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lite it At THE CHATHAM RECORD H. A. London EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 PER YEAR Strictly in Advance THE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising One Square, one insertion - - $L00 One Square, two insertions - $U0 One Square, one month - - $2.50 For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts will be koade. VOL. XXXVIII. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, SEPTEMBER 8, 1915. NO. 5. I i i j i n i b i mm n i n m i IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER Happenings of This and Other Nations For Seven Days Are Given. THE NEWS JFTHE SOUTH What Is Taking Place in the South, land Will Be Found in Brief Paragraphs. Foreign In high English official circles in London it is learned authoritatively that recent rumors of peace have no foundation in any step taken by the British government or in any state ment issued here from authoritative sources. No member of the govern ment will allow himself to be quoted in discussion of the peace rumors.. It is announced in Athens, Greece, that Servia has accepted in principle the entente proposal for territorial concessions to Bulgaria, with the res ervation that the new Servian fron tier remain in contact with Greece at the same place. What appears to be an intimation that Japan may co-operate in the campaign to force the Dardanelles is contained in an interview with Baron Hayashi, Japanese ambassador to It aly. It is reported that Pascual Orozco, prominent military leader during the Mexican revolutions of the last five years, has been killed in a fight be tween Mexicans and an American pos yon in a battle fought at Green river canyon, Culberson county, Texas. German business men have trans mitted to the United States an offer to buy one million bales of cotton. The price offered was fifteen cents a pound, payable on delivery of the cot ton in a German harbor. The United States submarine F-4, submerged outside the harbor at Hon olulu, Hawaii, since March 25 last, has been reboated and towed to the quarantine station in Honolulu bay. Nothing has been divulged by the na val officials regarding condition, if known, inside the vessels. Secretary Daniels had announced that the boat would be raised at any cost to de termine the cause of the accident. An English dispatch from the Dar danelles says the dead lie thick every where and the stench is appalling. Tho Turks came down a hill in great num bers and tried to sweep the allied army off the hill. They were driven back with frightful losses. Unable to bury their dead, the Turks threw their bodies down the gulley until they were stopped by the nature of the ground. Germany's Zeppelins have been painted a leaden gray, similar to the color of battleships, which render them difficult to see. The latest mod el Zeppelins resemble large fish. Both ends taper, so that they have lost to some extent the familiar cigar shapes, The Portuguese parliament has passed a resolution stating that the government will employ rigorous measures in order to preserve peace in northern Portugal in view of re ported insurrections by royalist sym pathizers in that section. A Berlin dispatch says that Bulga ria, previously reported to have sign ed a treaty with Turkey, has postpon ed ratification of the agreement be cause of a sharp warning from the entente allies. Domestic A New York dispatch states that all indications tend to confirm a re port that Great Britain has borrowed from fifty million to one hundred mil lion dollars temporarily In the New York market to correct the exchange rate on sterling until her commission ers reach this country. ; The Charleston, S. C, dispensary board has ordered $250,000 worth of 11 quor and beer to be delivered at once. and arrangements are being made to rent a warehouse in which the goods ill be stored. The resources of the government federal reserve banking system will be available at once for loans on the South's cotton crop, and. no borrower will pay more than 6 per cent per annum for the use of the money, ac cording to an official telegram to the Atlanta (Ga.) federal reserve bank, from the reserve board, in session in Washington, D. C, which stated that $5,000,000 would be placed at once in the Atlanta bank as the Initial de posit. A detachment of the twelfth United States cavalry engaged with four Mex 'can bandits, one of whom was killed and the other three captured, near Brownsville, Texas. From Chicago comes the statement that only twice before in the history Gf the weather bureau there has the mercury dropped so low in August as it did on August 30. It registered 47 degrees. forty-five million dollars in gold aiiu securities, the second big ship ment sent from London to strengthen mh credit in the , United States arrived in New York City on a spe Clal train from Halifax, guarded by uity-eight men. The shipment had U('tn conveyed to