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PEilSH WHEN John BI6 CRUISER SANK He: the f don't MINISTRY OF MARINE REPORTS fore ON PROVENCE DISASTER- In th WENT DOWN FEB. 20. able with the s 4,000 MEN WERE ON BOARD but becal on t Three Days After Destruction of the whc Auxiliary Cruiser French Officials subjm Estimated Number of Survi- parti vors at 870. Th is ly centl Parls.-It was announced at the ires, French ministry of marine that there I ed t, were nearly 4.000 men on board the cent French auxiliary cruiser Provence ink I when she was sunk in the Mediter- door aean. War It was stated that on board the of tl Provence were the staff of the Third in d Colonial Infantry regiment, the Third then Battalion, the second company of the bott First Battalion, the second machine pear gun company and one extra company, in h • in all nearly 4,000 men. bere As t.e ministry of marine announc slip ed that the number of survivors of be I the Provence disaster was estimated men at 870 it is indicated by the foregoing O. dispatch that upwards of 3,130 lives the were lost. get The loss of more than 3,000 lives in mar the sinking of the French auixiliary four eruiser Provence is the greatest ocean it. disaster of modern times. Up to the fire present the larges number of lives was ever last in one wreck was when the of 1 White Star liner 'litanic struck an on Ieberg off the Newfoundland banks any e April 14., 1912, and sank with a wat death loss of 1,595. The rescued num- rive hered 743. stot The French ministry of marine had occi periously issued no statement as to hav the number of persons on the Prov- fori sine when she went down. The ves Lat eel, however, when in the trans-At i at I lautie service could carry 1,960 per- cov eams, including the crew, and it has stil been presumed that, as she was gue -t.asuporttig troops between ports not fire hr apart she was carrying a number litt at ma larger than her normal ca peetr. The. o.cial statement announcing i d e akln of the Provence said: tab " h reeh auxiliary cruiser Pro- cat .*m nU (so designated to distinguish ma r oso the Freach battleshil Pro- sin Sos) engged transporting troops tiv n 1aela. was sank in the Meihter- cot gI, s. Two hundred and ninety- fra lkz survivoes have been brought to the .h10.6 sad about 400 to Melos, by tw °` I-ur and British patrol vessels tar 'I dmene by wireless. sac - 3e signs of a submarine were no. de ' either before or after the sink- na La PreveMce was armed with st] e sauna of 14 centimeterd, two of ref 1 l >m sters and four of 41 millime ne Aam the other great sea disas- B is addition to the Titanic already go were: r Canard Lne steamship Lust. which was torpedoed by a Ger- fli ga-hmiatae and sank off the head to S 10.ale, Ireland, on May 7, 1115, Ia O te less of 1.0 livUes. ee s btming of the excursion steam SGeneral Sloom in the East New York, June 15, 1104, when 3, 601 persons met their death. p1 Preach Line steamship mLa v ,igin suink In colltison with the si ,. *h p Cremartshire. July 4, 1838. 54 . . . t .he l s of 580 lives, hi . e'' saepaio liaer Koker Mar, o Sthe ast of Japan, Septem- aml s 3, lt, with the luss of 1,000 w n Oadisea-Pase steamship Em. e SIreland sunk is collisieioa with ibr eelier 8terstadt is the U tAwrer e lver, May . 1314. is Sloss of meore than 1,000 burning of the Uranium Ltne e Volturao ba mdooesn on a d, 1u2, with the oesea 16 P No MIege aCut. - Crowded galleris to hear the international diseased eaw the house 4 t$p vo~e, thistime I to Sa reduace members' mniege s s eaOts to Live ceeta a mile. Cev r C a Idiana ofered asnd, s usual. its defeat 5 -m .,de. by a lvely debate in b Y2eaot mleage was deouaced l g ee ead deaded u a jat allow U s U elt a gPet." M~. ger.--8 homeless boys of -le , als yearsde age ad of different s N are to be adopted by c f5l S71 of mouth Pamce New York Tallors Out. li York.-Five thoueaad uestom many of whom were employed avenue shops, struck for wages and the abolition of work sad the "fLes shopt" 1 - toeephat After War. I.--An agent tor a Irs a ageata says that darlag fow days contrasts had bees rms ia Germany for 20, at ghsht Bo shipment at '" Psule oe U. S. umners taditiaan ae eCleny at S nesearelm s was ha the itsr. Committee by TOOK FIRE ALARM FOR CLOCK A John Barleycorn Punched the Wrong Box on New York Wharf and Started a Panic. MEN Here's a warning to watchmen. If the fire alarm is near the time clock don't take too many eyeopeners be ) fore you punch the clock at 7 o'clock LEG in the morning, advises the New York Herald. The old idea of not being able to find the keyhole after a night with Bacchus has been relegated to Bill the scrap heap with .Joe Miller's quips, Mi ) but watchmen had better watch out. Ch because something happened recently R, on the Ward line pier, East River, which only goes to prove that watch e me can't find the keyhole and are W subjected to this form of malady in tion iarticular. the The M.orro