursuing a bourse of fanatical con
duct illustrated by leaping from a tem
ple. He would iiave won to Himself the
plaudits of the idle and miracle loving
multitude, but He would not have wiped :
the tears from sad human eyes, nor
have bound up the broken hearts of His
bereaved brethren.
Jesus said to the tempter, "There is
a wide difference between faith and pre
sumption. Faith is sane and reasonable; i
presumption is wild and foolish. I can- j
not put Myself in a place of danger and I
expect that God will rescue Me. The high- j
est faith in God depends upon My reason- i
able understanding of what I can do and ,
what God can do for Me. The moment
My trust presumes to break one of the |
least of God's laws it degenerates into ,
presumption. Such conduct does not hon- ■
or God. j
"More than that, I do not need any ,
ocular demonstration of My Father's ,
presence and power. '1 he consciousness l
within My soul outweighs all physical ■
proofs. With My moral purpose sincere j
and my heart pure, 1 have the highest ,
possible test of My Father's presence and
My acceptance with Him.'' Jesus after
wards expressed the same idea when He
said, “Blessed are the pure in heart for
thoy shall see God.”
I.et us see if the answer of Jesus to the !
tempter has any application to our own I
time. “Commit God to the spectacular
and wonderful,” said the tempter. Do
not some of us yield to the tempter tn >
nur effort to commit God to strange
things? Do we not sometimes tell our |
religious experience in such away as to |
leave the impression that G d had acted ■
very strangely? Have we not thus pledged j
Him to TTie fantastic? Have not some of us j
as religious teachers left the same im- |
pression on men that the devil sought, to i
haake upon Jesus? We discuss the Gal- (
veston flood, the eruption of Mount Pelee '
and the Gainesville tornado as if God ■
revealed Himself only in such destructive
phenomena.
But these are not so characteristic of I
God as the calm day, the soft sunlight, •
the germinating seeds, the growing crops |
and ripening harvest and flaming ban- I
nets of the autumn forest, the fragrance i
of the rose, the song of the bird when ;
the young are in the nest, the mother I
crooning over her babe and the lather !
weeping above the grave ot a wayward j
son. God speaks in the silent, but sta- I
hie, forces of gravo.ition, the whirling 1
funs and satellites, the expansion of I
heat, the refrigerating of coid. the bub- j
bling spring and murmuring stream, and I
sighing of the pines and the golden gio- i
ties of the sunset. So in spiritual mat
ters. That man who tells of weird and
uncanny experiences of how God came
io him in the hoot of the owls, the sight
of hobgoblins and audible voices at mid
night. betrays the false conception he
has of how the good Father speaks to
His children. Incalculable harm has
been done by men and women who, in re
lating their religious experiences, iiave
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1903.
stretched their imaginations beyond the
warrant of facts and have made the im
pression upon those who listened to thwm
that the only way for men to become
religious was to pass through such
weird and fantastic experiences as they
describe.
The aspect of the temptation, "Draw
attention to self rather than do good,
conies with especial force to those who
undertake religious work. How seduc
tive the tempter is when he approaches
tlie preacher and whispers in his ear,
“Make a. reputation for yourself as an
eloquent preacher. Men like to have
their ears tickled by tine rhetorical
flights. Strive for the plaudits of the
multitude.” That preacher who thinks
more of how his sermon will sound than
of the good he will do in instructing, or
rebuking, or encouraging his hearers, has
yielded to the tempter at this point. God
calls the minist r to teach, to preach, to
save, and whenever lie stoops to make a
reputation for eloquence he yields to the
tempter and prostitutes his office.
Jesus was tempted to feel that because
He had commjtteil Himself to God He
could show His contempt for physical
and moral laws. Does not the same
temptation come to us?
There was in lais country, not many
years ago, a considerable body of Chris-
Gans who wore said to believe that God
did hot require that men should study and
meditate in order to know His laws and
His purpose. It was said that their min
isters taught that all that was necessary
for them, having once received the call,
was that they should stand up to preach
and God would fill their mouths. God
did fill their mouths, but He filled them
with wind, and the result, of this fanati
cism has been what we might have ex
pected, namely, that that branch of tire
church Is about dead. No man can know
facts and truth without study, and God
does not set any premium on ignorance
In furthering His cause. The most con
spicuous illustrations wt have of men
whom God used most successfully are to
be found in Moses, the great lawgiver
of Old Testament times and Pau), the
apostle to the Gentiles, in New Testa
ment times. Moses, reared in Pharoah’s
house, having access during his youth to
the royal libraries and la ter going away to
the Egyptian university and familiarizing
himself with ail the scientific ariil liter
ary knowledge of th'e most progressive
nation in the world, was used by God
in conspicuous service. Saul of Tarsus,
drilled in the schools of his native town
and instructed by th : greatest master in
Jerusalem, rendered the largest service
to the Christian church that has ever
been rendered by any single individual.
