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*ro 9ASSCTR. Mltor VOL. 34 BRIEFS BY CABLE, WIRE, WIRELESS Great Events That Are Chang ing the World’s Destiny Told in Paragraphs. ITEMS TO INTEREST ALL Short Chronicle of Past Occurrences Throughout the Union and Our Colonies—News From Europe That Will Instruct. i ■** WASHINGTON Opposition among Republican sena tors to the appointment of Charles E. Hughes as secretary of state has as sumed such proportions that it is now described as a “revolt.” William M. Coleman, New York, gen eral counsel for the Hudson and Man hattan railroad, committed suicide by leaping from the tenth story of the Powhatan Hotel, not far from the White House, Washington. Profiteering in anthracite coal In New York city and elsewhere was given an airing before the Senate Committee In hearings on the Calder bill The Borah resolution for a tripar tite agreement between the United States, Great Britain and Japan for the limitation of armaments was fa vorably reported. Senate Foreign Relations Committee accepted the offer of J. P. Morgan to allow his home in London to be used as a permanent American Embassy building. Nominations of approximately 2,000 postmasters were sent to the senate by President ,/llcon. This swells the al ready enormous list of nominations made at this session and on which Re publican leaders have determined not to act except where an emergency ex ists. 4 * NATION’S BUSINESS ♦■ * • Henry Ford is attempting to arrange tome sort of financing in Wall street, and the gossips placed the amount the manufacturer is seeking at 175,000,000. Tobacco growers urged increased tariff duties on cigars and tobacco be fore the House Ways and Means Com mittee. Membership on the Chicago Stock Exchange was sold for $5,000, the low est price in years. The low price last year was $7,800, and the high $8,250. Decision of the Pennsylvania Rail road Company to cut its already de creased force another 10 per cent will add a considerable number to the growing group of unemployed. The Jobbers’ Association of Notion Buyers, in convention at New York in connection with the dry goods trade, demanded guaranteed prices from sell ers of nationally advertised and cou l.olled lines. Governor W. P. G. Harding of the Federal Reserve Board said he had been offered the presidency of the new $100,000,000 Foreign Export Financing Corporation, to be organized in New York under the Edge act. An average of 8 per cent in retail prices of twenty-two food articles in December as compared with Novem ber was noted in statistics compiled by the labor department. Compared to December, 1919, the decrease was 10 per cent. * ■! GENERAL ■ Even pessimists are now convinced that danger of “an old fashioned panic” has passed, W. P. G. Harding, governor of the Federal Reserve Board, declared at Winston-Salem, speaking to the Chamber of Commerce. The Rev. Joseph J. Muir of Temple Baptist Church, Washington, was se lected to l>e chaplain of the senate at a conference of Republican Senators. He will succeed the Rev. J. Forrest Prettyman, who has resigned to take a pastorate at Knoxville, Tenn. The Rev. Mr. Muir is u personal friend of Senator Harding. The net gain of Henry Ford over Senator Newberry in the Senatorial elections contest climbed to 1,890, with 1,281 of the 2,232 Michigan precincts recounted. Charles D. Newton, Attorney Gen eral of New York, declared before the United States Supreme Court that Greater New York would have a popu lation of 16,000,000 by 1960. “The latest form of police graft is centered in the private detective agency system and reached its zenith during the Enright administration,” according to former Governor Charles 6. Whitman. Five months of daylight saving In stead of seven is proposed in a bill in troduced in the New York Legislature by Assemblyman Booth. Deportation of Gregory Weinstein, chancellor of the Russian Soviet bu reau in this country, was ordered by Secretary Wilson. Local authorities will be held re sponsible for strict enforcement of prohibition. Governor Miller of New - York indicated in a conference with newspaper men. Failure to blot out public selling of liquor may be used as provocation for removal of a local head of police department. Assurance was given the United States government by the Japanese