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VOL. XXXV.
PITTSBORO. CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, FEBRUARY '"B, 1913.
NO. 26.
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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 Happenings of
Greatest Interest From All
Part of World.
Southern.
Mrs. Anne Gartrell Grady, mother
of the late Henry W. Grady, is dead
at the home of her granddaughter in
Atlanta, Ga.
The Fusionists of Tennessee scored
a sweeping victory in Tennessee by
electing their candidates in three
contests for state officers.
Dr. F. M. Ridley, Sr., of LaGrange,
Ga., has been tendered by the United
States government the position of
chairman of a commission of public
health. Doctor Ridley is one of the
most -distinguished and best known
men in Georgia in his profession.
When a string of cars jumped a
locked switch at the Southern rail
way shops at Macon, Ga., and crashed
into another string standing on a re
pair track, it cost the life of George
W. O'Neal, a car inspector; fatally in
jured Sruggs Johnson and seriously
hurt Clinton Lavendar.
One hundred men who had volun
teered their services to build a tab
ernacle for a revival were buried in
piles of broken timbers when the roof
collapsed at Eldorado, Kan. Fifteen
were injured, two probably fatally.
They had been warned that they were
overloading the pof.
A verdict of guilty was returned af
ter only ten minutes' deliberation in
New Orleans in the case of Eugene
F. Buhler, president of the defunct
Teutonia bank, and Joseph Gemila,
director and chairman of the bank's
finance committee, charged jointly
with having received deposits know
ing the institution to be in a failing
condition. Bank examiners found the
most flagrant violations of the nation
al banking law.
General.
The peace negotiations, which
reached a deadlock over the cessa
tion of Adrianople on January 6, were
finally broken by a note which the
plenipotentiaries of the Balkan allies
presented to Rechad Pasha, head of
.the Turkish delegation. The plan of
the allied governments, so far as the
plenipotentiaries are informed, is to
concentrate " their forces on Adriano
ple immediately after the expiration
of the prescribed four days, if the
surrender of the fortress does not oc
cur in the meantime.
As a protest against the withdraw
al of the franchise bill by the Eng
lish government, the suffragists have
resumed their militant tactics in Lon
don. While a deputation, which the
chancellor of the exchequer, David
Lloyd-George, had refused to see, was
trying to force its way into parlia
ment against an overwhelming force
of police, and women were being ar
rested for resisting the officers, the
other bands of women went through
Whitehall breaking windows of the
government offices and through Cock
spur and other streets, where the
great plate glass windows in the. es
tablishments of shipping companies
and other establishments were ruth
lessly smashed.
Eight United States senators were
elected in eight different states of the
Union. Six of the number are -Democrats
and two Republicans. Three of
the number are members, of the na
tional upper house and were re-elected.
The new senators are William H.
Thompson of Kansas, William Hughes
of New Jersey, Judge W. M. Kava
naugh of Arkansas, Representative
Morris Sheppard of Texas and Key
Pittman of Nevada, all Democrats,
and--A. B. Fall of New Mexico and
Francis. E. WTarren of Wyoming, Re
publicans. B. R. Tillman of South
Carolina was re-elected.
Carl Reidelbach, who terrorized the
central police station in Los Ange
les, Cal., in November last, has been
sentenced to twenty years in the pen
itentiary. The sentence was imposed
after Reidelbach had declared he be
lieved dynamite was a good means
of righting some social wrongs. "If
I thought your allegation was an un
alterable principle I would sentence
iou to life imprisonment," said the
court, "but I think twenty years in
the penitentiary will give you plenty
f time to change your mind."
ear Butte, Mont., for fifteen hours
frank Engstrom, aged eleyen, was
treeri by a mountain lion, with the
thermometer at 35 below zero. The
pxtreme cold finally drove the animal
back to its lair, and the boy escaped.
President Taft has received a pres
ent of a silver box from a number of
Southern admirers.
