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4ji-i, ifif POLK COUNTY NEWS, TRYON, BT. C. - P,528.80 TURNED OVERTO TREASURY REVENUE DERIVED FROM SECRE TARY OF STATE'S OFFICE FOR PERIOD. BIENNIAL DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH Doings and Happenings That Mark . . i L the Progress of North Carolina Peo- 5 pie, Gathered Around the State ; Capital. " . . ;j . - ' j Raleigh. I For the two year period ending No- vember 30, 1918, Col. jj. Bryan Grimes, secretary of state, has turned over to f the state treasury a total of $833,528:80 I in fees -and taxes according to his bi- ennial report prepared for the Gover- nor and the General Assembly. The largest item in the list, by all i odds, of course, is the revenue obtain ! ed from' automobile registration total S ling $321,776.03 in 1917 and $422,709.76" in 1918. representing! the, automobiles I and niotor vehicles in operation diir- ing that lime, i - " s At-e end of , the automobile; year, I June ".0. 1917. there were 39,809 auto- mobiles registered, 1,401 motorcycles, and 407 dealers. . At the same period in I91S there were 62,072 automobiles registered, 1,432 motorcycles, and 601 .dealers. There have been registered at the close of the fiscal year, Novem ber 30-, 1918, a total of 72,313 automo biles, representing an increase of more than 10,000 over the total registered for the year which ended June 30, 1918. ; " The payments to the treasurer rep resent funds derived from the follow ing sources: 1917 ' 1918 Automobiles . . . $321,776.03 $422,709.76 -Corporation tax. Foreign corpora tions .... ... . . Corporation seals Corporation fees General fees Seals ... r. .... . Supreme court reports . Laws and jour- ' rials ., Miscellaneous .. Trade "marks . . Land grants fees Postage ........ Land grants '.. 25,329.80 23,624.50 6,145.00 5,142.00 1,354.00 3,293.86 1,463.65 654.00 1.223.00 2,776.95 536.69 229.00 5,387.23 4,728.08 389.25 241.74 103.10 61.50 8.80 4,138.54 404.05 114.47 . 21:60 49,70 7.10 2,625.45 -Total .$369,346.50 $464,182.30 Farm Lands for Soldiers, ' ' A special from Washington says:, "There is lots of talk about .the plans of the departments, of the interior and. labor to settle 'the returning soldiers' on lands that are now unused. As has been reported' before, agents are at work in Southern states, locating tracts of tillable soil. The investi gation and inspection service is now going into North and South Carolina with agents to list unoccupied usable farm lands by coanty, township and section. givirig the nearest market and nearest postoffice address, and fur ther identifying the land by the name of the owner. This will be supple mented by statements covering the entire county, as lo the general topog raphy, .nature-of the soil, 'etc. This information willthen be' in. the de partment of labor so that the return ing soldier or any other person seeking employment through the land will be able to locate definitely where these unoccupied lands are. North Carolina Gaining. Major W. A. Graham, commissioner of agriculture, is rejoicing over North yaroiina s splendid stride the past year - occtilu. piace among me ,states of the Union in the mattar of the money aJue of farm crops. Hef record is shown bv the eovmraent Port, just out, to be $57,400 000. there being only six states in all -theuntfy with higher records. This does not in clude the value of the truck crops or such products as soja beans'and num bers of the other snecfal crona that North Carolina has developed the past years in very considerable scale.' Accident orSuiqide Murray G. Toye, employed- in the mechanical (imartmpnt nf TTIHwnrrta j6- Broughton, died in Rex Hospital as a result of a bullet wound in his left temple. He never regained conscious ness. The manner in which the wound Tas inflicted has not been determined by the police. Rumors in circulation re to the effect that he committed