Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-07

with egg, and sold for coffee. They
grind peanut shells and sell them for
breakfast food. Glucose IL sold for maple
sugar There is nothing 80 hard on the
kidneys as glucose II causes many
cases of Bishts disease.
"Crlme produces poverty. and IL you do
away with that which produces crime,
three-fourths of the poverty will be
| abolished. The cause OF crime Is the
saloon; get rid of that. What's the cause
| OF all this7 The political economist says
Il is because the working man is getting
a higher scale of wages than ever be-
| fore and he is not prepared to Withstand
the Increasing temptations.
"Bah How much does butter and eggs
and meat cost todRy7 With the high
| prices II is not hard to see where the
workingman's extra money goes. 4 tell
you 1 wonder how the average man
gets along and keeps his family out Of
poverty and starvation.
After the country freed itself from
England there were four strong States,
each Jealous OF each other. and nine
weak States, all Jealous Of the strong
ones. When they were Joined into a
nation II was by prayer. suggested by
Benjamin Franklin. the wlsest OF our
political forefathers. Our old ship Of
state was launched in prayer. At Valley
Forge. George Washington knelt among
the leafiess trees that looked like skele-
tons and prayed to God to give victory
to the Continental army. When North
and South were fighting at Gettysburg,
Abraham Lincoln spent the night in
prayer, asking for victory for the army
In blue.
IT heard william Jennings Bryan, a
man as clean as a hounds tooth, say
that when he first started out he was
afraid to mention religion for fear of
hurting his political chances, but that
he soon came to declare that religion of
Jesus Christ shall be first in his life, II
he never even held the Office of con-
stable. Such men as Theodore Roose-
welt. the lion of the West men who
are not afraid to tuck a Bible under
their arm and lead a prayer meeting, |
are the right sort.
God has nothing too good for the man
or woman that does something for God. |
God will stop making worlds to help a |
sinner If he wants help, but He will shut |
the windows of heaven to the fellow who |
prays through his spirit of pride.
God has to take many a man and yanlS |
him on his back and shake shroud
over him before he will pray He has
TO take society woman and throw her
on her back and shake a shroud over her
to make her stop and think and pray
and realize what she is doing. It's a
noble thing to pray
II plead for a smiling. happy religion.
One reason your old religion is losing out
Is because you don't pray Some big fell
low will yell out at a political meeting,
but put him in prayer meeting and he
will humble around, like rabbit munch-
ng cabbage.
"A little boy and girl going to school
through a field and ram got after
hcm, and the little boy wanted to kneel
md pray. when the little girl said, No,
you fool, run and pray as you are rum
ling The only thing he could think
# was what he heard his father say, %
4ord. make us thankful for what we are
bout to receive
ADVICE TO LOVERS.
" like to see man look neat. That
oesn't mean you must wear a Prince
Albert all the time. When you were
SQUIRTING her you kept nice and clean,
nut now you go around with a weeks
card on your face, looking like a rum