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Brooklyn. N. Y. Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church.
'Tnmhnrg avenue and Welt-field street, on the above theme, the Rev. Ira
Wenimell Henderson, the pastor, took as his text Ex. 17.12, "Moses' hands
were heavy: and they took a stone, and put It under him. and he sat
thereon: and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side,
and the other on the other side: and his hands were steady until the going
down of the sun."
And Joshua and the army of Israel, upon the field of conflict, co
operated. And Amalek and his host were discomforted
The text and the attendant circumstances are Illustrative of the law
of cn-operatlon that rules In every phase of life. Without co-operntion
life could not be maintained. It Is a central necessity to the preservation
of the Integrity of the world of men and of nature.
Moses relied upon Ood and God placed His confidence In Moses.
Moses leaned upon Aaron and Hur for support. Joshua looked to Moses
for victory. The Inter-relation of them all was inevitable. Their Inter
dependence was natural. Their ability to co-operate with each other and
with (lod gave them the victory. Mosr's was esienllnl to the surcess of the
movement. So was Cod But not less tss-utlnl was the faithful co-operation
of Aaron and Hur and Joshua and the armv. Moses made no effort
to do Joshua's work. Joshua reveals no desire to attempt the labors for
which Moses was Inspired Aaron and Hur stuck to the task to which Ood
had called them. The army followed its leaders with fidelity and efTect.
No one tried to do the other man's work. But each man did his own.
Aui they did it with iinanlmltyand with foreefulness. TtW co-operated, r.nch
did his best for the good of all. In his own way and In his own station.
And they were victorious In a hnrd fight.
Co-operation Is the law of all life. Turn wheresoever you will and you
will observe the evidences of the working of the law. Color depends upon
the blazing luminaries that swing eternal In the heavens above. Utterly
remove the light and the differentiations that we call shades will disap
pear. The tree cannot germinate or bad or blossom or fructify or mature
alone. It Is by the beneficent and self-sacrificing operations of the sun
and the wind and the dew nnd the rain and the earth and the night that
the tree can live. And If these fall to co-operate with timeliness and suf
ficiency the tree will die. If any one of them fails to do Its part for a
time the life of the tree will be impoverished and impaired and Its future
put In Jeopardy. Not otherwise Is It with man. Were It not for the co
operation of his fellows and of the natural order that Is manifest about
him he could not long endure. For man Is ns dependent unon the co
operation of nature as is the tree. That which the tree needs he needs,
and more abundantly and Insistently. That which the tree requires for
Its preservation and sustentatlon he must have and more. For ns his life
is more expansive than the life of the tree, so his requirement' are more
varied. And that which writes Itself ns the law of the life of the man and
of the tree demnmln obedience In every sphere and phase of life.
That which is true of life In the broad Is true of life In its narrower
relations. It is true of commercial life. For the comnlex and marvellous
commercial society that exists in our day would not be without nnd de
pends absolutely upon the faithful and Intelligent, ro-operatlon of every
department nnd every member that enters Into Its fabrication. Nothing
Is inore Illustrative of the laws of Interdependence nnd co-operation than
trade. We sit down to our humblest meals only to be brought face to face
with the absolute dependence which we have placed, ordinarily uncon
sciously, upon multitudes of men and women. In the fteldr. and the shops,
upon the railways and the seas, to secure and to provide and to deliver to
us the commonest necessities of life. Their co-operation gives us our
meals. Our co-operation offers them a chance to labor and to live. Not
otherwise Is It In mechanics. All movement Is dependent, unon co-operation.
And the slightest lack of co-operation upon the part of the simplest
nnd smallest essential portion of a mechanical device will mar the har
monious and perfect working of the whole and may render the mechanism,
regardless of Its beauty or its design, useless and Inefficient. You may
build the mightiest press that the ingenuity and skill of man ran devise
and construct, but if all its parts do not engp.g, If you fall to attach It to
the source of primal power, your pres3 Is as useless as thought It never
were And so It Is In military affairs. An army wins, if It wins at all.
because of the co-operation of divisions. Co-operation won for the Old
Guard and for Wellington deathless fame that night on the field at
Waterloo as the sun set upon the power and the imperial overlordshlp of
Napoleon. For the same spirit and law of co-operation that sent Blurher
oyer the hills to the aid of the Iron Duke and snatched victory from tho
face of Impending disaster made the Old Guard rally with devotion and
splendid bravery about the standards of a defeated emperor and exact a
blood bought victory. Co-operation made It possible to write history
differently. Co-operation taught and enabled the heroes of a hundred
battlefields to die with glory upon the field of honor. Similarly, co-operation
Is essential In our social life l?o man can live apart from society.
