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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1907-10-09
SOUTH ROWAN.

October 7th.-J. r. Stadler say
he has an opossum that weighs
% pounds, but nobody has yet got
to 9 him. He says it will drag
too much fat off of him to take
him out of the box, and there is q
partition in the box that prevents
| you seeing him.
Ground for oats and wheat IL
Is being gotten ready in a hurry
as it Is now time to SOW oats and
wheat sowing time is coming.
Daniel Powlas bought him a new
breecn loading shot gun quite re-
Gently.
Jim Yates and family, intend
to move to the Kesler cotton mills
at Salisbury as soon as the crops
are gathered.
W. learn that Augustus Ketner
is going to move to Salisbury this
fall.
Paul Cress, Robert Richie,
Calvin Shire and Luther Barger
went down to Martin Kluttz's to
take a big opossum hunt. They
went about all night and caught
three.
Last Sunday, about II a. M,
we heard q shot fired one mile be-
low Shipping Bros. roller mill.
We wonder what kind of a neigh
borhood it is about there, You
can hear shooting and cursing all
night long. It looks like some
one, whose duty it is, would look
after this, as it ia a disturbance
to the neighborhood.
Henry Wensil will move from
where he now lives to about one
mile below Rockwell.
J. F. Park has bought a new
disc WHEAT drill which he expects
to use this fall.
Charlie Safrit, we learn, is go.
ing to move to China Grove soon.
Sampson Shipping is building
him a new house, and it is now
nearing completion.
The Sunday School at Rocks
Grove church was discontinued
last Sunday one week ago. We
hope to see it open again next
spring and be largely attended.
There will be quite a number of
corn stockings this week, 80 we
understand. ROCKER.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1907-10-09

is zach, the word for husband is either .'ish" or 'tenosh'
both of which mean man. The word here translated
Husbands brother" "Yabam" cannot mean brother
ln-blood as often there would be none. If it means
brother-ln-blood then when there is none the law fails
of its object, for it does not require any but brother-in-
blood to marry her. If one law provided that when a
mans will named no executor, that his brothers success
sively should have the right to qualify as executor, no
one would 1maglne-that this provision could extend to
any more distant relation than brothers.
Next the only instance in Bible times that we know
this law was put in practice is that of Boaz and Ruth,
where there was no husbands brother in fact, but a
much more distant relative felt bound to undertake
that duty. AS to the story in Tobit of the woman who
had seven husbands without having children by any of
them, and then one told to our Lord by the Sadducees of
a woman in similar case six of whose seven husbands
were "%yaba1n1n," there is reason to think that both we're
made up stories which prove nothing, and there is moth
ing to show in either case that the men we're brothers in
blood.
During fifteen centuries marriage with a deceased
w1fes sister was prohibited in the Church as Doctor
has showed in his book on that subject. It was
not doubted that marriages in the other prohibited de-
grees were forbidden. The only exceptions were those
married under the dispensations of the Popes already
spoken OF. Now the rule of conscience is that if we
doubt the lawfulness of an action we must refrain from
it unles there is some positive law constraining us to it.
This rule is that which is intended in the words of the
Apostle "Let every one be fully persuaded in his own
mind and HE that doubteth is condemned if he eat"
This rule will cause all to refrain from such marriages
who even doubt of their 1awfulness in Gods sight. But
in addition to this the scripture binds us ito take
thought for things honorable in the sight of all men"
Rom. 12-17, and st. Paul emphasizes this lsewher by
saying mot only in the sight of the Lord but of men."
2 Coz. s-21. Now marriages which were forbidden by
the church for fifteen hundred years, and are still re-
garded as abominable by the majority of those who pro-
fess and call themselves Christians, are so far from being
honorable in the sight of all man, that they should be
avoided by every follower of Christ.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1907-10-09

Trial Catarrh treatments are
being mailed out free, on request,
by DIR. Shoop, Racine, Wis. These
tests are proving to the people
without a penny's cost-the great
value of this scientific prescription
known to druggists everywhere al
DR.. Shops Catarrh Remedy. Sold
by Crimes Drug Store.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1907-10-09

GOLD KNOB.

