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BLE-S kb: ' A GREAT REF4ZME, Ezra's Methods Criticized Unjustly. Ezra vili, 15-36-Nov. 19 'The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek lim." ZRA was a learned Jew who headed a great reformation movement. As God's agent he was largely responsible for the maintenance of the Jewish faith And nation. His famIly had been amongst the many carried captive by Nebuchadnezzar. Ezra. haubued with ia spirit of religious fervor based upon ath in God and [is pro.ises to i. rael, headed another company bound Y, "*ialem--seventy-eight years aft -turn of the exiles. e evidently .were prosperous -in, and their exile. for a time led them to earnest study of 4w iaw and the Prophets. Thee were veed an CN i~hs from time '. time heard of ihe poverty of heir brethren In Ierutalem, and that -matters re ligious were not ;prosperous there, and the rebuild 'g of the temple, which represent ed Divine pres- After a century of once with the na- m pn efe. Cibn was but poorly served. Deeply in earnest fo'r'a revival of the true religion, Ezra laid the matter Nefore a representative In Babylon and 4 iefore the Persian king. with favor able results. Ignrge donations were nade for the repairs to the temple -and the institutl'o'n of its worship upon ! proper basis, and in general to help ":he interests -of the Jewish cause in lerusalem. The donations of gold and Alver totaled a- little more than two nillion dollars, and thb number of per -ons who volunteered to be of the nompany was abou seventeen hun ired. 'In All Thy Ways Acknowledge Him." The beginning of the journey with 'asting and prayer gives us itin insight nto E4zra's power and etfieleney. "God vas with him"-:-he walked with God. 'te sought to know and to do the 1I. vine will. Surely it is in vain that any iould attempt to serve the Lord and et neglect to humble themselves be )re Him and to make request for His * lessing and guidance. We submit tat fasting and prayei and earnest si.qire' to know and to do the Lord's ill are far more effieacious for good iau are large donations of money. erhaps there has beein too great a '-ndecy on the part of many to leave *"t the matter of religious work at :'me and abroad save aloing financial ums. forgetful, in part at least, that c y labor In vain unless the Lord ;'-ant His blessi-ng. L'he fact that notwithstanding our -inderful dinancial efforts during the * st century there are today twice as : any heathen as there were a century r M, shaould take- us to -the Lord in t iayer to assure ourselves regarding meaning of the prayer Hie taught -* '-Thy Kingdom comne; thy wIll be d' e on earth as it Is done in heaven." -, sing the futility of our' efforts to s-ag about heavenly conditions on w h ought to lead all of God's ear - children to search HIs Word and tee whether or not it teaches that second coming of Messiah is to te to Himself His "elect" Church is Bride and then to establish Kndmwhich will bind S'atsa -overthrow sin and death , The Way of Transgresso tisra and his party reached ..c.usa 1em In safety aft er a journey of exactly four months. As -~-great a distance flin be covered e ~~ in lessq thuan~ four da::s with our m. todn'rn c'onven ience's, w h I e b ,. sure-ly seemi to b e precursors of *0rpar~on fo ls ianic' Eptoh. the *ta'a ingom. woniderf'ul pr~os 7.eltyofwhit: nsso long been'! tore. ')d. Ezra soon found that many Jews "ore inter-marrying with their hea hen neighbors, and th'at a condition *f things prevailedl which if continued rould mean the corrupion of the na ion to which God had given the prom se.9 of national coniinnliv. andic the 'romise that tultima t ely I i" woutld use hem as a ination for ' - - "g out o'f the light, and triui' o has :tromised s~all,yet il fami les of the earth. A general assembl-' ~ -atlon of Esraelites was ei'" held to consider 6this mat t' - mar -lages and ,the iren i. '1 trie 'aw, and sny falinltl: reser~t tid were n.6ified .ikt -r .s. uthil)bo a danger bfieir TMA'f~vLuL - f f'hf unlgregaitio u, as allj'i nci tIme if weeping andl s' T.,trs that confo mity tq. I . Law S 'vould mean the bren'.. ..- .family des. The Divine -Lci. :i bro ken and now the pen> to be) f'elt. The way of th-: .tressors .was hard. The Story 6f + Our States By JONATHAN BRACE XXIII.