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VOL. XXXVI
HTOBO O. CHATHAM UOllrVl Y, N .L. IOVt MtJK 5. 1913
NO 13.
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
FOR THE BUSY
MT IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED
Complete Review of Happenings of
Greatest Interest From All
Parts of World.
Southern.
Secretary Hester's New Orleans cot
ton exchange statement just issued
covers the monthly movement to Oc
tober 31. Compared with last year it
-hows a decrease for the month in
round fixtures of sixteen thousand
hales, an incerase compared with year
before last of one hundred and twenJ
ty-nine thousand hales and with 1910
11 an increase of four hundred and
nfty-six thousand bales. The total for
October was 2,917,422, against 2,933,
813 last year, 2,788,324 year before last
and 2,461,015 for the same time in
191.
Two men were killed outright and
two seriously injured and a hundred
passengers severely shaken up when
Southern railway passenger train No.
I';), en route from Columbus, Ga., to
Atlanta, Ga., was derailed along a
curve over a steep embankment near
Griffin. The dead men are Engineer
Thomas H. Gay and Fireman E. C.
Vei xson of Atlanta. They were buried
beneath the heavy engine. Conductor
D. Williams was terribly cut
Tae 80-year-old wife, of Ernest Mc
Coy, a farmer, of . Pelham,.N. H., was
found murdered in the parlor of their
home with two revolver bullets in her
body. The husband made an attempt
to commit suicide.v It is not definitely
known that he killed his wife.
The seventh convention of the
Southern Commercial congress was
brought to a close after a directorate
composed of many new members was
elected and resolutions upon import
ant eubjects discussed had been pass
ed. Mobile entertained the congress
in grand style. Chief among resolu
tions adopted was on instructing , the
directors of the congress to at once
begin a systematized propaganda aim
ing at diverting rade made possible
by cpening the Panama canal to the
Southern ports. Officials of the con
gress are ordered to do this as quick
ly as possible.
Mrs. Winnie Weyer, a widow, has
won the postmastership of Corning,
Kansas, over five men opponents. A
final count of votes cast in an election
showed Mrs. Weyer 106 votes ahead
of her closest competitor. The elec
tion was held in accordance with the
custom in small towns of allowing the
patrons of an office to vote for a
postmaster. "The men spent all their
time haggling over the votes of the
men," Mrs. Weyer said. "I let the
men's votes take care of themselves
and lined up my own sex. That made
it easy." The women of the town
are jubilant.
General.'
The steamer Morro Castle, which ar
rived from Vera Cruz, with Mrs. John
Lind, wife of President Wilson's spe
cial envoy, brought also two Mexi
can legislators, who owe their liberty
if not their lives to her quick wit and
generosity. To save the two Mexicans
from arrest at Vera Cruz Mrs. Lind
hid them in her stateroom and sat
i;: all night on deck until the boat
ieft port and the officers of the Huerta
government had gone ashore. i
According to 1,644 reports of the
special correspondents of the Journal
of Commerce bearing an average date
of October 23, cotton shows a deterio
ration of 5 points in condition was 67.1.
Killing frosts and excessive rain were
'he chief causes of damage. A year
ago at this time condition lost 1.5
ponts, in 1911 it lost 1.5 points, in
1S10 it lost nothing, in 1909 it lost
2-9 points, and in 1908 it lost 3.6
points. Declines occurred in all states
except Tennessee and Florida, which
improved 2 points and 3 points re
spectively. Georgia declined 4.3
points.
The will of Adolphus Busch, filed for
I rebate, makes charitable bequests ag
gregating $170,000 to a number of St.
Louis, Mo., institutions, and places the.
''"5k of the estate in trust.
Mobilized in approximately six hours
'he commands of the Colorado Na
tional Guard began moving toward th.s
-outh Colorado coal fields, where mar
tial law has been established in com
pliance with the governor's proclamu
non. While the ordering of troops t?
