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Editorial Comment
Colonel Fairbrottieb, the
versatile editor of Everrthimr.
published at ureensboro, is rather
hard on the man who fails to pay
nmmntlff fnr hn nnircnannii 1
says:
According to the new postal rnlintrs
the man who owes for his paper more
than a year will miss its regular visits, the cause of his down fall and that ,, jui u1"' ,e BUW amply capaoie, only tne moun-
The new ruling says that when a man it was no wonder that the people shai1 ddeD mJ beart also. I am tains were not the field for his de
owe a vear and fails to nar the tmb- of this countrv arose in their miirht glad that the year just gone has velopment. As time elapsed, his
Usher cannot enjoy the newspaper pos
tal rate. This means a hardship to the
fellow who pads circulation and who
boasts all the readers in the state. But
it is a good thing for the publisher. If
a man owes he can be dropped from
the list asd the subscriber cannot get
angry. It is no longer the question as
to whether a man's credit is good it is
simply complying with the law to
drop the name from the list and mark
np that a dead beat has been discov
ered. Our experience is that a few.
real good folks let their subscrip
tions run sometimes for several
years. J ust seems to be a matter
about which some folks are rather
careless, probably because of the
small amount usually charjred.
Further on, the Colonel gets off
the following:
The man. it has been related, who
cheats the printer out of a single cent.
will never reach that heavenly land
where Old Elijah went. So the thiag
to do is apparent.
No county in the union has a
better class of colored citizens
than Anson. As every where, you
will find some who are far from
what thei' should be, but taken
all together, no county with the
same number of colored people in
it can boast of having as little
trouble or of a class better to pay
their debts. Wo were reminded
of this a few days ago when
"Uncle Joe"Ratliff of GulledgCj
wwDsnip came in u renew "w
subscription ana to py ior some
time in advance. He
is a veter
an colored preacher of the county
and has always lived near his
birthplace. For forty -one years
he was pastor of four churches
and during the time, served them
with unsual punctuality. When
his age and feeble condition pre
vented his filling all appointments
regularly, he gave up his churches,
but in speaking of the matter, he
aid, I just can't quit preachiDg.
The Lord called me and He ex
pects me to keep right on as long
as I can." The white people who
know "Uncle Joe" and his family.
steak in the most complimentary
- m t ur tio, ;e Artiniv I
.1.
tA. I UU VI UICIU. . ilU J WIUIJ I
1S
an unusually conscientious soul,
appreciating the good in the
world and deploring the evil as
much as does any man living to-
Iday with the same intelligence.
The city of Statesville is having
quite a deal of agitation over the
question of Sabbath observance.
all of which will do good whether
those preaching reform get what
they ask for or not, the fact that
the subject is being discussed to
some extent means that people
will begin to think and act, many
of them, accordingly. The Land
mark says:
The principal thing, though is to put
a stop to selling merchandise on Son
day. This is the beet feature of the agi
tation. A mat has jxut as much right
to open his store and sell pianos and
bet steak and hair brushes and cab
bage as they hare to sell tobacco and
drinks. Tha American people hara
imply developed the drinking and
smoking habit to such an extent that it
takes ssren dayj in tla wak to sitis
fy It.
This do3S not apply to this city, how
ever. There is better order here than
In any other town of this size in the
State. Not a single druggist here sells
drinks on Sunday, and this is about the
only city in the State where they do
not The Sabbath Is generally observed
$ere by all the citiiansj and seldom, if
ever, is this peaceful condition ruffled.
Relative to tse agitation we might say
that Stateeville already has the local
feature of the agitation, and that we
cannot obtain natioaal features until
the entire country agrees to them.
For Wadesboro we can say the
same is true and there is very lit
tle complaint that the town has
seen proper to forbid such sales.
Not only are the people of this
town usually Sabbath observers
but they are noted for church at
tendance. Last week a stranger
from a distance, who has spent a
few months here, remarked that
more business men attended church
and were active church members
tban is the case in most places the
sizo of Wadesboro.
