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Bellefonte, Pa., September 26, 1902.
THERES A WIND A-BLOWING. °
It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of bird's
cries,
1 never hear the west wind but tears are in my
eyes.
For it comes from the west lands, the old brown
hills,
And April’s in the west wind and daffodils.
It’s a fine land, the west land, for hearts as tired
as mine,
Apple orchards blossom there, where all’s like
wine.
There is cool green grass there, where mea may
lie at rest,
And the thrushes are in song there, fluting from
the west.
“Will ye not come home, brother? Ye have been
long away,
It's April and blossom time and white is the
May.
And bright is the sun, brother, and warm is the
rain,
Will ye not come home, brother, home to us
again.
“The young corn is green, brother, where the
rabbits run;
It’s blue sky and white clouds and warm rain and
sun.
It's song to a man’s soul, brother, fire to a man’s
brain,
To hear the wild bees and see the merry spring
again.
“Larks are singing in the west, brother,above the
green wheat,
So will ye not come home, brother, and rest your
tired feet ? :
I've a balm for bruised hearts, brother, sleep for
aching eyes,
Says the warm wind, the west wind, full of bird's
cries.
It's the white road westward is the road I must
tread,
To the green grass, the cool grass, and rest for
heart and head;
To the violets and the warm hearts and the thrush-
es song,
In the fine land, the west land, the land where I
belong.
—John Masefield,in the Speaker.
MAJOR BORUM AND THE THIEF,
Old man Buckley, one of Marshalltown’s
three inveterate topers, was trying to sober
up against his daughter’s wedding. When
he had his complement of drinks, he was
to outward seeming as sober as a judge.
Lack of them set him reeling upon his
horse and guiding the sagacious beast in
letter S’s all over the road. -
“Look !”” Major Borum said to Molly,
his niece and adopted heiress. That’s
what I’m trying to save you from—the
thing which biteth like a serpent and
stingeth like an adder.”
‘You needn’t try to make ont poor Jink
is a snake,’”’ Molly said spiritedly. “I’m
sure he wouldn’t crawl, not even to get
me.’”’
‘‘Oh, ho! You think it was his inde-
pendence that kept him from signing the
pledge when I demanded it of him,’”’ the
major said, with a fine, lofty scorn. Again
Molly tossed her head.
“I would have said no to him if he had
signed it,”’ she said. ‘‘Why, Jink was
never drunk but once in his life,”’ and that
was in the way of business. If he had not
drunk to match that Long Hollow crowd,
his pa would have lost all their trade, and
it’s worth a thousand dollars clear profit
every year.’’
. The major groaned. He was a round,
pursy man, rosy faced, with little eyes
twinkling through smothering fat. He had
come back to his native town the year be-
fore breathing out a vague aroma of riches
and ready to give advice offband to any-
thing from divine Providence to the town
council. Marshalltown folk said he was
cram full of crank notions, which he had
had no chance to spend properly in govern-
ing a wife or bringing up children of ‘his
own.
He struck Marshalltown a teetotaler of
the first water, the second water and also
the third. Water was indeed his creed and
rallying cry for the time being. His mind
and heart were set upon organizing a tem-
perance knighthood after ideas peculiarly
his own.
Marshalltown would have none of the
knighthood. It was so temperate, letting
the single saloon languish except at Christ-
mas time and the Fourth of July, that it re-
sented organized temperancé much as it
might have resented the organization of an
antistealing brotherhood. To its: mind a
man ought to drink when he felt like it and
had good liquor handy, but should never be
tempted into swallowing stuff he did not
really care for by giving it the twang of for-
- bidden fruit. So it heartily applauded
Jink Travis’ refusal to become the first
fruits of the major’s enthusiasm. It was a
fine thing,everybody admitted, seeing how
. matters stood—Jink as good as engaged to
Molly and Molly’s heiress-ship contingent
on her marrying to suit the major.
Jink and Molly had been lovers time out
of mind. It wasall settled that they should
marry when Jink was taken into the firm.
But the major came down upon them three
months before the sign ‘Travis & Son
Groceries, Hardware, Provisions, Liquors,
Wholesale and Retail,’ went up upon the
big block at the head of the main street.
Molly had eight younger brothers and sis-
ters. Her father could not hope to do more
than feed and clothe them. So the major
and his fortune had to be taken into ac-
count, especially when he asked to have Mol-
ly the same as his own child. i
That was where the pinch came. For
herself and Jink, Molly could have bidden
the fortune go hang. But the children!
She could not shut out her mother’s anxions
eyes, her father’s patient, troubled face. As
long as she did not rebel openly she was
free to help with both hands. So she con-
tented herself with vowing she would
die an old maid unless she might marry
Jink and smiling her sweetest at Jink him-
self whenever she got the chance.’
