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Important News Events of the World Summarized .Washington A congressional recess to January 8 was voted when the house at Wash lngton adopted the senate resolution to that effect Feasibility of raising funds for a •oldler bonus by a tax on beer and light wine will be considered by the house ways and means committee, Ghalrman Fordney announced at "Washington. A Washington dispatch says the government railroad in Alaska will be opened with elaborate ceremonies early in February. France has accepted Secretary Hughes' proposal for a capital ship fleet of 175,000 tons. She drops her demand for ten modern battleships and battle cruisers, says a Washington dis patch. The Supreme court of the United States at Washington adjourned until Tuesday, January 8, next. A demand for deportation of viola tors of the Volstead act who are not citizens of the United States was made by the temperance board of the Meth odist Episcopal church at Washington. Henry Ford offered to complete the Muscle Shoals water pow^r develop ments at Florence, Ala., for the gov ernment at a cost of $30,000,000. This offer, it was announced at Washing ton, was $15,000,000 under the lowest estimate made by army engineers. Prohibition activities by federal agents In Georgia have resulted In the seizure of property during the last month valued at $128,607, State Di rector Dlsmuke reported to Commls Bloner Haynes at Washington. 'a Woodrow Wilson has a feeling of the "deepest sympathy" for President 'Hardiife in the present International situation, it was said by a close per sonal friend who had Just had a long .'.conference with him at Washington. The demand of the French govern ment for a naval rating higher than Japan's and the right to construct ten 85,000-ton post-Jutland dreadnoughts by 1935, struck like a bombshell at Washington. .Domestic Ilariy Lyde, angered because his wife refused a reconciliation, slashed their two children to death with a razor, seriously injured the wife and then killed himself at Mount Clemens, Mich. As a result of a gas'explosion and fire at the Wright store at Columbus, O., three women are dead, many others are lying in hospitals at the point of death and 30 others were injured. Mrs. Susie Monteone was killed as she slept and her husband seriously wounded by an unidentified "ax man," who attempted to rob Monteone's store and set fire to the ljullding at Bir mingliani, Ala. The constitutionality of the Califor nia antlalien land law, forbidding aliens ineligible to citizenship to own or lease agricultural land, was upheld by a court of three federal judges at San Francisco. V' Gordon Woodbury of Manchester, •N. H., is soon to start on a cruise in the Mediterranean and the South Sea Islands on the schooner Half Moon, recently owned by the former Ger m" emperor. Thomas Ball, freight train conduc tor, lost both legs when lie threw a boy out of the path of a train at Wich ita, Kan. The boy was uninjured. Both of Ball's legs were severed. Secret service operatives in charge of Capt. Thomas I. Porter seized $3, *000,000 worth of counterfeit revenue stamps in a raid on the third-floor home of Mr. and Mrs. EmUie Carlione at Chicago. The Oakland mill of the American Writing Paper company has been re opened at Manchester, N. H., after having been closed for a year. All the former employees were hired. Fire In the Casino theater at Daven port, la., conjulotely wrecked that mo tion picture house. Twenty-two large lake steamers were ashore on tlie south shore of Lake Erie at the port of Buffalo, N. Y., 'as a result of Sunday's gale. Their value Is $14,000,0(10. All carry grain cargoes estimated at 7,700,000 bushels and valued at over $7,000,000. Chicago was mopped drv over the week-end. From the exclusive Casino club on the lake shore to the alley -corner saloon "liack of the yards" the hand of the law swept the eitv. Some 150 saloonkeepers and f00 other per "sons were taken to poiica cells. j, 4*• Reduction of rates on coal from Chicago and west to Pacific coast points was announced at San Fran cisco by the Southern Pacific com pany. 1 Five armed bandits held upv the Steelton branch of the Citizens' Trust and Savings bank at Columbus, O., and escaped with $10,000. Attacked suddenly by a bull in his pasture west of Janesvllle, Wis., Otto Westendorff, farmer, was tossed high in the air and received injuries from which he died. Approximately 350 men employed In the car shops and allied departments of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad were laid off at Green Bay, Wis. Nearly $2,500,000 Foreign- went to 2,229 Osage Indians at Ponca City, Okla., in Christmas checks of $1,100 each, a quarterly division of oil royalties from Osage lands. Temperatures ranging from 5 to 15 degrees below zero in Montana and zero to 10 degrees. In northern Wyoming and western Dakota, were reported to the weather bureau at Denver, Colo. f. Dr. T. J. T. Smith