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BERTHA KRUPP, GUNMAKER
it Is a strange thing that in toe
great European war one side personi
fies its destroying force as a charming
young woman and the other as a ven
erable old gentlemap.
It is “Bertha r<rtipp" who fights
for the (iermana and "Papa Creusot”
who fights for the French. The tier
man soldiers often say 'Rertha is talk
ing aguin” when they hear the shriek
of the terrible Krupp guns and the
French soldiers say “Papa Creuaot is
giving the Cermuns a lesson.'
Of course, everybody knows that
Bertha Krupp is the principal heiress
of the great Krupp gun works at Es
sen. probably the greatest establish
ment of its kind in the world. The
name "Papa Creusot" is really taken
from the place—Ixj Creusot—w'iere
the French guns ai*s made.
The Rareness Rertha Krupp von
Bohlen, or, as she will always he
known, Rertha Krupp, is unassuming,
charitable and beloved by ull those
"DO nave me tortune to know tier. Bertha is one of two sisters, the only
children of the late Alfred Krupp, the gunmaker of Kssen. Because ot the
fact that the kaiser, recognizing the gunmaker was an important factor in the
empire, acted as godfather to Bertha, she has received more attention and is
better known than her sister. The young matron is noted for the charities
that she supports with her immense fortune.
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PLANS EXPLORING EXPEDITION
t apt. J. Foster Stackhouse. F. It. G.
8., P. It. Z. S.. F. It. S. G. S., etc., is
now organizing an expedition that
atira the blood of every real adven
turer. For six years he and his com
panions will forget civilization and its
luxuries and sail away into virtually
unknown parts of the world. Their
reward will be a trip to all the seven
seas, visits to islands and territories
still untrod by the feet of white men,
discovery and adventure in every lati
tude from the equatorial Pacific to the
Sea of Okhotsk and then back again
to the Antarctic—and glory. They
will have a chance to study the oceans
as they were never observed before,
and they will be participants in the
principal object of the voyage, the
discovery and mapping of 2,500 un
known islands, rocks and reefs in the
Pacific, reported from time to time by
Bklppers and never officially charted.
The expedition is known as the
British-Amer*can Oceanographic expe
anion, ana u win make Its voyage in the Discovery, the ship in which Cap
tain bcott made his last and fatal trip to the Antarctic regions. The vessel
is now fitting in I^ondon. Next May it will sail from New York, down to the
Panama cam! and out into the Pacific, where trade routes will be explored
for about tl^ee years.
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WHEN KEY PITTMAN WAS IN NOME
In the early and rough days of
Nome, Alaska, Key Pittman, who now
In the junior senator from Nevada,
served a term as prosecuting attor
ney. Naturally he acquired a large
acquaintance amom the lawless ele
ment and its ineml rs, in turn, gained
a high respect for the legal abilities
of the man w‘ho sent so many of them
to Jail. The quite natural result was
that after his term as prosecuting at
torney closed he found himself in com
mand of a large criminal practice.
Among his clients were a number of
the leaders of the rough and morally
.irresponsible crowd who turned to
him to extricate them from the trou
bles in which they frequently found
themselves. Too oft^n, however, they
failed to pay the lawyer for his serv
ices, and finully Mr. Pittman grew
tired of working for them for nothing.
In those days in Nome coal was
sold largely by the sack and was very
valuable. Shortly after the arrest of
no.ur.oumy many cnaracter for the theft or ISO of theHe precious
one of the accused man's pals came to Pittman to retain his services
f r h®T’ ,ark;lrePl,ed Pi,fmiln- “I m tired of working for you crooks
for nothing. ! m neither a millionaire nor a philanthropist. You get some
one else to defend Chick.'*
"Weil pay you for this.** replied .lack "We've got the stuff to do it *
Is ( hick innocent,” queried Pittman.
Sure, he’s as innocent as a babe," came the encouraging reply.
‘ Well, how much do I get for defending him?"
Mr. Pittman, if you get Chick off we’ll give you half the coal."
» SUCKS,
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MAN OF THE HOUR IN TURKEY
r.nv»>r rasna. minister of war.
leader of th*> Young Turk party and
son in law of the sultan, stands forth
Juat now an the moat prominent fig
ure In the Ottoman empire. Me in
one of the four actual directors of tho
destinies of Turkey, and the most
forceful of the three. He is *aid to
be consumed by ambition and to be
lieve himself to be a man of destiny.
He affects the genius of Napoleon, and
dreams in secret of converting the
actual Ottoman directory into a con
sulate. In the role of first consul ho
would then change the consulate into
an empire, following the example of
Bonaparte.
