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do" A wider application is, however,
frequently given to the words; /. e.,
they are interpreted as applying to
both Jews and Romans. One interpre-
ter has even gone SO far as to say,
and through them to all mankind. >
The whole question turns on the mean
ing of the one little word them"
Does them" mean only the Roman
soldiers who drove the nails which
held Him to the cross, or does it mean
all-both Jews and Romans-who were
present and concerned in the crucifix-
ion? Did 1t include Plate? Under the
circumstances We know them 1t
seems to be rather a loose exegesis
which applies thu en- ito all mankind"
One of the saddest phases of human ma
ture Is manifested in the fact that the
public execution of a felon usually draws
a large crowd. Some local newspapers
give a paragraph to revival, and then
three columns and a photograph to a
hanging. A very considerable proportion
of the human race-to the shame of our
species be 1t written-seem to find a
strange attraction in gallows scenes. Why
does not every civilized government under
heaven require that executions be strict
ly private? This debased and debasing
love for the sight of an execution Is no
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FRACTIONAL CURRENCY-By j. c. Hiden D. D

competent exegesis gives, saying excited
ly what you don't want it to say?
John A. Br ,ddus was once discussing
with his uiIcle, William F., the meaning
of certain passage of Scripture. They
differed as to it's proper Interpretation.
The trained exegete was getting the bet
ter in the argument and William f. had
sense enough to see 1t. So, after being
pretty effectualiy demolished he ocular
ly said: well, John, you may say what
you will, but 1 shall stand by my opin-
ion, for one of the best sermons I've got
is based on my Interpretation of that text,
and I've no notion Of giving up that
sermon" How many preachers have re-
fused to accept the view that Peter was
the rock" Qn the passage, ION this rock
I viii build my church"D, because that
Interpretation would give aid and COM
fort to the Roman Catholics? We are
not here arguing for the correctness of
this Interpretation, but we are arguing
against a false and dangerous motive for
rejecting 1t. You have no right to inter-
pref your Bible with one eye on the
text and the other squirting at Cardinal
Gibbons. Don't refuse to let the light
be turned on for fear it may help the
other fellow"
The mind of the Apostle Paul, like the
mind of his Master, was saturated with
the Old Testament. 1t is evident that
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modern thing. Among the Romans of the
first century a crucihxion was the rep
resentation of our hanging, and the cruel
fixion of Christ drew crowd of idle
loolIers-on. This motley crew acted after
their kind, /. e., they Joined their bet
ters,' the rulers, in hurting coarse gibes
at the innocent and gentle sufferer. l do
not say, nor do l think, that the evan
gelists had the matter in mind but their
accounts of the crucifxion do strongly
emphasize the truth that public execu-
tions are terribly demoralizing. That
scene of the brutal soldiers gambling
under the cross for the seamless coat"
of the Son OF God Is one of the most
revolving that was ever drawn by a hui
man pen.
Here is a paragraph for preachers:
If some of our scientific" preachers and
writers would study what is called 1.-THE
historical method of Interpretation, they
might save themselves the trouble of FIR
ing off sermons and essays upon ''the
Mosaic cosmogony." Does any rational
human being, who has taken the trouble
to look into the history of the matter and
is competent to form an opinion on the
evidence, really believe that Moses ever
heard or thought of "Cosmogony ?" Can
any real student believe that anything of
the kind was revealed to Moses? So far
as we can see, 1t would be about as reas-
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that smote him. OF all the men of his
generation, on either hemisphere, Chris
tian or pagan, Grover Cleveland had the
least of the spaniel in his character, and
his fame will wax with the years, and a
double decade in the immediate future
no list of the dozen greatest Americans
will be considered that does not contain
the name of Grover Cleveland, one of
the mighty democratic quartet-Jefferson
Jackson, Tilden and Cleveland.
1t looks as If opportunity is again hunt
Ing up the democratic door to knock on
it. 1t is now manifest to the most OBJ
fuse understanding that tariff revision "by
its friends is not only a failure and an
impossiblty, but failure and hypocrisy
They have revised the tariff up" though
by juggle of Lying figures there may
appear revision down." Many duties
absolutely prohibitory have been slightly
reduced, though still prohibitory, and
many duties not quite prohibitory are ad-
vanced with a view to making them pro-
hibitory. Taxation is increased in the bill
and revenue decreased.