was killed at Dal las, Tex., by a bullet fired Into his back while he slept by his wife, Mrs. Bertha Smith, who sought to justify her act by charging the physician was cruel to her. For the $31,000 robbery of the Bank of Panama, Benjamin Battleson was summoned from Sunday evening serv ices at the Free Methodist church and arrested at Greenville, 111. A great cordon of police and fed eral agents were thrown about the financial district In New York to guard the stock exchange and Wall street banking houses against a possible bomb disaster. Mrs. Freida Zimmerman Is in the county jail at Waukesha, Wis., charged with murder as the result of finding of the bodies of her two stepchildren in a cistern back of their.. home In Oconomowoc. A 95-mile-an-hour gale swept the city of Buffalo, N. Y., uprooting trees, tearing down chimneys, smashing plate-glass windows and piling up the water In the harbor to an unprece dented stage. One man was killed in the storm. The Russian relief bill, appropriat ing $20,000,000 for the relief of starv ing Russians, passed the house at Washington. The death of Cardinal Francis Mary Roverie de -Cabrieres, bishop of Mont peller, France, was announced at Paris. The United States radio station at Eagle City, Alaska, 100 miles north of Dawson, Y. T., was burned, only the 100-foot steel tower escaping destruc tion. The station cost morelian $100, 000. Twenty United States destroyers of the Asiatic fleet anchored In the har bor at Manila, P. I., permitting 2,000 sailors to pass the holidays in Manila. The destroyers are to engage in ma neuvers/ The village of Ayalia has been cap tured by the Spanish forces operating in the region inhabited by the Beni Arros tribe of Moors. .The operation proved difficult, says a Tetuan (Moroc co) dispatch. "j" & Lloyd George, in a letter read by Arthur Griffith before Dnll Elreann at Dublin, promised Ireland equality with Canada and Australia within the Brit ish empire and a seat in the League of Nations. British authorities In India have im prisoned 5,000 nationalist leaders with in a week, according to Taraknath Das, directing head of the Indian In dependence movement in this country at Washington. ,, s. 4. Coincident with an official announce ment at Madrid of a solution of the coal crisis and of an increase in em ployment in Spanish mines, 13,000 miners went on strike in the Asturian coal field. A Tokyo dispatch says that more than twenty socialists, spreading rad ical doctrines among soldiers, were arrested at Otsuka, an army camp for military maneuvers. A flood of rad ical literature has deluged Japan, Bm Advices from Valdlvla, Chile, say volcanoes l'uyenue anil Caulle, near the Argentine border, are In eruption. Numerous earthshocks in the vicinity of Lake l'uyenue, east of Vaidivia, have been reported. Heavy storms resulted in flooding large sections of Copenhagen, great damage being done. Other Scandina vian ports were similarly affected. Marshal Foch and former Premier Viviani, returning from their trip to the United States, arrived at Havre on the steamship Paris. T)i Valera and (intavh clashed In Dnil at Dublin. De Valera finally agreed tiv a plebisclf" on the treaty. I'.ritish are to hold troops In Ireland umil viie treaty is ratified. .'••• iw.% t, 3 I AUDUBON COUNTY JOURNAL Thieves stole $2,000 worth of silks from the Edward Kunz store at Wes ley recently. Rudolph Chester of Hampton was fined $68 for driving an automobile loaded with dynamite, while intoxi cated. Iowa postmasters appointed by President Harding were: Wallace R. Ramsay, of Belmond, and Ella Kolt, of Blanchard. Because his children objected to his second marriage, Frank Buckner, 66, of Audubon, drank poison and then hanged himself in his barn. Judge Rockafellow has directed the clerk of courts to dismiss all women drawn for jury duty in Page county. He will not permit them to serve. John Schaack, charged with shoot ing at Editor Moscrip of Marshall town, has been released on $5,000 bail furnished by his son, J. R. Schaack, of Des Moines. Appeal to the Supreme court will be taken by the S. L. Collins Oil com pany from the decision of Judge Hume sustaining the constitutionality of the state law imposing a tax of $3 on oil stations. Fire of an unknown origin destroy ed a large barn on the farm An ton Peterson near Griswold, causing a loss* of $5,000. The barn was filled with hay, grain and a large amount of farm machinery. Lawrence Hasselman, a farmer of Sully, filed a voluntary petition in bankrutcy in United States District court recently. His debts amount to $1,335. The schedules show that he has assets amounting to $1,055. Word was received at Ames recent ly that William Barr, prominent state breeder, was elected president of the Chester White Breeders' association and selected as a judge for the inter national stock show next year. Fred P. Nelson, 55 years old, a far mer near Clinton, died in Jane Lamb hospital