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Thursday, September 19, 1935.
A Prayer Written More Than Thirty Years Ago
By Mark Twain Gives One Much To Think About
Mark Twain, the world’s greatest humorist,
wrote a prayer about 30 years ago which has
recently been made public. Regarding it, he said,
“I have told the whole truth in that prayer, and
only dead men can tell the truth in this world.
It can be published after I am dead.”
Lovers of peace a!S well as lovers of war will
find in this prayer much to think about at this
particular time when several of the nations of the
world seem almost on the verge of war.
“O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers
to bloody shreds with our slfells; help us to cover
their smiling fields ’with the pale forms of their
patriot dead; help us to drown ,the thunder of the
guns with the wounded, writing in pain; help
us to lay waste their humble homes with a hur
ricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their
unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us
to turn them out roofless with their little children
to wander unfriended through wastes of their
desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sport
of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of
winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, im
ploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied j
it—for our sakes, who adore Thee, Lord, blast their
hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pil
grimage, make heavy their steps, water their way
with their tears, stain the white snow with the
blood of their wounded feet! We ask of One who is
the spirit of love and who is the ever-faithful re- ■
fuge and friend of all that are sore beset, and seek
His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Grant
our prayer, O, Lord, and Thine shall be the praise,
and honor and glory, now and ever. Amen.”
A newspaper editor, who recently published this
prayer of Mark Twain’s, added a paragraph which,
he said, might, today, with 30 years of scientific
advance since the death of Twain, have been ap
propriately included.
“. . . help us to rain down bombs of poison gas
and high explosives upon their great cities, O Lord
our God, toppling buildings and killing men, women
and children, everyone; help us to poison their
water supplies and their food supplies; help us to
strike them from the air and from beneath the
sea; help us to loose the germs of deadly diseases
in their midst, O Father on High. . .”
That Which One Leaves Behind May Bring Immortality.
You May Live Forever
by John Edwin Price
Do you recall when you used to stand dominoes
on end, not quite a domino’s length apart, and then
push the end one? Your little push followed
through the whole group until finally the last domino
went ker-flop.
You have probably noted the farmers planting,
expecting to get their seed back and much more.
They thereby make sure that seed will always be
the world.
Have you learned something by experience—
something beautiful, something helpful ? Or, by
definite concentration, have you tuned in a worthy
thought—worked it out in your life and made it a
part of yourself? This part of you that has grown
by( experience or been evoked by meditation can be
made to live forever. Plant that beautiful truth in
the heart of some young person. Sow the happy re
sults of that experience in the waiting soil of another
nind. Nourish it, cultivate it, watch it grow.
will grow as the seed grows. Or, thinking of
dominoes, that person to whom you give a help
ful push will push another and he another down
endless centuries. You can make sure that in this
will live forever.
handicapped people have thus made sure,
middle of the last century, an English
clergyman had to give up his regular work due to
the ravages of consumption. He left the London
slums for a rendezvous with Death in Devonshire.
“Every morning,” his biographer says, “the sick
man lifted himself laboriously in his bed and watch
ed the sun creep up the eastern sky. Would that be
his last day? One morning the nurse found him
dead in bed, his face turned peacefully toward the
eastern window. On a nearby table lay a sheet of
paper covered With feeble and almost illegible writ
ing. The nurse deciphered a few words—‘Heaven’s
morning breaks,’ ‘Earth’s vain shadows flee.’ Then
she gave the paper to the minister’s friends, and
thanks to their acquaintance with his handwriting,
they were able to make out the hymn he had written
just before Death came.
‘Abide with me, fast falls the eventide,
The darkness deepens—Lord, with me abide!
When other helpers fail and comforts flee
Help of the helpless, O abide with me!’ ”
Henry Lyte’s hymn has furnished the push that
hasi helped millions up the steep road. His courage
and faith sown in millions of singing hearts will live
down the centuries. <
Even though handicapped you; too, can make
sure that you will! live forever.
