Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 15, 1920, Page 4

NORWICH BULLETIN, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1920 Berwich Gulletin und Goufies 124 YEARS OLD =, LT A ———r— Do Petefie ot Nerwich, Cvem. o WEEK ENDING MAY 8th, 1920 10,662 AN OFFER TO ACCEPT If the report is true and Caranza has Been offered the change or been given | 1o understand that he would be protected during the steps that would be nices- ®ary to get out of the country through Wera Cruz It will be a great mistake if W does not ageept it provided he places any valuation upon his life. From soon after the revolution began 1o get underway It has been evident that he must go down aaginst the tide ot oppositien. Driven from Mexico City and prevented from getting to Vera Crus at present, whatever fight he is Waking at the poimt half way between eln never restors him to the head of the Mexican government. It doesn't seem probable that he can keep his opponents Sufficlently engaged to even permit his wscape through some other port, and eertainly he cammot expect to hold out and place himself at the head of such a force as Viila has been annoying him With for the past several years. Obregon in ordering that Carranza be Ppermitted to quit the country and that his life e spared i he is captured is following a wise course. He is endeav- wring to avoid the conditions which have fellowed the overthrow of other presi- dents of Mexico and by such a course as Be is taking he is bound to get the re- Jpect and confidence of other countries which too often accompany such over- which 100 often acompany such over throws. Thus even though he is foreed to get out of the country Carranza if Be has any gratitude at all has reason to wmbrace the opportunity for saving his e In this as well as in other respects, especially where he pledges Mexico to a Policy of cooperation with the United States. expresses approval of Monroe docirine and the desire for friendly re- Iaitons with this country, Obregon and dis conscious ¢ the grave mistakes that Been made by his former chief. shaping & course which sheuld aid him materially his ambitious effort to Become president of that republic. o have He is in THE POSTAL SERVICE It is interesting to note that while the Sfministration has been keeping thou- sands of employes in Washington who have had nothing to do except to sit in their swivel chair and put their feet up on the desk, there does appear to be a disposition to pay much attention to the appeals which aroc being made by the postal employes for a readjustment of their pay. Even the fact that they have a life Job is not sufficient for some of them to stick to their job in view of the inducements, temporary or other- wise, which are being offered in other Mmes. The result is that a large num- Ber are leaving that service, the same a8 many of the experts in other branch- #8 of the government ars being picked % by private enterprise. Along with these conditions there is the fact, which has long been evident that the postal service of the country is far from being what it should be. This is mot a mew condition. It has been Bothering the country for a long time in spite of the fact that the people are suppesed to get the service for which they pay. We have long experienced the effect of curtailing postal expendi- tures to the point of making the depart- ment & profit-maker regardless of the character of the service remdered. This has resulted In the lack of sufficient help in the handling of the mails and the do- Now on top of all this the postal em- ployes are making the claim that in ad- to the extra work imposed by Ihe lack of sufficlent help they are not able to get suffilent pay to keep up cot of living. Instead of pay- a lot of war help whose services are longer meeded it would appear ad- visble to give the request of the postal employes for more pay the attention that is entitled to and through the keeping the department of experienced men to the people the service that they a right to expect but are not get- Poor servics more than offsets any the department may report § ¥ ting. profits to award him o distinguished service, medal for his excellént work makes the present attacks that are being made up- on him look like the digging up of things that were not worth paying attention to during the war and trying to make mountains out of molehills. ‘What this inquiry should amount to it it is going to amount to anything worth while is to disclose Whetlier our first line of defense was what it should have been and whether there is an op- portunity to benefit in the future from the lessons that have been tamght im this war. That, however, doesn’t seem to be the purpose of Secretary Danieis| who is trying to crush Sims because ha dared to stand up for the best interssts of the navy. He is dodging the vital things. LONG NEEDED LEGISLAT What promises to be the action that is needed to bring about favorable action by both branehes of comgress upom the budget bill, a plece of legislation that has been needed