It is presumption, and not faith, when I
satisfy myself to remain ignorant on any
useful subject wh< n I have the chance to
know.
' Presume to risk danger because you
are in harmony with God.” says the
tempter. That man presumes upon God
who imagines that, having had what he
i alls religious experience, he can there
fore put himself in situations which would
be perilous to one who has pot had such
an experience. The explanation of the
fall of many men and women who have
reached considerable heights In re
ligious life -nJ who have made
loud professions of their perfect
character, is to be found in the fact that
they failed to keep that perfect balance
which Jesus kept when Ho avoided fanat
icism. Many a man's high emotional
experience has been to him a. most dan
gerous thing. Presuming upon it, he
has subjected himself to temptations
which he found himself unable to resist.
The safeguards of his conduct were re
moved by his fanatical trust in God and
the old passions, taking advantage of the
opportunity, whelmed him in destruction.
Not only does the tempter suggest to
us that w'e heedlessly expose ourselves
to danger, but he also suggests that we
presume upon God to get tts out of trou
ble Into which we have unwittingly
< >me. If l find myself suffering from
some disea.se or from broken bones and
refuse to employ the best medical or
surgical skill to assist nature to recover
her balance and regain my health, I
do not thereby show my faith in God,
but betray my fanaticism. God is pledged
to help those who help themselves. But
G0.,1 n<-ver wiought a miracle to accom
plish an end that could be accomplished
by normal, natural processes. There is
grave danger In our modern times that
some of us will be swept off our feet
i-;. the wild claims of those who make
light of nature and physical laws. Tile
pli si al is not everything and the spir
itual is not everything. There needs to
be recognition of the claims of each. To
deny the spiritual in magnifying the
claims of Hie physical is to ally one's
seif with the brutes; to deny the physi
cal in magnifying the claims of the spir
itual is to become a fanatic. My spirit,
my personality, my s oil lives in a. physi
cal body and I must reckon with the
claims of each.
’'Trust in Ged to the point of denying
your own reason,” said the tempter.
Jesus’ answer. “Thou sli'ilt not tempt the
Dol'd thy God.” should have a broader
application than is sometimes given it.
1-lV' ry man looks forward with a reason
able degree ot certainty to a period, in the
latter part of his life. that, is unproduc
t I lie bodgets feeble and the mind 1
grow • dull, j'iio man tliat trusts God .is
Jesus taught that He should be trusted,
will make pro'. Ist n for these unproduc
tive years. During the productive time
ho will lay aside something for what
the world calls n “rainy day.” The un .
married man may disregard some of the
provisions tliat our modern life furnishes
that the married man cannot afford to
c .<r—T.ife insurance may be a matter
of <1 or even of indifference to the
'ii'iiiarrio 1 man. but it. ho-omes ■> ,|utv
to the man with a wife and children. The
trust that God '•■ill take care of the wife
and children If the accident of death
siio.tld overtake the husband and father
i not faith in God. but presumption.
That lain, without property enough to
Jo- •, wife and children from suffering,
wlio can save enough out of his earnings
io nay the premiums on a life insurance
p Ji-y tl'.at would keen them from want
and refuses, tempts God.
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satanlc use of scripture. The temPtei’
suggested to Jesus that He use certain
passages of scripture In a selfish way.
Surely no book in the world has been
so thoroughly abused as the Bible, Men
iiave wtood upon texts of scripture while
‘they burned innocent women and children
at the stake. Partial Interpretations
of scripture by special pleaders have
caused wars and persecutions that have
shed mor<» innocent blood than was
ever shed for conojjest. How often have
we heard the tippler, or the drunkard,
quote scripture In justification of his
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for thy stomach's sake.” said Paul to
Timothy, and thousands of sots have
called themselves Timothy, and have
taken strong drink to the undermining of
health, the destruction of moral charac
ter and the wreck of home. Many a
miser, whose barns were full and whose
coffers were heaping witii gold, has seen
the shiver of half oipd women and heard
the cry of hungry children in the street
and justified himself for not ministering
to their wants by quoting a passage of
scripture, "If an" provide not for his own
house, he is worse than an infidel!"
