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 - - $1.00 One Square, two insertions - $1.50 One Square, one month - - $2.50 For Larger Advertisements Literal Contracts will be made. VOL. XXXVIII. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N: C, SEPTEMBER 29, 1915. NO. 8. U 11 II Ajt k I E I HI hel . Hf il Ml III 1 1 I I III ORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER Happenings of This and Other Nations for Seven Days Are Given. THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH What Is Taking Place in the South land Will Be Found in Brief Paragraphs. Foreign Following the example of Bulgaria, Greece has ordered mobilization of all ter troops. What plans Bulgaria has in mind and what Greece and Rouma Eia will do, is still an open question, and until further developments, the course of the Balkans is still a mat ter for speculation. The Bulgarian situation is absorbing the attention of France to the exclu sion of all other topics. Little doubt is felt that Bulgaria has decided to cast its lot with the central powers. At Como, Italy, attorneys for Porter Charlton, the American whose trial on rhe charge of murdering his wife there during their honeymoon trip, was set for October 5, have applied for a fur ther postponement. Another body that came ashore at Clonakilty, on the south coast of Ire land, has been identified as that of Mr?. Josephine Bruguiere of New York, an Arabic victim. ( Bulgaria's mobilization a war move that may solve the riddle of the Balkans has struck London with dra matic suddenness. Commanders of German submarines have been given strict orders that in case of doubt as to the intentions of liners to take the safe course and per mit the ship to escape rather than run thes lightest risk. Of the thirty-four American and Ger man papers found in the possession of James F. J. Archibald, the American newspaper correspondent, when he was apprehended at Falmouth, Eng land, while proceeding from New York for Rotterdam, seventeen are de scribed as having been made public and the other seventeen as being in sufficient to warrant publication. The greatest war budget in the his tory of the world was introduced in the British house of commons by Mc- Kenna, chancellor of the exchequer, as another step toward financing the war, which is now costing Great Brit ain nearly twenty-five million dol lars daily. Officials reports from Austrian and German headquarters and dispatches from the Balkan capitals show that the long expected Teuton campaign to be waged against Servia has begun. Freight traffic has been suspended on the Bulgarian railroads. Forty- five thousand Bulgarians in Macedo nia and Thrace have been called to the colors. Domestic A Philadelphia dispatch reports that the Midvale Steel company, one of the largest of the independent steel concerns, has been sold for nineteen million dollars. The company will be reorganized. The company had refus ed to accept war orders. The plant employs 5,500 men. W. K. Vickers, a lineman in the em ploy of the Georgia Railway and Pow er company, Atlanta, was killed when he was crushed by a heavy pole which fell while workmen were trying to place it. Roy Canfield, an amateur automobile driver, was killed at Cedar Falls, Iowa, when his machine went over a 15-foot embankment in a fifteen mile race at the county fair. The accident was due to a blow-out. On urgent request from Chicago, President M. M. Allison of the Dixie Highway association announces that the first official tour of the Dixie high way will begin at Chicago oh October 9 instead of October 11, as previously announced. Six bodies had been removed from the wreck of a section of the Seventh avenue subway excavation destroyed by a dynamite blast, and the task of uncovering the wreckage is reported to be proceeding rapidly. Two of the dead w.ere passengers on the trolley, and four were laborers on the subway Cotton bulged a quarter of a cent a pound around the opening in New Orleans on September 21, and later took another upward turn, which land ed the most active options in the fu ture market 39 to 42 points, or more than $2 a bale over the close of the preceding close. The proposed mammoth credit loan to Great Britain and France, it is re ported in New Yor'c City, is to be un derwritten by a syndicate -of Ameri can finnanciers, who are to receive a commission for their services. The loan will be between six hundred mil lion and eight hundred million dol lars. