The Prague Patriot. (Prague, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 22, 1906 Page: 4 of 8
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THE PATRIOT.
INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS
Published Every Thursday in th« IcUrot
of Prague nd Vicinity.
The Suicide.
for m«*n to
V,. s. 0V{RSIRfET, Proprietor and <\
King h*-bei<J. uikI on tfr'at j ouJ
Business Manager.
Subscription Price $1 OO
Per Annum.
A /err v Ma<ie Kr.owij _n A; p'l a*'.ou
in Fw-on or by I>-it«r
The Venezuelan navy Is to Ik- mobil-
ized, and ft would be well to insp- <'
li'-r boilers t fori' getting s'-ai,. s j,
Tak-
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thou
al rob#- He
wen t ( r ir.;
I; must have been a humoris' who
induced the Chinese royal commission
to go to the capitol "to see congress
work."
It can't be a love match between
King Alfonso and Princess Kna. They
write- to each other on illustrated
i ost cards.
A motorist at Orruond beach has
achieved the f nsational feat of re-
maining alive after making a mile in
28 R*'<ond<-
The foreman of th< composing room
And kr*-p it lean, a-s* doth b*ftt its make
A f. W -r, -f --.id' 'he T ' •
Th* l. im.ion hi*. ?houUltm l*ore
At! filthy, vara, and mutilate.
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Honest Saloortkesper.
Tombstone, Ariz., claims credit for
the frankest saloonkeeper in the
Hailed States He keeps the- Temple
Bar Saloon. and advertises his bnsi-
nef- with most surprising frankness
"Allow me to inform you that you
' are
; ti si:
c fools." he nay?, >< t ills place is i roan become a nerve-man? T
ufclljr filled. He maintains that he ho.-free air of America as c
-esult is that the properly instructed
ire en erinc into their inhc-ritance of
commercial supremacy in tne world.''
On 'he continent, a close observer
of world conditions. Justus Gaule. M.
D. professor of physiology in the
I'niversitj rif Zurich. Switzerland,
says:
"In America, step by step the ma-
! chir..* ha- taken '.he p'ace of muscles,
' until on!; the American's nervous sys-
em is needed to con'rol and make the
machine serve him completely. It Is
characteristic of the American work-
man that he has become a nerve-man.
The time has r.ow come when the
mii-cle-man and the nerve-man must
measure forces with each other.
"But how has the American work-
The nleo-
Com pared
LESSON EIGHT—FEBRUARY 25.
—The Son of man hath power on earth to forgive s;ns.—Matfc
is an lion< st saloonkeeper, and 'hat with that of the countries of Europe
' w!.. not hurt hi business to ■ -1* '8 aI1 explanation. ... In a rivalrj be-
j the truth about it. He has printed an tween the old and n<-w world on the
iadve.tiing card which would make j 'Jasis of present ability *o produce,
an exc !i< nt manuscript for ? temp- i !1>" oM "'"rid would have to go under,
peranee lecture. Copies ar«- being cir- | Mary H. Hunt, in Journal of Edit
culated through the Western states cation.
and are attracting much attention —"
• The card reads as follows Nursing and Total Abstinence.
Friends and Neighbors: I am grate- j Every nurse kuows that most
it a Dublin newspaper has been elect- (|i, foj (; s, fav0;s an<1 having sup- | warts in her hospital would have an
ed lord mayor, thus doubling his re
- possibilities.
The affix 'off'' to a Russian official's
name appears to carry with it not
:>nly the whole name but the luckless
m c I a 1 himself.
plied my store with a fine line of empty look if all the victims of al-
ehoice wines ;.nd liquors, allow me cohol in some form or other were
The report that Marry I.ehr has
l een guilty of tattling seems to have
l een due to a typographical <-rror. He
«a« only tatting.
"Twiddle Twaddle" is the name of
a new farce produced in New York.
This completely disarms the critics
by its rare candor.
The two French officers who recent-
ly fought with swords for more than
an hour must have mastered all the
science of defence.
Mr. Kipling has as yet written no
poem to celebrate the liberal victory.
