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SPECIAL mmißi
MEN IK THE PUBLIC MIND
Salvation Army’s
Birthday
Forty-nine years ego the world’s first
mooting of the Sulvation Army took
place in un oil patched tent,
a’ ancient burial ground in the White
• ■hapel district of lamdon. The first
preacher was William Booth. a clergy
n;.tn at that time without a church, lie
ad been called upon to take the place
of the regular minister, who was lying
■ 1 at his home.
T • f'rst congregation was made up
«ii a ’‘mass nf poor people, many of them
evidently wit horn <lod or hope in the
world." Aftev the meeting Booth bur
ned to his home and exclaimed to his
who: “Kate. 1 have found my destiny!
,\s 1 passed by the doors of the flam
-in palaces tonight, seemed to hear
voice sound"ng In my ears: ‘Where can
find such heathens as these, and
where is there so groat need for von
labors? And then* and then in my soul
l offered myself and you and our chil
dren up to this gveut work.”
From that dav meetings were held
regularly On the third Sunday the tent
blew down and was wrecked beyond re-
I!ir. 1 laving no money for another and
without funds to relit a building. Booth
pr* ached in the open air. Finally, he
‘-••cured the use of an old dance hall
that was not in use on Sundays. Week
.l meetings were held in a dilapidated
whed. fuvuu •:> a storehouse for old rags,
ihe army grew it was forced Into the
t - cts: narrow alleys, abandoned sa-
L, is. or utioocunh'd theatres became
Salvation Army chapels.
’loda. the Salvation Army is th*
greatest evangelistic organ zation in the
w.n ld. The poke-1-on lie: ed army lassie
a familial sight in every country on
« rth. with tlu- single exception of Rus
sia/. Tlicv arc in Iceland, and It is re
ported th it Russia is on the point of
ipitulation. More than 10.000,00(1 Am*
.• • ans gai net during a year’s time to
M. to tin* exhortations of nearly 7.-
o o Offices of both seexs. The charity
nf tlu* organization includes, in tlu* Unit
ed States, nearly 100 workingmen's ho
le s. which accommodate annually mo v e
t <i.t m *2.000.000 persons; over 120 indus
• 1:iI bullies, where about 1'..000.000 meals
Five been served in a year, and about
:'r rescue and maternity homes, where
• ■'mi girls and children find
»\v Fork livening Rost.
Largely a State of
Mind
It may Ic* that the determination of
the women’s «lubs of the country to try
to do something in the way of making
women dress more modestly will have
a good effect. I'ndonbtedly if it is to
he accomplished it must be accomplish*
ed by tin* women themselves. The job
of changing the trend of fashions may
i * man-size, hut it is not one which men
ran perform. A group of women cun,
maybe.
it it will not give offense we will sug
gest that modesty really is not a state
< f dress or undress, but a state of mind.
The custom of an African tribe and the
climate of the couutvy does not call for
much in the way of clothing, but reports
of travelers agree that modesty among
the women of many of these tribes is hy i
no means at a premium. t’ertainly con-I
ditions in this respect, if travelers again!
are to be believed, have not been im* j
proved b\ the introduction of the whit * I
man's and white woman's fashion at
more clothing.
Undoubtedly there is need of fixing up
the state of mind in this and other civi
lized countries. We were impressed I y
an address delivered before the conven
tion of tin* National Federation of Wom
en's Clubs in Chicago by a man named
Kneeland, of whom we never beard be
fore, font who seems to have taken a
very prominent part in the investiga
tions leading up to the vice crusade in
stituted in Chicago a year or more ago.
He pleaded with the women to mother
motherless girls, to work for better
economic conditions, to teach the young
the vital truths of life. Hut Kneelund
dwelt especially upon tlie necessity of
mothers training their sons to honor
womanhood. There is no question that
every mother can accomplish much in
this direction whether she he able to re
form women's dress or not. She will
find her teaching taking effect us soon
as it is started.
The chap who’s reared in a good home
to respect Ids mother and his sisters
because they art* women, as well as be
cause they are his mother and his sis
ters, later may slip and stumble and
fall, but there fievtV will depart from
him entirely the sugestions of that early
training. The chances are. too, that w*
won't see him haunting street corners
and dives with is mind filled with vile
notions and with his main concern to
add to the deviltry of life.-—Richmond
Journal.
