Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1915 — Page 3

Because the retreating Russians destroyed the steam railways, the Austrians in their invasion of Poland were compelled to build.light horse railways for the transportation of supplies to thteir swiftly advancing front.

WORK OF RED GROSS

Organized to Give Relief in Time of War. International 'Treaty, a Very Explicit Law, a Presidential Proclamation and Army and Navy Orders Regulate Aid to Wounded. By Brigadier General C. A. Devol, U. S. A., Acting Chairman. Washington.—The American Red Cross is in receipt of inquiries indicating that there is a lack of understanding in regard to relief work in time of war. There is an international treaty, a very explicit law, a presidential proclamation, and duly promulgated orders of the war and navy departments relating to the furnishing of volunteer aid to the sick and wounded of armies in time of war. It apparently is not fully realized that war relief work must be accomplished, under definite regulations; that a precise plan of action was long ago adopted, and that a nation-wide, officially recognized and chartered relief organization, with departments designed to meet every phase of war relief work, exists. The conduct of war is regulated by certain well-established and recognized rules that are usually designated as “the laws of war" which comprise the rules, both written and unwritten, for carrying on of war, both on land and at sea. Should there ever come-a time when the United States would be Involved in war it would be imperative to enforce with the utmost stringency the law, and the executive and departmental orders governing the use of the Red Cross emblem and the functions of the government’s chartered, supervised apd systematized volunteer relief association. All volunteer aid must come under the direction of the American Red Cross in such a contingency to carry out the obligation of the United States under the treaty of Geneva, to fulfill all requirements imposed by congress, to secure efficiency under centralized authority and trained organization in close affiliation with the army and navy medical service, and finally to

CANADA'S GREATEST SOLDIER

Gen. "Bam” Hughes (in uniform) is probably the most famous soldier in the Dominion of Canada. -He is the .1 minister of militia and defense, and the part Canada has played at the front is due in large measure to the manner in which he organized and maintained the militia of his country. General Hughes recently inspected the Canadian troops in France and late, attended the Eistedfodd celebration in S {Wales.

HORSE RAILWAY USED BY THE AUSTRIANS

safeguard the American public against fraud and abuse. It should be understood that the surgeon generals of the United States army and njrvy are appointed by the president of the United. States to represent these departments in relief work. They are members of the American Red Cross executive committee, and chairman and vice-chairman, respectively, of the war relief board. AU accounts of the American Red Cross are required by law to be audited by the war department and an annual report, also required by law, detailing the activities of the organization, is made to congress by the chairman of the central committee. It may be seen from this that the American Red Cross machinery would be set in motion at once and that its activities would be definitely co-ordinated with the legislative and executive work of the government in time of war. Merely as an example of its preparedness in one branch of its organization, there are 6,000 enrolled American Red Cross graduate nurses who have been accepted by the war department as the army nursing reserve corps. The war department and the navy department long ago formulated regulations governing completely the duties and functions of the American National Red Cross with reference to rendering aid to the land and naval forces in time of actual or threatened war. The sign of the Red Cross is protected by law and the fraudulent use thereof is punishable by fine or imprisonment or both.

President Taft in 1911, by proclamation to the army, stated briefly the relations that must exist between the military departments of the government and volunteer relief in the event of war. General Orders, No. 170, war department, 1911, publishes the proclamation, stating in effect that the American National Red Cross is the only volunteer society authorized by this government to render aid to its land and naval forces in time of war; and that any other society desiring to render similar assistance can do so only through the American National Red Cross; that to comply with the requirements of Article 10 of the International Red Cross Convention of 1906 (revision of the Treaty ot Geneva) that part of the American National Red Cross rendering aid to the naval forces will continue a part of the sanitary service therof. The law, approved January 5, 1905, as amended, which chartered the American National Red Cross, stipulates as follows: Sec. 3. That the purpose of this corporation are and shall be: First. To furnish volunteer aid to the sick and wounded of armies in time of war, in accordance with the spirit and conditions of the conference of Geneva of October, 1863, and also of the treaty of the Red Cross or the treaty of Geneva of August 22, 1864, to which the United States of America gave its adhesion on March 1, 1882.