"This city in its continuance of
congestion of population, is more cru
el tUn the Turk in his most barbar
ous hours,'' declared Benjamin C.
-Uan-h, executive secretary of the
Tew York Congress committee, in ad
dressing Physicians and Sugeons.
Miss Genevieve Clark, eighteen-year-old
daughter of Speaker Clark, is .
the youngest author whose writings
fre indexed in the Pap-American Un
ion library, she is preparing a series
of articlese on life in the capital.
A bandit robbed the safe of an
sxpress car and escaped with a bag
Df currency said to contain several
'thousand dollars. The car was at
tached to a Chicago special express
train on a branch of the Pennsylva
nia railroad.
Woodrow Wilson accepted the offer
of the students of Princeton univer
sity to escort him from his home in
Princeton to the white house on the
day he is inaugurated. Just a century
ago Princeton gave its last president
to the nation James Madison. The
centenary will be celebrated in a
unique way, to which Mr. Wilson has
given his consent.
The rogues' gallery of New York
City, in which it has been charged
that there has been favoritsm, will be
investigated by an aldermanic com
mittee. President-elect Wilson has announc
ed that his conferences with promi
nent Democrats generally about "men
and policies," which have been in
progress ever since he returned from
Bermuda, are a tan end. Heficeforth,
until March 4, he will devote practi
cally his entire time to his duties as
governor of New Jersey.
Peter Boore, a young Chicago ban
dit who was shot by Clarence Mc
Sweeney, a police telephone operator,
has admitted having participated with
his brother, Albert, in more than 20
hold-ups on the south side during the
past six weeks. Shortly after making
the confession he died.
Deputy sheriffs and strikers from
the Rankin plant of the American
Steel and Wire company, a subsidia
ry of the United States Steel corpo
ration, clashed at Pittsburg, and one
man was killed and twelve-persons
injured, several fatally. Among the
injured are several women and a six-months-old
child.
President elect Wilson received
greetings from the king of Spain
through the Marquis de la Vega In
clan, the royal commissioner delegat
ed to select a site for the Spanish
exhibit at the Panama exposition at
San Francisco. It was the first mes
sage Mr. Wilson has received from a
European ruler. The envoy, besides
conveying to the president-elect the
king's personal message of good will,
expressed in behalf of the king a deep
interest in the exposition at San Fran
cisco. He told the governor that
Spain had been plnaning a similar
exposition for the same year, but now
intended to postpone her world's fair
until 1918.
Washington.
Cipriano Castro, former president
of Venezuela, was' denied admission
to the United States as a visitor by
Charles Nagel, secretary of commerce
and labor because Castro refused to
answer whether he had any party in
the killing of General Paredes.
It was inevitable that one way or
another the farmer would at last be
blamed for the high cost of living.
A greater yield of crops at less cost,
by the application of scientific meth
ods of soil culture and the use of
business principles, such as mills and
other industries have to employ, will
help break the backbone of high
prices of foodstuffs, according to Prof.
Milton Whitney of the United States
department of agriculture. He is an
authority on soils and their uses, and
is now preparing a bulletin on ,the
nation's food supply. He says fewer
acres of land are today being culti
vated in proportion to population than
heretofore. One-fifth less acres are
being tilled than in 1880.
With the election of Willard Sauls
bury as United States senator from
Delaware, the Democratic strength in
the next senate swung from the pre
carious figure of 48, or exactly one
hall the senate, to the safer total of
49,. a majority of 2. Mr. Saulsbury's
election, added to the victory recently
secured in Tennessee, assures the
Democrats absolute, control of the
senate after ; March 4- The vote of
Vice Eresident " Marshall would 'have
been the deciding factor in any event,
but the addition of another Demo
cratic vote to the-column gives the
party leaders what they believe to
be a safe margin for tariff and legis
lative action.
The Washington monument was
characterized as "an Egyptian obe
lisk," the postoffice department build
ing as a "cross between a cathedral
and a cotton factory!' and the pen
sion building as a "lovely red shed
that disfigures Judiciary square," by
Representative Cooper of Wisconsinr
in a speech in the house.
