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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-01-22

| church. He knew that If the child
rem and young people could b.
grounded in missionary zeal, that i
would be a cumulative force widen
| ing over the years; and our church
is a great missionary church toda!
| because DR.. Ament instructed the
| Junior and Senior Christian Endeav
or Societies in the meaning of the
Gospel of world wide responsibility
He felt that it was q great battle tt
win the world for Christ. He believ
ed with all his heart and soul in the
supreme necessity of the effort an6
the ultimate victory
He resigned the church here ir
1888 to return to China. The church
in Medina loved him, and he in
turn, lived the church; but he be.
lieved with all his heart that he was
divinely called to return to China
There was ease and comfort here but
there was duty in China.
THE little road said go
The little house said stay,
And oh it's bonny here at home,
But | must go away"
That was the spirit in which he went
out from the Old First church. Me-
dina, to his great work in China.
There are many letters in the
community which unfold the charac-
ter and work of the man in China.
One of these letters was written
September IL, 1888, while on his re-
turn. In this he goes on to de-
scribe the conditions on ship-board
with no Sunday
The church and people in Medina
had become dear to him and he was
now homesick for them. The letter
closes with these words, Goodbye
God bless you. Remember me to all
Christian soldiers. Keep the ban
ner flying and be loyal to the flag"
He then goes on to give a descrip-
ton of the ordination Of the first ma.
tive pastor in North China. and of
his pleasure in being able to be pres
ent and participate in the event.
There was detailed account or
heather conditions which closes with
the words, at is no sinecure to live
in this heather country; If anyone
thinks left Medina for greater
creature comforts, he is vastly mis-
taken" A description of his con-
gregation on the previous Sunday
follows in which he said there we're
sixteen school boys, six or seven men
and two or three women. Then he
concludes with these words, Con
trast this group of half-instructed
heather with the intelligent and nu-
merous audience we used to have IN
Medina, and you realize the sinking
of spirit l feel on almost every Sab
bath day. The only consolation is
for His sake-in His name the
great word Duty. There would be
no services at all in this place were
not in China. God knows best and
1t pays to serve the Lord as Caleb
did,"
In 1892 there came letter to the
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Hay Fever and Cafarrh.

parish unfolding his feelings about
parting from his children who had tc
be educated in America. His daugh
ter, Emily, had been born in China
and his son, Will, in Medina. Their
education was imperative but impos.
sible there. They must part from
their parents. What anguish OF
heart must be borne and what a sac.
rifice must now be made, but in the
face of it he said, 81 trust the Lord
will give us sufficient grace whensthe
time of separation comes" He then
goes on the describe the evil infiu-
ence of someSforeigners in Picking
and the jeers and prosecutions to be
borne as the result of their self
seeking and sinful treatment of the
Chinese. There is message to the
Junior Christian Endeavor Society
in the story of a Chinese boy who
was singing, What a Friend we
Have in Jesus" as he sat writing
This boys father was an opium
smoker and the boy had become a
street rat. 1t was customary for this
Chinese father to beat the boy upon
the street DR.. Ament protested on
seeing this and the boy was given to
him. AT this time this Chinese lad
had just graduated from the Mission
College. Dr.. Ament said of him,
''He has conscience and feels the
weight of his sins and fights like a
hero"
The great burden which came in
1898 was not separation from Emily
that she might go to school, but that
she might go to Heaven. On Febru-
airy of that year she had succumbed
to disease and four days afterward
the great mans heart was pouring it
self out to friends in America; but
while he wrote with n heart crushed,
there was faith and hope. He said,
Lovely flowers now cover Emily's
sleeping place but she is not there in
the cold ground, but is basking in
the light of the Savior's presence.
She is better there" Then he spoke
of the progress of the work in fac>
of difficulties and gave expression to
that feeling of soul experienced by
all who battle at the front. Heath
enism presses down with awful
weight and no human power can
rove it, but God can, and is" 1t re-
minds you of Morrison, who while or
his way to China in the early part
of the last century was asked, sar-
castically, If he expected to convert
China. NO" was his reply, but
expect God will" That is the faith
of noble souls of history. DR.. Ament
said "China must be converted and
we must all do our share" He closes
that beautiful letter expressing his
own heart anguish and great faith
with the appeal, "Put up a petition
for us at the front. Yours wanting
sympathy" AS you read the letter
you come to feel,
THE good are better made by Ill,
AS roses crushed are sweeter still"
From the small congregation
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Memorial Services for Or. w. s. Ament
Continued from page I

