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prise and did not write to them of his return
 He entered the home of his brother whom he had not seen or heard from in l3 years. Hello, John!' he said You have the best of me-" declared John, who failed to recognize his brother. T am your brother said the returned pilgrim.
 Too many of us are like John. We do not recognize our brother when he halls us in friendly greeting or in ap peal for aid. You have the best of me-" you say. T do not recognize you
 And yet
 No other fact has received since the beginning of mans thinking such wide spread admission as the brotherhood of man. Every philosopher, pagan and Chris tian, Jew and Gentle, has laid stress on the fact that all mankind forms one great family. bound together by common ties of humanity. dependent on one an- other for aid and support and sympathy and entitled to recognition
 It is said that after all these centuries of teaching and preaching there are wars and rumors of wars,' and the in- dividual is filled with the spirit of the British navvy. who said to his comrade:
 That feller across the roads stran- ger, Bill. Fave 'arf a brick at inn
 Take the lowest Hottentot or degraded native of New Guinea or the filthiest Eskimo and compare him with the most refined American or EuroDean and yor will find more points of similarity than difference. Tn the image of God made he man. and the likeness of man to man persists throughout the world.
 The stranger from far country is your brother. Put away the prejudice that is aroused by differences of language or re- ligious belief or custom. Look beneath the surface and judge each man or woman as an individual.
 If he be worthy admit him into your family
 Especially in this beautiful, rich Amer worthy of the earth, there should be nc place for senseess animasity. We are all newcomers here. , Among the so-called best" of us the oldest families.'' there are only few generations of Americanisln. measured by the age of the earth.
 Whether mans ancestors came over on the Mayflower or whether he himself arrived on the latest cattle steamer
 If he be willing to work for his own advancement and for the good of the country and is worth while in himself
 He is our brother.
 There was in western state man who had great political power. He was
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tude and the longitude of the region. and on examination of the geographical boun. daries Magellan made good the claim oi Spain not only to the Philippines. but tht Afoluceas as we'll Il required three yearf for the accomplishment of this Carius feat of belting the earth, but 1t wat effected by Magellan for the first time, and has ever remained the greatest achievement of navigation ever per. formed.
 In a struggle with the chiefs of ths Philippines. Magellan lost his life. but he had succeeded in going around fht world, had changed existing science, had made possible exploits in commerce hith. erto undreamed of. and had SO wrought as to make his name brilliant among the greatest of the earth. Amidst tho cele- bratons and observances of great events it is surprising that this. the greatest achievement known to man. has nevei been even suggested
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iarism and culture. So thinks Henri Bergson, the philosopher, who has him. self garnered about all there is in tho culture field, but his view is hardly in accord with that of the German savants Hear NJ. Bergson:
 '"The war against Germany is the struggle of civilization against barbar- ism. The French academy, whose duty it Is to plumb sociological and moral questions is bound to put Germanys brutality, cynicism and savagery on record"
 l; might have been we'll to have tuned the thing over to the French academy in the first place; but then there is no overwhelming reason to be- llcve that the verdict of Paris would be indorsed by Berlin.
 Thus the Kaiser to his daughter-in- law:
 T thank thee with all my heart, dear child. rejoice with thee over the first victory of Wilhelm. God has been on his side and has most brilliantly sup ported him. To Him be thanks and honor l remit to Wilhelm the iron cross of the second and first class"
 From this there might be an infer enee that God Is acting with the crown prince as sort of second in command. He may yet win an iron cross from the Kaisers hands for himself
 General Percia. in La Science ct la Vie, has figured out about what it costs to kill man in war trans la; or gives some of General Percia' s figures as follows:
 In 1S70-1S71 France spent $400. .000, Coo in the actual expenses of the war. Repairing materials and giving succor to the victims of the war. expenses that arc justly to be added, cost another S20G, ,000, 900. France paid $l,000. 900, 900 as war indemnity plus another S400,- 000,0 900 in interest on the sum, loss of revenue. forced contributions by the enemy and upkeep of the German army of occupation. The third category of expenses not being inevitable in all wars, cannot properly be included. On a similar basis here are some facts about other wars:
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only promotes that harmony but works out it's own salvation. Certainly this is the New Testament teaching and essen tial Christian ethics, and is in the fullest accord with the evolution both of the in dividual and of society. Moreover this view recognizes that the function of the church is to stimulate the soul in it's de-
 votion and to achieve for society the re- organization of humanity on the basis of love rather than on the old barbaric basis of sef-protection and the rights of property. Hence it has proved impossi- ble to construct modern apologetic without lapse into both idealism and prophecy. The only complete apology
 for Christian truth yet remains to be written for the modern aae in a modern achievement of the love
 life, as opposed to the present confusion of Christian doctrine with ecclesiastical jealousies rivalries. embitterments, sus- picions. worldly and selfish ambitions, schemes. sectarian rapacites and eXclu- sons and the imitation of the commer- cialism of this world. Because to the
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ened to the necessity Of bearing the cross To change the world-order of selfish pru- denee to the Christ-order of loving sacr- flee; and @ because the demand for an age to come. when these things shall be seems unreasonable after 19 apparently fruitless centuries of gospel preaching and church endeavor. The apologist, therefore must fall back on the life of Jesus, the cross and resurrection of Jesus, and the visible reappearing of Jesus in the lives of His saints as historic proofs that at last He will triumphantly feappear to dominate the nations by being glorined in His saints" or in other words. by dominating your life and mine, most patient reader. Here. apologetic be- comes exhortaton. The world still swings and drifts from selfish impt rial- ism to a selfish democracy and back again.
