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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-25

theatre of smyrna as if I've had been
going to feast, like the Christians
whom Nero made into torches for his
saturnalia because they would not In
suit and revile the Christ and would
worship and love Him. The noble
army maryrs.' the church calls
them. and every age has added to their
numbers, until in our own the very
same principle finds unhindered. an
other expression in kindness to others;
love to God first, then love TO man;
Gods creatures In the only
begotten hrst-born and we'll beloved,
ing changed the love and pity and
loyalty Of our Lord to US: love to
Him is our powerhouse, for 1t means
love to others and sends electric
sparks from one end of the world TO
the other. What other name. what
other principle, could girdle the earth
with love and JOY and gifts, as Christ
mas does, has and ever more ana more
will? THE fatherhood of God, the
brotherhood of man." one hears preach
ed nowadays as If it were modern
invention, wholly independent of rell-
gion. One might as reasonably expect
to get light, or air. or food, or water,
from any source save heaven. 1t was
years ago. The Romans adored noth-
ing so much as power.
They had lost all belief IN immor-
tality; they We're STEPPED IN licentious-
Crassus crucitied 10000 slaves at one
| time. Augustus gave UP 10000 men
to be executed. Traian, the. best OF.
| the Romans of his day, made 10000
slaves fight in the arena for twenty
three days TO amuse Rome! Nero nd
| died while it burned. Not only was
murder as common as thlstles IN the
| land, but even Seneca despised poverty,
| ,l,,NI- rtrith 4 n
greatest repugnance, never permitted
| one to touch him even by accident.
Socrates daily thanked God that he
| was a Greek, not Barbarian e"
''The man who thinks there can be,
! but one code for all flesh Is mad.
| Woman was a mere chattel and Pom
| pey and Germanicus We're the most
IRENE slngularity" of being faithful
and devoted to one Wife, and very
much ridiculed for "a preposterous alb
surdty" Polygamy, vice, corruption,
were universal;. violence and Injustice
triumphant; pride. power, place and
| the qualification of self were the ideals
5Eof-the race,
Antiquity had no sense OF sin, nor
of a religion which could be suited TO
! the wants of all humanity, The very
| term, as Inclusive of a wide brother
| hood or all races, was unknown among
them There We're no hospitals among
| them, nor institutions FOR the blind,
i lame, deaf and dumb incurably dis
i eased In some states the old We're, as
among the Esquimaux of to-day, cast
! out into the snow to be devoured by
dogs or killed, as We're defective or
1 feeble children, The laborer was fear
/ fully oyertaXed and wiekedly beaten,
! The heavy laden had all the burdens
possible heaped on them The sick
persisted tby thousands sometlmesl in
| great pestilences, uncared for, implied,
nlas
the rich, every helpless creature was
crushed under an iron heel
Think what o wonderful marvellous,
.ldlvine change has already been
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-25

wrought in the world by our Lord
taught the parable of the Good Samar
itan, who babe the weary come unto
Him and rest, who kindly received the
woman of Samaria and In sinless ma
jesty and gentleness taught her pu-
rty, who was 1.-THE friend of publicans
and sinners" who In the story Of Laz-
arus and Dives showed men who was
really rich and who poor. also of the
future rewards and puntshments In
store for the selfish and heartless; the
unfortunate. but righteous; who had
equal sympathy with Emperor, slave
and beggar; who loved the little fam
riage of Cana of Galilee: who sternly
rebuked hypocrites, liars and wicked
rulers, drove money changers from the
Temple, and having painted God as
the Father of all flesh, showed men
that they have no claim on God or
each other whatever for anything save
as they We're kind. good, loving. and
drew the picture Of the whole human
race, set equally before the Judgment
seat of God with no distinction what
ever, simply a. good or bad men
Whose tenderest sacred heart felt the
grief of the widow of Main? Who wept
over the Jerusalem that basely be
trayed, insulted and murdered Him!
Who felt the sweetness of the gift
of that Widows mite, so hard to spare
yet, doubtless, devoutly given? Who
loved the common people. who are IKE
the blades of grass on the hillside 10
every generation to all but Christian
hearts to this day. and had compass
sion on the multitude?" Love is the
fulfilling of the law" He taught, and
no one ever so perfectly fulfilled II as
He--the gentle. plying, patient, low.
ing one. who endured every form OF
suffering--"a homeless life, hunger and
thirst, craft and violence, meanness
and pride, insults and taunts betrayal
by enemies, and. hardest OF all, false.
base, pretended friends-and an awful,
holy, divine death"-reaping, o. so
Ishamefully little love and gratitude IN
return. "Truly, this was the Son OF
God" as the Roman soldier, used 20
the sights and scenes OF a Roman SOL
diers life, witnessed, a,o -,
May God give to every creature Oh
earth grace to receive His Christmas
gift to all the world and the Joy and
blessing of truly and dearly loving
the Being who best OF all loves each
NAPOLEON, who rq " a., dqw " and and
card houses. said Of Him: II know
mon. Jesus of Nazareth was not a
/ man Everything In Him amazes me.
| His spirit far outreaches mine. and Elis
! will confounds me. Comparison be-
tween Him and any other being that
| ever lived In this world Is imposslole'
| He Is always the same---infinitely gen
tie. infinitely severe simple, majestic,
His greatness brushes me, His en-
!. pire, His progress through the ages
and kingdoms, Ills gospel, His inhu-
| ence over men--t,ll this Is prodigy
| an unfathomable mystery, sublime, di-
vine Thousands OF my soldiers would
| have died for me, I behave. But 1000
| years from now who Will care for me-
| But centuries hence men Will gladly
| die for Him. He was God, 'eflory
| be to God In the highest we VIII s!ng
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-25