Castle of the Ward line few is lying in its berth at Pier 13. Re- any cently there have been several pier our e fires, all of which have been attribut- crim e ed to friends of the kaiser. On a re- tent, e ent morning, about the hour that the 1I, e ink factorios open up for the swinging whi r- doors, one of the watchmen on the I will Ward line piers sauntered over to one done e of the emporiums and ordered liquor the d in deep sea voice. He got it. And N; d then he got more, and gradually the Ni 1e bottom of a quart bottle made its ap- T1 1e pearance. Said watchman was deep chat I. in his cups when he suddenly remem- I I bered that 7 o'clock was the time to T! C slip his key into the time clock and chat of be marked present. It's well to re- C' 'd member for these things-but wait! T ig On the pier the fire alarm box and p es the time clock are close enough to- ame gether to shake hands. The watch- p In man, arriving with a list to port, lum r7 found the fire alarm first and punched T n it. Result-many fire engines and the s he fire boat New Yorker. South street seei es was in an uproar, and officials Of he of the line were notified of a fire Ifen tn on the Morro Castle. There wasn't lang ks anybody more surprised than the fact a watchman when the fire fighters ar- Rel m- rived. He helped look for the blaze, a c stoutly protesting that no fire could pon ad occur with him on the job. He would 7 to have got away with the bluff, only he Ind, fv- forgot to ring in on the time clock. at i s- Later the tape showed him as absent cus Ut. at seven o'clock and he had then re sen er- covered sufficiently to confess. He hot as I still has his Job, because, it was ar- and as gued, if a watchman really prevents fric tot fires he has the right to ring in a Thi er little alarm himself once in a while. car c.- of Useful Official. Jun a1 Redlands, a town in California, es- co tablished the office of mux cipal fly- St ro0 catcher a year ago, and appointed a the ish man to fill it That official acts on a ma To- single observed fact-that flies instinc- ar )ps tively fly upward and toward light. He ail er- constructed a large trap-a screened fty- frame, twelve inches square and more to than two feet in height. He raised this ne by two inches from the ground, and at- plt eels tached to the bottom a cone-shaped re screen, with the large end down. Un- plh no. der the cone he put a banana skin. He In nk- nailed the contrivance to a post on a be rith street corner, and the flies did the o h of rest. ho me- In the first month, from the bust- fal ness section of Redlands, the official to as- flycatcher had emptied and burned 50 In ady gallons of flies. That means not far an from four million flies. foi nsi. There are now five hundred of the to 3er- fy traps in Redlands, and, according m4 ead to the residents, all the flies in Red- tie 915, lands were in them last summer. Youth's Companion. by - of asit Be Natural. th hen Holmes says that there are six peo. in th. ple present whenever two meet in con- pe La versation-the real A, the real B, A to the as he sees himself, B as he sees him , self, A as B sees him and B as A sees in him. The remark comes back when pt ar, one goes out upon the street and con tem siders himself and the other people _o ,000 who pass, particularly those who seem m on the slippery road to success. It is Em. not they themselves who go by; it is b with what they would have other people Si the think them. if they are young and P1 914 inexperienced they must tighten up p l,000 their faces with an artificial solem- P nity; if they are getting on in years ine they must affect an artificial snappi Sness. They wear their outward as 1 pects like clothes. One feels like cry - tnl in the ears of young men: "Be natural. Live or die, sink or swta, survive or perish, but be youarselves" Tree Grows Like a Fish Net. A sinularu tree in Cuba is called Sthe yaguey tree. It begins to grw at the top of another tree. The sued Sis carried by a bird or wafted by the e. wind, and, ifalling into some moist, ed branching pert, takes root and speed By begins to gtrow. It sends a kind of a thin stringlie root down the body of e the tree, which is soon followed by low" others. In course of tlme.jhe root Inpgs strike the ground, and growth c Immediately commences upward. New roottass continue to be formed, and lm get strength untni the one tree Irows ent as a net round the other. The outside by one surrounds and presses the tuner, oe strsangiun its life and auanemting its ogi own power. At length the tree within Is killed, and the prsulte that ha takes pousessio becomes itself the trt - May Feoree Sabehers to Wed. tor Adding to the horrors or terrors of a of leap year, a man has proposed that bachelors and bachelorettes b eo - peried by tow to marry, and that mat- i Ing commissloneirs select mates for them by lot, a great deal as Jury lots uare drawn; the dlefrence betng that a e man drawn for a Jury