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SOUTHERN
LEADERS
By REV. DR. JOHN E. WHITE,
Pastor Second Baptist Church
I MMEDIATELY at hartd for South
ern men I* the necessity of choos-
Inc between two seta of leaders.
The negroes are also faring the same
proposition with regards to their lead
ers. On one Mile are those who ear
nestly and for the most part sincere
ly encourage and promote derotlon to
the negro Issue. On the other, those
sho Iliad away from {hat and encour-
sge and promote derotlon to other In
terests The two policies are at a
point." My pirn to Southern young men
Is that you will take a firm stand With
those who lead away from the negro
question to the strengthening concerns
of Southern life. And let the stand be
Itrm. You will bo assailed and Irri
tated. by prejudices on one hand and
the provoking folly of the negroes on
the Other, but let your patriotism be
sufficient for theso things.
Separating from the confusion, let
us choose those lines of. leadership
which. If honored and followed, will
lead the South to a noble future. And
you will take note that they represent
the Ideals and the spirit, aa well as
the habit of the good days when the
gout hem people were powerful In In
fluence. •
The Industrial leader, the educational
leader and the religious leader are the
three who must lead us out of that
which Is false Into that which la true
In our Southern life—business man,
teacher and preacher.
The Business Man.
I place the business man—the Indus
trial leader—foremost In the rank, be
cause he has at his command the
readiest motive, and Is least Influenced
by the discouragement of reactionary
forces.
Industrialism Is primarily the basis
of organized society. In his address
on the "Economic Interpretation of
History.” Professor 8ellgman, of Co
lumbia university, says:
"With every Improvement In the ma
terial condition of the great mass of
the population, there will be an oppor
tunity for the unfolding of. the higher
moral life, but not until the economic
conditions of society become far more
Ideal will the ethical development of
the Individual have a free field for lim
itless progress.
“The ethical Ideals of society which
can alone bring about any lasting ad
vanco In civilisation have been erect
ed on and rendered possible by the
solid foundations of material prosper
ity."
The activity of Industrial leaders
and ths prominence of Industrial
forces have a much more Important
relation to patriotism than the super
ficial critic allows. Immediately, ths
surest deliverance of Southern thought
from unhealthy to healthy self-con
sciousness is being promoted by the
men who are pointing the way to In
dustrial development. They are hav
ing effect directly at those points of
weakness suggested by the friendly
critic I have mentioned. Their mes
sage Is, "Get too busy to mind criti
cism. Don't apologise: don't explain.
Oet things done. Let them howl!"
The centers of Industrial life which
dot the Southern landscape increasing
ly are centers of Independence In
thought, quite the despair of all sorts
of demagoguery. The work they are
doing In the very nature of the case
overcomes Isolation and cures provln-
South to the world and the worl
the South. They are diverting atten
tion to strength-producing Interests.
They are creating a sound basis for
Southern prlds. They are giving
Southern men a reason for the faith
that Is In (hem. They are teaching us
to say the South Is the best—not Just
because she Is the best—but because
she has the best soil, advantages, re
sources, opportunities for real achieve
ment, and the happiest lives and homes,
and a people equal to their tasks.
I am an Idealist. I abhor the boasts
of sordid commercialism. But the man
who has Imagination, who Is charac
teristically Southern In temperament,
can find a feast for the soul In con
templation of a heroic Industrialism
espe<^elly If he will see far enough to
of the civil war with burning cheek
sorrowing on hla pillow that he had
not been born earlier to share such
glory, if he will look about, will find
the battle at his hand. No greater
mistake can be made, as has been on
often and so well urged by Illchsrd
Edmonds, wham I hewer ■ a true
Southern leader, than to hold that In
dustrialism is at war with the histori
cal Ideals. The old South made as
much of her Industrial opportunities as
the new 8outh has done with hers.
Before the break came In her prog
ress, the sun of Industrial advance was
'veil tip In the heavens The men of
liberty days honored the fact that In
dustry* was basal In the new republic.
They were themselves far from being
as sometimes pictured, the devotees of
lordly leisure. George Washington's
brother and George Washington's fath
er were engaged In Iron mining. He
was himself a civil engineer by pro-
feeslon. Thomas Jefferson was In the
buslnese of manufarturtng nails. The
battle field of King's Mountain Is not
far away from mines nnd hloomerlea
a hundred and fifty years old.
