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X AM THE BABY.
I am the baby.
J am the youngest institution in the
world—and the oldest.
The earth is my heritage when
come into being, and when I go I leave
it to the next generation of babies.
My mission is to leave the earth a
better place titan I found it.
With my million little brothers and
sisters. I can do this, if the world does
not impose too many handicaps.
Now. I need pure milk and fresh air
and play and the love and care of a
mother who does not smoke, nor use
snuff, nor spend her time In frivolous
ways.
When I get a little older T shall need
good schools in which to learn the les
• sons of Ufa the way to live right.
I want to live, laugh, love, work and
Play.
I want to hear good music, read good
books, see beautiful pictures.
I want to build houses and roads and
railways and cltiea.
I want to walk In the woods, bathe in
the waters, play in the snow. '
T am vesterday. today and tomorrow.
If you will make my way easy now.
I will help you when I grow up
I am your hope. I am the baby.—
Chicago Herald.
SOCIAL SERVICE.
The motto of the whole world should
be "Do unto others as thou wouldst
hare them do unto you.’’ But it is not
always, so Every community has Its
lifters and its fcnockers. When I hear
people knocking I wonder how much
lifting they liave tried to do. It takes
a vast amount of optimism to even live
in some communities, but, as a little
“leaven will eventually affect a large
.•mount of material, an optimist will
eventually make some impression on a
• innmunitf) if a long life is allowed.
In one sense "what’s everybody’s,
business becomes nobody’s.” In' anoth
er sense, let some one inaugurate a bit
of civic righteousness, or k'fal improve
ment. whether painting the school house
or overhauling the parsonage, and see
how soon it becomes everybody's busi
ness to say how it should be done. True,
it becomes npne of the "talkers’ ” busi
ness to help pay the bills —a few work
ers have that pleasant (?) duty to per
form ' "
Often people write to me for sugges
tions alone this line and it’s always
a hard letter to answer. No two com
munities have just the same problems.
I might send suggestions to Dayton that
I ave been in force a long time, and
would suit Nightsboro better, or Just
the reverse. Only I think that at Nights
boro things might be worse than any
one could imagine.
Before a civic league can do any really
effective work that body of workers
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must thoroughly understand the home
life of the community—must begin at 1
the school and clean that up. I mean [
what I say. They must not only clean ‘
the yards and the windows and floors,
but must take hold of the children and
their parents. There are schools whose
attendance would be better if there were
compulsory education laws in force, and
there are schools where the children t
look like soap and combs were not al-I
lewed in the homes. When a mother I
and father allows a child to eat a break- I
fast with unwashed face and hands and :
hair that looks like a woods colt, what j
can one expect of that family as a help J
to the community? Children are natur
ally prone to avoid soap and water as
a cheKical experiment as to its effect on
their skin, and tangles in their hair are
small matters to be let alone, or so they
would put It if questioned. It takes
line upon line and a breakfast or two
missed to impress the importance of
cleanliness on some children, but It can
be done.
It’s a pity that people outside of the '
heme sometimes have It to do; but a
teacher is the fulcrum to do the lifting
that the most of the communities use.
They are, or should be hand in hand with
the civic league, social service commit
tee or Parent-Teacher association, as i
the case may be. The teacher has plenty
to do without having any of the routine
work, or official duties to perform, but
she can emphasize the importance of
cleanliness, the cleanliness of mind,
body and estate.
. I heard a country girl making a great
to-do over the fact that I paid, actually
paid for the water I used. And I found
out later that the only tub on that or
any home in that community was a gal
vanized wash tub that never was used
from week’s end to week's end. except
to wash clothes in. There were no
bathing facilities except a bowl and
pitcher In the guest room and a tin pan
on the back porch. In such a communi
ty my advice would be to install a
water system at the school house and
see that every child had at least one
good bath a’week. In vacation as well
as during the term there could be some
one appointed to be there on certain days
to regulate affairs. Many a child could
feel like a little fellow I once heard of—
as bad as they get to be, but after a
nice-bath and clean clothes he said, "Oh,
I feel like God has just made me.”
