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' n ii iin-r rrtfr i iv E CH iTHAM RECORD M. A. LONDON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 Per Year Strictly in Advance THE, CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising On Square. on insWtiea . $1.00 One Square. tip msrtibaa Square, ofte month . $250 ' Larger;' Advertisements Liberal Contracts lorill be made VOL. XXXVI HTTSEO O, CH ATM a iv, CUUM Y. N .C. isCn. iv t . ii Ms-3 ho: rs; -YwK ::::,:: V-'. HEWS OF THE WEEK LATE NEWS OF THE WORLD TERSELY TOLD. SOUTH, EAST, NORTH AND WEST Notes From Foreign Lands, Through out the Nation and Particularly the Great South. Southern. When an overhanging lira.. ... ok a :;;u car on the Waycross and South ern between Craven's Island and Hop on?, in the Okefenokee swamp, fifteen pleasure seekers were thrown off, ore Li-'ng killed instantly, two re ceiving injuries that are considered :;italy and several serious bruis ed an cut, near Waycross, Ga. Representing himself to be an audi tor for :'e Southern Express company, an unkrxwn man walked into the St. Petersburg office of that company, took cha-ge of the books and papers, worked several hours over them and disappe red. A short time later the agent discovered that money orders and travelers' checks to the amount of l-C'OO were missing. Iliirteen persons were killed and more than a hundred injured, some of them fatally, when three coaches of a Central of Georgia passenger train 1? ft the rails at a point seventeen ir.'ues south of Eufaula, Ala., and plunged down a steep embankment. The train, which consisted of five cars, crowded with excursionists, was en route from Ozark, Ala., to Eufaula, where a fair is being held. The Batson hydro-aeroplane, which lias just been completed tm Dutch isl-; and. near Savananh, Ga., was expos ed to public view for the first time. Grouped around stood an interested crowd of spectators. After they had examined the machine they were con vinced itw ould perform its functions cf gliding through the air. The first trial trip will be made soon. Co!. J. H. Acklen of Tennessee hag been commissioned chief warden of the United States under-the recently enacted Federal, migratory bird law. He was appointed by Secretary Hous ton of the department of agriculture, and is the first to hold the office. Colo nel Acklen is president of the National Association of Game Commissioners, and formerly was game warden of Tennessee. He will have his head quarters in Washington, aiding the de partment in the enforcement of the mi gratory bird law. A unique suit in which a father in Nashville, Tenn., asks a perpetual in junction to prevent his son and grand daughter visiting him except on spe cific invitation, has been filed in the circuit court by C. R. McCord. A recounting of the achievements of the United Daughters of the Confed eracy by President General Mrs. Al exander B. White featured the first business session of the twentieth an nual convention of the organization at Xew Orleans, La. Socially the conven tion was opened with a trip over the harbor. Of the preliminary work cf committees that of the one considering plans for the monument on the Shiloh battlefield for which fifty thousand dollars has been collected attracted most attention. General. Two hermits, George Frye, aged 57, and his brother, Stephen, 10 years cM, were burned to death in their shack, in the woods near Whitman, Mass. Another woods dweller - dis covered the ashes, in which were charred bones. The police think the blaze was caused by one of the men smoking in bed. The brothers had lived for seme months in a hut built of orange boxes, their food consisting chiefly of potatoes which, the raised. With "saving the babies" as its slo gan, the American Assoc5 ition for the Study and Prevention sf Infant Mor tality, met in Washington. It was .de. dared that the most significant phe nomenon in the infant mortality prob lem was the great increase in deaths luring summer, due to the" use of dir ty milk. , Gen. Victoriano Huerta has tacitly erased to accede to the demands of t'.u; United States, expressed in an ul timatum, sent to him by President Wilson's personal representative, John Un:l. Three members of the American ack r.nd field team, which is to tour Australasia, sailed from San Francisco v-'ith Manager Eustace Poixotto. The team will not return until late in the r.oiuh of March. Mendel Beiliss, charged with the E iiiiier of Andrew