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The Chronicle, WTLKESBORO, N. C. . OII.Ii AJPS LETTER. Atlanta Constitution. Fire and water and air. The thr thinsrs that cost the. least and, are tl most necessary to our existence are me moat dangerous wnen unresirainea. Last Sabbath evening my wife andj I walked down to -Jessie's , house to com fort her in her sick bed, and play with the little girls and help nurse the littfe hnW Knv. Suddenlv the fire bell crave an alarm and mv wife walked out on . i. , .w i the veranda to find out where the fire was. i In a moment she came hurryirig back and almost screamed, "It's our house it's our house; run quick. Oh ! mercy." I threw the babyj down on the floor no, I didn't, either- and de parted those coasts with alacrity. Fire men and people , were hurrying that .way. Istruck a fox trot for, awhil but soon relaxed into a fast walk, ar then a slow pull up the hill, for I felt my palpitation coming on. Before jl reached the mansion I met some df the advance guard returning, who said the fire was out. So I sat down on the front steps to blow for a minute. When I went through the hall to the kitchen where lh& commotion was, I found our daughters and some good friends still drenching the smoking walls and pour ing water-down the flue up in the garp rett. The accumulated soot of twenty years had caught on fire and somehow got to the lathing and then to the ceil ing and dropped down to the floor! Nobody was at home. The cook was in her cabin asleep. Her little boy was sitting on tne pack steps ana wnen o girls arrived he very quietly pointed the kitchen and said: "Dar's a fire dar." Then they heard the cracking flames and saw, smoke pouring through a broken pane. On opening the door they were astounded, for the whole room seemed ablaze. One ran to the front door and screamed "Fire, fire! fire.'' and the other went to the tele phdne and then they flew to the wate: faucet and good neighbors gathered i and filled the buckets and went to work They were iust in time, for a delay o: ten minutes would have caused the los of the house and all of our time hon ored furniture and pictures and books and my wife's fine clothes and golden wedding presents. When I left Jessie's house my wife hailed me on the run' and said save something, but I am not certain whether it was her fine dresses in the ' wardrobe or her silverware in the dark closet or her Bible. I reckon it was the Bible that she has read a chapter in every night for all these long years. I had a good old Baptist aunt in Rome and when her house caught on fire away in the night and the fire men came running she ran out in her night clothes and begged them to save her Christian Index. She had a stock : of them and treasured them more than anything else. Our good old professor, Charles F. McCoy, of Franklin College, used to lecture to us students, and his favorite subject was "The Regularity of Irregu lar Things," and he satisfied me that the longer my house escaped a fire the more I was liable to have one. The chances against me increased as the years rolled on, and so I have been ex pecting a fire. The insurance compa nies understand this and base all their calculations and rates upon it. They will fell you what is the average life of a dwelling,, a store, a gin, a planing mill or a church. The professor illus trated with a dice box and said if you cast the dice a dozen times the six spot might come up three or four times in succession and the ace several times, but if you cast the dice a thousand times, each number from one to six would show up about an equal number of times. That is according to the cal culation of chances and proves the reg ularity of irregular , things. So it is with the rainfall which, however un certain in its coming, amounts to about the same every year. Since 1883 the losses by fire in the United States haveaveraged $105,000,000 a year, the lowest being $100,000,000,and the high est $110;000,000, and yet in1871 the loss in Chicago alone was $200,000,000. . But where did fire come from and who gave it and when. There iso mention of fire in the Mosaic account of the creation nor for two thousand years after -it. Until after, the flood there was not much need of fire, for the people were not permitted to eat meat. Their food was the fruits of the earth. But I reckon they did have fire and blacksmith Bhops and made ' hammers and hoes and nails. The presumption ' is that the Creator supplied Adam with tools to dress the garden and Abel with knives to sacrifice, the firstlings , of his flock, but there are Indian tribes in our day and negroes in Africa and Esqui maux in the Arctic regions who have no knowledge of iron or its uses. A