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i 1, LOOK! ti$R s T AT Yfllif? y ' mmm mmm imnnn 5 ADVERTISING RATES 5 Transient rates li oenta par lack 2 5 Cos tract rates 10 cents per Inch S J Discounts in proportion' to ipso and term of contract. 5 Special care given all adrertialnf a) J matter accepted. - , Tt Dt iWwi ! wae yMT MHOltM ! Mli. If J m trt Wfetai. rJ la tk uJ rtssMsfclt. to ssmcleii. Publish ry Tuesday. VOLUME 3. WADESB0R0. N. C, SEPTEMBER I. 1908. NUMBER 14 ' V, . 1 - 1 Editorial Comment At! Men Should Vote. If ours is U remain "a government of tlie leople, for the people, ami by the lieople, all its citizens must exer cise their privilege of voting. This they must do- thoughtfully, hut, nevertheless, continuously. no matter what turn affairs may take. For herein lies the price of Ibert3 which eternal violence alone can maintain in times like these, when there is such an effort on the part of great business cor poration to rob the people of their rights and when such a lartre element of the imputation, failing to inform themselves on public queions, are often deceived and c ontrol led oh election day b3 some "heeler,' who will work cheerful 1 for the candidate who ia.vs the most It is for this ven reason that good men must not desert the ballot box and leave it in charge of this element. The only way to stamp out such is for right thinking men. men who have the country's highest welfare at heart, to take charge of affairs and see to it that honest methods are employed. They must be on hand to discourage and prevent the corruption that will prevail when professional politicians anil irresimsible men are in charge. Thre is alolutely no other rem edy whereby these abuses may be corrected, and that leing true, the man who i simply a laggard (Mtlitically and who alsolutely neg lects to be a iart of his own gov ernment, commits an offense against his fellowman and the gov ernment, lie is forever estopped from complaining when the public funds, made up in part by the taxes he pays, are misused or squandered. Just here there is no excuse for not having done his lart to put the safest methods in practice and the lest men in office. Our extravagance. The Uni ted States has leen called the most extravagant nation in the world and it is common to refer to the South as the most extravagant section of this extravagant nation. We began in the early life of the nation by wasting our lands still to common in the South and we have gone on until it is now estimated that more than $1jmj,1n) is wasted every' year in this country in lad cooking alone. We are reckless buyers and waste ful users. Too many of us are out for a gtod time, no matter what it costs, and it usually costs before we are convinced that we have had it. It seems such an easy matter for us to see only the things we think we want when we goto market, forgetting,as.it'were, our sources of income. The perni cious credit system to which we are accustomed, is largely resionsible for this, having almost changed our very natures. The following from the Independent would lead one to think that at least some people get rich by practicing econ omy and not by fleecing the poor: "The poor rarely buy at whole sale, but pay the retailer's profit; but when they sell it is at the whole saler's price and at the lowest mar ket scale. Buying at wholesale is something foreign to the major ity of American families. We support a vast number of mid dlemen who could be easily dis pensed with in our domestic econ omy. Poverty in so young a nation as ours should hardly be known. Food enough there is, or may be, for live or six times our present imputation, without an increase of cultivated lands or cultivating forces. We have to learn the economy of production, the econ omy of distribution, and the econ omy of consumption. These econ omic studies should le carried into our schools, preparatory to their application to our homes and our farms. Our present syst em, where it touches ecooomy at all, lacks that scientific precision which would bring our people to an in telligent appreciation of value." She Was From Missouri. "Love me and the world is mine," he pleaded theatrically, with pale lips and pallid brow. "There is one thing necessary tirst,, &aid she tersely. What is it. Ah, what is it." "You must put up some collat eral. a. Best Tie YYorli Affords "It give me unbounded pleasure to recommend Burklen's Arnica Slve." 7 J- W. Jenkins, of Chapel Hill. N. C- "I am convinced it's the beet naive tke world afford. It cared a felon on my thumb, and it never fails to heal ery or, born or wound to which it u applied. 