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VOL. XLII GRAHAM CHURCH DIRECTORY. Baptist—N. Main di.-Jas. W. Rose. Pastor. Preaching services every iirst and Third Sundays at U.UO a. m. and 7.30 ,p. m. , Sunday School every Sunday at (.49 a. in.—C. JU. Irwin, Superin tendent. Graham Christian Church—N. Main Street—He v. J. F. Trait*.. Preaching services every Sec ond and fourth Sundays, at ll.uu a. in. ' ' Sunday School every Sunday at 10.00 a. m.—E. L. Henderson, Super intendent. New Providence Christian Church —North Main Street, near Dtpot— llev. J. G. Truitt, Pastor. Preach ing every Second and Fourth Sun day nights at 8.00 o'clock. Sunday School every Sunday at 9,45 a. m.—J. A.. Bayliff, Superin tendent. Christian Endeavor Prayer Meet ing every Thursday night at 7.4 a. o'clock. Friends—.North of Graham Pub lic School—J .Robert Parker, Pas tor. Preaching every Sunday at 11 a. m. and at 7.30 p. m. Sunday School every Sunday at 10.00 a. m.—James Crisco, Superin tendent. Methodist Episcopal, south—cor. Main and Maple St„ H. E. Myers Pastor. Preaching every Sunday at 11.00 a. m. and at 7.30 p. m. Sunday' School every Sunday at 9.45 a. m.— W. B. Green, Supt. Methodist Protestant—College St., West of Graham Public School, Rev. O. B. Williams, Pastor. Preaching every First, Thlrcj and Fourth Sunday* at 11.00 a. m. and every Firat, Third, Fourth and Filth Sundays at 7.00 p. ni. Sunday School every Sunday at 9.-15 a. in.—J. S. Cook, Supt. Presbyterian—Wst Elm Street— Rev. T. M. McConnell, pastor. Sunday School every Sunday at 9.46 a. m.—Lynn B. Williamson, Su perintendent. Presbyterian (Travora Chapel)— J. W. Ciegg, pastor. Preaching every Second and Fourth Sundays at 7.30 p. m. Sunday School every Sunday at 2.30 p. m.—J. Harvey White, Su perintendent. Oneida—Sunday School every Sunday at 2.30 p. m.—J. V. Pome roy, Superintendent. PROFESSIONAL CARDS E. C. DERBY Civil Engineer. GRAHAM, N. C.. National Bank of Alamance B'l'd'o. BURLINGTON, N. C., Room 16. lat National Bank Bnlldlng. *jPhoiie 470 JOHN J. 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It is a great surprise on account of its exceeding nromptness is relieving pain in bladder, kidMjri and back, in male or female. Relieves reten tion of water almost lnynediately. II you want quicks relief and cure this is the remedy. Sold by Gra ham Drug Co. LIVES OF CHRISTIAN MINISTERS Thia book, entitled as above, contains over 200 memoirs of Min isters in the Christian Churcb with historical references. An interesting volume —nicely print ed and bound. Price per copy; cloth, $2.00; gilt top, 12.60. By mail 20c extra. Orders may be sent to " " : P. J. Kkbnodle, 1012 E. Marshall St., Richmond, Va, Orders may be loft at this offlc©. THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. P Airman OF~=~ r\ "MONSIEUR, BEAUCAIRE" " the Conquest or canaan m "PENROP" ETC, ( 15gP ) CHAPTER f. There is a midland city in the heart of fair, open country, a dirty rfnd won derful city nesting dingily in the fog of its own smoke. The stranger must feel the dirt before be feels the won der, for the dirt will be upon him In stantly. At a breezfc he must smother In whirlpools of dust, and If he should decline at any time to Inhale the smoke he has the meager alternative of sui cide. Wot quite so long ago as a genera tion there was here no heaving, grimy city; there was but a pleasant big town of neighborly people who had under standing of one another. But there was a spirit abroad In the land, and It was strong here as else where—a spirit that had moved in the depths of the American soil and la bored there, sweating, till It stilted the surface, rove the mountains, and emerged, tangible and monstrous, the god of all good American hearts—Big ness. And so the place grew. And It grew strong. The Sheridan bnlldlng was the big gest skyscraper; the Sheridan Trust company was the biggest of Its kind, and Sheridan himself had been tbe big gest builder and breaker and truster and buster under the smoke. He had come from a country crossroads, at the beginning of the growth, and he bad gone up and down In tbe booms and relapses of that period; but each time he went down he rebounded a little higher, until finally, after a year of overwork and anxiety—the latter not decreased by a chance, remote but possible, of recuperation from the for mer In ,the penitentiary—be found blmself on top, with solid substance under hi& feet; and thereafter "played it safe." But