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PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N, C, MAY 3,' 1911.
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CHAS. B. AYGOGK
IN THE RUNNING
FORMER GOVERNOR TALKS OF
RACE FOR THE UNITED
STATES SENATE.
SAYS"PEOPLEMUSTRUNME
Simmons Stands For Reelection
Chief Justice Clark a Receptive
Candidate Gov. W. W. Kitchin Has
His Eye on the Main Chance.
Raleigh. "If I am to be a candi
date for the United States senate the
people must run me," is the way
Chas. B. Aycock expressed himself
in conversation with a close friend.
The former governor is known to
he averse to a long-drawn-out and
strenuous campaign. He don't mind
the strenuousity, it is said, but he
don't want such a long siege of it, as
would be the case should he come
out at this time with the primary to
be held way next summer or fall.
That Senator Simmons is standing
for re-election is officially known,
und that Governor Kitchin is in the
race against him is settled to the
extent that he has so stated to num
erous friends, with his definite pub
lic announcement only awaiting what
ever he may consider the most op
portune moment to take the whole
people into his confidence. Then
there is the possibility of some others
getting into the race.
Along with other senatorial talk
there come persistent expressions
from the "politically-wise," that Chief
Justice Clark not only proposes to
etand for the senatorship, but that he
is now busy with the "mending of
lis fences," indeed, that he is ac
tually running for the senate so far
is steady work among the people as
he can reach them in a quiet way
fs concerned.
Many believe that whether former
Governor Aycock gets in the race or
not Judge Clark will be in the run
Qing. Thus far he has not expressed
himself in such way as would bring
about the newspaper presentation of
his real attitude.
TO AID FARM LIFE SCHOOLS
United -.States Senator- Overman
Has Introduced a Bill With
This Object in View.
Towns Exempted From Window Law.
The corporation commission is just
aow ordering a number of exemptions
of towns with around 2,000 inhabi
tants from the operation of the sta
tute by the recent legislature repir
fng two ticket windows and agents to
facilitate mileage ticket service as a
relief for traveling men. The exemp
tions are being made with the right
reserved to order in the two windows
any time the conditions may be deem
ed to require it. These exemptions
are on representations of conditions
made by railroad companies, backed
up in most instances by petitions of
citizens. A complete list of towns
exempted on all railroads will be
made public as sooon as the commis
sion completes the consideration of
the petitions pending. The law is to
be operative May 15.
Grand Lodge I. O. O. F. Meet May 9.
Odd Fellows throughout the state
are getting their matters shaped for
the meeting of the Grand Lodge of
Odd Fellows, which is to be held at
AVinston-Salem May 9 and 10.
The grand lodge officers are Frank
D. Hackett of North Wilkesboro,
grand master; Walter H. Overton, of
Durham, deputy grand master;
Charles Dewey, of Goldsboro, grand
warden; B. H. "Wooden, of Raleigh,
grand secretary; R. J- Jones', of Wil
mington, grand treasurer; Perrin Bus
bee, of Raleigh, and P. H. Williams,
of Elizabeth City, grand representatives.
Marked the Site of Bloomsbury.
A large company of people partic
ipated in ceremonies for the un
veiling of a tablet marking the site
of the old revolutionary town of
Bloomsbury, which is now well with
in the corporate limits cf Raleigh.
The tablet is an appropriately mount
ed boulder of native stone, bearing
a bronze plate for the inscription.
Campaign For Farm Life Schools.
The proposal for a farm-life school
will be voted upon in Robeson coun
ty on Tuesday, May 9. As is known,
the state, offers to contribute $2,500
a year for this purpose on condition
that the county furnishes $25,000
for plant and equipment and pledges
an annual $2,500 to supplement the
state appropriation. The plan has
the support of many agriculturists
and a general campaign is on to se
cure its adoption by at least 10 coun
ties, as many as can be taken care
of this year.
Mexican Veteran Active at 85.
Capt. Orin R. Smith, of Henderson,
who, despite his eighty-five years, is
active business. .
