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PASSES R. R_RELIEF BILL
Senate Kills Lafollette Amendment to
Require Quiz Before Payments.
Washington, Feb. 23. —Without a re
cord vote the senate passed the Win
slow bill ‘o authorize partial payments
In advance of final accounting to rail
roads under government guaranty of
earnings.
The bill now goes to President Wil
son.
Senator Townsend, Republican, Mich
igan, acting chairman of the interstate
commerce committee, asked the senate
to vote down all amendments, so as
to avoid further delay. He said the
roads were sorely in need of the funds
owed by the government.
The senate then speedily killed an
amendment which would have provided
payments be held up pending an inves
tigation of expenditures by the car
riers.
The amendment was offered by Sen
ator Lafollette, Republican, Wisconsin,
who had spoken six hours in its favor.
IRISH AMBUSH MILITARY
Fifteen Republicans Killed in County
Cork Battle.
Dublin, Feb. 22. —A military patrol
of crown forces was ambushed near
Lilbraok by seventy men armed with
bombs and rifles, an official head
quarters statement said. One officer
and three soldiers were wounded.
The death list in the battle between
English soldiers and Irish Republi
cans near Middelton, in County Cork,
was brought up to fifteen when two
wounded civilians died. A detachment
from the Hampshire regiment came
upon a band of Sinn Feiners who were
preparing an ambush
Japanese Sentry Freed.
Toklo, Feb. 23. —A finding of not guil
ty has been rendered by the court-mar
tial which tried Toshigora Ogasawara,
the sentry who shot Lieutenant Lang
don, of the u. S. S. Albany, at Vladi
vostok last month, it was officially an
nounced by the war department. The
trial was on the charge of accidental
murder.
Cossacks After Trotzky.
R'rra. Feb. 23. —A report from Mos
■ says Cossack troops attacked the
"■•11 way train of Leon Trotzky, the
Russ ! an soviet war minister, as it was
•eveiing along the Moscow-Orenburg
Inad. Several af the war min
"U’or’s trainmen were wounded, it is
•Vod.
GENERAMVIARKETS
TTTLADELPHIA. —FLOUR —Steady,
nter straight, $8.50@9. Spring pat
89® 9.25. %
HEAT— Firm; No. 2 red, 81.92®
’ORN —Quiet; No. 3 yellow, 85®
o\TS —Firm: No. 2 white, 5G®
POULTRY —Live, firm: liens, 37®
>: old roosters, 24®25c. Dressed,
■ m; choice fowls, 39'Ac; old roosters,
• v.
RUTTER —Firm ; fancy creamery,
‘ 53c.
EGGS — Firm: selected, 40®48c;
■ arby, 40c: western, 40c.
Live Stock Quotations.
CIHCAGO.—CATTLE—Beef steers,
low to 25c lower; bulk beef steers, 88
f 9.50: butchers she stock, steady
early; undertone weak; hulk butcher
cows and heifers, .’>5@6.50: bulk can
ners and cutters, 82.50®3.50; bulls,
calves, stackers and feeders, steadv:
hulls, largely $4.75®5.75; bulk veal
-alves, slo® 11.
HOGS—Mostly steady; (op. $9.75;
'mlk, 200 pounds down. $9.45.®9.65;
’ "Ik. 220 pounds up. $8.90®9.20,
SHEEP—Lambs, strong to 25c high
r Choice. 86 pound shorn lambs,
8 50; bulk fat lambs. 89®9.75; sheep,
"5c to 50c higher; early top ewes.
85.75: some held higher; hulk fat
ewes. $4.50@5.50.
HOT, DIZZY FEELING
Atlanta Lady’s Uncomfortable and
Annoying Condition Relieved,
She Says, by Cardni.
Atlanta, Ga. —Miss Alice Frances
Voting, of 28 East Alexander Street,
Ulia city, says: “After entering wo
manhood, I suffered so much with
•romanly weakness. My back ached.
I would have, at certain times, a hot
feeling that seemed to go to my head.
Even my shoulders would hurt, and it
made me very dizzy and uncomfort
able. When the blood would flow to
my head — l suppose that was what It
was —I would faint and feel so weak.