The School Teacher.
Equally as distinct In the leadership
of the South to her great future It the
group of men who are Identified with
education, under denominational, state
and Individual auspices. They have
seen the vision and are leading In a
true path to better things. The
Southern teacher In some respects Is
the loneliest of patriots. He has had to
lira by faith. His rewards In practi
cal effect on the body politic are not
Immediate. He must sow In tears, nnd
ha knowa that ha must wait patiently
for tha/harveat. If. Indeed, It ever cornea
In hla lifetime. At flrat. there waa no
recognition of the teacher as a public
man. The school president has evolved
a new statesmanship, and fha South
has no asset rising In value and In
power faster than the educational lead
er.
Here again the true Ideal of the
South rises to view against the falsa.
Thomas Jefferson was never more
within what waa native to and con
cordant with Southern character than
when aa a corollary of hla democracy
ha preached for education and planned
according to hla creed and educational
system for Virginia. It waa Jefferson's
REV. DR. JOHN E. WHITE.
I In the South when our. educational
census Is displayed. We are not l*r
from the hopefullest sign of the times
when college presidents and teachers
assert their offices as functions of
statecraft. The words of the school
teacher who lay dying were prophetic
of a new order now being. realised In
the (South. He said, "When 1 am dead
put a sword on my coffin. For I was
a soldier In I he war against Ignorance."
Under that order Southern people will
preserve and perpetuate their best tra
ditions. Under that order they will be
led lo take counsel not from that which
represents their fears, but from that
which represents ihslr force.
The Preacher.
Less dlstlnet, perhaps, but more per
vasive and commanding a vital posi
tion wl'b reference to the true life of
the South are those who stand for the
Chrletlan principle, the religious Ideal.
The leadership of the rellgloua teacher
nnd preacher In the South Is Indlspen-
sabls to ths Industrlsa and educational
forces. Harmonious progress Is Impos
sible here without him. He Is nearest
to the conscience of the people atlfi he
thought though uttered by another that
Ignorance In a republic was a political
crime; that liberty was a dangerous
thing: that a free people must be a
thoughtful people.
In that thought la represented what
Is fundamental In ths present lender-
1111 ■ "f e.lu. .ilb'ii hi ll.i- S.,mb ll l- s
gosapl that uever falls to cony let the
JetferaoMaa Democracy Is what the
South wants, only It must be what Jef
fersonian Democracy was—a civilisa
tion no more eaetaved by Its own pre-
to act without a caucus force to de
fine his limits of freedom. We are not
far from the secret of many troubles
art
stands for an Idea and phljosqph
_ ly of
life underlying the whole fabric of an-
,cietjr. An jUllance of leadership be
tween him and those who repreaent the
Industrial and educational movements I
have referred to would present an Ir-
realetable front against the things
which are false and for . the things
which are tgue In Southern life.
Benjamin Franklin was not In any
sense a religious partisan, but he waa
wise enough to recognise the religious
Idea In the foundation of tha republic.
11* said that the new constitution
would crumble unless ll was tha re
sult of divine counsel and he called
upon his colleagues In the Philadelphia
convention to baptize It In prayer. In
aome way the preacher In the South
too. In that South of tha day of great
promise he waa a powerful figure. A
candid critic speaking of conditions In
the South prior to the war refers to the
great place which the preachers held
and saya: "They almost ranged them
selves with the giants; I had rather
have known one of these men than all
the political and military heroes we
have since bred. The politician has
been the greatest popular hero, but
the preacher has had much the greater
Influence. For a century he waa by
far our greatest man—the man of the
largest original power and of the
strongest character.”
The preacher haa lost hla public
poa-er to a great degree In the com
mon chaos of Southern unsettlement.
He la himself In part to blame because
he haa been afraid to assert hla heri
tage from hla apostolic ancestry. But
lha reason of his ftar had Its grounds.
Tha imlUlclana of our sorrowful period
have resented hla approach to public
llilluenca and the Idea haa been auc-
ceasfully grafted on to Southern pub
lic opinion that the field of politics la
worldly or of the devil; therefore, the
preacher must keep well out of touch
with It
The man In the South that the truth
will sat free at once la tha preacher.
