North Carolina Newspapers

Maav i I 1. a jJK-s UIILIIU.LL UUUUllj Published Every .Tuesday. AT ; MURPHY, NORTH 'CAROLINA, MERONEV & TOWNS, Editors and Proprietors. ONE COLLAR A"Y EAR IN ADVANCE aaad known uson aDDlfceatlon. nftvahio Fashion Insists that the talk ttni wo nan will be populjie this season. , She is al way popalar-ia. a..crowded. street car. This theory hat school life h i cause k thoroughly sound biaks thc"t!Cuieago t v Even Tittlft'ik,ce Is coins to borrow ,0Ct00tt?rtc purchase of two vrsman l)t chcRM' cru&crs and(haIC : doircn torpedo boats. TJairituoreliasost discVret "in liPir midst" a iDtiian withrjut a siiiglo fault. Vronder Law brg sbe Las b?en dead? asks ike Florida Times-Union. Mcif. Melba made -a decided bit when she killed a pedestrian with b'cr automobile, but slie lfolAMy does not feel like responding to an encore. - Sir Tinmas Upton is still talking about the generosity of tbfe American people, but l e pan bardly expect us to built a boat" for him that wfll beat our boat - There are 122,000 -Underfed children Ju the city ot London. This according to Dr. Eichobt, who makes out a strocg case in. defense of the statement that tliere is physical deterioration In Eng Jacd, A Georgia sheriff arrested a bank cashier who was thought to be short la his accounts; and theo got the cash f3rs Job. How would you like to be a sheriff? the Atlanta Journal glibly en quires. laziness- la-a.dlseas?, as some con- ere should be no trouble about g with it," as long as it has such toxin to kUI its Baltimoro "Umi Some genius has, devised -beefsteak made ont of,vnsyfe Now, if we ' pork chops made of "acorn breakfast - food put. tip .out , bf chopped, oat straw, we can begin to .economize, declares the Spartanburg (S. C.) Journal Apparently the women on the Mains farms have no time for nervous pros tration. One of them is said to hare assisted in doing the housework for thirteen in the family and raked all the Lay on her husband's four farms iuto the bargain, states the Syracuse Tost Standard. The Virginia General Assembly has passed a law punishing with Imprison ment men who do not support their wives. It Is just a trifle difficult to'see bow the fact that her husband is in jail is going to help support the wife. She might dit before the lesson of im prisonment was fully learned by her erring lesser half, the Savannah News Ceclares. ' The Connecticut postmaster drawing a salary of $3 a week who has resigned his office because he has had to get up at 5 o'clock every week day morning is a perfect mystery to bis? farmer neighbors, most of whom have been getting up before sunrise every morn ing in the year, some of them for less than that, all through their livesf gays ths Eostoo jGlobg. ,, 1 3- ; p t s-, Ti Empress" poxraxet of it"! tea; has issued, edicts, which EoraWtnt lighten tie oppressive yoke with5 which :ho ." held her subjects in thrall up to The' . linie" of - the Boxer uprising. Eh has now reached a ripe old age.ilay htr methods of government become riper and more mellow as tho years roll on! Eut the world would like to know, the views of the young Emperor on- im perial rule, and millions of people ail over the globe ar waiilns ta bear b'ua say a word, aj tbe"New .tori Tri bune. . . The yield bf ioftdff fortbe Tear "end"- d August 31; wisf 1QC1238U bales froniT a planted arevof 2S.905.T8l teres.' Thtf " (if jy'T'Ml r amar - deaf t , an Zlcellent yff ,.nnd product per acre was 170 poundsthe lowest fof some years.' There are hovr under cultivation '32,363,000 'acres; the average condition Is higher than it was . a year ago, and tbe-crop is further ad vanced toward maturity and therefore less liable to damage frora rsr5y frost. In the seasons of largest ' production the yield lias been 237 to 240 pounds to ' lbs- acre and If it should tbjs year reach 200 pounds a crop of nearly.13, 000,000 bales would be possible; in - TiewJ the' acreage And. coiuIKion"ilg ares experts' who are figuring upon a prodoejlon 'afproxlmatSng 1200,000 - - bales to iot' appear to be" unduly '' op- tfalstic, the Philadelphia Record de clares. . -'- ' v'""' r 5 T' ' A SERMON FOR. SUNDAY A STRONG DISCOURSE ENTITLED. MAN'S CONDITION: COD'S R2Mit-Y.' Am AdilMia