Following the recipt : of official con
firmation of the massacre of Capt.
Patrick McNally and six native enlist
ed men of the Philippine scouts by the
Moros of the island of Jolo,- war de
partment officials planned a campaign
to rid the entire island of the head
hunters, who have proved so destruc
tive to United States soldiers since
the American occupation. Secretary,
of War Stimson ordered that a cam
paign to the death be waged against
the natives. The engagement in which
Captain McNally and his men were
killed has convinced the department
that only a sanguinary campaign can
pacify this portion of the Philippines.
Not only has the parcel post saved
the people of the United States in the
first fifteen days of its existence more
than a half million dollarsi according
to Senator Bourne, author of the law,
but it has not proved a hardship to
the overworked letter carrier. Senator
Bourne announced that reports from
forty-five leading cities of the coun
try which produced almost half of the
postal revenues showed that during
the twelve working days ' between
January 1 and 15, a total of 5,094,027
outgoing parcels were dispatched at
a cost of $395,286, or about 7.7 cents
a parcel.
WEEKS
OF
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WHAT IS BEING DONE BY THE
LAWMAKERS OF STATE OF
NORTH CAROLINA
NUMBER OF BILLS ACTED ON
Pass Resolution For Committee to
Confer With Railroad Officials With
Reference to Freight Rate Discrlnv
mination Other Work Being Done.
Senate Monday.
Senator Watts, chairman of the
Committee on Appropriations, moved
for the appointment of a clerk to his
jommittee. I
The followings bills passed final
readings :
House bill to amend the charter of
Town of Salem, v
Senate bill to authorize Waynes
rille to issue bonds and complete the
graded school building.
Senate bill to amend the charter
Df East Spencer, Rowan county.
Senate bill to authorize an election
for graded school bonds in Scotland
Neck.
Senate hill authorizing Forsyth
county to issue refunding bonds or
notes to pay for part of the construc
tion of Roanoke & Southern Railway.
Senate bill to validate electric light
bond election in Asheboro.
Senate bill to incorporate Town of
Grandin, Caldwell county.
House Monday.
There was the usual flood of petitions
from all sections of the state for six
months school terms and a number for
compulsory attendance and for child
labor legislation.
There was favorable report for the
Kellum bill to restore local self-government
to New Hanover county, a
bill that only provides forchange in
the number of justices of the peace
for Wilmington township.
Senate Tuesday.
Petitions were received from Gas
ton, Cabarrus, Cumberland, Rocking
ham, Rowan and Watauga counties
for six-months school terms.
The following bills passed final
reading:
Senate bill to amend section 3505 of
the Revisal, so as to make the mini
ro"T!i punishment for horse-stealing
four months instead of five years.
This was opposed by Wakefield and
Watts.
House bill to amend the Revisal,
section 93, so as to require notice of
refusal to pay an account by an ad
ministrator to be in writing, the Sen
ate amendment not to apply to tran
sactions prior to enactment.
Senator Studdert was added to the
Committee on Penal Institutions.
House Tuesday.
Raleigh. The Stewart bill amend
ing the divorce laws passed the
House Tuesday afternoon. It origi
nally provided that separation for two
years be ground for divorce. The com
mittee had amended this, making the
time five years, the party abandoned
without cause having the right to re
marry. -
The House passed the Justice anti
trust bill, which applies the Federal
anti-trust law to the state, enacts the
provisions of the , old Reid anti-trust
bill of the 1907 session and provides
machinery for the Attorney General to
enforce the law.
A number of bills passed final read
ing in the house.
Senate Wednesday. .
The senate discussed at consider
able length, the question of whether
constitutional amendments shall be
submitted to the people bp this ses
sion or by a special session next fall.