“I couldn’t do my work. I had a
good position, and this was surely
annoying as well as embarrassing. I
would usually have to go home and
go to bed. I certainly suffered greatly.
“I heard of Cardul, and my mother
bought It for me. It was the first and
only medicine that ever did me any
good for this trouble.”
Dizziness, headache, sldeache, back
ache, tlred-out feeling and other dis
agreeable symptoms are often signs of
womanly troubles. Thousands of wo
men who formerly suffered from these
and similar ailments have found Car
dul a very valuable remedy.
Cardul Is composed only of pure,
vegetable Ingredients which have long
been recognized as of medicinal value
In the treatment of many diseases and
disorders peculiar to women.
Take Cardul.
Tour druggist sells It.
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James J. Davis of Pittsburgh, who
s mentioned prominently as the proh
ible selection of President-elect Hard
ng for secretary of labor, is director
general of the Loyal Order of Moos*-,
i fraternal organization with a mem
icrshlp of about 600,000 lu the United
States. He was born in Sharon, Pa.,
ind worked for many years in the
Ueel and iron mills of the district
>art of the time ns a pud (Her.
ASKS U. S. TO TAKE
BONDS FOR DEBT
Belgium Would Settle In Ger
man Obligations.
Washington, Feb. 23. —Enactment ot
legislation authorizing the treasury to
accept German bonds in full payment
of Belgium’s debt to the United States
contracted before the signing of the
armistice was recommended to con
gress by President Wilson.
The total of this debt was placed
at $171,750,(XX), with interest from
April 15, 1919. Including sums advanc
ed since the armistice Belgium owes
the United States approximately $343,-
445,000.
The president transmitted a copy ol
an agreement entered into with Bel
gium by the British and Fiench pre
miers and himself to recommend to
their respective governments special
German bonds to oe delivered to the
reparations commission he accepted in
an amouit corresponding to the sums
which Belgium had borrowed from the
United Slates, Gr°at Britain and
France prior to the armistice.
This agreement ,vas signed at Paris
June 16. 1919, and was addressed to
M, Hymans, Belgian minister for for
eign affairs. The president said for
“various reasons” the agreement was
not embodied in the treaty of peace.
The reparations commission, con
gress tv is informed. lias not as yet
finally determined the details of the
issuance of the necessary bonds by the
German government, but “in view of
the approaching termination of my ad
ministration I have m-ought this mat
ter to jour attention, hoping suitable
action may be taken at the appropriate
time.”
TYPHUS IN H’KEAN CO. PA.
Three Cases of Plague Develop ir
Family of Immigrants.
Harrisburg. Feb. 22. -Dr. Edward
Martin, state comnrs doner °f health
wired Dr. w A Ostrander, at Smetii
mart, to extend all a’d to Mm local au
thorities in treatment of throe cases
■f typhus, which have developed in
McKean county, in a family of re
cently arrived Italian immigrants.
Colonel Martin expresses the belief
with proper precautions there need
he no fead of a further spread of the
hsease.
Hold Rate Guarantee.
Washington, Fell. 22.—A proposal i<
■ repeal the six per vnt rate guarante<
. provision of the transportation act was
' defeated Ly the senate. 59 to 14. Tin
repeal proposal was offered by Senatoi
■ Kirby, Democrat, Arkansas, as at
| amendment to the Winslow bill author
izlng partial payment of governmen
‘ debts to the carriers.
Slain Man’s Body In Snow Drift.
New York, Feb. 22. —The body of at
I unidentified man. naif covered by n
j snow drift, who. the police believe, was
| ‘he victim of a murder resulting from
'llicit sale of whisky, was found in
fona Park. Two bullet wounds wei-’ -
I ; n his head.
JONFERKS AGREE
riy jpfuiinn
Uii shtiii 1 onA i lui
icuse and Senate Decide
Llmii Influx of Aliens,
Washington, Feb. 23. Senate am
house e.mftrees agr id on the stii.iw
• ill to limit imm.giali. n of aim,,
hiring lne fifteen months hegiine •
April 1 to three per edit of (he num! u
in the Foiled Stales at (lie time tl:
1910 census was taken.