DellTersd Ht the Mllclmn O. B IX.D.The Spiritual Hlpla .; aeas and Hopeleianesa of Slant Xondojt KitotAKD; This following ad dress, entitled ."Man's. Conditi'drii God's Rsmedyj" was delivered at the MiMmay Conference by Sir itdbert Andersorv, K, 0. LL. IK u JTh special s'ilect' assigned to me ia "The Spiritual Helplessness of -Man by Nature, 'and the New Birth From Abavci I am not here to defend the dorfhms that tneoiogy baa based upon this. truth, what Ahd this ShOUla be our position in re Earl 16 all the great doctrines of faith. The age of creeds is passed. In days of chivalry, when men had respect for truth and honor, creeds shut nut Ihnoa whn 'could not honestly accept them. But now inej . avail nettling to protect -the gold against "thieves and robbera." Men will publicly, and -in the most solemn wfiy pledge their belief in every ' Christian , truth in -order to fcahi frthc in 6ar churches; and'a aoott ai-tfity secure the prestige and pa which oiKce affords, they nse the i fealpils to attack the very truths they tre pledged, and subsidized to defend. This being so, let us abandon the out works of our creeds, and, , falling back upon the Bible, str.nd four-aqmrt lii ita defense. . In this Bpirit I approach my subject. I (am not ifAdranS of whaa-heblbgy teachea ,.bet numaa' depravity, nor of the control Versies respecting it which preceded the Settlement of our creeds. But on this platform T will recognize no authority save an open Bible. My reason for saying this is oecause nere, as on many Other Ques tions, the opponents of the. triltn 3w Iheif vantage ground to .what la called Chris tian tldctfine, on. IN subject. For the noctrine is inconsistent with facts, where as b'etween truth and fact conflict is im possible. . . A natural man, i. e., a man who has .not experienced the new- birth, and who naanot the Spirit of God, may live a life of the highest morality and rectitude. Scripture testifies that in these qualities the Apostle Paul made no advance after his conversion. It is no antwft- .td this to say that in bin UftPprtVerten days he came under the eSlcfllal influences of di vine truth-. The fact remains that thpy wen unconverted days, and that with fcuCh an environment he waa able to main tain such a life of purity and piety and zeal, albeit he was spiritually dead in sins. He took to religion as another man might take to pleasure, or to tudy Or to trade, or to drink. But la. this; as he h: m.se.f declares, he was Only following his natural ,bent--',the desires of the flesh and of the mitad '.- j Neither ts it an objection that such a ase is exceptional. What man has done men may do. If the Fall made it impos sible for men to live pure and upright lives, in would be unjust in God to judge them for their vices. There are two great standards or prin ciples of divine judgment. With those who hear the Gospel, the consequences of accepting or rejecting Christ are final and irreversible. As for the rest, men will be judged by the law of their being, whether as stamped on heart or conscience, or as tormuiated in express commands at fcinai. THE NATURAL MAN. The first three chapters of Romans claim notice here. The first chapter .describes the condition in which the roaas of the heathen world .was sunk -even in idays When ithe tide of human progress and cul- fc the flood, and whenjnone- reai it;iiittr;-j.'t oPyinssic affaniarin held un a standard of flifp aa high as any that apostate Christendom presents cults of which one at lerfet had uch spiritual vitality that three centuries afterwards it bid fair to supplant I Chris tianity as the religion (I am not sneak ing Wrttbe rue "Christianity of Vav'iiu .Church; of God) maintained 'its ascend ancy, it was first by penal .. laws (Of ex treme Severity, and second by .adopting the chief characteristic rites and. errors of the Paganism which it thus persecuted. These things need stating if we are to understand aright the closing words of the first chapter Of Romans. The vile Practices Of the hefithen .world were not ue to ignorance They knew that iheir deeds were evil. They knew the judg ment of God, that they who practiced such things were worthy of death, and yet they practiced them. But the ease