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f ♦444441 GEORGIA NEWS!
Epitomized Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
Bad Blaze at Jasper.
The Jasper Manufacturing Compa¬
ny’s plant and the depot were destroy¬
ed by fire one night the past week.
The Are is thought to have been the
work of an incendiary. The loss
amounts to about $25,000; insurance,
$5,000. This is the third large fire m
the town within the fast three mouths.
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State Cotton Being Held.
‘ Chairman Turner, of the prison com¬
mission, states tnat threo hundred and
fifty bales of cotton were raised on the
state farm last year None* of the cot¬
ton has been sold yet, It being the
idea of tha commission to hold it as
long ao possible before selling, in tho
hope of securing a better price.
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Captain Adams Discharged.
Captain B. B. Adams, Jr., of the
Baldwin Blues, of Milledgsriiie, com¬
pany E, Second regiment, G. S. T., has
been discharged from office by order
of Governor Terrell, based on the find¬
ing of a military board of inquiry
which heard his case.
Captain Adams was charged with
falsifying tho company accounts, fail¬
ing to account for certain state prop¬
erty and general inefficiency.
The charges against Captain Adams
created quite a stir in Milledgevilie,
where he is well known.
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More Cash for the Teachers.
Treasurer Park has notified State
School Commissioner Merritt that he
will be ready on January 18th to send
out the money to the school teachers
of Georgia for tho last month’s work
in 1903. This will amount to practi¬
cally $600,000.
State School Cdmmissioner Merritt
is now working on the warrants and
will have them ready for the governor
to sign in a few days. This payment
will include the amount owed the
teachers by the state for last year. Ev¬
ery effort is being made by Commis¬
sioner Merritt to pay tbe teachers as
promptly as possible. x
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Profits of Athens Rum Joint.
The Athens dispensary for <.he year
1902 cleared $23,000, and for the year
that has just dosed the profits were
over $27,000, showing an increase In
profits of more than $4,000 for the past
year. The first year the d'T’pensary
was in operation, eleven years ago, the
profits were a shade above $9,000.
During the past threo years the prof¬
its at the dispensary have been ad¬
vancing steadily, and this year it is
thought they will pass the $30,000
mark. These profits are divided be¬
tween the city of AThens and fflb coun¬
ty of Clarke. The city gets four-fifths
and the county gets one fifth In this
way the city gets over $ 20,000 per an¬
nual and the county over $5,000.
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Big Profit in Sub-Letting Convicts.
W. E. Hamby and W. M. Toomer,
who in the recent award of convicts by
the state prison commission secured
500 felony convicts at the price of
$221.50 per year for each convict, have
sublet several hundred of these men
to. different parties at a good profit.
J. Lee Ensign, who also secured 50
convicts In the recent award at $220,
has sublet the entire fifty to other
parties at considerable profit.
Mr. Hamby states that he and Mr.
Toomer are getting an average price
of $15 per month for each convict sub¬
let, or a clear profit of $75 per year
on each of the 250, or a profit of $18.-
755.
It is expected that some oi the other
bidders will be subletting before the
time for the contracts begin.
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Stops Sale of Toy Pistols.
The city of Augusta, as a result of
the four deaths from Christmas acci¬
dents to children by the use of toy pis¬
tols, has declared war against the sell¬
ers of the deadly plaything.
The war del cared is in the nature of
an ordinance unanimously passed by
the city council, outlawing the toy and
prohibiting its sale under a very heavy
penalty. In the affixing of tne new or¬
dinance the extreme limit allowed by
law was named, to-wit: A *300 fine,
!90 days on the public works, or both,
in tbe discretion of the recorder.
The ordinance forbids the sale with¬
in the city limits of Augusta of any
toy pistol using gun powder, aynamita
or other similar explosives, whether or
at a projectile Is used. The new or¬
dinance was passed without a di&sent
ig voice.
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Home Officers Retained.
No changes were made in the offi¬
cials of the Georgia Soldiers’ Home
by the board of trustees when the
lannual election occurred in Atlanta the
past week.
W. H. Bell, of the board of trustees,
ras nSmed president of the board; E.
H. Thornton, of the board, was sei
ed again as vice president; Dr. J&hn
H. King was appointed surgeon; Op
tab “Tip” Harrison was re-elected sec¬
retary; Dr. Amps Fox was re-electtH
treasurer; L. C. Slade was reflected
superintendent; Mrs. L. C. Slade was
elected matron, that office having been
re-established; Mrs. John Maddox was
elected stewardess to succeed Mm
Slade.
The office of purchasing agent was
established and the position ~lven to
Dr. Amos Fox, who is to receive $50
per month for penerming the duties
of treasurer and purchasing ag^t.
