VOLUME XXXIU
LETTER OF ADVICE TO GIRLS.
Walk Lite's Road Alone Rather Than
Mary a Drunkard.
Girts, did you ever stop and
think what you are encouraging by
ullowing young men to wait on
you when they are intoxicated?
Or even when their breath is
smelling of strong drink'/ If you
have nevtr thought of it, just
stop and think for a few moments,
and you will realize wlmt you are
doing. No doubt you will say in
your own mind, "I will never mar
ry a drunkard or a man who
drinks," But this is the point. You
wilt marry out* of thosu young
men with whom you associate,
and if you will not allow any
young man to wait on you who
drinks strong drinks, you will
not be very likely to marry n
drunkard.
J know some will say, "Well,
i«ther ol«e girls let young men
' wh A drink, wait on them, and per
hiijm if I d«- not, I wiil havo to go
innne in company sometimes."
I say it is biJtter to go alone in
company all tho time. Yes, and
# £ven to walks life's road all alone
exp&" I »'» rr y H drunkard. I
u ft oul observation pot from
been man? 8 for lam bleßße,i witt *
not turned 1 wouldhßve
treaties. -~\}tard had I
When n "
d(d\, ()|H
onceX -aid: Qk ar> ' 1
and w\pst "iin
and girl>i would not ha\ j "be nioost
if they did not allow drinVcn ilrink
to wait on big time
Well, B9k|." K me "
married
most to her idea and
rJ^f married ouo of the
JEHPFutnnl drunknnls I over
today is leading a mis-
lift).
Ho, girl*, you need not be afraid
to tell your geutlomeil friends
that they cannot wait on you un
til they give up drink. If they
Jove drink lietter than you, just
tie glad you did not get them and
took in your own neighborhood at
the drunkard's wife how miserable
she is. Just look at the still
houses in our dear old Stokes. I
have baon told that there are
ovor Ik). Now, girls, urge your
friends to keep away from such
places and give up strong drink
and I assure you that you will
never regrat it. I am as much
opposed to Womaiis' Clilbs as
Grovor Cleveland, but I would
gladly aid a young girls Club.
Anyway. I could if they would
pledge themselvs not to allow any
one to wait on them who touch
liquor.
Touchers, who are (it Danbury
this week, when y,u enter your
jespectire school rooms this fall
tell the littlu b>ys ami girls the
evil nf strong drink, and urge
them not to touce it nt all. Teach
ers have more influence than they
think.
I can remember things now so
well that my teachers told me
when I was very small. But dear
teachers, practice what you preach,
1)4 sure not to touch drink your
selves. Shame for the young lady
who would touch liijuor.
MINCE.
The family of Mr. T. R. Pratt,
who have been occupying a cot
tage at Piedmont Springs for
some time, returned to their home
at Madison Saturday.
OELK.
Dolk, Aug. 2ti.—l'loiuo nllow
me spaco in your paper fur H few
words to Mr. F. G. Southern.
You seem to ho in the dark as
to which sex I belong. It would
be better to leave off both Mr. and
Mrs. and put "Miss'' in the place.
Yes, Mr. Southern, I asked you
what harm was done by attending
Sunday School and you did not
answer me, did you V No yon did
not, and I urn compelled to say
you could not nor cannot explain
the facts.
I have been taught from a child
to go to church quietly and to
leave the same way. I havo been
attending Sunday School a good
portion of my life and have never
known evil tilings to be taught
in Sunday School yet. Wo go to
church and Sunday School lo
worship God and not the evil
things of this world. Now, as to
the good we can do, is a question
to be solved and can be solved.
More good is done in Sunday
School Uwi) there is in what I
call social gatherings in sunwuef.
People go there for a good time
and to sport their sweethearts and
not for any gooil whatever, and
when I go to what is called foot-
WWhjifg, I seldom hear anything
but running down other denom :
inations of which I am bitterly
opposed, There are just as good
people in one church as another.
Yes, I can prove by the Bible
til At W« are doing gooifTjy" tench
ing the blessed book frr itngday
School, Doesn't Ciod say fo go
out in ',11" I'.iy.' >vqys nnd bodies
and teach all nations ? Ctnjyou
dispute that? You say youTJnp
tists are forbidden to tench Sunday
School for Israel is charged not to
teach his neighbor nor his broth
er. Doesn't (rod say do unto others
as you would have them do unto
you V Do you return evil for evil,
do you return good for evil? From
your letter it seems thtft yon ant
returning evil for evil. Mr. South
ern, this is not what we teach our
children in Sunday School, and
yet, you contend that all who mis
behave at otjurcl} are Sunday
School children.
