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THE GREAT LIFE
One spring evening some nineteen
hundred years ago a band of hard
laced men stole out of Jerusalem,
crossed a little valley and made their
way into the Garden of Gethsemane.
Armed with clubs and spears, they
carried torches which cast weird
shadows through the trees, and,
though they doubtless tried to move
quietly, the noise of their progress
must have jangled cruelly in the
peace of that lovely night. At the
gate that opened into a garden on
the slope of the hill stood Jesus of
Nazareth awaiting them. A pathetic
little company of disciples trembled
about Him, but as the heavy steps
drew closer and the spear points
gleamed in the flickering light, the
disciples melted away until He was
left alone.
Not quite alone.
And there followed him a certain
young man, having a linen cloth cast
about his naked body, and the young
men (soldiers or members of the
mob) laid hold on him;
And he left the linen cloth, and
fled from them naked.
These words are our introduction
to an important historical character.
The young man who left his linen
cloth and fled naked was Mark, au
thor of the so-called "second Gos
pel", which in point of composition,
is actually the first. Before any oth
er kind had thought of it, he con
ceived the grand idea of making a
written record of the works and
words of Jesus.
He was not one of the original
twelve disciples; indeed, he may
never have seen Jesus except on that
fateful night. His mother was a be
liever. The Last Supper was at her
house.
You can picture the active-minded
boy, lying curious in his bed in the
family room downstairs, overhearing
the wonderful farewell words of Je
sus, the final hymn, and the rustle
of preparation for departure. On the
impulse of the moment he jumped
out of bed and followed to the Gard
en. Whether he was a witness to
any of the events of the next few
days we have no means of knowing.
We do know, however, that he was
associated for a time with Paul and
later with Peter. Hearing them talk
about Jesus, he began gradually to
compose his book. It is a brief
straightforward story.
For a time his book was the only
life of Jesus. Then a Jew named
Matthew, apparently the same man
who had been a tax collector and
was called to discipleship, looked it
over and said to himself: "This book
would be much more useful if it had
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a lot of Old Testament references."
So he made additions, sprinkling his
narrative with the phrase, "that it
might be fulfilled as was written by
the prophets." It is obvious that he
was bent on giving the life of Jesus
all the Old Testament authority pos
sible.
LUKE USHERS IN WOMEN
Paul, the most adventurous of the
early Christian rtiissionaries, was
often sick, and had as a physician a
Greek gentleman named Luke. Luke
had a friend named Theophilus who,
as he thought, would be interested
in the story of Jesus, but not in the
form set forth by Mark or Matthew.
Accordingly, Luke wrote:
Forasmuch as many have taken in
hand to set forth in order a declara
tion of those things which are most
surely believed among us,
Even as they delivered them unto
us, which from the beginning were
eyewitnesses, and ministers of the
word;
It seemed good to me also, having
had perfect understanding of all
things from the very first, to write
unto thee in order, most excellent
Theophilus.
You will note that he does not
criticize the accounts already writ
ten but observes merely that he does
not find them adapted to Theo
philus. He did not claim to have
been, and in fact was not, an origi
nal disciple, but he said that he had
enjoyed exceptional opportunities for
hearing the story from reliable men
who had first-hand knowledge.
These are perfectly straightforward
reasons for writing a book and they
furnish a pleasing introduction both
to the Good News as Luke wrote it
and to that later book, partly com
piled from his own experiences as a
companion of Paul, the Acts.
Luke did not care a fig about
quotations from the Old Testament
which might be very convincing to a
Jew, for Theophilus was not a Jew.
But he did tell of the Good Samari
tan, and of the Prodigal Son, and
some other exalted stories of the ap
preciation of Jesus for folks beyond
the narrow walls of Judaism. Mat
thew never could have .written this
book any more than Luke could have
written Matthew's.
One other fact is significant about
the third Gospel. In some way the
writer got hold of a fresh source of
information about the women of that
early Jerusalem community. Who
told him and what was told we can
only guess, but the fact is clear that
Luke knew more and tells more
about the women who were friends
of Jesus than any of the other writ
ers. That element gives an added
quality of fineness to his book, which
is probably the most beautiful book
in the world.
Years later, in Ephesus, where
Greek philosophy had tinged the
thought and vocabulary of all educa
ted people, a man named John wrote
another story of Jesus. It is hardly
the life-story; rather is it an inter
pretation, and a very fine one. We
should have lost some of the most
beautiful sayings of Jesus if it were
not for this fourth Gospel, and one
has only to read it through to under
stand why in every age it has been
so greatly loved.
The average well-educated Amer
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70,000 words. The unabridged dic
tionary contains approximately 425,-
000 words.
