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AN ADDRESS TO THE BOYS. How the Coming Men of America May Become Knights. (By U. R. Brooks in The State.) My dear Boys: When I see a manly, hard-work-ing boy I feel like saying to him, "How are you, Sir Knight.' A knight is a common soldier, to be true and brave all through life. An idle boy can not be true and brave so long as ,he is idle. All true knights are brave. There is not much dark ness about a good knight. You boys have heard. perhaps, about the, Knights of Pythias, Knights of the Road,- Knights Templar, etc. While looking over a good book the other night I read of the Knights of Malta, or of St. John of Jerusalem, who were ordinarily called Knights of Hospi tallers, instituted by certain mer chants of Amalphi, in the kingdom of Naples, who, trading in the Levant, obtained leave of the caliph of the Saracens to build a house at Jerusa lem for themselves and pilgrims, on paying an annual tribute. Soon after thiey founded a churbn in honor of St. John the Baptist, with an hospital for sick pilgrims, from which they took their name. The valiant and most pious prince Godfrey of Bouillon, who took Jeru salem in 1099, exceedingly favored the hospitallers, who, in the sign of Baldwin I, king of Jerusalem, 1104, added to their religious vows another by which they obligated themselves to' defend the pilgrims in the Holy Land from insults of the Saracens. From that time they bee'ame a military or der of knights, their badge being a cross with eight points. In 1 iS7, Sa ladin, the caliph of Syria and Egypt, wrested Jerusalem for the hst time from the Christians, after the king dom of the Latins had maintained itself there 89 years, under eight kings. The knights retired to A con, on the seacost in Palestine, till that strong fortress was taken which time they resided in Cyprus till, in 1310, they took Rhodes from the infidels, and the year following defended it against their furious assaults, being relieved by the seasonable succor brought by the brave Amedens IV, Count of Savoy. The Turks having vanquished the Saracens and em braced their superstition and Muham mad II having taken Constantinople by storm in 1453, under Constantine Paleogolus, the last Giecian emperor, these knights became more than ever the bulwark of Christendom. Under the conduct of the valiant grand mas -ter, Aubusson, in 1480, they bravely defended their isle for two montihs against the victorious army of above 100,000 men of Muhammad II, the greatest warrior of all the Turkish emperors, who conquered the empires of Constantinople and Trebizand, 12 kingdoms and 200 cities. The em peror, Charles V., gave to the knights the Isle of Mfalta in 1530. Soleyman II, in 1566 bent the whole strength of his empire a.gainst the small is land, but after a siege of four months his army was shamefully repulsed by the most memorable defense that is recorded in history. The Turks re treated with 80,000 men when the Knights of Malta had only 6,000 men. Raymund du Puy was the first grand master after they became knights. He drew u.p the statutes of the order and died in 1160. The Knights Tern plar were instituted by seven gentle men of Jerusalem in 1118 to defend the holy places and pilgrims from the insults of the~ Saracens and keep the passes free for such as undertook the voyage of the Holy Land. They took their name from the first house which was given t!hem by King Bald ~win II, situated near the place where anciently the temple of Solomon stood. The Teutonic Knights owe their establishment to certain Ger man gentlemen from Bremen and Lu bec at the siege of Acon in Palestine. The Teutonic Knights conquered in 1250 the infidels of Prussia. Now, boys. these were true knights --true to God and to their country true men and true soldiers of the cross. Remember t'hat true boys gen :erally make grood men. "Childhood shows the man As morning shows the day.'' You will soon be the rulers of this, 'the greatest country in the world, and allow me to suggest that you take good meni as your models and try to follow in their footsteps-such men as Gen. R. E. Lee and Stonewall Jack son. Gen. Lee long before the War of Secession emancipated this 'slaves. Gen. Grant, like a great many South ern people did not free his slaves un til the war was over. I am told that Gen. Jackson never went into battle without first fervent ly praying to Almighty God, the God of Battle, to direct him, which ae coinms for his many victories. When I wvas a hoy~ clad in my gray Confed erate jacket,i I ha d to carry a dtispatchI from Gens. Hampton and Butler at Bel!ield,. Va. in D)ecember. 