MEBA
KADER.
“And Right The Day Must Win, To Doubt Wovild Be Disloyalty, To Falter Would Be Sin.”
Volumn 7
MEBANE, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1915
Number 15
Ui. and x\Iis. W. H Lason of, yYashington News Letter I Intervention Now Spoken I Crime and Punishment.
'i'loniasville arrived in Mcbane) '
i iU'silay morning,
After all, it is some of our business, violence durinjf tlie past
Italy’s entrance into the war set in
rr.otif^n various branches of official and
\[iss Sue Mejane returned to diplomatic activity. Count V. Macchi
of
^ 1' ’ Ai ^ U T4. V A U , I Itis not vvitriiii our power to leave tne
tianefrom Burlington wr.ere “i Ce lerr, the Ambassadorj,,
■ il;H been visiting her parents f United States ot Ihij was Hue when
the declaration of war on Austria by ^ i i i j u u
,ir, Felix Smith, cashier of ih.a government. Dr. Constantin
I ... * . . , Indinapolis, and it is lust as true
Mebane Bank and Trust Co. t)umba, the Austrian Ambassador,
for Charlotte Monday where:Secretary Bryan and!
today and much more apparent.
visit friends.
also advised him of the existence of a
state of war between his country and i
ago more thon a hundred
I Ainerican citizens met in Mexico City
a-id adopfed resolutions, declarii'K that
M,Si.Jennie Fitch died Sunday, A neutrality proclamation 1 something ahould be done abont the
, \v:is huried Monday at Mt. i ^ \ ^ I Mexico situation in the interest of hu-
, , ,.|uirch f'' manitv, and advi,se the wondthat
' “'"'““"“‘i 'ho, American embas- ^
,ir, .1. W. James of Ridgeville , f'Vienna had taken over the care ^„„,|itio„ of anarchy from
!!i Mebane Monday.
of Italian interests there.
One of the things that most interests i
I which a “mistaken altruism” could not
save it. President Wilson did not find
receive a delegation.
Rob Smit h stopped over | officials here is whether the thousands | Jj.
in lebane Monday night on his of Italians in this couutry who are; thesr'Americans!“w7in
ri‘ilU'11 home from Atlanta Ga. j service wi e j make him understand con-
' he has been attending the i ^ accepte i fUtjons as they really were. Secretary
. , Ilf luia urt.li aiLciiuiijj, Lilt:* that most of them Will respond volun-' , ■ . , r u
• , t il r>/»ll£»o-» i 4. -1 a>u I. jr., t TT . I n»’y‘i» denied even their p'ea for hear-
(1 lii;U college tarily. This will affect the Unitea i . , , , ^ ^
•*. i u * i ing, and refused to give out publica-
T 1 /. T^i btates more than it has b'ien up to the i .. ^
.>,lr. Duncan Loyd of Eion was i present time. None of the other beh-i■'““tot'O"* “dopted by the
i„ Mebane Sunday visiting I gereat nations recalled any great num- | ,n the Mexican rap.-
, . , iT « . • ., A I tal. Ihe voice of these distressed and
i iOiu s. ber ^f its subjects in the United States ,, - . * ..u i i
' ' ^ ' harried Americans was smothered by
,, ,, T 1 , , I to the colors. But the Itahans in the l ., . . ^ 4. j
Mr. Henry Johnston returned ,^w years have had practically a f department, and a
i n.m ItaleiKh Monday where he ' monoply L construction work in thisP"';'"’';
, . ^ J ^ 1. ^ tt.Oir cry tor help over the protest of
i I; visiting re atives 'country, and if they return home to ..... . ^ * *
*' L,. . . . . , j. ■ Washirgton governinent. Americans
, 'fight there IS bound to be fanune in j • 1 4. ■ 1 xu •
\\>.:uv sorry to say that Mrs,,,® common labor market.
