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MAIL DOG REWARDED.

~" Watches Wagon When Driver 10
Delivering.
snington.-Sam, the faithful dog
,.I, u guards the parcel post wagon
q Aount Carmel. Pa. while the driver
a AAns deliveries, has been reward
surleson. A o
postmaster general has ordered
~ -. sam brass studded collar with
.olowinS inscription: ~. 8. Mail
rS'ed to Uncle Sans Faithful
n.s. oy Albert s. Burleson. Post
General, Oct. Is. 1915"
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QUIT AIR BOMBS.
French Decide to Abandon Their
Use In War.
ARE REGARDED DANGEROUS.

Extreme Susceptibility Of Explosive
Has outweished Its Wonderful De-
tonating Qualities - Tremendously
Successful Experiments Were Made
With Volatile Agent When Il Was
First Used.
Paris.-After a good deal Of expert
mentation the French army has given
up its attempts to use liquid air as
high explosive in warfare, because Of
its extreme susceptibility to detonate
from shock.
Tremendously successful experiments
were made with this volatile agent at
first. but they were successful only un-
der perfectly agreeable conditions. For
instance. bombs for bombarding aero
planes were made with liquid air as
the explosive which some judged to
be q hundred times more powerful
than bombs Of similar size employ
Ing picric acid or any Of its proto-
types. But it was soon learned that
the sudden descent or even rapid
swooping Of an aeroplane carrying
liquid air combs might set OF the dan
gerous cargo. 1t happened on one &C.
casion. An aviator dipped suddenly,
and nothing was ever found of him or
his machine.
Then the bombs were carried over
deliberately prepared targets and drop
ped from captive balloons. The effect
Of the explosion was marvellous. In
stead Of reducing the target to match
wood and wreckage, the defamation
actually wiped out every vestige Of the
place where the huge, cumbersome
target had been. 1t was estimated
that the conclusion of the explosion
would have killed any living creature
within 80 yards.
Shell charged with liquid air can
not of course be fired from any pro-
jectile. the shock of firing would de-
tomato the explosive and wreck the
gun. Attempts have been made to
use liquid air grenades and liquid air
bombs In trench mortars, which are
fired by spring, much as a catapult's
missile is projected. But the extreme
LONELINESS" Of the explosive has out
weighed its wonderful decorating
qualities. The Germans also have fail
ed to utilize liquid air thus far.
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WHAT'S IN A NAME? $500, 900.
That's the Claim of Aehille Joseph
Oishei, Formerly Hosehek.

New York.-There is 100000 In this
name, or, rather, in the change Of 1t, II
the owner, Achille Joseph Oishei. reck-
ons correctly. Mr.. Oishei, a lawyer,
living at 1S9 Sterling place, Brooklyn,
says that the family name was Hos
chek for 1,40O years, but that his IA
Their changed it to Oishei on leaving
Austria under a political cloud many
years ago.
In running through papers following
the death of his mother last April he
found one which indicated that he as
the eldest surviving Hoschek is emit
tied to an Italian estate worth $780,
600, and he applied to County Judge
Fawcett in Brooklyn for permission to
assume the old name with a view to
making claim on the Italian govern
ment Permission was granted.
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WILD DOGS ATTACK GARDENER
Pack In Woods Near Greenwood Lake
Again Terrorize Residents

TdSN III NbOOOS wear STCcH"OOO GdNo
Again Terrorize Residents.
Greenwood Lake, n. 1.-THE great
pack of wild dogs, part Of which was
exterminated in the woods between
here and Lake Mombasha last winter
by New Jersey game wardens, has
again made its appearance throughout
this section, creating reign Of terror
In certain sections. The dogs forage on
domesticated poultry and even attack
persons who cross their path.
Game Warden William c. Klein re-
ports that the pack descended on the
Hewitt estate In Ringwood and at
tackled a gardener. Farmers who have
seen the raiders say there are about
twenty-five or thirty Of them. Game
Warden Klein will start on another
determination expedition as soon as all
the leaves have fallen.
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A TRUE GEORGE WASHINGTON
He Tells How He Won Medal "Some-
where In France"


where In France"
Philadelphia Washington, a
United States marine from Kentucky,
who does not bid fair to emulate the
truth telling record Of his illustrious
namesake, marched proudly down
Broad street with a newly won sharp
shooters medal pinned to the breast OF
his uniform.
Attracted by the medal, which close
ly resembles the Maltese cross worn
by some European heroes, an old gen.
tleman asked him how he had won 1t,
and George delivered picturesque ac-
count of stirring deeds on shell torn
battlefields. while one by one the
crowd gathered and listened in awe
struck silence.
"But l say, old chap" interrupted
stranger, where did all this happen"
ooh, somewhere in France" return
ed George cheerfully, and the spell
binders audience melted away.
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Twelve Dollars For Snakes.