 Thus we reach the epllogue. For when all is said and done and written the whole problem is wrapped up and hidden
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In New York was held the other day a memorial meeting for those "who might have lived" It Is asserted on good authority that 5o0,O00 persons have died in New York in the past 25 years from disease which the board of health designates as preventable."
 New York Is one of the most health ful cities in the United States. so that 1t may be assumed that preventable diseases have caused the entire coun- try millions of lives In the past quar- ter of century.
 To our shame be 1t said many of who should have been the nations greatest treasures.
 The responsibility for these deaths and for those of the adults lies not alone at the doors of the health au- thorities, but of the rest of us. If We have been remiss in taking an active part in the sanitation campaign which is being waged throughout the nation we share in the blame.
 Each individual part may be small and incomputable, but in the aggre- gate it accounts for those who might have lived"
 Some of the cities are now having
 "clean up" weeks every spring. The rub
 Dish is cleared out, and the disease breed- Ing spots are cleaned up and disinfected. Notices are sent to the householders to have their worn-out stuff ready for cart ing away at certain hour of certain
 cleaned up. Year after year. of course. the pile of rubbish becoems smaller as
 the people learn to appreciate the value of getting rid of the old stuff. The num- ber of disease germs burned up Is. of course. incalculable.
 Spread the movement.
 There is not region. rural or urban, that could not be improved by the adop- ton of this plan. In many places all that is needed Is the active work of one friend of cleanliness. He may begin by agitat- ing the subject in his local paper or among his friends and neighbors. point ing out the manifest advantages of the plan and asking for cooperation. In most cases he will find the authorities willing to aid, for they may be persuaded easily that helping along the idea will increase their popularity among their con | stltuents.
 | In this way those ''who might have ! lived" will be added to the list of those
 who live. And those who would have re.
 naainsd on the censis list anyway will bs
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mander The captains of the little ves- sels whispered among the crew that this Portugese was an ordinary adventnrer who cared nothing for their weifare. and was disloyal to Emperor Charles. Sedi- tion became so rampant, that one Of the captains fell justified by conditions to go aboard the flagship. face AIagelan. denounce him, and defy him. Magellan listened till the man was through when he 6ollared him. jerked him to his knees and called to his men to put him in irons. This had sobering effect. and for the time the mutiny was quelled.
 Reaching the eastern coast of South America, Magellan slxirted it for weeks together examining every inlet to ascer- tain if 1t was not narrow strip of water uniting the Atlantic with fsome supposed body beyond the land, which connecting link Magellan felt sure existed some where, though the Pacific was then un- known as a distinct body. Subjected to
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H HE graphic story of how Ger
 niany's crown prince lay wound \ ed unto death at Aix-la- Chapelle while his royal father mourned at the bedside has brought out the usual crop of stories about young Frederick Will liam, who. we are reminded. was born in 1882: received military education, vas enrolled as a student at the Uni ycrsity of Bonn, the first of his rank to enter that institution, and while there became q great favorite Ion count of his democratic tendencies It is reiterated for our information and 6olectation that he is a young man Of independent spirit and has had many differences with his father, the stern Kaiser.
 It is all very touching, but hardly overture. Frederick William may once lave had democratic tendencies but he has unhappily outgrown them. As to the deathbed scenes at Aix-la-Cha- polle-Oh, well. The crown prince may live many years yet. although he prob ably will not be holding his present job.
 
 gen through the windows of a pal ace. Here is a little story dipped from tho turbid stream flowing through the newspaper columns
 'i just talked with little Belgian boy who walked into town. He is IA years old and his arm was in a sling. lIic head is injured by flying splinters
 He lived in a farmhouse six miles frcrn the border. German soldiers passed all the morning and then they began to run back the way they had come.
