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A PB0GRE2BSIVB BEPUBL.LCAN NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILOIN^ OF AMERICAN HOMES AND AMERICAN INDUSTEIES. ^—I——1,1 I..I.II 1^ VL BURiiNGTONi K C J^N 9. lOlS 82 Sudiy ScM UssM. Ibe >teraatiHuI Swidar Seh«^ Lco- tuti f«r Smuhy, i»Biuury 11. »i4, - *n» country bfiyotiid the JoTdan had boett (XH^f^tiveiy n^lected the punblic laimstry of Jesas up to this Ome. Brief tim* remained for U2 evangf^luation b^oxe the close of hia carreTi This was no mere experi mental mission. The situation teaUy called for it, and tibie Master deploy ed- His little force with consummaai strat^ic skilL That He now had 70 men, true and /tried, in addition to the 12 a^stles, shows an encouraK~| ing growth in His “Kingdom.” And the sterlirig quality of these evangel ists is shown by their success. The Mrders under 'which these pioneers ent are ideal instructions for Chris tian scouting-partiea everywhere and ahrtkys. Thi^ are a mirror of the' heart of Jesus. He sees the humas mass as a harvest heavy for the dcklc, but insufficiently supplied with har vesters. He years to have the defici ency made up. But He will have no: go who are not foiCTarned of the hostile forces they will certainly find arrayed agsinst them. His startling sn^ogy is “lambs among wolves.” ^^S^tiness is to be their defense. No purse or bag or shoes. Puncticilious courtesies are to lie omitted. The cus tomary rotating as a guest among the houses open for entertainment is to be avoided. A home entered is to be b'essed, and if there is but .one meti- ber of the family worthy, he will come in tuns with tiw Kingdom. The family will be more than compensat ed for the “keep" of the stranger by the gain he brings to it. Any com munity that receives the messengers and their message will find Che Kin^- «lom of God imminent. But alas for the cities that reject: This para graph maTfes a golden circle. 'Hie'-q is tlw« E;;nding out and the returning. The directions have been faithfully obeyed. The propaganda has been earnest anu thorough, the results be yond the expectations of ^ prepa- «a»diste, The Mast^ -has e foFctautte ot His millemniBl joy. 'K^ile the 70 havf! been forging shfead with their mission. He has had joy-giving vis ions of the downfall of Satan. Now, in conclusion of this exemplary inci dent, the paradoxical character of Christian evangelism is asserted. Those who were dismissed as sheep among woives are now assured that nothing shell harm them, even when the emergency ge»>ms as extreme as when one trejuia on a serpent. But joy must not be sested in the mere circumstance of triumph over an ad verse environment. It must root it self in the cause of that triuniph, which is the citizenship of the indi vidual in the heavenly Kingdom. “Yet do not jind your happiness iif the fact that the spirits submit to you, but in thef act that your names have been enrolled in heaven.” THE TEACHER’S LANTERN. By one fine stroke Jesus shows His Father's relation to the human mass in this world. 1%ei«isa«fiiis« Homan idea of emperor or judge. Humanity is precious as a ripe har vest. (Sod is its owner. He is intent upon garnering it. Is the ministiy an! over-stocked profession? Has the need of praying for more! aborers passed? The question has been an swered aflSrmatively in current liter ature. Increase of ministry has been shows to be out of proportion to in- cresae of communicants. Competition for a living in the ministry become;; pathetic. Henry Drummond met this present-day issue in hia book entit'ed ■“New Evangelsm,” the argument of which is as follows: Each age re quires a gospel for itself. The things which stirred men’s minds two cen turies ago fail to do so now. Vital religion tmder present methods of preaching declines, 'fhe very nature of truth demands from time to time' a new evangelism. Theology is a thing that moves. There is progress in truth itsslf. What was the new theology of the Seventeenth Cenury only on one condition—that the age has not grown. The con?«»ntion of God ooder th» old eraagailsm vaa vague; that at Christ was worse. He was a theological person. His fanc- tic>n was to adjust matters between the hotile kingdoms of heaven and earth. Religion said, "Christ, our life,” tiieology said “Christ, our Log ic..’ The truths of the New Evangel ism are not to be conveyed to ths people in the propositional form. An infallible standard is a temptation to a mechanical faith. Fjtw minds real ly take truth in t|^o^ca{ form. is to be absor^^Mit not bolted The leading facatty of tiiie ss«w tiiaol- ogy is Dot to be reason, but inu^na- tion. The present-day ministers will adjust themselves to this age $n the form in Which they present their gos pel. The problem of a “hewing” and a “living’' will be solved. And the prayer for more laborers will still have to be made. ANALYSIS AND KEY., A neglected region; Perea. Bricu time for evangelization. The 70 dispatched to it. Mission not experimental. Msrdxing orders of the 70- Ideal missionary manual. Paradoxical instructions: Emptinedit a defense. Missionaries and Kingdom syh- onymuous. Reception of one that of the other. Blessing or curse. Success o# the 70. Fifty Years of Stage Fright. I have been asked time and time again if J ever had stage fright. Have I ever had anything but stage fright? I have played the part of the Sheriff of Nottingham nearly 1,300 times and I cannot rememl^r when I did not go on in a state of tremor and trepida tion perfectly indescribable. Many and many a tire I have called Guy of Gisborne (Peter Lang) from his dress!)% room and insisted upon go ing through the lines of our first en trance, and often as I entered the wings to go on l%ave shouted in ag ony of fear, "For heaven’s sake, somebody give me the first line of my song! Quick!” And then I would walk on wit n a “know-it-all” look that would encourage my helpers. It has been said that an actor must be scared nearly out of his sensos to make him brac^np and show what h-3 is made of. .if this is true, I must have done ftirly well, for with me it was a case of brace up from first to last, though I kept it to myself and the audience never “caught on.” Hardly a night passes even now in which I dft not h*ve some dreasa of getting on the stage not knov.iig what I waa going to sing or say. Stage fright! Weil; I do not believe th«^lB Kiy terror like it ^ept, peir-. haps the fii-st match on to a field ?f battle or the walk to ihe chair ,cf. electrocution, and I cannot write ot either of them from ojcperience.—Nat ional Magazine. iitii oi itee to Mar riage. United States, one divorce to ev ery lit marriages; Swts^rland, one divorce to every 22 marriages; Franci ine divorce to every 5iO marriages; German, one divorce to every 44; marriages; England, one divorce to every 400 marriages. Not only does the United States have 70 per cent, more divorces tliaii all other civilised nations together, but the ratio of divorces to marriage is even more discreditable. The following distributioh of .U- vorees is interesting; llje divorce rate seems to be high- ar among the wealthy and laborin'^ classes than among middle class fam ilies. It is four times as high among the childless couples as among those ha'^- ing children. It is more common among the na tive born than among the foreig born. Divorce has increased with the emancipation of woman, and espwi- aliy as woman has found a sphere outside the home. Divorce is exceedingly more rare in Roman Catholic families and in creases with Church laxity on the sub ject. The divorce rate varies with the story of individualisTO- The causes of divorce are deduc ed from the above statements are; Decay of the religious theory of marriage. The growing spiiit of selfish indi vidualism. The “emancipation” of woman. The “woman movement.” Modern industrialism. The homelessness of the city. Higher standards of living and of comfort. Higher age of marriage. Laxity of divorce laws.—-North Carolina Education, jaaty Ugioiissloiiers ^eet -iury Llif. Graham, Jan, 5.—rThe Board of Jounty'/Commissioners of Alamance Jountyimet in the court house on tue ibove date in regular monthly sr- iion St ten o’clock a. m., with the fol- owing members present: George T. WiKiamson, W., H. Turrentine, Chas. 1?. Cates and W. H. Fogleman. Ordered, lliat Charles C. Kimrey be relieved of tax on §700 in Alamance Cotton Mill Graded School, same er roneously listed. ■ Order^. That Gane Creek Tele phone Company be relieved of tax on 11,000 Corporation excess same re- iieved by tiie Corporation Commision. Ordered. That J. S. Jonies, in XhompsoB Township be relieved of tax on t^O dogs same erix>necusly list- ied. Order^ That this Board will take up the matter of the Bellemont Road the first Monday in Februai^ at two j'clock p. m., and all parties who wish to be hi»ard in the matter will please be present. Oide|^. That G. Ab. Fogleman be and is hereby elected Superintendent of the ^blic Roads in Alamance County for one year at a salary of 565 par^ntli. Ordened. That this Board appropri ates $l,uOO toward erecting a Confed erate Monument on the Court House Square.'at Graham. Three hundred and thirty-three and 33-100 dollars to be paid iach year for three years with- ^t int^est. OrdeSred. THat Charles E. Moore be reliev%4^df tax on $1,425. Same being an error in the li?t taker. rdered. That George Keck, Heiu? J. Anthony, and John Anthony, be ailowed'to erect a telephone line along thep n^lic road leading from Ala mance Jridge to the Corporate limits of Bur$ngton, via John Anthony, JfiBiss &nd H^Tiry snd tiiat saidjine be run on the opposite side of the road from the present line !now in use on said road where it is Mysterious Death