At Hie insistence of senators a: '
representatives from the Pacific coast,
rlie conferees agreed :o strike out th
section of the bill mecifying the a -t
should “not be construed -<s amending
repealing or modifying am law or
agreement now existing which forbids
ilie admission of anj aliens of any na
tionality or by geographical boundary.”
This section was designed to prevent
anj- conflict with state department of
ficials in controlling immigration from
Japan and China by treaty- or ag’v<>-
meut. As approved, the section vas
made to read that “the provisions f
tin’s act are in addition to, and not in
substitution for, the provisions of the
immigration laws."
OPEN UP COUNTERFEIT DEN
Government Officers Discover Great
Cache of Whisky Stamps.
New York, Feb. 23. —Seventy-seven
thousand .strip stamps for use <m wh! -
ky bottles, besides thousands of case
stamps, were seized by secret service
operatives in a raid on a electrically
equipped counterfeiting plant on oliv r
street.
Three persons were arrested and an
other detained as a witness.
The men arrested are Joseph Di S; n
ti, who was alleged to have been cut
ting counterfeit strip stamps apart
whet the secret service operatives en
tered lis shop; Michael Taranto, an
ink mixer, and Jet ry Scotty, a printer.
A fourth man was apprehended try- |
ing to enter the shop while the gov
ernment officers were there.
Three electrically’-operated presses
and sixteen plates from which stamps
had been printed were found. Coun
terfeit labels for popular brands of
whisky also were discove-ed. These
are reported to have been sold at from
$35 to S4O a thousand.
John K. Tucker, who directed the
raid, expressed the opinion that 8:>
per cent of whisky sold unlawfully in
New York passes under false labels.
He said labels and stamps were close
imitations.
BLIND BAGGAGE 3000 MILES
Veteran of War Service in Siberia
Crosses Continent.
Sayre, Pa., Feb. 23. —After riding
‘blind baggage” from San Francisco
Fraiicio M. Mcllale, of Mount, Carmel,
who served with the A. E. F. in Si
beria, dropped off a Lehigh Valley
train here nearly frozen. Physicians
at the Packer Hospital found he had
(wit 25 cents and arangemeuts are be
ing made to send him home “on the
cushions.”
McHale was discharged from tlie
,11st Infantry last November and given
S6O to pay his way home; but he
spent L for civilian clothes and ob
tained a job. Later he lost it. Un
able to find another and with ids
money almost exhausted lie started
his “blind baggage” trip.
Jersey Central Shops Shut Down.
Elizabeth, N. .7., Feb. 23.—Tlie Cen
tral Railroad of New Jersey lias or
dered three of its -epair shops closed
on Saturday because of lack of funds
for maintennace, it was announced
here by Charles E. Chambers, superin
tendent of motive power. The shops,
I employing 500# men, are located here
and at Ashley and Mauch Chunk, Pa.
They will remain closed indefinitely.
, Free Seeds Again Cut Out.
Washington, Feh. 23. —House pro
visions in the agricultural appropria
t tions hill allowing $367,000 for ihe an
l nual congressional distribution of free
> I seeds were struck out in the senate.
Senator Harrison, Democrat, Missis
sippi, led a fight for retention of tlie
appropriation, hut lid not force a roll
call.
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’ * BOND TOO BIG TO HANDLE *
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-L Jacksonville, Fla., Feh. 23. —A
,i, regretful note accompanied a •]-
4* $25,000 Liberty bond, returned
•J. through tlie mail to the Cle- •l
-j. merit D. Cates Co., stock hrok- •*<
! * ers, from which it had been .J.
.. stolen. “It’s too big to handle
safely,” the robber said, but he .(•
, A. kept two smaller stolen bonds. *
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WILSON TO KEEP
Of PEASE WORK
Tells Harvard Man His Writings
Win be impersonal
APPEARS IN FINE SPIRIT
President Shook Hands With Stu
dent Delegation and Presented
Them to Mrs. Wiison.
