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Jews--A special | = fh wi The conspicuous gallantry of negro soldier in the present war der. conditions directly opposed SCENE AT HARTMANNSWEILERKOPF, IMPORTANT - ALSATIAN The now-famous height of Hartmannweilerkopf has been -the scene of some of the bloodiest fighting in the present war, having been takén and retaken over a dozen times. It is now in the hands of the French and con- stitutes the key to a very important position, Desperate fighting for the eminence goes on daily. Before the war it was a thickly wooded forest, !'but now only the blackened stumps of the trees remain. The photograph * | enough to show that it was quite un- the; get of removing Palestine. Hebrews those which composed his en were (properly) dwellers in Palestine ment and training for centuries past whose language was Aramaic, though has demonstrated his celerity of imi- they would generally understand tation. The race has always been the Greek. The cleavage between the two most adept at copying the white race classes depended most of all on the and in no way has it emulated its fact that the Bible of the former was companion race more closely than in | the Septuagint, while "Hebrews" used the adaptation of modern warfare and the original. Note that Paul (Phil. Aryan courage in restrained discip- 8. 5) insists that he was "a Hebrew line. and the descendant of Hebrews," al- | In fact, no transformation from though Greek was for him as much a savagery to civilization was ever per- native language as Aramaic, and he formed with more thoroughness and was entirely familiar with the Greek speed than that of the tropical Old Testament. -Neglected--*"Were African to the regular British being overlooked"; the sequel is trooper. ' Ancestors Were Zulus. intentional. The Hellenists were! Less than a generation ago he was largely newcomers, and it was very 's wild, untamed Zulu and Hottentot, natural that the widows of men who fighting wildly and singly through the had been in the city all their lives jungle, rebellious against all discip- should be noticed first, |line and order, fierce and determined shows French bomb-throwers ready to cast their deadly missiles from one of the commanding trenches of the height. . NAVAL STRATEGY WAS SUCCESSFUL BRITAIN KEEPING GERMANY OFF THE SEAS. chocolate and spices. Beat very thor- oughly, adding milk enough to moist- Concentration and Initiative Succeed: ed in Bottling Up Their Fleet. What the British fleet has done in 1915 is the subject of an exhaustive article in the Daily Telegraph by Mr, Archibald Hurd. In the course of this article Mr. Hurd Writes: -- "Concentration and ipitiative--in these two words lies, in large mea- sure, the secret of our success at 'sea. The fleet sprang a surprise on thes enemy in the early days of August, 1914, from which he has never recovered. = It took the offen- sive and thus dedicated strategy. Our ortunes at sea have been in contrast with our fortunes on land: for that reason, ' : For a time the German cruisers in distant waters seemed to have things their own way. Authority was not distracted from its primary purpose in the North Sea--the containing of the High Seas Fleet, "<All in good time. it was said in s0 many words, the other seas will to sponge and revive a silk dress. be swept clear; we refuse to be di- Put a little soap into hot starch erted from our strategy, which we with the soap shaker. The iron will are convinced is as sound as it is then seldom stick to the clothes while simple, The nation may be worried ironing. by losses of merchant ships here and If too much bluing has been put there; they do not seriously matter; into the rinse water all bad effects what matters is that the enemy _will be avoided if three or four table- | should be thrown back on the defen- "spoonfuls: of household ammonia is! sive war.' Was the policy a success? Soak your lamp wicks in vinegar dry before using. The light will much more brilliant, and this will ent their easily smoking. ~Rub eight ounces of icing sugar hours. Leave 24 hours before icing. Useful Hints. ean artificial teeth with fine salt. Olive oil will clean aluminum ware and keep it free from rust. : 'oil will repolish furniture which has become scratched. Fat for frying should be boiled be- fore the article to be fried is dropped into it. Soak 2 fresh water fish in water into To fasten labels to tin cans add one - Put charcoal in the bottom of pots for plants which are liable to become When starching colored clothes the starch should be very blue, rather thin and very free from lumps. Water in which potatoes have been t in the early days of 'August last FEL peace, and even prosperity. We might have anticipated as much. It was, it "If the war has not yielded all that officers and men anxiously anticipated. year, it has given ug in these islands Seydlitz damaged; so far as fs known, no protected cruiser has ven- tured' beyond the limited area of water which the Germans are able to control. The 'enemy's main fleet has lost touch with the sea. Influence on Morale. "What the influence on the morale of officers and men has been, to what extent they have lost the sea habit, whether their gunnery has suffered --are questions upon which. each of us can speculate. But this at least may be said. During the last