l;„l, Smith continues to be very : On the other hand, it is the opinion of Mex,c.,ns, and
’ ^ ' our consular agents were told to get
; many diplomatic and
i that the entrance of
jOUier officials , limited number of people who were
! I f (lentil anael ‘“'"r. ^ i willing to :*.ct upon this strange advice
n.t luaiii aiigt^i vibiteu mt, j^j.opean war will operate in the near; , .... ^ , u 1
' i>ii. oiwi AT..-. 1? ,, , . . . , . out ot the country as cheaply as pos-
■ ill ol Ml. and Ml.^ L/ail rau- future to the great benelit of Amen- Kti.i, a ; u n ut-
1,1 ' sible. Americans who thought they
r :t i:it Wednesday and took can commerce. | might be murdered if they remained
iv-m it their little daughter who, end of the pres-nt "eek may i ^old to dear out, hut thair pat-
. .Ol.iv seventeen months old. I government would spend very
! Wilson’s note on the Lusitania inci- • transportation. A
I clent delivered in Washington. Officials ; Outlook has reproduced
(Ji'jce over National Bank °“tcome, buti department
I they look forward to lengthy diplomatic j ^showin- this to have h^en our official
TV, j exchange and are not optimistic that i Americans in Mex-
rNOllCe. jthedi^culties will be speedily adjus-j jco City who t;ied to get their story
iPOOMnt of the rainthp icertain that Germany [
, \etO int ot th ram tlie ^^^s not want to drag America into ' were checkmated by the state of a law on the
: uMren Day exercise at Leban- war, it is largely becau.se ot this be I Jepalment, were only tryin/ to tell of
.1 \1. K. Sunday school has oeen lief and not because of any specific in- j conditions now portraved by President
. poned until the second Sun- I formation as to what the German re- ; vv,!son in his statement given -ut coin-
.,n tn lune, which will be all i 'cident with the Red Cioss appeal.
. , - . 1 . tul feeling in Anministration circles. I •• k„ . 1
■.-»4’ *p *111 rl » i nc Alt^xic ill UiiiiCilts oonhtnici.1 tn0
’' ■ ‘ t B"' »■' : remarks of the l>re»ide„t at Ind.napo
beuin beginning at I as desirous as the United Sta*es of '
morning. , :iVoidmg a dash, diplomatic adju:^tment |
^ - --- i >« not confronted with insuperable oh-1 that Preddent Wilson declared
I >tacles. . . there would be no intervention there
Oooti Cro*Vtl> Attend ! President Wilson, in addressing the | doubt that
stress upon the neccB-j ^ave to come,
iieV. V letor Lightbourn the 1 sity of drawing the American
tiejths
the
twelve months goes'to show that Mex
ico is the only country v/here the
American flag does not aff.>rd protec
tion to the lives of American citizens.
Pure MilK | University News
&xilk is cei tainly thij most important Preparati,'ns are being made in
article of food in the human dietary, ^ Chapel Hill for the approaching 12()th
and it is al.s(; the easiest to coiUami-! coiiinjencenient of the University of
nate. It is, therefore, up to the milk
man to .nee that the milk from his
North Caruhna. The exercises begins
on Sunday, May 30, and the concluding-
, event of the four-day occasion comes
dairy gets the babies in as reasonable with the commencement address on
Also the court records for the same ! as possible. Not June 2 Judge A. Mitchell Paltner, of
period proye that murder in New York I is an enclusively baby pro- j Stroudsburg. Pa., prominent in politi-
blem, for all sorts of diseases are car- 1 Washington, will deliver
may be committed with as little fear
of the law’s restribution as in the
land where assassiuition is regarded
as a crime far less heinous crime than
horse stealing. ^
We note that a Southern newspaper
which is vociferous in abolition of cap
ital punishment cites the statistics of
homicide in New York as Cdivincing
ried through milk. Tuberculosis is an
the commencement address
The opening ev^ent is the baccalaure-
example of this class, and a number of j ate sermon in Gerrard K-a11 on Sunday
epidemics of diphtheria and scarltt | morning, May 30. Bishop J. A. McKay,
fever have been traced to the milk Birnr.ingham, Alabama, will make
supply, but When we pause to con.sidar
that one— fifth of all the babies
born in the United States die in their
infancy from preventable diseases, and
evidence that the extieme penilty does ' ®*^ty per cent of these are due to
ii.li y(>u.
