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DAILY CAPITAL JOUItNAL,. JMXEM.OBEQ0N, THUBSDAY, DECEMBEB 25, 1913. 4 The Epic of the Ploughman GIN FINE IE BY SY THE BEV. 0. F. AKED, D. D., L. L. D. Will Levington Comfort, in his new book, "Down Among Men," crystal lizes a world-movement into a single tragic incident. He sings thfe Epic of the Ploughman. The masses of mankind are -fit last beginning to rebel against the blood tax imposed upon them by rulers whom they scorn and hate. The masters if many legions will not be masters for ever. It is doubtful whether they are masters today. Sir Edward Grey, sec retary of state in King George's cabi net, has been warmly praised for the masterly policy which, years ago, kept the war in the Balkans within bounds and prevented a European conflict that would not have ended until a con tinent was drenched with blood. The real keeper of the peace of Eu ropo, howover, was not Sir Edward Grey, but "The Ploughman" of Will Levington Comfort's story! The "Pow ers" were afraid of war. They were afraid of using the vast armaments which they have built up at such in rediblo expense. They were not Bure of their own armies. They could not depend ujion the soldier stuff they had to employ. It is on the cards that, if evor the great civilized nations of the world bring on a war in which millions of their people have no interest, the of ficers will be Bhot down, then arms will be flung away, the men who were commanded to kill one another will fraternize in the light of day. John Hay, when secretary of stato, denounced wnr as tho "most ferocious aud futile of human follies." "Fero cious" the world has always known it to be. "Futile" wise men have al ways held it. And the common man, Mr. Comfort's "Ploughman," is in the mind no longer to be a party to the perpetuation of the supreme "folly" of the ages. Herein lies the hope of the world. The eurso of conscription hangs like a pall over tho nations beyond the seas. Hut tho people are in full re volt. Franco multiplies penalties upon the men who preach to tho conscript's gosl of disobedience. Under tho British flag, Australia and New Zea land imprison boys who will not sub mit to compulsory military training. Yet tho movement gathers strength every day. While preparations for war were never so gigantic as in this hour, mankind was never nearer to the ilnwn of universal peace. This is how Will Levington Comfort tells the story of tho "Pdoughman. " It is during the Russo-Japanese war. Tho Russian forces have been defeated in a pitched battle. Soldiers are run ning away like shoep. In vain the of ficers try to rally their panic-stricken commands. Luban, a young officer, who hjis lost his norve, is yet trying to stay the rout. Fallows is an Amer ican war correspondent who sees anl understands and compels us to see: "Out of the groin came striding a tall soldier of the ranks. His board was black, his eyes very blue. The man's brood shoulders were thrust back; his face clean of cowardico, clean as the grain and as the open sky. His head was erect and. bare, he car ried no gun, , scorned the pretense of looking for wounded. Had he carried a dinner-pail the picture would have been as complete a god man going home from a full-testing day. "In that moment Fallaws saw more than from the whole line before. Here was a conscript. He had been taken from his house, forced across Europe and Asia to this hour. The reverse of his persecutors had set him free. This freedom was the fire in his eyes. They had torn him from his house; they had driven and brutalized him for months. And now was such a disaster as a plain man might have prayed for. He had prayed for it in the beginning, but in the long, slow gatherings for bp-ttle, in the terrible displays of pow er, he had lost his faith to puny. Yet the plain man 's God had answered that early prayer. This was the brightness off the burning in the blue eyes. "His persecutors had been shamed p.nd undone. He had seen his compan ions dissipate, his sergeants run; seen his captain fail to hold. The great force that had tortured him, that had seemed the world in strength, was now broken before his eyes. Its mighty muscles were writhing, their strength running down. The love of God was splendid in the ranker's heart; the breath of home had come. Tho turning in tho grain was a turning homeward. "All this Fallows saw. H was il lumination to him the hour of his great reception. "Luban, just insulted by tho other infantryman, now faced the big, blithe presence, emerging unhurried from the giaiu. Luban raised his voice: " 'And what aro you sneaking back forf' " 'I am not sneaking 1 " ' Rotten soldier stuff you should bo shot down.' " 'I