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THE CHATHAM RECORD H. A. London EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 PER YEAR Strictly in Advance 4Y THE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising One Square, one insertion - - $1.00 One Square, two insertions - - $1.50 One Square, one month - - $2.50 For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts will be wade. VOL. XXXVIII. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C., SEPTEMBER 15, 1915 NO. 6. jT-m ii i a (Si IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER !HgS 01 THIS anil Utner NatlOnS For Seven Days Are Given. THE HEWS' OF THE SOUTH What Is Taking Place in the South- land Will Be Found in Brief Paragraphs. ForeiTt I General Carranza's reply to the an-1 peal of the United States and the Lat- in-Aaerican countries for a confer- Mice between the leaders of the vari- cus Mexican factions having in view of his machine when he landed after of the naval advisory board, nomi an adjustment of Mexico's internecine a short flight. . He was not hurt nated by 11 great engineering and struggle, is a polite but unequivocal was knocked down as the aeroplane scientific societies to contribute their -no." Germany's note to the United States concerning the sinking of the White Star Line steamer Arabic by a Ger man submarine was communicated to janies W. Gerard, the American am- . ... I bassador. The note oners to reter ane questions of reparation and compensa tion to The Hague tribunal for adjust ment. German naval experts declare there is no otBer course open to submarines but to attack when attempt is made to escape after a halt Is ordered, be cause, they assert, every merchantman from liner down to a fishing smack is a presumptive enemy and perhaps is carrying guns and ready to seize an opportunity to attack the vulnerable submarine. William L. Walker Of New York, who has been in Bremen, Germany, for the last nine years representing an American cotton firm, says Germany has enough cotton for military pur poses to last two years. A substitute for cotton" has been discovered which is now being used in textile manufac tures. A strong earthquake occurred in San Salvador and Guatemala. Jutiapa, capital of the department of the same name in Guatemala, has been ruined. The churches In Santa Ana, Sonson ate and other villages of the republic are reported in ruins. The major portion of the state of Tabasco has revolted against Car- ranza. Street fighting in San Juan Bautista, capital of the state, and in Frontera. Mexico, on the coast. re- cnH in th tilling of General Colo- rado, the Carranza' governor; the po- lice chief and the secretary of state. Many women and children have been killed on the streets. Six second cabin passengers, six third cabin passengers and thirteen of the crew of the steamer Hesperian, torpedoed 150 miles off Queenstown, were unaccounted for according to the revised official fieures issued by the Allan line. This brings the probable death list ud to twenty-six. The new type of giant biplane un- dergoing tests in Germany is said to have a measurement of 42 meters across the plane. The motors develop 300-horse nower and each works three propellers. These biplanes are capa- ble of carrvine sufficient fuel for a flight of eight hours. They are equip ped with wireless and searchlights. Domestic The Anglo-French' commission seek ing a way to meet the huge bills of Great Britain and France for Ameri can munitions and other supplies, has reached New York City, and have been welcomed by J. P. Morgan and one hundred or more financial leaders at a reception in Mr. Morgan's library. Actual negotions will not begun for several days, because tbe commission wishes to become familiar with the situation in this country. David Fountain, a church janitor, was hanged at SaGramento, Cal., for the murder of a ten-year-old girl in the basement of the German Lutheran church. The mysterious deaths five years ago of an aged farmer and his wife, as the result, it is believed of arsenic or poisoning, caused the arrests of Dr. Bryce Sprayberry and John Ozmer, a well-to-do planter of DeKalb county, Georgia. The grand jury is seeking to clear up the mystery of these sudden and unexpected deaths. A man who said Ik was J. H. Story of Columbia, Ala., surrender to the Joplin, Mo., police, declaring that he is wanted in Alabama to serve a 25 year sentence for felonious assault. Announcement has been sent to Galveston, Texas, that the twenty sixth United States infantry will sail from Galveston for Manilla Septem ber 26 aboard the United States trans port Buford. Tae thirty-fifth annual session oi the national convention of Negro Bap tists was thrown into disorder at Chi cago in an argument over a new char-tf.'