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A A THE DES MOINES REGISTLI. SIONDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 4. 1918. FOR EXCESS PROFITS TAX LAW Forms for Making Returns Will Be Available Within Few Days, Is Statement.

ness interests. Figure Capital High. WASHINGTON, D. Feb. Regulations under which the excess profits tax law is to be administered public tonight by the bureau of internal revenue, clear up many long disputed questions affecting the determination of the he basis number for yet figuring to be profits, threshed but out leave by individual rulings, or by amendment of the law.

A new of the war tax the act now being pared by bureau embodying proposed amendments on subjects which officials think cannot properly be passed on by executive rulings. Excess profits return will be available in a few days, forms, returns must be made by March 1, on 1917 business. Some extension of this time has been urged by busi- Since deductions based on a centage of invested capital may peter from aggregate profits before determining the taxable amount, corporations or partnerships are anxious to figure their invested capital as high as possible. By the regulations, invested capital is defined as the total of capital, surplus and undivided profits as shown on the books, with certain adjustments required by the law. If any change in the invested capital has been made during the year, the monthly average is to be taken.

If the true surplus or undivided profits are not shown by the books, because of failure to provide for depletion, depreciation, obsolescence OT other losses, the regulations make it mandatory to figure corrections, and thus reduce the capital figure. This would prevent corporations from figuring their tax exemptions at too high a figure by overestimating their capital. the other hand, it is permitted tot add to the surplus account expenditures in the past for extension of the plant or equipment which still is in active use, if the expenditures have been charged as current expense. Some Disputed Points. One of the most st disputed points has related to the valuation of trademarks, good will, patents or copyrights, most businesses arguing for inclusion of these at a high figure in their capital investment.

The regulations provide, however, that only in cases where actual ment has been made for these items can the expense be added to the invested capital total. No adjustment is allowed, either, for expenditures made to develop good will, or other intangible assets. By this ruling the plea of a number of corporations which have spent thousands or even millions of dollars developing a business is refused. The 8 per cent tax on profits over $6,000 for taxpayers having only a nominal capital, is held to apply to professional men, or to trades, or businesses rendering professional services. IOWANS IN HOUSE FACING FIGHTS TO RETAIN CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.

trict. Kimberly is one of the old school wet leaders, being opposed to prohibitory measures openly and without equivocation. He will prove to be a rallying point for anti-constitutional amendment sentiment in the senate, If elected. Not Exactly Mild. A few bricks are being chucked in the state press already over the political situation.

The Perry Chief, which is favorable to the candidacy of C. C. Pugh as secretary of state, advises W. S. Allen to stay out of the race, in a peppery editorial.

It closes with: "He has been paid every debt the republican party owes him and it would be nothing but a monumental exhibition of gall if he asks to hold the office for two years more. Mr. Allen will make the wisest move of his life if he decides to stay out of the race." Walter Ramsay of Belmond is actively lining up his support as a candidate for the republican nomination, and both he and Pugh are getting some favorable press notices. The democratic party which all but obliterated itself as an office holding factor in state politics in its support of Governor Harding in 1916, is hopeful of regaining some lost ground. Democratic representation in the national congress, the Iowa general assembly, and in county offices all over the state is at its lowest ebb in four decades, and some gains are almost certain this year.

The normal democratic representation in the Iowa 18 at least I members, and there are now but fourteen. What factor, if new farmers nonpartisan movement, the old Taxpayers league and allied organizations will have in the campaign is yet to be developed. The Taxpayers league leaders are not entirely pleased with the turn things have taken in the state house of late, and see some indications being decorated with the ancient and much conferred political order of the double cross In the reappointment of Holden on the state highway commission, a job which former Senator Justin Doran of Beaver wouldn't have declined. FIRE PLUGS FROZEN Baltimore Department Delayed by Weather. BALTIMORE, Feb.

Frozen fire plugs so delayed the fire department in promptlly checking a fire that started at midnight in the handsome residence of Martin Dorman on Eutaw place, near Druid Hill park, that flames spread throuhg nearly an entire block. causing an aggregate loss of $125,000. Twelve valuable residences were more or less damaged. Women and children who fled from their burning homes are ill from exposure and nerve shock. Raise Relief Fund.

