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“THE MAN NOBODY KNOWS” By BRUCE BARTON New And Inspiring Picture Of Jesus. J.s - INSTALLMENT VII The Outdoor Man To moetr of the t row.; thcr' \v.\ 3* nothing unusual in the scene. That is the tragedy of it. The air was filthy with ih° smell of animals and human ! tiny • herded together. Men and women trampled one another, crying aloud 4 their imprecations. At one side *•!' the court were the pens of the cat tie; the dove cages at the other, in r the foreground, hard-faced piiesis and money-changers snt hoi in.) long, tables exacting the nt.n<..; | farthing frofti those who came to buy. One would never imagine that , this Was a place of worship. Yet it i Was the Temple—the center of the 5k Teligious life of the nation. Am’ to the crowds who jammed its ? hoc its, the stfectacle seemed p. r ; fectly normal. * Thfet was the tragedy of it. | Standing a little apart from the test, the young man from \ i/.a ■ leth watched in amazement wnich ' deepened gradually into anger. It Was nti familiar sight to him. Tic had liot been in the Temple since his twelfth year, when Joseph and Mary too him up to be legally on ’ rplled ns a son of the law. U:s cniet memory or that previous visit WAs of a long conversation with certain old men in a quiet room. He had not witnessed the turmoil in the outer courts, or, if he had, it made small impre- ion on his youthful mind. ’ But this way was different. Per weeks he had looked forward to :visit, planning the journey with a com pat. y of Galilean pilgrim; who ? trumped all day and spent the nights in thru- tents under the open sky. To be sure some of the older ones muttered about the ex tortions of the money-changers. A pwonfjbn told how the lamb which she had raised with so much do.. ;Votion the previous year, had been iseomfully rejected by the priests, who directed her to buy from the dealers. An old man related his experience. He hud" brought down the Savings of months to purchase his gift, and the money-changers converted his provincial currency into the temple coin at a robber's ratf. mner pilgrims tiivt similar 1 stories but after all they were old people, prone to complain. The journey and the sacrifice were worth the cost. One must expect to pay for so great a privilege. So-tine young man may hare thought the night before; but io laySp.faced the sordid reality, and |l8 e&eeks flushed. A woman’s Bhrilltones pierced his rovery like a he turned to see a pea nt mother protesting vair.lv •aftrt a ruthless exaction. An animal threatened to break jjh the bars, and a part of toe wd fel back with cries of ter P.|‘'A, money-changer with the 3rd4 .Of a pig leaned gloatingly his hoard. . . 'Pto*'*young tad picked up a handful of Igjfrom the pavement and half :enacioualy now was braiding •rtr Into a whip, watching, the ojfe scene silently. And suddenly without a word of riling, he strode to the table the fat money-changer sat. ■led it violenlty across the Hie startled robber lurched grasping at his gains, bnlstne and fell sprawling ground. Another step and a table was overturned, and T, and another, crowd whiyh had melted | the start began to catch a ■ring “of what Was up, and forward around the young 'c strode on, locking ncith ht nor loft. He reached the where the dove vages with quick sure movements a were opend and the oc relcr.nel. brushing aside p of dealers who had tak stand in ront fof the fat fc# he threw hi own the bars the bellowing animals |h the crowd and into the striking vigorous blows little whip. £ whole thing happened so that the priests were swept ir feet. Now, however, they themselves and bore hsi in a tody. Who was this act of defiance ? he come froth? By ity did he presume to their business ? The way again at the on ey enjoyed the tumult always does, and they priests and robbers; came to answering for B, they were per to leave it to him. willing they should, and panting, the still in his hands. His Scornfully over the by anger and authority,” he cried. “My house shall be of prayer for all it ye have made it a don of robbe; Stum; by hm taunt, his accusers hesitated.