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THE CUMBY RUSTLER
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KAISER’S FORCES
RETREAT BEFORE
ALLIES’ ATTACK
Berlin Admits Repulse and
Calls Help From Belgium
for Titanic Struggle.
RUSSIANS INTO PRUSSIA
AFTER AUSTRIAN BATTLES
They Capture Cities and Control Prov-
inces—Wilhelm Protests to Wilson
—Turkey Closely Watched
—Peace Distant.
v —
Summary of Events.)
The Germans have received
their first severe repulse at the
hands of the French-British army,
and officially they admit the fact.
.Three distinct battles at different
points in a fighting line 120 miles
long have been in progress, be-
tween a million and a half men on
a side, for the last week.
After retreating steadily but
skilfully from the Germans for
two weeks straight, fighting in
v rear-line engagements every foot
of tiie way from the Belgian bor-
der almost to Paris, the allies
picked a series of battle grounds
and turned on their pursuers. The
Germans have been driven back
/ twenty-five miles all along a eres-
Austria Hard Pressed.
Following a severe repulse at the
hands of the German-Austrian army
about ten days ago, the Russians ap-
pear to have had unbroken success at
arms. They have covered the Aus-
trian provinces of Galicia and Buka-
wina and captured the provincial
capitals of Lemberg and Czernowitz,
the latter 200 miles south of the Rus-
sian border.
They have overrun German East
Prussia as far west as Konigsberg,
and hold this city. The czar declares
he has five million men in the field
now, with four million more trained
reserves. The objective point is Ber-
lin and the advance line is said to be
200 miles long.
Turkey is still neutral, though she
is daily expected to join forces with
Germany. The action of Turkey is of
grave importance, for if she joins the
conflict, an attack by Greece, Italy,
Bulgaria, Roumania, Servia and Mon-
tenegro on her is imminent. The lat-
ter two states are occupied at present
fighting Austria.
Great Britain has ordered all Ger-
man and Austrian consuls to leave
Egypt, a British protectorate. It is
charged the consuls have been foment-
ing a native revolt of Mohammedans
against all Christians—especially the
•British garrison and colony.
Japan continues to besiege Tsing
Tau, the German naval base and col-
ony in the Chinese province of Kaio
Chow. About thirty thousand infan-
try and a strong fleet press the Ger-
mans.
Word has come from Petrograd
(Russia has changed the name of her
national capital from St. Petersburg
to Petrograd), Rome and Athens that
Austria faces a dangerous revolt of
the various racial elements of the em-
pire.
Germans Admit Allies' Success.
London.1—“The first official admis-
sion on the German side of success
by the allies," says a Central News
ONE OF GERMANY'S COMMANDERS
Count von Haessler, field marshals of the German army.
dispatch from Amsterdam, “appears
in official communications just issued
in Berlin. General Von Stein an-
nounces that the German army, which
had advanced across the Marne to the
east of Paris, was attacked heavily
by the enemy between Paris, Meaux
and Montmirail. The fighting lasted
two days," the report says. “The Ger-
cent shaped line to the northwest,
the north and the east of Paris.
This appears to be the supreme
test, the critical hour, for both
sides in the present phase of the
campaign. The French are put-
ting every available man into the
ranks and the British are receiv-
ing a constant supply of fresh men ' mans had checked the enemy and even
and munitions from England. The
Germans have brought forward
70,000 re-enforcements from Bel-
gium. It is said this infantry was
preparing to rush to the defense
of East Prussia when called south.
President Wilson has received a
message from Kaiser Wilhelm pro-
testing the alleged use of explo-
sive bullets by the French and
British. Mr. Wilson has stated
that none of the belligerents has
yet indicated a desire for peace
overtures. On the contrary, Eng-
land, France, Russia and Japan
have signed a pact mutually pledg-1
ing themselves not to conclude j
peace independently in this war
and not to consider peace until
Germany and Austria are de-
cisively beaten.
had advanced, but stronger hostile
columns came to the assistance of the
allies and the enemy won the battle,
compelling the German troops to re-
tire. Fifty guns were captured by the
allies and some thousands of men
made prisoners.”