thousand; years before Christ Homer wrote that Jupiter only possessed the element that we call fire and when man was created man he refused to give him fire But Prometheus stole from heaven and gave it to man arid it made Jupiter so mad that he chained him to a rock and sent eagles to eat his liver out and .aa.theyeat it by day the liver grew again by night, but finally he was un- chained and tne eagles driven away. It seems that Prometheus was a friend to mankind and by command of Jupi ter lactuaflyycreatmant" of s the mud that was left after the flood not Noah's flood but the ' flood : of Deucal ion, away back in the ages. : He was a god nearly as) powerful as Jupiter and . was always in a quarrel with him. .--He ' taught' '-mankind architecture, astron omy, figures, medicine, navigation and all the arts that adorni life.1kAt Athens and other ancient cities,, tem ples were built to his honor. They be- heved that the very fire that he brought ; l m l 1 : , .in ..... I pvwu from neaven was sun preserrea I i and was always burning on an altar in the temple of -Vesta. It is called the ! sacred fire the Vestal fire the fire of the hearthstone and must not.be al lowed to go out. If it does go out from- j accident even the family wh6 . loses it must go to the temple of Vesta and get. I a new supply, v 1 Of course all these stones about the gods are superstitious, but they are very j fascinating ones and old Homer still stands as the greatest poet, and ranks as the equal of Shakespeare or Milton. That reverence for sacred fire is not yet extinguished, and it is said that the Eoman Catholic priesthood burn can- I . " .. v i Decanse tnA cnsrnm was hnnriMi dnwn from the ancient churches and those churches probably got it from Grecian and Roman mythology. Anyhow, we know that the Jews had great rever ence for fire; for they had to use it in their sacrifices and God appeared to Moses in a burning bush and descended on Mt. Sinai in fire and the Israelites were guided through the wilderness by a pillar of fire by night, and fire came down from heaven and destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and many other important events were marked by fire. In our young days when there were no matches it was no sure or certain thing to nna nre on- tne hearthstone every cold morning that came. Sometimes the live chunk that was buried in the ashes at bed time went out or burned out, and then one of the boys had to go to a neighbor's and borrow fire. It was always called borrowing fire, for it was reasonably expected that the neigh bor would sometimes find himself in the same condition. The Cherokee In dians made fire by rubbing two hard dry sticks together with great rapidity. I have seen little Indian boys do it very quickly, and I tried to imitate them, but failed. But if the good pure vestal fire came from heaven I reckon old Satan got some of it when he fell and took it down below. That's the kind that con cerns us most.f The old preacher who used to go around preaching about the "Mountains of Hepsidam where the lion roareth mourneth for ana tne wnaneraooaie -i . i in " .-!. i rj i. its uxBb uu.ru. tuiu uts I played on a harp of a thousand strings spirits of just men made perfect," also had a few broken remarks about fire. "My impertinent hearers, there are several kinds of fire. There are fox fire and camp fire and fire and fall pack, but tne kind that consarns you " " u u'rr ir ITS muf,aic r" 10 "Vfc iuw and is called hell fire for short." Bill Arp. Wade Hampton Passes Away. Columbia, S. C, April 11. General! Wade Hampton died this morning at 9 o'clock from valvular disease of the 84th birthdav. Twice this winter he has had attacks that have ereattv weak- ened him, but he rallied wonderfully I on both occasions. He was out driving I a week ago, but it was evident his strength was deserting him. The Governor issued this proclama tion: "Whereas, the Hon. Wade Hampton, a former Governor of South Carolina and United States Senator, died at his home in Columbia this morning at 10 minutes before 9 o'clock, full of years and of honor; therefore, I, M. B. Mc Sweeny, Governor of South Carolina, in view of his services to his people and his country through his long and honored career, and in further recogni-1 tion of his broad statesmanship and true nobility of character and his high patriotism and devotion to duty and his State, do request that on to-morrow, Saturday, all public offices in the State of South Carolina be closed, and as a further testimonial to his worth that the flags of the State and of the United States be put at half mast on the State capitol and all other public buildings in the State and remain in that position Until funeral services are