 A shell struck his farmhouse and exploded. His father and mother, who sat. in corner, were blown to pieces The roof fell in and crushed his young sister. He was thrown to the ground and lay there six hours. Then he ,rawled out and came across the fields to Holland"
 Inspiring, isn't it? Eplendid tribute to Czarism and Kingism and Kaiser is,n. Laurel for autocracys brow: testi- mony to militarism's grandeur.
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suffering that was intense. the crew again revolted, but t was again auelled and Magellan proceeded on his way.
 Turning into an indenture of the coast. which proved to be a stormy body of water. Magellan followed it. and finally came out into the open ocean on the op- pesite side of the body of land along which he had been so long sailing. This came to be known as the strait of Ma gellan. So calm was this vast expanse of water in comparison with the stormy Atlantic. that Magellan called it Pacific Much to the joy of his crew he now faced toward home, and thus pllcked out the sting of mutiny. But the greatest sufferings were yet to come. For three months and twenty days Magellan sailed the waters of the Pacific without finding inhabited land. The food was gone, and the men were forced to soak into soft ness the leather strings with which the rigging was held. and eat them, or to
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n HE essential truth of the gospel be-
 lieved by the church is proved \ afresh by the experience and
 thought of our own age 1t seemed at first that the doctrine of evolution was indeed d mortal error, destructive of the Bible itself. On the contrary we have found in it a sweet -easonableness convincing us that all the world is God S world. that things are in the making, not already made, and that they move through strain and crisis. through growth and battle, through birth and death, ever towards goal which it is not unreason- able to identify with the answer to the age-long petition of the church. "Thy Kingdom Come.
 It also seems reasonable to find for the individual soul similar evolutionary process which shall work in with this progressive movement of mankind; so that, by finding it's place in the world harmony and devoting itself sacrifieially to the welfare of others, each soul not
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sian navy. a general in the German army. etc. In passing, please notice that the Eighty-ninth German Grena dier regiment, of which King Albert of Belgium is hon orary'' colonel was the first to invade his country when Emperor William de- cided to pay no attention to his solemn pledge to respect the neutrality of the little kingdom
 Now comes Lady Cook with d proposal to raise an army of amazons to fight for England. Ever since the Germans in yaded Belgium and England decided to take hand in the hostilities, the Lon don newspapers have printed columns about what can the women do?' Lady Cooks scheme is the mast daring yet proposed. She should not have much diff Iiculty in organizing her corps, however, already been designed. This should do away with most of the argument over preliminaries.
 Prof. Hugo Munsterpurg, profound and ponderous, lays all the blame for the big war on the tomb of Edward VII. Well, that's safe enough, anyway. With all the attempts to discover the cause Of hostilities. it really seems strange that Doctor Cook has not taken a hand. He once had a pretty fair reputation as a discoverer.
 When told by England to pack his clothes and fit away the Austrian ann bassador to the court of St. James asked plaintively:
 Why should l go away? We have been the best of friends for IS years
 Actually, between England and Aus Hungary there had not been one single point of difference, not one occasion of friction. But both countries had been caught in the maelstrom devastating Europe, and, though long friends, they are now enemies.
 Proud of the Fatherlands s magnificent accomplishments in the arts and sciences, many Germans have professed to See as the only cause of the great war Slavic jealousy of Teutonic progress. They in- sist that the conflict is one between bar
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That is the newspaper head put over an article which quotes statement
 by Irving T. Bush, president of a large
 New York company. He says:
 our country is so big that an occa- sional spree cannot permanently blind
 us to the fact that 9c.9 per cent of the
 who are trying to make an honest liv-
 ing.
 That's a very high percentage. The amount of dross in our business gold is
 so small. then, according to MT. Bush
 that it is not more than what the chem
 ists call trace That means that
 W nen the chemists analyze a substance
 they find evidence of the presence of
 something, but they cannot determine
 how much. the quantity being so
 small
 One-tenth of l per cent of dishonesty in Americas business world is only a
 trace"
 But
 man-would he yield if analysed only a trace" of downright dishonesty. or cunning subterfuge, or evasion of the laws of the land and of business mor- ality?
 Perhaps, yet it may be doubted. Folks who assay 100 per cent honesty are rare-so rare that it is questionable whether any exists not. Probably the perfect man has never existed. In
 at least one of the relationships of life there is bound to be flaw, a falling
 away from the highest possible stan
 oard.