Many a reader of these lines will
smile at this suggestion: but there are
public bath houses in cities so why not
in rural communities?
There are other lines I meant to take
up on this social service question, but
this is enough for today. Clean up your
school, clean up the children, see that
your church is clean and you will then
be ready for other work. There is no
better foundation than cleanliness.
Faithfully yours,
LIZZIE O. THOMAS.
Tuscumbia. Ala
FROM STEAMBOAT SPBINGS, CCD.
Dear Mrs. Thomas: I have been a
silent reader of the Household for sev
eral years. I have never seen any let
ters from this part of the world. I am
a southern woman and I like to say so,
for I love the good old southern ways
aw* folks best of alt L have receutly
betn in the west tor about two" years.
I We.... sold out and left the south.
I Came here for my husband s health, and
• lam glad to say he has improved. When
twe caine he could not. work at all and
fhadn't for eighteen months. He now
Iworkk aU the time. In fact, he hasn’t
: missed but fixe days in a year. I feel
'so thankful that the Lord has spared
him. I didn’t think when we came here
I that he would last much longer. Now
■ I have hopes. I believe that he is well.
We are talking of going down further
and taking a homestead. How many of
you have lived on a homestead?
We have so much snow here till one
almost wishes it never would snow any
‘more. We have had eight or nine feet
of snow here this winter and the ground
has been covered ever since the first of
| November. The saying is "lots of snow,
lets of fat calves” next fall. The old
Indian saying is "the depth of the
I snow the height of the hoe.” You know
'it doesn’t rain much over here, so peo
ple have to depend on the snow to fur
nish water for their Irrigating purposes.
It makes me long for the dear old south
land when I read of so many of you
folks back there talking about your
I chickens and gardens, when my garden
• has three feet of snow on it yet, and
•my chickens still shut up in their house.
II haven’t any kind of chickens but the
White Leghorn. I don’t like them much.
They are excellent layers, but they are
invt large enough for eating purposes,
'and mine would not sit but once last
year.
As my letter is getting too long, I will
stop, and if I see this in print will write
again. Wishing you success, prosperity
and happiness, I will close.
COLORADO WOMAN.
A SUCCBSSTUD CHICKEN KAIS EK
Dear Mrs. Thomas and Household:
I read so many helpful letters that
I thought I would add my mite, maybe
[ it will help some one who wants to
raise chickens on a small scale. Last
( year I purchased a 144-egg incubator,
hatched one hundred and five and
raised eighty-two. Was that very
good. o r not? I now have 23 nearly
large enough to frj. Set it full and
took off 115 two weeks ago. The hens
mashed some, but I have about 100 of
' them now. These can eat coVn and
I lam going to set 100 eggs next Sat-
I urday. Then as soon as they come off
I am going to set it again.
I will tell how I built my cheap
brooder house. 1 purchased good ceil
ing and built it 6xlo feet. I left three
small ventilating holes, covered with
screen wire. On the south side I put
;in a glass Ix 2 feet: have it high
enough for me to move about in and
I clean it out. I have two boxes in one
• corner for hens to mother the chicks. I
k cover the floor with sand, then lightly
' with hay at first and on rainy days I
scatter commercial chick feed in the
hay to keep the chickens busy. When
Li two wteks old I put the hay about tUree
’ i inches ' and put all the feed I give
, them In this and make them work for
| all. they get. I keep buttes milk or
I clabber before them all the time. When
■ I haven’t got it I buy it, and oh, how
J they grow.
I have oats, rye and collards in my
1' chicken yard. I have just read Busy
"I Bee’s letter about chickens, and I
( i thought I would see how my books run
, with hers. I have ten white leghorns,
i sixteen barred rocks. Through the
• month of January they laid 296 eggs.
In February I kept books separate.
The barred rocks laid 270, leghorns 134.
Four barred rocks went broody. I have
six barred rock pullets that started to
laying March 1: that makes 22 rocks,
| but three are carrying chicks, leaving
>1 me 19 to lay. Up to date in March
II barred rocks have laid 277, leghorns
'I 118.
