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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-02-27
AN OVERSHADOWED PULPIT

century, be accepted Cand what man
who believes in christianity at all will
deny them acceptance2) we can not
overshadow the pulpit in our day with
out whitening christianity among US.
1t is no accident that the great preach
ing nations of modern times have the
purest and most potential faith to be
found anywhere on the earth today, and
that they exert a power over all the
other nations beyond that of all the
nationalities in which preaching has
never been or out of which it has per-
ished Music is a divine art, and 1t
has it's place in Christian worship; but
it's place is subordinate to that of
preaching. 1t is no where said in the
Scriptures that it hath pleased God by
music to save the world. Choir-masters
may be useful men, very useful men;
but they are not called men in the sense
in which preachers are called men. Very
many carnally minded people, who hav-
ing spent the week in a round of di-
versions and entertainments and desir-
ing the Sunday service at the church to
entertain them rather than save them,
may prefer choir products to preach
ing; but the churches can not submit
to the dictation of such people without
dishonouring God and defeating the
purposes of the gospel. In ancient Is
rael there were people of this sort who
desired to use a prophet as an enter
tainer. Concerning them God said to
the prophet Ezekiel. 10 thou art unto
them as very lovely song of one that
hath a pleasant voice, and can play we'll
on an instrument: for they hear thy
words, but they do them not. Ezekiel
xxxiii:32). These people, turning
prophets into entertainers. ruined the
Hebrew nation; and such people, when
allowed to dictate plans in which the
pulpit is overshadowed, will ruin mod
ern churches. Their actual wealth and
pretended culture in no wise qualify
them for passing on religious questions
and determining church policies
1t is a pity that there are any preach
ers in the land who are willing to
have their prophetic function suppress
ed in order to make room for an orches-
trail performance in the house of God
But alas! we have such pseudo-prophets
among us! They have consented to be-
come the hired men of certain churches
and have contracted to run the pulpit as
they are hidden to run it by their mas
ters in the pews. Therefore, they are
prepared to yield to the demand to
supply sermonic interludes for the
purpose of lending variety to a Sun
day musicale. No positive and poten-
tial gospel can he reasonably expected
of men who thus supinely surrender
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-02-27
UNMASKED

There is 90 occasion for surprise in Mr.. Roose-
velt's belated announcement, rather admission
that he is a candidate for third-term nomination
He has merely dropped the fimsy masA behind which
his real motive and purpose were long ago discern
ible He has simply brought into the open the po-
.lftical foray he has been waging from ambush
tits far from certain even probable that ne VIII
win the Republican nomination. 1t is emphatically
improbable that he would be elected. If he should
enter the presidential race. Unless the American
people are willing to sacrifice one of the highest
traditions and bulwarKs of their government they
would overwhelmingly repudiate the autocratic pol
icies for which Theodore Roosevelt stands In NO
vember 1904, he declared:
On the 18th of March merit shall hare served
three and half years. aud this three and hdB
wears constitute nly first term. The tCise custom
,rhich limits the President to ttco terms regards
the substance and not the form. AND UNDER
NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL BE A CANDE
DATE FOR OR ACCEPT ANOTHER NOAINA
TION.
On December IL, 1907, he said again:
hare not changed aud shall &ot change that
decision thus announced.
He has now fatty broken his own promise The
country will sca-cely entrust its interests and its
freedom to Roosevets ambition 1t is not yet ready
TO exchange a government Of laws for government
By a man or to fling away the security that lies in
fi.C- no tn4rd-terni precedent
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-02-27
SAVANNAHS GREAT RECORD

All Georgia shares Savannab's exuberance over
the fact that its cotton receipts for the have
reached and even lowered above the record of two
million bales That is attainment of farreaching
significance to the entire commonwealth.
This thriving Georgia port has thus out-stripped
New Orleans and is pressing Galveston for the
guard Two million bales of cotton represent a
commercial value of hundred million dol
lars. An ingenious arithmetician has calculated
that if they were placed side by side they would
stretch from Savannah to New York; that they re-
quired one hundred and thirty thousand freight
to transport them to the wharves, and four hundred
foreign steamships to bear them abroad.
What do these figures signify? The Savannah
Press makes this interesting answer;
Georgia is Just beginning to realize the opportu-
nifty she possesses in her frontage upon the Atlantic
The Savannah record emphasizes this natural ad-
vantage anew The ports at Savannah and Bruins
wick should quicken and facilitate the of
the entire state They should be continually de-
veloped, and the people Of the entire commonwealth
should enjoy their rghtful share in the advantages
offered.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-02-27
DOESN'T KNOW THAT
SHE CAN TALK