"How will you use your power?” was
the question that came to Jesus.
“Sanely. intefii.gentl-." said Jesus. “1
will use my highest reason in determining
my course of conduct. I will live mod
estly, in harmony with natural laws. f
will give to my brethren the truest, san
est, healthiest and heartiest service of
which I am capable under the direction
of God.”
Will you do as much?
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Pacific Express Company Seems To
Be Badly Crippled.
Chicago, October 16.—The express serv
ice on the Wabash rallyay entering and
leaving Chicago is tied up bv a general
strike of employees of the Pacific Ex
press Company. The trains from St.
Louis today arrived with no express mes
senger on board, and no express parcels,
but there is no interference with the
baggage business.
Secretary Hill, ot the union, who is in
Chicago, said that the Brotherhood ot
Hallway Trainmen had pledged the strik
ers assistance, and that switchmen,
freight hands and some conductors would
refuse to handle goods of Hie Pacific Ex
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under contract with tne Southern. The
employees are on the Southern pay roll,
and are In every way considered in the
employ of that cqrixoration. it was said
today that the express messengers here
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HOSPITAL DAMAGED BY FIRE.
Male and Female Negro Wards of
Grady Hospital Destroyed.
Two wards of the Grady hospital were
destroyed by fire ■ '. 1 o’clock last Satur
day morning and only prompt and he
roic action on the part of the hospital
people, citizens, police and fire depart
ment averted a holocaust in Atlanta be
yond description.
The wards that burned were the negro
wards, the male and female, and in ad
dition the building in which were the hos
pital laundry, kitchen and janitor’s sleep
ing apartments. It was in the latter
structure tliat the fire started, the source
being embers left fn the laundry range.
There were no casualties, but two negro
women, both very til and expected to die,
succumbed under the excitement and ex
posure during the removal of the patients
from the blazing wards.
The two dead are: Eliza Smith and
Sarah Holliday.
None but the negro patients in the burn
ing wards and the children, three in num
ber, whose ward is nearest to tiie build
ings that burned, were removed. The
remainder were left in their beds, faith
fully attended by heroic nurses, who did
all in their power to ventilate tlie smoke
filled rooms of the main building.
The fire was discovered about the
same time by several different people.
The first alarm reached the lire head
quarters al I .45 o’clock.
The patients were seized in the arms
of the rescuers and borne with quick
steps out into the drizzling rain, where
another dramatic feature of the wild
scene was enacted. Painted women from
tile houses of ill-repute on the neighbor
ing street stood without, their arms open
to receive the sufferers and the doors <f
their houses ajar, so that the weak and
helpless might enter and be. made com
fortable.
"This is one of the hardest fires to
handle ami one of the most dangerous
witii which I have ever had to contend.”
These were tlie words of Fire Chief W.
It. Joyner just after the firemen had got
ten flip conflagration under control. The
firemen worked bravely and hard to save
the big Institution from destruction, and
it was a quick piece of work on the
part of the chief and a number of his
men in cutting off the rapid progress or
the fire through a tunnel that connect
ed lhe main building and white wards
with the colored wards and other de
partments, that accomplished this end.
Terror Spreads a Second Time.
Following closely on the conflagration
at Grady hospital Friday night, fire was
discovered last night about 10 o'clock
in the nurses’ quarters of the institu
tion.
The fire was found among some plunder
in the bath room and was quickly extin
guished before any damage was done.
A telephone alarm called tlie fire depart
ment to the sci'iic.
A pile of rubbish was burned and the
building, which is a brick structure in
the rear ot the hospital buildings, was
uninjured.
TO RURAL FREE DELIVERY
CARRIERS.
You serve at least 100 families
with mail; that is the minimum for
each route. To put The Constitution
in every home on your route will put
you in the running- for a good agent's
prize. Read the offer, send for an
agent's outfit today and don’t lose a
minute.
Mussel Shells Are Valuable.
Garbondalc, Ills., October 18. —The peo
ple of Maurie. a small town on i!*
Wabash river, in White county, have be
come excited over the finding of valuable
pearls in tlie river bed, and scores of
people are now workin daily gathering
mussel sliells. which are selling at SIB a
ton Some experienced men can secure
a ton per day. The pearls being found
range in value from $lO tn SSO.
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Persia Shaken by an Earthquake.
