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FAGE SIX THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 27, 1919.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM) , - AND SUN-TELEGRAM

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KEXDER or THE ASSOCIATED FKESS The Associated Press la exclusively entitled to the ne for republication of all newt dtcpatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in thia paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dlapatchea herein are also reserved. Gen. Joffre and Verdun Why was General Jeffre relieved as generalissimo of the French armies rather early in the war? We have had a general idea that he was regarded as not sufficiently aggressive; that his policy of "nibbling" the enemy was considered unpromising. Now that stories of inner workings are coming out, we are learning the reasons for Joffre's retirement, as we shall hear explanalions of many other things not hitherto clearly understood. Walter Duranty, writing from Paris to the New York Times, gives us the benefit of considerable new light on the valiant defense of Verdun. The Germans under the crown prince began their assaults in February, 1916, and the struggle continued four months, at a cost of over 600,000 casualties to the enemy, and about 400,000 to the French. The startling feature of the new revelations is that the defenses of Verdun were practically worthless. The forts had been dismantled of artillery, there was no closely-knit trench system, and there were not enough barbed wire entanglements and other defensive works to offer real obstacles to the Germans. Verdun was saved by the sheer valor of desperately courageous "men led by an able commander, Petain. In the summer and fall of 1915, attention was called to the weakness of Verdun. General Gallieni, minister of war, asked General Joffre tc strengthen the works. In a long and polite rejoinder, Joffre invited Gallieni to mind his own business, assuring him that he, Joffre, would see to the defensive works of Verdun. "Gallieni sought to have Joffre removed, but Premier Briand, more intent on keeping his own regime in office than anything else, blocked him. A few months later, after so many gallant Frenchmen had paid with their lives fothe neglect at Verdun, Briand's cabinet fefl, and General Joffre was replaced. The war was hard on men's reputations, and the revelations of peace will bring new tribulations to men who tried hard and faithfully, but who were not fully equal to the terrific test. rJoffre, the savior of civilization at the Marne, z till stands a heroic figure in spite of human limitations, because we all know what it is to stumble when sorely pressed.

The Hagerstown Horse Show It is an enjoyable task to compliment the enterprise and aggressiveness of the directors of the Hagerstown Horse Show, who, when a company failed to deliver tents, bought the paraphernalia of a wild west show to obtain the equipment necessary to make the live stock show a success. Enterprise of this kind always brings its reward. It convinces the skeptic that the managers of the show have faith in their project and believe that it is more than a passing fancy or a money making scheme. Wayne county has always patronized the Hagerstown show in large numbers. This year the attendance should surpass all previous records, and there is every indication that this will be the case. The display has been greatly augmented. The piieparations are on a greater scale. The attendance, without a doubt, will be in proportion to the zeal and enterprise shown by the directors. It is gratifying to know that one of Wayne county's communities is so intensely interested in agricultural ami live stock problems that it has arranged for a display. Probably it will be

the only opportunity offered this year in this county for a person to see the excellence and importance of the agricultural industry of this county in its various aspects. Neighboring communities have been invited to visit hospitables Hagerstown during the exhibit. Richmond has always looked upon the .-howwith enthusiasm and its citizens, with thousands from other parts of the county, will boost the exhibit by (their presence.

Condensed Classics of Famous Authors

Returning to School Many a boy is confronted with an important question these days: Shall he return to school or stay at work? Work means plenty of pocket money, opportunity to indulge in luxuries, and a certain feeling of financial independence. School means subjection to mental discipline, a dimonition of earning capacity, a sacrifice of amusements. Which should he choose? Without any quibbling the latter. The place for every boy and girl in our age is the school room. They may not see its advantage now but later they will rue the decision that deprived them of their schooling. Ask afiy ten men who were unable to complete a high school course if you want to convince yourself of the financial advantage of an education. The lure of spending money, good clothes and amusements is strong, but these pleasures are transient. The benefits of an education are enduring. They are abiding possessions which cannot be stolen. Fifty years ago boys deplored a situation that prevented them from obtaining schooling. In those days education could not be had as easily as it is offered today. But even then, state authorities sought means of putting schools within reach of every boy and girl. Their desire to give Indiana a good school system is seen in the splendid system which we have today. What was denied the boys and girls of that day, and which has been supplied today, should not be spurned by the young people of our day. The opportunity is here. Let every boy see in it a call to obtain an education.