legation at Peking that Americans traveling over the South Manchurian railway are exempt from passport ex aminations. Lieut. Walter A. Hinton stuck to his story before the naval court inquiry at Rockaway Beach, N. Y„ that Lieut. Stephen A. Farrell weakened first when the three were lost in the Hud son Bay country. Reports that the Pennsylvania rail road wa.s contemplating reductions in aaees wins denied at the Philadelphia "eneral offices. Postal inspectors announced that ( Guy Kyle, until recently pastor of the Free Methodist Church at Mount Ver non, 111., has confessed to the robbery of four mail pouches in which $197,000 was stolen. The confession implicates others. One hundred and seventy thousand dollar* was recovered. Joseph Jejois bought the Wausaukee (Wls.) jail for S3O and will use it for a woodshed. City officers, explaining the sale, said that since the advent of prohibition the jail, which has been in service for thirty years, has been idle. Edwin R. Bergdoll, serving a four year term at Fort Kan., for evading the selective draft, filed i application for a writ of habeas cor pus In the Federal Court at Topeka, Kan. Judge Hand, in the United States District Court, granted temporary re straining order asked by the govern ment to prevent Western Union Tele graph Company from landing cable at Miami, Fla. President-Elect Harding left Marion. 0., for the south. He will remain there until Inauguration day. An ad valoret -. tax of 4 cents a ton on bituminous coal produced at the mines and 8 cents a ton for anthracite was recommended by Governor Sproul of Pennsylvania to raise revenues to meet increasing needs of the state gov ernment. Waterway tragic between Pittsburgh and New Orleans will be inaugurated with the arrival at the latter city of the river steamship Queen City on February 5. Regular schedules be tween the two cltle< will be maintained in the future. !■■■■ 1 SPORTING •F- - K. O. Bill Brennan, the St. Paul heavyweight, scored a technical knock out over Bill Bailey of Atlanta nt Sa vannah. Harvard has sent a cablegram to Manager Iso Abe of the Waseda Uni versity baseball team of Tokio, Japan, accepting a baseball date in Cam j bridge on May 29. In the second series of tennis ! matches at Sydney, N. S. W„ the Araer- I ican Davis Cup team beat the Austra | lians three matches to nothing. A state tax of 12 per cent on gross gate receipts of all racing associa tions in the state is proposed in a bill introduced in the New York legis lature by Assemblyman Charles H. Betts, Republican, of Wayne. Mr. Betts estimates that the tax would net the state $600,000 annually. Johnny Wilson is the latest scrap- i per to carry his own referee. He ; brought Jimmy Gardner to Pittsburgh j to referee his bout with Chip, and ■ would not fight unless the old-time j lightweight was the referee. The English cricket team which is touring Australia suffered a re verse ia a series of five championship games there, the Australian team win ning tnree consecutive victories. William Crozier of Hartford, Conn., has bought Peter L, the champion four-year-old trotting stallion of 1920, | at Memphis, Tenn. The price is un- | derstood to have been about $15,000. i Down in New JrDar.s they are tout- 1 ing Pal. Moore as the “coming light* weight champion of the world.” Ludy Langer, of San Francisco won I the quarter-r.JI swimming champion* ship of New South Wales at Sydney, Australia. , [ Jim Bradshaw, the star catcher of last season’s champion Lafayette Col i lege baseball team, announced at I i Easton, Pa., that he hr ! made a verbal agreement to join the New York Amer ican League Club. Columbia’s baseball team will clash with a nine represeting Japan next : spring, according to an . nnounceraent | to that effect made in New York by Bob Watt, graduate manager of athlet- j 1 ics. Waseda University of Tokio has written for a game. ? - FOREIGN ,| + * j i Reports received from Barcelona, j ! ’ Spain, indicate a continuance of san- | ! guinary encounters between the police . ! and the syndicalists. The Paris Matin learns that the I French government may seek a loan of $200,000,000 in America instead of the : $100,000,000 mentioned. ' j Among the six constabulary officers i * I who were killed in an ambuscade at ■ Glenwood, near Dublin, was Inspector : | Clarke, a