"ie coal fields followed the failure
Governor Amnion's efforts to ex--;-nge
a, settlement, an additional rea
n for the act?on was found in the
ixt'ot casualties and property dam-
-pe that have roarked the thirty-five
' ;?s of the strike. Both sides seem
caermined to prolong the strike to
V;e end.
Katherine Elkins, daughter of the
?.te Senator Stephens B. Elkins, was
rarried in Elkins, W. Va., to "Billy"
j'itt. Owing to the suddenness of the
v'aole affair, no attention was paid to
':' ess, and the ceremony was most in
formal. It is said Mr. Hitt's mother,
raiding in Washington, was apprised
f the marriage by telegram. The wed
!'ng found members of both families
;""1 friends unprepared as to gifts.
Mr- Hitt met Miss Elkins in Wash
ington society ten years ago, and has
uin one of her most devoted ad
mirers ever since. She had been
admired by many , foreigners-
MAN
Mrs. Bessie J. Waseneld of Bristol,
Conn., mother of the three little chil
dren, was found- guilty of murder in
the first degree for her "part in the
killing of her husband. Evidence in
the trial showed that Mrs. Wakefield
conspired to get rid of Wakefield. It
is stated that while Mrs. Wakefield
took her children out for a walk,
James Plew partly drugged her, hus
band and then shot him tol death. A
knife was driven in the body and a
rope placed around the neck to give
the appearance of suicide.
Fifty-four deaths from drowning
were reported at San Salvador from
districts of the republic of Salvador
inundated by a rainfall of unprece
dented severity lasting throughout two
days.
Former Governor Morgan G. Bulkley
of Hartford, Conn., and Charles S. En
sign of Newton brought a bill in equi
ty in the Connecticut supreme court
asking that the New York, New Ha
ven and Hartford railroad company be
enjoined from issuing bonds to the
amount of $67,552,000.
Dr. Ernest Maret, the friend of
Hans Schmidt, the priest who confess
ed to killing Anna Amuller, who has
been on trial in the Federal court for
counterfeiting, was found guilty. On
two counts of making and possess
ing counterfeiting apparatus, Maret
was -held;to be guilty, but the jury
decided he was not guilty of conspir
acy with Schmidt to counterfeit Unit
ed States gold certificates. The jury
deliberated four hours
Fifty members of the former crew
of the battleship Oregon have peti
tioned the secretary of the navy for
permission to enlist for sixty or nine
ty days when the ship is sent through
the Panama canal in 1915. These men
live in and around San Francisco, and
all are desirous of again treading the
decks of the warship on which they
made a forced run from the Pacific
to the Atlantic in 1898, and arrived
off Cuba in time to play an important
part in the destruction of the Spanish
fleet.
The city of Monterey, capital of the
state of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, and also
one of the most important strategic
points in Hexico, has been captured
by the rebels after a ten days' siege.
Washington.
Reticence which has enveloped the
plans of the Washington government
on the Mexican problem continues. In
whatever is attempted, due consider
atidon of the Constitutionalists as an
important factor in the situat on will
probably be given. It was inferred in
many quarters that the cardinal fea
tures of the administration's plan will
be a comprehensive scheme to bring
about a fair and free election, efforts
to be made by the American govern
ment to use is good office to secure
the participation of the Constitutional
ists. It is admitted no acti.on will be
taken immediately.
President Wilson has come to the
rescue of harassed congressmen and
insists that efficiency shall control
the selection of deputy collectors of
internal revenue. This includes the
force which shall collect the income
taxes. In a formal statement issued
by William G. McAdoo, secretary of
the treasury, and Col. William H. Os
borne, commissioner of internal rev
enue, are advised that the places of
deputies are not to be used to reward
personal political services, or in any
way that savors of the spoils system.
Many congressmen are overjoyed at
tnis announcement.
