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The Detroit times., 1916-09-20

said, Then she's gone to her death.
We stopped the train. because there
was something the matter with the
engine. and we stopped 10 fix it.
she has gone 10 her death on the
prairies
"They sent orders back. called
for volunteers and went back and
looked for her and searched for
hours. and they found her out on
the pralries covered with a shroud
OF ice and snow. woven about her
by the pitiless storm. and with her
little babe folded 10 her breast. She
followed his directions, but his di-
rections were wrong
THAT is the way those preach.
The Detroit times., 1916-09-20
LITTLE STORIES FOR BEDTIME
Peter Rabbits Feelings Are Hurt.
(copyright. 1915. by T w. BurgessJ
i,oafer. loafer at your ease,

Learn n lesson from the bees'
This is what little Striped chip
munk had shouted az Peter Rabbit
when Peter tried 20 get him to come
play with him. Peter just gTinned
as he watched Striped Chipmunk
scamper about on the edge OF the
Green Forest and presently start
for home with the pockets of his
cheeks stuffed with beechnuts II
seemed TO Peter that II was no time
at all before Striped Chipmunk wa
back again after more nuts. II wat
very clear that he had no time for
play: he was too busy.
Peter watched him awhile, and
then growing tired of seeing striped
Chipmunk work so hard ne went on
Presently he spied Chattcrer The
Red Squirrel in chestnut tree
Come play with mel" cried Pc
ter. "It's a splendid day for a
frolic."
You mean it's splendid day TO
work" shouted Chatterer. 81 can't
aryord 10 be loafer like you" With
this Chatterer stuffed his mouth full
OF nuts and whisked out OF sight 20
Once more Peter grinned and went
his way until he met Happy Jack
the Gray Squirrel Lots play hide
and-seek'" cried Peter
Some other day" replied Happy
Jack. hunting among the fallen
leaves for nuts. 81 can't afford to be
a losfer like you such fine weather
as this"
This time Peter didn't grin n
was tho third time he had heon
called loafer ~ first he hadn't
minded. but now he was beginning
TO feel wee bit hurt. You know
a loafer IL one who sits around and
does nothing He never works
Peter could see no reason why he
should work lie would much rather
play or take his ease. He couldn't
understand why others should work
as they were doing but that was
their affalr, not his Tf they got
pleapure from work. all we'll and
good. but they needn't call him p
loafer lie would leave them to
their labor and go down TO the Smil
ing Pool.
So he left the Green Forest and
started across the Green Nendows
lippertylipperty.lip az fast ms hc
could go 70 the Smiling Pool BY
the time nc got there he had rite
forgotten that ne had been a little
hurt IN his feelings Tho instant
he poked his head over the bank
be saw Jerry Muskrat Jerry was
Lard nj work on the roof OF h'e
house Uo saw Peter as soon rs
pctcr saw him.
Hello, loafer'' shouted Terry
"Did you over know finer weather
for work? Why don't YOU get busy
and do something"
"rve nothing 20 do" mumbled
Peter. and without another word he
The Detroit times., 1916-09-20

you come TO hear something that
will make you better men and
thought | might say something you
didn't like and then you would get
out and talk about II?
Then. by the help OF God.
sister, you will get what You are
looking for, IL have to 20 out
OF my way 20 give II TO you.
You always get what you are
looking for In this world.
so these two men came 20 pray
the frst was the Pharisee. He was
nice and smooth. and his attitude
was nice and smooth. and he seem
ed 20 say, III you want TO know how
10 do n. ask me. for I'll show you.
There are lots OF Christians like
that today. and II you want to see
one look In the glass and you will
flnd one OF them when you 60 home.
ignorant on Theology
80 you will notice his attitude
while he was praying was pretty
nice and smooth. and that reminds
me OF a minister whom I met IN Chi
oago, and he didn't say this TO crit
icise: he was good man. but he
said TO me: William, ! have listen
ed TO you preach and pray. and
am interested In you. and ! would
like TO make few suggestions TO
you that ! think Will increase your
effectiveness
"I snid 4 thank you. doctor; ]
am willing 10 stand on my head In
mud puddle II YOU can give me
something that will increase my
power 10 save sinners and get them
70 follow Jesus Christ. II you've
got anything to offer, go ahead
"He said When YOU pray make
an acrostic on the word Acts. I al
ways do that He said: the letter
"A" stands for alteration and when
I pray adore Cod ~" I think,
stands for confession and agreed
with him. "T," | think. stands for
theology and I said Doctor. well
rart company right there. | know
no more about theology than jack
rabbit docs about pingpong or an
elephant about crochetlng.
"He said whenever pray 10 make
an acrostic on the word Acts,
said The Lord bless you, doctor
Won arc all right II you can follow o
form like that, but II ! should
would not get any higher than the
gas iet. You fleht the devil your
own way and I'll fight him my wav
but don't growl AZ me because
don't fight your way. because II
did 7 would MOI be any bettTr ttH7
you are and II preached as your
preacher breaches 7 would not Be
any better than your preacher is.
you can't thank God with one
breath and turn around and run
down and yillry and assassinate
somebody's character with the next.
you can't stand In the pulpit and
talk - tho sovereignty or God and
rip me up tho back at the same
time n I cut out OF my sermons
what every one doesn't like the
will look like spiked cannon in ar
abandoned fort. with birds nests r.
tho muzzles.
"Nou can't thank God with one
breath ard gossip about your neigh
hor with the next yes, hang over
the hrck fence. with a shoe on one
foot and n slipper on the other and
%. have you heard the latest" Their
tongues are so long they can sit IN
The parlor and lick the skillet in the
kitchen.
Read the Aret seventeen chapters
of I.uke- and by tho way, you ought
TO read them before YOU read the
eighteenth
Don't read the bible like you
The Detroit times., 1916-09-20

