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- If V 7' m 0 r w- t fLOOK! LA B E lI ADVERTISING rates S t Transient rates 12) ceats par iaoh The Date shows t wbcs your sstacrtettoa Is MM. If proportion a of contra ym rt sestss. mm la tat y Mat. A felat t tat wtse ad rcasossMe. ia aalTlcleat. T , Z Special care given ail advertisias; 5 matter accepted. J it ft at f.t tt ttt 443 P u b 1 ! s h e d Every Tuesday VOLUME 3. WADESBORO. N. C. SEPTEMBER 22. 1908. NUMBER 17 . Notice of Sale of Stocks The undersigned will sell at the court hi mum" door in Wadesboro, on Mondiy. the 5th day ef October. 1908. :it Vi o'clock M., at public auction, for rash, the following stocks in incorpo rated companies belonging to the estate of the late Julius v. Burns : Fire shares of the capital stock of the wadesboro Cotton Mills Co. of the par value of fWO-OO. Twenty shares of the capital stock of the Norwood Mfg. Co. of the par value of IC2.0W.00. Twenty shares of the capital stock of the Bank of Wadesboro of the par value ,,f fvo.oo. Private bid will be received at any time before the day of sale. For further information apply to onr attorneys, Mc hendon & Thomas, Wadesbo:o, N. C. Thi September 7th, 1908. J. A. BURNS, J. M. BURNS, Administrators of the Estate of Julius W. Burns, Deceased. Notice of Sale by Com missioners. staf of North Carolina Anson County In the Superior Court Before the Clerk Frances E. Burns and Others, Ex Parte --Notice of Sale by Commissioners. By virtue of the power conferred upon us by a decree of the superior court of Anson county, made by the clerk there in, on the 5th day of September, 1908, , in the special proceeding entitled, "Frances E. Burns and others, ex parte," the same being for partition of real estate of the late Julius W. Burns, the undersigned commissioners will, on Monday, the 5th day of October. 1908, at the court houjte door m Wadesboro, offer for sale the following described tracts of land: First Tract Adjoining the lands of A. S. Ross, Ed Hamilton and others, and bounded as follows: Beginning at a stake in A. S. Ross' line, J. A. Burns' i orner. and runs with said Ross' line north HO east 24.tr chains to a stake, uiid Ross' corner, two white oak point-t-rs; then with another lme of said Ross uorth 34 east H.1M chains to a stake in rtaid line, two white oak tointers; then with Douglas Taylors line north HT east 11 chains to a stake, tour white oak pointers, said Taylor's corner; then with rid Hamilton' line south 2i west 25 chains to a stake iu W. H. Thomas' line, Ed Hamilton's corner, three pines and post oak pointers; then north HH west :ift.5tt chains to a stake in J. A. Burns' lasture; then uorth east 4.7r chains to the leginiiiug, containing 48 acres, more or less. Sr.t-ONi) Tu.T Adjoining the lands of J C. Candle, Jackson Kiker and oth ers, and lonnded as follows: Beginning at first corner of lot No. 1 and runs north 1 east 13.25 chains to a stake, I dog wood and hickory pointers; then north 3 east 30.10 chains to a stake, post oak, red oak and hickory pointers; then south 14$ east :i?.10 chains to a stake in the lavk line, 2 pines and post oak pointers; then due west 20 TO chains to a stake; then north 11 east 19.30 chains to the second corner of lot No. 1; then north xfti west 13.70 chains to the beginning, containing 95 i acres, more or less. Thiri TRAT--Adjoining the lands , of Darling Preslar, Jndy Thomas, Wal ter Kiker and others, and bounded as follows: Beginning at a stake by black gum and ash in Jndy Thomas' line and runs south t'3 east 10. 10 chains to a stake in Walter Kiker's line, post oak and black gum pointers; then with said line north 15 80 chains to a stake. Darl ing Preslar's corner, in an old field; then with his line north 81 weat 9 chains to a stake. Judy Thomas corner; then with his line south 2 west 18 chains to the beginning, containing 16 acres, more or less. Fohrth Tract Adjoining the lands of Frances E. Burns, W. H. Thomas and others, and bounded as follows: Begin ning at a stake on east side of Wades boro road, one post oak pointer, and runs north 31 east 5.65 chains to a stake in W. H. Thomas' line; then north Hi west 20.14 chains to a stake, 1 pine pointer; then south 31 west 19.50 chains to a stake on west side of Wadesboro road, 50 links from center of said road; then south 57 east 12.80 chains to the leginning, containing 16$ acres, more or less. The terms of said sale are