Jink could not well be so patient. He
wanted a wife, a home of his own and Mol-
ly for that wife. He was ready to do any-
. thing reasonable to get her. He might
bave gone in for that knighthood foolish-
ness if he had not known she would be the
first to despise him for it. He might jeven
have done it and tried to square himself |’
later with ‘his sweetheart if he had been
sure the major was honest in his crankery.
- Somehow the major’s enthusiasm rang false
to him. Under and behind the flow of
words he saw something in the unctuous
«lips; the beady, twinkling eyes, which made
him suspect that the major, like other self
deluded mortals; was more anxious to pose
as a great moral force than to rule strictly
his own appetite.
Indeed, as Dan Brown put it, ‘‘the cut
of the major’s jib gave him away for a
blamed old hypoerite.”’ Dan Brown was
Jink’s chum, the head man at the new
electric light plant, which Travis & Son
had done so much to get installed. Of
course, their own store was the very first to
be wired and lighted. All the first week
afterward Jink himself did nothing much
but march around with swarming rural
customers and flash lights into every dark
hole and corner from the third story to the
cellar. In the flashing he incidentally
made them sure there was no danger of
getting a stroke of lightning. Otherwise
trade might have suffered.
“I say this yere projick, it jest knocks
the socks off’n anything ever I saw,”
Squire Crane said as Jink made the cellar
dark or light by the mere turning of a but-
ton. Afterward he explained that the
cellar would be always light. Then every-
body smiled. That meant something to
Travis’ customers. Ever since the store
opened there had heen a barrel of * the best
whisky conveniently remote from general
view, but free to whoever chose to go and
take a drink. It was, of course, a point of
honor not to drink unless you were a pretty
good customer. Major Borum was a pretty
good customer, in spite of social complica-
tions, hut nobody ever suspected him of
even knowing where the barrel stood.
It lay bung up, with the thief hanging
upon a handy nail in the wall a foot away.
The thief, understand, was only an inno-
cent tin tube, open at both ends and slen-
der enough to slip easily through the bung
hole. In use it was thrust down into the
liquor, open ended. Then a finger held
close over the upper end made it etch out
enough liquor for a drink, stiff or mild ac-
cording to the depth of the plunge. By
way of keeping the thief in place a little
ring had been soldered on to the upper end
a long wire twisted in the ring and like-
wise made fast to the nail in the wall.
Careless drinkers might otherwise have
dropped the invaluable tube or absent-
minded ones, after the third drink, have
gone off with it in the pocket.
“ Throughout the summer Major Bornm
came into the store only when he had busi-
ness, but as the days grew short and nip-
ping he fell into a way of sitting in the
group around the stove, listening when he
had to—which was rather seldom-and talk-
ing when he could—which was most of
the time.
Toward Christmas the major haunted the
store more than ever, especially late in the
day when there was always plenty of trade.
He had got so familiar he went everywhere,
up stairs or down, without exciting com-
ment. Some few said he was simmering
down. They reckoned it would be all
right betwixt Jink and Molly by—well,
say, next spring; but Jink and Molly knew
better. Indeed they had almost lost hope
when Dan Brown came to their help.
The lights had been working badly, so
Dan chased down into the cellar about dusk
one night to look after the switchboard. In
a minute he came up, his eyes staring like
saucers, beckoned Jink to him and plung-
ed again below. Nobody saw any more of
them that night. They worked in the cel-
lar until near 12 o’clock and went home
chuckling aloud.
All next day Jink moved like a man in
a dream, waiting upon customers with his
head balf turned over his shoulder. It
was a busy day, Saturday, and the world
and his wife were in town. About noon,
when the crush was greatest, everybody
was startled by a succession of yells, un-
earthly, agonizing, coming up, it seemed,
from right under their feet. Three parts
of the hearers dashed into the street, two
women fainted, and old lady Buckley
snatched up her basket of eggs. crying out
that she ‘‘allus knew som’p’n’ was bound
ter happen ter that store ever sence they
took an’ made candles outen the Lord
A’mighty’s own thunder.’”” But half a
dozen rushed below, where the screams
still kept up, intermingled now with roars
of strenuous laughter.
There was more laughing when they saw
the whole thing—Major Borum, thief in
hand, howling, hopping from one foot to
the other, unable to let go and between
howls swearing like a pirate at Dan Brown,
who stood with his band upon an innocent
looking key newly set in the switchboard.
Dan was saying between gasps :
‘‘You’ve got to agree, major. Let Jink
have Molly or here you stay all day. You
can’t let go that thief. It’s got a full lamp
voltage. We fixed it, Jink and I, as soon
as ever I caught you taking a drink on the
sly.’
