T H E S U N D A Y S C H O O L .LESSON VIII, SECOND QUARTER,INTER­

NATIONAL SERIES, MAY 26.

Text of th e I«saon , A cts xlU , Memory Vei*e«, 46, 47—Golden T ext, Aet* x lli, 38—Com m entarr Prepared

b r R ev. D. M. Stearna.

[Copyright, 1S08, by A m erican F rew Am o - elation.]

4S. P au l and B arnabas, si>eaklns to them , i>erBuaded them to continue In the grace of God.

Crossing from Cjprtis to the main­land, they arrive a t Perga, where John Mark left them and returned to Jeru­salem. Thence they Journey to Anti­och, In Plsldia, and are found in the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and, being Invited to speak, Paul begins a t the exodus of Israel from E s ^ t and preaches unto them Jesus and the res­urrection and through Him the for­giveness of sins. After the service many asked to hear those words again the next Sabbath, and as they followed Paul and Barnabas they urged them to continue In the grace of Grod.

M. And the next S abbath day cam e al­m ost the whole city together to h ea r the word of God.

The apostles had no doubt spoken to many through the week, and those who had heard the preceding Babbath had not been quiet about the wondrous resurrection story and the consequent great redemption so fully and freely proclaimed. I t became the talk of the town, and an immense congregation as­sembled not to hear the wisdom or the oratory of the apostles, but to hear the word of God.

tf. B u t w hen th e Jew s saw the m ulti­tudes they w ere filled w ith envy and spake against those things.

Such manifest working of the Holy Spirit could not but provoke the adver­sary to envy and blasphemy. Compare Acts T, S3; vii, 54. If none of the re­ligious people of a community is stir­red to talk against the preaching, it is an evidence either that he is won­derfully in sympathy with Christ or that the preaching lacks salt (II Tim. Hi, 12; CoL iv, 6). There are not many (Who are willing to endure sound doc­trine (II Tim. iv, 3).

4L I t w as necessary th a t th e w ord of God should first have been spoken to you; b u t seeing ye p u t it from you and Judge yburselves unw orthy of everlasting life, lo, wa tu rn to the gentiles.

To the Jew first, then to the gentiles, was the principle acted upon in all apostolic preaching (Acts ill, 26; Rom. 1, 16). Man has the power of receiving or putting from him this great gift of everlasting life which God has provid­ed a t such infinite cost.

47. I have se t thee to be a ligh t of the gentUea th a t thou shouldest be fo r salva­tion unto the ends of the earth .

Paul's commission was to bear the name of the Lord not only before the children of Israel, but before the gen­tiles (Acts ix, 15), and he quotes from Isa. xlix, 6, concerning Israel’s Mes­siah, called the Servant of the Lord. While the mystery of the church la not clearly revealed in the Old Testa­ment (Eph. Hi, 5, 6), the calling of the gentile nations after Israel shall have been converted is an oft repeated fact, and yet Paul gathers from this passage scHnething concerning his mission to the gentiles.

ML And w hen th e gentiles heard th is they w ere glad and glorified th e word of th e Liord. and as m any as w ere ordained to ete rnal life believed.

The gentiles gave heed to the mes­sage, and by receiving the word of the X/>rd they glorified it and were made glad in Him whom they thus received. In tlds age not all are given to Christ, but all who are given shall come, and whosoever will may come, with the as­surance that none who come will be cast out (John vi, 87; Rev. xxll, 17). This is the time of salvation for the elect church, after which shall come the salvation of all Israel and then of all nations.

t t . And the word of the Lord w as pub­lished throughout all the region.

This is the work and the privilege of every redeemed one, for it is written, "Let him that heareth say come." And If we have received the gospel for our­selves it is not for ourselves only, but we have been intrusted with the mes­sage that others through us may hear It also, and to all who have not yet heard we are debtors and should say, “As much as In me Is I am ready to give them the gospel” (Rev. tyH 17;I Thess. II, 4; Rom. I, 14, 15).

CO. B u t the Jew s stirred up the devout and honorable women and the chief men o f the city and raised persecution against P au l and B arnabas and expelled them out o f th e ir coasts.

Was it for this the Spirit sent them forth? Did He know tha t they would be thus rejected and ill treated? Yes, perfectly did He know it all, and even our Lord Himself told them before He died that they would be put out of thp synagogues and killed for His sake, and they must not be offended nor afraid (John xvi, 1, 2; M att x, 28).

SL B ut they shook oft th e d u st o f their fse t ag a in st them and cam e un to Iconium.

Compare chapter xviii, 6, and see their Instructions in Mark vi, 11; Luke ix, 6. I t is our glorious privilege to proclaim the glad tidings, to make known the love of God, to offer to all In His name eternal redemption through the blood of Christ, knowing tha t as we do so in reliance upon the Holy Spirit His word will never re­turn to Him void.

