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WASHIN0TON LETTER.
Hon. Maecenas E. Benton, the Little
Oiant of the Southwest" The Lit
tauer Glove Contract The
"Iowa Idea."
Simcinl Corruspondciiec Courier.
Washington, D. C. July 20. Still
speaking of the Missouri delegation
in the Congress of the United States
it will not do to ignore the lion.
Maecenas E. Denton, of Neosho, the
"little giant of the southwest. Mr,
Denton belongs to tho 'family of Den-
tons of Missouri, of wliijh Thomas
II. Denton was the most distinguish'
ed. If he wcte alive today he would
be proud of the modest little gentle
man who bears his name with honor
and dignity in the national House of
Kenroseututives. Mr. Kenton is a
very poor windjammer or hot-air
merchant, lie seldom gets to Ins
his feet, but when he does there is
some Republican who wishes he had
kept his seat, lie comes about as
nigh knowing what he is talking
aliout. as any man in the Congress,
and is one of the ablest orators in
that body. Ho lias had very little
opportunity to indulge in pyrotech
nic oratory in the House, and indeed
he does not care to do so. He knows,
as does everyone else familiar with
the situation, that lie is going against
the coldest proposition in the world;
that he cannot change a vote on the
Republican side of the chamber and
that the Democrats who would vote
with him any way or either in the
cloak rooms telling yarns or else
wiiting letters and will not pay any
attention to his remarks. It that is
not enough to put a crimp in any
man with oratory to unload, what
would you call itr Air. Kenton did,
however, submit a few remarks to
ward the close of the first session of
the 57th Congress that both sides of
the House 1 intent"! to with close at
tention. He is a member of the Ap
propriations Committee and he sub
mitted a report of the expenditures
of tho tirst session of the Republican
Congress that made some Republican
eyes become unnaturally visible. His
summary or compilation of the ex
travagance ot that nrst session prov-,
lh! that the itepu oilcans not only
were responsible for the first billion
dollar Congress, but then for the
first billion-dollar session of Con
gress, as the appropriations aggre
gated over a billion dollars. Mr.
ISentoii was complimented by having
thousands of bis reports printed and
sent out by the Democratic Congres
sional Committee as one of its best
campaign documents.
Mr. Kenton is the nrst man wno
was ever discharged from office for
"pernicious activity" in politics.
Phis occurred in ltfrSG when he was
United States Attorney in Western
Missouri under the nrst Cleveland
administration. He was soon rein
stated and served in that capacity
until 1889. There never was a bet
ter Democrat on earth than this orig
inal "offensive partisan," and his
constituents compliment their own
intelligence by retaining him in Con
gress.
The l.ittauer glove contract is sun
itrjit-itinsr the War Department and
official Washington. On acconnt of
the peculiar relationship existing be
tweeu President Koooevelt and Con
gressman Littaucr, the question is
on every man s tongue, -w nai win
Roosevelt do about this latest scan
dal that gets close to him?" At a
Harvard College dinner at the Wal
dorf-Astoria hotel in New York on
the 23d of February, 1900, Roosevelt
declared with pride and emotion that
bis closest personal menu "Rim polit
ical adviser was Mr. Lucius N. Lit
tauer, member of Congress from
New Y ork, lo quote his exact lan
guage: "I want to tell you that it is
a Congressman who is my most inti
mate personal friend, and who is my
closest political adviser."
"Who is her came nom an sides.
"Lucius Littauer," said Roosevelt.
The laws of the United States for
bid a member of Congress to take
any .Government contract. The
New York Sun, a Republican ncw-
nancr. friendly to Mr. Kooscvelt, ot
course, reveals the fact that Mr. Lit-
tuuei, during the Spanish-American
war, manufactured some five hun
dred thousand dollars' worth of
gloves and other supplies bought by
tho United Stutos Government. A
man named Lyon got the contract
flora the Government and Littauer
mado the gloves for Lyon. In a let
ter to Lyon, Littaucr asks whether
he (Littauer) shall go and see the
responsible War Department offi
cial, General Luddmgton, "in regard
to other glove contracts. And Lit-
tauer's brother acted as bondsman
for Lyon in tho procuring of con
tracts. What will Mr. Roosevelt do under
the circumstances? Will he instruct
the Attorney General to investigate
the matter? He cannot donbt that
his indorsement of Mr. Littauer
would have great weight with the
War Department Mr. Littauer may
not have known, in spite of his offer
to see a certain official, that Lyon
really got the contracts on the
strength of representing Mr. Roose
velt s intimate mend.
Bnt what will Mr. Roosevelt do?
He has not hesitated to give us his
views of official purity. He has said
"Words are good when backed up by
deeds and only so." Will his words
be backed by deeds in this case? Or
is there a difference between an ordi
nary individual and the Harvard
graduate who happens to be the
President's "closest political friend
and advifer.''
The people would pel haps like to
ask Mr. Roosevelt this question:
Whki can be expected of the Post
Office people if the intimate political
friend and most trusted adviser of
the President makes a profit of some
ninety thousand dollars on Govern
ment contracts, when the 1 a w
says that no member of Congress
shall profit by such a contract, di
rectly or indirectly.'
