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The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-01-17
Educational.
Public Education.

From the Message of Governor Montague to the
General Assembly of Virginia:
There has been greater popular interest taken in
public education in the past four years than perhaps
in the entire history of the State. During this time
the welfare and progress of our free schools have
elected as never before the of the best char
acter and talent of Commonwealth
This is hopeful sign, for popular Indifference to
our free schools has been the chief cause of their slow
growth We need longer terms, fewer but better
schools and better teachers and to this end we must
have an annual appropriation of not less than two
hundred thousand dollars (S2OOOOO.OO) in addition
to the special fund of two hundred thousand dollars
(S2OOOOOOO) now appropriated, which would give
four hundred thousand dollars (S4OO OOOOO) annual
y, over and above the income derived from the school
tax. But this increased appropriation and these i'm
Provements will only partially relieve the system of
fatal inertia. The remedy is deeper for real edu
catlonaI vigor and PROCESS pleadingy await the
helping hand of law of compulsory attendance This
change is necessary and inevitable sooner or later
Inc individual rights Of parents guardians will be
eaboratey and refnedly asserted to obscure the er
It's OF the issue But consideration should not
be confined to the rights of parents or guardians We
must think of the rights of the children themselves
helr rights are the necessities of the State and who
Is to assert these rights if the State does not? Chill
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-01-17
Story Corner.

One evening angry complainant appeared in
Cupples' barn. "Your bull chased me across that
field this morning" did he? Well, L am sorry
Hurt We much?" "See here, I've come to tell you
that you ought to take that bull out of the field"
Its my field likewise my bull" "I guess YOU
don't know who 1 ann" "WeI no. [ dunno's I do ="
81 am the mayor of Scarboro and president of the
Scarboro & TaitvilIe Railroad" "Be ye?" asked Jim
respectfully, ''Well why didn't We tell that to the
bull?"-YoUtRs COMPANION.
EXPresident Cleveland was being driven to a great
gathering during his presidency and tremendous
storm was raging. The hastones ratified on the
roof of the carriage. Meanwhile a band undismayed
by the weather, began to play. "That is the most
realistic music have heard said the President
to friend in the carriage "What are they play
1ng?" "Ela to the Chief" said Mr. Cleveland "and
they are playing it with real hall"
Kansas City man up to a lecturer in a no.
tel, saying, with enthusiasm: "Well sir en1oved
your lecture very much last night" 81 didn't see
you there" ooh, 1 wasn't there" "Well what do
you mean?" ooh, I bought tickets for my girls
father and mother and they both went" The lectur-
er felt that he had not talked in vain.-EUchange
Young professor (who was taking her down to din
ner) by the way, Miss Gaswell, have you ever
seen the nebua of Andromeda?"
Miss Gaswell: ''No; I was abroad with papa and
mamma when that played But I've heard
that it drew crowded houses Chicago Tribune
MY proudest boast, said the lecturer who expected
his statement to be greeted with cheers "is that
was one of the men behind the guns!"
How many miles behind?" piped a voice in the
gallery
There was young lady at Bingham
Who knew many songs and could sing 'em;
But she couldn't mend hose
And she wouldn't wash clothes
Or help ner old mother to wiring EN-
Exchange,
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-01-17
Ministers Corner.
Sermon-G rowing.

From the last message of Dr. Joseph Parker of
London.)
| do not propose to follow any learning which
would create, perhaps with degree of osentation
gulf between the pulpit and the pew. Learning
should not divide, but unite 1t is poor learning
that makes men cynics and sneerers. L pray God
for 1.-The tongue of the learned that knows how say
a word in to him that is weary That is the
great learning! That is the learning of experience
of bitter of sharp pain, of lonely Gehsemane
| pray God to continue to send into the ministry of
the Free Churches who will provoke the question:
How knoweth this these things, seeing he hath
learned etters?" Letters, if they stand alone
the poorest and meanest of all learning. We
must not disparage letters; speak of them in this
connection when they letters only, grammars
only, leXicons only. When they saturated with
the spirit of prayer, they acceptable sacrifice
and sweet-smelling SAVIOR to God. We must pray
for the inspiration of the Almighty THE gold and
crystal cannot equal it, and the exchange of it shall
not be for jewels fine gold; mention shall be
made of coral of pearls; the topaz of Ethiopia shall
not equal it and for rubies they in
parison ashes thrown out as worthless.
There is only one thing that dread more than self
important learning and that is selfmportant ignor
l dread the minister to whom preaching is
easy. | hate, with religious and even holy hatred,
the that shaken of the sleeve on
a Saturday night. We do not want such men in the
ministry of the Gospel Preaching should be a she'd
ding of blood Preaching is not a trick in plans in
cunning outlines, in shapely sculpture There is
cant phrase now in vogue which | dislike. We say
of such and such man, ''He is the greatest
builder in the modern pulpit Preaching is not
sermOn-bulldng, 1t is growing; it is the elO
quence of a redeemed and grateful soul; 1t is the
golo and the radiance of lcise exposition confirmed
by holy and satisfying experience. Never regard
the Gospel simple in the sense of being shallow:
rather be overcome and Frustrated by "a light
above the brightness of the SUM- baptism of glory
at the Damascus gate of the pulpit. Never preach
in haste Study much, not to make the sermon OBJ
scure, but to make it is clear crystal, and when
you have done your very best always remember that
you have not yet penetrated to the place OF
the tabernacle of the Most High, and that far be-
yond all star routes and orbits unreasonable, and all
shadows dark with of light" there is a mystic
path infinitely brighter than the milky way which
the vuture's eye of the subimest power and genius
hath not seen. l say again therefore, that we do
not want the help of who boast of their ignor-
ance and offer their crude vulgarties sacrifice
unto the Lord
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PAMPHLETS.