Washington, Feh. 23.—President Wil- j
sun. iii in address to a delegation from
the Woodrow Wilson ('luh of Harvard j
University, declared he would devote j
his efforts to i!ie last in supporting |
the cause of world noace.
To the group of six undergraduates,
whom ho received in the company of
Mrs. Wilson in his study, the president
said that lie would leave to historians
the task .-f interpreting the events of
the pc;me conference.
He said lie was deeply moved by
the evi i aa-e ilaw nroughi to him tHr
cause of world peace and tiie prinendes
for whidi In had fought had been
espoused hy a new generation of Amer
icans.
I Velarin-g it' lie over devoted himself
again P> writing, it would he along im
personal lim s, the oresident said he
most prd'n red to so.'iid tin* remainder
of las days in advancing the cause of
world peace and to that end he would
give Id;; win*! * strength and time.
The pn sid 1 10 was said In. have spe
cificaliy requested tiie delegation te
dispel the idea he would write a his
tory of the i'aris peace conference. 11**
explained if I ■ should write such a
history it would lie impossible for tiie
reader ■<) discount the personal equa
tion, and he pr-ferred for this reason
to leave the task to others.
Robert <Smart. lr.. who headed
tiie de'c-gathm. odd Mte president the
Harvard Woodrow Wilson Club de
sired, upon tin* .anniversary of the liirth
of Washington, to extend its greeting
to him a ic great American of our
generation," and. inspired hy Wilson
ian idr tis. it. < lab •mrposed to per
petuate the ideal - to which tiie presi
dent had . ion < on.mte expression
The piesalcnt received the delega
tion in Ins sillily c**ated behind his
desk. He -Dm,!, hands witli each o r j
(he six. apologizing for not rising am '
in turn presented tiie visitors to Mr
Wilson.
During his remarks the president re
moved ie- g'n- ns cwra.l times am
finally i.i d Mi *ni (' .wo upon the desk
The ioil. se men sdd lie spoke in a
clear wil modulated voice and with ;
fluency ano wit which was afterward
particularly remarked upon hy the vis
itors.
Airs. Wilson stood hy the president
throughout site course of the interview
and when it was ended she escorte.
the delegation to the door. After thank
ing then for their isit she said:
“The piesident was deeply touched
hy your mission and message.”
Members of tiie delegation after
wards described him as in good spirits
and said they gained tiie impression he
was capable of conducting for a long
time a vigorous campaign in behalf of
peace.
A statement made later hy several
members of the delegation said:
“We ■ re deeply impressed with the
great heart of Hit- president '"as
seemed, ir relied ion, to think over the
question of peace. We were deeply
touched l.\ the president's faith in tiie
ultimate accomplishment of his efforts
toward peace and i >y the almost buoy
ant good humor with which he is leav
ing Ilic White I?HI -e.”
OUTLAW STARR IS DEAD
1 Oklahoma Highwayman Succumbs to
Bank President’s Bullet.
Harrison, Ark., Feb. 23. —Henry
Starr, Oklahoma bandit, wounded while
attempting to rob the People’s Bank
last Friday, died.
Starr's wife, mother and son were
at his bedside in the county jail when
the end came.
A lergthy statement, said to reveal
the names of ids accomplices In tiie at
tempted robbery and to give a detailed
account i f his career, as an outlaw
under tiie guise of a reformed bank
robber, l.as been made by Starr, ac
cording to W. .). Myers, former presi
dent of the bank, who shot Starr.
Accept Grain For China.
Peking, Feb. 23. —The all-American
committee for famine relief in China
announced acceptance of tiie tentative
offer of 5.000,000 bushels of corn hy
American farmers tor the relief of tiie
famine sufferers. The committee stip
ulated that the grain, in order to ac
complish the purpose intended, should
arrive in China by tiie middle of May.
Tong War Breaks Out on Coast.
San Francisco, Feb. 23. —I.i Leotg,
Chinese fisherman, was killed in what
the police said is the lirst definite out
break here of a state-wide war be
tween tiie Bing Kong and Hop Sing
Tongs. All active members in the two
tongs were ordered placed under ar
rest.
Snow;j Save Lancaster’s Crops.
