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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-04-21
THE GIFT OF WORDS.

Terse Comments on the Uniform
Prayer Meeting Topic Of the Young
Peoples SOcieties-Christian En-
deavor. Etc, For April 6--"Our
Tongues For Christ."-Ex. 4:1O-16.
(By William T. ELL1S.)
Two women were riding in a train
recently, talking, as sensible, cult
waited women do, of various topics Of
serious interest. A young woman sat
in front Of them, and as all arose to
leave the train at the station h said,
in real embarrassment and yet with
unusual enthusiasm, Pardon me, but
l could not help overhearing you and
l just must say that it was the most
interesting conversation I ever heard
in my life Then she hurried away
Of course it was wrong for her to lis
ten p~urposely; and decidedly neon
ventlOnal and rather amusing for her
to bestow praise upon two strangers
for something that did not concern
her at all. Yet she meant we'll, and
the incident revealed the sort Of con-
VersatiOn the earnest young woman
was probably accustomed to hear. The
idleness and uselessness and empti-
ness OF most of our talk really re-
fleets upon the quality of our thinking.
We chatter away. like tn monkeys
in the tree-tops, and say little worth
listening to. What remark you heard
TO-DAY that is worth remembering?
Or, more to the point. what have you
said that was worth saying? The
O~ld-fashioned exercise of reviewing at
night our words for the day woul
lead Us to pray the S~criptural prayer,
Set q watch, Q Lord. before my
mouth: keep the door of my lips"
God fills the mouth that is opened
for him; and opens the mouth that
is filled for him.
Miss Havergals beautiful hymn of
conversation:
Take my lips and let them be.
Filled with messages for Thee
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-04-21
Seven Sentence Sermons.


The mould Of a mans fortune is in
his own handS.-Bacon,
Fortune befriends the bold.-Virgil.
If men this blunder still you find,
All think their little set mankind.
Hannah More.
There is but n thing OF which I
am afraid, and that is fear.-Mon-
taigne.
The f1atterer has not an opinion good
enough either Of himself or others
De La Breigere.
No life
Can be pure in its urpos and strong
in it's strife
And all life not be purer and stronger
thereby. Meredith.
And the King shall answer and say
unto them, Verify | say unto you. In
asmuch as ye did it unto n OF these
my brethren, even these least. ye did
it unto me.-Matt. 25:40.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-04-21

is never OutSrOwn. Eacn recurring
lay brings a new need for speech that
is Favored with grace. No need OF our
~workaday world is greater than the
need for words OF courage, words OF
tenderness words of sympathy, WORDS
of cheer. words that make life seem
nobler. Every word spoken IN the
Spirit of Christ is as truly a message
of Christ as the formal religious
speech.
When lips and life do not accord
it is the life that is listened TO. NnaI
you are makes so mOch lis that L
cannot hear what you say" is an an
cient retort. .
The gift Of words is sometimes
Of disparagingly by practical men:
But words are merely the symbols OF
ideas: and nobody really has the gift
Of words who has not also the gift OF
thought. Before one can talk win
power he first must be able to think.
There never was a great speaker VINO
was not also a real thinker.
The tongue thai has been dedicated
to Christ viii not be kind at the eX-
pense of sincerity. The desire to be
pleasant and agreeable leads many
~kind-hearted persons into unmeant
duplicity. This is the pitfall that ever
avn beside the one who would speak
| gently and a~pprovingly. The hatter-
| er and the liar were Matched from
the same egg says the wise INDIA
prOverb. A tongue must be true above
all else. before it can be used by
Christ.
Lord. speak to me. that l may speak
In living echoes Of Thy g
AS Thou hast sought, SO let me seek
Thy erring children lost and lone.
O lead me, Lord. that l may lead
The wandering and the wavering
feet;
0 feed me. Lord, hat may feed
Thy hungering ones with mamma
sweet.
Q strengthen me, that while I stand
Firm on the Rock, and strong in
Thee,
I may stretch out a loving hand
To wrestlers with ~thetroubled sea
Frances r. Havergal.
There is no ~eloQuence equal to sin
cerity.
