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^tumorous Jrpartuirnt T He Desired It.?A boy walked Into _ the office of the telegraph company b at Chicago, and asked for a Job, re- it lates the Kansas City Star. He said s his name was "Missouri." b The manager happened to want a u messenger boy Just at that moment and gave him a message that had to be delivered in a hurry. G "Here's your chance, my boy," said si the manager, "these people have been a kicking about undelivered messages, w Now, don't come back until you have f delivered it." o A little while afterward the tele- si phone rang. On the other end of the r< wire there appeared to be a building b watchman, somewhat terrified. R "Have you got a boy they call 'Mis- ir souri?"" inquired the watchman. ti "We did have ten minutes ago," re- c< plied the manager. b The watchman continued: ei "That 'Missouri' feller came over fi here and said he had to go to one of H the offices. We don't allow no one w up at that office at this hour and I ai told him he couldn't go." fn "Yes, yes," said the manager. tl "Well," said the watchman, "he G said he would go, and' I had to pull qi my gun on him." al "But you didn't shoot him?" ex-' t\ claimed the manager. H "No," meekly came back the re- it sponse over the wire, "but I want my gi gun back." ai . m hi Why Ho Waited.?Speechless with ni wrath, a little man was ushered into tr the police court the other day. An oj ornament of the police force had st found him loitering about and had ar- ai rested him as a suspicious character. b< "What were you doing at the time tf of your arrest?" asked the weary of magistrate. Q "Simply waiting!" spluttered the dt prisoner. B "What were you waiting for?" oj "My money." ol "Who owed you the money?" th "The man I had been waiting for." in "What did he owe it to you for?" c< "For waiting." in The magistrate took his glasses off and glared at the pilsoner. "Do not Jest with me," he said. "Now Ci tell me, have you a trade?" fc "Of course I have." th "Then what is it?" tf "I'm a waiter." of ' * ' pi Not Guilty.?There had been a rail- M way collision near a country town in Cj Virginia, and a shrewd lawyer had PI hurried from Richmond to the scene of tu the disaster, says the New York Bven- te ing Post. He noticed an old colored A. I ?J J J man wiin a uauiy injureu nruu, euiu hurried up to him where he lay moan- th ing on the ground. W "How about damages?" began the El lawyer. ha "G'way boss, g'way," he said. "1 te never hit dat train. I never done sich ye a thing in all mah life, so help me ar Gawd!" Yo' can't git no damages outen me." B' Out of Place*?An Irishman weis on A trial, chairged with assaulting a neighbor and fracturing his skull. During the trial several physicians testified st that the man's skull was very thin? g, in medical terms, "a paper skull." tr "Have you anything to say why q< sentence should not be pronounced?" ha asked the judge. a! "No, your lordship, but I would like to ask just one question." ou "What is it?" fr "What was a man with a skull like co that doing at a Tipperary fair?" th 1 * wl No One to Nurse Him.?At the close -n of his talk before a Sunday school the bishop invited questions. A tiny boy with a white, eager face, at once held j up his hand. "Please, sir," said he, "why was ar Adam never a baby?" jn The bishop coughed in doubt as to st what answer to give, but a little girl, C(J the eldest of several brothers and sis- ga ters, came promptly to his aid: ^ "Please, sir," she added smartly, m "there was nobody to nuss him."?Lon- gu don Tit-Bits. Ho Wasn't Hissing the Show.?One ^ of the ushers approached a man who appeared to be annoying those about . , ra him. fn "Don't you like the show?" "Yes, indeed." cc "Then why do you persist in hissing the performance?" "Why, m-man alife, I w-wasn't ^ hissing. I w-was s-simply s-s-saying to S-s-ammy that the s-s-singing is s-s-superb."?Milwaukee Journal. ^ Wanted Cleopatra.?"Give me a ai copy of 'Anthony and Cleopatra,' ? please," said the bright young man w entering the book store. ^ "Yes, sir," said the clerk. "Here you are. One dollar and fifty cents." ta "I've only got seventy-five cents, so just give me 'Cleopatra.'" 8t The Job He Wanted.?"Want a job, ^ eh?" p< C( "Yes, sir; I am looking for a place ^ where there is plenty of work." "I am sorry, but there would not be enough work here to keep you busy an p( hour a day." "That's plenty of work for me, sir." j. ?Houston Post. ri Eyee Being Opened.?Doctor.?Well, si Casey, are the eyes improving? Patient?Sure they are, sir. s< Doctor?Can you see better; can you pl see the nurse now? Patient?Sure, I can that, sor. Faith, she gets plainer and plainer ivery day. K Why He Rushed.?"The woman a' threw herself into the river," read the e< teacher. "Her husband rushed to the 01 bank. Now tell me why her husband is rushed to the bank?" c< "To get the insurance money yelled w the class. n T m , r< He Needed It.?The Widow (at the I>; seashore)?Well, why don't you kiss r< me?" Bashful Youth?I would, only I NV ha- e some sand In my mouth. "Swallow it, young man; you need 'S( it in your system."