The Syracuse Journal, Volume 5, Number 3, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 16 May 1912 — Page 2

The Syracuse Journal GEO. O. SNYDER. Publisher. Syracuse, - - * Indiana. DISCONTENT OF ONE WOMAN Ordinary Duties and Pleasures of Her Sex Only Bore and Irritate Her. I have been pushed on to make my discoveries in regard to the life of woman by two feelings—a feeling of alienage and a feeling of sex discontent. For several years now I have felt myself alien to this world, and alien not because of race or color, but alien because of changing economic condl tlons. It seems to me that sociologically, so to speak, I hang in a void midway between two spheres —the man’s sphere and the woman’s sphere. A professional career, which takes much time and energy, puts me beyond the reach of the average woman’s duties and pleasures. I do not regret these changing economic cenditions. For although they made my youth meager, they have made my maturity rich. Sometimes I think I am the only woman In the world who would not be young again if she could. This feeling of alienage is of comparatively recent growth. But that other feeling—sex discontent —has oppressed me all my life. Not since I started to do my own thinking have I been in any doubt as to which sphere most attracted me. The duties and pleasures of the average woman boro and irritate. The duties and pleasures of the average man interest and allure. This seemed the most shameful of all my discoveries. But I soon found that it was a feeling which I shared with the majority of my kind. . I have never met a man who at any time wanted to be a woman! I have met very few women who have not at some time or other wanted to be men. It was only after careful observation and long thought that I discovered the reason for my sex discontent. I had to go back to the very beginning.—lnez Haynes Gillmore in Harper’s Bazar. The Voice From Below. Do not be afraid, do not cry out, for life is good. I came from low down, from the cellar of life where darkness and terror reign, where mar is half beast, and life is only a fight for bread. It flows slowly there, in dark streams, but even there gleam pearls of courage, of intelligence and of heroism, even there beauty and love exist. Everywhere that man is found, good is; in tiny particles and invisible roots —but still it is there. And these roots will not perish; some will grow and flourish and bear fruit. I bought dearly the right to believe this; therefore it is mine, my whole life, my whole life long. And thus 1 have won yet another right, the right to demand that you, too, believe as I flo, for I am the voice of that life, * the despairing cry of those who remain below, and who have sent me to herald their pain. They also long Jo rise to self-respect, to light and freelom.—From Maxim Gorky’s Suppresssd Novel, “The Peasants.” The World’s Great Rivers. ' r The longest river in the world is the Amazon, which runs through Peru, Ecuador and Brazil in South America. It is 3,944 miles in length. The secsnd longest river is the Nile in Africa, which is 3,500 miles long. The Misilssippi is only the third longest river with a length of 2,600 miles. The Missouri, however, is its longest branch, ind including it the Mississippi has a total length of 4,200 miles. The Mjis•isslppi drains most of the territory between the Rocky and the Alleghany moutnalns, embracing an area of 1,257,545 square miles, while the Mackenzie river, which has a total river system of nearly 2,000 miles, drains an area of little less than 600,000 square miles. I Pigmy Hippopotamus. News has been received in London that Capt Hans Schomburgk, who is at present in Liberia, has captured and hopes to bring alive to Europe a pigmy hippopotamus, of which only three stuffed specimens are believed to exist in the world. Capt. Schomburgk has also shot a pigmy hippopotamus of the same kind and has further discovered an unknown dwarf elephant which, when fully grown, attains the size of a cow and of which he hopes to secure a living specimen.—New York Tribune. Resigned. "I hear your daughter is to be married to .young Midgeley.” “Yes. They’ve decided to have the wedding in June.” “I think I heard you say once that you would rather follow a daughter of yours to her grave than see her be come the wife of that fellow.” “Oh, well, that was before I hac found out about his good qualities. He showed me how to quit slicing mj drive.” Surely Not. Johnny—Paw, what does a newspaper mean when it says “our esteemed contemporary?” Mr. Rivers —It usually means, my boy, “the miserable, contemptible, lying, snarling little sheet that pretends to consider itself an organ of public opinion.” F Always at Hand. “There Is at least one kind, of worker who has always material to burn." “Who is that?" “The firebrand.” Almost Maternal. » "You have heard, of course, Mrs. Whiffle, that Dr. Wiley, the apostle of pure food, is no longer connected with the government?” “Why, no. Dear me! I hope the quality of Fido’s biscuit won’t deteriorate." 9 His Experience. “Some people think it’s sharp to advertise,” sneered the merchant who didn’t. "I think it Is,” said the other merchant "I know It's dull if you don’t"