iide but members of ,the family lat- denied that he killed himself inten onally and stated to friends that he s accidentally shot while cleaning 3 Pistol. .: hands of Receiver. . . ' lav J. M. Broughton has been 'ap ited receiver for the stores operat by J. E. Befarah 6 Raleigh, the Xcess, 112 Fayetteville street; - The iialty Shop, 125 Fayetteville street, Ahe Raleigh Bargain House on tin streets the latterdoing a whole Jobbing business. Mr. Broughton appointed receUet by Judge Con: t Wilson, pending th outcome akruptcy proceedings Mr. J. U inuel Was appointed., general ler by Mr. Broughton and the will continue to operate. 1 Rettrlng Eoards Thanked. wThe country can never compensate you for the sacrifices! you have made," writes Gov. T. W. Bickett to exemp tion board officials iin thanking them for the services rendered during the period of the emergency. The letter is a final word of thanks from the gov ernor prior to an ianticrpated eari (release of all the board of the state.: "You are now approaching the end of your labors," writes the governor "and common justice requires me to bear testimony to the character of service you have rendered your coun try in the greatest! crisis of its his tory.. . - j Government Land Purchases. Under the Weeks lawthe national forest reservation j commission has purchased in the Appalachian moun tains of the south and the White mountains of New England, 1,132,793 acres up to June 30. 1918. In ArirHHrm J &U9,011.31 acres have been approved for purchase. I The North Carolina purchase areas are: n annrnvpd I Acres. . . 13,107.18 . . j 9,455.66 . . 13,319.29 . . 12,629.50 . . 16,949.97 . . 1,370.20 . . 35,102.08 . . 31,712.70 Sum Paid $ 26428.2 109,241.24 66,596i4 25,000.38 84,083.18 9,614.47 253,217.45 298,307.88 241,337.63 13,564.37 223.456.78 113,793.00 Avery . . Buncombe , , Buncombe . Burke . . . Henderson . Jackson . . . McDowell. . Macon . . . Macon . . . Swain. . . . Transylvania Yancey . . . Total. . . . 30,552.33 2,303.50 46,775.45 10.481.45 .223,759.20 $1,464,641.07 Cotton Ginned in State. Washington (Special). Director S L. Rogers, of thejcensus, department of commerce .announces the rennrt nf cotton ginned by Carolina, for the counties, in North crops of 1918 and 1917. The quantities are bales, counting round as and not including j lint ers. The report follows: in running half bales, County. 1918 648,515 1,010 21,298 8,199 8,389 8,220 8,752 1,531 1,692 6,029 5,613 3.844 20,025 6,204 4,309 16,094 1,068 1,176 10,312 381 23,320 12,477 6,311 3,175 6,608 25,205 21.469 2,782 14,459 8,149 37,525 4,414 5,257 10,581 5,145 6,941 18,149 3,745 2 788 17,536 13,509 4,141 766 1 3,328 2,090 4 2,531 3,501 17.717 12.S47 51.678 6.581 7 458 20,776 28,267 4,262 J9.434 3,908 17,918 8,282 2 393 25,138 18,739 4,069 1917. 482,521 454 17,862 4,342 6,462 6,279 5,618 The state : . . Alexander . . Anson . . . . Beaufort . . . Bertie . . . . 'Bladen . . . Cabarrus . . , Camden . .... Carteret . Catawba . Chatham . . Chowan . . . 992 Cleveland . , . Columbus . . Craven. . . . Cumberland. . Davidson . . . Davie. . . . Duplin .... Durham. ... Edgecombe . . Franklin . . . Gaston . . . Gates . . . . Greene . Halifax . . . Harnett . . . Hertford . . . Hoke . . . . Iredell . . . Johnston , '. . Jones . . . . Lee . . . . . Lenoir. . . Lincoln ... Martin . ...... Mecklenburg. . Montgomery. Moore. -. . . Nash . . . North-ampton . Cnslow . . . Orange . .' . . Pamlico . . . Pasquotank. . Pender '. . . Perquimans . "itt. '. . . Richmond. . '''Robeson Rowan . . Rutherford. Sampson . Scotland. . Stanly . . ... Union . . . Vance . .. . Wake . . '". Warren . . Washington Wayne . . Wilson . . All other . Some New Corporations.' ' ; Certificates of incorporation were filed in the office of the secretary of state for the - following corporations: Farmers Ginnery, Inc., of. Laurel Hill, with $50,000 authorized capital and, $15,000 subscribed. The