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PAGE TWO ARE THE] (Literary Digest.) That some men are naturally be tor fighters than others is doubtlei true, just as it is true that some ca run better or write better poetry. Bi can wo classify races in the san way? May we assert that the Frenc as a people are better fighters thu the British, or vice versa? Good at thorilies seem to differ, we are to) in The Journal of Heredity (Was! ington). It is hard to tell, here i elsewhere, what abilities are inbot and what are due to training or edi cation. Besides this, we are assure* no adequate scientific studies hn\ ever been made on the comparativ fighting ability of different races. Tli "warring instinct," or gregarioi group-instinct, is something qui1 apart from any desire to fight sing handed, to quarrel with one's neigl bors, to go about with a chip on one shoulders, or to start trouble out < nothing. The most polite and peaci fui mortals may make the best so diets under the stimulus of grou] conflict. The writer goes on: "The readiness of nearly all pei pies to respond to this group-instim for war is not difficult to explain o gr lunds of heredity. Mankind lu been devoting presumably half of i time to warfare, so that any tvouj lacking that instinctive tie that bint so marvelously one to all would. 1 ami targe. nave ueen naciieu in picci by more unified and organize groups! Or. in other words. thoi groups, compounded in the patriot mold, with a maximum display < 1 ravory and individual self-sacrific would survive as such, and in t! long run oxtentilnate less close formed aggregates. "The disposition to act in a qua relsome manner, to fight single-ham cd. to murder, or to disturb the lia mony of the social order represents type of man that lias been a "ten up< by natural selection in precisely tl opposite way. Ever since human b ings have lived in settled commun ties. pe tons of this sort hav bet seized upon l?v society and sununari dealt with, so that to a great extei these types have been eliminated. "The willingness, and indeed e thusiasm, with which so many n tions entered into the recent gre war. as soon as the gregarious i stinct reached a certain point of eo tagion. would seem to indicate tl general or widespread distribute of the warrimr imnulse. The conn less evidences of bravery and marvc ous se'.f-saorifice that have re.ichi us from all quarters might give tl Impression that all people are equa ly brave and that there is little di ference in the value of the tightii ability of different races. "This may or may not he true; b in the absence of systematic know edge "on this important question it at least interesting to read the fr lowing letter contributed hy Mr. Ma ison Crnnt, whose recent 'Passing tit ' ('.teat Ua e" has extended an i terfst in the applications of the stui f ?' heredity." This letter, we are told, was n intended for publication, hut w written to Mr. Grant hy an A tileries artillery captain in France, who h; become interested in racial questio and who evidently thinks that "bio will tell." It is quoted hy The Jot: The Needs of "The Inner Elian" Whs Inner Woman" It's hrrd to "minister to a MINT) diseased", hut an easy matter to minister to a diseased RODY; to supply the remedial deeds of "the Inner man"?and the inner WOMAN. M o.st everybody Is. more or loss, conslipute<l and frequently bilious. Neglect of these conditions ia dangerous-foolish and useless. The "inner works" of the human body are so complicated that they easily get out of order; and when anything's the njatt? r with cny of THEM, there's going to he trouble with the whole physical machinery of life. DR. TTIArHRRS LIVER AND PiiOOD SVRl'P ta a standard remedy for the internal ills that bring about the ailments common to m n, women end children. It ia gently but effectively LAXATIVE, or vigorously and thoroughly CA TIIARTJO, according to the dose prescribed. It pui ifh tarid tones up the BLCOD, making it run red, rich and riotous in health-giving current through the system. It helps to induce natural action of the KIDNEYS?the drainage system of iJie body which must be kf?nf i iiic.M nnd florin I /? ?w.??fV??'