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I NTEKPK KTI N(J THE BIBLK.
The Tidings is in receipt of a re
quest to roast an Episcopal bishop
who recently in an address at the
University of Oregon stated that lie
did not believe in the truth of the
biblical account of the creation of
Adam and Eve. The gentleman ex
pressed the opinion that all Christi
anity was lost to the world because
the scientists of the present day
know too much and are sceptical as
to some parts of the liible.
The Tidings doe- not set up for a
biblical critic, but in view of the fact
that scores of sects have each con
scientiously interpreted the Good
Hook differently in sonic respects, it
seems to it to be unwise for anyone
to question the right of another to
interpret differently from himself.
The gentleman in question insists
that the story of Adam must be
1aken as the literal "Word of God,"
yet would take serious exception to
the claim of Mrs. Eddy that Christ's
command to all who believe on him
to heal the sick is a literal command
and should be and can be obeyed in
daily life. Who shall say which is
the essential statement, the story of
the fall of man o1 the comm;uil to
heal the sick? Each must judge for
himself.
Another element in interpreting
the scriptures is the fact that the
English language in many instances
has changed its meaning since the
King James verson of the Bible was
translated. To get the meuning of
the Bible as seen by those translators
one must give many words a mean
ing which they have not had in over
200 years. These translators were
obliged to contend with even more
discrepancies in the meaning of the
languages from which the scriptures
had been translated.
There is practical unanimity of all
sects in the belief in the golden rule,
and if all lived up to a practical ex
emplification of this rule they would
have "The mind which is in Christ
Jesus," and what more would bo
needed?
THE SPELLING HOOK.
The familiar old "blue-back spell
er" is seen no more in the public
whools. The study of spelling has
had its ups and downs of popular
favor. Once it seemed to be felt
that children would absorb spelling
with the air of the school house.
Just now there is some revival of
interest in good orthography.
All kinds of educational short cuts
are continually being tried with the
feeling that somehow time can be
saved, the clock can be cheated, and
one or two extra branches of study
can be crammed down the juvenile
throat.
It is pretty good general principle
that an important thing cannot be
taken up incidentally. The human
mind will not. follow two main lines
or attention at one time and do both
of them systematically.
The poor writer gets by nowadays
by uting a typewriter. The poor
speller may possibly be able to buy
correct orthography by having a
stenographer do his writing. But
the proportion of people who have a
secretary waiting around notebook
and sharpened pencil in hand to take
their letters Is pretty small.
A poorly spelled business letter
strikes you like a shabbv suit nt
clothes worn by a stranger. The
wan who wrote it may bo able to
make good, but the bad spelling car
ries a suggestion of incompetency.
A badly Fpelled nodal letter gives
the feeling of slovenliness, and you
can almost imagine the writer wear
ing the latest Pari, styles but failing
to keep her face dean.
The trouble is not so much with
the long words that you have to look
up in the dictionary anyway. It is
the little tricky i;hort words, the
ever-puzzling questions like whether
it is "ei" or "ie."
The centenary of the birth of
iDavid Livingstone will be celebrated
next March by the geographers of
the world.
SYMPATHIZING WITH MIL HOCK-EFELLEK.
Evening Telegram: In many pa
pers, noted for their decided stand
pat attitude, there has appeared that
sort of sympathy for the stricken and
persecuted William Rockefeller that
is calculated to bring the pang of
regret and the b'ush to the Pujo
money trust comnifteo in particular
and to a callous and unfeeling public
in general.
Says one of these papers: "The
pitiable plight in which the Pujo
committee found William Rockefel
ler is a pathetic illustration of the
undependability oi hasty popular
opinion. It is unsafe,
unfair -often unkind and sometimes
unjust and cruel to reach a conclu
sion upon outward appearance or in
proneness to suspect dishonest or
selfish motives." There's more of
the same reproachful, heart-throbbing,
sympathetic and pathetic
strain, but this much will serve to
indicate the general tenor of the
slush.
If there i suspicion r.nd there is
there is no one 'o blame save Mr.
