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THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1918.
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-; Secretary Baker makes t readable report, but
does not give any real information.
j General January came to the rescue of Gen
eral Cadorna, and Venice is safe for the next few
weeks.
, ; Some of those southern democrats are gallant
enough, but have what they think is good reason
lor not wanting women to vote.
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,j."BiIly" Sunday prayed the house into action
at Washington Thursday, adding another to his
long list of unique performances.
Winning the president is quite a victory for
the suffragettes, who; still remember how he
dodged the direct question during his first term.
! Dallas has a strike in its fire department over
the right of the firemen to organize, which
shows they still have something to learn flown
in Texas.
Opening guns for the spring campaign have
been fired by the early-bird candidates. It is ap
parent that a full list will be ready before the
polls open. ,
If the Bolsheviki were as active against the
common enemy as they are against their Russian
opponents, the situation in the war zone would
show a much different phase.
The Swedes ought not to waste much time in
seeking to find out on what terms Germany can
make peace. Let them read the addresses of
Lloyd George and President Wilson.
Uncle Sam will relieve John D. of the job
of regulating the flow of oil in America, and if
he makes as good as job of it as did the old orig
inal controller, the work will be well done.
Europe is to be given an extra supply of
wheat because of existing food conditions there,
which means that home folks must eat less of
this food in order to preserve the balance"., That
is the way to win in the war. V
"Big Bill" Thompson showed his 'fellow citi
zens he is not altogether, bad by organizing the
shoveling brigade to dig the city out from under
the snow drifts. When he gets away from politics,
"Big Bill" is not a bad sort of a mayor even for
Chicago. ''.'-. "';'," ';
Morals of American Soldiers.
Army chaplains, Y. M. C A, workers and
clergymen of all sects or creeds who come closely
into contact with the American soldier, at home
or abroad, unite in praising him as a fine 'ex
ample of good behavior. He is clean, mentally
and morally as well as physically, and is a credit
to bis uniform and his country. It should not be
surprising that this is so, for these young men
come from the homes of the country, and in their
behavior is in some degree exhibited the national
character. It is not to be expected that some
will "not misbehave; in civil life many men do
things that are wrong, and entrance to the army
does not alter very materially the natural bent
of the individual. But these unruly ones are the
exception, and should not be used to support
sweeping allegations of immorality or dissolute
,conduct, such as recently have been made. . The
cause of any reform is not promoted "by hys
terical assertions involving facts that are easily
demonstrable. Fathers and mothers of Ameri
can soldiers will be slow to believe that their
sons have so quickly deteriorated in character as
to justify the statements that drunkenness and
immorality prevail to any extent in our new
army." They will be certain that the effect of
home trainingahas not so swiftly faded, and will
continue to believe their sons real men. And
this most comforting belief is supported by tes
timony that ought to silence the tongue of the
unreasoning zealot. The slander is as unde
served as it is untrue. ; ' v;
Baker's Report on the Army.
Secretary of War Baker in replying to his
critics, sets out what has been accomplished in
the way of preparation for war since April.
his summing up he gives no facts that are new
His statement of the great expansion of the army
from its relatively insignificant size last spring
to its presenfproportions is a gratifying showing
in its way, but it does not meet the main con
tention.
No real criticism has been'made as to the nura
ber of officers and men prepared for the new
army, nor as to the method by which they were
secured for the service. What has been seriously
objected to is that while these men were getting
themselves ready, the equally important job of
getting arms and equipment was neglected
Delay was not in enlistment or in the draft. It
was in the building of cantonments, the furnish
ing of suitable clothing and the manufacture of
arms. '
That the secretary of war is able to say that
every man in France has a proper weapon is
small credit to his organization or its achieve
ments. That our men over there are armed is
due to the, fact that we were enabled to borrow
rifles and cannon from our allies. It is only a
few days since a major general testified that the
men under his command were 100 per cent short
of artillery, and from IS to 40 per cent short in
other arms and equipment
This is the record on which Mr. Baker has
been accused, not the fact that we have put a
million and a half of men in the field since the
first of April last year. The shortage in supplies
of all kinds is not due to our inability to supply.
the needs of the army, but to the delay in and
around the headquarters at Washington, a fact
that the secretary of war very carefully over
looks.