his hunger to get was unabated, fo? it was In the very bones of him and grew fiercer. He was the city incarnate. He loved It, calling It God's country, as he called the smoke Prosperity, breathing the dingy-cloud with relish. Tbe smoke was one of his great enthusiasms; he laughed at a committee of plaintive He Called the Smoke Prosperity, housewives who called to beg his aid against it "Smoke's what brings your husbands' money home on Saturday night;" be told them Jovially. "You go home and ask your husbands what smoke puts In their pockets out o' the pay roll—and you'll come around next time to get me to turn out more smoke Instead o' chokln' It off!" It was Narcissism in him to love the city so well; be saw his reflection in it; and, like It, be was grimy, big, careless, rich, strong, and unquencb ably optimistic. Just as he profoundly believed bis city to be the finest city In the world, so did be believe bis fam ily to be—ln spite of his son Blbbe— the finest family In the world. As a matter of fact, he knew nothing worth knowing about either. Bibbs Sheridan yas a mnalng sort of boy, poor In health, and considered the failure —the "odd one"—of the family. Born during that most danger ous and anxious of the early years, be waa an 111-nourished baby, and grew meagerly, only lengthwise, through a feeble childhood. At bis christening be was committed for life to "Bibbs" mainly thtongh lack of Imagination on his mother's part, for though It was her maiden name, ahe had no strong affection for It. One day when the sickly boy was sine, be requested with unwonted vehemence to be allowed to exchange names with his older brother, Roscoe Conkllng Sheridan, or with the oldest, James Sheridan, Jr., and upon being refused went down into the cellar and re mained there the rest of that day. And the cook, descending toward dusk, re ported that he had vanished; but a search revealed that he was In the coal-Rile, completely covered and still burrowing. Removed by force and carried upMalrs, he maintained a cryp tic demeanor, refusing to otter a ayl- Jable of explanation, even under the lash. This obvious thing was wholly a mystery to tooth parents; the mother was nonplused, failed to trace and cohnect; and the father regarded his son as a stubborn and mysterious fool, an Impression not effaced as the years went by. At twenty-two Bibbs was physically no more than the outer scaffolding of a man, waiting for the building to be gin Inside —a Uwg-shanked, long-facet), rickety youth, sallow and hollow and haggard, dark-haired and dark-eyed, with a peculiar expression of counte nance; Indeed, at first sight of Bibbs Sherldatf he seemed npon the point of tears. To a slightly longer gaze, not grief, but mirth, was revealed as his emotion; but Bibbs never, on any oc casion In his life, either laughed aloud or wept. He was a "disappointment" to hi* father. At least that was the parent's word—a confirmed and established word after big first attempt to make a "business man" of the boy. He sent Bibbs to "begin at the bottom and learn from the ground up" In the ma chine shop of the Sheridan Automatic Pump works, and at the end of six months the family physician sent Bibbs to begin at the bottom and learn from the ground up in a sanitarium. "You needn't worry, mamma," Sher idan told his wife. "There's nothtn' the matter wltH Bibbs except he hates work so much It makes blm sick. I put him In the machine shop, and I guess I know frtiat I'm doln' about as well as the next man. Ole Doc Gur ney always was one o' them nutty alarmists. Doea he think I'd do any thing 'd be bad for my own flesh and blood? He makes me tired!" Anything except perfectly definite health or perfectly definite disease was Incomprehensible to Sheridan. He had a genuine conviction that lack of physical persistence In any task In volving money must be due to some subtle weakness of character itself, to some profound shlftlessness or slyness. "Look at me," he said. "Look at what I did at his age! Why, when I was twenty years old, wasn't I up ev ery morning at four o'clock choppln' wood—yes! and out In the dark and snow—to build a fire In a country gro cery store? And here Bibbs has to go and have a doctor because he can't— Phol It makes me tired! If he'd gone at It like a man he wouldn't be sick." He paced the bedroom—the usual setting for such parental discussions— In his night gown, shaking his big, grizzled bead and gesticulating to tils