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A I HOI (.H I FOB THE DAY
What i. us but aim '
tapers, aaay bea-
atataat laaapa Lm-
iuw that old mua Huerta ha ar
nved in New York we expect to hear
taat he has signed up with some
theatrical agency along with -less
Vvllard and the other celebrities.
14 man Vic. declare." he's short of
mil and to get up and make a foo'
f himself before the publio is about
a. of the easiest ways of cop pint.
mm to a wad of the long green that
w know of.
A gang of wops have charged that
S was the fault of Secretary Josephus
BattieU that the submarine F-4 went
t the bottom, claiming that he knew
if defective machinery and neglected
having this attended to. There's no
doubt of the fact that Daniels ha
aaeailes, especially in the ranks of the
Iqaor interests and they are on the
watch for every little chance to erit.
b.e him However, the public knows
lihe Status of conditions and anything
fhey say or do will have no effect
a this North Carolinian who has
atade such an enviable record since
taking charge of the navy.
la cruising around over the State
Judge Frank Carter acted in such a
warring manner with the lawyer .
solicitors and witnesses with whom
he eame in contact, that it's possible
the investigation committee will sug
gest that he be interned until he can
lean to control his temper.
Bdi tor Saunders of the Elizabeth
City Independent, anticipating that
rhe Fish Commission which met here
yesterday, would appoint JL L. Oibbs
m Commissioner, has "a fit" over the
matter and hsnds a few red hot ones
ta Governor Craig, the Commission
aad also the Commissioner. We re
frain from making further comment
upon this than to say that the com
mission could have done worse by
selecting certain men from Pasquo
t ank county to have tilled the office.
North Carolina is in the grip of a
religious wave. Great revivals arc
koine held at Winston-Salem, Char
lotte. Kinston and other towns and
New Bern has fallen in. line and a
great series of meetings which will
eontinM for six weeks or more will
fcegin here on Sunday. The hardened
old sinners an over the State needed
little warning of what was waiting
for them down below unless they re
formed and there is no doubt but that
ia each of the eitie and. towns in
whieh these meetings are being held
that maefe real good will he done.
The main thing that it the trouble
wit - some people who are out of
warfcr b that they are very particu
lar boot what tort of job they accept.
Wo heard a man say a fair days ago
that he had looked all over a certain
town and could find nothing to do.
. What be should have said was that
he eonld And nothing whieh suited
kt particular fancy. There is work
aad plenty all over Kagtcra North
Carotin aad there it no need for
aay man to say that he can not secure
a ataitiea from whiofj he can earn bis
daily bread
LINCOLN MEMORY
IS DULY HONORED
Washington, April 16.- -Btisii
of the United Mates government was
suspended today in reeasaJMew of the
flttkth anniversary of tka death of
Abraham Uaeoia. Ia the national
oaplUl, aa elsewhere thrwaghoit the
aad a farsigsj taatV Ameri-
at half gtaM. in ao-
wrth President "ITBsoa's ex
atr. The Dtarafttat himself
had aside the earet of at did
aahar edbtais of the govaraateet, to
pay tfltat tribute to IAaatla's m. ro
ar, ai of ths
elod
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TWO THOUSAND
ntAKU KtY. ItAlYI
Noted Evangelist Thrilled
Forsyth Auditnce Last
Night
Wuutioa-8aleaa , April 15. Ba-
tweaa 1,300 aad ii.UM people beard
Brangatkl John W. Ham at the taber-
nalea tonight, when aa preached a
strong aarmon oa the subject, "Jeau
aad the htper."
Mr. Ham took his text from Mark 1
40:45 and said - Jeaiu is on aa evan
gelistic tour in Galilee. He is preach
ing aad healing aa usual. His fame
it spread in every direction. One of
the remarkable faeturs of His minis
ter? over t bat of the ordinary preach
er of the day was the casting out of
devils.
He healed many fo'ks of divtr dis
eases and demona. This poor leper
heard of Him. Hope sprang up in his
breast. If he only eculd gel in imioh
with tin (ireat Physician In believed
that he nugh' he cured. He came:
he braved the en". : in of the crowd.
Let us look more closely at the man
under consideration.
The Need
Leprosy is the great Eastern seour
age. When a man became a leper,
unless he was very rich, he was os
tracized socially and religiously Le
per colonies were usually maintained
They had their company among the
outcasts. Leprosy in its growth
is very much like cancer. The word
cancer comes from crab.