El And th e disciples w ere filled w ith Joy and w ith the H oly Ohost.

All that we are called upon to bear for the sake of Christ and His truth should be borne cheerfully, for He has taught us to be exceeding glad and leap for Joy under such circumstances (M att T, 10-12; Luke vi, 22, 23). We are told that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be com­pared with the glory which shall be

' revealed in us; that our aflUctions are light compared with His and but tor a moir«nt when compared with eternity.

F a t a l J n m p f r o m a T r a i n .

CHARum-E, N. c., May 12.—A mid- ^ ^ ^ e d man, E. H . Abernathy, met a tenble death on the Charlotte, Colum­bia & Augusta branch of the Southern iMt night about 9 o'clock at Griffiths, a tou t five miles south of Charlotte. The dead body was not discovered un- tol this morning. Abernathy had been workin near Griffiths for some time. I t 18 supposed he met death in an attempt to jum p from a moving train last night on his return from Rock Hill S C

8TATB NBW S.

I t is again stated that Col. J . S. (3arr, of Durham, is in the race for the United States Senate.

About 4,0(X) delegates and visitors attended the Southern Baptist (3on- vention at Asheville.

Mr. W. H . Miller, a prominent young busines man of Salisbury, died Saturday night, aged about 85 years. He left a considerable estate and had $17,000 of life insurance.

The Charlote News has r e iv e d the intelligence that smallpox is ram pant at McAdensville. There are 12 cases, besides 1 3 cases called chicken pox. One death has occurred from thedisease.

G. A. Jackson, proprietor of a Salis­bury saloon, was indicted in Rowan Superior Court last week for ^ tr ib u t- ing an advertising card containing mat­ter of a grossly immoral nature. He plead guilty and was fined $150.

Dr. T. B. Kingsbury, for many years editor of the W ilm in ^ n Mesronger, and probably the oldest editor in the State, has resigned as editor of the Mes­senger on account of a difference with the proprietors of the paper in regard to the Clark Wilson controversy, Dr. Kingsbury~being a friend and champion of Judge Clark.

The Norfolk and Western Railroad will operate a passenger train from Roanoke to Charlotte, via Winston Salem, beginning May 25. Connec­tions will te made from the North at Roanoke and from the South at Char­lotte. The train to be operated will make round trips daily. If travel justifies it one or more vestibule cars will be operated on this line.

Wlnaton Hnaband and Wife SeparateBeeanse o f Her Severe Demands.

W inston-Salem, May 8.—A Winston man has left his wife because she ob­jected to his taking a glass or beer when he felt like it. The husband went away on one of the Norfolk & Western trains a few days ago and it is understood that he has gone to W est Virginia.

!^fore leaving town the husband, it is stated, wrote a note to his wife, in which he said something like this: Dear Wife: You know that I have been a kind husband and provided yon with a very good home and living. Now I have only this to say—if you will allow me the pleasure of taking a glass of beer when I choose to, I will return and live with you; otherwise I will leave town, never to return. This is my final proposition. Please answer.

The proposition (in writing) was de­livered to the wife and immediately after reading it she wrote her husband briefly, but emphatically, notifying him that she would not accept his terms.

The husband boarded the train soon after perusing the wife’s answer to his message. The wife will return to the home of her father, in a neighboring town. The household property has been shipped.

Poll Tax Deltnqnents in Twentr- Seven Counties.

Cor. Raleigh Post.

W ashington, May 12.—The returns of poll tax payments, which, states Mr. Simmons, are being received from Democratic sheriffs and county chair­men, make an interesting study. So far returns have been received from twenty-seven counties; fifteen of these are eastern counties and twelve are in the west. The reports from these twenty-seven counties show that 1,734 Democrats have failed to pay poll tax. The number of white Republicans who have lost their right to vote for non­payment of poll tax are 2,542. The negrodelinquents number 7,348 in these counties, and of this number 1,286 can read and write. In the counties of Greene, Alleghany and Graham every Democrat is qualified to vote, these three counties making the best showing. In Stanly county 260 white Republicans failing to pay poll tax. The returns from Wake show that delinquents are disMbuted as follows: Democrats 165, white Republicans 424, colored voters 1,504 of whom 275 can read and write.