of Saul of Tarsus was wholly different. If what men call con science were the arbiter of human con duct; if that were right which a man honestly believed to be right, his was a perfect life. As judged by any and every human standard, Saul of Tarsus was a pattern saint; but as judged by God he Was a pattern sinner. Aud if you read the '.middle verses of Romans 3 intelligent ly, .this is the lesson you will learn from them: It is God's estimate -of the life of the natural man at his best the life ot the upright, pious, xealous Jew under law. "For that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight. .of God. The story is told of the first Duke of Cambridge, that when, in the reading of the Decalogue, the Seventh Commandment was reached, instead ot the orthodox re- aponse, he answered, in an aside, that plainly audible, "I never did that." was But here was a man who could make a like response to every commandment in the Decalogue. "As touching the" riehteous-nesa- that is in the law, blameless' Such was hia p round boast. You will say, perhaps, that this only roves that he was utterly blind and dead, tat that is precisely, what I am insisting on; that so far ia it from; the truth that human nature is hopelessly corrupt and depraved, as men judge of corruption and depravity, that a natural man may live a life that would put to shame half the saints in the calendar. By a course of un christian asceticism and "severe penances for "punishing the body," these calendar eaintSj attained to, what men deem aaipt ship. -; But to thia man aaintahip was as natural as sin was ta many of the saints of the calendar. - .;. ? -One of the tests which people hold to be final as - that man ahall 'do his ; beat." What more can possibly be expected of him?- Thia man ''did fciaibest.'r and hia best raa a "record? that has never been beaten.! What purity of life was his! What piety 1 What burning real! What self-sacrificing devotion to what he be lieved to be the cause of God! But looking back upon it all, he writes, "Who was be fore a blasphemer.". And what a. blas phemer! r i ; . And ao, when he eomea under the Divine searcLlight, he declares himself the chief of einnera. Scanning the long line of all the sinners of the race, he takes hia place at their head,. "of whom I am the first." XX Taese were noi tne words or an in spired Apostle in an inspired epistle, we might suspect exaggeration. And yet they only express the well- recognized principle ftna ; privilege increases responsibility and kaew no better. But that only made his case the warse, for u ever there was a man who ought to have known better it was he. And so be takes hjs place aa "chief of sinners." -And he huably adds. "I obtained mercy." And he repeats this.' For he was twice mercied. It is not God's -way to put blasphemers into the ministry. -And so, aa be thinks of the Lord's "exceeding abun dant grace" iu calling him to the apostle hip. he says, "I obtained mercy-, because I did it ignorantly in belief." But for a lost, dead sinner a plea like .thia avails absolutely nothing. .For such, the One and only plea ia that Christ Jesus came into the world to' save sinners." . .: THE WORK OF REDEMPTION. -: The Epistle 'to'the' Romans aoee on to f-onfoid the doctrine of salvation. Sin ar raigns the inner before the Divine juflg ment seat, and he stands there Jsa guilty and doomed. . Salvation therefore can only bfr through redemption,.- and redemption must, bevby blood.; But as we have seen, sin haa another aspect: It conupts and depraves the whole spiritual being. - The sinner therefore nee'ds a new nature. He must be born again, born from above. But these- truths must never b. separat ed. The Spirit work depends Spon the work oi Christ. : Hence the emohasia with 1 H i T 1 I which wfe are told that : Christ' came by Water and blood;,not by water alone, but by water and blood as the R. V. render it "by the water and the blood. . We all know what the blood means. We are "redeemed by the precious . blood of Christ as of a lamb without bleraiah-and without spot." But some of ua are much at sea about the water. The water and the blood are figurative expressions. But the figures are typical. And if we under itand . the types, both MIL turn jmJ thoughts te, the MdHfiee 61 Calvary. TBS jjvater was wthe water of purification '. of Numbera 19. 