Two years of useful life are lost to
every American under existing educa
tional conditions, due to the increas
ing fads and furbelows adopted by
the latter-day schools and made part
of their compulsory curriculum. This
is the finding of a body of eminent
educators headed by James H. Baker
of the University of Colorado, whose
report has been issued by the United
States bureau of education. The great
mistake in our educational system is
to suppose that quantity and strain
constitute education. Education is a
question of doing a few things well
without overstrain. "
Three European nations, Great Brit
ain, Germany and France have at
last agreed to adopt no new policy
toward Mexico until the government
of the United States can submit for
their consideration a definite plan for
the future treatment of , the revolution
torn republic in Central America. That
a request of the powers to await a
proposal regarding Mexico from the
United States government had been
made and that the three great Euro
pean nations had yielded to the re
quest was announced by Secretary
Bryan. Blanquet, it is stated in Mex
ico, will become the next president.
A threatened deadlock in the sen
ate banking and currency committee
ever the proposal to substitute a government-owned
bank for the regional
reserve bank plan in the administra
tion currency bill became apparent
when the comm'ttee began executive
consideration of the measure. Discus
sion was confined to the central re
serve bank scheme, and while no vote
was taken the debate disclosed six
senators for the government controll
ed bank and six for the administra
tion regional system. Both sides, it
is stated, have shown a conciliatory
disposition.
The third cotton ginning report of
the season, compiled from reports of
census bureau correspondents and
agents throughout the cotton belt and
issued by Director W. J. Harris an
nounced that 6,956,583 bales of cotton,
counting round as half bales, of the
growth of 1913, had been ginned prior
to October 18. This includes the re
sults of the most active period of the
ginning season, September 25 to Octo
ber 18, during which 'in recent years
more than one-fourth of t the entire
crop passed through' the ginners'
hands. The number of &ea island cot
ton bales . was 30.880.
ROADS PREPARE
RATES SCHEDULE
THE INTRASTATE CARRIERS FILE
A NOTICE WITH THE COR
ATION COMMISSION.
PROMISES SPEEDY HEARING
Governor Craig in a Speech in Char
lotte Announced That He Would
Use Every Effort to Get a Speedy
Decision as to Justice of Bill.
Raleigh. The railroad companies
doing interstate freight business in
(North Carolina 'have filed notice with
the corporation commission that they
are preparing as rapidly as possible
the data for the new freight sched
ules under the terms of the proposal
that was accepted Iby the recent legis
lature for the settlement of differences
This -data is to be marshaled and
submitted as the new schedule with
the interstate commerce commission
for its formal approval and thereaf
ter there will toe the actual putting
Into effect of the new rates.
The members of the corporation
commission left for Washington. They
go to attend the annual meeting of
the (National Association of Railroad
Commissioners, hut will give special
attention to the matter of the im
pending new rates for North Carolina
under the terms of the proposal. They
will have a conference with the mem
ber of the interstate commerce com
mission and do whatever they can to
hasten the actual operation of the
new rates.
Nothing has been heard from the
railroad companies so far as to the
intrastate rates and whether or not
the railroad companies will petition
the governor to suspend the opera
tion of the new. rates fixed by the
legislature.
In a ringing speech at Charlotte re
cently before the Mecklenburg Coun
ty Just Freight Rate Association, Gov
ernor Locke Craig declared that the
fight for justice had just begun and
that he purposed never to cease until
the last resource of the sovereign
state of North Carolina had been ex
hausted. By unanimous vote of the members
who had gathered in the Selwyn ho
tel assembly 'hall the organization was
continued, former officers were re
elected and a resolution was adopted
to the effect that the state association
should likewise be made permanent.
President W. R. Foreman will appoint
delegates to the state meeting in Ral
eigh. Beginning in slow and measured
tones, with an attitude eminently ju
dicial, Governor Craig became more
and more earnest, more and more ar
dent as he reviewed what he declared
w.ere flagrant injustices. Toward the
close of his address as he contem
plated the great responsibility of nam
ing the commission which is to fix
intrastate freight rates and declared
in Impassioned tones that toy the help
of God he would be true to his great
trust, the situation tiaO" become dra
matic in the extreme.
Strike Rich Gold Mine.
