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The Chicago Record-Herald sayi
there arc feir times as many words Id
the English language as In the French,'
but young writers always feel that It
Is necessary to, writ In a French
phrase here and there In order to makt
their meaning clear. .
The practical question confronting
every roung man to-dny, says the A
lanta Journal, is not: Is a big Job
ready for you? But: Are you ready
for a big Job? If you have the right
stuff In you, you don't have to go crawl
lng on your stomach for any man's fa
vor. You don't need to beg a Job as
though you were asking charity. But
don't swell up and -wait for big Jobs
to come after you with a brass band.
? -Colonel Henry Watterson saya that
When he applied for bis first employ
ment on a newspaper he was told:
"There are never any racanclea on a
good paper, but there's always room
for a good man." Colonel Watterson
says be thought the reply so good and
true that, after becoming an editor him'
self, he said the same thing to all ap
plicants. If Is true In all kinds of
business, agree the AtlanfaJournalTl
The whole world la full of good places
for a good man.
, The new Social Intercourse Guild,
formed in Chicago, 111, found at its
first meeting 300 "lonesome" persons
in need of its ministrations. How
many of this class It may reach after
its plans are carried out for dividing
the city into districts and offering spe
' Vial attractions in the shape of. card
parties and musical entertainments,
cannot be estimated. There Is surely
no class more deserving of sympathy
tban the friendless stranger in a great
city, remarks the New York Evening
Post, ...
f ' Shippers of poultry and eggs should
be very careful about responding to
new commission men who quote prices
higher than the regular market, ad'
Vises the Massachusetts Ploughman.
These are very likely to be Irresponsible
parties who fail and defraud shippers
ns soon as they have received any con'
eiderable, quantity of goods. The best
trade of the cities is mostly commanded
by the older and long established Arms,
and these are able to pay as high for
the goods as anybody. New concerns
iwbich quote very high prices usually
Ho to at the expense of reliability.
' When President Roosevelt addressed
the American Tract Society at Wash
ington, D. C, he took for his text, "Be
ye dpers of the word and not hearejrs
only" wblcb Is said to be the text
found at the point in the Scriptures
- .which be selected to kiss on taking
the oath at bis inauguration. The ad
dress which he based on these Words
iwat entirely sound in morals and as
emphatic as usual, opines the New
York Times. He urged his bearers to
remember . always that it is not
strength alone, or wealth, that makes
a great nation, but the qualities of tho
men and women who are the nation,
The gracious potentate from wbon
the enterprising Mrs. Header Is said
to have procured for her clients a 3,
000,000 .railway contract, is variously
described as the Sultan of Lahore and
the Sultan of Jobore, the New York
Sun, relates. There is no Sultan ot
Lahore. That part of the Punjab has
been British territory for nearly sixty
years, continues that paper. There 1
a Sultan or Rajah of Johore, Ibrahim
by name. Under British supervision be
rules over a 'population estimated at
200,000. The revenues and resources
of Johore are presented statistically In
none of the reference books at hand.
The lamented Akhoond of Swat died
years and years ago.
The butter product of the United!
States, according to the official figures, I
cxcetfiea iubi year ,uw,wv,ww
pounds, says the American Cultivator.
The number ofdalry cows was ten
million, showing that the average cow
1 produced only about ISO pounds per
year, or about three pounds per week.
which is hardly a good return for tlio J
care and feed. The average cow cer
tainly I not a remarkably good paying
proposition, and in order to bring tbe
figures as low as they are a great ninny
of the cows must yield less than threa 1
pounds per week. To the question, I
"Does dairying pay?" the answer must 1
depend largely upon the cow. With'
butter selling high enough to encthjrnse
Imports from Australia there seems to
be room enough here for better cons
and more of them.
SEEKS SCAPEGOAT
Is Accusation of Stevens In
Reply to Charge of Jordan.
ACCUT FERTILIZER TAGS
Georgia Agricultural Commissioner and
Head of Southern Cottonv Associa.
. tlon Engage ,ln Decidedly .
. Bitter Controversy.
"Mr. Jordan is now bunting for ft
scapegoat, and I do not propose that
he shall use me for that purpose."