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Weapons Once Method to
Scare Away Hailstorm*
Arrows, spears and Javelins were
the weapons by which primitive hu
manity sought to scare away hail
storms. In the Middle ages various
noise-making processes were employed
for the same purpose. The modern
expedient, which has cost European
vine growers and farmers tens of mil
lions of dollars. Is to fire cannon or
rockets at the clouds. Thousands of
mortnrs of a special pattern were In
use for this purpose In the early years
of the present century, but an explo
sive rocket Is now the favorite Euro
pean device for fighting the hail
storm. The rocket bursts high in the
air. but far below the level where hail
is formed. Its alleged effects are per
fectly illusory. The process seems to
succeed often enough to perpetuate
popular faith in it because a fall of
hail is normally of brief duration.
So it Is with the old custom of firing
at waterspouts; It is fairly certain
that the broadside of a battleship at
close range would not dispel one of
these violent vortices. Their natural
term of existence, however, is limited
to about fifteen minutes, on an aver
age. and is often much briefer; so It
is not strange that the mariner should
attribute the disappearance of one to
a cannon shot
Years ago the hall rod vied in popu
larity with the hall cannon as a means
of safeguarding European vineyards
from hailstorms. It was merely an
overgrown lightning rod, set up on
steeples, tall steel towers and the like.
Many of them were erected in France
under government auspices. They
probably afforded some protection
from lightning. Popular faith In them
was shaken by several cases In which
vineyards close to these rods were rav
aged by hail and the rods themselves
were violently pelted. They are now
completely discredited. St Louis
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Wooden Indian Now Rare;
Few Left Are in Museums
The wooden Indian for years has
been a sentinel in front of cigar stores.
The reason Is the redskin was the first
grower of tobacco in this country, in
fact, the wobden Indian became a sym
bol for tobacco Just about the time the
white men of Europe learned the art
of smoking from the Indians and took
it to Europe.
The old wooden Indians have be
come rare, one selling here recently
for $350, says a writer in the Kansas
City Star. This one had stood in
front of a tobacco shop 44 years. It
is one of two left in Kansas City. He
Is known as Chief Big Smoke.
Wooden Indians are not Indigenous
to American soil as Is tobacco. As
early as the reign of James I the
wooden Indian was a familiar sight in
Merrie England. There Is evidence the
old wooden chieftains were no novelty
in 1617, the year Pocahontas died. Un
doubtedly the sculptors of the "tobac
co warriors" probably never saw an
Indian, because records reveal that the
poor old chiefs sometimes weren't very
noble in appearance.
Europe apparently believed an In
dian was a creature who wore nothing
except stepins made of tobacco leaves.
That's the way some of the early mem
bers of the "wooden tribe" appeared.
The race is now vanishing. There are
collectors of wooden Indians who have
established museums as happy hunt
ing grounds for many kinds of the no
ble "warriors." For many years a
bronze cigar store Indian stood In Bos
ton and the story goes that Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow used to stop to
admire It.
Jailing for Debt
Missouri and Oklahoma forbid Jail
for debt for fines or penalties. Jailing
except where there Is presumption of
fraud is forbidden in Arizona, Arkan
sas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, lowa,
Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio and
Wyoming. Jailing for debt in civil ac
tion is frowned upon by the statutes
of Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, Mis
sissippi, New Mexico, Tennessee
and Texas. There is no constitutional
provision for debt Imprisonment made
in Connecticut, Delaware, Louisiana,
Maine, Massachusetts, New Hamp
shire, New York, Virginia and West
Virginia. Arrest in cases where the
debtor has made an assignment of his
assets in benefit of his creditors ex
cept In fraud or tort cases Is forbid
den In Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky,
Montana, North Dakota, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island and Vermont The Con
stitutions of Oregon, Utah and Wash
ington t limit arrest to absconding
debtors.
The Angry Tree
A tsee that grows in the Far East
is known as the angry tree. It is said
to be one of the wonders of plant life.
When fully grown it Is about eight
feet In height and every day at sun
set it closes Its leaves together In
colls, and curls its twigs to the semb
lance of pigtails. When thus settled
for the night If touched it will evince
agitation and flutter as if impatient
at being disturbed. If roughly shaken,
It will emit a sickening odor which, If
Inhaled, causes s violent headache.
Prehistoric Tooth Foaad
The tooth of a marsupial lion, a
beast wbich carried Its young In Its
pouch as do kangaroos, has been found
at Molong, Australia. The tooth with
fossilized bones was discovered by
miners In a limestone cave 20 feet un
derground. The marsupial lion is be
lieved to have lived in Australia from
about 20,000,000 years ago Until It be
came extinct 20,000 years ago.
Salt Once Used by Many
as Medium of Exchange
Salt as a standard In the history of
commerce antedates the gold stand
ard. As a medium of exchange salt
was widely used in many ancient coun
tries. The Mogul conquerors of India
made decrees thousands of years ago
regulating the standard of salt that
was used for money. Up until com
paratively recent times salt was used
as a medium of exchange in the Shan
markets In Indo-Hilna.
