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The Cape weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1914, 1914-10-16

He was out stealing, Gowdy to Mar
awhile. No runs.
Boston-Deal flied out to Oldring.
Rudolph was out, Barry to Mclnnins.
Barry also threw cut Moran. No runs.
FOURTH INNING.
Athletics-Evers threw out Collins.
Umpire Byron cautioned the Boston
player for coaching on the bench. Ba-
ker singled through Schmidt. The ball
took a wicked bound and struck
Schmidt on the body. Play was stop
ped for minute until Schmidt recov
cred. McInnis singled to right, Ba-
ker going to third McInnis was out
trying to stretch his hit, Connolly to
Deal to Eevers. Walsh famed. No
runs.
Boston-Evers walked. Connolly
was out, Collins to McInnis, Evers go
ing to second. A double play was in
sight but Collins momentarily juggled
the ball. Whitfield got an infield' hit
which bounced off Collins leg. He was
hurt and play was stopped. Evers
took third on the play. Evers scored
on Schmidt's slow roller to Barry, who
threw the runner out at first. The in
field was playing deep for a double
play. Whitfield reached second on the
play. Shawkey threw out Gowdy.
One run.
FIFTH INNING.
Athletics got an infield hit,
his first of the series. Evers threw
out Schang, Barry going to second. 1t
was an attempted hit and run play.
Barry scored on Shawkey's double to
the left field fence. Evers threw out
Murphy, Shawkey going to third. Old
ring famed. One run.
Boston-Barry threw out Maran-
| Vile. deal Was OuCy DdhSI W hSAIhlio'
Rudolph singled to center. Moran dou-
bled to left, Rudolph reaching third.
Rudolph and Moran scored on Evers'
single over second. Evers was picked
off first, Shawkey to McInnis. Two
runs.
SIXTH INNING.
Athletics-Collins out, Meanwhile
to Schmidt, real wonderful play. The
ball shot over second base but Maran-
vile got in back of the bag and scor-
ed a great assist. Baker fouled to
Deal. McInnis out, Meanwhile to
Schmidt. No runs.
Boston-Pennock replaced Shawkey
on the mound for the Athletics. Mann
bats in place Of Connolly. Mann lined
to Walsh. Whitfield singled over third
Schmidt singled through Collins
Whitfield reaching third: Gowdy fan.
| ned. On an attempted double steal
The Cape weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1914, 1914-10-16

Henry Schwoon and R. B. Tweedy of
St. Louis, are in the Cape on a busi-
ness trip.
The Cape weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1914, 1914-10-16
THIRD INNING.

Athletics-Shawkey struck out on
three pitched balls. Deal threw out
Murphy. Deal took the ball near the
bag and had to make a snap throw to
get the runner. Oidring singled to
center his first hit of the series.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08

ceived something more than the common place in the descent of the fruit. He looked through the fall of the apple and perceived the wondrous law of gravitation
 a force. though unseen to the physical vision that binds the universe together in
 a mghtier grasp than could all the steel
 wires. ropes and chains of which the mind
 of man can think. And so. by perceiving, Sir Isaac Newton discovered the laws of gravitauon.
 For ages the German peasantry had heard the weird and curious folklore so
 strangely interblended with their history and poetry, and not even the legends of the Norsemen can equal in fascinating in-
 terest the stories of the German fire- side, The stories were related to gener- aton after generation until comparatively modern times. Then they were heard by a lad whose very soul perceived in some
 Of these stories an opportunity for great musical-epic settings He dreamed of them, studied for them, and when the time came for his pen, Wagner gave the
 world the thunderous harmony and the gentle melody of Parsltal. the story of
 Amfortas and the Holy Grap; the legend of Hannhauser, with the pope's blossom
 ing staff Lohenglin, with Elsa and the sorrowful departure in the swan boat and the others. It was the soul that saw
 through the story and perceived the world
 of possible music beyond.
