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existence than those heretofore named
me american Sunday school union. is
Wen known. This great organization
estapnshes Sunday schools in anv
nelShborhood where no church exists
When the schools begin to flourish thew
are often transferred to the care of
some church, although they are some
llines continued as undenominational
or union" Sunday schools. The union
Is supported by all Protestant church.
es. In Minnesota alone it maintains
some three score agents. The state
headquarters is managed, in ST. Paul.
by State Superintendent f. A! Bart
lett.
More restricted is the field of the
CITY Missionary society. 1t was es-
tabl1shed fifteen years ago. 1t is sup
ported by the local Protestant church,
es for the furtherance of missionary
work among local residents without
religious advantages. Rev. E. r.
rmscher is the missionary of the So
clety, and the secretary is H Knox
Taylor.
Mr.. Irmscher is also the agent of
the Ramsey County Bible society. a
branch of the New York society, whose
familiar work is the distribution of the
scriptures. DR.. ]. M. Fulton is the
president of the Ramsey county
branch; Rev. G. d. Andrews is the vice
president; c. H. .Slocum is the treas
urer, and H. Knox Taylor is the secre-
tary.
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OF the night, so he is at home. A mes
senger is dispatched to his abode and
finds him getting ready for the strug-
gle. He has been called so many times
before that his wife expected it, and
called him from his sleep that he might
be ready when the summons came. Nels
Sall1es forth thick with clothes. He is
rather short and broad under the most
favorable circumstances, and now he
has gigantic width of shoulder. Nels
arrives at the barn as Jerry is swing
ing down from his car.
Two Veteran Fighters
These two have fought snow togeth-
er since the horse car days, farther
than which the motor car veterans
memory runneth not. Their ways lie
far apart on ordinary days and they
meet only when the oldest sSetfler be-
gins mumblfng about the snow storms
of the past, which begin to project into
his memory. Whenever they do meet
there is toll and tribulation ahead, but
being men of wide philosophy, they
bear no malice toward each other. Yet
their greeting is brief.
''Ho, Nels!"
Halo, Very
And with the curt observance of the
conventions of life, they are ready for
the fight. A half or dozen big
HluSSiSU men, SWdIheQ III 4cOFuuF1y,
sheep lined and canvas, are lounging
about in close proximity to business
looking shovels. Jerry and Nels take
| their places and the shovelers scramble
aboard. The trolley is put on the wire
and the four powerful motors of the
snow bucker begin purring and dron-
ing their song of determination. The
wheels rasp on the rails like the grit
ting of teeth and slowly the big snow
plow creeps toward the barn door.
There is something cat-like in its de-
liberate movement, and one somehow
expects that it will leap from the door
with a bound and be off at lightning
speed. The foreman yelps something
to Jerry about the lines that need res
cue Immediately, and Jerry mods his
head in complete understanding of the
situation.
Outside is blizzard, the rumors of
which make the Vermont farmer salts
fed with his patch of rock-infested
ground. The telegraph wires are bear.
ng the weather boasts of each city :
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gouglng out swath which teamsters
VIII gladly use in the morning.
jerry, Nels and the crew have been
working many hours, but the end of the
toll is not yet in sight. It's between
them and the blizzard, and the blizzard
Will have to quit first. Jerry notes
that he is hungry and doubles his al
lowance of tobacco. Gradually Nels
feels an inconyenient lack of food and
finally he admits to himself that he is
hungry and the incident is closed
Ask Jerry if he is cold and he will
snap back some Milesian wit that will
set your blood tingling with mirth.
Repeat the inquiry to Ne1s, and with
slow, but intense satisfaction, he will
tell you that he was born in a snow
bank. There is much difference be-
tween Jerry and Nels. Jerry will have
a new and sparkling reply for each
query, whereas Nels has used the same
bit for repartee for many winters. He
has always found it serviceable, and
why should he, conservative man,
seek innovations of speech. Nels is
essentially conservative, but he knows
his business. s5sgS
The snow plow is now in the wake of
the owl cars, which run but once an
hour, and, unimpeded by travel, the
bucker is working full blast. The
superintendent has received frequent
information concerning the dOingS Of
Nels and Jerry and has retired, and the
night foreman in the barns is begin
ming to take brighter view of life.
AS morning comes on, the wind, wearied
in its vain effort to overcome man and
electricity, slowly gives up the fight.