,ers OF false doctrines are rob
bing people OF God
Two men went into the temple To-
pray. one was a Pharisee, one was
publican. God, I thank Thee that
/ am not as other men sre--plun-
derers. murderers. adulterers, publ
cans. | fast twice week, give
tithes OF all | possess and he went
cut and went 10 hell.
Then came the old publican and
he said: God, be mercifui 20 me. .
sinner. There was TO long-winded.
wind -jamming about this fellows
The less religion you've got. the
longer II takes to express IT,"
Copyright. william A. Sunday.)
The Detroit times., 1916-09-20
Tuesday Afternoon's Sermon

tuesday afternoons Sermon
Billy Sundays sermon Tuesday
fternoon was taken from the para
le Of the Publican and Pharisee, a"
4 the eighteenth chapter Of st.
luke. lie said
II want 20 talk 10 you this after
Don on true religion and not the
ham substitute which some people
f, all religion.
There are some people with
rhom formality soems TO make up
or true religion, like the Pharisees.
n every community there are peo-
lie like those carping critics as In
he days OF Jesus Christ.
The Pharisees' religion was re-
lgfon OF forms and observations OF
orm and rituals. They made a grsat
lubbub.
Jesus Christ was murdered by
he church OF the day, whose sins
Ie had rebuked. don't expect
nything better from the same gang
oday.
so much OF this stun called re-
igion doesn't get any further than
ne head. don't fight religion.
light sin. I'll die for the church any
minute. II necessary. but I'll still
light sin.
Forms and Rituals
christianity does not consist OF
orms and rituals; do not forget
hat for a minute. There are lot
VI people who never had religion of
he heart: they never had religion
experience.
You did not have religion OK.
,erience n your religion is reduced
% lot OF forms and rituals. am
poinE TO show you today the two
purposes OF God In this parable:
"FirBt-To show some peo-
pie who think they are religious
that they are not.
''Second-To show why the
prayers OF some people are an
swered and some are not.
Some people are omnipotent
vhen they go on their knees The
prayers OF some are never answer
ID: they never know what y Is 90
have prayer answered from God
"a parible is a photograph, a pic
lure. II Is picture OF two beings
hat contrast. I hold up my thumb
and you say. Yes, see II In size
and location I hold up my finger
and you say, Yes, see II In size
and location hold up my thumb
md fnger and you take II In. II ia
two beings, opposite IN characte-
md form. directly opposite in every
way.
go these two men came 20 th'
temple 10 pray-both received what
they came for You always Get
What you are looking for anythir g
gou want. You are not disopp0in'
ID. You always get what YOU arc
booking for.
III YOU came here today 20 learn
something 20 draw you nearer "a
God you will learn II. II you came
% hear something that you won
ike, something That you can carr
and snarl about, I'll go out of my
vay 20 give II 70 you.
THE Pharisees were tho higCo''
ievllE In Jerusalem. altho they were
nc best theologians in Jerusalem
That is true ~ all theologians
"If you are looking FOR = scrap
yous get busy and you will got what
you camc 'or You will ret what
you came for this afternoon.
did YOU come with your pride
puYed up like I poisoned nun or i'5
The Detroit times., 1916-09-20