Fourth. To act in matters of voluntary relief and in accord with the military and naval authorities as a medium of communication between the people*of the United States of America and their army and navy, and to act in such matters between similar national societies of other governments through th©,.-'Comite Internatipnal de Secours, and the government and the people and the army and navy of the United States of America.

MAKES ALLIGATOR USEFUL

Carried Line Through Sewer That Had Become Clogged in Florida Town. Wauchula, Fla. —Capt B. R. King, superintendent of the Fort Meade waterworks, was in town recently and showed a picture of the only working alligator in Florida. Some time ago one of the sewers of Fort Meade became clogged up. It was 400 feet from manhole to manhole, and the sewer was 20 feet below the surface end in quicksand. It looked as though the city was in for an expensive job. The captain conceived the idea of getting an alligator, tying a line to him and letting him work his way through the sewer. At first an 18-in ch alligator was tried. He went nearly 200 sept and turned back. Then a four-foot ’gator was obtained, and he worked hisway from manhole to manhole, carrying the line with him, after which the cleaning of the sewer was a simple matter.

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GAME BIRDS ARE SCARCE

Few Coveys Remain on Prairies Where Once There Were Many Thousands. ' Sabetha, Kan. —Thirty years ago the prairies of Nemaha county were populated with coveys of quail and flocks of prairie chickens. Professional hunters came from the river cities and killed them for market. These destroyers counted it a poor day’s work of 200 birds. These were drawn when killed and shipped daily. On the city markets the' chickens .brought $2 a dozen and the quail sl. The chickens have been exterminated from the county and a farmer who possesses a covey of quail these days considers them so valuable as insect destroyers that he prosecutes hunters who even scare the birds. In those days the quail in the month of September gathered in droves and migrated. They were very tame and quiet when in numbers. They walked or ran as a rule, so that the weakest were not lost. Bird lovers in those days tried to protect the young, but the professional hunters slaughtered them even with clubs.

SECRET UNVEILED BY STORM

Crust of Earth Is Torn Away on-San Nicholas Island Exposing Ancient Burial Place. Los Angeles.—To the heavy storms which swept the channel Islands in June, 1914, science owes the remarkable discoveries now made public by Doctor Alltot. Terrific gales and sweeping seas tore away the flimsy crust which for ages had been gathering above the ancient burial ground at the northern extremity of San Nicholas Island and more than one hundred graves were uncovered. On this island, called the loneliest spot between the poles, the expedition from the Southwest museum spent many, weeks. To the head of the expedition, William Henry Golisch, assistant curator of the museum, and Mrs. Golisch, is due chief credit for many of the archeological discoveries on which are based the present deductions which threaten some long-established theories of evolution.

A MEXICAN BEAUTY

Miss Clemintlna Uorento, daughter of Enrique Llorento, chief of the Villa agency in Washington, is a pretty, dark-haired girl of the Spanish type, and makes an interesting addition to Washington society.

Scared by a Pig-

Evansville, Ind. —A pig that broke away from a drove that was unloaded from a Green river boat here, ran into the front door of Klyman Brothers, wholesale liquor dealers, and created a scare that lasted several seconds. Several colored workmen, who were in the rear of the store, filling bottles, rushed from the building and did not return until the pig had disappeared. .

TO HEM. THE SOUL

Impossible to Misunderstand the Purpose for Which Jesus Came to Earth. After all, supreme purpose was to bo a healer of souls. Had the Pharisees understood that he was a healer, they would not have been surprised to find him among publicans and sinners. But they judged Jesus by themselves. They expected him ,to have the same prejudices, the same narrowness and. the same contempt for the socially and morally degraded. Men are apt to make their own feel* Ings the standard of moral judgment. We common people have eternal reasons for thankfulness that Jesus Christ did not come as a priest, or a philosopher, with the proud, narrow contempt often characteristic of those who bear these titles; but that he came as a healer of souls, with broad, warm sympathies and with an abiding faith in all classes of men. This exposed him to the censure of his contemporaries, but has earned for him the gratitude and love of all later ages. That Christ came into the world as a healer of souls has many lessons for us. It means, in the first place, that Christianity is before all things a religion of redemption. Its proper vocation is to lift the low, to raise the fallen, to teach the ignorant the way of life, to set free those bound by superstition, to cleanse the moral leper and to heal those who are spiritually sick.

