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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-10

ship-wrecked company, or a rescue party goes
down into the choke-damp OF a coal mine
after an explosion. to bring up the imprisoned
survivors. But always and everywhere the
impulse is the same. 1t is the impulse to lay
ones life on the altar of dimly apprehended,
but unacceptable divine reality, behind and
above the fux of sense, majestic, eternal, in
sistent compelling. And in nothing perhaps
is the immediacy of this impulse so apparent
as In war
Doubtless this is why great thinkers and
seers have been disposed to glorify war, de-
spite its brutality and ghastliness. 1t is the
inwardness Of Ruskin's great saying, reluct
antly made, that nations are saved by war
and destroyed by peace; and of that even
greater passage in De Quincy concerning
which a correspondent wrote to remind me
the other day:
I'm circumstances that may exist, and have
existed. war is a positive good; not relative
merely, or negative, but positive" A great
truth It was which Wordsworth uttered what
ever might be the expansion which he allowed
to it, when he said that:
Gods most perfect instrument
In working out a pure intent
Is Man-arrayed for mutual slaughter:
Yea, carnage is His daughter"
There is a mystery in approaching this
aspect Of the which no man has read
fully. War has a deeper and more ineffable
relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has
yet been deciphered. To execute judgment
of retribution upon outrages offered to human
rights, or 70 human dignity. To vindicate
the sanctities OF the altar, and the
sanctities Of the hearth. These are functions
Of human greatness which war has many times
ASSUMED. and many times faithfully dis
charged But behind all these there towers
dimly a greater. II is the great phenomenon
of war. 1t is this. and this only. which keeps
open in man a spiracle-an organ Of respra-
tion-for breathing transcendent atmosphere
and dealing with an idea that else would
perish.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-10
BY the Rev. DR.. R. J. Campbell

n ECENTLY I the guest at mess of
X the stan OF one OF our field hospitals
somewhere in France. and the converse
zion turned as usual upon the genesis OF the
war. We exhausted the list OF Germany
misdemeanors in the fashion familiar to the
world in general and Britons in particular.
Nietzsche was discussed and Treitschke, and
the blame apportioned between the pro
lessons and the military.
We waxed warm upon the point as 20
whether the Teutonic swelled head resulting
from the victories of 1870 had not more to do
with producing the bellicose professors than the
professors had to do will producing the Ger.
man spirit to-day, and and so forth
Frequent reference was made to the pub.
hshed diplomatic correspondence as exposing
Germanys criminal designs upon the posses.
sions of her neighbors. and her arrogant de-
termination to trample upon the liberties of
the world. Everybody knows the kind of thing
mat was being said; it is being said every.
where except in Germany from hour to hour
Wherever men meet and talk.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-10
Laying Down a
Lesser for a Larger Good.

In play produced by Sir Herbert Tree some
years ago, entitled False Gods" this truth
was presented very forcibly. The scene was
laid in ancient Egypt. and one Of the principal
characters was a young girl who was 70 be
thrown into the Nile as a sacrifice TO the gods
In order to secure a plentiful harvest The
character was well played, anT what struck
me most in the performance wa, the way the
girl was represented as going to her death.
On her face was a look Of holy rapture and
supersensuous JOY. So intent was she on her
self-oblation that she passed her weeping lover
by, without so much as seeing him. Her gaze
was fixed upon a sterner bridegroom.
Should we call this superstition and wasted
nobleness? Not so. There is no wasted
nobleness. -.s
It r1atters little to what immediate object a
eacriice is made, that # be the best we
can see. Perhaps the things we are dlling
to suffer and die for to-day are not intrinsicaIly
any worthier than those which awakened the
Egyptian girls heroism. But they have
served their purpose, in so far as they are
the medium through which the eternal makes
its demand upon our uttermost We rise or
fall by the nature of our response thereto
We die to live; We lose to find
And having passed the portals OF the great
self-onering TO the Ideal, come in what guise
II may, we find that, after all, there is no
such thing as sacrifice IN the sense Of
permanent loss or impoverishment We only
lay down lesser 10 grasp a larger good; We
surrender the part to possess the whole That
is what our dead heroes have already found on
the other side OF the red mist OF war. That
is what we who weep for them will one day
fad, too, when We go to join them in the
light that casts no shadows
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-10
War Cannot End Until
Humanity Has Risen Higher.

