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Why He Wouldn't Lecture,

Oliver Wendell Holmes was invited
TO deliver lecture in a town In the
central part Of Massachusetts,. He was
not feeling very wei and he wrote the
following reply to the committee in
declining to accept the invitation: Il
am far from being in good physical
health and am satisfied that II I were
offered $50 bill after my lecture I
should not have strength enough to
refuse 1t Z,
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WANTED.-For r. s. Army, able-
and IS: citizens Of United States. of good
character and temperate habits, who can
speak, read and write English; for nj mfg =
nation 5 apply to recruiting officer, 126 n.
C 'a Menlnf1is, Tenn. 2a6 Main, Jones
boro. Ark. or Tupelo, Miss.
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ToEsfn,k,s Attest Wnrk,

Count Tolstoy has completed a new
work entitled: The Divine Human Z
The characters depicted include the
principal revolutionary leaders in Rus
sia during the years from 1880 to
1890 He is already engaged upon
the work Of dealing with current
events IN Russia.
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shakespeare was Resentful.

ooh. you dear thing she ex-
claimed to Shakespeare, for even in
those days there were matinee girls,
you're just nice enough to eat.
"You. too?' cried Shakespeare, in
despair. why will everybody con
fuse me with Bacen?
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Quite lln 10 Date.

He popped to her upon his knees
His heart went pit-a-pat-
Old-fashioned? Oh. no. If you please,
Twas there tbs maiden sat.
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You Don't Fave to Wait.

Every dose makes you feel better. Lax
Eos keeps your whole inside right. Not one
gr1pe in d full bottle. Sold on the money
back plan everywhere Price 80 cents.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-10-06
A Harmless L.axa tive.

Ii you must take a laxative. take a harm.
less one. Lax-Fos does not grippe. therefore
does not lrrifate. Irritation IS what does
the harm. Price 90 cents.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-10-06

PUTNAM FADELEss DYES cpior
more goods, per. package, than others, and
the eolors are brighter and faster.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-10-06

An alarm clock always gets busy
Just when q nan doesn't want TO ha
bothered.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-10-06

There Is no task too nard gor
azy man not to attempt
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-10-06
Had Piece Of Luck.

Had Piece OF Luck.
1T was nearly one before I got back
to the hotel. I was just about two
thirds through with my luncheon
when / saw my old customer with the
man IN my department pass the din
ing room door. Of course didn't wait
for pie In the sample room my old
customer laid out Il big pile Of sam
pies, this showed me very plainly
right at the start that ne had been
Worshipping false gods elsewhere, and
when I was through with him about
three o'clock he had given me the
best order I had taken for years. It
was really a lucky thing for me that
he had turned me down for a season
or two because the town was too big
one for me to confne myself to him,
and this gave me chance to go out
and work on other people, thing
which I perhaps would not have done
il he had not turned me down.
After / had finished with this Gus
toner, I took my little bundle under
my arm and went to see the first man
I had called on. I did nothing with
him beyond getting a promise that he
would go into my house when he went
to the market Of course / did not
value that in itself as amounting TO
anything because q man IS in luck il
one promise of this kind in a hundred
is fulfilled. Yet I was satisfied to
make the acquaintance. Before my
supper appointment made couple
more calls, but didn't put very much
heart in them as I had already got
two good sized orders and a jag and
had prospects for the night. That was
where, however. I should have kept on
plugging just the same. There is no
use in man rushing away from one
town that is not well worked only to
get into another to do the same care
less trick over again. sold my two
men after supper and was packed up
by Il o'clock That day I made ten
calls. had four customers in my sam.
pie room-no two of whom handled
alike-and next morning left at five
&C oek.'
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-10-06

Occasionally a man spends 3 lot OF
time at his club because there's no
place like home.
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E6UES EsIM EIEsII IBU31I ii Ill EEsIWEsas
Msnsg sneas, So TO 91.5a. Boys Shoss, 81
to S115, Wonaen's Shoes. S4.9o 10 &l+5Q.
Misses 6 Chfidrea's anoag, S22G 20 $is00.
Try w. e. Douglas yYaEneu'sy Misses and
Ghildrenss shoes; for style, fit and wear
they excel other makes.
III ! Gould take you into rsy Tarze
factories a1 BroclSfon, Mass. and show
you how carefully WI. Douglas shoes
are made you would then understand
why they hold their shape, fit BETTER
wear longer, and are oil creates value
than any other make.
Wherever yoa live, yosx ean obtaEa w. =
Douglas Shoes His naTas and price Ii ssEsnps8
% the bottom whiefa protects yoa against htgh
prizes and Inferior shoes. TQEs no sH5aEss
gssee. ASK yoasg dealer for W. L. Doagaas skasa
and insist upofa having 9iseEas
Fast Cafor EaefeEs assds they egSH not UsaF efdss
Write for illustrated Ga9aisg Of Fall Styfsse
w. l. DOUGLAS. Dept - 9roektaas Maaas
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Busy Day Of a Travelling
Salesman

