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You can live in California.: You do not have to be a millionaire to enjoy Cali fornia. For three or four thousand dollars you can buy an 8-room cottage, covered with roses, and a few acres of ground filled with all manner of trees and flowers. Here you can live in lux ury and ease — as a man should when his days of activity are over. Why not run out there this winter and look things over? In a couple of months you will know whether or not you will wish to remain indefinitely. The trip to California is easily and quickly made in the through trains of the Rock Island System. Two routes — via El Faso and via Colorado. Information on request. J N. Cornatza*. General Agent, Passenger Dept., £ Peabody Hotel, Memphis, Tenn. LawaBaasasaB _ IRRELIGION IN FLATS IS A PAINFUL REALITY From Collier's Weekly. "Irreligion in Flats" is but one of the many warnings that have recently shown both press and clergy to be fully aroused against the apartment-house in our large cities as a menace to society. "Flat dwellers," says one divine, “are an in cubus,” and he hastily adds that he means any kind of flat-dweller. They are nomads and plant no trees. They keep their home feelings In a storage warehouse. Such sentimental associa tions as they have are ripped up on May 1 along with the carpets. They can no more take root than a pot of geraniums on the fire-escape, and from the six teenth floor of the "Pocahontas" they roam to the sixth of the "Vallombrosa" without a pang. Where is home? It Is — USE •— Sill HUSK MONEY ORDERS tor all your Small Remittances, by mail or I otherwise. Bold on all points in the United States, Canada, and on Havana, Cuba. CHEAP AND CONVENIENT. NO APPLICATION REQUIRED. A receipt is given and money will be re funded if order is lost. Sold at all agencies of the Southern Ex press Company at all reasonable hours. RATES ARE AS FOLLOWS I CINT, CtHTI Not over # 8.60... 8 Not over *108. 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Any on# contemplating a change of home can find no location more attractive nor mora conducive to prosperity than is to be found on the Hut of these roads. •‘THE HEART OF THE SOUTH” tbaautifully illustrated book giving detailed information as to the industries and attrao* tions along these lines, can be had upon cuv plication to the undersigned, who will tolMjj pleasure in giving all desired information,/ J. P. BILLUPS. Jr.. R K. LUTZ. Gen. Pass. Agent. Traffic Mgr., Atlanta. Oa. Montgomery. Ala. ~ TAKE " WUl 60(06 *0 Tnu IM (ha Want Wrl»o C. H. Morjun. iravenns naaisa gex mgent, Blrmlnaham. An., (or full in formation as to rates, schedules, eta B F, TURNER, U. F. A., Dalla* l'va. bumping along in five vanloads convoyed by a band of brigands who are wrench ing off its legs. Family ties cannot hold out against it. "The apartment peril,” says another clergyman, “is the deadliest we have to face.” Nothing gives them any com fort. The home may be doomed, but why should they not have noticed it until the last two months? Tom Moore noticed it in 1810. Charles Dickens found us a nation of boarders, so he said, with no more home-life than would go In a hat box. And fifty years ago a distinguished foreign visitor who turned up on May day in an American city found every house gutted and all its domestic vitals in the streets. The home-life has al ways been doomed, and doomed worse the further back you go. In 1850, coffin nails were the only kind that would hold down the family; yet here we are. many of us feeling just as virtuous as if we kept a cow. No moss ever gathers on the old dumb-waiter or ivy on the crum bling janitor, and no man when he leaves it ever feels flat-sick for the sight of it again; but it is not because he Is stingy that he has no home. If the clergy would endow him instead of re buking him. he would sin no more. Mean while, If he must stay on in the flat, why not tell him that he can be good there? EQUITY OF WAGES PREACHER’S THEME Continued from Fifth Page) one else. He Is the first partaker of the fruits. Is Suicidal. A wnr on the concern in which he works is suicidal. A strike Is only to stop the raisnn d’etre of his pay. It hurts him more than others, but It hurts everybody. They say it is war. Yes. but war on himself. If any will not work neither shall he eat is a prin clpie of equity because every man must get his food out of bis own productive capacity. If you ruin your vineyard you destroy its fruit of which you are the first par taker. But it is answered that this Is true, but suppose the employer will not do right In giving a just wage, how can the laborer defend himself against In justice? This Is entirely another ques tion and certainly is not to he answered by doing yourself damage tenfold to In jure him twofold to make men do right, and equity belongs not to the injured but to society as organized to the body politic. “Beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place to warth for ven genance is mine. I will repay, saith the Lord.” And agalh, “the powers that be are ordained for this very thing to be an avenger of wrath unto him that doeth evil.” Pardon me, therefore, if I ven ture to suggest that the remedy for in equity In wages lies in its