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little for any man unless it has taught
him to take some adequate measure of the
depth of his own ignorance.
But the statistical method is often used
in the Interpretation of the Scriptures
and not irfrequently with surprising re-
suits. Crudens concordance" is valu-
Gle book. but it may be sadly abused
and if you assume that a particular word
is important in proportion to the fire.
quency of its occurrence in the Bible, and
If you then overhaul your concordance
and count the occurrences of that word,
you are not reasoning wisely.
The inspiration of the Scriptures is man
ifestly one of the most important sub
iects that the theologian, or even the
plain Christian, can consider. If there be
no inspiration. we have no Bible; its au-
thority is gone. And yet the word in
SEPARATION" occurs only twice in the BIZ
ble In Job xxi: s. Elihu says: "There
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hunted for in vain-the alchemy that
turns all baser metals into purest gold.
Besides
TO go a little further with this little
story. the wife is ambitious. She says
sapho must some day be the owner OF a
job print shop of his own. And with
such wife behind him. the prophecy is
plausible
A comomn love tale, this?
Yes; not uncommon.
And yet
Oh! We calloused hearts grown worldly
wise, weary woman of your social set,
and listless lover, ye that have fiippantly
frittered away the treasures or your fresh
affections. We that have driveled silly sem
timent over dozen tentative and vari-
GUS loves-oh bankrupt souls. what would
We not give for one thrill of the pure and
honest love of Sapho and his wife?
A considerable fuss has been made over
the fact that Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., has
started to learn the carpet making bust
ness.
Theodore is just a common factory
hand, earning IS a week as a wool sorter.
He must begin at 7 o'clock in the morn
ing and work until 6:15 IN the evening,
with As minutes for luncheon
In a manly interview the young man
said:
II came here to work and to learn the
manufacture of carpets and rugs. 1 am
merely an employee, and I don't want or
ask any special favors or notice"
Nevertheless the Presidents son must
be handicapped and bothered by having
publicity thrust upon him. The news
papers have snaphot pictures OF him as
he goes to his work, pictures of the fac
tory and of his boarding house, and all
that sort of thing.
Why?
Surely the job is honorable, and the
young man is displaying the common
qualities of an American citizen. He is
beginning at the bottom, as other boys
do. Simply because his father happens to
be President is no reason why mawkish
sentiment should be written about him.
The young fellow is modest and willing
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these are facts? Who has gathered
the figures? Where is the man VINO Is
wise enough to gather them? Who but
the Spiritualists can tell us the destiny
and state of those who have gone TO the
undiscovered country from whose bourne
no traveller returns? So far as we know
the Apostle Paul is the only man who
was ever caught up into paradise and
afterwards returned to earth: and it IS
singular fact that he positively declined
to give any account of his experiences in
the other world. See II Corinthians xii:
Ia But how can any one really tell
us what particular individuals are saved.
unless he has explored heaven; and
which one lost, unless he has explored
he'll? No knowledge open to the denizens
of earth-not even the Bible-can make
any man an authority on such a question.
The truth is, human learning has done
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n HAT Graves wary walking

m HAT Graves wary walking. -
Juinus Caesar, Act IT, Scene 1.
4 There is nothing that tells so
many lies as facts. except figures" said
young preacher in a memorable debate.
at a great ecclesiastical meeting in AL
exandria, Va. priori reasoning, that
Is to say, reasoning without the facts, is
a dangerous method even in speculative
philosophy; but the facts themselves may
be so manipulated as to lead US to con-
illusions which are utterly and absolutely
false.
Reasoning from figures is perhaps still
more dangerous, unless we are extremely
careful in collecting and in handling our
figures. Let us consider some examples:
The religious newspapers have of late
been agitated over a statement, from a
high Sunday school authority. to the eff
feet that half Of our Sunday school chill
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THE STATISTICAL METHOD OF REASONNG-By j. c. Hden D. D.

the phrase, given by inspiration of Cod
is, in the Greek, only the one word "the-
opneustos" is. God breathed.
In discussing the statistical methods Of
reasoning, the late T. T. Eaton once said:
Il gather from statistics that the Bap-
fists of America are increasing In num-
bers more rapidly than the population,
and that they are giving, per capita. less
and less as the years go by. I am there
fore looking forward to the time when no.
body will give a cent"
Let US take another instance Of the ap-
plication of the statistical method of in
terpreting Scripture: I find the word
Baptist used 16 times in the New Tes-
lament and the word "Christian" is used
only three times The conclusion. then.
is that 1t is just five and one-third times
as important to be a Baptist as it is TO be
a Christian! 1 am a pretty stiff Baptist;
but I cannot hold to that logic.
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eeouest Conditioned on Bedtime.

