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ARP AND THE LIARS.
BILL TALKS ON THE SINS OF
THE PRESENT DAY.
Corruption in Politics of the Day Stealing
From the Public Crib. Different
Kindt of Liars.
From tho Atlanta Constitution.
We are not distressed at the
overthrow of Tammany in New
York. Seventy years is long
enough for a party or a political
power to rule a great metropolis.
Corruption breeds maggots Jas the
city grows, for, as Thomas .Jeffer¬
son said: “The growth of great
cities is pestilential to good mor¬
als.” The public treasury is a
thing to be plundered, whether it
be municipal, state or national.
There are thousands of men who
would not steal from me, hut
would steal the money I put into
the treasury, for there it becomes
so mixed up that nobody knows
whose money it is. It is just as
it was two hundred years ago,
when Swift wrote:
“Great fleas have little fleas upon
their backs to bite ’em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and
ho on ad infinitum.”
There is one comfort about all
this public plunder. The money
does not go dead. It has to be in¬
vested and gives employment to
labor. A millionaire can’t eat
nor wear out much more than I
can, nor will he lock up his money
and let it rest. Not long ago I
asked a clever northern man why
it was that the rich people who
pay the most of tho taxes let the
pension steal go on bo long and
get bigger every year? He smiled
and said: “Why that pension
money goes mostly to the poor
and we got it back sooner or later.
It is our cheapest way of support¬
ing, especially when we have your
help.” Poor Garfield.” In his
last message he lamented that the
pension rolls had got to the alarm¬
ing sum of $80,000,000, but said
• there was comfort in knowing t hat
it was obliged to decrease fron
natural causes, for death was the
common lot and tho pensioners
were rapidly decreasing in num¬
ber. He was mistaken. They
have been multiplying ever Hinee
he was killed, and now it takes
$150,(XX),000 to pay tho roll.
Public plunder would not be so
bad it it was done in the open.
What aggravates us is that it is
done on the sly through corrup¬
tion, through bribes, franchises,
charters, licenses, salaries and
schemes. It always vexes me
to see the cook hiding something
or her child carrying off a bundle
on the sly and hiding it under her
apron as she is going home, But
they are all so kind and so willing
and so good to the children that
wo saw wood and say nothing.
They remind me of what a blind
phrenologist said of a public offi¬
cial in Rome while feeling the
bumps on his head, Ho did not
know him at all, but said: “This
man is kind-hearted and good-
natured and would do you a favor
if you were in distress, but be
will steal. If he found a man
asleep alone in a room at night
he would slip his purse from out
his pocket, but would kiss him be-
fore he lett, him.” He diagnosed
the man correctly, for he was
turned out of office soon after for
embezzling the public money, and
everybody was sorry lor him be-
cause he was so generous with his
plunder. Stealing from tin- pub-
lic crib seems to he a higher grade
of crime than lying, though it
takes lying and hypocriso and de-
eeit to accomplish it. I have of-
ten wondered why lying was not
forbidden in the Ten Command-
ments. “Thou shalt not steal"
is there, but “Thou shalt not lie"
is not there, and yet it is accursed
all through the scriptures and is
the last on recorded in the last
chapter of Revelations and in
nearly the last verse. “For with¬
out are dogs and sorcerers, and
whore mongers and murderers and
and whosoever loveth and maketh
a like.” According to David, that
sin did not leave very many to en¬
ter heaven, for he says, “I said
in mine haste all men are liars.”
The old Scotch preacher took it
for a text and his first remark
was, “Ah, David, me mon, if ye
had waited until now ye might
have said it at your leisure.” Ly¬
ing is no doubt the most univer¬
sal sin among mankind, but it is
graped and not always a sin.
Stealingjis always a sin, but lying
must be malignant or harmful.
Paul sent Titus to Crete and wrote
to him that he would have a hard
time in establishing a church
there, for the Cretans were all
liars. Crete is in Candia now, an
island in the Mediterranean, in¬
habited by Mohammedans chilly,
and travelers say that they are no
better now than they were in St.
Paul’s day, for they are not only
liars, but thieves. England used
to have laws to punish common
scolds, common drunkards and
common vagabonds, but none to
punish common liars, for theyare
generally harmless. Every com¬
munity has one or two and they
keep us amused at their Munchau-
sea exploits in hunting and fish¬
ing and their narrow escapes.
Then there are some uncommon
liars—liars of the first magnitude
as Shakespeare calls them, such as
Baron Munchausen, Joe Mulhat-
tan and some Chicago editors and
preachers. Some of these get into
the pulpit and make up pathetic
stories and thrilling incidents to
emphasize their sermons and cre¬
ate a sensation. And there are
thousands of little white lies, so¬
ciety lies that have to be told for
civility’s sake—lies that flatter
and please the visitor, the custom¬
er or the patient. All these are
spoken lies, but there are as many
acted lies in trading, such as con¬
cealing the truth and putting the
best on top. In fact, everybody
lies more or less except children
and fools, though most of us
mean no harm by it. My old
partner used to say that some
mighty clever men would be shut
out of heaven for swearing a lie
to their tax returns, for David
says, “Lord, wiio shall abide in
Thy tabernacle; who shall dwell
in Thy holy hill—he that speak-
eth the truth in his heart and
sweareth to his own hurt and
changeth not.”
