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VOL. XXXVIII. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, AUGUST 25, 1915.
NO. 3.
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IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
Happenings of This and Other Nations
For Seven Days Are
Given.
THE NEWS JJFTHE SOUTH
VVhat la Taking Place in the South
land Will Be Found in
Brief Paragraphs.
Foreign
A long manifesto against any an
nexation of conquered territory by
Genua ry has been addressed the Ger
man chancellor by the Socialists nt
Genuai. y. It is contended that in
fringement on any people contains the
germ? of future war.
Thousands of people are starving in
Mexico City and bodies of women and
children are daily being picked up in
the streets there, according to an
American Red Cross agent.
The new president of Peru, Dr. Jose
Pardo. has taken the oath of office.
A pub ic holiday was declared. The
army was drawn up in the streets.
Labor organizations and other socie
ties paraded.
Ex-Premier Eleutherlos Venizelos
notified King Constantine of his read
iness to form a new Grecian cabinet
in succession to the Gounaris minis
try. President Porras has closed all
gambling houses in Panama as a re
sult of the investigation into charges
of police corruption. It is stated that
evidence adduced in the investigation
indicates that several municipal offi
cials, too, have accepted money to
protect gambling places.
National registry day was held
throughout Great Britain. Every per
son berween the ages of 15 and 65 had
to fill out a blank giving age, occupa
tion and ability to do work useful to
the state.
Armed Mexicans in force are report
ed to have crossed the Rio Grande
near Mercedes, Texas, and attacked an
outpost of half a dozen cavalry men at
Saenz. Ranger Lieutenant Reynau at
Mercedes telephoned State Adjutant
General Hutchings at Brownsville that
Corporal Wilman of Troop O, Twelfth
cavalry, was killed in this fight, and
Lieut. R. O. Henry and two privates
of the same troop wounded.
Domestic
Ind.'anapolis, Ind., is planning to
honor James Whitcomb Riley on Octo
ber 7, tjje anniversary of the "Hosier
Poet's" birth.
The United Fruit liner Abangarez
at Havana was ordered by wireless
to proceed from New Orleans to Cape
San Antonio, Cuba, and search the
southern coast of the island, where
it was reported a large steamer is
ashore.
The fourth day after the cessation
of one of the most severe storms Gal
veston, Texas, has ever experienced
found that city gradually recovering
from the terrific onslaught of the ele
ment.
Vice President Marshall, speaking
at Kansas City, Mo., said: "I do not
believe in enforced military training,
but boys and young men could he
trained in the high schools and Col
leges without loss of time. I can think
of no better place to train officers
than in the scbools of the country."
With large sections of the storm
swept coast of Texas cut off from
communication reports received place
the number known to have been kill
in th tropical hurricane, which
swept the Texas coast, at more than
100. The property loss was vaguely
estimated in the millions, some esti
mates placing the probable loss as
mgh as thirty million dollars.
Walber Ortolph, charged with en
tering government reservations to ob
tain information regarding national de
lenses to lhich he was not entitled
Pleaded not guilty at a preliminary
bearing in Tallahassee, Fla., before
Commissioner McCord.
The borow situation along the low
er Rio Gnuide has assumed an ugly
aspect Gathering of Mexicans in force
at Progresc and their firing across the
river striking trooDers of the Twelfth
United States cavalry was not the only
aggravating feature of the situation
Authorities received reports that 25
horses, including some recognized as
animals stolen by bandits in recent
raws on the Texas side, were deliver
e(1 in Matmoros, the Mexican town
Veterans of foreien wars of the Unit
ed States, at their national convention
in Detroit, adopted resolutions favor
:n? a navy second only to that of
reat Britain; a regular army of 125,
000
a reserve force of 500,000 to meet
in CarnP annuallv and the aDDointmen
ot a national legislative commission
w&ich could co-operate with all other
"aiionai patriotic societies in the for
Ration of plans for an adequate de
tense.
"Sport" shirts and the standing of
. Daseball teams engaged the atten
Mohammed's supreme envoy to
united States, when the latter ar
rived
m New York City. Sahid M
wagih Gillani, Assistant Sehikh Ul Is
ai and a direct descendant of Mo
tion" d' iS the envoy's ful1 desisna
The American dollar rules the finan
rial i
wur"i with an iron grip. Foreign
hange went down tn now Pontile, ,-t.
