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Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-18

1orious expositions of one OF the prom
inent semireligious movements OF the
dov-that of healing through the use
of mental suggestion. Nearly every
advocate of this movement starts WIN
the assumption, or ends with the as
sertion. that Christian Science III tne-
o1.v and practice is at odds with COM
,,,9n sense and that the office of the
new novement is to effect the recon-
ciliation of these two systems ol
thought. ,.,.o
The pity of it all is that such declara-
tions are based on a double MISFORTUNE
surprising ignorance OF ChrlslidIi II
Science and defective STANDARDS Oh
cannon sense. Yet this new com
nonsense religious heallhs is,d is ~ iV%o and
ing pulpit and seminary, cnllc any,
council; while a startled public IS SUN
rubbing it's eyes in amazement over
This aDparent compromise OF mlnd ana
matter. theology and medicine-thls al
tempted reduction of the authoritative
word of the Christ to the weak Wills
pering of mental suggestion. o,
Forty wears ago a cOmplacent Chfls-
tendon was contentedly following It's
traditional road to heaven, palnstak-
ingly explaining one-half the gospel
and as carefully explaining away the
rest. when a new idea was suddenly
forced to it's attention.: What or the
other half, the insistent, heeueu ndlaa \
of Jesus command to his followers;
Part of his gospel is preached ana
divine warrant maintained for IT'S
authority; what of the other halt'
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers' raise
the dead, cast out devils? Ana COM
placent Christendom rejected the ques-
ton and stoned the questioner.
Today an ever growing multitude OF
Christian people is no longer complacent
before this long time challenge. me
messenger of forty years patient IN
sistence has vindicated her question:
has convinced her hearers. Today q
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-18

Gods giving, even though this idea con-
form not at all to the habit and use OF
material thought befogged in its own
deep mysteries God chooses for His
idea it's own Bethlehem, appoints for II
His own herald, and vindicates this
idea in His own time and way. Shall
men question God as to the method of
His appearing?
The wise Christian Scientist properly
dares. only what his degree of under
standing leads him to believe he may
attain. He makes constant. and care
full study of his spiritual resources, and
with growing wisdom he is resorting to
these for the meeting of every human
need. This Christian Science sense OF
things Is now held in common by
large and growing multitude of very
happy and very progressive people, who
are learning to rely not at all on any
basis of judgment which does not in
clude this larger understanding or
spiritual law Christian Scientists are
seeking humbly and devoutly, in ac-
cordance with the teachings OF Jesus
to understand and demonstrate the
Mind of Christ. They know that there
by they do not only increase their un-
derstanding of practical Christian
Science, but that by the same process
they help to establish in the earth
much improved and constantly improV-
ing type of progressive common sense.
Mrs. Eddy wrote many years ago,
Science would have no conflict with
Life or common sense, If this sense
were consistently sensible" Whoever
desires to say, good right, and good
wrong has no truth to defend. {.
TO sympathize in any degree with error
is not to rectify it; but error always
strives to unite In a definition of pur-
pose, with Truth, to give II buoyancy'
What is under the mask, but error in
borrowed plumes?" Human theories
weighed in the balances Of God are
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-18

new spirit is among the people, and
this is it's demand: I'VE have been
taught that the kingdom of God is
within man; what room is there in TINS
kingdom for sin, sorrow, sickness,
death? Is the Bible true in saying that
the kingdom of God is synonymous
with 'quietness. and assurance with
sure dwellings, and quiet resting
places? Is our God in reality the God
who heals all our diseases, who wipes
away all tears and binds up the broken
hearted?"
This loud echo of the question asked
forty years ago by the DiscoVerer OF
Christian Science. who from out her
own deep distress dared to ask her
great question and dared to seek It's
answer seeking diligently" till she
found it--this echo still eVokes from
the apostles of complacency but this
reluctant answer: 1--WE must concede
and approve the results of Christian
Science, we must acknowledge the JUS
tice of it's demands, but we shall still
quarrel with its methods; they do not
tally with our habit and use, they do
not fit into our sense of things; there
fore from this, the second rampant or
our defense, we shall still contend Tor
the sanctity of our own time-honored
common sense"
AS broad humantarians, Christian
Scientists welcome in the field of act
i've Christian charity any enlightened
Christian effort which shall prove It's
divine warrant by bringing larger
understanding of God and His law
They are not interested in, though they
do not oppose, the further explolta-
tion of discredited material modus
Nor can they consent to any supposed
parallelism drawn between the Prin-
ciple of Christian Science which Is
the very self and essence of good, ana
can do only good, and the unprinci-
pied human will which attempts to do
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-18

found wanting; and their highest en-.
deavors are to Science. what q child s
love of pictures is to art. The school
whose schoolmaster Is not Christi gets
things wrong, and is ignorant thereon
S65). Christian Science Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-18
Unity with Mind


