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Carranza Envoy Arrives at
Capital But Disclaims
Carrying Dispatch
OFFICIALS PUZZLED
AND UP IN THE AIR
Strong Body of Soldiers Is
Being Gathered Near
American Border
San Antonio, Tex., May 29.—Re
ports concerning the concentra
tion of Mexican troops near Chi
huahua have been transmitted to
headquarters here by Gen. Bell at
El Paso. It is indicated that the
force massed in the territory num
bers approximately 20,000 men.
Washington, D. C., May 29. —Manuel
Mendez an attache of Gen. Carranza'a
foreign office, arrived here today and
conferred with Eliseo Arredondo, the
Mexican ambassador, but denied that
he brought a note as has been expect
ed or that he brought any instructions
from his chief. He declared he was
merely in the United States on
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Mr. Arredondo and other Mexican of
ficials professed to be puzzled. It has
been reported from Mexico City and
the border that a special messenger
was bringing a new communication
from Gen. Carranza. No indication of
its contents has been given but it gen
erally has been assumed by American
officials that the expected note renew
ed the demand for the withdrawal of
American forces or made a protest
against the second punitive expedition
led by Col. Sibley and Maj. Langhorne
whiefrhas-however, returned to Amer
ican territory. At the Mexican embas
sy it was said that if a note was com*
ing it probably would be brought by
some other messenger.
Representations are about to be
made to the state department for the
release of
a
quantity of copper and ma­
chinery consigned to the Carranza gov
ernment but not detained in New York
Mr. Arredondo declared today, that,
lacking other instructions, this was the
only question he had to take up with
the state department at this time.
Special Agent Rodgers at Mexico
City telegraphed that the note should
have reaohed Washington yesterday.
He has been assured that it will not
be made public until delivered to Sec
retary Lansing. Mr. Arredondo, how
ever, reiterated that he had no official
advices that a note was on its way.
MEETING DATE IN DOUBT.
Columbus, N. M., May 29.—No word
has been received from Gen. Gavira
regarding the date for his conference
with Gen. Pershing. As Gen. Pershing
is understood to have selected
a
spot
near Colonia Dublan for the meeting,
the time, it is said, has been left to
the convenience of the Mexican leader.
It is believed that Gen. Gavira is in
communication with Gen. Carranza,
receiving instructions as to the prop
ositions to be laid before Gen. Per
shing which will have to do more or
less with the present dispositions of
American troops in Chihuahua.
It is expected Gen. Gavira will re
mind Gen. Pershing that the further
presence of American troops in Mexi
co is unnecessary and that until the
troops are withdrawn demonstrations
against the American troops by the
civilian population are inevitable.
According to information received
here tonight, several bandit bands are
operating south of the American lines
In territory recently evacuated by
Gen. Pershing's columns.
VILLA CACHE FOUND.
Field Headquarters, near Namiquipa,
Mexico, May 28.—(via wireless to
Columbus, N. M., May M.)—Ten ma
chine guns, 380 rifles and a quantity of
ammunition discovered in a Villa
cache near here were brought to field
headquarters today. Military authori
ties here cling to the belief that the
cache contained a greater quantity of
the armament which Villa was report
ed to have hidden in the Bachiniba
district on his northward march before
the raid upon Columbus, N. M.
American army intelligence officers
are seeking further hiding places of
weapons and ammunition.
RAIN INSURANCE
AFFECTED BY WAR
New York, May 29. —The European
war has a marked effect Vipon such an
apparently unrelated matter of rain in
surance in New York City. An organ
ization which will give a musical fes
tival next Sunday afternoon at the
Polo grounds cabled to Lloyds In Lon
don asking the price of a $10,000 policy
Insuring it against loss by rain on that
day. The reply was that the normal
cost of Buch a policy was 5 per cent
but that "under existing conditions of
military stress it undoubtedly would
be far beyond this sum." a
INVADES GREECE
PEOPLE EXCITED
GREEK TROOPS' FALL BACK WITH.
OUT RESISTING ADVANCE OF
THE INTRUDERS.
Paris, May 29.—A news dispatch
from Athens says that grave trouble
has broken out there following the
news of the invasion of Macedonia by
the Bulgarians.
