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CRIB OPERA PLANS
Systematic Seating of Audience
to Be a Feature.
SINGLE SEATSARE SELLING
interest in Atlanta’s Grand Opera Season Is
Daily Increasing Throughout the
Entire South.
Atlanta, Ga There will not be any
difficulty in seating the people in At
lanta’s great auditorium-armory upon
the occasion of the production of the
grand operas that are to be fieara
there during the first week in May.
It is true that the immense hall
will seat more than six thousand peo
ple, and that every seat in the house
will .be occupied at each and every
performance, but no one will have
the slightest difficulty in finding his
or her seat, and all will be done with
systematic certainty that will make
the whole matter seem very simple.
Already a large special corps of
ushers is being assembled, the work
of organization being in the capable
hands of Custodian Weever of the
auditorium-armory. The plans of the
seats, divided systematically into sec
tions right and left, and numbered
according to a carefully devised sys
tem, are already in Mr. Weever’s
hands, and daily instructions will be
given to the ushers from now utnll
the opening opera of May 2.
The ushers are to be selected from
the members of the Geoi-gia National
guard, who are stationed in Atlanta,
and they will add to the attractive
ness of the music festival by appear
ing in full dress uniform. All the
aisles will be covered with some form
of matting or carpet, so that the en
try of spectators during the perfoi'm
ances will not create any disturbance
whatever. It was found last year
that this noise detracted from the
beauty of the concert.
The demand for reserved seats for
the season continues, the amount re
ceived far exceeded all expectations.
The sale of seats for the individual
performances is now open.
interest in the grand opera season
is daily increasing throughout the
entire south, and with each mail
comes a flood of orders for reserva
tions, requests for information ana
other inquiries.
All railroads entering Atlanta are
offering reduced round trip rates
from all points to Atlanta during
opera and automobile week.
Trains will be held until after the
■evening performances of the opera to
accommodate the great number of
oufcof-town peqple who will be in at
tendance.
FIGHTING CATTLE TICK.
Wright to Superintend War on the
Cattle Parasite.
Atlanta, Ga —Captain R. F. Wright,
assistant commissioner of agriculture,
is spending this week in the field in
north Georgia personally superintend
ing the work of organization and in
spection in the war which has been
undertaken to drive the cattle tick
from Georgia. Captain Wright, some
time ago, is progressing splendidly.
He will organize the counties of
Banks and Franklin. The county au
thorities will place inspectors in the
field, the state will employ an officer
and the federal government officials
will co-operate in establishing a quar
antine that has proved effective else
where and will prove so there.
Similar organizations are doing this
work in the counties of Hall, Hart
and Green, where the tick has been
very aggressive, but where it is be
ing gradually driven out.
GREAT PEACH CROP.
Georgia Peachtrees Weighted With
the Greatest Crop in Years.
Americus, Ga —With a half million
peach trees fruited to the capacity
with healthy young peaches, the big
orchards about Americus give assur
ance now of the finest crop in years,
and the owners of these magnificent
tracts of waving trees are correspond
ingly elated at the golden prospects.
The young peaches, now the size of
partridge eggs, are firm and of a
healthy appearance, and show no evi
dence of the sting of the much-dread
ed curculio. This is the bug that
produces the worm which attacKS the
peach, rendering it worthless.
And if half the peaches now on the
trees remain, a bumper crop and bro
ken boughs are assured, for the
weight will be too great.
A BOTANICAL FREAK.
Three Varieties Tree Growing From
One Trunk.
Athens, Ga. —The Classic City pos
sesses more than one curious tree,
tfroin a botanilogical point of view,
"but the most peculiar one has onG
recently been noted. The tree that
owns itself, the Austrialian oak that
ibears the giant acorns, the tree that
is growing out of a two-story build
ing, have all been objects of interest,
but the new discovery beats then,
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It is three trees in one, and the
freak is situated on Finley street,
near the Athens High School.
The original tree is a large china
berry tree, and out of the trunk of
this are growing two other kinds of
trees. One is a water oak and the
other is of the Empress of India va
riety, and recently, when the latter
was in bloom, the trio presented a
curious sight.
LATE NEWS NOTES.
General.