can escape by telling a plausible story, but the bach elor elected for matrimony would tthave no escape. Nose but a bachelor weoeld propose the method of drawtn ' wires by lot. He ought to know that thia mareylng busiess is all a lottery, Sre aybew. The laws proposed to en 4 force this must-marry ide idieate a the the bachalor who thought them up Scmasiders that for a man to remain ud anarried after he Is thirty is a crime, while for a spnster It is "MisDe FGU reuehy Chap. -iIa 'D es thak an of the girls wll - iV oAnml St 4hr d.I RULED BY POLITICS l th labo MEMBERS OF CONGRESS FIGHT pay OVER SETTLEMENT OF BIG can PROBLEMS. S Ji virt LEGISLATION IS HAMPERED tate gral Bill for Government Ownership of mei' Merchant Marine, Materially late Changed, May Be Passed-Plans for vote Raising Revenue Still Undecided. T tins By GEORGE CLINTON. ing Washington.-Politics and legisla- Sor tion still are moving together through dle the halls of congress, stopping every are few feet, metaphorically speaking at Ii any rate, for a fist fight. Heat, rancor, a our old friends crimination and re- con crimination, and the stand-bys, con- res tention and abuse, still are present. nes Here is a program of the things Sot which the members of both parties tha will wrangle over before the winter is sta done. or now are wrangling over, as me the case may be: fes National defense. the New taxation measures. poe The government ownership of mer- on chant marine. ter Independence for the Filipinos. tio The seaman's law and attempts to the I change or repeal it. I Child labor. tor The appropriations. Im Prohibition and woman suffrage by amendments to the constitution. evi Prohibition for the District of Co- pa lumbia. as The Colombian and Hatian treaties. cal Some of these things. as it will be me t seen, already are up for discussion. bic a Of course the matter of national de i fense is foremost and it has been gain t ing interest and acrimony from the fal e fact that both on the Democratic and en r- Republican sides there is to be found i1. . a considerable number of stanch op- th d ponents of anything like preparedness. Its d The bill giving a definite promise of its e Independence to the Philippine islands wt L at a certain date already has been dis- pa It cussed at considerable length in the co - senate and to some extent in the th Ie house. It will cause more discussion is r- and many hours of debate heated by oi is friction before it finally is disposed of. wi a The pronouncement of the Republi cans in New York that it is the sense as of the party that it would be an in- Ui justice to the Filipinos, and also a or cowardly act on the part of the United wi y- States, to turn them loose to care for at a themselves at too early a date, has in a made the island question figure more th - largely in the public eye than other- at le wise would have been the case. at sd Shipping Bill Much Changed. In re The bill providing for the govern- bi s 'nent ownership of a merchant marine P4 t- will be debated at great length. Al- bi ed ready some murmurs and some ap- a In- plause concerning it are being heard c e In the two houses of congress. It will w a be remembered that last year a mer he chant marine bill was passed by the re house of representatives, but met its k mi- fate in the senate, where it was talked E9 lal to death. The measure this year is t 50 In a much changed form. It provides a tar an appropriation of about $50,000,000 c' for the building or purchase of ships a he to be owned, of course, by the govern- 0 ng ment, but to be leased to private par- r ed- tiee. One of the chief oblections entered t by the opponents of the shipping bill P of last year was that under its terms a the government could and probably a, intended to (at least so it was charged) o. purchase merchant vessels belonging d A to a belligerent European power and In 1.- which then were and still are tied up b B In American harbors, not being able to y e, put to sea for fear of capture. t n. Last year there was denial from u pIe government quarters that there was a em any intention of purchasing these a is ships. Many men hold that it would I is be an unneutral act for the United t ple States to buy the vessels. Under the ad provisions of the bill this year thet up purchase of such ships still might be . possible, but it is understood to be the a government's intention, if the measure I .goes through, to spend virtually all . the money in the building of merchant ry vepels which can be used in time of Bewar as fleet auxiliaries. 