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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-07-01
How to Fill the Churches

A method Of sermon collaboration
which may exercise great influence
upon the vexed problem of church at
tendance was recently tried at Los
Angeles. Nine ministers of that city
got together and produced one sermon
and on the next Sunday nine congre-
cations listened to the same sermon,
one of the best they had ever heard.
Such plan makes good use of d.
versified gifts. One preacher may be
skillful In the use of illustrations, an
other particularly happy in literary
and historical illusions, a third mas
ter in theology, another gifted with
evangelistic fervor, and SO on through
all the elements that may enter into a
sermon.-From Leslie's.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-07-01
The Worst Kind of Mortgage

Is it not disheartening thing to go
through life under the harrow of debt,
struggling to get release under cir
cumstances that give no hope of re-
lief? Is it not unfortunate to feel that
we can never lit the mortgage from
the home, that in spite of all our ef-
forts it must finally be sold over the
heads OF those dearer to us than life
itself? But all this is nothing COM
pared with the mortgage of vice upon
the character which blights the life.
Many a man has died without being
able to lift the mortgage from his
home, yet has been a rea success, for
he kept his manhood clean, his integ-
rity unstained, anu, although he lett
no material wealth, he has enriched
the lives of all who knew him.
The nicotine mortgage upon your
vitality, the alcohol mortgage which
hardens your nerve fibre, benumbs the
brain cells, paraiyzes the power to
achieve, and makes you slave insteau
Of king, are encumbrances compared
with which the mere mortgage upon
your home is blessing.
II You are mortgaged to the cigar
cite harbit which demoralizes your ;.lh-
bition, poisons your blood, benumbs
your nerves and vitiates your aim; ii
you have a whisky mortgage, an i'm
morality mortgage on your character
which you have been trying for years
to lift, this is infinitely worse than
your chattel mortgage or real estate
mortgage. The mortgage ON your
home may not touch your real self.
In spite Of 1t you may be man, re-
spected, looked up to, admired. If
your life has been clean, you may have
made every acre OF land in your vicin-
ity worth rlore. BAT if your character
is mortgaged to q Gemoralizing habit;
If you are the victim of a degrading
vice that holds you Gown, cripples your
advance, this is thousand times
worse. 1t loses you not only your re-
spect, but also the respect of those
who know you.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-07-01
WHEN OLD AGE is A CURSE
When 1t has lost self.respect.

When 1t has lost self-respect.
When the old have not won the re-
spect, the confidence and the admira-
ton of relatives and those nearest to
them.
When they Go not stand for any.
thing in their community.
When their neighbors would not con.
slider their departure any loss.
When thei Imagination is foul and
the thought impure.
When all the youthful fires have
gone out and only embers remain.
When the individuality has been
burned out by the fires of dissipation.
When all the reserves of energy and
force have been prematurely ex.
hausted by vicious life.
When the individual has not learned
the art of self-control and patience.
When young people can not live
with 1t with any comfort.
When it has developed only vulgar.
ity, coarseness' and animality.
When 1t has left the individual ugly,
disagreeable, touchy, cynical, critical,
urcharitable, unkind.
When hope and cheer have fed.
When ambition and aspiration are
dead.
When they have lost the zest for
life, the desire for usefulness.
When they have no aim in life.
When the sap of life has gone and
the individual is like a juiceless
orange.
When all that is good, sweet and
noble has evaporated and asa is
empty.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-07-01
The PapaI FLAG.

The Papal flag is comparatively un-
familiar outside of the Eternal City.
The war flag of the defunct temporal
power of the Pope was white, and in
its center stood figures of St. Peter
and st. Paul. with the cross-keys and
tiara above them. The flag of the
merchant ships owned by the subjects
of the States of the Church is curl
nus combination, half yellow and half
white with the design of the cross
keys and the white. In the banner
used by the Crusader King of Jerusa-
lem, Godfrey, the only tinctures intro
duced were the two metals, gold and
silver, five golden crosses being
placed upon silver field. This was
done with the intention of making the
device unique, as in all other cases 1t
is deemed false heraldry to place
metal on metal.-Chicago Journal.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-07-01
THE TESTERS