EITHER tho !OU Man", himself I
,f "uL
or some one else in that goldplat-
ed, over-bet sanctum" where they I
"grind out" the copy for that en
tertaining magazine, Everything,
has seen fit to comment on a para
graph we wrote recently. Ifc says:
The, Ansonian, a very readable
and very intelligent paper publish
ed at Wadesboro. N. C. has this
to say on the Treat white-winged
question now fluttering near the
hearts of many prominent politic-
1. 1 1 a IIS.
Tr cAntanin m pnnnrr man t
a term in the penitentiary last
a as cvvuivuviuK u w uuua; aiauu
week. Jndjre Jones reminded him
of the fact that whiskey had been
- and drove the saloons out. Com-
ineawav from the courtroom,
young man was seen,
man was seen, Who has
. .
lately settled for some misbehavior
while drunk and for which he
spent a while in the town prison,
buying a money order and sending
it to a well-known whiskey dealer
in Wimington. Small wonder is
there that the people all over this
state are now crying out for a state
law to prohibit the sale of intoxi
cating liquors. " v
In our beloved Greensboroshe
of forty-two thousand souls yet
remaining we have hanged some
people because whiskey made them
murderers and the saloons had
before been driven from 'our
midst" and we note that Dur
ham has t had a whole string of
them on the scaffold and more to
follow, and that is a model pro-
ni union ourg.
Those who conduct sanitariums
to relieve men of the passion of
rum will tell you that prohibition
districts send two to one, as com
pared with saloon towns for the
cure and it therefore does not
occur to us that the people are
going after prohibition to stop the
murderers, because prohibition
districts have furnished more raw
material for the callows than dis
tricts not prohibition.
This is the logic of the situation.
These are the facts and God
knows that if some way were de
vised to stop drunkenness it would
be grand to contemplate but pro
hibition districts have not made
good. The figures and the court
records are in evidence.
V e are rather supnsed that our
esteemed - contemporary
should
uke such a stand wben
only a
few months ago it remarked that
Greensboro would never again
have saloons open if the matter
was left to a vote and it does seem
that if saloons furnished less cri
minals than prohibition, why that
progressive city would vote them
back at once. Then, too, in the
issue from which the above is
a viiAW:
i ..i : :f0
1UFruA 'y. v
ion in Kaleigh:
Well, Raleigh is a dry town,
now, and maybe after the old
soaks cret the likker out of their
hides there may be a purer
moral
atmosDhere. Let us hope. Hope
is about all tne re is or lire, any-
.
way, and tney say n springs
eternal in the human breast. The
dispensary did Raleigh much harm,
and naturally it takes a long, time
to get over a serious case.
But the idea of citing Durham
as an ideal prohibition town. Its
against the law they say to sell
whiskey in Durham but from the
news dispatches coming therefrom,
would lead one on the outside to
believe that it is about as easy to
sell the stuff over there and go on
the even tenor of your way as it
would be to sell most any tiling else.
Wadesboro is young in the pro-
hibition business, but we gladly
submit, for the careful considera-
tion of our Greensboro friends, the
. .. . . ... ,
following news irom me mayor
a 0 1 A. A 1 1
court of
this town printed last
week:
The following cases have been
tried since we last published a re
cord of the Mayor's court, Jan
uary 21st, 1908:
France Leak, drunk; fined $2.95.
Leak said that he had the whiskey
on hand when the prohibition law
went into effect.
JohnLomax, drunk; fined$2.95.
Lomax said that he was given his
whiskey by the fireman on the A.
C. L. train.
The Mavor has tried only three
cases during 1908,; all
f10
drunks. Before January last of
the present year, there was an
average of about twenty cases for
drunks each month. The Mayor
is apparently taken a vacation so
far as his official duties are con
cerned. narked For Death.