He mutt lire as related with it, dependent upon it. and obligated to It.
The good of each must be the concern of all. and the welfare of all the
solicitude of each. We must all do our part, or the fabric we have con
structed and of which we are the interior rannot endure. And the health
and perfection of our social system is In direct proportion to 'he co-operation
of each and every individual factor In the social ttftfC toward tho
preservation and Intensification of the best and salient featu-es that are
woven into the textile of our social order.
The law of co-operation is nowhere more impressively and gloriously
explicated than In the movements of the galaxies that, throuah endless
generations, course the heavens that are spread in matchless beauty by
the hand of Ood above our heads. The contemplation of what would
happen did the Interdependence and inter-relation and interplay and inter
action of the forces and influences that maintain the equilibrium and con
trol the courses of the superheated bodies thnt crowd the heavens cease.
Inspires awe. Ceaselessly, majestically, noiselessly, so far as we are
nware, they rush thtongh spare, each In Its own orbit, each attending
strictly to the laws that ar operative in Its own career. The correlation of
forces that Is active among them Is the secret of their transcendunt move
ment through the charted lanea that ramify the skies.
Co-operation Is as necessary and effective iu the forwarding o evil
as it Is in the promulgation and propulsion of that which is good. It is the
watchword of every evil band aud the hope of --very evil design. Kvil
must be compacted anil allied to become largely effective. And the best of
organized forces to-day are to be found In the camp nnd army of those
whose god is the devil and vho3o ways laice hold on hell. That is the
reason why evil triumphs against a righteous, majority. That Is why for
so long a few of the wicked have ruled the world of decent men and
women. The wicked know the value o" co-operation. They know by ex
perience. Thoy have proved its power. They are expert Iu the art and ex
ercise oT combination. Co-operation of the reigning order of self-seeking
exploiters of the peopl? kept feudalism alive as long aB It lived, and with
out such combination It never could have lived at all. It was the com
bination and correlation of the forces of unbridled extravagance and of
unphllnsophleal temper that made Parle reek with blood lu the days of the
Revolution.
Nowhere Is this co-operation and correlation and combination of men
nnd of motives, of Ideas and of purposes, of Influences nnd forces, more In
dispensable than Iu the church of that living Ood who hath revealed Him
self unto us In Jesus Christ. It Is prerequisite to any success whatsoever
that shall be or eternal Import. It Is elemental. And our co-pperatiou as
Christians must be continuous, it must be for constructive as well as for
destructive service, it must be an augmenting force.
Co-operation must be continuous in our affairs as it U everywhere In
nature. It cannot be spasmodic It musi be connected. It must be sub
ject to regularity. Also ft must be constructive. We are too prone to ally
ourselves to cry out to the world, "Thou shalt not." We are slow to
present a program for constructive effort, to assume the labor of direction,
and to strive for the accomplishment of the result at which we aim. We
are too spasmodic. We do not keep at it. We fall to uprear as we should.
Our co-operation further should be augmentative. That Is to say, that
under its exercise we ought to gain energy, kinetic and potential. The
more we co-operate the abler we should become, the more efficient we will
become.
The church of Jesus Christ can never do that supreme work to which
her Lord has called her until her members exercise that spirit and capacity
for co-operation that we have stipulated as essential, among themselves.
So long as we magnify small thingr, so long as each the other's work will
do the while he leaves undone his own, so long as we quarrel and bicker
and growl at the fallings and fallibilities aud Incapacities of each other,
eo long as Joshuas want the labors of a Moses and the men and women
of capability and constructive capacity kick against the pricks of the call
of God, so long as we forget sympathy and courtesy and charity and pa
tience, so long as we forget to minister the same favor and forgiveness to
our brethren In the Li rd that we administer to ourselves, we shall not
progress. We must co-operate In love and forbearance, wo must know
only the strife of slngleheartod fidelity and service for the common good
Further, we need co-operation between the church and the com
munity. It will not do for us to shut ourselves apart from the ways and
the concerns of the busy world. It Is for us to transform the world, to
co-operate with every effort, however officered and however seml-ultlmate,
that han for Its purpose the elevation and betterment of the race; It Is for
us to be interested actively, to carry the leaven of the Gospel of Christ Into
the multifarious affairs of a complei civilization, to be lovingly, openly,
positively Interested In everything that makes for the weul of man.