Hie meeaage and meaning to our life aa
a public man Is too Important to be
lost. Patriotism must be defined In
farms that Include him. He la more
than a passive subsidiary social and
political asset. He haa a gospel that
saves both men and natlone and hla
priesthood Is a priesthood of the public
good.
In tha vestibule of tha capital of
He who saves his country saves
things, and all things saved shall bless
him. Who lets hjs country die lets all
die and all things dying cures
him." 1 have pondered that Incom
parable definition of patriotism. It waa
written by a Southerner and with ref
erence to the South in hie “Notes on
the Situation," printed In 1MI. There
1s no saving of one's country so that
all things are saved If the religious
principle Is omitted from the founda
tions. Industry wilt save from poverty
and Isolation, and hslp to save from
morbid self coneclouaenea, but what
will save Industry from aordldness and
greed. Education will save from Ig
norance, prejudice and the perils of
liberty, but what will aave education
from unbelief and godleeaneaeT The In
dustrialist and ths educator needs ths
preacher. Tn* South needs all.
Ths Newspapers.
I am not without hop, that «ur news
papers which arc powerful may be
come Vehicles of the new spirit In the
South, |er,,ii re and milkers of public
sentiment not simple reflections of the
hour. If great wealth were at my dis
posal I can conceive of no truer serv
ice to the land I love than to use li In
i i n "f 1111 , 1 gaulseil and well
sustained propaganda to • nil the South
to the great things and away from the
narrowing absorption In the one ,in-
f rle depressing Issue of the negro pmh-
em. I would say lo nil reactionists,
“You shall not press down longer this
false and cruel crown upon the brow
ot the 8outh. You shall not cruelty
the strength and hope of Southern
manhood upon*this African cross," We
4>qv* no future conditioned upon a state
of affairs which la surrendered to a
permanent Irritation. We have a fu
ture If we will put the negro problem
aside and devote ourselves to the many
and great duties which call for our
beat energies. The security of the
South te not In self protection It Is
In self elevation.
It Is a civic tradition In New Or
leans that when the great flood In the
Mississippi river had broken over tha
levees and wrecked tho city, two cltl-
ssns were ruefully surveying the de
bris and wreckage. One of them rather
bitterly exclaimed, "Oh. If I had al
mighty power In this nrm, I would build
a levee here so high that the river
could never get over It!" "I would
not do that," quietly responded the
other. "If I had almighty power in
this arm, I would pul It betsmth our
city and lift It up so high that the old
Mississippi would roll harmlessly at Its
feet." The eafety, the progress, the
glory of the South does not lie In ths
mouths of those who say. "Let the
South alone," but rest# In that nobler,
braver clarion, “Lift ths South up.
Develop her resources, educate her
people, cleanse her thought of perilous
stuff and ennoble her moral Interests ”
Our loy# and our duty belong to the
,.r ..-ir pi.'ple who ar" confused
by many voices. Let every man start
where hs stands to give for the South
voice that will reach aome other
REVERENCE AND PROGRESS
By REV. E.. D. ELLENWOOD,
Ptmtor-Unlverftallst Church
I N our youth, we were frequently
regaled by the fascinating tale of
the frantic old lady, who, with her
puny strength, unceasingly piled her
broom In an atempt to eweep back the
oncoming sea.
The history of the rise of the human
race from mental Inferiority, erase
Ignorance and primitive superstition,
to Its present boasted degree of Intel
lectual freedom and spiritual power,
records the constant presence of the
obstructionist, with hie Increasingly
pitiful and futile attempt to hold bark
the oncoming tide of the eternal truth
of God.
And still Is t|ie theological old lady
with us. Still with her worn and bat
tered broom of dogma does she keep
up the fretuMT Struggle to hold back
from the knowledge of men the bound
less ocean of unceasing love. Driven
from on position to another by the
peralatent progress of theological
thought, with falling strength, but un-
diminished zeal, the unequal and loa-
Ing combat la continued. Despairing
appeals for help are made from time
to time to those Upon whom the light
haa fallen, and who have converted
their brooms Into paddles, with which
to help the tide of truth to bear them
safely on to the haven of righteous
ness and peace; but those who have
tasted the joys of freedom In faith and
love are not prone to return willingly
to the slavery of fear and supersti
tion, and so, though they would fain
change their old friends from hlndsr-
era Into helpers, yet progret. waits not
long for the laggard, and the obstinate
old lady must be left to be engulfed
In the kindly, life-bringing flood she
has so valiantly combatted.
