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"Go Up and Take Possession would ensue if the people of New rapidly developing (arming and lum- E.ngiana aroma awite some monnuj i uer sections or the west, besides what Thl deeply thoughtful and in teresting discourse on home missions was delivered recent lv hy Rev, Kd ward R. Leyburn, pastor of the Kirst "PrestijieWan .t-hllfchi' ai nurTtam. Duet 1 :21. God hath set "Behold, the land the Lord thy h. f or e t h , the J.ord IS ! M- la I'd -,, !',. ...ml. ho . had :..ua-d tliti b n thev K idcsh t.Ced it ,.- vv.,!L-l t n : h 1 1 th )' e no iij od ' I th feat 1 1 - t go up and posses i of thy fathers hath san! fear not, neither hi- d.-. . The land jpok, n ol her, of Canaan The ,h:d:i-: after their deliver an--" !: age and or.;,r,-ss,. started on llu-ir iim'pn fair land of promiM , r j T reached the border ,.' it barnea. :he humeri and I li-ar of the fcUni.-- n-J cities ah". id o: i h--i. !l Moses af them the - --r! ,n !-m .f the text Hehol t tn, l.oi.i tin 'I'ld hath set the land i . r-1 ( r tn and possess ;t a- the Lord fathers hath a li i . 1 1 . thee. neither I-- d Is. . , : , e--.1 Hut i member h.i ;. ' li-rml l through fear r.T lb o..--:at le- and d:f ficultii-g and 1.,: v..r- and r- '-i-ed ! go forvvad ar..l l.iK' p. is - ssio n uf b laod thai U"1 had promised ! gl them Yen. ulso remember lit,- -,.1 etoi "f th1 foil-, ean- -.1 '. -I i y an I homeless mRn-;nr,!'K in the d,--,'rl and al! th- losses niiti suffering- tiiul terwards . aiue upon t'u-u and tl.', descendants because ,.- this mi- i able failure. It is net mv purpose at: n., . the hi'..rv ,,I Isreai, aid -.h,.,v h-vv different that h:st"iv unnM r.a-..- be. It thev had behaved .i,ir. r- titls i Kadesh-hamea. atid had sou. m th. , and taken possession .' the bind th it iod had premised ! t,- i-o.n their home w iph 'n tal-a that God spoke T l-oa-Mot.es as an - x f i ut t at :-.n !. generation tn go I, and t Bl'in if Anifilofi to . n. b .-- ! or . . ii i children, and for our 'i-.d i :i . I 1 the Lord th 'Jo.l t.it'i th.- I.uoi hefern thee ip .i' i sJ(.. .,. the L.od ;id of f.-'.t- o.,ri -.a 1 unto thee. t ,ir not r,i,th. T St r., courajrt-d " Till-; I.AN'I - ITS .'ITI This land tilch i ...! hat at our heniH und t to mii fllCt.S rtflll . otoju'---t--. i- ln his Egyptian campain. drew ,,p his soldiers for the battle of the Pyra- i nnda. pointing to thoae great monu l tnenta, hoary with ae, he said: "8ol- diers. from yonder heights, fur's ten J furies look dow n upon you. yult you , j i:Ke men ' "So," says Doctor Strong, i i from the pyramid-top of opportunits , upon which God has placed us, we 1 ; look down upon forty centuries Y 1 sitetch our hands into the futurivith j power to shape the destiny of unborn j j millions." I j "We sre living we are dwelling . In h grand and awful lime. ! In an age on :ige tclilng; j To be h ing i- M;bh:n-.- " Oh, an we making the most of nu' I "jiport imitii-s ' An- we pnuing true to Die tru-t ;od has oointnltt'd to u- " 'l' 'i .-ot li..::i Ho. tor Strong .tgaiii !"h. w ..rid s .- eptre p.ise from I'er t.. i-.i-.-ere. from tln-i-o- to Itai... ttom l:ai to ijreat in Haiti, and Iro.-n 'ire.it )'.r;t..:r, th -..ptie . to-day departing. It is passing on to greater Hiltaln to o n- miglit W.st. there to fioam tor tlo -re i- no l,irlh-r West. t io Mll-l :s the I irleut ),,Ke the st.l, III the K.i t . h! h LUlde.) the three lni.- with th-ir 'n-asiio- wi-st.i.ird tint I rt t length .' flood still .. . I 'h- . 1 a, lie m the infant ' hilsl. so t -o ,-t.ii of em pire rlsioK in th.- Kast. h.i.- . u r I heekoni d the we.ilth ahd poAer of th,. nat iniij est ward. until to. lav it s'm.'l- t-i: over the coirii: enipoe the '. . -t !.. m hi h the nations o pie ! world are bringing then off. rms j I'hri.-to.n i.iethren. has n..t i;,id Kl""l I" 'h:s exalted position and i tm-se a 1,'Ojlidlng prUlleges that ,v e ; ma . .i:t this Saiii.i no. . .n 1 mer I"' it nail. .ii. hot owr the World" ' and find themselves in possession of the climate and soil of these western States. IRKHiATION AND RAILWAY COX STRl'' 'TION. The two factors that have had most to do with the opening up of the West and rts -wonderful development are irrigation and railway construc tion Thousands of square miles of i this country usei to be- marked on our maps as Desert " There Is no ; desert land in the I'nltcd States, or j will hi' none when the government i finishes it., enormous Irrigation pro jects Half you been keeping up at all. in the magazines and recent hooka. witli the vast irrigation schemes whi. h our government has on hand in the West'.' It la, In my judgment, one of the most import ant ami far-reaching things our gov- 1 ernmont lias been engaged in during the last ten ers. It lias been dls i oere.l that this land, which used to ! be marked "desert," Is the finest ioll i in the world, ot practically unlimit ed depth. All that was needed to ' make it blossom as the rose, and o ld har'sts surpassing the famed i harvests of Kg pt was water. This I is now being supplied in abundance . n the government, which is expend ing millions of dollars every vear on its itiigation plan's. Already, over a territory of thousands of miles. hi re lormerlv only sagehrush or . a. ins nt'-w, there are now orchards and gardens of surpassing beauty ;inil 1 ru 1 tfu ! toss, and this is Just the be-ginmK. sr ,..,:,) through s . , I t i . : p..s-. Bit 1 ..I yart .1 I,. . I h. N ; I'M AT I ' h.ghl. 