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"Marathon War" Resumed Over Chaeo Boundaries Hostilities Reopened bjN3o livia and Paraguay. Washington. ? South America's "Marathon War" has been resumed. Following a Christmas truce and un successful peace parleys, Paraguay and Bolivia reopened hostilities In the Chaco, a huge lowland covered In part with grass and In purt by forests, aid lying nearly In the heart of the conti nent. "Chaco, corrupted from Chucu, means 'hunting ground' in Qulchua, the language of the Incus of Peru," says Harriet Chalmers Adams In a com munication to the National Geographic society. "Perhaps the ancient Peruvi ans hunted In this remote region be yond the Andes. Perhaps Incan tribes, fleeing from Spanish Invaders, settled here, mingling their blood with that of the original Inhabitants. "One may see the Chaco from the wharves of Paraguay's capital, Asun cion. It begins on the opposite, or western shore, of the Paraguay river. A vast, low-lying, swampy region, giv en over for the most part to primitive nomadic tribes, the Chuco Is being re clalnfed--asa cattle country. It is the larger but riTOre sparsely settled por tion of Paraguay. All but 50,000 of the 800, 000 Inhabitants of Paraguay live on the eastern, or Asuncion shore, where the land Is slightly rolling, sa vannas mingling with forest, and tree clad hills rise to perhaps 1,500 feet al titude. Splendid Grazing Lands. "As early as 1537 the Intrepid col onists who founded Asuncion plunged through the trackless Chaco In an un successful attempt to reach Peru. By 1548 a party actually succeeded In reaching the Pacllic and returning to Asuncion, taking two years for the round trip. "Cattle raising Is Paraguay's chief Industry, meat products leading among Its exports. The Chaco, with Its high native stock grasses and ample water supply, Is a promising cattle country. There is probably no stock raising re gion In the United States possessing such fine natural grazing lands, In spite of the Chaco's handicap of occa sional floods. As the vast plains of Argentina are more and more given over to the cultivation of cereals, the cattle ranges are bound to creep north to the grasslands of Paraguay and eastern Bolivia. "The Paraguayan cowboy Is known as the chacrero. Although usually smaller In stature than his cousins, the Argentine gaucho and the Chilean huaso, he Is muscular and hardy, a typical rough rider* On a saddle trip we met a group of cowboys driving a band of cattle from the rodeo, where the herd Is rounded up, to the river. I can still hear their ringing cattle call, 'Co-co-coa I Co-coa I Coa ! Coa !' "About nine miles above Asuncion, on the Chaco side of the river. Is a settlement of some commercial Im portance known as Villa Hayes (pro nounced 'Ve-ya ICyes' In Spanish). It was named after a President of the United States, Rutherford B. Hayes, who, acting as arbitrator In determin ing the boundary between Argentina and Paraguay, rendered a decision highly favorable to the latter. Ironi cally, this town, named for an ardent prohibitionist, is surrounded by earie fields whose product Is distilled into a very powerful rum. "Modern explorers of the Chaco are the men engaged In the quebracho In dustry. It developed with the expan sion of the Argentine railways, when quebracho logs were found to be Just the thing for railway ties, i\nd for fence posts on the extensive Argentine ranches. Quebracho (the word means 'ax-breaker') Is a hardwood so dur able that logs cut nnd left In the for est for 25 years have been found sound. Extremes In Climate. "The Chacons uniformly flat; Its climate one of extremes. It |g n land of heavy rainfalls and long continued droughts. Animal life Is abundant. 'The Chaco is the sportsman's para dise,' a British enthusiast told me, 'From May to August is the best sea son ? freer from Insect pests. We go duck shooting In flat-bottomed boats on a chain of smaller rivers and la goons.' "Besides duck, 1 quail, and snipe, there Is a native 'turkey of the moun tain,' with a black head, black head tufts, and a yellow black beak. Tapir, deer, earplncho, otter, and coypu abound In the marshy regions. Coypu skins are exported from the lower I'lata to the United States, the hair to be used In the manufacture of felt hats for men. In the woods are the Jaguar, assets.:!!", . ???? Smell of Onions Wag Worth $3,500 Philadelphia. ? A Jury In Del aware county court has decided that the Inability to be able to smell onions Is worth $8,500. Miss Jean Marsh, Philadelphia ex-model, twenty-seven, was struck by an automobile driven by John M. ltuegenberg, Upper Darbj. Several operations were performed on her nose In an attempt to re store Its former beauty, the oper ations failed and the young wom an sued the autolst. She testified at the trial In Media that she couldn't even smell onions and the Jury's sympathy went out to her In the form of a *3,500 