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THE SEMI-WEEKLy ROBESONIAN.
War and Peace.
Great is the rejoicing through
out the whole civilized world over
the close of the war in the East.
It is an event in the history of the
world which will not soon be ' for
gotten. Well it may be remember
ed. The lives of untold thousands
are saved, and they may live to
bless the earth, instead of dying,
curse it. (Manufacture, agricul
ture, trade, long interrupted, are
to be resumed. Swords are to be
turned into ploughshares and
spears into pruning hooks. Indus
tries wbicn make for life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness, take
the p ace of contrivance and
struggle to shed men's blood.
And these, the good results of
peace, are to be felt not on'y in
Japan and Russia, but through
out all. nations. Men's eyes will
be turned from scenesof carnage
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to those of j)eacetnl and uselirl
occupations ; the topic of all man
kind will no longer be "The
War;" and the spirit of those who
glory in killing their fellowmen
and are g'orified for it will not
dominate the ideals and aspira
tions of the young manhood of
the world.
But consider: There is more
rejoicing over one sinner that re
pents than over the ninety and
nine that went not astray. "War
is Hell." So said Gen. Sherman,
and Gen. Sherman knew. Even
when humane soldiers wage it, it
is so. -And this war now closed
was perhaps the bloodiest of all
the bloody wars of history. Over
100,000 men lay bleeding and dy
ing on the field when the sun went
down on Mukden one day, almost
the exact number that were en
gaged on both sides in that tarri
ble "holocaust' the Battle of Get
tysburg, in which on both sides
43,000 men were reported ''killed,
wounded and missing. " And
there was Liaoyang with its 40-,
000 victims, and Port Arthur with
its 6O,O00 ; and there was Shakhe
River with its 48,000; and many
others, as deadly to a lesser num
ber, Tha world has never seen
the like before, or anything ap
proaching it ; may it never see the
like again ! And for every bleed
ing man on the battlefield, how
many bleeding women's hearts at
home! How many blighted chil
dren's lives, not for today but up
ward through the years! Verily
"War is Hell " and we do not
half appreciate the blessings 0fMiKinley
peace, or the glory of being o. the
ninety and nine that went not
astray.
There was no excuse for this
war It was initiated in Jungs'
palaces. The Japanese, perhaps
the best ' disciplined people and
the most patriotio since that "el
der day" when "to be a Roman
was greater than a king," have
been fighting, nominally to resist
Russian aggression, but largely
for the glorification of the Empire
of Japan. .The Russians have
been driven to fight, by fear of
their master, the Great White
Czar, and they. fought poorly only
because they feared the fierce Jap
fifty yards in front of them more
than that Czar.every whit as fierce
uut v,vw i-ij ilea avoy
If any one man is more tu blame
for this cruel war, than any other,
it is Nicholas II. Robespierre,
"the seagreen," monster ,of mon
sters, whese very mention causes
men throughout the world a hun
dred years after to curse and exe
crate his memory, caused to be
guillotined during the Reign of
Terror over which he presided,
1,285 persons. Compare that with
the 160,000 on Mukden field that
' day. Yet the Little Father is a
sweet tempered and kindly souled
L. a. r. nm ii
gentleman Charlotte Observer.
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Suffering.
"I bad been troubled with lame
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Victims of Cholera.
Berlin, Sept. 7. An official
bulletin just iBsaed says 13 new ca
ses of cholera aud to deaths were
raported duriDg the 24 hoars end
ing at noon yesterday, making the
total 90 cases and 25 death.
The infected area was sensibly
wideued yesterday. Tbo river Oder
has become tainted. Three cases
have been roported from the ad
ministrative district of Fraukfort-on-the
Oder, in three small pla
ce along the stream, among riv
ermeu. Thirty boatmen have
bnen quarantined at Kustriu, a
railway town near the union of
the Oder and the Wortne. Siiarp
sanitary precautious hava been
taken throughout the district.
A case of cholera, the third up'
tc -date, 'was foaud today in the
heart of the business and hotel
districts here. The new case is
that of a Polish woman, the wife
of a coachman living in a thickly
populated alley. She was taken
to the isolation hospital. The
house in which the woman was
fonnd and several adjacent, houses
have been quarantined with all
their occupants.
The authorities trace the latest
case of cholera to the same course
as the other two. When the Rne
sian emigrants came to Hamburg
they were permittsd to enter the
town, where they visited a dance
hall. Here the women evidently
came into contact with them.-
Ex. , .
,McKinIey's Favorite Hymn.
Eliza and Sarah Flower were
gifted English sisters whose earthly
lives began and ended between the
opening and the cloBe of the first
half of the last century; and yet
in that brief period both left their
impress on their generation ; and
the younger, Sarah, achieved un
dying fame by composing the beau
tiful hymn, "Nearer, My God, to
Thee." It waB suggested by the
story of Jacob's vision at Bethel,
as found in Genesis xxviii: 16-22.
The hymn was first published in
1S41, and although it met with
some favor, it was not until 1860
that Dr. Lowell Mason's beautiful
and sympathetic music "quick
ened it into glorious life" and
gave it a permanent abiding place
in the hearts of the people.
