Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1915 — Page 3

Dr. Marden’s Uplift Talks

By ORISON SWETT HARDEN.

OepyriCbk hr MoCtaw Newspaper ByndlaaM PREACH THE DOCTRINE OF CHEERFULNESS. Bmlle once in * while, ~ It will make your heart seem lighter. Life's a mirror—ls we smile. Smiles coma back to greet us; If we’re frowning all the while. Frowns forever meet us. Mr. Paul Poiret, the well-known Frenchman who visited our shores last fall, carried away some not very flattering impressions of our people and country—says we do not know how to laugh, or at least must be “made" to laugh. With the French laughter is the expression of a gay heart, while with the American humor Is appealed to through the intelligence. Even in our sports we are serious, •ays M. Poiret. "Those who take part In them do it as soberly and as intensely as if ft were an. act of business. And the spectators! They might be watching a man being tried for his life. They could hardly look more copcerned if they were.” ’ Many people give us the impression that the famed Damocletian sword of pain, suspended by a thread, hangs over them constantly, ready to fall and pierce them at any moment, even In their joys and pleasures. They never seem to enjoy anything without alloy. They give you the Impression that they are conscious of the skeleton’s presence at every feast The American people as a rule take life much too seriously. They do not have half enough fun. Europeans look on our care-worn, solemn-faced people as on pieces of machinery run at forced speed and which squeak for lack of oil. "I question if care and doubt ever wrote their names so legibly on the faces of any other population,” says Emerson, “Old age begins In the nursery.” Why take life so seriously, anyway? A lot of play will not only Improve your health, but increase your efficiency wonderfully. If a man is living in a perfectly normal way he ought not to have, as so many have, a haunted, hounded look, as though he suspected either a policeman or a detective were on his track. He ought not to be worried and anxious every minute. He ought not to take his vocation so very seriously, and should not give the impression that the whole universe is hanging upon the result of his task. A great many men fail because they are too serious; because they develop unsocial, morose, cold qualities, which repel and which make them poor mixers. It is the sunshiny, happy nature which attracts friends and trade. The too serious people seem to say, "Keep away from me, life is too serious a matter to be spent on trivial things.’’ They are dry and rutty because there Is not enough play in their Ilves to furnish the necessary lubrication, variety, or change. Not long ago I heard a young clergyman preach a sermon which was so very serious, and so very gloemy, that it made everybody in the congregation feel melancholy and depressed. There was no uplift, no encouragement, nothing to stimulate one to greatest endeavor. People did not go out of the church, as they should have gone, resolved to try a little harder than ever before, to do something worth while; but the whole congregation went away with a gloomy look on their faces There had been nothing inspiring in the clergyman’s appearance. His face was so serious and his whole manner so depressing that it was really palnful to listen to him. People have burdens enough of their own to bear, and do not want anybody to Inject dark, doleful pictures in their minds. They go to church for uplift, encouragement. They want to rid themselves of the enemies of their happiness and prosperity. Thousands of people who now remain away from church would gladly go if they could come away feeling uplifted, encouraged, and with Increased hopefulness. "He that cannot laugh and be gay should look to himself,” wrote Henry Ward Beecher. "He should fast and pray until his face breaks forth into light.”

TRAGEDIES caused by the TONGUE. They had "heard rumors and became frightened." Thia was the only reason the panic-stricken'depositors would give for their mad rush on the hank for savings in New York a few days ago. The silly gossip of a servant, it was thought, started the rumor that the hank was in difficulties. Although its president stated that the deposits were ninety-seven million dollars, nearly eleven millions of a surplus,, and that the largest banks In New York had offered to come to the rescue with fifty million dollars if necessary, yet thousands of men and women crowded one another in their frantic haste to get their money out of one of the soundest institutions in the country! The whole fabric of . the business world hangs upon confidence. Our •vast credit system depends absolutely upon it- Anything which throws the slightest suspicion upon it causes ■disaster. Nothing else irw'-W Ove as confidence. And there isnoth-

