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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-19
Sunday Study
THE FALL OF JERICHO.

The International Sunday School les
son for Oct. 10 Is found in Joshua vi,
$40. The memory verse is the goth
one Of the lesson. The golden text is
Hebrews XII, 80. The subject Of the les
son is the fall Of Jericho, but the stu
dent should read the whole chapter and
also the previous lesson wherein the
people were lead across the Jordan to
fresher triumph. The same hand that
divided the Red Sea and the Jordan
gave Isreal the victory at Jericho In
the beginning of the lesson Joshua was
told just what to do and just what
would happen, and he faithfully fol-
lowed orders and expected the results.
He was told to take up the ark of the
covenant and march around the city.
They obeyed orders. Implicit faith and
unquestioning obedience are what God
desires and delights in. No voice of
man was heard, nothing but the sound
of the trumpets as they marched this
first time around the city, probably
gazed upon in wonder by those in the
city, who may have assembled on the
walls to see this strange sight. What
was accomplished? Seemingly moth
ing. But they obeyed God.
And again and again they moved
around the walled city, and returned to
camp. Twelve times they went and
still nothing accomplished, and on the
18th round Joshua said Shout, for the
Lord hath given you the city" And
many thousand voices broke forth in
shouts Of praise and gladness and they
entered the city as the walls gave way
and the gold and the silver and other
metals were taken and put into the
treasury of the Lord And of the peo-
pie none were saved except. Rehab and
her household.
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nay Be a Curse
Or a Blessing.

the period of adolescence is difficult to
estimate. The boy who makes such stuff
his diet can hardly fail to deteriora tie
materially. Unconsciously our souls re-
spond to atmosphere. Our minds are
formed by what we feed on, much as our
bodies. Let a lad live with Objectionable
people, it matters whether they be flesh
or. blood or mere creatures of the novel
lists fancy-sooner or later such associa-
ton is bound to tell on him. He learns
to admire brute strength and low cunning;
he gets false ideas of what constitutes
good time" his respect for law and
order, decency and good morals is gradu-
ally undermined. The way is paved for
his career downward.
Once We lose our ideals-that is. our
love for the good, the true. and the
beautiful-we lose alike the desire and the
power to attain them; a sort of dry rot
sets in; decay of moral fiber follows and
evil conduct results.
1t may be thought that the reading
of trashy literature is not general AIasi
that it should be so, but the fact is,
that it is alarmingly prevalent. Not only
messenger boys, but multitudes of school
boys, are eagerly devouring stories of
the very worst character. So general. in
deed, has the evil become that the libra
ry associations of some states have be-
gun to wage war against the sale Of
trashy literature to minors.
To cure evil has been the rule of the
past. To prevent evil is the rule of the
present. People, young people especial
ly, have formed the reading habit. 1t is
wisdom for their elders to provide for it's
legitimate qualification, and to supervise
its legitimate indulgence.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-19
JoHNNY'S PA.

My pa he always went to school,
He says, an studied hard.
Wy, when he's just as old as me,
He knew things by the yard!
Arithmetic? He knew it all,
From dividend to sum,
But when he tells me how it was
My grandma she says, 'Huml"
My pa he always got the prize
For never bein late,
An when they studied joggrefy
He knew bout ev'ry state
He says he knew the rivers an
Knew all their outs an ins.
But when he tells me all Of that
My grandma she just grins.
My pa he never missed day
A-goin' to the school
An never played no hockey nor
Forgot the teachers rule,
An ev'ry class he's ever in
s The rest he always led.
My grandma, when my pa talks that way,
Just laughs an shakes her head.
My grandma says at boys is boys,
The same as pas is pas,
An when 1 asst her what she means
She says it is because
She says at little boys is best
When they grows up to men,
Because, they knew how good they were
An tell their children then.
Baltimore American.
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Beecher's
Prophecy.
Nmerjea' S Prosperity.