Yushinsky, as a rr!;Kious sacrifice, at Kiev,- Russia, ha a been acquitted. "Beiliss is not guilty, but the murder was committed tiie Zaiteff works." This was the verdict when Beiliss was taken out of the prisoners' room of the court for the last time and brought along the dingy corridor. It was seen, however, that his guard had been ' increased to fi v'e soldiers The long-lived controversy between the railroads of the east and the con ductors and trainmen over the latter'.s demands for more pay has ended. The employees are granted an increase in wages averaging 7 per cent, and to taling $6,000,000 annually about half r-f what they wanted from October 1 last effective for one year. One hun-fh-ed thousand men will share in the increase. Thus ends, by arbitration, ujc-.er the Newlands amendment to the Erriman act, a controversy that threat ened at one time to tie up by strike 1- v . . ""UOi,ulltLlun laciuties oi air the states easf of the MississipDi river. At a meeting of printers tield in New York City, Marsden G. Scott, president of Typographical Union No. 6, was nominated to succeed James M. Lynch as president of the Inter national . Typographical Union, who has been appointed labor commission er of New York state. The election will be held next May. Gov. Charles R. Miller issued a statement in defense of the whipping post and declared that method of pun ishment for criminals in Delaware would continue until the law provid ing for it is repealed, "regardless of any attempted interference by a member of congress, or of individuals' residing in other states." Two former Federal officials of Ju arez, who were taken ' prisoners ' by Gen. Pancho Villa's rebel troops were executed at Juarez. They were Pablo Ebave, an official in the Juarez police department, and Juan Cordova, chief, of the Juarez secret police. The exe-' cutions took place at the Juarez cem etery, the condemned men standing on the brink of the newly dug graves and falline in whfcn tho fi shot them. Both mon wm ntorf to death by General Villa and orders were carried out by subordinates. The wife of one of the condemned men was present. '.. - Dr. J. Leon Williams of Lopdqn, an eminent authority on anthropology and geology, arrived from Liverpool, wun niteen skuiis ot pre-historicman, . poration of Aew York Jity, when lu one of which he estimated to be" 500,- said his cbmoany vild have in oper 000r. years old. This skull was found - -,-r-., . hv wnrtmon' ii T tion a boat Ime from Wilmington tc Dy workmen near Folkestone, Eng land. Doctor Williams says skulls of Baltimore " Md.. and New York City this kind tend to confirm the belief within the next six weeks and . when that the ape is an offshoot of man. he offered to guarantee that his com The rear of a seven-story concerte building nearing completion in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, collapsed, carrying with it fourteen men who were working on the roof 'slab. Four were taken from the ruins- severely injured and the others are believed to be buried be - neath a mass of concrete and twisted steel used in the reinforcements. Hun dred's of men worked with axes and shovels and with the aid of a big steam derrick removing the debris in a search for the bodies. Washington. President Wilson has instructed As sistant Commissioner Hanger of the beard of mediation and conciliation to proceed at once to Xew Orleans to aid in settling the strike of the South ern Pacific railway operating em ployees. Asserting that the Japanese gov ernment had faithfully lived up to its treaty obligations by keeping its coo- that if the Southern Steamship Lino lie labor from American shores, for- did not give a better rate than. is new mer President Taft, in an address be- in existence, his company vVouid re fore the National Georgraphic Soci- fund the $25,000 put up bj North ety at Washington, declared that the Carolina shippers. For .uis amount United States government must keep- ne stated the Southern Steamship faith with Japan by not discriminat- Company would isst'd first mortgage ing against its people. "And," he said, 6 per- cent stock h the company. This "no matter what the reckless and un- stock he felt assured would be worth just acts of thoughtless people in Cal- Par within two years and he believed ifornia or elsewhere may be, they should be restrained." He said war with Japan was the last thing to be desired. Appropriation of $50,000 for Federal live stock experiments in