1864, to Gen. Lee at Petersburg. a distance of 50) miles, andl I will never forget the impresion that was made on my mind WhenL 1 rczl Petei:sburg that cold. bleak Sunday morning. Gen. Lee was not at his headquarters, where I had expected to find him, but was in church, where I found and handed him this important paper. I haye of ten thought of this, the grandest sold ier of the 19th century, standing in the pew, clad in his gray uniform, looking as !humble as the smallest child in the church. N ow boys, remember that there is no tragedy like a wasted life. If I could get the ear of every young man for but one suggestion, it would be this: Make the most and best of your self. Jefferson Davis says, "Strive to leave when life on earth is ended, that good name which virtue only will command." Boys, here are some familiar quotations that may be of use to you in after years. "The good need fear no law, It is his safety, and the bad man's awe." "Revenge is a naked sword, It has neither hilt nor guard, And, instead of the heart of the foe, Thou mayest find it sheathed in thine own.' "Live innocently; God is present." "In judging others, man labors in vain, often errs and easily sins; but in judging and looking into himself he always labors with fruit." 'I 'have often heard that it is safer to 1h;ear and take counsel than to give.'' "What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others." "A kind-worded man is a genial man, and geniality is power." "Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.' " To serve God is to reign." "The right thing is never to talk about self at all." "The word .character comes from a term which means to engage upon or to .cut in. Character is that inner, substantial and essential quality whch is wrought into the very soul, and makes a man what he really is. Character is *also a perfectly educat ed will." Never allow your ambition to get ahead of your judgment, for fear, like David Crocket, you may say, "He who commences the work with a gen eral love for mankind and suffers his feelings to dictate to his reason, ru;ns a great hazard of reaping a plen tiful harvest of ingratitude and clos ing a tedious existence in misanthro phy.'' This is the language of a disap pointed man. Gen. Marcus J. Wright says of him: "In 1835 he was defeated for con gress. T his preyed heavily upon his spirits. He had tasted popular favor and enjoyed high 'position and was loath to give them up.'' He determined to leave Tennessee and seek new fields in Texas. Some verses of his, the only ones he ever rote, show the condition of his mind t this time. He 'says: arewell to my country, I fought for thee well, When the savage rashed forth like the demon from 'hell. n peace or in war I have stood by thy side My country, for thee I have lived; would have died. But I am cast off; my career is now run And I wander abroad like the prodi gal son, Where the wild savage roves and the broad praises spread, he fallen, despised, will again go ahead. Col. Crockett was killed at the lamo by t!he army of Santa Ann~a. e falls and expires without groan, afrown on his brow and a smile of corn and defiance on his lips. A fit ing end to his heroic life. In a few years some of you will b'e hrged with the care of others, and ill be obliged to reserve to your elves leisure for meditation, prayer and self-examination, and diligently atch over your own souls. He that is bad to'-himself, to whom vill he be good. Let your home life be as full of snshine as the meadows are of dais es in June. If you desire God 'should hear your prayers, hear the voice of the poor. Work whilst you can, whilst you have time. Horping you will all make good knights-that is, true men-I will say good-night. Made Himself Solid. Tom--I ate some of the cake she made just to make myself solid. Dick-Did you, succeed?i Tom-I couldn't feel any more solid if I had 'eaten concrete or build ing stone.