And lastly, but by no means least, we need co-operation between psa
tors and peoples. Moses got weary, and he was a man of uniuual and
special privilege and power. Men of less power get weary, too. Even
t pVeachers get tired. Even shepherds grow fatigued. It is hard work to
drr.w a load of drones, to pacify and plarute men and women who In Ihu
grace and sonship of God should know better. Isiael prevailed uiuo vic
tory when Aaron and Hur upheld, the tired arms of Mosrts. Perhaps some
churches that are wondering why they do not prevail with Ood and men,
would so prevail, If a few Aarons and Hura would sustain the overloaded
forces of a ministerial Moses. Le'. us co-operate.
EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20.
! THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Hearing and Doing (Jemet 1: 19-25).
Passages for reference: Ezek 33:
30-32; Matt. 13: 14, 15; Rom. 2: 13;
2 Cor. 4: 3, 4.
Continual church attendance some
times makes us careless. The most
regular and reliable attendants are
often listless listeners. We may need
Jesus' reminder to Mary's sister, whr
sat and listened: "Martha, Martha,
thou art careful nnd troubled about
many things" (Luke 10: 41). Wo
may be so concerned about ushering,
about choir work, about getting
members for tho League, about,
planning some form of church work,
ns to utterly miss the meat of a
meeting. A celebrated pastor was
called to the bedside of ore of his
most faithful members and church
attendants. The first greeting was.
"Prepare me to meet Ood." The
pastor's surprise brought this reply:
"I am without Christ. I never heard
the service. I sat In my pew and
planned the week's secular business."
Even our dally Bible readings have
little profit. We read much ns the
Roman Catholic says his beads a
duty done with hope of gaining
merit. Wo need look into one or two
verses until it becomes a gladdening,
liberating message to us. We need,
then, to listen nnd read with the pur
pose of getting iersonnl help and di
rection. The Sunday school class
must not be attended or taught list
lessly. Some of God's gems can bo
added to my treasure If I am alert.
No bright-brained young person will
whisper and laugh with another In a
religious service.
Theorlzers and exhorters are less
needed thnn practicing examples.
Jesus showed how to do a thing and
then glowed with the resultant
beauty. We are to follow suit. Doc
trines count less than righteousness.
"He thnt. doeth righteousness Is
righteous" (1 John 3: 7). Leaders
In deeds Is the demand rf the day.
We must me practical In preaching
and practicing. "But the tongue can
no man tame" (James 3: 8). "He
that is slow to anger Is better than
the mighty; and he that ruleth his
spirit than he that taketh a city"
(Prov. 16: 32).
INTER NATION A 1 LESSON COM
MENTS FOR OCT. 20 BY THE
REV. I. W. HENDERSON.
Punishment.
The purpose of puulshment is not
to inflict an endless pain, but to
awaken the soul of the offender to
his own folly. It Is just as much
a manifestation of God's paternal
love and care as tho most pleasant
experience of life. Puulsbment must
be inflicted thnt Is long and severe,
but underlying it Is God's unconquer
able purpose to save. Rev. H. fcl.
Bykes, Unlversallst, Denver, Col.
Excuses Easy.
A man who seeks an excuse for
negicct or delay concerning religion
can Qad such excuse. The man who
seeks religion with his whole heart
will find it. Don't stumble over your
halting brother; don't got in the way
for him to stumble over you. Bishop
Fitzgerald.
The Apex.
Christian living is living raised to
ls highest power.
Accept Your Lot.
We should acknowledge Gad mer
ciful, but not u1whb comprehensible.
We should accept our lot, whatever it
be, and try to r
otbers. Chariot
sappy that of
OCTOBER TWENTIETH.
Topic The duties of the day. Prov.
24 : 30-34: Rom. 12: 11.
Trust God for to-day. Ex. 14: 1044
Seek divine wisdom dally. 1 Kin.;
22: 5-7.
Praise Him dally. Ps. Hr: 1-13.
Work today. Matt tU 8MI.
Repent todnv. Hcb. 3: 7-13.
Live carefully. 2. Pet. 3: 12-14.
Sleep 1b essential to work eiioutrh
sleen; but. too much sleep Is fatal to
work (Prov. 24: 33).
If one Is n sluggard, there Is
nothing sluggish about the approach
of poverty. It comes with I soldier's
energy, a fibber's rrnft (Prov. 24:
34).
Industry Is not nlways set down
among the Christian graces: but
manv a grace Is dependent upon It
(Rom. 12: 11).
'Pbrvaat In spirit" is literally
"boiling In spirit" with soul at th
boiling point getting up steam!
(Rom. 12: II).
Suggestions.
There is not In all eternity nnothei
day but to-day In which to perform
tho duties of to-day.