ed all his energy to the reorganiza-
tion of the scattered Christians.
Just before the siege of Picking he
went to Tingcho, fifteen miles from
the capital city, and brought back
with him the community of eighteen
missionaries, who doubtless would
have persisted but for his brave in
tercession. During the siege he dis
tmguished him for pluck and
self forgetfulness, and turned out,
rifle in hand, when the little force
was called on to muster for the ex-
pected last stand for the women and
children.
AS tribute to his ability and hon
esty he was chosen by the legation
authorities to take charge of the
looted property brought in for the
use of the legations. Later he ven-
tured outside of Picking to inquire
into the condition of the converts
and arrange for compensation for
injuries and losses. For the integ-
rity and ability with which he had
discharged these delicate duties he
was highly praised by Minister Con-
ger, Sir Robert Hart and Others"
OF words OF praise and rewards
that had been freely bestowed upon
him DIR. Ament had very little to say
Barton of the missionary board, re-
lates that OF one time when he visit
ed Peking, having heard that Dr..
lament possessed large number Of
deliberately prepared silk banners
and official umbrellas, given him by
the people of different towns to
which he had rendered distinguished
service he inquired relative to them
and was told in reply that they were
packed away in trunk. DR.. Barton
asked to see them and was shown
two large trunks packed full of the
finest collection of elaborate and
rich silk tokens made up of hundreds
of yards of finest silk These were
covered by thousands of names of
residents in the different towns and
cities, officials and common people,
who had taken this Chinese way of
expressing the gratitude they all felt
because what threatened to be an ex-
pensive and long-drawn out interna-
tional complication had been quietly
adjusted by this Cody man to the
entire satisfaction of all concerned.
As he would take no remuneration
for himself, they could but present
him with their expression of graft
tude. There were official umbrellas
in the lot that would have command
ed homage in any city or town in
China, and yet that modest mission
airy had almost to be forced to drag
them from their secret hiding to
show them to the secretary of the
missionary board.
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which he described in 1889. the work
has developed into marvellous pro-
portions. There are two Congrega-
tional churches in Picking with over
a thousand members in them and in
the out stations. These churches
have native pastors. There is a
girls academy and woman's union
college and the North China College
at Tung Che. University extension
work is carried on in connection with
one of the Congregational churches
in Picking. and the influence of
Christianity has been constantly
broadening and widening in the I'M
perial City.
When Michigan EMBODIED to her
breast the silent form of VIM. S.
Ament, she received one of her no.
'blest and best sons. Her biography
has not always been discriminative.
Sometimes her honor and glory like
the golden shower upon Danae has
fallen upon the less worthy; but that
great commonwealth never COVE the
world man with more heorism with
better ideals and with more ability
to accomplish large tasks. He was
a foreign missionary but not in the
narrow sense-he was hero, a
statesman, and an empire builder.
When the history of modern China is
written, he will have place with
Morrison and Smith and the great
men who have wrought nohlv and
wisely for the redemption of that
great empire.
Lovely flowers may cover his
resting place but he is not there in
the cold ground but is basking in the
light of the Savior's presence. He is
better there" And his message to
all of us would be, were he here,
China must he converted and we
must all do our share"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-01-22

Bortel, street.
Md.
stomach
of
working and bothered I'LL with
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81 take pleasure recommending Peruna all sufferers with
o
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able, can highly recommend it to all
whoare suffering with the abovediseases.
am happy to be able to say it has helped
me wonderfully"
Eyes Red and Wafery.
Mr.. William S. Hearn, 1868 Segal St.,
Camden, N. j., writes:
"For about two years was troubled
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-01-22
Splendid for La Grippe.

Mr.. Frank II. Fielder, 213 d. .easant
Ave., Montgomery, Ala, formerly prin-
cipal of Haynesville High School,
writes:
al can truthfully say that Peruna is q
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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-01-22
Pain in Chest.

Mrs. A. w. Gustin, 5000 Lake Ave., ST.
Joseph, Mo-, writes: "When l began
taking Peruna had quite severe pain
and ache in the left of my chest. suf-
fered n great deal with it.
~ wrote to DR.. Hartman and asked
him what l should do. He advised my
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-01-22
Highest Price Paid

For cattle, sheep, lambs, hogs and
dressed veal. Veal calves a speciality.
When you are ready to sell call VIM.
TELLER. Owosso. Bell phone 212.
Union phone II. 2.26
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Tones up the System.