'avoM-J jrfint ,m th. g i : Situation idea i. I' ; in w North temperate iom m whn h .io a.l I'o s Tea t anil ha-.b and i ' s. . : , r . e t : j ; p h . .- s that have i1Md. hlst-. have lu.d It )e. hel een t he I .a rl I - -! I C Ol lit .1 ' it the '('I:' . t M . i. . . It.. J.as-t. It h its fi-ie hiii . . r . all ..-ng the A t lii n i, f a . . s ii.. I i I,. . - - . . F.u"-pe Its WVht. w-th ' i ! M.. harl.'.ri fa.e. hl'ia a'ol .lap. in and K'.h-h the ureal iinnt. whi.li i making sij.b n.ii.ili rl ,1 M' il. in. 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I .,m l iiK'-b indented for statls t'.s and Micf. -t mns to Mr. Ward I'. ait's recent l.nok. The Kreiihi i. Starting ni r.upus i iristi. I as. diaw a ,lin- riorthwatd ,ilong tin- '.7th 0 the border "f I'anada. 01 pa-s through, "i near, Te mis. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 r 1 e i 'k la U.rbila, Kan. Lin oin. eh , and loir g ' N"i th Dakota This line will di d- the CnHed Slates e-,n,tlv 111 halt, o Io The exlent nf Its tertttorv. but th" population on the east si,p. ,,f 'hat Inn- iv ten time-i as great as that 1' 111'' VI e.s Side . .1 V , cm he v -' sub- ,. th it 'me Ii, , tin- . . Iter I It K I ' ; ATION IJKTTKR THAN' RAIN. Ve think of Irrigation as a. poor sub.-it ute for rain Put Just the i..--veis,- Is Hue The Ideal farming run dlt.o.u is that where there Is no ram to wash tht- soil, and carry off its most valuable elements, where there are no iain days to Interfere with -v "i k, and no i loudy weather to im- peue the growth of vegetation, but V b e I , II, 1 shipped thraugh It from tha East. Railroads are converging there from every section. The trans-continental lines are extending across the Pacific by means of great ocean liners. "Either of two sister steamers be longing to one voad will svvallow In its cavernous maw live hundred car loada of freight. A first cara-o con sisted of seventy Baldwin railway lo comotives, one hundred railway cars, ten thousajid kegs of wire nails, and a half million dallars worth of mis cellaneous freightage. Her lists, when full, mean in addition, thro? thousand passengers. And yet, with all these growing stupendous facill tlfs, the freight of Puget Sound har bor cannot find sufficient carriage." No wonder that the population of Seattle and the other cities around Puget Sound have doubled every four years; and they will continue to double their population every four years for a long time to come. When we turn our attention to the .Southwest, the position of Galveston is hardly less strategic than that of Puget Sound. Ren. ember that Gal veston is the outlet for Texas, and think of what that means Editor Ed munds, of The Manufacturers' Rec- rrA ill . . . muMiuiea ine size or Texas in ! ,hls wav ,:ut out the map of the State j of Texas, and pin It on the map of I the United Mates, with Its centre at i -ainiiip, and it will cover the map I from Chicago to Mobile, and from Raleigh to Little Rock And nearlv every acre of that land is tine farming land. since artesian wells and Irri gation have given them water, there are no bad lands In Texas. Its soil Is wonderfully fertile amJ productive. That one State now produces 63 vari eties of agricultural products, and in some of the more Important of them, like cotton, It Is leading the world It already has 12,f,00 miles of railway tracks to transport Its products to the markets Now think of the strategic Importance of Galveston and New tanner rtn at any hour j'Tleans as the outlet to such h all 1 1 Is I 'inon s ,--lo-pel .initio' St. torn t.n- desired amount of water on paitu-ular i Tops that need II, Just keeps it avVay from nun laters and missionaries? Ws answer that moat of the money of these newer sections Is Invested tn equipping their new enterprises and getting started in life. The vast majority of the peo ple who go West are people of small means, who spend all they have In the world In getting a home and an out fit for their work. They live for the first few years chiefly on the hope of what they are going to have after a while These people must be help ed In the beginning If they are to have churches and ministers. Even In the older parts of tlje West, where largs fortunes have already been made, comparatively little of the money is la the hands of Christiana, and a'vallable for Christian work. This is true, largely because we neg lected mission -work In those places in the beginning of their develop ment. There is probably nowhere in the world where capital Invested for God will yield larger and richer returns than In the West. Many of the churches In as new a State as Okla homa, which were started as mission churches and supported at first chief ly by mission funds, are now not only self-supporting, but have their own home missionaries working In the newer and more destitute sections, and some of them even have their o-w n foreign missionaries. As we look forward twenty-five years, and think of the population I that win then fill the West, and the development that will have taken place In thit part of the country