The SUndGy-SchOOL Times is a well sustained jour
nal. 1t gives thorough study to the weekly Sun
day-school lesson brought out by Mr.. c. S. Turnbull
DIR. NJ. b. Riddee DIR. Alexander McLaren and Others
1t will have papers this year by Bishop Moue, of
Durham, DIR. James Orr, of Glasgow, DR.. Watkinson,
of London, Canon Tristram, of Durham, Bishop War
rem, Robert r. Speers and many others. The Junior
Mr. Turnbull is making good succession to his
father, Mr. H. Clay Turnbull..
Woods High Crude Seeds, and Guide for the Farm
and Garden. r. W. Wood & Son. Richmond, Va.
This with Descriptive Catalogue for 1906. 1t has a
memorial of the late Timothy Ward Wood, founder
of the house. born at Derby, England, January 2,
1910, and died at Oaklands, Nov u, 1905.
Minutes of the Mid china Mission of the Presbyter
ian Church in the United States. Sixth Annual Meet
ing, Sept. y, 1905 Thanks to the Rev. w. H. Hud-
son, Kashing China.
Minutes of the Synod of Missouri. Seventy-second
Annual Session. Marshall, Missouri, October oath,
1905. Rev. Frank Mitchell. Stated Clerk Keyter-
Vile Mo-
Minutes Of the Synod Of Teras-Fiftieth Session,
l houston, Texas November % to %, 1905. Stated
Clerk, Rev J. D. Leslie, Ballinger, Texas.
TroDel-A Quarterly Journal for Travellers Edi-
tor Henry S. Lunn M. D. Horace Marshall Son,
l23 Fleet Street London, f. c.
Minutes of the Synod of Aississippi-Seven fifth
Annual Session, Meridian, Miss. Nov 2l-24, 1905.
stated Clerk, Rev. j. E. Jones, Meridian
Minutes Of the Synod of Georgia.-Sixty-frst Ses-
sion, Griffin Georgia. Nov. 40, 1905. Stated Clerk,
rev James Stacy, D. D., Meridian.
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dren too ignorant to know too weak to assert
themselves. Public education is public necessity.
Only upon this ground can property be taken by
force of law to maintain public schools.
Herein the State eXerts her sovereign power in de-
fence of herself and she force citizen to pay
for public necessity, why she not with equal
justice force the parent to permit the child share
in the advantages incident to this necessary contrbu-
ton? And if the State prevent violence or
wrong to the body of the child, she with equal
right prevent injury wrong to the mind of the
child. About fifty out of every hundred white
children regular attendants upon our public
schools This is it apparent that poverty, ignor-
ance or avarice of the parents guardian wthholds
considerations should be permitted to imperil the
State?
COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE
Compulsory attendance prevails in every State of
the Union with the exception of the Southern States
and even here, Maryland and Kentucky have broken
the reaconary letters, and it may be generally af
rmed that wherever the free school is efficient either
in America abroad legaized compulsory attend
ance prevails. l. therefore, press upon you the in
auguration of this system, with such Aexbility in
administration may be expedent under section l3S
of the Constitution. If, however, the General AS
sembly is unwilling to take this step for the whole
State, L earnestly recommend your honorable body
to empower any county city of the State with the
option OF establishing compulsory attendance.
1t is with ineXpressible that l commend
this great enterprise to your patriotic consideration
for am persuaded that if you make this transcen-
dent contribution to the progress intelligence and
virtue of the Commonwealth this General Assembly
will be afectionatey and gratefully recalled by all
coming generations.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-01-17