-MAINE In thle4 haze of 1an tiquity the old I Icelandic sit gas record a voyage In 1000 by Leif, son of Eric the Red, who sailed from Greenland to Labrador and down the coast of Maine. The next probable voyage to this coast was by John Cabot in 1497' and later by his son Sebastian. It was, however, Capt. John Smith, the leading spirit of the settlement at Jamestown, who sailed as far north as the Penob scot 'and first drew a rough chart of it. In the'grant by James I to the Plymouth Colony Maine was included In their territory. Op position to the -Plymouth Colony .a[9.se among the king's courtiers a'd Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Captain Mason succeeded in ob taining for themselves rights to the -coutdtry between the Merri mnac and Kennebec rivers. This they divided, Gorges taking the northern section. Meanwhile Gorges had sent over a small col ony to the mouth of the Kenne. bef, but this settlement was soon abandoned. The first permanent settlement was made in 1625 at what is now York. Massachu setts objected to Gorges' claini and finally annexed all the terri tory up to Casco Bay and calledl this northern section the District of Maine. Maine was dissatisfted with the rule of the mother state and by 1820 succeeded in being admitted to the Union as the twenty-third state. Maine was the first state to adopt prohibition. In the begin ning Maine was strongly Demo cratic. It was largely for this reason that she objected to be ing ruled by Massachusetts which was Federalist. Since 1850, however, Maine has been decidedly Republican. It has six electoral votes for president. The name Maine was so desig. nated in the charter of 1639 in which Charles I granted this land to Gorges. It hod already been commonly used by the sail ors as distinguishing the main land from the mny islands along the shore. The nickname for the state is the Pine Tree State. Its area is 88,040 square miles, which Is practically as large as the combined area of the other five New England States. (@ by McClure Newspaper syndicate.) SUBSCRIBE THI A Screen Masterpiec Filled Wit1 Keen Satir4 Tense Dran and Great H< Appeal. A vivid, ting The Story of Our States By JONATHAN BRACE XXXIV.--KANSAS Its~W AY back z I Spanish e. plorer, is re puted to have penetrated to Kausas in search of a mythical wealthy In dian tribe. It was not again via Ited, however, by white men until nearly one hundred and seventy flive years later, when the French in Louisiana sent out an expedition to investigate the re mote portions of what was then their territory. Most of the pres ent tate of Kansas was a part of the Louisiana Purchase and so passed from French hands to the United States in 1808. A small additional part was later added in 1850, being ceded by Texas. The Lewis and Clark party traversed this region in 1804, And Lieutenant Pike passed through Kansas two years'later. Kansas history really becomes interesting. in the middle of the century, when the slavery agita tion gave it the name of "Bleed-. ing Kanqas." It had been atfbnim organised territory since 1821 at which time it had been con sidered a portion of the Terri tory of Missouri. According to the Missouri Compromise, if Kansas became a state it could not be a slavery state. The op position of the South was so strong the Kansas-Nebraska bill was passed in 1854, making this vital question optional with the inhabitants in each p'roposed state. With this law in force the two factions actively.starited colonizing Kansas. Imligrants from the slave states of'Arkan sas and Missouri Immediately founded Leavenworth. The Mias sachusetts Emigrant Aid soc ety sent ont anti-slavery settlers, who founded Lawrence, Topeka and other towns. Conflict be tween these two parties broke out at once, and it was only put down by -the intervention of fed eral troops. The Northern set tiers came in such numbers that they soon were in the majority and in 1861 an anti-slavery con stitution was adopted, so Kansas was admitted to the Union in that year. The political dispute over Kan sas was the cause of the forma tion of the present Republican party. (0 %doClure Newsp&per syndioate.) FOR THE CECIL "THE AF] i GREA TEST PICTUR: Wallace Rei Elliott Dext S Monte Blue, a, Theodore R atTheodore K Raymond 1h ling drama of love andi venture. Playe NO TH I CrM~ENVILLE, S. C. The Story of f Our States By JONAThAN BRACE XVI.-TENNESSEE T o Tpnnes8 S-e stretchies back to the year 1541 When De Soto with his par ty of Spanish adventurers probably reached the present site of Memphis on the Mississippi. The French under La Salle built a fort here about 1682. The English also laid claim to this territory, in cluding it in the grant to North Carolina. It was not until 1770 that the first permanent settle ment was made by James Rob ertson and this was soon fol lowed by many other settlers from North Carolina. They 'ftrmed ;what they called the Washington district, but this was short lived as it was promptly annexed to ' North Carolina. In 1784 the inhabi tauts, indignant over North Car olina's attitude toward them, declared their independence and formed the State of Franklin or Frankland. As this seces sion was not countenanced by North Carolina, for a number of years a state of confusion existed with two sets of officers trying to govern. Meanwhile the settlement suffered severely from