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