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— THE ATLANTA GEOHG1A-N. BATL’UUAf. J L LA is. THE UNFORGIVENESS OF SINS By DR. JOHN E. WHITE, PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH reived;-God !» not awbdi soerer it mini so Teeth that ahall reap.”—Oalatlana VI: 7. i(i bellevb In the forgtvsnsos of I elns." Thls^lsan article ofthe * creed I fully receive and fully be Have: moreover,'I greatly rejoice In It I can call this glorious doctrine aa Charles H. Spurgeon called It "The first note of my song." I believe In the doctrine—first, be cause the word of God declares It In the Old Testament It la 'the principal proclamation of the prophets. In the New Testament It Is the pith of the message of Jeans, “the son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins;" and it was the staple of apostolic preach ing. Second, because we have the u ltnees of thousands whose lives and characters sustain their witness that they have experienced the Grace of G-id In the pardon of sine. Third, be cause we have 'ourselves realised by personal experience that Ood for Christ sake hath forgiven our sins, not onco for all but as often till the present have as we have sought forgtvness. This Is our testimony that our Father In Heaven Is both faithful and Just to forgive us our sins. ■ What do I mean then by "The un- forglveness of slnsT" I mean Just this, that there are some things which for giveness does not do. There Is some thing in reality beyond the action of Grace In the exercise of divine pardon qf the sinner. Lost Innocence. - The forgiveness of sins does, not re store lost Innocence. If guilt Is the ■date of one who baa sinned, then the opposite of guilt'Is Innocence or the state of one who has not sinned. Manl- fertly for one who bas been guilty of hIii Innocence Is Impossible. Sin has then one pain beyond the reach of for giveness, one penalty that can naver he remitted. We have entered Into one Incurable sorrow, the sorrow of having sinned against God. Innooence is gone and gone forever. The story of the prodigal aon, so.beautiful and happy In Ita revelation of the Father's forgiveness, has at least one misery In It. There was the blot on the family escutcheon, the akeleton In the family closet, the misery of the fact that the prodigal had gone wrong. I do not know a more tqelancholy fact than thla fact, that there Is no way In reden “ ' ef Innocence. Such Is the pathos of the old men's song— "Backward, turn backward, O time. In thy flight; Make me s child again. Just for to night" "A child again!” Alas, how utterly Impoeelble. What then, did Christ mean when He set a child In the midst of an adult company and said, "Except ye be converted and become as little children" T Did He mean to mock them with an Impossible condition? Or does He mean that conversion throws open the gate for the return to Inno cence? Does not Paul also speak of the re- of Jesus or the language .of Paul that can hold out for any man In the light of the facts of the doctrine that for giveness restores ths sinner to Inno- cency. In the very-nature of the cose not even the grace of God can anni hilate facts. Grace can and does moke us Innocent of being guilty now, but never clear of having lost something to sin that Is irrecoverable. As the prodigal eon lost something In the far country hie gracloA Father could not replace, so we hove every one to suffer Borrow and the pain of "a blot on ... escutcheon," though we are safe at home In our Father’s bouse. If I were trying to explain the ever throbbing note of pain In humanity which le discernible over the face of the whole creation I would eay that this was ths explanation. Ths race carries In a deep consciousness the un translatable grief of a lost Innocence, a violated childhood. The coming of Christ did not silence the woe, the preaching of the cross does not assuage the pain, but they rather Intensify and awaken the great grief of mankind to the pathos of sin which has left this shadow on the aoula of men. Two of our great English poets have voiced the world's experience with kin. One of them saw a raven sitting Just above his chamber door, uttering the cease less threnody, “Never mors! Never more!" Edgar Allan Poe, with his own deep personal sorrow over a lost manhood, brings the world of men face to face with Ita spectral Innocence which has gone forever. The other poet aat by the sea and heard the waves breaklhg on the rocks, rolling out and aver returning. Tenny son Interpret* >the pathetic longing of all hearts that sigh with an Inexplica ble yearning for Innocence. "Break, break, break, on thy