Louisiana will be asked of congress by Secretary Houstdn to help the Louisiana sugar planters, who fear their industry will be ruined by removal of the tariff on sugar. Secretary Houston also has written to Dr. U. R. Dodson, in charge of the Louisiana state experiment sta tion, and to Senator Ransdell, and Representative Broussard, who are es pecially interested in the sugar sit uation, for co-operation. Crossing a narrow little street from the. United States into Mexico, Wil liam Bayard Male, personal represen tative cf President Wilson, met the Constitutionalist chief. Gen. Venusti ano Carranza, and his cabinet, and presented to them a definite proposal from the American government. What the proposal was the American dip lomatic agent declined to say. The Mexican revolutionary leaders also were silent, bu,t to those who have been anxiously awaiting the develop ment of the American policy with re gard to Mexico it was fraught with portentous possibilities. " The attempt to force the administra tion currency bill through the senate by way of the Democratic caucus was abandoned and the banking and currency committee of the senate 'was given time for further consideration of , the bill. A practical agreement by six Democratic senators, half of the committee, and hope for final, report soon, was reported to the Democratic conference when it met by Senator Owen and at his request the confer ence took no action. Investigation of an alleged trust op erating among peanut buyers who do business principally in Smithfield and Norfolk, Va., has been begun by the department of justice. A' pendant made up of one canary diamond weighing 6 1-2 carats sur rounded by eighty-five - smaller dia monds arranged in a pear shape and attached to a neek chain in which smaller diamonds are set, will be the gift of the house of representatives to Miss Jessie Wilson, daughter of the president, who will be married in the white house on November 25. The members of the house contributed more than two thousand dollars. I Developments" in the Mexican situa-1 tion at Washington tend to emphasize a purpose on the part of the Washing ton government to refuse to recognize any of the acts of the new Mexican congress and brought to light the fact that serious consideration was being given by President Wilson to the question of permitting exportations of arms to all factions in the southern republic. Secretary Bryan had a long conference with the charge d'af faires of the Mexican embassy, during which he said, the United States con- . ' i smerea tne election or congressmen las invalid as that for ' president. FRQPOSE BOAT LINE us mmm CHARLOTTEANS MAY BUY STOCK I'J THE SOUTHERN STEAM- ' SHIP COMPANY. . A CONFERENCE IS HELD Propose to Operate Boat Line f om Wilmington to Northern Markets to Haul Freight Which Will Reduce Rates at Least 25 Per Cent. Raleigh. A special from Charlotte says: The solution of the freight rate fiSht in Nortn Carolina was proin- ised to fading Charlotte busines men and members of the Mecklenburg Just Freight Rate Association recent ly at the Greater Charlotte Club by H. F. Morse, treasurer of .the Morse Securities Company, ah $8,000,000 cor- pany would give' a rate 25 per cent cheaper on through shipments than is Obtained at the present time. Mr. Morse was introduced to the meeting by Mr. W. R. Foreman, one of Charlotte's leading shippers, and president of the Mecklenburg Just Freight Rate Association, who pre sided over the conference. Mr. .Morse went directly into his subject and told what his propositoa was. He stated that the Morse Se curities Company is; now actively en gaged in organizing the Southern Steamship Company at a capital stock of $125,C-0 and he stated that the shippers of North Carolina would be asked to put up $25,000 of this money, not so much for the amount sub scribed but for the moral support and as a guarantee that the freight of the big shippers would be sent over the new line He offered to guarantee would pay dividends in a short time. Immediate1 upon adjourning the committee went into conference with Mr. Morse with regard to the defi nite proposition which his company would guarantee and a counter-agree- ment to make the proper move here to mcmce tne Lnarlotte shippers to pa tronize th company. The conference with Mr. Morse lasted until well -into the morning and resulted in getting things into a shape which looks to wards the bettering of the freight rate conditions for shippers