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VOL. XXXVIII.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, OCTOBER 13, 1915.
NO. 10.
innnTAMT Mnirc
firuniHm nlwo
THE WORLD OVER
happenings of This and Other Nations
For Seven Days Are
Given.
THE NEWS J1FJHE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place in the South
land Will Be Found in
Brief Paragraphs.
Foreign
in reply to protests filed by the
German and Austrian ministers
igainst obstacles being placed in the
nay of shipping goods to Bulgaria,
:he Roumanian goyernment replied
that it would take every means to pre
vent contraband of war passing over
Roumanian territory, but would place
no difficulties in the way of the tran
sit of other goods to Bulgaria.
Seven American volunteer aviators
took part in aerial reconnaissances in
the battle of Champagne.
Fourteen Mexican passengers were
killed in a passenger train wreck be
tween Siltillo and San Luis Potosi
The wreck was caused by soft tracks
after a heavy rain.
The Chilean government is planning
to raise an external loan of $15,000,'
000 to cover a deficit in the budget.
Sir Rodmon Roblin, former premier
of the province of Manitoba, Canada,
and three other cabinet ministers,
who are charged with conspiracy to
defraud the province, have been com
mitted for trial. Bail for the four
men was fixed at $50,000 each.
The Russian, French, British and
Italian ministers have asked for their
passports at Sofia, Bulgaria, Bulga
ria's answer to the Russian ultimatum
being unsatisfactory. The Servian
minister also asked for his passports.
London experts state that even the
greatest battles of the war may prove
to have had less weight in deciding
the future of Europe than the events
of the past few days in the Balkan
states. The king of Greece has sur
prised everybody by throwing his in
fluence to the Teutonic allies and ask
ing for the resignation of Venizelos,
the premier, and assuming personal
control of the government.
Germany has acceded to the Amer
ican demands for settlement of the
Arabic controversy, it is announced in
Berlin, and agrees to pay an indem
nity to the families of Americans lost
by the submarining of the Arabic.
Premier Venizelos of Greece has
resigned, the king having informed
him that he was unable to support
the policy of his ministry.
Raymond Swoboda, who was arrest
ed last March charged with setting
fire to the French liner La Tourraine
and later accused of being a German
spy, will be sent to a concentration
camp. The charges againt him were
not proved, but he will be held as a
suspicious character.
French troops to the number of
70,000 have landed at Salonikl, Greece
Greece protested against the landing
as she was bound to dot under her
agreement of neutrality, but accord
ed the French every facility in land
ing.
Mexican raiders near La Feria, about
thirty miles northwest of Brownsville
Texas, were fired an by the United
States border patrol, but there were
no casualties on either 6ide. The
Mexicans escaped after a running
fight. The Mexicans fired from am
bush, but beat a hasty retreat when
the United States soldiers returned
the fire.
Domestic
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., addressing
the chamber of commerce at Denver,
Colo., eulogized his father as the "ten
derest and most democratic of men,
At Denver, Colo., the United States
circuit court of appeals affirmed the
conviction of Frank Guinn and J. J.
Beal, election officials of Kingfisher
county, Oklahoma, for conspiracy to
oppress negroes by the enforcement
of the Oklahoma "grandfather" clause
Mrs. Katherine Arnold of Buffalo
"who stated that she was trying to
escape from an enemy who had pur
sued her one thousand miles, was kill
ed by being , choked and beaten in a
Minneapolis, Minn., hotel. The mur
derer boldly walked to the hotel of
fice and asked for Mrs. Arnold, and
escaped after he had committed the
tleed.
Not less than one hundred thousand
dollars, probably more, was the
amount of loot obtained by bandits
ttbo held up a Baltimore and Ohio
train at Central Station, W. Va. The
bandits escaped.
The tropical hurricane which very
recently devastated the Louisiana and
Mississippi coasts, was attended by
the greatest sustained wind velocity
ever recorded in the .United States
So states the weather, forecaster for
the New Orleans district in his report
to headquarters in "Washington.