LE SAGE Alain Rene Le Sage, author of one of the world's moat remarkable books, waa born on Dec. 13, 1668, in a small town of weatern France. He died, nearly 80 years later. In 1747. Unlike many men of genius, Le Sag-e did not go through life doing apectacular things. His father, who held some responsible legal positions, left i a considerable fortune when Le Sage became an orphan as a child. His guardians either atole or invested

with criminal carelessness the lad's money, but he was given a good education and was admitted to the bar. Fees came In slowly and Le Sage faced extreifte poverty. Tet he dared to marry and turned to the stage for means of support. For years he wrote, never really successful, but never actually in want. He was nearly 40 years of age when a comedy gave him a Parisian reputation, and a novel made him known to France. The first two parts of "Gil Bias" were published in 1715, but they were not liked so well as his earlier story. Le Sage, however, knew how good It was, and he labored over it as devoutly as a great sculptor over a block of marble. Thj third part was not published until 1724, and not until 1735 was the last part put forth. During these 20 years he had also turned out play after play, and numerous books. He did not cease to write until after his 70th birthday had passed. Outside of France Le Sage will always live because of his one book that ranks among the world's masterpieces. "Gil Bias" is life itself, an fintma tori nirtii r. of Snaln , - .

colorful period. It is a work," says Sir Walter Scott, "which renders the reader pleased with himself and mankind, where faults are placed before him in the light of follies rather than vices, and where misfortunes are so.intfrwoven. TLlth ,Ihe ludicrous .that we laugh in the very act of sympathizingwith them." '

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The Uncertainty of Mr. Gompers

The New York World believes Mr. Gompers j

has not grasped the fundamentals involved in the Plumb plan. It presents the following argument: "Mr. Gompers is by no means certain 'that Government control would right all present wrongs,' but he will back up the demands of the Federation of Labor. If Mr. Gompers is talking

about the Plumb plan, it has nothing to do with I

government control, because no government control is provided for. The government puts up the money, $20,000,000,000 or so, and the railroad employees do the controling.' "Even Mr. Gompers must admit that a prpgram that revolutionizes railway transportation, that involves the expenditure of billions upon billions of public money and that gives control of vast properties into the hands of men who can be held to no responsibility is something that is

not to be plunged into lightly because a radical!

lawyer in Chicago has had a happy thought and induced certain labor leaders to indorse it."

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT Minneapolis Tribune. The Government was never in better shape to settle the Mexican question for good and all than it is now. It has seasoned troops in plenty, war material galore and invaluable experience in strategy and maneuver.

SHORT SIGHTED CROOKS Charleston News- and Courier. The food hoarders were not only knaves but fools. Anybody with much sense would have seen long ago that matters were approaching the point when the rising tide of popular indignation would compel the seizure of the hoarded stocks.

Exchange and Trade

From the Indianapolis News. THEFTE are many people who, strange as- it may seem, are beginning to realize that the "favorable balance of trade may be altogether too large. It is true that some are alarmed at the shrinkage of our exports and the increase in our imports, but the general feeling is that this change will help somewhat to adjust the enormous balance, and to solve the problem of exchange. With the British pound sterling worth in this country less than ever before, the cost of goods, due to that fact alone, is so great as to make it difficult for "British purchasers to meet it. Exchange is even moro heavily against France and Russia. Prices in this country in dollars are high enough, but they approach the prohibitive when calculated in currencies that are depreciated as compared with our own. In July our imports amounted to $345,000,000, said to ;be the largest in. our history. Our exports fell off by 350,000,000. To what extent these figures represent our trade with European nations is not known. But they iwlll certainly - affect exchange, which, as between this Country and 'Great Britain, has risen 7 cents, after previously having fallen 14 cents. It will certainly be found that wo can not continue to sell abroad in the old volume if prices continue to rise, or unless we also buy abroad. ;An increase of imports is, therefore, a! good sign. !: We are now exporting gold, and are the only nation hat is able to do so. It should not be forgotten that wo are now a creditor country, and heavily so. Our debts must, to a considerable extent, be paid in goods, and that means rising imports. As far as this . affects exchange