Bulgarian troops crpsed the Greek
frontier on May 26, and. occupied the
Greek forts of Rupel, Dragotin and
Spatovo. The Greek troops which had
garrisoned these forts withdrew on
the advance of the Bulgarians, who
claimed permission from Athens for
their act. The Bulgarians were said
to be led by German officers who ex
plained to the commanders of the
Greek forts that the central powers
were merely being accorded the same
privilege that had been given the
allies in permitting them to occupy
Saloniki.
It was reported from Athens yester
day -that feeling was running very
high in the Greek capital over the Bul
garian invasion. The Herald, the
organ of M. Venizelos, appeared yes
terday with a block border ar«d con
tained a fiery article from the pen of
the former premier.
WAR SUMMARY.
A Bulgarian army of 25,000 has in
vaded Greek Macedonia and is said to
be making its way southeastward
toward the Aegean seaport of Kavala,
northeast of Saloniki. The Greeks
have evacuated a number of forts
along the Struma riveV, without re
sistance. The rejuvenated Serbian
army, estimated at 80,000 to 100,000,
has landed at Saloniki to reinforce the
British and French troops already
there.
On the French front around Verdun
only artillery bombardments have
been in progress during the last
twenty-four hours.
In the Alsace region the French
have put down an attempt of the Ger
mans to advance.
The Russians have stopped an of
fensive movement by the Germans in
the regian of Lake Drisviaty.
The Austrian offensive agair st the
Italians southeast of Trent continues,
but Rome reports that wherever in
fantry attacks were made, the Aus*
trians were repulsed.
U. S. MAIL 82IZED.
New York, May 29. —The Norwegian
American line steamer Kristianiafjord,
which arrived today from Bergen,
called at Kirkwall in acordance with
directions from officers of the line. The
captain reported that the British auth
orities took from the steamer at Kirk
wall 794 sacks of mail.
CEBIUIISLH11IFIIII
Soldiers of the Kaiser Nearly Hemmed
In By The Various Forces Work
ing Against Them.
London, May 29. —The British, Bel
gian and Portuguese forces who have
invaded German East Africa are slow
ly but surely forming a ring around the
Germans while Gen.. Smuts, the Boer
commander of the South African forces
is rounding up the Germans who are
defending the Usanbara railway and
has occupied one of the important sta
tions on that line as well as other
towns in the district, according to an
official report Issued today.
A British force has penetrated twen
ty miles into German territory on the
front between Lakes Nyassa and Tan
ganyika.
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PORK BILL" IS NSSED
Senate Votes on Rivers and Harbors
Appropriations and Decides to
Spend Many Millions.
Washington, D. C., May 29.—The
senate passed today the rivers and
harbors appropriation bill carrying ap
I proximately $43,000,000 by a vote of
'35 to 32 after adding many amend
ments.
An amendment already adopted for
improving navigation in the Illinois
river, projected by the state of Illinois,
was reeonsidered and a proviso was
added limiting to 250,000 cubic feet
per minute the water that may be tak
en from the great lakes for improving
the river and sluicing the Chicago
drainage canal.
BRITONS POSTPONE
GREAT HOLIDAYS
London, May 29.—At a conference
today between David, Lloyd-George,
minister of munitions, and representa
tives of various trades unions, it was
agreed unanimously that the Whitsun
tide holidays would be postponed in
the cases of munitions workers in or
der that the present efforts for accel
eration of the output of munitions may
be continued without interruption. It
was decided that the workers need
not give over the holidays entirely but
that it be recommended that they be
postponed two months.'
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VOLUME SIXTY-EIGHT OTTUMWA. WAPELLO COUNTY, IOWA, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1916
leREAT EMPIRE
BUILDER IS DEAD
James J. Hill Passes Away
After Making Heroic
Battle for Life
UNCONSCIOUS FOR
LAST TWELVE HOURS
History Is Like Romance
of Fiction Developed
Whole Northwest
St Paul, Minn., May 29. —James J.
Hill, railroad builder, capitalist and
most widely known figure of the north
west. died at his Summit avenue resi
dence at 9:30 o'clock this morning as
the result of an infection due to bowel
trouble.
Mr. Hill was unconscious for nearly
twelve hours before he died. Dr. Her
man M. Biggs of New York and Dr.
Stanley Seager of the Mayo staff, to
gether with members of the immediate
Hill family, were at the bedside when
the end came.
Mr. Hill's personal secretary, M. R.
Brown, made the announcement of his
distinguished employer's demise to
waiting newspaper correspondents at
the Hill residence. His statement was
made verbally, with the intimation
that a written bulletin might be issued
later.
