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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-03-11
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0ABENEIg

E ARE all capitalists. The only
pauper in the world Is a zeal.
dumb, blind idiot. Let us examine our
gifts and capacities and put them 10 the
hest usa we NAV Browne.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-03-11
Mot IL Ha Knew Il.

Everybody says we are engaged"
said Miss Antique.
What of that? Nobody believes it"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-03-11

II you would cultivate a good DISPOSE
ton, select one hour III each day and re-
solve to let nothing ruffle you. The first
week may record many failures. but
keep at it and you will win. Lloyd.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-03-11
And He Did.

"Only a dollar and Is cents" said
the hold-up man, disgustedly; car
you beat it,"
Il not only can," replied the citizen
"but I'm going to-"
And he did.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-03-11

important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle OF
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that 1t
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-04
MEMBER Of C/WL SERVICE
COrIfT/JJ/OH

vaI:ous examinations connected with technlca! 20
,,tions for the city service For instance, highly
qualified experts were invited to assist IN devisiNg
practical examinations for the health service and
standards for tn. physical examinations Wnicn
will be gigcn By the Civil Service Commission %
app licants 10 city positions.
The commission is preparing a civil service
manual for the public It will give full nforma-
ton concerning examinations and qualifications
for positions in the city service and will also tX
plain the system of rating The rating OF papers
is now being standardized, in order that the abuse
Of am examiners personal discretion may be pro
vented A working reference library is to be cs-
tabi shed for The use Of examiners. It will coz
tain information and literature from various civil
service commissions throughout the world The
omission intends hereafter to terminate lists
after the expiration OF two years. especially &C
tive lists for the Police and Fire departments,
and wherever practicable active lists for other
departments.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-04

.rics Of less forma. entertainments. The pr.u-
pal theatre Of the town has been chartered Tor
ttlf the week. and here the alumni will put or
their production Of THE PROVOKED Husband"
tic first play ever acted 10y professional, la Ne.
England. Around il they have written q sort q.
containing play, stagn: the tense atmosphere @
"a right during its earlier Providence production
Thin was in 1862. David Douglass. who haJ
b. ought company from England and played 70.
a season IN Virginia. came up to Newport for q
week or SO and then TO Providence. setting up his
-cenery III old barn He called his plays obs
,trtations and Moral Dialogues" and 4 sudden in
crest in morals and dissertation developed amonc
he young people Of Providence. Formal protests.
solemn vote in town meeting and finally q petit
Ion TO the Legislature Of the colony were
launched against the players There were threat,
q, tar ant feathers. John Brown. leading Cit
z,n. who owned the schooner in which the actors
h; j come up the coast. loaded up a cannon with
rusket balls and planted it in front of the barn
door, announcing that ne would blow up any al
ucking party The Legislature voted finally, at
hour when THE Proyokd Husband" was actu-
ely on the stage to bar an theatricals from
EhCde Island soil, and the company packed up the
next day and left Eight years later John Brown
aid the cornerstone Of University Hall. He
the first Of the name to appear a benefactor OF
the Institution.
The Philadelphia Baptists had been complaining
that their sons were Disseminated against in sucd
colleges as existed in that day, and in 1852 they
commissioned James Manning, then just out o.
Princeton. to what he could do in the way o.
starting "a seminary Of polite literature subject to
,hc government Of the Baptist,"
Rhode Island was Baptist by origin; further
more. it government had been the first in the
"orld TO divorce completely civil right from
ligious opinion. In 1861 charter was granted 4,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-04

know before they can recross the ocean th-i,
homes may be wiped out by the torch bomb
from Zeppelin and the members Of their house
holds ;aken prisoners. Indeed Aiost. the home
Of NJ de Sadeecr. since their arrival here has
been .cportcd destroyed. Setting forth upon
mission of this character is as truly an act Of
patriotism Going to the front. where action sub
dues anxiety.
The mon chosen by Belgium Tor this coming
son we're selected With care. With owe exec.
ton, every member had been here before as
delegate TO the Interparliamenterr Congress hcli
the st. Louis Exposition in 1903 and kuc"
something Of the institutions Of the United state.
NJ could speak English in some fashion. The
also we're leaders in the fields OF politics and so
cal endeavor. and representative of all phases o.
Belgian political life. The head OF the mission,
u. Carton de Wharf, envoy extraordinary Of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-04