ver diet puma, antenter, armadillo, ttie maned wolf, and the peccary, the latter al ways one of a troop. "At ports we were offered snake skins nearly 20 feet long, and suspect ed that they had been well stretched by the natives, since the price ad vances with the length. Poisonous snakes, Including rattlers, are a men ace to the naked feet of the Indian. Snakesklns, egret skins, hides, rubber, and Ipecacuanha formed the steamer's down-river cargo." Texas Man Goes Fishing and Brings Home a Duck Texas City, Texas. ? Louis Shannon went fishing and caught a duck. Baiting his hook with a fat shrimp, Louis cast It Into the water near where a small tlock of ducks were feeding. One curious and hungry duck saw the choice shrimp submerge and dived for a meal. Louis pulled the duck out, removed the hook from Its throat, tied a string around the duck's neck, and led It home. "Dogie" Just Pain in Nothing Romantic About Mis erable Little Creature. Fort Worth, Texas. ? Neither the origin of the term "dogle" nor the menial social position of the dogle on a ranch, say Texas cowboys, Justifies the place to which the scrawny, moth erless calf has been exalted. There Is nothing romantic about the miserable little creature, whose 'chance of living is very small, cowboys say, and which are thorns In the life of ev ery cowboy, despite the lofty plane to which the dogle has been elevated In the recent popularization of old cow boy songs and "Tin Pan Alley" Imi tations of them. "It would have been a wonderful thing If the song writers, radio croon ers nnd paragraphed who have suc ceeded In bringing about all the furore over the word 'dogie' hud taken the time to get the opinion of a few old cowmen In Texas," writes John M. Uendrix of Sweetwater, Texas, secre tary of the Sweetwater board of de velopment. Sweetwater is in the heart of the Texas cattle country. "They are really worthless little Process Is Invented for , Purifying Human Blood Glessen, Germany. ? A new process for purifying human blood mechan ically, which may revolutionize the present treatment of blood diseases, has been discovered by Dr. George (Iaas, nutcd German expert on Inter nal maladies. By long experiments on animals, Doctor Haas has perfected his process so ' that the first experiment made on human beings was crowned by 100 per cent success. The process Is hased on the os mosis principle familiar to all phy sicists. Doctor Unas opened an ar tery and let the patient's blood pass through a system of tubes of semi permeable material serving aB a membrane. The tubes were contained In a warm salt solution of the same concentration as pure blood. The tube system functions as a sort of filter through which poisonous salts or other stuff carried In the blood stream pass freely to the salt solution, while the natural contents of the blood are kept within. After this cleansing process the purified blood Is let back Into the patient's veins. Carpenter-Priest Builds Beautiful Inlaid Altar Koxbury, Wis. ? A beautiful inlaid altar, the fruit of three months" labor. Is the latest masterpiece produced by Kev. John J. Stehllng, Roxbury's "car penter prlefet." The altar Is red and white oak and Is ornamented with novel ecclesiastical designs. No nnils were used In Its construction. HE WAS PREPARED When heavy snows and cold winds prevailed In Washington recently, J. S. Wnrinbath, one of the Capital's resi dents. recalled that he Ivad Just the garb the weather demanded. He was a member of Commodore Peary's Arc tic expedition of 1898, and had saved his Eskimo suit. So he got It out and iletled the weather. the Neck to Cowboys critters, traveling In the herd behind j the drags, and causing no end of trou ble, " Hendrlx said. "The old cowman may tell you that j you can carry all the motherless calves on the ranch miles and miles ' In front of your saddle to get them to I headquarters and try to raise them , on the bottle, but that they will 'dogle' j on you In spite of the devil, and you had Just as well knock them in the i head Where you find them." What is'meanf by the use of "dogle" j as a verb is explained In the tradl- ! tlonal origin of the word. Old cowmen of Clay and Montague counties, hack In the '80s, explain the origin this way : A kind hearted old ranch lady In structed her cowboys to bring In all t lie motherless calves so she might at tempt to raise them by gentle cows or on the bottle. "It Is common knowledge," Ilendrlx said, "that a stunted animal, when given an unusual amount of food, de velops an abnormal paunch, which Is sometimes referred to as a 'pot' or 'dough belly.' "According to these old timers, the cowboys, none too pleased with the Idea of lugging a bawling, squirming calf eight or ten miles in the saddle, began ^to refer to her collection of orphan calves as 'dough-guts,' which by com mon usage eventually became 'dogey,' or 'dogle.' " Civilization Holds No Charm for Mountaineer