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STATE TREASURER PARK LEAD. Mad Handled State's Finances for Past Nine Years. Atlanta, Ga.—After a gallant light for his life, Captain Robert Emory Park, for nine years treasurer of the state of Georgia, breathed his last at a private sanitatrium in this city. Death followed an operation for in ternal trouble which Captain Park underwent. Governor Smith, on learning of Cap tain Park's death, issued an Older that the state flag be displayed at half mast for the next ten days, and the offices of the capjtol closed until after the funeral. Captain Park was born sixty years ago in LaGrange, Troup county, Geor gia, and received his academic educa tion at Greenville Academy and at Brownwcod Institute, LaGrange. He entered Emory College in 1860. In 1861 he was a student in the junior class in Auburn, Ala., from which place he joined the Macon Confeder ates, a military company organized at Tuskegee, Macon county, Alabama. The company was composed of 106 men, about thirty of whom became commissioned officers. This company reached Manassas July 22, 1861, the day after the bloody battle, and as sisted in burying several hundred fed eral soldiers. When the company was reorganized at Yorktown, Captain Park was unan imously elected second lieutenant. His captain, R. H. Keeling, was killed at the battle of Seven Pines, and Lieutenant Park commanded the com pany during the remainder of the en gagement. The regiment lost 205 killed and wounded out of 408 pres ent for duty. This battle occurred May 31, 1562, and two days afterwards he was promoted first lieutenant. As first lieutenant he participated in the seven days’ battle around Richmond, the first Maryland campaign, the bat tle of Fredericksburg and the series of battles near Spottsylvania court house. He took part in the valley campaign under General Early, and wa3 present when Washington city was threatened. He commanded his company after Captain McNeely was desperately wounded and retired at Chancellorsville, Mav 2, 1863, and was promoted captain after Captain Mc- Neelv’s retirement, remaining in com mand until he was severely wounded, September 19, 1864, in the battle of Winchester, and left in the enemy’s hands. He was confined at West’s prison hospital, and lastly at Fort Del aware, from which place he was re leased .Tune 14, 1865, and left, for his home in Georgia the same day. Captain Park was married while at LaGrange to Miss Stella Swanson. She lived only five months, dying at the early age of 18 years. Four years later he married Miss Ella H. Holt, daughter of General William S. Holt of Macon. Mrs. Park died, leaving two children, William Holt and Ella Henrietta. On April 27, 1892. he was married to Mrs. Emily Hendree Stewart of Atlanta. Captain Park was a consistent mem ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He was useful in the councils of his denomination and exemplary in his life. He had been a trustee of Emory College since 1886. He had also been a trustee of Wes leyan Female College—the mother of female colleges—located at Macon, for many years. Emory and Auburn conferred upon him the degree of mas ter of arts. Captain Park was a life-long dem ocrat, and active in the service of his party, but he never sought political preferment, except for the place as state treasurer, to which he was elect ed October 1, 1900, without opposi tion. On the corresponding dates, 1902. 1904 and 1906 and 1908. he was re-elected. He served four terms, and the greater part of a fifth in the capacity of state treasurer and had been elected for a sixth. Major Park, the father of Captain Park, was a distinguished scholar and eloquent speaker. He was de voutly religious and a strong temper ance advocate. Captain Park had five brothers and two sisters. They were Rev. William Park, D. D.. editor of the Sandersvilie Herald and Georgian for twenty-five years; Major John W. Park of Green ville, Ga., late president of the Geor gia Bar Association; Hon. James E. Park, Ph. D.. LL. D.. late mayor of LaGrange; Howard P. Park, A. M„ who died a highly esteemed planter, Mount Meigs, Ala.; Lemuel M. Park, Esq., late president Park Cotton Mills, LaGrange; Mrs. M. C. Huntley of La- Grange; Mrs. V. V. Blalock of Green ville, Ga. Following the death of State Treas urer Park, Comptroller General Wright will take charge of the state treasury under section 197 of the po litical code, and it will be possibly three weeks before the office can be turned over to the new state treas urer to he appointed by Governor Smith. . „ In the first place, the comptroller general has to advertise the fact of the state treasurer’s death for a pe riod of ten days, after which he has to prepare a schedule of all papers, moneys and assets of the department before turning them over to the new trftssurGr This latter proces-s, it is stated, will require about ten days more, and dur ing that time not a dollar can be paid , out from the treasury. ; The last warrant drawn on the treasury just before Captain Park :s ; death was one for SI,OOO for the ex penses of the prison department. It did not reach the comptroller general for his approval until after the treas urer’s death, and the comptroller gen eral of course, declined to approve it. 