The silence of the "poet laureate of
the empire" Is ominous.
The officials of the Ice trust In New
York say that they have no fear of an
Ice famine but then, they have m.
reason to be afraid of one.
It is rather discouraging, but the
' zar seems to be able to appoint gov-
t mors and such as fast as the anarch-
ists can assassinate them.
to inform you that I sha'.l continue
to make drunkards, paupers and beg-
gars for the sober, industrious, re-
spectal/e part of the community to
suppert. My liquors will excite riot,
robbery and bloodshed.
weeded out. Every district nurse
sees that one of the chief barriers to
even the poorest leading clean and
self-respecting lives is their habit of
spending far too large a proportion of
the week's earnings in intoxicants.
Increase your expenses and shorten
life. I shall confidently recommend
them as sure to multiply fatal acci-
dents and incurable diseases.
They will deprive some of life
others of reason, many of characters
and all of peace. They will make
fathers fiends, wives widows, children
orphans, anil all poor. I will train
your sons In infidelity, dissipation. Ig-
norance, lewdness and every other
vice. I will corrupt the ministers of
religion, obstruct the gospel, defile
the church, and cause as much tem-
i pornl and eternal death as I can. I
wiil thus "accommodate the public":
il miij be at the loss of my never
dying soul. Hut I have 'i family to
I support—the business pays—and the
public eneouragt s it.
1 have paid my license and the
traffic is lawful; and if I don't sell it.
somebody else will. I know the Bible
says: "Thou shalt not kill." "No
drunkard shall enter the kingdom of
heaven," and I do not expect the
drunkard maker to fare any better
but I want an easy living, and I have
resolved to gather the wages of in-
The first white woman born In St. *
. . ,, , . Iquity and fatten on the ruin of mv
Paul. Minn., has just died, and she
They will diminish your comforts And In the houses of the well to do,
in spite of "three bottle men" having
departed with the change in national
habits, the private nurse sees that
many of her patients are suffering,
directly or indirectly, from alcohol-
ism. Only those who have done the
work know how much inducement
there is to the private nurse to drink.
We do not say temptation, for it is
not a temptation to one in a hundred,
but there is the perpetual invitation
to drink. It continually happens that
the first greeting at a new house is:
"Won't you have a glass of something
before you go upstairs?" and a "little
drop of brandy, after such a nasty
job" was a daily suggestion to a
young nurse after finishing a dress-
ing that had to be repeated several
times a day. Two nurses, in charge
of a severe case of pneumonia in a
suburban hotel, found a bottle of
whisky in the bedroom of the elder,
but, as they remarked afterwards:
Nurse So and So was put off with a
bottle of port; I suppose they thought
her o. little too young for spirits!"
j species.
1 shall, therefore; carry on my busi-
ness with energy and do my best to
diminish the wealth of the nation and
endanger the safety of the state. As
... , „ , „ , , i my business flourishes In proportion
bottles of laudanum. Insatiate bride . 1 1
j to your sensuality anu ignorance, I
I will do my best to prevent moral
purity and intellectual growth.
Should you doubt my ability I refer
! you to the pawnshops, the noorhouse,
! the police court, the hospital, the peni-
tentiary nd tlif gallows, where you
wasn't quite sixty two years old. The
middle west Is yet a youth.
"A Suffolk. Va., bridegroom, after
being married two weeks, drank three
groom, would not one suffice?
When it comes our turn to be asked
which is the most useless word In the
English language we shall reply,
"bank." Wo have no use for It.
They are beginning to wear trous-
ers ixl Samoa. All the world Is getting
civilized, and travel lacks the pictures-
que experiences that it used to have.
A Frenchman has an invention
which will make it possible for men
(o sign checks from a long distance
What grudge has ho against htis-
bandsT
Congressman Maynard suggests the
Idea of coining silver pieces In aid
of the Jamestown exposition. They
would be fine to drop in the contribu-
tion box.
Tlio Moorish commissioner nt Al-
^eciras took all his wives with him.
Ono would naturally think he would
find trouble enough in the conference
without that.