bedded spouse. "My Lord!" be said. "If the little, teeny bit o' work lfie this Is too much for him, why, he ain't fit for anything! It's nine-tenths imag ination, and the rest of• it—well, I won't say It's deliberate, but I would like to know Just bow much of It's put onl" "Bibbs didn't want the doctor," said Mrs. Sheridan. "It was when be was here to dinner that night, and I noticed how he couldn't eat anything. Honey, you better come to bed." "Eat!" be snorted. "Eat! It's work that makes men eat! And there's an other thing you'll notice about good health. If you'll take the trouble to look around you, Mrs. Sheridan; busy men haven't got time to be sick, and they don't get sick. You Just think It over, and you'll And that 00 per cent of the sick people you know are either women or loafers. Yes, ma'am I" "Honey," she said again, drowsily, "you better come to bed." "Look at the other boys," ber bus band bade ber. "Look at Jim and Ros coe. Look at bow they work. Right now there Isn't a harder-workln', brighter business man In this city than Jim. I've pushed blm, but he give me something to push against. You can't push 'nervous dyspepsia!' And look at Koscoe; Just look at what that boy's Hone for himself, and barely twenty seven years old—married, got a fine wife, and ready to build for himself with bis own money when I put up the new bouse for you and Edle." "Papa, you'll catch cold In your bare feet," she murmured. "You'd better come to bed." "And I'm Just as proud of Edle, for • girl," be continued, emphatically, "as I am of Jim and Roscoe for boys. She'll make some man a mighty good wife when the time comes. Kbe's the prettiest and taleotedest girl In the United States! I tell you I'm mighty proud o' them three children! But Bibbs—" He paused, shaking his bead. "Honest, tnaruma, when I talk to men that got all their boys doln' well and wortb their salt, why, I have to keep my mind on Jim and Roscoe and forget about Bibbs." Mrs. Hherldan touted her bead fret fully upon tbe pillow. "Yon did the beat you could, papa," nine said, Impa tiently, "so come to bed and quit re proachln' yourself for It" He glared at her Indignantly. "Be proachln' myself!" he snorted. "I ain't doln' anything of the kind! What In the name o' goodness would I want to reproach myself for? And It wasn't the 'beat I could.' either. It was the best anybody could. 1 was glvln' him a chance to show what was In blm snd make a man of himself —and here he goes and geta 'nervous dyspepsia' on me!" He went to the old-fashioned gas fixture, turned out the light and mut tered hl« way morosely Into bed. . "What?" »ald hi* wife, croiwly, | bothered by a nub*eiuent mumbling. j "More like bookworm, I »ald," he ex- ' plained, apeaklng louder. "I dou't , know what to •« with hlin!" GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 6 1916 — —V J CHAPTER 11. Beginning at the beginning and learning from the ground up was a long course for Blbba at the sanita rium, with milk and "zwieback" as the basis of Instruction; and the months were many and tiresome be fore he was considered near enough graduation to go for a walk leaning on a nurse and a cane. These and sub sequent months saw the planning, the building and the completion of the new house, and it' was to that abode of Bigness that Bibbs was brought when the cane, without the nurse, was found sufficient to his support. Edith m c him at the station.- "Well, well, Bibbs I" she said, as he came •lowly through the gates, the last of all the travelers from that train. "Do you think they ought to 've let you come? You certainly don't look well:" "But I certainly do look better," he returned, in a voice as slow as hi* gait; a drawl that was a necessity, for when Bibbs tried to speak quickly he stammered. "Up to about a month ago It took two people to see me. They had to get me In a line between 'em!" Edith did not turn her eyes directly toward him again, after her first quick glance; and her expression, In spite of her, showed a faint, troubled dis taste. She was nineteen, fair and atlm, with'small, unequal features, but a prettlness of color and a brilliancy of eyes that created a total Impression close upon beauty. There was some thing about her, as kind old ladles say, that was very sweet; and there was something that was hurried and breathless. Bibbs bent upon her a steady, whimsical scrutiny as they stood at the curb; waiting for an au tomobile across the street to disengage