turned and started for home. lie
would have liked TO stay and watch
Jerry, but Jerry had called hir
loafer.' just as had Striped Chip.
munk and Chatterer and Happy
Jack. ard somehow he began 10 feel
that these busy workers looked
down on him and the feeling wasn't
comfortable one As ne happened
along toward the dear Old Brier
Patch where he could SIT and doze
and dream 10 his hearts content
with no one 10 call him unpleasant
names. he met Danny Meadow
! Mouse hurrying az II he had no
time to lose.
What's your rush." demanded
Peter
Tn making the most of this nnc
weathe~ 10 hll my storehouse with
seeds for the winter" replied Danny
Meadow Mouse. 81 can't AFFORD 10
be a loafor like you. Peter"
This was too much. Even little
Danny Meadow Mouse called him n
loafer Perhaps none of them really
meant anything but just the same
Peters feelings were hurt. All the
brightness OF The beautiful fall day
was gone for Peter When Striped
Chipmunk called him a loafer he
hadn't minded. but when one after
another HIS other friends had called
him the same thlng n had hurt The
moro he thought NJ n the more II
hurt Could II be that they looked
down on him because he never
worked n certainly looked that
wav. Ho reached The dear Old Brior
Patch and cropt into his favorlte
resting place without letting Mrs
Peter know that ho had returned
He wanted To ho alone TO think.
Next Story-"Peter Makes Great
The Detroit times., 1916-09-20

Next story-"Peter Makes a Great
Discovery"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-24
Member OF the Associated ere.s.
MONDAY, JANUARY "a. 1916.
A BIT OF REAL OPTIMISM

The Congregationalist, in an issue
in that paper early in the present
month, published answers from long
4 list Of representative American writers
TO the question which had been sent
them; lis the Christian Religion a
Growing Force in the World?" Most
of those who replied took. or tried to
take, cheerful view of the situation
and none of them went so far as to
suggest-as we believe Helen Kellar
has recently done, looking across the
Atlantic-that it is about time to
throw our alleged Christian civiliza-
ton into the scrap heap and begin
anew. The one hopeful and helpful
and, 1t seems to us, really true reply
was that of President Hyde of Bow
dom college who wrote under the cap
ton, Some Contrasts, 1s16-1916'':
Then there was more outward observ,
anee
Now there is more inward obedience.
Then there was more rigidity of doc
trine;
Now there is more expansiveness of
life.
Then there was more prohibition of
evil;
Now there is more promotion of good.
Then there was more profession in
proportion to service;
New there is more service in proper
ton to profession.
Then there was more concern about
the future;
Now there is more responsibility for
the present
Then the minister had more official au-
thority;
Now the minister has more personal
influence.
Then the church was more intent on
saving souls;
Now the church is more interested in
improving society.
Wisdom is justified of both her chill
dren.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-24

There has been a deal written and
quoted IN reference to the Swiss
system of military training. For
those who are not informed in Swift.
erland military training is both com.
pulsory and universal. 1t begins in
the schools with courses in gymnas.
tics and rifle shooting; and is follow.
ed after graduation with train;nr ~
from sixty to ninety DAYS in the az.
my. In addition each recruit mil
the age of 80 may be called to +be
eoiofs tor period of about two
"eehS each year; after the age of 80
ne is liable for military service for
only a few days every two or +bro,
years and upon attaining the AGE 81
~ he is relieved from all miIi+or,
DUTY except the obligation to defend
the country in case of invasion, tn,
SWISS system works well for the Iit.
tie republic, but it might not bo
adaptable here for two reasons ~
IS that there would be onnoei+;or :,
compulsory military and the other is
that the public schools are under the
control of the states in this country
IN lieu of the national government
1t would be difficult proposition in
TINS country to remove men in wear.
OF prime activity from their regular
occupations one-sixth of the time, To
DO this would mean a realignment OF
our whole industrial and economic sys
tenn.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-24
Know Your Own State.
{ Rutland News.)

The minister of the Baptist church
at Barre has followed in a limited
measure the example set by Morti-
mer R. Proctor, in bringing the re-
sources and attractions Of Vermont
forcibly TO the attention of the peo-
pie by means of stereopticon pictures.
The Barre minister has taken many
photographs of the granite quarries
and stone sheds particularly and has
conducted his audience through them
to their enlightenment and entertain
ment. The industries of Vermont NAV
well be promoted in this way. The pic
lures may very likely lead good
many of the residents to make person
al visitation to the manufacturing
plants, and thus make them more en-
thusiastic advocates of the opportun-
tiles of their own state The Vermont
er who is informed is always loyal to
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-24
WHERE VERMONT LEADS,

