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About Rural enterprise. (Halsey, Or.) 1924-1927 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1927)
190159 UTH AFRICA Miserly Mother Kills Son’s Wife S h oots Y o u n g W om an for H a v in g H eir to F ortune S h e H oard ed . 1 Son’s Conduct Shows Motive. Improved Uniform International SimdaySchool * Lesson’ »B y M V . H B P1TZW A TB R . D D ., D «aa o t P ay and E v en in g School«. M oody B I t i e In stitu te o f C h ica g o ) H IT. W estern N ew np ap er U n io n .) L esson for January 9 the STANDARD OF C H R IS T IA N L IV IN G Arrived at the hospital, the young L E SSO N T E X T — L u k e < 27-3« woman was at once hurried to the GOLDEN T E X T — Be ye th e r e f o r e operating room, hut It wus too late. p e r fe c t. e v e n a s y o u r F a t h e r w h ic h is In h e a v e n 1« p e r fe c t. She was dead. Mine, l.efelivre, mak P R IM A R Y T O P IC — H o w J e s u s W a n t s ing no effort to shield herself, was L e to L ive. arrested and her son Andre, his wife J U N IO R T O PIC — M a r c h in g O r d e r s fo r dead and Ills mother u prisoner, C h r is tia n s . IN T E R M E D IA T E A N D S E N IO R T O P stopped long enough nt the hospital IC— \ \ liHt C h r ist R e q u ir e s o f Ue. to claim his wife’s purse, examine Its Y O l’NU P E O P L E A N D A D U L T T O P contents to see that they were Intact IC— C h r is t's L ife an d E x a m p le fo r Ue. and inquire whether the ring she wore The context (v. 26) clearly Implies when she hud left home wus still on what Is elsewhere positively declared her finger. (John 15:18-21; Luke 21:17) that tha Questioned again later In the day. followers of Christ will be buted and Mme. Lefebvre declared she had killed opposed. In this lesson Christ seta her daughter-in-law because she was forth the principles governing the Ufa “driving her son to ruin." In report of tils followers. ing the tragedy tlie following morn ing, the French newspapers described I. "Love Your Enemies” (v. 27). It us a crime of mother love, another Ixive here Is not a natural affection. Grave of Cecil Rhodes in South Africa. “crime passionel." To love friends Is ensy, but to love enemies is only possible to those who As usual, the case was tried in the (P rep ared by th a N a tio n a l G eograp h ic Inrs and exceeded in value the com French press long before it came to liu\e been made partakers of the di S o ciety . W a sh in g to n , EX C .) bined value of the many shiploads of vine nature— been born again. the courts and presently, though still F T H E three largest oversens wool, ostrich feathers, hides and coal recognizing a crime of passion, the II. "Do Good to Them Which Hate units that make up the British that sailed away from South Africa newepepers became aware that they You” (v. 27). commonwealth of nations, the the same year. were dealing with something more Ixive Is positive In Its nature. The Union ot South Africa Is the Some 200 miles to the northeast of than a mother’s love for her son, a true t'hrlstliin will not merely refrain only one presenting serious racial the diamond country are the gold passion Just as old, but In Mme. Le from doing Injury to one who hates problems. The white population of fields. In their midst Is the gohl- febvre overshadowing any feeling she him, hut will he concerned with and about a million and a half is divided bullt, wonder city of Johannesburg, had for her offspring. eugaged In doing good to him. True between people of British and Dutch metropolis of South Africa. After the The star reporters assigned to the love ads according to Its own essen origin, while the population of blacks discovery of gold In the eighties the tial nature. case got their first cue to the real mo Is more than three times that of the city sprang up almost over night tive for the crime in Andre l.efehvre's whites. This racial situation has af III. “ Bless Them T h a t Cures You” Because of its racial situation the conduct at the hospital, when he fected the molding of the govern <v. 28). South African Union Is not marked by showed such concern about his dead mental machinery. To bless means to speak well of—to as greut u degree of democracy as wife’s purse and her Jewels. Their Invoke a blessing upon. Injury by The Union of South Africa, although Australia. The executive has rather Inquiry took a definite direction when words Is hurd lo let go unchallenged. half around the world from America broad powers, having a veto over or it was estimated that the entire out The one who Is a Child of God and al