AMERICA'S LIFE RESTS ON FAMILY Without Soundness In the Home All Else Is Naught. WOMAN THERE PRE-EMINENT By Rev. Dr. NEWELL DU IOHT HILLIS.PmIo of Plynouth church, Brooklyn, N. Y. la "The Ameri can Family" I)r. Newell Dwlgbt II i 1 1 1 it, pastor of Plymouth church, Brooklyn, pays tribute to Amer ican womanhood and Its work in uplifting and maintaining the good iu American life. He chose ax Ills text for this one of the aeries of aermous he is preaching Prov erbs xxxi. BEY. DR. NEWELL DWJOHT II1LLIH. By way of pre-eminence the Ameri can family la (be first and most Im l>ortaut of American Institutions. No other Idea lies go close to the heart of our eager and commanding Ameri can society. From the family have come our school, our church and all our civic Ideas. The republic could spare all Its otber forms of democracy more easily than It could the loss of the Idea of the family. The mere mention of certain names? the Field family In connection with the Atlantic cable, the movement for Inter national law and the great names on the bench o f the supreme court? Is fill ed with suggestion. Witness also the family of Lyman Beecher and the Adams family of New England. Mul tiply these families and their Influence is the shadow cast across the land in the form of the institutions they cre ated. No other nation has exalted the family after the fashion of this repub lic. In this republic all things were and are and will be for the sake of the family. In the interest of the home and the beloved ones there all the wheels turn round, all the ships set sail, all the tools work by night and day. To bring back treasure to the borne men dare the chill under the frozen north and burn under the tropic sun. Take the family out of American society and It la taking the intellect from the body, the beat from the sunbeam, the cul ture from the library, the nun from the sky, leaving only a black and empty socket. When the sun dies all the harvests die with It. The History of the Family Is the His In general the history of the family is the history of woman and her love. It is a singular fact that the libraries bold the history of wars, arts, law, ships, engines, stones, stars, but that no one has ever written a history of 4ove. An American scholar In one of his "club essays" lias commented with keen satire upon the oversight of the historian as to that strange tumult of the heart that begins with the ex change of flowers, that Journeys on to ward poetry and dally letters, tint be gins to talk In images j>f paradise <^r bell and before the lnfla"nimation"lias d culminates iu a wedding or a The history of literature Is very largely the history of this beautiful aud pathetic attachment that estab lishes the family and has enriched the home through all the centuries. In the far off Hebrew days the old book tells us about a brave boy and a beau tiful girl who at night fell down and prayed to God that they might grow old together. That enthronement of the heart explains the Ideal of Re bekah and Isaac. Woman's Place In Literature. Italian literature was born with Beatrice, just as Laura made Petrarch aud Francesca transfigured Paolo. It Is a woman also that walks through all the pages of Mallory's "Morte d' Arthur" and glorifies each Idyl of the king. 8bakesi>eare understood, for It is a man's blunder that precipitates every crisis in the life of Ilamlet, slain by indecision; of Othello, stupid, slain by bis own jealousy; of Henry VII 1 and Wolsev, ruined through selfish ness aud blbul ambition. Always when redemption comes It Is at the hand of some Imogene, I'ortla or Cor delia. Every novelist of the first order of intellect puts woman in the very heart of the scene. Jeante I>eans sheds luster upon all who stand with in the circle of her life. Hawthorne's Hester glorifies the dark shadows of "The Scarlet Letter." At the Monday Literary club in the I'arker House. Boston, about 1870 Ralph Waldo Em erson made the statement that the novel was in some respects the high est form of literature, but was Impos sible without a woman standing in the center. A Book Without a Woman. A young men, "Adirondack" Murray, then and there affirmed that be could write a novel that would succeed with out mentioning the name of woman. No woman's name is mentioned in the pages, but unconsciously Murray revealed the failure of his book in the title, "The Storr of a Man Who Didn't Know Much." The central figure in Murray's tale Is a youth who had all the feminine qualities, through which tory of Woman. Murray hoped to evoke the sympathetic intervst of his reeder*. It could not lie otherwise. Society Is a unit repre senting the union of two temi>era iiients. the masculine