Petitions were sent up by Senators
Brown, Coffey, Hall, Ivie, Payne,
Barnes, PeeblesEvans of Bladen,
Bryant and Davis for a six-months'
school term and compulsory education
law; by Hooks, from Woman's Club of
Goldsboro, for right of women to
serve on school committees, for bet
ter laws regulating labor of women
and children and for a vital statis
tics law; by Pharr from the Eclectic
Club of. Charlotte, for the vital statis
tics law.
House Wednesday.
There w.ere numbers of petitions re
ported from various sections of the
state for the child labor legislation,
six-months school terms and compul
sory attendance, better roads, search
an ad seizure law, and petitions for the
state to provide for the expenses of
the state militia in attending the in
auguration of President Wilson.
Bills passed final reading as fol
lows: Gordjbn bill to require preparation
for University and four-years reading
medicine - before persons can be li
censed to practice.
Senate bill to authorize the sum
moning rt juror's, from other counties
for the trial of causes in certain cases.
House bill to prevent infant blind
ness. House bill to prevent the use of
firearms by children; parents and
guardians being guilty of misde
meanor under certain circumstances.
Senate Thursday.
Raleigh. The Senate voted37 to 10
for the appointment of the legislative
ittpfi nf five from the Senate and
sight from the House and the com-
mission of five by the Governor as a
WORK
GENERA
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constitutional amendment commis
sion, as recommended by the .Joint I
Committee on Constitutional Amend
ments. A message from Governor Craig sub
mitted the proposition from E. C.
Duncan to buy the State's stock in the
A. & N. C. Railroad for $949,950 in
cash, 75 per cent of par value.
? Among reports of committees was
an unfavorable report from the Com
mittee on Education.
House Thursday.
Petitions from many parts of the
state for six months school terms, for
compulsory school attendance, child
labor legislation, special school tax
levies, woman's suffrage and state-wide
dog tax.
A message received from the Gov
ernor, transmitting without "recom
mendation the proposition of E. C.
Duncan to purchase the state's stock
in the Atlantic & North Carolina Rail
road Co., was referred to the Finance
Committee.
Bills passed final reading as fol
lows :
Relative to the issuance of bonds
in Forsyth county fo rthe Roanoke &
Southern Railroad. '
. To validate electric light bonds in
Asheboro.
To allow Red Springs to issue
school bonds.
Senate Friday.
The Senate passed the Judiciary
Committee's substitute for the North
Carolina Bar Association jury bills
providing for 12 peremptory challenges
by the defendant in capital cases- and
four for the state, the state to stand
none at the foot of the panel, and do
ing away with the requirement that
jurors in the box must be freeholders.
Petitions were received from citi
zens of Northampton county for bond
ing railroad employes; from citizens
of Littleton for an appropriation of
$20,000 for the Oxford Orphanage;
from Farmers' Union of Halifax coun
ty for six-months school term and
compulsory school law;- from Junior
Order Councils at Statesville, Gas
toniaT Pilot Mountain, Franklinton and
Asheboro for better "child labor law
and compulsory school law.
House Fridayr
In the House the Kellum bill passed
by a good-sized majority, directing the
Corporation Commission to investi
gate the receiver's sale to the A. &
Y. Railroad and subsequent division
of the old Cape Fear & Yadkin Val
ley Railroad, Wilmington to Mount
Airy, by -the Southern and Atlantic
Coast Line, and report to the Attorney
General as to findings that indicate
conspiracy to throttle competition in
violation of the Sherman anti-trust
law.
The following bills were ratified:
To authorize Commissioners of For
syth county to issue refunding bonds
for the Roanoke & Southern Railroad
Senate&Saturday.
The senate passed the housA joint
resolution for the governor to ap
point a committee of three to con
fer with officials of railroad compa
nies in effort to settle contest ovei
freight rate discrimination without
retaliatory legislation at this ses
sion.
House bill to amend Revisal so as
to require hunters starting fires to ex
tinguish them passed final readings
The following also passed:
Senate bill fixing boundary line be
tween two school tax districts in
Wilkes.