Capt. Smith served in the Mexican
War with General Zachary Taylor,
and was the designer of the flag of
the Confederate states, this on March
18, 1861, in Louisburg. Capt. Smith
says that the country does not want
another Mexican War, or any other
kind of a war. What is needed on
the Mexican frontier, he says, is a
neutral zone, three miles or more
wide, along the entire border.
Raleigh With the object of en
couraging and promoting "farmelife
schools" in the various States, Sen
ator Overman introduced in the sen
ate a bill making available for all
such institutions the sum of $25,000
annually. The bill provides that the
money is to be taken from the sale
of public lands. Each year the sum
is to be increased $1,000 for a term
of 10 years, and thereafter the an
nual sum to be paid each state is
to remain at the stated sum of $25,
000. It is stipulated in the bill that the
appropriation is to be applied only to
instruction in agriculture, the English
language and various branches of
mathematical, physical, natural and
economic science, with special refer
ence to their application An farm life.
Each state under the terms of the
bill will be required to duplicate the
Federal appropriation.
North Carolinians' Good Jobs.
The first North Carolina Democrat
to get patronage from a member of
the present congress was Mr. Edwin
D. Stimpson, who went to Washing
ton during the Cleveland days, and
Isaac Henry Horton, a grandson of
George P. Horton, of Union county.
The former will be a folder in the
house folding room and the latter, a
page. Representative Page will di
vide his $1,500 between them. Both
of them need the positions.
On Right of Married Women.
An opinion by sprieme court. Mrs.
Rook, a married woman living in
Maryland, entered into a contract and
endorsed certain notes. The bank
had a writ of attachment and a levy
made on some property owned by her
in Wadesboro. The trial judge held
that the property of the defendant,
Mrs. Rook, was not subject to at
tachment and dismissed the suit.
Held, that there being uncontradict
ed affidavits in the record that the
notes sued on were endorsed and de
livered in the state of Maryland and
that in said state a married woman
has full capacity to bind herself by
contract, the said notes were a Mary
land contract and must be so con
strued and dealt with till the con
trary is made to appear. It was
error to discharge the attachment
and dismiss the suit.
RARE SPECIMEN OF FISH
Electrically Charged Torpedo Fish
Sent to State Museum.
State Curator H. H. Brimley has
received from Pea Island, off the
cpast of Dare county, a fine specimen
of torpedo fish rarely found with any
rotable size in North Carolina waters,
or rather, it is the only specimen
the state museum has of such a fish
from Carolina waters, although they
are found at rare intervals pretty
much along the whole Atlantic coast.
This one is three feet long and
weighs 25 pounds. When alive its
natural electric battery was of suf
ficient force to knock a man down.
It will be mounted for the museum.
Curator H. H. Brimley and Assistant
Curator T. W. Addick are on a trip
into the coastal section of the state
on a search for specimens for the
museum. They are looking especial
ly for material with which to com
plete special cases of coastal birds,
reptiles, groups of marsh birds and
others arranged in their natural en
vironment as nearly as can be pro
duced in immense museum cases.
Third Squad of Officers to Front,
Another group of four officers of
the North Carolina National guard
has been designated by Adjutant
General R. L. Leinster for the much-sought-after
assignment to camp at
San Antonio, Tex., for camp and
maneuver training with the regular
army keeping guard on the Mexican
border pending the Mexican insurrec
tion. This is the third group to go
and they are to report at San An
tonio May 8.
The officers assigned are Captain C.
Li. Freeman, Third Infantry, Burling
ton;? Captain A. L. Bullwinkle, First
Infantry, Gastonia; Captain J. M.
Pearce, quartermaster, Second Infan
try, Wilson; Lieutenant Colonel A.
H. Taylor, medical corps, Washing
ton, N. C.
Double Track to Atlanta, Ga.