NEW YORK. Feb. A relief fond of $2,000.000 for the families of officers and men' of the navv who lose their lives in the war, will he raised by a volunteer committee of lending civilians headen bo Edmuni 1. Bayliss of New York, according to an announcement to. right by Rear Admiral N.

R. Usher. commandant of the third naval district. HEARD IN THE DES MOINES PULPITS YESTERDAY 7 THE REV. CHAS.

S. MEDBURY. University Church of Christ. Christian Endeavor, born in Portland, in Williston Congregational church, in the pastorate of Dr. Francis E.

Clarke is celebrating its thirty-seventh birthday anniversary today. Some statistics are interest. The first Christian Endeavor convention was held in June, 1882, when six societies reported. In 1883 fifty-three societies were in line and in 1885 the record showed 253 societies and a membership of 14,892. Then came a seven year period! of New great growth, culminating in the York convention of 1892 with its 35,000 delegates.

The climax of great conventiods came in 1895, however, when the Endeavor hosts gathered in Boston with 56,000 registered delegates. Since that time conventions of even greater spiritual power have been held but none of equal numerical strength. The emphasis has been in other lines. At present there in round numbers 100,000 societies with 000,000 members, not counting other millions of Christian young people in denominational tions closely and sympathetically related to Christian Endeavor and really the outgrowth of it. The represents eighty denominations and its work is practically every land of the earth and touches every phase of human experience.

Endeavorers are found in hospitals, asylums, orphanages and every type of public institution. The fluence of this life and work extends to the army, navy to sailors aboard ships of commerce. In devotion to new ideals ers in twenty-three state tiaries have taken the Endeavor pledge. Everywhere, in the light or darkness, under conditions favorable or unfavorable, when one is willing to say, "Trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ for strength I promise him that I will strive to do whatever he would have me do," this beneficent wish goes on. Perhaps the amazing character reaches of Christian Endeavor can be summed up, briefly, in the following tenfold statement: First--There is a committal of life through definite pledge to Jesus Christ.

Second--There is a deepening of life through daily Bible reading. Third- -There is cleaning of life through daily prayer." Fourth- There is an ennobling of life through constant testimony. Fifth--There a training of life through continued service. Sixth--The spirit of unity is fostered through interdenominational relationship. Seventh---The spirit of patriotism is quickened by Christian citizenship activities.

Eighth--The spirit of devotion deepened through the quiet hour. Ninth--The spirit of liberality is developed: through the tenth legion. Tenth- -The spirit of worldwide fanned into a flame by incessant missionary activities. So to the heights and depths of cultural Christianity does the Endeavor movement make its contributions for the good of the whole world and the honor of Christ. THE REV.

A. H. COOKE. Park Avenue Church of Christ. Among the remarkable preachments of prophet Isaiah, chapters xiv to xxi includes a series of utterances upon the nations around Israel that are very wonderful in the he modern attitude of the prophet looked out upon the world of his day.

In a period of twenty years ranging from about 720 to 700 B. Assyria was the common foe to be much dreaded. Alliances had been built up against it. treaties had been broken and reformed. new coalitions were constantly being formed with the vain attempt to stay the Assyrian hand of might.

But nothing availed, and proph-; et looks out, calculating the approaching doom of the peoples who should be in the path of the of Sargon and Sennacherib. We see in these above chapters how this statesman the least of states, this prophet of a religion that was confessed over only a few miles, was aware of the wide world, and how he loved the life that filled it. They are no mere geographical terms with which Isaiah thickly studs these prophecies. He looks out upon, and paints for us, lands and cities surging with men--their trades, their castes, their religions, their besetting tempers gina, their social structures and national policies, all quick and bending to the breeze and the shadow of the coming storm from the north. Jerusalem is not all for the "MARVELOUS!" THEY GOT IT! Police Station Sleuths Make Big Capture.