23c at Parsons Drug Co. Salient Points In Bryan's Tariff Talk "We iPr nr mnra nf Ua ; I W fcllC 111 rant industries that must be ten .1.1.. i r 4 ... . uerj. tarea ior until they can stand upon their feet;' there is no suggestion that the foreigner pay the tariff, and nothing about the home market These catch prases have had their day they are worn out and cast aside. The Republican leaders are no longer arrogant and insolent; they can no longer defy tariff reform. Their plan is to seem to yield without really yielding. Are we not justified in saying that the people cannot safely in trust the execution of this impor A A t . t iani worK to a party which is so deeply obliged to the highly pro tected interests as is the Hepubh can party? The fat frying pro cess has become familiar to the American people. If the farmer and the wage- earner are really the chief lenefic- iaries of the protective system. will the Republican candidate ex plain why the farmer and wage- earner have contributed so little to the Republican cam iaign fund? Are the present leaders more honest than the ones who framed the existing tariff? Are they not. in fact the same men who are re- ponsible for tariff extortion dur- . I 1.1 r ing the last decade f "Tariff measures which embody the principles of protection are not drawn by legislators, although as a matter of courtesy they gen erally liear the names of legisla tors; they are really drawn by the representatives of trie interests .which demand protection. "We would not expect a jury to do justice to the defendant if it was conioed entirely of the rela tives of the plaintiff; neither can we exiect a Congress to do jus tice to the masses if it is composed of men who are in sympathy with, and obligated to, the corporations corporations which have for a gen eration been enjoying siecial priv ileges. "As all taxes must come out of . ... i one s income, no matter inrougn what system levied or collected, they are, in effect, income taxes. and taxes on consumption aregen irraduated income taxes, the larg est ier cent, bemg collected from those with the smallest income and the smallest per cent, from those with the largest income. 'The whole system is vicious. Business should not be built upon egislation; it should stand ujon its own merit, and when it does stand uon its own merit we shall not onlv have purer politics, but we hall have less tlunctuations in business co nth lions ana a more equitable distribution of the pro ceeds of toil. "Protection does not make good wages, uur better wages are aue to the greater intelligence and skill of our workmen, to the greater ioihj which free institutions give them, to improved machinery, to he better conditions that surround hem, and to the organizations which have been formed among the wage earners." Dirty Politics in Union. (Monroe Journal. If the number of men in various walks of life who have, in the last week, siwken to the Journal about the disgraceful methods that have come to be used in the Democratic primaries in this county, will stand to their guns and throw their in fluence in the scale when needed, the things that are a reproach to the party and a disgrace to the citizenship of the county can stopted. This paper has raised its voice before the public and before the executive committee over and over in behalf of rules stringent enough to wipe out the trouble, but the primaries just over were the worst of all. It can be stopped in one of two ways. One is by securing a primary iaw from the next legis lature that will be effective. The other is for the people who are opposed to it to get hold of the larty machinery and make a party law that will do. The thing is a disgrace to the party that allows it. The system of hiring workers (if not buying votes) has grown so strong that good men who were opposed to it felt that they stood no show with out becoming victims to it. And the party managers have let it grow little by little, till all candi dates are forced by necessity of taking part in it or going into the race with no show. We have in mind no candidate, nor reflect on any. It is the system we are after. Do the decent people want it stopped? For our part we have almost come to believe that they do not. However, we undertake to say that before an other election is held they will have a chance to sav whether they do or not. It Can't Be Beat The bet of all teachers is experience. C M. Harden, of Silver City. North Carolina, says: "I find Electric Bitters doe all that s claimed for it. For Stom ach, liver and Kidney troubles it can't be beat. I have tried it and it a most excellent medicine." Mr. Harden is right; it's the best of all medicines Uo few weakness, lame -back, and all run down conditions. Beet too for chills and malaria. Sold under guarantee at Parous Drug Co. .Vfc. Don't be afraid to give Chain berlsin's Cough Remedy to your children. It contains no opium or other harmful