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The Yale expositor., 1907-09-06
New Corporations.

Articles of incorporation have been
filed by the following: SpeakerHines
Printing company of Detroit, $4,000;
Rockland Gas Light e. Fuel company,
Rockland, 100000; Sampson Manu-
featuring e Mercantile company,
Coleman, $4,000; Hershey-Brennan,
Detroit, 100000; Eclipse Motor com.
pany. Mancelona, 10000; Portage
Lake Masonic Building company,
Hancock, $4,000; and Federal Land
company, Coldwater, $4,000; Fuel
Patents company Detroit, 10000;
Times Publishing company, Holland,
10000; NJ. j. Thiesman Trunk COM
pany, Detroit, $4,000; Detroit Art
Watch & Novelty company. Detroit,
$4,000; H. & c. Emergency Coupler
company, Durand, $4,000; Speaker
Hines Printing company, Detroit, $751;
900.
The Yale expositor., 1907-09-06
From the State Capital
Information and Gossip Furnished by Special
Correspondent at Lansing.

Lansing.-Miss Luells NJ. Burton,
deputy state factory inspector, has
given out an interesting statement
showing that child labor in Michigan
is on the Increase. There were 5,S65
in 1906 and 5,055 employed il Mich
igan in 1905, showing an increase of
76l children in the various factories,
workshops, hotels and stores. There
is no way of ascertaining the num-
Der employed in the different street
trades, such as newsboys, bootblacks,
etc, or in the fields.
when we take into consideration
the large amount of foreign popula-
ton coming to our state each year,
statistics showing that in the first
six months of 1906, in round numbers,
$4,000 foreigners came to Michigan, TO
my mind the increase in child labor
is largely accounted for" says Miss
Burton.
"At present children from II to 16
years of age are allowed to work ten
hours per day. Last winter bills were
passed raising the age limit at which
children might be employed where
their life or limb is endangered or
their health is likely to be injured,
or their morals depraved, from 16 to
81 years for females and IS years for
males. The age limit where children
are employed in any theater, concert
hall or place of amusement where in
The Yale expositor., 1907-09-06

sation with the reporter, the monoton-
Gus notes of the piano had been merg-
ed with the click of the windmill, the
hum OF ices, and the chatter of chill
dren. Then a man aud a woman began
to talk in the next room. They might
have been quarrellng. Their voices
were pitched high, now both speaking
together unintelligibly. Then followed
silence for a moment, then a single
voice in great excitement:
In Fervent Prayer.
"Oh, help, help us-Show us the
way-Oh, we've done wrong-We
thank Thee-We bow before Thee
Help-help us-O Lord"
The communistic plan of Zare-
phath is a success, if the rich fruits
of field, garden, and truck patch count
for anything. At the beginning of
every week the work of the colony
is divided among the men and women,
with little or no distinction between
the sexes. The men wash dishes,
cook, and make beds, just as the older
boys pillow and the women work in the
gardens. In the Zarephath building
the men are lodged at one end, the
women at the other, and the children
on a lower floor.
They eat two meals day. Break
fast is at in the morning and dinner
az 4. Each is preceded by prayers, and
perhaps with testimonies, singing, and
marching.
"All of these services, the prayer
meetings. our marriage service, and
the ceremonies at the graves have nc
regular ORDER" explained the sister:
The Yale expositor., 1907-09-06

ut is largely arranged as the spirit o.;
God moves us"
Life of the Little Jumpers.
Scriptural injunction is followed in
the kitchen as well as the bare little
chapel. Pork is eschewed as unclean;
so are fish without scales" Fruits
and cereals forni the bases of the
favorite dishes.
What of the 30 little children who
live in such surroundings? They pray
as they play. Their ills are treated.
too, with oil poured on their bodies
and by prayer. They learn to jump
and go to the meetings and give
strange testimonies"
Here is a prayer which the Jumpers
credit to Glenn Plank, aged three:
Dear Lord, we thank you for help
ing us to sing songs. | thank You for
making my ear well. Supply our needs
for this day and send in some dollars.
My shoes are awful bad, send me in
some new ones, for Jesus sake.
Amen"
Services for Children.
The children have special services
to pray for clothes and the mission
aries. They have prayer meetings
every morning from $50 to 1880
o'clock. They also have praise serv-
ices" distinct from those of their eld-
ers. They range in age from babyhood
to 10 or IL years. I'm the school term"
one of the Jumpers explained, I'VE
also teach them in secular knowledge,
including some OF the high school
branches"
Indeed, children may be called a
star feature at Zarephath. The farm
was given by Mrs. Garretson for a
children's home as we'll as for mis-
sionary work, and in the notices of
the camp meeting the building is
called "children's home"
Characteristic of the sect is Bird
wells description of the children
when he recently returned from the
west. Their enthusiasm evidently
filled his heart with gladness, for he
says:
I'VE were delighted once more to
meet the children and to hear them
pray and testify. God is certainly
blessing this department OF our work
and helping the little ones to become
faithful in His service. They have
their little trials and experiences, and
win battles which mean more in their
lives than any of the great historical
conflicts of this world"
The Yale expositor., 1907-09-06
MICHIGAN Wants Help.