seven- teen months or so the British fleet has had all the sea room which the world's oceans offer, while the Ger- man high sea fleet has been confined within an area so small that an Am- erican would not describe it as a lake. "What is probably hardly realized is that the record of the British fleet in the present war has no parallel in history. In the past enemy frigates always succeeded in getting out of when there were no mines and sub- marines to harrass the blockading force--and doing great injury to ov- ersea possessions and trade. Since the battle of the Falkland Islands the only damage done to our mer- chant ships has been inflicted by submarines; that has been relatively small in: home waters since the of- fensive-defensive measures were de- '| veloped. "The extent of the success of the fleet is not to be judged by battles or. engagements, but by the power which it has 'been instrumental in creating. The whole fabric of pur life in these islands hangs on one thread. The comparative measure of prosperity which we are enjoying is traceable to our command of the sea. The widespread character of our military operations is due to the 'same cause. nt a SRA HOSPITALS OF PETROGRAD Are'Said to Be the Most Up-to-Date ports, however carefully watched -- 2. It must be remembered that the twelve had a message bo give which could not" be delegated, Other men could preach as well--hardly one of them could match Stephen, far less Paul. Many other men could organize charity" better than they. But they could tell what they had seen and heard of the words and works, the death and resurrection of Jesus; and in this they could have no substitutes, 8. The method proposed is very significant for the history of the Christian ministry. These officers of the church--"poor stewards" we should call them in British Methodism --are to be elected by the whole mem- | | bership, and installed by the twelve. | The conditions are that they must be members, of well-recognized character and not only men of judgement, but deeply spiritual. For the Spirit is needed just as much for "serving tables"--that -is, the counters over 'which money is paid--as for preaching or praying. There were to be seven, the sacred number, an additional re- minder that this was no "secular" work which the twelve rejected as not good enough for them. Note they |are never called "deacons"; we need not discuss the later tradition that | gave them the name, but® the New Testament knows nothing of the ap- | plication. Appoint over this business | The twelve will transfer to them work ' they had hitherto done themselves. 4. The prayer--Literally,. it is put {first as the outstanding feature of { Christian meetings. The ministry-- | Or service; for the word is significant- 'ly jdentical with " serve tables" 'in | verse 2. The word--"The gospel." 65. The translation above tries to imitate the Old Testament flavor [hich Luke here, as so often, gets out of the Septuagint to give an aroma to his phraseology. They chose a boar of whom every member bore a Greek name. Were the Hellenists in such an overwhelming majority? But if it was an unfair representation, by | which the "Hebrew" widows would 1suffer, were the twelve likely to en- dorse it? Philip--See Acts 8. 5, etc.; 21. 8, He is the only one besides Stephen of whom we hear anything more. The Acts muss not be ex- pected to supply biographies of the seven when most of the twelve are, passed by. Nicolaus--One might al-| most suggest that he is precisely des- | cribed in order to distinguish him! from some other Nicolaus--the one | whose name was attached to the an- tinomian sect of the Nicolaitans? to resist until death all of the white man's propaganda. To-day, drilled, ordered and tractable, he fights on a half dozen frontiers, vieing with the Sikh and the Gurkha for the title of ngland's most loyal subject. His youth was spent in the wilds, his father roamed the brush, naked, tattooed, with a spear and wicker shield in hand, the lone, or at best the disorganized tribal fighter. Now he marches in ranks uniformed as his comrade Britisher, armed in the ut- most of modern technique, and fights as coolly and steadily as any High- lander. Asked No Quarter. When the savage fought he made one impetuous assault and died like a fanatic lunging at his énemy's heart. If he triumphed, which was seldom, against the invader's rain of lead, he massacred the prisoners and the wounded, Now he can control him- self in the gruelling hours of wait ing in the trénches and in the patient watches of the night. In the charge he is more at home, but there have been no substantiated charges of his brutality or savagery in the event of victory. Civilization has made a modern sol- dier out of him in every particular. During the American civil war negro regiments were utilized by the North in the latter years of the contest and proved themselves valiant in the ex- treme. Given the proper officers and the desired enthusiasm they were a match for any opponents. Less Susceptible to Pain. Scientists maintain that the savage "feels pain less acutely and is not so sensitive to nerve-racking agony as the white, and they state that such unparalleled fearlessness as the native troops show is partly due to this ab- sence of dreaded suffering. Travel- ers relate many instances of how savages in the