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The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-04-01
MISS The VISION
OF The VALLEY
Too Many Are Late in Seeing the
Way Out From Darkness to
the Light That Is Tri-
umphant.

A CAMPING party from the East
"a stepped from a belated train late
one August afternoon at the station
OF a bleak little frontier town at the
edge OF the Black Hills. and looked
anxiously at the shadows already lying
long across the one street.
well. here's one day lost" grum-
bled a member of the party. 1T will
be night before everything is loaded
and ready. and we can't start of in the
dark"
why not7" asked the guide.
Couldn't find the way"
Il know the way" returned the
guide simply. We'll start at eight"
Night was swallowing the last dregs
of daylight when eight o'clock came.
and apprehension was lined into every
face as the party climbed into the
wagon and plunged into the dark
mouth of the canyon. which opened
abruptly into the town. The road
Rugged the canyon wall on one side;
on the other rushed q noisy little
mountain brook. its chatter softening
gradually into q quiet murmur as the
canyon road wound up the hillside.
leaving II far behind in the depths
below.
Dense darkness separated the trav-
elers each from each. Stones dislodged
by the scrambling hoofs Of the horses
slid down into the canyon, measuring
A.. u.rr,u m, rUfx hat aa fafv n nd
destruction. Hand gripped hand. and
breath came short.
"Its like the valley of the shadow
OF DEATH" a voice shuddered out into
the darkness.
The guide. directing his team In
front. sensed an unspoken fear.
Just look up he called hearten-
ingly over his shoulder.
A wedge OF brilliant star-strewn sky
seemed swung into the abyss, forcing
the canyon walls apart and stretching
a luminous canopy from crag to crag.
The radiance transformed the valley.
In the uplook. into a vision OF glory.
Up and up wound the road, nearer and
nearer 20 that overwhelming arch OF
star-shot brightness. till the travellers
at last stood safe upon the shining
Interest, the dark hours OF trembling
bewilderment over and Joy beyond.
They looked back silently. as far as
the starlight revealed II, over the road
up which they had come.
Il wouldn't have missed II for the
world" one OF the party finally broke
the spell. 1T would have been trag-
edy to lose an experience like that"
And In that brief sentence she I'M
consciously summed up the one real
tragedy OF life-to miss the vision OF
the valley. The valley itself is not
tragedy to thinking people. For while
men can still Just look up" and look
ing. realize that ahead lie fairer lands.
to which they are surely bound. they
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-04-01
Questions Answered

BEREA FRIEND OF WORKING STUDENTS. Berea College with
affiliated making institution requires
but expend thousands dollars each for the ben
eft OF its students highest lowest
possible for students and
OUR SCHOOL FAMILY, careful regulations
reputation people, Our students
sick the College provides doctor and without
extra charge
except parents Beea live College buildings and
training and getting according the value of their labor Except
Write Secretary before coming employ
clothing laundry postage books etc.
different people, plain clothing Our climate
the best but students attend classes regardless Of the weather.
wraps deong Umbrellas overshoes
COOPERATIVE STORE furnishes books toilet articles work
uniforms umbrellas and other articles cost
EXPENSES really below cost The College asks
buildings which students live charging enough
for cleaning repairs fuel lights and washing Of
bedding table board without coffee extras $5
week. fall and 81 so in winter for furnished with fuel
tights washing of bedding 40 TO 60 cents for each
First DOLLAR DEPOSIT" guarantee
library books This paid but and
s returned when the student departs.
INCIDENTAL FEE" help for Of
school buildings hospital library etc. students nothing for u
ion of teahersal instruction free g The
Incidental Fee for most students is $500 erm Academy and Nor
$500 and 800 in Collegiate
PAYMENT MUST BE IN ADVANCE incidental and rert
the board the half term nstamens follows:
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-04-01
AN INDIAN STORY OF THE
ARBUTUS

