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The attitude pf Highlayd Park citizens has completely changed Early Friday. afternoon the body Was positively identified as Lamar Harris by,’ Mr. C. - P. Mc Donald‘ president Lbs Angeles Planing Mills, who was well ac? quainted with him. n. M. BURGESS. Man-(in; mug. -The Chicago papers have flood~ ed our city with extras and every detail at the crime has been print- ed and reprinted and the wonder- ful enterprise of the newspaper world was brought to the attention of our citizens. These "continents are made on the supposition that Larmar Harris and the Bandit are” the same but it is not definitely known Marshall Shcahen receiv- ed a telegram from Philadelphia ordering the body held fdr identi» fication and signed Betty Stewart. ed, a he always wished, and his ashes will be brought :0 his home here. I can say no more. ' It is a sad story. and as Mr. Willis suggests the young man in ending his life. did not end the suffering that would follow to those who Were left behind. Here is what the mother ”has to say in a special dispatchio the Chicago Inter-Ocean. - Loo Angeles. Cal" Oct. Nthâ€"Mun Will A. Harris. mother of Lamar A. -Harris. tonight gave out the following statement through Dr. Mayer, the fam- ily physician. who is in constant ntten~ tion at the‘ Harris“ home. where both widow and mother are prostrated; "l [hall amend to the amngmenu for the funeral. I. will have his body cr'emai- "1 can hope no longer that he is not my son. The evidence seems so positive and the identification so coniplete. But 1 consider that the'man who killed himself yesterday is not my real son-only the shell of his body. His mind wu gone Alcohol killed my boy some months ago It was his only weakness. We quote a statement from Henry M Willis a friend of the Harris family. ' Twenty four years ago. when he wu bathing at one of the beaches with n party, in which was Will A. Harris, Lamar‘s father, he was saved from drowning by‘ the elder Harris. He never forgot it, and when the young man got into trouble with bad checks Willis came to the front to aid him. He sought to stop the prose- cution, and made good every check of which he could learn. Last night he said to correspondents: "Drink did this. Lamar was a g'ood boy except when he was in his cups. Then he signed the checks that brought this on him. Then it was that he sought the company of women. Then it was he , gambledand let his splendid law practice 1 go' to the dogs. Drink afiected his brain 1 towards the last. {have no hesitation in ( saying that (or six months he has been insane. He was a wonderful young man when in his right mind. "The greatest blow falls on those two faithful iomen. I fear they will both die of this shock. They believed tn him and loved him. Even after he went 1: way, and there could be no doubt that he had forged checks, they were faithful, 'and hoped only for word from him. At lust that word ceme. but it was terrible wording, and nearly killed them, muzm M} hum M. m; The robbing o! the Erskine hank last Wednesday afternoon- and the suicide of the robber-calls our attention to the fact that this talented young lawyer was mined by drink. 0501 within a week urlv'o mach necked for nub-crimiou'm atone cndiled.-and [hr date danced ”mirth!“ Subocripziou, ‘Lso a Year 5c per Copy Estonia I": Put Of“, Ht'gfiltal Par! Jilin!) a: ”all raw Ill!” NORTH - SHO E NEWS - LETTE SATURDAY, OCT. I6, ThehnRRobhery n P. DAVIDSON. PM. TELEPHONE No. 92 But we do not know of any liv- ‘ ing person who could produce ' such a furore of interest in an old story which is told by thousands of others as this visitor. It is probable that Dr. Cook or Peary could attract as many people if it were .mnouced that either of them would ttll his story of the north pole to a tree audience, but that story would soon lose its charm. Gypsy Smith Opened his champ- aign. atChicago. without any new sensation and twenty- -five thous- and people surged and struggled to gain an entrance to the Seventh Regiment Armory and after 8. 