incorpo rators are J. D. McDonald, J. M. Pat terson and Edwin Morgan, all of Lau rel Hill. . Liberty Savings Bank, of Wilming ton, with $25,000 authorized capital and $25,000 subscribed. The incorpo rators are Ralph Harrett, J. C, Rourk, and W. L. Gore, all of Wilmington. Saved $8,024 in Food. Despite the fact that the epidemic of Influenza made it very hard to car ry on a rat-killiijg contest in Ruthv erford county, Mr. C. C. Proffitt, coun--ty agent, reports that the boys and girls in his county did kill a total of 4,012 food eaters during the contest which he recently conducted. Author ities of the agricultural extension ser rice at Raleigh fignre that a single rat5 "will destroy ' $2 worth of food' in year Aceordinir to tills, Rutherford county has saved $$u34 worth' of food by the simple elimihitioa of 4,012 rats WHISKEY STILLS 3 JILL IIIIVIEROUS t i 78 ILLICIT ESTABLISHMENTS ARE RAIDED AND PLANTS j DE STROYED IN, MONTH. SEVERAL AUTOMOBILES TAKEN Blind " Tigers and Blockacjers Also Come to Grief, Losing Number of Autos and Riga. I Statesville. The monthly -""-" uiuuiuiy repon iui Noy ember, of Revenue Agent Vander- ford Of Greensboro, showing in detail the activities of the revenue raiders, who operate in . the fifth district of North Carolina and destroy llicit stills and sieze untax-paid whiskey, has been received at the office of Collector A. D. Watts, and shows that for the month, a total of 91 seizures were made by the officers. Of that number, 78 were blockade stills and the re mainder were persons hauling block ade whiskey around the cojjmtry with-: out its having had the necessary reve nue tax paid thereon. In nearly every one of the 13 seizures for transporting untax-paid whiskey, the government also "seized an automobile;, the cars ranging from humble autofc to the fin est, cars made. i Liberty Savings Bank. Wilmington. A new finaincial insti tution is the Liberty Savings Bank, to be located on South Front street, in the heart of the retail an piarket dis trict, where a neat new building has been finished. The capital will be $25,000 paid in, and it will attend strictly to savings accounts, watching for the day laborer who hasn't had the savings habit, and helping; him with iiis Liberty bond and W. St S. affairs, flours will be such as to j afford the greatest convenience to the workers, specially shipyard men. , Jjtalph Star rest, general manager of tljie Carolina shipyard ; Thomas E. Coopej, big bank er of the city; W. L. Gore banker of i Whiteville, and others of the city are interested. It is said Joseph C. Rourk ?will be cashier. Airplane . Is Wrecked. Greensboro. A Curtis airplane was wrecked here when Lieut. J. W- Cant weir and Sergt. B. Wanaker, who were in the machine escaped injury. They were en route from Emerson field, Co lumbia, to Norfolk. They left Fay etteville intending to go to Raleigh, but missed their way. They stopped here for gas and oil and the accident occurred as they were leaving. The engine is the only part bf the ma chine now of any value, j Knights Templar Services. Charlotte. An address by Rev. J. H. Henderlite, D. D., pastor of First Pres byterian church, of Gastonia, featur ed the Christmas day services of Char lotte Commandery, Knights Templar, which were held at ihe Masonic tem ple. The traditional toastto the Pres ident, of the United States, the grand eminent commander, all Knights Tem plar who fell in France and Belgium in the world war, and topeace were given. I The musical program was arranged under the direction of Harry. J. Zehm. 8,994 j The singers were Miss jPeasley, . sor 3,505 j prano; Mrs. Avery Williams, contral 659 to; W. C. Rankin,' tenori and O. M. Norwood, bass. , ! "God's Service Star" was the theme of the address of ! Dr. Hender lite. The services in nature were re ligious, patriotic and memorial. W. N. Bacon, eminent commander, pre sided. I Peculiar Apple