Renewing the Peace Parley. ,
Unconfirmed reports bring news that the peace
parley between the Germans and the Bolsheviki
is to be resumed. This is probable, for the Bol
shevik leaders are more desirous of peace than
anything else just now. Their followers have no
thought of further fighting, if. they can be left
in undisturbed possession of what they hold,
while the interest of Lenine and Trotzky is that
of retaining power through concessions to the
masses. It remains to be established whether
the simple delegates from Russia so completely
discomfited the wily politicians from Germany as
has been alleged. Failure to transfer the confer
ence to Stockholm and renewal of negotiations
after the open break had been declared does not
suggest that the plans of the central powers
have been entirely disconcerted. Discovery of
the insincerity of the kaiser in the first instance
should put the Bolsheviki on guard, but a con
tinuance of the conversations may not result so
happily for them as did the first session. Re
ported negotiation of a separate peace with
Bulgaria is important, as it may be the means of
opening Odessa and all the 'country back of that
port to Supply the Germans withwar material.
Criticism of the Lntente Allies by the Bolshe
vik press is not of especial significance. Follow
ers of Lenine do not seriously distinguish be
tween democracy and autocracy. They look
ahead to the overturning of society as it has
been established and the substitution generally
of topsy-turvy conditions, such as exist in disor?
derly Russia. This is the reason they have not
the united support of the Russian people or of
the socialist party. Extremists everywhere pre
tend to support the Bolshevik movement, as it
embodies the anarchistic notion more fully than
any cult that has come into prominence. That
it is accidental in character and not of a nature
that will endure means nothing to the visionary
or unreasoning, whose ideas are as unsound as
their ideals are unattainable.
Their strength, so far as battle is concerned,
may lie in their weakness, but their weakness, so
far as government is concerned, is a fatal de
fect Cohesion born of misery 'is not a foun
dation on which to build a state. .The Bolshe
vik manifestation has already exerted its .full ef
fect on the war. Any peace it may conclude
with Germany will be of importance only as it
may affect those portions of Russia not under
control of the extremists; .
' As to Training Camp Conditions.
; "During the first three months, there was an
actual shortage of clothing and other essentials
and there were difficulties, in sanitation and
housing arrangements that have ' since been
exposed, denounced ' and are rapidly being
cured." . ' ., ,
This not from a sissy-boy mother, but from
Senator Hitchcock's own paper, contradicting re
ports of his own special Funston correspondent.
The boys went into training camp from the mid
dle of September on. Count three months and
t brings us down to the middle of December.
But the World-Herald may claim credit for tard
ily joining -The Bee in demanding an end to
Immimm A ml - w n A .J 4H ... t, ! t. Ik ...I. n .
magging ; uijr situ icu ityc, muni ta wnai
this paper has been urging from the moment the
unsatisfactory conditions were disclosed. -
That "girl" who innocently married a soldier
while living apart from her husbands entirely
too guileless to be at large in a cruel world. She
made a great mistake, though, in getting tangled
up with one of Uncle Sam's fighting men, for the
government is quite apt to see the thing through
to a finish.
Medical Science and Surgery in War
Traditional Picture of Field After Battle
Quite Out of Date
Two facts have increasingly differentiated
the present war, according to an official
bulletin of the British medical corps, from
all the great wars of the past. These facts
are the very small mortality through disease
among the forces engaged and the ' very
small mortality among the wounded who are
not immediately hurt fatally, Between them
these two features of the war , must have
spared on both sides many hundreds of thou
sands of lives as compared with the stand
ards set by previous great wars. In fact, all
the evidence now in confirms the conclusion
sej forth not long since in the French med
ical press and endorsed by the London Lan
cet to the effect that by this time neither
side would be in a position to continue the
struggle had it not been for the advances
made in medical science and skill. These
are discussed at length in the bulletin of the
royal army medical corps which we find in
the Manchester Guardian and according to
which, so far as concerns the. triumph of
medical science, the two great weapons have
been sanitation and prophylactic inoculation.
In a scene of unparalleledy:onfusion and
destruction and in an area of quite primitive
sanitation, the untiring exertions of medical
officers and the intelligent co-operation of
the men have resulted in an astonishing de
gree ot sanitary emciency:
"Refuse has been destroyed or deeply
Duriea; Dattie-neids in many cases have been
cleaned up within a tew days; pure water
sunolies have been nrovided. Evrvurlir
behind the immediate front order and clean
liness have been the rule. The rule of the
royal army medical corps officer has not al
ways been welcomed by the inhabitants, but
it has worked, and with magnificent success.
