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CHABLOT TE DAILY OBSERVER, SEPTEMBER 6. 1903. t -IF -J 1 - til:. A V,A . ET-;' SEEMS' TO" ME , feT A YBISOirsR OP HOPE " TTr-p,-;.' - "Our birth to but a sleep and a lerget- " - . The sou' that rises wlih Vs.' eur lltestar. Hath had elsewhere Its setting ' ; y . .And eometh from afan; ' . - Not in : entire forsettulness, .;;,- 'r And In utter nakedness v From Oad who ia our heme. - . It i aeeaais to me so - unspeakably; glorious that we arei Tnai wa iivez " A "we are conscious of life, bo are we . - oonacloua of God, Every light-team ia a trlory-path hack to the aim. God . - Ia. What matter that we fix our tiny ' ttaedte-pojnt minds upon all they can -' cover and any, God la this. He ls that, . " He la here, He Is there. With a prism ' we may separate the rays of a sun beam -404 study the wonderful colors - gravely, each tof us choosing- our own. But the f lorloua yellow sun shines on,. ;tf7sand we gase in wonder at his ln v : ' jcrutable face, with all our learning . never going farther than the first 5 '; thrill of wonder. V. "Ood is everywhere! The seulf who . " frsmed . "Mankind to be one mlshty family Himself our Father and the world our . . home. - Ana God la good. "What Is, , right." Why should It not -he sot ,- seems to me that we are very small and weak when -we stand before a great thought like this. A peDDie ne fore a mountain a pebble lost In he mountain a awful shadow! -uoai ine power that fills all the infinity of space -with suns and worias inai know the limits or tneir pamways anu thn unmarked line Of their orbits! The power that feeds a tfrass blade and balances upon its bended green ness a arap-oi aw, And our home Is good. The fair sweet earth that He, in his ' wisaom, Bees to be a flttjng place for our dwell ing. It seems to me that He must have a great use or ,nal use that we may not even very dimly understand. For the earth and the fullness thereof, and for -This breath ing house not built With hands." And all His purposes are good. This la a wonderful knowledge tnai cornea not from without but from, within. There ts a still small voice that Is more distinct than the cry or pains, clearer than the shriek of,anulsh, and It comes simply, naturally through all the honor of loneliness, all the confusion of suffering, alt the be wildering pain of injustice. "It Is I." "Peace, Be SMll." "All's well, airs well!" Were you ever a little child, and was there a storm T Was there, too, a mother, a wonderful mother with strong arms, and -were you heW close, close sgalnst her 'breast and did you hear In the voice that no other Is like: "Dont be afraid; Ifs all right. "We are perfectly safe. Moth er knows." And even -while the storm raged, perhaps you fell asleep. Well, it Is like that, this great, wonderful, God-spoken "All Is well." "Those whose eyes are only turned below ' Gating upon the ground with thoughts that dare not glow." It seems to me a thing most pass ing strange th,t In one breath we love our home too well and hate it too un reasonably. And whence have we the Idea that our consciousness of life Is the ultimate object of our UvlngT It wiay be merely Incidental to some great use that -we can know ortly after ages of evolutloB , Pain Is real. The flesh, suffers. The tearing of a beast of prey, the in fection of germs Just as truly alive and hurtful to us. Bruising and breaknlg of flesh And bones and the introduction of poison Into the blood, all these fcrlng physical pain and physical death. Why?. God knows. It seems to me that all hurt of the body is by violence, by accident, by not being able to kee.p out of the way. But pain, the suffering, la God's way with us. Why? God knows. The other and the greater anguish grief, sorrow, agony of mind- are not these the'chlldren of Darkness? It eeema to me that they come of our Ignor ance, our lack of understanding. We cannot know. We cannot understand. So there is Faith. We are out of tune. It seems to me that we need not worry about the trouble feeing hereditary. "Earth fills her lap with pleaeures of her own Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind And, even with something of a mother's mind. And no unworthy aim." The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster child her Innate Man." And the pleasures of earth are ' good. There is nothing wrong about tfiem. They are ours, a gift from Qod. But we misuse tne gin. That Is where we strike tne raise note. It is where the discord begins. And it comes of simple misunaerstanaing. Were vou ever a little child sent on an lmDortant errand, and was the way that