London, October 18—It is reported that
250 lives have been lost in an earth
quake at Turshiz, Persia. Thirteen vil
lages were, destroyed and some 5,000 per
sons are now homeless.
lOfwT PERSONAL to SUBSCRIBERS
"W ,: WILL KENT) t every worthy sick and ailii k person who writes l e\nonth’-i l /r« , ntin* nt io be puid
\\ Si W f ull sized SI.OO package of VIT.E-OKE by mail, postpaid, sufficient tor mu •
' for w ‘ thln «”• month’* time otter receipt it the receiver h7 "r'et''-'has '■■AuA d, ' u'Aa
' '' g<>od than ail thedr«t»» and dose* otquockH vr v’.j.iv A'wn Afi t, done v.»i k«»I and not bef..r.
thia ever ag.iin carefuliy. and uudereto.ul k ”1 r ,»’j> ‘ vt , u pa> us th,ng.
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. you thirty day* time to try tho uiedlt Ine, thirty du * ( • know tliat when tl.
willing to pay. We know Vitw-Ore and ore willing to take the rislt.
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.%resßheumatism, Bright’s Disease. Ulood Poisoning, Heart Trouble, Dropsy. Ihroat
Affections, Liver. Kidney sad Bladder Ailments. Stomach anti Female Disorders.
MreyjW? LaGrippe. Malarial Fever. Nervous Prostration and General Debility,
as thousands testify, and aa no one. answer.nt; thin, writing for a pin «J|’.»Zl'nvwn 'n.cd'ii mo w r. a
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-‘4’AffiLeVr’ so we may know th*, you are entitled to this liberal offer. ,i..e of cverv '.vir.« r>er»on
This offer will .Imlleiige the uttemmn and e.mst-'eranon ami
who desires better h -altu. or Who-uff-.-.s pums. m- amt dneases w!»< l> » ve ,7?,' '* 1
and grown worse with age- We care no: for your ..kept icUmbu ask <=
3, t- - cxi'-uie. regardless of what ills vou have ”v num,- t• u > f-r a pa-k tgc. In answer to tins, tmcl
Theo. Noel Company. L. O. Dept., Chicago
FATHER MURDERS CHILDREN.
Carolina Doctor Commits Deed with
a Claw Hammer.
Asheville, N. C., October 17.—Dr. J. V.
Jay, a well known physician, of Bun
combe county, living nt Barnardsville, 20
miles north of Asheville, today killed with
a claw hammer *>is three children, aged
2, 4 and 6 years.
It is said that Jay had been drinking
heavily fop nearly two weeks, and last
night foreqd bis wife to leave home. Mrs.
Jay returned this morning and was pre
paring breakfast when her husband at
tacked her again and ran her out of the
house.
She started for a neighbor’s to get
help and left the children crying on the
porch.
Mrs. .lav soon returned with assistance,
but arrived too late to save the chil
dren, whose lifeless bodies were found
lying on the porch.
After committing the deed, Jav went
into the house and attempted to set it
on fire, but. the men who returned with
Mrs. Jay rushed tn and overpowered him
and extinguished the flames. Jay was
then- bound h iml and foot and Sheriff
Heed notified.
Tim sheriff brought Jay to Asheville
tonight.
MOODY WANTS MILLIONS.
! He Approves Huge Estimate for Sup
port of the Navy.
Washington. October 17.—Secretary
' Moody has approved the estimate for the
support of the navy for the next fiscal
year, as recommended by the chiefs of
bureaus, amounting to $102,866,449, as
against $79,816,791 appropriated for the
last fiscal year.
j The principal items of tHe estimates are
i as follows:
1 Fay of the navy, $19,824,093,
i Bureau of navigation. $1,363,836.
I Bureau of ordnance, $3,776,706.
Bureau of equipment. $6,497,903.
I Bureau ot yards and docks, $922,884.
I Public works, bureau of yards and
I docks, $8,164,874.
j Naval academy. $3,000,000.
i Bureau of supplies and accounts, $5,-
| 203,932.
i Bureau of constitution and repair, SB,-
| 595,824.
' Bureau of steam engineering, $3,572,-
; 900.
i Marine corps—paymaster $2,118,875;
I quartermaster $1,690,296.
I Increase of the navy—construction and
machinery, $23,826,360: armor and arma
ment, $12,000,000; equipment. $400,000.
MORE MONEY WELL BE ASKED.
Request to States To Increase the
World’s Fair Appropriations.
St. Louis. October 17.—Eleven states
and the island of Porto Rico are to be
asked to increase their appropriations
for buildings and displays at the world's
fair. This decision announced today was
■ reached at a conference between D. if.