that Is fixed and unalterable, the feminine with which the woman in stained through and through, like crimson set in the tluest wool that cannot l?e washed out. God never Intended that men should ho feminized or women made virile. The pathetic attachment that has subsisted between great #ou!s like Itebekeh and Isaac, Aspasla and Pericles, ltobert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett tells us plainly that the path of love in the only road that leads to paradise, that can turn a hut into a house, a tent Into a palace and, though the house be ouly a frail tent set up In the desert, with no lamp save the light of the firefly, yet for Jacob home Is where Itachel Is and heaven Is that unseen city of amethyst behind whose walls of silver Itachel hath disappeared. Th# Breakdown of the Family. Now, all these considerations In crease the alarm of patriots who love their country when we come to consld vr the threatened breakdown of the American family. There Is a well known principle In economics that a strong demand will create the Instru ments for the supply. The mere fact that there are now 3,000 courts to which unhappy couples may repair for divorce publishes the keen demand for institutions that can sever a tie that is frail as a thread, but should be as strong as a steel cable. It Is a far cry from the .'1,000 divorce courts of today back to the time a century and a half ago, when the mother of Alexander Hamilton, a beautiful Huguenot girl, living in the West India islands, want ed a divorce from the Dane, who had become drunken, cruel and depraved, who had gone back to Europe and from whom she never heard again. There was not one court In the ltritlsh colo nies or in Great Britain that could give a decree of separation. Divorce meant that, tit* woman with her wrongs must go to London, secure In fluence strong enough to carry a bill through the house of commons at an expense of about $5,000. Now tike pen dulum has swung to the other ex treme. Divorce In America. There are now .1,000 divorce mills grinding all day long In our country. Sixteen thousand divorces have been granted within a single year, though the same year witnessed only 800 di vorces In England and about a score in Canada. Indeed, the records of our country showed some time ago three divorces in Canada and over 10,000 In our country. Most .disquieting the spectacle of the minister uniting young men and women in the morning and a judge separating them in the after noon. The blackest part of the trage dy concerns the children, now denied a father's guiding hand and now with out a mother's love. ' Reasons For Divorce. From the viewpoint of Tennyson's "Dream of Fair Women" of the nine teenth century anil our own observa tion of noble women in the twentieth woman's chief motive for asking sep aration is her revulsion from the im morality of man. Some poor women appeal to the courts because of non support and the neglect of a man to provide for his children. At rare in tervals a working woman seeks re dress from n Judge because the man is a tyrant and so Brutal in his speech that the little children flee at the ap proach of their father as the dove flees from the hawk and the lamb from the coming of the wolf. But the chief motive in the vast majority of cases is woiuan's djsljke of lepers, physical and 'moral. Thlnlt of what lies back of the fact that in a brief interval ry ccntljr tiftecn tnudiw babes born In the tenement regions of New York were committed to homes for feeble minded children! Even in the farotT times of lMlny, sixty years after the birth of Jesus, the Koman lawyer ex plains tlie divorce evil by the immoral ity of meu. How significant is this passage: "Five hundred years after the i'lty of the Seven Hills was found ed a divorce case obtained a place In our legal record. 1 will not undertake to assert that there were no divorces for the first f>00 years of the life of Itome, but certain it Is that there is no authentic recorded divorce during these tirst five centuries." Then what happened? During the era of luxury and manimoulsm meu bccame false, immoral, sensual. For a time the Ko man matrons cherished secret anger, then their Indignation broke into speech. At last these Injured women took on the aspect of the unrelenting tigress whose whelps have been In jured, and within a single month fifty Koman matrons poisoned their hus bands. What evil men did sow that they were made to reap. Woman'* Revolt. Either the worklngmen of this coun try must give up whisky, sensualism, drugs, and maintain a life of hculth ami sobriety and keep themselves as clean within and without as they were during their twenties when they were lovers, or