They Sherlock Holmes a Little and Catch a Rabbit. The latest in police sport circles in station. "rabbit hunting" at the police Now Officers Lint and Umbenhowar are great sleuths. Lint has been known to have seized in Lie time larse quantities of liquor and Umbenhowar has caught two a'leged holdup men. And that is something fo: any polfceman to boast about.

Last night they staged a new hunt. Things were quiet at the police station and these sleuths were impatient for somehting to "run down." They even said that they would run down any kind of an animal Well, just they to furnish were excitemeneir chance at midnight. They saw a rabbit cavorting about the station and started after it. They made the station hallway in almost nothing according to witnesses. Of course they fell over each other several times in their wild dash but that did not count with them.

They were running down something. The sleuths got their animal. But it was not what they expected it to be. The "rabbit" was a large rat. FIRE IN HARVARD YARD Was One of Oldest Buildings on Quadrangle.

CAMBRIDGE. Feb. Dane hall. one of the oldest buildines of the quadrangle in the Harvard vard, was burned today. Thirty thousand rounds of ammonition in basement was 1'C- moved by then of the naval radio and ensigns' school under the direction of their officers.

Valuable FIGHTS REVOLVER BATTLE WITH PAIR W. R. Aplin, Hotel Proprietor, Routs Bandits After Exchange of Several Shots. W. R.

Aplin. 723 Third street, manager of the Goldstone hotel, fought a revolver battle with two bandits last night when they attempted to rob him as he was driving into his garage. Aplin said that at least six shots were fired. Neighbors who heard the shooting hurried to the scene but came only in time to see the bandits fleeing down an alley. "I was driving my car into the garage when two men poked back the side curtains of the car and pointed revolvers into my Aplin told the police.

"I was ordered to throw up my hands or suffer being killed. had my gun at my side and I pointed my gun at them. One of the men said to his pal to look out for I had a gun. Shot Barely Misses Aplin. "They both backed away a few feet and one of the men shot.

The bullet went through a curtain and just missed head. "Stay in that car or I'll blow your brains out." the tallest of the bandits commanded. "We are bad and we will kill." Aplin said that he jumped out of the car and the men began to fire a volley of shots at him. One of the shots went through the bottom of his coat. Routs Two Robbers.

and' the then two began men to started shoot my to run gun down the alley," said Aplin. Aplin told the police that he had with him a large sum of money, He said only for that he would not have taken the chances of being killed. He described his assailants as a tall and a short man. The taller wore a black fur collar coat. He had a pointed chia and a slim face.

The other he could not describe only to say that he wore all overcoat. Does Not Resemble Singleton. Up to an early bour this morning the police did not make any arrests for the shooting and attempted, holdup. description given by Aplin does not fit Charles Singleton, the alleged "soldier bandit" who is being sought by the police for many holdups in the city. The height of either man does not tally with the soldier bandit.

PROTEST BULGAR SILENCE Parliament Wants Statement of Countries' War Aims. AMSTERDAM, Feb. disfrom Sofia to the Vossische Zeitung of Berlin says strong protests have been made in the Bulgarian parliament against the silence regarding Bulgaria's war aims which have marked recent German and Austrian pronouncements. Premier Radoslavoff. speaking in the chamber of deputies, attributed the omission to "urgent business which Germany and Austria-Hungary had in their own In the debate which followed it was stated that the Bulgarian people were astonished and disappointed at the omission and demanded unequivocal enlightment in regard to the attitude of Germany and Austria.

END BIG GERMAN Honduras Cuts Off All Shipping Facilities. SAN JUAN DEL SUR, Nicaragua, Feb. German commission houses of Amapala, a Pacific port of Honduras, have been cut off from maritime shipping facilities. President Bertrand of Honduras has placed an embargo on all lighters belonging to Germans and has interned their owners in the interior of the republic, Thus ends a German trade monopoly in southern Honduras which lasted for more than thirty years. WANT NO HYMNS HATE Government Warns Against Untruthful Statements.