by that time, our pulse quickens at thu thought of the wealth and power and greatness of our nation. But oh. how our hearts ought to thrill at tho thought of winning this great section for Christ, and saving Its teeming millions from sin, and bringing all this Immense treasure under the pow er and control of tho ;reat God who gave It to us, to be used In furthering the Interests of His kingdom on earth' Hut how our hearts should he ! filled with horror at the verv thought you believe In foreign mission, aa X trust you ' do, and are longing and praying for tha salvation of the heathen la other lands, save the West m order to use Its resource in saving ine worja. FIGHT NOW FOR POSTOFFICE. m-i id i I'hat I . li'TllI t I t lull, vv pile he keeps It those whl- h would be Injured by It. And the vleld on these irrigated land-i is. bevniid our wildest dreams, with our ideas of farming We are tobi b prrtectlv reliable men. who know what thev are talking about, that ten a, ri-s ,.f this irrigated hind in some sections, when planted In (in hauls, will yield larger returns than a six hundred arce farm of ordinary land cultivated in grain. lake New Mexico, Arizona and Ne vada as 1 1 lust i at Ions oi what urination will do lor what was once c'Olsldered the most w m i h loss and unattractive putt of our country. In the great lv .os Vallev. in .New Mexico, which i.oers hundreds of miles, fifteen years lean cattle could be lalsed. puin ones at that Last vear "tie "ichard in that valley prod d a seventv thousand dollar i top. The Mlgal beets raised in that valley ,, r found lo have a higher percentage of try as this rapl,il developing south I of this fairest and best portion of our west, and thel,- proximity to Latin America and the Panama canal, as well as their act .-ssl bl 1 it v to Kuropran ports W land being an ungodly and unchrlst- tlaii country, dominated by the forces "f evil, and using Its vast resources to demoralize and degrade mankind and hinder the, progress of God's kingdom! And that Is certainly the future that lies before the greater TIki City Wbere Titers 1st Always mwuiuii uuof imeresMa in I'uottruvstrntlilp Matter No JDangt-r That a candidate Will Have to Be Imported. Special to The Observer. Durham, Jan. 3. The oostofflce contest In this place may be fairly said to be on, and there are aa many applicants for the job aa there were candidates for the Democratic nomi nation for the lower house last sum mer. The race Is anybody's at this distance from the appointment. Postmaster P. J. O'Brien has served his third term and there Is a senti ment here against third-termers. In his office Is Mr. D. C. Mangum, chief clerk, who Is said to be an applicant. A brother-in-law of Mr. Mangum, Mr. H. K. Seeman, owner of the Seeman Prlntery here, is put down as a-can-dldate, but the printer man says he hasn't heard it. John T. Pope, a mer chant, Isn't denying anything, and Mr. B . H. Coeart Is entitled to some thing of the poatofflce stature upon riarty service. Then M. E. McCown, who came Into especial favor because of the tight made for Morehead for (.'orgress, Is said to have the endorse ment of Col. Bill Osborne, who was one of the anti-Brooks men: and A. K. I'nistftad Is a life-long Democrat who voted antlBrooks this year. These things, knowing Republicans tell The Observer correspondent, will enter Into the settlement of the mat ter. The antl-organlzatlnn Republicans are opposed to the present regime and Inrline to McCown, or Cosart, The Cannon crowd was in the major ity here last spring, and It has some grievance against the Federal oftiee It Tastes Good and I Creates Strength yino the famous cod liver and iron medicine, without oil. Vinol is much better' than cod liver oil and emulsions, because, while it contains all the medicinal value they d$, it disagrees with no one. V As a body builder and strength creator for old people, delicate children. after sickness, and for stub born coughs and colds Vinol is unequaled. R. H. JORDAN & CO., Druggists CHARLOTTE "A Crushing Retort of Live Wllmlng. lunian Away From Home." Wilmington Dispatch. The following- story Is told of a loyal and spirited WllmJngtonlan who happened not long ago to be attend ing a meeting awav from home In one of North Carolina's cities. It was at a business men's meetln. and there waa under discussion an arrangement with the railroads that allowed merchandise to be shlppeS holding class It has grown to be I to and from that Inland cltv on Io are . UK" H tol , 1 ; o cut oi' h tier). - . Ml pri- ii t lev e, n and that th ' l; with i-i" . . v i loimen t are -il'' " oi l Im; th,' i.it- ,,f W A V s'.ind .in, nt it d i"'l 1 1 th.- ,-ld,, M.AIIoM A Tl V - A M I Mi ' ' 'I- hi h - .-iia. w h l- h .nl -1 .- , go. mi- t h h , - in" o pt.i'ro- .h.i;i i;..v in l I il oi mi p pi i t tl and it.