The first of America's native grand
opera Is called "The Pipe of Desire,"
which is fairly symbolic of the na-
tion's characteristic restlessness and
dissatisfaction.
Tho world lost one of lis bravest,
knlghtllest souls and the United
States one of Its most patriotic citi-
zens when Fighting .!« •■ Wheeler w< nt
out.—Chicago Tribune.
A theatrical trust bus decided to
drop Shakespeare for a time. Is this
prompted by jealousy? Shakespeare
has remained a sort of dramatic trust
all these ages, and his monopoly is tin-
shaken.
Napt'ltxin Bonaparte nnd Comn.o-
doro Stephen Decatur never could
have dreamed that a time would come
when two descendants of their lllus
trlous families would become involved
In American naval mlxup.
will find many of my best customers
have gone. A siKht of them will con-
vince you that 1 do what I say. Allow
me to inform you that you are Pools
and that I am ail honest saloonkeeper.
—Montreal Herald.
Fruits of Education.
The close observer of human prog-
ress knows that changes for the bet-
ter In individual habits mil conse-
qu< nt Improved social conditions do
not causelessly come. Through some
instrumentality the seeds of truth
have been sown that have borne fruit
in these desired changes. The Journa'
of Education of Nov. 23 says:
"There is no question but that
drunkenness has fallen off grandly . . .
and largely because It is 'not busi-
ness' for any man to drink. Com
merclalism is proving a great tem
peranee worker."
Among the results of "commercial
ism as a temperance worker" • are
greater productive ability and conse-
quent advantage In trade. Foreign
competitors have not been slow to
trace these advantages to their source
The London Standard of Sept. 1, 19<i2
commenting on the gneater sobriety
and hence Increased efficiency of I be
American workmnn, says:
"We have all been made familiar
with the power of American capital,
tho stress of American competition,
•mil th<' superiority of the American
workman. Much of these nre due to
i system of national education In sci-
entific temperance In its bearing upon
national efficiency.
"By the laws of all the states, In-
struction In .scientific temperance Is
required In the public elementary
-cliools. Under these laws are the
more than 22,000,000 children of
chool age. All Ibis has taken place
within the past twenty years. The
Railway Officials and Drink.
At the International Anti-Alcoboi
Congress, held at Buda-Pesth, last
autumn, the important subject cf rail-
way service and its relation to drink
was exhaustively treated by Dr. Stein
the secretary of the International
I'nkm of Railways. He stated that
lrink was the commonest cause of
breach of the regulations, both by
passengers and railway servants. As
the gravest danger was involved in
carelessness or neglect of the intri-
cate precautions for the safety of the
traffic, it would bo advisable to pro
hibit the men from drinking even
when not on duty. An international
combined action by all governments
in this direction was advocated by
Dr. Stein. Only total abstainers, he
went on to say, ought to be appointed
to the responsible offices of station-
master, blockhouseman, and junction
master. As even a very moderate
quantity of alcohol was likely serious-
ly to interfere with the sensitiveness
of the retina to color, on no account
whatever should an engine driver
take a glass of beer, or something
similar, before starting on his way.
The ideal condition would be a tee-
total staff.
"Crime is Condensed Alcohol."
A remarkably strong condemnation
of the drink traffic was uttered at
Church Congress at Weymouth Eng
land by the chaplain of Preston Jail
ilev. St. O. Caulfelld. He pointed out
the fallacy of the common opinion
that all prisoners belonged to what ls
called "the criminal class," "whereas
In reality they spring from every
class and profession in society—high
ind low, rich and poor." Mr. Caulfelld
said, as to the causes:
"The first is drink, this stands head
•ind shoulders above every other, and
those who say that nineteen out of
every twenty convictions are caused
by indulgence in alcohol are not far
from the mark. Crime, Is indeed, con
densed alcohol."
Coming, as they do, from one whose
statements are based upon minister
lal experiences In a large prison,
these words have a weight and Im-
portance which cannot be decried.—
London Christian.
The usual fortune of complaint
Is to excite contempt more than pltv
—Johnson.
GOLDEN TEXT.
1:10.
