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ALASKA AGENT UNDER FIRE FOR
 ALLEGED ACTS

Testimony given before the House Ap propriations subcommittee said that Prohibition Agent Edward o. Birg- field had lived at the Mayflower Ho- tel here for a month, entertaining wo- men with dinners and dances, and buying whiskey to strengthen his dis guise as "real sport" while obtain ing evidence against two hotel en- ployes who were acquitted yesterday. Representative Gallivan recently calling attention to the case said that Director Andrews complained that the two agents had spent nearly thou sand dollars getting the evidence. He said one of the agents registered un- der the name of lone of the most emil nent members of congress-"
 Andrews said in his testimony be- fore the subcommittee, T have never heard of the case before. All such conduct is absolutely taboo in our organization"
 | Prohibition Director Jones told the | subcommittee that Edward O. Birg- field was the agent in question. He said that Girgfeld was ESQ far away from Washington at the present time that I don't believe you will hear of any more of his enforcement here"
 The committee records contained a letter from B. c. Yellewly, chief of prohibition agents, directing Birgfeld to make the investigation, but to hold the expense to minimum
 Birgfeld and Cola A. Early, an asso- oiate, submitted an expense account amounting to ss63. Birgfelt's report showed that he lived in great luxury
 at the hotel, and had plenty of wines and liquors in stock.
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DISAPPEARED

The local Odd Fellows lodge has been requested to locate if possible George (Bud) Crow, age 15, 5 feet, 8 inches tall; weight 115; fair complex ion, dark brown hair, small round face; pleasing personality, small bunch or scar under left jaw near ear; very faint scar across neck in front. He disappeared from his home in Gooding, Idaho, on August IS, and IS believed to be in this vicinity. Mrs. Crow is prostrated and any informa. tion would be appreciated. If Bud sees this he should write home imme. diately and relieve his mothers anx. iety.
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SPECIAL RATES
 FOR CHRISTMAS
 AREANNOUJNCED
EXCURSION FARES WILL PRE- VAIL TO ALL POINTS ON
 LINE DEC. 21.

A special local passenger tariff naming round trip excursion fares be- tween stations on the Alaska railroad has been issued by the headquarters offices, for the benefit of holiday trav- elers. The usual fare and one-third will apply and the sale of tickets will start on December 21 and continue un. til the first of the year, with a return limit fixed at January 5. No stop overs will be allowed in either direc- tiOn.
 Children will be carried for half fare, between the ages of five and twelve years.
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Says "Wet Propacanda"

SEATTLE, Dec. IS R)-Lyle de- scribed the testimony against Birg- field as wet propaganda" He said, "Birgfeld is a very good prohibition agent. It takes money to get evidence in cases like the one at Washington. Birgfeld has been uniformly success full in his work. That's why criticism is aimed at him. He made an espe- cially good record in Chicago"
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Four Dredges To Operate
 Fairbanks District in 1926

Ted Smith, we'll known Interior min ing man arrived in Seward last even ing from Fairbanks. MT. Smith is en route to the States leaving here to- morrow night on the steamship Vic toria. Mr. Smith stated that at least 800 men were employed in the Fair banks district last summer and the outlook for next seasons mining activi- ties is exceedingly bright There will be four big dredges operating in the district next year he said.
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NOMINATIONSFOR
 MARSHALS MADE

WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. IS (P)- President Coolidge sent to the Sen. ate three nominations for marshals for Alaska. He named Albert White for marshal of the First Division Charles D. Jones, marshal for the Second Division, and Lynn Smith marshal for the Fourth divisions. All are Alaskans or lived in the Territory at one time.
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THE WEATHER Temperature, p above. Cloudy, calm.
NATIONS MUST
 HEAD MOVE FOR
 DISAR M AMENT

WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. IS (P)- Any certain hope of the complete so- lution of tre disarmament problem lies in it's consideration in it's entirety and the cooperation of all nations the Council of the League of Nations de- clared in an invitation to the United States to participate officially in a preparatory commission at Geneva to plan further disarmament. The State Department published the document without comment.
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Prohibition Agent for Alaska