WOMAN ON A THOUSAND-mTIE WALK W- ■ ■' tasted ■*- -I MKk - -•' ’wffwJß JEBS - w WaSgM””' ■ i MHLF f Id noBW* y wgTSBd MRS. DAVID BEACH, who started recently to walk fjom New York to Chicago, Is making good progress despite bad weather and heavy roads. She Is making the 1,000-mile hike on raw foods In order to demonstrate the efficiency of such a diet Mrs. Beach, who Is a musician, expects to reach Chicago on June L

CATTLE FOR WORLD

English Syndicate Secures Pasture Land in Brazil. Plan Under Way for Exports on Huge Scale — Building of Railways Makes Gigantic Project Feasible. London. —The report that a wealthy syndicate has been formed with the object of rearing cattle on an enormous scale in Brazil for export to the principal markets of Europe has been received with considerable interest in this country, and in some quarters jven with surprise, it being imagined, ipparently, that Brazil never would be likely to enter into serious competition with Argentina as a beef producing country. In the past, lack of :ransport facilities certainly rendered snterprise of this kind out of the question, but th€, development of the railway systems of the country has been to remarkably rapid in recent times that the difficulties which prevailed ire fast disappearing. On the score Df the suitability of the country for :attle ranging those people intimatejy icqualnted with Brazil’s,vast areas of rich pasture lands have no doubts. They prophesied long ago that one lay they easily might occupy a leading, if not first, place among countries rompeting for the custom of the European consumer requiring large supplies of meat from abroad. Discussing the project, an official of ;he Brazilian consulate In London stated that they had not yet received details concerning the territory acjuired, but it was considered likely chat it would prove to be situated in the state of Piauhy in the north of the rountry. This state contains some of the finest pasture land in Brazil, and ilready does a small export trade in jxen. “Some people,” he added, “have made the mistake of imagining that Brazil is not suitable for cattle rang-

TRAITOR TO BOTH

Ma|or Rogers Was Unfaithful to U. S. and British. Bcldier of Revolutionary Fame Given Unfavorable Name by Friend and Foe, According to Data of Detroit Historian. Detroit, Mich.—C. M. Burton, official historian of Detroit, has found a number of letters, written 150 years ago, which prove conclusively that Major Robert Rogers of New Hampshire, the first American soldier to take possession of Detroit, companion of Generals Putnam and Stark, of Bunker Hill fame, was a traitor both to the British government, in the EYen ch and Indian wars, and to the colonial government, in the Revolution. Major Robert Rogers was in command of a body of provincial rangers which were ordered to go west shortly

OPENS OFFICE FOR CUPID Spokane, Me., Pastor Says He Will Not Marry Drunkards or Divorced Persons. Spokane, Me. —The Rev. Dr. James W. Kramer, pastor of First Baptist church, has opened a business office In Spokane’s banking district, where he will be on duty daily from 9:30 o’clock in the morning to 2 o’clock in the afternoon. Mrs. Kramer has been installed as chief clerk and stenographer. Official announcement is made that “any one In the world but a drunkard or a divorced person will be married with a long or a short service.” Dr. Kramer made this statement: "I shall mix with men, know men, be one of them, but never compromise with any of them in any way. In undertaking the policy of the aggressive minister I shall extend a welcome to everybody in my office, and as I personally pay the rent I can have privacy when desired, a thing that was out of the question in a ’church.

ing on a large scale. They seem to think that her coffee and tobacco plantations and mineral resources represent her chief commercial assets. This is quite an erroneous idea. In reality the vast stretches of rich pasture land she possesses may easily be the means in the ruture of elevating her to the position of being the foremost cattle raising country in the world. WEARS BRAIDS TO WIN PRIZE. Mystery In the Unshorn Locks of Stephen R. Lund, of Warren, N. H. Boston. —The only full-grown youth in the land with hair that never has been cut is wearing rich, thick locks in braids like a to win a mysterious priz6 of $20,000. That sounds like a romance, but it’s true. Here’s the story. The mystery boy is Stephen Richard Lund, and he has lived all his life at Warren, N. H., a little village in the very heart of the White Mountain foothills. Stephen Lund will be seventeen years old on the 6th of next July. In answer to the query, “Why is it that your son never has cut his hair,” Mrs. Lund replied pleasantly: “Why, he never has, that’s all. As a boy Stephen had beautiful hair, just like a girl. It was thick, rich and glossy, and we hated to cut it. Year after year went by and we never did cut it. Some say he can’t cut it or he’ll lose all the money. But there’s nothing to that story. The Lord knows I wish he did have a fortune coming to him, but as far as I know he has not Pretty soon, next summer, perhaps, I guess he’ll have It cut.” The boy’s mother was a Miss Cora Wiley of Lowell, Mass. She runs several small businesses and owns property in Warren and neighboring towns. The boy’s maternal grand-

