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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-06-13

Young J. x. Henderson danced repeat
.as eddy ovttb Katherine.
self into a rocking chair, laced her fin-
gers behind her head and gazed through
the open window at the misty infinity
beyond.
ITO ~ 'c0NTNuxDl
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-06-13
CHAPTER VII.

@APTAIN and Mrs. Kempt, with
Sabina, had resided a week In
the Matterhorn hotel before
" the two girls arrived there.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-06-13
CHAPTER vi.

@HREE days later the north At
lantic squadron of the British
navy sailed down the coast
~ from Halifax. did not even
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-12-14
VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE.

Farm contains 244 ACRES, 10 miles from E:;i
Baltimore and within two miles of Finksburg
Station, W. M. X. r. The dwelling contains is
the honse and barns The improvements in adj
dition to the dwelling are two barns COW barn,
corn house, etc. The farm is being lined for the
second time in the past few years. This farm is
adapted for stock farm and dairy business. 1t
contains much meadow land and is bountifully
supplied with water. Persons desiring property
of this description will please address the under
signed for terms and further particulars.
No. III LONGNECKER BROS,
Feb. 18-tf Real Estate, Towson, Md.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-12-14

NHARLES g. ARTHUR HERZOG,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
liz E. Lexington Street. Baltimore, Nd.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-12-14

Gov. HUeHEs may not win the Presidential
nomination next year, but he is getting line
of Endorsements that must be very hattering
to new man in the political arena.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-12-14

A WRITER on alfalfa says farmer can plant
il and then retire from business" with an as
sured income and no work to speak Of The
boys ought to be willing to stay on the farm
on these terms.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-12-14

A YOUNG man named Jesse L. Lvermore,
who bad been working as a clerk, is credited
with lately having made 100000 in Wall
Street speculation.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24

Column after column has been writ.
ten deploring the fact that the buyer
spends her or his money away from
home, that she or he is helping to build
up the mail order house to the detril
ment of the home merchant. The sem
timent is good and the cause is worthy
of the efforts being made to stop this
undertow; but no amount of writing,
and no amount of home patriotism will
ever overcome the bad effects of the
dead merchant in the little town. The
truth can be plainly seen.
Let us turn back to the general
stores and look up the proprietor OF
any one. He probably will be found
busy waiting on customer, but if not
he will tell you that it is not the cata-
logues alone that he fears, but also
that it is the lethargy of these two
dealers. They are helping to drive
away trade from home.
have wandered from the subjec,
and gotten over on The buyers sidd
of the fence; but isn't it we'll at times
to look at the other side of this pitiable
story? I started to write few lines on
why People Should Trade at Home"
and have gotten into the field of why
the Home Merchant Should Induce
People to Trade at Home" 1t may be
fair to the little town to once in a
while throw few shovels full of earth
on the dead merchant, lest he stinketh
and polluteth the rest.
EDWARD T. HALE.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24
All Cutting Sawinu.

Knives, no matter how carefully
sharpened, are little saws; the grind
ing away of the steel, done BY the
stone, is not an even work, but when
the edge gets thin is a process of tear
ing away tiny bits of steel by the grit
OF the stone. This tearing makes the
teeth. A fine stone makes fine teeth.
a coarse stone coarse teeth. A carving
knife, used on meat, is sharpened on a
coarse stone or a steel, and has coarse
teeth, although its edge is thick. Its
action in parting the meat is more that
OF saw than a fine wedge. No mat
ter how soft it may be, it will not
cut easily unless it is drawn over the
meat and not simply pressed down.
A razor, however, with it's paper-like
edge, Will cut into flesh with a simple
pressure-it is a wedge dividing the
fbers OF flesh just as a wedge of iron
divides the fibers of the log it splits.
But razor is a saw, too, only as it is
ground on the finest stones and later
finished with leather strop, it's teeth
are very fine indeed-hundreds and
hundreds to the inch of blade-st.
Nicholas. -,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24