Itself from thg traffic. "That's the new car," she said. "Ev erything's new. We've got four now, besides Jim's. Roscoe's got two." "Edith, you look—" he began, and paused. "Oh, we're all well," she said brisk ly; and then, as If something In his tone had caught her as significant, "Well, how do I look, Bibbs?" "You 100k —" He paused again, tak ing In the full length of her—trim, brown shoes, scant, rough skirt, coat of brown and green, mad little rough bat In the mad mode—all suited to the October day. "How do 1 look?" she Insisted. "You look," he answered, as hla ex amination ended upon an Inenisted watch of platinum and enamel at her wrist, "you look—expensive!" "I expect I am!" she laughed. "Do you want Clans to help you In?" "Oh, no," said Bibbs. "I'm alive." And after a fit of panting subsequent to his cllmbTtljf Into the car unaided, be added, "Of course, I have to tell people!" "We only got your telegram this morning," she said, as they began to move -rapidly through the "wholesale district" neighboring the station. "Mother said she'd hardly expected you this month." "They seemed to be through with me up there In t|ie country," be ex plained, gently. ''At least they said they were, and they wouldn't keep me any longer, been line so many really sick people wanted to get In. They told me to go home —and I didn't have any place else to go. It'll be all right, Edith; I'll sit In the woodshed until dark every day." "I'sliaw!" Hhe laughed nervously. "Of course we're all of us glad to hav* you back." "Year be said. "Father?" "Of course! Didn't he write and tell you to cotne home?" Hbe did not turn to him with the question. All the while she rode with her face directly forward. "No," be aald; "father haan't writ ten." | Bhe flushed a little. '1 expert I wight to've written lomethlng, or on* of the boy*—" "Ob, no; that was all right." "You can't think how busy we've ■II been tills year, 111 bits Of course we knew mamma waa writing often, •ml—" "Of course!" he aald, readily. "There'a a chunk of coal fallen on your glove, Edith. Better flick It off before It smears. My word! I'd al most forgotten bow aooty It la here," "We've been having very bright weather this month—for ua." Hbe blew the flake of soot Into the air, seeming relieved. He looked up at the dingy sky, wherein hung the disconsolate sun like a cold tin pan nailed tip In a smoke house by some lunatic, for a decora tion. "Yes," said Bibbs. "It's very gay." A few momenta later, as they passed a corner, "Aren't we going home?" he asked. "Your new driver la taking us out of the way. Isn't be?" ' "Good gracious!" she cried. "Didn't you know we'd moved? Didn't you know we were In the new house?" "Why, nor* said Bibb*. "Are you?" "We've been there n month! Good gracious! Didn't you know—" Kbe broke off, flushing again, and then went on hastily: "Of course, mamma's never been so busy In ber life; we all haven't had time to do anything but keep on the hop. Mamma couMn't even come to the station today. I'apn'a got some of his business friends and people from around the old-botiso neighborhood coming tonight for a big dinner and 'house warming*—dreadful kind of people—but mamma'* got It All on her baud*. She'* never sat down » minute; and If she did, papa would have her up again before—" "Of course." said Bibbs. "Do you like the new place, Edith?" "I don't like some of the things fa ther would have In It, hut It's the finest house In town, and that ought to be good enough for me! Papa bought one thing I like—a view, of the Bay of Naples in oil that's perfectly beauti ful; It's the first tiling you see as you come In the front hall, and It's eleven feet long. But he would have tlint old fruit picture we hod In the Murphy street house hung up In the new din ing room. It's barrlbly out of date to have those things In dining rooms, and I caught Bobby Lamhorn giggling at It; and Sibyl made fun of It. too, with Bobby and then told papa she agreed with him about its being such a line thing, and said be dkl just right to Insist on having It where he wanted it She makes me tired! Sibyl!" Edith's first constraint with her brother, amounttng almost to awk wardness, vanished with this theme, though she still kept her full gaze al ways to the front, even In the extreme urdor of her denunciation of her sister in-law. "Sibyl!" she repeated, with such heat and vigoi that the name seemed to strike fire on her lips. "I'd like to know why Hoscoe