‘No, no, Dan. I can’t let you perse-
cute Molly’s uncle,” Jink said, reaching
for the key. ‘‘I’m awfully obliged to you,
though, for watching here,’’ he went on.
“You know,’’ to those behind him, ‘‘we
could not afford to turn on the current—
until we were sure of our man.’’ :
“I sorter reckon you’ve made sure of
your gal,’”’ old man Buckley said as the
crestfallen major vanished up the stair.
‘Sure enough, it turned out that Jink
had.—By Martha MoCulloch Williams.
—Copyrighted. ;
g at
Boss Shepherd is Dead.
Former Governor of the District of Columbia Ex-
pires in Mexico. . :
Alexander R. Shepherd is dead, having
expired.at his home in Batopilas. Mexico,
yesterday from peritonitis, inthe sixty-
eight year of his age. BIT BY
Shepherd was the executive officer of the
Board of Public Works of Washington,
D. C., in 1871 and two years later Govern:
or of the District of Columbio and during
his incumbency had a very strenuous ca-
reer. pial GEIR ’
. ‘While it is now recognized that to him
more than to any other one person is due
the improvements that bave made Wash-
ington one of the most beautiful cities in
the world, he only executed the beginning
era of progress at the cost of personal abuse
that would have driven a weaker man into
retirement. It is not doubtful that there
was extravagance and some corruption in
the contracts made under his administra-
tion for opening. widening and paving
streets and constructing public parks, but
his work has justified itself in the Wash-
.ington of to-day.
When Alexander U.
Reaves took advantage of the howl against
*‘Boss’’ Shepherd to agitate for the removal
of the National capital to St. Louis, he
came dangerously near succeeding and
might have won but for the opposition or-
ganized and led by Shepherd. Nearly
twenty-five years ago Mr. Shepherd bought
the old Hacienda San Miguel silver mines
‘at Batopilas,where he has since resided and
accumulated a fortune. He leaves a wid-
ow and seven children.
f
Tridmph of the Faith Cure.
Miss Olsen: Announces That .it has Cured Her of
Being an Actress.
At the Faith Curists’ meeting in Jersey
City last week Jennie Olsen,of Philadel-
phia, testified that she was cured of being
an actress by an’ exercise of a lot..of faith}
through prayer. She said that she hadn’f
touched a drop of liquor or smoked a cigar-
ette since.
——Only the spirit-tanght can give spir-
itual teaching.
‘Gen. James Irvin,
, William Aitkine.
The Presbytery of Huntingdon, ¥*
Its Fall Meeting at Centre Hall—History of Presby-
terianism in Penns-valley. List of Ruling El¢ers;
Older Male Members and Adherents Fifty Years Ago.
As already announced, the Presbytery of
Huntingdon will hold its’ annual meeling
at Centre Hall, on Monday, October bth,
1902, at 3:15 p. m. i
According to arrangements made at the
spring meeting at Everett the Presbytery
will go in a hody on Wednesday the 8th, of
October, to the site of the old East Peans-
valley church. in Gregg Twp., about a mile
east of Penn Hall, where the’ Presbytery
was organized and held its” first meeling,
April 14th., A.D. 1795. - The object of this
meeting there ab this time is to dedicate a
memorial tablet recently erected there by
order of the Presbytery in commemoration
of its organization. ‘Appropriate services
will be held, and an historical address de-
livered. : {
At a meeting of the General Assembly of
the Presbyterian church, held in Philadel-
phia in May, 1794, the Huntingdon
Presbytery was formed from part of the
Presbytery of Carlisle, and its first meeting
for organization was ordered to he held at
Mr. Martin’s church in East Penn’s Valley
on the second Tuesday, the 14th of April,
1795 — one hundred and seven years
ago. At the time of ite organization it in-
cluded about 15 counties in the central part
of the state, extending from the Sasque-
‘hanna river to the Allegheny mountains.
It mow contains about 75 congregations,
and some 70 ministers, and includes the
counties of Blair, Bedford, Huntingdon,
Mifflin, Juniata, Centre and the greater
part of Clearfield county. Each pastoral
charge is entitled to be represented at the
meetings of Presbytery by their pastor and
one elder. Vacant churches are entitled to
an elder. Minister not pastors, are also
expected to attend its meetings.
Let us now turn to the history of the
congregation. In Mr. Martin’s time 1t was
known on the records of Presbytery as
‘East and West Penns-valley, Warriors-
raark and Half Moon.”’