The common sense of no age can de-
fine that of it's successors and mental
heirs. Any new idea, any scientific
truth, any practical discovery, be-
comes at once emancipator to those
so-called heretics who dare accept it
and thereby begin the establishment
of higher standards of intelligence
The appeal of Truth is always to the
individually; always it's victories are
won in spite of the common sense of
the mass, and against it's persuasion
and restraint.
Common sense is by nature a lag
gard: it's whole history that of tardy
and reluctant progression. 1t is evil
dent, therefore, that it's obligations are
entirely relative to the enlightenment
Of those who formulate them. Inc
test of it's sanity is not its popular
vote, but it's truth. The Wisest and
best common sense is the sense of
things held in common by the Wisest
and best men, The sense that is TO
endure is sometimes confined to the
one who stands alone with God and
voices Gods truth. The ultimate COM
mon sense, toward which humanity
slowly moves, is the unity of demon
strable truth comprehended in divine
Mind The common sense of Jesus
was his unity with this Mind, freeing
him from all lesser restraint, though
reversing absolutely the common sense
of his contemporaries.
Attainment of this unity is human
tvs most vital concern, and properly
demands that all else be subordinate
TO if. Such quest comedies no time
for the mental policing of ones neigh
bor; it demands full time for control
of ones self. 1t allows no compromise
with shifting human standards, but
calls for the wise and devoted pursuit
of divine standards, including the re-
lection of all idols among men, institu-
tions, and things. Lacking this due
sense of proportion and self-control,
this open-hearted and open-minded eX-
pectancy of good, any man is surely
to be Accounted mad or foolish" in
that he sacrifices his best possible
sense of life merely that he may have
the company of many stragglers and
share their common lot
Readers of the religious columns of
the daily press must have noticed a
surprising unanimity of phrase in the
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-08-27
ASLEEP UNDER WATER.
One Of the Funny Incidents Possible II
a Divers Life.

From THE Divers OF a Navy and Their
Adventures'' In August st. Nicholas.
AS showing how much at home q man
may be today under water, I may re-
late an amusing story. Some months ago,
while the great battleship D~readnought
was at Malta, one OF the seamen drivers
went down to clear her propeller from
some fotsam that had become e%ntangled:
and he failed to come up. 1T CHANGED that
the rest OF the battleship's divers were
ashore, and grave concern was felt on the
ironclad for the missing worker. Signals
by telephone and lifeline were sent be-
low, without avail. In the launch above
the throb, throb of the air pumps cylin-
ders went on; but the attendants looked
at one another In dismay, fearing some
strange tragedy deep down in those heav-
ing green seas.
The worst was feared when some big
brushes and other tools came floating to
the surface; and thereupon the navigating
lieutenant sent ashore an urgent message
for one of the other divers. The man
came on board, dressed Immediately, and
dignation.
why, thai fellows been alseep all this
time!" he said, wrathfully. 1t was true.
h man had just had his lunch, and
finding the work much less serious than
he had thought, he finished 1t in a few
minutes and then sat comfortably on
one of the giant blades OF the Dread
nought's propeller and went to sleep, with
inquisitive fishes swarming around him,
attracted by the dazzling searchlight on
his breast! The officers were so amused
at the occurrence that no punishment was
inflicted on the Lazy one.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-08-27
True Philosophy Of Life.

President Arthur T. Hadley, Yale Uni
versity,g IN Leslie's Weekly.
Every day and every hour we have to
be making choices. Sometimes the matter
to be decided is one i k the choice OF a
profession, which will affect our whole
future life. and which demands months OIL
careful thought. Sometimes 1t is a mere
trivial choice of what we shall eat OF
drink. what we shall say or do for our
amusement, which Is settled upon the in,
slant and then forgotten. This principle
we call a mans philosophy. Of life. A
philosophy. content to decide q aues,
trolling force OF the moment. A man
cannot-at least not unless he is content
TO remain intellectually and morally q
child. He cannot act on one principle al
one moment and another principle at an
other moment, and expect anybody to
trust him. He will have no stability Of
character: Ia II we are to define char
acter as the habit Of doing the same thing
under different circumstances. he will be
destitute of character itself. If you know
what sort OF principles a man is governed
by, you can tell what to rely upon.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-08-27
MAN ENGAGED TO
FOUR IN A WEEK
Each Was to Be Installed as the
Mistress Of $40, 900
Mansion.

