Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, April 07, 1916, Page 5, Image 5
SfyoUNTHY vjOME TOPuS i/OOCTO ■YjraVHJTVFD/l- 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 ■ "i ■ . —.—_ . —; How to Get Your Suit FREEX Send poetal todaf tor fKl' W .iJk full ißfonne«*on bow to £* V: •■P* Sp™« "ii. I k - isaJe to meaeore. with- f I jf StStc oct a panny’a coat. «89 F-H ' " Jr sls A DAY He ’ In rout w«ro time. It Rll | ap-siF.sgjH.’sr HHflr* m--e attnurnß pattern. FEB W •®"We Pay Delnrerj Charges Get abend of other feUewo—write thia micate. 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Write today sod get a box co help Introduce It. Agents wanted. J. F. GREGORY, Dept. 2. St.UNiis.lln 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 £ • substantialthingstoeat | Jax Biscuits | There is something ex- | tra good in Jax Graham , Crackers, in either 5 or 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. (Continued Next Issue.) IT MAY BE FISH—FRUIT—FOWL OR VEGETABLES LET US HELP YOU TO SELL THEM BY EXPRESS Wc want to assist in equalizing the law of supply and demand by taking your supply where the demand is. Our Market Bureau Bulletins lift your name, products, and price,—when given. These bulletins are distributed among the city house wives who buy direst from you, sending express money orders in payment for] produce to be shipped tq them by express. Your nearest Express Agent will put you on our Market List. Write or ask him about this co-operation. Our low rates on food produces, quick trans portation and free city delivery makes a market for you anywhere. Southern Express Company ‘'Serve the Public’ * HOME iy Topics tITSSKii - ("inductedßy 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.” SOUTHERN STORM MOVES TOWARD THE NORTHEAST WASHINGTON, April s.—The south ern storm was off the Virginia capes I this morning and moving northeastward. 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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