The salary of Surgeon King was
creased from $18 to $35 per month.
The members of the board of t
tees were well pleased with the eo:
tion of the home, and the excellent
cipline enforced there.
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Freeman Succeeds Atkinson.
Hon. R. W. Freeman, ot Newt
has been appointed judge of tho si
rior court of the Coweta circuit to AiF A
ceed the late Judge Thomas A.
son, who died a few days ago. Jul
rreeman took the oath of office at|
lanta, and is now ready to begin
fr.g court. The first session of the
perlor court under his adminlstra|
will be at LaGrange on the foi|
Monday in this month.
The appointment of Judge Free^
is until the next general election,
he will therefore have to ue elec|
or nominated rather, .v the coi
primary, which will probably be
In May. It is understood that he
be a candidate for re-election.
Judge Freeman is a native of
eta county. Ho is just 45 years of
He Is a graduate of Vanderbilt
versity, and has been practicing
for twenty years. Judge Freeman
represented his county in the legi|
turo on two occasions, and i3 ont
the most popular men in the Cot
circuit.
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Loyless After Book Commissionl
State house officials are very m|
Interested in the publication of an
torial which appeared in The Augij
Chronicle, which had a few tart
rough things to say about the b-l
commission and Its work in adoptf
the school books of the state.
The editorial has been widely
by the state house officers and a ml
ing was held by the book commlss
for the purpose of discussing the
torial. After reading the pubUcai
the commission concluded to take|
notice of the article.
The article intimates that the that! pul
has been hoodwinked, states
torneys who lived in the same tc
as members of the book commlss
and the sub-commission had been
ployed to look after the interestaj
certain book companies. One p^
graph says: “Indeed some of
awards made by the commission
so altogether absurd as to excite
gust.”
Reference is made in the publisf editol
to Norveli’s Graded Classics
by the B. F. Johnson Publishing
of Richmond, and it is stated tl
those books are tar superior to thf
adopted, and were ’cheaper. Thg
graphs. torial closes with the following pl|
"But it may be unnecessary to ]
into detail—the book commissic
awards would seem to speak for th<|
selves. The American Book Comp;:
and Ginn & Co. received practlctj
the whole thing. Books by other p|
Ushers seem to have been barely
sldered—certainly not seriously e|
sldered, if at all.
“And those two concerns were
only book publishing houses that wl
ever charged with having contribul
to the campaign funds of certain st|
house officers—members of the
commission—who had opposition |
the last primary.
“These successful bidders, too,
the only concerns charged with havj
employed ‘attorneys’ living in
closely same town associated with, or with, in some various manij mej
bers of the book commission.
“If these facts are not enough
set the public thinking, what wil
And member The Chronicle of the book cordially commissif invi|
any
or any one else, to call for an inve
gation of the facts herein set forth|
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New Franchise Law Attacked.
A bill that involves the constitute
ality of the franchise tax act, whi
compels the railroads of the state
pay taxes on their franchises, was fi:
in the clerk’s office of the Fade
court at Atlanta a few days ago
the Georgia Railroad a7T3 Bankil
Company against Wiiiiam A. Wrig|
comptroller of the state of Georg
the questions involved arising fr^
the act passed by the general ass
bly in 1902.
Judge Newman has ordered that
comptroller of the state show cap
before him on January 30 why
prayer of the complainants should i|
be granted. In the meantime he
Issued a restraining order temporarl
preventing the state o. Georgia fn
collecting this tax from the Georj
railroad- \the It is said that the case, ir
lost in district court, will oe taken
to the Georgia supreme court by the railroad.
The Charter, railroad claims that, un¬
der its granted in 1833, it is
compelled to pay in taxes only on one
half of o^e Ghat per cent, of its net earn¬
ings, and it is not lorced to pay
other taxds, \ including those on the
franchises.
Comptroller General General Hart Wright not and at At¬ all
torney are
worried overt the suit. They held a
conference oxter the matter and both
expressed thei belief that the state
would win the\case V in all the courts.
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All Roads t\o Use New Depot.
All roads centering in Atlanta will
use the new uniW passenger station,
it This Is said will on excellent gof>d authority.
be news to the peo
of the city aM of the state, as
£•0 has been a general dislike of the
[dea of having to use two or more sta
ions in coming intt^ and going out of
.9 city. This plan has been found to
•k a great inconvenience wherever
;=has been tried and' the tendency in
metropolitan commtiniL'es is to con
trate the passenger, facilities, thus
jng time and trouble to those who
ie use of the railroads in their bus
Jf til . now it has been ' 1 thought that
-
.three or four of the; local roads
1 send their trains If-to t?.“ new
( and that the remainder would
le to run into the old car shed
•epute,
»NEWS Y CLEAN INCS.
lam’s printing bill amounts to
year. '
orange and pineapple crop
at $2,500,000.
kiblic of Panama h^s re¬
ntal rates fifty per cent. denial
|cials that made France a strong intended to
|ie ration Far Eastern situation,
Italy treaty between
is said to be practi
|in terms with the Ansrio
ltion.
