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VOL XLV NO. 86 NEWBERRY, S. C., TUESDAY. OCTOBER 27. 1908. TWICE A WEEK. $1.50 A YEAR. THE UNSEEN WORLD. Dr. Hawthorne Preaches a Strong Sermpn at First Baptist Church. Dr. J. B. Hawthorne, the famous Baptist divine of Richmond, Va., ac companied by his wife, reached New berry on Saturday where they will remain until Tuesday and then go to Charleston to deliver his lecture on "Air, Sunshine and Out-door Liv ing." -. On -Suinday night Dr. Hawthorne tpreahed a very strong sermon from 2 Cor. 4:18, taking for his subject, "Seeing the unseen." We see things that are not seen, he aid. The thinking man accepts it as n eternal truth. Even the visible d perishable things preach this th. The material eye can see only e two sides of the silver coin, but e mind's eye sees vastly more. It es purchasing power, exehangeable ne, gratified desires. Dr. Haw orne further illustrated this truth y a miniature of his mother that hangs in his study. With the physi cal eye he could see only the form, but his mind's eye could see the life of ministry and love. The American flag in a sense was only a piece of bunting on which could be seen only so many stripes and stars, but in that he saw his coun try with its commerce. agriculture, institutions of learning, literature, works of art, military and naval pow er. her commanding position among the nations of the world. This, said the speaker, is infinitely true in the religious life. We look beyond the material to the immaterial. We see beyond the visible world to the hidden power which made aiid moves it. Behind the perishing we see the abiding. We, see beyond the grave that over which the there is something more than we see. Faith's world is infinitely larger than the world of vision. The truth that the things which are seen are temporal and the things not seen are eternal, is written on every thing. What we see ,is short lived, w.hat we do not see is immortal. As we look upon all the reminders of decay and death if. we are spritual we shall hear another voice saying, The things which are unseen an eter nal, the things that preach death preaeh immortality, the things that tell us we must die, tell us that we shall live again, mortality shall be swallowed up of life. Radical changes are all the while going on in our phy siol being but thereissomething with in that does .not change. The unseen elements of our being remain with us. The fashions of the world dlunge, the customs, the habits of the peopIe, but the human heart. mind and soul re main forever the same. Amid the changes there is in men .every where an everlasting element, " The things wieh are unseen are eternal.'' There are varyving manifestations, but the same life abides and throbs forever. .There is something out of sight to which we are always stretch-1 ing our unsatisfied and aching hands. The body pants for the deliverance which lies beyond, the soul cries out for the .future which is still unreach ed. God has written eternity on everything. These hungerings are not to mock us, but there is a reality an kwering the soul's aspirations. Then is it diffieult to decide which should receive first consideration, our best energies and time and affee tions?~ The seen is occupying the thoughts, enlisting t.he energies, ab sorbing the affections of so many. Lit tle attention given to the soul, its preparation for service in God's king dom here -and eternal felicity and glory hereafter. The way men pursue *their secular vocation indicates the -alue they place upon the temporal d seen. Their pleasures are temn al. Happiness is spiritu.al, belongs the unseen, formed in communion h the invisible, coming from a ne of living and moving in har ony with God's will. Dr. Hawthorne iepressed his hear ers that he was speaking from the heart and that he was standing on the heights from which he could get glimpses of the unseen, that to him these were the eternal realities and soonh ha bebeond the things * * WHITE RIBBON ECHOES. * Great prohibition parade in Chioa go. Sixteen thousand people marel to make Chicago "Dry." Greates tempera-nee demonstration ever seei in the city. For more than two hours Saturda; afternoon, Sept. 26. a steady line o enthusiastic believers in a saloonles ity, mar:hed through Chicago's prin cipal streets, in a great temperano and law-enforcement