Senate bill to empower Madison
county to buy land adjacent to court
house for better fire protection.
Senate bill to appoint magistrates ir
Nash and ratify their acts.
Senate resolution to pay expenses, oi
Vacation Committee on Home foi
Wives and Widows of Veterans
Announcement was made of the
consideration of alj divorce bills by
the tw.o judiciary committees on Tues
day afternoon at 3 o'clock in the
senate chamber.
Petitions in considerable numbers
were received for six-months schools
and compulsory attendance law.
House Saturday.
There were petitions introduced ad
vocating six-months minimum terms
of public school; for compulsory
attendance; for location of th
proposed Western Carolina Teaehei
Training school and for child ' laboi
legislation. .
The Weathefspqon bill as intro
duced to provide for 20 instead of 1
judges and superior court districts
was put upon its passage, voted with
out opposition and sent to the senate
and then a motion, to reconsider the
motion and table it cerried, making it
impossible for the matter to be re
opened in the house again.
The house passed the joint resolu
tion endorsing the proposed Trans
continental Highway, Atlantic to the
Pacific
Representative Clark of Pitt coun
ty introduced in the house a drastic
anti-cigarette bill as follows:
"Whereas, the. public welfare de
mands that the health of its citizens
be protected, and that the young
men of our state be allowed to grow
to a fully developed manhood; anc
whereas the use of tobacco in th
form of cigarettes is admitted anc
recognized as very injurious to th
human system, therefore the genera'
assembly of North Carolina do enact:
"Section 1 That it shall be a mis
demeanor for any person, firm or cor
poration to manufacture or sell, of
fer to sell, or to bring into the stat
for the purpose of selling, givini
away, or otherwise disposing of, anj
cigarettes, cigarette papers or sub
stitute for the same; and a violatioi
of any of the provisions of this ac
shall be a misdemeanor punishabl
j by a fine of not less than $50.
PROBLEM IS
EXPLANATION OF WORK BUREAU
OF SOCIAL HYGIENE HOPES
TO ACCOMPLISH.
ABOLISH WHITE SLAVE TRADE
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Tells of the
Plans for the Investigation of
Vice Conditions.
New York. In order that the pub
lie might better understand the Bu
reau of Social Hygiene, John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., gave out a statement
explaining the origin, work and the
plans of that institution. The bureau,
he said, came into existence afiout
two years ago as a result of the work
of a special grand jury appointed to
investigate the white slave traffic in
New York City. This jury recom
mended that a public commission be
appointed to study the social evil.
Mr. Rockefeller was foreman of
that grand jury and he thereafter
gave the subject deep thought and
conferred with a large number of the
leading men and women. "These con
ferencese," says Mr. Rockefeller, "de
veloped the feeling that a public com
mission would labor under a number
of disadvantages such as the fact that
it would be short lived; that its work
would be done publicly; that at best
it could hardly do more than pre
sent recommendations. So the con
viction grew that in order to make a
real and lasting improvement in con
ditions, a permanent organization
should be created, the continuation of
which would not be dependent upon a
temporary wave of reform, nor upon
the life of any man or group of men,
but which would go on, generation
after generation, continuously making
warfare against the forces of evil. It
also appeared that a private organiza-t-
tion would have, among other advan
tages, a certain freedom from public
ity and from political bias, which a
public appointed commission could
not so easily avoid.
"Therefore, as the initial step, in
the fvinterof-1911 the Bureau of So
cial Hygiene was formed. Its pres
ent members are Miss Katharine
Bement Davis, superintendent of the
New -York state reformatory for wom
en at Bedford Hills, N. Y.; Paul M.
Warburg of the firm of Kiihn, Loeb &
Co.; Starr J. Murphy of the New York
bar, and John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
"One of the first things undertaken
by the bureau was the establishment
at Bedford Hills, adjacent to the re
formatory, of a labratory of social
hygiene,- under Miss Davis' direction.