It is understood that the Southern
Railway company 's negotiating to
lay double track from Charlotte to
Atlanta, Ga., at an early date, work
probably commencing . in the sum
mer. . "
Raleigh Man With Southern Power Co.,
Mr. Thome 'Clark, son of Chief Jus
tice Walter Clark, has gone to Green
ville, S. C, to accept a position with
the Southern Power company, now
running an interurban lino from
Greenville to Charlotte.
Assistant Surgeon Norfolk-Southern.
Dr. Hubert A. Rbyster has been ap
pointed assistant surgeon of the Nor
folk Southern Railway compahy. The
head surgeon of the system Is Dr.
A. W. Knox, of Raleigh.
Assistant Agronomist Appointed.
Mr. E. Bayley, a graduate of the
University of North Carolina, who
has devoted special attention to bo
tanical studies, has been appointed
assistant agromist in the department
of agriculture. He is a brother-in-law
of state geologist.
BRIEF NEWS HOTES
FOR THE BUSY I
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED
Complete Review of Happenings ' of
Greatest Interest From All
Parts of World.
Southern
That Gen. John H. Morgan, , the
Confederate leader, whose mysteri
ous escape from the Ohio penitentiary
November 27, 1863, together with five
of his staff, has puzzled historians for
almost half a century, walked. out oi
the penitentiary to freedom througn
the front gate, either boldly or aidec
by officials at the institution, is the
belief of the authorities of the pris
on. After forty-eight years of search
ing, the alleged Morgan tunnel was
mcovered by prisoners excavating
for new cell blocks.
Gathered in Washington to discuss
plans for a comprehensive scheme of
advertising to present the boundless
resources of the South to the people
of other sections, were tne represen
tatives of practically all the South
ern railroads and connecting lines.
While the meeting was an executive
one, and no statement was given out
as to the specific details of the meas
ure discussed, it is known that the
plan which received the most atten
tion calls for co-operation by the
Southern business men and industri
al corporations generally, through the
railroads are expected to contribute a
liberal share of the sinews of war.
Representative J. H. Tidwell of
Florida resents any reference to his
"harem skirt" bill as a "freak" meas
ure. The legislator recently introduc
ed in the Florida house a bill prohib
iting the wearing on the streets or in
public places, harem or hobble skirts.
It was referred to the committee on
Indian affairs, which reported favor
ably without amendment. The editor
of a Florida paper, commenting on
the Tidwell measure, called it a
"freak." The author of the bill re
sents the term.
With welcoming speeches by Gov.
Joseph. M. Brown and Mayor Court
land S. Winn, the third annual con
ference on woman and child labor
held for a two-days' convention in
Atlanta. Hon. Malcolm Patterson,
ex-governor of Tennessee, who is the
president of the conference, presided
at the meetings, and responded for
the visitors to the addresses cf the
governor and the mayor. Features oi
the convention were stereopticon lec
tures by A. J. McKelway, the well
known secretary of the national child
labor commission. Mr. McKelway
showed pictures of factory conditions
in the South, which he thinks should
be remedied.
Delegates representing 4,717 mem
bers of the Independent Order ol
B'Nai B'Rith in the South held the
first business session of the twenty
eighth annual convention of the or
der in Little Rock. Officers elected
include the following: President, Leo
Pfeifler, Little Rock; first vice presi
dent, Leon Schwarz, Mobile; second
vice president, Ephraim Frisch, Pine
Bluff, Ark.; secretary, Nathan Strauss
New Orleans.
ueneral.
The first book ever printed from
movable type brought the highest
price ever paid for any book. The
prize was the Guttenberg Bible, the
purchaser Henry E. Huntington ot
Los Angeles, and the price $50,000.
The purchase was made at the sale
in New York of the library of the
late Robert Hoe, the largest public
auction sale of books ever attempted.
Argument on the petition of coun
sel for Dr. B. Clark Hyde for a vrrit
of habeas corpus to obtain Hyde's lib
erty on bail was begun before Judge
Stover in Kansas City circuit court.
