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The Washington herald., 1919-11-09
BY J. II. DUCKwORTH
BOston. Mass.


Boston. Mass.
The man who owns" the Beef
Trust is a poor clerk. He lives in
the town of Cohasset. Mass, and
works eight hours a day here in Bos-
ton.
He Is multi-miilionaire who isn't!
He holds $5o.000.0o0 of beef trust stock,
and can't spend a nickel of 1t. He Is
the richest poor man in America.
His name is F. r. Pegram.
Though the title of the Beef Trust
rests in his name. he can't even
order beefstesk without paying
tribute to the butcher.
The reason is that while Pegram is
technically the owner of this $4,000
600. he is really only a dummy. one
of many dummies behind which the
big packers have hidden TO conceal
the real extent OF their grip upon
the stockyard interests. Pegram is a
humble messenger and bookkeeper In
the office of +. II. Prince. Boston and
New York banker.
i have seen Pegran on the Job in
the office of banker Prince In Bos-
ton, and out at his home In Coha set
This 'S5000Go0 messenger looks like
a typical New England forty dol
lar per" faithful old clerk. He is
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Notaries.- Record
Something m the cards tells us a
number Of anarchists in this coun-
try are going on a long journey
Pontiac CMich.) Press.
Cardinal Gibbons epigram. SELF
denial is the beginning of piety,"
suggests that We ought to be a more
pious people.-Beston, Globe.
The right to quit work. however.
is not the most important one the
American citizen enjoys. There is
the right to work. for example,
Savannah News.
Do the coal miners utterly disre-
gard the fact that organized labor
needs coal. even though they do not
consider the needs Of the rest Of
us?-Albany Journal.
II you have bought an; rice re-
Gently you can believe the proud
boast Of the Missouri farmer who
says he made a net profit of $4,000
upon $50 acres OF rice.-Louisville
Courier-Journal.
The ''drys" probably will comfort
themselves with the reflection that
New Jersey always was goddess. any
way y.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
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ALINE O. CHEER
EACH DAY O. THE YEAR,
ny John Kendriek Bangs.
THE UNDERSTUDY.

THE CNDERSTUDY.
(Copyright. 1913. by The 4NcClure Newspaper
Sypdicate)
The birds may fiutter South. but as
for me
I'll stay and face the Winter that
must be,
And il the path be bitter, and some
where
find a soul oppressed by chilling
care,
I'll try to think OF some glad note of
Spring
The birds departing gaily used to sing
To comfort him, and ease his grievous
hours
With echoes fair of days Of smiling
flowers
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Welfare Work to Be Done.

NcS little remains be done ior the comfort OF the soldiers
and sailors Like the brave and rcourceu
able take themselves: The welfare
called but little relief the wounded
In Washington hundreds young being
dismissed their the Due the short
sIghcdnc OF the heads departments the dsnisals
being made without Many who led
believe that they might employment months suddenly
learn that there them
that few of them have funds left tide them
learn the results o civil service applications Some without rail-
road fare home. y considerable their
organizations funds and for the purchase OF Liberty bonds
1t would be il the welfare could be
these young Many proud apply
These the whom the welfare
should through their plight
The welfare people learn much by getting
heads OF the departments which
will be making reductions in
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Cottages Replace Chicago Slums.

Chicago.-One hundred and seventy
five little cottages are going up on
South State street to replace the
slums of that section. The program
is to eventually eliminate the slum
district.
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JUST IN FUN

is the professor in?" she asked,
entering the door OF a courtroom by
mistake.
what professor asked the at
tendant.
THE professor OF music, of course.
i've come TO have my voice tried"
We'll. you'd better not have il
tried here. nrS'am This is court
OF justice. Houston Post.
The minister who made the follow
ing announcement seems TO have
been prepared for untoward results
from his preaching:
"There are some fiowers here" he
said, "for those who are sick At the
close Of this service."-Youth's Com
panion-
'.rhey don't want me back In the
United States as ambassador"
Queer. amt it7'
Yes all I did was TO blow up q
few bridges and canals.
Courier-Journal.
Your wife has imaginary ALL
ments I'll just give her soma imsgi-
nary medicine" "Um! What kind
III q oih dfS you Boluk 70 Teuuct tu
this case, doctor? Edinburgh
Scotsman.
Il know a fellow who is very sue
cesstul In handling the grip" ''1s he
o doctor or a belIhop?"-Balti
American.
Whom ancient opinions and rule OF
life are taken away. the loss cannot
possibly be estimated. - Edmund
Burke.
The Girl-'Poor Jack! He's been
disappointed IN love" Cynicus-"of
course: II never does come up to ex-
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Representative Did Chamsernai
stunt.