' |So far in March 425 eggs from 25
11 hens, leaving off all that have chicks;
PHE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1916
/rxr«fnED..
(Continued from Last Issue.)
SYNOPSIS THIRD INSTALLMENT.
Jim Borden, crook, tries to wipe
out his family by killing his son
and himself, thus ending the crim
inal curse of the Red C tele birth
mark. June Travis, girl reformer,
tells her nurse Mary of the im
pulse to commit suicide. Mary sees
the Red Circle on the back of June’s
right hand.
Mary is overcome, but solidly re
fuses to tell June the terrible secret.
After June threatens to ask her
mother the meaning of the "Red
Circle” brand, Mary breaks down
and confesses.
June proves to be the daughter
of Jim Borden, born in a little min
ing town in the west and through
peculiar circumstances raised by
Mrs. Travis in the belief that it was
her daughter. They promise to keep
it secret from Mrs. Travis.
Detective Lamar, suspicious of
June, calls at the Travis home on
an invitation from June. During
the conversation, Lamar asks her
if she had seen anything of the
"veiled” woman in black; she an
swers in the affirmative.
The butler blunders in with a
piece of burned note, which June
had stolen from a loan shark, but
one of several benevolent crimes
which she has committed, and asks
whether It has any value. Trap
ped, June offers to show Lamar
where she found it.
FOURTH INSTALLMENT.
"I’m still holding on, Miss Travis.”
Lamar hailed June; for the first time
aware of the somewhat ridiculous figure
he must be cutting.
And he continued, addressing the oth
er woman:
"Madam, I am very sorry to- disturb
you like this. But we have chased a
thief into your garage, as Miss Travis
has probably explained to you. I have
hold of this corner of the fugitives
coat, as you see. Will you let me breaK
the lock of your garage.door and get
in? Os course. I’ll pay—”
"If I may suggest,” said the woman
In frigid politeness, "It might be better
to go into the garage by the back door,
before breaking my locks. Had that
occurred to you, Mr. Detective?”#
"Crime Specialist'.” hastily corrected
Lamar; then, "no, It hadn’t occurred to
me. I'm not familiar .with garages of
this type. Practically none of them
have back doors. So I” —
"We had one cut in.” said the woman.
"If you’ll come around to the back of
the garage with me”—
"Yes,” quickly agreed Lamar. "Yes,
of course. But —but”—
He looked down at the coat corner he
held.
"Anything we say out here,” he went
on, "certainly can be heard on the oth
er side of this panel. The thief knows
by now that there’s a rear door —even
if she didn’t know It beforehand. If I
let go of this coat—Miss Travis, will
you hold the coat corner for me while
I go around to investigate? Please!”
"Why, yes,” quiveringly assented
June, taking hold of the cloth, along
side Lamar s own grip. I'll do my best.
I’m pretty strong.”
"If she tugs, hang on her for all
you’re worth,” Max Lamar exhorted
her, "ti’ll be for only a second or two.
I’ll go in by the other door and we'll
have her caught as neatly as a rat in a
drain.” I
The final words were spoken as he had
already atarted around the garage tn
the wake of the woman of the house?
As he disappeared, June pressed her
face close against the door.
"Mary!” she whispered eagerly; and
"Mary! Mary!”
No answer. Then in a moment, the
sound of a key In the lock. The door
swung open. The woman of the house
stood in the garage threshold. June
found herself holding the corner of the
empty coat.
"She—she Is gone?” stammered June,
making 839 from about 26 hens. I will
make out the 900 by the time the two
months are out. I gathered 23 that
were laid yesterday and 18 today. Say,
Mrs. Thomas, do your reds beat this?
I do not think the leghorns are doing
well, so I am not setting any of their
eggs. My rocks are beautiful. I am
going to try to raise 100 barred rock
pullets and sell all that I have on hand,
and I am going to let the Tiousehold
know: how they lay next-spring.
