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P1TTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, OCTOBER 25, 1911.
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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.j
Southern.
That the Southern states issue
Loads for the valorization of cotton,
in the same manner as the Brazilian
government has done with the coffee
crop of that country, is a suggestion
which Theodore H. Price, the New
York cotton operator, will make to
the conference of cotton state gov
ernors which will meet in New Or
leans October 30. Mr. Price, in a
letter to the government, points out
that the Brazilian committee, by the
valorization plan, had advanced the
price of coffee in two years several
cents a pound.
Eugene Ely, the world-famous avi
ator, was killed at the state fair
grounds at Macon, Ga., when his ma
chine refused to rise from a sensa
tional dip and plunged with him fifty
feet to the ground. He fell, in the
presence of nearly eight thousand
people, the middle of the inclosure of
the mile track, almost clearing the
machine by a desperate leap that he
made when he realized his peril. His
neck was broken and he died eleven
minutes after the fatal fall.
The intinerary of President's Taft's
' supplemental tour" was completed,
and the date of his return to Wash
ington was fixed for November 12.
From Cincinnati the president will go
to Louisville, Ky., to spend November
8. He will be at Frankfort, Ky., No
vember 9, and Hodgenville, Ky., No
vember 10. On November 11 Mr.
Taft will pay hurried visits to Nash
ville, Tenn., Sewanee, Tenn., and to
Chattanooga. From the latter city he
will directly to Washington.
Miss Madeline Frances Wills of Los
Angeles, CaL ,the first suffragist who
went to Louisville, Ky., from Cali
fornia, to be present at the session of
the National Suffrage convention, told
that Mrs. Caroline M. Severance, the
"mother of woman's clubs," and now
S3 years of age, will register at least,
if she does not vote, before she dies.
She said: "Southern women are more
ready for the ballot than are those of
other sections of the country. They
have, in fact, taken to suffrage won
derfully. Georgia, Louisiana and Vir
ginia have made astonishing rec
ords.'' Florida's law prohibiting the ship
ment of immature fruit is to be car
ried to the United States court on
the ground that the law, as applied to
interstate shipments is a violation of
the commerce clause of the constitu
tion of the United States. This state
ment was made at Jacksonville by C.
H. D. Floyd, counsel for Fred Fee,
following the receipt of a telegram
stating that in failing to quash indict
ments Judge W. H. Price has held the
state enactment of 1911 to be con
stitutional. What is believed to be the larg
est sale of rough rice was consummat
ed at New Orleans when the South
ern Rice Growers' association sold
100,000 bags of the staple to the Lou
isiana State Rice Milling company at
an estimated urice of $3.25 per bag
graded as No. 1 Honduras. This rice
will be distributed among the twenty
six mills of the milling company.
Publication of one report from
Washington to the effect that Pres
ident Taft will, in all probability, con
sider the name of Judge Thomas G.
Jones of Montgomery, Ala., in con
nection with the Supreme court va
cancy which has been occasioned by
the death of Judge Harlan, has been
going the rounds in Montgomery. It is
known that the distinguished Alabama
jurist, who is likewise an ex-governor
of Alabama, is admired by the chief
executive.
General.
Moving out their entire army of
foot soldier, cavalry and artillery,
from their intrenchments beyond Han
kow, China, the rebel leaders gave
battle to the imperial troops of the
Chinese war fleet anchored off the
foreign concessions. The battle did
not end decisively for either side, al
though the rebels were compelled to
retreat, because their' ammunition
gave out.
Very grave disorders occurred at
Segni, a town of 7,00 population,, one
half hour by railway from Rome, Italy.
The rioting was caused by the action
of the municipality in adopting meas
ures to stamp out cholera.
The schooner Bender Brothers pass
ed in at Cape Flattery . disabled with
65 people on board starving.
Chairman David A. Ellis of the Bos
ton school committee believes that
the young school teacher is a better
teacher if she attends a dance or the
ater occasionally, and he also de
clares that no school room should
object to teachers playing cards.