for a long time, is the agreement in conferemce on the changes that will be_submitted to bath branches of congress' in order to reconcile ‘e differences in the measure as it passed the two houses. According to the conference results the budget will be handled by a buream which will be under the direction of the secretary of the treasury. This Is the feature Which the senate favored against the plan of the house to place the busiget Girectly under the president, thus mak- iug him responsible for it. The otier changes which have been made hy the conference committee in order to get te- gether deal with points which it has nat been difficult to overcome in reaching a compromise, and With the conference committee making a favorable report the passage of the bill seems only & mat- ter of formality. The budget legislation was one of the first things on the programme of the present comgress. It is therefore quite important that it should be en- acted before the adjournment for the summer is taken, out even more im- portant than that is the fact umat the country is fn need of jur. suca reform ac a budget system wiil briae. There has been no good and sound reason for holding to the peemem’ me of carrying on the nation’s busirers spending money regardless of ana tha real- requirements or without knowing where the money is going to com: fion: It s time that this was gottaa onto a busi- ness basis, that it should be dene in the ‘way a large corporation would do it and that the country should get the benefit of actual efficiency in this respect. And along with the improved method of ear- rying on federal busimess there should result a saving that will be of no small importance. IT MAKES A PIFFERENCE President Wilson it seems stands in the position of fully understanding when others should act, and act boldly, but cannot see the necessity of applying such reasoning to himself. This is dis- closed by the cablegram that was read Dbefore the senate naval ~investigation committee In which President Wilson indicated his disappointment at the fail- ure of the British navy to accomplish things and told Admiral Sims that the situation called for greater action, that prudence should be disregarded and that bold steps should be taken even though it meant big losses to stop the subma- rines and drive the Germans out of their holes. Tt was of course one of those long dis- tance views In which many indulged. There were many things to think about, many points to proteet as well as many ships to guard. It was a case of telling Sims that the British were slow, that their policy was wrong and that different action was needed. The adviee wasn't accepted but when the right time came the nes on the Beigian coasts were cleaned out, without sacrificing a great number of lives. How decidedly in contrast was the ac- tion of the president in regard to the of the British navy against the Germans and the action of President Wilson himself in regard to the Mexican situation. Though this country was not at war with Mexico, our neighbor to the south was disregarding its obligations and doing practically nothing to safe- guard the Mves and property of Ameri- cans. Over 500 Americans have been killed there in the past few years and vet In spite of the need.of taking some immediate step that would ey AT under a watchful, waiting policy that displays weakness and toleration. ‘Whether such conditions in Mexico will be changed as the result of the revolu- tion remains to be seem, but if it is it will not be the result of our policy, but activities THE MAN WHO TALKS | Some time ago somebody said: “Let's Kknock the underpinning out of the high cost of living by wearing overalls.” It may have beem said in jest, or it may not.. Anyway, it started a feasible idea that seemed to take. At first-it was regarded a8 ome of these numerous fads that so- ciety quickly takes'up, and as quickly drops. Interested parties simply sneered —for a while—and said “It is like the grass of the fleld which today is and' to- morrow is cast into the oven.” Very soen, however, they began “to sit up and take notice.” Blue denim was selling better| | tham blue serge. The energy they put into sneers’ was now put into marking down shoddy suits from $69.47 to $37.13. But this somersault touched the reasom- ing faculty of the general public, and it began to argue in this way: “If goods can be sold at a profit for $37.13, what must have been the profit when the same goods brought $68.477" This conclusion has not left a pleasing taste in people’s. ‘mouths, and at last account blue denim| It is an old but true ssying that| “murder will out” This dees Hot mean that every murderer Wwill be. brought to capital punishment, er even to justice. But it does mean that, sooner or later, there is something in murder that is Self-revealing. Possibly some _other. things closely allied to murder “will-out” also. The following story of the experi- ence of a well known shoe manufacturer of eastern Massachusetts illustrates this point: Traveling in the middle west, he