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THE CHATHAM RECORD It A. LONDON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 Per Year Strictly in Advance Itill VOL. XXXIII. HTTSBOrtO, CHATHAM (JOUNTY, N. C, MAY 24, 1911. NO. 41. THE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising One Square, one insertion . $1.00 One Square, two insertions $1.60 One Square, one month $2.50 For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts will be made. OF 10 BE ESTABLISHED FIRM IN ASHEVILLE REFUSE TO ACCEPT TOWNSHIP ISSUE NOT VOTED ON. IMPORTANT CASE IN STATE .A Township in Franklin County De clared For Bonds at a Mass-Meeting of Qualified Voters Legislature Authorize Bonds. Raleigh. A case that is of vital in terest in every part of North Carolina under the present tendency toward is suance of bonds for road improvement lias been threshed out before the su preme court on appeal and the ruling of the court will be- awaited with keenest interest. The case of Road Trustees of Youngsville township, Franklin county, vs. C. A. "Webb & Co., Asheville, who have contracted for ?10:000 of the Youngsville bonds and refuse to fulfill the contract on the plea that the bonds are invalid through not having been issued on the strength of a vote by the people of the township, but under legislative authorization only. In the trial below Judge Webb sustained the conten itons of Webb & Co. that the bonds are inavlid. It is estimated that there are more than a half million dollars of bonds of this class issued in var ious sections of the state under prac tically the same conditions. The movement for the bonds in Youngsville township was started early in 1910. A bill for the control of the roads was drawn and adopted n miss-meeting of the voters, a ma jority of the qualified voters favoring it and the 1911 legislature enacted the road bill into law, authorizing the bend issue that the voters had ap proved. Webb & Co. purchased $10, C00 of the bonds and then refused to Teceive them as invalid. Attorney General T. W. Bickett and his law partner, R. B. White, are counsel for the Youngsville township, which un der the act is declared a municipality as to the right to issue bonds. Coun sel claim the bonds are valid under the constitution as issued by a muni cipal corporation for necessary ex penses, insisting that courts have established this doctrine in North Carolina through numerous cited precedents. Using inland Waterway Canal. S. A. Thompson, field secretary of the National , River and Harbor enn gress, has just come from an in spection trip along the inland water way, especially along the Carolina coast and is enthusiastic over the pro gress made and the outlook. He says that in going over the situation with Capt. Earl Brawn, engineer in charge of the inland waterway on the Caro lina coast, he gathered that fully 200 vessels a month are now using those sections of the waterway now com plete, especially the 8-mile canal be tween Core creek and Adams creek above Beaufort. This canal is 12 feet deep. Army Officer to Teach Soldiers. Taking advantage of the provision f the act of congress of March 3, last, Governor Kitchin and Adjutant Ceneral Leinster have secured from the war department the assignment of Captain A. J. Dougherty of the Tegular army to devote his entire time to furthering the interest of the North Carolina National Guard through giving instructions wherever and whenever needed, and dividing his time as expediency may dictate between the guard headquarters at Raleigh and the companies through out the state. Captain Dougherty comes to Raleigh August 1, when he completes his final course in the cav alry schools and the staff college, be ing now in the war college to com plete his equipment for the service to which he is being assigned in this state with the North Carolina nation al guard. He is a member of the Thirtieth United States infantry. Wilkes' Efficient School Work. It is an interesting fact that in connection with the recent joint com mencement of the Wilkes county pub lic schools, the third Joint commence ment ever held in any county in the state, there were awarded 101 cer tificates of graduation from the ele mentary schools and passing them up to the high school department. This is a greater number than were allow ed certificates in either of the other two counties that have held such county commencement, Wayne and Sampson counties. Beys Help to build Domitory. At the Catholic orphanage near Raleigh work is now under way on a fine new dormitory that will ac commodate one hundred boys. It is 180 feet by 36 feet, two stories