else the working women are going to refuse to War children that carry forward the sins of their fathers. Those women understand the threat ened breakdown of the American phy sique. It is not their fault that in the tenement house region children are born with imperfect vision, teeth with out enamel, feeble hearts and poor cir culation. Scieuce, sound ethics, love of humanity, all unite in telling us that these working women are right in the rebellion that they are organizing. One of the duties that lie in front of our legislators is the duty of giving every mother, rich or i>oor, at least $100 a year for the supi>ort of every babe she bears until the child is four teen years of age. When the state plnys fair with these mothers there will be a revolution Id this country. The overthrow of the saloon will ?lo much to bring In this new era. ami that In a victory already within sight. The New Woman. What, then, is the Influence of the so called "new woman" upon the A mer ' lean family? So farreaching la that fju< -iti> n that the answer uiuat be baaed ni'ou an unaly?-i* of what mukea the twctilleth century American woman to l t> K|t->ncu of as u "new woman." Flrat of nil. .-lie Is an educated woman. One hundre 1 yeais have now passed since I die I: st ii liiuli a<hool waa thrown open to (,'iil* with hungry minds. Dur ing thin ? entury young women have exblhft d mi enthusiasm for the higher education <julte undreamed of during other centuries. In the average high school of the country two young wom en graduate to every young man. The boy In lila eagerness to enter business drops out of the higli school, while the girl carrlea on her studies. In the state university also, little by little, young women are equaling In number the you uk men who are studying for the professions. If this tendency continues the time is not far distant when the overwhelming majority of the studenta receiving their diplomas in the depart ments of literature, languages and the sciences will be women. The New Woman Hae a Clear Vision and a Warm Heart. To the education of the new woman we must now add her clear vision and her warm heart. Of old philosophers used to say that man has an Intellect first and Incidentally a heart, but that woman has a heart tirst and Incidental ly a mind. The statemeut Is meaning less because It Is untrue. When fully unfolded the Intellect means the whole soul in the act of knowing, and the heart means the whole man or wo man In the act of feeling; but, giv en a great sorrow, woman Is strange ly gifted with sympathy. From a woman's heart Is l>orn the movement of brave Mary Ware In the time of tl^e plague In London; the struggle for sol diers on the battlelleld by Florence Nightingale and Lady Augusta Stan ley, braving every form of death In the Crimea; the plans of the Christian commission women in our civil war, working with the ambulance force In the very midst of battle; the Ited Cross movement at the battle front of Eu rope. And think of Mary Siessor, be ginning as a missionary In Africa aud little by little achieving an influence so unique that the members of the cab inet In England sought her advice, that the native tribes appealed to her decision, that feuds between states and warring hosts might be settled! Influence of Women In American So ciety. No words fan describe the influence of tlie modern woman in American so ciety. Who can tell the achievements of these women who have organized the movement for the higher education In Wellesley, Yasser, Smith and Bryn Mawr! Women like Frances Wlllard and Jane Addams and l>r. Anna Shaw and a host of others have changed the very atmosphere of this laud. Women without financial ability? llarriman and Itussell Sage and the man who founded the l?on Marclie in Paris all \Jeft their millions to their wives. Wben that Frenchwoman lost her husband she carried the sales of the Hon Marclie from r>0,000.<XH> of francs up to HX),<x>o,ooo and 200,000, <XH>. because #lie was free through death to work out her own ideas. When the bees that are the female workers and collect all the sweets in the hive have gotten through with their lords they sting the males to death, and the females spend the win ter eating the honey that their own skill gathered. I V Pre-eminence of Women Through Skill and Delicacy. An ox cart demands a man's muscle; steam locomotives depend upon a man's brute strength; the next age will be an ape of electricity and chemistry. An electric machine Is best handled by a delicate finger. Once the giant forces are controlled by electricity, a woman's sensitive hand may handle them bet ter than a man's. An era may come, therefore, in which women will have the same pre-eminence