In this laboratory it is proposed to
study from the physical, mental, so
cial and moralside each person com
mitted to the reformatory. This study
will be carried on by experts and
each case will be kept under obser
vation for from three weeks to three
months, as may be required. When
the diagnosis is completed, it is hoped
that the laboratory will be in position
to recommend the treatment most
likely to reform the individual, or, if
reformation is Impossible to recom
mend permanent custodial care. Fur
thermore, reaching out beyond the in
dividuals Involved, it is believed that
thus important contributions may be
made to a fuller knowledge of the
conditions ultimately responsible for
vice. If this experiment is success
ful the principle may prove applica
ble to all classes of criminals and the
conditions precedent to. crime and
lead to lines of action not only more
scientific and humane, but also less
wasteful than those at present follow
ed." That its work might be done intelT
llgently the bureau employed George
j. Kneeland to make a comprehensive
survey of .vice conditions in New
York, and Abraham Flexner to study
the social evil in Europe, and their
reports are now being prepared.
In conclusion Mr. Rockefeller's
statement says: "It cannot be. too'
strongly emphasized that the spirit
which dominates the work of the bu
reau is not sensational or sentimen
tal or hysterical; that it is not a spirit
of criticism of public officials; but
that it is essentially -a spirit of con
structive suggestion and of deep sci
entific as well as humane interest in
a great world problem." -
Ryan's Bond Refused.
Chicago. For the second time the
United States circuit court of appeals
declined to approve bonds submitted
for the release of Frank M. Ryan,
president of the International Iron
workers union; R. H. Houlihan and
William Shupe of Chicago, convicted
of conspiracy in connection with ille
gal transportation of dynamite. Dis
trict Attorney Miller advised the court
he had inspected the sureties and
found them insufficient. Bonds of
William Bernhardt of Cincinnati for
$10,000' were accepted.
Speedy Justice Meted Negro.
Gulfport, Miss. Within seven
hours after he had shot and killed
Chief of Police Charles Dickey, Per
cy Newkirk, a negro, who had been
trapped by the officer while in the
act of burglarizing a store, was in
dicted by the county grand jury, tried
on a charge of murder, convicted, and
sentenced to be hanged just . one
month from date. Notwithstanding
the quick justice meted out to the ne
gre, a large and excited crowd throng
ed the streets near the court house
and threats of lynching made.
RIG
BEING
FROM THE TAR HEEL STATE
Latest News of General Interest That
Has Been Collected From Many
Towns and Counties.
Siler City. Siler City is to have
electric lights, plans having already
taken definite shape looking to this
end.
Raeford. At a mass meeting of the
citizens of Raeford It was decided
to ask the legislature to authorize the
issue of $35,000 in bonds for the pur
chase of a modern school building.
Asheville. Mr. N. B. McDevitt, well
known in the political circles of West
ern North Carolina was notified of
his appointment to the office of clerk
of superior court of Madison county,
having -been named by Judge Frank
Carter to succeed Mr. W. H. Hender
son who died recently in Florida.
Asheville. Messrs. A. H. Hawkins
M. M. Shepherd, F. E. Tipton and A.
C. Morris, four of the most prominent
merchants of Henderson ville, were
arrested charged with a violation of
the United States law, which forbids
the mailing of matter in which prizes
are offered subject to games of
chance or drawings.
Raleigh. Coroner Seaparks is in
vestigating the killing of Lindsay
Smith, a negro youth, who was found
dead by the roadside a few miles
from Raleigh on the Louisburg road.
Wilson. In the western part of the
county Cleveland Boone, a white farm
er of Horn's Church, shot R. A. Dea
ton, a neighbor. Deaton died as a
result of the . shooting.
' Newbern. Much interest is being
manifested by the boys of this county
in the corn club which was organized
a few weeks ago. In addition to the
prizes which have been offered by the
state a number of prizes have been
offered to the successful contestants
by local merchants and business men.
