The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 5, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 2 June 1910 — Page 3

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ROF. WILLIS L. MOORE, chief Os the weathei bureau, believes that the >tate of the wind is a factor in our daily health, knowledge of which should no more be neglected thap whether we ate mushrooms or toadstools for dinner, or whether we blow out the gas at night or turn off the cock. If we are to accept Prof. Moore’s declaration of independence, all fetiches or theories as to the cause of American supremacy must be

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cast aside and’ thrown to the winds—to the east wind, preferably. Preferably to the east wind, because that is the opposite of the west wind, and Washington’s weather wonder-worker announces that it is to the west wind that Americans owe to-day what they‘proudly possess. It is because the west wind carries no disease, is highly electrified, bears ozone, has a “ddwnward component,” and in all respects jis as virtuous and life-giving as its opposite, the east'wind, is pernicious and life-destroying, that we are today a great nation and commercial leader. “It is well known to meteorologists that easterly winds either hug the earth or have an upward component of motion,” he says. “They, therefore, gather the humidity, dust, disease, and other bacteria, and, as a rule, they are warm and humid. All of. these conditions make them foul winds, under which animal life is enervated and rendered susceptible to the germs which the winds themselves carry and disseminate. The converse is true of the northwest winds. They, come from above, with a downward component of riiotion that bears a direct relation to The velocity. They come from the regions where the air is dry, pure, and highly electrified; and where ozone exists in comparatively large quantities. The cool, pure air of the northwest .wind is, therefore, an invigorating air.” Seekers after, health, and restored vigor 0 need only to pursue the west wind. The more constantly they are bathed in its ozone, electricity, and “downward component,” the more speedy and complete will- be their cure. In hospitals and sick rooms, when anxious friends are in agonies of suspense as to whether the' patient will survive, or be pushed across the dividing line into other regions, doctors will be quite non-essential. All one n'eeds is a weather vane. If the wind bloweth from the west, all. is well. The sick one will recover. But if the wind is from the east, abandon hope. Os course, if the letters on the weather vane he misplaced, accurate forecasts are impossible. ■*—' ! Summer visitors to the Atlantic coast would indignantly deny Prof. Moore’s indictment of the east wind as foul and humid, while the hotel proprietors would be willing to make affidavits to the contrary. Science is not to be sneered at, though, and it must be a mere delusion that a vacation on our Eastern c^ast —sailing, bathing, and lying in the sand in the facer of the east wind —is an aid to health and happiness. Henceforth “easteriji Shore” seems doomed to lose its friends; its winds are “foul.” Japan, where east and southeast winds prevail for more than six months in th'e year, cannot be a progressive nation; the Moore theory forbids it. The ‘Romans, who lived in Italy, which on the wind charts is dotted with arrows pointing

bllmWSes Stream Starting from “Door of a Million Bibles” That Circles Globe. INTEREST IN THE SCRIPTURES. Ninety Million Copies Printed in Various Languages and at Prices to Suit Every Purse. There is a door fin a 4th avenue building in New York, City which has all the hallmarks of shipping department doors in general—battered side posts, polished iron chutes, boxes on the sidewalk marked with names that seem to have been taken haphazard from a gazetteer, the New York Sun sjays. There is a special name attached to this particular door. This is the door of a million bibles. Out of this door each year 1,000,000 bibles pass to be distributed through the ■world. The rumor that a conditional gift of 1500,000 from Mrs. Russell Sage awaits the action of the bible society in raising a similar amount is confirmed. Already large sums have been received from the various agencies about the country to be added to the fund which Is being raised. It takes approximately $600,000 to pay the expenses of the society each year and the $1,000,000 that the officials expect to receive through Mrs. Sage’s gift will be considered in the light of a nest egg, something to deijpnd on in financial depressions and slacking up of contributions. It was Sir Walter Scott who ih his last illness, after asking a friend to read; aloud to Him and hearing, the interrogation as to the book desired, said* “There is only one.” As to this “only one,” there is, according to the statistics of the American Bible Society, no evidence that the interest of the human family has lapsed into indifference. A record of approximately

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ARRY A. FRANCK? Ik .ollowed in the footsteps of Wyckoff, the sociologist of Princeton University, and the late Josiah Flint in leading the life of a tramp. Unlike Wyckoff, he did not undertake this for the ‘study of mankind, and unlike Flint he was not a tramp because he felt in his blood the call of the road. Mr. Franck’s experience w r as a compromise between those of Wyckoff and Flint. He did not make sociological stud-

