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Evening journal., 1914-12-29
Prohibition
From the New York SUM.

Twenty more votes and the friends
of Federal prohibition would have a
majority of the present House of
Representatives. If they lacked 9l
votes for the .wo-thirds necessary
for the passage of the resolution to
submit the Dry amendment TO the
people their strength was none the
less surprising nor does IL denote
by any means the full strength Of
prohibition. The wisdom OF trying
to force It upon unwilling States IS
doubted by men who approve It as
State policy supported By public
opinion Finally, the economic reck-
lcssness and present impossibility
of ainging away the enormous rev.
enue of the excise taxes on spirits
and malt liquors might we'll have
deferred some Representatives from
voting Ave who approved the amend
mont The great vote. its wide geo
graphical distribution, its indepeu-
dence of party lines, is impressive
Victims of unpopular tenets are not
common al Washington.
These Representatives know their
districts. We must take the figures
as representing a very decided f
mistaken opinion espoused by mil
lions of men and women, serious
moral conviction of the sort Ameri-
cans have been fond of. and which
oven the melodramatic Captain Sob
son. mistletoe on legs. cannot make
ridiculous.
From Sycamore Hill the astute old
champion player OF the game of poll
tics secs the movement. a glowinE
and passionate reform. Like enough
he will yank II away from Brother
Bryan, whom he has stripped naked
of so many other notions. But the
future benefciaries of prohibition.
the probable fate of the Dry amend
menl. are but speculation and sur
mise The momentous fact. ominous
In the eyes Of those who hold with
The Sun that will cannot be injected
into men by statute or Constitution.
and that il is no business of the State
10 prescribe or prescribe the diet of
its subjects. the mOmentous fact Is
that the combination of factors
against alcohol was never so potent
as il is at present Some of these
factors. for instance the great and
growing body Of medical opposition
against even its moderate use. make
for total abstinence as an individual
rule Of hygiene. best for body and
brain, but the general effect is the
same. Il strengthens the prohibit
tionists
So long as Maine was the classic
horrible example OF impotent Neal
dowism. so long as even prohibition
In the South could he dismissed as
an economic and moral prophylactic
against negro crime O. the deteriora-
tion Of negro labor. prohibition could
be regarded as a lingering fanaticism
In The North. in the South as another
phase OF white supremacy" But Of
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With The Paragraphers

In his pictures the young Prince of Wales looks as
harmless as war bulletin-Auanta Constitution
The old motto might have read: "ln time of peace
prepare for Hohson and r,"-Chicago Herald.
For the sake of It's lovely and historic waltzes and
sausages and sauer kraut, and for other things, one
hopes that Vienna will be spared destructive riotng-
Chicago News.
\ With a Nebraska premier in the Presidents
Cabinet and another Nebraska man listed In all the
several All Americas football elevens cup glory
is surely fun TO the brim-Omaha Bee.
Prvatcs In the German army stated 20 receive
$3.50 year and those in the Russian army S35S.
From accounts received il safe inference that
they fully earning their money prosent-Pi Pitts
burgh Dispatch.
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Don't Dig Yourself In


