Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1914 — Page 3

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Application o! the Scriptures to the World Today an Seen by Eml* neat Men in Various Walks ol Life - «-■«!»»■-« «»■ m»m ■ »n«» !

(Copyright, 1914. by Joseph B. Bodies) THE FORCES OF EDUCATION. <By CHARLES .F. THWINa, LL. D., President of Western Reserve Univer■"sity, Cleveland, O.) “When that illustrious man, Chief Justice Jay, was dying, he was asked if he hail any farewell address to leave his children. He replied. They have .the Bible.' ’’—Ewald.

The two forces of education are truth and personality—knowledge and the

tion. In personality it is ever to be remembered is included love *bn the j>art of the teacher toward the pupil. Without this love, service is in peril of being dead and deadening. The Bible presents these same two forces. It is called the Book of Truth and of truths. It sees and tells things as they are. Its commands are not mere intimations. They are made to be obeyed. Neither are its threaten- . Ings soft chidlngs. They are in places sulphurous. Its curses are, “Woe unto you scribes, pharisees, hypocrites.” The Bible also presents and constantly deals with personalities. From the first chapter of Genesis to the last chapter of Revelation the human element appears. The central and controlling personality is Jesus Christ He is the great Teacher. He knows, is inspired by and uses the truth. He cries: "I am the Truth?’ His closest friends ate called disciples. He loves them. He calls them to be his companions and friends. With their dullness he is patient, in their faithlessness he is faithful, in their distresses he delivers, in all their trials he is sympathetic. He embodies* that supreme secret of education: “He caJleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.” The modern school should be a moving example in its own use of truth and personality, of the Book of Truth and of the person of Jesus Christ.

THE CITADEL OF JOSEPH’S POWER.

(By MELVIN GROVE KYLE, D. D., LL. D., EKYPtologrist; Lecturer on Biblical Archaelogy in Xenia Theological Sewiiz nary; author of "The Deciding Voice of the Monuments in Biblical Criticism.") . ' • “I find mbre sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatever.’’—Sir Isaac Newton. We did not expect to find the citadel of Joseph’s power. Nobody in

the bottom of it, splashed and dabbled and drudged for many weeks, and at the end of It all had scarcely anything to carry away; but he left some great things in the mud and he had found some wonderful history. A modern road runs across in front of the one standing obelisk, which marked the entrance to the great temple. At the side of this roadway, in the level land,' the professor set his ' diggers to work. Almost immediately their hoes struck the solid digging which, to their experienced hands, announced a wan of sun-dried mud brick. They were set to cut straight across it and down to the desert sand underneath it This proved to be a big job, for the wall .was nine and a half feet high, coming now just up to the surface of the soil, as we have seen. It was one hundred and thirty feet broad across the top, and had sloping sides. It showed a curve that would enclose an oval space fifteen hundred feet wide and of a length which H was Impossible yet to determine. This was no house-wall, no mere inclosing wall of a temple area; here was nothing short of a great fortification, the surrounding wall of some citadel of power. Who reigned here!

teacher. The two work together. Truth without the teacher in a cup without w a t er. The teacher without truth is a soldier without his sword. The two united —the truth inspiring the teacher, and the teacher quickened by the truth — are effective and only thus effective. As a result, the pupil knows, and is trained. The two forces do give educa-

Egypt ever expects what he finds or finds what he expects. Professor , Petrie selected this site of the great temple of in Lower Egypt, for his work of exploration in 1912, in the hope that it, might yield great temple sculptures and much treasure of such sort. He dug through nine and a half feet of mud with 18 Inches of water in