An official call for the fifth reun
ion of the Roosevelt Rough Riders
at New York from June 16 to 20 was
issued at Oklahoma City, Okla. The
chief object of the reunion is to wel
come Colonel Roosevelt home.
Revised estimates of the aggregate
cost of the Philadelphia trolley strike
to all those interests involved place
it at $12,200,000. The greater burden
of the loss fell on tue business com
munity, which is estimated to have
suffered in the loss of trade and in
other ways to the extent of $8,000,00u.
The cost to the strikers, including
those who went out on sympathetic
strike, was $3,000,000, while the di
rect loss to the Rapid Transit com
pany is figured at not less than sl,-
200,000.
What is said to be the first light
house built for airships has just been
erected on the top of a small railroad
building at Spandau, Germany. It
consists of thirty-eight powerful elec
tric lamps, which shoot a glaring
light skyward. Its purpose is to guide
the dirgibles of the German army at
night.
Four thousand Philadelphia carmen
who have been out on strike practi
cally two months have returned to
work for the Philadelphia Rapid
Transit Company under the terms of
an order issued by officials of the lo
cal union calling the strike to an end.
The total exports of the Japanese
empire for the first three quarters of
1909 show an increase over 1908 of
$8,921,677, of which the principal
items were rice, tea, refined sugar,
camphor, raw silk, cotton yarn, straw
and chip braids, cotton tissues and
matches.
Washington.
Colonel W. F. Cody, who has en
deared himself to the youth of the
land as “Buffalo Bill” and caused
more truancy than all the baseball
games in history, has established his
claim as a private in the army of the
United States, and has been granted
a pension of sl2 a month. The pen
sion office records show that William
F. Cody, enlisted in the Seventh Kan
sas calvary February 19, 1864, and
was honorably discharged September
29, 1865.
Although it was generally known
that splendid progress had been made
by the army engineers in digging the
Panama canal, the statement con
tained in the Canal Record just at
hand comes as a surprise that all of
the excavation that was contemplated
in the original project has been com
pleted. Under that plan, 103,795,000
cubic yards of material were to be
removed and that has been done. But
subsequently in order to accommo
date naval vessels of. the Dread
naught type and the giant, liners now
under construction, the president or
dered, the widening and deepening of
the canal prism. That involved the
removal of 70,871,594 additional yards
of material.
Little or no comment was to be
obtained from congressional visitors
at the white house on the coming re
tirements of Senator Aldrich and
Hale. Speaker Cannon, who was an
early visitor, was asked whether the
retirement of the two members of
the “Old Guard” in the senate would
have any influence on him or other
members of the house. He said he
believed politics did not enter into
their determination at all. For him
self, the speaker after taking a fling
at “Muckrakers” declared he was go
ing to live twenty-five years longer
and have a good time while he was
doing it.
President Taft’s office at the white
house has been an artist’s studio
during the past week and official cal
lers have had the double advantage of
an interview with the chief executive
of the nation and a glimpse of the
sculptor’s art. Robert I. Aiken of
New York has finished the clay mod
el of a bust of the president, which
is said to be destined either for the
Metropolitan museum art in New
York or the Concoran Art gallery in
Washington.
During the three months ending
December 31, 1909, there were 1,099
persons killed and 22,491 persons in
jured on railroads, according to a
bulletin issued by the intestate com
merce commission. This is an in
crease of 301 killed and 5,645 injured,
as compared with the previous year!
On electric lines 26 were killed and
642 injured. The accidents on steam
roads numbered 3,206.
The National Woman’s Suffrage
convention has elected the following
officers: President, Dr. Anna How
ard Shaw, Pennsylvania; first vice
president, Rachael Foster Avery,
Pennsylvania; second vice president!
Catherine Waugh McCulloch, Illinois;’
recording secretary, Ella S. Stewart,
Illinois; corresponding secretary,
Mary Ware Bennett, Massachusetts;
Auditors, Laura Clay and Miss Ellis
Stone Blackwell, Massachusetts;
treasurer, Harriet Taylor Upton
Ohio.
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THE PULPIT.
AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY
CARDINAL GIBEONS.
Tlicme: International reace.