?Life. < ! m , g What They All Say.?Employer?I l? hope you save something out of your salary, James? si Office Boy?Yes, sir; 'most all of it, sir. w Employer (eagerly)?Do you want s< to buy an automobile cheap? w Shouldn't Worry.?Young Wife? c< Oh, John, the rats have eaten all my f< angel cake! c Husband?What! All of it? tl Young Wife?Every piece. I feel like crying. "I Husband?Oh, pshaw! Don't cry over ir a few rats. d< OLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES (Continued from Page One.) yterian. church on Tuesday, the 14th ,>r three days' session Rev. Edw . Reaves and family arrived Tuesda; y auto from Honea Path and are vis ing relatives in this city. Gastonia Gazette, Sept. 3: Tha fastunians are proud ot their hand ome new hotel, the Armington, wa mply proven by the throngs of peopi rho attended the formal opening oi 'uesday evening. Between the hour f 8 and 11 o'clock, there was a con tant stream of people to pass th eceivlng line and then inspect th uilding from top to bottom Mi C. Onnand of Bessemer City, wa l town Wednesday on business. Mi >rmand is a great believer in oats >"i Hnver. vetch and livestock an< elieves that Gaston is making consid ruble headway toward getting awa; om cotton as the principal product le suys Gaston raised more oats heat and corn this year than las nd that the indications are that th< irmers will increase their acreage it tese crops still more next year astonia's three-day booster chautau ua closed Wednesday night. Financi lly it was not a success, each of th< velve guarantors losing about $20 owever, from a standpoint of meri was a success and it is to be re retted that more Gastonians did no rail themselves of the opportunity t< ?ar something worth while. Unfortu itely there were other things to at' act the crowds, baseball, the hote ^ening, etc Mr. Grier Hawkins ore on the Linwood college road wa! so broken into last night and a num ir of articles taken, presumably b: le same burglars who robbed the saf< ' F. D. B&rkley & Co Mr. H. A uery, who has been with the Gazett< jring the summer, has returned t< elmont to make preparations for th< jening of the Belmont High school which he is principal, on Monday ie 13th. The school building is be g repaired and put in first-clas: mdition in every way for the open g* * * Lancaster News, Sept. 3: Mr. J. L askey has been appointed m agist rat < r Gills Creek township, to succeet le late I. T. Hunter. Mr. Caskey ii loroughly familiar with the duties ' the office, having been Mr. Hunter'i reo ?cesser ?ev. w. vv. uuyce iss Jessie Beckham, Mrs. M. W luthen and Mr. W. J. Bowers ol leasant Hill A. R. P. church, have reirned from Gastonia, where they atnded the Linwood convention of the , R. P. church, held at Linwood colge There is growing interest ir e night school proposition and Mrs '. E. Taylor, Miss Etta Skipper, Mist Ifreida Poag and Mr. Claud N. Sapj ive signified their willingness tc ach in the school. There is need ol (t other volunteers, which we hope id believe will be forthcoming RITISH METHODS AS TO COTTON Little More Light on an All-Important Subject. If we may be permitted to discuss ill a little further this question ol ritish Interference with, our cottor ade?without being accused of profrmanism, or pro-anything else?we ive some more light to throw on thai l-important subject. Perhaps we should explain at the itset, in order to relieve what follows om the suspicion of bias, that II imes from no less an authority than e New York Journal of Commerce, hich if it is biased at all, is biased favor of Great Britain and hei Hies. At any rate, here it is, as taker om the news columns of that excelnt commercial journal: "While the important trade factors e feeling more optimistic about the ternational trade situation, from the andpoint of the fall trade of this >untry, there is a great deal of dis.tisfaction in circles of cotton ship rs whose cargoes, destined to Gerany and Austria at a time wher ich shipments were allowed to move r the British, have been seized and actically confiscated. The charge is ade that Great Britain is not treating merican cotton shippers fairly in ar.nging for the settlement of claims r cotton which was seized on foui earners en route to Sweden and othei tuniries contiguous to Germany." There we have it; while the New ork importers got busy and went >wn to Washington and raised a impus with the state department? ith the result that they got theii hristmas toys and cutlery and glovet id notions released almost forthwith -the shippers of cotton are righi here they stood and right where thej we stood for months past?or praccally so. While some of this "delined'* cotton has been settled for, th< le most of it has not; and here is th< ory about