Tree. Wilmington. Thomas F. Bagley, er chardist of Seagate, a suburban com munity, has gathered a j second, crop ! of apples ,from nine trees in his or I chards, four, of, which were literally I loaded with 'bright redj apples. , He states that the trees bear yellow fruit ordinarily, and in the regular crop last f summer produced yellow apples, whereas the mid-December crop ; Is very red. Fortunate Chief of Police. Charlotte , Just before the clock struck the hour of 12 Chief Neal El liott, of the Charlotte police depart ment, was presented with a gold watch and chain at an Informal meet ing of members of the department. No speeches were made. The watch 4 was presented to Chief Elliott by Desk Ser geant White, who expressed the thanks of the department! for the cour tesies of .Chief Elliott 'during the time he has been chief, and; for his fel lowship when he was sergeant of the night squad. I A. Governor Visits Salisbury. Salisbury. Governor T. W. Bickett spent the day in Salisbury in the in terest of the million dollar endowment movement" for Baptist schools and col leges in North Carolina In" spite of rvery inclement weather and the influ enza scare, the First -Baptist ' church was well filled to hear' the governor. He presented his subject tn 'such a -manner that at the' conclusion of his' address, Dr. C.v Al!Qwehs,J-the rpastbi was able in 10; minutes to raise $3,050 of the $5,000 thaf xpectaWtJii congregation. ' i , QUARANTINES AGAIN LIFTED . - a. ....... Sitatttsvllle EXtrtlmety Fortunate in Its Expe rieh'ce l 'f Ith rfnfl OehzaTTS uf ferlng B&i Few Deaths. ; Statesville. ayor" L.t B. Tuesday announced the lifting quarantine in tat'esville, whi been in effect since October 5 Mid which was put jbn in an effort to . pre-1 vent the spreadJof influenza. Thfj lift- ing -of the quarantine applies to every thing moving picture shows, church- -bb; schools and ikny other public gath ering which te 'Inhabitant's of the community wis? to engage in. The quarantine willj4ot be put back on un less the epidemic reaches such a state that the town officials feel it to be nec essary. Statesille has gotten off ex ceedingly light fas compared with oth er localities, tijere having been r;less than half a dozfin; deaths from the dis ease within thiejc rporate limits of the town, and verjf few cases cf pneli .xnonlal - , . . ' ''' '' Gold Watc for Lt-Col. Rsnn. Charlotte. ien Lt.-Col. GKrge A. Renn, the commanding office: of the base hospital, -t Camp Gree ie, took hjs seat at the breakfast tablo Christ mas morning, e found at his plate a small velvet ce, and in thai 'case a gold wrist watdh on which is engrav ed: "Lt.-Coi. ;Jeo. A. Renn, M. C, U. S. A. Base llospital, Campf Greene, Charlotte, N. C2 Christmas, 1918."- The watch isi gift from th officers and others at e base hospital and is luilcu ui inoy aneciionaie regara la which Colonel; penn is held by those ; of his command. The presentation was made by '5 or J. H. Wat, who is j noted throughout. North Carolina for his gift of speech and bonhommie. Landmark to Disappear. 4 WilmingtonThe antiquated ferry service over tle Cape Fear river be- A n A TT7tll-4uL. 1 f . iwwu uiumgio nana isrunswiCK i county is to b& superseded by a mod ern ferry operated at nominal Icharges, if the represetatives in the legisla ture from NewijHanover and the sena torial district follow a rissolutibn adopted by thei;New Hanover commis sioners, who reauest that a biil.be put through requirtig the two counties to absorb the ferrjr. property, charter and all, and estabih a modern ferry, this county to beaiH two-thirds' and Bruns wick county oife-third of the dost. The city would divfd with New Hanover and bear a thKd. Extradition Papers. Wanted. Wilmington-Memories of frenzied finance in higK social life have been stirred here d a letter from Mrs. Le massena, cf Baltimore, to thu sheriff, demanding, thp the North Carolina law