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The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-16
The Goyernor,s Messaee.

INT third annual message of Governor
stokes, of New Jersey, is also his last. He
taxes the occasion very justly to congratu-
late the State upon its rapid growth, its
general progress, and especially upon the
strength with which it has withstood the
recent disturbing storms of popular hys-
teria, while there is likewise reason to
congratulate the State upon the enlight-
eneo character of much recent legislation.
IN this survey Governor Stokes says but
little OF his own administration, but 1t may
De said here. that the years covered by his
term have been beyond the average of the
period of which he speaks In Legislative
ana administrative progress as well as in
Industrial and social growth. Thus, while
ne points out improvements yet to be
made, the asks he leaves to his successor
nave been in many ways much simpiified
through his W careful and j%udicious in
huence, for which New Jersey should ac-
cord him cordial Observation-Disclosures
Ledger.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-16

S. c. Kanagra Rutnam, revolutionist
and president Of the Central College Of
Colombia, Ceylon, has arrived in New York
TO enlist the aid of Americans in throw
ing off the British yoke In India.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-16

John w. Gates u that he will
reside permanently hereafter in Port
Arthur. Texas. He says that a new line
of weekly steamships will soon be put
on between the Texas city and New York.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1908-05-13

seven days labor a week the world
round, that is six days labor and
one da,y;'s rest devoted to the
pleasure of sense alone. If Amer
lean workingmen would preserve
and improve their high standing
a nj condition of comfort they will
do well to make a wise and provi-
dent use of Sunday. 1t is their
m st valuable asset. 1t can be
wasted only at the expense of char
acter and earning power. These
considerations are as true of the
employer as of the employed. The
conditions of modern business are
eXacting and hardening. Business
men need all the power of brain
and nerve which they can COM
mand in order to keep their place
in the industrial world. Brains
like body need rest and change of
activity. Sunday spent over the
mail and the newspaper in thought
about the same things which oc-
cupy other days of the week,
empty of things which enlarge the
mental horizon and furnish mate
rial for new thought is not day
of recreation, and is sapping Chris
tian character. 1t does not send Il
man back to his counting-room
with strengthened brain and
softened heart, with new grasp of
business problem, and larger con-
sideratiop of human life. 1t only
adds new weight to the burden
which commentaries a man, hard
ems him into insensibility to any
but selfish and material considera-
ton and finally break him down
from "overwork." No business
men are too busy to go to church,
most business men are too busy
not to 90. We feel sacred de-
i ght in observing the first day of
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the week as our Sabbath, because
we are enabled in that way by
habitual and universal concert of
action to attest our faith in the
resurrection of our Lord Jesus.
We are all the bolder in doing this
because we know that apostolic
Saints observed and called it the
Lords Day. We maintain that
the purposes of the Christian Sab
bath are identical with those of
the seventh day as kept by the
children of Israel with the differ
ence that the christian has more
freedom in his method Of observ-
ing it. But they still hold that it
ought to be kept by laying aside
the common work of the week and
making it a day of rest from secu-
lar toll. They believe that il
ought to be devoted to holy ser
vice in honor of Christ. Paul
preached the gospel at Troas OF.
the first day of the week. 1t was
on the first day of the week that
the Disciples held their first meet
ing after the Lords death. The
Corinthian Christians made their
offering on the first day of the
week. Our Master taught that He
was the Lord of the Sabbath He
instituted. He taught also that,
men were not mere machines to
keep the Sabbath but it was made
for man and the early christians
seemed to feel quite free as to the
things they did on the Sabbath.
This does not mean that they tri-
fled with the Sabbath or used It
for their own purpose, to use the
day in the manner in which they
could best advance the kingdom of
Christ. This is quite different
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times long tested, and some &C.
counts are left to be squared in the
next world. but the Lord is a sure
pay-master, and He says, Blessed
is the man that keepeth the Sab
bath" Would that all wage
earners would learn and recei, G
this offered blessing. Sisters,
home-makers and society molders.
oft times, well nigh distracted with
ceaseless problems and burdens OF
life needing the rest that seldom
comes, upon you the Master urges
Remember the Sabbath and
make it day of blessed rest. DO
not, beg, countenance Sunday
visiting and receptions that make
it for many day of social dissipa-
ton. Refuse to give place to the
Sunday newspaper, furnish a sim,
pie dinner, remembering if you
have help with what Jealous care
God guards their rights. They
may not use the Day as you ap-
prove, but can you not win their
confidence and teach them how to
use it, remembering in any event
God commands you to give them
rest Set your faces resolutely
against all Sunday dissertation, and
make it sweet attractive home
day for husband and children with
sacred music, rest and talk min
gled, and whether you be chris
tlan or not remember it is a sacred
day and accustom the family to at
tend church and Sabbath School
regularly, yourself leading, not
sending them. AS nation we are
at the parting of the ways, the line
is being drawn not between the
church and the world but between
the conscientious and the patriotic
who use the day Alright. Refuse
to employ labor, to patronize the
public and government desecra-