that: "Among other things, it is asserted lat the British have offered to com' ?nsate the American owners of th< >tton on those four vessels on th< isis of the American valuation of th< >tton at the time it left the Americar irt. This offer has been emphaticallj tfused, the attorneys representing th< uppers insisting on full payment foi le cotton on the basis of the pric< iling at the port to which it was com gned and the approximate date o: s arrival at that port, had it not beei ?ized. To date, it is learned, ap roximately $900,000 has been paid bj reat Britain to American shippers o lese four seized cotton cargoes anc uther sums, aggregating $500,000, ar< lid to be due to the same interests. "One of the attorneys who has beei ctive on behalf of the shippers of thi ?tton cargoes seized en route to Ger lany and Austria said that Englanc i not fairly abiding by the so-calle< >tton agreement. He asserted tha hile some payments have been made lany of the cargoes seized last May ei jute to Germany have not yet beei aid for after nearly three months o mtinuous negotiations." Of course, all this may be all righ ith those people who still insist tha reat Britain should be permitted t< ?ize our cotton as often as she pleas ? and jKiy for it, or not, whenever sir ets good and ready and at her owi rice; but we suspect that even sucl neutrals" as these might lie somewha taggered at this additional in forma on as to Great Britain's attitude to ard our cotton; her determination ti ?ize it at her pleasure, pay for i henever she likes and at her own prio -and, then, sell it herself to othe :?untries at an advanced price. If th< Mowing be true, it is enough to se irery American to thinking, am linking hard: "I know," says this same attorney that in certain instances, shipper: iformed the British embassy of ever: etail of their arrangements, cancell i ing all contracts where cotton had been sold to Germany, and instead consigning the cotton to Scandinavian or Dutch ports, relying upon the assurl( ances of the state department and of r> the British embassy that it would be y, permitted free passage. This cotton . was then seized by England, who declined to let it go forward. "England will pay the price prevailt ing in the English market, which is . low as a result of large importations s of cotton, and this is not acceptable e to American shippers, who would not rl have sent forward the cargoes unless s counting on the high prices at destination ports. The shippers feel, theree fore, that England has repudiated her e own agreement. "Attention was called to the large s British exports of cotton as indicating . a willingness on the part of England , to take advantage of the conditions j which she refused to allow Americans to profit by. Shipments were being ^ constantly forwarded to neutral ports, it was stated, where they were held , pending a rise in the market. t' "The British exports of cotton to e Holland and Sweden, particularly, 1 during March, April, May and June were many times greater than during the corresponding period of 1914," the attorney continued. "England claims e that her object in preventing American i cargoes from reaching countries cont tigeous to Germany Is to make the reexportation of cotton to Germany imt possible. j "Yet, at the same time, she permits her own merchants to sell cotton in . these countries. They can get the j prices paid at destination ports on f cotton that has been stopped and s bought by England at prevailing British rates, while American shippers are , not allowed the benefit of this increase."?Augusta Chronicle. RELIGION 3 > A Simple Analysis of the Gospel of - Christ. ? I believe it was Bill Nye who said ? that he preferred a certain church to ' all others because it didn't interfere i with either his politics or his religi" on. I The remark could be applied to almost any church of the present day, - for It is a painful but very evident i fact that few church people really ' know what they believe, and that al5 know, or seem to know, what ChristiJ anity. ' For that matter, very few people ? know .or seem to know, what Christi anity really is. f The average church member re serves the right to interpret Christ's teachings to please himself, and the 5 further right to disregard those teachings that interfere with his 1 business or his passions. Yet the religion of Christ -is so 1 simple that a child can understand it, > and the basic principle so clear that a . ' wayfaring man, though a fool, need | f not fail to grasp it. i Christ's life was a life of service; his gospel was a gospel of love. The , one thing he tried unceasingly to im- ( ' press on the minds of those who would be his followers was that they must forgive and love one another. And ( that one requirement proves a stum- , ' bling block in the paths of most folk who would be Christians. No man or woman who can read , can doubt the truth of the statement ] that