There is in the natural heart of man a terrible selfishness and cruelty which causes men to thrust the weak to the wall, and often to trample savagely on the fallen. Hounds bite their sick brother in the kennel, and the wolves tear the wounded one of the pack. Among savage tribes the aged, the sick and the injured were often killed or left to die. In polished Greece and Imperial Rome children were exposed and slaves were mercilessly tortured. Christ taught the world that this cruelty and hardness of heart were earthly and devilish. He taught us once and for all the sacredness, not only of fine gifts and brilliant intellects, but the sacredness of man as man. He saw the soul of beauty in things ugly, and the possible goodness in things evil.

Few That Are Whole. “They that are whole need not a physician,” said Jesus. Are there any whole? We find many people who, like the Pharisees, consider themselves whole and certainly not in need of a physician. Perhaps you and I count ourselves among the number who need no help, who are perfectly satisfied with our own morality. But the day will come when we stand revealed to our own sight in all our unworthiness, and we realize that the cancer of sin has been eating at our very heart. Some day we will understand what Christ told the Pharisees, that God will have mercy and not sacrifice.

Since Christ’s supreme purpose in coming was to heal souls, then it follows that his place was among the publicans and sinners. They sneered at him that day because he sat down at table in Matthew’s house with those who were socially ostracized and morally tainted. But If the Gospel of Jesus Christ is a saving gospel, then it must go where It finds those who need it the most When the church forgets that, it ceases to be the true church of the Good Physician. There Is some truth in the reproach which has been directed at the church at different times, that It has catered to the well and the well to do. But I believe that that time has to a great extent passed, and that of late years the church has been entering into a fuller appreciation of the spirit of the Master who ministered unto the world’s leprosy, who healed the lame, the halt and the blind spiritually as well as physically, and who preached the Gospel unto the poor.

Love Always First. In this story of the Good Physician there is a great comfort for us all. Christ’s way with sinners was to love them and to believe in their recoverability. He went among the outcasts and healed them, and it should be to us an object lesson in the possibility of a restored humanity. When we preach the Gospel to men, we thereby announce our faith in the Divine something in them which will respond to the Divine message which we bring them. That is why Christianity is always optimistic, and that is why the church should always be optmistic, having an abiding faith in the progress and power of the Gospel. Jesus said, "Lo, I am with you alway,” and is his love any less than when he walked the earth, and is his power any less than when he healed the sinners of Palestine? "Cleanse thou me from secret faults,” was the cry of David of old. He knew the heart of man, and he knew his own heart. ; Thls rayer finds an echo in every life. We are all conscious of sins which are hidden from the world, and some of which are almost hidden from ourselves. We are conscious of the wild beast within, which some day, we fear, will break forth. Our great sins have their secret antecedents. The dark tragedies of life are not isolated happenings. They are the outcome* of the deadly diseases of sin which has been secretly gnawing at our characters. Well may we go to the Good Physician and plead with him for help, and let us remember -that he never fails in his treatment He is able to save, even to the uttermost

SMILES

NATURALLY.

Joax—His life is full of trials. Hoax —Indeed! Joax —Yes; he’s a lawyer.

Horrifying Discovery.

At the end of his month’s vacation. Said PTumpley, "I’m feeling fine; Pulse 70—jio variation; Waist measure— gosh!—s9!”

Doubtful.

“When d> you expect to see Green Main?” “I don’t know.” “But don’t you usually see him once a week?” "Yes. But yesterday I loaned him five that he was surely to pay back tomorrow and it is doubtful now that I shall see him for a month or two.” — Detroit Fiee Press.

One on Casey.

Clancy was chuckling. “tYhat’s the joke?” asked Mooney. “Why, Casey just bet me $lO he could shoot a peanut off me head with a shotgun.” “What’s funny about that?” "I took him up because I know he’ll miss it.” —Judge.

Job Outdone.

“He’s the most patient man on record." “How so?” "He can group a crowd of persons to take their photo and not once lose his temper."

HAD TO BE USED.

Bangs—l think I’ll get married. Wangs—You surprise me. I didn’t think you had a girl. Bangs—l haven’t, but a fellow gave me a wedding ring today in part payment of a debt and I’ve got to get the worth of my money.

Dust.