Force Back German Right.
London.—While the latest official
statements give few details of the
great battle which is being waged in-'
France and in which approximately
3,000,000 men are engaged, it seems
apparent that the German forces are
still falling back, from the announce-
ment that the allies have gained about
thirty-seven miles of territory in their
advance, an increase of twelve in the
operations during the last twenty-four
hours. Both British and French
troops have crossed the River Marne, /re making
ing fought between Mailly and Vitry-
le-Francois.
Koenigsburg in Flames.
London.—A dispatch to the Post
from Copenhagen states that reports
have been received there from Stettin
that the Russians are bombarding
Koenigsberg, the strong German fort-
ress in East Prussia, and that part
of the city is in flames.
Austria Hard Pressed.
A dispatch to the Chronicle from
Petrograd says: “In Russian and for-
eign diplomatic circles it is believed
that Austria will sue for peace within
a fortnight as the only means of avoid-
ing a complete break-up of the em-
pire, owing to rapidly growing inter-
nal troubles.”
Belgians Assume Offensive.
London.—An Ostend dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph Company says
that according to information from
a reliable source, the Belgian army at
Antwerp has assumed a triumphant
offensive movement, driving the Ger-
man right back to the environs of
Louvain.
The country south of Antwerp has
been flooded by the Belgians to pre-
vent the Germans marching into the
town. The area covered by the flood
is seventy miles square. The water
varies in depth at different places
from a few inches to several feet.
Maubeuge Still Resists.
London.—A dispatch to the Daily
Chronicle says: “The remarkable re-
sistance of the fortress at Maubeuge
to the invading Germans is one of the
most interesting features of the cam-
paign. Because of its stubborn stand
it undoubtedly has embarrassed the
Germans seriously in bringing up field
guns against Paris and maintaining
their communications.
Allies’ Lines Hold.
London.—German reinforcements es-
timated at 60,000 men are advancing
into France in three columns, accord-
ing to an Ostend dispatch to the Reu-
ter Telegram Company.
The dispatch says a German army
corps seems to be marching to the
south, passing between Oudenarde,
East Flanders and Grammont. It
probably is intended to reinforce the
German right wing, which has suffered
1 a check in France,
i Since Monday, adds the dispatch,
numerous German fugitives from the
battle in France have been seeking
refuge in Dottignies forest, between
Courtral and Herseaux.
The allied armies continue to have
the advantage, according to French of-
ficial reports, in what can be only the
preliminaries of a great battle extend-
ing from Meaux, northeast of Paris,
to the fortress of Verdun, about 120
miles further East.
The Germans, who have brought up
reinforcements, are striking at the
allies’ left and center between Mont-
mirail and Vitry-le-Francois, a front
of from fifty to sixty miles, but each
time they have been driven hack.
Germans Fall Back.
Bordeaux.—The following official
announcement has been issued:
“On the left wing all the German
attempts to break the French lines on
the right bank of the Ourcq river have
failed. We have taken two standards.
The British army has crossed the
name and the enemy has fallen back
about forty kilometers (twenty-five
miles). On the center and right wing
there is no notable change.”
Germans Claim Maubeuge.
Washington.—The German embassy
received a wireless from Berlin, say-
ing:
“General headquarters reports that
Maubeuge has fallen; 400 guns, four
generals and 40,000 prisoners cap-
tured.”
The message to the embassy adds
that “Ludwig Frank, the most promi-
nent Socialist of the reichstag, fell
while storming the charges near Lune-
ville on September 3, and Prince
Friedrich Wilhelm Hesse was wound-
ed.”
Another dispatch from the same
source says the Breslau Silesian land-
wehr captured seventeen officers,
a thousand men, all Russian imperial
guard. The place of the encounter
was not given.
Austrians Thrown Back.
Paris.—A dispatch to the Havas
agency from Nish, Servia, says that
the Servians are continuing their of-
fensive movements against the Aus-
trians in the direction of Vishegrad.
They crossed the frontier September
6 and continued to advance success-
fully. Everywhere the Austrians
were thrown back to the left bank of
the River Drina.