J torrent of bills that poured into the
nge markets from American
manu
tacturers staking pay for big war
ontracts
A second payment or $666,800 on
fourteen hundred bales of cotton
aboard the steamer Southerner, which
was diverted into Kirkwall by a Brit-
sh cruiser, was made to W. Gordon
McCabe & Co., of Charleston, by the
British embassy.
Stormsw-?t and battered, with a
loss of only fourteen live,, Galves
ton, fortified by its enormous sea wall,
emerged victorious from one of the
most severe storms known in the his
tory of the Gulf of Mexico. However,
about five hundred houses have been
crushed, and the island is covered
with debris. Four of the dead are
United States soldiers and ten civil
ians. opposite Brownsville, Texas.
Nineteen men and one woman were
rushed to a hospital in Atlanta, Ga.,
from all parts of the city, suffering
from ptomaine poisoning. The twenty
patients declared that they had drunk
Buttermilk at the branch dairy and
attributed their illness to that milk.
Former Deputy United States Reve
nue Collector E. N. Winters Dleaded
guilty to embezzling federal funds
while connected with the internal rev
enue department and was sentenced to
thirteen months in prison. He surren
dered a month ago at Bisbee, Arizona,
to which city he went from Mexico
when he learned that a federal indict
ment had been returned against him.
Washington
Tension increased in official quar
ters when consular messages forward
ing affidavits of American survivors
of the British liner Arabic, which was
sunk by a German submarine with
much loss of life, brought definite in
formation that the vessel was torpe
doed without warning and that sev
eral American lives had been lost.
The American note to Germany,
made public in regard to the destruc
tion of the sailing ship, William P.
Frye, by a German auxiliary cruiser
may have important results in its bear
ing upon the question of the treatment
of neutral commerce by belligerents,
Washington officials believe.
Southern railroads were ordered by
the interstate commerce commission
to cease granting to Nashville dealers
the privilege of rebilling and reship
ping grain and hay so long as It is re
fused Georgia dealers.
The allies' intention to declare cot
ton contraband has been communicat
ed to the United States government
unofficially, but authoritatively. The
state department advices are that the
decision has been reached and the de
lay in making an announcement is
due to the necessity of arranging uni
form treatment of the subject by all
of the allies.
The state department has made pub
lic the reply of the United States re
jecting the views set forth by the
Austro-Hungarian government in a re
cent note contending that exportation
of war munitions from America to
Austria's enemies was conducted on
such a scale as to be "not in conso
nance with the definition of neutral
ity." President Wilson has begun a detail
ed study of plans for strengthening
the national defenses to be presented
to the coming session of congress.
The war department has given out
the announcement that the Atlantic
fleet, virtually in its full war strength,
will hold a series of defensive man
euvers in the waters off Block Island,
R. L
European War
Fourteen steamers, with a total
gross tonnage of 47,968, have been
sunk in forty-eight hours by German
submarines. This toll establishes a
record for the period. Ten of the ves
sels s-unk were British, three were
Norwegian an done was Spanish.
The garrison of Novogeorgievsk,
left behind by the retreating Russians
to delay the Teutonic advance, has
surrendered. Berlin has announced
the capture of the fortress with its
700 guns and garrison of 8,500 soldiers
and a large quantity of war material.
The outskirts of London were raid
ed by Zeppelins. Ten persons were
killed. The damage to property was
not important.
Kovno, one of the crucial points in
the Russian defensive in the north,
has been captured by the Germans,
and the road to Vilna, Warsaw and
Petrograd railway is now open tc
Emperor William's troops.
Further Italian advances through
the passes of the Alps and a brilliant
bayonet charge which captured a
strong line of Austrian entrench
ments in the Tolmino region are de
scribed in the Italian official report.
Germany has lost 43,972 officers
since the war began, according to fig
ures from German official sources.
The total dead are 13,803; the wound
ed 26,287; the missing 2,349, while 993
are numbered as prisoners. Included
in the total are one hundred and
twenty-three generals killed and miss
ing. Berlin declares the left wing of the
Bavarian army in Poland, under Prince
Leopold, has fought its way across the
Bug river near Drehiczyn, which i
east of Sokolow and fifty miles north
east of Brest Litovsk.
The sinking in the Aegean sea by
a German submarine of the British
transport Royal Edward with heavy
loss of life has shattered the British
navy's proud tradition that it had
transported hundreds of thousands oi
men across the sea without the de
struction of one troop-laden ship.