A strike of remarkably rich, free
gold ore, eight feet wide, In silicified
slate and quartz veins, is reported to
have just (been made at a depth of
250 feet in the Coggin Gold Mine near
Whitney by the people' who purchased
this property last May. Since the pur
chase the new owners have -been de
velopii.g 'below the 200-feet level, and
installing a stamp mill and concentrat
ing plant, which will he ready soon.
Delegate To Go To Germay.
S. Lipinsky, 'of Asheville, has re
ceived an appointment from Governor
Craig by which he is named as the
delegate from North Ca-olina to the
Inte -national Jewish Emancipation
Congress, which will be held in Berlin,
Germany, January 23 to 31, 1914. The
appointment confers upon Mr. Lipin
sky all rights, privleges and owers
useful and necessary to the just and
roper discharge of his duties while
in attendance upon the conference.
Gf.me Plentiful Near Kinston.
The territory comprising 10 counties
directly north, east? and south of Le-
i Elysium for hunters' during the com
ing winter. Game with fur and feath
ers is known to abound more plenti
fully now than before in many years
and sportsmen are preparing for a
season certain to afford profit and
pleasure. Bear - and deer, squirrels,
oosaum, raccoons and wild turkeys
have been frequently reported in un
precedental profusion by hunters in
this section.
Work on Orange County Roads.
The Orange county road force has
begun work on the Orange end of the
Durham-Chapel Hill highway and is
getting it in shape for (better traveling
during the winter. The Durham end
of this road has (been macadamized
a number of years, and only this
year the repair force put Durham, end
in very fine shape. The Orange coun
ty part of this road has never 'been
so very bad" except in winter. After
long hard rains the , long hill just
north of Chapel Hill is almost impass
able. . '
PREPARES FOR EARLY WORK
To Study Fire Insurance Several
Hearings Are Held and Fraud
Is Found.
Raleigh. The legislative commis
sion for the investigation of the con
duct of fire Insurance companies in
North Carolina in preliminary confer
ence here recently determined that
each member of the commission shall
spend the next several weeks in spe
cial preparation for the work that is
ahead in study of insurance matters
and North Carolina' conditions. In this
way it is expected that better prog
ress can be made when the public
hearings begin.
, It seemed to (be the consensus of
opinion that whe nthe public hearings
begin there , should be as nearly . as
possible caffitinuous- sessions until the
hearings are concluded.
The memhers of the commission
discussed the question of whether
there should foe counsel retained for
the commission and the commissidn
ers agreed informally that there would
probably be necessity for such coun
sel. the work of th& commission
progresses.
Each member had received a perso
al letter from the state department of
Insurance in which Commissioner Jas.
R. Young tendered his co-operation
and that of his department.
The meeting was of the most in
formal sort. The members present
were: Senator Victor .Bryant and Rep
resentatives H. A. Page, Elmer Long
and A. A. F. fSeawell. The absent
member was Senator Barnes of 'Pitt
county, who was detained at home.
After hearing Fred Rutledge of
Ashevdile and his counsel, Judge Mur
phy, in defense of Fred Rutledge &
Co., of Asheville, Commissioner of In
surance Young has continued charges
preferred against Rutledge & Co., al
leging irregular conduct as fire in
surance agents that would operate to
annul licenses. -
Commissioner Young - will give a
hearing to C. F. Smith and M. R. Wig
gins of Kinston, life insurance agents,
in a proceeding looking to tha cancel
latio of their agency liceses on the
charge of procuring insurance of mill
people unfit for insurance through
collusion with medical examiners and
the. giving of-the ages of the insured
wrong. A case is alleged in which a
person 80 years old procured insur
ance as 50 years old.
The state department of education
has begun moving its quarters from
the old supreme court building to the
tenth floor of the Commercial Nation
al Bank founding where it will have
temporary quarters until its old home
can be remodeled. It is expected
that the supreme court and attorney
general can move into the new state
building within two weeks. Then the
work of remodeling the old building
can be gotten under way, the con
tract being already left foran expen
diture of $40,000 in this work.