Mr. Roosevelt has said that he
proposes to huve everything about
him "as clean as a hound's tooth."
Isn't it about time for him to buy a
carload of toothbrushes?
Since the "Iowa idea" hus becu
knocked over the ropes by the Re
publican party and the American
Protective Tariff League has won a
signul victory for tho "standpatters"
there has arisen a demand for a sort
of tariff revision that stands u good
chance, to receive restiectful attention
at tho December session of Congress.
It is something radically different
from tho "Iowa idea." It emanates
from the Sugar Trust, und is based
upon assertions that German "cartel"
producers intend to ship euormons
quantities of cheap sugar to the
United States as soon as the abolition
of sugar bounties, recently arranged
for ut Brussels, goes into effect on
Sept. 1st. The magnates of the
American Sugar Trust pretend that
this constitutes a grave danger, and
that it is the duty of Congress to
pass legislation providing for an ex
tension of the system of countervail
ing duties. They devoutly believe
in the necessity and benefits of coun
tervailing duties, ever since the
United States Supreme Court upheld
the right of the Government to levy
such duties on Russian sugar. The
Sugar Trust has presented its de
mand at the proper psychological
moment; that is, just when the lie
publican party is "in tho market"
for "dignified camnaigu contribu
tion'!. It is a poor trust that does
not know its political opportunity.
Considering the fact that the "Iowa
idea" is ns exceedingly unpopular,
and protection along orthodox lines
still the supreme fetish in high Re
publican cirelej, it is not at all im
probable that the sugar monopoly's
request that something be done in a
legislative way to protect it ugainst
European competition will rejuliiy
be complied with. As one of our
most promising "infant industries,
the Sugar Trust must be given all
the protection that it needs, or
thinks it needs. Its capitalization is
diluted with Biich a big amount of
water that a continuance of fat divi
dends on preferred and common
shares would be made impossible by
unrestrained competition. The trust's
grip upon the domestic sugar market
must not be loosened. Consumers
are prosperous and do not mind a
little more "bleeding." And the
trust needs the money, ami the Re
publican party needs it still more.
The Havemcycr idea of tariff revision
should be and probably will be given
a rousing reception by the Republi
can majority in Congress. It is up-
toxlatc and practicable. 1 he men
who conceive it are neither "cranks"
nor-j"doctrinaircs." They arc just
now in fine fettle and stand high in
Republican circles, 'fell with the
people.
111AKL.&S A fiUWAUlW.
ITEMS OF NEWS.
Wake county expended during the
past year for public schools $5!,
824.00. Tue Siler City Messenger has sus
pended and its editor has movtd to
West Virginia.
A coat of tar ami feathers was ad
ministered to a persistent wife-beater
near Ithica, N. Y., last week.
flol. (). If. DiV.kerv and J. II.
Mv rover will sneak at Confederate
reunion at Maxton August Cth.
Mnrria It. Hoik mm. wiu nominat
ed by the Republicans of Kentucky
last ween lor uovernor.
A D Langstou will succeed P M
Arthur, who died last week, as grand
chief of the Drotherhood of Locomo
tive Engineers.
Lindsay Cutting, a diminutive bar
keeper, of Salisbury, weighing 75
lounds, was married last week to
rliss Mary Rav, of Lexington, who
weighs 175 pounds.
Mrs Margaret Murrav, a most es
timable lady of Madison county, died
last week from grief over her two
wayward sons, both of whom com
mitted murder, one escaping and the
other breaking jail recently.
The Salisbury District Conference
of the Methodist church will con
vene in Concord today, Bishop A.
Coke Smith presiding. Rev. D. P.
Tate, of Lexington, will preach the
opening sermon.
Judge M. II. J ustice will be a can
didate for the Supreme Court bench
next year. Judge W. A. Hoke will
contest the nomination with him.
Judge G. H. Brown will be a candi
date from the east
Four representatives in Congress
have figured in government contracts
and one is under indictment now. In
such matters the law is plain and
strict; a member of Congress cannot
profit by a government contract
Congressman Driggs. who is indict
ed, does not deny receiving $12,500
from the company manufacturing
automatic cashiers for the post office
department, the same being 2 per
cent of the sale for procuring con
tract Firs at Laariaberr.
' The Hotel Morgan, three stores
located in the hotel block aud the
residence of W. L. Fields were burn
ed at Laurii-burg, N. C, last Thurs
day. The stores were occupied by J
C.'MoTgan, J. II. McDnffie and J. W
Mason, respectively. J. C. Morgan
is the greatest loser, being the owner
of the hotel property, including the
three store rooms.
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
North Too Far Awav, Says Arp Slavery
Was Humane Loves Old Darkies
Parallel of the Indian.
Atlanta ('"ii-.lltull.iii
Some fifty years ago there was a
dogmatic old squire in the seven
teenth district of this, Cass county,
whose name was Jim McGinuis. lie
had plenty of what is called good
horse sense, a determined will and
plenty of prejudice. lie won the J.
P. machine in that district for about
twenty years and his liual judgment
in a case was the law of the settle
ment. Nobody dared to appeal or
carry the case up for fear of offend
ing him and losing the next case
they had in his court.
