The Prague Patriot. (Prague, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 18, 1906 Page: 4 of 8
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THE PATRIOT.
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Published Every Thursday In the Intere*t
of Prague and Vicinity.
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Ui Portion or bj Letter.
Anions musicians it has always been
sipposed that the true magnetic Pole
was Paderewslil.
Nevertheless, the average prize-
fighter would be unwise to seek trou-
ble with Mr. Fitzsimmons.
So Fiona Mcleod was William
Sharp, who has just died In Sicily.
Now, don't say you knew it nil along.
"Chinese Again in Arms?" inquires
a newspaper headline. Certainly,
some of them; those under one year
old.
The Little Bad Boy.
Phe had little boy has gone to sleep.
On<- hand still shut til a stubborn lift.
| As though in his dreams he would boldly
keep
Minis. II In position to reslHt.
| The bad little boy throughout the day
Has broken the home rules, one by one,
Has found for his feet the forbidden way,
j Hits left mi disturbing thing undone.
The bad little boy—his faee is enlm,
j Save that u faint nmlle Is elingtng there;
| And now a forgiving, gentle palm
i Sinncitbs nil of the tunglea from his
hair;
And now be is lifted into place
Hy arms unfelt in his slumbers deep;
And nothing but good shows in his face—
The bad little boy has gone to sleep.
O, nil of his pranks and vexing ways
And all of tils mischief is forgot
When down through the vale of dreams
he strays;
And all the reproof that once was hot
Dies out with the sigh that swells the
heart
When softly we bend over liim and kiss
Ills cheek—and we swiftly thrust apart
Ills deeds of the day, when he sleeps
like this.
So. may It not te, when you and I
Ah bad little boys lie down in sleep,
The angel that marks our deeds on high
May come on the wings of gentle sweep
And bend over us with a patient sigh.
When all of our blind rebellions cease—
And whisper to stieh as are you and 1;
"Your day is forgiven you; sleep In
peace"?
—W. D. N., In Chicago Tribune.
A man realizes that his wife isn't
an angel when he has to help her
into her dresses that button up 'he
back.
New York drinks $1,000,000 worth
of liquor every day. That is, New
York pays $1,000,000 a day for liquor
to drink.
May Yohe now asks for a divorce
from Putnam Bradlee Strong as a
matter of form, or habit, it is difficult
to tell which.
A girl is suing a rich man for $10,000
damages because he kissed her once.
It is wrong for a man to tantalize a
girl that way.
Admiral Togo says. "Victors tie
your helmet strings tighter!" Is that
bo they will not be tempted to talk
through their hats?
Mexico, with a comfortable surplus
on han*l, cheerfully corroborates Fred
Grant's assertion that it is easier to
handle than a deficit.
Some of Dr. Osier's published ex-
pressions seem calculated to bear out
Ills theory that a man over 40 is lack-
ing In Intellectual power.
It must break Castro's heart to see
another South American republic
figuring in an international complica-
tion in which he has no part.
That New York manager may be
right In thinking he can give opera
without chorus girls, but we'll bet he
can't sell it—not in New York.
During the first ten months of the
year just closed 25,000 Americans car-
ried $10,000,000 to Canada. No, Rol-
lo; they were not bank cashiers.
Vice Chancellor Stevenson of Jersey
City has just rendered a decision on
the bench that a woman's tongue can-
not be enjoined. He must be married.
Abdul Hamid has promised to
make reforms In Macedonia, though It
may be doubted whether the people
living there will ever know about
this.
A California physician declares that
brain action in the creation of thought
is electrical In its nature. That would
account for a great many shocking
ideas.
Says the Portland Oregonlan. "no
woman ever looked like a goddess In
a dressing sacque." And a goddess in
a dressing sacque is not at her best
at that.
An esteemed contemporary's office
poet yearned for a Christmas gift in
the form of "her wet little kiss on my
cheek" How would merely a damp
one answer?
Does Prof. Osier's advice to elderly
men to keep away from men of their
own age and associate with their
juniors mean that they ought to go out
■with the boys?
Deeds, Not; Years.