Prom the American Hebrew.
A legacy OF $1,000 conditioned on a
change in its bedtime rules has been
willed to the Jewish Home for the Aged
of st. Louis by Abraham Greenblatt. a
+eacbar Of Hebrew. Greenblatt's will
provides that If the institution does away
with the fixed hour at which its inmates
shall go to bed and allows them to re-
tire whenever they choose, II shall re-
ceive the bequest. but not otherwise
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and ought to be given his fair chance.
Moreover
This exploiting of Theodore's honest
calling contains the hint of an apparently
growing tendency to look down on the
man who voluntarily earns his substance
by manual labor. There are some per-
sons who seem to regard as a sort of
freak the young man who voluntarily
seeks to earn his bread by the sweat or
his brow They elevate their eyebrows at
the spectacle of the Presidents son
''stooping to engage as a sorter or woods.
The endency of such criticism is I'M
American and deserves singing rebuke.
We need to emphasize rather than min
imumize the dignity of labor.
Let it be remembered that in this free
country the scars of the scanned hands of
the honest laborers are scars as honora-
BILE as those received IN battle. The uni
form of the soled garments of labor is as
patriotic as the uniform of military trap
pings
Every one who amounts to anything in
this country works at something.
In Europe they may call a man who
does no work a gentleman" In this
country we call him tramp.
That was long time ago.
Down at Libertyville the sun sometimes
seemed to stand still. The community
gait was easy going. Everybody worked;
nobody hustled. Everybody knew every
body Grown men went barefoot on occa-
sion. Libertyville was slow.
When you got off the cars IN the big
city the atmosphere Of Llbertyville was
yet about you.
My, how people raced Surely they
were going to a fire. Would the process
sion never pass by? They do not sprint
that way down at Libertyville.
Then how knowing you got! You would
hide your verdancy Meantime, poor boy.
every motion, your garments, your gait,
gave you away. Even your speech be-
trayed you. Before you took two steps
you were spotted as country bred.
You couldn't keep the wonder out of
your eyes; you couldn't even keep your
mouth closed. 1t was not Sunday, yet
everybody was dressed up' Your feet
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That Is to say, the more you drink of
either, the more you want.
And so this money-mad little woman, at
a time when she ought to be dancing her
grandchildren on her knee. sits long hours
in the bank Besides the bank which she
controls she has many millions invested
in real estate and securities.
She denies herself the comforts demand
ed by a twelve dollar-a-weeK clerk and
goes on squeezing out dollars.
For what?
This heart to heart talk will be about
the why
You know physicians recommend this
as the best ali around exercise known. to
them.
Why?
Let's put the matter in plain speech.
In the first place, when you walk you
raise the temperature of your body 1t is
like putting lot of coal in the stove and
opening the draft. There's something do
ing. Waste is being carried Off and your
muscles and nerves get needed nutrment
when the temperature is raised.
Besides, you breathe more deeply when
you walk. And that puts more oxygen
in your blood, and oxygen is life.
And there's the skin. Millions OF pores
little sewers-are opened up. Perspira-
ton carries off waste, waste which, il it
stayed in your blood. would poison you.
And your digestion-wallSing aids that
process and puts an edge on your appe-
tite. And good digestion waits on appe-
tite.
But that is not all.
There is your diaphragm. That useful
thing is a sort of movable stage platform
between the chest and the abdomen. It
is raised or lowered by the contraction or
swelling of the lungs. When the lungs
are filed the diaphragm goes down and
presses upon the liver, stomach and
spleen.
Now
This movement of the diaphragm up and
down, especially down, is like a massage
on the liver, stomach ana spleen. The
massage helps to keep those organs In
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1908-05-22

tine, of New Haven, and started Mon
day.-AIrs. Good and family have
moved into Chaplin township.-Dan
Mickles is driving a new surrey re-
Gently purchased.-Isaac Aselton
and family, who came here from
Marion a short time ago left Sunday
to continue his trip overland to
eithy' Virginia or Washington, hav-
ing rot yet decided to which place
he will go. He is a son of Melvin
Ase!ton, of this place.-Mr and Mrs.
d. b. Hegler entertained Mrs.
Bennett from Chicago a part of this
week.-Geo. Cute was in Jackson
Sunday.-A. w. Miller, ST., is hav-
ing a part of his house reshingled
Frank Ferguson is doing the work.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene butcher, of
Ches2ning, were in town Tuesday
Geo. Cute and Roy Carr were in
Owosso Tuesday.-Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Merrill returned Tuesday to
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Byron.