Boole Platea.The question of the use of the family

coat of arms vexes the American very seriously. Originally all book platea were heraldic. That was in an age when people generally could not read and wKen the blazon of each family, as shown on weiftring apparel or small be­longings, was as well known and quick' ly distinguished as an autograph or photograph today. In the main. It la safe to advise Americans not to use coat armor on their book plates. The uncertainty of the actual right to arms and the extreme difficulty of getting a drawing tha t one knows is undeniably correct in every detail are strong rea BODS against its use. Heraldry is too exact a science to admit of liberties, and it is no small achievement to draw the coat of arms with absolute correct­ness and yet with artistic feeling.

Though it Is not very generally prac­ticed, it is legal to copyright the book plate design. At least two plates are bo

protected In this country. This would seem to leave a door open for those who wish to secure for themselves a per­sonal distinguishing mark, a quasi heraldry, for the drawing may be in heraldic form as well as in any other.- Century.

W a n t e d C r a d e B c c a .“Bring me crude eggs, shredded

wheat biscuits and a glass of milk, said the man on the Boston boat

“Yes, sah,” replied the waiter. “What kind of aigs was them, sah?”

“Crude eggs.”“Yes, sah; yes, sah,” repeated the

man, walking away with a perplexed expression. Shortly he returned. “We ain’t got ^em aIgs, sah, but we’s got ’em boiled, fried, poached an’ scram­bled, very nice, sah.”

“No, no,” protested the Boston man. “I want them crude, raw,'

“Oh,” gasped the waiter, "you wants ’em raw?”

“Certainly.”Having brought them, the waiter

looked on cm’iously while the man broke the yolks of the eggs over the shredded biscuit and stirred the whites up in the milk. “Dat’s one of dem food cranks,” reported the w aiter to the next table.—New York Press.

T r e e T h a t T a r n a t o S t o n e .

There is a tree that grows in Mexico called the “ehijol,” or stone tree. I t ia of enormous proportions, both in cir­cumference and height It has a num­ber of branches spreading out widely and carrying leaves of a yellowish green color. The wood is extremely fine and easily worked in a green state. It is not given to either warping or split­ting. The most remarkable thing about it is that after being cut the wood gets gradually harder, and in the course of a few years it is absolutely petrified whether left in the oi)en air or buried in the ground. From this timber houses can be built that would in a few years become completely fireproof and would last as though built of stone.

Railroad Sued for Bme Tlirowine.

Charlotte, May 12.—A number of witnesses from Shelby spent Sunday night here and left this morning for Carthage to appear in the case of H. J. Sea well, a lawyer of that place, against the Seaboard Air Line Railway, for $15,000 alleged damages.

Seawell, who was a candidate for lieutenant governor on the Republican- Populist ticket of 1900, was down for a speech at Shelby, He visited that town, filled his engagement to speak and started home. While waiting at the Seaboard depot the plaintiff alleges that he was treated to a dose of bad eggs. He therefore brings suit against the railroad, claiming that he was on their property, and hence was entitled to pro­tection as according to this contention, he occupied a public place when the affair occurred.

SmaUpox Patient la a Bar1>er Siiop.C harlotte Obsever.

The health officers were kept busy again yesterday capturing cases of smallpox. In the morning Calvin Witherspoon,colored, went into a negro barber shop on East Trade street and got a shave and hair cut. While Witherspoon was still in the barber’s chair some one p ssed saw that he had smallpox and immediately informed Officers Winchester, who forthwith be­gan a search for the negro. He had ahready departed from the shop, but at last the officer found him and took him , together with Horace Belk—both of whom were well broken out with the disease—to the pest house. Three sns- I ^ t s were taken to the house of deten­tion and others will likely be taken out to-day.

Important dtances on Sontbern.C harlotte O bserver, u th .

Two im portant railway changes were reported yesterday.

Mr. H . Baker, division superinten­dent of the Illinois Central, at Freeport, 111., will succeed Mr. C. S. McManus as supenntendentof the Charlotte division of the Southern Railway.

Mr. McManus will succeed Mr. W. H. Peddle as general superintendent of ^uspo rta tion and wiU be located in Washington.

F t r a t

The first charter ever granted in this country or probably any other for the building of a railroad was granted in 1819 to Henry Drinker by the Pennsyl­vania legislature for a road of ttiat kind from the Delaware valley to the headwaters of the I^high river over the route now occupied by the Dela­ware, I^ckawanna and Western rail­road from the W ater Gap to Scranton. That was before the days of steam, and the “wagons” that were to be run on the road were to be moved by horse power. That old charter and the rights it conveyed were purchased by the original Delaware and Lackawan­na company for $1,000.

Took the Second Man.One evening recently a well to do

bachelor volunteered to teach a spright­ly young widow the game of checkers. He quite overlooked the possibilities of the game.

“There, now; it’s still your move,” he exclaimed to the lady shortly after the game bad commeuced. “You have tak­en only one man. and you are bound to take another.”