Selling Goods More Strenuous FormerYYoa Can't Ger Good
Peaches from Broken Limbf You wish Differ with Man
First Agree with Him-Dont Run Down Competitors Goods
Little Jolly Sometimes Heps-successful travelling Man
MngIss Hard Work Spirit Fairness and Good Cheer
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Copyright, 1865, By Joseph 3. Bowlss.,

thought I would try one more. I
couldn't get the man to come over
with me but he gave me a little order
for a few items for immediate ship
ment and promised me that he would
look my line over on my return trip.
The order did not amount to q great
deal, but the commissions were more
than enough to pay my travelling ex-
penses for the day.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-01-10
CONCERTED TESTIMONY AND
PRAYER
PRAYER.

The week of prayer presents to us impress
sively the communion of saints in worship and
cooperation in Christian work. There are
abundant Scriptural precedents for such friend
ships of life among believers, and conditions
seem to have appealed for special seasons of
united devotion on the part of all the people in
every period Of the Church's growth Almost
the last words that our Lord spcla before his
ascension were the promise to the Church, ''Ye
shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost
is come upon you" Then 'these all continued
with one accord in prayer and supplication."
Then Peter stood up ia the midst of the dis
cipes and preached. Then came the outpourng
of the Spirit and ''there we're added unto them
about three thousand souls"
In the more modern life of the church, to all
the people appeals have been repeatedly urged
for united, importunate prayer. AS early as
l774 a number Of Scotch ministers requested
special prayer for outpouring of the Spirit
on the whole world. In 1747 Jonathan Ed
wards issued a pamphlet pleading for united
prayer for great spiritual awakening. When
Carey sailed missionary to India, the Bap-
fists Of Great Britain established the monthly
concert of prayer. In the early part of the last
century the General Assembly strongly recon-
mended special seasons of prayer for Foreign
Missions, and abundant blessings were bestowed
as the result DR.. Morrison, the noted mission
AIRY to India, sent home urgent appeals for
united prayer for missions. which finally re-
suited IN the recommendation by the General
Assembly that a week of prayer for Foreign
Missions be observed. The record Of this action
of the Assembly was translated into several
European languages, and finally resulted in its
adoption by the Evangelical Alliance in 1860
Since then the week of prayer has been extern
siyely observed and taken a wider scope than
at first contemplated but we remember that the
work at home and abroad in spirit and in pur-
pose is one.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-01-10

was a sleep and forgetting The preacher was
right: in this matter, man hath no pre-emn-
over the beast "as one dieth so dieth the
other"
Yes Solomon was discussing materialism
when he wrote those words-the best treatise
on that subject that has ever been written. He
was considering this life as an end in itself
apart from spiritual life and future well being
and he meant to teach also ''as one HUeth so
ttUeth the other" for such is the import of his
argument, and such is the just import of that
miserable materialism that rejects the life that
is in Christ Jesus
Let us appeal to facts once more. There are
tens of thousands Of ministers and christian
workers in our land who will testify to the
very general spiritual triumph of dying chris
tians, and the very usual concern or alarm of
unbelievers, at the approach of death. Stephen
who said, ''Lord Jesus receive my spirit" and
Paul who said, "Henceforth there is laid up
for me a crown Of Righteousness" did not die
like beasts
In the name of truth and righteousness, of
virtue and social order, of all that is good and
great, let us protest against materaism. I'm
der the form of communism iii France it once
wrecked great nation, and under the form of
Nihilism in Russia it now threatens to wreck
another.
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FRUITS OF MATERIALIsM.