held." The family objected to a State fu neral. Bells were tolled in all the towns when the news was received and any schools,, were closed. Ijlke Another Enoch Arden. Reading, Pa., April 7. M.. and Lrs. Henry JDaubert, old residents of I -mans, .benign county, have separated liter livinsr together 24 vears and rais ing a large family. Mrs. Daubert's first husband, whom she had long , be lieved to be dead, has appeared and uaims ner as nis lawiui wne. The first husband's name is J. A. rilman. He and his wife were married m New York, and after a few years he Went to Doylestown, Pa., to work. Hej became ill and his wife was informed by letter that he was dead. I After a few years she married Dau- bert. Gilman was not dead, but his ijllness caused, him to lose his mind, which was a blank for nearly 20 years. Then he recovered his reason, but memory was gone on many points. He inherited $50,000 from a relative and for several years searched for his Wife. I He found her a few days ago, and she will return to him, though she and her second husband have always lived happily, and their hearts are almost broken at the thoughts of separation. A young white woman of the highest standing in Wilmington was slapped by a negro girl the other day on the speet. No reason for the offence is known and the offender escaped in the cixwd, - although the police, sided by the recipient of the blow, made diligent search for her. "A - reminder," 'this, of the dark days in Wilmington, but, thanks to the white I supremacy .rule that overthrew Populism ; and the trav- ty of municipal government which it isted.upon Wilmington for a time, eh occurrences arevery rare to-day. - arlotte Observer. Mr. Geo. C. Smith, one of Stanly I A r famcT-a I died last Snndav mVht. , Ha waa buried I Monday with Masonic honors. L . o . , . .1- STBAlf GEL IT II U III ED TUEASUBE. Wow Covered ly a Sandy Plat Where Once tne Bllssoari River Flowed Anaconda Standard. . v . Among the many tragedies that have reddened the history of Montana the story 0 how a half million dollars in gold dust and nuggets was lost i in the Missouri river thirty-six years ago is perhaps the most wonderful. It has vo uo witu me anumng out of a score of lives and the lost of a treasure in the sombre waters of the Missouri, where the eddy was crimsoned with the life blood of. the unfortunate miners, who had -j --rrr loved ones back in civilization. That , the precious cargo of yellow dust i is a reality there is not the slightest doubt, where it rests beneath the quick ! sand there is but one man call tell. He hopes some day to find ttu sunken scow with its glittering wealth, but the I changing eddies in the treacherous channel of the river hav6 erased the evidences, in the sand and his chances of again finding the spot rest entirely on his recollection of the place as it was described and pointed out to him by one now long since dead. J. D. Emerson, of Basin, one of I Montana's earliest pioneers, is the only person in me wpna mat Knows tne true story of the tragedy that cost twenty miners their lives and their fortunes. In 1865 a party . of miners started from Virginia City for their homes in the East, with the accumulated savings of several years of hard work. Of the rest army of placer miners that invad ed the primordial wildness of the treas ure gulches of the territory, few were fortunate enough to find great wealth. This ill-fated score one day decided that enough gold had been dug, and started down the Missouri River for home. ' A rude scow was built, stanch and rough, which was to take them down the river to civilization. In the bottom of the scow in watertight com partments lay the wealth of each man securely tied in sacks of buckskin and marked with the names of the owner. A floor of boards hid the treasure of l i-,., . , , . i cm in rill or ann nnmvoro ahwa thia Hnn. 66 0 I WfiTA TW.kfiri thfl rittfts. ammunition n.iri provisions 01 toe voyagers. The journey down the Missouri from Fort Benton was fought with thrilling adventure. As the boat was carried along further and further into the land of the nestle Sioux, traveling became so dangerous that for several hundreds of miles, the little band concealed the . . , . , j . scow in the bushes by day and journey- a i iw riM. ' J At last when but two days distant from old Fort Bice, danger was thought to have been passed and the voyagers nushed boldlv out bv dav. FloatiWon the turbid waters of the river with the cracic oi a nne on the banfc came hke a thunderbolt from a sky of blue. Closely following the shot one of the men in the scow leaped to his feet, gave m m ft il J 1 i a snarp gasp ior Dream ana pmngea overboard, his life's blood dying the dark waters a crimson