regulation by law and In the courts. Nor is it perti nent to reply that at present we have no rode for the regulation of courts in this matter nor provision for the in voking of such a tribunal. That is true, hut remember that the time was when we had no code for the redress of any wrong or trespass. Code of Equity. Human society has always evolved a code of equity for the preservation of human rights when it has persistently and potlently sought that end. The remedy lies in the perfecting of the law to cover the case, and the time has come for labor to help society to bring the law and statutes up to the demands of equitable dealing in this matter. It is but fair to say that organized labor has already done much good work In this pressing public duty and deserves the sympathy and help of society in completing the operation of law to re dress wrongs against the equity of wages. The redress of wrong is a public duty that devolves on us all alike. It is the sacred duty and function of the civil powder which public sentiment will ulti mately make effective through the legis lative bodies and the courts, and the quicker the better for society. Crude Method. Already the resort to arbitration is but | a crude method of appeal to a court where the conscience of the arbitrators I as applied to the case is the law. I ! say this is a crude and feeble method of judicial procedure. We need to go further until we develop a code and for j mulate law' and discover the prlciples of equity necessary to the adjudication I of this kind of rights in the authorized courts of the country. Now the apostle confesses here that he is speaking after the manner of men. but the Scriptures of Moses says also the same w’hen it tells us in the law “Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that freadeth out the corn.” Work merits food, is a principle of the law of wages as old as Most s. It is the reward that is held out to thv ploughman ami the harvester which gives the sstlmulant of hope to his efforts. Without equity In wages the industrial society would be a hopeless, cheerless, heartless thing it is in China or India today and human life not worth the living. 3. The apostle then applies these prin » iples of tlie equity of wages to religious service as represented by himself. Barna bas and other apostles and religious ser vants. “If others possess this right over you do not we yet more.” Tt applies a por tiore—“yet more.” Your duty to meet your debts for spir itual service is transcendent among the equities of life. Church Dues. To pay your church dues is the highest obligation of an honest man. To pro vide for efficient spiritual service with LITTLE CHIP AND MARY MARBLE. The popular favorites who are at the head of the Bijou Musical Comedy Company at the Bijou all this weeK. carnal tilings is a debt taking precedence over every other debt. I would that you could hear that. You would see that you did not subject the equities for spiritual service to those oi - realm. Your first duty as a man is to serve and be served in your spiritual nature in your relations to God, before you provide a palace for yourself or a stable for your steeds. Your first duty is to pay your spiritual debts for efficient spiritual ser vice. Last week I stubled upon two things that seem to me both false and foolish. Men refused to come to the help 'of their church on the ground that it might injure their credit in business, and hence they considered it their duty to withhold lending their credit to the church to further it for spiritual service in order to he the better equipped for carnal debts, giving carnal precedence over spir itual. "If others possess this right over you do not we yet more." Again I was told that if a bank saw a man’s name on the note of his church it became suspicious of his credit. So even the banks consider a man who would do his duty in a financial way to his church as impairing his business standing. It would seem that a man who feels his pecuniary old’eation for spiritual ser vice would he bu \ the more likely to be true in his business debts. You had better be skeptical of the man who does not be true to his church dues. Tf these rights which are "yet more" binding on him are with impunity thrust aside those of lesser sacrcdncss will be the more liktdy neglected. An Appeal. I make therefore this appeal for the putting of the business incident to spir itual service as transcendent among our I debts and taking precedence over the 1 secular obligations of life. You never can pay a quid pro quo for them. You j always get more than value received for the money you pay for spiritual service. The service possesses yet more right over you than any business trade or wage. The community that supports well its churches is, other things being equal, most likely to be equitable in its busl- j ness engagements. Now, brethren, if it ■ he true our first duty is to put the busi ness matters of our church on such a plain of equity that it will be an exam ple for square dealing in the community and an example in the gospel of equity, it Is more important to attend your ex ecutive board meeting than that of the directorate of your hank or business con- i cern. 1 have talked plainly on this mat ter been use I believe it an evil in every church, but one specially aggravated in those of this city. T hope to live to see such a condition that church debts shall take first rank among gilt-edge claims. It is even now time that churches are the only corpora tions who always pay nil they owe. T never heard of a church that did not ultimately pay its honest debts, but. alas! they arc some times greatly delayed in that good work and the remedy for this defect lies In better business methods In their pecuniary affairs. T. R. COUDERT DEAD. Well Known New Yor * Lawyer Dies In Washington. Washington, December 20.