In ancient times the gifted Joker
was char'ere5 b. tie Stns who NUT
tered. Ivy thu k,y roker tina gent
Of Quip and fling must stay ara~b my
throne and cheer me, wle, / an, sad
and sore, when there are yellow fan
tods near me, and life itself's bore"
And so humorist stood chatting
around each royal throne and kept his
nobs, the monarch, laughing, until he
broke bone. Then funny men were
scarce as thunder, and so became
power; for in those days-it is no
@onder-most men were grim and
our. Their talk was all of siege and
battle, Of scaffold and of block; and
blest the fellow who could rattle a
sprightly line of talk!
And life today is pretty dreary, for
men are commerce mad; they chase
along, all frayed and weary, to gain
the shining scad. So nervousness with
them is chronic, resulting from the
tonic, they seek it in the press.
They have no time to read volume
on How to Save Your Goat" but in
the Bugle's funny colyum they find an
antidote for many of the woes that
scar them and make them gray and
old, for many of the cares that jar
them and turn their trilbys cold.
When fierce reverse or threat'ning
rumor brings to the heart pain, how
blessed is this balm of humor, that
keeps us calm and sane!
The Joker of the press is only fall
| guy, like ourselves; and oftentimes
mis- heart is lonely, and bare his cup
board shelves. You'd think, to read
his merry twitter, his life was one
glad sons, that nothing in that life
was bitter, that nothng eer went
wrong. But nl.y-seven kinds of
troubles he knows and deeply feels !;
he does not sit rounu blowing bubbles
| or kicking up his heels. 100 often,
after writing jing,es, he has to pawn
the spoons, while in his creaking
| stomach mlngles his Iare Of slaw anu
prunes.
| The joker is man of sorrow, of
| great ana divers woLs; he never knows
but that tomorrow tle sheriff will fore.
close. And often, hlled with milk and
saSo, lie turns has bright quips out,
wuile in his back he has lumbago and
in his feet the gout.
But, still, oh, brave and patient NOR
tai! he hits the lettered keys and turns
out things that make US chortle anu
yell and gasp and sneeze. He hands
to US the golden chalice of gladness
and content, cen while he leaves his
four.room palace because he can't pay
rent.-By Walt Mason from Judge.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-07-01
MODERN SHIPPING METHODS
FOR THE PRODUCER

Probably no other branch of Uncle
Sans vast machinery has developed
so rapidly, and with so much profit
for the public at large as has the par
eel post system.
Not only the merchants are benefit
ing. but the producer of country pro-
duets is finding an avenue of incrcas-
ed profits which is certainly well
worth while, for now it is possible to
ship direct to the consumer such arti-
cles as honey, eggs, butter, vegeta-
bles, poultry, etc, securing the top
price. and with little or no trouble and
at trifling expense.
The illustration above shows one
of the latest ideas in egg containers
one of these containers with its con-
tents of eggs. has been ,knOwn to
travel thousands of miles without in
jury to the contents.
Large compartment boxes. light in
weight, very strong and mailed for
little postage give every advantage
for shipping mixed shipments OF all
kinds. Those who live in the rural
district should certainly get full in
formation in regard to this branch Of
business-it is pleasant and will
bring in lot Of money that other
wise would be lost.
| To secure the fullest and most re-
liable information along anything in
parcel post shipping. prices on all
parcel post boxes. crates, containers,
butter moulds. waXed paper, scales.
daters and other items-as well as
postal information which will be of
special Importance write Ga postal
! will do) to the Hartley Steel Grated
Box Co., Dept B, Saginaw, Mich.
/ This is the leading parcel post supply
house of the U. S. and will give you
information you can depend upon as
accurate in every detail. Write them
today.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-07-01
NATURES WARNING
Everyone Must Recognize and
Heed 1t.