couldn't lave mar ried somebody from here that would have dofte us some good, Instead of tills Sibyl Rink! I met some awfully nice people from her town when mam ma and I were at Atlantic City, last spring, and not one had ever even heard of the Itlhks! Not even heard of 'em!" • "I thought you were groat friends with Sibyl," Bibbs salt!. "Up to the time I found her out!" the ulster returned, with continuing vehemence. "I've found out some things about Mm. Iloacoe Sheridan lately—" "It's only lately?" "Well—" Edith hesitated, her lips setting primly. "Of course, I always did see that she never cared the snap of her little finger about Koscoe!" "It seems," said Rlbbs, In laconic protest, "that she married him." 1 The sister emitted a shrill cry, to bo Interpreted a». cwitemptuous laughter, and, In her emotion, spoke too Impul sively : "Why, she'd have married you!" \ "No, no," be said; "Hhe couldn't be that bad!" | "I didn't mean—" she began, dis tressed. "I only meant — I didn't mean—" "Never mind, Edith," he consoled her. "You see, she couldn't bave mar ried me, because I didn't know her; and besides, If she's as mercenary as all that, she'd have been too clever. The head doctor even had tu lend ine I "I t>dn't Have Arty Place Else to Qo." the money for my ticket home." "I didn't mean anything unpleasant about you," Edith babbled. "I only meant I thought she was the kind of a girl who was so simply crazy to marry sonieltody she'd have married anylxKly that asked her." "Yin, yes," said lilbbs; '"lt's all straight." And, perceiving that his alster's expression was that of a per son whose adrc/ltneui has set mutters perfectly to rights, be chuckled silently. "Iloscoe's perfectly lovely to her," she continue*!, a moment later. "Too lovqly! If he'd wake up a little and lay down the law, some day. like a man. I guess she'd respect him more and learn to behave herself!" " 'Behave?" " "Ob, well, I minn she's so Insincere," said Edith, characteristically evasive when It came to stating the very point to which she bud If J , and In this not unique of her sex. Bibb* contented himself with a non committal g««ture. "Business la crawl ing up the old streets," be aalii, bis long, tremulous band Indicating a vasty structure In rotirse of erection. "The boarding bouse* come first, pud then the—" "Tljat lan't for shops," ahe Informed him. "That's a new Investment of papa's—tlie 'Hhi-rldan apartments' " "Well, well," be murmured. "I sup posed 'Hberldan' was almost well enough known here already." "Ob, we're well enough known about!" ahe aald. Impatiently. "I guess there lan't a man, woman, child or nig ger baby In town that doean't know who we are. Hut we aren't In with the right people." "So!" he exclaimed. "Whoa all that?" "You know what I mean: the best people, the old families—the people that have the real social position In tlrts towu and that know they've got It." Illbba engage*] in hi* silent chuckle again; he seemed highly amused. "I thought that the people who actually had the real wtiat-do-you call-it didn't know It," he aald. "I've always under stood that It was very unsatisfactory, because If you thought, aliout It you didn't have It, and If you had It you dld/l't know It." ... ' " « ""That's Just bosh," she retorted. "They know It in this town, all right! I found out a lot of things, long before \*c began to think of building out In this direction. The right people In this town aren't always tfie society eolutnn ones, and they mix around with outsiders, but they're a clan, just the same; aild they have the clon reel ing. Most of 'em were here long be fore papa came, and the grandfathers of the girls of my age knew each other, and—" "I see." Bibbs Interrupted, gravely. "Their ancestors fled together from tnuuy a stricken Held, aud crusaders' blood flows In their veins. I always understood the first house was built by an old party of the name of Ver trees, who couldn't get Dan'l Boone, nnd hurried away to these parts because Dan'l wanted him to give back a gun he'd lent him." Edith gave a little ejaculation of alarm. "You mustn't repeat that story, Bibb*, even If It's true. The Vcrtreeses are the best family, and of course the very oldest here; they were un old family even before Mary Vertrpes' great-great-griMHlfather camo west and founded this settlement. lie cmne from Lynn, Massachusetts, and they have relatives there yet—some of the best people In Lynn!" "No!" exclaimed Bibbs, Incredu