Halifax by a Brit lBn warship. In a fight with an armed posse near ouipnur- Springs, Texas, two negroes (brothers) were shot, and their bodies urned at the stake in Buford Park lue negroes had killed the deputy eriff and probably fatally wounded lue sheriff. The German troops fighting for Grodno are now in front of the Outer line of that stronghold, according to official statement from German army headquarters. A train carrying 7,000 pounds of dy namite blew up at Pinole, Cal., kill ing three men. Nothing remained of the train. Pinole is on the shore of San Francisco bay, fifteen milse from the city of San Francisco. Representatives of the Smithsonian institution have unearthed forty-two bodies from an Indian mound in Na coochee valley, Georgia. The base of this mound covers half an acre, and Is forty feet high. The mound is sup posed to be the burial place, of Prin cess Nacoochee and Prince Sautee. Damage estimated at between two hundred thousand and three hundred thousand dollars was caused to late potatoes and garden truck throughout Marathon county, Wisconsin, by a killing frost. The corn crop also suf fered heavy losses. i A San Antonio, Texas, dispatch, re cites that with the arrest there of twenty-six Mexicans, the .police and federal authorities believe a plan to incite the Mexican population of San Antonio to deeds of violence has been nipped in the bud. It is stated that the prisoners are all adherents of the Plan of San Diego," which proclaims, in substance, Texas a republic for Mexicans. , " The bill passed by the recent leg islature of Tennessee, according to legal minds, abolishes capital punish ment, except in certain cases, and Is now the law of Tennessee, regardless of the governor's veto. European War Deputy Sheriff Joseph Stevens of Dallas county, Alabama, was shot and killed by Chief Deputy W. F. Aycock, who thought Stevens was a member of a band of train wreckers whom the officers from Selma were seeking to apprehend. M R. Patterson, former governor of Tennessee, has announced his can didacy for the United States senate, acccording to information sent out from Memphis. He seeks to succeed Senator Luke Lea, himself a candi date for re-election. Former City Commissioner Lyle Andrews, Former City Treasurer Charles Myers and Former City Re corder W. L. Murray of Nashville, Tenn., were arrested on charges of grand larceny of municipal funds. Each is charged with taking part in the theft of $26,000 of city money. A German dispatch states that the British employed one hundred thou sand men in their attacks on Turkish positions on the Gallipoli peninsula, and their . losses were extremely heavy. It is stated that the British losses in the Dardanelles during the month of August have exceeded fifty thousand men. An Athens dispatch says that a sub marine of the allies has blown up a portion of the bridge between Con stantinople and the suburb of Galata. A Paris dispatch reports that the famous French aviator, Adolphe Pe goud, who is famous as having in vented the "loop the loop" in aero nautics, has been killed. Washington The American position toward a method of fixing reparation for lives and property lost in German subma rine operations, such as Lusitania and Arabic, has not been finally determin ed, but there probably will be no op position to fixing the amounts by arbi tration. Arbitration, however, could only cover the extent of damages and not the question of the principle involved.- Strained relations between the United States and Germany over the submarine warfare apparently passed into history after Count von Bern storff, the German ambassador, in formed Secretary Lansing in writing that prior to the sinking of the Ara bic his government had decided that its submarines should sink no more liners without warning. President Wilson now believes he can proceed with more freedom in the development of his national defense plans since danger of serious trouble with Germany apparently is removed. There will be no suspicion, he be lieves, that the plans are directed at any one nation. The president's idea is to prepare for several years in advance. Two regiments of infantry and one of cavalry were ordered from Galves ton to reinforce the American troops patrolling the Mexican border. Sec retary Garrison announced that the war department was sending the ad ditional forces at the request of Major General Funston, commanding the border patrol. Postmaster General Burleson an nounces that he will ask the next congress for forty-nine million dollars to provide rural delivery service dur ing the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1915.' The last appropriation was $53,- nnn non nnd the deoartment . plans to save the $4,000,000 without reducing' efficiency. One million dollars will be spent on new routes and improve ments. A Washington dispatch announces that drouth followed by excessive rain in the cotton belt during August caus ed deterioration