-, and a section' of the convention b.Ued and organized a convention of s own. The police were necessary to quell the disturbance. Gold and securities said to exceed eighty million dollars in value, the third and largest shipment from Eng !and to New York, within a month, tag arrived from Halifax, where it had teen brought by a British cruiser. Fl: fanciers fear that too much gold has keen sent over by Britain, and meet ings have been held anent same. It is announced that Maj. Gen. Fred erick Funston of the southern depart ment has issued orders placing prac tically the entire Rio Grande river country in the Brownsville section un der military controL All business was suspended at Kick man, Ky., while regulators, led by min isters and citizens, visited twenty-five alleged blind tigers and forced their proprietors and employees to leave town. This action followed a triple tragedy on the premises of a blind ti ger. Many gallons of liquor were con- fiscated and poured into the streets. Forty-five hundred cases of toys, be lieved to be the first shipment to reach this country from Europe since announcement of the British order-in-council, has arrived in New York City from Rotterdam, Holland. Dallas, Texas, was selected for the next biennial meeting of the National Association of Letter Carriers at the closing session of the convention at Omaha, Neb. At Washington, Ind., twenty persons were injured, three fatally, when an aeroplane dashed into a crowd -at s a Labor Day celebration there. Oscar Cook, a Chicago aviator, lost control was knocked down as the aeroplane plowed through the crowd. EurODean War ' The news that Emperor Nicholas had placed himself at the head of his nrmv nrhii lna onnniinaH in a I " - """""" w gram io naymona jromcare, presiaeni mow oatuu otniers, .Baltimore, of France, and the visit paid by the American Society of Automobile En French commander-in-chief, General gineers Howard E. Coffin, Detroit, Joffre, to the Italian army, foreshadow and Andrew J. Riker, Bridgeport, stirring events in which the armies of Conn. the allies will co-operate.. It is de- Tne Inventor's Guild Dr. Peter clared that the German advance in Cooper Hewitt, New York; and Thos. Russia is practically stopped, and that Robbins, Stamford, Conn, in places the Russians are again on American Chemical Society Dr. "W. the offensive. fc- Whitney, Schenectady; L. H. Baek- German aircraft are again raiding eland, Yonkers the east coast of England. It is not American Institute of American En yet known whether there have been ineers Frank Julian Sprague, New any recent casualties. York; Benjamin G Lamme, Pittsburg Anglo-French aeroplanes raided American Mathematical Society and bombarded the German town of Robert Simpson Woodward, and Dr. Saarbruecken, and this is said to have Arthur Gordon Webster, Worcester, been the most notable aeroplane ope- Mass ration of the war. Fortv aircraft nar- American Society of Civil Engineer ticipated, and accurately threw bombs all over the town. Washington Talk of breaking diplomatic rela tions with Germany is heard again on the streets of Washington. Plans for two new battleships au thorized by the last congress have been signed by Secretary Daniels. They will be the largest and most powenui ever aesignea ior me Amer- ican navy. and will be provided with new safeguards against torpedo attack uu auu-aircraii guns. President Wilson's request for the recall of the Austrian ambassador, Dr. Constantin Theodor Dumba, has broadened into a situation involving Capt. Franz von Papen, the military attache of the German embassy; Al exander Nuben von Pereked, the Aus trian consul general, and possibly Count von Bernstorff himself, the Ger man ambassador. State and war department officials are aroused over the kidnaping of an American citizen Dy Mexican Danoits at Columbus, N. M. A ranchman was seized by Mexicans and carried over the bord.er Columbus and word sen DacK inai ne was De.ms "em l"r " I manded the release of the ranchman. Acting secretary ran oweet oi me uepartmeuL ui cumuieitc auuuuuLca that the European war has placed the United states second among tne man- official reports to Col. A. P. Block time nations of the world. The total son at port Brown, Indicated that the merchant tonnage of the United States presence of the 4,300 American troops is exceeded only by the merchant ship- ping under the British flag, which is approximately 21,75,000 tons. Bumper grain crops this year, with a half dozen new production records, now seem assured. Conditions for spring wheat are ideal. Secretary Daniels announces a gen eral reorganization of the forces of the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Heads of nearly all departments were order ed detached for duty elsewhere, the changes effective Septembre 20. Offi- cers who have been there less than two years have not been changed ex- cept in the case of Commander F. A. Traut. Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia an- nounces that he has received a cable- gram from Germany stating that guar antees to take a million bales of Amer- ican cotton aT 15 cents a pound to be exclusively for civil purposes in Germany, had been deposited with the American consul at Berlin. Cotton of the growth of 1915 ginned nrinr to SeDtember 1 amounted to 461,- 537 bales, counting round as half hales, the census bureau announces, m the first einnine report of the season. officials are watch- ing closely ' the military situation in Mexico, where Carranza's forces are planning to launch a general attack against the Villa army either at Tor- reon or Chihuahua, American consul i rrw.n ooiii- Mnn plnva. Monte- c I I IMI f CUll. UCAXVAAAV., , neighboring towns have been asked for all available informa- i.- .rror.Hno- tho tmAti movements, L1D11 lC6""b '"' et a psRaire received from the consul at Tnrrpnn said Villa troops recently driven from Saltillo by Obregon had arrived there. The United States government, vrm, wiillnm J. Price, the Ameri- tn Panama, filed a Dro- test with the secretary of foreign re - laHnn of Panama, relative to the al- leged miscarriage of Justice in the r-nmi T.nnerdon. who was killed by a Colon police lieutenant lio Gonzales, state secretary and for Secretary Lansing granted an .in- mer Chiuhuahuan governor and Felipe at thp state denartment to Dr. Gutierrez, another ex-governor of Chi- not,ntin0 ThAndnr Dumba. the Aus- it,', nmhMMidor. who de- ,hiinPd ronorts that h9, taken Dart in a movement to interfere with the production of war materials in the United States. MEMBERSHIP OF ADVISORY BOARD SECRETARY MAKES PUBLIC THE NAMES OF MEN WHO WILL AID NAVY. THUS. EDISON AT THE HEAD The Others Were Named by Elsven Great Engineering and Scientific Societies. Meet First Oct. 6. ' Washington. The full membership inventive genius under the lead of Thomas A. Edison to the American navy, has just been announced by and tne societies which nominated them follow: American Chief Aeronautical Soci- Pfv Wllrisfvn MoTlnm T7-rvr1j-1trTi TT f " iJ1""1J"' Ma"r Andrew Murray Hunt, New York. and Alfred Craven, New York American Institute of Mining Engi neers William Lawrence Skiunders, New York, and Benjamin Bodwich Thayer, New York. American Electro-Chemical Society -Dr. Joseph William Richards, South Bethlehem. Pa.; and Lawrence Addicks, Chrome, N. J. American Society of Mechanical En gineers William Leroy Emmet, Sche nectady, and J. Spencer Miller, South Orange, N. J. American Society of Aeronautic Engineers Henry Alexander Wise Wood, and Elmer A. Sperry. The board's first meeting will be held at the Navy Department Octo ber 6 DATE FOR ATTACK Report That Mexicans Have Set Sep tember 18 as Date for Raid. Brownsville, Tex. Col. R. L. Bui lard, at Harnngton, investigated a report that a large band of armed aHd m0UJ1ted "Mexicans visited a ranch in Hidalgo county a few days ago and declare(i that September 18 had been set as a date for a general attack on Americans along the border, Army officials also investigated a report that boats are being construct ed in Matamoros for use in crossing tJie Rj0 Grande. No information was obtained. apparently is exerting a salutary in fluence and that there Is a noticeable diminution of talk of reprisals among responsible persons on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande. Gen. E. P. Nafarrate, in command at Matamoros, reiterated his assurances of co-opera-ion with the American authorities. Battle With Police Six Hours. San Francisco. A six-hour battle between 60 policemen and George Nel son, a foreigner 25 years old, wanted for complicity in the robbery of a Los Angeles bank, ended at dawn when Nelson's bullet riddled body was found stretched on a cot in a rooming house. He had ended his life by send: ing a bullet through his head. Cabinet Has Not Resigned, Petrograd, via London. The state- ment published in the United States that the cabinet of Premier Gorem- kyn had resigned, and that a coali tion cabinet would be formed is er roneous. The cabinet has not re signed. Loyal to United States, Chicago. A mass-meeting here of former subjects of Austria-Hungary adopted resolutions condemning the action of Ambassador Dumba thav caused the United tSates to ask his recall. The leaders of the meeting wta officrs of th Bohmian ' National , . , - w Alliance, the Broatian League of Chi cago, the Serbian-in ationai uuu duu the Slovak Guards. The resolution . - - resents the reference Ambassador Dumba made to the Austrians in America, and declare loyalty under any conditions to tne unuea Estates Three Victims of Villa San Antonio, Tex. Details of the 1 reported