-Hl,- mag into Ho Hin.onn .i I h 1 1 1 ait Stat- s I I ': v have not been io the Imliil of considering I 1 1 n America v erv seri ously In our estimates of lutuie trad. relations with other countries, but ''i-ntral and South America have tin same boundless resources that w have, and they are building railroads and developing these resources at a wonderfully rapid iHte. Did you r. ad tin- article in the papers of l)ecemh, i L'?d. by President Klnlcy. of th. Southern Kailwu.v, telling 'of the mi mentie value of our trade with the I.atln American countries, and Un importance of our cultivating thut trade'' H points out that lor the .vear ending June lHOi. we I M 1 ""in those countries goods worth j .'7.noo.ftli0. arid that we sold them In ! same year, goods worth $ L8 7.0'i'h i !"". This trade has Increased rn ten J.veari- 17R percent Mr Finley point. sugdr than those raised nnywheie els. jnut that this trade h- chlefl wu, n,,. In the world. You do not have to think ! South and Southwest, and should a minute to realize what that means I"""" -'"d more go through nur gulf f,,r the rut nt development f tb.it ! I""'" ....no,,, ,,.., a nas ine ,ai g,M ,, hen t i,e fa na m,i , a na I is open-d, I spl r it im I upllfi of su, h a country'' tombed f. nests in the fniied States jit will bring .is Into touch with all ! In..-.- his call not n ,,.-, vm,r ears ami Hut vastl more valuable than h-r the countries on t h- w estern , oast of v "o heart to-dav'' 'Hehold the forests, she ha., ten millions ml ncref . S nth America. Hv th- eastward din ' I.ord 1 h v I ;,,d ha 1 1, s.-t the i,i w...... best land in the world, all of, "f the continent of Sooth im.ti,. olthee , r, ,,,a ... .v.. western ,-oni ,F about on line with i I.-.rd Hod of thy fathers hath said our east. -rn io,ist Thai menus th.it iunfo thee: fear not, neither he dls when the tan.ii is opened, the ports j c-. u niged " on ine w esr something very tierce-looking between campaigns, and the Republicans of Durham fall never to scrap when there is no election on. There Is no wav to tell who will win It. ('apt. John C Angler Is down In Georgia with President-elect Tuft now and .,.- I--.L- ..r. IV... f.,B.,en,-A tm.IlK Hi.. i part or this territory unless the people , ,K'i, v, ,i.,i i ji lb" duty on lumber. "i 'ooi arouse tnemselves an more for its salvation than the doing now . It is a great undertaking to evan gelize this territory, its difficulties am as gr.-a: as those that confronted tin- . hildteii of Israel as they faced' the gi. nits and walled cities of I 'a - , naai, Hut think of the price thev ' paid tot their weakness and coward ' c '"it failure at this crisis will be Irihiuieiv more disastrous and far reaching than was theirs. iod is here giving us the opportunity of shaoing bstlnv of such a country as this be and of putting the stamp of t upon it for all time Men do t,e-llate to pour t heir treasure tli.it , ouritrv for Its material de. "out, for the sake of the gain evpeet to get from the Invest Shall we not, as the people d. invest hugely In the moral and FAMILY WITH UXVSUAIj RKCOKI 1 1 hi i 1 1 1 . b t h ,f . I , it- and .itloiv ..( over i ol it cm n fu si 1 re Ci k .ih'irn.i id a po,u latjon -I ,1.0'Ki. it' ll, 1-. a p,,p nd i, ,,.i If. hv ,- mi! lion.-. 'Itv which ii- lfo'0 f 1 0.000. six months had a population of to, .nd I do not know how nianv ' to dav. Theie ar alre.idy it ies In that State, with over hoiisand pupulatlon rich, and I In t W .' I I'.. I th i . ., : . s I 1 1 I ' 1 e ttilrt V'-tlv e ve hill:. he. I i - a-'b Thr t I 11 p. it t ..! , the ;,-t to'ir p. 'pii'. .t:.. ii S 1 1 I 1 1 1 n 111' .' ilellbb d. n s t from th ml "'.. lis In t he St.it,- hHVe vears I,, ail of e It 111, e 1 k hi Itotna's tlO' olltpllt 'I .i'i. I th, capital Invested 1 ' o I'i- .1 She has mm,. ?i K.iti.-a,- and N'ehia-ki h, ! 1 1 ll -li, .',7.'. news .1 p- , ' i if,id, "MS I h o'l'ld-i ank.- f'th In popu- state, -if 1,, l'ni.,,1. ot tl which can, and will be Irrigated With he, semi -tropical i llmate. she is : Incoming the garib-n spot of our land. ' Nevada Is the drjest of all nur aibl - States, and Is. consequently, the most i thinlv populated, having only about ..O.fliui people, although It Ik erjual in sise to Italy, which has a population of 32.unu.noo. Nevada s development f"t" last few months has been -ijioue sensational. If possible than that of anv of the other States New min ing interests have been discovered there whb h bid fair to surpass any of the past m value, but the future prosperity and greatness of Nevada i depends not on her mines, but on her I farms, which do not Wear out and become exhausted, as the mines do, hut become more valuable every voar ; th, v are worked. Nevada Is des, rib ed bv those who are perfei tly familiar J with conditions there, as one of th, greatest farming countries in Ameri ca 1 have spoken thus of these three States to show what lrilgHtion can do, and has done, for the most unattracl . tv and unpromising parts of our , tountry. which used to be marked desert' on the maps. 1 shall rod , even attempt to ph tuie to you the ; future of '"alifornla. .trecm. Idaho, i 1'tah. f'olorad". Montana and Win- 1 1 1 pe. 1 ed b v t hose ! m I n .1 I . .: It I. oi to make an at bv the middle ,,f lb., I ... p 1 1 1 i,l.,n will l , a . Ii n - It , bid two, that ii w o ild , - I' populated s V nd 'leva, h pop ,l all. s ,lv eh.pni, nt I n on, tght V , t llll ' I , .11' .1 he half a, Kntl-ind is an ea.sllv ,'ip o as that , vv is cnuallv mar In New Mexico, o no one 1 1 , ed, s on over two Hon,, and 'his And not onlv has this aridltv prov ed an Inestimable Messing to the soil, preserving and conserving Its most valuable elements, but till- same arid Itv Is the greatest blessing to man. in th" way of i ilmate It Is the dampness, the humiditv. that hull-. AS A a n st gue i iik II 1 Th 'KNT1I A I. 