« d in their moment of hesitation were lost. The soldiers turned their backs; it way nothing t that they cart'd about. Bat the anwil burst forth in a mighty c heer and rushing forward bore him out of the Temple, the priests land the money-changers scurrying I before him. That night his action i was the talk of the town. ! “Did you hear what happened in , the. Temple today ?” “No* a man of them dared stand up to him.” v thieves—it was coming : to them.” "Vihat's his name?” “.le; us —used to he a carpenter up in Nazareth.” INSTALLMENT VIII A Muscled Man i It. is ft very familiar story, much ! preached upon and pictured. Rut ! almost: invariably the pictures ! show him with halo around his i head, as though that was the ex : planation of h; ■ triumph. The truth is so much simpler ! anil more impressive. There, was, in j his eyes, a flaming moral purpose; Land "reed and oppression have al | ways shriveled before such fire. Mbit with the majesty of his glance ! there war. rum "thing else which ■ ouiited powerfully in his favor. As his right arm rose and fell, striking 'blows with that little whip, the sleeve dropped hack to reveal mu sics hard as iron. No one who watched him in action had any doubt that he was fully crfpable of taking care of himself. Vo flabby pi jn i or m iney-ehaiHr or cared to try conclusions with that arm. There are those to whom it will seem almost ivrevalent to suggest that Jesus Was physically strong. They think of him as a voice, a presence, a spirit; they never feel contagion of hrs laughter, nor re member how heartily lie enjoyed good food, nor think of what his years of bard toil must have done 'o his arms and backs and legs. ! t.ook fob n minute at those fir si. I thirty years. Thefo vca.s rto soft bed for his mother on the night he entered the world. He wps brought forth in a stable, amid animals and the ani mal-liko men who tended them. | Tie was wrapped rough garments i and expected, almost from the h« | "'inning, to look after himself, j When be was still an infant, the j family hurried away into Egypt. | On the long trip back, some j years later, he was judged old | enough to walk, and so. day after ! day. he trudged beside the little | donkey, or scurried into the woods I by the roadside to find fuel. It was a hard school for babyhood hut it gave him a hardnes sthnt was an enormous asset later on. Early in Itis boyhood Jesus, '•''Wit into Joseph's carpenter shop. .The practise of enrnentry was no | easy business in those simpler lavs Pooh >ess die man who took a contract for a house assumed re sponsibilities for digging into the v u’rh hillside, for its foundations; for fellfng trees in the forest, and shaping them with an adze. T,. after roars those who listen ed to the talk of Jesus by the sea of Galilee, and heard him sneak of the “man who built his house hr-on a rock” had no doubt that he know what he was talking about. home of tjhom find scon him bending’ hsi strong clean shoulders * • hovay blow:-; or watch ed him trudge nvvay into «h" bending his rtrong clean shoulders nrd ’ of urn n* nightfall with a ro’--h-i-(-v,-r beam. So he “waxed strong” as the narrative tells us—a phrase which ’"ns rather been buried under the too-freoumt repetition of “the meok and lowly” and “the lamb.” As he grew in stature and exper ience he developed with his person al skill no unusual canncity for directly the work of other men that Joseph allowed him an in creasing responsibility in the man agement of the shoe. And this fo-tumte, for the c^y came when Joseph stood at the beech no longer—having salved his last board, and planed it smooth— and the management of the business descended upon the shoulders of the boy who had learned it so thoroughly at his side. (Copyright 11125 by Bruce Barton) NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the firm heretofore doing business un der the name of McLean and Bur roughs or the Shelby Sausage Co., has been dissolved. This the 15th Bay of September 1926. EARL D. McLEAN, J. T. BURROUGHS. Old Spanish Papers In Raleigh May Give Insight Into Romantic Lost Colony Raleigh.