slightly more tnan the August average to the growing cotton crop. The department of agri culture announces the condition as 69.2 per cent of a normal. That is 6.1 per cent below the July condition. Secretary Garrison has directed the war college to submit plans for secur ing additional regular army officers and a corps of reserve officers both for the regular army and for a vol unteer army or any other force which congress mav authorize. GERMANS TORPEDO LINER HESPERIAN rHREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY PAS SENGERS ABOARD, ALL ARE SAFE. ARMED WITH VISIBLE C'JN Off South Irish Coast When Attacked All Passengers Landed Safely a! Queen stown. London. The Allan Line steamer Hesperian, with 350 passengers, bound from Liverpool for Montreal, was at tacked without warning by a German submarine off the Irish coast. Al though the torpedo found its mark the vessel remained afloat and, according to a statement issued by the company every soul aboard was saved. No submarine' was seen, and prob ably it was too dark to observe he wake of a torpedo, but all the pas sengers nd crew who arrived at Queenstown in rescue steamers agreed the attack was made by a German un dersea boat, basing their opinion on the focce of the shock and the great volume of water thrown into the air. The force of the eplosion was tre mendous, and of the passengers land ed . at Quenstown, many of them scantily clad, about 20 were injured. There were no American passen gers on board so far as the Ameri can Consul could learn, but two mem bers of the crew were American cit izens and they both weresaved. About 30 wounded Canadian soldiers going home to recuperate . were aboard. Most of the other passengers were Canadians or English. Tne torpedo struck the Hesperian in the forward engine room, and the ship immediately began to settle by the head. Captain Main ordered the passengers and crew into the boats, but with his officers remained on the bridge, although at that time he must have felt sure his ship would go down. The discipline was perfect, but one of the boats, the falls of which be came jammed, capsized, and those In there were thrown into the waters. In the darkness some confusion prevail ed, but all were picked up, and with other passengers and the crew, were transferred to the rescue steamers, which arrived in answer to wireless calls for assistance. TROOPS ON BORDER READY. Would Not Hesitate to Cross. Border After Mexican Bandits. Washington. All United States troops on the Mexican border are un der orders to be in readiness to meet any emergency. War department of ficials said extraordinary vigilance had been ordered as a result of re peated raids in American territory by Mexican brigands and soldiers, and renewed reports of preparation for an organized invasion from across the Rio Grande in the states of Coahuila and Nuevo Leon. As long as the raiders continue to appear in small bands, it is under stood none of them will be followed into their own territory, but officials indicated that the American com manders would not hestitate to pur sue the enemy until they were com pletely routed should anything re sembling an organized invasion of the United States be encountered. Persistent reports that some of the Mexican raiders slain wore Carranza uniforms have reached officials here. Rumors have come, too, that there Is a concerted move by Carranza lead ers in Nuevo Leon and Coahulia to arouse Mexican sentiment against the Pan-American movement for re-estab-lishment of constitutional government In the republic. Charles A. Boynton Dead.. Washington. Charles A Boynton, one of the veterans of the Associated. Press and one of the best known American newspaper men of the last 25 years, died here at his home, aged 79. He had not been in active service since 1909, but until recently had been in fair health. Martial Law in Haiti. Washington. Foreign influences in Haiti, working to block the plans of the United States to pacify the repub lic and rehabilitate its finances under American supervision, have made it necessary to declare martial law in Port au Prince, and in practically all but two "of the country's open ports. Rear Admiral Caperton, acting within his general instructions, declared martial law and explained that his ac tion was taken because of a situation which -was beyond the control of the local government. Newport News Has Big Fire. - Newport ews, Va. Property dam age estimated at upwards of $2,000,000 resulted from a fire which originated in Chesapeake and Ohio grain eleva tor "A" here and spread to nearby buildings and to a big grain pier. First reports that 12 elevator employes had been burned to death were not veri fied, but William Butler, a watchman, who was trapped on the top floor, lost his life. The elevator with nearly half a million bushels of Wheat was destroyed, grain pier No. 5 was bad ly damaged. AUTOMOBILE TAX I GUILFORD LEADS, REFUND BE ING $4,708; MECKLENBURG