it is impossible for one to hate ( and remain a Christian. Yet nearly ( all folk who profess to be Christians | allow themselves the privilege of , "holding a grudge" against somebody. , Thus we have a race of pious hypo- , crites who will get into heaven, if at , all, far behind the harlots and thieves. , The professing Christian who har- ( bors ill-will must be either very stub- ( bornly wicked or very, very ignorant. If I have Injured you, or hurt your , feelings, or ofTended your pride, and , you set about trying to get even, or ^ so much as hold resentment against me, and yet claim to be a Christian, ( you are either a deliberate liar or you belong in a home for feeble minded. For any man or woman who has , intelligence enough to claim belief in Christ also has intelligence enough f to know that hate, ill-will, resentment , I and "grudges" are as far from Chris- , ? tianity as the east is from the west.? f Fountain Inn Tribune. , FORWARD WARRIORS ONLY 1 Pieper Would Put a Noble Army in : the Front. Mr. Pieper, member of assembly of : t the state of Wisconsin, has introduced L a resolution in that body, which, if it does nothing more, will serve to make Mr. Pieper known outside the confines } of his own state. In part it is as folj lows: ^ "Whereas, it is, anundisputed fact that if those who are directly responsible for the terrible slaughter now going on in Europe would be coma pelled to stand in the front rank of ' battle and do the actual fighting, instead of sitting in some office, or j watching the process of slaughter from some sheltered place through a spy^ glass, well removed from the point of [ danger, there would be no war. I "Resolved, that the legislature of ^ Wisconsin respectfully urge congress that at its next session the military s policy of our government be molded as follows: r 4 ? jn gage 0f war every congressman who is such at the time war f is declared shall be compelled to enlist ^ and serve as a private soldier during the war, at a compensation of $13 per , month, and no congressman to be prof moted during any war for which he j voted." The resolution then goes on to say that after the conscription of the nai tional lawmakers all the millionaires e be drafted and next the preachers and the lawyers the editors and last of all j sucn men as nave an income or more j than $2,000 a year. ( Mr. Pieper does not specify who are to be the officers or whether in the first line of defense the senator or the i ^ representatives are to have precedence, f He should attend to this or Representatives Gardner and Hobson will be much disturbed. Likewise Hoke Smith. Let us see how formidable Mr. Pieper's army would be: Senators 94 Representatives 43r? ^ Millionaires *16,000 Preachers 146,000 Lawyers 121,000 Editors 18,000 Considering what Herr Hindenburg u and other gentlemen are commanding ( this force of ours does not seem much as to mass but it certainlv has class. e r It could be improved, however, if be(i ligerent rights were extended to bart bers and boisterous ex-Presidents. *Not ineliidinc monitions eron. ?From Commerce and Finance. ? Robert W. Shand, senior member s of the Columbia bar, died at his home >' in Shandon last Saturday night, aged - 75 years. BEST OF GOOD GOVERNMENT New England Township System is the Thing. Clarence Poe in Progressive Farmer. I pointed out in last week's Progressive Farmer the three things that have made New England great? Books and Banks and Township Government, or Education, Thrift and Democracy. How Education and Thrift have helped, I then tried to make plain. 1 This week I wish to point out the great influence of New England's township system of government, pronounced by Thomas Jefferson "the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government"?and if anybody has ever been an authority on self-government l riuiiiaa J ui111 hu11 wan. "The governments of the southern 1 states before the civil war," a great southern statesman has said, "while in form a democracy, were in fact an aristocracy"; and speaking broadly, it 1 is true to this day of our states and counties that they are not as democratic as they ought to be. It may 1 not be an aristocracy which rules, but In too many cases it is a political ring 1 or clique without the virtues of an aristocracy. We simply haven't the machinery for letting the people rule in a real and effective way; and perhaps not one person in tifty who calls himself a follower and disciple of the Immortal Jefferson realizes that he declared that this township system of government? "the sub-division of the county into wards" for self-government?was the very foundation-stone of true democ- 1 racy. As soon as the Revolution was over, he tells us, he drew a bill for the Vir- ! ginia legislature which proposed to lay I off every county into self-governing wards or townships five or six miles square with a public school in the center; and as long as he lived he never