"Three years ago I was marked for
death. A grave-yard cough was tear
ing my lungs to pieces. Doctors failed
to help me, and hope" had fled, when
my husband got Dr. King's New Dis
corerr." says Mrs. A. C. Williams of
Bac, ky. "The first dose helped me and
improvement kept on - until I had
gained 58 pounds in weight and my
health was fully restored." This medi
cine holds the world's record for heal
ing coughs and colds and Jung and
throat diseases. It prevents pneumonia.
Sold under guarantee at Parsons Drug
Co. 80c and $1.00. - Trial bottle free.
A Rimr rnrrxrfda Tablet after each
meal overcoms indigestion, dyspepsia
and other stomache ills. Two days
trua fre5 . our dealer. Sold by
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MR. fERREL'S LETTER
Writes Atoot Prosperity. Bllai fif-
era. tie.
Editor of The Ansonian
Every week I eagerly read in
your coanty papers everything
that interest the people whom 1
hold in such high regard. What-
ever pertains to their welfare will
I o a matter or great concern
v i .
??e. always when prosperity fills
l?e!f nanas witn good things,
shaI1 , rejoice. w hen misfortune
ben S?04 to oa " ..and th.a
a '.U1U 1UU"U , u lue
hlrrh rrprtimrl ff inrlamnHaniA
I "b fc.'""". V4 .uuvu"""
Happy is the man who is free
from the hurtful influences of the
speculators of Wall Street. He
is the man who has his meat in
11
nis smoKe nouse ana nis corn in
his crib. Did you hear about how
an Anson boy spelled crib? A
teacher in the Savannah neighbor
hood told me he had a little fellow
nine years old studying our good
friend the blue-back. He came
to the word- 'crib." The boy
could spell the.word but could not
pronounce it. Alter several trials
the teacher told him the word spell
ed what his (the boy's) father kept
his corn in. Oh, said the boy.
then it spells sack." Ihe farm-
er whose crib is a sack is in worse
than a peck of trouble," and is
at the disadvantage in every crisis,
He has to pay the highest prices,
Whenever watered-stock collapses
come and trenzied speculations
bring on the dreadful panics and
compel the merchants to cease "to
furnish on time," then the man
whose crib spells sack is over
whelmed world without end.
Whereas the man whose corn is
banked high up in his crib and
the tiers of ' meat in his smoke
house are thick, flavored with
a it v
the savor of Tom-Thumbs" here
and there, can smoke his pipe of
peace and good will to all men
and laugh in the face of a hurri
cane of panics. "
These are davs of rapid progress
not only in principles of materail
development but in qualities of
civilization also. We are the
heirs of all the acres gone by. All
the cood they ever worked out is
ours to use and enjoy, and all
the
evil is. a constant warning to us
Such an inheritance ought to make
us stop and think twice. It should
stimulate us to run a nobler race
and have our heart-throbs to
count in greater reverence for
God, the Giver, and in service to
our fellowmen, co-laborers and
fellow suffers. A friend remark
ed the other day that the thought
the creat fact that it is that
pvptv mjin in this countrv is the
heir of all the good that has been
attained by mankind for these
thousands of years was astonish
insr. To think how poorly he
measured up to his opportunities
humiliated him.
It is very gratifying to see how
the public conscience is becoming
I i. j ii. . i a e it
auiCKenea on me suujeci oi me
I . . , . . - ...
evus tnai amici our commuuiues.
Last week I read in your papers
that "Boob" had with other ne-
groes filled up on blind-tiger whis-
kev. Boob" became too drunk
to travel. His fellow blind-tiger
hunters built a fire to protect his:
friend from the cold. "Boob's"
clothing accidentlly caught fire
and he was horribly burned to
death. A sad tragedy it was in
deed! From several unusual
quarters came promptly "Down
with the abominable blind-tigers."