the result will be to increase our exports at the same time, present conditions are bad for us, and in many ways. A lecent dispatch aald that Chicago banks one day last week lost between $400,000 and $600,000 because of the drop in English money. "This loss," It was said, "is tho difference in the value of the drafts at the time they were deposited by American exporters and their valus when paid by foreign importers." The New York Time3 puts it thus: The unbalancing of the goods trade is the cause, the disturbance in the relation of the pound to the dollar being merely the effect. We can not export in billions and import in hundreds or millions without creating difficulties in payment for what we sell. There is no way of making the .pound equal to the dollar at the par of exchange under such conditions. In other wOrds, our trade has for several years been f-normously one-sided, with vast exports and almost negligible Imports. This has had its effect on prices, and lb they have risen the country has become a poor one to buy in and a good one to sell in, and so exports are falling off and imports rising. The process of readjustment seems to have begun whether it will continue or not is another question. Under normal conditions it is automatic. Plainly it Is no time to be thinking of high tariff duties. We must buy from abroad. But we must sell too, and that means, as the New York World recently said, that "price-gougers must stop their gouging or thero will be no trade for them to gouge," and that "organized labor must put some limit to its ever-mounting demands in the way of higher wages and less work or it will find itself in too many cases without any wages or work."

Gil Bias, the only son of an old soldier, had reached the age of seventeen when his uncle, the village priest, who had taught him a little Latin, Greek and Logic, sent him off with forty ducats and a bad mule to study Divinity at Salamanca. His adventures began immediately. At his first stop he was cheated out of his mule; as he was eating his dinner a wily flatterer Invited himself to be his guest and showed his gratitude by the good advice never to be taken in by praise. He had to pay an exorbitant reckoning and went on his way, "giving to as many devils as there are saints in the calendar, the parasite, the landlord and the inn." He soon fell into the hands of, bandits, who made him join them on their raids. In one of them they captured Dona Mencla, wife of the Marques de la Guardia, and brought her to their cavern. Gil Bias pretended to be ill and escaped with the grateful lady. He was arrested as one of the bandits and as he was wearing clothes recognized by one of their victims, and his pockets were full of money, he was thrown into jail. After several weeks' imprisonment his innocence was established, but the jailer had robbed him of everything. At Burgos he sought out Dona Mencia who presented him with a hundred ducats and a costly ring. He bought a pretentious outfit for twice its value and decided that instead of becoming a licentiate, "he would make his way in this world rather than think of the next." A second gift of a thousand ducats from Dona Mencia confirmed him in his resolve. He bought two mules and hiring a servant, set forth for Madrid. His servant conspired with several rogues to make a fool of him. One of them, Camilla, pretending to be related to Dona Mencia, imvited him to hired lodgings as If to her own home and there he was feasted and flattered. As a mark of special favor she exchanged her ruby ring, which she declared was worth 300 pistoles for his, and procured him an invitation to a great country seat for hunting and fishing. But when he arose in the morning, his servant, his two mules, his portmanteau and Dona Mencla's pretended relatives had vanished. The ruby ring was a cheat. Fortunately he fell in with a boyhood friend, Fabricio, at Valladolid and by his advice became a servant to a clergyman, the canon Sedillo, at whose house he led an easy life. The canon soon died, leaving him his worthless library, and the good fortune of becoming assistant to his physician, the famous Dr. Sangrado. Under him Gil Bias became particularly proficient in his method of practice, which consisted of nothing but blood-letting and "drenchings of water." He declared that he made as many widows and orphans as the siege of Troy; one of his victims was the betrothed of a giant Biscayan, who threatened him with dire vengeance, and he fled to Madrid where he became valet to a mysterious

and wealthy Don Bernardo, his only duty being to keep the wardrobe brushed and to tend door. Bui he happened to fall in with Rolando, captain of the brigands; and Don Bernado, seeing him in such suspicious company, dismissed him with six ducats. From one reason or another he kept changing employers; he served now a dissipated hidalgo, then an Intriguing actress, then an aged libe'rtine whose daughter, in gratitude for aiding her to win back her recreant lover, Don Ltfla Pacheco, gave him a hundred pistoles, and, on her father's death, go: hi:n a

