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as striking as bronze stature and rode with perfect ease. He was the idol of his men.
 Finding him youthful major. Napoleon lifted him along the steeps of promotion, making him first brizadler. then tho commander of division. then placed him al Che head of the national guard, onward to a marshalship, a grand admiral, prince of the empire, grand eagle of the legion Of honor. Grand Duke of Berg and Gleaves and finally King of Naples. The eonh- denee of the Emperor in Murat was SUI preme. On one occasion Napoleon pro- nounced him the hravest man in battle the world had ever produced.
 Much to his subsequent regret, Ma. poleon dlsragarded the advice of his great commander. when he was contemplatins the Russian campaign. Murat advised against It. telling his imperial master that he would fail. wreck the army. and him self lose prestige. Napoleon became angry and fierce quarrel ensued. but finally he told Napoleon that he would surrender his conviction under protect and join
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Murat first met. Napoleon being four or five years older, and when Napoleon was called on to put down the mob in the French capital, he was attracted to a youthful major of 22, Joachim Murat. When Napoleon was sent to take com mand of the army Of Italy, he made the young major a member of his general staff. The exploits of Murat in the Ital- ian campaign would have greater recog- nition in history but for the excessive splendor of Napoleon. At any rate, Murat emerged from that struggle a brigadier general.
 His peculiar aptitude for cavalry work led to his command of that branch of service in the French army. In the Egyp- tian campaign Murat foand himself at novel disadvantage seeking to combat the Mamelukes in the deep. hot sands. Those hordes of the desert would sweep with incredible swiftness nver the wates of sand, obseuring themselves by the very dust that they would raise and Murat's cavalry was of no avail Moth ing could check thesel desert flyers but the hollow square of the infantry devised
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val. Russia, France and England were willing. The German government was unwilling. These are historic facts.
 But it Is not necessary at the present time to dwell on these facts. shining like is the assumption that might makes right, and that whether right or wrong the military aristocraey of Prussia must have it's way. nay. must hack it's way through"
 It is very striking to observe that among the many apologists for this anti Christian Nietzschianism. this arrogant defiance of the rights of the weak. are not few who hold the Jewish faith. But if Judaism is to be tinctured in Amer lea with the doctrine of the Nietzschian anti-Christ. she must surrender her Isaiah and blot out the memory of her Maoca- bees. There Is no danger, I hope. of that final catastrophe
 If this is Armageddon indeed. the issue at stake is much more than empires, 1t is civilization itself. The promise of the chancellor that he would make good to Luxembourg and Belgium this armed rape of their national chastity shows the Nietzschian conscience arrayed in all its brazen shame. Such a promise some villainous baron of madeival times might have made to the parents of some girl victim of his lust Such things have happend and perhaps still happen, in the rotten circles of the idle and insolent rich; but so long ago as the time of David one of his sons was scoundrel enough to wrong his half-sister. but not so vile as to offer to make good' her ravished honor.
 Hence it is excellent news that the
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marines and the dirigibles so far have not proved the terrible engines of de- struction they have been described Some bombs have been dropped from the air but their actual damage has been neg ligible The zeppelins have not yet made smoking waste of Paris. London or Sti Petersburg
 At the outbreak of hostilities the news papers were filled with dire predictions of the wreck and ruin of hamlets. vil- lages, cities, provinces and nations by aerial bombs Germany was said to have on hand enough dirigibles to wipe it's enemies out of existence in three shakes of a sheeps tail. The world has got nearly all of its Zeppelin thrills out of about what they could do and not what they have done.
 The aeroplane has done effective work As a scout, the heavier-than-air flying machine has shown itself better than any cavalry ever put In the field by the MamelulSes or the 101 Ranch.
 It may be that Emperor Williams feel ings for humanity have prevented his ns- ing the fearful means of dealing death experts say that he has in his hangars. But such theory Is not tenable in a mind that recalls the wanton destruction of Louvain.