4 Water th CTi iUr'eer moni itncaMr lo The am offering. f But j Lord returns irt fclesai&it to Israel thefli fezekiel 86 teaches, lis tje wili come 'by the .watet;" But .this .is because His first tohdpf ivas-iiofc fey -the water only, but fey the water- and the blood. The blood complished. r . The' two, I repeat, must never be sepa rated. And aa redemption j altogether God's work, so also is the new birth. Like the Apostle's ministry (Gal. li 1, R. V.), it is flot from men, neither . through man." No ordinance or "sacrament'' has anything to do with it. Men can fix time and place fdf .fePdjnajlcesio. tttditiftncea relate td X.th bnt thS new birth ia from JihfJV&i The. Spirit breathes ; where He wills. ; . It is to this thirty-sixth chapter of jflze kiel that 'these words of Christ refer. Three elements in the new birth are speci fied in the pwohecy: M " Spf inkle eleaii water upon you, and ye shall be clean." (v. 23.) (2) "I will give you a new heart." (v. 26.) (3) 'And I will put My Spirit within youit(v. 27.) v ? ) - - 1 "THEr WATER OF REGENERATION In Matt. 19:28, the time of it fulfill ment for the man is designated .by the Lord as "The Regeneration And in the 8nly other passage in the New Testament where that word occurs, it ia used in con nection with "the water of purification" and the Ezekiel prophecy. I allude of course to Titus 3:5: "He saved us by the washing of regeneration and renew ing of the Holy Ghost." The word here used ia loutron. It is mis-rendered "washing," for it is a noun substantive and not a verb; and the RV. gloss (mar Jttt it is used for the vessel which held "the water of purification." But to return to the Divinely appointed rite of the Jewish religion, What was the symbolism of the water? Scripture itself supplies the answer. . The , word loutron like the Word "regeneration;.' occurs onlv twice in the. New Testament. I have al ready spoken of Titus 3:3; the other pas sage ia Eph. 5:26. Christ gave Himself for the Church, "that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the loutron of water by the Word." In the type the Israelite reached the sacrifice by means of the wa ter; in the antitype the believer reaches the sacrifice by means of the Word. Hence the language of Scripture, "the loutron of. water in the Word. The water of puri fication was, aa we have seen, the water of regeneration; and it is by the Word that the sinner is born again to God.' It haa nothing to do with mystic arts .or ehib boleths after the pattern of ancient Pi gapisnii ''We are born again" (as the in giired Apostle teaches) 'by the Word of od" "the living and eternally' abiding Word of God." And to guard against -all possibility of error or misapprehension, it ia added, "And this is the Word which by the Gos pel , is . preached unto you" preached, as he had already declared, "with' the Holy Ghost sent down from Heaven." Not the Spirit without the Word, nor the Word without the Spirit, but the Word preached in the nower dfLthe SoiZ- d In 411 this thetruth -nTtI5Bws--i- the counterpart and complement of the t.Pohinr ftf th( Old Testament. How can sinners, helpless, hopeless, dead aa dead as dry bones scattered on the earth be born again, to God? "Can these bonea v:-v i.p ! prophet to cast himself on God. 'And the 37th chapter ot JiizeKici gives me answer; Preach to them. Call upon them to hear the Word of the Lord., (v. 4). This is man' mr ni it unvHiintr more remains man. part; or if anything more remains it is 'Trophecy unto the breath" pray that the Spirit may breathe upon, tnese dead. The rest ia God's work altogether. For "tlie Spirit breathes when He wills.' Men preach: the Spirit breathes; and the dry bones live. Thus it is that sinners are born attain. London Christian. ' A The Oppose of Christ. An unloving spirit is the worst trencher to Christ that we can offer.. How ot'ieu no those who are full of good works tor the Lord stop to think of this? The harsh word spoken by the busy teacher or super intendent or pastor is a travesty on the profession such a one makes. For Christ is one with