one-third cash, balance to be paid January 1st, 1909. with interest on the unpaid pur chase price, the purchaser to have the option to pay all cash and take title at nce. The sale is made subject to the i-onfirmation of the court. This Septemlr 5th. 190M. H. H. McLENDON, FRED J. COXE. it H-4t Commissioners. Noticeof Sale by Trustee By virtue of the power of sale con ferred upon me in a certain trust deed executed by W. B. Gray and wife, The resa F. Gray, on the 8th day of May, 1907. registered in deed book 47, page 204. in the office of register of deeds for Anson county, upon the land herein after described, to secure a note under seal for six hundred $600) dollars, pay able to the Anson Real Estate and In surance Co.. the same being due Nov. 8th, 1907. Default having been made in the payment of said note. I will sell to the highest bidder for cash at the court house door in Wadesboro. N. C, Monday, the Sth day of October. 1908. at 12 o'clock in., tne following tract of land in Anson county, Wadesboro town ship, adjoining the lands of J. E. C. Hill and others and bounded as follows: Beginning at a pile of rocks, formerly Edwards' beginning corner of a 202 acre tract, and runs S. 67 W. 2.75 chains to a stake in the Sneedsboro road; then with said road 34 50 chs. to a stake, 3 post iak pointers, on the west edge of the said Sneedsboro road; then N. 65$ E. 40.50 chains to a stake, pine, hickory and white oak pointers; then S. W. 17 chains to a stake, one hickory and IKXst oak pointers; then S. 18 W. 4.20 chains to a stake, 4 pine pointeis in an old field; then a new line S. 7 W. 15.80 chains to a stake; then S. 10 W. 7.50 i hainarto a stake; then S. 81 W. 13.60 chains to the beginning, containing 97 acres, more or less; being a part of the tract of land conveyed by John A. Avitt and wife and James M. Gray and wife to William B. Gray by deed" dated May "th. 1869, and recorded in deed book 16, page 761, of the register's office of An son county. This the 1st day of September, 1908. THOMAri a COXE, Trustee. McLendon & Thomas, Attys. Good Farm for Sale One hundred and thirty-three (133) acres of land three and one half mile E. of Wadesboro. Good twohorse 'lfi ration, good water, good Viots of wood on the "-in in this farm. t )OOOOOOOOOOOC3 E, Attorney. "PHYSICAL MORALITY. Good Health a Duty More Important Than Culture Greatly influ ences the Mini. (Hubert A. Royster, AB..M.D., Dean of the University of North Carolina Medical Department at Raleigh.) The title of this communication and such thoughts on it as I may present were suggested by the following nugget of wisdom from that great philosopher, Her bert Spencer: Perhaps nothing will so much hasten the time when body and mind will both be adequately cared for as the dif fusion of the belief that the pre servation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality." Throughout all ages people have been more or less interested in the development of bodies. The an cient Greeks, who were distin guished also for their culture and their morals, were so proficient in physical prowess ,that in their Olympic games they set the pace for the whole world. Other na tions, too, have been, and are, noted for their love of sports and have reaped results in the high standards of manhood and woman hood. The tendency now is to ward an increasing recognition of the value of attention devoted to the care of the body. Witness the emphasis given to physical education in schools and colleges at the present time as compared to the lack of it some years ago. The 4tsound-mind - in - a - sound - body", doctrine is universally taught by all educators worthy of the name. But, with all. this, there is among me majority 01 us a woe ful failure to realize the full mean ing of cultivating the physical man and of paying due attention to that part of our make-up. We all admit its importance, and yet, our enthusiasm over it comes in spurts and jets. We do not prac tice what we preach. Realization of its need and knowledge of its benefits do not always suffice, for those who constantly neglect their health are sometimes well inform ed upon the subject. This attitude of indifference toward the body is to be condemed for "the preservation of health is a duty." Kvery human being has three natures the mental, the moral, and the physical. He owes a debt to each one of these. If it is a sin to wreck the mind or strov the soul, it is