Oct. 1.-THE time of corn gath
ering Is at hand and many are
taking advantage of it.
Cotton is opening fast, but the
crop will be short.
Some oats are being sown.
O.. II. Phillips is representing
our community at the Crescent
A. and B. G.
Mrs. Jno. II. Miseheimer, who
has been sick for several weeks, is
improving slowly.
Nearly everybody is sick with
chills. Some families haven't a
we'll person in them.
James M. Trexler, Esq, is put.
ting the finishing touches on his
hew barn.
The patrons of the Barger
school district have about finish
ed their work on the building. 1t
is now being painted and makes a
handsome appearance which we
should feel proud of.
W. have something to report,
but we do not know the particu-
lars, therefore we will leave it
till next time. Keep on wander
ing.
Corn stockings have not taken
hold as yet in the community.
The church at St. Peters has
been recovered and the roof has
been painted. This adds much to
the church. We are 500 to in
stall our new organ and dispose
of the old one.
Mrs. J. A. Linn and Misses
Lucy Barrier, Roxie Trexler ana
Maggie Park have returned from
Charlotte where they represented
the St. Peters Missionary socisty
in the 22nd annual convention Of
the Woman's II. and F. M. Socie-
ty of North Carolina. They re-
port a good time and that much
and lasting good had been dore
at the convention, which met in
st. Marks E. L. church at Char
lotte. These delegates made their
report on last Sunday and we
trust that many members will be
added to the already large roll
of missionary workers of the
United Synod.
The committee of this district
has hired Miss Maggie Park for
their assistant teacher at the Bar
gers school this winter, but they
are somewh hat undecided as to the
principal teacher.
From the Crossville, Tenn,
Chronicle we clip the following:
Miss Clara Proctor, of Salisbury,
left yesterday for Crab Orchard,
Tenn, to visit a few days before
returning home" We are just
in receipt of a letter from Miss
Proctor stating that she is doing
we'll and enjoying her visit to her
old home. LEE.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1907-10-09
TABLE OF PROHIBITED DEGREES.

his her
l Grandmother l Grandfather
2 I randtather's wife 2 Grandmothers husband
3 W1fes grandmother 3 Husbands grandfather
4 Fathers sister 4 Fathers brother
5 Mothers sister 5 Mothers brother
6 Fathers brothers wife 6 Fathers sisters husband
7 Mothers brothers wife 7 Mothers sisters husband
Is W1tes fathers sister 8 Husbands fathers brother
y W1teS mothers sister 9 Husbands mothers brother
10 Mother 10 Father
IL Step mother IL Step-father
II Wife's mother II Husbands father
10 Daughter 10 Son
II Wife's daughter a Husbands son
IS Sons wife IS Daughter S husband
16 Sister 16 Brother
II W1fe's sister II Husbands brother
IL Brothers wife O. IL Sisters husband
10 Sons daughter. 10 Sons son,
20 Daughters daughter 20 Daughters son
Fl Son son wife Fl Sons daughters husband
u Daughters sons wife ~ Daughters daughter's
% W1fe's sons daughter husband
"a Wife'sdaughter'sd augh- % Husbands sons son
ter. "a Husband S slaughter son
Is Brothers daughter rs Brother son
26 Sisters daughter 20 Sisters son
II Brothers sons wife II Bros daughters husband
% Sisters sons wife % Sisters daughters hus-
% Wlfe's brothers daugh- band
ter % Husbands brother son.
80 Wife sisters daughter 80 Husbands sisters son
RICHARD BAXTER'S OPINION
The law of nature is it which prohibiteth the degrees
that are now unlawful; and though this law be dark as
to some degrees, it is not so as to others The law of
God to the Jews, Lev IS, doth not prohibit those degrees
thus named, because of any reason proper to the Jews,
but as an exposition of the law of nature, and so are
reasons common to all. x x AS it was Gods exposi-
sition of his own law of nature, it is of use and conse-
quentlal obligation to all men even to this day; for if God
had told but one man, ''This is the sense of the law of
nature, . it remaineth true and all must believe it; and
then the law of nature so expounded, will still oblige."
In answer to the question what must a man do
who has married within degrees expressly prohibited in
Lev. Is, he answers che must not continue in incest.''
To the question what must those do who have mar
ried within degrees not forbidden by name in Lev. 1s,
hat ora r. h car1a Iic+obco Eror, 41o +oo4 LII. H..
named and seem to have the same reasons of unlawful
ness, he answers: IF there be clearly a parity of de-
gree and also OF the reasons of the prohibition, then no
doubt they must part as incestuous, and not continue in
a forbidden state"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1907-10-09