place with still anothervagcl roue, Don Gonzales, whose dressing operations, when he arose at noon, reminded him of the resurrection of Lazarus. Here again he acted as intermediary in a love affair, but when he told his infatuated employer that he was being Hiped, he was turned off, though given a recommendation to tho Marquesa de Chaves, reputed the cleverest woman in Madrid, because she was as solemn as an owl and rarely spoke. Her salon, called "the Fashionable Institution for Literature, Tasto and Science," was the resort for the wits and notables of Madrid. Here again he had easy work, but getting into trouble about a girl, was compelled to leave the city. On his way to Toledo he rescued a young nobleman, named Don Alfonso, from arrest. They became friends and after Don Alfonso reached his home, he and his father became Gil Bias' patrons, placing him as secretary to their relative, the Archbishop of Granada, who was inordinately vain and as broad as he was long. Gil Bias praised his sermons and was regarded as a young man of excellent judgment until after the prelate's mind was affected by apoplexy and his homilies became discordant ravings. Gil Bias obeyed the Archbishop's command to tell him if he fell short in his preaching and was ignominiously packed off. Reduced to extremities once more, he posed as

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the brother to a disreputable actress and thus secured the position of secretary to a Portuguese grandee, the Marques de Marialva. The trick was discovered. He returned to Madrid and after many amusing and not always creditable adventures, was appointed under secretary to the Duke of Lerma, Prime Minister to the King. His duties may be gauged by his comment: "One makes a merit of any dirty work in the service of the great." His experiences with the upper and the lower world, with actors, poets, libertines, physicians, bandits, adventurers, and hadalgos and their servants, .had sharpened his wits and hi3 native ability and smattering of education gave him growing influence. He was courted, flattered and bribed; his conceit and avarice became colossal.

He declared that "a Court had all the soporific virtues of Lethe in the case

! of poor relations," and confessed that

every trace of hi3 former gay and generous temper had disappeared." Pride came before a fall. Having been employed to procure a cuestion-

I able mistress for the Heir-apparent, lie I was arrested by the King's orders and ! thrown into the dungeon of Segovia, i The Prince Intervened, but he was j exiled from the two Castiles. All his ; property was seized and his mercenary ; engagement to a wealthy jeweler's i daughter was broken. 1 Then his friend Don Alfonso, whom he had got appointed as Governor of j Valencia, presented him with a small i estate near that city, i On his way thither he stopped at his j birth-place and found his uncle a ; mental wreck and his mother worn out I in caring for his dying father. He gave j his father a pompous funeral, and ! settled an annuity on his mother but .the town's-people were bo indignant ! with him for his neglect of his family that they threatened to mob him. i Glad to escape with his life, he ; reached Valencia where he was receiv- ' ed at his new home by seven or eight j servants provided by Don Alfonso. He i got rid of most of them and lived i frugally, marrying Antonia, daughter

of his farmer, Don Basilio. But his idyllic happiness ended with the death of his wife in childbirth. Soon afterwards the Crown Prince

! came to the throne and offered him a place of high responsibility. Gil Bias, who had learfied wisdom, replied ! that "all he wanted was a good situaI tion, where there was no inducement to violate his conscience, and where ! the favors of his Prince were cot likei ly to be bartered for filthy lucre." He was made confidant to the Prime Minister, who entrusted him with tho ' education of his illegitimate son and . heir. This brought him a tit'e. I After some years when the Duke j lost the King's favor, Gil BUs followed him into retirement and on his , death was remembered with a bequest

of 10,000 pistoles. He returned to his beautiful estate, made a second marriage and lived, happy and respected, training his children wisely and con-

I tiding to his memoirs all his errors, j crimes, joys and sorrows, together i with his opinions of literature, society

and the stage. His narrative is interspersed -with long and fascinating stories related by various characters

(Whom he had met; these and ills own

adventures furnish a vivid picture of the romantic Spain of the Seventeenth Century. "Gil Bias" is one of the wisest and most amusing of romances, aid though it is not free from the coarseness permitted at that time, vice is not depicted attractively and its teaching is generally moral. Copyright, 1919, by the Post Publishing Co. (The Boston Post). Copyright in the United Kingdom, the Dominions, its Colonies' and dependencies, under

the copyright act, by the Post Publishing Co., Boston, Mass., U. S. A. All rights reserved. (Published by special arrangement with the McClure Newspaper Syndicate. All rights reserved.) "The Count of Monte Crist o" by Alexander Dumas, as conden.-ed by Alfred S. Clark, will be printed tomorrow. Up to People, Daniels Says of President Race (By Associated Press) -U. S. S. NEW YORK, HILO, H. I., Aug. 27. When asked regarding tho outcome of a conference of 'Honolulu Democrats, Secretary Daniels remarked that "the Wilson administration has no candidate for president. That is for the people to decide." Asked regarding his own candidacy he said: "My candidacy is for the people to decide." Secretary Daniels went ashore on arrival yesterday .and was the guest, with officers and men of the Paciflo fleet units here, of a pretty native feast given by the Hilo board of trade. In the afternoon the party went to the Kilauea volcano. From all over the island of Hawaii residents came to view the dreadnaught New York and the four destroyers.

