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Georgia lulSings Curtailed Items of Interest Gathered at Random. Farmers’ Union at State Fair. It. F. Duckworth, state president of the Georgia Farmers' Union, has an nounced the full program for “Farm ers Union Day,’’ which Is to be cele brated at the state fair in Atlanta on October 16. This is to be one of the really big days of the fair and there is sure to be large delegations from the various farmers’ union organiza tions in the state. All Telegraph Offices Open. When the railroad commission Fri day morning called for the considera tion of the petitions of citizens from various towns of the state, in which it was requested that the telegraph com panies be forced to furnish service at these towns, their offices having been closed since tin* strike of the opera tors, representatives of both the Pos tal and Western Union announced that every telegraph office in Georgia was now open for business. In view of the fact that there was i no challenge of the claim of the tele- J graph companies, the commission dc-j elded to notify the complainants of ( the telegraph companies’ statement, ; and if there was no further complaint | the matter would be closed. * * * Pushing Work on G. & F. Road. It i.i officially announced in Augus ta that all necessary steps have been taken for the taking over of the sev eral railroads which will form a part of the Georgia and Florida railway. I’he connecting roads are the Au gusta and Florida railway, the Atlantic and Gulf Shore line, the -Milieu and Southwestern, the Douglas railroad, the Augusta and Gulf railway, Nash ville and Sparks railway and Valdosta Southern, comprising a total mileage of roads now in operation of about 220 miles. Contracts are about completed for the building of the four lines necessary to join the existing roads, and the entire system, when completed, will ho about 350 miles long, the main line extending from Augusta to Madison, Fla. * * * r A. &W. P. Withdraws Motion. The Atlanta and West Point rail road has withdrawn its motion pending before Judge W. D. Ellis of the Pillion superior court, asking for a temporary injunction restraining the state rail road commission from enforcing its order reducing passenger rates within the state and the case of the petition ing* road will now take its regular place on the docket, coming up for final adjudication in from twelve to eighteen months. This for the time being, takes the light of the railroad out of the state courts, and is taken to mean that the Atlanta and West Point railroad will comply with the order of the state railroad commission, reducing passen ger rates pending final settlement of the case. Seaboard Bows to Law. President W. A. Garreu of the Sea board Air Line railroad has expressed the willingness and Intention of his road to co-operate with the Georgia railroad commission in carrying out the state laws. This expression ot President Garrett was contained in a letter received by Hon. S. G. McLen don, chairman of the railroad commis sion, and was in reply to a letter written him by the chairman. In his letter to President Garrett Chairman McLendon expressed the appreciation of the railroad commission of the at titude of the Seaboard Air Line in os readily complying with the law re ducing passenger rates. The Seaboard Air Line and the Western and Atlantic were the only roads that did not enjoin the commis sion from enforcing the reduced rates. * * * State W. C. T. U. Convention. The twenty-fifth annual convention of the Georgia Woman’s Christian Temperance Union will be held at Co -1 uni bus October 23-23. It will he known as the jubilee convention. Each union is requested to elect del egates at once and forward names to Mrs. John C. Cook, 1516 Third avenue, Columbus. If they find later that they can not attend, they are requested to not fail to notify Mrs. Cook of that fact also and thus avoid disappoint ment and confusion. The reduced rates granted by the Southeastern Passenger Association havfe been recalled, on account of the unsettled conditions with regard to rates brought about by npcent legis lation, but the rates have been reduced on some roads so expenses will not be so heavy as heretofore. Certificates under the circumstances will be use less. * * * Will Guarantee Valuation. The first application of the new law which requires a Georgia corpora tion to obtain the sanction of the rail road commission before it can issue additional stocks or bonds occurred Friday when the Atlanta Telephone and Telegraph company argued its pe tition for permission to float a $2,000,- 000 bond issue. Heretofore all stocks and bonds is sued by Georgia corporations have at least had the prima facie sanction of J the state. In future such issues will not only have the approval of the state through its