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NEWS ,n prose wrl t' n * : — that 18 natural and

j easy English approaching that employed b?-’ educated men when they ta!k- It was ax Johnson says, “famUtar, but not coarse," and, If not ’'elegant. - ' at least not '‘ostentatious.” One car. readily understand how the contrast between this | style, and that In which "Rasselas” is written, should have shocked Dr. Johnson into either extravagant praise or violent denunciation. Be'ng himself a great man of letters, he admired the style. The ease, naturalness, geniality and humor of Addison charmed Thackeray who. though a far greater writer, la in the same literary tradition. Men may continue to read Addison, if not as a model, at least as the master of a style that will always please. Those who are victims of the vice of "fine writing” may always read him with profit. Those who are purists can — unless they are wholly purists — pass over the slips in grammar and defects in construction and enjoy the spirit that even the style reflects. There are writers and speakers who could, to their soul's health, read Addison over every year.

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A PUNITIVE EXPEDITION By order of the President an “adequate force" has been sent Into Mexico to capture or destroy Villa and his band of murderers. It Is said that not less than 5,000 men will go, and that 12,000 troops are ready for immediate service. The White House statement is as follows: An adequate force will be sent at once in pursuit of Villa with the single object of capturing him and putting a stop to his forays. This can be done and will be done in entirely friendly aid of the constituted authorities in Mexico and with scrupulous respect for the sovereignty of

that republic.

While the force sent will be sufficient to do the job, it Is said that the Carranza troops will co-operate. It is to be hoped that thie is true, for such action will be a recognition of the friendly purposes of the American government. Neither that government nor the people whom It represents desires war with Mexico, or Intends to do anything to weaken the present regime in that country. The quarrel Is with Villa, who is In rebellion against a government which we have recognized. The Intervention should be welcomed as the act, not of an enemy, but an ally. There la thus, as yet, no war in the legal sense of the word. But there will be fighting and killing —and actual war. It need not be long or serious, and yet it will not do to view the situation lightly. For In such a situation there are always possibilities of grave trouble. But the step could no longer be avoided. Scores of Americans havs been killed in Mexico, often only because they were Americans, others have been killed by shots fired the border. American soldiers, representatives of the government, have been killed. And Qnally we had the raiding of an American city, and the slaughter of other'Americans in their homes. For five yeere this thing has been going on. No doubt those guilty of these crimes have come to think that American patience is inexhaustible, or Ameri in cowardice insult-proof. The step was made all the more necessary by the certain confidence of Villa and hie associates that American soldiers would not be sent across the border. With Mexican territory as an asylum there la no doubt that the bandits would have continued their forays over the boundary line. Villa must have been greatly surprised to learn that this time American soldiers were hot on his trail. The experience Is new, and, we imagine, somewhat startling. Whatever mistakes the President mey have made, we think that he did well not to intervene till his hand wee so palpably forced as to make the propriety, nay, the necessity of his action plain to every one. With the assault on Columbus even the most determined and extreme pacifist must have seen that the end of ’ watchful watting” had come. Villa is "wanted," not only by the President and the army, but by the whole country. Thie general desire is, we should say. quite likely to be gratified.

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|A ADDISON UNDER FIRE Most of those who have a speaking acquaintance with English .literature will recall the famous tribute of Dr. Johnson to Joseph Addison: Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.

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In an article in a recent number of the Quarterly Review, dissenting strongly from the opinion of the great doctor, we are reminded that the eighteenth century was convinced that "Addison wrote a perfect prose style," and believed that “his style alone would suffice to save his name from oblivion.’* But this was the opinion, not only of the eighteenth century, but of the nineteenth, one of whose greatest writers, Thackeray, was an intense admirer of Addison. Las there been an element cf literary superstition mixed with this admiration of Addison?

There are some who think eo.

A half century ago Richard Urant White, in one of his most useful books, showed that thie much-praised author often wrote, not only inelegantly, but Incorrectly. and in the moat slipehod fashion. And he cited paesages that proved hi* contention beyond all possibility of doubt. The Quarterly Review writer evidently thinks that the cult le extinct,

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To those who have heard the full or«nastra of "The French Revolution” or •Modern Painter*” or "The Egoist.” his single Pipe seems small and thin; and no one will ever speak of him again as Johnson or Macaulay or Thackeray did. One can not, of course, queati >n Mr. Whit*’a facts, or. In view of the many prose writere that wo have had since Addison’s day that greatly excelled him, doubt tha essential correctness of the verdict of the Review writer. The indictment, It will be observed. Is comprehensive. for In one count the style is attacked, and in the other the substance and thought. The former is the more formidable. for !♦ is oy his *tyla that Addison has survived. And yet a man who has won the warmest praise of such authorities as Johnson. Macaulay and Thackeray can not be so easily disposed of Neither profundity nor power has ever been claimed for him. As for his style, it may be that Mr. White exaggerated the importance of mere cor. redness. Addison was a pioneer In the use of what may be called modern English