Mrs. William McRoberts, Waverly,
Mimi, writes:
81 am perfectly well of the catarrh.
took Peruna and Manalin. 1 recon-
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Taken in the spring it tones up the
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Buffalo, N. Y, writes:
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this that
obtained
mysef the slightest arrh time"
youngest feeling
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-01-22

taking Peruna, which l did. l took
three bottles, and 1 can say l am cured.
"Thapks for kind advice and Peruna."
Hay Fever and Cafarrh.
Miss Mayme E. Smith, 444 East
Mound ST., Columbus, Ohio, writes:
"Have used Peruna for catarrh and
hay fever. The results being remark
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I Mrs. Paul Casavant, PIG Monroe street, Topeka,
Kansas, writes:
81 have found Peruna very effective in restoring
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) it until was finally restored to perfect health
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with my eyes being red and watery, and
my general health was very poor.
"Finally friend advised me to try
Peruna. had tried almost everything
else, SO purchased a bottle of Peruna
and commenced to take it at once, and
before 1 had finished the first bottle 7
found 1 was improving.
81 wrote you for special advice con-
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"Now my eyes are absolutely well,
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~ honestly advise any one similarly
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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13
AN INTERESTING PAINT TEST

There is a very simple and interest,
ing chemical test by which to detect
impurity in paint materials. Thou,
sands and thousands of people, all vel
the country, are making this test. Ii
Is a sure way to safeguard against
the many adulterated white leads
which are on the market. Any one
can make the test-all that is needed
Is a simple little instrument which
may be had free by writing National
Lead Company, 1902 Trinity Building,
New York, and asking for House
owners Painting Outfit No. 40.
The outfit includes also a set of color
schemes for exterior or interior paint
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of specifications. No HORSEPOWER
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One can't expect a satisfactory paint
Ing job without pure white lead. There
is a way to make sure you're getting a
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that the keg bears National Lead Com
pany's famous Dutch Boy Painter trade.
mark, which is d positive guarantee OF
purity. Your dealer probably has
this white lead. If not let National
Lead Company know.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13
WAGNER STICKS TO HIS sorry.
Unshaken in Stephenson Toea Deal
Testimony Under Cross-Examination

Unshaken in Stephenson Toga Deal
Testimony Under Cross-Examination
Madison, Wis, May 8. Frank +.
Wagner, the Milwaukee private de-
tective who Wednesday made the as
tOnishing statement to the senatorial
Investigating committee that he saw
money handed to Democratic assem-
blymen in the Plankinton hotel, with
J. n. PueliCher as payer and NJ. j..
Regan as go between" chung to his
story yesterday under a stiff cross
examination by Attorney w. E. Black
for. Stephenson.
The attorney took the witness
over the same ground covered by him
twice in his testimony Wednesday,
but his story remained mistaken. He
declared he saw no reason to change
one iOta Of his testimony, and said
he knew the consequences of giving
false testimony.
Members of the committee expect
TO go to Milwaukee to make a per
sOnal investigation into the conditions
surrounding Wagner's testimony.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13
That Blush That Won't Come on.

One can now have a blush tattooed
on her face that is warranted moi TO
come out in the wash" or to yield to
the weather. 1t will not come and go,
of course, like the delicate flush with
which ~novelists so conveniently en-
dow their hercines, and one is not
sure whether il is rot better 20 trust
to Providence for IN occasional blush
than to wear it continually and never
he able to pale on occasion. If one
did naturally blush, moreover, with
the healthy flush" already placed
there by artiicialty's artfu! aid, good
ness alone knows what the effect
would be. Our last state of rosiness
might be worse than our first OF
pallor.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13

months use of them."-Mrs S. A.
WILLIAMS, r. F. d. No. IA, Box 80,
Gardiner, Me.
No woman should submit to a surgi-
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until she has given Lydia E. Pinkham's
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This famous medicine for women
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Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass,
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and always helpful.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13
Crows and Wrinkles,

Large iocks of crows are in the
fields and on the shores. CLANS and
mussels are about all the food they
can get, except rerhaps a few wrinkles
now and th"u. AS these wrinkles have
a tough shell the crow, when he finds
one, will fly for the shore and over a
fiat ledge when at a height Of thirty
or forty feet the crow will stop his
flight and drop the Wrinkle on the
rocks, thus breaking the shell.
Then perhaps a dozen will gather
around and ravenously eat the sweet
mOrsCl. 1t is doubtful II the crow de-
stroys as much as he is accused Of
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13
Ewes Are Relieved Rx Murine

when If. ,tated by Chalk Dust and Eye
Strain, incident to the average School
Room. A recent Census of New York
City reveals the fact hat in that city
Il. 1928 School Children needed Eye
Care. Why not try Murine Eye Remedy
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GranulatiOn, Pink Eye and Eye Strain?
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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13
FOUR ARRESTED
AS BLACKMA|[ERS
immigration Inspector Finds
Working Branch of Black
Hand in Minnesota.
SUSPECTED OF MANY CRIMES