One time a lellow sued unoLliei
fellow for the hire of a negro. Judge
l urrott was on one side, aud Col.
Abna Johnson on the other, and
when the judge started to read bis
law fiom (ireeiileaf on "Evidence,"
Col. Johnson stopped him and made
the point that Mr. ureenleaf was a
mighty smart man and had writ n
power of good law, but that he was
a yankee and lived in Boston and
knew no more about hiring negroes
than a heathen does about Sunday.
The old squire asked for the book
and looked over the title pug and
saw that it was printed in Boston
and so he ruled it out of his court,
and Parrott lost his case. The squire
said that Mr. Greenleaf lived a little
too fui off to be familiar with the
business.
I've seen a good many pieces of
lute about the negro and the great
Southern problem. The people up
North begin to admit that they can't
see through it.
NOliTH TOO KAU AWAV.
Ever since the war they have been
telling us what to do with the dar
kies, aud they have been watching
to see whether we did it or not.
and they actually think we would
put 'em back into slavery if we
could. They are in earnest about
this business, 1 reckon, for some ot
them die and leave a whole passel of
money for the poor negro and I'm
glad of it. I wish that more of 'em
would die und do the same thing,
but what I rise to remark is this:
They know no more about the negro
than. Mr. Greenleaf did. and their
judgment ain't worth a cent. I
would not give a hirtlung tor air
man's judgment about daikies who
hadn't been born and rinsed with em
and owned 'em. It takes a long
time to learn the traits and instincts
of a race of people. The yankee
never will know what tile negro is,
for he never knew him in a state of
slavery. The yankee who came
South sixty years ago, and domiciled
with us know all about him, and I
will take their opinion, but w hen 1
hear these modern ones philosophic.
ng and dictating about mm in a
consequential manner, I unconscious
ly raise my foot to kick somebody.
There arc lots of folks up about
Boston who are looking over I heir
spectacles ut us, and didn't know
they had u lewksbury almshouse..
If they would lower their sights
they would have a power of work to
do at home. I bought a leather
purse for Mrs. Arp once and she
won't use it because it came from
Boston, and she is afraid that it was
made out of a human hide that was
tanned from Tewkshurv.
I've got no pathetic sentiment
about the negro. The vankees pass
ed a whole lot of amendments to the
constitution to put him on an equal
footing with us, socially and every
other way and they were the first to
break them. If the Indians hail
leeu down here in place of the ne-
ro, the whole yankee nation would
have been their friends, but now
they are their enemies and keep
driving 'em further and further in
to the wilderness and cheating 'em
out of all the government gives
em. e have got to study races
just like we do norses ana came.
Aim niijJIU -uwu iiiu .......
and instincts und so has the Indian
and the negro und the heathen Chi
nese. He cuss the Jew ana UK-
Italian, and why shouldn't we con
sider the negro with the same phil
osophy? Some folks seem to think
we owe him a good deal because he
didn't cut up and rip around during
the war, but 1 don't. He didn t care
anything about it and he don't care
now. It is not nis nature, lie uau
little rather have a master than not
to have him, and the truth is most
of 'em have got 'em and they always
will have em.
SI.AVEItY WAS UUMANK.
We are tired of all this nonsense
about slavery. It was no blot. It
was natuie. ihere are a neap ot
people now in the South who look
npon slavciy like it was Achan's
wedgo of gold and perished under
the condemnation of God and man,
but I don't want anybody to teach
my children any such slauders, for 1
know it was in the main a humane
institution, and if the negro is any
better off now than he used to be 1
can't see. The whites are better off,
a long ways, but the uigger ain t
1 ve great respect for the old time
darkies. I know lots of 'em 1 would
fight for. If I was to see a man im
posing on my good old faithful
friend, Tip, 1 would tiglit lor mm
like I would for my children. I
love these good old darkies. 1 am
willing to live with 'em and die with
'em and be buried in the same grave
yard with him. and when Gabriel
blows his horn, I can rise from the
dead with 'em without any fear that
it will destroy the hilarity of the oc
casion, as General Toombs said.
l.OVES OU DAKK1KB.
I love these old darkies, not as my
equals, but as 1 love my children. I
love them because they love me and
are dependent upon me. The rela-1
tion between the white and black
ruf-e is naturally one of protection on
one side and dependence on the oth
er, and when it ceases to be that I
have no use for the negro. It is al
ways a pleasure to me to befrieud
'cm when they want niv friendship
amd my help, but when they aspire
to ue my equals auu put on indepen
dent uirs, I've got no further sympa
thy. I have been raised to look up
on negroes as children, children in
youth and children in manhood and
old age. I didn't have any hand in
making cm that way. It is their
human nature and they can't help
it, aud I have u sovereign contempt
for any effort their people are making
to change their relation to ns, for it
can't lie done.
The education of the negro is a
humbug, so far as to make him a
good citizen. It hus been tried . al
ready, and hus proved a failure. His
best "education is one of contact,
close contact with the white race.