General von Buelow's army operat
ing west of the river Dvinsk has again
taken the offensive and has beaten
the Russians in the vicinity of Ku
bisgo, taking more than two thousand
prisoners.
GERMANY'S MEAT
SUPPLY LIMITED
NATION MUST REDUCE ITS CON
SUMPTION BY CIVIL
POPULAITION. SURPLUS SUPPLY OF BREAD
All Demands For Other Foodstuffs
Can Be Met, It Is
Thought.
Washington. Germany faces the
necessity of reducing the meat con
sumption of her civil population 40
or 50 per cent, according to a report
sent by the American Ambassador of
Commerce and Trade in Berlin to the
department of commerce. The report
says, however, that the bread card
system has resulted in a surplus
of wheat and rye flour which will
make possible an increase in the bread
allowance.
Introduction of a meat card scheme
to restrict consumption and insure
reasonable prices is predicted by the
association.
From statistics gathered before the
war it is estimated that Germany de
pendecLon imports for about 27.3 per
cent of her foodstuffs.
"In anlyzing the effect of these
figures upon the general situation,"
says the report, "it should be borne
In mind that Germany's isolation is
not complete one, since about 8,500,
000 bushels of wheat have been
brought in since the outbreak of the
war and not much less of fodder
which is about one-tenth of normal
imports per year.
Butter and meat imports from
Holland, Denmark and Sweden are
said to have been considerable, while
fish were secured in large quantities
from Norway.
"It can be assumed," the report
continues, "that one-quarter of the
normal demand for foodstuffs has
been brought in."
The aggregate saving over peace
consumption of all foodstuffs is esti
mated at from 16 to 17 per cent.
"Interest is now centered," the re
port says, "on the outlook for 1915
16, and it is generally conceded that
in respect to wheat and rye, no diffi
culties will arise if the next crop
should not be a bumper one."
The conclusion is that all demands
for breadstuffs and potatoes can be
filled. It wil be possible to increase
the amount of bread per head on the
bread card, and sugar and milk will
be sufficiently supplied.
Balkans May Enter War Soon.
London. Italy's declaration of war
against Tureky is expected to have an
almost immediate effect on the Balkan
States, which are still debating which
side they will take in the conflict. Re
lations between Italy and Roumania
long have been intimate and it is pre
dicted here that, especially in view of
the threatening attitude of the Ger
manic powers because of Roumania's
refusal to allow ammunition to pass
through her territory Roumania will
join the Quadruple Entente.
Bulgaria is waiting for Serbia's re
ply to the suggestions of the Entente
ministers that Serbia cede Macedonia
to Bulgaria. Greece is likely to de
clare her future policy when the cham
ber meets this week. It is regarded
here as significant that M. Venizelos,
who always has been friendly to the
Entente has decided to take charge, in
addition to the Grecian premiership of
the office of minister of foreign af
fairs. Texas Threatened by Epidemic.
Galveston, Texas Wind and water
have exacted their toll of 300 lives and
$50,000,000 in property in southeast
Texas and now the area that was de
vastated by the most terrific hurricane
of half a century faces the menace of
disease.
Thousands of carcasses, cattle,
horses, mules and sheep and hogs lie
rotting where they were carried by
flood waters. Every effort is being
made to remove these by burning or
burial, but it will be impossibe to fully
accomplish this for several days.
Wilson Awaits Arabic Reports.
Washington Judgement is sus
pended by the United States govern
ment on the torpedoing of the liner
Arabic with a loss of two American
lives. Pending arrival of official in
formation, high officials will not dis
cuss it. It was understood the all
important report awaited before the
United States determines whether
Germany has committed a "deliber
ately unfriendly act" is expected
from Ambassador Gerard. State
ments of American survivors say Arab
is was torpedoed without warning.
20 Drowned in Flood.
St. Louis. The Meramee River,
lined with pleasure resorts, club
houses, and summer cottages, went
several miles out of its banks, swept
away most of these buildings and in
creased to 20, it is reported, the num
ber of lives lost in St. Louis county,
during the last few days as a result
of the flood. The Meramee's rise was
so sudden that hundreds had time
only to climb to treetops. Efforts
were being made to rescue these with
motorboats. The river passed a stage
five feet righer than ever before.
BOYS AND GIRLS
HOIS
LIEUT. GOVERNOR DAUGHTRIDGE
PRAISES CLUB WORK OF
YOUNGSTERS.
DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH
Doings and Happenings That Mark
the Progress of .North Carolina Peo
ple Gathered Around the State
Capitol.