Questioned regarding a date for ob
sequies, Mr. Brown said that no ar
rangements had been discussed. The
secretary appeared greatly affected
and declined to talk further than to
make the bare announcement of the
death.
James J. Hill discovered "the bread
basket of the world" in the great
northwest he led In its development
from a ^wilderness into what now com
prises six wealthy states dotted with
400,000 farms and he blazed a trail
for transportation which reached
eventually from Buffalo to Asia, with
a total mileagp
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rail and steamship
facilities that nearly girdle the
earth.
That but rougliiy tans the story of
his achievement.
Near Guelap, in Ontario, where
James Jerome Hill was born in 1838,
the sqn of an Irish-Canadian farmer
who died when the boy was 15, there
stands a tree stump labeled: "The
last tree chopped by James J. Hill."
It marked the lad's resolution to go
to the United States. He had been
prompted by an odd incident. Accord
ing to the story that is told, a strange
traveler had stopped at the Hill farm
to take dinner, and left his horse at
the gate. Young Hill saw the animal
was tired and he carried it a pail of
water. The stranger was pleased with
the lad's thoughtfulness, and as he
drove off he tossed him a newspaper
from the United States, and oalled out
gravely:
"Go there, young man. That coun
try needs youngsters of your spirit."
Hill read the paper carefully. It
contained glowing accounts of oppor
tunities in the states. He resolved to
investigate for himself. It was the
next morning that he chopped his last
tree.
As a mere routsabout lad of 18, he
toured from Maine to Minnesota.
When in 1855, he disembarked from a
Mississippi river packet at St. Paul
that place was a frontier town of 5,000
inhabitants. At the sign of W. J. Bass
& Co., agents for the Dubuque & St.
Paul Packet Co., he found a Job as
both stevedore and clerk.
In the fifteen years that followed he
seized every opportunity to study the
whole problem of river transportation.
He gathered no end of experience and
a little capital with which he launched
his own firm of Hill, Griss & Co., which
promptly displayed its initiative by
bringing the first load of coal that had
ever been seen in that section into St.
Paul. Two years later with a flat
bottomed steamer he established the
first regular communication with St.
Paul and the Manitoba ports of the
fertile Red river valley.
At about that time St. Paul was hav
ing its first experiment In railroad
building. Eighty miles had been laid
to St. Cloud, 316 miles to Brecken
ridge, both of which terminals were
at the southern end of the Red river
valley, and there were about 100 milns
of track "which began now'h'ere and
ended in that same indefinite spot."
This venture ran up a debt of $33,
000,000 and collapsed, with its only as
sets being "a few streaks of rust and
a right of way."
Hill had had sufficient success in the
region to be seized with a consuming
desire to purchase the defunct prop
erty. After five years of financial
dickering, Including the sale of all his
other interests which netted a fortune
of $100,000, he and a syndicate of
three others—Sir Donald A. Smith,
George Stephen, and Norman W. Kit
son—obtained the object of this de
sire.
The St. Paul, Minnesota and Mani
toba railway was formed to operate
the property, with Hill as general
manager. When in 1883 Mr. Hill was
elected president he undertook the
extension of the road from its Dakota
and Minnesota homestead to the Pa
cific ocean. He was confronted by
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FIRMER ELEECED
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WEALTHY ILLINOIS MAN SWIND­
LED WHEN TRYING TO BET
ON A 8URE THING.
DecatuF," 111., May 29.—Decatar and
Springfield police are today searching
for two men who secured $4,600 from
Henry Hurd, a wealthy farmer, by
means of a fake horse race scheme at
St Petersburg, Fla., about a month
ago. Hurd was spending some time
at St. Petersburg, Clear Lake and
Coldwater, Fla., when he met two
strangers who declared they were on
the "inside" on a big horse race.
Hurd was induced to place $4,500
on the race. Later he met the two
men and they told him he had won.
Hurd refused to take the money be
cause he said he did not want to carry
such a large sum around with him. A
meeting of the three men was arrang
ed to be held in Springfield, 111., at
which time Hurd was to receive his
winnings.
Hurd became suspicious before the
time of the meeting, however, and
complained to the police. The strang
ers have not been located.
FEfH FEDERIL OWNERSHIP
Boston Men Appear Before Senators
to Protest Agpinst the Proposed
Shiplng Bill.