So said Commissioner of ' Agricul
ture of Georgia,' O. B. Stevens, to a
representative of the Atlanta Consti
tution, after reading in an afternoon
paper the letter of Hon; Harvie Jor
dan, president of the Southern Cot
m Association, in which, Mr. Jordan
charges that "Mr. Stevens Is under
taking to apologise for or stand by
the fertilized companies in the reck
less waste of tags this - season." "
President Jordan's charge is based
on an interview with Commissioner
Stevens, which was gathered by a
representative of the Constitution in
the course of a casual conversation
with the commissioner, and in which
Colonel Stevens stated that the pres
ence of unused fertilizer tags In cars
of guano was doubtless due to care
lessness of employes, as the fertll-
izer companies, even If they desired
to creatte the impression of heavy
sales, would hardly scatter the tags
in that way, but would rather de
stroy them or hide them away. .
President Jordan quotes part of this
interview and seriously charges Com
missioner Stevens with "undertaking
to apologize or stand by the fertil
izer companies in the reckless 'waste
Qt tasi this reason, and to admit that
the same condition of affairs has been
going on every year."
, Continuing,' Mr. Jordan declares that
Instead of co-operating with the farm
ers and the Southern Cotton Associa
tion In trying to expose the fertilizer
companies In their wanton waste ot
tags, he appears from his interview
"to have prejudged the case and ren
dered his verdict in favor of the fer
tiliser companies."
When shown President Jordan's let
ter Colonel Stevens, after reading it,
made the following brief but pointed
statement:
"I have no desire to get into a con
troversy with Hon. Harvie Jordan. I
have, to the best of my ability, sup
ported the Southern Cotton Associa
tion movement, and hare in every' way
endeavored to uphold Mr. Jordan's
hands, having gone' of my 'own mo
tion to New Orleans to assist him In
bis election to the presidency. ",
"The trouble with Mr. Jordan la
that lie is now hunting for a scape
goat, and I do not propose that he
shall use me for that purpose. No
doubt Mr. Jordan Is doing his best
to earn his $5,000 salary, but I am
under the impression that If he had
proceeded along lines somewhat dif
ferent from those followed by him
since the New. Orleans convention, we
would now be getting; much higher
prices for our cotton.
Mr. Jordan seems to have been a
systematic kicker, and I am simply
one of the many on whose reoffending
heads he has poured the rial of his
wrath. ,
I am perfectly willing that . the
farming Interests of Georgia should
judge between Harvie Jordan and my
self, and as to which of the two has
done most In contributing to the de
velopment of the agricultural Inter
ests of tne state."
6LAV8 INVADE JAP WATERS.
Four Hostile Craft Reported as Sight
ed off Hokkaido.
A special from Tokio, under date
ot Saturday, says: Four Russian tbr
pedo boat destroyors were sighted
west of Hokkaido yesterday (Friday).
Hokkaido. Is the northernmost prov
ince ot the empire of Japan.
ITALIANS FOR THE SOUTH.
Large Body of Immigrants Are Land
ed at New Orleans.
Frank P. Sargent, commissioner gen
eral of immigration, returned to New
York Tuesday from New Orleans,
where he went to be present at the
landing, of , a body of Italian immi
grants. The vessel brought 760 Ital
ians from Palermo. ..-..
The Immigrants were landed at
New Orleans at the suggestion of the
Italian ambasadoa, through whom
southern planters made an appeal for
Italian laborers.
BLUE AND GRAY TO MINGLE
At Unveiling of New Jersey Monu
ment at Newbern, N. C.
On the 18th Instant there will be
a mingling of the blue and the gray
at Newbern, N. C, where the state oi
New Jersey will unveil a monument
to the memory of the men . of the
ninth regiment of volunteer Infantry
of New Jersey. ,
Governor Stokes of New Jersey
and Governor Glenn of North Caro
lina will be among the distinguished
guests. - v. w
TO BRINQ BONES OF JONES.
Application la Made to Navy Depart
ment for Squadron of Vessels.,
; Acting Secretary of State Loomls
Wednesday made a formal request
JO the navy department in behalf
of the state department for the dis
patch of a squadron of American na
val vessels to France to bring to this
country the remains of John Paul
Jones, recently exhumed in Paris,
DYNAMITniORROH
Express' Crashes Into Cars
Loaded With Explosives,
DEATH HARVEST RESULTS
Estimates' Place Number, of Passe rv
engsrs Killed at Half a Hundred.
Wreckage Takes Fire and'
Adda to Disaster.