1 The ruling majority in the house of .. reprpsentatives as yet does not know what form of revenue raising meas ures it will report for adoption. Even while things are still in doubt as to Sthe extent of the preparedness pro ed gram which will be adopted, it virtu * ally is known that something will be done and that the army and navy ex Spenses of the government largely will be increased. Therefore it will be nee of esumary to raise money to pay the bills. by Immigration mill Again. ot- New immigration b'lls containing a Sclause which, if enacted into law, will Sprevent the landing on these shores of foreigners who cannot read have been introduced into house and sen side ate. The senate measure is fathered ner, by Senator Ellison D. Smith of South SCarolina, and the house measure by thin Representative John L. Burnette of A r.bama. te This bill unquestionably will pass the senate and almost unquestionably will pass the house of representatives. The question therefore is whether or not President Wilson again will veto at the measure. Last year the bill went through both houses with big majori ties back of it. but the house, after a fohard fight, refused to pass the bill over lot the veto of the president, the measure at a falling of the required twothirds ma ,by Jority by only a small margin. ach- When this immigration measure mid comes up for debate there will be llve r ly hours in both bouses. The Amer rit can Federation of Labor strongly sup that The word admiral is derived from athei Arablic, emir-l-bshr, meaning re"lord of the sea." PI ay thousand tons of a native gras is used In India each year for manfaheture into paper. The hecks which pass through the gleartg houe in hmndon ad Ne wirn n see meath, NW sorl t mreaid tenesed the value e l hap Y-~ -11 -h em+r -I ports the measure, voicing its belle! that the literacy clause will keep ou' from this country a horde of alien who are willing to work for what the labor representatives call un-American pay and to work also under un-Amert can conditions. South and New England Combine. Judging from the signs in the case virtually the entire southern represen tation in the two houses is in favor of (Bn] keeping the literacy test in the imml Inst gration law, and this means that al (Copy most all the southern representativels will vote favorably on the bill and later, if the president vetoes it. wil vote in favor of over-riding the veto There is a very considerable con HER tingent of northern Democrats stand Ing in opposition to the literacy clause Some of the Democrats from the nmd tlen die West and the far West, however i are in favor of it. In this contest there is represented T a somewhat curious spectacle of a whi combination between a good many rep coun resentatives from New England and of i nearly all the representatives from the and South. It is not often in legislation The that New England and the souther: best states stand shoulder to shoulder on a nitic measure of high national moment. A pres few New Englanders, however, and and these of old American stock, are op give posed to the literacy test. They stand boy on the ground that such a test is coun I. ter to the spirit of American institn. hap tions and counter to the teachings ci defii the early Americans. low! It is generally believed in Washing- pile ton that Mr. Wilson again will veto the sure immigration bill, provided it is passed asst by congress, and there seems to be of ( every reason to think that it will be sure passed. The question, therefore, arises lige as to whether or not house and senate acid can muster enough votes to pass the Fail measure over the president's "I for is ti bid." an 1 Slow With Naval Measure. fills The house committee on naval atf Job fairs is going ahead with great delib- II eration with its work of recommend- I had St.g the warship building program for mal the future. It is, of course, urged that Ste its deliberateness 4n action is due to ( its desire to make the report worth ang while. Some of the advocates of pre- ear paredness, however charge that the tyr, committee is simply killing time and ( that the hope of many of its members Go( is s that it will not be obliged to report life r out as ambitious a naval program as fall was contemplated in the first instance. 5, I i- The navy, of course, is recognized i B as the first line of defense of the i (G, I- United States. It is a truism that if pre a our navy is equal to any offensive av: I which can be launched at us from No r abroad, our coasts will be secure from git invasion. It is not, however, expected be e that congress will authorize the con re struction of a navy which would be kn able to stand off the greatest navy now the in existence, namely, that of England, loq but the friends of preparedness ex- col e pect, if they do not fully hope, that the thf I building program will be long enough po and strong enough to put the Ameri- de can navy into second place among the ch 11 world's fleets. wi r- Secretary of the Navy Daniels has an recommended to congress what is a known as a "five-year building pro- by d gram." For the first time, it is said in an Is the report of the secretary of the navy, of Sa plan is submitted which not only se 0 covers the necessities of the immedi- as i ate future, but has been extended to th a. cover a period of five years. The sec- de y. retary says in submitting his report. .. "planning today what we will begin El ,d tomorrow in order to have it com I11 pleted in the future is the essence of a all true preparedness." cc ly What Daniels' Plan Means. 