Oxnard, Cal.-James Benton's latest
rattlesnake catch is worth $432. Ben
ton, who lives In Santa Barbara,
catches rattlesnakes for a living and
recently sold thirty-six Of the reptiles
for SIP each to Oxnard Chinese, who
value them for medicinal purposes,
drugs being compounded from the
venom. Benton has been bitten q num-
Der Of times. In one instance almost
losing his life. He catches the reptiles
with q prongej stick.
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BARK MAKES DOG A HERO.
Nsishbors Find Mrs. Matt Allen Near
Death From Gas.

New York.-Should Mrs. Matthew
Allen, sixty-seven years old, Of 416
Fourth street, Brooklyn, wife Of Matt
Allen, a former racing trainer. recover
she probably will owe her life to her
pet dog. Baby.
The barking of her dog aroused
neighbors, who detected the Odor Of
gas coming from Mrs. Aliens apart
ment They broke In and found the
woman half conscious. She was taken
to the Methodist Episcopal hospital
The gas escaped from leaky Jet.
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WHIPPINeS HIS PENALTY.

And They Will Be With Switches From
Trees Boy Cut Down.
New York.-That he got a thrashing
q week for three weeks was the SEN
tence imposed In the children's court
at Jamaica on Edward Schultz. fifteen
years old, Of that place. The boy had
admitted chopping down three trees
on property owned by John J. Bliss.
president Of the Citizens association.
click him with switches from the
trees he chopped" suggested Justice
Morgan L Ryan to the culprit's father,
who nodded grimly In the Affirmative.
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With PoIysIot Crew Captain 10 Lonely
New Forthwith q mixed crew Of
Lascars, Icelanders, Greenlanders, deck
hands Of Siamese extraction. men from
Madagascar and some Malays the Gu
nard liner Pannonia locked here. She
carried cargo. but no passengers and
hsr captain reports the most Lonesome
veyase he ever sailed
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spurs Conviets to Work.

~ nv City, Mo.-Governor Major
p.sOuH directed the work Of 200
oN from the state penitentiary
~ zen mile stretch Of road near
tA,s. tae governor gave every convict
asan and supplied them with
". eaons. For each day the con-
d., 70 satisfactory work on the roads
a. WI Be allowed twenty days OF
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VALUE OF BABYS EYES.
Award Of SIS, 900 Is Set Aside by Cali
fornia Superior Court.

San Francisco.-The nominal value
Of a baby's eye was fixed at $4,000
here by Judge Frank ]. Murasky in the
superior court, who gave judgment for
that amount to the parents Of Mary
Rubio. one year old, against Mrs. Anna
LA Razzuoli, midwife. 1t was alleged
that the woman failed to care for the
baby's eyes properly at birth. and now
the child is blind.
"a pair Of baby's eyes are priceless"
said Judge Murasky. mo amount Of
money that this or any court could
give. no matter how large the amount.
would compensate for their loss"
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On the Hunting Trail at NInsty tive.

On the hunting Trail at Ninsty-tNss-
Jacks Mountain. Pa.-John Gant1
ninety-two years old, n entitled to be
entered In the list OF old sportsmen. Il
u said that Gantz has killed more
game native to Pennsyivania than any
other man IN the state. He has killed
Thousands Of wild turkeys In his time.
M. Giants q looking forward b eesd
shooting thss season.
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Pa~nsd Gold From His Teeth.

Chicago.-Joseph Henerman. accord
tng 30 q verdict In the Chicago munich
pal court. had his teeth pulled 10 get
tie gold pawned the product and
bought whisky with the proceeds He
was sent to the house Of correction O.
complaint Of The dentist whom -
failed 10 pay.
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cLEVELAND'S SON AN ORATOR
Makes One Of Principal Speeches at
Laying of Conversions.