Up a toilsome, Ihorn-strewn way
have men come to an ever-lncreaalng
knowledge of the character and attrib
utes of the one true God. Blood-be
spattered and shriek-echoing haa ever
been the pathway of the pilgrims of
truth. Ever, In the way of advance In
theoolglcal thought,-haa stood the ob
structionist, counting no method too
cowardly, no weapon too cruel fot- use
In heating back the patient seekers af
ter light and truth. Ever, as an echo to
the triumphant shout ot the explorer
upon the hilltop of a new revelation,
haa come the dianial warning of the
prophet of gloom, "Forsake not the
ancient landmarks.”
With some men and women, rever
ence Is synonymous with stagnation.
The tenacious love of the old absolute
ly prevents unprejudiced examination
of the new. This spurious reverence
also begets a decidedly dwarfing and
unhappy type of egotism. It leads men
to conceive that they have taken their
own petty little theological tin cups
"'SUNDAY ~SCHOOlTlESSON}
The Gentile Woman’s Faith
i N
the
*>f I
Ths Gsntlls Woman's Faith, Mark 7:24-
30. Golden text—Great Is thy falthi
bs it unto this even as thou vvllL—
Matt. 15:28.
By DR. GEORGE* A. BEATTIE.
N our last lesson Jesus was feeding
the 5,000 at tho north end of the Sea
Galilee. That night after gpndlng
the multitude away, and posing some
time In prayer, Ha walked on the wa
ter to meet HI* disciples who were
rowing across ths sea. Scarcely had
He reached the land when some whom
He had fed came to Him asking that
He feed them again.
This suggested the dlecouree record
ed In John 4:33-71. Then came the
l’harlsees from Jerusalem, seeking to
entangle Him. and make It appear that
lis did not ksep the law of Moses a*
recorded In Met. xv, l-».
After this He made another circuit
more extended than any of the others.
don. This wp* the scene
Here He went Into a house that He
might get rest, and be concealed from
those who sought Him. "But Hs could
not be hid.” Among those who sought
him was a mother whose daughter had
•n unclean spirit, who did not bring
her child, but cams alone. It was not
necessary that Jesus should hare the
person present whom He would heal.
All He had to* do waa to apeak the
word.
This woman waa Sryo-Phenldan:
'hat Is: a native of Phenlda that be
longed to Syyla, She was a heathen,
one of those whom the Jews called bar
barians or Greeks. She wss a descend-
ant of me Syrian as distinguished from
■ he i 'arthagenlan. a Semitic race. Mat
thew tells us she was a Cannanlttsh
woman, ope of the original Inhabitant*
of the load, descendant of Ham. Thus
'he represented the representatives of
Ham. and Hbem by descent, and of
Jnpheth by language and civilisation,
nml so was a representative of a vast
numberof pagans. So she had all these
iwrrlere of strangeness In race, relig
ion and nationality to overcome In call-
ins on Christ.
"hen people wish to see Christ,
" hen they reel the need of Him, no ob-
»aele Is too great to prevent them.
The fact that Jesus at this period of
His ministry bdtook Himself to the
'••asts of Tyre and Sldon calls for a
► p*clal Inquiry.
Why Jezut V/ent to a Heathen Land.
ately after His dtsdpli.
cused by ths Pharisees of eating bread
with “defiled, that Is to say, unwash-
en hands.” Ths ground of that accusa
tion Mark himself gives us when hs
tells of those Pharisees that over and
above all washings of cups and pots
and brazen veazela, “when they come
form the market, except they wash,
they eat not."
Against that substitution of an out
ward for an Inward purity against that
thought that any human being made
In the Image of God, was In himself
common or unclean, and capable of In
fecting others with his uncleannsss, the
divine teacher protested with more
than wonted sternness.
It was after this utterance that "He
arose and went Into the coast of Tyre
and Sldon." Was It not as though Hs
would testify by act aa wall as words,
that Hs did not shirk from that con
tact with a people whom ths Pharisees
regarded aa accursed and unclean—
that It waa better to go to and from
among such as these than to abide
among a people who honored God with
their lips, while out of their bgarts
flowed tha full stream of evil? And
does not this supposition throw light
on the conduct of Jesus In Ills answer
to ths petition of the woman?