Mrs. Alice Joslin is in poor health.
w. F.. Close lost a horse Tuesday.
Miss Winifred Clark, of Howell,
visited friends in Byron last week.
Earl Hoisington, of Shiawassee, was
the guest of DR.. Ruggles Friday
DR.. Ruggles has received 500 pounds
of maple sugar from his Vermont
farm.-Nelson LeMay and Charles
Dunning purchased two pool tables
in Toledo last week.-Mr. MQrray is
having a we'll driven at the cheese
factory. F. r. Laurie is doing the
work.-Andrew Allen has rented the
blacksmith shop under the hill so
there will be two blacksmith shops
in town again which was very nee
essary.-F. w. Nothnagel was in Chi
cago on business last week.-Mrs..
NothnGgel visited friends in Sagi-
naw.LF. B. Shelps' children have
the measles.-Last Wednesday was
too wet for cleaning up day so it was
given the go by to try again Tuesday
Of this week.-Mr. and Mrs. E. d.
Welch went to Corunna Wednesday
to spend the remainder of the week
with G. E. Welch and wife.
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their home at Lewiston after two'
weeks visit with relatives in this
vicinity.-House cleaning is the or
der of the day-between showerss--
Mr.. and Mrs.Alfred Beers are visiting
relatives in Sanilac county at pres
ent.-Mr. and Mrs. Ed Current left
here Thursday for Alberta, where
they expect to make their future
home.-Mrs. Louie Pattee was home
from Detroit this week-Two indi-
viduals struck town early Wednesday.
morning one with handorgan and
the other with bagpipe. Each had
a monkey to perform and collect the
pennies and in spite of the early
hour q goodly number of Youngsters
tumbled out to take in the show
Mrs. Peter Demuu went to Pontiac
Thursday fora visit with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Henry Mickles.-Eugene
Overpack, of Detroit, was in town
the first of the week
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New Lothrop.s

While returning from} Flushing
Monday night the team of John Dill
lon took fright and ran Away throw
ing him out, breaking on9 of his legs
in three places and .alsd one arm.
He is in a critical condition at this
writing. Hart, o. Chesaning,
was in town Wednesd9y.-Mr. and
Mrs. C. NJ. Speers spent Sunday at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Rolfe
in st. Charles.-Miss Ethel Hanchetl
has returned from a visit in Chesan-
ing Many from here were in Cor
unna Thursday attending the suit of
H. ~ Colby VS.. township board of
Hazelton.-Lee Brown, of New Mex
ico is visiting his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. o. Brown this week. II.
Clark was in Corunna Thursday
Georeg Zentel has a new Edison
Home Photograph The beet weed
ers are returning here for their sum-
mer's work.-Albert Silverthorn has
returned from California Ray
Vernon has returned from Calfor-
nia.-Glenn Hoag, teacher at Hazel
ton, No. 9 school, closed his school
year Wednesday with picnic in
the front yard. All report a fine
time. Mr.. and Mrs. w. G.. Bailey and
Mr.. and Mrs. II. /. easier and child
rem spent Sunday at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Archie Farrand.-Mr.
and Mrs. Hiram Walters were in
Flushing Sunday-Will Hatton, of
Flushing, was in town Tuesday,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Bishop were in
Flushing Friday.-Grant Delbridge
and son, of Flushing, were in town
Saturday.-Joseph Fuller was in
Flint Thursday.-Mrs. PIERCE, Of
Linden, is visiting her daughter,
Mrs. John Hart, this week.-The L.
A. S. of the. VI. e. church will meet
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Hubbel for supper, May 27.-Mrs.
VIM. Sanborn and Mrs. George
Thomas were in Flushing Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Hoag have
gone TO Shaftsburg to spend the sum-
mer.-A baseball team was or
ganized Monday night so the boys
are ready to play any outside team.
MY. and Mrs. John Miller spent
Monday at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Wesley Waldie.
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Southwe st Bennington.