Copyright. 1906 by Joseph B. Bowles)
Toxic, Japan-That many or most
Japanese Christians say no more for
eign missionaries are wanted in Japan,
and that numbers Of the strongest
missionary leaders agree with them,
at least to the extent of saying that
no new forces should be sent out for
the present, is the rather sensational
conclusion to which l have been
forced after six weeks study of the
missionary situation here.
A grave crisis confronts the mis-.
sions in Japan. How serious it is
the church people in America have
no conception. That an open rupture
between the missions and the jap.
averted, and is still a dangerous pos
sibility, is freely admitted on all sides.
The gravity of the situation is recog-
nized by everybody concerned. 1t
affects present religious conditions in
the empire, but, more important still,
1t has a bearing upon the future of
Christian missions in almost every
country in the world. The questions
that are up for settlement here and
now will constitute a precedent for
all other mission lands The very
magnitude of the crisis has sobered
all parties concerned so that the bit
terness and hostilities which marked
the earlier stages of the controversy
are passing away, and on every side
the extreme views are being modified
Japanese Churches Assert Themselves.
The present tense situation has it's
tap root in the spirit of Japanese ma
tionalism. This people Is exceedingly
sensitive and proud. 1t resents with
bitterness and sarcasm being called
"heathen' nation, and thus being
clasSed with the natives Of Africa and
the South Sea Islands. Equally is it
averse to remaining under foreign
control and tutelage in it's religious
life. The sentiment which caused the
abolition of eXtra-territorial political
rights to foreigners, and which to this
Gay leads the Japanese prints to
speak Of the foreign communities as
former settlements" is keenly alive
to what is felt to be an attitude of
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24
DEAD MERCHANT
ne SOMETIMES DRIVES TRADE
AWAY FROM THE TOWN..
HINDRANCE TOLIVE MERCHANT
Arc a. Much to Be Feared az the
Competition Of the Catalogue
Houses-Shouid Be Awak-
ened or Buried,

Why should the home merchant be
patronized instead of the mail order
house? The subject has been ex-
hausted almost and from all points of
view and all sides there is no valid
reason why the merchant at home
should not-excepting two, price and
articles wanted.
It is not the intention of the writer
to tOt down pleasant flow of Ian
guage or to produce an interesting bit
of reading matter, but merely to state
in few simple sentences what have
seen and learned of the competition be-
tween the catalogue houses and the
home merchants. In the first place no
one community suffers greatly in this
competition. That makes the problem
all the more difficult in solution. I
mean by this that the majority of buy
ers in no one community purchase by
mail. The business of the mail order
house is scattered over large terri
tory, the number of orders coming
from any one community compared
with the whole is comparatively small
to the number of orders in the town.
There is an exception to this in com
munity where the home merchants are
dead ones and ask exhorbita4t prices.
To illustrate. There is little city in
the central part of Wisconsin, beau
tiful little place, with it's shady streets
and pleasant homes. It has several
general stores owned by live, wide
awake merchants, who are hustling for
business, yet are always pleasant and
ready to visit with a customer. They
are not put out at any time to show
goods, taking down bolt after bolt of
cloth and maybe then not making even
five-cent sale. They take that Mas
part of their business; they are always
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but 1t is not cooperation in which
the missionary plays almoner. In fact,
since the Japanese churches have
their own mission boards they feel
or, at least. an outspoken wing of
them feel-that the latter should have
the entire administration of mission
methods and money. with, of course.
the full counsel of the missionaries.
The Congregationalists have gone
practically thus far. The "Kumiai"
are practically Independent. The
American board makes to them an
annual grant of money for a specific
term of years, at the end of which
time, 1t is presumed, the churches will
have become self-supporting. The en-.
tire independently movement faces to-
ward the day when the japanese
churches will be "self-governing, self
supporting and self-propagating." The
missionaries Of the American Board
very generally yield themselves to the
counsel of their Japanese associates
One man told me the other day that.
in council with the native pastors.
they had assigned him his work for
the coming year. He says that he
finds this relation perfectly satisfac.
tory and that the attitude of the IAN
anese is in no wise dictatorial. but
that all are together seeking the one
end of the works welfare.
The Japanese Type of Christianity.
All this is no mere racial jealousy.
1t goes deep. Are the Japanese quail
fed for ecclesiastical self-government.
as they have proved their fitness for
political self-government? Akin to
this is the consideration whether q
mission land is forever to remain a
mission land, nurtured by outside
agencies. The native church in Japan
covers the entire empire. 1t has many
self-supporting congregations, and
| powerful leaders not few 1t is said
that in remote government schools
"nere there was not single Chris
tlan. the students are nevertheless
divided into Uemura and Ebana camps
these latter being the names of the
preachers who are the leaders of two
partles IN the churches, whose vigor-
Gus newspaper controversies are ia
mll1ar to wide constituency The
Japanese church has an established
| foreign mission work of it's own in
Formosa and Korea.
have been at pains to inquire as to
the character of Japanese Christians,
On all sides hear that the intelligent
devotion of Japanese Christians to
| the central truths of Christianity is
unquestioned. Whatever the outcome
of the present controversy, the native
church will remain loyal to the teach.
ings which it has had from the mis-.
sionaries. l personally have seen con-
gregations of Christians here, of sew.
eral UNCONVENTIONAL names, whose de-
votion and sincerity was apparent to
any observer. A ripper or more sanity
character it would be hard to find
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24
SOME, REMARKABLE HORSES.
Wonderful Stories About the Steeds
Of Famous Men.