Persistent reports that Harry
K. Thaw's release from the Mattea
wan insane asylum at Newburg, N.
Y., is expected within the next three
months are denied by Dr. James V.
May, superintendent.
The Farmers' National Congress
has just concluded a three days' con
ference at Columbus, Ohio.
The judiciary of the United States
must be brought within the control
and answered to the well-thought-out
judgment of the people, in the opinion
:;f Theodore Roosevelt, who spoke on
'The Conservation of Womanhood
ind Childhood," before the civic fo
rum in New York City. This con
trol, in Mr. Roosevelt's opinion,
should be "exercised more cautiously
md in different fashion than the con
;rol by the people over the legislator
md the executive; but the control
ixust be there."
Bitter criticism of President Taft
narked the opening in Chicago of the
campaign of the Progressive element
sf the Republican party, as it styles
tself, to nominate Senator Robert M.
LaFollette as the Republican candi
iate for president. Senator Clapp call
:he chief executive's action in the
Arizona statehood matter the "black
3St chapter in all tyranny outside of
:he absolute despotism of an unbri
iled king."
The remedy for the poor food sup
ply in the cities is to depopulate them,
iccording to H. W. Wiley, chief of
the United States bureau of chem
istry, who spoke before a banquet of
the Twilight club in New York. "The
man who has his feet on the soil is
more the aristocrat of nature than he
who walks the pavement. Force the
manufacturers to leave the city and
go to the country, where each man
can have a plot of ground about his
sottage and at evening can be with
his garden and flowers."
The population of Canada, accord
ing to the census taken -on the first
of June and made public, was 7,081,
S68, an increase in ten years of 1,
710,594. The figures are about one
million below the estimate made be
fore the census was taken. Montreal
leads Canadian cities with a popula
tion of 466,167, an increase in ten
pears of 198,467. Toronto is second
with 376,240. Winnipeg has 135,430;
Vancouver, 100,333; Ottawa, 86,340;
Hamilton, 81,879; London, 46,177, and
Halifax, 46,081.
Commandator Simonetti, general
secretary of the Italian Anti-Slavery
society, which has been working Trip
ali since 1899, gives an appalling de
scription of the slavery still existing
there, despite the efforts of the so
ciety to liberate those in bondage. He
3ays that the society provides the
slaves with freedom papers, which
the Turkish officials have disregard
ed. He tells of Turkish steamers en
gaged in the slave traffic and says
that in 1900 the slaves were brought
close to Benhazi.
What is pronounced by Sheriff Nat
Stewart of Santa Barbara county, Cal
ifornia, and W. F. Wines of San Fran
cisco, special agent for the Southern
Pacific railroad, to have been a de
liberate attempt to dynamite an 800
foot bridge, twenty miles north of
here, over which President Taft's
special train passed, was frustrated
ty the vigilance of a bridge watch
man. Sheriff Stewart and Mr. Wines
returned from the scene and report
ed the evidence of the plot was com
plete. In a "consent decree" handed down
by the circuit court for the northern
district of Alabama, the Southern
Wholesale Grocers' association, pros
ecuted under the Sherman law is for
bidden from coercing manufacturers
to sell only to association members or
those whom it recognizes as whole
salers and is prescribed against con
spiracy to coerve manufacturers to fix
limited selling prices. J. H. McLau
rin of Jacksonville, Fla., is president
of the Wholesale Grocers' association.
Washington.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson,
who reached Washington from Chica
go, denied rumors afloat to the effect
that he had handled his resignation
to President Taft to take effect No
vember 15, or as soon thereafter as
suitable. "There is absolutely no jus
tification for the rumor," he declared
emphaticaly. "I have no thought of
handing in my resignation any time
soon."
Former Senator Nelson W. Aldrich
of Rhode Island submitted to the na
tional monetary commission, of which
he is chairman, a revision of his plan
for monetary legislation. The com
mission may use it as the basis of
its recommendations to congress.