He recently was granted a retrial by
the state supreme court on the charge
of killing Col. Thomas Swope, the mil
lionaire philanthropist. It was the
first time- he had been out of jaU
since his trial.
John J. McNamara, secretary of the
International Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers' Association; his broth
er, James N. McNamara, and Ortie E.
McManigal, the alleged dynamite con
spirators, accused of blowing up The
Los Angeles Times newspaper plant,
last October, killing .21 men, are in
the Los Angeles jail, in separate cells,,
surrounded by extraguards. All three
are charged with murder.
Twenty-four miners are reported to
have been killed in a gas or dust ex
plosion in Ott mine number twenty
of the Davis Coal and Coke company,
about a mile from Elk Garden, W,
Va. .
Gov. Woodrow Wilson is to . swing
around the circle and light the bon
fires for his 1912 boom for president.
. The situation in Morocco, which is
still serious,- is more hopeful. The
French government received advices
that quiet prevailed at Fez April 15
the rebels apparently having been
subdued by their defeat by Captain
Bremond's column April 12.
An armistice of five days affecting
the district between Juarez and Chi
huahua, was made in an exchange of
letters signed by General Madero for
the rebels and General Navarro for
the government. ,
adopted now or never, and must stand:
or fall by its own terms. So declared
President Taftln an address in New
York City at the fourth annual joint
banquet of the Associated Press and
the American Newspaper Publishers'
Association. His address was the first
of a series in which he plans to
evoke public sentiment in support ot
ihs policies, and he appealed' to the
company of editors and newspapers
owners gathered from all parts of the
land to impress on the public mind
that reciprocity should stand .alone
and "ought not . to be affected in any
regard by other amendments to the
tariff law.' . His recommendations
were warmly .cheered.
The Dutch have taken possession
of Palmas islands, 60, miles .southeast
of Mindanao, Philippine Islands, low
ered the United States - colors and
substituted the flag of Holland. It
is understood that Washington does
net intend to protest against the ac
tion of the Dutch,' the Unite, States
government regarding the island as
valueless.
Edward Tilden, Chicago packer,
and William C. Cummings and George
M. Benedict, president of the Drovers'
Trust and Savings bank of Chicago,
were arrested on a contempt charge
by the Illinois senate. This action
by the senate was taken on recom
mendation of the senate bribery in
vestigaticn committee after Tilden,
Cummings and Benedict, through their
lawyers, had refused to produce Til
den's personal bank account for the
months of May, June, July and Au
gust, 1909.
Following an attack on an Ameri
can woman by Mexican students, tne
wives and families of Americans are
being hurried from Mexico City and
adjacent places in the republic, ac
cording to a statement made by Mrs.
W. H. Southgate, who arrived in Fort.
Worth, Texas. Mrs. Southgate- said
the attack was against Mrs. Tillman,
society editor of an American paper.
Mrs. Tillman, Mrs. Southgate says, is
a Southern woman and has been out
spoken in regard to the Mexican situ
ation, v
Figures which throw light on what
matrons of various nationalities are
doing in the way of increasing the
population of the city of New York I
have just been issued by the health
department. In the - Jewish district
the birth rate is the highest, averag
ing 55 per 1,000 of the population. In
typically Italian sections the rate is
50.3. In the negro districts the birth
rate averages 26.6. But in the high
class native American private resi
dence districts the rate is less than
7 per 1,000.
Washington.
The Houston bill, which passed the
house, leaves to the legislatures of
the different states the power to re
arrange the congressional districts in
their respective states on the new
population basis of one member for
each 211,S77 of inhabitants.
Americans are doing more for the
children of Guam and the Philippine
Islands than for those in the South
ern mountain districts of this country
declared Miss Martha S. Gielow of
Washington at the International Con
gress on Child Welfare here. She
said children in the Southern moun
tains were often compelled to walk
seven miles to school. More than
fcur million American children, she
said, were being brought up without
educational facilities of any sort.
