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^4 THE TO OUR CHURCH PEOPLE WHO LOVE THE ORPHANS. The contributions for the support of the 270 orphans of the Thornwell Orphanage. have not been sufficient for the support of that number for any of the months of February. March, April, May, June and July. In each month the deficit has been from two to five hundred dollars. The little surplus collected in December and January last is exhausted. We must not run in debt. Summer time is on us, the hardest time of the year to raise funds. It is important that August should not show a deficit if we are to close the year, September 1, without indebtedness. All churches and Sabhath schools interested, all societies and individuals with great big hearts are asked to do something promptly, and see to it that no shadow falls on the home. Of the 270 pupils of the home, 110 are away on vacation, 160 are at home, and each week sees new pupils added to Ihe family. By the middle of August, the cottages will all be filled to overflowing. We must have $2,300 during that month?a very small sum for "the support of many pupils and to pay the hoard of 36 teachers and matrons mud foremen. The above remark will lead some peeple to think that the work is over-done. Just ask yourself the question, whether 100 Presbyterians ougbt not to be able to support one little orphan? There are 51,000 church members in the synods of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida who own the Thornwell Orphanage. Nearly forty of the orphans cbming from the bounds of other synods, and it is their support that gives us the least anxiety. A very large number of orphans are applying for admission. Here are some of the expressions used. From a pastor, "Your agreement to take these two children has literally saved their mother's life." From another, "If you could admit these children, it will be a blessed work; you will be taking them from surroundings that cannot be other than ruin to them." A mother writes, "Please uciy a uiuncu-iieaneu, ueuriaaen momer. In God's name I beg you, examine into my children's case. I cannot bear to leave them as they are." An orphan boy writes, "Please, Doctor, let me come to you. I do not smoke, I do not swear, I love God. I want an education. Please write that I can come." This lad is an orphan 12 years old, supporting himself in the cotton mill. And here is & letter from a young girl. "I have not a relative Id the world to write to you for me, no father, motner, brother, or sister, f am 13 years old. I can read a little and write a little, and I do want a home and friends and an education." Well, gentlemen, there is the situation. The Board of Trustees have instructed me to build another home for boys! The need can not stop. Yours in Christ, Wm. P. Jacobs, President. Clinton, 8. C. r * r I : PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOUTF INTERESTING FACTS. Danville voted dry in April. 1908. On and since that time there has not been an open saloon in the town. Mr. Frank Talbott, a busines man of prominence, has written for the Danville Methodist an article, in which he gives the figures Hum ui? recoras ror tne year ending May 1, 1909, during which the town was dry, and the year ending May 1, 1908, when the town was wet. These figures are very interesting. We reproduce them. The first comparison touches the moral aspect of the question. A great deal of noise is made over the probable financial loss which the expulsion of the saloons will bring. This, of course, is not the highest view td take of the question, but it is worthy of consideration, and here follows a few facts bearing upon it. The total revenue for the dry year was $4,530.65 greater than jor me previous year, wnon the saloons were open. In other words, the public revenue for the year during which the saloons were closed made good the $10,062.50 loss by liquor licenses and had still a surpius of $4,530.65. In other words, there was a real increase of $14,593.15. Mr. Talbott well says: "It is worthy of special note that every course of revenue shows an increase except that of the Police Court fines." The figures for these are as follows: For the wet year, $8,137.86, and for the dry year. $4,246.84?a decrease of fines collected of $3,891.02. It is plain to any thoughtful otserver that this decrease must be more for the prosperity of the town than all ether increases combined. The cost cf feeding the prisoners in the city jail for the dry year was $J,069.95 less than during the wet year. The costs of maintaining the courts, jail aild police were $1,332.46 less than during the wet year; the costs of maintaining the almshouse and out-door poor were $229.61 less for the dry year than for the wet year. Twenty-five representative men. dealers in dry goods, clothing, groceries, furniture and shoes, were selected, and they reported sales for the dry year of $44,133 in excess of those for the wet year. The banks of Danville show an increase on deposits in interest bearing certificates of $Iol,891.1.'9 over the wet year. There was an increase of thirty per cent, in the building permits granted. At the time of the closing of the saloons there were in the principal business sections o? Danville fifteen or twenty vacant stores. The closing of the saloons added to these eighteen store rooms. To-day there are less than halfHr>7An volant af/\r/va ? ?? *- * mm cd 111 iue Buuie lerntory. The Danville Railway and Electric Company shows an increase in receipts for the dry year of $2,804.38 over the wet year. The post-office receipts are $1,088.38 over the wet year. The books of the Commissioner of Revenue show an increase of a million dollars in taxable values over the wet year. Now there are the facts gathered by a careful hand. We wonder how many of our daily, papers will reproduce them.?Religious Herald. I. August ix, 1909. MONTREAT, N. C. By the Rev. James B. Converse. About three hundred are registered at this beautiful mountain valley. Among them are about ninety-five members of Mountain Workers' Conference, now drawing to a close. There are among them Baptists, Methodists and Presbyterians, Southern and Northern. At a meeting held last Tuesday they adopted four resolutions, which will give to the reader their impressions of Montreat. The first thanks the Association, Dr. White, of the Bible Training School, New York; Mr. Magill, of the Publication Committee, and their helpers, for the Christian hospitality we have enjoyed for ten days. The second thanks the two hotels for good beds and good fare. It especially mentions the services of the Asheville school girls in the two dining rooms. The third praises the courses of study. And the last urges all who can to come to Montreat. Sijrely there is no better place. Something is going on, but no one is teased to attend the exercises. Mountain climbing and cool breezes bring good appetites and sound slumbers. ON FOOD The Right Foundation cf Health. Proper food is the foundation of health. People can eat improper food for a time until there i3 a sudden collapse of the digestive organs, then all kinds of trouble follows. The proper way out of the difficulty is to shift to the pure, scientific tood. Grape Nuts, for it rebuilds from the foundation up. A New Hampshire woman says: Last summer 1 was suddenly taken with indigestion and severe stomach trouble and could not eat focd without great pain, my stomach was so sore I could hardly move about. This kept up until 1 was so miserable life was not worth living. "Then a friend finally, after much argument, induced me to quit my former diet ana try Grape Nuts. 'Although I had but little faita I commenced to use it and great was my surprise to find that I cou'd eat It without the usual pain and distress in my stomach. "So I kept on using Grape Nuts and soon a marked improvement wa3 shown, for my stomach wa3 performing. Is regular wortc in a normal way without pain or distress. "Very soon the yellow coating disappeared from my tongue, the dull, heavy feeling in my head disappeared and my mind felt light and clear; the languid, tired feeling left, and altogether I felt as if I had been rebuilt. Strength and weight came back rapidly and I went back to my work with renewed ambition. "TnHov I om n ?? ?* * ?., <*..1 a. ucw nuuiun in mina as well as body and I owe it all to this natural food, Grape Nuts." "Iherels a Reason." Look In pkgs. for the famous little nook, "The Road to Wellvllle." Ever read the above letter? A new cne appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human Interest.