Newspaper Page Text
AGRICULTURAL future
Comptroller Wright Predicts
reat Wealth in Georgia Soil.
OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG MEN
Young Men Advised to | nve> [ F „ m
Land*— P roS p erous y ear for th(j
Geoig a Farmer*.
William 3 'a < 'u-’~^ omptrolit:l General
in the " r ; ght has great faith
ly and at vf ° f Geor g la agricultural
ey to d invZt f yoUng men With moli
lands rnlh! ru Put Hiu g° od farm
“Thic at ? e * r than city Property,
ims state is coming into an era
known OS hef lty SUCh as il has never
u fore ’ says General Wright
buSL ba n S everywhere are fairly
belong r th u money - and most of it
belongs to the farmers. You can
r p k r %'I IQUlry ° f the small ba nks all
fhe hSt g f a ev and you vviU flud that
he bulk ot their deposits belong to
tillers of the soil.
realization of the tremendous
possibilities of Georgia as an agri
cultural state is just now coming to
the people, and I believe you will see
a marked trend back to the farms
in tne next few years by live, pro
gressive young men. The agricultural
schools are educating the young men
to kr.ow how to farm, to get the best
results out of the soil and to apply
business methods to that work.
“It has been a great year for this
state. While Texas and other great
cotton growing states have fallen off
tremendously in the crop output this
year, Georgia will produce almost a
normal crop, and you can see what
that means to the farmer with the
high range of prices. He is learning
to raise corn, wheat, oats and other
crops, too. It has been a great corn
year. Lands seemingly worn out have
by fertilization and intelligent hand
ling been made to produce 75 to 100
bushels of corn per acre.
“Less than a dozen states must pro
duce practically the cotton for the
world. That condition will not
change. With the demand for cot
ton increasing the world over, it can
be seen what the future holds out
for the young man in Georgia. This
state is destined to become one of
the greatest agricultural states in
the union, and that means solid and
permanent wealth.
“My advice to young men is to in
vest their surplus money in good farm
lands. Prices must inevitably go up
and up. The demand is increasing all
the time, and will increase as realiza
tion of what can be accomplished
dawns upon all the people. I expect
to see within the next few years
such a development of agricultural
pursuits as has not been seen in the
history of the state.”
General Wright has been comptroll
er of the state for 30 years, and he
has had exceptional advantages for
observing conditions in the state. As
the state tax official he has watched
and knows perfectly the value of
farm and other lands
FAMOUS PLAY COMING.
“Tte Servant in the House” Will Be
oeen Eight Times in Atlanta.
Atlanta, Ga. Theatergoers will
have an opportunity to see the most
widely discussed play on the Amer
ican stage when Charles Rann Ken
nedy’s famous drama, “The Servant
in the House” comes to the Grand
opera house in Atlanta on Monday,
December 6th, for an entire week’s
engagement, with matinees on Wed
nesday and Saturday.
This is the play which the' New
York Evening Post says is the “Great
est drama of the generation,” and
“the best example of dramatic work
now extant;” which Harper’s Maga
zine calls "the most remarkable play
in the English language,” and which
the Chicago Daily News says is ’the
most beautiful play of all ages.” The
Chicago Tribune says “The Servant
in the House” is a “work of art that
is true enough and simple enough to
touch the heart of the world.” The
Canadian Magazine proclaims it a
truly great play and says that in Mr.
Kennedy England has found “ a
great dramatic genius, possibly the
greatest since Shakespeare.” The
Chicago Journal says on the morning
after its first presentation in the
Windy City, “it has come to stay ten
weeks, it ought to stay a year. The
Servant in the House” has been call
ed the most daring play ever present
ed on the American stage because of
the character that gives it its name—
a mysterious Hindoo who many crit
ics call a reincarnation of the Christ.
It is indeed, a daring role, but so rev
erently and intelligently treated by
the author that no offense is given to
even the most easily shocked. The
comoany presenting “The Servant in
the House" has won a reputation sec
ond only to that achieved by the play.
