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Ml' The Commoner 28 v i, ? How Circus Man Would "Bill" Rev. Billy Sunday Tho Now York World has been asking various celebrities to write their impressions of Billy Sunday. In responso to this request, Alf T. Ringing, the voteran showman, tolls "How I would 'bill' Billy Sunday as an attraction." t SUNDAY A master marvel among all man kind's most amazing men. This old earth has never known his like. , A From tho beginning of time to tho "THERE'S A REASONWHYul.?:,!- fillln foUin pan for t. Direct iroro inter, to consumer U T eaton" enou eli. Abiotute aatlifacllon euar mieej or money back. Belmont Pen Co., 1792 W 1M PI, Chicago, HI. INotino UrlTB nrt Uemoniitrato tlie UuU Car. l'ay tor It out oi yourcouimlBalonaonBaloa. MianUMaMnraonc7. BMp. 19xS?4 Utti Uath .Can guar. rhro.PaM.,34.7 H.P.if ' nUarapromot. il er money rUaatonce for jBf 48pacre ea1 lag twan Z ldtnWhnnHan Btlco lEnWon-Klect. tc. A Us. -paffo cata- d mII nnrtic plan, AddfMa J. Dopt. 6-DP , TJSH MOIO COMTANV, Huh leaipk, Clde, UUuit I NEW RUPTURE CURE Don't Wear a TrunM Brook's Appliance Now discovery. Wonderful. No obnoxious springs or pads. Automatic Air Cushions. Hindu mid drawn the broken pnrt together hm you would n broken limb. No salves. No plasters. No llos. Dur able, cheap. Sent on trial to prove it. Full Inform ation and booklet FREE. O. m. Brootcn, 103A. State ; St., Marshall, Mich. moment at hand no replica of him has ever been nor ever will he until time shall be no more. Tho mold of his making crumbled into atoms when the fiery elements of his being burst into life. A Pro-eminent Pattern Providence was prodigal in pro ducing this pre-eminent pattern of persuasive power. She gave him strength, speed, skill, virility, ven turesomeness, brawn, bravery, bril liancy, brains, breath, "bronchia she made him of flame and fire, deft and dexterous, devout and daring' danger-defying and devil-defying. And above all she gave him voice and vocabulary, and when ho uses these latter he becomes the absolute, unquestioned, inimitable, original antipathy to Bromideism. He makes wrong write in remorse and Beelzebub's brazen bow bend beaten among the cohorts. He makes wickedness waver like a wraith in the wind, sin seek shelter and old rum run like a rabbit. He makes the burnished bewilderments HSBlpHpBfj lHHRIWvt?uMv3BKi WAR -BLOOD WBAIiTH Stanton, N. D., April 17, 1917. "War is hell" and costs money as well as blood. Now that we are at war, it is necessary to provide for tho money to buy war supplies and tho men to shed their blood. Under existing law, the men may be drafted for this purpose. Why should we not have a law enacted by congress whereby tho money may be drafted to pay the war debt so that tho debt of war in money and blood may be paid while the war is being carried on, to the end that when the war is over there will bo no debt? Under our economic system and our laws, and the conditions and opportunities attending the develop ment of the United States, two per cent of the population were able to become tho legal owners of sixty per cent of the wealth of the Ulnited States. No man is able to give value received to the people for such large accumulations of wealth. It is the opinion of the large majority of our people that the war taxes should be paid by some method of taxation, drafting or commandeering of the large amounts of money owned and possessed by the extremely wealthy. The excess of one million dollars of wealth of each individual should and bedizened beauties of Broadway be-by law turned over to the United of the every-day things inTr ways, and we consciously Ptupn,CUar mind to them only when tbiv 1 th to be done differentlv hanco viding ime betwe officii and inefficiency is largely here. Any ono who af r,ght think about it can eaSy sefth8, ,t0 numerable little habi s IVn at ln' very large part of our les S a indeed well worth while rlr!'f , ? ,a studj the host of Tittle hah "f to breeu and hide in the moat cells of the brain and musc c Tet oMhem is too small toCft Bad habits are the nt .., with which the weak th , a ..w . ojj.oigjr. Habits we can not avoid. Nor rn ) escape beincr crontw ...: by them. But WhVr" ; - j.i co fUOlPfl we I Preparedness Preparedness suggests conserv ation it means that the re sources of our country will be developed aj never before yet conserved to meet the de mands that may come. It is equally imperative that you guard your own resources that you save as much as possible that any investment of your idle funds be made only on a safe and sound basis. For your consideration we sug gest a savings account or a timo deposit in this bank draw ing interest at 4 per cent per annum, compounded semi-annually, and protected against loss by the Depositors Guar anty Fund of the state of Oklahoma. Write today for booklet and copy of guaranty law. I GUARANTY STATE BANK MUSKOGEE OKLAHOMA M. G. HASKELL, President H. E. PAVIS, Cashier i look so lusterless that they even bo come loathsome to the Lothario. His is the absolute perfection and gem supreme in the big world's diadem of celebrated revivals. He is the soul in fact, he is Sunday's supreme, stupendous, spectacular pageant oX piety and propriety. Also, a Colossal Caravan. A colossal caravan of all the pow ers pt good a tromenuous, tetanic triumph and big outpouring of ele vating wonders a mammoth marvel of morals amazing and mighty. Its feature among features its marvel among marvels is Billy Sunday, anC his great act is