WASHINGTON, D. Feb. Warning against Indulgence in "hymns of is reiterated in the current issue of the news bulletin of the minute men, through which foule government's 20,000 volunteer speakers are informed and instructed. What the government wants, bulletin says, is conservative, strictly truthful statements, and while truthful appeal to the fear of men through recognition of the things that would happen if the German dove government triumphed, may be desirable, there should be no, preaching of hate. "Hatred has been atirred up in civilian populations in order to encourage enlistment." says the bulletin, "but thanks to the draft, this debasing feature of war 18 not necessary in order to maintain our army." AGED POLITICIAN DIES One of Organizers of People's Party in South Dakota.

SEATTLE, Feb. Alonzo Wardall, 73 years old, a pioneer of the northwest, died here today, six days after the death of his father, Thomas Wardall. The elder Wardall died at the age of 102 and was said to have been the oldest man in the northwest. Alonzo Wardall, a veteran of the civil war, was one of the organizers of the people's party in South Dakota and in 1892 he lacked but three votes of election as United States senator from that state. CITY IN BRIEF The Brotherhood of Railway Mail Clerks will hold a meeting at Trades and Labor hall this evening at 8 o'clock at which matters of importance will be taken up.

All railway mail clerks are urged to attend. Glenn Ellison. famous Scotch baritone. will give a program of BODES at the Capitol Hill Church of Christ. East Twelfth and Des Moines streets, at 8 o'clock tonight.

The concert will be free to the public. ORGANIZED SLAVERY IN PARTS OF FRANCE HELD BY GERMANS Belgium Citizen Tells of Atrocities Perpetrated on Native Citizens. OTTAWA, Feb. ---A London dispatch to the Ottawa agency of Reuter's Limited says it has received from a trustworthy Belgian citizen, who has just reached London from the German military zone at. Valenciennes, an account of terrible conditions existing in the occupied districts of France, from which virtually no news ever reached England.

For obvious reasons it could not be states how this man escaped. He still bore trances of a heavy blow on the jaw, and showed Reuter's representative a handful of natural teeth which had been knocked out by the butt of a German guard's, rifle. He said: "The Germans have organized a slavery army in the zone of northern France. When left St. Amand, a few weeks ago, conditions Were unbearable.

All the men between the ages of 17 and 50 had been taken away. Unmarried women under 40 are obliged to work in the fields, while girls from SUICIDE AT CAMP DODGE Marshalltown Private Shoots Himself at Cantonment. An official board has been appointed to investigate the first case of suicide at Camp Dodge, that of Private William H. Bowman, an enlisted soldier from Marshalltown, and assigned to the depot brigade. Bowman shot himself while in his company barracks Saturday, leaving a note to his commanding officers.

The note will not be given out until the inquiry is completed. Bowman had apparently been in good spirits, and no reason for his act is known. WILL GIVE WAR STATEMENT Council Says Allies All in Accord. PARIS, Feb. 3.

-An official statement setting forth a resolution concerning the conduct of the war which was adopted at the session of the supreme war council last week will be issued at Paris, London, Rome and Washington. Premier Clemenceau told the Petit were completely in and Parisian that the entente, alltes that the delegates were fully satisfied with the results of the conTerence. The Havas agency says measures which are likely to exert great influence on the future conduct of the war were adopted. ALLIED WAR HEADS SEE NO PEACE HOPE IN GERMAN OFFERS CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. initiated at.

Rapallo in November last received still further concrete and practical development. On all, these questions a complete agreement was arrived at after the full- 1 1 1 est discussion with regard to both the policy to be pursued and to the measures for its execution. "Under the circumstances the supreme council decided that the only immediate task before them lay in the prosecution of war with the utmost vigor and the closest and most effective co-operation of the military effort of the allies until such time as the sure of that effort shall pres: brought about in the enemy governments and peoples a change of temper which would justify the hope of the conclusion of peace on terms which would not involve the abandonment, in the face of an aggressive and unrepentent militarism, of all the principles of freedom, justice and respect for the law of nations which the allies are resolved to vindicate. Consider Teuton Offers. "The supreme war council gave the most careful consideration to the recent utterances of the German chancellor and the AustroHungarian minister of foreign affairs, but was unable find in them any real approximation to the moderate conditions laid down by all the allied governments.