also a defile the body. "Moreover is a duty to cultivate the faculties or to keep the to de- sin to , if it mental moral forces unsullied, it is likewise a duty to give heed and honor to the physical nature. It is not con tended that we should all be ath letes. What I do most earnestly plead for is that health be regard ed as a most priceless possession and that the physical department be acknowledged as a co-ordinate branch of the body government. If you had to choose between the physical and the intellectual life, the former would undoubtedly be your portion, for health is so much more necessary for happi ness than culture that you would hardly give it up for purely intel lectual enjoyment. But, fortu nately, it is not necessary for us to give up either one of them; the three elements can be so mixed up in us as to produce the proportion of development of each which makes for perfection. To attain this, equal homage must be paid, each in its own sphere, to 'the men tal, spiritual, and animal sides of our being. It is surprising how much w i owe to the physical nature. What is called "disposition" is largely dependent on physical conditions? A refreshing night's sleep gives a rosy view of life the next morning and enables one to bear cheer everything that comes. But loss of sleep makes one cross and the world looks gloomy. A normally working body-machine bestows on its possessor a wide reputation for having a "good disposition," when such a one may not be any better at heart than the half-sick fellow, who looks at life through his al tered bodily processes. It is dif ficult for a man to keep in good humor unless he lives a regular, wholesome, undissipated exis tence; for, whenever he departs from the beaten path, he is break ing a physical law of the universe and the punishment is certain to follow. Kven a preacher with dyspepsia finds it hard to be pious. There is no health except by right living, and there is no right living which does not include ob ligation to the human frame. Countless crimes have been com mitted under the stress of physi cal circumstance many of which would not have happened but for the perverted body functions. An unsound body as well as an insane mind is to be reckoned with in hu man wrong-doing. We have heard, and are hearing, much about the influence of the mind on the body. For my part, I have been more concerned with the re verse of this proposition. I be lieve that the body also power fully influences the mind. Some one has expressed this in a witty, but none the less, truthful way by asking, "Is life worth living?" and by replying, 'That depends upon the liver." The mental, and therefore, - the . moral, processes are affected for good or ill by the normal or abnormal conditions of the different organs. In my opin ion, it is jnore often that faulty digestion (from dietetic error) pro duces worry, than that worry unngs on rauity digestion, it is another case of the cart and the horse. There is an extraneous aspect to all this, and it is found in the benign example, seen and read of all men, furnished by a healthy body. Faith and hope and in spiration are present and to spare in those who brimming over with phj sical activity. Their optimism is contagious, and we unconscious ly worship the physical form which holds and nutures such life and strength. It is good, it is righteous, to be strong and well both for our own sakes and for the joy it may give to others Laugh and the world laughs with you." But how unutterably sad and miserable is the man who never feels well and takes paias to tell everybody about it! He ex hales pessimism and his approach 1 www rs dreaded. While there are a few expert commiserators in the world, yet no one really likes to hear a recital of somebody else's troubles. "Weep and you weep alone." To the average man health is naturally attractive: ill ness, repellent. And, best of all, the matter rests largely with us. Much of the physical infirmity which afflicts us is wholly caused by our own behavior the trans gressions of laws or the failure to observe orders, sins of commission or of omission. Some are lxrn sick, some achieve sickness, and some have sickness thrust upon them. We can all do the best we can with that which we have; nothing more or less is ex pected of us. If I were cilled upon to name any specific way by which one could attain "physical morality," I fear that I could not point