in this section of the state. Prepar-s for Teachers' Assembly. Preparations are in full swing for the convening of the North Carolina Teach' rs' Assembly November 26 -and continuing through November 29. The officia- program is to come from the printers within the next day or two. J. W. Bailey will deliver the address of welcome and Supt. J. Y. Joyner will make :.he response. Governor Craig will xitake an address Wednesday mornmg. Friday evening the marble bust -if Calvin H. Wiley will be pre sentei to the state through an ad dress by Acting President Graham of til -i University of North Carolina and Accepted by Secretary of State Jr. BryaA Grimes for the state. AnxibJS for Mr. Justice to Begin. Special from Washington says: E. J. Justice was here and conferred with the Mtorney general. Mr. Justice, as was stated a week ago, will be spe cial counsel, acting under direct or ders of Mr. McReynolds, . who said that na is ready and anxious for Mr. Just.ce to begin his work. As soon as his. affairs at Greensboro can be arra lged Mr. Justice will get busy on his :ew job. . Cut Out Roller Towels, Hereafter men and women who work for Uncle Sam must use indi vidual towels. The old roller towel must go to the discard.. With the in didvidual drinking cup. goes the indi vidual towels. By an ' executive or der of the president the individual towil was brought into common use in all the departments here. Every postoffice in North Carolina will have to have a towel for each and every employe. Postmasters in North Ca rolina will be held responsible for the roller towel if it is found in his office. Enlarge Durham County School. '. Plans are. being made for the erec tion of additional 'buildings at the Faran Life .School of Durham county. These buildings will include a barn for the use of the animals used in the practical work of the school, a laboratory, and a lecture room. These lftRt two rooms will be built in con nection with the barn and will be used when animals are the subject of study. Mr. Gray .superintendent of this new department, has been spending the greater part of the past week getting the school farm shaped for winter. ARRANGE 1 0 PAY PROMPTLY State Superintendent Joyner Urges That Coi- ty Boards Pay Their j Teachers Promptly. That the. teachers of the state may have their salaries fully and promptly paid at the end of each school month, in compliance with the law, and may not be' compelled to wait for payments or to discount their vouchers, as they have sometimes been compelled to do, State Superintendent Joyner is direct ing the county boards when, necessary, either to borrow the money or to se- cure advances from unused balances sheriffs or treasurers. In this connection Mr. Joyner sends out the following letter to the county boards of the " state : - -, -. ' "Gentlemen I beg to call your at tention to the amendment of 1913 to section 4164 of the public school law,, by . Governer William Hodges Mann, authorizing and directing; the county of Ricnincmd, Va., for co-operative pei- boards of. education to provide for the . : . . j " , - v . i . , . , , sonal eitort m spreading the Gospel, prompt payment of all teachers' . . & wai, salaries at t he end ofe ach school ,the United Missionary Conference month, and to urge your prompt com- .was addressed at the-: First Presby pliance with this law. 1 y : j terian church. An audience of nearly "Under, this law the county boards five hundred men and five women education are authorized and re-heard the address which was much quired to 5make satisfactory arrance'- '. enjoyed. , - ' ments, byfborrowing the- money or otherwise, for the prompt payment of "all teachers' salaries at the end of each month where the school funds in the hands of the treasurer at that Lime are insufficient for such pay ments. In many instances, however, :he necessity for borrowing may be avoided and the-. expense of paying interest saved by urging sheriffs to turn over to the treasurers . " from month to month school funds "as rap idly as collected a- by requesting' sheriffs and treasure., having unused balances from other funds in their hands to advance from .these to the school fund part or all of the" money needed at the end of the month to pay the salaries due, thereby saving to the school fund considerable interest in many conntlps in fart in mr?t counties arrangements can be made with one or more banks , to cash all properly -approved teachers' vouchers upon