Nan proverbs remind US hat the
spoken word and the sped arrow car
never be recalled. The i~rreyocable
HESS VI SRCCSU L. I'D 4doA
ity. Gunshot wounds may heal
sword thrusts may leave no sea
poison may be eliminated from tn
body, but a deadlier Weapon than any
OF these, the human tongue, infiict.
wounds that are permanent.
"A little more SILENT please
thundered the sage Of Chelsea. Prob
ably most Of US talk too much in gen
eral, and too little about the thing
best worth speaking of. e gossip
and more godliness; less fault-findin,
and more encouraging; less timidit.
and more real though born speech
is not this a good resolution for on
conversations?
Testifying tongues promote truth
triumph.
!, Prophet words are profitable. Clear
strong. brave and u~neQuivccal utter
ance OF the highest truth one know
is a clear duty owed to God INC tn
. world. Let US have men and wome
! who dare to be indiscreet, if need be
for truths sake. No need Of our tim
, is raver than this one for single-eye
= souls who seek only to declare tn
: clear counsel Of God, needless Of con
sequences to he existing order Q
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-04-21

10 keep cool when YOU find vo,,r-
I oTt"een Two hres-that requires
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ably one that aided much in the convic-
ton of Mrs. Bishop. laid particular stress
on transaction by which her husband
sold a sow to a man named John BLY,.
This woman, a neighbor. stated that
Bridget Bishop had become angry when
her husband did not give her the money.
and soon thereafter the SOW had 'leaped
and jumped and knocked its head against
the fence and had refused to eat and had
otherwise acted in a strange manner"
The neighbor testified that she had sug-
gested to BLY, that the SOW was being
overlooked. The testimony of the hus-
nand on the subject appears nowhere in
the record. Presumably. because he was
fond OF his wife, he was excluded be
cause he was a biased witness and natur-
ally did not care to have his wife burned
to death
Ihere Is something fascinating about
inns search into the dusty past for rec
ords of witchcraft One closes the an
clent shabby volume containing the fiery
words of these old reformers with a feel
ing of devout thankfulness that he was
porn two centuries after these happen
or may be pursued for debt or have the
number of inconveniences in these latter
DAYS but one is reasonably safe In the
belief that no long -whiskered expert"
ana couple of hyStercat people can
change one within the week from a live
human to a mass of ashes and that
thought assists materially in hot weather
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

thor of ''Sharrow." etc. New York:
D. Appleton q Co.
A NOSEGAY OF EvERI. .ASTINGS.
From Katherine Tingley's Garden
of Helpful Thoughts" Point Iona.
Cal: Raja Yoga College
STANDARD EDUCATIONAL SERIES
ENGLISH SYNONYMS AND An
IoNfMS; with Notes on the Correct
companion for the study and as a
text book for the use of schools.
by James {. Fernald. l.. Fl. u. A
new and enlarged edition. New
York; Funk & Wagnalls Company.
THE PEOPLES LAW. BY William
Jennings BRYAN. New York: Funk
Il Wasnalls Company.
Book. Cincinnati: Cuvier Press
OUR NATIONS ALTAR. BY Asenath
Carver Coolidge. author of Prophet
OF Peace" etc. Watertown: Pub
lished by the author
LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN. By
orton Lowe. assistant superintend-
ent of the Allegheny county tPaD
public schools. New York: The
Macmillan Company.
NEWS. ADS AND SALES: The Use Of
English for Commercial Purposes.
BY John Baker opdycke. chairman.
English department, Julia Richman
High School. New York city, etc.
New York: The Macmillan Com
pany.
REPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL
COMMISSION TO INQUIRE INTO
THE CAUSES AND CONDUCT OF
THE BALKAN WARS. Washington:
Carnegie Endowment for Interna-
tional Peace.