demonstration It is estimated Phat 200,000 person watched the parade. Every march er carried a United States' flag, an< many of those who reviewed the pro cession, waved flags as they cheered P-ess reports vary as to the numbe of persons taking part in the parade but the following figures probabl: are not far from correct: Number of persons in parade 16, 720. Length of parade 2 1-3 miles. Time in passing given point, hours, 13 minutes. Number of organizations represent ed 87. Number of decorated floats 64. The parade was arranged in eigh divisions, eaoh. headed by a band. Col A. S. Frost, of Evanston, was chie: marshal. and a squad of mounte< police headed the procession. Hun dreds of ministers marching on foo followed. among them being Bishoy Samuel Fallows, Rev. Jenkin Lloy< Jones and many others of the leadinu ministers of the city. The largest representation of anN one organization was the W. C. T. U Floats representing the various de partments of work. and delegate. from many individual nnions, Y.'s a L. T. L. 's, called forth much enthu siasm. A particularly interestinc float was'that of fhe Seientific Tem perance Instruction department, ir which young people in the costumel of many nations, represented the pub lie school pvpils who are taught tem perance facts. An automobile c; r ied a group of sweet faced old ladiei whose banner proclaimed them "Ori ginal Crusaders." Delegations wer( in line from many churches, younc people's societies, Sunday schools missions, the Salvation Army, an< many other organizations. There were songs and rally cries, mottoes an< bannei-s, and enthusiasm enough t< convince the most skeptical t.hat thes< people were in earnest in their slo gan, "Chicago is going dry.'' Hear ty cheers greeted the prohibition can didate for president, Mr. E. W. Chaf in. who rode in a big tally-ho witi other prohibition leaders and friend< from Evanston. A placard on -th4 side of the conveyance read, "Evans ton, population 25,000, T-brives With out Saloons. Cook County can d< Likewise." The concise statistics on many.o the placards were doubtless new t< many who read t.hem. Other facts represented in tableaux were no lesi impressive. One float represented i justice court, in which a drunkari was receiving a sentence of "30 day: and costs,'' while his wife and rag ged children plead for his release This was entitled, " The Saloon versu' the Home. Result I.-" Too muel Personal Liberty.'' A second floa followed, in whieh a haggard womar was earning her living over the wash board and caring for a family of hun gry children. Title. "Too Little Per sonal Liberty--The Innocent Suffe with t-he Guilty.'' Numerous "water wagons'' werd in line with appropriate inscriptions The various prohibition districts ol Cook county were well represented and their banners proclaimed then well pleased with their saloonlesi State. A company of gray-haired G. A. R men, led by fife and drum, marchei steadily in this par.ade of the -newei welfare. Many w'gons filled witi children bore the pertinent query that were seen and temporal in th< new Heaven wherein dwvelleth right. eousness, where they never grow oli or weary,. and not a wave of troubl< rolls across the peaceful breast. It was a great sermon and made i fine impressin. "Which will you protect, the Saloor or Us?" Altogether it was the greatest de monstration for temperance that Chi cago has ever seen, and can scarcely fail to help bring to pass the over i throw of saloon domination in that t city. Comments of persons standing i by indicate something of the "arrest of thought" that it has already caus 7 ed, and it was not a sight to be soon F forgotten. The parade was organized 3 and carried to successful completion, - by a committee representing the lead ing temperance organizations, with Mrs. Emily Hill, president of Cook 3 county W. C. T. U., as general chair - man. The Union Signal. How Russia Obtains Naval Stores. A glance at the way in which naval stores are obtained in Russia serves to show what is likely to happen in - this country when the longleaf pine forests, from whieh our naval stores for turpentine, rosin, tar, and pitch, have been: depleted. Red pine, called by the botanists - Pinus sylvestris. is the tree which the Russians exploit for rosin, as the longleaf pine of the Southern States is explbited in this country. In se curing the rosin