presentation, to stamp upon each voucher the date of payment and to receive interest upon each from said date until the date of settlement of same by the treasurer. The treasurer should, settle these vouchers as rapid ly as he receives funds from the school taxes. Inthis way considerable inter est could be sved. Governor Issues Proclamation. After the harvest comes the day of tntci,-;. t-! .o ' in manifold abundance; the nation triumphs in progress and power,' de clares Governor Craig in his proclama- tion just issued, designating Thursday November 21, as Thanksgiving Day. Continuing, the governor says in his proclamation, "An altruistic av-aK-ening has quickened the conscience oi ur time, it has' commanded the men in high places to nobler " concept tions of public duty,. and inspired- the people with the hope and determina tion for advancement." After calling on all the people to do no work on Thanksgiving Day and make it a day of rest, of rejoicing, and in reality a day of thanksgivings, the governor says: "I earnestly hope that the day will be fully observed by the farmers, mechanics, manuf.icta- rers and by the men women and chil- dren in all ranks and occupations. 1 call upon the people to assemble in their places of worship that they may in reverence, express to the Aim ghty ther gratitude and faith, that human sympathies may be enlarged and the bonds of brotherhood acknowledged and strengthened. Let us remember the poor and unfortunate, and realize that it is more blessed to give than to receive. We are heirs of a precious heritage and let us hope and strive that in this commonwealth righteous ness may be exalted and that to all meu may come a full measure of jus tice, which si grander than benevo Jonce and more august than charity."' Tobacco Record Broken. All retords in the sale of leaf tobac- j co in North Carolina were broken dur- i ing October with Winston-Salem at f the top of the column with nearly 3, 000,000 more pounds than any other market in the state. - Thirty-six mar kets reported 58,752,605 pounds sold and it is certain that the actual sales some of the markets having failed to make full reports, easily ' rounds up to 60,000,000 poundsJ The sales for October last year were 35,224,279. Will Not Pay Any Vouchers. State Treasurer Lacy received no tice from the directors of the, state school for the blin.d that the executive committee , is directed o not approve any voucher against the state for the $4,160 claimed by the Greater Raleigh Land Company to be due it on' ii.e purchase price for the track o.r land bought, as a new site for the school. The directors expain in a resoution adopted that the board of directors and state have already paid all that it was agreed they should pay for tliiu jiece of property. ' Cleveland Poultry Show. f lie Cleveland County Poultry Show wnich will be held here November 27. 2$ and 29, promfss-s. to be the largest ever held in Shelby, the place 'where the idea of chicken show exhibitions originated in North Carolina. A "meet ing of the executive committee was held last night and the inembers have the assurance of a fine exhibit of birds , from far and near. Two state clubs, the Barred Rbck and the Buff Orping ton Clubs, will meet here; during the show and the'stwp state cupsf these lubs will be offered.-. . v " . KM MEETING IS CONCLUDED NUMEROUS ADDRESSES MADE AND INTERESTING INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS HELD. ' THE INTEREST WAS KEEil j : i Large Attendance of Men at Governor Mann's Address and Both Men and Women Marks United Missionary Campaign' Conference. Charlotte. With an earnest appeal Featured by a series of stirring yet practical addresses, spontaneous dis cussions, excellent attendance ami the fact that not single ""collection was taken for any purpose, the Unitea Missionary Campaign Conference in which all denominations united came to a close recently. -Both men and women attended morning, afternoon and evening sessions. The Confer ence was held under the auspices oi the Home and Foreign Mission board of North. America... . , Mr. Allen Craig who has been exceedingly active in the interest o. the conference presided. The; opening prayer was made by Few Dr. R. L: Patterson pastor of St. Mark's Lutheran church. Rev. L. A. Fai;s, pastor of Brevard Street 'Meth- odist church read the Second "Psalm. Mr. Morris Trotter led in prayer. Then came addresses by Rev. R. W. Patton, department secretary of the Protestant Episcopal . church and Prof. R. E. Gianes. Rev. F. M. Oa borne made the closing prayer. , ' "China's Challenge to Christianity was the subject of the virile address by Mr. Patton. A charming address that sparkled with bright ideas .was made by Prof. R. E. Gaines of the faculty -of Rich mond College, on "Investing Our Funds., At the kerning session which, like that of the afternoon, was held in . 