Laying OF Sornerstohe.
Princeton, N. J.-Richard Cleveland,
son Of Grover Cleveland and a sopho-
more, was one Of the principal speak
ers at the laying Of the cornerstone Of
Princeton's new $4,000 dining hall
In behalf Of the under classmen Of the
university he thanked the trustees and
donors Of the new structure.
The structure will be known as Mad
ison hall, after President Madison.
class Of 1771. In his dedication address
President Hibben said the trustees had
named the quadrangle, which the new
structure completes, the Russell Sage
hall. In compliment to Mrs. Russell
Sage, through whose generosity most
Of the buildings that inclose 1t were
made possible.
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ss.sr Lived Six Weeks on Roots.

Richmond. Ky.-Charles Benton lost
Q steer, or at least thought he had
Search failed to nnd the animal and
hs had given 1t mp as gone when, six
weeks later. he passed q sinkhole on
the farm and saw the steer In It II
had lived during the time On roots and
whatever else Il could ind. Mr.. Ben
ton says the steer weighed about loo
pounds when it disappeared, and Il
oaly weighed coo when &c was found
The broad ax., 1916-11-25
SHIPS AS 0ILER TO VOTE.
S"ornIa Judge Takes Only Available
Steamer From Honolulu.

Steamer From Honolulu.
san Francisco. w. n. Thomas
!uuse OF the superior court of Santa
1ns. arrived here on the Matson liner
-urilhe' from Honolulu. having tech
1.aiy worked his way as an oiler.
Ane Lurlina was the last liner that
"Oula reach California in time for the
'uon' On account Of an accident the
.uriine waS not allowed to carry pas
serS' Judge Thomas felt he should
we ana shipped as a member of the
The broad ax., 1916-11-25
BOY SUES CITY FOR $4,000.

Lowell Won't Let Munitions Worker
Back to School.
Lowell, Mass.-Fred II. Desmond,
eighteen years old, has brought suit for
$4,000 against this city because the
school board has refused to let him re-
enter high. school after working in a
munition factory. Young Desmond left
school to work In a cartridge factory.
but now wants to go back to his stud
Les. In its refusal to let him do 50 the
school board said:
at Is for the best interests Of both
the school and the boy that he should
not be allowed to re-enter."
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GETS BONUS TO STAY SINGLE
School Board Offers Premium of IS Q
Month to OutXit Cupid.

Month to Outwit Cupid.
Highland Kan.-Aiiss Ella Eaton Of
Highland, who viii teach in the
schools Of Metcalf, Ariz-, during the
coming year, will receive bonus Of
s. q month If she refrains from marry
ing until the end Of the school term
next spring.
Marrying girls have been In great
demand at Metcalf. The school board
Of that town has had so much trouble
looking for new teachers after school
has been In session three or four
months that It was decided to offer
special bonus to the schoolteachers
who will remain single.
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the thought could possibly occur to
me not to ride at his side on that red
road to revenge and justice. 1t was
the higher calculus. l was booked for
the trail. l began to eat more beans.
In an hour we set forth at a steady
gallop eastward. Jul horses were Ken
lucky bred, strengthened by the mes
quite grass of the west.
l knew that Ben Tatum's card to
play was fight-fight until he came
within the safer territory of his own
henchmen and supporters. He knew
that the man pursuing him would fol.
low the trail to any end where it might
lead.
During the ride Sam talked of the
prospect for rain, of the price of beef,
and of the musical glasses. You would
have thought he had never had a broth
er or a sweetheart or an enemy on
earth. There are some subjects too
big even for the words in the Una
bridged." Knowing this phase of the
feud code, but not having practiced it
sufficiently l overdid the thing by tell
ing some slightly funny anecdotes.
Sam laughed at exactly the right place
Laughed with his mouth. When |
caught sight of his mouth l wished |
had been blessed with enough sense
of humor to have suppressed those
anecdotes.
Our first sight of them we had In
Guthrie. Tired and hungry, we STUN
bled, unwashed, into a little yellow
pine hotel and sat at a table. In the
opposite corner we saw the fugitives.
They were bent upon their meal, but
looked around at times %uneasily.
The girl was dressed in brown-one
Of these smooth, half shiny, silky look
ing affairs with lace collar and cuffs
Gordon plated skirt. She wore a thick
brown veil down to her nose and a
broad brimmed straw hat with some
kind of feathers adjoining it. The man
wore plain. dark clothes, and his hair
was trimmed very short. He was
such a man as you might see any
where.
There they were-the murderer and
the woman he had stolen. There we
were-the rightful avenger. according
to the code, and the supernumerary
who writes these words.
what are you waiting for. Sam?' 1
said in a whisper. Let him have 1t
now!"
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"You don't want no-assistance, as