cold gray crags, O, sea. But the tender grace of a day that la dead Will never come back to me.” Forglvenese brings a rich store of blessing. Forglvensss, restored to God, empowered for today, and the fu ture, a robe, a ring and a feast, but we. wait In vain for the recovery of lost innocence. "Tes, th6u forglvest, but with all for giving Can'st not restore min* innocence again. Make Thou, Oh, Christ, a dying of my living, Pure from the ala but nevar from the pain." The Untouched Remainder. J. Forgiveness does not remit the material consequences of sin In this life. Mark carefully those words, "mate rial consequences of sin In this life.” "The spiritual consequences" or the effect of sin as determining a man's relation to God, forgiveness does remit as at another time I have shown. But the material consequencas, the physi cal, social and moral consequence's of sin forgiveness dosa not Interrupt. "Whatsoever a man soweth that shall 9 also reap." Invariably that law Is i force. It Is In force for the for given sinner as truly as for the un- Mvm. Here Is a man and .ore are proba bly some such here today who, through elns long ago committed, Is burdened with physical 'aliments, nervous dis orders or diseases of one kind or an other. The man of whom I speak has repented; for many years he has lived a straight, consistent life, but every day he lives the consequences of hls sins are upon him. That man knows that what I say Is true. Forgiveness OR. JOHN E. WHITE. does not remit the physical conse quences of hls sin. In that most eminent book on psy chology by Professor James there oc curs this passage; “The drunken Rip Van Winkle excuses himself for every freeh dereliction by saying; ‘I won’t count this time.’ Well, he may not count It and a kind Heaven me/ not count It, but It Is being counted none the less. Down among hls nerve cells and fiber* the molecules are counting It, registering and storing It ,up to be used against him when the next temp tation comes. Nothing that we ever do Is, In strict scentifle literalness, wiped out The only objection to be If you sow to the flesh ye shall of the flesh reap corruption.” “The moving finger writes; and having writ, Moves on; nor all your piety nor wit Shall lure It back to cancel half a line Nor all your tears wash out a word of Here I* another man; hla sins have brought sorrowful consequences not only on himself, but on others. He has not sinned unto himself. I doubt If any man ever does. Hls family suffers In the consequences of hls sin. Hls wife, poverty and a broken life; hi* children, disease and stunted growth. Now, this man has seen the evil of hls life, has repented, hss been par doned of God, pardoned of men, has gotten all there la to get from the for giveness of sins. But the consequences abide In tbs lives of others. Forgive ness doe* not heal that woman's hurt Ufa nor cure ths stunted or diseased body, and mind of tbat poor, belpleaa. Innocent child. Take another case. A man ha* done what Is possibly the greatest sin. He has set In motion evil Influences, has forth noxious seeds of thought or blighted, by the Influence of hls thing, the young men who came hln hls way. The currents are run ning In a thousand channels. They have passed beyond all reckoning out Into the sea of society to poison wher ever they touch. That man repents. Is forgiven, lives a useful Christian life. But alas! hls forgiveness does not remit the consequences of hls sins. Now, someone baa probably said: ■But is tbat always true? • Does not God cure sometimes these conse quences?*' And to that I should eay: "Yes.*' Sometimes God says: "Thy sins be forgiven thee. Take up thy bed and walk." But I insist that there Is no essential connection between the forgiveness of sins and ths remission of these physical consequences, and If lveness of sins In one instance car- wlth It also the healing of disease, It would always carry that with It. which we know Is not true. Surely, if any man was ever forgiven. It was David—but the consequences of hls sin was writ large In Israel’s history, and in that of hls offspring. Plaoing ths Blame. We are told that men are losing the consciousness of sin, that sin Is no longer a dreaded thing. The blame for this condition and trend Is laid on the heaB of science. But does It belong sl ither there? I have brought -Into l prominence certain irremediable 'penaltK-a of sin and for thla vary reason that the pulpit shares with science the responsibility for the slight emphi In our time on the dreadful nature of sin. I want you to see thnt sin 1b mallg nant and mighty. No man can afford to treat It