THE FIELD OF ARMAGEDDON. I
Most Ii^oresting Battleground of tlie
World.
Students of Jewish and Biblical
history were profoundly interested in
the announcement that the British
army had crossed the Plain of Esdrealon,
known as the "Battlefield
of Armageddon." The plain figures
largely in history on account of the !
many sanguinary struggles of which
it has been the scene, but it is of especial
interest to the modern world
by the reference to it in the Apocalypse
(Rev. xvi, 16) as the place
wherein the final struggle between
good and evil the greatest of all battles
will be fought: "the battle of the
great day of God Almighty," to be
fought at Armageddon, Armageddon
hoin? the Hebrew name of the
plain.
The plain separates Galilee from
Samaria, is triangular in form, and
surrounded by mountains, of which
Mount Carmel is the most conspicuous.
Through it runs the road
across Palestin4 which was the greatest
thoroughfare of Asia Minor in ancient
times.
It was because of lying on the
easiest and most frequented high_
way of antiquity that it became
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such a frequent and famous battlef
ground. v "In it," writes the historian,
"Gideon's gallant band of
\ 300 picked men routed the Midianites
from beyond the Jordan by their
sudden night attack. On Mount Gil~
boa. Saul and Jonathan made their
* last tragic stand against the PhilisA*
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% tint? army, in tiic buumwcsicin aim
of the plain, King Josiah was defeated
and slain by the Egyptian army.
Holofernes sets up his camp on the
Plain of Esdraelon. So did Pompey,
> and Mark Antony, and Titus. Near
Mount Tabor Vespasian in the year
67 A. D. routed the Jewish patriots
with gre^t slaughter.
"The last significant campaign of
the Crusades took place wrhen, one
after another the Christian strong- i
holds on the edges of this plain were
captured by the Saracen army under
Saladin. Six hundred years later
East and West again met on the historic
- battlefield, when Napoleon
Bonaparte was victorious over the
Turks, though the victory was won
at such a great cost that he had to
retreat to Acre and give up his ambitious
dreams of rivalling Alexander
the Great as the conqueror of
Asia."
/ Chateau-Thierry.
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Chateau-Thierry, whose fame received
a new item in the brilliant
victory of our ^Americans there over
the Huns, has more history than
most places. Not the least interesting
item- in its long story, is that it
. was the home of La Fontaine, next
to Aesop the most famous of fable
- writers. The ruins of the chateau, I
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or castle, from which the modern j
town derives its name,' are twelve i
hundred years old. We are told by J1
the Boston Transcript:
It was Charles Martel. A. D. 720, (
who built the chateau, and his glory 1
was to have saved Europe from the
Saracens. English archers took it in :
the Hundred Years' war, which Joan
of Arc, in whose Lorraine fields oth- 1
er Americans are waiting the word 1
on the German flank, entered in triumph.
Charles V., emperor of Germany,
in the first half of the six- '
teenth century, got as far as Chateau-Thierry
in a march upon Paris,
and half a century later the Span- '
iards sacked it in the wars between
' Catholics and Huguenots. Again in :
, 1814, it was at Chateau-Thierry that
Napoleon made a stand with 20,000
conscripts against 50,000 troops of
the allied rest of Europe. This was
in February, but in March his enemies
entered Paris, and in a few 1
weeks Napoleon was on his way to (
Elba. One who saw Chateau-Thierry
early in the spring of the year <
describes it as a sweet old, fortified
town of 7,000 people, no larger than :
' , Wellesley or Ipswich, set in a fair
and peaceful countryside. In the
French revolution the story runs,
one woman was spared by the mob
simply and expressly because she
was the granddaughter of La Fontaine."
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Why "Doughboys."
A doughboy is an American soldier,
and American soldiers, infan- :
trymen, artillerymen, medical department,
signal corps, sharps, offi- j
cers and men alike, all are called
doughboys. Our cartoonist is one,
so is General Pershing. \ 1
The term "doughboys" dates back
" to the Civil war when army wit was
aroused by large globular brass buttons
on th? infantry uniforms. Somebody
(he must have been a sailor) J
dubbed the buttons "doughboy" be-1
cause they reminded him of the boiled
dumplings of raised dough served j
in ships, messes and known to all |
sailors as doughboys. Originally it
referred only to an enlisted infantryman,
but the A. E. F. applies it to all
branches and all grades of the service.?The
Stars and Stripes.