Representative Dla Chanbernsi4
stunt
Recently I told how Representative
w FRANK JONES. Of Michigan.
shoveied In his own coal during the
former shortage Of that tndispens-
able article. while the snow was n.y.
ing and the north winds blowing
cold. while at the Capitol wednes-
day heard another good one on the
member from Michigan. He had
boar arded a sleeper" on the Penn
sylvania Railroad and was en- route
to Pittsburg TO make a speech foy
his friend. Representative NJ CLYDE
KELLY. whose district includes q
part OF the Smoky City"
When bedtime arrived IL was
found that the porter had mysteri-
ousiy disappeared and the passen-
gers were in a Quandary as to hsv-
Ing their beds lowered and properly
arranged for sleeping. Mr.. James.
who mas raiiroaded himself. though
never as a porter. understood the
secrets of the Pullman folding bed.
and proceeded to make his own bed.
Several ladies who appeared much
distressed had witnessed the clever
chambermaid operation OF the Rep
resentative- not knowing. who he was.
When he had concluded arranging
his own couch one OF the ladies ap-
pealed to him to show her how. as
che had q sleepy child on her hands.
II will attend to the matter per
sonally." Mr.. James courteously re-
piled. as he proceeded to arrange her
couch.
Appeals for similar service then
came from several other ladies'. anc
the Representative threw of his coat
and went to IL He had made several
beds when the overworked condue-
tor came TO his rescue.
I asked Mr.. James IL the story was
correct.
Yes. certainly" he replied. "and
I can prove it bv my good friend.
Representative Kelly.
Reminder Of Old Time Nickname.
While chasing an elusive story
down Tenth street my eyes fell upon
the show window OF the National
Republican. a few doors north OF the
building Of the Washington Gas Light
Company. The lettering of the leg
end. National Republican" is on a
BACKGROUND Of jet black. II recalled
tne Gays lHlI1SOidltlt IOllOWlnS tns
civil war when Southerners were
wont to refer to Republicans in Dixie
as black Republicans.
Judges Enjoy Good stories
The two judges of the Washington
Police Court. JOHN p. MCMAHON
and ROBERT HARDISoN. are ra
contours as we'll as Just judges. snd
smile which spells appreciation with
out interfering with judicial dignity
comes over Judge McMahon's face
when a lawyer or witness uncon-
sciously makes a witty statement.
Judge Hardison also has a keen sense
OF hrmor but is more stoical than
his associate magistrate.
\ soldier charged with intoxica-
ton was being examined by Judge
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Cores aFndment providing popular
declarations of might further provide
mus do the fighting
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Dr. Samuel Zane Baen Bapsts money
by proheers "e kind of thieves"
been that pro6eet is anybody who has something
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Now the sugar bowl empty, you place to
your coal supply.
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Even the profer has pious when he bathes
of thanksgiving he birth rate o
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Employers Spain who have agreed general lockout
have all the right their side, but considering the halfmad
of the world respect tei
Judgment.
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Judges Enjoy Good stories.
THE PARAGRAPHERS'
NEWS VIEWS.

ED PAGE PRARGR.lPHERs VIEW
The Reds" have no votes-reIely
Sotaries s.-PhIladeiphia Record
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The OF the hard ii he hasn't enough
TO hire a slick lawyer.
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The Girl-"Poor Jack! He's been
disappointed In love" Cynicus-"Of
course: II never does come up to eN-
pectations."-Boston Transcript.
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Peanuts.

