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BILL ARPS LETTER. t The Georria Philosopher Writes i About the Bible and its Good Influences. (? The family it* the most iinpor- ' taut institution upon the earth. I It is the hope of the world. Its J influence is greater than that of . kings, emperors orcabinets. Pa- . rents and children gathered j around the hearthstone in sepa rate families make up communi- ! ties, and they make States and ] np.tions and choose their rulers. ' As the families are, so is the gov- ' eminent?good or bad? men?un- , married men are merely individ uals and feel no great responsi bilitity outside of their individual ' comfort and welfare. But pa- ' rents are concerned for their chil dren. We live for them and would die for them, consequently we want good government that 1 will protect them. But it is not every family who feels this deep concern. From my window I see the homes of many neighbors and count on my fingers those whose presence is a safeguard to community, and the rest are of but little consequence. If they were to move away it would not add to our peril. So it is in all communities. The few protect the man v. So It is in church and State, twenty members of our legislature control its legisla tion. Ten members of an aver age church membership give the church its character. Sodom was destroyed because ten good men could not be found. If all men were good we would have no need of courts or prisons. But for every church that fs set on a hill there is a jail in the valley. I hear the preacher calling and the bell tolling from the one. and im agine I hear the devil calling from the other, and he cries out us the sergeants did in the old muster language, "Oh, yes! Oh, yes! All who belong to Captain Satan's Company parade here." And the people are going and coming all the time, some to one call and more to the other. But as the devil can't be heard afar off, he goes about calling, and even in vades the sanctuary and calls aloud while the preacher is preaching. "Mail never erects a house of prayer But what the devil builds a pulpit there. And 'twill be found upon examination The devil has the largest congregation." His pulpit is always utthe rear end where the young people love to sit, and you can tell how pop ular he is by the number who sit there. I was ruminating about this family institution and its great importance in the world because I have been reading about it in the Apocrypha, which" is one of our famiiy bibles, i heard a preacher say once that a Bible with the Apocrypha in it should not stay in his house. Well, it took 1,82(5 years to exclude it from the Protestant Bible, nnd most of it is in the Roman Catho lic Bible yet. What is called a ?acred canon was not established until the sixteenth century, and for centuries before that almost every great theologian had his own catalogue of inspired books as he believed them. For 80 years only ten of Paul's epistles were admitted. The Book of St. James and the Revelation of St. John were excfuded. So were Esther and Daniel and Jonah in the Old Testament. Luther tried to have Hebrews, and James and Judge, aud the Revelations of St. John excluded, but failed. But all differences oi opinion seem to have been harmonized at the council of Trent by all Christians and the Apocrypha was left in, not as an inspired part but to be read for religious instruction. In 182(5 it was excluded from the Protestant Bible, but it remains in many of the old time family Bibles and is in one of mine. I dare to peruse it some times, es pecially "The Wisdom of Jesus, the Son of Sirach," which is called Ecclesiasticus, which has 50 chapters and is as full of maxims and morals and instruction for the family as are the Proverbs of Holomon. Addison says that if this book had been left in the canon, or if it had the name of ?ome great Creek philosopher, it would have commanded the ad miration of mankind. To my mind it is the condensation of wisdom for family government. It is as pointed ana pungent as anything that Solomon ever wrote. This Jesus was a better man than Solomon. He lived and wrote 300 years after Mula chi, the last of the prophets. In t.he close of his narrative concern ing Moses and the prophets, he ?ays of Solomon: "By his body he was brought into subjection and didst stain his honor and pollute his seed and brooght wrath upbn his children, and uis kingdom was divided." I never lid tave a profound admiration 1J or t) man who said, "Rejoice, Uh,, c roung man, in the wife of thy t ro'ubh, and l?e thou always rav-!? shed with her love," and then f foes off and marries MOO wives 1 md takes 700 concubines, ilis j jrecepts were good but hisexaui- i lie was bad, very bad. My doc- f trine has always been that a man las no more right to two wives I than a woman has to two hus bands. liet hiin stand by his marriage vows. This is tne in unction of Jesus, the son of 1 Sirach. As a sample of his wis- i lorn let me quote: i "A man that breakelh his wed- j lock, saving, 'Who seeth me; am i I not compassed about with i Jarkness,' he forgetteth that the i 8yes of the Lord are ten thousand l times brighter than the sun." j; "Blessed is he who hath a vir- J tuous wife, for the number of his i days shall be doubled." 