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up and many murders. caused many wars and covered countless fields -with dead. Of course, all men should be tem perate, should avoid excess, should keep the golden path between ex tremes, should gather roses, not thorns. The only way to make men temperate Is to develop the brain. When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages. When the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men are civilized. The peo ple need education, facts, philosophy. Drunkenness is one form of intem perance, prohibition is another form. Another trouble is that these little laws and ordinances can not be en forced. Both parties want votes, and to get votes they will allow unpopular laws to sleep neglected and finally refuse to enforce them. These spasms of virtue, these convulsions of con science, are soon over, and then comes a long period of neglectful rest Robert H. Lanyon, 408 Insur-i ance Exchange. P. s.-WiU see if you DARE print this. R. H. L. o o WAR ODDITIES Sheffield. Over 115,000 second hand razors have been collected here and 75,000 have been repaired, reset and sent out to the troops. London. Among ships' cargoes captured by the British were: Human hair, buffalo horns,. African and In dian curiosities, sausage skins, tooth picks and mouth organs. Amsterdam. AH bachelors In the Saxon town of Oschatz not serving in the German army are subjected to a heavy tax. Manchester. The Manchester postoffice is "manned" by a staff of women letter sorters and letter car riers, while Marchester park gardens are "gardened" by women. Paris. "Swat the fly" has become one of the mottos of the medical s,taff of the French army. Individual swat- Religion has 1 ting, however, has been supplemented by wholesale scientific swatting. The methods used do not make delectable reading for newspaper subscribers, but are most efficacious in preserv ing the health of the army. Zurich. According to a statement published here 80 per cent of students of German .universities are serving in the army. London. The war will produce a higher grade of mental stability than has been apparent for years, accord ing to Dr. Wm. Graham, famous Eng lish alienist Birkenhead, Eng. Women con ductors, all wives of soldiers, are op erating on local tramways. o-o GAFFNEY WILL QUIT MUNICH POST AT REQUEST OF U. S. T ST JOJmSAFFNEY-" He will resign his post as United States consul general at Munich, Germany, at the request of Washing ton because of his partisan utter ances on the European war. Gaffney issued a statement at Berlin in which he denied he had given offense to the Ilriti8h colonyat Munich, AtHH