SEATTLE, Dec. IS (P)-Edward O.. Bergfeld passed through here Octo- Der 30 en route for Alaska where he will be prohibition director. Lyle, in appointing Birgfeld said: "Birgfeld comes highly recommended. I under stand he lived for some years in Alaska"
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MAIL IN YOUR CONTRIBUTION

Mrs. Charles Krefting, chairman of the Community Christmas Tree which will be held under the auspices of the Pioneers, stated today that inasmuch as it will be impossible to make calls on the out-of-town contributors. they are requested to forward the local ig- loo their contributions.
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Juneau Residents Take
 Over Overland Hotel

In a local business deal consum- mated yesterday Carl Robinson, and Mrs. Jennie Robinson took over the lease of the Overland Hotel from Mrs. Hilda Wannamaker who has been con- ducting it for several months past. MT. Robinson arrived here few weeks ago from Juneau and Mrs. Robinson will reach here tomorrow on the Vic toria.
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LOUIS KAPLlN TO
 FIGHT HERMAN

NEW YORK, Dec. IS (P)-Louis .Kaplan, the Meridian champion, is a slight favorite fn his bout with Babe" Herman of California for the title. The bout takes place tonight
 The mixed train which arrived last evening from Anchorage departed this morning at 10:3O o'clock. Included in the mixed train were one coach and baggage car.
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BANDITS HOLD UP IOWA TOWN AND
 LOOT THE BANK

DOWS, Iowa, Dec. IS (P)-Six men captured the town marshal, telephone operator and railroad operator, sev- cred wire communications, apd wreck The bandits escaped with bonds be- tween $500 to s1O,OOO. They work ed at the safe for over an hour with their prisoners closely guarded.
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MASONIC NOTICE

The installation of the recently elected officers for the ensuing year of Masonic Lodge No. 219 will be held next Wednesday evening, December 23. All members are requested to be present as we'll as visiting brothers.
 J. P. HANNON, w. M.
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Edward Lindsay, local railroad en- ploye departed for Anchorage today to bring back Mrs. Lindsay who re- gently underwent major operation at the government hospital.
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COL. MITCHELL
 FOUND GUILTY
 COURT MARTIAL

WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. IS (H)- The court martial convicted Colonel Mitchell of breaking discipline by his attacks on the administrators avia- tion policies and sentenced him to five years suspension from the Army
 Mitchell remains N1der technical arrest until President Coolidge passes on the findings. Mitchell was convict ed on eight counts. The court deliber- ated three hours.
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The military court said that Colonel Mitchell's military record during the world war "saved him from a heavier sentence" Mitchell smiled when told of the findings and said he would with hold comment until after the action of President Coolidge.
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BILLY SMITH AND
 BILL. M'kENZIE
 FIGHT TUESDAY

SEATTLE, Dec. IS (P)-Billy Smith the former middleweight champion, with Art Shearer, his 215 pound mana ger at Portland, announced they have arranged a match with "Wild Bill" Mckenzie for next Tuesday.
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NOTICE TO PUBLIC

The lease of the Overland Hotel was transferred yesterday, dated December IT, from Mrs. Hilda Wana. maker to Mrs. Jennie Robinson and Carl Robinson. 237-4t
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NO WORD FROM VIC.