After declaration that annexation is
the desired end of the Democrats in
pushing reciprocity and a speech by
a new member, revealing rumors of
a tariff fight in congress featured the
debate on the free list bill. Mr. Prince
ol Illinois (Rep.) sounded the annexa
tion note. President Taffs speech in
New York furnished his .text. He
said the pouring of Americans into
the Canadian northwest and the at
titude of the Democratic party could
mean nothing else than annexation.
Attorney General Wickersham will
appeal to the Supreme court to sus
tain the so-called "corner counts", in
the government's indictments of Su
gene C. Scales, James A. Patten, Wil
liam P. Brown, Frank B. Hayne and
Robert M. Thompson, charged with
leading the May cotton corner of 1910
on the New York cotton exchange.
Judge Noyes, in the "United States
circuit court for the southern district
of New York, sustained all of the
counts of the indictment except those
charging a corner to fix the price of
raw cotton. He condemned the prac
tice unreservedly, but held it did not
come within the jurisdiction of the
law upon which the indictments were
based . Attorney General Wicker
sham's appeal is from that part of
the decision.
Speaker Clark does not agree with
Senator Root that congress is likely
to adjourn by June 1. At the white
house where he said he had talked
"neighborhood gossip" with Mr. Taft,
Mr. Clark declared that nobody in the
world knew how long congress would
be here. "I know as' much about it
as Senator Root, and he knows as
much about it as I . do," said Mr.
Clark. "I have attended two special
sessions of congress called to revise
the tariff which lasted " into August.
There you are." . .. -
Under the reapportionment bill,
which for the second time passed the
house of representatives; the size of
that body, is increased to 433 mem
bers, giving Georgia one . additional
member. The measure goes to the
senate to try its fate there. At the
last session the " senate failed to ap
prove the increase, in' the size of the
lewer branch of- congress. What it
will do this time is somewhat prob
lematical, but the strong , hope is en
tertained that the - senate will permit
the house membership to have its
way in this regard. " .
DEATH DEMON
RIDES THE RAILS
rEACHERS EXCURSION TRAIN
. DASHES INTO DITCH.
LOSS OF LIFE.
IGHT BURNED TO DEATH
Rails Spread While. Special Wat
Making Fifty Miles an Hour Gas
Tank Explodes Beneath Dining Car
Scores Bruised and Injured.
Easton, Pa.-So far as it is possible
to ascertain, here and at the scene of
the wreck, eight persons were burned
to death, three fatally injured, two
others so seriously injured that lives
are despaired of, . and scores of per
sons were cut and burned and bruis
ed, some of them dangerously, in the
wreck of the teachers' special from
Utica, N. Y., to Washington, D. C, on
the Belvidere-Delaware division of
the Pennsylvania railroad at Martin's
Creek, N. J. Five of the victims are
young women.
It is the general belief that the
rails spread and caused the train to
leave the track and plunge over the
embankment to destruction carrying
its load of humanity. Trackmen had
been at work at the point of the dis
aster and it is alleged that the tracks
were jacked up, that no signal was
out and that the engineer believing
he had '. a clear track rushed into
what proved to be a death trap at
the rate of 50 miles an hour.
The explosion that occurerd at the
wreck was due to the ignition of gas
in a tank under the dining car, the
only ' car which did not go into the
ditch.
FLAMES DESTROY $5,000,000
Bangor, Maine, in Distress Martial
Law Prevails in Stricken City. -
Bangor, Me. Property valued at
upwards of $6,000,000 was destroyed,
hundreds of people made homeless
and almost the entire business sec
tion of the city devastated by fire
which started in a hay shed. A light
rain fell which helped to check the
fire. One life is known to have been
lost, an unknown man who was killed
by a falling wall.
Mayor Mullen called out the local
company of the national guard and
placed the city under' martial rule.
Portland, Lewiston, Augusta, Old
town, Brewer and every other place
within reach were asked for help and
sent it.
A score of buildings were blown up
in an effort to check the flames and
dynamite was used continuously.
Efforts For World-Wide Peace.