Camps which in previous wars would have
been deathtraps have had as low a mortality
rate as the most approved health resort. The
work of the battalion medical officer is not
showy, it is often monotonous, but it has
been invaluable, and has probably saved
more lives than all the other medical work
of the war."
' Medicine has scored throueh the medium
of preventive inoculation, another weapon,
an astounding success. Only the student of
the history ot warfare can be properly as
tonished at the history of this war. In the
past typhoid and dysentery have scourged
both sides impartially in every European
war to such an extent that the human killing
was put in the shade by the slaughter caused
1 jf T . tiL .1. i ;
ruisease. xn mis war, wnic ine mecnamsms
killing through human agency have out
stripped everything previously conceivable,
the typhoid and dysentery groups have
claimed a quite negligible toll of victims, ex
cept in a few unfortunate circumstances such
as arose at Gallipoli. Not only have typhoid
and bacillary dysentery been robbed of their
epidemic terrors, , but the troops of all
climates have been successfully guarded in
the east against plague and cholera. The
case for preventive use of vaccines is closed
It rests for all time upon incontrovertible
basis. On the other hand, it seemed at first
as if the sister art of the surgeon was to
have but an indifferent showing::
"Wounds were of an average gravity al
toeether bevond that expected from the ex
perience of the South African War, and
unlike them they proved to be almost in
every case heavily infected with organisms
from the cultivated soil on which the fighting
took place. Severe .suppuration was uni
versal, tetanus an gas gangrene were almost
epidemic among the wounded, and while the
fate of those witH penetrating wounds of the
body was almost assured! many died or com
paratively trival injuries for lack of early and
adequate treatment The medical forces
did wonderfully and gallantly, but like the
rest of the army they were quite inadequate
and unprepared in either knowledge or equip
ment.
"This picture of the fate of the wounded
oainfullv true of the first months of the war
has now been altered almost beyond recogni
tion. Universal serum treatment has almost
done away with tetanus. More and more
earlv and enertretic surgical treatment of all
wounds has very largely defeated gas-gan
grene. In our more recent battles more ana
more of the major operative work has been
carried out in casualty clearing stations and
advanced hospitals by surgical specialists.
Wounds are opened up, completely cleaned,
and in an increasing proportion of cases are
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closed completely ana immeaiateiy. as .
conseauence the men arrive at base Jios
pitals in England from five to 10 days after
being wounded, not as previously with pro
fusely suppurating wounds and the prospect
of months of illness and repeated operations,
but with their injuries already healed or
healinar. A conspicuous example of the im
provement which has been effected is that of
wounds of the knee-joint. Infection of this
joint, the largest and most complex in the
UnAyr i Ii3e hon nn nf ih mrtet ilistlv
dreaded events in surgery. Its ending was
at the test a permanently stiff and useless
joint, often amputation, and not rarely aeatn
Latelv it has been common to nna m a
single ward six or eight wounded knee'
joints all recovering, while perhaps two
thirds of them will have usetul joint move
ment."
The kev to the improvement lies in push
ing the surgeon with his increasing expe
rience ever nearer the fighting line. While
many of the wounds, through expedients like
these, allow of the attainment of the happiest
reiults, there are many others of such com
plexity and so intensely soiled that mucn
must happen before healing is possible. The
group is fortunately a diminishing one, al
though still very large. Current Opinion.
Rising Power of the Peanut
Humble Goober Doing Its Bit in Winning the War
(Robert H. Moulton in the Outlook.)
The boll-weevil, as a blessing in disguise,
has redeemed the south from the disgrace
of being a one-crop country. Cotton is no
longer autocrat. He has been dethroned by
the weevil, and must now take, hts place as
merely one of a democracy, or perhaps an
oligarchy, of crops, among which the once
humble peanut is rising to unwonted prom
inence.
In 1908 we raised $12,000,000 worth of
peanuts. A conservative valuation of this
yearns crop is $60,000,000. Texas alone has
200,000 acres. What is to be done with all
these millions of bushels? - Surely they are
not all to be sold on the street corners to
our boys for 5 cents a bag! By no means.
In the first place, the product is of high food
value higher even than wheat. The oil is
a better lard substitute than cottonseed oil.
