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Ladies' Aid and Missionary So- iiifity meets on Monday after the KsS'Ond Sunday jn ^each month. A scrdial invitation extended UC> {jjl ■AChr.rch Home for Visitors g^d Strangers. (tatinKi Ijp tot is sue) 3 ■A §BBia®g§,©isi Rslcmed Qi»ircfe. CcssTier Front and Anderson Sts, i&ev. i. U. Ab«o!*w, P»*tMr. ■Sonday School every Sabbath, i)ii4E a. m. 3Preaching every 2nd and 4th Sftbbath, 11:00 a. m. and 8:00 p. Mid-week Service every Tuurs« Juy, 7:4Bp. m. ‘ A eos?diai welcome to all. ■ Pareonage 2nd door, east of Jswrch. •’ ' Pi’^fe3T8;era»tt Cfcuffi'ds; Cot. De» Mdver, PoaU-r. fiej'TAces evejy Sanciay at 11:00' ,B&. and 8:00 p. m. Standay School at 9:45 a. m. Pmyer-meeting, Wednesday Bt 8^00 p. m. The public is ccrdially invited %C! fi.ll sert^ces. dncis'dii. W. Bcci;, P»at®i.. PffSBching every Sunday 11 a, ift,»8p.m, 8unday Sebool, 9:80 a. m. Sunbeams, second and fonr- Sundays, 3:00 p. in. Prayer' Meeting-, Vv'ednesday 6 p. m. Chm’ch ‘(5'onference Wednesday iid^ore first Sunday in each month ^mniiinion, first Sunday. Woman’s Missionary Society, Jbi*t I’hursday 3:30 p. , m.. Liadies’ Aid Society, iirst Mon- flty 3:30 p. m. Thff ^ftiao^isi Ps®fee8^:a)®l OuMci, East Davis Street. I’homti £, Dsvms, Pssior • I PBTSOBOt’e next doortoChijrcb) Services: Mowxlng, 11:00 , Evening, 8:00. .; j^.yer meeting ' Wednee d a y 8T/emng'fc. ' Ladies’ Aid and M^issionery So- «l«y.es every Monday al1,ernocsB first S'pnday in e&th month. ■ gtinda.y School 9:30 a. m.. i J. G. Kogers, Supt. E:?.ellent Baraca and P'£i'jkihea t1k««eSc You are invited, to at- all Berviees. M. L d&mdit, Sovllk R*!v, T. a. Syke», P«*S«t. . ; Pmiehing every Sunday mom- Jug »nd evening, litmday School, 9:30 a. m. : Fffc.jer Sei'viee, Wednesday positions were read in court ^ m behalf of Mr, Roosevelt which had beenViade by Major-General Leonard Wood. Admiral Dewey Dr. John B. Murphy and Dr. Arthur Beven, of Chicago, who attended Mr. Roosevelt at the Mercy Hospital after he was shot at Milwaukee; Dr. Lyman Abbott, Editor-in-Chief of The Outlook, George B. Cortelyon, formerly Secretary of the Trea> sury and now President of the Consolidated Gas Company .of New York; Dr. Albert Shaw, Editor of the “Review of Re views;” Lawrence H. Graham, a liewspapier correspondent who had known Mri Roosevielt at Montauk Point after the Rough Riders returned from Cuba; Geo. H. Roosevelt, a cousin of Theo dore Roosevelt, who is intimtae- ly.associated vdth him at Oyster Bay; James E. Amos, Mr. Roose velt’s butler at Oyster Bay; and William T. Dulancey, formerly barber at the White House. In a libel suit the burden of proDf rests with the party mak- j opinfon. that on mg the alleged libelous state ment, It is,' therefore, a com mon practice for the plaintiff to insist upon the defendant’s go ing upon ihe stand first with his witness and proving hfs charge. But Mr. Roosevelt was not con tent to depend upon the mere failure of the defendant, Mr. Newett, to substantiate the truth of the libelous article. He elect ed to appear upon the stand first himself and to make a complete statement in the minutest • detail regarding his use of alcoholie beverassres,' “It was,” says the New York -Times,” “a thing that impressed everv hearer who' had a sense of the dramatic— this spectacle of the ex-President accounting in public with labori ous pains the way in which he spent his time while at the head of_ the ;Nation, describing his private life, and answering, ques tions about his habits in his own home among his guests.” It took three full days to get through the evidence in behalf of Mr. Roosevelt. His statement as to his own abstemious use of alcoholic beverages was eo^o- brated in every detail- by the witness who followed him, and who spoke from the point of view of the physiologist, the personal and attached friend, the political associate, or the observer who had studied Mr. Roosevelt as a prominent personality withont favor on the • one hand or pre- judiee on the other. It is doubt- i'ul .whether..,In any t.naUn,. the history of this country tliere. has' ever been such a mass of te«^ti- mony from