Different ages and different dynast ties had their peculiar structures and methods. Some eight miles toths north at Tell el-Yehudiyeh, in 1906, Professor Petrie found the great fortified camp of the Hyksos, the dynasty of invaders that ruled Egypt in the days of the patriarchs, Abraham, Jacob and Joseph. This camp, also, was enclosed by a wall one hundred and thirty feet broad, made with sloping sides and enclosing an oval space fifteen hundred feet wide. This was the peculiar construction of the Hyksos kings. Here it is found again at Heliopolis. Now, Heliopolis was the great capital of Egypt in those days. Probably the first camp qf the Hyksos invaders was at Tell el-Yehudiyeh. 'They mastered Lower Egypt and so, sooner or later, they must have taken Heliopolis. And when they did take it, then it was that they built this great wall around the central place of government to enclose the citadel of their power and malfe it secure against attack by the native Egyptians. _ ■ They had already gained possession of Heliopolis in Joseph's time, for the king was able to give Joseph to wife “the daughter of the Priest of On,” L e., Heliopolis. So that this great mud wall which we have cut, now buried beneath the sediment of thirty-seven hundred annual inundations, enclosed the seat of government in Joseph’s day. Here we stand at the entrance of the citadel of Joseph’s power. Within this colossal oval of mud brick the great Hebrew prime minister ruled. There, is no gateway. Probably there was a causeway over the wall, as at the camp of Tell el-Yehudiyeh. By this causeway Joseph’s chariot, the second chariot in the realm, rolled in and out By this way entered the sons of Joseph to buy corn, and here, within this stronghold, came the great patriarch, Jacob, to bless the Pharaoh and to receive the gift of pasture-land in Goshen.

TO SOLVE TODAY’S GREAT PROB. LEMS.

(By THEODORE KEMP, LL. D., President of Illinois Wesleyan University.) "I hold to the Bible, which I constantly read. In it one, finds the solation of every difficulty and of every problem" even of a political description.”—Emperor William of Germany. —■ • - It is surprising how many of the great questions of the day have to do with moral issues. The liquor question, child labor, white slavery, the race question, sweat shops, conflicts between capital and labor, international quarrels, poverty and crime, not to mention other questions, all must find their solution through moral means. Christ preached the brotherhood of the race. His most fearful invectives were hurled at those who oppressed the laborer, who defrauded the poor and who exploited men for gain. He tempered justice with mercy. He taught and exhibited in his own great life the duty of unselfish service. He understood the privations of the poor, he exalted womanhood and blessed childhood for all the ages. He made man a child of God and made God understandable. If we had his regard for the sacredness of human life and the value of every soul, and his unselfish, purpbie" for the good of all, the liquor traffic would soon die, child labor would cease, employer and employe would become friends and brothers; womanhood would be honored and righteousness would exalt the nation. Yes, laws may do much to check crime, but the law of love and kindness in the hearts of men would do vastly more. The sermon on the mount sets new ideals before men: "The 'meek shall inherit the earth;” “the pure in heart shall see God;" “the peacemakers shall be called the children of God;” “those who mourn shall be comforted.” Love will displace hate, and the man of Nazareth by his sympathy, by his spirit of sacrifice, will show men how to live with each other and will show the way to solve the problems which disturb our peace, threaten virtue, despoil homes, and endanger the republic.

Setting Quail on Weevil.

The American quail is to be sent to rid British Africa of the cotton boll weevil, if plans of certain Englishmen snicceed. It is considered a question of their ability to acclimatize the bird; the bird's appetite for the destructive worm is not boubted. Success in the venture would mean a new feather in the cap of one of America's favorite birds. It should also teach careless Americans of the wisdom of protecting, not only the quail, but other native song birds against the onslaughts of their enemies, human and otherwise. The cotton boll weevil causes millions of loss in the United States alone, and its ravages are-equally familiar in Egypt and British Africa. It is, therefore, something more than sentiment or humanity which argues for the preservation of the particular wild creature which thinks the weevil a dietary morsel. But the quail is only one of dozens of native song birds, each of which is useful in the same way. Some day men will appreciate their- winged friends more thoroughly. V

Fanning and Prosperity.

To conserve the soil, to raise abun dant crops and an adequate supply of live stock;, to study and apply the most efficient and economical methods of production, and to fell the stock only when ready for,market, adopting the above as a.steady, permanent policy, will contribute more to the prosperity of farmers themselves and to the prosperity of the nation than all other causes put together.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

FIRST TRANSCONTINENTAL FREIGHT THROUGH CANAL

, _ . A ■ ' J %■' '■ ' ’ - ' ' - ■ ■ The first ocean to-ocean freight to pass through the Panama canal, a shipment of sugar, was transported in barges, which are here shown in the middle lock of the west chamber at the Gatun locks.