It brings a higher price per gallon, and can
be made in the very same mills by the same
machinery that used to turn out cottonseed
oil. i
And who would ever think of a peanut in
connection with our munition plants? They
seem as far apart as the north and south
poles. Yet the peanut, in . the shape of
nitroglycerine, may sleep in the submarine
torpedo which is to destroy a great battle
ship, or it may send a half-ton projectile
flying forth from the mouth of a gun.
We now find that the meal mixed with
white flour makes a palatable and highly
nutritious bread, and that it may be used
for crackers and cakes. Peanut butter can
take the place of cow's butter: and peanut
meal, which is a by-product of the oil, makes
the best of stock tood. . '
In addition to the direct profits, the pea
nuts leave the land better off than when they
were planted. For, like many of their
cousins in the bean family, they gather and
deposit nitrogen in the soil.
In 1914 the United States imported 44,
549,789 pounds of peanuts and 1,332,108 gal
lons of peanut oil from Marseilles, Delft,
Hamburg, and other porU The nuts brought i
$1,899,237, and the oil, which was valued at
$915,939, went mostly into the manufacture
of butterine and other lard substitutes.
On the strength of these things the mill
men experimented with peanuts. The results
were so successful that the acreage in Texas
creased more than 1,000 per cent from 1915
to 1916. In that state peanuts and cotton,
acre for acre, as far as the value of the crops
is concerned, are now running neck and neck,
with the chances in favor of the peanut The
experimenters are raising the latter on the
demonstration larms and are producing oet-
ter results every season.
So surprising has been the success of the
experiments that the planters have begun
to look for the dark side of the silver lining.
The price of peanut products has gone up
WItn ail IIS companiun luuusiuiis. tnu
come crashing down at the end of the war?
How much danger is there- from over-production?
According to one of our peanut experts,
there is little danger of surfeiting the world
with peanut oil and cake, because the food
value is such that there is a universal mar
ket for them. The south abounds in sandy
soil that will produce .little cotton or grain.
If the peanut could submit specifications, it
would ask for just such soil. Vast tracts
where pine forests have stood may be made
useful and valuable by planting them with
peanuts. The cottonseed mills have a ca
pacity far beyond the available supply of their
raw material, and have therefore lain with
cold furnaces for a large part of the year.
But now that the machinery of these mills,
with slight adjustments that cost very little,
can be turned into peanut-oil plants as they
stand, thev will naturally welcome a new in
dustry that will extend figures on the credit
side of the ledger.
Neither Roosevelt Nor Taft
Bruning, Neb., Jan. 8. To the Edi
tor of The Bee: V. A. Bradshaw of
Geneva rives his individual views,
which I have read with great interest
making the statement that it would
not be out of place to have a true re
publican in the cabinet Therein I
fully agree with him, and feel proud
of our republican party's record; but
in asking for Theodore Roosevelt.
Therein I do not agree with him at
all and I am not for William lart.
Had William Taft. stood firm on the
protective tariff issue advocated by
the republican party instead of yleld
ine to the so-called reciprocity with
Canada, then there would have been
no cause for a discord, in tne repuD
lican party. Mr. Roosevelt tendered
himself as a candidate for a so-called
third party to defeat the republican
party which he accompnsuea. li ne
had anv business foresight he would
have known that neither he nor Taft
could be elected, and Woodrow Wil
son being the only democratic candi
date would be elected and by nis.
stand the democrats got their presi
dent and republicans were de
feated. I think a good, long sighted re
oublican would be as much in place
now as ever before, but it must oe one
with more business capacity than
either Taft or Roosevelt. J. T. DUIS.
they are raw, and fce ia aotins like wUdJ
roan.
Norah Then ataare. mvm. If he' acting
like a wolld man, raw mate It Juat the food
for him. Boetoa Tranaorlptv -
"Whafa the matter wltli that guyf Whom
I told him of the hundreda of people wha
couldn't get atroet care he. chuckled and
chuckled taslcab line." Buffalo
Express. .
So Waehlngton haa tone dryt"
"Yee."
"And what doea your hueband do nowt
Keeps a bottle at home, I presume." .
"Exactly. And It brings him home
promptly, I must say." Baltimore Ameri
can. Old Lady li'a very naughty for little
boys to smoke tobacco.
"Oo are yer callln' a little boy? And,
besides, thla ain't tobacco It's a cigar!"-
Cassell'a Saturday Journal.
"Talking about namee, there's an English
burplar here who first got into trouble In
London."