Salt l^ike City. ? CivlllwUlon may be life for some people, but Julian Kucke, seventy-flve-year-old recluse, longs to return to his wild canyon home. Kucke was rescued from his tumble down shnck by skllers who passed. Fire partly had destroyed the shelter. In his attempt to beat out the flames, the aged recluse was badly burned. For several days he lay on his cot suffering unattended from the burns, and had not the rescuers come, he undoubtedly would have died of hun ger and cold within a few hours. Unuiual Monastery Juvlsy, France. ? Within sight of the towers of Notre, Dame stands whaf probably Is the world's most unusual monastery. It Is ? two-story concrete mansion, distinguished by ultra-mod ernistic lines and enormous windows, which allow the sun to reach every corner from nny angle. It is inhab ited by Ave members of the Dominican order, who edit three periodicals. Complete* I.ife Work Milwaukee. ? A "merry-go-round" embellished with the figures of !>fl an gels. recently was completed by Rich ard Heuter, sixty years old. Keuter'n masterpiece was begun In Oermnny years ago. He carved all figures and decorations from rare woods. Caffery Becomes an Ambassador ... IvS'S/"""" ambassador Cuba. k,? cWdantLU BRISBANE THIS WEEK Fascism Next? Healthy Policeineti Is the Craze a Blessing? The Shotgun Marriage Dictatorship and Fascism hold Italy, Turkey, Itussf'n, Germany, and threat en France and England. There Is no reason why Fascism should not come here In the wake of Industrial chaos. If It does come, It will appear In the shape that will not please either cap ital or labor ? capital, which wlshea comfort, luxury and Increasing profits, and labor, that wants to rule comfort ably out of harm's way, through union politics, and would have no stomach for the game as Mussolini and Hitler and Stalin play It. Six thousand policemen, members of the Holy Name society in New York, pledged never to take the'name of God In vain, are evidently all healthy po licemen. They breakfasted together after attending mass Sunday, and thli Is what they ate: 3, (XX) grapefruit, 1,200 pounds of oatmeal, 24.000 scram bled eggs, 2,500 roast chickens, 4,500 pounds of potatoes, 12,000 sausages, 1,000 pounds of sugar. With this breakfast they drank 900 gallons of cofToe, 800 quarts of milk, 1,250 quarts of cream. Mr. Octavus Roy Cohen, writer. Bays : "The craze for contract bridge hurts social life, It has eliminated the art of social conversation," It grieves Mr. Cohen that women should "play bridge five afternoons and five nights a week," If he had heard some of these wom en engaged In what he calls "the art , of conversation" he might be glad that the bridge craze came along. Bridge Is simply one of many sub- j stltutes for thought, a painful process for nearly all human beings, and one , of the milder substitutes. Other sub stitutes are drugs, alcohol, tobocco and various kinds of sports that take men back to the monkey period and let them comfortably down on all fours. A dog, taught to walk on its hind legs, likes the tjisk no more than a man, recently taught to think, likes thinking. Salvation army authorities In Flor ida announce a new view of an old moral question, sometimes described as "doing right by our Nell." Mrs. George A. Stephan, wife of Ad jutant Stephan, whose work is help ingvglrls out of trouble, no longer believes In the old "shotgun" marriage idea. Ideas have changed, Mrs. Stephan finds, and public opinion, that of wom en especially, is not as cruel as It used to be. The young unmarried mother may find a place In life, Mrs. Stephan I helps her to find It, and does not ad vocate the compulsory marriage, which was once thought a eure for all suck J troubles. I John Curry, sentenced to life Im prisonment four years ago when only j fifteen, for helping In a "witch mur der" In Pennsylvania, Is developing ar- j tlstlc. talent In prison. Ills pictures have been exhibited. Important artlats visit and show Interest In him. The young convlct-artlst says, "The ' work means a great deal to me be cause It makes the outside world, which I may never see again, real t? me." ' The French government, disturbed ' by recent riots caused by financial cor ruption, In which government ofllclali ' shared, worries about unemployment, although, compared with others, French idleness amounts to nothing. Young men leaving the army are Invltod to re-enllst, and not swell the ranks of the Idle, nnd men out of work who have been In the army during the last five years, which means practically every sound man under forty in Frauee, are Invited to go Into the army until times are better. Men In the French army work on roads and otherwise, and they are used, which would horrify labor In this country, as strikebreakers In case the employees of the government-owned railroads go on strike. In fact, French strikers have been conscripted and or dered to work, or be shot. Attorney General