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Bellefonte, Pa., April 4, 1902
A MARCH GLEE.
1 hear the wild goose honking
From out the misty night,
A sound of moving armies
On-sweeping in their might;
The river ice is drifting
Beneath their northern flight.
I hear the bluebird plaintive
From out the morning sky,
Or see his wings a-twinkle
That with the azure vie;
No other bird more welcome
No more prophetic ery.
I hear the sparrow’s ditty
A-pear my study door—
A simple song of gladness
That winter days are o'er;
My heart is singing with him,
I love him more and more.
1 hear the starling fluting
His liquid “0 ka-lee ;
I hear the downy drumming
His vernal reveille;
And from out the maple orchard
The nuthateh calls to me.
Oh, Spring is surely coming :
Her couriers fill the air;
Each morn are new arrivals,
Each night her ways prepare ;
I scent her fragrant garments,
Her foot is on the stair.
— By John Burroughs.
MIRANDY’'S ROW.
I warn’t never given to hankerin’ after
city folks an’ city way,’”’ observed Mus.
Oberbaugh, as they sat together at Widow
Diedrich’s quilting party ; ‘‘nn’ Griffin’s
Corners ud a-been quite as well off ef it ud
never heard of such things as summer
boarders.”
“That it would,” returned Mrs. Died-
rich, ‘‘ez anybody thet's had ’em knows.
They’re that finnicky over their victuals,
just past bearin’.”’
“They are thet, but there’s no denyin’
they’re right smart, some on ’em; an’ I
s’pose thet’s what’s taken Mirandy Ne-
vins.”'
‘‘Mirandy Nevins?’
baugh.
“Why, ain’t you heard she’s keepin’
steady company wi’ Arthur Morrison,
what’s boardin’ down to Mrs. Van Blum’s?’’
“‘Tiand sakes alive, ef thet don’t beat all !
Mirandy, what’s close onto 40 got a city
chap for a beau !”’
‘Yes, an’ awfully gone on him too, they
say. I tell you, Mirandy’s got to look
quite chipper.”’
Mrs. Oberbaugh was too much astonish-
said Mrs. Ober-
ed to reply, nothing quite so startling hav--
ing come within her notice for years.
‘1 hope he’s not after her money,’ Mrs.
Diedrich remarked, after a pause.
‘‘Bless you, no; a rich man like him
wouldn’t think shucks of Mirandy’s little
bit; but I guess he sees she’s a capital man-
ager, an’ll make things go twice ez far ez
one of them city gels.”
‘‘An’ Mirandy’sgot a beau at last. ‘Well,
well, well! TI hope it’ll turn out good.
But, mark my words,”’ concluded Mrs.
Obarbaugh, with an impressive shake of her
head, ‘‘you don’t often get much from a
late settin’ bust addled eggs.”’
**Yes, it was true ; Miranda Nevins, who
had never felt her heart warm under the
sun of love in her youth, was in widdle age
basking in a golden afternoon. Left an or-
phan in early childhood, she had been
adopted by a relative whose exacting ways
had made life very hard for the delicate
child. Then came long years of patient
nursing of the irritable, penurious invalid,
whom she would not leave becanse of a
fancied debt of gratitude. At 38 she found
herself free, and greatly to her surprise, the
absolute owner of $3,000, which the wretch-
ed old miser had hoarded even when need-
ing the necessaries of life. Youth, how-
ever, with its dreams, was gone and the
delicate prettiness she possessed as a girl
had heen destroyed hy care and toil. As
tne people at Griffin’s Corners expressed it,
‘‘Mirandy always held up the heavy end.”
Her life had been colorless and sad be-
yond expression; uot a single gleam of love
had come into it until she met Arthur Mor-
rison. He loved her—ah, it was impossi-
ble! so she told herself. But had she not
said the same when told of her fortune?
All day long the poor lonely woman, whose
empty heart hungered for affection, repeat-
ed the words, until at last all doubt was
banished.
She hardly listened when her lover spoke
of his wealth, of his handsome house in the
city, of the luxuries with which he would
surround her; he loved her, and in that as-
surance lay a wealth of riches: passing all
imagination. Everyone noticed how the old
careworn look passed away duiing those
days of her lately found happiness, and
when at times a blush would steal over her
face, it brought back the beauty of 20 years
ago. :
When the first tints of autumn were on
the woods Mr. Morrison departed, and Mi-
randa, after waiting patiently for that pre-
cious thing, her first love letter, wrote her-
self to the address he had given her. Every
morning the neat little woman with the pa-
tient eyes would drop into the general store
and post office and make a purchase while
the wail was being distributed, and though
she never ventured to ask if there was a
letter, her lingering steps and wistful looks
were perfectly understood. This had gone
on for some weeks, when one morning Mi-
randa received a letter from the dead letter
office, and found within it her own to
Arthur Morrison, scrawled over with differ-
ent street numbers and the statement that
no such person was known. For an hour
she sat, with the letter before her, trying
to unravel the mystery; it was easier to be-
lieve that the whole postal force of New
York was in league against her than that
her lover could be false. She would go to
New York, she would find him—ill, per-
haps ; poor, it might be ; dead, even ; but
false—never ?
