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VOL. XXXVI
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, JULY 15, 1914.
NO. 49.
"
MPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
lings cf This and Other Nations
For Seven Days Are
Given.
THE NEWS J1FJHE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place in the South
land Will Be Found in
Brief Paragraphs.
Guadalajara, the second largest city
in Mexico, has been captured by the
rebel army, scoring a complete victo
ry over the Huerta forces, according
to dispatches from Saltillo, Mexico.
A daring hold-up occurred on the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad,
near Matson, Mo., when train robbers
dynamited the safe of the express car.
The s mount of the valuables obtained
is not known.
Another victim has been claimed
by the bubonic plague that has infect
ed New Orleans, this being the fourth
person to die of the disease that has
been reported. Surgeon General Ru
pert Blue has announced that he be
lieves the disease is under control.
pilcfiOu UENgFbfis mov-A ..6 ..6 A
The enthusiasm of the officials at
Washington for the success of the me
diation proceedings was dampened by
the reports coming from Laredo,
Texas, that the Constitutionalist
commanders, with one exception, were
against mediation with Huerta. It now
appears to the officials that it will
te war in Mexico until Mexico City
is taken and the Huerta government
overthrown.
It is reported that General Carran
za, leader of the Mexican rebel forc
es, has made the promise thyit he will
take Mexico City within a short time
and establish a military government
until a fair election could be held,
provided the United States allow
Tampico to become an open port and
permit the landing of arms at that
place. ,
An unconfirmed rumor reached
the Texas border that Villa had been
assassinated by a woman. No details
of the affair were" given.
President Wilson has gone to the
defense of Paul Warburg and Thom
' as D. Jones, whom he recommended
as members of the federal reserve
board.
Carranza and Villa have mended dif
ferences. According to the terms of
the agreement Carranza will be the
chief of the rebel forces with Villa as
subordinate. This information was re
ceived in reports from vTorreon, Mex
ico, where a conference was in session
between representatives of the two
leaders.
General Funston, in command of the
American troops, at Vera Cruz, has re
ported to the officials at Washington
that his troops are in danger of an
attack from Federal troops who have
mutinied from the Huerta camp near
Vera Cruz and have threatened to. at
tack the American camp.
Portions of North Carolina were se
riously effected by a storm that pass
ed over that region, and it is said
that much of the crops were killed
by hail. .
John Skelton Williams, the control
ler of the currency n Washington, tes
tified before the senate investigating
committee,' which is trying to learn
how the senate stationery came to be
used to promote a North Carolina gold
mine. Williams told the committee
that he was offered some of the stock,
but declined to buy.
By executive order President Wilson
has declared that the commercial at
taches who will be assigned to all of
the American legations abroad to look
after the commercial interests of the
United States will not be under civil
service.
James B. Wilson, a former freight
conductor, employed by the B. & O
railroad, was awarded a verdict of
$"5,000 by a jury in a Chicago court,
hi his testimony Wilson, who was ush
ered into court in a wheel chair, told
the jury that he was injured after he
had been forced to work sixty-three
nours out of seventy-two hours.
Senator Hoke Smith will introduce
a till in the senate this week reor
ganizing the management of the feder
al prisons and providing that future
hardens and deputy 'wardens shall be
appointed directly by the president
subject to the confirmation of the sen
ate.
, A presidential election has been
eld in that sectio nof Mexico control!-
e(1 by Huerta frnm nrlvirps received
from Mexico City. It was learned that
the ballots showed indifference of the
people regarding the election. In
Mexico City especially, very little vot
m was done. The few votes that were
cast were in favor of Huerta.
Joseph Chamberlain, one of Eng-
"nQs greatest statesmen, is dead. He
retired from the narliament several
aonths ago, because of his failing
"eaith. -
Unconfirmed reports from Vera Cruz
Jel1 of the alliance which has been
formed between bandit, Zapata and
Huerta. a break between Zapata and
ast Week disnatrVioa frnm Vara Cm.
stated that Zapata had cut off. the wa
er and power supply of Mexico City.
mediately following' this' report
'nes the one telling of the alliance
Wtween thfi hanrlit OT,A TTnnrfa
1 heodore Roosevelt has gone into se
ssion at his home at Sagamore Hill,
a fr the first time in years ,the
rAdmittance" sign is hung out over
c iormer president's front rate.