Kidney ills cOme-mySteriou
But nature generally warns you.
Notice the kidney secretions.
See If the color is unnatural.
If there are settings and sediment.
Passages freuent, scanty painful.
It's time to fear serious kidney
trouble.
It's time to use DOan's Kidney Pills.
DOan's have done great work in
such cases.
Here's proof Of their worth:
Theodore G. Inman, Fifth and Elm
Sts., Perrysburg, Ohio, says: Il was
annoyed by dull, throbbing ache
across my kidneys. i also had pains
across my loips. After used Doan' S
Kidney Pills, l improved and before
long all symptoms of the complain
disappeared.
Price soc, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr. Inman had. Foster Milburn Co.,
Props, Buffalo, n. Y.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-07-01
THINGS WE'VE NOTICED

The most wonderful thing-An in.
dividual opinion.
The easiest thing-Blaming 1t on the
other fellow.
The hardest thing-Proving 1t.
The softest thing-The other fel.
lows job.
The wisest thing-To mind your own
business
The most foolish thing-Nvhat we
said when we tried to appear bright.
The sweetest thing-We married
her.
The wettest thing-A woman's hat
with three drops of rain on 1t.
The driest thing-Our rivals speech.
The kindest thing-Not to mention
It.
The most awkward thing-The knife
at dinner.
The handiest thing-An Abba.
Walter Utting. from Judge.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-07-01
All That Prevented Him

Whats the matter with the train?"
asked the lecturer, veXed with the
speed they were making.
If you don't like this train," the
guard retorted, you can get out and
walk"
by Jove!" said the lecturer, '1'd do
it; but reception committee is to
meet me at my destination, and l
don't want to get in ahead OF time"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-07-01
JUNE
NEWLY MARRIED COUPLES TAKE
THE d. & q. LINE DAILY
STEAMER ACROSS
LAKE ERIE

These are the days of the June
brides and many bridal couples enjoy
the delightful lake ride between De-
troit and Buffalo. A trip on the pala-
tial steamers, City of Cleveland III
and Eastern States, fills all require
ments, furnishing romance and seclu-
sion at reasonable figures. State
rooms and parlors reserved in ad-
vance. Send two-cent stamp for il
Illustrated booklet.
Address Dept. r.
Detroit s. Cleveland Navigation Co
Detroit, Mich.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-07-01
Horrors of Mormonism

Small Son-"Ma, what's Mormon
ism?"
Mother-"Um-men who have q
good many wives"
"A good many"
''Yes; thirty or forty, sometimes"
10000! That's awful"
"Yes, my son."
Just awful! l wouldn't like to have
thirty or forty mammas to spank me-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-07-01
inconsistent

"Then you don't think practice
what preach, eh?" queried the min
lister, in talking with one of the dea-
cons at meeting.
mo. sir; Edon't," replied the deacon.
you've been preachin' on the sub
ject of resignation for two years, an
ye' haven't resigned yet"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-07-01

Death must be welcome relief to
the man who is compelled to hustle
eighteen hours daily in order to keep
his life insurance premiums paid up.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-07-01

A woman says that the longer a man
studies the curves of decanter the
closer he is apt to initiate them on
his homeward journey in the early
morn.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-07-01

Associate Justice William r. Day
of the United States supreme court
is one Of the proudest grandfathers
IL, Washington. A favorite grandson
of his is Rufus Spalding Day, Jr., son
of Rufus Spalding Day, also Of the
national capital. The youngest Day
is now about two and Hne-half years
old, and wants to grow up to be
LAWYER like his father and grandpa.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-07-01
The leopard

An applicant for place as teacher
in one of the colored schools at Louis.
vile was being examined touching his
fitness for the position. He was a
small, dapper, yellow person, wearing
gold spectacles, a long black coat and
an abiding air of great dignity.
The examination was in part oral
and syntax had been reached.
"What is your definition of the word
jeopardized?" asked the examiner.
The candidates brow wrinkled.
"Which?" he inquired
"What do you understand the word
Jeopardized' to mean?"
For just one short half-minute he
hesitated. Then he answered snor-
ously:
'In reply to yo' question I would
state that that would refer to any act
committed by a leopard"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-07-01

This would be a grand old world If
people could purchase experience on
trial, with the privilege of returning it
II not satisfactory.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-07-01

Some men wait for things to turn up,
and some others turn them up while
they wait.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-02
Globe Sights
BY THE ATcHIsoN GLOBE.