If you have ever been to I lie sea
shore, upon walking out in the shallow
water you will notice crabs about the
size of two hands, very often red in
oolor, crawling alonji on the sand.
They are unsightly. A cancer is a
living disease virulent and creeping
in Its tendency. So is leprosy. Le
prosy has always been flic type of
sin.
The leper made no attempt to con
ceal his trouble. There was not effort
to Justify himself for contracting the
disease. He ran to the only source
for help. A drowning man will grab
at a straw. A conviction of sin al
ways produces of self-revelation that
causes loathing.
The leper's need was too deep for
human aid. Unclean characterized his
whole life. His prospects were dark
and hopeless. There are moral lepers
by the hundreds in this city who have
not a ray of hope upon the horizon.
They are rotting in their filth. Sin is
in the heart.
"Doc'' Eddy denies the faet of son.
and in so doing calls God a liar.
"Doc" Sociology is thundering out.
"Give the moral leper a new environ
ment." You might place an egg of a North
Carolina crow under the pea hen, the
most beautiful hen in all the world,
and place her in the Garden of Eden
amid a perfect environment, and when
she hatched, it would produce noth
ing but a North Carolina black crow.
"Doc" Unitarianism' the fundamen
tal tenet of this gang is to deny the
supernatural birth. the sacrificial
death, and the glorious ressurrec
tion of our Lord. They teach salva
tion by character; their motto prac
tically is "catch hold of your boot
straps and lift yourself by educa
tion.
"Doc'' Russell the second chance
crowd, proachos the doctrine with the
greatest license to immorality.
The leper's need drove him to .Jesus.
To be in want is often a hopeful con
dition for man. The prodigal began
to be in want and came to himself.
Then it was he decided upon a definite
course of action. Mr. Ham illustrated
the point by telling of the financial fail
ure of a friend, and the physical break
down of a friend. In both cases, they
were brought to OhriHt.
The leper came to Jesus earnestly
be seeching Him. He is longing for de
liverance. There is nothing half-hearted
about him. Half-hearted soulls fail
at anything they undertake. We live
in an earnest age. Men are in earnest
about everything hut religion. If they
were as earnest about religion as about
the material things, the millenium
would be here now.
He came humbly kneeling down
There was nothing stiff about him
Stiff knees originate in a stout heart
He also came believingly. Belief it
essential to any miracle whether it be
Industrial, political or spiritual.
The heart of Jesus was moved and
i hen Jt hr hand. It is always so.
Jesus laid His hand upon him. It
was the first kindly touch he had re
ceived in years. The disease is loath
some but the sin Jesus is not afraid
to touch.
Jesus touched humanity in His in
carnation, in His suffering in Oeth-
semane, in His suffering on Calvary.
The leper was made clean instan
taneously. At the conclusion of the sermon,
there were quite a number of pro
fessions of faith.
PASSCNOEBS IN PANIC
New York, April 16 Two women
aad a man were seriously injured
and about fifty others hurt in a panic
of passengers on a Third avenue f le
va ted tain at Chatham Square to
day. The panic resulted from de
railment of one car of the train when
it failed to take a switch. A short
circuit caused a small fire, which
added to the fears of the passengers.
Men aad women, wedged tight in
the oars, fought to reach the elevat
ed structure, where they walked
along the ties to the station Traf
fic waa tied up on both the Beeoad
aad Third A nam line, which join
at Chatham Square
MUCH MAIL BQNC
HtLU In IANA1M
Officials There Stop All Mat
ter Not Properly
Fixed Up
The action of the Canadian pust
oSoea in holding ap large quantities
of mail from the Tailed States be
cause the duty charged upon all mail
containing certain el atari of adver-
i tiaing matter had not been paid has
led the I nited Slate Postofttee De
partment to sead to the poatoffioe at
New Bern aad elsewhere instructions
regarding this class of mail. The
customs duty on advertising circu
lars, mailed into Canada is fifteen
cents a pound and customs officials
are required to collect the duty when
such phamphlets arrive by mail, even
though each pamphlet bears a dif
ferent address.
The duty can be paid by means of
customs stamps which must be af
fixed to the reverse side of the letter
or package. The duty is remitted on
trade catalogues and price lists not
designed to advertise the sale of goods
by any person in Canada, when sent
single copies to merchants, and not
for distribution.
The rate is one cent on one to two
and a quarter ounces, varying with
llie size up to one pound, which is fif
teen cents.
