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PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, MAY 10, 1911.
NO. 39.
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RAILROAD FIGHTS
THE RATE CASE
NORFOLK & WESTERN GRANTED
ANOTHER POSTPONEMENT OF
COMMISSION'S ORDER.
TAKEN TO COMMERCE COURT
Freight Rate Discrimination Afflicts
North Carolina Virginia Favored
Corporation Commission Hopes to
Force Other Roads to Reduce Rates.
Raleigh. The order of the inter
state commerce commission, several
times postponed, for compelling the
Norfolk & "Western Railroad company
to give a more equitable and lower
rate for freight shipped form Cincin
nati and other points North and West,
including Virginia cities, to Wineton
Salem and Durham, North Carolina,
terminals of the road, gets another
postponement by the interstate com
merce commission, this time to June
15 from May 15. This is the case by
the North Carolina corporation com
mission that is expected" by the com
mission to give effective leverage for
breaking up the discriminations in
freight rates that have for so long af
flicted North Carolina shipping points
compared with Virginia cities.
The interstate commerce commis
sion advises the corporation commis
sion that this postponement is on ac
count of the Norfolk & Western hav
ing appealed from the order of the
commission to the commerce court.
The Carolina commission is advised
that the argument before the com
merce court will take place just as
soon as possible after the court con
venes May 17.
This additional postponement comes
as a distinct disappointment to the
corporation commission, the commis
sioners having believed fully that
the railroad companies had played
their last card and were right up to
the point of having to observe the
order of the interstate commerce
commission. The hope of the com
mission is that this reduced rate.
when in effect, will help along a
movement to force the Southern. At
lantic Coast Line and the Seaboard
Air Line to reduce their rates to
points in North Carolina that are
much higher than to Virginia cities,
in spite of the fact that the freight
is hauled in their case right through
the Carolina towns to reach the
"Virginia gateways."
CONVENTIOiN OF WOODMEN
First Triennial Session Representing
3,000 Members Meet In 1914
at Charlotte.
Raleigh. The first triennial con
vention of the North Carolina Camp
Modern Woodmen of AmpriM was
held here with fifty-odd delegates to
iepresent the 130 local camps and
upwards of 3,000 Woodmen in the
state. Charlotte was selected for the
meeting in 1914. As delegates to the
uenerai Camp at Buffalo, W. M. Tye
of Charlotte and Rev. W. L. Swope
of Louisburg were chosen, with E. L.
Wall of Winston-Salem and -CD.
bhaw of Asheville as alternates. A.
L. Stevenson of Winston -Sfllom Tiro a
vu VM
chosen state consul and Harry Page
nanotte state secretary. There
was presented a silver loving cup to
state deputy W. R. Grant of Ralfiteh
the presentation being made by A.
D. Dula of Lenoir. There were talks
ny O. B. Carpenter of Stanley Creek
urn vv. m. Tye of Charlotte.
NEWS OF THE WEES
IN EPITOMIZED FORM
THE LATEST HAPPENINGS OP IM
PORTANCE TERSELY"
TOLD.
fTENTS THROUGHOUT THE WOSLD
News of Greatest Interest From All
Parts of the World Related
in Paragraphs.
State Officers Roval Arcanum.
ine Koyal Arcanum Grand Council
m session at Hickorv. elected the
ioiiowing officers:
Q. R., h: W. Hancock of nifnH
G. V. R., c. A. Johnson of Raleigh;
u. j ti. B. Craven of Newbern: P.
Q. R., H. E. Bonitz of Wilminetnn:
bee. Dr. J. H. Way of Waynes-
vine; u. Treas., E. L. Harris of Ral
eigh; G. Ge., Noale Burfoot of
Elizabeth City; G. ChaD.. Dr. S. Men.
dolsohn of Washington: O. War . s
m. Hampton of Leaksville: G. Sen..
JCDe Machm of Asheville.
-ZThe following were elected as a
committee on laws: H. E. Bonitz, C.
a. Johnson.
Representatives to the Su nreme
council: First Rep.. H. C. Dockerv
or Rockingham; first alternate, E. L.