Once peanuts mainly used
when the circus, the Nobody
where they why We did know they
shells and half the fun of eating them the cracking the
and htterng the place with
1t is different The
days the roasted end OF business
big lies the fanng of hogs and The
plant makes excellent hay and the oil olive
Agricultural predict within
nut will rank with the other major wheat and AL
ready and the
$6ooooooo
And goober farmers rich the 1owly peanut
Liberty beautiful while it is but dangerous
thing have around the house when gets beyond
control
1t reported that the allies
had distinguished murder isn't
debatabe
In Peograd of milk So bies This
until reflect that of rubs word
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Hardison. The man linnped painfully
and explained he was hit by q mo-
torcycIe." He also tried TO explain
his .intoxication by saying he only
drank water with his lunch.
Ever been In trouble beforeT" the
court queried.
NO. sir. not even with the Ger
mans"
His personal bonds were ordered
taken by Judge Hardison. still smil-
ing at the quaint but frank response.
with the advice:
Go and have your wounds -
aNet GsIIty.- Their Pies.
Col. SAM r. sTRATTAN. super
intendent OF the Soldiers and San
ors' Temporary Home at Third and
{ streets northwest. known among
politicians as the author of a
/ thousand-and-one funny stories.
told me this good one about q North
washington Sunday school teacher.
Addressing her class, she said:
Now. boys. speak right up and
answer promptly. who carried on
the gates OF GazaZ-
Every boy responded in chorus:l
] Twant me. I didn't touch EN-
Appeal 10 senator Poindexter.
Several OF the policemen on the re-
tired list have appealed TO Senator
MILES POINDEXTER. OF washing
ton. to assist them In having the in-
crease-of-pay police bill amended m
their interest. 1t was pointed out 20
him that the ofncers. now aged
and disabled. who were retired
under the present law can never re-
ceive more than Copper cent Of the
amounts they were receiving as sal
aries when they were retired. where
as those to be retired under the pend
ing law may receive 50 per cent OF
the increased pay.
In order TO make both ends meet" !"
a veteran policeman said 20 me. st
is necessary 70 secure employment,
and few Of the old fellows are able
to perform manual labor. having
given the best yearf of their lives
TO safeguarding the lives and prop
ertS OF their fellow citizens and
being almost worn out
was senator Coke's Pretege.
LUCIAN sEABRooK. who was a
reporter on the old Evening Critic in
| 1882 was a visitor to his old haunts in
Washington recently. He came from
Texas. where he is q prosperous a.
| torney With his silvery locks I
| would not have recognized him ar tSe
boy reporter" who covered" South
| Washington and the river front for
the Critic. We talked OF members OF
| the old staf. or start" as he pro
nounced it-PERRY HEATH. OSCAR
HARRIS. Capt ED BRADY. FRANK
1 MORGAN. JAKE RUDD. RING
WALT. GEORGE DOUG LA 5,
FLETCHER HODGES and Others.
Most of them have passed over. and
the building in which the Critic was
published has disappeared, the site
being occupied ly the Geysty Thea
ter. Seabrook was known aso in
the old days as a protege 20 the late
Senator Coke OF Texas.
On one occasion he disspproved =
! vote the Senator had cast on a certain
| important measure and wrote the
Texan a rather sharp letter. coke
sent for Seabrook and with a brosd
smile eaid:
Pardon me. Seahrook for my vote
on that bill. Hereafter when q vote Is
1 to be taken In the Senate will sen3
for you and ascertain your wishes"
There was q strong tinge OF sarcasm
| in the Senator'S uttsrsnce. but p"
| loved the boy reporter for his hon
est frankness. and e was Senator
Coke who gave the young writer a
future in Texas
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Lieut. Maynard drew record congregation his first
after the flight the continent They hero Al
preacher who sticks his job his salary hero
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Whom ancient opinions and rule OF
life are taken away. the loss cannot
possibly be estimated. - Edmund
Burke.
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1T HAPPENED
ON THE HILL

The House Military Committee
yesterday recommended the purchase
Of the Curtiss aeroplane factory,
Buffalo. \. Y. for s1.s4O,000; and
the Dayton Wright factory. Dayton,
Ohio. for $2,14O,0oO.
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WASHINGTON
Iheate whereby 50 all
Cross Fund
Cp the and the box Of
the Pce of tickets Will be donated o the Red Cross
this the performance without
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Round the Town Il E'sssSsEEEs. SAEH

There are moments when silence,
Prolonged and unhroken.
More expressive may. be.
w. A. h
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Official notice of ratification of wo-
man suffraEee by California was
made yesterday TO the Senate Tn
official notice has been received of
the ratification of Maine. making
the nineteenth State to ratify.
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time enroll yourself IN support of the
most worthy charity of all time
This offer holds good until next
Tuesday and on all tickets purchased :
before that time for When Mans a
Man, next weeks attraction at the
Shubert-Garick Iheater. Clip The coupon
to the left.
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Smash the Reds.