of Davidson Coun ty Girl. l^omaswHe, Jan. A—News reach- to do so, ahd G. Ab. Fog- Lawyers to Bring Suit for LibeL Tlie Greensijore Record ieams that A. L. Brooks, of Greensboro. C, O. McMichael and State Senator Ivey, of Rockingham county, all lawyers, are arranging to bring suit for libel against the Leaksville Herald and D. F. King, s well-to-4o citizen of Rock ingham county. The suit is on ac count of an article published by Mr. King is\ The Herald in ^McK he at tacked the lawyers named, catling them names which they allege con stitute libel. Mr. King was aggriev ed on account of the lawyers in a cer tain suit about some land sold to Mr. Mebane. In alluding to the above the Statesville Landmark says: “Lawyers have a habit of calling witnesses, defendants and plaintiffs all sorts of names in court nd when called to account they claim their talk is 'privileged’—^‘all in the play,’ so to speak. When a layman under takes to give them a dose of their own medicine, however, they are li beled.” “Where Nature Slips a Cog.’" “Why should one man be a pro- tesqne dwarf and another an Apollo, ne a midget and another a giant, one an idiot and another a Darwin; in short, why should different men, sometimes brokers, raised in the same environments from birth, be op posite in a physical, mental and ev en moral sense? It is because of a half dozen insignificant appearing little glands, from the thickness and length of a thumb to the sisse of the head of a pin.*’ This is the way Dr. Bowers begins his next medical ar- tide. “Where Nature Slips o Cog,” in The Philadelphia Press of Sunday, January 11. Fire Perilsh in Hotel Fire. Newark, O., Jan. 6.—^Pive persons were killed and six injured, two of whom will die, when &re early this morning destroyed the Gus Kem Ho- td on Second ^eet here. Not one of the eleven persons in the building escaped death or injury. The building was & two story frame and brick structure, and was entirely con sumed. AH those who escaped leaped from second story windows. An invectige- tion will be started by John Biair, deputy state fire marshal. There were ;.} fire escapes on the building. ed here last mght of the sudden and mysterious death of Miss Minnie Hege, the 18-year-old daughter of Ed. iemah is hereby authorized to locate said iiiie. . Ordered. That the road asked for Hege, a farmer, who lives nine miles ^ ^ j from here There was no one w the, township to the Street Railway house until a few moments before shrj died, her mother having been gone only a short time. At that time the girl was apparently in the best of health and wa» woricing about the house. The younger brother enterod the house at about H:30 in the after noon and heard the screams of hi'! sis ter up stair-s and felt the house shake. Hastening to har room, she was found iying on the floor face down. She was const’.ious and called for water but when it reached her, she was too weak to drirk and died in a few min utes. There was no one else in the house but this brother. The county coroner. Dr. J. W. Peacock, was aum- moned, and upon examinalior found that the girl met her death in a mys terious way. The indications are that death resulted from poisoning, but whether taken herself or given by someone is a mystery. She was a young robust and healthy girl, never having experienced any illness and had assisted her father in loading and lifting cotton during the morning. ATTENTION! Boys wanted fok' a band in Burl ington. Boys from 12 to 18 years of age, with musical talent, and with arood moral habits, and with a desire for a musical education, wanted for a band. Those interested in the above proposition, see me at once or write V. WILSON. Masonic Notice. There will be a regular communica tion of Bula Lodge No. 409, A. F. & A. M., in their hall on next Monday evening January 12th, at 7:30 o’clock. Refreshments will be served by the committee. Fraternally yours, C. A. WALKER, W. M., C. V. SHARPE, Secy. I’ower House, a distance of about one half of a mile be granted same to be opened without expense to the county except scraping. Ordered. That the cartway a&ked for by Mr. Wells in Haw River town ship be referred to G. Ab. Fogleman tc investigate and report to this Board at its next meeting. Ordered. That the report of G. Ab. Fogleman, Superintendent of Roads, be accepted and filed. Ordered.