II is the idea OF mixed crusade and martyr
dom. doing and suffering, that finds its
realization in battle such as that OF Water
loo-namely. a battle fought for interests of
the human race Felt even where they are
not understood. So that this tutelary Angel
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-10
Rev. Dr.. Campbell Engand's Distinguished Divine ExpIa
Why Men Fight and Shows How War Is Agency
Bringing Out the Truth of Sacrifice on Grand SCI

Of Man, when he traverses such dreadful
field. when he reads the distorted features,
counts the CHASTITY ruins, sums the hidden
anguish. and the harvests-
"Of horror breathing from the silent ground
nevertheless. speaking Gods messenger.
"blesses 1t and calls 1t very good"
This is language that ] could not wholly
endorse; l am not prepared to admire war in
this indiscriminate fashion and account II
of God 1t is only of God while mems hearts
are hard. But facts are facts. and it is the
fact, undeniabIe and often sublime that as
humanity has been constituted up 10 the
present
War has been the means more than any
other agency OF bringing out on the grand
scale that truth Of sacrifice without which
flesh never be made to serve the ends
Of spirit and the kingdom CT the soul be won.
This could be realized without war If only
the race as a whole could be lifted to the
requisite level 1t often has been realized
without war in individual cases, but never for
long on the wider basis of the communal life.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-10
"The Levity Of the Flying Man
Becomes Like the Levitation of
a SENT. The Word Sport Has
a Really Noble Meaning; 1t Is
Its Essence That the Sports
manis Always Ready to DE-"
By @. K. Chesterton
The Noted English PubIIoIs,-


TT Is the unconquerable and uncomfortable
fact that men have souls; and one Of its re-
q suits Is that during armed crisis human
events happen as they do in poem OF play.
The spirit OF arts passes into the body OF
arms. There is q sort OF awful appropriateness
about the most accidental things men say and
do. Men become symbolic like statues; and
when a man speaks It is as II the image OF MS
city or republic had moved its marble lips
The things said by fighters and workers at the
most abrupt and desperate moments are as
historic and representative as the most ancient
heraIdic motto or the most careful diplomatic
definition
When Danton and his friends were going to
execution, one OF them expressed regret that
some poetry he had written had been left be-
hind. and its authorship might be claimed by
the police. Danton answered with pun OF
appalling felicity: "Tais-toi, dams une semaine
tn feras assez de vers." (''Be silent. in week
you viii make verse enough" The French
word for verse" happens to be the same as
for "worms.') There Is In that phrase all
that France he's of what Is great and terrible.
the exactitude OF wit the brutality Of truth, the
native air OF irony, the audacity Of the French
armies, the realism OF the French novels, the
horror and the laughter and the scorn Of death
And It is 80 with the spontaneous sayings OF
less logical and more poetical peoples.
Hackneyed as the thing is, and hashed
hundred times by the coarse sentimentalism OF
Journalists. let the reader say to himself and
by himself Tin the right mood and moment the
phrase ~For England, home and beauty" and he
will feel how profoundly national 1t is. Gains
borough and Romney the ladies and the land
scapes soft with distance, even in war link up
our little loves and the loneliness of earth For
what we call our private soldiers are indeed
very private soldiers And each marches to a
very private tune, which 10 called The Girl
Left Behind Me-"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-10
The Spirit That Leads
Men to Sacrifice Their Lives.

Please God, it will one day be universally
realized without war. And when that Is so the
cross of Christ viii have it's final victory.
For when people speak Of religion as i'm
periled by the war. they know not what they
say. The very central principle Of Christianity
is that which the with all its horrors has
forced US to lift our faces from the heshpots
and visualize sfresh: That life is only gained
In proportion as it is laid down at the call Of
the higher-than-seh.
"a picket frozen on duty,
A mother starved for her brood,
Socrates drinking the hemlook.
And Jesus the rood;
And the millions who, humble and
nameless,
The straight, hard pathway trod-
Some of call it duty.
And others call IL God"
1t needs no war to bring this home to Us IL
only we have eyes to see and mind to under
stand. Sacrifice is always the same in
essence. whatever be the occasion that calls
it forth.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-08-11
AND IMPROVEMENT.