tors (the railroads, post-oflice ano
Sunday papers) or to demand that
freight or mail shall be transported
to them on the Sabbath, and the
larger class in the church and out
who put pleasure, convenience and
money-making before Gods law of
the Sabbath; on which are we ?
There is increased interest in this
question, and the tide of public
sentiment is rising, and yet, the
whole trend of affairs is towards a
complete secularization of the day.
In That way the Jewish nation
went down as God foretold, and
that way leads to disaster for us.
Upon christian business men the
responsibility largely rests because
they to so great an extent control
legislation, and exert so wide an
influence, and yet, every voter,
every christian and every patriot
has duty to the public that may
not be shirked, and each of us will
find our own lives and those of our
own dear ones helped or marred
according to our treatment of the
fourth commandment, Exodus,
2O-S-11, Remember the Sabbath
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Day to Keep 1t Holy" &c.
Isaiah 5S-13-14, IF thou turn
away thy foot from the Sabbath
from doing thy pleasure on the
holy day, and call the Sabbath a
delight, the holy of the Lord hon
orable, and shall honor Him not
doing thine own ways, nor finding
thine own pleasure, nor speaking
thine own words. Then shalt thou
delight thyself in the Lord, and |
Will cause thee to ride upon the
high places of the earth and feed
thee with the heritage of Jacob,
thy Father, for the mouth of the
Lord hath spoken it,
10 take an economical view of
Sunday the need of one days rest
in every seven is now being GEN
orally recognized by the more in
telligent observers everywhere.
Employers and employed alike are
coming to the recognition of the
fact that in the long run more
work can be done in six DAYS than
In seven. The reduction of the
principles to practice, however,
halts because of certain tempta-
tons. The workmen find it diff
cult to resist the allurement of an
other days pay in addition to his
scanty income, not realizing the
heavy price he must pay for it.
The employer, especially in the
present state of the labor market,
is under temptation to keep the
wheels of production in constant
motion, discarding the exhausted
workman as he would any other
WORKOUT tool, and supplying his
place with a fresh one. The
weekly rest day is a proper subject
for legislation and desirable end
to accomplish, but it cannot fully
supply the need of the present
day. That need cannot be met
My by Sunday, a day of wor-
ship as well as of. rest. Worship
cannot be forced by legislation.
The right to the necessary leisure
may and should be secured by well
enforced laws. The worship itself
must be the result of individual
conviction. The day of worship
well observed means character and
intellect. 1t means a deeper sense
of obligation, a higher sense of
duty, finer sense of honor. On
the intellectual side it means greater
KeenneSS ana COMPREHENSIVE
larger powers of initiative and
greater industrial efficiency Of
every sort. The American work
ingman is the best paid in the
world, and at the same time the
cheapest of his superior person,
qualities. To these personal quail
tiles the American Sunday has
made a very great contribution.
Abolish the American Sunday and
you go far to put the American
W ,rking man on a level with the
continental working man, with his
continental Sunday. There is but
one thing more brutalizing than
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tested, and their security and pros
perity be assured. When the Son
of God came and found His rest
day an unspeakable burden He re-
stored it to its rightful place, the
day pre-eminently made for
man" to save him from tyranny
and provide for the needs of his
soul the crown of his life, the day
hallowed and blessed for rest and
worship. In these crowded and
restless days in which we live
when the Sabbath is more than
ever needed and more than ever
practically forgotten, then comes
to each of us the command, the
very words of which are full of
entreaty, Remember the Sab
BATH" it is as though the heart of
God was filed with compassion for
the world, because it is missing the
sweetness and grandeur of life by
being ground down by unceasing
toll, or corroded by constant cares
and friction, or crusted by selfish
ness, and He says, Remember
the Sabbath" and what it can do
for you. embrace it and let it lead
you to peace and gladness to God
and Heaven. To do this we must
stem the current. The pressure
against Sabbath keeping increases
as self-indulgence increases, as we
get farther away from the simple
living of our fathers the voice of
conscience is more and more sti-
fed, buried under conventional
ties, Injuries and gayeties. Prof
Austin Phelps says, 1.-THE decline
of religion in the family commonly
begins with the relaxation of Sab
bath law. The juniors plead for
greater freedom and profess more
liberal opinions. Miscellaneous
reading, absence from public wor-
ship, indulgence in secular recrea-
ton, license in travelling on the
Lords Day are justified on the
grounds of change in the times.
Ancient ways are stigmatized as
narrow. Christian example is ad-
duced to support anti-christian in
novation. The plea is plausible.
Children on the verge of manhood
and womanhood are enticed by it
into dangerous relaxation of chri. =
tian principles. This wish for
much so-called liberty is revolu-
tionary, conscience is crippled and
goes on crutches thereafter"
Cannon Farrar writes, "The
waste and selfish dissertation of the
Sabbath, and the flinging away of
its golden opportunities is, l be-
lieve, to thousands of youth the
first step in the downward course
Of moral degeneracy and spiritual
death" God knows those who
honor His day even at great per-
sonal sacrifice, and no man or
woman who close their place of
business on the Sabbath is certain,
other things being equal to secure
in the long run, the best financial
success, though his faith is some
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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-03-18
The Sea Fight Of the Future.