Inc government reports just issued
show that Vermont is the chief live
stock raising state of New England
and that it is advancing in this direc-
zion remarkably. as compared with
other nearby states. With the rapid
increase in the use of motor cars one
might expect to find the number of
horses decreasing, but the government
assures us that the number in New
England at the present time Is 100000.
gain of 1000 in five years. The
three southern states of this section
have 5000 less horses than half de-
cade ago, but Maine shows an in
crease of 1000, New Hampshire 5000
and Vermont 1000 Rather curiousIV
the loss in Massachusetts. Connect
cut and Rhode Island is ascribed to
the increasing use of the automobile.
but more automobiles per capita are
owned in Vermont than in any of
these states. The total number of
mich cows in New England is est
mated at $4,000, or 5000 less than
was recorded five years ago, and the
total number of "other cattle'' is
506,ooo, against 100000 five years be-
fore. The value of milch COWS had
advanced from $48.16 to $62.3S, and
the average value of 'other cattle =
is much higher than before. Figuring
the value of the dairy cattle at nearly
So, 100000, adding the value of the
other cattle, the capital invested in
the milk industry and other allied in
dustries, one quickly finds that the in
vestment in cattle and other associated
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-24
GOVERNMENT REPORT
ON n. E. LIVESTOCK
Horses, Cows, Sheep and Swine Above
the Average Value in the Country
at Large.

WASHINGTON, Jan. PA sum
mary OF estimates of numbers and val
ues OF livestock on farms in Vermont
on January | has just been compiled
by the bureau of crop estimates and
transmitted through the weather
bureau, Z. S. department of agricuI.
lure, as follows:
Horses-Number $4,000. compared
with $4,000 year ago and $4,000 five
years ago; value per head. $3.50. c5ln-
pared with $l3l a year ago AID 1921
llve years ago.
Mich Number 273,OOO. com.
pared with 26S, 600 a year ago ami
zoo'oo0 five years ago; value per head.
ao4, compared with $50 year AGO
; ago and $40 five FEARS ago.
Other cattle-Number 10000. com
pared with l67, 900 a year ago and l6s
~ ~ I'VE years ago; value per head.
9-o.@o, compared with $23iO a year
ago and $50 five years ago
oheep-Number 100000. compared
win 10000 year ago and $4,000
I'VE years ago; value per head. $500.
compared with $50 year ago and
S4.1 five years ago.
swine Number $4,000, compared
mIlh loS,00O year ago and 10000
"SC, Ndlue per mead. > U.3O,
compared with $13 a year ago and
SlO.so five years ago.
by comparison of these figures with
1hose Tor the United States, it will b.
seen that the value of Vermont ami.
mas Is above the average in the ma
| Jloh with the single exception of +bat
Tor other cattle The figures f,r
the United States are as follows:
horsos-- Number 81 200. 900 com
pared with 21,I95,00O a year ago and
~ 100 five years ago; value per
mead. Sl9l.6O. compared with sI03 3:
year ago and $111.46 five ears 400
Mich cows Number 2I9SS 600
compared with 21,262. 600 a wear 40
ana 1O,S23.0O five wears ara. voI1l
per head, $500, compared With So.
>" 2 year ago and 1897 five years
Other cattle-Number 80 -Do 600
compared with 81, COZ 600 = wear MI
and 39,619,090 five years ago: value
per head, S33.49, compared with s33..
- a year ago and $2O.54 five vear
Sheep-Number 40. 100000 com
pared with 49,956.000 wear AGO ana
;2",t33.og0 five years ago: vaIue per
mead = L, compared with $3.50 a wear
ago and S5.9l five years AGO.
SWlne-Number $4,000 600 com-
pared with 64.6IS 600 wear 400 AMI
32,o2o'oo0 five years ago; value Pc
mead. $40. compared with sqS7
year ago and 1897 five years ago.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-24
Grover Had it Right.
(syracuse Pest Standard.

tSEracuSe Pest -Standard.)
Thirty years ago a Democratic pres
ldant was in the White House, the on
~ Democratic president from Buchan-
an 10 Wilson. In that day there was
neither war nor rumor Of war. Never
theless, Grover Cleveland. we are re
minded by Golfers, demanded Of con
gress a navy which should be more
than q shabby ornament of govern
ment. His reason was single and
simpler:
The, nation that cannot resist az
erosion. IS constantly exposed to it.
It's foreign policy is of necessity weak.
and its negotiations are conducted with
disadvantage because it is not in con
dition to enforce terms dictated by its
sense of right and Justice
Grover Cleveland was neither ora
tor nor scholar as Wilson IS But in all
of Mr.. Wilson 5 musical phrases about
national preparedness he has not stated
his case so clearly and completely as
Grover did thirty years ago.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-24
PENNsYLvANIA's HONEST MAN
Jacobs Brings Montgomery County
Out Of Debt in -Four Years.