and a jump in heighth and is being con structed of granite quarried right at the orphanage. The older boys of the orphanage are doing a consid erable part of the work and good pro gress is being made. A frame dormi tory was burned three years ago and a. number of the Inmates escaped death in the flames. CANDIDATE FOR THE SENATE Chief Justice Clark Announces His Decision in a Letter to Solici tor Hall Johnson. Raleigh. In an open letter address ed to Solicitor A. Hall Johnson of Marion, Chief Justice Walter Clark of the North Carolina supreme court announces his candidacy for the United States senator, making the contest a three-cornered one with Mm, Senator Simmons and Governor Kitchin as the contestants. The letter announcing the cau'li dacy is addressed to Solicitor Johnson in reply to a lently litter from Johnson insisting that if he intends to be a candidate his friends are en titled to know it with the least pos sible delay and reciting many things that constrains ,the writer to urge that the chief justice declare him self for the senate. Judge Clark says he has been re ceiving letters from people in all parts of the state for som time now and felt that the turn that has been given efforts of the control of trusts by the Standard Oil decision affords him the opportunity to declare his candidacy for the senate, where the fight for what he regards as the power of the people to control must be fought out. Case of Interest to Business Mfr. Corporation Commissioner W. T Lee went to Washington to confer with the Interstate Commerce com mission in which the North Carolina commission has especial inter. -.-jt. One of the most notable matters pending is the case of the North Carolina commission against th-? Nor folk & Western railway company in which the Interstate commission has already ruled in favor of the North Carolina commission that the Norfolk & Western must put on lower freight rates from points West and Virginia cities to Winston-Salem and Dur ham, North Carolina terminals of the defendant railroad. This case, it w.ll be remembered, has been appealed to the newly created commerce court by the railroad companies and is soon to be argued. Raleigh Invited Baptist Body. The Raleigh chamber of commerce extended an invitation to the South ern Baptist convention to meet there in 1913, with the increased hotel facilities under way and the comple tion of the splendid auditorium the most ample accommodations will be available. State Would Sell Railroad. The council of state considered for a time a proposition made by John A. Mills, president of the Raleigh Ac cuthport railroad, and other capital ists present, to take over the Elkin & Alleghany railroad from Elkin to Sparta and to complete it and put it in operation forthwith. The work on this road has been carried on' with state convict labor to the extent that twelve of the proposed miles of road have been graded at a cost of $135,000, of which $100,000 is an investment by the state through convict labor. State Officers P. O. S. of America. The following are the state officers of the Patriotic Order Sons of Ameri ca: Past State President, C. F. Caudle, Lexington; State president, T. D. Brown, Salisbury; vice president, M. T. Ray, Raleigh; master of forms, J. W. Colloch, Lexington; State sec retary, Z. P. Smith, Fayetteville; treasurer, T. Ivy, Cary; State con ductor, C. P. Watkins, Shelby; State inspector, A. W. Gilliam, Old Fort; guard, Daniel Barton, Winston-Salem; trustees, G. W. Murray; J. Frank Adams, Jethro Almond; national rep resentatives, W. D Gaster, Fayette ville r D. L. Sides, Salisbury; assis tant secretary, M. R. Kirkman, High Point; chaplain, J. C Griffin, Bailey. There are 47 camps in the state. Pleased at School Improvement. State Superintendent of Public In struction J. Y. Joyner delivered the address for a ceremony in celebra tion of the completion of the fine $35,000 graded school building at Ox ford, Ganville county. Superinten dent Joyner is well pleased with the spread of local tax interest. News has come to the department that a new tax district is just voted in Clay county and another in Nash county, the latter including the town of Bailey's. Confident of Being Next Governor. "There is every indication that the Democrats of North Carolina are de termined that I shall be the next gov ernor of North Carolina," declared Hon. Locke Craig, when pressed to say something of a political nature, involving his well-known candidacy for the governorship. He spoke with a hesitancy born of modesty and added that the nomination will come as a great, honor and the governorship