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TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR.
REIDSVILLE, N. 0. FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1915
ISSUED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
REV. JOHN W. HAM CLOSES
GREAT STONEVILLE MEETING
(By U. LELAND STANFORD.)
Sunday night closed one of the
meet successful revivals ever held In
(fee history of Stoneville. Evangelist
Joha W. Ham, of Atlanta, for the past
tea days preched a series of sermons
tli at Sam Jones In his .'days of the
"spotlight" could not have equaled.
He attacked every form of sin and
hypocrisy that is possible for a ser
vant of God to attack in this age of
forgetting God and following the
world. From the outset of his ser
Ticee the people realized that he la a
God fearing man touched by the
holy spirit, and is preaching the truth
without the fear of any man. Every
church in town joined in the work of
making the meeting
Ifta that In the days of our grand
. fathers, when camp meetings were in
fashion and the shouting of our
- ti.arc waa iint thought to be
WbUI " " " -
cranky.
Hvangelist Ham left seeds sown in
our town that will in future years to
come bring forth a bountiful harvest.
He reached sinners that has been the
prediction of many that could never
te persuaded to accept Jesus Christ
and go forth in the world to do a
work Cor the cause of the lowly Naza
retie. The results of his meeting here
can be seen in passing any street in
town where 'the cards have been
strewn and torn to pieces. Even the
business men in town agreed to re
turn their present stock to the whole
sale dealers and pledge themselves
not to sell any in the future.
The closing days were the showers
of blessings when prayer-meetings
were held in many of the stores in
town, where sinners came under the
nower of the holy spirit and asked
for prayers of the Christian people
that their sins might be forgiven and
jsdgment day find them among the
saved. '
The song service is under the direc
tion of Prof. A. A. Lyon, . the great
singer who accompanied bam Jones
in many of his evangelistic meetings
through the South. . I,
Last year the Rev. Mr, Ham preach
ed twice a day for three hundred and
fifty days, or seven hundred sermons
making a record that Sam Jones t -Billy
Sunday has not equaled.
At Stoneville there were seventy
five conversions and thirty-four addi
tions to the various churches of the
town.
A new star rising in the religious
firmament of the South, whose light is
shining through the impenetrable
mass of Bin, corruption, hypocrisy,
and soul-destroying influence of this
fast and thoughtless age is the Rev,
Mr. Ham, who is, indeed, a wonderful
maa, although made of dust and
mortal being, yet who when with him
men seem to know that somewhere,
In some way, he has been face to face
with truth, the great truth that
cleanses the stains of human guilt
and rolls the clouds from the faco of
-God. .
He preaches the doctrine that
makes men stop and think ; that
makes them realize that Bin when
full grown bringeth forth death. En
ergetic, daring, relentless and with
out respect of person, he dissects, an
alyzes, and exposes the conduct and
influences of a supposedly I godly
people. He. shows with lucid and
convincing clearness that many are
they who have their name on church
books sugar-coated Christians
fancying they are followers of the
Almigfatly God; that directly -by
their influence are causing hell to
ealarge iteslf and sinners to sneer at
the tragedy or Calvary, and to doubt
tfce saving grace of the Lord Jesus
rist.
He says that the one great aim of
his life is to save sinners both in
ad out of the church from the awful-
ess of eternal punishment: that
tfcey may taste of the Joy. power,
wjsdom and holiness of the better
land. He preaches the word of God.
It is this that has made him famous
from Canada to the Gulf, and bids
fair to make him a great leader of
men today.
His teaching and preaching is
needed in these changing times to
convince the enlightened, though lost,
race of this twentieth century, of
the promise of God to His children,
that He will never leave nor forsake
them. Today men seem to be drift
ing In mativways from the teachings
of Jesus. Th story of tte cross
does not thrill them now. They
camp on debatable grounds ; follow
debatable occupations, live debatable
lives. Mr. Ham has a message for
lot &ea and women and for all
brare 'nd courageous souls, who,
by Godly life and devoted service, are
seeking to destroy the works of the
devil. He brings to mankind the
gospel of divine life and the hope of
eternal joy.
He is strictly individual. ' It is
the verdict of all who have hoard
him that he is "vastly different," not
"Indifferent" He expresses himself
in gripping, clear and expressive lan
guage. Unmistakably a ' master of
his profession and possesses a deep
perception of the workings of the hu
man life. He punctures the bubbles
of empty pretense In a motst enter
taining manner. In his daily life, he
has the appearance of a man who
knows where he la going, why he is
going, and what he is going to do
after he gets there. Yet, under all.
there is a deep consciousness of the
man overshadowed by the Master a
mighty personality that is about his
Father's business.