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is visiting the scene of the Ludlow battle in Col orado and the mining camps of Ber 'vind and Tabasco on his inspection tour of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company properties. He talked free ly with the miners and visited their homes and conversed with their wives. Apolonio Rodrigues, who was sus pected of having kidnaped a Texas ranchman in 'February, 1914, has been Placed in the Laredo, Texas, jail. He was formally charged with horse steal mg, but interest is attached to his arrest in view of demands made by the Texas officials. Dr. Austin Flint, alienist, who was much in the public eye recently as star witness for the state against Har ry K. Thaw, was found dead in his home in New York City. Anthony Comstock. the noted New York City vice crusader, died at his home in Summitt, N. J., after a brief illness. The legal battle over the estate of Francis A. Ogden, the eccentric Hous ton, Texas, millionaire, who died June 1914, begins shortly in the Drobate court of Houston. European War The Russians in Galicia and Volhv- nia have forced General Mackensen to retreat. The Russians laid a' tran for the Germans, and nearly succeeded in circling them before General Mac kensen discovered their plans. The center of the Russian armv is still retreating, and in the north von Hindenburg continues to make prog ress against Dvinsk, although much slower than formerly. Berlin reports that a British attack south of the LaBassee canal broke down under German fire. An Italian army headquarters state ment announces that on the Dlateau northwest of Arsiero the strong posi tion of Monte Coston was stormed by the Italian troops. The Italians had virually isolated it already by a skill ful enveloping movement. The ene my's columns then tried to check the progress of the Italian envelopment by violent attacks on the days of the 17th, 18th and 22d, which broke against the firm resistance of the Ital ians. General Joffre, Sir John French and King Albert of Belgium are develoDine a new plan of campaign that involves the almost continuous use of artillery on a vast scale along the whole line. The allies are methodically maintain ing their shell fire for days at a time without infantry attacks. Austrian and German artillery are reported to be bombarding Servian po sitions south of the river frontier at various points along the hundred-mile front between the mouths of the Dri na and Morava rivers. This action is introductory to the "steam roller" movement through Servia long ago decided upon by Austria and Germany. Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton, commander of the British forces at the Darda nelles, tells how the British and French through the summer kept at grips with the Turks in Gallipoli, with terrible losses on both sides in the arid, congested area, where the gain or loss of a few yards of trenches measured the tide of battle and the dead lay so thick that a temporary armistice was imperative at times. The Germans occupied Vilna, Russian Poland, and by a wide-sweeping move ment north of that city, almost sur rounded a part of the Russian army fighting in the railway triangle be tween Vilna, Lida and Vileika. Washington The way has been cleared for the release of American-owned goods of German and Austrian origin now held at neutral ports of Europe by the Brit ish order in council. The group of Gerjnan firms which recently offered to buy a million bales of cotton at 15 cents a pound have raised the price to 16 cents a pound, and guarantee that the cotton will not be used for military purposes. Aliens, such as actors, singers and others residing temporarily in the United States, must pay an income tax just as though they were full-fledged citizens. It is reported to the war depart ment that another American soldier Private Henry W. Stubblefield has been killed by Mexican bandits. Tariffs on the Clyde Steamship com pany which provide for the cancella tion of joint ocean-and-rail class and commodity rates from New York and other Eastern points to Charlotte, N. C, and destinations via the port of Charleston, were suspended by the in terstate commerce commission until January 25. Exports exceeded three billion dol lars during the year ending August 31, breaking all records. The exact fig ures were 13,035,033,280, the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce an nounces. The United States government will make no effort to secure the safe con duct from this country for Dr. Con stantin Dumba, Austro-Hungarian am bassador, until the Vienna government has replied to the request that the ambassador be recalled. According to reports received In Washington, business conditions all over the country are showing improve ment and trade generally is picking up. The federal advisory council has not yet taken up the credit loan by American bankers to England. Prospects for the recognition of General Carranza, it was admitted in official quarters, are much more fa vorable than at any time since the United States began to exert its in fluence toward the establishment of a central government in Mexico. Death decreased the government's Civil war pension roll nearly ten per cent during the last fiscal year, accord ing to the annual report of the com missioner of pensions just made pub lic. ' ' James F. J. Archibald, the Ameri can