Raleigh.
In the opinion of Lieutenant Gov
ernor Daughtridge the boys' corn, pig
and poultry clubs and the girls' poul
try and tomato clubs that have been
organized throughout the state give
promise of quickly relieving the state
of the drain of $40,000,000 to $50,000,
000 that now go out of the state yearly
for supplies that should be raised at
home. He came to Raleigh to deliver
an address to the conference of mem
bers of the boys' clubs in progress
here with the county farm demonstra
tors and is enthusiastic over the
splendid showing that the 235 boys
here for the conference make.
In the eexcutive offices of Governor
Craig Mr. Daughtridge said that he
feels sure that this movement for en
thusing the country boys and girls in
the club work will develop in the most
rapid way possible the production of
home supplies and end the drain on
the state that has in the past taken
about the full money value of the
cotton grown as the money crop. He
expects these boys' clubs to bring up
the production of corn and meat and
the canning clubs to have the effect
of saving from waste vast quantities
of fruits and vegetables that have
heretofore been left to decay in the
fields or go to waste in other ways.
Governor Daughtridge says that the
crop conditions in this section, espe
cially cotton, corn and peanuts, are
fine and that there is every promise
for a more than average yield.
Infant Secures Mother's Pardon.
Asheville. Declaring that he is un
willing that an infant shall be confin
ed in an eastern North Carolina Jail
during the extreme heat of the present
summer season for the sins of its
mother. Governor Locke Craig grant
ed a conditional pardon to Minnie Da
vis, who is serving a term of six
months in jail in Bertie county on a
vagrancy charge.
Governor Craig states that the par
don has been opposed by a number
of the well-known citizens of the
county in which the applicant resides,
but he has been advised that the little
child must be with its mother and he
is not willing that the state shall keep
this infant behind prison bars to make
the mother pay the penalty of her
crime. She is pardoned upon condi
tion that she become a good citizen
and obey the laws.
Progress With Freight Rates.
Progress is being made in the nego
tiations between the 2u or more short
lines of railroad in this state and the
corporation commission in the nego
tiations as to the standardization of
the freight rates applicable to these
lines in this state. Some weeks ago
the corporation commission prepared
tentative rates and submitted them to
the railroad companies for their in
spection. Then there was filed with
the commission by representatives of
the railroad companies a counter set
of rates that the officials of the rail
roads believe to be nearer in keeping
with the conditions that confront the
several systems and calculated to
yield some more, as they claim, much
needed revenue.
Waterways Men Accepts Invitation.
The northern delegates of the At
lantic Deeper Waterways Association
have accepted the invitation of the
Chamber of Commerce to visit Raleigh
when they pass through on their way
to Savannah, Ga., for their eighth
annual convention in November. They
plan to visit Raleigh November 8. It
is probable that Congressman Moore,
of Pennsylvania, and Winfried H.
Schoff, secretary of the association,
will visit Raleigh in the near future
to arrange for their reception here.
Will Transfer Captain Langdon.
Captain Langdon .inspector-instructor,
assigned to the infantry of the
North Carolina National Guard by the
war department for the past two
years, has just forwarded to Washing
ton his final reports on the inspection
work for the infantry encampments at
Camp Glenn this summer. It is learn
ed here that Captain Langdon will be
transferred about December under
the operation of the statute that re
quires that officers in the national
service must spend at least two years
out of every six with their companies.
Miss Perry's Plans Fail.
Miss Emily K. Perry, national or
ganizer for the Congressional Union
for Woman Suffrage, left here on an
early train for Asheville where she
will have a conference with Mrs.
Archibald Henderson of Chapel Hill,
president of the North Carolina Union,
who Is spending a while in the moun
tains. While there has been nothing
like a breach between the state and
the national organizations, there Is
understood to be a difference of opin
ion as to the methods of campaigning
In this state.
Supreme Court Calendar Heavy.
Over thirty cases from the first di&
trict have already been docketed in
the Supreme Court for argument when
the court enters into the fall term
on August 30. Fully fifteen more are
expected. Of the thirty cases already
on the calendar, none are of statewide
importance, the majority of them be
ing local in their interest.
The supreme covt, however, has
on its hand now the decision in the
anti-jug law. This was carried over
under and ad visa ri from the last term
with the expectation that the supreme
court of the United States would rule
on its constitutionality, in a number of
cases of similar nature then pending.