native of Lurgan, near Bel ! I fast, who formerly lived in the Winni ! | peg district of Canada and was a - i member of the Canadian Mounted Rifles. The Montreal City Hall was stormed 1 by a mob composed of unemployed 1 men. * ; King Alfonso is the moving spirit in i a new film corporation started in Ma ■ j drid. J [ The automobile of King Albert of j i Belgium, while returning to Brussels • - i from Louvain, knocked down two chil- j dren in the village of Kesseldo. A girl j * of five years of age was killed outright I - and a boy of eight was seriously hurt. ; i Six British policemen were killed ; ’ and two wounded in an ambush at I ) Glenwood, near Dublin, it was official- I ly announced. - * A co-operative syndicate was formed j - to hol’d 2,000,000 cantars of cotton in i the hope of raising the price for the commodity in Cairo, Egypt. . Final estimate of tire Canadian wheat - crop of 1920 is 203,189,000 bushels, the i Dominion Bureau of Statistics an nounces. This is 171,000 bushels low - er than the estimate made October 29. f Petroleum concessions granted by f former Mexican governments are be i I ing investigated, and in future suob t i grants will be made only to individu -1 als and companies in a position to de -1 j velop tbe properties involved, Presl ! dent Obregon declared. 1 j A bill authorizing negotiation of a e i $25,000,000 loan on behalf of the state s railways, recently passed by the 1 Chilian Congress was approved by the ■ Council of State. There were no newspapers published s in Lisbon because of tbe strike by t printers for an Increase in wages. . Some journalists had joined the strife t ing printers, who decided to publish 1- their own evening and daily newspa pers. Weakened by overwork. Premier u ! Lenin of Russia has become insane, a ; according to the Stockholm corre i spondeiit of the Echo &s Paris. AND SOUTHERN MARYLAND ADVERTISER. UPPER MARLBOROUGH Ml).. FRIDAY FEBRUARY 4. 1921. STATE HENS BRIEFLY IBID The Latest Gleanings From All Over the State THINGS SEEN AND HEARD Hagerstown. While the night watchman was asleep thieves entered the garage of E. M. Connor and stole two automobiles, valued at more than $5,000. The cars were owned by A. Martin Lamp and C. V. Wilkes, both of Hagerstown. Greensboro.—-James Massey, aged 77 years, died at his home in Greensboro of heart trouble after a long illuess. He was a Republican in politics and a member of the legislature of 1876. Sub sequently he was an inspector of immi gration under Collector Marine at Bal timore. Cumberland. Judges Henderson and Wagaman, who sat in the case of John Logue, 50 years old, indicted for the murder of his common-law wife, Clara Ostrander, rendered A verdict of not guilty. The verdict was prompted by the belief that Logue was insane at the time of his act and is insane now. Cambridge. Miss Lavinia Engle, chairman of the League of Women Voters for Maryland, addressejl an open meeting cf the Woman's Club of Cambridge and established a Dor chester county branch of the league. Miss Nettie V. Mace was made chair man: Mrs. James C. Leonard, vice chairman: Mrs. James B. Noble, treas urer; Miss Margaret Small, secretary, and Miss Nellie Shackelford, chairman { ©£ the membership committee. ■Washington.—ln an additional list of recess appointments of postmasters sent to the Senate for confirmation President Wilson includes a number to fill stations In Maryland. They are: Leo F. McGinty, Camp Meade; H. E. Walls, Church Hill; L. D. Thrasher, j Deer Park; John C. Downs, Clear j Springs: Margaret Harrington, Wood j stock; John E. Cramer, Walkersville; | C. E. Walston, Queenstown; A. Susie j S. Thompson, Hillsboro. Crisfteld. —The refusal of the taxpay ers of Crisfleld to pay taxes for the year 1920 on the new assessment basis is creating some embarrassment to the Mayor and Council, as there are a great many bills overdue and creditors ! are reported to be pressing the city j authorities rather vigorously for pay j ment. The city officials, therefore, : are experiencing difficulty in getting sufficient funds from taxes to pay cur rent expenses. Rockville. —The Montgomery County Holstein Breeders’ Association, the ' membership of which includes the • leading Holstein breeders of the coun ty, was organized at the home of John I B. Diamond, Jr., near Gaithersburg, with the following officers: President, E. G. Fulton, Takoma Park; vice-presi dent, Douglas B. Diamond, Gaithers ! burg; secretary-treasurer, John B. | Diamond, Jr., Gaithersburg: directors, | James D. King, Germanstown, and W. 1 D. Blic-k, Silver Spring. Cumberland.