"How waa thatT'
"He broke Into a house with a jimmy,
and came out of It with a Bobby." Balti
more American.
SAID IN FUN.
I TODAY I
One Year Ago Today in the War.
Italian air squadrons bombed
Trieste.
V British captured Turkish lines near
Ux; Kgyptlun frontier. 1
Loudon reported Australian troops
"wore knocking on the doors of the
Holy. Laud."
Hip loy We Celebrate.
William M. Oilier, of the firm of
Wfaver & Oilier, born 1860.
Irving F.. Baxter, of the law firm
of Brown. Baxter & Van Dusen, born
183. . - '
Thomaa B. Coleman, assistant man
. iger of tha Midland Glass & Paint
company, born 1876.
Thomaa Dixon, author of "The
Clansman," born at Shelby ,N. C, 64
,ear ago today.
Rear Admiral Leigh C. Palmer,
born In Missouri, 45 years ago today.
riila Day In History. .
1805 Territory of Michigan created
aut of the northern part, of Indiana
territory.
1861 The federals under General
MeClernand captured Fort Hindman,
on the Arkansas river.
1868 The ship Leibnitz reached
New York from Hamburg, after a
passage of 60 days, during which 105
ot tha passengers had died of cholera.
188 General Benjamin F. Butler,
:Ml war commander and governor of
Massachusetts, died In Washington.
IX C. Born at Deerfleid, N. II., No
vember 5, 1818. '
Just 3Q Years Ago Today
The engagement of the Fleming
company in "Around The World in
80 Days," came to a close, a large
audience being present
There was a collision between a ca
ble car and a horse rar at the cross
ing on Dodge atid Fifteenth streets.
Th cable ran Into the horse car and
knocked it oft the track. The horse
car waa somewhat damaged, but no
one injured. . .
J. Francis, assistant general pas
senger agent of the B. & M., is in
St Louis attending a meeting ot the
transcontinental lines.
An Interesting meeting of the Vet
eran Firemen's association waa held
at Chief Galllghan's office with" Frank
P. Hanlon in the chair in the absence
of Mr. Simpson. (
In response to a call Issued a meet
ing of about (0 citizens was held at
tha city council chamber for the pur
pose of reorganizing the board of
trade.
Peppery Points
Washington Post: The only thing
that worries newly-weds is that Herb
Hoover may come out any moment
with a request for a kissless day.
Louisville-Courier Journal: Road
house" is a modern euphemism for
an institution which combines the
functions of two t dives, with uglier
names. . S . '
Minneapolis Tribune: It will be in
teresting to see what Mr. McAdoo'll
do when some citizen calls him up
late at night to ask what time the
next train goes to Blllville.
Philadelphia Ledger: The ruling
of the Treasury department that there
will be no more new public buildings!
aunng tne war assures at least one
porkless day in congress.
Wall Street Journal: In a western
insane asylum there is a patient who
thinks himself the kaiser, and in Ber
lin there Is one who knowa he is
and they are of one mind.
New York World: The Massachu
setts women's committee of the
Council of National Defense requests
women not to talk about the war in
public. Why this special sex cau
tion? Are men possibly more discreet
in war talk!
New York World: It appears that
the Carmlni church at Padua, de
stroyed by air raiders, was "erected to
commemorate the end of the bruital
Nebraska Pointers
A pie and cake social put the fin
ishing touches on the Red Cross drive
at Bailey school house, near Stock
viile and cleaned up- 850 for the fund.
A pie and cake Social in these con
servation days suggests a brand ot
high living that should be investi
gated by the State Council of Defense.
The most insinuating and irresist
ible drive for cash tier launched in
Nebraska radiates from the internal
revenue collector's office. Country
papers carry touching missives from
Collector Loomls on the subject of
income taxes, and a follow-up system
of field men call on the folks to ex
plan the simplicity of "coming
across." A slacker might duck a
Red Cross, a Young Men's Christian
association or a Knights of Columbus
drive and "get away with if but if
one'a income goea over the exemption
limit it's dig up or do time. ' Your
Uncle needs the money. y:
Newspaper men when tied to the
shop dream lecures ot the Joys of
life in the great outdoors and long
for the "pep4' of prairie ozone. Edi
tor Pease of the Plainvlew Republi
can threw off the shackles of the
shop and cavorted on the neighbor
ing highways delivering rural mall.
