THE FRANKLIN PRESS and THE HIGHLANDS MACON I AN
THURSDAY. OCTOBER It, IMS
The .Tide of Battle
Little Boy Come quick, Mr.
World Series Leaders and Fan No. fl
Policeman ! There's a man been
ighting my father for half an
hour.
Officer Why didn't you tell me
before ?
and which con tains Four Great
Bov 'Cause father was getting
the best of it until a minute ago.
Pathfinder.
PAGE EIGHT
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MONUMENTS TO BOOK ALL
ABOUT US
PROFESSOR HURLEY did not
stand akme in his opinion.
James Anthony FroUde, never ac
cused of prejudice in favor of
orthodoxy, said:
The Bible, thoroughly known,
is a literature in itself the
rarest and richest in all de
partments of thought and imag
ination which exists.
Said Frederic Harrison, foremost
exponent of the religion of Positiv
ism: The English Bible is the true
school of English literature. It
possesses every quality of our
language in its highest form.
The book which begot English
prose is still its supreme type.
Lord Macaulay wrote:
The English Bible a book
which, if everything else in our
language should perish, would
alone show the whole extent of
its power and beauty.
And Charles Dickens, writing to
his son :
I put a New Testament
among your books for the very
same reason and with the very
same hopes that made me
write an easy account of it
when you were a little child
because it is the. best book that
ever was or ever will be in the
world, and because it teaches
you the best lessons by which
any human creature who tries
to be truthful and faithful can
possibly be guided.
JOHN JOSEPH GAINES.Mil
SOME TERRIBLE FIGURES
By courtesy of the Missouri So
cial Hygiene Association I am in
receipt of some statistics with per
mission to hand a part to my read
ers for whatever they may be
worth.
The cost of venereal diseases to
one large city ranges from $2,071,
000 to half a million more than
that. Annual costs.
These diseases, two of them, are
a causative factor in many more
serious afflictions of mankind and
womankind.
The cost of first-year treatment
of syphilis is much in excess of
sums available for health expendi
tures in the budgets of working
men's families.
From these diseases come hun
dreds, yea thousands of cases of
rheumatism, neuritis, heart disease,
and congenital afflictions in the
offspring. It is appalling.
Alt from just two so-called "ma
jor venereal diseases."
What a world of affliction and
shffering. It is the penalty for
vicious, lustful appetites. 1 dare
not mention certain of the ultimate
loathsome conditions suffered by
careless victims of human lust! The
picture would be too disgusting.
Isn't it enough to justify warn
ings, shouted from every housetop?
Your physician knows. Ask him
for information.
Millions of dollars are paid an
nually to drug stores for so-called
"specifics." There is no way of
finding out the actual sums spent.
A volume could be written and yet
the greater half would remain un
told. One would think a warning such
as this would be sufficient.
GUNSHOT WOUNDS
There are no more nasty and de
ceptive wounds of the human be
ing than gunshot wounds of the
liver. The assassin usually hits his
victim in a prominent part of the
body. The professional gunman
may shoot through the head or
the heart, but the crazy amateur
killer usually shoots lower down.
At least I have noticed that in
my experience in such unfortunate
cases.
I once saw a perfect Hercules of
a young man shot by a small pis
tol just to the right of the stomach.
So we might discuss the Book
in its influence on literature and
on law ; in its contribution to the
spread of the English language; in
its inspiration of philanthropies,
for, as Lecky said in his History
of European Morals, it has "cover
ed the globe with countless insti
tutions of mercy, absolutely un
known to the pagan world." Vol
umes have been written, and will
be, on every phase of this subject,
but we do not need them. The
monuments to the Book are all
about us; every department of
modern civilized life bears the rec
ord of its influence.
Instead of rehearsing again these
well-worn testimonies, let us close
this series with a single dramatic
story, a story so old that surely
many readers will find it entirely
new.
It starts with George III of Eng
land, in the year 1768. In that
year the Royal Society of London
appealed to the King to send a
royal expedition to the South Seas
to observe a transit of Venus
across the disk of the sun, which
event was to occur in 1769. A
bark of three hundred and seventy
tons was accordingly sent out, and
the island chosen was for a time
called King George's Island, but
later it became and at present is
known by its native name of
Otaheite; or, in its abbreviated
form, Tahiti. It is there the mod
ern writers go to get local color
for their South Sea stories.
(Next Week: Mutiny in the South
Sea)
Copyright, Bobbs-Merrill Co.-
THiHf FAMILY
in or TOD
The ball passed through the mar
gin of the liver. The bullet did
not go through as it was a cheap
variety of gun. Within three days
the victim was using his pillow for
a football and wanting to get up
and dress. People laughed about
the trivial wound in one so strong.
It had scarcely disabled him.
In less than ten days he was
dead ! It took that period of time
for the liver-wound to begin to
"slough" in the path of the bullet.
Surgery is helpless in these cases.
I have never seen a gun-shot
wound of the liver get well. All
die in about the same number of
days.
Mayor Ccrmak of Chicago was
reported shot through the liver
Within three or four days he was
reported doing fine, no shock, no
serious alterations of temperature
or respiration. The doctors were
watching for pneumonia. News
paper reports all were favorable.
From my experience I could not
but see a dark outlook. I told
my friends Mayor Cermak wouldn't
live fifteen days, if he had been hit
in the liver.
Older citizens will recall the as
sassination of President McKinley
1 predicted his death within an
hour after the fatal ball struck
Liver tissue is unlike any other.
