Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1915 — Page 3

Valentine, presbyter anb jftlartpr . By Julian de Kestel-Hankin < y M > wag a ga * nt > ts y™ mug t know”— rk • (I gazed into her eager, questioning eyes, Nor envied any saint in Paradise) — *A priest-who lived in Rome long years a jo. He healed blind girls and lost his head, and so We keep his feast in inappropriate wise With kisses, gifts, and amorous jollities, WAiZe in ths shrine his flickering tapers glow." “Yet not so inappropriate,” quoth the maid, “Since ever as the good saint’s chimes are rung, Some maiden’s eyes are opened tothe light Of love’s sweet mastery, and some poor wight, Silent erstwhile as one that’s sore afraid, Loses his head and thereby finds his tongue.**

VOWS and VALENTINES

OOD morning,” said the floor- ? ' walker, leaning over the coun1 T ter in order to be better able \]l to talk to the girl behind it. “How do you feel on this lov"A/ ers’ day, eh?” p Y She looked up with a start, C)| and hastily hid her hands behind her. “My, how you star-

tled me! Why, I feel all right—” “What’s that you’ve got behind you?” the floorwalker interrupted. “That? Oh, that’s nothing. Just an exchange slip to be signed,” she replied glibly, bringing her right hand forward as proof of her assertion. “Let me see the other hand,” suggested the floorwalker. "Won’t one hand do?” she parried.

"Let’s See the Other Hand.!"

“No, must see them both,” he said firmly. “Well, there, then,” and she thrust forward an empty hand. "You dropped something behind you,” cried the floorwalker, triumphantly. “You have too many eyes,” she pouted, stooping to pick up what > she had valentine, and the floorwalker snickered. “Jove! I thought that by the time a girl got to be twenty plus she was over that kind of foolishness.” “A girl is never too old to enjoy being made love to,” she retorted, “and, in fact, the older she gets the more she likes it.” “Regardless of who does the lovemaking, I suppose?” "Oh, no, she has her preferences, of course, and after awhile, perhaps, she gets to have a preference —” She paused and glanced at the floorwalker, but he was absorbed in the valentine. 'And she always enjoys a well-put compliment—” “Always? Now, I have known girls to snap you off. and tell you not to be silly, and to declare that they hated ‘soft fellows.’” “That’s because you didn’t pay your compliment at the right time, at the psychological moment, so to speak,” she replied. “You probably told them how pretty they looked when they were rigged out in their oldest clothes, preparatory to doing some housecleaning. Now, you should never try to jolly a girl unless she can really flatter herself that there may be some truth in what you say, after all. Never miss an; opportunity like the first wearing of a* new dress to tell her what a charmer she is, and don’t let the occasion slip by on_which she . wears that favorite pink waist others. In other, words, catch her in the mood.” “I thought you just said that a girl always liked to be made love to,” the floorwalker objected. She withered him with a glance, once in ,awhfle? silly, except being made love to. Once a year, you know, In Dent she getd very religious, and centers her mind on things not of he world. As you value her affec-

tlon, don’t attempt to make love to her in the penitential season. But you may start in again bright and early Waster morning. Also, don’t make love to her just after she has decided upon her ‘career.’ She’ll get over that in time, but you must let the malady run its course.” “I suppose these times you have been telling me about are just exceptions to the rule?” ‘ “The exceptions which prove the rule, you mean,” she corrected. “A girl enjoys being made love to, but her moods are never to be depended on.” "Except on St Valentine’s day," he put in. "Except on St. Valentine’s day,” she echoed, gazing sentimentally at the valentine. "Such a beautiful sentiment — " ‘All day long, sweet Valentine, I sing to tell this love of mine; Accept this heart, a token, dear. Of love that lives from year to year.’ ” “Rubbish!” pronounced the floorwalker. “And. you mean to tell me that that is the kind of stuff girls like?” “Why not?” she asked, with a touch of defiance. "It’s not so much the way in which it is expressed, as it is in the thought which lies behind it” “Thought, fiddlesticks! Probably came from some kind of a vapid mind that never knew any real thoughts. Why, don’t you know what this kind of stuff is worth?” “How should I know?” flippantly. “I don’t run a magazine.”