?*> Wo proper function I>K. TMACI1 Eft'S LIVER AN'E BLOOD SYIIUI' is the prescription of an old family doctor, used witii his thousands of patients in a life time practice. It is a purely VEG ETABLE preparation compounded In the laboratories of the THACH ER MEDICINE CO., Chattanooga Tonn., sole proprietors. It Is sold by druggists everywhere. m ' m'Kttmmt , , _ , KE "FIGHTINC nal, the writer warns us. in full by r- recognition of the fact that it is mere- mat ss ly the testimony of a single indi- of I in vidual. This officer writes: " Jt "It is interesting to learn about one le the relative tighting ability of the com h various races in this game. The Nor- first in man and Breton Frenchmen and the dim 11-[ North French generally are the tight- itar Id ing men of France. Today they com- the !i- pose practically all the lighting the is troops lof? The Scotchmen are the soci n top-hole lighters of them all, Bodies also l-'and Allies, and that seems to be ad- indi I,I milted by all alike, while the Italians Her ejof certain divisions, are utterly unre- gem re liable. ting ie' "There is not a bit of use denying isjthat the Bodies are brave men ami men e light like heroes. Their aviators are coui le the finest lighters of the lot, with the anal i- exception of the British, perhaps. Alpi 's Bui how can any one show greater'%spec sand and finer dash than the Boche tion e- aviators I can not understand. They widi I- may be devils, but they are fighting prod [>- devils and have guts through and ant through. Between them and the Ital-jn g? a* ians give me the Bodies every time. t'< "As for our own troops, their fipht- PR1 n inu ability is in direct proportion to >s the Americana in the various units.1 <s (liven an outsit like the Yankee ill- \\j*. vision, or some of them with a futi! I S|| proportion of Americans, ami there >V, is nothing they are afraid of. nothing1 s that will stop them short of death it-j ' self. In fact, they're too darned brave ,p if anything. That idiotic melting-pot i? idea is blown to the devil l?v this war IM ' if they tell the truth about the thing ,, ivi (' I'll it is a ten-to-one bet that they ,u " 1P will lie and smooth the matter over l> In such a manner that you all at home will believe that anv one with . beet ' an Amermican unitorm on is as g<> > ! as another similarlv dressed Fight- 1,1 . . ?... Mr. ' ing men are horn that way: you can. a not drill the real stuff into any one '' >? at all. 1 |p "I think that the Southerners ;inn, p* the New Knglanders are the host o.: at 11 otir lot, with no choice between the ' "n two. Hut you really can handj<x" '.v the nnlm to anv of the American.-,: "" n* they are all equally full of the great-! est spirit that any man ever saw ir. n* war. , noSf a_ "I have soon no negroes fighting 'lis and have hoard vory difTorent repoivs ! s'' ' n_ of them, but the exporionoo of the,"" Kronoh and Ilritish is that the lower no 1 raoes can not stand th strain of this'*011 >n war. particularly sheiltlre. which is!111'1' the hardest thing of all on the morale. ' of troops. And I do not imag'.ti"! !<" ' that they are veiy Rood lighting! ' ,l'> troops. thoiigh*thoy are invaluable as;*'"' working troops, and one sees tli?