Scores of relief vessels from almost
every point along the Louisiana and
Mississippi gulf coasts are searching
au sections of the storm-stricken dis
trict, where hundreds of persons are
marooned and without food as a re
sult of the hurricane.
Members of the New York, stock ex
change have taken action to curb the
nation-wide speculation in so-called
war stocks the rapidly soaring' values
of which have led a runaway market
lor the past three months. Many ex
changes throughout the country have
responded that they will co-operate in
Sea island cotton touched what was
said to be its highest price in five
years in Savannah, Ga., when fancy
Georgias went to 26 cents a pound.
President Wilson and his fiancee.
Mrs. Norman Gait, went to New York
City for a brief visit to Col. E. M.
House. From the time of their ar
rival until late at night they were
New York City's chief objects of in
terest and every time they appeared
in public they were followed by thou
sands. For the second time Mrs. W. B.
Hawkins, wife of the sheriff of Pike
county, Missouri, saved the life of a
negro prisoner charged with murder
by parleying with a mob that had in
vaded the county jail in the' early
morning hours while the sheriff form
ed a posse of citizens.
A three days' session of the Interna
tional Peace Congress will be held in
San Francisco, beginning October 10.
One hundred and eighty-three deaths
is the reported toll of the recent storm
that swept the gulf coast, and it is es
timated that the total death list when
reports are all in will be well above
three hundred.
European War
The efforts of Austria and Germany
to force their way through Servia and
to reach the near eastern seas and
join hands with their Turkish allies
have produced one of the most in
teresting situations of the war. The
advance guard of the Austro-Germans
which crossed the Danube at Bel
grade, has been partly destroyed and
partly captured.
The Anglo-French force landing at
Saloniki is making its way northward
to assist the Servians and to protect
Macedonia from a threatened Bulgari
an invasion.
It is stated that Greece will main
tain a policy of benevolent neutral
ity toward the allies.
The French announce that an aerial
army is no longer a dream of romance.
Such an army formed in divisions and
squadrons, with battle aeroplanes,
cruiser aeroplanes and torpedo-aero
planes, all heavily armored and car
rying 3-inch cannon and rapid-fire
guns, is now ready to enter the mod
ern Armageddon.
A declaration of Bulgaria's intention
to enter the war with tha Teutonic
allies is contained in a Bulgarian man
ifesto given out in Berlin.
Russia, whose armies for five long
sanguinary months have been retir
ing, has begun an energetic offensive
along a wide front from Riga to the
southeast of Vilna, and considerable
success is reported.
The Anglo-French troops in the
western zone of the mighty Armaged
don have undertaken the task of at
tempting to level the German en
trenchments, presumably in prepara
tion for a continuation of the attacks
which proved successful in Artois and
Champagne.
The British fleet is bombarding Ger
man positions on the coast of Bel
gium. A supplement to the German official
statement issued in Berlin states that
the French losses in the recent fight
ing were at least 130,000 and those
of the British 60,000. The German loss
es, the statement states, were not one-
fifth of that number.
Washington
Woodrow Wilson, the president of
the United States, has announced his
engagement to Mrs. Norman Gait of
Washington. The date of the wed
ding has not been fixed, but it prob
ably will take place in December at
the home of the bride-elect.
. Secretaries Garrison, McAdoo, Red-
field and Wilson, members of the
present cabinet, have declared in fa
vor of woman suffrage, and will vote
for it in their several states before
the expiration of this year.
Secretary Wilson has received the
withdrawal of the resignation of Maj
Gen. George W. Goethals as governor
of the Panama canal zone. General
Goethals' action is taken in view of
recent slides which have closed canal
traffic. The general announces that
he will remain in Panama indefinitejy.
Enormous increases in the cotton
export trade are shown in the month
ly statement of foodstuffs, cotton and
oils exports just made public by the
bureau of foreign and domestic com
merce.
It is announced that Dr. Constantin
T. Dumba, the Austro-Hungarian am
bassador to Washington, who was re
called at the request of President Wil
son, has sailed with his wife for his
home in Vienna on the Holland-Amer
lean liner Nieuw Amsterdam.
