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CHURCH ILL WOULD
PASTOR WHO REACHES FOLLOW
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Some Facts Concerning the Life Work
of Rev Charles T Russell
Who Has Been Misrep
resented
Allegheny Pa One oC the busiest
men in the United States is Charles
T Russell of Allegheny
Some people call him Rev Charles
T Russell but he himself disclaims
all titles believing that as Jesus and
the apostles disclaimed them so
should he
Russell Is the leader of a religious
movement which has its followers all
over the world He is not the orig
inator of a sect but simply claims
membership in the original church
institution of the scriptures therein
described simply as the church
whose names are written in heaven
It has no houses of worship of
its own and Pastor Russells plan
for reaching his numerous and widely
scattered followers with his discourses
is a unique one
He travels a great deal preaching
in opera hopses in the large cities
of the country and through arrange
ments with variousnewspapers gladly
printing the discourses because of the
increased circulation which accrues to
them through the subscriptions of
Russells many followers
Thus he preaches each Sunday to a
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congregation of hundreds of thou
sands
Russell has been considerably dis
turbed of late over false and mislead
ing accounts of his teachings and his
plans which have appeared in many
newspapers
Among other things it was recent
ly announced that he was endeavoring
to get control of Dowies Zion City
and turn it into a home for his fol
lowers
Nothing could be more untrue
he declares I have no desire for
Zion City and there have been no ne
gotiations whatever in the matter-
It has also been published that
Russell is the no hell preacher be
cause he teaches there is no place of
future fiery torment
Pastor Russell declares that he does
not believe in hell as a place of eter
nal torment but holds that the sheol
of the Old Testament and the hades
of the New Testament is the state of
death that mankind because of orig
inal sin is under a death sentence
which affects all mentally morally
and physically and culminates in the
tomb
He holds that redemption was from
the tomb that Christ died for humani
tys sins and that as a result of this
redemption all mankind is ultimately
to be released from this state of death
and given instruction which will lead
to eternal life if they are obedient to
such leading in the Millennial age
Nor does Pastor Russell doubt in
the least the existence of Satan
though this has been alleged of him
In a sermon which he recently de
livered on The Overthrow of Satans
Empire he makes his position on
this point very clear saying
We are aware that our Lords
words to Peter Get thee behind me
Satan are made the basis for the
denial that there is any personal devil
or subordinate demons Our reply is
that although any man may become
an adversary of God a satan the
scriptures everywhere speak of the
prime mover in evil as the devil the
satan He is the great murderer He
murdered our first parents by deceiv
ing them and thus induced them to be
disobedient to their Creator
It was recently stated in several
newspapers that in a divorce trial
which resulted in the legal separa
tion of Pastor Russell and his wife
about a year ago he had said his
love was like that of a jellyfish in
that it went out to any spirit which
responded
This statement distressed Russell
considerably inasmuch as the truth
was that the remark in question was
attributed to Russell by a witness dur
ing the trial and was emphatically
denied on the stand by him
It has been said of Russell that
money pours into his office coffers
like waterand that his sect is im
mensely wealthy This is not the
case
We have sufficient he says and
we never take up collections but we
have no enormous wealth We care
only for enough to enable us to spread
our gospel to humanity wherever it is
needed
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YERKE8 QUITS FEDERAL POST
Internal Revenue Commissioner Takes
Up Law Practice
Washington John W Yerkes com
missioner of Internal revenue has ten
dered his resignation to the president
who has accepted it with expressions
of regret Mr Yerkes resigns to enter
the practice of law In this city having
associated himself with one of its
most prominent legal firms Secre
tary Cortelyou was loath to lose Com
missioner Yerkes services in the
treasury department but the strong
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CHARLES T RUSSELL
Pennsylvania Pastor Who Has World
Wide Church
JOHN W YERKES
Internal Revenue Commissioner Who
Has Resigned Position
inducements made led to his resigna
tion
Mr Yerkes became commissioner of
internal revenue December 20 1900
and has been in office over six years
His conduct of his office has always
been highly satisfactory to the ad
ministration Mr Yerkes fpr many
years has been prominent in Republi
can politics of Kentucky and was at
one time the nominee of his party for
governor of that state He has for
years been recognized by the president
as the head of his party and his
recommendations as to patronage
have been followed Efforts were re
cently made to have Mr Yerkes ac
cent the Republican nomination this
year but he declined knowing of his