Thomas D. Jones of Chiciteo will
not become a member of the federal
reserve board. The nomination of Mr.
Jones by President Wilson was re
jected by the senate banking and cur
rency committee.
Upon the urgent request of Presi
dent Wilson, Paul Warburg has decid
ed to withdraw his request for the
withdrawal of his nomination by Pres
ident Wilson on the condition that
he will not be required to appear be
fore the senate-committee to answer
questions they desired to propound to
him.
Fred A. Busse, former mayor of Chi
cago, is dead. For many years he was
prominent in Republican politics.
Chicago packers have announced
that the price of beef will continue
upward and they predict that a price
of 16 cents to butchers will be reached.
Theodore G. Bilbo, lieutenant gov
ernor of Louisiana, has been acquitted
on the charge of soliciting and accept
ing a bribe.
Francis A. Ogden, a wealthy resi
dent of Houston, Texas, willed his
entire estate for the education of
country children whose educational
advantages are limited.
The war department has been stir
red by the publication in a magazine
of pictures showing the defenses at
the Panama canal. These pictures
were taken from an aeroplane" and re
veal the secrets of the fortifications
of the canal. An article purported to
show how the canal could be attacked
by an airship accompanied the pic
tures. The editor of the magazine,
the writer of the article, the birdman
and the photographer will be prose
cuted by the government under the
new national defense act of 1911.
Upon -his arrival at Belfastfi Ireland,
Sir. Edward Carson, the Ulster lead
er, was accorded a reception of a mil
itary nature.
The senate is working day and
night in their efforts to finish the en
tire trust program within the next
week.
A portion of an automobile axle
was all that could be found following
an explosion of several hundred gal
lons of nitroglycerin being conveyed in
an automobile by two well-diggers in
Ohio.
According to reports received at
Ottawa City, eight members of the
Stefansson arctic expedition, who
were believed to be safe on Wrangel
Island, Alaska, with the remainder of
the party, are now thought to be
lost.
The Dominican rebels became so
careless with the way in which their
shots struck, the United States gun
boat Machias, that it was necessary
for the American commander to fire
upon them. The rebels firing then
ceased.
The sale of the American warships
Idaho and Mississippi to Greece has
finally been concluded, and the pur
chase price of $12,535,275.96 has been
turned over to Secretary Daniels.
While walking in his sleep, Cel.
Frank L. Denny, retired, of the ma
rine corps, was killed when he fell
over a ballustrade in his home.
The business section of the city of
Tuscumbia, .naa., was almost wiped
out by a fire which did damage to
the extent of $60,000 before it was
gotten under control.
Lieutenant Porte, who will pilot the
trans-Atlantic flying boat "America,"
declined a pair of life preservers, say
ing that he did not care to have his
body found floating on the ocean in
case there was an accident.
The Yaryan Naval Stores company
was bought at public auction at Bruns
wick, Ga., by the Empire Investment
company for $425,000.
Samuel M. Wilhite, ctty controller
of Louisville, was arrested on the
charge of embezzlement.. His short
ages are said to be approximately $14,
300. According to dispatches from Vera
Cruz, Juan Velasco, a wealthy manu
facturer of Mexico, was executed by
the bandit Zapatas, because his brother
was a trifle slow in paying the ran
som of 1,000,000 pesos
Hope was revived for a continuation
of the mediation proceedings when the
word was received in Washington that
Generals Carranza and Villa had come
to terms.