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ies while traveling, arid he did answer the call of the blood to be free. But he began liM as a laborer and earned his way through High School and the University of Michigan by selling papers and waiting on table during his school days, and in the summer vacations he worked on Western railroads as a section hand or in the harvest fields of the Northwest. He got his idea of a trip around the world while he was teaching French in the Central High School of Detroit. When he was 22 he started his tramp around the world, working his way from city to city. He left Detroit and worked his way to Glasgow tending cattle. He was a sailor from Marseilles to Egypt, and at Port Said he worked at pounding beans. He was errand boy at Cairo, In Egypt, circus clown at Colombo, street car inspector at Madras, and at Yokohama. Now he is doing literary work with his own experiences as a basis from which to draw. ;

90,000,000 volumes in eighty years speaks eloquently to the contrary. In the salesroom of the society are cases filled with duplicate copies of original books and manuscripts. The fact that the building is not fireproof is the reason why the interesting collection owned by the society is at present housed at the> Lenox library. This collection contaaiis editions of the bible in more than 150 languages and dialects. Os English versions and revisions there are approximately 5,000’ volumes exclusive of the manuscripts. Here you will see one of the few “Vinegar bibles,” Oxford, 1716, in which a -printer’s mistake has been immortalized, as in the “Breeches bible.” There is a facsimile of the bible printed on white satin which was presented to the empress dowager of China in 1894 by 10,000 Christian women. There is a copy of the bible done into the Mongolian dialect by Schrescherowsky, a cripple, who also

in every direction, could not have been a great race of world conquerors; they had not sufficient west wind. The climate of California has long been famed as one of the ideal spots of the world for human existence. Yet part of the secret of its delightful weather lies in the western winds, which coming from the vast expanses of the Pacific Ocean, are moist, not dry, and warm, not cool. On the other hand, the regions west of the Rocky Mountains and coast ranges, are for t the most part arid and uninhabitable by man, except as artificial means are introduced by which he can raise enough for his sustenance. Yet the prevailing winds in the States of, Arizona, New Mexico, parts of Idaho, and Utah are west winds. Further East are the prairie States, extending even beyond the Mississippi. That this entire section, now the home of millions of people, and producing food for millions more, does not form an American Sahara, is due to the influence of the Gulf of Mexico, in the opinion of the meteorologists. At the very moment of Prof. Moore’s announcement, their works on his shelves united in declaring that the mountains of Mexico shunt the rainbearing winds of the gulf to the North, watering the cornfields and grass plains of the West. The opinion of most meteorologists seems to be that winds usually biow r to the land from the ocean, carrying moisture. Their temperature is according to that of the water over which they pass. If transverse mountains are encountered, the wind is forced upward, losing heat as it rises, and thereby causing the condensation of its water vapor,. If the mountains are very high, as the, Rockies, when the wind, reaches the summit of the range it will have lost all its moisture, and colder, having given up its energy. ’ ( Rushing down on the opposite side, it heat, through compression, without doing work, it is claimed, and therefore sweeps the lands beyond as a dry, warm wind, such as is found on every desert. In fact, it is declared that it is the mountains which make the deserts, drawing from the winds as they do all their life-sustaining moisture. Consequently, the character of the wind from any point of the compass seems mainly to be governed by the nature of the earth’s surface over which it has passed or is passing. Further influences are the sun, as at the, equator and the poles, where certain definite processes go on continually. Another influence which diverts the trade winds from their absolute north and south path is the rotation of the earth. It is this variability in the climatic elements and differences of geographical situation which give to the countries of the earth their various climates. Thus ,is explained the fact that New England, with its easterly winds, and England, with its southwest wind—practically the prevailing wind of the entire season round —resemble one another in climate. Much as one may enjoy gazing at the setting sun, descending within its shrine of glory, while the gentle twilight wind, which often comes from the west in this section fans one’s face, there is little to be heard among other men of science in support of Prof. Moore’s declaration.—Washington Post.