Rockefeller. If that eminent gentle
man is actually suffering from paral
ysis of the larypx, or anything of
that sort, dodging Uncle Sam's pro
cess servers wa3 not at all likely to
cure him, nor was it an act calculat
ed to establish proof of the malady
either before the Pujo committee or
in the public mind. It is not so
very long ago since the entire Stand
ard Oil crowd wan in the habit of
treating with cavalier contempt all
desire of the government to know
something of the conduct of Stand
ard Oil affairs. The public memory
is not so treacherous on this point,
nnd with no other fact before it ex
cept that of defiant subpoena dodg
ing, t he public w.is justified in be
lieving that Willian Rockefeller was
pu'T.uing the old tactics. Sorrow
fully be it said there is a public sus
picion yet lingering to that effect.
But there's the pathos of that or
deal of Jekyll Island what are we
to say of that? What should be
said where the congressional inquis
itors had cornered the multi-millionaire
in the luxury of his inland re
treat, and having tenderly propound
ed to him four questions, elicited
nothing but a bit of coughing? Con
sideiing all the circumstances there
was but one thing for those inquis
itors to do, end that was to leave in
hushed and r.oleniii sympathy for suf
fering before the old gentleman
coughed up something, and that's ex
actly what they did. But let us suppose-
that William Rockefeller had
beea so poor in perse as, ostensibly,
he was in health; what then would
have been the proceedings? Far be
it from us to say that the Pujo com-
mittce is any respecter of persons
or brnk accounts, but somehow we
cannot dismiss from mind the wealth
and the foxiness cf the Rockefeller
tribe, and how both of thete are
brought to the defense of the most
vicious financial institution this
country has ever known.
SHOULD KEEP HANDS OFF.
The Taft administration is show
ing excellent judgment in keeping
hands off the Mexican situation.
There has been niore than a sus
picion that the American "interests"
in Mexico would be glad to have the
government intervene so as to give
a governmental sanction to their at
tempts to gobble the resources of
Mexico.
The Mexicans could not be blamed
should they resent the entrance of
American capital to "develop" that
country as it tried to "develop"
Alaska. "Develop" in high finance
means to plunder s.nd monopolize all
the possibilities of the country, and
this is largely the mission of Ameri
cans in Mexico.
If American capital were willing
to accept a reasonable dividend and
pay a reasonable wage it could find
plenty of chance for investment in
the United States.
Of course there are many Ameri
cans of small means who have gone
there because, all things considered,
they prefered It to the United States.
That was their pr'vilege; but it does
not follow that the United States
must send an army down there to
protect them.
Were the present trouble the re
sult of an uprising against the Amer
icans there might be some reason
for intervention. Even then it would
bo the part of wisdom to investigate
and see whether there was cause for
the feeling or not. The United
States cannot afford to be like a
parent who stands up for a spoiled
child right or wrong.
There is no intimation that the
Americans in Mexico' are being treat
ed any different from the Mexicans
in the present mixup. It is purely
a family quarrel, and family quarrels
are proverbially bad to mix up in.
One good might come out of Amer
ican intervention. It might unite
the Mexicans in oppostion to the
Americans, but is 'it worth the price?
The Home Circle
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rhoughts from the Editorial Pen H
People of means and good taste
may make their homes perfect
dreams of beauty,' but they cannot
make them too beautiful, as Ion:-; as
the comfort and happiness of the in
ma;es are sought and promoted.
Surely money cannot be expended to
a better purpose than in making and
adorning a home for one's self and
loved ones and furnishing it with all
that is calculated to foster in the
inhabitants thereof love of home, as
well as a love of the true and beauti
ful and the good: and even poor
people will best secure their own
happiness by toilin'; and saving to ac
quire and embellish homes for them
selves. There is i pleasure connect
ed with home nuking that is rare,
rapturous and absorbing, and love
of home is as noble and ennobling a
feeling as can still the human soul.
We look for good things in a person
in whom an ardent love of home has
been developed, and hope for little
tror.1 one who speaks indifferently or
slightingly of his home. We do well
for our children when we make hap
py homes for them, which they will
naturally learn to love.