For several yeans he was asso
ciate pastor with Len G. Broughton
,of Atlanta, Ga. In that city "The
liam Tree" bore its peculiar kind of
fruit, the characteristic of which
was the saving of souls and the birth
of many into the kingdom of God.
He has studied for some years under
the notable G. Campbell Morgan of
Westminster, London, England, form
erly assistant pastor of the Raleigh
Tabernacle, and later pastor at New
Bern. Hence he comes to us pre
pared. Although a young man, he
promises to rank with his teachers
In the field of evangelism, and the
reaping of a golden harvest for his
Master.'
His words are beacon lights to a
higher and nobler life. ' His preach
ings show that sometimes, so often,
the devil appears as an angel of
light and in this manner is bending
religion to the culmination of bb3
own fiendish purposes, the destruc
tion of men. He says that the devil
is a person walking about seeking
whom he may devour, and alms his
poison shaft at the primal wound of
man. That this is the curse of the
New Eden of the twentieth century
Men do not suspect it, but this
poison shaft is an appeal to their
fleshly passions of warm , blood and
sensuous lusts, and to advance this
work secretly until sin and disease
and ruin hew deep Into the homes
and society life of the Nation, which
eventually means the downfall of the
human race. ' , ,
Below are some of his views ta
ken by your representative while
the evangelist preached in Stone
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DYE
INVENOTOR A
NOTED ATHLETE
REV. J, W, HAM,
The Devil.
I know there Is a devil for two rea
sons : First, the Bible declares the ex
istence of such a person and second, I
have engaged in business with him
for several years. I can tell some
children by the favor they carry of
their parents. Likewise men who are
allied with the devil have the imprint
of his spirit upon their countenances.
The devil is not In hell as some think
His sphere of activity is here in this
world now. He never sleeps. He man
ages to chloroform a large per cent, of
the church members of the present
day. He permits them to pray, Thy
kingdom come, and then makes them
loaf on the Job. That is not religion.
Regeneration,
A man may be converted a thou
sand times and yet go to hell, but he
cannot be regenerated one time and
go there. Unfortunately, the word
conversion is misconstrued by some.
Many people are converted and turn
away from some bad habit and yet
their hearts remain unchanged by the
Spirit of God. The divine'Imperative,
ye must bo born again, has never lost
its force. The Holy Spirit is the di
rect agent of this new creation. Our
churches have a great many people on
their rolls who have never been regen'
erated and frequently we find the un
regenerate element in the church di
recting and controlling its policies
and suppressing spiritual activity of
every kind. Woe unto a church when
it reaches that place.
Backsliding.
Much of the so-called backsliding is
wrong because the people have never
slid forward. Such a large per cent, of
church membership lives In the twi
light zone of religion. They are in
the wilderness longing for the onions
and garlic of Egypt.
Formality.
Formality has sapped the heart life
of many of our churches today. When
the people begin to lose out spiritual
ly, ther increase in formality. Fi
nally the worship of the temple be
comes "splendidly null and Icily cold."
You never hear the shout of newborn
souls In some churches of the twen
tieth century. The studied effort of
the leaders is to suppress it. Let
politician win a hotly contested race
and everybody is full of enthusiasm.
Likewise, let a baseball player knock
a home-run and everybody roars with
applause, but let a prodigal make a
home-run from hell to Heaven and
come down the isles of the church
weeping and he gets the icy stare.
There are lots of squeduncks in this
world who call themselves Christians.
A squedunck is one who is so narrow
between the eyes that a fly can Bit pa
the bridge of his nose and kick In both
eyes at the same time. I have met
Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians,
Episcopalians, of this calibre.
SHACKLETON'S PLANS
ARE UPSET BY THE
ICE
The
llshes
Woman.
I believe in woman suffrage under
proper restrlctionsViz.: that each
woman granted the ballot shall pass a
test of mental and moral fitness to
exercise franchise; a woman intellec
tually incompetent either by use of
drugs or other evils should be denied
the ballot. A woman unacquainted
with general ideas of the constitution
should be denied the right. A recog
nized prostitute should be denied the
privilege.
The apostle Paul was no grouch.
Regarding the woman question he was
laying down instructions from the age
in which he lived. Women of that time
were mentally deficient to handle any
questions, theological or political.