If the democratic party Is worth the
devils bringing up it will have 100 ma
jority in the House of Representatives in
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half of its surface can be cultivated. The
frugal industrious Jap has made the bar
rem rocks of the mountains productive.
The sides of the mountains have been ter
raced and on these rocky shelves layers
of soil have been spread and here the
native raises his vegetables On account
Of this scarcity of land, cattle and horses
are seldom seem The cabs 0inrickashas)
of the cities are drawn by men and
throughout the country heavy loads are
drawn by a number of men harnessed to-
gether. Captain Hobson, our representa-
tive OF the Sixth Congressional district,
has ever since the Spanish-American
war been urging Congress to increase our
over the ground and studied the situation.
He realizes, as do all who have visited
Japan, that the Jap must have more ter
ritory. He tells us and tells us truly
that 1t is only a matter of time until we
will have war with Japan. The day will
come and that In the not far distant flu
ture when the American army and navy
will be called upon to chase the Japs out
of the Philippine Islands. The question
is can We do It? I think not. Every army
and navy man In the government service
who has studied the question will tell you
that Japan can take the Philippines
whenever she chooses and can hold them
after she takes them.
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ton 1t has learned that the way TO get
things is to make fuss.
The baby cannot be blamed. 1t has
been educated in the art of getting things
by means of bowls and strivings.
There is sleeping, for instance. Any
body knows that babies are born with
the perverse notion that daytime Is for
sleep and nighttime is for keeping others
from sleep.
Even a man kens that babyish pro-
penslty
The baby needs educating, that's all
1t will require firmness to administer
the first lesson. Baby will squat its
precious head off when you turn down
the light. Let 1t squat. 1t will eventually
save many squalls. After the first lesson
baby will learn that night is the time for
sleeping.
And SO on as to everything The sooner
the kid learns obedience the better and
happier the kid will be.
When 1t grows older 1t will perhaps de-
mand that you carry it about. That Is
the survival of the primeval laziness
and there must be another lesson, else
you, the mother, Will go about with
dropping shoulders and careworn face
a forlorn beast of burden.
Don't!
If you bow to the nod of the baby
boss and go about with weary feet and
aching back and racking nerves 1t is
your fault, not the baby's.
Moreover, you will cause a twist in
your childs character that may give
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enable to credit the great law-giver with
a knowledge of the telephone. He would
have been "astonished out of measure"
at some of the science which is now
ad9ys attributed to him.
An English nobleman is quoted as say
ing that the conversion of India to Chris
tianity will take place in a different way
from that generally anticipated: and that,
when the absorption of Christian truth
has gone far enough. native opinion will
declare itself, and "a nation will be born
in a day" An exchange" in quoting
this, asks: "By the way will somebody
tell us where this quotation occurs? We
have often seen it, but do not think it
is in the Bible" In Isaiah 66:S we find
the words: Shall the earth be made to
bring forth in one day, or shall nation
be born at onceY" This, we imagine, is
the passage aimed at in the attempt to
quote; but then, when man is wise
enough to tell us just how the conversion
of India to Christianity will take place
under 1.-The absorption of Christian truth"
what is the use of his consulting an old
prophet, or, indeed, any other authority?
Can he not do his own prophesying and
evolve his scripture out of the depths
of his own consciousness? But seriously:
That English nobleman might find some
profit In studying job IS 2-"Who Is this
that darkeneth counsel by words without
knowledge"
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China is beginning as did Japan, to cast
behind her countless~centuries of ancient
supersttions and is rapidly preparing to
take her place in the foremost ranks of
the world powers
Nine years ago, during the Boxer upris-
ings the allied forces of the powers had
little difficulty in landing their soldiers.