shadow that the future of our nation
already casts is so vast that they fore
see that they are falling into the Sec
ond rank, that the will of the republic
is to be the law Of the world. 1t is
mainly and deeply the dread Of our gil
gantic national development in the fu-
ture that has been coiled up as the
handspring under all the other rea-
sons, excuses and pretendings that has,
consciously or unconsciously, moved
the whole mind of England"
Assuredly the great Brooklyn preach
er had clear vision of the future
In the financial and commercial world
the United States is not only rapidly
displacing England, but in many i'm
portant features has already actually
surpassed her. Some of the English
people regret it, but the broad, pene-
trating thought Of that country has
long since seen the handwriting on
the wall and known that the inevitable
hour was fast approaching. And in
stead of being for all time CONNER
cially or financially injured by Amer
lean prosperity the British people will
be ultimately vastly benefited. They
will share both directly and indirectly
in our increasing prosperity, and yet
the Americans who preached that doc
trine from platforms in England during
our civil war were hooted at, threat
ened and almost driven from the coun-
try.
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whole territory, because OF the enor-
nous extent Of that territory. but It
might easily adopt the German zone
system and offer similar rates upon
packages sent for the moderate dis
lance that covers nearly all shipments
from merchants to suburban custom
ers or farmers to customers in the city,
The postal Investigation Of three years
ago showed that, despite the heavy
rates charged by American railroads
for the carriage Of our mails, these
charges rarely exceed a cent pound
on matter shipped less than 100 miles.
If the United States postal depart
ment could secure from the railroads
as low terms as these roads will OBJ
viously make with the express COM
pany on the English parcels shipped
under the new contract, we might have
low parcels post rates for long dis
tances. However, the establishment Of
a zone system of parcels post, with low
rates to near points, need not wait up
on a revision Of railway rates.
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Cbe Bdgue Court.
At Last 1t
Has a Case.

AS for the "Pious Fund" its story is
a curious one. Originally private
benefaction, 1t was administered by
the Jesuit missionaries of California
from 1897 to 1857. After the expulsion
of the Jesuits it was transferred to the
Franciscans, from whom the newborn
Mexican republic took it, guaranteeing,
however, by way of indemnity, the
payment in perpetuity of per cent on
the capital to the church authorities,
"Perpetuity'' and the payments stopped
abruptly with>the cession of California
to the United States, and now the
church in California sues the Mexican
government for arrears Of interest
amounting to about $1,000,0o0.
Certainly a case which involves three
changes of custody and one Of SOW
ereignty should put the jurists Of The
Hague court on their metal, but they
are doing more than to settle a curl
ously complicated case in equity. They
are passing upon the first case ever
presented to a permanent international
tribunal and, 1t Is confidently believed,
setting in motion the machinery of a
high court of arbitration whose rulings
will be an important factor in consery-
ing the worlds peace.
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Question Box,

PRIZES-A prize Of a short story book
will be sent to the first person to send
in correct answers to questions annexed.
Address replies to Puzzle Editor, care Of
The GIob e, st. Paul, MINI.
ANSWERS to questions two weeks ago:
4S2-The term "Whig'' in United States
history denotes those who in the colonial
and revolutionary periods were opposed
to the British rule, and also it is the name
adopted in 1884 by the survivors Of the
old National Republican party, after its
overwhelming defeat by Jackson in 1882.
Jackson's bold action in Diminishing mem
bers Of his cabinet and his relentless war
in their eyes a tyrant little less hateful
than George, Ill, and the old name e Of Of
Wing was chosen as expressive of their
revolt against one-man power. Webster.
Clay, and other National Republicans and
old Federalists readily accepted the lame,
under which they were defeated in 1886.
and In 1910 won their first great victory
in the return of President Harrison. The
party died in 1852, slain by the hands Of
its own dissatisfied members.
S3-Ventriloquism is the art of pro-
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CHE Grufb

WOULDN'T ALWAYS SOUND RIGHT
Not long since Missouri editor an
nounced that he would confine himself
strictly to the truth in one issue Of his
paper. Following are a few of the
items which appeared the following
week:
John Bonia, the LATEST merchant in
town, made trip to Belleville yester-
day."
"Married-Miss Sylvia Rhodes to Mr..
James Carnham, last Sunday evening
at the Baptist parsonage. The bride is
very ordinary girl, who doesn't know
any more than a rabbit about cooking,
and never helped her mother three
days in her life. She is not beauty by
any means, and has a gait like a fat
duck. The groom is well known here
as an up-to-date loafer and has been
living off the old folks all his life and
don't amount to shucks no1low. They
will have hard life together, and we
hasten to offer no congratulations, for
we don't believe any good can come
from such a union.'
"Born-To Mr. and Mrs James BOYLE,
on Tuesday night, cross-eyed. red
headed brat, just the image of it's pro-
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IT IS COMING TRUE.