Not word had been heard from the steamship Victoria as to the ves- sel's probable arrival in port up until the time of going to press today.
Seward daily gateway., 1925-12-18

H. s. Balderston, vice president of the Bank of Seward, returned last evening from business trip to An chorage.
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YUKON PIONEER
 DIES VANCOUVER

VANCOUVER, B. O., Dec. IS (P)- George Noble, 70, singer during the Yukon gold rush, died yesterday. He left a widow in Yakima.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-10
Chicago Livestock

HOGS-Receipts. $1,000. Market. 1Oc
to csc lower. Bulk, $9.95@11.2O; top.
$11.4O; heavyweight. s1O.65@l1.OO; med
iumweight. $1O.75 Q11,1Oi lightweight
$1O.6O@11.4O; light lights. $10.65 @11.4O;
heavy packing sows. smooth, $945 @
$780, packing sOws, rough, $9.OO@9.45;
pigs $11.25Q12,OO.
CATTLE-Receipts. 10000. Market.
steady. Calves, 5000. Market strong.
Beef steers-Choice and prime, $1,000
013OO; medium and good. 10000
1850 good and choice. $11.50 % 1890;
common and medium, $1,000 1000.
Butcher cattle-Heifers, $3.50 % II. 90 !;
cows, $4.5O08.6O; bulls. $4.O0@7.0O.
Gamers and Cutters-Cows and heifers,
S2.5OQ5.00; Gamer steers $5.O0@7.j0.
Veal calves, light and handyweight.
$1O.5OGO13.00; feeder steers. $6.00@9.00;
stocker steers. $6.60@S.50; stocker cows
and heifers, $S.5O0 600; stocker calves,
SHEEP~-Recepts, 22,OOO. Market 25c
to soc lower. Lambs. fat, $4,000 1900;
lambs, culls and common, $12.O0 @ 400;
yearlings, $12.5O @14,5O; wethers. $1,000
@12.OO; ewes. $3.50 % 1000; ewes, culls
and common, $3.OO@6.O0; feeder lambs,
S1h. 30 a Il 90
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Short Term Securities
(Furnished BY w. b. Hibbs 4 CO,
New York Cotton

NEW YORK. Dec. 1O.-The cot
ton market was unsteady at the
opening of trading today, with the,
first prices from to Ii points
lower. December opened at 1860,
down points. January 1905. down
Is points and March 1921, down
10 points.
Southern selling together with
liquidation of near months in the
second hour moved prices down
from to 80 points. Liverpool was
an early buyer, also spot and COM
mission houses. Local, the trade
and shorts absorbed a good volume
Of the offerings.
The weather map showed partly
cloudy in the cotton belt, with no
moisture
Noon prices were as follows:
December, $19.40, down % points:
January, 1914, down points;
March,, 1896, down points and
May, 1887. down s points.
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Local Produce