ceased to urge the Importance of this action. As long as he had breath he declared when an old man. he was going to fight for Just two things: "public education and the subdivision of the counties into wards (townships): I consider the continuance of the republican government as absolutely hanging on these two hooks." And in 1816 he wrote: "The article nearest my heart 4s the subdivision of the counties into wards (or townships." Perhaps I ought to say here that New Englanders call a township a "town" though everybody in it may be a farmer with no sign of a village, but to avoid confusion I shall substitute the word "township" throughout this article. The Township System Explained. Now why was Jefferson so supremely Interested in establishing the township system of government in the south? It wasn't because he simply had a theory that it was "the wisest invention ever devised for the perfect exercise of self-government," but because the experience of New England had proved it so. Jefferson saw that with the county as the smallest unit of government in the south, the people as a whole would not control. There was no provision for general massmeetings of all the voters of the county to control their affairs, and if there had been, distances in a county were too great for all the people to come together. Consequently Jefferson realized that If the county was to be the smallest unit of government, a few aristocrats or a few bosses would control; and it is undoubtedly true that the aristocratic classes in Virginia realized the same thing and consequently prevented the establishment of the township system he advocated. Let us see Just how this township system works. I have long been interested in it, and when I found I was going up into Massachusetts recently, I determined to look into it more closely than ever before. Each county in New England is subdivided into such townships as Jeffer son proposed in Virginia?communities 1 about five miles square so that the 1 farthest citizen is two and a one-half 1 miles from the center?and each 1 township is "a small republic in itself" as he declared. Once a year all ( the voters of the townships come to- 1 gether in mass-meeting to elect their ' officers, to vote upon all questions af- ' fecting the community's welfare, and * to decide upon tuxes for schools, roads 1 and other purposes; and similar mass * meetings may be called at any time 1 (upon petition of a proper proportion ' of voters) to pass upon any other < public questions that may come up. ( Gordon, in his "History of Inde pendence in the United States," de- 1 scribes a New England "township 1 meeting" in Revolutionary times in 1 words Just as applicable today: ' "Every township is an incorporated 1 republic. The selectmen (township 1 commissioners) upon their own au- 1 thority, or upon the application of a 1 certain number of citizens, issue a ' warrant for the calling of a township 1 meeting. The warrant mentions the business to be engaged in, and no oth- 1 er can be legally executed. The inhabitants are warned to attend; and they that are present, though not a quarter or a tenth of the whole, have a right to proceed * Each individual has an equal liberty of delivering his opinion and is not liable to silenced or brow-beaten by a richer or greater citizen than himself. Every freeman of freeholder gives his vote or not, and for or against, as he pleases, and each vote weighs equally whether that of the highest or lowest inhabitant." How Each Community Rules Itself. At these annual township meetings the people elect a board of three, five or seven selectmen or township com missioners who see that the laws are enforced and have authority to look after the welfare of the township about as our county commissioners look after the welfare of a county or a board of aldermen a town. Other officers chosen are: 1. A township clerk. 2. Township tax assessors. 3. A tax collector. 4. A township treasurer. f?. Road supervisors. C. Constables. 7. School committeemen. 5. Fence viewers (to settle disputes about fences.) 9. overseers of the poor (to look after paupers). 10. Field driver (to look after stray cattle, hogs, sheep). 11. A local board of health (to cooperate with county, and state boards In U/voWU Ann/I i t 1/.nc ) 12. Library trustees. Most of these officers (except tax collectors, constables,, etc., paid by fees) serve without pay, just as school committeemen do in the south, simply because they feel a pride in doing a citizen's duty. Thus the great author and philosopher Emerson served a term as field driver in his township! And everything that deserves the attention of the voters gets it at the annual meeting. "If there is any new plan or any change in old plans that we believe would help the community," as one Massachusetts man said to me, "we begin talking about it and agitating it before the annual townBhip meeting. Ten voters can get any nortlnant otihlnnt 1 i ut orl fnr fHafMl?sinn and action by their fellow-citizens, and this means that everything worth while gets a hearing. Even a crank can likely get nine men to sign with him and have his idea brought forward!" Just to give an Idea of how completely the people rule themselves in these New England communities or townships, I may mention a warrant I saw for the annual mass meeting of the voters of Hadley township, in Hampshire county, which I visited. It provided for discussion and cctlon upon the following subjects: 1. To select a moderator. 