-Tbat Chester Freshwater be relieved of poll tax and road tax on account of infirmities. Pheasant Grove townetaoin shrdlun Ordered. That James Corbett, ii Pleasant Grove township, be relieved of one dog tax, same being an er ror. Ordered. That the Enterprise Drug Company be relieved of State tax of 2.77, samo being an error in the list taker. Ordered. Tliat the Glencoe Cotton Mills be relieved of tax or; $47,000, same being an error in the excess tax certified by the Corporation Commis sion and ordered relieved by them. Ordered. That the Glencoe Cotton Mills be charged with tax on $14,400. Personal property which was left ofT the book by the list taker. Ordered. That Holt-Cates Company be relieved of corporation excess on $1,000, same ordered by the Cor poration Commission. Ordered. That the ret'O-t of . Chao. D. Johnson, Eegister of Oeeds, be ac cepted and filed. Ordered. That the report of Geo. W. Long be accepted and filed. Ordered. That the report of A. B. McKeel, Superintendent of the Coun ty Home, be accepted and filed. Notice of Annual Meeting. The annua] meeting of the stock holders ctf The S‘;ate Dispatch Pub lishing Company, will be held on the 16th. day of January, 1914, at two o’clock in the afternoon at the office of the Company in the Rauhot Build ing, Bortington, N. C., for the pur. pose of eleccing a Board of Directow and leeeiving: and auting upon the reports of the ofiScers, and for the itnuLffiietion of such other businesfl as Eu>7 cd^ before the meeting. DR. J. A. Pickett, Pw*., J. E. FOUST, S«C7. ’ Id Sais lBimaUp a ire* Culler, 1; Peter A. James, 3; A. B. Vaughan, 12; J. W. Nicholson, 10; J. B. MeVey, 7; S. G. Loy, 7; H. D. ocarboro, 10; W. J. . Gibson, 16; A. r. Walker, 6; T. B. Barker, 4; W. A. Ivey, 8f W. K.. Edgeworth, 13; Joe Bason, 13; J. B. Gerringer, 3; A; A. -A.ppie, 12. President Begins Work on Message. Pass Christian, Miss., Jan, 7.-^Pres- ident Wilson began work today »n the message dealing with anti-trust .egislation, which he wU! read to vJoiigress shortly after his return to Washington. Like his inaugural address and bis previous messages to Congress, the document was first sketched in short hand by the President and then given o a stenographer to transcribe. While the President considers what he is vforidag on now as oiily a rough draft if previous experience ii: repeated the message that he finally delivers will ;iot be materially changed from this first composition. JUst what this new message con tains is known no5y to the President and no inkling of its nature will be di\'ulged until it is submitted to tte Cabinet members and the Demacratic leaders in Congress. While today was a day of work for the Presid«T>t, tilers were likewise incidents of diverting interest in it. When Uie Chief Executive finished his golf game, an old negro approached the presidential group. He had dif ficulty in determining which of the men who stood before him was the President. “I’m Ben Williams, Jeff Davis’ old body servant,” he said, “and I want ed to meet Mr. WiJson.” Compelled to climb a tree to . es cape the mader ushes of a Gumsey bull, Mrs. J. C. McIntyre of East Monroe Townriiip, was forced to cling ill her dangerous posUion for some thing Uke half an hoar, until rescued by her husband and a colored man who heard her screams. A few days ago Mrs. McIntyre went into the home pasture to get some bark to make a poultice for one of the chil- iren who had sore tWoat. The bull was in the pasture but as he had never shown aiiy sign of misbehavior, she thought nothing of it till she saw him ru.'.:;ir;g toward her and charg ing at full speed with his head down. She immediately saw that the only 'afety was in getting up a nearby tree and she ran for the first one. This she was unable to climb and ran for another which had lower hang ing limbs. She scrambled up just in time to escape being trampled upon. Seeing his failure, the bull stood for a while pawing and bellowing at the tree and then began to walk off. When he seemed to be at a safe distance, Mrs. McIntyre started to get down and ths rascal came right back and held her there. There was nothing for her to do but to cling to the tree and scream for help. .,s.fter some time her cries were heard by the colored man and he and Mr. Mc Intyre went to the rescue. Only her presence of mind and her bravery saved her life.—Moiiroe Journal. Uncle John on “Dip Holes.” When the county board first appro priated sufficient money to build 50 dipping vats in the county and au thorized every farmer so desiring to dip his cattle free of ciiarge, Uncle The President stepped forward and!*^®^” snorted and sneered at .such a ' reckless wastefulness of the people’s shook his hand. He asked the ne gro’s age. j moi'.ey. vowing that his cows Aould “I expect I’m 75 any way," was the I “driv throgh that thing.” I It wasn’t necessary that they be The old residence of Jefferson Da- j through,’’ not the first year, vis, which is now used as a Confed- i following spring a petition erate soldiers’ home, is only a fewj’’’^®® presented to the board by the miles from the links and the negro j**®' farmers oft he county, aslang has lived in this vicinity since the days j dipping be made compulsory. The of the ConfedeiBcy. board passed the order, it became a As the President motored back to I became furious, his cottage after golf, he distributed!. cows in that blamed dip- a lot of candy to the ciiildren who i ' shoot the last one of 'era greeted him along the way. The lit- j dries ’em up, and tafce.s the tie ones flocked around his automobile j offen em, and 1 hearn that 49 when it stopped tnd plied him with|"®®‘^ “P i“st scores of childish questions. ! Put through. No, not “How did you get that automo-;"*®' bile?” asked one and the President But the in.