o’clock in the
iter
sooner or
■ later. Had it not been for the Euro-
li'oacher who is holding a pro- 1 together, in view of the European would have 'been perform
war, in the bonds of commercial intier-
He de-
ing a manifest duty there under duress;
■ ere this. We might have abandoned
?!‘icttd meeting in the ware, ^ . 1 j
. I est and mutual understanding,
hu.ise here IS a '"an of UnusiMl j ^ared that o:.e tl.ins stands in the to their fate, but we would
^ rona and fluent delivery. He. way of closer intercour.ses between the I have been forced to protect oilier for-
U 03 excellent language, and his | American nations-the need of ships-j underpressure of for-
i'Ul-itrations are far above the 1 *'''sates. It was noted j j^terosts. Reiteration of the as-
•wvrage. He has attracted good i applauded him when he said gertion that it is none of our business
fiM'vds and his sermons remedy this' ^hat happens in Mexico serves no
, sernion. na\8 g,t,nation, tne government.” The?e |
we know that it-
peen Highly appreciated. words, coupled with the known attitu- I ig some of our business, and that we
de of some of the cabinet, were inter- j mugf, make it our business, if we are
\.» UI-i In THfk rif» ■% ^official quarters as indicfc-j^o “serve mankind.” The present po-
A.) pnone in me j ting that the purchase bill would be | sjtion of the President, as w? urder-
W O think Mebane is the only i j gtand it. is that the Umf.ed States
t'l.vn we ever knew in vvhich iCongress | must do something about Mexico. It
nvenes. I ,g expected that the President will
, . ^ ! signalize his new policy at the cabinet
d yet no telephone kept in the'« Pffpf’ts nf nfvnhnirl ^
r,At ff iinv nlapp iiPAds n ! CHeCIS OT lypHOIQ i
not act as a detriment to criive. But
our contemporary fails to give consid
eration to the fact that in New York,
(as in its own State, where the pro
portion of murders to popuhtion is
even higher), the theory of ‘A life
for life” is so seldom reduced to prac
tice that no test is furnished of its
efficacy.
To give support to their contention
those who clamor that the gallows and
electric chair he done away wiih,
should compare conditions in Tennessee
or Alabama with those in some com
munity in which the penally of death
is systsmatically meted out to the class
of criminals against whom the law
provides it. How stands the case in
London as contrasted with that ia New
York, or that in Scotland with that in
either of the States in this country
where hanging has lapsed into inno
cuous desuetude. The mere presence
statute book, when
no pretence is made of its enforcement
cannot be adduced to establish what
its elFect might be if regularly and
rigidly carried into cffect.
gastero-intestinal diseases, due to im
proper feeding or impure milk, we
this sermon to the graduating class of
approximately 80. This sermon will be
preached at 11 o'clock in the morning.
The annual sermon befo'-e the
Young men’s Christian Association
will be delivered in Gerrard Hall at 8
o’clock Sunday night. Rev. G. T.
Rowe, pastor of Memorial Methodist
! church. High Point, will preach this
naturally begin to look into the cause, sermon.
No where else will cleanliness bear ^ Monday May 31, will be devoted to
better results than in keeping the exercises of the graduating class.
Ti- : 1 4. u i. The contest for Mangum medal will bp
milk pure. It is criminal to have dirty , ,, tt i,
held in the morning in Gerrard Hall.
and filthy milk. Other events on the program of the
day and night are “stunts” under
Davie Poplar in the afternoon and the
, .. ^ r* 4- joint banquet of the Dialectic and Phil-
W ny UllCie o^ni Ciets anthropic Literary Societies in Swain
Kuisy night.