2. To hear reports of township officers. 3. To elect township officers for the ensuing year. 4. Road and bridge improvements. 5. License or no license. 6. To confirm or reject the men proposed by the selectmen for jurors in the county court. 7. To consider appropriations for the ensuing year. 8. To consider plans for having the state highway come through Hadley township. 9. Should we close Hockanum school and transport pupils there to the central school? in To rnnsidpr liehtine: the town ship hall (or community center) with if OB. 11. To consider plans for improving the flre-flghting equipment 12. Should the township spend $300 to improve the road from Thomas Flaherty's to the four corners at East Hadley? 13. Better drainage of Shipman's swamp. 14. Appropriations for the high school. 15. Should the charge for renting the township hall for dances and entertainments be reduced? 16. Should the township spend $100 to harden the road from P. Ryan's to the North Amherst line? Tim* for the South to Follow Jefferson And even this list of sixteen subjects does not exhaust the list of topics listed for action by the freemen of Hudley township. But this simple recital of some of the things discussed ind settled by the people themselves ance a year at least, in each New Engand neighborhood?this ought to make it clear how free and unhampered is the stream of progress under the lownship system of government, and now dammed and clogged is the itream here in the south where we lave nothing but the county to act for is, and the small communities have 10 power whatever except to elect heir constables. Or rather we should tay that the small rural communities, he communities of farmers, have no power whatever except this, for Just is soon as a community of villagers is 'ormed, it is incorporated and given ill these powers. In other words, the ownspeople everywhere have local lelf-government, while communities of 'armers have no such power. Consider conditions in your own :ounty, Mr. Farmer. The people nevjr have any stated time for getting ogether in mass meeting unless it is n county conventions of their respec:ive political parties every two years, ind this plan does practically nothing oward helping community progress. In the first place, distances are so rreat that only a small part of the voters attend. In the second place, he convention is so intent upon the listribution of offices and upon state ind national politics, that county af'nir? nf rpnl imDortancG iret scant at ention. And in the third place it's a neeting for the whole county, and the nembers have no tine to listen to any plan for the improvement of your own particular neighborhood. Moreover, the county commissioners >r other governing body of the couny are elected to look at everything Tom the standpoint of the county, and jannot, if they would, work out plans for local betterment as well as the people would do for themselves?to jay nothing of the humiliation the freemen of any township must feel ir. Paving to entreat a lot of official bossjs higher up about the management pf every item of their own affairs. And pet nearly all over the south not only ire people in rural communities or townships without power to act for themselves, but in hundreds of cases they must even go up to the state capital, hat in hand, and beg a crowd of city lawyers in a state legislature for the power to regulate such purely local matters as chickens running at large or the drainage of a stagnant 3tream! And yet the south calls itself free and democratic! Great heavens! Keep the Counties Big and Give Local Communities Self-Government. Of course our people have felt the burden of this shameful system or lack of system, and in a blundering way we have been feeling about for a remedy. But the trouble is that in trying to improve matters we have Jumped from the frying pan into the fire by splitting up counties and making more counties?each new county meaning a new sheriff, a new register, a new clerk, a new treasurer, a new jail, a new poorhouse, and heaven only knows how many other things and persons, all to be supported from the people's taxes. Or frequently one section of a farming countj in which a rich city is located has had itself set apart into a new county, leaving the old rural county without any revenue from the city its farmers have helped fr* makn rirh The thing to do