Charles S. Hamlin, W. P. G. Har
ding and A. C. Miller, whose recom
mendations as members of the feder
al reserve board were sent to the sen
ate by President Wilson, has received
the confirmation of the senate bank
ing and currency committee. .The rec
ommendation of Thomas D. Jones of
Chicago, whom President Wilson rec
ommended as governor of the board,
and whose appointment met with bit
ter opposition, was held up until the
latter part of this week. The appoint
ment of Paul M. Warburg of New York
was also delayed. It is understood
that he has been invited to appear be
fore the committee to answer several
questions. However it is said that he
asked the president to withdraw his
recommendation instead.
Ireland is alarmed over the Increas
ing menace of civil strife. The Ulster
volunteers continue in their warlike
preparations and boldly assert that
they will oppose with arms any at
tempt to carry out the home rula.
George Fred Williams has formally
resigned his post as minister to
Greece and Montenegro. In handing
in his resignation Williams stated he
did so in order that he might be free
to tell about Albania. .
Aroused over the revival of the Jew
ish language in Jerusalem, the Turk
ish government has issued orders
against posting notices in Hebrew
United States Commissioner of Edu
cation Claxton told the teachers at the
meeting of the National Educational
Association in St. Paul, Minn., that An
drew Carnegie planned to place libra
ries in every county in the country.
ECLARED
GOLD HILL PROMOTER CONTRA
DICTED COMPTROLLER BE
FORE INQUEST.
LATE STATE CAPITOL NEWS
Review of the Latest News Gathered
Around the State Capitol That
Will Be of Interest' to Our Readers
Over North Carolina.
Kaleigh.
Washington. John Skelton Wil
liams, comptroller of -the currency,
told a special senate committee he
had never had any financial interest
in the gold mine at Gold Hill, N. C,
the promotion of which through use
of senate stationery is being investi
gated by the committee. The comp
troller said Walter G. Newman, who
promoted the mine, had offered him
some stock, but that he had declined
to buy.
Mr. Williams presented a telegram
he had sent to Newman at Gold Hill,
informing him that Berkeley Wil
liams, the comptroller's brother and
Clevelan Perkins might look over the
Gold Hill property with a view to in
vesting. Mr. William denied, how
ever, that he had arranged an ap
pointment between Newman and Per
kins in Washington. (
Mr. Williams produced a letter writ
ten by Newman urging Williams to
join in some stock ventures in which
the promoter said he had Alaskan in
terests greater than those of "the
Guggenheims, Morgan or the Standard
Oil crowd," and promised to make
the national city crowd green with
envyr"
Frederick P. Dewey, assayer and
after director of - the mint, told of
making an investigation of the Gold
Hill property at the instance of Mr.-
Williams, and Director of the Mint
Roberts. He said that he found
"there was no mine there, but there
was a good prospect."
William C. Bishop, conducting an
investigating agency employed by the
Curb Market Association in New York
said he investigated appearance on
the curb of a letter written on sen
ate stationery and lauding the Gold
Hill enterprise. He said he found
only about three copies of the let
ter, but that these copies were shown
to every man on the curb. He wrote
to Senator Chilton about the letters,
which were on he paper of his com
mittee, and the senator replied de
nying all knowledge of them.
Senators Pomerene, of Ohio, and
Swanson, of Virginia, testified they
had bought stock in the mine at their
own risk and on their own responsi
bility. Mr. Swanson said he purchas
ed at thirty cents a share and put in
$5,000. Senator Pomerene did not
specify the amount he owned.
Assertions of Comptroller Williams
that he had received no communica
tions about the mine from Newman
except a few telegrams were denied
by the promoter when he was recall
ed to the stand. Newman said he had
two letters from the comptroller at his
Gold Hill office. He offered to pro
duce them, but Senator Thompson,
chairman of the investigating com
mittee, declined to receive them as he
was anxious . to conclude the inquiry,
Cost of Hog Cholera Serum Lower.
The state department of agriculture
iesues the following notice to the
swine growers of North Carolina:
"On July 1 the North Carolina
department of agriculture reduced the
cost of hog cholera serum from one
and' one-half cents a cubic centimeter
to one and one-fourth ' cents. The de
partmnt has b,een furnishing this se
rum to the farmers at cost of produc
tion since 1910.