STUDY OF VENUSTIANO CARRANZA, THE MAN OF THE HOUR IN MEXICO

First Chief of the Constitutionalists and Perhaps Soon de Facto President of the Republic Is a Remarkable Man in Many Respects—Was the Intellectual Godfather of Francisco Madero. ——-----

Washington, D. C.—ls Venustiano Pino Carranza, first chief of the constitutionalists and perhaps soon, de facto president of Mexico, were to put on strictly American drees and walk down the promenade of an American city no one meeting him would take him for a Mexican Spaniard. He is ruddy, but not swarthy, rugged of face, rather than fiery, full bearded* in the manner of many American physicians aged in the fifties or sixties. Behind spectacles which tell of nearsightedness shine gray eyes. But one must remember the Germanic hordes which poured upon the fertile fields of Spain in the middle ages. The fierce Goth is mirrored in Carranza. He is a Mexican of pure Spanish descent, but drawn from a race which entered Spain about the time the Angles and Saxons reached England. Carranza's instincts, nevertheless, are anti-Anglo-Saxon. His opposition to intervention has been firm and defiant To understand this man, whose shadow lengthens in the land of Mexico every day, it is necessary to understand his life of constant struggle toward a goal he now believes almost within reach. It is not generally realized that Carranza was the intellectual godfather of Francisco Madero. Now fifty-five years of age, he was much older than the martyred president. Madero was of the topmost circle of Mexican aris-

Gen. Venustiano Carranza.

tocracy, with enormous wealth. Carranza was a rancher of moderate estate. The first chief came of fighting riock. His father was a commander in the warfare which ended in the execution of the Emperor Maximilian. Around his father’s board he heard words'which might have meant death if uttered in public. As a young man be became strongly impressed with the wrongs of the peon. He studied law in Coahuila, the state where he was born. In combination of intellectual life and existence, it has been remarked, he closely resembles Theodore Roosevelt. Twice he boldly offered himself at the polls as a candidate for the governorship of Coahuila against a man backed by Porfirio Diaz. Diaz sent envoys to warn, andXeton threaten him, but was afraid to order his death on account of the loyalty of the people to the scholarly ranchdfo. Of course the Diaz candidate won in a walk-over with the polling places filled with soldiers. But the brave stand of Carranza had interested the young aristocrat, Fran-

cisco Maderq, He sat at the feet of Carranza and drank in his discourses on the robbery of the peons’ lands. At was the opening of his eyes by Carranza which caused Madero to head the successful revolt which placed him in short-lived possession of the national palace. “Senator Carranza’s independence and his high ideals \in politics,” Madero once said, "caused me to support him in hie campaign for the governorship. I made speeches for him and contributea to the expenses of his campaign. The people wanted him for governor, but he was counted out. I saw then what the Diaz system meant I had taken nd active interest in politics up to that time, but then I realized that we could have no real self-government so long as the Diaz machine, or any other machine with the same purposes, was permitted to perpetuate itself. From that defeat of Carranza we went on to the national convention and the organization of the movement against Diaz."

Carranza refused the title of general under Madero, and he led his men without a regular rank. He is not a soldier by training, except the training of actual hostilities. He was secretary of state in the provisional government of Madero, for a time, but declined a cabinet office later. He had spent many years in Mexico City as a senator and knew what its graftinfested atmosphere meant. On Madero’s success, however, Carranza stood a third time for governor of Coahuila and was unanimously elected. This was in 1911. Madero had scarcely fallen when his preceptor raised me standard of revolt. Governor Carranza was the first leader to declare against Huerta. He gathered 10,000 men at Monclova and issued his famous declaration of principles, a time-honored part of the inauguration of any Latin-American revolt His battle-cry hae been "Give the land back to the people." Yet he would pursue more orderly and lawful methods than the rougher Francisco Villa.