after the battle of the Plaths of Abraham, and take possession of the French posts here in the name of the British king. Putnam and Stark both were with him on that expedition. The letters found by Historian Burton were written by Rogers when in com* mand of the post here, to some one named Robertson, in which plans for selling the post to the French government are discussed. The letters indicate that the bargain was about to be completed, but there is none to tell why it finally failed. History has recorded that Major Rogers was under suspicion when he was transferred from Detroit to Michilimackinac, but the proof of his treason did not come to public light until now. In 1776 Rogers was tried for attempting to sell Michimilimackinac to the Spaniards, who then controlled the upper part of the old Louisiana territory, but was acquitted. He then went to the Barbary states and enlisted under the bey of Algiers.

SPOON, BUT BE MODERATE

That’s Pittsburg Chief of Police’s Latest Instructions to Couples. Pittsburg.—Despite other year protestations by uplift organizations, the W. C. T. U. and other opponents, Police Superintendent Thomas A. McQuaide instructed his force to recognibe the open-love season by permitting youth of all circles to use the parks for spooning within certain limitations. “Ab in every large city,” said Superintendent McQuaide, “there are belles and beaux who have no conservatories, cool, cosy corners or porch swings in which to entertain. The parks are provided for these. It has been my experience that, the summer evenings find as many youths and maidens of our wealthy families strolling in the parks as the boys and girls of the •Working classes. “It Is no new custom for these to drift to. shaded benches and commune with ope another. Pittsburg’s police-

father, who rumor says is the one who made the extraordinary will de claring that his grandson should inherit a fortune at a certain age UJ his hair remained uncut until that time, was Dr. John Wiley of Warren. He was known as an old-time “herb doctor.” He is said to have been a spiritualist, a seer, who read the fortunes of his townsmen and one who made remarkable cures with odd medicines, which he prepared secretly PRAISE FOR MODERN WOMAN Mrs. F. S. Potter of Chicago Addressed Trade Union League at Kansas City, Mo. Kansas City, Mo.—The modern woman is the victim of unjust reproof through too much praising of “the virtures of our grandmothers,” according to Mrs. Francis Squire Potter of Chicago, who addressed the Woman’s Trade Union league hero. Mrs. Potter is a committee chairman of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. “When we speak of our virtuous grandmothers, with our eyes reprovingly upon the women of today,” she said, “it behooves us to calculate how much time a woman can take to do the necessary things of the home while she is working at a week. The virtues of the housewife of a generation ago are now the luxuries of the well to do. “That women of the olden times were forced through economic conditions to perform the homely duties of cooking, making clothes and keeping the home clean does not mean that her sisters of today, who must help support the family by work outside the home, are in any less degree women.” Murder Warning Came Too Late. a New York.—Warned by a Chinaman that a murder was about to opcur, detectives hurried to a building in Chinatown, broke down several barricaded doors, and found Chin Hing Jung, a member of Chinatown’s Four Brothers’ society, lying dead in the basement

When the Revolution broke out he returned to America with a profession of patriotism and was given a commission in the Continental Army. But General Washington lost faith in him. Finally he became a colonel in the British army and was proscribed and banished, in 1778. under the laws of New Hampshire. TELLS HOW TO STAY WEDDED Anna Held Gives Secret of Happy Domestic Life and Talks of Love. New York. —Anna Held, who has sued for divorce, gave the secret for hdppy marriages. She said first that the happiest marriages were among the poor. Both man and woman should marry for love only, and when united the man should be the master; if the wife erred, she should be forgiven, for she was the weaker. “To stay married,” added the stage star, “there must be congeniality between husband and wife and a couple never should be separated for any length of time.”

men are sufficiently well versed in human nature to differentiate between true and false love-making. Accordingly, I have decided, as I did last year, to have them only supervise such demonstrations. They will end at once anything they deem to be counterfeit. “I will venture to say that any father and mother of mature years, if honest, will admit that they stole away to the parks or roadways in their youth and indulged in handholding.” Father of Victim Pines to Death. Cumberland, Md.—Grief over the death of his favorite daughter hastened the end of Lewis F. Elosser, who died here. Grace Elosser and Charles E.' Twigg were found dead in the parlob of the girl’s home in 1910, the day before they were to have been marrie<|. The mystery of their death was solved. Her father almost every day took flowers to her grave, He 'never recovered from the shock and gradually pined away.