News has reached here that the
Montenegrin troops commanded by
Genera^ Vucotich have occupied im-
portant points in Bosnia south of Sara-
yevo, the capital. The situation in
North Albania continues serious.
Battling in Galicia.
London.—The Austrians and Rus-
sians are still battling in Galicia. Al-
though Russian official circles are si-
lent, reports from Rome, which gen-
erally have been accurate, coming as
they do through German or Ruman-
ian sources, indicate that the Russians
irogress through General
Human Character Not
Strengthened by Music
By ETHEL B. HOWARD
Artut *ud Poet, Benton, Min.
Lovers of music, persons
in whose life it has been a
vital interest, will say that
its influence for good must
have been groat in human
experience generally. Those
to whom it has never spoken
with the voice of authority, whose spirits have been deaf to it, can hardly
believe that it has been a real force in the onward urge of men’s lives.
A third class of persons, small in proportion and conspicuous for a
prejudice against the arts in general, rather than for a hospitable attitude
toward them, have a certain mistrust of music, except in a few of its more
rigid forms. Against secular music, for example, they raise a barrier of
disapproval as against an enemy of morality. Very seldom nowadays,
of course, but very often of old, music which was not sacred was regarded
either as idle or dangerous.
Human progress is a difficult thing to measure. To trace any direct
connection between it and the influence of music is not easy. Say that
music has been the source of delight, inspiration, employment to millions
of people. The case then is easily won for music if these things cover what
we mean* by “progress.” One can pretty nearly gauge, in terms of money,
the increase of industry in a given time under the stimulus of a new
invention, but to measure the general progress of a people in a richly
musical period is a matter for speculation.
Can it be said, as a proved fact, that art makes people better? No,
it cannot. But as human beings progress they make, I believe (allowing for
all the mistakes, backslidings, failures and doubtful experiments), bet-
ter art.
Music, I suppose, might be named the most potent of all the arts in
its instant effect on the feelings (when it is in any degree emotional and
not a purely intellectual form, as it was known and cultivated in the
middle ages). Music is> in a sense, highly utilitarian. It will make men
work with more vigor and in unison it will even make them go into battle
with a sort of willingness. It causes them to forget obstacles, overcome
restraints, grow tender, fierce or reverent; in short, it acts like a strong
drug of instantaneous and rather transient effect upon the majority of
human beings. But acting thus on the emotions, can it make for any
progress, except in emotional sensitiveness, unless there results a strength-
ening of the character somewhere from the exprience ?
1 Music is not “elevating,” as it is sometimes called (or used to be,
in every-day parlance). Those who hear it with significant results were
“elevated” before they heard it. They only listened and understood. Music
may amount to a revelation to some. It may be the key to open to them
new worlds, but music did not make such people what they are.
I should say that music has had little effect on human progress, though
human progress has contributed vastly to the enrichment of music. What
flowers in art is the vitality of the human spirit seeking to announce itself
in many ways. The arts do not make human progress, but human prog
ress does everything for the arts, which are varieties of its expression.
What makes humanity progress, __• /
by the way, we don’t know. &/***
Hotel Clerk Should
Show More Friendliness
By Alfred T. Hoffman. Brooklyn, N. Y.
iNTfBN&riONAL
Sl)NMfSQH)OL
(By E. O. SELLERS, Director Sunday
School Course, Moody Bible Institute,
Chicago.)
LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 20
JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS.
LESSON TEXT—Matt. 25:31-46.
GOLDEN TEXT—Inasmuch as ye did it
not unto one of the least, ye did It not
unto Me. Matt. 25:45.
A stranger gets his firs
impression of any city he
happens to visit from the
hotel at which he registers
I was born in New York
but have traveled in Europe
and have traveled consider
ably in the United States. With few exceptions, the hotel clerk in this
country seems to think that he is doing you a favor in assigning you to
a room at from $3 to $5 per. Jt is different in the old country. In most
of the larger towns of Europe, and particularly in London, the hotel man-
agement recognizes the fact that the person who registers is a guest.