Marietta. Pa„ Feo. 23. —The snows
of the past two days have saved tiie
crops in Lancaster county. Grass,
wheat and fruit were suffering from
an open waiter and tiie less would have
been tremendous.
SUES IN 20-YEAR LOVE PACT
Milwaukee W; -an Asks S4CC PCO
Share cf Memphis Man’s Estate.
Memphis Trim.. Feh. 2 1. Keh...*s
>f aMvveiiiv \ ar rum.:nee were ! d
in the federal disre-t iiiurt with ;ae
irial nf Miss M il e Quirk. Milwaukee
wimii.n, for a :‘00,(10(1 la re in the
es.ale id tin- ! e Patrick Kalialier a
wealthy Men phis man. Aeeonling to
Miss Qtii.l; la* : s under promise to
bequeath her !. s '.••ruine in return fur
her premise net to wed during ids
life time.
Miss Quirk said Kalialier won her
promise in marry 'dpi In 1 St 2. while
she was a udeiir in a Milwaukee
convent. At that time Miss Quirk
was 1(1 years old and Kalialier was 32
Parental ieciiniis prevented the
marriage. Mss Quirk explained, hut
(luring tiie nven:y years which inter
vened until Kahaber's death in IPI2,
ids eourtsldp continued and both held
to tin* troth phgini ■ i in ISO 2. Hy mu
tual understanding
After Kalialier - s death, which fol
lowed a long illness, during which
Mis Quirk acted as ids nurse, a claim
to ids estate was set up in her behalf.
Tins was contested hy relatives of
Kalialier.
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Lewis Wallace. \
i T” ~ generally known |
• % ; by the shorter
**| V name tew, was
Vg; horn in 1527 at
%; llrookville, Indi
ana. and perhaps
| t; was, quite uneon
- s . seionsly. potent In
’ s A spreading the idea,
to some, that In
* ! that state is lo
th eated (he literary
center of this
' country. He died
< in lUOS.
T,ko ,! “* *<u
' Jip 5 dents of today In
jML, -j (he groat strns
. vj; Kle. he left his
S hf*' hooks for the ,
.gV- Mexican war. He i
served again In
- • * —_J the Civil War and
rose to he major- |
general in the volunteer army. As
after the Mexican episode, he returned
again to the law: he was Governor of
Utah from 1878 to ISBI, and minister
to Turkey from 1881 to ISB3, vhen as
a good diplomat he won the esteem of
(he late unlainented Abdul-Hamld and
could really put through business -with
that sclent ideally dilatory tyrant.
He is known by his ‘hree books.
“The Fair God” (1873), “Ben-Hur* -
(1880). and “The Prince of India"
(1883). The first is a very clever re
construction of (he story of the con
quest of Mexico by the Spaniards. The
reader feels a great sympathy with the
highly lies eloped natives who fell help
less before the superior arms of the
Invaders. The story, however, is by
no means to he put In the same class
with “Ben-Hur.” The skill, the knowl
edge. the reverence with which the
I story of Christ is told (largely through
the lives of others) have made “Ben-
Hur" one of the hooks to take a secure
bold on the public, both as book and
on the stage, where the famous chariot
race has won a classic place.
TP 1 IE workmen put their hands !
, □ to tiie cross and carried it.
burden and all, to the place
of planting. At a word, they dropped
I the tree into the hole; and the body of
I the Nazarene also dropped heavily.
and hung hy the bleeding hands. Still
’ no cry of pain—only the exclamation
divinest of all recorded exclamations:
“‘Father, forgive them, for they
know not what they do.’
“The cross, reared now above all
other objects, and standing singly out
against tiie sky, was greeted with a
burst of delight; and all who could see
and read the writing upon the board
over tiie Nazarene’s head made haste
to decipher it. Soon as read, the legend
was adopted by them and communicat
ed, and presently the whole mighty
concourse was ringing the salutation
from side to side, and repeating it with
laughter and groans
“‘King of the Jews! Hail king of
the Jews!’