 I remember we'll dusky old cathedral that stands in an open square in the city of Pisa. Many hundreds of thousands
 of men and women have crossed It's
 threshold since the ages ago when it was first erected as temple of worship. Nat urally dark. the interior has been made more sombre by the clouds of incense
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that have risen to the vaulted ceiling through the long roll of the centuries. At the intersection of the long nave and the transcept there is suspended lamp which has performed its simple function in the sacred place for ages. Hundreds of years ago there came one day a learned man into this old cathedral. we best know of him as Calico. He was an astronomer, a physicist the inventor of the telescope, the dlscoverer of the moons of Jupiter, that Is of some of them. He came hither day after day, not simply to worship, but to observe the old lamp; for he noticed that when the atmosphere was disturbed this lamp would vibrate like q pendulum. Day after day he was en- gagged in pereeiving what to everybody else was commonplace pendulous motion of the lamp Then there came a day when he rushed out of the cathedral and announced his discovery of the laws of the pendulum, by which the scientist and everybody since his day has been debtor to Calico. Everybody had seen the lamp swing. for it had at times been in motion for many years, But it remained for Calico to perceive. where others could only see,
 This principle applies almost unver- sally It is the man who not only sees but pereeives, who reaches life's high places. IL is this that supplies life with it's truest enrichment and it's most substantial pleasure. Men talk of seeing life. To see life may be a good thing or 1t may be disastrous. Simply to see life with its sorrows, it's disappointments, its ca lamities. "the ills and arrows of outrag- eou fortune" "the whips and scorns of time'-to see all this and to perceive no philosophy behind it all Is sufficient to tempt a man to make his quietus with a bare bodkin, or something else. To stand
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SEEING AND PERCEIVING-By Dr. w. E. Evans

what things they ought to do. and also may have grace and power faithfully to fulfil the same,' etc.
 To perceive then, means more than to see with the physical organ of vii sion. It is to 'see through as the proposition ''per'' indicates, and far be- yond the limitations of sensuous cogni- ton. Thus is the word employed by a great writer when he says: "Till we ourselves see it with our own eyes, and perceive it with our own understanding, we are in the dark In the process of perceiving, the physical eyes may lead the way in part. They may reveal 8 world of superficial phenomena in the burning stars, in the throbbing sea, in the waving grain, in flowers, and in for ests of ancient elm and oak. Beyond the mere appearance of such creatures of the Creators hand the physical vision cannot go. It is the mind which per- ceives under and back of the material phenomena the laws, the forces, and the causes of sequence that control them.
 Without the ability to perceive, the highest success in any sphere of life's chosen vacations can never be attained. and much of life's happiness is forever unknown. The marvellous paintings of the worlds greatest masters are not known to the man who merely sees them, and the inspired art of Raphael, of Correggio. of Angelo, of Tintorretto, and of the others, is lost. absolutely lost to him who cannot perceive the splen- did world beyond the canvas. Said one to the great Turner, after looking upon, and merely seeing his golden picture of Venice, in the National gallery, in London, upon which thousands of en- tranced souls have gazed: But, really I
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\ HOMILY FOR MARCH 8TH-By George Fave

glacis, sloping and clear of shelter, | swept by modern artillery of genius is a dangerous place for regulations.
 | This is saddening and amazing, that after 2000 years of the true religion the church still confronts, jmpregnable and hoary, the gates of hell in this earth! Most amazing, that England, the mother of free parlaments. should also be the mother of city slums and rural poverties of bebaucheries and miseries and foul degeneracies unspeakable, quite unbeliev- able! Is it not wonderful that Germany, home of intellect and foe of obscurantism, should be still worshipping the sword? Gates of hell Behold them in the fact that America, greatest of democracies, can hardly boast a single city that truly serves it's own democracyl Knowing that brotherhood and true human love are the essence of religion. behold intelligent na- tions rent by the mutual fear and hate that separate class from class! Behold the warfare about dimes and quarters that means murder in West Virginia. Michigan, Colorado. What a comment on the religion of Arperica What q chal- lengc to hang on tke gates!