He paid no attention to this remark, continuing his discourse as if nothing had happened. "It’s nothing but conventional rubbish, and doesn’t mean any more than the things a young fellow is expected to say and does say between the dances. It doesn't mean any more than what a man says under the influence of music and moonlight, or, for that matter, any more than what 4 girl insinuates with her eyes when she knows she is looking" particularly well. It’s bred in the bone to be foolish and sen* timental at certain stages of the game, and we just can’t help it.” “I think you are perfectly horrible,” she murmured, her eyes still on the valentine. “Don’t people ever mean what they say?” “Yes, but even after he has proposed you mustn’t expect him to keep to the same state of ardent wooing all the time. Before you are married he will tell you that when you dance you are as light as a feather, but afterward he will tell you that you are like a ton of coal. He will swear that your every wish shall be his, and you will find the cold reality to be the necessity of cringing to him. For awhile nothing will be too good for you, and then you will suddenly wake up to the fact that be is the head of the house, and that you are merely a part of the funilture, as it were. I tell you, a girl is foolish if she pays any particular attention to these valentines, or to the vows that lovers make before marriage.” The girl behind the counter set her lips in an obstinate line. “You are jealous, that’s what’s the matter with you,” she declared. “If you weren’t.

“How Should I Know?"

you wouldn’t think of talking like that. And I still say that the expression doesn't matter; it’s the thought behind it that counts. And even if a man ceases to pay you compliments, that doesn’t go to prove that he doesn’t still care for you. Still waThe floorwalker shrugged his shoulders. “I always said there was no arguing with a woman. A woman convinced against her will—you know the rest.”

’THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

Romeo, a huge Indian pythnn in the Chicago zoo, went on a hunger strike some months ago and was steadily starving himself to death. So Cy De Vry, the animal keeper, obtained a gun used to feed sick aniniAls. It looked like a small Krupp, crossed with a sausage grinder, and it did its work effectually, fifty pounds of food being packed into his snakeship.

FOES FORGET HATE

Life in Trenches Makes Friends of Opposing Armies. French and Germans Formulate Rules, and Between the Hours of Killing Exchange Cigars and Bottles of Wine. By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS. (United Press Staff Correspondent.) With the French Army at the Front —At places here in the Argonne the French and German trenches are so close together that in the weeks the two armies have been thus face to face the soldiers are, after a fashion, personally acquainted with each other. Here the fighting has become systematized and follows a routine. At certain sections of the tranches the French and Germans have reached an agreement that before a certain hour in the morning there is to be no killing; in the opposing trenches the men are to be allowed to wash up and make their toilet for the day. After the gong taps, figuratively speaking, any head showing above the level of the ground gets promptly taken off. Rock battles often take place between the opposing sides. The men grow tired of having nothing to shoot at for flours at a time and in order to amuse themselves they bombard each other without the thrower exposing his person to the bullets of the enemy. At times the enemies, however, become almost friendly. “Say, over there!” a German shouted from his trerich. “Have you guys got anything to smoke?” * “Sure!” the chorus came back from, the French. “Have you?" “Not a crumb!” “Too bad. You ought to write to the kaiser.” “Gimme the makin’s." "Come and get ’em.” A giant of a young fellow stuck his head and shoulders above the ground, placed his hands on the edge of the trench and vaulted out on the side toward the French. A month-old flaxen beard stood out about a very round face. Mud covered his formerly gray-ish-bluish-greenish uniform. A little round, visorless fatigue cap made him look like a young Santa Claus. Stooping, he ran swiftly across the highway which separated the trenches at this point, and, falling flat on his stomach, peered down into the enemy’s trench. “Where’s them cigars?" he demanded. “Here they are,” a Frenchman replied. “You deserve them. Six, and they’re worth a louis apiece.” “Merci!" said the German, as he scurried back to his burrow.

KAISER ON THE FIELD

An .equestrian photograph of the emperor of Germany smoking a cigarette, taken on the field of action.

FEEDING A PYTHON BY MACHINERY

The only son of Mrs. John Jacob Astor in winter costume in Central Park, New York.