execution by General Fran- cisco Villa atuninuanua vnj- "- 10 days ago, of Sebastian Vargas, state treasurer of Chihuahua; Aure- huahua, were contained in a letter from Mrs. Vargas, widow of one of the aHeeed victims. Vlila forced the three to make wills bequeathing all their property to him and then ordere. their execution- NOVEMBER SET APART FOR WORK THOUSANDS OF MOONLIGHT SCHOOLS TO BE HELD IN THE STATE. TAR HEEL CAPITOL NEWS General News of North Carolina Col lected and Condensed From the State' Capital .THat Will Profe of Interest to AIL Our Readers. Raleigh. The month of November has been chosen by the state committee on So cial 'Service as the period during which the moonlight scholos shall be held throughout the state. The meeting was held in the office of Dr. J. Y. Joy- ner, state superintendent of 'Public Instruction. There were present Su perintendent Joyner, Clarence Poe, Maj. W. A. Graham, Dr. E. K. Gra ham, Prof. E. C. Branson nad W. C. Crosby, the later secretary of the board. It was x decided to have meetings of the county committees on social service with the teachers of the coun ties at each county seat a week or more before the time for the mpon light schools to begin and then to have meetings of the local commit tees and the local teachers on the eve of the opening of the moonlight schools, these to round out the ar rangements and stir enthusiasm to the utmost. There will be some degree of elas ticity in the matter of the period for the moonlight schools in that It will be permissible to change the dates in those counties in which the county schools are not actually in progress during the whole of November. ' The 12 lessons each on reading, writing and arithmetic especially adapted for the moonlight school work have been perfected and will be adapted for publication in pamph let form and for publication in the weekly newspapers of the state so that the newspapers can be used as the actual text books in their respec tive counties. Besides the whole educational forces of the state, including over 5,000 school teachers, there are pledged to special effort, the civic service organization of the state, the Federation of Woman's Clubs with Mrs. Lingle of Davidson county at the head of a special committee of 100 of the leading women of the state, the Farmers' Union, the Junior Or der United American Mechanics and other strong forces throughout the state. The Social Service Committee has decided to launch no other civic ser vice movement this season and con centrate energies and effort on the moonlight school movement. Progress in Improved Highways. During 1914, we spent $5,190,000 in building improved public highways In North Carolina, as follows: Special county and township road tax levies $1,500,000 Receipts from the sale of road bonds 2,430,000 The labor of 1800 short-term convicts 360,000 Free labor 830,000 Private subscriptions 100,000 With these five million dollars we built during the year 2,553 miles of improved roadway (graded 1058 miles, and surfaced mainly with sand-clay or top-soil, 1495 miles). The roads surfaced with macadam, asphalt, bitumious macadam, gravel and the like were only 263 miles in all. The average cost of our 2553 miles of improved roads was around $2,000 per mile. Creamery Products Increasing. That the creamery idea is booming in North Carolina is shown by the fact that the creamery operated by the North Carolina Experiment Station at West Raleigh has during the past month made about six hundred pounds of butter per week. The creamery was started in May, and from the first churning until the churning to date weekly increases nave been made. Over Thousand Students Enrolled. The greatness of a college depends upon its ability to satisfy the supreme human need of the people it serves. To seek the needs of our people and to satisfy those needs so far" as it lies within our power-this is the import ant thing for us." These were the words used by President Edward Kid der Graham in his opening address to the faculty and students of the Uni versity of North Carolina. More than 1,000 students were enrolled at the opening. Wants' Cutlery, Market for State Commissioner of Labor and Print ing M. L. Shipman is receiving letters from numbers of North Carolina man ufacturers of various lines in which they manifest the deepest interest in the movement to launch a campaign n the South American countries to es tablish a trade for exporting North Carolina manufactured articles to that country. One of the latest is a manufacturer who wants to get a foothold . in Latin-America f ol North Carolina-made machettes, and heavy cutlery of all kinds. 