a all In the western and northwest
ern parts of Judea, which get the sea
breeze, vegetation IS more abundant;
olive groves abound and give a wood
ed look to the country; the terebinth,
with its dark foliage, is frequent, and
near the site Of kirjath-Jearim-,"
cts of pine and laurel But the east
ern parts of these hills-nine by thr-
ty-five miles-must always have been
desert. Van de velde describes II
as a bare, arid wilderness, without
Scene of oh hTu the S rere
ment and our dear Lords temptation.
Northward of Judea the country is
fertile, abundant, beautiful. rich in
olive groves, orchards, grains and flow
ing downs Of Sharon recall the Eng
fish county Of Kent. the scenery is so
parkllke. The hills Of Galilee are like
those Of Surrey. Now we have clear
idea 81 the physical Idca par part Of the e land
in which "the Sun of Righteousness"
rose, never to set, rejoicing like a
giant to run His course" upon and In
a world. united for the first time in
effulgence supreme OF the God who
had given lesser lights to the nations
In the teachers and prophets that had
governed them until then. the great
lIlluuS dlltl lle Sopu lueH VIII
like mountain peaks caught first some
rays of the Light of the World, 1.-The
Word Word n that t.s was Sns With God the
mitted them to the valleys beneath
them, dark with ignorance, sin. need
The Roman Emperor was sole lord
from the Euphrates to the Atlantic;
from the Rhine to the slopes of the
Atlas; from the pillars of Hercules
to the mouths of the Nile; from the
rtba Of RI S1,.in ha
Roman eagles represented all power.
The whole earth laid in their fierce
talons quiyering, but silent. when the
King of Kings was born in a stable, in
significant provinces, and new prin-
ciple, at once the gentlest and
rnightiest force Of heaven, breathed in
the divine innocence and the utter,
feeble helplessness of new born
child, The "Dayspring from on high
tn eSon of God, had begun tos hine on
the gloom of world where men We're
sunk fathoms deep in cruelty, immor-
atty egotism, materialisnl, and were
rapidly losing o every rsd trace race 9f Els
cept the Good Shepherd and the prin-
ciple OF love as its controlling and
inspiring force, principle not yet
fully applied, nor fully understood,
even among Christian nations, but
surely leavening. the lump Of humanity
world. BY leaps and bounds, some
times, rare1y-usually by the quiet, pa
tient. normal, natural processes. of any
other plant growth, the Creator Is
giving the Bread of the World and the
Wine of the Soul--the Christ-Iunsel
fish love, true love, loyal love, devoted
love, to the whole earth in all things,
civil, social, political; ideal hdeluy "a
duty: and the power that willing self
sacrifice gives--that love alone gives,
The APOSTLES gladly laid down their
| lives frA Him In cruel and fearful
deaths, LAS did the martyrs of Israel
| and Christendom. Polycarp said AT
| eighty-six, "None hut Christi" and
vent to be burned alive in the amphi-
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Roanoke Social News