it out. It is only through persever ance in right living, heeding the admonitions of a physical con science, profiting by previous mistakes it is only through these that the feet can be set in the straight road. There are three guide posts: Cherish physical earnestness; keep regular habits; guard your health above all tem poral affairs. It is not enough, however, to passively protect the health we must go forward, grow in physi cal grace. What most people need is not rest, but exercise. After a day's confinement in schoolroom, or office, or in the home, one should engage in some strong physical exertion, so that the body may throw of its poison ous waste products. Muscles are made to move. Only by moving can they develop and only through such movement can the organs be exercised at all. Especially should attention be directed to those mus cles which are not employed in our daily occupations, and above all, should we keep them in con dition to bear the call of any sud den emergency, likely to overtake us all when we least expect it. ' In liie's small things, be resolute and great To keep thy music train'd: know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, I find thee worthy; do this deed forme?" There is a gospel of health to be preached. Let those, who most keenly realize the triple na ture of our being, give due weight in their teaching to the physical, so intimately associated with the mental and spiritual attributes. It is not logical, it is not right to neglect the one while we cultivate the others. The house must be kept in order, if we are to make it a suitable place of abode for those higher ornaments the soul and the mind. Biblical Recorder. RIVALS INCALLS' OPPORTUNITY (The following written by Robert B. Malone, is favorably compared by critics with Inalls' famous poem, "Op portunity"): They do me no wrong who say I come no more When once I knock and fpil to find you in; For every day I stand outside your door, And bid you wake and rise to fight and win. Wail not for precious chances passed away, weep not for golden ages on the wane; Each night I burn the records of the day, At sunrise every soul is born again. Laugh like a boy at splendors that have sped. To vanished joys be blind and deaf aad dumb; My judgements seal the dead past with Its dead. But never bind a moment yet to come. Though deep in uiire wring not your hands and weep, I lend my arm to all who say "I can." No shamefaced outcast ever sank so deep But might rise and be a man. Dost thou behold thy lost youth all aghast? Dost reel from righteous retribution's blow? Then turn from blotted archives of the oast And find the future's pages white as snow. Art thou a mourner? Then rouse thee from thy spell! Art thou a sinner? Sins my be for given; Each morning gives thee wings to flee i from hell, Each night a star to guide thy feet to heaven. For A Spraloed Ankle A sprained rnue may be - cored in about one-third the time usually re-1 quired, by applying Chamberlain's Lin iment freely, and giving it absolute rest. For sale by T. R. Tomlinson. $355,015 INTGOIB PRIZES Given For Honest Work Contest Open to Men, Women, Boys and Girls Good Pay for All Who Work. Every special offer ever made by The Ansonian has been success ful, and the following contest is started with the belief that it is sure to succeed. Cash prizes which amount to more than $355 in gold arc to be given to those who work for us, every person who works to receive a part of the money. Every fall The Ansonian has more than $2,000 to collect, and while it is due from the county's best citizens people who pay when they see us or our collector it usually costs something to send a col lector. Then, too, we wish the money paid for collecting to remain in the townships where the collecting is done, and instead of paying this money to some man who can probably get other work to do, we are going to offer it to men, women, boys and girh of the different townships. The contest is also made in order to add a few thousand new subscribers to our books. The Township Prizes There are three prizes for each township and one grand prize for the county, to be given as follows: 1st. -To the person in each township receiving the greatest num ber of votes or points, a $20 gold piece will be given. (Provided they receive not less than 10,000 votes or points) 2nd. To the person iL each township receiving the second great est number of votes or points a $10 gold piece will be given. (Pro vided they receive not less that 20,000 votes or points) 3rd. To the person in eacL township receiving the third great est number of votes or points, a $5 gold piece will be given. (Provid ed they receive not less than 10,000 votes or points) Grand County Prizes 1st. To the person in Anson county who has brought in the greatest number of new subscribers during the contest, a $20 gold piece will be given. 