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THIS WEEK By Arthur BfuUno Mr. Br."bane'* editorials are pubit bed as exprcxa .on* of opinion* of the w/TId's highest salaried ed tor and The Chronicle does not necessarily endorse al] of his views and conclusions. I be 1'. t er i*.id Dr (.'adrr.ar i iiu: k ? , t.ba' This p. a net may ex ? '. for mar.;. a m.ll.on bill.or. .tar* longer An anx ous Christian a * -. "Do y> i f.e '.hat Che u. s.e. - ,ri the 1 g.u.e with the body a mi.lion biilior. years, waiting .t thi judgment * If 1 really believed 1 r. t.a I kh< ud try to have a prett> g-a'f '.me a:.distill in the fle*h The Reverend I >r < ad mar. ' is the inquiring sou! that wh?r u are unr'onxc.ous a rn. ..or, ' o\ years m-< rn- r.o longer 'r ar ,i n \ u'.e and a half, an I tel:> t'm - -u! i "It is better to awake from a ; ro j ]< r.g|/d tr-rj/or with (lean re< ollec .oris in y our < or?s- .<<u.- past ' nar. a' a mora! idiot The child tha' ' '< an''" wait a week f< r Christ mas" and the Chr.st:an "that ran'- wait a million billion years for the judgment day" are both interesting, an J both chi.dren mentally. Texas wants bank bandits, and wants *hem dead Texas banks carry this s.grt "fo.bnij for each dead bank robher ru t or.< nt for l'?0 I'.e ones." Banks don't war.' live robbers because they are hard to id?-nt.fy. hard to convict, hardly ever kept in the penitentiary after g. irig there. This may discourage bank robbing. It will imprc- ..n bank robbers the fact that *hey must kill first, or be killed Mr. Babe Ruth amazes "sportdorn" by saying, "Hearing advanced age of thirty foije," that he believe in all year round training and ex pects to be "juM as good at forty" a- '.( IS row. 1 r * j h work a> Bala- Ruth doe-, bar'! hi't.r.g at'! running. f rtv should he tf.i bos' ag* . arid fifty about as good. It i.-n't their work, but their play between times, that makes men old. Bong ago, near Batavia, N V., a boy was born and soon had an idea lie once told this writer h"w he gavu up smoking "extravagant five-cent cigars," saving money to carry out his plan and build his first car. "1 w o men - opt in the upper, ">vo in ' he lowt r !>* h, fur fifty con's apiece. Abr.tham Bim (>!n w as' no of hi- f:r.- J a g -.g f Imago - ; r gfudd. a: . a.i< t b-ng for tlo The ? * ' * r ma* : I .-ted. 1 . * : ' :ck ' - bes: ' , ,?r was (? g? M 1'ui man. a rut w ! '. ' i C a r:.i ! . ( .'Hi m - !: f \i-- t " ' . h. - I 'ul 1 ma:, , rn pan;. at s* i 1 .sit. w :.:. h !- fa: be 11 w it- r? a. \ al . Co! a g 'd idi a. stnk \< . "Hake sacrifice-, and the idea w .1 tami ar. f \' i, iater. M r? I i, k n in. niut ht r f : . B ? Angr.es kidnaper, will t.fv ti.at she was . , :i-ane and ittcmpvl Min ale. thu- -''kitig to -a'. :ar - a by a plea ,.f ' , .iitars it.-.mity B is rmt conceivable th.a* anything > Ul.l sa\ e that niurdert i m the xt re :r,i penalty. A crime ali.nst agreat a- - . up was lightly locking ' hi- > 'ting r.minal up and igh'.iy '? tting him ; aga r. or. former The learned ! >r St ckar t. ; fe.-s >r > f a::.i' >m\ a' ? ern. .1 I a ver-ity has exja-nnt r.ted w t n al no he 1 on fwi t h u - a 11 gin:.'a p gduring se\ ente. n \? ar-. Th;- is hcom lusion "(luinea ; ,g- A, h ; are. if anything, a \o m .bth r than teutotal guiia a ; ,g- .,r d live just as long. One go m a ; g wamade drunk w ith alci i -. \ dayevery week and h.s h?a.t:. wa feet." But first, the guinea p g ha mg to do but o*', breath a- j ,i.gc He doesn't need to use - br.. n Second, the kind colleg, profess r gave good alcohed to h.- drunk- r guinea pigs, not bootlcgg. r alcohol There is excitem* r;' at lb,. Dodge, Mont. Mrs \ opening the gizzard of hi r Chr mas turkey, raised m that neighborhood, found small gold nuggetIVospectors are seeking <K sfn-rate y the spot whore the turkey picked u: the nuggets. To the turkey tho?. nuggets were simply rough Momswallowed to help grind corn. To "proud man" those nuggets are the beginning and tlje end of earthly ambition, ninety-nine times out of a hundred. Wise turkey, foolish man I.unatim. f know a rr.ar. who i# going crazy, fit it literacy h *.ng hit mind, and when the Jo?t .