Washington, D. C.. May 28.—Win
throp L. Marvin and Edward E. Blod
gett, representing the Boston Chamber
of Commerce, appeared before a sen
ate committee today to oppose the gov
ernment ownership and operation feat
ures of the shipping bill.
"We fear," said Mr. Marvin, "that
government participation in the ship
ping business would be an entering
wedge toward socialism, that file ef
fect of such operation would mark an
advance toward government acquisi
tion in other fields."
As an alternative for government
operation, the Boston representatives
suggested carefully supervised and
guarded subsidies from the govern
ment sufficient to offset the difference
in cost between operation of ships un
der the American and foreign flags and
government subventions to establish
regular mail and freight lines to coun
tries where United States interests are
important
MANY WILL ATTEND
SWEEPSTAKE RACE
Indianapolis, Ind., May 29.—The an
nual flood of automobile race fans
was pouring into Indianapolis today
from every .direction. The sixth an
nual running of the aanual sweep
stakes on the Indianapolis motor
speedway tomorrow is the attraction.
•Twenty-one and possibly more driv
ers are expected to start the 300 mile
contest.
TODAY IN CONGRESS
SENATE—Met at 11 a. m.
Debate on rivers and harbors bill
was continued.
Commerce subcommittee heard pro
tests against shipping bill.
HOUSE—Met at 11 a. m.
Continued discussion of naval bill.
Ways and means committee demo
crats considered revenue measure.
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Tragedy Spoils Happy Day
for Hiteman Residents
When Sons Lose Lives
BOYS LOST WHILE
WADING IN CREEK
Bend in Stream Hides Lads
From View of Mother
Funeral Tuesday
Hiteman, May 29.—(Special): The
happiness of a day in the woods that
was planned and being carried out
pleasantly by the family of Thad Gret
ten here Sunday, was marred when
death by drowning claimed the two
boys of the happy family during the
afternoon. The lads were drowned
within 100 feet of where their mother
sat on the bank of the creek fishing.
A bend in the stream hid the boys
from view.
With a basket packed with picnic
goodies for the day, the family, con
sisting of Mr. and Mrs. Thad Gretten,
Leonard, aged 13, Earl, aged 9, and
little Goldle, the baby sister aged
Becoming uneasy she Bought the
lads and called to tbem but receiving
no answer began a search for them
and called her husband. Fearing that
they might have gone beyond their
depth the father hastened to neigh
bors for aid and while he was gone
the mother found Earl, youngest of
the boys, who had waded into the creek
and was searching for his brother
when the neighbors with her husband
arrived. The body of Leonard was
found within a short distance, some
fifteen feet from where Earl was locat
ed.
The funeral will be held Tuesday
afternoon at 2 o'olo"'- 'n the Latter
Day Saints' church ill be con*
ducted by Rev. Te^ Interment
will take place in It 1 cemetery.
METHODISTS END
BIG CONVENTION
Saratoga Springs, N. Y. May 29.
Sessions of the twenty-seventh general
conference of the MethodiBt Episcopal
church held here during the last four
weeks were concluded today with a
meeting at which practically all of the
business transacted was of routine na
ture.
A large number of committees, pre
viously authorized to administer plans
for various activities adopted by the
conference, were appointed.
The delegates adjourned to meet at
the call of the board of bishops at a
time and place to be fixed by them.
This action will permit, if it is deemed
advisable, of a session in 1918, to con
sider the plans for the unification of
Methodists, which will be presented to
the southern Methodist church at that
time.
.CRUISER'S GUNNERS
ESTABLISH RECORD
San Diego, Cal., May 29. —What Is
believed to be a new record for accur
ate and rapid flre long range shooting
was established by gun crews of the
cruiser San Diego at elementary prac
tice off this port Saturday night, it was
asserted today. The official number of
hits will not be known until the target
screens are examined by the umpires
but it is reported the six Inch gun
crew scored twenty-nine htts in forty
shots, while the men behind the three
inch batteries achieved fifteen hits In
twenty-seven shots. The firing range
was 2,400 yards.
ILL-FATED STEAMER
TO BE NAVAL SHIP
Chicago, May 29. —The steamer
Eastland tomorrow will make its first
trip lakeward since it turned over last
summer in the Chicago river, causing
the death of more than eight hundred
persons. The boat is to be towed to a
ship yard in South Chicago to be re
built. According to recent dispatches
from Washington, the Eastland is to
be rebuilt and equipped as a training
ship for the Illinois naval militia.
