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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-10-06
The Trend OF Things

AS a means of securing a greater at
tendance of Sunday-school children at
church services, leagues of worshiping
children are being organized in some
Protestant churches. Although strong
organization in Great Britain. where 1t
was inaugurated some years ago by Sir
William Robert Nicol. the league has
made but slight progress in this country.
A week ago the American board closed
its books for the year $4,000 ahead Of the
previous year, and now the Episcopal
board closes its books $4,000 ahead. For
the first time in its history the income of
the last-named board from all sources
exceeded S1,oO0.O0O, and for two consecu-
tive years the American board income
has exceeded s1.0o0.000. The Disciples of
Christ Mission Society will soon close its
books These are the great mission agen-
cies ending their fiscal year in the fall.
The Episcopal board, recently reorgan-
ICED and its working stan much in
creased, had in 1911 an income from all
sources of 81. $4,000. This year 1t attains
S,5l0,0o0. In the past decade this boards
gain has been nearly $4,000. while the
number of churches to contribute has
been largely increased. Within ten years
the totals have Increased threefold, while
the number Of churches contributing has
doubled. The figures here given relate to
work for which, in some measure at least,
the Episcopal board is responsible. There
passes through the boards hands, how
ever, much OF II without paying toll in
any form for expense of handling many
other sums of missionary money. The
total so handled this past year exceeds
100000 for the first time in the boards
history.
One of the features of the Worlds
Seventh Sunday School Convention at
Zurich, July SIS, 1918, will be the reports
CT six commissions on conditions and
needs in several fields, with recommended
lions for a programme of work during
the coming triennium. These commissions
VIII have membership of from twelve
10 fifteen persons each, specialists in the
FIELDS covered, and they will make care
fuI investigation on these points: ]. The
condition and extent of Sunday school
work. . The needs and opportunities of
the field in a Sunday school way. 8. How
the Worlds Sunday School Association
can be of assistance. For Continental
Europe, Bishop William Burt, who for
twenty-five years represented Methodism
on the Continent, will be chairman: DR..
+. B. Meyer, of London, will be chair
man of the commission for South Africa;
II. J. Heinz, of Pittsburg, who has given
much time and thought to the considera-
ton of Sunday-school problems in China,
Japan. and Korea, will be chairman of
the commission on the Orient: Sir Robert
Iaidlaw will be chairman for India and
the Malay Peninsula, and Bishop Hart
zell, of Africa, will direct the investi-
cation as to Mohammedan lands
Sunday, July Is, 1913. will be observed
generally as Worlds Sunday-School
Day" special service, similar in char
acter to the one used in 1910, is being
prepared, and will be printed in many
languages, and will be sent to all parts
Of the world.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-10-06
Country Where Brides Are Stolen by Lopers


hunter and each time q rabbit would
drop dead g
The Mongols are possibly the worst
whisky drinking people In the world.
Wherever there Is an encampment you
VIII Invariably ind a distillery. The
iamas. as a general rule. have monop-
oily on the LIQUOR trafiic and amass huge
fortunes at IL
The old migratory life Of the Mongo-
lians has been .lessened to a great degree
by Chinese Interference. These people
who are essentially cattle raising people
have been taught by the willy chinaman
to raise corn and other things Of this
nature. They make very Indifferent
crops. They do not know how to pre-
pare the ground.
The Mongolians and Tfbetans were
known many years before Christ. Herod-
otus mentions them as one nation Of
sayages who ate their dead.
JEAN JACQUES CLEMENCEAU.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-10-06
CHEESE MAY CATCH COLD.
Bruise VIII Discelor IL and Hurt
Place VIII SPOIL.