 Notice by France and England that they would question the neutrality of the Red Cross ship, Red Cross, should she sail with any natives of Germany among her crew seems petty and picayunish to Americans. The Red Cross, formerly the Hamburg American liner Hamburg, was given to the Red Cross society for the trip by the owners. The mission of the vessel is one of succor and relief. The noble women on board have only one idea in mind--to bind up wounds and not question the nationality of the body that bears those wounds. But Britannia rules the waves Things must go her way or they won't go.
 From many quarters come indications that the Turks are longing for a holy war; Only by arousing the millions of
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believes in Nietzsche and who believes in Jesus? Is our modern religion all a hypocrisy. so that we honor the gospel with our lips. while our hearts believe in bullets and battalions?
 It is a striking fact that when Mir G Bernard Shaw presented play entitled "Androcles and the Lion,' England re- jected it and Germany welcomed it. Why the common sense of the two nations should act in this contrary fashion may perhaps be gathered from the following quotation from MT. Shaw's humoristic squib. Ferrovious, be 1t said. and La vinia, are two Christians about to be martyred. The one burly fighter, the other thoughtful, but somewhat frivo. lous maiden.
 ''Ferrovius: Faith Which faith? There are two faiths. There Is our faith. And there is the warriors faith. the faith in fighting, the faith that sees God in the sword. How if that faith should over- whelm me?
 'sLavinia: You will find your real faith in the hour of trial
 ''Ferrovius: That is what I fear. l know that I am fighter. How can l feel sure that I am a Christian?"
 In another place F'errovius has been of- fered service in the Pretorian Guard. He replies as follows:
 @Ferrovius: In my youth I worshipped Mars, the god of War. ! turned from him to serve the Christian God but to- day the Christian God forsook me; and Mars overcame me and took back his own. The Christian God is not yet He will come when Mars and I are dust; but meanwhile l must serve the gods
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n ' common consent, Marshal Murat
 was the greatest cavalry general
 the world ever produced. His abil- ity to handle and maneuver an immense body of mounted troops, do with cavalry which no other could. and infuse into his men an uncomfortable enthusiasm, made him pre-eminently the greatest of cavalry commanders. Yet he began life poor boy, was one of a large family circls of children, rsr the support of which the father was reliant on the slim re- sources arising from keeping a small inn in village. With respect to merit, Inachim rose from the family circle like z mountain from a plain. But for this nnS the name of Murat would not appear fin French history. He became the right arm of Napoleon who consulted him mora freely and confidentially than he did any other of his great commanders.
 Tn the dawn of Murat's manhood he was an Apollo in physical statue and bearing. Perfectly erect and graceful in every movement, he would win the at tention in any group. Nature put the
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APPLIED NIETZSCHIANISM-By George Eaves D. D.

the implication is that all the ex- isting forms and forces. grace, beauty, color, song. claws. stomachs, and the rest are products of the age-long en- deavor of each race to outbid the roar, the tail of a skunk and it's sin- gularly interesting odor. the ear of q babe, delicate as a seashell, and the breast against which it lies, are all products of the law of adjustment to environment illustrations of the sur vival of the fit and the struggle for life.