The United States court decided the
cases from another angle and left the
North Carolina question still an issue.
It is expected that the opinion will be
handed down by the North Carolina
court during the fall.
Since this case went to the supreme
court, Judge R. B. Peebles, sitting in
Wake county coui. charged the grand
jury that so far as the anti-jug law
affects the shipment of whiskey for
private purposes and personal use it
is unconstitutional and the burden of
proof is on the consignee to prove that
the whiskey is inteneeo" for private
consumption. He further charged the
grand jury to be guided by this fact
in presentments.
The first day of the new term will
be devoted to the examination of can
didates for license to practice law in
North Carolina. Under a new ruling
of the court, all applicants must file
applications and examination fee, to
gether with necessary recommenda
tions, by Friday before Monday of the
examination. It will not be necessary
for such applicants to appear per
sonally before Monday.
Thus far over forty applications
have been filed and the outlook is for
a greater number than ever before.
New Charters Issued By Secretary.
Tranquil Park Company, Charlotte,
capital $100,000 authorized and $300
subscribed by John Q. Myers, P. C.
Whitlock and J. P. Monroe for real
estate development.
The Special Features Film Produc
ing Company, Ashevdle, capital $100,
000 authorized and $1,000 subscribed
by R. R. Reynolds, Marcus Erwin and
M. S. Reynolds.
The Quality Clothing Company,
Salisbury, capital $25,000 authorized,
and $14,000 subscribed by Jacob
Sacks and others for general clothing
and furnishings business.
The Washburn-Mann Manufactur
ing Company, Washington, capital
$20,000 authorized, and $6,000 sub
scribed by H. J. Washburne, S. M
Nicholson and others for manufactur
ing a special device for lifting auto
mobiles so they will not stand on the
rubber tires.
The Robeson Auto Company, Char
lotte, capital $125,000 authorized, and
$300 subscribed by Armistead Bur-
well, E. D. Latta, Jr., and others.
The Veach Shoe Company, Winston
Salem, capital $10,000 authorized, and
$3,000 subscribed
Typhoid Fever Almost Banished.
The state board of health has re
ceived a letter from Dr. J. W.McNeill
of Fayetteville, in which he makes the
remarkable statement that, whereas,
last summer the local association of
nurses was unable to supply the calls
for nurses to care for typhoid fever
cases, this summer there have been
only three calls for such cases. He
attributes a large part of the credit
for this gratifying change in the con
ditions to the campaign for vaccina
tion against typhoid that had been
carried on in the town and county this
summer through the co-operation of
the county authorities and the state
board of health, and which has been
especially successful in the number of
people who availed themselves of the
opportunity to become immune to this
dread disease.
Historical Moving Pictures.
Secretary R. D. W. Conno. of the
State Historical Commission has
promised the fulest co-operation pos
sible to the Emerald Motion Picture
Company, Chicago, in a development
of Revolutionary history of North
Carolina with Andrew Jackson as the
leading character. The president of
the company has written Secretary
Connor that he will bring his acting
cast and staff of mechanics to North
Carolina so that the exact scenes and
atmosphere will contribute to the
making of a perfect series of pic
tures.
Wilson Sells Most Tobacco.
The annual report of sales on the
leaf tobacco markets in this state for
the year ending August 1, shows 203,
787,202 pounds first hand for growers
and 230,334,444 pounds including re
sales for dealers and warehouses
The total sales were 189,643,315
pounds. Wilson led with 23,508,093
pounds first hand and 30,931,011 in
eluding resales, Winston-Salem was
second with 22,748,614 pounds first
hand and 27,491,631 including resales
Greenville stood fourth and Kinston
fifth.
School is Object of Health Work.
A sanitary inspection of the county
schools and a physical inspection of
all the children in these schools com
pose the health program of Alamance
county for the approaching school
term. That county has just accepted
the proposal of the state board of
health to this end and the work will
be done by the state board under ap
propriations made by the county. As
a new feature of nealth activity in
North Carolina only a few counties
will be entered for the work by the
state board during the first year.
OFFICERS CHOSEN
FOR JUNIOR ORDER
TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL CON
VENTION HOLDS BUSY SES
SION IN CH Ah LOTTE.
MEET NEXT IN G0LDSB0R0
About 1,500 Members Attend Sessions.
Big Parade and Much Important
Business Transacted.