Christian Endeavor that is not good
for Monday Is not good for Sundnv.
Duty is a great word, but eMail)
becnuse It leads to n greater word,
t" Love.
Are you looking forward to future
faithfulness? Your only hope anil
guarantee of faithfulness Is your
faithfulness to-day.
Illustrations.
Think of each day as a present,
handed you. boxed and wrapped in
cloth of gold, by the Lord of Time
Himself,
Tb" chain that holds your anchor
frr eternity is made or separate
links, earn forged a separate day.
There Is no tjther wny for the tree
to he beautiful than for each lear to
be beautiful. So with your tree of
life.
No mountain Is made of a single
piece, but of countless tiny grains.
So Is a heroic life made of small
heroic deeds.
To Think About.
Is my ambition for large things
spoiling the little- thlngH?
Do I consider all days Important?
Am 1 faithful to my smallest
tasks?
DO SPIDERS SLEEP?
Tho question, "Do spiders sleep at
night?" Is not easy to answer. 1
have made a careful observation ol
the sleep of ants, and that could
readily be done by watching colonies
in their artificial formicaries. It If
almost impossible to deal with splden
In tho same way. I would answer,
however. In general terms, that spld
ei-8 Bleep, as all animals do, and
doubtless parts of the night are spent
In slumber. Many species, however,
prey on the night-flying insects, and
so must be awake lu order to catch
their prey. If you will watch the
porch or outbuildings of your home
on a summer evening you will be
likely to see an orb-weaving apidet
drop slowly down on a single thread
In the gathering dusk of tha evening.
From this beginning a round web
will soo3 be spun, and either hanging
at the centre thereof, or in a little
nest above and at one side Is the
architect, with forefeet clamping what
we call the "trap lino," and waiting
for some night-flying Insect to strike
the snare. In this position spiders
will sometimes wait for hours, and
It Is just possible that they may then
take a little nap. They migh easily
do that and yet not lose their game,
for the agitation of the web would
rouse the sleeper, and then It' would
run down the trap line and secure its
prey. Borne species of spiders do
the chief part of their hunting at
night, and there are some who chiefly
bunt during the day, but as a rulo
these Industrious animals work both
day aud night. From Nature and
Science, In at. Nloholas.
Subject: The Ctipturc of .Terlcho,
Josh. fl:M-20 (ioldcn Text. Hcb.
II tM Memory Verm?, 20
Commentary.
Jericho was a walled city of en
trenched power. Israel was an un
armed host. The contest appeared
to be unequal. Hut the Inequality
was merely apparent. As It turned
out, faith without armament was
mightiest.
It must have seemed silly to those
who sat on the wall in fancied secur
ity and laughed, to see such an army
march In silence nround Jericho
twolve times in seven days and be
ready for more. The besieged wero
doubtless as curious about the out
come as were thoy who marched with
silent faith In and nt the word of
God. Israel had learned persever
ance through privation and confi
dence through experience. The citi
zens of Jericho were to learn that the
apparent unwisdom of Ood is the se
cret of the salvation of men. The si
lence of Israel was destined to be the
lull before the storm.
The victory at Jericho Is a lesson
In the fruits of faithful obedience and
demonstration of the effectiveness
of the unusual and apparently fool
ish methods God uses to force the ful
fillment or His purposes.
The railing walls or Jericho sound
ed the praises or faithrul human obe
dience to divine decrees. It may have
seemed unwise to Israel to do as they
did, but they put their trust In God.
The tactics Were as unmllitary as they
were original. The whole proceeding
was odd. To the men on the wall It
must have been strikingly fantastic,
judged by the accepted methods of
military procedure. It was not In
the code. After six trials marching
brought no results. It was, on the
surface, thoroughly absurd. What
ever the opinions of the Israelites
may have been, they obeyed the word
of Jehovah with conspicuous fidelity.
They may have grown weary but they
never stopped until they were told
to do so. They wero under march-;
Ing orders. The spectacle of the si
lent, trumping thousands must have
been terrific.
The tumbling battlements of Jeri
cho demonstrated the finality of
God's odd way: The likelihood is
that, whatever tho terror that ulti
mately surged through the minds of
the defeated city men, they were
scornfully amused at the strategy of
Joshua for some days.
If he had besieged them in duo and
ancient form they might have fore
seen the possibility of their over
throw. But to walk a'wall to pieces
was new to them. If they had been
shrewder thoy might have perceived
that Joshua would never have been
guilty of such a movement had he
not been certain of an outcome favor
able to himself.