If we will let the negro ulone und
keep him out of politics he will get
along very well and there will be no
problem to solve. mere never
would have been uny problem if he
had been let alone. He has no bus
iness with office or in the jury box
or the legislature, and he never will
have. This is a white man s gov
ernment und the white man must
govern it. The Anglo-Saxon is the
dominant race. We don't want the
Chinaman or the Indian to make
our laws. As a laborer and a ser-
vunt and a dependent I hud rather
have the negro than any race on
earth, and that relation to us just
suits him, and when you try to lift
him out of it you make linn a fool
und a vagabond und render him un-
happv. I don't want him a slave
any more, for his slavery was no ad
vantage to us. 1 had a lot ot em
myself und I know they were no
profit to me. They were no profit to
anybody except a tew exacting mus
teis w ho made of Blavery all the
"foul blot" there ever was in it.
There is no problem to solve unless
w e make one.
Tho white folks can't all be Van-
derbiltsand the negroes can't be
white folks. Let us all bo content
with our destiny and not fuss around
because somebody else is better off.
Let us take things as we find 'em
and do the best we can. Folks are
verv much like horses. If you
breed Yni too hue they are not fit for
the wagon oi plow. We have got to
have different sorts of folks, arid na
ture knew it, or she wouldn't have
made 'em different.
1UUAI.I.K1. OF THK INDIAN.
This morbid sympathy for the
poor negro is wasted. Why not have
it for the Indiau? We robbed him
of his land ami run him off and have
been cheating him ever since. He is
bv nature of a higher order of hu
manity than the negro. He has
more pride and more emotion. He
has more revenge and more gratitude,
for these two things always go to
gether. You can't wean him from
the forest, for that is his natuie.
The negro loves to depend upon
the white man and the white man
loves the homage of the negro. It
nits and fits both races, and 1 hope
it will stay so. I heard an old phy
sician say that he had never seen a
great-grandchild that descended irom
mulatto parents in a mulatto succes
sion. 1 he crossing oi races uus never
improved them. Not even will the
Jew and Gentile mix with harmony.
John Randolph boasted of his Poca
hontas blood, bur-I reckon it run out
in John, for that was the last of it.
History makes no record of two
races living together in peace unless
one was in a suite of dependence up
on the other. Our modern philan
thropists are deceiving tho negro
w hen they Hatter him with a capaci
ty equal to the whites in fitness to
invent or govern, or to rise to the
heroic or the sublime. 1 reckon it
one ot our millionaires was to die
and leave his money for the educa
tion of poor white children it would
be a violation of some of the consti
tutional uurendnients. We want to
help the negro, but we want him to
help himself first He has got to
woi k out his own advancement by
industry and by saving what he
ukes liefore education will UO him
any good. Dr. Mayo, of Boston, was
the supeiinteiident ot education in
that state, and he said:
"The negroes must be toll that
no people in any land was ever so
nam-lously led" by Providence as
thev have been for 250 years. In-
leed all t he good there was in a
slavery was for them. It was that
severe school of regular work, and
that drill in the primeval virtues
which every race must get at the
stirt and their slavery was a chanty
school, compared with the desolation
and tyranny by which the European
nations came np to tnoir present civ
ilized life. If the southern freedmen
now lie down "in stolid indifference
to their future they will deserve all
that their most contemptuous critics
sav of them."
This is sensible talk. There is r.v
foul blot in that view of slavery and
it is good talk to the negro. W hat
the bad negro wants is less chaingang
and more whipping, and the baa
white man should be punished the
same wav. BILL ARP.
On the first and third Tuesdays of
July, August and September the
Frisco Svstem (Saint Louis & ban
Francisco) will have on sale reduced
one way and round trip tickets from
Birrringham, Memphis and Saiat
Louis to Pointsin Arkansas, nissonri,
Oklahoma. Indian Territory, and
Texas. Write W T Saunders, G. A.
P. D., Frisco System, Atlanta, Ga,
for information.
BRICK TRACK ROADS
SOME POINT8 ABOUT THEM BY MAR
TIN OOOQC.
These Ideal Rs4a,.He Sara Cum Bv
Ballt at aa Eztaratelr Law Caat
o4 Will Vmmt Maaf Tear Haw
Tfcer Are Caaetroete.
Hon. Martin Dodge, director of the
buronu of public road mqulrioa, advo
cates the construction of brick track
roads with convict labor, says the New
York Herald. In regard to these high
ways Mr. Dodge anys:
"The Important features of brick
track roods aje that they can be ballt
for a fraction of the cunt of a stone
rood or street, while fnnr to five times
Hie fond ran be hauled on them with
the fmme tenm force, and the coo
pcotmbly be maintained for one-tenth
of the repair expense. At tbe same
time they ohrtnto the formation of the
ruts, dust and nutd due to the grinding
of tho wagon wheels on stone streets
and the mndholcs and dust of our
earth ronds.
"If convict-labor le property employed
we "in probably build these Ideal
roads throughout the whole country In
a feTV yenrs of time for tbe present
needless cxpenae we are now bearing
on account of onr deplorable country
roads.
"An idee! road is the stone wheel
truck between Albany and Schenecta
dy, N. Y. Ia constant "uo for nearly
sixty years, with very little or no ex
pense for repairs. It so far shows very
little wear. It la probably the oldest
and most successful road In this coun
try and now looks as If It might last
another century or two without mate
rial repair expense.