Judged by the standards that wa ap
ply to human thought and conduct, ths
act waa but tbs natural and legitimate
development of what Hs had than pro
claimed In words.
Hla primary object was not to make
E roselytes or proclaim ths kingdom.
la wss still working within tbs limits
which Hs recognized as appointed by
Hla Father. What He sought In that
Journey over ths high mountain passes
of Lebanon or Herjnon, wss rather the
refreshment of the solitude where nun
holds communion with God, of the
everlasting hills which ars as ths fa
vored haunt of the Eternal Vole*
The woman addressed Him by Hla
Messianic name. “Thou son of Da-
V *Among those whom He taught on the
shore of Galilee, even before tha ap
pointment of the twelve had bwn num
bered, "they about Try* and sldon, a
great multitude.” Luke tells tu: "They
had come to heat* Him and to be healed
of their diseases, and they that were
vexed with unclean spirits, and they
wen healed." Here we hsrsanex-
planatlon of what at first seems hard
to understand. This woman might
have been among those who heard the
words and saw tha miracles of tha
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Christ, or she might have heard of
them through others, so when the
prophet -came she would know Him,
come to Him, and plead for Ills as
sistance. So she followed Him through
the streets and lanes of the city. But
He answered her not a word. He en
tered a house to avoid the throng, hut
ahe followed Him, and reiterated her
cry. “But Ha answered not n word.”
Tested Her Filth.
That seemingly hard and rrpellant
treatment might have appeared likely
to crush out all hop*. But the woman
with that keen insight Into motives and
emotions which comes nftsnr aa a su-
S ural gift. In hour* of special agl-
saw — ** * —*■*"* '
courage to
Had He meant to refuae absolutely
and altogether It woflld have been easy
to utter the refusal. Slltnce waa a
token that a conflict of some kind was
going on within. At last the ellence
waa broken, but not by Him, but by
the dleclples. It le not pity or iove that
prompts them. It might have been
consideration for the Master, but It
seem* more like Impatience.
A Needed Luton.
At this mement we may believe the
Master saw that they needed a lesson.
They were forgetting the limits of the
work which He had assigned them, or
were ready lo tranegreu those limits
And so with that Irony which has en
tered In greater or lees measure Into
the work of nearly all great teachers
of mankind, he puls forward tho ex
pression, not of his own thoughts nnd
feelings, but of tbass which ware work
ing secretly In their minds, though
they shrank from giving utterance to
them. ‘‘It I* not meet to take the chil
dren's meat and gtv* It to the dogs.”
This was an llluetratlon of the com
mand "Cast not that which la holy
unto dogs.” How wore they to recon
cile this with the other word* that
apoks of a wider hope, which told of
the many who should come from the
East and tha West, and alt down with
Abraham and Jacob and Isaac In the
kingdom of Ood? The woman saw In
tha words a new ground of hops. She
caught at the very form of the wordo
which He had used, and pointed to the
dog, not as tha undtsn. fsroclous
beasts that still Infest thou Eastern
cities, that feed on carrion and roam
tha struts, but thou that are admit
ted Into the house.
She finds In that word not a refusal,
but a new plea for compliance. She
did not claim a right to a full fellow
ship In ths blessings of the kingdom,
nml wa* conttnt to accept Just that
which would meet her special want
And supply nourishment for her hope.
And so her prayer was heard. The
duper law of love, the enthusiasm of
humanity prevailed over the law of
the aelMmpoeed limits of the Master's |
work.
The most casual reader of the miracles
of Christ cannot but be Impressed with
the fact that In every Instance where
waa possible faith In Ills ability lo
perform the miracle was required be
fore He wrought It. When the two
blind men cam* to Him He asked If
believed He waa able to restore
sight, sad when they confessed
they were. He touched their eyes, bay
ing, “According to your filth, be It unto
you.” We are benflted and bleued ac
cording to our faith.
Alexander the Grub
Alexander the Great ones had a sol
dier who performed some meretortou*
service, and the king naked him to
name hla reward. He specified a large
sum of money. The king's counsellors
regarded the request aa presumptlou*
and urged him not to grant It. "No,”
said Alexandsr. "T wish to show him
that 1 can give Ilka a king,” and thi
Mad.
e are
Imw
Him. He likes to give like a king.