Briefly the plan still provides for the
organization of the National Reserve
association with capital of approxi
mately $300,000,000, in which tlje Unit
ed States government and the banks
owning shares in the association shall
be the enly depositors. The plan of
dividing the United States at first
into fifteen financial districts remain
ed unchanged.
That the next president of the Unit
ed States would be a Democrat; that
Taft would be the nominee of the reg
ular Republicans, with LaFollette the
possible nominee of the Insurgent fac
tion, were the views expressd at Lake
Charles, La., by Speaker Champ Clark
in an address. Speaker Clark said
he believed the members of that body
had gotten thoroughly together in
their work for the first time In 15
years.
A resolution was passed at the Ec
umenical Methodist conference in To
ronto, Ont., petitioning congress of
the United States to take stpes to
prevent the shipment of liquor from
one state into the prohibition territo
ry of another state, in defiance of the
law and "thereby bringing the Fed
eral government into complicity with
the liquor traffic. Resolutions were
adopted affirming the sanctity of the
home and commending the fidelity of
the Methodist ministers in refusing
to marry unwarrantably divorced cou
ples. The opium trade was denounced.
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OPEIB STATE Fl
OHIO'S CHIEF EXECUTIVE IS
GIVEN A VERY ROUSING
WELCOME.
THE PROGRESS MARVELOUS
Governor Kitchin Stirs Enthusiasm by
Lauding ths States Agricultural Pro
gress The Advancement in the Last
Year Exceeds All Others.
Raleigh. Governor Kitchin stirred
enhtusiasm in opening the fifty-first
North Carolina fair by high tribute
to agricultural progress in North Car
olina, the awakening of the public con
science the country over to the extent
even of stirring the national govern
ment to action in eliminating specal
privleges, and starting a reversion to
equal rights to all in commerce and
disintegration of trusts.
Speaking of agricultural conditions
and progress in the state, he de
clared that for years past the pro
gress has been marvelous, but that
the advancement the past year has
far exceeded the record in any pre
vious year. The wheat crop was
great, the corn crop as good as any
in the history of the state and the
cotton crop is at least an average
one. "Even the Commissioner of Ag
riculture," he declared, "must admit
this. He made this reference with a
jocular wave of his hand to Major W.
A. Graham, Commissioner of Agri
culture, so much interested in bulling
the cotton market. In the midst of
the address there was a pause when
the reception committee came upon
the grandstand with Governor Har
mon of Ohio, the people arose and
gave a rousing round of applause in
his honor.
The state fair opened in great
shape with exhibits that were easily
well in advance of those of any previ
ous fair. The agricultural exhibits,
the horticultural exhibits, the cattle
and kindred features were the finest
ever and the exhibits of farm machin
ery and commercial enterprises gen
erally were well up to the 'standard.
HAS ACCEPTED INVITATION
Literary Medal Offered Again.
For the purpose of encouraging lit
erary work among the students of the
high schools of this and surrounding
states, the "9019," a patriotic and lit
erary organization of Trinity College,
offered last year a medal for excel
lence in declamation. The contest
will be held again this year Friday,
November 25, the day following
Thanksgiving, and the representatives
from the various high schools of
these and other states will assemble
to participate in the struggle for the
prize. The committees from the or
ganization for the arranging of the
event are already at work communi
cating with the high school princi
pals in regard to sending speakers
and a number of schools have signi
fied their intention to be represented.
Waynesville Purists Lose Out.
In police court the cases against
Geoge Bailey, the manager of the au
ditorium and Signor Creatore, for
holding a sacred concert in the audi
torium on Sunday night to which an
admission was charged were dsmiss
ed from the court and the warrants
ordered quashed. Judge Adams held
that he had no jurisdiction in the mat
ter, that it was not properly a crim
inal proceeding and the $5 bond put
up by Signor Creatore was ordered
returned. The warants were sworn
out by Rev. W. A. Newell.
Adjutant General Has Returned.
