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PURE MEAT IMPROVES HEALTH.
teresting subject
closing day's s the Pennsyl-
vania Live Stock Association was the
Pennsylvania meat inspection law, in
law were ex-
Pearson,
asion of
which the results of the
plained by Dr. Leonard
State Veterinarian.
*The State meat
passed by the Legislature
only ten inspectors,” said Dr.
gon. ‘Much good has been accon-
plished, but it is impossible for ten |
men to cover Pennsylvania and make
frequent visits or properly inspect
the hundreds of local slaughter!
houses. Some of these plants ure |
maintained in a most disreputable |
wav, Federal, State and city ipnspee- |
tion has resulted in wonderful im-
provement, but more Sfate and city |
inspectors will be necessary to insure
inspection that will safegnard the
public at all times against the dis-
eases transmitted by impure meats.”
Dr. Pearson pointed to the usual-|
ly healthy dition of the Jews as
evider of w can be accomplish- |
ed by properly safeguarding the meat
supply. After reviewing the efforts
of the Jews to secure pure food since
the time of Moses, he said that statis- |
tics show that in the crowded Gretto!
of New York and other districts of |
dense population the Jews are afllict-|
ed less than any other class of peo- |
ple. He said that tuberculosis]
among the Jews 18 only one-third or
one fourth what it is among their
neighbors.
inspection law
provides |
Pear- |
cot
(Ce
CHICKEN THIEF SHOT.
Shenandoah (Special).—Exhaust-
Isaac Bevan,
riddied with
bullets from two revolvers which his
pursuer. Anthony Sinkiewi emp- |
tied into his body as he lay help-|
less in a snowd¥ift. All twelve shots
took effect, one passing through the
heart, sausing almost instant death.
Sinkiewicz had for time
annoy od by chicken thieves and
ed up urglar alarm He
awakened by this alarm, and he
8 boarder at his home arme
selves and gave « to
by means 1weks in the newly-|
fallen snow The chase led for more
than a mile, hen Bevan dropped
over from exhaustion Seven chick-
ens were foun n a bag
carried unarme
wicz gave up to the
ties and
liberate
now
county
Warz«
12 for
cause
and F
of his boar
year-old
gashed from
¢d alter a long chase,
of this borough,
}
was
been |
some
i fix-
was
which he |
d. Sinkie-]
auch
son
ROBBED BY FRIEND.
Pittsh
lott,
the R¢
and a man of
iTE
El-
{8
{ Special} .—QGeorge
formerly purchasing agent
public Iron & Steel Company,
ninence in corpora-
i camrt by
Brady on a}
ade by W. C.}
nett Street
tion circles, eld for
Magistrate rank J.
charge of larceny, m
Brown, of 7522 Ben
At the hearing Brown testified
that Mr. and Mrs. Elliott visited his
home, and while ti Elliott stole
three diamond rings valued at $500,
the property of his wife. These |
rings Elliott pawned, it is said. In
the meanti: Brown never suspect-|
ed his frier Elliott, but had his
own servants put unler surveillance. |
No trace of the missing jewelry was |
secured until the pawnsheets chroni- |
cled ring with the initials “W. C.
B." The pawnbroker furnished a
description of the man who made the
pledge and it fitted Elliott, who was
arrested.
ere
Leg Broken; Goes To Church.
Waynesburg (Special). - Rather!
than break a record of continuous’
attendance at church services, Rev,
|
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a
2
NO THANKS FOR $2000.
Scranton (Special). -A grateful
and unknown man rushed up to
David Jenkins, sexton of the Taber-
nacle Church of West Scranton, and
claimed a wallet which the sexton
had found on the sidewalk.
“I'm glad to get that,” ejaculated
the owner, “and | am fortunate in
There is $2000 in
Then he hurried
saying ‘Thank
that pocket-bhook.”
away without even
wallet
with
Jenkins had examined the
and found that it was stuffed
bonds and currency.
RINDLED FIRE WITH 80600,
Rep-
Ha-
and,
Hazleton Leon
kaviteh, a
zelton,
{ Special).
hotel keeper at West
belfeved in banks
he collected
the mon-
never
several days ago
$600, he secreted
ey in the parlor stove.