Hams of Raleigh; second ReD.. H. E.
Bonitz of Wilmington; second alter
nate, Dr. J. H. Way of Waynesville.
Charlotte was chosen as the next
meeting place.
Drop in Donations to Missions.
Cerresponding Secretary Living
ston Johnson of the North Carolina
State Baptist Convention Board of
Missions finds, in closing the conven
tion year May 1, that this state has
fallen $4,000 behind the previous
year m contributions to foreign mis
sions, being $36,800, against $40,800
for the pervious year, and that the
fund for home missions is $700 short
of last year, being $20,400. He says
reports from the Southern foreign
mission board headquarters in Rich
mond show a $70,000 debt for the Sou
thern Baptists, the biggest in the his
tory of the Southern Baptist convention.
Raleigh. The railroads are going to
make it easy for the firemen to go to
Charlotte May 18th. A very low rate
has been made for the men and all
horses and equipment will be trans
ported free, both going and coming.
The transportation for the latter will
only be obtained by making appli
cation direct to the freight agent of
the initial line at the point" where
the movement takes place.
A Valuable Insurance Folder.
Commissioner of Insurance James
R. Young has prepared a printed fold
er setting out all the North Carolina
state laws regarding insurance agents
and their work both in life and fire
insurance service. He has also now
ready for distribution printed state
ments of amendments and additions
to the North Carolina insurance laws
by the 1911 legislature
Will Give the Extra Train a Trial.
The corporation commission has
made a supplemental order in the
matter of citizens of Wilmington et
als., against the Atlantic Coast Line
railway, allowing the railroad com
pany to be heard January 1, 1912,
upon whether the train "ordered to be
run between Goldsboro and Wilming
ton is a paying proposition. ,This or
der amounts to the railway company
accepting the commission's decision,
subject to a review of the matter by
the commission after about eight
months' trial.
Crop Conditions in This State.
Commissioner of Agriculture W. A.
Graham announces that reports made
by his fertilizer inspectors as to crop
conditions in this" state show an in
crease of 8 per cent in acreage of
cotton, an increase of 5 per cent in
corn and a decrease of 8 per cent
in tobacco acreage, also a large In
crease in the amount of fertilizer ap
plied this season to the corn crop.
There is, he finds, a small increase
in the acreage of wheat, with the
present condition about the same as
last year at this time. " -
Baraca and Philathea Officers.
The Baracas and Philatheas are
now separately organized and each
elects its own officers. Following are
the Baraca officers: President. A. L.
Smott, Salisbury; vice presidents. T.
C. Ethelridge, Goldsboro; A. B. Berry,
North Wilkesboro; L. A. Avant,
Charlotte; Gen. A. B. Royster. Ox
ford; secretary-treasurer, W. B.
Combs, Greensboro; executive com
mittee, composed of officers and J. S
Betts, Greensboro; A. R. Carroll. Ral
eigh and T. W. Alderman, Greens
boro.
Following are the Philathea offi
cers: President, Miss Mary Rowe,
Tarboro; vice presidents, Miss Carrie
Broughton, Raleigh, and Miss
Winona Massey, Clayton; corres
ponding secretary, Miss lone Fuller.
Winston-Salem; recording secretary.
Miss Winnie Lee Thomas. Oxford:
athletic secretary. Miss Lillian Tay
lor, Asheville; treasurer. Miss Vir
ginia Clinard, High Point.
The Baracas adopted resolutions
authorizing the executive committee
to purchase The Baraca-Philathea
Herald and to publish it, retaining
J. D. Berry as editor; also to em
ploy a secretary of Baraca work in
the state at a salary of $75 a month.
Equipment Will Cost $3,000,000.
Raleigh. The contracts to be
awarded for the necessary equipment
of the interurban, including all the
accessories and detailed jobs, will ag
gregate at least $3,000,000, it having
been estimated at the start that the
road would cost $35,000 a mile to be
constructed and operated. The grad
ing contract between Charlotte and
King's Mountain represents an out
lay of $400,000 and the similar con
tract between Spartanburg and
Greenwood, S. C, will involve an ex
penditure of $900,000. This leaves
about $25,000 a mile to be expended
for the equipment and operation of
the road, the former of course out
doing the latter in the amount of
money to be expended immednately.