“Thanks for your advice,” said the widow sweetly. “Suppose I take you, th e n r

She did subsequently.

T i t l e s .

Give a Georgia darky a “chaw” of tobacco and you’re a cap’n.

Give him a quarter and you become a colonel.

Paralyze him with a dollar and you are a general for life.

Throw in an old suit of clothes and two stiff drams of corn liquor and he raises all his children to call you gov­ernor.—Atlanta Constitution.

One hundred and fifty thousand nainers are on strike in Pennsylvania for shorter hours and more pay.

The physician who attended* Paul Leicester Ford, in New York, says he died with an expression of forgiveness for his brother who shot him.

The Southern Baptist Convention, after four days’ session in Asheville, ad journed last Monday night. The ex­pected Diaz sensation did not m ateri­alize.

A n ^ ^ in * ja i l in Decatur, Tenn., who boasted of killing two white men and promised to kill two more, was taken out Monday by a mob and lynched.

Carrie Nation still pays visits to Kan sas saloons, bat occasionally adopts curious tacties on such occasions. One day last week she suddenly appeared in a bar room at Osawatomie and trad­ed one of her souvenir hatchets for a pint of whiskey. After exchanging jocular remarks with the joint-keeper she departed with the liquor, which she poured into the gutter.

Don Me Tmcit for Sontliern.

Reidsville, May 10.—At an early date the Southern Railway will com­mence work on the double track from Lynchburg to Charlotte. The line has been surveyed through Reidsville and it is said tha t workmen will begin lay­ing the heavy rails right away. The traffic is so heavy along this route that the Southern was compelled to pursue this course. I t is certain tha t this will result in a short crop of tobacco next season. Farmers are afraid to depend on their help because they are of the opinion that when the call is made for railroad hands the darkies will take their departure.

The Democratic Senators, having fully proved tha t Filipino prisoners have been murdered by the water cure and other barbarous methods, the Re­publicans have ceased ^ deny cruelty n the Philippines, and are trying to

justify it.

A Famona Sqaare.There Is said to be no equal In the

world to the grand and imposing square of Paris, the Place de la Con­corde. On one side of it iis the Tulle^ ries, on the opposite side the Champs Elysees and on a third the river Seine. In the center stands the obelisk of Luzon, a magnificent monolith of red Egyptian granite, 74 feet high and weighing 600,000 pounds. This obelisk

one of two of the same shape and size, erected in 1350 B. C., by Bame-

the Great a t the entrance of the temple of Thebes. Mohammed a h ,

of Egypt presented It to the French government and in 1830 it was removed to its present position In Che Place de la Concorde. The re­moval and erection on the new site re­quired an outlay of £80,000 and the employment of 800 men, the obelisk being transported to France In a ves­sel built especially for the purpose.

The Place d* ia Concorde is rich In historic Intereatt I t was there th a t the guillotine was erected in the “reign of terror,” after the death of Louis XVI, and It was there th a t the signal was given for the attack on the Bastille In 1780. Louis XVI and Marie An­toinette were beheaded there In 1793, and It was the scene of great rejoic­ing In 1848, when France was pro­claimed a republic. The Place de la Concorde has also been termed the Place Louis XV and Place de la Bevo> Intlon.

A T r a c e d y a n d A t h l e t i c s .

B altim ore Sun.

The murder of Paul Leicester Ford the well-known author, by Malcolm Webster Ford, his atheletic brother, raises a question as to the part athlet­ics played in causing the crime. The brothers were of a wealthy family, bat Malcolm was possessed with the ath letic craze and devoted himself to an athletic career, f ^ in s t the wishes of his father, with the result tha t he was disinherited and spent the rest of his life unhappily in various extravagances of conduct. H e engaged in a num ber of athletic or sporting enterprises, the last of which has just become bank­rupt. I t is supposed tha t it was on ac­count of his brother’s refusal to inter­fere to avert this bankruptcy tha t he shot him and then shot himself. Only a madman would have committed these

ts.Evidently the vigor of muscle obtain

ed by excessive athletic culture was not balanced by corresponding m ental or moral culture, so tha t the athlete was distinctly inferior, on the whole, to his brother, Paul Leicester, who was of un impeachable sanity, though he was, it appears, an invalid and deformed The trouble about excessive athletics tha t it tends to produce a morbid con dition, unfavorable to health and lon­gevity. I t may be said tha t the insan ity of the murderer and suicide existed a t th e time when he first took an exces­sive fancy to athletics and was not caused by athletics, nor by his recent financial embarrassment, but his trou bles evidently came of his faulty choice of career and the career was such as to accentuate and develop any tendency to m ainess he had when a boy. In any case there is a lesson in the Ford tragedy which ought to diminish the present tendency to athletic excesses,

A lady had In her employ an lent f ir l who bad one fa u lt H er face was always In a smudfe. H er mistress tried, w ithout offendlfeg, to tell her to wash her face and a t last resorted to strategy.