4( ) There are members of congress who he ig do not agree with the secretary of the se Id navy in his proposal to spread out the of ip building program over a series of g( to years. These opponents of the secre- w tary's plan say that building on a great 11 m scale should begin instantly because, a a as they put it, the time of need for big ne e ships, big guns and plenty of them T d may come quickly and like a thief in d d the night. e The secretary's program as submit- i. e ted to congress is given in detail of a e ships of all kinds, of ammunition, re- s he serves, and of aviation resources. The n re grand total of expenditure for five t al years, if the plan is carried out, will a nt be $502.,482,214. of If the committees on naval affairs of * the two houses shall report in bill o of form Mr. Danlels' plan, and if it tis poea w sible to bind future congresses mn ad- a 5 vance to carry it out, the navy In 1921, en in vessels built or building, will be as to follows: o Battleships, first line ............. 27 tu- Battle cruisers ................... 6 be Battleships, second line .......... 25 t x- Armored cruisers ...........,... 10 t iI Scout cruisers .................... 13 k ec- Cruisers, first class .............. 6 Is. Cruisers. second class ............ 3 Cruisers, third class............. 10 I a Destroyers ........................ 108 wi1 Fleet submarines ................. 18 es Coast Submarines ................157 ave Monitors ......................... 6 m.Gunboats ...................... ..0 "O ed Supply Ships ............... ..... 4 th Fuel ships ...................... 15 1 by Transports ...................- .. . 4 of Tenders to torpedo vessels ...... 3 Special types ..........-......... 8 as Ammunition ships ............... 2 bly There is going to be a hard fight in re. congress over this building plan of the or secretary of the navy. The prepared 'eto ness folk say it is not ambitious ent enough and is spread out over too rl- much time; the anti-preparedness folk r a say it is too ambitious, is going to cost ver too much money and ought to be split arein twain. The pacidfists, and there are me- a lot of them in congress, say the whole thing should be chucked into ure the fire and they nlatimate that they le would not care much if all the ships er- already built or building should follow up' the paper plans into the blaze. Henry Heft, a farmer, living near Marietta, Pa., for many years, has kept o s tally on the number of tramps he has Ing ed and lodged. During the last year ae entertained 595 of them. He has are a separate room in his barn in which for he lodges thenm. Good paper, it Is said, can be pro the duced from refuse hops that have hith HgW erto been thrown away in brewerlig. as, It is surpring to learn that charl. ~ ota worked on the prinlciple of the m tedanmet man usmad in riaa in the OSNAAYSUL s LESSON FORM (By E. O. S:LLERS. Acting Director of Sun lay School Course. Moody Bible OHI Institute.) (Copyright. 1916. Western Newspaper Union ) LESSON FOR MARCH 12 IS 0 HEROES AND MARTYRS OF FAITH. LESSON TEXT-Heb. 11:1: 12:3. Said t GOLD:EN TEXT--Iet us run with pa tience the race that is set before us. Pret looking unto Jesus. the author and per fector of our faith.-lieb. 12:1. 2. There are two kinds of heroism for which medals are awarded in this :country. Congress confers a "medal W& of honor" for distinguished services forms and extraordinary heroism in war. been The Carnegie "hero fund in peace," secre bestows medals and pecuniary recog- r. a nition for heroic deeds performed in :leve preserving and rescuing human life, tione d and the first medal thus issued was given to a boy for rescuing another Ipfl d boy from drowning. but d i. I. Faith Defined, v. 1. This is per i. haps the most quoted and succinct Mr 1 definition we have of faith. What fol- -nd 1 lows is but the illustration and ap- land g plication of the fact. Faith is an "as- ngto S, surance" (RF. V.). The ground of this Th d assurance and conviction is the word derst of God. (See Rom. 10:17). The only Presi sure ground for a dynamic and intel- lious ligent faith is God's word: put to the tere. acid test of experience it never fails. resig ie Faith is not fatalism. To believe God seeki Sis to rely upon him unhesitatingly with tervf an unfaltering assurance as to the ful- Th fillment of his promises, (1 John 5:10; ?ral lf John 5:24; Act. 27:22; Rom. 4:19-21. iesis b. II. Faith Declared, vv. 4, 5. Faith im. 4- I had been declared and manifested by ieve Dr many illustrations before the death of be s at Stephen: time to (a) Abel, at the risk of his brother's W Lb anger, obeyed the unseen God and Dp h e- earned his approval; his heroic, mar- plac e tyred spirit still