What is the matter with the Uni
ted States?"
As ] have been residing in London
since the beginning Of the war. have
been hearing this question asked on
an sides. / have never heard any
satisfactory answer. No one seems
to know.
Why are the American factories not
running night and day? Why are
the railroad not opening up new
territories and getting ready for the
millions of immigrants who have al
ready made up their minds TO leave
Europe as soon as the war Is over?
Why are there not so American
drummers in London right now. try
ing 10 sell $20O.000.00O worth Of
American goods in place OF the goods
that we're bought last year from Ger
many and Austria?
From the European point of view.
the United States is a haven of peace
and security end prosperity. II has
no troubles that il dare mention to
Belgium or Austria or France or
Germany or Servia or Great Britain
or Russia.
Every tenth Briton has enlisted.
Every tenth Frenchman is at the
front Every tenth Belgian is dead.
What does the United States know of
trouble?
If ! could afford IT, / would charter
the Mauretania and Lusitana. and
convey a party of 5000 American
advertisers TO Europe for a trip Of
education. ] would give them
week in London, a week in Paris, and
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Not a shot across the border has
been fred since-and not even the
most thoughtful defender Of the hon
or Of either natiCl has been bold
enough TO urge tho building of forts
or the creation Of a navy TO protect
each from the other.
The century Of yeLrs, which IL was
hoped TO celebrate with great and
splendid ceremony, ends just when
the wo'lG blazcs with battle.
Along thousands of miles of fort
lined frontier in Europe, with ar
mics of millions trained with the
highest skill Of great soldiers. death
comes daily to thousands and the
horrors Of war arc so terrible that
they cannot be described.
The lesson is too simple and too
plain to miss.
To be prepared for infinitely.
perfectly prepared-does not prevent
war.
To be prepared for peace, by agree
ment and of set purpose, has pre-
vented war between two great ma
tions for q hundred years.
This is the lesson for today. and
the hope for tomorrow and for an
other Century of Peace.
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a week in Antwerp.
/ would let them look at the United
States from the scene of war.
would give them a look at real
trouble. / would let them see trains,
ten at time. five minutes apart,
packed with the manned and the dy-
ing.
would let them hear. from frag-
mentary survivors. the incredible
story Of battlefelds. 15O miles wide.
and armies that are greater than the
entire population of Texas.
I would lot them sec graves 100
yards long and full. and Belgium, the
country that was. nothing now but
1000 square miles Of wreckage.
Then, when they began to under
stand, to somc slight extent. the
magnitude and awfulness Of this
war, ! would say TO them:
Now 90 back and appreciate the
United States. Realize your oppor-
tuniiies Don't start digging tren-
chos when nobody is firing at you.
Don't fall down when you have not
been hit Don't be blind TO the most
glorious chance you have ever had
in your life.
Get ready for the most tremen-
dous business boom that any nation
ever had. Build your factories big
ger. Train more salosmcn. Borrow
more money. Go ahead, and thank
God thai you are alive and that your
family is alive, and that you are liv-
ing in a land that is at peace, at a
time when nearly the whole world is
at war"
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Editorial Opinion
TARDY LuSTICE.

TARDY JUSTICE.
From the New York Herald.
It required a world wide war 70
drive the Interstate Commerce Com
mission into granting the request of
the Eastern railways for permission
to raise their freight charges five per
cent.
About one-half of this advance was
grudgingly granted last July and the
other half, with unimportant excep-
tions. is given in the decision pub
lished few days ago. The effects
will be fer reaching and important.
In the first place the advance will
give the great railways affected about
fifty millions more revenue to par
TALLY Offset their increased expen-
ditures in recent years for materials.
increased wages and cost of needless
employees imposed upon them by
State legislators.
Instead of enforced curtailment of
service to the public they will now
he able to improve their train service
and make sorely needed improve
ments, thereby giving a stimulus to
the steel industry and a score OF
other industries largely dependent
upon the railways
The moral effect of the decision
will be felt in every nerve and fibre
of the countrys productive activities.
II Will strengthen the conviction that
the period of corporation batting is
at an end. II Will increase the con-
fidence of foreign investors in Amerl-
can railway securities and strengthen
the countrys credit.
Increased cost to shippers and
consumers will be so slight and so
widely distributed that it will not he
felt, whereas better facilities for
transport and travel and improve
ment in trade will be of universal
benefit AS has been persistently
asserted in these columns. unless the
railways are permitted to prosper
the country cannot be prosperous.
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GEMS OF THOUGHT

There is magic i'm that little word. home; II Is
mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues new
known beyond its hallowed lmits--Southey.
.-.-.-.
Tranquility Of mind depends much on ourselves. and
greatly due reflection chow much pain have cost
The evils which have never happened. Thomas
Jefferson.
.--.-.-.
Prepare yourself for the world as the athletes used
TO do for their exercises; oil your mind and your
manners to give them iho necessary suppleness and
hcXbility: strength alone will not do-Chesterfeld
.-.-.-.
For thus saith the high and lofty ono that inhabt-
eth eternity. whose name is Holy; / dwell in the
high and holy place. with him also that is of a con
trite and humble spirit revive the spirit of the hum
be and to revive the heart Of the contre onesIsaah
lIi:15.
.-.-.-.
J consider him wise man who does not overrate
the value of money. nor thirst for IT, found all his
hopes on IT, Who makes a good and rightful
of ID may be called its lord and owner-who watch
iealousy over H. lis koeperwho takes delight In IT,
its lOyer-who looks upon it with fear its slave-and
who worships il. an idolater-Petrarch
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HIS BABY GIRL.
Judd Mortimer Lewis, in the Houston
Post