Baltimore. Md. "lnternational
Peace” was the subject of the sermon
preached Sunday in the Cathedral
here by Cardinal Gibbons. He took
his text from John 19:31: "Peace be
'.into you.” He said in the course of
his sermon:
The first geeting of the risen Sa
viour to His assembled apostles was
a message of blessed peace. “Jesus
came and stood in the midst and said
to them: ‘Peace be unto you.’ ”
Christ’s mission on earth was to es
tablish a triple peace In the hearts
of men —peace with God by the ob
servance of His commandments, peace
with our fellowmen by the practice
of justice and charity, and peace
within our breasts by keeping our
passions subject to reason, and our
reason in harmony with the divine
law.
He came, above all, "to break down
the middle wall of partition” that di
vided nation from nation, that alien
ated tribe from tribe, and people from
people, and to make them all one
family, acknowledging the Father
hood of God and the brotherhood of
Jesus Christ.
But when looking back and con
templating the wars that have rav
aged the Christian world during the
last twenty centuries, some persons
might be tempted, at first sight, to
exclaim in anguish of heart that the
mission of Christ was a failure.
In the remarks that I shall make,
I shall endeavor to disabuse the faint
hearted of this discouraging impres
sion, and show that Christ’s mission
has not failed, but that the cause of
peace has made decisive and reassur
ing pi-ogress, and the advance it has
already made inspires the hope of ul
timate success. It is by comparisons
and contrasts that we can most ef
fectually gauge the l’esults of Chris
tian civilization.
The United States has existed as a
sovereign nation for about one hun
dred twenty years, since the close of
the Revolution. Dui'ing that period
we have had four wars—the war with
England, from 1812 to 1815: the war
witli Mexico, from 1845 to 1848; the
Civil War, from 1861 to 1865, and
the recent Spanish war. The com
bined length of these campaigns was
about ten years. Hence we see the
United States has had about twelve
yeatfs of peace for one year of war,
whije the Roman Empire beheld less
than one year of tranquillity for every
century of military engagement.
But the blessed influence of our
Christian civilization has bee*Npxperi
enced not only in reducing ■ xim
bet of wars, but still moi'e in mitigat
ing the horrors of military Strife.
Prior to the dawn of Chi-|stianity,
the motto of the conqueror was “Vae
victis” "Woe to the vanquished.”
captured cities were pillaged and
laid waste. The wives and daughters
of the defeated nation became the
pi’ey of ruthless soldiery. The con
quered generals and army were
obliged to grace the triumphs of the
victors before they were condemned
to death or to ignominious bondage.
Alexander the Great, after the cap
ture of the City of Tyre, ordered two
thousand of the inhabitants to be
crucified, and the remainder of the
population were put to death of sold
into slavery.
Let us contrast the conduct of Titus
toward the Jews with General Grant’s
treatment of the defeated Confeder
ate forces. When General Lee sur
rendei’ed his sword to Grant at Ap
pomattox Courthouse, he and his
brave army were permitted to return
without molestation to their respect
ive homes.
Imagine General Lee and liis vet
erans led in chains to Washington,
followed by the spoils and treasures
of Southern homes and Southern
sanctuaries. Imagine the same Con
federate soldiers compelled to erect
in the capital of the nation a monu
ment to commemorate their own de
feat and the triumph of the con
queror. That would be completing
the parallel. Would not the whole
nation, north as well as south of Ma
son and Dixon’s line, rise up to its
might and denounce a degradation so
revolting to their humanity?
The Roman and the American gen
eral, in their opposite conduct, were
reflecting the spirit of the times in
which they lived. Titus, in exercis
ing cruelty toward the vanquished,
was following the traditions of Pa
ganism. Grant, in his magnanimity
toward the Confederate troops, w r as
obeying the mandate of Christian civ
ilization.
The friends and advocates of inter
national arbitration are engaged in a
most noble and benevolent mission
that can engross the attention of man
kind—a mission to which are at
tached the most sublime title and the
most precious reward. "Blessed are
the peacemakers, for they shall be
called the children of God.”
A hundred years ago disputes be
tween individuals were commonly de
cided by a duel. Thanks to the nu
manizing influence or a Christian
public opinion, these disagreements
are now usually adjusted by legisla-
tion and conciliation. Have we not
reason to indulge the hope that the
same pacific agencies that have
checked the duels between individuals
will, in God’s own time, check the
duels between nations?