Rev. James Martin was a native of Ire-
land, and came to America in 1774. He
accepted a call from these congregations
April 15th, 1789. He lived on what was
known as the Musser place, about a mile
east of Penn Hall, and the church was
built on his land. He died there on the
20th of June, 1795—about two months af-
ter the organization of the Presbytery in
his church. He was buried in the grave-
yard near the church. His grave is the
only one which bears any mark.
The following inscription appears upon
his tombstone, viz :
“Here lies the body of Rev. James Martin, pas-
tor of the first Presbyterian Congregation in
Penn’s-valley,who died June 20th A. D. 1795, aged
about 65 years.”
“Deep was the wound, o’ death, and vastly wide,
When he resigned his useful breath and died.
Ye sacred tribes, with pious sorrow mourn,
And drop a tear at your dear pastor’s urn.”
Concealed a moment from our longing eyes
Beneath this stone his mortal body lies.
Happy the spirit iives, and will, we trust
In bliss associate with his precious dust.”
Soon after Mr. Martin’s death the East
Penn’s-valley church disappears from the
records of Presbytery, and the Sinking
Creek church at Cente Hill takes its place.
The congregation in this part of the valley
has ever since been known on the roll of
Presbytery as the Sinking Creek church.
The East Penn’s-valley church building
was erected in 1785. It was a plain log
structure seating about 200 people. This
was followed by a building of the same
style, but larger and more costly, erected
at Centre Hill in 1793. It served the con-
gregation until 1842, when it was supersed-
ed by a handsome brick building costing
about $8,000, which was first occupied in
1843. After being occupied for seventeen
years, this edifice was thoroughly repaired,
and ‘remodeled at a cost of about $2,000.
It was one of the neatest and most attract-
ive churches in the Presbytery. Yet this
building was abandoned as a place of
worship for several years, and was recently
sold and torn down.
A church building was erected at Centre
Hall in 1888, and it has been used as the
regular place of worship since the church
at Centre Hill was abandoned. The con-
gregation is still known on the roll of the
Presbytery as the Sinking Creek church.
The following is the list of the Ruling
Elders, and the older male members and
adherents of the church at Centre Hill fifty
years ago, (A. D. 1852), viz:
. RULING ELDERS.
William McCloskey Esq. John W. Irvin.
Joshua Potter Sr. William Milligan.
MEMBERS AND ADHERENTS.
Samuel R. Patton. Dr. William I. Wilson(E)
William Burnside (E). James Potter.
Samuel Van Tries (E).
John M. McCoy.
Alexander McCoy.
John Benner.
Francis McCoy.
Elijah C. Hewes. John Hewes.
John Gemmill. David Wasson.
Daniel Sherrick. Walter Aitkirfs.
Robert McCormick.
William Kerr (E).
Thomas Sankey.
John Milligan.
Alexander Kerr.’
James A. Boozer. John R. Gilliland.
Robert Gilliland. Wm. Spear Gilliland.
David Gilliland. Joseph Carson (E).
John Goodhart. James Barber.
John A. Krise.
Philip Foster.
James R. Foster.
Thomas Mayes.
George W. Boal.
George Woods.
Samuel Huston.
John 8. Foster.
Richard Conley.
Francis Alexander.
Robert Watson. Thomas Lingle.
James Lingle, Dr. James P Wilson.
John Shannon Esq. (E).David Brisbin.
Clark Brisbin. William W. Love.
Johu Love. James Love.
John Lee Sr. . Robert Lee.
Uriah Slack, Guyan Irvin.
John Ross. ~ John Leach.
Thomas Davis. Robert Ross.
Those names having (E) after them
were elected Ruling Elders subsequent to
the year 1852. I have prepared this list
from memory, aided by a number of the
older citizens and church members. Pos-
sibly there. may be some errors or omis-
sions, In the days of my boyhood and
early manhood I knew all these men.
Most of them were well-to-do, and com-
fortably fixed in life. A number of them
were wealthy. Nearly all of them were
men of middle life, or past it. So it is
perhaps not strange that not a single one
of them is living to-day. This list does
not include the names of any of the many
excellent christian woman belonging to
the church at that time; nor of their sons
and daughters, many of whom were then
active and efficient members of the church.
The Spring Creek or Slab Cabin church
became the successor of the old west
Penn’s-valley or Cedar Creek church. This
congregation and the Sinking Creek church
were ‘organized 1780, and were included
in the same pastorate from 1789 to 1875, a
period of 86 years. It would occupy too
much time and space to give the history of
their different pastors during all the years.