It is known as the Henry Miller As
sociate players and is the best bal
anced cast ever assembled to interp
ret a really great drama.
A WHITE PARTRIDGE.
Albino Bird Received by the Depart
ment of Agriculture.
Atlanta, Ga.— An albino of the quail
family was received by Jo*Johnson
of the department of agriculture,
as *
E sr
THROUGHOUT OtORGIA.
J. B. Williams of Omaha Springs
reports the appearance of anew pest
in this part of the state. He says that
Cicero Daniels, who lives near Avera,
has found that nearly all the cotton
seed put away for next year’s plant
ing had been eaten by a weevil the
like of which no one consulted had
ever seen. The insect .bores his way
through the hull and consumes tiJe
whole pulp. Cotton men in Augusta
say there is no insect that eats the
cotton seed and that if this pest
should gain widespread feeding
ground many farmers next spring will
And a great loss has been sustained,
for the average farmer does not look
at his cotton seed after he has stored
it until it is time to plant.
The will of W. H. Neill of Louis
ville, Ky., leaves the bulk of his es
tate of SBO,OOO to G. H. Neill of Co
lumbus, Ga., a .brother, and Mrs.
Philoe Fullerson of Rogersville, Tenn.,
a sister.
The farmers of Butts county are
getting in the largest grain crop tn
the history of the county. The cotton
crop is about over, and now they are
turning their time and attention to
sowing grain. The ground is some
what dry for plaanting grain, it hav
ing been some time since a good rain
fell here, but despite this fact, much
grain is being put in. The farmers
of thhs county are determined to set
tle the, price of cotton by living at
home.
E. W. Willingham at Southerland,
Ga„ the old home of General John B.
Gordon, reports that the wild dogs
made a raid on his place a few nights
ago and killed eight fine hogs, two
cats, all of his chickens, and several
large turkeys. The dogs have been
roaming about the neighborhood for
several weeks. They appear to gath
er at night, just like a pack of wolves,
and make raids on farms and truck
gardens, where there is poultry or
live stock. Steps are being takdn to
hunt the dogs and kill them.
An echo of the so-called “Georgia
fraudulent land grants” of 1795 was
heard when Secretary of State Cook
received a letter from a Los Angele3,
Cal., real estate firm informing him
that it had acquired the title to six
thousand acres of land in Montgom
ery county. According to Secretary
Cook, Governor Matthews, one of the
colonial governors of Georgia, issued
grants to lands covering four million
acres in that county that did not ex
ist, and it is supposed that it is a por
tion of these grants that the Califor
nia firm has secured. The letter did
not state how the grants were ac
quired.
Governor Joseph M. Brown made a
positive and emphatic denial of the
published statement to the effect that
he had infoimed Congressman J. M.
Griggs of the second district that he
proposed to be a candidate for govern
or in 1910 to succeed himself. Gov
ernor Brown says he has made no
statement regarding the matter of
any kind to anyone, and that the pub
lished report is a pure fabrication.
Dalton has broken the record in
the line of illicit distilling. Deputy
Marshal J. E. Camp arrested John
Wells on one of the main residence
streets there and destroyed a still
that he had been operating on his
kitchen 3tove, it is alleged. The dep
uty found in the closet adjoining the
kitchen the cap and worm of a still
and a barrel of beer. Under the
eaves of the house were found two
jugs of low wine. The still was found
in the chicken house. The bottom of
the still showed evidence of having
been operated -on the kitchen stove,
and It is believed the boiling waa
done there.
The Chipola - Flint - Apalachicola-
Chattahoochee Waterways associa
tion, which met in convention at Co
lumbus, elected the following officers
to serve during the next year: L. N.
Smith, Columbus, president; George
Hiliyer, Atlanta, vice president;
Rhodes Henderson, Apalachicola, sec
retary. All the officers chosen are
said to be heartily in sympathy with
the movement for river and harbor
improvement, and will give their ef
forts to encourage river traffic as a
solution of the rate problem.