Griffin’s Corners had, according to its
custom, taken the liveliest interest in the
progress of Miranda’s love affair ; but the
little woman had been very reticent, and
speculation had bad to supply the lack of
actual information.
Miranda’s reserve being so well known,
it was therefore rather a surprise to find her
quietly discussing the question of her sup-
posed engagement as the minister’s annual
donation party. The little woman was the
centre of a group, and had an unusual glow
of color on her cheeks as she spoke.
*“There hadn't been no serious engage-
ment, but he'd thought, an’ she’d thought,
an’ then at last they’d both thought ; and
then they'd concluded to let the "ull thing
drop right there.” pt
*‘An’ I guess you're right, Miranda,’ re:
plied the minister’s wife, who was burden-
ed with many children and shared anoto-
riously insufficient income. ‘A’ woman
who can pat her hands on $3,000 need not
trouble her head about the best of men,”
This, after some little discussion, was al-
lowed to be the general sentiment, and Mi-
randa was made to feel that she had the
support of public opinion.
Mrs. Oberbaugh, whose views were
known to be strongly on the side of matri-
mony as a general principle, made no re-
mark, but, as she walked home with Mrs.
Lasher, confided to that lady her idea,
‘‘that though Miranda was fall of grit,
she’d got a harder row to hoe than most
people suspicioned.”’
After that Miranda scarcely ever went
out, but as she had always been of a retir-
ing nature, her absence from apple cuts,
busking and sewing bees did not provoke
much comment. As the winter went on,
however, it began to be whispered that she
was growing miserly, like the relative from
whom she bad inherited her fortune. When
she ceased making purchases at the village
store the air grew sensibly colder, but when
it became known that old man Renseller
had twice brought her heavy boxes from
Pine Hill, then the indications of an icy
period were unmistakable.
The first snow had melted when, one af-
ternoon, Mis. Oberbaugh resolved to brave
public sentiment by calling on the ostraciz-
ed offender.
Though this visit was made in defiance
of public opinion, she was not prepared to
deny the justice of the general attitude as-
sumed toward Miranda, who unquestiona-
bly bad been guilty of serious offense, and
if opportunity offered she proposed making
her see the error of her ways; but above
this she had always had a soft corner in her
heart for the disappointed, zentle old maid.
After all, she argued, Miranda might possi-
bly have some excuse for her conduct, as
there had heen occasions when her own
mind had sadly lacked conviction in regard
to the purity of the store coffee. Whether
Miranda was aware how her shortcomings
were regarded was by no means certain, in
which case Mrs. Oberbangh decided to
break the matter to her gently but firmly.
Receiving no answer to her knocking, she
stepped over the threshold into an icy cold
room, where a form was lying that looked
like the ghost of the woman she had known.
She approached the bed, to find a white,
drawn face with glassy eyes, a hand too
feeble to return her clasp and a voice that
spoke in broken whispers.
“Sakes alive, Mirandy ! I didn’t know
ez how you was down like this.”
“J—am—starving,”’ was the whispered
reply.
Without another word Mrs. Oberbaugh
started home, returning with restoratives
and food, which partially revived the snf-
ferer. :
“Warn’t there no one ez you could call
to, to let us know you were down sick?
Where's your coal? I'll build a fire right
away; this place ud freeze a bear.”
Mrs. Oberbaugh made a hasty survey of
the back regions, and opened several doors,
but was rewarded only by the sight of
empty shelves, and then for the first time
she noticed how scanty was the bed cover-
ing. :
“‘Mercy on us, Mirandy ! where's your
things? Have you been robbed ?”’
**No—I—sold—everything—for—bread!”’
Miranda’s visitor regarded her with eyes
full of pity; it was clear that the poor creat-
ure had become a miser.
“Why, Mirandy, you're a rich woman.
You’ve got $3,000 in Marketville bank.”
The dying woman put her thin hands
over her face to hide from her sight the
honest, kindly eyes that asked for a confi-
dence she was so loth to bestow.
‘Sit down, Martha, and I'll tell you;
you was always good to me, an’—I know
—you’'ll keep it—a secret. He—he—took
it all.”
*“What !—the city chap ?”’