The odds and ends of tracks are
skinned, and as the sun comes up ON
a sparkling, chilly world, Jerry and
Nels pull into the barn. The early
CT y-fo
room as the snow crew comes stamping
in. few minutes to thaw the chill OF
many hours and everybody is off to
bed. Jerry and Nels make brief i'll
scrawled reports and they, too, depart,
with the blase air of conquerors, to
whom victory is commonplace.
In couple of hours the street car
traffic is at its height for the first part
of the day. The snow is piled high on
each side of the track, but the cars
run on in smooth lanes. and another
blizzard has been fought and beaten.
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Dack and forth across the continent
from Medicine Hat comes the intelli-
gence that the mercury is several faith
o1ns below zero and the wind is blow
ing a gale in every direction from each
subdivision of the compass The fur
naces OF the Northwest are resounding
with the clank of precious coal and the
world at large is imbued with the COM
mendable desire to get home as quickly
as possible. The streets are CANYONS
hlled with icy particles shot about hap
hazard and the street lamps are DULY
visible only at close range. Pedestrians
bend double, and with eyes tightly
shut trust to luck to escape harm. and
the charms of Honolulu are almost ire
sistible.
The Battle Begins
AS. the snow plow sinks out of the
barn 1t is caught by a whirly gust of
OF the crews lungs. Like nimble
pugilist the wind sidesteps in deliver
ing its blows, but uselessly There is
an unconscious adjustment of heads to
lit turned up collars and the snow
bucker pulls out on the main track.
Nels lowers the big scraper, feeling his
way cautiously and Jerry loosens the
power within the motors, and the fight
is on. Sight is curtailed to the limit,
but jerry knows every foot of track in
the city, and besides he has boasted
that he can see through woolen
blanket, only If it be white. The track
lies level ahead, and there is work in
abundance to do, SO Jerry puts a little
hurry into the motors and the snow is
tossed contemptuouslY to one side.
Below the motors are churning in
dustr1ously, and the snow In front of
the plow is tossed high up like the
foam at the nose of an ocean grey
hound, AS the depth of snow and the
condition of the tracks warrants, Nels
raises and lowers the scraper. He can
see nothing, and besides, the floor of
the car is between him and the track,
but his acquired sense or instinct
guides him without error. The bucker
arrives in the busy section of the city,
where teams and citizens monopolize
the street, and Jerry has to be doubly
careful as manning citizen or his
beast is sometimes costly.
Speed is reduced and Jerry's big foot
beats a discordant tattoo on the gong,
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lleld' ae owatonna, Wabasha, Lake City
ana other towns as we'll
The German Epworth League union.
OF the Twin Cities, has branches in
All the German Methodist churches of
81 Paul and Minneapolis It's six
nundred or more members are divided
between senior and junior leagues.
Christian Endeavor Society
In brotherly competition for souls
comes next, perhaps, the Christian
Endeayor society, of international
lame. The society here is divided
among the Congregational, the Metho-
dist, the Presbyterian and the Chris
tan churches, and has forty-five So
cietles-eleven Junior, one intermediate
and thirty-four senior societies. IT is
said to be strongest in the Presbyterian
churches.
The society was founded in 1881 at
portland, Me-, by DR.. Francis Clark.
who still lives to enjoy the reward of
his achievement. The first local So
clety was organized about twenty years
ago.
At present the st. Paul Christian
Endeavor union, or central society, has
no official head except the vice presi-
dent, John E. Frisby. It's secretry is
MISS Lucy Gundloch, and it's treasurer
is w. S. Post.
American Sunday School Union
In the number of local church So
cieties maintaining more independent
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president Of the Good Shepherd is
Lichtscheidl -'-i
Along the same lines as those fol-
ioWed by their Catholic compatriots
the members of the First German
Method1st church have established the
German Christian Mutual Benevolent
society. Its officers are w. J. Bach
mann, president, and C. w. Eichorn
secretary. -
EpWorth League
But no doubt the best known of
Methodist societies in ST. Paul is the
EpWorth league, organized fifteen years
ago and named after the birthplace of
the distinguished founder of Method
ISM The society now f1ourishes
wherever the Methodist Episcopal
church has erected it's pulpits, which
means in all the principal countries of
the world. There is at least dozen
senior branches and thirteen Junior
branches of the league in this COM
mun1ty. These are under the guidance
Of the st. Paul Subdistrict EpWorth
league. of which j. M. Lewis is presi-
dent and Miss Anna C. Rothausen is
secretary.