MateraIIsm is sordid. Neither greatness nor
goodness can grow as a plant from so base a
root IT rejects the spiritual and even the in
tcIlcctuaI and moral, except as phenomena of the
all-peryadirg material. So when the material
is dissolved or perishes, it is the end of all. Per-
sonal character and moral excellence are onlv
incidental to physical well being These must
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themselves The material is dominant, the
moral is subordinate, the spiritual is delusion.
Such are some of the confessed deductions of
this desolate system
The results of such a philosophy have long
beng been observed Its tendency is to degrade
rather than to upift. 1t is essential so, for if
death ends all, what is left for but to
eat, drink and be merry. Sef-sacrifce in the
of truth or righteousness would be folly.
Conservation to the ideals of the christion faith
would be to waste ones life on a series of de-
lusions. AS result, materalism has never
founded a civilization, much less a christian
mission. 1t has had wide influence in Germany
and England, and men Of scientific learning
have been and are its patrons, but they have
withered under the blight of their own seduc-
tons, and society at large, IN these lands, has
been smitten with this pestilence of animasm,
pure and simple.
In one form or another this faith of carnaity
is announcing itself at frequent intervals One
of its latest phases to reappear is found in some
statements of DR.. Oster, well known surgeon,
and it may be presumed, justly eminent in his
profession. He reaffirms a statement made pub
lie some time ago, to the effect that after the age
Of forty, men are inefficient and rather in the
way of others, and at sixty might be disposed
of to advantage. 1t was at first thought that
the DR.. might be half testing, but in his new
book we are relieved of this suspicion. More
over, find DR.. Norton, recently of Harvard
writing of incurables in the same strain. These
are brutal suggestions, necessarily the fruit of
a brutal philosophic system, and Justly excite
the contempt of intelligent and true-hearted
men. 1t is Tefuted thousand times over by
appeal to facts gathered from the history of
the best periods and peoples of the past, and
especially of christian nations The teachers,
statesmen jurists, reformers, discoveries. bene-
factors of our race, have been men of mature
life chiefly, past two-score, and in numerous
eases men Of advanced age. Can a man respect
his own reputation for intelligence who makes
statements that are in reckless conflict with the
hosts of facts that bear upon the subject? A
materlaist who believes that man dies like a
brute may contend that forty or sixty years is
long enough to live, but the reason here assigned
is groundess assumption. IF such monstrous
theory were justified, we might we'll suppose
men to be monsters enough to enforce it's exc
cuton Its advocates may well be held account
able to the social conditions under which thcv
live If the DIR. is merely bidding for fur
Their notoriety, he is doing it at the hazard of
too great cost to the well-being Of society.
Strangely enough, in his mental meandering.
our Dr. actually quotes Solomon. Let us see
what the wise man really thinks on this subject :
'The hoary head is a crown Of glory if it be
found in the way of righteousness" "Tet thine
heart keep my commandments, for length of
days, and long life, and peace shall they add
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-01-10

In an interview with the Church Economist.
DIR. X. A TOrrey, the American evangelist,
whose labors in Great Britain have Welded
such extensive results, discusses the relation of
the evangelist's work to that of the individual
church. summary of his statements is as
follows:
l. Our missions missions the churches They
are conducted by the churches through local commit
tees of laymen and clergymen.
2. secretary is appointed for each committee and
he Is instructed how to get and record the names the
addresses and the church preference of every one who
processes Christ
B. The secretaries instructed to send the names
addresses and descriptions of those processing Christ
to the pastors of the congregations which the con-
Nerts nave expressed preference; and each pastor Is
also sent an urgent request to look the persons up
L. Letters are sent out sometimes after the mission
Is over to those that been registered as pro-
Tossing to accept Christ asking whether they have
united with any church. and if So with what chfrch
D. In many churches converts gathered i'm
classes by themselves and trained for intelligent
church membership.
g. In certain cases as i'm London the converts of
certain district assembled for special meetings.
These have organized Prayer Circles Bands of Mis-
sion Workers, Circles Bible story ETC. but above
all things obligations to the individual church is kept
to the front.
DIR. Torrey states that a vast majority of those
processing Christ in his meetings unite with the
churches. For example, in Melbourne there
were $500 professions Six weeks later,
mass-meeting of converts was held and 5000
were present When asked how many were in
the churches the great majority arose When
asked how many of thora remaining intended to
unite with the church. almost the entire number
arose.
He estimates that there were about 50 900
professions during his missions in England; and
during his tour of the world the number was
about 100000. Torrey-Alexander missions are
now being held in Canada
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-01-10

Two aggressive agencies the Presbyterian
Church North, has at work, in fields that are
new, or almost so, for church work Both of
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-06-25
Social and Personal Mention

MANY PEOPLE SPENT SUNDAY PicNIckNG AT GLEN
MILLER OSCAR sYMoNs WILL GIVE DINNER PAR
TY AT WEsTcoTT HOTEL THIS EvENNG-cALENDAR
FOR THE REMAINDER THE WEEK.
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Her status.