S|uIH.No LII "hNA q A.oh IVY Vi oIdIutSo LID
were not good? 1t is the only place IN the books of Noses
eehich contains the phrase "ohich If a man do he shall hve
IN Mem."
Next it is urged that in another place it is expressly
ordered that if a man marry and die and leave no son
cher husbands brother" shall take the widow to wife
and raise up seed to his brother" Deut. rs, $40. tits ar
gued that it cannot be downright immoral for a woman to
marry two brothers in succession or else the bible would
not have permitted it here and therefore it cannot by
analogy be down right immoral to marry two sisters in
succession. Answer. First: If God chooses to dispense
with his laws that does not warrant us to dispense with
them. Answer. Second: This ordinance is Just in the
right place to be one of the 'statutes that were not good. y
Answer. Third: It is expressly said that God spoke the
words in L~eviticus. It cannot be proved that He spoke
these-these like the words about divorce may be among
these things which "Moses for the hardness of your
hearts suffered YOU" Matth, 1913. Answer. Fourth: 1t
would be a strange thing if God commanded a man to
take his brothers wife that she may bear children and
then say, eff a man shall take his brothers wife it is
impurity-they shall be %childless, Deut. 20-21.
Now the truth is it was not the brother in blood but
the next kinsn1an, who was not disqualified, who was
commanded to do this. The Hebrew word for brother
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1907-10-09

three are expressly prohibited in this chapter.
The peculiar form of words in which the various
conjunctions of a man and a woman is here prohibited,
isused to show that such conjunctions are abominable are
incest, whether they are made under the form of mar
rage or not.
First there is the general law: "None of you shall ap-
proach to any that are near kin to him" Then there are
thirteen examples given of such nearness of kin. Of
thirteen six prohibit marriage with blood relations. A
man shall not marry 1 his mother, 2 his sisters his half
sister, his granddaughter, S his fathers sister, 6 his
mothers sister.
Seven prohibit marriages with those who are akin to
to him not by blood, but only by other some marriage,
whether his own marriage or that of some other party.
A man shall not marry l his step mother, 2 his fathers
brothers wife, 3 his daughter-in-law, 4 his brothers
wife, S his wife's mother, E his daughter, 7 his wife's
granddaughter. The majority of marriages here pro-
hlbited in so many words are with women who are con-
nected with a man only by affinity and are not blood
relations. So that the North Carolina papers which say
that a man IS free to marry any woman but a blood re1a-
ton would have found favor with the Egyptians and
the Canaanites and the Devil.
But these thirteen specifications do not profess to
be all the cases covered by the general law, but only
examples OF those that are 'near of kin to him. There
New-York tribune., 1907-06-09
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
IFrom The Tribune Bureau ]

Washington. June S.-President Roosevelt at
tended the cornerstone laying at the new Masonic
Temple in this city at o'clock. and delivered an
address
Governor George r. Carter OF Hawaii told the
President that he must decline another term as
Governor OF that territory. feeling that he could
best serve the islands by resumng his duties as
private citizen November @. when his four-year
term expires The President urged Mr. carter 70
reconsider his decision, but the Governor said his
declInation final.
John Barrett. director of the Bureau OF American
Republics and the representative OF the President
at the breaking Of ground for the Yukon-Seattle
exposition. called to tell the President Of the sue
cess OF the exercises. and to convey to him the
thanks OF the people OF Seattle for his kind words
about the forthcoming exposition.
Senator Cullom. of Illinois. introduced to the
President Professor F. G. Dexter, of the University
OF Illinois. who wants the appointment Of super
Intendent OF schools in Porto Rico vice Mr. Faux
ner. who Is about TO resign.
Senator Lodge. Of Massachusetts, called TO IN
troduce some friends. and late in the afternoon
went horseback riding with the President
Among the long list of those who shook hands
with the President were the members OF the Cn'-
cago American baseball team. theschampions OF the
world. DR. White the star pitcher. headed the
team.
Secretary Garfield. F. H. Newell. director OF the
reclamation service Commissioner Ballinger OF the
Genera! Land Office and Senator Clark OF Mon
tions concerning the public land policy OF the ad-
ministrat!on.
Representative James S. Sherman. chairman OF
the Republican Congressional Committee. called on
the President. On leaving the White House he said
that New York would be for Theodore Roosevelt
for President at the national convention next year.
and that he would be nominated and reelected
Secretary Taft took luncheon with the President
saying goodby he started for the West tonight.
to be gone until time after the President goes
to Oyster Bay for the summer.
Tuo LerrinaEa. resident commissioner or Porto
Rico saw the President about the proposed com
mcrcal treaty with France by which 1t Is hoped
10 prevent increase OF the duty on coffee I'M
ported from the island into France.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hopkins Smith, of New York who
the guests for a day so OF the President
and Mrs Roosevelt left here to-day for Boston.
Latarge. OF New York. will arrive IN the city to-
in time TO accompany the President ana
Mrs Roosevelt on board the MayHower TO James
town. Admiral and Mrs. COwles, Miss Hagner and
Mr. I.atta assistant secretary to the President,
will be other members OF the party the May
flower. Mrs Longworth, who to have come
from Cincinnati 10 accompany her father upon the
trip sent word to-day that she would not be able
TO
The President and Mrs Roosevelt went for a
horseback ride this afternoon, having compan-
ions Secretary Root and Senator Lodge John
Elicott an invalid cousin of the President. who
had been his guest for weeks. left the White
House to-day for a visit Miss Jane TurnbulI. OF
this city.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-09
The DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
IFrnm Nd Trlhnne Rnrenn-