Went into a shoa store and bought a palr of his awn make. When ke inquired for the price, the dealer told him they were $15. “Now look here,” said the manu- facturer, “why do you charge such a vrice? T sold them to you for $5.” This, of course, is not murder, but a hold-up. 1t is doing today what Robin Hood once did in Sherwood Forest. Can’t some in- genious American do for our footwear what overalls has done for our wearing apparel? A little twist of our inventive wrist would give these and other things a toboggan slide. It is mot essy ta decide just when len- fency ceases to be a virtue. It is mueh harder for the judges of our eourts to be just than appears to the lay mind. To strike the golden mean between severity and sentimentality is more of a problem than it seems. ‘Where shall we put up the half-way house between kaiserism and Quakerism? In our Christian revolt against Russianism we are swinging to the opposite extreme in dealing with Rus- slan criminals in this country. Bolshevism has spread in this country because the propagandists know we are a long- suffering people. A year or so ago the people of Rochester, N., Y., in their de- sire to be friendly to the “stranger within our gates,” offered the use of the city’s schoolhouses, lighted and heated, to their Russian neighbors for the study of Amer- icanism. But these immigrants used these buildings for teaching the duty of overthrowing all governments. All Rus- sians were urged to burn, loot and mur- der as the opportunity arose. Their ob- scure native language protected them from the police. In 2 case like this, how far ought we to be lenient? T have = great admiration for Sig. Nitti, the present head of the Italian government, not because he was once professor of economics In the University of Palermo. Sometimes notoriously li tle men get imto the professor's chair, but Nisti was successful as a teacher. Neither is it because, for the time being. he chances to be prime minister, for the premiership, like the professorship, is not always proof positive against mental and moral inferfority. Sometimes a ‘“‘pull” and sometimes bull luck get men into positions that make angels weep and devils laugh. But not so Nitti; he is where he is because the good sense of the Italian people demanded that he be put where he is. Nitti's leading claim to}| greatness is his capacity for —making friends; it really amounts to genius. A disgruntled politician went to his office #o censure ‘his policy, but he came out and told a companion that “Nitti’s- the stuff, after all?” His magnetic person- ality has held Italy together during the Fiume -controversy and he has done it by making friends. A man who can do| that needs no throne to make him a King. He is born kingly, and it cannot b hid. This world ef ours Is, and always has been, chock full of contrarieties. but of all things. Nature herself is the most erratic. She displays her spiteful temper in the weather she is giving us in these days; beautiful and bright for about ten consecutive minutes, reminding us of roses, early peas and surf bathing, and then, without any warning, the clouds ovarcast the tky, scrding down cold rain or slect. m ¢ us think of empty coal Lin: ard steam licaters as dead as old Marley’s ghost. Nature revels in the erratic, .sending up crocuses through the snow, and sending down hailstones inta an oven as hot as Dante’s Inferno. She laughs at us when wc stop the lown mower to run down eellar to feed up the furnace. Nature, in the garb of For- tune, plays the same strange tricks with her sons and daughters. She let the great Mozart de a pauper and be buried in the Potter's field ; but scarcely had the prince of musicians grown cold before statues and concert halls over all the earth be- gan to spring up m his honor. John Ty- ler, president, on one occasion had one action by Mexicans.® It seemed well enough when others were in charge to urge Qifferent action, but when self is involved only a deaf ear is turned to pleadings for action. EDITORIAL NOTES Of course you are all ready to help open the straw hat season today. Of course the world Is waiting to see whether the ego. In Obregon has been overdeveloped. , Among other things the home garden- er understands that blisters are easy things to raise. It takes a long time for some peopls to realize that strikers make large addi- tions to living costs. —_— The man on the cormer says: The effect of prohibition is to' be noticed in DANIELS' ANSWER connection with the Investigation of charges by Admiral Sims regarding mavy In the war and the claim it was not properly prepared, Sec- Daniels has been engaged for sev- days in putting In his testimony, it may seem his efforts blackening the eyes of showing that our navy that it had & plan of op- that there was no reason expected it to show more ef- i ¥ i £ character of his tes- natural that reference “smoke i ; i ;.!gi 1 i L] v X this season of biooms. Of course the only things in the Car- iranza regime that his successor needs to be guided by are his mistakes. If