HOUSE KILLS GOOD ROADS.
State-wide Appeals for Legislation
Fall on Deaf Ears.
Columbia, Feb. 28.?The house,
by a vote of 54 to 4 4 tonight, continued
until next session, the good
roads bill which was passed by the
senate last night. This ends all
chance of any good roads legislation
at this session. The appeal of Governor
Cooper and of people from every
section of the State for legislation
looking toward the lifting of the
State out of the mud fell on deaf
ears in the lower house of the general
assembly.
The vote came very suddenly and
unexpectedly. Representative Owens,
of Marlboro, who was fighting
the bill before the house tonight, as
he has fought every good roads bill
introduced at this session, was interrupted
in the midst of a long argument
which he was making against
the bill by Representative Hamilton,
of Chester, who moved that the bill
be continued until next session.
Aye and Nay Vote Taken.
Representative Berry made the
point of order that the motion was
out of order. Representative Mower,.
who was in the chair sustained
the point. Representative Berry, of
Orangeburg, then attempted to gain
the floor, but Representative Mower
ruled that Representative Hamilton
retained the floor. Mr. Hamilton then
moved that the debate on the bill
be adjourned until first day of the
next session. Representative Mower
ruled this motion in order and aye
and nay vote was taken.
It was contended by some representatives
that the bill which was
under discussion was the house bill
amended by the senate that the only
disposition that could be made of it
was either to accept or reject the
senate amendment.
Home Stuff.
v
"I wonder if the coal man is go!
ing to give us any coal this year." |
"I guess he got tired sending us
statements for last year's coal."
"He got his money, didn't he?"
"Yes, after you kept him waiting
about seven months."
"Well, he had this satisfaction* at
least, he got his money for it, but
d little we got from it, and you
know it."
"Certainly, I know it, but I don't
see where you have much room to
complain, you weren't home long
enough to know whether the house
was hot or cold."
"For goodness sake. Nan, when
this little conversation started we
had the coal man 01X the pan and
now he's out of it and I am in it."
"If the shoe fits you, wear it. You
started it, didn't you?"
"I'll take a solemn oath I didn't
start to bawl myself out, that I'm
sure of, and another thing?if you
knew anything about a heater I
wouldn't have to make a fresh fire
about four times a week."
"Would you listen to that piece of
conceit! Why, you dumb thing,
this is the first house you ever lived
in that had a heater. Didn't you
say to me when you first saw it,
'What in the name of common sense
do they have five pipes to take the
3moke off?' "
"I was only kidding."
"Yes, you were, just like Americans
are the Germans. Do you know
1 have lots of laughs to myself when
1 think of the times when you were
coming around to our house-and my
mother would say what a fine young
fellow you were. Something told me
[ was making a mistake, but between
following my mother's advice and
listening'to your lies I just fell overhead?but
never again."
"The *vay you talk you would
think you* were captured. T was the
cne who was taken in; I know now
what your father meant at the engagement
party your mother gave
when he came up to me half stewed,
and so was I or I would have known
what he meant when he said, 'My
boy, you're taking a lot of responsibility
on yourself.' "
"My father knew I was too good
for?"
"There's somebody at the door.
See who it is."
"Oh, good evening, Mrs. Young;
just leave the coach on the porch.
Yoh, Charles, here's Mr. and Mrs.
Young. Let me have the baby while
you take your things off."
"Charles and I were just talking
about coal. I don't know what we're
going to do."
Moral?Many a door bell has kept
a home together.?Inter-Xos.
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Answered.
"You know," said the lady whose
motor-car had run down a man, "you
must have been walking very carelessly.
I am a very careful driver,
r have been driving a car for seven '
years."
"Lady, you've got nothing on me,
I've been walking for fifty-four
years."?Deroit Motor News.
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