I. Preaching the Gospel of Forgiv-
ing Love —Vs. 1, 2. The Missionary
Tour. The next morning after the
great Sabbath day of preaching an!
healing, Jesus rose very ear!;, and
went out of th( r i: ;• to a lonely place
and there prayed (Mark 1:o5l The
work was growing rapidly, and Jesus
needed heavenly communion.
Return to Capernaum. "After some •
days." The length of time is indefi- .
nite. but not very long since it is
measured by days instead of weeks. .
"It was noised.", It is remarkable •
how rapidly news spreads in the East,
without any of the newspapers or rail-
roads or telegraphs of our day and
country.
The House where Jesus was Stay-
ing. "That he was In the house.'
"Either the house which he occupied
with his mother and his brethren
(Matt. 4:13) or possibly that of St
Peter." — Cambridge Bible lor
Schools.
The Audience. 2. "Many were gath-
ered together," including Pharisees 1
and doctors of the law from all parts
of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem
(Luke 5:17). These were the most
influential and learned of the Jews.
The young teacher was treating a
wide excitement.
The Preaching. "He preached
(spake) the word unto them." The
goodness of the kingdom of heaven,
the blessings which that Gospel
brought, the forgiveness of sins, and
repentance as the necessary condi-
tion of receiving the blessings.
II. The Coming of One who Need-
ed Forgiveness.—V. 3. In another part
of the city ras a man sick of the
palsy, who, having suffered long, had
heard of the new prophet with his
Gospel and his healing power.
III. The Beginnings and Growth "of
Faith.—-Vs. 3, 4. (1) The first mark
of faith was the fact that the man de-
sired so earnestly to go to Jesus.
3. "Borne of four." One at each
corner of the stretcher on which the
bed was laid. This was the next proof
of faith. The man's faith must have
inspired these others.
"Could not come nigh unto him for
the press." TS e crowd which filled
the house, and the narrow street on
which the door opened. "They un-
covered," literally, dug through, "the
j roof," which was made of branches
and twigs covered over with earth,
and could be easily dug through, and
as easily repaired. "They let down
the bed." A mattress two or three
inches thick.
IV. An Example of Sins Forgiven.
—V. 5. The incident that seemed to
be an interruption of Jesus' discourse
was beautifully turned by him into an
| illustration and enforcement of his
teaching. "When Jesus saw their
faith." The faith went far deeper
than a hope for bodily healing. This
may be one reason why Jesus took fie
course that he did. He showed (1)
that redemption from sin was worth
more than redemption from disease;
(.') that only by being saved from sin
cou'd tho bodily cure bo permanent, or
most valuable; (3) he held up before
them an object lesson of faith, so that
they could see what faith was, how it
saved and how it was manifested.
There was always danger that the otU-
| ward healing would absorb too much
attention, It was good indeed, but of
small value unless it led to better
| lives and renewed souls. "He said
I . . . Son." Expressing sympathy
! and a kindly feeling. Mattbew adds,
"lie of good cheer." "Thy sins be
(are) forgiven thee." The past is
washed away. You are received back
again to your Heavenly Father's favor
and love, as the prodigal son to his
father's home. This forgiveness was
doubtless tho very boon which above
all others the young man needed and
desired. Jesus was reading b is heart.
V. The Test and Proof of Jesus'
Power to Forgiveness.—Vs. G-12.
There were certain of tho scribes."
.Mi n of letteis, teachers of the law,
who had come down from Jerusalem
to investigate what Jesus was doing.
•Reasoning." "The word 'dialogue' Is
derived from the original of this
! word; and the meaning literally is
thnt they held a dialogue with them-
selves."—M. R. Vincent. "In their
hearts." Not speaking it openly.
"This man thus speak blasphem-
ies? ' To blaspheme is to slander
God, to speak evil, impiously, of God.
in this case it was arrogating to him-
self what belonged only to God, thus
making God like a mere man. Blas-
phemy is practically uttered treason
against God. "Who can forgive sins
but God only?" Sins are against God,
and therefore only God can forgive
them; for in the nature of things only
he against whom the offense has been
committed can forgive. I can for-
give the evil done to myself, but I
cannot forgive the evil do!e Co my
neighior. He only can forgive thai
So that the reasoning of the scribes
was right: "Only God can forgive
sins."