Enver, "ho was born in Roumella
only thirty five years ago, Is the hero
of the Tripolitan war Also he was
the assassin of Nazim Pasha, the gen
eralissimo of the Turkish army Naz
im belonged to the Old Turk party.
Honest, patriotic and brave, he repre
sented the very best 1 i the Turk. His
-- —wa* oesignefl to open fh»- way of empire to
thr* member of tlw directory. They hare spilled the blood of their adver*
**r , ruthlessly and many shocking murders are laid at their doora. The
peopb- hate them bitterly and the aultan fears them intensely, go the news
• hat they have be«n slain would cause no surprise at any Uma The friends
and relatives of Nazim are many.
CALL LOR SERVICE
Deep Significance in God’s Ques
tioning of Abel. “Where Is
Thy Brother?”
The early chapters of the book of
Genesis still kee" their hold on hu
man life. Many difficult and puzzling
questions are brought to our notice
concerning them, but in spite of all
questions these early narratives con
tain spiritual truths which are de
scriptive of man's perpetual experi
ence Much in the pages may perplex
us, but their pictures never fade from
sight, nor lose their meaning for our
consciences.
There is the garden, and the first
man into whom God breathed a living
soul; then the man s life richened and
deepened by the woman at his side;
then the catastrophe of the rail, and
the expulsion from the garden, and
the angel of God standing with a flam
ing sword at his gate. Then came
the first children, the boys, growing
up even as boys do now. w ith different
characters und following different oc
cupations. Then like a thunderbolt
comes hatred and murder, and there
is the dreadful forsaken plain where
one brother lies dead, and the other
wanders far with the irrevocable deed
nurning on his soul, answering the
voice of God with the passionate re
jection of responsibility, “Am I my
brother's keeper?”
God’s question, “Where is Abe], thy
brother?" suggests that every man is
responsible for his brother man. This
is not God’s first question. The first
was that personal inquiry which the
Holy Spirit still brings home to every
heart convicted of sin, to every mun
who desires to hide himself from God,
“Where art thou?’’ Hut the second ques
tion is, “Where is thy brother?" How
wide, or how narrow is that question?
may rNoi onirn MesportBiDinry.
The family is the divinely estab
lished unit of human society, and it
Is our ideal of love and service,
and vet 1 have heard people dis
claim all responsibility for members
of their immediate family. Parents
often shirk their responsibility for
their children on the ground that they
are powerless to control them, and
many a son has allowed aged par
ents to suffer privation, denying all
responsibility for those who cared for
his childhood. Brothers and sisters
often cast off some member of the fam
ily who has been wayward, and In the
spirit of Cain, say, “Am 1 my broth
er's keeper?” God's answer 1b that
we ate; that whether we accept it or
not, the responsibility still rests upon
our shoulders.
But responsibility reaches further
than that immediate family. It rests
upon us in some way or other with re
gard to our friends and acquaintances;
with regard to those with whom we
have business relations; the men with
whom we work, the men with whom
we travel; our most casual acquaint
ances. "Where Is thy brother?"
Where is he morally and spiritually,
bo far as the Influence which you have
exercised over him go**s? To have
laughed at the evil or profane joke;
to have spoken the foolish or the
angry word—to say nothing of far
more grievous stumbling blocks than
these—must have had influence over
others. God has given us marvelous
opportunities in life of helping others
to resist, temptation, and to stand
firm! How have these opportunities
been used? Have they beeen used at
all? "Where is thy brother?” The
question is a searching one. The Bi
ble has a great deal to say about in
fluence. concerning which we talk so
much, and which we practice so little.
Some heathen people seem to have a
greater realization of its power. In
the Peking Gazette years ago the gov
ernor of one of the central provinces
of China reported in regard to a case
of parricide, that he had the houses
of all the neighbors pulled down
on the ground that they had failed
In their duty to exert a good moral In
fluence on the criminal.
All Evil Lives Do Harm.
Cain s answer, "Am I my brother's
keeper?" was Insolence defying the
Almighty. 11. the same spirit men
often urge tho innocence of their con*
fluct, that they have never done any
one any harm It Is the old excuse
which Is used by careless and wicked
people to salve their conscienee. But
can it bo said of even the btrst of us
that, we have never harmed anyone
by word or deed or example? Often
do we hear it said of a careless and
ungodly life, “He never harmed any
one but himself, he wpb his own
worst enemy. ’ What a fallacy that
is No man can harm himself without
harming others, no man cp.n lead a
dissolute life without helping to spread
the plague of evil. It is the old ex
cuse of Cain, "Am I my brother's keep
er?” The spirit of Cain still lives, and
the blood of manv •» ruined life cries
out for Justice. The spirit lx in ev ry
man who refuses to accept the respon
sibility for bis brother which Clod has
laid unon him
There is a special responsibility
upon the Christian The question.