lightly. No man can sin with Impunity expecting to get out of it easily. Forgiveness Is no cheap 'and easy way of escape. There are thousands unconsdduely deluded by preaching that makes It appear so. By the way In which we sometimes preach the grace of God and the plan of salvation, peo ple wld* and far have the feeling that they can by a short and simple course of action with no great difficulty get out of the storm they have raised. No one knows how many, but I have no doubt there are millions outside the church In the ranks of the unsaved mosses of men who find a comfortable permission to continue In sin from the way we preach on the subject of sal vation. They say to themselves and have they not some warrant tor such a reflection. "Oh, well, If forgiveness will do all that the preachers ssy I can go on and then some day I can lay It all on Christ—a little talk with Jesus makes It right all right." That is horribly untrue. Granting, glorying In what Is true, I declare to you It Is awful for men to get such on Idea of sin as this, and to get It from the pulpit, more awful stilL There are people In the church who are living In the tolls of the same fear-, ful llq. How are so many sinful and 1 sln-InduIglng Christians to be account ed for? If they ore not sinning that grace may abound they are sinning under the consolation that grace does abound. It ha* been taught them with no Inflection of emphasis on the safe guarding truth. They sin expecting to pray about it later. In the postponed enltence they aim to make a clean remit and thrust It all on Christ. It Is well for every man who hears me to know and know well, tbat even though hls trivial repentance should secure the expected absolution that the con sequences'of sin are not so easily dis posed of. 81ns Chsngtd to Crosses. I have lifted these truths Into promi nence in order that, I might say two other things that are great and tender. trulhs. These consequences which God In forgiveness does not remit have a tremendous disciplinary value In our lives. Forgiveness does *not remove them, but It greatly alters their mean ing to the forgiven alnner. By for giveness they are changed from pun ishment Into crosses. I have not laid at all that these abiding consequences of sin upon the Christian's life are hla punishments. No, they are not. They become hls cross and every one must bear hls cross, Paul's thorn In ths flesh w as something brought over from hls old life of sin. He besought God thrice to remove It but God would not. It became to him a means of grace— “My grace Is sufficient for thee." Take each of the Illustrations I have used— the diseased Christian, the mutilated family, file far-reaching consequence from the Influential sinner. When for giveness has come to these men and to all like them, the consequences of their sins become their crosses. When the twinge of physical pain, or the sight of the pale-faced, faded woman and the etunted child or the reapers of the harvest of evil Influences, pass ing and repassing appear, these men bow their heads under the weight of the cross and gird up their loins to do In remaining days all the good they can as the debt they owe and must bear always. Must wer not all see that the one largest duty of life Is to bear the sins of others. We have some times helped others to fall; we mutt !i. ip i twin to rlH<. again. Finally, may I bring before you this tender grnclous message from all the dark background I have raised? It Is this suffering sinner, forgiven but suffering etlll the wounds or sin and the scars, who gots closest to the very heart of the Father God. Where God cannot help us he loves us the mows. The prodigal son crept closer than he ever was before to the father's heart The father could not help the fact that he had once gone wrong, had brought a stain Into the home. He could forgive hls rebellion and per versity, but the consequences many of them remained Impossible to be re moved. So he loved him freely and moat tenderly. God’s best Is love. Better than cures of body or of mind. It cures the heart. Oh, by all the consequences of our sins, let us arise and go to our Father. By DR. JAMES W. LEE, PASTOR TRINITY M. E. CHURCH T HE failure to recognise God at work. In His Immeasurable plan tation, has been dua to falsa no tions concerning the so-called laws of nature. These, like the overseers ths Southern planters employed to manage their slaves before the civil war, were supposed to look after things, while the master, for the most part, was off on vacation, but appearing now and then on the scene of activity to order tha overseer* off