It is a good slogan. Keep it up,
Ansonians. Blind-tiger whiskey
is an abomination on the face of
the earth, but it is every true man's
duty to help put them down
whether he be a prohibitionist or
not. But not long ago a man loaded
upwith good Wadesboro saloon
whiskey mercilessly stabbed a
sij ui almost to death wkh
A I -
out provocation. I did not bear
from these sources, "Down- with
saloons." Another man loaded
up wth good saloon lipuor shot
his mother dead. You did not
hear so much said about the evils
of saloon whiskey as in the case of
poor "Boob" and the blind-tigers.
Public opinion is making, at the
beginning of the year, an inven
tory of the whole whiskey busi
ness. Blind-tiger whiskey is just
as dangerours and abominable as
saloon whiskey but not a bit more.
They both come from the .same
tra ill ctlr
chargeable, with every crime.' It
is to be hoped that this quickening
of public opinion will grow on
rapidly till every SmithtoWn"
both in Richmond county and
elsewhere contains no blind-tigers.
You would not call them Smith
towns" properly, for each town
has its own name. You know the
namesby which they " are known.
Land a few of the leaders of these
Smith towns in the penitentary and
all will be well. That is the way
they are doing in. the "western
part of the State. Down with all
tigers, for they are all man-killers.
. ." W. J. Feerell."
Raleigh, N. C., Feb. Srd 1908.
' T trust this may - be read by many
sufferers from kidney and bladder trou
ble" writes Mrs.; Joe King, of Wood
land, Tex. "I suffered four years and
could find nothing to give even temporary-
relief. - Our druggist at last in
duced me to try your 80 days treat
ment of Pineules for $1.00 This ' one
bottle has cured me and money could
sot buy the value it has been to me.
Guaranteed. Sold by Martin Drug Go.
USED BIG WORDS
rir Experiment of College BreJ
: CHap la Wila West.
(Washington Star)
- . , .
When the son of the president
of the big Lumber Company came
into the mountains to learn the
business so to speak. 1 knew
within 15 minutes that be come to
I the wrong place, fje was a city
to chao. newlv srajduated and
a -ar o-- . '
thoroughly out of touch with
i everything mountainous. He was
a bright fellow, however, and
distaste grew,and it was all hecould
aonoiio express nis opinion or tne
ujuuuuuu jjcupic, iucir iuanuers,
I M i-A ; . 1 1 :
customs, homes, morals-and every
thing connected with them. He
was wise though to confide in me
alone, and bided his time to get
away to some more congenial clime;
And he crot away sooner than he
exrjected.
id nappenea mac mere was a
public meeting one night at the
sawmill shed, and he was called on to
make a few remarks. Every other
man at the meeting except myself,
who acted as chairman, was of the
mountains and'their illiterate talk
had roused the vounsr fellow to
the limit. He saw a chance to
s-et even, in his own mind, at lpast.
and when the call came for him.
he resronded Dromntlv.. His
I. T
sneech nuite brief, hut to tho
point, was as follows, copied from
his own manuscriDt. even the
(Applause) part:
"Mv friends. I am p ad in mfipt
you on this occasion, for I have
wished to say to you publicly
what I think of vou. though our
acquaintance has not been long.
Coming as a stranger among you
I was only partly prepared for
what was in store. Now, let me
say to you, that half is not yet
been told me. (Applause.) In
the internecinea arena, . your lethi
ferous conduct has astounded me
by the trucidation and occasion
characterizing (Loud applause.) In
the diversified field of mendacity
your efforts would make Machia
velli take to the tall timber. (Up-
roaruos applause.) In all furacious
raptorial and predacious pursuits,
you have done such wonders that
the gifted , and great Jonathan
Wild would have felt his latrociny
was a sounding brass and his di-
reption aTtrnklingcymbal." (Great
applause.) In the broad expanse
of labor, your torpescent oscita
i i i -
won nas maae you sui generis
among all pandiculate mankind.