following an accident of one week ago. He was driving his team in his barnyard, was caught in the lines and. fell under the wheels which passed over him causing internal in jury. The following Iowa postmasters were appointed recently: Gladden A. Archer, Cumberland Mary B. Gib son, Emerson Marie C. Trott. Oak dale Herschel H. Thornton, Adel Henry C. Hayes, Qenterville Ivan McCreedy, Riverside Merle H. Lay cock, Zearing. Frank J. Bushman, a member of the firm of Bullard Brothers Ossian was throwing kerosene on a fire when the can exploded, throwing the burning kerosene over him. He rushed out in to the yard, but was. unable to beat out the flames. His wife was severely burned about the hands and face in an attempt to aid him. Lewis Jones, son or Sheriff W. H. Jones of Woodbury county, and Ha sen Kaled, packing house striker, were killed at Sioux City recently in a battle in the packing house strike district. Kaled was killed by either Sheriff .Tones or his son.1 both of them having fired after Kaled shot young Jones. Robbery of the Stockman's Savings bank at Long Grove, proved fatal to one robber and an accomplice Is in I custody. The pair entered the bank with drawn revolvers and as one bank employe was handing over cash, another shot him. The second ban dit, covered bv the employes revol ver, surrendered. Cass county members of the countv farm bureau will cut their corn acre age the coming season below -what it has been heretofore. This will con form with a resolution adopted by the bureau's board of directors calling on the members to reduce the corn acreage as a means of increasing the price of corn. M. A. Lindsay, county agent of Linn county voluntarily has reduced his annual pay $400. The reduction, which was accepted by the board, be comes effective Jan. 1. It cuts his salary to $3,200 a year. The farmers voted to recommend to the county board of supervisors that gravel be used on roads next year to the exclu sion of paving. At the door of the home of his di vorced wife 'at Rockwell City, Louis Seger, 22, recently discharged a shot gun into the body of the 16-year-old girl who had divorced him after two years of matrimony, and then calmly re-loaded the shotgun and killed him self in the same manner. Both died instantly. A baby, 15 months old. is being cared for by relatives. Twenty men and boys of the neigh borhood went to the Pavlik and Mil ner farm near Westfleld and husked nearly 1,000 bushels of corn for these young farmers who have had a run of hard luck this fall. Mr. Pavlik is in a hospital at present recovering from a surgical operation. The teach er of the nearby school closed, that her older pupils might go and help. The three men, Willima Hiidebrand Albert Kennedy, and Jacob Lane, who were arrested in St. Paul as suspects in the theft of 520,000 worth of furs from the Williges store at Sioux City, have been brought back to stand trial. Facing ouster proceedings on charges of wilful negiect of dutv. Ma yor N. W. Frisbie of Waterloo tender ed his resignation. The resignation of Halfred II. Young, chief of police, is expected soon. The ouster, pro ceedings filed by E. H. MeOov. repre senting Attorney General (iibson's ot ftce will bo dropped following the resignations. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL rondaySchool Lesson' (By REV. P. B. FITZWATBR, D. D.. Teacher of English Bible In the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) Copyright, 1922, Western Newspaper Union. LESSON FOR JANUARY 1? THE REVOLT OF JEROBOAM. LESSON TEXT-I Kings 12:1-33. GOLDEN TEXT—Thou Shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any like ness of any thins that is in heaven above, •r that la In the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them aor serve them.—Ex. 20:4, 6. REFERENCE MATERIAL —I Kings 11:26-43 13:17-14, 20 II CJhron. 12 and 13 Isa. 44:9-20. PRIMARY TOPIC—The Story of Two Kings. JUNIOR TOPIC—Two Kings Who Dis obeyed God. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC —Two Kings Who Lost Their Opportuni ties. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC -Industrial Unrest and Its Cure. The movements leading up to the division of the kingdom began during Solomon's reign. I. The People's Demand (w. 1-4). This was occasioned by the burden of excessive taxation and enforced labor required by Solomon in order to build costly houses and temples for Ms heathen wives. Owing to the mul tiplicity of his wives, this became very burdensome. The people were groan ing under Its weight. Upon the ac cession of the new king, Rehoboam, the people through their lender, Jero boam, came with the request that their burdens be made lighter, promis ing loyalty to him on the condition of lightened burdens. II. Rehoboam's Foolish Decision w. 5-15). 1. Rehoboam consulted with the old men (w. 5-7). He at once consulted the old men of experience who had been Solomon's advisers. Being ac quainted with the conditions as im posed by Solomon, and knowing the temper of the people, they advised that the people's request be granted. 