Brufse VIII Dfscolor IL and Hurt
Place VIII spoil.
From the Los Angeles Times.
"A cheese in the making Is as sensitive
to a cold as you are" said a cheese
monger. THE finest cheese II II is left In
draft will catch cold and deteriorate
there will be no flavor to that cheese
thereafter.
You mustn't bruise a cheese, either.
Knock its face and II will discolor, like
flesh. and the hurt place will spoil.
"A cheese. In fact, Is flesh for the most
part-a solid mass of living microbes
and that's why 1t catches cold and
bruises. It's alive. you see. like you and
me.
Fancy cheeses are made by a secret
process. Thus Gorgonzola. the Italia
cheese. is made of goats milk and ripened
in caves, and its Characteristic blue
veins are the result Of stabs from a cop
per wire.
Dutch cheeses are coagulated by
means OF an acid. Swiss cheese by means
OF sour milk. and English cheeses by
means Of rennet.
''Roquefort. the aristocrat of cheeses. is
made in France Of the purest. richest
Sleeps milk. II is matured In limestone
caverns. You know. of course. that de-
licious blue mold inside ite Well. that
is supposed to be bread crumbs worked
into the curd.'
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-10-06
Boys and the Bible.

Some months ago Prof v. P. Squires
OF the University of North Dakota, de-
termined to test the freshman class on
their knowledge Tor ignorance) of the
English Bible. The test was optional
but lSs students participated in it. The
results are told in the Christian En-
deavor World.
One of the questions required the stu
dents to name ten books of the Old Test
ament Less than half of the class sue
ceeded In passing this test, and the pro-
fessor declares that even this was too
liberal allowance, as II was based on
the acceptance at full value of such
spelling as "Deuteromy," 'Deuterom-
''Goshua,' ''Salms,'' 'Nehiamiah,' -
'Joob," "Jobe." "Joeb." &C.
Fourteen of the 1s9 thought Hezekiah
was one of the Old Testament books.
Five declared that there was a Book
of Solomon" Various students mention
ed Paul" Timothy" Titus" "Phoe-
necians," "Babylonians," and "Philis-
tines" as books Of the Old Testament.
1t is hard to believe. when We read such
a report, that the students were not
''joshing' their professor.
When 1t came to the New Testament,
the answers were still more unsatisfac-
tory. Five moved Samuel out of the
Old Testament into the New. Three
placed The Psalms in the New Test
ament; seventeen mentioned Paul or
st Paul. as one of the books, while
others mentioned '.Thelesians." Phil
ipi," Lazarus" and Samson Agon-
istes" as in the sacred canon.
To the question. Who was the apostle
to the Gentiles?" so per cent gave the
correct answer. but a number of others
voted for John" for Jesus" for
Abraham" while Judas. Moses, and
Methuselah each had a vote apiece.
1t is hardly believable that students
that should have reached college age
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-10-06
Backbone Is Bullet Proof.

Trenton Telegram To the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Michael Gratis bullet-proof backbone
saved his life when he was shot after a
quarrel by Daniel Cumbill.
Chief of Police John J. Cleary. while
walking home late last night. saw two
men rush out of a saloon. one chasing the
other. In the hands of the pursuer a re-
volver cleaned. and before the chief
could interfere the man with the revol-
yer discharged the weapon at the others
back. Gratis dropped to the ground.
Cumbill took aim to fire another shot.
but the police chief knocked him down.
Cleary took the assailant and his intend
ed victim to police headquarters.
When Gratis coat was opened the bull
let rolled out An examination showed
that it had struck solidly against Gratis
backbone and then II had rebounded-
Gratis will be entirely well in a few days.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-10-06
Contributed by the Medical Society Of the District
Of Columbia.l