5,000 Teachers For Illiteracy Over five thousand white teachers in the public schools of North Caro line have volunteered for the moon light school work to be undertaken by the state department of education in conjunction with forces of com munity service some time during the fall. By degrees, the plans 'for the campaign have been evolved until the state department of education is now almost ready to bring before the pub lic a series of twelve lessons in read ing, writing, and aritmetic for the in struction of white adult illiterates in the state. . Almost daily the heads of the de partments are in conference with Dr. Joyner and Mr. W. C. Crosby, secre tary of the hioonlight school commit tee. Reinforced with the far-famed Blue Back speller and with full knowledge of the latest methods of instruction in the" fundametals, the originators of the new system are carving their way toward the light. A bulletin announcing details of the plan will be issued during September. Examination For Coast Artillery. At Greensboro, on November '8, there will be a special examination by experts from the United States war department of. officers of the North Carolina coast artillery. An order is sued by Adjutant General Young specifies certain officers who are di rected to appear for examination and also provides that any other officers or enlisted men can appear there and undertake the examinations by paying their own expenses, which will be re funded by the government in the event they pass the examination suc cessfully. The order provides for the expenses of the officers, especially named for examination. The exami nations are to be held under General Order 166, 1911, of the United States war department. The officers espe cially directed to appear for examina tion are as follows: First Company, Raleigh, Capt. W. D. Marrowe and Second Lieutenant Lee Layton. Second Company, Wilmington, Capt. E. P. Bailey; First Lieutenant, J. B. Lynch and Second Lieutenant L. B. Orrell. Third Company, Grensboro, CapL Roy B. Chase, Second Lieutenant J. B. Thorp. Fourth Company, Salisbury, Capt. W. S. Blackner, Jr. First Lieutenant W. L. Ross and Second Lieutenant T. B. Marsh, Jr. Lodge to Distribute Souvenirs. M. L. Shipman, commissioner of Labor and Printing; W. F. Evans, Greenville; E. B. Stradley, Asheville, and K. Kendall, Shelby, representa tives from the North Carolina Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows and the Grand Commandry to the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, San Francis co, September 20, have procured their North Carolina souvenirs to be pre sented to each grand representative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge from every part of the world. It is a hand some badge that b ars the names of the four North Carolina representa tives and shows the North Carolina Seal and the State House in relief, encircled by the Inscription "I. O. O. F. of North Carolina, San Francisco, 1915." Messrs. Stradley, of Asheville and Kedall of Shelby go as the rep resentatives of the Grand Encamp ment of North Carolina. After South American Trade. Carrying out the plans of the state department of labor and printing for co-operation with the federal depart ment of commerce in a campaign for the extension of trade relations with Latin America, Comissicner of Labor and Printing M. L. Bhipman has got out a letter that is designed for wide circulation in the South American countries to Impress the advantages North Carolina has for supplying an export trade to them. It has always been translated into Spanish by Dr. James M. Justice and is to be trans lated into Portugese, the prevailing laneuase in numbers of the South American nations. Free to Corn Club Boys. Mr. W. H. Chamblee, farm demon stration agent of Wake county, who is always looking after the interest of the Corn Club boys announced that Secretary Pogue of the State Fair had consented to allow the Corn Club boys to go into the fair grounds free on one day. Mr. Chamblee is now giving particular attention to fall cover crorjs. He is urging all farmers to sow a fall cover crop. Farm Tests Were Satisfactory. Director B. W. Kilgore of the state experiment farm work says that es pecially satisfactory results are being obtained at all the experiment and demonstration farms this season that a number of very valuable deductions for the benefit of the farmers all over the state as well as for those in the localities where the test farms are lo cated. The results of variety tests in small grains especially wheat, oats and rye, are just now completed and have a number of valuable features that will be given wide circulation. Fisheries Law Being Violated. Chairman Ed Chamber Smith of the North Carolina Fisheries Commission, say the commission is putting forth special effort now to put an end to the catching of food fish in the deep- spa nurse nets and that they are meeting with opposition that will re quire the severest methods of dealing with them by the commission. The purpose of the commission is to pro test the small fishermen from the competition at fearful odds that ne cessarily results from the marketing fish caugnt in purse nets. BIG STEEL BRIDGE OPEN TO PUB11G SPLENDID STRUCTURE AT MT. HOLLY SPANS CATAWBA RIVER. 