JN *No, 1 don’t waut tn seo anybody to-day. “What! You here yet? Who sent you in here, anyhow?" , Teay! Can't you see 1'm busy?” 5 a6 it a get : Triges, in the New York Press. MERCHANTS LOOK FOR A GOOD YEAR ising For Easier--Retailers enish Depleted Stocks~~ New York City.—A sentiment in a trades, as expres different industrie torial opinions of recognized trade journals the last few days, developed a distin hopeful for the outlook “Of 1 there is apparently a common fon—that the were satisfactory to gree, and in some 3 passed former reeords as far as vol- ume of business was concerned. The financial disturbances of last fall, however, brought about a great change in this respect, and sral trades suffered severely. A state ment conditions a majority of the trades covered appears to those most interested to justify the expec- tations of good business in 1908. Partienlarly is this the case in a good many of the dry goods trades A member of one of the largest im- | porting honses in New York. whose buyers reach every important ceatre in Europe and with salesmen in every section of the United States, declared that the reports which kis firm re- ceived were distinetly encouraging for a trade recovery all over the country. The reports from all over the Middle, Western and Sonthern States indicated Christmas trade among retailers record These reports covered San Frane'y- co, Portland, los Angeles and Ta- coma on the coast; Minneapolis, § Paul, Milwaukee and other cit the Middle West, and several guch “an An jo, Iu the Sout west, Atlanta, in t} canvass of the | dozen important ed members of 8 and the edi- by in has Li fone for 807 opin- months ked de- sur- pad £5 O58 instan 80Y¢ of in the best mn as he Southeam 3 Combined with this co and upon the retaller t little or no goods mght the early ocks becoming relat fvely hausted. From source referred to above ft was learne that one house | sold $182 iber and bought result, orders which are reported as being new orders received stocks that negl weeks of uncertainty financial flurry. Coupled with mand, an improv: is reported in ntinued ia have de m the since are the ample am ple, city ven 000 of ortod following were da. actions ny branches of the dry goods trade, which bids fair to bring that element of the business back to normal within a comparative. Iy short time, far as the of the country is concerned prediction being goods circles that thi with the lease of hos by interior banks will ope woney situation materially the next sixty days Reports received house from nine d rufacture for t Atlanti trade A $f 1s GiVid auch this ment increase of in roll vy # ni 80 interior The fa +0 y is made re re + he in he organizat producers dual Daou will to maintain price curtailing han create a situation will have to come down. to hoth of iroducer May {doa can of production Fat her where prices the injur; the 1 iy » American importer, Washington » will be eventually ronfliict 1 the yellow race and white that will shake the earth is the opinion of Justice John Marshall Harlan, of the 'nited States Supreme Court In {dr Navy League ol the this eminent Washingion “If 1 had ! Opp enity I wonld vote for I tion of $50. 000,000 2 seriod of years for a larger navy The great importance of i navy Constitution, which Propriations for the army, but no limit for those for the navy fs no such thing as friendship tween nations as between men. tions make no sacrifice to preserve friendships and <o not forbear to do | certain things hecause thev do not meet with the anproval nation. Do you think England cares a cent for what we think of her navy? Or Cermany cares a cent? “How large a navy ought we to have? That is a question I cannot | answer any more than whether a hospital ship ought to be command- ed hy a naval officer or a surgeon. I don't care how large a navy we have, hut 1 want to see a navy large | enough to take care of the and Atlantic Oceans and our ports! on those oceans, “The trend of the immigration of the white people in the nast has been slween yofore In nited States, according to the an restricts the ap- he. Luses Life Deciding a Fifty-cent Wager, Chicago.~On a bet of fifty cents, J. H. Harrington, a lneman for the Western Unlon Telegraph Company, climbed a steel pole on the Drainage Canal power line at Rockwell street, touched a 44,000 voit wire and was almost instantly burned to a crisp. Harrington and a gang of linemen were coming downtown when a dis cussion arose as to the distance be- tween the wires of the sanitary Ba er line. Harrington went up to d the distance they were aparl United A Ww A vr Efmis TH A Sn wh across the water there is a country with an immense population whose commerce we are seeking. We re. fer to the people of Asia as the yel- race. There are 400,000,000 Chinese, as strong physically and mentally as we are, “There is over there another na- tion whose people are progressive and ambitious. We may some day kee a skilled army in Japan of from 5,000,000 to 10,000,000. They will say: ‘You claim Europe as your country. This Is ours. Get out!’ [I don't think they have any such idea now, and we have no hostility toward them. But there will be a conflict between the yellow race and the white race that will shake the (earth. When it comes I want to see this country with a navy on both | oceans that will be strong enough.” In conjunction with his belief in | the obligation to build ships, Justice { Harlan holds that it is the duty of the country to fortity thoroughly every seapert under the American | lag and make it impregnable. War i comes suddenly, he says, and from { the most peaceful outlook it may de- | velop before it is possible to make | preparations, or even to build a battleship, much less a navy. weak in martial spirit, or which has not a strong navy, is in danger of being fore into war when ft is i not desired, and when the nation fs least able to meet such an emergency. Hard Times i Now York Workhouse, New York Clty.-~Extra cots have been sent to Blackwell's Island to make room for the largest prison po ulation in the history of Nise York. The Workhouse is full, and long- ‘to the Blackwell's Island Peni fa By SUE cia v room for t arrivals of as many as 100 prisoners, There are more than 700 9 Jrisomee Dearly $00 men in the Workhouse the metropolis. BLAME FIVE WORKMEN Pittsburg (Special) ~ A page of the report of Joseph Murphy, the dead fire boss of the Darr mine, found on his body after she explosion last which cost 233 lives, was pre- Coroner's jury, sitting at Smithton. The coal company claims the report, which indicates that the second right room of No. 29 entry had been fenced off, pi aces the blame for the explosion on five men, whose bodies were found in the pro- hibited entry . The note book was identified by the rescuers, who had taken it from Murphy's pocket on finding his body. The page introduced in evl idence was dated on the day of the explosion, [t read: “I have « and 30 and found 29, 15, 16, 17, 1} fenced off | on {fenced ting pls month, sented to the goctions 28, 29 in second left on second right alling and third off jalance of in safe con. xamined ) 6 nn &: lear and fend as coal was under the law, and there workings the were requir and slate videncs the bodies fallen the of IAS In gecond right A of five miners, the pit mule and a pit wagon partly ed with coal and a miner's wore found the offic ; that king took down » of of a load wit} wiih bods cap Hght pasition will on open The company men went to been closed and and started to work position is tha that als of these that the there fired a shot and | ignited by ti y and spread through JUDGES, LAWYER THREATENS THIEVES TORTURE. Lock Haven 1a and deg here H. Mussi: th three pr Bert men oung, The Sewell and George are charged with assault upon Henry aged seventy-six who lives alone in a rem of Leidy township The man was Tuesday by a and man had buggy wns The ruse worke 1 en gained ad made for was badly a club Ag a last resort the flends twisted a towell about the aged man's neck and with each demand for money the towel was given an extra twist From this torture the old man be. came unconscious and the thieves, thinking him dead. placed him on the bed and covered him with a sheet They then ransacked the house, se- curing five dollars and a revolver, LrRAY, te secti mn old aroused night told a knock at the fallen from injured » three and waa efused he head with door the and Bel money 4 beaten over the HARRIS LEFT OUT. Harrisburg (Special) State Treasurer Frank G Clearfield, was turned down appointment 28 a member the State Board of Game Commissioners Harris, of of by Governor Stuart, Arthur Chapman, of Doylestown, Bucks County, takes the place of Harris, who was appointed years ago by Governor Pennypacker. To the amazement of all who fol- lowed the public investigation of the Capitol graft cases, Harris was a can. didate for reappointment, and the fact that the very day his term ex- pired Governor Stuart gave his place to another is sufficient to convey the Governor's opinion of the attempt of Harris to receive a vindication. Free Night School Opened, South Bethlehem (Special). — A free night school has been inaugu- rated at Lehigh University, with Prof, Hughes in charge. The commoy school