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.al:,.. "a. .. c...i Rhode lard t...-s. ~.
.-. pr. .. all.ri... ..,o ,.;,,- g., ....-. .;c-.
Youro .e was elected "p.. .ooat o. ,ue
,oIc.,. .t.. sor Of lau~uaco. :sd o., gro b-.ncir.
OF learning and assured Oh LIVING rs beng
"c'I'cd t" tNe newly organized b''.'at chuf'A -
""fren lherc the young InsutID'n MAD" IT,
..-ri' dozen or more s'u''"'' meeoNE io'
l"yef' ana rec'taoon IH '"c parsonage S--'N'
Meantime some money mad been r,iscd IN Ehi
I'M 's" l',' ''o"'' '',0''"" '''''.., ''u
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-04

dcr2rturc. lie became member OF the House Of
Repre- entatives Of Belgium in 1896 at the age Of
tvouty-ogtt aad is now about forty-cight years
old. lie has taken a deep interest in social prob
lc"2..
iIe We accompanied By his vii" when he came
20 .h;- courtrv in 1905 to attend the lnterpara-
r,r."rv Congress. They became Interested in
ctildrrr's court. and gave Il great deal of study
90 cacm. H. a.tcrward corresponded with Judge
udscy and others VINO have pushed the estab
U.hmcr' Of this new judicial institution. for when
hey went home they were received that Belgium
ehoold have something OF the same sort. in 1911.
who" re- became a member a. the Cabinet, he
too. e.cps 20 have such d court made part OF
,Lr Judicial system o. his country. This one
.' his fr-t acts il ministerial capacity. Each OF
:ta taorty-six Judicial districts Of Belgium before
Sic war had separate court for children, where
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-04
LEBRATE CLOSE OF ITS 1FIP0 ME CENTURY OF WORK

..- oG-c..iorl. his.orv FOR America as we'll d
a. i.f oac i....tuton. At The commencement CT
p, lie rendered his resignation without warning
Ned to recon der, he told his troubles and out-
lHcG q plan fc- ,cforn which set the whole couu
g.. t2l,I1S
- wa first ca for the democratzing Of the
colleges. The colleges, he declared. should serve
larger part OF the community and should gcr
closer to the community's daily life. Speaking Of
the great demand for civil engineers" he said:
"Ae presume that the single academy at West
Point has done more toward the construction of
railroads than all our 100 colleges" He won IN.
-pproval Of the corporation. and in 1850 his rev,-
'ut'onary new system" went into effect at Brown
lie established the elective system step which
a!one would have made q sensation.
The students and the younger graduates of to-
cay talk about the Brown" as if the growth
Of these later years had really been the growth of
- rev institution. and they date all from 1882
"neh Benny Andrews got the presidency" As
natter OF fact, the university had progressed
swiftly IN the preceding admins tration under
resident Ezekiel Gilman Robinson, and there haa
even been a baseball team in 1879 tina: had beate1
eForythmg IN sight including Vale and won the
championship.
But President Andrews CAPTURED his stpJon,.
" IN charm such few men possess and in ms
nihe years the enrolment jumped from PCS to
SOU the faculty trebled in numbers the engineer
'nS course were brought up to modern standards
"'d began to draw u considerable group of their
en- the Nomen's College had been founded. witt
''S own grounds and building. and, most importan.
o. all graduate school of more than one hun
ared Students had developed
Under President ". H. p. Faunce. who has held
Office since 1899, the university has increased -
aumbers and gained notably in strength and ae.
uyty
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-04