Do something: Methuselah lived ta
be 900 years old, but little else about
him ever got Into print.—John A.
Howland.
Manuscript Brings $1,000.
The manuscript of Swinburne'*
"First Book of Ballads" has been sold
for $1,000.
Disease Blamed to Flea.
The common flea is bow suspects/
•f causing many g«rm dtiea ««
Workingmen's Wages Wasted.
Economic theorists are frequently
criticized for reducing the social ques-
tion to one of the stomach, or, In other
words, attributing all social ills to a
defective economic system. But one-
sided as this theory is, it nevertheless
contains a large amount of truth. The
student who concerns himself with
any social question will, if he excludes
j from his study a consideration of eco-
{ nomlc facts, inevitably reach false
] conclusions and adopt views not sus-
| tained by the facts. This is especially
| true of the alcohol question. It is a
| moral and a physiological question, it
j is true, but it is also an economic
| question.
Now the workingman, with his
j small income, hardly sufficient for his
j simplest needs, cannot indulge in lux-
{ uries without curtailing necessities,
and alcoholic drinks, even taken in
moderation and allowing every pos-
sible claim, constitute a dangerous
I luxury. Unfortunately the masses be-
lieve them to be a necessity and it is
this fallacy which is responsible for
j ihe serious conditions noted below.
All this we have known, or at least
j suspected, for a long time. But for
the sake of scientific accuracy, it is
J '.veil to compare the expense accounts
of workingtnen, published from time
lo time, with our suspicions and see
whether the two tally:
Some years ago Sherwell and Rown-
iree called attention to the large pro-
portion of his earnings which the
British workingman spends on liquors.
Blocher and l.andmann, of Bale, also
j made a study of expense statistics
with relation to drink. But a more
recent investigation, carried on by Dr.
Fuchs, factory inspector at Karlsrube,
Germany, Is especially worthy of care-
ful study.
M. Fuchs knows these rural dis-
tricts. half industrial and half agricul-
tural, "from the ground up." He has
investigated the civil and industrial
conditions, wages, food and the intel-
I li'cttml and moral life of the communi-
ties studied.
In a general discussion the author
j treats the subject of defective ali-
i mentation at great length. He says the
wages are sometimes too small to pro-
j vide nourishing food; or when the
j wages are sufficient, ignorance of food
| values, etc., drives the workingman to
obtain sustenance of a kind that does
not commend itself to his good sense.
Thus alcoholic drinks play an Import-
; ant part in his diet. If a man works
I at a distance from home he lunches at
■ the saloon. He eats sausage and
| bread, and supplements this meagre
fare with two half liters of beer. Thus
j prejudice obliges even the sober and
industrious workingman to waste an
important part of his wages in drink.
Dr. Fuchs follows these general ob-
servations with a detailed study of the
expense accounts of fourteen families
which represent the average fairly
well. From his extensive tables the
following condensed figures are taken:
(a) The number of members in a
family, children under fourteen being
counted one-half.
(b) Quantity of wine, beer, and
brandy consumed by each family, with
its cost.
(c) Quantity of milk consumed and
cost of same.
(d) The proportion of wage devot-
ed to food.
(c) Total Income of family.
Milk is taken for comparison with
alcoholic drinks as constituting a pe-
culiarly Important article of food.
Family "0" spend Sua marks for al-
coholics out of 1,856 marks spent in
food, almost half, while for milk, they
spend only 109 marks, Family "10"
composed of two persons, spends 259
marks for alcohol and 54 marks for
milk.
The average of the fourteen budgets
reveals a sad state of affairs. With
an average laconic
these families sj • n; i' ,
milk and 207.50 ff.;u
Wc thus see that •; i
cent of the total ;• <
cent of food I M rir v. !
forms 12.3 per Cen of ti--. «.
20.7 per cent a filth, < f the .
pense.—I)r. K. Herod.
The Lic.cnticu- Mi '!• A -.