—Frederick R. Coudert, the well-known lawyer of New York city, died here today from an affection of the heart, with which ho had suffered for several years. He was 71 years of age. Mr. Coudert, with his wife and an un married daughter, was spending the win ter in Washington. The other surviving relatives are Mrs. Frederick Benedict of New York, a widowed daughter, and Mrs. Colonel J. Bellinger, a married daughter. Frederick R. Coudert Jr., a son, is ex pected from the south tonight. Funeral services will be held in St. Patrick's cathedral in New Y'ork city, Tuesday morning next. Captain Walker Sells. Tuscaloosa, December 20.—(Special.)— Captain H. P. Walker, one of Tusca loosa’s most prominent and oldest mer chants. sold his business out yesterday to Messrs. W. H. Hargrove and B. M. Phifer. Captain Walker served the full time during the civil war in the capacity of captain. After the war he returned to his native town and since that time has been actively engaged in the grocery I business. Three Departments Idle. i Joliet, 111.. December 20.—The three main departments of the Illinois Sleel I company here are now idle, the converter and billet mills having been ordered to close tomorrow. The rolling mills closed several days ago. About 1500 men are affected. Chang Yi Degraded. Tien Tsin, December 20.— Chang YI. di rector of the Northern railway, has been degraded and stripped "f all ranks. To restore vig or to the sys tem. promote sound sleep and assist digestion you should take a dose of the Bitters before earh meal. 1* will cure Sick Headache Nervousness, Indigestion, Constipation, Dyspepsia anc Kidney Troubles. Be sure to try it | The Presidents’ Messages :■ &2*ra8«*8i8i?;.*.<:»V’.',.%V*i8.*.%?*Sii8*S.8'i8S8S8888SSS28S828S8S8.»S8388i?S82;*8S8S888!S88SSS8S»S8 Mr. Roosevelt is the first President who has been accused of plagiarism in the j preparation of his message to congress. I In that part of the document bearing on the question of extradition for bribery, the deadly parallel columns, as they are called, show a very strong resemblance in thought and expression between what the President has written and some speeches, or newspaper interviews, print ed some months ago of District Attorney Folk of St Louis. The only notice the President has taken of the charge Is to authorize a statement that he wrote the message without assistance from any one, and that, of course, he is responsible for it. The President, it will be recalled, was so Interested in the efforts of Mr. Folk to procure the extraditions of some of the St. Louis boodlers who hud lied to Mexi co, that he requested him to visit Wash ington for a conference on the subject, which finally resulted in an amendment of the extradition treaty with our sister republic. It is very probable that when that conference took place, Mr. P'olk lett with the President some memoranda bear ing on the question and that the sub stance of them was given a place in the message. But, however, it may be, the charge is absurd. The President’s literary reputa tion is too well established and rests on too sure a foundation to be weakened by an attack^of this character. No one will dispute the fact that he has no need to borrow Ideas from any one on any sub ject of ordinary Interest, while to deny him the faculty of being able to give them vigorous expression, would lie ridic ulous. He won his spurs, as a writer, be fore he wras elected to the office of Vice President. First “Message.” It was not uniu mu auvent ui jvuupw. to the Presidency that the annual com munication of the executive to the con gress was called a "message.’' Up to that date, it was called the "speech," and read to the senate and house of represent atives, assembled together for that pur pose. That was the rule under the two administrations of Washington nnd the single one of the elder Adams. The idea was. of course, taken from the English custom of the speech of the <|ueen or king from the throne. On these occa sions Washington wore a sword, and so did John Adams. Following the English precedent, also, the senate nnd house in these early days of the young republic, sent to the President an address In reply to the "speech." This address invariably gave rise to an accrimonlous debate which occupied the first two weeks of the ses sion. Parties divided with respect, to its phraseology, so that every sentence nnd paragraph had to be settled by a majority vote. The abolition of these monarchial formalities, as Jefferson deemed them, was the very first of the reforms In the administration of the government. A short time before the meeting of con gress. In