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about you because you were not present
The devil himself does not know what
have said"
My God makes known your thoughts, -
was the reply of &c. b"
1t would not seem that this chain of
circumstances would have been in court
ten minutes before the jury would have
been bowling with laughter and the ac-
cused person would have been set free
while his accuser was arraigned for con-
tempt of court
Here was a man who had stepped he
hind some bushes. found some StraWher-
res. taken Il short cut home and. tired
and irritated had done what ninety
nine out of 100 husbands would nave
done if they had reached home tired ana
hungry and had beheld their wives rid
ing up leisurely on horseback-namely'
he picked a row with her. hat nus
band after a family jar can recall eA-
actly what he said to his wife curing
the heat of debate? One learns something
of the temperament of the people OF .he
witchcraft days when one reallZes tnal
this man on such testimony ana proteSt-
ing to the end that he was not sulltS.
was taken out and burned
In another case a woman named BRIO
get Bishop was convicted Wnen several
persons testified to having seen afillcted
ghosts around the ghost of Mrs. BlShop.
which were crying. You murdered u.s.
WHY the people who saw the ghosts We're
not also charged with witchcraft, or at
least were completed to take the drink
cure, is not made plain.
One of the star witnesses and presum-
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Remembers Flora Temple.

From the RoSton Record.
Spectators at the United Shoe Ma
chinery trial recently in the United
States district court enjoyed the repair
tee between Judge Putnam and Fred
eric p. Fish of counsel for the defense.
Attorney Fish was arguing on the pat
ent question involved in the antitrust
suit against the United company and
as a means of illustrating point re-
marked: You can put a race horse
in plow and you can put plow
horse in a race.
Here Judge Putnam interrupted to
say: Flora Temple was plow horse"
Yes" responded Attorney Fish. but
she soon got out of it ! remember
seeing her in a box car at Taunton"
Why I didn't think you We're that
old" replied Judge Putnam.
"Oh. Lord" replied Attorney Fish.
you don't know what an old tello~ I
am. remember Flora Temple Well.
and I know what her time was. too. 1t
was 227."
BY this time the whole courtroom
full of lawyers and spectators was in
roars of laughter. and Judges Dodge
and Brown. sitting with Justice Put
nam. Joined in the merriment.
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according to these writer's, of torturing
persons while not being present, or of
appearing before them spectrally in va
rious disguises.
I'VE can hear the doleful shrieks' -
writes one authority, of children and
servants tortured by invisible hands,
.'Since the devil hath Showed his book, -
says another. ruin hath stalked the
land" Another makes reference to 1.-The
diabolick" acts of which the devil has
been guilty through the medium of a
human being.
There was a regular code used for the
detection of witches and 1t was the guild
ing star of nearly all authorities, though
changed by them in some minor aspects.
William Perkins is credited by Cotton
Mather with having devised the modern
code" The Perkins code follows:
'I. There are presumptions which do at
least probably and conjecturally note one
to be witch. These give occasion to
examination. yet are not sufficient causes
for conviction Gases in court were
tried on the evidence presentedo
I'll. II man or woman be VIGOROUSLY
DETAINED for witch this yields strong
suspicion. yet one ought carefully to
look that the report be made by men
of honesty and credit.
iii. If a fellow witch or magician give
testimony of any person to be witch
this indeed is not sufficient for condemna-
ton. but 1t is sufficient cause for a
straight investigation.
NV. If after cursng there followed
death, or, at least. some mischief, for
witches are wont to practice their mis-
chievous act by cursing and banning,
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Flattered by the attentions of n good
looking Egyptian officer. she consents TO
visit his sister in her palace as an act
of charity toward a recluse from society.
The sister" proves mythical and the offi-
GER a taller A young American engineer
whom she has briefly and somewhat in
formally met undertakes her rescue. The
quest leads into the desert. and ultimate
ly all is Well
CURING CHRISTOPHER. BY Mrs.
! Horace Tremlett. New York: John
Lane Company.
Christopher Brown during the tenn
porary absence from home of his family
at water resort. imagines that he has
fallen deeply in love with an actress who.
amused for a time by his attentions.
finally tires of him and bids him so about
his business. Christopher becomes de-
spondent. and his wife. now returned. is
| worried over his condition. The sugges-
ton is made that he is suffering from a
nervous ailment. and this grows into the
suspicion that his mind is unbalanced. q
theory which is fostered by the family
physician. Christopher makes one last
appeal to his lnamorata and suffers con
cussion of the brain as result of his
encounter with the gentleman of her rea'
preference. On his return home he en-
| deavors to account for his plight by de-
claring lapse of memory, and this. ap-
| parently clincning the theory of insanity
! leads to the provision of a man attendant
who guards his every movement. Finally
! Christopher works out of his troubles by
| escaping and completely proving his san
! ity with the good-natured assistance OF
| the young actress. who is meanwhile
married to the gentleman Of her prefer
ence So all is Well in the Brown family,
Mrs. Tremlett most amusingly sets forth
in the course of this tale the extrava-
gances of a certain metaphysical school
exponents of which endeavored to cure
| Christopher of his ills.