hue. From out of the bushes came a rat tling fire which splashed the water and bit tittle pieces out of the wood of the boat. The current was swift at this point, and in handling rifles in the boat looked not to the steering oar. With a crushing sound the scow went full upon a rock and the rush of water through a hole in the square prow showed that this was to be the last stand of the little party of fighters The story of how the miners fought until dusk, wounded and sorely pressed, is a tale of trilling heroism. When their ammunition gave out the red foes on the shore were quick to see the ad vantage and swam out to finish their bloody work. In the little band of white men there was a -Frenchman who had taken unto himself a Sioux maiden for a bride. When the last rush came and the glit tering, scalping knives reddened in the horrid work, she begged for the life of her husband and it yr&s granted -her. The bodies of the white men were stripped and thrown into the eddy, and after the scow had been looted of rifles and provisions it was pushed in the swif t whirling stream and the weight of the gold carried it to the bottom. The Indians suspected not the existence of the white men's wealth and the scow with its precious load rested upon the sandy bottom of the Missouri. The Frenchman, whose name was Pierre Lavalle, soon after left the In dians and enlisted with the soldiers at Fort Bice so that he might be near the t where the waa it Some months later he confided his secret to an old Quaker named Richard Pope, and the old man's son. Together the three went up the river from Fort Rice to the fatal spot to find the sunken scow. Where the boat had sunk a sand bar formed and they dug beneath the gravel and found the prow. A barking of an Indian dog and tke zip of a bullet warned them that the white men's foe was on the opposite side of the river and they at once ran through the woods. A running fight followed and Lavalle i was killed. In 1867 two years after of the loss of the scow, J. D. Emerson, now the agent for the Northern Pacific at Basin, was working for the Northwestern Fur Com pany. Me was at a on isenton ana one day when he met Richard Pope. The old man's son had died of fever and he was the sole person in ' the world that knew of the existence of Che gold. The old man was without money and wish ed to get back to his home in Ohio. Mr. Emerson waa on his way; down to Omaha and offered the Quaker passage. v On the way dawn the : river he told , Enierson the story of the gold in the i river. A fleet of boats were going down the river at that time, so it was decided j to atop, at Fort Bice and come back alone.. They 8arted back from the fort, a distance of twenty miles. When ten mil ai fmm the nlace i the boat snrancr a leak and before they could ? reach . the bank it had suns:. rope was nearly .-.- .. . drowned and Mr. Emerson, saved him only by the greatest effort. With their boat sunk in the middle of the river it was folly to think of going further, so they turned their faces toward the fort. The old Quaker never fully recovered from the hardships of the trip, his bat tle with the water and the tedious walk back. Soon after he sickened and died, but made Mr. Emerson promise that if he should ever find the gold he would share it with Pope's family. Years have passed and the course of the river has changed, until to-day a broad sandy flat, covered with a sparse growth of cottonwood trees, marks the spot where the treasure boat was sunk. Men have searched and dug, but with out success. The height of the land nvorlnnVinsr the bend in the river, the - 1 dumn of trees and the general appear- ance of the place still remain fresh in Mr. Emerson's mind as it was pointed out to him bv Richard Pope and he hopes to find the place again some day. Wedded at Wife's Funeral. Wyoming, W. Va., Special to Baltimore Sun. The wife of William Markell died some three weeks ago, leaving 'three small children, the youngest of whom was a babe of 11 days, all three of them being girls. As is the custom of the country folk here in the mountains, the burial took place shortly after death and the date of the funeral was set at a late time. Yesterday the friends of the late Mrs. Markell assembled in the little chapel to pay their last sad re spects to the departed wife, and the minister highly extolled her virtues. As the audience was dismissed with the benediction, Mr. Markell, the chief mourner, stepped up to the pulpit and handed the minister a document. All was silence, and a breathless curiosity pervaded the little sanctuary, which was accented when Miss Kaldee Rich ards, a comely girl of 22, left her pew and advanced to the chancel rail. The minister, with hid voice