Adjutant General R." L. Leinster, of
the North Carolina National Guard,
and the half-dozen North Carolina
Guard officers who accompanied him
have returned from Buffalo, N. Y.,
where they participated in the ses
sion of the National Guard Associa
tion and are enthusiastic over the
success of their trip and have in
mind a number of matters for the
good of the Carolina Guard that will
be set on foot soon. They made a
number side trips before returning.
Discussed His Attitude.
Before leaving for New York to fill
his engagements with the Attorneys
General of South Carolina and the
Virginia Attorney General, Attorney
General T. W. Bickett, of North Caro
lina discussed at length his attitude
in the movement he had brought
about whereby the Attorneys Gen
eral of the three states, constituting
the bright tobacco belt of the coun
try, are to co-operate in filing protest
against the impending plan for the
dismemberment of the American To
tobacco Company.
North Carolina After Big Prizes.
North Carolina will this year go
again after big prizes at the National
Fruit Show, where last year we had
such wonderful success and got all
the best things. It must be borne in
mind that the state horticulturist
says that it is not such a fruit year as
last. Fruit is much less in quantity
and the quality not so high. The im
provements in fruit culture and pack
ing and shipment are very marked
in this state, thanks to the missionary
work dene by the always energetic
agricultural department.
Governor Kitchin to Deliver Address
at Agricultural Exhibits at New
Bern Nov. 22 and 23.
New Bern. Governor Kitchin accept
ed an invitation to deliver an address
in this city on November 22, during
the big agricultural exhibit, which is
to be held here on November .22 and
23. The committee of arrangements
wrote to Governor Kitchin several
days ago asking if he could deliver
an address here on either of those
two days. Extensive preparations
are being made for this exhibit, which
may be the means ci reviving the
New Bern fair; and there is not the
least doubt but that it will be a big
success. The large tobacco ware
house located on Ncrh George street
has been selected for the exhibit
building, and already the various
booths that will be used by the mer
chants and manufacturers of this city
in displaying their wares are being
erected. On one side of the drive
way will be placed the stock exhibit.
There are some of the finest animals
in the state in and near this city, and
this part of the exhibit will doubtless
be one cf the most interesting fea
tures. Outside of the building will
be located the midway. Here the
visitors will have an opportunity of
spending an hour or more enjoying
the various shows that will exhibit
here during the week. It has not been
definitely decided yet whether air
ship flights will be held during the
week. The money for these flights
will have to be raised by public sub
scription, and, as the amount re
quired is quite large, there is some
doubt as to whether the committee
will succeed. However, if an aero
plane is not secured, there will be
some other special feature to take its
place.
Delivered Nineteen Opinions.'
The North Carolina Supreme Court
delivered nineteen opinions in pend
ing appeals as follows: Southern In
vestment Company vs. Postal Tele
graph Company, Beaufort, no error;
Wall vs. Holioman, Hertford, revers
ed; Battle vs. Rocky Mount, Edge
combe, no error; Harvey vs. Petta
way, Lenoir, reversed; Riley vs.
Sears, New Hanover, affirmed; Kivett
vs. Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, Harnett, no error; Johnson vs.
City of Raleigh, Wake, no error;
Johnson vs. City of , Raleigh, Wake,
no error; Edgerton vs. Kirby, John
son, no error; Ball vs. Carolina Light
& Power Co., Wake, error; Grogan
vs. Ashe, Wake, affirmed in both ap
peals; Berger vs. Smith, Wayne, mod
ified; Wyatt vs. Seaboard Air Line,
Wake, no error; Bizzell vs. Roberts,
Wayne, affirmed; in the Will of Fow
ler, Harnett, new trial; Thompson
vs. Smith, Wake, error; Eutry vs. At
lantic Coast Line, Cumberland, no
error; Kochs vs. Jackson, Cumber
land, no error; McKeller vs. Mc
Kay, Cumberland, new .trial; Hocka
tion to rehear dismissed.
Presentation and Acceptance.