railroad commission, but the fa£t that a corporation has permission that back of such issue there exists actual value. The commis sion will, in no instance, approve a bond or stock issue until by painstak ing and thorough investigation it has satisfied Itself that the applicant is entitled to such approval. Cotton interview Condemned. At the recent meeting of the Upson ! County Farmers’ Union at Thomaston a strong protest was made against an i interview recently published in the At j lanta Journal, placing the cotton crop : in Georgia at 2,000,000 bales. The | passed were as follows: “Whereas, Governor Hoke Smith and others, in a recent Interview given to the Atlanta Journal, place the cotton crop of the state of Georgia at two million bales for the year 1907; and, “Whereas, recognizing that estimate is wholly untrue from the present out look and what we can learn from ail sources, we, the Farmers’ Union of Upson county, in called meeting as sembled, do hereby “Resolve, That we strongly condemn this method used to lower the price of cotton by making it appear that the state will yield fully 500,000 more bales than it is possible for her to yield this year, and words of censure are not too strong towards those who use such unfair methods against the farmers of the state. “Be it further resolved, That we heartily endorse the position taken by our state president, Hon. R. F. Duck worth, in his recent interviews pub lished in several of. the daily papers of the state criticising the action of these gentlemen.” Several other county unions have taken similar action. Pure Food Law Operative. Tuesday, October Ist. the Pure Food Law of Georgia, which went into effect on August Ist, but inspection on which was temporarily suspended by Com missioner of Agriculture T. G. Hudson, became rigidly operative and will be strictly enforced. Out of deference to the country mer chants of the state who were heavily stocked with foods and feed stuffs which come under the registration clause of this law, the department saw fit to put off the inspection until the last named date. It is required by the department that all foods and feed stuffs shall be registered and the plainly printed, the foods tagged and on each tag there shall be placed an inspec tion stamp and the food or feed stuffs analyzed by the department. In a special order Commissioner Hudson calls attention to that great cattle fepd, cotton seed meal, and states that to be classed as a legal meal, it must contain 38.62 per cent protein, and if it falls below that standard, it will be known as a mixed feed and registered as suchl Under section 17 of the Pure Food law, it is the duty of sheriffs to seize and sell at public outcry all foods and feed stuffs not properly registered. Already $6,000 worth of pure food stamps have been sold by the agricul tural department. ATTEMPTED TO BRIBE JUROR. Partisan of Standard Oil Trust Gets Into Serious Trouble. L. B. Williamson was arrested in Findlay, 0., Thursday on an indict ment charging him with attempting to bribe Charles Thompson, a juror in the case of the state of Ohio, against the Standard Oil company, last June. Ke was held in bond by Judge Duncan. Mrs. Charles E. Thompson said that Williamson approached her and asked her to persuade her husband to dis agree and hang the jury in the Stand ard Oil case. Williankson admits he ’•cd made the proposition. VTbe Pui/o/t I \mrnmammmmmaammm nr■■■■■ n i aray-it^at=^^w=magj A SERMON * K< T/te RB/~ Subject: Hypocrisy. Brooklyn, N. Y. —Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church, Hamburg avenue and Wierfield street, on the above theme, the Rev. Ira Weminell Henderson, pastor, said: The subject reflects a feature of life that is as real and general as it is unfortunate and reprehensible. For hypocrisy—that is to say, the assumption of that which we are not, or the uncandor of inconsistency—is a prevelant and pernicious factor in life. It Is present everywhere. But nowhere is it more pernicious than in our own midst. America is beset with the vice of hypocrisy. And it is especially unfor tunate that it i3 so. For the position of this country in the front rank of the nations and of progress makes it insistently necessary that we shall have candor as we consider ourselves and that we shall not arrogate to ourselves any characteristics or vir tues that are not of the bone and sinew of our national life. For in sincerity is as fatal to a nation as to an individual. He lives best who is genuine. Not otherwise is it with a nation. Generally when we speak of hypoc risy we conceive the portraits of the men who lead dual lives, of false faced friends, of the insincere habit ues of an insincere society. They are truly to be condemned. Their ex ample is a warning. But they are not the offenders of whom most I would speak to