be traying the strain unaer wuicn ne was la do ring, requested that the audience again be seated, whereupon he announced to I LIIKIII them that the document he held in his , , maa a anoa f. I . r""uvl"& or dained minister of the Gospel to unite in wedlock Mr. Willian Markell and Miss Haidee Richards, and that he had been asked to perform the marriage rite at this time. Thereupon the ceremony took place, and the audience, which had just been called upon to condole, were Kivii an opportunity to congratu mau,7 in den transformed from late the same man who had been sud- a 8orrowmsr " "Tu ; , " , Planalons re then demanded, and it was shown that he strange proceedings wer m deference to the dying request tt. . .P! wibu oi tne aeceasea, Miss Haidee, should on the day of her funeral become the bride of her late i i i i ii i ... i uubohuu, auu iuub De permitted a mother's rights to care for and rear her I motherless little ones. Silence Yon Can See. There is no such thing as silence in this world. It is an impossibility. That is partly the reason why science has en abled us to see it. The explanation of the paradox is this: Silence, as we understand it, sim ply means that there are sounds too delicate or too loud for the ear to regis ter. In other words, when we can't hear anything we call that condition "silence." But wherever -you are there are sounds around you. Even in the deepest mine the air vibrates and makes a sound. An instrument has been Invented that will catch these sounds and permit of the vibrations be ing represented plctorially on a screen, and in that way you may see silence and properly understand what it means. By comparing the pictures of noises with those of that condition of things known as silence we gain an idea of the difference between a noisy night, for instance, and one when "absolute si lence reigns," as the novelist puts it. It is rather surprising to find so much dis turbance at the time when everything appears to be perfectly quiet. Pear son's Weekly. Diplomatic. The late Lord Savile used to say, ac cording to The Candid Friend, "that high diplomatists had always to be on their guard against intriguing women, mainly Russian agents, who would use any wile to extract information. Dur ing the Russo-Turkish war; when Eu rope was always on the verge of a crisis and Russian statesmen were most anxious to know what England would do under given circumstances, a lady came up to him suddenly at a ball and said: a forced march and entered Constan tinople," hoping no doubt that be would be surprised into some indiscreet ex pression. He merely replied : "Ineed! And I suppose the sultan has conferred on them the order of the Turkish Bathr The lady continued gravely: "And they say In Paris that if Eng land does not interfere the eastern. 4UCOHVU 10 otravs 1 vi iai va va t&uooia "And that," replied his excellency, "is, I suppose, the new judgment of Paris." jterl on to CAfflArl In fotrAn rG Pnaata Joit What He Needed. A man went with his wife to visit her physician. The. doctor placed a ther mometer in the woman's mouth. Alter two or three minutes, iust. as the physician was about to remove the i instrument, the man, who was not used to such a prolonged spell of brilliant silence on the part of his : life partner, said: : "Doctor, what will you take for that I thing?" ; " No bird can fly backwards without turning; the dragon fly, however, - can do this, and can outstrip the swallow in j speed. - I HEFL.ECTIONS OP A. DAVlUUiVUt l New York Press. r - - Many proverbs are the wit of one and the wisdom of "none, i . - You don't have to wait so long to be sorry as you do to be sure. - It is better to take pride in your de andant than in your ancestors. If a woman is born beautiful shecan marry riches and they buy luck. A woman cries either because she has a reason or wantsto hayejMie.--. .-. Getting on in the world means get ting around the people jcrf theworld.. The dandruff in some people's hair seems to work through into their brains. The sins of the second and third gen erations are visited upon the -family name-' ; - : Calomel settles a good many heart problems that otherwise would be un- solvable. The man who doesn't owe. some of his Rnccess to some woman hasn't had any. , .. " Any woman can love a man, if ne can make" her . believe Others women would like to love him only he won't let them. 1 . The respect which a good many men have for themselves is in the inverse ratio to the respect which others have for them. Mirrors would be a bad thing to have in a theatre, because the women in the audience are expected to look at the people on the stage. Women admire the heroes of fiction, because there was never a novel where one of them found