correspondent who carried a mes sage from Dr. Constantin T. Dumba, Austro-Hungarian ambassador at Washington, which led to a request from the United States for the am bassador's recall, issued a statement in New York City denying that he had connived to break the neutrality law of the United States. FRENCH AND BRITISH ADVANCE IN WEST TWENTY MILES OF TRENCHES AND 20,000 UNWOUNDED SOL DIERS TAKEN. A LARGE NUMBER OF GUNS French Have Most Credit For Gains. German Positions Around Ver dum Weaken. London. The German trenches along a front of 20 miles between the Belgian coast and Verdon, and more than 20,000 unwoundd prisoners, be sides 32 guns and many machine guns have been captured by the British and French armies in the first offensive movement on the Western front in months. The offensive followed a several weeks' almost incessant bombardment of German positions with big guns, which late last week increased in in tensity, particularly in the sections where the infantry attacks took place, simultaneously with the dlrive of the armies British warships and French and Belgian batteries heavily bom barded the German positions on the coast between Zeebrugge and Iieuport. The French, who have the most im portant gains to their credit, made their chief onset against the German lines around Perthes, Beausejour and Suippes in Champagne, where in De cember they made a considerable gain of ground, and also north of Arras, where Souchez was stormed and captured. The French communication says the Allied forces continue to gain ground in Champagne. With the Advances thus recorded, this offensive has given the French possession of more terri tory than they had retaken from the Germans since the latter dug them selves in after the battle of the Marne. According to the French account, the Germans' were driven out of their trenches over a front of more than 15 miles, varying in depth from two thirds of a mile to two and a half miles. The French in this engage ment captured 12,000 prisoners. Ap parently the advantage is being presed still further, as the French communication makes only the brief est mention of the operation. The importance of this gain lies in the fact that every yard of ground taken in this region weakens the Ger man position around Verdun from which the Germans might be compell ed to retire should the French suc ceed in making any further advance. ANOTHER BROADWAY CAVE-IN. Three Injured When Street Sank Into Subway. New York. One death and the in jury of three other persons resulted from the caving in of the street over the new subway in Broadway near 28th street. An unidentified woman, who was caught in the falling debris, died later In a hospital. The others injured were men. The police and firemen continued their search for several workmen reported missing. The accident occurred a few blocks from the heart of the theatre district shortly before 8 o'clock and Broad way was crowded with people. The weakening of supports in the subway, due to weight of traffic, is believed to have caused the beams and planking to collapse, making a hole about 50 feet -long, extending about half way across Broadway. The pit was about 30 feet deep. Two of the injured, a man and a woman were in an automobile that was carried down into the -hole. The other person injured was believed to be a workman. Smuggled Bulgarians Across Border. Toledo, O. Charged with smug gling 800 or more Bulgarians from Windsor, Ont., to Detroit, then to Toledo, Mike Tonoff, a Bulgarian, was arrested here by Government of ficers. The arrest followed affidavits made by some of the men brought across. Conditions of Big Loan. New York. The Anglo-French fi nancial commission and Eastern bankers have reached a virtual agree ment on the details of the proposed billion dollar credit loan to Great Brit ain and France. Following are the de tails of the loan agreed upon: The amount approximately $500,000,000 ; jthe securities joint Anglo-French notes; the interest rate 5 per cent to yield the investor about 5 1-2 per cent by the notes being offered at slightly under par. Carranza Troops Not Present. Washington. 'Major General Funs ton, commanding United States troops on the border, and General Nafarrate, .the Carranza commander, both dis claim for their men responsibility for the fighting near Progreso, Texas, in which one American trooper was kill ed and an officer wounded. Report ing to the war department General Funston said his men had repelled the raiding party which fled across the border under the protection of sol diers "in uniforms" who were en trenched on the other aide. EXPRESS COMPANY WILL PAY $10,000 CLAIMS OF STATE FOR BACK TAXES SETTLED. BY COMPRO MISE FOR 50 PER CENT. DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH Doings and Happenings That Mark the Progress of North Carolina Peo ple Gathered Around the State Capitol. Raleizh. Litigation of the .State of North Carolina against the