Now, if you wanted to expose to
the world those who did so wrong
fully at church, could you not
have done it without saying they
wore Sunday School children.
All I ask of you is this, go
whero Sunday School is being
taught and if you aeo harm of any
kind taught there then I will givo
you the opportunity of discussing
the Sunday School question with
Sunday School workers.
S. S. TEACHER.
Mr. George R. Simmons lias
resigned his position with the
Brown's Warehouse Co. to accept
n position with Clms. M. Phelps &
Co., Winston, N. C., in the cloth
ing business. Mr. Simmons has
l)een connected with Brown's
warehouse for some time. He
cordially invites all his friends to
see him before buying tlfeir fall
suits.
LIKE FINDING MONEY.
Finding health is like finding
money —so think those who are
sick. When you have a cough,
cold, sore throat, or chest irrita
tion, better act promptly like W.
C. Barber, of Saruly Level, Va.
He says: "I had a terrible chest
trouble, caused by smoke and ooal
dust on my lungs; but, after find
ing no relief in other remedies, I
was cured by Dr. King's New Dis
covery for Consumption, Coughs
and Colds." Greatest sale of any
cough or lung medicine in the
world. At all druggists; 50 and
$1.00; guartnteed. Trial bottle
free.
STOKES AND CAHOLISA.
DAN BURY, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1905
TIMOTHY COMES BACK
REPLIES VIGOROUSLY To "TONY" AND "D)G-KILLER."
Mr. Editor :
We now wish to say a few words
of comment on what wo have al
ready written, and then we wish to
pay special attention to a few let
ters that have recently been pub
lished in this paper.
1. We have given the narrative
of the creation as it is lain down
in the liible, which proves in
■ix days God created the heavens
and the earth and all things there
in thus we are led to believe that
with the close of the sixth day,
the work of God so far as the crea
tion is concerned was finished.
2. We have also proven that the
Inst day of God's work was devoted
to tho creation of man whom (iod
created in his own image after his
own likeness. We also wish to
call special attention to the fact
that man was not created in great
numbers or varieties but that God
created just one man whom he
called Adam, the son of God.
Inasmuch as man was created
the son of trod it follows that he
is not a development from a low
er form and it also follows that he
coj}ld never develop into a higher
or moro perfect form while be
livod on the earth. Therefore it
is portinent to inquire *bere
modern world obtains this absurd'
idea that man is a "species" whi/fii
is divisible into raceg of from
the scripturel 1 We havo vainly
sought from Genesis to Revela
tions for thclslightest hint of the
existence of such a thing • a
human species or a race of rcief>
But in these lattor days the AthoiA
takes tho negro [whioh according
to the narrative of divine ortja
tion] God made an ape and
thrusts him violently into the
family of man as a lower race of
the human species and enlighten •
ed Christianity receives him with
open arms and such men as Dog-
Killer, Tony anil others respond
with a hearty amen and our com
munity lands them to the skies.
This theory may be good modern
philosophy but it is not scripture
as will be proven ere this argu
ment closes.
Now a word to Tony. It seems
that you aro very anxious to have
the people of our country to be,
lieve that we are not sincere in our
argument. We have nothiug more
to say than we have already said
for a glance at our past letters will
show that we entered into this
discussion with the understanding
that if our work would not stand the
righteous attacji of criticism and
that if it was not founded on the
Bible in toto then we are willing
to lay down our pen and close the
mouth of our argument and allow
our work to be trailed in the dust
of oblivion and with this under
standing what could be more fair
than an argument and we hope
that the readers of the Reporter
will read the arguments of both
sides and study it in a careful and
prayerful manner and aot accord
ing to the conclusion arrived at in
their own minds.
Now as to our copying Prof.
Carroll's work as stated by Dog-
Killer and Tony, wo are very frank
to admit that we have a record of
that nature in our possession aud
obtain many oxtracts and copyings
from it and pride ourselves uj>on
the good fortune of having such
ati array of biblical, scientific and
commonsense argument as a re
ference in this discussion as it is
nothing more nor less than the
Bible as it is intotoand it is up to
such as dispute it to send in their
argument »ut so far nothing but
misstatements, ridicule and denun
ciations ha.i put in appearance.