—People are becoming aroused over reports that the sale of Illicit liquor, said to have been dis | tilled in the Shantytown section, is re | sponsible for two deaths within the j past 10 days. One of the victims was i a business man and the other a colored woman. It is said that concentrated lye is used in making the stuff, mainly to give the burning taste. Heroin also • enters into the making, it is said. The | drink, it is said, is colored to resemble I bonded whisky. The stuff is sold in | bottles that had contained bonded whisky, it is said. Crisfield. —The case against Reese Betts, a teacher in the Crisfield High School, who was summoned to appear for trial before Magistrate Fred N. Holland for spanking Miss Cathleen Evans, a 15-year-old daughter of Good sel Evans and a pupil in the high school, did not come up for trial. Mr. Betts appeared and pleaded guilty to assault and was fined by Magistrate j Holland $1 and costs. Betts is said ! to have admitted that because of al | leged disobedience on the part of Miss j Evans he pulled her out of her seat, | took her to the door and gave her a i slap or a shake in the hail. State’s | Attorney L. Creston Beauchamp ! agreed not to prosecute the case 1 further, j PREPARES OWN FUNERAL. | Chicago Man Lays Out Clothes And Turns On Gas. Chicago.—Charles Kaister carefully i pressed his clothes. Beside them he j laid immaculately fresh linen and a ; black bow tie. Then he turned on the ! gas. A note was discovered giving in ! stmetions to the undertaker how his | funeral was to be conducted and a wad ; of bill was left to defray expenses. I Attendants at the hospital said his j wish to die would come true. NEGRO RIOTERS SHOT BY MOB. \ Alfred Williams And Plummer Bullock Killed In Warrenton, N. C. Norlina, N. C. —Armed mobs crashed their way into the Warren county jail, at Warrenton. captured two negro pris oners, marched them to a nearby woods and riddled their bodies with bullets. The prisoners were Alfred Williams and Plummer Bullock, al leged race riot instigators, who wore arrested for participation in bloody re.ee rioting here. I STATE I | CAPITAL I State Will Respect Law. Annapolis.— The Eighteenth Amendment, in the opinion of Governor Ritchie, must be given the same respect accorded any other part of the Constitution, without any questioning of the amendment’s necessity or expediency. The Gov ernor thus expressed himself to Geo. W. Crabbe, superintendent of the Anti saloon League. This, his first public declaration favoring enforcement of the amendment, is sure to cause con sternation among his “wet” supporters. The Governor’s expression was con tained in a letter declining, because of a previous engagement to attend the recent league rally of the Lyric. “Good citizens cannot fail,” said the Governor, “to view with concern any evidence of unrest and disorder, as i well as any evidences of impaired re spect for law and constituted author ity. It is most appropriate that a day be set aside for thought upon this sub ject. “I note the statement in your letter of the league’s support of ‘the policy of the government as provided in the Eighteenth Amendment to the Con stitution.’ He adds. “The Eighteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States has become part of the organic law o fthe land. Its enforce ment cannot now rest upon the ques tion of its necessity or expediency, and it must be given the same respect as any other part of the Constitution.” Shell Needed In Oyster Beds. Establishment of large areas of she! bottoms through buying oyster shell? and dumping them in localities where | the local conditions will aid in assur i iilg increase in natural production is e \ recommendation which the Conserva j tion Commission makes in its annua’ i j report, just issued. The report estimates that SIOO,OOO b : expended. The commission will ask an appro priation of SIOO,OOO a year for a period of two years for purchase and plant ing oyster shells. To provide this sue j an increased oyster tax will be