' An express train on the Peunsylva
nia railroad rem into a freight train
in which there were two cars loaded
with dynamite at 1:10 o'clock Tburs
day morning In South Harrisburg, Pa.
near the plant of the Paxtang Light
Heat and Power company. .
Three terrific explosions that broke
windows all over the city followed
and two trainq were completely wreck
ed and took fire. It 'was estimated
that fifty persona were killed and one
hundred injured. ': ' ': :
When the first explosion occurred
bodle were thrown clear out of the
berths in the sleeping cars, many land
ing down on the railroad embankment,
and -some even having been hurled
into the Susquehanna river, which par
allele the railroad In that locality.
All the physicians procurable In Har
risburg were summoned to work with
the injured. " .- ' '
A fire alarm sounded and the fire
men arrived, to find themselves prac
tically helpless in the work of res
cue. A police patrol wagon was com-
missioned as an ambulance, and many
ot the Injured as possible were load
ed Into It on each trip and taken' to
the Harlsburg hospital, the capacity
of which soon became taxed -because
of the'large niimber that were brought
in. A special train was made up and
transferred Injured and dying to the
union station. Many, of the Injured
were taken Into private houses.
Immediately after the wreck, all the
passengers who .could do m ran from
the scenes of horror to safety Iron,
the Incessant small explosions, v
, The agonizing cries of the unfortun.
a tea were heartrending. The office oi
the Paxtang Light, Heat and Power
Company was transformed Into a tent
porary hospital. At an early hour the
Harrisburg Traction company ran out
a number of cars from its South Har
risburg barns and used them to brine
the Injured to the hospital.
The train was the second section ol
the No. 19. There were 169 passen
gers aboard.
RtaiMTS 8LUR ON ARMY.
Labor ' Leaders In Chicago Nettle
Roosevelt In Wording of Petition.
A strongly worded protest against
the sending of federal troops to Chi
cago was submitted to President
Roosevelt while he was In that city
Wednesday.- The protest is signed by
C P. Shea, president of the Interna
tional Brotherhood of Teamsters;
Charles Dold, president ot the Chicago
Federation of Labor, and by other la
bor leaders.
'"Peace," says the protest of the
labor leaders, ."rests not upon the mi
litia or the army, but upon the pa
tience and long suffering of the toll
ing masses. Can. a few soldiers scare,
the men who make armies and who
compose the flower of American Ulan
hood." The committee presenting the pro
test was received by the president
in person at the Auditorium annex
The. president told them no demand
had been made upon him for use of
troops In Chicago. He said that he
regretted that the , protest apoke 'oi
the federal army as It did. The pres
ident said: . " .'. ,' 7
"Of the merits of the case I am
wholly ignorant I have no knowledge
of what the situation Is, or of what
steps should be taken to end it I feel
however, that In view of one state
ment, I ought to say this: I regret that
you should in the letter have spoken
at all, of the use of the federal army
as you have there spoken.
"What I have to say is based pure
ly upon what I regard as the unfor
tunate phrasing of a letter presented
to the president ot the United States."
DECI8ldN IN FAVOR OF MORRIS.
Georgia Supreme Court Settles Cobb
County Treaaureshlp Case.-
The supreme court of Georgia Wed
nesday morning handed .down a de
cision In the Cobb county treasureshlp
case, In which the decision of Judge
3. H. Lumpkin is affirmed, and Judge
J. T.' Pendleton of the Fulton supe
rior court, is ordered to have the elec
tion superintendents of Cobb county
assemble, consolidate the vote 1 tor
.treasurer and declare J. Old Morrik
duly elected. The case was brought
to the supreme court by J. D. Glovtr,
clerk - of the Cobb county superior
court, who has acted treasurer.,
CAftAfNI GOE3 TO SPAIN. .
... " - .'
Russian' Ambassador at Washington
Transferred to New Post. .
Count Casslnl, the Russian ambas
sador to this country, has been trans
ferred to Madrid. He will be suc
ceeded In Washington by Baron Ro
sen, until recently Russian minister
at Tokla Count Casslnl was offered
the ambassadorship to Madrid twi
months ago and accepted It. Ho will
leave in June for his' new, post. '.
CREW LOOTED FREIGHT CARS
And Conductor, Under : Whom They
; Worked, Sentenced In Savannah.