TO FACE NEW CHARGE.
Chicago, May 29.—Mrs. Dolly Ledg
erwood Matters, Charles T. Mellon
and Harry Edwards, acquitted last
week of a dharge of conspiracy to
foist a spurious heir on the probate
court, will go to trial June 12 on an
other charge, namely, producing a
false heir.
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years, started from their home here
for the woods two miles west of town.
During the afternoon while the moth
er aat on the bank fishing the boys
asked If they might wade in the creek
and were told they could, but to re
move their outer clothing. The stream
seemed shallow and the mother felt
safe in giving permission. The fath
er was attracted by the dog having
treed an object and went to see what
occasioned the animal's barking, thus
being away at the time the mother
missed her boys who had wandered
some distance from where they en
tered the stream.
NOT PLEASING TO
BRITISH PIPERS
PRESIDENT IS CRITICIZED FOR
FAILURE TO SYMPATHIZE
WITH THE ALLIES.
London, May 29.—"Irresponsible
peaoe talk received its quietus from
Sir Edward Grey last week but no
doubt President Wilson's speech be
fore the League to Enforce Peace win
revive1 the discussion in certain Quar
ters,M says the Liverpool Post. "Its
definiteness in certain particulars is
arresting but perhaps to many of his
own countrymen the air of definiteness
which the president gives to some of
his' phrases may Mem elusive.
"One can imagine many being spec
ially disappointed whe& he says that
with the causes and objects of the war
the United States has no ooncern. To
as, who believe we are opposing an at
tempt at world domination, it is hard
to believe that the cause for which we
stand la not of some ooncern to the
great republic of the west."
The Post argues that the entente
allies are fighting for virtually the
same object for which President Wil
son proposes a league of nations.
The Manchester Guardian says this
plan of the president is almost as old
as the first formulation of the Ideal
of organized peace, but that it never
before In any part of the world has
commanded the support accorded it in
America today. This newspaper says
further:
"The president inevitably has con
fined himself to cautlouB and general
terms but it is impossible to miss the
significance of his declaration that
the United States would be ready to
become a party to any feasible league
of nations. Twenty-one months of
war have done much to undermine
even the rooted Amesican aversion
from alliances and
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In his speech President Wilson ex
pressed a willingness to institute
peace proceedings whenever any of
the belligerents should indicate a de
sire for such. At the same time he ex
pressed the belief that peace following
the crushing of one side or the other,
would be unsatlafaotory.
POPE DEPLORES CHARGES.
Rome. Sunday, May 28.—Cardinal
Gasparri, papal secretary of state, is
quoted by Rome newspapers to the
effect that Pope Benedict, while main
taining strictest neutrality, deplores
the anti-Christian and Inhumane as
pects of the war. In the absence of
satisfactory evidence of an impartial
nature, the pope is unable to pass
judgment on charges of improper con
duct of war made on both sides. The
pope is represented as cherishing the
belief that the conclusion of hostilities
may be hastened by a greater degree
of Christian tolerance on both sides,
by partial renunciation of claims and
by keener sympathy for suffering peo
ples.
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Rock Island Line Announces Promo
tions as Result of 8upt. Easly's
Resignation.
Esthervllle, May 29.—Changes in the
administrative heads of the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific railroad in the
middle west were announced' here to
day by F. W. Rosser, superintendent
of the Esthervllle division of the road.
As the result of the resignation of
F. J. Easty of Des Moines, who will be
come assistant general manager of the
Denver and Rio Grande road, A. B.
Ramsdell of the Illinois division will
be transferred to Des Moines, Mr.
Rosser said. D. Coughlln, superintend
ent of the Missouri division, will suc
ceed Mr. Ramsdell and Mr. Rosser
will succeed Mr. Coughlin. The
change, it was said, will be effective
June 1.
CHECK SHOWS TWO DEXO
Report That Four Lost Their Llvea In
Penn College Fire, Disproved
By Investigation.
Oskaloosa, May 29. —A threefold
check on the residents of Oskaloosa,
the fire department and students at
Penn college has revealed that only
two lives were lost in the fire which
last week destroyed the main college
building, it was announced today.
The burned building will be recon
structed the college authorities an
nounced today, work to start about
July 1.
All the faculty and student body and
hundreds of residents today attended
the funeral of Harry Oakley, 22 one of
the victims of the fire. Special cere
monies are contemplated In connection
with the funeral of R. H. Williams, fi
nancial agent of the college, who also
lost his life.
