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PAGE 2. manently injured or r. B}; h. H. Sinclair, who was called, found it necessary to stitch the artery in two places to stapnich“ the flow of - râ€"“vvâ€"v $065. It is hot definitely known whether the girl’s thumb wi_1_l_ be per- The Enterprise is late this week due to the holiday and to other conditions over which we hold no control. The flu epidemic seems to have at last hit this town and at present two members of the Enterprise staff are off duty, leaving the sporting editor and the foreman to carry on together. Frank Murphy, the linotype operator, was the first to take one on the chin from Mr. Flu and not content with scoring a one-round victory over Frank, the same gent dropped back on Wednes- A._- Thumb Nearly Severed Grey Wolf Shot Near Chesley Venison must be getting scarce up in New Ontario when wolves came as far south as Sullivan to get good pick- A". “vs."- wâ€" ings. On Christmas Day Pete Alpaugh Dobbinton’s famous trapper and hunter, and Oscar Legge. a local crack shot. who should be on the Bisley team. got word there was a wolf not “-L-,_ far from town and so Wltn retes faithful dog they hunted nearly all day but the sly animal could not be rounded up. On Wednesday morning with their rifles and hound, fete and IV-“- â€"-vâ€" â€"__ Oscar started out again after Mr. Wolf. Every time the dog got near the wolf it would turn and show fight and the dog wouldn’t come to close quarters with the wolf’s fangs which did not look very anIting. Finally,‘ on the farm of Fred Malinofski. about four miles east of Chesley, Oscar got a good view of the wolf and, drawing an extra fine bead, struck the animal with the first bullet in the head. As long as he saw the tail wagging, Oscar: didn’t consider it necessary to take chances on the wolf taking a nip out of one of his legs and so sent two more bullets crashing into the wolf’s head. The two hunters brought the animal to town yesterday in a car and brought it into the Enterprise office. It was a common grey wolf and was minus a fore leg from the first joint down. having. evidently. chewed it off when caught in a trap. Pete and Oscar will get the government bounty of $15 for the pelt. We ‘doubt if in the past 40 years a wolf has been shot or seen as far south in Ontario as the one killed yesterday.â€"Cheslay Enter- A Dastardly Trick Mr. Clement Stefiler of Ableside was the victim of a villanous trick last week. He motored to the Provincial Winter Fair at Guelph on Tuesday, returning home on Wednesday after- noon. On Thursday evening he start- ed from home to visit his sister, Mrs. Frank Ruetz. on the 4th concession, but before he had gone far his car sud- denly broke out in a mass of flames. Mr. Steffler threw himself out of the car to escape the flames. which mounted about twenty feet in the air. Charles Schefter. noticing the confla- gration. hurried to the scene. and upon investigation. it was found that a bag of straw had been placed over the engine. under the hood. Some person had evidently entered the gar- age during Wednesday night. taken the bag of straw which Mr. Steffler used for a cushion on his wagon seat, and so with Pete’s David Netzke not.â€"Walkerton wardâ€"the Black Prince. Only one woman in a thousand marries after she is 60 years of age. “Bally”, used in the names of Irish places, such as Ballyragget, Ballyshan- non. means town. A deaf and dumb person who is fairly expert at finger language can speak about 43 words a minute. Friday is usually regarded as un- lucky by means of the tradition that Christ was crucified on a Friday. The largest Bible in the world is a manuscript Hebrew Bible in the Vat- ican. It weighs 320 lbs. Mr. Charles Brown is blossomng forth as a weather prophet and states boldly that this will. be en open winter. Mr. Brown does not arrive at his con- clusions from a study of astronomy or any kindred subject but because of the fact that he shot a groundhog on Christmas day. At it is very unusual for a groundhog _to show itself gt this â€"-_ LL2- The average time taken by the blood to circulate from one arm to the other is eighteen seconds. It makes the round trip three and a third times a minute. “Now, Miss Blogg,” boomed Jasper M. Wurtle, President of the Whurtle Whirlwind Laundry Company, to his new stenographer, “I want you to un- derstand that when I dictate a letter I want it written as dictated, and not the way you think it should be. Under- stand?” “Yes, Sir,” said Miss Blogg, meekly. “I fired three stenogs, for revising my letters see?” “Alrightâ€"take a letter.” The next morning Mr. 0. J. Squizz, of the Squizz Flexible Soap Company, received the following: “.Mr O. K., or A. or J. something (look it up) Squizz, President of the Squizz what a name Flexible Soap