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Facts, Fables and Fancies IDA IXGOLD Written for the Dewier. The New Tear's Outlook. I am looking oat from the watch tower of the passing year over the peaceful expanse of 1907. The eight that meets my eyes is enchant ing. In the twilight of dawn all eents beauteous with the soft blend ing of pastel coloring. I strain mv eyes to discriminate the objects, but the haze and mist of the future will not allow me to see what the New Year holds for me. I listen with my ears of faith to the so't lappiug of water upon laud; to the glad notes of the birds ot 4awn, and I hear the soft singing' of a morning zephyr abrwe and be yond. Is the .spins of the New Yem out there? A voice away in the dim distance answers, "Aye." But mi ears of faith cannot reveal it to me. Looking Into The Past. I turn my eyes backward, and whatdolset? No pastel coloring, not much beauty. All gray, sombre hued waste. The denteuess of coming night is over it. I strain my eyes once more to see, but no , I do not de3ire to review the scenes of the past. Some of them are good, some beautiful, but there is also much that is not go)d and would not bring pleasure to medi tate upon. I will let the "dead past bury its dead." But sounds coma up from out of the old year nnbidden, unasked. I :inuot choose but hear their, and they muse me impatient to leave my watch-tower and go forth to meet the unknown and untried. It is true that I hear some notes that are sweet and te- uer, some that are worthy and sincere, but with all tbat much is discordant and out of tune. So that it is a mere jargon of sounds issuing from the past. Hear The Theme Note. But as I stand thus in my watch tower endeavoring to catch a glimpse of the future, but being compelled to review the past in pite of my self, I take to considering what good has come out of life for me in the past. Whit have I been able to transmit to others, was i: sunlight or shadow? As I silet.tly consider tius; suddenly floating out from the confusing sounds and soaring above all, lute-like and clear, I hear a si 1 very note. It rises and falls, some times tremulous and minor, some times pure nd joyous, and then losing itself entirely amid the thun denug of uo:i-musical sounds. But, as I listen, it springs up again where I had least expected it and soars on high until it is like the theme of a grand symphony. And now I know that the old year has not been lived in vain. That the darkness and discord have not been darkness and discord alone. They have served as a background for the leading note which w.g -h.' theme and ttnr of my life. That along the course of this sweet theme the force of my soul has spent itself in the great thundering symphony of life. Now, I am straining my ears to hear the grand finale which will end up the old year's symphonyV Am I In Tunc! What am I going to do with the New Year? I expect to improvise my life symphony better, sweeter, more powerful, more useful. By it I hope to be able to transmit more of what is good to others. I expect to play better upon the stage of life this year than last. I expect there will be less discord and a sweeter, clearer theme. I shall not court trouble and shall strive to keep free from sadness; and yet minor music is the sweetest, what symphony would be perfect without it? There fore I shall resolve to try to be pa tient if sorrow comes. To play well I must be in tune. The ttftie of my mind and my heart will have everything to do with the year's work. If it is a self-satisfied mind, -and full of self conceit my the ne will all be of self and will not be interesting. If I am out of tune altogether there will be no music at all, no theme, nothing accomplished. But, if I listen with the ear of my soul until I catch the pitch of the great infinitude and then tune my mind and heart to strike its chord, I hove already solved the secret of the power and STATE OK OHIO, City of Toledo, 1M ' Lucas County. JM Frank J. Cheney makes outh that lie Is senior partner of the iii iu of F. J. Cheney & Co., dolus biiKluucs In the City of Toledo, County and Statu afnreftiiM. and that suid tlnu will pay the Bum oi ONK HUNDRED DOLLAKH .'or each nud every neof ('utarrh that caunot be cuiee by the use of Hull's Cuturrh Cure, FRANK J. CHENEY. riwom to lieforo me an t subscript )n my presence, thisiith day of December, A. 1). 