GAS PLANT DAMAGED.
Council Bluffs, May 29. —Scores of
men were put to work today to repair
the damage wrought last night when
lightning struck the local gas plant
Damage to the plant will total $20,000.
Several men were slightly Injured.
The gas supply of the entire city
was threatened by the explosion and
up to a late hour this afternoon service
«u completely cut off.
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TO VETERAN!
G. A- R. and W. R. C.
Guests of First M. E. at
Patriotic Service
FUTILE POST GOES
TO WILLARD
South Side Veterans
Corps Hear Sermon By
Rev. M. E. Reusch
Sunday was Memorial Sunday
the old soldiers, their wives and
Hies attended special church
which had been arranged In
with the day.
Members of Cloutman poet, Ch -J
the Women's Relief corps,. 8p«t
war veterans, members of Oo. O. tilt
Iowa infantry went to the First Iff1
odist Bpiscopal church where the.i
tor, Dr. John Henry Cudllpp,
special sermon, In Memorials. Mf|
bers of Tuttle post, W. R. C.
group of veterans who are not Alt
with any of the organizations, atfrgj
ed the special service held In the
lard Street M. E. church and'
the sermon prepared and delivered
the pastor, Rev. M. ,E. Reusch, in[t!M
honor.
The Rev. Mr. Reusch talked al
the line of the sacrifices made b?
grizzled veterans in the. days of
and praised them for their worthy
tives. He touched on the ri'^ntion
preparedness And emphasized the
portance of being able to stand 'I
the right and to maintain the'
try's stand on the question,
churches were filled with. friends
the guests of honor occupied
pews, the color standards, of
ganlzatlons marking the spMt%|
What Meart Tfteee
Choosing his text from ^oehna -#:J|
What Mean These Stones, Dr. CMf
said: fr
"Christianity and patriotism
twin forces. The one can' scarcelj
1st without the. other. The ip«|
nation's religion, the truer wilt
patriotism. In the truly loyal 1
love of country is coexistent wif
love for God. So that, Je'StiS
asked much when he demafcdi
thy brother smite thee on 'ofii
turn the other also.' Nothing
a man like an insult to his honor,
religion or his country.
"History certifies that as a
has paganism, and the church -Ct
relative to it, and has gotten hold
a sturdy faith in God, her love(j
country has steadily grown and
come intensified. Observe. All
nations have been, in some-dl|
permeated by th« spirit of the Ch*
tian's God, Greece and Rome not
cepted, for, although they may. 'Sf|
to have been isolated from the
ous watch care of God, yet is It
true in fact that God wrought thr6U|
them some of the mightiest aehiei
ments In history?
"Greece, as you know, gave us^
language, fitted as no other up to t!
time, for the dissemination of the-.
pel of Jesus Christ. Rome unified tl
nations, thus making it possible
spread the gospel to all parts of
then known world. Hence it was
at its very inception the gospel spr
as by magic. Indeed, from all
of the Roman empire there was
simultaneous outburst of Chrlstlaii
tivlty. Thus it was' that Rda
haughty Rome, allowed her chiefs
enemy, and too, her unknown
chief est friend, to live and' grow
her very bosom, until at last she
up the fight and Christianity
her stately head from the rains..
Forces Are Related.
"Comrades of the Grand Amy
ladles of the Relief corps, I
and with as much emphasis
know how, Christianity w»d
ism are. twfa forces. y||
"Bismark, on® of the three
of modern statesmen, In speaking
the Incomparable German soldien
the Franco-Prussian war, declared,
was the bible in the knapsack of
German soldier that gave the fat
land victory.'
"We are told that an African
sent an embassy to the court Of
Victoria of England, with this inq
'Be pleased to tell the prince tb£
oret of England's greatness.'
think you was her reply? Did
point to tengland's wealth? No.
she point to England's fleet? No.
she point to Ebgland's guns?
Did she point to England's splp
soldiery? No. What, then, was
answer? This, Pointing to a
of the holy scriptures which lay nl
by, she said, 'Tell the prince that
is the secret of England's greatn
"Our own Abraham Lincoln
once complimented In (his ta*h!4
'Mr. Lincoln, we are sore that we hi
Providence on our side.' To
remark Mr. Lincoln replied: '1
not so much concerned as to whet
Providence Is on our side s* I