the Russians chip the trees much as we do, but a far smal l ler yield is secured. Each years' chipping extends about three feet vertically, and all the way around the tree except for a strip of bark about two inches wide, just suf ficient to keep the tree alive. After five years' chipping this strip of bark is also cut and the tree soon dies. On account of the coldne4s of the climate where the red pine grows, the rosin does not flow readily, but hard ens soon 'after it exudes from the tree. It is necessary, therefore. to expose a large surface in otder to aet a sufficient yield. Nor does the rosin flow far enough to be caught in liquid form in "boxes" or cups, as it does in this country. Therefore it has to be scraped off after it hardens. The whole product. which amounts to only about two ounces a year from each tree, is comparable with the "scrape" which forms only a small part of the yield obtained in warmer climates. Spirits of turpentrine and rosin are prepared from this crude resin by distillation with steam in the usual manner. The tree is utilized further .than this, however. The outside .slabs with scarred surfaces, to which .some resin still adheres, are treated either in the old fashioned pit kiln or in closed iron retorts for the pro duction of tar, charcoal, and wood turpent:ine. The rest of the tree is used for fuel and for making the barrels in which the produets are shipped. It is possible that after our south ern tur-pent'ine pine becom'es commer cially extinct, some of the resinous trees of the colder parts of the Unit ed Sta.tes m.ay be utilized like the red pine of Russia as a source of na val stores, although the yield may be small and the process tedious. New Device For Rifle Ranges. IOne of the experts of an English rifle club has devised an ingenious jinstrument to aid in accurate rifle shooting, says the November Popular IMeehanics. lit will replace the small flags at present used on rifle ranges to indicate the direction of the wind. The vane above the clock dial is set so that when pointing towards the ta'rget it indicates 'that the wind is blonving from thait direction. The band and figures on t-he dial tell how many miles an hour the wind is blow ing. The article is illustrated. The Soft Answer. A fond mother, anxious that her two boys, aged five and seven, res Jpeetively, should not become contamn inated by contact with the world, Sused to sit in the next room to the boys, reading, while t-hey went to sleep. One night she overheard this: "Tommy." No reply. "Tommy?" No reply. Then a punch of a fist re s.'ounded, when she heard: "Go to hell; T'm saving my prayers!" TTLMAN AT HOME. Family Reunion Held in Celebration of His Return to Trenton, After Touring Europe. Augusta, Ga., Oct. 22.-Senator B. R. Tillman arrived at his home in Trenton, S. C., today. The day is be ing celebrated by a family reunion, all of the Tillman family from various parts of the State being present. Tillman is Writing a Book. Spartanburg Herald. Washington, Oct. 24.-Hon. John Porter Hollis, a Wofford gTaduate, who is well-known in Spartanburg, is in Washington for a few days, engag ea in research work for Senator Till man, in connection with his forthcom ing book dealing with the race ques tion, Dr. Hollis is well fitted for this work, having taken a special course in history and political economy at Johns Hopkins University. His thesis for his degree of Ph. D. was on the subject of "Reconstruction in South Carolina," and was printed by the university as a substantial contribu tion to the knowledge of that subject. Dr. Hollis is now practicing law in Rock Hill, and was elected to the leg islature at the August primaries of this year. A Rat Story. Even conservative women now draw the hair away from their faces in huge rolls, and nobdy attempts to deny the fact that she wears great quantities of false hair. It is now necessary for a woman's happiness that she wear a rat in her hair. Yet men do not admire the fashion. In a western city recently, -in a penal ingtitution for girls there was much discontent and the superintendent saw mutiny ahead. He could not di %ine the cause, so he summoned to his aid a young juvenile count attache -a girl who had been extraordinary suecessful in her dealings with incor rigible girls. To her he told the sit uation and requested her to talk with the girls of