According to M. j. Mcleod com.
missioner of labor for the state OF
Michigan, therH is a noticeable scare.
ity of farm and dairy hands in the
state, and of unsGilled labor in the
large cities. In a communication to
the bureau of information of the i'm
migration service. Mr.. Mcleod says
the bureau finds it impossible to sup.
ply the demand and suggested a sys-
tenn Of cooperation with the govern
ment in order to better conditions
along this line. He believes that work
for at least 10000 families with
steady employment at remunerative
wages can be had in Michigan.
The Yale expositor., 1907-09-06
All Should Attend State Fair.

The state fair has long been one
of the recognized institutions of the
agricultural interests of Michigan,
and it has become an improved, a
stronger, a more valuable institution
since its establishment in a perma.
nent location. 1t has other features
of interest than agricultural features
many of them-but agriculture is
the chief reason for it's existence.
The exhibits of 1907 far surpass those
of any prior year in the society's his.
tory. The fair deserves an attend
ance surprising that of prior years
in like proportion.
The Yale expositor., 1907-09-06
Praises National euardsmen.

Praises National Guardsmen.
The Michigan National guard can
hardly claim to represent as high a
social class throughout as the same
number of college students, but want
to say that If you were to take $500
men out of any college on earth, and
turn them loose in some place away
from home, I'll warrant that there
would be more rowdyism than has
been shown by the guardsmen while
they were in camp" That's the way
Gen. c. w. Harrah, commanding the
Michigan National guard, replies to
anonymous statements that ineXcus-
able rowdyism prevailed at the late
encampment at Ludington. He added
that the rowdyism stories were hope
lessly exaggerated, as those who had
come in close touch with the boys
would testify. There were only two
cases of rowdyism that came to light"
said Col. Harrah, land had there been
more. l should have heard of them,
I'm quite sure. The rowdy story was
concocted, evidently, by some person
who wished to hurt the National
guard, and was without justification"
The Yale expositor., 1907-09-06
still Seek Forestry Head.

President j. l.. Snyder, OF the Agri-
cultural college. states that as yet no
one has been found to take charge of
the forestry department which has
been left without head by the death
of Prof. Z. e. Bogue. 1T is difficult
to find an experienced man for such
a position" said President Snyder.
There are many young men who
have been in the work a short time,
but most of those who have had very
many years of experience must have
received some foreign training"
The Yale expositor., 1907-09-06
Railroads viii obey Rate RuIino.

Representatives of three railroads
at hearing before Railroad Commits
sioner Glasgow last week agreed to
follow any ruling he should make on
the freight rate for ties. The roads
admitted doubling the ordinary rate
on interstate shipment of ties in an
endeavor to hold them in the state
for their own use. Complaint of this
action was made by the Sterling Sons
Co., of Monroe, TO the commissioner.
The commissioner will undoubtedly
rule in favor of the Monroe company.
The Yale expositor., 1907-09-06