Cummlngs asks congress for new legislation to help crush the crime underworld, and you will hope that congress will consent, in view of official statement that or ganized crime "has more people under arms than there nre In the army and navy of the United States." It not only hns more people ander arms than the army and navy, It has mora thaN the army alid navy In and around New York city alone. President Roosevelt will not be alto gether pleased with statements by able young commercial (lyers, telling hltn what he ought to do. F. D. Roosevelt, after all. Is head of the army and navy, and also of the Post Office department. Mrs. Caroline Phillips, born June 28, 1R27, Is dead In Florida. In three months she would have been one hnn dred and sevon years old, and Florida calls that an excellent recommends tlon for her climate. California will reply that If the lady bad lived In Los Angeles she wotiU) have lived Several yej?rs longer. 4b, Klnt foftturMi Syndlo?t*. Ih WNU S?rrlM 1 V 1 RAIL DISPUTE TO BE ARBITRATED , Employers and Workers in Agreement. Washington. ? Hallway managers and j employees agreed to submit their wage ; dispute to arbitration by Joseph B. i Eastman, federal railroad co-ordlna- 1 tor, as proposed by President Roose velt. Mr. Eastman Immediately made plans for opening conferences on the controversy. A truce in the railway wage con troversy was reported to President 1 Roosevelt by representatives of the two groups. A. I<\ Whitney, chairman of the Rail- ! way Labor Executives' association. I had accepted the services of Mr. East man after rejecting suggestions for a | continuation of the existing 10 per i cent pay cut agreement. Later W. F. ThleholT, chairman of . the conference committee of railroad managers, told the White House his , group was willing to accept the serv- ' ices of Mr. Eastman to aid In compos ing the differences. Mr. Whitney repeated labor's de- j maiul for a restoration of the old pay scale and an increase of 10 per cent ! on July 1. Railway executives already had agreed to continue the present 10 per cent cut for another six months. The ' workers held *tiut for a L'O per cent Increase over what they are now get ting. Discus* Auto Dispute Washington. ? The labor loaders, who had called a strike in all automo- i mobile factories to take effect March 1 [ 22, and who canceled that call upon , request of President Roosevelt, ar- i ranged to meet with the Chief Execu- j live. Reliable reports emanating from the | conference were to the effect that he had proposed to the motor chiefs that ( they agree to the holding of an elec fion at which certain agreed proposi I tions will be laid before the workers. It was said that Mr. Roosevelt pro posed the elections be held under a joint control In which both the man agements and the otHeimsKof the na tional labor hoard sliouuT participate. WASHINGTON BRIEFS The house passed the senate hill re i>c .? i i prohibition laws In Hawaii and Alaska. Ilufry L. Hopkins, relief adminis trator, allotted $1,200,000 to Kentucky for relief during February and March. The senate finance committee ap proved the normal and surtax rates on Incomes contained In the house revenue bill. Noted Scientist Dies While Seated at Desk Pelplng, China. ? I)r. Davidson Black, forty-nine, poted scientist and author ity on the so-called "Poking man," whose explorations led him Into many Jankers from which he emerged un matched, died as he sat at his ofllr-e desk. He was professor of anatomy j it Peking Union Medical college. Lengthy Casualty List in Russ Train Wreck Moscow.? Thirty-three persons were killed and 08 Injured In the wreck of two trains near Sverdlovsk nine days ago, It was revealed here. Responsi ble employees already have been placed on trial. The maximum pen alty Is death. Bomb Probably Meant for Premier Goering Berlin. ? An attempt to assassinate Premier Hermann Wilhelm CJoering of Prussia was rumored when a hand grenade exploded In tho fashionable Boulevard Cnter den Linden short ly after (Joerlng's auto was said to have passed. Stone Czech Legation in Poland's Capital Warsaw, Poland. Two hundred demonstrators stormed the Czecho slovakia!) legation here and stoned windows. There has been strong feel ing recently because of Chechoslo vakian measures affecting Polish mi norities ir* TeHhian-Sllesian. Haitian President to Talk With Roosevelt Port nil Prince, Haiti. ? President Stenlo Vincent of Haiti sailed for New York to discuss wlt'i President Roose velt the questions of evacuation of Haiti by drilled States marines and n commercial treaty between the tw> coi .tries. Jolin Rnoifv?lt Doing W^ll Washington.- Naval hospital ofTl clals said the condition of John Boosetelf, tho President's youngest j son, whose appendix wn? removed, Is | "very satisfactory," and he will soon | be convalescent. To Di? for Cnrol?ttnfit Moscow.? Two engineers on a Mojj cow suburban line were sentenred to death upon conviction of being re sponsible for the wreck of their trains March 4. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY I chool Lesson (Br REV. P. B. fitzwatkk. d d.. Member of Faoulty, Moody Bible Institute of Chlenjco.) ?, 1914. Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for April 8 THE CHILE# AND THE KINGDOM LESSON TEXT? Matthew 18:1-14; 19:13-16. GOLDEN TEXT ? Suffer little chil dren, and forbid them not to com? unto mo: for of such Is the king dom of heaven. Mutt. 19:14 PRIMARY TOPIC ? Jesus Blesses Ih? Children. JUNIOR TOPIC ? Jesus and (lis Smallest Friends. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP IC ? Entering and Growing in th? Kingdom. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC ? The Sin of Neglecting and Misguiding Children. I. The Greatest In the Kingdom of Heaven (vv. 1-4). 1. The disciple's question (v. 1). The prominence given to Peter In con nection with the announcement of Christ's purpose to build the church and the payment of tribute with the money in the fish's mouth, provoked Jealousy on the part of the other dis ciples. Seeing that the kingdom was to come to realization despite the tragedy of the cross, the disciples thought It best to hnve settled their place of rank In the kingdom. Instead of entering Into sympathy with Jesus In the dark hour of his passion, they were supremely concerned with the dignities to be conferred. 2. Jesus' answer (vv. 2-4). Two vital truths wtand out In his reply: a. Condition of entrance into the kingdom (?. 3). He showed them that the great question which should con cern them was as to whether they were really In the kingdom. Their behavior revealed the fact that they needed conversion before they could enter Into the kingdom. b. Thoso possessing childlike humil ity are the greatest (?. 4). It Is high ly Important that wo understand child hood. The child Is dependent, lowly, and docile. Doctor Morgan sets forth the following characteristics of child hood : (1) Imperfection. The child Is not only the emblem of Imperfection but Is subconsciously aware of It. P.e cause of this it awaits Instruction and correction in order for development. (2) Simplicity. All the powers of the child's being express themselves fr'eely, readily, and naturally. (3) Submlsslveness. While the child has Inherited sin yet It yields to the touch of the skillful hand. II. Jesus' Identification With Hl? Believing Ones (v. R-0). 1. Receiving the believer In Christ's name Is receiving Thrist (v. 5). Through faith In Christ we become Ood's children, and so completely Is our life Interwoven with his that he regards treatment of us as treatment of himself. 2. The awful peril of causing a b<v llever to stumble (vv. fl-0). To cause to stumblo means to give occasion for a moral fall. This particularly refers to the carnality and selfishness which were expressing themselves in the dls clpLen* contention for pre-eminence. Their behavior was not only an In Jury hut a stumbling block to othera Bvery Christian should solemnly In quire as to whether his life would help or hinder his fellow believers.. Sin ning against Christ's own will meet a sure and aw/ul fate. III. The Heavenly Father's Special Cnre for Believers (vv. 10-14). 1. They are under angelic guardian ship (v. 10). So precious Is the believ er In Cod's sight that angelic messen gers are provided (Hob. 1:10). 2. The Son of man came especially to save the lost (vv. 11-14). The heav enly Fafher does not will that anyone should perish. All are the objects of the Father's seeding love. IV. Jesus Receiving Little Children (Matt. Hi :13-1.'>). The setting of this text should be most carefully noted Jesus had been speaking of the sanctity of marriage wMch Is the bulwark of the home. Into rtie sacred enclosure of the homo comes childhood to complete and en noble It. 1. Children brought to Jesus (v. 1.1). Most likely they were brought by their parents. Parents naturally desire the blessing <>f the Lord for their children. Many parents who are careless as to themselves, desire to i bring their children Into touch with Jesus Christ. 2. Rebuked by the disciples (v 13). They regarded children as too Inslg nlflcant to engage the Lord's atten tion. 3. The disciples relinked l>v (lirlst (v. 14). These words uttered hy tho Lord have placed n peculiar dignify npon children. 4. Christ laid his hands upon the children (v. 15). This action no doubt Indicated his pronouncement of hlo?t?* Ing upon them nnd his tenderness for them. Our Duty to MnUo F.nrmieg To Incur enmity Is r necesary part of the life of triumph In Christ. <hrl* tlans carry to men a message of death an well as of life ; nnd men know It. If we speak nnd live the whole eoun sol of Clod we shnll not si n hv maklnf friends among those who ought to lie our enemies. Know* Wlt*t'? He?t Cod Is too wise not to know all about os, and what Is really best for mi to be, and to hnvo*