 Thus, too, the missionary to Asia or A1r1Ca f1nuS the wees or c1VlllZat1OD ITSdu- ing at his heels, and making money for their promoters. The sweat shops of New York will flourish better in Ning-po. When civilization boasts of her victories, she points to the graves of Russians from Manchurian highlands 10 Port Arthur, all scientifically slain by modern ma chinery wrought in Jaran. When the foremost Christian pcwe- of the world accomplishes the greatest engineering feat of history. she builds the biggest rifle ever forged throwing a steel bullet weighing more than ton, to symbolize the Christ she worshirs as king of all the earth, standing at the new arbitral gateway of the nations. Is this the best that the church can show?
 find men saying that there is in fact an alliance between formal religion and the evil powers. They point to such things as these and accuse us of an al. lance between church and hell. It seems as though we were in mortal terror of dependence on spiritual, forces so that we have even become believers ill profits rather than prophets. advocates of fash ion and fury rather than of the old tried way of faith. the way of suffering, sery- ice, sacrifice. Some of our critics are deeply religious and Christian men. Some gre revolutlonaries. But who can resist the impulse to ask, Why tho tardiness2
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can't see such wonderful beauty in it. The master simply said: Don't you wish you could?" Such people throng the gal leries of Europe, they see all the great est paintings that have ever adorned the walls of palaces, of salons. and of pub lie galleries. and come away from the places where angels would finger and wonder. unimpressed unmoved.
 Such folk remind me of a young lady, a school-teaeher whom I once tried to interest in Shakespeare I read to her some of the most exquisite extracts from ''As You Like It." She listened to me wearily. When I was through, she said, yawningly, That's real nice, ain't it?'' I turned away and said in German, which she could not understand any more than she could Shakespeare, "Ach, Himmel; es macht nichts aus'-which, being broad ly translated, means-"w what's the use?''
 We all know of him to whom a prln1- rose on the rivers brim was nothing but primrose; he saw nothing beyond the yellow petals, no beauty no poetic sug- gestion, no hiding place for tiny fairies and he looked nowhere for traces of IT, tania and Oberon-
 "A yellow primrose, twas to him,
 And nothing more
 But what said Wordsworth of his own habit of perceiving? This in his Ode on Immortality,
 "To me, the meanest flower that breathes
 can give
 Thoughts that do often lie too deep for
 tears"
 When RusSin looked upon a daisy
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within the gates because they never re- | alized where they stand or why. | Therefore quit drifting. The appeal of
 the moment is more than a momentary
 appeal. It stands for new alignment of | all forces, not such as the merely political
 or local but inward. moral. eternal uni versal spiritual. It calls for the use of clean vision, straight thinking. intel ligence in the battle of liie. The church does not need us half so much as the foolish world needs us nor so much as our foolish selves need decision, a CO., ordination of ourselves, a return to sound and honest integrity and sincerity. For the only significance of life is war fare upon the gates of he'll That alone explains the church. To Join yourself to 1t Is beautiful thing. only if it means the advent Of one more soul to the age long siege. one whose strength Is as tho strength of 10 because his heart is un- divided and clearly dedicate. Too many who are in the church are not in the war Some eager in the war are not in the church, but are despised as heretics and Jews and unbelieving heather. X vast multitude. too, know not that there Is any siege. any war. any hell soever. know not their right hand from their left. and also much cattle"
 Therefore let us go to church. Let us be socially intelligent. and humanlv worshipfui and teachable. Let us by all means lay low the hell-gate in our own souls. But if We would do 1t. we must help bring to conclusion the age long siege of the strongholds of evil in the world
 Lay down this paper. chen. and go to church. Hurry. or you will be too late, and perhaps find every seat occupied.
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as to the outlook. Business was bad and these men believed it was going to be worse lnstead of doing what they could to brighten things they went about with long faces and sought orders more on the ground of sympathy and previous friend ship than on the qualities and prices of the goods they were carrying The nat urally led the merchants to believe that things must be really bad, and they booked ahead accordingly. The pessimists lost orders.
 Had they assumed instead that business was going to be increasingly better 1t would have been better for themselves and for the lugubrious buyers. Same thing holds good in other lines and in life itself.