genius is an eccentric person who
gets paid for it.
. Don't depend too much on this
friend" business.
To a politician. life is just one cam
paign after another.
If your cold keeps hanging on it's
another sign you are getting old
Do school boys throw paper wads
like the boys of by-gone days did?
You can keep your friends and your
credit by not using them too much.
An unprejudiced opinion is that of
a man who doesn't know much about
What we really need is a law that
will make the strong wait for the
weak.
Many deprecate the knocker, but
he usually succeeds in getting an aud
fence.
Nothing looks colder than a quar-
ter of beef in a butchers delivery
wagon.
The supply of rich relatives doesn't
equal the demand. there being SO
many poor folks.
the villain" hypnotized reporter.
Usually they swat them.
There would be a larger attendance
at banquets If speakers were short
winded; a man does like to eat.
An optimist scan have about fifty
weeks fun each year anticipating the
joys of his two weeks vacation.
If farmer is engaged in raising
peaches and turkeys. 1t Is hard to get
him to join the Don't Worry club.
Probably the president is the only
man in this land of the free who
doesn't feel he is entitled to promo
| ton.
AS man learns that the same re-
suits can be obtained in the parlor, he
begins to lose interest in sleigh rides.
The greatest joke played on the
bridal couple, is sometimes perpe-
trated by the long-faced parson who
marries them.
Modesty is our middle monicker
yet we fail to get the point Of view OF
the one who uses the indefinite term
| limb" when leg 10 meant
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-02
Kansas Comment


In a city where the factories have
been running half time since the war
started. q merchant recently made this
proposition to the manager of the
largest industry. The merchant first
asked the manufacturer If he felt cor
fident that business would revive. The
manufacture: said. yes, and further
that in -dinarily good times they
could not fill their orders. But they
could not make up goods ahead with
out borrowing MOI y. which they did
not feel able to do. I e merchant
then suggested that . employees
should work thr. days per week as
they had been doing. for ca--l. Then
that they should work the rest OF the
week, and receive q credit. to be paid
when the goods thus made were sold.
Those who preferred to loaf the three
days should have tfat privilege. The
manufacturer said he believed his men
ditions. He did not believe 1t could
be done as it would conflict with a law
requiring payment of wages In cash
at regular intervals. At last accounts
an effort was being --..-de to get a
change in the law. Business seems to
prince or a pauper In rush times or
ders amt be filled. In dull times,
whether through failure Of confidence,
legal obstacles as suggested above, or
tickle changes in styles, it becomes i'm
possible to make in advance thingl
that will sur y be wanted, Wanted.
stabilizer for our Industries. Would
it not be wei for manufacturers to
consider plans to run their plants
with greater regularity? In a factory
tn t runs with absolute steadiness the
workmen are not SO apt to demand
very high wages, and goods can be
Courier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-02

Because that Biri WIN make you think
: yo S. Srs an ieicle IN about : minute and
..But think she saw the funny side Of
Then you've got another tfAnk coming
brother and sister were sitting ON the
verAnda ~ Mr.. Eaton drove up next day.
Miss Mabel had been told Of the call and
re IS. a ,s dsmanded: and That shs
bic WY that Mr.. Eaton had taken the
matter. He must have been laughing In
81 g IL fa 5 TN t do e the young hot'pur
when Master Robert had made thu In
troduction he went away to the other end
q the veranda. ana the apolosist said: Il
language yesterday
.but You were, under your auto. you
= can't recall Just what I said.
I'VE YIN say the occasion justified
them: You are now out OF my debt. and
find that am in yours
HOY Il that!s'
.'You must have realised that my little
Rather that way was laughed.
He he's got both = high and absurd
older he viii see things differently"
From this they branched off into . gen
eral talk. and at the end OF thirty min
he vas invited to call again
We'll. did you have an ice-water bath?'
asked his sister-in-law.
Say. sally. she's the incest everr' wa
sBut. oh. that dignityr.
Only just enough to make . book agen!
jump tho fence. shall fall in love.
shall marry. We shall outturtle the turtle
doves
And months and month later 1t wa:
Robert Roberts who reached out his hand
and said: Glad you are to be my broth
er-in-laW, but I may have to challenge
you some time againr'-(Copyr1ght, 1915
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-02
Jayhqwker Jots