ket gardens on either side had the
garments of the workers "-blue
shirts and breeches. The sister" who
received the reporter wore dress of
similar material.
In the bare reception room one
sound predominated over all others.
Outside were sunshine and the song
of life-the click of the windmill,
locusts, and bees buzzing in a corn
field. the chatter of children, the
sound of hammers as the workers
raised a big tent for the camp meet
ing. Inside was the sound of hymns
pounded out on a hard-toned piano.
persistently. monotonously, endlessly
until the visitor thought of the most
maddening in the list of ancient tor
tures-the steady drip of water on a
man or woman's head.
you have been very successful
here!" began the reporter.
The Lords blessing has been upon
u.s." The SISTER" answered absently,
as If in a dream or listening to the
torturing hymns.
Home Is Gift of Believer.
You own this placer
YES. 1t was given to us about two
years ago by Mrs. Garretson-Mrs. w.
p. Garretson. She saw the true light
the light of the Lord in faith-she and
her son and her two daughters. We
have been here about year and a
half There are so acres of land and
80 grown people, some of them mar
ried, but mostly young men and
women, and about as many more chill
dren. They have given up all their
worldly goods and followed Him."
You must have plenty of money,
then?"
"Oh, no." with a smile. people with
worldly goods are not eager to give
them up and follow the Lord"
Gradually more facts came out after
persistent questioning. Six years ago,
Mrs. Alma White, wife Of Methodist
preacher in Denver, was inspired to
| preach on her own account. The con-
| ference of the Methodist church
would not make her a full fledged
minister. But the Lord blessed her
! in singing" so she started her own
church. She calls it the Pentecostal
Union, her neighbors. THE Pillar of
Fire; the public, the Holy Jumpers.
! The SISTER" who was talking called
it "the holiness movement-the Meth
odist church as it was in the days of
Wesley. before people thought only
of worldly things and the ministers
of preaching and prayer for wage
Mrs. White is still the head-the
Mrs. Eddy, the Mrs. Piper-of the
sect. She lives in Denver, where the
Holy Jumpers have Bible school and
$50 missioners and the union got a
charter in 1902. Mrs. Whites brother
c. w. Bridwell, is the head of the
farm at Weston, which is the eastern
headquarters of the sect. There are
other mission houses in Los Angeles
and Lafayette, Ind, with a dozen mis-
sionaries each.
Have Biblical Authority.
What are the peculiar ceremonies
of your sect? You march and dance?'
"Oh, yes" the girl replied. Are we
not told in the Bible how David
The Yale expositor., 1907-09-06
Closes Bio Timber Deal.

One Of the largest timber deals that
has taken place in northern Wiscon-
sin in recent years was consummated
short time ago. The Cisco Lake
Lumber company. of Wausau, has
bought from G.. F. Sanborn Lumber
company, at Ashland. tract of tim
Der land in Michigan for $300000
Some time ago the Cisco Lake Lum-
Der company purchased large tract
of timber in this state, and the big
timber area just secured joins the one
obtained some time ago. making the
holdings of this concern very large.
The Yale expositor., 1907-09-06

Lower water in both rivers and In
Pine lake than there has been before
this summer has resulted from the
recent rainless season. Crops have
also suffered materially because of the
drought. Farmers in some sections
have difficulty in supplying their
stock with water. The small streams
depended on in the pastures near
Pine lake and Haslett park have in
many cases dried up. Corn and sugar
beets are now at critical stage, and
a few more DAYS Of dryness will prove
disastrous.
The Yale expositor., 1907-09-06

New York.-Hidden on little New
Jersey farm. a community of sixty
persons, one-half of them children,
are trying to vitalize a complete re-
action against money greed, hypoc-
risy, and the present-day Christian
church and to keep it alive by re-
ligious hysteria.
They depend on faith" q. e.,
prayer for food, clothing, and the
bare necessities OF life.
They have followed the injunction
of Jesus to sell their goods, give the
proceeds to the poor, and follow Him.
Medicines and physicians are for
hidden, and their only treatment for
disease consists of prayer and anoint-
ing the body with oil.
officials of the state of New Jersey
say that If any one dies after such
treatment those concerned are guilty
of criminal negligence and indictable
for manslaughter.
The community is managed on the
cooperative plan, no one receiving
wages for work, and all supplies go
ing into a common fund, the men and
women sharing the work on an equal
basis.
Converts are kept in a high state OF
religious excitement by a conglomera
ton of Biblical text, sophistry, and
slang, and talk of modern saints and
miracles.
Seeking to live according to Bibli
cal injunction, they work themselves
into a frenzy, march, dance. and leap
high in the air, hence their name
Holy Jumpers.
A member of the community has al
ready been taken to the Somerset
County Insane Asylum suffering from
religious mania
What the Jumpers Are Like.
Such, in brief, is a summary OF the
lives of the Holy Jumpers on their
farm near Weston, a station on the
Reading railway five miles southwest
of Bound Brook. Attention was at
tracted 10 them by report that they
are to invade New York in the man
ner of Elijah" Dowie and his Zion
ASNo' Nhdb ludiutI VI ptOplS are THESE
who would fill Broadway with Their
cries and wild dances? The question
led to a visit to Weston.
Where are the Holy Jumpers?" the
reporter asked a farmer he met on the
way.
Right down thar on the towpatf
where yer see that barn and wind
mill" he replied. do they jump? Yei
bet they do i was at their prayer
meeting last Sunday. One of EN-
Brother Hartman, they called him
man as big as you, six feet high
WAL, Brother Hartman yelled Halle
lujah! jest as loud as he could, gath
cred up his legs under him, anC
jumped-it looked as if he jumped
most as high as that thar lamppost.
They're praying most all the time
too. Some weeks since one of the
fellers here was a-comin' up the tow
path and CHANGED to look over toward
the Jumpers place. Sure as I'm here
thar was Holy Jumper standin' a-toI
their haystack, his hands up in tn,
air, praying for all he was worth
Guess he was praying about the hay
The Yale expositor., 1907-09-06
Michiqan an AGRICULTURAL State.

