Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-12

tne child porn lntO the home OF al
fiuence, that is left to the tender care
of a hired nurse or governess, while
the mother devotes her time to her
dog. / am not surprised that in such
cases the dog turns out better than
The kid. Say, you women, maybe that's
the reason your husbands don't hug
and kiss you more. There's no hus-
band wants to play second fiddle to a
bow-legged bulldog.
ut don't require any more money to
raise baby than to raise dog. Get
baby in your arms.
Dogs Preferred to Babies.
sIn Chicago they have dog parties.
II tell You that society is on it's last
legs for amusement. In Newport they
had monkey party and there the
latest thing is for woman to ride
around in an automobile hugging a
sucking pig. Well, in Chicago they
! had dog party in magnificent
equipages, some of which cost as high
A! as $4,000. Those dogs had diamonds
| in their ears and wore jeweled collars.
| They were dressed in expensive robes,
lsilks and Russian sables, and one even
| wore blanket of blue fox satin, the
most expensive skin in the world.
| There under the candelabra of the null
! ti-millfonaires they gave those dogs
| wine and champagne and fed them
| porterhouse steak costing So cents a
pound, while right around the. corner
there were starving children who went
to bed hungry because there was
nothing to eat in the house. Why call
ye my Lord, Lord, and do not the
things which I say-in society?
"Your value is determined by what
you are. not by what you possess and
what you are is shown by what you
do"
Then bills for candy and chewing
gum were shown-$79, 100000 for can
dy and $22,O00,0O0 for chewing gum
last year--more than was given last
year for all mission work combined.
Cigars and Cigarets.
| But worse than this are the cigaret
| fiends. 1t is said that 3,258,714,940
cigarets were made in one year. They
would belt the globe three times. Al
lowing ten minutes to smoke a Gig
aret, 1T would take an army of $780,
600 men ten hours a day for $50 days
to smoke them The same year there
were 6,176,696,241 cigars made. If it
takes fifteen minutes to smoke a cigar,
it would require an army of 100000
men, smoking ten hours day for 365
days to use them. This is the awful
output Of cigarets and cigars. Every
pound OF tobacco is soaked in alcohol.
The 100.000000 pounds Of tobacco all
have from 2 to s per cent of nicotine
in it. In one pound Of tobacco is
enough nicotine to kill $50 men. And
there is nicotine enough to the to-
bacco that is chewed and smoked to
kill every man, woman and child on
earth three times every lay. Show ME
any benefit in it.
Sundays Weakness.
THE hardest thing in Jesus teach
ings for me to live up to are the in.
structions to turn the other cheek and
so resist not evil. was once asked if
had received the second blessing
from the Lord / replied that | had
received fifty of them. If youEcan get
all God has for you in two Blessing.
all right; I want more. The hardest
verse in the Bible for me is, But I
say unto you resist not evil: love
your enemies, do good to them that
despitefully use you Can we pray
for them? Do we? I don't suppose
there was ever a man came to OF
tunwa who has been more SANDER
ed than ! have. You may think 1t is
easy to let people lie about you, to
have your charactered attacked, your
hopes blasted and your good evil
spoken of, but it is not Yet | am
determined by the help of God to do
the best can. have a temper like
a. sheet iron stove--a bunch of shay
ings and match will make it red hot
in two minutes, but am trying to get
it down to the base burner, basis. I
am not making any rash promises as
will try to do my level best and keep
sweet
Likes a Scrap.
The speaker then told of an ex-
perience he had with an infidel who
had abused and beaten his wife for
attending the Sunday meetings Call
ing on the fellow at his place of bust
proceedings, Mr.. Sunday had been
greeted with a string Of vile epithets
and threats of personal violence. Il
am a graduate of foNr gymnasiums,'
said Mr.. Sunday, land 1 can take
care of myself l sprahg over that
counter and relieved that fellow Of
his revolver. He asked me what
right ! had there and I told him none.
Then I stepped out in front and told
him to come on and / would give him
the finest demonstration of muscular
Christianity he ever saw. And would.
| would have backslid long enough to
have whipped that fellow. But just
here ! bumped into that verse Resist
not That's easy to preach, but hard
to practice.
Our virtues are best discerned when
subjected to the hardest trials 1t takes
heat to refine gold; the sharp instru-
ment to polish the diamond.
The doing is what counts. You
might as we'll expect mummy to
speak and bear children, you might as
we'll expect to batter down the Rock Of
Gibraltar by shooting paper wads at it
with a pop gun, or he'll to sing the dox-
ology, or Ananias to arise and preach
honestly. as to expect to capture the
world for Christ with the church in a
cold, worldly Goddess. critical back
slidden state"
Obeyina God in the Home.
Mr.. Sunday next took UP the horne
life and said we should obey God
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