Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-31

The physiological unit OF reck- y
oning is from the family circle,
bachelor man or bachelor Y
maid is not unit but part of y
hinge laying around the shop =
waiting for the other part to be y
found. 1t is better nevertheless y
to be half hinge than party
to misfit.
| don't believe all the temper
ance orators Iowa in month =
could do as much toward
bringing back temperance in y
y this state as the disgracefuI af- "
fair at Davenport.
New York gamblers juggle y
= With the peoples money thus =
causing a cIutchng to the coins y
all over the country.
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Although rain was falling and the
evening an unpleasant one a good
sized audience greeted DR.. Wilbur f.
Craft at the First Baptist church last
l night. During the course of his re
marks he said:
4 "The army canteen will never be
re-established. Military men agree
that this is so now that they have
seen the good efforts operating in its
absence, and they will never endorse
its adoption"
II No More Saloons Than Before.
81 saw for myself what it meant to
have those canteens in the army
4 The clubs were but low beer places
4 There was a great hue and cry at Fl
4 Sheridan and Chicago The papers
were full of the growth of the out
side saloons went to Chicago ant
got affidavits and proved that there
were no more saloons than before
The canteen is a feeder to the out
side saloon 1t is there simply t
satisfy the demand. 1t has beer
found that when the canteen was re
moved the appetite was less and ths
saloons went slowly. There will new
er be time when the canteen will
i be re-established in any army fort
Military men realize this now ant
have seen the good effect that it's alb
stinence has had upon the soldiers.
Opium EVIL Almost Dead.
"The opium evil is almost dead,
! said Dr. Crafts. Dr. Crafts for Amer
lea has been ont of the delegates t
t the national conferences to abolisl
: this evil from China and orienta
t countries Dr. Crafts was sent III
officially by President Roosevelt t
: the conference in Brussels of Euro
pean nations on the restriction @
liquor traffic n Africa, October. 1906
The United States was not invited t
this conference, but following Pres
dent Roosevelt's cablegram contain
ing the wish that Africa might b
protected from liquor and opium, D.
: Crafts was sent with huge bundl
: of 535 petitions of churches, chan
: bers of commerce and conference.
{ He was cordially received and gran
j ed hearing with the other nation
$ DR.. Crafts was the instigator of tn
! Gillette divorce reform which brok
up the divorce colonies in the teri
!, toes notably in Oklahoma. His mos
= notable battle was the Teller Sufida
= closing amendment of the st. LOU
: fair He and his bureau was ais
> able to close the jamestown fair O
Sunday.
Seven Kingdoms of Love.
There are seven kingdoms pf 10y
that shall survey but briefly By W.
Of preface to study of the most IL
pOI CdlL VI tutll al, SWf'
Home In the Beginning of Cod T
is everywhere. and .hsrefnir r.ir.c
belongs everywhere. The circle syr
Dol of completeness is it's fitting typ
That circle Moses and Christ ALL
divide into two everything hemisphere
of love. Love should be the all-er
bracing circle of your life and mir
with God as the object Of our love
the upper hemisphere and mankil
as it's object in the lower. Love
best defined as right relations, whic
Is also the best definitio nfor religio
Love God means get into right pc
sonal relations with God. Love ma
means get into right personal rel
tons with your fellow men.
1--WE can get right with God onl
through the Saviorship of Jesu
? which it is the chief work of the pr
pit to preach. But the chief mistal
of the pulpit is in forgetting TIL
while the individual is saved by Il
cross of Christ, the community is
be saved by his crown, that is, |
making the law of Christ little by Il
tie, the law of busienss and politi,
and pleasure
1T has seemed to be good logic
argue that if a man is in right rel
tionship with God he must be in rig
, relationship with men.
7 "All history refutes that comme
theory Look at the devout Geor.
Washington, holding slaves managil
lotteries, drinking rum and giving
servant, by contract, two days mon
after pay day, to be drunk The reast
that men as deyout as Washington ,
not do as he did in these matters
that ethical education and organic
! Ions have supplemented religious a