"Do you know, Brld««t.” she remark ed In a confidential manner, “it Is said th a t If you wash the face every day In hot, soapy w ater If-wUl make you beau- t l f n i r

‘•Will Itr said B rid ie t “Sure, Ifs a wonder ye nivw tried It, ma’am!”— Our Dumb A nlm ala .

A Coatlr Prayer Boole.Queen Elizabeth used to carry about

with her suspended by a chain of pure gold a book called “The Golden Manual of E ^yer,” a dainty volume of pages, bound in “hammered virgin gold.” One side of this costly volume gave a representation of the Judgment of Solomon, the other the brazen ser­pent on the cross in the desert

A F a d a n d a C n l t .

>A Boston editor, asked to define the difference between a cult and a fad, rose to the emergency In this manner: “A fad is anything that arouses eva­nescent mentality, while a cult is any­thing tha t inspires permanent mental­ity.” _______________

B x te n n a t lo n .Visitor—That painting is by an old

master, I see.Mrs. McSboddie(apologeticaIly)—Y-e-s.

but the frame is new.—New York W e^- ly.

No one can read the Bible out loud in the same voice in which he would read a selection from a newspaper.— Atchison Globe.'

Beckleaa Beatraetion of Foreata.G astonia News.

The trees on the mountain sides— the giant oaks— are being cut down just to be stripped of their bark for the tan­ners. Only $5 a ton for bark and the timber rots on the spot. North Caro­lina will need that timber ere long. And the forests are 'being made bare and the lowlands subjected to the d istructive floods all for a little tan bark. The goverment will have to huny if it gets a f < ^ t reserve of original timber.

O o t tk o C k n n c e ."Why were you tempted to steal this

man’s p u rsef’"Because my doctor recommended

me to take a little change.”

The funerak)f Rear-Admiral William T. Sampson was one of the most impos­ing held in Washington in recent years.

SouthernRailway.

1* r i B. . .

STANDARD RAILWAY OP

South . . .Th« Direct Line to All Points.

TEXAS, CALIFORNIA, FLORIDA, CUBA AND PORTO RICO.

e tly FIBST.CI«ASS B q nlp .■ • n t « ■ a l l T h r o u g h a n d I < o o a l

T r a l a s ) P n l i m t n P a l a e o S l e e p .

! ■ « C a r s o n a l l H t g h t T r a l n a |

F ast and Safe SehednlM . . . .'TM Tolky tk o S r a thorn and 7«n •M aanuwA • Safa, C m nfsvtaU e

Chariotte. N. a Airiievllls, N. O. y » T > —M e te A asw erQ aestieM .

P .& B A N K O M . J .M .O U L P . W . A . T U b Z M T .P .*« .1L ® .F .A r

WASHIMOTOM. A a-

A Train of Napttaa Cara Bxplodee.

PiTTsnuRG, May 12.—The Shraden yard of the Panhandle Railroad was the scene this evening of one of the most disastrous explosions and fires known in this section for many years. A scoie of lives were lost and about 200 persons were so badly burned tha t ac­cording to the judgm ent of physicians in attendance 75 per cent, of them will die from the effects of their injuries. The cause of the catastrophe was the explosion of a train of naptha cars, which were being switched a t the yard, and in the switching the rear car tele­scoped a car forward. The leaking naptha ignited from a switch light, causing an explosion, which threw the flames 50 feet high. Much of the es­caping naptha ran through the Crock . Run, to Eaplenborough, a distance of one and one-half miles, and caused an ­other explosion, blowing to atoms the Seymour Hotel and the Collins House, on River road, and badly wrecking a frame building near by, in which were congregated 200 or more sports from Pittsburg and_vicinity, betting on the races, b ^ b a ll, etc. Few of the occu pants of this building escaped injur}' many being badly hurt.

Vnlted Lntberan synod.

Charleston, S. C., May 7.—'The eighth convention of the United Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church wiw opened at St. John’s Church, in this city, to-day with a sermon by the President, Rev. Dr. J . B. Greiner, of Rural Retreat, Va.

Delegates were present from the dis trict synods of N orth Carolina, Tennes- eee, South Carolina, Vir^^inia, South­west Virginia, Georgia, Holston and Mississippi.

President Greiner in his report an­nounced that the effort to raise $ ^ ,0 0 0 of the $50,000 endowment fund for the theological seminary resulted in secur­ing nearly $23,000. Other topics em ­braced in the report were msssions, literary institutions, publication houses, conditions as to congregation, points of strength and points of weakness.