Southern Ex jpress Company involving over $20,000 of back taxes owing to the state by the comD&nv for the vears from 1903 (through 1912 was settled In confer ence between representatives of the state and the express company in the office of Governor Craig. A compromise of $10,000 was reach-" led and agreed upon by parties. Those appearing before Governor Craig in the matter under settlement were Corporation' Commissioner E. L. Travis, Attorney General T. W. jBickett, State Treasurer B. R. Lacy, ani General Counsel Robert Alston of Atlanta, Julius Martin of Asheville, A. B. Andrews of Raleigh end Agent J. J. Bowen of Raleigh. The charge for collection of back (taxes was made in 1913 following an (investigation by the corporation com mission. According to the order rwhich was issued by the corporation commission then, it appeared that for .1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, there was im posed upon the express company, "upon its gross revenue derived from ibusiness done wholly within this ptate," an annual tax of two and a half jer cent for 1909 and 1910 and three per cent for 1912. The gross revenue .for the Southern Express Company .for this time, according to its own re ports made to the commission, was 1909, $313,052.73; 1910, $348,865.57; ,1911, $385,900.27; 1912, $432,810.01. In making report to the corpora tion commission, howver, the South ern Express Company, it is charged, deducted for those years the amounts paid railroad companies for transpor tation as follows: 19f9, $148,550.04; 1910, $168,520.27;" 1911, $183,657.11; 1912, $219,512.49. By this method the company a rived at the amounts which it re ported as gross revenues for the four years and upon which its franchise tax was computed and paid. These amounts were as follows: 1909, $164, 402.50; 1910, $180,345.24; 1911, $220, ,243.16; 1912, $213,297.51. The corporation commission con tended that the reductions made by .the express company were neither proper nor lawful; and if .the com pany were allowed ?o deduct trans portation charges, other expenses might as properly be deducted. With this state of affairs facing it, ,the corporation commission adjudged ,the Southern Express Company to be Indebted to the State of North Caro lina in back taxes for these four years ;the amounts of $3,716.25 for 1909; ,$4,213 for 1910; 5,509 for 1911; $6,575 for 1912. All of it totaled $20,014.32. This order was issued on August ,1, 1913, and since that time the at torney general of North Carolina insti tuted suit. (Warren County New Dog Law. Notable among the opinions deliv ered recently by the supreme court rwas on the Warren county" dog law (passed by the last legislature that (imposes a tax of $2 on each male and (S3 on each female dog in the county. (It was introduced by the representa tive from Warren originally to apply to the entire state and after many (committee hearings and amendments, laws passed to apply only to Warren. (There was a restraining order by F. B. Newell 'and others against the jcounty game warden, charged with, (collecting the tax, and this was dls fsolved by Judge Ferguson and his taction is now upheld by the supreme (court. Chief Justice Clark, in writ ing the opinion, took the position that In such matters, If toe people don't want such a alw, must be handled through the legislature. No Decrease in Assessment. , In the matter of the equalization of the assessment of real estate of .Mecklenburg county with other coun ties in the state, as the commission expresses it, the corporation commis sion gave 1 out, through Chairman E. Jm Travis, the order of the commis Bion declining to modify in any way Its order for the 15 per cent increase Jn the Mecklenburg assessment. This action follows the strenuous hearing (Of the big Mecklenburg delegation ,when there were also present repre sentatives fro ma dozen other counties. FirePrevention Day Circulars. Circulars on Fire Prevention Day are being sent out from the office of the North Carolina Insurance Commis sioner J. R. Young to county clerks, mayors of cities, fire insurance com missioners, journals and state papers, General Lee's Address to Army. The State Historical Commission has received for the Hall of History a steel-engraved copy of General Rob ert E. Lee's farewell adderss to the army of Northern Virginia on April 10, 1865. Tax Assessments Given by Counties. The recent order of thfe corpora tion commission affecting tax assess ments in the counties is given in full because of the general interest throughout the state in its contents. The increase by counties is as fol lows: Alleghany, thirty per cent; Anson, ten per cent; Ashe, twenty per cent; Beau fort, five per cent; Bertie, fifteen pei cent; Bladen, ten per cent; Buncombe, five per cent; Burke, ten per cent; Ca barrus, five per cent; Caldwell, twenty per cer.L; Camden, ten per cent; Cas well, ten per cent; Catawba, fifteen per cent; Chatham, ten