"As the demand for the serum in
creases, with the improved facilities
for making it, the cost has been re
duced from two and one-half cents the
cubic centimeter in 1910 to one and
one-fourth cents. All serum will be
sent by express C. O. D., unless
check or money order accompanies
order.
"Orders for serum should be ad
dressed to the Commissioner of Agri
culture, Raleigh, N. C."
Improvements in Health Bulletin.
When the July number of The
Health Bulletin, the monthly publica
tion of the state board of health, is is
sued it will contain considerable im
provement in get up, according to an
announcement made by Secretary W.
S. Rankin of the board, who is editor
in chief of the publication. It will
hare specific departments for tubercu
losis, child hygiene, public health and
sanitation and personal hygiene. In
this way material hertofore printed
in scattered and haphazarded manner
will be grouped much better.
Court Will Begin in August.
The fall term of the North Carolina
supreme court is to convene on the
last Monday in August and the prelim
inary work is being pushed by Clerk
J. L. Seawell. The justices, with the'
exception of Chief Justice Clark, are
out of the city on their annual vaca
tions. In the meantime, some atten
tion is being given to, the matter of
the preparation of the questions that
are to be propounded to the! applicants
for licenses. Indications are that
there will be B0 or more law students
to undertake the examinations.
W LUIS
Wfflffi
State Must Have Big Exhibit.
A special from Charlotte says: Is
North Carolina to be adequately rep
resented by an exhibit at the Panama-
Pacific Exposition next year or is the
state to overlook this opportunity of
obtaining -what is generally recogniz
ed as the best advertising medium
possible for the resources of the com
monwealth? This proposition was D resented to
a representative gathering of business
people of Charlotte at a meeting held
at the Selwyn Hotel at. which time
brief but forceful talks were made by
CoL Fred A. Olds . of Raleigh, - com
missioner on behalf of the exposition;
Mr. Leonard Tufts of Pinehurst, Mr.
J. A. Brown of Chadborun, Mr. C. E.
Hutchison of Mount Holly, and Mr.
Stuart W. Cramer of Charlotte, com
missioners on behalf of the state ap
pointed by Governor, Craig, and
Messrs. C. E. Hughes, T. W. Alexan
der, Cameron Morrison and John a.
McRae of Charlotte.
At the conclusion of the meeting
a resolution was introduced and un
animously adopted " providing for the
appointment by the Greater Charlotte
Club of a committee to secure $1,000
from the city for the purpose of
properly exploiting the resources of
the Queen City at the exposition and
also to appear before the Legislature
to urge upon that body the donation
o fa sufficient amount to properly
advertise the advantages of North
Carolina at this great celebration.
The supreme need of obtaining
more people in the state and the de
sirability of making an effort to in
duce the immigration from the Middle
West and West was the keynote of
the meeting. Mr. J. A. Brown 'of
Chadbourn declared that North Caro
lina possessed greater advantages
and derived the least returns there
from of any state in the Union. He
added that North Carolina had a
population of only 2,500,000 whereas
it ought to have and sometime would
have 10,000,000. He cited statements
by Dr. Seamon Knapp and Secretary
James Wilson to the effect that the
section of the country destined to
make the greatest strides in agricul
tural development was that situated
within 100 miles of the Atlantic Coast
between Norfolk, Va.. and Jackson
ville, Fla. Of this favored section he
declared North Carolina stood first.
State Laboratory Hygiene Hampered.
The state department of health- is
much stirred Sover the possibility of
losing just half of the $8,000 that has
formed the basis of maintenance for
the work of the division of the labora
tory of hygiene for the current legis
latice biennial period, and this same
issue is giving the council of state,
Governor Craig and Attorney Gen-
eral Bickett a great deal of concern
and perplexity.
A long session of the council of
state failed to settle the difficulty.
The trouble is that Section 36, Chapter
62 Laws of 1911 made a specific ap
propriation of $4,000 for the laboratory
of hygiene, along with provision of
$18,000 for other work of the depart
ment. Then the 1913 legislature,
through section 14, chapter 181, en
acted specifically a substitute for Sec
tion ,36 that specified an appropria
tion of $26,000 for the department of
health, specifying $4,000 for the lab
oratory of Hygiene.