Jvaiiia Railroad will
its own sales depart
Isposal of the products
|ned.
figures for eleven
Commerce 1’. of the Uni
will be greater than
|ar. Agrees
to extradition
Juirles juited Knits, St. a for
,iu Louis,
large. latiou v
of New York
liutions |l to discon
vacation schools
[ other lines,
|n |that private are under yards
pgjky-threi? ■’ ■s of completion. months
*tsns Bureau
iut time there
luted ric railway in
by 987
im, \ who was
twenty-two
|ned of his
lay claim
[apart is $4,
Hiieh to
Ikmen in
[Company lof those
is /au- J.
im
axes
bssed
A SERMON Elm SUNDAY
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A BEAUTIFUL DISCOURSE BY THE REV.
DR. C. L, QOOOELL.
Snli.ioft: A Sure Met1>4<l fflf, Doubt—Do
Xot Be Impatient With It, Only Con¬
tinue to Move Toward tin, Light You
Do Sec—Truth xvUl l 1 'rev You.
the Liiooklyn, Hanson Place N. Y.—(Sunday M K Church, morning, in
Dr. ( harles L. Gocdell the llev.
Sure Method With Doubt.” preached on “A
taken from Daniel The text was
heard of thee that thou vc 16, “And J. have
dissolve canst make inter¬
pretations and doubts.” Dr.
Goodeil said: j
If Daniel were to-dav, vrith his
ability to disso.ve doubts woulld unimpaired and
unimpeaehed, of his time. he be the busiest
man And vet ours is no
more an age of, doulit than anv other
winch preceded it. Tpere was infidelity
a hundred years ago ;in our universities
and a flippant skepticism among educat¬
ed hut people it will which always is remain nojw quite outgrown,
generation settle true that every
must its own doubts.
The generation is made up of the indi¬
vidual and the great, quest inns of the soul
are wrought personal questions! They must be
out for the most part bv indi¬
vidual stress and struggle. There are
phasis phases of doubt that receive greater em¬
than others at a. given time. In one
generation a deistic philosophy seems to
triumph fore. The in another agnosticism I is at the
generation now passing has
fought out the great battles of evolution
and we may fairly say I that its theory is
m no way a menace to the Christian faith.
There have been hot bjattleg on the field
of biblical criticism, positions once held
by the two great forces! have been proven
untenable and the orthodox party bv giv¬
ing up what could nob be defended has
made its position stronger than ever be¬
fore. p
The doubts to which I wish to refer and
which I would be glad i:o scatter as spec¬
ters of the night ate nqt so much of the
theoretical as of the practical sort. They
are the kind which make stout men weak,
which paralyse great upward movements
devotion. m society, and cut the .nerve of personal
It is rot strange or unreasonable that
we should have douhtsf We begin life
knowing land of the nothing. unknown We, at/ Journey in the
every step. We
investigate and experiment and question.
Little by little with matfiriul brought from
tbe unknown we build the structure
which we call knowledge, and in doing
this we form a habit which masters us. It
will not let us rest. Life has become a
great interrogation of discovery. poinjt. and We our sail jour¬ into
ney a beckoning voyage bay. Oine is fair har¬
every a
bor and nothing beyond: another a stretch
of sandbar and shoal and we are fortu¬
nate if we are able to putapiinto sea; while
another proves to be the mouth of a
jreat river un, whose tide we go to glor¬
ious discoveries in a detectable country.
The man who thinks pannnt stop his
thinking. Often he is mocked by it and
pitilessly mountain punished, climber, like but Some ‘climb adventurous lie
must
though lie fail in his quesjt.
“That low man seeks a little thing to do,
Sees it and does it; i
This high pursue roan with aj great thing to
Dies ere he knows it.'l
It is no wonder, then, tlhat we are driv¬
en to doubt, for / life is too short to know
all. !
doubts It is not concerji to//be themselves wondered chiefly at that with our
religious truth. In the very nature of
things religious truth is supernatural, it
is not so Itwprinciples much contrary to, as beyond, the our
senses. are not like ax¬
ioms of mathematics. The whole field of
religion scientific is beyond rules; the realm therefore, of the it senses is_
and of to
be wondered at least of all when we find
that in this field speculation and doubt
run riot. considered ,, ,
There is another fact to be
‘ which Our faculty Horace is Bushnell itself in disorder. states admirably: A brok¬
en or bent telescope wrenched will i*°t see anything
rightly. So a mind from its true
likes of action, discolored and smirched
hv evil, will not truly* wl ” a
see )?n everythin*.
misshapen only look } errors and
Truths will be as g oO ( f as
doubts as natural as they have , done .