per cent; Chowan, ten per cent; Clay, five per cent; Cleve land, fifteen per cent; Columbus, five per cent; Craven, five per cent; Cumberland, ten per cent; CurrituoJt, five per cent; Davidson, fifteen per cent; Davie, five per cent; Duplin, 10 per cent; Durham, ten per cent; Edgecombe, ten per cent; Forsyth, ten per cent; Franklin, ten per cent; Gaston, ten per cent; Gates, five per cent; Granville, ten per cent; Greene, five per cent; Guilford, ten per cent; Hal ifax, five per cent; Harnett, five per cent; Haywood, five per cent; Henlerson, five per cent; Hertford, lve per cent; Hoke, five per cent; Hyde, five per cent; Ire dell, ten per cent; Jackson, five per cent; Johnston, five per cent; Jones, ten per cent; Lenoir, five per cent; Lin coln, ten per cent; Macon, ten per cent; Madison, five per cent; McDowell, ten per cent; Mecklenburg, fifteen per cent; Mitchell, five per cent; Montgomery, ten per cent; Northampton, five per, cent; Onslow, fifteen per cent; Orange, ten Der cent: Pamlico, five per cent; Pender, ten per cent; Perquimans, nve per cew; Person, ten per cent; Pitt, ten per cent; Polk, five per cent; Randolph, fifteen per cent; Richmond, twenty-five per cent; Robeson, ten per cent; Rockingham, five per cent; Rowan, ten per cent; Ruther ford, five ner cent: Samoson. thirty per cent; Scotland, thirty per cent; Tran sylvania, nve per cent; ryrreii, nve per cent; Union, ten per cent; Vance, five per cent; Warren, five per cent; Washing ton, five per cent; Wake, five per cent; Wayne, five per cent; Wilkes, ten per cent; Wilson, ten per cent. It was further ordered that the as sessment of all real property in Pas quotank county be reduced five per cent. The assessment as made and re turned by the assessors and respect ive boards of equalization are approv ed as made in the following counties: Alamance, Alexander, Avery, Bruns wick, Carteret, Cherokee, Dare, Gra ham, Lee, Martin, More, Nash, New Hanover, Stanley, Stokes, Surry, Swain, Watauga, Yadkin and Yancey. Several exceptions as to certain property in some counties, was made. Opinions of the Supreme Court. There were opinions delivered in 13 appeals by the supreme court. The epinions follow: Card vs. Mason, Pasquotank, no error; Cutler vs. Cut ler, Beaufort, affirmed; Cook vs. Ve neer Company, Pasquotank, no error: Sexton vs. Duff, Pasquotank, affirm ed; Horton vs. Light & Water Co., Beaufort, new trial; Fowle vs. War ren, Beaufort, new trial; Elliott vs. Railroad & Lumber Co., Beaufort, no error; Hobgood vs. Hobgood, Edge combe, modified; Iron Company vs. Bridge Company, Nash, reversed; Brown vs. Telegraph Company, Edge combe, new trial; Marsh vs. Early, Hertford, reversed; Newell vs. Green, Warren, affirmed; Blue Ridge Inter urban Railway vs. Light & Power Co., Henderson, error. Plan Forest Fire Protection. Special from Asheville Owners of timber lands of this section of the state expect to save thousands of dol lars during the coming fall and win ter months as the results of the adop tion of a co-operative plan of protect ing their holdings against forest fires. State Forester J. S. Holmes spent some time here In conference with the lumbermen of this section of the state discussing plans for the employ ment of patrolmen and rangers by the individuals owning timber lands, the city of Asheville and the state. . For Cause of Moonlight Schools. Dr. J. Y. Joyner, superintendent of public instruction, has received a con tribution of $100 from a former North Carolinian residing in New York now, for the cause of Moonlight Schools. Having read the bulletins on the sub ject and the press notices of the move ment, the New Yoifcer felt disposed to help in the work. Under no condi tion, he said, would he consider al lowing his name to be used Secretary Issues Several Charters. Buaffo Packing Company, of War rensville. Capital stock, $50,000. Sub scribed stock, $1,750. Incorporators, R. L. Ballou, Jefferson; W. H. Jones, Warrensville; A. F. Robinson, War rensville. Asheville Development Company, of Asheville. Capital stock, $25,000. Subscribed stock, $4,800. Incorpora tors, J. M. Chiles, Kenilworth; D. R. Millard, Asheville; E. T. Belch, Ashe ville. Lenoir Mills, of Lenoir. Capital stock, $75,000. Subscribed stock, $7, 000. Incorporators, J. H. Beall, J. C. Seagle and T. T. Broghill. Waterways Men to Make Step. Congressman . John H. Small of the First district and Congressman J. iHampton Moore of Pennsylvania spent one afternoon at Raleigh conferring with city authorities and Governor Craig in preparation for 200 or more delegates to the Savannah conven tion of the Atlantic Deeper Water -ways Association to stop over here (November 8 for a few hours en route to Savannah. They met with the iheartiest co-operation and every pos sible arrangement will be made for the occasion. Reports to War Department. Adjutant General Young of the North Carolina National Guard for warded to the war department