THE BRITISH ANSWER The British memorandum in answer to the charges made against the German note Is conclusive in certain .particulars. The German claim was that the submarine campaign wa» ordered by way of reprisal for prior illegal acta of the British government, the date of the order being February 18. 1915. Certain of the acts of the British complained of had taken place before the submarine campaign was ordered, and the campaign began before it was ordered, and also before the most important acts objected to. One great ship carrying 2,000 unarmed refugees had been torpedoed and sunk October 26, 1914. This was before the declaration of a war xone in the North sea, before the orders-in-councll, and before the official proclamation that submarines would be used as they have been used. Other merchant ships were torpedoed before the orders-in-councll were made All of the torpedoing had, of course, been done after Great Britain had refused to abide by the declaration of London, and most of it after there had been British extensions of the list of contraband. But neither of these acts was sufficient to suggest, much less to justify, such a reprisal as the sinking without notice of merchant ships. The important point brought out is that the sinking of passenger ships without warning began before the German government had announced its policy of reprisal. It is to be noted further that Germany repudiated the policy when she said. In September last, that "liners will not be sunk by our submarines without warning, and without safety of the lives of noncombatants, provided that the liners do not try to escape or offer resistance." Her government repudiated it even more emphatically In the case of the Persia, an armed vessel, when it said, last January, that “German submarines are therefore permitted to destroy enemy merchant vessels In the Mediterranean — 1. e., passenger as well as freight ships as far as they do not try to escape or offer resistance - only after passengers and crew have been accorded safety.* The reprisal argument, therefore, has lost all Us force, and it never was admitted by our government to have any. But the British memorandum is entirely silent on *the question of armed merchantmen, or as to the instructions which Ambassador von Bernstorlf charged had been glveh by the British admiralty to the captains of merchantmen. Perhaps the British ambassador did not feel free to speak on this subject, as the matter is understood to be before his government in the form of'interrogatories from our state department Whatever the explanation, this very important part of the German note is passed over without comment. It is not, of course, the business of our government to act as umpire between the two powers, or to distrust the assurances of either— till facts force it to do so. But it is its business to learn what Is the British policy with reference to the arming of merchant vessels. SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT An interesting and well tempered discussion of "Scientific Management and Social Welfare’* Is presented In an article in the Survey by Robert F. Hoxie, associate professor of political economy of the University of Chicago. Professor Hoxie made an investigation of scientific management and labor for the United States commission on industrial relations primarily to teat the opposing views of several leaders in scientific management and of organised labor. Professor Hoxie's discussion leaves the impression that there was extravagance of statement on both aides of this controversy. In as far as scientific management affords opportunity for lower costs and increased production without adding to the burden of the workers in exhausting efforts and long hours or inferior working conditions, he says, it creates the possibilities of real and substantial benefits to labor and society. and he adds that “no one w ho has made a careful study of scienttflc management can doubt that It does, at its best, afford such opportunities to a very high degree." Comparative research, however, he says, demonstrates beyond any reasonable doubt that scientific management in practice is characterized by manifold diversity and striking incompleteness as compared with its theoretical counterpart. The article shows how personal limitations or bias on the part of those intrusted with the carrying out of the ides may interfere with the logical working out of the scientiftc management principles; how employers may be interested only to a limited degree and solely from tits point of view of their own profits. and how systems may be only partly and Imperfectly adopted. The aystematizer does not always have a free hand. There s re also fakers to whom many failures charged up to the general idea of scientific management may be attributed. The article, too. points out that there are many questions in the conduct of industry whose answers have not been determined with scientific accuracy. Some of the methods of scientific management. Professor Hoxie says, can be applied with reasonable accuracy and justice only where production is relatively stable and only in the more simple and repetitive lines of work, and much of the evil of wbich workers complain is due to attempts to apply these methods indiscriminately to all sorts of Industries Professor Hoxie holds that in spite of dogmatic statements of certain leaders, scientific management is not a rigid and indivisible whole, which must be accepted or reiected as it is. "Fortunately.” he says, "It is experimental and deveiop-

DEFECTS IN THE NA VY It the testimony of Captain Sims, given yesterday before the house naval committee, is correct, it shows that the most serious defects of the navy are of long standing. We ?Tt told that some of the

war. Japan has made a formidable enemy of Germany and sn alliance with Russia would be a measure ofc self-pro-tection. What effect such an alliance would have on the Anglo-Japanese alliance is a matter for speculation. There is a feeling tn some quarters of Japan that the union with England is rather one-sided, . placing ail the burdens upon Japan. A defensive alliance with Russia might be arranged with terms more fa-

THOSE SHOES

ships which vee have been accustomed to

think of as the best in the world are of | vorable to Japan. There is no question,

comparatively little value. The famous Oregon is said to be “the worst naval

however, that the Anglo-Japanese alliance and Japan’s adherence to Its terms have created a sentiment favorable to

design ever put afloat.” The Kentucky,

the Koarsarge and the battleships of the ! her !n Indta ’ Australia and the South Sea Connecticut type are not much better. | Islands that has P roved Pr° fl t*ble. Bbth Captain Sims says that the whole pre- i Japanes ® and that a R^sdreadnought fleet would, if pitted against I 8 °- Ja P anese a ltlanc « would not adversethe British fleet, topple over like nlne-’ ly affect Japan’s alliance with Great pins, because "colossal mistakes" In — but would, rather, strengthen IL

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struction have never been rectified. Perhaps it is not unreasonable to ask why there chould have been colossal mistakes in construction. Of course, conditions have changed since some of these ships were built, and the question was one of keeping them up to date. But others were, according to this witness, defective

and inferior from the start.