you to day. For the hypocrisies of individ uals are co-terminous with death so far as this world is concerned. The hypocrisies of nations however, by virtue of the constitution of society, have a tendency to perpetuate them selves and to become in a larger sense most lasting and pernicious. It is because of the tendency of national hypocrisies to be, in a way, self-perpetuating that I would, this morning, have you attend to the hy pocrisy of America. Because our national hypocrisies are to some de gree unconscious they are the less to be excused and they are more to be feared. The subject is not pleasant. It is not over nice to admit that as a na tion we are hypocritical. We may wish the truth were otherwise. But the truth has a very peculiar fashion of remaining fixed and constant re gardless of our desires or our dreams. America is hypocritical. And we are hypocritical socially, government ally, intellectually, morally and spir itually. The counts are many but we shall have to admit their validity. And they are true despite the un questioned supremacy of our people in many fields of national endeavor and success that constitute the great ness of a people. America is hypocritical in her so cial relationships. Jack London in a recent story tells a weird and grue some tale of how he witnessed as a tramp the flogging in most merciless fashion of two unruly gypsy boys by the leader of a gypsy camp. The story is horrifying in that it reveals the ex istence of such cruel inhumanity ill the midst of a civilized society even in a gypsy camp. Our eyes fill with tear3 and our blood runs hot with in dignation as we read of such unphil osophical and unscientific manage ment of children. We can understand such conditions as they exist among among the chill snows and under the benighted civilization of Russia. But here they appeal, even though they are infrequent. But while our pulses beat faster over the sins of a gypsy camp we are strangely unresponsive to the piercing wails of the multi tudes of our own children—no, not our own—to the wails of the multi tudes of our neighbors’ children, who, day by day, in a land of freedom and Christian enlightenment, are crushed in the mechanism of our modern commercial system. We have ears and hearts and ready hands to help the misery of the Chinaman who cries out against the greed of “most Christian England” as she forces the the curse oT opium upon an unwilling nation. But we seem hardly to hear the call of the throngs whose lives in America are wrecked because of the unholy traffic in alcoholic bever ages that to-day is permitted to exist by and with the consent and suffrage of the adult membership of the Church of Jesus Christ. And just so long as we mourn over gypsies and wax indignant over the wickedness of the English people, the while we wax our ears against the call of our chil dren in the homeland for help and a chance to live as God meant they should we are, to say the least, so cially hypocritical. And no man may deny the count. America is hypocritical in her atti tude toward government. It is the fashion to declaim about the vices of Babylon, the rottenness of ancient Rome, the sins of Philip the second, the crimes of modern Russia, the ra pacity of European nations. We are astounded that the civil corruption of any nation could be so totally in decent as to consign sailors to be sent to death inside of ill-equipped and still more illy handled men of war. We thank God that -we do not live under an autocracy that is as con scienceless and as villainous as that which holds the reins of Russian gov ernment. And yet, wide-awake as we I are to the criminalities of the bureau cratic government of the Russian Czar, we are but half-awake to the realities of the existing corruption all around us. For the fact is that in the face of our history, our inheritance, our opportunities, our Christian in fluences, we are a sorry spectacle to the nations. We glory that we have no autocracy of birth. But by our o"wn consent we have allowed to reign over us as greedy a set of political pirates as ever sunk a ship. Their only distinction is that they are able to fool most of the people most of the time. The governmental condi tions existant in nearW every hamlet and city in the United States of Amer ica are so absolutely disgraceful that we ought to be ashamed. Our polit ical dictators, with few, and they lus trous, exceptions, do as they please with the sublimest self-confidence im aginable. And so long as we are grieved over the examples of govern mental maladministration, ancient and modern, with'which we are fa .miliar, and refuse to secure the puri fication of our own political affairs, and neglect to procure the political execution of our political thugs and thieves and highbinders, whom we have allowed to reign over us, we