Charlotte. The twenty-fifth annual
session of the Junior O. U. A. M. was
opened here with a parade in which
a thousand or more members of the
order Daughters of America and
school children took part. It is esti
mated that there were nearly a
1,500 Juniors here.
The first session was opened with
a welcome address on behalf of the
city of Charlotte delivered by Mayor
i; L. Kirkpatrick. The response on
behalf of the Junior Order was made
by National Councellor C. W. Webb,
of Statesville. The address on behalf
of the Charlotte councils was make
by Hon. Jake F. Newell, of Char
lotte, and the response to this by Rev.
Dr. W. B. Duttera, representative of
the national council.
The feature of the first session was
an address by Hon. Paul Jones, of
Tarboro, state councnor, on "The
Elimination of Adult Illiteracy," which
was much appreciated by members of
the order.
The body chose Goldsboro for their
next place of meeting.
Mr. Charles F. Alexander of Char
lotte was chosen state chancilor, an
honor which is regarded as among the
highest within the gift of the organ
ization. Mr. Alexander is and has al
ways been one of the most loyal mem
bers of the Junior Order in Charlotte
as well as in the state convention and
his selection although over three
other candidates appeared to meet
with general approval in the organ
ization.
In addition to Mr. Alexander, the
following named were selected for
other offices of the North Carolina
council: Mr. W. A. Cooper of Ra
leigh, No. 1, state councilor; Charles
F. Alexander of Charlotte, No. 444,
state vice councillor; Mr. Sam F
Vance of Winston-Salem, No. 19, sec
retary; I. F. Davis of Milton, No.
387, assistant secretary; George V
Fulk of Kernersville, No. 54, treas
urer; C. L. Sands of Reidsville, No.
9, conductor; W. E. Stanley, of Dur
ham, No. 98, warden; C. V. Talley
of Hickory Grove, No. 224, inside
sentinel; B. F. Brittain of Wilming
ton, No. 63, outside sentinel.
Peculiar Accident Kills Negro.
Durham. Wesley Rigsbee, a negro
from the northern part of the county,
was riding a bicycle along the road
and attempted to pass another negro
walking with a long old-fashioned
scythe across his shoulder, the blade
struck Rigsbee just under the chin
and nearly cut his head off.
He was immediately rushed to the
city and given medical attention. His
coat had been stuffed into the gaping
wound to prevent his bleeding to
death before he reached Durham, but
as soon as the packing was taken out
of the wound, the blood began to flow
so freely that it was almost impos
sible to dress the wound, and he died
in a short while.
Contract For Big Dam.
Hickory. A contract has been
awarded the Elliott Building Company
of Hickory for the building of the
big dam for the Morganton Light &
Power Co. across the Catawba River
at a point near Nebo. The contract
calls for a renumeration of $110,000
and work will be commenced soon.
Concord Will Pave Streets.
Concord. The board of aldermen
has let the contract for paving West
Depot street from the intersection of
Spring street to the depot and Church
street from East Corbin to East Depot
was awarded to R. M. Hudson & Co.,
of Atlanta. The work will cost ap
proximately $40,000.
Supplies For Red Cross.
Asheville. Supplies for use In re
lief work in Belgium were shipped
recently by Asheville friends of Mrs
Madelon Battle Hancock, the daughter
of Dr. S. Westray Battle, of this city,
to Mrs. Hancock. The latter has been
doing Red Cross work in Europe since
the outbreak of the war and has met
with much success in her efforts in be
half of the wounded soldiers. The
boxes shipped from Asheville contain
bandages, linen, chloroform and ether.
They were filled by members of the
Gloria Relief Committee.
Will Have Federal Expert.
Newton. Dr. George W. Shipp,
county superintendent of health, has
presented to the County Medical So
ciety a proposition from the state
board of health offering to secure the
seivices of a medical expert from the
public health service of the federal
government, and put him to work in
Catawba for a period of 12 months, to
leal with the intestinal disorders
which afflict children up to three
years of age, disorders which shov
themselves mostly in the summer and
work havoc among the babies.
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Lesson
(By O. E. SELLERS, Acting Director of
the Sunday School Course of the Moody
Bible Institute.)
LESSON FOR AUGUST 29
GOD'S CARE OF ELIJAH.
LESSON TEXT I Kings 17:1-16.
GOLDEN TEXT Casting all your anx
iety upon him, because he careth for you.
I Peter 6:7 R. V.