speaks to men (v. 4). Bake i (b) Enoch, the diligent seeker after may rs God, in a world of lawlessness lived a that rt life well-pleasing to him through a T a faith that made his presence real (vv. been ae. 6, 6). spon Ad (c) Noah (v.7), a lonely man of faith Iriec he i (Gen. 6:5), chose the unseen God and the if preached righteousness rather than .o h ye avoid the ridicule of his neighbors. bers m Noah reckoning the invisible as tan- M Sgible, continued to build his ark and bon ed I became a blessing to the race. the n- (d) Abraham and Sarah (8-12). Not be knowing whither they went, by faith son w these lonely pilgrims unerringly fol- In 1 d,. lowed an invisible God to an unseen x- country; but a faith greater still led 'ter he them to "dwell in the land" and not can gh possess it (v. 10). Their faith re- this ,i- deemed them from the mere emigrant he character. They "looked for a city. elet which had foundations, whose builder as and maker is God." is Ce) Moses (23-28) showed his faith ro- by a right choice. He weighed values D in and had "respect unto the recompense tori V7. of reward." Hls faith "endured, as this 1ly seeing him who is invisible." Moses of 1 id- saw by faith the "reproath of Christ." ass, to that which Christ suffered for the re- her demption of the world, as being of Lin gt. "greater riches than the treasures of the gin Egypt." yes m- These, and others not mentioned. of are summarized by their having so complished ten different things (32 40). They performed great deeds of ," rho heroism (32-84); they endured great has the siffering and persecution (35,36). All to the of this suffering was to issue in a the of greater reward with the glory that bal re- was to come (Rom. 8:18, II Cor. 4:17. nil eat 18). All these men of faith "obtained' soea good report." These saints had wit big ness borne to them through their faith. em Truly witnessing, their names and in deeds are recorded for our good, yet even they did not receive the promise., nit- i. e., all that had been promised by fi of God ha@ not been fulfilled in them. Ity re- Such promises were only fulfilled ae The when Christ the Messiah came. Some- re ,5e thing better than they had received po will came when he same, and without his pp coming they were not made perfect. pe 'of They did not receive, but the promise Ca bill of God had not failed. They will yet receive his fulfillment when the roll ad of the heroes of faith is perfected, and 921 we, together with them, "shall be l S made perfect" (vv. 39. 40). P5 III. Faith Demanded, 12: 1, 2. The la Holy Spirit has given us this long list ha 6 of heroes as an exhortation to stir up c 25 those living to the performsnce of ug 10 their duty. The roll call of triumphant ha 13 heroes is not yet completed. All these cl Smentioned are witnesses, not onlook- i 3 ern. These are they who have testi 10 fled to God and to the truth of his .108 word. In the light of this testimony 18 and on the same ground of their te 6 thlony, we are to do several things: g 6 1. To "'lay aside every weight. No hi 0 runner carries any weight beyond that is Swhich is needful. Some things are *l burdens that are not necessarily sins. , Every such thing hinders our running . and shoueald be laid aside.a 2. "The sitn that doth so easily beset 4 us." Literally, that wrap themselves t in about us uas an ill-fitting garment, and the which trip or impede the runner's red progress. These ssim (not sin) are lons those little devil habits and practices too which must, for that reasmon, be laid a folk aside. CO3t . "Run with patience the race set t split before us." There must be steadtast Sarnese and endurance. If church mem thbers were as faithful in following up sin the average business house is. we thy would have less of lapsed church mem- i hps ers and fewer boys and girls who llow drift away from the Sunday school. 4. "Looking anto Jesus." This is the keynote to this entire epistle and to near this category of heroes. He is our kept "flle-leader" and the perfector of our has faith. Once we get our eyes off him year we will stuamble and fall in the race. has "For the joy (literally equal fellow rhich ship with God) set before him. he en dared the cross" (Phil. 2:6-8). IU we Spro would win the race, we must despise hith- the sin which lies in the path of abto erli late loyalty to God. - hart- The work of Jesus and the bestow a iS of the Holy Spirit who is always t t with u s, the soue, the 'atbh ed . 0. BAKER NEW SECRETARY OF WAR FORMER MAYOR OF CLEVELAND, even )le OHIO, SUCCEEDS L. M. GARfRI- open) SON, RESIGNED. strip Sfrank _ _stood the t IS ONLY 44 YEARS OF AGE ev H. he b to al Said to Be in Close Sympathy With the ficier e. President's Policies and is Known osity rr- to Have Support of Some Cabinet Members. mon For ches his - "Hiia s ' Washington.