'Will Th:, la - ,1 .. wonder'.. . eou ' - s , ; , ' tr - !d h , v domlran - , , to who,. , . . llegeri a'ld ' to anv .-!!,.: .; exoep'ed ;. Anglo-hav.r . future a T K -' - s' u pon t h ,- 1 i nd , and everv es. . poes.hlv n ! ,-'. I)w "f t -r- enlighter ,, . : open, arid , the .griates, high v . . i - -, . i that w. m,g -it -I., human hen, as , , and b. o.-r. -r,g. , o ahle ond il 'oris : v. .- !lved under. of such a 1 1 ust up to ,. ir . , ,.o,j prlv lieges Dr .1 ,,-iah S'ron hook . ' Mir 'o, .. , - fine cha pt'-i" T b, the World s y .. -.re ch pter. b- -a v - th.. 1 1 'L'.l ! T At li lt. ' w he- N .i l.o PRIIII T MH.PS OltlMI Hundred ..f "-poans huve i-en r.rlp-i PV -rfi Trvrt-n xir- Iir-rw-- rt ra; Orpbsr i He:ire at Msren i;a m i Writ en f !ve ue Kiectn, H,, . Ui tbl Inniiiuicn for pine o, ji prove! a nvt eire int medc inr for Stoma-Ji. IJirr ami K idnn trouble V regard It as n nf the tet fan, It v mdlcfnes on esrfh ' It inv-ls-oraTea the ' 1 a I I ,- I -.- Leg 1,11 "l!'l IIH ISI N I ' V. S T ..i t b w . , and i Vnii a West "b ! a"-, cemr.l l,e S,,,,h '. 'In Ir in a 'V clous de v elopmi'lll n population 1'eopi,. are ih.s.. stales ,s .,,, as e ! -- lid .."g I a I 1 vv a v 1 ! lies rn t h- i , fifteen v-e.irs ,!al,.. of North Ihikota it Is three 1 1 ties builders say they 1 1 towns er civ .-I r -ii es along th-:r Hiif! throush i.s e -Ion to a. . oi-i ,n..,,,, (,,. p,,, ; ' tha- ar- urti'i.s Ms Th" erf i! -. -. va'ii v, h-.i:: Ireil, of miles in ' -v',.,h s found t , !e a veritable s.'.i--ii .-pot but win, h is so new that i-i most re,-, -nt maps it appeals as ' s' a blank, has sim Mr. I'latt. .. '-. lv i population ..t ,100. 000. And ' - i j-.st a beginning, loi electric a ' .'. Ta:!.vav linen a i e pishing Into ' i, -.k and ,-nrni-r of that whole - in -m v an- told that the cities V, ash ngton hav doubled their 1 ' . ulation every four vears for sever- -. i v rs pa t. THK HKTTKH HA1.V 'F A M K RICA. And there are g.-d and sufficient as.-ns ;.-i th,s maiveiously rapid de . , I. ol of the West. This is be- r.d ., ! comparison the better half -r "Ui country Mr William E. s" :i .thc. In his tecent honk, The Con-in-st ,.f Arid Ameri-a. says: "There - :strn State that compares ctn almost anv one of these giant ri m ,-ri w ea it hs of the comparat iv5y , known West in anything save pres nt development which Includes of urse population, wealth and pollt- i emphatic and un- i al inlhlrri'' i.ntafns over mnetv tier rent of Tiiai .orgsna. i"inna toe Mmxi. i1 di- . ,hf. population would be regartl arestlon. create-- appetite Te strengthen ! - a ... .i.-i.. .ui t. ..JI hIM Ihln r..li -I lia " ""ll-l". """-'.I ""UI". I w I -1 s mflikufr H- Hs- ifnrtoritv- . with vhnh nature endowed the far West tnat it ma:, b said In all seriousness 1 over tMi Franetece harbor eoual to that If the l igrim Father had landi ahnut the duiance from Buffalo to ed at San IVego. ra'her than at Plvm- i hlcsgo. plus the ascent of Pike a "-it h. that half of the country which ; Peak: for all the overland freight to o ist of South Amei i, ,, will be nearer to New York harbor than thev are to Man Kian. ., ... Hut that also means that thev will he more than two thousand miles nearer to iJalveston and New iirlcins than to New York The Panama canal will make these ports 0.(10(1 miles hearer to China than they now ate He member that the peoples ,,f th,. Kasl dress chiefly j ,ott,,n and fci d on rice The Southvv est van e.isilv raise enough of these com mod i t les t o feed and clothe the vv hole world i -a n you fall to see what all this will mean to these ports, and to the territory that Iks back of them .' W hat can keen that from being the greatest and most prosperous part of ,- ooimtrv" S r R A T K 1 i I ' 1 M PORT AM V. Ml SSI n. F1KI.II. Now pel hays you are beginning tn feel that ! must be acting us the agent for some of the land companies of the We.-,!, or as the advertising aent of some of the raiUays thai are doing 30 mm h tn develop that country. But 1 have called voir at tention to the wonder'nl resource,- ,,f the West, and its marvelous develop ment and future prospects, in order to Impress upon vou ns transcendent Impiutan.e as a field to mi.s.,i,,narv activity. We must save h,,. w. m for its own sake for the millions upon I millions of people thai are pouring I into it. We must save the West for , flu- sake ot the resi .0. . whetri-r In cold or 1. weather. It ha , : rr as ,., ,h ...,., , ,,.,',' been shown bv actual tests that mhl ,,,,,i k- ., ... c. . ,v ,-si ior ine saKe or tne rest of the world, for as America, so goes the world Any one who studies the situation at all must be convinced that within the next generation or two. the malnr Itv of the populntion of this country w ill be In the w estern half of it, and that section will have a controlling in fluence in the affairs of the nation. That country Is now in its plastic and formative state, when it may - moulded as clay In the hands of the potter. A given amount nf money, and a given number of men can accom plish more now. In the unsettled con ditions that prevail on the frontier, than many times that , amount