I Houser, chairman of the state and terri-
■ torlal committee, and ’’ M. Reeves, sec
-1 retary of tlie joint commissions. The
| states of whom larger appropriations are
I to be asked will have a meeting of their
. legislatures during January. They are
' New York. South Carolina, lowa, Lou
! isirtna, Mississippi, New Jersey, Ohio,
i Rboilc island and Porto Rico. It is >'x
' pected tliat the appeal will result in an
i increase of several hundred thousand doD
■ lars in the appropriation.
MORGAN CONFERS ABOUT CANAL
Alabama Senator Calls on Secretary
of State Hay.
Washington, October 17.—Senator Mor
gan, of Alabama, chairman of the senate
i committee on interoceanic canals, call'd
I at the state department today and had a
I two hours' conference with Secretary
j Hay. Roth the secretary and the senator
declined Io dismiss thh ’conference. Sena-
I tor Morgan said tonight tliat he went to
I the state ilepartrm-a t lor information on
; isthmian canal matters. Tonight Senator
: Morgan and Mr. Calvo, the Costa Rica
i minister, had a conference regarding the
canal situation.
REGISTRATION IN NEW YORK.
I
i Total for the Four Days Placed at
629.993.
New York, October 17.—The registra
tion on the last day in Greater New York
was 138,029, making a total for the f- ur
days of 629,933. The total registration for
the preceding three years was, 1900. 640,-
778; 1901, 614.141; 1902, 532,031.
Many Passports Issued.
Washington, October 17.—During Secre
tary Hay's administration of tlie state de
partment more than 79.000 nissports iiave
been issued over his name. This is about
27,000 more than any other secretary of
state has issued since the formation of
'.lie government, tin.- next record having
been made by Secretary Hamilton Fish,
■ who served tlire" yi irs longer in office
and who issued 52,450 passports.
War Ship Put on the Block.
Elizabeth, N. J., October 14.—Notie
was posted today by tlie sheriff for tlie
i sale of tlie cruiser Chattanooga, which
has boon in process of construction at
i the Crescent shipyard.
| Authority to soli comes from Special
: Master John A. Miller, under a claim
made by the Babcock & Wilcock Com
' pany. of Newark. N. J., for pay for
i boilers in the ship. Along with their
j claim, which is about $9,000, ore claims
| fib <1 by others, all aggregating about.
$29,000.
Jerusalem, October 17.—Cholera has
broken out here. The town is cordoned
by troops.
[ JOHN HARRIS UNDER ARREST.
i Murderer of Policeman Desbrach In
Jail at Abbeville, S. C.
I John Harris, the murderer of Poliee-
■ man Hans Drasbach, was arrested and
| placed in jail yesterday afternoon at
i Abbeville, S. C. Tlie capture was made
I by’ Sheriff Lyon, of .Abbeville, and Po-
I licemen Johnson and McClane, and W.
: P. Ferguson, on the Ferguson place, near
i Abbeville.
j Harris acknowledged the crime when
! arrested, and there is no doubt that the
1 officers there have the right man.
■ Chief John W. Ball, of the Atlanta po-
I lice force, and Officer Rosser, who knows
[ Harris well, left for Abbeville last night
; on the 8:10 o’clock train of the Seaboard
] Air Line, and will return with the prls-
I oner today
Tlie negro bore marks on his body
I where he was shot last Thursday, near
I Mount Carmel, S. C., by James T. Hes-
I ter, who attempted to effect his cap
; j turp. He was: not seriously injured by
i the lead, however, and made his way to
I the Ferguson place, where he was yes
-1 terday’ caught,
I HAVE YOU SENT IN YOUR CLUB?
i The activity of the agents for the
next few weeks means a great deal
; to The Constitution, but a great deal
j more to the agents. You read the
double offer to agents and see what
it is all about.
_JCTOBER Ist_TO_MCEMBER 31st, 1903._
COMBINATION
AGENTS’ CONTEST
The I
1 ——
Atlanta Constitution
Wants a good agent at every
postoffice and along every R.
F. D. route in the south
WE WANT a good Farmer, or Postmaster, or Mail Carrier, or M r. ant,
Doctor, or Tax-Collector or Sewing-Machine Agent, or Canvasser for Nur: _ r
Stock, or any other well-informed, reputable citizen, who is known to be . f t >l<
and who has a wide acquaintance In h: ’ cd to r.-pr. 'is at every p
office from the Ohio at I otom ic south to the Rio Grande and the Gulf. And
we will pay them to it i"r us for 1903. Tnis m ist be the red letter yar
I in which The Constitution rea dies
200,000 CIRCULATION
Should we reach this figure during this contest
we wil? doubse every prize now offered, whether
iin this contest or in Port Receipts Contest. It
is up to the agents now to do the work, ano
they can win if they wiii.