Amidst applause that echoed and
re-echoed through' the vast building,
the many thousands in Raleigh's
great Auditorium heard the addresses
of presentation and acceptance of the
handsome structure, marking "flx
in's" for the work of the Municipal
Building Commission as to the Audi
torium and the reciving by the city
of a magnificent convention home
where it can play hosts to thousands
at any time. A unique feature of
the addresses was that they were
made by brothers, the presentation by
Col. Chas. E. Johnson, chairman of the
Building Commission, the acceptance
by Hon. James I. Johnson, Mayor of
the city of Raleigh.
To Rejuvenate The Ferry.
The Statesville merchants have de
cided to rejuvenate the Statesville
ferry on the Catawba river four miles
below Monbo. Up to four years ago
they operated it and since abandon-,
ing it they feel that they have lost
business. A committee consisting of
J. L. Sherrill, C. B. Morrison and J. A.
Connor has been appointed to look
after it Iredell is slowly annexing
about half of Catawba county's busi
ness, and when they build $400,000
worth cf good roads, they will have
a large part of the county's business
"cinched." Meanwhile, Catawba coun
ty drags along over hills and through
hollows on good old mud roads.
A Remarkable Whirl-Wind.
Several days ago while the rain was
beating down in torrents a remark
able whirl-wind swept over a section
south of Archdale about half a mile
in width. It really amounted to a min
iature tornado, and is described as a
funnel-shaped cloud, jumping up and
down. Numerous trees were uproot
ed and tossed in opposite directions,
fences flattened, and in several in
stances barns and other out-buildings
were badly damaged. It is said that
several dozens haystacks were torn
to pieces.
Charged With Attacking Child.
J. K. Jones, a white married man,
is. under arrest in Rocky Mount,
charged with attacking a 13-year-old
gril while she was returning home
from school. The jail is guarded to
prevent possible violence to Jones.
The scene of the attack was remote
from any dwelling, but the girl's
cries attracted the attention of two
men who were driving nearby and
they went to her assistance. At their
approach the girl's assailant fled.
Jones wa;s captured by a gang of sec
tion hands. ,
THEIR SEARCH
WAS A VAIN ONE
POLICE AUTHORITIES ARE UN
ABLE TO FIND RECETACLE
POISON WAS IN.
PREACHER DOESN'T RESIGN
Hio Attorney Intimites That Rev.
Mr. Richeson Will Not Take This
Step He May Be Forced To Do So
Againci Mis Will.
Boston. In their efforts to clear up
the circumstances of the death of
Avis Linnell, the Hyannis Sunday
school teacher and music student,
with whose murder the Rev. Clar
ence V. T. Richeson is charged, the
police have been unable, thus far, it
is said, to locate the receptacle which
held the poison. When the girl took
the dose of cyanide of potassium
which caused her death she was in
the bathroom of the Young Women's
Christian Association home, and
though the house was searched im
mediately after her death, the poison
receptacle cannot be found.
It was said at first that a piece of
paper found beside the body had con
tained the poison but this is now de
nied by the police.
At the time of her death. Miss
Linnell wore a bathrobe over her
night dress but this was buried with
her. When the police learned of this
fact, they surmised that the cyanide
container had been thrust into the
pocket of the bathrobe and it was
believed that orders would have to
be given to exhume the body. -
Inquiry, however, revealed the fact
that the medical examiner's as
sistant examined the bathrobe care
fully and he declares there was noth
ing in the pockets of the garment.
Deputy Superintendent Watts said
definitely that he has information of
a direct character that Mr. Richeson
dined with Miss Linnell the after
noon of the day on which the girl
took the fatal dose. This informa
tion, he said, came from a young wo
man -who is not a member of the
Young Women's Christian Association
household. She met Miss Linnell on
the street. "Miss Linnell told me,"
said Deputy Watts' informant, "that
she had just dined with Richeson and
that she was going home, as she was
suffering from a headache."
The Imperial Army Beaten.