you went a path through Won derland? All the paths used to lie . In the country of Wonderland. Ana did you forget all about the object of the Journey because of the beauty of the butterflies and the wonder of the. bees and the sweetness of the flowers and the music of the wind In the .pines and all the wonder of shine " and shade? And was not that & little lesson that we " need to remember ? The way was not. bad. All the ways v of earth &e "d ways. But they are merely ways, and. not abiding places and we must not loiter. They are wave, and ways lead somewhere, Along these ways God's earth-child rs. , "Fretted by sallies from his mother's kisses . With light upon him from his father's eyes." . s. , . ., t . And earth's ' kisses are good ' and right. I like to think that the great . i mother loves us. The big. awful. In comprehensible earth whence our bodies came, whither they, must re - turn! - How do m-e know- what sort of life It is that thrills it? Senseless matter? Ah, God -knows. "Earth, , ocean, ' air, -mountains, wind," how ood they are! Even the little r ; tiny note that Is all -of the melody we catch In our going, how great It is. ' The .meaning . of it all? God . knows.-; ,:,vi,; V ' Have you seen a little baby in Us cradle beside the nursery fire? What . a UttievBoft. feeble thing it is! As - ye It has lived but Just a lltths, UtOe while. - And what . a tiny nest the ' cradle l. ana tne walls about it are not far apart. . But this all that the baby knows of God's universe And there It a mother "With gentle hands and this, Is all that the baby knows about God's care. - - .. in the mother-eyes is a light that reaches even the sleepy brain of the little one. And this is all that the baby knows about God's Jove. No faintest idea- of the, Out side drifts' in , to the baby. You know all about thi father-love that builded the wans about the home. ' Tou know some . thing about work, and shelter and sacrlSce and food and alt that makes the peace and comfort - "about the baby's We But the, chIM does not know. - Why?. Only- because it; can not. There . la no other - reason Presently It will think of walla and men et tne outsiae.ana. ny aiow-development, of all that wa know. But not now. The knowledge Is simple and good. . But the baby is too smalL "A cun cannot contain the measure of a bushel." It seema to ma that we are like that. Babies here with our; mother, knowing so littler about our cradle nd nursery, not tecau80 there la nothing to know, not because knowledge Is not good, but only ne cause we cannot, we are too little, too young. That is all. And Is It not enough? ;-.':' , r: Perhaps through a window .a sun beam falls unon the Dftby's hands, and the child laegha aloud for the first time and holds up its hands to claim the spilling, gold. For a little mo ment the plaything lingers and tnen la gone. . And the baby cries, for was ot the sunbeam Its very own ? xou knew better. You know that this ray of light has traveled nlnty-one millions of miles on an Important er rand to the earth and otherwheres that only God can know. The In stant of toying with the pink fingers of the baby was Incidental. But can you impart your wisdom to the child ? Because it Is not true? Only be cause the. child cannot know. The baby crlea and holds out plead ing hands expecting the sunbeam to come for the reason that it 1s want ed. And you smile because you know that never, never In all the ages that the earth shall turn her continents to the sun. In all the eons of her steady Journey around the mighty centre of her orbit, In all the unthinkable eter nity of her aweeplng flight through space with suns and systems toward the awful mystery of the pole star, never will the sunbeam come again to the baby's . fingers. Othr sun beams, please God, and many, but never the one that slippod away, never the one for which the baby cries. You know, but can you tell the baby? And why? Only because the baby cannot understand. Are we like that when our sun beams slip away, when we hold out foolish hands and beg them back with silly tears? God would let us know If we could understand. We cannot. That is all. But is it not enough? Have you watched the resistance of the baby, the poor, foolish fight ing against what you know Is right? Can you tell the baby that your will Is best? It is, but the baby cannot know. You must Just do your will for the baby's sake, for all sorts of good and worthy sakes. and let the small atom of resistance, the tiny morsel of rebellion, the minute parti cle, of unbelief squirm and squall all It wants to. Who cares? The baby knows no better. , Are