lously. "Apd there are other old families like the Vertreeses," she went on, not heeding him; "the Lamhoru* and the Klttcrshys and the J. Palnierstou Smiths—" "Strange names to me," hp Inter rupted. "Poor things I None of them have my acquaintance." "No, that's Just it!" she'cried. "And papa hud never even heard the nnmo of Vertrees! Mrs. Vortrees went with "Papa Had Never Even Heard of the Name of Vertrees." some antlsmoke committee to see him. and he told her Hint smoke was what made her husbaml bring home Ills wages from the pay roll oti Saturday night! lie told us about It, and I thought 1 Just couldn't live through the night, I was so asliamed! Mr. Vertrees has always lived ou his In come. and pupa didn't know hlui, of cmirse. They're th* atlffest, most ele glint people In the whole town. And to crown It all, pupa went anil bought the next lot to the old Vertrees coun try mansion—lt's In the very heart of the best new residence district now, and that's where the new house Is, right next door to them—and I must say It makes their place look rather shabby! I met Mary Vertrees when I Joined the Mission Service Helpers, but she never did any more than Just barely Iww in me, and since papa's break I doubt If she'll do that! They haven't Milled." "And you think If I spread this g'>«- slp aliotit Vert reus the I*"lrnt stealing Dan'l Ititone's gun, the chunci-s that they will call—" "l'apa knows what " break lie made with .Mrs Vertrees. I made him un derstand tlmt," said I'dlth, demurely, "and he's promised to try and meet \lr. Vertrees and he nice to him. Hob by La minim told pibyl he was going to tiring his mother to call on her and on mamma, hot It was weeks ago, and I notice lie hasn't done It; and If Mr*. Vertrees decides not to know us. I'm darn sure Mrs. I.a inborn 'II never come. That's one thing Hlbyl didn't manage! Hlie salil Hobby offered to bring his mother—" "You soy he 1 m a friend of Iloscoe's?" 111 Mm naked. "Oh. he'a a friend of the whole f»m lly," ahe returned, with a petulance which ahe made no effort to 11 i sgid** "IJoacoe mid he K"t acquainted »nne. where, ami they take him to the tin atcr oixxit every night Xlbyl him him to luii'h, too, and keepa—" She broke off wlih an angry Utile Jerk of the bend. "We can se« the new houae from tin' second corner ahead. Iloscixj has bii.lt Htralgbt across tlte al ri-1 from uh. you know. Honestly. Sibyl makes me think of a anake, sometime* the way ah"- pnlla the wwi over people's eyea! Miie honeys up to papa and gela anytMng in the world ahe wanta our of him, and Uicn makes fun of him behind hia back—yea, and to bla face, but he can't «ce it! Hbe got hlin to give her a twclve-tbousand dollar porch for their bouse after It WIH " "Good heaven*!" said Bibbs, staring ahead an they reached the corner ami the car. swung to the right, following a bend In the street. "I» thut the uew home?" '•Yea. What do you think of It?" - "Well," he drawled, "I'm pretty sure the aanltarlum'a about half a size big ger; I can't be certain till I measure." And a moment later, a* they entered the driveway, be added, serloualy: "But It'* •beautlftti!" To BE CON'TI.MKI) SUNDAY SCHOOL. Lesson ll.— ThirJ Quarter, For July 9, 1916. THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES. Text of the Lesson, I Thees. i and Iv, 13-18—Memory Vereee Iv, 16, 17. Golden Text, iv, 14—Commentary Prepared by Pev. O. M. Stearns. It Is gruud to have a whole epistle to miMlitate upon this week, ami especial ly sucli a one U» thin, HO full of the glorious truth of our I.ord's second coming und Its two stages, llisl to tlie air for Ills church, und to tiio earth wlt'u us to set up Ills kingdom of righteousness und i»cuoe. The refer ences to Ills coming in each chapter wo gave In Inst week's lesson, und be fore taking It lip more fully let us receive u few hcurt lessons from the whole letter. It Is from Iha throe with whom we have been traveling recently, Puul and Kilus und Timothy, faithful und devoted witnesses to the risen living Christ, und It Is to the believers who lived 011 eurth at Then salonlca, but were really In God the rstlu-r and In the I.ord Jesus Christ us to their heavenly standing (1 Tliess I, 1; II Thess. I, 1). It was by the gospel of God and of Christ, In the power of the Holy Spirit, that they were lerl Into this holy (KtslUon aud the assurance of it, and the apostles' desire for them was that they would walk worthy of God, who hud given them thla grout