the ground and to take hold-of matter*'direct After a few extraordinary performances, sufficient ly amazing \d arouse‘th— most vivid sense of hls presenoe, he.would call back hla agents-and retire again to dome place of rest III some such fashion God. tvns supposed to run Hls kerb] When He was not directly present performing wonders, the laws of nature, second causes, and other subordinate agencies hgd matters In charge. Now ths laws of nature, os active agents .for doing things In the absenco bf God; have about had their clay, a deeper Insight Into the relation of God to Hlt world lhow* that He never needed them and never used them. 1 . ■ , ’ "Among so many, can H* care? Can special love be everywhere? From the great spaces, vague and dim. May one small household gather Him? 1 naked: my soul bethought of this; In Just that very place of Hls Where- He hath put and keepeth you, God hath no other thing to do,” By the very constitution of our minds we ore • forced to believe that every ; event has a cause, that every move ment, from the circumlocution of an atom to the revolution of a sun, has a cause. And while It often happens it hat we are unable to fix our minds upon'the exact cause of this or that occurrence, yet, without exception, all men who think at all believe that whatever takes place has a cause. The mental necessity of regarding every sort of activity a* having a cause has doubtless hod something to do with, the general notion that tha laws of nature are causes. Something was constantly happening, or taking place, and it required no mental effort to drop Into the easy habit' of thinking that little laws were causing things to act aa thay did. The overscan were so much In evidence that the workers on the plantation forgot that there was any maater at all, and even If there was he kept at, such a distance from the field that he did not count for much. ,Tekjng It for granted that th* laws of nature were causative agents, and See ing their number constantly Increased by the observations and experiment* of students, It Is easy to understand the feer felt by so many that science was about to rule the one Ood out of the cosmos, and aet up In III* place a multitude of little gods, called laws. But the laws of nature -are nelthatr forces nor causes nor agents—they ore the uniform habit* of the Almighty, who holds everything In the grasp of Hls will. Here Is e peach hanging from the limb of a tree. It Is not there without a cause. The tree that bore It has Its laws of growth, but these did not make the tree grow. The peach has Its laws of progress from blossom to fruit, but the** did not turn a flower Into a red globe of delicious Juice. The peach Is the Idea of sweetness Incarnate. To ward such an exbresslon of Itself there la not an atom In th* tree that does not conspire with all th* other atoms In It to mov*. The lines of least resist ance mutt all be determined and ad justed In relation to the Idea of the tree, of the root, of the branches, of the leaves, of the bud, and of the fruit; each molecule In the tree must be spe cially determined to advance toward a peach. The plan In accordance with which the tree grows Is definite, and the Idee toward which It moves Is not that of a gourd, but that of a peach. If fruit, by any sort of poetic license, could be called music, then it would be proper to say that peaches arc the songs, all the molecules In the tree seemed bent on singing. The conclu sion Is that no peach could ever hang from the limb of a tree were It not sent there through the ntoms from the mind of the Creator, as the Psalms could never gladden the hearts of saints If they were not sent to them from the soul bf David. John Flake asks: "Once really ad mit the conception of en ever-present God, without whom not a sparrow falls to th* ground, and It becomes self- evident that the law of gravitation Is but the expression of a particular mode of divine action. And whet Ig true ot one law Is true of all laws.” II. In a limited and human way, cause may be represented a* the Influx of a men’s mental volitions Into hls bodily acts, and os we are able to study the ocean In a drop of water, and the eun In an electric spark, so, from this mi nute bit of cause In man we may get some Idea of It In Its unlimited sense. Cause In God Is the outflow of Hls vo litions In producing and guiding the whole sum of thlngs/together with ev ery particle of matter; or force In It. "Bodies attract each other In propor tion to their moss and Inversely a* the squares of their distance.” This Is rail- a law of nature, but It Is, In reality, Professor Huxley