as a weighty responsibility, but that if made governor, the duties of the of fice shall be discharged faithfully. Building Handsome Episcopal Church. The work of completing the splen did new church of the Good Shep herd, Episcopal, at Raleigh, is now in full swing and the stone work is receiving the finishing touches. Then the next work will be the putting in place of the vast roof that has for its supports other than the stone walls the beautiful marble pillars that are distributed about the church. When completed this will be one of the handsomest churches in this part of the ccuntry. It will have cost something like $65,000. BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOR THE BUSY IN MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED Complete Review of Happening f Greatest Interest From All Parts of World. Southern. The continued progress of the farm ers of Georgia and Alabama is indi-, cated by the records of the Southern Dell Telephone company for the month of April. During the month of April 668 farmers 296 in Georgia and 372 in Alabama installed telephones in their homes and connected lines with the Bell system. Since January 1,283 farmers in Georgia and Alabama have taken telephone service. Of these 1,035 are in Georgia and 1,148 In Alabama. Macon, Ga., was cnosen by the Uni ted Confederate Veterans as the next reunion city at the annual encamp ment of the old soldiers in Little Rock, Ark. The following officers were re elected: Commander-in-Chief, Gen. G. W. Gordon, Memphis, Tenn. Depart ment commanders: Army of Northern Virginia, Lieut. Gen. C. Irvine Walker, Charleston, S. C; Army of Tennessee, Lieut. Gen. Bennett H. Young, Louis ville, Ky.; Trans-Mississippi Depart ment, Lieut. Gen K. M. Van Zandt, Fort Worth, Texas. A complete surprise was sprung at the convention of the Southern Baptist convention in Jacksonville, Fla., when Dr. E. C. Dargan, pastor of the First Baptist church of Macon, Ga., was placed in nomination for president against Joshua Levering, who had oeen proposed for re-election to that Dffice. When the votes were counted it was found that Doctor Dargan had been elected. With the ship's band playing the na tional anthem and the blueackets with rifles at "present," the United States battleship Idaho saluted the resting place of the old wooden United States war sloop Mississippi of Admiral Far ragut's fleet, riddled and sunk by the Confederate batteries at Port Hudson, La., on the Mississippi river, during the Civil war. The success of the voy age up the river to Vicksburg was as sured when the soundings at the shoals near Waverly showed 62 feet depth. Frank R. Hayne, the bull leader, startled the New Orleans cotton world by bidding the market price for 100, 000 bales each of May and July cot ton exchange quotations for any or al. the spot cotton in this city. This last bid Mr. Hayne shouted out to the member who had hurried to the future ring, was open all day. Moreover, he announced his willingness to accepi any grade from low ordinary to fair Twenty minutes after Deputy Wood his victim, died, John McLeod, a ne gro, was dragged from Emanuel coun ty jail at Swainsboro, Ga., and hanged by a body of men, orderly but deter mined. The body was suspended froir a tree and riddled with bullets. There was no. excitement to speak of. Hid den keys to the jail were found, an-i the victim quickly swung up. Follow ing the lynefiing, all parties disappear ed. The coroner's inquest found thai death was caused by. '"unknown par ties." General. The Lincoln, Neb., excise board ha. adopted a rule requiring friends am relatives of habitual drunkards to fur nish pictures of the bibulous ones foi the better information of the saloon keepers and their bartenders. The pho tographs are to be posted behind th bars. Yokohama, Japan, is now brighi with the colors, of America and Ja pan in honor of 600 American blue Jackets from the Asiatic fleet who arc the guests of Mayor Arakawa of Yo kohama. The mayor gave a garder party, which was attended by fifty of ficers and 500 sailors. Speeches wert made by Vice Admiral Saito and 2 number of other notables. The wages of the trainmen in the United States and Canada have beet increased $37,000,000 in a year,' ac cording to report made to the inter national convention of the Brother hood of Railroad Trainmen by W. F Lee, president of the association. Emperor William, Empress Victoria and Princes Victoria Louise of Ger many are visiting King George of Eng land. Separated by the Chicago fire ii 1871, Peter Sharp and his wife, Anna Catherine Sharp of Oakland, Cal. were reunited in