 If you start out with the assumption that things are bad and are going to be- come worse if your cloud Is black all the way through and you see no chance of turning it inside out so as to expose the silver lining, you are inviting disaster
 And disaster unGke good things which are asked to visit one. has a habit of ae- ccptng invitations. It brings it's relatives. gloom and despair, for a long stay.
 You must base your claim for business, as for life, on merit not sympathy. Past performances" are good things to look back upon with pleasure and sympathy supplies a savor to life without which it's taste Is fiat, but q basis for judg- ment of mans worth they lack sub stance.
 The world will judge you according to what you give to 1t, not what you take from it. Better to be a source of sym pathy for others than reservoir seeking to draw it to yourself.
 The really strong men and women of the world have not sought to see how much they could get; they have en- deavored to give.
 Your faith may not include belief in the efficacy of prayer
 Opinions differ honestly on that question and have differed for many centuries
 But do you objec to being prayed for?
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X HANY see, but the number of those MI who perceive is vastly smaller. To AV1 see is physical and is the result Of an appearance of light upon the retina of the physical organ of vision. To per- ceive is an act of the mind and means to comprehend, to see through. In modern speech the words are used interchangeably all too often. We say of proposition or of problem through which we have come to penetrate, "Yes, I see;" and when a physical object is pointed out to us we often say why, certainly, I perceive" In the first instance the verb "see" is used figuratively, and is admissible as a quick, strong figure of speech, but perceive" to comprehend, mentally to penetrate, in my opinion, should not be used as above instanced.
 The English of the King James Bible is praised and valued by the best writers of English literature, and in that ven erable volume a nice distinction between seeing and perceiving is made more than once In the Old Testament we read, Yet the Lord hath not given you heart to perceive, and eyes to see and ears to hear" by which we are to understand that mental and spiritual perception and hearing are higher accomplishments than can be conveyed to the mind by the phys ical organs; for those to whom the words were first addressed had eyes and ears. On one occa sion the Great Teacher said: Seeing ye shall see and not perceive" In the Book of Common Prayer the col feet for the first Sunday after the Epi phany reads thus. 70 Lord, we beseech Thee mercifully to receive the prayers of Thy people who call upon Thee; and grant that they may both perceive and know
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After so imperfect a description of the battle. even in outline. let us sec the risk incurred by Alexander in accepting battle at this point, which, indeed. he was com pe1ied to do. Had he failed at the battle of Arhela. he would have passed into oblivion. The defeat of his army would have been disastrous. Yet Tn accepting battle the odds were agsnst him His troops were worn by continuous march ing and fighting. They were numerically less than those of Darius, while the latter troops were fresh, had choice of the ground. chosen by Darius. were amply equipped and had no douot or victory.
 Alexander would have avoided this con flet had he been able to do so. He knew the strength. freshness and flereeness of his foe, and knew also that Darius would contend with greater earnestness because the battle was to decide whether he was to be master of Asia or not, Alexander was not without some misgiving of the result, but as 1t was. he was compelled to rely on the invlncibleness of his troops
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There was a man In a New York court the other day who said he did in q certain manner He was being accused him of cruel and inhuman treatment,' and he countered with most strange and unusual clNrge.
 He said that every night his wife had their baby daughter. three years old. repeat this prayer:
 God bless grandmother and spare her to me. God bless mother and spare her to me. God make daddy a better man" This reference to himself, the man said, was the eruelist thing his wife ever did. as it poisoned against him the mind of the baby. raising in her infantile mind a doubt of her daddys goodness
 Many men have been sunk m tnf depths of wickedness, but few have been so utterly depraved that they did not care how they stood in the minds of their little children, espe- eially perhaps of their little daughters This man perhaps and others have been disdanful of tM worlds opinion of themselves and their 2ctions But they wanted their babies to think well of them
 It seems strange does 1t not, that woman who though enough of her baby to teach her to pray fogdivine guidance and aid and q man who loved good man should not be able to forget her to believe that her daddy was d good man should not be able forget the shadow of their differences in the great white light of their mutual love for their baby?