Besides being used as money, salt
In days gone by was a powerful de
veloper of commerce. Being essential
to life and unavailable to tribes re
mote from the sea from which the
substance was obtained by evapora
tion. trade routes were early devel
oped to provide the transportation of
salt. ,
For hundreds of years a caravan
route was maintained between Pal
myra and Syrian ports. Even today
much of the caravan traffic in Sahara
Is largely in this precious commodity.
The oldest road In Italy is not the
Appian way, but the "Via Salaria,"
the Salt road along which salt was
anciently carried from the evaporat
ing pits at Ostia to the Sabine terri
tory.
Indeed, according to historians, the
world's second largest city, London,
was first founded because of the salt
trade. During the earliest days of
European history salt was sent from
England to the continent Cheshire
and Worcestershire provided salt for
Britain and Gaul, and the route for
Its transportation crossed the country
In a southeasterly direction, crossing
the Thames, then very shallow, at a
ford where Westminster now stands.
An inn was built to accommodate salt
haulers when the river was too swol
len to ford. From this humble begin
ning as a resting place for salt trad
ers the great city of London resulted.
Queen Bee Loses Husband
Very Soon After Wedding
A queen bee, according to an au
thority In the Philadelphia Public
Ledger, sometimes lays as many as
8,000 eggs a day and in her lifetime,
becomes mother of 1,000,000 bees. A
single mating suffices for the queen
bee's lifetime, and she can go on lay
ing fertile eggs for as long as four
years—though beekeepers change
queen bees at least biennially. A
queen bee returns from her wedding
Journey a widow, and her final fate is
to be slain by one of her own queen
bee daughters.
Only one in 5,000 drones ever be
comes a husband —but he pa.vß with
his life for that privilege. A drone
cannot feed himself, and it requires
the labor of five or six honey-gath
ering bees to provide him with food.
The worker bee does not venture
out from the hive until about seven
enteen days old. Meanwhile It aids
40,000 of its sisters in housekeeping
tasks within the hive It takes 80.000
trips to bring In one pound of honey
—the work of the whole honey-collect
ing lives of 600 bees. At times when
nectar is most abundant 30 days will
exhaust the life-energy of a worker
bee. It is the bees which have done
little or no honey-collecting which
carry the labors of wintertime care
of the hive—including providing It
with adequate heat by exercising
within the hive.
Leeki for Asthma
Herbalists use the leek in compound
ing their remedies, for this vegetable is
credited with healing powers and is
valuable as a tonic. It contains an
oil which, mixed with vinegar, has
been successfully used as a remedy for
asthma. Three centuries ago there
was a cure for consumption in which
leeks figured prominently, and leek
soup was In the diet of any patient
recovering from a wasting disease.
The Welsh took the leek as their na
tlonal emblem in 544 when, under King
Cadwallader, they fought a great bat
tle against the Saxons. Their patron
saint, St. David, persuaded them to
wear leeks In their caps that each
man might quickly see in the fray if
the next man to him were friend of
foe. The Welsh won their battle, and
since then the leek has been their na
tional emblem, and they always wear
It on St David's day. •
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House Built With Wine
A Hungarian trade paper has pub
lished a remarkable story of a new
use for wine. In a provincial town
of northern Hungary houses were be
ing built in a vineyard on rocky solL
Water Is scarce and precious in that
district and Is carted in barrels to the
hills. There was not enough water
for mixing the mortar, so the vine
grower, for whom the house was built,
and whose cellars were full of un
sold and unsaleable wines mastered
the situation by putting a few casks
of wine at the mason's disposal in sub
stitution for water. Thus for the first
time a Hungarian house was built with
wine.
Octopus Is Fierce
The octopus, or "devil fish" Is qolte
a fierce fellow, with enormous power
In his arms, which are equipped with
two rows of suckers. The largest
specimen ever taken, however, meas
ured only 28 feet from stem to stern,
including the tentacles. There are
over 150 species of octopl, most of
which are quite smalL The majority
of them spend tbeir lives at the bot
tom of shallow water, although a few
swim freely and some have been net
ted as deep as 18,000 feet In manj
parts of the world the small octopus
is used for human food.
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Young Woman: "I would like to
open an account at tbid bank,
please."
Teller: "We shall be very glad to
accomodate you. What amount do
you wish to deposit?"
Young Woman (smiling): "Oh, I
mean a regular charge account such
as I have at the department stores."
Denmark some months ago order
ed all foreign jazz bands to leave
the country.
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Doctor: "What you need, my dear
young lady, is a little sun and air."
Sweet Young Thing: "Why, Doc
tor, how dare you! Whs, I'm not
even married."
The teacher was testing the knowl
edge of the kindergarten class. Slap
ping a half dollar on the desk, she
said sharply, "What is that?"
Instantly a voice from the back
row, "Tails!"