'it went hack to the governors office and was canceled. GEORGIA NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. Survivors of the Fourth Georgia regiment of the confederate army stoutly deny that this regiment lost its colors to the Fourteenth New Jer sey at Spottsylvania courthouse in 1864. A press dispatch from New York stated that the New Jersey reg iment was scon to return the captured standard, and members of the fourth are denying that they ever lost their colors 'and declaring that they will not receive any flag from the four teenth New Jersey. A survivor of the Georgia regiment states that the fourth carried its colors throughout the war, surrendering them at Appo mattox; that there was no fighting at the “Bloody Anglo” on the day the colors are said to have been taken, and that the fourth never took part in any fighting at that place during the entire war. After a cessation of nearly two years, the railroads will renew their fight, on the order of the state railroad commission, as issued in the summer of 1907, by which sweeping reductions were made in passenger rates on all the important lines of Georgia. The application of the Atlanta and West Point for an injunction to restrain the enforcement of the order will be taken up on its merits before Judge Pendleton in the Fulton county supe rior court. The state court of appeals has de cided that sub-lessees of convicts un der the old system are liable for dam ages that may be sought by an cx inmate of the penitentiary, instead of the original contractor. The decision was made in the case of Mason vs. Hamby & Toomer, Governor Hoke Smith granted a pardon to E. H. Almand, a Columbus young man, convicted of the alleged misappropriation of funds. Almand, who was a member of one of the most prominent families, had made his shortage good, two months before his trial. He was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment, however, and has served four months of his sentence. A petition for his pardon was signed by over two thousand Co lumbus people, members of the -state legislature and attorneys of that city. A coloney of South Carolina farm ers have just reached Americus and will settle upon farms already prepar ed for them near the city. The new comers are progressive, industrious farmers and delighted with this sec tion and surroundings. G. H. Cala tion and surroundings. G. H. Wad dell of Greenville had previously pur chased a fine estate here and upon this the newcomers are located while others are expected to follow imme diately. Although the usual early orders were delayed at the beginning of the season, the fertilizer shipments in Georgia this year will, so it is report ed, exceed those of last year by near ly one hundred thousand tons. The : season has closed, but the additional i orders that the being filled will bring the total far above the shipments of last season. The large increase in the tons bought comes as an indica tion of prosperous times for the farm ers and is a forecast of a successful year of planting and harvest. S. L. Sowell, formerly a farmer of Screven county, was arrested in Au gusta by a deputy United States mar shal, on a charge of counterfeiting. A search of the premises Sowell oc cupied revealed a mould for 25-cent pieces and, with other paraphernalia, will be u-sed as evidence against him. Honorable H. M. Stanley of Dublin president of the Georgia W T eekly Press association, has notified the peo ple of Douglas that the date for the press meeting, which will be held at Douglas this year, is set for July 13- 14. Mr. Stanley is planning for a trip for the Georgia editors, a visit to Cu ba, after the session at Douglas. He says the indications are that there will he a large attendance this year. Governor Smith has disapproved (he finding of the court martial which sat in Savannah last fall, and sen tenced Musician Lamar Keller and Private J. Ward Sipple to pay fine3 of $25 each for firing their guns from the rear of a train, on the ground that the punishment was totally in adequate to the offense, and that to let it stand would be a “travesty on justice.” These two were supposed to be the leaders among a number of members of troop A, first squadron of cavalry, who engaged in firing blank cartridges from their guns while returning to Savannah from the encampment at Chicamauga Park. The firing took place at several points between Atlanta and Macon, on the Southern Railway, and a negro track hand was wounded in the arm by one of the shots. Governor Smith, in his order, drawn in military form, ap proves the proceedings of the court and the finding as to the first specifi cation and charge, to the effect that the men did the shooting. The balance of the court’s finding he disapproves in toto, because he considers, in view of the gravity of the offense, that the punishment amounts to no more than a farce. Extensive preparations are being made throughout the state by the members of the Cotton Seed Crushers’ association of Georgia to attend the annual meeting of the Interstate Cot ton Seed Crushers’ convention to be held in Memphis on May 18. 