At Savannah, Ga., Friday, Conduc
tor R. H. Floyd ot the Atlantlo Coast
Line was sentenced in the city court
to pay a fine of $250, or remain six
months In jail. - '
The charge was simple larceny, and
the offense consisted In the looting of
a freight train by the crew, of rale
Floyd was In charge.
FIVE : pi
TVrrifirt f:
ado Wrecks i
lown o
ierritory.
HALF TK E I :: II.'BJTAHTS KILLED
White People Were Wrapped m Slum-
ber Death-c-allng Element Swoop
. ; ed Down Upon Them Una- ,
., wares All Communication 1
With Outside World Is
Cut'Off. .
. Meager reports reaching Fort
Worth, Texas, state that a terrlflo cy
clone struck Bnyd, Oklahoma, Wed
nesday night, wrecking the tows, and
killing five hundred people, and relief
is asked for. . ' ' ; ' '
A message to ihe train dispatchei
sent nrTrtf ' orth asking for In
formation was iewre4 as follows: I
"We have same'report and are send
ing a relief train on (he supposition
that it is .true.S :Wires all ' down.'!
" The telegraph operator at Chicka
saw, I. T., states that he talked over
the telephone with Hobart, Okla., noar
Snyder, and that all wires In the
vicinity oi Snyder were dkwn, but re
lief trains were being sent from sev
eral directions o Snyder4 Snyder is
a town of 1,000 people in Kiowa coun
ty, Oklahoma, located on the Frisco,
45 miles north of Vernon, i V ' ''.''
1 Confirmatory Dispatches.
Reports reached, Oklahoma City from
Hobart and Anadarko confirming the"!
news of a tornado at Snyder, but no
details , were gWfen. - -: .
Telephone reports received In Guth
rie from HobarBt T,' Indicate that
the entire townof Snyder was de
stroyed by a tornado. A train of doc
tors, nurses and other assistance left
Hobart for Snyder, f -
; At 11:40 o'clock Wednesday night
the dispatcher for the Frisco in 8a
pulpa, I. T.,. received a report from
EJiid, O. T., advising that a tornado
had 'struck Snyder, Oklahoma, wreok
lng the town, and killing 609 people,
among whom was 'the station agent
of the Frisco t thftt town. The re
quest came aMoj for ' assistance. On
tho strength of; the report the dis
patcher ordered j a relief train with
physicians to be lent from Chlokasha,
I. T., and Quanah, Texas.' The wire
between Snyder? and Sapulpa went
down about 10, a.' m.
s'' -i '
TWO HUNDRED JEW8 KILLED.
Kishbieff Htrj?fm to Have Been
Repeated jin Zehltomlr.
Very grave fcports are current In
fit. Petersburg' as to the extent of
the massacre of Jews at Zehltomlr,
the number of killed or wounded now
being placed us high as twq hundred,
but precise Information la . lacking.
The minister of the interior has call
ed for a 'detailed report'
Dispatches, are being held op. Tele
grams sent by the newspapers, to Ze
hltomlr remain ! unanswered.
It is asserted; that a, fortnight be
fore the disorders proclamations were
spread palling on the Christians to
beat the Jews. fWhen these proclama
tions were shown to the mayor of Ze
hltomlr, the latter declared them to
be stupid and ald there was no b
caslon for alarm.4 ' , '- '::
TOBACCO
G LAID TO REST.
Funeral of Washington Duke t Dur
ham Was Largely Attended.
Fifteen thousand people attended
the funeral of Washington Duke, the
founder of the- Duke branch, of the
American Tobacco company at Dur
ham, N. C, Wednesday. The banks
and schools of the city and. many of
the manufacturing establishments
were closed during the entire day
and practically all business of the city
was closed during the exercises . .
RUSSIANS HEAR FROM TOGO.
Report That Jap Shlpf Were 8ent to
Intercept Admiral Ne'bogotoff. . '
Admiral Rojestvensky, according to
a high naval authority at St Peters
burg, has sailed south to meet the
division of the Russian second Paclflo
squadron, commanded by Admiral Ne-
bogatoff. The admiralty has iaforma-..
tlon that a Japanese- division of fast
cruisers and torpedo boat destroyers
was sent outh for the purpose, ir
possible, of crippling , or destroying;
Nebogatoff'a ships hefore they could
effect a Junction with those of Rojest
vensky. ;. i- s. . '.- '
PORT RATES ARE REFUSED. .