-Utica Herald. We believe more Christians wo Aid cease using tobacco, than is the case, i*&r (-e: waab \'lll properly prevent the inconsistency, the injury and MAXIM SILENCERS. Through Tests Soon to Be Made by War Department. The war department of the United States is to make complete and thor ough tests of the Maxim gun silence device. Hiram Percy Maxim has re turned from Washington, where he had an interview with Brigadier Gen eral William Crozier, chief of orde nance, and was pleased to be able to announce that this country would make a thorough investigation of the device. He said to a Hartford Cour ant reporter. "It is very gratifying to me that this country has taken hold of this invention and that no foreign govern ment will-have an advantage over us. I have kept the war department in formed as to the gunsilencer through the officials at the Springfield armory up to the time of my call on the pres ident, when General Crozier and other army and navy officials were present, and the ebief of ordenance had the opportunity of seeing himself what the silencer would do. The result was my trip to Washington on Monday, when I ihad a conference with the chief of ordenance and his assistant as to the making of demonstrations of the device under regular army con ditions and on a scale much larger than heretofore has been possible. "A considerable number of silen cers will be shipped with which tests will be made and they will be tried under all sorts of service conditions. I am confident that the silencer will have a complete demonstration and a. fair test, and the result of these tests will be the adoption of the silencer for the United States army, its complete rejection as worthless for army pur poses or its partial adoption for ear- i tain uses in the army. "I should have been very sorry to, have seen the device turned down by this government without a complete and fair test, as great interest is be ing shown in it by foreign govern ments. The attaches of a number of countries have already bought silenc ers and sent them to the home offices. These include representatives of such countries as England, France, Russia, Germany and Italy." Mr. Maxim was asked what he had to say about the threat of the chief of police of Pittsburg, Pa., that he would arrest any one found possess ing a silencer and clap him in jail, and he said: "I am sorry to see any one, es pecially the head of a police depart ment, talking about something he evi dently knows nothing about. The chief of police of Pittsburg, if quoted correctly, tells how easily and with out detection one man with a silencer revolver could kill another. Evidently he 'has not even read the papers, for it has been stated very plain-ly time and time again that no silencer has been* or could very well be, fitted to a re volver. The construction of a revol ver with its chambers open at both ends prevents its equipment with a* silencer. Only rifles are thus equip ped, and murderers do not go armed' with rifles. "Then again, as has been very arefully explained, the noise of dis-I harge of a silenced rifle would be loud enough to betray the man who fred unless a gun of small calibre, and low velocity were used. It has been! emonstrated that where a bullet travels at the- rate of 1,300 feet or ver per second it makes a crack .as t tears tihrough the air that is per eptible for 200 or 300 yards. By means of the sileneer the explosive oise is done away with, but the bul et noise remains. "T see no reason for any agitation against the silencer device by 'either municipal or state authorities and do not believe any serious attempt will be made to annul a very useful in vention. Surely no such attempts ould be successful. If, later, any regulations as to the sale of silencers are regarded as desirable to safeguard their use that would very properly be a matter for consideration, but no ediet forbidding the manufacture or possession of it is to be thought of for a moment. Such a dictum is non-; sensicalI.'' Argues for a Nursery Maid. ''Mrs. Frost always chooses a cross: eyed nursemaid.'' "'W:hy's that? '.' "So when the girl has one eye on the policeman she can 'have the other one the children.''-Life. A-la-Paderewski. --- "Is music -of any practical bene fit?'' was the question asked by one of a pat discussing the subject. "'Well,'' replied the cynic, '"judg ing from the photographs of eminent violinists. it keeps the hair from fall ing out ! '-The Pink 'Un. Do all in the name of the Lord Je-' QUICK WIT SAVED HIM. The Way a Criminal Fooled a Paris Police Chief. In the "Memories' of M. Claude, chief of police during the reign of Napoleon III., there is much that is faseinating to lovers of detective stories. One of M. Claude's experi ences was that in which he was out witted by a clever criminal who saw in the police chief's resemblance to Beranger. when the poet was at the height of !his popufarity a means of escape from capture. The criminal had returned to Paris and was liv ing as a rich student in the Latin quarter, then in the height of its Bo hemian splendor. Claude thought to make an easy capture of his man by attending a certain famous ballroom at the hour when daneing was at its height. He