When* Is thy brother? comes to those
who follow Christ with a special mean
Ing and emphasis He who died on
the cross Is our Mrothrr, and he died
to establish brotherhood among men.
We are bought by his blood, and we
have accepted his command to love
one another He came to seek and to
save the lost, and he was our exam
ple. Thomas a Kempls wro'.e the beau
tiful devotional book. "1 ho Imitation
of Christ," but the imitation of Christ
is after all not so much in manner of
life, or In speech, or In vigil and pray
ers, but in service to our fellow men.
•f’unducleu uy the National Wuinau'a
Christian Temperance Union.)
WHAT MAKES CHAMPIONS
Connie Mack, whose Athletics have
won five American league pennants
and three world's championships. Is
quoted by a magazine writer as haying
that "alcohol inevitably slows a man
down ’’ And slowing down, he con
tinues, is the reason for the shelving
of by far the majority of baseball
players. “Who puts the player out of
the gume?" he goes on "You should
naturally say the umpire; well, all tlio
umpires together haven't put as many
ball players out of the game as Old
Mun Booze." He explains further,
that it is not only excessive drinking
that does harm, but that even the mod
erate use of alcohol won't do lor the
professional player. It will take off
from three to five years of his baseball
life. The Athletics have no rules con
cerning their personal habits, but out
of 26 players in the 1913 world's con
test 16 had never taken a drink la
their lives. When they were playing
the Chicago Cubs, Mack said to them:
"It would be bad enough to lose the
championship without having a bundle
of regrets to pester you. It's hard
enough to lose to a better club, but to
beat yourselves—say. that's the way
to throw away a game after you have
won it.
“Clean living and quick thinking,
that’s the stuff champions are made
of.” says Mack
MUSTN’T CASH PAY CHECKS.
A deputation from the Ministerial
association of Los Angeles recently
went before the public safety com
mittee with a request that saloons he
forbidden to cash pay checks. A gen
eral public discussion followed, cer
tain employers promising to pay in
cash, and certain banks and stores of
fering to keep open to cash checks.
As a result the police commission is
sued an order prohibiting check-cash
ing by saloons. On the following
Monday the chief of police reported
at follows:
"VVe usually have from 80 to 90 ar
rests for drunkenness on Saturdays
and Sundays, but for the last two
days we have had but 47 for each
day, which I attribute directly to the
enforcement of the order forbidding
saloons to cash pay checks.’’
Among other results must be count
ed the increased efficiency of 40 work
ers. a happy Sunday for 40 families,
money spent with the legitimate
trades, and the saving of court and
Jail expense of caring for 40 drunks.
INSURANCE COMPANIES KNOCK.
The general manager of one of the
big life Insurance companies of this
country. In a letter to one of his agents
declining to write a policy for a sa
loonkeeper. had this to say:
”We do not want the name of be
ing a saloonkeepers’ company, and of
taking a grade of risks which are
promptly refused by the leading and
conservatively managed companies of
the country.
“Life insurance companies are en
gaged all of them-—In encouraging
thrift, protecting homes, and In
serving the welfare of the individual,
the community and the state. Sa
loonkeepers—all of them—are en
gaged in diseouraing thrift, destroving
homes and in Injuring the individual,
the community and the state. There
Is nothing In common between us.
and we do not even care for business
relations with them.”
REMARKABLE PROSPERITY.
T he T nited States census bureau
recently issued a noteworthy bulletin
concerning the state of Maine. It re
views the 30 years preceding 1912. and
declares that Maine has passed all the
states in steady advancement of finan
cial Independence. While In 1880
Maine's per capita debt was $8.49. as
contrasted with an average for all
states of $5.48, the Maine debt In 1912
had been reduced 75 per cent and the
average of the other 47 states only 36
per cent. Now Maine owes $1.67 per
capita, and the other states, on the
average. $3 62. Rank deposits and in
vestments have increased wonderfully.
Maine has about $100,000,000 in ihe
wav of deposits, with 233.000 savings
bank depositors.
CONVICTS PETITION.
A petition will come hoforp the next
legislature of Pennsylvania bearing
"ome l.r>.noo signatures. a majority of
the convicts in the Kastern State peni
tentiary. Tho petitioners pray for the
prevention of tho liquor traffic. They
"respectfully aver” from personal
knowledge of the debasing Influence of
Intoxicating liquors, that fully 70 por
cent of crime within the state is dl
rectly attributable to their use. and
that the abolition of the sale of liquor
by the state would reduce crime at
h ast 50 per cent. If not more.
This unique and significant, appeal
has caught the public attentlnn and
the press of the country baa given It
i w ide circulation
Colorado River.