~1l "II—I Advertising n Talks n I F 0000000000000 oj ADVERTISING HOPE OF HOME How a Woman With a Wife-Beating Husband Secured Results That City Officials Denied. Advertising does pay. A woman in Seattle has a husband who had formed the habit of beating her. She did not like the treatment but saw little chance of alimony, so she advertised In a Seattle paper for “a man to thrash a wife beater; ten dollars reward; easy work.” A young man applied, administered tffe prescribed treatment received his wage and went off smiling. The woman said she had applied for relief to the mayor, the chief of police and the prosecuting attorney without satisfactory results, but when she advertised in the newspaper she secured instant response. All of which goes to show that if you want a thing done advertise for some one to do it for you. . The business of beating wife beaters is one that should appeal to husky young men who carry "a kick in either mitt” and, likewise, “the punch,” comments the Wichita (Kan.) Eagle. It is a form of chivalry, and we might expect soon to see established in large centers of population an order, the Knights of the Ready Fist, or the Society for the Discouragement of Wife Beating. The newspaper columns may carry many advertisements, not only those placed by wives who have been beaten, but by active and progressive human thrashing machines, who will appeal thus: “Wanted —By enterprising and ready young man, the position of thrasher of husbands who beat their wives. Husbands weighing under 148 pounds preferred. No wives with husbands weighing over 169 pounds need apply. Can punch with either hand.” Os course, if there is too much of this wifely retaliation and hired sabotage introduced into domestic life, husbands addicted to the habit of wifebeating may form a combination and hire their own defenders. The moral of the whole matter is, however, that it pays to advertise. Let any maltreated wife now say to her bully of a husband: “If you are not good I’ll advertise.” The end of wife-beating is in sight. And yet some say the newspapers do no good! DROP ALL AD. SCHEMES Laporte (Ind.) Merchants Sign Agreement to Patronize Nothing But Newspapers Hereafter. Merchants and professional men of Laporte, Ind., members of the Merchants’ association, to the number of over 80, have signed an agreement, in which they bind themselves not to patronize any individual scheme of advertising other than those offered by newspapers of Laporte county or bona fide publications. In the office or place of business of every signer of the agreement a card has been posted setting forth the agreement and being explanation sufficient to the advertising solicitor why it is impossible for him to do business with members of the Merchants’ association. The text of the agreement follows: “We. the undersigned business and professional men, do hereby agree among ourselves and with the Merchants’ association of Laporte, that from and after April 1, 1912, we will positively refuse to patronize any individual scheme of advertising, other than those offered by newspapers of Laporte county or bona fide publications. “Program advertising, donations, tickets and all such similar schemes that have been the cause of so many unjust demands upon us are especially referred to in the above agreement, and from the date mentioned we bind ourselves to the agreement, signed herewith, our word that no such scheme will be aided by us, either individually or collectively, unless the same be first endorsed by the advertising committee of said Merchants* association of Laporte.” Had to Agree With Gladstone. In his “Recollections of a Court Pointer,” Mr. Thaddeus relates that when Mr. Gladstone sat to him at Florence he was accompanied by Mrs. Gladstone, who “whispered to me as she entered, ‘Above all things, my dear, agree with him in everything he Bays.’” This true story might be capped by the remark of one of Lord Beaconsflelds’ characters in “Endymion” that “an agreeable person Is a person who agrees with you.” gut one would like to see what Thaddeus thought of Gladstone disagreeing. The “One-Time” Ad. The “one-time” advertiser abandons the field right after the sowing, and the weeds of public forgetfulness grow over his immature plant To be sure, there are exceptions to this rule. Some ‘one-time” advertisements are highly productive, just as some seeds yield :rops a hundredfold with practically io care or attention having been bestowed after the planting. However, :hese Ohly prove the rule. —John A. iteddan. Would Encourage Marriage. Citizens from Aculco, state of Mexico, nave come to this city, says the Mexican Herald, to complain against the action of the parish priest who recommends that all men of marriageable age should marry because if they do act they are liable to be enlisted by neans of a lottery and made to serve in the army. Always a Chapce. When a man wishes to\ make a fool t jf himself he doesn’t to hunt ‘long for an opportunity.