we like this sometimes when we do not under stand what It la that God is doing with us? Why don't we understand? Well, why doesn't tho baby under stand. Wo cannot; wo are too little. All the great, slmpVe, beautiful truth is there, but we are Just as full of it as we can be. We can't hold any more. A child's top cup can be filled with Sea water, but who can put into It all the splendid wonders of the ocean? And have you watched the baby trying to keep awake In spite of drowsy singing of dreamy lulla bies? You know that sleep la best. But the baby likes to be awake. To us there comes a time when sleep ts Dest. uoa knows why. And we are afraid. Afnaid of Death, the deep sleep. I wonder why,? Do we love earth "only for its earthly sake?" Afraid of the dark, and-yet, on the other edge of this small measure of life "Out of darkness came the hands that reach through nature, mould ing men." ' ( And It Is the same darkness. One ocean circles every Inch of shore. We are afraid because we do not know. That Is alL "This ts our own palace; yonder Is ear tnrone." God's Truth goes all the way round. Knowledge Is our poor little foot rule. It reaches such a little way. And While it is not .natural for every one to have extremely long hair, it is possible for every lady to have beautiful hair, for when the scalp is not diseased the hah -wUl .'grow naturally . and abundantly. - A . - . .. i; v The chief disease of the scalp is dandruffwhich is : highly contagious and dandruff is now known to be caused by an invisible vegetable growth ' called the dandruff germ. Ordinarily, the first signs of scalp infection are dryness, dullness : and brittleness o the hair, although the disease , sometimes causes excessive t- oili ness. Following this, the hair loses its lustre, the scalp 'itches, more or less - and dandruff appears. Falling hair and baldness .represent the last stage of hair de struction. ' l:-tyii;.;., 'i.;--;c"1--K':V'X;-; ' ' ., - NewbroV Herpicide the original remedy that kills the dandruff germ will ; cure, any stage of this disease,' except chronic baldness, ; which is mcurable. Herpi ( cide not only, destroys the ' dandruff germ and stops falling hair, but it is a most ex quisite hair dressing making the hair light and fluffy and giving it ,a silken gloss. . Almost marvelous results sometimes follow the continued use of Herpicide. . It stops itching of the. scalp almost instantly. : . Two Hies, SOc. and $1.00, AS Drag Stores, gaa. for a sample. SEE WINDOW DISPIA'T AT ; U. there is Faith. We v cannot1 die. Nothing diea There is changeoThe little baby . changes and becomes a man, and we are content because, we understand a little., such a little, of the process. But this farther 'change is ; another , matter.- Is HI God knows... Vs - -,: It seems to me that r. "death is, it must be, .as simple and natural and beautiful as life. It cannot touch the real life. It is not an enemy of the spirit which is the life. It; is not an enemy of the body.- But tt changes ' the body and we cannot understand as, far as that. It Is Just the same beautiful Truth, just one en tire Rlghtness, .one perfect Goodness all the way. it seems to me tnai our Ignorance- and fear make ' no differ ence In our relation to the Truth.- It is just as true when we do. That is the lesson that I find written all about me. I am sure that God takes care of us, always. ' We cannot know, not because the Truth Is vague or subject td puxzllng changes, not because God Is secretive, but because we need not know how it la with us after the change 'that ter rifies us so. It seems to mo that per haps there is not so much change as we think. - It may be that we do not see very clearly 'the things about us. We are used to our dim perception. We know nothing of all that the throbbing life, around us means. The branches of a stately oak lie against my window. I am alive and the oak Is alive, but we cannot communicate with each other. I admire the beauti ful tree; I know its family name, the sort of stems and buds and leaves and aoorns that belong to It. I even know a little about its roots and the soli that feeds them.1 But what does life mean to the tree? God knows. It is not here Just for me. It seems to m that the tree is conscious of a happy existence in the preserves of Its creator. But I can't know. My God has seen fit to close me In my "breathing house." My "soul In its rose-mosh." It seems to me that I am a spirit shut In a wonderful prison of rlH.v. All about me there is an ocean of beauty and truth and some time I am to be set free In It. From the glorious outside there are, reaching to my