intentions as to practicing law in this
city
ARRAYED HOUNDS IN ARMOR
Favorite Canines in Olden Days Wore
Coats of Mail
New York Years ago when royal
ty devoted itself to the chase and con
sidered greyhounds the finest of ca
nine pets it was the fashion to have
the favorite dogs arrayed in armor
Recently a suit of this queer dog ar
mor was discovered and experts puz
zled their heads over it No one knew
what it was for as the armored dog
has never been a familiar sight to lat
ter day collectors
The real use of the golden armor
was learned by an expert that hap
pened to recall to mind a picture of
Armor for Hounds of Old
one of the famous Spanish rulers
painted with his finest greyhound clad
in handsomely wrought gold armor
standing by his side The experts
brother collectors who had suggested
surgical appliances and all sorts of
queer things as a solution of the puz
zle were somewhat chagrined when
they learned its true use At present
this odd armor is on exhibition in the
royal collection at Madrid
Increased Speed Is Costly
The extra one and one half Jmots
that the big Cunard liners are to
make over the Kaiser Wilhelm n
Germanys fastest ship require the
installation of 68 additional furnaces
six more boilers over 52000 addition
al square feet of heating surface
and the development of an additional
30000 horsepower To provide for
the increased weight the ship has to
be lengthened 78 feet broadened 16
feet and deepened four feet and the
displacment enlarged by 12000 tons
If turbines were not employed at least
25000 horsepower engines with
shaft and screw propeller would have
been necessary and many difficulties
would have had to be solved to place
these so as to balance weights and
to avoid vibration With rotary en
gines substituted for reciprocating en
gines there are economies of space
and other advantages
An Authors Profits
Lieut Bilse author of the famous
book Aus Einer Kleinen Garnison
received altogether 165 825 for
his rights It was admitted that the
Austrian rights alone fetched 11
000 55000 An action having beer
brought against the publishers and
lost it is feared that Lieut Bilse will
not have much of the 165 left
London Sphere
MAIL ORDER EVIL
ITS RISE IS NOT THE RESULT OF
LEGITIMATE DEMAND
DUE ENTIRELY K GREED
And It Feeds Upon the Prosperity
of the Country Towns A
Menace to the
Nation
Copyrighted 190C by Alfred C Clark
As the years go by we are more
than ever brought face to face with
the vital question of trading at home
During the past decade the habit of
buying goods abroad has grown to
such proportions that the county
merchant may well feel alarmed at
the probable outcome unless something
is done to forestall the great calamity
which will surely result therefrom
Trade conditions 25 years ago were
satisfactory At that time catalogue
houses were entirely unknown and
country merchants were menarchs of
all they surveyed so to speak in the
lines represented and the people were
prosperous and happy Perhaps not
so much because they generally had
money enough to meet their wants
but because of the contentment that
prevailed throughout the country at
that time The farmers raised good
crops generally and received good
prices for what they had to sell They
sold their surplus stuff to the local
merchant and bought what they
wanted and this was the height of
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tion And right hero Is whore the good
town proposition comes to him with
great force He knows he can send
his children to the village school at a
great deal less expense than to send
them away to college and that in
most cases better results are ob
tained
If the farmer seriously desires all
these good things lie must of necessi
ty help to build them Let him under
stand that he is one of the main
spokes in the great wheel of com
merce in his vicinity and that he can
illafford to send abroad to purchase
even the smallest item of merchan
dise though it may seem to him that
he Is saving a few cents by doing so
It seems that it could be easily
pointed out to him that if there was
no town near him and he had to drive
20 or 50 miles to take his produce to
market and haul his groceries the
same distance home he could easily
see that his land would greatly depre
ciate in value and the disadvantages
he would encounter on every hand
would be very disastrous to his time
and ho would gladly spend his money
at home to divert this calamity
One of the most potent levers with
which to control trade in country lo
calities is the liberal use of printers
ink coupled with intelligence in ad
vertising the wares of the merchant
The catalogue houses employ the best
talent obtainable to write their adver
tisements and spend large sums of
money in this way Besides advertis
ing judiciously they advertise on a
large scale and consequently get the
business The old saying that You
must light the devil with fire will ap
ply in this case The home merchant
must advertise He must do more than
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Are you Mr Resident of This Community feeding to the mail order
hog the dollars of this community Are you pouring the money that should
stay in the home town into the trough from which the gluttonous hogs of
the city feed If so you are doing not only the town but yourself an irre