recoin j •mended. The report also asks the re- ; peal of local fish laws and the enact. | ment of a state-wide fish law and fed eral migratory fish law. The protec tion of crabs also forms a part of the recommendations. Protection in its spawning season and prevention ol winter dredging in Virginia, to be ac complished by co-operation between the State of Virginia and the federal regulations, is also recommended. The report states that the commis- | sion has selected areas opposite Cria i field, off Deals Island, Piney Point, St ! Mary’s county, and off Chesapeake Beach, which are to be planted with shells, in order to give the oyster spot something to catch on. It is also proposed that license on hook-and-line fishermen will be asked of the next legislature. Opposition To Breeding Bureau. Strong opposition to the proposed breeding bureau, to be established by the Racing Commission, has developed in the State Board of Agriculture. Hostility to the proposed bureau is said to have been reflected in a meet ing at the Governor's office between Governor Ritchie, State Treasurer John M. Dennis, who is a member of the Board of Agriculture, and Joseph P. Kennedy, of the Racing Commission. Mr. Kennedy had announced that he was going to present to the Governor and Mr. Dennis his plans for a breed ing bureau commission of five mem bers, one to be a member of the Racing Commission, one from the Maryland State College and three to be named by the Racing Commission. Governor Ritchie, after the meeting, made it plain that he was “hands off” in the matter. Mr. Kennedy, it is un derstood, has tried to get the Governor to foster the plan and originally pro posed that he name three members of the commission. The Governor, how ever, has refused. Just how far opposition to the breed ing bureau will make itself felt is not yet certain, but it appears that, lacking active support of the Governor, the Racing Commission will have a diffi cult time inaugurating its project if the forces in the State Board of Agri culture, decide to continue their fight. Memorial Commissions Agree To Work Together. An agreement to actively co-operate in the building of the proposed $1,000,- 000 war memorial to be erected on the City Hall Plaza was reached at a meeting in the City Hall subcommit tees of the city and State war me morial commissions. The meeting was at the invitation of Harry C. Jones, chairman of the city commission, and was attended by about six of the city and State mem bers. Mr, Jones said that nothing was at tempted beyond the agreement to work together and arrange for an organiza tion which will take in both the city : and State commissions. 1 The girl who keeps her nose well powdered may be a winner, but she ; hasn't a chance beside the one who sympathizes with the youth when he tells her all about the way he isn’t i treated just right by the other follows in the office. Many Seek State Jobs. There is no shortage of Maryland private citizens who are willing to be come Maryland officeholders, judging I from the response which the State - ! Employment Commission of Maryland • j received to its first advertisement oi ' j Civil Service examinations. There has 1 of course never been such a shortage I But heretofore the applicants for place • ! on the State payroll went about seek 1 i ing the job in another way. They saw r i a man with political “pull”; now they j apply for examination blanks BOLD BROWN SPIDER i C WHEN Brown Spider first began J to look after himself he was so 1 conceited that everyone said in Spider Town that he would come to grief at * an early age. ' He spun webs in the most danger- { ous places, and no matter what hup- 5 pened to the web Brown Spider was f sure to escape unharmed and begin another* home In a more dangerous 1 place. * “You will be killed some day.” warned all the neighborhood spiders, t for there were many spiders living in 1 the attic where Brown Spider lived, 1 but he only laughed at their warning 1 and kept on with his reckless doings. 