AHNHREE.
Cincinnati, Ohio. Special: Within
one wee our young women OF this
city became engaged to q man from
parts unknown who had promised to
install each of them as mistress of the
unoccupied Seasongood mission on
bought.
The stranger, who gave he name of
Frank Bissinger, became acquainted
with the women through their answer
Ing his advertisement fora houEekeep-
err. He lost no time In engaing their
services, and showed them In relays
the interior OF h mansion. Bissinger,
In order to win their confidence. per-
mitted them to suggest the manner In
which h house was to be furnished.
In this way he leaped Into their good
Fgraces at the psychological moment he
proposed to them. He told each of the
Tour that he did not want to Install
them as his h~ousekeeper and then
marry them as his employe. They saw
the position In the same light and then
made arrangements for their t~rosseaux.
Bissinger told h women that he
purchased the mansion for $4,000. The
same story was told at John Ahl-
brandt's saloon. where he had a room.
While he was engaged in winning the
women Bissinger was busy with ex-
estate firm of Cleaney & Nourse.
agents for the Walnut Hills property.
Innumerable times he made arrange
ments with the broker to close the
deal by the cash payment OF $1,000. but
he failed to keep his engagement,
usually telephoning Mr.. Nourse and
stating that the money IA not been
forwarded by his bank In a Fran
cisco.
Then a day was set for the consum-
nation OF the transaction. and the real
estate firm privately. made up Its mind
that 1t would have nothing further to
do with B~issinger lie he failed to make
good on that date. The expected hap
pened. and all negotiations were de-
clared off.
Last week numerous telephone calls
were answered by Mr.. Nourse, the
speakers at the other end of the line
being women who wanted to know if
MT. Bissinger had purchased the prop
erty. He answered In the negative.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-08-27
BASS AND A GREAT MUsKIE
LANDED ON THE SAME LINE

Kalamazoo, notwithstanding to
Theodore Fenker, Norman English, a
Chicago man. is the hero Of a remark
able fish story involving the capture of
q 33-pound muskellunge 1t Gun lake.
English" says Fenker. made a
catch which has them all beaten for the
novel N in which the fish was
landed. He was trolling for bass. Get
ting a strike, Mr.. English began haul
ing in his line and nae the fish about
10 feet from the boa when a mammoth
muskellunge grabbed the small bass
which had takenfthe spinner, and then
ensued a hard struggle. Finally the
big rnuskie was brought to gait and on
being brought ashore and weighed
turned the scales at SO pounds.
Just above the spinner which Mr..
English was using he had placed a lead
sinker to give weight to the lure. The
muskie In selling the bass, which had
been caught on the tait, got his teeth
tangled in the line and the lead sfnker
prevented its pulling away, SO muskie,
bass. sinker. and spinner were all safely
landed"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-08-27
OPEN DEALING IN PAINT.

Buying paint used Is be ike the pro
verbal buying o. . pig IA j poke
Mixtures in which chalk, ground rock,
etc, predominated were marked ana
sold as Pure White Lead the decap-
ton not being apparent until the paint
and the painting were paid FOR. This
deception IL still practiced. but We
have learned to expose It ensily.
National Lead Company, the largest
makers OF genuine Pure White lend,
realizing the Injustice that was being
done to both property owners and hon
est paint manufacturers set about to
make paint buying safe. They first
adopted a trade mark. the now famous
"Dutch-Boy Painter and put thih
trade mark, as a guaranty OF purity, on
every package OF their White Lead.
They then set about familiarlzing the
public with the blow-pipe test by which
the purity and genuineness OF White
Lead may be determined, and furnished
4 blow-pipe free to every one who
would write them for II. This action
vas In itself a guaranty OF the purity
OF NationaILe cad Company's White Lead.
AS the result Of this open dealing the
paint buyer today has only himself to
blame II he is defrauded.
For test outfit and valuable booklet
on painting address National Lead
Company, Woodbridge Bldg, New York.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-08-27
ECZEMA FOR IS YEARS