of money and that number of men ran accomplish after the land gets fully settled and moulded, with its own in dividuality Indelibly stamped upon it, and the forces of evil have become firmly entrencheed. Now is the time, tco. when these people most need the (iospel. and the Influences of Chris tianity, while they are away from the Influences of a settled home, and the restraints of the older and more set tled communities, and are thrown upon their own resources amid the I ex. itements and allurements and i t-mptatlons of the rough and lawless ! frontier. The spiritual destitution of most of that country Is awful. In a city of Montana which has a population of 8V 000. there are over two hundred j saloons and five breweries. More sa loons, we are told, in that one town than there are churches In the whole of that State, which is the third largest in the t'nlon. In Nevada, there are students In the etate Uni versity who never heard a Gospel sermon, or attended a religious serv ice of any kind until they entered the university. Mr Piatt savs that if all voyage. Puget Sound is 500 miles ' , nearer Chicago by rail than is Kan I-L J. . .7"" V"' "U tn,Llr. nviiio iiii,,-,i,in j ui tioura (in ine ; through bill of lading. There was much joyous declamation and one i orator explained In enthualaatio periods that his town was now the equivalent of a seaport town and able tci cope with all rivals. Upon this a Wllmlngtnnlan. whose native city Is the great seaport of North Carolina, arose and said with soma acerbity: "If you Charlotte folks ware to lay a pipe line to Wrlghtavllla beach and then suck as hard as you blow, you'd be a real seaport In no time at II." But he borrowed It. That is what a Savnnnahan la supposed to have said to an Atlantan. Observer. Aery Hue Kntevrtainnient at Atanton by IInie Talent. Special to The Observer. Maxton, Jan. S. The Ladles' Aid Society of the Presbyterian church of this place gave in the town hall Vr- elebrated by a family reunion. I day night one of the most amusing en- iei laiiimrms me people nere have had for a long while, and it Is doubt ful If there has evert been anything In this town that excelled It. The play was ' Miss Kearlesa & Co." and consisted of ten girls, all home talent, each one taking her part as though she were especially made for that single part. Maxton has had several really good home plays of late, and each one proves more and more con clusively that when an entertainment Is wanted there la no need to go out of town to secure It. The benefit was for the Sunday school, and amounted to nearly H00. land a temperature of thlitv de giets below- zero i n the dry atmos i I'here of Montana and the I M kolas . better than a temperature ot ten ,le- grees above zero in the dam atmos-, phere of Chicago or New York Such I -i thing as a sunstroke Is unknown in j Vti.oiia and New Mexico, while tiny I an fioquerit at St Louis. New r 1 leans. .N.-w York and Chicago, even i when the thermometer registers fif I teen degrees lower than in these dry 1 se. tinns The climate of much of the : We-d Is the finest in the w,,tT,l Some i one has called the Southwest "The j land of sunshine and opport unity." j In one yer New York recorded 11S I il-uidv days, while Kl Paso recorded ! 3 8. ! I'NSi nPASSKl) HARBORS. Anolher immensely important point in which the West surpasses the ' Kast Is its fine harbors Most of us already know something of the great I harbor of San Francisco, and its trade j with the orient but probably few of j us know much abou,the far greater rind better hart, or of Puget Sound. Here Is what Mr. Ward Piatt savs .-l'.out that harbor: It is one of the most marvelous Inland watern-avs on the continent. With Its l.00 miles of coastline. It opens Into the sea with a passage so wide and deep that anv vessel afloat may pass freely in and out In any weather. Ita waters, up to the very shores, are mostly of such depth that ships may anchor under the shade of trees. A steamer leav ing It for China would reach port two days socner than from San FS-ancisco because of the shorter curvature of. the earth. It la near the Columbia river pass, the only opening cutting the coast range nearly at sea level. As a seaport for Oriental trade In addition to the shorter ocean Puget Sound Fraaclaco.- - Un. freight. ahip.pd from L ' ''vm " Chicago it has. then, an advantage ' f TK K "J? ver tta-i jr,.eve- h.rhi.r ,..i . I "r n th ' United States, they weak children i OT ma-riown people ft has no equal next would have been difficult to settle It for female rwnpia In tt Only bOr at W 1 ,r' h advantage And ne goes Hand at Ca. ' on to picture the excitement - that San Francisco must be lifted up and let down again ten thousand feet In crossing the ocean range, while at Puget tound It crosses at sea level." Hemenvber that this harbor Is the outlet te one of the finest a'nd moat would there find an ample field for their work. WHY THKT NEED OUR WORK But you may ask. why Is It that a section of totintfy so fevered with natural resources and that la being developed with iuch marvelous ra pidity sho-j Id need help from us to establish churches and maintain min- I .N FLI'KNCE OF THIS SECTION ON A M KUIC.V What will be the future of the rest "t this country tr the West"ls not