Hardened
"Have you the firmness of char
acter that enables a person to go
and do his duty in the face of in
gratitude, criticism and heartless
ridicule ?
"I ought to have. I cooked for
a camping party last summer. '
Boys' Life.
Progressive Afflictions,
"A fortnight ago you gave me
a plaster to get rid of my rheu
matism.'r
"Yes." .
"Now I want something to get
rid of the plaster." Venice Ga
zettino Illustrate.
Lisscn Ain't people funny?
Huria Yes, if you tell a man
that there are 270,678,934,341 stars
in the universe he'll believe you
but if a sign says "Fresh Paint"
that same man has to make a per
sonal investigation.
II If
.TYRTTnTT AWn ftrft the baseball leaden
who have been master-minding the world series 1
games and Mr. Fan No. 1. On the left is Charlie
Grimm, manager of the Chicago Cobs who
brought his team with a rush to win the National
league pennant. Bight, lower, is Mickey Cochrane,
manager of the Detroit Tigers, two-time Ameri
can League winner. Insert, above .. .'is 'Bill
Cunningham of Kansas City, Kas. who took up
his stand at the bleacher box office tore on
September 20 ... for seat No. L (
TODAY and
BIBLE anniverary
When Miles Coverdale published
the first complete translation ot
the Bible in English, just 400 years
ago October 4, 1535 he did a
greater service than he dreamed of.
All Doctor Coverdale was think
ing of was to make the Word of
Jod available to all who wanted
to read it. But the first result
as to arouse the desire to read,
imong the common people of Eng-
and. The beginnings of our
school system, which denies educa
tion to nobody, can be traced to
ihat. And besides bringing the
Bible to everybody, Dr. Coverdale
gave the English language itself
its first fixed form. Before 1535
the upper classes spoke mostly
Norman French, and only the low
er classes the simple tongue of
Anglo-Saxon origin.
The Coverdale Bible, and its re
vision 86 years later into the King
James Version, now the standard
translation wherever English is
spoken, gave the English people
for the first time a common speech,
used by all classes. And that I
think, was the beginning of Eng
land's greatness.
REFUGE .... Bible passage
The Bible is still by far the
"best seller" of all books. More
than 25 million Bibles, complete
or selected parts, were sold last
year. Tens of millions all over
the world go to the Bible for
consolation in time of trouble.
I recalled a Bible passage the
other day which might well have a
wide application in the present "dis
turbed state of the world. It is in
II Chronicles, 15th Chapter:
"And in those times there was
no peace to him that went out,
nor to him that came in, but great
vexations were upon the inhabi
tants of the countries. . . . And
they entered into a covenant to
seek the Lord God of their fath
ers with all their heart and with
all their soul. . . . And he was
found of them: and the Lord gave
them rest round about."
That ought to be inscribed in
letters of gold over the portal of
the Hall of the League of Nations.
PRAYER itd power
When an outstanding figure in
the field of medical research
comes out flatly and declares that
prayer has power to heal bodily
ills, it is something to pay atten
tion to. Dr. Alexis Carrel, world-
In
famous surgeon of the Rockefeller
Institute of Medical Research and
winner of the Nobel Prize in medi
cine, says in his new book, "Man,
the Unknown," writing as a medi
cal man:
"Our present conception of the
influence of prayer upon patho
logical lesions is based upon the
observation of patients who have
been cured almost instantly of va
rious affections. . . . The only
condition indispensable to the oc
currence of the phenomenon is
prayer. But there is no need for
the patient himself to pray, or
even to have any religious faith.
It is sufficient that someone
around him be in a state of pray
er." I have been greatly impressed by
the growing belief in' the power ot
prayer to heal. Dr. Carrel's words
will go far to confirm believers' in
their faith.
TURKEYS hire out
1 hear from the West that there
are going to be lots of turkeys for
Thanksgiving this year. Dry weath
er and an unusual invasion of
grasshoppers which turkeys feed
on eagerly are among the causes
of the big turkey crop.
The best turkey story I have
heard comes from Gypsum, Kan
sas, where Fred Van Meter has a
flock of 700 turkeys. Turkey feed
was high, but neighboring farmers
were overrun with grasshoppers
So Farmer Van Meter had the
bright idea of hiring out his tur
key flock, at $2.50 a day, to eat his
neighbors' grasshoppers!
Result no turkey feed bill and
$2.50 a day net profit.
I'd call Fred Van Meter a smart
farmer.
EXPATRIATES here too
There are more American citizens
living in Italy than in any other
foreign country except Canada. Al
together, more than 400,000 Amer
icans are recorded by the State
Department as living abroad.
Most of them are natives of the
countries where they now live, who
came to America, became natural
ized, accumulated enough to live
on "back home," and went back.
Some of them took American
customs back with them. Crossing
the Atlantic by the southern route,
two or three years ago, the ship
passed through the Portuguese
archipelago of the Azores. All
along the shore I saw houses that
might have been transplanted bod
ily from Cape Cod. They were
built by Portuguese fishermen whe
had lived on the Cape.
It seems to me that it would be
a good idea to find out how many
citizens of other countries are liv
ing in America legally or not.
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silent man, full of grit."
"What you want is a dumb dust
man." Hudion Star.
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a better salary.
Ephraim Oh, thank you, sir.
EmDlover So I'm giving you a
week off to go out and get some
body else to give it to you, for I
can't.
They still get
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