The pulsing vigor of fresh air treat
ment made him as skittish aa a doped
racehorse and distance simply van
ished when he hit the road. That is,
for a while. Six months waa a-plenty.
People and Events
People who live near the lava belt , of
Vesuvius have no reason to worry over
the fuel question.
There is talk in Minnesota of suspending
the chartering of new banks during the war.
F. W. Pearson, state superintendent of
banks, urges the prohibition as a means of
conserving money for war bonds.
Benjamin P. Cheney of Boston, once
rated as a multimillionaire, yachtsman and
typical spender, has gone to the wall, a bank
rupt Cheney made the money rly while
it lasted. Magnificent were his entertain
ments as became one of the first families
harking back to the ' Puritans. The last
straw on the Cheney back was the failure
of the United States to take over Brewster
Island in Boston harbor for war purposes.
The island is Cheney's summer home.
It s all the fault of the stupid German-
Americans." said Albert Kaitschmidt, con
victed in Detroit of plotting bomb raids on
Canada. Kaitschmidt says he Germanized
the Deutsche bund in Detroit and bad the
members rolling in money in the belief that
it was going to support widows and or
phans m uermany. instead it was wasted in
plotting schemes and providing the chief
plotter with an easy living. The deception
proved the undoing of Kaitschmidt and ac
counts for his grouch against the "stupid
bunders."
"I cannot think that the people of Illinois
want to see me die in prison," said old Doc
Blunt, 65, of Chicago, after receiving a five
year sentence for prescribing narcotics for
all who had the price. Standing alone the
pathetic remark would move a sob squad to
tears. It sounds a different note beside the
court's explanation. "This man has believed
himself above the law," said the jifdge.
"When he was convicted more than 18
months ago he immediately procured bail,
appealed the case and returned to the illegal
practices for "which he was convicted. In
three months he sold 25,000 prescriptions ir.j.i, ttt i r? s v. t
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Question of the Sabbath.
Omaha, Jan. 10. To the Editor of
The Bee: In answer to Cyrus Steb-
bin's Sabbath question, I will give
that: At the Sixth Ecumenical
Council held at Constantinople in the
year 680, various forms and teach
ings of the church were changed. The
Lamb was used on a spherical cross
as the symbol of the resurrection of
the sun from below the equator to
above the equator, from the fishes in
to the Iamb; the sun being in the ex
treme east March 21 thence gradually
climbing upward from whence comes
the word "Resurgum," to rise, or to
resurrect from death to life and Eas
ter was celebrated, the sun crossed the
equator, and a new year was born. It
was in 680, that the lamb on the cross
was changed to the man on the cross.
The bird is resurrected from the
shell; the trees begin to be green,
the sheep bring forth the lamb: life
in all the kingdoms comes forth in,
various spienaor: an is Deing resur
rected from the sleep of winter to the
awakening of spring. While various
religious bodies celebrate different
days in the week as their Sao bam,
the natural day of rest is taught by
astrology. Since the seven days of
the Week correspond, with seven
planets Sun for Sunday, moon for
Monday and so on. If you were born-
on Saturday, then your seventh day
would be Friday, hence you feel by
nature tired on Friday and should
therefore rest on Friday. If you were
born on Tuesday, then your seventh
day would be Monday, and you should
rest on Monday and so on. But for
the convenience 6f all concerned one
day in the week was set aside for both
animals, slaves, servants and all, to
rest. ,
The ancient Druids, like the astro
logers rested each on their individual
seventh day. Constantlne wanted to
be different than the Jews who had
Saturday for a Sabbath day, or the
Mohammedans who 'had Monday for
a Sabbath, or the Buddhists who had
Friday: or the Greeks who had
Jupiter, day or Thursday, so he made
law to rest on Sunday "or on tne
day of the Sun.
Now when we come to Jesus, we
must leave personalities out and use
prinicoles. The Bible is a book of
symbols written In Arabic and Ori
ental style and is meant for moral
principles, and Jesus is meant for
'truth," but not a man! . John 14
v. 17: "Truth whom the world can
not receive.". John 8, v. 82: "Truth
shall make you free;" John 15. v. 26.