Delitla Lang wrote a letter on can
ning which was nice. I like to have
made a failure on tomatoes last year;
did not get to can but 116 cans of to
matoes, some beans and peas, eight
gallons of berries, and canned a few
squashes, just to see how they kept.
Come on, Mrs. Thomas and all the sis
ters with your letters on canning, poul
try and flowers. I like them all. With
good wishes I will close.
MRS. C. W. SMITH, Cairo. Ga.
FAYS MSB SECOND VISIT.
Dear Mrs. Thomas:
I do enjoy reading letters from the
different members. I would like to meet
some of you face to face. I am sure I
would meet a nice lot of sociable people.
I live in south Georgia; the weather is
now nice and plea-sant. My garden seeds
are up. It will not be long before I can
start my canning. Mrs. Delita Lang’s
letter on canning is very interesting to
me as lam a beginner. I expect to use
tin car.s as I have never been successful
with glass jars in canning vegetables
tut have with peaches and preserves.
I am sowing my front yard in Bermuda
gra-ss and planting my rose bushes in
beds. I get so much help from Mrs.
Thomas’ chicken talks. I wish some one
who.has been cured of gall stones would
kindly write me through the household
of their experience. I have a weak heart,
and am afraid of an operation.
I use a gasoline iron and it is a great
convenience to the old way of ironing
with a -wood fire. I want to purchase
a washing machine but am afraid they
don’t do the washing satisfactorily. Only
those who have had their patience tried
with lazy or Incompetent washerwomen
know how to sympathize with women
like myself, who are not able to wash
their’own clothes. I will be glad when
some smart person invents some mate
rial to keep poreclain from breaking if
it has a fall. That will be a grand
thing for mothers who have to let chil
dren do the dish washing.
I wil write again some day. all of you
come and answer the roll call again.
SOUTH GEORGIA.
I School children as well s
as grown folks demand £
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There is something ex- |
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10 cent packages
Jacksonville Cracker Works
• nci- temples pulsing and buzzing with
swift relief.
”’’Yes,” snapped the woman, "she got
out of the coat and then out of the
back door. Your detective friend is ex
ploring the alley for her. I’m going to
watch him pick up clues, it is quite
amusing. Almost ,as amusing as Field
day at a lunatic asylum.”
She was gone, leaving June alone.
The girl checked her impulse to fol
low her involuntary hostess. She knew
that Mary must be out of sight before
this time; and she trusted to the old
woman’s keen wits and spry feet to
carry her safe home without being seen
again by Lamar.
A new terror beset June: the coat
that she still held was a menace. Bhe
began to realize this. Lamar would
assuredlv seize upon it as a clue. From
the maker’s name, he could in time trace
its ownership to her.
June longed to hide the coat some
where. But she dared not. Such an act
would stir into fresh life Lamar s new
ly lulled suspicions against her.
She turned the coat over; exposing
the label. She pulled at a corner of the
little square of lettered satin; but it
was too strongly sewed to be dislodged
so easily. Raising the label to her lips
June drove her keen white teeth into it;
severing the threads, until one edge
had been loosened.
Then, with a jerk she tore away the
whole label; and thrust it into the front
ot her dress.
She heard Lamar returning; and she
carelessly dropped the coat across the
sill of the open door.
"Well?” queried June, interestedly, as
Max came in sight' around the corner
of the garage. . “What news of the
Veiled Woman?” *
“Got clean away.” he reported, sulk
ily. "No trace of her.”
He caught sight of the coat lying
’where June had dropped it. His look
of chagrin brightened to one of 'keen
eagerness. He snatched the coat from
the greasy floor and twisted around so
as to bring the inside of the neckband
into view. And again his face dark
ened.
“Clever woman'.” he muttered. “Even
the tailor's label is gone. Well, there’s
only one thing left to do. I’ll take this
coat to police headquarters and have
Allen send a man around with it to
every tailor in the city. Qne of them
is bound to recognize it. And we’ll
catch *bur woman that way, before an
other day's ended.”
June’s heart sank like lead. The mo
mentary buoyancy that had filled her
soul was gone. She realized how shrewd
and yet how simple was this latest
plan of Lamar’s; and how certain to
prove successful.