San Francisco, Cal. The main army
of the Chinese government under War
Minister Yin Tchang, said to number
20,000 men, was defeated at Kwang
Shui, Hu-Peh province, according to
a cable received by The Chinese Free
Press of this city. The rebel army
of 15,000 under Li Yueng, it is stated,
captured artillery, baggage train,
and ammunition of the Imperial army,
which retreated to Sho Got. The
cable stated that the Imperial forces
were completely routed and aban
doned their supply trains during the
retreat. The mountain passes at
Kwang Shui, said to be .of great
stragetic value, now are reported to
be held by the revolutionists, giving
them ccntrol of the Hankow-Peking
Railroad.
Has Broken Propeller Shaft. '
London. The North German steam
er Kaiser Auguste Victoria signaled to
the Browhead station that she had
passed the Holland liner Sloterdyk
about three hundred miles off the
coast of Ireland in a disabled condi
tion. The Sloterdyk had broken her
crank shaft and requested immediate
assistance. Several vessels are pro
ceeding to the rescue.
Predicts Low Temperature.
Washington. Low temperatures
will prevail over practically the en
tire country, according to a bulletin
issued by the weather bureau. Frosts
are predicted for the interior of the
Gulf States and the Ohio valley and
there is a probability of snow in. the
Great Lake region. "There are no
indications at the present time of a
disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico or
the West Indies," says the statement
Says Teddy Is An Ananias.
New York. Francisco Escobar, con
sul general of Colombia, made pub
lic a letter written by him to ' Theo
dore Roosevelt, replying to the re
cently published article of the former
President on "How the, United States
Acquired the Right to Build the Pana
ma Canal." The consul general ques
tions the reliability of many of the
assertions made in the Roosevelt ar
ticle, writing in part. "I am address
ing you as an individual and do not
wish to reflect upon the government
or people of the United States.
This Arrest Is a Mystery.
New York. Mystery with an inter
national flavor enveloped Andrei De
GuerrowSki, a handsome Russian of
aristocratic breeding, who was arrrest
ed upon bis arrival from Europe on
the steamer Philadelphia. The arrest
was made through Immigration Com
missioner Williams. .None of the au
thorities would tell what was the
charge against De Guerrowski, and
the Russian himself declared that he
had no notion why he was arrested.
He said he had been in this country
for twenty-seven years.
LAND OF THE LONG LEAF PINE
Column of General News Collected
With Care by the Editor From -Many
Towns and Counties.
Elizabeth City. With the aid of
forked stick in the backyard of his
home, John Munden, a prominent far
mer of Woodville, Perquimans county,
Bhot and killed himself.
Duke. Rev. J. K. Hall was install
ed as minister of the Presbyterian
church here. The visiting ministers
were Rev. A. R. McQueen of Dunn
and Rev. T. H. Spence of Smithfield.
Gastonia. Work is to begin at once
on a new school building for the
Clara and Dunn mills. It will be a
two-story building erected on the east
side of the C. & N. W. Railroad.
Durham. The joint committee on
correlation of schools, -appointed by
the North Carolina and Western
?forth Carolina Conferences of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
met in Greensboro.
Raleigh. The term of the Federal
Court, set to be held in Wilmington
on November 7th, has been postponed
until after New Year, Judge Connor
being compelled to be in Richmond to
sit on the Court of Appeals.
Durham. A number of Durham
lawyers went to Hillsboro for Orange
court, ex-City Attorney R. O. Ever
ett going as the attorney for the Law
and Order League of that place to as
sist the solicitor, S. M. Gattis, in the
prosecutions.
Duke. There has been consider
able over two thousand bales of cot
ton bought on the local market this
season which is nearly six hundred
bales more than was bought up to
this date last year, for which the
highest market prices have been paid.
Goldsboro. In the Superior Court
Judge Peebles pronounced the death
sentence upon Cleveland Garner, the
negro convicted here for the murder
of a negro girl, near Mount Olive, hut
at the same time his honor gave no
tice that he would join with the solic
itor in a plea to Governor Kitchin for
a commutation of the sentence to life
imprisonment, because of the element
of serious doubt as to the guilt. There
seems to be very grave doubt in the
minds of many and time may develop
the suspicions into facts.