Highest Prizes in North Carolina.
The premium list for the annual
poultry exhibit of the Winston-Salem
Poultry Association has been issued
by Secretary R. C. Taylor and, dis
closes the fact that the cash prizes
total more than, ever before offered
at a North Carolina show. This ds
expected to produce the largest num
ber of entries ever received for a lo
cal exhibit and already inquiries are
coming in from other cities of the
state. The show will .be held early in
December.
Work on Postoffice Building Delayed.
There has-been some delay in get
ting the work on the new postoffice
building started. A change in the
plans and some other minor items
are responsible for the delay. The su
pervising architect, Mr. White, has
been here-for some time,; and when
asked about the work stated that he
was in receipt of a letter from the
contractor which stated that he
would probably be here by the first
of (November to begin work.
Orders Better Schedules.
The corporation commission has or
dered the 'Southern Railway Company
to make improvements in its sched
ules between Winston-Salem and
North Wilkesboro, this action follow
ing a hearing and personal investiga
tion by Commissioner George P. Pell.
Several Small Plums in 10th District.
Plums small tout nevertheless sweet
will drop in the Tenth Congressional
district wjthin the next few months,
according to Democrats who are in
touch with the local situation. Postal
Inspector Setzer having mailed, notices
to 140 offices recently to the effect
that applications will be received by
the first assistant postmaster general.
Bulletins are -being posted in the of
fices bearing the information neces
sary to land the jobs, tfce applicants
toeing .advised that any reference to
political affiliations will disqualify.
Forestry Meet at Asheville.
Secretary N. Buckner of the Ashe
ville board of trade recently received
a letter from J.'S. -Holmes of Chapel
Hill, secretary of the North Carolina
Forestry Association, advising Mm
that the association has named Ashe
ville as the place of holding the next
meeting. The date for the conven
tion has not yet been selected. The
last meeting of the board of directors
of the American Forestry Association
was held In Asheville and one of hn
features of the meeting was a trip
to the timber lahis of VanderbilL
TO BEGIN PQSTROAD
SECRETARY HOUSTON TO SIGN
CONTRACT FOR GOVERNMENT
AT ONCE.
ACTUAL' WORK TO BEGIN
Within the Next Two Weeks on
Fifteen Mile Stretch of Highway
Connecting Marion With Buncombe
County Line at Cost of $30,000.00. -'.
Raleigh. Special from Washington
says: Some day soon Secretary Hous
ton of the department of agriculture
will sign the contract for the build
ing of a -public road in McDowell
county, extending from Greenlee,
through Old Fort, to the Buncombe
county line, a distance of about 15
miles. The federal government will
furnish one-third of the $30,000 to (be
expended on this road, and McDowell
county $20,000.
This virtually 'marks the' beginning
of the construction of postroads in
North Carolina with Federal money.
The postoffice appropriation 'bill
carries a provision for $1,000,000 to
be pnt in good roads. Senator Sim
I mons got an earlier provision for
; $500,000, thereby starting the ball to
raiding.
An, expert road engineer, from the
Good Roads Office, ihas been in Mc
Dowell, investigating the proposed
road, and has made his preliminary
report. Director Page has put his
signature to the contract for the
"building of the road, and after Secre
tary Houston signs dt, the .McDowell
county, commissioners will do their
part of the signing. Inside of two
weeks the actual construction of the
road should (begin.
The highway engineer sent to the
3tate to make the first survey rec
ommeds n his report that two grade
crossings over the Southern Railway
!be done away with, and all grade be
reduced to five per cent less.
The McDowell road runs from
(Marion township line to Buncombe
county. This means that there will
be a fine, highway from the town of
Marion to the Buncombe line, as
there are already good roads in Ma
rion township. - - . , - ,. -;
The good roads office here has help
ed with road work in North Carolina
Suggestions for general roads
schemes have been made from. Wash
ington for Randolph, Jackson, and
Macon counties, and help for object
lesson roads have been furnished
for Morganton, Albemarle, Thomas
vilel, .Northampton county, Wallace
and Trenton, and experts will be sent
to Asheboro and Tarboro soon to
build model sections of roads.