Winston-Salem. Completed and
ready for the test, a machine which,
if successful, will destroy the boll
weevil and revolutionize the cotton
industry of the Southwest, is here in
the office of the Salem Iron Works.
It Is known as "H. H. H. cotton boll
weevil destroyer," and is the inven
tion of C. A. Hege of this city, as
sisted by J. K. Hord of Yazoo county.
Mississippi.
BishoD Cheshire's Famous Address.
It is an interesting fact that the
series of addresses by Rt, Rev. Joseph
Blount Cheshire, Bishop of the Dio
cese of North. Carolina, on "The
Church in the Confederate States
are to be delivered by this disting
uished churchman before the stu
dents of the Qeneral Theological
seminary. New York, June 1. 2, and 3 :
also that he is to deliver them there
after in the Divinity school, Cam
bridge, Mass. These special invita
tions have recently come to the bish
op and he has accepted.
W. C. Newland Candidate for Gov.
Lieutenant Governor W. C. New-
land says he is still in the running
for governor, the place that Locke
Craig s friends insist that he is en
titled to through conditions of the
last nomination convention. There
are others to be "mentioned.
Wake Will Construct Her Portion.
The county commissioners hav
declared their purpose to set abou
the construction of Wake's portio;
of the central highway just as see
as the route is officially establishes
Southern.
The air is full of rumors of a dos
sible compromise between Fusionists
and Regular Democrats in Tennessee
txeneral Assembly by means of which
tne absent representatives will return
from Alabama and the legislature will
finish up the work of the session and
adjourn. It is positively known that
some of the Independent Democratic
leaders and Regular Democratic lead
ers have had a conference. The Re
publican wing of the Fusionists is not.
nowever, being consulted in the mat
ter.
With every member attending, the
executive council of the American
Bankers' Association, in session at
Nashville, Tenn., unanimously adopted
a resolution approving the report oi
the currency Commission of the exec
utive council. This resolution follow
ed two sets of resolutions from the
trust company section and the savings
bank section, and the report whicn
was endorsed, is in most respects
identical with the plan sueeested bv
Senator Nelson W. Aldrich regarding
all monetary legislation.
The warehouse operated by a sov
ereign state through one of its boards
of administration will be known
wherever cotton is known, and its
receipts will be current throughout
the financial world. In these words,
President Thompson of the New Or.
leans cotton exchange, in an address
before the Louisiana State Bankers
Association at Baton Rouge, endorsed
the public-owned warehouse as the
solution of the present defective sys
tem of handling the South's great cot
ton crop
The Anglo-American arbitration
treaty, several of whose provisions,
as now agreed upon by both nations.
became public property, is not merely
a peace pact; it is a closelv drawn
bond between the United States and
Great Britain through which diplo
mats declare the two English-sneak
ing nations will be bound to present
a united defensive front to the world
The new treaty makes the United
States and Great Britain international
brothers, which can act together in all
disputes, whether such disputes in
clude other nations or not. It Is an
agreement through which neither na
tion shall enter into any new alliances
with a third nation whatveer. This
peace pact makes the existing alliance
between Great Britain and Japan a
subsidiary matter and any possible dis-
pute between the United States and
Japan will, upon the signing of the
new Anglo-American treaty, virtually
force Japan to submit to arbitration
President Taft. in his speech at the
opening of the Third National Peace
Congress in Baltimore, declared that
the United States would keep hands
off and not seek to extend its domain
or to acquire foreign territory. The
president made no mention specifical
ly of Mexico, but to those who heard
him it was evident that the troubled
situation there and the suspicion in
the South American republics as to the
intention of this nation in regard to
its southern neighbor had inspired
him.
Shaded from the sun's heat by a
cottonwood grove at the foot of the
barren hill over which the insurrecto
army not long ago had threatened to
make its way into the city of Juarez,
Francisco I. Madero, Jr., the Revolu
tionary leader, clasped hands witn.