The reformers In avery age have bun
possessed of great faith. Luther, when
he arose from bis knees when ascend
ing Pilate's staircase at Rome, not ofity
became a convert to the doctrine' of
Justification by faith, but ha also be
lieved that God would bleu hla efforts
In reforming the church. When John
Knox prayed, "Give me Scotland or
die,” he believed hla prayer would be
answered. In Dr. Culits’ home tor In'
curable* In Boston and In Oeorge Must
ler's orphanage In Brirtol, England, we
have today Illustrations of .the power
of faith. In the eleventh chapter of
Hebrews the' apostle has given us a
catalogue of the triumphs of fslth. Ths
sserst of Mr. Moody's succsu as an
evangelist was hi* faith. Whsn the
" Iples uksd the Savior why they
Id not cut out a devil from one
wu possessed, aflerthey ha ‘
In vain. He told them that It w
c*tire of their unbelief. The disciples
with little faith were trying tn perform
a miracle for a man who. It may be,
had still leas.
Thar* Is too much unbsllef In the
pulpit and the pew today. We do net
preach for results nor do ws expect
results.
The faith that can triumph over oth
ere' unbelief Is fslth of the highest
kind. When you come across such an
ons. It Is worth whilst fo atop and look.
You may wall turn aside to see this
eat sight, for be sure that whsn a
ish burns by Itself God Is In the midst
of It.
Ws must hare faith In our work If
.. Is to result In anything more than
miserable failure. We must bellevt In
the power of Ood lo cut out any and
•very unclean spirit Christ Is able to
save unto the uttermost The faith
that wins the day I* ths faith that
zhout* tho victory before the sword Is
drawn.
'According to thy faith, be It unto
you.”
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and have dipped dry the whole mighty
ocean of God's love aud truth, leaving
nothing upon which a brother of dif
fering credal conception may float hi*
bark of hope nnd faith.
This spurious reverence occasionally
Inducea men ot apparent Intellectual
power and attainment* of scholarship
to descend to tho employment of ridi
cule and misrepresentation tn oombat
the freely admitted march of a great
truth.
Among lawyer* and man of logic
everywhere, the employment of aurh
methods In lieu of argument la always
considered a tacit admission of a weak
cue.
' Progress has brought tn us a new
meaning for reverence. The truly rev
erent jnlnd is tha constantly seeking
mind. In every sincere why or where
fore, sound* the keynote of a truly
reverent hurt True reverencu bufor
Its object truth alone, and this truth,
embodied In God, leaches man that ho
wu put upon the earth to subdue It
and to possess It. Intellectually and
eplrtually, u well aa physically. True
revrenre lead* out the hsart In Its
search after Ood. and bids It, In this
liatlent search, to fearlessly and ron-
Hilcnlly construct It* own theology, re
gardless of the blatant clamor of tradi
tion or the galling chains of supersti
tion. True reverence teaches a man
that the God who fashioned the hu
man soul, long ere the human aoul
fashioned Bible nr creed, epeaks con
stantly nnd comfortingly, In commen
dation or In correction and admoni
tion, even though the mlud know no
nal theology, nnd though the mem-
hold no Moses, uo Isaiah, no Christ,
must have bun Ihe Inspiration of
such reverence u thle which caueed
St. John to write, "Beloved, If our
hurt condemn ue not, then have we
confidence toward God.”
This Is ths reverence whirl, the world
needs today. Ths reverence which
causes a man to hesitate long and
ponder earnestly ere he dub Me broth
er-man "heathen." Tho reverence
which teaches us that religion Is of
Ood, while theologies, creeds nnd Bi
ble* ar* of men. The reverence «hlch
teaches that even the soul which strug
gle* blindly toward God through the
medium of a "graven Image" I. en
titled to respect nnd consideration In
hla devotions, although our own mind’s
larger vision muy not permit our ac-
ceptancrtof hla special form of relig
ious belief. Let us have more and
more of thle reverence, which, while be
ing truly grateful for Ih# "ancient
landmarks” of theological progress, vet
forever Insists that thsse same "hind-
marks” were never divinely Intended
to be perennial tree* upon the hunk
of the stream of life io which our
winged barks of spiritual aspiration
should be forever anchored.