INDUSTRY AND IMPROVEMENT.
The town Of Prosser, Wash, has
let the contract. for street paving to
the amount Of $9,167, covering two
blocks.
The new st. Mary's hospital at
Walla Walla, representing when com.
pleted about $250,0OO, will be ready
for occupancy about the middle of Au-
gust, and by September 1 routine hos
pital work will be well established.
The city council of Ritzville, Wash,
has let the contract for the construc-
tion of concrete pavement covering
two blocks at cost Of S7,046. When
completed that will make street i'm
provements this season covering Is
blocks, for which about $4,000 has
been spent.
E. E. Peterson of Spokane has been
awarded the contract to erect the new
grade school building at Kellogg, Ida
no. The contract for the heating and
plumbing was let to Roberts & In
skip of Spokane. The contract price
for the building, complete, is $36,s4o.
The building is to be ready for occu-
pancy December IS.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-08-11

Malabar pepper undergoes no other
preparation, except that occasional
lots that have beco me widowed
through long storage are washed, in
cold fresh water and again dried in
the sun. There are no by-products.
Native merchants in the coast ports
buy small lots of few tons each
from up-country dealers, who again
send agents around the pepper-grow-
ing districts to buy up little lots Of a
few hundredweight each in the vii
lagos where they have been stored
after purchase by small local mer-
chants from neighboring growers,
often in parcels of a mere bag or two.
The crop is transported to the coast
in various ways, according to the To-
cality-carted over bad roads, boated
down canals and backwaters, carried
on bullocks, etc. The price Of pepper
on arrival at the coast is thus double
Cor more) the price paid to the orig
inal grower.
The big native merchants at the
coast ports consign part of their pur-
chases to Bombay and other Indian
ports by coasting steamers and ma
tive sailing craft. They also make
ward delivery in the latter's go
downs, in quantities of to 100 tons,
or even more, for each contract. The
European merchants, on receiving de-
liveries, redry, regrade, bulk and bag
them for shipment to Europe, Ameri-
ca and Australia.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-08-11
STOCK AND CROP NOTES.

Walter G. Seeley, sales manager of
the Distributors at Wenatchee, has
confirmed an f. o. b. sale of two cars
of Bartletts for August Is delivery at
the record price of $1.54 box. The
order calls for extra fancy of medium
size, good condition.
The first car of Spokane cherries
ever sold on the New York market
was disposed of Monday by the Spo-
kane Fruit Growers company, and has
set number of records. The car was
the only one of cherries on the mar
ket. on that day, and between $50 and
IT'S crates were damaged en- route
through railroad accident and were
rendered unstable. In spite Of this
fact, the car brought $1,761 in New
York.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-08-11
How Pepper is Grown.

All grocers sell pepper, but how
many of them ever stop to think how
many hands this commodity goes
through before it is found on the gro
GERS shelves in neat packages, ready
for the last transaction, that Of deal
er to consumer? In recent consul
lar report from Madras, India, an in
teresting account is given as to the
way this product is grown and mar
keted.
The bulk of the crop is grown by
small farmers owning only a few
acres of land each. The berries are
plucked by hand, dried in the sum-
and trodden out to remove the stalks.
The pepper is then picked over by
hand to remove any sticks, stones,
etc., that have become mixed with it.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-08-11
Washington state items.

G. w. Pearson, a rancher IL miles
west of Starbuck has sold to G. F..
Actor, grain buyer, 100000 bushels Of
wheat for 81 per bushel net.
J. v. Mccall, president of the
Farmers Union Of Washington, has
issued an official proclamation desig-
mating August 10 as registration day
in the country precincts in this state.
The majority of farmers around
Wilbur will not contract their new
wheat at 81 bushel and some farm
ers are holding their last years crop.
Saturday 10000 bushels were con-
tracted for at 81 bushel. Wheat har-
vest will begin about August IA.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-08-11
MARKET REPORT
Chicago.