Contributed by the Medical Society Of the District
Of CoIumbiaJ
Medical inspection of schools aims to
detect abnormal conditions among school
children. to have them corrected. and to
remove the circumstances that gave ris.
to them. Prior to the establishment of
systematic medical inspection the ends
named were accomplished, IL accom-
plished at all, by parents and teachers.
The value of medical inspection to the
school depends, therefore. upon the eN-
tent to which systematic examinations
by physicians. aided by trained nurses
and experimenting the work of parents
and teachers. accomplishes these ends
better than the unorganiZed efforts of
parents and teachers alone.
Four factors enter into effective med
ical inspection of schools: First, the de-
lection of abnormal conditions; second.
the determination of the seriousness OF
such conditions when found: third, the
adoption of measures TO correct or at
least to arrest them; and, fourth. the
removal, If possible. of the conditions
that caused such abnormal conditions in
order that other children may not be
similarly affected.
Some abnormal conditions of school
children. such as shortsightedness. are
necessarily discovered by parents and
teachers when they observe even without
special search after such conditions have
reached certain degree Of severity.
Others. such as curvature of the spine.
may progress throughout childhood with
out the unframed observer realizing the
existence and nature of the malady.
Manifestly skilled medical examination
Is of value with reference to the class
of disorders last mentioned. 1t is. how
ever Of no less value with respect to the
first class, and possibly. in view Of their
frequency. 1t is even of greater impor-
tance: for skilled medical examination
conducted as a routing measure. discov-
ers them earlier than they would other
wise be discovered. And early discovery
is a matter of utmost Importance. since
II allowed to go uncorrected remedy Is
much more difficult and maybe impossi-
BILE, and in any event the child suffers
and his progress at school is retarded
The determination of the significance
of defects Is as important as their dis
covery. 1t is not every abnormal con-
dition that demands attention or that
should give rise to uneasiness even
after discovery. II the faulty posture
of the pupil is due to the stiffness OF
some joints resulting from a fracture in
years gone by but little can be done to-
correct It, and the defect Is not likely
to progress. If. on the other hand. it is
the result of any acute infiammatory
condition affecting the bones or the joint.
immediate corrective action is necessary.
Certainly in this function of the medical
the parent or the teacher without pro-
fessional training.
Practical Measures.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-10-06

From Judge.
Ball Fan-How do you account for
the slump in McFogarty's fielding aver
age!.
sSport writer-He goes after too many
high balls.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-10-06
A Leap-year Proposal.

Ffum Jndge.
Howell-what did she say when she
proposed to your
Powell-She said that she would like
to select my neckties for life.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-10-06
Practical Measures.

The third function of the medical in
spector. that of determining whether
remedial measures are practicable. Is one
that the ordinary parent or teacher Is
not capable of discharging. 1t is one
that falls naturally within the province
of the family physician or the dispensary
or hospital attendant. Ordinarily pu-
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-10-06

Prom JudSe.
GiIlet-How do you accomplish your
great success with the ladies? Do you
keep giving them things?
Perry-NothIng on earth but encourage
ment, old man.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-10-06
Catholic

An editorial in the Baltimore Star
made this comment recently:
I'VE have had many evidences of reli-
gious federation In this country. but
never has 1t been so strikingiy shown
as in the case of a Catholic priest. who
offered his parish hall to the Jews OF his
neighborhood in which to hold their New
Year services. This priest. Father Timo-
thy A. Hickey. OF Sheepshead Bay. had
learned that the Jews of his neighbor-
hood. numbering nearly four hundred,
had been unable to hire hall large
enough for their holiday observances. A
committee representing these Jewish
families called on the priest and ex-
planned the situation to him. He at once
placed the parish hall at their disposal,
free of charge. When visited by a report
err the priest said that there was moth
ing unusual in his action. History teaches.
he said, that the Catholics have always
been friendly with the Jews. and he add
ed that he was very glad to be of ser
vice to his neighbors. Father Hickey
was In the main correct when he said
that the Catholics and Jews have been
on friendly terms, although examined
more critically the statement may be
challenged. There was a time when
Jews were greatly oppressed in Cath
ole countries, but that was a long time
ago. The priests action at present shows
what a different world We live in these
days. As late as a generation ago II
would have been thought impossible for
Jewish community to worship in
church. This instance shows not only
federation on the part of the priest. but
also on the part of the Jews themselves.
Nothing but good can come out Of this
and all those who seek the peace and
welfare Of the world can only express
the hope that such examples OF federation
will continue to multiply.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-10-06