In our school days the most odious
and contemptible creature we used
to encounter was the bully who
played tyrant toward the weak, hut
cringed before his strong companion.
But still more intolerable is a bully
ing nation that picks a quarrel with
a feeble nation, with the base intent
of seizing her possessions.
Let the friends and advocates of in
ternational arbitration use every ef
fort to protect the weak against the
strong, and then to the ruler of a
feeble nation, conscious of the justice
of its cause, may be applied the words
of the poet:
"Thice armed is he that has his quar
rel just.”
First —He is armed with the con
sciousness of the sacred right of iws
property
Second —He is armed with the
shield of an enlightened public opin
ion.
Third —He is armed with the con
viction that his cause will bo adjudi
cated by the equitable decision of the
Board of Arbitration.
President Roosevelt, by his timely
and tactful intervention, put an end
to the late destructive war between
Russia and Japan. Asa recognition
of his daring act of humanity (for
failure would have seriously compro
mised his official dignity), he was
presented with the Nobel prize, in
cluding a gold medal, which, no
doubt, he esteems far less for its in
trinsic value than for the memorable
historic incident which it commemor
ates. If international arbitration
helps to avert threatening hostilities,
the avoidance of any entangling alli
ance removes us from the danger of
provoking them.
The Father of His Country, in his
farewell address, which he left as a
precious legacy to his countrymen,
earnestly exhorts them to abstain
from being involved in entangling
alliances with other nations, and to
cultivate friendship with all of them.
This solemn admonition was reaf
firmed by Jefferson in his inaugural
address, which has been handed down
from one administration to another
as a sacred oracle, and has now ac
quired almost the force and authority
of law.
Since Washington's memorable
words were written in 17 96. experi
ence and observation, far from weak
ening their force, have confirmed
their wisdom and foresight, and their
observance has contributed no small
share to our peace and prosperity.
As soon as we form an alliance, of
fensive or defensive, with any other
nation, we make her quarrels and
hostilities our own; her enemies our
enemies. We are tied to her chariot
wheels. We must perforce increase
our land and naval armament to suit
her purposes. She will urge and al
most compel us to do so, if we are
to remain her champion. It is im
plied in the compact.
Let the streams of commerce flow
between Europe and America like in
vigorating blood coursing through the
ai-teries of the human body, diffusing
life and activity, and all forming, as
it were, one social organism, each
member exulting in the health and
growth of the other, and stimulating
the remotest parts with energy and
activity. Let our business interests
with these commonwealths be so in
separable and recipi-ocal that the in
jury to one will be felt by the others,
and the prosperity of each will be
shared by all.
Besides entering into closer com
mercial relations with European na
tions, let us form a still more friendly
compact with them by welcoming
their thrifty sons and daughters to
share our fortunes in this favored
country. It cannot be denied that our
exceptional prosperity, as a nation, in
the past century, has been due in no
small measure to the tide of immi
gration.
Let us continue to invite the oeo
ple to our shores. Let us give them
the right hand of fellowship, embrac
ing them as brothers, holding out to
them every opportunity of advancing
their material interests, inspiring
them with so great an admiration for
our civil and political institutions
that they may be impelled to be incor
porated with us, becoming "bone of
our bone, and flesh of our flesh,” be
getting and rearing children, who,
while they cherish the land of their
fathers, will love still more the land
of their birth. May the immigrants
become so enamored of our country
that they will be eager to exclaim in
the language of Ruth to Naomi:
’’Where you shall dwell, we also will
dwell; your people shall be our peo
ple, and your Cod our God.” It is
surprising with what rapidity the
descendants of immigrants become
assimilated with the native popula
tion. Climatic influences, intermar
riages and education, social, political
and business relations, so mold and
shape the physical and mental texture
of the new generation that it is often
difficult to determine to what Euro
pean nation their grandparents or
even their narents belonged, unless
their ancestry be disclosed by their
patronymic.