drutr. It always cures, for sale by T. R. Tomlin son- Piw. c Lands Of FraiiwC" (Progrewdve Farmer) 'The pleasant lands of France so it is called and it is well- named. It is indeed a leautiful country, the fields tilled like gar dens, the road sides lined with beautiful and shapely trees, the small areas in forest given almost as much attention as our cultivated fields, the houses neat and well- kept, the fields dotted with busy. and seemingly prosierous workers. The farming sections are a delight to the eye, as well an unending source of pleasure to any one who delights in intelligent and well directed industry. The red-tiled roofs of the stone and brick houses. the gold of the harvest-fields (for the wheat is just now being hac- vested), the dark green of the growing crops cultivated along side, intersiersed with slender and stately trees all this makes a pic ture whose beauty is entirely un- marred by one gully or galled spot or "turned out" field or weedy patch or shackly cabin. This land I see before me here was probably in cultivation for centuries before he first white man alarmed the stolid American on his hunting grounds, and has made crops ever since and yet no one thinks of saying land is "worn out" or 'needs resting." With intelligent ahor and prudent handling this and, a thousand years in use, is still productive; in ourcouutry un- ntelligent labor and careless hand ing has ruined wide areas which lave not grown one-tentli us long. Careful Farm in?. And the main secret? It is be- fore me now these great herds of razing cattle in the fields along side the growing crops, and these arraers with three-horse teams' preparing the land for a new crop rolling it and preparing it as thoroughly as an American would do for a garden in order that an other crop may start to growing as quickly as one is taken oil. 1 notice today that where the wheat las been harvested a day or two the shocks are piled together on narrow strips here and there and all the land letween is already broken for another planting. The and is cultivated in long strips, and there is hardly a foot of soil wasted; the wheat strip adjoins squarely the strip devoted to su gar beets, potatoes, etc., ami there 1 A is no room ror a weea to grow barely enough for the horse to turn round on between fields. I recall how the Italian immigrants n Mississippi follow out this same idea, ana now me neany hoed ends of their cotton rows contrast with the ragged weed atches of the negro's fields. Here in France vou see no clods, no gullies, no weeds, no poor horses and cattle, no scrub hogs, no dis graceful tenant cabins. Hardly anywhere in the world do more farmers own their own farms small farms, to be sure, but the ntelligent small farmer here with . lve or ten acres lives iar more comfortably than the Southern farmer with his twenty times this . i i . j i-: ti. area, out wno oepenas upon sunl ess labor or shiftless methods of cultivation. With tins letter 1 am sending an extract from yes terday's Paris edition of the Lon don Mail, telling how some French gardeners, taking up a two-acre patch of tough clay in Kssex, had sold 1,000, or 4,860, worth of uroducts up to July t6th, and ex pect to sell enough more before the end of the year to bring the total to about 800 ($4,000) per acre for he twelve months sales. Women work much in the fields, saw numbers of them doing all sorts of work vesterdav: not in any half-hearted or humdrum fashion, but healthy, intelligent looking women who work earnest ly and cheerfully simply because on these small acres every one must work if the family is to pros per, and because every member of the family takes pride in having a beautiful home and a beautiful farm, as fertile and productive as intelligence and skill can make it. The strength of France is its mil lions of contented, prosperous, in telligent small farmers who own their own homes, and who make the entire country a dream of beauty and prosperous activity. " Large acres here are devoted to growing the sugar beet, and its history also illustrates the possibil ities of scientific agriculture. Originally the beet contained so little sugar that its cultivation was barely profitable, but by long years of careful-seed selection and plant breeding, the sugar content has been so largely increased that tie industry is now one of very considerable proportions. I should be afraid to quote figures from memory, but my impression is that the farmers now get two to four times as much sugar from a ton of beets as their fathers did from the less highly improved va rieties they grew fifty years ago. Good Roads. And the roads they, too, add incalculably to the beauty of the country and the pleasures of the country life. National aid to road building and road