Rev. Dr. R. A. Yoder, of Newton, N. C., was chosen president, and Rev. Dr. A. G. Voigt, of W ilmington, N. C., was elected vice-president of the United Synod for the ensuing year.

“ Alnt It tbe TrntbC harlotte O bserver.

The Raleigh Christian Advocate ob­serves that there was never a time in the world’s history when there was a higher premium on men who “ bring things to pass” than at the present. Those in charge of the various depart­ments of activity are searching with spy glasses for such men.

These are the people to whom The Monroe Journal referred recently as “ the folks in North Carolina who do things.” And yet, has our esteemed Raleigh contemporary looked at the other side of the matter? Has it re­flected that in th is State the men who “ bnng things to pass” are tremendous- ly below par? They are denounced as “ commercials” and all sorts of oppro­brium is heaped upon them. Yet they are wanted as subscribers to the news- papere which denounce them and rantributors to campaign funds. I tlooks sometimes as if we were getting b ^ k to the conditions which obtained about ten years ago, when nobody who was not a pauper or a loafer was deem­ed worthy of consideration.

A Gloomy Prediction for man.H oney Grove Hlgnal.

If the lady who is a candidate for ^ u n ty Clerk in Hunt county is elected and permitted to take the oath of oflSce man as an officeholder will soon be a thing of the past. We do not believe that woman is eligible to such positions T*. understand that theAttorney-General takes a different view of the question, and his opinion is worth more than ours. If woman are ehgible to county oflices they will seek them, and what they seek they get A man c^paigning against a pretty girl or fascinating widow would not get

to Wack the bulleSi

Tke Two Extremea.

“ Oh ” answered the languid man I don’t see why I should expert to

wSdproUWr ^^ if thrwu

T ke Hnmker •'Threa" In tk a Btfete,When the world w as created, we find

It and its surroundings composed ol three elements—air, w ater and land— the whole lighted ' by ’the sun, moon and stars. Adam had three sons men­tioned by name, and so did Noah, the patriarch. Daniel was thrown into a den with three lions for the crime of praying three times. Shadrach, Me- shach and Abednego were rescued from the fiery furnace. Job had three iq>e- cial friends. There were three patri­archs—Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Samuel was called three times; Elijah prostrated himself three times on the dead body of the child; Samson de­ceived Delilah three times before she discovwed the secret of his great pow­er, and the Ten Commandments were delivered on the third day.

Jonah was three days and nights in the whale’s belly. "Simon, lovest thou m er’ was repeated three times. Paul makes mention of the three graces— faith, hope and charity. .The famous allegorical dreams of the baker and butler were to come to pass In three days. Then we have the holy trinity— Father. Son and Holy Ghost; the sacred letters on the cross were three in num­ber, they being 1. H. S.; so also the fa­mous Roman motto was composed of three words—viz. In hoc signo.

D e c id e d ly (to.

“ Was h e wounded seriously?” askwl the reporter, hurrying to the scene the affray. *

‘‘H e was,” briefly answered the poh<»man. “ Did yez think it was in fun?”

The leopard cannot change his spotsbut a giri can get off freckles. ’

SEABOARDA /fi LIKE RMILWAY.

DOUBLE DAILY SERVICEBetween New York, Tampa, Atlanta New Orleans ami points South and V> este

IN EFFECT APRIL 13, 1902.

S l e l » h t o f R a n d P o i a o n i n ^ .

A very curious item In toxlcologlea] lore I chanced to light upon, wrote George Augustus Sala In one of his let­ters. may be cailod the feat of poison­ing by sleight of hand. Ton were Jeal­ous of a lady, and you wished to kill her. Well, you asked her to lunch, and you caused a very nice peach to be served a t dessert You cut the fru it w ith a golden knife, one side of the blade of which was endued w ith a deadly poison. You presented the poi­soned half of the peach to the lady, who ate It with much relish and then dropped down dead.

Tbe who1e.some half you ate your­self and laii;;hed in your sleeve and went on sliL-lng more poaches for the ladies of whom you were Jealous till yon were found out and broken on the wheeL Aye, there’s the mb! W hat high old times we might have, to be sure, but for th a t plaguy contingency of being found out!

A n a t r l a

Here are a few "bulls” th a t have been perpetrated from time to time in the Austro-Hungarian parliam ent:

“One most im portant point of the ag­ricultural question is the maintenance of the breed of horses to which I have the honor to belong.”

We are here for the weal and woe of our constituents."

"Gentlemen, consider this question in the light of a dark future.”

"The eye of the law weighs heavily on our press legislation.”

"There, gentlemen, is the ever chang­ing point of which the opposition made a hobbyhorse.”