1- C J . 1 1 .1 1 - the Sunday school room, the discus sion was entirely informal and- ex tremely helpful suggestions being made and Questions asked by those present as mey were uisposea. itev. R. W. Patton, D. D., department secretary of the Protestant Episco pal church, led the discussion, ' the topis being "Missionary Education." Both city and county were largely represented. Many phases of the topic were discussed. ' Big Western Park. ( Asheville. H. S. Graves, Chief Uni ted States Forester, was in Asheville recently and attended a meeting of the Appalachian Park Association. Mr. Graves was enthusiastic over the" work proposed by the park associa- tIon and declared that the government espepially the forestry department, is in sympathy with the movement. He endorsed the idea of securing as many members to the association as possi- ble. Mr. Graves says the problems of development along these lines in the Southern mountains are so great as to be of national interest. - He pointed out that the protection , of navigable streams is the legal justifi cation of extending the national for ests, but that it is the motive of the service to secure 'public benefits in various ways. One of these, he says, is the preservation of the natural beauties of the forests. - ' New F'ostoffice Building. Washington. The handsome new government-owned postoffice in this the first town in the United States to be named Washington, was dedl catea recently witn eiaborate exer cises, which .included anaddress by Byron R. Newton, assistant secretary of the treasury. The day was virtual ly a holiday, and nearly the entire population participated in a big pa rade and the exercises at the build iig, located on the edge xf the busi ness district. ' Want to Build Gas Plant. Kinston. Capital in three cities is seeking permission to build . a gas plant here. Recently the city, coun cil heard the -report of a committee in vestigating the matter. Each of the three corporations, located in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, had submitted franchises, and all were discarded by . the . committee, who drew up an instrument embodying the best points of all three aid bet ter safeguarding the city's ' interests than any of those submitted would have done. - . . . . .Saved One Purse. Moiiroe. Robert Gordon, ' a promi nent farmer of the county, saved him self something like $100 recently by having put. the proceeds of the sale o some cotton Into two - purses. Mr, Gordonabout 9. o'clock was passing through a section of , road .about three miles from town, the'sides of which are -thickly wooded for Smiles, when he was accosted by a negro who asked to be allowed to ride with hita. When the farmer stopped his horse he found himself facing a pistol, the possessor of which demanded his money. t-'.- V - - OVER. THE TAR HEEL STATE Short' Paragraphs o" State News That Has Been Condensed For Busy People' of State. " Durham. The Durham City Schools have purchased a motion picture ia chlne which, will be used as a part of the educational equipment. - -High Point. Mayor Fred N. Tate anounced: that the city has . arranged to loan out of its sinking fund, on good real estate .security, about $15, (M)0. - - . ' Durham. The crusade against the hookworm in Durham county began ; recently by Dr. H. L. Sloan, working in, co-operation with the health de partment. ' I Raleigh. A brilliant banquet re- cently closed the . annidi meeting of. i th,e' North' Carolina 'Society' of the Sons of the devolution, "tlvere being about 50 guests. ' " ' ' Scotland Neck. A few nights .'ago Charles W. Albertson lost his gin and about 10 bales of seed cotton by fire. The damage Is estimated at about $1,800 with $1,000 insurance. High Point. The Durham Hosiery Mill No. 3, a local plant, will - in-, crease its capacity by j addition of ,100 knitting machines . by January s 1. This will give the mill .500 machines in all ' -. , Forest. City The members of J$.e Methodist church, this city, held a farewell service reqently for. their pa&tor,' Rev. J. F. Mo&ar.' The