40 Per Cent Infected with Hookworm
Franklin. The -hookworm campaign
in this county closed recently and
the representatives, Doctors Absher
and Curtis left for Cherokee county
and will carry on the work in that
county for some weeks. The Investi
gation here showed about"40 per cent
of those, examined to be infected. Of
those of school age about 75 per cent
were infected. There were nearly 4,000
jcamined in the county.
Good Roads In Halifax.
Scotland Neck. Some days ago an
election was held in Enfield and Hali
fax townships upon the question of
issuing $60,000 in the former and $40,
000 in the latter township for the per
manent improvement of the public
highways. In each township the good
roads advocates won by good majori
ties. Big Tobacco Sales.
Oxford. The tobacco sales of the
local market have 'been uniformly
large for the last month, exceeding
perhaps the record for any preceding
month in the history of the market.
On many days there, were double
sales, and on two days the overflow
filled the floor spaces of 'those ware
houses having the first Kales. On one
street traffic was blocked for hours
by wagons loaded with the weed wait
ing their turn to be unloaded, some of
which had to wait until the following
day. '
Union County Lives at Home.
(Monroe. The crops in Union coun
ty this year have exceeded any pre
vious year in its history, not only in
cotton, hut in grain and home sup
plies. . Nearly every farmer has raised
hundreds of hushels of potatoes, peas,
corn, cane, hay and an abundance of
other forage and material for home
consumption. The greater portion
of cane is used for stock feed,- but
thousands of gallons of molasses have
.been made. Mr. D. C. Montgomery in
Buford township alone has made over
700 gallons of molasses.
Sues For $30,000.
Asheville. Invoking 'the federal
employers' liability law on the ground
that the deceased was employed on
a train employed in carrying on inter
state commerce, J. C Curtis, adminis
trator of the estate of Fred Smathers,
has ibrought suit for damages in the
sum of, $30,000 against the Southern,
Railway Company. Mr. Smathers was
Mlled on the local yard of the rail
road company during the pst sum
mer, and at the time that he met his
death he was employed on a trair
which was derailed here.
NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA
Henderson. Fire destroyed the sta
bles of D. C. Ixmghlin recently, result
ing in a loss of $2,000.
Asheville.' Mrs. J. W. McFarland,
of West Asheville, committed suicide
by taking Paris green recently. '
Hickory. sRecently the local east
bound freight train ran into the rear
of eastbound freight No. 74 and five
cars were smashed into kindling wood.
Monroe. There is a movement n.
foot here to establish an up-to-date
library for the city, and already sev
eral hundred dollars has been secured
for the project.
. Scotland Neck. J. Y. Savage, the
government observer here, reports a
rainfall in this section during October
of five and one-quarter inches, the
largest of which there is any record.
Morganton-Two of the boldest (burg
lars dn Morganton's history were com
mitted here recently when the stores
of I. I. Davis' Son and 'Presnell &
Hogan were ibroken into and ran
sacked. Gastonia. Eph. Holland and Neely
Dixon, two white men, each aged
about 20 years were arrested at Bes
semer -City recently and were locked
up dn the city jail, on the charge of
committing highway robbery. ,
Forest City. The Commercial For
est City's oldest hotel suffered con
siderable damage recently .by fire. '
The "blaze caught from a defective
flue and was eating its way through, ;
the center wall when discovered. The
firemen soon got it under -control.
Senator Simmons recommended re
cently the appointment of Ernest
Green for assistant district attorney
to succeed Isaac M. Meekins of the
Eastern district. He will wait until
Senator Overman is ready before mak
ing other appointments.
Lenoir. One of the popular drag
firms of Lenoir, Messrs. J. E. Shell
& Co., located on South Main street,
has recently closed a deal with J. G.