(Cheers and shouts of good for
us.") As good livers, your tables
groan beneath their stercoraceous
and impetiginous burden and as
drinkers, your temulent bibacity
has made the crapulous reputation
of Bacchus to be a sign of puri-
tanicial obstemiousness. (Loud
applause.) As for yourselves.
take pleasure in saying here to
you, without fear of successful
contradiction, that your nugacity
is forever established; as observers
of the law, your aberrance is
s i i ii
teratoiogicai, ana personally you
are a cohesive concatenation of
rubigant exuviae, that I take
especial pleasure in believing does
not exist elsewhere on earth.
(Vociferous applause.)
When the enhtusiasm had cool
ed down somewhat, he proceeded
to speak on the subjects before
the meeting, and sat down. The
mountaineers were pleased to
death with the college man's high
flown speech about them, and
though, I didn't know the mean
ing of all the big words he used, I
did know that he had been calling
them liars and murderers and
thieves and scounderels, and
drones and lawless drunkards, be
sides condemning their fare and
anthemarizing the lot of them
personally. But not one of them
suspected and I was hoping noth
ing would come of it and they
would forget, even if any of the
large words were remembered
when one day a book agent drove
up to the office id a buckboard
and announced that he was selling
Webster's unabridged dictionary
for $2 a copy, and showed a sam
ple that was as big as a box of
-r ii ii
soap, nobody had ever seen so
much book for the money, nor
had anybody ever seen a dictionary
in that neighborhood, and when the
agent began to tell what a valua
ble thing it was to be in every j
family, the ,men became interested j
and it wasn't long until the agent
had sold 25 copies to be delivered
the following week. When he
had gone away with his samples
called the young man into the
private office for consultation. j
Don't say a word," he began j
as soon as he had closed the door.
I know 1 exactly where I am at i
and I'll be some place else before;
Mr. Webster arrives to throw any
light on my recent remarks. I
am not shedding any tears and
in order that the dictionary buyers
and others may know just .what
think of them, I shall leave two
dozen copies of my speech - for
distribution on the , morning of
my departure." - i
He did just a he said he would.
and it was a good thing for him
that neve earner back.
No need to fear coughs and colds this
s
ear as you can obtain Bees Laxative
rough Syrup now from your ; dealer.
This isood news to mothers' who fear
croup and whooping cough. It is a
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SUNDAY SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
Conducted By
SUNDAY. FEBRUARY, 16.
The Lesson. John 4:43-54.
Golden Text. -e man believed
the word that Jesus had spoken
unto him, and he went his way
John 4:50. Time. December. A.
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PREVIEW
The verses from 29 to 42, in
clusive are of considerable inter
est. After the return of the dis
ciples from the town, with food,
knowing the hunger of their Mas
ter, they beg him to eat With a
heart full of anxiety for the lost,
those people crowding about him,
drawn by the Samaritan wo
man, he tells them that he has
"meat that ye know not." To ex
plain this he said, "My meat is to
do the will of Him that sent me
and to accomplish his Work." The
need of time and the importance
of the work is impressed upon
him as he beholds the fields white
unto harvest. Many of the Sa
maritans from the town, hearing
his words, believed on him.
They desired that he remain with
them and he spent two days in
their midst, then continued on his
way to Galilee.
THE STORY
The Galileans, having heard
him in Jerusalem, gladly receive
him. Heard him and watched
expectantly. Jesus came to Cana
the place of his first miracles
twenty miles to the Northeast, on
the shore of the Sea of Galilee,
is
a
a city Capernaum. Here is
nobleman, a man of high rank, of
influence, whose son was at the
point of death. This man hearing
of the coming of Jesus to Cana,
seeks him and pleads for the heal
ing of his boy. He . asks the
lealer to visit his home. Jesus
answers, Ijo home, your son
lvethl" The nobleman taking
Jesus at his word, with faith in
his word, returns to his home,
nncimg it as Jesus said and im
mediately inquires concerning the
time of the change and lo, it was
at the very hour of the spoken
word. He believed and with him,
his family. Believed that Jesus
was the Christ. Accepted him as
the Messiah.