19 and 20. Last year at the Louisville meet ing the attendance from this state was larger than any other and an ef fort is being made to have it be equal ly as successful this year. Felding Wallace of Augusta, and R. G. Riley of Albany, members of the governing committee of the Interstate associa tion, from Georgia, have secured re duced rates from all points in Georgia SPORTS Reports are to the effect that Old Man BreWenstein of New Orleans is suffering again with rheumatism. It is reported that the old man’s back is giving him a great deal of trouble The fans all about the circuit regret this. It would be a calamity to the Southern league for Breit to drop out. He is the best drawing card in the league, and without doubt the headi est pitcher that has ever performed on southern lots. We all hope that by June Breit will be flinging in old ime form. British riflemen in the international small bore match just ended demon strated their superiority over the Americans by an overwhelming vic tory. The match was a friendly one, with small bore rifles on gallery ranges in the respective countries. The results were announced by cbale. The British team made the grand total of 14,583 points out of a possi ble 15,000, or an average of 291 per man. The scores of the American team were 14,179. Chattanooga appears to be making a runaway race of the Sally league, but the other teams are strengthen ing right along. In the Southern league there is like ly to be a very marked division be tween the first-flight clubs and the ■second-flight performers. Atlanta, New Orleans and probably Nashville and Memphis seem likely to class far ahead of the other four clubs. Bir mingham, Montgomery, and Mobile seem to be weak again, with Little Rock an uncertainty, as usual The umpires of the Southern and Sally leagues seem to have gotten off pretty well. At least none of them have been mobbed yet. They seem to be a pretty classy lot. Paul Cobb will not play with the Augusta club after all. He is still the property of the St. Louis Americans and has left to join them. Augusta wanted Cobb, but the big leaguers put too high a price on him. President Jones of the South At lantic is making a round of the league to ascertain whether the sal ary limit is being violated. The majority of the men playing with the Columbus team have seen service in the Southern league, one of the “classiest” of minor league or ganizations. Becker, Coveney, Riggs, Massing, Fox, Eyler and then some, have all played in the Class A circuit. More than one thousand automo biles took part in New York’s annual carnival parade held under the aus pices of the Automobile Trade asso ciation. Prizes aggregating $2,000 were distributed to the best decorat ed vehicles. More than two hundred thousand persons, it was estimated, viewed the picturesque five-r.aile line. Arrangrmen.. have been made for an attraction that will make the year 1909 memorable in the history of American golf. The latest item of news is of international flavor, and has to do with an exhibition tour of that rising Scotch professional, George Duncan, who has been engag ed to visit this country Regarding the probable future of the South Atlantic league, President W. A. Jones had the following to say: “Just make that as opti mistic as you like. The attendance in all of the cities has been exceed ing encouraging, and the new addi tions to the league are drawing es pecially well. Nearly all of the teams have new managers, and as a matter of course, new managers are striving to give their respective cities a winning team. Interest, therefore, in the various cities of the league is aroused to the highest pitch and the outlook is bright for a most success ful season for this league.” Rev. Dr. William J. Hinley, minis ter of the gospel and fan, preached a baseball sermon to his flock in Pil grim Congregational church at the opening of the league season in Spo kane, Washington, speaking of life as a confirmed rooter would expound the rulfes of the game. He talked of the battery, fielders, basemen, coaches umpire and the man at bat. Pitcher McGinnity says the great strain on Christy Mathewson’s arm last year will tell this season and the great pitcher will have to be worked very carefully. It is rumored in Beaumont, Texas, that a determined effort will be made by promoters of that town to stage the Johnson-Jeffries match. The idea is to build a big fight pavillion on an island in Sabine lake, twenty miles from there. The island in question is about four miles from the shore lines of Louisiana and Texas, and is consequently without their jurisdic tion, coming under the federal gov ernment Columbus has about the strongest outfield in the South Atlantic league this season in Becker, Riggs ahd Mas sing. All three of these men are sure to hit .300 in the Sally league thi3 season. Hank Mathewson, a brother of the mighty Christy Mathewson, is pitch ing for the Savannah team in the South Atlantic league and is travel ing along at a great rate. Dr. J. A. Se'den of Macon defeat ed .T. B. Jemison in the Georgia State golf chompionship in a contest that ran so close that it took thirty-five of the thirty-six holes to decide it. Dr. Selden had a hard fight to win out, as Jemison pushed him close all the way. An idea of what it. is going to cost President Comiskey to take his Chi cago team on its round-the-world trip in the winter of 1910 may be gained from the fact that it costs about $450 to Manila and return from San Fran cisco. I The Pui/oJt 1 A SERMON “ SY tAe RE^/- /AeNDEI^ON^S*&“ Thome; To-day. Text, Psalm 95:7. “To-day.’