BUTTER Fancy, 1-pound prints,
65@57; tub, 5s@54; store packed
40@45.
EGGsLocal, fresh, fancy se.
1ected, candled, 6O@62; average re
ceipts, 55@58; storage, 35@39.
POULTRYAAlive: Turkeys, top
5000; small and thin, IS; spring
chickens, 5000; fowls, 27@28; Leg.
horns, 20023; ducks, %; geese, IS
keats, 6O075; rabbits, top, 30@35,
seconds, 5000. Dressed: Turkeys
top, 1905: small and thin. 3503s
spring chickens, S2@35; fowls, 81
Leghorns, "a; ducks, 30; geese, 30
keats. S001.0O.
[ LIVE STOCK Calves, IA; hogs
1251s.
MEAT Beef. IN; lamb. so; pork
Ioins. 5000; pork shoulders. %
fresh hams, 22025.
ARPLES-Supp1ies moderated; de
mand light; market dull. Barrels
Virginia and MARYLAND, A 2%
inch Staymans, 6.50@6.75: A ~
inches up, Staynnans. 5.50@6.O0
Boxes: Washington, medium ia
large size, extra fancy Delicious,
3.50@3.65; Staynnans, mostly 900.
BusheI baskets: No sales reported
CABBAGE Supplies light; de,
mand light; market firm. New
York, bhlk per ton, Danish type,
40. co..
CELERY Supplies light; demand
moderate; market steady. Cali
fornia. crates, mostly dozen. LIS
$3.50. New York, 2-3 crates, 3.5e
@3.75.
LETTUCE Supplies moderate
demand moderate; market steady
California, crates, Iceberg type, AZ
dozen, $4,000. Florida, IL,
bushel hampers, Big Boston type
fair quality. 2.50@3.O0; few best
$50.
ONIONS Supplies light; demand
light; market steady. Michigan
1OO-pound sacks. Yellows, u. s. No
/, large size, 800. New York, 100
pound sacks, Fellows, u. 8. No. L
medium size, 2.50@2.75.
POTATOES - Supplies moderate
demand moderate: market steady
Michigan, 150-pound sacks, Russet
Rurals. u. s. No. 1, 6.0O@6.15. New
York. 15O-pound sacks, Round
Whites. u. s. No. /, mostly 600.
CAULIFLCWER Supplies mod
crate: demand moderate; ,maSket
steady. California, crates, 2.50@
E2.75.
TOMATOES Supplies very light
Cuba, skies, ripes, wrapped, re
packed, fancy count; few sales
900.
STRING BEANS-Suppiies light
demand good for good stock; marked
steady. Florida. Is bushe1 hampers
green, wide range in prices, 2.O0@
800: mostly around 400.
EGGPLANT, PEPPERS, SQUASH
Supplies very light; no sales re
ported.
SPINACH Supplies moderate; de
mand moderate: market fairly
steady. Virginia, Norfolk section
cloth-top veneer barrels. Savoy type
S.25: some fair quality, lower.
KALE-Supplies moderate; de
mand moderate; market steady
Virginia, Norfolk section, cloth-top
veneer barrels. 1.50.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-10
LATEST NEWS AND QUOTATIONS OF THE FINANCIAL MARY
POTOMAC SAVINGS BANK
REFLECTS DIRECTORS

The entire board of directors Of
the Potomac Savings Bank was re
elected at the regular annual meet
ing. and the board at once reelected
the following officers:
Henry w. Offutt, president; Al
phonse M. Baer, vice president; p.
Agee Bowles, vice president and
cashier; Emory HI. BogIey, secre-
tary; George w. Offutt. attorney,
and Wendell Shoemaker, assistant
cashier.
The board OF directors Is com
posed OF William p. Ainnes, William
w. Anderson, Samuel Artz, AIphonse
NJ. Baer, Emory H. Bogley, B. Agee
Bowles, Davenport b. Elgin, James
C. Hoyle, George w. Offutt, Henry
w Offutt, NJ. Wilson Offutt, Doc.
tor Anthony NJ. Ray, c. Wendell
Shoemaker. j. william StohInan
Henry A. Storm, and F. Baker
Weaver.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-10
TREND0F ST0CK
PRICES Still
UPWARD
Speculative List IS Irregular.
U. S. Steel and American
Can Lead Advance
By international News service

.sf5
NEW YORK, Dec. TO-. While the
general trend of stock prices was
upward In the early trading today,
the speculative list as q whole was
irregular, and stock movements
were by no means uniform.
The shorts covered on stocks
which sold off sharply at the close.
Of yesterdays session. and new up
ward movements were started IN
isolated speciality and oil stocks.
with Pure Oil the most prominent
in the latter group and Busn.
Terminal in the former.
some Of the market leaders were
under the usual Thursday selling
pressure. with the old bugaDoo on
reserve bank rates pressed into
service.
professional traders were inclined
to test out the strength OF the high
priced industrial and motor stocks
for prospective short selling rather
than to enter the buying side q
the market.
Price movements were conse-
ouenfly narrow and irregular.
United States Steel and American
Can led the way to the higner
values, while General Motors, Bald
win, Studebaler, ETC.. fell back 70
the lower levels.
The oil stocks were steady, with
Pure Oil advancing to q new hifn
on the movement at 29ss. ~
active trading. Marland, Standard
Of New Jersey, Shell Union and
Phillips fractionalIy higher.
Most Of the public utility stocks
carried to slightly higher levels.
The movement which has been IN
progress for about week. though
reactions were also to be seen In
this section Of the market.
1t was almost exclusively q
traders market, with the volume
of buying reduced and the outside
public not conspicuously active.
The call money market was IN
changed, with renewal rates at 5
per cent. Reports from Chicago
that MIDI Continent gasoline at To.
sa was quoted at 101z cents D
gallon wholesale, against 10 cents
q month ago, stiffened the oil list
in the second hour. Cotton Wis
slightly reactionary and commodity
markets steady.
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Chicago Grain Market