War dispatches announce that there
is little prospect of reopening the
Panama canal before November 1, due
to a slide north of Gold Hill Septem
ber 20. Ships are now waiting to
pass through the waterway.
Lieut. Col. Chester Harding, the en
gineer in charge of the Panama canal.
has sent a message to Secretary Gar
rison at Washington, recommending
that President Wilson issue an execu
tive order officially closing the canaJ
until November 1.
President Wilson will vote for worn
an suffrage in New Jersey, his home
state, at the special election to be
held October 19.
The Anglo-French $500,000,000 bond
issue has been oversubscribed. It is
possible that when the underwriters'
books in New York are closed, it will
be feund that fifty million dollars more
than needed has been spoken for.
Germany has failed to satisfy the
request of the United States that 'y
sinking of the Arabic with a lot- -American
lives be disavowed and lia
bility for the act assumed by the im
RECOG T O
FOR
DARRANZA FACTION
UNITED STATES AND ALL LATIN-
AMERICA WILL RECOGNIZE
FIRST CHIEF.
A VERY IMPORTANT STEP
New Government Will Be Accorded
Formal Recognition Within Two
Weeks 'Moral Support.
Washington. Recognition of the
Carranza government as the defacto
government of Mexico was unanimous
ly decided upon by the Pan-American
conference. Secretary Lansing issued
this statement:
"The conference, after careful con
sideration of the facta, has found
tfiat the Carranza party is the only
party in Mexico which possesses the
essentials for recognition as the de
fact government, and they have so
reported to their respective govern
ments." i
Secretary Lansing, on behalf of the
United States expressed its intention
to recognize General Carranza and
the ambassadors of Brazil, Chile, Ar
gentina and the ministers of Bolivia.
Uruguay and Guatemala transmitted
the decision of this government as
well as their own opinions in agree
ment with it. Mr. Lansing has ob
tained the approval of President Wil
son to the plan and before the confer
ence began all the other ministers in
the Latin-American corps also had giv
en their adherence to it.
This action was regarded generally
as the most important diplomatic
step in the Mexican situation since
the United States decided to withhold
recognition from the Huerta govern
ment, more than two years ago. It
means that the Carranza government
will receive the moral support of the
United States which will include an
embargo on arms against opposing
factions as soon as recognition is ac
tually extended which probably will
be within a fortnight.
The fact that the United States al
ready has decided to recognize the
Carranza government, It is thought,
will have an important moral effect
in Mexico. Officials believe many
elements will now align themselves
with Carranza and that the latter
himself will adopt a liberal attitude
toward his opponents.
GREATEST CANAL SLIDE.
Ten Million Yard of Earth Must be
Dreged Out to Secure Passage.
Panama. A survey- of the slide area
in the Gaillard Cut shows that prob
ably 10,000,000 cubic yards of earth
must be dredged out before a perman
ent channel through the cut is pos
sible. This is the conclusion reached
by the canal engineers who concede
there is now little hope of opening the
waterway much before the first of the
year. The present rate of excavation
is 1,000,000 yards a month and at this
rate it would require 10 months to
remove the mass sliding Into the
canal.
The area of motion is roughly cal
culated to be in the neighborhood of
175 acres, which constitute the great
est slide area in the canal's history,
It extends 2,600 feet along both banks,
with probably an average of 1,500 feet
back of the center line of the canal
prism.
Lieut. Harris Killed.
Richmond, Va. Lieutenant Frank
M. Harris of the battleship Delaware,
whose home is in Memphis, Tenn., was
killed and Lieut. P. P. Powell and
Heney Parsons of the Delaware were
seriously but not fatally injured when
an automobile in which they were rid
ing turned over. Dr. Leslie B. Wiggs
of Richmond, who was riding with
them was slightly hurt. The party
was returning from tne Country Club
of Virginia.
German War Loan.
Berlin, by wireless to Tuckerton
Payments by subscriptions to the third
German war loan up to October 7
amounted to 6,420,300,000 marks ($1,-
6. -,-25,000).