-Newton D. Iaker, out :es former mayor of ('leveland . ha () girlette e. been selected by President Wilson for I and secretary of war. ed ti In Mr. Baker formerly was mayor of ed, fe, 'leveland. His name had been men- excl tioned In connection with the post- .., her ion several times. He was offered a place when the cabinet was formed, be r ter- but declined. how Oct Mr. Baker has accepted the position. I lol- -nd is arranging his affairs in Cleve- .. ap- land preparatory to coming to Wash- to t 'as- ington to take up his new duties. he's his The selection of Mr. Itaker is un- dad ord derstood to have been discussed by I nly President Wilso* with Colonel E. M. non tel- House soon after the latter's arrival life the tere. Since Lindley M. Garrison's .. tils. resignatiol: the president has been Mar Sod seeking a Middle Western lawyer to Brig rith serve as his successor. You ful- The 30-day period for Major Gen- TI 10; ?ral Hugh L. Scott. chief of staff, was by i -21. designated secretary of war ad inter- Ma} alth im. will expire March 11. It is be- he c by ieved Mr. Iak"r's nomination will war I of be sent to the Senate before that was time. "1 er's When President Wilson was making pen and ip his cabinet in 1913 he offered the thin nar- place of secretary of interior to Mr. you S4).- Baker twice. Mr. Baker then was "] fter mayor of Cleveland, and declined for turE ed a that reason. B h a The president and Mr. Baker have lett (vv. been close friends and have corre- ton. sponded frequently. lie is said by his she aits triends to be in close sympathy with T and the president's policies, and is known afte than to have had the support of some mem- had trs. bers of the cabinet for the war office. anud tan- Mr. Baker is 44 years old. He was oee and born in Martinsburg, W. Va., and at tinl the age of 25 was appointed private Not secretary to Postmaster General Wil- "By saith son in President Cleveland's cabinet. 11 tol- in 1897 he began the practice of law It seen at Martinsburg, but not long thereat- bef . led ter moved to Cleveland. where he be. brit not !came city solicitor in 1902. He held Intl re- this office for ten years, until his elec 'ant tion as mayor. In 1914 he was re- Mu city. elected mayor for a two-year term. bsi ilder bes faith Col. Everett O. Foss Dead. ove lues Doven, N. H.-Col. Everett O. Foss. shi tense formerly a newspaper publisher of pls 1, as this city, who claimed the distinction am loses of being the only man to witness the rlst." assasination of two presidents, died , ie re- here. He was at Ford's Theater when kg of Lincoln was shot and also present at en, es of the shooting of Garfield. He was 85 1th years of age. het oned, the 5 a. Aeroplane Only a Toy. he (3- Duluth, Minn.-The mysterious kn da of "aeroplane" which for several nights thl geat has been soaring over grain eleva. tel Al tors and ore docks here, causing an- ml in a thorities to investigate, was a big toy balloon. It burst into fames last al 4:17, night and fell on the docks..A prac. t Sca joker, it is believed, released the faith balloon. i, yet Promotions for Fitness. mise Washington.-Promotion of naval yo fd by fitcers by selection, instead of senior- or them. Ity, an increase of 50 per cent in ofli d 1lled cers of all grades, creation of a war Some reservre list and restoration of the be eired popular old rarik of commodore are leI at his proposed in a bill drafted by the navy s erfect. personnel board and transmitted to Ja oaise Congress by Secretary Daniels. Il yet eI 5 roll Gasoline Famine Likely. I, and Minneapolls, Minn.-Robert Stew- d' 1 be irt, director of the Standard Oil Com- 7( pany of Indiana, appearing at a hear- w The lang before the City Council, which a aglist has declined to issue permits to the tir Up company for five more filling stations ie of until the rise in the price of gasoline 7 aphant has been adequately explained, de thee clared that the price will continue to ntook- rise and said there is a possibility of o' att world-wide gasoline famine. of his _ mo T. R. Says "No" Again. Mr New York.-Theodore Roosevelt's aa: determination not to allow the use of SNo his name as a ptesidential candidate 4 in the spring primary elections was s are emphasized by the announcement that S ' John McGrath, his secretary, has dli aning rected the withdrawal of Mr. Roose velt's name from the Illinois prima beet ries. aselves __ __ at. and anner's To Review Lamar Case. ) e Washington.-The Supreme Court actices required the federal Court of Appeals be aid at New York to send up for review on its merits David Lamar's convlc ie et tion of having impersonated an ofB at esr of the United States. a mem ring up Fifteen Killed in Mine. s we Kempton, W. Va.