This conviction was deepened by the impression made by the contrast between the professed idealletic alms with which the central powers entered the present negotiations at Brest and their now openly disclosed plans of conquest and spoilation. "The allies are united in heart and will, not by any hidden designs, but by their open resolve to defend civilization against an unscrupulous and brutal attempt at domination. This unanimity is confirmed by a unanimity no less complete, both as regards the military policy to be pursued and as regards measures needed for Its execution which will enable them to meet the violence of the enemy's onset with firm and quiet with the utmost energy and with the knowledge that neither their strength nor their steadfastness can be shaken. "The splendid soldiers of our free democracies have won their place in history their immeasurable valor and their magnificent heroism and the no leas noble endurance with which our civilian populations are bearing their dally burden of trial and suffering testiLy to the strength of these principles of freedom which will crown the military success of the allies with the glory of a great moral triumph." MILK SUPPLY CUT DOWN Boycott by Producers Causes Troutble in Chicago. CHICAGO.

Feb. -Chicago's milk supply was cut down to a famine basis today as a result of a boycott by the producers as a protest againat the $3.07 a hundred price fixed for February by the federal milk commission. The boycott against Chicago 18 reported to have extended into parts of Indiana. Michigan and Wisconsin. angry dairymen threatening to kill their cattle rather than deliver milk at the new price, Meetings of protest tere many parts of Illinois.

farmers stating that the strike was not an organized move but was a "silent. protest" on the part. of the individual farmers. Must Have Agreement. THE HAGUE.

Feb. 3. The overseas importation of grain and cat- WRECKS TRAIN TO GET HIMSELF A JOB prophet; the world is upon his heart. His home is but the watchtower from which he looks with the pitying eye of Jehovah upon a world which will learn of his moral supremacy only in the humiliation and defeat that must be the end of all unrighteousness. But amid this storm Zion is immovable.

It is upon Zion that the storm crashes itself into impotence. With what light and peace do Isaiah's words break out across that unquiet, hungry sea. Now they tell the word for the first time and have been telling it ever since, and much more clearly In Christ, that apart from all the struggle and strife of history there is a refuge and security of men, which God, himself, has assured. The world and her powers are not all. Religion, in the very teeth, of life, builds her refuge for afflicted.

Faith has her abiding citadel in the midst a house of God, which neither force can harm, nor fear can enter. THE REV. F. C. M'KEAN.

Central Presbyterian Church. The call to take the life of his son was the great paradoxical test by which the faith of Abraham was proved. Abraham had been definitely promised that in Isaac the world would be blessed and yet he was called upon to take his life. The command seemed absurd. How could God bless his life through the child and then ask the father to take the life of that child? The trial of his faith lies not only in the test which came to him in deciding between the natural affection.

he had for his son and his duty in obeying God, but lies in the fact of his accepting without a murmur a command God which, to a mind devoid foreknowledge, seemed to conflict with all of Jehovah's previously revealed promises. This scripture story shows u8 how God is constantly subjecting his children to tests. Life in one sense is a probation. Faith like gold is tried by fire. Sometimes these testa are mysterious and we do not grasp their true import, but if through them all we remain true to God like Abraham we will emerge triumphant.

Just as Ben Hur in the chariot race had obtained his strong hand and mighty grip which served him then SO well from his long service at the oar which he had rowed as a galley slave. So Abraham obtained that triumphant faith which served him in an emergency from the past experiences of his life when from Ur of the Chaldees to Mount Moriah he had kept close God by faith. Years of obedience to Jehovah are but an unconscious preparation for some great test in life which may decide our destiny. In every sincere life of faith there is a JeThovah-jireh. In some way or other the Lord will provide.

It may not be my way, It may not be thy way. And yet In his own way The Lord will provide. GEORGE S. POWLISON. Lecturer Temple of Truth Church.