am not a soldier I am a ploughman. ' " 'You are here to fight ' " 'They force me to come ' " 'Forced yon to fight for your Fatherland f' " 'This is not my fatherland, but a strnngo country ' "'You aro here for your Father land ' " 'I have six children in Russia. The Fatherland is not feeding them. My field is not ploughed.' "The tnlk had crackled; it had re quired but a few seconds; Luban had dono it all for Fallows to sec and hear but Fallows was very far from ob serving tho pose of that weaking. The ORIGINAL GENUINE Th Food-Drink for all Ages Rich milk, malted grain, in powder form. For infants, invalids and growing children. Pure nutrition, upbuilding th whole body. Invigorates nursing mothers and th aged. More healthful than tea or coffee. Take no substltet. Ask for HORLICK'S House of Half Million Bargains dor in the history of Salem. You will umulation of articles, from a hairpin to Feather bods, bed springs, crockery, nd-hand pictures, clothing for men and ses, vacuum cleaners, books, all kinds ry, construction and all kinds of tools, e engines. We buy and sell overy f gold. We pay the highest cash price Half Million Bargains. Come and see the biggest won find in our place tho biggost acc a threshing machine, ever aeon. dishes, latest style now and seco women, shoes, suit cases, show ca of new and second-hand machine Steam and wator pumps, gasolin thing from a needle to a piece o for everything. The House of a H. Steinbock Junk Co. 233 State Street. Snlem, Oregon. Phone Main 221 Your tea troubles are over once you get acquainted with - ' Sold In air-tight packages only. Ploughman had held him heart and soul as did the infallible and instant ly unerring truth of his words. The world's poor, the world's degraded, hpid found its voice. " Luban must have broken alto gothor. Fallows, listening, watching the Ploughman with his soul, did not 'turn. Now the man 's face changed. The lips parted strangely, the eyelids lifting. Whiteness wavered between the eyes of the Ploughman and the eyes of Duke Fallows. Luban 's pistol crashed and tho man fell with a sob. "Tallows was kneeling among the soaked roots of the millet, holding the soldier in his arms." The masses of mankind have no in terest in war. The millions of mon, armed to the teeth, standing at atten tion along all the borders of Europe today, whom the kings and kaisers be lieve they command, are growing in intelligence every year. Conscripts they are, slaves of tho hereditary mili tary despotisms under which they were born., But "the schoolmaster is abroad." Education manumits. First it frees tho slovo. Then tho conscript loams ho is a man. Tho soldier has his "fatherland." But it is not the 'fa'therlnnd " of which the court lackeys prate. Soon the "ploughman" of Russia will speak to the "plough man" of Austria, and the artisan of Franco to the artisan of Germany will speak a language which all hearts con understand. And one will say to tho other: "Brother across tho border: I have no quarrel with you or you with me. Kings and priests aro our hereditary files. If fight we must, which God forbid, let us turn our weapons agaiint them; then beat our swords into plough shores and our spears into pruning hooks and learn war no moro. " LOPEZ IS NOW BELIEVED TO HAVE MADE ESCAPE DNITKD PRESS LSARBD WIIIC 1 Bingham, Utah, Dec. 25. Deep in tho snow on the narrow shelves of tho canyon walls, the posse seeking Ralph Lopez, tho slayer of six men, passed a cold Christmas day at the Apex mine. The discovery of an incline leading from the upper to the lower work ings through which tho gunman may have escaped, added discouqngemont to to discomfort. Sheriff Smith believes the incline was not used by Lopez be fore the mine was sealed. It is expect ed the mine will be opened and searched Friday when it is hoped to find that the resperado succumbed either to starvation or to tho poison ous gases generated with smudges nearly a month ago. Rev. William E. Ayers Sunning Bace For Matrimonii Honors With Goodwin and Hoodbt. --xias mis neen a nappy i;nnstmas evef"' asked a guest of one of the employes of the Marion hotel early last ALSO FIGURES IN SUIT evening. The answer was: "Rather not, with the folks 3,000 miles away," the speaker not knowing what the manager bad in store for them. "I have had ft fine time," said one later on. "You know most of us don't have any home to go to," said an other. Such were the comments among the score or more employes around the Christmas tree at the Marion last night, FOR ALIENATING AFFECTIONS Exonerated on This Charge and Has Been Reported Engaged to Many' Women of His Cltyy. . . v ONITBD PRBsa UDA8ED WIRI. Boston, Dec. 25. Married four timos Manager and Mrs. J. E. Crowe