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orship Business 6148 No Chance uccess for Relidlon By RAV. MADISON C. PETERS AM an admirer of success. But I fld myself at variance with some in the conception of success itself. One of the worst features of our age is the worship of' success by itielf and apart from the means by which it has been attained. To be success ful is enough, no matter what has gone before. A man is meas ured according to his success in things material. Some of you feel this bitterly, and you have reason to feel it, for it is a cruel principle. There is a success that is not worth the having and there is a failure that is more to be desired than success. 4 We find that the word "success" is used only once in the Bible: "Be strong and of good courage; this book of the law shall not depart of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that u mayst observe to do all that is written therein: for then shalt thou e good success." These conditions laid down fsor Joshua are binding still; an inflexible rpose at all hazards to obey thelwill of God and to do the right regard as of consequences has been the real secret to the best success in life. iness itself gives no chance for getting religion, but abundant opportu ty to exercise it. A business man was accosted by a newsboy, "Don't u want to gimme a dime and set me up* in business?". He related how streak of bad luck had left him strapped, and how many papers he could y for a dime and what his profits would be. The man gave him a quar r. The boy said: "Shake for luck." Now I call that bringing religion to business. 'You will need religion not only for others but for yourself. If you an employee it will enable you to maintain good cheer under discour ement and work towards your ideal in spite of a headache. If you are employer you will give a fair day's wage for a fair day's work. It is ore important that good wages should be paid than that an office prayer eeting should be established. The business into which you cannot carry ; qour religion you would better get out of. I have very little faith in the religious employer who lives in a palace, hile those who work for him live in shanties. I know men whose tables 0, end and groan with luxuries, while their workmen have to be content th ten-cent meals. The hard-headed man of business need not be hard earted. Un-Christian competition absolves none from the duty of Christ like living. Other things being equal, the man who enters business life thoroughly imbued with the purpose ever to act under his eye and gladdened with the joys and hopes which religion inspires, has immense advantages, even as regards his worldly prospects, over the man who throws conscience to the winds. "The righteous shall hold onto the- way and stronger." France* all the world in thrift. My wife and I and our little five-year-old girl were to stay almost a year in Europe, so at Nice I hired a young French woman Leads who was willing to act both as nurse and maid. Hier English was excellent, as she' the orld had spent some years in the United states, ' in hriftand she spoke Italian as wvell as her native tongue. Her ability along practical lines, suchl as embroidery and needlework, was By H. C. BEAR, equal to her linguistic cleverness, and long Wllmindton, N. C. before we parted with her she had that little North Carolina tot talking French with the best Parisian accent.' ' But it was her knack of saving money that opened my eyes and .brought a realization of the tremendous deficien~cy of the wage-earning class of my owvn country. The pay of this young woman, as fixed by herself, was 80 francs a mnonth, or $16 in our money. Of course all her traveling expenses were paid and from time to time she was given small sums in recognition of her faithfulness and skill. Well, at the end of ten months, when the time came for us to return home and settlement was made with the nurse, howv much money do you. suppose I paid her? Just 800 francs. Not a dollar of her pay had she drawvn in all that time, and so I just added 200 more francs to express my appreciation of a young woman who cotild be that provident. The counterpart of that French girl hardly exists in the United S tates, but if we had plenty of her kind the nation would be in far more 'fortunate fix. .It has often been said that "technicali. Good ties are the safeguard of the law," and so OO . much has bden heard about technicalities Reason in these Re-called bribery cases that it - might be we~ll to explain some of the rca ' For Many sons for technicalities. S miall In all crinminal cases the accused has Thin sth right by c""stitutie" to b" informed s of the nature and cause of the accus~I, _____________________ The indictment must set forth the offense By WILLIAM E. MOONEY with clearness and all necessary certainty; Chicag* and every ingredient of which the offense _____________________ is composed must be accurately and clearly stated. It is the privilege of the accused Sto raise any' question as to the validity of the indictment and it is the duty of his counsel to prevent his being tried on an invalid indictment, and from taking up the time of the court with a sham case. If a crime has been committed and the indictment upon that crime states no crime it is the fault of the state's attorney, the rep~resentative of the people, as he has clear knowledge of what the indictment must contain. Where a crime has not been alleged the quashing of the indictment is but the vin dication of that fundamental principle of a republic that no person shall' be deprived of life, liberty o'r property without due process of law. To convict a man for an act which by the record of the court does not consli tute a crime would be the act of despotism. Sometimes it may seem that delay is given by such procedure, but the accused has the right to be heard on any objections or defenses he may have. Is it not better to delay a matter a little while to find the truth than to go'swiftly ahead on the wings of falsehoanod garden city of Africa. It has| S OME, day Khartoum will be the been laid out with that view. The immensely wide streets are bordered by small trees which make the hot, dusty expanses of road way seem dustier and hotter by mock ing the wayfarer, as If a thirsty man should have a thimbleful of water of fered to him. But grcwth Is rapid here. Before many years are past these sap lings will spread their leafage wide, and everywhere one will walk beneath a cool canopy of whispering leaves. At present nobody walks. The first morning I was here I made a great mistake. I went out for a stroll round to get an idea of the town. Frankly I thought it was a detestable place. "There is about enough here," I said, "to make a decent-sized village, and they havo spread It over an area big enough for the site of a city." It was very hot.' It was also windy. Dust lay thick all over except in the very mid dle of the road. I saw no white peo ple about. I came back to the hotel sticky and tired and In a bad temper. But after a cool drink In a long chair on the balcony looking over the river and over the great stretch of desert bounded by fascinating far-off hills, I reflected and began to understand. In this dry atmosphere thirst becomes a habit, and it is necessary to drink often of limo juice or lemonade. As I cooled off I became more reasonable. I no ticed the gathering of donkeys and of 'rickshas drawn by small ponies near the gate of the hotel on the ri er's edge. Everybody who went out took one or the other. Since then I have done likewise, and I have no fur ther complaints. There ts one walk, and a very pleasant one, left-handed along the river tiabl he point where ' te toue nd White griles . keen each Its distinctive color for many miles down, and when the steam ferry mlring ev wa here n de the rat tke. untilt uto hasrolle rond to geton ias the haown. begankly Ienthughtht was ao deetable ouraex ercee is Karoum.uh ee" ad Thae aistacetsizeud reallabe, adif cuht, hve sprteads oere no reoi dusty ahot. ou also wind Duat some thick o all ve egolto i t te mid dof the rod.I Thas meno wte et mple, aout sometmes naklo tw otel stick andheredher i butoead Eper ran or There streth of paes-t moent by lascinabtin fr-off hls, par reflecte and bieak tov undertd yet thics rylatmosphe thilrst beoma haand ly jus necessary to drin often ofie Welc, for lemonade. rAd "cooled ticd tht gateringltu of dokeysandm of 'khas anwin byymal tonthes nearote ate," the hotel to therlv tookee fartheghtdEr.gihme thndI haeconselkie and In hav norettrn Wtercmpant s.mere tis vast coun ant vry plliseasant oene lft-hndedet alon torverwtowadthed aont where to mies. Wor and whenter steam ferrn tbarren Ban nto one o dhreato walkuing eventhres unde theorlm trees unti hrtoun whls droppone lbw