Says The AdUance (Chicago) "The atmosphere
of the Church. of Christianity of duty, of righteous
ness, of service. There is aid to the pastor
great in holding up the ideals of the service of
rifce, of consecrated living, of Christlikeness. 1t
should be considered matter of that
every Christian home should take the Christian week
ly of the denomination. This brings it into direct
connection with the Whaling life of the Church"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-01-17

The special committee appointed by the last Legs-
lature Of Virginia to select site for new normal
school is ready for its report They travelled all
over the State during the recess, and while nothing
has been given out, it is said they will recommend
three schools instead of The sites probably Sc
lected are Radford, in the Southwest Harrsonburg,
in the Valley, and Newport News, in Tidewater.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-01-17
Book Notices.
THE FOUR GOSPELS.

DIR. Weston, of Grocer Seminary, writes of "The
Varying Messages of the Synoptic Gospels in the
Sunddy-SchooL Times. He says:
What Christ is and what his relations Paul de-
in the first chapter of the First Epistle to the
Corinthians. 1.-The jews" he says, require
teral sign, the Greeks seek after wisdom, but
preach a crucifed Christ who has become for
wisdom which is from God, righteousness, sanctica-
ton, redemption These the three Synoptic
Congratulations, the gospel of righteousness;
Mark of sanctification; Luke, of redemption. John
is the purpose and result of al-the gospel of life
(John Xxx. BY.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-01-17

One asked another why he received the Bible
as credible, and regulative of daily conduct. 81
acquainted with its Author!" the reply,
elusive it ready Spiritual sympathy with
the Lord is the best preparation for understanding
and approaching His law. Unless the mind of man
be guided and informed by the Spirit of God, the
Bible becomes like sealed book, collection
of riddles. Many find difficulty with the Book be-
cause they not acquainted with its Author.
The Ne0 York Observer says of "The Lynching OF
Jesus" by the Rev. e. T. Wexford of Newport News:
"Ths striking book of about 100 pages, written by
honored Presbyterian minister, the of Judge
of the Virginia Court for than three decades
is the elaboration of a which very well
received by number of trained jursts who heard it,
and which handled its subject with peculiar skill
The author by close reasoning establishes the fact
that the execution of Jesus analogous to a lynch
ing, perhaps might be called judicial MUIR
der" The argument is terse clear and convincing.
The books is noble statement of facts regarding
Christ and Christianity. incidentally it presents
strong and irrefutable argument against all lynch
ings"
Morris tribune., 1906-06-16
DON N ELY

June Il, 06.-Miss Josephine Hilla
left last Wednesday for Churches
Ferry, N. D., for months visit with
her brothers. family there.
Mr.. Harrington was out at Greger-
sons last week doing carpenter work.
Miss Clara Larson left for Mime
apolis last Friday to visit relatives
and friends.
EsMr. Aasumb, Of Eau Claire, Wis, is
here visiting his relatives at Cotton
wood Lake.
Next Sunday there will be school
picnic at Mr.. Gregerson's place.
Everybody is welcome. Bring your
lunch and friends with you. Miss
Hanson, the teacher, is getting it up.
Grandma Taisey, Mrs. A. H. Taisey
and children are spending the week
at Beardsley visiting friends.
Miss AIetta Lee, of Minneapolis is
here visiting Anton Weltzin's family.
The ice cream social at Cottonwood
Lake last Sunday was we'll attended
and the receipts amounted to about
$50.
MIR. Anton Anderson has been do
ing carpenter work on Mr.. Lears
house this week.
There is considerable road work
done on the village streets this year.
Three new stone crossings have been
laid and lot of other work being
done.
The picnic last Wednesday at Per-
kin7s was we'll attended and every
body present reported good time.
Mrs. King entertained the Presby-
terrain Ladies' Aid society last Thurs
day. A very large gathering was
present.
Mr.. J. @. Rorby, Mr.. and Mrs. L. P.
Norby and Master Odin, left for Ash
by, Mimi, last Friday morning to be
present at the wedding of M. P. Nor
by, which takes place there Saturday.
June Is, the bride being Miss Laura
Sunvold, of Ashby, Mimi.
The Minneapolis Tribune man was
seen on our streets last Thursday.
Presbyterian church: Sunday school
at 10 O'Clock, public worship at II
O'Clock, preaching service at p. NJ,
Christian Endeavor at p. m. Mid
week services and choir practice
Wednesday and Friday evenings at
Mrs. Ervis's at o'clock.
Miss Emma Olson is now 'shello
girl" at the central instead of Mrs.
Ernest.
There will be En- fish Lutheran
services next Sunday morning at 1920
a. m. conducted by Rev. G. A. Pill
grim.
Morris tribune., 1906-06-16