Pittsburg, Kansas Mrs. Sharp is now on her way tc Pittsburg. Prince Lidj Jeassu, grandson of Em peror Menelik, was proclaimed emper of Abyssinia. With appropriate ceremonies, th Francis Scott Key memorial statue erected in Baltimore, was unvedled Mrs. William Gilmer, a granddaughtei of the author of the "Star Spangled Banner,," drew; the cord releasing the drapery. Capt. John H. Gibbons assumed the superintendency of the United States Naval academy at Annapolis, Mary land. Capt. John M. Bowyer was forced by ill health to relinquish th post. ' , In the first Federal anti-trust pro ceedings brought under the Sherman anti-trust proceedings, under the Sherman law as interpreted by the Standard Oil decision, the department of justice filed suit in the Federal court in New York against various constituent organizations of what is properly known as the "lumber trust" alleging the existence of a widespread conspiracy, "unreasonably," to re strain the lumber trade in this coun try. It is said the suit may be the first of a series planned by Attorney General Wickersham looking to the breaking up of alleged agreements among the retailers of many of the commodities of life to maintain high prices. President Diaz and Vice President Correl of Mexico will resign before June 1. Minister of Foreign Relations de la Barra will become president ad interim. Francisco I. Madero, the Revolutionary leader, will be called to the City of Mexico to act as de la Barra's chief adviser and as the greatest guarantee possible that every pledge made by the government will be carried out. As viewed by the pub lic it will be virtually a joint presi dency, pending the calling of a new presidential election. A new election will be called within six months. Po litical amnesty will be recommended to the chamber of deputies. These are the conditions upon which Presi dent Diaz will compromise. In Columbus, Ohio, State Senator Edgar T. Crawford and Representa tive A. Clark Lowry, Republicans, and Representative Owen J. Evans, Dem ocrat, were indicted by the grand jury for bribe soliciting. Crawford is al leged to have asked $200 from W. H. Cook, secretary of the Ohio Butchers and Grocers' association, in connec tion with trading stamp legislation. Evans is alleged to have solicited a bribe of $650 from the Stark-Tuscara was breweries for his vote on one of the- city local option bills. Washington. The principle of arbitration on prac tically all disputes between nations, including even questions of vital in terest and national honor, assumed vi tality when Secretary of State Knox submitted to the British and French ambassadors at Washington the draft of a convention to serve as a basis of negotiations. A petition for the admission of Ha waii as a state was received by the senate from the Hawaiian legislature, and referred to the committee on ter ritories. While there was much gratification in administration circles over the Su preme court order for the dissolution of the Standard Oil company, which had been declared "an unreasonable combination and monopoly in re straint of trade, there unquestionably was also some misgiving as to the interpretation of the anti-trust law giving to courts the right to deter mine whether or not a monopoly was "reasonable" and declaring a "reason able" monopoly not to be in contra vention of the statute. President Taft who a little more than a year ago in a special message to congress declar ed that under Supreme court prece dents there could be no such things as "reasonable" and "unreasonable" restraints of trade, or in other words, "good trusts ' and "bad trusts," was said to have been rather keenly dis appointed that the court should have seen fit to reverse itself in this im portant matter. Secretary MacVeagh invited popu lar subscription to a $50,000 issue of government bonds to reimburse the treasury general fund for expenditure on account of the Panama canal. The treasury officials expect the loan will be largely oversubscribed, and in dis tributing the new securities, the gov ernment's announced intention is to give reference to smallers bidders. The new securities will be at 3 per cent, interest, payable quarterly; will be free from all national, state or mu nicipal taxation, and will be in denom inations of $100,$500 and $1,000. They will be dated June 1, 1911, and will be payable in fifty years. The supreme court of the District of Columbia instituted proceedings for alleged contempt against President Samuel Gompers, Vice President John Mitchell and Secretary Frank Morri son of the American Federation of Labor. The sentence of imprisonment