Duluth, May S.-Four alleged mem
bers of the Black Hand society have
been arrested by William H. Dean,
inspector in charge of the local Unit
ed States immigration. office, and 9th
er arrests are expected to follow.
1t is claimed accused are affiliated
with the mother organization in Italy
and are working a system of black
mail in Northern Minnesota and
along the Canadian border.
Francisco Tino, Mike Massinlino
and Dominick C%apoletta are under ar
rest in Grand Rapids, Mich, while a
fourth member of the gang, whose
name is withheld for the present, is
in the local county Jail.
Extortion Is Charged.
Inspector Dean believes these men
can be directly connected with sew
eral schemes for extortion of money
from unwilling victims in this section.
This applies especially to Francisco
Tino, who is said TO have added muir
der to his crime. it being. claimed he
struck down and killed an Italian in
Port Arthur, Canada, recently.
Inspector Dean secured letters sup
posed to be discriminating in nature
from the captives. These, written in
Italian, are being translated. Charges
Of robbery. blackmail and murder
have been preferred against the -four
men arrested, and they will have a
hearing before the United States
commissioner.
More and equally sensational de
velopments are expected in a few
DAYS.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13
No Hope.

"Wot's hydrophobia? asked Weary
Watkins, as he spelled out the ar
ticle in the piece of newspaper which
he had picked up.
1T means hatred OF water" replied
his pal, and 1t is a fatal disease"
Then run for the DOCTOR" cried
Weary, as he fell back with a groan.
I'm a dead man."
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13
HELPS TOWNS KEEP DRY.
Effect Of the Alderman Law Recently
Passed Is Beginning to Be Felt.

St. Paul, May S.-The effect of the
Alderman law limiting n saloon for
every 500 people, passed at the last
Legislature, is beginning to be felt.
Recently the village Of Isanti, which
voted dry a year ago, voted to allow
saloons to be licensed again. 1t had
five saloons when it went dry last
yea When the vets won recently
there were a number of applicants for
licenses, but under the Alderman law
only one saloon is permitted. So the
council raised the license fee to 81
500 and issued one license instead of
having five at $500 each.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13
ConNenience-

Dat new neighbor has his place
arranged mighty coy an convenient"
said Miss Miami Brown.
"Yes'm," answered Mr.. Erastus
Pinkley. "DaHs bout de mos con-
venientes' place I knows Of. He's got
de chicken coop right mex to de back
fence. an de watermelon patch mex
to de chicken coop"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13
TRUSTEES Killed by liohtnino.

Oshkosh, Wis, May Sired Ros-
seisen of Manitowoc and Frank Shei-
peter, from Sheboygan. TRUSTEES at the
Northern state hospital for the in
sane, were instantly killed yesterday
by being struck by lightning while
entering one of the hog barns.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13
Many q Day Is Spoiled

BY a cough which cannot be broken by
ordinary remedies. But why not try a
medicine that will cure any cough that
any medicine can cure? That is Kemp's
Balsam. 1t is recommended by doctors
and nurses, and it costs only % cents at
any druggists or dealers. Keep a bottle
always in the house and you will always
be prepared to treat a cold or cough be.
fore it causes any suffering at all.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13
BREAKING Up Colds,

A cold may be stopped at the start by a
couple of Lanes Pleasant Tablets. Even
in cases where a cold has seemed to gain
so strong a hold that nothing could break
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two. All druggists and dealers sell them at
25 cents a box. If you cannot get them
send to the proprietor, Orator F. Wood
ward, LIE Roy, \. y. Sample free.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13
A CURE FOR FITS.
The Treatment Is to Accomplish
What Science Has Been Strus-
Cling to Attain for Centuries.

The intense interest that has been mani
tested throughout the country by the Won
derful cures that are being accomplished
daily by e~pilepticide still continues. 1t is
really surprising the vast number of peo-
pie who have already been cured of fits
and nervousness. In order that everybody
may have a chance to test the medicine,
large trial bottles, valuable literature, His
tory of Epilepsy and testimonials, will be
sent by mail absolutely free to all who
write to the DR.. May Laboratory, 54s
Pearl Street, New York City.
II a mountain refuses to come to
some men they put up a bluff Of their
own.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13
Sheriff Demands Raise.

Little Falls, Mimi, May S.-Sherif
Frank Armstrong petitioned the com
m~issioners to advance his salary from
$1,10O to 81, 700. He was denied the
request and fled notice that he would
take an appeal before the district
cOuTt,
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13
The crusty Old Bachelor.

Crusty Bachelor-"Yes, since | have
been in this hotel, surrounded by so
much beauty, | have carried a rabbits
foot.
Pretty Girl-Ah, in the hope of win
ming some %Congenial partner?
Crusty Bachelor-No; to keep me
from falling a victim.