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4 BREEZY LETTER
FROM Mr.. CARW|LE
NOTES FROM LEVEL LAND.
isEr. CarWile Writes Interest
ins!y-His Views of the
Punishment.

Level Land, Sept. 19.-We have
read with interest your article on
more punishment needed and agree
with you in toto. When a young
man. seeks by means of deception to
rob girl in her tender years of her
character and of all that is pure and
dear to her the electric chair should
be his doom. I have often been sur
prised at some of our women in re-
gard to their attitude to poor fell
len member of their sex. Instead of
going to them in a samaritan way
and lending them comfort and the
hand of sympathy they do all that
is within their power to drag them
down. This is not the Christ-like
way of treating them for you rem
ember on one occasion when the
scribes and Pharisees brought wo-
man before Christ who was taken in
adultery and told Him the Mosaic :,
law said she should be stoned but
Christ wrote on the ground: che
that is without sin among you let
him first cast stone at her." We
are not told whether there was a
rocky knoll about there but we do
know no stones were cast and Christ
and the woman were left alone. A
very good way to treat a man who
ruins, the character of a woman is
recorded in 2 Sam. 13. If you are
deceiver read it and watch, but
lest you have no hide, where a
young lady is penitence and repents
of her sin in this respect she always
has our prayers and sympathies, for
it is those, who have fallen who need
to be lifted up. You say you can
never forgive her but what did
! Christ say to Peter? One thing was
that he should forgive his brother if
he sinned against him and more than
one time. We are thankful that
such man as William Booth, the
founder of the salvation army, lived,
for it has done a great work in lift
ing up fallen humanity and it will
do what the church will not. These
are perhaps a few rare cases where
the woman on account of her weak
ness, is to blame but as a general
rule when everything is boiled down
some low down sneaking cur dog
rascal in the form of old Satan was
the cause Of her downfall. Lend her
a helping hand and your sympathy.
Elmore Suber leaves today for
Spartanburg. where he will enter
Wofford for the coming session. He
t is a young man of irreproachable
character and we predict a bright
future for him and wish him much
success in his studies.
! George Shirley and wife and Mrs.
Calvin Shirley of Bowersville, Ga.,.
were in our community last week.
, With but 5 dissenting votes out
of a total of 90, Rev. W. J. Foster
was reelected to serve Little River
church for 1918. An honor we'll be-
slowed.
The AoDeville county Singing Con-
;vention will be held at Little River
on the fourth Saturday and Sunday
in October. There will be few
there and come up if you want t.
hear good music and singing.
: Our school is full to the overflow
and we need another teacher. If
you want your community to press
onward, consolidate and build you
. high school and you will be known:
far and wide. Persevere.
| President Garfield died today,
(Sept. 19) SO years ago. The bat
tie of Chickamauga was fought the
same day, 1868. Mr.. John Hodges
of Donalds, died 1910, Sept 10. This
week in 1913 was the wettest one
we had, had since spring.
The weather has been quite cool
for the past week, and some fellows
said it never was this way before.
Well that's-you know what. Ba6
recollection.
'Tis said that Thomas jefferson
the writer of the Declaration of In
dependence, was not believer ir
the true God, but was follower Of
one of the greatest infdels of his
age, Tom Panic. Such wonderful
failures some of our greatest men
are and such a heavy burden Tom
Paine and Bob Ingersoll have on
their shoulders for the life they
lived. Such a pity some smart men
are such miserable failures in their
dutv toward their God.