**Yes; he asked me—to lend it to him—
for a few weeks —an’ so I drew it ont—an’
then—as he never wrote—I went to New
York—an’ oh, Martha—Martha—"’
But here the feeble voice was choked
with tears, and some time elapsed before
she could finish the cruel story.
“I found that he—an’ oh, Martha, I was
so fond of bim—he was—a swindler an’ a
convict !”’
“Mercy on us! you poor, sufferin’ soul !
an’ you've been starvin’ all this winter !”’
“Well, I thought—the end—would come
—an’ nobody need—know the truth.”’
‘‘Oh, Mirandy, you might have known
you could have trusted me! An’ to think
that you’ve been wantin’, and the Corners
all lookin’ to one side, cause it was said
you wasdoin’ your marketin’ down to Pine
Hill." .
A faint smile passed over Miranda’s wan
face as she thought of the success of her
stratagem.
“Them boxes—I got at Pine Hill—an’
tilled them with stones—’cause—I didn’t
want any one to s8’picion—how that—my
money was gone. I thonght—they’d guess
—that Aithur—got it—an’ you see, Martha
—I1'd never had—a lover before—an’I
couldn't bear—"’
Miranda rallied under careful treatment;
but her hold on life was gone, and when
the wild cherry was in blossom the end
came.
There was much speculation as to what
had become of her fortune, but whether its’
original amount had heen exaggerated, or
Mirandy bad spent, lent, or given it away,
was never known.
“Poor Mirandy !"’ said Mrs. Oberbangh,
as she turned away from the broken sod ;
‘‘she had a hard row to hoe,’’ and she kept
the dead woman’s secret.—By Mrs. George
P. Hasbrouck, in People’s Home Journal.
A Grewsome Record.
The Chicago ‘‘Tribune,’” which keeps
account, so far as it can, of murders, hang-
ings and lynchings in this country, reports
that in 1901 there were 118 legal execu-
tions—one less than in 1900. It reports
for the year 135 lynchings (20 more than
in 1900), of which 12 occurred in the South
and 14 in the North, as compared with 107
in the South and 8 in the North in 1900.
The number of negroes lynched last year
was 107, the same number as in 1900. Of
these 39 were lynched for murders, the
same number as in 1900. There were few-
er lynchings last year in Mississippi,
Louisiana and Georgia, but more in Alaba-
ma, Tennessee and Texas. These figures
bring out one fact that should be noticed at
least once a year. Tbe number of negroes
lynched every year for murder is more than
twice as great as the number lynched for
criminal assault.
——Do not, we beseach you, oh, men
and brethern, pronounce the words ‘‘eith-
er’’ and ‘‘neither’’ as though they were
spelled ‘‘eyether’” and ‘‘nyether.”’ The
seven standard authorities, Webster, Walk-
er, Smart, Worcester, dictionaries, all give
preference to ‘‘either.”” Three of them do
not countenance ‘‘eyether’’ at all. None
of the great poets make ‘‘either’’ rhyme to
*blither,’’ or ‘‘hi, there !)’ to ‘‘neither.’,
This ‘‘eyether’’ and ‘‘nyether’’ business is
a modern affectation of culture on the part
of people who haven’t any. Itisa cheap
imitation, and is becoming absolutely
painful because it has the-odor of priggery:
and pedantry about it.
and it was ten o'clock Friday night when
Rev. J.-B. Stein ; ‘‘Daugh
son,”” Rev. Morris E. Swartz.
The Central Pennsylvania Methodist Conference.
With Full Report of the Proceedings Up to Adjournment-—Miss
McAllister’s Address—Ministers Elected to be Ordained
Elders—Annual Meeting of Mutual Benefit Asso-
ciation—The Layman’s Meeting.
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The thirty-fourth annual sessions of the |
Central Pennsylvania Conference which |
convened in the Methodist Episcopal
church here last Tuesday morning and
which threatened to be about as harmonious
(?) and spicy as .the usnal Centre county
Republican convention, when this paper
went to press last week, soon turned the
belligerent members over to committees
and Thursday night the machinery of the
Conference was running smooth as usual.
That evening the anniversary of the Educa-
tion society and Twentieth Century Thank
Offering movement was celebrated.
Rev. B. C. Conner. of Harrisburg, who
presided, introduced as the first speaker
the Rev. Dr. E. M. Mills, corresponding
secretary of the Twentieth Century Thank
Offering. He captured his audience at once
by some pleasantries and said in introduc-
ing his thought, ‘‘I believe our b shops
were inspired of God when they called up-
on the church to bring twenty million dol-
lars to the Lord’s treasury for the up build-
ing of his kingdom . When this movement be
gan there were 3,000 churches in Methodism
that were so weighed down with debt that
they could do nothing for any outside in-
terests. We have paid on these churches
$7,000,000. Besides this we have paid for
deacon ess homes and hospitals $2,000,000.
