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MY MOTHER'S OLD BIBLE.
Years Have Passed, But It Stands
There on Its Shelf, Eloquent as
Ever, Witness of a Beautiful '
Life That is Finished.
On one nf the shelves of my
library, surrounded by volumes of j
all kinds, on various subjects and I
in various languages, siands an !
old book, in its plain covering of
brown paper, unprepossessing to
the eye, and apparently out of
place among the more pretentious
volumes that stand by its side. To
the eye of the stranger it certainly
has neither beauty nor comeliness.
Its covers are worn, its leaves
marred by long use; it pages once
while, have come yellow with age;
yet worn and old as it is, to me it
is the most beautiful and the most
valuable book on my shelves. No
other awakens such associations,
or so appeals to all that is best and
noblest within me. It is, or rather
was, my mother's bible compan
ion of her best and holiest hours,
source of her unspeakable joy and
consolation. It was the light to
her feet and light to her path. It
was constantly by her side and, as
her steps tottered in the advance
pilgrimage of life, and her eyes
grew dim with age, more and
more precious to her became the
well worn pages.
One morning, just as the stars
were fading into the dawn of the
coming Sabbath, the aged pilgrim
passed on beyond the stars, and
beyond the morning, and entered
into the rest of the eternal Sabbath
to look upon the face of Him
whom the law and the prophets
had spoken, and whom, not having
seen, she had loved. And now,
no legacy is, to me, more precious
than that old Bible. Years have
passed; but it stands there on its
shelf, eloquent as ever, witness of
a beautiful life that is finished.
When sometimes, from the cares
and conflicts of external life, I come
back to the study, weary of the
world and tired of humanity, so
hard and selfish and a world that
is so unfeeling and the strings of
the soul have become untuned and
discordant, I seem to hear that
book saying, as with the well re
membered tones of a voice long
silent, "let not your heart be trou
bled, what is your life? It is even
as vapor." Then my troubled
spirit becomes calm; and the little
world that has become so great,
and so formidable, sinks into its
place again, I am peaceful, 1 am
strong.
There is no need to take down
the volume from the shelf, or to
open it. A glance of the eye is
sufficient. Memory and the law
of association supply the rest. Yet
there are occasions when it is oth
erwise; hours in life when some
deep grief has troubled the heart;
some darker, heavier cloud is over
the spirit and over the dwelling,
and when it is a comfort to take
down that old Bible and search its
pages. Ihen, tor a time, tne
latest editions, the original lan
guages, the notes and commenta
ries, and all the critical apparatus
which the scholar gathers around
him for the study of the scriptures
are laid aside; and the plain old
English Bible that was my moth
er's, is taken from the shelf. Bless
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Some men are dumb because
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THE HOMELESS.
As the homeless long for home, I am weary for the sight of it,
The swerve of it, the curve of it, the shadow dappled white of it;
The moonlight, the moonlight, the pink-dust fragrance dim;
The ring of frost-touched highway,
The hush of leaf-sirewn byway,
And the patteran that beckens to the far horizon's rim.
As the homeless long for home, I am heartsick at the call of it,
The dure of it, the lure of it, the thorny miles and all of it;
The star gleam, the far gleam of beechland-kindled fire;
The dim hills distant lifting
The gray mists shadow-drifting,
And the calm of pine-breathed uplands on the ache of old desire.
As the homeless long for home, 1 am hungered for the touch of it,
The length of it, the strength of it, the steel and velvet clutch of it;
The known ways, the lone ways, from clustered towns apart;
The scent of rain-sweet heather,
The cloud-white wander-weather,
And the hawk-free, gypsy will of it, to fill a vagrant heart !
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clear eye and the straight tongue, the
man who never equivocated, who never
fawned nor flattered and who could never
be taught to lie. Amid the unstable crowd
such a man is conspicuous by his un
swerving loyalty to his ideals, and this
steadiness to his onward course resembles
that of the planets. Such a man some
times fails in finesse, he sometimes fails
to hold his friends, and he sometimes
gains a crown of thorns and possibly a
cross, but the crown cannot dishonor and
the cross cannot terrify him. When God
made man he put iron into him, and this
man but reveals to others what God
meant men to be. It is true that man is
fallen! it is not true that he cannot rise.
It is true that man is weak ! it is not
true that he cannot be strong. We rec
ognize heredity; but we recognize also di
vinity. Heredity is mighty, but the grace
of God is stronger still. There is a world
of human weakness round about us, and
weak men and weak women are proving
false to themselves, their friends, their
God; but this is not of necessity. A man
may not be able to avoid disaster, but he
can escape dishonor; he may not be able
to avoid insult and injustice, and perse
cution, but he can manage to retain his
honesty, and if die he can at least die in
peace with God, But to do so he must be
true to himself, his friend and his God.