"Near tbe city of Boffato on upward
of a mile of brick track road construct
ed adjacent to stone ronds built by the
state nearly fear times tbe load can be
hatiled with the same earn force and
with comparatively little damage to
the contents of tbe loads, which are
largely composed of market produce
and fruit
"In tbe brick track road Is found a
means for obtaining all of the advan
tages of the old sone track road at an
extremely low cost This advantage la
made poexlhle for nearly every part of
tills country on acconnt of our abun
dant clays, which are found of suitable
qualify In nearly every section.
"A strong feature In favor of the
brick track rood Is the plnn of using
our convicts arid vagrants In making
the brick and other materials and also
In constructing tbe roads, by which
means tbta country could In a few
years' time have tbe finest roads In tbe
world at less cost than the burden and
disadvantage which we are now endur
ing because of our present lack of good
roads.
"If long term convicts are employed
to makfl brick and other road materials
and short term convicts are employed
to make the roads, as Is recommended
by the United States offlce of public
road Incpilrtcs, tbe cost of contracting
brick truck ways for our counTry roads
should not exceed 8O0 or 91,000 per
mile and In many cases could be made
to average less than 1000 a mile, ex
clusive of any necessary grading and
hauling of material. Furthermore, If
well mnde they should last for many
years.
"In a recent article In the Ilevlew of
Reviews the length of tbe highways of
the I'nlted States, outside of Incorpo
rated cities and Tillages, Is estimated
at 3,000,000 miles. At a cost of con
struction of, say, SHOO a mile brick
truck roads for tbe entire country
would cost less than four times the
$650,000,000 loss which It Is estimated
we arc now sustaining each yenr on ac
count of onr bad roads.
"In other words, we are now paying
for the pleasure of using our present
deplorable roads an annual mod tax
which rn less than four yean would
build the Ooest and best mads In She
world throughout the entire country
and which would effect a saving there
after over our present conditions of
nearly $7 esch year for every man, wo
man and i-hlkl In this country, to say
nothing of fhe pleasure, the satisfac
tion and the moral benefits of driving
over good, hnrd roads every day of the
yenr Instead of through a series of
mudlioles or a cloud of dust.
"The proper manner of constructing
the brick trsck road will vary some
what In different localities, according
to the soil and climatic conditions.
Where the subsoil Is naturally drained
and frost does not usually penetrate
deeply a base of two or three Inches of
concrete nnder the brick sppears to le
sufficient for ordinary roads. The bricks
are set on this concrete base.
In localities where the sofl la wet or
of a clayey nature drntntllea should be
placed lengthwise under each wheel
track, with suitable outlets, and where
the subsoil 1s very wet and tbe frost
penetrates deeply stone or other ballast
should be placed below the Drlcts,
with ffce dramtlle beneath the stone
ballast
"As nesrly every form of road Is se
riously damaged by tbe grinding action
of the wagon wheels It Is at first dlffl-
cult to realise that thla will not be the
case with tbe brick track road, but
when we remember that the surface of
the brick track la nearly as even and
uniform aa tbe top of a steel rail and
aa It effectually obviates tbe waahtng
of hillside roads It is difficult to con
ceive how any appreciable wear can
nosslblv take olace even in rears of
ordinary nee tf properly cooetrocted."
A Slsra a Piaajnaa.
Petwma rn-hn have siren lrtelllarnt
consideration to the auhject know that
a good road has many financial advan
tages. It increases tbe market value
of farms, red ores foe wear and tear on
borses and vehicles aad Bares time In
transportation. A good road Is a sign
Of pftgrNft. -a-assaSMaj
A Surgical Operation.
is always danRerona do not submit to
the targeon'a knifs until yon have
trlea uewiit s vr lien nas doit, u
will cure when everything alee falls
It baa dona this la thoasaods of eases
Hare la oae ot tbera : I snffsJed from
bleeding ana prounaing ww m
twenty years. Was treated by differ-
... mj.1Im. mwA nul Man, raanariiaa
but obtained do relief until I swed Do-
witt'a witsa naaei naive, im snm
ot this salvo cored se eighteen asoatba
ago and I have not bad a toach of taw
K.C. Foe Kiln i. Bleeding. Itching aad
Protruding Pi lea no reeasdy craala De-
wlU 8 WIton naass oaivo w r
A Underwood, Eandleaes,.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON IV, THIRD QUARTER, INTER
NATIONAL SERIES, JULY 26.
Text of the Lraaon, I Sam. sr. 13-23.
Meatorr Veraea, 20-22 Uoldrn Text,
1 Sam. xr, 22 Commentary Prepar
ed! br Rev. U. M. Stearns.
ICopjrrlsht, 1008, b)r American Tint Axlillun.
18. And Ramuel camo to Suiil, and Sunt
said unto liim: Blrased be llifiu of the
Ijord. 1 have performed the command
ment of the Ixird.
In our previous studies in this por
tion of Scripture, in 1SS0 and 1803, we
began at verso 10; now wo are advised
to study from verse 10, so It Is prae
tleally the same. Concerning the
Lord's repcntlngs (veines ll-Jity note
verse 20, "The strength of iBrucl will
not lie nor repent," and Num. xxlll, 10,
"iioA Is not a man that lie should Ho,
nor the Son ot Man that lie should re
pent" tlod never changes Ills mind,
but nlwuys does Just what lie knew
from all eternity thut He would do.