Agerbaijan has declared war on IArmenla it means the allies will have to increase their attention in that part of the world. Those whose refusal to work is foreing others ¢o remain idle are doing quite as much harm to the working class as the profiteers. When a jury finds a clothing firm sullty of profiteering it speaks quite as effectively as if the accused had com- mitted suicide. If the Ukrainians have actually cap- tured Odessa it cannot he expected that the boisheviki will submit to it passive- ly. That is too important a port to lose without a struggle. Attorney General Palmer has fixed the profit of the wholesalers at one and the retailers at two cents a pound on sugar. That means the profiteering must be done ;before it reaches these dealers. Carranza making a futile fight. He cannot expect to win and much needless bloodshed could be prevented if he would take advantage of the proteetion promis- ed by Obregon although he may distrust Mexican promises. volitical gang in the east room of the White House singing “Hosanna,” and at the #ame «ime a mob irom the opposing sarty on the 77out lawn howling “Crucify him, crucify him!” Let s, then, common men, bow gracefully to these freaks, for it is all in the game. Nalture is a dear old girl, after all, but she's funny. Nothing _indleates more clearly the trend of character than wanton cruelty, Somebody has made the astounding re- mark that the men who stand in the front rank of greatness were all of them mer- ciful. Can you think of any great man who was cruel? It is a bad sign when a boy loves to torture insects and mal- treat animals. Not far from a certain street is a small frog poad Where the froga no longer peep. If you pass by that pond you will find most of them dead. The other day some of them were just crawling along with broken legs They had been stoned by hoys. For the Eoud of soclety such boys need to be watched as closely as lumaties and crim- inals. Here is 2 great field for the public schoel teacher. ‘We sometimes see things among chil- dren that completely offset such things as the above. A beautiful sight came to my notice on the street the other day. A little wee mite of 2 boy had fallen into the mud. Just behind him was a young miss not very much older and bigger than he. She found him scarcely more than tears, mud and offended dig- nity. But she helped him up, wiped. the tears and grime from the little face with a clean handkerchief, brushed his soiled clothes, and let him away, remarking! very sifply “Now don’t cry.” T wish you could have seen that look of unutterable grautude on the little face as he looked up into hers. That deed was small or great according to your standard of measurement. It was a little white hand that 4id it all-snot the hand that crushes Eelgimm—tt the hand thet moves the worid ! Stories That Recali Others Pretty Good. Aunt Mary was fond of her mephew James but she liked to tease him. She favored every ome of his whims, which Jimmy appreciated, but he didn’t like to be teased. The other night she began her teasing by taking herself as the sub- Ject. “Why, Jimmy thinks ¥m a wom- der,” and turned to little Jimmy and said provokingly: *Don't you think I'm pretty? Den't you think I'm good?” Jimmy was disturbed. He wanted 'to tell the truth and yet he wanted to keep his aunt’s favor. Finally he found his farms,” said the lady who always reading about impossible things. “And I | until the driver either tried to Kill her or think we are perfect .geese to keep on living in this grimy old town! was 2. complete ton of coal dust on our window sills this morning!” ‘band_gloomily. steered away from a silver fox farm on which' we stood to make thousand a year or so—and now you've backslid again and its chickens! Come on—let’s go to the theate wife went make a fortune even if the hems didn’t work hard at thelr job.” band interrupted firmly. we started collecting F would_drop down to 20 cents a dozen! And I certainly object to prospect of spending the rest of my life{ sitting in a chicken coop or sticking | oiled feathers down their throats: husband. * by cloekwork just The gasoline engines that pumped wa- Bt STRICTLY “I've been reading today about &hk.hln s There “Oh, heck!” said her badgered hus- “Here 1 just got you a hundred “With the present price of eggs,” his om - enthusiasticaily, “we'd “I know all about chickens,” her hus- “The minute eggs the price facing the: “Why, old Abaniah Hosmer, who was a man of firm will power and strict dis- cipline, died of a broken heart all about a hen! continued the lady's badgered verything on his place ran like a sweat shop. ter food and so forth all started on the dot and if the water tank got empty and somebody wanted a bath or desired to wash a panful of dishes he or she just had to wait till the precise minute for starting the engines. The very pigs knew better than to line up before it was time for feed and the hired men walked like soldiers and did a regular dress pa- cade before they milked, the cows. “But ‘the chickens did worry Abaniah. He