Baltimore. The third national
peace congress assembled here for
four days session under circumstan
ces of unusual interest, with arbitra
tion treaties and the peace movement
attracting the attention of nations
and the public on both sides of the
Atlantic and encouraging the advo
cates of peace in the belief that a
realization of their hopes is not. far
distant. The gathering here is under
the auspices of all the leading, socie
ties of America devoted to the set
tlement of international disputes by
means other than war.
President Taft's speech will cause
greater efforts to be made toward set
tling all disputes by arbitration.
Ugly Revolution in Canton, China.1
Hong Kong. All advices reaching
here from Canton indicate a desper
ate condition of affairs in that city.
There are 30,000 soldiers within the
walls and - there is great fear that
many of these will prove disloyal if it
appears that the rebels are about to
gain the upper hand. ,'
The rebels are strong in numbers
and have carried on their, work of
destruction with fanatical bravery.
There has been a gathering at Can
ton lately of those opposed to the
Manchu dynasty, ;
The American gunboat Wilmington
Is now at Shamien, the foreign concession.
Not Taking Sides Los Angeles Case.
Washington. Denying that he had
ever discussed the contentions of
union men that the wrecking of The
Los Angeles Times office by dynamite
could not have resulted in the com
bustion of inks and oils which follow
ed, Dr. J. A. Holmes, director of the
United States bureau of mines, stated
that he did not propose to align him
self with either one side of the other
in the big legal controversy between
labor and capital, which has grown
out of the arrest of John and James
B. McNamara.
Senate Will Not Make Haste.
Washington. Three weeks of the
extraordinary session of the sixty
second congress having passed into
history with a record of rapid-fire leg
islation by the house; the senate is
finally organized to transact business
but in no haste to consider that part
of the Democratic program ''already
disposed of by the lower branch.
Canadian reciprocity is the ; ohly
matter now being considered by" the
senate and that probably will not
come before it for discussion for sev
eral weeks.
THIS MAN KNEW HIS DUTY
Home and Contents Burned Before
Day but Reported for Jury Duty.
Asheville.Robert Nash, of Dicks
Creek, this county, came Into Ashe-
vllle la response to a summons as
Juror for the criminal term of court.
Mash appeared before Judge Webb
ind asked to be exoused. The court
isked why, and then Nash unfolded
i human-interest story. He said that
:hat morning at 3 o'clock his house
was burned; that he and his family,
ncluding his wife and several chil
dren, escaped in their night clothes;
that he had lost every thing he pos
sessed, including all his currency,
amounting to several . hundred dol
lars. He said that he had left his
wife and children in their night
slothes to answer the court's sum
nons as a juror but that he desired
to be excused. The court hesitated
lot an instant. An order was made
;hat Nash be excused for the term.
Sash had no insurance.
Meeting Daughters of Liberty.
Durham. The State Council of the
Daughters of Liberty set High Point
tor next year's place of meeting.' C.
4. Peeler of Faith, Rowan county,
was elected state councilor to suc
2eed Mrs. Lizzie Kluttz of Salisbury.
The Rowan people hold many of the
offices, ex-Natipnal Councilor John
Maxwell having recently retired. He
presented a short time ago the ban
ner ' to the Durham lodges for mak
ing the greatest gain in the United
States for last year. This was the
eighth session.
Sore on the Bond Question.
New York. Edward L. Andrews
of this city, who has been identified
as counsel for various committees of
stockholders, has written a letter to
the New York stock exchange au
thorities protesting against the list
ing of proposed bond issue of the
States of Mississippi and North Car
olina. He charges that Mississippi
has sold several hundred thousand
dollars' worth of the issue in ques
tion, but declined to pay the first
coupons on the ground that the bonds
were illegally issued or to repay the
money expended..
Because of this alleged default in
the case of Mississippi and of pre
vious alleged defaults in North Car
olina's case, he seeks to oppose the
extension of further credit to them.
Honoring Memory of Statesman.