in society and the creation of wealth as the female workers have in the beehive. Most of the charges brought against woman as to her Inferiority represent the verdict of a male Jury and a male Judge, who for purposes of self defense brought in a verdict against woman In general and pronounced her guilty of Inferiority. The time may come when women will constitute the Jury and in dict the man for inferiority, and then heaven help us all in the hour of the jury's verdict, for It remains for us to confess that in no country have women tried so successfully to put ethics into industry. Justice into law, geutlenesi into government, sympathy into reform and purity and tenderness and love Into the household. No land can boaW a womanhood more glorious. Great i* the power of trade and cora meiTi'. Wonderful the strength of man to till the granary and the storehouse. Marvelous the achievements of the sol dier and the sailor, but man is not a body. Ilis soul uses the body, and the chief influences that shape character, create institutions and regenerate laws are the Influences of heart and con science and social sympathy, that are the pre-eminent gifts of women. As > children we all wake to conscious life lying upon a woman's lap, hi youth it was a woman's hand that pointed to the paths of prosjterity and peace, and when the end comes, happy Is the old man upon whose fevered brow in the last hour a woman's hand falls, and the first faie lieyond into which the weary and w*>rn man shall lo?k will be the face of a woman, his mother, who lingers alx>'it the -ate >?( hcaveu until her son conic* h< n ? THE TIME IS RIPE If you intend selling your farm you will never have a better time. The demand has never been so great. There are hundreds of men in John ston County, who will, this Fall, be in position to buy, who have never been before. The demand has already begun. We spend money advertis ing and it brings results. Our office has become a clearing house for Real Estate. We have daily inquiries about land and your place will just suit some of our customers. This is certain. If YOU wish to sell your farm and will name a reasonable price, WE can sell it. If you prefer, we will not mention your name in our advertisements. Drop us a line and we will call to see you ABELL & GRAY Insurance and Real Estate SMITHFIELD, N. C. X ? * BUSINESS LOCALS * ? ? 10 DOZEN SI'ORT SHIRTS, $1.00 grade, for 50c. N. B. Grantham, Smithfield, N. C. ? | READ "LLOYD GEORGE, THE I Man and His Story," price one do ?ar. An interesting story of the life of one who has risen from lowly beginnings to the chief place in the government of one of the greatest > nations in the world. Herald Office 10 DOZEN SPORT SHIRTS, $1.00 grade, for 50c. N. B. Grantham, Smithfield, N. C. FRESH JERSEY MILK COW FOR sale. E. F. Boyett, Smithfield, N. C. 10 DOZEN SPORT SHIRTS, $1.00 grade, for 50c. N. B. Grantham, Smithfield, N. C. - SEE COTTER HARDWARE COM pany for your Tobacco Trucks, iron and wooden wheels. .Smithfield, N. C. 10 DOZEN SPORT SHIRTS. $1.00 grade, for 50c. N. B. Grantham, Smithfield, N. C. FOR SALE? ONE NICE MARE mule 5 years old, weight about 950 pounds. Come quick if you want a good mule. J. S. Benson, Clayton, N. C., Route No. 1. TWO LAWN SWINGS? WORTH $9. going at $0.00. Austin-Stephenson Co., Smithfield, N. C. LARGE LOT OF SCREEN DOORS and window Screens at Cotter Hardware Co., Smithfield, N. C. ! _ __ ? ____ ? 10 DOZEN SPORT SHIRTS, $1.00 grade, for 50c. N. B. Grantham, Smithfield, N. C. 10 DOZEN SPORT SHIRTS, $1.00 grade, for 50c. N. B. Grantham, Smithfield, N. C. SEE US FOR FRUIT JARS? COT ter Hardware Co., Smithfield, N. 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Starling and duly record ed in Book No. 24, page 38, Registry of Johnston County, and the same having been duly transferred to the undersigned, the conditions of said mortgage deed not having been com plied, I shall offer for sale to the highest bidder for Cash, at the Court House door, in Smithfield, Johnston County, N. C., at 12 o'clock M., on August 11th, 1917, the following de scribed tract of land: Beginning at a stake, J. A. Star ling's (now Willie F. Starling's) cor ner, and runs with W. S. Stevens' line to a stake his corner, on the Big Ditch; thence nearly South with John Sanders' line to an ash in a gut near Neuse River; thence down said gut to Neuse River; thence up Neuse River to a hickory stump, J. A. Star ling's corner (now Willie F. Sar ling's); thence with his line to the beginning, containing 45 acres, more or less. Also another tract containing 60^ acres and known as the land that was given to Willie F. Starling by J. A. 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