The price may at times seem great, but
the reward is inestimable. The Christian
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For Infauta aud Children.
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Signature
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ITS NATURE.
"My dog can scent an electrical
disturbance in the air hours before
it comes."
"Then his nose must be some
thing of a storm scenter."
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Attendant (in British Museum)
"This book, sir, was once owned
by Cicero." American Tourist
"Pshaw! that's nothing. Why; in
one of our American museums we
have the lead pencil with which
Nonh used to checkoff the animals
as they came out of the Ark."
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTOR I A
The average man expects a
pound of gratitude in exchange for
an ounce of charity.
MONEY FOR THE CHURCH
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By J, W. JACKSON.
"Fair coming on. or a hospital dona
tion wanted.'"
The r it'll man stood In the middle
of his study, one hand holding hla
eyeglasses, In un attitude of expect
uury, ami the nlher waving the young
clergy-nail to a seat.
"Nothing of the kind today, Mr.
Clunpel," the minister Bald. "I came
to ask you for a new church."
The rich man dropped Into hla re
volving i halr with the suddenness of
a discovery In gravitation.
"You did, did you? Well, I don't
know about that," he suld, quizzically.
"We need a church and a rectory,"
the minister continued, without vis
ible disconflture. "There will be no
trouble about getting a rectory If I
can manage to secure the church build
ing" "Yes, yes; I understand," Mr. Clan
pel broke In, "but I'm afraid I can't
afford you a church. Yet hold on a
minute." be added, as he took up a
letter which he had apparently writ
ten that morning. "See here," he
continued, as he glanced over It;
read this. Here Is a way In which
you might get what you want."
Graham looked over the sheet and
read It the second time. Then he
sat for a little while In a train of
thought which brought a frown to his
forehead.
"Mr. Clanpel, do you remember
Elizabeth T ravers?" the clergyman
asked, suddenly.
The chair came around with a quick
Jerk.
"In Heaven's name, man. How
glibly you use a name. What do you
know about her?"
"I know all about her" Graham de
clared, as he rose from the chair and
laid the letter on the desk.
"Sit down, man; sit down, and tell
me, Clanpel begged. "There a no
hurry about your going, Is there?"
"I should make a call," Graham
said, consulting his watch. "If I
could write a note and send by mes
senger ?"
"Oh, surely, yes. Sit down here.
I will have a man drive over with It."
Mr. Clanpel Indicated paper and en
velopes. Then he touched a button
and gave orders for the carriage.
The minister wrote a few lines rap-
Idly on a plain sheet of paper.
The sealed letter bore no address
and Graham handed it to the servant
with directions for delivery and a re
quest to wait for an answer.
"How came you to know Mrs. Miss
Travers?" Clanpel asked.
"I am engaged to marry her niece,
Graham explained.
"isIs she well?" Clanpel asked,
struggling to open the conversation
"Quite well."
"Her marriage waa It accounted a
success ?"
"Hardly," Graham answered, with a
flavor of Irony, "Inasmuch as she
never married."
"Do you mean to tell me," he asked,
In a slow voice, "that I have deceived
myself all thlB time?"
Graham nodded affirmatively.
"Mun alive," Clanpel continued,
with a high note In bis voice; "I've
had murder In my heart for years.
And now you tell me that I have
harbored thia hate without reason.
Tell me more."
"There Isn't much to tell. Ten
years ago you thoughtonly thought
Captain Thomas had won out"
"Yes the furies take him!" ejacu
lated the older man.
"Ho la dead," Graham aald, with
something of solemnity. "He died a
week after his arrival In London,
where he had hoped to marry her.
She came back here In the course of
time. Five years later she lost her
father and almost all means of sup
port. Since then she has been strug
gling against adverse etrcumatancei."
"And I with more than I can use,"
Clanpel murmured.
Clanpel hardly gave a glance In
the direction of the door when the
servant came In with the answer to
Graham's note.
"Mr. Clanpel," Graham asked, after
reading the answer, "do you still
hold to your agreement tn regard to
the letter you showed me?"
"Yes." was the absent reply.
"The lotter Instructs your agent,"
Graham continued, "to secure the
Mercer farm at the lowest possible
figure, with thirty thousand dollars as
the limit."
"That Is the Idea. Whatever he
saves out of the thirty thousand you
shali have for the church," Mr. Clan
pel assured htm.
"Very well," Graham replied. "I
have written to the owner and this
reply glveB me authority to fix the
price. There Is a mortgage on the
place; the owner must have as much
as possible. I ask thirty thousand
dollars. Read the letter."