Wilmington. The splendid bronze
statue erected through the efforts of
the Cape Fear Chapter, Daughters of
the Confederay, in this city to per
petuate the memory of Hon. George
Davis, the revered son of the Cape
Fear section, who was senator from
North Carolina in the Confederate
States congress and later attorney
general of the Confederacy, was un
veiled with appropriate exercises. '
The Triangular High School Debate.
Charlotte. Charlotte broke even in
the triangular debate of the high
schools of Charlotte, Greensboro and
Raleigh, losing the debate here and
winning the . event at Greensboro.
Raleigh won both events in which
she engaged the one here with Char
lotte arI at Raleigh with Greensboro.
The Gate City lost both events, the
one at Greensboro to Charlotte and
that at Raleigh to the Capital City.
The question debated at all three
cities was: "Resolved, That the Fed
eral Government Should Levy a Grad
uated Income Tax on Incomes of Over
$3,000 Barring Constitutional Objec
tions." The home town in each event ar
gued the affirmative, the visitors argu
ing the negative.
Conductor Bell's Assailant Arrested.
Spencer. Joe White, a colored des
perado, who two weeks ago seriously
shot Southern Railway Conductor R
C. Bell of Spencer while on top of his
train near High Point, was arrested
in Greenville, S. C, by Special
Agents G. S. Scarlett and A. F. Atta
way and South Carolina officers
White admits the shooting and also
confessed to shooting Officer . Tucker
of Danville some months ago, and
also to robbing a. hardware store in
Lexington. He is in Salisbury jail.
Mooresville. A strong and vigorous
campaign is now being made through
out Iredell county for the bond issue
of $400,000 as a fund to be used for
building a system of public roads.
Forced toLive in Three Counties.
Hendersonville. While looking up
a deed for Mr. R. W. Pace of Saluda,
an attorney of this town made an in
teresting discovery. Mr. Pace was
born in Buncombe county, reared to
early manhood in Henderson county,
now lives, an old man, in Polk coun
ty, yet lives and alwas has lived in
the same house in which he was born.
The answer is that Bcncombe's terri
tory once comprised all three coun
ties, Henderson first being carved
from its boundaries and later Polk
County.
Queen City's Health Conditions.
Charlotte. The general health of
Charlotte during the past' three
months has been better than it ever
was before. This is the verdict of a
score of the city's leading physicians.
Why such a : splendid condition pre
vails can only be conjectured, but
it is doubtless due to a combination
of causes. The generally improved
sanitary conditions and the more
rigid enforcement of the health liaws
account' for the greater part of this,
but there have been many other con-
tribi'ing agencies.
KING UZZIAH
HUMBLED
SaaJay Sckeel Lmms f r Hay 7, 1911
Specially Amnod for This Paper ij
LESSON TEXT J Chronicles &
ory Verses 19. 20.
GOLDEN TEXT "Pride roeth before
destruction, and an haughty spirit be
fore a fall." Prov. 16:1.
TIME Uzziah's relrn extended (BeecH-
er) from B. C. 806 to B. C. 7; (HuUnp)
B. C. 801 to 74. Uszlah may have become
a leper about B. C. 768, Jotham betas; thf .
regent from that time.
PLACES The Temple In Jerusalem.
KINGS In Israel. Jeroboam XX. Zsu
Assyria, Shalmanexer IIL
PROPHETS Amos. I loses, XsalaX tt
Zecharlab. of our lesson.
On the murder of King; Joask h
was succeeded by his eldest son.;
Amaziah, a - man of piety and force
who slew the murderers of his fxtherj
sparing their sons, and then turned up
on the enemies of his country, the
Edomites south of the Dead Sea, W
had been ravaging southern. Judea,
He hired thousands of mercenaries,
from the Northern Kingdom, to ai&i
him in the war. When a prophet re
buked him for thus Involving himself!
with an Idolatrous nation he dismiss
ed the mercenaries, who, on their way?
home, plundered the cities of JudahJ.