thes ina thae efarl mrvingfeswihness ovthlloedesetpon atendrln teni the Brsonahe sadow treated tco lngthntatiyo.w ae u x "Twibthe capeetaol ofeal bc adi orul doinihoads Weher nt will ple youttn to g to imporat thertn of the woreetd Thime,-ans at lexast the buildogsere sattadeedsol heo uad t.heeo Bistone goold witua groean hop. andrde; ad btshey pav onot the place buccordtheng stpar Einthe fwndeingow atay sburb fromche iverili the ilders andse ain.nl ustgning thoh vast open sad tha Abs fctyueo whartowllm. theasent fa-sihe Enlihmn n W,, R t IIt t( C world, you come to the markets, rows and rows of straw huts with a man or' a woman squatting in each, ready to, chaffer interminably for the eggs or tomatoes or the chickens or the green' stuff spread on the ground outside. As' you wander through, look along every! street of low mud houses and you will' see it stretching away dead straight to where the town ends on the desert. For a complete contrast go over to Om. durman. Eleven years ago this was still the Dervish capital, the residence of the false prophet who made his pow er felt over nearly half Africa. It was a slave-trading center, a vast prison, where every man felt himself a cap tive e.nd knew that a turn of Fortuno's wheel might at any time number him among the victims who were hanged on high gallows in the market place every Friday to strike the Khalifa's terror home to every heart. It was also a vast harem where women raided from many tribes were herded togeth er to give the fanatical Baggara a fore taste of their bestial Paradise. Eleven years ago it was death or captivity almost worse than death for A 1 in WO up' at Pickens, ad ni Water Carriers. any white man found in the Khalifa's, sphere of murder, robbery and rapin.E Today you step into a steam tramwayi car in Khartoum, which takes you to al steam ferry; and from that again you board another ear and are set down in the heart of this once-terrible Onmdur man Even in what is still a complete ly native rabbit warren of a city there are signs of the tidying-up process on every side. "Police- Post" you see written up at frequent intervals. "Gov erilment School," ."C. M. S. Dispen sary," the lplacard of an English fire in surance office on a storehouse, the tall, spindle-shanked, but eminently soldierly Soudanese sentries at the barracks, the numbered armlets which the donkey boys must wear-all tell the same story, not of "civilization," b~ut of straightening out. Whether ini its crowded, narrow, awvning-hung bazaars, where you greedlily seek a lit tle shade from the burning sun, or (down by the river, where the export tradle in gum and grain is busy, Om durman seems to ho still heaving a sigh of relief. The people arc cheerful, but -thero is a shade of apprehension in their faces yet. And here, far more thani in Khartoum, with its English gardens and English faces, you realizo, why. H. HAMILTON FYFE. Weights and Measures. London has what Now York has not, namely, cheap and easy access to authoritative standards of weights and measures. At the Royal observatory of Greenwich these . standards are fixed on the outside walls, so that any shopkeeper or householder or other doubting Thomas can go at any time and get information and an easy con science without waiting for inspectors or red tape unrollers. The various lengths are decided at Greenwvich by p~assing the measure to be testedl be tween raised points in metal plates. There is a pound balance there by which any weight may he0 verified. In Trafalgar square ther-e are standards of 100 feet and one chain (00 feet) on brass plates, with accurate subdi visions. These brass plates are set in hie granite steps on the north side >f the square. There are other sets of ~tandards in Old Palace yard. Newv Y'ork might have them outsidlo the city ciall and In the public squares here ind there. And Yet He Lived. "Spotted fever" received some queer reatment In John WVesley's (lay, ac :ording to Wesley's Journal of Septem. >er, 1740. A man named .John Tram ath had the fever and Wesley wrote: 'it was the second reiapso into the pottedl fever, in the height of which hey gave him sack, cold milk and Lpples, plums, as much as he couldI wallow. I can see no way to account or his recovery, but that he had not rnt finished his work." AN ENGLISH AUTHORITY, . M. Aokworth Compares Railways of the United tates With Those of Europe. Now -York.