ARM CRUSHED OFF
IN ICE CREAM FREEZER
Special to The Georgian.
Augusta, Go, June 3.—John Crosy,
a negro boy, white engaged In operat
ing the seven-gallon Ire cream churn,
with slactrtc motor power, for a local
I'M Cl -ll 111 mill .-III, Till! ..,1.11 Ill'll III
arm caught In the machinery and ao
badly mangled that It wa* afterwards
amputated.
CITY WILL CONSTRUCT
BRIDGES OVER RAILWAYS
■City Engineer Clayton Is making
Idans for a foot bridge, at tha request
of Alderman W. >1. Putters,,n, which
'll] I" I'll" e.I . ,-| tile l|, .1 Kl,| I .11 :
from the old cemetery gate to the **-
tentlon of Jackson strset. Ths bridge
will be used by Ih* peopla coming
from Jackson street ami vicinity who
[have to pass acroes the tracks.
Tha othsr underpass will be on Dan
iel street. At tha point when the
street crosses ths Southsra railway,
near the Southern yards. It Is danger-
lous because of the large amount of
switching. The proposed plan ll to
llower the street. The plan will proba
bly come up before council Monday.
ARTEMUS WARD'S PRANKS
A8 TOLD BY HI8 COUSIN.
Hale and hearty In hie 10th year,
Daniel Brown, an own coualn to Ar-
lemus Ward, bears a striking resem
blance to Maine's famous humorist.
Mr. Brown wee a schoolmate with Ar-
temua Ward—Charles F. Brown—and
boyhood companion In those early
days. He lives Just serosa Ihe etreet
from Ihe famous Brown mansion. He
relates many Interesting stories about
the famous man, especially of his boy
hood pranks and the merrymakings of
school days. Art emus Ward enjoyed
a good time as well as any of the boy*
of thoas days, and he entered his sports
with all hie might. The two cousins
enjoyed many fishing tripe together,
although Artemus Ward cared little
for outdoor sports, preferring good
times with people; able to mingle and
enjoy the association of all classes of
men and women.
Says Danlsl Brown: "On* of the
bsat-known stories of Artemtl* Ward
Is about the alow-going train, and It
goes something like thle: 1 asked the
conductor If this railroad company al
lowed passengers lo give It advice If
they did so In a respectful manner. The
conductor replied in gruff tones that
he guessed eo.’ ■Well/ Artemus went
on, fit occurred to me It would be well
to detach the cowcatcher from In front
of the engine and bitch II to the rear
of Ih* train, for yon seo wo nr* not
liable to overtaka a cow, but whet's to
prevent a cow strolling Into this car
root behind end biting n passenger?' ”
Re-elected to Prinelpalthlp.
Special to Tho Oeorglan.
Culloden, Oa., Juno 3.—The board of
com ml si loners of the Cultoden Insti
tute re-elected Professor R. O. Powell
as principal, with a handsome Increase
In salary. This act of ths board will
meet the universal approval of tho poo-
pie throughout this section.
AMERICAN MU8ICIANS
WILL MEET IN C0LUMBU8.
Special to The Oeorglan.
Chattanooga, Tean., June 3.—The
race Issue has caused Chattanooga to
lose the next annual meeting of the
American Federation of Musician*. Tho
federation I* composed ofam
negroes. add because It was gnt
RENOVATING
Mntlrcnacff m^tl# n**w; brut work, u?"
ticking, nil jn.uicff Work »pnt for nni
delivered tttnv day.
ATLANTA MATTRESS CO.,
Both Phontf 4147. 114 IM«>din<>nt Avenue.
Don’t Pay Rent!
it is exceedingly bad form to do so when vou
can pay your own money hnck in your own pocket,
by coming to me. Just run your eye over tills!
We’ll build you a house just like you want it, on
I'.'i-y j.;i\in< nt.~, from S500.C0 to $5,000.00, if you buy
the lot. ’ The College Park Land Co. have 2,(XK> lots
to select from, $100 to $500 each. Come out and see
in", or'■.■ill un-iip. Edward H. Walker, the College
Park Real Estate Dealer. Office at end of car line.
Bell ’phone 37-J, East Point Exchange, College
Park, Ga. I sell everything at College Park.
(hat It would not her gond policy to havt llumbux, Ohl
7 ‘ mix with thr whites ben, It was [ probability