Petition of Atlanta Merchants Turned
; Down by Railroad Commission.
; The Georgia railroad commission
Wednesday ..turned down Atlanta's pe
tition for a fir d, reduced port rate,
for which there has been an active
and persistent demand from' the At
lanta freight bureau and certain Atlan
ta merchants f r the past two years
or more. THu
the protest of
Brown.
' tlon was taken over
Chairman J. Pope
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Spring Influx
Will probably
former years.
iNERS ARRIVE.
houtand Immigrants
i York Sunday.
. u broken at New
number of lmml-
.1 quarantine. Wlth
13,039 foreigners, ar-
', were permitted to
, liiillcatlng that the
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the pulpit:
A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON B)
THE REV...ALFRED H. A. MORSE.
Subject: Secret of IIaiplnc.
Brooklyn, N. I.ln the Strong riaee
Baptist Church the pastor, the ltev.
Altred II. A. Morse( spoke Sunday ou
"The Srtret of Happiness." He saldi
Therg ore two hidden bauds, con
trolled by the same intelligence) which
are constautly working upon the hu
man heart. And these are pain and
pleasure. Man was made to be happy.
If sometimes he must eat the bread ot
lorrow It Is because, as Mr. Beecher
said, "Sorrow is medicine." Joy is
more divine than sorrow, -and does not
belong only to these passing days, but
shall remain with us when all tears
are dried and sorrow Is swept forever
frourtbe universe.
Now, Joy may be divided into three
classes. There is the joy of appetite, a
merely animal condition. It comes
from the fitting of a goodly organism
into circumtstances which are suited td
supply its need. This is the joy that
makes the,chlld skip and play and fill
the home with laughter. It is the joy
of the singing bird. It is simply pleas
ure. ,.." : .s";
But we are not always children, We
gjw and come into the place of work
Rnd responsibility. And here also 1
joy, and this we may call happiness.
An earnest man finds 'joy la bis em
ployment. The lawyer and doctor and
teacher enjoy their professions. The
minister enjoys to preach. The mer
chant enjoys his business, and the me
chanic his shop In spite of all its toll.
This is joy, but it Is the joy of the bee
that gathers the honey and stores it
a way against the needs of a. hungry
winter.
There is the joy of living, and there
Is the Joy ot working. These are all
that many a man attains. But it takes
a higher joy than these to fill the soul
of man, as the sunlight fills the sky, or
tho ocean fills the deep. There is a Joy
that Is known as "blessedness," which
arches these as the heavens span the
sea. It is the joy of love, the joy of
faith, the joy of a good conscience, the
Joy of doing right for the sake of right,
the Joy of sacrifice and of service.
These are so far above the others that
they belong to another kingdom whose
law Is obedience, whose. Joy is right
eousness, - whose fellowship is with
God, and whose entrance Is by means
of a btrth from above. And into this
kingdom there are certain, well defined
Steps. '. '",",'.;'. v-.vY-.."'
' "Happy," said Jesus, "are the poor' in
spirit, for theirs is tbe kingdom of
heaven." . And poverty of spirit is na
kedness of soul before God. He is
happy who throws aside his own rags
of righteousness and going to God says,
"Clothe me, for I am naked; feed me,
for I am hungry; guide me, for I tim
ignorant; put Thine arms under me,
for I am weak.'V As in tbe mountain
passes of the West the traveler holds
up his hands before the bandit, so in
tbe presence of God's righteousness the
soul must throw up Its hands and sur
render to God. Blessed are the poor In
spirit, the -consciously bankrupt in the
presenco of God. So long as the young
er son remained In the far off land, so
long as he Was satisfied with tbe husks
from the troughs of tbe swine, so long
as he wanted nothing, the father might
mourn, but there was nothing for him
to do. But when that son threw him
self upon bis father's love and said, "I
have sinned, and you see my want,"
theirnhe father could clothe and feed
and kiss; place sandals upon bis feet
nnd give him the place of the son.
Does a prodigal soul wish for happi
ness? I know of no chance for him till
he fling away his sin and standing in
his naked need acknowledges bis pov
erty of soul. Tbe happiest, moment in
the prodigal's experience was when he
burled his face In bis father's shoulder
and said, "I have sinned." . The hap
piest man at the temple gate was. he
who smote his breast and without so
much as lifting his eyes, said, "God be
merciful to me the sinner." ...