=.
NORRISTOWN. Pa. Jan 2l-Wb he
man passes up SIS, 33333. plus inter.
est, duc him for four years ana ten
months work that has saved the peo-
pie several hundred thousand dollars
q year, he becomes an unusual man.
ouch a man is DR. John n. jacobs
pennsylvania s honest man He has
Just gone out of Office as the con4rolfn-
OF MONTGOMERY county. the duties of
winch office included the stopping of
leaks Doctor Jacobs stopped the leaks
winch We're many and varied, and he
mas lifted 100, 900 people ont az 4
debt that amounted to nearly 500. 600.
and made them worth about 100000
lie also reduced the taxes from three
mus to two mills, having $l2s. 600 in
taxes IN two years AMI lie prove!
that taxes of che mill were all that
the county needed
Doctor Jacobs was an army surgeon
IN the Civil War. He was - years cid
and one of the most active men in the
state. lie has made a fortune in bank
ing. They call him E" Lansdale s Grand
Old Man.
told them when I took Office that
wouldn t take penny for my work.
and | won t, he said. cit may bother
them, but | won t be a liar. They saw
m millionaire and don t need the
money. | never was millionaire nor
half a one, but l don I need the coun,
ty' money and don IT give three hangs
Tor. any more than We got.''
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-24
Springfield and the Dairy Show.
(Ludlow Tribune)


The fact that the business men of
Springfield, Mass, announce their in
tention to raise $750,000 for the en-
enlargement and benefit of the dairy
interests Of New England makes it
very evident that these important in
terests are being thoroughly consid-
cred. This large sum of money is to
be used to provide grounds and build
ings not only for the next National
Dairy show, but for an annual Eastern
National show--a center for the devel-
opment of dairy interests, and to re
store New England to the place she
once occupied in dairy production
This movement deserves the co-opera-
ton of every dairyman in Vermont
and every other New England state;
for what branch of farming is more
important and more worthy of dcvel-
opment than the dairy?
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-24
III q S b A " d s
Z Howard LRann
$ and Sealln8 lUaX Of cabbaSes 81 kin8S

The husband is u hopeful bridegroom
who has been converted into mcal
ticket. Some husbands are harder to
convert successfully than others and
prefer TO live with some relative bv
marriage but when joined to wife
with two large, forbidding fists a-e
eventually brought to it.
There are three kinds of husbands
happy, resigned and hopeless. The
happy husband is one who married an
accomplished cook in the guise of n
sweet-Toiced seraph \ scraph in nine
teen changes of tea gowns is a gooI
tAlng TO have about the house. but
does not satisfy the warnings Of man :
practical nature as well as a plain. AN
adorned helpmeet who knows how to
suhdue the stubborn spirit of the round
steak. Thousands of solid American
citizens with glistening appetites have
married filnv aeraphs who couldn +
cook anything but a Welsh rarebit.
aud have later repented in ashes and
restaurant soup
Resigned husbands are those who
did not expect much in the first place
and scored 80 out of a possible 100
There are very few of this class. rs
practically all of the resignation oh
tnnahle is monopolized By wives who
are unable to detect treasure when
Protected nv Tho ADO
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-24
WEST BRATTLEBORO

Clinton Convey has returned TO school
AFTER being i'll with grip week.
Charlotte Robbins of Wos+or,
avenue IS i'll and unable to be IN
school. -
W. Renfrew has recovered from tba
grip and is again at his work in the
Walter H. Cheney went 70 Bosto,
Friday afternoon to visit a few davs
with relatives.
Miss Emma Mixer went to West
Rutland today to visit in the home Of
aer niece, Mrs. J. Denton Smith.
A. NJ. Bennett has taken positio..
with the National Automatic MacbIr.
company, working with the night
force
Mrs. Leroy Wilder is i'll in bed with
rip. Mr.. Wilder and son. Richard
"ho have been i'll with grip. arc bet
Ter. "
Twenty-seven persons united with
the Congregational church last evening
Rev. Roy NJ. Houghton, pastor of tbe
center congregational church of the
east village, officiated. Three Joined bv
letter and q on confession of faith.
w. J. Hawkins has sold recently
through the Strout agency the farm
belonging to I'll. L. Clark Of Guilforo
g Mr.. Mulher OF Riverside Drive.
New York. He has sold the Huntlev
farm IN West Dummerston to Mrs,
georgia +. Peabody of Montclair. y.