improvement, as has been much agitated in Am erica in recent years (notably by Latimer of South Carolina, Brown low of Tennessee, and Bankhead of Alabama) is an actual working fact here' in France, the main lines being built by the National "The Government, the mileage being 23,659, and $300,000,000 having been sient jn this work to date Lven the local roads are kept in superb condition, and some one recently pointed out the difference between t reach and American roads by showing that in France one horse is expected to carry load of o,300 jounds twenty miles a day over rolling country, while in America ona horse could carry only l,0)O to 1.400 pounds. The difference may be due to the super iority of the French horses, the heavy Perchcrons and other breeds in use here being, as have indicated, markedly superior to ours, but the main difference is, o: course, attributable to the bet ter highways in France. And not only are the roads themselves in the splendid condi tion I have indicated, but every highway is made a thing of beauty by the long lines of tall, uniform, symmetrical shade trees on either Land. These have been carefully planted, of course; all of one vari ty, and equidistant, lhe com mon roads are therefore as beauti ful as our city parks, and when . you look out upon ine varying of the growing and ripening crops, and the perfect proportions of each fieldl it seems as if the very peasants here were artists working out some vision on a canvas of earth and acres instead of fabric and inches. Usually there are no ences between one small farm and others; iossibly a hedge, but more often one farmer s last row of po tatoes, or a trench at most, is the dividing line between him and his neighbor. As one of ray friends wrote me from England two years ago: mere are no loose ends or agged edges in English farming." No one looking at the farming of France can get away from the impression that just as it is a curse to a growing boy to have a for tune that he may spend recklessly, so it has been a curse to America that land has been so plentiful that the farmer. has thought it no economic crime to' lay waste one acre and then clear up another to take its place. Neither here nor in England would any land-owner think for a moment of renting a piece of land to an ignorant ten ant to butcher or maltreat in such fashion as is common in the South. In France, as I have said, 'most farms are small and operated by their owners the ideal condition; while in England the tenant is en couraged to improve and beautify his holdings; my recollection is that tenants usually lease for about ten years and are given credit at the end of that time for whatever improvements they have made. And not onljr have French farmers wrought out these things in their own land, but they have carried these progressive ideas with them wherever they have gone. If any reader objects that they might not do so well in the Cotton States of America, let me remind him of what French col onists and French influence have done in the Barbary coast of Af rica. It is a matter of casual his torical comment that to it in one or two generations French rule has restored the fertility and bloom which belonged to it "when it was the garden of the' Roman world.' Form of Government Of the Government of France I must also say a word, and then leave my impressions of 'Paris for another letter. As everybody knows, France from 1789 ,to 1871, was in a state of almost unending tu rmoil. The year ti rst mentioned opens upon one of the most cor rupt, extravagant, stiff-necked and irresponsibe courts with which any Nation has ever been afflictedi The nightnare of the French Rev olution, the dictatorship of Na poleon, t,he restored dynasty of Bourbons forced upon the. people by the conquering nations after Waterloo (1815) the Revolution of 1830 that made Louis Philippe King, the "second Republic" es tablished by the Revolution of 1848, the Vsecond Empire' that followed four years later, and fin ally the "third Republic" which has now endured for about thirty years this is a suggestion of the kaleidoscopic changes whose de tails baffle the memory and leave the average reader in hopeless con fusion. I have just noticed, for example, that in my purse are three pieces of money, one bear ing the name of "Louis Philippe, King, 1.S43," another that of "Na poleon III.. Emperor, i860," and the third that of the "Republic of France, 1896." In effect France was for a hundred years a sort of political experiment station, but the present republican govern ment now seems firmly established. The President , is elected for a term of seven years. The Con gress consists of a "House of Dep uties" corresponding, to our Na tional House of Representatives, chosen by manhood suffrage for four