Special Rule on Sunny South Combination Orders.
1. All yearly subscriptions to The Weekly Constitution and any clubbing paper
i on our list (except Sunny South) v.ill count one each in the contest.
2. All combination orders tor yearly- subscriptions to THE WEEKLY CON
; STITI'TION and SCNNY SOI'TH, both for only $1.25 A YEAR, will count as
■ TWO each in this contest. This Is done to give SPECIAL EMPHASIS to Th*
, Sunny South offer. Double privileges to subscribers and agents in Port Receipt*
■ Contest also on this special offer. k
$1,150.00 in Cash to be Distributed as Follows:
A Speeiiil Agents’ Otter—The Subscription Contest.
: Concurrent with the SIO,OOO Port Receipts Contest we offer to our subscrip-
i lion agents, with full privileges of '.'on test as given in tlie rules and conditions,
; for the best A,g‘ent ■’ work, as follow:
' For the largest list of subscribers to Weekly Constitution from anv agent from
October Ist, 1903, to December 31st, inclusive, 19033400.C0
For the second largest list 150.00
i For the third largest list 75.C0
For tlie 2 next largest lists 525.00 each 50.00
For tlie 4 next largest lists 512.50 each 50.00
For the 5 next largest lists SIO.OO each. 50.00
For the 15 next largest lists $5.0 0 each 75.00
For the 60 next largest lists $2.50 each 150.00—$ 1,000.00
The Agents’ Port Receipts Contest—A New Feature.
i To the agent sending the largest number of straight estimates, without
subscription, for tlie Fori Receipts Contes’, aev'iinpaiiii'i by tlie
proper remittances, we will give ..8100.00
jTo the agent .. "i.ling the next largest list, .is above.. 50.00 150.00
Total agents' cash prizes $1,150.00
Lists to be made up under the rules published above.
The whole of the time covered by this contest is within the period of the
I SIO,OOO Fort Receipts offer, and every agent sending a sub: criplion m'ay semi (in
I addition to the subscriber's guess) a guess for on every yearly" subscrip-
I tion. The SIO,OOO contest will enable you to sep'.ir. many snbs ( : ibers’vou wonbl
1 otherwise miss—will help you to take tin- S4OO agents' prize and add to your
' chances of success in the contest.
| The people know The Constitution and want it, anil will take it almost for
1 the asking. Yon ask them and see.
■ If you iiave not already an agents’ outfit, send for one. We finish sample
. copies and blank stationery free. The time Is short. The news of the period
' covered by the contest will boos the greatest interest, and w,. want you to go
j to work. It is possible for you to make S4OO besides your commission and
j what you may secure on your estimates in the Port Receipts Contest. Come
1 into the race and help us to help yourself.
THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION,
I ATLANTA. GEORGIA.
TO SURVEY THE STATE LINE.
G. W. Lee Named for Important
Work in Alabama.
Montgomery, Ala.. October 14 —(Spe
cial.)—J. Thomas Heflin, secretary of
state, today appointed G. W. Lee. of But
ler county, to secure the field notes of
survey of lands lying between thi Coffeo
line of survey and the thirty-first par
allel of latitude, between the points v. , i >
said lines cross Perdido and the Chatta
hoochee rivers.
This appointment was made under
provisions of an act passed by the n- ■■ n
legislature to settle the dispute of in -
line between Alabama, and Florida.
Mr. Lee is the representative In t
house of representatives from Butt ■
county and a one-armed conf’derat* :■ '!
filer. " He has had a great deal of ■ x; ■■
! rlence in making field notes and actu 1
1 surveying.
1 It is said of Mr. Heflin that no young
1 man is more devoted to those who v;>r’
j the gray than the present secretary of
I state.
i
Nut Growers Will Gather.
j Albany, Ga.. October 18 —The Nai: e 1
i Nut Growers’ Association will hold
1 j convention at Now Orleans (>.'toi"‘r 28
> and 29.
, j President G. M. Bacon, of DeWitt. G '
■ has prepared an interesting proainm::;.
I ! and the foremost authorities in th-
I United States will discuss various
1 connected with the culture of nuts.
It is expected that Secretary of Ac: '
: ture James Wilson ’•"•'ill be among 1 1
j speakers
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