In his letters to Lord Granville, pub.
lished by the Royal Philosophical So
ciety, who was also greatly interested
in natural history, Smithson, the
founder of the Smithsonian institution
in America, relates how the horse of
Alexander the Great, Bucephalus,
would at night, on hearing a blast of
the trumpet from the soldiers on guard
showing the approach of the enemy,
run at great speed to his masters tent
and with his teeth grab the sleeping
monarch and shake him until he sprang
into the saddle and galloped toward
the enemy.
Also that the great Caliph Haroun-el-
Raschid in the eight century in march
ing toward the forces of Queen Irene
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24
superiority on the part of the mission

superiority on the part of the mission
aries.
Underlying the problem, also, is the
ingrained and ineradicable Anglo-Sax-
on sense of superiority to other races
| myself have seen enough to warrant
the belief that there is ground for the
Japanese constituencies on this sub
ject. Not all missionaries conduct
themselves toward the Japanese
preachers and Christians as toward
a man, brother and an equal Such
men are few, but they should be
called home. Their usefulness here is
ended, if it ever existed. To this at
titude on the part of certain foreign
ers may be traced the ecclesiastical
inconsiderateness, not to say hostil-
ity, Of the Japanese. Missionaries not
few know as we'll as the native
ministry what it is to have their feel
ings hurt.
Church Union Ahead Of Homeland.
The upshot of the matter has been
the growth of governing Japan.
csc denominations. The largest of
these is The Church of Jesus Christ
in Japan which includes all the Pres
byterian and Reformed bodies; there
are here none of the Presbyterian SUBJ
divisions that exist in America. Next
in size comes the "Kumiai," or Con.
gregational churches. with whom will
shortly be included the United Breth-
nd ct
Japanese Methodist bodies-North
South and Canadian-have been seek
ing consolidation. At first the mis-.
sion boards across the water which
are interposed obstacles to this union.
objected, but the Japanese Metho.
dists spoke out so promptly and
loudly that all barriers to the
creation of one Methodist church
in Japan have been removed. The
Protestant Episcopal church and the
Church of England have likewise
Joined forces here. There is little
doubt that this union movement will
continue, the Congregationalists and
the Presbyterians coalescing at an
early date. Many predict a speedy
union of all native churches into one
Japanese Christian church. Certainly
it is the consensus of opinion that the
minute UNCONVENTIONAL and sectarian
divisions of American Christendom
cannot be perpetuated here.
The present enrolled membership
of the Protestant churches of Japan,
by the way, is about $4,000, the past
year showing an apparent decrease
through an error, it is claimed, in the
statistics. Long before the churches
of American got together in New
York in the 1nterchurch Confer
ence on Federation, there existed a
soundly established federal organiza-
ticn here, "the Standing Committee of
Cooperating Missions" which has ef-
fected several practical results, in.
clu6snG the production of a common
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willing to send post-haste to the city
for any article they may Iot have in
stock that is wanted by customer;
their stocks are up-to.date and free
from shelf-worn goods. These men
make the humblest customers feel well