Ballew of Baltimore and E. B. Davis
of Morganton, selling the entire 'busi
ness, fixtures and goodwill to the lat
ter parties.
Salisbury. The Salisbury Industrial
Club gave its first annual (barbecue
recently when several hundred busi
ness men enjoyed a great feast. The
occasion was made booster day for
Salisbury and every man was talking
for his town. I
FayettevHle. Ground to pieces by .
a fast Atlantic Coast Line train, prob
ably the northbound Palmetto 'limited,
which passed here, the remains of an
unidentified negro man were found
recently scattered along the railway
track for a distance of several hun
dreds yards.
Henderson. Little Martha -Lead, a
daughter of Mr. George A. Pose, was
run down hy an automobile driven by
Roy Robertson here recently. Al
though badly (bruised, it is not known
that she is internally injured and at
present she is resting well. .
Forest City. iNews reached here
from Bostic recently that a small
wreck occurred on the C. C. & O.
yards immediately after the passen
ger train No. 3 had - departed for
Spartanburg. The engine had been
recently overhauled and in turning a
curve it was derailed with the ten
der and one coal car. ' -t
Burlington. Friendship high school
near here held its second annual dis
trict fair recently at the school. It
was a county fair on a small scale, !
consisting of exhibits in live stock,
pantry, dairy, farm and fancy .'work.
A very creditable exhibit was made
in all departments and prizes were
awarded the best.
Salisbury. A series of revivals in -
Salisbury and Spencer started at ev
ery church in both towps simultane
ously recently. An agreement has
(been nade between all the pastors to
co-operate in a revival in all the
churches at the same time: The plan
has the full endorsement of the Row
an County Ministerial Association.
Greensboro. Judge Boyd ihas issued
an order in -the bankruptcy matter
of Robert Harris & .Brother directing
'Receiver Humphries to purchase
enough tobacco to keep the business
going. The company manufactured
"Pride of Reidsville" smoking tobacco
and orders continue to come in for
goods, which are being filled -by the
trustee. '
Wilmington. A large number of
housewives of the city met in 'the Y.
M. C. A. 'building recently and formed
a Housewives' League, having for its
general object the lowering of the
cost of living.
' Durham. About 500 suggestions
for the slogan for the electric sign to
(be given to the city iby the traction
company have been turned into the
office of the Commercial Club. Every
mail that is delivered to, the office
brings at least a dozen letters from
people who want to enter their sug
gestions in the contest for the 5C
prize.
High Point. airs. Jim Olark of this
city was accidentally shot and in
stantly killed recently at her home on
Chestnut street by a pistol in the
hands of Lee Meredith who says that
he was cleaning the weapon. The bul
let entered the (back of the woman's
head, penetrating the "brain.
Salisbury. Judge Theo F. Kluttz
of Rowan county court has directed
Sheriff McKenzie to destory two
trunkfuls of whiskey seized at th
Southern passenger 'Station in Salis
bury recently. The liquor amounting
to 30 gallons was checked as baggage
from Richmond to Salisbury.
MECNffllONAL
SDnWSfflOOL
Lesson
(By E. O. SELLERS, Director of Evevin
Department. The Moody Bible Institute.
Chicago.)
LESSON FOR NOVEMBER 9.
ABSTINENCE FOR OTHERS' SAKE.
(World's Temperance Sunday.)
(. LESSON .TEXT Rom. 14:7-21.
GOLDEN TEXT "It is not good to eA '
fiesb. nor to drink wine, nor to do any
thing: whereby thy brother stumbleth.
Bom. 14:21. " '
, Paul was in Corinth, a city of lux
ury, learning and licentiousness when .'.
he wrote this letter to the believers in
Rome, a letter of profound logic and -'
ethics as well as a profound study in .
psychology and philosophy.
I. None of us liveth to himself,"
w. 7-11. Paul begins this chapter by
giving a caution as to doubtful dispu
tations, "judgments upon Ithoughts,"
whether it be in the matter of eating
herbs or meats, or in the observance
of set days. Who are we but fellow
servants (v. 4) of God? About such
things as habits and observance of
days we must each be assured in our
own minds, (v. 5), but while that is
true yet, "none liveth to himself"
(v. 7), for "we are the Lord's" (v. 8).