The road along which the man of
business travels in pursuit of happi
ness or wealth is not a macadamized
one, nor does it ordinarily lead by
pleasant scenes and well-springs of
delight. On the contrary, it is
a rough and rugged path, beset with
"wait-a-bit" thorn.; and full of pit
falls, which can only be avoided by
the watchful care of circumspection.
After every day's journey over this
rough turnpike road, the wayfarer
needs something more than rest; he
requires solace, and he deserves it.
He is weary of the dull prose of life
and athirst for the poetry. Happy
is the business man who can find
that solace and thr.t poetry at home.
Warm greetings irom happy hearts,
fond glances from bright eyes, the
welcome shouts from children, and a
thousand little arrangements for our
comfort and enjoyment that silently
tell of thoughtful rnd expectant love;
the gentle ministration that disen
cumbers us into en old, easy seat
before we are aware of it; these,
and little tokens oT affection and
sympathy, constitute the poetry that
reconciles us to the prose of life.
Think of this, ye wives and daugh
ters of business men. Think of the
toils, the anxieties, the mortifica
tions that fathers undergo to secure
for you comfortable homes, and com
pensate them for their trials by mak
ing them happy. 'at their own fire-
side,
"He Was Good u His Mother."
How many of tliv young men who
read this column could truthfully
have the above sr.id of them? An
exchange telle of a group of young
men who were speaking of a man
who lay without hope at the point of
death. They spoke of a certain ex
change tells of a group of young
men who were speaking of a man
who lay without hope at the point
of death. They rpeke of a certain
excellent quality possessed by him
and passed lightly over any weak
nesses he may have displayed. When
one said, "He has always been good
to his mother," ail spoke at once
in approval. The rest of it became
minor. The supreme test had been
passed. Ho had been unusually good
to his mother and the verdict cov
ered his other weaknesses like a
mantle and overshadowed all else
that had been said in condemnation.
He was extremely good to his moth
er. If charity covers a multitude of
sins, so does the love and obedience
of a man for his mother. There are
no virtues more highly applauded by
grown men and woman. And yet
they are not uncommon. Reverence
for holy things is not uncommon and
one of the holies; on earth or in
heaven is a man's mother.
The daily papers assert that it
would take 250,000 men to pacify
Mexico, and there is little doubt that
this is true. The country is mostly
very broken and excellent for guer
illa warfare, and prisoners captured
would have to be deported or they
would go to the mountains and be
come outlaws as fast as paroled or
released. It is much wiser to let
them settle their own difficulties,
letting Americans abide by the
chances they tool; when they left
American soil.
If Mexicans cross the border in
their ra'ds that is a different mat
ter altogether. The United States
should station troops there, notify
both sides to keep out and then treat
invaders as a foe.
The extermination of the first
armed party that ventured on Amer
ican sold would do more to maintain
American prestige than any amount
of intervention.
Accomplishment of great deeds is
not necessary for a splendid epitaph.
"He was good to his mother" is a
finer tribute to a dead man's worth
than was ever graven on the sar
cophagi of conquering kings.
Housecleaning.
Housecleaning is a pastime which
woman indulges in whenever she
wants to give her husband's temper
a workout. It is accompanied by a
spasm of industry, which makes the
interior of the home look like the
headquarters of a wrecking crew.
When a woman makes up her mind
to clean house, she changes with
lightning rapidity from a mild, hu
mane creature into a fiend in human
form. Armed with a dust cloth and
a bar of soap, she charges through
the bouse, leaping from room to
room and chair to chair with the
agility of a humming bird and the
relentless mien of an avenging an
gel. Puny, invertebrate man is
pushed out on the back porch and
obliged to assemble his victuals on
the kitchen table, after which he is
led out on the lawn and into the
presence of a rag carpet, which is
choked with dust and red oral de
signs, and invited to lean up against
it with a wire flail. This is the
most humaliating work a man can
engage in, and nothing but love and
the sanctity of the marriage vows
prevent him from rising up in re
bellion. A woman is never satisfied
that the house has been thoroughly
cleaned until she has shifted things
around, so that a man couldn't lo
cate his slippers and pipe with a
posse of bloodhounds. For several
days after housecleaning most men
have to remove their shoes on the
front stoop and sit at the dinner
table in a pair ofbed slippers and
a subdued look. During houseclean
ing there are few four-course meals
served, and the pantry is never con
gested with mince pie to any extent.