From The Tribune Bureau
Washington June s.-The French Ambassador
and Nine Jusserand will leave Washington
June 2s for New York. and will sail the following
day for France. They will spend summer
abroad.
Tho British Ambassador will leave Washington
on Monday morning for Chicago. and viii spend
about ten days IN Illinois making several ad-
dresses The first will be at the University Of
Illinois Mrs Bryce will not accompany the am
bessador. but will leave Washington about the
middle OF next week for Intervale. y r. Members
OF the STAFF will accompany her. and the summer
embassy will be settled there In the absence OF the
ambassador
The counsellor Of the British Embassy and Lady
Isabella Howard have leased cottage az tutervale
for tine summer and will go there next week.
Mt and Mrs. Grant Watson also OF the British
Embassy staff will leave here Monday FOR Bris-
toll r. l.. where Mrs Watsous parents. Mr.. and
Mrs Low OF Brooklyn, live In the summer. They
will Join the embassy staff at Intervale later.
Signor Montagna. counsellor OF the Italian En-
bassy. has returned 10 Washington from Geueseo
y Y. where he accompanied Miss Harriet Wads-
worth and party OF friends from Washington.
making the trip horseback. starting about two
weeks ago Signor Montagna will be charge d'af-
fares for Italy in the absence Of the emba bassador
and will establish embassy headquarters at Man
chester by Sea, where he has spent several
summers
New-York tribune., 1907-06-09
THE SEASON FOR OUTINGS.

There is no reason for thinking that because
winter fingered unseasOnably in the lap OF
spring, spring in revenge will linger indeh-
nitely IN the lap of summer. The skeptics
who are still wearing heavy fannels and talk
ing about the degeneration of our American
climate Will soon be railing Mt the thermometer
and rushing for relief 10 the seashOre or the
mountains The summer exodus has been de
layed and summer resort preparations have
been little hindered by the chills OF May and
June. But within the next ten days the cooling
breezes and open air pleasures OF the coast. the
woods and the mountains VIII be making their
customary appeal 10 the pentup dwellers In
the cities. The Tribunes summer resort see
ton, published with todGy's issue bears tes
timOny to the extent and variety of the attraC-
tions offered to the summer traveller or So
jOurner, and the recreation hunter will be
captous indeed who cannot find somewhere
among the resorts noted the place most suted
TO his tastes, temperament and Income
1t Is curious commentary on urban life that
the more complicated, elaborate and luxurious
1t becomes the more 1t demands to be supple
mented by The contrasts Of country simplicity
and detachment We require In our town life
comforts and cOnvenences which 10 earlier
generation enjoyed. Yet appreciate and in
sist on as no earlier generation did, a change
OF air and scene and return for longer and
longer periods each year to an invigoratng "on-
tact with nature. This tendency In American
life is conspicuously wholesome; for the
country after all. as President Roosevelt Justly
said in his address the other day at Lansing. Is
to be valned not alone as the bounteous mother
Of crops, but also as the grower of men and the
reiner and mouldcr of character. The more The
average city man sees of the country the more
he is refreshed in spirit and body and the more
he IS broadened in understanding and SYM
pathy. The summer season is his season OF
relaxation and inward growth. and II has come
to have It's important social and intellectual as
we'll as It's merely physical uses.
The man, the woman or the family looking
forward to a fortnights a months or whole
seasons avoidance OF the city's heats and dul-
ness viii find The Tribune's summer resort
section useful and trustworthy adviser 1t
pictures the delights of an outing in the various
regions easily accessible from this city-thp
New Jersey. Long Island and New England
coasts, the White Mountains. the Adirondacks,
the Green Mountains. the Lake George-Lake
Champlain section. the Catskills, the Berkshires
the New York lake region and the Delaware
River highlands. The range Of choice ls wide
and the attractions offered are one and all
worth their cost No one who can afford IL
will regret the trip he makes this year to any
one of these fascinating and health giving re-
sorts for summer visitors
New-York tribune., 1907-06-09
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY,".
From The Tribune Bureau


