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V^OL. XXIX.
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‘AND YE SHALL KNOW THE TilUTH, AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE.”—/oAn viii, S3.
CHARLOTTE. N. C.. MARCH J4. 1907.
NO 10.
Entered at the Post-office at ChaTfof personal property. A large'-
h/te, N, C., as second-class matter ferewd of white people attended!
That is mutual re-f
BY THE WAY.
The Conference of the Sabbath-,
school missionarie which was held^
in Macon, Ga., from the 20thi'^°'^®® Hargrave,
through the 24th of February
a success with the Rev. Alexan-@!^*.*^®^®”' -N- respectively.
|the funeral,
spect.
Rev, Jas. G. Carlile, at Walter-';,
^boro, has two teachers with him'*i
[this year in his school: Miss Lottie?^
ot«
Alexan
der Henry, D. D., the Superin
tendent of the Board of Publica
tion and Sabbath school Work at
Philadelphia, as presiding officer.
All the Sabbath-school missiona
ries were present except Rev. Mr.
Onque.
Rev. Dr Holley and his good
people made our sojourn in Macon
among his people like one in the
family. While there we were the|
guest of Dr. E. E. Green and
family. His is a model home.
Prayer is offered morning and
evening, and everything else moves]
; without friction' in that home of
; the old school; even the dog is
educated. Dr. Green’s son and
our schoolmate. Dr. Charles Green,
has an excellent practice. Mrs.
Green and little Mamie make home
sweet, while Cornelius, a young
man of refinement and of a very
few words, collects for his father.
■: It is always a great pleasure fo
Dr. Green, Sr., and me to meet;
for as an old man his mind runs
back to the early 70’s when he was
quite a young man from Lincoln
University, teaching school in and
about Clinton, S. C., and when 1
was a boy wearing my first ma
ma’s made breeches. We often
went back to those old days and
found joy we could not express.
It looked like ye olden times to
see..our...):\ld, .friiin.d and one-year
. con. He.doesn’t l.oOk 5ifir'day’'oKi
er than he did June.1889, when he
graduated and left Biddle Univer
sity. We were glad to see Wal
ter.
Col. L. P. Berry and I ran down
to Fort Valley, Ga., and spent]
Friday night and Saturday at Fort
Valley High School with Prof,
and Mrs. Hunt. We had the op
portunity of seeing their work in
the class rooms. They have well]
fitted teachers and their work is
neat and thorough. Suffice it to
say that we couldn’t expect things
to be otherwise about there when
Prof. Hunt is at the head.
•The babies Prof, and Mrs. Hunt
carried from Biddle a few years;
ago to Fort Valley are two large
girls and a large boy attending]
school; but Prof, and Mrs. Hunt
present the same faces, cherry
and young. In our days in Biddle]
we always called Prof. Hunt one'
of the boys without subtracting
from him any of his essential dig
nity. We were glad to see them
and they made our stay like those
of yore
The Board supports one and Rev.
iCarlile pays the other out of his
own pocket with the expecta-l
]tion of the Board’s assuming the^
responsibility. That is dete^mina
tion and faith underscored. That
is right, but few of us are willing'"
to try it.
Rev and Mrs. W T. Frasier'
mean much to the, church and cit;-*-
zenship of Walterboro. Mrs, I"
Frasier is educated, industrious,!
and has all the elements of a faith!
ful Christian. We called to see|
them for the first time Wednesday '
of this week and she was ironing
Brother Frasier’s shirts, cuffs and
collars as nice as a Chinaman.
She is a lady of the twentieth cen
tury, but studied in the old school
where industry is in the course of
study. Unfortunately for us we
have too many pretty, refined wo
men, who can’t wash and iron a
|shirt sleeve.
Superintendent S, F, Coakley is
rendering indispensable ser
KOida
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THE MEXICAN OCELOT.
Still ...—
vices in the church and Sunday
school at Walterboro.
The sad intelligence of the
death of Dr. Sanders was received
in the city of Walterboro as well
as over the State with much regret
and bleeding hearts. Truly it,
does seem that great leaders of a]
dependent people choose their path
and cross over the Great Divide
just at a time when they are need
ed most to lead and advise their f’ol
lowers But let us not forget that
behind the cloud of grief and dis
ia g a.tTVi'
REV. D. J. SANDERS, D. D.',"
Who died March 6. Founder and for 28 yearn Editor of the
Africo-American Presbyterian, and for over 15 years Presi
dent of Biddle University. j ■
THE OMAHA CONVENTION. * ‘
^ .Groat Jumper Is This Strange Ml.,
tie Spotted Jungle Cat.