looa rwenins

BY ROY K. MOULTON

There is about as much secrecy about a courtship in a town of 1,200 as there is about a magazine explosion aboard a battleship.- As soon as a feller and bis girl are seen together in an Ice cream parlor folks begin to wonder when they are going to get married. MY GROCERY. The cash I spend in food each day Evokes a string of words from me; I count them over the bills I pay My grocery my grocery. Each egg a graft each prune a snare. To make my life a daily grind; I add each list until the end, and there My finish find. Oh, memories of feasts long past My duty plain I can not doubt: To yield each meal and strive at last To do without. Walter Pulitzer. "On to Mexico!" screams a contemporary headline. Sure we're on to Mexico and always have been. HA! HA! In the Regina, (Saskatchewan) Post we find chronicled the return, after a brilliant overseas service, of Lieutenant Eber Laugh. Going to war with Mexico? Whoa! Just one minute, one only. Boy, please page the League of Nations. A little end-of-the-courtship note is found in the following want ad, which made a recent appearance : "Wanted To exchange. Good two-passenger swing for a baby carriage. This is the most war-like peace the United States has ever had.

Dinner Stories

"Pardon me," said the army cook, for military chefs are prone to address their underlings courteously, "but I prithee tell me where you learned to peel potatoes so artistically? I observe that you do not cut off the citlcle In great hunks, as alas, too many do, but loosen a bit of the skin of the tuber and then deftly strip it off. You must have had much experience in skinning e'er entering upon a soldier's life?" "I did, thank you, sir," replied the accomplished member of the kitchen

police. "Before I decided to make the

world safe for democracy I was a country banker.

It has been hard to get a laundress in Alexandra. War-time conditions have enabled many who earned their living at the tub to turn to less arduous pursuits, with the result that there is a scarcity of "wash ladies." The condition is one paralleled in many other cities. "Aunt Lucy," said one Alexandrian woman, addressing a colored woman whom she had known for many years, "don't you know some one who can

do my washing? Aunt Lucy smiled. "No, ma'am, I don't know no one," she said. The woman made a last attempt. "Won't you do it for me. Aunt Lucy?" she asked, with a winning smile. "Deed, chile, said Aunt Lucy, "I don't have to do no washing no more." "Why?" asked the woman. "Well, honey, hit is jes like this," explained Aunt Lucy, with nice distinction. "De Civil war made us free. And dis here World war has made us independent."

Former Czar Carried Son to "Death Room'1 LONDON, Aug. 27. Alleged anthem tic details of the killing of formei Emperor Nichols of Russia, and othei members of the Russian royal family at Yekaterinburg. July 17. 1918. aw contained in a report, drafted by a French officer who had been employed in an official capacity in southern Rub sia, and made public today by Reu ter's Limited. The story is said to have been told bv a sentry who guarded the royal family while Its members were under detention. Under the orders of Commissary Kourovsky, the account says, the Emperor. Empress, Crown Prince Alexis and the Grand Duchesses Olga, Anatasia, Tatiana and Xenia, together; with Court Physician Botkinz and

three servants, were taken to an under ground room. The Emperor carried his son in his arms into the "room of death," because of the bov's lnabilitv tn

walk In consequence of illness. Jourovsky. another Bolshevik leader, and nine "Red" soldiers, the account con

tinues, entered the room and immediately killed all the occupants with revolver shots. The sentry, on hearing the reports, dashed into the room, he says and saw 11 bodies lying on the floor. Only the Emperor's son was still alive. Seeing this, the narrator added, one ol the Bolshevik party killed the Crown Prince with a point-blank shot. Spartacan Police Chief Looted Berlin Treasury BERLIN, July 27 (Correspondence of The Associated Press). Enormous amounts of public money were divert ed into the pockets of the Spartacans during the revolution in Berlin last winter, which was led by the then Chief of Police Eichhorn, according to information obtained by a Parliament ary Commission which is investigating the administration of the fugitive for mer police chief. Police officials who have examined Eichhorn's ledger say it is impossible to determine how great was thia amount taken by the Spartacansj Evidence has been submitted that: Eichhorn's Security Guard was oa duty at the railway station during" the outbreak and helped himself to si million marks or army funds which, had been brought from Rumania. Auditors asserted that Eichhorn made frequent raids on the official treasury through faked requisitions and even drew funds for which no accounts were rendered. In one instance, these are alleged to have totalled more tha 300,000 marks. One hundred thousand cigars and 170 6moked hams were confiscated by the old police regime and have mysteriously disappeared.