Especial to Tho Tmes-D!spatch1
.c n,osh0ke va. December "A large sub
de Leon Hotel last night by a number OF
young men. About thirty couples partiei-
pated. This was the first OF number OF
Christmas dances TO be given.
! Mrs: Waller Jamison was hostess of n
/ OF her sister-in-law. Mrs. David Chalmers,
/ of Kansas City. Mo.
ro-nisht at Hotel Roanoke an informal
dance was given by a number of young
men.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Nininger, of Botetourt.
announce the approaehins marriage of their
Hagerstown. Nd. The ceremony aili take
place at the home of the brides parents
SATURDAY. VII, December a. at IL o'clock A. NJ.
daughter will visit Mrs. Batess parents
Mr. and Mrs, q. 3 pogard next week,
W. Cook
| Miss Bessie Coleman Of Richmond. Is vis-
/. Mrs. Alvah A. Stone has guest her
mo,h'r M Mrs s,oas Gin Horton Of Nsshyls
i ton next Tues~ay afternoon.
Ellis Moon, of Chatham, win spend the
Salem College. winston-salem, N. O., IS
at home for the holidays.
! Cadets T. NJ. Darnall, Leigh Budwell, Lew
is Kirkbride Paul Kirkbride. Hart Graveiy,
Henry Tice and Robert Wlnborne, of v II.
l., are at home for tho holidays.
/ Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Kearney are visiting
relatives in Washington.
| Mrs, j. a. Bane, OF Holins, and Edward
| guests Of Mr. and Mrs Edward l.. stone
Miss Catherine Coke, Thurzetta Thomas,
Kate Buman and Catherine Cook. of the
4 state Normal at Farmvilla, at homo
| for the holidays.
| Mrs. D. s. Meadows and her little daugh-
ter, Helen, will visit relatives in Danville
! next week.
4 Prof, W. D. Gresham is spending the holi-
day ut his old home In Essex county
Mrs. W. A. smith, OF Charlottesville. 10
! the guest OF her daughter, Mrs. Arthur Row
J botham
Is visiting her brother c. p. Hun,
i Miss Cary Brooke has returned from
Visit to friends in New Orleans. and has
as her guest, Miss Leona Dickinson. OF that
Mis- Miss jamie Price, who is teaching aeG
| Rocky Mount, is visiting her parents In
Miss Bess Noel OF stuart. va. who has
been visiting her aunt .MEs g NJ Armes.
has returned home, I. '(
Mr. and Mrs, j, S. Perry and their litsts
i daughter, Celeste, have gone 20 Fort Cas-
! well. n, c. to spend :he holidays.
! Miss Marie Miller, OF Norfolk. Is visiting
the Misses Engleby, CatnpheM Avenue,
/ Miss Louise Vaughan, student at tho
Virginia Christian College. lynchourg Is at
| home for the holidays.
4 AIR. and Mrs. George p, Johnson. OF Rua-1
field. win visit Mr.. and Mrs l., ID Johnson
nexG Week,
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-01-06
SATISFIED. -

The senate committee confirmed
the nomination of Judge Horace II .
Lurton. A Washington dispatch
carried by tho Associated Press
says:
president Taft was deeply graft
fled to-day by the prompt action of
the Senate in confirming the romi-
nation Of Judge Horace II. Lurton
to be an associate justice of the
United States supreme court. The
President told his callers that he
knew Judge LurtOn's record in
nearly every detail, and he was en-
trely satisfied with his impartiality
in dealing with every subject anilia-
ted with capital, labor and the
trusts. The President told several
of his callers that he felt a gross in
justice had been done Judge Lurton
in the criticisms that he would ia
vor corporations in all of his deci-
sious.n
The President is also satisfied
with Senator Nelson w. Aldrich.
In his Boston speech he told the
people that gross injustice had been
done the Rhode Island senator: that
instead of being friend of the spe.
cial interests Mr.. Aldrich had n
deep and abiding affection for popu.
lar government, and the people
might confidently rely upon his de.
votion to their welfare. The Com.
moner.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-01-06
CLARK PREDICTS HIGH PRICES

Washington, Dec. 2S.-The pres
ent high prices for farm products
have come to stay; the rural popu-
lation il playing out and the present
census, If it classes the unincOrpor-
ated villages as towns, will show be-
tween GO and e. per cent Of the pop
ulation as living In towns" de-
clarcd Representative Champ Clark,
Of Missouri, the minority leader in
the House, to day.
AT the present rate, in twenty
years tho United States will cease
to b" an exporting nation for agri-
cultural products, except rs to cot
ton.
zone of the principal causes of
the high prices Of farm products is
the world movement of people to-
ward the towns and cities. While u
few people in towns and cities have
gardens and raise chickens and oc-
casionaIly pigs, practically the on
tire town and city population are
nonproducers of anything to eat,
hut are consumers only.
For the first time, last year Ar
gentina boat us in exporting corn;
and Argentina and Brazil are now
fighting to take the frozen-meat
trade from use
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-01-06
STATE SECRETARY ROACH
MAKES GOOD RECORD