1 One day Puss came to the attic ? bunting for mice, and when she ran J under a chair where Brown Spider sat in his web near the floor she took 1 the web and Brown Spider, too, away < on her back. s Everyone thought that was the end 1 of him, but by and by he came run- 1 1 rdng across the attic floor and began a 1 i new web under a low shelf by the i window. j “I guess you were scared that } i time,” said one spider from her safe j home high in a corner. “I guess I wasn’t scared,” boasted j | Brown Spider. “I just, wanted a ride; that was all. I went part way downstairs on her hack and then j jumped off. It was great sport. Why | don’t you try It some day?” It was no use; he would never own he was beaten or scared; but one day i iYYy ; y 3/ ; V, "v i something happened that the old spid- ' ers felt sure he would have to own he did not plan and was really fright ened. Puss came into the attic and after hunting around she fell asleep right under the shelf where Brown Spider had a web. He let himself down and touched the tip of ner nose and be fore she could open her eyes up he went to his web. But after a while he grew careless. [How ItfStiirtEdl kjk 3 jLjei! NUMBERS. ARITHMETICAL numbers originat ed with the Hindus, passed from ■ j them to the Arabs, and were intro duced into Europe by Leonardo of i Pisa about 1200 A. D. The use of | fractions is very old, nearly 3,600 I years; but the decimal system did I not come till the Sixteenth or Seven teenth century. Logarithms, the | greatest advance in mathematical science of their time, were proposed by i Napier in 1614. (Copyright.) j u Warning to Wireless Fiends. Radio amateurs should never fail to j close tile ground switch when leaving their apparatus. For an aerial at tracts lightning and a thunderstorm may come up when the operator is ab sent. If it does, and the lightning is led into the house, the amateur will find all his apparatus out of business, wrecked beyond repair, to say nothing of the possibility of the bouse be* 'ng set on tire. He touched her nose, and then instead of running home be swung back and forth in front of her face hanging to his thread. Puss is very quick with her paw. She seldom misses anything she wishes to strike. She opened her eyes and looked at Brown Spider a second and then she lifted her paw and struck. The next thing Brown Spider re membered he was on the top of a high old bureau. He tried all of his legs and found they were safe and then he said, for he knew every spider in the attic was looking at him. “That Is the finest way to travel, when you are in a hurry. I wanted to get up here and so I just dangled in front of Puss to get her to give me a lift.” No one said a word. They were too much surprised; but Brown Spider climbed over the edge of the bureau and made his web this time far above the floor by the window. He really had been frightened. “But I won’t let those old fellows know it,” he said. (Copyright.) . i f BEAUTY CRATsI | by EDNA KENT FORBES | HAIR DRESSER’S TIPS ' SOMETIMES my hair dresser grows t talkative, and then she tells me i all sorts of Interesting and useful t things about the hair, things based t on her wide and personal experience, 1 things too valuable to be lost in the t tiny room where she wields a brush i and a vibrator and where she juggles t tall bottles of sweet smelling oils. “The average woman Is too harsh 1 with her hair," she said the other t day. “Either she brushes it furl- 3 ously, or she doesn’t brush it at all; 1 either she slicks over it when wash ing, or she washes the life from it." “Not all scalps can stand tar soap, though it is a good soap. But it is harsh. I use coconut oil, be cause it is mild and cleansing and nourishing; it is a dandruff pre ventive, and it will not hurt the most sensitive scalp. I use it for all colors of hair, except cases where there is too much natural oil, and then I j ( Take Care of the Hair in Youth and 1 It Will Stay Good All Your Life. < use a soap with the least bit of borax , In its makeup. If for any reason I j run short of coconut oil, I use olive , oil or castile soap. , “I use a free lather first, rinse, and j use a very light lather. I can tell ( from the feel of the hair, though, , I HOW DO YOU SAY IT? | ; | By C. N. Lurie , k Common Errors in English and J 1 8 How to Avoid Them jjz j ] “OFF OF.” ‘ j THE use of the phrase which heads | I this article leads often to errors | ’ that are seen to be ludicrous, when i 1 analyzed. For example, one will hear the question: “Where did you buy i 1 that steak?” The answer comes: “I j ! got it off of the butcher