DON’T BE AN IMITATORORIGINALITY WILL WIN By BERT M. MOSES. President Association of American Advertisers. Roughly speaking, I should say that more than half those who fail do so because they try to imitate somebody who has succeeded, and this is particularly true in advertising. Just the minute the word goes along the line that a man has succeeded in some advertising plan, that minute a dozen or a hundred imitators spring up. They try to copy his plans, and imitate his packages, his advertisements, and his procedure generally. They do not seem to understand that success is not so much a matter of plan, or of copy, or of medium, as it is a matter of personality, and sometimes even a matter of chance. It is not given to the human family to look into the future far enough tc see what the public is going to do, because the public is \he most fickle thing on this earth. A man who comes along and promotes something that the public “takes to” Is heraldede as a “wise guy,” or a man with wonderful intuitive proclivities. If he promotes something that the public rejects he is set down as a fool, sometimes preceded by an adjective. I am willing to admit that one man can do a whole lot more than another, but I will not admit that any living human being can say in advance what any certain line of advertising of any certain’ article is going to surely do. We must simply take our chances with the rest, and follow the three or four set rules in advertising which are so broad and general that they can be said to apply not only to advertising, but to every human endeavor. One of these rules is that permanent success comes only from truth telling. It comes only when promoting an article of merit for which there is or can be a widespread use. It comes only when promoted by a man who believes in the article, and who takes a pride in keeping up its quality and in dominating the field. It comes only by adopting forms of advertising which reach the most people at the least co’st, chiefest of which is the evening newspaper. It must be advertising that creates a favorable impression and stimulates a desire to buy. It doesn’t make any difference whether the field is apparently all ready fully taken up with a-ticles of a competing nature. It doesn’t make any difference whether somebody else has tried practically the same thing and failed. It doesn’t make any difference whether everybody says such a thing is impractical or not. If the right man comes along at the right time with the right article, and does the right sort of advertising, he is going to win out in spite of Hades, high water, and court injunctions. A Lesson From the Hen. Here is a bit of philosophy which we strongly commend to the attention of those merchants who, selling just as good wares as their more successful competitors who advertise, cannot understand why the volume of their sales, and hence of their profits, is relatively small. When a duck lays an egg she just waddles off as if nothing had happened. When a hen lays an egg there’s a Whale of a noise. ( The hen advertises. Hence the demand for hen’s eggs instead of duck’s. Keen analysts may object that it isn’t the noise the hen makes, but the superior flavor of her eggs, that impresses the consumer. The answer to that is that the public taste is largely a matter of educational advertising. If the duck and her ancestors had been advertising as long as the hen has dier product would undoubtedly occupy as high a place in the popular favor. The Customer You Are Walting On. Splinters says “a man behind the counter” is like a man on the bank of a stream catching drift wood. The point is not to worry over the logs that may be coming down the stream, or to worry over the ones that have already gone doWn, but to catch the logs that are right before you and get them high and dry on the shore. The customer you are waiting on is the only one worth considering, wait on that one as though it were the only one you ever expected to get—as though your future business exist ence depended on giving absolute satisfaction, and so handling this particular case that the customer would never deal elsewhere. / Unprofitable Advertising. * “There are two kinds of advertising that do not pay—dishonest advertising and advertising that isn’t lived up to,” says Jerome P. Fleishman in the Baltimore Sun. “By not living up to advertising I mean not backing it up with service to the customersomething that every advertisement implies and something that every reader of advertising has a right to expect” Getting Even. Mrs. Much-wed —Henry, I’m not going to put up with this a bit longer. I’ll take the baby and go away to mother’s. Mr. Much-wed—Yesh, an’ I’ll take the jewelry and go away to uncle’s.— Pail Mail Gazette. Always a Chance. A man’s destiny is never closed. Every moment he has the power to pour into the empty vase of the past the red liquor of a strong purpose, and of that which was a grief and shame he can make an inspiration. The Art of It Blobbs—‘‘You say Skin can steal your money and then by clever words make you think he did you a favor by taking it? What is he, a hypnotist?" Slobbs—“No, a politician."—Philadelphia Record.