“Tiie sun was rising rapidly to noon ;
tiie hills bared their brown breasts lov
ingly to it; tiie more distant mountains
rejoiced in the purple with which it so
regally dressed them. In the city the
temples, palaces, towers, pinnacles,
i and all points of beauty and promi
: nence seemed to lift themselves into
the unrivaled brilliance, as if they
’ knew the pride CTey WERFUIVIIIj? IW
many who from time to time turned to
look at them. Suddenly a dimness be
gan to fill the sky and cover the earth
—at first no more than a scarce per
ceptible fading of the day, a twilight
out of time; an evening gliding in up
on the splendors of noon. But it deep
ened. and directly drew attention;
whereat the noise of the shouting and
laughter fell off, and men, doubting
, their senses, gazed at each other curi
ously; then they looked to the sun
again; then at the mountains, getting
, farther away: at the sky and the near
landscape, sinking in shadow; at the
hill upon which the tragedy was
, enacting: and from all these they
gazed at each other again, and turned
pale and held their peace.
“ ‘lt is only a mist or passing cloud,’
Simonides said soothingly to Esther,
1 who was alarmed. ‘lt will brighten
presently.’
“Ben-Hur did not think so.
“ ‘lt is not a mist or a cloud,’ he said.
‘The spirits who live in the air—the
prophets and saints —are at work in
mercy to themselves and nature. I
■ say to you, oh, Simonides, truly as God
i lives, he who hangs yonder is the Son
of God.’
■ I “And leaving Simonides lost in won
der at such a speech from him he went
■ ; where Balthazar was kneeling nearby,
and laid his hand upon the good man’s
! shoulder.
I 1 “ ‘Oh, wise Egyptian, hearken! Thou
• • alone wort right—the Nazarene is in
deed the Son of God.’
“Balthazar drew him down to him
• and replied, feebly, T saw him a child
in the manger where he was first laid:
it is not strange that I knew him soon
er than thou; hut oh that I should live
f to see this day! Would that I had
1 died with my brethren! Happy Mel
chior! Happy Gaspar!’
“ ‘Comfort thee!’ said Ben-Hur.
‘Doubtless they too are here.’
Within the frame of the story of
| Christ is told the tale of Ben-Hur, be
ginning with the appearance of the
three wise men, Balthazar, Melchior
' and Gaspar, and ending with the
sublime tragedy on Golgotha. From
the days of the scenes at the manger
umil tiie culmination of the grout
story, the figure of Christ appears but
once, anil then for a moment, but over
all that happens in tin* intervening
years hovers tin* gentle spirit; thrilling
as tin* episodes are in themselves,
strongly as the characters are por
trayed, they are hut a preparation for
what is to follow, a mere worldy set
ting for him who was too great for oh
save a few to understand at that time.
Some twenty-one years after the
scenes at the manger, a young Jew,
Ben-Hur, a prince of Jerusalem, rich,
happy, ambitious, was standing by a
parapet of his palace, watching the
progress of Valerius Gratus, imperial
governor of Judea. As the Roman
passed beneath the wall amid the jeers
and insults of the Jews the young
prince leaned far out to see the new
. I governor; a tile was displaced and, as
hitter fate would have it, fell full upon
I the governor. The accident was not
. fatal; hut it was an opportunity for
exemplary justice, especially ns the es
. fates of the Jew were very desirable
i to the governor and his friend Messala,
i hitherto almost brother to Ben-Hur
though the latter had been. The un
[ happy Jew was sent as a rower to the
galleys, where the limit of life was at
most hut His mother and Sis- j
ter were immured in a secret cell in |
the Tower of Antonia, where they j
were doomed to the fate of the lep
ers. The only act of kindness Ben-
Hur could remember during the years
that followed was on the day he was
dragged to the galleys. “The hand
laid kindly upon his shoulder awoke
the unfortunate man, and looking up.
he saw a face he never forgot—the
face of a hoy about his own age,
shaded by locks of yellowish bright
chestnut hair; a face lighted by dark
blue eyes, at the time so soft, so ap
pealing, so full of love and holy pur
pose, that they had all the power of
command and will.” That was in
Nazareth.