Chicago.
Hogs-Weak; sc under yesterday
average. Bulk, $9.O5Q9.75; light, $3.50
1890; mixed, Ss.S5@9.95; heavy,
$s.7O@9.s5; rough, $s.7O@S.S5; pigs,
$7.75@9.35.
Cattle-Firm. Native beef cattle,
$6.70@1O.35; western steers, $6.65@
$40; stockers and feeders, $5@7.9O;
cows and heifers, $3.5o@9.15; calves,
$s.5O@12.
Sheep-Strong Wethers, $6.75@
$685. lambs, $7.25@11.15.
Wheat-No. red, new, $1.36h; No.
red, new, $1.33A@1.35; No. 2 hard,
nominal; No. 8 hard, old, $1.32h@
1864.
Corn-No. yellow, s3A@s4Ac;
No. yellow, sac.
Oats-No. white, 421h@43hc;
standard, 43A@44c.
Barley, 65@7sc.
1880.
New York.
Raw sugar, dull; centrifugal, 6.14c;
molasses, 5.37c. Refined, quiet; fine
granulated 1850.
Coffee-Spot, active; Rio rs, 9hc;
Santos As, 10hc.
Portland.
Hogs-Steady. Prime light, $9.25@
go; prime strong weights, $9.15@
9.25; good to prime mixed, $S.75@
9.o5; rough heavy packing, $3.50
$50; pigs and skips, S7.50@S.
Cattle-Steady. Steers, prime light,
$7@7.35; prime heavy. $7.25@75o;
good, $6.25@7; COWS, choice, $3.50
$50; medium to good, $4.5O05; ordi-
nary to fair, $4@45U; heifers, $500
575; bulls, $3@4.50; calves, $3.50@7.
Sheep-Steady. Spring lambs, $50
s.25; common lambs, $4,000; choice
yearlings, $606.25; good yearlings,
$5.50@5.75; choice wethers, $5.75@6;
choice ewes, $5@5.25; common ewes,
$2.5O@3.
Tacoma.
Wheat-Bluestem, $1.os; fortyfold,
81; club, 81; red fife. 81. Flour adj
vanced 40c barrel.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-08-11

A merchant once put the following
sign in his shop: please don't ask
for credit, as refusal often Of
fends."
Finding that this had little effect,
and that his credit book was attain
ing great proportions, he resolved on
trying another plan, and Immediately
fixed up another notice in place Of
the former one: 1.-THE names and
addresses of all those who buy goods
at this shop and don't pay for them
can be seen in the credit book on
payments of fee of five cents"
The result was miraculous.
Not only did the curious pay their
nickels by the dozen, but those ow.
ing accounts speedily settled them
until the credit book was thing OF
the past.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-08-11
Germany Holds Firm.

The Lokal Anzieger of Berlin says:
"a discussion of the peace aims is
not yet permitted. We assume that
following the proclamations OF the
German national committee the gov
eminent now considers that the time
has come to let down the bars on
the censorship. We take it to be a
self-understandable condition that the
principle of equal rights for all will
be applied here, and that what is per
mitted one will not be forbidden an
other"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-08-11
Great Russians In Concert.

Charles York announces a recital
by Leon, Jan and Mischief Chernlav-
sky, violinist, pianist and 'cellist, at
the Auditorium theater, Spokane, on
September 5.
The Chernlavskys are young Rus
slams who have played in % coun-
tries and are now making a tour of
the United States. They are excel
lent as soloists and exceptional In
ensemble work. Their recitals are
original and full of novelty. Being
Russians, it goes without saying that
they have temperament; they are
warm and sympathetic and unusual
technicians
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-08-11