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| is remarkable picture of war as a
great war would be carried on in the
present and the immediate future
THE RENAISSANCE OF MOTHER
HOOD. By Ellen Key. author of
Love and Marriage" etc. Trans
lated from the Swedish by Anna E.
3. Fries. New York: G. P. Putnam's
! Sons.
With her customary clear thinking and
open statement Ellen Key here discusses
the various social means that may be,
that should be. employed, not only to
rescue motherhood from the general ig-
norance and Indifference surrounding it
but that should be used also to raise it
above the narrow and instructive devo-
tions of its beginnings. To whatever ex-
tent Ellen Key may encourage women
ana urge them to the achievement of
larger freedom. a fuller individual life.
at no time does she project them beyond
the nome and the duties of motherhood.
The home and children are womens great
contribution to the world. To the per
lection of these must go the best ener-
sles of her feelings and intelligence. This
writer gives short shrift to those who,
in order to secure economic freedom and
independence to women. advocate COM
munity homes and sort of glorified in
stitutional up-bringing for the children
of wage-earning women. Miss Key goes
under these makeshifts of plan and out
lines definite education and training for
the oncoming mothers of the world. Sex
hygiene and eugenics are a part of this
education. Proper lines of social service
TO demonstrate the social bearing of
motherhood are a part of it. State pen
sons for mothers is an adjunct of it. All
of these measures are vet untried. At
best they are only in the experimental
stage. But to Miss Key education of
the feelings and the intelligence promises
the only adequate solution of this su-
preme question.
The first essay of this volume. "Wom-
en- and Morals is thoughtful study
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and a very useful one 1t shows with
historic and scientific accuracy how
women came into possession. of what is
accepted as "woman's nature and ''woIn-
ans virtue These are commonly
looked upon as direct gifts from God in
proof of woman's sublin.ate and su-
peror qualities Here they are con-
vincingiy proved to be only the slow and
natural growth of self-protecting aims
and behaviorS to secure and prolong the
favor of the physically abler sex and
the personal well-being and safety ac-
|, crung from this favor.
STEPDATGHTER OF THE PRAIRIE.
BY Margaret Lynn. New York: The
Macmillan Company.
This story. without question. belongs to
the few stories about children that could
pass an examination by the children
themselves. The world is full Of the best
of reasons why grown folks cannot write
about childhood in a way to convince or
interest anybody, least of all those who
live in that enchanted age. These multi
tudinouS reasons can all be boiled down
to the single fact that they-children and
grown folks-live in worlds that are as
distinct and alien as heaven is generally
supposed to be different from earth. AT
some very rare now and then, however,
there comes one who. heart and soul. has
absorbed the spirit of childhood past its
outcrowdng by subsequent years and
events. Such a one. provided the gods
have given him the golden key of the
story hour and granted him its full and
beautiful freedom. may tell a truly
heart-holding tale of When I was a
little girl or when I was boy" Mar
garet Lynn is one of these rare ones.
This story of her early home on the
prairie of the play-word set up there by
her and her companions. of how the
prairie looked to these children as the
days passed and the seasons changed.
and the years flew by. of how they came
to feel toward it and knew that it felt
toward them-all this makes not only one
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| thinks she is and even agrees to an en-
gagement. He regains his strength and
| practically his full mental vigor without
| realizing the deception that is being low
| ingly practiced. Meanwhile from pity
| her own sentiment turns to the strongest
/ affection. Finally he is tragically awak-
| ened to a realization of the flight of
years and an understanding of the Well
meant deceit started by his own mistake.
The situation IS novel and an enhancing
| story is unfolded.
RED WRATH. BY John Oxenham. New
York: John Lane Company.
This story begins out on the islands of
Chausey, not far from the French coast,
those peculiar granite fragments of the
earth's floor were rent upward by some
| tremendous cataclysm in far ancient time.