"Why reason ye." Matthew says.
"Wherefore think ye evil?" Why do
you misjudge, and put an evil con-
struction on my words?
"Ye may know that the Son of
man." The Messiah, "the head and
representative of the new humanity,"
the Son of God manifested in the
flesh. "Hath power." Both right and
might, authority and power. Tho
proof lies in the indorsement of God
to Jesus' claims to be the Messiah.
The miracle was the signature of God
to his nature and mission.
It was quite as essential that the
man himself should know, as for the
people generally. He would need the
divine assurance that the promise of
forgiveness came from God. All the
blessedness and hope of his life de-
pended on it.
"Arise." Which would be impossi-
ble without a miracle. "Take up thy
bed." This would show the complete-
ness of the cure on the spot, which
would be impossible if the cure were a
medical result.
"He arose, took up the bed, and
went forth before them all." A living
witness to Jesus, unimpeachable, and
making the cure a visible illustration
of the work which Jesus came to do.
"Insomuch that they were all amazed."
Luke adds, "They were filled with
fear." The miracle awakened a re-
ligious awe in their minds, such as
men ever feel in the presence of a
great and mysterious power. Here
was one also who had unlimited pow-
er; what might he not do to them?
Had they secret sins unforglven? But
they also saw the goodness of God;
his forgiving love; his readiness to
help; and this, too, for the sinful and
helpless. This was the most amazing
: thing of all. This was like the an-
gels' song of "Peace, good will to
men." It was the proof of the im-
1 mortal revelation that "God so loved
the world that lie gave his only be-
gotten Son that whosoever believeth
in him should have eternal life." "And
glorified God." Luke adds, "saying.
We have seen strange things to-day."
They ascribed the honor and glory to
God, as the source of this beneficent
power. The good deeds of God's chil-
dren honor God, and lead the souls of
j men toward him (Matt. 5:16).
VI. A Study of the Forgiveness of
I Sin. The Heart of the Lesson.—As
exemplified in the healing of the par-
alytic.
First, the Need of Forgiveness lies
(1) in the fact that all have sinned.
No "flattery mirror" can so deceive
the soul as to make ono believe that
his moral portrait is that of a perfect
man.
Forgiveness does not remove all the
ton sequences of sin. It cannot bring
'jack the slain, it cannot remove the
fact of sin. It cannot immediately re-
move the scarlet letter, as in Haw
thorne's romance It leaves certain
marks and scars on tho soul. And
this is the warning again t sin. It is
folly to sin, imagining that It is easy
to recover lrom Its effects.
It does remove the penalty of sin.
It does bring back many blessings
that sin has forfeited. It does restore
the outward expressions of God's fa-
vor. We cannot conceive of a pardon
hat goes on punishing the same as
before. We do not forgive another if
it makes no change in our actions to
ward him. We do not forgive a debt
if we continue to press for its pay-
ment.
Forgiveness is chiefly restoration
to the family and favor of God. And
this is a far higher blessing than the
removal of suffering. Sin has set us
in opposition to God, so that we do
not teel at home in his presence. For-
giveness brings us close to the heart
of God, into oneness with him.
Forgiveness, therefore, is remission
of sin, a deliverance from tho love of
sin. a heart that hates sin.
In the Lord's Prayer the condition
of being forgiven is that we forgive
those who have trespassed against us.
For no one can bo truly penitent, or
fitted to receive forgiveness from God,
unless he has a forgiving spirit to-
ward his enemies. Compare the par-
able ot the two debtors.
Forgiveness conies through Jesus
Christ.
He inspires us with faith in the love
of God.
His very coming is a proof of God's
willingness to forgive.
His atonement makes It. safe in a
moral world to forgive sins. It takes
away from sinners the feeling that
God is Indifferent to sin, and impress-
es on them tho awful evil of sin, as
well as the Infinite love of God.
He furnishes us with new motives
for repenting and living a true Ufa.
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