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W-HW4+++H+4+++++++l+f 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. * * ~ 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. * * * 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. * * * 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 ■* » * 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. * * » 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. » * * 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. • * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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| * » * 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. * * 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 t 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? “