Mr.. and Mrs. Alvah Hutchings
were guests of his brother, George
Hutchings,. in Grand Rapids, over
Sunday.-Mr. and Mrs. Win Kimmis
were guests of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. w. Burgess. in Laingsburg
Sunday.-Mrs. Carrie Lanckton is in
East Cohoctah on business this week.
Mrs. Florence Worden is helping
Mrs. r. c. Williams with her work
this week.-Mrs.. Emma Goble is
having her barns reshingled. Messrs
Campbell and Burlingame, of Laings-
burg, are doing the work.-Mr. and
Mrs. Herbie Wright entertained the
latter's brother and two sisters from
Lansing over Sunday.-Charles Sa-
ger, Jr., who has been sick for past
three months, died Tuesday morning
at three o'clock He was a man of
sterling qualities always wearing a
smile for everyone. He was mem
Der of the NJ. e. church and S. S. at
Pittsburg and will be sadly missed
Rarely absent and always a ready
and willing worker in the cause of
the Master. Deceased leaves a wife,
father and mother, three sisters and
one brother and many friends to
mourn his death.
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A Welsh COLLEGE Yell.

The sooner the college yell is intro
duced into England the better it will
be for the youth Of the land. In
Wales they have it, and see how
Wales always beats all opponents al
football! This is the CHEEKY shout OF
the Aberystwyth students when their
men are engaged in any athletic con.
test: Hip, hip, hurrah! Hip, hip, hur-
rah! Hip, hip, hip, hurrah! Boom!
Warra! Ishmabi! Ishmabi! Keezle,
keezle, wagga, wagga! Keezle, kee-
zle. wagga, wagga! Ishmabi! Keezle
wagga! Boom! Wa! Ra! Tschzr'
Now, that is something like yell. One
can see at q glance that it contains, at
any rate, some of the elements which
go to make up yell. 1t would inspire
a caterpillar. A pew opener who had
that shouted in his ear would sprint
out and die for his country.-London
Globe.
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Wr r. New Haven.

Quarterly meeting services will be
held at the w. NJ. church Saturday
and Sunday.-The members of the
Prohibition Alliance held a business
meeting at the home of Jas. Hopson,
Jr., Tuesday to make arrangements
for the July meeting.-Mr. and
Mrs. VanBrocklin and daughter, of
Owosso, are spending few days with
Mrs. VanBrocklin's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. F. Totems.-Several from here
attended the funeral of Joseph Serr
in Venice Sunday.-Mr. and Mrs.
Norman Cram are the proud parents
of a son.-A surprise party was given
Roy Smith, Wednesday evening. the
occasion being his twenty-frst
birthday. The evening was SPENT n
games and music after which refresh
ments were served. He was present
ed with watch.
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Chaplin.

Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Clark and chill
dren spent Sunday with his brother,
Ed Clark.-Mrs. Bertha Eckman has
returned from Detroit where she
went for an operation.-.M Mrs. Nettie
Williams was very happily surprised
on returning from Elsie Saturday to
find fine new range set in place of
her cid stove, a present from her
mother, Mrs. Geo. Evans.-Mr. and
Mrs. Will Bachelor took dinner with
Mr.. Cross, Sunday.-Mrs. Libbie b.
man has gone to Carson to visit
friends for week or ten days.-Glen
Sawyer closed very successful year
of school last Wednesday.-The Wes-
Ivan class held a poverty social at
Mrs. Peters Friday night. Arthur
Pearce received the prize fdH being
the most poverty stricken man and
Mrs. Susie Northway the poorest
dressed lady.
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COMFORTING WORDS
Many An Owosso Household Will
Find X So.

To have the pains and aches of a bad
back removed; to be entirely free from
annoying, dangerous urinary disorders
is enough to make any kidney sufferer
grateful. To tell how this great change
can be brought about will prove com
forting words to hundreds of Owosso
readers.
Mrs. Minna Porter formerly living at
1901 Hermann ST., Owosso, Mich, says:
Il suffered a great deal from kidney
trouble. I seemed to have no control
over the secretions at all, and this was
particular annoying at night. My back
ached and it was impossible for me to
arise from chair without assistance.
l heard of Doan's Kidney Pills, procur-
ed a box and after using one-half Of
the contents, found great relief and
continued taking them until / was able
to perform my work without trouble l
highly recommend Doan's Kidney Pills
to anyone suffering from kidney COM
plant"
For Sale by all Dealers. Price soc.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New
York, Sole Agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doans sand
take no other.
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The Birth of Christ.

The exact date of the birth of Christ
is unknown. Among the early churches
there was no agreement as to the date
Of the Nativity, some celebrating it in
April or May. others in January. Dec
20 can hardly be exact, for it falls in
the rainy season of Judea. when shep-
herds would not have been watching
their fiocks by night in the open. The
December Date came into general OBJ
servance naturally, but gradually.
When the heather races of the north
were Christianized they simply substi-
tuted for their Yule celebration in De-
cember the observance of the birth of
Christ
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Garland.