parable injury and one that you should stop at once
their ambition hence the contentment
that prevailed
But in after years when cities
grew and trade expanded the mer
chants of these cities not being con
tent with conditions of trade devised
plans by which they might reach out
for more business Advertising in the
newspapers being a cheap way of
putting the merits of their goods be
fore the people this plan appealed to
them and it was adopted At first they
operated on a small scale then as
the merchant saw the opportunity for
making it pay he added to his adver
tising fund And so it has continued
until to day millions of dollars are
annually sent to mail order houses by
the people of the United States
The best and most effective way to
throttle the catalogue house has been
a question uppermost in the minds of
country merchants for several years
past some advocating one plan and
some another There are several plans
which might be presented to induce
the farmer to buy at home In the
first place his pride might be appealed
to There are very few farmers who
own their own farms but that would
be interested in building up his own
locality He realizes the fact that if
his farm is to be valuable it must be
farmed in the most scientific manner
and all buildings fences etc murft be
kept up in the best possible shape
and above all the farm must be lo
cated not too far from some good
town for we all know that farm land
brings a much better price when near
to some good town or village It is
not hard to get the farmer to realize
this for if he ever sold any farm land
or tried to sell any he knows this to
be a fact Well then after he has
realized this fact the thing for him
to do Is to patronize his home mer
chants and business men so they may
be able to build and maintain a good
town
Public schools are much better in
the towns than in the country for the
reason that where the population is
moat dense there is more taxable
property to the amount of territory
covered hence there is more money
collected for school purposes and as
a result more and better teachers are
employed All this is of the highest
importance to the farmer as most
farmers who are of any importance in
their nrofession are interested in giv
ing their boys and girls a good J
say Come to Smiths to trade
cheapest place on earth He must
describe his merchandise as he would
in private conversation over the coun
ter to a customer and then quote the
price This will nearly always act as
a clincher and will at least put him
on a standing with the catalogue
house In fact it vill give him an ad
vantage over the catalogue house for
in almost every case he can sell the
same grade of merchandise cheaper
than the catalogue house can sell it
This is not mere theory but a state
ment of fact for the reason that the
country merchants business is oper
ated at a very much less expense than
that of the mail order merchant
There are a thousand and one items
of expense which the city merchant
has to meet that are entirely unknown
to the country merchant
The time is rapidly approaching
when people who patronize mail ordei
houses will be looked upon as soon
ers by the solid and influential citi
zens of all commonwealths and will
suffer ostracism at their hands
Cities and towns are built by com
bined efforts of the residents thereof
not by foreign capital So too are oui
churches and schoolhouses built It
may be true that in many instances
eastern capital has been employed tc
make improvements in the west but
always with good round interest tc
the lender of the money No one evei
heard of a case where an eastern man
or firm contributed to western enter
prise for the fun of the thing No
did you ever hear of a case where any
mail order or catalogue house evei
contributed to any church building
fund Nor yet did they ever build oi
help to build any of our schoolhouses
You never heard of a case of this kind
and you never will All these easterc
sharks care for is your dollar and
you know it and when they have got
ten that they have no more use foi
you Then why should you patronize
them You can go to your home mer
chant any day in the year and if yoj
are short of change he will extend
you credit If you are sick and un
able to work the home merchant will
see that your family is provisioner
until you get on your feet again H
will do all of this and at the same
time furnish the same grade of goods
at the same or even at a less price
Will the catalogue merchant do this
J P BELL
INDIANA PEOPLE IN WE8TERN
CANADA
What Shall We Do 1vc Got to Build
Granaries
A letter written to a Canadian Gov
ernment agent from Tipton Indiana
Is but one of many similar that are in
the hands of the Canadian government
agents whose prlvilego it is to offer
one hundred and sixty acroa of land
free and low railway fares But here
1b a copy of the letter
Tipton Ind Nov 28 190G
At your earnest solicitation a party
of us from Tipton left May 15 for
Western Canada Our interviews with
you and a careful study of your liter
ature led us to expect great things of
your country when we should arrlvo
there and we were not disappointed
We went prepared to make a careful
examination of the country and Its re
sources and we did so At early dawn
the second morning out of Tipton wo
awoke in a new -world As far as the