Now, Tony, we wish to say that
the world of intelligence lias long
since decided that neither ridicule
nor denunciation is argument
therefore if you have anything to
say along the standard go to work
on it and do not devote so much
apace to bosh. You failed in your
letter to meet a single point of
argument but probably you think
that there were no points to tneot
but chip in and tell us from
whence came the negro, that if he
is a piirt of tlje human family,
was Uo so created and if he was
not oreatcd when and where he
came in. Also we would request
you to lie very careful as to what
you say in regard to our work as
we see a misstatement in your let
ter of lftst week in regard to our
remarks about iJog-lviller's love
for the negro and as a proof of our
position wo refer the readers to
our past writings.
And now we will endeavor to
answer your fairly and
gtjuarely and hope yon will treat
ua with the same courtesy in
the future. You wish to
know our .no ti v e in
having this work published in the
Reporter Wo believo that every
method that human ingenuity can
catoin'fiinl should be brought to
s>ear to jjet before thy
public such flti array of biblical,
aciontific ami oommon sense argu-
I HlQOt
And na to your seoond question
u wo riglktly judge the meaning of
it, we have already given a satis
factory answer.
Also the third stands answered
in our letter of June 15th; wo
made this remark in answer to a
question which was the same as
this in substance. If the argu
ment prevails and it is proven by
scripture that the negro issoulless
and is not a part of the human
. family does it not place the negro
exactly where God in the begin
ning intended that he should bo
and should he be ashamed of the
position assigned him by the crea
tor? Or should man be afraid to
compel him to oocupy the posi
tion assigned him by God?
And in answer to the 4th, wo
simply say yes and leave it to the
intelligence of the readers to de
cide in the future why wo think
And now as to the seriousness
of our belief in this argument we
wish to state that we use nothing
but the dictates of our unprejudiced
mind and while a college career
has never been ours [as has
been yours] wo still contend or at
least hope that we have suftioient
intelligence after studying a work
with au unprejudiced mind to form
and express our opinion as to the
truthfulness or the absurdity of
the theory.
You speak of our ancestors and
seem to contend that our present
condition is due to natural develop
ment; now we believe that this
idea is contrary to the teaching
of scripture for we believo that
man is today just what ho was in
the Garden of Eden and that he is
not a development from a lower
form; we are arguing Bible andnot
atheism. But you may have good
grounds for believing that your
ancestors are a development from
something lower than man as cre
ated by the creator but we pride
ourselves from the fact that we
are the desceudents of the pure
Anglo-Saxons. If you wisli to
insist that you developed from an
ape or some other animal of the
lower creation wo have no objec
tions but when you attempt to
thrust us in too, then we have a
word to say.
Now a word to Dog-Killer and
we are through. You seem to
come with the same hobby of the
rest, that wo are copying a work of
a Mr. Carroll. We have heard if a
drowning man grabbing at a straw,
but you fellows it seems have even
missed the straw. Please tell me
the material difference in using
extracts from a work on this sub
ject and in copying from Agricul
tural Bulletins and Temperance
Lectures, etc, as has been your
custom for somo time. You were
very successful in your discussions
on the liquor question and 1 say
Amen! to many things you said in
that discussion and while we all
know that you are an able writer,
your success in a Bible controversy
depends largely upon whether or
not you are on the right side but
from the fact that you wore suc
cessful in that task is no guaran
tee tlirt you will win in this. We
believe that you lmvo taken the
wrong side of this subject, there
fore, we are with you in this and
we ask you to go into it fairly and
squarely and meot the argument
as it is produced. Your first let
ter if we aro any judge wm an
effort to induce the people to stop
reading this work. If you fellows
aro able to down it why try to
raise a streak of prejudice, just let
the argument go on and the
readers to decide as you did in
your discussion on the liquor
question.
Now 1 wish to give you a few
points which 1 hope you will meet
in your next letter.
1. Please toll the readers of tlio
Roportor the true origin of the
negro as taught by the bible.
2. Tell us whether or not Cain's
wife was of the pure Adam's flesh
and if not of what ilesh was she?
3. Also please describe tlio
beast referred to in our letter of
July 27th as the Perplexed writer
seems to bo very silent on the sub
ject, so please perform the task
assigned to him.
TI.M >T 11V.
Dots From Pink Grove.
On Saturday, September llth,
there will bo played a big game of
ball on the Pink Grovo ground.
Also a box party will bo given on
the lawn at Pink Grovo, together
with music by a good string band.