ILLUSTRATIVE
Knowledge of what Jesus had
already done led the nobleman to
believe in him. He does all he
can do he cannot cure his son,
and he is dying he goes to Jesus
. Jesus, in his love and sympathy,
does not prolong the anxiety, of
trusting and worried father, but
immediately gives him his prayer.
The immediateness of the Christ
in answering the pleading, earn
est prayer of faith is touching.
If we need Jesus, his help, his
presence, we should immediately
seek him. It was at least 20
miles to Cana, but this anxious
father rides to Jesus. Coming to
him, he "beseeches" the Christ
for a bleesiDg.
It is often true that we today
wait for ) "signs and wonders"'
before we believe on Jesus. We
have many wonders all about us
to lead us to believe on him.
Look at the many examples of
saved and changed men in every
community.
The result is a changed home.
Father and family accept, believe
and acknowlodge Jesus. Before
he had believed about him, now
he believes on him. He receives
the teaching of Christ m bis
heart.
We are full of needs. God's
i n i i it
gracious love win heal an sin
laden hearts and renew our youth
like the eagle's and we can sing.
Bless the-Lord, O my soul,
and forget not all His benefits."
A life was at the point of death.
Someone cared enough to go
across the country to one who could
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save. Millions are beyond the
point of death dead in sinbut
can be brought to life. Do you
care and will you go to Jesus for
themf .
"This, .nobleman would have
Christ come down and heal his
son. Christ will heal his son and
not go down. And thus the cure
is sooner wrought, and tho noble
man's mistake rectified, and his
faith confirmed; so that tho thing
was better done in Christ's way.
When ho denies what wo ask, he
gives what is much more to our
advantage; Wo ask for ease, ho
gives patience." Henry.
How many boys today are at
the "point of death!" How
many aro making tho decisions
today that will lead to the ways
of deathl If wo can do nothing
more, we can, like this father.
beseech Jesus in their behalf.
Often we can add to our prayers
an earnest, personal effort!
Last Sunday, it was Jesus find
ing and saving a sinful ignorant
woman. Today it is the opposito
how a man, a wise and upright
man, found Jesus and receives
what ho needs. All because tho
man believes. Study how tho
blessing came.
On tho Jersey coast, there
lived for years a young man. Ho
left a comfortable home and spent
three years among tho fishermen
and oystermen, sleeping in tho
winter in the deserted cabin of an
old vessel, drunk whenever he
could get liquor, unhappy when
he could not get it. One Sunday
morning a former, companion,
whose life God had touched, took
him by the hand and almost bodi
ly carried him to a little hall
where tho Gospel was preached.
Before the services ended this
friend arose and asked those
present to' join with him in pray-.
er that his old companion might
have his eyes opened, to seo his
own sinful condition. Long be
fore that prayer ended tears
started in tho eyes of the way
ward young man. Within a week
he was back at tho home of his
boyhood, forgiven and starting on
a new me.
TEACHING HINTS
The first thing5 is to get and
picture the lesson situation. Then
the lesson will show the Lord s
way of developing faith.
Notice the bare and unsupport
ed word, ' Go thy way; thy son
livcth." It is Jesus' aspeot and
manner that turn connaence in
his power, into trust in himself.
The true nature of faith comes
out in this lesson. It is not mere
belief, or acceptance of views,
but personal confidence in Jesus
nmself. Trust in a person must
rest ultimately on the worthiness
of the person himself.
The nobleman's faith began in
persuation, produced by testi
mony that Jesus was able to meet
a particular need of his; it reach- .
ed its height in a personal ex
perience of him."
Notice the four typical individu
als of whom we have studied so
far: Nathaniel, the cautious seeker; .
Nicodemus, the thoughtful, out
unspirtual Pharisee; the Samari-
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tan woman, a boia sinner, repent
ing; and the Nobleman, a man of
the world, who yet believed.
The nobleman first believed,
hen sought, then trusted himself
and his son in the hands of Jesus:
hese three steps are the steps of
aith. As tho noblemai won by
aith, so may we win for, "Faith-
is the victory."
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