Judge . Francisco Carabajal, official
peace envoy of the Mexican govern
ment, thus inaugurating formal peace
negotiations of the Mexican republic.
The men met on neutral territory.
The presence of Samuel Gomners.
president of the American Federation
of Labor, in Indianapolis, the practical
assurance that the American Federa
tion will assume the burden of fight
ing the McNamara cases and the ac
tion of certain commercial bodies and
the reported contemplated action of
others to completely non-unionize In
dianapolis, have stirred labor circles
unusually in Indianapolis, and unless
something happens to lessen the ten
sion there will be a tightening of the
lines in the industrial world that will
be far-reaching.
Charles L. Ewing, Frank B. Harri-
man and John M. Taylor, former offi
cials of the Illinois Central railroad.
charged with conspiracy to defraud,
were granted a change of venue from
the court of Judge Kavanaugh.
Surface, elevated and subway trans
portation lines in New York carried
1,490,000,000 passengers in 1910.
Dr. B. C. Hyde, under Indictment on
the charge of murdering Col. Thomas
H. Swope, appeared In court to be ar
raigned for his second trial, but, on
iccount of the illness of the county
prosecutor, the case was postponed
Until May 16.
Mrs. Marie Chapman Catt. nresi.
dent of the International League of
Women Suffragists, was given an aud
ience by King Haakon of Norwav.
She was introduced by Herbert
Pierce. the Americain minister.
Charles H. Hyde of New York City
will resign as city chamberlain at
nice. Under indictment and under
lie fire of practically every newspa
?er in New York, he announced that,
although he is the victim of "one of
the most wicked conspiracies of the
history of the city," he will relinquish
nis position In order not to embar
rass the Gaynor administration. In
dieted secretly on two counts, one
charging bribery, the other with tak
ing an unlawful fee, Hyde pleaded not
guilty
Ohio legislators who hoped by tes
tifying before the grand jury now in
vestigating bribery in the assembly
to escape conviction by means of an
immunity bath, were disappointed
when Prosecuting Attorney Turner
and Attorney General" Hogan refused
to accept their; testimony; Other im
munity baths were headed off when
an investigation by a legislative com
mittee was deferred until after the
grand jury finishes its work. Govern
or narmon was a witness
International complications are now
threatened from the attacks on for.
feigners and foreign interests and the
apparent inability of the imperial
troops to curb the revolutionaries
about Canton, China. Reports show
that the present uprising is probably
tne most serious that has ever been
known in southeastern China, which
for years has been violence-ridden
from the secret Chinese societies and
political organizations. With fire and
sword, the rebels are sweeping tb
country, leaving a trail of death and
outrage in their wake. There are
few American Interests in the area
of pillage, but there are a numboi
of American and English men and
women missionaries
Without further warning than
might be gathered from a conference
of a committee with the railroad oi
ficials last week, the shopmen of tht
Pennsylvania railroad, on the Pitt.
bur gdivision, extending from this citv
to Altoona, Pa., struck, and the offi
cers of the union assert that aboi
en thousand men are out. The cause
of the strike is the allegation by th
men that in its retrenchment policy
the railroad dismissed men that weri
active in organizing and carrying"
their unions
Washington.
The investigating trend of coneres
took a wide range for inquiries intc
the affairs of the United States Stee,
Corporation, the American Sugar Re
fining company and the American
Woolen company were placed on th
program of the Democratic house. The
shoe industry interests were undei
fire and a senate committee on ex
penses opened the way for a decision
as to a reinvestigation of the chareei
against Senator Lorimer.
Consul Bergholz at Canton. China
in a dispatch to the state department
urged that American warships b
hurried to Canton immediately to pro
tect American missionaries and Amer
lean property in that city. This dis
patch resulted in the matter being
taken up at the cabinet meeting, and
it is probable that a part if not all
of the Asiatic fleet will be dispatched
to Canton. The gunboat Wilmingtoa
is in Chinese waters now.