and little knowu to Americans, has In dinances passed by the provincial fit of clothing worn by the millionaire lows the Spirit of his Maker and Re Its history chapters which we know by councils. He also appoints admin at the time of her arrest could not deemer to express Itself through him heart. It has vast ureas taken over istrators for the provinces. The mem have exceeded in cost more than $15. will return blessings for cursings. from aborigines; thousands of its bers of the senate and house of as And when It was learned thnt the white settlers were massacred by sav IV. “Pray for Them Which Desplts- sembly of the Union must be of Eu young couple had been quite happy fully Use You” (v. 28). ages, but others, undaunted, pressed ropean descent, and senators must own An Amazing Character. and altogether devoted to each other on in their prairie schooners ever We should pray for those who property valued at $2,560. "States But here the parullel between the and that, if anything, they had been abuse us. The best commentary on farther Into the Interior of an un rights” are recognized to the extent Hall-Lefebvre enses ends. For when, living beneath their means. Mine. Le this precept Is Christ's own example known continent; a gold rush won a that the qualifications for voting are finally the aged Frenchwoman's mo febvre's bitter charge thnt Antoinette (Luke 23:34), "Father forgive them new empire; and the land is pos different In the several provinces, be tive was unraveled there was revealed Mulle was “driving her sou to ruin" for they know not what they do." sessed today of a stubborn race prob ing those recognized by the provinces to the world an amazing psychopathic specifically revealed the nature of the lem. When Christ was reviled He reviled at the time of the Union. character such as only a Balzac could passion which had driven her to coin uot again. When He suffered. He In one respect, however, the carving Even In the matter of language and have created. The Lefebvre murder mlt murder. threatened not, hut committed Him out of what is now the Union of South Institutions South Africa Is far from could have been committed only in u Bit by bit. In the press and legal In self to Him that Judgetb righteously. Africa Is without Its parallel In the being solely British. The Dutch lan Latin country. vestigations and during the trial, there ( I Pet. 2:23). development of the United States. guage is equally as official as Eng And the Hall trial, muffled In the emerged the portrait of an amazing V. Patiently Endure Wrong and In There the strife of two white peoples lish; und Ituinnn-Dutch law Instead of silence of the defendants, wus a dull creature, a female Harpagon, such a jury" (v. 29). for control hus been an all Important the English common law Is the basis show Indeed compared with the Le monster of greed as neither Moliere The Christian Is not to bristle in factor. For about a century and a of tile legal system. febvre trial, enllvered continually by nor Balzac would have dared to por defense of his rights hut rather to suf half the Dutch had possession of Cape tray lest they tax too heavily the cre Latin emotionalism, Latin outbursts About the Provinces. fer Insult, Injury und even loss. This Town and the small area surrounding of passion in both the principals and dence of their publics. expresses the law which should gov H e r H atred Grows. it which harbored all the whites In Cape of Good Hope province (or the audience and repented and frantic A Love Match. South Africa. The Napoleonic wars In the heart of Mme. Lefebvre there ern the individual's actions, but 'Cape Colouy” as It la still usually The marriage of Andre Ixtfebvre gathered a consuming hatred for her should not he pressed so fur that evil transferred possession to England, and termed) is the premier unit of the efforts by the Judges to control the In 1806 the English assumed a final Union both In age und size. With its uncontrollable exhibitions of French and Antoinette Mulle was, to all ap duughter-ln-law and for the whole doers can go unchecked. Rightly con pearances. a love match, but Mme. Mulle family which was soon to come stituted government has been ordained control, which ashy of the Dutch In area of approximately 277.000 square temperament throughout the trial. Exactly one year ago. In the full of Lefebvre made It plain to her son that to a head. It was hatred which grew of God for Hie protection of the Inno habitants resented. In 1836 many of miles It is more than one-tenth as large the Dutch farmers or "Boers” began as the