Today such a procedure would be vastly
more difficult. Instead of being opposed
by bowling hordes of fanatics, armed
mostly with swords, lances, SUNK pots
and bows and arrows they would be met
by 10000 wel-armed we'll drilled and
well equipped soldiers, officered by old,
experienced and we'll seasoned campaign
ers from the German and Japanese arm
les. At the present time China has two
small arms factories capable of turning
out 1000 modern rifles every day. They
are under the management of competent
Swiss mechanics; their product Is made
by Chinese of native material. and Is an
excellent high power magazine gun that
will stand comparison in every respect
with our modern Springfield repeater. The
Chinese army Is modelled after the Japan
ese; they spend a great deal of time In
the rifle ranges and are excellent shots.
The Chinaman, like the Jap, is a fatal
ist His hatred of the Christian is in
lieves that If he dies in battle with the
Christian he goes straight to heaven.
Asia for the Asiatics," is the cry of the
oriental nations. They are tired of seeing
their territory gobbled up piecemeal by
the Christian nations, and since japan
has so successfully checlSmated Russian
racapcity in Manchuria, they are waking
up to the fact that they must be on the
defensive and are rapidly preparing and
schooling themselves in the art of mod
ern warfare In order to be able at any
time to drive off the invaders of the ter
ritory that they justly consider their own.
During our late "unpleasantness with
Spain the German warships stationed in
Manila bay tried very hard to take
hand In the scrap that Dewey started
with the Spaniards. Judging by appear
ances, Germany has chip on her
shoulder and would like a war with u.s.
but does not dare to tackle us SINGLE
handed, but with such a power as Japan
as an ally and China's vast wealth. great
natural resources and countless millions
of men to draw upon, she would not hes
itate to go to war with U.S. Why does
Germany want war with America? Be-
cause she has vast colonies in South
America, especially in Brazil, and the
Monroe doctrine stands between her and
her desires. Any army or naval officer
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Hawaiian Islands, $4,000.

Hawaiian Islands, $4,000
Thirty per cent of these Japs are vet
Grams of the two wars Japan has fought
and won since she has entered the realm
of civilization. In each of these con-
fiicts her policy has been to strike first
and declare war afterwards.
The fact that the great army that China
is organizing under the tutalage of Ger
man and Japanese military men has some
deep subtle meaning that the American
government would do well to fathom.
Have the Germans and Japanese signed
secret treaty? The Japanese nation is
nothing more or less than a vast secret
society. On several occasions Japanese
have been arrested in America for taking
photographs of our various Notifications.
Why are there more than a quarter of
a million Japs on the Pacific coast? Why
did German warships make such hostile
demonstrations against Deweys fleet in
Manila bay during our war with Spain?
When we take into consideration the
fact that nations who are friends today
may be enemies tomorrow and that since
the dawn of history the nations of the
east have always been at war with one
another, 1t is reasonable to conclude that
We will always have wars until the time
comes, If. 1t ever does, when the nations
will disarm and the worlds peoples live
in universal frendliness and good fellow
ship. Should Germany and Japan jump
on us simultaneously Japan could, with
her 80 modern transports, land an army
of 100,0 900 men on our Pacific shores, cut
our six lines OF communication between
the east and the west across the Rocky
mountains and hold that territory in
definitely. Should such a war occur
Japan has at the present time as many
veteran soldiers in North America as the
United States army has enlisted men.
Japan could take the Hawaiian Islands,
including the Notifications at Honolulu,
with hardly effort. She has $4,000 men
there at the present time. With Homo
lulu as a naval base and Germany ham,
mering us on the Atlantic coast, Japan
being without opposition on the Pacific,
could land as large an army on our shores
as suited her pleasure. Japan, as mat
ter of self-preservation, must have more
territory. 1t is nothing like as large as
our largest state, yet 1t supports so. 000, 900
people. The Japs are the most prolific
people in the world and their small island
empire is the most densey populated
Every year adds half a million to their
numbers In few more years there will
be standing room only" The country
Is of volcanic formation aud only about
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A POSSIBLE FUTURE WAR-By H. S. w. M D.

cruiser, Is guns; South Dakota, armored
cruiser, Is guns.
SECOND SQUADRON.
Milwaukee, protected cruiser, IA guns;
st. Louis, protected cruiser, IA guns.
THIRD SQUADRON.
First INSTRUMENTATION, protected
cruiser, IA guns, Cleveland, protected
cruiser, 10 guns; Denver, protected cruz
SER 10 guns; Galveston, protected cruiser,
10 guns.