The legal battle aeainst the forest
reserves of the West in narticulai
and conservation by the Federal gov
ernment of natural resources in gen
eral was lost in the Supreme couri
of the United States. That tribuna:
not only upheld the constitutionality
of the establishment of the vast re
serves for any national and Dubli
purpose, but it settled once for al
that the Federal government and not
-the states may say how the reserves
shall be used. - The subject was deali
with in two opinions delivered bj
Justice Lamar.
Attorney General Wlckersham scor
ed the recall and various so-calle!
progressive movements of government
in an address at Princeton, N. Jn be
fore the Princeton class of 1911. "W
are in truth a law-ridden people," de
clared the attorney general, "and thii
tendency is encouraged and stimuiat
ed by those who seek popular favoi
by pointing to easy remedies.'
The constitutional amendment foi
the election of United States senators
by a direct vote of the people was fa
vorably reported by the judiciary com
mittee of the senate. The vote wat
7 to 5. Previous to this action thfl
committee killed the so-called Suth
erland amendment. As favorably re
ported, the amendment is identical
with the resolution passed by th
house. It gives the several state!
the right to determine the qualiflca
tions of electors and the exercise oi
all jurisdiction.
. Speaker Clark, who has heretofore
kept out of the Democratic ways and
means committee discussion, has unit
ed his voice with that of Leader Un
derwood in warning the Democrat!
that a disastrous political and eco
nomical mistake will be made by -out
ting wool on the free list. The imme
diate loss of revenue would be $11,
000,000 annually, and it is claimed
that this industry, affecting millioni
of farmers and hundreds of millions
of invested capital would be disas
trously affected.
Under the reapportionment bill,
which for the second time passed the
house of representatives, the size-oi
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
lower branch of congress. What it
will do this time is somewhat prob
lematical, but the strong hope is en
tertained that the senate will permil
the house membership to have itt
way in this regard.
METHODISTS TALK
IF 1IFICAT
JONT COMMISSION REPRESENT
NG THREEBRANCHES OF
CHURCH CONSIDER IT.
NINETEEN DENOMINATIONS
Total Membership Nearly Seven Mil
lion Twenty-Seven Commissioners
Consider Unification Through Reor
ganization Names Given.
Chattanooga, Tenn. The joint com
mission representing three branches
of Methodism met here to consider im
portant questions.
Under different names there are
nineteen separate denominations of
Methodists in America, and the total
membership is nearly seven million.
The twenty-seven commissioners who
met here represent about 6,000,000
Methodists. They were appointed by
the Methodist Protestant church, the
Methodist Episcopal church, South,
and the M. E. church, to consider the
question of unification through reor
ganization. Nine commissioners, as
follows, have been appointed by each
of these three churches:
Methodist Protestant church, Pres
ident, T. M. . Lewis, D. D., Westmin
ster, Md.; the Rev. M. L. Jennings,
D. D., Pittsburg, Pa.; the Rev. D. G.
Helmick, D. D., Weston, W. Va.; the
Rev. C. D. Sinkjnson, D. D., Atlantic
City, N. J.; S. R. Harris, Henderson,
N. C; W. N. Swift, Adrian, Mich.;
J. J. Barge, Atlanta, Ga.; J. E. Peter
son, New London, Iowa; the Rev.
George Shaffer, D. D., Pittsburg, Pa.
Methodist Episcopal church, South,
Bishop A. W. Wilson, Baltimore, Md.;
Bishop E. E. Hoss, Nashville, Tenn.;
Bishop Collins Denny, Nashville,
Tenn.; the Rev. W. J. Young, D. D.,
Danville, Va.; the Rev. F. M. Thomas,
D. D., Louisville, Ky.; the Rev. C. M.
Bishop, D. D., Wichita Falls, Texas;
Judge M. L. Walton, Woodstock, Va.;
president, R. .S. Hyer, LL.D., Dallas,
Texas; W. B. Stubbs, Savannah, Ga.
Methodist church, Bishop Earl
Cranston, Washington, D. C.; Bishop
J. M. Walden, Cincinnati, O.; Bishop
L. B. Wilson, Philadelphia, Pa.; the
Rev. J. F. Goucher, D. D., Baltimore,
Md.; the Rev. G. A. Reeder, D. D.,
Berea, O.; the Rev. W. W. Evans, D.