"And now,” cut in the cold voice of
the woman of the house, who had fol
lowed Lamar from the alley, "if you
two are quite done playing Old Sleuth
all over my grounds, let me suggest
that this path leads straight to the
street. Good day, Mr. Detective.”
"Madam!” snorted the nettled La
mar. as she turned to leave them, "if
anything could add to the unpleasant
ness of this wild-goose chase of mine,
it would be to hear you call me, for the
second time,- a ‘detective.’ '• When you
remember my fair young face, in your
pure dreams, on moonlit nights, may-1
beg and beseech and Implore and en
treat and insist that-you remember that
it as the face of a crime specialist—not
of a ‘detective!’ Conte, Miss Travis.”
They left the grounds and gained the
I sidewalk. As they turned in the direc
tion of the Travis home, Lamar broke
silence.
"I want to thank ever so much,
Miss Travis,” he said, ’’’for being such
a brick; and helping me as you have to
day.. But for your showing me where
you had seen the Veiled Woman, I
should never have gotten on her track.
It was splendid of you.”
“It wasn’t,” she contradicted, ‘T was
glad t o be of any help. When I was
hanging on to that ridiculous coat-cor
ner, like grim death, I felt quite a
heroine. But”—
“There’s another thing,” he said, hes
itatingly. “A thing I hate like blue
poison to say; but it’s got to be said.
Will you try to forgive me, in ad
vance?”
"How ominous!” she laughed. “What
is It?”
"When that Jap butler of yours show
ed you the torn note, an hour ago,” said
Max, uncomfortably, “do you know
what I thought? I thought you were
the Veiled Woman.”
Max Lamar, gripping with both hands
the corner of the black coat that pro
truded from the locked garage door,
drove his shoulder full against the door
panel, again and again. But the wood
held firm.
"It seems to be a deadlock,” laughed
June, forcing her merriment with a
mighty effort. "You have hold/ of her
coat; so she can’t get in. Isn’t It just
a little ridiculous, Mr. Lamar? Sup
pose we give up the chase and”—
“Give up the chase?” he echoed, an
grily. "Give it up? Why, it's barely
begun. Just on the other side of the
garage door is the veiled woman who
robbed Grant and then me the slip
and who holds the entire mystery of the
Red Circle. Give Is up Not If I have
to stand here till doomsday!”
"But surely”— began June, trembling
inwardly at his fierce determination.
“Miss Travis,” broke in Lamar, "will
i you hurry around to the front door of
the house this garage belongs to, and ex
plain matters? Then ask leave for me
to break the door down. I can do it if
i you’ll hold the coat corner for me.”
"Shan’t I ho.ld It now?” suggested
, June; an idea flashing Into her fear
sick mjnd. “I’ll hold the coat while
you try to smash the lock. You can’t
do anything without the use of your
hands. Why waste the time I’d need
to go to the house?”
“I don't like to batter down people's
property,” he answered, “even in the
, name of the law—without asking their
■ permission.”
"But”— ,
‘Besides,” he added, "this veiled wom
an is strong. Whenever she tugs at her
coat, it’s all I can do to hold my corner
i of it. She might wrench it out of your
, hands.” •
i “Yes,” agreed June, under her breath,
i “that's exactly what I mean her to do,”
But she forbore to say it aloud. And
• after a second look at Lamar’s set jaw
I she meekly turned away toward the
house.
Mary, on the inner side of the gar
[ age door, had listened, panting, to the
brief dialogue. As she heard June’s
light step receding up the driveway
gravel, she threw all her strength into
one last wrench at the recalcitrant
coat.
The cloth was stout and Max La
mar’s grasp unshakable. But the tug
caused two of the coat’s upper buttons
to fly half way cross the garage. One
of M iry's 'eaii • shruldors sl'ppel rut
cf the >:•. ,n<rt. That gave the cap
• i»•• 3,-,an le-- inspiration.