MISS Rothausen is also secretary and
Carl f. Miller is president of the ST.
Paul District league. This last body
controls league affairs for the entire
church district governed by Presiding
Elder d. j. Stout-that is. not only ST.
Paul, but Saltwater, Red Wing, North
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inviting all concerned to make way as
Instantly as possible. Slowly the big
plow crawls along, the headlight
cleaning like the angry eye of some
Cyclops. The light rays dart forward,
furnishing bright playground for va
grant snowf1akes that sputter around
in the glow, and quickly make room for
myriads of others. Nobody notices
| this, however. All those within the
jurisdiction of Jerry's bell either hasten
to the sidewalk, or conscious of prece-
dence of the rights of citizenship over
corporation privileges, leisurely wend
their way across the tracks, ready to
dispute the right Of way with damage
suits il necessary.
Plow Attacks the Hills
Jerry gets through the tangled trans
fer points and starts on his way to
hiily section of the city where the snow
is bound to lodge in drifts. As he goes
he leaves the polished rails cleaning
behind him, and the cunning wind be-
gins to replace the snow Jerry has
removed the big layer, however, and
soon there will be car with the shoes
humping along the rails, and so it will
continue until everybody is home and
in bed.
The bucker no sooner clears one line
than it starts for another, and as there
the city at once, the wind is having
its troubles covering the tracks. BY
and by Jerry sees light ahead and
creeps up on it. It's little pup car
belated, mayhap with a couple of fran
tic passengers and resigned motor
man and conductor. The shovel crew
are out and in front in an instant, and
in another the pup is thankfully clat-
tering on its way. Back and forth the
bucker travels, using strange switches,
doubling on its tracks, but always toss
ing away the snow. The street car
travel is becoming lighter and the cars
fewer, which means more work for the
bucker. One by one the cars pull into
the barns and the drivers and cons
discuss the weather emphatically in a
variety of tongues, and are mostly glad
that they are not on the snow plow.
Scraper Starts Work
AS the streets grow deserted an extra
wing is added to the scraper, which
pushes the snow far from the track,
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provides insurance benefits for the
families of $500 men throughout the
state. Some of the local branches also
afford sick benefits. The society had
its origin twenty seven years ago in
the ST. Peters Benevolent Aid Society
of Assumption Church, st. Paul
Among the local branches are the
benevolent societies of st. Bernard, ST.
Clemens, st. Leo, St. Matthew, ST
Peter, st. Antonius and st. Francis de
Sales
There is smaller number of
branches affiliated with the same So
ciety, and designed for the insurance
of women.
The president of the Catholic Aid
association is G. N. Gerlach; the secre-
tary, j. @. Juenemann; and the treas
urer, p. M. Kerst-all of st. Paul.
A Catholic society offering among its
advantages certain educational bene-
fits is the Catholic German Gesselen-
yerein of the Church of the Sacred
Heart. The president is Rev. F. x.
Cores, pastor Of the church.
Among Polish Catholics the St Jo-
seph's Benevolent Society of st. Adel-
berts Church is influential It's presi-
dent is Joseph Matz; it's secretary, John
Blachow; and its treasurer, Joseph
Rosenthal.
Not content with it's st. Peters Ben
evolent society, already mentioned, AS.
sumption parish maintains for prac-
tically the same purpose the Good
Shepherd Benevolent society. The
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MANY SOCIETIES ATTACHED
TO CHURCHES AID THEIR WORK
Juvenile Male and the
lin
Such Societies deP



City Missionary society, the Ramsey
County Bible society, and the local
branch Of the American Sunday School
union.
Churches Differ in Societies
Which church societies customarily
attach themselves to each denomina-
tion 1t is not easy to set forth in de-
tail that would satisfy some church
members. The practice Of different
denominations and even of different
churches in the same denomination, diff
fers widely. Some little folks might
not consider a church to be truly orr
thodox that did not have an Junior
Endeavor society. Other readers-as-
suming with statisticians, that all
published statements find some readers
might take it for granted,
without thinking, that John Wesley
founded the Epworth league and the
Methodist church. And the women who
have done so much to upbuild all
American churches will be authority
for the statement that every church
must have, in some form or other,
though perhaps not nominally organ
lied. women's association, auxiliary
or aid society.