Some day man will arise and stran
gle the housecleaning microbe with
his bare hands. It is a cruel custom,
which not only frazzles the temper,
but creates a good deal of unneces
sary deshabille. There ought to be
a law against it.
Keep in good heart, though ad
verse winds blow and a chilly atmos
phere prevails. True, the way is
rotifih exceeding rough and the
winds are keen and pierce us
through and make us shrink from
duty. But hesitate not, face the
bla.st firmly, determinedly, good na
turedly and hopefully, and when the
better days dawn, when the clouds
have dispersed and all is sunshine,
how sweet and satisfactory will be
the rest, in the noonday of life,
knowing our work i;: done and that
labor has not be in in vain..
Home.
The prince rides up to the palace
gates,
And his eyes with tears are dim.
For he thinks of the beggar maiden
sweet
Who may never wed with him.
For home is wher-i the heart is,
In dwelling great or small.
And there's many u splendid palace
That's never a home at all.
The yeoman conies to his little cot
With a song when the day is done,
For Irs dearie is standing in the
door
And his children to meet him run.
For home is where the heart is,
In dwelling great or small,
And there's many a stately mansion
That's never a home at all.
Could 1 but live with my own sweet
heart
In a hut with a sanded floor,
I'd be richer far than a loveless man
With fame and a golden store.
For home is where tlie heart is,
In dwelling great or small.
And a cottage lighted by lovelight
Is the dearest home of all.
County Salary Hill Means $000 Cut.
The county salary bill, which
passed the legislative house, reduces
the salary of sheriff in Jackson
county to $1,900, a cut of $600 from
the present salary. The sheriffs af
fected if the bill passes are planning
to make a fight to defeat the meas
ure when it appears in the senate.
Sheriff August Singler received a
telegram Saturday night inviting him
to join in the fight", but he reserved
his decision.
Small.
"Don't you find the Honeymoon
Apartments rather small?"
"Yes; we even have to keep our
flowers in the folding beds." Buf
falo Express.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Is plan
ning the erection of a psychological
laboratory, which will be one of the
most remarkable. In the world. The
purpose is to save girls from crime.
A fluid secreted by certain fish
caught in Portugal is used by fisher
men of that country to make their
bait luminous.
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Basket Willow Cuttings.
The Department of Agriculture Is
getting ready to fill requests for the
basket willow cuttings grown last
year on its experimental farm at
Arlington. V'al. Distribution of these
cuttings takes place early in .March
each spring, to farmers and others
who wish to rnak-; trials of basket
willow on lands too wet for other
crons. From 50 ;o 100 cuttings are
given each person.
The distribution is not a mere giv
ing away of government material to
persons who desire to get something
free, because it is required that each
recipient of cutting! sh.all make a re
port of the treatment given e.nd the
results obtained. Several select va
rieties are included in each ret that
is distributed, an 1 the aim is to se
cure information 83 to the best va
riety for each locality, since no one
kind can bo relied upon to yield
maximum results ever a wide range
of territory.
In the basket willow investigations
carried on ?t the Arlington farm.
Arlington, Va., .and at Ames. Iowa,
by the forest service, particular at
tention has been given to teh devel
opment of American species Tor basket-making
purposes. The European
species now commonly used have
never proved themselves entirely
adapted to American conditions and
are as a rule loss thrifty than the
native species. At present there is at
Arlington a willow garden contain
ing nearly 500 lot:; gathered Troni all
parts of the countiy and represent
ing practically eve'y species find va
riety found in the United States and
Canada.
A system of seiection which has
ucca milieu on :or several years is
already indicating which strains
show the best basket willow charac
teristics for American conditions.
Drillers for water at Boyle' and
Duncan avenues, St. Louis, the other
day, struck a gas well, which will
be utilized by a brewery plant which
owns the site.
Either a solid stream at right an
gles or a cone toward the rear of the
discharge can be thrown by a new
adjustable fire hose nozzle.
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Praise.
The Curate That was a splendid
sermon the vicar preached last Sun
day. i i
Workman Yes, we allue likes
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