Second Observation-Disclosures, protect
ed cruiser, 10 gunsi Wilmington, gunboat,
s guns; Helena, gunboat, guns; Villa
bobas, gunboat, guns; Samar, gunboat,
8 guns.
The main battery of an 1S-gun armored
cruiser consists of 8-inch guns and IA
6-inch guns. The secondary battery has
% 3-inch guns The main battery of the
armored cruisers Tennessee and WASH
inston. have 4 10-inch guns and is 6-inch
guns. The secondary battery is the same.
A protected cruiser has main battery
of from ten to IA 6-inch guns. All cruisers
have two to four topedo tubes. The gun
boats are armed according to size. The
Pacific coast has coast defence guns at
only three points, namely, Seattle. San
Francisco or Golden Gate and San Diego.
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cation. But how many, even of our
most fashionable" churches, are made
up of people a majority of whom can
afford to spend the summer at Deer
Park or at Bar Harbor? Hardly enc,
We suspect. But here is an anecdote
A Sunday school class was on the ninth
chapter Of Acts, and the teacher asked
one of the boys: What is meant by
the words in this thirty-f first verse,
Then had the churches rest through
out all Judea and Galilee and Sauna
ria?'" And the youthful interpreter,
who had not consulted Meyer nor
Ha ckett, replied: IT reckin they didn't
have no preachin'.'' He was not a sue
cess as an exegete but he was no fail
ure as an observer.
The following brief lesson In Her
meneutics" may give you food for some
real thinking, If you are given that
way:
Christ's prayer for the forgiveness
of His murderers," as 1t is commonly
called, may, without straining the text
be restricted to the ignorant heather
soldiers who, under the orders OF the
governor, Pontius PLATE, nailed him to
the cross, and this seems to be the ma
tural scope of the language; Father
forgive them; they know not what they
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sis proceeded to draw illustration after
illustration, Pelion on Ossa, as to how the
party that had expelled the Stuart licked
the hand and owned for master, an alien
knight of the house of Brunswick, while
the party that had preached divine right
and passive obedience in 1858 was become,
in 1870 fervent, and very nearly treason
able, advocates of liberty and accusers
of prerogative. l wish l had space to
quote copiolsly from this brilliant frag-
ment of Macaulays splendid eloquence.
We have seen something of that kind
in this country, notably in 1868, when the
party that swore by Jackson and Ben
ton, Marcy and Wright, came out for rag
money, and put into their platform a de-
mand that the printing presses be set
a-going to grind out greenbacks with
which to pay the national debt. In Jack
sons day to be democrat one had to
hate paper money, and if the democratic
party of 1868 had needed the warnings of
the prophets and observed the teachings
of the sages of their party of 80 years
earlier, u. S. Grant might not have been
chosen President over Horatio Seymour,
and certainly he would have been de-
feated If the democratic party had had
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Seattle has five forts placed so as to COM
mand the navy yard. Golden Gate has
Pinch and 1O-inch modern rifles
mounted on disappearing carriages. Also
battery of S-inch guns. The fortifica-
ton at San Diego are very much inferior
to Golden Gate.
This Is all of the armament we have
along a sea front of 400 miles. We have
not a battleship in Pacific waters The
Oregon, that IL years ago made her rec
ord trip around Cape Horn and Joined
SIMPSONS fleet on the Cuban coast in
time to take part in the naval battle of
Santiago, Is today out of commission. To
see her now as she lies in the Seattle
navy yard, an old dismantled hulk, one
would never think that few short years
ago she was the pride of the American
navy. Two irst-class Jap battleships
could wipe out our Pacific fleet with very
little effort. Including the Sandwich Is
lands. Japan has on and near the North
American continent 100000 of her sub
jects. They are distributed as follows:
On the Pacific coast of the United
States, 10000.
Canada, 1900.
Mexico. 5000.
Panama 10000.
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HEART TO HEART TAEKS-By Edwin A. Nye

testers to make merriment for them
And Lycurgus. able lawmaker set up the
god of Laughter in the public dining room
OF Sparta.
Laughter Is a good buffer.