God, and God is love. Unlove is anti-Christ. We cannot serve Christ while unlove for any child of His ia in our hearts or words. "And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And if I bestow all my foods to feed the poor, and if 1 give my ody to bo burned, but have not love, it pronteth me nothing.". "This is My com mandment, that ye love .one another." Look Ahead. , There is glory for the time to come. A great many people seem to forget that the best is before us. Dr. Bonar once said that everything before the true believer is "glorious. This thought took hold on my soul-, and I began to look the matter up and see what I could find in Scripture that was glorious -hereafter. , . v. I found that the kingdom we are going to inherit is glorious; our crown is to be a "crown of glory;" the citywe are going to inhabit ia the city of the glorified; ths songs we are going to sing are the songs of the glorified; we are to wear garments of "glory and beauty;" our society will be the society of the glorified; our rest is to be. "glorious;" the country to which we are going is to be full of the glory of God and of the Lamb. There are many who are always looking on the backward path and mourning -over the troubles through which they .have passed; they keep lugging the cares and anxieties they have been called on to bear and are forever looking at them.1 : .Why. should we go reeling una "staggering under the burdens and cares of life when we hsve such glorious prospects before us? D. L. Moody.- " : -' . ' ; i - ,- - x-ray ror nun 11 cm. . ' Xet our prayer be ever for more holinesr and niore fitness for the kingdom. Thei' ahall the tabernacle of God be 'with men. and we shall be Hia people, and God Hinv self ahall be with us. . FIRST VICTIM OF SUBWAY. New Jersey GIr! Injured on-New' York v Underground Railway. " ' ''" The first serious accident since 'the formal opening of the subway ln'Nef York occurred Friday, -whem a youn? woman named Sadie Lawson, of Jo sey City, fell betweeir the platform and the local train at the Fourteen. 4 street station and was badly crusheJ. She. had a fractured hip and bruises of a morei or Jess serious : nature, buf will recover. ' " : ENDS TROUBLLE IN PANAMA. Resignation of Secretary of State, . Arias, Calms Poliucal Waters. ' V .The resignation of Tboma"s Arias,: secretary of State of' the republic - of Panama, apparently .ends the division of political parties on the Isthmus. Pablo Arosemena, leader ht tho oppo sition, said to the Associated Prws: "Opposition to President AmtCor's government is impossible ww. the sm offering wna only for a redeemed peopley a people already redeemed by the gin) is misleading, for loutrdii-, is neve Used in .the, Grce& Bible lor "the laver." Bttt In the Greek Version of Ecclus. 34:23 TERRELL Georgia's Gi : by Depo. ored IN SCATHIN0 J LETTER Governor --Is 1 AccweJ-jreJudjlng I Captoin1 Cast-d Approving " feewrtmariial Vjrdiet With. ... V out tveaJAdind it : ' , - " Former Captain r bert M. Hitch, of Savannah, the office who was dismiss ed from the service of the state by a courtmartial becau he allowed a mob at Stateaboro t take two prison er's frjk&Jhtj tf86g5aii(i ..bufti tb6m, has written a very :iff letter to Qot ernbr Joseph M. Tei ell. In part Cap tain Hitch says: Now that ' I am reeved of that, en forced sllencje yW military disci plihis imposed, atidUi at liberty to ad dress you as a GcoPn and an Amer ican cltlzenejjL-lo-bthe duty which I owev to 4he)"i,ii,Tuto tho Georgia staitstroo iV-Ja sayself to pfainly de"ea)te maniresta tions of yoijU, cbaraVs--. , ' l"1".' been bfight to pubiC atttitL . August 15, of the pesent yc-re fore doing so, howfver, I have pur posely waited" a reasonable time f.w deliberation . and rejection lest un consciously I might imitate that inde cent haste whiclfyw have lately ex hibited on occaslojj when the reputa tions of good men Tere lodged in your keeping; ' ( , In military affairv the commanding officer is always aleountable for the conduct of his compand. For the ac tion of the troops at Statesboro on August 15 and. 16 have always an nounced myself as wiiiliigr ib" assume fuli espdnsibility iitd bare never sought to shift the urden on any sub