He is the universal Lord, both of tha
living and the dead, (v. 9). What folly,
therefore, for any believer to set him
self up in judgment upon his brother.
Four Things Suggested
II. "Give an account to God," w.
12-18. Verse 12 suggests four things:
(1) A universal, summons, "each one
of us," great and 6mall, obscure or fa
mous, each one must appear, none
overlooked, .none excluded, none ex
:used. (2) A particular summons,
"each one of us," not en masse, but
as separate units. (3) A purposeful
summons, "to give account," not of
others but each of himself. It will not
be "blind justice" that shall await us
there, but a holy God; one who knows '
all, sees all, every thought and imagi
nation of the human heart (Gen. 6:5)
and whose judgment will be righteous.
(4) A rightful summons, because of its
source, "before God," and shall not the
Judge of the whole earth do right?
No excuse because of the failure of
others will avail, no subterfuge be ac
ceptable, "strict justice" will condemn.
Man-made laws and ordinances as to -what
we eat or what days we may ob
serve will then be revealed in the
white light of the God whose name i&
love. In the light of such a prospect,
how pertinent therefore that we turn
(v. 13), from Judging others and look
well to our own conduct, lest that con
duct become a rock of stumbling to
other and weaker brethren. i
Another Law. t
III. "Follow after things which make'
for peace," w. 19-23. To follow that
which ehall edify is to exercise the
"law of liberty." James in his epistle
(1:25, 2:12) tells us to look into this
law and to continue therein for by it
we shall be judged, yet there is still
another law, "the royal law" (2:8,
Matt. 22:36-40), the fulfilling of which
will settle every question of man's re- .
lation to man. We should so use our
liberty that it be not evil spoken of
or become a rock of . stumbling to any.
Whether or not the kingdom of God
be in us, or we in the kingdom, de
pends not upon the ecrupulo.us observ
ance of ordinances either as to eat
ing, or the observance of days, but
rather in the manifest righteousness of
our lives and in having peace in our
hearts, ch. 15:13, being filled with "Joy
in the Holy Spirit" v. 17. Therefore,
if to eat meat shall cause my brother
to stumble or to be made weak (v. 21)
"I will eat no flesh fo evermore,"
I. Cor. 8:13.
All of this leads up to the true prin
ciple of total abstinence as revealed
in verse 21, "It is gcod not to' eat
flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do
anything -whereby thy brother stum
bleth or is offended." This does not
alone apply to the Great American
Juggernaut, the commercialized liquor
traffic, which, according to the United
States Supreme court, has no legal
ground upon which tb stand. When
the members of the church of God
in .this "land of liberty" shall each '
be governed by this principle it will
not be long before the liquor problem
any many other questions that are
troubling us will be settled. The real
question will not be "Is it wrong?"
but rather, "How will it affect my .
brother?" All meats are clean, we
know that, Acts 10:15, but we also
know that many cannot eat, cannot -participate
in our acts, with a clear
conscience because in so taking part
there come3 before the mind of the
weaker brother the evil associations c
and practices which so frequently ac
company such acts or such eating.
Our indulgence, no matter how inno
cent and entirely harmless it may be
to us, ,is therefore not to be thought
of. This settles the drink question,
the tobacco habit, dancing, card play
ing, theater going, and all "question
able amusements."
For once teach a temperance lesson
not on the ground of the harrowing
effects of this awful traffic, but try to
show that intemperance is largely the
result of, selfishness. Show how less
selfishness in our social relations
would help to keep men away from ;
the saloon. Less selfishness in money
would keep us from accepting bloody
tax money. Less selfishness on the
part of churches by activities during
the week would keep children ani
young people from growing familiar
with and finally embracing the mon
ster vice. Many ancient authorities
Insert after Ch. 14. Ch 16:25-27.
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