~ PREPARATIONS are now complete for celc-
bratinG Brown Uuivcrsitys 10th ami
vcrsay with due academic dignity and
student zeal. Several hundred distn-
pushed guest. vill be in Providence to attend
the exercises. which vii, last for week, begin
mag sunday, October II with special services in
'hc historic Fns, Baptist Meeting House Of Prov
idcucc bull, in NC for the publich worship
Of Almighty GOD; and also for holding Gem
mcnccmcut in"
Excepting Harvard and Yale, Brown is the Old
es' New England college. In spite oc the war
nearly dozen Of the larger European universe
ties have sent delegates from their faculties
seas.
Tho formal celebration. viii approach ~ climax
or Wednesday morning, when faculty and dele
gates. the alumni and students Will gather under
-he campus elnls in cap and gown with the many
,olor-d low hanging hoods Of the higher academic
degrees and march in procession down College
H,ll 20 the First Baptist Meeting House. Here
'hc delegates will be formally received by the
university, and there will follow the historical
address by Justice Charles +. Hughes, of the
United States Supreme Court, Brown man of 81
Former Prcsiden. Taft viii be among the Off
cial guests and good share Of the diplomatic
corps az Washington the share whose nations
aye not Yet in the war. Among the college prcsI-
dents who will attend Nicholas Murray But
Ter, Of Columbia; Arthur T. Hadley, OF Yale;
Jacob Gould Schurman, OF Cornell; William
Dewitt Hyde, Of Bowdon John &. Hibben OF
Princeton; Alexander Neiklejohn, of Amherst
Miss Mary f. Woolley. Of Mount liolyoke, and
probably Benjamin lde Wheeler, of the University
Of California L. Benjamin Andrews, loved and
sworn by as president, first Of Brown and later
Of the University Of Nebraska will be kept at
nome by illness.
The celebration committe- has also arranged
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-04
TO IMPROVE EFFICIENCY RECORDS II
CITY DEPARTMENTS.

short term lists will enable the commission"
says Dr.. Noskowitz. "to give the energetic. eff
cicnt and ambitious candidates opportunities TO
take examinations more frequently. and will pre-
vent the dregs lower on the list from obtaining
appointment This will, in the judgment of the
commits on. bring about desirable improvement
in the character OF appointees.'
An efficiency division has been established ny
the commission which viii be responsible, for The
creation OF q sound efficiency record system aad
aiil make q careful study OF the actual work Dor
formed under existing titles. 1t constitutes cno
Of the most important departments, and Is
fundamental work will contribute to the efficient
administration Of the other divisions. Very soon
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-04
THE COMMISSION RECOMMENDS MOI,
RAPID PROMOTION.

Tic rules Of the commi ion have been eb,,,
so that they now provide t-a' first grade cler,,t
allowed 70 take promotion examinations "a :.
mkt higher grade after orc year Of service a.,
that second grade clerks be eligible for promo.,
20 the grade above after two years service 4
resent first grade clerks must remain in The g,
vice two wears and second grade clerks IN.
years before they may take o. promotion er-
ipation. This amendment Of the rules mas b,s
approved by the Mayor and is now before b.
State Civil Service Commission To quote m,
the report Of the commissions
zone Of the most fundamental problem, =
civil service is the attraction Of the right typt #
men and women to the positions q, the bottom e
the classification. They constitute the mater
from which it is hoped 10 recruit, employees ia 4.
i'2her services by promotion. Dc is. therefore 10
p5rtant TO draw good material INFO these sera.
and some incentive mus, Dee provided to reaa
energetic. ambitious and efficient Young men a.
women in positions Of Che lower GRADES
The commission reports th.. b is deeply 3
torested in the important question Of training f.
civil service. Relative 10 this matter Dr. Nose
wiz wrote to the Mayor:
New York City is one Of the most. Il no, u
rost, important educational centres in the CO...
t.y. 1t offers the commission q rich field for e
operation with the high class educational .nsa'.
lions which arc located in the metropolis SPEC
training courses can be developed 10 It's univ.
sites. colleges. public, day and evening BIZ
schools which should equip men a.d women e.
tic various services in the city. Your commits
ON employees relationship is now deyisiHg pa
~ which service schools can be established
abling the men and women i'm the service to Ia
courses cquipping them for higher positions 7.
plans are taking practical shape. -ad. in cooper.
ton with g subcommittee Of employees chosen
the employee courses wiI be established in CO.
e. more o. the higher educational institutions %
the men and women In the service
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-04
WORN OF COMMISSION EPOCHAL N Cl\il
SERVICE IN THIS CITY