* complete he will have nobody to h.arr.? ex ept himself. He * ma*: g h: m a lunatic. Star.) a;! ' .r '.roubles are hornema ; I r u! - M l iymt out of a ito' - t. a' : on the innocent 1 i if '! \ ' A itnout any warn, i J grain crop. \S e ' p'-jar. " ,y . .1 a lid plant '.he j xe?-d aid < j . the crop, arid then, when : :s r w harvest it. A r. > rna' ordinary -enae who | f.hs a pre-i ' ' rouble car. look hack a.'.: see . , * when ar.<i where he p.a te<J ' r i-?d and began to cu.tJ. a'? h.j> ? r 'p And if he ha* a *en 8c .Tt3""tlv< .t ? well a* ordinary sense o?; * '. w . r> a -'fie j* to b!a rne for the ' ?r '. est If he .- an ordinary man. he will ;. r : *orin body else- to blame, for all1 ' u- !ik< *o dodge responsibility when '.h.ngs go wroig; but i;. hia secret '. art fa know* the culprit is h:rn self. I A few year* ago I had a friend w hoM? mind wa* alert. keen and 1 g.cal. I en j' y ed being w.'h him and hearing him talk?not be a use we al-! way* agreed, hut betau*< he was so ! ntellingeut. His mit.d worked like! a piece of intricate and perfectly balanced ma< hmery. And ther. something nappened to | get him interested in religion. The I last few time-> I saw him, he could , 'alk of iiothn g else. 1 realized what was hapfsening and a voider! him I could riot bear to witness th<- making of the tragedy. I he harve-4 matured <pjn kly. He went mad. and was taken to (lolum h:a. I he human ipind is the most powerful and yet the most delicately lo.a-'-d work of Nature. It can rem .1- mountain- ?n<l a-', them into I ; t.'a -ea, hut a mere thought ? which neither weight nor substance, nor ;?readth nor thickness, and is' more deli ate and trans.tory than an infarr's breath can. destroy the most powerful mind and bring it crashing dow n .r: u"'-rm..-t r uin. In all .nor works Nature demands ' con-tar.' < har.ge, for i?. change ther j is r. Noth.rig in natuie stands "-'ll- h.erythir.g moves, develop-, i grows; arid the moment anyh.rg' ; - " g '.w rg or no ving it die.-. Th.- rr.it.!, most delicate of N I j ' iir '- w ,'ks. can least afford v jla'i* Nature s .aw-? It cannot ?tan ! i still and cscap<' deatk. 1 r\ . if you wi.l, to keep Vour ! , , I .n<>ugn.s . n ai.y one thing for sixty se.oru- You can't do it. In less! than r.a.f <f that time your thoughts : wul .e.ij away a< though escaia* a1 ; trap It is Nature's safe-guard. ] I he mind that cling- to one thought '.ill. It Is l.Ke ,i wheel in .1 I ru' there it i an": gi t out. . Wat:; a mar. "g"e- crazy or re'iig lei an-. h. thoug: t too : ' iM"U* n ;g. v. Mr rung. r. on i . i r j.-ynii nt of t?'?d's " 11 a r. 1 ivc f. h ge-.rg. " . t: . p.:..': -re the f ; m ns ar : u* I V,. . .. '' au i - m . madness than " : * i>. iii-i < i ami *.<' 1 : " ' ''< rn e i " '.!> lncorr ' - ' a t ha t hi : rigs. Tr ponder- n . n quick! ' ! -- .r.e limit hi- u-dcrstar.f s ffor-t t-' -ee fartr.er, a ! a; 'a., zing hope 'hat a 1: * * i rn r' '* !! over come t h. dark-:, s '' g bins < ut into the shinir.g l.g- te understanding, h. d h . ' M : s?t a d i.o-ir to h. . j. : * hough, t ur'.I at last .t si.:,. J : ' ru' bi has made and h. i- ix s r;,j rr:,r 1 K ,v a " wh" is }i- paring : ' a d n him-elf. ' re. g that threa*. > him. 1 ' *- a uhlc that ,'.e pcrm-ap' fyir.g and trying t> i d.-m -- . fr .m his mind. , <4 o :n other matters and i ' ' and happiness. ' HuA hi I au-e t*?. ;s s. ). , I tare ar.d he-muse h.s pride i- irr.ulv. b* o.<" :..gh: an<i day and rr "'^ f;d k- ?,f nothing else. u'-' h mad. .Just a- slJr, ,, irun is u- r.. f . w 11 he a lunatic w:-a year u? o-s h? forces h.m?elf hink <f '?* h?