An old, old man lived alone In q
wigwam in the dark pine forest, his
hair and beard were long and white
as the snow that covered the earth.
II was icy cold and the wind howl
ed among the trees. The old man
looked about for some pieces OF
wood 10 keep the fire burning in his
wigwam, but he could find none.
Ie prayed to the Great Spirit for help.
Suddenly beautiful maiden stood
at the door OF his wigwam. Her
eyes were like the blue sky. Her
cheeks were pink as the wild rose.
Her hair was raven black and II
touched the ground as she walked.
The maiden's dress was made OF
grasses and ferns. and she wore
shining white lilies for moccasins.
When she breathed IL was like the
blowing OF the warm south wind;
IL made the wigwam as warm as a
summer day.
my daughter" said the old man,
II am glad 10 see you here. Who
are you, that you come so daintily
dressed? Sit here beside me. and tell
me Of your country. I. in turn, will
tell you OF my brave deeds"
The maiden sat down. and the old
man said, II am Mantle. am all
powerful. breathe, and the waters
OF the rivers are frozen fast"
II breathe" said the maiden, "and
the plain is covered with beautiful
flowers"
II shake my locks and the ground
is white with snow" said the old
man.
II shake my curls," said the maid
en-. land the clouds open, sending
down warm rain for the waiting
flowers"
when walk among the trees
the leaves fall. the animals hide
away in their holes, and the birds
fly far to the south"
when I walk about" the maiden
said, "the flowers lift their heads.
the trees put on new leaves, the
birds sing. and the brook ripples
over the stones"
so the two talked on until the old
man grew sleepy from the warmth
OF the wigwam. His head dropped
on his breast and he slept.
The maiden waved her hands
gently over his head. Little by little
he grew smaller. His somber cloth
ing turned 10 hairy green leaves.
Then the Spring maiden, for she II
was who had visited old Winter,
took dainty pink and white flowers
and hid them among the leaves.
She breathed on the little bios
SONS and said. II give thee my sweet
est breath. All who pick thee must
do so on Blended knee"
l., As the maiden went on her way
the ground behind was covered with
arbutus.
And 10 this day arbutus must be
picked on Bonded knee, the bios
SONS are so close 10 the ground.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-04-01
Door-Berea's General Academy Course
4th Door-Berea's Normal School
|oor-Berea's Preparatory Academy Cours

This the straight Colege-best training Mathematics
Sciences History preparatory subjects The
Academy is now Bereas largest department.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-04-01

are safe. Il is where there is NJ
vision the people perish"
The road toward those fairer lands
is the common. everyday road Of hour.
ly living. II lies inevitably through
the valleys, often through environing
night. To travel II means WEAKNESS,
bruised and trembling feet, cropping
hands. poignant pain, and a back look
through a vista Of disappointment
and apparent failures.
But there is a way out Centuries
ago. on the day that we call Easter,
a light broke into the darkened val
leys, and the way shone forth for all
who will lust look up" Now, since
that Easter, we climb, not as slaves
who endure because there is no escape,
but with Joy triumphant. For the as
surance is ours that we shall thus rise
with him into the light
And SO he bids us on this Easter day
to accept our valleys, for they lead
out into life; not alone beyond. but
now. The sliding stones cannot
plunge us over the brink, nor the
threatening rocks crash down and
crush out our lives. We have his word
that because he lives we shall live
also. Our feet are set securely upon
the road. and we shall climb In safety
UP the vision-brightened way to the
goal.
II is into our night-dark valleys that
the vision comes, for sunshine blots II
out. The valley IL by day a smiling
thing. tempting TO lettering among its
trees and flowers. and to dreaming
beside its singing brooks. So COM
pletely does It satisfy the senses that
II may even become a lotus vale OF
forgetfulness. to lure the traveller from
his sturdy purpose and beguile him
into Indifference to the way that leads
to the plains OF God. But presently
night overtakes him. Then he rouses.
With the shadows chill and heavy on
his heart, he at last looks up and. be-
holding the star, begins his climb up
toward the morning. Gethsemane and
Golgotha lie along the way. but Eas-
ter breaks beyond. The vision has glo-
rified the vale.
And still Easter does not mean to
us all that IL should. II Is q day Of
somewhat selfish rejoicing. We quick
en- to the new life OF the spring. we
make our hearthsides gay with fresh
blossoms; our hearts echo the glad
message OF the bells. II IL our Joy, our
peace, our brightness. our Easter.
But II was very different on that
first Easter. II you will think back
moment you will recall the word OF the
angel to the women at the sepulcher-
He Is risen-go tell his disciples"
Now. as then, there are many to whom
Easter has not come. They are dead
TO life. back there In the valley-little
children defrauded OF their birthright
OF Joy; wvsnen exploited for gain;
youth drawn into evil by the lure OF
false brightness. That ye might have
life" Is the purpose OF the Christ In
his resurrection; and yet In that death
valley they know nothing Of life and
light. they who are also a part OF that
all-inclusiye we"
Before We can make our Easter truly
his Easter we must first hearken 20 his
message: Go down into the valley
and carry the vision to those who per-
ish there. Make your Joy their JOY;
your life their life; your safety their
safety. Lead them up with you. into
the light"
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-04-01