SECOND. WAKE THIRD. DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH Doings and Happenings That Mark the Progress of North Carolina Peo ple Gathered Around the State Capitol. ..'"' Raleigh. The , automobile revenue collected by the state for licenses to operate ma chines amounted to $95,211 during the fiscal year ending June 30, and unde the law 80 per cent of this is to be refunded by the state treasurer to the counties, each county to receive the 80 per cent of the license taxes actually paid in from the county. The statement on which this refund is to be made was submitted to the treasu rer by the secretary of state and the checks are to be made out this week. The total amount of the refund is $76,169. Guliford county will receive the largest amount, $4,708; Mecklenburg Is second with $4,699.40 and Wake third with $3,519.40. There are three counties that will not receive any of this fund, not having any auomobiles owned with in their borders. These are Graham, Mitchell and Alleghany. However, Alleghany will receive $1.60 as the county's part of one motorcycle li cense tax issued. The statute pro vides that the counties shall apply the automobile license tax fund re ceived from this source to road im provement. The amount that each county will receive follows: Alamance, $1,004; Alexander, $131; Al leghany, $1.60; Anson, $494.40; Ashe, $20; Avery, $S; Beaufort, $908; Bertie, $856.20; Bladen, $125.60; Brunswick. $100.40; Bun combe, $3,495.40; Burke, $316.20; Cabar rus. $1.100.60;Cal dwell, $439.40; Camden, $60; Carteret, $127.60; Caswell, $312.80; Catawba, $1,100.00; Chatham, $284.80; Cherokee, $105.60: Chowai, $431.80; Clay, $4; Cleveland. $852.20; Columbus, $505.60; Craven, Jl.lso; Cumberland, Xiz; Curri tuck. $143.60; Dare, $61.60; Davidson, $1, 337; Davie. $223.80; Duplin, $304.40; Dur ham, $1,622.80; Edgecombe. $1,680.60; Forsyth, $2,699.80; Franklin. 7725.2; Gas ton, $1,257; Gates. $127.20; Granville, $854; Greene, $444; Guilford, $4,708; Hali fax. $1,424.60; Harnett, $698.40; Haywood, $243.20; Henderson, $584.40: Hertford, $446; Hoke. $469.20; Hyde. $185.60; Iredell, $1,377.40; Jackson, $16; Johnston. $1,475; Jones. $170; Lee, $296-60; Lenoir, $1,044.40; Lincoln. $449.20; Macon, $55.60; Madison. $6: Martin. $812.60: McDowelly. $105.20; Mecklenburg, $4.699.4o; Contgomery $482; Moore, $1,144.20; Nash. $1,452.60: New Hanover, $2,449.60; Northampton, $532.60; Onslow, $162; Orange, $441.20; Pamlico, 80; Pasquotank. $699.80; Pender, $1SZ; Perquimans, $238; Person. $502.40; Pitt $2,033.40: Polk. $90: Randolph, $749.80: Richmond, $1,169.40; Robeson, $1,437.80; Rockingham, $1,053.60; Rowan. $1,986.40; Rutherford. $703.20: Sampson. $493.60; Scotland. $1,100.80; Stanly. $702.60; Stokes, $216.80; Surry. $702.60: Swain, $20; Transylvania. $216.60; Tyrrell $128.40; Union, $612.20; Vance. $1,044: Wake. $3. $519.40; Warren. $619.60; Washington. $398.40; Watauga. $51.60: Wayne, $1,542; Wilkes, $149.40; Wilson, $1,590.40; Yadkin, $107.60; Yancey, $8. Cattle Tick Eradication Advances. The campaign by- the federal and state authorities- for the eradication of the cattle tick in North Carolina has so far advanced that only about one-fifth of the state's area remains fully within the grip of the tick pest that hinders so much the develop ment of the cattle industry. There are 19 counties which have had no tick eradication work done yet: Brunswick, Columbus, Onslow, Cra ven, Jones, Beaufort, Washington, Dare, Tyrrell, Pitt, Bertie, Hertford, Gates, Chowan, Perquimans, Pasquo tank, Camden, Currituck, Carteret. Getting Ready For Moonlight School At the state department of educa tion it is estimated that there have been fully one thousand public school teachers and others volunteered for the special moonlight campaign that it is planned to press on a statewide basis during the month of October, Lime at Actual Cost. The state department of agricul ture reports considerable activity in agricultural lime through the specia! arrangements made to procure it for the farmers at actual cost. Large numbers of orders are coming in every day to the department Masonic Lodges Growing. A. B. Andrews, Jr., deputy grand master of the North Carolina Grand Lodge of Masons and acting grand master in the absence of Grand Mas ter F. P. Hobgood, Jr., of Greensboro from the state, is stirring the Masonic leaders all over the state to a degree of activity that gives promise of growth for the current year. He will continue to act as grand master until the Grand Lodge meets in January Mr. Hobgood's work with the depart ment of justice in western land litiga tion, keps him out of the state. toung to Speak in California. Commissioner of Insurance J. R Young is to deliver an address before the National Association of Commis sioners of Insurance early in Septem ber at Monterey, Cal., on the contln gent commissioners for agent's com pensation," an issue that was threshed out before the last