The lessou is supremely applicable
to modern conditions and to the war
fare of the church against militant
sinners and entrenched sin. To-day
America Is dominated by sinful and
rapacious men who Bit snug and smug
and tight within the city of their
self-interest and of self-aggrandizement
at the expense of the public
welfare and the common need.
Politicians and Journalists, mer
chants and financiers, a greedy, god
less lot, make up the census of the
modern Jericho. They laugh at mo
rality. They scoff at religion. The
counsels of the church are idle
preachments to them. The councils
of the sincere souls wly desire to
destroy their city and their power
simply excite their derision. They
disdain that simple declaration of the
Gospel of God in Christ.
But just us surely as Joshua saw
the walls of Jericho totter and crash
to earth, so shall we If we are faith
fully obedient to the will of God, see
the destruction of the city nnd the
citizens of sin which affront and In
sult and Haunt and exploit us. For
God lives.
The method Is so simple In com
parison with the devlouB and diverse
procedure of the forces ot sin that
oftentimes we wonder whether it will
pay to do the bidding of Jehovah.
But It will. The continued and cumu
lative reiteration of the truth that Is
Inseparable from moral and religious
principles will surely have effect. We
may wonder why our earnest proc
lamations of divine verities do not
destroy sin at once and why In the
face of ages of testimony for right
eousness and for God so many yield
themselves to a n. But the fact re
mains that no force has been so ef
ficient as this; no factor In life Is
so able and likely to destroy mod
ern sin and undo the guilty machina
tions of modern men.
God is able to reward obedience
now as He was ut Jordan In the
duys of Joshua. He la as able to
win victories by apparently Insuf
ficient meaus as Ho wus tlyire and
then. His strength has not failed.
Nor Is His wisdom weakened. His
capacity Is co-exlstant with eternity.
We have only to obey Him to secure
success. Whatever may bo the
strength, the cynicism, the hypocrisy,
the rapacity, the effrontery, the un
bridled self-indulgence of tho Inhab
itants of our modern Jericho we may
out-wlt and uproot them' If we will
obey God and simply declare His
truth. For the truth Is a stay and
u sword. It Is as supreme as it Is
superb.
The modern Jericho Is as real in
its way as was the Jericho that Josh
ua overcame by the grace of God.
The certainty of the downfall of the
modern Jericho Is as sure as was that
of Jericho of old. God Is with us.
Obedience will have fruitage.
lanci- At Ago Of ItO.
Dr. Osier's theory that all men
reach the height of their power at
forty yenrs received a severe setback
yesterday when Rabbi Barnett Wol
nlsky dnnced with tho agility ot a
boy In celebration of his great-granddaughter's
marriage and his ltOth
birthday.
In reality the rabbi was 110 years
old on July 21, but he postponed the
celebration of his birthday until yes
terday, when his great-granddaughter.
Miss Etta Wollnsky, was married
to Burnett Greenberg at his home,
98 Forsyth Street. In the presenco
of children, grandchildren and great
grandchildren, Rabht Wollnsky danc-
; ed a famous Russian dance In celo
i bratlon of the double event
Rabbi Wollnsky was as free and
easy In his motion as If he had not
passed the century mark by ten
i years, and after he had danced for
I twenty minutes, he displayed not the
' slightest sign of fatigue. N. Y.
Herald.
The I .it. i
Rounder- -Wedderly wasn't at the
stag party last night, was he?
Bounder No; he was stormbound.
Rounder Why, there wasn't any
storm last night.
Bounder Oh. yes. there was. His
wife had a brainstorm. Chicago
News.
Delays Arc Dangerous.
Young Scads I don't want to go
to college, dad.
Old Scads You'll have to, my
boy, because you can't afford to neg
lect It. I had to give a college a
million last year in order to get my
degree.- Puck. '
A Natural Inference.
Mr. Roxton (with morning paper)
Gad! Fastsett's auto was wreck
ed last night and the six occupants
were badly hurt.
Mrs. Roxton Poor Mrs. Fastsett!
I wonder how she received the news.
Puck.
Risky Acrobats.
Kind Lady What Is your father,
little boy?
Tough Kid He's a acrobat, mum.
Kind Lady What kind of an ac
robat? Tough Kid Porchcllmber.
Paper Clothing Worn ny Tourist.
When W. O. Chambers walked In
to the Northern Hotel and shook
hands with the proprietor before
writing Flatten, Germany, after his
nnmo on the register, there was noth
ing In his appearance to Indicate thnt
he was clothed very differently from
the ordinary well-dressed commer
cial man, says tho Seattle Tlmee.