Allowing for such possible variants,
1t may be surmised that in every .Bap-
LIST Siidi Su LIZZIE Is d ldQlSS ala So
c1ety, women'S home missionary and
women's foreign missionary society,
a Baptist Young Peoples union. a
Junior Baptist union, or, sometimes, a
Christian Endeavor society and Ju-
nior Endeayor society. There may be
societies for younger juveniles. Less
regularly there is also a mems club.
A Catholic parish will comprise its
altar guild of women, its sodalities for
Ia ffO11- n
married women, and various benevolent
societies, among which that of st. Vim
cent de Paul is always prominent.
In congregational and Presbyterian
churches there will again appear the
societies of women for missionary and
church work. but the Baptist union
will be supplanted by a Christian En-
deavor society in it's adult and Juvenile
branches.
Mems Club in Episcopal Church
The Episcopal church has usually it's
mems club and always it's womens
auxiliary. There is variety of guilds
among the younger communicates
Often the church supports a chapter of
the Brotherhood of st. Andrew.
There should be ladies' aid society
in any Methodist church. women's
home missionary society, womans
foreign missionary society, an Epworth
league, a Junior Epworth league and
some minor society, like the Band of
Hope, for very little worshipers. A
mems league, too, may well be organ
lied.
In Lutheran churches the customary
societies of other Protestant congrega-
tions include Luther leagues, as men
toned, In place of Epworth leagues or
Christian Endeavor societies. Again,
in churches of the Evangelical asso-
citation, the fraternities of young and
younger members are styled, as a rule
the Evangelical Young Peoples socie-
ties.
Among the Baptist church societies
the Baptist union is locally important
1t includes upon its roll 400 men and
women from ali the thirteen or more
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Nh HHEN the big soft fluffy flakes
NNHW OF snow begin their erratic
VW fall, they start a feeling Of
JOY in the hearts of thousands.
ihose to whom the jingle of sleigh
-peils is sweet music rejoice in the ex-
peetatlon of exhilarating rides and the
SKI runner begins to draw in big deep
preaths, preparing his lungs for their
work when the snow shall be deep
enough The blunt speaking teamster
VINO has forsaken his wheels on the
advice of some fallible goosebone is
glad that his major troubles are over
ana the rhymester who has been in
aDeyance since the autumn leaves
turned deep red gold,' is once more
Surfing about herding together many
words with the long sound.
But the immaculate mantle doesn't
sur any such thoughts in the breast of
the street railway superintendent. He
hasnt poetic soul. His fancies run
not TO meters, but motors, as he grimly
watches the crystal flakes weaving
thelr phantom draperies in the air his
thoughts are akin to those of the
heavy man, betrayed by his feet and
ths shppery sidewalk. His practical
eye looks ahead into the night and
sees all kinds of trouble If the air is
still he is. censervatively content. but
being a pessimist on matters meteoro-
logical he. expects and prepares for the
worst. The street cars have to be kent
on their regular schedule and the snow
interferes with this corporation rule.
There is the whole world for the
snow to fall on, but each individual
hake appears to have been created
with one idea-to get on the street car
tracks as often as possible. The SUI
perlntendent can't understand this and
1eels sure that if he had been made a
snowflake instead of superintendent
he could find much nicer spot to land
than the street car tracks. And he
would try to induce all the other little
hakes to do likewise. It's no use
though, they are all unanimous in ia
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and for SIS or SO they become demoral-
lied and lose their form. If you men
tion more than that they will tie knot
for man in such a way that he, his
children. and his childrens children
will cherish the words forever
"A bashful looking couple faced a
magistrate some time ago, and the
bridegroom announced ,1aively that he
had no money and wanted to be mar
ried on credit.
THE magistrate asked the woman if
she wanted to be married to that man..
She allowed that she did. Then he
asked the man If he wanted to become
the husband of that woman. He rather
thought he did.
Well, you're married, then, said
the magistrate, turning away.