Instead Of peellng potatoes for
steamlng or boiling simply cut mar
row strip entirely around the center OF
each one. After being cooked. drained
and dried IN the ordinary way the 20.
tatoes slip easily from the skins when
the opposite ends are pressed between
the thumb and forehnger.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-04-01
BITS or WISDOM.

Therefore well does Agathon
say. "of this alone Is even God
deprived. the power OF making
that which is past never TO have
been. Aristotle.
There IL, however. limit at
which forbcarance ceases TO be
a virtue. Burke.
This nation. under God. shall
have a new birth OF freedom,
and that government Of the peo-
pie. by the people. for the PEG
pie shall not perish from the
earth. Lincoln.
In the lexicon Of youth. which
fate reserves for a bright man
hood. there Is no such word as
fall Bulwer Lytton.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-04-01
9Th Door-Berea College

This is the crown Of the whole Institution and
courses in all advanced subjects.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-04-01
ROLL ON. SILVER MOON.

ROLL ON. SILVER MOON.
As I strayed from my cot at the
close OF the day.
Mid the ravishing beauties Of
June.
Meath the jessamine shade
espied a fair maid,
And she sadly complained TO
the moon.
Like the hart on the mountain,
my lover was brave.
So handsome, 80 manly and
clever:
So kind and sincere, and he low
ed me so dear.
oh. Edwin. thine equal was
neverl
His grave I'll seek out until
morning appears
And weep DER my love so
brave;
I'll embrace the cold turf and
battle with my tears
The flowers that bloom DER
his grave.
No.
CHORUS.
Roll on. silver moon. guide the
traveller on his way,
While the nightingale's song Is
tune:
Oh, I never. never more with my
true love shall stray
By the bright silver light Of
the moon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-04
rn, I.lsrsrh % ras Trbun.l

Auburn. y. Y. Jan. Thomas Mott
Osborne, warden OF Sing Sing prison
and Donald Lowrie. author of book
on prison reform. addressed a meeting
OF men here to-day. Mr.. Lowrle gave
out the result Of q study Of the Os-
borne idea Of prison discipline, com
pairing December. 1914, with Deem
Der, 1918, under the old system.
He showed that the Prisoners
Court" inaugurated by Warden Os-
borne. had tried thirty-four cases last
month, with twenty-eight convictions,
three acquittals and three dismissal IS.
There had been nine appeals to the
Supreme Court" composed Of the
warden, principal keeper and head OF
the Prisoners Brotherhood. Six Of
the judgments were affirmed, one was
reversed and two are pending.
Unlike the courts outside, appeals
may be made in eases Of acquittal
All of these thirty-four infractions
were for minor offences.
In he month Of December, 1913, IN
der the other system, there were III
blenders. of which 20 were dismissed
as received suspended sentences, 81
were fined and lost Communication Of
sentence and II were sent 10 the dun
econ. form Of punishment now abol-
isbed Where the 1914 offenders had
committed trifling infractions, all pun.
ishable By loss Of privileges, those OF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-04

Walker. Of Stockton. Cal, who spent
several months as surgeon with the
English ambulance corps, formed by
the banking firm Of Morgan. harJes
g. Co.
He was with the British troops at
the front and paid great tribute to the
courage Of the wounded English hgnt-
ers who came under his observation.
DR.. Walker said he believed that
dunn dunn bullets were used by none
of the warning powers.
"The violent wounds found on many
of the fallen soldiers" he said, were
inflicted by shrapnel. Fragments Of
these shells on entering the body do
terrific damage and those not familiar
with the effects are inclined TO credl-
the damage TO dum-dum bullets.
Dr. Walker said he saw the bodies
of hundreds Of German soldiers lying
on the frozen marshes near Richburg'
from which IT would be impossible TO
remove them until spring. ,
Mary L. Stitt, eight years old Of
Maidenhead. England, was passenger
on the liner. She was sent over by
her mother to join her father, who
lives in Quincy. Mass. The child trav-
elled in care Of n stewardess and her
father was at the pier 10 meet ner.
Not having the necessary papers 70
prove his identity the child was held
by the immigration officials and taken
10 Ellis Island.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-04
NEW SING SING RULES ARE
BROKEN BY 81 INSTEAD or III
December Under Osborne Saw Only Tnhing Offences II
Prison, While Many Were Serious Under Old System
Prisoners Now Get Sunday Visitors