 Had they never heard and pondered on the old saying "A little child shall lead them?,
 Fathers of little children--
 Is 1t necessary for your babies 10 pray that you be made better or is your conduct such that you can return home at evening and look your little ones in the eye and feel that you arc worthy of the smile which greets yous
 There Is test of manhood which never fails. Happy the man who can meet ir successfully!
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| amid the falling leaves Of ones shat tered hopes. to dig graves and lay our
 best beloved therein to become food for
 worms, to drag on through the days and years in dreary loneliness. to pray when the heavens seem brass-all this excites the hopelessness of Schaupenhauer and besets the despair of pessimisnl of the rankest kind. There is a philosophy of life There is a meaning to all that makes up our existence here. Most of us are blind to It. Seeing, we do not perceive. If we looked more deeply into life's mys- teries l am not sure but We should have
 for our own experience what once befel q good man in the ages that are gone. This good man was accustomed to per ceiving things in life, and controlled his
 course by the things that he saw with his soul, counting of secondary import
 ance that which simply appealed to his physical vision. His servant. a young
 man, adopted a different line of living
 and thought the most important things
 were those that his eyes could see and
 his fingers handle. Being in a strait one day. and fearing that the good old man
 and himself would be overcome by their
 nations enemies, the servant looked at his master He was perfectly calm and Apparently philosophical The servant then
 wanted to perceive and the old man prayed that he might see Then a miracle
 was employed. l believe in the possibility
 of miracles even in this day. The miracle was about tho only thing that would have enabled the servant to see properly just as a miracle is about the only thing that will cure the blindness of some people | that you and I know. After the good mans prayer we read in the old book from which learned tho story, And the Lord God opened the eyes of the young man and he saw; and behold, the mountain l was full of horses and chariots of fire.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08
ALEXANDERS CRISIS-By B. F. Riley, D. D.

plants with their spearsmen and the infantry would complete the overthrow and destruction of the army.
 At the appointed time Alexander reached the region of the hills. His army was numerically weaker than that of his antagonist; it was weary from toilsome march. and was at a disadvantage of location. Alexander saw at a glance the plan of Darius, and began to arrange to meet it. Par menio, next in command to Alexander. proposed that a night attack be made on the Persians, but Alexander said he preferred to fight them in the open by day, as but slight credit would at tach to a night victory, which had it's perils. The truth is that Darius ex- peeted a night attack and was ready for it. So. while Alexander ordered his men to strike camp, to sup and sleep, the army of Darius lay on their arms and were at tension during the live long night. This had it's effect the next morning when Alexander's troops were
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not prevent you from selling them. You can exchange them for the golden coin Of hope, fresh minted from the factory of experience and desire for a better life. You can get for them the clean, new bills of resolution to let them trouble you no more. You can make a profit on the transaction. a bigger profit than was ever gained in any commercial business.
 Tt is not work that kills men; it is worry. It is not the revolution~that de- stroys the machinery, but the friction. , said Henry Ward Beecher
 And the way to eliminated the friction is to lubricate ones life with the oil of joy and happiness and hope and a broader, brighter outlook
 'I was blind; now I sec I was deaf. now l hear l was dumb: now l speak The hands of others wrought this miracle in me-
 So says Helen Keller, living monument to the loving care, the infinite patience and the kindly thoughtfulness of others. Note that she does not claim credit for herself, for her own heroic efforts to overcome the defects of nature. All praise and gratitude for those who made her what she is-the best known Iiving educated blind deaf mute.
 Little by little they built on the foun- dation of her own innate intelligence, her sweetness of temper and her willingness to learn, a superstructure that Is the mar vel of physicians and educators. Per sistelftly they wrought the unpromising material into shape that is credit not only oherself and to them but to the whole human race. When one is tempted to doubt the goodness and mercy of God and His ultimate purpose to bring all things god, one has gut to think of Helen Keller.
 Now
 Before us lies a world of Helen Kellers Not in the physical sense. for fortunately it is only very rarely that child is born without the gifts of sight and hearing and speech. But mental Helen Kelers arc not so rare as they should be-
 They must be taught Some one must bring to their blunted understandings the knowledge of good and evil, the sense of a word full of things that are worthy