The exhibits will be made during the
fall, probably during the Eastern Car
olina fair week and will be seen there.
Washington. A report of the soil
survey of Johnston county made by
the bureau of soils in co-operation
with the North Carolina department
of agriculture will soon be issued
The survey was made for the pur
pose of showing the agricultural value
and crop- adaptation of the soils of the
county, how they should be treated
and what methods of' farm manage
ment should be followed in order to
obtain the best possible yield.
Fannville. Following an enthusl
astic good roads mass-meeting in the
local town hall recently, a large peti
tion has been sent up to the legisla
ture asking for a vote on a $40,000
bond issue for goods roads in Farm
ville township. A petition for special
tax has also been sent up, but the
bond issue petition more than doubles
the tax petitions. Fannville township
expects to set an example to neigh
boring sections. Green county, ad
joining, has already taken active steps
for good roads.
Salisbury. Prof. R. G. Kizer, super
intendent of education in Rowan coun
ty has announced that the county
board of education has planned to
give a five-months' school term this
year where the county schools have
one principal Supt. Kizer made an
other announcement, to the effect that
there will be held a county commence
ment, of all the rural schools about
the last of March.
Washington. A public meeting of
the citizens and prominent business
men of Washington was held m the
court house in the interest of good
roads for Washington and Beaufort
county. Congressman John H. Small
and R. E. Toms the highway engineer
of the United States bureau of public
roads, were the principal speakers
The meeting lasted for about two
hours and much enthusiasm was ex
hibited, both by the farmers and the
citizens.
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Thomasville. The opposition to the
new county of Aycock, for the crea
tion of which the present legislature
is being asked, has begun in Thomas
ville and is being displayed by the
circulation of a petition over the town
to be signed by those who oppose
the movement. Thomasville Is to be
included in the bounds of Aycock
county, if it is established, and conse
quently a great deal of interest is be
ing manifested in the outcome of the
Gold bill, now. before the legislature
for consideration.
Greensboro To make an inspection
of the state normal college-and the ru
ral public schools of Guilford J. D
Eggleston and J. C. Muerman, of the
national department of rural educa
tion were here recently.
Greensboro. County Superintend
ent of Education Thomas R. Foust is
beginning to get reports from the
meetings held in every school district
of the county several days ago with
a purpose of discussiug the advisabil
ity of asking the legislature to enact
a compulsory attendance law for Guil
ford, in the event a state-wide meas
ure is not passed.
Raleigh. Members of the North
Carolina Bankers' Association in
meeting just held here selected
Asheville as the place for the 1913
summer meeting, the date to be some
where between the 1st and 20th of
July.
Greensboro. The Interstate Con
vention of the Young Men's Chris
tian Association or the Carolinas
came to a close recently, with the
election of officers and a farewell
meeting to the delegates in attend
ance. The meeting was held in the
local association building and was
I lareely attended.
MmMTIONAL
smsrsoiooL
Lesson
(By E. O. SELLERS, Director of Eve
ning Department .The Moody Blbo in
stitute of Chicago.)
LESSON FOR FEBRUARY 9.
GOD'S COVENANT WITH NOAH.
LESSON TEXT Gen. 9:8-17. '
GOLDEN TEXT "I do set my bow In
the cloud and It shall be for a token of a
Gen. 9:13.
I. Verses 8-11. .At the conclusion of
the lesson of last week Noah was em
barked in the ark and the flood was
over the earth. Between that time
and the time of this lesson Noah
time had arrived for him to leave the
Ark. At last God gave him com
mand (8:15. 16) to "go forth," but he
did not go empty handed. Noah had
taken his all in the ark and it proved
to be a most profitable investment.
Though shut up 150 days (7:24), God
must have been in the hearts of that
little company as they stepped forth
Upon the dry land. What an over
powering sense of God's gracious
mercy. What a recollection of God's
awful wiath. What a trembling least
there be a repetition of this disaster.