Let us cherish the hope that the
day is not far off when the reign of
the Prince of Peace shall be firmly
established on the earth, and the
spirit of the Gospel will so far sway
the minds and hearts of rulers and
cabinets that international disputes
will be decided, not by standing ar
mies, but by permanent courts or ar
bitration; when they will be settled,
not on the battlefield, but in the halls
of conciliation, and will be adjusted,
not by the sword, but by the pen,
which "is mightier than the sword.”
The Slaughter.
Uncle Gabboy—Yes sir; I did some
killing in ’63 myself.
Bystander Nonsense. Everybody
knows that you didn’t go to war.
Uncle Gabboy—’Course I didn’t, and
T killed my chances of getting a pen
sion by not going didn’t I?
A pigeon has been known to fly r
tbonsand miles in two days, six hour
and seventeen minutes.
BACKACHE,!
Suffered Over Nine ATonths, Nothing
Relieved Me Until I Took PER UN A.
Mrs. Joseph Nacelle, 124 Bronson St.,
Ottawa, East, Ontario, Canada, writes:
“I suffered with backache and head
ache for over nine months and nothing
relieved me until I took Feruna. This
medicine is by far hotter than any other
medteino for those troubles. A few bot
tles relieved mo of mv mlss'able, half
dead, half-alive condition.’*
THE BIBLE THE BEST SELLER.
The Enormous Demand for it la
Steadily Maintained.
The sale of the average popular
book usually shrinks within a year.
'Few works of science, particularly in
this day of eager research and start
ling discovery, have permanent val
ue. A medical text bock of two de
cades ago is absolutely valueless save
as a literary curiosity. But there
is one book that always sells, and of
which a single publication house in
New York has actually issued over
eighty million copies. That, of course,
is the Bible.
Mr. Day Allen Willey, in saying
that it is absolutely true that
in America the yearly sale of the
Scriptures are still more than those
of the leading book of fiction, has just
explained that only a comparatively
few copies ever reach the book
stores; “most of them go direct from
the bindery to men and women who
make their living carrying them from
house to house In city, village and
country.” Tho publication house re
ferred to, it is almost needless to say,
is the famous Bible House, which con
tinues to issue books at the rate ol
a million a year.
It is interesting to learn that they
are printed in over fifty languages—
ranging from Arapahoe to Visayan—>
although including the foreign sta
tions of the society, which was found
ed nearly a century ago, the whole or
some portion of the Bible is printed
In about four hundred tongues.
These books, it will bo unde*stood,
are really sold, and it may doubtless
gratify many Christians in this com
monwealth to learn that, New York
aside, it has been purchasing more
than any other state in the Union. In
1907, for instance, thirty thousand
went to Massachusetts, ten thousand
to California, 105,000 to Illinois,
000 to Pennsylvania. Mr. Willey saya
that most of the books sent to this
state were wanted in the mining and
manufacturing districts, and he adds:
"Although the society has sent Bibles
to Pennsylvania for over a half century,
the sales have been Increasing.”—
One kind of curiosity is a small boy
with two grandmothers who isn’t
spoiled.
POSTUM FOR MOTHERS
The Drink That Nourishes and Sup
plies Food For .Mother and Child.
“My husband has been unable to
drink coffee for several years, so we
were very glad to give Postum a trial
and when we understood that long
boiling would bring out the delicious
flavour, we have been highly pleased
with It.
"It is one of the finest things for
nursing mothers that I have ever
seen. It keeps up the mother’s
strength and increases the supply of
nourishment for the child if partaken
of freely. I drank It between meads
instead of water and found it most
beneficial.
"Our five-year-old boy has been
very delicate since birth and has de
veloped slowly. He was white and
bloodless. I began to give him Post
um freely and you would be surprised
at the change. When any person
remarks about the great improve
ment, we never fail to tell them that
we attribute his gain in strength and
general health to the free use of
Postum and this has led many friends
to use it for themselves and chil
dren.
”1 have always cautioned friends
to whom I have spoken about Postum
to follow directions In making It.
for unless It is boiled fifteen or
twenty minutes, it is quite tasteless
On the other hand, when properly
made, it is very delicious. I want to
thank you for the benefits we have
derived from the use of your
Postum.”
Read “The Road to Wellville,”
found in pkgs. "There’s a Reason.”
Ever read the above letter? Anew
one appears from time to time. They
ar- genuine, true, and full of human
interest