Sturgeon General RiXey insists that GER
tain ships Of the navy shall be COM
manded by doctors.-Daily Newspaper
He stood beside the coming tower.
The surgeon In command,
And sternly gripped. with show of power,
The scalpel in his hand.
Upon a distant smoky blur
The lookout's optics lighted,
And In a trice he shouted. 'Sir.
The enemy are sighted!'
The doctor, glancing DER the sea.
The EPSON salt berated.
Don't let them get too near" cried he.
It'll we've been v~accinated!'
His chief of staff. with flashing lance
And odor Of carbolic.
At once exclaimed. wen take q chance
In either fight or frolic!
They're coming down. our hated foes.
lis time for consultation.
What remedy would you propose?'
He asked. then took his station.
The doctor clinched and shook his fist.
We'll use our vaccine quilts.
And when that's DONE" he grimly Kissed
We'll give 'em iron pills.
In half al hour the hostile feet,
Which needed change Of air.
Had beat a swift and safe retreat
That made the doctor swear.
"rd like to charge the foe-his debt.
But such q call-what 10 1t?
It's not an Office call. and yet
It's surely not a visit!'
Earle Hooker Eaton in Harper's Weekly
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-03-18
PRAY is MAKING GOOD.

The fellow townsmen and other
northern Montana friends of Hon.
Chss. N. Pray are pleased to observe
that his record as representative in
congress is meeting with the approval
of his constituency. These words of
commentator from the Billings Ca
zette will be appreciated by residents
Of this part of Montana:
Congressman Pray is proving an
excellent representative for this state
in the national congress. He has sue.
ceeded in bringing about much legis.
lation of Importance to the people OF
Montana. In particular he has been
the friend Of eastern Montana. He
has succeeded in having passed by the
house most of the legislation sent to i,
from the senate, regarding this state,
and has succeeded In having many o.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-03-18