-Mr. W. M. Ackworth, hose rank in LEngland as an author y on 'jailway economics compares ith that of President Hadley of Yale riversity in the United States, and ho from time to time inspects Amer an railways in the interests of K'ng sih investors, has recently returned ) England after a two-months' in pection of the railways of the Unit d States. Just before sailing for Agland, Mr. Ackworth, in comment ig on the present status of railways X the United States, said, in' part: "I have been sounewhat surprised a see the space that has been given a your newspapers to the criticisms ,f the efficiency of your railways. It as been my opinion that in actual econotny of operation the railways of he -United States are first in the vorld. In the number of tons per -ar, cars per train; in the fullest itilization of locomotives; in the ob aining of the greatest measure of result for each unit of expenditure, Lhey are nbt equalled by the railways of any other nation. When the Greek commanders after the battle of Sa. lamnis voted who should receive the prize for valor each put his own name first, but all but the name of '!henistocles second. And Themnisto cles received the prize. So, too, though German, French and English railway men would, I dare say, all -ut their own railways first in eifl ciency, they would all, I am sure, put yours second, and on the voting of the experts your railways would :one out first. "But, further, your nation, as a whole, is not in other matters pro eminently efficient. No one would nay that your farmers were more ef t1cient than those of France and EIng land, or that your government is more cfflcient than the government of Prus sia. Your railways have reached a higher standard in international com parison than your fathers or your government, and under greater dif ficulties, for in England and on the continent employment with a railvay company is a prize and a man hopes to remain in the service of tho same company throughout his life. lie Is, therefore, obviously mere amonable to discipline than the shifting and of ten even foreign force employed on your railways. "The investors of Europe and eren your own Wall street, seem hardly able to grasp the enormous amount ,,f money that must be spent upon railroads to keep pace with your ever growing traffic. If your traffic dou bles every ten years, as it substan tially does, you will need not per haps to double your facilities ever) ton years, but to increase them a lenas.t. by 50 .por. eejt. The. elevej ortov is a secoidary ques- Un n~io.in thino- ic hnw f tal' 'i hundred millions per year specified by Mr. Hill as neessary for this purpose is none too rauch. Fho Inhabitants o; your Western and Southern states, your people in general, must under stand that this capital cannot be ob tainred in their own communities. "Texas and Oklahoma have no mon ey to spare for railroad building. They want it all for their own local bus-i. ness. IEven tihe East cannmot find all the money reqluired.' Thr ii oney, in int go merasur-e, must, for a long time to come, be raised abroad ; and the investors of othor lines will not be willing to 3ubscribo it so long as taere is a continuance of tihe harassing corn dlitfons which tend to ipai r the reve nues of your railways, to hamrper thecir zadministration andi~ to retard their do \ olopment. if' tire railwamys of the Un ritedl States could realch a timie wheon state legislators ceased from t'-oublimig and state cOnrnissiona3 were at rest, it would, in my thiniking, be good( for the ranilw ays and still better for the citizens of thre lted States." THE COMING OF THE WEEVIL Central of Georgia Rfailway issues a Valuable Pamphlct. Atlanta.-Nearly all of tire tori-ito r-y now infested by thre boll weevil exp~eriencedl a roiluct ion of about fifty per cent. fin tire cottonr crop for tire first two or thrree years afteri its ar iv~al. In fact, such a redu1 ttion was inrovitable at first, for ft was nrot un dlerstoodl that tire meiLthodis of cotton cultivation then ini use priov-idied pe foot :oind Ition s for ithe prropagat ion of tire Insect. Suich is niot. tihe case ait present, however. As a resuilt of long experimienrt tihe Iiiited States ag r-icultral dlepa- rment and~ fihe agrl. curlturial dlepartmnenrts orfithe states In. fested biy the boll wee(vil, have founrd thrat biy the uise of nrew miethrods whrich riot only producre cennd1itiorns mn favorable to0 tire