The Rev. Robert Hamill D. D. became
pastor of these churches in the spring of
1846. He continued to be their pastor un-
til:1875, when he resigned the pastorate of
the Sinking Creek church to.accept a call to
give all his time to the Spring Creek church,
then worshipping at Lemont. He contin-
ued pastor of this church until 1891.. He
was also the stated clerk of the Presbytery
of Huntingdon for 44 years. =»
We have no data at hapd from which to
speak definitely, yet the membership of
the Sinking Creek church fifty years ago,
probably exceeded two hundred. The
early years of Dr. Hamill’s ministery were
seasons of great spiritual prosperity in this
chnrch. They were marked by extensive:
revivals of religion.
brought into the Kingdom, and added to
the church. Its membership in those days
included many devout and spiritually mind-
ed people. But we cannot fail to note the
changes wrought in the church dunng
these fifty years. She has sadly declined
in members and influence. We paturally
seek for the canses which have led to this
result. oH
There is a popular impression that the
decline of Presbyterianism in Penns-valley
has been due to the inroads made upon its
membership by the German speaking
churches. Fortunately this has not been
the case. The Presbyterians have stood by
their colors. The descendants of those who
were Presbyterians fifty years age, are
Presbyterians still. Hence the cause of
this decline must be sought for in other
directions. The spirit of discor‘ernt per-
vading our modern social life, and the ad-
vent of raiiroads into the secluded hamlets
of our valleys, have been potent factors in
br.aging about the decline, of churches ii
‘our rural districts. The monotony of farm
life with. its toil and drudgery, no longer
satisfies the rising ambition of our young
people. They want to see something of the
world. So the quiet home life is exchang-
ed for the din of manufacturing centres and
excitement of the marts of trade. While
this has been true of the young people, the
fault does not lie entirely with them. The
tempting inducements held out to farmers
tosettle in the far west, having induced
many of maturer years to cast their lot in
that Eldorado of farm life. Unfortunately
these same influences have wrought like re-
sults among nearly all our country church-
es.
WEST PENNS-VALLEY CHURCH.
This congregation first worshipped in a
log school house near the head of Cedar
creek in Harris Twp. General James Pot-
ter gave ten acres of ground fora church
and burial purposes near Linden Hall.
Logs were hewn and hauled for a church
at this point, but it never was buils. The
grave yard alone remains to indicate where
the Cedar creek or Stanford’s church was
begun, but never corapleted. It is situat-
ed on the hillside a few rods southeast of
the present residence of Mr. George Swab.
Here repose the remains of the second wife
of Gen. James Potter, who died in 1792.
It has long since been ahandoned as a place
of burial.
Instead of building on Cedar creek, the
congregation resolved to build farther west
on the Slab Cabin branch of Spring creek,
about one mile northwest of the present
village of Lemont. Here they erected a log
building in 1794. In this building, unfin-
ished, without pews, pulpit, floor, ceiling
or windows they worshipped for some time,
being unable to complete it. It was final-
ly finished in April, 1802. It was repaired
and enlarged in 1832. It was destroyed by
fire on the 18th of April, 1847, about one
year after Dr. Hamill had entered upon his
pastorate. It was replaced by a plain frame
structure about a year after the fire. In
this house the congregation worshipped for
about 25 years. It was then decided to
change the location to Lemont, and the
present neat and substantial stone strue-
ture was built there, and entered free of
debt January 7, 1872.
Cedar Creek or Stanfords was abandoned
as a place of preaching soon after the fiist
church on Slab Cabin branch was erected.
The congregation has ever since been known
on the roll of Presbytery as the Spring
Creek church. The church at State College
is a branch from this congregation, and a
church was erected there, and dedicated
March 18, 1888. A chapel was also built
at Boalsburg in 1892, for the convenience
of the members of Spring Creek church re-
siding in that vicinity.
Although, as has been stated, Warriors-
mark and Half moon were originally part
of the Penns-valley congregation, yet they
soon made other connections. So their
subsequent history does not concern us ab
this time.
SPRING MILLS AND AARONSBURG.
The history of Presbyterianism in
Penn’s-valley would be incomplete with-
out a reference to those churches. Pre-
vious to the division of the Presbyterian
church into Old school and New school by
the disruption of 1837, these churches
‘were part of the Sinking Creek congrega-
tion, and worshipped with it. Sometime
after the division of the church, they con-
nected themselves with the new school
branch. Their separation from the moth-
er church was perhaps due more to inade-
quate church privileges, than to any very
serious dootrinal differences. In 1842 they
erected the neat and attractive building
still standing at Spring Mills. They own-
ed a third interest in the German Reform-
ed church building at Aaronsburg, and
worshipped in it for many years. They
also had a small church at Hublersburg.
years ago were Dr. Charles Coburn, Peter
Wilson, and Thomas Hutchinson and Thos.