All of -which would suggest that former secretaries of the navy and former experts should observe some restraint in

their discussion of the present situation, j Japan and China-

The trouble seems to be with the organization of the navy department that has prevailed for years. We have had no general staff, and as a result of this lack there was no way of getting respectful consideration of the criticism of seagoing officers. We are told further that the naval war college had existed twenty-five years without a student. Secretary Daniels had recognized the vital importance of thip Institution — being the first secretary] to do so —and now’ a full complement of officers is kept there, regardless of whether the sea fleet is short of officers; or not. As a result, defects in the navy, weakness in war plans and essentials to any scheme of preparedness are being brought to light. Already there has been an Improvement in the organization, for Captain Sims said that with the present chief of operations to pass on criticisms as to personnel and material there was little danger that those Criticisms would not be consid-

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We have heard much from former secretaries and from others supposed to be authorities of the decline in the efficiency of gunners. The natural inference was that there had been neglect of this very important matter. But the witness showed that this decline began as far back as 1909, when short-range target practice was abandoned. And it continued to decline till 191J. By 1915 there had been a 40 per cent. Improvement, but as the standing In 1913 was only thirty hits in a possible hundred, the showing was still poor, being only forty hits. But there is a steady improvement, and the ground lost will be recovered. These facts also ought to chasten somewhat the spirits of those who had charge of the navy In former years. It is comforting to know that our newer ships, the dreadnoughts, are all that could be asked. They are well built, and most efficient.

THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND LIQUOR "The United States public health service brands strong drink as the most efficient ally of pneumonia.” This sentence, taken from a warning recently issued by the United States public health service, constitutes one of the strongest pronouncements against excessive indulgence In strong liquors that has ever come from an official government source. At one time the department of agriculture tried under the pure food laws to interfere with the making of distilled liquors. Now the health service has taken a step ahead of this in issuing such a warning. However, it is careful to make plain the fact that it does not voice a governmental opinion in favor of total abstinence. It merely states that at this time of year, when pneumonia Is easily contracted by persons whose vitality Is somewhat reduced, moderation In respect to alcoholic liquors is advisable. Fifty, or even twenty-five years ago, before the prohibition movement received practical support on the ground of efficiency, the government could have issued such a warning without the least fear of resentment. Today, however, there is likely to be some dissatisfaction among those engaged in tha manufacture and sale of the kind of liquor referred to. But no fair-minded person who has observed the deteriotion of men given to Intemperance in their drinking will censure the government. Perhaps, after all, it cares not so much for the health of those already afflicted with alcoholism as for the health of those likely to become so, in which case the warning becomes even farther removed from politics. In any event, tho public service more than justifies its action in these words: “Alcohol is the handmaiden of the disease which produces 10 per cent, of the deaths in the United States. This is no exaggeration.” But the public health service needs no defense. It has carefully stated that In no event is the warning to be taken as an expression of the administration’s attitude toward prohibition, or even temperance, but rather as a single department’s attitude toward the public health in general. This is precisely what the health service is expected to do — study the health of the people and tell them how it may be improved. In issuing the warning it has done its duty, as it saw it, with commendable courage.

JAPAN AND RUSSIA The recent visit of Grand Duke George Mlkhallovitch, cousin of the czar, to Japan has renewed speculation as to the possibility of a Russo-Japanese alliance. F'our years ago it was stated that a formal treaty was about to be signed at St Petersburg defining the interests of the two countries in Manchuria and Mongolia. but this was later formally denied by the Japanese foreign office. At the beginning of the European war there was much talk of an alliance, and prominent Japanese and ^u^si&ns expressed themselves as favorable to it. Last summer Petrograd announced that Japan had agreed to mobilize her entire industrial resources to increase the output of war munitions for Russia, and there is no doubt that she has been of material assistance to Russia during the war. Saxonoff, the Russian foreign minister, was recently quoted by the Petrograd correspondent of a Tokfo newspaper as favoring a formal Russo-Japanese alliance, and there is a strong feeling in Japan favorable to rapprochemeni with Russia. Friendliness between the two countries undoubtedly has been fostered by the

Why, to be sure! The administration has decided to hand a little fun to Funston.

Already the growing enthusiasm of the Republicans of the country has had a convincing demonstration in Georgia. The meeting of the state central committee there broke up in a^flst fight.

Those extra dividends, which so many corporations are declaring, are also keeping the fellows who issue the automobile number plates mighty busy. Tb* determination of the state board of education to curb the school book agents is so contrary to precedent that it really appears to be harsh. But maybe it isn't so bad as it looka

The newspapers and statesmen who favor the alliance also say that the claims of the two countries in China do not conflict; that the Interests there of each would be better conserved by an alliance, and that the geographical nearness of the countries would make the union effective. A formal alliance is probably nearer now than It has been since the end of f the Chino-Japanese war, when Russia, with Germany and France, interfered with the final negotiations of