>ti-1 ' 1 ' """ sands of them everywhere on the,1"1 roads right hack of the lines audi'11"' from there hack to the docks at Brest I '' 'i* itself." |',ow The above. we are told, is more or '" 's less confirmed by other observers. <>( . I,L course it does not take into account A f'* the indttence of training. It is anj'"'" ?' open secret, however, according to n" the editor, that in the lirst battle <>! the Marne it was the men of Med'-1 tcrranean rare front the south of "')M ot France who gave way and had to be ' as rallied and renlaced bv sterner ma a,,n 1,1 terial from the north of France."i i,(' The Journal gives us also the fo|- 1 11 I!< lowing continents on the letter by a , " distinguished man of letters. Mr. " ' ,r" John Jay Chaoman, who does not he- 1 "A 1 iev< jit racial values in nhvehic qual- ? I Hies: KA "1. Many thanks for letting lite see t)i?> i ii 11 wtxl I dnn ' t (Imi lit I It'll wii'iio ' races fight bettor than others. Hut 1 I doubt whether you < <t 11 scheme to '' I preserve any particular race without doing more harm titan good. If you 1 accept the test of survival as the I best test of a race, why it's only scientific to let the mat tot alone. II,ia is g do you know which one ought to survive? That's the very <|ite.,Hon .mi iv? are trying to find out. You might as tod: i well put weights in the balance in ong weighing chemicals. sent , "2. The notion that we must boost , up any race which is failing or assist mot nature in any degree violates the ' v whole theory of the survival of the wns 1 fittest. feat "H. As for which race makes the bcu best fighters, look at the (Jermans nu!< i (whom the correspondent praises so 'ft" > highly), and see how they collapse, uno J | I don't think the world will regard of the German civilization as efficient w ovc ( the Germans as good fighters for and t some time to come. ehei 1 , "4. What basis are you going to stat get down to in encouraging nature? j "5. If modern science has discov- whf > : ere,| a formula that will tell how to otts i begin, I don't know the formula. This ed 'desire to help things along is a moral copi * idea which science has borrowed deri { from religion, ethics, etc., and which town science can make use of in small i whe - | matters, like hygiene. Hut the idea hips ' is unscientific or non-scientific, and ~ I rather believe that it can not he ex- . " t lor. j ; pressed in purely scientific language. ? The following final comments are $pn THE LANCASTER NEWS, LANCASTER, I REVOLT OF CHIN ^ TJ A SHANTUNG IS 1^ Clilncsv Hrlrpitcs at ence Say People \\*| Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn, for mit to Jit pi ty years the head of the Museum | Natural History in New York: | New York, July 2 Considering the above report by that "the :16,000.000 p of our artillery captains, and the tung will never sur intents of Mr. Chapman, it must Japanese aggression," be observed that it is extremely' Kung. and T. II. Hsu, cult to distinguish between hered | gates from Shantung p y and acquired lighting ability.j prace conference, in a ; former an inborn predisposition.j declared that the boyc latter the result of education and ?;se goods throughout ill Piivirnnniont Tho ?oot?or So * >".w:ih inn preiuae 10 a p? one of averages rather than of ing." vidual instances and exceptions. "Shantung has sent e, as well as in every field of sands of its citizens 1 tic inquiry, we must sharply ills- help win the war." si wish between race and country. Intent. "Many lives w An attempt is being made l>y \0w t}?, reward for thi ibers of the Galton Society to en- turn Shantung's econou age a more precise physical and ,.a) rights over to Japa tomical definition of the Nordic, those soldiers find whet ne. and Mediterranean races re- j to their native land? tive'y. Doubtless psychic defini-J lice, Japanese miners, s. or inventories of dominant ann ^ terprises of their own p ?ly prevailing psychic traits and vvt, expect these men llspositions, are equally import- perienced the