(Spiritualistic). Man thinks that when he plans on ways and means to increase his business, that he has a big idea on his mind, but the really and truly big idea is the mighty effort to grasp and understand the conditions and working system of the spirit world, which is so closely interwoven within and round about us everywhere, that all we have to do is to have the scriptural grain of mustard seed faith, to seek and ye shall find, knock and it will be opened unto you. The time is fast coming when the knowledge of the unseen world will become an essential part of every man's education. The higher forces are developing and opening up human avenues through whom this splendid knowledge can flow and reach those who really desire to know. When man reaches the seeking stage.

and life is a complete geries of stages marking the upward trend of his evolution, he begins to wonder where judgment day comes in the spirit world, if the astral world is 80 closely intermingled with us here and the change from one to the other is "just another delightful new experience" as Ella Wheeler Wilcox expresses it. Man's every word, every thought. every deed, is judged in the astral world entirely by the motive back of it and the records of the astral world show every transaction from start to finish. The man who steals for pleasure in the money, and man who steals to the keep his family from starving are judged very differently. The motive is always taken as evidence and judged entirely from it.

The girl who sells her virtue for dress and a good time, and the girl who sells her virtue to keep a sick moth- records belonging to the university and the government schools also were saved. The fire started in the basement near the furnace, apparently had worked its way upward inside the walls and was bursting the roof when it was discovered by a naval officer. With handkerchiefs tied over their noses, the sailors groped their way to the shell boxes and brought them all out. Dane hall was built in 1832, the gift of the late Nathan Dane, an attorney of Boston. HENEY REACHES CHICAGO Trade Board Attorney to Examine Files.

CHICAGO, Feb. -Francis J. Heney, special government investigator, arrived here today to examine the confidential files of the his packing coming industry. was the The refusal reason for of Henry Veeder, attorney for Swift to submit to inspection certain documents. Mr.

Heney asserted that by refusing to submit certain contents of the packers' vaults to the trade commission, Attorney Veeder had violated an United States statute. to obtain such evidence have come from sential to the hearing," he declared, "and, should further obstacles be placed in the path of the commission we shall use effective legal measures to overcome SMITH NOT RECALLED Had Always Been His Intention to Return in January. WASHINGTON, D. Feb. An official statement was issued by the British embassy today denying reports that Sir Frederick Smith.

attorney general of England, who came to this country on it special mission. Mad been recalled by the British government because of dissatisfaction over some of his publie utterances. The statement said there was no truth whatever in the report and that It had always been Sir Frederick's intention to return bome at the end of January. er alive, are entirely upon ditferent planes of thought and are judged accordingly, and this explains why the master said to the self-righteous, "Behold, the harlots go into the kingdom of heaven ahead of you." One lady asserted that she could buy her way into heaven because she gave her money so liberally to churches, and many apparently good deeds fall flat because the motive back of them is for selfish ends. It's a wonderful revelation to many who pass into the spirit world expecting to behold the great white throne at once, but Christ said: "Not all that say: Lord, Lord, shall enter therein." They have to grow and progress there as well as here.

The evolution of the mind is the supreme test, and justice places us just where we belong when we leave this mortal body for the other world. THE REV. E. E. HIGLEY.

Grace Methodist Episcopal Chured. There are in the United States upwards of 10,000,000 young men. Statistics tell us that but 25 per cent of them ever enter the church; that 8 per cent only are identified with the church; and that but 5 per cent are actively engaged in the work of the church. We are also told that 85 per cent of the crimes committed in this country may be laid to the charge of young men: that 70 per the criminals in our penitentiaries are young men: and that 85 per cent of the patrons of the saloon are young men. What a crushing indictment is this against the young manhood of America.

While it is difficult for us to credit the indictment a8 reflecting condition as black as these black figures would make it appear, yet it is certain that there is a poverty of young men in our churches. Why 18 this true? have proposed to let the young men of Des Moines answer for themselves. The various reasons given are as follows: "'The church is narrow." 'the church lives on the traditions of the "the church requires its followers to believe the unbelievable," "there is 80 much of contradiction among the churches as to what are the essentials of Christian belief," "there are too many churches to join, and one cannot belong to them all," "I am not. bad "there are, many people in the "I get on well enough without going to church," "I do not care to fetter my desires for "I have skeptical "I never got in the habit." Our churches are made up of human beings who are not perfect, nor do they make pretensions of perfection. Do not until you discover a perfect church, for your search will be in vain.