Recently the commission outlined for Mayo
Mitchell lis plan for the Improvement Of the merit
..,t.n.. l. is described as entirely new. This
.I.i. calls for complete revision Of the classii
o.. '5 and grading o. the service and the strength
.ia. Of the system Of efficiency records. which
ID. D., pas, have been kop, i' pcrfunctory
.-,, and are wholly inadequate. u is declared
4a. this uor> win mar. all epocA in civil service
administration i this city.
Ntw Norl. City g. among the greatest employers
of labor. both skilled and unsked. in the couu-
try. TIE annual report FOR the year ended De
cember ST. 1915. shows tina, there were 1905 en-
ploycs in the labor class. Almost every occupa-
'cn j., represented. from the ordinary laborer 20
the mos skilled natterrmater or cabaetmascr
The selection o. the ct.'> help ia the labor class
Is made through the most careful and practical
test, of the actual ability Of ;hc candidate TO do
Che work Of the job TO which he seek, appoint
mca: \ person. for example. who desires TO be
come plumber Is tested on his actual ability TO
do various Kind. co. work csuectod OF plumber
In The Prat, Institute or the New York Trade
School a payer or a Iammcr. vino helps 20
construct N, highways OF the City Of New
YORK is made 20 demon trate his ability 20 hold
down the job. Incidentally. the city saves CON
siderable money on. OF these tests by setting tn
candidate 30 work IL Inc corporation yards doing
the paving Tor tho city.
The largest class of ompoye, under the juris-
d:ction o. the Civil Service Commission is. Of
course. TIE clerical force. The clerical service.
however comprise not only routine clerical 20
.itious. BIN, -uch professional places as account
ants stats,iciaus. etc. Outside Of the clerical
service the opportunities that the civil service
o. the city hold. on, arc most comprehensive.
The city. for example. binds books and employs
professionally trained bookoiadcrs. 1t has need
Tor Photographers. telegraph operators. vcteri-
uarjsls. all kinds o. engineers. lawyers, pilots.
captains and their ,uJordinatcs The ferryboats.
physicians and specialists in the medical service.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-04
Municipal City Service Commission Has
Taken Steps to Assure the Placing OF
the Right Man in the Right Place.

yHATENER may or may not be proved
IA at the hearings which the state civil
w Service Commission is conducting IN
its investigation of alleged derel'c-
tions on the part of the Municipal Civil Service
Commission. appointed last January by Mayo
Mitchell. the latter. in it, brief career. has taken
many progressive steps in an effort TO make inc
civil service of the city efficient as the work
ing staff Of private corporation. 1t has not only
studied how 10 frame examinations in such 4"
way as 20 secure employees who will actually be
well qualified fer the tasks which they seek, but
to aid them in choosing those in which they are
likely to be most efficient and in obtaining pro
motion.
The last detail in the programme is SO an.
usual in municipal government and parucu
larly in New York City. whore heretofore pui
has been relied upon extensively TO secure more
cougcuial working conditions. that it is worth
emphasizing. Tho point is that the commission
is cndeayorjuc to make it possible for any appli-
cant Tor city rosJ 90 nave al ample opportunity
10 make good by helping him 90 select the kind Of
work for which he is best adapted. Such condi-
uous ought 20 secure 70 tuo city high class OF
employees. D. has something like 10000.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-01

Another adverse criticism on the Jonah
narrative is that no large sea monsters
frequent the waters of the Mediterranean.
But, as matter of fact, no less authority
than Cuvier calls attention to the Rorqual
Mediterraniensis, large species of whale
indigenous to the Mediterranean Sea.
And it is well known to those familiar
with these subjects that the waters
through which vessel sailing from Joppa
to any Spanish port would pass were fire.
quented in early times by species Of
shark called the sea dog, CAMS carcharias,
whose normal length at maturity, accord
ing to modern works ON zoology, is thirty
feet.
The noted French naturalist, Lacepede,
states that these Mediterranean sea dogs
can swallow animals much larger than a
man without mutilating them. In his His
toire Des Poissons" is this statement:
Sea dogs have lower jaw of nearly six
feet in its semi-circular extent, which en-
ables us to understand how they can swal-
low entire animals as large or larger than
ourselves
And it is a well-known fact that the
voracity of sea dogs, and, indeed, that of
many of the shark family, is such that
they never chew their food, but swallow
everything they can without chewing. :.
This, then, in brief, is the challenge of
the skeptic: The retaining of ones con-
seriousness for the length of time alleged,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-01