Over six and one quarter millions of dol-
Jars have been subscribed for Christian edu-
cation, and all taken together, counting
new churches we have raised $28,000,000.”
He made an earnest plea for tne completion
of this splendid offering.
Dr. W. F. Me¢Dowell, of the Education
society. delighted the large andience with
a most forceful address on edacation. He
spoke of the two tendencies in the
church—the first—that the chuerb can
get along without culture, and secoud-
ly that the church cannot get along with
culture. Or that as between culture and
religion you must choose. The truth is
those who are to do the great work in
Christ’s Kingdom, must choose both. The
speaker thought our schools ought to be
the best schools. We cannot afford to
cheat our children. When a young man
asks for a library it isno answer to tell
him we have no library, but we have a
Young Men's Christian association. When
he asks for a laboratory it will not do to
try to substitute the week-night prayer
meeting. He told the story that what
made Robert Ingersoll an infidel was that
his mother would not let him go to the
eircus, but told him if he woald be good
all the week, he might go to visit his
grandmother’s grave on Sunday. He made
a good point by saying the church needs
cultured men. It1s evident that for col-
Jege towns there should be an educated
man, as a minister, but we must make it
as evident that to villages, and mountain
fastnesses must go men with culture to help
their people up to a better quality of life.
FRIDAY'S SESSION.
On Friday notwithstanding the pouring
1ain the church was comfortably filled by
8:30 o’clock when Rev. Dr. Dunham .con-
ducted the devotional exercises.
An executive session of the Couference
having been ordered, the church was occa-
pied at 2 o'clock , the hours set for the an-
niversary of the Woman’s Home Mission-
ary society, that meeting was held in the
chapel of the Preshyterian church. A very
delightful meeting it proved to be, the
principal feature being the foiceful address
of Rev. C. W. Gallagher, D. D. He laud-
ed thesociety for the great work it 1s doing
in the line of supporting deaconesses and
hospitals, as well as caring for the comfort
of preachers on the frontier.
At 8 o'clock Dr. Pickard delivered his
lecture on the ‘‘House That Jack Built”
to an audince filling every available place
in the church.
In the case of Hartzell against Swallow
the day was spent in the reading of the
testimony taken at the preliminary hear-
ing held in Harrishurg last October, at
which Dr. E. H. Yocum, presiding elder
in the Harrisburg districts, was the chair-
man of the committee of nine who found
Dr. Swallow guilty of falsehood. This
testimony is voluminous, as it is under-
stood to cover 170 pages of typewritten let-
ter cap.
Dr. Swallow was requested to present
any evidence in his bands before the com-
mittee of inquiry in the case of Rev. Dr. J.
Wesley Hill, of Harrisburg, which he did.
In that committee a tilt ocenrred when Dr.
Swallow insisted that the prerogatives of
the committee were not those of a court of
trial, but stood in the same relation to the
Conference as does a grand jury to a court
and he insisted upon the exclusion of wit-
nesses for the defense while he presented
an outline of the testimony he would sub-
mit in case the committee of inquiry re-
commended the presenting of Dr. Hill’s
case to a court of trial, This testimony
relates not only to Dr. Hill’s pastorate
to Harrisburg, but also in his work in Fos-
toria, O.; Minneapolis; Ogden, Utah; and
Helena, Mont.
It is said a witness testified to Dr. Hill’s
sale of Ogden lots in Philadelphia, giving
information concerning what was alleged
to be deception practiced upon many min-
isters and laymen in Philadelphia and vi-
cinty in the sale of lots in Utah. Dr. Hill
has brought witnesses from Minneapolis,
Chicago. Ada, O., and ether points in the
west. :
At the executive session in the afternoon
the following committee was appointed to
try Presiding Elder E. H. Yocum on the
charges preferred by Dr. Swallow: W. A.
Houck, George W. Stevens, William V.
Ganoe, Alexander Lamberson, J. B. Polls-
grove, G. M. Klepfer, J. B. Shaver, W. A.
Lepley, J. A. Mattern, G. L. Comp, John
Vrooman, J. B. Brenneman. Henry B.
Fortner, E. L. Eslinger and E. H. Wit-
man. Dr. D. 8. Monroe is the presiding
officer, and the trial started Saturday
morning in the public building.
As a little diversion and recreation from
the routine of committees and conference
the Dickinson College Alumni Association
indulged in a fine banquet at the
Bush house. Covers were laid for fifty
the guests entered the dining room. The
tables were elaborately decorated and the
menu was fine. Rev. C. T. Dunning was
the presiding officer and Gen. Daniel H.
Hastings was the toastmaster. The follow-
ing toasts were responded to.