11 "A silent and loving woman is I a gift from the Lord." | < "A fool will peep in at the door i of the house, but he that is well i nurtured will stand without." 11 "Do not banquet upon borrow- j i ed money." j "Commend not a man for his i outward appearance, for many kings have sat down upon the ground, and one that was never [! thoughtof hath worn thecrown." "A friend cannot be known in J prosperity, and an enemy cannot be hid in adversity." "Use not much the eompanv of a woman who is a singer lest thou be captured with her voice." "Itejoicenot over thine enemy i when he is dead." "Lend not to hiin who is higher than thyself, but if thou lendest J count it lost." "Sit not down with the wife of another man in thine arms, for it will bring thee to destruction." "My son, help thy father in his J old age and thou shalt have joy in thine own children." "Have no fellowship with those) who are mightier and richer than thyself, for how can the earthen kettle and the pot agree." "When a rich man speaketh every man boldest his tongue and extol it to the clouds, but if a poor man speak they say, 'What fellow is this?'" "Build not a house with an other man's money, for it is like j gathering stones for the tomb of thy burial." "A thief is better than a com mon liar." "Accustom not thy month to swearing nor to naming of the Holy one." "Against him that is niggard of his meat his neighbors shall murmur." "Keep a sure watch over a shameless daughter lest she make thee a laughingstock and a by word in the city and a reproach I among thy people." Whether this book be inspired or not. it is full of devotion to (Jod and gratitude for His good ness. The Old Testament He brews canon was made up and closed before this Jesus lived or perhapsEcclesiasticus would have been embraced in it. It is cer tainly entitled to asmuchconsid- j eration as Solomon's Song, for there is not a vulgar or lascivi ous expression in it. This much about the Apocry pha will answer some inquiries I have received, two of them from preachers. I have long letter from my old friend, Bishop Tur ner, concerning that recent pub lication of William Hannibal Thomas; that bill of indictment against the negroes of his own : race. He denounces Thomas, j His opinion is that some learned ! white man wrote the book and paid Thomas for the use of his name. He says this is the opinion of those in South Carolina who know this scape gallows. He says, "I am well acquainted with him; knew him during the war in front of Richmond, where some Southern hero shot off one his arms, and it is a pity he did not shoot his head off. He is now receiving an exhorbitant pension from the United States government. If there ever was money paid to a dog, it is paid to him. If the hite people of the Souuh knew as much about his rascality and villainy as he has told me, they would seek his blood If our preachers are so bad as he repre sents them, what did he stop for and join the party of thedevil. He was one of the preachers of my church and will lie until hell opens her arms to receive him," etc. I have been following Bishop Turner's course ever since the war, and have never known aught , against him as a man or a Chris Itian. In the year I860, when our | jieople at Rome were under the ; oppression of a Spanish Captain, joneDela Mesa, Bishop Turner acted as a mediator and tried to make our condition more tolera ble. He made a speech at Reese's Ipring, near Koine, that we all lommeuded, and did hits utmost o prevent that Spaniard iroin < txercising his foul domination ind tyranny. Ever since then lis pen and voice have been for jeace between the races. I am jleased to speak of him as "my riend." Bill Akp. ag:ht on a Horrible crime of Long: i Agro. Poultney, Vt., March 27.? W orkmen removing a cellar wall i inder a dilapidated building: just, lorth of the bridge that crosses Fuir Haven Itiver, a quarter of a ; nile above Carvers Falls, have Apparently unearthed evidence j vhich solves the mystery of a murder which occurred seventy years ago. The discovery was made by i accident, the laborers having [alien into a