are hypocritical in our assumption of gov ernmental virtue. And no man may deny the count. America is hypocritical intellectual ly. We rejoice in the heritage of in tellectual freedom which is ours. We give God praise that a man may think his thoughts after God here without regard to any man. We regret that China has reverenced the past, that the church in ages gone refused to allow the liberty of private judgment. We pride ourselves upon the oppor tunity for freedom of thought that is guaranteed to every man who breathes our air. But, what do we do with the man who dares to exercise his prerogatives? What do we, the descendants of the men who mobbed Garrison, who ridiculed the scientific geniuses of a scant generation ago? We are as impervious to anew thought as any nation undep heaven. We prate about progress and we maintain the status quo. We want no new thought until it has become old. With our refinements of cruelty we attempt to still forever the activ ities of those who would follow the gleam oi the truth of God, who would lead us ahead and up. And just so long as we talk freedom of thought, and regret the lack of it in other lands, while we have a scant attention for the prophets of the living God whose minds are illumined by the glory of His truth, we are intellec tually hypocrites. And no man may deny the count. Then, too, we are moral hypocrites. How' shocked we are at the Moham medan system of divorce, and the curse of opium to the integrity of Chinese civilization, and the, vicious customs of English barroom, and the free-love of a certain sort of Social ism! But how shocked are we over the “consecutive’' polygamy and polyandry that exists under the loose sanctions of our legal systems? How shocked are we by the spectacle of our boys and girls, our men and women, deadened with drink; forced to immorality by the social conditions that we permit? How shocked we are lest perhaps our children should be told that which they will learn from questionable sources if we do not guarantee them timely and proper information! And just so long as we deplore the moral sins of other peoples and neglect to attend prop erly to the conservation of our own morals, we are hypocritical. And no man may deny the count. America is hypocritical in her con ceptions of things religious. We look with wonder and astonishment upon the inconsistency that is appar ent between the noblest books of Eastern religions and the manner of life among the devotees of those re ligions systems. We do not exalt God by the sharpened scimitar. We do not roll under Juggernaut. We do not provide money and food at the side of the graves of the departed. We do not let our nails grow for a life-time in order to glorify Almighty God. We have more sense than to do these. But what do we do? Why, we proclaim Jesus Prince of Peace while we proclaim peace a fantasy and exalt the doctrine that the way to ensure peace is to go well armed. We magnify the philosophy that says “turn to him thy other cheek.” But we keep our gloves on. We believe that “righteousness exalteth.*’ But we acknowledge, as practical men, that it is impracticable to be strictly honest and prosper. We acclaim the eternal necessity for an exact con currence of thought and speech, word and deed, look and action. But we send our Bibles to China packed be side a hold of beer We assimilate the Indians by the efficient force of arms. We civilize the Philippines by way of Milwaukee. We sing, “Unto Thee, O God, be riches,” but we main tain a large proportion of the churches of the living Christ in this land by such devious and precarious methods as would put a heathen to shame. And so long as we scoff at the inconsistencies of foreign relig ions systems and-are satisfied, with a false optimism, to congratulate our own with all its incongruities, we are hypocritical. And no man may deny the count. And all this is to say that we should, with no spirit of mere carp ing criticism, look over this of ours as patriotic Americans. For upon our candor and our sincerity depend our success, our power, our future. The American nation illumined and sanctified by the truth as it is in Jesus Christ will be invincible. We must not deceive ourselves. We must be honest. Let us be courageous. Let us cease to be hypocritical. Let us turn on the light. / Alas, for the lass who is given to lassitude! THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM MENTS FOR OCTOBER G BY REV. I. W. HENDERSON. Subject: Joshua, Israel’s New Leader. Josh. 1:1-11 —Golden Text, Josli, 1:5 —M eniory Verse, 7 —Com mentary. The mantle of Moses falls upon the shoulders of Joshua. For God re wards faithful secondary service. He never leaves His people leaderless. Joshua had been the sturdy assist ant of Moses in many a trying hour. He had served his leader with zeal. And in