says, "A statement of the manner In which experience shows that bodies, which are free to move, do. In fact, move toward ono another." Now when the sparrow falls the earth rises.' What the sparrow tacks In mass of body It makes up In the speed with which It descends. And what the earth lacks In the rapidity with which It rises to meet 'the bird, DR. JAMES W. LEE. It makes up In mass. A definition of the law of gravitation Is nothing but a concise description of the uniform way the wilt of the great First Cause has of pulling together the masse* of things which are free to move. A sparrow falling to the ground furnishes us with a concrete and direct expres sion of the will of God. But the work of the Almighty Is not recognised In the process because we have without any renson fallen In the false notion of supposing that He delegates the func tion of pulling the bodies together to one of Hls agents, which In this In stance we call the law of gravitation. If God Is omniscient. If Hls eyes run to end fro throughout the whole earth every Instant, what use are we to sup pose He has for so many little agents to manage hls Interests. He certainly did not delegate the function of mak tng things at the start tp laws, because this Would be equal to saying that laws made all that Is, and God would be ruled out altogether. Some might suppose It hardly In keeping with the majesty of the Infinite to regard Him as concerning Himself about the small detail* of creation. But He did con cern Himself In the beginning to make them,' and put them to work. If He did not make them. He made a law for every atom and molecule of them, and delegated •theso little laws to create things. It le more In keeping with the majesty of the Holy One who Inhabit— eth eternity to make all the things of creation and then govern them ac cording to Hla will, than to make all the little laws necessary In order to get all the little things made, and then turn all the little things over to the management of the little laws, with out Hls active agency at all. The verbal devices to which writers have resorted to sav* God from the labor in volved In running Hls world direct are remarkable. When we think, however, of the supreme Being os Imminent in the world not a* an idle onlooker, with little law* doing Hls work, but os eter nally active Himself, through the use He makes of elements and forces, we get a conception of Him, unspeakably great, and besides very lull of comfort to the religious soul. And this view of the Almighty science has not only mode possible, but has made a neces sity of thought. Lord Kelvin, one of the foremost men of science In the world, has recently declared, "I cannot say that with re gard to the origin of life, science neith er affirms nor denies creative power. Science positively affirms creating and directive power, which she cothpels us to accept os an article of belief.’ There Is no alternative now between atheism, blank, absurd, Impotent and Impossible, and belief In a personal God, who In the beginning created the heavens and the efcrth, and by the constant exercise of HIS will keeps them created and moving perpetually toward the consummation of Hls pur pose. Browning expresses It: "All changes at Hls Instantaneous will, Not by the operation of a law. Whose maker Is elsewhere at other work.” III. Look out In the world and see what Is going on In every cubic Inch ot the atmosphere. Without stirring a step, all the chemists alive might find enough In a small bit of sir to engage their attention for a generation. See flaming suns and Innumerable blight worlds yonder sweeping round vast , circles of space. Remember that the very earth beneath our feet Is made up of parti cles, every one of which, like every star above. Is Impelled to ceaseless activity. Think of the measureless armies of molecules which are bombarding us In cessantly with aim far surer than the Japanese took In sending cannon balls Into Port Arthur. Everywhere In the air we breathe, In the water we drink, In the Are we warm by. In the food we eat. In the clothes we wear, there Is a perfect storm of little points too fine to see and too rapid to hear. Upon what strange shores do we find ourselves cast, if all the shot and shell ot the elements are under the control of no great Being, who Is using them to ex press Hls will. Life Is a dream, an organised delirium, spent amid scenery made up of furiously active little let ters, If no maater mind Is holding them and using them to write some great literature. Just think, or at Itast try to think, that the particles of one of the elements of water at the freezing point, move, according to the chemists, at 79 miles a minute, and must suffer 17.