The hotel is thh host and should act accordingly. In London the per-
son who represents the hotel at the- desk makes you feel that you are
welcome. If he doesn’t say so his manner says, “I am glad to have you
here.”
In New York and throughout this country—north and south—the
Istranger is not as a rule greeted with any degree of welcome. In New
York two or three of the new hotels are realizing the importance of play-
ling the real host. Some one at the desk is ready to be friendly and to make
'the man who registers feel at home. All the hotels in this country should
Ido likewise, which course would make the stranger have all the better
iopmion of the city in which he is visiting for the first time.
€J| Give Every Young
Woman an Equal Chance
By Rev. Dr. J. F. Prentice, New Orleam.La.
When a man does wrong
he is given every chance to
reform, but with a woman
it is different.
It is a lamentable fact
that not enough girls who
go astray are given the
proper chance to reform when they show the inclination to do so. A great
many more would be reclaimed if they were given the right sort of treat-
ment. \
The girl who is so unfortunate as to make a false step is not given the
tame opportunity to reform as is extended to her brother.
I have been around a great deal and have observed closely, and I have
yet to find a market for wild oats.
The fellows who get to the front are those with clear eyes and steady
'hands, and not the prodigal sons.
The fatted calf is not killed for the prodigal daughter, hut on the
t©ther hand she is taken back home through the side streets and alleys and
'in at the back door, and her former companions shun her as if she were
a contagion.
The difference between the acts of the daughter and the wild oati
sowing of the son is not fair.
the British capturing men and guns.
The action of greatest severity i3 be-
Auffenburg’s army, which
supported by the Germans.
is being
SAW 150.000 RUSSIAN
SOLDIERS IN ENGLAND
London.—For several days there
have been stories around England that
a large force of Russian troops had
been brought to different ports in this
country and Scotland and trans-
shipped to the continent. Credible
witnesses who have seen the men in
L^ith, Liverpool, Avonmouth and
Southampton describe their appear-
ance and uniforms.
. A. professional man declared that he
had just come from the admiralty, <
where he has a near relative, who ad-
mitted that 150,000 Russian troops had
been landed at Ostend. The od»- !r in-
official added that the fact i i ibly
would be officially announced soon.
It might seem incredible that a
great movement of troops could "be
carried out without becoming known j
generally. But the power of conceal-
ment possessed and exercised by the
European governments during this
war have been found to be so aston-
ishing that such a feat of mystifica-
tion is by no means impossible.
If the Russians have been landed in
Belgium, their work will be to cut the
lines of communication of the Ger-
mans. By all accounts they are not
well guarded. All the German forces
are being pushed forward to carry out
the dash to Paris, which they prom-
ised to effect by September 2.
The Russian force probably would
he able to exercise a decisive inllu-
encp on that forward movement and
with its long drawn out line of com
munication the German retreat would
be a dangerous, perhaps fatal, busi-
ness.
Controlling Spirit of
Existence in Man
By M. P. PERRY. Green River, Wyo.
To get out of life as much
as possible and at the least
cost to ourselves appears
to be the controlling spirit
of existence.
We seem to have lost sigh
of the fact sometimes that
aye are
,laced on this earth to work out our salvation ; we forget the higher
aspects of our moral vision in the more exciting business of life, and we
prefer to fix our own viewpoint to suit our personal convenience rather
than to accept the mere exacting and less attractive one that he who knows
all things best may choose for us.
We find it hard to rise above the trivialities and perplexities and con-
fusions of the ordinary course of life, perhaps because notwithstanding our
denunciation of them we reallv find them too full of interest to surrender
absolutelv, or possiblv because we have no real desire to do more than live
in the present—without a thought of either the future or the hereafter.