One Hundred Farmers' Institutes.
Director T. B. Parker, of the Farm
ers' Institute division of the state
department of agriculture, announces
a series of 100 institution to be held
during the last two weeks of July and
during August in that stretch of
counties extending from Raleigh all
the way westward to the crest of the
Blue Ridge Mountains. There are to
be four institute parties that will in
terchange specialists and other ex
pert institute workers as opportunity
affords. Among the most widely
known institute workers who will take
part in the various institutes are R.
W. Scott, Col. John S. Cunningham,
and J. P. Kerr, of Alamance; A. L.
French, Rockingham; Prof. C. L. New
man, A. & M. College; Dr. G. L.
Christman, now of the Virginia Poly
technic Institute. N
Several North Carolina Items.
Washington. The general defici
ency bill reported to the house con
tains the following North Carolina
items: Thomasville, for site and
commencement public buildings, $8,
000;Edenten, for postoffice site, $7,
500; "Chapel Hill, for site and com
mencement public buildings, $8,500.
Governor Goes to Camp Glenn;
' Governor Craig spent a few hours
I) VACVUUTC JLJ.XD UCi C W 1111a VJ11
his way from Asheville to Morehead
City, where, as he laughingly ex
pressed it, possessing special military
ability and skill, he will inspect the
North Carolina troops in annual en
campment there. The governor took
part in a meeting , of the council of
state while here for the purpose of
getting seme "kinks" out of the ad
justment of finances for. "the mainte
nance of the special work of the state
laboratory of hygiene. y
Ahoskie Will Get New Depot.
The corporation commission has
received and forwarded to the mayor
of Ahoskie plans by the Atlantic.
Coast Line for considerable improve
ments to the passenger station there,
the purpose being to secure tha ap
proval of the mayor and citizens for
the proposed changes. The proposed
changes are the outcome of a petition
by the mayor and citizens to the com
mission for improvements. If the
plans of the Coast Line are acceptable
the commission will make an order
for the work to be done speedily.
STATE ITEMS
OF INTEREST TO ALL NORTH
t CAROLINA PEOPLE.
Mrs. Johnson Confesses.
"I am going to tell the whole truth
about the matter. I killed my husband
because he had made life unbearable
for me by constantly accusing me of
infidelity. . I am sorry I did not say
this at first, but I was afraid and felt
that I was alone in the world with
out a friend to whom I could turn."
The foregoing statement was made
by pretty Mrs. Elizabeth Early John
son at the conclusion of a three-hour
Interview with her in which every
phase of the case was .discussed. The
interview took place In her cell in
the county jail at Williamston and
the confession was the first one made
by the woman, who on Saturday night
July Fourth, killed her husband as'
they ' were riding along the road on
their way to church in Martin county.
Railways Form Merger.
Official announcement has just been
made of the merger of the Piedmont
Traction Company operating between
Charlotte and Gastonia, with the
Greenville, Spartanburg & Anderson
Railway, operating between Spartan
burg and Greenwood, S. C, into the
Piedmont & Northern Railway Com
pany, which in the future will be the
corporate name of the Interurban in
this territory. As a result of the mer
ger, it is stated that Mr. C. V. Palmer,
general freight and passenger agent,
will be moved to Greenville, S. C,
where he will be in closer touch with
the bulk of the company's business.
He will move his family also to
Greenville.
Freight Rate Meeting.
Plans for the placing of the North
Carolina Just Freight Association on
a permanent basis with the employ
ment of a rate expert who will give
his entire time to the protection of
the shipping interests of the state
from alleged discriminations and over
charges were perfected at the meet
ing of the organization which was
held at Asheville. The attendance
while not large, was representative
and that financial support for the em
polyment of the expert and the pay
ment of expenses incurred in main
taining headquarters will be forth
coming was evidenced when men
reprsenting varied lines of industry
pledged their support.