DR.. ]. B. Clayton will deliver a series
of Sunday afternoon addresses during
the month of October in the Hall of the
Women's Christian Temperance Union.
on Sixth Street between and F. at 4
o'clock. The public is invited. The gen.
eral subject announced is Symbols OF
the Value and Development of the Re
ligtous Life" the topics being as fol-
lows: THE Souls Value: The King
Jewels The Souls Emancipation:
Garden Daybreak." The Souls Kindred ::
The Lost Chord" THE Souls Triumph:
Two-mile Religion
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-10-06

On Tuesday evening the Christian En-
deavor Society of the Calvary Baptist
Church rendered a welcome home" ban
quet and entertainment TO the pastor,
Rev. s H. Greene. who has just re-
turned from his summer vacation.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1912-12-27

Mace. Even the sword Of Perseus
could not have saved him, since one
has to get away from an object In
order to cut 1t down.
Had he really ever tried to over
come this monster? Had he not wait.
ed for the propitious moment (Which
VIM and know never comes) to
throw of this species from Hades!
It is all very well, when you are old
and dried up, to turn to worries and
metals and precious stones; but when
q fellows young! You can't shake
hands with an ivory replica Of the Tai
Mahal, nor exchange pleasantries with
a Mandarin's ring, nor yet confide joys
and Ills into a casket of rare emer-
aids; indeed, they do but emphasize
ones loneliness. II only be had had
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1912-12-27
CHAPTER |.
|. s&IF
What's in a Nama7

WHAT'S in Name?
10 possess two distinctly alien red
corpuscles in ones blood metanhor-
really II not in fact, two characters or
MUNICIPALITIES under one epidermis
49, IN most cases, peculiar disadyan.
tage. One hears of scoundrels and
SAINTS striving to consume one an.
other IN one body, angels and har.
pes OUT Outlines, quite the contrary
70 being curse, these two warning
temperaments become q mans ulti.
mate blessing: as in the case of
george P. A. Jones, of Mortimer &
Jones, the great metropolitan Oriental
rug and carpet company, all of which
mas dignifed, sonorous sound.
george was divided within himself,
Inls he would not have confessed
even into the trusted if battered ear
OF the Egyptian Sphynx. There was,
however, no demon-angel sparring for
points in Georges soul. The difficulty
might be set forth in this. manner:
on one side stood inherent common
sense; on the other, a boundless, TO
seate imagination which vas like
wise inherent-a kind of qui1ote imag.
nation OF suitable modern pattern.
This alter ego terrified him whenever
1t raised its strangely beautiful head
and shouldered aside his guardian
angel (for that's what common sense
Is, argue to what end you wilD and
pleaded In that luminous rhetoric un@
der the spell Of which our old friend
sancho often fell asleep.
F. A., as they called him behind the
counters, was but twenty-eight, and If
he was vice-president in his late ia.
theirs shoes he didn't wabble round
In them to any great extent. In O.
crowd he was not noticeable; he:
didn't stand head and shoulders above.
his fellow-men, nor would he have
been mistaken by near-sighted per,
sons, the myopes, for the vatican's
Apollo in the flesh. He was of me
dunn height, beardless, slender, bur
tough and wiry and enduring. You
may see his prototype on the streets
dozen times day, and you may
also pass him without turning round
for second view. Young men like
p. A. must be intimately known to
be admired; you did not throw your
a hi
hair was brown and closely clipped
about a head that would have gained
thei attention OF the phren6iogist, II
not that of the casual passer-hy. His.
bumps, in the phraseology Of that
science, were good ones. For the rest,
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1912-12-27