1918 included I felonious assault, 2
cases Of unnatural offence, 10 men who
struck" II who refused TO leave their
cells and % who engaged in fights.
tine new system gives the inmates
some freedom of choice. develops ini-
tiative, enables the man who wishes
TO obey the rules to do so without ylo-
iating the prison public opinion, and
has improved shop work maryellously,
said Nh. Lowrie.
Last month the prison shoe shop
made its greatest output for any month
on record. In the wool shop guards no
longer sit az iiXed posts. but drop IN al
unannouuced times to see that work
goes on. Better results are obtained,
il is claimed.
Under new reform granted by
Warden Osborne for the first time in
mates Of Sing Sing prison were per-
mitted yesterday TO have Sunday visi-
tors. Under former administration
the prison was as quiet Oh the Sab
bath as "a church mouse and nobody
but attaches were allowed TO pass in
or out The place took on quite busy
aspect yesterday.
Motion pictures Of a religious and
educational variety were shown in the
chanel and witnessed by the 1900
prisoners IN the afternoon, the pro
gramme being made up by Secretary
Charles Johnson, acting warden IN Mr.
0sborne's absence.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-04
SISTERS AND PRIEST
FIGHT CHURCH FIRE
Lead Out Congregation, Then
Save Parish House as Flames
Destroy st. MichaelS.

Leading sixty women and children 10
safety, the Rev. Valentine Mitchell and
four Sisters of Charity turned fire
fighters and queled q panic when ire
broke out in St. MchaePs Roman
Catholic Church at Rockland Lake,
near Congers, y. Y, yesterday and
burned * 20 the ground.
A loss of life would have occurred
had the fire been discovered five min
utes later. when the pews would nave
been filed with worshippers at the .
O'Clock mass. As it was, nobody was
hurt save Henry Rail and August
Wendt. who were bur ed and cut hgnt-
ing the flames.
Father Mitchell. while hearing con-
LESSONS. thought the place was becom-
ing overheated. Calling John Ramp.
an altar boy, he sent him to smut on
the furnace. As the boy opened the
inner basement door puff OF name
shot in his face and drove him oaeR:
Rushing out to the altar, he announced
that the church was atire.
Father Mitchell, emerging from tne
confes sional, urged the worshippers
who had come in to pass out quickly
bur orderly. Women became hysterlcal
and Sunday school children. shrleklng,
made "a dash from their seats. Father
Mitchell directed the escape OF the
women. who were led out BY the two
entrance doors and rear door behind
the altar
In the interim Sisters Xavier, An
tenina. Charles and Cesolo checked the
rush of the children and hurriedly
marshalled them out by the two front
doors. Father Mitchell then went back
through the smoke to the altar ana
cot the chalice. crucitixes and what
statuary he could snatch. As he reached
the ward the flames had come up
through the church floor and the sanct-
nary was all ablaze. Pensioners, who
were arriving in large numbers from
the country for five miles around, re-
strained him from going back.
The Sisters got out pals and wet
down the front of the rectory across
the street, which was catching hr@
from sparks and the intense heat.
Father Mitchell, working with the men
of the parish, fought TO save the house
until the volunteer tiremen arrived
with their apparatus.
The church was comparatively new
structure. The loss, including that to
tenement houses ne0r by, is estimated
at $4,000. The church had seating
capacity Of 1000. While it is being re-
rlaced the parochial school Will be
used for services.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-04
STOLEN HORSES WON
BRIDE, IS CHARGE
A. B. Fately Took Blue Ribbon
Animals from Owners
Stable, SIeuths Say.