President Spends Day in Baltimore
Washington -President Wilson and
Mrs. Norman Gait, his fiancee, motor
ed to Baltimore to visit the president's
brother, Joseph R. Wdlson, who had
not met the next mistress of the White
House before. While there they at
tended church and were guests of
honor "at a family luncheon party
Several hundred people in Baltimore
learned of the presence of the couple
and crowded about the church and
the apartment house In which Joseph
R. Wilson lives to catch a glimpse of
the president and his bride-to-be.
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iGerman Guns . Exhibited.
- Paris. German cannon, mortars,
bomb ' throwers and aeroplanes cap
tured in the recent battle of Cham
naene were placed on exhibition at the
Hotel des Invalides. All day long
vast crowds made their way to the
Esplanade. The scene was set im
pressively in the grand court of honor
at the entrance to the tomo or xsa
poleon. The German guns included 41
field pieces, 20 lase bore mortars,
two six-inch cannon, five large bomb
thiiowers, 20 small cannon and 30-
trench guns.
LAUDS COMMISSION
FOR ITS GOOD WORK
GOVERNOR CRAIG SAYS ITS
WORK IN EQUALIZING TAXES
IS DONE RIGHT,
DISPATCHES .FROM RALEIGH
Doings and Happenings That Mark
the Progress of North Carolina Peo
ple Gathered Around the State
Capitol.
RaleiA
Declaring that he knows there are
those who will attempt to cultivate
and encourage discontent, but believ
ing that these are few, Governor
Craig issued a statement fully sus
taining the Corporation Commission
in its policy of equalizing tax valua
tions in the different counties that
has resulted in increases of five to
30 per cent in 81 counties. The gov
ernor insists that the great masses
of the people will realize the juttice
of this action and endorse it. 1
"The most popular government,"
says the governor, "is the best gov
ernment the just government and
when the people of North Carolina
come to consider carefully this tax
proposition, I believe they will en
dorse the action of the Corporation
Commission. They will not knowing
ly kick against justice and right."
The governor says the Corporation
Commission has made an earnest and
courageous effort to equalize appraise
ments and has aoted after thorough
investigation and that he has person
ally examined a number of the com
plaints that have come in and is thor
oughly satisfied that there are no real
grounds for them. He is satisfied that
equity and justtae required all the
raises that have been made.
Treating the alleged inopportune
tkfte for the raises in assessments the
governor Bays this is the year desig
nated for the quadrennial assessment
of real property and that if the times
be hard and the burden of taxation
heavy, no man and no county should
desire to shirk. He says the people
of North Carolina love justice and
have an earnest desire to do right
and that when they consider this
subject in its true aspect they will
not consider that thj raise in ap
praisement was made in a inoppor
tune time.
What Fires Cost Tills State.
Deputy Commissioner of Insurance
Sherwood Brockwell did some live
compaignlng for 'ire Prevention Day.
He calls attention to the fact that the
annual fire losses In this state have
averaged 126 persons burned to death
and $3,252,000 in property destroyed
He points out that one would lose sev
eral million dollars a year were he
to assume . the payment of the fire
losses in American in return for the
ownership and enjoyment of the prof
its of all the gold, silver and cofper
mines in the country along with the
oil wells In addition.
Mr. BrockweU states that there are
more paid firemen in the United
States than there are men in the
stanuing army, irurcnermore, ine vol
unteer and the paid firemen, if sud
denly called to arms, would hake the
largest standing army in the world
today. Again, for every $1 tfeat is
spent for new buildings in this coun
try there are 42 cents burned up.
Can Have Ballot of They Want It.
Governor Craig told the women of
the North Carolina Woman's Christian
Temperance Union in welcoming
them to their thirty-third annual con
vention that he has never been strong
on woman suffrage and believes wo
men have accomplished wonderfu
things without the ballot through the
exercise of the higher and nobler place
and power than the ballot that is-the
case. He declared that woman has
ever been the reserve force that has
saved the state and the nation in
numbers of crisis, and all without the
ballot. "But if you want the ballot
and insist upon it," said the governor,
"why, have it, but bear in mind that
the greater influence of ' no man or
women is in the ballot"
Work on the Test Farms.