.Mr. Clanpel glanced at the written
pane.
"Signed 'Elliabeth Travere'!" he j
said, in amazement.
"I'll go and buy the farm In per- I
son," Clanpel Bald, impetuously, j
Turning to Graham, he added: "My ;
loy, I hardly know how to yea, I
dot"
IIu put on Ms tat, took up a p-n
and rapidly wrote hli signature.
Then, blotting It nervously he thrust
It Into his pocket.
"She shall All it out," he said aoftly.
"Ten per cent. Is your fee."
Graham deposited the next day, In
the name of the church, a check for
ten thousand do'lars.
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More of Them.
"Do you know anything as bad as a
sick family?"
"Hardly, unless It la a fac simile."
'TWAS EVER THUS.
"My son has become acquainted
early with woman's perfidy."
"How now?"
"A little schoolmate persuaded
him to lick her slate for her, and
then declined to kiss mm on ac
count of possible germs."
A GIANT OF THE FOREST.
The Tree Was a Hundred Feet
In Height and Eleven Feet One 1
Inch in Diameter at the Base. I
A special to the Greensboro '
News from Kinston gives the fol
lowing account of a giant of the
forest recently felled near thut '
place:
"After towering many feci above
its neighbors in dismal Tuckahoe i
swamp, near hear, for nearly !
1,000 years it is estimated, what!
is believed to be the biggest nee in
Iiastern Carolina of the speeies, a I
giant cypress, has been removed j
through the enterprise of a local j
lumber manufacturing concern. A !
section of this patriarch of ihe
primeval foresis was placed
on the lawn ai the county court
house here, wiih a copper plate
nailed on it bearing the inscription: !
"This cypress stump stood lor
976 years in Tuckahoe swamp,
Lenoir County." It had register
ed a ring about its heurt yearly
throughout four and a half cemu- j
ries before the coming of Colum- j
bus, and gnarled and many-limbed
would doubtless have seen centu
ries longer of life had not the de
spoiling lumberman come. The
tree was a hundred feet in height
and eleven feet one inch in diame
ter at the base. A cutting from its
largest part wassent to State Muse
um at Raleigh, and that at the court
house, cut twenty feet from the
bottom, is five feet one inch in di
ameter. The transportation of the
big slick from the swamp to the
mills here was a tedious under
taking, and was accomplished at
much expense. From one sixteen
foot cut was secured 3,900 feet of
lumber, and the entire tree will
yield about 16,000 feet of lumber
or 80,000 shingles. It required
three men ai the mills a day and a
half to make two cuts of the mon
ster for the thin sections placed on
exhibition in Kinston and Raleigh.
The iree was the largest ol a num
ber of tine cypress located in Tuck
ahoe smanip."
HIS WEAK POINT.
A quaint story is told to exem
plify the pride that every man
should take in the work by which
he makes a living
Two street sweepers, sealed on
a curbstune, were discussing a
comrade who had died the day be
fore. "Bill certainly was a good sweep
er," said one.
"Y-e-s," conceded the other,
thoughtfully. "But don't you
think he was a little weak around
the lamp-posts?" Youth's Com
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A Nervous Woman Find
Relief From Suffering.
Women who surfer from extreme
nervousness, often endure much
suffering before finding any relief.
Mrs. Joseph Snyder, of Tiffin, O.,
had such an experience, regarding
which she says:
"Six months 1
was bodfut with
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ing spells, a cold,
clammy fealtnc -could
not stand
the slightest
noise. At times
would almost
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mtummtf v.-,, in.inii.il on
my taklntr Dr.
Miles' Nervine, and I bc-fun to Imiirovs
Man I hud ttnlshid the first tmtlls
until I enllrely cured "
WHH. JOHl'.I'H HNYDKIt,
Ml Hudson ft . Tlffln. Ul.lo.
Many remedies are recommended
for diieases o( the nervous system
that fail to produce results because
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pioven its value in such cases so
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prove its merits for yourself by
getting a bottle of your druggist,
who will return the price if you
receive no benefit. a
MILES MEOICAU CO., Klkhart, Inst,
sept 4 1 y
Administrator's Notice
The undersigned having qualified as
administrator of the estate of Diamond
Hawkins, deceased this is to notify all
persons having ch n t against said es
tate to present th m to the undersigned
at his office in Vn don, N. C, itliin
one year from the date hereof, or thhj
notice will be plead in the bar of their
recovery. ,i
All persona indebted to said estate
will please make immediate payment
This the 30th dav of October, 1918.
C. P. ANTHONY,
Adtnr. of estate of Diamond Hakiii3,
deceased, 'U-3iMjt