Alumni Day comes on Tuesday, June
You and 1 won t have to fight so Connor, of the University
hard. l^utTHAT time has not itrrived i class of 1899, and secretary of the
There is a lot of fighting for OUR 1 North Carolina Historical Commission,
community to do. We must get on | spe?ker -f the day. Seven das-
Ti. • i. I sus of the University will hold reun-
tiie firing line. It is np to OUR com-: ..u t j i ^ 4
^ I ions on that day -classes of 1914, 1910,
munity to bring its biggest guns into | 1905^ 1900, 1795, 1890, and 1865, Each
action in a CONTINUOUS effort to class will have twenty minutes at its
beat b.^ck the attacks of the mail order
kings. Uncle Sam will fire the last
gun Tho F'IRST gun must be trained
on the enomy by OURSELVES. Indi
vidual effort. Co-operation. Public
Opinion. The Power of the Press
The Commercial Club. These are all
disposal, according to the program. In
the afternoon a baseball gam« between
two of the classes will be played, and
alunrni “stunts” will interperse the
game. The anuual meeting of the
board of trustees, annual debate be
tween Dialectic and Philanthropic
Literary Socities, and reception in By-
Naravvana
tlu-ie was a telephone system
pot. If any place needs a
! '!-ne for the accommodation of j Figures are showing up typhoid in a j
public, then the passei^ger | new light. We have always regarded j
••■' I Treight depot need one. j seriously the chances of fatality that; (From the Richmond Times-Dispatch.)
W'iMi is responsible for this ignor jgo with each case, also the lengiji of There is a name to make one paus
n, I -i. o n>u - • .? 4.^ f > land think—Narawana. It isn’t the
mg of J a public necessity; L he 1 time required for tne fevers course,! r 1. • •
, 11 name of a Persian princess, nor of a
.• ntral man says the phone has j the severe suffering, the anxiety, the.
linen taken out of the Mebane ; careful nursing, not to mention the 1 of poets or psychists Yet it is potent
^"POt. Is it to economize or to | expense, but now figures are showing j to charm as does the princess, lull to
:ive annoyance? and the central jthat the aftereffects of typhoid are (Sleep as does the rolling boudoir, be-
! wilder as to the new poets, and waft
one into ethereal realms as does the
And, after all, it may be best, just
in tho happiest, sunniest hour of all the
voyage, while eager wirds are kissing
every sail, to dash against the unseen
rock, and in an iiv»tant hear tifb bil
lows roir above the sunken ship. For
whether in mid.sea or 'mong the break
ers of the farther shore, a wreck at
last must mark the end of each and
all. And every life, no matter if its
every hour is rich with love, and every
moment jeweled with a joy, will, at its
c!o'=«e, become a tragedy as sad and
deep and dark as can be woven of the
varp and woof of mystery and death.
—Robert Ingersol.
A Yeir Without a Sum
mer.
, , ,, , , i num gymnasium are the concluding
big guns that should be brought to
bear on this question. In the mean
time ‘TRaUE-AT-HOME.’’-Winston-
Salem Journal.
The Danger In Margins
(Providence Journal.)
Rising prices in th» stock market are
due in large measure to a widespread
belief that a period of business pros-
oerity is on the way. The public is be-
Wedne^day, June 2, is commence
ment day proper. Judge A. Mitchell
Palm3r v ill deliver his address in Me
morial Hall in the morning at 11 o'clock
The confering of degrees and announce
ments by the president will follow the
commencement address.
The Gotten Field and ^‘The
Game’’
(From The Monroe Enquirer.)
If you had taken a ten-mile dri\ e
yesterday in any section of Union
County you would have seen a num-
bir of white women and white girls
at work in the cotton fields. The rains
have made the grass grow wonderfully
fast in the cotton fields and the good
women--helpmatea that they always
are—wore lending a helping hand in
killing the grass. And if you had gone
out from Monroe on the Wadesboro
road that same day you would have
seen a long line of strong, robust nig
gers going out to the baseball grounds
to play ball and to see the game. We
thought of those good, working white
women when we saw that aggrega
tion of uniformed, masked and mit-
tened ball players and the line going
out in good turnouts to see the game
and then—well, you who know us
know just as well as you know any
thing that we are not going to put on
paper what we thought and you can
read cussin' all between these Ines.