962 FEET FROM END TO END Great Structure Connecting Mecklen burg and Gaston Counties is Formally .Accepted. Mount Holly. The bridge at Mount Holly across the Catawba is an ac complished fact. It was accepted by the commissioners of Mecklenburg and Gaston counties. The commis sioners met just before dinner and organized for business, Dr. Falls pre siding. The attendance of commis sioners was good. - The bridge was not thrown open to the public until 3:30 o'clock. After this event, there was a constant stream of vehicles crossing until af ter darkness fell. The consummation of such a thing, for which the people of Mount Holly have worked for years was celebrated by having a big free barbecue dinner. Citizens from Char lotte, Gastonia, Belmont, Cherryvillei Huntersville and surrounding sections were present to the number of 300 or 400. Speeches were made by Plummer Stewart of Charlotte and C. B. Arm strong, toayor of Gastonia. The bridge is of steel with overhead superstruc ture, three concrete piers, supporting the two spans from the piers to bank of the river. On each side of the bridge Is supported by iron columns set in concrete bases. An Iron rail ing on side of bridge goes full length, protecting travel from going Into the river. From end to end the bridge is 962 feet long. In all probability it Is the last one to be erected over the river for the next 50 years, because every public road leading to the river has a bridge. 1,500 Cans Tomatoes on Tenth of Acre Asheboro. Miss Lucille Ellis is the best, if not the biggest, farmer in the country. All this stuff about the corn. club boys,, the pictures, big yarns and all will have to go Into the discard now. Miss Ellis, who is a daughter of James Ellis, who lives near Parks' Cross Roads in the eastern part of the .county, planted one-tenth of an acre in tomatoes and the result fairly took the breath of a representative of the agricultural department, who went there on a tour of inspection. This representative, Miss Evans, reports the most wonderful yield she .ever saw and the quality, taking the .crop on an average, by far the finest seen during her tour. Miss Evans says Miss Ellis has already put up 800 .cans and out of the remainder unpick ed can easily put up 700 more. This sounds good. Fifteen hundred cans of .tomatoes on a tenth of an acre of land. Miss Evans further Intimated that instead of half a can of tomatoes and a half a can of soup, Miss Ellis' .cans were full of tomatoes, good, meaty ones at that. It seems these tomatoes were of ordinary size, but round, even and smooth. To Resume Work at Badin. Albemarle. It is reported here on good authority that the Southern Aluminum Company is within the next week or 10 days to resume work of erecting the $15,000,000 plant at Badin. six miles from here on the Yad kin river. This work closed down almost immediately upon the out break of the war in Europe a year ago, sending off more than 2,000 la borers and leaving the dam only par tially completed and the factories only hulled In. Prominent Durham Man Dead. Durham. Mr. J. Ed Stagg, vice president and general manager of the Durham & Southern Railroad and for many years one of the leading citizens of the city, died at his home on More- head avenue a few days ago. Death came after a long illness, during the latter Dart of which only the skill of attending physicians kept him alive Three Counties File Protest. Raleigh. A member of the corpor ation commission said a few days ago that definite increases made by the commission in the assessments made bv county tax assessing authorities have been received from not more than three counties and the commis sion has made only one change in the assessment Increases, this being a reduction of 5 per cent in the case of one county assessment on which had been an increase considerably more than that. Claims Large Estate. Asheville. Proceedings were set on foot with the arrival here of Dexter T. Barrett, deputy attorney general of Nebraska, which may result In Mrs. Amanda H. Brown of Asheville being declared the heiress to the $150,000 es tate left by John O'Connor of Hast ings, Neb. O'Connor, who has become known in Nebraska and elsewhere as "the mysterious John O'Connor," left Asheville son after the Civil War. J soing to Hastings. A that place he engaged in repairing shoes and saved fortune. MtlMnONAL ;mhool (By O. E. SELLERS, Acting Director of the Sunday School Course oi the Moody Bible Institute.) LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 