CHEAPER GASOLINE

Yesterday’s dispatches announce that seven Independent oil companies have signed contracts with the government, agreeing to make use of the Walter F. Rittman process for extracting gasoline from crude oil which is expected greatly to increase the available supply and thus reduce prices. Rittman, a young chemist in the bureau of mines, announced about a year ago, that he had discovered a process for obtaining gasoline more economically, and also for making cheap toluol and benzol, two chemicals of importance in the dye and explosives industries. Government scientists and chemists for oil and powder companies have pronounced both processes practicable. With the Rittman method the oil Is passed through a tube in the form of vapor and subjected to a very high pressure. The ordinary' way is to distill the gasoline from the oil, which leaves a large residue of almost worthless solids. By the new method much of this residue, it is said, can be converted into gasoline. At first statements were made that the production of gasoline could be doubled with the Rittman process, but recently the percentage of increase has been estimated at from 15 to 90 per cent. A rule in the interior department prohibits employes from profiting personally from discoveries made while serving the government, so the Rittman process was turned over to the United States. Immediate attempts were made to interest oil companies. Some of them have agreed to make use of the process, but the Standard has held out. It has a method of extracting gasoline by which it is able, according to the statement of Secretary Lane, to obtain three times more than any independent company. This statement oil men say is an exaggeration. There is, nevertheless, no doubt but that the Standard has a superior process. The increased demand for gasoline has caused numerous attempts to Invent a substitute for gasoline or a cheaper process of manufacturing it. OH men say that hundred of processes for cheapening the gasoline production are submitted to them every year. The Rittman discovery, however, is sponsored by the United

States government.

It would be unwise to declare that women are the victims of the inconsistencies of the fashions or that the fashions are the result of the inconsistencies of women. It would, likewise, be foolish to attempt any explanation of the fact that the more -we hear of the scarcity of dyes, the more dazzled we are by the variety and brilliance of the colors that W’omen are wearing. To be sure, it has been suggested that the colors will fade, but certainly they are gay enough while they last to make their short life an extremely merry one. It has also been suggested that the material displayed now was manufactured before the scarcity of dyes was realized, and that, in a tnjly American fashion, W’e are using It up fast as possible— a truiy American planation. The fact is, and facts are firever more interesting than theories, that from the tip of the rosy ribbons on their hats to the toes of their exquisitely shaded boots, the women are wearing colors that make the birds and flowers seem less necessary’ to a world that is

waiting for spring.

Even the spring hat. however, that subject of perennial joy and perennial jokes, has been blushing and nodding unseen since the arrival of the spring shoes. Nobody wastes his time looking at spring hats these days, and there is no sense at all in philosophizing while the sidewalks are gay with red and purple and blue and pearl gray and white and violet and cream-colored and every other colored shoes. Shoes have long been regarded as useful, but unimaginative, things. They "went with" the rest of your clothes, and were allowed no ingenuity of their own. To be sure, an occasional audacious red or gold or jeweled slipper appeared in the ballroom, but shoes to be worn on the street were made to know their place. All that is a thing of the past, or of the days tvhen dyes

were not so scarce.

The spring shoes are things of char-

acter and of considerable conceit. The rest of your clothes have no control over them. They are as independent and frivolous as they please. It seems, somehow, that they have taken on, with their new colors, a new and charming animation. They skip along of themselves, an endless procession of endless variety. March has long been in the habit of clearing the sky so that we might look at its blue cleanliness and forget the mud beneath our feet. Even March has been fooled by the spring shoes, and the most tempting sky can not coax our eyes away from those clever boots which seem tb dance unharmed through that same March mud. Nothing could induce us to take our eyes off those spring shoes. We do not even bother to look to see who is wearing them. They seem, as a matter of fact, to be trotting along by themselves, as though unrelated to the ordinary or extraordinary figure above them. The spring shoes are sufficient unto

themselves, and likewise unto us.

CASE AND COMMENT

Lent

Man and the World

Most of our people are these days think- Whether a man's life is vain or not ing a little and talking a great deal about depends altogether on what sort of life

preparedness. They are not always clear as to how we should prePrrpsra- pare, or what we should tloo prepare against, but they are convinced that condi-

it is. Jesus Christ's life was not vain. Neither is that of even the Tempts- humblest and weakest man tton if he but walk in the light. There can be no truth to

. tions in this country are not what that light, no walk’ng in it without somethey should) be, and that it would be wise thing very like a crucifixion of the lower to improve and strengthen them against an d baser desires and passions. The real a possible time of strain and stress. There question is one of earnestness and sincermay be sonije merit in the suggestion that Ity: People sometimes wonder why there the church may perhaps help in this great should ( be in the world such a thing as work—help in the most practical way. The temptation. How could it be otherwise, season of Lent, which began last Wednes- man being what he is? There was tempday, Is itself nothing more than a period tation even in Eden. We read "then was of preparation. People are to prepare for Jesus led up ot the Spirit into the wildera struggle the fierceness of which most ^ess to be tempted of the devil.” The of them realize, to prepare for it through hand of God was in it—He was divinely a development of the spiritual nature and le d into the conflict on the issue of which Christian character. The thought is not the future of the world and of humanity of submarines, battleships and machine h ung. < Browning puts the matter in guns, but of!personality, which, when cul- "ords that are so manly, so deeply Christivated to the limit of Its possibilities, is tian ' as to be worth storing in the mem-

the strongest force in the world. The or >’ :