1t deals with the passions and jealousies
and schemes of the granite cutters mas
ters and men. and involves a romance
| that runs counter to stubborn preJudiceS
| and hostilities. Then the scene shifts to
Paris during the commune of the red
wrath that ragged over the Partisan cap
| ital after the F'ranco-PruSSian war. a
young Chausey man, drafted in the navy,
| finds himself in the thick of the Partisan
| fighting. through no wish of his own'
pursued by an implacable enemy and re
sourceful rival Finally he Is imprisoned
| and deported. by design. to his own gran
lite island, made for the time into prison
station. There the story ends, after ex-
| citing adventures that make thrilling
reading to the last page.
THE PALACE OF DARKENED WIN
DOWS. By Mary Hastings Bradley,
author or The Favor of Kings"
i illustrated by Edmund Frederick.
| New York: D. Appleton & Co.
Mrs. Bradley deals here with the ad-
ventures and dangers into which young
American girl runs when she steps from
| the conventional path laid out for the
| safe treadng of the tourist in Egypt.
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found only in the state of Georgia, and is
relatively small. as it numbers only sew
en- nteen species.
All the species represent northward
migrants along the eocene seacoast from
equatorial America. They include West
Indian palms. plants of the wonderful
mangrove swamps that skirt the tidal
shores in the tropics of both hemispheres.
and remains of the golden ferns whose
present day descendants lead a grega-
rious existence in the coastal swamps of
the torrid zone. All these eocene plants
are types of the Florida keys. Antillean
Islands, and Central American shores and
clearly Indicate that in middle eocene
time the climate of Georgia was much
warmer than it was either during the
upper cretaceous epoch or at present.
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A Lost Customhouse.

From the Lowell Courier-Citizen.
The Lowell summer colony at Kenne-
bunkport. Me-, will miss the old custom.
house this summer-that is. miss it in its
official capacity. After Ia years of serv-
ice it has been abandoned and the por,
officially abolished by the government
and the building will now become a pub
lie library. A century ago there were
shipyards at the port. and many a stanch
old vessel was fitted out there for a
cruise to distant lands. Customs duties
in 1923 were collected to the amount OF
$S5,OOO and for long time after there
was respectable amount of business
even in competition with the growing
port of Portland. But of late years not
a dollar has come in and the port had
literally died of old age. few retired
sea captains, still living comfortably at
Kennebunk. will probably shake their
heads all summer at an ungrateful gov
ernment: but they belong to another age
the lost age of a proud and adventur-
Gus American marine.
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TO give color to the autobiographic claim
of the adventures.
THE PURPLE MISTS. BY F. E. Mills
Young. New York: John Lane Com


THE PURPLE MIsTS. BY F. E Mills
Young. New York: John Lane Com
pany.
In her previous works Miss Mills Young
has shown an exceptional power of pre-
senting the life Of South Africa, drawing
striking portraits of men and women who
lead the peculiar life of that frontier
edge of the world. In The Purple Mists'
she tells another story. fit successor to
Grit Lawless" and "Myles Calthorpe'
This is the love story of physician, who
while substituting for a friend in the
veldt country meets a girl who is living a
mlSerably routine life on her brother-in-
laws farm. Later. as a quixotic means
of solving difficult situation, he marrieS
her, and then because neither knows how
to express the affection mutually felt they
drift apart and she does foolish things
and the way of happiness is not found
until long afterward. when much misery
has been caused by misunderstanding.
This is a gripping story.
EAST OF THE SHADOWS. By Mrs
Hubert Barclay, author Of "a
Dream of Blue Roses" etc. New
York: George II. Doran Company.
Philippa Hartford goes to visit a friend
in rural England and in consequence of
the illness of a child who is away on a
visit is left alone save for the servants,
in the house. There. by peculiar chance.
she encounters the uncle of her host, who
has been in a state of suspended memory
for years. as a result of a fall from a
horse He mistakes her for her own aunt.
with whom he had been deeply In love at
the time of his accident and who had,
unknown to him. failed him in his great
crisis. So remarkable is the resemblance
and so complete his self-deception that as
a means of saving his life Philippa con-
sents to impersonate the woman ne