This country was founded on the
principle of no taxation without repre
sentation. I cannot see the Justice of
declining the ballot to a woman who
owns one thousand acres of land and
granting her tenant who owns noth
ing and maybe a whiskey bloat or
libertine, the right of franchise.
Senator McMichael's statement at
the Wentworth court house during the '
session of Legislature, "I came up
here to see what you fellows have got
to say about the anti-jug bill I don't
care anything about all that roll of
petitions down yonder at Raleigh,
signed by women and children; that
has got nothing to do with my atti
tude towatds this bill." That kind of
spirit on the part of men is what is
Inevitably going to give women the
ballot. The antl-iue bill affects tha
womanhod of this Stale moreihan. all ,B tlle outr world, even
the fourteen hundred and ninetv-sT.T winter quafTers,
en bills passed by the Legislature, and
face politicians of this day to the hour
that have no convictions upon it and
no respect for the wishes of the wo
man of this State, shows the kind of
stuff the average politician is made
of. The brewers and bar tenders to
a unit are against woman suffrage be.
cause woman is superior in morals
and spirltuaf value than men. If a
yellow dog has no more backbone
than your Senator he would have to
get a pair of crutches to walk with.
Stoneville, N. C, March 13, 1915.
London Daily Chronicle pub
a message from Sir Ernest
Shackleton, dated South Georgia. Nov,
30, sketching his plans for crossing th
antarctic continent.-.-' He says that all
reports show that the Ice Is farther
south than it bus been for years,
which means that the pack has no
broken up. lie therefore sees n
change of getting through this season.
"The ice," he says, "is so bad thai
you must not look for us until about
the beginning of March, 1916. Th
Endurance will return to South Geor
gia also about that time to do soma
scientific work and then go to Buenos
Aires." .'.
Shackleton will take Wild, Crean,
Malston, Iliirtey and Macklin with
him when he trios to cross the conti
nent, Hurley to take moving pictures
on the Journey.
A set of true meridian posts has
been erected at South Georgia to
enable whalers and other steamers
which visit the island to correct their
tompnsses. They were badly needed.
Shackleton expected to sail from
South Georgia in December and
ought, with luck, he says in his mes
sage, to get a landing about the end of
b month.
The cross country party will be
teady to start ou Nov. 1 next, he says,
"and we ought to cross in four months
and be met on the other side, in Feb
ruary." -"..v -
Shackleton concludes: "So far for
my hopes. What God may arrange no
one can tell. Things have not worked
well so far, as Ice conditions are so
bad, but that Is a matter which it Is
Impossible to foretell from year to
year." The road to the south will b
investigated, and if Filchner's land
ing place proves a suitable harbor tha
shin will anchor ami lie allowed to
freeze In."
The Chronicle also publishes extracts
from Shackleton's ' diary w hich, re
celved in London, describes the de
parture from Buenos Aires and ex
presses the hope If the wireless appa
ratus he has received works ail right
he will hear briefly what takes placs
when la
On Oct. 27 a- stq wa
way was found aboard In a locker.
The enterprising youngster said be
Dr. Walter F. Rittman of the United
States bureau of mines, whose im
proved processes for making gasoline,
smokeless lewder and dyestufia are
founded ou some of the most . revolu
tionary discoveries that ever originated
in a government bureau, is only thirty
one years old. He got his Ph. D, from
Columbia only seven mouths ago and
went to work l'h. I.-iug before the ink
ou his license or the paint on his oUice
door was dry. . Some folks think that
when you set a college sheepskin all
you have to do U to look sheepish.
But that Isn't the IUttmau idea.
Mrs. Kittnian really ought to have
gone iii the first paragraph, but she
begged for the background and this
is the best that can be done. For she
has worked side by side with her hus
band in the laboratory and has been
an Indispensable aid in helping to look
up 3,000 separate ni tides bearing ouj
his subjects. She has also acted ns
official tr;;;islator from all languages,
Including Russian. The simple posses
sion of a working Un n; ledge of that
language by anybody except a native
is enough to make a whole family dis
tinguished. Dr. Rlttman has been lit Washington
since the niMiouu' eraeut of his great
achievement. Nobody else will make
any definite statement for him about
the scientific aspects of the discovery.
But a j erks of experimental questions
fired off In the laboratories at Colum
bia drew, out a few facts about the
man and MijVork.
- Scope of New Process.
According' to the statement by Sec
retary Lane, the new process will ren
tier America lwlopendeijt of 'German j
!' t uo 'Product !ou Of dyes a ud smoke
less powder.