Southern Historv
Much lias been written of late ir. tlie
YiVginia newspapers of the need for text
books ir, the public schools which shall
Kite the children a fair history of the
South as a factor in the building of the
nation. it has been urged that the
works of such authors as Kledsue and
Muinfon! should be made a part of the
curriculum and that, if necessary, the
materials of those volumes should he so
edited as to bring them within the com
prehension of pupils in the primary
grades and present the facts in a stylo
attractive to the youthful mind. The
Mumford book is already on the list of
licensed publications, but Its use so fur
has been very limited, while the treatise
es ft’. Hledsoe is of a character suited
only to advanced students. A practical
contribution to the object in view has
ben Hindu lo Major George W. I.ittle
fie d. a Confederate veteran, who In do
nating twenty-five thousand dollars to
t >< I''ii \ rsltv of Teaxs, to he expended
in collecting dip data for a school his
lorv ol the Sou til ; ivs:
’ll has i ren my desire to see a his
•ot" written of ttie I‘nited States with
!tc plain facts concerning tin- South and
her acta since the inundation of the goc
iVnnut , especially since ISOH. fairly
sailed, that me children of the South
t c he truthfully ijiight and prisons
maturing s ine IMlti g>ve.n an opportunity
to Inform themselves correctly.’’
The matter Is also under agitation in
other States of tils section and should
•>e kept up until tl, e desired end has
been attained of making available to the
children of the South a truthful record
of the contributions their fathers have
mole to national greatness and to the
cause of constitutional liberty .—Norfolk
Virginian-Pilot.
HER AWN DESIRE
.English clergyman- And when you ar
rive In Gondon. my dear Indy, don’t fail
to see St. Paul's and Westminster Ab
bey. ' •
Pair American*-You bet; 111 rattle
those off sure; but wlint I’ve been
hankering to se«. peer since 1 was krec
htgh to a grass 1) : per. is the Church of
England.—Dallas News.
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No citizen of Augusta or member
of the bar stands higher in the esti
mat ion of his fellow citizens than
Hon. H. Cl. Fogarty. He is always
active and alert for the best interests
of (lie city. Mr. Fogarty lias served
Psychology of Writing
l C*. tolls the Office Window some in
teresting things about the psychology of
writing with the right hand, in the ease
of a loft handed person. J. G. is left
handed. hut was taught to write with
the right hand. hi college he learned
that the left lobe of the bvaln controls
the overations of the right, hand, and
vice-versa. lie also encountered n pro
fessor who told him that in the case of
a left handed person writing with the
right hand there would be a crossing of
the brain impulse from on»» side of the
body to the other —a shifting of the nerve
base, ns it weve accompanied by a cer
tain waste of energy caused hy this
crossing of the wires.
The mental order to write is first sent,
automatically hy the rain to the left
hand, and must he transferred by a ru
dimenta illy conscious process to the
right hand in oVder to accomplish the
act <»f writing. Under this theory a
left handed person should never attempt
to write with the right hand, but should
simplify and ecmiomide his mental pro
cesses b> writing with the left.
J. U. had always experienced a certain
sense of vexation or obstruction in
writing with the vight hand. But he
now began to write with the typewriter
and experienced at once a sense of lib
eration. The process, with the left hand
now doing at least half the writing, be
came easier, more fluent, more respon
sive as between hand and brain.—New
York Mail.
HARD LABOR.
Wilson Barrett used to tell an
amusing story against himself. At a
time when he had a lot of workmen
redecorating his private residence,
thinking to give them a treat, be ask
ed if. after work one evening, they
would like to have seats to go and see
him play in "The Lights o’ London"
at the Princess Theatre. They said
they didn’t mind if they did, and being
complimentary tickets, all went on a
Saturday night to see their employer’s
performance.
At the end of the week Barrett’s eye
caught sight of this item against each
workman’s name on the pay-sheet:
“Saturday night. Four hours’ overtime
at Princess Theatre, eight shillings.’’
-Tit-Bits.
HORSES AND MULES
Bought Sold and Exchanged
I have been in the Horse and Mule business
at the same stand in Augusta for ten years, and
have built up on of the best businesses in this
lim> of any dealer in the county.
1 always have a fine lot of road and work
horses and mules in stock, and make a specialty
of well-bred Kentucky and Tennessee harness
and saddle horses.