entire United States, and it is 1925, Mine. Guillaume Lefebvre learned she considered It a mesalliance, be ns she realized she was alone In her cent und Hie punishment of evildoers trekking Into the interior with the In more extensive than Its three sister from her son a secret that he had cause the Mulle fortune, though con desperate struggle to save the Le (Rom. 13:1-8). kept for five months; that his wife, siderable, was not quite equal to their febvre fortune. VI. Give to Every One That Ask- tention of settling beyond English In provinces combined. Her aged husban 1, From the sea eth of Thee (v. 80) fluence. When Englishmen followed much of Cape Colony seems barren, Antoinette Mulle Lefebvre, was soon own. seventy-six und long retired from busl Shortly before the wedding, Andre ness, was a mere pule, carbon copy of God Is the supreme example. He them they trekked farther. Finally, but the soil Is rich and after the rainy to give birth to an heir to the com bined Lefebvrc-Mulle fortunes. On announced to I lls mother that he was herself, echoing her proteats and re gives freely und generously hut Intel beyond the Grunge river they founded season, productive. that very day Mme. Lefebvre bought the Orange Free State, and beyond the Natal lies Just around Africa's cor a revolver und, soon after, writing to to leave on a short honeymoon after sentments but helpless und relying ligently. This text does not author the ceremony. Mine. l.efelivre threw entirely on his wife to fight tlie men ize Indiscriminate giving. There Is Vaul river, the Transvaal itepublic. ner, only a little way beyond the Cup, First diamonds and then gold were of Good Hope, It fronts, therefore, her son, asked him to call on her, up her arms In horror. Honeymoons ace to their wealth. He had been a giving which Injures the one to bring Ids wife with him and take were a waste and ii needless expense, cowed too long by this domlnunt wom whom the gift Is made. To give ii man discovered in the new states. They on the southern part of the Indian them both for a drive In his cur. she told him. Who bad put such non an to show any fight now. He was money to buy whisky would he wrong. brought great prosperity to the Boer ocean. It extends roughly between The son, obedient to his mother's sense into his bead? I ’robubl.v that Just m whining old man. V II. Do a t You Wish to Be Done republics, but they brought many out south latitudes 27 and 32, and lias a siders us w e ll; und the presence of position corresponding In the northern wishes, appeared several days later awful girl, who already was filling his Her son. Andre, a war hero many By (v. 31). This Is called the Golden Rule. It Is these finally led to the Boer war as hemisphere to that ot northern Florida nt the paternal home with Ids young head with extravagant notions. times decorated, was a spineless crea However, Andre insisted that It was ture In her presence, I lls will broken tlie sum total of Christian duty as It a result of which the republics came and the southern and central portions wife, and the three set out for a into the possession of Great Britain. of the other Gulf states. In the matter drive. Andre Lefebvre occupied the only dei-ent for people In their posi from Infancy to respond to her im pertains to human Interrelations. Hu front seat alone. His wife and his tion to have a honeymoon and. on the perious will. man beings carry with them the con of location, then, It can be seen that mother sat together in the rear. When Creation of the Union. following day, he went to a travel bu sciousness which Is the touchstone Then one day Andre Lefebvre an Natal should have an excellent chance they passed through the city gates and e from the wur-born republics reau and arranged for the trip. It was nounced to bis mother Hint an heir which leaches them their duty to oth to become South Africa's “Dixie." The emerged into the suburbs, Mme. marchies of the last eight years, perhaps the first time In his life that wus expected. It was the spark that ers. I f men were to live up to this coastal belt is relatively low and warm Lefebvre requested that her son drive ti • lion of South Africa Is one of the young man, thoroughly under his kindled Mme. Lefebvre's hatred to a I rule the problem of capital and labor with a sub-tropical climate. In this along the path known as "Solitude the ungest of the Important coun- mother’s thumb, liad ever asserted consuming flume. This nllen woman, would be solved and end would he put zone it Is believed that Natal can de road.” Andre, without Inquiring