—Ten thousand copies of ten thousand pages of old re cords from Spain. Which are bc jlicved to contain the record of the mysterious “Lost Colony” found !ed on Roanoke Island by Sir Wal ter Raleigh all ready right here in Raleigh, in the vaults of the hi: - llorieitl commission, and no one to I translate them, and no money to I get a translator. Now isn’t that a ; prattle kettle of fish? Or perhaps we should have said a pleasant : job for a loose-leaf bindery. But, janyway, those are the facts. But because the last penny of thy ap propriation for this work has been spent, and because only the leg islature can appropriate some more j—if it will—the people of the I state must wait another year—or ■ perhaps another century—before [learning the secret which the: ' old records, dug out of musty vaults i in Spain, are believed to hold. The last batch of pages, most of them photostatic copies of the ori ginal records, written in script by hand on rough paper from two to three centuries ago, were just re ceived from Madrid, Barcelona and Seville, a few weeks ago and clerks in the historical commission are still busy sorting the pages to get them in the proper chronological end numerical order. They are later to be hound in looseleaf binders, so that the translators may use them as would an ordi nary book, despite the fact that each leaf is a separate photograph. Although it is expected that the task of arranging the photostaic pages in their proper order will be completed within a few days, it will probably be several weeks or even months, before they can all be bound. A few hundred pages con sist of typewritten copies of the records—in Spanish of course—• but the bulk of them are photo static* And bound up in these mute re cords is romance, adventure, trag ctu, and even comedy, perhaps. The story which eventually may be unravelled from them may, nr it is hoped, shed much light on the fate of the Raleigh “Lost Colony” which, ns many believe, may have been .taken captive b»y some pass ing Spanish galleon. But. none of these mysteries can be solved until the legislature waves the golden ward and turns the golden Jcey which will unlock this storehouse of mystery and, romance. At least 5*1,000 a year for the nest two years will be reouired to complete the records, and to get them translated, according to A. R. Newsome, secretary of the State historical cOmmision. Several years ago, it will be remembered than an appropriation of $5,000 was made to reproduce these re cords, and the work was under taken by Dr. W. W. Pearson, pro fessor of history at the Univer sity of North Carolina, who was then in Spain on a leave of ab sence from the university. Tie succeeded in locating many of the records which it. was thought might have to do with North Caro lina and the "Lost Colony,” but i that was about all, it not being | possible to undertake any trans lations until after the photostatic ‘copies had been made. The making of these copies was left in the hands of Miss Irene Wright, an American who 1ms had much ex perience in this kind of work, and who for two years had had charge •mr of the work in Spain for the ■ North Caroline, historical commi [ricn. And Miss Wright has done I her work well, as it attested by the thousands of photographs of | the pages of ancient records. It ) was necessary for Miss Wright to search through thousands and j. thousands of other pages, in ord (er select those particular sections of the records which might have a bearing upon North Carolina his tory. Art! there sti’l remains 10, 000 more pages to be photograph ed. in order to have a complete re ! cord of those sections of these old ' documents which may have a bearing on the New World, ac cording to Mr. Newsome. But even if funds were avail able to Mr. New. omc, because the translator should he an historian • well as a linguish, and should be able to weight historical facts and values as well as decipher the ancient writings on the faded and discolored pages. •When asked if the work of translating and editing the re cords could not be undertaken by the research department of the University, assisted by Dr. Pear son, who already probably knows more about the records. their backgrounds and content than any other one person, Mr. Newsome re plied that Dr. Pearson Was too busy now with his teaching work at the University, and that there were probably no others able to handle the work there, unless they were well paid for doing the work. The only possibility of getting the work done without great expense, would be to find some historian in terested in research work who had a sufficient knowledge of Spanish and Span, history to do , and turn the entire matter over to him to be translated and edited, thfe final work to bear his name, and the publication to he made, the work is likely to prove Very expensive. So another buck is passed to the legislature, and among the hun dred and one other knotty prob lems which