Officials of the local office say that
several complaints of non-delivery of
mail addressed to Canadian points
had been received. Failure to af
fix the customs stamps, they said was
the cause in many instances. Com
plaints have come to the attention of
the Federal postoffice department
from all parts of the county and for
the purpose of avoiding future trouble
notification of the requirements of
the Canadian customs officials w$s
sent out.
REV. A. L. E. WEEKS
DENIES CHARGES
Declares That He Did Not
Embezzle Money From
Church
From News & Observer.!
Wilson, April 14 In today'.- issue
of the Wilon Tunes Hev. A. L. K
Weeks, colored, prints a long article
defending himself against certain
charges preferred against him by
some of the members of his church
and published in a Wilson special to
the News and Observir.
In reply to the charge that he has
misappropriated church funds the
colored pastor says, "1 hare Ui ray
possession ait facts a;;d can prove or
show that every penny givtu me by
the church has gone for the purpose
for which it wa.- given."
As to the effort to foK-c 1pm to re
sign the pastorate of the church. Itev
Weeks says that it is a tule of his
church that when the offietrs want
the pastor to have thev give him
three months notice and he is stand
ing on his rights laid down in the
rules of the chuich. He . i vs lie holds
in his possesion u letter written
June 26, 1914, Mutiny that on the
19th of June. 1914. he wtt. called as
pastor of the chinch for twelve
months at a salary of seventy dollars
a month, the letter signed by the
clerk of the church and the acting
moderator of the meeting
In the anginal dispat'di from Wil
son it wa. stated that the members of
the church who are opposed to Rev.
A. L. K. Weeks charge that he em-
bezi'.ed ten dollars si nt bv the church
to the association at Raleigh. In an
swer to this, the minister print, a re
ceipt for ten dollars signed by X. K.
Roberts, secretary.
Another charge was made to the
effect that the minister appropriated
to his own use ten dollars intended
for foreign missions. In the course
of hiit statement he says:
"At the time of the educational and
missionary convention which met in
Hamlet. Nov. 10 to 13, the church had
no money in hand with which to pay
pastor's traveling expenses to and
from the convention and to give to
the objects of the convention. There
fore on Sunday before the convention
the pastor asked the missionary com
mittee for ten dollars from the mis
sion fund, while one of the deacons
of the church took after collection
during the day amounting to S5.25,
making a total given the pastor for
theae purposes -1 .'.' The money
was spent at follows: $7.50 traveling
expenses, S5 to represent the church
in the convention at tbown in the con
ventional minutes, while three dollars
were given or distributed in the fol
lowing collections: Home and For
eign missions, old ministers, minister's
conference and the Winston Orphan
age, making a total spent of $15.50."
FRENCH TROOPS HAVE MADE
SOME GAINS
Paris, April 16 French troops
have gained a mile in the sharp fight
ing in Upper Alsaoe. Further gains
Imve been made in the battle still
raging in the 8t. Mihiel region. The
French have maintained aO positions
where oo advance was made.
NEW RERN COTTON MARKET
(By O. W. Taylor ft Boa.)
MiddHaf 0
Middling 9 l-it
Good Middling .- .0 S4t
UwQradee Ac to 7c
OTVT. OfTlCULS
TO BE GRILLED
Investigation to Be Made of
Plan tt Wreck
Bank
Waahiartaa, April 15 -Le D
sal in ta aafeaae of Secretary hta
Adoo aad Camrrtmlli r of the Cur
rency Joan Bkalton William hat
been givea aa other in the depart
ment of jasttee aad hat begun ex
amiaatioa of the aomplaint of the
Riggs Natiaaal Bank, charging the
treasury oaVrala with persecution of
the Riggs institution snd conspiracy
to wreck ft.
Comptroller Williams said every
effort would be made to have the
government's ens.- to the com
plaint ready for preetntatioa to the
District of Columbia supreme court
on Friday. Mr. Brandies is expect
ed to write the answer and Jesse C.
Adkins and United states District
Attorney Ihay to aid in the argu
ment in court.
There ia much interest among
lawyers in the suggestion that the
government'! first pica to the bank's
complaint might, be that the courts
lacked power to review an action of
an executive officer.
$2,000 FOR THE
WOMAN'S CLUB
Raleigh Organization Made
This Much From A
poncert
Raleigh, April 15. Raleigh's Wom
an; Club found itself enriched by
$2,000 this morning when it counted
after the Damrosch Symphony Or
chestra played a double date yester
day. The artistic and tinancial success
followed a month of strenuous ad
vertising that brought several hun
dred North Carolinians from all parts
of the State. With the artists in
grand opera that Damrosch brough
with hie orchestra, Campbell, tenor,
Pieco barritone; Miss Grace Reams,
i soprano and Mrs. Tillotson Allcoek,
i contralto: Damrosch supplemented
his night datf wjlli ;i city chorus of
195 voices.