The Colorado river was named by
by the Spaniards from a word in their
language meaning ruddy or red, an al
lusion to the tint of the water. La
Salle first named the river Maligne,
(misfortune) one or two of his party
having been drowned In its current.
Must Depend on One’s Self.
Much as worthy friends add to the
napplness and value of life, we must in
the main depend upon ourselves, and
everyone Is his own best friend, or
worst enemy.—I^ord Avebury.
THE WHEAT LANDS OF
WESTERN CANADA
AN ATTRACTION
THE EUROPEAN WAR MAKES
THE GROWING OF WHEAT EX
CEPTIONALLY REMU
NERATIVE.
One result of the European War has
been to reduce the volume of busl
neaa done by many of the manufac
furlng institutions of the United
States, commercial enterprises have
been affected ouslneBs of many kinds
have been hampered, and a financial
stringency has been forced on almost
every community. It 1b not only be
cause it has brought these things
about, and created a lot of hardship,
but there is the outstanding fact of
the terrible loss of life, the great de
structlon of property, and the disrup
tion of everything near and dear to
those whose countries are Involved In
the war that makes the whole affair
highly regrettable. The heart of the
entire world goes out in sympathy to
those within the area of the trouble
‘.rrangements have been made to r*
Ueve the distress by money and other
means. But there is one great thing
—wheat and flour—that the European
countries will need The wheat-pro
ducing countries are no longer pro
ducing. and there Is the gravest rea
son to fear thst they will not be for
some years. In this case. It would be
fully as beneficial and charitable to
make provision to meet the loss of
Europe’s grain crop bv encouraging s
greatly increased growth on this con
tlnent.
The wheat-growing sections of the
l nlted States have about reached
tlielr limit of production, and this
source cannot be depended upon to
meet a great deal of the demand that
there will be for some years The
only country that Is In a position to
meet It Is — Canada — that portion
known as Western Canada. Here
there are millions of acres of land,
capable of producing from 20 to 40
bushels per acre. All this land is ex.
| cellent for wheat, and very piuch 1b
still in the hands of the Dominion
j Government, and 160 acres of It can
be had by the payment of a ten dolla/
entry fee.
Another vast area Is that held by
railway and reliable land companies,
held at from $10 to $25 per acre. Im
I proved farms are slightly higher In
price. Information regarding these
lands may be had of any Canadian
| Government Agent.
The fact that Canada offers such a
splendid opportunity should be ac
cepted with a wide-spread apprecia
tion, and not met with attempts on
the part of some to spread misleading
statements. The Dominion Govern
ment has not taken steps to deny
many of the false statements circu
lated by those who evidently are more
Interested In injuring Canada than
benefiting those who w'ould be bene
fited by taking up farms In Canada,
but In order to correct a highly er
roneous Impression that conscription
is carried on in Canada, that compul
sory military service is employed, and
that there is restraint as to the move
ment of those not Canadians, the ne
cessity is felt of giving as much pub
licity as possible to a denial of these
statements.
I An Item to which special exception
I is taken is one which says:
j “They are sending them away as
rapidly as possible; but the young
men are not permitted to leave Can
ada. All the citizens and those who
have taken up homesteads are subject
to military duty.”
In direct refutation of this, we beg
to quote from a recent editorial In the
Rochester, N. Y., Herald:
"There Is no legal process by which
Great Britain can command a single
Canadian soldier to enter the field In
her aid or even in her most needful
defense. Great Britain cannot legally
take a dollar of Canada’s money for
this or any other war without Can
ada’s consent. All must be given vol
! untarily, If It be given at all. Yet
; men and dollars are given to the limit
' of Canada’s power to give. Just as it
Great Britain had both physical and
legal power to exact them. Indeed,
j It Is possible that the* „re given
more freely in this way. for what a
nlan gives because he wants tp give
! Is likely to be greater than what he
gives under force.
"All In all It la a noble picture of
| devotion to her motherland which
' Canada offers to the gaze of her ad
miring and unenvioua neighbors.”
Canada's invitation for immigration
extends to all who are willing to go
on to the farms
Superintendent of Immigration,
Ottawa, Canada.
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**—By Wire.”
T.ou1*e Randolph smilingly confirms
this talc told of her the other day:
She was In her dreading room pro
I paring to go "on” when the rail boy
announoed that she wan wanted at the
telephone.
”1 can't go now.” she replied; "tAke
the message.”
The boy returned ahortly, slightly
embarrassed.
"You had better come. Miss Rarv
dolph,” he said "It’s your daughter,
and she wants to give you a kiss over
the phone.”—Green Hook.
Conscience.
Maid (knocking In the morning)—
Madame, I’ve forgotten whether yon
wanted tc be waked at seven or eight
"What Ume Is It now?”
"Eight. — Lustige Blatter.
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