Solitary confinement in an isolated room IS
the latest means by which physicians at the
city hospital are trying to restore tine power
of intoned speech to 17-year-old Ada Deeker
s'the whispering girl She is permitted TO
sec no one but physicians and nurses, ana they
visit her room infrequently.
Miss Deckers affliction, the physicians say
Is purely physchic and the object in sending
Der TO a solitary room was to remove her from
the profuse but misdirected sympathy ex-
pressed by other patients in the open wards
Until she was isolated she constantly heard
such remarks as Poor girl! She has lost her
voice. She is dumb" The effect of this,
SAYS DIR. A. H. Sewing resident physician, was
TO Impress more firmly on her mind the delu-
sion that her vocal organs had lost their power
for good.
1t is hoped by her medical attendants that
Miss Decker finally will decide that 1t is bet
ter to talk than to sit all day in the lonely
room with 10 companions but books and news
papers.
For more than three weeks Miss Decker has
been unable to speak except in harsh or low
and monOtonous shril as ''aphonia hysteria,"
has attracted the attention Of the entire hospi-
tai staff. Careful examination by a specialist
proved that her throat and vocal organs are
not affected in any way, but all methods yet
employed to dspell the hysteria have been
of no avail.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-02-27

their prophetic office. and take their
place as entertainers of voluptuous
sinners who-are jaded by folly and in
their state of ennui langJ idly call for
pulpit piper to relieve Sunday life OF
its tediousness.
Some laymen have reached the point
of believing that they not only have
a right to thus place the preacher in an
overshadowed and degraded position,
but that they themselves are quite
competent to intrude without a call
into the ministerial office and show
Gods prophets how to proclaim the
message which they are sent to deliver.
Some churches are afflicted with the
easy egotism of a conceited CONNER
cialism which approaches the preacher
with that cocksure confidence which be-
gins all it has to say by the preliminary
observation, 81 speak as a hard-headed
business man" Often it is a hard
heart and not hard head, from which
the utterance then pours forth. To
doctor or a lawyer, business man
who should undertake to discuss medi-
cal science or legal principles in such
an arrogant manner would appear to
have a very soft head. To a sensible
preacher he appears not less silly. The
commercial world is the last world we
would expect to have special qualifca-
lions for passing on the supremely un-
commercial thing we name the gospel
and the utterly monumental calling of
the prophet. God save that church
which it is directed by the arts Of the
market-place and the counting rooml
1t is time that all men knew that
God reserves to Himself the calling and
the control of his prophets. Men may
not intrude themselves into the prophet
ic Office without the divine commission
and the heavenly amounting.
The press is a great power, but 1T can
not take the place of the preacher. 1t
belongs to an order of things on
plane distinctly lower and manifestly
mundane. The case can not bs put bet
ter than il has been set forth recently
in a noble treatise upon the office OF
the preacher. The distinguished author
says, THE press is here for informa-
ton, or for suggestion at most. it is
not here for authority; but the pulpit
is here for authority, and the news it
brings is for the sake of the authority.
The press may offer an opinion as to
how the public should act; but the pull
pit comes with a &c as to Whom
the acting public must obey and trust.
The press is an adviser, but the pulpit
is a prophet; the press may have
thought, the pulpit must have a gospel.
nay a command. If / may use press
language. the pulpit's news iS there for
the sake of the leader, the leader is
not a mere opinion about the news"
1t is the vision of the prophet-the
vision of the Eternal God-that saves a
nation. Speaking of this heavenly light,
King Solomon said, Where there is no
vision, the people perish. proverbs
XXiX.1S).
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-02-27
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-02-27
What Scientific Farming Did