suffered Torments from Birth-In
FriKhtful Condition-Got No Help
Until Cuticnra Cured Him.
II had an itching, tormenting ecze-
ma eve since I came into the world,
and I am now a man IS years old.
I tried all kinds of medicines l heard
OF, but found no relief. I was truly
In a frightful condition. At last I
broke out all over with red and white
boils, which kept growing until they
were as big as walnuts, causing great
pain and misery. but I kept from
scratching as well as I could. I was
30 run down that I could hardly do
nay work. I used Cuticural Soap, ONT
ment, Resolvent, and Pills for about
eight months, and I can truthfuly say
l nm cured. Hale Bordweil, Upton,
Ia, Aug. II, 1907"
II cheerfuiiy endorse the above tes-
timoniai.. 1t Is the truth. / know Mr..
Bordwell and know the condition he
was In. Nelson r. Burnett, Upton, la
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-08-27
Tho Road to Crime.
From Everybody's Maxazi,

Whether or not Samuel Clemens
knows 1t, an agent once called upon
Mark Twain and sought to interest him
IN life insurance. AT first he talked
well; then, having exhausted all his
arguments he merely talked. Mark
Twain yawned slightly, and became re-
minded as follows:
Some years ago in Hartford we all
went 10 hurch one hot, sweltering
night to near the annual report Of Mr..
Hawley, a city missionary who went
around finding people who needed help
and didn't want to ask for 1t. He told
OF the life in cellars, where poverty
resided; he gave instances OF the hero
Ism n devotion of the poor. When
a man with millions Civ IS, he said, we
make a great deal Of noise. It's a
noise In the wrong place, for it's the
widows mite that counts. Well, Haw-
ley worked me up to a g pi1ch. I
could hardly wait for him to get
through. I had $500 in my pocket. I
wanted to give that and borrow more
to give. You could see greenbacks In
every eye. But instead Of passing the
plate then, he kept on talking and talk
ing, and as he talked it grew hotter
and hotter and hotter, and we grew
sleeper and sleepier. My enthusiasm
went down, down, down-s1oO at a clip
until finally, when the plate did
come around, I stole 10 cents out of it.
1t all goes to show how a little thing
this can Lead to crime
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-08-27
They Hadn't - urned OVER

LA
IT heard an amusing instance the
other day of the way our unsophisticat-
ed Americans can become fustered over
the formalities and authorizations II an
English wedding invitation" said the
American wife OF IN Englishman. "A
certain young man from the Bronx
went to England Ave years ago as the
manager of an electrical company. He
made good socially a. well as CONNER
cially, and married recently the daugh-
ter OF q nobleman. It was when the
invitations to this wedding We're re-
ceived by his girl cousins uptown that
the trouble began. OF the BIT. x. c..
F. r. G. s., p. T. O.. r. s.. ". p, they
understood only the latter and were
careful to send their response al once.
But in inscribing the envelope to Lord
and Lady Blank, they carefully placed,
along with h interminable English
address, every abbreviation they found
in the invitation, including p. T. O. It
was not until I visited them a week
later that they learned thai P. r. O..
meant simply Please turn over And
sure enough. on the inner side OF the
folded sheet were found lengthy and
explicit directions for reaching the lit
tie parish church In Sussex where the
ceremony was to be held"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-08-27
FRIENDLY TIP.

Restored Hope and Condolences.
After several years OF indigestion and
its attendant evil influence on the mind,
1t is not very surprising that one final
~ loses faith In things generally.
A n. \. writes an interest
ing letter. She says
Three years ago I suffered from an
attack of peritonitis which left me ina
most miserable condition. For over two
years l suffered from
weak heart, shortness Of breath, could
not sleep, etc.
my appetite was ravenous but I
felt starved all the time. 1 had plenty
Of food but it did not nourish me
because of intestinal indigestion. Med
ical treatment did not seem to help,
/ got discouraged, stopped medicine
or died
"One day a friend asked me why I
didn't try Grape-Nuts, stop drinking
coffee and use Postum. l had lost
faith In everything, but to please my
friends l began to use both and soon
ySAy AoAA VI lueu. 1850
1T wasn't long before I got some
strength, felt n decided change in my
system. hope sprang up In my hu.rt
and slowly but surely / got better. /
could sleep very well, the constant
craving for food ceased and 1 have bet
ter health now than before the attack
OF perttonitis.
"My husband and I are still using
Grape-Nuts n Postum" There's \
Reason"
Name given by Postum Co, Battle
Creek, Mich. Read, 'The Road to Well
ville," in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter. A
new one appears from time to time.
They r genuine, true, and full Of
human interest.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-08-27
kipiins's Tale TO Students.
From the Boston Herald.