did it into Calmuck. There is a copy of the “Mazarin bible,” the first book printed from movable metal types in two volumes, Which appeared about the year 1455 and the first recognized copy of which was discovered in the library of Cardinal Mazarin—hence the title: It is called the “Gutenberg bible,” from the name of the printer, and again termed the “Forty-two-line bible,” from the number of lines in each column of its pages.' Copies of • the several editions of the Gutenberg bible have been sold for sums Which ■would procure nearly 100,000 bibles now printed by the American society. There are also copies of the Douay version of the bible used by Roman Catholic of the translations from the Latin vulgate made by the English college at Rheims, of the English version of the scriptures now in common use and of the revised edition, the work of English and American scholars, which appeared in 1885. According to the

terms of the agreement then entered into no other revision was to be published until after fourteen years, so it was not until the summer of 1901 that the American Standard edition of the revised edition was given out. Translations in 450 Tongues. Altogether, through the efforts of the society, translations of the bible have been made into about 450 languages and dialects. At the present time the Bible Society is printing the bible in three of the languages of Africa which have never been used for writing. It is also printing bibles in five of the languages of the Philippines and slowly completing the printed list of thirty languages used in the islands of the south* Pacific. A great many of the books intended for distribution in the far east are printed in places other than New York. For example, there is a fine printing establishment at Yokohama under the auspices of the Bible Society which employs Japanese workmen under contract. From this place distribution is made to the Philippines and to Korea. The society also prints in Shanghai and Chentu and at Bangkok in Siam, and at Beirut in Syria similar work is done, some of it on presses belonging to the Presbyterian American Bible Society co-operates. Many of the colporteurs, particularly those in the northwest, speak at least twenty different languages and continualy requests are coming from them and from outside people begging that the bible may be translated into some dialect or language spoken in far-off points, the very names of which are unknown to the majority of New Yorkers. In the agency which distributes ■the scriptures from the city of San Francisco in California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington are Spanishspeaking Mexicans, Portuguese, onehalf of all the Chinese in the United 'States, Japanese, Koreans, Hindoos, Malays, Hawaiians and Filipinos. Early in its history the society made arrangements to supply bibles at half cost to hotels, steamboats and railroad cars, and at the principal seaports, with New York in the lead, a large number are regularly sent among the naval farces and among seamen generally. About a million and a half books have been distributed by the marine committee.

BAPTIST MINISTER QUITS TO GO INTO BUSINESS. Rev. Donald D. MacLaurin has resigned as pastor of the Second Baptist Church in Chicago and leaves the pulpit to embark on a business career. The withdrawal of Dr. MacLaurin from the ministry is the result of his espousal of the cause Prof. George Burman Foster of the University of Chicago before the Baptist ministers’ conference of Chicago during the proceedings that resulted in the expulsion of the university lecturer from that body because of Unitarian utterances and writings. Severe criticism of the action of the conference and the ministers who were responsible for it was -voiced by Dr. •MacLaurin, who declared that they were guilty of a “betrayal of the fundamental principles of the Baptist denomination.” The retiring pastor said his defense of Prof. Foster was merely in the name of justice and that he would have defended any other member of the conference in the same way. “There is an impression throughout the country,” said Dr., MacLaurin, “that because I defended Prof. Foster I share his ’religious views. This I wish to deny emphatically.” Dr. MacLaurin hds = been a Baptist minister thirty-six years, including the nine years he preached while workf W i MM < /OIL • & / Ik y '' Sev: DorLi-13 D. ing for his degree at Colgate University. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honorary society. He has been preaching in Chicago nearly three years, having come from New York city, and has been one of the city’s most able and widely known ministers. BEAR TEARS KEEPER. With his body badly torn and mangled by teeth and claws and his left arm almost torn from its socket, Richard Spicer, a keeper at the Bronx Park Zoo, New York, was unconscious when rescued from the bear pit after a desperate struggle with an angry bear. He was removed to a hospital in a critical condition. Elwyn Sanbbrn, a photographer, escaped from the pit with minor hurts after a hard fight with the animal. Patcha, a huge brown Russian bear, who had always been considered mild-tempered, became angered when Spicer attempted to make her sit up with her cubs and pose for a photograph. First dealing him a ■terrific blow with her paw, she next seized him by the arm and dragged him into the den, clawing and mauling him. Sanborn grabbed an iron bar and rushed to the rescue of Spicer, who by that time had been rendered uncon scions. Patcha turned on him, but the photographer managed to fight her off. His screams and the cries of a hundred spectators brought other attendants, who rescued the imperiled men. Xot to Be Disturbed. A Voice Over the Phone —Is this Mrs. Tingler’s residence? The Maid—Yes. The Voice—ls Mrs. Biddle there— Mrs. Atherton Biddle? / The Maid—Yes, she’s playing bridge with her club. I’m sure she can’t come to the phone. The Voice —Well, just say to her right away, please, that her residence is burning. The Maid—Thank you. I’ll let her know as soon as they finish the set. I know she wouldn’t want me to disturb her now. Good-by.—St. Paul Dispal ch. Generally Has That Effect. Shu —I wonder why Methusaleh lived to such a great old age? c He —perhaps some young woman married him for his money.—Boston Ev. Transcript.