and under such conditions as are alleged,
is incredible and impossible, and there is
no power or agency on earth that could
have restored "a partly digested man to
consciousness.
In this opinion of the rationalistic skep-
tic let us say that we fully concur, and
confess that we know of no agency on
earth that could have saved the disobe-
dent prophet from death in the FOOD
STOMACH of a whale, provided he were
there three days and nights.
This, then, is the evangelical confession
of faith We believe the Bible narratives
and miracles because on scientific grounds
they are possible; because they are sup
ported by circumstantial, monumental and
other indisputable proofs, and because
there were purposes of sufficient magni
tude to justify divine interposition.
We believe that the jaws of the sea
monster opened and closed upon the dis
obedient prophet but God interposed and
delivered him in order that abe more
faithfully he might declare the divine mes
sage; that the people of Nineveh might
listen more atentively and obediently to
what he had to say; that Jonah's deliver
ance might be a prophetic sign of Christ's,
resurrection. and that his deliverance
might also be a prophetic sign, extending
through the ages, that God can keep his
children in safety, though dead, until the
morning of the resurrection.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-01

biple champion.
the Lord heard his prayer, and that on the
third day Jonah was cast by the while
upon the land. 1t is still further recorded
that Jonah then went to Nineveh and de-
livered his message; that the people re-
pented.
Now, the radical skeptic, without giving
the subject careful study, sums up the
case in single dogmatic assertion, which
is this: | do not believe one word of this
story. A dogmatic reply, in kind, or a
clerical rebuke of some sort, will get no
where and will leave the disputants look
ing at, or making faces at, each other.
A sane criticism would be, however,
that the assertion of the critic is far too
sweeping; for, unless one is prepared to
deny the credibility of all history, some
parts of this story of Jonah, on the ground
OF the highest criticism, are such that one
cannot help believing them.
The first fact to be noted is that the
age in which Jonah is alleged to have
lived was not mythical, but historical and
prophetical. Jonah was contemporaneous
with Obadiah Joel, Amos and Hosea, who
belonged to the last grouping of the Old
Testament prophets He lived in the time
of Jeroboam, with whom he had great in
fiuence If. therefore. Jonah is consigned
TO the realm OF the mythical, There Is 40
reason why these other prophets, and this
King or, indeed, no reason why the Greek
and Roman classical writer's of the same
period, and even those who fourished
later should not also b. consigned to the
realms of myth. Indeed, one can present
just as strong reasons in support of the
statement that Virgil, Dante and Shakes
peare were unhistorical as that Jonah, the
sen of Amittai was such
Early in the eighteenth century the as
sertion was made. no. only that there
never had been suca city as Nineveh,
but even a tradition of the city was ques-
toned There were critics who did not
therefore hesitate to affirm that Nineveh.
as well as Jonah, was myth.
But in 1S41, under The accumulations OF
centuries, Nineveh was discovered and
found to have had the extent and mag
nificence as ascribed to it in the book Of
Jonah. The excavations made by Botta,
Layard, Rassam, Lotus, George Smith and
Rawlinson traced the walls made by Sen
nacherib and repaired by Assurbanipal
and discovered inscriptions which COM
pletely upset the views held by earlier
critics.
The facts are these: Nineveh, sup
posed to have been founded by great
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-01

presses the opinion that it was neither a
sperm nor bow-headed whale that swal-
lowed Jonah, each of which has throat
large enough to do it, but was right whale
and that Jonah was not taken into the
food-stomach, but into the air chamber of
the whale, which was large and commo-
dious enough to serve as refuge.
We quote the following from the edi-
torial notes of The Bible Student and
Teacher October, February, 1911, 12):
"a large whale may weigh as much as
eight hundred men, and it requires as
much fresh air as eight hundred men re-
spire, and the equivalent of the respira-
tons of eight hundred men for twenty
minutes that is, for four hundred respira-
lions of the men, are drawn in at one
breath, through the whales capacious
mouth into it's large air chamber Its
mouth can give place for ten men standing
upright; and as it skins along the sea it
scoops in its food of jelly fishes and small
crustaceans and other surface animal
cues, which quickly enter its stomach;
but a larger object, Jonah's body, for in
stance, would pass into the air chamber.
Here Jonah might be wide awake, able
to mediate on the situation and to pray
to God and to sleep over night. But though
not very inconvenent for Jonah, the whale
itself would feel discomfort and be likely
to seek relief by coughing up the prophet
on dry land"
Drtt D s.rbs