church greatly serves the state when it T.mptation^bai? God a second time! calls men and women aside and bids them Why conies temptation but for man to meet look to themselves, learn their weaknesses And master and make crouch beneath his foot and consider the best means of strength- A. nd 80 r*«ieet&Ued m triumph? Pray . , . , . . Lead us into no such temptations, lord: ’ ening them: wives against temptation- Yea but Q thou who ^ the ^ warns them to have done with loose and Lead such temptations by the heed and hair, superficial thinking, lazy living, lax work Reluctant drag* ns, up to who dares fight, and general shiftlessness in the material That 90 h ® nmy do battle and have praise! as well as ini the spiritual world. We are One can not but feel the thrill and powto get a new sense of direction, a goal, er of the lines. Men are in this world to an object in life set “above the howling fight, and that is why they need preparasenses’ ebb tnd flow.” There are, it is Gon, need, as the apostls said, to "endure imagined, f« w who will not admit the hardness. ’ Having such business on truth of the following words of the poet: hand, it is not well to live softly or slack-

ly, or to demand that everything be made easy, and to complain because It Is not. Strength is the child of discipline—sometimes even of sorrow and suffering. The doctrine, to be sure, is not popular—in educational circles It is even repudiated. But there is both Christian and stoic authority for it. If we are to train men for service.. they must labor and serve while being trained. This seems to be obvious enough, and nothing more than ordinary common sense. It Is surely a part, and a very important part, of preparedIt is against the temptation to lead such ness, a life—and how insidious it is!—that men

lust prepare and arm. , K WG are ever to * et away from our or -

flinary pursuits and pleasures, and our

It is a sad and distressing thing for a ordinary way of thinking, we surely must

What jri the course of the life Of moftal men on the earth?—

Most ihen eddy about

Hero ind there—eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, Gather^ and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurled in tho dust. Striving blindly, achieving Nothing; and then they die—

Perish—and no one asks

Who or what they have been More than he asks what waves, In the moonlit solitudes mild Of the midmost ocean have swelled. Foamed for a moment, and gone.

Realities

set apart special times and seasons for doing so. Instead of the return to na-

ture, of which we used to hear so much, and of which we still heaiTthere must be,

MOTORCYCLE EXPORTS

General Fred Funston shows appreciation of the Mexican situation when he suggests that the movements of the troops be made secretly. In other words, he does not want to fight Villa in the newspapers. Go to it, Fred! The newspapers will try to preserve peace at home If you will suppress the disorders on the border. If he were right energetic about it the city sanitarian might put his own nose in commission, and after detecting, without any great strain on his olfactory nerves, those odors that are distressing the west siders, and sometimes others, file a complaint with himself that he could regard as sufficient justification for official action. If the politicians would be content to provide a primary law whereby it would be easy to vote honestly instead of difficult for some people to vote honestly and Impossible for others to do so, the result might be more to the general satisftetion. Nor is it especially surprising to learn that the declaration of war on Portugal has created no excitement in Berlin. People there, as was to be expected from the record of past performance, have rather got used to that sort of thing.

merce department for the twelve months ending with December, 1915, shows that the motorcycle industry furnishes a considerable share of our exports, in proportion to its size. The calendar year just ended set a new record. In 1915 there were 14,836 machines exported, having a market value of 82,821,991. The year before there were 6,656 exported, with a value of 11,252,828. In 1913 there were 4,131 machines sent abroad, valued at $800,061. The indications are thalt there will be more machines shipped this year than lastjk as the demand for American-built machines is increasing steadily. The war In Europe has caused a demand for the American machine for scouting purposes. The European countries have ceased making motorcycles, and this has resulted in American machines being sent in greater numbers to Australia and other possessions, which heretofore patronized

Europe exclusively.

Bicycles to the value of $606,633 were exported in 1915, as against $501,013 In 1914 and $698,930 in 1913. These figures indicate that the war has,had an adverse effect on the bicycle business. The war proved an effective barrier to bicycle and motorcycle imports. In 1915 the value of these imports was $37,187, as against $203,690 in 1914 and $201,885 in 1918. The import trade Is continuing at a minimum, and this year’s shipments to the United States will be even smaller. THE THRIFTY DE THEBES

being and over life. St. Paul said. "I keep under my body,” not because the body was an rfvil thing, but because as the tool it should not be allowed to become the piaster. This is the message of Lent Christians are called to sacrifice

the better fit themselves for the lifelong struggle between flesh and spirit, and good and evil. Men sometimes talk of sacrifice as good in itself. But there never was such a thing. There is, and always must be an object. The only question is what the object shall be. In this case it is development of character, exaltation of the spiritual nature, and the enthronement of the soul as the master of life. The man who is thus ruled is both a good Christian and a good citizen. Thus it Is that the church greatly serves the state when it creates men of this

and realizes what a power there is in being alone. The world owes much to the great desert men. It is still going to school to them. It is all preparationpreparation for the ordinary business of living, and precisely the sort of which this nation stands in special need. The lives 06 Americans as citizens ought to be marked by that quietness, soberness, serenity and spiritual insight which we think of, and rightly, as among the finest fruits of Christianity. Nations as well as individuals need to lift up their eyes

strong and fine type. The nation that unto 1,10 hilIs ’ an<1 t0 rea,iz « tltat ^elr

strength, too, comes from the bights of the eternal righteousness. For it is moral causes that determine and govern the

has tho largest number of them is tjie strongest and best prepared nation. It all seems to have a pretty direct bearing on the general subject of preparedness. “Produce men, the rest follows," so says

Wait Whitman.

rise and fall of states.

And when it comes to reducing the price of gasoline, what the Standard would like to know, is why anybody wants to spoil a good thing. Any time that the weather bureau wants to turn on that regular warm spell in March it will be all right with the first robins — and with most of the rest of us.