Joy and called theuT unto His kingdom and glory (chapter I, 5, (J; 11, 2, 4, 8, I), 12; 111, 2; Iv, 1). The one only thing that a sinner Is asked to do and can do Is to turn from Ids sins to God and receive the I-ord Jesus Christ as his own personal Saviour. Thnt makes him to bo in God nntl in Christ ami sei tiros to him all the benefits of the finished work of the I,ord Jesus, llfo eternal, the forgiveness of sins, acecpfiiuce In Christ and a joint heirship with Ilim without any works whatever or uny merit on tho pnrt of the sinner. Having eternal redemption, our one occupation Is summed up in serving Hie living and true God. which means with ipileiness doing our own busi ness, tilling the plneo* He assigns us, living together with Him. lis children (f light rejoicing. In everything giving thanks und trustlug the G«*l of Peace to do all In us and through IIH liecuuse of His faithfulness l iMplei's 1. W; Iv. IJU-«Jk I". HUH. 23. 24). lln vlni: become followers of Christ, who suffered everything and was kill ed for our sakes. we must not shrink from suffering with Him and being killed for Ills sake, never pleasing men, but only and always pleasing Gisl, who trlolli our hearts (chapters I. II; Iv. 14. If.; 111. Ii Itelug deliv ered from tiie wratii to come, of which He sjs'iiks more fully In the second epistle, our attitude should always be that of waiting for Ills return Our individual persomii salvation Is three fold-we are saved. we are working It out. and we wait for the redemption of (lie IMHIV at Ills coming Tills Is simply stated In chapter i. • 10. but see also I Com. v. I 2; Tit li, III"; I John 111. I. 2. There Is another aud larger threefold (lew of sahiitlou. cov ering the whole ehurili. will'h shall be riiuglit up ill Ills i omliig. then the saivulloii of all Israel lit Ills lomliig back Willi us In Ills glory, und after that the salvation of all nations, so that "salvation." one of the greatest words in the Illlile. lias a sixfold jdg lilll'-an'e reaching on to the kingdom when tbi> earth shall is- filled -s'llli tile glory of the l.ord I'll 111 H4MMIIH to luivc Ultrj/ht HO much al>OUt tlie Mphm'il hope and as.m* luted events tint t!»•• believer* feared le«t those who died h ul ml.s*ed ii irn-nt bleMMlusr hihl prl\ ijeye. but ln> an*ured t lICIII tliilt tllO-• \\ l|«» llllfc'ht remain 1111 til the Lord rutin* would u»>t prevent or k» lw*fore «»r kiilii iiiiv advantage over tho*e who had died or. as to their liodle*, fnlleii n Iri'i' ehnpter Iv, ]IV 15). I lirvp many friend* who think thathetueen death and maurim'thai the soul MleeltH and th;if there In fio cotmrlotiN etlxterire. but I ttit*rt f)nl liny foundation in K rlptuie for such ii belief, HO I tell my friends that If I m fin 11 die I will he more alive than I arn now. believing I'hll. I, 151 v II Cor. v. K; Hev. \I. JI. Luke xvl. Tl. Am to III* rotnioti for u* and our meeting Hint In (he air. e||n|»ter Iv, ] O-18, with I *'»r xv. T\. f»l, f»'J. makM It very real. The I>>r*l Iliniwlf nhnll descend, the name .1 •• us who n acetified from the Mou tt of OlhV* i.\«-t« 1. 11). n trurn|M*f nhiill teamd. find .ill the dead ! bodies of In'lle ers. v.hethei b rr!ed In the earth or !I* the *!«•; »f ti** of I lie neii or burned to Him!l eoine to life. And Uu«m» whoince lived In theiu when they were ue»i t«l !*«!;• k, hut have? nlfiee death l#et»l. with thrift ill pl'»ry. shall ll* e nt'aln m tho*c romirwtiHj. glorified lurthi h AI tin* Mime fJio uient. In the twinkling of «n eve, all living l#ollever hli .11 !»«• chufi/i d with out and. I metier with tin* raised one*, I#,- « siuvht up In the cloudn to meet the !>*rd In tin- air. and KO nliall we e\er l>«* ulth llm* I.'■ id. There 1h c*>fnfort In thenc truths for all who will reeehe them. i'he words "The> that are C'hrlHt hat I lis hdnx" (I *»>r xv, 'Sit couvlixt* m« 'u;it no true i>e llevers Nliall l»«» o» r > - ied in thin great event. The den ] i>«nllf» of untjeliev ern mIuiII not In* ral«M*d till after the thouitniid year. »ltev. \\. i\t. There Ih no found-, ion f«,r lx>ik a vlng that death or the de*tni« - tinn of .ferusnletn or any other jcreat event or the com UiK of the IJolv Spirit has any connip tion or aMaorirttlon with the coming of ('hrlut sloo—Dr. K. Detehon'a Anti-Diu retic may be worth more to you more to you than SIOO if you have a child who soils thr» bed ding from incontinence o t water during bleep. Cures old and youog alike. It arrests the trouble at once. SI.OO. Sold by Graham Drug . Company. adv. Itch relieved in 20 minutes by WoodXord's Sanitary Lotion. Never fails. Sold by Graham Drug Co, NO. 21 Get Rid of Tan, Sunburn and Freckle* by using HAGAN"S Magnolia Balm. fW Acts inilantly. Stops the burning. Clears your complexion of Tan and Blenutliea. You cannot know how good it is until you try it. Thous ands of women say it is berftof all bcautifiers and heals Sunburn quickest. Don't be without it a day longer. Get a bottle now. At your Druggist or by mail diredt.. 