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dumped around and allowed to ixt after the 

 grain is emptied out. If the_,' were saved 

 up till we get a carload it would pay to 

 ship them; but nobody, at least around 

 Bradentown, has a= yet underfaken the job. 

 Well, now, to get back to this matter of 

 keeping the hands clean. Huber has just 

 made an invention. Those of you who 

 have worked with automobiles know what 

 a task it is to get the black grease off the 

 hands when you once get them badly soiled. 

 Why, it often takes more time to clean u]i 

 than to do the work. To hd]) matters, I 

 have kept a little dish of sand close by the 

 wash-basin. The sand helps veiy much to 

 get 'off the sticky grease. Well, Huber's in- 

 vention is this : Before you go to work at 

 the automobile, or any other greasy ma- 

 chinery, coat your hands with soap and let 

 it dry on. This will not hinder you at all 

 in your work ; and when you rome to wash, 

 the gi'ease from the dirty ironwork comes 



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off in an instant because the soap prevents 

 it from getting down into ihe pores of the 

 skin. Mrs-. Root adds a supplement to 

 Huber's invention. She said she read in 

 some woman's magazine that you should 

 " claw " into a bar of yellow soap so as to 

 fill the finger-nails before you attempfti 

 dirty work. When you are th-yugh, a nail- 

 brush will wash off the soap very readily 

 without a great lot of scouring. 



Now, clean hands are not only an indi- 

 cation of respectability, but it lets jDeople 

 know you are careful about making your 

 wife trouble by going into the house and 

 handling things with dirty fingers. I might 

 say something about dirty feet as well, but 

 I have not time just now. Let us all strive, 

 good friends, to have not onlv clean hands 

 and clean feet, but a clean heart, void of 

 offense toward God and our fellow-man, 

 and the good wife, last of all, but by no 

 manner of means least. 



TEMPEEANCE 



"PHILADELPHIA DKY IX 1916." 



Our good friend B. B. Jones (Lake Rol- 

 and, Md.), keeps us posted about Billy 

 Sunday by sending us clippings from the 

 daily Baltimore Sun. Here is one of them: 



Philadelphia, Jan. 31. — Making a solemn vow 

 that, when they got the chance to vote Pliiladelphia 

 " dry," they would do it, 40,000 Philadelphia voters 

 cheered Billy Sunday to-day when he preached his 

 famous " booze "' sermon. 



They leaped to their feet as they registered that 

 vow, and then swarmed down the sawdust aisles, 

 struggling to get to the evangelist. Failing that, they 

 climbed on the pine benches, and, hurling their hats 

 in the air, yelled the prediction : " Philadelphia dry 

 in 1916." 



That was the climax of the most sensational sermon 

 Sunday has preached here. He preached it twice, 

 and 1266 persons " hit the trail " at the two ser- 

 vices. 



The evangelist scored the farmer who sold his 

 grain to the distillery ; scored the man on his way 

 " to church and heaven " Mho was really going 

 "straight to hell" because he voted for rum; scored 

 those responsible, through liquor, for the asylums, 

 almshouses, penitentiaries, electric chairs, and the 

 86.5,000 " whisky-orphaned " children in America. 



The words of Lincoln, McKinley, and Roosevelt 

 against liquor were quoted by the evangelist, and 

 deafening cheers rang in the low-roofed building 

 when Sunday grabbed an American flag, crying; 

 " Every plot to overthrow the United States and 

 trample under foot this glorious flag wriggled and 

 crawled out of the pit of hell. That hell was a 

 liquor-hell." 



Sunday told of the farmer getting 50 cents for a 

 bushel of corn irom. which the brewer made 36 pints, 

 "With three of those pints Sunday declared eight 

 lives were wrecked, and three persons were sent to 

 the gallows. He stated what the Federal pure-food 

 laws required beer to be made of, and then gave 

 his version of what it really was made of, and he 

 hit at the administration that " kicked out old Dch; 

 Wiley, the best friend the American people ever had." 



I am beginning to have faith that Mr. 

 Sunday will (God sustaining and sparing 

 him) not only make the whole United States 

 dry, but that he alone will ultimately end the 

 war in Europe through Chi-ist Jesus, whose 

 representative and " embassador " he is — 

 " embassador to be, from realms beyond the 

 sea." 



(JUiiST10N.S IN JUDGXfENT. 



.Fohn .0, Keeler was hanged the other day at 

 Clearfield, Ind., because in a drunken frenzy he 

 murdered Joseph Roessner, the Clearfield brewer. 



What Keeler has told his God is not known; but 

 this is what he wrote to Rev. Dr. Reeve a few days 

 before he was strangled to death by the law : 



I can say with a clear mind that I was never sober 

 from the time I went to work at the Clearfield brew- 

 ery. I was full of booze all the. time, counting 

 Sunday with it, because I had a keg at home on 

 Sunday, and I did not have to get drunk to do what 

 I did. I am here for the murder of Joseph Roess- 

 ner, but I don't know if I killed him. I can't say. 

 If i could I should be glad to tell the public so, 

 because he made the booze and he gave it to me free 

 of charge, that made me a drunkard and a murderer. 

 It was Mr. Roessner's own product that murdered 

 him and made me a murderer. It was his beer that 

 put my family in distress and lots of other families 

 besides mine, 



I began my downward career at a saloon bar and 

 wound up at the Clearfield brewery. I will appear 

 at another bar, the judgment bar of God, and there 

 your Honorable Judge Smith and some of his law- 

 yers, and Joseph Roessner, and a good many more, 

 will appear with me and will be rightly judged. — 

 Westerville New Republic. 



" HOLDING THE FOKT," 



Mr. Hoot: — You will be glad to know that Van 

 Wert has voted dry by 300 ma.iority. We hope that 

 our town will follow the lead of the county seat. 



Convoy, 0,, .Ian. 9. .1, F, Alexander. 