ordinate officer or rnlisted man. A id neither the people f Georgia nor my. self .will allow youta escape yur fu responsibility for the action of the court martial conjinea" at Savannah by your command. tJnder the law, yon are. the commande in chief, . Undei the law, Mie actionlof that court mar tial had to be submitted to and pann ed upon by you befire it became effec tive. .Oii JrOti, tbetefqre, must rest the blame. - . - ' - You have .hever been fond of as suming responsibility, j Oh the coa trary, ydu have persistently pursued a course which always placed others b -tween ybu and possible criticiTm. TJnder the military law, you could have ordered me to jtatesbero .on Au gust " 15 with lnsSuftlons to act lm n-olateiy under rwl command and mnHf romg- 4'"' ' T Mr iT' ' voald . IhenS resnniC? 1 1 ? sepymejki; -nated. t!: l ty, who. It VT 'jSVmrtt I AnTmAMSd bv i" A S:.-- - connected oy m. t mnv. . io if 1 aa uiv au m s dered Hodges afi to comply with such orders as j.e mlght jre. to "act in conjunction tne saerIff oI Bulloch county," tQ take orders for duty from thjudge.&resldlllg at the trial. It theifJre Decame necjJ,. sary in your eyesf a Bcapegoat; some'victim mustje found, some one must be eacrificedD order to reiieve the pressure levell agalnat the chIrf authoriUes of the , You I know, everybo f know8f that had one shot been fir 4urlng those hours while I" was on tt - aouse Bta,r. way holding bad .aose frenzied pe pie at the point oi i. bavonet uendine the arrival of Cor j, nn wUh hl reinforcements, on the way, the ,'I assumed, was discriminate slaugh ter which wou ensued would have caused vl e branded -as a ster from one en 3 of the land to to the court jC-k' fore the court n other. I stated declared be- iidkl now re- peat that in my I discharged my full duty .as as well aa my la man. It was In. such as has a hard, duty t never before d an officer. cf the state troop y duty as I saw it, ana eaci 1 day has con- rb.that I saw it fitiit. ogies to make. k My .conscience my confidence I In . the corec my course ua- shaken, and sure, cannot tontent. You, I am s much. '" 1 trti"-vrt:il "-iven ' careful for-'tlOirb'j-s. .SGf"-'- Gov ernor 4?xeTt dches,to vi; the letter of e-Captf iJJltfch-..v ; Further "thAtgHL 4ernor merely - says :,'t'W me to enter nto any discussion p such matters with parties who feelAggrieved-at my offi .t.l .Amm VMMllJ' 1 ajf . A. i clal acta, woul e manifestly out of place.' ILLINOIS RR QUIT WORK. Hoisting Strike and 50,000 are Idle. I St Louis Post-Dis-polnts indicate that e 300 coal mines in .Specials patch from hat.statel Jng coal as a result jineers" which went ght Monday night, r- of operatora wfTo ?X of duty, is about "n- miners , are of the stf into effec ' The tc desertef 890. a thrown. .'VYOlilANiTs !a result: E FREE. I bnd - Queen," Member 21." uvn u tbe been serving j the Georgia ho caused a jago because "Warden Alia sed on November -ing then. ' Mamie" ; DeCrls, HITCH VS.1 M uity. I 4 lent .j i vm 1 J i L J J f - -Win Be Rele ;;Iarni-rCri diamond a three-ye state pen I state sen?' of her bf good,- wi f.ltt, t ' r JAPS MOVE AGAIN Activity Resumed Both at Port Arthur and Mukden. GREAT GUNS BOOMING General Assault Is Begun on Great Fortress and Blows are Being; Struck at Forces of Gener ' : - al Kuropatkln. : Recording to Russiafl fe'pxifts the) army of field Maril1 yaBaa' cofl fronting the Russian forces 7nthS"T cinlty of the Shakhe river has been re inforced by from 40,000. to 60,000 men from Port Arthur find Japan. Earlier reports hayd ibjicad ,that 8ffifl Kuropatkln has received bearl? Ijj accessions, although Monday's' dis patches from Mukden intima'te -ffve contrary and convey the impression' thftt the present moment finds tne Russians not f ally prepared to meet a war panic that only can bo'cisTpared Japanese, advance thajjnaf f7w1ktq the panic created m Bur.; j,c,Cctc any hour. As'RusMn advance 'f: " V tr 23.. whenthe news oft' 9 f" Uas T5bfi reaartfedw'ae-ftua'attonoW, y-Lwf to the fact tlat "tr period taeethe . - .: . tftW-i .. j.il..'. c:. 9 rl tne DatJ.ii.