men of such position and authority, not only as to the sobriety, but also to the decent, clean wholesome and high-m‘in(3- ed conversation and associations of a private-or a public individual. At the beginning of the trial the defendant’s attorneys, who are acknowledged to be among the ablest lawyers of the Middle West, endeavored by cross-ex- amination to w’e&ken the force of I the testimony of the witness for Mr. Roosevelt. In pursuance of this policy, they insisted upon their legal right to exclude all the Roosevelt witnesses from the court room until they were called in to testify, one by one, by the the bailiff or sheriff who had them under his charge. Perhaps the defendant’s attorneys believed , that by this method ■ they were preventing coijusioi) or promot ing conflicting statements. Bot jtis almost mathematically de monstrable that when thirty' men tlieinfti) who made the charge 0f ^x^nkenness and bJaspheniy agaii]ift Mr. Roosevelt, was in reality the strongest witness on Mr. iilooseveit’s behalf; for while the i iritnesses of tHe plaintiff ;Xioiii^(m}y *t€!8tlf y as; to their own indiyf^ual acQuaintancie w^ Mr. Roo&evelt and their own judge ment;*^ to his personal character and sbbriety, Mr. Newett under oath on the stand stated that both his attorneys and he himself “went forwatd with the in vestigation of all this (the ruin- orsof excessive use of liquors);^ with great thoroughness in nii* merous places in various parts of the country, ” and that as a re sult they had come t» the follow ing conclusion. We have been unable, how ever, to locate or produce wit nesses who will swear tibsit ifeey have actually seen Mr. Roosevelt drink to excess. Upon this phase of the case, when the statements attributed to such (persons have been sifted, it was found in each instance that the witness did not himself know that Mr, Roosevelt had drank to excess, or that if he had made such a claim he was unwilling to testify. It is fair to the plaintiff to state that I have been unable to find in any sectioh: of' the country any in dividual witness who is willing to states that J!he has personally ‘seen-Mr. Roosevelt drink to ex cess I have taken the testimony in the, form of - depositions, of more than forty reputable wit nesses, who have expressed the those occasions Yes you can noppnger a^ord to be without ope of j these matchl^s cars. Why not connect up with the city or anywhcris you wantfto go? The hew 1913 7m Ford has bsen greatly improved in design and otherwise, i ^d on account df the % greatly increased ou tpfut the pnce J^as h,e«;n lp]vcri?|d an4,, ^ow within reach. ■. ■■■■ ■ , ^ . are testifying as to. the- truth ; M^eclfHsib L#iR£5'&n Ckmrick Front Street. T. s. P«c4er. iBefcMence next door to Church. ) /Morning. Service at 11:00 a. m. Yeepers at.3:30 p. m. ;• ■ , ; (No services on third Sundays.; j tbeir statements fit into one an- .'Btmday School S:45 a. m., ev-ipther, even if they have- nevet ia?y Sanday. i seen or talked wi th one. • another Teachers’Meeting, Wednesday (before, ,‘So it was in' this:case, ■^-ilOO p. m. (at parsonage.) | Beiore the three - days bf-'Mesti- , :j Woman’s Missionary Society | ^.nd cross-examination; on ’ Jftltier morning seiviee onicHirt^l ^t'* J^^osevelt's behalf had-elaps { ’.,V f RUNABOUT TOURING CAR TOWN CAR .00 000.00 8(M).00 fcda?/E.) ^ • - Is, C. Be.,. Saturday before '%b?d^ Sundays, 3:00 p. m,. L. L. L,, third Sundays at 8:00 £i. m. Rs'v. . T. Pr»j:cr. ?;€;acL,ing €very firsit S'Lsnday. Pom., second P l:i a m. fcr.id 8:00 Sunday at 8 p, in. Sunday Schoo) every orning at 10 a. m. ' John F. Jdoi, Sunday Supt.' ed, the defendant’s attorneys had, visibly-rf ,;W . and; when on Sat’irday morhing they dramatically abandoned their case, and in effect, although not in words, pleaded for mercy, the spectators in the court-room v;ere not surprised. Mr. Roosevelt’s ea^ was com pleted on Saturday morning, and it then became the turn of the defendant to proceed. M”, Ne- wetit v^^as put on the stand.