‘Many persons think that by hoarding money
they are gaining safety for themselves. If money is
only hope for independence, you will never
it The only real security that a man can have
world is a reserve of knowledge, experience
ability.”—Anon.
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MONUMENTS TO BOOK
ALL ABOUT US
Professor Huxley did not stand
alone in his opinion. James An
thony Froude, never accused of
prejudice in favor of orthodoxy,
said:
The Bible, thoroughly known,
is a literature in itself—the rarest
and richest in all departments of
thought and imagination which
exists.
Said Frederic Harrison, fore
most exponent of the religion of
Positivism:
The English Bible is the true
school of English literature. It
possesses every quality of our
language in its highest form'. The
book which begot English prose
is still its supreme type.
Lord Macaulay wrote:
The English Bible—a book
which, if everything else in our
language should perish, would
alone show the whole extent of
its power and beauty.
And Charles Dickens, writing
to his son:
I put a New Testament among
your books for the very same
reason and with the very same
hopes that made me write an easy
account of it when you were a
little child—because, it is the best
book that ever w,as or ever will
be in the world, and because it
teaches you the best lessons by
which any human creature who
tries to be truthful and faithful
can possibly be guided.
So we might discuss the Book
in its influence on literature and
on law; in its contribution to the
spread of the English language;
in its inspiration of philantropies,
for, as Leclty said in his History
of European Morals, it has “cov
ered the globe with countless in
stitutions of mercy, absolutely un
known to the pagan world.” Vol
umes have been written, and will
be, on every phase of this sub
ject, but we do not need them.
The monuments to the Book are
all about us; every department
of modern civilized life bears
the record of its influence
Instead of rehearsing again
these, well-worn testimonies, let
us close this secies with a single
dramatic story, a story so old
that surely many readers will find
it entirely new.
It starts with George III of
England, in the year 176.8. In
that year the Royal Society of
London appealed to the King to
send a royal expedition to the
South Seas to observe a transit of
Venus across the disk of the sun,
which event was to occur in 1769.
A bark of three hundred and
seventy tons was accordingly sent
out, and the island chosen was
for’ a time called King George's
Island, but later it became and at
present is known by its native
name of Otaheite, or, in its ab
breviated form, Tahiti. It is there
the modem writers go to get local
color for their South Sea stories.
IAMBLING
'RpUND
NEW YORK
*^4IU6M KEMMV
At first thought it seems com
pletely insane that October 1st
should be the one day in all the
year that the many thousands in
the City of Seven Million should
move from one apartment to an
other. Ask any real estate man,
however, and he’ll tell you that if
leases expired at odd times, the
apartment you want might not be
vacated until two months after
you want it. Meantime where do
you and your furniture go? Sell
ing costs would go sky high—
and so would rents. They’ve
tried it, and know.
* * *
Hundreds of brownstone houses
in the more fashionable Manhat
tan neighborhoods have been con
verted or entirely remodeled into
small apartments. One woman,
born in New York City (you sel
dom meet such) inherited seven
teen old brownstones, and now
rents them. “I’ve lived in them
all my life,” she says, "and can’t
understand why people like them.
They’re just old houses to me,
without any elevators!”
• • * •
The class of people living in
remodeled brownstones, according
to one well educated rental agent,
“at least in the East Fifties,” is
much better than those in the
more modern apartment buildings
in the same rental price class. . .
I wonder if that isn’t a reproach
to the architects of the box-like
cubicles they call “modem apart
ments?" Tlie old, high-ceilinged
rooms have much more character.
* * *
But these old remodeled brown
stones in the East Fifties and Six
ties have their days numbered,
probably, for when Rockefeller
Center office buildings are all
filled up, there’ll be too great a
demand for apartment space to
make little three and four # floor
houses profitable in that area.
They’ll pile the apartments higher
for Manhattan cliff dwellers.