 But the ethical meaning of this pure and unadulterated Darwinism was not an English product. It remained for a certain sick German scholar to adorn the world with the theory that the struggle for existence is the last and sufficient key to morals Nietzscha candidate for an asylum and shut off from the public stage where others were attracting attention and winning laurels, found his revenge on the world in a brand of ethical theory which adopts for man the impulses of the leopard and the crow. Not content with showing how man has emerged into civilization through the play of these animal instincts, and how he has evolved a new ethic of sacrifice by learning the brutality of his own nature, Nietzsche turns upon that new ethic, which We call Christianity, and spurns it as weak ness. The curious and even dreadful anomaly of Nietzsche Is that he glorifies the ancient doctrine as the only Wis dom-
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followers of the Prophet in Asia and Africa can they hope to wipe out the disgrace of the defeats recently put up to them by the Christian. Tho Sultan of Turkey is not Sultan of Turkey merely. He Is the representative on earth of Mahomet and his cult. The green flag of Islam reposes in It's folds in Constanti- nople, should 1t be unfurled blood wifi flow in many lands now at peace
 Assured by Germany tlat none should bother her while she chastised little Ser via, Austria Hungary preoipitated the war that is now waging in various parts of the world, a war the like of which never before was seen. That was something more than month ago. How pitiful now Is the plight of the dual monarchyl Her offensive movement against Servia has been stopped entirely, and the victorious Serbs and Montenegrfns are preparing to, wrest away Bosnia and Herzegovina. The people of Vienna are ir panic. Hunger and want crawl along tho Ringstrasse The army is in almost open revolt The noneombatants are in a state bordering on anarchy. The tottering old emperor. fingers at the verge of his grave An enemy of the realm has been chosen to fill the throne of St Peter The peasants shiver when they think of tho coming of the Cossacks. mighty nation Is hum- bled The book of history is about to close upon the Holy Roman empire
 correspondent of a London newspaper has learned what he says is the real tsory of the killing of General von Buelow at Haelen. A Belgian youth of 1a he says, standing alone in & mass of dead. saw German officer nearby studying . map. The young Belgian approached stealthily. fired and saw the officer fall Rushing up, he found that the dead body was that of General Won Buelow.
 King Albert of Belgium has made the young Belgian knight. so the story goca- But sane minded citizens can see little to reward in the act of the Belgian youth Right here in Alabama we generally turn our murderers loose. but we arc not in the habit of making knights of them.
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new pope. recognizing perhaps, tho spiritual terrors of this war, and the utter peril it brings to Christianity it. self and to the soul of the world, pro poses to use his good offices in brins- ing 1t to a close Nevertheless it 1. impossible that the world can exist az civilization one-half Nietzschian brute and the one-half Christian gentleman Not even papal authority. nor the spir- itual powers of all religious leaders or all of the churches can avail to Chris tan Nietzsehe. The abominable pre- tense has indeed hacked It's way through countless consoiencea throughout the world for 2oo0 years or more. It's heralds have been Fear and Greed. its emblems. not unreasonably chosen the Lion. the Eagle. the Bear, types of brute mastery. But we ara coming to the time when the eagls shall mourn as dove. the lion eat straw like the OK. and the nurselings Of the bear gambol with the calf and the lamb.
 All this prophecy would be infantils and futile were 1t not certain that Dar- win quite left out the chief creative force of the universe when he made TO room for sacrificial love. but filled all the earth with the brute forces. ''red In tooth and claw" battling for a selfish mastery. But love is not dead. More potent than the brute is hondf, fidelity, integrity, justice, chiv- airy. These are mightier than armed legions. The time is come when all who believe must again rise the cross Of Q new crusade, the symbol of a dy- ing God and write afresh, "By This Sign Thou Shalt Conquer
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vians on the Drina outnumbered the armies of Francis Joseph, and also that the Servians were lighting for their existence" If the world had taken the word of Austria from the start, this state- ment might have proved highly surpris- ing, for Austria had maintained most flatly that it had no idea of threatening the integrity of Servia.
 Lady Randolph Churchill, who was Jen- nie Jerome of New York, has thought fully given the true story" of the death ''He committed suicide says Lady Churchill. He was commanding d Ger man cavalry regiment Gust think of so great a man as a prince commanding only regimentD before Liege, August i, when his men, in the darkness of evening, nearly annihilated a German Infantry regiment which it mistook for Belgians The prince shot himself, fearing to face the anger of Emperor William His widow. with whom I am acquainted. was informed of his death August H."
 And you will please remember General Von Emmich. Rolled in his attempts to take Liege's forts by frontal attack and feeling sure that he was going to re- eeive a fearful reprimand from the Kai- ser, the heroic Von EsTnmich proceeded to take his own life. At least that is what the papers said in the lines they pub lished under his picture.