the institution for a while and endeavor to learn in a roundabout way what was causing the trouble. A number of the girls were summoned to the receptIon room and sIe chatted with them amiably for a time, without mentioning the impend ing trouble or its possible cause. As she 'was about to leave, the superin tendent entered and asked casually: "Miss U., what do you think of my iorder forbidding the girls -to wear rats in their hair?" She laughed. "I think it hasn't been obeyed,'' she said, "as all these girls are wearing them. "Impossible! I have 'had every rat burned." ,She called one of the girls to btr and parting her .hair, showed the -as tonished superintendent a home made rat-a black stocking tr.:isted and pin ned to the hair. The girls were stockingless though the weather was cold. And this in a reformatory, where no man could see themn-excep: the superintendent and he' did not ap prove of raits. The juvenile court lady advised him to let them wear them-they might do much worse things than to avear rats-and on:e again peace and quietude .reigned where before an outbreak had been imminent.-Louise Cass Evans in the Bohemian Magazine for October. Gold Brick Industry in Kansas. New York Post. It is conceded ,that there is a high measure of -prosperity and that there is plenty of money to use, if needed. The crop of gold :bricks harvested has been enormous. A life insurance fis cal agency, just collapsed, took in $700,000, nearly all in Kansas, dur ing the past three years, and all was lost. One county 200 miles west has according to a banker's estimate, sunk $175,000 in patent rights, min ing schemes. land speeulations in Mexico, &c., practically all of it lost. In addition, it has purchased since May. 1907. over 100 automobiles cost ing at least $90,000, and is shipping in more every week. .All this ac counts for some of the earnings of the prosperous Westerners, and shows why they are hesitating on ordinary The Champion Jury The frontier justice of 1 had so many airings that t is becoming encumbered i webs, but I am called upon the conduct of the most re jury which perhaps was evE eled. Before his Honor Judge Davis of WaInut Grove Pre 8. in the territory of Arih county of Yava.pai, one Ji whose other name I withhol< he has permanently refort solemnly arraigned for steali tain saddle, carefully des( the complaint. After an trial the jury retired, with ten admonitions of the cou Abner Wade's cow barn tc ate. In the course of three-qu an hour they brought in a v murder in bhe first degree. promptly admonished them a verdict "wouldn't go," man had only been charg stealing a saddle, and sent ti to deliberate again. A few later a brother of the defend along and presented them quart of bourbon and a c sacks'of smoking tobacco, a] a new deck of cards, aecl wAth the compliments of th( ant and an hour later the turned the following verdic the jury, with a supreme for the principle of justice found deference for this I court, find that the defend Doe, stole the saddle in self and therefore acquit him per's Magazine. Duly Warned. A tourist w:hile sojourning ing Scottish seaside resort morning almost drowned rushing into the sea to re< hat that had been blown gale -of wind. He -was, how lantly rescued by a passerby his astonishment, he was spi constable as he was being ashore ind eenveyed to ti st.ition. wh, re he was char dire-ling a by-law whi that anly one imAnd in the w .' a m.. .hot-id be prosecut' law diireen The presiding ballie anin s--verely ron ihe heinousness flngrant b'v.eb of the by marking "Eh, mn'' kn' so ye are ye can to drive awa' trade a ten iw'a' sightseers from i It 's a shame, after we ha 'e much money to mak' the toc tie. I ha'e a great mind to pay a heavy fine for yer th conduct." "But, baiie," pleaded th4 one. "I" "Si.lenee!" roared that ary. ".Silence! Ye cam' her droon'd; that ei'es the too name, and casts a gloom ov thing, frightens awa' visitors sets all our arrangements fo tire season. Now awa' the n remember ye maun be carefu fu.ture. "-Dundee Advertise> -Dry Wit. Youth's Companion. Conspicuously dry is this I tive wit quoted from Miss E M. Abbott's recent book, "C and Legends of t'he New Border." One .e, many years ago, remari that the water in at North Deerfield-now 6 Falls-was very low. "Yaas," drawled a bystar lacks a quart of being any it." A Generous People. Youth 