Company, the gyps., Detroit, that’s in Detroit, isn’t it? Dear Mr. Squizz. hmmm; Your a hâ€" of a business man. No start over. He’s a crook, but I can’t insult him, of the bum’ll sue me. The ---v"â€"v ____ , last shipment of soap you sent us was of inferior quality and I want you to understand. no scratch out I want you to understand. Ah, unless you can ship, furnish. no, furnish us with your regular soap. you needn’t ship us no more period, or whatever the grammar is and please pull down your skirt. This dâ€"cigar is out again; pardon A young woman walked into a bank the other day, and, stepping up to the window. said: , L me, find fu'rthermore. where Nice bob you have. -‘CVV wv" The soap you sent us wasn’t fit to wash the dishes, no make that dog, with comma, let alone the laundry comma, and we’re sending it back per- iod. Yours truly. Read that over, no, never mind, 1 won't waste any more time on that egg. I’ll look at the carbon tomorrow. Sign my name. We must go out to lunch soOn. eh?” “We shall -be very glad to accommo- date you.” said the teller, “What amount do you wish to deposit?” “Oh'” she said smiling, “I mean a regular charge account such as I have at the department stores.” ‘V “.“V -vwâ€"vâ€"v I would like to open an account at this bank please.” A Couple of Reasons Sheâ€"“I bobbed my hair to show my independence." Heâ€""What did you bob your skirt for?" GRAINS OF KNOWLEDGE first Duke of Cornwall was Ed- Written As Dictated I? alone saved him from a penitentiary term. His adviser and patron, Abe Reuf, did go to prison as he deserved, and when Schmitz escaped there were many who said a grave miscarriage of justice had taken place. But Schmitz never ceased to protest that he had not personally benefitted from the car- nival of graft that his regime let loose upon the. city. At first, nobody believ- ed him. Then a few did, and grad- ually, many more. He kept his head up and the time came when the people of San Francisco were proud to elect him to other positions of public trust. Their confidence was never abused, and it is said that he was mourned by a million people. Nearly As Bad as Tweed The story of the Reuf-Schmitz loot- ing of San Francisco has been often told, and even in these days when things are done on a much grander scale, the extent of their infamies would produce a righteous shudder. They did not have quite the opporâ€" tunities of Boss rvaeed, but they and their followers undoubtedly looted the public treasury of millions. In 1906, when an earthquake razed the city Hall, it was found that the presum- ably massive pillars of marble had been stuffed with sawdust. Nobody} could do business without paying graft1 and this applied to many reputable as well as to all disreputabre businesses. It has always been contended that the administration of the city was good, that is to say, it was efficient, but everybody began to note that every- thing was costing a little more. In other words, the immediate victims of the grafting gang were passing along such of their losses as they could to the general public. It was a news- paper editor, Freemont Older, if we are not mistaken, Who brought the rascals to book. He began to criti- cize some of the more obvious forms of graft, and the boys selling his papers were run off the street. It seemed as though Reuf could stop a newspaper from publishing. But Older was a fighter, and he enlisted a rich man to employ private detectives to make a thorough investigation. The subsequent revelations ruined Reuf and Schmitz. Intoxicated by Power For Reuf there was never so much sympathy as for Schmitz. Reuf was a brilliant lawyer, and a charming per- sonality. He was a wealthy man be- fore he meddled in municipal politics, and had no need of graft. But when he saw the opportunities opened before him he could not resist, and he plung- ed in with both arms to the elbows. He was also intoxicated with the power his position gave him, and in this state of intoxication this bril-l liant, sagacious man was easy prey for' the private detectives. Schmitz and Reuf were friends when Schmitz was second violin in a San Francisco theatre and Reuf a lawyer of promin- ence. Reuf staked Schmitz and an- other friend in the Yukon gold rush but the venture did not turn out successful. In fact it turned out fat- ally for Schmitz. who felt that he was under everlasting obligation to the benefactor. The sudden emergence, as the result of a strike, and shooting by policemen, of a labor party first turn- ed Reuf’s thoughts to local politics. He had the brilliant inspiration of get- ting the labor nomination for Schmitz, a man of fine personality and good presence, and a man of unusual ideal- ism. Schmitz came from poor people and got the poor man’s vote, and he got the vote of the rich or cultured