tells the story: "I had no difficulty in discovering him seated among a swarm of pretty girls and bewitching danseuses. "Convinced there were but two ways of getting the better of a cun ning enemy-surprise -and audacity I walked straight up to where my rascal was seated. I walked slowly, with steady steps, my eyes on the eyes of my man. He was a dark skinned, handsome fellow, with a face as brazen as it was cynical. I saw by on imperceptible sign that he recog nized me. He turned pale-he was mine! "I was aimost near enough to cap ture him when I saw him bend to the 'ear of one of his companions. In stantly all the girls surrounded me, and stood in a feverish, excited, ar-' dent phalan-x before me. They form ed an impenetrable barrier, behind which my -rascal escaped, while the women pressed eagerly upon me, cry ing out: "Beranger! It is Beranger!" "The magic name presented upon the youthful spirits there the effect of an electric spark. All the dancers of the establishment stopped dancing and surrounded me with acclamations. The students and young girls rushed up to me, some bearing boquets, oth ers glass in hand. I was literally cov ered with flowers, while the whole place rang with shouts, a hundred times repeated, of 'Vive Beranger! Vive Beranger!'' "I was aghast, and yet I under stood the trick. On the point of being collared by me, the man I !had mark2 ed down had recourse to this shrewd game, which must have succeeded even better than he expeeted. I cer tainly had some points of resembiance to tihe illustrious song maker or the hole world of students and grisettes in the Latin Quarter would not have fallen so readily into his trap. I was s bald as the poet at that time, and t all times I have had a certain good atured, sympathetic benevolence in y appearance such as the portraits f Beranger show to this day. "Well, if the youth of Paris count rsigned the internation-al error of y clever scamp I owed it to my esemblance to the poet. Though I was tricked, I was well tricked. It was not for me to own to these gid ypates that I was not Beranger, but laude, the policeman, the .agent of all he prosecutors, judges -and lawyers, who under the restoration had done o much harm to their idol. I 'esca~p' d from the ovation, which was be oming delirious under an avalanehe f flowers.'' Funeral Baked Meats. John Sharp Williams, at the. end f his recent debate with Gov. Varda an at Meridian, Miss., according to he Washington Star, talked about ride. "There is a decent and noble ride,'' said Mr. Williams, "and here is a pride that is mean and lu irous. An aged citizen of Yazoo tells of' an old woman whose pride was of the latter sort. "This old woman lived in York hrine. T-here was a funeral one day n the next village. She did not attend it, but a neighbor of 'hers was there. 'hat night she called on the neigh or and said: "Well, Nancy, I hear you wor at ' funeral.' "'Yes, I wor,' Nancy replied. " 'What kind of a funeral wor it ?' "Nancy sniffed. "' 'Why, it wor a very mean affair,' she said. 'There wor nobbut a few biscuit an' sic.' " 'Ah,' said the other old woman, 'them 's the sort of ways I don't hold to. I've lost five, but, t'hank 'evins, I 'ye buried "em all with 'am.' '' Not So Noticeable. '"Whenever I use a peck of powvder very~ one notices it declared .Johni nie 's sister to her chum. "Why don 't you use smokeless powder?'' put in the boy, overhear in.-The Circle. STATEMENT. j The Commercial Bank of Newberry, S. C., con densed from report to State Bank Examiner Novem ber 27. 1908. RESOURCES. Loans....................................... $268,751 87 Furniture and fixtures.................... . 3,116 93 Overdrafts ................................... 12,645 6o Cash and due from banks.......... ........ioi,i8i 65 $385,696 05 LIABILITIES. Capital stock................................ $5o,ooo 00 Profits less expenses taxes paid................. 54,677 53 Dividends unpaid. ........................ ,277 00 Cashier's Checks................ ............. 255 00 Re-discounts ........... ..................... 15,000 00 .Deposits Individual................... $261,000.03 Banks............,----...... - - ,486.49-$264,486-52 $385,696 o5 The Commercial Book, NEWBERRY, S. C. JNO. M. KINARD, 0. B. MAYER. J. Y. McFALL, President. Vice-President. Cashier. SOME OF OUR POLICIES: To be conservative. To pay four per cent. To calculate interest semi-annually. To bond every employee. To be progressive and accommodating. To lend our money to our customers. To treat our patrons courteously. 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