“Say!" this same German shouted, back between puffs. “These cigars are great. Real imported hemp!" A rock the size of a man’s fist was -the reply to this sally. "Hey, you Frenchers,” the German kept on, “you’re a pretty decent lot Will you shoot me if I come over again?” “We will that -after what you said about the cigars.” Once more the lumbering giant catapulted out of his trench and ran low over to the French, dropping on his stomach as before. In his hand was an object, a dark green one, with tlq foil around the neck and the words “Gout Americain” on a slip of paper across the sloping shoulder. It was a bottle of champagne swiped while the Germans were in Reims. “Here’s your health, fellows,” the German said. "Drink hearty!” And back he ran. > “Hey!” the Frenchmen shouted, laughing. “You’ve got the nerve of a burglar. You are giving us back our own champagne!” “Oh, that’s all right," the German replied, “your cigars were made in Germany. I recognize the stench!” Later in the day the German was killed and the news was shouted across the road. He simply would keep sticking his head above the trench during business hours. But in the night a wreath of flowers, gathered by the Frenchmen from heaven 'knows were, and at no one knows what risks, fell into the trench where he was wont to have his place. All is not cutting and slashing and > shooting and gore; the spice of good humor and the milk of human kindness often, in this fighting, lessen the sting of hatred between the races and of which one hears so much.

GETS MONTH’S RENT IN WILL

Baltimore Landlord Makers Bequest to Tenants—-Five Dollars Each to Choir. Baltimore. —A month’s rent free to each of the tenants of his many dwelling houses is a unique feature of the will of Robert J. Devenny’p estate for his tenants. To a number of friends of his family Devenny left five dollars each to buy a trinket of some sort in memory of his mother. He also gave five dollars each to members- of Immanuel Episcopal church choir, in appreciation of their services, and he left property to the church.

Philadelphia.—G. L. Gojnes, an actor, who was unable to locate his wife after he had enlisted ip the Spanish’XineFTdanwar;' Wff W BWTHeien, seventeen, whom he had not seen since she was an infant. Goines’ wife, believing him dead after seven years' absence, remarried.

JOHN JACOB ASTOR

Lost Wife Remarried.

GREATEST OF GUNS

Weapon Is Part of Defense of Panama Canal. Army Officers Declare 16-lnch Gun la Biggest Weapon of Offense and Defense in Existence In the World. By EDWARD B. CLARK. (Staff Correspondent of the Western Newspaper Union.) Washington.—lt is probable that the 16-lnch gun "made in America” and Intended to bear its part if necessary in the defense of the Panama canal, already is properly emplaced on its carriage in a fortification on one of the islands guarding the Pacific approach to the great waterway. This gun, the manufacturing and testing of which were supervised by Col. E. B. Babbitt of the ordnance corps of the United States army. Is probably the biggest weapon of offense and defense In existence in the world today. ' Stories are told of bigger guns, said to be in process of manufacture on the other side of the water, but army men in Washington are Inclined to doubt the truth of the reports. The 16-lnch gun probably represents the largest type of military weapon which can be safe and effective at the same time, at least such seems to be the opinion of the experts. There are other big guns on all the outlying fortifications of Panama.' Col. George W. Goethals has just told a committee of congress that the great waterway is today in a condition of defense strong enough to protect it from the assaults of war vessels, the only way in which it can be assaulted with heavy artillery. It is asserted by some Washington officials that the fortifications in the continental United States are not properly manned and that there is not a sufficient quantity of ammunition for the big guns. The question naturally concerns itself here with a seeking after reasons why everything is ready for a perfect defense of the Panama canal while the defenses of our great cities are said to be far below the

plane of efficiency. Congress always has been generous to the Panama canal. The people of the United States have shown from time to time that they are sentimentally inclined toward the great waterway. The consistent favorable action of congress in matters relating to the canal work is viewed in Washington as proving that senators and representatives recognize the value and strength of sentiment. There has been no charge of graft in connection with Panama canal construction or with the work of building its defense. The only suspicion of anything improper in connection with the isthmian project was the charge made that % civilian purchaser of supplies accepted some presents from contractors. Congress has voted money for the canal and its defenses from year to year and has voted willingly and without delay. The members of congress took the word of the war department of the need of defenses for the canal zone and the defenses were supplied and it is said today that they are perhaps the only coast defenses which we have which are or soon - be in perfect fighting condition. Army officers are making a point of this canal defense matter and of the willingness with which congress has voted supplies, |o ask that the same kind of treatment be accorded other defenses of the country; It is possible, perhaps probable, that as a result of legislation soon to be enacted enough men will be added to the United States army to man all the coast defenses which the government has erected. It is also said that there is a likelihood that plenty of ammunition will be supplied for the big guns. The forts themselves are in good condition and there are enough powerful guns to do -the protective work. The need is for men and am, munition.