reach forti to London and appre hend one MrsvA.lan Nickols, who Mrs. Lemajssenal inducted several years ago on charges of Jhnbezzling some $30,000 of her "money; v Mrs. Nickols gjot in bad I career, anl rs. Lemassena alleged that while hatjdling funds tor her as a sort of financial manager, ihe spent her fortune. !phe lady left and enter- Led a sanit&riui'i in Richmond, it being given out sh was insane. Subse quently she disappeared. A rionth ago some enterpriing American corre spondent in London sent back to Buf falo a long drticie about low Mrs. Nickols was 'linoth ering" all the boys in" uniform, ajd making thim forget their homesickness in the tig Ameri can club, wht with ladies high in English society, she looked after the doughboys.j Ikvidently Mrs. Lemas sena read the Itory, for haviag located her erstwhile friend, she wants Sher iff Jackson tcrtfgo and arrest her. Hlah Stores for Nurses. WilmingtonThe 'secretary of the Board of Exanners of Trained Nurses of North Carajina has announced the result of the Examination tor 1918. M4ss Elizabeth Hutchini, bf Winston-Salem, won the highest honor with a percentage of 95 1-2 per cent. Sister Catherine Newman, jf St Leo's hospital, Greefisboro, was second with an average of94 per cent The next j teight finishedin the folloviing order: Cora Bene MQ-tione, Kauyej w. naicn er, Cora Lou$e Moffatt, Edith Carr Petrie. Remij Edith Williams, Eva Gray Cooper, :8essie I. Stevenson and Annie Lee MArthur it; Buy Yojir Airplane Now. Charlotte. l bulletin received by Secretary Fai.jris, of the chamber of commerce, frJBi the director ot mili- tary aeronautics of the aijmy, stated that airplaneswill be sold o the high est bidder bysfithe government. Bids may be place until 11 o'clock Febru ary i. The tital number of airplanes to be sold nuniber 3.211. They include Curtiss biplaxs and many other fa-, miliar makes The machines will be delivered within 90 days frc m the date the bid is placed, the bulletin stated. ;" Jl f .; ; r Ensign jjoyner Discharged. Greer -boro-Ensign Andrew Joy ner, Jr., whdias' been In the Intelli gence departnent of the navy, has re-( ceived jaxr hiorable aiscnarge, ana will return -toj; Greensboro by the first of the .year w resume nis auues m the office ,ofthe cle-'t of . superior .courL Since?! thei. Appointment ol cR. JfL Wharton t the position of. register of deds, folkllng the death oC W.vH.1 l4 Rankin; Clerl. of. Superior jCourt Gant- has been without experienced help, in his office. Bristol pf the ch has SERIOUS RIOT IS . ISOLT OHIISULT AMERICAN FLAG FIRED UPON CAUSES BLOODY FIGHTING ON. STREETS OF POSEN. CAUSED BY GERMAN OFFICER Delegation from British Mission Pro tested to German Commander Who - Declared He Had No Control. London.Firirig by German officers on an . allied automobile carrying an American flag was the cause of street fighting in Posen late Friday, says a. dispatch to. the Exchange Telegraph from Copenhagen. The Germans were defeated in the, fighting. About 138 persons, including a number of women and children, were: killed during the rioting ," , j The! dispatch says: i.i . . "Thre Was' severe fighting between the poles "and Germans in Posen Fri day, which resulted in 38 women and children and about one hundred Ger mans and Pblanders being killed. The affray i originated as a result of a Ger man officer firing on an allied auto mobile which was proceeding to War saw, carrying the American flag. "The Germans insulted the flag and the Polish euard was'called but. The fiehtins: lasted several hours and the Germans were defeated. 