around the ■ corner.” To get a steak “off of” the | butcher might suit a cannibal very well, ■ but the very idea would shock any one else. In proper usage, omit the ■ “off;” say: “I got it of (or from) the | butcher around the corner.” There are cases of the misuse ol the phrase “off of” that are not In j dicrous, as in the instance alreadj i cited, but in which the “of” is noi . needed and instead of saying, “He j jumped off of the car,” say, “He ; jumped off the car." A man who ex pects to open a store says: “Will you j buy something off of me?” He should j say: “Will you buy something from ! me?” (Copyright.) Irene Marcell us The face and form of Irene Mar cel lus, one of the “movie” beauties, are said to be known to more than 50,000,000 people in the United States, as she has been reproduced on the covers of more than 200 magazines by some of the most noted artists. She is herself a talented sculptress. whether one use of the soap is enough. I would massage the scalp dry if I could give the time to it, but as I cannot, 1 use a towel to wring out the superfluous moisture from the hair and then use the warm air fan. But I always massage the scalp after a shampoo and use the electric vibrator. This brings the fresh oils to the surface of the scalp.” If you are still sixteen, and small, I think it an excellent idea to wear the hair down. There are so many years when it must be worn up, and hanging down is healthier for it. (Copyright.) ONE my frieu be pretty smarta guy alia right. Hees wife she raisa devil everytime he spenda leetle night from da home. He lika hees wife and he lika da dreenk somatime, too. But da olda lady she no Ilka de dreenk. Everytime dat guy taka leetle shot he gotta trouble een da family. When he treata hees wife alia right she keesa heem every day. I think he lika dat, too. Day after tomorrow weel be tree day seence he been raisenell leetle bit. < Lasa week when he come home hees wife she run up wauta keesa heem. But she smella somating on da breath and right a qneeck she decida no kees. You know my frien he feela bad for dat. He tink ees preety tough when da oida lady taka da kees back. He tella her wot’s matter she no want a keesa heem? She say, “I never keesa you some more so longa you taka da dreenk.” My frien say he no can do dat any way. He say he no can taka da dreenk and keesa hees wife sama time. So he tella her ees alia right eef he usa da kees for da chaser. Dat maka hees wife preety mad. She tella heem ever}’ time he taka da drink she no keesa heem for one week. But my frien ees preety smarta guy and he no care ver mooch for dat. He wanta da kees and he wanta da dreenk, so he feegure out way for get ta both. Before he go out one night he aska me how many week een da year. I say feefaty-two and he tink dat ees greata stuff. But he sure no feela good when he gotta home dat night. He putta hees clothes een bed and trow heemself on da chair. And when hees wife show up he aska her for da kees. She say every dreenk be taka ees no kees for one week. But he say he remember wot she tella heem after he taka da first dreenk. He say he wanta da kees so he take feefaty-two dreenk for every week een da yen r and dat putta heem righta back where he start. I tink he preety smarla guy. Wot you tink? O A LINE 0’ CHEER By John Kendrick Bangs, TO FEBRUARY. Folks don’t like you, February For your ways extraordinary. Pendulous ’twixt Joy and Sorrow, Ice today, and thaw tomorrow. But despite your manners wayward Since your days all lead us May ward I shall still your praises sing As the Highway unto Spring. (Copyright.) j- ■ NO. 4. Sin That Includes i|i All Other Sins | By REV. H. OSTROM, D. D, |ij ft Extension Department, Moody ?> Bible Institute, Chicago. J;,; TEXT.