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jTHE church societies, auxiliaries, or

ERHE church societies, auXiliaries, or
sub: organizations which main
E5 tain and Increase the vitality Of
American churches by allying
them intimately with many sides Of
daily life not strictly spiritual, have
long f6urished in st. Paul. This city.
with nearly 200 churches, has probably
thousand such societies, whose MEM
bers, juvenile and adult, male and fe-
male, would constitute in themselves
"a city of size" The various forces
form a standing army, ever ready to
defend the local fortress of morality.
The objects of these societies are
many. There are associations akin in
purpose to the fraternal organizations
of secular origin. Among the Catholic
parishes. especially, there are societies
that give sick benefits or provide in
surance against the death of MEMBERS
The Catholic societies also include a
few whose purposes are rather educa-
tional than otherwise; others that de-
vote themselves to the relief of the
poor.
The missionary cause in which all
churches are vitally interested is fur
thered by means of these small local
societies, among the Protestant
churches principally. In those church
es, too, the women's assistance is more
diversely organized, being confined in
Catholic congregations to the altar
guilds Of these, each Catholic church
has one, whose members are enlisted
for the care and decoration of the
church's several altars.
Societies That Advance -Creeds
Among organizations drawing closer
to the strictly spiritual than do most Of
the women's associations are certain
societies like the Baptist union, the
Congregational union, the Church club
and the Brotherhood of St Andrew,
whose members are mainly mature
adults striving to advance the interests
of their respective creeds.
Numerous other church societies
have enrolled their members. during
the formative period of their lives, and
are composed of children and of young
men and women combined to practice
and uphold the Christian ideal In this
class are societies of international i'm
portance. There is the Epworth league
among the Methodists; the Christian
Endeayor society, especially strong
among the Presbyterians; the Baptist
Young Peoples society; the Luther
league. and, among members of the
evangelical association there is the
Evangelical Young Peoples society.
All are organizations which, like most
OF those referred to in this sketch, are
quite as familiar as the great denomi-
nations of the Christian world.
Though societies will not be here
considered that maintain, by church
aid, such independent institutions as
hospitals and schools, it may yet be
appropriate to include few societies
tnat conduct church work on a quasi
independent basis. OF these are the
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he may place his hands on the heads
of the pair and bless them.
But for SIS or $40 the adjectives throb.
the nouns do a cakewalk in all their
splendor, the adverbs are gorgeous and
the sentences are involved, sonorous,
and stately. The subjects of the cere-
mony are often so impressed that they
have the magistrate write out the
words, and there's many a family Bible
that has the matrimonial masterpieces
preserved in it.
I have made a little collection of
some of the best of the lot. The king
pin is the work Of newspaper man
who used to be a magistrate over in
Jeff, but is now risen to higher and
better things and is selling 120 proof
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just don't believe it, said the
woman.
All right replied the magistrate,
but you go and get married to another
man and see if you are
He refused to lend them money to
get to their homes across the river,
and they walked home, ten miles.
For 81 there is the usual joining of
hands and the recital by the magistrate
of a formula which takes two or three
minutes. The adjectives are all passed
over.
For the two bucks there is a good
array of adjectives and two or three
references to the divine origin of mar
riage. If the magistrate is feeling
pretty good he will have on a clean cor
lar and an irreproachable necktie, and
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whisky down in the tail and uncut of
Oklahoma. She goes like this:
By virtue of the authority most
widely delegated to and invested in me
by the laws, statutes and ordinances of
this the great and historic state of In
diana, than which the sun never shone
on a fairer, a more righteous, and a
more splendid, hereby call on you to
link your hands, enjoining on you the
recollection that at the beginning our
Creator, to make possible the advance
ment of the human race and the ulti-
mate attainment Of heaven, instituted
the divine ceremony of matrimony. In
the resurrection they neither give nor
are given in marriage.
And marriage, may state, is hon.
orable in all, above all. and for all; !;
through it the unit of the nation, the
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family, springs into being, and by it
this great United States is become
what it is.
Therefore shall man leave his
father. Therefore shall woman leave
her mother Therefore shall both man
and woman leave their parents and kin
and become of one flesh and cleave to
each other.
9 Whom God has joined together no
man shall put asunder, and with a
humble appreciation of the honor con-
ferred -on me in being chosen as the
instrument of the will OF God and the
glorious state of Indiana to which our
forefathers emigrated from far dis
tant parts. to hew them out a home in
the wilderness, thriving mighty and
waxing powerfully till they had placed