Some ten years ago there was law
enacted by congress known as the
federal pure food and drug act, that
has had a very wholesome effect in
several lines of business. There Is
before the present congress a meas
ure known as the Barley bill that II
enacted into law will have about the
same effect on the merchandise bust
ness that the food and drug act had
in it's particular line. Since the intro
duction of the Barkley bill some time
ago it has been quietly reposing in a
pigeonhole in the committee room, but
just last week the house committee
on interstate and foreign commerce
ordered it to be reported out with a
favorable recommendation.
The first section Of this bill makes
it an offense punishable by fine and
Imprisonment "for any person to
manufacture within any territory Of
the United States or the District OF
Columbia any article of commerce or
trade or other commodity which is
misbranded within the meaning of
this act" The second section forbids
the introduction into any state, ter
ritory or the District Of Columbia
from any other state or territory or
the District of Columbia, or from any
foreign country, or shipment to any
foreign country of any misbranded
article. BY the terms OF proviso
articles intended for export when
prepared, marked or packed accord
ing to the specifications or directions
of the foreign purchaser" are exempt
ed from the prohibitions Of this Sec
ton.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-08-11

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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-08-11
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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-08-11
Mexico and Chewing Gum.

II the United States has pro-
longed mixup with Mexico 1t Is going
to have q serious effect upon our
chewing gum industry, which now
controls worlds market exceeding
60,000,O00 q year.
The base of all the chewing gum
made today Is chicle, which comes
from the latex OF the Zapote tree,
found extensively in the gulf states
Of old Mexico.
The American Chicle company, COM
posed OF 10 Of the original chewing
gum manufacturers OF the United
States, and producing more than 100
brands Of chewing gum, ontro | s
through concessions granted years
ago by the Mexican government, most
Of the chicle bearing lands in the gulf
states.
There is q heavy import tax on this
commodity and the United States col
lects both an import tax on raw chicle
and a manufacturing tax on finished
gum.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-08-11
SUMMARY Of THE
WORLDS EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS OF BOTH HEM.
SPHERES BOILED DOWN TO
LAST ANALYSIS.
ARRANGED FOR BUSYREADERS
Brief Notes Covering Happenings In
This Country and Abroad That
Are of Legitimate Interest
to All the People.
ARRANGED FOR BUSYREADERS

Australia adopts British blacklist
on American trade.
John M. Thurston, former United
States senator from Nebraska, died
recently.
Senator Walsh of Montana will be
western manager of the democratic
national committee.
Bombardment Of shipping on the
Suez canal by enemy airships is an
nounced at London.
Car shortage in Oregon growing
worse. All mills will have to shut
down unless more cars can be found.
The sinking of the Italian steamer
Sienna, 1853 gross tons, off Genoa,
last Saturday is reported by Lloyds.
Oakland, Cal, street car company
puts a second conductor on cars to
act as information bureau and amuse
babies.
The Farmers State bank of Flor
ence, a suburb of Omaha, was rob-
bed of $1,000 Saturday by automobile
bandits.
Dividends totaling $798,425 have
been declared by Fall River cotton
manufacturers for the third quarter
of the mill year.
Sir Ernest Shackleton has again
failed to reach the center of the
Antarctic expedition and returns to
the Falkland islands.
Steps looking toward the rehabili-
tation of the industrial operations in
southern Chihuahua, Mexico, are re-
ported to General Trevino
Russia has sold the southern half
of Hardin Chang Chun railroad to
Japan, and recognizes the right Of
Japan to the Sungari river.
The National Association of Bakers
are told that Scent loaf of bread
must go-cannot make profit at less
than 10 cents for fair-sized loaf.
The division of the socialist party
in the French chamber of deputies on
the question Of peace and the pro-
posed economic war foreshadows
complicated conflict in that party.
Governor w. G. Mcdonald, in a let
ter answering an inquiry by a minis
ter and made public, says he favors
the submission of statewide prohibit
ton to the voters Of New Mexico.
Berlin reports an enemy battle
plane Saturday morning near the
coast of Flanders, after long chase,
was forced to fight by one of their
seaplanes and was destroyed. Noval
Lieutenant Boenich thus destroyed
his fourth enemy machine.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-08-11

Before many years it is altogether
probable that the dealer who substi-
tutes for articles specifically demand
ed by the consumer will be prosecut-
ed for their action If it can be proven
that the article sold in the place of
the one demanded and paid for was
of inferior quality and the charges
against them can be proven.