teEBNMIONAL SUNMSffIOOL Lesson (By E. O. SELLERS, Director of Evening Department, The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) LESSON FOR MAY 19. THE OLD LAW AND THE NEW LIFE. LESSON TEXT—Matt. 5:17-26. GOLDEN TEXT—"He that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law.’—Rom. 13:8. J If there is any one thing we as Americans delight In, it is in enacting laws. We seem to have an insane idea that al! the ills of human lifqt can be cured by legislation. There seems to be a correspondingly greater carelessness in the matter of law enforcement. Jesus did not found his kingdom upon a multiplied number of “Thou shalt not’s,” of merely negative enactments. He took the old Divine law and “fulfilled” 1. e., filled it full with life. He put purpose, life and vitality into that law. . He transformed it from an outward formal observance to an inward heart motive. At the outset of this lesson Jesus not only says that he will obey the law of Moses and the admonitions of the prophets, but that those same principles shall apply in the hearts of the citizens of his new kingdom. -That moral order which is in accordance ’ with the Divine standard is still to be observed. Christianity gives no license to its followers. The righteousness which is of Christ does not lessen our moral obligations. Jesus says that not the least “jot or tittle," the smallest part of a Hebrew lettqf, the “dotting of an I or the crossing of a T” shall be set aside. They must all be realized in the lives of his followers.. Responsible for Teachings. In order to emphasize this still further, he tells those whom he calls appoints to his service that they shall be held responsible for what they teach, as well as what they, practice, with regards these commands. To teach men to break one of the very least is to become least in his new kingdom. To obey and to teach others to obey is to become great in this new kingdom. Such is the importance he places upon the Old Testament teachings and his statement as to its authors. Let us beware reading into his words any meaning that shall set aside this portion of Holy Writ, or that shall suggest any question as to their accepted authorship or authority. ‘ But Jesus was also aware of the danger of outward obedience or mere perfunctory fulfilment of that law together with the myriads of traditions that had grown up with |t. Hence it is that he so specifically w'arns his followers that their righteousness, I. e., right relations, must exceed that of the Pharisees whose loyalty to the law r and to tradition is so famous. His followers must keep not only the form but the spirit also, and so he goes on to illustrate. Beginning with an* old commandment, “Thou shalt not kill,” he shows us that the outward final act of murder is but an outgrowth of the spirit of a man's heart, hence he who hates his brother man is in danger of, 1. e., already in the power of, those forces that In their culmination will bring him before the tribunal. Anger, contempt, condemnation (“thou fool”) all of these are unrighteous. they are criminal, and the sentence of death already rests upon him who will not repent of these things. Nothing more clearly reveals the i state of our hearts than the way we j speak to or about others, whether our speech be full of love or hate, selfish- ’ ness or generosity. The difference between the one who hates and he who kills is only accidental and not esseni tial. “In danger of hell.” Jesus clearly i indicates in all of his teaching a fu- ! ture state of punishment as well as . one of bliss, and granting that these words are only symbolical, of which j we are not convinced, we must pray l to be delivered from the reality. These words are of the merest nonsense if they be not true, and certainly we cannot accuse Jesus of jesting nor suggest him to be a feel (lacking in knowledge) as he speaks upon so serious a subject. When we contemptuously or flippantly upon the subject of hell we are reflecting upon the wisdom and knowledge of Jesus. . Jeaus* Philosophy Simple. “Rememberest thy brother hath aught against thee?* The philosophy of Jesus Is perfectly simple. If anger is criminal he who Is guilty must of necessity become reconciled to that one whom he has offended. Not merely that we are to* forgive those who have wronged us. for that Is not such a hard matter. But we must get right with our brother who has aught against us before our gifts will be acceptable unto God. Some one has said, “it Is tar easier to give up a coin than to give up a quarrel. It la easier to lay down a generous ottering than to lay down a grudge.” This requires haste. w« must agree with our adversary quickly or else he will turn upon us and presenting his righteous cause before the tribunal bring upon ua a judgment for our anger, our cenaoriousness. or our condemnation. Once thus brought before the judge, be it an earthly tribunal, public opinion, or a loving God. our opportunity la past and we shall be obliged to pay to the uttermost, even bo small a part as a farthing—about two-fifths of a cent Os course we ’know the difference between a man -having a grudge against us and his having juat cause or claim against us. We cannot control the hearts of others. but we can set all just causes or i claims aright and then forgiving his grudge even seventy time* seven we shall find our catering not only acceptable In God’s sight, but a sweet smelling savqur as well. It 18 because of a lack of adjustment rightXhere that so many of j>ur prayers areMiot answered. We nwst settle these \ just claims sometime;, let us do it ‘Quickly.”