Nevertheless, he was wearing a
suit of clothes made entirely of pa
per, even his shirt and hat being
made of that material. His shoes
were leather and his necktie of silk,
but the other garments mentioned
carry with them a story of long
years of ceaseless toll on the part of
a German chemist and financial pos
sibilities of an extraordinary char
acter. Mr. Chambers chatted a few
moments with a reporter regarding
the paper clothing. He Is on his way
to Alaska to visit a brother whom he
has not seen for ten years.
"Herr Effill Clavtez. the Inventor,
worked twenty years to make a pa
per yarn which would be practical,"
said Mr. Chambers. "He was suc
cessful, and now many factories are
making paper yarn from wood pulp.
It has been woven Into every kind
of cloth, loose and thick mosh.
From It not only shirts, coats, trous
ers, and hats are now being manu
factured, but even carpets, rugs, and
mattings. There are some shoes now
being turned out, but I left before
any were ready. The substance Is
called xylolln. The process is secret
and has been patented In tho United
States. On my arrival in America a
large assortment of samples of the
finished product was sent to Wash
ington to the Department of Com
merce and Labor, so that the Ameri
can manufacturers or others Inter
ested could examine them." N. Y.
Herald.
It Would Seem So.
Oyer Speaking of the seasons,
summer is the pride of them all.
Myer How do you figure that
out?
Gyer It goeth before a fall, you
know. Chicago News.
Couldn't Fool Him.
Walter (In restaurant) Would
you like a plate of green turtle soup,
sir?
Uncle Hiram Gosh, no! Ef yew
I ain't got no ripe turtle soup, I don't
, want any. Chicago News.
A Naughty Baby.
Tommy Ma, baby Is naughty.
Mamma Is his own cake finished?
Tommy Yes, ma; and he cried
while I was eating that, too. Punch.
Treated For Pain In The Hack.
The district attorney's office haB
offered to Issue a warrant for the
arrest of H. Storey, who styles him
self a physician of the chlropractlce
school, and who Is accused by tes
timony given at a coroner's tnquost
yesterday of having been responsible
for the death of Domenlck Pormus,
a San Bernardino farmer, oue of his
patients.
According to the testimony of
Mrs. Premus, her busband was treat
ed for pains In his back. She affirm
ed that Storey laid her husband face
downward across two benches, and
placing a wooden spike against his
vertebra, pounded It with a wooden
mallett. After this, Mrs. Premus
swore, the physician raised himself
from the ground while his hands
rested on the patient's back. After
five such treatments Premus died.
Tho Inquest developed that death
was due to a hemorrhage of the
lungs. Los Angeles Times.
On Color Audition.
"When you hear sounds and sea
colors they call it color audition,"
commented an Interminable bote, be
ginning a narration.
"Stop one minute," said a vulgar
Inn, with no appreciation or soul for
large words, who was standing by,
"they call It what, you say?"
"Color audition," said the man,
"It means simply that you think you
see a color whenever you hear a cer
tain sound. When you hear a com
bination of sounds you see a com
bination of colors."
"Then If I would seen a blue sound
and a yellow sound at the same
time," said the vulgarian, "I would
seo a green sound wouldn't I?"
"No," returned the bore becoming
Impatient, "You would see only the
two colors, though the sublmpresslon
of the two might bo green, Just as
In a 'polntllllste' painting your eyes
actually gee only spots of different
primal hues though the sublmpres
slon may be a combined color."
"All right," said the vulgarian.
"Well, I wonder If you can depend
upon color audition over the phone.
"The other day I heard a woman'l
voice. Its tones were velvety brown
to me.
"Judging from her voice I should
say that that woman was a soft, fluf
fy little thing with long eyelashes,
clear, dark akin, and brown hair; I
said to a friend.
" 'You're wrong, said he, 'That's
Bess McGuInn, and she Is nothing of
what you say. She Is a decided
blond.'
"But the funny part of It all was
that my friend was wrong and I was
right, and that the girl who was talk
ing was not Bess McGuInn, but her
best chum, who was all that I have
said."
"Yes, that was funny," growled
the vulgarian enigmatically.
The saddeBt part of all this yarn
is that It is all so. Work It out.
Translating The Hlble.
It will astonish many persons to
know thnt tho Bible is now trans
lated and read in 400 different
tongues. W. G. Fitzgerald relates In
the October Harper's Magazine how
this vast undertaking has been ac
complished. It has cost many lives
and millions of dollars. In addition
to the first cost of translating, there
Is the expense of revising. The last
revise of the Madagascar Bible cost
215,000. and 2150,000 was paid to
Dr. William Carey and his staff for
the Serampore version of the Bible
In Hindustani.