We now skip thirty to forty years
to consider the first of those great
prophets whose lives are recorded at
length. Samuel and David fought ani
mals, armies and giants, but these men
fought engagements in the moral and
spiritual realm of equal and greater
importance. Emphasize Elijah as a
real live flesh-and-blood hero. His
work was with the northern kingdom
and he probably first met Ahab at Sa
maria, his capital in 912 B. C. (?) The
Moabite stone (A D. 1868) is a re
markable confirmation of the Bible
story of this period.
I. The Challenge, v. 1. The lesson
is a great illustration of faith. Sin
had again made vast inroads upon the
people (ch. 16:30-33) and this "man of
the hour," whose name means "Jeho
vah My Strength," (1) saw the condi
tions; (2) responded to the need, and
(3) had faith in his cause because it
was that of Jehovah. The source of
his faith was the word of the Lord
God (DeuL 11:18; 32:20). He that
"liveth" and before whom the prophet
stood in daily, hourly communication.
Elijah was a man with a mission
(Matt. 28:19) who trusted in God and
considered it safe to obey. His power,
"according to my word," was in ratio
according to his life of faith (Rom.
10:17). He was also a man of prayer
James 5:17) and showed his faith by
his works (James 2:17, 20, 26).
II. The Command, vv. 2-7. Elijah's
faith was not audacious. He took each
step as commanded by God (v. 2).
There is a time for seeming retreat
as well as for the spectacular charge.
Elijah's first place of testing was
"Cherith," a gorge to the east of the
river Jordan. This command was con
trary to human reason. "Would it not
soon be involved in his prophesied
drought?"
Again, ravens frequently feed upon
carrion, and he knew all the regula
tions regarding cleanness. Thus to be
secluded would prevent his observing
the effect of the drought upon both
king and people. Still the command is
explicit. It was "there" (v. 4), and
there only, that Jehovah was to save.
The miracle of saving was to be
wrought under the most adverse cir
cumstances and by the most unlikely
means. "So he went" Having faced
the peril, God hid him to preserve him,
and at the proper time God also re
vealed him (ch. 18:42). It was a daily
testing for Elijah at Cherith, thus to
be fed and to see the water evaporat
ing, but it was a time of communion
and after the brook was dry there
came a new command (vv. 8, 9).
III. The Continued Deliverance, vv.
8-16. Zarephath was (Luke 4:26) in
the dominions of Jezebel's father, on
the coast of the Mediterranean sea be
tween Tyre and Sidon, a dangerous
journey for Elijah through Ahab's
kingdom (ch. 18:10). The word Zare
phath means "smelting furnace," and
it too was suffering from this same
famine. Commanded to hide in Cherith
Elijah is told to "dwell" in Zarephath
and that a widow was to be the agent
to supply his need. Again Elijah's
pride had to be overcome for there
were abundant reasons for disliking
such a journey, such an abiding place
and such a dependence upon a poor
widow. Elijah, however, "arose and
went," a continuance of his life of
obedience. He first asked for water
and as she went he added his request
for food. It was a particular widow to
whom he was sent (Luke 4:25-27) and
through her God was ready to work a
miracle of salvation on his behalf.
Though about to prepare what she
thought was to be her own and her
son's last meal (v. 12), yet she at once
proceeds to obey the command of the
man of God as it was conditioned upon
the word of Jehovah (v. 14). God,
through his prophets, has commanded
us, given us assurance and promised
to sustain (Phil. 4:19), yet we hesi
tate. "She went and did" the seem
ing impossible, but according to the
word of command, and those of "her
house did eat many days." Obedience
saved her own, her son's and the
prophet's lives. There is sound philoso
phy in Prov. 11:24 which found its
complete fulfillment in Jesus who
"came not to be ministered unto but
to minister." Read carefully Prov.
3:7-10 and II Cor. 9:6-11. As with the
Israelites in the wilderness the supply
was only from day to day (v. 16) noth
ing ahead, no accumulation, yet a per
petual supply because based on "the
word of the Lord" (v. 16).
God worked this miracle: (1) to up
hold and to preserve his chosen mes
senger for his great work in Israel;
(2) to show his loving kindness and
sustaining grace to the poor; (3) to
strengthen the faith of his prophet
against his spectacular conflict on Mt.
Carmel; (4) to the end that he might
show Israel and all others down
through the ages a great object lesson
of his sustaining grace and providence.
The widow's "two mites" are filling
church treasuries today, and Mary's
box of ointment has filled all Christen
dom with its aroma and fragrance.
Providence is progressive.