LAND GRABBED TRICKS Frauds by Which the Government Is Swindled 'Out of Thousands of Acres. OBSTACLES TO SETTLEMENT. Cattlemen Put Up Fences That Practically Inclose Large Tracts of Public 'Domain. There are thousands of easy-money men in the west to-day who are operating skin games as hackneyed in that section as is juggling the shells and pea in Indiana, William Atherton Du Puy says in the Indianapolis Star. The object of their operations is to get from Uncle Sam land to which they are not entitled. The same old games have been worked for generations. Government lands are not highly prized in the sections where they are plentiful. The government is such an : indefinite proprietor that no man has | felt called upon to see that fraud is not perpetrated. To obtain illegal title to land has been classed with such jocular lapses of conscience as that which cheats one’s neighbor in a horse trade or surreptitiously purloins watermelons. The government, through its thoroughly familiar with these methods, and it is to prevent them much legislation is now pending. Theretis yet an empire to be’ saved frjuh 'unfair appropriation. The government to-day owns land, exclusive of Alaska, greater in extent than all that region east of the /Alleghenies upon which dwell people. There is enough of it to make twelve states like New York,, two like Texas or fifty like Massachusetts. There are 80,000,000 of acres ot it designate as coal land and 30,000,000 acres that may be irrigated. There is enough water power on it to turn the spindles of the nation, present and future. It occupies the position with’relation to the public that was held by the lands of Kansas a generation ago. The ingenious methods of its wrongful appropriation are many and interesting. Great stockmen have much, influence in state and county government in the west. The states have the authority to lease public land granted them by the national government for such purposes as the maintenance of schools and institutions. Through the influence of certain wealthy men of the ranches long strips of land are leased’ or sold. strips are in such forms as to Compare with the frame of a picture. That portion that would go to make up the picture itself is still government land. The stockmen have a perfect right, obviously, to put fences on the land they have bought or leased. But in so doing they inclose in their pastures vast amounts of government land, which, to law, it is unlawful to fence. This land is practically withdrawn from other settlement, for the homesteader locating there would be cut off from \the world by the fences and harassed beyond endurance by the cattleman and his cowboys. Another method of avoiding the letter of the law r in fencing -government land is to Inclose it almost but not quite. The fence around a field may lack but a foot of inclosing it and a stout post may stand on either side of this gap. No horse or cow ” could crowd through it. Yet the land is not inclosed by the fence. The live stock companies also make many filings on land through their herders and cowboys, who take up homesteads of 160 acres each. The homesteader is supposed to reside upon the land to make proof for the purpose of obtaining title. Where the cowpunchers are on a big ranch and moving back and forth* they can, by building a small shack on 160 acres, make~<uch pretense as to residence as to render it difficult to cancel the pending entry. In this way the companies are able to get title* to largn tracts, or at least control them for many years. There are several transcontinental railroad lines to which Congress has given the alternate or odd sections of land for from twenty to forty miles on each side of their tracks. This was given as an inducement to the to build into the desolate country in early times, but the result of it has been the loss of title to the government of land that is worth many times the cost of building the railroad. The odd and even sections are so laid out that the railroad companies’ grants are -as the black spaces on a checker board, the intervening red spaces being government land. Cattle companies purchase the odd sections from the railroads and run their fences to inclose vast areas, the fences crossing from one odd section to another at the points where these barely touch, as do the diagonal squares on the checker board. In this way the fences, strictly speaking, are on the land purchased from the railroads, but an equal amount o*f government land is likewise inclosed in the pastures. The Supreme Court has held that this does not-violate the Yet it is practically impossible for the general public to get at eveh sections, and the cattlemen are getting as much benefit from thejn as though they were actually ewned by them.