In trembling haste she unfastened the
remaining buttons. Freeing herself,
she left the imprisoned coat to fall to
the greasv foor of the garage—Max
Lamar still gripping its corner, on the
■door’s far side with futile energy.
The garage was small, stuffy. 111 lit
by a single grimed window pane. The
place reeked of gasoline, of oil, of
grease rags. A big car filled more
than half of it.
Across the greasy floor, through the
INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON, APRIL 9
Acts 9:32-43.
GOLDEN TEXT:—"In »U things
showing thyself an emample of good
works.” Tit. 3:7.
DR. MAKXON MCH. FULL.
Acts 9:31 marks a division in Luke’s
account of what Jesus continued to do
and teach through His disciples. Up to
this time, which covers a period of about
eight years, preaching of the gospel had
been confined to Jews. It was • only
prober that they should have received
the gospel first, since theirs was the
covenant and Christ had come from
amongst them. The majority had re
jected it, but the message had been pro
claimed, even though by persecution,
throughout Jerusalem, all Judea and
Samaria and in other places, as far
north as Antioch and as far south as
Ethiopia.
The time had come now when the
Gentiles should hear the message. God
had raised up a servant for that pur
pose, Paul. Teter had nearly finished
his work as the most prominent of the
apostles.
The chief persecutor having been con
verted and also the attention of the
Jews turned because of a decree of the
emperor, the persecutions ceased and the
church prospered.
PETER’S PEREGRINATIONS.
"Peter went among all saints.” In
five words the holy spirit expressed this
most tremendous work that Peter did.
Wherever there were Christians Peter
went. In Judea, in Samaria, and in Gali
lee —and later, we find evidences of his
having been also in Antioch and even
in Cdrinth. The fact that James became
the head of the church in Jerusalem em
phasizes the absence of Peter from that
city, probably on this work of visitation.
At any rate during the early part of it,
we find that he came one day to the
village of Lydda, on the edge of the
plain of Sharon, southeast of Joppa, the
well known Palestinian seaport. Lydda
was an important village because it was
on the trade route between Egypt and
Assyria. While there, whether purpose
ly or by accident, Peter learned of the
presence of a certain man named Aeneas
who had been paralyzed for eight years.
He won Peter s sympathy. There is no
detail given us to show that the man
gave evidence of faith, and yet we know
that he must have had faith or It would
have been impossible for him to please
God. Looking at him steadfastly, Peter
said, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you.
Cet up and spread your bed.” .In other
wordy. Peter said, “Jesus Christ is able
and willing to heal you of your weak
ness; show that you have faith in His
ability and willingness to do it by get
ting up and doing for -yourself what
is done for you by others.” It was a
hard test, but the life of Christ in Peter
inspired Aeneas with confidence, and he
obeyed. He could feel the strength surg
ing thiough his wasting muscles, and
once he recognized the joy of physical
health. ’ .
There are not many details given
about this. When Paul and Luke passed
through Lydda on their way from Joppa
to Jerusalem (Acts 21:16), some years
later, and lodged with Mnason, he prob
ably gave Luke the account of this inci
dent and was so impressed with the
power which Peter had displayed that
he had forgotten the details.
PETER’S POWER.
But this evidence of Peter’s power
faded into insignificance compared with
another Incident which occurred about
the same time. There was at Joppa,
n Christian colony among whom was a
woman, Dorcas. If the name was sig
nificant of her character, It was given
to depict the beauty and grace and gen
tleness of a gazelle. At any rate, she
was one of those saintly souls who did
not have much to say, but who accom
plished a great deal.
She was full of good works and deeds
of mercy. She did not spend her time
talking about what she was going to do
gloom, Mary groped her way; now
slipping In a gasoline puddle; now car
oming against the soiled mudguard of
the machine.
She found the opposite wall and felt
along its all-but-unseen surface. At
the farthest corner, her numbed fin
gers touched what they sought—the
lintel of a door.
It was the garage’s little back door,
giving on the alley, behind the grounds.
For one suicidal moment she thought
this back door was locked. But it was
only stuck from long disuse. She threw
her whole fragile weight against the
dirt-crusted portal. A shower of dust
and spiders’ w’ebs cascaded down upon
her head. But the door quivered at
the impact.