They say mere man is made of dust And every time that I am bust I always think it mighty funny That dust’s a synonym for money.

A Pity Tie True.

"Jobson seems to have a romantic temperament It seems a pity that he is only a shoe clerk.” "My friend, some of the world’s best poetry was inspire*! by kneeling at the feet of women who cared about as much for the poet as the average lady customer cares about Jobson."

Crushed Hopes.

"Do you expect to walk in this house, young man, and hang up your hat?" "No, ’sir. I can’t hang it up because you’re sitting on it”

Looks That Way.

Bill —I see a gas range has been combined with a writing desk by an Inventive New York artist. jiU—Be useful when a man wants to indite a warm epistle.

Unsportsmanlike Calculation.

"Food is undoubtedly expensive.” “That’s true. I used up ten dollars In railroad fare and two dollars’ worth of bait catching thirty cents’ worth of fish."

Hands Made Before Forks.

Bacon —The discovery of fish glue Is attributed to a Massachusetts man who, while making chowder, found that it stuck to his fingers. Egbert —It's a wonder the Chicago people don’t make some such discovery when eating pie, isn’t it?

Entertaining.

Redd —He's becoming a great entertainer since he got his new car. Greene— Really? . "Yea; why he has a ’blow-out* •early every day.” > .■

A TEST OF DISCRETION.

“Are you a competent chauffeur?*’ "Yes, sir." “If you saw a small disreputable looking car purring along in front of you and there was barely room for you to pass, would you try to speed by that car contemptuously, or would you wait until the street got wider?” ”1 would spare my own feelings and look out for the safety of my passengers by turning off into another street, sir.” “That will do. You are engaged."

He’d Slept.

Bacon —I saw an autograph quilt the other day. Egbert—Yes, I’ve seen them. “This one bad on ft the autographs of a lot of preachers and lecturers ” 'Tve slept under a lot of them." “What! Autograph quilts?” "No; preachers and lecturers."

A Disturbing Thought.

“I always feel sorry for the commonplace husband of a brilliant woman.” "Because she outshines him so?” "Not particularly on that account, but deep down in bls benighted soul he must sometimes wonder what on earth she married him for.”’

LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP.

He —Don’t you think you’re a trifle hasty in rejecting me? She —No. If I’d been hasty I’d have accepted you last night. This letter contains a proposal from Mr. Millions.

The Newer Education.

Let’s have a more attractive rule! We’ll lend such interest to the school And suet sincere devotion win That boys will beg to be kept In.

At a Girl’s College.

“I am going to like you,” said the girl student. "My womanly intuition tells me that you are a wise Instructor." "Thank you,” responded the lady professor, "but I want you to study a trifle harder. Your womanly intuitioa isn’t going to help you guess the right answers to your geometry problems.”

Following Instructions.

The phone bell tlntlnnabulated. "Is this the office of the Dally Squawk?” asked the voice. "Yes? Well then I want you to put In my husband’s death notice, ‘Gone to rest* in an appropriate place.” And next morning It read: "Gone to rest in an appropriate place.”

Cause for Regret.

Rastus —What makes yoah so souah on de womens? Sam —Ah’s been married twlct an’ bof mah waives never took no washin* in from de day dey was married.

His Indiscretion.

"How was it,” asked one of the nymphs in attendance at the sea pal : ace, “that Neptune gave himself away after promising his wife to join the temperance movement?” "Don’t you know?” replied another. “Amphitrite caught him trying to blow the foam off of the big ocean breakers.”

The Right Term.

“I wrote up those athletic achievements from some magazine foot notes." “I should think it would be correct in the case to call them feat notes."

Paradoxical Attitude.

“There Is one thing queer about • man’s running for office.” "What’s that?” “His running depends on how he stands.”

An Improvement.

Church —Do you find any improvement in our home since you were last here? Gotham—Yes; got rid of your phonegraph, haven’t you?

A Feature.

Movie Operator—What shall I de with this film? There is a tear tn It. that cuts right through the hero’s nose! Clever Manager—Ha, just the thing. Bill'it as a feature in two parts!— Ohio Sun Dial.

Head of the House.

“Mrs. Clinnick thinks a, great deal of her husband.” "You’ve got the wrong preposition. Make it Tor* Instead of ot* ’’-Brownins’* Magazine.