evangelized? That section is going to exert more and more Influence over the affairs of the nation, and in a few years It -will have the controll ing influence What then will be tho fat- of our children and grandchil dren if we have failed to do our duty In Ibis formative and destiny -shaping period of the history nf the West? Lives and money Invested in home missions to-day means not only treas ure laid up In heaven, but il means blessings laid up In store here on earth for the generations that are f" ome after us. Oh, If we lovv our e.uintry. let us show It, not by hoast tng about Its greatness and wealth find power, but by doing all In our power, but by doing In our power to put into operation the forces that will give li the righteousness that alone exalteth a nation and makes Its pow er and prosperity permanent and sure If we love our children, now Is the time to show It. not by trying to lav up money which may prove a snHre and a temptation and a curse to them, but by preparing; a great Christian country to be their home and the seat of their activities and achievements If we love our Savior, who has redeemed us by his own hlnod from sin and ruin, let us show that love hy redeeming this great land from the powers of evil, and bringing it as a trophy to Christ. HAS K OK SUPPI-1FS FOR KOREIfJN MISSIONS. Hut our vision should reach be yond the bordprs of our own land, and our sympathies should embrace others besides our own children, and the people of our own race and na tion I spoke a while ago of the enor mously growing trade of our seaports on the Pacific and gulf coast .with the countries of the OriajuV and Latin America. Does that suggest nothing to you and me as Christians? Win ning the West for Christ means not only that the influences that are ex erted on the foreigners who come and go through these harbors are Christians Influences, that will bless and elevate and save. It means Infin itly more even than that. It means that this vast West, with all its boundless resources, will be an added baee of supplies for the raising of re cruits and the furnishing of equip ment for the conquest of the whole world for Christ. The Laymen's miasionary move- j ment. and other similar movements. have given a new Impetus to the work of foreign missions, and the Christ ians of this, and other countries are at last making something like a sys tematic effort to obey the command of Christ, and give the Gospel to the whole world, and do It now. In this generation. If our Southern Presby terian Church la to give the Oospel within the next twenty-five years to the twenty-flve millions of heathen who have been assigned to us as our share, and definitely accepted by us, and If the other denominations are to care for the millions committed to them, we must enlarge the base of otir supplies at home. The winnrng of the rreat West to Christ, and holding It for him. not only means winning and holding one of the fairest and best portions of the world, with Its I,, s. I -liu roll Married For Klftv Si ven Years and Ha idfl Relative Special lo The Observer. 1 Durham. Jan i On the border I line of Wake, Durham and Chatham j counties the family of Mr.. 1. K. I'p I church lives and it has a remarkahh i record The last day of the year is : Mr I'pchuri h's birthday. It ia .1- w av s , 'and the encroachment of years s-l dorr, finds one missing Mr. Fpohur h married Miss filllle Heavers December I 1' 3 ' I . iv.il To them were born thir teen children, and eleven survive Ten of the eiewn were present at the re cent reunion and forty of the fottv nlne grandchildren attended. n - teen of the tvventv-one great-grandchildren came, and with the ten children, their wives and husban.ls; the forty grandchildren, their wives and husbands, and the great-grandchildren, there were 106 relatives, 81 ot whom were present. The spread dinner was a feature of the obi genfaVman's natal day It was made up of a basket from every fam ily The table which carried It was saued fifty years agv and is made of planks seventeen Inches wide They are in a perfect state of preserv Htlon. Mr. 1'pchurch lived forty-three yearn with his first wife, who died fifteen years ago. In 1902 he married Mr.s Watson and they enjoy almost perfect health In fhe n,fty-even years of married life, there have been bu' seven deaths In all of the families, a remarkable record IX.H HKD IiY FAMIIjY HOUSE. An Honorable People. Charleston News and Courier. Cardenlo King, who was convicted in the Court at Boston the other day. of Ir regular financial methods in the conduct of his business, waa born in North Caro llra. If he had stayed In North Carolina he would not have gotten Into trouble, because whatever may be said of the moral dellquenrles of the North Carolin ians in the appropriation of other people's history, they are. as a rule, and It la greatly to their credit altogether honest in their business and trade relations. Monro" l ady Has Collar Bone Frac tured audi I-'ace Bruised Fourth Annual Show of Poultry Asj-oola-llon. Correspondence of The Observer Monroe. Jan 2. Mrs. K. K Fitz gerald was knocked down and injur ed bq a horse In the backyard of her bou.se on Haynes street last evening. The horse Is an old family one, and was considered a very gentle animal, so