D., Harrisburg, Pa.; R. T. Miller, LL.
D., Cincinnati, O.; Hanford Crawford,
St. Louis, Mo.; J. A. Patten, Chatta
nooga, Tenn.
Diaz Will Resign, But
Mexico City. General Porfirio Diaz
has issued a manifesto to the people
of Mexico declaring his intention to
resign the presidency as soon as peace
is restored. In this manner the Pres
ident has virtually acceded to the de
mands of Francisco I. Madero that he
make announcement of such intention.
As to when peace is actually re
stored General Diaz reserves the
right to be the judge. In the words
of the manifesto it will be "when,
according to the dictates of my con
science, I am sure that my resigna
tion will not be followed by anarchy."
Well, Well, This in New, York.
New York. Gray haired women
suffrage pioneers styled "the girls
of '61;" dimpled, laughing girl babies
of 1910, not yet out of their first long
dresses, and girls and women of all
ages, between, swept down Fifth
avenue from 57th street to Union
Square in an organized protest against
denial to their sex of the ballot.
Every-avenue through which woman
has invaded man's field of endeavor
was represented, from sculpture to
cab driving. One hundred male sup
porters of the cause joined in the
parade.
Four brass bands, dozens of elabor
ate floats and fluttering pennants by
the hundred with here and there a ban
ner bearing epigrams, lengthened the
line of 2,000 marchers. The ranks
were separated into seven divisions'
and more than half the marchers
were laden with camp stools, besides.
Dynamite-Murder Case June 1.
Los Anegles, Cal. No further offi
cial acts of consequence are scheduled
in the case of John J. McNamara and
his brother, Jas. B. McNamara, ar
raigned on charges of murder and
dynamiting, until June 1 fixed as the
time for them to plead. Judge Walter
Bordwell will confer with the prose
cutor and the defense, regarding the
question of bail, in case he should de
cide to grant it to John McNamara
on the charge of dynamiting, which is
a bailable offense. The men are still
n jail.
Would Investigate Baseball.
Washington. On the ground that
baseball is about the only thing under
the sun that has not been made a sub-
ect of investigation by the Democratic
house. Representative Rodenberg of
Illinois, a Republican, introduced a
resolution providing for an immedi
ate inquiry into the national game.
Fouls, pop flies and two-baggers are
specified among the subjects needing
special inquiry. Umpires are to be
compelled to give sworn testimony,
but are not to be sworn. This would
be interesting.
WITHIN STATE LINES
Newbern. Five United States pris
oners convicted in the Federal court
left here for Atlanta in charge of
Marshals Potter, Ward and Smith.
Clinton. In a hotly contested elec
tion held here Clinton voted bonds
to the amount of $30,000 for the- estab
lishment of a water and sewerage sys
tem.
Hertford. Possibly never In the
history of this section of the -fate
have the farmers been so badly be
hind in pitching their crops as they
are at this time.
Clinton. An election has been call
ed for May 16th to vote on the pro
position to issue bonds to the amount
of $25,000 to build a new school
building for the Clinton graded school,
Gastonia. A- smoker was given by
the Commercial club in its club rooms
complimentary to the officers and en
listed men of the North Carolina
National Guard who were here at
tending the rifle meet.
Spencer. The municipal election
held in Spencer, J. D. Dorsett, Jte-
pubhean, was elected mayor over W.
H. Burton, Independent, and J. K.
Dorsett, Democrat, by a majority of
19.
High Point. On June 3 the two
Reformed- Sunday schools of this
city will join the Reformed Sunday
schools of Greensboro and Burlington
and run an excursion to Raleigh.
Salisbury. Rev. R. L. Forbis, a
young man of Chestnut Hill, Salis
bury's southern suburb, has been as
signed to the Methodist charge at
Gold Hill to succeed Rev.A . E. Wiley,
who was stricken with paralysis sev
eral weeks ago.