2. Rehoboam consulted the young men who had grown up with him (w. 8-11). These young men were most likely half-brothers, sons of Solomon's many wives. Being thus brought up in the luxury of the harem, they were Ignorant of the real rights of the peo ple therefore they advised that the burdens be Increased. 8. Rehoboam follows the advice of the young men (vv. 12-15). At the ap pointed time he announced his pur pose to the people. He answered them roughly, asserting his purpose to In crease their burdens and sorrows. Rehoboam lost the great opportunity of his life. III. The Revolt of the Ten Tribes (vv. 16-24). Upon Rehoboam's announcement of his rash purpose, all Israel cried out, "What portion have vte in David? Neither have we an inheritance in th« son of Jesse to your tents, O Israel! Now see to thin£ own house, David." Rehoboam's attempt to collect tribute from the ten tribes was met by ston ing Adoram, the tribute gatherer, so that he died. Rehoboam's failure to heed the advice of experienced men caused the work of two generations to be undone in a moment. IV. Jeroboam's Substitute Religion (vv. 25-33). 1. He established calf-worship (vv. 25-33). (1) His pretext for (vv. 2G, 27). He feared lest the religious unity should heal the political separation, Ilis plea was that 'the people would go back to Jerusalem to worship, and therefore would gradually be led to acknowledge allegiance to Rehoboam, and his own life would be taken. This act of his had Its root in his heart of unbelief. God had promised through the Prophet Ahijah to build him a sure house, even as he had 'built for David (I Kings 11:3S). Had he be lieved God, this fear would have been dispelled. Jeroboam only used re ligion to secure personal ends. He was too shrewd a politician to do away with, religion. He knew that re ligion ivas a powerful factor In man's life. (2) The calves set up (vv. 28-30). When Jeroboam set up these Idols he said, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of Egypt." His religion was the religion of convenience. 2. His scheme of worship (vv. 81-33). (1) He built houses of high places (v." 31). This was against the direct command of God. (2) He made priests of the lowest of the people (v. 31). God had set aside the tribe of Levi to fill the office of priesthood. In this again, he disobeyed God. (3) He changed the day of the feast of the tabernacle (v. 32). The time of this feast was set by JeliovaJi (Lev. 23:33-34). (4) Jeroboam himself in trudes into the priest's oflice (v. 33). This act of presumption on his part was the climax of his godless acts. All this grew out of a wicked heart. Israel Turns From Moses. I And when the people saw ihat Moses I delayed to come down out of the I mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us lor as tor this Moses, tho man that brought us up out of the taiul of lCu.vpt. we wot not what is become of him.—Exodus 32 1. Faith Is Substance of Things. Faith Is the substance of things hoped Tor, the evidence of tilings uot Been.—Hebrews, 11:1. r^w. PROVERBS HELD IN COMMON Remarkable Similarity of Ideaa Noted Among Nations, Both of the Old and New World. The similarity of Ideas all over the world Is found in the similarity ol ex pressions to convey the Ideas. The old English proverb "A fool and bis money are soon parted," finds Its counterpart In the phrase, "There la no medicine for a fool." But the Japanese also claim that by good .management they can do something even with fools, when they say, "Fools and sclssora move according to the mode of using them." Some of us car ry our Latin with us all our lives, just becanse we had a good teacher. To these, the old Latin saying, "The eagle does not catch flies." (Aqulla non capit muscas) will recall old memories of the pride and sarcasm of the Ro mans. So also will they be pleased to read the Japanese aphorism, "The fal con does not peck at ears of corn," which is true, as falcons, especially those of the peregrine type, are much more likely to seize and carry small animals like lambs, rabbits, chickens. —Philadelphia Ledger. Why Worry? We Judge the future by the past. There was a time when earth condi tions did not admit of either plant or animal life. Conditions are now favor able to life and progress and will continue so for many thousand years, but both geology and astronomy teach us that a time must come-when all life here must battle against nature and finally lose the fight and disap pear. It must decline at the next gla cial period when most of the globe will be gripped In snow and ice. At a more remote period there will be a cold, dead earth without the possi bility of life owing to constant radi ation of earth's heat. But that will be millions of years in future and na ture will destroy us long before that time. 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