1888 (Seal) . A.W.GLKASON, Notary l'ublic. Hall's Cntarrh Cure Is taken internally, und acts directly ou the blood ami mucous surfaces of the tystom, Hend for testimonials free. F. J. CHENEY J: CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all druggists 75c MASTEN. sweetness of the New Year. Play ing upon the strings of life I shall touch chords which the carnal minded may not understand; chords of ravishing leauiy which-shall gather force and volume until all that is no'i-musica! shall be dragged into harmony, making one grand unison ot such inexplicable sweet ness that the world may stop to listen. Value The Present. The year 190G is gone from us fo-ever. Its opportunities have taken their flight upon the wings of time. We caunot recall them. Let us redeem all past mistakes by re solving to better the future. Oh, that we might value the present at its real worth! That we might think our best thoughts about our frit-uds while they live. That we might sing our sweetest songs, wear our brightest smile, live our best today; live as we intend to liye after awhile. That we might open our eyes aud see the beauty we expect to see by and by. For this is lif.-. Today is a page in every person's life-book. About the middle it may be, or toward the end. Or, if haply it may be in its first chapters, bless ed are you if you but realize that today is your privilege. Power Spends Itself. Those of us who have life's bloom and harvest before us have a right to expect a fuller and rosier effulgence ofter awhile, as the noon-tide ex ceeds the morning in glory. But there is a condition: that we live our very best uow, that we spend ourselves while we have the light of morning. That no effort, no sweet ness, no capacity be reserved for a fairer or more worthy hour. But that we put forth our best effcrts at all t;mes to do in the best way pos sible our daily task, spending upon it the best there is in us as if no other day were coming with no greater task to perform. The ne ci'ssity of such a condition is shown by the fact that human capability accumulates strength by spending itself. Just as the physic.il muscles become powerful by use; no- by meagre, economizing use, but by tiresome,' straining exertion of their b -st powers every day, not once in awhile as the mood calls for it. Unused Talents Shrivel. Those who keep back the sniles and teais today because they think there will be u belter time by and by to cultivate their em tious; those who refrain f i oai singing their most musical songs because so-ne dy they expect to sing to an audience of priucej; those who withold their freshest, most fragrant flowers be cause they fiucl none better than a beggirto bestow them upou, will liud in the day of their desire that their flowers have withered, the well springs oftheir emotions have dried up, and their voices will croak in their throats, unable to utter 'u sound. A I'ervcnt Conclusion. Oh, to live, the best there is in us today, and thn to live better tomor row because we have lived today! To stand with squared shoulders and firm set mouth, with an eye that looks out and beyond . to the great infinitude, an ear that listens to the music of invisible realms, and thus to meet the New lear. Ida Ixgold Mastex. A man with a sprained ankle will use a crutch, rent the ankle and let it get well. A man or woman with an overworked stomach can't use a crutch, but the stomach must have rest just ti e same. It can he rested too with out starvation. Kodol will do it. Kodol preforms the digestive work of the tired stomach and corrects the diges tive apparatus. Kodol fully conforms to the provisions of the National I'ure Food aud Virus Laws. Roconiinonded aud sold by Standard Drug Co. and Asheboro Drug Lonjpany. Cook Books. Do you want the largest and best cook book published. If so, write ns and we will tell vou how to get it for one hour s work. Don t delay but write to-day. To Ketatu Color in Cotton Gju1. Delicate shades of cotton fabrics, blues, pinks, lavenders, and so forth, can be laundered and still be as pretty as new, if they are treated us follows: Drop one teaBpoonful of spirits of turpentine into one-half gallon of cold water, wet the goods thoroughly m this, wring dry and hang in the shade. When thor oughly dry it can be laundered. There is no odor left from the use of the turpentine. This method has b vn tested time and again and al ways with perfect results. The THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON I, FIRST QUARTER, INTERNA" TIONAL SERIES, JAN. 6. Text of the Lesson, Gen. I, Mem ory Verses, 1-3 Golden Text, Gen. I, 1 Commentary Prepared by Rev. D. M. Stearns. Copyright, 1008, by American Press Association. We are now to have a whole year In what la called the Old Testament, the Scriptures which Jesus so loved and which He was always quoting and opening up and