Accused Of stealing four blue ribbon
horses, Arthur b. Fately was brought
here yesterday from Minneapolis. The
complainant is Robert II. Graham, of
100 West 8lst 81.
Il is alleged that Fately, under the
name Of harrington, took Twilight
Queen, Finelight, Dandy and Leslie
from Mr. Graham's stable on May 10
and exhibited them for months
throughout this country and Canada.
Darlington was horse show rider and
instructor.
When arrested in Minneapolis, Fate
" was with his bride in fashionable
part of the city. She is said TO be the
daughter Of an official OF the Canadian
Pacific Railway in Winnipeg.
According 20 Detective McGowan,
who brought Fately on, the girl mar
ried him believing him 20 be wealthy
and the true owner of the horses; She
aided in lighting extradition, and was
finally persuaded by her brother to re-
turn TO Winnipeg, instead Of accom-
panying her husband to New York.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-04
Gay Throngs Make Frosty
Bathrooms Out of Ice
Areas Everywhere.
MOON AWAITS THEM,
BUT POLICE FORBID
Manhattan Has $4,000
Jewellers and Brooklyn
75,000-One Accident.

Some weather! Some ice, And some
skating!
According TO those VINO ought 10
know. New York yesterday splintcrcd
all skating records Of every dcscrip-
tion and hung up a mark that will
give succeeding generations something
10 shoot at. There were no definite
and authoritative figures given out,
but the police last night estimated the
number at 100000.
From far-off Coney TO equally f=r-oif
Van Cortlandt Park every hit Of ice
except that in rcfrigerators was crowd
ed with skaters. About 10000 skated
in Brooklyn, and Commissioner lnger-
soil said that il was the biggest day
on record in that borough. New York
turned out 10000, sending all rec
ords into the discard.
Cooperation and sound business
methods brought about the record.
The weather, having co-operated with
the water TO bring about the. ice
obigingly moderated enough to bring
stop, however, and did not carry
things too far by melting the ice. As
a pretty girl enjoying herself in Cen
trail Park remarked, the ice was good
enough to eat"
Mere skating, however. gets one no
where at all these days. Skating in
itself has passed out; it has joined
the ranks Of the detachable cuff and
the full sleeve. To-day. to be lin it,
one has to be able TO dance. A new
word has been coined TO cover ice
dancing, and the question to-day IS
"Do you skance?"
Everybody skanced yesterday did
the polar prance," siberian step" and
the "frigid frolic." The police per
mitted the skancers full rein all day,
but called a halt on all fancy steps
at dusk.
Central Park was the mecca for Man
hattan's skaters, the crowd at times
reaching 10000. a dozen policemen on
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-04
WIFE and SON LOST
IN WAR ZONE FOUND
Woman Gets Through IN
vaders' Lines While
Husband Seeks Her.

After a search Of two months through
Holland for his wife and three-year-
old son Alexander Andre. business
man, of Boston, who is a Belgian by
birth, arrived here yesterday with his
family on the White Star liner Arabic,
from Liverpool. Mrs. Andre and her
son John went abroad early in July to
visit relatives in Brussels. They were
driven about the country when the
German troops invaded Belgium.
Mr.. Andre, who was in Boston when
the war began, spent much money IN
cable tolls and appealed to the state
Department to try ana md his wife
and son. Through the Dutch Lega-
ton, a woman by the name Of Andre
was traced. but il was sister OF the
distracted husband. She had seen moth
ING OF the wife and child since they
fled from Brussels to Client.
In despair Andre went to Rotter-
dam and there took up the search. II
is said that he was advised by friends
TO confne his efforts within the Dor
ders of Holland, as he might be pressed
into military. service If he entered
Belgium.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Andre was making
a desperate effort to get out OF Bel
GUM. She left Client on foot and for
many days tried to get 70 the Dutch
border, but was halted always by Ger
man soldiers and informed that she
could not leave the country.
Believing the task hopeless, the WON
an told Of her plight 20 an aged Bel
gian shop keeper, VINO had permission
from the German autho les to go TO
small town in Holland. near the
border. The old man formally adopted
Mrs. Andre as his child and arranged
TO have her leave the country with him
She was intrusted 20 the care OF Dutch
troopers, who escorted her to Flush
ing. After remaining there for sew
eral days in the hope Of communicat-
inr with her husband, who, she thought,
was in Boston, she met him one after
noon in a street.
Elated over the reunion the couple
and their child made no effort TO re-
cover their trunks i'm Client and has
tened 10 England, where they booked
passage on the Arabic.
Also on the Arabic was DR.. Il. r.