other denominations of .tlie town' joined in the service. ' ' Durham. Mrs. J... p. Fletcher, 60 years of age anaWife of the farm de monstrator o? Durham' county, was gored to death 'by a cow, recently. She was found by her son and nephew, W.;W. Fletcher and R. T: Rogers. -"Shelby. Extensive arrangements are being made here lor th;e entertain ment of the Baptist State Convention which will hold its -- sessions in the I First Baptist Church, beginning Tues ! day, December 9. . . . ' . ; Greensboro. The annual meeting of the Southern Manufacturers' As sociation, composed of furniture men, ( was held here recently and was at j tended by leading furniture manufac. j turers of this section of the country .Mount Airy. The .Mantel & Table Co., one of the largest furniture enter prises of this place, has just com pleted a modern warehouse 50x8 feet and four stories high fbcated several hundred feet from the .factory and across the Southern Railway tracks. Chapel Hill. Industrial education is the only salvation of the negro, was the thought presented this week to the student body of the University by Dr. H. W. -Chase, professor of philosophy of education, in discussing Cie topic of "Negro Life" in the South." . Mount Airy. That fruit culture promises to prove an important fea ture in developing this section is de monstrated by the fact that the Sparge Orchard Company, from an' or chard less than eight years old, during the last season, gathered 2,00-9 bush els of peaches and 1,500 bushels 'of apples. . ' v Greensboro. Rev. R. L. Davis, su perintendent ' of the North Carolina Anti-Saloon Leaguemade three ad dresses here recently in the morning he spoke at Centenary M. E. church, J in the afternon at tire Y. M. C. "A. and at night at the First Presbyter ian church. . . , Dunn. The farmers are now com plaining of the , short cotton crop.' The worms hit some of them early in the fall, and then oa account of the late season, the ! frost caught some. Ali told it is claimed now that there is not more than tw.'o-thirds of a crop. Greensboro. Northbound- freight train No. 72 dashed into" a work train on the .main line of the Southern Rail way nine miles north of Greensboro shortly- after noon recently anj as a result two trainmen are injured, four 'cars' demolished and engines smashed. Hendersonville. If the plans of certain end-ersqn.y:yje ' citizens, with the support of a large number of far mers, do not miscarry, Hendersonville: will have one of the finest 12-mile scenic highways in the country, lead ing through Laurel, .Mountainside, In dian Cave and -Mount Hebron Parks. . Salisbury. Salisbury may be se lected as the .piace from which ""Sky land," a new magazine, published by Miss Lucile Smith of Hendersonville; w.here the -publication established some months ago. MissSmith has been In Salisbury recently with a view to locating here. - ' x " 'Newton. There were 4,073 bales of cotton ginned, in Catawba county this year, prior to October 18, against '2, 225 last year on the' same date. This does not mean that tiie' crop ia so much more this year but the fact is the cotton was all sold as picked. High Point. In improvements of the Elwood 'Hotel, J. Elwood Cox, Its ow-ner, is. spending o.Yer $30Q00;; In the interior the hotel. is to be finished In white enamel an.d;. there is to be new fumjture and equ.igment. Raleigh. n recommendation .of Judge W.- A. Hoke, now' of the ; Su preme Court .bench, who was .the trjal judgte and imposed the sentence, 'rnd of many prominent -citizens of thi-sec-tion. Governor. Craig recently granted a pardon: for Thomas Denson. of Surry county, "w-ho has served. 17 years of a 26-years .sentence. ; ' - . .. SlMfSOlOOL Lesson (By E. O. SELLERS, Director of Eventng Department, The Moody Bible Institute, Chieago.) i . LESSON FOR NOVEMBER 23 JOSHUA THE NEW LEADER. LESSON TEXT Joshua 1:1-9. GOLDEN TEXT "Be strong ana of jood courage." Joshua 1:9. "Now it came to pass" (v. 1). Tniugs do not happen. in the kingdom of God, they "come td'pass." This world,, na tions, "families "or-individuals were not . Be,t-i; motion byr a. creator who has. gone off neglectful of his creatures, nor has he left them to' blind' fate : on -inflexible, law-' Attention is also, drawn to the time, "after the death uf Moses." . . The call was clear and unquestiun- d; fir the Lord "spake." Our high est responsibility Js .to that call which;; v I onjtes from the highest source oft au-, I thority. This call camei