Madame de Thebes is the assumed name of a Paris celebrity who for years has been known as a prophetess. She is the most noted women In this occult profession, and has amassed a fortune. As she had soma sublunary tastes she bought a pretty country house near Meung-sur-Loire, where she spends her summers. But Madame de Thebes is a practical woman and knows how to employ her leisure in a useful fashion. “From the neighboring farms,” says Le CrI de Paris, "she buys good supplies of eggs, butter, cheese and poultry. These she sends to her nephews in Paris, who are honorable poultry and egg dealers. But it is a strange thing that Madame de Thebes, who can easily announce a dozen months In advance the fall of empires and the death of kings, can not forsee from one week to another the rise or fall in the price of eggs. So she has subscribed for several agricultural journals in which each day she studies the mercurial markets. And now Madame de Thebes, instead of delivering oracles, may perhaps sell ducks." TEN MILLION SNAILS

Something has been said of meditation, and its great importance. But there are

We live in the midst of a material People tvho do not seem to know what it world; material forces press in on us from means. To many it is every' side; material temptations lure us The Mind merely a rapt and mystical through our material appe- eomtemplation of the divine The tites. Our own natures are perfection, largely if not wholly, a matter Spiritual largely material, and they of feeling and so-called spiritual exaltareadily respond to material tion. But tuere can be no meditation or temptations without, and tend to smother any value into which the mind does not the spiritual nature within. We all feel enter. There must be thought, and men this keenly and realize it profoundly, must use their minds in religion. That is What are w'e to do about It? We have why people have always asked that their been told that man can not live by bread minds might be more and more enlightalone, but must seek the living bread, ened with spiritual truth. We can not This means-and what a tribute it is to banish the mind from religion without human nature—that man is greater than turning religion into fanaticism or supertho things by which he is surrounded, etitition. So in the work of preparation and greater than the body, which is only one must look to the inind as well as to his servant. This, it may be remembered, soul, the conscience and the outward is also one of the underlying principles of ac t. Meditation, therefore, means thought, Carlyles philosophy. The primary object but sober and reverent thought, thought of Lent is. not self-sacrifice and self- a bout life’s realities. Repentance itself is denial, not the mere doing without things, a change of mind. Thus the general subbut the realization, through these means j ec t touches, and ought to influence the and others, of the divine possibilities of yy^ole nature, and every part of it. Tho human nature- It is meant that men message j s no t new, sensational or origlshould each year rise to a higher plane, rial—perhaps if It were it would not be and enter more fully into that truer and true lt j8 as 0 i d as the * xperlenre of higher life, the beauty and gloiy of which the flrsJ . man who t urne( j awa y from the have been celebrated by pagan philoso- worM to the , nner and deeper trath that

God Bless U« Every One "God tift •very one!" prayed Ttny Tim, ‘"rippled and dwarfed of bodv, yet »o tall Of soul w tipto* earth to look at him. High towering over all. He loved the loveless world, nor dreamed Indeed. That it, at best, could give to him the while. But pitying glances, when his only need Was but a cheery smile. And thus he prayed, “God bless us every < ne!”~ KnfoId;ng ait the creeds within the span Of hi* child-heart; and ao. despising none, >Vaa nearer satm than man. 1 like to fancy God. in Paradise, Lifting a finger o’er the rhythmic swing Of chiming harp and song, with eager eyes Turning earthward, listening— The anthem stilled—the sngels leaning there Above the golden walls—the morning sun Of Christmas bursting flowerlike with prayer, ’’OckI bless us every one!" —James Whitcomb Riley.

SCRAPS

man to drift through the world, the sport of every wind, wave or current, without

any thought of the port he

I.ife’e is to make, and without Coarse caring anything about it

If Almighty God laid our on the Christian theory, a return to God. course for us, He meant that we should So the summons is, not only to self-denial, hold to It. While it is true that men self-sacrifice, self-realization, self-con-need divine help, there is a power ot quest and struggle against temptation, self-help in them that is very often not but also to quiet meditation on the deeper drawn on as it should be. The attitude realties of life. We can all of us get of many Christian people is very like that away somewhat from the noise and disof the poor peasant in the fable, who tractions of the world—indeed we must cried aloud to Jupiter to pull his cart do so if we are to make any progress toout of a rut, and was told to put his ward that perfection which Is our dlvineyo>wn shoulder to the wheel. One of the ]y appointed goal. “In quietness and

The report of the United States convjl greatest things that a man can strive for confidence shall be your strength.” We

is self-mastery. He who can take him- all at times yearn for deliverance from self In hand and say “this sh^U thou "the strife of tongues," and the clamor of do" and “this thou shalt not do” is tne nien with so-called messages that are for strong man and efficient Christian. Here the most part vain. Men can have peace then is perhaps the first and most i.n- even in the midst of the noisiest and most portant step in the direction of prepar- confused existence, but only as they draw edness. By self-mastery is meant, of ne ar at times to the source of strength, course, the dominion of the real self, the and are wiuing to be alone. This thought self-directing faculty, the spiritual na- was in the ^,,0 of the man who , ong ago ture. the soul, over all the rest of ^he wrote: “Stand in awe, and sin not; com-

mune with your own heart, and in your chamber, and be still.” There is, as Carlyle again showed, vast power In silence,

Great thoughts and great spiritual aspirations have come out of the desert. One thinks of Abraham and Jacob and Moses

and self-denial in order that they may and Elljah _ and finalIy of JesU8 Chrlf)t _

We ought to have a fighting campaign. — Representative Mann. Isn’t that our invariable quadrennial pastime, sir? Or maybe the idea of the park board is to prevent a severance of diplomatic relations with the west side.