“The College,’”’ Dr. George E. Reed ;
‘Auld Lang Syne,’”’ Dr. W. M. Frysinger;
“Dickinson’and the Law,’’ Gen. James A.
Beaver ; ‘‘Ministerial Sons of Dickinson,”
SATURDAY’S PROCEEDINGS.
Saturday morning it still rained but
the people were in town and Rev. Dr.
Dunham’s devotional exercises, early in
the morning, were well attended.
BishopWalden spoke very briefly about the
human instramentalities in bringing about
the blessed results that are designed to the
strengthening of God’s cause in the world.
The necessity of having the co-operation of
the laity. Before the church can have suc-
cess theofficial members must ‘‘sweat’’ as
much over the spiritual work of the church
as over the financial.
Bishop Foss then took the chair to pre-
side over the business sessions of the fore-
noon.
The following young ministers having
completed the four years’ course of study
were passed and elected to be ordained
elders :
Joseph V. Adams, Manuel Andujar,
David Y. Brouse, Charles F. Weise, John
C. Collins, Abraham L. Frank, Edgar R.
Heckman, Richard S. Oyler, Samuel F.
Roundsley, Frederic G. Sleep and Theo-
dore S. Stansfield.
Those who have completed the third
year's studies and were advanced to the
fourth year’s course are embraced in the
following list :
James H. Bettens, Joseph E.
man, Gordon Gray, William E.
Korsey N. Miller, J. Wanen
Walter GG. Steel.
The following is the list of supernum-
eraty meachers: W. W. Cadie, F. W.
Carry, T. A. Elliott, W. C. Hesser, D. F.
Kapp. W. H. Miller, J. P. Moore and W.
R. Whitney.
The superannuated preachers are indi-
cated in the following lists :
G. B. Ague. J. R. Akers, A. M. Barnitz,
Drenne-
Karns,
Rose and
ley, Samuel Creighton, J. A. DeMoyer, A.
W. Gibson, Thomas Greenly, B. B. Ham-
lin, L. G. Heek, A. B.
Leckie, J. Z Lloyd. C. W. Marshall, D. B.
McCloskey, J. J.
Elisha Shoemaker, M. LL. Smith, IB. F.
Stevens, Geo. Warren, Wm. S. Hamlin.
The following superannuates died dur-
ing the vear: Revs. G. H. Day, A.
Decker, G. W. Danlap, Wm. Henry Ste-
vens and F. B. Riddle.
The fifth question of the general minutes
was taken up namely—who are continued
on trial. The following young men hav-
ing served one yearand passing satisfactory
examinations were continued on trial and
advanced to the studies of the second year:
Revs. A. M. Bruce, M. B. Bubb, H. C.
Burkholder, H. E. Crow, J. R. Ebner, S.
H. Engler, O. T. Hance, H. W. Haitsock,
H. C. Hinkle, E. F. Ilgenfritz, A. C Lo-
gan, I. W. Roher, H. J. Schuchart and J.
E. Skillington.
The following young men having com-
pleted the two years of their probation and
having completed the studies of the second
year were advanced to the studies of the
third year. The list is as follows : Revs.
W. L. Avmstrong,J. T. Bell, E. V. Brown,
W. H. Decker, James J. Doherty, P. N.
Fredin, G. W. Meclinay, B. A. Salter, H.
W. Seifert and W. W. Sholl. :
The anniversary of the Woman’s Foreign
Missionary society on Saturday afternoon
was as good a meeting as was held during
Conference. Mrs. J. Ellis Bell,of Altoona,
presided and read the annual report of the
secretary of the society, Miss Mary Mec-
Cord, of Lewistown, who was ill and not
able to be present. Miss Agnes McAllister,
of Buffalo, N. Y.. who spent thirteen years
in South Africa doing mission work, was
the principal speaker. Her address was an
interesting and spirited one and was re-
ceived attentively by a big audience. At
4 o'clock the usual Pentecostal services
were held with Rev. Dr. Dunham presiding
and great interest was manifested in the
consecration services by preacher and lay-
men. The evening was taken up with the
anniversary of the Ireedman’s Aid and
Southern Education society presid-
ed over by Rev. P. F. Eyer, at which
forcefal addresses were delivered by Rev.
W. W. Hartman and Dr. W.'P. Thirkield,
the corresponding secretary.
The laymen and their wives feasted at a
banquet given in the armory and at the
same hour Dr. E. J. Gray, of Williamsport,
presided over a spread furnished by Ceaders
and given by Di. Gray to the students of
Dickinson Seminary.
THE LAYMEN’S MEETING. .
The seventh annual session of the Lay-
men’s Association was held in the Presby-
terian church Saturday afternoon. About
200 delegates were in attendance and Prof.