That the Methodist ministers of
the North Georgia conference were
overwhelmingly in favor of the pres
ent plan of limiting each minister
to four years’ continuous service in
any one place was proved beyond
doubt at the sessions in Atlanta when
a viva voce vote, a memorial to the
general conference urging that no
change be made in the present time
limit, was adopted.
C. S. Dunlap of Gainesville and At
lanta, and A. M. Kitchen of Baldwin
have just returned after representing
Georgia at the National Farm Lauds
congress, held last week in Chicago,
under the auspioes of Hie Chicago As
sociation of Commerce, of which Don
Farnsworth, a one-time Georgian, is
secretary. The object of the conven
tion is to create a means and ageney
of disseminating accurate information
with regard to farm lands in all parts
of the United States; in other woTdu,
to provide means of presenting ad the
facts and figures, and then with the
evidence before him, letting the pros
pective investor and settlor make ut>
his mind where he would rather lo
cate. Although but two delegates of
the large number appointed by Gov
ernor Brown were present from this
state, Georgia was, nevertheless, weM
represented. Both Mr. Dunlap and M*.
Kitchen went (hero to be heard with
reference to conditions and prospeets
in Georgia, and they were. The re
sult was they had the convention
with them throughout, and there were
many who wanted to heaT more about
Georgia.
MORE CUSTOMS FRAUDS
10 Assistant Weighers Dropped
From Rolls in New York.
83 MEN HAVE BEEN REMOVED
Mr. Losb Announces That the “General
House-Cleaning” in the Custom House
Service Has Been Completed.
New York City.—A new series of
alleged customs frauds was brought
to light here with the arrest of
Thomas C. Giddings, a customs weigh
er, on an indictment charging him
with conspiracy to defraud Lhe gov
ernment in connection with importa
tions of figs in 1906. According to
the federal prosecutors, Giddings un
derweighed two shipments of figs con
signed to local importers, recording
the weight of the first shipment at'
30,000 pounds instead of 40,600, and
defrauding the government of the
duty on 8,700 pounds of the figs con
tained in the second shipment
The indictment against Giddings, it
is intimated, is the first of a series
whicn the government hopes to obtain
from the grand jury now in session
as a result of following up Collector
Loeb’s investigations and dismissals.
Ten more assistant weighers have
been dropped by Colector Loeb from
the customs service.
Mr. Loeb announced that with these
dismissals the “general house-clean
ing” in the customs house as the re
sult of the investigation to under
weighing frauds had been completed.
Some individual cases remained, how
ever, on which he might find it nec
essary to take action, the collector
adding.
Including these last dismissals, a
total of 83 men have been removed
by the collector since the work of
readjustment of the staff in the cus
toms service began.
IroIOOMEU.
Canary Island Trembling Through Ac
tion of Volcano.
Santa Cruz, Teneriffe. —Four towns
in the path of the streams of ljtva
that are thrown out by half a dozen
craters, are threatened with destruc
tion. The situation is critical. The
inhabitants of the apparently doomed
towns are fleeing, and those of a
fifth, Arguayo, have appealed for aid.
The four chiefly endangered by lava
are Tanquek, Tamaimo, Chasna and
Santiago.
The entire island is rocked almost
continuously by the tremblers, explo
sions and eruptions. The ashes dark
en the sky all over the Canaries, float
ing many miles. Ravines and gullies
are filled with lava. Flames shoot
from the peaks to great heights, some
times reaching more than 1,000 feet.
From all over the island refugees
are fleeing to Santa Cruz. The gov
ernment has started work on the
opening of a way from Guia to San
Juan on the coast. The Red Cross
has a large organization in the field.
“YFLLOW” JOURNALISM CENSURED.
Justice Brewer Objects to Publication
of Divorce Cases.