* • *
“If I had antyhing to sell,"
says a friend, “and wanted to
establish an office at a favorable
address, I’d choose Rockefeller
Center. It's the most publicised
office space in the whole coun
try.’’ And perhaps he’s right,
though the Empire State Build
ing ran a close second for a time.
No Conean tration __
Bobby, who had just started to
school, was proudly telling his
aunt about his school work. She
asked him a few questions which
he could not answer correctly.
“Well,’’ Bobby’s aunt said,
“you’ll simply have to learn to
concentrate.” .
“Oh! Aunt Mary, we haven’t
taken that up yet; we’re only
reviewing.”—Montreal Daily Star.
Coat and Waistcoat
“How many coats of paint do
you put on that fence?”
Painter: "Two, sonny. Why?”
“Well, if you put on a third
coat, it would be an overcoat,
wouldn’t it?"
Painter: "Yes, and a waste
coat, too.”—Ireland’s Own.
The Woman’s Angje
When you accept an invitation,
make the understanding clear by
naming the hour of the appoint
ment in your acceptance. That
verifies it, and in the event that
your host or hostess finds the in
vitation was incorrect, there is
an opportunity to correct it and
avoid embarrassment on both
sides.
If you have an eye for color,
look at some of the fruit and
vegetable stands that are nicely
arranged for fancy display. And
when you realize how attractive
foods can be, plan a meal some
time so that color in your cooked
foods will come somewhere near
their- beauty when they’re raw.
Curiosity is early displayed in
the infant as he pulls the wheel
off his toy wagon. But a child
of two can be taught to appreci
ate the difference between de
stroying his own wagon and that
of his brother—laying the foun-.
dation for a proper respect of
other people’s property. . . By the
age of five, reason can be in
voked. Before, it is usually a
matter of reward and punishment.
Three points in which women
most frequently show bad taste,
are the use of mascara, nail
grooming and the use of lip-stick
properly. Figures are most fre
quently properly watched, but too
dark eye shadow and mascara,
too red lips and rather bad care
of the nails are still points to be
criticized.
The usual amount of fat in
milk, according to authorities, is
but 3 1-2 per cent, which has
little effect on the weight of the
steady consumer. Protein, the
largest constituent of milk, forms
muscles and lean flesh. The rest
consists of valuable minerals. All
of which would indicate that milk
is not fattening. ~
Frozen desserts made in an
automatic refrigerator, though
they are good, are not exactly like
ice cream. Remember that it is
the whipping and churning that
makes smooth ice cream. Hence
the mousses and parfaits—whip
ped cream, sometimes with beaten
egg whites, and flavoring, are
usually the most satisfactory
frozen desserts.
The New Champ
A stranger was dining in Aber
deen. When the meal was over
he handed the waiter a penny
tip.
The waiter looked at the coin
in his hand. “Do ye ken, mister,”
he said, “that the champion miser
in Aberdeen gies me tuppence?”
The. stranger held out his hand
smilingly. “Here,” he said,
“shake hands with the new cham
pion.”—Answers
Prefers Domestic Fruit
“What do you think of the
Ethiopian imbroglio?”
“Well, I must say that I like
our old-fashioned fruits best.”
Toe Difficult
"Jimmy, what is classical
music?”
"The kind you cant whistle,
ma’am.”
Louisa’s
Letter
WIVES WITHOUT HOLIDAYS
SHOULD DEMAND THEM
Dear Louisa:—
We cannot afford a maid and
I do all my work excepting for
the laundry which a woman comes
in for. I never get any recre
ation away from my children and
my husband thinks I should be
content to stay home with them
all of the time. He goes to town
several times a week but if I
ever go along I have to carry all
of the children and really it is
such an undertaking that I come
home more tired than if I’d never
gone. But if I stay home I never
see anything—in fact I feel like
a moss-back now from being out
of touch with everything for
such a long time. So what am
I to do?
MRS. J. A. C.