the hours of service h-e had gained fitness for guidance. The faithful lieutenant who has learned how to be led is fittest to lead. For to be a good leader a man must know how to be a good follower. He ab6ne is capable to command who has learned to obey. Joshua succeeded Moses because he was a patient and zealous follower of Moses. The want of a leader who was fa miliar with the ways of Moses and with the spirit of the wanderers he led, who was able to place his feet iu the footmarks of Moses and to con tinue, might have been fatal to the realization of Israelitish hopes. In efficient management might have de stroyed the possibilities that were immediately the result of the Mosaic wisdom and leadership. Visionless guidance might easily have led to disaster. The only way in which the hopes of Israel could be realized and the labor of Moses augmented was by securing a competent leader to carry on his work. The people were keep ing their faces fixed God ward. God had a leader in preparation, a guide in reserve. He gave Joshua to the people. All that God had commanded Moses to perform and observe He made obligatory upon Joshua. Joshua was in no wise released from the rec ognition of those moral principles that God had made consistent with the leadership of Moses. Joshua was a successor in the leadership of au established regime. He was not to overturn the past. He was to fulfill it. His duty was not to revolutionize but to educate. His call was not to rear anew line, but to enlarge the fame and the service of an old one. In the task of filling Moses’ place Joshua is guaranteed the abiding presence and assistance of Almighty God. “As I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: 1 will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.” So runs the biblical record of the promise of Jehovah to* Joshua. This constituted the actual strength of Joshua, as it had been the secret of the ultimate success of Moses. Without this grant of divine favor and supervision and the wisdom and vision and foreetrut** ness of Joshua would have been inef ficient to accomplish the full deliver ance of Israel. With this evidence of God’s direction Joshua could com mand with confidence. The counsel of God to Joshua that he “be strong and very courageous” was sound. Israel had suffered in the past because of her instability. The only reason why she was released from the bondage of captivity and from the terrors of the wilds was that Moses had been strong and courag eous. God knew Israel. He knew the qualities that were needed in or der to secure Joshua in his position and to preserve to Israel the fruits of victory over self and enemies and sin that had been so hardly earned. Weak leadership could have annulled the measure of success attained. Vacil lation in the face of the crisis or of opposition would have disqualified Joshua for further service. The lessons of the Scripture we have scanned arc extremely and pres ently practical. The recognition of Joshua’s fidelity by his elevation to supremacy among his people is espe cially valuable as an indication to youth of the right and age-long method of progress and of the cer tainly that faithful ability eventually is recognized and rewarded. The need is for men who will obey in su bordinate capacities, who will serve in lieutenancies, who will learn to command. The call of the hour is for men who will strive not for revo lution so much as to enlarge the scope and the appeal and the influ ence of the eternal principles of righteousness that have thundered through the ages from the mind of Jehovah through the souls of men. For we are not released from the hereditary mandates of God to hu manity. The laws of Moses and Joshua, as the principles of Christ, in their divinest and truest expres sions hind us. The world and America needs men who would live daily in the consciousness of God’s shepherding. Men who possess ex perimental knowledge of His abiding presence, men who will be strong, men who will dare to be courageous, “very courageous.” Only such men can lead or serve. Such men only are fit to live. The world and its history are full of men who have tried to be captains before they have earned the rank. Most of the failures are men who have endeavored to lead before they had learned to serve. Humanity has had a surfeit of revolutionary leader ship that has kicked the foundations of the centuries from beneath its feet. The incapacity of a leadership that is without moral strength or without the inspiration of a divinely directed purpose has been so often proven that men are no longer fooled. The call of the age is for men of the mold of Joshua. The man of surpassing courage is the man of the hour. Humanity stands upon the confines of anew era. The olden leaders will go home to God. Let him who is prepared assume to lead.