In view of all this, let doubt. us Doubt
with abusing those who *cdge the
nroperiy and pursued Dr. Pamirs is only kJ K right > w when in he
raw, was result of
said: “Infidelity is the ultimate e$panded knowl¬
checking the desire for
edge.” Let us frankly tell our >'u'! n S P f ’ 8 '
nle that doubt is not a ThrPmdi final , condition the doubt save
to a dishonest mind. the knowledge
of to-day they will come aj to remind them
of to-morrow, and let us tl* 10 truth to-mor¬
that what they hold as
row should have great efP anslve power, light
so that coming proportions days will five of the more truth
and add to the fat thou
“I have heard of thee ssolve doubts, canst
make the interpretations King’s greeting and d t> the Hebrew.
was before the
This same Daniel had stq°u bur¬
King’s father when he, too did ,Tj>s sore
dened with mystery. He not ciaim
for his own unaided wisd om tbe power
to settle doubts, but stoutlf and honestly
owned the source of his power, that revealeth saying:
“There is a God in heaven truthfully that
secrets.” It may be said the solution
the only sure method fofi of
f life’s problems and the dissolving right relations its
loubts is by entering objected into that of
Ivith he Him. doubts If it is of life Relates to one His
great existence the is. Every man
ery answer ethical
conscious of the great nnpera
e. I ought. This relates him to some
at law, and hence to sdme great .aw
er. It p-ould not seem .to be a very
ited prayer, “Oh God, » there be a
II, enlighten my soul, if I have a soul,
yet even a prayer like that, with an
st purpose to follow each faintest ray
ht, would not be unavailing- t ,
the matter matter of dissolving retigious
Is, the 1 ultimate purpe purpose, is everything, by
n ever comes to to tnj the truth being
_____ _____ for specu
} i curious. leads Speculation nowhere. The mind is
lith sake arguments-, it
conflicting is a
gse which has not soibething t chases p.aus- it
ut it. and so the m’ n( from
sophistry to sophistry, darkening coun- con
to controversy, riowhere.i
k>t oroing thing out for hon cs t Rec “ e '' n
an »
I to do is to pledge bimselt to
kc truth ns he find*, d- in P-J. v
jsc with one’s con fictions is the
tecond death. W fab t»
QpiMifcVight, have to refuse |to ovc up 1 1
is
"after us the deluge” when conscious that
nothing the but an unfathomable sea could
cover putrefaction of his life? When
a man has made up his mind to give him¬
self to the sensual and the material, it is
hollow mockery for him to profess a de¬
sire to know the truth. The truth abides
with no man who will not use it. and. ou
the other hand, if he be. like Romanes,
pure of heart and purpose, he will think
nil way out of the darkness into the full
light dying of revealed religion and pillow his
head upon a certain faith. Know¬
ing the proud life of Shelly we would expect him
to be to write himself down “an
atheist;” knowing the life of Wordsworth,
we would expect the. epitaph in Grass
uere Church to read as it does. “To the
memory of William Wordsworth, a true
gift philosopher and poet, who, by a special
and calling of Almighty God. whether
he discoursed on man or nature, failed not
to lift up the heart to hoiy things, tired
not of maintaining the cause of the poor
and simple and so in perilous times was
raised up- to the chief minister, not only
of nohlest poesy, but of high and sacred
truth.”
Before you seek any further for the dis¬
estly solving the of your doubts, ask 1 yourself hon¬
question: “Am unalterably
given obey the over voice to right within doing? Am 1 ready to
Socrates obeyed his me daemon,' as steadfastly
as even
though bring bitter it should losses?” cross my purposes and
It will be easy to believe in immortality
when W3 try to live a life that is good
enough doubt to last forever. We shall not
the fatherhood of God when we
give ourselves to the practice of the broth¬
erhood of man.