pit while trying to lift some heavy stones. The pit ivas about eight feet deep, with a solid stone wall about twenty inches thick surrounding it. In the centre of the pit was set a solid iron post, attached to which was a heavy iron chain and an old fashioned pair of handcuffs. Nearby was a heap of human bones. Inquiry disclosed the fact that in 1831 Perry Rorden, i a young Frenchman, brought his young wife to Poultney to live in the house which the work men are tearing down. She was witty and vivacious and attracted con siderable attention. In a short time Borden became jealous of her and forbade her visiting a certain tavern nearby. The wife would not submit to be dictated to. One night in November, 1831, she was at the place when at about 10 o'clock Borden called for her. She left the place with him. She never was seen by her friends after that. Mr. Borden said his wife had deserted him and tied to Canada. After a year Borden w ent away, and was not heard of again until 1882, when he suddenly re-ap peared in town. He said he had been at sea for the 50 years he had been away. His mind seemed ; shattered. He went to the little' house and remained twcl years, J neighbors supplying him with j provisions, lie finally became j sick and the town took charge of him. lie died in 1897 and was buried in the potters field. The discoveries made by the workmen have led everyone in this vicinity to believe that Bor den chained his wife in the under ground cellar and left her to die a horrible death. He Kept Hts Leg. Twelve years ago J. W. Sulli van, of Hartford,Conn., scratched his leg with a rusty wire. Inflam mation and blood poisoning set J in. For two years lie suffered in tensely. Then the best doctors J urged amputation, "but," he; writes, "1 used one bottle of Elec tric Hi; its and 1% boxes of Buck lctfs Arnica Salve and.my leg was sound and well as ever " Fui Eruptions, Eczema, Tetter, Salt Kheum, Sores and all blood disorders Electric Bitters has no rival on earth. Try them. Hood Bros, will guarantee satisfaction i or refund money. Only 50 cents, i Another Attempt to Restrict the Cotton Acreage. Harvey Jordan, resident of the Southern Cotton Growers' Pro tective Association, has issued a call to the cotton producers of the Southern Statdfc, asking them to meet at the county seat of every county in the South on Saturday, April 6th, for the pur pose of adopting some plan to restrict the acreage of the cotton crop for the season 1901 and 1902. President Jordan urges imme diate action by the farmers before the seed for the next crop are placed in the ground. He claims that the farmers will not be able i to meettheirobligationsassumed for guano, and other farming i materials with the price of cotton I at 6 cents, which ne confidently I predicts will result from a large acreage.?Atlanta Dispatch. A Testimonial trom Old England. "I consider Chamberlain's Cough Remedy the best in the world for Bronchitis," says Mr. William Savory, of Warrington, England. "It has saved my wife's life, she having been a martyr to Bronchitis for over six years, be ing most of the time confined to her bed. She is now quite well." Sold by Hood Bros. Suspected it. Lawyer?Have you ever seen the prisoner at the bar? Witness?No, Sir; but I have seen him many times when I I strongly suspected he had been | at it.?Chicago News. BURNING OF THE JEFFERSON. ?illy the Two Clock Towers and Part of the Court Left ot the Aarnifi cent Hotel?All the Guests Except One Escaped Without Injury. Richmond, March -10.? The magnificent Jefferson Hotel, the pride of Richmond, was practi cally wiped out by fire etirly this morning. All the remains of the splendid structure, which was built and furnished by the latej liewis Ginter, at a cost of over! $1,000,000, art the two clock towers and part of the court fronting on Franklin street. The fire was discovered near midnight high up in the Main street section of the building and was not con sidered serious at first. The hotel apparatus was brought into play, but the hose burst. The names spread rapidly and messengers were sent through the building to awaken the guests, many of whom had to be dragged out of bed. There was a general rush toward the Franklin street part. The fire made an immense light and in a short time the J vicinity was thronged with all classes, many persons giving ex pression to tlieir emotion in tears. The fire department worked hurriedly, but under the greatest difficulties owing to the j height of the building. At one time it was thought that the middle section and the Franklin street section could be saved, but the former was soon swept out and the latter practically ruini d. In the latter