And what an amazement In contem
plating the mighty work of founding
a new race.
Noah's Offering.
The first act on Noah's part upon
leaving the ark was to build an altar
unto God and to offer a burnt offering
(8:20). Thus we see that God'B cov
enant with Noah was based upon the
ground of shed bloodv (Heb. 9:15-22),
and as such it was ah acceptable of
fering, "a sweet smelling sacrifice"
(8:21), because it was an expression
of entire consecration to God, Phil.
4:18. This offering is, of course, a
type of Christ who is the "Lamb slain
from the foundation of the world." As
Noah's offering, see 8:21, averted a '
rightful penalty, even so the offering
of Christ redeems us from the curse
of sin which is our just due, Gal. 3:13.
As they look about upon the
cleansed earth, for there is no sin
present except that of their own
hearts, they are to us a type of that
new life into which we enter through
Jesus Christ, see I. Peter 3:20, 21.
A study of covenants and of coven-.
ant making ceremonies is always In
tensely Interesting. In the Biblical
meaning a covenant is a compact or
agreement between two parties, (l)
between God and man, (2) between
man and man. In this covenant God
bestowed the, benefit of an assurance,
though Noah had had certain condi
tions Imposed upon him, the fulfilling
of which brought him to this place
where he might receive this assur-
ance.
God's covenant with Noah was one
of eight great covenants, (i) the one
made in Eden, Gen. 1:28; (2) the
Adamic, Gen. 3:15; (3) this with
Noah, Gen. 8:21, 22; (4) one with
Abraham, Gen. 15:18; (5) that with
Moses, Ex. 1925; (6) one with the
Israelites, DeuL 36:3; (7) that with
David, 2 Sam. 7:16; (8) the new cov
enant, Heb. 8:8. The main elements
of this covenant are,1 (a) the removal
of the curse, 8:21; (b) the assurance
of returning harvests and regular sea
ton, 8:22; (c) the promise of an
abundant progeny, 9:1; (d) the domi
nation of animal life, 9:2; (e) provi
sion fot- food, both flesh and herd, 9:
3; (f)" provision for sacrifice and wor
ship, 9:4; (g) the safety of human
life, 9:5; (h) the administration ol
Justice, 9:6.
, God's Promise.
Noah's life of obedience before he
entered the ark had elicited God's
promise that he would establish a
covenant with him, see Eph. 6:18;
and so God today holds before all
men the promise of a new and better
covenant Into which they also may
enter if they will, Heb. 8:8. God haa
frequently used this covenant as an
Illustration of his love and his faith
fulness towards his people, Isa. 5:
9, 10, and this covenant included God's
care for the beasts as well as man,
verses 10, 15, 16, see also Ps. 36:5, 6;
Jonah 4:11 This Is a good thought
to emphasize with the younger pupils.
II. Verses 12-17. As though Je
hovah would make assurance doubly
secure, he not only made a covenant
but annointed a token, a sign, of that
covenant, whereby the covenant is to
be remembered, read Gen. 17:11; Ex.
12:18, 2:12; Matt. 26:23-28; I. Cor.
11: 23-25. We must beware of read
ing into this passage any suggestion
that this is the first appearance of a
rainbow upon the earth; there is no
such suggestion In the text, but rath
er God took the rainbow which was
set in the cloud and made of it a
token of the covenant he had made
with Noah. Whenever we behold a
rainbow we ought to remember that
his covenant was not alone to Noah,
bu to us, his seed.
The rainbow was formed of that
same rain which had produced the
flood. "After the appearance of an
entire rainbow, as a rule, no rain of
long duration follows." The rainbow
Is proof that the rain is partial and
that the sun of God's mercy is shin
ing. It lights up what had Just been
dark and fateful. Rainbows can be
seen In all parts of the earth, so is
his mercy all embracing. A rainbow
is beautiful and attractive, and so is
Jesns the chief among ten thousand
and the one altogether lovely. An
arch is the strongest form of ma-