Luther says that woen
young most people, even the v/t '•
do, drank water, hardly tastln;; v I:
before their thirtieth year.
however, they drench even chll ..-
with wines, the strongest and iai'.io
ed, even using also distilled liquor
Drunkenness, he says, I ad become t
rule. Licensed shops are sprlu;; r.
up every day, and "drink-orders
Sauforden—and drinking songs v.-or
the order of the day. In 1540 Nuren
berg employed an ambulance to pi.
trol the streets and carry away tin
fallen drunkards. "Wounds withou
cause" and all manner of crimes o
violence on persons and prop r;j
were common. Public business was
in large measure, suspended. T. <
"inventorying" of property often swal
lowed up its whole value through the
gorging and swilling of the long-delay
ing officials. We may remember that
Frederick the Great found law-ease;
of two hundred years' standing—
"Jarndyce and Jarndyce." "Goo 1'
Monday—our "blue" Monday—was
the day of revelry and riots, when
the working people compensated them
selves for any abstinence of the week
before. It goes without saying that
the universities were deeply affected
by the prevalent debauchery. In the
latter half of the sixteenth century.
Giordano Bruno visited several ol
these institutions. He speaks in terms
of praise of the natural strong h oi
German intellect, but adds, "In Ger
many drunkenness is celebrated, hon
ored and accounted l.eroic, reckoned,
indeed, among the godlike qualities
Drinking, health-pledging, departures,
and re-drinking, even to spewing
('hog of hogs'), is praised." Elector
kugust of Saxony, in 1557, complains
of the shameful village customs. Peas-
ants "begin church festivals the day
before; carouse all night, miss the
service altogether, or come drunk to
church and snore like hogs through
the worship. Often the church is be-
fouled; liquor is brought in and swal
lowed during service, and the com-
munion wine is swilled dow a amid
curses. Often the drunken pries s in
the church turn the worship in o ridi
cule." Martins quoted, from the
Salzburg Chronicle of 1587, the state-
ment that the Salzburg peasantry "sit
and sing day and night by their wine
sporting and gambling; boorish, given
up to drunkenness, they must clos>
every trade with wine; they are for-
getful of God. antl dishonor his name
—Christian Standard.
LESSON THREE—JANUARY 21.
pQI TEXT —Jesus increased in wisdom and statute, and In fa\oui ^ 1 Lbi
God and man.—Luke 2:52.
Abstain, for the Example.
Not a drunkard lives to-day oa earth
that intended to be a drunkard Am:
yet, most drinkers think themselve.-
so strong they can safely dally with
a foe that has slain many of the
world's greatest poets and statesmen;
and so appeal is in this lesson made
to a higher motive; Abstain for th<
sake of others. "We that are stron?
enough to bear the infirmities of the
weak, and not to please ourselve.-."
No one has a moral right to do for
pleasure what if all the world fol'owj
hTs example will produce more harm
than good.
Many a noble man has given up t;
drink, in which he saw no harm foi
hlmse'f, lest his example should leaf1,
some weaker brother to drunkenness
And surely, if drink were only a harm
less pleasure It would not be worth
while to wreck even one life for hot I
worlds to enjoy it, when there are so
many pleasures in which there are no
perils. No man should consider th<
saloon from an individual point o-
view alone. Suppose it were true
that scores of men who go to the sa
loon get no harm either from its in
toxicants, its pictures, or its fellow
ships. The question that every sup
porter of the saloon on the inside or
outside must face is, whether in its
total effect the saloon does not pro
mote drunkenness, antl impurity, and
gambling, and Sabbath-breaking, and
other social disorders. If I think it
does not harm me, I must yet oppose
It, because it will harm others, and
society in general.—Christian Her-
ald.
Want None but Temperate Men.
The company which operates the
New York subway system owned by
the city, has taken a 'radical stand
against drink. "Take a drink antl
you lose your job" Is. in effect, the
dictum that has just gone forth. All
successful applicants for positions are
required to sign a total abstinence
pledge as a condition of their being
employed. The company employ!
thousands of men.
i. The Home in Nazareth.—Naza-
reth was a small, unnoted village ly-
ing in a deep cup-like valley among
the hills of southern Galilee, on the
edge of the great Esdraelon valley, the
scene of so much of the history of
Israel.