j How Ben-Hur in time became a
1 rower on the flagship of Airrus, duum-
I vir and admiral, how the flagslfip was
* destroyed in a great sea fight, how
Ben-Hur rescued the admiral, became
ids adopted son and heir, learned at
Rome the manner of Roman war and
Roman sports, returned to the East
a Roman officer in the train of a con
sul setting forth on a great campaign
against the Parthians; how lie dis
covered that his father’s old steward
Simonides had succeeded in saving
from confiscation tiie vast intangible
wealth of the Hurs and had multiplied
It many times, till the young Roman-
Jew was the richest private citizen j
in the world; the discovery that Mes- !
i sala was entered for the highest stake
1 in the great sporting event of tiie
1 orient; how Ben-Hur won the affection
of Ilderim, the Arab sheik, who had
entered his steeds of the desert for
the great event —all this leads up to
the dramatic encounter of the famous j
chariot race. The author drew Ids I
description of tiie race from one writ
ten over twenty-three hundred years
ago hy the tragic poet Sophocles. It
Is one of the curiosities of literature j
that the great scene, through the pages j
of Lew Wallace’s novel, has become
as famous on our stage as it was so
long ago on that of Greece.
By his victory in the arena Ben-
Hur exacted ancient Jewish justice
on ids hated adversary, who was
crushed in body and impoverished in
fortune, lie had wagered on his suc
cess all the wealth he had stolen from
his former friend. The victor almost
fell prey, however, to the vampire
daughter of Egypt who was rival for
ids love with the gentle Jewish Esther.
But henceforth his thoughts were con
centrated on him who was attracting
all eyes. Was he Messiah or king?
Ben-Hur. in his hatred of Rome, in his
pride of race, dreamed only of a king
of this world, who should right an
cient wrongs and exalt his chosen peo
ple. And so he threw himself with
all his force, with all his wealth, with
all the knowledge gained at Rome,
into making secure and strong the way
of the king whom he would follow.
But it was for one supreme in things
spiritual rather than material that
the way was being made ready. And
Ben-Hur’s mother, rescued with her
daughter from her long imprisonment
i hy a chance change of jailers, but
hopeless lepers both, saw the truth
sooner than her son.
“‘Oh Master, Master!’ she cried as
he passed upon the road. ‘Thou seest
our need; thou canst make us clean.
Have mercy upon us—mercy!’
i “ ‘Believest thou I am able to do
| this?’ he asked.
“ ‘Thou art he of whom the prophets
* spake —thou art the Messiah!’ she re
plied. His eyes grew radiant, his man
ner confident.
“ ‘Woman,’ he said, ‘great is thy
faith; be it unto thee even as thou
’ wilt.’ ”
And so, in the end, Ben-Hur recog
-L-atoad what Balthazar, had
I the beginning. “Oh wise Egyptian,
; hearken! Thou alone were right—the
I Nazarene is Indeed the son of God!”
( Copyright, 1919, by the Post Publishing Co
j (The Boston Post). Published by permis-
I -sion of, and arrangement with, Harpei
i & Bros., authorized publishers.
An Adventure.
Miss Tellowleaf —A man I never saw
before spoke to me today on the street
car.
Miss Peachblow—You don’t tell me?
What did he say?
Miss Tellowleaf—He told me to step
lively, please.
Naturally.
“I hear the young woman designei
in Madame Paree’s dressmaking es
tablishment is a very estimable per
; son.”
“She has to be. It Is her business
I to lead a pattern life.”
No Rise For coottage.
Washington, Feb. 22.—The vice pres
ident and speaker of the house are
1 j not to receive salary Increases. Sen
I ate amendments to the legislative ap
propriation bill to increase their sal
1 aries from 512,000 to $15,000 have been
stricken from tiie bill by conferees.
’ it was said that'Speaker Gillett op
* posed the increase because it apphec
’ to him alone without giving increase*
; to other house members.
i ASHURSTUSES BAIT
Gets Senate Chewing Figs and Ex
, tracts SIO,OOO More.
I Washington, Feb. 23.—'The senate
; celebrated Washington’s birthday
! with an impromptu feast, served hy
. Ashurst, Democrat, Arizona. He ap
-1 peared with packages of western
. grown figs and dates and began a
speech hy sending pages around the
floor with the fruit.