 Frederick the Great fought with vial of corrosive sublimate in his pocket, With him it was truly conquer or die. But if the German officers make a habit of killing themselves every time they fail to attain their military object an epidemic of suicides may be looked for shortly
 And there is still another reason why all America should rejoice that Wood row Wilson at the present writing Is President of the United States. Sup pose Theodore Roosevelt now occupied that position and received personal cablegrams from the Kaiser. T. R. would
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"HE author of the present Euro
 pean war was an inoffensive
 scientific gentleman named been dead some years and cannot be charged with the crime. His living and vigorous representative is a martial person, the chancellor of the German em- pire, Herr von Bethmann-Hol Indeed MT. Charles Darwin's theory and doe Urine were first driven through the exceedingly musical style and laboring intellect of one Friedrich Nietzsche, a charming philosopher whose smile is the smile of an angel and whose bite is the bite of cobra In his speech defending. as we'll as announcing, the decision to make war on Europe, Chan cellor von Bethmann Hollweg has the distinguished honor to be the first modern statesman to frankly expound the principles of Nietzsche as a na- tional programme in bold defiance of the teaching of Jesus
 It will be remembered that the hon. ored scientific genius who first out lined a complete doctrine of evolution, MT. Darwin, showed that in animal and vegetable life alike, the process of na- ture and the origin of various species could be described by the phrase "the struggle for existence" He meant that a certain adjustment to environ nlent and forceful self-assertion ena- bled the strong to push the weak to the wall, to trample them, to feed upon them, to take away their food supplies, and so on. Thus geologic evidence shows how forms have disappeared and
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I But
 1 In the lesser afflictons of life it is mucf
 to have cultivated the cheerful outlook
 on life. It is well to believe that wha
 is( going to happen to one is to be 6
 cause for rejoicing, not for sorrow. | If approached in that spirit even the
 weighty sorrows and sethacks of life may be made to wear less cheeress aspect The only faith that wears well and
 holds it's color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. says Lowell.
 the meaning of the word "mordant, which may be unfamiliar to some read CTS.
 Here's the dictionary of it: "Mordant. any substance. as alum or copperas, which. havIng a twofold at traction for organic fibers and coloring matters, serves as bond of union and thus gives fixity to. or bites in, the dyes"
 It is good metaphor, that of com pairing the faith that shall serve as q shield against the trials and disappoint-
 ments of life, and be an evidence of be- lief visible to all men, to a garment that is made of the cloth of firm belief and is dyed in the colors or experience. The
 sentence shows the pen marks of the
 finished literary artist. He tells us that before our faith may 1'ecome sure refuge we must believe in it firmly We must be convinced of it's truth.
 There must be no faltering, no '1fs CT "but." We must believe with whole souiee, strong. unshakabe belief In the
 power not ourselves that makes for
 righteousness" the power that rules tho
 world and will set all things right in it's own good time whatever men rnay do to impede the progress of right on this earth.
 We must hold. with Tennysor:
 Oh, yet we trust that somehow good
 Will be the final goal of i'll;
 That nothing walks with aimless Feet;
 That not one lfe shall be destroyed
 Or cast as rubbish to the void When God hath made the pile complete. We may adorn our faith if We Will with the addition of unessential doctrine. But the background of the pattern must be
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HE TRAGIC FATE OF MURAT-By B. F. Rile

by Napoleon for that purpose. However. at the battle of Aboukir. the Turks stood in mass as impenetraae as n brick wall. Napoleon ordered Murat to pierce the center of the ranks, md heading his force of horse. for he always led in battle. he threw himself against the ser ried columns. and they broke like a bil- low on the rocks. His men made gap as wide as their own column, opening @ literal roadway through. and Murat him self, on his magnificent charger. dashed straight to the tent of the turkish com mander, who was astonisned at the in- trepidity of the Frenchnan, and fired at him approaching. grazing the cheek of Murat. when the dashing officer was full on him, cutting away two of the Turk S fingers with his heavy word, Capturing Rim and taking him a trophy to Napo- leon.