 It is we'll that it is so. Life with 100 per cent person would | be impossible unless the rest of us were constructed according to the same lofty specifications. Still-
 The fact that perfection is unthink- able and impossible need not deter any one from attempting 10 approximate 1t. If you are an 80 per cent person you may try to make ID the other 70 per cent. And if you gre among the rare 90 per centers you may strive Q reduce the other 10 per cent. The case is like that If the asymp- tote. a term known to students of the higher mathematics. The asymptote ID, dScOHulu6 tO W coSteAs d iiHc Whicii approaches nearer to some curve than any assignable distance. but, though indefinitely extended. would never meet it.'
 Fifty years ago tue great war. waged since the early days of 1881. was nov
 ing to its end. The south was still
 asnting. but 1t was with the courage
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from his solitary confinement. but even the mighty pen of zols and public sem timent could not then beat down tha sordid clique of bureaucrats ruling .he French army. The Rennes courtmar- was five years Imprisonment in France. but the sentence was never carried out An innocent mans life had been ruined. however and his powerful anti-Semitic superiors es- capped detention and obloquy. Tho story of Dreyfuss is one of the saddcst unfolded In the pages of history. His treatment was such as might have turned him and his progeny forever against the land he had served. But now we find the son winning glory In the uniform of the nation which per- secuted the father
 Interviewed by an Age-fIerald reporter some days ago, the manager of tea and coffee store making speciality of sugar made the statement that the tariff Is re- sponsible for the soaring price of sugar. So far the tariff has not been accused of bringing on the European war. but tho cane planters of Louisiana arc firmly con vinced that It caused an outbreak of bu- bonic plague in New orleans.
 Thomas A Edison. his brow covered with aurels won in striving to bring comfort and convenience to his fellow man. has this to say:
 "Civilization is undergoing surgical operation. If Is necessary to settle for all time that dynastic militarism shall disappear from the earth; that the peo- pie shall rule through constitutional Rov- ernment; that all races of men shall dwell together in amlty. as they dc now in the United States
 Such Is to be devoutly hoped. t,uo right now here In the United States arc men deliberately seeking to foment in this country an anti-Japanese sentiments despite the fact that Japan constantly Is declaring that she intends to do noth- Ing in the orient that can by any pos- sibility adversely affect our interests there We got tired of soothing down Japan while California was reforming her land laws IL is only natural that Japan should get tired of reiterating that 1t is anxious to maintain the friendship of the United States. Anti-Japanese agitation at this time can be for no patriotic pur- pose
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BYPATHS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS DESERTS-By Riley

~ NE of the greatest events in this
 history Of time was that of the first circumnavigation of the globe. which occurred only a few years after the discovery of America The achievement of Columbus in braving the seas. and in setting at defiance the so- called science of his day. has received the recognition due to the great event, but great as it was, it dwindles and shrinks in comparison with the accom- plishment of Magellan in going around the earth
 The discovery of America by Columbus marked the era of modern exploration and discovery, widened the vision of the world. and set in motion movements that were to clear number of scientific ques- tions the greatest of which movements was that of the successful girdng of the globe by Magellan. When there are taken
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Jews The war will bear especially hard upon this race.
 In Russia it is claimed that the Czar's promise of an autonomous Poland has been received with wild acclaim, and that the Poles are rallying to the Russian flag. From other quarters it is reported that the Poles. long suffering and patient as they are, cannot in a moment forget the wrongs done them and their country by the Romanoffs, and that they place little faith in any protestatons that the little father can make.
 The National Polish League of Am erica, with headquarters in New York. has issued a statement in which it calls upon Germany to create a new Poland extending from the Adriatio to the Black sea, and including the Polish provinces of Prussia, Austria and Russia. The second son of Elm peror William is suggested as a ruler who would be acceptable to the Polish people.
 Russia attempts to convert every one over whom it obtains control to its peculiar beliefs and in Austria the Vatican rules" says the statement Poland cannot therefore expect any thing from either of these two eoun- tries, but II could depend upon Ger many if 1t approached Germany in tho right way. Only Germany can and only Germany will help Poland realize her national aspirations"
 News that the son of Major Alfred Dreyfuss has been promoted to the rank of sergeant for heroic conduct on the field of battle in the taking of Muelhausen brings up memories of the lone prisoner of Devils Isldn. The mighty pen of Iola and public senti- ment brought the disgraced major back
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She Had Bitten

From the New Orleans Picayune.
 She was a little girl and very polite. It was the first time she had been on . visit alone, and she had been carefully inc structed how to behave r
 "If they ask you to dine with them" papa had said, you must say, No. thaun you. I have already dined.'" !"
 It turned out Just as papa had anttci- pated.
 Come along. Marjorie. said her litt1o friends father, you must have a b1to with us"
 No, thank you,' said the little girl wifh dignity T have already bitten.'
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helped to live happier and better. bes cause cleaner, lives.
 The good cause is spreading. Help 10 along.