re ports from the captains of the compa nies of the North Carolina National Guard and the commanding officers of the regiments as to steps taken to eliminate the deficiencies charged up to each in the annual inspections held last spring. General Young says the deficiencies have been satisfactorily met. HARDING EXPECTS 12 GENT COTTON SROAD FOREIGN DEMAND FOR STAPLE WILL SEND PRICES UPWARD. DELIVERS STRONG ADDRESS Before Raleigh Chamber of Commerce He Praises Southern Banks And The Good Judgment of Bankers. Raleigh. Hon. W. P. G. Harding, member of the Federal Reserve Board in a forcible address delivered at the annual banquet of the Raleigh Cham ber of Commerce at which there were honor guests representing numbers of the leading commercial organizations of the state, declared that "it is no longer a secret that there is a broad foreign demand for cotton. Estimates now range from 10,000,000 to 12,0.00, 000 bales and a price of 12 cents looks less improbable tonight than 10 did a month ago." Continuing Mr. Harding said on this subject: "For the first time the crop, movement has begun with an abun dance of cheap money available for Southern bankers and upon their judgment, advice and co-operation de pends, to a great degree, the question of whether or not farmers shall re ceive intrinsic values for cotton this season. "My friends," declared Mr. Hard ing, "the financial emancipation of the rural South is no longer an irrides cent dream. It can be made a glorious reality and surely you of North Caro lina whose forefathers at Mecklen burg framed the original declaration of political independence will not be laggards in this movement for the new freedom. Mr. Harding's address was an il luminating presentation of the pur poses and the work of the Federal Re serve Board. He opened with an expression of ap preciation for the opportunity to visit the Capital City of North Carolina, a State rich in colonial and national traditions and history and especially powerful in national prestige at this time, with the President a North Caro linian in boyhood, with Josephus Daniels in the cabinet and "with one of your senators chairman of the Senate committee on rates and the other chairman of the great Finance Committee of the Senate, and with a Representative of your State, Con gressman Claude Kitchln, soon to be called to assume the duties of chair man of the Ways and Means Commit tee of the House and the majority leadership in that body." Continuing Mr. Harding declared that "the important chairmanships held by your Senators and Represen tatives will give your state a com manding influence in legislative affairs during the term of the next Congress." Hotel For Mount Mitchell. Asheville. That local investors and visiting capitalists have made arrange ments to build a modern hotel of 50 rooms at the summit of Mount Mitch ell was the announcement authorized at this city. Work will be started on the structure in time to permit its opening by the beginning of -next spring. Boulders from Mount Mitch ell will be used in the construction of the foundation and the wall will ibe constructed of immense logs from ithe mountain top. The rustic style of architecture will be used and modern conveniences will be provided. Point Lookout, a short distance ffrom the grave of . Dr. Elisha Mitchell, has been chosen as the site jfor the hotel and Perley & Crockett, (owners of the railroad to Mitchell, state that they will extend their lin to the location of the hostelry. Dies From Burns. Snow Hill. Attempting to extin guish a blaze started where her five-prear-old son emptied a. can of kero sene oil on the kitchen range,, Mrs. Sam Cobb, of Maury, near here, re ceived burns from which she died several hours later. The child also iwas burned, but is expected to re cover. Seventy-Five Bushels Per Acre. West Raleigh. Seventy-five bushels an acre is what the North Carolina Corn Club boys are putting as their this year's average. Last week the (Officer in charge at the experimnt (station at West Raleigh asked each of the boys to report an estimate of the yeaT's yield, and up to the latter part of the week about 1,000 had reported. It seems that this will be a good year for. the corn crop, although it was ra ther unfavorable for a good stand to be obtained in some parts of the state thsi spring. New Hosiery Mill. Hendersonville James P. Grey and their son, James P. Grey, 'Jr., of John son City, Tenn., have announced their plans to have a $10,000 hosiery mill in operation in Hendersonville by the first of the coming year. A site has been purchased on Fourth avenue near the Southern tracks and plans and specifications are being draws for for the plant, machinery for which has been ordered for shipment on November 1. Mr. Grey states that 1 Is his purpose to employ about $9 operatives to begin with. tomnoNAL SUMfSOtOOL Lesson By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of the Sunday