Peaches Fine on State Farm.
Commissioner of Labor and Print
ing M. L. Shipman, who spent the
first of the week with members of his
family, who are visiting his parents at
Blantyre, reports that the state exper
iment farm at Blantyre has one of the
finest crops of peaches ever known in
this section. The fruit is now being
marketed and is bringing top prices.
NORTH CAROLINA BRIEFS.
Ned Finley, director of the Vita
graph Company of America has gone
to Bat i Cave with his troupe of 20
persons to take pictures in that sec
tion. Two moving picture, makers
made two pictures while In Hender
sonville during the past two weeks.
Never before in the history of Cald
well county has so much interest and
enthusiasm been shown in the sowing
of crimson clover as at present. Coun
ty Demonstrator Goforth has already
listed over 1,000 acres to be sowed this
fall, and he expects to easily reach
the 5,000 limit. Farmers were all de
lighted with the results of last fall's
.sowing.
McElwee's leaf tobacco warehouse
at Statesvflle is undergoing changes
and improvements that- will greatly
increase its floor space and will give
to the tobacco growers better accom
modations than they have ever had in
Statesville. '
While trying to board . a passing
freight train, Hugh Gordon, a young
man of Brown Summit, was thrown
beneath the cars and had his arm
crushed off above the elbow at Rudd
Station, eight miles north of Greens
boro. He was brought to the city and
placed in a hospital and the arm am
putated ' just below the shoulder. He
is resting well and is expected to re
cover. ,
The cs-unty commissioners were in
session at Newton and transacted con
siderable N business. There was quite
a little discussion of the proposition
to establish a farm life school.
Judge and Mrs. Heekiah Gudger
arrived at New York, according to in
formation received at Asheville and
will, return to Ashevilhi next week.
Judge Gudger is the retiring chief
justice of the Panama camti zone su
preme court, having been on the
isthmus for the past 17 yeurs.
A section of Gaston county was vis
ited recently by the most severe elec
trical and hailstorm that hasb?en ex
perienced here in many years. The
storm began in the eastern part of
town and its path was about one mile
wide. .Devastated cotton and corn
fields were left In its wake. '
Southern secretaries of the Y. M. C.
A- in industrial " fields gathered at
Blue Ridge for a two-weeks' training
course in connection (with the South
ern Summer School of Young Men's
Christian Associations. -
After a 10-days session the Mission
ary Educational Conference for the
Southern states closed at Blue Ridge.
Rev. R. W. Patton, secretary of the
Protestant Episcopal church, was the
presiding officer of this, the twelfth
of these conferences in the South, and
Mr. H. S. Myers of the Missionary
Education movement, . was secretary
in charge., ..
CAUL SLATED
TO RULE MEXICO
HUERTA WILL RESIGN AND HIS
SUCCESSOR WILL BE
SEATED.
NOT PLEASING TO REBELS
Carranza Will Not Stop Fighting Be
cause Another Leader Takes the '
Place of His Present Enemy.'
' -
Washington. Events in Mexico are
shaping themselves for a termination
of the) civil strife that has kept that
country in a turmoil and threatened
at one time to provoke war with the
United States. General Huerta against
whom the Constitutionalists ' have
waged incessant warfare since he
overthrew President Madero 18
months ago, has given up the struggle
at last.
Weakened by the struggle of the
United States to recognize . his Gov
ernment and cut off from financial
support in Europe, he realizes the
big Constitutionalist army, augmented
daily as it .presses southward, is at
the threshold of the Mexican capital.
Fearful that an invading army may
commit excesses which would endang
er the lives of an innocent population
and destroy property, persons influen
tial with the man who has dictated
affairs in Mexico City at own whim
have persuaded him to abandon his
hopeless position. ' v
Comprehensive messages to Wash
ington diplomats from legations and
consulates in Mexico City thus de
scribe the situation.