One of the most iiitiTestius auiamls
)f the new world and yet one of which
little seems to be written, even tiy
sportsmen who have spent much t|aie
m Mexico and the Central .-Vmerieaa
t«tes. is the ocelot, the strange liille
.potted cat of tlie dense Jimy:les' of
tropical parts of the two .h.mericas, ]
They are not nearly so heavy as Uie
vcra"i‘ lynx of the eastern woods a ;;id
le inli.iitely lighter on t'.eir feiil.
riiey run with the ttreatest a;;ility up
un 1 down the almost perpendicul;ir
.....U-i of ti-ees and follow a crippleif„
lird out on limbs too slender, it woiiUi|
leem. to lie r Uie wei,-elit of the par- '
ot, let alone the cat. I’arrots are the
celot’a pr..K-ip,d mod, and tlieir huu;
;r; is done a.mo t altogether by daj
hou,' li. like ali the cat tribe, they are
It irouahly at home in the blackest
'ipht.
The parrots which t'.iey hunt fre-
pient the thicke t of fore.-its, couiintr
0 the groun 1 only in the rare open
jiaces and aloiia the lianks of the
uany sinail streams where they drink
n order to follow them it Is necessary
hat the oi-"iots be jrrea.t .lumpers, and
so they a.e Whej I was followiui
the boimds I lirom h the sontliern Cali
r'oniia hills after wddeats ,nn.J an oy
atsional mountain lion I was wont it>
'■ay that tin* latter tvas the akeatesr
iumper on e.irdi The ocelot has any
Lnonntain lioa : li.it ever walked l ejitcn
block, lea nth for le,i.!;tli and wi Ight
for weight.-Forest anil Stream.
BANK’S TEMPERANCE RULE,
/lorks May Not Kvon Roler I'laca
'Where Ram la Sold.
.-4 'oiidin,g bank ofClevelan 1 Imsadopt-
.■d a very .stringent rule aga' ist th» use
of intoxicants by its eniplo ees. When
t man or boy enters the service of tbia
'nslitutlon ho is required to sign an
agreement that he will not enter any
place wliere Intoxicating liquors are
sold. Two who have signed this pledge
were recently dismissed because they
took a couple of young women into a
•ostaurant after the theater.
Tt may seem a bardshi[>,'’ said an
official of the bank in explanation of
theli action, “to prevent n young man
'rom entei ing a hotel or restaurant, to
which he might go with the best of
motives, but with this rule agreed to on
the part of the employer and enforceI
on i>art of the bank we fee] sure that
an employee is not going to steal the
hank’s money for the puritose of s;iend-
’.ng it In Improppv places, nor are the
employees likely to torn the acquaint
ance of short card gamblers or race
track touts In the dairy lunch rooms.
We are seriously coutemplattag the
extension of the order, so that it shall
apply to any place where stocks or
produce Is dealt la on a margin.”
■Iq the last number cf this paper
reference was made to the Inter-Synod-,
cal Missionary Convenlii n held at]
4 Iq thejudgneht cf this conven
tion it will be necessary in order to
jraise the fund-t inquired for the dis
^charge of eur mistionary obligations
for every church to adopt a. mission
Omaha a few weeks before. We nowSary policy embodying the following
give the recomendations adopted byjprinciples and raeffiods:
the Convention. ^ qur missionary policy.
We, men of the Presbyteriani^ It is the mission of the whole Caurch
Church, iu the United States of Amer-^ip give t^e gospelRo the who'e world
ica, gathered in inter-synodical con-® 2. The entire Church being a mis,
ve-,tiim ot more tho-. i 000 delegates,I’einnary society
■.m-i I.,.. - >
[will not be unfolded until^e^are^nese of God iiiThe 0/ ^ Christ|thr witlTjhe
transformed into his likeness
when we aw’ake and be satisfied.!
A great man has fallen out of]
the galaxy of safe leaders
Biddle University, the Presbyi
;erian Church, and the world have
[lost a great man-
Correspondent.
South Carolina, March 9th, 1907.
' go-'
If not ir
to be the Savior of the world, fidedfpel to every crea
with wonder over the triumphs of the® Every Christi
gospel in non-Christian lands during
the last one hundred 'years, touched
]by the appeals which come to us Ur]
the light of life from lands without
JChrist. and conecious of the solemn
.rnsraber of.,ihe
■nx to help lUTiui
id—to give the gos
!'e.
is commanded to'
person, then pofcen
jtially, having a sr®*"® 1*7 gift and prajj
er in supporting ^ pa-rish abroad, afil
well as the paris^.'^t home.