-Fifteen men were h mem- killed and five seriously injured by an ha who explosion of dust in a Davis Coal and hool. Coke Company mine here. All the a is the victims were foreigners. and to is our As Ambassador to Chile. of our Washington -Judge Joseph H. Shea of him of Seymour, Ind., has been selected to race. by President Wilson as ambassador to fellow- Chile and will be nominated soon. He ,he en- will succeed Henry P. Fletcher, who If we has been appointed ambassador to despise Mexico. of abso Sioux City, lowa -The lowa anti bestow- tipping law was held to oe unconstitu always tional by Judge George Jepson, in Dis Itb or trict Court, on the ground that it was 1dm iteglaltioD. POSTMARKED BOSTI By ANNETTE DEARINQ, t+I' "Why, my goodnles. Dell, he even noticed us since the opened." Marion "ta, ,d down at strip of crescent hebah pI'rplexed frankly indignant. Ti'h new life stood as usual, IL a" . " Iack the tall piling near t';, il, u line. Ever sin'ce the b :. ad 0o he had been on 'c.1', rte, s to all of the regular " rs ai!anda ficiently good loh '. to arouse osity among the g;rl:; "I think he's a ', ., " boy money for his cou'rse..," 't you " chew(d on some ~'r. e specul "Ills namue is Ta:' i r by. I out that much. an ,: . I asked girl at the 1 ,ot otiic . and he g letter every day I. irked i and mails one back i r. dlay, ed to Miss Pauline lh,;, es." "How perfectly d,.l:,:ous!" exclaimed. "Fat ones," Dell ailed happily. i "Still he looks aln\iusi. so he be really engaged yet. Don't you how anxious he looks?" He surely did. El:ven gloomy. "We might get dad ti, invite bti to the cottage. Tell him we've he's a hero. don't you k::ow? I'll dad now." The major listened to his y non-committingly, and sized up `life saver at a distance. "Seems a decent s(irt of a Marion," he said. ''ll ask Ca Briggs about him. If he reports 0 you can have him u;p when you The report was 0. K. So Mr. by found himself invited to diaat r- Major Farley's cottage. Not only he come up that first niht, but II ward, often. It was enough thai it was a Crosby of Boston. "Dad," Dell whispered. one R perching on the arm of his 1e think Marion's falling in love, r. you?" •s "Probably, God bless them both, r turned the major genially. But Marion never forgot the re letters coming and going from e- ton. Not that she would ask lB, Is she wondered. h They had gone down to meg ,n afternoon boat one Sunday. n- had been telling her of his haen e. suddenly she saw him stop, as keen-eyed, and stare at somebaody at ting off the boat. te "There she is," he said ii. "By Jove, I never thought she'd rt. It was Pauline Holmes. She iw It. Something seemed to tell her If. before she was aware that e. brimful of pride and happinet ld introducing them. sc. "Miss Farley, I do want you eW re Miss Holmes. I've been tryh six weeks to coax her down M beach to take the leading part b new moving-picture play I'm over The major agrees with a 8. she's the finest person I could play Jess, but it took some Sand perseverance to win her Miss Holmes laughed as she led Marion's hand in hers. ien "I'm afraid I haven't Mr. at endurance. You know he 85 that he'd actually been a life here all summer just to get the detail. and actual facts. I he's a wonder. Hardly any s gg knew where he had run away hs think I'll go straight on up to va- tel if you don't mind. an- much to be done tomorrow. After she had gone, Taylor ast along beside Marion down 'the tti to the deserted bathing beghL he talked fast enough now. SfI all about his aims and plan "I knew you wouldn't mlad -well, not told you all self. And I can swim quite ral you know. It wasn't putting' or- over that was wrong. I - 01 don't mind." ar Marion looked out over the the bar at the fishing fleet just are leisurely in, the old weat av sails outlined agalinst the - to Jade-colored sky. "I don't mind." she said very lovely." "Do you know," he exe . denly, "I used almost to . youa'd break down some day were out yonder swimmln ch could save you?" the She did not easwer. ons "Marion, do you hear me? Ine you ever wish anything at all d Somehow his arm was e to waist, and Marion forgot to over her shoulder to be sum was out of sight It was quiet down there along the just the galls flying low Se t's bird calling now and thea sandhills in the marshes. e of "Nothing," she said softly, ate her head, "only that you w waso many letters postmarked that (Copyright. 1916. by the McClure Sdi- per Byndicate.) ia- Nero and His Tern "It is said that Nero fi Rome burned," Greenaba man. That's the least h old rip-snorting Nero ever er side of murdering seveal. among them his mother, - practice he had was to and make his helpless 0o1- pland its reading. Petronils better with Nero than because he was tactful preciate the king's verse. aeeafter Nero turned on P Sandecided to have him sliced Safter slashing his veins the bathtub, sent a cruel m king. He said he was d that he was compensated I edge that he would not hrba iea to any more of the e acted poetry.-Montgomery Ad n. He Only Crusty Bachelor' who "There is not going to be r to marrying in Ini,lar.," said SDanicKs. - < "::':, ~.. hacher is that?" asked his nephe'. anti- just got martried. "See the stitu- 'has passed a law forb n Dis- minded persons to marFi it was are the only ones whho jiolg nuch a thing."