One of the biggest features of ex
perimental work being carried on by
the state department of agriculture
Just now is in feeding stock to obtain
best balanced combinations of foods
for fat and, in the case of dairying,
for best production of milk and butter,
On the Edgecombe farm hogs and
sheep are being raised on demonstra
tion basis designed to encourage farm
ers In growing them. Progress is
made in searching for proper combina
tions of peanuts, soy beans and corn
for fattening hogs.
Red Cross Seal Campaign.
The state department of health is
launching a campaign for a record
breaking sale of Red Cross stamps
the coming Christmas season, the de
termination being to bring North Car
olina up to first place in her class of
states where she is now fifth in ranks.
Last Christmas the North Carolina
sales were less than one stamp to
every three persons in the state. The
effort this season will be to average
at least one stamp for each person.
m f 1 s" i A t x n . i ' m
r nis wouia mane me sxaie nrsi in
important New Industrial Firms.
Tha Climax Spinning Company, of
Belmont, Gaston county, was charter
ed with $300,000 caoital authorized
and $100.00 subscribed, for manufac
ture of yarns and of weaving of cloth
from cotton, wool, flax, jute and other
fabrics. The subscribers to the stock
and amount by each stockholder are:
A. C. -Lineberger, Belmont, 250 shares ;
S. P. Stowe. Belmont, .50 shares; R.
L. Stowe, Belmont, 150 shares; W.
B. Ruitt, Belmont, 100 shares; and
D. E. Rhyne, Lincolnton, 250 shares.
The secretary of state chartered the
Rutherford Interurban Railway Com
pany of Rutherfordton, to take ver
the assets of the North Carolina In
terurban Railroad Company recently
bought at sheriff's sale, according to
resolutions ado&ted by the stock
holders of the Rutherford Interusban
Company. The capital stock of the
new corporation is $500,000 and fchat
subscribed by the incorporators is
$12,500. The new corporation . takes
over the rights and privileges incor
porated in the legislative . charter of
the North Carolina Interurban, which
are specified in Chapter 70, laws of
1911 to be the construction of a line
of standard guage railway from the
Atlantic seaboard westward to Ashe
ville, and hence to the west or north
west to the state line. The route is
specified via Charlotte or some point
near Charlotte, to Gastonia, Dallas,
Cherryville, Waco, Cleveland Springs,
Shelby, Boiling Springs, Cliffside, Hen
rietta. Caroleen, Forest City, Ruth
erfordton, Chimney Rock, over the
Hickory Nut Gap route to Fairview
and Asheville.
The new corporation has as incor
porators: W. A. Harrill, J. C. Mills,
J. J. Harrill, G. L. McKay, F. D.
Munick, C. S. Harrill, York Coleman,
C. L. Miller, M. O. Dickerson, M. H!
iiiggs, K. S. Tanner, S. B. Tanner,
W. W. Hicks, P. H. Allen, S. B. Tan
ner. W. W. Hicks, P. H. Allen, C. D.
Geer and M. L. Justice. The direc
tors of the new company are: J. C.
Mills, W. A. Harrill, .W. W. Hicks, G.
S. Harrill, C. L. Miller, I. L. Justice,
C. D. Geer, M. H. Biggs, K. S. Tan
ner, S. B. Tanner and P. H. Allen.
Other new corporations chartered
follow:
The Childes-Wolfe Drug Company,
Llnoofciton, capital $25,000 authorized
and $2,000 subscribed
The Tar River Drug Company of
Louisburg, capital $25,000 authorized
and $3,000 subscribed
The Farmers' Creamery of Forest
City (Inc.) capital $50,000 authorized
and $5,000 subscribed by B. H
Bridgers, J. F. Winters and others
for a general creamery business.
Inspector Visits Soldiers Home.