000 ’seats of the armory were all filled it took a company onO policemen 'to keep Back the crowd ‘and’direct A few days ago there ‘hrrived in this country a man of middle yyears whose appearance would not have occasioned any unusual re- mark. He has black hair and dark eyes, is of medium height and weight and, might easily be taken fora' drummer' or perhaps a merchant. ‘ Get your measure boys! Mea- ;sure up to full six feet if you can, but‘find your right measure and thenâ€"rfill it. A little honest pride won't hurt you. There is quite a margin of difference between self esteem and self conceit. Right meainrement is not neces- sarily physical strength. Every youth who can should avail him- self of the gymnastium, or better still the lawn mower or the wood pale. ' But don’ t forget that some physical dwarfs and cripples are among the best succeesses in‘ the world. ‘ Right measurement aims at right knowledge. Music and the fine arts are splendid and» noble attainments but they are not es- sentials to the mechanic or the agriculturist. Right'measurement is not based on possession. Many a wealthy man’s son wears a silk hat on a fool’s pater". It is not alwaysa disaster to begin life with plenty of capital but it is often so; and very frequently it is attended with softening of the brain. I Sonic men mistake brass for ‘brains and get themselves lifted on to a pedestal which makes them dizzy or drunkâ€"in either case arrapt failures. â€" Men ar_e constantly getting into the wrong placcs and they succeed only in demonstrating failure- Nor can you ever ‘get horse ser- vice from an educated, ass. The latter may have its placeâ€"if it is only to show how intelligently stupid it can bcâ€"but it certainly can’ncvcr match up in a team of‘ high steppcrs. A triangle will not fit in a round space no matter how you file it down and it is exceedingly dim- cult to Whittle a wand peg to fi_t into square hole. unless your peg is much larger than the hole.‘ But opportunity is of little value without some due sense of right measurcmcnt. There are quite as many failures in ‘the world be~ cause of false standards of meas- ure as of lost opportunities- It is often said that the most important thing in finding one’s place in life is, to seize the passing ‘cha nee. "Opportunity," it is said "has not lock: on the back of her head" and. when she passes she does not return. He who would catch her therefore must grasp her as she passes. from the spirit of bravado and glory in catching a thief to one of sadness and regret that a life with the possibility of great things should come to such an end. Gypsy Smith is a sweet singer, a tent): that thrills and a pathos that vi’ins. He Is an orator, for he _It must not.” supposed from anything already said that Mr. Smith carries the marks of an un.- cultured man. No one to hear him would suspect his lack of school or college training. At the very beginning of his early faith after his conversion in a little‘ chapel service at 17 he carried with him in his peribetetic travels in the gipsy-wagon a bible,.a dic~ tidnary. and a bible dictionary- These be fairly mastered by dili- gent and impassioned study and his knowledge so attained-was the foundaticm and spirit of all his after studies. Smith had already been called - out of the ranks of -the Salvation Army. - Hemet. Campbell Morgan and followed with work of that remarkable man as evangelist. In 1889 he made his first visit to Am- erica where he held meetings at Brooklyn. Ocean Grove and other. eastern places the first of a series‘ of fruitffll evangelistic Journeys to this country, and was in Chicago 1for a week three years ago. In 1897. he was ‘chosen one of the general comissibners of the Free Church Council of Great Britain. and began a broad accredited work that has car.ied him as a messenger of blessing in all lands. The famous singing evangelist Ira D- Sankey was once singing from a wagon near Epping Forest in England when he noticed a dark eyed boy intently listening. ‘ Reaching over he put his hand on‘ :the boy’ 5' head and said The Lord make; aprcacher out of you. my bOy. ’ Fifteen years later Gipsy Smith, now a famous Evan- gelistvsaid: ”I was that boy. It is the the Lord's doing 'and it is marvelous in our eves." Indeed who can explain the phenomena of_ greatness? Can any one tell the” meaning of the boy Lincoln becoming the great- est of‘ presidents, the little Cor- poral Napoleon, the greatest of rulers, or more wonderful yet, who can explain the miracle of Joan of Arc? r : ,v_ A, . We are not about to attempt to I explain the extraordinary phen- omenon- That a simple unschol- arly man whoseiearly days were spent as a gipsy rover. fiithout at city and without