imposed upon these men by this court was revoked by the United States Su preme court. Mr. Gompers when told of the action said: "Justice Wright can go just as far. as he likes. ; He will find we are not running away." Although the- special session of con gress is but little more than a month old, talk of adjournment has already become general. Republicans in both branches have been hinting that a recess during the hot weather would not interfere with legislation, while many Democrats in the house are be ginning to believe they will be en tirely through with all they care to enact of their legislative program in another month. i The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and its nineteen subsidiary corporations were declared by the Su preme court of the United States to be a conspiracy and combination in restraint of trade. It was also held to be monopolizing interstate com merce in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. The dissolution of the combination was ordered to take place within six months. Thus ended the tremendous struggle on the part of the government to put down, by authority of law, a combination which it claimed was a menace to the in dustrial advancement of the country FIVE YOUNG GIRLS -a BURNED TO DEATH A LAMP CONTAINING GASOLINE EXPLODES RESULTING IN TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. PARENTS' EFFORTS TO SAVE Fatal Mistake of Mother in Filling Lamp With Gasoline Starts Fire Names and Ages of the Daughters Who Perished. Utica, Kan. Five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Roach of this place, ranging in ages from 7 to 16 years, were burned to death in a fire which started in the Roach restaurant. The parents were badly burned. The mother of the young girls by mis take filled a lamp with gasoline. Pre paratory to ascending a stairway lead ing to the second floor room, where her daughters were asleep, she ap plied a match to the lamp. An ex plosion followed, the fire being com municated to a two-gallon can of gasoline, sending a burst of flame up the narrow stairway. The woman's dress caught fire, but the flames were extinguished by her husband, who had been asleep in an adjoining room. He rushed up the burning stairs and caught his young est daughter, 5 years old, in his arms. Calling to the other girls to follow him and leap into his arms, he ran to a rear window and jumped to the ground, the little girl in his arms. He stood with upraised arms to catch the others as they jumped, but for some reason they failed to follow him and a few minutes later, when an other window was broken into, the bedroom in which the girls were sleeping was a mass of flames. A half-hour later the bodies of the five girls were recovered. All had died where they lay. The dead are: Bessie, aged 16; Leah, aged 14; Ruth, aged 12; Hazel, aged 9 years; Fern, aged 7 years. The girls will be buried together in one grave tomorrow. Final Peace Agreement Signed. Juarez, Mex. Officially designated representatives of the Mexican gov ernment and the revolutionists signed a peace agreement at the customs house here intended to end the hos tilities that have been waged in Mex ico for the last six months. Though covering only the princi pal points negotiated thus far, the agreement practically records the concessions by the government of those demands which started, on No vember 20, the last armed revolution in Mexico. Monoplane Kills Minister of War. Paris. France paid a terrible toll for her magnificent endeavor to at tain supremacy of the air when a monoplane, the driver of which had lost control, plunged Into a group ef members of the cabinet who had gath ered to witness the start of the race from Paris to Madrid, killing the Min ister of war and injuring the prime minister, his son and a well-known sportsman. Electricity Failed to Revive the Dead. Lynn, Mass. In an effort to re store action into the heart of a work man killed by an electric shock at the plant of the General Electric com pany, Prof. Thomon, the well-known scientist, repeatedly sent a current of 50,000 volts through the body. The experiment, which has been known, it is said, to succeed in a few cases, was futile. Whole Family Killed by Street Car. Newark, O. The family of D. W. Dodson of Hebron, was wiped out when an interurban car on the Newark division of. the Ohio Electric Railway struck their buggy and killed Dodson, aged 30. Mrs. Dodson of the same age and their two little girls, aged 7 and 4. The Dodsons were, riding along the highway which flanks the electric line, a mile east of Hebron and were passing a car, when theii