He knew how Saul would turn' out,
bow long He would have to hour with
him, and when lie would put Dnvld In
his place. He comes to a pluee always
foreseen when He changes Ills line
of action, and to us He Is sulci to re
pent Man, on the contrary, repents
when be cluinires his mind nud does
what he had not Intended to do. In
chapter xllt we see how Saul began to
do foolishly and by disobedience for
feited the kingdom (xlll, 13, 14).
14. IS. The people Mpared the best of the
sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice unto
the Lord thr Ood, and the rest we have
utterly destroyed.
The command was-to utterly destroy
all (verse 3i, yet for professedly a good
object he puts his own coimtructlon on
It and disobeys the plain command.
All things are naked and open to the
eyes of Him with whom we have to do,
aud all sin, unless confessed, forsaken
and forjrtvcu, will be sure to 11ml us
out (Het. lv, 13; Num. xxxit, Zl; I
Citron, xxvlll, 0). Saul did not seem to
understand that Uod wants nothing
from Ihe enemy cither for service or
eacrirlce.
15. 17. Then Samuel sold unto Saul. 8tny
and I will tell ttvee what the Lord huth
said to me thla night. And he ulJ unto
him. Say on.
Then he reminded him how when little
In his own sight the I-onl had anointed
htm king over Israel. It Is u Kood thing
alwuys to be little In one's own estima
tion, for we remember how I'zzlah was
marvclously helped till he was strong,
but then he fell (II Chron. xxvl, .", 10.
Our highest place Is lying low ut our
Redeemer's feet that the Lord nlono
may be exalted. What a blessed innn
was Samuel, who tu!k-d with (iml and
with whom God talked and who sought
only to know tbe mind of tied and do
It. Why not suy Just now and stand to
It, "My Kather, I will, by Thy grace,
seek henceforth In all tilings to know
Thy will, und do as Thou hnst said?"
Why should not all believers In dully
life thus walk with God?
IS, It. Wherefore then illdst thou not
obey the voire of the Lord, but .11.1st lly
upon the spoil and didst evil In I ho slcht
of the Lord.
The Lord sent him and lold him
whnt to do, and it was his not to rea
son, but obey. The reason ut the onin
ma nd given to Saul is foun I In i:..
xvll, 8-lfl, but being long suffering mi I
not willing that any should perish lie
had given them 4(H) years In which to
repent. Mercy always precedes Judg
ment All the failures In the Lord's
service set tiofore us In strong contrast
Him who never fnlli-d and who loved
to say so often, "The rather sent me."
He could also truly suy, "I do always
those things th.it please 111m" i.lohii
vlli, 10, IS, 2t, 2!). It is our privilege,
aa It was (itdoon's, to go day by day in
the strength of those words; "Have not
I sent thee? Surely I will bo with
thee" (.ludg. vl. 14, H'.i. And It is for
us simply and cheerfully to obey with
out questioning (Isa. I, 18, 111).
SO, tl. And Saul sntd unto Samuel, Yea,
I havo otx-yed tbe voice of the Lord.
but the people took of the upoU
to sacrifice unto the Lord thy Ood In
Ollgal.
He confesses to have saved the king,
wlio was certainly Included in the or
der to destroy, aud yet insists that he
had ols-yed tho voice of tho I.i.rd. It
la the old story, so common today, of
perverting the word of the Lord t.Ier.
xxlii, CM) aud of thinking that He does
not mean Just whnt He says. Happy
would it l for ail Itllile atudents mid
teochers If they would take the word
of Uod to mean Just what It says, and
In the light of fulfilled prophecy read
prophecy yet unfuluHcd nud be oln-di-ent.
God's thoughts are as far above
ours as heaven is above tin- earlli, and
all our thoughts must be brought into
captivity to the obedience, of Christ
(Isn. Iv, 8, 0; II Cor. x. To.
The first thought In sacrifice is not
our giving something to Uod, but iod
giving something to us, as In the Insti
tution of sacrifice at Kdi-n (tion. id, -I)
when the Lord Cod liy a sacrifice
which pointed on to the great snciilice
on Calvary taught Adam and Kvc the
way of redemption. Man's thought
which Is from tbe adversary. Is that
we must first give to God to propitiate
Hlin, whereas we can give Him noth
ing until we first accept Ills gift to us.
We must first receive Ills merey, then
we can give Him ourselves a living
sacrifice. See carefully Hus. vl. C;
Matt. Ix, 13; XII, 7. Sacrifice from the
disobedient Is not acceptable to God.
This Is the teaching of Jer. vll, 21-23.
23. Because thou hast rejected tbe word
of the l.ord He hath also rejected thee
from being king.
Bee also verse 2tl and note that Saul
Is raid to be guilty of rebellion and
stubbornness. Whoever rejects the
word of God makes Him a liar and
cuts himself off from all light here ami
hereafter (I John V, 10; Isa. vilL 20 It.