legislature and de feated, but to which the insurance commissioners of the whole country are committed as a principle. Mr, Young leaves for this western trip September 8 and will go by Chicago, where he will deliver an address. NEARLY $100,000 Prospects. Good Fer State Fair. "Every thing points ' to the most suc cessful state fair that has been. held in the fifty-four years' history of -the fair," said Col. Joseph E. Pogue, speaking about the prospects for the big annual event which will be held this year October 18-23. Every year finds the fame of the fair reaching I over a wider territory and this means results in crowds that are substan tially larger each year than for the preceding year. This year will be no exception if the weather Is good. As has always been" the case the free attractions will be a feature. The Great State Fair is not stingy when it comes to providing amusements and diversion for the statethrongs when they gather here from all parts of the commonwealth. It proceeds on the principle that the best is none too good. " This year the principal free attrac tion.will be the famous Captain Wad- doon, who will drop bombs . from a monoplane two thousand feet in the air on an improvised fort located in front of the grand stand in full view of the assembled multitudes. The in terest of this performance is highfr ened by the return of the firm from the fort. Cannon after cannon bel lows forth from the fort, the battle' finally terminating in the destruction of the fort. This wonderful scene. says Colonel Pogue, will give those who attend the State Fair a more vivid realization of the battlefields ol Europe than they have ever had be fore. And there will be a numbei of additional free attractions togethei with many clean and high-class paid shows. Colonel Pogue states that efforti will be made to make the livestock exhibit particularly good this year this in view of the growing interesl in the state in the livestock industry. A further advance over previous years will be noted in the county ex hibits. There will be more individual county exhibits than have been seer at any previous fair In the state. It is thought that fifteen counties will have exhibits. This Is of course rela tively a small number, but the countj exhibit feature Is new in the manage ment of the Fair and an exhibit from that number of counties, all things considered, is regarded as very satis factory. One reason that the county exhibit side of the fair is developing in a satisfactory manner Is the cus torn some counties have now of hold ing fairs of their own. After they have got their own exhibits together it is very little trouble to bring the blue ribbon winners to Raleigh and get the wide advertisement for the countj that is thus made possible. Thrifty Settlers at Valdese Colony. Judge Clark, speaking of the Vald ese colony, says there thrifty settlers were located in Burke county, neai Morganton, on really poor lands brought practically nothing with them, not even enough to keep them until they could make a crop, but wenl to work with a wonderful degree ol energy and thrift and now have an at tractive town with a cotton mill and a hosiery mill, also a macaroni factorj and a bakery which ships bread tc the Waldorf Astoria, New York City. They have the vineyards and splen did stone church of large seating ca pacity. A remarkable record of the moral standards of the colony is that there has never been a member of this colony arrested on any charge and none of them has been involved ir any sort of a law suit. Secretary Issues New Charters. A charter was issued for the Fltt Lumber Cimpany, Greenville, capital $50,000 authorized and $15,000 sub scribed by W. T. Forest, T. W. White- hurst and others for a general lumber business. Another charter is for the National Deposit Box Company, Raleigh, capi tal $50,000 authorized, and $3,000 sub scribed by J. C. Pickett, W. H. Rook and others for the manufacture and sale of iron safes, safety deposit boxes and the like. Oak Grove Dairy Company, Greens boro, capital $25,000 authorized, and $1,600 subscribed by J. A. Hodgm, Hi. Clay Hodgin and others for a genera: dairy business. Another charter is for the Paul & Cornell Co.. Newson, Davidson county, capital $25,000 authorized, and $7,500 subscribed by A. P. Cornell, unaries Paul and others to develop stone quar ries and carry on other development work. Travis Calls For Money. Just about the time Chairman Travis anounced the suit by the Sea board to restrain the collection of in creased taxes by the state, State Treasurer B. R. Lacy called to urge upon the commission that the corpor ation tax assessments, including the railroad taxes, be certified to him by the commission as speedily as possible In order that he may set In motion machinery for the collection of these taxes, which are payable directly to the state treasury by the corporations. Mailing Special Bulletins. The special No. 1 Bulletin volume