it will have to deliber ate upon, will be the fate of the Spanish records. Will they, in turn, be 1ft to rot in the vaults of the historical commision, their myster ies and tragedies forever kept Secret and the age old lines, or will their story be unlocked from the mute pages so that the world may know the story? Rev. Gillespie Gives Up Poplar Springs Editor of The Star. For more than .a third of ministerial life of 28 years I have been pastor of Poplar Springs Bap tist church. Never have I served a better and more loyal people. They have been exceedingly kind to me and my family. I am to close my (work at this church the first of November to go into another field, into which the hand of the torcU seems like leading. In keeping with1 this long drawn out stream efi kindness, I found, when I came out of the church 'last Sunday that those good people had loaded down my Ford with many of the neces sities of life. We shall never forget these very kind friends and trust that they may be led to a new pastor who ! will lead them into folds of still I greater usefulness. | JAS. C. GILLESPIE, Retiring I pastor. It’t a "Star Brand” "SOFT and GOOD’ ES, folks, the name of this shoe is “Soft and Good,” and it is true to its name. The soles are flexible cak, Goodyear welt •sewed. There’s no tacks or threads to hurt your feet. The uppers are soft and pliable, yet strong and sturdy, and will Stand lots of hard service. “Soft and Good” shoes are put out by the makers of “Star Brand” shoes—and that means they are solid leather and cost you lafcs per month. < WRAY-HUDSON CO. “Whe*e Prices Satisfy.” TOOK K>« THIS oh The hssl FI VISIT HERE i — Motorcycle Policeman Fined Here For Being Drunk. Cleveland Certificate Shown. Gaffney, Oct. 5—City Motorcy cle Officer Elbert Bridges, who war suspended! Friday, wus drop ped from the police force Sunday [afternoon, according to a statement made yestreday by Mayor V. H. Lipscomb. Jonas P. Scruggs, for mer state constable, has been elected temporarily to fill the va cancy, Mr. Bridges was suspended fol lowing the presentation to the council hy Chief H. H. Lockhart of a certificate signed by H. G. Ware, deputy sheriff of Cleveland coun ty, North Carolina, saying that he arrested Bridges at Kings Moun tain last Thursday for being drunk and that the Gaffney officer was fined $50 and costs by Recorder John P. Mull at Shelby Friday. Mayor Lipseorpb said Mr. Bridg es had made a good officer and he : expressed regret that circumstanc es made it necessary to drop him from the force. Attended Cleveland Fair. Mr. Bridges obtained permission to got off duty Thursday afternoon to attend the Cleveland county fair at Shelby, according to officials. He rode the city’s motorcycle. Friday morning Mr. Bridges fail ed to report for duty here at his accustomed time, and an investiga tion started by Chief Lockhart re vealed the reason. Mr. Lockhart made a trip to Shelby Friday to confirm reports and while in the North Carolina city obtained the signed statements from Deputy Sheriff Ware that was presented to the council Friday night. Duo to the press of routine busi ness at the time, the council sus pended Mr. Bridges and took t no further action. The council ad journed with the understanding , that another meeting would be held next Friday night to take final ac tion in the matter. However, Mr. Bridges requested the authorities to take earlier ac tion, it was stated, and in com pliance with his wishes Mayor Lipscomb called the council into in formal meeting Sunday after moon at which time it was decided to dispense with the services of the officer. On Force Before. Mr. Bridges had served as a member of the Gaffney police force for several months a few years ago under Mayor R. A. Jones. He tendered his resignation at that “timte when circumstances arose that indicated his retirement, accord ing to members of the council at that time. Mayor Lipscomb said Mr. Bridg es services as an officer had been entirely satisfactory. ■ “He never questioned instruc tions,” Mayor Lipscomb said. “When the chief or I told him to do anything ho carried out orders without hesitation or quibbling. Such men for police duty are rare, and I greatly regret that circum stances made it necessary for u? to release Mr. Bridges.” fiillCJ! IKE VISITS 1 SHELBY “Harmonica Mike-’ known from to coast as a performer on j the mouth harp, is back in Shelby