She heard voices—one of them La
mar’s, and again she cast herself
against the door. This time it flew
wide; with a whining of hinges and a
clatter of falling debris; and the rush
of her onset drove her half way across
the alley, outside.
Darting back to close the door be
hind her. the old woman cast a fearful
look up and down the alley. The coast
was clear. Incontinently Mary took to
her heels, scuttling down the alley and
around the first corner with the awk
ward haste of a frightened hen. She
had much ado. too, to keep from
squawking like one, In the reaction
from her peril.
Max Lamar clung doggedly to the
coat corner that protruded from the
garage’s front door. He heard muffled
noises from within. But they were so
faint and the door was so thick, that
he could not classify them. Nor, in
deed, had he time to. For, presently,
June reappeared around the corner of
the big house. With her were a hat
less and rather annoyed-looking wo
man in a morning gown and a highly
interested butler.
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THE FLAG OF OUR COUNTRY.
Or all the flags flung to the breeze
In all the lands beneath the sun;
Os all the flags on all the seas,
I claim but one, I love but one.
There may be other flags for some
Which seem to be of equal worth,
But as for me that flag spells “home”—
It is the dearest flag on earth.
I love Old Glory most, because
No king can claim her as his own.
And from her spring great eagle claws
When any one suggests a throne.
Baptised was she in blood of men,
And consecrated by the tears
Os brave though weeping women, when
They sent their loved ones forth with
cheers.
The men who raised that flag waged
war;
They bled, they died without com
plaint;
They knew what they were fighting
for:
They gave themselves without re
straint.
And so it is that here and now
We hoist thee, old “Red, White and
Blue,”
And underneath thy folds we vow:
"We’ll fight for you; we love but you.”
WHAT LIQUOR CAN DO.
A few days ago a. young man who
had served a term in the. chaingang,
tanked up on booze and then concluded
to visit one of his near neighbors, tak
ing along a stick and when he was told
to stay out he became very abusive-
At last he was shoved outside. Then
he took the stick and began to punch
out the glass windows, getting more
and more noisy and Insulting. The man
of the house told him to go away or
he would shoot him. and when he con
tinued to destroy and continued to force
himself in the house the owner shot
him and he died within two hours. A
clear case of what liquor can do.
The man who shot him had girls and
boys in his house, who were exposed
to the drunken man’s violence. It was
up to the father to command the peace
and drive out intruders. Having em
ployed all peaceable means there was
nothing left but violent means.
With anybody but a man made insane
bv intoxicants you can reason perhaps,
but a fool in his cups is not amenable
to reason- You must do something eL e.
I listened to the story of the k,U
this morning. I have known the man
who shot the intrude!* since he was a
child, sixty odd years ago. He ha ®
a quiet citizen, has raised a large famnj
of children, and now he has to bear t
remembrance of that shot. . 1 1 1t ,,.., u5e
has wrought that fatal memory because
or organizing committees for that pur
nose but put her intentions Into effect.
K ( ac" ’she worked ber.elt .. death;
for the Greek word means that she ko
weaker and weaker until she died. Her
whole thought was for others with none
for herself. She literally burned her
self out for God. She wasted her
strength in the service of others.
was not a widow in Joppa who had not
been cheered and comforted by some of
the evidences of the compassion of Dor
t£>Her death brought great sorrow upon
the city. On account of the prominence
of Dorcas, through her good works, and
the proximity of Peter, who held such a
high position in the church, the burial
was delayed In order to have him pres
ent. Two men were sent with the
urgent request to Peter that he come to
them. When Peter came and was al
most overwhelmed with the wailing of
the widows who had been the recipients
of Tabitha’s grace, he put them all from
the room, got down on his knees and
prayed.
Peter did not know what God s will
was concerning it. He only knew that
the death of this woman was a great
loss to the community, and so he must
have asked’that if it was in accordance
with God’s will she might be returned
to them and allowed to continue her
services a little while longer. We know
he received the assurance of God’s will
ingness to grant his request: and turn
ing to the body from which the spirit
had flown, he spoke as his Master had
done years before, '“Tabitha cuml!
which means, "Dorcas, arise.”