were a number of very valuable pictures and Valentine's marble statue of Jefferson. The statue was saved with the head broken off and the pictures were gotten out,1 as were much of the drapery and furniture. All the guests escaped. Mr. i Richards, a traveling man of Danville, Va., was the only guest, hurt. He broke his leg falling down a flight of stairs. A Rich- j mond boy named Robertson is missing. It is feared he was caught in the burning building.! Several firemen were more or less injured, but none seriously. The insuranceon the building is about $650,000. The Jefferson was opened about [ six years ago and was one of the1 finest hotels in the South. It occupied a full half block and was regarded as practically proof against fire. The tire originated in the linen room, and, it is sup posed, from a defective electric wire. All the guests in the Main street part lost their baggage. The emptying of the hotel of guests was singularly free from any dramatic scenes, owing to the wide corridors and the num-1 ber of stair-cases. The Best Remedy tor Rheumatism. QUICK RELIEF FROM PAIN*. All who useChamberlain'sPain Balm for rheumatism are de lighted with the quick relief from pain which it affords. When speaking of this Mr. I): N. Sinks, of Troy, Ohio, says: "Sometime ago I had a severe attack of rheumatism in my arm and shoulder. I tried numerous reme dies but got no relief until 1 was recommended by Messrs. Geo. F. Parsons & Co., druggists of this place, to try Chamberlain's Pain Balm. They recommended it so highly that I bought a bottle. I was soon relieved of all pain. I have since recommended this lini ment to many of my friends, who : agree with me that it is the best remedy for muscular rheumatism j in the market." For sale by Hood Bros. A Fearful Strue^le. I Harper's Bazar. "There goes a man who is I having a fearful struggle with j his appetite." "What, that clean-cut, healthy j looking chap over there?" "That's the one." "Why, he doesn't look like a slave to any appetite." "He is, though; andhe'shaving an awful time of it. He grits his teeth, and succeeds in subduing it for a whole day, maybe, but the very next it conquers him, and he s just as bad off as ever." "What is it^whisky?" "Oh, no! He never brinks." "Morphine?" "No, indeed." "Well, what is it that has such a hold on hirn?" "His appetite, I told \*ou." "For food?" "Certainly." "Well, wliat'sthe matter with it? Why has he any struggle j over it? "Why, he says thut if he could cnly go without eatingfor about i month he could get the girl he's engaged to an Faster present I as elaborate as she expects." Bob Burdette, "To My Son." B So you are not going to (.-Lurch thin morning, my son ? Ah, yes; 1 see. "The music is not good." That'sapity. That's what you go to churtdi for, to hear the music we demand. "And the pews are not comfort able." That's too bad?the Sab bath is the day of rest, and wego to church for repose. The less we j do through the week the more rest we clamor for on the Sab bath. "The church is so far away; it 8 is too far to walk, and I detest c riding in a street car, and they're . always crowded on the Sabbath." This is, indeed, distressing. Some times when 1 think how much farther away Heaven is than the | church, and that there are no conveyances on the road of any | description, I wonder how some of us are going to get there. j _ "And tlie sermon is so long always." All these things are, indeed, to be regretted. I would J regret them more sincerely, my j boy, did I not know that you will | often squeeze into a stuffed street car, with a hundred other men, breathing an incense of whisky, beer and tobacco, hang to a strap by your eye lids for two miles, I and then pay fifty cents for the j privilege of sitting on a rough plank in the hot sun for two hours longer, while in the intervals of the game a scratch band will blow discordantthunderoutof adozen misfit horns right into our ears, and come home to talk the rest of the family into astateof aural paralysis about the "dandiest! game you ever saw played on! that ground." Ah, my boy, you seewhatstay- J ing away froip church does. It! develops a habit of lying. There isn't one man in a hundred who could go on the witness stand and give, under oath, the same reasons for not going to church that he gives to his family every Sunday morning. My son, if you didn't think you ought to go, you wouldn't make any excuses for not going. No man apolo gizes for doing right. A Raffing, Roaring Flood. Washed down a telegraph line j which Chas. C. Ellis, of Lisbon, j la., had to repair. "Standing waist deep in icy water," he i writes, "gave me a terrible cold and cough. It grew worse