Into f the world. It, too. was largely himself, and Mme, Lefebvre sensed who was bringing her son to ruin, to war. International relations would velop an Important cotton production. the reasons for this strange wish, still war-born. Shortly after the conclu There, too, is a considerable sugar In In his manhood as pliant before the that this alien woman not only was who was wasting instead of building be peaceably adjusted and all profi sion of the Boer war plans were set on dustry and large tea plantations. Back commanding will of his mother as he leading her son to extravagance but a fortune, was about to bring Into the | teering In business would end. Prac foot to fuse the two old republics with was threatening her own authority. world another Mulle— another waster. ticing this precept proves that we are about 30 miles from the const the was when a child, complied. Cape Colony, the oldest South African children of God. Loving those who The resentment she nurtured In She bought a revolver and killed midland belt begins. This zone Is But when he had reached "Solitude creased. goverimieut. and Natal, next In point the young woman whose condition of love us, doing good to those who do higher and cooler as Is the back coun- i rood” and the car was humming along of age, to form the new union. It was She yielded to her son's wishes, but fered a new menace to her greed. good to ns. lending to those who lend try of the American Gulf states and the deserted lane, he suddenly heard when she learned that he had pro finally created by an act signed In to iis . Is the common practice even The Lefebvre trial lasted only four constitutes a "corn belt." Still farther 1910. an outcry from his mother. Andre cured first class tickets for Ills travels, days, but Into that short time there among sinners. No new birth, no Holy from the coast are the uplands of turned, and what he saw made him Tlie territory of the Union occupies Natal, where higher altitude and low bring the car to a quick halt. His she immediately repaired to the tour was packed more drums than In a | Spirit needed to live this kind of life, ist bureau and had them changed to whole month of the lln ll .Mills trial. ! the whole southern and southeastern V III. Be M erciful (v. 36). er temperature combine to create con- wife, immobile, lay back in her seat, tip of Africa In a wide strip extending second class. Il did not appear at all The Jury was out only ten minutes, 1 This means to be filled with pity ditlons like those of the plains of a thin stream of crimson trickling about 250 miles inland from the Indian grotesque to her that a young couple returning with a verdict of guilty. , and compassion. To enter Into sym Texas and Oklahoma. And, as In the down her cheek from a wound In her ocean. Its area lacks only 25,006 pathy with ever» need of others. The uplands of those states, stock ralsiug temple. His mother, spent, her hands representing two of the most substan The audience broke Into cheers as the square miles of reaching the half mil tial families In northern Franco Judge pronounced the sentence, "to supreme example us to 'th is Is tha and cereal productloh are the doin- 1 paralyzed in her Inp, one of them lion mark. O f its four provinces, Cape Inant Industries. Natal has a popula- 1 should travel second class on their have her head cut off In a public I Heavenly Fattier. holding a revolver, regarded him si honeymoon ! Colony Is slightly larger than Texas, square of the city"—the first woman [ IX. Censorious Judgments Con tlon of about 140,000 whites and ap lently. The young man could only nsk the Transvaal about the size of Ne The newlyweds had been gone only to die at Ihe guillotine In France in demned (v. 27). proximately ten times as many negroes his agonized question with his eyes. four or five days when Mme. i^e- many ypars. vada, and Orange Free State slightly and East Indians. Tills means that we shnnld not seek smaller than Alabama, while Natal ex out the evil or faults In others for Orange Free Stnte province Is en- ceeds South Carolina by a few thou our satisfaction. We should not sit tlrely Inland, separated from the In sand square miles. H istory R eveals Florida In censorious Judgment upon the ac dian ocean by the high Drakensberg of others. However It does not From the south and southeast H ad Its O w n P ocah on tas tions range, and from the Atlantic by half South Africa Is a series of mighty ter the width of the continent. It lies ' prohibit the Just estimation of tha Bradentown. Fla.