There Is a time in every boys life
when he wants to play in a brass
band. observes the Anthony Republi-
can. and 1t adds: The sad part is that
some never get over 1t.
A Second district paper complains
that when a man makes an effort 20
be as attentive to his wife as he was
before their marriage, she always
wonders what il the matter with the
old fool"
The father and son banquet at the
Methodist church last Friday night
father and son business as we remem-
Der it. writes Editor Beck in the Hol-
ton Recorder. Instead of going to q
banquetting hall. the old time func-
ton came on in the wood house.
AS the goosebone weather prophets
get it once in a while. The Soldier
Clipper reports: Jacob Mack was in
grasshoppers. real Hive ones. which he
says is a sign of mild and early spring.
Saturday. when the blizzard was on
Mr.. Mack was wondering II his grass
hoppers were all well yet.
One of the Kansas wise men il
Jacob Merrill. who lives in the Valley
neighborhood west of Leroy. hae no
less than 5000 bushels Of his this
years wheat crop still on hand. But
he may not be as wise as he has been
thus far If he holds it for 81 bushel.
as 1t is reported that he intends to.
The wheat spectators may have tired
of their game before wheat hits that
figure
Related by Mrs. Homer Hoch in the
Marion Record: A youngster came
strutting home one day and said, 1--WE
been promoted and SO has Johnnie"
How does that happen just now? ?"
asked the mother. "Oh, cause we're
good in numbers" said the small boy.
DO you think you can keep up in the
new grade, son ~ well we're goin' to
try few days but 1 don't know If
We'll stick or not cause 1t took both
of Johnnie and me to spell Grass
hopper today. 1 spelled the grass
but couldn't do hopper and John
ME had to finish up
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-02
BADDERS GETS 5 YEARS
tcont,nued from Pase one.l

tcontanued from Page ons.1
of seven counts. The prison terms
were made concurrent so that
one term serves for all, but the fines
were made cumulative 30 that q total
of 81 900 must be paid.
Motion for New Trial.
d. r. Hite Of Topeka. leading coun-
sci for Badders. moved at once for a
new trial on the ground that before
Badders had been arrafgned the court
began the examination of veniremen
for his trial.
Several veniremen were passed at an
afternoon session and not until the
next morning was Badders brought into
court. At that time he refused to plead
and Judge Dyer ordered a plea Of not
Mr.. Hite contended also that the
government had not proved that Bad
ders put the letters at issue into the
mail at Topeka. The government
M. Hite said, had only shown the
letters without going into the matter
of who had mailed them or where
they had been mailed. The motion
for a new trial was overruled as was
also the motion for stay Of Judgment
based on similar grounds.
On $4,000 Bond.
Mr.. lite then announced that an
appeal to the United States supreme
court would. be taken and lat Bad
de rs would satxe the 81 4. 800 boud re-
quired bef2ee AIkhfs 1G4aDtime - is
in custody of the united states mar
shall. - -
The bill OF. RECEPTIONS for the appeal
will be made up at once. throughout
the trial Mr. sHfte saved objections
frequently d the case was delayed
considerably because Of the strenuous
fight put up by ta1e defense.
18th parties to the trial expressed
themselves as very we'll satisfied with
the charge to the jury delivered by
Judge Dyer. It was the charge that
made such an impression on Badders
that he referred to 1t in his short
speech before sentence was passed.
After being out only one and one
half hours. the jury in the Badders
case Saturday returned q verdict of
guilty on all seven counts. Originally
there had been twelve counts in the
indictment charging Badders with
using the mails to defraud. Five of
these counts, however, were not SUBJ
mitted to the jury.
The maximum penalty for the Of
fence Of which Badders was convicted
is fine of not more than 81. 900 or
imprisonment for not less tina I'VE
years in the federal penitentiary. or
both. for each count. in the discretion
of the court.
II Badders had been given the max
imum penalty on the seven counts. he
would have been sentenced to prison
for -35 years and fined $1,000.