-oi aaaan rutriiw been- devoted v by the Japanese to a, strenuous' prosecution of the 'work; of " entrenching. The contending afiSlM are within close touch, and any ' out post brush or reconnaissance may bring on a general engagement. There is much cannonading of positions ou both sides, Poutiloff (Ione Tree) hill being a marked storm center. '.' A Mukden special says) From an early hour Monday' morning -Inff has been a heavy bombardment of Pduii loff (Lone Tree hiil)-by the" Japanese. Large masses of Japanese 'weffr mov ing asiwafd dufitig 6cto"be 5i it---l 3d. ' .- . - The Japaiiese bare c'fiuplSd si rocky promontory south 8t Siltidtifitipu and also- the hills southeast fif fecru tiatze. The positions along, their line are strongly fortified - with re doubts, wire entanglements,' dltchos and pitfalls, and ftleo mines " in some places. Tbe fortifications are. arrang ed in double tiers. . Tba positions, es pecially on the plain, , are exceedinglv well masked.' On Saturday, tbrough telescopes, the Russians observed a movement of the Japanese eastward, and, judging by tbe dust, it must have been a heavy forc. " . A4 Port Arthiir. , A Che Foo' dispatch" is as follows: The general assault 611 Pott Atthufi .which began in a preliminary Utif Oc tober 24, developed liitd' fiercely rag-. ing battle Sunday when; according to a fcttbertnrMnfaTttM fhorvt ainS"iirina: heivy forces .afeaihst the fortress in thef third attempt id - cure a commanding "position. lvu- I for. t i ... icjt ort'a, l L sion, but to accOmplisft -i-mtl- L ward step. This plan was adopted following the first assault, when thou sands of lives were sacrificed in an at tempt to swarm over the fortifica tions, by a mere force of numbers, re gardless of loss. AGED PRELATE PASSES AWAY. Archbishop of Cincinnati Dead at Age " of Elflhty-SIx Years. Rev. Henry Elder, archbishop of Cincinnati, in his eighty-sixth 'year died In that city Monday night, after suffering four days from a severe case of grip, complicated wlth ex treme weakness. - ' :. . The scene at the bedside, when it was apparent that tbe end was near, was most affecting. . v Freight Train Backed Into Kitchen. While Mrs. Henry Gerken was cook ing breakfast in ber witchen, at Sa vannah, an Atlantic Coast Line train was backed Into the. room. " The kitch en stood near the end of the "track, and xthe engineer misjudged hia dis tance. The experience so unnerved Mrs. Gerken that she Is seriously 111. The stove and other kitchen utens'll were demolished. . NEW RAILROAD CHARTERED. Virginia and Southwestern Railway - Company Heavily Backed. .' ;' The Virginia, state corporation com- W.jclonjha8 granted a charter to tho Virginia and the South western Rail way Company. The capital stick. Is placed at from $1,000000 to $lu07 000.- The main" office 'of the cobapany is at Bristol, Tenn. The promoters of the enterprise are said to be interested with John .D. Rockefeller and other coal,' iron and oil men, and have unlimited capital. ONLY ONE LIFE LOST. Negfo Taken from Cellar of MempTMs Bank Bulldina. . . Only one life, that of Winters Par ker, a negro, saloon porter,.' was tost by the wrecking of the - four-story building in Memphisf Tenn. : The biJy of the negro was-found crushed in tbe cellar. First reports sent out stated that twenty people had been kinVd.''; 1. RUSSIAN LOSS WAS ENORMOUS. ' Official -"Report . Places Casualties In Recent Battla-at 4&C3.. A- St Petersburg dispatch' of Sat urday says: General Sakharoff reports no gsaeral C&tin o tit ntvffefra was occasional cannonading iloag fbo whole front, but the Japanese ;fire wna ineffective. --v . . The general staff has issued a Btate- ment that the number of killed, wound-! U M Tm " ed and missing J.n tbe .-f Sing wbicii trbe admrnisnered to them. By 'mis began October 9 and ened- Octobo.yake the nurse used a solution ,ot car 1 totaled S09 oCcers and 45,000 men.T. BRITISH MAD AGAIN Another Hub-Bub. Raised by Admiral of Baltic Fleet. SCARE PROVED. A FIASCO Sailing 6f Rejestvenaky'e Fleet Irani 5 Vigo 8palnf CaMssd Alarmist ' Rumors Was no flra " , f " ''' Agreement. ''SJ A London special says: Negotla- ! ttens between Great Britain and Rus ! sia. looHi&M iM aisettifment of th& North sea affair, are pfegfssing favor ably, and there is not the slightest danger of. any friction arising between the ' two governments. . .The eonstau-, tiofi tit thg international commission under Tiff Hatte $oavention Is on the verge of settlement-' i - ' In spite of these pacific eeddiikmsv Great Britain Tuesday experienced a 1 f fjt 'iTCCZj -alarmist! rrts-jfelB f godgi j Londoa..t .,. . 