Amaziah went on, however, and wftku
his own troops conquered the Edom
ites In the Valley of Salt southi ot
the Dead Sea, and thoroughly sub
dued the cruel nation.
He brought home with him some C
the Eddmite Idols and worshiped,
them, thus dishonoring Jehovah, who
had so signally .helped him. la favor
of gods who had proved their owe.
powerlessness! A courageous prophet,
rebuked him, but we are told what the
effect was.
In his pride of success, and perhaps,
to avenge the towns which the Israel
itish mercenaries had plundered, he
sent a boastful message to Joash klnc
of Israel, challenging him to fight. Jo
ash promptly accepted the challenge
completely worsted Amaziah, captured;
Jerusalem, and went away with all th
treasure of the Temple and royal pal-
UWV, UUU niUi 1UIU1 UL .AUACAU Ml
hostages. Amaziah continued fo
reign for fifteen years, but his sub
jects never were contented, and at last
they rose in revolt and murdered htm.
The. son of Amaziah, Uzziah, a lad.
of sixteen, was chosen by the people..
He continued his father's conquest of
the ' Edomites by fortifying Eloth. as
important city at the head of the east
ern branch of the Red Sea, thus put
ting Judah in a position to renew the
rich commerce with India which. Solo
mon had established.
Uzziah's was a religious life. He.
did that which was right in the sight,
of the Lord. He followed Amaziah inu
the better part of his life, and not 1.
his idolatry. There Is no better prep
aration for the eyes of the world thaa,
to be conscious ever of God's ejem
upon us.
The period of Uzziah and Jeroboam
was the golden age of Israel. As a.
result of conquest and of commercial
enterprise the accumulation of wealth,
was greater than had ever been,
known before. The rich lived la
palaces of hewn stone and of Ivory;..
While the nobles flourished, the poor
grew constantly poorer. The peasant
proprietors were crowded out, and all
the land came into the hands of a few
great nobles. The free-born Israelite
sank to the position of serfs. Pros
perity has more perils than adversity.,
and pride is one of them. Dressed, ac
cording to Josephus, in priestly attire
and perhaps on the celebration of some
high national feast. Uzziah presumed,
to enter the Holy Place, which It waav
death for any but a priest to enter...
and to offer incense upon the sacred
altar. Uzziah appears to have desired
to become supreme pontiff as well as
king, and to exercise the same dual,
functions as the Egyptian. Pharaoh
were wont to do. He had to disregard,
the direct command of Jehovah that
the priests alone should burn incense
on his altar; he had to despise the his
tory of his people, to defy the holy
name by which he himself was called.
Thus a reign of fifty-two years was
spoiled In an hour.
What terrible punishment came to
loathsome, incurable disease, leprosy.
Thus Miriam had been punished, and
Gehazl. According to josepnus, it was
at this very moment that the famous
earthquake of Uzziah's reign occurred.
For the rest of his life he lived in a.
separate house. It was perhaps some
place in the country to which the king:
confined himself.' We are not told
whether he repented of the sin that
he had committed; but we may per-1
haps assume that he did so.
' The story 'of "Ahaz reinforces that
warning that comes to us from the
story of Uzziah. The pride of Ahax,
was pride of opinion; that of Uzzahn
was pride in accomplishment. Pride
may spring from good looks, fine
clothes, plenty of money, a keen Intel
lect, distinguished social position. A
boy may be vain of his baU-playinjr
and a girl of her white hands. What
ever may be the source of It, pride Lr
always a terrible danger.
Pride is Indeed like a leprosy. It,
makes us hideous to look upon, though
all the while we think we are beauti
ful. It causes our spiritual ooay to
decay and portions of it to drop off. .
though all the while we think we area
increasing. It Isolates us from humam
companionship, though all the while .
we think that others are not good'
enough to associate , with us. , Oh, lets,
us be on our guard against this lep-i
rosy-sin of Uzziah's! And if we 4ub-:
pect that we are harboring pride, letf
us remember that there is One who,
can cure it, and One only. It is
who bade the leper be clean.