Rudyard Kipling concluded his re-
cent address to the students of McGill
university with an attack on smart
ness" He said:
whenever and wherever you find
Of our dear little playmates show
ing signs OF smartness In his work.
his talk or his play. take him ten-
derby by h hand, by boil hands, by
the back OF the neck, II necessary, and
lovingly, playfully, but firmly lead him
to a knowledge of high and more In
Afterward Nj. Kipling told a story
about a smart man.
This man." he said. owned dry
goods store, and one day, to his great
disgust, he heard a new clerk say to
a lady:
mo. ma'am; we have not had any
for a long time
with a fierce glance at the clerk the
smart employer rushed up to the lady
and said.
I'VE have plenty in reserve. ma.am;
plenty upstairs
Lady and clerk looked dazed, and
afterward the smart proprietor learned
that the clerks remark had been made
In answer to the lady's: We haven't
had any rain lately.'"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-08-27
Unfit Testimony.

In a Baltimore court one woman wal
suing another for SANDER. When the
plaintiff was put on the witness stand
her attorney said to her: Now
madam, just tell h court what the de.
PENDANT said about you."
"Oh, I cannot" she hesitatingly re.
piled.
but. madam, you must the attor.
ney insisted. THE whole case hangs
upon your testimony"
But fs isn't fit for any decert per.
son to hear replied the witness.
"Ah, in that case" answered the at.
torney. Just step up to the judge an6
whisper 1t in his ear"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-08-27

It Shows Hmm HisXonth and|
W6sPainted for Governor

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. aurrounda m
oil portrait which Id arrived
Mount Vernon: Presumably II ID aspcrs
trait Wf George washington. paintsd
when he wan q ycung man, But IN ~
been In obscurity 20 long that ILLS 1dlf-
ficult to trace 1t with absolute 40
curacy. The evidence Isl 80 strongly
Ia place has beer provided 3 the
painting onsthe walls OF Q Yer
mon, and inquiry tss being made to
learn more regarding IT. history.
Tho portrait cornea 10 Mount Vernon
from Glasgow. a was seen thereby
the Americansconsul tn q p~ubltc4exhlbi-
ton In Glasgow no rGne was given
for the young man whose portrait AZ e.
ut was called the "Unkiiowns"yh
~Icpnsul was struck by the sirlilAritylo OF
1.-The fac to tina ot George Warrington,
end made such inquiry - he u able
SELF that II really was a portrait 81
washington painted when he was ~
years OF age.
Story Of ths Portrait.
It's story learned b. him and trans
nitted to the officials at Mount Vernon.
Is this:
Dinwiddie. the royal governor Of vir-
kinia during the French ana Indian
war. had appointed young Washington
major upon his own star. h APP
pointment was made shortly before the
arrival OF Braddock. and the start OF
his il-fated expedition against Fort
puquesne. When Washington returned.
ae had with him but the remnants Of
Braddock's army ana the story sof d
disastrous defeat. Nevertheless, Wash
.ngton,S part In 1T all had been so full
II bravery and sound Judgment that
Dinwiddie was nightly pleased with
ais young major. Thereupon he re-
L sn1xyoH fhat M Sarrr,lH &horyo x,attakAH %Av
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-08-27
GubernatoriaI Courtesy.

"When ] was governor OF Tennes-
see" said Senator Bob Taylor, of Ten
nessee, Il received a letter from an
inmate Of the state penitentiary OF
Missouri. My dear cousin it ran. it
amt fit fer one Nv yore kinfolks to be
in the pen and I wisht you'd get me
out eff you kin It. al signed Bob
Taylor which looked as If the writer
ought to be mighty close kin.
7 sent it to the governor Of Mis-
souri, with the following Endorsement:
I wish, IL you can conscientiously do
SO, hat you would let this fellow
loose, and IL ever any Of your relatives
get in the Tennessee p~enitentiary I'll
return the favor
II heard later" concluded the sena-
tor, that Bob had gained his free
dom. but whether through my efforts
I have never learned. And he hasn't
thanked me yet"