Jefferson City, Jan. 4-During
Cornelius Roach's first years in
cumbency of the office Of Secretary
of State, his Department has shown
revenue producing ability far in
excess of any previous year. The
State Department in business tran
sacted has broken al previous re-
cords. The receipts have jumped
from Sli2, % in 1908 to $2gG, 7S4. 50,
or Slji, 1880 more this year than
last. The 1905 figures above given
include the receipts from banks and
trust companies, while the larger
1903 business does not, the license
tax and fees for that class of cor
porations the past year going to the
credit of the Bank Department, Row
separate.
In 1905, charters were granted to
100 corporations but there are 1878
to the credit OF 1909 The foreign
corporation license taxes were in
creased the past year as the result
of Mr.. Roach's compelling such com
panies as the Adams Express Com
pany, the American Express Com
pany and the United States Ex-
press Company to procure license
to do business in the State, and his
Interpretation of the law requiring
companies like the Chicago Great
Western Railroad to pay a license
tax of S243G.50 instead OF the regula-
ton Sol 30 heretofore collected. In
1909, notarial commission fees were
$40, 440.0O. just S2,0OO.OO more than
the preceding year. AS "a result Of
the shaking up given to automobile
owners by the State Department,
the receipts from that source were
nearly doubled, increasing from
Sll ,O23.O0 in 1908 to $40, $50 900 In 1909.
To have received in State revenue
funds more In one year than in the
last two years OF his predecessor
is an accomplish
ment worthy of note and especially
gratifying to the people responsible
for the election of Secretary of
State Roach.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-01-06

What are meat eaters to do9 The
price of good meat is getting be
yond the reach Of all except the
well to do, aud even they are econ
omizing in the matter of buying
Now comes DR.. Melvin, Chief of
the United States Bureau of Ami
nal Industry, with warning that
halt OF the meat consumed in this
country goes to the table Of the
people without ever having been
inspected by persons recognized by
the Federal aud State governments
us being qualified to pass upon the
quality of meat. The Federal in
spection service does not reach
much of the Strengthening done,
and diseased and suspicious look
ing animals are diverted from the
inspection centers to uninspected
establishments where they are
slaughtered for the market. and as
q rule sanitary conditions are very
bad at uninspected slaughter hous.
es. During the past year there
were inspected at the time of
slaughter 33,675, 075 animals, and
out of these about one million were
condemned.S If this proportion of
inspected cattIeais unfit for food,
the proportions would certainly
hold at uninspected slaughter
houses. Think what a lot of I'M
fit meat this throws on the market,
and we buy it at good stiff price
and think nothing of it. 1t is al
most enough to make one fore
swear meat.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-01-06
Colonial Banquet at $50 a Plate.

SS'S''a' Sa''HuOA AZ YOo u FldLe,
It is not In our own era that the In.
hnbitants d Manhattan Island have
got into the way OF combining ex.
travagance with their feasts.
Esther Singleton tells in her Dutch
New York" OF old burgher cronies who
on one occasion dined at the City Tav.
ern to the extremity OF $50 a cover,
present value. The record OF the ban.
quot Is preserved because the burgh.
ers did not settle promptly and the
case went to court.
There were other feasts concerning
which we may only surmIse that the
prosperous Dutchman did not stint
themselves in good living.
Evidence offers itself that in those
days drunkenness was scarcely re-
proach. Indeed, 1t was the collections
from wedding party with purse.
strings loosened by indulgences that
started the building of the church OF
the fort.
In 1916 one person in every four in
New Amsterdam was q seller OF
srong drinks!
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-01-06