Mrs. Nellie Price, special represen
tative of the State Board of Internal
Improvements to visit state institu
tions such as asylums and homes and
suggest improvements in manage
ment of the kitchen and general
housekeeping methods, completed a
30-day stay at the Soldier's Home
that has resulted very satisfactorily
for the management of the institution.
Col. W. P. Wood, active director, and
Captain Lineberry, superintendent
believe that the experience has been
beneficial and has made possible a
number of valuable experiments in
the dietary and other features of man
aseuent so important where so many
aged people are cared for. There are
167 veterans on the roll
State Guard to Attend State Fair.
Adjutant General Young of the
North Carolina National Guard now
has 12 companies, an even regiment
of the state militia pledged to attend
the state fair and take part in the
competitive drills and other military
features of Wednesday of fair week
He says there are indications thai
there will be others. Those already
pledged are infantry companies of
Asheville, Concord, High Point
Selma, Goldsbore, Raleign, Hender
sonville, Louisburg, Thomasville and
Durham and Coast Artillery compan
ies of Raleigh and Greensboro.
Vital Statistics Reports Improve.
Dr. J. R. Gordon, head of the divis
ion of vital statistics, state depart
ment of health, says that marked im
provement in returns of deaths and
births is evident in all sections of the
state except a few of the extreme and
most remote of the western and east1
ern counties where there are sparsely
settled sections. The difficulty in
these, he says, Is principally as to
deaths, so many burials being made
without any official formalities or re
ports and In home-made coffins.
Provide Medical School Inspection.
Northampton and Edgecombe coun
ties are just added to the list of those
providing medical school inspection
for all the white schools during the
coming winter a work in which Ala
mance county leads with work begin
ning In November and others to fol
low later in the winter. The plan is
for the counties to provide $10
school for a medical inspection In
connection with Health Day programs
to be carried out with the entire com
munlties participating as the Inspec
tion visitations are made.
Help Counties With Roads.
Chief Road Engineer W. S. Fallis
of the state highway commission says
there are now 25 counties of the state
that are having state supervision of
road construction for all or a good
part of their road building effort and
that others are falling in line rapidly.
Among the latest acquisitions to the
ranks in this movement are Lee, Har
nett and Stokes counties.' Mr. Fallis
is giving assistance in the construc
tion of a fine bridge in Edgecombe
county over the Tar fliver. Also in
Ashe county .across the New Hirer.
MRS. LITTLE AGAIN
PRESIDENT U. D. G.
NINETEENTH ANNUAL SESSION
SESSION OF STATE DIVISION
HELD AT CHARLOTTE.
GASTONIA GETS 1916 MEET
More Than 200 Delegates Present and
Much Work Was Done. Reports '
Were All Pleasing.
Charlotte. Two hundced and ten
delegates attended the nineteenth an
nual convention of the North Carolina
Division, United Daughters of the Con
federacy, whose sessions throughout
were held in the Masonic temple, by
courtesy of the Masonic bodies. The
convention was called to order by Mrs.
C. E. Piatt president of Stonewall
Jackson Cnapter, of Charlotte, the
hostess chapter.
Besides the welcoming address of
the hostess chapter, a chapter wel
come was delivered by Mrs. B. D.
Heath on behalf of Stonewall -Jackson
Chapter, by T. W. Alexander of
the Charlotte bar on behalf of the
Masons, by Mrs. I. W. Faison of Char
lotte, president general of the United
Daughters of Confederacy, with greet
ing also from the Daughters of the
American Revolution by Miss Lida
Rodman, state regent; from Woman's
Club of state, by Mrs. Gordon Finger
of Charlotte, also greetings from bus
ines and profesional men of Char
lotte by E. R. Preston ot the Char
lotte bar.
Officers for the ensuing year were
elected as follows: President, Mrs.
Eugene Little, of Wadesboro, re-elected;
first vice-president, Mrs. C. E.
Piatt Charlotte; second vice-president
Mrs. T. L. Craig, Gastonia; third vice-
president Mrs. J. Q. Kilkie, Marion;
recording secretary, Mrs. W. M.