1 The most extraordinary feature of Ibis scare, which was serious enougn w'iiiie it iaStid, is that there was not o2 itngii 6iF6dtstance to Justify it. The excitement &fte& early iff the day, when the newspaper's anaounced the departure of the Rusfiaii Saltic squadron from Vigo. Wild Reports from Gibraltar. On top of this came the wild report tit. tremendous activity at Gibraltar. Hour by fcouf tbe news from Gibral tar became m6r'e' serious until at last the climax- was reached trltb tbe an- nnix-iit that tjwtfifi tieat had cleared for adtiofl. fkme eves said that the fleet had sailed to meei jw je'sttefisky's squadron. I huge type the papers' iaade the parallel state ments, 'The British Flest Ijas Cleared for Action, The Russian Fleet Has Sailed." f The news from Gibraltar became more and more alarming, aHd flnally the foreign office was oveffdii by fs porters, some of whom brought t&8 rumor that Admiral Beresford had al ready sunk the remnant of Admiral Rolestvensky's fleet. Ambassador Senkefldorff, at that moment was Quietly discussing with Foreign Min ister" Lansfdowne the personnel of the intern atioflai cemffll6Sion but it was popUlaVly rumored that he" was receiv ing aa ultimatum. galfo&f, Selournerififfit lord jthe miralty arid Prince Louis df BattrdJUiectoT of riaval inteUi - y:t4a. :eLcii'iL: extras V f- Pf8 ef nnwiiafii,.;f. r-fcf.d in consioTt" ering names that had been suggested. for the international commission. When all London was in this state of mind and while - anybody wbo ffligbfc be supposed to know anything" was constantly being asked, "Has war been declared?" the foreign office de cided to adopt a course most unusual for it, and in order to allay , public excitement gave out to the press a tatem6flt covering the arrangements to detach:, the Russian officers to re main for the court Of inquiry and all other Steps taken. TROOPS WILL NOT DISBAND. Captain Hitch's Company Decides to Remain In State's Service. The Oglethorpe Light Infantry, Company I, of the First Georgia regi ment, will not be disrupted because of the dismissal of their captain, Robert M. Hitch, from the state service be cause of the Statesboro affair. This was determined at a meeting of the command in Savannah Tuesday night. - Though Captain Hitch is sus tained and Indorsed by resolutions adopted some time ago by the com pany. WHITECAPPER GOES TO PEN. Young Texas White Man Called Down for Scaring Negroes. Albert Bettis, a young man, was convicted in Judge Scotts court, at Waco, Texas,' Monday of whitecap- ping, and sentenced tot two years to Witnesses testified thwy the defend ant posted illustrated anonymous no tices threatening violence against ne groes unless they quit farms on which they were "employed as laborers." The notices bore ghastly pictures ol coffins and negroes dangling .from, tne boughs of trees. - v - ; tJREADY FOR ARBITRATION. -.v-: . '. .'-,; Basis . of Settlement of . Brltlah-Rua-It sian Affair Agreed.' Upon. , ' ' A 'St. Petersburg special of Wednes day says,: The Associated Press can authoritatively announce that the ba sis for the British-Russian agreement to submit the North sea Incident to a commission-Insures an amicable set tlement without a sequel. Tbe under standing is complete. NURSE MAKES FATAL MISTAKE. Cava 'Two Hospital Patients Carbolio i.'Aeld'olutloii for Water. . Mrs. Silsle Octt, aged 46, and Sarah iShaw, " a aegro woaan, are dead through tho mistake of Miss Funic, a nurse, at tbe city hospital. In Indian? a polls. The two women were recover ing from typhpid f ever and the phy- sician bad instructed sterilized water bolio acid. ' E. B. NORVELL, Attorney at Law; ! MTfR-ftHT, KORTtf (ffAROfilRlT. ! All business promptly" attended tov Offle la courthouse, near entrance. (.;rvtP.:.!AXLEY, Attorney at Law, , J REAL ESTATE. : '1 m .MURTHT, . N.' C. " Dillard & Bell, : Attorney at Law, " - -- . V . - ... " Office over Corder's. . R. L. 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