"You don't want no-assistance, as
you might say?"
Not any, thanks"
81 didn't think you would. Well, SO
long!"
Sam took out and opened a bone
handled pocketknife and scraped a
dried piece of mud from his left boot
| thought at first he was going to
swear a vendetta ON the blade OF it or
recite 1.-THE Gypsy's Curse" The few
feuds l had ever seen or read about
usually opened that way. This ole
seemed to be presented with a new
treatment. Thus offered on the stage
it would have been Kissed off.
81 WONDER said Sam, with a pro
foundry thoughtful expression, "if the
cook has any cold beans left overw
He called Wash, the negro cook, and,
finding that he had some, ordered him
to heat up the pot and make some
strong coffee. Then we went into
Sans private room, where he slept
and kept his armory, dogs and the
saddles of his favorite mounts. He
took three or four six-shooters out of
a bookcase and began to look them
over, whistling 1.-The Cowboys La
ment" abstractedly. Afterward he or
dered the two best horses ON the ranch
saddled and tied to the hitching post.
Now, in the feud business in all sec
lions of the country | have observed
that in one particular there is a deli
cate but strict etiquette belonging.
You must not mention the word or re-
fer to the subject in the presence of a
feudist. 1t would be more reprehensi-
BILE than commenting upon the mole
on the chin of your rich aunt.
1t yet lacked two hours to supper
time, but in twenty minutes Sam and
l were plunging deep into the reheat-
ed beans, hot coffee and cold beef.
Nothing like a good meal before a
long ride said Sam. EAT hearty"
l had a sudden suspicion.
"Why did you have two horses sao-
dled?' I asked.
zone, two-one, two" said Sam.
You can count, can't your"
His mathematics carried with 1t n
momentary qualm and a lesson. The
thought had not occurred to him that
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Sam gave a melancholy sigh.