of '.'Amendments to Revisal of 190o, gotten out by Legislative Librarian W. S. Wilson has come from the presses of the state printers and is be ing mailed out to all citizens who have need for it and will make appli cation for copies. It covers all legis lative amendments to the Revisal by the legislature from 1907 to 1915 and they are printed only on one side of page so that amendments may be pasted in the Revisal with the origi nal sections. ROAD sun III THREE COUNTIES STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION UNDERTAKES MUCH WORK THROUGHOUT STATE. ASHE, WATAUGA, ALLEGHANY It Is Not Enough to Build Roads; They .. ........... ,.. n.. Musi pe worKea uver uarciuu, Says Mr. w. 5. Fains. Raleigh Mr. W. S. Fallis, State Highway Enginee?, is this week visit- Ing Ashe, Watauga, and Alleghany counties, assisting in a survey to be made there under the auspices of the State Highway Commission, prepara- tbry to bringing those counties under the direction of the commission. Work of the commission is pro- gressing splendidly in all parts of the state," Mr. Fallis said. "Down in the eastern part of the state, two men are Investigating conditions, making sur- veys. Person county has come en- tirely under the direction of the com-1 mission for Its road work, and the prospects for efficient road building there are first class." Mr. Fallis believes that the patrol system for the roads of the state ab- solutely essential for maintenance. When we say maintenance," Mr. Fallis said, "we mean maintenance, no more and no less.' It Is not enough to build roads and then set about to repair them when they get in bad shape. The roads must be worked over carefully, to be kept in proper condition.' Trull Pays Death Penalty. Raleigh. Leaving as his final dy- aieign.-avins a mg comessiou ut uu assumed sole guilt in the murder and roDDery or aianey owuiu m vuohuwd on the night of May 16, 1914, Charles E. Trull went to the electric chair in the state's prison here paying the death penalty with a remarkable de- gree of self-control. It was exactly 10:30 o'clock when Trull entered the death chamber. walking between two prison guards. However, he advanced to the death chair unsupported, while a silence per vaded the crowded chamber that was distinctly oppressive. As he advanc ed with somewhat unsteady step he muttered prayers such as "Lord, have mercy on my soul" and "Lord, bless my poor mother." Taking Care of Hogs. Elizabeth City Dr. F. D. Owen was here after having returned from Gates county, where he attended a farmers' picnic, two nines uum "The value of the serum treatment for hog cholera is already demonstra- ing itself to the Gates county people. I was at Sun bury August i ana treat- ea lour neras, outs ui 40 uU6. of 34, a third of 18, and a fourth of 13 All four of the men to whom these herds belong were men who lost prac tically every hog they owned last year. At this picnic I was told by these farmers, that not one of them had lost a single hog while hogs were dying on all sides of them by the hun dreds.' Southers Taken to Asheville. Asheville. Charged with having killed his wife several days ago, J. O Smithftrs was brought here from Rutherford county and lodged In the Buncombe county jail for safe-keep ing because of reports to the effect that a mob was being organized In that county to taice mm irom jau. x prisoner was removed following tne aranting of an order by Judge W. F. Harding permitting tne snerni 01 Rutherford county to Dring oouuiera to Asheville. , All Must be vaccinated. Asheville. Asked for a ruling as t3 whether the ordinance which requires that all school children shall be im mune to smallpox applies to the little tots who attend the public kindergar- tens, "Tr. Carl V. Reynolds informed Sunt. Harry Howell that the provi sions of the enactment apply to all children who attend a public school regardless of their ages. Insurance Companies Get Damage. Asheville. Insurance companies which paid damages for the destruo tion of lumber on the yards of John Patton near the city collected $3,575 of the $5,500 sued for from the South- em Railway Co. by the terms 01 a compromise reached in tne case 01 the Queen Insurance .Co. of America and the National Union Fire insurance Co. against the boutnern. xovej points of law were involved In the suit, the iasurance companies main. taining that they had paid fire lossef as a result of the carelessness. Sheriff Must Pay License Tax Kinston. Sheriff Windley of Beau- fort county will have to pay a license tax that a Pennsylvania cuauiauuua association tanea to pay ai waning- ton. Sheriff Windley received a let- ter from the attorney general stating that the tax should have been remit- ted. He wrote DacK mat ionowing a preceaent set m auutuci tuyyn, ixu not charged tne cnautauqua me He has another letter irom Attorney General Bickett, it is said, stating that (he is responsible for the sum oi ,1 m a $120.15, whicn must oe