by promising to make San Francisco the "Paris of North America.” Ruined by the Gang No doubt he meant what he said, and if it had not been for Reuf, his evil genus, he might have proceeded further along the road toward redeem- ing his promises. On the other hand, there is little reason to suppose that without Reuf he ever could have been elected in the first place. At all rtimes his private life was above suspi- icion. H loved music, which provided him with his chief consolation. The trouble was that when he was first elected there was swept into office with him a gang of local politicians lwho hustled out to begin grafting the day after election. It would have Itaken a stronger, wiser man than ISchmitz to cope with this ravenous 1throng. Naturally Schmitz turned to [Reuf for guidance, and it remains an lunsolved mystery how long he contin- ued to believe in the disinterestedness , of his friend. A Fatal Letter For two terms the graft was kept within bounds. It did not become a public scandal. Then, after his third election, with his heart full of grat-‘ itude, Mayor Schmitz asked the San Francisco papers to publish a hundred word statement which was an open letter to Reuf in which he acknowled- ged the tremendous debt of gratitude he owed his friend, without whom he would have been nothing. It was his political death warrant. Every grafter in the city read it and inter-l preted it as meaning that Schmitz was mayor in name only, that the real boss was Reuf. That had been true before but now it was publicly proclaimed. and Reuf, and his assistants proceeded to cash in on it. What had been done under cover was done openly. Grafters boasted instead of denying The town was wide open, and wide open too was the pit into which the gang presently plunged. If virtue were only as exciting to _ read about is- _{rioé, thich we aria dubious about, as long a tale might be made of the THE. DURHAM CHRONICLE David didn’t kill Goliath, Moses did not write the Pentateuch, a whale didn’t swallow J onall. Noah never had an ark, and so on and so on, ac- cording to “New Commentary on the Holy Scripture,” just published in England by some of the most learned and devout scholars of the Established Church. The book, edited by Bishop Charles Gore, is declared to mark “an epoch in Biblical criticism”. Now this is news fresh from the griddle, but. as a matter of fact, there is nothing very new in it, for one of our own denominational journals points out that these modern contradictions have been taught in our seminaries for a quarter of a century, and that they are generally accepted by all modern clergymen. There is no reason, then, it is remarked, for the laity to be shocked or disturbed by these revela- tions. While skeptical regarding many Old Testament narratives and certain _Gospel miracles, these English church- men accept as overwhelming the evidence for Christ’s resurrection. v v ----'â€"â€"v According to a special cable to the New York Times, they rec1te: - “ ‘We know that the beginnings of mankind reach to an immeasurably earlier period that Genesis indicates,’ they say. ‘The origin of the legend of the Deluge probably was a disastrous flood in Babylon. Collecting pairs of animals from all quarters of the globe in one place would be impossible, even if an ark could have been built cap- able of containing them. Any fertile spot in Mesopotamia could have furnished the basis of the Garden of Eden.’ â€"â€"vâ€"'v - “Methuselah’s longevity was physic- ally incompatible with the structure of the human body, they continue. Mel- chisedec was not a priest of the true God but a Canaanite deity, and the Pillar of Fire might have originated in the custom of carrying a. burning brazier before the army. They can not say whether Moses on Sinai was only a dramatic picture or founded on a thunderstorm. . '“Regarding Babel, the authors say that the difference of language was the result, not the cause, of racial diversity. “They have serious difficulty in ac- cepting the Second Commandment as original, because images were widely and not condemnedly used in the worship of Jehovah till the eighth cenâ€" tury. A parallel is drawn between Balaam’s ass speaking and Achilles’ horses foretelling their master’s death. Belshazzar’s feast is held to be irre- concilable with what is declared to be the historic fact that there was no King Belshazzar. __ ‘- _‘I “1-1“ -----O - â€"----â€"'v â€"_ “The Vstateineht in II Samuel 21:19. that Elhanan slew Goliath is more his- torical than' the assertion that David killed him. Q----V‘~ â€"-â€"â€"â€"- “Regarding the Old Testament miracles, attention is directed to what is called the Semitic habit of exaggerâ€" ation. W v-v--. The Biblical narrative of the raising of Lazarus, however, is accepted with all its implications as the climax of all the miracles of healing.” vâ€"u-v â€"___ _- _. It must be. admitted, says The Churchman. a liberal Episcopal organ. that all this is news to the rank and file of Americans, even in our churches which “is not an altogether an en- heartening commentary on the Am- erican pulpit.” Every theological seminary of any standing in this country, we are told, has been teach- ing for a quarter of a century almost everything contained in the new comâ€" mentary. “Nearly twenty-five years ago” it is recited, “a popular maga- zine carried a series of articles “Blast- ing at the Rock of Ages.’ The author threw his readers into several various spasms by his assertions that the Christian faith was being undermined in colleges and seminaries. The devas- tation was being wrought by precise- 1y . the same canclusiohs of. écholar- Shlp, mth certain minor variations. new career Schmltz made for himself after his downfall.â€"J. V. McAree in the Toronto Mail and Empire. Sidney Wrightson, 18 years old, an unemployed miner with a mother and two brothers to aid in supporting in Durham County, England, was brought to Canada in 1927 by the Canadian National Rail- ways Colonization Department, and placed on the farm of James Bell, near Kingston, by the‘British Immigration and Colonization Association. ‘ Never WHO KILLED GOLIATH? which are incorporated in- this ap- parently highly exciting commentary.” No modern minded clergyman trained in any reputable theological school during the past twenty-five wars will view such statements as news, goes on The Churchman: But clergymen are a very small portion of the newspaper reading public. And we suspect that many carry a heavy responsibility for not revealing to their congregations, by one method or another, the well-de- fined conclusions of modern Biblical scholarship. The very fact that such news stories are printed in the daily --wv-â€" WV"â€" to “learn the game”, with such success that this year he stood highest in the agricultural Judging contest in the county of Frontenac among 55 com- petitors, in connection with the Ontano Goyem- ment plan to take 500 boys to the Royal Winter Fainâ€"Canadian National Railways photograph. press is a striking indication of the futility of their fears of “disturbing the faith’ of their congregations. The natural reaction of educated church people to such fears must be a grow- ing_ distrust of the pulpits as a de- pendable teaching medium, and a pro. bable sneer at its timidity.” how is 'everythin’?” “Sure, between my husband and the furnace, I’m havin’ one grand time uv it! If I keep me oye on the wan the other is sure to go out!” ‘,Ah good QOP’ Mrs. Murphy, January 3. We were talking one home on the things thaI emphasis in the lives 01 One said neighborliness stressing because more these days. and as our one next to us. travell'm that our neighbor is co: ing. Another said th: make more time for I Dear Ruth Raeburn: bodies and minds requir hours than we are im them. Then we decided your opinion on this sut Dear Pansy I am very pleased to again. I think thae s opened for discussion points that need 5 neighborIiness and qui more thorough cultiva tion only one of the is courtesy in letter wr' a great many people that answering letters courtesyâ€"just on the a reply to a question attention one gives to of a friend. One good down on the envelope wish to discuss in the when you start the le have to wonder what method is to write a letter on subjects that a date. This leaves it go on a new train of letters can be written because they contain t the little happenings ily circle and commit many times a persom mood for letter writing ed from experience ti quires a little determin: this mood. 1 We should take tint writing legible. We 1 right to steal the reed time he wastes to 11121 our scrawlâ€"than we h silverware. There are pe0p1e w ing letters of sympatl are bereaved This is opportunity wasted, 1 more helpful than thq sympathy for those ‘ be sure it is not an ea but most things in are worth doing requ‘ of thought. perseverar When Lord Haughtx Tennyson wrote hinr was the other day pre .al and one of the reached me her hand over the grave. and I her mine. No words And this little note th nothing to help you in row is just such a the hand to you. my rade of more than £01 ing. to show you tha‘ of you." I am sure L must have conveyed fort. Though a latte one of the most difli dertake we should do bering that “when t joy. it is doubled; w sorrow. it is halved" When we are the of sympathy ue sh themronly a few no say “thank you". I task. yet it is often discourteous to do letter of sympathy o be lengthy it is q that counts. Is it lack of ima part that makes us Mafia-'0' .to'o,o'. Kills Flu Prevents ‘ KOLD-EA‘. Sore Th IODIZE] Inhalen' â€"Ruth Ever; 0 0c. >9 0?