The Cologne Gazette sry,5 Germany
will not violate Switzerland’s neutral
ity in an effort to get at and to Italy,
but our guess is that Switzerland is
relying more upon the geography of
the country and upon her compara
tively small, but well-equipped army
than upon any German assurances to
save her from the fate of Belgium,
“What is extravagance?” asks the
New York Commercial. Never having
had opportunity to find out trom ex
perience, we do not vanture to make
answer.
Switzerland, surrounded though she
is by great nations at war, announces
that she is still doing busine.ss at the
(Fron* the St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
The year 1816 was known ^hrough-
out the United States as the year
without a summer. January oF that
ing attracted by the chances of profit; i old stand and that all tourists,
sales of more than a million shares on j particularly open-handed spenders
one day are indicative of investment, j from America, are as welcome within
buying as well as spsculation. i u j 4.u .ci -hit
r., , her borders as the flowers in May.
Fluctuations in the market are to I .....
be expected however, even if a strong j duly appreciative or the invi-
bull movement is in progress. The I totion and of the spirit prompting it,
small investor vill do well to keep! but for more than one reason we shall
thin fact in mind and avoid taking un- ! have to forego the pleasure of “cross-
due chances in margin trading. A man . ,,, _
,. J I ing the pond this summer. ~Va. Pilot,
who has the price of 10 shares and at-'
tempts to carry a much larger r.umbor | -r -
may lose his money if the market drops} . , *
two or three points, even though there ] Tne Parable Ol The ^OWGl*
should be advances later to higher
, , And when much people were gath-
levels. The safe cour.se is to own the 1 ^^ed together and were come to Him
J , ... . of every city. He spake, by a
But many doubtless, will take j parable:
year was so mild that most people chances regardless of the experiences? j a go^p- __.j.
would have let their furnaces go out | others in margins. When the fever ; ^nd as he sowed, some fell by the way
for speculation rages the disposition is
lan says further that it was ta- , not to be lightly considered.
IvtMi out because no one would 1 A study of 1,574 cases of typhoid fev-
I'ay for it. jer shows that 146 died while-under
■ — I treatment, which is not quite one out
Hindu wonder worker.
Narawana is a product of Mexico. It
consists of narcotics, the base being a
preparation of nicotine, and when
rolled into a pill and smoked it gives a
ten-do’lar clerk all the sensation of a
bloated millionaire. After the oflect
tilt s;«ine thing to Austria did not pre- j three years was nearly twice the nor- i wears off he looks in vain for an elu-
Vt
1 lif* German Chancellor says Aus-
in:i ofVered every possible concession
of every 10. Of the 1,428 who recov
ered from the immediate efforts of the
Italy, but the fact that Serbia did 1 the death rate for the first
l ilt (lermany from backing up Aus- j death rate of a similar group of
l i t in Ihp latter’s demands for con- j persons who had not had typhoid,
iinii.^ which Serbia could not have j the cause of death among the
without forfeiture of self-re-1 Patients who died following recovery
!• t :ind the respect of the world at from typhoid, tuberculosis heads the
! , j list with a rate ol 30 per cent, with
- ! diseases of the heart follov;ing with
sive dime. This Narawana, the very
sound of which paralyzes the tongue
and stupefies the mind, is evidently a
prize package of “dope.”
The yarn is that the 350,000 or more
drug victims in New York, robbed at
one p(*werful federal blow of their
pipe, syringe and snuff, may turn to
had they possessed any, and February
was only occasionally colder. March
and April coaxed the buds and flowers
out, and May was a winter month,with
ice and snow. By the end of May
everything perishable had been killed
by the cold, and the young leaves had
been stripped from the trees. June
was as cold as May, Both snow and
ice were common throughout the month
all over the corn belt and after having
planted corn two or three times the
to believe that prices will go up indefi
nitely, although as a matter of fact it
is impossible tov the outsider to look
intelligently into the future.