spirit, Ave small windows and through them I receive my Impressions. Only I must have lived outside once, and perhaps I re member a little. But for the most part. I must depend upon . the five senses. These are not very acute. Tho windows are dusty Welt, then, with such little ways of communica tion, how am I to know much? If I wore out, hearing and seeing and feeling would be one. Indeed, except for different names they are one now. The spirit is being reached by each avenue. If there were no walls snd no gate;: there would be one splen did Impression. It seems to me so. I think we have only a little blink ing, purblind peep at beauty. Only the fninteat echo of a most distant whisper of music. It seems to me that vp have only a faint dfoam of the good and loveliness of what wo call material things. We rail our memory of It all HeaVen. We come to like our prison walls. I have known n invalid who wss In terror of tho big world, and even after she was wftll she lived In her chamber because she had forgotten how It feols to be free. We have forgotten. GALLEY THrtEE AS IT SEEMS TO But that matters only a little. After awhile we shall be free. It Is God's will. What If our little wills op pose it? Can a whjsp of straws stem the currrnt of the Mississippi? We shall be free. The walls are (tempo rary. They were net bullde for a long lasting. There is no destruction. Shall we wear the flesh again? God knows. What Is. is right. It scorns to me that we shall awake to the w-qnder and glory about us. Now we are little more than blind, little better than deaf. Then, there shall be one blissful knowing. Then we shall understand. There Is no way of getting to us now. But after ward God knows. All. all Is well. And now when In our groping we Stumble and fall, now when we lose the sunbeam that we wanted 'for our own, now when we want the angel of pain. and hold converse with the spirit of suffering, need we worry or fret or be troubled? Lest the errand upon which we are sent be forgot ten may He "Give unto us, made lowly wise. The spirit of self-sacrifice." The thought of another, the forget- Lasting Results from using WBRO'SvMERPIC.D "I am blessed with am abundance of long-. hair and I use the utmost care in the preservation of It. I have never found anything; that pleases me as much as Newbro's Herplclde. It keeps the scalp clean and sani tary and adds a luxurious appearance to my half that no other prepara tion will five. I consider it most delightful to use and I can truly say that I prefer it above all other preparations for the hair. I like yonr soap also and can recommend both highly to any lady who wishes a good head of ha!r.', i (Signed) JENNIE A. ABBOTT 244$ Warden Avenue - CLEVELAND, OHIO. Send 10e. la stamps to The H. JOEDAN & CO., Cp ecial fulness of creature comfort, the quick; un tarrying step along tho way-where sweet flowers bloom. ' . '. V lt seema to ma that If t could send a single message to te trouble heart ed that message should be God's will Is the everlasting Rlghtness, the per fect Goodness that Is always every where. When we all come to know the truth we shall be unafraid as the child In Its mother's arms, no mat. ter what storm rages about us, and It seems to me when I think of this homlng-tlme that wb might almost bear; some tall white angel cry: "And tell the stars and tell yon rising sun , Earth with er thousand voices praises uoa. - ... ACTIVE WORK OF MR. GODWIN. He W ill Hold a Series of Fanners' Meeting In His District With Ex perts From Washington to Discuss ' Drainage) . of 6wamp Lands' ; and Good i toads. Special to The Observer. Dunn. Sept S Representative H. L. Godwin will begin a tour of his district on the 11th Inst-, accom oanied by experts from the Agricnl tural Department at Washington, and hold farmers' meetings .in several counties to discuss the Important sub jects of swamp drainage and good road building. He has arranged with the department to send an expert drainage engineer and also an expert road man to accompany him. The meetings will be held immediately fol lowing the drainage convention at New bern next week. They will go from Newbern to Wilmington on the 11th, and during the afternoon of the same day they will discuss drainage and good roads with a few of the business men of Wilmington. On the xzm they will address a large farmers' meeting at Whltsvllle. On the 14th they will address the farmers of Robe son county at Lumberton. and on the ISth will address the citizens of Cum berland at Fayetteville. Mr. Godwin Is very much in terested in these subjects, which he consider of much Importance to the people