CHICAGO, Dec. 10.-Grains open.
ed about steady today. Wheat was
Il off to nc up; corn, u to sc up,
and oats, u to Nc up. Opening
prices:
Wheat-December, 49,; old, 1851;
May. 173N @173%; old. 171h: July,
151@151as.
Corn-December, 81AQS1A; May
87K; July, 89@89h.
Oats-Decembef, 42%; May, 40h q
40M; July, 40A @40T.
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F D D D PRICES
SHOW SHARP
INCREASE
Washington and Boston Re-
port Rise of 2 Per Cent
in Costs

With the advance of winter the
retail cost Of food showed sharp
rise during November, ranging from
2 per cent in Washington and Bos-
ton, to 5 per cent in Louisville, KY,
and Butte, Mont, the Department
of Labor announced today.
Other cities reported increases
as follows: Bridgeport, Columbus,
Indianapolis, Kansas City, Mobile,
New Haven, Omaha. Peoria, Port
land, Me-, Richmond, Va, and
Rochester, per cent; Atlanta,
Cleveland, New Orleans, New York,
Norfolk, Portland, Ore, Providence,
st. Louis. and st. Paul, per cent.
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Cotton Goods Market

NEW YORK, Dec. 10-The cotton
goods market was somewhat easier
today with sales generally light.
Bleached cottons were reduced from
IL to / cent yard. Yarns were
bought moderately. Raw silk was
firmer and slightly higher here fol-
lowing substantial sales at Yoke
hama. Burlaps were easier at Cal
cutta and quiet here. Wool markets
were firm, yarns were bought mod
erately and trading was fairly ac-
tive. Linens were quiet.
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Liverpool Cotton

LIVERPOOL, Dec. 1O.-Good de.
mand for spots. but business only
moderate; prices steady; sales 5000
bales.
Mid fair. 11.5S; strictly good mid.
11.08; good mid, 1888; strict mid
1888; mid, 1881; strictly low mid ;,
9.73: low mid, 9.23; strictly good
ordinary, $50; good ordinary. S.23.
Futures opened quiet. January.
9.S7; March, 9.91; May, 9.92: July,
9.36; October, 9.R8,
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Chicago Cotton

3 >CHICAGQ, Dec. 1O.-Cotton con
tinued the downward movement to
day, opening to Is points lower.
January opened at $500, Is
points lower than yesterdays clos
ing. March opened at 1888, IA
lover; May, 1880; July, $1S.35 B, 5
lower, and October $3.50 s, lower.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-10
Liberty Bonds
Foreign Bonds
New York Coffee Market

NEW YORK. Dec. 10.-Opening
coffee prices today were from IL to
16 points higher. December, 1857
@16.70; March, 16.65@16.63: May,
16.38@16.45; July, 1918; September,
15.75@16.74,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-10
To Discuss SaIesmanship

Craftsmanship" will be the topic
Of an address by Morton j. Luchs
before the forum conducted by the
Washington Real Estate Board to-
morrow night at s o'clock at Ward
man Park Hotel.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-10
clearing House Statement

NEW YORK, Dec. Clearing
House statement: Exchanges, 81, 1S4,
600, 900. Balances, $110, 900, 900. Fed
eral Reserve Bank credit balance,
SIS, 00O, 900.
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Oil Stocks

FURNISHED by w. b. Hibbs & Coz
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Canadian Wheat

WINNIPEG, Dec. 10.-Openine
wheat prices today were as follows:
December, 1914 @161, up y; Nav.
1854 Q164, up III.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-13