heartily indorsing. We are to spend nine months in the books of Moses and the last quarter In Joshua to Samuel. We will do well to bear In miud that all Scripture con cerns Himself, all was written by the Spirit of God, and all things written in the law of Moses, the -prophets bu4 the Psalms concerning Him must be fulflllud (Luke xzlv, 27, 44). There is nothing within our reach so much to be prized as the knowledge of God (Jer. ix, 23, 24), and Dr. Andrew Mur ray says concerning the Bible, "The central thought of this book is God; Its oue object is to reveal God, and in reading It our chief desire should be to know God." The book as a whole is the story of this earth on which we live and the purpose of God concern ing It The first two chapters of Gen esis and the last two of Revelation tell us of the earth as it was and as It will bo again, without any sin or sorrow or devil or curse. Between Gen. ill and Itev. xx it Is, as Dr. Weston says, the story of the conflict between Chriet and the devil for man and his inheritance, the earth. The opening sentence of our lesson Is a dateless statement telling us in a few mighty words how heaven and earth came into existence. Literally it is "the heavens and the earth." That God the Father created all things by and for Jesus Christ is seen in John 1, 1-3; Col. 1, 10, 17. That all was done by Ills word and spoken into existence out of nothing is seen in Ps. xxxlll, tt, 0; Ucb. xl, 3. Some of the comfort that comes to a child of God from these facts may be seen in Isa. xl, 20-31; Jer. xxxll, 17; Acts Iv, 24-31. That the earth was not created with out form and void we learn from Isa. xlv, 18. It is more plain in the Revised Version by comparing verse 2 with that passage. The two words translated "without form and void" are found in combination only in two other places (Isa. xxxiv, 11; Jer. iv, 23), and in each they refer to the result of a catastro phe. -The inference from this record in Genesis is that in the far distant past, "the beginning," God made the heavens and the earth good, as lie al ways makes all things, but that some thing happened which resulted in the confusion and emptiness of verse 2. The six days' work of our lesson is therefore not the record of the crea tion, but of a restoration, for it is no where written that in six days the Lord created the heaven and the earth, but it is written that "In six days the Lord made heaven and earth" (Ex. xx, 11). See the two words in Gen. 11, 3. The beautiful part of it is that nil was done by the Spirit of God and the word of God, no one and no thing hindering. Note In verse 2, "The Spirit of God moved or brooded;" then notice the ten times "And God said." Notice also the other verbs, saw, divided, call ed, made, created, blessed, ended, rest- This man bought a supply of tobacco with out acquainting himself with the distinctive taste of SCHNAPPS Tobacco, which has the cheering qualities that gratify his desire to chew, and at less expense than cheap tobacco. SCHNAPPS has been advertised in this paper so that every chewer has had an 6pportunity to get acquainted with the facts and know that drugs are not used to produce the chcrir? quality found in the famous Piedmont country flue-cured tobaccos, and thtji SCHNAPPS i3 what he ought to chew. Still thevo tire c'.iovvers who accept other and cheaper tobaccos that do rot civc the same pleasure. Tcke Laxative BromO Q,ukfcc vHst3. AfJ n every Seven Million boxes sold In past 12 months. TMs slgKatCfTe, -" 't0 BOX 25C ed, finished, sanctified, given, in this section ending with chapter ii, 3. Note the sentences, "God saw that it was good," and "It was so," each used sev en times, and also the twice seven times' use of the word "let." It Is cer tainly a maguiflcent picture of God working unhindered and accomplish ing His good pleasure, the result being a perfect earth without sin or suffer ing or curse of any kind and, as we shall see in our next lesson, man in the Image of God in communion with God, having dominion over all things. Thus the Bible begins, and thus it ends, and If we are in Him who is both the beginning and the end, the first and the Inst (Rev. i, 8, 11, 17), we shall share the kingdom with Him when He shall have subdued all things unto Himself. I do not know any other wny to tnke this record than Just ns It rends, the work of each day in its day, nnd. thus ncceptlng it, adore 4ind praise Hun who did It all. But while It is a record of earth's restoration it Is also suggestive of the birth of n goul and the development of life In that soul. The condition of ev ery unsaved person Is described by the words "without form and void" or "confusion nnd emptiness," and truly In such all Is darkness. But God speaks, nnd the Spirit works, the light shines In, and there is the work of re generation. The Spirit .uses this illus tration when He says, "God, who com manded the light to shine out of dark ness, hntli whined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God In the face of Jesus Christ" (II Cor. iv, O). Then, being redeemed, there U a division between light and darkness, nnd we become children of the day (I Thess. v. 5). We then begin to learn tho difference between waters above nnd waters beneath, as in John Iv, 13. 