years; the Senators, like onrs, hold for six years, and are elected in practically the same manner. But now come some radical differ ences between our, system and the , French system. ' In jthd first place the .President has no such power as the. President of the United States. Like the King of Eng land, he is little more than a fig ure head, and the real executive work is done through a Cabinet or ministry. . The President nomi nates the ministers, but they can not act until the House of Depu- es accepts them, and in a crisis the House can force the President to resign by refusing to accept his miinsters at all. Moreover, the ministry itself must resign when the House of Deputies refuses to support the minister's measures, so that the real governing power of France is the House elected di rect by manhood suffrage. It is much as if our National House of Representatives in America could compel the President or his Cabi net to resign by refusing to sup port their policies. This, of course means a government more quickly responsive to public opin ion: it the united btates were governed by the French plan, the election of a Democratic House of Representatives in November would put that party in virtual control of the Government at once. The dominant party in France now is what is called the Radical- Socialist, though it is by no means so extreme as that name sounds. There is another party, the "Ex treme Socialists, " I believe they are called, who stand more nearly for the doctrines of American socialism. The policy of the pres ent government looks only to pub ic ownership of what we call na ural monopolies" railways, street car systems, municipal Iitrhtinir plants, etc. The people already .1 i.ia own the telegraph and teiphone, and plans are now on foot looking to the purchase of the great West ern Railway by the Government, as a start in the direction of gen eral government ownership. CLARENCE H. POE. Paris, France, July 27, 1908. HOME COMING WEEK. 'The Club" is Planning For a Great Occasion. The Push Rockingham Forward Club, of Rockingham, has plans under way for a big Home Coming Celebration to be held the latter part of September. To the cele bration and rally all the former citizens of the town and county will be invited and is it hoped a grand re-union will be had. Every- hing possible will be done to make the visit pleasant. The guests will be" entertained by their old neighbors and friends, and will be shown new sights of Rockingham and the county. A public meeting will be held in the Opera House. Addresses will be made by Judge P. I). Walker, Corporation Com raissioner Franklin McNeill, Messrs. C.W. Tillett, T. C. Guth rie, Cameron Morrison, W. E. iarrison, P. Whitlock, A. N. Watson, Claudius Dockery, L. B. 1 Williams, J. T. Bostick, Henry Loving, Revs. F. M. Shambur- ger and J. H. Hall and others. A banquet will also be served he Club has not yet completed ull details of the celebration but m 1.1 I a has cone iar enough to Know mat will be a big and delightful af air. Makin? the Best of Whatever Hap pens. (Success.) Sortie people are thrown off their balance the moment any thing goes wrong with them. They do not seem to have the ability to overcome impediments and do their work in spite of annoyances. Anybody can work when every thing goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him; but a man must be made of the right kind of stuff who can rise above the things which annoy, harass, and handicap the weak, and do his work in spite of them. In deed, this is the test of greatness. As a matter of fact, the greatest achievements in all time have been accomplished by men and women who have been handicapped, an noyed, persecuted, misunderstood, criticized. But they have been great enough to rise above all these things and to do their work in spite of them. Few people are large enough to rise above their aches and pains and disappointments. The major ity are always talking about them, projecting Jheir dark shadows into your- atmosphere, cutting off your sunshine with their dark clouds. Their ailments and their hard luck and misfortunes seem to be the biggest things about them. You never meet them but they thrust them into your presence. The. man who is not big enough to rise above the things that trou ble him, who can not overtop his aches and pains, annoyances and disappointments, so that they arei of little consequence in compari son with his great life aim, will never amount to much. There is an unwritten law for people who are thoroughbred the real gentleman uud the real lady which compels them to keep their troubles, their ailments, their sorrows, their worries, their their losses, to themselves. There; is a fine discipline in it. It ' mel lows the character and sweetens the life. But