'-"Mere. It not for this discovery," said
Mr. Lane, "it Is possible that in ac
emergency we might be compelled to
rely largely on the greatly inferior ex
plosives that were, used in the time of
our civil war, and this would spell na
tlonal disaster."
Besides this, Dr. Itlttman has found
a method of Increasing the supply of
gasoline. Henceforward, in addition
to dog fanciers, dramatists and cam
paign button manufacturers, several of
the more" common gradcs'of business
I.. -IF .j,,, rt,,,, - V... JF :M - A Hf rf- .. . . ,
men, suen as guaru.i (national ana suo
wayV smiths (black and gold) and
sauerkraut flavorers, will be able to
run automobiles to San Francisco on
their own gasoline.
To go back to the title page, Walter
Frank Rlttman was bora in Sandusky,
O., on Dec. 2, 1883. He got his first
degree at Swarthraore college In 1908.
He was a member of the famous foot
bull team that cleaned up everything
in sight during that period. Walter
Cump picked him for the Ideal All
American team. In other words, bo
was a born, predestined athlete, with
Incidental propensities for pausing In
the serious business of sport to do a
little thinking, lie was intercollegiate
wrestling champion too and a great
swimmer ou the side.
Practical Work In 8hopt.
But that didn't prevent him from
spending three or four years In the
shops around Cleveland. And he wasn't
above serving as chemist of the United
Gas Improvement company of Phila
delphia. He was getting so old by this
time that he felt life was too short to
spend working for one company. So!
JANIN
THE "BUG"
A REAL INVENTOR
Albert S. Jantn, cabinetmaker, a
few days age took off his apron In tbe
shop in which be has worked eight
hours a day for tbe last fourteen years
at Kosebauk. N. Y., walked up to tbe
foreman and resigned his job.
He didn't quit In a uutT-a fact that
was plainly attested by tbe manner
In which the foreman wrung bis band
and bis fellow workmen crowded
around him, their faces beaming.
"Congratulations, Al," said the fore
man simply. From somewhere In the
crowd spoke one of Jaulu's Intimates:
"The 'Bui;' has made good. Whad
daya know about that?"
" Well. 'i-rejoined Janlu good uatured
ly. "it no longer will be Jantn tha
cabinetmaker or Jnnin the Bug, the,
dreamer and the Impostor. I guess
the handle to my name has been pret
ty firmly established as 'Jauin, Inven
Ur of the hydroaeroplane.'"
And that ulgbt tbe modest little five
kui Janln flat at 78 Clifton avenue,
.uerlooklng the broad sweep of New
i ork's bay. was the scene of a eelebra
tiou the like of which has never been
seen at ttosoank. Most enthusiastic
of the guests were men who for the
last fen years have scoffed at the
strange looking winged craft in the
Jauin back yard, which, the poor car
penter persisted, would some day be
recognized by the pateut ottUe as the
first flying boat.
Konebank went on the map to sta
when word was received -from Wash
lngton that the board of examiners In
chief of the pateut office had decided
' nnan!inou8ly thnf the maa who pasJ
int. iiyurout-ruiiiiiie iossiuie was
bert S. Janln. the poor cabinetmaker
of Staten Island. For four years pow
erful interests had fought tbe claims
or the obscure and almost penniless
carpenter through the patent office and
to Its highest court the board of ex
aminers In chief. i'(
Dazad Over Good Luck.
Just bow It feels for success for
struggling workman, whose $5 a day
is barely enough to provide the neces-'
f- carles ef life for a wife and seven chllw
dren, to suddenly find himself famous
and a fortune within his grasp Janln
tried to explain. He is still a Uttle.
dazed over his good luck, and In bis
hour of triumph thinks only of the
good things In store for his wife and '
the now bright futures of tbe seven lit
tle Jantns, blond haired youngsters
ranging from three to fourteen years
of age. -.''
: "We put It over, didn't we. mother?" ,
Janln beamed, affectionately patting
bis wife. "If it hadn't been that she
stuck to me believed In me when all
the rest were poking fun and scoffing
I never would have made It"
"And if it hadn't been." Mrs. Janln
Intel rupted, "that after your had day's
worU for almost every night in the last,
ten or fifteen years you burned the oil'
at your work bench until long after;
midnight, you never would have made
It" !
"The best port of this Invention U
that, unlike a whole lot of others. It's
going to bring us money gobs of It"
Janln broke In. "For years we have
felt the pinch of poverty, but 1 guess;
that day Is passed. You know tbe de-.