Ihe
Preachers
Flies.
and the
side; and it was ^■rodden down, and the
fowls of the air devoured it.
And some fell upon a rock, and as
soon as it was sprung up it withered
away, because it lacked moiiture.
And somo fell among thorns; and the
thorns sprang up with it and choked it.
And other fell on good ground and
sprang up and bare fruit a hundred-
i fold. And when He liad said these
If the preachers would Join in a ^ cried, he that hath ears to
crusade to rid the town of flies woul- hear.
dn’t that improve the religious life of
the town? Who can be in a deyout
farmers threw up their hands. Snow ^ fr^tne of mind or enjoy a servico very
fell 10 inches deep in Vermont. The
following winter was the hardest the
the people of the United States have
ever known. One had to have a stock
ade around one's smokehouse.
, I Narawana Thev say it is being smug- . ,
He will! a‘■“t® of 14.8 per cent. In other words,tinged with
■ I is continually giving. He will j " j gied across the Mexican border, and
'i withhold from j^ou or me. i hold } chances for having tuberculosis j jq tjjQug^tful occurs at once that
[I Illy little cup-he fills it full, if 1 are increased about thaee times in | it is more dangerous than any Mexican
'..s is greater, rejoice in that, and | those who have recovered from ty- i bullets that ever wafted themselves
i.p
An army shoe lasts only six weeks
and Europe has millions of soldiers in
the field The prospect ought to be
? roseate hue for New
England in general and for Massa
chusetts in particular.
over the line into erstwhile peacfiil
it to the same run. Were your I Phoid, while the chances for heart dis
1 "I,* Clip to become as large as the|eases are about doubled. In the Un-1
J' I it if ocean, he still would fill it.— j *ted States each year, 8,000 deaths oc- | Q^e reason for the sudde.i increase in
i :■ -doie Parker I persons who have recovered 1 the percapita wealth of the country
• from an attack of typhoid fever but | is not worth bragging about. Owing to
the great and grave increase in the
cost living, prices are marked up all
along the line where possible. Each
average American may have $1,965 in
1 lie time is near at hand,' observed ! who, as a result of impared vitality
' i> 1 .lustice Clark in his address be-! from the disease, succumb during^the
>11 the young women of Peace In j first or second year after recovery.
tiUite, ’when a woman can stand up [ Besides lowering the vitality so that j tangible property- But $1,965 will not
'•'ore all the w'orld and say that she i other diseases are not to be resisted, | much as in 1890.
*1 ■'he equal of the proudest man that j typhoid often leaves the patient mam- ‘ '
•tip sun looks down upon.” j ed life, and memory is frequently im- The fly has rightly been called the
Standing, sitting or sleeping she has i paired. These considerations should I undertaker’s traveling salesman, and
much while fighting pesky flies all the
time? It is all well enough to talk of
“these light afflictions,” etc. that has
nothing to do with the case. It is a
fact that a man might go into a saloon
and read his Bible with more comfort
than he can read it in the average
And his diciples asked Him, saying,
What might this parable be?
And He said. Unto you it ia given to
know the mysteries of the Kingdom
of God; but to others in parables; that
seeing they might not see, and hear
ing they might not understand.
Now the parable is this: The seed!
is the word of God.
Those by the wayside are they that
Unsatisfied
Why is woman dissatisfied? Why
does she grow restless under the crown
of womanhood? Why is she weary of
the God- given Jewel of motherhood?
Is it not a sufficient political achieve
ment for woman ,that future, rulers
nurse at her breart, laugh in her arms
and kneel at herfeet? Can ambition
leap to more glorious heights than to
sing luliabys to the world's greatest
genuises, chant melodies to master
minds and rock the cradle of human
destiny?
God pity our country when the hand
shake of the politician is more grati
fying to woman's heart than the patter
of children's feet.
The Comet.
Astronomers tell us that a new com
et—a 1915 affair is now visible, and
that by June 15 it will be seen by all
and 165 times brighter than in this
month.