This hymn gained immense ad -ditional
popularity through the
tragic death of President William
His last intelligible
words were: "Nearer, My God,
to Thee, e'en though it be a cross,
has been my consrant prayer."
His prayer was answered. It was
a cross one of the greatest that
could come to him and to the be
loved nation which he had served
so faithfully that led him tbrougi
a martyr's suffering and death . j
claim a martyr's reward. Mem -rial
services were held in innumer
able churches in our own and other
countries, the most interesting of
: the latter being in Westminister
abbey, by order of the King. Here,
a elsewhere, the greatest interest
centered about the singing of the
rymn which was id the heart and
on the lipaof our heroic President
as he weut to meet his God. Th
Daliniator for September.
To Build New Navy.
St. Petersburg, Sept. '7. Taere
i9 a report that the sum of 500,
000,000 roubles has been set aside
for the construction of a navy.
The municipality lias decided to
offer Witte the freedom of the
city od his return as a mark of
honor foi the successful negotia
tions of the peace treaty. The Czar
has approved the plan.' Arrange
ments have been made to celebrate
the singing of the treaty by hold
ing a great religious service this
morning at Peterhof. The Czar
with his entire imperial family
will attend.
Residents of Zion City are pre
testing against old Dr. Dowie'i
order that each family matt bring
a baby to the .baptism each year.
Batter not anger .the old man, or
be may change tiis mind and order
tlcj-.:i'., ;
Mr. Younghusband and His Baby.
One of the funniest things in the
world" is to see a young married
man holding a very young baby
his baby when he doesn't know
how. Jiist watch one in a sireet
car some dBy. In the first place,
he never gets squared inio the seat
properly, for he has an idea that
if he sits comfortably himself it
won't be right for the baby. Then
he holds his arms as if they were a
pair of pokers. One usually gets
under the'toaby's neck somewhere
so the head falls back and the
mouth flies open. And the other?
Well, that sort of grabs on to
the dress somewhere about the
waist line. This gives the infant's
legs a chance to go off on a couple
of excursions in opposite direc
tions, but what difference does
that make? A young baby that
isn't troubled with indigestion can
sleep anywhere even on it's fath
er's lap. In fact, almost nothing
can wake it up not even the ter
rified, helpless expression on the
face of its youthful ancestor.
Detroit Free Press.
Tbe Secret of Succeif.
Forty million bottles of August Flower
sold in tbe ITnited States alone since its
introduction! And the demand for it is
still growing. Isn't that a fine showing
of success?1 Don't it prove that August
Flower has had unfailing success in the
cure of indigestion and dyspepsia the
two greatest enemies 01 neaJtn and Hap
piness? Does it not afford the best evi
dence that August Flower is a sure spe
cific for all stomache and intestinal dis
orders? that it has proved itself the best
of all liver regulators? August Flower
has a matchless record of oyer thirty-five
years in curing the ailing millions of these
distressing complaints a success that is
becoming wider iu its scope every day, at
home and abroad, as the fame of August
Flower spreads. Trial bottles, 25c; reg-
nlar size, 75c. For sale by Dr. J. D. Mc
Millan.
Mr. and Mrs. Newton Arrow
wood, of the Rems Creek section
of Buncombe county, were in
Asheville last week for the pur
pose of having their children's
pictures taken. Mr. and Mrs Ar
rowwood are tbe proud possessors
of five hopefuls) and they claim
the distinction of being tbe only
couple in that section of the State
having triplets and twins. The
family attracted no little atten
tion and interest in the city. The
triplets are a little more than
three years old ; all three exactly
the same size weight and height
and dressed similarly. They are
sturdy youngsters with bright and
intelligent faces. They manifested
a keen interest in all which they
saw and heard. The little ones
the twins are also strong and
healthy and bid fair in the days to
come to add credit and strength to
the "State of Buncombe." It is
Baid that one of the photos bear
ing the smiling faces of the trip
lets and twins is to be sent to
President Roosevelt to demon
strate to the chief executive that
there is no such thins as "race
suicidtf" in this neck o' woods. X.
Worse Since Fever Started.
Vicksburg, Miss., September 5.
With six new cases of yellow
fnver to 6 p. m., today's record
was tbe worst since the disease
made its appearance here. Of the
new cases five are white, one of
them a prominent lawyer. They
are widely scattered, almost every
seccion of the city apparently be
ing infected. So far there have
been no deaths and no one is seri
ously ill.
Reports from Tallulah, Madison
parish, Louisiana, eighteen wiles
west cf this city, report a serious
state of affairs, where eighteen
or twenty cases of yellow fever
have appeared within the past few
days. A. T. Lane, secretary of
the fifth Louisiana district levee
board died today and several oth
ers are critically ill. A week ago
Dr. Kress gave the town a clean
bill of health, but the fever re
appeared last Saturday.
There is a suspicion that the
Czar has used the American Sen
ate as a model for bis popular as
sembly. Tbe announcement that Venez
uela is buyiufi gaus is little less
exciting than would be the at -Douooement
that the is paying fot
them. ;
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