was deaf to remonstrances. His wife very sensibly told him that dne . must consider the chickens' natural limita- tions and make allowances, but not Aba- niah. By keeping them locked up he could prevent many of their eccentrici- ties but there was one blundering old brown hen which invariably got out and sought the public highway. “There she would make a perfect spec- tacle of herself by, waiting till an aute- mobile approached and then she would rush into the middle of the road and try to ditch the car. She apparently went Isane with consternation at its approach and kept shimmying' this way and that escape her, and whichever feat he elected the hen emerged unruffled, while he usu- ally had to crawl out of the ditch and lelephone a repair station. “Abaniah felt most keenly the scorn of the populace for » man who could not vontrol and regulate the actions of one waving his arms at her one day when her mind was occupied with something else and she paid no attention. If it hadn’t been for that hen %ie might have lived ta be 95 vears old. “Another thing_about éwning chickens is that all disasters withip a radius of ten miles afe wished on to you. If a tors aado plows through somebody's cornfield. e says vour chickens got loose and did the damage, and if a bunch of boys steals 3ll the watermelons in a field the owner sends a eclaim letter to you. stating that he was looking out of his bedroom win- dow at 3 a m. and distinctly saw the procession of your hems and roosters) passing through his yard, each bearing a full size watermelon suspended from its beak. “It is mysterious, but chicken feed al- ways is just on the point of being all gome. You may have bought a fresh sup- DIy the day before, but if you mistakenly. Jook at it, there i§ barely enough left for that night's supper. And if you don't feed them thoroughly and promptly they et mad and die on you just for spite. T tell} you that the moder galley skave the' man who rune - o tren farm- and the -houses are full of him.” 3 “My goodness!” s Tady who al- ways is reading about impossible things, “then maybe. we hadn't better have a poultry farm, after all—anyhow, Bessie Jones was telling me today about her cousin who i king simply tons’ of money with a fune orchard—-" “Oh, what's the use?” moaned her badgered husband. “I'll buy you a dill Dickle grovée—or what say to an Ameri- can eagle ranch—something real cute and tasty—" “T don't care,” said his wife indignant- 1. “I have perfectly splendid ideas only you are afraid to use them! I don't think men have much business Sense!’— Chicago News. tongue. ‘Well, T do fink youre pretty £00d,” he said truthfully. Wants Bones in Their Backs. Uncle Tom likes his nephews but he seemed to be unusually parital to - the older one, who was three years older than his 3 months’ old brother. Tom's sister didn’t like this partiality and she decided to increase the affections for the baby. Thus when Tom was at the house she in- sisted upon his holding the baby. He bravely complied but the other day as he gingerly took him he remarke ‘Oh, Jane, I'm crazy about kids, as you know. But I can’t say that I like to take care of them until they get big enough to have bones in their backs.” Sunday Morning Talk THE BEATITUDES Ye are the light of the world. Matt. 5:14. In the opening verses of this ser- mon on the Mount eight characteristics of the Child of God are brought belol‘fi ws. He is “poor in spirit,” “He mourns,’ He is “meek,” “He hungers and thirsts wfter righteousness”, He is ‘‘merciful,” “pure in heart,” a “peacemaker,” and ‘persecuted.” To- each one of. these be- longs a peculiar and special blesedness. They are not characteristics belonging some to one believer and some to anoth- sr. They are all to be passed by each >ne and belong to Him simply because de is a child of God. They mark his position as such. As the seven primary colors together make a pure white, so the first seven in this list are elements of a perfect Christian character. The eighth marks a condition, but it is a condition which our Lord says belongs to all of His children—"in the world™ they “shall have tribulation” (John :33) “There is no man,” He says in another place, “that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters or fathers, or moth- er, or wife, or children, or lands, for My sake and the Gospel’s, but he shall receive an hundred fold now in this time—houses and brethren, and sisters and mothers and children and lands'- but He adds; it will be “with persecu- tioms, and in the world to come eternal fife.” (Mark 10:29-3¢.) These characteristics are not, how. ever, qualities which a man can acquire by an effort of his own. “They that mourn,” cannot refer simply or even chiefly to those who are bereaved or troubled through any temporal distress. It goes to the root of all sorrow, and that root is sin. Where there was not sin on the earth, there was no death and no sorrow. The true mourner there- fore, is he who feels the burden of sin, and grieves because of it, crying out with Paul, Oh wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death. But the promise to all such is, “they shall be comforted. Blessed are: the meek for they shall inherit the earth. When we see them going in and out among men gentle and humble unobtrusive, forbearing, patient, not seeking their own, but the good of athers, it does not look to the world as it their condition was very ‘“blessed.’ But the promise is sure. They have learned of Him who was “meek and low- ly in heart” Unlike the ungrateful servant whose lord forgave him a debt, the child of God having obtained mercy, shown in all his dealings with his fellowmen, and showing mercy obtains mercy through Christ his Lord, and the pure in heart are blessed because “they shall see God,” even in the world that is full of corruption. They see Him now by faith, and hereafter they shall see Him face to face. So also with “the peacemak- ers.” They go in and out among men, not only casting the oil of divine grace upon many troubles between man and man, but they are ambassadors to draw men to God through the reconciliation of His dear son. Such in brief sre some of the charac- teristics of God's true children. But the world in which they live neither appre- ciates hor understands them any more than their Divine Master. And it is just as true foday as it was when Paul wrote to Timo%y, that “all that will live god- ly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecu- tion.” But what then? What is the promise? Theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.” Man cannot ask more—God cannot give more. Five Minutes a Day With Qur Presidents Copyright 1920—By James Morgan LIV.—A FAILURE AT 39, 1822—April 27 Hiram Ulysses Grant, born at Point Pleas- ant, 0. 1839—Enrolled at West Point Mili- tary Academy as Ulysses Simpson Grant. 1843—Second Heutenant, U. 8. A. 1846—First lieutonant. 1846-8—1In the Mexican 1848—Aug. 22, 1853—Captain. 1854—Resigned from the army. 1854-8—A farmer in Missouri. 1850—3foved to Gaiena, IlL 1861—Colonel of 21st Hiinois Vel- unteer regiment of infantry. War. married Julia Dent. A tanner’s boy, who was born in ‘a two-room house on the banks of the Ohio, was named at his birth Hiram Ulysses Grant. Although simple -and modest by nature, he yet preferred clas- sical Ulysses to homely Hiram, and so he parted his name in the middle. As he was starting for West Point he be- came fearful that the hazers would nick- name him Hug and he turned H. Ulysses around, making it Ulysses H. On his arrival at the military academy he found that his name had been changed again when he firs letin board read on the Academy bul- the name of the newcor and all the cadets straightway hailed the shy, stumpy, freckled-face, blue- eyed, brown-haired, big-headed plebe as Uncle Sam, until familiarity reduced it to Sam. And Sam he was to them al- ways after, even when some of them grew up to be generals with him or gen- >rals on the other side in the Civil war. ot being a prophet, Cadet Simon Boli- var Buckner of Kentucky had no idea that,one day this still little fellow from Ohid' would send him a letter under a flag of truce at Fort Donelson, which would arouse admiring millions ‘to rise up and call the writer Unconditional Surrender Grant. Before becoming a cadet the boy's schooling had consisted mostly of hard work . . . hauling and sawing wood, plowing, harvesting, tending horses and 2ows and -driving stage. Yet he insisted in after life that it was better training than West Point gave him. It taught GIVES CREDIT THROUGH THE LAND Backache, lame and stiff muscles and rheumatic pains are often symptoms of deranged kidneys “I had weak blad- der, bad kidneys and liver,” writes Willie Carter, Luxar, Pa. “I could nat sleep well and my back pained me aw- ful. I had a dizay feeling in the morn- ing. Since taking Foley Kidney -Pills 1 have been relieved of ali such ail- ments.” They rid the system af the poisonous: acids_that cause aches and pains. Lee & Osgood Co. RECIPROCATION SALE HIGHEST-CLASS MILLINERY YES, BUSINESS IS THEREFORE THIS ECONOMY SALE GOOD WITH US— From May 17 to May 27 All of our high class Ladies’ fresh from our workrooms always low prices—at - $3.00 — $5.00 — §7.50 — $10.00 Trimmed Hats—ail new hats, daily—at about one-half our SPINGARN’S | 632-34 BROADWAY, New York City Where You Buy One Hat at the Wholesale Price Near Bleecker Five Blocks Below Wanamaker’s. St., New York by the congressman who appointed him | to the cadetship, this neighbor of the family having guessed that Ulysses middle name was Simpson, because his mother was a Simpson. Since the gov- ernment never corrects a mistake, U. §. Grant he had to remain ever after. Cadet William Tecumseh Sherman ! was struck by those suggestive initials ter “of “onie of hig id mot' reveal his the Mexican war, which interrupted the courtship, - Going M s a lieutenant, b came out a lientenant. After the war there was a wedding and . then a parting, with the young husband exiled to barrack life in far-aff Oregon and California. homesick for wife and baby, and indif- ferent