Washington, June s.-NIss Mabel Roardmau who
has spent her time I'm Paris since arriving Eu-
rope two weeks ago, Joined the American Amba ssa-
dor and Mrs Reid at their house In London to-day
and VIII he their guest during tho Red Cross con
gress which is To meet there within a few days
Mr.. and Mrs. William ]. Bosrdman. her parents.
viii leave Washington Wednesday for their
home at Manchester. and Miss Boardman will Join
them there on her return TO this country. July l
Admiral and Mrs. Dewey have returned to Wash
ingtOn from their trip down the Potomac. and will
remain AT their Washington home this month ON
July they will go to RichheId Springs y Y, for
the rest OF the summer.
Mr. and Mrs. Preston Gibson who had been the
guests for some weeks OF Mrs. Gihson's mother.
Mrs Thomas Nelson Page. have gone 10 their re-
Gently acquired estate Geeshurg. Va Later
they will join Mr.. and Mrs. Page at their
place at York Harbor
Mrs. Stanley Mathews Will 80 to New York next
week. preparatory to sailing for Europe Her
cousin Miss Mitchell will join her In her trip
abroad. and they will not return TO this country
until October
New-York tribune., 1907-06-09
atrp21ork Dailp Grribn1te
SUNDAY. JUNE .. 1907.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN.-The FSench press generally ap-
proves the attitude of n PiChon. the Foreign
Minister. toward the peace conference at Tne
Hague; meagre results predicted from the
meetings. A dispatch from Carlsruhe de-
MED the reported confession of Karl Hau. fol-
lowing the suicide of his wife. 3= Radical
members Of the Russian lower house were de-
feated in attempt 10 instruct the agraran
commission TO adopt the principle of compulsory
expropriatinn American entries again
won number Of prizes at the horse SHOW ~
London. The Russian Emperor approved
& recommendation of the Council of Ministers
In favor of granting a concession for a FalIIoa'
from Kamsk To BerinG Strait and tunnel
under the strait VisCOunt. Hayashi. the
japanese Foreign Minister. after a conference
with the Elder Statesmen and the Cabinet, went
at to the Emperor == Estimates of
damage caused by the cyclone Ct kuTrachl'
India. are between S3e000o9 and S6OOooD
DOMESTIC.-President Roosevelt made
address and took part in the work of laying the
cornerstone Of the new Masonic Temple IN
Washington. Secretary Taft left Wash
ington for a trip to the West. -= Harry or
chard described number Of his crimes in de
tail under cross-exarlination at the Haywood
trial in Boise. -- Lieutenant Colonel Charles
G. Ayres at West Point. Y Y. said that
ings that mis- friendship for General Wood
would cost him his commission in the army had
been repeatedly received by him -- Profess
sor Arthur Fairbanks, Of Ann ArbOr Mich.
cepted the dictatorship Of the Boston Museum
of Fine Arts The steamer Camden.
which Charles T. Morse and Calvin Austin
making tour of inspection, was endangered
by fire at Bath. Ne. = mill operator at
OlneyviIle r L. killed his daughter, wounded
his wife and fatally injured himself. =
Twenty-one persons were killed by a clOudburst
which wiped out the village of Gradyville. Ky.
CITY.-Stocks We're strong. President
Mellen of the New York. New Haven & Hart
ford would, il was said. be the head Of the
merged railroads of New England. - That
Vanderbilt interests gained control of substan-
tial block of stock in the Delaware & Hudson
was ruuored in Wall Street. = 1t was said
here that the Mutual Life would withdraw from
Texas. Announcement made from AL
bany that an amended certificate of incOrpora-
ton of the Long Acre Electric Light and Power
Company. extending the limits Of its charter
throughout Manhattan and The Bronx. had been
fled with the Secretary of State. -= Experts
in the Board of Elections said they expected Il
long fight in the courts over the bill 10 recount
the votes for Mayor cast in 1903. == Samuel
l. Clemens sailed for England, where he Will
receive the degree of Doctor Of Literature from
Oxford. ~ Z. Il. SotheTn and Miss Julia Mar
lowe arrived for a two weeks engagement. =-=
The City Chamberlain in his annual report.
called attention the elimination Of an old
Tweed ring deficit IN the Surrogate's Office.
THE Indications for day, fair.
The temperature yesterday: Highest, 20 degrees;
lowest, 5S