Her Status.
The Captain-That's handsome wo-
man! Is she unmarried? The Belle
oh, yes! Captain INDUCES In pleasing
reflections.) She's been unmarried sew
eral times !-London Mail
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PERSONAL MENTION.

Mr.. and MIS-. roster HOeffer OF
South Eighteenth street have return
ed from Bass Lake, where they have
been for several weeks on a fishing
trip.
Miss MabIe Copeland of Corners
vile, spent Sunday in the city, the
guest of friends.
Miss Marjorie Pennell is in Piaua,
attending the Summers-Wilbee we'd
ding.
Mrs. Orran Wessler has been the
guest of friends in Fairview.
Robert Maxwell and family of Kan
sas City, Mo-, arrived in the city yes
terday afternoon. They will spend
the summer here visiting relatives.
Carl Bird, former teacher at the
Garfield School, and at the present of
Winchester, spent yesterday in the
city with friends.
Mrs. r. NJ. Lacey will leave today
for Detroit, Michigan, where she will
visit relatives for several weeks.
Mrs. DR.. E. H. Mendenhall return
ed yesterday morning from a week
visit with the family of Roscoe Cough
lin at Wits Station.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Roser re-
turned from Cincinnati last evening
hafter spending the day with Mr.. and
Mrs. A. r. Gossling.
Misses Flora Kline and Laughlin
spent yesterday in Cincinnati with
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Shoemaker left
last evening for Reading, O., where
they will visit friends and relatives
for a few days.
Mrs. George w. Davis of Evanston,
ILL.,, left last evening for her home af-
ter few days visit with her son, Mr..
Percy Davis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Haas left last
evening for their home in Anderson
after spending the day with Mr.. w.
c.. Walling and family.
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ENGLISH ETCHINGS.

Liverpool has tried and abandoned q
penny in the slot telephone system.
England imports about 10000 BUSH
els of apples per week. They come
from the United States and Canada.
1t is an unwritten law In most Lon
don dry goods stores to show no clocks.
The proprietors don't want the shop
pers to think Of the flight of time
A firm of London florists employs a
staff of milliners who will trim any
hat with natural flowers from lbs I'D,
according to the value Of the blossoms
used.
The tallest windmill in England, the
famous High mill at Yarmouth, which
stood 120 feet from the ground and
contained twelve floors. has just been
demolished.
Applying for relief to the poor guard
ians of London parish, an old wom-
an said she had a daughter who did
not allow her anything, but kept up tho
payments on her insurance policy.
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cALANDAR FOR THE WEEK..