Insect, lbut generally icease the yild of cotton, It is 1)0s siblo to grow cottonr successfully where tire weevil is presenrt. \Vith a view to savinig tire cotton along its linies from unniecessary loss, tire imilgrat ion depr-tmient of tire Cenrtrial of Georgia railway fhas lpre par-ed, and( isr now dIs-tributing In that piortioni of Stouith Alabanma wh~ich will be affected by tihe weevIl wvith tire next year or two, an illustratedi pam philet enrtitledl "What to D~o Wheno thn( Cotton Boll Weevil llearchesr South i A laba ma."' Th Is onutline(s br-iefly but clear-ly the new meothods of cot foin cultivation, wich have been tested andl~ proven in weevl-infested t erri tory, and whuichr, if -a refrully folio wed, will prevent tire great 1er ipart of tihe loss whrichi wo~uld ord Iirerily occurir. It is tine intenrtion tor re-issue. tis pam 1)h1let froem tim to0 n timeir, foi- d istiribu.. Lion in other territory in Alabrama and Georgia, a couple of years before the ar-rival of the weevil, and sucn iractical service will surely be ap To Inollni Toward Mercy. Jim had bren) far ftom'a good boy during the day and toward nightfall tie realized the fact fully. l3eing weil acqualtited with the workings of fam ily' disciplino, he essnyed a. little di ploilacy. "Shall you tell fathcr about me?" lie inquired of his mother. "Certainly I sliall tell him," respond ed his mother, with sorrowful firm. ness. "Shall you tell him before dinner or after dinner?" askeil the culprit. "After dinner," was the announce ment. "Mother," and Jim gave a wiggle of anticipation, "couldn't you have a blueberry pudding for his 4essert? ,Couldn't you do that much for me, 'mother?"-Youth's Companion. SPOTIN'S DISTEMPER CURE will cure any possibie case of DISTEMPER, P'-NK EYE, and the like among horses of all ages, and prevents all others in the same stable fron having the disease. Also cures chicken cholera, and dog distemper. Any good druggist can supply you, or send to nmfrs. 50 cents and $1.00 a bottle. Agents wanted. Free book. Spohn Medical Co., Spec. Contagious Diseases. Goshen, Ind. All Over. The Tiger-What's the matter with the giraffe? Hie doesn't look well. The lion-No, he says he feels sick all over. The 'Tiger-Has a sore throat, I sup pose. For IHEADA0IIB-Heicks9 CAPUDEI. Whether from Colds, Ihcat, stomach ot Nervous Troubles, Vapudine will relieve you It's liquid--pleasant to take--acts Imm de ately. rry it. 10o., 25c., and 50 cents at d'ug stores. The chap who gets a free ride in a patrol wagon Isn't carried away with enthusiasm. Constipation causes and aggravates many serious diseases. It is thoroughly cured by Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. rhe favor ite family laxative. How a married man rloesn't enjoy listening to one side of a spoony tele phone conversation. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Ryrup for Children teethiung. noftena the guims. reduces inlinuma. aion. allays pain. cures wind colic, 25c a bottle. Every man is a comer until lie reach es a certain age-then he's a goer. LT ess some effectual method 1CURED A BAD SPAVIN. Mr. 13. iH. Ivey, Marion, N.C., writes: "'My horse had a very bad case of apavin and nqthmng did any good until I tard y'our Alexican Austang lintt. I rubbed the sp~avin frequently and~ plentifully with the lininment and Soon saw an iunprovenmenat. In this treatment I poured tny pahn full of in-. inment and then rubbed it on the spmavin unttil nearly dry. I did this three or four times a day and my horsae was conmpletely cured. It is sure. to cure if properly used." A spavin is a serious ailment and needs a powerful remedy. The above letter proves Mexican Mtan Lin iment cures even bad cases and does it thoroughly, too, 25c.50~c. $1 a bottle at Drus & Cen'l Stores. Is GUARANTEED to stop and perma.. S nently cure that ter'. rible itching. It is compounded for that purpose and your money will be promptly refunded WITHOUT QUESTION If Hunt's Cure falls to cure Worm or any other Skin Disease. 50c at your druggist's, or by mail 'direct if he hasn't it, Manufactured only by A. 8. RICHARDS MEDICINEF CO., Sherman, Ts~ Atlanta Directory KODAK fHLMS DEVEIAH ED FRER rompt and proerg forle Writ. Dixe ea y&rrl n rt fS lticta o. taTe' in ix to mght weks Tui.a estd n he arerTraud, wrIte othr BAb Cciede 13211 Whthl t,, AtantGa, foM atalo Teethlng tyEsye. 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