[the FRAGRANCE OF A GEN
TLE LIFE.
I H J- Gur giving! ^tild be an act 01
responsibihties laid upon' us by thei^orship (Provert^ »'• 9), cheerful
rlftn ni^ocMrtrva rsf i_. I iCa ' . •»
Once in cressir-g a meadow i came
to spot that was filled with fragrance.
Yet I wondered whence the fragrance
oamo. At last I found. low down
[close to the ground, hidden by tall
grass, innumtrab’e little fliwers. It
was from these that the f.agrance
]eame.
I enter some homes. There is a
rich perfume of love that pervades all
the p’acf. I‘, may be a home .of
wealth and luxury, or it may be plain
|and bare. No matter; it is not the
house, nor the furniture, nor the
[adornment that makes this air of
[sweetness. I lo k closelv. It is a
gentle woman.
• 1.^ 1 - • HS'’*"'''’ woman, mother or daughter
Sunday night before servicesjquiet, hiding self away, from whose
instead of returning to our respectlafe the fiagrance fljws Thera is a
i/e places for tea, the dear ladiesg^oDdrous charm in a o-mitio : -i
had a $50 dollar supper preparedlThe gentle girl in a home may nTbe
for us and visiting friends in the jbeauiiful, m^y not be well eLcated
church basement in Macon; after j^^y not be mLcal or an arSt, t
supper Sabbath school Missionary
L. M. Clark preached an able ser
mon in the basement. Dr. Holley
and his dear and good people]
won’t be soon forgotten by the
Sabbath school missionaries.
Lawyer Howell, of Walterboro,
died a few weeks ago and all busi-
_ ail uu»i-» uieiius ineir Droke
ness places closed. Wednesdayfdolle’ dresses, straighte
of this week, Mr. Chestnut, the
barber of this ancient town, Wal
clever in any way, but .wherever]
|she moves she leaves a benediction.
^Her sweet patience is never disturbed
iby the sharp words that fall about her,
Jlhe children love her because she nev
er tires ot them. She helps them withiChrisiiin lands, providentially allottid
tteir lessons, listens to frets and wor- gto the Presbyterian Church for evan‘
ries, mends their broken toys,, makesggelization. This would ,fnean for the
ns out tangles.
rich blessings cf God, temporal and
spiritual, which we erjoy, do hereby'
adopt the following as the deliberate
[expression (four privilege and duty in
the extension of the kingdom of our
Lord;
1. It is the judgment of this con
vention for men that the number of
human beings in non-Christian lands,
lor which the Presbyterian (ffiurch,
United Stales of Ameriqg^is directly
responsible in the work ot evange iza-
]tion in this generation, is approximate-
|ly 100 000,000 being distributed as
follows'; Mexic', 2,500,000; Central
Apoerica, 500,000; South * America,
10.000. 000; Japan, 4,000,000; Korea,’
6.000. 000; China, 40, (JO’,000; Siam,
Laos, 5,000,000; ' ledia, 18 millionf’;
Persia, 5 millions; Turkey, 2 million
Africa, 6‘millions; Philippines, 2 mil
lions,
2. It is the judgment ot this con
vention that the force ot Presbyterian
American foreign mis-i maries, native
pastors, Bible women ■ and teachers,
ought to be increased in the immedi
ate future until it reaches the number]
of one American foreign missionary
and five trained native w-orkers (or
.their equivalent) for each. 25. ihous-
-and unevaogelized people now in non
(2 Cor. ix. 7), a?^ according to th
]ru’.e of three (1 xvi. 2). Indi
vidually, systema‘®®'^^7 ®-nd proper
tionately, ‘ Let ev‘‘‘y of you lay
by iim in store on^^® *1^7 of tie
week as God hath Prospered him
CUR MBSIalL:*^^ MBTH0D!>.
1. Let synods presbyteries,
through their tore?® missionary com
mittees, labor to /®'^® every church
[adopt this missionaYPoIi®7
2. Let the Boa;^ of Foreign Mis-
siors, in consultatlj '^Rh the synodi
cal fjreign missioi chairmen, and
such laymen as the®®®cd may select,
I >/ ^ - f
annually lay befjr*"*’® General Asseml
biy a statement off® amount needed
fllCH/sUU bU^lbAG£.
Wum n Great Aotor nn4l
ap«:iire*M Leadiu^ Star.-
Marcli IG, 1G18 or IGll). RU-barJ Bur
bage, player, died at Bborediteb. Ron
don.