Lady Hester Stanhope, just arrived at Acre, as
follows:
Lady Hester, in strolIing through the town, was
astonished to meet a number of people with faces
atrociously mutilated.
Some had no nose; to others was wanting,
sometimes two; several were one-eyed Puzzled, she
made inquiries of Hadj Ali, janssary of st. Jean
dAcre, whom she had promoted to the high rank of
inspector Of the luggage.
Former soldier of Djezzar Pasha, he had his
memory haunted by nightmare visions, and related
concerning his masters CHASTITY stories
Although he had been dead for four years. the in
habtants were hardly beginning to emerge from the
Red Terror under which they had lived and to breathe
more freely.
Ahmed Djezzar born in Bosnia. At the age of
sixteen he left Bosnia and went to Constantnope and
afterwards to Cairo. There bought by Ali Bey for his
Mamelukes he specialized with so much enthusiasm in
missions of assassination that he acquired his redOubt-
able surname of Djezzar (slaughterer).
With his ferocity Djezzar combined extraor-
binary fighting powers. He fought and killed his
benefactors as he did his enemies. Once, besieged
in a town by Dahers, an Arab sheik Djezzar "to
strengthen his walls and make them more solid"
had twenty Christians walled up alive, thinking
that would please the Divine powers His enemy
Dahers fascinated by his courage" gave him his
friendship and the command of an expedition to
Palestine. Later Djezzar killed Dahers.
Djezzar is introduced here as a sample of
cruelty but his evil deeds in the regions that he
filled with terror were no worse than the cruelty
of those that slaughter character.
And Djezzar was like professional gossip
and slanderer in that he inflicted his cruelties
right and left at random
Concerning him, it is written:
Amidst the annals of Turkish history heavy
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-13

spread whispering cruelty that destroys character
and torrents the mind
Occasionally at least, Djezzar sought to make
his brutality useful to those he ruled.
You can believe, without difficulty, that shop
keepers living under Djezzar's rule preferred
pleasing him to making extra profits Lady Stan
hopes biography says of him:
st. Jean d'Acre at that time the only town in
Syria where the shOpkeepers not tempted to rob
their customers to false weights and false
Caught in the act they were in fact nailed by
the tongue the doors of their shops The butchers
enjoyed favorable treatment: They were suspended
from the crooked iron hooks intended to suspend the
choice mOrsels.
This dreadful monster of the East, whose
cruelty exceeded, perhaps, the record Of scores
like him. lived to enjoy his power and the infllc-
ton of pain to ripe old age. He was eighty
eight when relative of one whom he had tor
tured struck him down with dagger You may
ask, "What have the monstrosties of this Djez-
Ear to do with SANDER and gossip"
He had everything to do with both. Pluck
ing out the eyes of those whose looks displeased
him was the cruelty of the Eastern monster.
"PLUCKING OUT THE POPULATIONS" Of
other men and women, merely for amusement,
is the pastime in this Civilized day. of thou
sands and hundreds of thousands.
You have thrown stone into pond, max
ing at first "hole" in the water. Then, in
childhood, you have watched the circles spread
wider and wider, covering the whole surface Of
the water.
That is what happens when SANDER or
vicious gossip drops into community of human
beings. The waves spread and carry the evil
thought everywhere.
As torture of the mind is infinitely worse than
torture of the body, so the cruelty of gossip is
worse than any physical cruelty.
Millions of men and women have been made
unhappy, have endured torture year after year be-
cause of merciless gossip, lightly started.
1t is not necessary that people should organize
themselves into an imitation of the well known
little trio of Japanese monkeys-one covering its
eyes, another covering its mouth the third its
ears with both hands, in order to "see no evil,
think no evil, and hear no evil"
Men and women of character should do more
than merely refrain from spreading gossip or lis
tening to it. They should COMBAT it, realizing
the vicious cruelty that underlies it.