- 700,000,000 collisions In a second. Con sider that in the air the number of collisions between the particles In a second Is about 0,000,000,000, end that the average velocity Is something like eighteen miles a minute. Remember that In one cubic Inch of breath there are estimated to be three hundred qulnttlllons of particles, and every one of them' Is under ths necessity of chang ing Its direction in the neighborhood of 0,900,000,000 times a second. Keep In mind the thought that all these atoms, In the language of, Sir John Herechell, act like "manufactured arti cles” That each onejs perfect after Its kind. That there are about seventy different kinds of them. That they vary In size, shape, affinity and weight. That all are kept In measured and ex act order. That not one ever loses It self, or forgets on any occasion to be other than itself. That eagh maintains the character with which It Started Upon Us career millions of years ago through all the clash and rush of move ment to which It Is subjected. Now, when we take a mere glance at ths outer edges of the points or force cen ters, which like so much movable type are packed In perfect order around us, can we escape the conclusion that they are being used to spell out some mean ing of unspeakable Import? Haydn gave hls Immortal oratorio, “Creation," through a few notes of the musical acale, and Raphael reproduced hls vis ion of "The Transflguratlon" through a few pinches of coloring matter mixed with ether waves. But with symbols piled to the sun and on and on world without end, and with billions of them In every square Inch of the measure- lees way, and each symbol the costume of an idea, what music, what visions, what systems of truth must the Lord of all be striving to give those who have ears to hear souls to feel! and eyes to see and ^GOSSIP OF: STATESMEN AND POLITICIANS The Smokers* Club made a victim of Solicitor'Ennis, of the Rome circuit, while he was paying a short visit to tin- house Friday. He said he felt that he was getting off easy with a dollar, when he got In with the crowd that 'forms the Smokers' Club. th- Jamestown Exposition, has been extended a seat on the floor ot the house.during hls stay In Atlanta. He hne been a regular attendant for sev eral days and will make an address 'before the general assembly Tuesday at noon. When the sturgeon fish bill by Mr. Dunbar, of Richmond, wo* taken up Just Received A Complete Line of —ANSCO CAMERAS— All the latest'Improvements.. Full line of amateur oupplle*. Boat ama teur finishing In the city. SAMUEL G. WALKER. 85 Peachtree St. Frldly, there was an Interesting dis cussion of fish of different aorta. Mr. Anderson, of Chatham, asked Mr. Dun bar to explain how the sturgeon was caught and everything about It. It was considerable Jesting that the gen tleman from Augusta received, but hls bill was passed and no more South Carolina people will catch the sturgeon out of th* Savannah river. Messrs. Hardman and Holder, of Jackson,, arc both doctors. You could tell this from the character of the bills they have Introduced, all of which have something to do with their profession. When they get up to argue on a bill they bring the medical appliance* along. Thalr demonstrations before the house attract much attention. Speaker Slaton administered a pret ty call down to Mr. Hardman, of Jack- son, Friday, that caused a bit ot laugh ter among the members of^he house sitting near the speaker's desk. The speaker had been trying for some time to get better order In the house, but the member* would not stop talking. Finally Mr. Speaker said: "Will the gentlemen In the house please take their seats and cease from audible conversation, so aa not to dis turb the gentleman from Jackson?" DENTAL COLLEGE OPEN ALL SUAIMER impressions Taken and Work deuvened Same day. Tbli la a Dental School when DmtiiU ofmn ofnpirl* mm com to Marti tha latest thtajrs In Crown and Bride* Work and Dental Operation*. No students allowed to enter. Patients patronizing as will get ths adrantaga at experience and skill at coat, which they could not get elsa- where. Gas. Air or Local Injection administered for tha PAINLESS EXTRACTION OF TEETH Thu U e neeUr chartered Dsntol Coilse*. running 12 awatfesIntbsrsnr.andALerzreOnM. Bamembarth* place ATLANTA POST GRADUATE DENTAL SCHOOL DR. W. *. CONwAV, Maniocs. 