Wanted An Order Too.
"At a tea," said a Washington
woman, "the late Julia Magruder
told us a story about a little girl
whom she once took out to luncheon.
At the luncheon's end Miss Magruder
handed her waiter n 210 bill, and
the man brought back on a plate a
grea mound of greenbacks and sil
ver. The little girl looked at the
huge mound of change longingly:
'If you please, Miss Magruder,' she
said, 'I'll have a plate of that, too.' "
Gold Coins In Marble Head.
M. Rodin bought recently In an
old curiosity shop In Paris an an
cient marble head of a map, and as
the face was rather knocked about
he sent It to a brother sculptor for
repair. When tho work was done
this friend got Into a cab with the
marble head and drove toward M.
Rodin's studio. On the way the cab
came Into collision with a motor car
and the head rolled out into the road
and was smashed to pieces.
The sculptor picked up the pieces
and found In a cavity of the skull
twenty gold coins of ancient date and
considerable value.
"BOO-HOO"
Shouts a Spanked Baby.
Paris Is experimenting with what
ia called steel pavemeut. It Is really
a concrete pavement reinforced with
a steel framework. The metal part
of the pavement Is a plate of per
forated steel, with strong bolts of
steel running through It between the
perforations. Each section has some
resemblance to a steel harrow, only
1 tbe prongs project equally, on each
side, and they are square and blunt.
It win be superior to asphalt in ulti
mate economy and to wood both in
tho better footing that it affords to
borss and lu the fact that It will
not admit of dangerous ruts develop.
Ing. Tbe sample laid cost $6.40 a
square meter (a little more than a
square yard), but when tho work la
done on a large scale it ia believed
thu prloe can be cut to about f 4.50.
The origin of the great banks of
I Newfoundland is said to have been
i la the boulders carried down by lce
i bergs. The bank Is 600 miles long
aud 120 broad.
Doctor of Divinity, now Editor ot
a well-known Religious paper, has
written regarding the controversy be
tween Collier's Weekly and the Re
ligious Press ot the Country and oth
ers. Including ourselves. Also re
garding suits for libel brought by
Collier's against us for commenting
upon Its methods.
Those are his sentiments, with
some very emphatic words left out.
"The religious Press owea you a
debt of gratitude for your courage in
showing up Collier's Weekly as the
"Yell-Oh Man." Would you caro to
use the Inclosed article on the "Boo
Hoo Baby" as the "Yell-Oh Man's"
successor?"
" A contemporary remarks that Col
lier's has finally run against a Bolld
hickory "Post" and been damaged In
Its own estimation to the tune of
2750,000.00."
"Here Is a publication which has.
In utmost disregard of the facts,
spread broadcast damaging state
ments about the Religious Press and
others and has suffered those falso
statements to go uncontradicted, un
til, not satisfied after finding the Re
ligious Press too quiet, and peaceful,
to resent the Insults, It makes tho
mistake of wandering into a fresh
field and butts Its rattled head
against this Post and all the World
laughs. Even Christians smile, as
the Post suddenly turns and gives
it back a dose of its own medicine."
"It Is a mistake to say all the
Worid laughs. No cheery laugh
comes from Collier's, but It cries aud
boo hoos like a spanked baby and
wants 2750,000.00 to soothe Its ten
der, lacerated feelings."
"Thank Heaven It has at last
struck a man with "back bono"
enough to call a spade a "spade" and
wbo believes In telling the whole
truth without fear or favor.
Perhaps Collier's with its "utmost
disregard for the facts," may say no
such letter exists. Nevertheless It is
on file In onr office and Is only one of
a mass of letters and other data,
newspaper comments, etc., denounc
ing the "yollow" methods of Collier's.
This volume Is so largo that a man
could not well go thru It under hnlf
a day's steady work. The letters
come from various parts of America.
Usually a private controverny Is
not Interesting to the public, but this
Is a public controversy.
Collier's has been using the "yel
low" methods to attract attention to
itaelf, but. Jumping In the air, crack
ing heels together and yelling "Look
at me" wouldn't suffice, so It started
ont on a "Holler Than Thou" attack
on the Religious Press and on tuedl-
We leavo It to the public now, aa
we did when wo first resented Col
lier's attacks, to say whether, In a
craving for sensation and circulation,
Its attacks do not amount to a sys
tematic mercenary hounding. We
likewise leave it to the public to say
whether Collier's, by Its own policy
aud methods, has not mude Itself
mora ridiculous than any comment of
ours could make It.