Answer: My advice to you,
Mrs. J. A. C., is to stiffen up
your backbone and tell your hus
band that you are tired of being
a slave. If he had to hire a wo
man to do his cooking and care
for the children, she would not
only get some good cash money
each week but she, would, also
have her evenings and at least
one afternoon off to do as she
pleased. It is certainly as little
as he can do to keep the child
ren one afternoon a week while
you go to town with a little cash.
If he doesp’t want to do that—
and some men have a way of
getting out of disagreeable jobs
—he can hire the laundress, if she
is dependable, and she can look
after the children. The majority
of men are selfish and if their
wives demand nothing that is what
they usually get*
Ten to one if your husband sees
that you have some recreation he
will be just as delighted with the
change, after he has made it, as
you Twill be. You will feel better,
look better, and be able to do
more for your family, if you get
away from them each week for
a time and enjoy yourself. You
will see what other people are
wearing and it will help you plan
for your children. It will give
you a new outlook on life and
you won’t feel as if you are
caught in a snare from which
there is no release.
If there were some way of
making men like your husband
change places with you for jult
a short time it would not take
long for them to decide that a
diet of baby tending indefinitely
was not the delightful holiday
they apparently think it is for
their wives.
Yours,
LOUISA
The Family
Doctor
by John Joseph Gaines, M. D.
SOME TERRIBLE FIGURES
By courtesy of the Missouri
Social Hygiene Association I am
in receipt of some statistics with
permission to hand a part to my
readers for whatever they may
be worth.
The cost of venereal diseases
to one large city ranges from
$2,071,000 to half a million more
than that. Annual costs.
These diseases, two of them, are
a causative factor in many more
serious afflictions of mankind and
womankind.
The cost of first-year treat-,
ment of syphilis is much in ex
cess of sums available for health
expenditures in the budgets of
working men’s families.
From these diseases come hun
dreds, yes thousands of cases of
rheumatism, neuritis, heart dis
ease. and congenital afflictions in
the offspring. It is appalling.
All from just two • so-called
"major venereal diseases.”
What a world of affliction and
suffering. It is the penalty for
vicious, lustful appetites. I dare
not mention certain of the ulti
mate loathsome conditions suffered
by careless victims of human lust!
Tlie picture would be too dis
gusting.
Isn’t it enough to justify warn
ings, shouted from every house
top? Your physician knows. Ask
him for. information.
Millions of dollars are paid
annually to drug stores for so
called "specifics.” There is no
way of finding out the actual
sums spent. A volume could be
written and yet the greater half
would remain untold.
One would think a warning
such as this would be sufficient.
TV. Sign
Marie: “Are they in love?”
Maoie: “They must be. She
listens to him describe a ball
game and he listens to her telling
how her cousin’s new dress was
wgif/ip ”—Pathfinder.
International Sunday School Lar
•on for September 22, 1»3S.
Golden Text; “Blessed is the
man that endureth temptation;
for when he hath been approved,
he shall receive the crown of life,
which the Lord promised to them
that love him.”—James 1:12.
(Leason Tents Ji
1:1-17)
We study this week the epistle
of James, which some think was
probably the earliest epistle writ
ten. The author is generally ac
cepted to have been James, the
brother of Jesus, the Jewish lead
er of the early Christian church
in Jerusalem.
There are four men, apparently,
by the name of James refer
red to in the New Testament.
First, James, the son of Zebedee,
who with his brother, John, and
Peter were the three chief mem
bers of the inner circle of dis
ciples who followed Jesus. Another
was also an apostle, referred to
as the son of Alphaeus. Then,
there was James the Little, the
adjective probably referring to
his physical stature. The fourth,
the subject of our lesson, was
the brother of Jesus.
James was undoubtedly a wor
thy man but his relationship to
our Lord probably helped him
reach the lofty position he occu
pied in the early church. From
boyhood he had been closely as
sociated with Jesus and formed
one of the earliest groups of be
lievers following the Crucifixion.