George Alfred Townsend, the noted
newspaper correspondent, better known
to the reading public as Cath grows
enthusiastic when he contemplates the
present prosperity Of this country.
'"Two hundred thousand miles of rail-
road" he says, two hundred million
dollars worth of cereals in one year,
sum up a work begun about 1882, or
seventy years gone by. No nation
ever worked as well as this in his
tory"
When Henry Ward Beecher was in
England in 1863, making speeches for
the purpose of showing the people
there what the North was contending
for in the conflict then raging, he was
often on the verge Of being mobbed.
The great majority of the leading peo-
pie of that country-those who held tt
ties and ranked among the great, and
those who held power because of
wealth or associations, were opposed
to the North because they wished to
see the union of states broken up. Not
SO, though, with many Of the common
people of England. They OWNED bet
ter than the aristocracy what was best
for their own interests. In that year
of 1863 Mr.. Beecher, while in England,
wrote:
"The root of all the conduct of Eng
land is simple and absolute fear; the
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Told by a
Missouri Editor.

fiigate father. Mother and child doing
WE'LL the father drunk as USUAL
John Doyle is doing poor business.
His store is dirty, dusty and noxiously
odoriferous. How can he expect to do
business?"
REV. Tom Slime preached Sunday
night on charity. The sermon was
punk. If the reverend gentleman
would live up little closer to what he
preached he'd have bigger congrega-
ton The editor of this paper attends
just because it is the proper thing. He
would rather stay at home and read
his exchanges"
"The x. z. z. society is selling tick
cts for a so-called charity ball, or rath-
er brawl, as all gatherings of that Or
ganization usually turn out"
Hank Hysen, chronic candidate
for office, has a gang at work for him
again this year. The public must sup
port these office seeking pests in some
form or other, and perhaps it may as
well give him job in one of the
county offices where some honest man
can keep tab on all the fees"
The issue in which this Missouri
editor told the truth" was the last he
has ever printed in that town.
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SELF MASTERY.

The Christian Endeavor topic for
Oct. 10 is found in I Corinthians tx,
25, Galatians V, 1926. This is a tenn
perance lesson in which self control and
mastery of self is discussed. Any man
who seeks to control others must first
learn to control himself. He must be
moderate and temperate in all things.
This was true of the athlete in the
Grecian games. Using the contestants
in these games as an illustration, Paul
says, Every man that Striveth for
the mastery is temperate in all things"
Necessity was laid upon a man under
these conditions of life to be temper
ate. The least Indulgence in that
which was harmful would weaken the
one who strove for the crown. 1t
would deprive him of his powers of
endurance, and who could expect to
win without the strength to endure.
Temperance is just as necessary in
the mightier battles of life The gIut-
ton and the drunkard have little
chance in the race Of life. The evils
that accompany and flow from excess
sive indulgence in food or in drink
unfit a man for the duties and fespon-
sibilities of life. Like the weakling in
the race, he is soon left behind, and
when the crown is awarded it does not
rest upon his brow. To master life we
must first master ourselves. We must
be temperate in all things.
But, though self mastery is so i'm
portant and necessary in the race Of
life, it is not so easily attained. Solo
mon declares that the man who con-
trolls himself is greater than the one
who takes a city. It must be easier,
therefore, to capture a fortified city
than to be complete master Of ones
self. And it is.
Many great generals who have been
most successful in winning battles
have lost in the greatest conflict Of life
the conflict with self One of the
worlds greatest eonquerors died vic-
tim to his lack of self mastery. If we
expect to master and to control our
selves let us not imagine that we are
to engage in an insignificant contest.
Battles are lost by undertaking the
strength and resources Of the enemy.
Let us not lose the battle OF life in this
way. The human passions are strong
and powerful and can only be over
come by trust in God, by prayer, by
constant vigilance and the exercise Of
all the power that God has given to US.
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Revival of
Coercion.

