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is to emulate the lives of these men; that is, live as they lived and think as they thought. Strip your mind of any thought that the stories of the Bible teach something intangible. ghostly and transcendental, for they do not; they only appear to do so to you because of the superstition and inspi ration which surrounds the great book. Things, events and influences that imide you what you are made also tin* Bible what it is, and the one is as real as the other. Character is a thing to be built up by degrees, even the character of the Bible itself, for better or for worse, according to the influences that operate upon it. and there is no book in the world likelv to have a better influence on vour life » • than the Bible, provided, of course, that you properly interpret and assimilate 1 its teachings and live as they command you to live. ■I I : I wF ‘i "gwy ■ss>? Mi - - JMo I.KADING CANDIDATE KOK SPEAK EIISH 11» or IHE IIO( SE. Hon. J. Randolph Anderson for Speaker. Whv should not South Georgia be honored with t tin 1 Speakership of the House 1 of Representatives ? Is it not time that Middle and Northern Georgia conceded something more to this section than the right to representation in tin* General Assembly, for which we are amply taxed ? There is no doubt that the 1 Speakership ami the Presidency of the 1 Senate art 1 honors to be 1 won only by fighting. South Georgia puts a man forward this time who is game in the 1 person of -I. Randolph Anderson, and if only our own people 1 will stand by him there is no reason why he should not be elected on the first ballot. Let every person interest him self in personal appeals to his representative ami his press in having Mr. Anderson s intm'ests the 1 first thing at heart and the 1 result need no longer be con sidered doubtful. THE REASON The Country Legislators See the Light. The declaration by Representative Wilson of Gwinnett county that he would propose a resolution at th* 1 opening of the 1 approaching session of the Georgia Legislature repealing the* present state 1 prohibition law. was a decidedly interesting incident, coming as it did so closely in tin 1 wake 1 of the 1 late 1 prim a ry. It shows, for 0m 1 thing, that the 1 belief is held in some well informed quarters that the 1 prohibition question played no inconsiderable part in the 1 guber natorial and legislative l contests, in spite 1 of the repeated assertions that prohibition was not an issue. Party leaders and candidate's are 1 quite frequently unable to hold voters to prescribed issue's, and great independence of thought and action has come 1 to be a factor to lie reckoned with in every political cam paign. Whether prohibition was an issue or not. theme 1 arc few in this city who do not know that the 1 im mense 1 majority given Mr. Brown in Chatham county was very largely in rebuke 1 of tin 1 course of Gow Smith and his fi iemls in tin* Legislature upon the 1 liquor question. ami a protest,/ against such impor tant rnd drastic legislation enacted in advance of any campaign having prohibition as a specific issue. If Gov. Smith had been elected in 1906 upon a platform declaring for state 1 prohibition, the present law would have 1 been just as repugnant to this com munity as it now is. But. in that ease. Savannah anti-prohibitionists would have 1 been deprived of tin 1 chief weapon of criticism with which they assaulted Gov. Smith in the 1 primary of June I last, ami they would have 1 had no logical excuse 1 for assailing him at all mi the 1 liquor question. But tin 1 platform of 1906 made no such demand. Inquest ionably there* are* thousands of citizens in the* country districts favoring prohibition. through local option, as applied to theur own counties, who yet elo m>l believe 1 in “dry" cities of the* first class. Certainly numbers of them are 1 opposed to making the large l cities close the sahions against tin* wishes and best juelgment of their citizens. ('alm dediberation has taught this class of voters throughout tin* state* the* unwisdom of their repre sentatives in the Legislature l suffering themselves to be swept off Ilnur feet by the* hysterical assault upon tin* capitol last summer, waged so spertacularly by the* uncompromising zeudots in tin* extreme 1 prohibi tion ranks. Tin* sober second thought which eve*r follows tin* disorderly public tumult has made 1 itself felt in 1908. wlndher inviteil or uninviteel. Il remains to be seen what action, if any. will be produceel by Mr. Wilson s proposed resolution of repeal. It may ehwelop that the 1 present Legislature 7l will shrink from action absolute*!}’ reversing itself on the prohibition (piestion. and will leave tin* mat ter to he* handled by its sue'cessor. just nominateel. 5