Tbe llrst of tbe great Engllsb tlfgU
uctora Burbage was in every way
wortb.r to bead tlie long roll of Eng
land’s famous players. Tbe sou of an
a;;tor. tbe friend and companion ol
Sbakespeare. it wa.s tbrougb bim that
many of tbe heroes of tbe dramatist
first spoke to tbe eager playgoers wbo
thronged tbe Globe theater. He was
tl;o original of Romeo, Hamlet, Lear.
Othello, Macbeth, Shyiock, Richard
HI. and many other of fihake.speare’s
leading characters, and bis name
stands next to that of the great poet
the liq(j,iise-.-t for .acting graute.l by
ne-i Av-J-J-;—. via f,v n,,. or ft_1fl
Globe tbenfer.
tils powers as an a cof were not bis
only claim to distinet'.oii. for bo was
■ilEO a successful painter. The fame ot
bis -abilities held a prominent place in
tbeatr-lcrd tradition for many years, a
poem in bis honor, dedicated to one of
the great players of the day, being
written as late as tbe time of Charles II
His death, wliicb was probably the
result of paralysis, caused tbe poets to
turn tlieir thoughts co bis successful
career, and it is from tbe nuirierous
■degies then writt«j that most of tbe
information concertiing bim must be
(gathered. Few players have ever liad
tbe good fortune to be so w-ell liked by
the dramatists of their time, and ail
praised bim, one even lameptitig that
tils death “bath made a vlsiliile eclipse
! of playing.”
A shrewd, careful man iu Ida .-b-tjSit-
ness affairs. Rurbage left an est.ate
Uroduclng a yearly income of £300, a
b-arge sum for a jilayer in those days to
Vsijaeath to liis heirs'. Be;«k-ed and
rev-i-xieted by all. be S'lrvived bis great
inaat-etr by only a few years. Ids gi-ave
bear'm-g jttie simple, expressive epitupli,
■E.xit Rarbage.*- — I.ondou Saturday
w'-
CAKE AN lOLD INSTITUTION
for the ensuing ® suggested ap
porlionraent of said ®iouat among the
various synods and Presbyteries, not
«s an assessment, but‘* a definite sha re
of the responsibility;''
3. Let every chu®^ prayerfully as
[suine its share of ti* responsibility,
_which may be repre®^®*! 1*7 a sum of
qj’aDbbuey which adeq®’’®!/ represp.nts
"the Church’s finaaty'^ ability; or by
‘A Parish Abroad,’represents
'as much money as th®^®'^®^ ®an com
tribute to this "worL; c ^7 salary of]
[one or more foreign poSsionaries
Let the bubaef*'®®® method ba:
|Eet in ‘ teratlon by ’® session of the
church, by which eviF member shall
and settles their little quarrels and
' Tfinds time to play. Her face .is a!-'
terboro, died, and all the business fways bright wfth the out shining of
places closed out of respect forflove. Her v -ice has music in it as
this colored barber. He wasn’t alit Llls in cheerful tenderness on the
barber who wore the red shirt and Lfufferer’s ear. Her hands are won
“at order, but wason the aching herd, or as theyf outlined above, and we therefore set
LrwRh ?2500®Sv the'fourselves resolutel,-. to .the work of
est, witn $^500 insurance on his be^‘\of pai p.- ’
Auia wuLuu^paean lor toeB ' •'
Presbyterian Church, United States of|^® given ®PPOrtunity t-3:
]America, four thousand American»®^P’‘®®^ *®ve forsn^® loyalty tn^
missionaries, or about five times as
rile Ancleute and Ate It. bat I»
Was a Sioiple Allalr.
The ancients laafle cake, but it was
]not the rich, hi.gbly seasoned and fla-
Ivored confection whS* ,we Indulge In
nowadays. They had plain -cakes made
with flour and water, sasne of them
without a suspicion of sweet or flavor.
Some of them were not unlike our
plainest crackers and were often eaten
as wo eat bread.