LCP, corner post; r, rafter; B. brace;
P, plate; Y, yoke; 7, temple; S, sweep;
AA roof boards
of white pine or some other light
wood, as is all the material of the roof.
Lightness is important, and the roof
boards are made Of one-half inch ma
serial The brace across the corner is
made of two inch plank spiked strongly
to the plates. 1t is of such height
that the rafter which rests On it. if pro-
tected through the corner post, would
meet the frame at the intersection Of
the plates. The roof boards are cut
around the corners, leaving hole a
few inches larger than the corner
posts. A little rain that gets in at the
corners or through the roof does prac-
tically no harm.
Morris tribune., 1906-06-16

dignation of Isaiah and the martyr
love of Jesus" He reached at the same
time the knowledge that genuine
Christianity is the final religion. rest
ing upon the impregnable rock of hui
manitarian principle" He believes
that imam realizes himself only when
he Identifies his life with the common
life"
Religious Novel Prohibited.
''Il Santo,'' or ''The Saint" is the title
Of much discussed novel by Senator
Fogazzoro of Italy which has just been
added to the list of prohibited books
Index Librorum Prohibitorum"-by
the Vatican authorities. The author is
devout Catholic, but stands for lib
eral reforms The theme of the book
Is the fate of devout and jealous
Catholic. modelled after ST. Francis Of
Assist. who undertakes reform within
the church and encounters the opposi-
ton of the hierarchy.
Morris tribune., 1906-06-16
Weighty Professional Endorsements.

Prof. Finley Ellingwood, NJ. D., of
Bennett Medical College, Chicago, says
of Golden Seal root: ut is a most
superior remedy in catarrhal gastritis
inflammation of the stomach), chronic
constipation, general debility, IN con-
valescence from protracted levers, IN
prostrating night-sweats. 1t IS aN sna-
portont remedy an disorders OF the
aoomb." This agent, Golden Seal root,
is an important ingredient of Doctor
Pierce's Favorite Prescription tor Wom-
ans weaknesses, as well as OF the
vGolden Medical Discovery DR.. Ell
lingwood continues, Yin oil catarrhal
conditions it is useful"
Much more, did space permit, could
be quoted from prominent authorities
as to the wonderful curative properties
possessed by Golden Seal root.
We want to assure the reader that
vGolden Medical Discovery" can be
relied upon to do all that is claimed for
Golden Seal root in the cure Of all the
various diseases as set forth in the
above brief extracts, for its most
prominent and important ingredient is
ever, strongly reinforced, and its cura-
addition, in just the right proportion
Of Queens root, Stone root, Black
Cherrybark, Bloodroot, Mandrake root
and chemically pure glycerine. All of
these are happily and harmoniously
blended into a most perfect phar-
maceutical compound, now favorably
known throughout most OF the civilized
countries of the world. Bear in mind
that each and every ingredient entering
in the "Discovery" has received the
endorsement of the leading medical
men of our land, who extol each article
named above in the highest terms.
What other medicine put up for sale
through druggists can show any such
professional endorsement ? For dys-
pepsia, liver troubles, all chronic catar-
rhal affections of whatever name or
nature, lingering coughs, bronchial,
throat and lung affections, the Wis
covery" can be relied upon as a sover-
eign remedy.
By reading the little book noted
below any one will readily see the
applicability of the "Golden Medical
Discovery to the cure of all the fore
going list of diseases as we'll as many
other chronic affections, especially
those of the heart, kidneys, bladder,
skin and blood.
A little book of extracts treating of
oil the several ingredients entering into
DR.. Pierce's medicines, being extracts
from standard medical works, of the
different schools of practice will be
mailed free to any one asking (by postal
card or letter., for the same, addressed
to DR.. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, n. Y, and
giving the writer's full post-ofice ad-
dress plainly written.
In cases of chronic ailments, at
tended by marked, or persistent, con
stipation, DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets
should be taken conformity with the
use of the vGolden Medical Discov-
cry" to regulate the bowels. They act
in harmony with the vDiscovery," and
will be found to be a most valuable
laxative, or, in fuller doses a cleans
ing cathartic.
Podophyllin, the active medicinal
principle of Mandrake root, enters
largely into the composition of the lit
tie sugar coated 0Pellets," in fact is
one Of their chief ingredients. They
regulate the liver, stomach and bowels.
Morris tribune., 1906-06-16
IN UST RIAL
Packinetown Cleaning Up.