Happy are they who mourn for sin.
It Is not enough to" be ashamed of it.
but there must be an actual Sorrow
therefor. This does not mean to mourn
for its consequences, 'nor for its pub
licity, nor. for tbe misery it entails.
Sin is more than a blunder which one
may regret It is more than a mistake
which one would try to repair. It is
open and flagrant and defiant rebellion.
When a man: mourns this, then God
flings above him His smile as the rain
bow spanned tbe flood, and he "shall
be comforted." . ;
Happy are the meek, for they Shall
inherit the earth. But who. ere the
meek? Tbey who obey the law. Moses
bas passed into history as tbe meekest
of men. But Moses bent the neck ot
bis manhood to law, and maybe that is
the reason that to this day our best in
stitutions are all to be traced to tbe
legislation in the wilderness. Only
ouce did Moses lose his meekness, when
with an angry frowu ho smote the
rock. That shattered his meekness
Into a thousand pieces, and he lost the
-t-promised laud. - Ho,dld not inherit the
earth. Jesus was the meekest man,
and He has flung out His challenge for
the world to come to Him. He was
meek, for He was obedient, even to the
place of death.
Happy are the hungry. Hunger and
thirst are spurs which are driven Into
men to drive ahead. When men are
hungry they struggle, and there is
hope for a nation when times are bard,
But when men and nations are -filled,
I tlipy He down to sleep and rise up to
I' .1 .... " Tt'l n T,n l.lli. iM -mm.
grows weak with disuse. Hunger and
thirst are spurt to activity. But tbe
noblest hunger is tbe hunger for right
Cess, for that is the meaning of "right
eensness." To seek God and His
righteousness is to seek for God and
His Tightness. A man whose soul is
famished with this consuming desire
may well be happy, "for he shall be
filled."- .
Happy are the merciful. But mercy
does not always mean leniency.. When
a man is convicted of some gross crime
It is no mercy to let him go to do the
same crime again, Mercy sometimes
exacts an awful penalty, for mercy Is
a prerogative of righteousness, and
mercy belongs to God. The man stand
ing beside God, poor in spirit, mourn
ing his sin, hungry for righteousness,
is -merciful, and mercy comes also to
li!m. "Ho shall receive mercy.", ;
Happy are the pure in heart But
jttbat does this mean? Who ot ui is
ptfrcT It means to be single In pm
pose. The diamond muat be of "the
first water" if it ii to flash the, light
The nan must lie single In purite If
lie is to see God. The doubia-mltideil
man can never see the vllou of Him
whose countenance is as tbe sun shin
ing in bis strength; for his vision
broken and disturbed, like the waves
of the sea driven by the wind and
tossed. Ah! I love .the sen. I've
watched It ou a windy flay, and heard
It we-p and moan and nob. and brenthc
out It anger in ad awful curse. I've
seen the waves rlm buffeted and bent
rn, now backward, now forward, till
lta face was white with rag, but its
heart was black as dt'atli. I've seen it
reel and toss, till at last sobbing ha
though Its heart would break, it would
burst into a myriad briny tears upon
tbe shore and ponr from its wretched
bosom the seaweed and driftwood and
filth it bas gathered in the Journey.
That wave never saw tbe sun. But
I've looked again. -The Sea was like a
mirror, as clear as crystal. I could see
the penrty pebbles, and there in Its
heart I conld see the sun. The pure
hearted waters lay all day long and
looktnl into the face of tbe sun. ' Hap
py, blessed are the pure, the single lu
heart, "for they shall see God."
Tbe matt who bas a supreme desire
to please God, he is pure. He may
have temptation, he may stumble, he
may fall, but be rises again, and he is
farther ahead. I shame to confess It,
but I once played football, the barbar
ism of college. I've seen a man fall
and slide four times as far as he could
go without falling. , He's a pnre man,
though his clothes are covered witlj
grime. The man who is pure in heart
shall see Him that Is invisible. : The
-man who serves God shall see Him. .
Happy are the peacemakers, for they
shall be called the children of God.
God is a peacemaker, and bath recon
ciled ali things onto Himself. And
now the man who makes peace shall
be called His son. ; He has passed
through the school, 'and has learned
poverty and mourning and mercy and
singleness of heart, and now he is
taken Into the family of God as Mosev
was taken into the family of Pharaoh j
daughter. . ' ; , .