Sunday School || I LESSON ■. I Subject for June 5,4 MO. Jesus Walks the Sea.—Matt. 14:2236. - Golden text: “Then they that were in the. ship came and worshiped Him, saying, Os a truth Thou art the Son of David.” —Matt. 14:33. St John tells us that after Jesus fed the five thousand, the people were so delighted and enthusiastic that they proposed to take Him by force and make Him king. On this account He withdrew from them, giving His disciples orders to enter a ship and go before Him to the other side of the lake of Galilee. Having sent the multitudes away, He went up into a mountain to pray. Here He continued in prayer for a Ipng time. Jesus was givgn to much prayer while on earth. And if He needed to pray much most certainly we do. We learn that He is interceding for a lost world even now. It were vain to, try to imagine what He prayed for. when alone on earth. It was probably communing with God. A.good deal of our prayer should be communion. We ars all inclined to pray only when we havb some petition to ask of God. We should, like Jesus’, cultivate tho habit of communion. The wind iwas contrary to thei? course and theship was tossed op the waves. having a hard passage while He" was praying. It is sometimes so with us. We have a hard time facing the trials of’ Life, , when we, like the disciples are on the very errand He has commanded, ana. it seems as if He had rorgotten us. But He has not forgotten us, although we may think He has forgotten us entirely. In the fourth watch, of the nigha (about three in the morning). He came to them walking on the.sea. ; He performed one miracle, showing His power over nature, making it produce more bread. He now performs another to show His power over nature in subduing it by walking upon the water. .When the disciples saw Him, they were much disturbed. They shared the general theory of the Jews (all except the small sect of the Sadducee*), that there are disembodied spirits thal walk the earth. So when they saw Him they thought it was a spirit, and cried out for fear. Are we not lik« them sometimes when Jesus, bur best friend, comes to help us and bless us, ar& we not in ' our trials sometimes afraid of Him? Do we not sometimea imagine that the very providences that He is in for our good, are things te be feared? “Man in his present statfe. in the fear and perplexity of spirit which may so easily eveatake him’ sees apparitions; and thinks even his Sac viour, as. He dnaws near, in divine power, at nrst’to be such. This-how-ever, is better than, in the opposite, folly of boldness, to take a phantasm of his own thoughts as the Lord and Saviour.” (Stier.) But' Jesus says to them what He says to every troubled disciple in every trial, “Be of goo<S cheer; it is I; be not afraid.” Peter in the impetuosity of his love and zeal wishes to go to Him. Therd can be no doubt ’concerning the love* of Peter here manifested. It was th» same love that he manifested later* when he cast himself in the sea and. swam to shore to meet Jesus. (John 21:7.) A*friehd looks unusually good.’ to those who are in trouble. He cried, “Lord, if it be Thou, bict me come unto Thee on the water.” Ha had faith that Jesus could enable him to walk on the water or he .would never have set out as Jesus said “Come.”, That word come, meant “I will give you the power to walk on the water.’*] If Peter had not so understood it he never would hav.e started. So Peter started out .and walked a little distance.’ He actually did perform the miracle for a time. But he looked at his surroundings and saw the great waves and his faith beginning to weak-? en, he sank, saying, “Lord, save me.” Jesus reached for His hand and caught him and said unto him, “b thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?” There was nothing on earth that pleased Jesus more than the exhibition of faith, and nothingy that brought forth rebuke to His disctbles, like unbelief. This is a lesson to us. Dr. Whedon says: “This was a noble faith, but it was mixed with vain-' glory.” Going down to the root of vainglory We find the carnal mind, or inbred sin. It was a mixture of faith and fear, as he saw the waves dashing about him. Matthew Henry says: “Nothing but, perfect love will quite cast out fear.” Deter showbd a' weak faith after he heard the voice of'Jesus to require this sign or miracle in order to believe that it was He. Strong faith does not ask for signs and wonders but takes God at His word. “To take Christ at His word argues not .only the, perfection of faith but also the exercise of the soundest reason. He is to be credited on His worc£ because it is truth and therefore can neither lie nor deceive.” (Clarke.) The cause of beatification has been introduced at Rome of several negro Christians, whp were martyred for the faith in Uganda, British Africa. They will be the first martyrs of their race receive this supreme honor at the hands of the Catholic Church. Mankato, Minn., practically is assured of securing the location of the new mother house and laflies’ boarding’ school that the Sisters t)f .Notre. Dame are to erect In the Northwest to supplement the three that- they already have in other parts of the country.