when these things are not borne heroically, they mar the character and leave their ugly traces in the face; their hideous forms appear in the manner and disfigure the whole life. Learn to consume your own smoke. If vou have misfortunes, pains, diseases, losses, keep them to yourself. Bury them. Those who know you have them wilUove you- and admire you infinitely more for this suppression. A stout heart and persistent cheer fulness will be more than a match for all your troubles. x a" . Result of 'Tobacco War" In Kentucky (Baltimore Son.) The "Night Riders" of Ken tucky have succeeded in forcing the American. Tobacco Company to abandon its business in that State. It is announced that the company will move its headquar ters to Cincinnatti. It is also stated that the tobacco growers of Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Indi ana and Wisconsin have organized the Union Tobacco Society, incor porated it under the laws of Ken tucky and will maintain headquar ters in Louisville. The object of the society, it is said, is "to pool the crops of its members and to , secure remunerative prices." So far as we are advised, there is no legal objection to comhina-; tions of farmers to secure satisfac tory prices for their products. If the new organization incorporated in Kentucky has 100,000 mem bers, as is stated, in five States, it ought to be a factor in controlling the tobacco market, subject, of course to the inflexible law of sup ply and demand. But suppose there are also 100,000 tobacco growers in these five States who will not join the organization of planters who prefer to sell their products independently to any purchaser who offers satisfactory prices. Will they be protected in their right to do as they please w Vjj their crops in so far as the sa' of them is concerned ? T'ie "tobacco war" in Ken tucky grew out of the conviction of the planters that they were at VlJkrcy of a trust and that they ftiJrno remedy in the law. But the manner in which the "war" was conducted was demoralizing in the lawlessness which it engen dered, in the coercion of planters who had business relations with the alleged Tobacco Trust and in the denial of the right of the citi zen to dispose of his property as he chose, subject to the laws of Kentucky. The Kentucky author ities have been either unable or unwilling to deal with the situa tion effectively, to suppress law lessness, to protect planters and to preserve valuable property from destruction. The trust's monopoly may have been objectionable in the highest degree. The planter may have been deprived by trust methods of the opportunity to make a fair profit on his tobacco crop. But it seems to thoughtful men that the resources of the law ought to be exhausted before there is resort to coercion. If the State of Kentucky is not able to protect the property of its citizens and that is the conclusion which will be drawrn from its impotence in dealing with the "Night Riders," who have terrorized the State foreign capital may not be willing to risk investment in Kentucky. Thus the Blue Grass State may suffer materially for the violent methods employed by certain ele ments of its population to break the power of an alleged monolopy. On the other hand, the monolopy may not be deprived by lawless ness of the advantages which it has enjoyed to the detriment of the tobacco growers. Grievances are most effectually redressed by the law. Why should not? the planters of Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee and Kentucky seek a remedy in the law ? They would harm no man then and they would be assured of public sym pathy. i Indian Proverbs No man ever repented of saying nothing. When a fox walks lame, the old rabbit jumps. A squaw's tongue runs faster than the wind's legs. There is nothing so eloquent as a rattle-snake's tail. The Indian scalps his enemy; the pale-face skins his friends. Before the pale-face came there was no poison in the Indian's corn. Two men will live together in quiet and friendship, but two squaws never. There will be hungry pale-faces so long as there is any Indian land to swallow. When a man prays one day and steals six, the Great Spirit thun ders and the Evil One laughs. A Traveling Man's Experience "I must tell you my experience on an East bound O. R. & N. R. R. train rrom Pendleton to LeGrande, Ore., writes Sam A. Garber, a well known traveling man. "I was in the smoking department with some other traveling men when one of them went out intoJ the coach and came back and saidOT 'There is a woman sick unto death in the car. I at once got up and went out, found her very ill with cramp colic; her hands and arms were drawn up so you could not straighten them, and and with a deathlike look on her face. Two or three ladies were working