2nd. To the person in Anson county who has brought in the second greatest nf-"T.of new subscribers during the contest, a $10 gold piece win oe given. - 3rd. To the person in Ansofr third greatest number of new subscribers during the contest, a $5 gold piece will be given. Special Prize for this Month To the person in each township having the greatest number of points on Oct. 1st a $5 gold piece above. (Provided that not less received bv all the contestants together in their township.) Get Busy The world is your field. Tho contest is now open. No restrictions as to territory. It will probably close before Christmas. Every dollar collected means 400 votes or points. Prizes will be awarded to persons in each township of the county. In case of ties among any of the contestants, we reserve the right to duplicate the prizes. Printed coupons for voting or recording the points can be secured at this office, either in person or by mail. Don't be afraid to work: you you do not get a single prize. You may win $45. Persons paving their subscription after today or during the life of this contest may give their votes or points to any person they wish. In the offer made for new subscriptions 12 months" is intended to count as a subscription; shorter periods count in proportion. Ask all the questions you want to; it is easier to answer questions than to cor rect errors. Rules by Which the Contest is Governed Only actual readers can enter contest. Three iudges will count the ballots and declare the winners. The Ajisonian reserves the right to ship which does not present more than one active candidate, unless such a one receives at least 40,000 votes or points. To each new subscriber paying one dollar ($1) for The Ansonian one year, will be given a coupon which will entitle the holder to four hundred (400) votes or points, to be cast for the one of his choice; and for every dollar paid on old subscriptions, the subscriber will be entitled to four hundred votes or points. The ballots will be placed in a sealed box as they come in. Every vote cast will be accredited to the candidate selected, and only meted out to every contestant. those wishing to take advantage and enlist their friends in their behalf. Bv allowing four hundred (400) Daid on subscription, it is possible secured by anyone who will give a little time to securing renewals and new subscribers. Canvass among your friends and get them either to extend their subscriptions and give you their votes, or, if they are not taking The Ansonian, In every case the money must be seut with the order and the person whom the subscriber wishes to have the votes or points named. Such votes will be carefully placeoVto the credit of the person designated. All communications containing must be addressed to The Ansonian, WANTED Everybody To Re member That Sunday, Sept. 27, tLL Rally Day At The Wadesboro Baptist Church Every member present at each service. Three Services: 9:30, 11:00 and 7:45. TELL ALL THE PEOPLE. BRING YOUR FRIENDS. OOCOOOGOOOOOOOOCOOOOOOOO' If Yoy Aire WSsc I ft 8 You won't carry money on your person, tempting others and perchance to lose it, but vou will deposit it with us and pay your bills and other current expenses with chectra a business-like way. Q IX IS 15 IS a 18 Bank of 8 8 ki joooooooo job z - cymonooocos - county who has brought in the will be given in addition to the than 8.000. votes or points have been will receive a liberal commission if withdraw the offer from any town rigid fairness and justice will be This is an extraordinary offer and of it should become active at once votes or points for each dollar for a large number of votes to be get them to subscribe for one year. votes, money or making inquiry. Wadesboro,N. C. Wadesboro Statistics W. M. U., Pee Dee Asso.. Ia Session at Hamlet Sept. 2-3. '08 Brown Creek Miss Daisy Flake. New society. Deep Creek Miss Mollie Tarlton. New societv. Gum Springs, Sunbeams Misses Ethel and Mat