When everybody was chewing com
( fortably he asked a $61,000 item for
. fig and date plant investigations in
, stead of $51,000 provided hy the
r house. The senators voted tiie addi
-3 tional SIO,OOO without missing a bite.
i
r MAIL THIEVES GOT $1,600,000
Loot of Toledo Postoffice Mounting to
Enormous Figure.
Toledo, 0., Feh. 23,—Postoffice In
spectors investigating the robbery of
the Toledo postofflee last week de
clared the loot stolen hy tiie five
bandits piobably would amount to sl,-
600,000.
Police say at least $35,000 In cash
was In the six registered pouches taken
hy the robbers. The rest consisted
mostly of registered Liberty bonds,
which the bandits may have difficulty
in negotiating.
Snowballs Save Firemen Work.
Pottsvllle, Feh. 23 Snowballs were
used effectively in quenching flames
which did SIOOO damage to tiie home of
Walter Kurich, at Cumbola. In the
absence of water, the snow proved
very effective in extinguishing the fire
and the Pottsville fire department,
which was asked for assistance, was
not needed. Tiie fire started in a rub
hish heap.
The Weather.
Forecast for this section: Unsettled
today and tomorrow; variable winds.
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PUT UP TO LEAGUE
U. S. Sends First Official
munication to World Society.
Wasuington, Feb. 23. —The govern
ment lias presented directly to the
council of the League of Nations it
demand all allied and associated na
tions he given equal opportunities in
mandate territories.
it was announced at the state de
partment a note virtually identical
with the one on this subject -sent to
the British government <n November
had been despatched to the council,
which is in session at Paris.
Decision to act in this question not
withstanding tlie early change of ad
1 mlnistr itiei was predicated upon the
understanding the council contemplated
immediate action on mandates such
as those in Mesopotamia and Pales
i tine.
Great Britain never has replied t>
■ Secretary of State Colby note of pro
test last November nor has the United
■ States received the official drafts of
the mandates which it be sent
her before final appeal by the league.
It is understood Great Britain has
intimated to tV government since the
draft 'Mandates have been submitted
to tlie league tlie logical course for the
United States would tie to present its
i case to the league council.
This is the first action initiated by
the government helm > tlie league coun
cil. It was explained it served as a
notice to the league while the United
States was not a member it would
not submit without it protest to any
infringement of Its rights since it was
one of tlie nations which contributed
. to the oonmion victory.
DENIES HIS DEAD WIFE
Alleged Murderer Declares He Never
Saw Woman Before,
New Castle, Pi., Feb. 22—Albert
Torrence, White, who is accused of the
> murder < f his wife, Sadie Hinkson
White, whose mutilated body was
found In an old stable formerly used
• by White, last Thursday afternoon.
and who was subsequently taken to the
, Beaver county jail following threats of
violence, is again confined in the Law
rence eounty jail here.
White was brought back to New
Castle ,t the instigation of District
I Attorney Muse, the trip being made
about midnight an i with the utmost
1 secrecy.
The accused man was taken direct
to the morgue, where Mrs. White’s
body has been lying since it was pre
pared for burial, and when confronted
with the body of ids slain wife he
astonished the officers with the state
’ ment that he had never seen the wo
man before.
State police from Butler county, in
addition to a heavy force of deputy
sheriffs, are guarding the jail against
any possible attempt at mob violence,
uynamite Found Near Chicago.
Chicago, Feb. 23.—Two hundred
pounds of dynamite and a number of
loaded shells far sawed-off shotguns
were found on a farm on the outskirts
of the southside when two men, claim
ing affiliation \<ith oi>i of the Nine
teenth ward political factions, wen
arrested bv the police.
Ho'y War Against Serbs.
Londo'd, Feb. 23. —A wireless mess
age from Berlin says that accordin'
to Swiss reports the Montenegrins hav
declared a holy war against the Sor
vians. Two Servian regiments hav
occupied Cettinje, Montenegro, and tl
situation Is grave, the message says
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