"You don't understand, but he does"
he said. HE knows. Mr.. Tenderfoot,
there's a rule out here among white
men in the Nation that you can't shoot
a man when he's with a woman. ]
never knew it to be broke yet You
can't do it. You've got to get him in a
gang of man or by himself. That's
why. He knows it too. We all know.
So that's Mr.. Ben Tatuml One of the
pretty men,! I'll cut him out of the
herd before they leave the hotel!'
After supper the flying pair disap'
peared quickly. Although Sam haunt
ed lobby and stairway and halls half
the night, in some mysterious way the
fugitiyes eluded him, and in the morn.
ing the yelled lady in the brown dress
with the accordion plated skirt and
the dapper young man with the close
cropped hair, and the blackboard with
the prancing nags were gone.
1t is a monotonous story, that of the
ride, SO it shall be curtailed. Once
again we overlook them on a road. We
were about fifty yards behind. They
turned in the blackboard and looked at
Us, then drove on without whipping up
their horses. Their safety no longer
lay in speed. Ben Tatum knew. He
knew that the only rock of safety left
to him was the code.
So you may perceive that woman, on
occasions, may postpone instead of pre-
cipitating conflict between man and
man. But not willingly or consciously.
She is oblivious of codes.
Five miles farther we came upon the
future great western city of Chandler.
The horses of pursuers and pursued
were starved and weary. There was
n hotel that offered danger to man
and entertainment to beast; so the
foul of US met again in the dining
room at the ringing of a bell SO reso-
nant and large that it had cracked the
welkin long ago. The dining room was
not as large as the one at Guthrie.
Just as We were eating apple pie
how Ben Davises and tragedy impinge
upon each other!-I noticed Sam look
ing with keen intentness at our quarry
where they were seated at a table
across the room. The girl still wore
the brown dress with lace collar and
cuffs and the veil drawn down to her
nose. The man bent over his plate,
with his close cropped head held
low.
There's a CODE" | heard Sam say,
either to me or to himself, that won't
let you shoot a nan in the company of
a woman; but, by thunder, there amt
n to keep you from killing a woman
in the company of a man.
And quicker than my. mind could fol-
low his argument he whipped an auto
matte from under his left arm and
pumped six bullets into the body that
the brown dress covered-the brown
dress with the lace collar and cuffs
and the accordion plated skirt.
The young person in the dark sack
suit, from whose head and from whose
life a woman's glory had been clipped,
laid her head on her arms stretched
upon the table, while people came run
ming to raise Ben Tatum from the
floor in his feminine masquerade that
had given Sam the opportunity to set
aside, technically. the obligations Of
the code.
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Lords rOice. whole If has been
surmised, and we think with good rea-
son, hat the continued weakness of
his eyes constituted what he terms "a
thorn in the flesh" y Corinthians
12:7-10.) Although he was granted
many gifts of the Spirit. and exercised
the gift of healing upon many others,
yet the Lord did not relieve him from
his own weakness in this respect.
We are inclined to regard the Apostle
Paul as in some sense of the word a
type of the nation of Israel. Amongst
the Jews are many who seem to be
Israelites indeed. merely blinded as
both the Prophet and the Apostle have
described. Romans 11:7-12.) That ma
ton whose binding took place during
the Fifth Thousand-year Day, and
which has been blinded throughout the
entire Sixth Thousand-year Day, will
have its eyes opened on the Seventh
Thousand-year Day the Millennial
Age. When the due time shah have
fully come, the Lord will send some
Ananias, whose touch under Divine
favor shall bring sight.
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THE EUROPEAN WAR
IN BIBLE PROPHECY

Undreamed of passions have burst forth,
d%evouring the lands that patient hands
have beautifed and made fertile. and cen
turtles have stocked with art treasures. To
the entire world the war has come as a
complete surprise because they have not
read our book $3.50 ~pages-cloth) telling
that just such conditions would exist, only
to be followed by the still greater devas-
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from the press in 1897.
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earth, when the wrath of nations has
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age, to The Temple, No, 26 w. 63rd St, New
York City, and receive a copy promptly.
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"If you ever get the blues" he said,
ut is well to know the simplest and
best way to get rid of them. Crank
ness, nervousness and general upset
condition preceding the blues usually
are due to the relentless grip of con
stipation on the nervous system. The
simplest way to meet this condition Is
to have a box of Rexall Orderlies in
your pocket and the best way is to
take n when you feel the attack COM
ing on. 1t is the finest laxative for
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same respect to law saul, SGHi, Whv
and authority that Persecutest thou
subsequently mark
ed his dealings and teachings as a
Christian, went about the persecution
of Christians in the recognized
as ~legal-under the sanction of the
highest religious tribunal. Let US re-
member that nearly all prosecutions
have been sanctioned by some human
law, and regulate ourselves according
to the Divine code.
Misdirected Zeal Reproved.
Today's Study is st. Luke's account
of the opening of the eyes of SauPs
understanding. and vas doubtless re-
ceived from the Apostle Paul himself,
who gave two other accounts. (See
Acts 22:6-11; 26:12-20.) These accounts
are in practical agreement, and show
only such variations as might be rea-
sonably expected, considering the fact
that they were delivered under differ
ent conditions. Had they been exactly
alike, there would have been just cause
for supposing a special preparation of
the text with this harmony in view.
SauIs feelings, as he heard from the
Lord of Glory a reproof of his misdi-
rected zeal, can be better imagined
than described. Nevertheless, we can
but admire the promptness with which
he at once ceased his opposition and
placed himself on the side of Him
whose Cause he had so recently per-
secuted. How deep a hold the matter
took upon his mind may be judged
from the fact that he neither ate nor
drank for three days. He could not
think lightly of his blinded course.
Deep eontrition is always good evil
dence of genuine repentance of wrong.
We may reasonably suppose that
those three days of blindness and
fasting were also days of prayer and
reflection. during which he diligently
compared the testimony of the Law
and the Prophets with what he knew
of the NaZarene and His teachings.