a dog; but one can not carry dog
half way round the world and back, at
least not with comfort. What with
all these new-fangled quarantine laws,
duties, and fussy ships officers who
wouldn't let you keep the animal in
your state-room, travelling with a four
footed friend was almost an impossi.
bility. To be sure. women with
poodles. And then, there was
the bitter of acid in the knowledge
that no one ever came up to him and
slapped him on the shoulder with a
Hello, George. old sport; what's the
good word?" for the simple fact that
his shoulder was always bristling with
spikes, born Of the fear that some one
was making fun Of him.
Perchance his mothers spirit, how.
erlng over him this evening. might
have been inclined to tears. For they
do say that the ghosts Of the dear
ones are thus employed when We are
near to committing some folly or to
exploring some forgotten chamber OF
Pandora's box, or worse still. when
that lady intends emptying the whole
contents down upon our unfortunate
heads. If so be, they were futile
tears; Percival Algernon had accom-
plished its deadly purpose.
Pandora? Well. then, for the bene
fit Of the children. She was lady
who was an intimate friend Of the
NEUROLOGICAL gods. They liked her ap
pearance so we'll that they one day
gave her a box, casket, chest, or what.
ever it was, to guard. BY some mar
velous method, known only of gods,
| they had got together all the trials
and tribulations Of mankind (and some
Of the joys) and locked them up in
this casket. 1t was the Golden Age.
as you may surmise. You recall Eve
and the apple? Well, Pandora was a
forecast Of Eve: she couldn't keep her
eyes off the latch, and at length her
hands-Fatal curiosity! Whirr! And
everything has been at SKIES and at
sevens since that time. Pandora Is
eternally recurring, now here, now
there; she is blonde sometimes, and
again she is a brunette; and you may
take it from George and me that there
is always something left in the casket.
George closed the book and consult.
ed his sailing-list. In short time he
would leave for Port Said, thence to
Naples. Christmas there, and home in
January. Business had been ripping,
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1912-12-27

ing white mustache and imperial,
there was a suggestion Of militarism.
ne was Immediately followed by
young woman Of twenty, certainly not
over that age. George sighed visit
fully. He envied those polo players
and gentleman-nders and bridgeex-
perts who were stopping at the hotel.
1t wouldn't be an hour after dinner
before some one Of them found out who
She was and spoke to her in that easy
style which he concluded must be
gift rather than an accomplishment.
You mustn't suppose for minute that
George wasn't wellborn and well-bred,
simply because his name was Jones.
Many Fitz-Hugh Maurice or Hugh
Fitz-Maurlce might have been But,
no matter. He knew instfnctively.
then, what elegance was when he saw
1t, and this girl was elegant, in dress,
in movement. He rather liked the
pallor OF her skin, which limited that
She wasn't one of those athletic girls
who bounced in and out of the din.
ing'room, talking loudly and smoking
cigarettes and playing bridge for six
penny points. She was tall. He was
sure that her eyes were on the level
with his own. The grey veil that
dropped from the rim Of her simple
Leghorn hat 20 the tip of her nose Oh.
scured her eyes, so he could not know
that they were large and brown and
indefinably sad. They spoke not Of
a WEAKNESS Of travel, but Of a weari.
ness Of the world, more precisely, Of
the people who inhabited 1t.
She and her companion passed on
into the hotel, and if Georges eyes
veered again toward the desert over
which the stealthy puppies of night
were creeping, the impulse was me-
chanical; he saw nothing. In truth,
he was desperately lonesome, and he
knew, moreover, that he had no bust.
ness to be. He was young: he could
at pinch tell joke as we'll as the
next man; and II he had never had
what he called an adventure, he had
seen many strange and wonderful
things and could describe them with
that mental afterglow which still lin
gers over the sunset Of our first ex
pressions in poetry. But there was
always that hydra.headed monster, fol-
ever getting about his feet, numbinf
his voice, paralyzing his hands, ant
never he Topped off a head that an
other did not instantly grow In it
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1912-12-27

He would be jolly glad to get home
again, to renew his comradeship with
his treasures. And, by Jove! there
was one man who slapped him on the
shoulder. and he was no less person
than the genial president Of the firm.
his fathers partner, at present his
own. II the old chap had had daugh.
ter now. And here one comes
at last to the bottom of the sack. He
had only one definite longing. .
healthy human longing, the only long,
ing worth while in all this deep, wide
round old top; to love woman and
by her be loved.
At exactly half after six the gentle,
man with the reversible cuffs arrived;
and George missed his boat.
(TO BE CoNTINUED.)