' tag quite so malignant 111 Its power to destroy it, to blast everything it touches, as rumor, the baseless gossip of idle or malicious people. Sometimes the least breath of suspicion will seriously injure a man’s credit which it has taken a lifetime to build up. It'has often made havoc -of a woman’s reputation. One of the crudest things that a human being can do is to peddle gossip, to pass along slander, or even a true story which tends to injure another, or to put him in an unfavorable light. It is fatally easy to say things which will cause lifelong wounds, and many people are so careless with their tongues! Only a short time ago a woman in Brooklyn was driven to suicide by the gossip of her neighbors. They told her that her husband was paying attention to other Women; and although he assured her that he was doing nothing of the kind the gossips succeeded in making her so jealous that she poisoned herself. I know people who would never forgive themselves for striking another with their hands, but who do not hesitate to stab an absent person in the back with an unkind, uncharitable, cruel remark, or to spread a bit of slander which may have disastrous effects on the victim. Some years ago this headline appeared in a New York daily: "Georgia Cayvan Dies on a Sanatorium Cot! Falsehood Ended Her Career.” Miss Cayvan was an actress. She began her career by reading selections from Shakespeare to customers in her mother’s "candy store” in Bath, Me. Later she graduated from the School of Oratory in the Boston university and attracted the attention of Daniel Frohman, who brought her to New York. In a short time she became a star, and one of the most popular actresses in New York city. Her beauty, brilliancy, vivacity and remarkable talent made her such a favorite that those envious of her began to reflect upon,her character. A scandal was started which so preyed upon Miss Cayvan’s sensitive mind that she fell into melancholy and never returned to the stage. Although it was proved that the actress was in Europe at the time of the scandal in this country with which her name was falsely connected, and notwithstanding the fact that her character received a sweeping vindication, yet the wagging tongues continued to peddle the scandalous gossip until her melancholy developed into paresis, and finally put her beyond medical aid. There are thousands of people in the great failure army today who might have been a success but for the gossips. The unkind criticisms of companions or neighbors, the scandals calculated by the thoughtless or evil-minded unnerved 'them. They lost heart when even those they thought were friends stabbed them in the back and they gave up the struggle. We probably have all of us come to points in our careers when it would not have taken very much to have discouraged us and turned us the other way. Who can ever estimate the number of failures, the lifewrecks, that have been caused by gosslpers? How many people have been driven to suicide by cruel slander? How many people have become disheartened and havelaid down their burdens and given up the struggle because their sensitive natures could not stand the strain of misrepresentation? There is no meaner, more cowardly or contemptible thing than to take advantage of another’s absence to discuss his shortcomings, and to peddle idle gossip and slander about hllh. I believe the time will come when the person who says unkind, cruel things about another in his absence will be ostracized as an enemy of the race, will be despised as a traitor to everything that constitutes real friendship and true manliness or womanliness. There is no more despicable habit than the gossip habit. The people who indulge in it little realize that they are exhibiting their own defects; that they are showing themselves up in the most unfavorable light possible. Everybody who knows them knows that he may be the next victim.

The Fresh Air Cure.

Plenty of fresh, pure air is an essential part of a patient’s treatment. Pure air is just as important and necessary for good health as are pure food and pure water. Fresh air and sunlight are the cheapest and best agents for the recovery of an 111 person. Let fresh air and sunlight enter your sick rooms, through open windows as much as possible. Expose the bed clothing to the open air and sunshine for some time each day. Sleep with the bedroom windows open, says nurse. The old superstition that night air is unhealthy even for an invalid is entirely false. On the contrary, night air, especially in large is purer and better than day air, because it contains less dust and fewer microbes. . To get the best ventilation have the window open at both top and bottom.

Why He Preferred the Moon.

Two negroes got into a discussion concerning the relative values of the moon and the sun to the world. After listening to the advocate of the sun the other proceeded to demolish his argument with the following logic: “De sun am all right, but de moon am wuss two ob it; de moon shines in de night when we needs it, but de sun done thlneonlyinde' day when we got light enough without ft,”

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AUTOS WIN BATTLE

How the Tide Was Turned on the Marne. General Galllenl Hurls 70,000 Men by Taxicab Against German Flank and Forces Retreat to the Alsne. By FRANKLIN P. MERRICK. (International News Service.) Paris. —It is not generally known that the Battle of the Marne was won by automobiles. General Galllenl had 400 taxicabs and other light motor cars at his disposal It will be remembered that Von Kluck with the right of the German army got as far as Champiley. General Galllenl, as military governor of Paris, had a large force, probably half a million men, at his disposal and he was responsible for the defense of Paris. Galllenl figured that he had more men than he really needed and that 70,000 of his men could be spared for work at the front. Acting entirely upon his own responsibility, he ordered his men to crowd into the automobiles. He made each taxicab carry nine soldiers. It was a curious sight There were two in each seat two on the hood, one with the driver and one on each running board. Within six hours he threw the whole 70,000 against the flank of the Germans at Meaux, about thirty-five miles from Paris. Von Kluck evidently had not reckoned with such a sortie. He was forced to stop and give battle. The French, retiring on his front, re-formed and gave battle. The result was the retreat of the Germans from Marne to the Alsne after the sanguinary battle named from the first river. This is only one of the great exploits of the French army automobile transport service. No other nation in this war has used the motor car with the effectivenesr of the French. The automobile transport service is organized as a separate branch. Working with amazing rapidity just after the beginning of the war, the French army officers drafted into this corps men who had been employed in automobile manufacture —foremen, skilled workmen, testers and drivers. The officers were drawn from the manufacturers, agents and other heads of automobile organizations. The heaviest trucks are used for ammunition carriers and lighter commercial vehicles for the food supply. General Mongin commands the whole corps. Some noted French race drivers are now in the army service. Boillot alternates with the Marquis D’Albufera in driving General Joffre’s car. Several machines are kept ready day and night for General Joffre and it is no unusual