The Family consisted of Joseph and
Mary, both persons of exemplary piety
and character; Jesus and his brothers
and sisters (Matt. 13:55, 56), at least
those who were so called and mem-
bers of the family. This is a great
blessing and education for any child.
II. The Character of the Boy Jesus.
Vs. 40, 51, 52. V. 40 refers to the
period before he was 12 years old.
Sturdy Growth. 40. "And the child
grew, and waxed (became by natural
progressive growth) strong." Refer-
ring to his bodily development in size
and strength. "In spirit" is an inser-
tion by some early copyist, from Luke
1:80, and is therefore omitted in both
Revisions. Jesus was an active, vig-
orous, sturdy boy. He was what we
mean by "a real boy," full of life and
energy, ready for every boyish deed,
only he used all this strength and ac-
tivity in pure and noble ways, in help-
ing his mother, in just and loving ac-
tions to his fellows. He was a suc-
cess as a boy. He avoided everything
that would wtAken his body or injure
his health.
Mental and Moral Growth. "Filled
with wisdom." Not already full, but
in course of being filled with wis-
dom, mind as well as body being sub-
ject to the law of growth."—Exposi-
tor's Greek Test.
Jesus was wise in every direction—
in his common sense as applied to
daily life, in mental studies and opin-
ions, and in his moral decisions. And
this wisdom was one great source of
his strength. The bad habits which
weaken boys are the fruit of folly, not
of wisdom.
The Gracious Winsomeness that
Comes from God. "And the grace of
God." Grace is originally that which
gives pleasure, as loveliness of form,
the graces of character, and the vir-
tues in their loveliest aspect. Hence,
the grace of God was his favor which
"was upon him," in which he lived and
breathed, and which produced all that
Is beautiful in character and heaven-
ly in life, guarding from evil. In this
favor he "increased" (v. 52).
In Favor with Man. Jesus was "full
of grace and truth" (John 1:14); he
possessed "the beauty of holiness,"
hence he "increased," "advanced"
(Revisions) "in favor," not only with
God, but "with . . . man" (v. 52).
He won all hearts. He had not only
goodness, but goodness in attractive,
gracious, lovely forms. Such good-
ness is attractive to all (Prov. 3:4),
except to bad men when it is com-
pelled to reprove their badness and
interferes with their life.
The Perfect Boy in the Home. 51.
He "was subject unto them," to his
mother as well as to his father. The
form of the expression "was" with
a participle, indicates continuous, hab-
itual obedience. He was obedient to
his parents, as every child should be.
There is no manliness in disobedience
or in resenting the control of parents
or teachers, any more than in disobey-
ing the laws of nature or the laws of
the land. It is both weakness and
folly to disobey.
III. The Education of Jesus and Its
Lessons. 1. His Home Training.
There is nothing so important to a
child—all other educational forces to-
gether are not so important—as a true
home and family life, where the child,
as Helvetius says, "Is at school already
with the two great teachers, Nature
and Love." This is the true kinder-
garten (the Jews sometimes called
their schools "gardens"). Church,
school, Sunday school, can help the
home, but none can take its place if
the home is what It should be.
2. Bible Study. The larger part of
his early studies was in the Bible,
our Old Testament. Ho learned much
of it by heart. The Bible stories were
so familiar as to pervade his life like
an atmosphere. The Bible was his
school text-book, and there has never
been a better. It taught him morals
and language and literature and his-
tory and religion.
3. Public Worship In the Synagogue,
their church, called the House of Pray-
er or House of the Congregation. Here
he was a constant attendant at ser-
vices which were meant for instruc-
tion as well as worship. Here "he
sat among the other boys of Nazareth
in the back seats, behind the chief
worshipers." Such Sabbath worship
is an education which the negleeter of
Sabbath assemblies falls to receive, al
though he Is unconscious of his loss.
4. Training by Public Meetings
There were various rt.ligious antl so-
cial feasts, calling to mind great
truths, when Jesus hi ml the trumpets
blowing to summer: the people. Then
from the time he wash 12 years old
Jesus took an annual journey to Je-
rusalem with his parents and neigh-
bors to attend one or more of the
great annual religious feasts.