-jpector came around pres- laughed heartily. ! and gently ihsisted that Uncle Tomorrow the presidential automo- j ® cows must go through. He bile will carry more candy as there! but 'lowed the boys could run was not enough to go around today through once; but if any harm Ever Since the Holiday season began the President’s family has been re ceiving boxes of candy from friends, far more than could possibly be eaten by them. So the President thought it a good idea to give some of the sweets to the children who wave their little American flag-s each day when he pas.ies and always seem so glnd to lee him. Dortch’s Request to Move the Mar shall’s Office Was Denied. Washington, Jan. 8.—It is pretty weil settled that Marshal Webb will be allowed to move his office to Ashe ville. Mr. Webb wil be in Washirig- ton Monday when it is understood (he order will be signed allowing the of fice to be moved. Assistant Attorney General Graham practically assured Senator Overman today that there would be no objection to the ofSce be ing moved to Asheville in view of the fact that federal court is held at that place. The request of Judge Connor and Marshal Dortch to move the office of marshal from Raleigh to Goldsboro, has been denied. The reason given for not granting the request was be- ;ause federal court is not held at Goldsboro and, there is a law which prohibits the marshal’s office being es tablished in such towns. came to them he was going to get down his old shotgun. The boys “put ’eiii t’lifough," and enjoyed it hugely: but Uncle John was disgusted to see that not one cow died nor even lost a hair. It has been two years now since Uncle John ‘‘niirated” against “dip- holes,” and in the meantime the coun ty has been cleaned of ticks and re leased from quarantine. Best of all. Uncle John is raising good cattle and has just bought a fine registered bull ■•’Pears to me now like they ought to ‘a’ dipped me fust,” laughs Uncle John. Jurors for March Term of Court. The following liiit of Jurors has been drawn for the March term cf Super ior Court, for Alamance County: John C. Moore, 8; P. Nelson, 10; A. C. Kimrey, 1; G^rge M. Jordan, .Charles. A. Ma^i 9; W. H. Fogle man, 1; T. N. Mitchell, 11; D. C. Fog leman, l; Thos. S. Coble, 13; W. A. Hall, 12; J. W. Sykes, 12; J. W. Sharpe, 12; Thos. C. Bradshaw, 6; S. S. Spoon, 1.2; W. E. Hay, 12; L. C. Fogleman, 12; A. C. Anthony, 12; W. L>. Eubanks, 12; Bert Holt, 9; T. H. Skenses, 5; J. C. McAdams, 6; Edgar Long, 6; Cicero Stuart, 1; S. M. Mebane, 10; W. T. Perry, 6; Dan- Suffragette Governor Hikers See Glynn. Albany, N. Y., Jan. 7.—^Tl'he hikc- of New York sofTragettes ended here today and tonight some .of the 11 "oct-sore marchers rested at local ao- tels, other returning home by traiii. They obtained their audience with Governor Glynn and their respective Assemblymen today in the intere.'it of the “cause” and tonight all wore hap py though weary. “Three hikers “Gtni'val” Rosatip Jones, “Colonel” Ida Craft and "Cor poral” Marttw Klatschken walked the entire 166 milen by road in t' o six days and a half. They slept only Crops for Early Spring Grazing. A reader asks what he can sow now to furnish grazing for his pigs next spring and summer. The season for planting crops for winter and spring grazing has passed, and our friend will have to make out the best he can. Probably a part of ttte lasid could be sowed in oats, to be followed by peas, another part in Dwarf Essex rape; and another in Spanish peanuts. Such a combina tion will probably be the best avail able, though it cannot take the place of the clovers, rape and small grain that should have been sown in the fall. We are learning that bur and crimson clover grow to perfection in all parts of the South, furnishing ex cellent winter and spring grazing, and the good fanri.'r cannot aT longer to be without them. Bermuda on New Ground. A south Alabama reader is clearing some new ground for pasture, ana wishes to know if he can plant Ber muda on it this spring, or whether it would be best to cultivate it one year ind tlien put in pasture. We are afraid that the raw land, overed with bushes and perhaps some •nade, would hardly be a satisfactory dace to plant your Bermuda, fhe )est plan would be to run the land In 'om and peai or velvet beans, k«ep- . mg the bushes cat down then put in lel Humble, 12; D. W. Cummings, 12; hours, they said, during the journey.' Bermuda the foUo^riniF spring.