For many years Michigan was al.
most exclusively an agricultural and
mining state. That is not true to-day
and it will never be true again. for
many great industries have come to
us and others are coming. but 1t re-
mains true, none the less, that Mich,
igan is still one of the large agricul-
tural states, and will continue to be
one so long as present climatic condi.
tons and the natural fertility of her
soil endure.
The Yale expositor., 1907-09-06
State Cant Punish Guilty Ones.

The state is helpless to punish
those to blame for the poisoning of 40
people at Benton Harbor. A cream.
cry in that city secured condensed
milk from Chicago firm TO make ice
cream with and State Analyst
Robinson pronounces 1t unfit and dan.
gerous to use. The Chicago firm can.
not be prosecuted in Michigan and
the creamery company is now CO.
operating with the state dairy and
food department which is watching
the milk supply of st. Joseph and
Benton Harbor.
The Yale expositor., 1907-09-06

toxicating liquors are sold was raised
from 16 years to 81 years. 1t may
surprise some to know that occa-
sionally / find children born here il.
our own Michigan who have never
been to school day in their lives,
and who do not even know the al
phabet."
The Yale expositor., 1907-09-06
Business ArpreclatIon.

Herr Hirsch-That man Levi has
got his eye on our Rosa. He's a thun.
dering good man OF business and he
can have her II he wants He once
got some money out Of me in payment
for some things / had of him.
The Yale expositor., 1907-09-06
Consulate for MICHIGAN Man.

Samuel l. Lee, of Michigan. has
been appointed consul at Nogales.
and james P. Worden appointed to
Bristol.
The Yale expositor., 1907-09-06
Practical Points.

Christ crucified is the most conspic.
uous object in the history OF the
world. IL is the center around which
the whole moral and religious warfare
Of the world is gathered.
The power did not lie in the brazen
serpent. but in God himself who could
bestow healing uron those who
showed by their looking mp to 1t at his
Word that they believed In God and
repented Of their sin.
Salvation was by faith, the only way
in which free pardon can be offered
without increasing the sin of tho
world
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03
GETTING READY 10 LEAVE
Boarding House Falls When There's
a Woman in the Case.
BENEDICT Suddenly BE-
comes Dissatisfied when lie An
.Icipates COzy Flat for Two.

Tommy" observed the promising
young business man. shortly after he and
the divinity student had gone upstairs,
says the Chicago News, this thing Of
boarding isn't what it's cracked up to
be"
I'm sure I don't think that we have
any reason to complain. said the divinity
student The food is wholesome and
plentiful and exceedingly well cooked, in
my opinion
I'm not kicking on the provender,"
said the promising young business man.
It's about as good as you'll get in a
boarding house, I guess.
Its far better than the average" said
the divinity student, warmly, That
chicken to-night--
What is it makes you fellows so fond
of chicken" said the young business
man. in a slightly irritated tone. There's
no Scriptural authority for chicken. is
there? Yes, the chicken was all right,
but
But what?"
ooh. I don't know. Somehow"
Didn't you like the beaten biscuits?"
Il told you the grub was all right. didn't
for clearinghouse grub? Only-well.
there's always that mob
Everybody seems very pleasant, indeed.
to me Nobody could be kinder or more
thoughtful than Mrs. BImparker. She al
ways speaks of you very Aicely."
She's a good old girl I know that
7 n fond Of her, too. as far as that goes.
I've boarded ever since I've been in the
city and she's about the best yet 1 was
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03
To BE CONTINUED NEXT SUNDAY.
NATIVES OF PATAGONIA.
Head-huntfng for Bounty-Th e
Price Paid for a wife.