wih her and giving her whiskey. I went to my suit case and got my bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholery and Diar rhoea Remedy (I never travel without it), ran to the water tank put a double dose of the medicine in the glass, pour ed some water into it and stirred it with a pencil; then I had quite a time to get the ladies to let me give it to her, but I succeeded. I could at once see the effect and worked with her, rub bing her hands, and in twenty minutes I gave her another dose. By this time we were almost into LeGrande; where I was to leave the train. I gave the bottle to the husband to be used in case another dose should be needed, but , by the time the train' ran into LeGrande she was all right," and I received the thanks of every passenger in the ear;" For sale by T. R. Tomlinson. Sunday School Department Conflicted ty Special Editor. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 Lesson Saul and Jonathan Slain in Battle. I Samuel 31: 1-13. Golden Text. "Prepare to meet thy God." -Amos 4:12. FUNDAMENTALS Time. B. C. 1055 (Ussher.) Revised Chronology, B. C. 1027. Place. The army of Saul is en camped on the nothern slope of the Mount of Gilboa. The Philis tine army is at Shunem. Between the two is the valley of Jezreel. CONNECTION David does not trust in the re pentance of Saul as recorded in the last lesson and flees to Achisli, the King of Gath, who gave him Ziklag for a residence. There ' he dwelt for a year and four months, raiding the neighboring tribes of! the native inhabitants, while lead ing Achish to believe that he was fighting the Israelites. The Phil istines gathered for a great attack upon the Israelites. David starts with them, but, l)y the suspicion of the leaders, is forced to return to Ziklag, which he finds has been raided by the Amalekites and the women and children taken captive. David pursues and rescues the captives and regains the spoil. LESSON STORY The story is a sad one. Two great armies meet in battle array. The king of the Israelites, Saul, is despondent. In his helplessness Saul seeks a witch and asks her to call up the spirit of Samuel, that he may talk with him. To the astonishment of the witch, the spirit appears and brings a mes sage of ruin. The witch, with the loyalty of the woman, asks that the king eat in her home and pre pares a meal for him. The morn ing of the terrible battle quickly comes and the day is one of disas ter. The Israelites are beaten and saui Kins himseir. lhree sons, Jonathan, Abibadab and Malchis hua were slain. When the army sees the death of the king they flee. The next day the bodies of Saul and his sons are found by the Philistines and they cut off the heads and strip the bodies of ar mor and these trophies are dis played in the temple. The story closes with a touching incident. Forty years before, Saul had gone to the aid of the men of Jabesh Gilead and by heroic action had saved the city. When these peo ple hear of the dishonor placed upon the bodies of Saul and his sons, they send a picked band, who in the night take the bodies ofltheir dead friends and bury them. In memory of the king, the inhab itants of the city fast for seven days. SOME THOUGHTS. Dispair paralyzes hand and heart. Respect for the dead is a of respect for ourselves. sign Our friends, those we love, must share the lailures trom our sins. Self-will surely leads to disas ter; it may be a long time coming, but it is sure. In every great crisis men want God's help; the time to gain God's favor is before the crisis. Suicide is never justifiable. Saul should have fought on, re pented of his sins and turned to and trusted God. Blessed are the people who re member benefit. The senti ment of gratitude is a great help in the world. The people who re member make life worth living. .' ILLUSTRATIVE If Saul had any faith in God, any submission, any repentance, he could not have finished a life of rebellion by a self-inflicted death, which was in itself the very desperation of rebellion. Maclaren. The criminality of the suicide of Saul is to be carried back to fol lowing his own will instead of the will of God. It was through that sin that he was brought into his present position. . . . Sin has a marvelous power of begetting, of leading you on to other acts that you did not think of at first, of involving you in meshes that were then quite out of your view. Blaikie. Saul's headless and dishonored body hangs rotting in the sun on the walls of Beth-shan, while David sits a conqueror in Ziklag. Defeat, desolation, despair, attend to his self -dug grave the unhappy king, whose end teaches us all what comes of self-willed resis tance to the law and the spirit of God. The contrast between the lives of David and Saul, so closely intertwined and powerful