The constant increase in my business is due
to good values and square dealing.
L. J. Williams
Sales Stables 520 McKinne (Thirteenth) Street.
HON. D. G. FOGARTY
bis county Ln the legislature, made an
enviable record as solicitor of the
city court, and despite the fact of a
law practice that takes all of his time
and care, lias always been ready to
serve his friends, his party or his
city when called uton.
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COUNTY TAX COLLECTOR.
Charles S. Bohler, the present tax
collector of Richmond county, is one
of the few men who has succeeded
himself in office for an uninterrupted
period of sixteen years without oppo
sition Mr. Bohler’s record as an effi
cient and honest public official is as
near perfect as that of any man who
ever held office in the state of Geor
gia. He was first elected to the of
fice in .1898, succeeding his father.
John A. Bohler, under whom he had
worked as an assistant for many
years. Mr. Bohler was born in Au
gusta Feb. 14, 1859.
Chas. S. Bohler
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
IN CITY, STATE and NATIONAL AFFAIRS
LITERAL.
An English minister, who guarded
his morning study hour very carefully,
Why not?
What do the people want In their
Governor?
Do they want COURAGE?
Judge Harris fought under Bee.
Do they want DEVOTION TO PRIN
CIPLE?
Judge Harris sacrificed his home
and was driven from East Tennessee
an outcast because he served the Con
fedei acy.
Do they want LOYALTY TO SOUTH
ERN IDEALS?
Judge Harris came to Georgia and
stood shoulder to shoulder with the
men of this state in the struggle for
white supremacy and the redemption
of our civilization from the horrors of
Reconstruction.
Do they want LEARNING?
Judge Harris makes no parade of
his learning, but he is a student and a
scholar.
Do they want CONSTRUCTIVE
STATESMANSHIP?
Judge Harris established the Geor
glagia School of Technology,
Do thoy want ABILITY TO HANDLE
THE FINANCIAL AFFAIRS OF
THE STATE?
Judge Harris drew up and put into
execution the legislative plan of re
funding the State's bonds In ISS4, by
which her credit was restored and
ruin averted.
Do they want FIDELITY?
Judge Harris has been entrusted
with the affairs of countless clients,
and has never betrayed a trust.
Do thay want ELOQUENCE?
Judge Harris is one of the few great
orators left in the country.
Do they want SYMPATHY WITH
THE NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE?
Judge Harris came to Georgia as a
farmer. He has edited a country
newspaper, he has been a school teach
er, he has been a lawyer, he has been
a builder of railroads, —-he has learn
ed by experience to sympathize with
the hopes and aspirations of all the
people..
Do they want CONSERVATISM?
Judge Harris has the calm, far-see
ing Judgment that prevents his being
swayed by every wind of doctrine, and
keeps him true to the best traditions
of our people.
Do thoy want PROGRESSIVENESS?
Judge Harris is a true progressive
In the sense that he is always in the
forefront of every movement for the
moral, intellectual and material pro
gress of our people and the upbuild
ing of the State.
Do thay want INTELLECT?
Judge Harris Is the equal In Intel
lect of any man in the Union.
Do they want RIGHTEOUSNESS?
Surely the purity of his character
and the uprightness of his life during
all the years he has lived among tho
people of Georgia will speak louder
than any words that can be said as to
what manner of man he Is.
told the new maid that under no cir
cumstances were callers to be admit
ted —except, of course, he added —in
case of life and death. Half an hour
FOR GOVERNOR
= 1 OF
GEORGIA
Hon Nat E. Harris
OF=;;.
Macon, Georgia
“A Sterling Citizen ami a
bond H^an."
$
later the maid knocked at his door.
“A gentleman to see you, sir.”
“Why, I thought I told you "
“Yes, I told him.” she replied, “ but
Do they want VIGOR?
The tugged frame that he brought
from the mountains has not been im
paired by the pussing years—he is as
strong and virile as one of the spruces
of his native home.
Do they war# ENERGY?
The fire still flashes from his eye;
to his friends he is as gentle as a
woman, hut when aroused he is the
Gray Lion.
Do they want a MAN?
Judge Harris is no little man hut a
man every inch of him, morally, men
tally, physically—a man to whom ev -
ery man. woman and child will be proud
to point and say, "There is our Gov
ernor."