There ia one other "blessed" spoken
by Jesus.- It I found in the compara
tive form. ' "It is more blessed to give
than to receive." It makes more for
happiness to give than to get When
self is the centre there is no happiness.
But when self is forgotten there is hap
piness at its height When a man
knows he has nerves he cannot be
happy. - Mr. Rockefeller thinks that
happiness can be ruined by a sensitive
stomach. The happy man Is he who
not knowing that he has nerves or
stomach cares for the other man.
This is the eall to self-sacrifice. How
utterly intolerable this world would be
if every one lived for himself. Happily
this cannot be, and the altruism lies at
tbe bottom of family and social life.
But there are different kinds of sacri
fice. There, is tbe sacrifice. of self to
self, of the lower to tbe higher, of the
passion to principle. There is the sac
rifice of self for others; and-there Is
the highest sacrifice, that Is, ot self to
God. Do we talk of Joy in these
things ? Most people think of them as'
a disagreeable sort of necessity.;: Mav-
Jbe we see that this necessity serves a1
userut ena. But to rejoice in them I
To take up our sacrifice with a song,'
that seems out of the question. That
is the dream of the poet..
Giving is blessed, because it is most
like God. He has need of nothing but
Just to give. . The glory of the gospel
is a happy God, but He gave His Son.
He might have stripped heaven of its
angels and it would not have impover
ished Him. The only gift that He
could feel was the gift of His Son.
And that was what made Him happy.
God Himself could not be happy if Ho
had wlthholden 'this greatest gift
That was the law which Jesus de
clared. It makes more for happiness
to give than to get The Whole life ot
Jesus was giving, but the happiest mo
ment was that last, when He said:
"Father, into Thy hands I commend
My spirit," and He had given His life
for a ransom. ' ,
In these simple words, then, I And'
the whole philosophy pt salvation, of
happiness and of heaven. If a man
mourn for his sin,' he shall be com
forted and an Infinite peace shall dry
his tears. If a man hunger for Tight
ness, he shall be filled. If he strive to
serve God with a single heart, he shall
see Him. If He do the work of God
and live at peace, he shall be called
the child of God, and if he seek for
chances to pour out his life in service,
he shall find- heaven about him on
every side. And this is the secret of
happiness. "
' A Life of Self-Abnegation.
.The Rev. Dr. Jesiah Strong drawe
this picture of the blessedness of self
sacrifice. He says: "The life of self
abnegation does hot attract yon. A
cathedral window seen from without
Is dull and meaningless. Bnt enter,
and the light of Heaven, streaming
through it, glorifies it with every
beauty of form and color. Consecra
tion to God for service may seem dull
enough when seen from without; but
enter into that experience, and the
light of the divine love, streaming
through It, shall gloriry your life with
beauty and- blessedness which are
Heaven's own." ' .
V Th Wy TV Do lilDfc '
. Rev. F. B. Meyer says: "Knitting
needles are cheap and common enough,
but on tbem may be wrought tbe fair
est designs in the richest wools. So
the incidents of dally life may be com
monplace in the extreme, but on them
as the material foundation we may
build the unseen but everlasting fab-'
ric of a noble and beautiful character.'
It does not so much matter what we!
do, but the way in which we do 10
matters greatly
Font Good Bales.
General Gordon, the hero of China
and likewise of Khartum, based hisi
life upon four rules: Forgetfulness of
self, obsolute sincerity, indlfferenco to
the world's judgments, absorption lu'
the will of God. These four rules abldo
as guide-posts on tbe path to great
ness, but tbe greatest of these la sur
render to the. will of God. Paclflo'
Baptist. "-"'-'.--' -
, .
i " Vat In Attitude.
.-' Reverent attitudes are necessary i
worship, bnt It Is the reverence and
not the attitude In which the virtue
resides. Our hvarts must be right
Sunday-School Times,
STORM DEMOLISHES BUILDING.
Three Persona Lose Life and Six In
. Jured In Omaha, Nebraska.
Three persons were killed and six
Injured by the collapse of a three-story
building' at Omaha, Neb., Wednes
day afternoon, during a heavy wind
ctorm. Tbe building was occupied by
tbe Omaha Casket company and the
killed and Injured were, with one ex
ception, employes of the concern.
DEFYIN-3 ALl.IP;
:D TRUST.
North Car olina .Tobacco Growers Rais
' lng Money to Build Factories.