Mrs. Henry Stephan entertained
the Ladies Aid Society last wetk
Thursday.-Miss Lulu Sparks, OF
Ovid, visited her aunt, Miss DeEetta,
Green, Sunday.-Miss Edith Wood
bury and John Austin visited the
formers uncle, John Woodbury. near
Laingsburg Sunday.-Mrs. Jessie
Green has moved to her home in
South Fairfield.-Mrs. c. J. Bang
hart has been entertaining her nieces
the Misses Wiseman and Lynch, of
Grand Rapids.-Mr. and Mrs. Leo
Christmas, of South Ovid, visited
her mother, Mrs. Ann Green, Sun
day.
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Miss Kittie Mckenzie, who has
spent the last two years with her
grandparents attending school here,
left Monday in company with Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Shepard for her
home in Fonda, North Dakota
VIM. Putnam has been quite sick but
is better at this writing
Martha Martin was called to Elsie
the first of this week by the death of
her husband, George Martin.-M. G..
Eldridge. of Fenton, is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Mary Cramer.-Miss
Hattie Cadz entertained at tea one
evening last week Miss Kittie Nc
Kenzie.-Mr. and Mrs. John Potter
spent Sunday in Ovid with Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. Potter.-Miss Anna Lewis
of Rush, is visiting her sister, Mrs.
c. G. Cook.-Miss Grace Young was
the guest of Miss Hattie Cadz Tues
day.-The Young people of this
place gave Miss Kittie Mckenzie a
surprise party Friday evening and
presented her with a gold initial
hat pin. Guests were present from
Owosso and Pittsburg.- Miss Ida
Collins, of Rush, spent a part of the
past week with her grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. H. Scott.-Rev. w. S.
Smith, of Owosso, was in town Wed,>
nesday and Thursday calling on the
members of his church.-The Aid
Society of the NJ. p church, will
meet Wednesday afternoon at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Clint D. Hor-
ton. A cordial invitation is extend
ed to all.-E. L. Smith US preparing
to build an addition to IBIS barn.
G. c. Rogers will now tre$t his house
with n new coat of paint.l
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Oakley.

l.. X. Clark, of Detroit, was the
guest of Oakley friends the latter
part of last week.-The hop given
last Friday evening by McPhillips
and Rourke at Gute's hall was quite
we'll attended. A large crowd was
not anticipated as the weather had
been very unfavorable.--Ra rain,
rain. Farmers in this vicinity are
getting very much discouraged. The
long continued wet spell is damag-
sown besides making it impossible
to get the ground ready for corn and
other spring crops. Gardens as a
general thing are not plowed yet and
everything is getting way behind
Mrs. Frank Ferguson was out riding
Sunday for the first time in several
months. Mrs. Ferguson seems to be
gaining slowly and her recovery is
looked forward to by her friends
Eugene Collins is able to resume
work after three weeks illness
from kidney trouble.-Herman Hos
child has moved to Flint where he
will work for f. F. SPECIAL. Geo.
Spiegel and Will Whalen took his
goods with teams Saturday.-Roy
Carr has opened a pool and lunch
room in the building recently vacat-
ed by Z. Morehouse.-McS and
Arthur owen have taken a job of
building large barn for Joe Angus
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1908-05-22
1T WAS GENUINE.
The William Shakespeare Signature
That Admiral Luce Had.

The William Shakespeare Signature
That Admiral Luce Had.
Admiral Luce was in command of
the north Atlantic squadron in 1885,
and his flagship for time was an
chored in New York bay, where it
was visited by many people. One day a
party came aboard which included.
among others, very pretty girl and a
very dignified and learned Englishman.
As Admiral Luce was entertaining
them in his cabin he asked the pretty
girl If she would like to see an original
autograph Of William Shakespeare.
At this the dignified and learned
Englishman pricked up his ears and
remarked that he had made a study Of
the autographs of Shakespeare and
was positive there was no authentic
example in America. Admiral Luce re-
piled that he was very positive his was
authentic and that its genuineness had
never been questioned. This made the
Britisher quite mad, and he delivered
lecture on the fraudulent autographs
and manus cripts that were brought
over to An; erica and exhibited as orig
inals.
"Well," replied the admiral, II am
convinced that my autograph of Will
liam Shakespeare is genuine, and
am going to have the pleasure of show
ing 1t to this young lady," whereupon
he went to his desk, took out his Wis
itor's book, turned back a few pages
and then pointed out the signature,
William Shakespeare, mayor of New
Orleans, Jan. II, 1886" The English
man gave painful gasp and retired.