Married in Death's Shadow-
It often happens that a couple la uni
ted, in marriage when one U afflicted
with Consumption or a dctpsoated
Cough or Cold. There's danger la
this, it is marrying in the shadow of
death. Ima.edlato atep abonld be
taken to expel (ha tronbia. There's
nothing that will to qniekly remove
tho danger as br King's New Dis
covery for Consumption, Oougbs and
Colds. It's eqnally safe and sure for
Long aad Throat troubles. Cure ia
guaranteed by SUalard Drag Co.
Pries 50? and 11.00. Trial bottles free
' Disease takes no summer
' Vf;r.ai'ion.
If you need flc " . end
strength use
I Scott's EmuisSon
1 stf..-imer as in winter.
Send for free Uln-'.e.
r 'ilTT & IH1WNK, C! -i-.-.'.
44iS 1'c.irl Ssrcet, ;.:York.
5ocandsi.ee; nil drup:;'..
Land Sale.
.f N . ( ', halMi. a laiinl-lral.ir ..f l.ula M.
Li'a. li..li'C.a.,..l.i;....r'-'H K.arn-. M.'Mik- W.-l-niiir.
l.iri.1. cl al.. ex .,irl.-, I h:ill - II at the
!'.,url Hon-.' 1 .r In A'li-iim. N. i - .i.i I'.'oVlm k
mil .lay .il Jul, I'.i'J. ll.. i..iii.ni;(
Int.'
An uii,liv.:,-.l i.h. :'.ii lutcn-t
in nii.l ton .nu t i.f Wiu l i'l Itiin.l 'i ;li ('.unity
Imiimlol in. I..II.W-. H-ulaalin: u .i k filu
K Tr..v.l..
ia al i 'i
M-cMii'l in.. I. An ii il 1 1 v .. : .ii'l int. r.t
la an.l l.i Hie Ir.i.'i luud Iki.ikIc. ... UN llnrri.vv
l.v l.-i- 1.. .I. Iii.ii.l kl...n..- Hi.' Ilaoow mv.
a.'lj inu ilk- luud- .Lin"'- I'ul'i.'.'. I'yi'ii
Tr.V.i..i. "iii.i ..U..-I. i.i.'i i"ini.i,'.i a- r..n...
Hcuiaiiamal a lil.iekj.ii-k -.r..ai. l ;.-..n I nwli.n.s
i'.t ',
.ink la siil.1 'ims'lon'" hi'.., lli.'li.'.' Mi'illi s cli, 1..
ar.'.l.mk, Hi. i..'.' wi"t I" 'li ami . " link" 1.. a
-Ink.-, ih.'lic. Miutti 'JS. h-nail a.' Iinl. t' a ftako
m Hupri'i'V line, inciu'i' i.i l mi iml "a" 13 cli-
JMksi.i tin- nulling tract nl-.ve l. - r il..-.l. Ojciicc
in, nil on the minim; trad hue 17 cli- ''i link- ton
-lake ill Wll.l line, thence cal 17 cl- .tail M niIKi
1.1 1.!.ici ' line, thcli. e II..IIII ISe
i.l links
the U-ulnlllllK,
I
tracts nf laid Me il.i'.l .11 I.111I- M. I.' aeli to I- II
tin II I'm lie. Ijiutwi M. lunch nil. I I'arthciila C.
.Iiiliawili.'ne.ir.li'.l In li..k ". w I'" the
.mice "I Heui-ler ..( I'eeil- .if Itaii'lnll'h c'.aiiily.
Tel- ('iikIi.iiii.I Ihe till.' rcecIA 'I until the
further nnlerof the l oan.
Thl.i'.lh .lay cl .lyne. l:''l. . .
N. t'. KNtil.I.-ll. i'..n:;inii.ner.
Land Sale.
lly lilue .a' a I"'"', r of Mile . "Mai I In 11
,l,v...llni-l executed to the uu.l. rMciie.l by
Matlhla Hun.-.--and .1. T. Merehen. the til
,ly.. A.rll, which .le." w .llywk1
in th.'.illie.'.iUh. Heui-l. r..l l.'e.l-..l l:an.l..l.h
c.unlv. in l".k ml. w 1 ill -ell at pul.lic
i..,'i, t,, ll,,- lii -li.'sl l.i.l.lel f..r c c-h, at, tho
lb
.I...I
A-h.
M0NI1.W. Jti.V '.7.
al IS..VI.'kM. th.'t..ll..IU'..t.-a.l..f h.n.1 sin
al.-l In Kaii.l'.ll'h C.ii.l). ' liiiul.ui l.inshi
.,11 the wut. rs..l Sandy rreek iij,. hounded 11
(ill,vvs, lleuiunilit: at a st.wc in I uiil. s imi
Win. II. Y.irl.'-
ll.el.ld III..-, thchee east HI l-lis
sl.lk- III Yolk'- line. Ulellif
stake, thclliv ea-l .1 eh- and 7.1
id .'si I
thell.e south SI ll. .-a west lo II l.'t oak. thence
with llliil.V lin-1 the I. 111.10,-... al.iiiiini; M
acres mote 01 le . tni'l Kmoin a Hie Ki-.tiiklui
KiirL-es- Inane ,l,,ce. ....