KING WHO KNOWS NO FEAR

This unique picture of the king of the Belgians was taken in the trenches where his valiant little army is defending the last few miles of the devastated country. Every morning the king pays a visit to his soldiers, asks after their welfare and generally comforts them. presented the' man' with warm rugs, the gift of Queen Elizabeth.

AUSTRALIAN TROOPS LAND AT PLYMOUTH

thing for him to enter one of them and drive the whole length of the battle front in the course of the night There are now 15,000 automobiles and 12,000 trucks in the service of the French army. One of the automobile service corps’ biggest feats was the transfer of the British army from Braisne, between Soisne and Reims, to St Omar, a distance of 170 miles. The 200,000 men were transported to their new positions within three days.

RAT WENT THROUGH THE WAR

Unusual Pet Was in Soldier's Pocket During Hot Fights In Flanders.

London. —Perhaps the only rat on record that ever went through a military campaign, ensconced snugly in its soldier owner’s pocket, at the battle of Mons, the Marne and the Aisne, is now in London in the possession of Sergeant Johnson of the Royal Field artillery. Johnson was wounded at Solssons and is on a few days' leave. "Billy,” as Johnson calls his rat, though the latter is a lady, is pure white, and was given to the English soldier by a French girl at the beginning of the war. During the battle of Mons, the rat sat on her master's right boot Twice she wandered away, but came back all right and was in the fighting all the way from Mons to Melun, southeast of Paris, and back to the Marne and the Aisne. Billy was in Sergeant Johnson’s pocket all the time and was never hurt. When the soldier landed at Southampton, after he had byn wounded by shrapnel, a lady who saw the white rat presented to Johnson a black terrier pup named Toby to keep Billy company. The rat and the pup are now close friends.

WAR SPATS CAUSE DIVORCE

Use of French Language Classified as Offense—Suspects Tried by Court Martial. Basel, Switzerland. —German martial law is described by Alsatians in Basel as "weighing heavily” upon their countrymen at home. They declare that the speaking of French is classified as an offense under the orders issued by the commanding generals of the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Twenty-first German Army corps, who cite the imperial laws of 1878 and 1882 to support their contention. The testimony of the children and servants is taken as proof before court-martial of guilt of talking French. Personal feeling between pro-French and pfo-German Alsatians is running high, visiting Alsatians declare. The local courts have granted divorces recently to husbands and wives unable to live harmoniously because of their opposing national sympathies.

MAKING UP FOR VODKA EDICT

Russian Revenues Nearly Up to Expenses In Spite of Prohibition. Petrograd.—-Next to the war the financial side of life is claiming the attention of the Russian public. In spite of the war, with its loss of customs receipts, and the abolition of the vodka monopoly, which together mean a loss of >400,000,000, the revenues for 1915 are estimated at $1,550,000,000. Ordinary expenses are estimated at $1,540,000,000, extraordinary expenses estimated at $75,000,000, making $1,615,000,000 the total expenses for 1915.

ENEMIES IN DEATH EMBRACE

Frenchman and German Bayonet Each Other and Die With Hands Clasped. London. —A French observer of the battlefield of the Marne tells that he saw a Frenchman and a German lying together, apparently in the act of ex r changing a handshake. Coming nearer, he found that each man had bayoneted the other, and had fatten fix a death embrace which mimicked the pose of greeting friends.

FOOTBALL GAME HALTS WAR

British and German Soldiers Fight on the Gridiron—Kaiser Upsets the Schedule. Berlin. —A general order issued by the German army authorities prohibits football games in the field between German and English soldiers. At Christmas time men from both sides in the western theater of war fraternized and played hotly-contested games of football. Officers and men laid aside their arms and watched the players and cheered them on. The rivalry became so intense that war was forgotten and the men who kicked the most goals received more applause than is usually given heroes on the fighting line. At one place where the Germans and British played the game was a draw and the players agreed to suspend fighting for two days more in order to decide the issue on two games out of three. - News of this reached the military authorities and it was decided that football was interfering too much with the business of warfare, aside from the complications arising from too friendly contact between the advance guards. ; The order was issued forthwith and there will be no more athletic contests between the soldiers, who also are forbidden to fraternize or meet on any terms except those of bitter enmity.

OBSERVATION DUTY

▲ French observation officer on duty along the firing line.