Haston. ‘The most prominent male mem-
bers and adherents were James Duncan,
James P. Coburn, Wm. Cook Duncan, John
Foster, Dr. R. F. Van Valzah, David Dun-
can, Robert Cook, Samuel Woods, Anthony
Carner and John Divens.
After the reunion of the old and new
school churches in 1869, these churches were
again united with the Sinking Creek
church into one pastoral charge, and con-
tinue so to-day. The church at Hublers-
burg has been abandoned. Iam indebted
to Col. Jas. P. Coburn of Bellefonte for the
main facts in the history of the Sprin,
Mills and Aaronshurg churches. :
I have thus endeavored, Mr. Editor, to
present a brief history of the Presbyterian
church in Penns-valley. I bave not tried
to be original, but have gathered facts
wherever I could find them. I am very
largely indebted to the Centennial history
of the Presbytery, having in some instances
copied even the language of its articles.
Yet I feel the work has been very imper-
fectly done. Please accepts thanks for all
your kindness and courtesy, and the favor
of your columns.
Yours Truly,
THoS. C. VAN TRIES.
Mrs. W. M. Stewart Killed.
Wite of the Nevada Senator Thrown from an
Automobile in California.
Mis. W. M. Stewart, wife of the. senior
United States Senator from Nevada, was
killed yesterday at Alameda, Cal. Mrs.
Stewart was riding in an automobile with
two friends and through an accident the
machine ran into a telegraph pole. Mrs.
Stewart was thrown against the pole with
great force and ‘was so’ seriously injured
that death soon followed. :
Senator Stewart is at preseut at The
Hague in connection with the Pius fund ar-
bitration,in which he has a deep interest.
———
Many souls were |
The ruling elders of these churches fifty |
Negro Baptists Slain by Dozens.
Fight Stampedes 2,000 People ‘in’ Church at Bir-
mingham,Ala. One Hundred and Five are Killed and
Hundreds are Injured—8trugqling Mass of Human
Beings Piled 10 Feet High at Entrance. Minis-
ters Unable to Stay the Church,
In an awful crush of humanity, caused
by a stampede in the Shiloh Negro Baptist
charch, in Birmingham, Ala., at "Avenue
G and Eighteenth street Sunday night, 78
persons were killed and as many more seri-
ously injured. :
The catastrophe occurred at 9 o'clock,
just as Booker T. Washington had con-
clnded his address to the National Con-
vention -of Baptists. Dead bodies were
strewn in every direction, and the ambu-
lance service of the city was utterly in-
capacitated to move them until after mid-
night. Dozens of dead bodies were ar-
ranged in rows on the ground outside the
church, awaiting removal to the various
undertaking establishments, while more
than a score were laid out on the benches
inside. At least 2,000 persons were in the
building when the stampede began.
LAWYER STARTS TROUBLE.
Just as Booker T. Washington conclud-
ed his address Judge Billou, a negro law-
yer from Baltimore, engaged in an alterca-
tion with the choir leader concerning an
unoccupied seat, and, it is said, a blow was
struck. Someone in the choir cried
‘“They’re fighting !””> Mistaking the word
“fighting’’ for ‘‘fire’’ the congregation rose
en masse and started for the doors.
One of the ministers quickly urged the
people to keep quiet. He repeated the
word ‘‘quiet’’ several times and motioned
his hearers to be seated. The excited con-
gregation mistook the word ‘‘quiet’’ for
‘fire”’ and renewed the struggle to reach
the doors. Men and women crawled over
benches, fought their way into the aisles,
and those who had fallen were tramped
upon. :
The screams of women and children add-
ed to the horror of the scene and through
mere fright many persons fainted, and as
they fell to the floor were crushed to death.
The level of the floor is about 15 feet from
the ground and long steps lead to the side-
walk from the lobby just outside the main
auditorium. Brick walls extend on each
side of these steps for six or seven feet and
this place proved a veritable death trap.
Negroes who had reached the top of the
steps were pushed violently forward and
many fell. Before they conld move others
fell upon then and in 15 minutes persons
were piled upon each other to height of 10
feet. This mass blocked the entrance and
the weight of 1,500 persons were pushed
against it. More than 20 persons lying on
the steps underneath the heap of bodies,
died from suffocation.
Two white men who were in the rear of
the church when the rush began escaped,
and turned in a fire alarm. The arrival of
the wagons served to scatter the crowd
which had gathered around the front of the
church. A squad of police was alse has-
tened to the church and with the firemen
finally succeeded in releasing the negroes
from their pinioned positions in the en-
trance. The bodies were quickly removed
and the crowd inside, finding an outlet,
came pouring out. Scores of them lost their
footing and rolled down the long steps to
the pavement, sustaining broken limbs and
internal injuries.