come in their stores, and particular at
tcntiOn Is paid to waiting on children,
giving them even better measure and
quality than their elders would re-
ceive. And these men are advertisers.
Their ads in the local papers are
changed regularly and show time and
study. They meet the mail order man
more than half way in special sales
and clearing of odds and ends. Here
is an instance where there is no legi-
innate excuse for a person sending
away after goods. And the people do
not. Very few articles of general mer.
chandise are shipped into that city.
The buyer and seller are working in
harmony to their own betterment and
advantage.
But look at the other side, The city
which we have in mind has one hard.
ware and one furniture store. Both
have fairly good stocks for the size of
their circle of trade, but just step into
either one of these stores. che pro-
prietor may be in the back room or the
back yard for all you know, but by and
by some stir is heard and leisurely he
makes his appearance neither store
has need Of elerk-and probably with
some grumbles about being disturbed,
asks what is wanted. There might as
we'll be placards in the store announc-
ing BUY what I've got and keep still''
and I'VE are busy, don't disturb u.s.
No effort is made to show you an arti.
Gle; nothing is ever taken down from
the shelves unless directly asked for.
Neither hardware nor furniture man
acts willing to get what you want If he
does not have it in stock. And again
neither one of these stores believe in
advertising. They use no space in
their home papers; newcomer would
never know the city possessed such
places of business enterprise. Who
ever heard of a country hardware or
furniture store having special sale,
or harvest sale or the like? But why
not? These two storekeepers are bit.
ter against the mail order houses. ]
wonder why? I talked with the rail
road agents in that little city and he
said lots of hardware and furniture
was shipped in. He said, "One day
made out an express order for $34 to
pay for bill of hardware: I told the
man to 60 up and see if the merchant
couldn't fill the order. He went but
soon came back, saying that he didn''
have half Of the stun on hand and that
he wouldn't cut q bit On what he did
! have ~
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24
Love We One Another.

Isn't it the open secret? Little chill
dren, love We one another" It is the
universal law. 1t is the law of heaven;
it is the only law that will make the
earth like Paradise. Little children,
love We one another!" Neither king
nor peasant, neither high nor low.
neither rich nor poor-only one great
human family, with one great human
Heart yearnihg warmly over the be-.
ing it created, with the one great law
pulsing through. its arteries: Little
children, Oh, my little children, love
We one another" - Grace Keen.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24

What man. was made of: A small
quantity of dust, large quantity of
water and a much larger quantity OF
hot air.
What man ought to have been made
of: A steel frame covered with cork,
a funnel-shaped mouth papered with
asbestos, and a goats stomach lined
with double copper plates
1t is guaranteed that this man will
not be affected by railroad and auto
mobile accidents, boat wrecks, SUBJ
way brushes, fires insurance compan-
les, doctors bills, breakfast foods and
all the other dire necessities of life
Huntley Child, in Life.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24
re- MISSIONARIES WANTED"
Where the Conflict Comes.