The church has to draw for its supply on men like yourself, and should you find a perfect church, it would become imperfect the moment you joined it. If there is hypocrisy in the church, and meanness and deceit and inconsistency of conduct among its members, these same frailties of behavior are to be found among your friends outside of the church. It is usually the hypocrites outside of the church who are most distressed about the hypocrites inside the church. The difference is that the former by an organized effort are endeavoring to correct their weaknesses while the latter experience little or no concern as to their own. There are many denominations, too many, and so there are many schools of medicine.

But when a man is sick he does not spend much time in quibbling over the differences and contradictions of the dir. ferent schools of medicine. In ministering to his body he has sense enough to choose the school that best satisfies judgment. There is less of confusion among the churches as to what constitutes the fundamentals of faith than ninetynine-one hundredths of those without know. Most objectors to the church who ground their objections on "unbelievable beliefs" "contradictions of doctrine" speak out of unbelievable ignorance to what the doctrines of the church today really are.

It is amazing to learn how many of these people are yet perplexing their souls about Cain's wife and Jonah's whale and Joshua's sun and Eve's serpent and Baalam's ass, supposing that the church is staking its existence on mooted points that never were essential. Alas, that such primitive ignorance should asgume to rise in judgment against the church in this day! I started by telling of a young man whose eyes were closed to his own good. He is a type of many who live today. My young friend, is that young man you? SOLD BOOZE TO SOLDIERS Military Police Catch Negro on Bootlegging Charge. May Be Sent to Prison for Violating His Parole.

Sterling Kitchen, Negro, 36 years old, 751 Tenth street, was arrested last night by the military police on a charge of selling whisky to soldiers. The arrest was made at the Kirkwood hotel where he was employed as porter. Kitchen may be turned over to the parole board to be sent back to the state prison. He was paroled six months ago after being sentenced to fifteen years in the state prison for manslaughter. The Negro's conviction of manslaughter followed a trial in the District court where he was tried for first degree murder of a Negro whom he hit over the head with a billiard cue.

Kitchen's plea was self-defense, but after a long trial he was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to fifteen years in prison. He served thirteen years. If taken back he will be made to serve out the rest of the term and five years more for violating his parole. Kitchen was arrested yesterday after two members of the military police him. purchased a pint of whisky He is being held at the city jail to await action of the parole board and Commissioner Piper.

To Raise Sunken Ships. LONDON, Feb. companies here already are working schemes to recover the fortunes after the war, lying in torpedoed ships at the bottom of the sea. Apart from the bullion and sliver in sunken ships, there is a large quantity of other valuable metals worth diving for. Many of the spots have been marked by enterprising salrage men with an eye to the future.

12 to 14 must collect acorns and nettles. "Everywhere you meet civilians working under brassard armed guards. showing Every the wears town he comes from. Some brassard around the leg showing they tried to escape. 1 saw we an old man with a large cross painted on his back.

I knew what that sig-. nified. If your refuse to work you are fined; if you refuse to pay the fine you are imprisoned; if you refuse a second time you are sent to Germany from where one seldom comes back alive. "Besides civilian prisoners, the Germans have great numbers of war prisoners behind the lines, working under terrible conditions. The English are especially badly treated.

All want food but the sufferings of the Russians owing to lack of food are awful. It was while I was endeavoring to give a starving Englishman a little of my own small supply of food that the guard knocked out my teeth." The informant told how domestic clocks and lamps are broken up for copper, mattresses are ripped for wool and sacks and clothes are seized. Farmers and peasants must declare everything. you turn your eyes the same tragedy is everywherestarvation, slavery and untold brutality," he concluded. Artist Picturing Food on Edge of New German Paper Money Arrested AMSTERDAM, Feb.

artist who designed paper money of the denomination of 50 pfennigs, which now is being circulated in several rural towns of Prussia, has been arrested at Nieberlahnstein on the charge of holding up the fatherland to ridicule. His offense lay, according Maasbode of Rotterdam, in the ornamentation on the margin of the bills. After the money had been in circulation for some time, it was discovered that the marginal decorationa consisted mostly of drawings of articles of food. Above a picture of a ham the artist inscribed in microscopic letters: "A tender memory and a fond Over a design of three turnips he wrote: "This is how the Germans live." tie food the semiofficial news agency points out, can be resumed only when definite economic agreement is reached with the entente. Under the provisional I arrangment with America, it is explained, Dutch ships in American ports have been given permission only to make short voyages.