Creasy, Wilmington; corresponding
secretary, Mrs, L. J. Ingram, re-elect
ed; treasurer, Miss Margaret Ether-
idges, re-elected; recorder of crosses,
Mrs. R. L. Tyrell, Durham; registrar.
Mrs. Felix Harvey, re-elected; histor
ian. Miss Georgia Hicks, re-elected;
assistant historian, Miss Winifred;
chaplain, Mrs. V. J. Griffin, Goldsboro;
leader of Children of the Confederacy,
Mrs. R. P. Holt, of Rocky Mount
The convention heard reports from
Mrs. Hunter Smith, of the Confederate
Women's Home at Fayetteville ; CoL
A. H. Boyden, of Salisbury, chairman
of legislative committee of Old Sol
diers Home; from Miss Knox, Ala
bama, field secretary of tne Ellen Wil
son memorial fund; from Mrs. Rich,
of Winston-Salem, representing Mrs.
R. J. Reynolds, chairman of Ellen
Wilson committee in North Carolina,
who could not be present Also re
ports were heard from distriet meet
ings individual chapters and many
committees.
Two portraits were presented to the
convention. Major Orren Randolph
Smith, designer of Stars and Bars
and late Judge Risden Tyler Bennet
of Wadesboro.
The adjournment of the nineteenth
annual convention came after Gastonia
had been selected as the meeting
place for the 1916 convention, the in
vitation borne by Mrs. J. F. Thomp-
son from Gastonia Chapter, being ac
cepted by a unanimous vote of the
members present.
. The Invitation brought by Mrs,
Thompson to hold the next conven
tion in Gastonia, was heard with keen
appreciation by the delegates. Mrs,
Thompson voiced her city's claim to
the honor in a vein which was both
happy and convincing, and which
radiated the hospitality of Gastonia
Chapter. From the Gastonia Cham
ber of Commerce, Mrs. Thompson
brought a promise of the delivery of
the city's keys into the hands of the
1916 delegates, should the convention
accept the invitation.
After it had been moved and sec
onded that the next convention should
be in Gastonia, the convention accept
ed Mrs. Thompson's offer unanimous
ly and with an expression of appre
ciation.
Women Notaries Wait on Suffrage.
Raleigh. There will be no rehear
ing by the Supreme court in the woman
notary test case of State vs.. Mrs. No
lan Knight from Asheville, involving
the constitutionality of the legislative
act authorizing the governor to ap-,
point women notaries public. The
deatu blow for the agitation by suff
rage advocates and others in support
of the act came when Associate Jus
tice W. A. Hoke delivered a brief,
pointed statement denying the peti
tion to rehear and setting out the po
sition of the majority of, the court.
Observed Two Days.
Kinston. Although Kinston has the
smallest fire loss per capita in the
country probably, the total loss above
insurance in the last fiscal year hav
ing been less than $50 and the whole
including that of property insured not
much more than that, the local au th
irties will not stop at observing the
State Fire Prevention day as ordered
in the governor's proclamation. Fire
Chief Tom Moseley issued a , small-
sized proclamation of his own, calling
for two fire prevention days.
MlTMnONAL
swrscnooL
Lesson
By EJ. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of
tne Sunday School Course, the Moody
Biblejlnsti
LESSON FOR OCTOBER 17.
ELISHA HEALS NAAMAN THE
SYRIAN.
LESSON TEXT-II Kings 6:1-10, 14.
GOLDEN TEXT I am Jehovah that
lealeth thee. Ex. 15:25.
Read carefully the intervening
Scripture following last Sunday's les
son to get the account of Elisha's ac
tivities. There is recorded the story
of the poisoned fountain (2:19-22).
The 'hoodlum" gang (vv. 23, 24)
which is a story for boys. Note:
Elisha had nothing to do with the
bears, nor does the record say that
the bears killed the boys. Next the
story of the Widow's oil (4:1-7). Fi
nally, the suggestive stories of the
Shunammite woman (vv. 8-37), and
the feeding of the prophets and the
people (vv. 38-44).