Does Collier's expect to regain any
self-inflicted loss of prestige by dem
onstrating thru suits for damages,
that It can be more artful in evading
liability for libels than the humble
but resentful victims of Its defama
tion, or does It hope by starting a
campaign of libel suits to silence the
popular Indignation, reproach and re
sentment which It has aroused.
Collier's can not dodge this public
controversy by private law suits. It
Can not postpone tho public Judg
ment against It. That great Jury, the
Public, will hirdly blame us tor not
wuitlng until we get a petit Jury In
a court room, berore denouncing this
prodigal detractor of Institutions
founded and fostered either by indi
viduals or by the public, ltsolf.
No announcements during our en
tire business career were ever made
claiming "medicinal effects" for either
Postum or Grape-Nuts. Medicinal
effects are results obtained from the
uso of medicines.
Thousands of visitors go thru our
entire works each month and see for
themselves that Grape-Nuts contains
absolutely nothing but wheat, barley
and a little salt; Postum absolutely
nothing but wheat and about ten
percent of New Orleans molasses.
The art of preparing these simple ele
ments In a scientific manner to ob
tain the best rood value and flnvour,
required some work and experience to
acquire.
Now, when any publication gees
far enough out of Its way to attack
us becauso our advertising Is "med
ical," It simply offers a remarkable
exhibition of Ignorance, or worse.
We do not claim physiological or
bodily results of ravorable character
following the adoption of our sug
gestions regarding the discontinuance
of coffee and foods which may not bo
keeping the Individual In good hoalth.
We have no advice to offer tho per
fectly healthful person. His or her
health Is evidence In Itself that the
beverages aud foods used exactly fit
that person. Therefore, why change?
But to the man or woman who is
ailing, we have something to say as
u result of an unusually wide experi
ence lu food and the result of proper
feeding.
In the palpably Ignorant attack on
us in Collier's, appeared this state
ment, "One widely circulated para
graph labors to Induce the Impression
that Grape-Nuts wlil obviate the ne
cessity of an operation In appendi
citis. This Is lying and potentially
deadly lying."
In reply to this exhibition of-
well let the reader name It, tbe Pos
tum Co., says:
Let It be understood that appendi
citis results from long continued dis
turbance In the Intestines, caused pri
marily by undigested starchy food,
such as white bread, potatoes, rice,
partly cooked cereals and such.
Starchy (ood Is not digested lu the
upper stomach but passes on into tha
doudenum, or lower stomach aud in
testines, where. In a healthy Indi
vidual, the transformation of tha
starch Into a form ot sugar Is com
pleted and then the food absorbed by
the blood.
But II the powers ot digestion are
weakened, a piTt of the starchy food
will lie in the warmth and moisture
of the body and decay, generating
gases and Irritating the mucous eur
races until under such conditions the
whole lower part of the alimentary
canal. Including the colon and tbe
appendix, becomes Involved. Disease
sets up and at times takes the form
known as appendicitis.
When tha symptoms of the trouble
make their appeurance, would It not
bo good, practical, common sense, to
'discontlnuo the sturchy food which la
causing tho trouble and take a food
in which the starch has been trans
formed into a form of sugar In the
process of manuructuro?
This is identically the same form
of sugar found in the human body
after starch has been perfectly di
gested. Now, human food Is made up very
largely of starch and Is required by
the body for energy and warmth.
Naturally, therefore, its use should
be continued. If possible, and for tha
reasons given above-it Is made possi
ble in tbe manufacture of Grape
Nuts. In connection with this change of
food to bring relief from physical
dlsturbancea, we have suggested
washing out the Intestines to get rid
of the Immedlute causo of the dis
turbance. Naturally, there are cases where
the disease has lain dormant and the
abuse continued too long, until ap
parently only the knife will avail.
But It Is a well-established fact
among the best physicians who are
acquainted with the details above re
cited, that preventative measures are
far and away the best.
Are we to be condemned for sug
gesting a way to prevent disease by
following natural methods and for
perfecting a food that contains no
"medicine" and produces no "medic
inal effects" but which has guided lit
erally thousands of persons from
sickness to health? We have received
during the years past upwards of 2B.
000 letters from people who have
been eli tor helped or made entirely
well by following our suggestions,
und they are simple. ,
If coffee disagrees and causes any
of the ailments common to some
coffee uaors quit It and take on
Postum.
If white 6 read, potatoes, rioe and
other starch foods make trouble, quit
and use Grape-Nuts food which la
largely predlgested and will digest.
nourish and strengthen, whan other
forms of food do not. It'a Just plain
old common sense.
"There's a Reason" for Postum and
Grape-Nuts.
Postum Cereal Oo,4 Ltd,