Blames Husband's Foike

Jersey City—Mrs. Lucy Rubinette asked a divorce, saying her husband’s relatives called frequently and “treated her as a servant." e

KINGDOM IS REAL

Jesus’ Words Had Reference Not Only to a Condition of the Spirit. No change in religious thought Is more remarkable than that which has taken place in our interpretation of Jesus* oft repeated phrase, the “Kingdom of God.” That the whole gospel of the Nazarene is contained in bis . idea of the "Kingdom” and the whole purpose of his life summed up in his prayer, “Thy Kingdom come,” has long been understood, but not until our -own day have we come to see just what was meant by this idea and this purpose. In the past men have assumed that the “Kingdom of God” referred to a certain inward attitude of mind or condition of spirit The word "Kingdom,” it has been agreed, was used by the master in a figurative sense and was intended to apply to the inner and not the outer world, to things spiritual and not material. The establishment of the Kingdom meant the establishment of God’s purpose in the hearts of men, and the coming of the Kingdom the transformation of the human soul from a state of depravity to one of grace. "The Kingdom of God is within you.” This has been accepted in all ages as the final and perfect definition of the teaching. Scope of the Kingdom. Vary recently, however, have men come to feel that, while Jesus undoubtedly meant this, he also meant much more than this. For what evidence is there, in our records of the Nazarene’s career, that he meant to limit his idea of the Kingdom to the Inwarcf realm of the spirit? On the contrary, is there not abundant evidence, in what he said and did, that he meant very that the Kingdom should cover the outward as well as the inward world, and work a revolution In society as well as in the soul? "In Jesus’ conception,” says Prof. Rudolf Eucken, the most eminent living exponent of spiritual idealism, "the 'Kingdom of God* Is by no means merely an inner transformation, affecting only the heart and mind, and leaving the outer world In the same condition. Rather, historical research puts it beyond question that the new Kingdom means a visible order as well —that it aims at a complete change in the state of things. . . . Never in history has mankind been summoned to & greater revolution than here, where not this and that among the conditions but the totality of human existence is to be regenerated.” Not "the Kingdom of God is within you,” is the correct translation, but "the Kingdom of God is among you!**. Its Source In the Heart Here, in this extension of our understanding of the gospel of the Kingdom, is the greatest religious discovery of our age. The Kingdom of God is indeed “within” us, but it must not stay there. On the contrary, it must go out “among” our fellow men, and there transform the social order into a realm of perfect righteousness and peace. The Kingdom must have its source in the heart, which, to quote the great phrase of St Augustine, “rests not until it rests in God;” but like a river and not a stagnant pool, it must then flow out, to clothe with beauty the waste places of the earth. The Kingdom means the will of God "done on earth,” which in turn means the establishment of justice among men. The betterment of living conditions, the establishment of just relations between employers and employees, the reduction of Infant mortality, the protection of helpless old age, the alleviation of poverty, the conquest of disease, the furthering of knowledge, the "war against war” —all these things are the works of the Kingdom, and the men and women everywhere who are achieving these things are the servants of the Kingdom. For the first time since the earliest days of Christianity the master’s prayer, "Thy Kingdom come/’ is being little by little answered. And this for the reason that we understand that the Kingdom means, to quote Eucken once more, “a new order of the world and. of life!” ~

Winning Souls for Christ.

Soul-saving is the chief business of the church. Superficially, many things short of actual, personal salvation as the goal of Christian work may be worth while; but essentially our best efforts are a dismal failure unless they result In bringing the unsaved into the kingdom. The work of the church is many-sided, and under modern conditions there must be diversity of operation in order to meet the needs of the hour. There is danger of devoting all interest and energy" to a multiplicity of methods and measures without getting at the real kernel of things. It is possible to attract and engage the attention and Interest of the general public and to get the crowd looking and coming our way without succeeding in getting real acceptance of Christ as a personal Savior. Yet this is the one thing needful. —Evangelical Messenger. —— *

Power of Affirmation.

Declare your unity with divine mind, and through your generative word fill your nerves with energy and substance. Declare over and over, silently and aloud, until the very air pulsates, “l am energy 1 am strength and power; -T ’-thrS}e<i with omnipresent life and the vitality of God permeates every fiber of my being.”—Unity.