had while still a year shy of 30, the Eev. thoughtfully provided a tree which William B. Ayers, pastor of the Park was placed in the ladies' dining room and Downs Congregational church, Wol on the first floor where it was deco- lastou, one of the prettiest suburbs of rated tastily,, laden with presents and Boston, has been eutered as an, added the Marion family invited. Kola Neis starter in the matrimonial sweepstakes acted as Santa Claus and played his in which Nat Goodwin and' Do Wolf part well. Ho was assisted by Jack Hopper at this time are head-on favor Rogors, president of the United States ites. national bank, and Mr. Ab Magers, the Goodwin 's life has been one marriage popular merchant. The presents gath- after another; Hopper, too is similarly ered from the tree were numerous, fixed five spouses apiece. But in ad useful, humorous and otherwise. Santa dition to his martial record Dr. Ayros, Claus in his own inimitablo way had up to this time has figured in a sonsa a clever fitting sentiment to accom- tioual suit for alienation in which he pany each gift as he passed it to its was exonerated, as well as being report owner and pandemonium reigned from ed engaged to at least a half dozen the time the toy mouse was let loose women at one time, among the girl waiters until tho popu- J chronologically, this is the martiol lar night clerk threw up his hands record to date of the much married min when ho was given a toy pistol filled jstor: with candy. J Mnrritl(1i nt tll0 aRe of 1!5( to Motn "In this work a-dny world when we Eyforth, 16, at Wichita, Kansas, mar see everything through the dollar sign, ( rinKe amiul,,(1 by the Q0UTt on Kr0Hn,i8 it is refreshing to look upon a scene 0f mjnoritv. such as Manager and Mrs. Crowe, j Married at the ago of 20 to an ac furnished last night for tho employes trps9 Bt D,lllthi jfinn., divorced in 1900. that 'don't have, any homo to go to, 'I Married at tho ago of 22 to Paulino and the employes that makes its pos- J Shopard, at Watertown, N. Y., his wife siblo for them to nperato one of tho ,ivj11(, j jlI8f, tnnn a ionth after the homiest little hotels on the Pacific coast," stnnder. ceremony. OF BY GEO. E. PHAIR. UNITED rilESS LEASED WIIIE.l was tho comment of a by-1 TjRi)t wpc wedded to Sarah Abigail Miller, of Nowton Center, Mass. The ceremony was a secret one at tho homo of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Georgo D. Miller, of Norwood avenue, Newton Centor, Mnss. Following tho ceremony fho couple slipped away in a high powered auto mobile, leaving behind them instmn- Madison, Wis., Dec. 25. Another tions not to reveal any details of the wave of reform surpiising that of 1013 wedding. Relatives of the brido would was instituted hero today by faculty not even divulge the name of the offi- representatives of tho conference in cinting minister, though his identity their annual meeting at the W. C. T. U. j was suspected from a ennvas of Now- Ono of tho most drastic measures ton ministers, adopted was the elimination of croquet I Within two hours of the ceremony fro mtho intercollegiate athletic pro-1 Mr. Ayers, riding toward tho house of grain and the institution of chess as a his brido with tho, necessary mnrriago major sport. For some time croquet license, denied his identity to news has been viewed with disfavor owing paper mon when first confronted and to its brutality, but today's action was ' then shook them off with a "nothing duo directly to tho deplorable accident to say at all" when they met him en in last Saturday's game when Herald FuzzzlothwaiU), enptain of tho Minne sota team, was carried from the field with a broken stay. BASTICK CONFESSES MURDER. t UNITED I'llESI LEASED WIBI.l San Francisco, Doc. 25. John Bas tick confessed last night to the rob bory of a Southern Pacific train near Elmonto, December 1, and the murder of E. H. Montague, tho travoling pas senger agent who tried to thwart him. Ho admitted also to having tried to ro ba Southern Pacific train near Oak land last month. Tho confession was made to Sheriff Ilammcl of Los An geles county on a train enroute to Los Angeles. 