When his wife returned
church with several friends she
dled a fire and the $600 went
smoke,
When
fell
eral
from
kin-
up in
the fire he
it wag sev-
revived,
Repkaviteh
unconscious
hours before he
SAW
and
was
over
TOOK POISON FOR MEDIUINE,
Mrs.
months, Is
Scranton (Special). Barney
Mitchell, a bride of a few
lying in a serious condition the
drinking creoline by mis-
a remedy for throat trouble,
had forgotten that the bottle
had been removed from its custom-
ary place and taking up the creoline
poured the flery fluid down her
throat. Her face was [rightfully
burned and the internal injuries are
if such a nature that her recovery
as
of
She
Insane From Jilting.
Seranton (Special), —
months ago on
day,
fo
a few
of
ing to starve herself
police headquarters
Wandering aimlessly about
was found in the
investigation has proved
her lance to ap-
altar unbalanced her
the eve er wedding
dea
bitter
cold
that
and
the failure of
pear at the
Cut For Refusing To Shave.
Norristown { Special) Because
refused to shave who
the Influence of lig
proprietor of
St reot,
a man
107,
shed
with RZOT ACTross
BY.
the
€ h 168
then and
been
from
His
i shop
tured
ws of
condition
blood to
iI8 Serious.
Woman Attacked In Her Home.
Johnstown
the
{ Special)
told by
man attacked
on the back porch of her
choking her until she fainted
her upon a couch in the kit
chen, and ransacked the dining-room,
securing $30 in cash
story the
Stolle
home,
Ie *ishey In Sig
Mahanoy City
hit Of Home.
During
this region dur
McDonald, of
way in the
{ Special)
a raging blizzard in
ing the night, Patrick
lost his
of own home at day
from cold and expos
in sight his
STATE ITEMS.
The Hamburg Silk Company
ed States Government to furnish
various departments of the navy and
Just as a Mahanoy Plane teamster
was driving over the public road on
the mountain above Gilberton, the
earth collapsed. He was obliged to
whip up his team to escape being
F. A. Bright, pastor of the First!
Christian Church, was hauled to ‘he!
chureh in an automobile despite the |
fact that he was suffering from a
broken leg sustained earlier (n the
evening. Mr. Bright was on his way
to church when he slipped on the
icy street and fell. !
Mr. Bright has been in the minis-
try twenty years and has never miss-
ed a service. He was taken home
and after the broken bone was set |
insisted on being taken to the
church. His physician reluctantly
yielded.
Sophomores Go To Jalil.
Selinsgrove (Special). Three meme
hers of the Sophomore class of Sus-
quehanna University were arrested
here by Pennsylvania Rallroad Detec-
tive Britton for causing a disturbance
at the Pennsylvania Station, when
the freshmen ‘were taking a train
to attend their banquet.
The scrappy Sophomores were
taken to the county jail at Middle
burg. President Charles T. Alken
hurried to the county seat and secur-
od the students’ release, furnishing
ball for their appearance at next term
of court.
VEIN OF IRON ORE FOUND,
pa ang
Pittston (Special) ~=Drillers bor-
ing for coal on the mountains west
of here accidentally struck a ten
inch vein of iron ore. The find has
© greated great excitement among the
farmers, and farms that were for
pale have been withdrawn from the
market,
The drillers belleve there is suf-
ficient iron ore to make the valley
an iron producer as it is an
ings of Gilberton colliery.
Mrs. Kathrina Beckman, 98 years
iold, of Shamokin, was burned to
Her dress was ignited by a
stove while she was alone
house,
John Ressler was found almost
frozen to death near Snydertown
with the thermometer below zero.
his horse running away and lay seve
ber of ribs fractured.
Mathias Yergy, aged 61, a Penn-
sylvania Railroad foreman at Al-
toona, dropped dead at his work
while talking aboui the snowstorm.
Neighbors prevented a fire in an
Altoona coal house from spreading
to the dwelling where Henry Fickes
lay critically ill by shoveling snow
on the flames, until the firemen ar-
rived.
Members of Conyngham Post, GQ.
A. R., of Wilkesbarre, celebrated the
fortieth anniversary of the forma-
tion of the post. State Commander
William T. Powell, Assistant Adju-
tant General Charles A. Snyder and
Senfor Department Commander Ma-
jor O. A. Parsons were the guests
of honor,
When Conductor Lewis A. Morn
ingstar, of Huntingdon, stepped from
his train after being thirty hours on
duty he was attacked by a slight
stroke of paralysis and fell across
the track.
Eight or ten mines 1n the Pitts
burg district are closed and more
than 1000 miners are idle because
the coal operators insist upon usin
a new kind of powder recomme
by the State mine. inspectors, Dbe-
cause it is less dangerous. The 1 new
Anthracite producer.