Monday The Symons-Hill bridal
party will be entertained at a
o'clock dinner at the Westcott.
Mrs. J. NJ. Lontz will give morn
ing whist for Miss Hollingsworth.
Tuesday-The Symons-Hill wedding
will take place.
The Merry-go-Round club will meet
with Mrs. l.. n. Cox of South
Seventh street.
Mr.. and Mrs w. d. Foulke will en-
terrain with dinner and dance.
Wednesday-The Bitner Brown we'd
ding takes place.
Miss Kate Todd entertains the
Penny Club.
Daugherty-Reid wedding.
Thursday-The wedding of Miss Ma
bel Huff and Mr.. Ben Bartel will
take place at Martinsville.
Mrs. Shiveley and Miss Mary
Shiveley will give a tea for Miss
Hollingsworth.
Friday-The Merry Eight will enter
tain at Cedar Springs.
Saturday The rr-Hollingsworth
wedding will take place at the
home of the bride-elect in West
colt Place.
There were hundreds of people pic
nicked at the Glen yesterday from the
city and out of town. One party
was composed of the Misses Maude
Virgins, Harriet Morgan, Mable Mil
Ter, Corine Sparks, Florence Jenkins,
Florence Hyley, Messrs. Cliff Cooper,
Chas. Smith, Harry Erley, Omer Nor
gan, Fred Collins and Clarence Ebert,
all of Dayton.
Mr.. Oscar F. Symons OF Minneapo-
lis, will give a dinner this evening at
the Westcott for the members of the
Symons-H Hill bridal party and the out
Of town guests of Miss Hill. Covers
will be laid for sixteen and the decora-
tons will be green and white.
X X X
Misses Ethel and Edyth Taylor,
Ethel King, Messrs. Glenn Kehlen-
brink, Walter Eggemeyer, Wheaton
Tallant and Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence J.
Collins. formed a picnic party last
evening, south OF the city.
X x
Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Fulghum, are
entertaining Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Whit
mer, Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall Lupton
and Mrs. Clarence Whitmer, of Xenia,
at their beautiful country home, west
of the city.
x x X
Mr.. Walter Proctor will arrive from
Chicago this afternoon to attend the
Symons- Hill wedding.
*x*
Mrs. John M. Lontz will entertain
some twenty ladies at whist this
morning, at her home in Westcott
Place in honor of Miss Juliette Hol-
lingsworth.
Mrs. p. w. Smith, Mrs. Will Camp
bell and Mrs. Geo. r. Williams will
entertain the members of the Dupli-
cate Whist Club at a luncheon We'd
nesday.
): M
Mr.. and Mrs. E. G. Hill gave din.
ner at their home on East Main street
yesterday. The guests were Miss
Florence Smith, Miss Zeigle' of Co
lumbus, Mr.. Rudolph Leeds and Mr..
and Mrs. Guy McCabe.
X X X
Mr.. and Mrs. B. B. Johnson enter
tanned Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Toms
and Miss Eva Toms at dinner yester-
day. 1t was a reunion of the Toms
johnson and Albaugh families.
X X X
Orville Conner and Ermin Smith
gave an informal luncheon at the
Country Club yesterday at noon.
X X X
Miss Bertha Hill and her guests,
Mrs. Jesse Harvey and Miss Harriet
Elite of Indianapolis, Miss Stella Sy-
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-06-25
FIRST DISTRICT.
South of Main. West of 7th.

FIRST DISTRICT.
South Of Main. West Of 7th.
1-2-1st and S. c. Piano Factory
1-3-2nd and S. B.
i'14-4th and S. d.
'1-5-5th and s. B.
'1-6-5th and S. il.
s1-8-7th and S. c..
18TH and S. il
SECOND DISTRICT.
South of Main. between It'll and 11th.
s2-1-Sth and Main.
'2-3-Sth and s. E.
'2-4-7th and S. G..
'2-5-9th and S. A.
'2-6-10th and S. C.
'2-7-11th and Main.
s2-S-11th and S. j.
THIRD DISTRICT.
South of Main. East Of It'll,
'3-1-12th and s. B.
'3-2-12th and S. E.
'3-4-14th and Main.
'3-5-14th and S. C..
'3-6-1sth and 8. l.
s3-7-20th and Main.
3-S-15th and S. a.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
North of Main, West Of 10th to river.
4-1-3d and Main, Robinson's shop.
4-2-3d and N. C.
'4-3-City Building.
4-4-Sth and N. G..
4-5--Gaar, Scott & Co.
s4-6-No. l Hose House, N. 8th.
4-7-Champion Mills
4-S-10th and N. ].
'4-9-9th and N. E.
4-12-City Electric Light Plant.
FIFTH DISTRICT.
West Richmond and Sevastopol.
5-W. 3rd and Chestnut.
5-1-W. Sd and National Avenue.
5-2-W. Sd and Kinsey.
5-3-W. Sd and Richmond Avenue.
5-4-W. LIST and R. R.
.5-5-State and Boyer.
5-6-Grant and Ridge.
5-7-Hunt and Maple.
5-S--Grant and Sheridan.
5-9-Bridge Avenue, Paper Mill.
s5-12-Earlham College.
SIXTH DISTRICT.
North Of d, East of 10th.
6-1-Railroad Shops.
6-2-Hutton's Coffin Factory.
6-3-Hoosier Drill Works
6-4-Wayne Works.
6-5-City Mill Works.
6-6-15th and R. r.
6-7-l3th and N. Fl.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
Between Main and North u. East Of
10th.
18th and N. A.
e7-1-11th and N. B.
s7-2-14th and N. c. ~
r7-3-No. 3 Hose House. I
r7-4-1Sth and N. G. i
t7-5-22d and N. E. So
! SPECIAL SIGNALS.
2-2-2-Patrol Call.
3-3-3-Fire Pressure.
7-2-1-Fire out.
Sire pressure of.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-06-25
A. Texas Wonder.

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wonder is W. L. Hill, who from a
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up to die of consumption. 1 was re-
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Consumption, Coughs and Colds. Now
after taking IL bottles, I have more
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