his own bills passed and sent to the
sen ate.
The lone congressman from Montana
has a difficult position to fill. He not
only represents the largest territory
10 miles of any member of congress,
but be represents q state with q greater
variety Of industries than any other.
There are but few industries in the
nation that are not represented in this
state. To carefully look after the in.
terests of such industries is q most
difficult task. But Congressman Pray
is proving equal to the task. he is
making good.
He has not only acted in conjunction
with our senator's, but single handed
has done much. The people of Billings
have cause to give thanks to him.
Senator Dixon introduced q bill pro.
| viding for an appropriation to pur'
chase land for a public building here,
but Congressman Pray rose to the oc'
casion aud introduced a bill to con
struct a public building costing $3.50,
600. He has succeeded in having
law passed by the house extending the
time for settlers to enter the land un'
der the Huntley project. And now he
has succeeded in getting the war de-
partment to retain Fort Assinniboine
He started alone but in the end hal
the assistance of Senators Dixon an(
Carter. Probably if he had been il
charge of the effort to secure the re
tention of Fort Keogh, when the agita
ton 10 abandon it was started, tn
people of Miles City would not hav
the kick coming they are making.
When Congressman Pray goes ate
anything it looks as II he gets i,
Some people doubted il be was bi
enough to fill the job when be wa
elected. He has demonstrated that b
is the right man for the place. H
started in right. He got acQuainte
with the needs of the state by a pei
sonal visit before he went to Wasl
!, ington and now he is attending
!, those needs. The success he has a
, tanned demonstrates that he is maxim
good.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-03-18
OHl0AN'S PLAN TO FREE THAW
Offers to Take the Prisoners Place
For $1,000, 900.

OF the thousands Of letters received
by the various interested persons dur
ing the second trial of Harry Thaw,
charged with the murder of the late
Stanford White. the most amazing
came to the wife of the prisoner the
other day. says the New York Times.
The writer was Il man in Ohio, who
sent Il GOO page communication by reg
istered mail.
His proposition is to change places
with the prisoner for 100000, to be
placed in the hands of an in,ermedi-
airy, he to run the risk of the death
chair or Matteawan. The letter was
accompanied by photographs shown.
a likeness between the writer and the
prisoner. The letter is sanely written
and goes into minute details of the
proposed escape. The double, it is
proposed, is to visit Thaw wearing a
wig and a disguise that can be easily
changed from one to the other. The
writer says that he is not making the
proposition to kill time, as he is 8
married man and has a family, but
has been n failure in life. The com
munication vas turned over to hel
husbands counsel by Mrs. Thaw.
One of the proposals made is tina
from a Staten Island %hypnotist. wht
QUE for a sum Of money to put
Quietus on District Attorney jerome
and ruin his summing up by telepathy
Another is from a ventriloquist VIII
for a fee will sit in the courtroom ant
when the foreman opens his mouth t.
pronounce the verdict of the jury vii
throw his voice in his direction ant
pronounce Thaw not guilty. He guar
antees that this will at least result II
q mistrial.
Cranks anxious to marry Evelyn Mes
bit Thaw If her husband goes to tn
electric chair or to the madhouse hav
put in 100 applications SO far.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-03-18
THE HALL OF FAME.