■Wedding cake was an iustitution
among them, as with ns, but the cake
was a plain one and was broken above
[the head of the bride as she went ts
Nser new home. This was a special feit
of Roman marriages 2,000 years
iago. The breaking of tbe cake was
|,jsitrt ot a solemn ceremony. All of the
take? of ancient history are plain and
kSraple. It is only as we come down to
mere modern times that we hear of
kpleesi and fruits and all of the rich
and laxnrlous Ingredients In which
present day eakemakers delight In
Queen Elizabeth’s time spice cakes and
bnns were eaten at weddings. Prom
these the fashion and fancy grew for
many as we now have,
3. It is the judgment of this con
vention for men that it will cost not
jless than six million dollars a year to'
fully meet the great responsibility
life, and witb about $1500 worth i
J. B. Miller, in bringing the foreign missionary offerf ®®°ts a week)
ing8 of-our Church up to this mark. §
[express his love for so - - lai -
Christ by a weekly ,ontbIy, quarterS*^,®®® ‘'^® fasl'fod and fancy grew for
J wocaiy, ; O) H gau elaborate and deliciouslt
ly or annual oli’ering .'j this cause, fflnnwholesome combinations until there
5. While we ^bat Ihe^seems to be a perpetual struggle for
ability of churches "“^1 ‘‘“d more unusual to
y _ euurcnes ^*tir into the cake of the period,
jvaries, it is the judgit®'' m mis con-^ )
vention that each^' churches| ^ohhy-lT'e^lTZTk this
Ahonldi strive to attJ average of«tlonary, pa? Peckley-Oh, no, my
Tier member foil’^®'Sn missions^ child. Every little while a new word.
^ m herehv *’^® Hnguage. Bobby-
urge»g ^Vhat’s the latest word, pa ? Peckley— ?
Your ma will tell yon. She always''
has the last word.
\)7id page,)
Port Arthur.' 1004.
A Swedish physician at I’ort Arthur
's given as authority for tbe following
lescriptlon of Russian (Jyunkenuess on
Feb. 2, 1904, Just a week befpi-e tb^,
outhreak of hostilities betweep
ud Japan: ScAiouA
‘The streets of tbe town swarm wllh‘
Russian soldiers and on Sundays, a
day ot special privileges, three-fourth*
of them get completely drunk on vod
ka. One may aee them lying around
die streets every ..'..tv - looking, like
heaps of filthy rags. Then the pe’ir,*-
send £pr coolies with carts, who take
the wretches away. The coolies are
amazed to see ho-w low so called ‘civi
lized’ men can slna, for In China, as «
rule, the people are very temi>erate"
I ME. MENACE QF BEEK. 1
”7t A ■
Why Mnlt n Are More Harm-
fal Than 'Whisky.
Is beer an aicohollo drink?
Yes; it contains from 4 to 10 per
cent of alcohol and is the most danger-
ous mocker of tbe alcohol family, for
the reason that it Is mild and cheat)
and stupefying rather than raging.
As betwoo.n a sfaglo drink of beer or
I
ful, because the large per cent of wa
ter in it renders it less irritating, an I
the water, of course, is put to good u-=e
iiy the body.
! But the drink of beer is perhaps toy
times as big as tlje drink of whisky
and contains by volume as much op
nearly as much alcohol.
And people having little fear of al
cohol dnnk it freely. Ignorant people
even think it has an important value
as a food and tliat the more they drink
the better.'
Tbe beer habit grows as readily and
as rapidly as the alcohol habit in other
forms and, even more steadily than the
others, undermines the vital powers
[ Or. Delbrueck. the great German
physiologist, says, “It is certainly of
greater importance to work with all
,the forces at our command against the
fbeer danger that Is growing like an
avalanche thap tp fight whisky, whose
star Is already on the deoHne,”
Everybody -knpws and acknowledge.*
that whisky is a dangerous drljik. Ev
erywhere a fight Is being wage^ against
hard drinks. The brewers them
selves compose a temperance propa
ganda as against whisky. The distil
lers themselves are keenly alive to the
fact that the trade In spirits rides an
ebbing tide.
The greatest feature ot the alcohol
oroblem is the brewery.-New Voice.
alpinT~root"diggers. '
rhalp Work of Danker Ulkb Up Iu
the Aloaataln*.
Throughout the whole chain of the
Alps there are men who make It their
business to search for and root up the
j gentian, arnica, puffballs and other Al
pine flowers.
High up in the mountains the root
grubber, generally an old man. build.*
a little hut. He clambers precipices
to the edges, where the blue flowers
!grow; or, if he cannot ascend, he lots
himself down to their place of refugg
by a rope fastened to a pine above. ' '
He wanders to a long distance from
his but and does not always trouble to
return to It at night, finding shelter un
der a rock. Next morning he spread.*
all the roots ho has collected on a rock,
where they may dry.
Ho collects herbs as well as roots,
and the resin from tbe pine besidea
When the summer is over and there
are signs of snow, the root grubber
I collects all together In his little bui and
Anally transports the whole of bis sii
months' collection to the valley.
Tbe arnica and some other roots used
In medicine are readily disposed of.
From the gentian le made tbe favorite
I gentian brandy, which is c&i,.sidei cd
the very elixir of life by the mountain
folk. In other days, when gentians
grew in great numbers, the root digger
was able to realize a good income from
bis perilous occupation, but it is other.
”'lae now.—Chambers* Joum&t