B. O. McIntire, of Dickinson College, the
President of the association, presided. Ad-
dresses were delivered by W. H. Sandford,
Patton ; Thos. H. Murray, Clearfield ; Rev.
J. E. Berry, of the Epworth Herald and
Dr. D. S. Monroe, of Shamokin. *
The following officers of the Laymen’s
Association were elected for the ensuing
year : President, T. M. Myton, Hunting-
don : Vice President, W. L. Woodcock,
Altoona ; J. C. Brown, Bloomsburg ; J. P.
Mellich, Harrisburg ; W. S. Lysinger, Bed-
ford, and J. F. Davis, Williamsport ; Sec-
retary, R. A. Zentmyer, Tyrone ; Treasurer
H. D. Shriver, Hanover.
Quite an excitement was raised when A.
A. Stevens, of Tyrone, offered a resolution
declaring that ordained: ministers of the
Methodist church in active service should
abstain from secular enterprises, and that
preachers under appointment from Confer-
euce should not accept other positions car-
rying large remameration.
The President of the association, Profes-
sor B. O. Melntire, of Dickinson College,
who was president, and George E. Reed,
State Librarian, is who it supposed aimed
at in the resolutions, took the floor to op-
pose it. i
His motion to print it in the minutes and
defer it until the next annual meeting was
adopted. The officers refused to permit re-
porters to copy it.
EASTER SABBATH.
The day was ideally beautiful and the
town fairly overflowed with strangers. By
8:30 o’clock the auditorinm of the Metho-
dist church was so crowded that standing
room could not be procured. Every pulpit
in town with the exception of St. John's
Episcopal and St. John’s Catholic was filled
by the visiting ministersas mentioned in last
week’s paper and every minister talked to
as large congregations as the churches would
hold. Special Easter music was farnished
by all the choirs and several of the churches
ers. of. Dickin-
were elaborately. decorated with flowers.
an Tatar irae wel con-
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ducted hy Bishop Walden. Speaking brief-
ly of the nature of the service, the bishop
then ordained as deacons Revs. W. L.
Armstrong, J.T. Bell, E. V. Brown, W.
H. Decker, James J. Dougherty and P. N.
Friedin, using the impressive ritual of the
church. Ie was assisted by the presiding
elders and others in the ordination of the
following as elders: Revs. James V.
Adams, D. Y. Brown, Charles F. Weise,
J. C. Collins, Abram L. Frank, Edgar R.
Heckman, Richard 8, Ovler, Samuel F.
Rounsley, Frederick E. Sleep and Theo-
dore S. Stansfield
( Concluded on page 4.)
Cephalonian a Fortunate Isle.
Large Fortune Left to the
Poverty May Be Forever
Shore.
Island So that
Banished fiom its
The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece !
‘Where burning Sappho loved and sang.
One of these isles of Greece, Cephalonia,
is to be thrice blessed for by the will of
Panagi, Vaglioni, who died in London the
other day, $2,500,000 is left to the island,
so that poverty may be forever banished
from its shores. This large amount has
been placed in the London and Westminis-
ter Banks and the interest is to be transfer-
red to Greece, every quarter, and is to be
devoted to the relief of poor people in
Cephalonia.
Panagi Vaglioni, tho head of the bank-
ing and shipping firm of Vaglioni Brothers,
was the survivor of three remarkable hroth-
ers who were born in Lixuri, a small vil-
lage in Cephalonia. Marie, the oldest
brother, who died in St. Petershurg three
vears ago at the age of 90 years, emigrated
to southern Russia when a young boy,
and established himself asa loader of grain
on the Sea of Azoff. Later he was found hy
bis two younger brothers, Andrea “and
Panagi. Andrea died in Russia fourteen
years ago.
The business established hy the oldest
brother grew and ere long the Vaglionis |
were possessots of a large fleet of lighters
that operated at various ports alopg the |
Sea of Azoff. The brothers prospered and,
from loading grain became themselves
dealers in grain and breadstuffs. Daring
the Crimean war their business took colos-
sal proportions, and the firm extended its
operations, aid banking houses in connec-
tion with the vast grain and shipping in-
terests were established in St. Petersburg,
' Loudon, Coustantinople and Marseilles.
Hooven, James !
Hunter, R. E. Kelly, B. P. King, J. W.
THREE WEALTHY BROTHERS.
At one time the Vaglioni Brothers own-
fand were rated Lo be worth about $50,000,-
000. Formerly they were the largest ex-
porters of tallow from Russia, and they
did an immense business in olive oil, which
they imported froin Turkey and the Medi-
terranean.
Daring his lifetime, though he spent lit-
tle upon himself, he made many generous
donations. Among these was one of $1,-
500,000 frances for the erection of the fine
library at Athens, which bears his name.