of his district, and arranged with the department at Washington for the services of Mr. J. O. Wright, an expert drainage man, who will address the State drainage convention at Newbern, to accompany him through his district. Mr. W. L. Spoon, of the office of public roads at Wash ington, will discuss road building. Mr. Godwin has arranged to hold these meetings after having been requested to do so by a good many citizens of his district who are Interested In these subjecta , Officers Heed Not Story of Alleged Robbery. Special to The Observer. Durham. Sept. 5. The officers have not yet arrested Lonnle Chamblee, whom Rufus Barbee charged Wed nesday morning with having robbed him of S20 and some greenbacks, be sides this amount In gold. Though the item was featured in some parts, the officers believe none of It and made no effort to run down a man against whom they felt they had nothing. Barbee, who figured many NEW AMSTERDAM HOTEL t 4th Ave. A tlit St. 1 N.w York 1 jKanypeaa Flea Rooms with hm of Bjth 11 and ss. With prt Tktt tb tot ono. M0 tot two and apwant. New Batba and Plumblna Jfe CunmUmt UemMom es OUt Prom 81 Street nllraeS trtmir!n Or Conuml Station, Uke out dlteot to SoMll ae Uuwan. Sswli XXerpidd Co., Dept. X., Detroit, Mlchl Agents. Guaranteed years ago In a spectacular murder and a , trial acquitting him of - If. says that -after the performance) of Gentry Bros. Tuesday night ha lay down. well drunk, on the soft grass. Cbamblee, he declares, came up and went through his pockets, f Barbee then asked hint what he was-doing, and said: "You v got my -money." Chamblee called him a liar and said: "You killed Bill Cole., but I will cut your d n throat." and Barbee said he was afraid. Sheriff Harward took the warrant and Barbee took the stump, telling all about It. The officers riever attached one single bit of Im portance to It and they are not worry ing over the escaped prisoner. They think the story was one of Burns' drammy ones and unworthy of official attention. Ten Years' Railroad KxpansKm. Wall Street Journal. When It Is safa that the gross earn ings of the railroads of- the United States Increased from $1,122,089,773 in 1J97 to S2.595.M2.002 in 1907, one obtains some idea of tho enormous expansion of the railroad business 1n ten years. Thst expansion is one of the marvels of American business . The increase in gross, earning measuring the expansion of the trade of the Uinted States, amounted to about ISO per cpnt. In ten yeara. In the same time the population of the United States increased only 20 per cent, and the money in circulation less than 70 per cent. Is It any won der that the railroad problem has as sumed dimensions so colossal as to make tht heaviest demand upon tho technical skill and the financial abil ity of the world? Estate of Late J. X. Campbell Valued at $18,000. Special to The Observer. High Point, Sept. 5. The executors Wc Arc Dependent Upon the public for our very existence. Each of our employes understands that the public must be treated with courtesy and respectful consideration, no matter how trivial the sub ject. We ask that you extend the same con sideration to our young lady operators. Effcient Service. For information Southern Bell Telephone Standard Ice SOLE AGENTS FOR C. C. B. Pocahontas Coal mmU - f yv.? . -v ti:tfj I , ('.' i. i SI. ' Vy'fc' 'j. J St .mHy K "';. 1 ''' I iy ,... 1 . tV-U V !f r r', , .e i 1 ' S ' ' ( l" 1 . ! r' '" ' i." I A ;. ; 4 ' 'A .Jennie A. .under tht Teod and Drnga Act June SO, 1S0 Bertal .No. tlaj. , . 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In all ecsema casea poslam stops itching with first application, and pro ceed to heal Immediately; chronlo cases bring cured In two weeks. In leas serious skin troubles, results are seen after an overntftht application. Samples for experimental purposea may still he had. free of charge, by writing to the laboratorlea for them. of the will of the late J. N. Camp bell. Mr. J. A. Newton and Mr. U L. Campbell, had a meeting here yester day to arrange for the settlement of the estate according to the will. Tho estate U valued at about $18,000. There are thr?e special bequests: Miss M. J. Campbell, $8,000; L. L. Camp hell, $300, and $800 each to Mr. J. A. Newton and two children. The resi due is to be divided between his nephew. I,. U Campbell, of Winston, and nieces and nephews of the de feased In the West. 6 Reasonable Ratea call No. 9080. & Telegraph Company & Fuel Co. Endorsed by the Govern ment! of Great Britain, Germany, and Austria. Favorite fuel with United States Navy. 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