Within a few ays General Huerta
is expected to resign in favor of his
newly, appointed Minister of Foreign
Affairs, Francisco Carbajal, until re
cently chief justice of the Supreme
Court of Mexico.. Difficulties between
the United States and the Huerta Gov
ernment were composed at Niagara
Falls Huerta would leave the internal
problem to be settled by his successor.
Carbajal, it is expected, would
bring the gap from the Huerta regime
to a new provisional administration
controlled by the Constitutionalists.
Hs has not been active in politics
andis anxious for peace.
HORACE H. LURTON DEAD.
Justice of Supreme Court Unexpected
ly Succumbs to Heart Failure.
Atlantic City, N. J. Associate Jus
tice Horace Harmon Lurton of the
United States supreme court died sud
denly at a hotel here from heart fail
ure superinduced by. cardiac asthma.
He was 70 years old.
The justice, who came here July 1
was in his usual health before retir
ing the night before and had taken
his customary evening outing on the
boardwalk. Shortly after midnight he
complained of feeling ill and al
though, his physician, Doctor Ruffin,
who arrived from Washington was
summoned immediately, Justice Lur
ton died at 5 o'clock. His wife and
son, Horace H. Lurton, Jr., of Nash
ville, Tenn., were at the bedside. Mrs.
Horace Van Deventer, a daughter and
her husband arrived from Knoxville,
Tenn., and other members of the
family came at once. . .
The body was taken to Clarksville,
Tenn, for interment, the funeral par
ty leaving hefe at 2 o'clock. It was
at that city tht Justice Lurton began
the practice of law and lived for 20
years. Funeral . services were held
there. Chief Justice White and sev
eral associate justices of the supreme
court as well as many friends from
different parts of the country were
present. . : . .
Kicks on McAdoo.
Washington. Representative Good,
Republican, of Iowa, made an attack
In the house on the use of govern
ment revenue cutters as ; "pleasure
craft" by Secretary ' McAdoo. Repre
sentative Good declared that the reve
nue cuttsr Onondaga made regular
week-end trips out of Boston to ac
commodate "parties of Democrats."
He quoted an article from a newspa
per saying Mr. and Mrs. McAdoo had
made a cruise to Matapoiset, Mass., in
the Onondaga.
Carbajal. Was Suggested.
1 New York. That the name of Fran
cisco Carbajal, Huerta's new minister
of foreign affairs, was proposed at the
Niagara Falls mediation conference
of provisional president of Mexico "was
confirmed here by Emiliano Rabasa
and Augustin Rodriguez, the Huerta
delegates. They declared Carbajal's
name was first submitted to the con
ference by the American delegates
and accepted by the Mexican delega
tion as that of a man who stood neu
tral between the Huerta government
and the Constitutionals.
Moheno Was Fired.
Vera Cruz, Mexico. Adolfo de La
Lama, Mexican Minister of Finance,
arrived here from the Federal capital
on his way to Paris to confer with
the holders of Mexican National bonds
and to explain to them the conditions
obtaining in Mexico and give them as
surances that the obligations will be
fujly met when peace and order have
been restored. De La Lama asserted
that Querido TMoheno, former Mexi
can Minister of Commerce and Labor,
had been asked to resign by General
Huerta.
lNMMQONAL
MHB0L
(By E. O. SELLERS. Director of Evening
Department, Tie Moody .Bible institute,
Chicago.) . . ,
LESSON FOR jULY 19
BLIND BARTIMAEUS.
..."
LESSON TEXT Mark 10:46-62.
GOLDEN TEXT "Then the eyes of the
blind shall be opened, and the ears of the
deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the
lame man leap as an ' hart, and the
tongue of the dumb shall sing; for In the
wilderness shall waters break out, and
streams in the desert." Isa. 85:5, 8.
On our Lord's Journey "towards Je
rusalem," the place of sacrifice, a
place of power was sought by his dis
ciples, Mark 10:37. This lesson is an
illustration given to those who accom
panied Jesus how they too may reach
a place of power, viz., through service
and sacrifice.