population Of Ireland that year was
4,458,775, which includes also the SOL
diers and sailors doing duty there at
the time the count was made. This
shows a decrease of 245,975 in the ten
years between 1891 and 1901, or 5.23
per cent. The population in 1871, at
the last census previous to the great
famine, was S,199,S53. 1t had been
increasing steadily along to that time
and kept on growing to the famine of
1S46-47, when the population must have
been in the neighborhood of 8,400, 900,
but under the stress of that calamity,
through starvation and emigration, it
was cut to 6,514,473 in 1851. 1t has
been going down steadily since then.
Ireland's population today is but little
more than half Of what it was in 1916
These figures tell pathetic tale Of
physical calamity and misgovernment
The former was sporadic, but the lat
ter has been constant. Doubtless it
was the famine which caused IreIands
down start in population, but it is the
misgovernment that has made the de-
cline continuous.
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F TTNITED sTATEs VS.. MEXICO.

THE UNITED STATES VS.. MEXICO.
At last the international arbitration
court, the only tangible outcome of the
peace congress of The Hague, has a
case before it for adjudication. It is
not so much the case itself, but the
fact that a case has been brought be-
fore it, that is significant. For a year
and a half the high court of arbitration
has been duly constituted, ready to
hear and pass upon the disputes Of
nations but no cases were submitted
to it, There was some danger that it's
very existence might be forgotten.
Quite in accord with the liberal spir-
It of this continent, it has fallen to two
American nations, Mexico and the
United States, to make the first appeal
to The Hague tribunal. The case sub
mitted, that of the 'Pious Fund, is a
very pretty quarrel from every legal
point of view, and it is not so impor-
tant but that the decision may be ac-
copied without any strain upon the
loyalty Of either nation. This prom
ises that. the first session will be Of
considerable interest and that the
Judges will have the great advantage
OF proceeding imperturbably without
regard to Interior embarrassments.
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How to Make
Them So.
BappY SebooZS, !.

to you an keep the floor clean (This lad
has the dirtiest floor, desk and teeth in
the room, and is further renowned by be-
ing the greatest fghter.)
A little fellow handed in this: "To
make neat work, be quiet, clean floor read
well and study your spelling"
Nellie, aged nine, says: LET US be
quiet. Stoudy. When you are down
(done) stoudy your lessons
Sarah, of about the same age: "You
must not be greeting at your seat. Obey
the teacher, forever and ever. Amen.
Don't make her talk too much. Have
respectable for her. Tease not old peo-
pie. evidently teachers.)
An aesthetic little girl said: "Have
sunshine In face and smile to the mouth
and keep floor tidy
boy. who at least is honest, if poor
speller, said: Don't take amy thing
or OF ;, anybodies dest. Do whot she
A polite young miss says: keep your
BOOKS clean. Excuse yourself if you bump
beast"
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ducing tones and words without any mo-
tion of the mouth, so that the nearer is
induced to refer the sound to some other
place. 1t does not depend on any Pc
culiar structure of the organs of voice. but
upon practice and dexterity. The name is
founded upon the mistaken supposition
that the voice proceeds from the belly.
The art Of the ventriloquist consists main
ly in taking deep Inhalation of breath,
and then allowing it to escape slowly; the
sounds of the voice being modified and
mufffed by means of the muscles of the
upper part of the throat and of the pal
ate. The ventriloquist avails himself at
the same time of means such as are en-
ployed by slight of-hand performers to
mislead the attention. Ventriloquism is a
very ancient art; the Greeks ascribe it to
the operation of demons, and called ven-
triloquists Epaastrimanteis (''belly- proph-
ets").
QUESTIONS to be answered Nov. 2:
4S7.-What is Hades?
488.-What is the Litany?
4S9.-Who is MephistopheIes?
490.-Are there any fresh water pearls?
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Reading. !. !.
HAS GREAT INFLUENCE.