1t gratifying the public to know Department
Justice has what be complete Of the situation
lating Bohevk Red agitators for the
without claim citizenship
They here without ideals Murder ootng constitute their
only purposes in life.
1t perfectly that of the Reds should be
given the public They thrive publicity Neither should they
punished That would make The only thing
do ship them back from whence
That will be sufficient punishment To live amid the disorder they
have created in their home countries than ang them here
How they be America is the serious
Our officials have been guilty of aiy permitting the Reds
land The officials the blame Congress
enactng drastic exclusion If case
enough confidence believe that will
framed and enacted that will of
halowed soil
Ship the trapped
in. That will make America safe.
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Fso ziegfeld has had almost every
hing named after him-from babies
20 hats. Now an APARTMENT house,
being baiit by t~o OF his stars, will
be known as rThe zlegfeid,' and it
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u know a fellow who is very sue
cessful In handling the grip" IT'S he
o doctor or a eIrhop?"-BaItimore
American.
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Senate Military Affairs Commit se
yesterday reported favorably a bill
which would prevent members of
American forces ON foreign soil, al
ready married from marrying again.
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RESORTS.

ATLANTIC CITY.
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1t is reported that the allies confer with the
once had distinguished citizen who remarked that mur
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In Petrograd one pint of milk So rubes This
until reflect that pint of rubles worth tnkers Gus
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-07-16
"PoKER FACE" HAS ITS USE
Ability to Hide Emotion Will Ere
quentIy be Found of Value in
Game Of Life.

Princeton Is about to send 116 grad
yates out into the world Some of
them are whimsical young fellows, as
would appear by the way they filled out
questionnaires which asked them,
among other things, what of most value
had been received by them in their col
lege course. One reflective senior
avOwed unblushingly that it was ''his
allowance" For others, Cheeks" "a
poker face" "the art of bluffing,"
'Iearning how to loaf scientifically"
were their acquisitions of highest
worth.
The value of no one of these can
be galnsald, for most lives bring emer-
gencies when any one Of them may
be of the highest use. There are
some who may be skeptical of the ad-
vantages of the 'poker face" Yet who
can doubt the value on occasion Of
poised, lmpassive, imperturbable coun-
tenance which gives no slightest hint
of the hopes and fears 1t masks.
A physlognomy under complete con-
troll Is almost essential to, a diplomat,
and this ability to hide emotions be,
hind a changeless exterior goes far
to give the japanese ENJOYS the repu-
tatiOn of being the best poised states
men. Countenances which light up
with emotion are more attractive.
Wooden faces are never winning in the
usual acceptatiOn Of the word. But
they are the winning faces in two at
least of the exciting games of life, d.
plOmacy and poker.-ROchester Post
Express.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-07-16
Piece Of Ancient Meteor.

Meteorites Of indicated great age are
conspicuous by their absence from mu-
scum collections, and it is suggested
that such specimens may disintegrate
and disappear from the rocks within
a relatively short time after falling.
The British museum, however, has late
ly acquired a slice Of somewhat less
than a pound from a meteoric iron
that is believed to represent an ancient
fall. The slice is from one of two sim
lar masses that were found in Janu-
AIRY, 1905, within a few miles of Daw-
son, KlOndike, and that from their
position deep in the Oldest gravels of
the district are thought to have rested
there since the Pliocene age or before.
From his study of the original speci-
mems in the Museum of the Geologi-
cal Survey at Ottawa, r. A. A. John
son concluded that they are part Of
a single meteoric shower of Tertiary
time.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-07-16
PLACE STATUES At GRAVES
People Of Budapest Have odd Methods
Of PerpetustinU the Memory Of
the Dead.

While all Civilized nations either
bury their dead or place them in vaults
OF mausoleums. there is a curious Gus.
tom carried out by the people of Buda-
pest. This is found in the large Gene
terry in that city which is known as
the Kerepesl Kozimero. where nearly
every family in Budapest burIes its
dead. II is very large and contains
a number of handsome monuments, es-
peeially the one TO Kossuth, who is
known as the George Washington of
Hungary. "----~ss. 49,
The visitor to that city of the dead
will find at the grave a photograph,
painting or statue of the person who is
7ied beneath each stone, an exchange
states. When the family is wealthy
there is the bust or recumbent figure
Of the dead man or woman made from
his or her latest picture, while beside It
sits or stands the statue of the nearest
living relative, man or woman, carved
from life.
In some instances the figures of
several living members of a family Sit
beside the grave of a parent. But
perhaps the most interesting of all are
pictures embedded in the gravestones
covered with glass and thus protected
from the weather
Still another popularity is the bronze
or iron lamp posts on the graves and
the huge silver balls set up on many.
The latter are like the colored glass
balls used upon our Christmas trees,
except they are always silvered and
much larger There seems to be no
way of lighting the lamps, and the
only inference is that they are used to
light the dead to heaven or where
candles may be placed when relatives
or friends are offering prayers for the
dead. s.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-07-16
HISTORY NOT MERE RECORD
Writer, to Set It Down Successfully,
Must Use His Constructive
imagination.