absolutely without an imitator anywhere. THE FEATS OF DANIEL IN THE LION'S DEN, THE PROWESS OF SAMSON, THE SKILL OF DAVID OVERSHADOWED AND OUTDONE Billy Sunday exhibits twice daily the four fiercest creatures" in all the universe Moloch, Beelzebub, Baal and Satan the four fearful, prowl ing marauders more ravenous than the lion more cruel than the tiger more stealthy than the leopard. The unconquerable terrors of all mankind now for the first time cowed and coerced into contempt uous, cringing by the bold, brave breaker of the heretofore unbreak able monsters. Menaces of Men These mastodonic menaces of man made to maneuver, march and counter-march, obedient .to their conqueror's call, in all their hated hideousness. An exhibition absolutely unique, original and almost unbelievable placing the rings in the noses of Baal, Beelzebub, Moloch and Satan, and working them by lung reins, snarling, hissing, growling and howl ing, all to the delighted applause ot the assembled thousands. See the browbeating of Old Baal. See the belaboring of Beelzebub. See the manhandling of the Mighty Moloch. See the castigation of Satan. An act performed by one man without elaborate props or other paraphernalia and aboslutely without a counterpart in exhibition annals. States for the use of tho United States during the war. It is a com mon belief of mankind that the ex cessive wealth of tho rich is no more, sacred, in case of war, than the heart's blood of the common people. The method of obtaining the necessary money is a proper subject for legislation. We have congress men and senators in Washington who are abundantly able to draft the necessary laws to carry out the idea. There seems to be a movement on foot to enact a law taxing the in comes of the excessively wealthy, and certainly it such a law would provide all the money necessary to carry oh the war, the end would be accomplished. But if such tax would not furnish sufficient money to carry on the war, then it might be necessary to amend our constitution, and provide for the drafting of the necessary money and .property, similar to the present law of drafting tho men. Parties who read this article and who believe in the principle herein enunciated, are requested to write to their congressman and their sen ators urging the making of such laws. Now Is the time to urge such legislation. No one can fail to see the justice of the principle involved. Constructive legislation is necessary to apply the principle successfully. Write now. H. L. BERRY. HABITS AND FORCES Even without considering at all the common "bad habits," just think of the thousand and one little habits that largely determine one's every thought and act. In the commonest things every one is Influenced by in numerable little habits that he sel dom suspects. Hardly an impression, emotion, opinion, resolution or ac tion is possible to us that is not in fluenced, directed and colored by fixed conditions within ourselves habits. Almost overV move in the process of the morning's dressing, for ex ample, is involuntary and calls for no conscious thought. Your mind is absorbed in mapping out the day's work while habit is washing and dressing you. Habit accustoms us to doing most between tho habits thuh ".! and helpful and habits that are b and harmful.The Christian Herald. MINISTERS' SONS A patient investigator has lately taken the trouble to inquire into the old saying that ministers' sons are likely to come to a bad end, and the result of his research leads him to the conviction that a boy is fortunate who is born into a minister's family. He finds tha4 one-twelfth of all S?T,men whose names appear in wno s wno" are sons of preachers. Four presidents were sons of minis ters Buchanan, Arthur, Cleveland and Wilson: three of the ereat Rns- I ton group of -writers, Emersori, .Low- en ana Holmes, were of ministerial parr luge so were Parkman and Bancroft, also th ; remarkable Field brothers, Cyrus W., David Dudley and Stephen J. The influence of the eminent Jonathan Edwards appears to have etxended far down in the line of his descendants, for tho list in cludes one v w-ii csident, three sen ators, thirty judges, sixty authors, twelve college presidents, and not one1 of the 1,394 who were traced was ever convicted of a crime. The list of clergyman's distinguished sons could be greatly extended, for they are to be found in every line of ac tivity. This same investigator discovered further that a comparatively small number of minister's sons who reach distinction are city bred, a majority, being reared in small towns. The theory in regard to them is that not only have they been under good moral Influenced home, but they have lived the simple life, usually one of poverty, yet are at the same time familiar with ideas of culture ana often acquire reading habits. Incidentally there is no better way of giving a child bookish tastes, if b is capable of acquiring them, than to rear him among rural surround ings where he has few of the u tractions that waste the time of cw children and give " a gOOd liurury. " ;- .,kejy ministers' children are often i UK w to have, and ta addition i tc g J rental influent go tor tarttt well in the world. Pew -v however, give serious ritenf the old slur upon ministe s s realizing that it grows out oi tendency to criticize their comincs more tun" - "" nntpA 0t vuo- . , rtvnecieu boys because moro Is often them and that such criticism unjuBt. Indianapolis -tar. I 'i BiT' wJ Wi vA 'Sid ton i. jt-&iiJiaStaMjdte, a