December 1801, Jefferson notliicd the Vice President, presiding over the senate, and the speaker c.' the house, that instead of going to the capltol nnd making a speech. which, by the way, the author of the Declaration of Independence hardly ever made In his long career, he would communicate with the two bodies in writing, and that it would not be, ne cessary to make any reply to It. This was tire first whiff of the since famous "Jeffersonian simplicity." Those who were then called "monarchists." were horrified at the innovation, and believed that It menaced the very existence of the republic, nnd would eventually lead to the introduction of French red-rcpubll oanism Into the administration of the government. But the Jefferson precedent Iihs hen followed ever since in the official intercourse lietwecn the executive and the legislature. Washington’s Speeches. As to the authorship of the annual exe cutive communications to congress, the evidence exists that the speeches of Washington were, for the most part, made up of contributions by members of his cabinet. This is provided by entries in the diaries; the letters and other pa llets which those gentlemen have left us. Jefferson notes again and again that he was asked to write certain paragraphs for the "speech.” hearing on the conduct of foreign affairs. Hamilton, on the other hand, made contributions to it respecting the management of the finances. All this was eminently proper. General Washing ton eould not lie supposed to know every thing connected with the manifold con cerns of his administration, to lie an au thority on finance and international law. It was because that lie was not. that he had experts like Hamilton and Jefferson to aid him in the solution of problems of this character. This is administration, government, in the highest and best sense, it Is the fundamental principle underlying our institutions. Adams, Jefferson and Madison sought little or no assistance from their cabinet advisers in the preparation of their offi cial papers. They were ail thoroughly competent to deal witli every topic that arose. John Quincy Adams undoubtedly aided Monroe to some extent In the writ ing of his messages, and when Jackson came in, Livingston, the secretary ol state, and Kendall, the postmaster gener al. found active employment for theii vigorous pens. Days of Lincoln. To come down to the days of Lincoln | it Is evident that no member of his ad | ministration, brilliant as it was, cauld I have written any part of his messages. The beauty and simplicity of their style, the lofty elevation of thought and the sublime patriotism that pervade nearly all his official utterances, prove that they emanated from the head and heart that conceived the Immortal Gettysburg speech. Chase and Seward and Stanton, the mighty triumvirate of his cabinet, wrote well and forcibly, but no one of them could have produced Lincoln’s two inaugural addresses. General Grant de clared In reply to an Attacks when Mr. Greeley was running against him for the presidency, that he wrote all his mes sages without assistance from any one. Senator Hoar, in the interesting work just issued by his publishers, says that President Grant wrote a message to con gress in his presence, the cogency and solidity of which on the subject it treated were remarkable. Grant had no reputa tion as a writer until his memoirs were published after the close of his great ca reer. There is really no reason why a President should not turn over the task of message writing to his secretary. The essential thing about these papers is that they should give accurate information respecting the state of the Union and em body in plain language whatever recom mendations he may have to make. The messages are not contributions to litera ture, but merely reports on governmental events of the year. Vessels Are in Danger. Ohio River Rises Nearly Three Feet While Frozen Over. Cincinnati. December 20.—With the Ohio river frozen over and great gorges at many places, the rise of nearly three feet today threatenes danger for all kinds of craft. The steamer Cruiser Is ice-bound at Hanging Rock, and many men are employed trying to liberate her by blasting. The Miami river and the Licking have been emptying ice into the Ohio freely today. The harbor steamer Ada V, valued at $.‘1000 and owned by B. J. Riggs of Newport, Ivy., was sunk here in ten feet of water today by a “run out” of ice from the Licking, and if the rise con tinues her upper decks will be carried away before the hull can he raided. If thawing weather is accompanied by a rise there will be much damage. I_ I Vse of Piano Free This is the plan: If you have room for a square piano, we will sell you one from $15.00 to $100.00. $5.00 cash and $2.50 monthly. We will allow you the full amount paid any time within two years on any new piano you buy of us. We have about 50 squares—they monopolize our store space—and we have hit upon this plan to move them out. Sixty cents a week buys a piano—you get back all you pay if you buy a new piano in two years—you get the use of the square piano free. This is your opportunity. E. E. FORBES PIANO CO. J. B. CHAMBERLAIN, Mgr. 1909 Third Avenue. 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