It might have been to Senor Villa’s advantage if he had conferred with Senor Aguinaldo before he started anything like that. Well, anyhow, Muncie didn’t go nearly so “wet" as it did the last time it went “wet.’’ • However, differences of opinion among the Earlham faculty will not. of course, lead to war in the college. That w-ould be against the rules.

The epicurean taste of the people of Paris requires annually 10,000.000 snailsFormerly when Burgundy was happy and not sulphuretted by the vine growers it sent to Paris the greater part of these 10,000.000 snails demanded by the palates of the great city. But since Burgundy is struggling against the diseases that visit Its vines and is obliged to use sulphates it is able to furnish only 250,000 snails. The sulphates cure the vines but kill the snails. When this reduction In the production of "snails in Burgundy" came about the Germans did not fail to profit by the situation and threw upon the Paris market, as a French paper says, "heavy squadrons of fat white snails." And now it is said that with the war

pher and Christian teacher alike. Selfrealization—only it must be of the best self, the divine self—Is what is to be striven for. The realization of this best self is also the realization of mart's true destiny. If we are to enter into relations with a spiritual God and a spiritual life, It must be—can only be—through our spiritual faculties. The more these are developed the closer will the relationship be. We know’ perfectly well that a human

he found in his own soul. So the world has another chance, of which it ought to make the most. It is a chance for preparednesa through the development of character, and a deeper knowledge of the truth. As a result of the discipline men will emerge more useful servants of that truth both in church and state. Both church and state will be stronger, both will be more loyal to ideals, and more

being who thinks of nothing exceptt what fa,thf „ ul the work of appljdn * them t0

life. Perhaps some may develop sufficient faith to look forward to a converted and

he shall eat or drink or vrear, or how he shall amuse himself, is a miserable crea-

ture. And we know too. and quite apart ‘-•onsecrated commonwealth. 1 he reallzafrom revelation, that a man whose whole tion 0 * * dea * may *’ je reserved for the heart is set on pleasure, soon loses all fat distant futqre. But Christian people, capacity to einjoy pleasure. Many of us nay all who love their country, ought to have known people whose lives were toll for it. and also to think of it as wholly sated, and w’ho, as a result, had certain. At least no preparedness can mis U1 ‘* j come to despair of tne human situation. , .

scrupulous French dealers buy empty | «uch a one was he—whoever he was—who U ^ . 1 dt , ,, d .* * 1Pat white shells into which they put snails, said: “Vanity of vanities, all Is vanity.” ob J ect 111 coh templatkm. It would be a

Nor should the testimony of Captain Sims before the house naval committee tend to spur former secretaries of the navy to further criticism of existing conditions.

called “little grays" which they sell as snails of Burgundy! THE MOST USED LIBRARY

Close after the discovery that New York is tho greatest city in the world comes the report that its public library is the most used library on earth. Its daily average number of readers is double that of the British Museum of London or the Bibliotheque Nationale of Paris,'according to the report for 1915. Just published, which says that 10.384.579 books were borrowed In the year and that 2,555.717 persons entered the central building at Fifth avenue and Forty-second street. The war has brought a great increase in the number of people who use the library for research. It has become, the director says, on Immense laboratory for scientific investigation, particularly those seeking information regarding new industries.

It is possible ft>r any man to rise far tragic mistake to ignore the moral ele-

above this despairing philosophy.

ment in the problem.

Home-Made “Stickemtight” Paste f Rural New Yorker] What child Coes not like to cut out pictures and paste them? Here Is an Inexpensive past“i that will keep Indefinitely. If it geta too thick add aome cold water and cook and stir until It Is smooth. One cup flour, one teaspoon powdered ahitn. one-halt cup cold water, two cups boiling water, two tablespoons lime water. A few drops oil of clove* or wintergreen. Mix the alum, flour and cold water, and beat until perfectly smooth; add the boiling water slowly, stirring all the tline. Plat* on the <>tove and stir until it boils, then put In double cooker and cook about thirty ratnutea, stirring often. Keep In covered jars or cans.

And His Name is Legion (Philadelphia InquirerJ The man who Urea us most is the chap who keeps on talking alter he has finished.

Rural Automobile Sentiment [Providence Journal) A few years ago resentment against the motor car was strong in the country towns. Logs were half burled across the roads for the purpose of jolting the occupants of touring cars, and constables were active in arresting the drivers, whether or not their speed was excessive. Today the farmers are enthusiastic admirers of the automobile, because its suitability to the requirements of country life has been proved. The change of sentiment. Indeed. Is a remarkable one, and the time when every farmer who has the price of a spam hone will own a motor car does not seem to be remote « Mobilization [Washington Democrat] Prepare for gardening; that is, get a line on your hoes and spades and rakes. The neighbors may bat e failed to bring them home.

Japan Is producing artificial coffee. There are about 1,000 kinds of mosqui-

toes.