terror of to place the races distinctively on ppan battle fields to res tietic or heredity basis. ' ; "The Shantung se ., ,1(.vv issue in tb bSlDEN i S ( ONDI1 ION p.in js s .tisfied with tl IS IN NO WISE SEKIOl'S v. ill attempt to carry i ; Chinese people will ne ?on Spends Day in lied; In <\>ii- Our people ha\e ox ilernble I'ain Fart of the Time, cruelty of Hi" Japanese and \ rvj '*1 iiconifocluhlc." the captilie of Kiau j will not be responsible 'nshinuton. July '2 1 President ,hov l:,kp whon ,hoir ' ion was in a weakened but no '*o; ibe.r properly serious condition tonight niter 1,1'' e,n?.vs tmld that ing spent the day in bed with regarded as 0 dysentery. Hear Admiral Cary ,<ux because of the bii J ray son, his personal physician, ' lx'' z:,'">n there, but t the president had been in con- ??>? ?H?w >' ?'? table pain during the day and had 11 fwlgtt "power be. 1 very "uncomfortiible." Admiral s'>ns,, justice and d cson said he would insist that 'inli ttion, Wilson remain in tied until he ' JX-? completely recovered. SOI 111 S I'hANl F he president's appointments i..r OYER .">,000,001 orrow with Republican senators not been postponed tonight buf . ,, . . Mi lion ItuslieN in K tie White House it was considered eine \ doubtful whether Mr. Wil- ^ car i- Department would be able to keep them lure Forera t'hlle none of those close to the lident would say whether his ill- Washington, July " 1 ; would result in postponement of peanut crop this year j trip through the West, there :i million bushels larj lied to Ve an opinion that should ye n's. Forecasts of tl illne -s lie prolonged it could have vaiious st ites, just ann ?ther effect. Hear Admiral Cray- department of ngrlct was uncertain when the president based its estimates in lit be ab.e to ie-uine his duties ????? |??* w ill .it ^ i i wiii|>uiiiirii in W inr ill h'riday wlipn lie wont to she 5 itol to confer with Senator Hitch<, ot Nebraska, ranking demo ( T* K member r.f the foreirn !' !:it . - I j mittee. He told Secretary Ti- ' ty then lie was slightly indisp.ee 1 expressed his intention of goliis n the Potomac over the week-end And yet, the belief that a change of nirj lit lie Icneticial. I?uring the trip, sesses arnaa ever, the weather was stormy ano ip and Mr. Wilson appears to have traded a slight cool. When lie re Thai's th :ierl from tin trip th:s morning, lie feeling worse and immediately tire's succe n arriving at the White lions r Admiral (iravson diagnosed his lent as gripe dysentery ati<! or- Ha2*(liho< d hi til to bed. All appointments' today were cancelled and those extra mile: > were to have called wore asked postpone their visits unt 1 tonior- luxury of c jskit lis: \h?Tiii.mse!.f Let us pu like real christian car. They a r \ 011 Iti'i'R S;i\? Kiilc of Fatlier ii<I Weighs More lleavi'y t pon meiit?the f IIi 111 Than Hoes ||js Dun, ! lerlin, July L'1 An intimate v of the former Herman emperor j iven hy Frederich von Ih-rg. who I ; chief of the former emperor's U al S 5 if' I cabinet, writing in the Autre lite! i.v. llerr von Herg was at Amer- ^ ? ii w n>'i i'!? ( rinan national a SI D hly accepted I ho peace iroaiv ^ ll was a terribly melancholy an?l liny mootlnu," ho wrote, "anil yot , wis a great joy to see tho kaiser | not a brokon man. It is truo h'aj f linos have beeonie sharp, but lie) M 'Royal Cord' is his lot like a real Christian reotno in calm. <|tiiot discussion i>rfulnes ??f ten t'liiin t man con- ^ mi it became known the lynoiuin- i*'"*&' I' i: I ii ii sol lish woman, who alsoj '^j/t rs lior suffering like a crown and i >so shaken health threatens to col-1 10 undo*-this fresh hBnw." Hib-My-TIsm is a giopt pain kil- 11/ Lnnilj ITmf It relieves pain afd soreness n t KlIl/lV UHll sod t?v Klietiniatisni, Neuralgia, 1 ?ins, Ktc.?Adv. ? a ESE IN l^_? EXPECTED mm perl 11 Not Sul?