fault with tne way the cook got the breakfast. It is aueer that no matter how rich you are you can't buy happiness, but no mftttfir how noor vou are. vou can cret ail the unhappiness you want for nothing. Women never learn discretion from experience; no matter now oiten tney a - . . At walk into a predicament they will do it again just to see if the same thing will happen. Brother Dieher'a Sayings. Atlanta Constitution. Some folks holds dat Adam wuz a red man; but ne wuzn t nigh ez wen reaa ez some er dese young niggers what knows it all. De befo' de war nigger is a-dyin' out in dis country; but bless God, ez he gwine he got faith enough ter holler "Halleluyerl" De Bible say dat Satan is de prince er de powers er de air, en I reckon dat's de reason w'y, w'en hell gits too hot fer 'im, he hops inter a' cyclone ter cool off. Ef dis worl' is lak a circus, or a the ater show whar de po' folks hez ter look on f'um de gallery, praise God dey's nigher ter heaven up dar dan de rich fQQ, says a critic, "that many; a man in the 'literary swim can't swim a hck without a life preserver!" Ef we could git holt er de angels we'd cup aey wings fer feathers fer de Easter hats. Ef some folks would en dress up dey hearts change roun' On Easier de worr wouldn't know 'em. In dis day en time some er de churches is fixed so fine you can't see God thoo de stained winders. We hear 'bout lots er folks dyin' wia aes a nope er heaven. 'Pears ter me, w'en a man gits dat fur along, he orter know fer sartin des whar V'h gwine. Wood Too Hard to Bin. There are certain kinds of wood that are too hard to burn, or refuse to Ignite for some other reason, such as Iron wood and the good brier root, but It is a curiosity to come across a piece of common deal the soft, light wood of which so many boxes are made that cannot be set fire to. The piece of wood In question was common white deal from Sweden, but was remarkable for Its comparative weight It had formed part of a boat Deionging to a whaler and ' bad been dragged below the surface of the wa ter to the depth of more than half a mile by a harpooned whale. The length of line and the short distance from the point of descent after being struck at which the whale rose to the surface was a proof of 'the depth to which it had dragged the boat. Only part of the boat came up again at the end of the line, and it was taken on board when the whale had been killed. That ' piece of wood was so uaiu it wuuiu not Durn in a, gas jet. xne weignt or water bad pressed it London Standard. com- Birds' Soaara. ..mn "-' V1 r w vt UUIM CUUIUl US Imitated with musical instruments be cause of the Imposslblllty of reproduc ing their peculiar timbre. ; The notes of birds, while, corresponding with , our musical scale, also Include , vibrations occupying the intervals between our notes. The duration of birds songs Is usually very shdrt two or three sec onds for thrushes and chaffinches, four or five seconds for blackbirds, bat from two to five minutes for the lark; v A Salmoaa Leap.' " ' , One of the directors of the Norwegian fisheries has been endeavoring, to dis- wver me oeignt a salmon wIU leap w uc" clearing a waterfall which ob structs its passage up streams Masts were placed below: the fall to Insure accurate measurements. : It Id stated mat a nsn can- leap to the height of iweuxy reel. When a fish failed to clear the fall at one bound. It remained m lue.iaiuag water and then, with' a rapiu iwist or tne body, gave a sprm uu ww successrui.: . !.). it is stated that General Manager iUz&cit) uj. me ooumern, has given or ders that all trains must ruh oh time. The result of this order is armarent in the improvement of the time on which the trains run. I. Bring do vain chaplet to my grave Once, when you might, you could have blest A lonely lile. an aching breast : uui noimng now can ueip or save. i - . - - - Your love, wnen neeaea. 1. was not given: Life's bonds an And now wne cares ? are riven. II. Shed o'er my dust no fruitless tears. All, once your pity naa Deen sweet To bleeding hands and weary feet. Through all the joyless, bitter years! Nay. weep not for the might have been God's rain will keep my grave plot gree'u III. Br. athe o'er me, dead, no word of praise, Once, living, I had leapt to hear The tones of love, the voice of cheer Make music through my senseless days But now! the wind alone jnay s ween ' Over the daisies where I sleep. ; 0 Idle tears, O wrath too late 1 care not now; the need is o'er; My day Is past 1 feel no more The stress, the heat, the chill, the hate. O Love, in 1 if e ye came not nigh : And now ! twere well to pass me by, " Longman's Magazine. "LAZINESS A BESETTING SIN. Bishop Fowler Clvei a Warning to . . loans ministers. Not