—Pocahontas, the races. each with a rim of high moun character of others by their deeds. on the great South African tableland IndlHii princess, who enacted a bit of tains from below and low ones from X. The Compensations of Right Liv at an elevation of more than 4,000 C o m tant Precaution Urged by Bureau In the Panhandle district 31 men were drama years ago In the role of the ing (v 38). above. Most of the slopes near the feet. The country Is made up for the of Minea and Uae of Gaa Maaka rescuer, was about a hundred yeura be overcome while putting on the brand- The one who gives freely of money, sea are fertile, well wooded and well most part of rolling plafns with here ; hind a sister of her race who played Recommended. enbead. watered. The ascending steps vary In and there "rands” or ridges. The pop- ' loves sincerely, makes the Golden Rule a like part. Around many wells Investigators of the standard of his life, shows mercy moisture and fertility. Within this ulatlon is largely of Dutch origin. Washington.— Worker« In Texas oil Hie bureau found dead rabbits urid This developed here when Dr. HI I- and kindness to others, and refrains terraced bulwark lie the great plains Still farther Inland lies the fourth fields face untold danger« which ne- birds. Dead animals are usually found ram Byrd, president of the Florida Au from Impugning the motives of others or veldts where wild game once province, Transvaal, with an area cessltate the exercise of constant pie after a still, oppressive night, when dubon society, dug up a musty copy swarmed and where great herds of will he fully rewarded In kind Got) twice that of Orange Free State and a caution«, according to the bureau of there Is little or no air movement. of "Fairbanks' History of Florida." will see to It that there tie no losa. sheep and cattle have taken their population more than three times us minea. which ha« Just completed an One man collected a pile of more than Fairbanks recorded that In 1528 Juan places. These plains contribute yearly great. The white population, as in all Investigation of condition« In the Lone one hundred dead animals. Oritz of Narvaez' expeditionary forces millions of dollars worth of wool, K e e p in g th e M outh C losed the other provinces. Is greatly in the Star state's oil Industry. In one place visited by bureau In fell Into the hands of Indians. Chief ostrich feathers, hides, and mohair to I f a man can keep his mouth closed minority. Physically, Transvaal 1» Investigation« by the bureau took Uceta, head o f a tribe whose camp vestigators It was found that the pres the outside world. It Is a sure sign that he could say much like Orange Free State, a land In the Panhandle dlstricL the Blglnke ence of hydrogen sulphide In excessive was near the present site o f Tampa, something If ha opened IL— Klafa G reat Diamond Mines. of rnther dry upland plains. field of Reagan county, and the Mc quantities caused pronounced darken enraged over Narvaez' III treatment of Business. Toward the inner edge of the terri The Union of South Africa has a Camey field of Upton county ing of white lead paint on houses, of his mother, ordered that «Oritz. an tory of the Union are the world's system of divided capitals. From Pre Hydrogen sulphide In petroleum va brass valves and fittings and of silver eighteen-year-old youth, be rousted to F e w e r W o rd a greatest diamond mines, where earth toria, capital of the old Transvaal lie- por«. the bureau found. Is the most money. death. sufficient to fill thousands of cars Is public, the administrative activities of poisonous gas associated with the The more yon ssy. Hie less peopla The bureau stressed the necessity Ulelah, Uceta's daughter, begged on screened yearly for the sake of a peck the Union are carried on. The parlia crude oil Industry and frequently of workmen using gas masks while en her kneee that Grits' life be spared, will remember. The fewer the worda, or two of diamonds. But the few ment meets la Cape T o w n ; while the (Ives workers serious cases of con gaged lo derrick cellars and whenever the greater the profit.— Fenelon. und her wish was granted. Grits, handfuls of diamonds exported In 1913, Supreme Court of Appeals sits In junctivitis, known as "gss eyes." It Is believed gases are In tha air. badly burned, was nursed back to K eep an Eye on the One the last year before the World war. Bloemfontein, capital of Orange Free Conjunctivitis Is usually contracted health by tlie gfrl. Twice agala be worth more than fifty million dol- State. Keep your eye on the One (one up. In derrick cellars, where the gas col White elephants were known more was condemned to die, but each time — Echoes. lects. In the derrick cellar of one well than 2,000 years ago. Ulelah saved him. O •e New York.