in the" time 6f" ! ereat need. Israel Ia withmi.,T.pnfl.' er. . Thn follow the first wordav, Jwhovah to tnis newly choseij leader ' (v. '" 2) and which constitute:Jt'tifsv caYge, "Moses my ' servant- is'i'eaidii . now, therefore arise.". This sugggg&f a prayerful -attitude on the par.t of Josbua, but in no way is it to $e<& stined that Moses was -a hrnd.rai2ti to this forward march of the .ppplye 4of God. Rather, that Moses' woric was completed' and on the basis' Kts: work -an advance was- to -be- made.. Obedience to Law. .jv ; The conditions laid upon:,. it JosJiua were:, (1) Confidence due to this prom ise of the. presence of Jehovah, (.v. 5). The personal pronoun "I" is used seten times in these nine verses as though God would make confidence doubly assured. But confidence alone was not enough, hence the" necessity of "courage" (v. 6). . Strength is dii to confidence and quietness, Isa. 3( 15, but 'courage 'is the active principle which is the evidence of our stWJi'gt'b: ajid courage. Conquest was not alone conditioned upon, courage (vf6), but also upon the sure foundation'of the" word and- oath of Jehovah. .But strength and courage are maintained by obedience to law whether it be physical, civil or spiritual, hence the words of verso 7, tht- possession of this land depended upon absplute.un flinching, invariable adherence and ohr ' sefvance of the law, "which 'Moses 'my; servant commanded." . Confidence and Authority. But Jehovah never leaves hia own (v. 5), Matt. 28:20, nor does he leave man to blind fate or fortuitous' cir cumstances. Therefore we read in verse 8 the counsel of Jehovah as to the method whereby Joshua and Is rael may "prosper" (v. 7) or according to the margin "do wisely," viz., they shall meditate upon the books of -the law. This verse is enough . for. the entire class session The leader, be he preacher or teacher, wto has any doubt about the word vof God, or stands dumb before the- empty tomb had better seek a new vocation for he is the apostle of a dying, disinte grating class, or church and a decad ent faith. The origin of man, the mystery of life, the destiny of .the soul, demands the voice af confidence and authority not of uncertainty and doubL True prosperity and wisdom ara conditioned upon our taking the word of God as the man of .our coun sel, the light of our. path, our daily meditation. The definite 'result of such a course is set before Joshua, and in addition he was promised the companionship (v. 9) of Jehovah every step of the way. It is interesting in this connection to remember "that Joshua was associated with ;M.Qses in the first experience of wai in. the his tory of this young nation. " Conclusion. - The greatest lesson be- fore us at -.this time is that of.conrinu- ity of the purposes of God. As great and important as Moses "has been dur ing his 40 years of leadership, yet he was nol; -.necessary. The instrument of divine deliverance, ' direc tion and discipline, yea, the voice bf God to "Is rael; 'the receiver of their complaints and of their confessions, yet now .he has been removed. What a tremen-. dous blank he must have left.- -Y-et , Israel; is to go forward, there U to be no halting In its progress. God had been training men for 40 years, one of1-whose faith failed not at the sight of .the' giants, one who had fellowship with the old and; is now to face the new.. We recall 'the words of John Wesley inscribed- upon his memo rial tablet in Westminster abbey, "God buries his workmen, but carries on his work.'' - Each individual iri the 16ng succession of leaders has his ap pointed taskt and as he is loyal com pletes that task thereby preparing -the ' way for a-new leader. The abiding principles that condition each man's success are loyalty and obedience. The Golden Text is in substance thrice repeated. First, Joshua was to be strdng and of good courage 6& cause of the work ahead of him (v. 6'.; second,' he was to be strong and cour ageous" in the observance of the law; -and lastly he was to be strong and courageous in order to avoid the per ils of .fear and dismay which were to beset the path of advance (v. 9). A study- of the remainder of'this- .chapterHreveals not only the orderly response of the people but that the people, as well' as God, also demand ed of their leader -that he should "b ftrong and of; a good, courage." . Hi n 11
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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