to books. this manm, whose and speech were as clean as a woman's, found the only possible excitement in a bettle. In these days, when the best was no better than the worst west of the Mis- sourk, and where there was little to do except to- Taise a thirst, hard drinking was_ the. common diversion of army of- ficers at. the dreary frontier pests. Their legs_may have been hollow, but Grant's were not, and these betrayed him so badly that his captain gave choice of resigning or facing a court- martial Grant secretary of war—and sailed for York. Landing broke had to sleep on a bench in Park Row or on the Battery, mon_ Boliver Buckner. had not opened his purse to this forlora captain out of a job. On a little piece of wild timber land in Mi: ceived from her father as a wedding gift. Grant built & log cobin—it is now proudly pldce the well-deserved Scrabble. veddled around town the wood and the little garden he could raise. But his false, still dogged his heels, and, drifting into the eity, he turned first to a real estate ageney and next to a precarious little government job. As it would at charges on the money that his father was remitting to. him, he went to Ga- lena, T, where the Grants were pre pering there in an old, faded, blue army over- coat, he became a clerk under er brothers. breaking. w that he liked his new employment and was sanguine of success business. man in the old army overcoat. to Galena next spring, Grant still was known to the town only as the silemt By that e ‘other end foremost I should ‘have been mear the head.” That brown hen, and he burst a blood vesselfupdn lassmates. But he uering powers in Idle, lomely, life him the resigned—to Jefferson Davis, New he would have if his classmate Si- 1y ouri, which Mrs. Grant had re- exhibited—and he gave ge name of Hard He hauled into St. Louis and he cut el seductive friend, the bottle, least save express in the hide business. Arriving is young- The Unmion was already but he wrote to a friend in' the hide When Lincoln's call for troaps came token of his military experience. he was called to preside over the meeting to raise a company of volunteers, and he went with it to Springfield. Oflicers’ commissions were going Where the pull was strongest not know a politician at the state capital or in Washington. politicians in Springfield had was to hire him at three dollars a day to do the “paper work™ of the political majors and colonels. When one of thase colonels fell down in handling an unruly politieal aspirants shied at it as a tough job and Grant got it roy their colonel, two political spelibinders, were sent along to introduce calonel, who bad not yet barroywing the money with which he final- pufchased the orators ran the scales of bombast he writhed two long hours in his own ora- torical inferiority, as he sat there on the platform wondering what he could the curious soldiers, two toward the rang in the quiet but clear tones which won admi Point, €ivil war: Monday: A A Berlin dispatch says that “Gen- eral Ludendorff’s was the master mind behind the K mind is good, when you consider that revolution.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. One wonderful result of the Miehi- gan returns is that they dememstrate to each embattied camp the imvinei- bility of its chieftain. — Indianapolis |Star. at ot Brag 14 Dr. A. Garfield Anderson, statiomed The only use for the him | OF the gods, but that they may be in- duced to change their climatie iaten~ tions if properly apprvac sea. “It hasn't rained for from six to eight weeks, and crops are going to ruim. drying up” he says. “Five-year-old trees are dying from drought. Nvem the riceflelds are dry, and tihe grain s unformed. The people are sacrificing in various ways and praying for rain On almost every housetop one sees an learthen vase with a few branches in |it. and at the side of the ifruit, a heathen way of praying for rain. On the hillsides they write pravers on paper and hang them up for the gods to read. “In the market place in Wanju you can see a strange sight, another effart 10 bring rain. Twe dragons have been made. They lie between the huts ef the market place, one facing north and ione south. They are about 100 feet long. and about two feet hizh st the head end, tapering off graduaily to the tail and winding like 3 serpent. They are made of clay and have broken pieces of pottery stuck into their backs to represent scales. For five nights in succession the sarceress came qut to this place and danced and sacrificed for rain. If only they kmew how to tell their wants to the true God, from whom all help comes!"—Werld Out- look. regiment other To impress g youngsters who had broken the the new suceeeded in his first uniform. While in the world When at last. with an h. he was presented to he took a step or front, and them there ent flow tlon on the campus at West Grant's first command in the Men, go to your quarterst” ble Conqueror. and Her Jolg. Berl app revolution.” Master Everybody Is Happy. 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