"This taunt Is the same old sea pent which for years and years has been groaning in this assembly.”

Mo.,SO U T H BO U N D .

Dv N e w Vttrk. P en n , a n L e a v e P lilliidelptaia “L.V U aliln iore L t W asliinK ton , W 8 i t y U r R ich m on d S. A . U.Lv Peteniburi; ••L v N u r lin a L v H f n i lc m n *- L v lUUeiKh L v MoutberuPineM*- L v H a m iet “I.v C olum bia* “ A rS aran n n ta A r J a c k M n v i lle “A r T a m p a ••L v N e w V urk. N YPN,fcX L v P b lia d e lp h ia L v N ew Y ork OOekSCo I.V B a ltim o r e B S l’Cu L v W a hiuKtnu. N & W S B L v P »rta m oa tb . S A L R y L v W eldu n “L v N o r lin a ••L v H en d erso n “L r R a le iifli L v . S o n tb ern P in es L v H a m le t “L v W ilm in g to n A r C har lotte “L v C hester ••L v U reen w o o d ’ “ L v A th e n s “A r A U a u ta *A r A uK ni<U ,C A W C ,A r M a con , C o t Ga A r M ontK om ry. A A W P , A r M obile , L A N A r N ew O rleans, L A N A r N a sh v l l ie , N C a S t I., A r M em ph is,

l3S6pm 3 2a pin S4ipm 71<0 pm aiarpm n »pm 14-iam 2 W a n i S S a m • Wnm SWaui 840 a m

■2% pm3SU pmS 09 am

•7 itS aui 10 1« a u i f X iiu pm

L v M em p b U , N C * S t L , L v N a sh v i l le L v N e w O rieans. L A N L v M ob ile . L A N L v H ontgO m ’r y , A A W P L v M acon , C o f O a.L v A u gu sta , C A W C

y (a p n 11 * i pm lS 5 a m 228 am4 13 am 6 ( « a m 7 25 am

1008 am 1072 am lS 3 S a m 2.M)poi » S> pm5 4(i pm 72-1 pm» 20 psH2 55 pm 735 am 4 00 am 415pm

N O R T H B O U N D .D a ily

■ 0.82

J l» Pm5 4-,,.u,6 12 |.,u7 » | . m» 2: pill

10 35 |iin 1 am 4 -Ki :,ui S<6 am S4.i,.m5ii Jim

11 X I.iu

<6 3ii i>in

»25:imII -V. um1 *1 pin2 10 piQ* S6 pm B IS |.iu

1(1 ar, |.n,

113iam 6 25 |>IU

S A L

I n c i d e n t s I n A m e r i c a n H i s t o r y .

A traveler who has just returned from a visit to Matanzas says th a t he visited El Cumbre, a short distance from the city, and tht're was reminded of an Incident in American history with which he was entirely w n f a m lH a i-

and which be is willing to bet not one American in a hundred knows any­thing abou t He refers to the fact tha t

vice president of the United States took the oath of office there, being au­thorized to do so by special act of con­gress. B! Cumbre means "the summit,' and i t was here th a t William Rufus King, vice president w ith Franklin Pierce, dying of consumption, sworn into oflice Mareh 24, 1853.

l< o a d n K a n d W o r U n s .

Ever notice a t the end of a day when you have feoled along with your work and slouched through everything in a slipshod manner tha t you are tired a i if you had wwked steadily and done your work well? And how much bet ter satisfied you feel w ith yourself when you have done your work as you should. Your employer also noticea these things. Don’t belong to the sUp- shod class. Do your work welL You will feel l>etter and stand higher In the estimatioii of the man you work tar.- Atchison Globe.

Trlelca af tke Trade.If you find maple tw igs and frag­

ments of leaves In your “maple” sirup, you may feel pretty sure th a t i t Is an Imitation or has been adulterated. Peo­ple who make the pure article sent It to m arket clean. The best buttw does not have hair In it to prove th a t t t was made from cows’ milk. Strained honey with bits of comb in It is subject to the same suspicion. Tomato figs w ith a fig leaf on top of the box Is another in­stance.

“No."■ a s c s e a t lv a .

said the Widow Rakeleigh. ^ didn’t altogether like the minister’s sermon over poor John.”

"Why. I thought it quite aymna- thetic,” said her friend.

Well, I didn’t tike his pronuncia­tion when he said John had gone *to th a t undiscovered country from whose “bum " no traveler t«tam s.’ ”—Phila­delphia Press.