Withholding what is due to the
state is as bad as stealing from it.
And withholding what a man
ought to give to the church he be¬
long to is almost as great a sin as
that of Ananias. It is stealing
from God. Nothing that a mem¬
ber of the church can do so readi¬
ly fixes his character as a Chris-
tian ns his willingness to give all
that he can according to his
means. Tithes and offerings have
come down to us from Cain and
Abel in an unbroken line. Cain
was a bad man, but he paid
his tithes. He was the first liar
on record—the devil excepted,
Then there are tlie lies publish-
od every day in the great daily
papers—political lies, commercial
ii t »s and medical lies to catch the
ignorant and unsuspecting; some
reporters lie to show their dili-
gence in business,
High coloring, veneering, var-
nishing are essential qualities in a
reporter, whether his journal lie
white or yellow. He must lie a
little, even though it has to be
taken back or modified the next
day. And so tiie world wags on
and the people have become so ac-
customed to lies that they make
allowance for everything they hear
or read. VV r hen the historian want¬
ed to cap the climax of General
Washington’s noble .character, he
wove in that little story of the
cherry tree and made the boy to
say, “Father, I cannot tell a lie.”
And so I hope that all our little
boys will grow up to be truthful
men. Don’t go behind the barn
and smoke a cigarette, for that is
telling a lie to your father You
can tell a lie by winking your
eyes or pointing your finger or
concealing what you do from your
parents or your teacher. If you
do wrong own it like a gentleman
and you will have their respect as
well us your own.
But the downfall of Tammany
was no defeat of the New York
democracy—for there were as
many good democrats as republi¬
cans on that fusion ticket and
they will help Low to clean out
the Augean stables. So let the
procession proceed.—Bill Arp in
Atlanta Constitution.
Swallowed a Mirror.
Burrell Hammock, the young
man put in jail here not long
since, tried to commit suicide one
day last week. He had a piece of
looking glass in his cell, and this
he broke up and put into a glass
of water and drank. Sheriff Mat¬
tox did not learn of this until the
day following, and by this time
Hammock was complaining that
his throat and stomach were sore
and seemed to regret what he had
done. The sheriff gave him near¬
ly a bottle of castor oil, and this
simple remedy had the desired ef¬
fect. Hammock complains that
his throat is still sore, and he has
to confine himself to a diet of oat
meal and other soft things, but is
considered out of danger.—Cuth-
bert Leader.
List of Jurors.
Following is the list jurors drawn
to serve at. the December term of
Calhoun Superior Court, 1901:
a GRAND JURORS.
Wesley Rish, T. E. Cheney,
L. F. Murray, J. R. Strickland,
George Walker, C. Eubanks,
C. J. McDaniel, W. E. Bostwick,
R. H. Murray, J . S. Phillips,
J. P. Whitaker, H. Daniel,
E. G. Jordon, E. M. Melvin,
J. B. Steadham, F. Isler,
J. F Rivers, B. Isler,
W. J. Horsley, J. S. Cowart,
I. B. Manry, S. N. McGuirt,
John C. Lee, T. W. Langston,
J. C. Price, A. L. Bostwick,
William Ray, W. B. Joiner,
W. E. Harvin, C. C. Holloway.
TRAVERSE JURORS.
L. Taylor, C. M. Jackson,
Arthur Bennett, G. J. Butler,
W. T. Arnold, R. W. Arnold,
F. L. Carswell, W. B. Pace,
John M. Avery, C. W. Cheney,
P. M. Stevens, J. A. Collins,
Henry Turner, J. P. Lovell,
J. D. Kemp, G. W. Eubanks,
Frank Dunn, A. W. Smith,
John T. Dyer, W. N. Little,
P. B. Addison, A. L. Hawk,
C. H. Tanner, R. M. Jordan,
Y. W. Fudge, T. A. Stallings,
Alex Avery, G L. Monroe,
Luther Plowden, C. F. Smith,
J. T. Amos, S. T. Clayton,
G. W. Wiggins, T. J. Davis,
G. W. Colley, J. S. Wooten.
Tax Collector’s Notice.
GEORGIA— Calhoun County.
I will be at Cue foPowing places
on the dates named for the purpose
of collecting state and county taxes
for the year 1901:
Morgan—C ot. 1, 29, Nov. 5 and
26, and all during court week.
Edison— Oct. 9, 30, and Nov. 20.
Leary —Oct. 10, 24, Nov. 14, Dec.
5.
Cordray— Oct. 14, Nov. 4 and 25.
Williamsburg— Oct. 21, Nov. 11,
and Dec. 2.
Jeff—N ov. IS.
McDonald’s Mill —Nov. 7.
Will be in Arlington on every
Friday and Saturday. %
Books will close promptly Decem¬
ber 20, 1901. Fi fas will be issued
promptly. / This Sept. 26, 1901.
W. E. Cl :ments,
Tax Collector Calhoun County. :
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