HAD GftEAI INFLUENCE.
1t is odd how the same taste may be to
one blessing and to another a curse.
Take that of reading, for instance To
one it Is a gateway to paradise of lofty
ideals and noble companfonships. To an
other it is gateway to a hell of evil
thoughts and vicious associations.
As one goes about in the street cars
here, one continually sees uniformed boys,
and some not in uniforms, absorbed in
highly colored paper-covered books; A
glance at the boys shows that the books
title or cover indicates that they are
thoroughly Objectionable. The writer sat
next to one of these boys-1nessenger
boys they are-the other day, and read
odd passages of the story in which he
was buried.
In every city there are news stands
where pernicious literature is sold for a
mere song-the mails carry the same stuff
to the country. The titles and illustra-
lions Of these books give one a fair idea
of their contents. Desperadoes and gam
bling, and shooting figure in every chap
ter. The boy who feasts on these ''yel-
low backs will pass to detective stories
for a while his blood will be fired by
the pursuit of wrong doors by human
bloodhounds, and, as our sympathies are
usually with the under dog in the fight,
he will learn to pity the eVil-doer who Is
overtaken by his crimes. This lad will
graduate as a reader when his library
is made up of French novels whose plots
hinge on breaches of the seventh COM
mandment.
The evil effects of such reading during
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PROPOSED BY THE LITTLE ONES.
A teacher in one of the Minnesota city
public schools gave her pupils this ques-
ton: How can we make school happy
Here are some Of the answers she re-
ceiyed:
By a little girl aged nine: "Do not ENJOY
your teacher. Try. to be threw your work;
Study your spelling when you get
through (She carried her principles into
practice, and she was a model pupil.)
John, aged ten, sent this: Keep quiet.
Don't walk heavy: Treat your seatmate
kindlv. Don't talk. Obey the teacher
Do rur work neatly. Help your seat
mate >ot to talk" (John's maXims were
dead letters, as far as carrying them out
was concerned.)
A little tot wrote that: eve must keep
your fingef nails and desk clean.'
A boy whose spelling is not all that
could be desired wrote: You mus mind
the teache (teacher) and keep your face
clean and keep the teeth clean, an when
you go home look If your desk is clean
an be kind to others as they will be kind
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WEARING BIRDS ON THEIR HATS.

Dear friends, while we rejoice in life,
in growth, in the gladness that fills these
crisp autumn days, in which warm sun
shine and cooling breezes mingle in such
exquisite proportions as to make the air
we breathe like nectar, let US not forget
that every one Of Gods creatures is, too,
in love with living. The purveyors of
F'advance styles in millinery" tell us that
aigrettes are to be popular again this sea-
son. Commenting on this information a
lady was heard to remark that she was
very glad of this because she could wear
those dainty plumes without compunc-
tions of conscience, knowing that the bird
was not killed in order to obtain them.
That many women who could never bring
themselves to compound an act of cruelty
sufficiently to wear dead birds or CULTS
breasts upon their hats, will yet purchase
aigrettes because lacking knowledge of
the practices necessary in order to OBTAIN
them, we are sure; and it is for their ben
eft that we publish the letter sent out
by the Audubon society.
''No form of feather adornment has been
or is more harmful in it's effects than the
wearing of 'aigrettes' or herons plumes.
These dainty, graceful feathers, unlike
the distorted skin of some poor humming-
bird Or warbler, carry with them no sug-
geStiOn of death, and many women on
whose bonnet they are placed is wholly ig
norant of the unSpeakable cruelty the TAX
ing of these feathers entails. If each
plume could tell its own sad history ev
cry humane woman in the land would
raise her voice in protest against fash
ion which threatens with extinction one
of the most beautiful of animal creatures.
Those interested in the sale of heron's
plumes often deceive purchasers by tell
ing them that these feathers can be pro-
cured without injury to the bird, or that
they, are found after being shed; both
absolutely false statements which. never
theless, deIude the uniformed into be-
ing participants of a crime against ma
ture at which their souls would revolt,
If they but knew the sickening facts in
the case.
! 'Aigrette- pIr1mes constitute the we'd
/ ding dress Of the several species of white
herons or egrets, and are worn only dur
/ ceedingly sociable in disposition. and
! when breeding gather in colonies or rock
cries, often containing hundreds Of pairs.
ed a rookery by watching the birds as
they fly to and from their nests, surveys
the ground, learns the lines of flight fol-