Instead of all this is to keep the counties big so that the burden of supporting county officers will be light and so that really useful county officers may be provided?a county superintendent of school, a county health officer, demonstration agent, and a woman's work agent (for canning, poultry and housework), each employed for his or her whole time?and at the same time give the people of each locality power to manage their own affairs through the township system. In other words, we need local selfgovernment for rural districts Just as we already have for town districts? only local self-government doesn't mean at all that the state should not set a minimum standard in education and morais an? puuuc imukicbb unu? ivhich no community should be allowed to fall (while leaving the community free to go as much further as it wished), just as the law sets certain moral or legal standards below which a citizen cannot fall and stay out of Jail, though he may be as much better man as he pleases. The whole state is injured, for example, If one township lets its citizenship deteriorate through ignorance or drunkenness, and so the state has a right to say that at least a six-months school term must hp ariven in every township and that no whisky-selling must be permitted. Or if one township is infested with cattle ticks, the other townships are injured, and so the state may set a minimum standard here. But apart trom these minimum standards for the whole state set by the public opinion of the whole state, each locality should rule itself. OLD TIME CAMP MEETING , Time-Honored Religious Revels Grow Scarcer Each Year. Along with so many historic institutions, and especially those tinged with romance and picturesque atmosphere, the old time camp meeting is rapidly passing into the realm of things which used to be. The steady march of progress, bringing a constantly multiplying list of pleasures, the great growth in the number of churches in the United States, and the growing popularity of the present day evangelistic services have caused the camp meeting gradually to lose its force and attractiveness, lust as the ox-cart, the stage coach and the spinning wheel have given way to something more modern. Yet no form of worship has played a more important part in the religious history of this country than these old camp meetings. Beginning about the first of the nineteenth century, this form of worship increased in popularity and expanded in its scope for over 50 years. About a generation after the civil war the decline began, and so rapid has been this decline that now there are comparatively few of these services held in the United States. The camp meeting idea, according to the best data available on the subject, sprang from the example of one man along about the year 1800. That year was notable as the beginning of a big religious revival in Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee. And this one man, whose name is unknown, has been given credit by many for having set this spiritual wave in motion. This itinerant preacher had his camp meeting ground somewhere along the Red river, probably near what is now the border line of Kentucky and Tennessee, and from all accounts, the people attending these services returned to their homes each night after the meeting was over. But the preacher lacked enough horses to carry his entire family to the services, so he fitted up his wagon as a sleeping place, took along a supply of provisions and remained on the camp ground as long as the meeting continued. The plan Imm'1lintel. appealed to the people, so the very next meeting was a real camp meeting. That it was successful is shown by the fact that 40 people were converted. It firmly established this form of religious worship, and the idea spread rapidly, extending west and northwest at first, then moved eastward. In less than five years, camp meetings were on established institution from the Apaiachian mountains eastward to the Atlantic ocean, and from Maine to Mississippi. With the development of the camp meeting idea in the next few years came more permanent and substantial accommodations. Favored spots for camp meetings began to be dotted with numerous cabins, built of logs or heavy planks, in which families owning them lived while the meeting was in pro gress. A few yeare after the Civil war, there were thousands of these camp meeting sites with their numerous cabins and cottages in the United States, in fact, scores of theso places still stand in a good state of preservation, although they have been deserted for years. When the camp meeting idea was at its height, hundreds of these meetings would be held in the summer months, and to them would journey tens of thousands of people. In wagons, carts, coaches and on horseback and afoot, people would travel to these meeting grounds from a radius of 50 miles, and spend a week, ten days or even a month in a spiritual review