eye could reach was an apparently
limitless expanse of new sown wheat
and prairie grasses Tho vivid green
of the wheat just beginning to stool
out and the inky blackness of tho
soil contrasted In a way beautiful to
see An hour or two later we steamed
into Winnipeg Here we found a num
ber of surprises A hundred thousand
souls well housed with every con
venience that goes to make a modern
up-to-date city banks hotels news
papers stores electric light street
railways sewerage waterworks as
phalt pavements everything With
eyes and ears open wo traveled for
two thousand miles through Manitoba
Saskatchewan and Alberta going out
over the Canadian Pacific railway via
Calgary to Edmonton and returning
to Winnipeg over the Canadian North
ern railway In tho meantime we
made several side trips and stopped
off at a number of points where we
made drives into the surrounding
country On every hand were evi
dences of prosperity The growing
wheat oats rye flax barley not lit
tle patches but great fields many of
them a square mile in extent the
three five and sometimes seven horse
teams laying over an inky black rib
bon of yellow stubble generally in fur
rows straight as gun barrels and at
right angles from the roads stretching
into the distance contrasted strangely
with our little fields at home The
towns both large and small were dou
bly conspicuous made so first by
their newness and second by the tow
ering elevators necessary to hold the
immense crops of wheat grown in the
immediate neighborhood
The newness the thrift the hustle
tho sound of saw and hammer the
tents housing owners of buildings in
various stages of completion the piles
of household effects and agricultural
implements at tho railway stations
waiting to be hauled out to the
Claims the occasional steam plow
turning its twenty or thirty acres a
day the sod house the unpainted
house of wood the up-to-date modern
residence with large red barn by all
these were seen everywhere we went
an earnest of prosperity and wealth to
be We talked with men and visited
their places that four years ago was
unbroken prairie Their houses
barns implements and live stock were
the equal of anything in Tipton Coun
ty and why not when they were rais
ing five ten and twenty yes in one
instance forty thousand bushels of
wheat a year The fact that such
large yields of wheat are raised so
easily and so surely impressed us
very favorably And when we saw
men who four or five years ago com
menced there with two or three thou
sand dollars and were now as well
fixed and making money much easier
and many times faster than lots of
our acquaintances on Indiana farms
fifty years cleared and valued at four
times as much we decided to invest
So we bought in partnership a little
over two thousand acres some of it
improved and in wheat
Before leaving Indiana we agreed
that if the opportunities were as great
as they were represented to be that
we would buy and own in partner
ship a body of land and leave one of
our number to look after and operate
it This we accordingly did
Just before time to thresh I re
ceived a letter from him What shall
we do said he Ive got to build
granaries Theres so much wheat
that the railways are just swamped
We cant get cars and the elevators
are all full I never saw anything
like it In reply we wrote Good for
you Go ahead and build your story
sounds better than the letters we used
to get from our friends in Kansas
when they bewailed the fact that the
hard wheat had been destroyed by the
chinch bugs and the corn by hot
winds and that they must sell tie
stock for means to live on Yes build
by all means And he did and our
wheat put in by a renter made twenty-seven
bushels per acre
Very truly yours
Sd A G BURKHART
Sd J TRELOAR TRESIDDER
Sd WALTER W MOUNT
In Northeast Australia
Northeast Australia develops very
slowly Farmers grow maize m the
old fashioned way The maize crop in
Queensland this year is a record one
Canning pineapples is becoming an
Important industry in Queensland
Opal mining is growing steadily
By following the directions which
are plainly printed on each package of
Defiance Starch Mens Collars and
Cuffs can be made just as stiff as de
sired with either gloss or domestic
finish Try it 16 oz for 10c sold by
all good grocers
The way of the transgressor is a
well feeate path
The Small Buyer of Paint
who takes care that the Dutch
Boy trade mark shown below
appears on every keg of white
lead he buys is perfectly pro
tected as perfectly as if he
were a railroad official buying
hundreds of tons and with a
corps of chemists at his back
to see that no adulterant is
palmed off on him
Pure White Lead and Pure
Linseed Oil are absolutely nec
essary to good
painting
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Do you think you could learn to
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rapturous maid Harold I could givo
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Instead of experimenting with drugs and
strong cathartics which arc clearly harm
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Tea It is made wholly of Herb For
constipation liver and kidney derange
ments sick headache biliousness nnd in
digestion
Anyway the rolling stono doesnt
get into the mossback class
Smokers appreciate the quality value of
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