,Quick Action Wanted.
When one Is coughing and spitting
with tickling throat tightness in
chest, soreness la throat and lungs
wnen neaa is aching and the
whole body racked with a cough that
won t permit sleep he wants .Im
mediate relief. Thousands sar Fo.
ley's Honey and Tar Compound la the
surest and Quickest acting medicine
for coughs, colds, croup and , la
grippe. Sold by Gardner Drug Co.'
thought it was his only chance of get
ting on an expedition.
As he seemed likely to be useful,
Shackleton made him a cook's helper.
Describing life on South Georgia,
which has a population of 2,000,
Shackleton tells of the use of electric
lights. "Even pigsties and henhouses,"
he says, "are lighted with electricity."
How about row snUcripUoar
Horrible Puniehment For "Second Of
fenders" In Russia.
"Siberia for the souses" Is the watch
word In Kus'sln right now. according to
M. L. va Chilli, vice president of the
Baldwin IeotuotIve works, who re
turned from n business trip to the
czar's land alxiard the Scandinavian
American ll.'n steamship t'nited States
"Of course they don't say it that
way," was Mr, von tialn's explana
tlon. "but It goe. Second offenders
caught loaded on vodka bit the lone
trail for Slueria. Russia is riding on
a water wagon without springs."
uiiiiD .....i. I. urn. ii-v -iu mi i cision or the patent office gives me ai
royalty on every hydroaeroplane turn-
ed out In this country dating from the
day a few weeks hence my patent U
printed and Issued by tbe government
I am told that tbe royalty can be fixed
arbitrarily by tbe Inventor. The fail
ure of any of these companies building
hydroaeroplanes to come to terms, of
course, would be followed by an In-,'
frtngement suit but we don't expect j
any such difficulty. I
' "What -wilt 1 do with the money T
The first thing will be to get a honiej
of our own with plenty of ground;
around It for the kids it play. No'
more of these flats for us. But we are
going to stay right here In Rosebank,
where my wife and I were born and
brought up. You know we were sweet-f
hearts, even at old P. S. No. 13, around
the corner .Most of the kids are nowj
going to Hint same school. The oldest!
girl, Antoinette, who Is now fourteen.!
can realize her ambition to go to the
normal school and take np teaching If !
she wants to. but she don't hare to
now." 4
For desert oa short notice try
Block's Cakes and Velvet Ice Cream
at L. R, Ware's.
come and ask him. But he used to
Sell them what he thought of them.
Over In Germany, it may be recalled,
the business man will plan his schedule
for ten years ahead. Then beTi decide
what he's likely to want to begin to
do about tbe lie ginning of the second
decade, fit up n laboratory about twice
as large as his factory and tell the
chief chemist to take his time, with a
year off for travel, hotel tips included.
The American manufacturer turns over
a converted hen coop to his chemist
and says;
"Invent a new process for making
China silk out of spider web. I shall
begin work immediately. If you can
give me a few specifications to look
over so much the better."
Next Cam to Columbia.
Now Dr. Itlttman scolds about this
habit; then he turns around and meets
the demand. But after he bad worked
awhile as consulting chemist he decid
ed be didn't know enough. So he came
to Columbia for graduate work. lie
had added an A. M. and an M. E. to
his titles, ne Is a great adder, A lit
tle over a year ago he added the wife
already credited to his aceounL He
lectured In the summer iiol just to
try out the things he was absorbing
himself.
And the beet of it Is he's working for
Uncle Sam. which is all of us. - When
the patents for the various processes
are secured they will be turned over t
the American people. Anybody thu
wants to build a factory and rn.iU
gasoline, smokeless powder or dye
will be able to use tbe Rlttman discov
eriea.
Going to build a home? Want a
lot in the most desJrmblle locality in
Reidiville? Call at the office of the
Reidsville Insurance & Realty Co. and
get a line of those Boyd Iota. The
chance of a llfettme.
To the Housewife.
Madam, If your husband is like
most men he expects you to look
after the health of yourself and chtl-j
dren. Coughs and colds are the most!
common of the minor ailments and
are most likely to lead to serious di-
seases. A child is much more likely
to contract diphtheria or scarlet fever
when it has a cold. If you will Inquire -Into
the merits of the various reme-j
dies that are recommended fori
coughs and colds, you will find that
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy stands
high In the estimation of the people
who use it It is prompt and effec-J
tual. pleasant and safe to Uke.
which are qualities especially to be
desired when a medicine is intended
for children. For sale ft Gardner's