THEN WHY NOT VOTE FOR
JUDGE HARRIS?
Hlh opponents are ah comparatively
young men, and the people will have
many other oportunitles to vote for
them, doubtless.
This is the last chance the people of
Georgia may have to honor the man
who wore the gray—a veteran who is
capable of filling the position aska for
your suffrages—
Is he not worthy?
People of Georgia
VOTE FOR THE VETERAN.
When you do you vote for a man.
Judge Harris was born in Jonesboro,
Tennessee, 1846. He became a Geor
gian in 1865, because at the age of six
teen he shouldered his rifle and went
to follow Bee in Virginia, and there
was no place In East Tennessee for a
Confederate soldier after the war He
says: "Georgia stretched out her
arms to me when I had no home; she
took me in when I was a wanderer,
and since that day my heart has beat
only in love and devotion to her.”
He graduated at the University of
Georgia In 1870.
He taught school in Sparta and stud
ied law under Linton Stephens and F
1,. Little, ami was admitted to prac
tice in October. 1872. Meantime, in
connection with A. M. Dußose, he had
established The Hancock Sentinel
which he edited for some time, after
wards merging that paper with The
Times and Planter, and continuing his
connection as editor with the latter
journal. His law studies were carried
on in the back room of a printing of
fice. in 1873 he came to Macon and
formed a partnership in the law with
Walter B. Hill, which continued until
Mr. Hill became Chancellor of the Uni
versity of Georgia in 1899. He rep
resented Bibb county In the general
assembly from 1882 to 1986 During
that time he founded the Georgia
School of Technology, and became the
first chairman of Its board of trustees
which position he still holds. He was
chairman of the rinance committee of
the house during 1884, when the
he says it is a question of life and
death.”
So he went downstairs and found
an insurance agent.—Argonaut.
states's debt of three and one-half mil
lion dollars fell due. The debt was re
funded and the bonds sold at more than
par. As chairman of the finance com
mittee. he carried the burden on his
shoulders and the work that was then
done established the credit of the state,
saved the commonwealth from bank
ruptcy and the people from ruin.
He represented the Twenty-second
District in the state senate from 1894
to 1896. Was Judge of the Superior
Courts of the .Macon Circuit in 1912.
With these exceptions lie has never
before asked for public office.
Throughout his life In Georgia, he
has been intensely interested in the
cause of education. He is a trustee
of Wesleyan Female College and of
tlie University of Georgia.
With ripe experience and mature
judgment he combines the fire and
energy of youth. The passing years
have not diminished the vigor of his
body, nor dulled the activities of his
mind. He is at the zenith of his pow
ers.
At this time h' offers his services
to the people of Georgia. He believes
tlint the position of Governor of Geor
gia is the most honorable one that can
be conferred upon a citizen. His high
est ambition is to be GOVERNOR of
the STATE OF GEORGIA.
In presenting his name to the peo
ple of Georgia, his friends and fellow
citizens who have known him aU the
years that he has lived among them,
psissed the following resolutions:
Be it Resolved hy the Democrats of
tlie county of Bibb, in mass meeting
assembled:
First, That the name of the Hon.
Nathaniel E. Harris, of this county,
he presented by this meeting to the
Democracy of Georgia as a candidate
for the Democratic nomination for the
Governorship of the state at the com
ing primary’.
Resolved second, That in the pre
sentation of Judge Harris' name there
is offered lo the people of this state
a man whose wide experience and
marked ability preeminently fit him
for the discharge of the duties of the
Governorship; and a. man whose pat
riotic services to the old south and
whose progressive labors In the up
building of the new. should make ap-'
real to every loyal Democrat.
Whether defending his country in
time of war, or developing her indus
trial and educational possibilities in
time of peace; whether as legislator.
Judge, educator, or upright private,
citizen, his qualifications and life ore'
considered, his fitness for the Execu
tive Chair should command the sup
port of the great Democratic party,
which he has so faithfully served, and
would worthily represent as the Chief
Executive of this state.
Resolved third, 5Ve request the suf
frage and support of our rellow citi
zens, irrespective of factions or sec
tions, In hts behalf.
Th»s brief sketch Is published by
the NAT HARRIS CAMPAIGN COM
MITTEE.
“AUGUSTA IN 1914*