a home. whose theological opportunity Was for years limited to the j salvation army and at no time ever reached to a class in a seminary. that this young man should command aud- iences a hundred times greater than the most popular, talented and educated men‘oi the pulpit is not to be explained in a newspaper article. the North Shore News-Lam â€"a man with a messageâ€"and with a voice to procia'im it and a spirit to impart it. But in Gipsy Smith then-care evidences of a return to all the old fervor and passiori for human soul: _ Welconfess to a decided aver- sion for the prevalent type of the Evangelist- Some way the vefy name has lost much of its-charm- ing meaning. . Instead of "A bearer of the glad tidings of ‘Christ’_’_ as Webster defines him.‘ he has come to be associated with the idea of a profession agent for counting heads and ckoning the salvation of souls at so many dollars per head. r , And this was but the beginning of a campaign which is daily grow. ing in intensity and volume and the only attraction is this same‘ gipsy visitor from across the_At-i Iantic. ~ them to five other places that were opened for overflow meet- ings. (or the winteii. A motherl' meeting m held Sunday afternoon a! the High SchOOl. These meetings are a great help to teacher: to ‘well n plreMI. for by becoming aequinp ed a mutual interest it developed and: mthebencfizonllconccrncd. " ' '4 And no, the meeting. give the minor-3 an oppo'tllnity to exprru their vicwp or make any suggestions they any rich. :3:an Ma An ohm I What America needs I: not lea liberty but more obedience. This is an old fashioned word but we invite parents to write it on their door post and teachers to read it into‘every excereise of the school-I The liberty "to do as I like" is anarchyandvthat means riot. min and destruction. The liberty which is directed by law and, ob- served with obedience' Is the only freedom which 'can make men‘ free. That ”new thoughg' is obedi- ence' and the absence of it in every age and rank of American life means a loss of assets of nati- onal character arid domestic peace that are bevond all estimate. The mother of an active child had a bottom on the gate to keep the baby' In. The baby new and the button had to‘be put higher up out of reach. But the child still'grew and climbed the'gate.‘ The despairing mothet had a new thought when a {fiend said "Put the button on the boy. This desire ”to do as I like" is our most common national weak- ness. Beginning with the children in the home the law of obedience has been repealed. * It is the most commoh unwrit- ten law of the average American youth that libetty means the tight ”to do as I like" and the anxious haste for the years of early youth to pass is associated with the idea of an end of all restraints and limitations. Thousands on thousands of (ore .ign half-slaves land on our shares and find this spirit so pmalent that to them anarchy seems easy. But worse even than this is the widespread error that liberty means the absence of restraint. the unobservance or disregard of law. . ‘ - : ‘ But our glory is often our error ‘ and sometimes our shame. Mer- ciless. soulless men bind their felâ€" lowmen and women in the name? of “liberty” and "right” with chains as tightly drawn as ever manacled the limbs of a purchased slave. Have they not a right to employ their capital for profit? Can it be disputed that any two or more men have the right to combine for gain? On such a pro. position the robber chiefs withhold ‘ the bread and fuel and money of 3 the people until the robber's tax ‘ can be exacted- There is not one thing of which we Americans so proudly andimt- ly boast as of our civil and religi- ous liberty. We point with pride to the eagle with its wide wings 'spread and tell every new comeri to our shores that the statue of liberty is our guald egainst admis- sion to any who would infringe upon our national freedom. knows how to exptess his thought! and he tells a story-not as one accumulates old .book anecdotes and revamps them as ”personal experiences" -â€"but as one who has been to school with Jesus Christ and learned something of his mu- terly power to speak a parable. ‘ ~ We are not in the businenbf prophecy but we are looking for something much greater than or~ dinary from this visit of Gipsy Smith to this country- W. B. 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