“No doubt James sat by Jesus at
his teacher's feet in the town
school,” says H. C. Moule. “He
had roved with him on the hills;
he had watched with him the
plowmen and the sowers; and the
oxen of the threshing floor; he had
worked beside him, very likely, at
the bench, Joseph’s apprentice at
first, then, possibly, the helper of
his brother Jesus as he succeed
ed his reputed father to be the
very stay of the widowhood of his
mother.”
In the stirring events which
followed the Crucifixion and Res
urrection of Jesus, James was
identified. It is recorded in 1 Cor.
1&:7 that Jesus "was seen of
James.” Later, according to Gal.
1:19 Paul had an interview with
him. Acts 12:17 tells how Peter,
after his escape from prison gave
instructions that information be
carried to James. This James soon
became recognized as the head of
the Jerusalem church. “Though
not one of the twelve,” says
Philip SchafT, "he enjoyed, owing
to his relationship to our Lord,
and his commanding piety, almost
apostolic authority, especially in
Judea and among the Jewish con
verts.”
So, we find James in this au
thoritative position when the ques
tion arose whether the new Gen
tile members should submit to the
Mosaic law. Paul and Barnabas
were sent from Antioch to the
Jerusalem church to see if some
decision could be reached. “The
problem was to save both the lib-'
arty of the gospel and the author
ity of the Scriptures,” says J. M.
Stiller. “Antioch stood for the for
mer, the teachers who came down
from Jerusalem for the latter.
“God’s Spirit harmonised the
two.” “If these teachers from
Judea had been victorious,” says
C, Campbell Morgan, "then
through those earliest years, last
ing until now, there would have
been division between the Hebrew
Church of Christ and the Gentile
Church of Christ, and the bitter
ness caused by such division would
be mutually destructive, and the
The Hint
He had long outstayed his wel
come.
“Tell me,” said his host, at
last, “how long was the fish you
caught the other day?”
“Oh,” said the guest,/ holding
his hands wide apart, "so long.”
"Well, so long?” returned the
host, “if you really must be go
ing.”—Tit-Bits.
testimony of Christ to the world
would have been lost.”
When the conference wag held
Peter spoke first, calling atten
tion to his own experience with
the descent of the Holy Spirit
upon Gentiles and that the old
yoke had been more than the
fathers could bear. Paul and Bar
nabas supported Peter’s views.
Finally, James quoted Amos 9:11
12, arguing that the liberty of the
Church to present the gospel to .
the Gentiles was maintained but
at the same time the promises of
God to the chosen people had not
been cancelled. Thereupon, the
suggestion of James as to the dis
position of the vexatious question
was adopted.
As said by Philip Schaff, James
“was an honest, conscientious,
eminently practical, conciliatory
Jewish Christian, the right man,
at the right time, in the right
plaee. The mission of James was
evidently to stand in the breach
between the synagogue and the
Church, and to lead the disciples
of Moses gently to Christ. He
was the only man who could do
it in the time of the approach of
the doom of the Holy City. As
long as there was any hope of a
conversion of the Jews as a na
tion, he prayed for it and made
the transition as easy as possible.
When that hope vanished, his mis
sion was fulfilled.”
‘‘The Epistle of James is the
most Jewish writing in the New
Testament," says Doremus Almy
Hayes. “If we eliminate two or
three passages concerning refer
ence to Christ, the whole Epistle
might find its place just as prop
erly in the canon of the Old Tes
tament as in that of the New
Testament, as far as its substance
of doctrine and contents is con
cerned. That could not be said
of any other book in the New
Testament. There is no mention
of the incarnation of the resur
rection of Christ. The word ‘gos
pel’ does not occur in the Epistle.
Nevertheless, the Spirit of Christ
is here. The principles of this
Epistle are the principles of the
Sermon on the Mount, to which
there are more references than
can be found anywhere else in
the New Testament in the same
space (about 16 references). It
has to do with the outward life
for the most part, and the life
it pictures is that of a Jew in
formed with the Spirit of Christ."
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