for good and evil on each other, reaches its ' climax at the end of the life of Saul. While the one sets in dark thunderclouds, the other is bright with victory. Maclaren. The last point, is the1 brave midnight march of the men of Jabesh-Gilead from their home on the eastern uplands beyound Jor dan, across the river and up to Beth-shan. It .was a requital of Saul's deed in his early bright days, when with his hastily gath ered army, he scattered the Am monities. It is the one gleam of light amid the stormy sunset of the life. Saul's one good deed as king sowea seeds of gratitude which flourished again, when the opportunity came. His many evil ones sowed evil seed which bore fatal fruit; and both were seen in the end. In the greatness and the re verses of the House of Saul is the culmination and catastrophe of the tribe of Benjamin. "'Ben jamin shall rave as a wolf; in the morning he shall devour his prey. and in the evening he shall divide the spoil." These words well sum up the strange union of fierceness and of gentleness, of sudden re solves for good and evil, which run, as hereditary qualities often do run, through the whole history of that frontier clan. So ; Saul died. "Come often a man to a to come' and stay late. I in the mid- and stay late," said friend, begging him visit him: above all have bad company nights." The next week the friend complied with his request. At they sat and talked late into the night the visitor said: "You said you had bad company in the mid nights." "Yes. All the memories of my past life come back to me and they are bad company. It might have been otherwise. I might have lived for the highest things and leen glad to '" hare old days ior company. I might, but I did not. I did not rob, nor steal, nor lie at least not much. I was over-sharp on business some times, and I said some things that yl did not quite mean, but wrong was chiefly in the principle and spirit of my life. I did not tee how much good I could do, but how much money I could scrape up, and how I could push myself on: and now it is all over, and the things I worked so hard for seem less than nothing, and I find them bad company." . ' "Though the milk of God grind slowly. Yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience we stand waiting. With exactness grinds He all. No life can be in harmony with Jehovah's which serves sin. A young Italian had been entertain ing a company by playing on a violin. A Russian musician, hear ing that the instrument was very old, asked to see it. "I suppose," said one, "that it is very valuable, as violins improve with age." The Russian answered, "That all de pends on what kind of music has been played on it. The tone of this violin sounds to me as though it had deteriorated throughbeing compelled to discourse inferior music." The life that discourses the music of Satan is out of hsK raony with the music of God. If the true musician holds the violin, all the molecules marshal 1 into line. Selected. Dying words of those who have forsaken (rod. Gibbon: doubtful." Charles: know it." "All is dark and 'I am lost forever; I Hobbs: "I am taking a fearful leap in the dark." Altamont: "Hell is a refuge if it hide me from thy frown." Voltaire: "I am abandoned by God and man: I shall go to belli" Mirabeau: "Give me more laud anum, that I may not think of eternity." Tom Paine: "I cannot bear to be alone. Stay with me, for God's sake. It is 'hell to be left alone." Deans-McKee. (Atlanta Journal, Aug. 23.) A beautiful home wedding will be that of Miss Mary Francis Deans and Mr. George Henry McKee,' Jr., which will take place at 9 o'clock Wednesday evening at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. S. M. Deans of Houston street. Little Misses Charlie May and Leona McClain will be the ribbon bearers, wearing dainty white frocks with pink ribbons. Miss Ellen . Deans, sister of the bride, will be maid of honor, wearing a pretty gown of palest pink mull, trimmed with white lace. She will carry a bouquet of white roses tied with gauze ribbon. The bride will enter with her brother, Dr. W. O. Deans, and will wear her going away suit. The wedding march will be played by Miss Daisy Pinkston, of Wadesboro, N. C. Punch will be served on the veranda by Miss Marie Latimer and Miss Hattie Deans, sister of the bride. Mr. McKee and his bride will leave for a wedding trip to North Carolina. After October first they will be at home to their friends in Norfolk Virginia. Miss Deans will be re membered as a charming visitor of Miss Daisy Pinkston, one of our rnost popular home girls.. The Ansonian. The Remedy That Does. . 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The Messenger and Intelligencer and Ansonian (Wadesboro, N.C.)
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