2*4 floorSMntf-LntO' MIdloj.PuchtrM Street. ATLANTA, GEORGIA. Mr. Hardman auddenly stopped talk ing. Politics I* not mentioned on the floor ot the house, but Just go In the smok ing room If you want to hear a few argument*. Hok* Smith and, Clark Howell carry every county In the state almost every day,, out In that little room at the right of the hall of rep resentatives. Mr. Wilson, of Gwinnett, said that It was necessary for the lawyers In the house to talk a lot on the bills In volving legal matters, for many of them didn’t have a chance to do much talking at home. Mr. Butts, one of the hunters of the house, has Introduced a bill prohibiting repeating and magazine ehotgunz In hunting quail, dove* and partridges in the state. A few of the Intimates of the gentleman from Glynn say that he went out hunting last fall with a man who had a better gun than he, and the friend shot so fast that he killed all the'birds. Now the gentleman from Glynn Is getting back at him. The bill to prohibit the manufacture and sale of cigarettes In the state came up Friday. The members smiled and some one moved that It be tabled. Then several members went to the smoking room and smoked a couple Just to show what they thought of the bUL For the benefit of the uninitiated, the Smokers' Club Is composed of any who happen to be In the smoking room when an easy looking stranger comes In. COL ADAMS' REMAINS AT Special to Th* Georgian. Bowman, Go., July 14.—The body of Colonel T. L. Adams arrived here yes terday and was Interred In the Bow- “ IMMORAL HEAVEN” TO BE THE THEME "Dr. Wllmer and HI* Immoral Heaven” will be the subject of what promise* to be an exceptionally Inter esting discussion by- Rev. Dr. Len G, Broughton, at the Tabernacle Baptist Church, Sunday evening. Dr. Wllmer, while speaking before the Credit Men's Association, declared: •If heaven could be gained In fifteen minutes It would be an Immoral heav en.” The utterance met with a round of applause, and It is Dr. Broughton's I purpose, he says, to dissect the mean- j Ing of the sentenc* to the core. 1 You Are Accessible To the world if you are a Bell Telephone subscriber. Listings for next Directory Close JULY 25. If you wish to become a subscriber or change your listing or take a different class of ser vice now is the time to act. Q Reasonable Rates. Call Contract Dept., M. 1300 BELL man cemetery with the ceremonies of the Masonic fraternity, a crowd of 200 or L000 people attending. Some time since. Colonel Adams left hls home here to visit his brother In Washington. In two days after hls ar. rival there, he lay a corpse, the victim of heart failure. He leaves a widow In Bowman, also a daughter, Miss Delrey, who Is widely known as a Jlterary teaeher and church worker; another daughter, Mrs. How ard Arnold, of Bowman; the third Is Mr*. Dr. B. C. Teasley, of Hartwell, Ga.; the only aon, Eldo H. Adams, Is a railroad man, of Chester, 8. C. WAS JOE DORSETT A SLEEP-WALKER? That Jo* L. Dorsett, who fell, from the Equitable building and eras killed last Monday afternoon, was a somnam bulist and walked through an open window while asleep, I* the theory ad vanced by N. K. Smith, of Acworth, Go. In a letter to'The Georgian, Mr. Smith states that he knew Dorsett well and knew that he was given to doing strange things while walking In hls sleep. Mr. Smith says that th/> suicide the ory Is absurd and that Dorsett would never have taken hls own life. He pays a high tribute to the character ot the young man. PROMINENT FARMER FALLS DEAD IN FIELD ARE YOU AN AD WRITER ? Special to The Georgian. Covington, G«., July 14.—Robert W. Childs, or Newborn district, on* of the most prominent cltlsena of the county, fell dead In hit field yesterday after noon. Mr. Childs left Newborn at 4 o’clock seemingly In good health, and hla death an hour later was a great shock to hls relatives and acquaintances. He leaves a wife and four children. Mrs. J. J. Carter, Mr*. J. W. Pltte, Miss Mae Childs and Mr. J. H. Childs, all ot Newborn. You May Be One and Don't Know It Why Not Try r Your Hand? We will Give to the One Writing the Best Ad About this Label FIVE DOLLARS IN GOLD This contest will be open for two weeks, beginning July 2. and ending July 14. No professional ad writer or member pf Atlanta Typographical Union will be permitted to compete. Ads to be written for space of 5 inches across 2 columns. For any infor mation CALL OR WRITE ATLANTA TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION, P. 0. BOX 266 to be 2.000 years old. the natu ral msnimy of a miner In excellent preser- -Web ws* mummified by the cop- In • Chfljsn mine, I* to be sold Stoke Perk, stoke Poxl«. Eeland. 1***^! to come Into the market. It zhnoat » closes the famn'is Stoge F"*”* _„tk° yard of Grays "K>zy,"*snd osc* was u borne of William l'cnn.