GUNS’ ROAR DRIVES MEN MAD

Soldiers Go at Each Other With Bayonets or Rush for Each Other’s Throats.

Washington, D. C. —Europe’s war Is converting hundreds of men Into raving maniacs, according to Maj. J. J. Dickinson of the State department, who recently saw fighting in th* trenches near Soissons. "They don’t fire at each other,” he said, "but the din of artillery directed at the covered trenches is positively maddening. Now and then I saw men jump out of the trenches and go af* each other with bayonets or in a mad rush for each others' throats. “From my position from trenches a little behind the actual firing line I saw hundreds of men brought back. They did not seem to be wounded. They were screaming, raving maniacs, driven Insane by that maddening roar of artillery overhead.”

LOST GLASS EYE IN FIGHT

French Soldier Wants New Optic So He May Rejoin Forces at Front < Paris—Emile .Decostered, a French soldier, has -written an oculist in Paris asking that he be supplied a new eye. His letter states that he fought with his regiment until.a week ago when he was wounded by a ball that hit the glass eye and shattered it “The doctor, noticing I am without an eye,” says Decostered, “is holding me in ~the' hospital- Please send me an eye so that I can join my anas* mand.” . ...

A Palace or a Hovel

By REV. WILLIAM WALLACE KETCHUM

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TEXT—For other foundation can a» man lay than that which la laid, which la Jesus Christ. But if any man bulldeth on the foundation gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, stubble; each man’s work shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed In Are; and the fire itself shall prove each man’s work of what sort it is. If any man’s work shall abide which he built thereon, he shall receive a reward. If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss:, but he himself shall ba saved; yet so as through fire.—l Cor. t:ll--15 (R. V.). Two workmen are building separate structures. One is a palace of costly

fire breaks out It sweeps up one street and down another, licking up the buildings that lie in its path, and finally envelops the palace and the hovel. When the fire ceases, not * vestige of the hovel remains. The flames have wiped out the structure built of wood, hay and stubble; but the palace stands. The marble In It gleams the brighter and the gold and sliver shine the more resplendently. The fire has proved each man's work of what sort it Is. The workman whose structure stood the test receives his reward; while the other, whose hovel was swept away, suffers loss, he himself being saved, yet so as, by fire. Such Is the picture presented by the text, What are some of its lessons? The Only Foundation. There Is only one foundation upon which a man can build a superstructure of works. That foundation Is Jesus Christ. This Is a simple, elemental truth, but one which needs a deal of emphasis in these days, for many have not yet discovered that the divine order in grace is the same order which holds In the putting up of a building—the foundation first, then the superstructure. Salvation first, then works; and not works first and then salvation. "For by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not of works, that no man should glory" (Eph. 2:8, 9, R. V.). Some years ago at Catawissa, Pa., after the destruction of a bridge, the contractor upon removing the first pier, prior to the building of a new one, discovered that underneath there was no foundation. The pier simply rested upon the bed of the river, and when a heavy flood caine the entire structure was washed away. Yet, how many there are who are building a superstructure of works without the real foundation, Jesus Christ! We need to take heed how we build thereon. For it is possible to buil<j on the only foundation a palace or • hovel. ... -- - This is a truth which concerns the saved and not the unsaved. It is not a matter of salvation, but of service. Between salvation and service there is a wide difference. Salvation is a work of God for us and in us and is all of grace. Service is work which those who are saved render unto God, and for which they shall receive a reward, or shall suffer loss. The Testing Day. . A testing day is coming when the character of our work, as Christians, shall be made manifest “The day shall declare IL” Not a day of judgment for our sins, which were judged in Jesus Christ on the cross; but a day when our work shall be made manifest The day when the Lord comes, “who will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts” (I Cor. 4:5). Then the fire itself shall prove each man's work of what sort It is. Not literal fire, but the holy, consuming energy of the Lord himself, for "Our God is a consuming fire.” If we have built only a hovel, we shall suffer loss, irretrievable loss, but we shall be saved, yet so as by fire. Must I go. and empty-handed? Must I meet my Savior so? Indeed not for we may build a palace instead of a hovel, and be not only saved but rewarded for our work. That each, man may in that day have his praise from God (I Cor. 4:5), let us, as Christians, in our work heed three simple rules: First, a right purpose: the glory of God (I Cor. 14:3). Second, a right plan: the word of God (11. Tim. 3:16-17). . 5 Third, a right motive: the constraining Ipve as Chri«t (1.1 Cor. 5‘.14)... - Which is It to be, a palace er • brvel! . ... - ■.

stones, and for embellish me n t, precious gold and silver; the other a hovel, into which he Is putting the flimsiest material wood, hay, stubble. Both workmen are building side by side upon the same foundation. At length the two structures are completed and the builders rest from their labors. Suddenly one day a