Max Darewski. the boy pianist. has
insured his hands for $4,000 at a pre-
MUM Of $1,000 a year.
Colonel Joseph Lefel Of Clark coun
ty, O.. who is a pioneer bee raiser, is
only forty-six inches high and weighs
but sixty-ive pounds.
Although he is ninety years old. B.
R. Flagg of Skowhegan, Me-. has never
had the professional services Of a doc
tor. He is still in vigorous health.
Ex.Congressman william J. Coombs
of Brooklyn has been elected presi-
dent Of the Municipal Art society Of
his city. succeeding Charles r. Lamb.
Justice Harlan of the supreme court
and seventy-fve years old recently
said. IF every man would play nine
holes Of golf before breakfast every
morning he would never need to worry
about his health"
, Enos Foster Cook was reelected the
other day for the thirty-eighth time to
the presidency of the Amherst Mass
Savings bank. He was n Of the orig
inal incorporators who secured the
charter Of the bank in 1864.
Mr.. and Mrs. Abram Prosper OBJ
served the fifth anniversary Of their
marriage recently at Fiskdale, Mass.
by a wooden wedding. 1t was his third
marriage and her second. This also
was Mr.. Prosper's third wooden we'd
ding and Mrs. Prosper's second.
Hon. David Albaugh De Almond il
the father of the congressional delega
ton from Missouri. and that fact Il
aptly signified by the initials Of hi:
name. D. A. D. He is not a native o.
Missouri. but first saw the light on
farm in Blair county. Pa. sixty.thre'
years ago.
Charles A. Kennedy, representative
from the First district Of Iowa, wa
born in that state. but both his par
ents were natives Of Ireland, and b
has the strain Of Irish wit running
through his veins that makes him on
Of the most popular Of the legislator
at the national capitol.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-03-18
AN ELECTION PRIMER
Pertinent Points About Our Election
Machinery For Neqy Vote,, and Old
THE PROHIBITION PARTY.
When was the national Prohibition party organized7

When was the national Prohibition party organized9
Sept. l, 1869, in Chicago. In 1872 a national ticket was nomi'
mated, James Black of Pennsylvania being the candidate for president
Mr.. Black received SOS votes.
What is the largest vote ever poled by the Prohibitionists'
That Of 1892, when John Bidwell of California received 2G4, 1873
votes for president.
Name the Prohibition presidential candidates since James Black.
Green Clay Smith, Kentucky, 1876; Neal Dow, Maine, 1880;
John T. St. John, Kansas, 1884; Clinton B. Fisk, New Jersey, 1855;
John BidwclL, California, 1892; Joshua lowering, Maryland, 1896;
John G. Wooley, Illinois, 1900; Slas c. Swallow, Pennsylvania,
1904.
What was Swallows voe7
25s, 536. This va an increase of 50, 900 over WooIey's vote.
State briefly what the Prohibition party chiefly stands fol-.
The following is a part of the Prohibition platform OF 1899: "The
liquor traffic is a foe to civilization, the arch enemy Of popular gov
eminent and a public nuisance. 1t is the citadel Of the forces that
corrupt politics, promote poverty and crime, degrade the nations
home life, thwart the will Of the people and deliver our country into
the hands of rapacious class interests. All laws that under the guise
of regulation legalize and protect this traffic Q r make the government
share in its i'll gotten gains are vicious in principle and powerless as
a remedy We declare anew for the entire suppression OF the manu-
facture, sale, importation, expectation and transportation of alcoholic
liquors as a beverage by federal and state legislation"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-03-18
A Theatrical Experiment,

An interesting experiment has been
initiated at Bournemouth, in England.
has been built on to the Theater Royal
In which people can wait before the
theater doors open for the perform
ance and to which the audience are
requested to retire between the acts to
permit of the theater being thoroughly
ventilated. Tea will be served in this
hall. and the orchestra will play there
during the intervals.
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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-01-09
A LARGE DEFICIT.
The Governments Expenditures Are
Exceeding Receipts BY Amounts
That Are Noteworthy.
SHIPS.

Washington.-The monthly state
ment of the government receipts and
expenditures shows that for the
month of December, 1907, the receipts
were $47,283,825 and the expenditures
$55,912,S7 leaving a deficit for the
month of $3.50, 900. The receipts fell
off as compared with December, 1906,
about $S,59O,OO0 and the expenditures
increased by about $9,2S1,00 The
receipts from customs for December,
1907, were $21,744,672, which is de-
crease for the month of about $1,000
600.
Internal revenue also showed
marked decrease, the receipts falling
from $23,583,969 in December, 1906,
to $20,115,224 in December, 1907.
For the six months of the present
fiscal year a deficit is shown of &c.
100000, as compared with the first
half of the last fiscal year, the re-
ceipts for the last six months show
decrease of about $1,000,000 and the
expenditures an increase of over $685.
100000