with a smack of present day vacation camp life added to it. These people would bring their bedding, tableware and provisions; also servants to wait upon them and care for the horses. The almost limitless forests of those days abounded with deer, bear, turkey and all wild game, while the rivers and lakes teemed with fish and ducks and geese; therefore the meat question was inconsequental and tables fairly groaned under the tempting viands. Hospitality of the most open-hearted sort prevailed. No matter how many people came unprovisloned with fo< or a place to sleep, there was always a welcome awaiting, food in plenty and a place to sleep?all without price. In fact, the camp meeting idea was one purely of worship and the sordid commercial spirit was not allowed to intrude. The people gave their time and substance freely, and the preachers worked absolutely free of charge, all having the one common aim of advancing the cause of religion. Yet they met with difficulties. Chief of these was the open antagonism of the unreligious which not infrequently developed into fights. In those early days there was a large percentage of adventurers, men who feared nothing and who openly scoffed at religion and took delight in interfering in every way possible. It was nothing unusual for a band of this sort to announce '.n advance that they intended to break it up. The Christians were no less hardy and stout-hearted and they never were backward in defending themselves. The result was some firstclass fights, many broken heads and not a few casualties. These camp meetings might be credited also as the first union efforts of different denominations. Preachers of all churches were scarce and they would come and work together in the camp meetings. Chief In the work were the Methodists and Presbyterians, but Baptists, Christians and even Episcopalians co-operated. They were ail t?i inr- iiut'iinr, uii wciu y 111& ntn i( who preached hell-fire and brimstone as the certain punishment of the sinner and the illimitable riches of heaven as a reward for the saved. There were no brief, eloquent, carefully-worded sermons in those days, instead the preachers talked at the full limit of their strength and lung power as long as they could. Not infrequently, when one would have to stop because of exhaustion, another would take his place and the service would he prolonged for hours. Sometimes the crowds were so great that thay I could not all get within hearing distance, and often the preachers would take advantage of stumps, logs, wagons or anything which could be used as a pulpit, and several Would be preaching simultaneously. The effect of these messages upon the people were beyond parallel. They were overcome physically and mentally, and would do many unusual things, some going into convulsions. Frequently a convicted man or woman would writhe for hours, and the Christians would work with them. ^entrlnoi onil ainorlnpr n tfllkinCT tO |/ia./iue ****** " n*"o ?? o ? them. In some instances of prolonged travail of spirit, the sufferer would be placed in the hands of a committee and they would be taken into the woods where the work of saving his soul would continue until victory was won. ?Exchange. WOMAN AND THE HOME Fact, Fashion and Fancy Calculated to Interest York County. Women. Courtesy is so easy to give and yet is so seldom given. It costs us nothing to extend a cheerful civility to those about us, but how many of us are unfailingly courteous? Very few, It is to be feared. Somehow, we travelers along life's highroad seem for the most part, to be too busy to be polite. There seems to be an opinion with certain persons that courtesy is synonymous with foolishness. What a mistaken idea this is! Is It foolish to make others feel brighter by your cheerful words? Is It foolish to make the path sunnier for others as well as for yourself by the happiness of your smile? This is wh&t courtesy does. It helps others from the darkness into the light, it shows them the way from the shaded road to the sunny side of life. If you have ever tried to be continuously and consistently courteous you must have noticed how contagious civility is. If you ask questions in a bright, polite way you are almost sure to receive answers in the same tone. Courtesy given means courtesy received and, unfortunately, the opposite is quite as true. Things Worth Knowing. Junket is excellent in invalid diet. Keep a cheap wire hair brush for grooming the cat. Wash table linen by Itself. Wash handkerchiefs alone. Don't use soiled suds for washing colored clothes unless you expect them to be muddy looking. If clothespins are warmed thoroughly before using, clothes will never tear or stick to clotheslines in cold weather. Some Odds and Ends. A "spare" plum pudding, cooked and 3 W Full value given. C I stock of premiums m that it pays to save from Liggett & M Tobaccos. 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