Pr«*of P re a n n a p tlT a .A Mohawk valley justice of the

InvHrlably gave Judgment for the plain. ttir In dv il suits before him withoul hearing the defendant, silencing that unfortunate liUgant with. "Veil, vot 1

him r—Rochester Democrat

H e r M o th e r ^ V is it .Benham—Yon don’t seem to Im

very glad that mother Is here.Benham—What did yon expect in* t l

* o - ^ of JoyT-New York Herald.

^ clouds, inter- " e i»»u-

this morning Showers of cinders, lasting for 20 min­utes accompanied the M t i ^ r ^ e p^ple in the districts of L rrS n

L v A tla n te f A r A th e n s “A r t ir e e n w o o d “A r C hesterL v C barlottd “L v W ilm in gton “L v H a m le t ■*L v S ou thern P in es •• L e a v e K ale igh L v H enderbon “L v N o r lin a *•L v W eldonA r P o r lsm o a th •*A r W ash inK t’n .N A W S B A r. B a ltim o re, B 8 P cv>A r Kew Y ork , ODSSOo A r P h n a d a lp h ia . N Y P A N . A r N e w Y ork

L v T a m p s S A L L v A ncn aU n e L v J a c k so n v il le -*L v S a v a n n a h “L v C olnm biat “L v H a -n le tL v S o u th ern P in es “L v R a le ighL v H ei.derson “L v N orU naL v P etersb urg ••A r R ich m o n d “A r W ash in g to n W S B y A r B a ltim o r e p r r A r P h ila d e lp h ia A r N e w Y ork

1245 m » a o p m

12 30 am 1 2W am • U a iu 800 a m

10 OS am I2 0 0 u ’n 267 pm S 14 pm 7 17 pm 7 37 pm305 pm

10 *> pm 1133 pmI3 S a m306 am 3 W a m

815 pm N o . 34

900 pm 7 45 am

156 pm 706 pm

10 40 pm 1133 pm

13 Sa m 305 am 3 45 am S5 3 a m C 35aai H) 10 am 1125 am l3 S p m

1 30 pm 4 at pm

800 pm 11 Zi |.m

156 am

834 am II U5am 1242 i-m J 4 i pm 3 6(>pm S35 pm 6»am

t6 45am fa 00 pm

510 am 8 00 am N o. £6

800 am 350 pm 800 am

1156 pm

12 58 am 145 pm 4 07 pm 4 55 pm 8 M am

I I S pm 256 am 6 30 am

N o te —t D a i ly e x c e p t S u n d a y .

J*'entral T im e , tE a ster n t im e .

R . fc. L . B U N t'H , G. p . A ., J A a H B A R R , * " > «sm outh ,V a.

H r s t V ic e P res, a nd G en. MgrP ortau ion ib . V a.

AtiaDtic Coast LioD Railroad CompaD)’.CONDENSED SCHEDULE.

TRAINS GOING SOUTH.

D A T E D N o v . m b , 1901.

tt;i>ri-ecteJ )

Leave Tarboro L v R o ck y M l Lv W ilson L v S e lm a L v P a y ettev lU e A r JTIorence

A r Ooldsboro L v (ioldsbor^ L v M a gn o lia

W iu n ln g to n

7 221 0 (3 7 52 5 15 12 5211 10 8 31 6 56 2 4tf

9 X6 45 157 51 A9 S Oil

P M A M PM

TRAINS GOING NORTH.

-

II III isLv Florence Lv FayettevUle LvHeUaa A r W ilson

Lv Wilson A r^^ky Ht Ar Tarboro Lv Tarbffo Lv Rwky Mount

“ Weldon

A M10 06 » 4 0 t 10 367

P H 23 5 3 a«

2 313 M4 63

P M

P M A M

8 » l II 0>9 37 12 »

A M P M P M8 20 II 34 10 45 I Is• m 1210 II 23 I St

7 35

U 43 1 37

A M P M

m lM to i. a **21" * J » e -l* r a in le a v e s Wil*^VettevlUe 12 2# p. m . l ^ ^ m >*• MVlvea Sanforil

^ e 4 ^ n * i f * ^ " * leaves Fay-SpriIlf'S

T 5 s.’ m"’ • M p . m . a r rive s Bennettsvitli*

w ith train No. 78 ut y r o i m a O n t r a l R a ilru a d . :il

S p r in g s a n d Buwdkt.- Vr* *^*** fiealHjard Air Li'»-

N ec k B ranch Boad leav^i iM d « 29 p . « . , arrives Sec.t-

n a a u n » W ash in g to n 1230 -

e x ce p t Sunday »»• “»•. arilves feymoutl.

9 * ® *H w ulng le a v e s Plym oiilli

N. C. Branch leaves Goldboru fa arriving SmiUi-

w n r e Ht Kt»ckv

T r a in N a 7B m ak ca d a for a u polD U n o r th d a llj T » M.KMKS_—