doctrinal questions, nor those of discipline, but laziness, pure and simple was recently declared by Bishop Fowler' in his address to six applicants for membership into the New York Con ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to be to-day the undying cause of the failure of many preachers of the Gospel, and the one temptation" which they must fight against most earnestly No life was so conducive to laziness as the ministry, he asserted. "If during the six days of the week," said Bishop Fowler, "you only put as much life, zeal and energy into vour worJf M pe business man does you will oulcv p Grace Church was crowed to the doors to-day at the third days session of the Methodist Episcopal Conference, and many women were present to hear the words of advice the presiding Bishop uau w slve w 1116 proDauoners who were auuut w ue aumiucu to oraera. "We take you," he said, "when you are hardly known to anybody except yourself. For two years you have been I allowed to practice on the people, and now you come seeking full authoriza tion. We have not held you to very strict account. We have treated you much as a new farm hand is treated. When he comes in from plowing the farmer does not ask him how much he has plowed, but how much he has wor ried to the steers." Continuing, the speaker said that what was most needed in the Methodist Episcopal Church was preaching on doctrine. "The principal doctrine needed for this century and generation is the doc-' trine of sin, he said. "We ve had altogether too much of goody-goody preaching and the good Lord and infi nite mercy. Why, at the present day, if a man walks passably straight, keeps his face clean and his boots polished he is deemed worthy of entrance through the gates oi neaven. 'Wake up this city to the terrible, infinite horrible, condition of sin and you will have men and women crowd ing around your alters seeking grace. "Preach good sermons even if you have to steal the stuff out of some book and acknowledge it afterward.;" Bishop Fowler then cautioned his hearers to discriminate between sancti fication and "crank-tification," the formed he defined as consecration unto God, the latter as godliness turned sour. "And when godliness is sour," he added, "you can be sure it is pottrue godliness. Sanctification is critical to itself, charitable to others; crank-tification is charitable to itself and critical to others. "If I had to choose between a person who was pious and lacked common sense and a man who was sensable but lacking in piety," said Bishop Fowler, "I would take the latter, for the former's piety would be but perverted, while the sensible man would surely be come pious in time."! :' -Xlie Cireat Tobacco War. Richmond, April 7. A copy of the charter of the Imperial Tobacco Com pany of Great Britian and Ireland, to gether with the articles of the associa tion and a power of attorney to James MacDonald to represent the corpora tion in this country, was filed in the Chancery Court here to-day. The pri mary object of the association is to ac quire and take over certain of the prin cipal tobacco manufacturing concerns in the United Kingdom, to carry on not only the business of manufacturers but that also of planters and growers, exporters, importers and merchants. The comnanv mav prepare for mar- together with machinery, and may own tobacco, saloons, cafes, or carry on: the business .of refreshment con tractors and licensed vituallers. They I may charter ships and vessels; may undertake all kinds of financial guar antee andsindemnity business, as well as all kinds of agency business; the company may lay. out land for building purposes, may, acquire licenses and enter into agreement with governments or authorities, supreme, municipal or local. The capital stock of the com pany is j6,000,000. "' 'V A Fatal Argnment. Atlanta Constltutiom , , - . ' ;.A story with political , features, and which points a moial, is sent in, as fol lows, by a Billville correspondent: i i 'Old man Fullins was up in an oak tree, .sawing off one of the limbs, when one of the candidates for sheriff came along, and the man up the tree and the man on the ground got into a political argument, which grew so heated that old Pullins lost track of what he was a doing of and sawed off the limb he was on, coming suddenly down on the head of the candidate; ho somewhat broke his' fall, although the old man succeeded in breaking a couple of ribs and - the candidate's head--or most of it; all of which is a warning to political argyfiers with a man up r ree," : -
The Chronicle (Wilkesboro, N.C.)
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April 16, 1902, edition 1
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