'A delegation fro mthe British mis sion to Posen protested to the ISer man commander in the town. General Sehimmelfeng, but the German officer declared that he had no control over the soldiers." EFFORTS MADE TO PffoVE INNOCENCE OF EX-KAISER Berlin. rA "league for the protec tion of the kaiser," has been formed and will issue an appeal to the former advisers of ' the ex-emperor, as well as diplomats with whom he was asso ciated, to submit all possible docu ments to prove the kaiser's innocenc of bringing about the war. Prince Henry, of .Prusia, who was proposed for president of the league, suggested Von Hindenberg for the post. HORSE MEAT EXPERIENCES ' ANOTHER ADVANCE IN PRICE With the American . Army of Occu pation. Horse meat again has expe rienced another advance in Germany Meatless days are being generally o served throughout Germany. In Coblenz, the week beginning De ceniber 16, was a meatless one. The ruling prices of horse meat in the area occupied by the Amercian arm3 is at preesnt as follows per pound: Horse sausage, one. mark, 80 pfen nigs ; horse meat, one mark, 60 pfennigs-horse liver, one mark, 40 pfen nigs. QREAT FIRE CAUSES LOSS OF $1 ,000,000 I N PROPERTY Bristol, Tenn.-Va. Fire which orig inated in the five-story building occu pied by Mitchell-Powers Hardware company in State street, on the Vir ginia side, completely destroyed that structure and four other buildings in the heart of the business district, at an estimated loss of $1,000,000 partial Jv covered bv insurance. The other buildings' destroyed were occupied by the Bristol Gas & Electric company offices, the Lynn-Kaylor company, and the other two by clothing '. stores. The fire, which was the most dis astrous in the history of the city, was gotten under control shortly after midnight when it reached the Domin ion National bank building on the north and the Strauss department store on the south, damaging these buildings. Lack of water and the explosions of powder and shell in the Mitchell Powers building greatly handicapped the- firemen and when the blaze began ! to spread on each side of this building an appeal was made for assistance from Kingsport and Johnson City. 24 WARSHIPS WILL BRING OU TROOPS FROM OVERSEAS Washington. Fourteen battleships and 10 cruisers have been assigned by the. r ivy department to help bring American, troops home from France. The work of altering the battleships to fit them for transport work is being rapidly completed and several of them already are in service. All of the 10 cruisers have been fitted up and the navy department announced that one had sailed from Brest with its first Joad of troor. BERLIN NEWSPAPER SAYS THE EBERT; CABINET HAS FALLEN The Hague! Brutus Molkenbuhr, Liebknecht supporter and former lead, er. of the - executive committee in the Berlin soldiers' council has been made military. commandant of Berlin. This, of course, , mena a . complete victory .for the 3partacus group. Herr Scheldt vmann has fled and Ehert government t tlbHually .no lbngereristsi According v to a report, marines - and other troopt who joined them are virtuaUy master! of Berlin. . t IMPROVED UNIFORM HITtiR ATIOSli mmm (By , R V. P. . B. FITZ WATER. D; Teacher of rignsh Bible In the Uoody niDie institute ot Chicago.) (Copyright, 1918, Western Union.) Newspsper i LESSON FOR JANUARY 5 PHARAOH OPPRESSES ISRAEL. LESSON TEXT Exodu l:T-2:i : GOLDEN-TEXT He 1 shall av tfi children of tbeneedy, and shall break fat pieces the oppressor, Psalms ,72:4., , DEVOTIONAL, READING Psalms . ; ? ADDITIONAL MATERIAL Exodua i 61; Hebrews 11:23-27. ; I The book from which the next! eight lessons are taken is a continuation of tiie story of the chosen people. Its central theme Is redemption the . de liverance of Israel from ' bondage and 'iheir separation unto God. The ques tion of relationship from Egyptia bondage is a type of our own redemp tion from sin's bondage (I Corinthians 5:7). Pharaoh represents the devIL and Egypt the world.. I. The Increase of the Chosen Seed (1:7). ; ' After Joseph's death Israel quickly grew into a nation. This increase was the fulfillment of Genesis 35:11, whick promise was repeated to Jacob Just be fore going into Egypt (Genesis 46:3). If It be the problem of how 'a little com pany of seventy persons could ' become an host of six hundred thousand me In so short a time, let us remember that God promised; it, and all difficul ties will vanish.