churches.
Where the Conflict Comes.
The paradoxical statement is true,
broadly speaking, that while the rela-
tons between the individual mission
airy and the individual Japanese Chris
tian have been cordial the relations
between the missions and the native
churches have been strained.
The crux of the question has been
the control of the forces and the
funds. The missionary and his per-
sonal helpers have worked in and for
the local congregations, but the latter
have had no control over them. The
missionary is entirely outside the Ju-
risdiction of the native church. He
works when and where and how he
pleases, or as his mission directs. So,
too, the evangelists employed by the
missionary are governed In the matter
of salary and labor entirely by the
missionary. When it has CHANGED that
one of these evangelists has received
a larger salary than the regular pas
tor of the church itself. there has nat.
urally been feeling.
1t must be remembered that the
missionary in Japan is not a pastor
He has no congregational duties and
responsibilities, such as ordinarily are
borne by preacher in America Ev-
cry congregation has it's own native
pastor and officers. These may con.
suit with the missionary, hut he can
not "boss' them. The preaching mis-
sionary's work is evangelistic; he
pioneers Christianity into new places.
In this he is assisted by evangelists,
who work under his personal super
vision.
TIE money. however, is in the mis-
sionary's control Not all the churches,
by any means, are self supporting.
They must look to America and Eng
land for help. With the control of the
money has gone to a greater or less
degree. a voice in the direction of the
work. Right here comes the rub The
Japanese want to control the money,
and in some cases the missionary.
too. The talk is all of "cooperation, "
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24
His 53-Year.Old Coat

John P. Ledyard of Clinton town.
ship, Wayne county, Pennsylvania, is
wearing an overcoat the wool of
which was pulled from the pelts OF
the sheep, carded and spun, and the
cloth was cut and the garment made
So years ago by his mother. -
! The coat is without aren't or. break
and as perfect as when made, with
the exception of showing a slight fad
ing with age 0 *..
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of Constantinople constantly had a
number of trained Arabian horses (di.
rect descendants of the famous horse
owned by Ishmael 1000 years ago)
thrown forward as scouts, who from
time to time returned to camp and by
a peculiar whinny and neigh reported
the proximity of the enemy.
But, to come down to the present
day, it is related by a retired New
England clergyman, whose sands of
life had nearly run out, that one day
on leading his horse down through a
lane to brook for drink the animal
suddenly halted and, turning its head
round, grabbed up with it's teeth one of
its hind shoes which had just dropped
OF, and, holding it in it's mouth with
the nails dangling, it backed up, against
stone wall and clapped it onto it's
hoof and with a few violent kicks
Hailed it on again,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24

Ingenious.
LADY," said Flooding Pete. "are
you one O. desc people dat hates
tramps?'
Il am" was the prompt and de.
cisive answer
well, wouldn't you like to show
your feelin's by temptin' me to over:
eat myself an putin de curse of
dyspepsia on me?"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24
EncoreS.

Patience-And did you scream when
he kissed you.
Patrice-Of course! But he said
he liked to hear me scream, so he de-
manded several encores!-Yonkers
Statesman.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24
Reputation VS.. Character.

Mrs. De Poynt-I find that Mrs.
Van Swift is thoroughly bad woman.
Mr.. De Poynt-And yet you invite
her here?
Mrs. De Poynt-Oh, that's all right
None of our set has found out about
it yet.-Cleveland Leader.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24
But Not the Huooino.

What can we do to improve the
present method of dancing?" thun.
dered the parson; dancing is mere
hugging set to music"
1--WE might cut out the music" soft.
ly suggested the bad young man in
the rear of the auditorium.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24
Her Revenge.

Ihere was young woman named Lulu,
Who wished a rich man to come WOO Lu.
But as none showed desire,
She got made as fire,
And went off and married Zulu.
Baltimore American.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24
Danger in Drinking Water,

Doctor Ito his patient, who is ill
with typhoid fever)-This is probably
caused by some water you have drunk.
When did you last take some?
Patient-About three years ago, I
think.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24
Something WronS,

rs your chauffeur thoroughly CON-
petent?" -r g..
I'm afraid not. I've had him a
month and he hasn't eloped with my
wife yet."-Judge.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24
Overlooked.

The umpire now stands forth once more
In hourly peril of his life
Oh, why are there no medals for
The real hero of the strife?
washington Star
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-24
A Likely Prospect,

Are you going to have a spring
opening for your customers?"
"Oh, lots of them"
What do you mean by that?"
Il manufacture umbrellas. "-Balti.
more American.