Norvous people think it will have
something to do with the war—but it
won’t. In the old days comets were
supposed to have to do with the desti
ny of men and nations—but in these
times we understand that they come
as the sun comes-as the tax bill
comes-as things regularly ordained.
Therefore the new tace in the heavens
will mean nothing.—Everything.
The Washington Post tells us that
the “greatest question" confronting
the Pan-American conference now in
sossion in the capital of this nation is
that of money. If we may be pardon
ed for dealing in personalities, the
same question is causing us little
trouble these days
■ ays been not only the equal of man I bear an espfcial appeal to those who
still tolerate flies and fly infected food
and who have not yet made up their
minds to be vaccinate against ty
phoid.
l‘Ut hy him acknowledged his superor
> cMi in the walks of life tor which
*'hI created her.--Lillington News
li 'porter.
in addition to his regular line of “ty
phoid bugs”, he carries a side line of
tuberculosis, Asiatic Cholera and other
disease germs. Now is the time to
“swat the tly.”
I'he fidelity of a public man to con
science—not to party—is rewarded
with the sincerest popular love and con
tidence * ♦ ♦ No man can take a pre
eminent and effective part in conten
tions that shake nations, or in the dis
cussions of great national policies, of
foreign relations, of domestic economy
and finance' without keen reproach
and fierce misconception. “But death,”
j says Bacon, “bringeth good fame.”
Then, if moral integrity remains unsoil
ed, the purpose pure, blameless the
life, and patriotism as shining as the
sun, conflicting views and differing
counsels disappears, and firmly fixed
upon character and actual achievement
good fame rests security.—George
William Curtis.
church on the day when the church ! then cometh the devil and taketh
doora are open to the public and the! word out of their hearts,
public is invited to enter and worship. ! should believe and be saved.
If it is worth while to keep flies out of { They on the rock are they, which,
places devoted to world lines and sin, | ^hey hear, receive the word with
why is it not worth while to keep them j these have no root, which for
out of house devoted to the worship of ^ ^ ^^ile believe, and in time of temp-
the living God? And why is it not a ! totion fall awry,
work of righteousness to help raise in i which fell among thorns
a community a sentiment that would i which, when they have heard,
keep that community flyless?— i forth and are choked with cares
Lumberton Robesonian. j riches and pleasures of this life,
' j and bring na fruit to perfection.
i But that on the good ground are
j they, wljich In an honest and good
Say. Listen* i heart, having heard the word, keep it,
and bring forth fruit with patience.
A man named Henry Evans, we
print his name because it should be ,
printed, living at Tower, Illinois, 'got 1 To the semi- official Germen pro-
an idea he was 'going to die. j nouncement is defense of the Lusi-
He owed less than five dollars—but i tania horror that “submarine warfare
the debts were old. j was instituted solely as a reprisal
He went and paid them. ' against England’s starvation block-
I Wouldn’t it be nice if a great many i ^de,” there is an insuperable objection
people could jutt think they were ‘^^tes. The German submarine policy
going to die, and then come across \ announced Feb. 4; the reply of the
with their subscription money? .. . xt vu , . .
You bet your gum boots it will.
Everythinfi.
Would Lay Blame on
Preachers.
Pastors of the Statesville churehes
are complaining about the small at
tendance of the people of that town
o'j Sunday night services, and the
pastors are talking of discontinuing
these services. This is a surprising
state of affairs in a town with the
general good reputation in churchly
matters of Statesville. Is the fault
with the pastors or with the people
Usually, if a pastor who has a sufii-
cient congregation of average devout
ness finds attendance on his services
falling off, he will not have to look
further than his own pulpit to find the
—Wadesboro Messenger.
I find that to be a fool as to worldly
wisdom, and to commit my cause to
Goi, not fearing to offend men who
take offerse at the simplicity of truth,
i the United States was issued Feb. 10. ® ^ remain unmoved at
the sentiment of others.— John wool-
man.
And both were issued befor the British
Orders in Council
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