1t is like the shock extinguisher folks
put in the rear springs Of their automo-
biles. 1t helps to carry one easily over
the knobs and thank you-ma ans" of
life's rugged road. 1t reduces friction to
the minimum.
Laughter Is normal.
1t is the fact that good health and
mental and physical harmony require
that the fun loving forces that are in
man should be released. Laughter re-
leases thefh. If these forces are repress-
ed one has an attack Of the "blues;" If
totally epressed-insanity.
Laugh and succeed.
He who bottles up his natural mirth
helps to paralyze his own powers. A
cheerful disposition and a smiling face
help to solve many problem in business.
Men and women by thousands so every
year to premature graves because they
forget to laugh.
Laugh and stay above ground,
Professor Duke H. Bashford one of
the most noted chemists Of the world,
is an inmate of the Kane county poor
house at Batavia, III.
Why? Whisky.
Bashford was at one time professor Of
applied chemistry in the London Polytech-
mic college and was consulted by chemists
the world over. In the last 20 years
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In 1900, after five years Of study and
experiment, they built their first machine
and took 1t down into North Carolina.
They came back from that summers
work tired and discouraged
Most parents would have said. well.
boys, you better quit fooling with flying
machines and get down to business"
Bishop Wright and his wife were not that
sort
The boys found out that summer that
all the tables of calculations made by sci
entists were wrong. They must be-
gin at the bottom and work out the first
principle.
On the 18th of December, 1903, after
hundreds of trial fights with gliding
machines, the first successful voyage in
the history of the world of power driven
heavier-than-air machine was made.
To be sure, the Wright brothers came
to their own and their own received them
not. They went abroad, and honor and
wealth came. And now their own coun-
try delights to honor these Dayton men.
How did 1t all come about?
Because these boys, doing team work,
went at scientific problem in a sclen-
tito way and kept at it until they sue
ceeded. Yes, and because they had a
father and mother behind them
Therefore, If your boy wants to "tink-
err" let him. 1t will keep him out of mis-
chief and develop his character. And
there may be a genius inside of him.
And. above all, don't throw cold water
on your boys enthusiasm.
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n N IRTH medicine?
M Certainly, and good one-bet-
L ' i ter than the preparations of ma
terra medica. 1t is one of natures real
tonics, a balm for life's bruises, a salve
for sorrows, liniment for mental pain,
a panacea for wounded hearts.
DIR. Sanderson says:
Mirth, cheerfulness, is a better stimulant
for the tissues of the body than drugs,
which react Laughter is an actual life
giving influence. Another physician has
said, Fun Is food and necessary to
Wilderness as bread
Therefore-laugh early and often.
Most OF US take life altogether too
seriously. We do not laugh enough, or
II we do laugh 1t is stingy sort of
mirth that does not do much good. We
laugh so seldom we lose the disposition,
the power to laugh. Laughter is a habit.
1t may be cultivated.
A laugh is a massage.
Metaphors aside, a good laugh is a
real massage treatment When you laugh
your diaphragm gets busy. In moving
rapidly up and down 1t messages the
liver, stirring up that organ to its
duty. At also affects all the organs
benefcially
Laugh and grow fat is a shrewd OBJ
Bervation of many generations
The old kings were wise. They hired
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| he crossed the ocean 81 times at the call
of American manufacturers. His fees
were big and he made and lost several
fortunes.
Today he is physical and moral wreck.
His wife was the well known actress
Hattie Edwards. She could not endure
his dissipated ways and got a divorce.
violence and one-the daughter-by suicide
because of the family troubles.
Surely this man must have suffered
much i'll luck.
On the contrary, he was especially
fortunate. Fame came easily and for
tunes cornucopia emptied itself at his
feet.
He went the full length of the tobog-
gan slide on
Whiskyi
His proclivity to drink lost him wife
and family and fame and laboratory
Worse than that
Endowed with rare genius, he prosti-
tuted his talents. For money and
whisky-he turned his ability against
the interests Of humanity.
For money-and whisky-he gave him
self up to formulas for adr1terating
food and drugs and beverages. In the
remorse of his old age and penury Bash
ford says:
II have caused millions to suffer from
the authorizations / have concocted and
have caused thousands to die premature
deaths"
Shamefully he says IL he ever gets on
his feet again he will expose many of