horse became frightened" and plunged across the track in front of the car. President Praises Work of Y. M. C. A. Washington. Speaking to more than a thousand negroes here, Presi dent Taft congratulated the race In Washington upon the consummation of the movement for the erection of a $100,000 home for a colored Young Men's Christian association. The President paid a high tribute to the work of the Y. M. C. A, and praised the generosity and broad philanthropy of Julius Rosenwald of Chicago, who recently agreed to give $25,000 to the Washington negro branch's building fund. , Nitro-Glycerine Does Terrible Work Muskogee, Okla. Clarence Hender son, book-keeper in a bank in Beggs, Okla., is dead and Edward Bright will die as the result of mistaking a quart can of nitro-glycerin for muddy water. ' ' The young men were hunting when they discovered the can of explosive under a boulder. They placed it on top of the rock and one of them fired into it form a small caliber rifle. Hen derson was so badly mangled by th resulting explosion that he died with. In an hour. DUKE . PLAYS FAIRY PRINCE In Disguise Ernest of Hesse Goes Among His Poorer Subjects Doing Good. Darmstadt. The Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse delights to go among his people In disguise. He was strolling alone in the city park, clothed almost shabbily, when he fell Into conversation with a young clerk out of employment. The grand duke sympathized with him. The stranger, taking his com panion for a fellow clerk .asked for a little loan. "You need not be afraid," he said. If you will lend me the 'tin I can Grand Duke of Hesse. buy a suit and I will repay you out of my first wages, because I cer tainly can get a job." The grand duke without replying led the way towards the palace gates. A gorgeously uniformed official ap peared and asked: "What are your highness' commands?" The grand duke replied: "Take this young man to my tailors and see that he gets a suit and have the bill sent to the palace." Then he said a hearty good by-by to the out-ot-work clerk. TO STAY SINGLE TEN YEARS Los Angeles Business Woman Will Win Fortune by Sticking to Agreement. Los Angeles. Miss Leila M. Devine of this city, auditor of a big retail business house, has agreed not to marry for ten years, the considera tion being a large block of the cor poration stock. Although the con tract was signed four years ago, when Miss Devine was twenty-four yeas old, news of the agreement was not made public ' until now. If Miss Devine is unmarried when she is thirty-four, the stock will be turned over to her. Should she marry be fore the agreement expires the stock reverts to the company. Miss De- vine Insists thete is not the slightest danger of her losing the stock. A Miss Leila M. Devine. member of the firm recently said that the young woman's services were of such value to the company that this method was taken to retain them. MISTAKES OF FRENCH MISS Shy Little Creature Has Gone and Re placed by Monkey With Pigtail, Says Noted Lecturer. Paris. Monsignor Bolo, the talented lecturer, who possesses a fame in Paris only comparable with that of Father Bernard Vaughan In England, has lately been devoting his attention to the French young girl. In the course of an article In the Matin on this subject he remarks: "The little creature with a shy laugh has disappeared from our nat ural hiBtory: another species Is at tempting to replace it, one which Schopenhauer would have called the 'monkey with a pigtail.' This young girl of today takes liberties like an American, flirts like an English girl, reads like a Norwegian, is omnivorous and versatile as a Russian, uses her eyes like a Spaniard, and dresses like a Turk." Bird Purrs Like Tiger. Comanche, Tex. A tigersuma that nurrs like a tiger and is said to be a habitant of South America was cap tured near Comanche The bird is strined and about the size of a hen. has a small head and eyes and is of a vicious disposition. It is believed to have been blown to sea in a storm and found refuge In Texas. MICAH'S PICTURE OF PEACE Sn3ty Sell vol Lmim for Kay 28, 1S11 Specially Arranged for This Paper LESSON TEXT Mlcab iJ-S. MEMORY VERSE 2. . GOLDEN TEXT "Nation Shall Kofc Lift up Sword Against Nation. Neither shall They Learn War Anymore. Mlc 1:3. TIME Mlcah prophesied In the relrna jf Jotham, Ah a a, and Heseklab, b reigned (Beecher) from B. C 754 to B. C 85. PLACE He probably lived In hi na ive town, Moreaheth-gath, southwest of. Teusalem. PROPHETS Isaiah and Hose. This important lesson deals with l subject that is of the greatest moment In our modern life, a prot ein