New York City. —Justice David
Brewer of the supreme court of the
United States, censured yellow jour
nalism in the course of a lecture be
fore the Progress Club at Far Rock
wakway. He spoke on the topic, “A’
Good Time Coming.”
“The publication of testimony in
the yellow journals,” he declared,
“particularly in regard to divorce
cases, is to be deplored. Such pub
lications do not help the case and
drag into the public eye family skel
etons that had better be left in their
closets. The publication of such stuff
simply feeds the morbid interests and
exerts anything except a healthful in
fluence.
“In many cases where such matter
is published people go to the bad
who would otherwise resume the
strict and narrow path, and when
they go to the bad as a result of such
their lost standing and their desire
to be proper citizens.”
AMERICAN GOLD OUTPUT.
Value of the Product in 1908 Fixed
at $94,560,000.
Washington, D. C.—The gold min
ers of the United States produced
$94,560,000 worth of the precious met
al during 1908, according to the Unit
ed States geological survey and the
bureau of mints, which have co-oper
ated in pieparing an analysis of the
reports from private refineries and
federal mints and "assay offices.
The total gold product was 4,574,-
340 ounces, a net increase in value
of $4,124,300.
Colorado leads with a productive
value of $22,871,000; Alaska was sec
ond with $19,858,800, and California
was third with $19,329,700.
Anyone sending a sketch end c. 'crlntlnn nia?
qvlcklv ascertain our opinion free whether uu
Invention Is probably patentable. Cotninunlca
tmnsstrictlyoonfldentia]. HANDBOOK on Patents
gent free. Oldest fluency for securing pat lots.
Patents taken through Jlunn & to. rscelvs
special notice, without charge, in tho
Scientific Jisnericatu
A handsomely illustrated weeklv. T.nruor*; cl",
eolation of any erientlße journal. Terms. V i
year: four months, sl. Sold by all newsdea vr%
‘tfUNN & Cos. ?6, - roadway New YcvK
wryneb Ortieo. C 2. F Bt_ Washt-aton. D. C.
THE PULPIT.
A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY
Dft. W WW WILSON
Theme:. Divine Guidance.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—At the DeKalb
Avenue M. E. Church Sunday morn
ing the pastor, the Rev. Dr. W. W. W.
Wilson, preached ail appropriate ser
mon on “Divine Guidance.’’ The text
was from Deuteronomy32:2: “As
the eagle stirreth up her nest, flut
tereth over her young, spreadeth
her wings, taketh them, beareth them
on her wings; so the Lord alone did
lead him, and there was no strange
God with him.” Dr. Wilson said:
It was a supreme moment in the
history of Israel when Moses, their
law-giver and leader, was about to he
taken from them. Standing at the
base of the mountain, to whose sum
mit God had called him and from
which he was to receive a view of the
promised land, ere he was gathered
to his/athers, he collected the people
about him and proceeded to deliver
to them his farewell address, words
ever fraught with greatest interest to
the hearer. At the close- of his ad
dress he breaks forth in rapturous
song, one of the richest and sub
limest climaxes of which is the one
of the text.
It Is supposed that the habits of
the eagle were noticed and studied
by Moses in his life in Midian, and
that as he reviewed the history of
God’s people he realized that the one
was entirely apropos to the other.
While following her motherly instinct
she had with great care and labor
prepared her nest, gathering a twig
here and another there, a branch
from this spot and another from that,
each one requiring a separate flight
to her distant and barren home, and
although she had with the material
furnished prepared it in the most
careful manner, twining and inter
twining, inlaying and overlaying, pro
viding for the comfort and con
venience of her offspring, as well as
for the security of the same, no ves
sel ever being more securely anchored
amid the tempest than her nest
against the eddying storms which
swept her mountain home, yet when
her offspring reached a sufficient size
and gathered strength enough to sally
forth and seek their own food, yet for
fear of falling, or of hunger, inclined
to remain, the same talons and beak
that carefully provided the nest would
ruthlessly tear it asunder and make it
so positively uncomfortable that they j
were compelled to fly or if they still
refused she would destroy the nest
altogether—no nest being deemed as
valuable as what it contained.