This feature as n piece of pure art
ranked high, the chorus being train
ed by Prof. Albert Mildonburg, of
Meredith College and recently elect
ed dean of the music department.
The chorus sang the sextette from
Lucia in magnificent style and cli
maxed the event with that number.
The proceeds will go to the con
struction of the handsome new club
home, a building to cost $20,000.
The club eqv, has the biggest part
of $6,000 and is starting gif in thjs
bad year finely.
This afternoon the argument in the
case of rttafe against Sol Jeffries and
James Hockaday, Wako Fprest, col
ored deputies, was. finished and the
jury takes the issue tomorrow.
These deputies are charged with
murdering one Prank Wfok, whom
they were trying to arrest three years
ago, Tha case hasn't muoh interest
outside the argument, W. C. Doug
lass, appearing with the State made
the finest sort of a piece of vaudeville
when he pictured a brass buttoned
black attempting to arrest another
black, the most humiliating possible
thing, he said, that could come to an
offender. He did not think negro
deputies conducive to law and order
in the South.
The men, of coarse, ork4 n $0
colored district whieh is segregated
and the officers here contend that
it is good scheme. It is believed
that the ur wity find little against
them.
GEN. ME CaaR
TO BE SPEAKER
Chosen to Deliver Commen
cement Address At
Oak Ridge
Oak Ridge, April 15. Gen. Julian
S. Can will be the principal speaker
at the Commencement of Oak Ridge
Institute this year, Tuesday May
18th. Gen Carr was to hare been
the orator or last year's commence
ment, but on account of the fire,
the data bad to be ohanged, and Gea.
Carr's attendance at the Confederate
Reunion at Jacksonville, Ma., made
a conflict; his selection, accordingly,
was deferred till this rear.
The commencement, tint year, ia
to bo a "House Warming." or cele
bration of the erection of the new
building.
The Bute will ba represented by
the Hon. E. L. Daughtridge, lieu
tenant Governor, who will delirer
the diplomas.
Hon. J. T. Joy nor hat bean Invit
ed to attend and the colleges to tend
representatives.
Mr. J. W. Hester of Oxford wiH
delirer the Alumni Address which
this year will be on the Life and Work
of Prof. M. H. Hoik,
Rot. A. G. Dixon, aa alumnus of
the institution, will preach the ser-
The alumni of school an contri
buting to the ref araiahing of tka
Literary Society Halls with ihUfaay
"hairs upholstered ia leather with a
name plate in turn. Praetieaily all
hare buna tpokoa for, and the total
cost wiH ezeeed IBOO.
Waru extra mmrtj htg bolt Pra
tta Baitoa far the paai iwWv rears.
Carefcl aeid ssaeataaa V roa are
at giag to ptaat but ea men get
the beat I have ia. I hare it, made
two hales to aerat the paat rear With
only 400 lb, at Fay's 8.44 fertiliser
to tm For sale at $1.00 karaafl.
F. O. B OnamtaL Afi orders mast
be sMwoapeasei with Caah, P. 0.
or Cheeks. Hare limited
uiy Order at tarty as possible.
E. J. WHITE COTTON SEED CO.
Oriental, N. C
SEED CORN FOR SALE Rich
ardaon's Proline Bead Corn This
Cora mads at the rate of 10
bushels mora to the acre t has aay
other Prolific Cora grows the
pact season at the Farm Lift
School aad refer you to County
Demonstrator J. W. Soars, Vance
boro, N. C, as to its purity and
yield. Price $2.50 par bushel.
Cash with oider. O. T. Riehard
soa, Bellair Farm, Now Bern V. C.
Phone 1120-2.
PHILATHEAS AND
BARACAS TO MEET
Will Gather In the State's
Capital On Next
Wednesday
The fifth annual convention of the
North Carolina Baraca-Philathea As
sociation will meet in Raleigh next
week, the convention dates being
April 22-25, inclusive. Information
from State headquarters and advices
from the classes indicate that this
will be one of the greatest meetings
in the history of the State organiza
tion. A program that will occupy the time
of the delegates during nearly all their
waking moments from Thursday even
ing to Sunday evening, and on which
every section of the State is represent
ed, han been completed.