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Liko Nat tho blood and rendor tho participants j Goodwin and Do Wolfe Hopper, Tastor forgetful of their dignity as collego Ayers once followed tho footlights as athletos. his profession. But unlike tho much Wisconsin received a heavy blow in married oommcdians, Tastor Ayers did tho expulsion of Archibald Umph, thu not stick to tho stage, clean-up hitter of the Badger debating; Pastor Ayers first camo into tho lime toam. It wns discovered that ho had light in the troubles that camo into once participated in a debate with his tho Park and Downs congregation with father over tho sizo of his monthly al- charges made by Chester A. Boynton, lowance. According to rule 5, section who was later suspended from member- 7, tho said debate has mndo him a rank ship. Then camo Boynton 's $25,000 al- professional. ienation suit and a sensational trial in Shortly before the close of tho ses- tho Suffolk court. Pastor Ayers won. sion Professor Pussyfoot formulated This suit caused a split in tho church, the following resolutions, which will bo Then camo Mrs. Helen Willett Boyn placod before the Ancient and Honor- ton's suit for divorce against her hus able Order of Mollycoddles for ap- band. proval: I A council of Congregational ministers Received, That students bo permitted hart previously placed Pastor Ayers un to take no part in tho conduct of in- j dor "friendly supervision." Ho has torcollegiato games, but be required to continued his ministerial work quietly tako seats in the stands with the spec- t Wollaston, tators whilo the faculty members play . . , tho games on paper. to participate, in intercollegiate nthlct- Recolved, That tho undignified cheer-1 ics whoso collar exceeds number 14 or ing which has marred intorcolleguilo whose chest measurement exceeds 24 sport i tho past bo restricted, and that lm hes. no spectator be permitted to applaud : Tim meeting closed with a stirring nny louder than a whisicr under pain addrets by Professor Ernsmus Bilge of expulsion from the parl(. water on "Thu Hubjugntlon of the Red Resolved, Tluit no student be allowed Corpuscle" MERR XMAS U. G. SHIPLEY CO. THE ROUND-UP. Old Santa got busy with Portland's postoffice Tuesday and 250,000 letters were recoived in seven mnil pouchcB, that had boon hold up on tho delayed trains. Emanuel H. Brnnnon aged 8(1, and a former residont of Bouton county died at Colfa:t, Tuesday. W. H. Egan, of Quinaby, has just shipped tho second car of npplcs raised by him, to San Francisco, and will have a third for shipment in a short timo. Clackamas county has added CO pro ducts to its election system, the in creaso boing mado uecossary by giving women tho franchise. Snow to tho depth of six inches is reported in many parts of oaBtom Ore gon. rinns for paving 71) blocks woro ap proved by' tho Eugeuo council at its mooting Monday night. This would make about bovcii miles. Los Angoles capitalists are consider ing tho placing of a gas plant in Albany. A NOTRE DAME LADY'S APPEAL To bI! knowing iufforers of rheumatism, 1 whether muscular or of the Jolnta, sciatica, lumbagos, backache, paint In the kidneys or nourttlgla pains, to write to her for a home treatment which has repeatedly, cured all of these tortures. She feels It her duty to tend It to all autforers KKKE. You cure yourself . at home as thousands will testify no change of climate being necessary. This simple discovery banlnhvs urio acid from the blood, loosens the stiffened Joints, mirillos the blood and brlxhtmia the eyes, giving elasticity and i tone to the whole sycteui. If the above Interest! yon, for proci address Mrs. M Bummers, Uox U, Notre Dome, lad. VIOLENT SPEEOHES ABE MADE BY UNEMPLOYED DNITKD ratal udabid wini.l Ran Francisco, Doc. 25. Vlolout speeches were being marto before an outdoor gathering of about 3,000 un employed at Marshall Squaro, Eighth ami Markot streets, at 2:45 Wednesday afternoon. "Direct action" and tho looting of stores was threatened by some of tho orators, At the city hall, about a block away, tho supervisors were in session, consider ing tho unemploynoiit situation, A plan was under discussion for feeding tho workless until Saturday night iu tho meantimo evory effort being made to find employment for as many as possible by Monday, BOOK ISLAND MAN QUITS, unitid raiss lb.sud wins. Chicago, Dec. 25. The resignation of John Soluistion, third vice president of tho Rock Island linos, was announced today to became effective January 1. A sucessor will be namod within a few days. Sebastion was one of the host known railroad mon in the country and hod been with tho Rock Island for 30 years. Ho rotires because of poor health. SENATE PAGES ABE GIVEN BIG DINNEB BY MARSHALL UNITED FRSSI UDISIO Will. Washington, Dec. 25. Sixteen smil ing facos woro gathered around a large tnblo' yestordjiy afternoon iu the na tional capital ami sixteen boys smacked their lips with delight at the splendid Christmas dinner provided for the sen ate pages by Vice President Marshall. Senator Chilton presented each of that pages with a knife and Sonator Mar ti no gave each of tho boys a sum of money. Tho baselinll seuson has ended, but tho joy riders will work the old his aiid run gnmo all winter. 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