In an hour the church had been practical -
ly cleared and the sight which greeted the
eyes of those who had come to aid the in-
jured was sickening. Down the aisles and
along the outside of the pews the dead bod-
ies of men and women were strewn and the
cries of the mained and crippled were heart
rendering. In afew minutes the work of
removing the bodies was begun.
KILLED BY SUFFOCATION.
The Shiloh church is located just in the
edge of the fashionable residence section of
the city and all the physicians living in that
part of town went to the assistance of the
injured. As many of the suffering negroes
as could be moved by the ambulance were
taken to hospitals and the rest were laid
out on the ground,and there the physicians
attended them. At least 15 of the injured
died before they could be moved from the
ground.
During the stampede Booker T. Wash-
ington and several other prominent negroes
were on the stage and were unwilling wit-
nesses to the frightful catastrophe. None
of those in the choir or in the pulpit were
injured in the least. For a few minutes
they attempted to restore order, but seeing
their efforts were futile they waited until
the struggling crowd had advanced far
enough for them to pick up the dead and
injured. :
Most of the dead are women, and the phy-
sicians say that in many cases they fainted
and died from suffocation. A remarkable
feature of the calamity is that no blood was
seen on any of the victims. They were
either crushed or died from suffocation.
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“Aunt J ulia” Passes Away.
She Was One of the Wealthiest Negroesin Washing-
ton.
One of the remarkable colored women of
the national capital has just died at her
home, 603 F street, in the person of Julia
Hanson, better known as ‘‘Aunt Julia.”
Solemn requiem mass was said over
her body at St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic
church. Mrs. Hanson accumulated prop-
erty of considerable value in the cen-
tre of the city and was reputed to be the
wealthiest negro woman in the city. Sev-
eral years ago she gave $10,000 to the
Church of the Sacred Heart, at Mount
Pleasant, and her benefactions have been
numerous.
She was 98 years of age and a native of
Benedict, Charles county, Md., having been
born a slave in 1804.
Soon after she went to Washington she
entered the Wallach family’s service and
nursed the children—Richard, who after-
ward became mayor of tbe city ; Douglass,
who was prominent in the newspaper busi-
ness, and Cuthbert. She alsonursed in the
family of Philip Barton Key, the son of
Francis Scott Key. Saving her money, she
bought several houses in the centre of the
city when property was cheap. Her most
famous purchase was the property at 1219
F street, for which she paid $4,000 in 1862,
and which she sold a year ago for $55,000.
She lived in the house until its sale.
In 1839 she was married at St. Patrick’s
church by the Rev. Father Donelan to An-
drew Hanson, who was a strolling violinist
by inclination and a wall scraper by trade.
He loss his eyesight and died in 1875. Mrs.
Hanson spent a considerable part of her
earnings in procuring the best medical
treatment for him.
Sold a Bull For $10,000.
At the stock yards at Indianapolis on
Tuesday Clement Graves, owner of the
Bunker Hill farm, sold the Herford bull
Crusader for $10,000. Edwatd F. Haw-
kins. of Earl Park, Ind., was the pur-
chaser.
7
State Game Laws.
A Carefully Prepared Summary of the Same.
Secretary Kalbfus, of the state game
commission, at Harrisburg, some time ago
compiled the game laws of the state up to
date, giving all the important points. His
summary, which is as follows, is published
as a matter of timely information:
The fines attached to the violations of
the several sections of the act of June 4th,
1897, must be paid with costs of prosecu-
tion or the convicted party serve one day
in jail for each dollar of penalty imposed.
There shall be no hunting or shooting
on Sunday. Penalty $25.
Section 1 of the act of May 14th, 1889,
says: ‘‘That no person in any of the coun-
ties of this commonwealth,shall kill, wound
trap, net, snare, catch with birdlime, or-
with any similar substance, poison or drug.
any bird of song or linnet.”’ Here follows
quite a lengthy list of birds of Pennsylva-
nia(including the yellow hammer or flicker)
and closes with the words, ‘‘or and wild
bird other than a game bird,” Penalty
not less than $10 or more than $50. This
act is unrepealed and still the law of the
state.
Section 2 of the act of June 4th, 1897,
after quoting a lengthy list of the birds of
Pennsylvania says, * nor shall any person
purchase or have in’ possession, or expose
for sale, any of the aforesaid song or’ wild
birds or the game mammals killed or taken
in this state except an hereinafter provided’’
(for scientific purposes only, under a certifi-
cate of the game commission.) Penalty
$10. This is still the law and should be
used by those interested in bird protec-
tion, to prevent the Killing of our wild
birds for decorative or any other purposes.