Just so with God in His dealing
with His people, Israel. There was
no resting place He did not provide
and none He did not disturb. His
tory repeats itself. The same is oc
curring with us to-day. No sooner
are we comfortably fixed in any re
spect than the disturbing hand of God
comes and tears up the nest and
throws us for our good, upon our own
resources, w r hen, depending upon
them, assisted by Him, we develop a
greater hardihood. It is because of
this that governments change, for
tunes are wrecked, society is dis
turbed, homes are despoiled, and
even churches undergo the mutations
which are everywhere seen.
But not only does the eagle stir up
her nest and utterly destroy it, if
need be, to get her fledglings out of
it, thus placing them upon their own
resources, but she flutters over them
and rises above them, and by the
rapid motions of her own wings,
teaches them to use theirs. Sir
Humphry Davy tells us that he once
saw a very interesting sight above
one of the crags of Ben Nevis as he
was going in pursuit of black game.
Two parent eagles were teaching
their offspring, two young birds, the
maneuvres of flight. They began by
rising from the top of the mountain
iu the eye of the sun. It was about
mid-day, and bright for that climate.
They at first made small circles and
the young birds Imitated them. They
poised on their wings waiting until
they had made their first flight, and
then took a second and larger gyra
tion, always rising toward the sun
and enlarging their circle of flight, so
as to make a gradually ascending
spiral. The young ones still and
slowly followed, apparently flying
better as they mounted, and they
continued this sublime exercise, al
ways rising, until they became mere
specks in the air, and the young ones
were lost, and afterward the parents,
to his aching sight.
How like God’s treatment of Israel.
He not only stirred up their nest, but
hovered above them in the pillar of
cloud by day and the pillar of fire by
night, ever going before and leading
them on to newer and greater con
quests, where they trusted in Him,
and to ignominious defeat where they
didn’t. So God in Christ hovers over
and is ever near us.
Notice Him in childhood, how obe
dient; in manhood, how industrious;
in poverty and persecution, how pa
tient; in trials, how submissive; in
abuse, how forgiving; in death, how
triumphant; in His ascension with
open hands bestowing blessings on
a world which gave Him a manger
for a birthplace and a cross for a
deathbed. He is in all respects our
leader. He shows us how to go, and
goes before us. How can we hope to
succeed without Him?
A traveler in a mountainous coun
try asked a fellow traveler to give
him a description of a road, which he
did. But fearing that he would not
remember it he wrote it down, and as
he took the chart and started he
looked up the rugged rocks and be
gan to despair, and folding the paper
he started back, when a voice was
heard, "Be of good cheer. Don’t
despair. Follow me.”
The
Sunday=School
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM
MEATS FOR DECEMBER 5.
Subject: Paul on the Grace of Giving,
2 Cor. 8:1-15 Golden Text,
Acts 20:M3—Commit Verse t>—-
Commentary on the Ix-sson.
TIME.—A. D. 57.
I*LA( ’E.—Ephesus.
EXPOSITION.—I. The Lilierality
of the Churches of Macedonia, 1-7.
This and the following chapters are
devoted to the very vital subject of
Christian giving. The giving In the
Apostolic church was on a high plane,
and the modern church has much to
learn along this line. It was Paul's
method to stir up one church by re
counting what God had done in an
other church. He speaks of it as “the
grace of God which hath been given
unto the churches of Macedonia,” be
cause their generous giving was the
product of God's grace and not of
their own natural generosity (cf.