RED CROSS ACCOUNTING Shows How War Fund tions Were Spent. WASHINGTON, D. Feb. An accounting of American Red Cross war council appropriations made public tonight at headquarters here shows that up to Jan. 9 there had been appropriated from the war fund $77.843,435, every dollar of which was for some form relief work at home or abroad.

All administration expenses in the United States are paid out of general funds, largely from membership dues and for this purpose 289,292 had been appropriated. This with $318.000 drawn from 1 1 1 miscellaneous funds for various purposes made a grand total of $79,450.727 appropriated for all purposes. Nearly three-fourths of 657,795 withdrawn for foreign reliet work went to France and of $24,323,181 for the purchase of supplies, nearly one-third was for France. SIEZE NICK'S PROPERTY Goods in Warehouse Said to Belong to Former Czar. NEW YORK, Feb.

in a Brooklyn warehouse, said to belong to Nicholas Romanoff, former emperor of Russia, was seized today by deputy sheriffs under a writ of attachment issued by the Supreme court of Brooklyn. The court decided that as long as Mr. Romanoff was emperor no action could be brought against him in New York, but since he had lost his position he could be sued as any other private citizen. The attachment was to protect the claim of the Marine TransportaService company, on 8 claim contract for the shipment of for alleged breach of plies to Russia. The property is said to be worth $20.000,000.

It consists automobiles, rifles, barbed wire and other war materials. ALLENBY IN Successful in Campaign Around Jerusalem. LONDON, Feb. slight advances are reported by General Allenby in the campaign around Jerusalem, according to an official statement tonight. Mex Election Quiet.

BROWNSVILLE, Feb. The gubernatorial election in the state of Taumalipas, according to information received in Matamoros, opposite here, passed off quietly. Complete returns of the election in which Caesar Lopez de Larai was opposed for governor by Luis Caballero have not been received Think Fires Incendiary. KANSAS CITY, Feb. 3.

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Turin Man Bound Over to Grand Jury On Charge of Attempting Wreck. ONAWA, Feb. Edward Middleton of Turin was bound over to the Monona county grand jury under $3.000 bond on a charge of having placed a heavy ebstruction on the Northwestern railroad at Turin which just failed to wreck the Chicago flyer, No. 11. The obstruction, which was a coupling weighing 50 or 60 pounds.

was hit by the engine with the train a traveling at the rate of forty-five miles an hour. The coupling was heavy jar resulted. Railroad men hurled from the track and only a are surprised that the train was not wrecked. Middleton, who was suspected of having placed the obstruction on the track, was arrested by Sheriff Martin. Middleton is a railroad the section at Turin.

worker has been on employed. to have sought the position of section boss. The coupling was placed upon the track at a switch. It is the theory of officials that if Middleton is guilty of the crime for which held it was done with the motive of discrediting his superior make it appear the switch was out of order and not properly looked after, and that the section boss was negligent. Middleton is about 40 years of age.

While not employed by the railroad company, he has been working at a tile factory. He made no defense at the preliminary hearing, which was conducted by County Attorney Miles W. Newby, Middleton is guilty of the act it 18 believed that he did not realize its seriousness or possible consequences, and was blinded by his intense zeal for securing the section boss' job. He has not secured his release from jail. He has a wife and three children.

General Shryock Dies, BALTIMORE. Feb. Thomas J. Shryock, 67 years old, prominent in business, political and financial circles, died today of pneumonia. For twenty-three years he was grand master of the grand Masonic lodge of Maryland, several years longer than the tenure of the late King Edward as a grand magter.

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