daily. Finally the best doctors in Oak land, Neb., Sioux City and Omaha said I had Consumption and could not live. Then 1 began using L)r. King's New Discovery and was wholly cured by six bot tles." Positively guaranteed for Coughs, Colds and all Throat and Lung troubles by Hood Pros. Price 50c. Cabbages to a Finish. Memphis Scimitar. An old darky, who lives in the thickets across the river, came to Memphis the other day to get i his pension check cashed. After ' receiving his money, which j amounted to $11, the old ex slave sauntered down Front street to a produce house and bought three crates of cabbages. When they were delivered at the wharf late that afternoon the old man was there and received them with a mouth watering in anticipation of the good time ahead. "Whut yer gwine ter do wid dem cabbages?" inquired the negro drayman who delivered them. "Eat 'em." was the quick response. "Pse bin fiee forty years, and dis is de first time I'se jnadde money to buy'nuff cab bage. I'se gwine ter eat cabbage j till i furgit de way ter my mriui? Brigadier General Funston. Washington, March 50.?The j following important army ' appointments were announced at ! the White House tonight: To be | major general in the United States army, Brigadier General Lloyd Wheaton, vice Miles, pro moted to lieutenant general; to lie brigadier generals in the regular army, Colonel Jacob H. Smith; Seventeenth United States Infantry, brigadier general vol unteers, vice Daggett, retired; to be brigadier general, Frederick Funston, United States Volun teers, vice Wheaton, promoted. The Best Blood Purifier. The blood is constantly being purified bv the lungs, liver and Kidneys, keep these organs in a healthy condition and the bowels regular and you will have no need of a bloo 1 purifier. For this pur pose there is nothing equal to Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets, one dose of them will do you. more good than a dollar bottle of the best blood ? purifier. Price 25 cents. Sam ples free at Hood Pros.'s drug store. ;DWA?O W. POU. p H. BROOKS' POU & BROOKS, Attorneys-at-Law, smithfield, h. c. Claimi ColleoUd EilaUi Settled Praotice ia Jehniton and adjoining oouutiei. L. A. MUNS. M. D., Physician and Surgeon WILSON'S MILLS, N. C. Residence near Mr. G. F. Uzzle. office neat tore of Messrs. C. M. & W. G. Wilson. A* alls promptly answered. J13-8m DR. S. P. J. LEE, dentist Smithfield, : : N. C. Office in Smithwick Building. W. W COLE, Attornev-at-Law, SMITHFOELD, N. C. Practices wherever services desired. Claims collected and estates settled. Office Id Smlthwirk Building. Dr. J. W. Hatcher, DENTIST, Selma N. C. Office in Hare & Son's Drug Store. FLOYD H. PARRISH, 8MITHFIELD, N O. Fresh Meats, Beef and Ice Highest Prices Paid for 'Hides tw lleef cattle wanted. HOTEL DICKENS, SMITHFIELD, N. C. Transients and Boarder s On Main Business Stbeet. Kates Reasonable. MRS J. E. DICKENS, Proprietress Treasurer's Card. John W. Futrell, Treasurer of Johnatox County, will be in Smithfleld ever/ Monday and Saturday and Court Weeks Office in back room of the Hank of Smith held. In his absence county orders will t>? oaid at the Hank For Washing Clothes. JY The Chinese Peerless Washing Tablets Is to all appearance a piece of white wax, having neither smeli, taste nor strength, yet they will remove every particie of dirt, etc , from theconracst and heaviest of garments down to the finest of fabric Without Rubbing or Iiv jury to the Clothes. They aie for sale by the following mer chants in this vicinity: J. R. Ledbetter, Princeton. Cotter, Underwood & Co., Smithfleld. Z. Taylor, Pine Level. J. W. Llles, Selma. J. Stancili & Son, Keniy. Hays, Lamm & Co., Lucama. J. W. Sanders, Four Oaks. Surles Bargain Hoase, Benson. A. I). Newberry, Dunn. If You Want to Save Money We advise you to buy your good* of R. I, I.assiter. He keeps every thing you need on the farm, and sells at a very low price, too. He has a fresh ear load of Flour, Meal, Corn and Oats. Watt Plows and Casting. Dixie Plows and Casting. Cotton Plows and Casting. Clipper Casting. 100 Kegs of Nails Cheaper than you can Buy them. PULVERIZED BORAX, 15c. He has the best Sprayer for spraying; tobacco in the world. Now If you want non-trust Fertilizers, the best made fo* cotton or tobacco, cheap as anybody, go to R. I. LASS ITER. 8PILONA. N. C Will H. Laasiter, FOUR OAKS. N. C. WHITE'S BLACK LINIMENT. 2.r?c. mottles reduced to 15c. "I have used White's Black Lioiment nnd his other horiw medicines with jrreat success and found them to lie as represented. "W. L. Fuller, "Smithtleld, N. C." For sale by Allen Lee, Smithfleld, N. (I Druggist.
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