Perhaps his example may have had some
inflnence upon Mr. Carnegie.
Cephalonia is the largest of the Ionian
Islands, all of which helong to Greece. It
is a few miles west of the mainland and is
about thirty two miles long and from five
to twelve miles in breadth. Its surface is
generally mountainous, and its highest
peak, called Oros Ainos, is 5000 feet ahove
the sea level. Its lofty head was once
crowned by a temple of Jupiter, but this
has long since crumbled into dust.
There ace fertile spots here and therein
the island, but the soil is generally thin
and not very productive. Currants are the
staple product of the island, and large
quantities of these are exported. Olive oil
is also produced in considerable quantities.
The population numbers upwards of a
hundred thousand.
IN ANCIENT TIMES.
In ancient times Cephalonia was known
by various names. The Greeks called it
Samos, but the Latins styled it Tetrapolis.
In 189 B.C. the island came under the
Rowan dominion and hecame subject to the
Byzantines till the twelfth century. Af-
terward it fell, successively, to the Nor-
mans, Venetians, Tarks and again to the
Venetians, who retained possession of it
until 1797.
By the peace of Tilsit, in 1809, the French
obtained the island, but were driven out
by the English, under whose protection it
was annexed to Greece, of which kingdom
is forms a nome. .
Under English rule some fine roads were
constructed and the capital, Argostoli, was
rendered more imposing by the erection of
some large public buildings, but the Ionians
chafed under foreign rule, and their long-
ing to be annexed to Greece were finally
realized.
It was in the little village of Metaxata,
about seven miles from Argostoli, Lord
Byron took up his abode for some
months, upon his expedition to aid the
vance of Greek independence. But he was
much disgusted by the bickerings and
jealousies of the leaders of the Greek cause.
*‘I was a fool,”’ he wrote, ‘to have come
here, but, being here, I must see what is
to be done.”
Several of the world’s great decisive
battles were fought off the shores of the
Ionian Islands, and men famous in history
have been connected with them—Alexan-
derin youth and Demosthenes in death;
Aristotle and Themistocles in banishment;
Cicero and Cato in flight; Antony and
Cleopatra in marriage and defeat; Augus-
tus in victory; Agrippina in widowhood,
and Richard Coeur de Lion on his way to
an Austrian prison. On the Island Santa
Maura is shown the cliff from which Sap-
pho is said to have hurled herself into the
sea.
Poetical associations of a high interest
invest many a cove and headland, and it
was ‘‘in the isle that is called Patmos’’
that St. John beheld the Revelations.
It is in this insular Greece that one to-
day can get nearest to antiquity as regards
manners and customs. Domestic habits
have in many respects undergone little
change among the peasantry.
As the people are fingal and live in very
simple fashion. the sum that has been left
to Cephalonia will doubtless be sufficient
for its purpose. and the wolf will be for-
ever banished fiom its door.
Miss Roosevelt in a Cartoon.
Berlin Paper Represents Her as Carrying Hogs to
Germany.
BERLIN, March 25.—Simplicissimus, an
illustrated journal noted for the brutality
of its cartoons, and which has often heen
confiscated by the police because of its
irreverence toward high personages, ap-
pears to-day with a drawing representing
Miss Alice Roosevelt at sea in an open boat,
an immense fat hog in one end of the boat
and Miss Roosevelt standing in the other
holding a pig wrapped in the Stars and
Stripes. This drawing is inscribed :
‘‘We-received your Prince, you must
admit our hogs.”
ever unwise, absurd, and disastrous to the
Empire any act or acts of hers may have
been well, they have been well within
the limits of her authority, ac-
cording to the constitution and laws
of the Empire. Only death or an entire
over-turning of the entire system of au-
thority can either relieve or rob her of her
rights, not as Empress, but as mother.
In early life many of the women in
China commit suicide. Oue has no legal
protection against her master man. He
may abuse her and neglect her, fail to pro-
vide for her wants, desert her and divorce
her. In practice husbands divorce their
wives for any reason and for no reason.
Any scrap of paper upon which the tact of
divorce is written, and stamped with the
impression of the thumb of the husband,
is all that is necedsary. The most serious
of all hardships which fall to the lot of the
Chinese women come with her marriage.
And these are often so bitter as to be unen-
durable and to end in self-destruction. She
is betrothed in infancy or childhood toa
hoy whom she has never seen, and whom,
certainly, siie does not know.