—He shall convict the world of sin because they believe not on Me. —John 16 ;8, 9. That Is inclusive —“the world.” That Is specific— “sin.” That is assertive— —“convict.” And that is direct— V- ■ ; ' the whim or fancy ySMt S'. l of those who are i more mystically .. than rationally in- Men are saying “give us area- The reason for the claim Is because men Relieve not on Jesus Christ. This fact Is not only a truth, or an arous ing truth, or an undeniable truth; It Is a convicting truth. Bold claims these may seem to be, but there they ore. And their right to be accepted Is guaranteed by the authority of God Almighty. j. The Ten Commandments are not pientioned here. Neither are the good deeds men do given here. A thou sand dead apple trees are not worth as much for fruit raising, as one live tree. So a thousand commandments would not count for so much as the ‘lving Jesus; and a thousand good deeds (dead at best) could not equal ibe living Jesus. Place all command ments and all good deeds In one side of your scales and weigh them against Jesus, they will kick the beam. He was born under the law, He fulfilled the law, He was put to death under ;he law; His deeds are not only many, they are without one exception good rveu to perfection. We must deal with Him. Refusal to accept what He has done, that Is. the sin. That sin /.lolds In Its grasp all others. It Is 51s Cross that stands at the forks n the road where we must make the sternal choice. Sinning against that .Deludes all the rest. With one, It Is Jesus or work. Have aot I done all these good things, or m I not willing to do these right lets? What I did and what I am about to do, that is the conslderatioa But over against It all Is Jesus. There B what He did and what He offers to do. What could a dead violin do to wards making music? Absolutely lothlng. But Is there a skilled violin ist Into whose hands It has been jdven? He will produce the music What can a man “dead In trespasses and sins” do to make himself right? ih, he cannot practice the real rigid until he has the righteousness tc practice with; and that Is In Jesus. With another It Is Jesus or harm lessness. “Why, what harm have 1 lone?" Well, If there had been nc jther harm done than that done by aeglert, then that Is startling. Like fields neglected, like bridges negle'fct sd, like debts neglected so Is the soul’s neglect; It always carries with It dis aster. But here is something to which you may have been blinded, yon have neglected Him. All other neglects sven If they extended into ages upon ages Instead of only for a few years cannot weigh as much as this. What He represents to us Is duty so great that if we neglect Him we are lost by It. 'With - another It Is Jesus or how much can I pay? But we cannot pay for the rejection of Him. He Is not to be marketed. How could one pay for such when the very substance or money he might bring would be, not the smallest fraction of It, originally produced by man? “Who hath made all these things?” “What hast thou that thou didst not receive?” If It were a matter of barter then we are utterly defeated. Our price would be so dis-valued by the rate of exchange •that it would equal simply nothing. But “believe on ME," that Is the condition. The paying. He has done that. “Ye are bought with a price.” “Redeemed not with silver and gold but with the precious blood of Christ.” Believe on Him, that Is to put the whole weight of all the past, all the future and all of now upon Him. He saves. He is the elevator that takes us up. It Is dangerous even to put forth the hand as If to increase its power to lift us. Not believing on Him, sin follows. Believing on Him, sin Is defeated. Search the whole field from end to end. and through every part, and It is defiled unless we believe on Him. Likewise, search it most thoroughly, and the defilement is gone if we be lieve on Him. It is a wonderful word of life this, that “the gift of God Is eternal life.” When the little girl was asked to explain how sweet the honey was in the Jar she carried, she tried several times to find an answer and then reached the climax by lifting the jar up in her hands and saying, “Here, put your finger in, taste and see.” The proof was in the taking. And drunkards and moral men, scholars and uneducated men, pros perous and poor men, stand forth to declare that to believe on Jesus Christ is to be saved. Why not be one among them? If Fools Will Laugh. Be perfectly callous to ridicule. To be conscious that what we have In us of noble and delicate, is not ridiculous to any but fools, and that if fools will laugh, wise men will do well to let them.—Dr. Arnold. A Man of Truth. The gentleman Is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and express ing that lordship In his behavior. The word denotes good nature or benevo lence; manhood Is first and Hieg gen tleness.—Einerson.