Now we come to Elisha's most fa
mous experience, that with Naaman of j
Damascus. This city is reputed to be
the oldest in the world and is situated
about 100 miles (air line) northeast of
Samaria.' This event probably oc
curred between 904 and 894 B. C. -
I. A Ministry In the Home. vv. 1-7.
Naaman had all that heart could wish, '
seemingly. Exalted, rich, a great
man, honorable and successful in his
undertakings, "but he was a leper."
As such he isa type of the sinner.
Leprosy begins practically in secret
is transmissible, may be ameliorated,
but cannot be cured by man. In his
home was one who knew the Lord,
one who observed, who loved as well
as served. This maid was a true serv
ant, for she showed her master how
to be rid of his malady. For all of his
wealth Naaman was not happy. He
knew and others would soon know his
condition. His wife could not help
him, and did not take the maid's mes
sage to him. Perhaps she did not
rightly value it But there was co
operation in that household evidently.
for "one went in and told his lord"
(v. 4). There was also co-operatlom
between the home and the govern
ment, for the king of Syria sent a let
ter to the king of Israel (v. 5). The
strength of any nation is in propor
tion, to the strength, unity and loy
alty of Its homes. It is also in pro
portion to the care and interest which
that government takes in its homes.
II. A Ministering Prophet (w. 8-14).
The king of Syria thought he could
buy everything, including the desired
cure (w. 5, 6). His letter brought
great consternation to Israel's king,
probably Jehoram. The value of the
gifts presented, perhaps over $100,000,
revealed the urgency of the case. But
there was one In Israel who was not
disturbed, for he knew more fully the
power of Jehovah. Elisha is a type
of Christ who offers not only to all
lepers but to every unfortunate one
"rest" (Matt 11:28-30). Elisha re-
sponded to the need of the nation
(v. 8), as well as to the need of
Naaman the leper, when he volun
teered to become the champion of Je
hovah (v. 7).
The prince came,' however, filled
with a sense of his importance and
his pride stood in the way of his re
lief, hence the manner of Elisha's
treatment Waiting thus before the
prophet's door Naaman is a type of
the great of this earth who shall yet
bow before God's people (Isa. 60:1-3)
and before his Son (Phil. 2:19). By
human arguments Naaman was right
(v. 12) and his rage was justified, but
he must learn that as a suppliant
he cannot dictate means nor methods.
The rich and cultured sinner cannot
select his own way of healing, nor be
treated any differently than the poor
and the ignorant. The river Jordan
is a type of the judgment on sin. Sin
must be Judged by confession (Rom.
15:9, 18). Sin must be renounced
before we can be cleansed (I Cor. 11:
31; I John 1:9). It was a slow, a
patient, a public process through
which Naaman must pass, but such
had been the development of leprosy
in his life. God had Judged sin on
Calvary (Rom. 8:3; II Cor. 5:21; Gal. .
3:13) and as Naaman went down in
the Jordan he took, in figure, the sin
ner's place, even as Jesus .later took
that place for us, (Matt 3:13-15).
Though Inclined to act the fool, yet r
Naaman wisely harkened to his serv
ant (v. 13) and obeyed the command
of the prophet.,
His cure came because he obeyed
Jehovah: 1 (a) He heard of one who
could cure (v. 3); (b) he believed
(v. 4); (c) he forsook his own
thoughts (v. 11); (d) he accepted
God's thoughts and methods' (w. 13,
14) ; (e) he took the sinner's place .
(vr. 10, 14) ; (f) he became clean after
his obedience (w, 14, 15).
There is evidence of a great moral
effect in the life of Naaman following .
this experience (vr. 15-19).
He became an open rejector of the
heathen gods and a professed follow
er of Jehovah when he returned to
Damascus.
As such he became the ministering
prince. -
III. The Ministering Prince. (1) By
public profession (see Rom. 10:9, 10;
Matt 10:32) (2) By a peculiar request;
which became a great object lesson in
Damascus; (3) By a new purpose of
heart which would change his fu
ture course if action.
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perial government.