- BfiEml criD m EFFECTS 1.?Predicting I< ^Lj OF / eople of Shan- El'Wm la renaer 10 tne GKlPPjk J l>r " , ,F' Chinese dele- J^ord of cheer tor saftererh rovlnce to the from LaOrlppo and lt? result*, rtatement here f' ott on Japan- Liquid or T*blrt l"or? the province ) Sold Brerywdero ussibie "upristens of thou- ^|^^j^j7^^shovv7:? ('ro''' " f to Europe, to 55,531,000 bushels,( compare*, w.tn I lid the state- 54,434,000 bushels H?st year. F ere sacrificed. Alabama leads as a peanat pm ^ s service 4s to (iUCer, growing more than one <tu > ^ aic and politi-jtor 0f the country's output, but nn. What willcrop this year shows a decrease o , 1 they go bark, 4,700,000 bushels from last year. Japanese po-' thR other peanut growing states east Japanese en- nf (he Mississippi river, extepting ropertles. Can Florida, also show smaller riops t us, who have ex- year, while the states ve t of the M swar on Euro- sfsstppl?Arkansas. Oklahoma au? t satisfied? Texas?show increases. F* xas. \i > ttlement has a|1 increase of almost a.oon ono bus.i e far east. Ja- pjSi rnat'cs this year's total * .op he clause and tpe country larger than last year it out but the country's peanut acreage 1 1 ver acquiesce, year Is 1.7X8,400 acres, a decrease o. perienced the 2:? per cent from the acres .> of Hushido dur- r Arkansas was the only state Chow TJ.ni- I mowing an Increase in acreage. !?r any action Production forecasts of the various crritory is in- foljow: robbed." Virginia. 4.7!?r?.OOh bushes: North not only was paronnai r?.4; South Carolina, "sacred terrl- Glib, ) ?(>; (ieorgin. !'.b7!t 0 )0: Florid h ol ( .liiiese f,G.oon; Tennessee. d'Mt.OOO; hat its people Alabama. 1 4.7 oS.noii; Mississippi, l>e dominated 117.000; I.ou'sl'ina, 71.000; Texas [ ause of their t3.478.000; Oklahoma, r.:.G,000; esire for self- Arkansas. 036.000. Karl Cioodwin. of It lelnh, N. (" . ^ claims that ihe o d"st Joke is the en-[) BUSHELS about two boys who wore bad a* school and the teacher told both > \cess of l.nst stay after school and write their of Agricul- names 500 times. Ib-'h boys si 't ie 5 st. to work after sch >ol and wrote steadily for a while. Then one of the Iter s The south's stopped writing and started to cfv. promises to be "What's the matter?" asked h< ser than last teacher. io crop in tlie "This ain't fair," said the l?ov. as ounced bv the he looked at the other boy "Mi.,1 nit ore, which name is l.eo and niv name is S'bu'.lconditions ex- teroherauffmyer." Friumph of Dughness I h the 'Royal Ccz'Y pos::ng buoyancy and life. ip e secret of this famous m r>d that means many \v>ak \*V y 5, combined with the asier riding. &B V X t 'Royal Cords' on your \i ire the utmost in c^uipinest tires in the world. A 1 States Tires M, Sood Tires Jkp '.Vofrfry' 'Chain'^ 'Vtco' 'P ed States Tires are good tires. 1 J. B. 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"I ? of tho world's maple and only senulne corn-peeler, "Orets-It.V Then, and then only will you be s\ire that your corn will loosen from your toe so thnt you can peel it riaht ofT gloriously easy with your linkers. Tnko no chances of contlnuecf\ rain and soreness?why use preasy, Irrltatlnp salves, plasters that Shift and press into the "quick," raiors and "dippers" that make corns bl?ed end also rtow faster? I'se painless, easy, always sure "fJets-lt," There's only one like It in tho world?that's "Oets-It." f Millions have tried and O. K.'d It for years. It never falls. "Oets-It." the puaranteed. moneyback corn-refnover. the only sure wny. costs but a trlflo at any drwr store. M'f'd by E. Lawrence A Co.. Chicago. IllSold in Lancaster and recommended as the world's best corn remedy by J F. Mackey Co., Standard Drup Company.?Adv. ?/ I ^ ,a-\ kk} i tv ; ' ;'^v3 'r Tfr?rd' ["hat's why we sell them C.