The betrothal is legal ceremony, no less
binding than marriage. She has absolute-
ly no choice regarding whom or when she
shall mary, and any expression of opinion
or semblance of interest in a matter which
80 vitally concerns her would be as sadly
immodest as to rnin her reputation. The
members of her own family take no part in
the wedding ceremonies;usually they arenot
present. She has beenseparated from them
- forever and her relationship is broken com-
pletely. She is dressed hy her mother,
and when her toilet is completed and the
appointed hour has arrived for the wed-
ding, a large bag, made of red satin and
brillightly embroidered, is drawn down
over her head and shoulders to the waist,
where it is tied, thus completely blinding
: herrand pinioning her arms to her sides.
| Meantime a procession has come from the
| house of the parents of her future husband,
headed by a band of music, and in which
the most conspicuous object is a red sedan
chair—the wedding chair—borne by four
or eight men. This chair is brought close
to the door of her recom aud she is half led
and half carried to a seat in it. The cur-
tains of the chair are closely drawn, so that
| not a 1ay of light can enter. When she
i has been placed within it the door is closed
rand locked by the girl’s mother. Such
| precautions are taken that the wedding
| chair shall be tightly closed and no one
| given even a glimpse of the inmate that, in
hot weather, at the end of the short jour-
| ney, a dead bride may be delivered to the
waiting groom, the poor girl having heen
suffocated.
The average Chinese old woman, be she
the wife of a boar or the consort of a Prince,
has one terrible weapon, which long con-
tinued exercise has rendered keener than a
two-edged sword and nimble beyond be-
lief. In force, volume, rapidity of action,
and general nastiness it is probably un-
rivaled upon earth. It is her tongue. And
when she opens her throttle valve, turns
on a full head of steam and allows it to
play at full speed, the boldest warrior who
ever led armies to battle will, if he has
valor, take at once to his beels. One able-
bodied old Chinese woman would have
routed Wellington or Napoleon, caused
Grant to retreat, and settled the Schley-
Sampson controversy out of hand.— Boston
Transeript.
Preacher Left un Letter.
Some Light Thrown on Disappearance of Landsford
Minister.
Some light has been thrown on the
case of the Rev. Joseph A. Bennett, the
Methodist minister who left Lansford, Car-
bon county, several days ago to attend a
Conference at Columbia, but disappeared at
Harrisburg.
Miss Miriam Jones, who was employed
by the clergyman and his wife, yesterday
made public a letter she had received from
the man on the day he disappeared. In it
be denounced as utterly false the gossip
which bad connected his name with hers,
and declared that both he and the girl had
been guiltless of wrong doing.
The letter follows :
HARRISBURG, Pa., March 18, 1902.
Miss Miriam Jones.
My DEAR FRIEND : I stand on the verge
of death. Before morning I shall be be-
yond time and the world will know me no
more. The burden of a falsehood and ma-
licious stories have crushed and broken me.
As a minister, as a man, my life is ruined.
I have been innocent of wrong, but the
world has condemned. I can’t bear it and
go down under the weight. I write these
words to you that you may have witness of
one who stands with eternity before him,
that there has nothing improper passed be-
tween us. They would not listen when I
lived, maybe this, coming as from the dead,
they will believe. Keep this letter, and if
anyone ever assails you because of your
acquaintance with me, you can use it.
Good-bye J. A. BENNETT.
Miss Jones declared her innocence of any
improper relations with the Rev. Bennett
and gave out the folllowing signed state-
ment :
“In my relations with Mr. Bennett,
whether in act or conversation, there has
been nothing wrong or improper passed be-
tween us. I walked from the postoffice to
the church one evening with Mr. Bennett
and saw nothing wrong in that, and that is
the only time I was alone in his presence.
MIRIAM JONES.
Mrs. Bennett, who bas been Jeft to care
for four little children, is bearing her
trouble bravely. Though no trace of the
missing man has been found,she still hopes
against hope that he has not killed himself.
The Dowager Empress.
The Source of Her Power Over the Chinese Emperor
Explained.
In his lecture on ‘‘Woman in China,”
the Hon. Chester Holcombe defined the
status of the woman in three different per-
iods of her life and explained wherein lies
the great influence whicu the present Em-
press Dowager exercises over the affairs of
her nation. In all Chinese history proba-
bly no cirenmstances have occurred which
might serve to illustrate so completely the
natural position-and autocratic power of a
mother as those of the last few yeas in
which the Dowager Empress bas played
the most conspicious part.
The Dowager is the sole surviving widow
of the Emperor Hsien Feng, who died in
1861. In later years, by a process of adop-
tion known only in China, the present
Empress Dowager became the grandmother
of the present Emperor. Actually she is
of no discernible relationship to him. But
by that process of adoption, constantly
practiced and everywhere recognized in
China, she is bis onlv surviving grand-
mother. And here is the one source of
power and authority, alike over him and
over the Chinese race. Not as Empress,
but as mother, she has the full right to
rule une f
the Chinese governmental system. How-
.
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y foundation principle of