High Point. It is stated that in all
probability the Globe-Parlor Furniture
plant which was totally destroyed by
fire will be rebuilt. This concern
was incorporated under the laws of
North Carolina in 1906. During this
time the business had grown consid
erably and the last year has proven
the best in the history of the-company.
Duke. There, were three lots of
chickens shipped from here for the
Raleigh fair. Mr. E. M. Henly sent
up a lot of Rhode Island Reds, so did
Mr. J. W. Lockamon, and Mr. E. S.
Yarbrough sent a lot of Single Comb
White Orpingtons. Both Mr. Henly
and Mr. Yarbrough had exhibits
there last year and each took several
prizes.
oii iiiiiiiDura.g R G hrdluouuuououu
Randleman. The back home move
ment among the cotton mill folks,
while quite rapid has not yet been
sufficient to put in operation all of
the machinery. Great masses of the
operatives moved away from town
during the period of stagnation after
the bankruptcy of the old Randleman
and Naomi Falls Manufacturing com
panies. Duke. The Erwin cotton mill has
been running on Tfull time now for
several months and the prospects
seem very bright for it to continue
on a full schedule for quite a while.
For several years past the mills have
been stopping one or two days dur
ing fair week so those who wished to
might attend the Raleigh fair, but this
year they did not stop at all and this
is considered a good sign for full time
for a long while.
Raleigh. The approaching fall re
union of Carolina Consistory, No. 1,
Ancient and Accepted Order Scottish
Rite cf Free Masonry, Orient of
North Carolina, Valley of Charlotte,
November 14, 15, 16 and 17, promises
to be largely attended. The co-ordinate
bodies of the order derive their
charters from and acknowledge and
yield obedience to the Supreme Coun
cil of the Thirty-third Degree for the
Southern Jurisdiction of the United
States (Mother Supreme Council of
the World).
High Point The large Pickett Cot
ton Mills in the western part of the
city are fast nearing completion.
Eighteen carloads of machinery, such
as looms, etc., have been received and
will be installed at once. It is expect
ed that the mill will be running by the
first of the year.
Statesville. The board of trained
nurses of North Carolina will meet
at Watts hospital, Durham, October
25-26-27, 1911. All graduate nurses
are urged to .register. Application
blanks may be obtained from the
secretary, Miss Anne Ferguson,
Statesville.
Hickory. Through the active agen
cy of the Hickory Chamber of Com
merce a new manufacturing plant to
be known as the Hickory Chair Manu
facturing Company, with an author
ized capital of $150,000 will soon be
in operation in this city.
, ; Greensboro. Charged with purloin
ing and carrying away a mail pouch
of the United States government,
Dock Bass and Ernest N. Ring wee ar
rested in Burlington before United
States Commissioner W. A. Hall both
were held in bonds of $500 each. The
preliminary hearing of the case will
be held before Commissioner HalL
A Psalm of
Deliverance
Sunday School Lesson for Oct 29, 1911
Specially Arranged for This Paper
X.ESSON TEXT Psalm 85.
MEMORY VERSES 10-11.
GOLDEN TEXT "The Lord hath done
great things for us; whereof we are clad."
Psa. 126:3.
PLACE IN HISTORY-Just when this
Psalm was written Is unknown, but in its
spirit it belongs to the return from the
exile, the times of our last two lessons.
Psalms 121, 122. 126, 130 are among Ui
Pilgrim Psalms.
"Psalms of Deliverance" cam as &
vivifying power into the hearts of the
returned exiles, who in the midst or
their joy were overwhelmed with diffi
culties, and hardships and discourage
ments. The reality was far differ
ent from the ideal pictures in their
minds. They had seen Victory glori
ous in the distance, but were not
plunged into the turmoil and smoke
of battle. They were tempted to say
to the prophets that Pliable In the
Slough of Despond, angrily said to
Christian who had urged him to go
on the pilgrimage, to the Celestial
City: "Is this the happiness you have
told me all thi3 while of?" But Bongs
of deliverance keep the celestial hope
ever in view. They point out the
way to the things hoped for, and show
"the evidence of things not seen."