Pay Plan Popular
Delegates will this year pay for en
tertainment during the convention
according to a decision of the State
executive committee some months ago
This is the first religious organiza
tion to adopt the plan for a State
meeting, so far as known. Notwith
standing this fact, the association of
ficers believe the attendance will be at
least normal. Indeed, the plan has
met with general favor. Mot dele
gates prefer to oome free-handed and
to go away without having been plac
ed under obligations for free enter
tainment. Not to deprive the people
of the convention city of the inspiia
tion and pleasure afforded by the pres
ence of these splendid young people
in their homes, however, the local
committee on entertainment are ar
ranging to place as many delegates
as possible in approved private homes
at 1 dy.
Separate tUonventlpns
Morning and afternoon meetings of
the Baracas wjll be held in the First
Baptist church. At the same hours
the Philatea wilf meet in Edenton
Streot Methodist church. A joint
meeting will be held each evening at
the Baptist Tabernacle.
Sunday afteinqqn there will be a
big parade of delegates, visitors, and
local Baracas and Philatheas, led by
bauds, ffrom their convention churches
to the great oity audotorium, where
the convention sermon will be preach
ed by Rot, Dr, Oilbert T, Rowe of
High Point. Governor Looke Craig,
a Baraea teacher, is also on the pro
gram for this session.
State Officers
North Carolina Baraea Association
-l)i . George E. pennis, president,
Charlotte;' jj. W .Sorrell, first vice
president, Durham; N. Bqokner, sec
ond vice-president, Anbf ville; Prof. J.
Edward Allen, third vice-president,
Wanenton; W. M. Craig, fourth vice
president, Wilmington; G. M. Bagwell
secretary-treasurer, Winston-Salem-
North Carolina State Philathea Un
ion Mitt Cfcrittine Thomai, presi
dent, Hnndcrsop; Miss Be.-tha Gates,
first vise-president, Burlington; Mitt
Gertrude Powell, second vietrpra
dent, Oxford; Mitt Maty G. Rowe, re
cording secretary, Tarboro; Mis Mar
garet Atkins, treasmer, Ashtriue.
Mist Flossie A. Byrd. general sec
retary, Oroensboro
The Baraca-Philathea movement it
interdenominationsl. The numbat of
plats organizations in different denom
ination! In the State it approximate
ly as follows, not including iaaiar
Baraea or Philathea classes.
rrVfcas
Baptist 4M
Methodist. .; rr,
Presbyterian 43
Methodist Protestant U
Christian at
Fritndt I
Moravian It
Reformed 7
Lutheran
Union It
PalladMa
Raptist. ata
Methodist til
Presbyterian S
Methodiat Protestant M
Christian Si
Lutheran If
Reformed I
Friends 10
Union 16
Including Junior organizations,
there an something over eighteen
hundred classes ia tka State.
I. H. Iraasaaa. of WOmrArtea,
was in Kaw Ban rtateraar.
Farmers Attention : i
WE ARE STILL SELLING GOODS TO
FARMERS AT FARMERS UNION PRICES
i
Farris Nassef
C. L. SPENCER
Hay, Grain, Feedstuffs, Etc.
New Bern, N. C.
THE DULY JOURNAL M PER YEAR
We Have Decided
ta extend aur Great First af the Year Sale for another 15
days. If yoa hare not boufht, now is the time to save
money. Just call and let tts show you the goods and prioaa
A. B. SUGAR
Middle St.
To Our Out-of-Town Customers
You are cordially invited to make our stares head:
quarters when in the city and when in need of any
thing usually carried by a first class drug store send
us your order we will ftive it prompt attention and
mail it to you on the first outgoing Parcel Post.
Bradham Drug Co.
The Rexall Stores
Cor. Middle & Pollock Cor. Bread & Middl
New Bern Banking & Trust Co.
IN ADDITION TO OUR
Banking and Savings Departments
JJ-flS COMPANY IS
Fully Equipped to Serve the Public in Any
Trust Capacity
CAPITAL $100,000
4 Per Cent. Interest Pid qn Sayings and Time pepaits
Mr, Farmer
Make your farm stand for
something, give it a name and use
Stationery the same as any other
business man. Write us for prices
on and Samples of
Letter Heads, Bill Heads
Statements,
Shippnig Tags, Envelopes
or any other form
you want printed. Prices righ
work and stocl guaranteed.
Phone or Write Us
$ $
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Phone 8
45 Pollock St
NewBern, - N, C,
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