* In that entertaining and stimulating volume "Orthodoxy,” Mr. Gilbert Chesterton delivers himself of this pungent remark: "All Christianity concentrates on the man at the crosß roads.” For, says he, "The true phi losophy is concerned with the in stant. The instant is really awful." Nothing is truer, nothing more vi tal. What a multitude of sermons are preached to thetheme.“Wherewillyou spend eternity?” What a host, there is looking toward the hereafter. How many there are who are hoping for to-morrow and planning for the years to come. Far be it from me to mini mize the value or the need for thought and talk about the life of that undiscovered country from whose bourne the traveler no more, entering, returns. We can not too much direct the attention of men and the times to eternity. Would that we might be as strenuously ab stract and spiritual and forethought ful in our thinking and preaching as we are coldly practical. The king dom of heaven truly is here or no where, but for us it is more there than here. This life is but a seg ment of that wonderful and illimit able eternity to which God ever calls us on. As Keats so beautifully sings: “The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven’s light forever shines, earth’s shadows ny; Life, like a dome of many colored glass, _ Stains the white radiance of eternity, Until death tramples it to fragments.” Longer shall we live there than here. Here we sojourn, there in the providence of God we shall abide. To-day is important none the less. The measure of our living here con ditions our living there. Our talent using In this life indicates our value in the next. How we see God here determines our vision of Him in the heavenly abodes. To-day is impor tant. The instant is impressive. “Now” is indeed noteworthy. “To day,” says the Psalmist, “if ye will, hear His voice.” “Be wise to-day- ’tis madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead; Thus on, till wisdom is pushed out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.” May wo, as Edward YounjL per ceive the wonder and the of the divine responsibility on us momentarily to be carenljto ward the concerns of the ages. The future depends on to-day. “Defer not till to-morrow to be wise.” Eternity rests upon our present choice. There can be no to-morrow till there has been to-day. The char acter of to-morrow lies helpless in the grasp of to-day. The sins and progress of the men who are alive will mar or make the future of tha generations yet unborn. The day that Esau sold his birth right to assuage the gnawing of his hunger that day he marked his char acter forever, and Jacob left an ever lasting explanation to be made. When Moses set his face steadfastly away from the leeks and garlics and the honors of an alien court in that moment the face of history was changed. When Abraham Lincoln came up out of the valley of decision the slave was free. Every choice is decisive. Each moment is momentous. “Happy tne man. and happv he alone, He who can call to-day his own; He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow, do thy worst, for i have lived to-day. ” God and the thoughtful know the value of to-day. Its use is a fine art. Its value is immeasurable. Its possibilities are infinite. Its appeal is heart-searching. Its misuse is a crime and a grievous sin. We ought to utilize to-day with care. It means much how we face Satan and stand firm for God. Weak and unimportant as we may judge ourselves to be alone, yet our aggre gated decisions are impelling and our compounded use of time has an ever lasting bearing. Perchance the ac tions of one of us may determine the course of the onward march of men. Most important is to-day in the life of the soul. To-day alone is ours. The future, as the past, is with God. Let us say with Wesley: “Lo! on a narrow neck of land. Twixt two unbounded seas I stand.” Let us decide for eternity. Let us use to-day for the good of the days that are to be, for the happiness of our hearts forever. BREEDEN’S RHEUMATIC CURE is a guaranteed cure fur Rheumatism, both inflammatory and chronic. Purities the blood, liver and stomach. It is sold under a plain positive guarantee to re fund the money if a cure is not effected. This remedy has relieved chronic and long continued attacks of rheumatism after the best physicians had failed to do so. 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