Judd Mortimer Lewis, in the Houston
Post
My father says that l will be
His baby all my life and he
VIII love me just the very way
He loves me now when every day
] rush away from home to meet
My loving daddy down the street;
He says that even when I'm grownn
And in a home that's all my own
I'll always be his baby, and
He'll always know and understand
Me better than most anyone;
Just the same way he's always done,
And | can't understand that: still,
1 sort Of know he always will.
Because he says he WILL guess.
And he's so filed with tenderness
That overaows right from his heart
! knew we cannot grow apart,
I know he'll love me just the way.
Through all the years he does today;
I'll soon he big enough. says he,
To go along with him and be
His chum. and we will climb high
hills.
And we1l stand where the brooklet
spills
Into the river and well go
Home in the sunsets afterglow.
And no one else could ever be
One-half as grand as dad to me.
I whispered that to him one day,
And he Just sat and looked away,
Away across the years and miles,
And just the tenderest of smiles
Wreathed his dear lips, and in his
eyes
There was a look that sometimes lies
Way back deep in them when folks
say
That ! am growing right away
From Childhood and I'll soon be
grown.
And with a sweetheart of my own.
Such times he holds both of my hands
In one Of his and-understands.
And he tells them. and strokes a
curl:
She'll always be my baby girl"
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MRS. A. =. SVIvLER man

The funeral of Mrs. Annie II.
Shivler. widow of John c. Shivler.
who died at the residence of her
brother. Edward B. Staggers, No. 1888
North Forty-second street. Philadel-
phia, viii be held from st. Thomas
Church. Newark. Thursday after
noon. lnterment will be in the cemc-
terry adjoining the church.
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DEATH OF A BARy

Funeral services for Armanelia
Springer. the two-year-old daughter
Of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard IT. Springer.
who died Saturday. will be held from
the family residence. No. 911 Church.
street at 2 o'clock this afternoon. In
terment will be in Wilmington and
Brandywinc cemetery.
Evening journal., 1914-12-29
WHOSE PHONOGRAPH rs THIS,

Have you lost a phonograph?
If so, communicate with the police
A talking machine is at police
headquarters awaiting its owner.
whom the police arc ondeavorinr to
find. The machine was found N
Fifth and Shipley streets. Whether II
was lost or stolen is not known.
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greedy. unscrupulons or criminal
maker or utterer.
Meanwhile. a good many of the
rest of us viii continue to deny that
even greet deal of evil, il il ex-
lists in the liquor business. is as
Evening journal., 1914-12-29

Revolution, seemingly lomented by England. France
and Russia. now threatens Turkey. Talaat Bey, dis
tinguished ant-German Turk has been selected it is
said to bring about the downfall Enver Pasha Min
lister of War and his pro-Gorman colleagues With
powerful backing within and without the empire such
revolution should serve to impair greatly If not
destroy. the usefulness of Turkey to Germany in the
present crisis.
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great an evil as the State laying It's
clumsy hands on personal freedom
Let alone the intolerable ccnnivances.
hypocrisics, corruptions and rot
gut that are the fruit of prohibit
ton.
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Tomorrow Nlr. Edwards win tell OF
"Ihe Generous Act Of Brave Soldicr.p
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Copyright. 1914, by f. J. Edwards. AIl
rights reserycdl.
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The Association Of
American Advcrtis
crs 10 composed Of
all She great adver-
tisers Of shin coun
try The Associa
tiOr endorses only
such papers as sub
nit 10 los examina
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and positive proof
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The accompanying
certificate. No 4t5i,
has beer Issued 10
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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-08-28

ming to reason out things" he Tested.
Winnie laughed, and so did Kath-
Ign, but she did so because occuIuy
she felt that her father expected her
TO laugh She was positively uncanny
sometimes in her perspicacity.
"On December 81, at midnight" she
repeated. An right, father, You must
write to US at least once every fort
night"
I'll cable from Singapore, from Cey-
lon, and write a long letter from Al
laha. Come on. We must be Off. All
med is waiting"
Some hours later the two girls saw
the Pacific Mail steamer move with
cold and insolent majesty out toward
the Golden Gate. Kathlyn proved
rather uncommunicative on the way
home. December 81 kept running
through her mind. 1t held a portent
Of evil. She knew something OF the
Orient, though she had never visited
India. Had her father made an i'm
placable enemy? Was he going into
some unknown, unseen danger? De
cember 81, at midnight Could she
hold her curiosity in check that long?
Many of the days that followed
dragged, many tew-the first for
Kathlyn, the last for Winnie, who now
had beau, young newspaper man
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-08-28
The Ridiculous Part of |