^'e.worn and began his statemei|t. He had not read many paragraphs as to which they testify he was intoxicated. I believe ail these witnesses were honest in making their statements. I have relied upon these witnesses, but have recognized the lesser opportuni ties they have bad to observe the plaintiff and his habits. . I have been profoiindly im pressed, during the progress of this trial, by the nature and ex tent of tise evidence produced; by the plaintiff that he did not in fact use liquor to excess on any occasion, I am unwilling to be believe that these eminent men would purposely misstate the facts,, or that, under the circumst ances related by them, and their in tima te acq uai n tan ce wi th the plaintiff ' for so many' years, they could be mistaken as to his habits. I have therefore been forced to believe that those who have depositio’^s or made, the statement that, in their opinion, on the occasion to which they refer, Mr. Roosevelt was intoxi cated, had insufficient means and opportunity of correctly observ ing him, and were mistaken. ' Up to the time of this trial I had believed that the statements made in the article which I pub- liE'hed were entirely warranted. But in the face of the unqualified testimony^o'f so many distinguish' ed men who'have been in Dosition for years to know J;he truth, I am forced to the conclusion that I was mistaken. I am unwilling to continue to assert that Mr. Roosevelt actually a.nd'- in fact draiHC to exeesis„ ■ A1 the concln^'.ion of Mr, Ne- wett’s Btateroent one' of M”. Roosevelt’s attornerK rose and said that the plan tiff, Colonel Roosevelt, with the Coi.irt/s per mission, desired to address the Oourt On recei vj ng d inrlge ^Flan- nigan’s permission, •Mr-,Roose- yelt stood and spoke'as follows: In view of the statement of the defendant, I shall ask the Court to instruct the jury that I desire only nominal damages. I did not go into this suit for money. did not go into it with an y vin di ctive purpose, I went into it, as the Court has said, mL.de'my,' reputation an issue,- •because I wished, once for all,, during my lifetime, to deal with these slanders, thoroughly - and comprehensively, so that never again will it be possible for any man, in good faith, to repeat them.' I have achieved^ - ray purpose, and I am content. After a ■ brief recess^’ - J^dge Flannigan read his ^harge-t^': the- jury. Having defi'iied libeb an^ Inalice, ,'and' bavin g,&tatl^ci^hii^.^' wh^e - newspapers,; may- f^jeely: discuss the ’fitnes,s of a person for public office, “Michigan hsLB not granted to any cne—whether newspaper man or. hot—the pri vilege of^,writing. ;or ^speaking a;*, candidate,, for ;an •f i ee,;' wpr-is 'whi ch, famatory and' untrue,’-’ Be ‘’con tinued his charge as follows: Unwilling to rest on the pre- sumpt%n-of .law that the charge i was false and call upon the de- ^ fendant to prove^ its trruth or answer’in'damages as was the piantiff ’s right,’the plaintiff pro ceeded before this Court to show that the charge was false in fact. And by his own and-the testi mony of a loiig list of witness of Tltese new prices F. 0. B. Defcroft widi all eqaipmeol. An early order will mean an eady delivery. Get fw particulars f ■ i», - rrom McGlamery-^Markham Auto Co. Phone 619. 111-113 East Washington Street^ Greensboro, N. C. L E. Atiiirater, Local Deialer for Alamance Cooniy PI are Par] afte: -E and! IN get THE FIRST BAPTIST SUNDAY I “^1 SCHOOL OF BURLINGTON Will Run Its Annual Excursion to RALEIGH, N. G. The Capital of North Carolina Refreshmenis served on train. Schedule and Fare Gibsonville Elon College Burlington , . Graham. . . Ha'w River. Mebane 7:00 7:20 7:30 7:35 7:41 7:53 $1.00 1.00 1.0) IJ ■ IJ LOO Children under twelve y^rs hsJf pric^^^ We will take on passengers at sdl stations ,il. ■ t LAymeaU Miisionairy Moremen^, M. ^ Wefne^ ^ 25 lo e; ' |:rip. rales ■ % \ '. 0 •MPer ¥» i i _ C‘pal-- pom^s as fol 16ws; Raleigh $9,4,0, Gold^oro $10.65, Selma $=> $8.^, Burlington ‘ in , same >jpropcrt'on frpri^Mj|b^er V p^^^ F6ra|^ijedinfor.mation ychou- ules, Pullman accomodatiori ei ask yOUf agent or comm uni catue with. '’■'.65, ,$7,40. J. 0. Jones, good! beforl IN IN N| chai Judl in ft N the will $5.(X 01 for 1 Thi the mu Bd pria Agent.
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