- - t hirgs and g.M-s h or m n.i a c.'jnr.g. to rest it. ^ uU xar. t \ ad.,:. Nature's laws withou pay.rig pH>na.t\ You inn't keep rr.ind on thing a"i4 nv< -a-'. ?Robert Guillen 'i 1" u- a.n 1 r* Tribune. < 'f ( <?urse Not. ^ gentleman seeing u -mat! >- y *a r.. carrying r? lot acwsp.ai>. - under his arm said Hon: a hose papers ma*i you red. rr.y t*.y ?" "Naw 1 don't read 'em," repl.ed the ad ? Methodist Protestant. t ' | Ml SkKAT IN WINTER Furred Animal WHI Equipped To I i*r I iidrr Thr Icr. A mu>r,Mt house is more than > shelter f r often represents a store of f ocwl fr possible "lean days." Theae Im-;. little creatures will use ha> ir bn .Jing their houses as winte* come- then by degress eat down trw-^fc and rebuild it with other grasM If . . ve near a lake and desire to he.p Miu.+krats during a particular)) h<?: winter, cut a hole through the .- a.od place an inverted l>ox over The musk rata will do the rest, .i jblfig the sides of the hole with n . J and hay so it will not freeze over, I'd lining the box with bedding J r. inuskrat reall> prefers to sear n for his food in the water. It w.'l :.? a service to him if you break the < along the shores of the lakes and ' reams. He can drill throug . the K e, but sometimes every moment counts, if the little animal is desperately hungry. A food famine in winter, the ex hau-\ n of the supplies in the house, br g- out the intelligence of maskra' Working together, with a commo: purpose, they swim under the ice. 'hey will drill through it, and eai h "rat" must do his share. The an.ri.a! that refuses to take his turn at ijfillmg is ostracized, driven away by the others to shift for himself. Tr.i muskrat is well equipped to live under the ice. In addition to his warm coat, he has a pouch of reserve air?to draw upon when he w u r r. s under the ice. Breathing ag.?.r.-.t the under surface of the ice, cau-?- little bubbles to form, and J the-c are alowed to oxygenate. The air o breathed again, and this repeti- J t. -r. can be continued indefinitely tin ugh the muskrat breathes lc-s frequently when under the ice. The apparent feroci'y of the muskrat in winter has given him an undescrvedly bad repu'ation with some observers. Hunger will make any animal savage. It mu?st be signifi cant that mu.-krats are never quarrelsome when the food supply is am- i pie. 'I here is los* "bossing" in a co.ony of muskrat* than among any other animals that I know of; they I work as a ur.it rather than as individual-. But they will fight hard for. 'heir live*, their young or their house, j ? I.. K. Luba.nks in Our Dumb Animals. Dynamited a School House Ottawa. I.!. March 3.?Hiram Reed, of Mossviile, 111., was found guilty by a jury tonight of bombing the Pleasant Va!!e\ school house in which his * w?-t-t heart-teacher. Miss Iola 1'radford. was seriously injured. Tne v?-rdict was returned after less '..an an r.our's deliberati Rc cci a ,opted the verd ' without " e m - -t ion. Miss Bradford "el;, g ;/.? (! at the floor a.- tin- ver. v'"~ *'a,! ' At- : H. L. Nich.dson j ">e . .*< ti c d a nn>- i f,,r H ' - aarge arrie* n ne t Jo Tt:v . :< inio.' recant''- ndath : *o the Me.i-'* * Bead In State. ' "lull. \l:t!ih 5.? New . -.-as--. :n S< u aiu.ir.a reported t -r the ' 1 ?'k ert'i February 125 v.ert as : how.-: guc. 2; malaria. 113;( diphther.a. - trlet fever. 11; -ir.nl!- j x> D. < ' imix 55; epthalm.a. 5; ! typh id, i"; .ra-typhoid, 2; rtiar-, "Ha. i '; p? gia. 11; hookworm. 40; tuberculin.-. lobar pneum >r.ia, I . >; broi . .'t tmonia 43; mcas.es, i 1.270; wh?- g ough, 80; infantile j paralysis, 1, uc-nza, 1,(K>8; nu n n-] g.ti-, 3. notice r-H* s t f \ all pai . it - on- , red 'hat Jan. - (Jriffin, sometimes a .rd Jatr.r- li . ;S a mil or. and ' as been running away fr< m n or .< ur Lug. tf [h.- will warn all lai'ies not ' r.nbi r or empi..\ tnn- ' > an> manner. Rural police r. -t ru- t. . . a est him f caught ' : .'Hting at a ;. ; i: A. .1 BOYKBN. j i His (iuadian i-Maivh 3. j notice of sale tate of South C arulina, Bounty -.f Kersr.aw (In Magistrate's C art) l L H. Bell. Plaintiff against ."--e\ Car. 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