branches will be taught boys who are compelled to work dur- ing the day, notably the members of the apprentices’ school at the Bethle- hem Steel Works and others, ———" Monument For Montour Soldiers, Danville (Special). ~The proposi- tion that Montour County assist to build a monument in memory of the soldiers and sailors of the Civil War was approved by the Grand Jury in session here, and the recommenda tion was made that $5,000 be ex- pended for that purpose. The Mon- tour County Boldiers’ Monument Committee has In hand $56,000 and this punt it is | tention to ACCU SED OF MU RDER. Pittsburg (Special). George B. Hartzell, 22 years old, is in jail in Wilmerding, a suburb, charged with the murder of his child-wife on Da cember 29, who at the time was re- ported to have killed herself because of despondency due to being left alone at night while her husband worked. The body is to be exhumed to look for evidence of murder, Much evidence was given in sup- port of the sulcide theory at the time of ner death, Including statements credited to the woman, who was only 16 years old, that her husband had failed to keep repeated promises to secure day work and that she could stand it no longer. The arrest was made upon com- plaint of Mrs. William Casey, mother of the dead girl, who has been pros- trated ever since the tragedy. Hart- zell, it is alleged, has iting his mother-in-law every since | Wednesday, she avers, that when she i sald she did not believe her girl had killed herself Hartzell burst into tears and sald she had not; that he had fir- ied the fatal shot during a fit pas- glon when they renewed a quarrel that had started several days before Mrs. Casey sent for an officer and had him arrested To the he denies having made a confession to {his mother-in-law been vi day of police YEARS, pn §— DIDN'T BATHE IN Pa 1) her their iat he Over of (Specia band age Washington, that since has not thirty Charging hus bathed marr hu- worked Mrs Washington, from Thomas abused, her, ago, tl has i and Strain, near for a divorce mild inte i858 suing Strain Stra in turn has brought a coun- ter womnat su on against the yn and ot been eq the local Court in years, both awn start- Ing charges nsati terest +d be- and her that his saved rated JUDGE ROBBED. TTAW Ar- phia act of fo a svered iTE of nerciful years ago was the 8 Mel Philade in the ji's silk was disce Hq dayab Charlee Li hiner udge Bell jail a few sen tence was dress hidden Rolling Mill Gaysport, whom J the from ar suspen ded As an regt od gecompiice in glary The same men entered the Lutheran Reformed parsonage, but Rev. Thomas Relach, the athletic pas. tor. chased them from the premises with a gun Zion DEATH FOLLOWED SKATING. woial) Miss Au. attractive young Huntingdon (85j Herncane, an of Petersburg, went skat moonlight with her sister, Mrs. Clar- ence Rishel, at Alexandria Upon their return Miss Herncane threw her. self upon a lounge and went to sleep When her sister endeavored to awak- her a few hours later, she was and she died a short gusta lady ing by after Coroner died from the girl glottis or caused by wearing very light clothing over her bosom while exposed to the cold weather on river thinks of the Schum oedema —————— AA A OP Tot Kills Raby Sister, Oil City (8pecial). While playing with a revolver secured during the temporary absence of their mother, S-year-oid son of W. O. Klein, here, accidently shot and instantly killed his 3-vear- old sister. - sn“ AR STATE ITEMS, B. Franklin Hall, formerly mana gor of the Swarthmore College Farm, and a native of Delaware County, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Amy W. Hickman, West Ches- ter, of paralysis, in his 86th year, Maurice Chalfant, postmaster of Atglen, who has been suffering from an attack of grip, has developed an attack of typhold fever, A Coroner's jury investigating the deaths of three miners who were kill- ed in a gas explosion at Scott shaft, near Shamokin, found that as the top of a safety lamp was open, one of the men had been careless and dis obeyed the mine laws. The com. pany was exonerated from blame. John M. Kelper, a prominent re. tired merchant of Lancaster, died, aged 78 years. After blowing open the safe in the creamery at brook, bur glars Lo away with about $3. They also Broke open the telaphone pay station box, but got but a few cents from this source. While operating a fodder cutter at his home, near Kennett Square, William Bec had bis arm badly caught in the of the machine, THE PULPIT. AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY BISHOP H. C. POTTER. Gubject: The Church and Labor, Brooklyn, N ~The Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter, Bor of New York, preached in 852. Ann's Church on the Helghts, Sunday. His subject was “The Church and the Labor Ques- tion,” and for his text he took the two passages: St. Luke 2:10 to 14 (R. V.): “And the multitude asked Him what then must we do? answered and sald unto them, ‘He that hath two coats let him {m- | part to him that hath none; and he | him do likewise,’ baptized and they said unto Him, Master, what must we do?’ And He ‘Exact no more than is appointed you.” And ciso asked Him, saying, ‘What must we ‘Extort no man hy vio- neither ace any one wrong- and be content with " And St. Matthew 11:2 to 7 John had heard in prison works of Christ he sent two of his and sald unto Him: ‘Art who should another? And said unto them, tell John the the blind ro lame walk the lepers are leansed and the deaf hear, the dead raised up and the poor have the tidings pre them; and is he who i find no ocea- of stumbling : Bishop said nder which do ” : from 156 ‘Now when the iisciples answered your way things which ye eive the eir sight and Jesus ‘Go and 100’ he good Hlessed sion ached to I wor you how gospels are 3 There are must presse; ton wit} ther whic ‘ Matthew's and La onnect i if it has vourselves ab ever occurred to the que te incidents of the to their truth? | like that which | to you in connec- Baptist, and that the close of St 1ke's gospels Peter which n if any one were to ask far the stion, at in ion ake group 14d jie be the ; entire! ¥ and law an- think a r in the their that know wheth- this history of \ppeareq ra 13 the t revelation ‘he w orld ome these me of Supreme F Art Thou He who gh But fine thing about two texts is the fact that each them is and explicit witness to that thing of which you ind I are perfectly conscio in our- selves. That man and | SVEery woman up of two men ind two women, th are types yf character which are so contradie- ory and so unlike each other that sbstractly we should say they are ab- irrecon i id yet they need mst and chal- enged by dify perplexities. There | an be no doubt as to the impressions which had been made by the teaching | ‘'esus upon John the Bap- tist in the words I have read. John, n other words, grasped and seized ness and force the the advent of Jesus | the the a distinct us i&. that every ere influe Sr a. 3y different ecircn ces erent +a fact that here in in the conception of | of individual's relations | ‘to other Hves about him Go back to the beginning of civili- law th new ie a step by step to this | and vou will be amazed to find cations and philosophies of caste, My brother (Dr. Alsop) night make an interesting sermon upon the tragic and dramatic forces caste in In-| dia. whose religions it would be well are older than ours. the moment that bar. \ 04 words, gation, by the creation of the govern ing society, it differentiates barbar- jsm from civilization. It begins also to emphasize the distinction of caste, Do you know that to-day a Pariah, one of the ¢lasses in India, cannot walk on the sidewalk of the street cause it is possible that this Pariah, touch is defilement, might brush against a Brahmin? In other words, the Brahmin has pushed the theory of the isolation of the caste to that point where he cannot allow one not of the same caste to walk on the same side of the street with him. When I was in India | asked a Hindu on a boat on the Hoogly River to sit down and eat with me, and he turned as if 1 had struck him and said: caste forbids; I cannot eat with you because you are a Christian.” Now, Jesus came and John the Baptist sees first of all that He had struck at the foundation, at the sys tem of the theory of caste. The the. ory of easte carried with it the right of certain privileged people to main- tain a certain autocratic and Imper- fous sovereignty over the lives Pe roperty of others. “No,” said John, aving been long enough in the pres. ence of his Master to grasp that great central truth of the Master's teach- ing, “no, you and I, the soldier and the tax gatherer and the mea who ed taxes, and, all the a are one am { God, and in your inheritance of power over another.” The believers in the religion of Jesus Christ were slow to grasp that truth, John the Baptist himself be. gan to doubt whether Christ had come to create a new system under which men should sustain new rela- tions to each other. “Art Thou He who should come? If so, why don’t you strike at the foundation of this concrete, ecclesiastical-political-social order of which you and | are a part?” Now, we come to the great truth which Jesus strives to get to the minds of His disciples: “Go tell John