henneDeC JOuIIaI.
A notable two years is the record Of the
Maine state fruit farm at Monmouth purchased
in 1909 Not larger than 1Oyear-Old trees were
those the farm at the time of purchase.
though set in 1885 and 1856. Stunted by neg
lect, they yielded in 1900 crop Of only 80
barrels. Work of spraying blowing and thor.
Ough cultivation. was the rule rigidly enforced.
from July Of that year. In 1910 the crop was
500 barrels, and in 1911 the total reached
was 2,460 barrels. Here is a. remarkable story
OF progress. yet IL is only the fact. IL shows
what might be obtained in thousands of or
ehards IL the trees we're but looked after as
they should be.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-02-27

Investigations by the government ex-
tending over a period of more than two
years, relative to the dates of sowing
and harvesting the principal crops of all
countries, are of unusual value and III
terest. .t %
The illustration given shows those
sections of the United States wherein,
according to this investigation, corn
planting begins simult aneously. -zf
Corn planting is first observed on the
chart about February 10 Of normal
years, the first planting taking place in
southern Florida and Texas; Is days lat
er corn planting is observed in northern
Florida, southern Louisiana and central
Texas, and by May Is the movement has
progressed as far north as southern
Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont,
central New York. northern Wisconsin.
Minnesota and North Dafiota.
The curves in the lines of the chart
are a significant feature. They indicate
the result of influences exerted upon
planting by topography, soil conditions,
rainfall and latitudel ( Sometimes one
set of influences prevails, sometimes an
other. Again several combined influ-
ences may be counterbs .anced, as lt
were by one controlling Influence. For
instance, the lines in western Kansas
and Nebraska bend slightly northward,
instead of abruptly southwark, as would
be expected in view of their greater al
titude. The counterbaIancing influence
in this case is believed to be the charac-
ter of the soil whichr, in the western
norton of these states, is sandy ana
therefore readily dries out and quickly
warns up in spring. The influence OF
the Great Lakes is shown in the sinu-
Gus line bearing date May Is.
The air temperature at which corn
planting begins in actual practice has
not heretofore been established, nut
from data assembled in the study OF ce-
real crops it is believed to be approxi-
mately SIS degrees F., except in certain
localities, where the mean daily norman
temneratiIre does not fall so low as IS
degrees T.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-02-27
FARM FACTS

A New York horse dealer came to
Virginia 2O-odd years ago and bought
farm for the purpose of raising colts
in addition to small Warming. His
method of handling colts is worthy of
imitation @e .F
At SO hours of age the colts were
battered and left in the stalls--one to
a stall, of course, as their dams slept
there at night
Very soon the colts were perfectly
halter-broken dong before they were
weaned) and in being halter-broken
they were taught one of the most i'm
portant things in horse-breaking.
namely, to stand tied when hitched.
This one quality is, about half of
the education of a horse, and without
it no horse is properly broken.
When old enough to eat solid food.
they were fed each day, and later on
turned out to pasture; but still were
given some extra feed and their moth
er's milk until ready to wean, when
they were put out in good grazing
field.
The dams were we'll fed, and regular
ly worked at least IL months out of
the IL, if the weather permitted. They
kept in good working order, did good
work all the year round, and four out
of five raised a thrifty colt.
Never let a colt grow to any age
and size without halter-breaking him.
Hundreds of valuable young horses
are much injured in disposition by
letting them run until they are from
two to three years of age, and then
for the first time cornered in stall
by several farm hands, which may be
frolic to the latter, but quite the
contrary to the former.
A wild, green colt is as strong as
a bull when thus cornered; a man
tries to throw a moose over the ter
rified animals head, he misses, the
colt springs to the far side of the stall,
rears, and attempts to break over
the partition; back he is forced by
fellow with the handle of a pitch
fork or some other equally service
Aable weapon.
Again they try the moose, and this
time successfully The sweating plung-
ing young animal is now drawn up to
the partition by three HUSKY farm la
borers, a bride is placed on his head.
the doors are opened, and with a bound
the colt plunges out
Men are hanging to the end of the
long rope, an end of which is run
through the rings of the bit.
The colt reaches the end of his
tether with a jerk which nearly dis
locates his jaw; he is brought sud
denly to a stop, when one of the men
walks up to him.
The colt backs, the three fellows
at the end of the rope jerk and swing
on it until the colt comes to a stand
still, with eyes staringg and the sweat
running out of every pore.
Now he is forced to move. Away
he springs, to be Jerked back sudden
ly. In the course of an hour the men
and the victim are equally worn out,
and the colt, having received his first
lesson, is put back in the stable with
to be left this way until another day,
the bride on and the rope dragging,
when the same idiOtic performance
will be repeated. ". ~
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-12-31