hostile Indians and from the Spanish, who still held Lou isipan, and controlled the Mis siseippi river. In 1790 North Carolina finally ceded this ter ritory to the United States. By 17'96 the population had in crbased to over 60,000, so Ten nessee was admitted as the six teenth state of the Union. At the outbreak of the Civil war, Tennessee Joined the Con federacy. In 1866, when the state was readmitted to the Un ion, there was much disorder during the reconstruction period. This led to the formation of the Ku Klux Klan, the influence of which quickly spread through out the Southern states. This secret organization took Into its own hands the suppres sion of crime and the adinin Istration of justice. Tennessee contair.s 42,022 square miles, and is sometimes called the Volunteer state. It is named after its principal riv er, which is a Cherokee word meaning "Crooked River" or "bend in. the river." (@ by McClure Newspaper syndicate.) Remember the fair-November 2, 3 and 4. SENTI NE L B. DEMK] PRODUCTION. FAIRS OF A E IN CAST AND INV WITH d. Gloria S er. Bebe Dan Wanda H oberts. Agnes A3 osloff. Polly Mo [atton. Julia Fay marriage. Glowing with di by stars enough for te: I:ATIE ..... ..... THE PICKENS RAILROAD COMPANY. . Time Table Number 20. Effective 12:01 a. m. (Eastern Time) Monday, August 15th, 1921. For the Governmilen1t of Employcos Only. No.' No. 3 Dist. STATIONS No. 2 No. 4 6:30 i i 56 pA. Ml. P. My. S:85 11: d -1~ lickenS/ S. C. 9:15 3:40 6:45 11:55 l Fergusons 9:10 3:35 6:56 12:05 -1 'Shvrifs - ):03 3:30 6:55 12:10 -, Parsons 9:00 3:25 6:00 12:5 8 Arial 8:55 3:20 7:00 12:'10 8>\Mauldin ~ 8:50 3:15 7:05 12:25 9.3 Ar. Eausle, S. C. Lv. 8:46 3:10 *No agent. All trains daily except Sunday. Trains Nos. 1 and 3 connect with Southern Railway Nos. 20 and 46. Trains Nos. 2 and 4 connects with Southerni Railway trains Nos. 15 and 16. For further information call on J. T. TAYLOR. Approved: J. P. CAREY, President. General Manager. ANNOUNCEMENT. September 2, 1921. Mr. Edsel B. Ford, president of, the Ford Motor Company, makes the following announcement: "We are making- another reduction in the price of Ford cars and the Ford truck, effective today. 'The 'new prices average $70.00 under former prices, and are the lowest at which Ford cars and trucks have ever been sold. List prices, f. o. b. Detroit, are now as follows: New Price Old Price Reduction Chassis . -. . .295.00 $345.00 $ 50.00 Runabout 325.00 370.00 45.00 Touring Car . 355.00 415.00 60.00 Truck - - - 445.00 495.00 50.00 Coupe - - - - - 595.00 095 00 100.00 Sedan -------3660.00 74000 100.00 This is the third price cut during the past twelve months. On September 22, 1920, the price of the Ford touring car was reduced from $575 to $440; June 7th to $415, and now to $355, making total reductions in this type of $220, or 38 per cent. The same proportionate reductions have been made in all other types. One year ago the price of the Ford Sqdpn .was $975; today it lists at $660 with the same equipment. "We are taking advantage of every known economy in the o manufacture of our products in order that we may give them'to the public at the lowest possible price, and by doing that, ive feels that we are doing the one big thing that will help this country into more prosperous times. People are interested in prices, and are buying when prices are right. "The production of Ford cars and trucks for August again :broke all previous high records with the total reaching 117,696 This is the fourth consecutive month in which our output has gone over the hundred thousand mark, the total for the four months being 463,074, which has gone a long way in making pos sible the present reductions. June this year, with an output of 117,247, was the previous record month. "One noteworthy feature of our sales is the increased de mand for Ford trucks and cars for salesmen. This class of com mercial business has been gradually increasing the past sixty days and we interpret it as a very good sign of improvement in gen eral business. "No reduction has been made in the price of the Fordson Tactor, and none is contemplated." Go over these new prices. See how little it costs to be come the owner of a Ford car or a Ford truck. Can you really afford to do without one any longer? Let us tell you more about it, and advise you regarding the delivery of the particular type of car in which you are interested. We will have plenty of cars this week of all types and can give you immediate delivery. They are harder to get every day. Place your order now. O'DELL MOTOR COMPANY. Liberty, S. C. 'yomm iomamoamu. emamomommomoeeomouwogn a NATOL" ESTITURE EVER MADE ranson. - ___ .A DMISSIONS: icis.Children awley- AlDay,l10c. rers. Adults Before six, 30c. r.After six, 40c. e. - luxury. Piquant with gay ad ri pictures. WEEK OIF OCT. 3.RD, *0. 8TH..