The destruction of the nest of eggs of
wild birds is forbidden except ‘‘for strictly
scientific purposes under the certificate of
the game commission.‘ Bond $100: fee $5;
penalty $10.
The killing of game birds and game ani-
mals prohibited except with a gun held to
the shoulder. Penalty $50.
But two deer can be killed in one season
by one person and then only during the
month of November. Penalty $100. Deer
must not be killed or captured in the wa-
ters of the state, and the running of deer
with dogs is prohibited. Penalty $100.
Dogs found running deer can be killed by
any person and the owner thereof shall
have no recourse whatever.
It is unlawful for any persen to kill in
any one day more than ten pheasants, or
more than fifteen quail, or more than ten
woodcock, or more than two wild turkeys.
Penalty $50. Pheasants, wild turkeys,
-quail and woodcock can be killed only from
Oct. I5th to 16th, of December, inclusive.
Penalty, $10 for each bird, except that
woodcock can be killed during the month
of July. :
All manner of trapping of game is prohib-
ited, except that quail can be trapped from
Jan. 1st to Feb. 15th for the purpose of
keeping them alive during the winter, and
all quail so taken must be released in the
same neighborhood as soon as the weather
will permit in the spring.
All matter of devices for the deception of
game is prohibited, penalty $50, except that
decoys may be used in the hunting of web-
footed fowl.
Rabbits can be killed from Nov. 1st to
Dec. 15th. inclusive. Penalty $10. The
use of ferrets in hunting is prohibited. Pen-
alty $25, and the possession of a ferret is
prima facia evidence of intent to use the
same.
Grey, black and fox squirrels can be
killed from Oct. 15th to Dec. 15th, inclu-
sive. Penalty $10. Red or pine squirrels
are not protected.
The purchase or sale of pheasant, quail,
woodcock, wild turkey and deer are prohib-
ited. Penalty $25. All other game of
the state can be sold within the state, ex-
cept wild pigeon, the capture or sale of
which is forbidden in the county of Tioga.
The shipment or carrying out of the state
of its game birde or game mammals is pro-
hibited. Penalty not less than $50 or more
than $100.
All persons and common carriers, such as
railroads, express companies, or stages are
absolutely forbidden to carry said game
out of the state. Penalty not less than
$100. ;
Ducks, geese, brant and snipe can he
killed from Sept. 1st to May 1st. Boats
propelled by sail or steam are forbidden.
Rail and reed birds during the month of __....
September, October and November.
Section 33 of the game act of June, 1878,
provides that ‘‘nothing in this act will pre-
vent any persons from killingany wild ani-
mal or bird when found destroying grain,
fruits or vegetables on his or her premises.’
This section has not been repealed.
By act of April 11th, 1901, owners or
lessees of real estate are permitted to kill
rabbits at all times of the year, where said
rabbits are destroying crops or fruit trees,
and for no other purpose or reason.
The act of March.22nd, 1899, makes the
constables of the state ex-officio forestry,
game and fish wardens, and 1equires them
to prosecute all violations of the forestry,
fish or game laws coming under their im-
mediate notice or reported to them in writ-
ing in a manner prescribed by said act.
‘The penalty for neglecting or refusing to so
aot is $50 or two months’ imprisonment.
Prosecutions can be brought by any per-
son, one-half of penalties go to the inform-
er. All prosecutions must be brought with-
in one year from the time of the offense.
Ancient Dentistry.
False teeth are hy no means a modern
invention,as is approved from the fact that
jawhones of mummies have been found with
false teeth in them, and also with teeth
stopped with gold. Indeed, the ancient
Egyptians were no mean dentists, and in
Greece the art was also practiced with
much skill. :
There is plentiful evidence of skilled den
tistry among the Romans, and many of the
ancient Latin authors have reference to
false teeth. Thereis a distinct notice of
them in the ‘‘Roman Laws of the Twelve
Tables.” The first part of No. 10 probib-
its useless expense at funerals, but an ex-
ception is made in No. 11, which permits
the gold filling of teeth, or the gold with
which they are bound, to be buried or ere-
mated with the corpse. |
About a couple of years ago an ancient
grave was discovered near Rome. It was
opened, and in it was found the skeleton
of a woman with a complete set of false
teeth, admirably wronght out of solid gold.
Not in Stock.
“Do you keep pis tins ?”’ asked the styli-
shly dressed woman.
“Pie tins?’ repeated the bewildered
jeweler. ‘‘No, madam, we do not.”
“I said tie pins,” svapped the enraged
customer, as, with cheeks blazing and eyes
snapping at the insult, she sailed out.
The power. of the lieart ‘is the heart
of all power.