the things you have seen.” What was the definition of the Master's method? That He put into human | soc iety an absolutely new conception i of the relation of man to man and left {it as a seed. He did not deal with | the miseries of society, ag you and J | are often tempted to deal with them. | He did not dismiss the blind and the {lame and the rest out of His sight iand teaching. He dealt with them and relieved them. He mind and the heart of God to the consciousness of man and He made them realize at last that His religion was in the world to be a re- force First of all, begin- ning at the individual heart and life and then bringing about the recon- struction of soclety because of the different way in which men regarded each other That brings me to the subject I have been specially asked to to-night You and J, whether we are disposed to like the situation or not, and most of us resent it as an insufferable impertinence, are con- fronted in this republic, and in this twentieth century, with i{ncompara- bly the most treme ndou 18 problem, in its relation to the right construction of human society, with which the re- blic has yet had to deal, and that problem is the problem of the unifica- ideas and npathies and purposes and aims of men, : cannot go home to-night and lay on peak are whether you choc knowledge it not, that the depths of and want and } about a profound so- discontent, that there are nest and able *t ug be just, t we who persuaded that there can in human society unless wrought by the absolute of which are and dignified ty T hey say the must be pulled 1 nd and way of Now, ge 10 AC~ in or there is poverty ne all you and men {le don’t love them) wl Epiy no peace hat peace is truction principles and be human socle BOL fabric serious itifu fal and thrown ix n who stands st he uestion is How of mind me and what are we We i to re know 8 BOK ¢ ttended ties and family itself * by that cruel the ally Yé Our re- ork with be solved by quite another are to recog- tremendous isformation 1 which has rorkingman’s ot machinery, great central oyment of men un- separate him aster whom he rim is as absolute- he man the core is often a corpora- as if he lived lines, to recognize it or and the church's after hands of every speaking How is ah, or fon-—who emp in Dahomey whether yon ¢ thatdanger lies; to that problem is one, which is in the whom I am loys him it hoose is along these not, relation all all, one to workingman? How much time have you given to understanding it or to soften it or to inspire it? It is not giving of money, or the creation institutions that builds feeling of brotherhood among men. The poor man resents our con- descension. He does not want that r your gold; he wants recognition of his manhood. The shop girl wants vou to honor her womanhood; to re- spect her in the task in which she is oiling and suffering You can do much to make that task easier and create an atmosphere in which she {and you can move alike as members | of the same divine society and fellow up the That brings into view the relation church to these great social You and 1 somehow or right, his office, his calling in the church of God. The first business of the church is to place her houses of who work with their hands and then in the life of the church to encourage that spirit which will help us to un derstand and to serve it. There is but one way to do that. Instead of turning to any “ism” of the hour or theory of social reconstruction, or any new philosophy which under. takes to re-create society upon theo- ries which are essentially barbaric in their nature, you and I must go back and look into the face of the Master and find in Him the secret of our ser vice and our triumph. ———— S——— A Prayer. Soul of our souls, Thou to whom we turn for life and health, inspire and quicken us, and by our worship prepare us for our work. Give us a steadfast spirit, a heart enslaved by no appetite or passion, a will guided by wisdom and firm for the right. Give power to work and power to wait. mercifully look upon our in- firmities and those evils, which by our frailty, our sin, or our ignorance we have invited, turn from us, Transform evil into good. Out of mortal weakness bring forth immor- tal strength. May the fire purity, and not consume; and, when we pass through the rivers, may they not overwhelm us. Stay with us from dawn till eventide. Should the way be rough and gloomy, may we put our hand in Thine, and, if we are led out into the dark, still let fast by Thee, and cast away fear, the crush and clang blessed calm that a Holy will not
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