workers, all Ianl1aI WITH pSy-
chology of violence, all anxious
to get at the truth of the killing,
Mrs. Leland Norton, superin-
tendent of the Legal Aid society,
whose daily life is handling Grim
inalS and delinquents, asked keen,
incisive questions, seeking mo
tives. Martins shoulders witch
ed, but he replied unhesitatingly.
EYES," he replied, Il shot him
because he was mean to my moth
er. He's always been mean to
her. No'me, he didn't beat her
very often, but he cursed her and
knocked her about. He, was al
ways tellin' her he. was the boss
there and ordering her TO keep her
d. mouth shut. +"
What startedathese rows" I
asked, "Why did he curse your
mother?" -
The boy shuffled his feet and
shock his head as if some inner
memory reused all the rage in
him.
well" he said, slowly, at last,
every time she, told any of us
boys to do anything he would tell
us to do something else. Y
who did you obey?" question
ed Mrs. Norton.
"Her," said the lad; he didn't
have no right to tell us not to
mind her. He didn't have no
business to call her a fool and
knock her about. I told him not
to hit her"
Did you tell him that the
morning you killed herr" I in
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-12-31
spoke to us less'n it was to say
something mean or call US down.
He tried to boss everybody

dety AA4OAAffttAl = - -
Vited.f
Gle came home Wednesday
night and tried to make, me bring
IN a lot of wood late at night. She
told him it was so late and said
wouldn't he wait until morning.
He said yes, and she told me.
The next morning he got to
thinking and he thought because
She didn't want me to bring in
the wood late at night she was
meddling. He come in and just
begun to curse her. Said he
wanted her to keep her d
mouth shut, and he was the boss
there and not her. He took her
by the arm and hurt her, and I
told him to quit. He cursed me
and doubled up his fist and hit
her on the breast-here-and she
fell over. If I'd been big I'd
have given him a good beating,
cause it made me awful sore.
'.Did he ever speak kindly to
you in your life?" asked Mrs.
Norton. Never petted you even
when you were little?" The
child's body jerked cohytdsively,
and he said in a low voice:
Nome, never. Never spoke to
me in my life except to order me
about"
And you mother?" I asked.
''You love herr"
ooh, yes" said the boy. "She
was good to us; she tried to keep
him from being mean-and just
got cursed and knocked. He had
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-23
ARREST OF 10.YEAR-olO MISS
RESULTS IN RETENTION OF
TRAVELLING MAN.
SAYS SHE WAS ENTIcEo
FROM INDIANA SCHOOL
Promised Fine Clothes, Trip to Pa
eific Coast and Beautiful Homo in
Portland, ors.-Fsdsral Officials No.
tilted and Case Will Be investigated
-othsr lows News.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican
Des Moines, Aug. 23.-United States
Marshal Frank Bidwell today took a
hand In the case Of Pearl Finley, 10
year-old boarding school miss, whom
the police have arrested on charge Of
vagrancy and whose arrest and sub
sequent story told to Police Judge Ut
terback has resulted in the arrest OF
E. N. Gardner. travelling man Of
Jackson. Mich. Pearl Is a graduate
of the Monette school, Remsler, Ind,
and here Is a pitful account Of being
enticed from Kalamazoo, Mich, by
Gardner with the promise Of fine
clothes, a trip thru the west which was
to end at Denver with a round Of fine
things and an ultimate journey to
Portland, Ore. where a beautiful home
and more fine clothes awaited.
Gardner. according to her story, was
photographer in Kalamazoo who had
opened temporary studio at the time
she met him. She liked him and he
did many nice things for her. bought
her presents during their four months
acquaintance and finally suggested
clipping with him to the west.
Police Chief Jenney has notified the
government officials at Chicago, also.
and believes serious charges will be
filed against Gardner within a few
days.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-23
STATE oRouNps IN Better CON.