Carranza is a stern, uncompromis.ing character/with the simple habits of the solitary frontiersman. He is a total abstainer from liquor and tobacco and rises at five o’clock every morning of his life. His six-foot figure is most commanding. He is a type that naturally dominates. The one side of his nature which is hard for Americans to understand is his cruelty in warfare. While not so ruthless as Villa and Zapata, he is wont to prefer the shooting squad as a punishment for minor offenses. There was Carlos Piza, a young mountaineer who joined Carranza about the time of his declaration against Huerta. Piza harassed the enemy unceasingly with his little band and did great service to the constitutionalist cause. But. in the Mexican style he looted the villages through which he passed. Carranza himself is given to extorting immense sums from wealthy Cientificos, but be was seeking to free his ranks from the charge of brigandage. So when it was found that young Piza had brought in 600 pesos from a certain village he was ordered to return the money. This he failed to de. Further, he grumbled and suggested to his followers that they take to the bush. Such conduct meant the end of discipline. General Carranza ordered the yourig man shot. Even after he was stood up against the adobe wall and the firing squad of twelve lined opposite, an appeal was sent to the first chief. The messenger brought back the command, "la Muerta,” and the rifles spoke. . , , A few hours later the chieftain wrote a sympathetic letter to the mother of the boy announcing his death and expressing grief at the necessity. /■/. "

“We shall,” he once calmly announced, “execute anybody who recognizes a president unconstitutionally elected and directly or indirectly guilty of participation in the murder of Madero.” . Carranza is the most reserved of the Mexican leaders. Hirf personal attendants co-operate with him to keep annoying questioners away. Yet he has long endured the hardships of ths field and proved himself a hardy specimen of middle age. Last autumn he made a 1,300-mile journey on horseback and muleback along mountain trails through Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Durango, Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Sonora, with the danger of an ambush confronting him at every turning. Hie

Gen. Carranza Dictating to Secretary.

lack of fear ie fatalistic, his friends say. His military secretary, Capt Espinosa Mireles, recently declared: “He believes, like Napoleon, that the bullet which will kill him has not yet been molded.” Time and,again in battle, with the federal bullets whistling about him, he has called his secretary to hie side and in spite of protests against imperiling a life so valuable to his country has calmly dictated his correspondence.

ATTACKED BY AN ALLIGATOR

Four Children Rescued, One Minus Sult, After Battle In Gulf of Mexico. Waveland, Miss. —After a battle with an enormous alligator, the only one ever seen in the Gulf waters in this section, four children were rescued by employes of the summer colony. Their escape did not come until after one of the children had lost his bathing suit, torn off by a snap from the alligator's jaws, and one of the rescuers had sustained a cut in the leg. The children are Marjorie and Foster Fournier and Clifford and Kittredge Dell of New Orleans. Their rescuers were John and Sanford Perry, white boatmen, and William Hans, negro cook.

VIVISECTS HIS DOG FOR GEM

Missing Diamond Found In Stable After Animal’s Owner la Sent to • - Prison. •New. York. —Thinking his bull dog had swallowed his diamond ring, Tony Bush of Front street, near Green, cat the animal's throat wlth q razor, after strapping it down to a plank, and tried to fish the missing jewel out of the animal's interior. Neighbors, hearing the animal’s cries, sent word to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and Agent Price arrested Bush. He was sent to jail for 30 days. The ring was afterward found in a feed box in the stable