do you know" he said, q bad,
most ridiculous dream last night |
was about you"
The beautiful heiress did not /
tempt to conceal the fact that she Il
interested.
What right have you to dras
about me?" she demanded with moi
indignation.
Il know it was terribly bold Of d
and | would not have the courages
mention it now-only it was 50 iii
culous. You and !, it seemed, vi,
on the deck of a great steamshh
crossing the ocean. We stood By d
raif alone, everybody else having "a
in on account Of the roughness Of u
weather. AS We gazed down into d
greenish waves l suddenly turnelt
you and-and-"
And what?"
1T was most ridiculous. assn
you"
Yes. You said it was"
There we stood all alone by b
rail, the great ship going up and dcl
with a regularity that had made
the other passengers seek their berA
and suddenly turning to you III
Dear me, I hope you didn't get III
too"
mo. It wasn't that. l asked !
to be my wife"
"Oh! And that was perfectly d
culous,I was it,"
mo. The ridiculous part Of ltS
that you said yes and permitted me
clasp you in my arms and kiss y
right there on the deck of the ship
"Ah, you bad, bad boy! We
are just as much alone now a
could possibly be on the deck q
ship. aren't we?"
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from San Francisco. He came out
regularly every Saturday and returned
at night. Winnie became, If anything,
more fighty than ever. Her father
never had young men about. The men
he generally gathered round his board
were old hunters Or sailors. Kathlyn
watched this budding romance amused
ly. The young man was very nice.
But her thoughts were always and
eternally with her father.
During the last week in December
there arrived at the Palace hotel in
San Francisco an East Indian, tall,
we'll formed, rather handsome. Ex-
cept for his brown turban he would
have passed unnoticed. For Hindus
and Japanese and Cinnamon and what
nots from the southern seas were
every day affairs. The brown turban,
however, and an enormous emerald on
one Of his fingers, produced an effect
quite gratifying to him. Vanity in the
oriental is never conspicuous for its
absence. The reporters gave him scant
attention, though, for this was at a
time when the Gaekwar of Baroda was
unknown.
The stranger, after two or three
days of idling, casually asked the way
to the wild animal farm of his old
fr;ond HoIopol uoro II uoc oocU
enough to find. At the village inn he
was treated with tolerant contempt.
These brown fellows were forever
coming and going, to and fro. from the
colonel's celebrated farm.
At FIVE o'clock in the afternoon of
the S1st day of December, this East
Indian peered cautiously into the
French window OF the Hare bungalow.
The picture he saw there sent thrill
into his heart. She was as fair and
beautiful as an houri Of Saadi. She
sat at a desk, holding long, white
envelope in her hand. BY and by she
put it away, and he was particular to
note the drawer in which she placed 1t.
That the dark-haired girl at the tea
tabaret was equally charming did not
stir the watcher. Dark haired women
were plentiful in his native land. Yon-
der was the girl of the photograph.
! the likeness Of which had fred his
heart for many a day. With the pa
tience of the oriental he stood in the
shadow and waited Sooner or later
they would leave the room, and sooner
or later, with the deftness of his breed,
he would enter. The leopard he had
| heard about was nowhere to be seen.
Winnie" said Kathlyn, Il dread it."
Winnie set down the teacup, her
eyes trimming
What can it all mean? Not line
from father since Colombo, five months
gone"
do you think"
mo, no." replied Kathlyn, hastily.
Father sometimes forgets. He may
be hunting miles from telegraph wires
and railroads; it is only that he should
forget us so long Who knows? He
may have dropped down into Borneo.
He wanted some pythons, SO | heard
him say
(To BE CONTINUED)
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Copyright by Harold MacGrath)