5. His Schools. To the synagogue
was attached a school, in which Jesus
learned to read and write.
6. Nature Studies. That Jesus was
familiar with Nature is shown by the
fact that the preaching and teaching
of Jesus is full of allusions to nature,
to birds, plants, seeds, sheep, moun-
tains, floods, fields, flowers, the sea-
sons, storms, sunshine, sunsets.
7. The Training in the Carpenter's
Shop. Jesus learned the trade of a
carpenter from his father (Matt. 13;
55; Mark 6:1-3). "There is a beauti-
ful tradition that Joseph, his reputed
father, died while Jesus was a child
(not till after he was 12 years old),
and so he worked not merely to earn
his own living, but to keep the little
home together in Nazareth, and Mary
and the younger members of the fam-
ily depended upon his toil." The neces-
sity of working for daily living is "the
seed plot of the manly virtues," in
which grow skill, faithfulness, hones-
ty, sobriety, self-denial. The spiritual
motive transfigures the lowliest toil,
when the smallest acts are done with
the highest motives, love, faith, truth,
service, devotion.
One of the greatest blessings that
can come to a child is the necessity
and privilege of taking part in the
daily home duties.
IV. A Distinct Era in the Life ol
th* Boy.—Vs. 41-50. Jesus had now
come to that age when children feel
the stirrings of a larger life. He was
'.2 years old, and developed mentally
ani physically as much as a boy ol
14 or 15 years in this colder climate.
51. "His parents went to Jerusalem
every year." Like deeply and wisely
religious people they did not neglect
the great religious meetings. "At the
feast of the passover." The greatest
religious feast of the Jews, commem
orating the birth of the nation. Set
Ex. 12:13-20; 23; 15; Deut. 16:16.
42. "They went up." Jesus being
included in the company.
43. "And when they had fulfilled
the days." The seven days of the
Passover (Ex. 12:15; Deut. 16:3). "As
they returned," were returning. "Knew
not of it." Showing the perfect trust
they had learned to show their boy,
44. "In the company" with whom
they made the journey. "And they
sought him." "It was probably when
the caravan halted for the night that
he was first missed."
45. "They turned back again." A
single act. "Seeking him."
46. "After three days." Reckoned
from the departure of the caravan
from Jerusalem: one for the journey
out, one for the return, and one for the
search in the city. "They found hin:
in the temple." Not in the temple
proper, but in one of the porches oi
chambers of the temple area, and be
Ion ting to the temple. "Sitting in th«
midst tit the doctors." The teachers
eminent rabbis who at this season
would be discussing the great ques
tions of the day. "Hearing them, and
asking them questions." Very much
as in a Bible class of to-day. He was
not putting himself forward, but was
doing what was natural and propel
for any boy.
47. "Astonished." Amazed, i. e.
thrown into a maze or labyrinth.
48. "And when they (Joseph and
Mary) saw him, they were amazed."
"Used of glad amazement."—Thayer
They had not dreamed of such honor tc
be given to their boy, or of such wis-
dom, such thoughts in the active
obedient, modest, perhaps reticent boy
in their household.
49. "And he said unto them, How
is it that ye sought me? " Why did
you go about the city searching foi
me? "Why did you not come directly
here?" "Wist ye not." Knew ye not.
"That I must be about my Father's
business?" In the Greek the noun
is omitted. "In the of my Father,"
"in the affairs of my Father, and,
therefore, in the house of my Father."
—Exp. Greek Test.
The Child in Our Father's House.
Every child should be trained to go
regularly to his Father's house, as one
of the worshipers and learners. The
presence of children in the preaching
service tends to make the preaching
more clear, simple, and vivid; and to
make prominent the great essentials
of divine truth. The great subjects
always contain something for children.
It is a bad sign not to see plenty of
children In tho church service.
The Sunday school service is as
really a part of the church service as
is the regular preaching service. It
can bo made a training school for the
giving, the praying, the singing, and
, all ps.rts of public worship.
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