John 17 v. 17-18-19: "Thy word is
Truth;" John 18 v. 87: "Jesus or
Truth;" John 16 v. 13: "The Spirit of
Truth will guide you into all Truth;"
John 16' v. 7: "The comforter that fs
to come means Truth." Esoterically
we speak of the resurrection when a
person dies, because the moment one
dies, the moment that person is resur
rected from the body or shell, into new
life and his soul (esoterically speak
ing, conscience) will judge him; thou
sands of beautiful beings are now
daily resurrected on the battle
fields of Europe to keep marching on
in all the glory of manhood. Resur
rected from the physical body into
the spiritual body. 1. Cor. 15 v. 40 to
44; and 1 Cor. 3 v. 16-17: also 1. Cor,
15. v. 61. It has been the mistake of
centuries to preach the letter and
leave the spirit out.
I hope this war will bury the letter
and resurrect the spirit, and that each
day will be a Sabbath day, a holy day,
and the spirit of truth become mani
fest in air humanity which means the
second coming of Christ
A. C. C. PFUHL,
THE FLAG SPEAKS.
Walter E. Peck In Hamilton Literary
Magaslne.
Ribbons of white in the flag of our land.
Say, shall we live in fear?
Speak! For I wait for the word from your
Wet with the brine of the sea-going ships;
Speak! Shall wo cringe 'neath an Attllaa
whips T
Speak! For I wait to hear!
"This is our word," aaid the rlbbona of
white;
"This la the course to steer
Peace la our haven for foul or for fair ;
Won aa a maiden and kept as an heir.
Peace with the sunlight of God on her
; hair.
Peace, with an honor clear!"
Ribbons of red In the flag of our land,.
Bought for a price fult dear,
Bpeak! For 'tis Man that la asking Man,
Churl in the centuries' caravan,
Bpeak! For. he waits for your bold "1 canT
Speak! For be waits to hear!
"This Is our word,'' said tha ribbons ot red.
Slowly, with gase austere,
"War if we must in humanity's name.
Shielding A sister from sorrow and shame;
War upon beasts with the aword and with
fame!
War till tha Judge appear!"
Stars in a field of tha sky'a own blue.
Light of a midnight year.
Speak! For the opirlt of Man awaket.
Shoulders tha cross, and his couch forsakes,
Whispers a prayer, and the long way takes,
Speak! For-he waits to heart
"This is our word." said a star of white,
Set In the silken mere, -"Right
against Might on the land, on tha
sea!
Little and Great are the same to, mat ,
Only for Truth and for Liberty ,v :
Strike! For the hour is here!"
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"The gardener Is a natural grafter, but
he has one big advantage over the other
kinds'
"What is that?"
"Whatever he puts over on the public, he
can get them to swallow It" Baltimore
American.
"See anything unusual on your trip?"
"Yes. At one of the places where
stopped I found a ticket agent who didn't
seem annoyed when I asked tor a ticket.''
Detroit Free Press.
Mistress Norah. my husband is raving
over those lamb chops you sent up. He says
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tyranny of one of the IIohenstautTen The old shop looks better now and
chiefs who raided northern Italy 700
.years ago." It survived long enough
to become a monument to the brutal
war methods of Hohenzollera chiefs.
ye editor is back on the Job, grinding
out hot stuff in the usual way and
cheerfully boosting the conservation
of shoe leather, . ; ,i , . i .
Twice Told Tales
Professional Tact.
The conductor was looking for one
of his passengers in order to return
her ticket She was not in the Full
man, and the big dusky porter sug
gested that she might be on the ob
servation car. .
"How'll I know her when I see
her?" asked the conductor sharply.
"Ah'll Jes d'scribe huh, suh. Ah'll
d'acribe huh tu yuh."
f'Go ahead," said the conductor. ,
Th porter scratched his head.
"Wal, suh," he began, "wal, suh,
she's got on a black dress wld a
wt'te collah, suh an' ah's Jes done
shine huh shoes, suh." New York
Post.
Garden Camouflage
Frederick W. Vanderbilt at din
ner in Poughkeepsie, praised the pro
duction of his war garden.
"If I told you all that my war gar
den has produced," ne said, "you
wouldn't believe me. You'd think I
was as mendacious a joker as Mark
Twain.
"A young girl once asked Mark
Twain to write in her autograph al
bum. She said it must be something
she could show her mother. The great
humorist dipped his pen in the ink
and wrote:
"'Never tell a lie.
" 'Beautiful', said the girl, in a
slightly disappointed voice; but Mark
wasn't done yet He dipped his pen
in the ink again and added: v
"'Except to keen In practice.
New York Mail
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