A Jefferson City spccia! OF the
ID inst to the Republic says that
Governor lIadley had that day eX.
pressed the opinion that Walter s.
Dickey. Chairman Of the Republl-
eau State Central Committee, is IN
the race for United States Senator
against Senator Warner; and as
Mr.. Dickey's friends in Kansas
City have been sending out letters
recently soliciting support for him,
It may be taken for granted thar
there IL going to be lively scrim
mage in the Republican party.
There is anything but Il cordial
feeling existing between the War
ner and the Dickey followers.
Heretofore the Chairman of the
State Committee has been a large
factor in the distribution of Fed
eral patronage in the State, but
since Missouri has had Republi.
can United States Senator in the
person Of Major Warner. he has
been disposed to asset his prero ga
tives in this matter and has all but
supplanted the machine. His rec.
concentrations for Federal appoint.
ments have clashed with Chairman
Dlckey's too frequently to suit the
latter, and he is getting too much
credit for passing around the Fed
eral pie plate. The benefceiaries
of pie will stand for the Major,
but as the head of the State Com
mittee Mr.. Dlckey has strong
following, and the fellows who
have failed to get what they want
ed through Senator Warner may
be clasSed with the Dickry crowd.
Besides this, Governor Hadley is
known TO he "A warm friend of Mr..
Dickey, and while he would like to
pose rs an impartial spectator and
do bis fine work for Mr. Dickcy
under the rose, it is pretty diff
cult role to fill, and there is little
doubt that Senator Warner will
force him into the open The Re.
publican State machine is pretty
thoroughly organized affair, NJ to
all the kinks IN political fur,se.
and Senator Warner will have the
fight of his life to mold on to the
toga that was SO dcftly snatched
away from Mr.. Niedrlnghaus and
thrown over his shoulders.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-01-06

Senator Thomas 7. Gore, the
blind statesman of Oklahoma, It is
announced will campaign the sixth
Congressional District in support
of c. {. Dickinson, the Demo.
cratic nominee for Congress to sue.
ceed the late Hon, d. A. De Ar
mond. The election takes place
February list. and the district will
witness one of the most notable po.
litical campaigns in its history, for
former Governors Francis and Folk,
Senator Stone, Champ Clark and
other prominent speakers will also
take an active part. The tariff
will be the dominant issue, and the
outcome will be some indication of
the answer of the people to the Al
drich Payne tariff abomlnation.
The Democrats ought to increase
their majority in the Sixth
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-01-06

Petitions for the submission of II
prohibition amendment to the State
Constitution at the general election
in November are being filed with
the Secretary Of State. Three pc
titious were filed last Monday, and
Secretary Roach, after carefully
examining them, declared them to
comply with the law in all respects.
Two of those filed Monday were
from jackson county and one from
Howard county These petitions
have been circulated in all parts of
the State by persons favorable to
the movement, aud they will from
now on be- forwarded 10 the Secre-
tary of State. 1t will require be
tween 80 GOO and $4,000 sigucrs TO
insure the submission of the
amendment, which must be Oh.
tanned in not less than eleven OF
the sixteen Congressional districts.
The amendment it is proposed to
submit reads as follows.
"Thc manufacture Of Intoxicating
liquors shall be, and hereby is, pro-
hibited in this State, except for med
zeal, scientific and mechanical pur-
poses. The sale Of intoxicating Ii
quors is hereby prohibited in this
State, except for medical, scientific
and mechanical purposes. The man
ufacture or sale Of wine for sacra-
mental or religious purposes shall
also be excepted
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-01-06
ROOSEVELT AND THE TARIFF.

The News likes Senator LaFol-
lette. But when the good Senator
raises his pompadour to affirm that
If Roosevelt had been in the chair
he would have got n tariff revision
as was Il tariff revision, we are
Obliged to smile. Likewise to men
ton some indctcrlninate thing, such
as 'piiile. Mr.. Roosevelt occupied
the presidential chair through seven
and one-half strenuous years-and
didn't do n thing to the tariff. He
had every inducement to attack the
question. He had spoken against
its absurditics when there was no
chance that he would he called on
to put his words to practice. Nay,
more, the circumstances of his com.
ing to the presidency urged him with
peculiar force to attempt the revi-
sion. The last public utterance of
Mckinley was declaration that
our tariff policy must be radically
changed, and the burdens on our
trade greatly reduced. Then McKin-
ley died. Roosevelt came in, vow.
ing that he was going to carry out
the Mckinley policies. Yet he
never even carried out this foremost
of McKinley's progressive policies.
He left that job for Taft. When
man has had seven and half years
to do a job, and doesn't even start
II the while, 1t strikes us as just
bit silly to pirate about what he
would have done in eleven years.
Denver News.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-01-06

Rev. A. T. Osbron, who was pas
tor OF the Methodist church at Jack
son whore he got into trouble with
his church and the Bishop over his
lectures on Spiritualism, later be-
came a follower OF the Emnanul
movement Of healing, which he
practiced very successfully for u
while in Kansas City. Last week
he decided to join the Episcopal
church, and was confirmed by the
Bishop.
Pie suppers ut various school
houses in Butler county resulted in
$l69.0O being added to the library
fund of the schools. The highest
amount made was by the Liberty
school and it was $ll.l0.