 So quickly and coolly was this done. that from that day Napoleon loved him as brother. Murat now became an ideal soldier to his affectionate sovereign. The two were frequently together, and
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him In the. campaign. The result showed that Mufat was the wiser Of the two. Tn some respects he had a more acute dis crimination of sagaeity than Napoleon. The career of the brave and dashing Murat was a glittering romance that ended in bloody tragedy. Like Ney and cthers. Murat was publicly shot after the downfall of Napoleon. As the King Of Naples. he was arrested. given mock trial and escorted 10 the field to Ds shot. He moved to the place of execution with the same composure ease and grace fuiness with which he had so frequently on the drill ground. superbly dressed. as magnificent figure as the world ever saw. Turning full on the file that was to shoot him. he gazed at them calmly for moment, took medallion, which ne wore about his neck, which Jewel bore a picture of his devoted wife, kissed 1t. then
 fixing his brilliant. blue eyes on the soI- diers, he said: Save my face, aim at
 my heart volley of 12 muskets an-
 swered, then a dull thud as he fell to the ground and Murat was no moro.
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that are, not the God that will be. Until then l accept service in the Guard, Caesar"
 Surely MT. Shaw's usually sardonic humor must have struck official Prussia the jest of the century, though in DOT traying the Kaiser as Ferrovius only his English birth protected MT. Shaw from arrest and prosecution for lese-ma ieste.
 It is time. however. that we came to the very words of Herr von Bethmann- Hollweg himself. On the day that tho war was declared, the German chancellor actually told the Reichstag that Germany was compelled to override the just pro- test of the Luxembourg and Belgian gov- ernments.
 ''The wrong-I, speak openely-that we are committing we will endeavor to make good as soon as our military goal has been reached.
 Anybody who is threatened as We are threatened, and is fighting for his high est possessions, can have only one thought-how he is to hack his way through
 Now nothing Is more certain than that the only threat against Germany was her fear of Russia, that Russia earnestly de- sired peace, that she had compelled Ser via to crawl in the dust before Austrian insolence, and that Russa's mobiliza- ton only occurred when Austria refused to accept this humiliation of her little sister nation. Germany was not afraid of the real Russia, but of the Russia which her own fears had created. Ger many alone had refused all suggestions during many recent years looking to gen. eral disarmament, both military and na-
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So will the world set It's approval or
 the result.
 Only if the worker loses himself ir
 his work.
 When self-consciousness steps in
 and he stops to admire what he is do- ing we turn away and say to our selves, consciously or unconsciously: "The attention he is giving to him self is false. It should be given to his task to make itobetter If he has any t.me or energy to spare. besides those
 absolutely necessary to the accomplish
 ment of his work, let him give 1t to
 the better finishing of the job.'
 That is what is meant by disindiv
 ualizing oneself And
 "Blessed is he who has found his
 work. Let him ask no other blessed
 ness. He has work, q fife purpose.
 He has found 1t and will follow it. says Carlyle
 There Is being printed story. funn, in some of it's respects and implications
 about an immigrant who came to thl. country with no other equipment or prop erty than a pair of strong arms. witi other evidences of good health and brain, Of ingenuity inherited from a long lin, of intellectual ancestors, but no education | He had no trade or profession and hat worked in Europe as a laborer. He coulS not read or write. | Somehow he got past the immigration inspectors and no immediate prospects oi | a job But he had friends who placed him | as a janitor of small New York bust
 ness building. There the immigrant re
 mained a few days until the owner o the building learned that he could no
 read or write. Then the janitor wa. l fired promptly.
 ! We'll
 For time he knocked about New York. working at odd jobs. Then he ac-
 cumulated a little money--enough to start him in business as peddler. His nat ural business abilities showed themselves 10 such good advantage that in re-
 markably short time he owned a business and was on the road to wealth. But he never found time to acquire any edu- cation.
 One day friend said to him: Its too bad. MT. C.. that you. with