Gradually life came into the lifeless
body, the eyes opened, she looked at
Peter, and finally sat up. He lifted her
up, stood her on her feet, and presented
her to the joyful company.
The effect of these two miracles was
wonderful, as great numbers were, add
ed to the church and many throughout
the whole plain of Sharon. which
stretched from Joppa to Mount Carmel,
heard and believed. Peter stayed In
Joppa for some time after that at the
home of Simon, the tanner, which was
by the seaside.
PRESENT-DAY PARALYTICS AND
POWER. '
There are people today who are para
lyzed even in worse for mthan Teneas
could have been. They are unable to
overcome some weakness in their lives.
Their moral fiber is without strength.
They are dependent creatures, dependent
more upon circumstances than upon peo
ple. ' To such as these ■ »ve who are be
lievers should come with the good news
that Peter brought to Aeneas, and say t o
them, “Jesus Christ cures you. Get up
and do for yourselves in His strength
what you could not do otherwise.”
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he is obliged to remember that dead ,
man’s face as long as he lives.
Liquor is no respecter of persons. It
will destroy the innocent with the guilty.
It will make demons of rich men as
well as poor men, when It is racing
In the blood and firing up the brain.
What a pity it is that our lawmakers
do not understand what is going on
with blind tigers abroad in thfe land!
teaching feofle how to eat.
Wonders will never cease! A corre
spondence school has been organized
whert printed instructions will be sent
to you, telling you to a certainty
how a sick person can eat his way t
back to health without any doett,,. 2
The teacher of this school calls the
plan “The Science of Correct Eating.” ,
We are told that even good foods
cannot mix with other * good - foods *
without danger: that good foods wrong
ly combined will cause acidity, fermen
tation. gas. constiratton and numerous
synTpathetic ills which lead to serious
consequences.
If you will recall the fact that doc
tors now are specializing in the vari
ous branches of medicine, and when a. .
person Is seriously ill the diet part of
the treatment is the biggest end of
the prescription, it would indicate that (
we will soon be Induced to eat. Sick j
or well, by a well-ordered plan. It •
wouldn’t surprise me If we will be sup
plying ourselves with charts, and be
fore the homemaker begins to order a
- or 4-hat a meal shouM consist j
of, she will run her finger down the ;
l)ne and find out if cranberries will go ■
with roast beef well as turkey, or ;
whether celery will act badly along ,
with potato pie; or better, along with
plum pudding. T expect the study .of
correct eating can be made satisfac
tory.
SBHLING AFHIL.
The month of March, 1916, has been a *
very memorable one In my part of’ the .
country. The weather fiend has done ,
extra stunts with hard ice and killing
frosts and fierce winds. The early fjow
qrs have made extra efforts to get up
and look pretty as usual, but they have
pursued their calling under difficulties.
Their perseverance has been r eniafk
able. One of the greatest of Nature's _
wonders is the pertenacity of little '
plants to do their part in the spring of ’
the year. Nevertheless, they have had a
difficult part to perform during the
present season—March, 1916.
But when March bade us good-by thsn
April greeted us with a wonderfully
smiling face. The sun came out _jn
magnificent splendor, as much as to say. .
"We must hurry up now. Time is
ping by. The world calls for the best
we can do over here in America.” Last ’
night we’ had an April shower and thA
struggling plants were cheered so much
that every one has a fresh sparkle this
morning. Our forest trees are only just
beginning to show swelling (buds, but
the earth Is fast carpeting itself wltq (
"living green.”
The Spirit of Resurrection is abroad
in the land. Renewals and refurnishing
is the order of the day. Snow, sleet
and tornado winds may do for March, '
but April must have sunshine and warm,
showers. Old March took awful spite
with its winds. Cities were well-nigh
destroyed in a single night by a tornado
of wind and a red curtain of flame
that brooked no hindrance.
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