Matthew 20:30-34 tells us that there
were two who made the appeal, but
Mark seems to have thought that -Bar-timaeus
was worthy of special men
tion. The healing mentioned by Luke
18:35 suggests that in that case it
occurred as Jesus was entering and
not leaving Jericho. Mark is telling of
one man, Luke of another.
Man's Nature.
I. Bartimaeus Begging, vv 46-48.
The passing throng rebuked the beg
gar. Very likely the disciples joined
in this rebuke. This certainly shows
the fact that none of them fully com
prehended the Lord's teaching as sug:
gested in Mark 10:45. Bartimaeus is
an Illustration of man by nature. His
home, Jericho, was the city under "a
curse" (Josh 6:17), and is a type of
this world cursed by sin. He was
blind, see II Cor. 4:4; Rev. 3:17. His
rags suggest Isa. 64:6 and Phil. 3:9.
If the rebuke was mainly by the dis
ciples it was that they might save the
master during these strange days.
Great and marvelous were the works
and teachings he was performing, but
these were the things that called forth
such, a wayside service. It was a glad
message to Bartimaeus, "Jesus of Na
zareth passeth by." There was no
one else who could help him. Some
one had told him of the power of
Jesus. Now his opportunity Is at hand,
he must not miss it. Jesus never
passed that way again. Bartimaeus
began by crying out, Rom. 10:13; he
called while Christ was near enough,
to hear, Isa. 55:6. His cry was that
of conscious need, it was direct, it
was insistent. He called Jesus "Son
of David" e. g., the Messiah, although
the people had said "Jesus of Naza
reth," see MatL 9:27; 15:21, 22. His
cry for "mercy" is rebuked. Many to
day are so stiff and formal as to frown
upon any religious enthusiasm or ear
nestness. It was not beneath the dig
nity of Jesus to be disturbed by a
blind beggar. Though poor in purse
Bartimaeus was rich in faith for he
answered those who rebuked him by
crying, "the more a great deaL" He
would not be put off. '.
"Come to Jesus."
II. Bartimaeus Blessed, vv. 49-52.
His command "call ye him" Is Indica
tive of the conscious power of Christ.
Notice his great interest as suggested
by the words, "Jesus stood still." Re
member his important mission to Je
rusalem and the leaders of the people
who occupied his time; yet he does not
compel Bartimaeus to follow after, nor
to overtake him ere his prayer is an
swered, see Matt 11:28. 'This was
good news for the disciples to pro
claim, Matt. 28:19,20. .There was no
.indecision on the part of Bartimaeus.
Casting his garment aside he sprang
up, came and cast himself at the feet
of Jesus. Although Jesus possessed
all power still its manifestation was
confined to the desire of the beggar.
The Teaching: First, the readiness
of God's mercy. Jesus had been reject
ed by rulers and councils and is mov
ing "steadfastly" toward the consum
mation of his earthly career. That
Journey led him through Jericho, per
haps that he might meet Bartimaeus.
At Jerusalem he is to pronounce sen
tence upon the rebellion of his people.
Nevertheless when one of that same
people called himvbyx the title that
suggested his Messlahship. - "Son of
David," he Immediately turned aside
in response thereto, Heb. 3:2. God
never destroys the righteous with the
wicked or the repentant with the re
bellious. , His ear is ever open to the
faintest cry.
Second. The failure of men to ap
prehend this fact. There are many to
day as successors of those who re
buked Bartimaeus. Some- who hold
him in reverence and yet fail to ap
prehend adequately that he came to
"seek and to save the lost." There is
no consideration of policy or of expe
diency, no question of method, nor the
importance of rank, that' can stand in
the way of opening blind eyes, and an
swering the cry of the beggar.
Third. The nature of saving faith.
The answer of relief from the Lord
comes in response to the profound con
viction of personal need. "He came
not to call the righteous but sinners to
repentance." There is nothing in that
call to make any definite appeal to
the righteous. A blind man, through
someone's testimony hears that he Is
near nd cries out to him from, the
depths of his need. But there must be
also a recognition of power. Barti
maeus had no assurance until he had
made his appeal; he took a chance as
It were. He was not assured until
bis eyes were opened