The tobacco growers of North Car
olina have decided to establish fac
tcrics In the etate for tiie purpose ot
defying the alleged tobacco trust
Subscription books for a factory in
Madison were opened with a propos-e,l-
$30,000 capital and over 60 per
cent of the amount was subscribed
in au hour. Another factory will ba
bn'It at I : y Mount
L'ORE JEWS MASSACRED.
For Forty-eight Hours Russians Kept
Up Butchery Victims Fought
. Desperately for Life. '
The report in circulation at St.
Petersburg Monday that there had
been a massacre of Jews at Zhitomir,
government of Volhynia, southwestern
Russia, la confirmed, in a dispatch to
the Novosti (newspaper), which says
the rioting begsa May 7 and contm.
ued' for forty-eight" hours. Orthodox
Christians fell on the Jews in the
streets. -The "Jews were armed an
fought their assailants, many being
killed ' or wounded oa both sides.
A private dispatch f rom '; Zhitomir
attributes the attack on the Jews to
articles by 'Krous Heven. Twelve
Christiana werff killed and ' fiAy
wounded. , On Sunday the Jews" tel
egraphed to friends in St Petersburg
to. ask the authorities to take strong
measures for their protection and oi
dera to that effect were sent "A re
newal of the fighting was expected
at the time of sending the confirm
atory' dispatoh.;1 . :;v.; ;-' :
Commenting on this news, the No
vosti remarks that Krous Heven (tbe
former ' editor of. the Besarabltz, of
Klsthlneff, held to be responsible foi
the massacre of 1903 at that place)
had hardly returned to Klshlneff and
.started; the publication Df his new
paper, the Friend; before Jewish mas
sacres commenced. -
DEMOCRATS HONOR ROOSEVELT.'
Preeldent Tendered Banquet During
Hla Temporary Stop-Over In Chicago. '
Honoring and honored by his pollt
leal foes, but personal friends. Presi
dent Roosevelt was Wednesday night
the chlof guest at a magnificent ban
quet in Chicago, tendered to him by
the Iroquois Club,' the leading demo
cratlc organization of Illinois. Sur
rounded by men who fought against
him In two national campaigns, who
deprecate many of his avowed poli
cies, and who have frowned oipou
some of his political actions; the pres
ident was cheered to the echo as he
entered the banquet hall, was applaud
ed with enthusiasm throughout his ad
dress, and at its close, and; was given
to understand that in his , case pollt- -ileal
differences were not a personal
Issue. ; ' ;;
j The banquet, which was from But
. to last an ovation, was given entirely,
by democrats to the leader of their
I political opponents, and many of. the
i. kindly personal references made by
the speakers of the evening, the ma
jority of whom are men of democratio
faith, deeply touched the president. In
his manner and words he evinced1
throughout the evening a deep grat
ification at the warmth of his recep
tion from 'men who have fought htm
in political battles before now, and
are ready to fight' him again tomor
row it they considered it necessary.
- The president left for Washington
, over the Pennsylvania road on Thurs-'
day morning at 11:10.
A 6URFEIT OF STRAWBERRIES.
Roads Unable to Handle Crop in the
North State and Heavy Loss Results.
There has never been anything In
Mr. Hyde has bis Interests and hla
the history of North Carolina that
compares with tbe railroad block at
Cbadburn. More than $200,000 worth
ot strawberries have rotted at tbe
depot '; ' 1
The railroad hauled car load after
car load of fine but spoiled berries
to the river and dumped them as so
much garbage. The loss to the truck
growers of the section will he at least
00,000. . ; . .
Dillard & Bell,
Attorneys at Law,
MTJRPHT, N." C. '
Office pttt Corder'a,
BEN POSEY,
Attorney at Law,
MURP.HT, N. C.
' Will practice in State and Federal
Courts. AU business entrusted to us
Will be transacted with fldollty and
dispatch. - Office In now courthouse. .
E. Br NORYELL,
Attorney at. Law,
; MURPHY, NORTH CAROLINA.
All business promptly attended to.
. Office in courthouse, near entrance.
F. P. AXLEY,
Attorney at Law,
I - REAL ESTATE. .
MURPHY. N. C
Dr. S.'C. Ilcighwny,
Office Over J. E. Faln's Stor
Murphy,
N. C.
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KU: I'TIY, N. C.
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