Charlotee. Work, is progressing
very rapidly during the past few
weeks on the construction of the in
terurban line from Charlotte via
Gastonia to King's Mountain. Three
forces are at work.
Greensboro. Former Mayor Thom
as J. Murphy was elected over Col.
S. H. Boyd by a majority of 129 votes
to be the first mayor of Greensboro
under the commission form of govern
ment.
Chicago, 111. Rev. J. A. Vance, for
eleven years pastor of the Hyde
Park Presbyterian church, has re
ceived a call from First Presbyterian
church in Detroit. He also has been
called by the First church, Charlotte.
Asheville. Rev. William B. Creas-
man, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. A.
Creasman, died in this city, Mr.
Creasman was a young Baptist min
ister 32 years of age, and, until attack
ed with a dread disease, was doing
splendid work in western North
Carolina.
Newton. A squirrel commission.
composed of merchants around the
court square has been organized and
is engaged in the very interesting
work of stocking the beautiful court
yard with grey squirrels. Nearly a
score of the little animals have been
caught and liberated among the big
oaks, which stand in the yard and
dens have been provided In most of
the trees. Already the squirrels have
become quite tame and readily feed
on nuts carried to them.
Fayetteville. James M. Lamb, ex-
Senator from Cumberland county, ex
pert landscape gardener, florist and
public-spirited citizen, died at his
home near here after an illness of
twelve months' duration. Mr. Lamb
was born in Dromhair, Sligo county,
Ireland, in 1846 and removed to this
country with his parents in 1865, com
ing here from Wilmington in 1871.
Washington. Many North Carolina
cotton manufacturers are writing
Senators Simmons and Overman and
members of the congressional delega
tion in anticipation of tariff legisla
tion with respect to the cotton goods
schedule. It is certain that the house
will pass the bills revising both ' the
woolen" and cotton goods schedules
and that there will be reductions of
duties all along the line.
Charlotte. Judge J. Crawford Biggs
upheld the decision of Recorder D.
B. Smith, in the superior court in
reference to the case of J. J. Arling
ton and J. H. Holland, who were
charged with ' soliciting insurance
without a license. The case of Ar
lington was the only one tried since
it was agreed that the Holland case
should abide by the decision of its
fellow case. The defendants appealed
to the supreme court.
Asheville. F. C. Watkins charged
with killing John Hill Bunting at
Black Mountain two years ago, was
convicted of manslaughter. It is
understood that the jury stood from
the start ten for manslaughter and
two for murder in the second degree.
Newbern. In the case of Eure Har
ris & Co., of Norfolk, against D. W.
Sabiston, of Jacksonville, Onslow
ccunty, for the delivery of 275 bales
of cotton, was ably fought on both
sides, but the jury decided that the
contract was a gambling contract
and that Eure Harris & Co., could
not recover on that ground.
Atlanta,, Ga. Rev. D. D. Gray, sec
retary of the executive board of the
Southern Baptist Home Mission so
ciety, announced that the board has
successfully executed its task to raise
$400,000 during the fiscal year which
closed May 1.
Salisbury. Through. a faithful dog,
a lost child, a little son of Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Love, of Salisbury, was
located in a pasture on the outskirts
of the city. The child had wandered
from home and neighbors were assist
ing in the search. Following the dog
to the pasture, the little one was
oon found and carried home-
ISAIAH'S CALL
TO SERVICE
Sanity School Lctton for May 14, 1911
Specially Arranged for This Paper
LESSON TEXT-Isalah . Memoir
Verses $-8.
GOLDEN TEXT-"I heard the voice of
the Lord, saying. Whom shall I send. and
who will go for us? Then said X, hero
am I; send me." Isa. :8.
TIME The year when King- Urzlah
died, which was (Beecher) B. C. 766, or
(.nasunsj rS. J. 749.
PLACE The Temple In Jerusalem.
Israel, Menahem; In AS
KING S In
yria, Asshur-daan III
This is a home-missionary lesson.
We are asked to read Isaiah 2-4. What
home-missionary thoughts are to be
found there? Those glowing sentences
are in many particulars faithful pic
tures of our wealthy modern nations.