19 DEFEAT THROUGH DRUNKEN NESS. LESSON TEXT I Klnes 20:10-21. GOLDEN TEXT Wine and new wine take away the understanding. Uos. 4:11 We feel somewhat like questioning the title of this lesson. It can be used as a temperance lesson no doubt, but to attribute Ben-hadad's defeat entire ly to drunkenness is not quite true to the facts. Jehovah's jealousy of his name (v. 13) and the enemies' con tempt for Jehovah (vv. 23; 28) are the fundamental causes of the defeat of the Syrians though, of course, drunk enness, as an exhibition of self-indulgence and therefore of weakness, was a natural accompaniment of that con tempt for God. I. Ahab's Predicament, vv. 10-12. The Syrian king's contemptuous treat ment of Ahab (vv. 1-7) at last became so great that in sheer desperation the people refused to listen to his demands (v. 8). His forces far overwhelmed the little army of Israel (vv. 1, 10, .27), but one was on Ahab's side who had not yet withdrawn his mercy from Israel and with whom Ben-hadad could not cope (v. 13; Rom. 8:31; Phil. 4:13). Ben-hadad was the most pow erful monarch of his time of those na tions bordering upon the Mediter ranean. The march of his army was like Ma tempest of hall, an overwhelm ing scourge" with unrestrained power. The effect was worse than the plagues of Egypt. But Ben-hadad was a drunk ard, a habitual one (vv. 12-16). Samaria was rich and this king want ed it even as, intemperance always lusts after the wealth of youth, and the gold of a nation (vv. 3, 12). Drink always makes a fool of its victim and dooms to ultimate defeat all who yield to its power (ch. 16:9; II Sam. 13:28; Prov. 31:4, 6; Luke 21:34; Eph. 5:18). II. God's Prophet, vv. 13-15. It was indeed dark for Ahab. He saw (v. 13) the host confronting him but he also heard the word of Jehovah. As con trasted with Jehovah that . multitude was but as a handful of dust. God is on the side of temperance. All of God's laws favor temperance. Our ever-living glorified leader and the energizing power of the holy spirit are the ones who are the source of our victories over all principalities and powers of eviL Ahab's predicament is answered by God's "I will deliver" (v. 13) and so today we have his sure promise of victory (Eph. 6:10-12). God has today set forth his prophets (I Cor. 12:28) to proclaim his mes sage of salvation and power to over come intemperance. This is not a necessary evil." Experts and scien tists have clearly demonstrated its be ing unneccessary and a drag upon so ciety, and God has taught us how to overcome it. Ahab's unfortunate char acter appears at its best in this story, but alas he and his successors soon forgot the lesson. III. Victorious Princes, vv. 16-21. Tq Ahab's question "by whom" is this de liverance to be wrought, God answers, "by the young men of the princes of the provinces" (v. 14). These choice young fellows are mustered in, 232 of them, as leaders of an army of 7,000, all who could be found in the capital. God delights to work through young men I John 2:13, 14) and the pages of history are strewn with the victori ous achievements of youth. Two-thirds of Lincoln's army were under twenty-one years of age at their enlistment; the Union was preserved by an army of boys. . Ahab himself is the leader (v. 14) and they began at once by carrying the battle into the enemies' territory. Ben-hadad and his drinking compan ions never dreamed of being attacked at that hour. Like Gideon and his army these young men smote the Syrian host in overwhelming defeat Israel's enemies had incapacitated themselves. A drunken mob Is no match for even a handful of organized and sober men. These thirty-three kings courted their own defeat (Prov. 23:29-32; Eccl. 11:10; Hos. 4:11). Ben hadad's kings "who helped him" (v. 16) proved to be a reed for all the strength and support they rendered him in the moment of "Els need. It was the young men who went first, e. g., struck the first blow. Ben hadad's self-confidence and boasting (v. 18) Is but another illustration of that "pride which goeth before de struction" (Prov. 16:18; Luke 18:14). The army of Israel was small (v. 15) but it did not hesitate to attack the superior force and that sort of faith will always incite others which will -follow them" (v. 19). To Clean Laces. Delicate laces may be beautifully cleaned by squeezing them through skim milk, to which 'a little bluing bas been added. Then stretcn and ary them or dry and Iron between cloths over a turkish towel pad. Peach Custard. . Till sundae classes about a quarter full of chopped peach and then nearly to the top with soft custard. When ready to serve cool each portion with sweetened whipved cream and invert half of a chilled, peacn in tne center. LESSON
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