Head-hunting for Bounty-The
Price Paid for a wife.
From the Denver Post
1t seems strange 10 live in q country
where you see only white men. and
after living down in Patagonia for al
most q lifetime. where a bounty of S.
was paid By the authorities for every
head brought ia by the head-hunters."
said 7. j. Medlin now of Laramie, Wyo.,
but formerly Of Patagonia.
THE head-huntcrs up 10 six years
ago went out at regular intervals 10
hunt the Terra del Fuegans. and when
they returned with the heads the
bounty was paid out without any ques-
ton This tribe Of people are lower
than the dogs and had 10 be extermi-
mated for the safety OF the more civilized
people. Tho bounty was taken of about
six years ago. and now there are no
head-hunters. Some Of the former
hunters st.N continue their slaughter.
but IL IS frowned on by the decent peo-
pie
The climate around Laramie. Wyo..
climate of Patagonia. The sumner
climate Of that region. however. is
pretty much the same as we are given
~ understand the climate Of hades is
all the year round
''The ordinary tribes of natives are
gentle and as honest as the general run
Of people i1 South America.
some day there viii be big rush to
Terra del FucE0, or the Land Of Fire.
as the county near the Straits 81 Ma
gellcn IS called There is plenty Of
placer gold there. and plenty of rich
quartz. Several parties have gone
through the interior but have kept their
finds secret
Patagonia belongs partly to Chile
and partly TO Argentina The land is
cheap and is about one-hundredth IS
good for grazing purposes as Wyoming
land is. There is no title given 10 the
property, and squatter sovereignty
holds good until some man comes along
and gives the chief Official OF the sec
ton a large bride when the sQuatter is
dispossessed.
The natives are not caunibals, as has
been reported. and probably never were.
They take only one wife. and al the hus-
bands death all the property goes TO
the wife. A man wanting a wife pur-
chases her for so many horses and so
much property. No marriage ceremony
is performed. but the purchase is more
binding than the legal ceremony in
this country.
THE punishment FOR injuring man
is much more severe than for outright
murder II a man is convicted of muir
der hc is likely to escape with year Of
penal servitude. but if in a brawl he
cuts and Injuries a man the chances are
that he viii hang for the crime. There
is little crime. however. The people are
peaceable and follow hunting and sheep
raising % a large extent / always
found the native tribes friendly and
hospitablc and never had any trouble
during tho time 7 lived In the land.
The Washington herald., 1907-02-03
UNCLE SAM AFTER COOKS
But They Mustn't Have Dyspepsia
Themselves or Wear Glasses.
Lots of Pulling Questions Asked
Applicants for Positions
in the West.

From the Philadelphia North American.
Realizing the awful results OF indiges-
ton, Uncle sam has asked for ten expert
cooks. who must be healthy and have
good eyesight, TO cook for his Indians
and his soldiers at Western posts and
reservations. Twenty-Five young women
of this city. who have all the exacting re-
quirements, fled applications for the po-
sitions at the United States Civil Service
Commission. Despite the alleged inde-
pendence Of the American cook. who is
supposed to dictate instead Of obey. the
applicants answered the following QUes-
lions:
Are you subject TO loss Of conscious
ness?"
DO you wear glasses
Did you ever have dyspepsia ,"
Are you subject 70 dizziness?"
What are your past and present habits
in the use Of aicohol?'
do you use opium. morphine, or any
other Drug"
Have you ever had any deformity?'
No cook under twenty years old viii
be considered. as the government be
Ileves women under that age have not
had sufficient experience to prepare food
properly.
Their pay will range from $3.50 to $40
a year. and includes board.
Nothing is said of day out In the ap-
pIicatiOns, nor Is there any mention OF
nights when the cook may entertain her
friends.