iortncommg. tolMnONAL, SlBlMaiOOL LESSON CB7 O. E. SELLERS, Acting Director of the Sunday School Course of the Moody Jiblelnstltujje LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 12 ELIJAH'S FLIGHT AND RETURN. LESSON TEXT I Kings 19:8-18. (Read entire chaDter). GOLDEN TEXT Bo still and know that i am uoa. fa. :iu. Elijah's great victory over the prophets of Baal which resulted in their extermination is followed by a mQst notable prayer service on the top 0f Mount Carmel (18:42-45). So confident was the prophet that at the arising of "a little cloud," he hastily summoned the feasting king and urges nis departure to his home, "that the rain Btop thee not." The God whom Elijah had honored so signally that day laid his hand upon the prophet (18:46) so that he was able to outrun the king's horses to the entrance of Jezreel. There he is met by a mes- senger of the wicked queen (19:2) who had been the protector and pro- vider of the slain prophets. Getting his eyes off of God and seeing, only a vile and wicked woman Elijah not only ran for his life out of Ahab's do- mains but also "went a day's journey into the wilderness" to the protecting shade of a Juniper tree (v. 4). . The Discouraged Prophet, w. 4.8. Old and young, great and small. we all have our periods of discourage- ment and frequently despair. Chris- tian's encounter with Giant Despair appeals to us all for it is so true to life. At Carmel. Elijah controlled the king; in his palace at Jezreel, Jezebel soon shattered his good resolutions, if he had any. We must recall that u w&s nef prophet8 EliJah had de. stroyed. There is a suggestion in the . presence (18:46). Yonder in the wil derness, his Gethsemane, Elijah prayed a vastly different sort of Jezebel ,g Btm In power Heathenism prayer than upon Mount carmei. Is not overthrown, his efforts had been but trying to "dam Niagara with bul rushes." No one who has ever heard the ora torio "Elijah" sung will ever forget the bitter agony of "It is enough." The prophet who alone had been ex alted to the heights was alone capable to sounding such a depth of human despair. The sources of his discour agement were his physical condition, his loneliness, inactivity, mental reac tion, and a feeling that his cause was lost. God's first remedy was to feed his fainting servant and then give him a task tQ perfornif rlZ f a j0urney to Mount Horeb (Mount of God), for God , d 1 t t , viously at carmel. In this new strengtll E1IJah WGnt forty day3 (y. g. T Pet 2:2). ,, Th. PncouPflninn fin(1 w. 9.13. God's second remedy was to give Elijah his word though this time it suggested reproof. "What doest thou here?" Elijah is out of place. In re ply he begins to rehearse his loyalty tQ Qo an(J h)W ba(J the others were and then in seeming petulance he adds, "and they seek my life." "I only," are the words of the selfish man and when Elijah used them he too was a backslidden servant. It is true that there was great apostasy in Israel but the prophet was far from being the only true servant remaining. (See 18:4; 20:13; 22:35, 41; 22:8). This is a favorite way the Evil One has for paralyzing our efforts. There Is no evidence but that the 7 qoo were as brave, certainly at that moment more th Tnnih Rod then Rontlnued h.' treatment hv e-lvtnir th nronhet a vjsion cf himself and of his meth- oda for advancing his kingdom. A series of symbols made the truth plainer and more Impressive than words alone could possibly have Toavinir the nrotectine cave E1ijah first met a wind which "rent the mountains," a type of Elijah's past activity. This was not God's chief power nor method. The mighty wind which destroys Is as nothing com- pared to the silent forces which cre- III. The Result, vv 14-18. As a sov ereign remedy God now sets before Elijah three definite tasks to perform. Elijah- still speaks of his faithfulness as though the success of The Cause depended upon him. The man who ftaalimea that attitude in the work of GoJ.fl icingdom will, like Elijah, soon be Bet asIde. Elijah's first task was to avoid Israel and go to Damascus and anoint" set apart for special Bervice Hazael (v. 17), who was to be the instrument of punishing Israel HIg next task waa to fiE1 Jehu commander in chief of Ahab's army, and Bet him aBjde t0 be the klngt not immediately but to be in training for tnat office Eliiah's work is now not that of fire nf! wirwl hut of the Btlll Bmall ..... Tn nf1l(r8 la defeated the more spectacuiar tasks which these typify. Jn tWg C0Dnecti0n (v. 17) those are Btrange words, "shall Elisha slay." To fuly understand them we must be familiar witn that prophet's life and work aiso with that accomplished by Jenu (gee n Kings 2:23, 24; Hos. fi - fi. - 11.fi) 1 " F " f ' Elijah.s third task was to appoint nI(J BUCCessor and 6Urely no harder tagk ever comea to any of U3 than to . work to anotlier.
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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