pirIoN AND EQUIPMENT MORE
ELABORATE THAN EVER.
HOGS ON EXHIBITION
GIVEN SERUM TREATMENT
Congress Prevents Carrying Out Of
Plans for Pathological Exhibit-cen.
esssienariss Notified That Premises
Must Be Kept clsan-ldnians Fail
to Observe Sanitary Rules.
pecial to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. Aug. 23.-The pure food
propaganda. the fly swatting cam
paign and the rigid sanitary rules all
ran amuck in that corner Of the state
fair grounds where the Irwin Broth
ers camped with their band of Sioux
Indians. None Of the inspectors un-
dertook to tell the fat sQuaws that
they are running great danger to their
health by curing their meat in the open
air hung up on the barb wire fences.
Not one of the men had the appearance
of suffering because Of too numerous
flies in the soup. In fact the band Of
Indians which have come from Wyom-
ing are the finest specimens of Indian
physique that have ever been seen here
and they are good riders.
It is true, however. that never be-
fore have such excellent sanitary ar
rangements been made for a state fair
as this year for Iowa. The state has
spent quite sum of money in provid-
ing the best sanitary equipment and
nothing better could be provided until
a complete sewer system is installed.
a leading firm Of gardeners has con-
tracted to haul off the refuse from the
barns every day. because they want 1t
on their farms. and therefore take the
contract cheap. The barns and sheds
are kept clean and wholesome. Every
place where livestock Is kept is treated
with a disinfectant every day.
Treatment Serum for Swine.
A new feature this year is that Of
having the swine brought here for ex-
hibition purposes. and especially that
which goes elsewhere to fairs. treated
with the cholera serum SO as to render
the animals immune from contagion.
This is done by the United States de-
partment of agriculture.
Congress did one thing, however.
which cut into the plans Of the state
fair to a slight extent. All arrange
ments had been made for fine patho-
logical exhibit which has been prepared
by the bureau of animal industry as
purely educational matter: but con-
gress inserted into the last approprt-
alton bill for the agricultural depart
ment that no part Of the money could
be used for the expense Of making any
exhibit at fair or any other place
where large numbers Of people congre-
gate. So 1t could not be given. Wher-,
ever shown it has proved Of great In
terest to the people.
The state pure food department has
been busy notifying the concession
Aries that they must maintain every
thing at the state fair in fine condition
and vend only good stuff.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-23
AFTER PHONE COMPANY NEXT.
Des Moinss to Take Action to Compel
Purchase Of Franchise.

Des Moinss to Take Action to Compel
Purchase Of Franchise.
Special to Times-Republican.
Des Moines, Aug. 2S.-With the win
ming Of the famous 90-cent gas case
before Federal Judge Smith McPher-
son this week the city officials of Des
Moines are now going after the tele-
phone company here in the matter of
its franchise. Mayor Hanna recently
made a report to the city council In
which he called attention to the fact
that the Iowa Telephone Company is
operating thruout the entire city with
out any right from the city council for
such operation and with nothing in
the way of franchise to show.
Today c. E. Hall. Of Omaha, Neb..
superintendent of the Iowa
Telephone Company, held an extended
conference with the mayor and dis
cussed his report thoroughly. Mr.. Hall
refused to commit himself on the mat
ter of a franchise. saying that 1t was
in the hands Of their Des Moines rep
He gave figures to the
mayor showing that Des Moines has
$4,000 calls per day and that it ranks
first of prominent cities of its size In
the middle west for the amount Of
telephone business.
It is Mayor Hahna's move in the
franchise fight which has been started
and he will begin it this week with
letter to the company demanding what
right they have to operate upon Des
Moines streets.