There are the unexampled movement
of immigration, the aping of evil cus
toms from other lands, the vast wealth,
the mammon-worship, the pride, the
social wrongs and oppressions, the
misgovernment, the devotion to fash
ion and luxury, and in it all a nucleus
of nobility that will bring about the
utmost triumph of godliness. There
is as great need that we should work
for our country as that Isaiah should
work for his; and, though we are so
much inferior to Isaiah, yet God calls
us in essentially the same way to the
same great service.
The literary qualities most conspic
uous in Isaiah is the wealth and bril
liancy of his imagination. No other
Old Testament writer has the same
power of picturesque and graphic de
scription. There Is no other Hebrew
author who furnishes the reader with
so many quotable sentences. One can
imagine the people of Jerusalem stop
ping one another on the street, to tell
and hear the latest from the prophet.
This, of course, was precisely what he
desired and intended. Isaiah was a
humorist and satirist in the truest
sense of the word. This is evident
from his vivid, quaint description of
the strange manufactured idols and
images of worship, from his curious
and vivid picture of female luxury and,
fashion in his day.-
The events of his time may be
summed up In two momentous occur
rences. The first was the advance of
the Assyrians upon the small states of
Syria and Palestine, paralyzing their
national consciousness, and with this
also their national religions. Judah .
was not destroyed like Samaria, but
its independence was lost, and it was
the prophet's chief political task to
enable his country to adjust itself to
tne new conditions. As a politician
Isaiah's maxim was "no .politics." He
strongly dissuaded Ahaz from en tan- -
gling himself with Assyria, but when
his advice was disregarded and Judah
become subject to Assyria he resist
ed with equal strenuousness all at
tempts to throw off the Assyria
yoke.
The second occurrence was the fall
of Samaria, by which the mission of
united Israel became the heritage of
Judah alone. During all these troub
lous times Isaiah was the leading
statesmen of his country.
Isaiah was filled with fear of a
vision because it was a vision of God,
and the Hebrews believed that no one
could see God and live. Isaiah loved
God, and instinctively he prepared to
join his voice to the seraphs' chant.
but ere the harmony could pass hi
lips he caught his breath and was
dumb. A horrible sense of unclean
ness seized him.
One of the bright seraphs, "glowing
as with fire, and with wings like the '
lightning flash," took a hot stone with
tongs from the altar and touched Isa
iah's lips with it in token of purifica
tion. The hot stone is a stone kept
in all ancient Oriental households as
a means of applying heat to household
purposes.
Why does Jehovah seek a man to
go on his errands, when be has the
winged seraphs? Because men can
reach men better than angels can.
Only once did God choose a completely
sinless preacher. Always, but that .'
once, God has chdsen sinful men; and.
not seldom, the most sinful of men he
could get to speak to their fellow-men
about sin and salvation. Isaiah was
quick to offer himself as the mesen-
ger, because he felt himself, with his
sin removed, both fit and able for
service, and wanted to show his grat
itude for what had been done for
him.
How does this marvelous chapter ap
ply to our nation and to home mis
sions? It contains a message of doom
and a message of hope and promise.
Which shall it be for our nation? The
former, if Christians are heedless of
the great work before them, to evan
gelize the masses of our fellow-countrymen
that do not know Christ. The
latter, If home missions are earnestly
promoted, in the spirit and power of
our Lord.
One of the chief problems of home
missions is the large number of for
eign immigrants. When the United.
States is prosperous more than a mil
lion of these come to our shores every
year, and about three-fourths of them
remain.
Home missionaries meet the immi
grant at Ellis island and give him a
Bible and a word of kindly advice.
The American Bible society sends 1U
colporteurs into the most neglected re
gions. The American Sunday School
union organizes Sunday schools when
ever a few can be brought to.
etber, and from these schools
oaany churches spring. Our churches
lve to home missions more than $10,-
100,000 every year, and the denom-
nalional home-mission boards are push-
ng aggressively Into all the reedy ter.
itory. There are many bright spota
in the home mission field.
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