I. The Congregation, vv. 31-33. This
is one of the difficult and much-con-
troverted passages of our Lord’s Oli-
vet prophecy. The title “Son of Man”
is one which refers to our Lord’s
earthly relations and administration,
and is one not otherwise used In this
prophecy. Jesus is speaking to his
disciples. He looks beyond the dark
passion so rapidly approaching to the
light of the ultimate fulfilling of his
purpose for this world. Our Lord here
makes no reference to the final judg-
ment mentioned in the Apocalypse. In
that hour earth and heaven will flee
away. Here there Is no such passing
away nor do the dead appear. The
son is enthroned. He' administers
judgment. He is assisted by the ac-
companying angels. The believer
must appear before the judgment (II
Cor. 5:10; Rom. 14:10), but his des-
tiny is decided the moment he be-
lieves, John 5:24. Christ first came in
humiliation, when he comes this time
’twill be in “glory” (v. 31). He may
come at any moment. Matt. 24:42-44.
This scene is more the description of
a judgment than of a trial. The test*
ing is taking place today.
Separating Test.
II. Those Commended, w. 34-40.
The separating test is the attitude
of the nations toward the brethren of
the Lord. Here Jesus emphatically
speaks of his kingship, hence the hon-
ored position, “on his right hand.”
In his teaching Jesus had empha-
sized the fact that those who do the
will of God are his next of kin. Here
they are, “Ye blessed of my father.”
This word "blessed” means, literally,
“well spoken of.” We are blessed of
God in the heavenlies in Christ, Eph.
1:3, but we are also to be blessed
with an inheritance in the kingdom.
See Gal. 5:19, 21; Eph. 5.5; I Cor. 6:9.
10 contrasted with II Tim. 2:2; 4:8;
James 2:5; Rev. 21:7. This blessing is
a gift, Luke 12:32, which has been
prepared “from the foundation of the
world” (v. 34). Man’s destiny de-
pends upon the object and act of his
faith, but the test, the proof, the evi-
dence of that faith is in his conduct
(Gal. 5:6; James 2:17, 18). Altruism
does not save the soul, but a truly
saved soul will be compassionately
serviceable. It is ours to assuage the
thirsty, John 4:14, 6:55; ours to feed
the hungry, John 6:32, 35; ours to re-
ceive the Btranger, Eph. 2:13, 18, 19;
ours to clothe the naked, Isa. 64:6;
ours to visit the sick, Luke 1:68, 78;
and our3 to visit the prisoner, Luke
4:18. Note carefully the unconscious-
ness of good deeds. The Christian is
so identified with Jesus Christ as to
regard these deeds as not his own,
but “Christ within.” The real test is
not so much love for God or Christ
whom we have net seen, but love for
the brethren whom we have seen (I
John 3:17). Our attitude toward our
brethren is the evidence that we have
received Christ. Our life of service,
though, we may be “the least,” will
be commended before the throne and
the assembled nations and angels. He
is identified with “the least.” This
sentence needs to be interpreted in
the light of the entire scene and its
relationship. Those commended are
sent away into an age-abiding life
of felicity.
The Other Side.
III. Those Condemned, w. 41-46.
Turning now to the other side, what a
change wto behold! “Come” Is now
“depart,” not to age-abiding joy, but to
age-abiding fire, which is age-abiding
punishment. We do not infer that
this parable refers to the place of
the departed dead, to the final judg-
ment of sin but to the time of his
second advent and that the life that
is blessed and the place of punish-
ment are on this earth during the age
of his millennial reign. Such at least
is as far as we feel we have a right1
to go in the Interpretation of this par-
able. Those who do not listen to the
“come” of Jesus now, will hear his
“depart” hereafter. Notice there la
no reference to the father following
the curse such as we find in connec-
tion with the “blessed.” Men are
cursed by themselves, John 5:40.
Those who seek to save themselves
are likewise cursed, Gal. 3:10. The
kingdom is prepared for the righteous
and punishment is not prepared for
man. It was prepared for the devil
(41) and his cohorts.
IV. The Lesson content. Admit-
ting the difficulty of interpretation let.
us look at the picture. Jesus on’
Mount Olivet, sitting in the midst ofl
his disciples, knew full well what was(
awaiting him on Calvary. Judged by1
human standards he was defeated andi
his defeat was to be made irrevocable
by that ignominous death. So his
enemies confidently believed. Yet he
looks beyond the circumstance to the
coming centuries and through them to
the end of the age, and claims the
victory. He speaks without hesitation
of his hour of triumph and “glory"
(v. 31).
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