"Thou has been favorable unto thy
land," shown by bringing back the
captivity of Jacob. This was a most
marvelous event and not even to be
hoped for in the natural course of
things. - . ,
"When the Lord turned again the
captivity of Zion," caused the stream
of captives that flowed to Babylon to
turn back and flow to Zion; "like the
streams in the south," in suddenness
and overflowing fullness.
The loving kindness of God proves
that he has forgiven their past trans
gressions. "Thou hast forgiven the
Iniquity of thy people." Canceled It.
as an account of debt is canceled,
or taken away as a heavy, crushing
burden. Covered all their sin. Blot
ted out of sight, covered it with a
mantle, so that they were In God's
sight as those who had never sinned.
We need forgiveness as .wide as the
sin. And we find in the Bible as many
terms expressing forgiveness as wet
found for expresing sin Forgive, Re
mit, Send away, Cover up. Blot out.
Destroy, Wash away, Cleanse.
The returned exiles gained a new
knowledge of God's Word, a new
world experience, they lost the Inde
pendent nation, but gained the Inde
pendent church, from which blossom
ed the Messiah, the Saviour of the
world. The old, eternal law of sin
and death was: irrevocable, never
ceased; but the changed character
permits a new law to override the
consequences. In the words of Dr.
John Thomas of Liverpool: "Every
man who knows anything knows that
one law can be neutralized by anoth
er. There is a law of gravitation
which keeps this Bible here upon the
desk. That law cannot be altered, It
cannot be stopped; it will draw, and
draw, and draw, whatever you may
say or do, but it 'can be neutralized
by the law of my will. I can lift the
book and make the law of gravitation
to appear as though It were not. That
is exactly what we say about the par
don of sin and the arrest of its conse
quences." God has done much for them, but
they longed for more. So many evils
remained, the nation was yet so Im
perfect, so far from what it might be.
Illustration from Dr. Chapman's ad
dress to the Harvard students. "Re
member, friends, that it is God's
standard your life and mine must
come up against. A friend of mine
went to see an old washerwoman, and
as he entered the house the sheets
hanging on the line in front of the
house impressed him as especially
white, spotlessly Tvhite. He went Into
the house, and was there for some
time. It had commenced to snow In
the meantime. When he came out.
he noticed that the snowflakes had
been falling on the clothes, and that
the sheets did not seem white at alL
but yellow rather. He spoke to the
old washerwoman. 'Why, what's the
matter? They looked so very white
when I came In, and now they don't
look white at all.' The old woman
said: 'What can stand against God!
Almighty's white.' "
. There is a charming little booklet
called "Expectation Corner," an alle
gory on prayer almost as good as "Pil
grim's Progress." A poor man In
Redeemed Land mourned over his pov
erty, and was taken at last to see
the Lord's treasure houses. There he
found a room called the Missed Bless
ings Office, full of blessings marked
for him which his weak faith would
not expect, so that his door was
closed when they were brought. He
saw another storehouse, called the De
layed Blessings Office, full of good
things for which the receivers were
not prepared, or which were not fully
ripened for their best use. They were
growing and would be sent in fullness
of time.
Truth shall" spring out of the earth,
from men on earth, as plants grow
from the ground. They seek God "In
sincerity and in truth," and such pray
ers receive the answer of righteous
ness from heaven, a rnt heart, a.
right life, inspiration tr righteousness,,
and guidance in the r.at way. "They
that sow in tears" of sincere repent
ance and toil, "shall reap in joy."
As Haggai told them that drought,
and mildew, and meager crops were
the punishment for their sins and irre
ligion, so now the blessings of pros
perity are promised as the visible re
ward and sign of God's favor.