I'lii-is.l. -iinl.le l.r... tt . lytna 1. 'tween the
ti.wil-otstahvali.l Haiaseiir. .V . laud n.llini;
and well iiulcivd by a nuii.l. r ' -:i".n.-. suitn
l.ie for nil kind- of lallnlus and f-- IRI:'" :;
Mortgage Sale-
of II 1-
naive .Iced
I 1., A. W. I.ia. Iierry h ('i.-iii Kieretl ..11
Mill -."..III. IWI. winch laolli'lis'e.leed 1- recorded
ii Ihe HeL'isl. r's ..all-.- ol lani.loli'h county, in
,.k'li I ealic 101. Hie Iinder-luliell will sell for
ensll to'tlle IniMicst ladder lit .ul.ile ail.'tioll 111
heCoiitt Hons.. .I.s.r in Itali'loll'li l omit) on
MONDAY, AI'lll.-T Sid. l'.B,
,1 '.Jo'el.N'k. in., the ("How
h.d land
ll linndl.iaali township, a.l
lie 1 -of
me Ail
itoi
nth I . li-
Al-oal same tune and 1'l.i.v fe d la virtue of
ics-iiil l.iwerol -.lie. -lie hl.iek !; i-cinule will
s,,'ld for ca-h lolhe h.'.'h.-l bldd r at ".hlic
A.Vl. I.IM hr.hUY.
X.illTII I'Altill.IXA. ( , . ,,.
"ill I'" ' "'"' '
. .!. ..uticr. l'lauitiir. 1
May rm'r. IK fendant. j
The defendant s'-ve nam,.! v.i.i lake
, f.,rlhe.lis-oliiiiono( Hie I.
f -aid
.lemur
, the e..n,i.la.ul ot -a.d a. lion . ine .la,i 11 w
aia.lv to the cam l-t the relief .1. aiaad.-l ill sunt
.J.,1,,,',!,..!,!. YV.e lUMM.'MI.
II w I
Notice.
HavhiL' .ainlitied annllililll-lrato. s . " thee
I .l.-.v Hums, deceased, liefore W. -'. Ilnlllini
h
I shall s. II in puhlic nin tl.
Inches lu.1.1
hiVs'of Ju'lv. n. the toll..
...-'wit: li.-.i.l of hoi cs.
.lull properly
..llal liB.iie. I- l
ek-aiith and
iTd and kitchen turn'mir. , mi l ..lll. r urticlus. loo
AIM N-'r-'i n 11-ViiUi i:j claim- ni.iin-t said c-Uitc
lied topic-. '
mi. or the noiiee w ill lie pi. .'.a ' in l'r-d the
y.!-:- Adair-.
Noticcl
of Jas. r N.
ins ,c:uu-t
cut then to
said'e-lale arc hcrchv lioiuicd
he 1111,1. rsllll.cd duly el,ll-l
pleaded in
is.iuc forward and liuikc
Tl, s July 1-1, 1o
Lli.A V. fix. Adniiulstnitr
Notice!
Havhui.ica1ili.sl axadmiuislrator on the . stale
of Je-se K. t ox. deceas.-.!, Is lnn- W . t'. Haiiiltanitl
ricrk of the Superior ..urt ol l..ili.i..ipii -"""
I hIiiiII sell at pill.lie nnetloll to the hHrhesl lad
der lor ca-h. ol. the prelni-.-. on the Sfn.t day ot
.ll.lv. UUI. the follow inn reill estate, 1.,-w itOne
mar,.. I iiiillc, Sliov-s,'.- cows. P.I -l.e.' fannii.it
!- Iioiiseln.ld and kitch, ii huuilim wet oilier
articles l.itcti.Kis ,, ineul
All j.-rsolis hnvilic claims n"n.,i-i to...
ire is.lill.sl t. present Ih. iii to in- undcrsliiii.sl.
Inly veriliiil. .n or U-fun- the '.-nd day of July,
".m'l'.i'forw'ar.l an.laiake
i.l csu.tc will
settlement.
This July 1-1, l'-.
J. A. IHX. Administrator.
Extremely Low Rates
TO
MANY POINTS
VIA
: Southern Railway
the sale of tl. ki-u at mttcmcly l,w KM, i""
points on Its line for the follow ,lig picli.(,j-
ATHliSS, OA. funitncr Srhu.l, July 1 Aiujust
"". ..
ATLANTA, fi A. Nstloiwl Coaveiuloo B V P.
kNoxVII.LK.TKNN. dimmer! h .4. June SS-
July 1-V!t. . . . , . . i
IIOMtAOLk. ?ESN.-i9ilJe M.ml, July 1-
TTTShK.,hK, ALA.-UBl tSS'iol, Juno 118-
Aiifnist 7,
AHOVKRATCTOWWTOrFIF.rrm If!.
Tlcta. will fee nV.1 lo alnre fotiaa 1mm all
atuil.His on botttTtcrn RaIIwhv.
lleaulwl fniormsllim ran he !WH Sinn Sl'pu
Ji. L. VERNON. T 1. A
. . . rl. inuiw. J.C
FARM FOB SALE -On Muddy
Cret-V containing 328 acres, on uy
terms. Apply to
"IIahbeii A Si't