- There Is1 a time com ing when there shall be another anuut ing increase in Israel (Ezeklel 36:10. 11, 37, 38; 37:26). II. A New Dynasty (1:8-10). Joseph's elevation in Egypt was dur ing the reign or the Hyksos kings. Be ing of Semitic origin they were not hosile to the Hebrews, but when there "arose up a new king which knew not Joseph" (v. 8) the amazing growth of the Israelites excited ' his erivtf and . V, MJ J m .VUM fold: (l) In case of war they 'might join the enemy and fight against them. (2) Lest they should remove from thie land, thus cutting off a vital source of revenue and exposing to danger tbe; eastern border of the land..,' j " III. Measures to Check the .Growth of Israel (1:11-22). , s - i - These measures place on ; exhibltloa the folly of . worldly, wisdom (ljrfBK thians 3 :19). Their fatal mistake was. that they left God out of .their calcula-. tions. , God had Dromised that! Israel should be great in numbers and mighty . 1 " t ' . rft - in power, tie wno pians.agaiiusi, Aju shall miserably fail and shall be shown, to be a fool. . V 1. Cruel Taskmasters, (yv. U-14).p They were placed under heavy bar-., dens. Cruel taskmasters were j placed over them who forced them to , labor in building treasure cities and all man ner of service in the field. This meas ure was ineffectual, for "the more they, afflicted them, the more theyi' muM-, plied and grew.". This rapi growth resulted in more intense burdens bein heaped upon taem. . - - ,:. , ' 2. Murder of Male Infants , by the, Mid wives (vv. 15-21). This measure also miscarried, as the mldwlves feared God and chose to obey him. Be cause they refused to destroy God's people he gave them homes .apd chil dren and the 1ovs thereof. I 3. Drowning of Male Children th.UMb River (v. 22). In order to make this measure effective all the people were cnargea wun vne responsiuiiiiy: of caas- ing the Hebrew male children Into the .river. xuis luaiiuuie sceiua iw nave been given shortly before Moses was! born. This plan likewise was foiled. and the very child who when a man upset his throne, was sheltered and nurtured in his own palace, j , IV. The Birth and Education, of Moses (2:1-8). V The measure which, was designed to aesiroy iuc neui c w lucnutc, bis brought to Pharaoh's palace and edn-, cated there the very man who after ward shattered the Egyptian power and set free the enslaved people. The faith n Xfneos' tin rpnts rcmsAfl thfrn tt Ignore LUC IU1UIUUI1U Ul LI1C.' MUg KUW hide him for three months j (Hebrews. 11:23). Faith in God is thei antidote frr- foap fPsnlms 27 ?1 V. ' His mothpr . 1 L. J A. I f A discerned in him a proper child, or a child fair to God (Acts 7:20), and be- Iievea nim to ue uie ueiivener vi du people. She ho "doubt Instilled this truth in his mind from his childhood. Perhaps led by the story of Noah's ajrk she made an ark of bulrushes and' placed. Moses In It and left It at Che place where Pharaoh's daughter would be attracted wnen sne camej aown co hortia Miriam his iitpr. a'.i nlAxl uaiuc - . - . where she could watch the affair. She Came nliu a suggcouuu cn. "t tune moment as to a nurse: for the kk KMiiVwiHrtn at h mnthor"! ItMMl gave character, and education at the ' Egyptian court qualified him to be the Necessary Ingredients. "Love suitereth long and ts kind; love envleth ' not ; love vaunteth not Itself." ' Get these ingredients Into vour life. Then everything that yoa do Is eternal. It Is worth doing. It is worth giving time to Self-DenlaL . Self-denial when regularly kept cj and not .oniy lnamgea now. ana men, - one of the clearest tokens thatr2orir holy spirit is with men, preparing them for eternal glory. Keble. ft
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