animal farm and temporary peace IN
the hearts Of the savage beasts. She
realized that she possessed it, but 1t
was beyond analysis. Often some wild
eyed keeper would burst in upon her.
Some newly captive lion or tiger was
killing itself from mere passion, and
wouldn't the memsahib come at once
and talk to it? There was kind OF
pity in her heart for these poor wild
things, and perhaps they perceived
this pity, which was fearless.
She gets a little from me, | sup
pose," Colonel Hare had once an
swered to a query, for I've always
had way with four-footed things. But
| think Ahmed is right. Kathlyn Is
heaven born. I've seen the night when
Broken would be tame beside the
pandemonium roundabout. Yet half
an hour after Kit starts the rounds
everything quiets down. The gods are
in it."
The living room of the bungalow
was large and comfortable. The walls
were adorned with the heads Of wild
beasts, and their great furry hides
shared honors with the Persian rugs
on the floor. Hare was man who
would pack up at moments notice
and go to the far ends Of the world to
find a perfect black panther, a cheetah
with a litter, or a great horned rhi-
noceros. He was tall and broad and
amazingly active, for all that his
hair and mustache were almost white.
For 80 years or more he had gone
about the hazardous enterprise Of sup
plying geological gardens and circuses
with wild beasts He was known from
Hamburg to Singapore, from Mombas-
sa to Rio Janeiro. The Numidian
lion, the Rajput tiger, and the Malayan
panther had cause to fear Hare Sahib.
He was even now preparing to return
to Ceylon for an elephant hunt.
The two daughters went over to the
tea tabaret, where matronly maid
was busying with the service. The
fragrant odor of tea permeated the
room. Hare paused at his desk Lines
suddenly appeared on his bronzed face
He gazed for a space at the calendar.
The day was the 10Th of July. Should
he go back there, or should he give up
the expedition? He might never re-
turn. India and the border countries!
What a land, full of beauty and ro-
nance and terror and squalor, at once
barbaric and civilized! He loved it
and hated it, and sometimes feared it,
he who had faced on foot many a
wounded tiger.
He shrugged, reached into the desk
for box of Jaipur brass enamel and
took from it a medal attached to q
ribbon. The golden disk was encrust-
ed with uncut rubies and emeralds.
Girls" he called, Come here q
moment, Martha, that will be all, y
with nod toward the door. Il never
showed you this before"
Goodness gracious!" cried Winnie
reaching out her hand.
why, it looks like a decoration, IA
ther," said Kathlyn. What lovely
stones! 1t would make a beautiful
pendant"
Vanity, vanity, all is vanity" said
the colonel smiling down into their
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-08-28

Should Have Concealed the fasL
And now" asked the big, sno4
young man who had just been eIg'sS
to appear in the latest musical conM
would you like to have me " 2
voice?'
Heavens" exclaimed the nsnasa
why didn't you tell me you nae
voice before you got me 70 W.
vi this time on you? We don "
rou If you can sing"
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charming faces, DO you love your
old dad?"
Love YOU" they exclaimed in uni,
son, Indignantly, too, since the ques.
ton was an imputation of the fact
Would you be lonesome if | took
the Big Trek?" whimsically.
Father"
Dad"
They pressed about him, as vines
about an oak
Hang 1t, swear that this shall he
the last hunt. I'm rich. Wen get rid
Of all these brutes and spend the rest
Of the years seeing the show places.
I'm bit tired myself of jungle fod.
der. Wen go to Paris, and Berlin,
and Rome. and Vienna. And you, Kit,
shall go and tell Rodin that you've
inherited the spirit Of Gerome. And
you. Winnie, shall make a stab at
grand opera"
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STANDING In With the Doctor.

The wife of surgeon in Baltimore
was one afternoon giving a bridge
party, when, just before the guests be-
gan to arrive, she found that she had
not sufficient number of chairs. In
her desperation she bethought herself
of a nearby undertaken who might be
willing to let her have few of the
needed pieces. She telephoned and
was Mortified at the reply:
why. certainly, Mrs. Smith Well
let you have all you want at half
price-the doctor gives us SO much
business"
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I suppose you've heard Of his trouble
mo. The flea isn't dead, Is u
1.-THE fiea's all right, but Timmaa'
oldest boy has had to be taken 70 y
reform school"
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He Remembered It.

And you visited Chicago, 4, y
pose?" said the friend of the Eass !,
man who had returned TO LonOOs
the purpose of writing his pO0a
America. Nv
Yes. 1t was there. | renisp'1
that ! changed cars.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-08-28
- Al, the Bluffs Were Called.

The pathways leading downward
From many splendid places
Would be much oVercrowded
With men who hid their faces
And many a load of tinsei
AS rubbish would be hauled
From many a highwalled paiace
II all the bluffs were calico.