OLD-TIME DELICACIES

SUITABLE DEBBERTB FOR ÜB* DURING -GREEN” SEASON. | - !- Rhubarb Compote Always a Favor Mai With Our Mothers and Grandmotb* ere English Rhubarb Pudding —Apple and Pie Plant Pie. (By UDA AMES WILLIS.) In response to several recent inquiries for recipes for rhubarb and! gooseberry dishes, such as mother or grandmother “used to make,” thefollowing list has been compiled: Rhubarb Compote.—This is Auntl Betty Martin’s recipe: Make a rich sirup by adding sugar to the water im which long strips of orange peel have been boiling until tender, allowing; two oranges to five pounds of rhubarb. Drop into the hot simp ai single layer of tender rhubarb ent in three-inch lengths, and cook gentlyuntil clear. Remove with skimmer and add another layer. Use tender red stalks that do not require peeling, if you grow your own plants. Baked Rhubarb. —Aunt Betty’s grandniece sends this old-time recipe:, Wash and peel the stalks and cut im inch pieces, place In a covered pitkin or bean pot, sprinkle each layer well with white sugar, allowing at least a cupful to a quart of rhubarb. Bake in moderately hot oven about an hour and a half. In olden times> this was placed, with the baking, in: the Dutch oven. Old English Rhubarb PuddingMake a suet crust with one cupful of. finely chopped suet, a pinch of salt and two cupfuls of flour tossed well? together. Then mix with just enough water to make a dough. Do not handle much. Roll into a sheet, line a buttered baking dish with the dough, reserving enough to cover the top. Wash, wipe and pare off the outside skin from six stalks of rhubarb and! cut into small pieces. Fill the basin, with the suet, strewing a cupful of moist sugar through it Cover with the crust, pinching the edges together, tie up in a cloth, well floured! inside, put into a deep saucepan and! boil for two and a half hours continuously, or place In a steamer and steam for two hours, first cutting a< hole in the middle of the top crust to allow the steam to escape. When done, turnfrom the basin, if you wish, and serve with sugar or a hard sauce as you prefer. Apple and Pie Plant Pie.—This is a recipe from Missouri: Use equal quantities of tart apples and pie plant, or garden rhubarb, and a good pie paste. Peel and slice the fruit and. fill an earthen dish heaping, covering thickly with sugar, letting it sift through the fruit Wet edges of dish, roll the pastry about a quarter of an Inch thick and cover the pie with it, being careful not to press the edges of the paste. Cut two or three little slits in the pastry and bake for three-quarters of an hour in a moderately hot oven, or until the fruit is quite done., Sift the powdered sugar over the top of the pie and serve hot as a pudding, or cold. Rhubarb Lemonade. When you have rhubarb juice left over from stewed fruit you will find It a nice substitute for lemonade, or mixed with orange juice it may be frozen and. served as a refreshing and cooling ice.

Uses for Benzine.

Buy one gallon of benzine. Collect; all the kid gloves, white kid gloves or slippers, silks, and coat collars that need cleaning with benzine. Put some benzine in two basins, one for washing (washing the most delicate articles first) and use the other for rinsing. When the dirt has settled in the basins, carefully pour off into a jug, and break up into it a 10-cejdt cake of ice camphor. Let this stand a day or two until thoroughly dissolved, and use in an oil feeder over the beds, picture frames, mop boards, and any furniture around, the bed. The benzine will quickly dry, leaving no trace of stain.

Rice Apples.

To one pint of boiled rjee add, while hot, half-cupful of thick, white sauce, the well-beaten yolk of one egg, halfteaspoonful of salt, three tablespoonfuls of grated cheese and a dash of cayenne; set aside until cold; shape in, form of small apples, roll in flour, egg and crumbs, fry in deep fat, drain on brown paper; insert a elove at both stem and blossom end of each apple. • a ' f --« ■-.‘SK

Green Pepper Catsup.

Take the seeds from five pounds of green peppers and put into a large preserving kettle. Add two large or three smaller onions, chopped fine, and one-half teaspoonful each of cinnamon, cloves, all-spice and mace. Pour in vinegar until the contents of the kettle are well covered, and simmer gently for three hours. Rub through a sieve and when cool bottle.

For the Pieplant Season.

Prepare pieplant in the usual way tor pies. Then put it in an enameled basin and cover it with cold water. Place on the range where it will heat slowly until, it reaches the boiling point. Relieve and drain. This takes out the nu k flavor and acid. ■ ■ sc V?-

Baked Eggs In Peppers.

The canned red peppers (pimentos!, are best for this dish. Butter a cup, put in a whole pepper, drop in an egg, sprinkle with salt and buttered breadcrumbs. Bake until the egg is set.