75 cents for either color, White. Pink, Rose-Red. SAMPLE FREE. LYON !FG. CO., 40 So. SU> St.. BrooUra. M.Y. World's Highsst Auto Read. The world's highest automobile road and one of the most remarkable piece* of road building on record has juat been completed In Colorado, The net# Llghway runs to the very top of Pikes peak, whose crest Is more than 14,000 feet high. The man. who discovered likes peaK said that it would never be climbed. Today the topmost point, is accessible for seven passenger touring cars. The new road Is eighteen miles long, and In that distance It rises 8,000 feet The engineering is so skillfully done thai tho average grade 1* only fl per cent— a rise of six feet In every 100— and the maximum grade does not exceed 10 per cent. The road Is never less than twenty feet wide, and around some of the sharper curves Is as much as fifty, feet. Guard rails at the more danger, ous edges reassure tho nervous drivef£ There Is a system of auto supply sta* lions and water stations along the whole road, which Is also followed «>* n telephony line. To blast out the new highway, ruat nliig for much of Its length througH almost, solid rock, fifteen carloads of dynamite were necessary. Bo carefulta was the work carried on that, not a single laborer was injured in the bloat) tag. J Boy Admits Killing Cousin. Because he did not know a gun ho was examining was loaded, cau*> Clyde Engle, twelve years of age, at Corry, Ha., to be the innocent aiajrtf of his cousin Lloyd Wilson, who wai killed. Knglo finally confessed, end* lug the murder theory. Boy Myaterloualy Shot and Killed. I -toy ii Wilson, aged seventeen years, living on a farm near Corry, Pa., wag shot and killed In a mysterious manner. Wilson was playing near a woods with two broth? ors ami n cousin. Tho report of a una was heard and the boy (ell.dead with a bullet In big temple. Falls Dead During Foot Raoe. " . 1211 1.. Redcay, of I-ltltz, fell dead from heart dliifaae. He* Was challeng ed by a comiianlon to a foot race and overexertion caused his death. H« was twenty-seven years old. GENERAL MARKETS ' I PHILADELPHIA. FLOUR quiets winter clear, $4.50®4.75; city mills' $5.M0«i6.25. RYE Kl/OUIt —Steady; per barrel, $5 4/ 5.50, WIIKAT llrm: No. 2 red, 99c.01.01. quiet: No. 2 yellow, 84HQ| quiet: No. 2 white, 46HCS POULTRY: Live steady: hens, 19)4 4/' 2oc.; old roosters. )3&14c. Dresistl, steady, choice fowls, 22V4c.; old roos ters, 16c. ntITTER steady: Fancy creamery. J2c. per lb. MiliS "toady: Selected, 3U4J3IC.; 1 nearby, 27c.: western, 27c. r Live Btock Quotations. CHICAGO. HOGS lsc. Metier. Mixed and butchers, good heavy, I!) s Oft 10.05: rough heavy, 19.1S &!Mr>, Hi?lit l!MO08.95; pigs, $».35f0 fT 1 r,; butC, $9.75©5.»5. CATTLE Steady, 15c. higher, lleev'i, ss.2sit 11.40; cows and heifers, |.t.7s®>.|o; Blockers and feeders, Ih.Mflß.r.i- Teiaits, »8.75©9.75; crlV.^, SHKEI' -Strong. Native and west ern, jrtSOfoN, lambs, *7.50®11.#5. 11916 JULY 19161 [SUM M9N r TUE "WID TMUIPRI ISAT] rTiJTm^ 2 3EJ 5 6 7 8 910 tl 12131415 161718192011K •.,"■,,'252627^29 *i' imi Him —-i . ~ * , " SnHWMMT t Pitched Ball Breaks His Jaw. Herbert Heldenrelch, of Hazletotv *a* struck by a pitched ball In ( game between the executive office and freight department clerks of the Le nt#)] Vsllcy railroad division head quarters, and was taken to the Ststf aospltal with his Jaw fractured. Hangs by Her Heels From Fence. Falling fifteen feet off a porch at her home, at Shamokln. Pa., Mrs. Mary Jones, sixty years, was caught by her heels on a picket fence, and liung bead downward until neighbors rescued her. She suffered two broken - ribs and concussion of the brain. Authors. Tbo number of poor authors Is as great as the number of authors who are [wxir.—Omnhn World-Herald. Geodesy. Geodesy Is the name given to the science of Measuring the surface of (he SUBSCRIBE FOR THB GLEANER, |UO A YBAR
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