's Companion. " This is a foine country ret!" exclaimed Norah, who recently arived iin the Unite' "Snre it 's generous everyb' "I asked at the post offi Isindin'mev to me mither, young man tell me I can get order for ten dollars for te hink of that now!" A Jury In Doubt. eace has! We are justly proud of our jury lie theme syiteru, but t ,e twelve "goA men vith cob- and true" are not always the wisest to record of mankind. At a recent session a markable prisoner was indicted for pocket r impan- picking, and to most pe>ple in court the clearest possible 3ase was made Jefferson Iout by the prosecution. einet No. "Have you anything you would :ona and like to tell the jury before they re )hn Doe, tirel" said the judge. I because "Well, all I wanter say is, I h3pes aed, was as 'ow they'll give me the benfit of ng a cer- the doubt," replied the prisoner, de ribed in spondently. elaborate The jury considered -their verdict; the writ- they were no little time over it. -t to Old "Can I assist you in any way, gen deliber- tlemen?" said the judge, at last be coming impatient. arters of "We are almost agreed, me lud," erdict of said the foreman, "but we can't quite [he court understand what the doubt is the pris ;hat such oner wishes us to give him the benefit ;inee the of. I-Tit-Bits. ad with iem back Job Still Open. mi' 's The propiietor of a London res ant came taurant advertised for a cook. The with a first to apply for the berth appeared ouple of to be in every way suitable. But be ong with fore engaging him the restaurant mpanied keeper inquired if he could give him defend- a tip for the 2.30 race. jury re- The cook's eyes brightened. He t: 'We. whispered a "dead cert." and men everence tioned that he had five shllings on and pro- the horse himself. That was enough. ionorable The proprietor gave him a lecture on mt John the evils of betting and showeO him de-fense, the door. As he went out he saw "1-Har- another man about to enter. "Are you going to a.pply for the job?" he asked. "Well, if you are asked if you know anything about racing, say you can't tell a Derby winner from a coster's donkey." at a ris- The man took the advice, was en. was one gaged and commenced his duties. through Presently the proprietor rushed to over his the speaking tube and yelled to the Pff by a new cook: wer, ga!- "Calf's head one." ; but, to Instantly the reply came: zel by a "Did he, by George? What was dragged second and third?" w police cd with A Promise Given. i en:tted Representative Longworth, at A ter after dinner party during the Republican I. as the convention in Chica.go, talked aboumt honest politics. adverted "Honest pol.ities alone pay in the 'f such a end," said he. "Your dishonest poli .law. re- tieian comes out like Lurgan of Cin einnabi. doin' all "Lurgan of Cincinnati was can ndl frigh- vassing for votes. He dropped in at be toon. a grocer's. spent so "'Good morning,' -ihe said. 'I may n attrae- count on your suppontt, I hope?' mak' ye "'Why, no, Mr. Lurgan,' said the oughtless grocer. 'I've promised my support -to your riveL. rescued "Lurgan laughed easily. " 'Ah! but in polidecs,' said he, function- 'promiising and performing are two e an get different matters.' n a bad ''In that case,' said the grocer er every- heartily, 'I shall be most happy to and up- give you my promise, Mr. Lurga.' " r the en- -Washington Star. oon, and .--_______ ' for the Needless Expense. A prisoner was charged with fel ony at Bow street police court. On his way to the police station he be it of na- came quite confidential with his cap at'harine 'tor and remarked: id Paths "Thei-e is one thing I am sorry England for." "What is that?" said is captor, expecting to hear a confession. some one -"I had my hair cut last night," the river said the prisoner in a dejected tone. helburne "I might have saved that three Ldr pence. It's just my luck.'"-London witer in il A New Law. Parents o-f Wayne, a suburb of Phil,adelphia, are required to report promptly any ease of contagious dis T, Brid- ease, in compliance with the regula had but tio.ns of the local board of health. i States. In accordance with this ordea, idy is. Hecalth Officer Leary received this se about post card reeently. and the, "Dear Sir-This is to notify you a money- that my boy Ephraim is down bad n cents ! with the measles ,as required by t.he ewla w. "-Harper's Weekly.