j for a few days visit with boyhood ; friends. The dapper little harp artist ! known hereabouts in his boyhood j as Cloyde Sullivan, has given many I performances over radio and be- j fore large audiences America ovei j since, he departed from his boy- ! hood home. Mike was a visitor in i Shelby last week, leaving later 1 for Charlotte and Gastonia. He’s j back now and will remain in this : section for some time, visiting old ! friends. Thereafter, he says, he will like, ly go to Gastonia as instructor to the harmonica band there. Mr. Sullivan will give an enter tainment Friday night October 8th at Belwood consolidated school, j Proceeds for the benefit of the school. TEN I CHICAGO . A WAITING NOOSE Chicago.Death by hanging aw-aits ten men in the Qook county jail, the largest number to have tem porary residence in murderer’s row at one time since a crime wave after the World War placed th^ teen in death cells. Nortorious among them are John Walton Winn, slayer of the husband of “Grandma” Nusbaum; Russell T. Scott, drug clerk stay ed, and “Midget” Fernekes, sen tenced to die with Daniel Mc Geoghegan, and John Flannery for the slaying of the treasurer of a building and loan association. r '■ 1 — ■ ---s LANDIS SHOE SHOP Just across the street from I he t>M stand you wiii find the LANDIS SHOE SHOP, next door 1o Webb Bros. We arc still Riving as good service as can be found in shoo repairing. A\J work guaranteed. Also second hand Shoes* Polish and Laces for sale. South IaFayette Street, Shelby, N. C. J, A. DAYBERRY, MANAGER. j V-—....i SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM ANNOUNCES Special Round Trip Excursion Fares TO Atlanta, Ga., and Birmingham, Ala., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1926 The following round trip fare;, will apply from stations named below:— FROM Atlanta Birmingham Charlotte _. _-.57.09 $9.00 Gastonia - 6.75 8.75 Kings Mountain .. - 0.50 8.50 Greensboro_- - _ 9.00 11.00 High Point —_ 9.00 11.00 Thomasville _... ..._ 8.50 10.50 Lexington __ 8.00 10.00 Salisbury __ _.... 8.00 10.00 Concord .. _-_ ——_ 7.50 9.50 Marion ...- 9.00 11.00 Shelby . 6.00 8.00 Winston-Salem__ 9.00 11.00 Mocksville _ 9.00 11.00 Mooresville _8.5!) 10.50 Proportionately recuceff round trip 'ares from inter mediate points. Tickets on sale Thursday, October 7, 1926. Tickets returning good on regular trains (Except 37.) Final limit Atlanta tickets Monday. October 11, 1926. Final limit Birmingham tickets Wednesday, October 13, 1926. Return trip must be completed prior to midnight of final limit of tickets. Passengers from Greensboro and intermediate points will use train 39, and passengers from Winston-Salem and intermediate points will use train 9 to Charlotte, thence train 39. Passengers from Charlotte and points south can use trains 15 and 39. Ticket* good in parlor and sleeping cars on payment of parlor or sleeping car charges. No Baggage checked. No stop-overs. For further information call on any Southern Railway Agent. * R. H. GRAHAM, D. P. A. CHARLOTTE, N. C. Peer of All Single Volume Reference Works. See WADE The Uv.dc Mar.. -SCKEDULHS L»* cr-Carolina Motor Bus Company Shelby to Charlotte—7, 9, 11, 1, 3, 5, 7:Ci>--'‘!.a.-!ot e to She’ll,y—6, 13, 12, 2. 4, C. Kin.;';- Mountain to Charle'tV—.7:20, 0:30, 11:30, 1:2.'!, .‘5:20, 5:30. 8:30. Direct connect Ian xncdp it: lsir>;; .Mount do *' Spartanburg and Greenville in tit * niprn'.nfj —Oho hoar lay over in the afternoon:;. Bessemer City to Charlotte- -7:15, 13:45, 3:1", 3: 45. 5 C' . 1 - * ' * C. Gr.sronia to Charlotte, leaves evc-Ty p.-y.ir or ;h-> hour, from 7 a. in. to 8 p. iii. Connectin-- made there f-r Rock :li<i, »S. C.; Spartanburg. Greenville, Cr.v.uerton, L' .ol:,'.o;i Clieriyviile. York ; ad Clover C C. Gastonia to l-hdbv—Cn the o d hpnrr, making eottnee'.iona for l'tutherforuton, Ken i: r ■onvCIi, Aslevllle ard Slut-:vllle. Gastonia to Cherry vide—8:30, 12:10. 4:10. 3:10. ChonyvHle to Gastonia—7:!5, 10, 3. 0 p. m. Charlotte to Rock llill—R. 10:30. -3:15 Bus leaves Spartanburg 6:15 p. 1.1. Cdnncci.ic.n at K1 ■ Mountain, Charlotte. Telephones: Charlotte 2371; Gastonia 1051; Shelby 450: Sh to P.utherfordlor—8 a. m. and 1 p. rn. Jt:itbc.rf'»«!U-n to Shelby—0:40 a. m. and 2:15 p. :.i. Shelby to Athevill;—10:00 a. m„ 12. 2, p. in. A. he vllle to Sir. I y—8, !) and 11 a. m. and 2, 1 p rn. 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