tie Ingram. New society. Gum Springs w. M. S. No representa tive. Laurinburg, Hannah Pines Dnnlap, Sunbeams No report. Lilesville, Sunbeams- New society. No delegate. Mt. Beulah, Sunleams No report. Hamlet. W. M. S. Mesdames R. E. Hin- son, W. H. H. Bagwell, and Miss Blake Maske $40.75 Hamlet, Sunbeams Misses Cora Atkinson, Louise Medlin and Lee Hinson 7.80 Laurinburg, W. M. S. Mesdames G. W. Goodwyn and J.T. Fields 80.00 Morven. Aid Society 191.19 Polkton. W. M. S. Miss Lela Goodman 17.r0 Polkton, Sunbeams--Miss Flossie Napier. New society. Roberdell. W. M. S. Misses Mag gie McRae. Covington, Nicnol son and MraTV. G. Teal 23.00 Rockingham, W.M. S. Mesdames A. W. Porter, Ann Hinson and B. Furr 42.5." Rockingham, Y. W. A. Misses Hattie Marks and Lizzie Porter 28.00 Spring Hill, W. M. S. No repre- sentati ve. Letter reports 1 4 1 . 00 Spring Hill.Y.P.S Misses Onitah McMillan, Belle McNeill and F. Johnson 20.00 Spring Hill, Lee Holland Miss Mattie Watson 12.05 Wadesboro, W. M. S Mesdames Lucas, Caudle," Bennett, Liles, Covington and Hardison 201.01 Wadesboro, Y. W. A. Mrs. E. W. Martin, Misses Portia Huntley, Ethel Ash craft and Dora Burns 47.75 Wadesboro, Sunbeams 10.00 Red Hill, W. M. S. New society Rocky River, W. M. S. New society. Only ten societies took a definite aim. I hope the others will follow the exam ple of these and write Mrs. E. A. Cov ington, the recording secretary, so that their aim will be printed in the minutes. Koberdel will aim for f20; Polkton Sunbeams, 15; Wadesboro Y. W. A.. $60; Laurinburg, flOO; Hamlet. 45; Brown Creek, $12; Rockingham. W. M. S., $50; Polkton, W. M. S., $20; Rock ingham. Y. W. A., $40; Wadesboro, W. M. S., $175. We find in the Bible four rules for doing tne King s business: irst, "Heartily; second, "Diligently;" third, "Faithfully;" fourth, "Speedily," Jesus said, 1 must be about my Fa ther's business." May each society in the Pee Dee Association be thus engaged during the coming year, and we will not only reach our aim but go far be yond it. MRS. T. B. HENRY, Vice-Pres. f. U. A. Accident to Flyin? Machine. The flying machine being oper ated by Orville Wright, its inven tor, was wrecked at Fort Myer, near Washington, Thursday with the result that Lieutenant Self ridge was almost instantly kilted and Wright seriously injured. The machine had broken the world's record, having remained in the air for more than an hour, and the accident was due to the break ing ot one wooden wing which helped to propel it. When this snapped off, it struck a part of the running gear, causing the ma chine to wreck. After this the machine appeared like a bird with a broken wing, falling to the ground with the two men beneath it. Wright, the operator, was in perfect control of the machine and the accident was due entirely to the weakness of the wood pro peller. It Can't Be Beat The best of all teachers is experience. C. M. Harden, of Silver City, North Carolina, says: "I find Electric Bitters does 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 aUo for weakness, lame back, and all run down conditions. Best too for chills and malaria. Sold under guarantee at Parsons Drug Co. ,r0c. One of the most sensational homicides in the state occurred near Durham last Wednesday and as a result W. H.- Tilley was ar rested and denied bail for the mur der of his wife. Tilley's story is that at 9 o'clock he saw a dog in his yard and took down his Win chester rifle. He snapped this twice at the dog, and thinking his gun was unloaded, elevated the barrel and struck it with his hand. It discharged full in the face of his wife who was sitting at the bureau reading a paper and she fell without a cry. He rushed to her but she died 20 minutes later. Tilley and his wife had not been on the best terms until last.month when they apparently adjusted past differences and began living together again. There is nothing but circumstantial evidence con nected with the case. 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 into the coach and came back and said, '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 with 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 car." 1 For sale by T. R. Tomlinson. Sunday School Department Coaioctt lj Stedal Eiltr. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27. Lesson. Temperance. Isaiah 5: 11-23 Golden Text. "Wine is mocker, Strong drink is raging." rrov. 20:1. COMMENT ATI VE Isaiah speaks of Judah as the vineyard of the Lord, and charges it with producing wild grapes. He speaks of the wild cranes as two the love of money, in the verses immediately precedine the lesson. and the love of wine, to be seen in the lesson before us. Wealth and luxury are the two sources of ruin that have brought low every nation that walk the ways of death. The ujust acquisition of land, with its multitudinous kindred evils lies at the basis of every economic question among us. But where the land question is at the bottom of the poverty and need of thou sands, the drink habit has thrown its tens of thousands into hopeless poverty and premature death Millard. Hence Isaiah proceeds to give greater emphasis to the larger of these two evils intemperance. "With fatal persistence the lux ury of every civilization has taken to drink; and of all the indict ments brought by moralists against nations, that which they reserve for drunkness, is, as here, the most heavily weighted." Of course the evil effects of in temperance pass sooner or later to others, but its peculiar fatality falls primarily upon its immediate victim. Read again verses eigh teen to twenty-three, and see how inevitably there follow in the life of the one who drinks moral de privity, an inability to make keen distinctions in the realm of ethics, a depraved conscience, inordinate self-conceit, a vicious hardening in sin, ending in hopeless, personal corruption. But if the effect upon the individ ual were all, the crusades against strong drink would not be so un compromising. Men ' fight it so because it places such hopeless burdens upon the shoulders of weak women and innocent little children, and because, through its whole destruction of. the citizen ship of the nation, its result is a cumulative wrong against society at large. Temperance reformers, who may be blamed for using strong language against strong drink, may point to the words of Isaiah in verses thirteen to seven teen, where he paints the complete national destruction caused by drunkness. It affects all classes ( the honorable men, the multitude, the mean man, the great man. Even so, now drink knows no ex ception, but strikes; down alike old and young, rich and poor, the brilliant and the ignoramus. (Only it loves most of all a shining mark!) It is drunkness that is to cause the captivity of the people. He calls upon the very mouth of the grave and the appetite of hell to be enlarged in order to consume the innumerable victims of strong drink! Millard. PRACTICAL Isaiah here denouces four classes of people in Judah and these classes are all the direct growth of the conditions brought about by intemperance and luxurious living: (1) Men harden in sin (18, 19). Why plead with men who draw iniquity after them with cords of vanity, and who are tied to sin as with a cart rope? These men scoff at what God is going to do. They live for the pleasure of sin, and defy God; indeed they scorn him. Their hearts and con sciences have been blinded by in temperance and self-indulgence. (2) Men who confuse moral dis tinctions (20). 44That call evil good, and good evil; that darkness for light and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." Intemperance and luxury have never lacked for champions. False teachers have always arisen to justy the life of self-indulgence. (3) Men who deal with questions from a purely worldly standpoint (21). Isaiah probably has in mind the statesmen of bis times when he says, "Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and pru dent in their own sightl" They would not listen to the complaints of one Isaiah, but were satified with their purely earthly wisdom. In the end their worldy wisdom proved folly of the worst sort. (4) Men of corrupt practices in puoiic lite ysz. V6). ltiey had a curious idea of manhood which still prevails. "Mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink." Who has not seen the braggart exhibition of manhood (?) in dissipation? Yet these same men' preverted justic and for a reward, or brib, justinea tne wicKea and gave judgement against the righteous. Intemperance and corruption hare always been allies. Van Ness. SUGGESTIONS Lad you ever snow what your class said when your are habitually out of your place at the Sunday school hour? If you ever do find that out, you will not wonder af terward that you have no better success. 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