After the young people have en
joyed the evening they will all
march out to the school house
where they will bo entertained for
an hour or so by a grand show
and music. This will bo given in
interest of the Flat Shout school.
So come, girls, ono and all, and
bring your lunch and send for
your sweetheart.
POLLY.
Mr. John M. Taylor, of Wins
ton-Salem, spent Friday night at
Piedmont Springs, returning home
Saturday.
1 —" ——————
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Engaged people should remem
ber, that, after marriage, many
quarrels can be avoided, bv keep
ing their digestions in good con
dition with Electric Bitters. S. A.
Brown, of Beunettsville, S. 0.,
says: "For years, my wife suffer
ed intensely from dyspepsia, com
plicated with a torpid liver, until
she lost hor strength and vigor,
and became a mere wreck of lier
former self. Then she tried Elec
tric Bitters, which helped her at
once, and finally made her entire
ly well. She is now strong and
healthy." All druggists soils and
guarantees them, at 500 a bottle.
NUMBER .'ll
FORTY-SIX NEW LAWYERS
This Number to Receive Their License
To Practice in this State Four
Fail.
The following named gentlemen,
forty-six in number, were last
week granted license to practice
law in North Carolina:
Charles 11. Martin, Johnson
county; William P. Webb, Frank
lin: Frederick D. Swindell, Car
teret; Charles E. Stipper, liober
son ; Walter A. Chishohn, Moore;
\\ HI. M. Bellamy, New Huuover;
Edgar B. Cloud, Polk; Robt. H.
Dixon, Chatham; Thaddeus S.
Feroo, Randolph; Juo. W. Whisti
ant, Caldwell; John 0. Bower,
Ashe; Nathan 'I. Ryals, Johnston;
Walter H. Brock, Union; Jny V.
LOUR, Union; Henry B. Adams,
Jr., Union; Edw.S. Askew, Bertie;
Robt. 15. Boone, Jr., Durham;
William l. Bramham, Durham;
Sumter C. Brawley, Iredell; Burke
H. Bridgers, New Hanover; Fred
erick W. Byniim. Chatham; John
Cheshire, Edgecombe; Ben F.
Dixon, Jr., Wake; Jos. F. Ford,
Buncombe; Daniel G. Fowle,
Wake; Vonno L. Gudger, Bun
combe; Laurence H. Hampton,
Jackson; Alfred W. Haywood, Jr.,
Alamance; Dr. Ezekiel Henderson,
Onslow; Geo. L. Jones, Macon;
Graham Kenan, Duplin; James S.
Lawton, Duplin; John W. Rag
lund, News Ferry, Ya.; Forest M.
Heed, Mecklenburg; Ernest L.
Sawyer, Pasquotank: John E.
Swanti, Buncombe; Patrick H.
Wilson, Wake; Stephen C.
Pitt; John \V.
New Hanover; John M. Coates,
Harnett; Goo. Wright, Buncombe;
Edw. H. Farris, Guilford; James
W. Scroggs, Forsyth; Robt. B.
Pharr, Mecklenburg; Isaac F.
Long, Buncombe.
Of the four who failed to pass,
I one is a negro.
MIZPAH ROUTE 1.
Mi/.prill, Route 1, Aug. 2L—I
ask permission in your columns to
chat with S. S. Girl and give n
few items.
Well. Sunday School (i irl, you are
up on the bible very well, or you
have a lot of good hvlp. but if I had
a papa and mama and two sisters
to help me. I could do better.
Well, now, about your answers.
Part was correct I think, and as
some one has answered the other,
we will let it go now. I think
that you will find that the 43rd
chapter of E/.ekiel and the 11th
verse has the little word ami used
in it the most. It is used eleven
times in it. Now. if this is not
correct, will some one correct it.
Now, will you tell me if we can
find in the Bible where "steel ever
swam on water," if so where ?
We would be glad to see more
part taken in these questions, as I
think it is a help and causes more
people to read and see if the
answers are correct.
Saving primings is all the go
with the farmers now.
Crops are looking well.
Mr. C. R. Allen lost his horse
last week. It seems that he has
bad luck. Two years ago ho got
his leg broke and last year his cow
got her neck broke, and now loses
his horse.
Mr. (i. M. Allen gut disappoint
ed very bad last Sunday, as his
girl did not come down from East
Bend.
ROVING JOE.
Messrs. R. W. Hill and John
Alley were among those who at
tended the meeting of the county
commissioners Monday.