14. Next we come to the third day, or resurrection experience of fruit fulness, suggested by the dry land com ing up out of the sea and soon covered with grass, herbs and trees. So each day has Its analog- in the Christian's experience, nnd those who have anoint ed .ves will see, but nil Is accomplish ed by the Spirit and the word. Note the "abundantly" and the blessing and the fruitfulness of the fifth day and remember John x, 10; xv, 8; II Pet. L 11, and so let God work that He may get abundance of glory through us. It Is the same person who did all this of whom we read in Rev. xxi, 5, that He shall yet say, "Behold, I make all things new." If we yield fully to Him He will now make us new crea tures to His glory. E. C. DeWi'tt-A Co., of Chicago, at whose laboratory Kodol is prepared, nsi"-i' us llmt this remarkable digiistant and corrective for the stomach conforms fully to all ii o visions of the National Pure Food und i-iug Law. The Kodol lahorntoi; is a very luisi" no, Imi if nil t'ifi sulTereM from indigestion am) stomach troubles cor hi know the virtues of Koilol it would be impossible for the manufactures to keep up with the demand. Kcvlolissold here liy Standard Drug Co. and Ashehoro Drug Company, It is noticeable a cold seldom comes on when the bowels are freely open. Neither can it stay if they are open. Kennedy's Luxulivd Cough Syrup tastes as peasant as maple sugar. Free from all opia'es. Con tains Honey ami Tar. Conforms to the National i'ure Food ami Drug Law. Sold by Standard Drug Co. and Asheboro Drug Ccmparv. Some day they'll get a taste of the real Schnapps they'll realize what enjoyment they've missed by not getting SCHNAPPS long ago then they'll feel like kicking themselves. SCHNAPPS is sold everywhere in 5 cent cuts, and 10 and 15 cent plugs. Be sure you get the genuine. MODERN WOMAN. The work, industry and ingenuity of modem womeu. it seems, is almost unbounded. A German wrman is preparing to lead a scientific expe dition to Java to look after the "Missing links" between man and the monkey. While there may not be much in this expedition, yet there is no field of endeavor unex plored by the industry and acute perception and energy of women. As u teacher, in law, in medicine, and in journalism she has excelled man. Women have everywhere put men on their mettle. As authors of books they have written more and better than men. And when e aive them credit for their superior industry & d ingenuity, we do so, not from a' - jense of chivalry, but because it is true that they are our superiors in almost every field of endeavor. The Statesville Landmark tells of a recent horse trade iu Wilkes comi ty. Capt. McEl wee tells the Land mark about the trade. The traders had mighty sorry beasts and after thev had bantered each other and made various oilers, one of them proposed to throw heads aud tails, the winner to take both animals. This was agreed to but another dif ficulty confronted them they didn't have a suitable piece of money in their clothes with which to make the throw. But one of the traders was resourceful. Drawing a mark in the road, he proposed that they stand off a certain distance and the man who could spit nearest the mark should have both horses. One was a tobacco chewer he was prob ably the one who proposed the spit ting contest and the other was not. The tobaoco chewer, being an expert, landed nearest the mark and won the stock. When asked for an af fidavit with the story, "r. McEiwee went out of the office in a huif and intimated more or less directly that the next time he put himself out of the way to giveThe Landmark live news his efforts would be appre ciated. It is a mistake to usea violent earthartic to open the bowels. A gentle movement will accomplish the same results without causing d'stress or serious consequences later. De Witts Early Risers are recommended. Sold by Standard Drug Co. and Asheboro Drug Company. The U. S. 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