jungle endure the most frightful pain without a single tre- mor, Be that as it may, there is no doubt but that the negro trooper who falls for England, France or Germany in. the present fighting does so for a cer- tain patriotism and that in his last hour he feels the pangs as surely as does the hypersensitive Frenchman. NI ASAT AUSTRIAN VIEW OF BRITISH Whole World Like a Enveloping the £ Shroud. | in Europe. | Dischgsing Great Britain's share in g up the through a sieve; mix to 'a stiff paste 5 °F E i mus, assumed by some persons that | According to Mr. Wm. Barnes Stev- o : th a dessert spoonful of the white of an egg tly beaten, and a tea- {sp "of cold water; add, sufficient 3 of peppermint to taste; roll Germans would not relinquish without a struggle all the added strength which the seas offer to a nation in the throes of war. Some i % out and cut into rounds; lay on ajeffort would surely be made, either by a 'bolt from the blue' in the early frase proof paper. for three or four to dry, and you will have good' days or by crafty use of some chance peppermint " Rc or carefully prepared opportunity, to interfere with our command of the ocean communications. No German Flag on Seas. "These expectations have not been fulfilled; for a year and a half the battleships of the High Sea Fleet have only ventured on one occasion beyond the narrow limits of their protected waters; excursions in the Baltic have met with repeated disas- ters; since the close of 1914 the Ger- man flag, naval or commercial, has 'sweeties. other man you meet is will- a prophet, and tell you when will end. But what' would Ty the present war the enemy sho, the - to be ens, who has spent twenty-six years in Russia, the Petrograd hospitals are in some respects the most up-to-date in Europe. In "Petrograd, Past and Present" (Grand Richards), he says: These vast buildings are supported by a tax levied on every peasant, working man or woman in the capital | --an equitable system of taxation se- cured by simply affixing a stamp to ! the passport of every member of the "working class once a year when he or she goes to the police-office to have it vised or renewed. The expenses of the host of officials required to ad- minister, for instance, the English National Insurance Act is thus saved. | Had the municipal authorities to sup- ; port an army of clerks for the collect- ing and tabulating of the tax there would be very little left for hospitals lves. In all the town hospitals, ne who has paid the tax, which amo) ts to one rouble (2s.) a year, ttended free of charge. 'The apothecaries' and chemists' s are all under the supervision "moved a single bat- E 6. "Laid their hands--A symbolic | the war the Austrian Socialist organ, figure familiar in Old Testament rit- | the 'Arbeiter Zeitung, says that con- ual, It suggested, as it does in many | scription, even if it does no more than primitive religions, the passing on of | secure the filling up of gaps caused grace and special functions from one: hy losses, is yet of the highest sig- person to another. It was destined | nificance for the continuance of the to give rise to a most unapostolic! war, It must be recognized that 'succession of superstitious ideas, but | Great Britain is carying on the war was perfectly simple and very sug-|as a land power in a degree. never '(by any man.--Carlyle. gestive in its origin, 7. Priests--This marks the climax priests: their own order is changing its Sadducee principles for the gos- pel of the resurrection. Were obed- ijent to the faith--Compare Rom. 1. 6 (margin). Faith is a monarch de- manding a very practical loyalty. Stephen's brief story is to show us that. ---- eit ' THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY We learn from failure much more than from success.--Smiles, The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was not yet occupied . Take my word for it, the saddest thing in the world is a soul incap- able of sadness.--Gasparin, The stars -- those preachers of beauty which light the universe with their admonishing smile.--Emerson, Like alone acts upon like. Be what ~ you. wish others to become. Le yourself and not your words preach. whiclr a man himself 8 of the humiliation of the proud high | makes F before seen in any coalition wars in her history. The insurmountable bar- rier of the seas surrounding the coun-* try saves her from spending her strength in defending her own land. There is no threatening foe to com- pel her to rush forces to the frontier. The British have time on their side. The sea, to which they owe so much; permits them to make good without any serious disadvantage the negli- gence ii war preparations in the war itself. It even increases their power. For wherever the strength of the enemy appears to be growing weak there emerges at first a promise and then, in part at least, as a reality, some of the hundreds of thousands of Kit- chener's recruits to renéw the en-, thusiasm' of the war in the veins of the Entente. And so it is Great Bri- tain which spins the threads--the endless threads of black misfortuné which enelops the whole earth like a shroud---and is due more to her fa vorable geographical situation than t | to her determined persistency tl 'Great Britain is able to postyone decision t on the Continent { rm A man seldom does anything. "thinks dt shag a