School Course, the Moody Bible Institute, Chicago.) LESSON FOR OCTOBER 3 ELIJAH IN NABOTH'S VINEYARD. LESSON TEXT-I Kings 21:11-20. GOLDEN TEXT Be sure your sin will find you out. Num. 32:23. Ahab disobeyed God' and failed to follow up his victory over Ben-Hadad (ch. 20:31-34). Thereupon one of the prophets resorted to a plan whereby Ahab was rebuked and also received a message that sent him "to his house heavy and displeased" (v. 43). All of this needs to be borne in mind when we study Ahab's course of action re lated in this lesson. Learn by heart the tenth commandment; also Luke 12:15. I. The Schemes of Men, vv. 11-16. Ahab had been king for twenty years (B. C. 906?). Jezreel was his summer capital, about twenty miles northwest of Samaria. The chief actors in this tragedy were Naboth, a well-to-do citi zen; Ahab, a petulant monarch to whom Naboth refuses to sell his vine yard; Jezebel, the Lady Macbeth of Ahab's court; elders and nobles of Jezreel, willing tools in the transac tion; false witnesses, executioner, and Elijah, the servant of God, who con fronted the monarch in his newly gained possession. Ahab was con stantly in conflict with the purposes of God and with his Word. Naboth had no right to sell his vineyard (see Numbers 36:7; Lev. 25:23; also Ezek. 46:16) and sturdily stood out for his God-given rights. These land laws were rigid, but at the same time wise and beneficial. Instead of yielding to God's law Ahab sulks like a petted child (v. 4) and thus again runs coun ter to God's Word (see tenth com mandment). At this juncture Jezebel, his wife, appeals to his pride and power as the king (v. 7), and offers to-procure the coveted possession. The methods of mankind whereby vast pos sessions are accumulated do not al ways bear investigation; murder and rapine, broken hearts and shortened lives, weakened bodies and stunted children can largely be traced to the Bin or covetousness, against which we all need to be on guard (Luke 12:15; Eph. 5:5). The first 6inner was covet ous (Gen. 3:6), so also were the chosen people of God (Josh. 7:21), and it was this that caused the first dis sension among Christian believers (Acts 5:1-3). Jezebel most graciously gave Ahab that which belonged to others; how free we all can be with the property of others! She also cloaked her designs with the mantle of religion (8-13). II. The Sentence of God, vv. 17-20. The dead Naboth was happier than his neighbors of Jezreel, the king and queen or any of the other evil par ticipants. Ahab began by breaking the first commandment (I Kings 16:31; Deut. 5:7) and thus laid the ground work of the whole train of evil for which he and his household and his reign are famous. The elders readily obeyed the word of Jezebel and Ahab profited thereby, but now he was to hear the Word of God and it was not to be so welcome. Recently we saw Elijah set aside, following his flight from Jezebel, but he is not entirely beyond use .nd God now gave him a new commission, one more task in connection with his old opponent. There is nothing Indicating cowardice In Elijah's bold challenge of Ahab and there is also a suggestion of a, guilty conscience in Ahab's exclamation, "Hast thou found me, O mine enemy" (v 20) ? Ahab had "gone down to the vineyard of Naboth" (v. 16) to enjoy the pleasure of possessing his ill-gotten treasure only to hear again his word of doom (ch. 20:42; 21-19). It was a poor exchange Ahab made (Mark 8:37), a throne and his life in exchange for the carrying out of his own will and the possession of a vine yard. In that exact spot where Na both had been foully stoned the dogs would lick up the blood of the king. As is usually the case, the guilty sin ner called the righteous servant of God his "enemy," yet had Ahab obeyed the Word of Jehovah as so frequently spoken by Elijah he would have discovered him to be his true and best friend, not his enemy. Ahab's sin had found him out (Golden Text, Num. 32:23). III. The Summary. Covetousness is not the mere desire for things we do not possess, but a deep longing which is willing to do wrong, to injure oth ers, to profit by the evil deeds of oth ers in order to come into possession. Covetousness seeks to gain at the ex pense of higher and better things; it Is the extreme opposite of the spirit of him who "gave all." The greatest danger of our land and the chief source of sin is covetousness. The source and fountain of covet ousness is selfishness. Hence the one and only cure Is In a changed heart, one consecrated to God and devoted to the service of others. Love God, obey his Word, strive with all our ransomed powers to build up and advance his kingdom and covetousness will vanish as mist be for the summer sun. Covetousness is insatiable, it is never satisfied. It is like the drug habit, it grows by leaps and bounds. It Is Idolatry, effectually shutting us out of the kingdom.

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