that is rapidly approaching solu tion. After ages of warfare the world seems nearing the era of peace. In. the forming of The Hague Tribunal the world has taken, in onr lifetime, by far the longest step ever takes, toward realizing the Christian Idezl of universal brotherhood. But, strange to say, while this has been going on. the world's expenditures In prepara tion for war have been increased be yond anything the past has known or Imagined, so that the cost of a. mili tant peace has become the world's. heaviest burden. We are tr discuss. therefore, as a vital, urgent theme: "The Terrible Evils of War, and the Coming of the Reign of Peace." Mlcah has been picturing the slna of his nation, and the terrible punish ment that was to come as a result Now he turns in a flash to a contrast ing picture, the glorious, peaceful reign of Messiah. There is no thought that this happy time is to conclude human existence. but . it is to be the last stage of ha- man existence, and is to be unending. Mlcah saw the beloved Mount Zlon. the eastern, Temple hill of Jerusalem. It was called the tower of the flock, the flock being the Hebrews, and the Temple being compared to the watch tower into which the shepherds went for shelter in a storm or for protec tion from robbers. It is also called the strong hold. Zion Is not a moon tain but only a small hill, about 409 feet above the valley;. yet the prophet saw It rising grandly and surely un til it was lifted up far above the loftiest summits-of the highest moun tains on earth. He saw restored the first dominion. the glory that was his nation's under David and Solomon; yes, even more than that, since he saw many nations flow unto it to learn of the ways of Jehovah, the teachings of the true religion. Flow Implies an Impetuous, voluntary onrush, like the Inward sweep of the 60-foot tides In the Bay of Fundy. Nations then will be "bom in a day." Converts will come by Pentecosts. The earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. It is from this triumphant Church of God that universal peace will spring. It can not come from any other source. The central thought of this magnifi cent passage is the reign of Messiah, that which all our churches exist to- establish. The most striking evidence of that reign is the inauguration of universal peace. An effective federation of the na tions, such as might fitly be called "The United States of the World." will take the place of war. It will have a world constitution, a world legislature, a world judiciary, and a world executive, just as individual nations now have these Instruments of government. We can Inaugurate the reign . of peace by helping the peace societies do their noble work. By studying the question in Sunday schools and pub-, lie schools. By an earnest advocacy and study of missions, which do more than anything else to cultivate the spirit of love for other peoples, and. understanding of them. By protest ing against the war spirit In con gress and against the appropriation of vast sums for unnecessary war ships. What are recent gains In the direc tion of international peace and fed eration? The establishment of the international court of arbitration at. The Hague, which is the beginning: of the world judiciary. The enacting: by the nations of more than eighty treaties agreeing to submit disputes; to The Hague court for arbitration The peaceful settlement of more than 600 International disputes, some of them most dangerous, such as that caused by the firing of the Russian; fleet upon British fishing vessels In the North sea. The establishing of the Central American high court of nations. The forming of the lntr- national bureau of American repub lics. The placing of a beautiful statue of Christ upon the summit of the Andes between Chile and Argen tina, in token of their agreement not. to fight each other. The forming: of: the interparliamentary union, a large body made up of members of the vari ous national parliaments and - con gresses, working steadily for peace. The beginning of a world executive by the formation of many Internation al bureaus, such as the universal postal union, the International bu reau of agriculture, and the interna tional committee of weights and. measures. The growing opposition to war on the part of financial Institn tions and business men and on the part of organized labor. When the laboring men of the world declare, that they will no longer serve lit. armies and the business men declare that they will no longer pay for war... this terrible curse will surely be at an end.
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