the accident was probably , aused by his desire to be playful rather than from vlclousness Mrs Fltzferald's collar hone was fractured, and her face was cut and bruised, hut iihe suf fered more from shock than from her Injuries, which the physlcnn pro nounced not very serious The custom of keeping open house on New Year's night, which was re vived here last year, waa observ ed last evening by Mesdames D. A. Coving ton. J. Frank Ianey. Randolph Red fearn, W. W. Horn and N. C. Eng lish. These ladles, assisted by many others, held receptions at their homes from 8 to 11 o'clock, and almost the entire population called to pjv their respects and were delightfully enter tained. The Monroe Poultry Association will hold Its fourth annual ihow next week, commencing Tuesday and clos ing Friday. The Bundy Building on 1-afayette street Is now being put In readiness for the exhibition, and the nutpber of entries already mide la the largest In the association'! history. There are more premlurm offered thin ever, and the show bids fair to be the best yet. Where Kvery-nay-ln-Lho-Year Papers Are Ahead. Charleston News and Courier. Charlotte Observer: "The Charleston News and Courier thinks that Its day-after-Ohrlstmas Issue was worth more than a nickel. But the people who bought It have not been heard from." Certainly not -we never hear complaints from purchasers of The News and Cou rier, except that they are annoyed by borrowers who subacrttie to newspapers that do not appear on the day after Christmas Negro Prisoner Dies at Lumber-ton. Correspondence of The Observer. Lumbertnn, Jan. 2. Isaac Whitley, colored, died at the Thompson Hos pital In Lumberton yesterday from an operation. He had been In Jail for some time chaj-ged with house-breaking near McDonald, this county, and was taken from Jail to the hospital for treatment. The remains were in terred in the cemetery at the county home by the county. Well -Born Immigrants Kxpected, Charleston Nws and Courier. We are likely to have a large Increase of people in this State who were born In North Carolina. The North Carolina State prohibition law went Into effect yesterday. XKWBEK.V NEWS ITF.MS. W. B. Blades Slake HIm Ho use-Boat a Triple Screw Boatt-Mlrrrlianta' Association and Chamber of Com merce to Be Organized Special to The Obaerver. i Mr. . b. Blades nam hall, corner of 3 mUUos of people; U-nseAna-Jiot aim-iC"k I- -th r ply deciding the future destiny of America, and the weal or woe of fu ture generations In every part of this great nation; but it means additional thousands of men. and additional mil lions of dollars for the rescue' and Uplift and solvation of the pavgan na tions of the world. If you are not believer in for eign missions, save the Went for its own anke, and for Americas saka it Newbern. Jan. J.- has taken the steam por house-boat, the Comtor ed three gasoline engine horse-power, making tin screw boat. In additia engine for lighting tbt, electricity, hasp been t the necessary storage b Monday night a pie elation Is to be organ t are on foot to org' , chamber of commerc l por some years no organisation '-II ie business men has exiatea nere e ii.j n name. and aa a result Kewr-'t . have not been ad r I trade has suffered, . I . . . . . - mat ine matter ia pi : earnest and that sc:-a done. i Friday night ,at M out of his nd install ach of at a triple Iiother gas If oat with IVjlled with lea, etc. N.nta' asso and plans strong advantages and her It seems J i kern op In lg will be k Mew Primary Teacher at Lamoerton. Special t The Observer. Lumberton, Jan. 3. The Lumber- ton graded school will open for the spring term Tuesday morning. There Is no change in the faculty, wlthhe exception of the primary department teacher. Miss Mary Watson, who re signed her position, to the regret of the school and town. She Is succeed ed by Mrs. R. S. Sledge, of this place. Robeson Officers Occupy New Court House. Special to The Obaerver. Lumberton, Jan. I. The officers of Robeson county moved into their new quarters in the handsome hew court house yesterday. Steam heat, electric lights and handsome, - furniture have been installed. oyal Arca- and Han- Ihi year 1909 were Installed r H E --'-'" twin. oiucrrv inr wiv ye-ar H. ' B- Craven; vice Davis; secretary. R- After the installation served In the hall to and rousing speeches Bonits and Mr. & -11 Newbern. on the Roya what it stands for. arollna. Th jre: Regent. regent. Tom L Richardson, a supper was the members made by Mr. Brlnson, of Arcanum and OS THE PASSING OP BOOZE. - (The following patbetlo lines are from the pen f a Lexington poet, the dryness of Salisbury furnishing the inspiration). Out of the town, out ot the town, out .of the town! Out of the town tho fcar-rooms go Carrying their cheer and carrying their of ' Oat of thsr towa the bar-rooms go' , Never again can I speed between (rains And order a beer or a pint of corn, XeveraaJn. can I; jro. Jq atay And take me a grip that will hold O savjf A ava"oa or two for a rainy day- Never again! , Salisbury's ocad, boys,' she's kicked her last kick; What's the use of buying a tick? The old town t dry, aad the clouds bids th akv. ". And It's hetlaclou damn lonesome, son. In Lexington ! .- . ,
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