Acts 4:31-33). True generosity is
always the product of grace. The
Macedonian Christians were being
tested by affliction, but “in the great
tesing of affliction” the abundance of
their joy and their poverty (down to
the very depths of it), abounded unto
the riches of their liberality. The
deeper their poverty, the more their
liberality abounded in its riches and
the more their joy abounded. One of
the fairest sights in the church to-day
is the abounding joy and abundant
liberality of God s poor ones. In Ma
cedonia they not only gave up to the
measure of their power, but even “be
yond their power," and this "of their
own accord” (there needed to be no
urging by others). Indeed Paul
seems to have been inclined to dis
courage such over-abundant giving,
and they besought him with much en
treaty that they might exercise this
grace and have fellowship in the min
istry to the saints (v. 4, R. V.). This
was not as Paul had hoped (but far
beyond his hopes). There was some
thing far more important than their
gifts of money; that was that they
give themselves unto the Lord. This
they did “first,” first in time and first
in importance (cf. Matt. 6:33). Not
only did they give themselves unto
the Lord, but unto Paul also as the
Lord’s representative. They did it
“by (through) the will of God,” not
merely according to God’s will, but
moved thereto by God's will (cf. Phil.
2:13). Paul was so moved by what
was done in Macedonia that he urged
Titus to go to Corinth and lead them
on into like generosity. Titus, on his
former visit, from which he had just
returned, had already made a begin
ning along this line and Paul ex
horted him to return and complete
what he had done. The church in
Corinth was a church of abounting
gifts (cf. 1 Cor. 12). They abound
ed “in everything;” they abounded
“in faith and utterance and knowl
edge;” (cf. 1 Cor. 1:5; 8:1); and “in
all diligence and in love” to Paul.
Now he would have them abound in
liberality also.
11. A Willing Mind the Tiling That
God Expects, 8-15. Paul did not
command them to give. If he had,
there would have been no element of
voluntariness in It as there must be
in true Christian giving. Two things
moved Paul to speak: First, the ear
nestness (R. V. or diligence) of oth
ers; and second, the wish to test the
sincerity of the love of the Corin
thians. There is perhaps no surer
test of the genuineness of love than
giving (1 John 3:17, 18). But now
Paul brings in a mightier motive to
abundant giving, the example of our
Lord Jesus Christ, “Who though He
was rich yet for our sake3 become
poor, that we through His poverty
might be rich.” How rich was He?
All divine glory and power and riches
were His. And how poor did He be
come? The poorest being in tho uni
verse. He wa3 stripped of every
thing (Phil 2:6-8, R. V.). And how
rich do we become through His pov
erty? All that God has becomes ours
(Rom. 8:17; 1 Cor. 3:21, 22). Ought
we then to hesitate at the little sacri
fices we are called upon to make for
others? Paul gave his judgment (v.
10, R. V.) and his judgment was in
spired judgment (cf. 1 Cor. 7:40).
His judgment was that as a year ago
they were the first to make a begin
ning (R. V.), “not only to do but to
will” (to do heartily), they now com
plete th'e doing of it (v. 11, R. V.).
The readiness to will was good, but
there should also be a completing of
what was willed out of their ability.
This strikes at an error that is all too
common in our day, viz., the great
•eagerness to resolve and consecrate,
but the sad failure to carry out what
is consecrated and pledged. If there
he readiness, then it is accepted ac
cording to whatsoever a man hath,
not according to what he hath not.
What a man purposes in his heart so
should he do (cf. ch. 9:7). While
God looks at the purposes of the
heart He takes no pleasure in pur
poses which men do not carry out ac
cording to their ability. Paul had no
desire to distress the Corinthians that
the saints in Jerusalem might be
eased, but he wished to see things
evened up. The abundance of the
Corinthians at this time became a
supply to the want of Jerusalem, that
at some future time the abundance in
Jerusalem might become the supply
of Corinthian need. God's desire for
equality among His people was illus
trated in the wilderness (v. 15; cf.
Ex. 16-18; Acts 2:44, 45; 4:34, 35).
Loyalty to Church.
Loyalty to church should not be
contingent upon petty human likeg
and dislikes.