— Almost on the very day that Mrs. Frances Stevens Hull, gray- j haired, wealthy and socially prominent, appeared before a Jury in Somerville, N. J., charged with the killing of her husband, Mme. Guillaume l,efebvre. gray-haired, a millionaire and a mem ber of one of the most prominent families In northern France, appeared before the Assize court In the City of Doual. charged with the murder of her young and beautiful daughter-in- law, says the New York World. The trials were conducted simul taneously for some days, und while in this country a puzzled public was following the grim detuils of the Hull- Mills murder mystery, all France was stirred by the most sensational “af faire celebre" since the trial of Lan- dru, the French “Bluebeard," five years ago. The parallel between the two cases Is impressive. In both Instances the principals were women of sixty, who. because of the dignity of their age and the prestige of the large fortunes they commanded, seemed secure against any misadventure with the law. Both were charged with a cap ital crime against one of their kin by marriage. And In both trials there was the spectacle of two men brothers In the case of Mrs, Hall, husband and son in the case of Mme. Lefebvre, defending their women kin against the accusation of a heinous and indefensible crime. Both cases presented a baffling mystery: the Hall case a mystery of fact. In which the Issue was the-Iden tity of the murderer; the Lefebvre case a psychological mystery, In which the motive for the French woman's confessed crime baffled the best legal brains of France. “I have kill'«J her," the mother said quietly. Without a further word. Andre Le febvre swung the car uround and dashed madly toward the city and a hospital. febvre wrote to her sou that It was time he was home. “You seem to think you are rolling In gold. I f your wife won't come with you, come home alone." . . . And this In the second week of the honey moon. Madame Grows Panicky. By now Mme. Lefebvre was grow ing decidedly panicky. Not only was she Incensed that her son had mar ried a “wasteful and Improvident" woman, but she began to entertain fears for the security of their own possessions, the Lefebvre fortune, a monument to her greed wdilch she had built, stone by stone, frunc by franc,-over a period of half a century. When her son had married, “though It was beneath him," she saw the be ginnings of a new fortune which, by saving and self-denial, would swell the Lefebvre heritage to even more Impressive magnitude. And here lie wus traveling, spending freely, “roll ing In gold," and perhaps destined soon to make demands upon her to maintain tlie swift and destructive puce his spendthrift wife was setting If the shadow of Mine. Lefebvre clouded the young couple's honey moon, It completely overcast their home life after they had returned. Andre's mother was u frequent visitor, casting up the household budget and finding It yxcesslve, urging retrench ment and saving, warning her son thnt he would land In the poorhouse. She was shocked beyond words when she found that Antoinette laid a fresh white tablecloth for each meal. "But It Is scandalous." she whined to her son. “Think of the laundry bill. White linen soils so quickly. We have always used red tablecloths and napkins at home. They lust a long time without washing.” She was stunned when she discov ered that her "luvlsh" gift of "an tique" furniture had been consigned by Antoinette to the attic and that the home was tastefully furnished with new and expensive equipment. The discovery led lo a hitler quarrel between the women, one of the first of many to follow. Mine. Lefebvre was not appeased when Antoinette explained that she could not have used the worthless Junk her mother-in-law had given her without making herself and her bus- band the laughing stock of their set. She was not appeused when the young woman explained that she was spend ing largely out of her own pocket, that her people were well-to-do, and that she had been brought up to live according to her ample menus. Mme. Lefebvre emerged from each of these quarrels with the conviction thnt her son had married Into n fam ily of spendthrifts and wasters and that Ills wife would lead him Inevita bly to Ills ruin. Yet It was brought out ut tlie trial that the wealthy young couple's total expenditures did uot exceed $4,000 a year. WARN WORKERS IN TEXAS OIL FIELDS AGAINST DANGER OF GAS