There is no cOmmoner cause of his
torical- misjudgment than the ten.
dency to read the events of the past
too exclusively the light of the
present, and so twist the cold and un-
conscious record into the training
service Of controversial politics. And
yet history is inevitably to great ex-
tent work of the Imagination. No
good historian is content merely to re-
peat the record of the past. He has
to understand 1t, to see behind it, to
find more in it than it actually says.
He cannot understand without the use
of his constructive Imagination, and
he cannot imagine effectively with
out the use of his experience. / be-
lieve It is one Of the marks of a
great historian to see both present and
past, as 1t were, with the same un-
clOuded eye, to realize the past story
as If 1t were now proceeding before
him, and envisagc the present much
in the same perspective as it will bear
when 1t is as one chapter, or so many
pages, in the great volume of the past.
We know In Gibbons case how
much the historian Of the Roman en-
pire learnt from the captain OF the
Hampshire grenadiers. And 1t would
surely be folly to tell man who had
lived through the French or Russian
revolution to forget his own expert
ence when he came to treat Of similar
events in history-Gilbert Murray.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-07-16
DOGS ONCE WERE woRsHIpEC
Custom Praetised In Many Countries
in Past Ethiopia Had
One for Monarch.


Dog worship spread from Egypt to
many other countries, where it took
different forms. The Romans sacri-
feed dogs to Anubis, to the lesser dog
star, Procyon, and to Pan, and the
Greeks made similar offerings to pro
pitiate Proserpine, Mars, Hecate and
other imaginary beings Of whom they
stood in fear, says National Geographic
Magazine.
Plutarch says: 1.-THE circle which
touches and separates the two hemis-
pheres, and which on account of this
division has received the name of
horizon, is called Anubis. 1t is rep
resented under the form of a dog be-
cause this animal watches during the
day and during the night" 49,
Out Of this idea It Seems there arose
two mythical personages-Mercury, or
Hermes, and Cerberus, the three-head-
ed dog supposed to guard the gates of
hell
But there were humbugs even in
those days, and they humbugged the
dog worshippers even as charlatans.
often humbug Christians today. Per
haps the limit of deception was prac-
ticed on a certain nation m Ethiopia.
which is said to have been bamboozled
into actually setting up dog for its
king. Clad in royal robes and with 4
crown upon his head, he sat upon his
throne and received the homage of
his subjects. He signified his APP
prevail by barking. He conferred hon
ors upon person by licking his hand,
and grOwl might condemn q man
to captivity or death.
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Dantziq.

The old fortress of Dantzig is rich
In Napoleonic lore. 1t was here that
the Man of Destiny failed to heed the
limitations of grand council of his
marshals-Murat, Ney, and the rest
that his star had passed perihelion; II
was here that he upbraided them for
having grown soft in prosperity, and
for opposing the invasion of Russia
and it was from Danzlg that his lie.
glons Jumped off, for the Inflated
Moscow campaign.
In a later day Dantzig was the
background and the base for the north
ern shear OF Mackensen's gray-green
pincers that took Warsaw. Look at
the map of the blunt salient that Rus
sian Poland made into the heart of
the central empires in the days before
the war, and the strategic value Of
the fortified city in the rear of the in
vading Germans can readily be seen.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-07-16
superstitions of seamen.

If man is i'll at sea, his most crit
ical time is when land is first sighted.
If he survive aD hour after the sight
ing Of land he will recover. On some
trawlers whistling is forbidden-it
scares away the fish. Other shippers
believe that to wash your face in the
middle of trip will break spell Of
calm weather.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-07-16
Biblical Thrift.

The Scriptures give us many lessons
IN thrift. Ezekiel warned the children
sf Israel that during the siege of Jeru-
salem they would have to be thrifty.
He said: ''Take thou also unto thee
wheat, and barley, and beans, and
leDtiles, and millet, and fltcEcs, and
put them in one vessel, and make thee
bread of."-Ezekiel iv: 0. The
Bible shows that Ezekiel ordered the
children Of Israel 70 eat their meat
by weight, and even thus only from
time to dme."-Thrift Magazine.