The price of sugar was recently increased 25 per cent, in Hungary. In India the presence of peacocks denotes that there are tigers in the vl~ ctnity. Manufacture of paper tn this country consumes nearly 6,000,000 cords of wood annually. Australia has a huge harvester which reaps sixty acres of wheat a day. It Is driven by oil. Seeds germinate rapidly under the influence of violet and bine rays, but flies and other Insects do not like these col-

ors.

Under the right atmospheric conditions the heavy firing on th^ west front of the European battle lino has been heard 140 miles away. * Women carpenters have made their appearance in Mayence, where they are taking the place of their husbands and brothers at the front. Shipping at the port of Honolulu has Increased considerably as a result of the opening of the Panama canal. Arrivals for 1915 were 591 vessels, as against 468 for 1914. Safety in aviation still Is largely a matter of skill and judgment of the operator. Statistics show’ that only one-fourth of the accidents are due to defects in the aeroplanes. During the nearly twenty-five years that the Empire Statp express of the New York Central raliroad has been running it has carried approximately 8,000.000 passengers without a single fatal accident. Tom Longboat, famous Indian runner, was enlisted In the Canadian forces and will no doubt make a fine soldier, although his peculiar qualifications are not those especially sought In soldier men outside of Kutet-Amara. That pecan nuts are destined to be the most important of all products of nutbearing trees in the United States Is the opinion of the department of agriculture. The output of these nu’ts more than trebled between 1899 and 1909. The Dutch government has taken over the distribution of all coal in Holland. Distribution is under the control of a body known as the state coal distribution and advisory committee. Importers of coal must dispose of it subject to the instructions of this body. In northern New Mexico the fact that wolves and coyotes are becoming a serious menace to cattle and sheep Is attributed to the superstition of Navajo Indians, the tribe holding both beasts sacred and refusing ffo treat them other than with the greatest of respect. Those who think the dreadnought a decidedly modern ship will be interested to knok that it is the type, and by no means the name, that is new. The names of British ships are handed down from naval generation to naval generation, the first British ship of the line Dreadnought having been launched in 1618. As a result of a number of experimental studies, scientists havj found that tho eyes of fish are relatively large In comparison with human eyes; a fish’s eye is ordinarly about 1-20 of the length of its body, while that of a man is from 1-60 to 1-70 of the bight It Is believed that thi« is one reason for their near-sighted-ness. Caracas, capital of Venezuela, contemplates having a new bull ring to seat 12,000 spectators, the municipality having tentatively approved a contract for it. The new structure is to be so arranged as to be available also for dramatic and operatic performances. The plans ars based on those of the great bull ring at Madrid, Spain. The army ot Monaco, though small, was resplendent dviring peace times, but now that war is under way It has been dissolved because the professional soldiers who composed it have all been called home and are fighting under the French or Italian colors, as the case may he, or drawn up In the Hwiss contingents guarding the frontier. ■'Billingsgate" is an accepted term for vituperative language. A speaker in a political club wished to Vary this expression in chiding an opponent, and criticised him for using "flshmarket language.’* Thereupon another member rose and protea nut this phrase. "I, have been a fish dealer for thirty years,” he said, “and have never heard any bad language used in my business. The fish business is a respectable one, and should not be tho subject of a slur.” One of the most effectual remedies for wounds is found in a powder made by Dr. Felix Mendel, of Essen, Germany. If consists of a mixture of ten parts bicarbonate of soda, nine parts acetic acid (vinegar), and nineteen parts sugar. Superficial wounds ore covered with a thick layer of the powder but deeper wounds are completely filled with it. As soon as the mixture is placed on a raw sore carbon dioxide is liberated and this causes a constant flow of fluid from the wound. Inflammation is quickly checked by using this powder. The familiar story of the shapshooter who said after eath shot, "And may the Lord have mercy on your soul!" Is matched by an incident described in Ian Malcolm's book. “War Picture* Behind the Lines.” "The captaih of our guns." says the narrative, “was a priest; his altar a few empty cartridge boxes. * • • First of all he toid us to pray for all for whom he was going to offer the mass. Then he added, ' Particularly I recommend to your prayers the German artillerymen whom we have Just destroyed,* and he recited the ‘De Profundi*-* " An organization has been formed in Holland for pushing the u.-'e of domestic products in preference to foreign importations. A circular issued by it declares that In many cases foreign goods are used instead of domestic solely on account of indifference or prejudice, despite the fact that the domestic article Is Just as good or even better. Dutch goods, It adds, are sometimes marketed under foreign names simply because of this state of affairs. The present membership of the association is more than 1.600, the Amsterdam section being headed by the burgomaster of that city, and it Is expected that all the members will work actively in the interests of home products. A few weeks ago, when the pricet of tobacco in England were increased, many smokers reluctantly relinquished their favorite brands and bought cheaper mixtures. After a week or two some of them gave up the search for a suitable substitute and returned to their old loves. Now the smoker is to have a furthe.r trouble, for it is said that there will be a radical alteration in the nature of a large number of tobaccos. The reason for this is that soon the stocka of latakia In England wifi have beeh exhausted, and as this tobacco comes from Turkey, there will be no further supplier! until the war is ended. Latakia is an Integral part of a targe number of mixtures, and the flavor of all will be affected by th* change. Most of the latakia is grown in the hinterland around the ancient tow.» of Latakia. In Asia Minor, and none, U is said, ta grown outside Turkish territory. So smokers will be called on t® make another sacrifice.—Boston Transcript

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