Our doubts trouble us and thereby prove
that‘doubt is not a state of equilibrium
we must move on toward the light. Ac tin}
is the nanacea for'doubt, if anv man w ‘
do God’s will he shall know His doctriif
Do you doubt the power of prayer? ' ”
whom do you think the reality of '” a L
matter is revealed? Certain!" not the , ’ ,ar }
■who you can never in the prays. attitude Put of yourself mjfint art- * ,R '
ten. You will then be able prayer know yheth
to ‘bo
er God talks back. You have sat n
pew for years and you have heard g/rmons
without of the Christian number on faith. the great To fr.ndu*’® M them 1 ',-*! 8
some et
you hare given intellectual assent am » y
you find yourself in doubt and -beertain
ty. Why is it thus with .you? ‘Ewe can
be but one answer. You he' e thrown
yourself in holy surrender at “'’“Ter or
t' e truth you have known. If coat* some¬
thing to do that. I pitv the r‘ an 'vho had
no Bethel in his life; no p)“e -"here he
will” has faced to the God divine and dutv "you f ol n< i! *, ■ ,l, „ au I
had his Damascus. Luther JW i Erfurt. ,' Les¬
ley his Aldersgate, and F»nnell, A. . enur¬ There
ing is to the lodged students in of the YoTp., Jittie sal bedroom of
a story these -''hirii J God
o-e of dormitories note, allowing nr
His recoding angel m?y p
never to be lost.” .... 1 lth , , ,
Do not be impaticr "' >\°W toward
only the ligh. be sure that vo“ Not moving what we
you do sef- not arc,
but what we are fegiom ng; and wneve whither we
stand, but whence we come
we go—these are -be concerned. great things about
which we should V'e of faith be
The fruit of t’ ie and fc then valueless. may
plucked ton soor to ' » the best ot
It takes a products full season and ripen there
nature’s r.re some
things in faith which only years and frost
and storm wil' bnng to maturity,
Tt has been said that one of the greatest
talents in rekgious discovery Options is without ^ t he find* be
in* how to about ll P them. Look at them
ing anxiouf lPn they hang and by and by,
now and t) turn a * of thought,
when will vou delighted some and corner astonished to
vou 1,e sea
how quietly ! t and in. easily I know they open great their teach¬ se¬
cret and jnathematics fi you who always a kept
er oi some
hard problems by him. He would work
on p ne awhile and put it back in his
pocket still incomplete. After weeks or
months the problem would be solved and
another take its place in his thought.
There are many who say with easy assur
a pce: “Lord, I believe,” but they doubts. have
never thought enough to have any
They have no sympathy with those who
die for a man or a cause. They could be¬
lieve anything that seemed to be necessary
:-.r a good position in society and a com¬
fortable income. The man who is honest
must adjourn some of his questions and
not be impatient. I expect to carry some
of my questions with me into that larger
life toward which all men move, but I hat
fact does not trouble me. Some things A
have settled and others can wait until the
day when all mystery shall be made clear.
One of my parishioners lesson. some She years lady ago
taught culture me and a great refinement. She was had a been
of school for
at the head of a great failed her manv and
years. Her eyesight at last
she became totally blind. I saw her at tne
close of a service feeling her way up the
aisle from pew to pew, that she might
shake hands with me. The thought of her
great suffering and loss finally deep over¬
whelmed me and I said with emotion
as I clasped her hand: "It will why be God light has up
yonder and vou will know
permitted this great affliction to enter
your life." She lifted a said^‘’If face transfigured
by ineffable peace and a*n^so
happy as to get to heaven, I shall let by¬
gones be bygones and shali not trouble the
Lord for any explanations.” If one has a
spirit like that, whatever doubts he las
can wait. that there , , but ,
Remember finally absolutely are to a
few things that are necessary have
Christian faith. Be sure that you
them whatever the price demanded may
be. Do not try to make a bargain for a
safe and pleasant course. That is an aw¬
ful mocking of the truth. But assured having set¬
tled the great problems, be tnat
vou need not be greatly troubled ao-jut the
lesser ones. Men have set up standards
which God never ordained.
We have multiplied dogmas and doc¬
trines to the confusion of the nund and L
fear to the loss of the soul. Worse tn.iu
all men have forgotten that right living J.bey is
more important than right views. rid : the,r
have burned heretics banished to get good ot be¬
heresy, and have Have men
cause they disagreed with them. pa
tiencc with other men that they may have
patience with you. Ift your hie recom¬
mend vour creed. Right opinions will
avail us no more than they avail the devil
and his angels unless we hold them in ‘.tie
golden chalice of a pure and honest file.
The great truths of life are not simp.v which in¬
tellectual truths and tbe method chiefly by intel.ect
they are* revealed are not
ua! With the heart man beueveth umo
rl f^oubt Sl 'vhich God is bring in moral the truth. earnest is a
eervant of to the ij .
preceded ail 1 great r efgrntj^ .in
ual and in? “