AS soon as it was positively known
that the president would send to con
gress the Neill-Reynolds report orders
were issued in nearly all the big pack
ing houses of Chicago to give the
plants a general renovation and over
hauling. New toilet arrangements
were ordered, floors were cleaned.
walls scraped, light and ventilation
improved, while numerous big signs
were posted in conspicuous places adj
monishing the workers to wash hands
and keep clean, and that violation of
the rule against eXpectoration would
result in dismissal.
Cotton Acreage 28,686,o0o.
The report of the agricultural de-
partment shows the total area planted
in cotton in the United States this year
to be about 28.6S6,0O0 acres, or an in
crease Of 1,6S6,000 The average con-
dition of the growing crop May %
was S4.6 as compared with I'll at the
erage of $40.
Alcohol For New Autos.
Henry Ford, head Of one Of the lead
ing automobile firms, predicts that
free alcohol will work a revolution in
our Industrial situation. He says that
an alcohol motor tractor will soon
be perfected so as to be used for all
manner of farm work 1t will have
a speed of six miles an hour with forty
initial horsepower. While alcohol may
be made from every vegetable and
grain, the original substance retains it's
market or food value after the alcohol
has been extracted. He predicts that
every farmers silo will become an al
cohol distillery by the simple addition
of steam pipes to heat the fermented
contents.
Morris tribune., 1906-06-16

That the several American medicinal
roots, the concentrated glyceric extracts
of which make up DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery, have the strongest
kind of endorsement by scores of lead
ing medical writers of all the several
schools of practice, brief glance at
the standard works on Mdterad lHed5ca
will show OF Golden Seal root, which
is one of the prominent ingredients OF
wGoiden Medical Discovery, !" Dr.. Roberts
Bartholow, Of Jefferson Medical Col
lege, says: vVery useful as a stom-
achic (stomach) tonic and in atomic
dyspepsia. Cures gastric (stomach)
catarrh and headaches accompanying
same" He also mentions catarrh of
the gall duct, jaundice and constipa-
ton as diseases which the use. of
Golden Seal root overcomes; also
catarrh of the intestines, even when
it has proceeded to liberation, is
remarkably benefited by Hydrastis
Golden Seal root).
DR. Grover Coe, of New York, SAYS:
wHydrastis Golden Seal root) exer-
cises an. especial influence over mu-
cous surfaces. Upon the liver it
acts with equal certainty and eff
ficacy. AS a cholagogue Oliver invig-
orator. it has few equals" DR.. Coe
also advises it for affections of the
spleen and other abdominal viscera
generally, and for scrofulous and gland
ular diseases, cutaneous eruptions, in
digestion, debility, chronic diarrhea,
constipation, also in several affections
peculiar to women, and in all chronic
arrangements of the liver; also for
chronic inflammation of bladder, for
which DR.. Coe says vit is one of the
most reliable agents of cure"
Prof. Hobart A. Hare, NJ. D., of the
University of Pa, says of Golden Seal
root that it is "of service in chronic
catarrh of the stomach and bowels,
following abuse of alcohol, and as a
tonic after malarial fever" He further
says, it "has a distinct antsmalarial
influence" Also good in all catarrhal
conditions, as uterine catarrh, leucor-
rhna, ETC., and as "a curative agent in
chronic dyspepsia"
Prof. Laurence Johnson, M. D., of
the Medical Department., University
City of n Y, is equally loud in his
praise of Golden Seal root, especially
for its tonic effects in convalescence
from acute diseases and its special
tonic influence upon mucous surfaces
and upon the gall bladder.
Doctors Barton and Tully recon-
mended Golden Seal root as a pure
tonic and as an alternative in dis
eased conditions of the mucous mem
branes.
Prof. John King, NJ. D., late of Gin
einnati, author of the AMERICAN DIS
PENsATcRY, gives it a prominent place
among medicinal agents, reiterates all
the foregoing writer's have said about
it, as does also Prof. John M. Scudder,
M. D., late of Cincinnati DIR. Scud-
der says: vIt stimulates the digestive
processes and increases the assimilation
of food. By these means the blood as
enriched. X X X the consequent
improvement on the glandular and
nervous systems are natural results. )"
DR.. Scudder further says, yin relation
to its general effect upon the system,
there IS no medicine IN use about a0hach
there as such general u'aanamaty of
opinion. 1t is universally regarded as
the tonic, useful in all debilitated
states X X X"