Flying Marines Frighten Old Santo Domingans Wifimvr.Tnv r n a ot tu

auieiitcui marines in SantO UpmmgO are using aeroplanes against bandits and scaring old natives out of their wits.

"Evil birds" is the natives' term for

the aeroplanes, and the bombs drormed

are "the evil birds' eggs."

Capt McCaughley, in charge of island aviation, said six bandits recent

ly were killed by bombs.

Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Years Ago Today

Colonel John S. McGraw, a prominent former resident of Richmond, and father of Mrs. Charles Morgan, died at the home, of his daughter in Philadelphia. The first reunion of the Phillips and Phelps families was held at the Glen Miller park. Charles Street, an old resident of the city, died at his home. Coach Thistlethwaite of Earlham college was in the city at a conference of Earlham alumni and was very optimistic concerning the coming athletic season for the college.

Masonic Calendar

Wednesday, Aug. 27. Webb Lodge No. 24, F. and A. M. Called meeting. Work in Entered Apprentice degree,

beginning at 6:30. Clarence W. Fore

man, W. M. Thursday, Aug. 28. Richmond Lodge No. 196, F. and A. M. Called meeting. Work in Master Mason degree, beginning at 7 o'clock. Friday, Aug. 29. Webb Lodge, No. 24, F. and A. M. Called meeting. Work in Entered Apprentice degree, beginning at 6:30.

Increase in Taxes is Predicted Next Winter

WASHINGTON, August 27. No reduction in taxes will be possible for ten years. Representative Fordney, of Michigan, chairman of the house ways and means committee, declared Monday. Increased taxation rather than a decrease Is probable when the revenue law is revised" next winter, he said.

Shipment of Statue is Delayed for Five Years fBy Associated Press! LONDON, Aug. 27. A 6tatue in bronze of Queen Victoria made for the government of British Columbia before the war will be shipped within a few days to the city in western Canada which bears the queen's name where it will be placed on a lofty pedestal plainly visible to passengers on Incoming ocean ships. It was ready for shipment when tha war broke out and since that time ha9 been standing in the Royal Exchange. The statue weighs two and one-half tons. It will pass through the Pana ma canal and up the Pacific coast on its forty day Journey to Victoria.

JAP BEETLES DESTROY NEW JERSEY CROPS

WASHINGTON, D. C. Aug. 27. Congress today was asked by the agriculture department to pproprlata $70,000 for the "arrest and eridication of millions of Japanese beetles," now at large in Burlington county, New Jersey. Already crops, fruit trees and all manner of vegetation covering 15,000 acres have been destroyed by the pest.

THE GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS DAILY TALK

ENDURE HARDSHIP The Indians had to secure the hardest flint from which to strike a spark to ignite the shavings for their campfires. So, only as the fire of a man's inner soul is aroused by hardship, doesthe become fit for those things which make him a great man. The Bible writer put it this way: "Endure hardship, as a good soldier." Soldiers become great soldiers only thru hardship. It is one of the first requisites of a soldier's life. For hardship steadies and tempers and refines every big quality in a man, and teaches him how to handle himself. Hardship strips a man's character and makes it fit for service and usefulness. Hardship shows one how to find himself. Endure hardship! If you want to pass barriers, to walk into promised lands, to draw people to your standard, be a leader worthy of followers. Endure hardship as a good soldier. The "soft" men of the world are swept away at the very first onslaughts of fate. Whereas those who have learned to endure hardship,, are only spurred on to greater effort and keener fighting by the ob-' stacles that seek to unnerve and undo them at the start. Endure hardship! In the great Civil War, a Union general was about to announce an Important victory over the enemy, when an aide stepped up and said "But there still stands General Jackson like a stone wall!" In war the enemy is never whipped until you have beaten the BIGGEST MAN. So it is in your own life. You are never defeated until the biggest thing in you has failed. And you will never tail if you learn each day to - Endure hardship t , j

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