MANNERLESS WOMEN.
Having taken American women
kindly but firmly to task, in Harper's
Bazar, for their careless and inele-
gant speech, Henry James has now
removed his gloves, and is much
more severely reproaching them, In
the same periodical for thelr bad
manners. He says, in the May Ba-
Zar:
“When it befel me accordingly, af
ter long years-——for {t was but a short
time since~—to move over the Amer-
ican scene more freely than ever be-
fore, to travel further across it and
to get a nearer view of those peopl
ing it, without my bappening once,
so far as 1 now recall, to gather
the young
encountered in the hazard of
knowle {Hty
Hp of any woman, or old.
travel.
offered
how-
ue
nev
had
ion
any Fire f any ci
any preface,
evar perfunctory, to any such
mand, I seemed to make out
i 1 § inet
meant, an h ¢tént of deviat
or demanded,
as
er yet volee
the old close ves had begun to fore
for a
the
of
con-
reap
at
gion?
see in fine,
number
informed vision
what {t particularly was to be
definite
slderate an WAS not Hie iy
ing the "nit { the gradual and
last complete failure of that vi
“Pursue grimag: long
enough, by rail and road, and
dental
grims
persons whom, you have
more intimatel i
acquaintances you
Iy m
make
accl
ellow pli
those
been,
those
formal
1
people
troduced
Adve more
ensue;
inquiries of you, invite
ade}, naturally
assist
ance, approach or appeal to mo
mentarily, on thi p t or the oth-
ar ground Small | jents and accel
dents in short occur { which
main or
that thes
you,
th
ae
social
then, t
thia
this
HALE ON WOMAN'S
WORK
DOCTOR
Woman's
iward Everet:
n his monthly talk in the
Home Companion, Dr E
Hale says:
“Will you pleas
the bottom rock of
iz the habit or determination that
place, village, town, neighbor
whatever you call it, shall
home sule. If I and Mr
want to have a road
which shail go back to
iron swamp, we build
we bulld the bridge,
such help as we can get from
Tucker or from Mr. Champli
we do not write to a sub prefect, who
writes to a prefect, who writes to
an assistant commandant, who writes
to another commandant, who writes
to an intendent, who writes to a sec
retary of engineers, who sends word
to us from the seat of government
whether we may bulld the bridge and
how we may build it
stand expresses the foundation prin
ciple, the subsoil,
bed rock of American life
“Now, a very queer thing has de
veloped in the evolution of this prin-
ciple. It has proved that where the
men of the country, have been too
busy, or have thought
to remember
American success
ov.
ery
hood
have
child
bridge
rhododen
road and
or
the
with
Mra
better than the men do,
“Take this business which 1 have
referred to, of a neighborhood library,
that library, if they are well conduct:
the neighborhood
their children want,
their husbands need.
fortunate for the neighborhood and
horses and can drive themselves to
the meetings of trustees and select
the books and tell Miss Dorcas how
many she may buy.”
THE MOTHER'S DECALOGUE,
The following eommandments typ!
fying the domestic ideals of the Ger-
mans, will be of interest to American
women:
4. Be gentle and placid,
6. Be firm without severily.
6 Do not stint with your mother
love. Tenderness is not effeminacy.
7. Discipline as life disciplines. It
does not scold, it does not plead, it
does not fly into a passion, It sim
ply teaches that every deed has its
adequate effect.
8. Do not laugh at the little sor
rows of children, »
danger
cheer
illness and
cherish and
your power. And do not
vitality by giving way
and sorrowing. What
must done well
9. In
nurse,
as in
en your
anguish
be done
possible,
10. Do not forget: the
of having a child includes the duty
of smoothing his way in the world
—of endowing him with health, glad
ness, courage, victory.—Home Her
ald,
town, in old
Is a woman
she has
men and chi
She is a
protect
much
weak.
ta
Cap
an
as
be as
happiness
Greenwich
cobbler
mending
dren in the
cobblar of the old
old-fa
when
there
years
of wo
village
hool
valley,
For 25
been shoes
old
she uses only tools
of 50 year ago,
made to last a couple
stead of as many
leather that
have
will have
street a
the undertaking
fath The girl
fatl
busines
Passe
certain
None
young
16 Ir
about
ly
presses
tion
by telling
parent, who
correspondent
POKE BON NE TS TO
There is more ths a
Paris that the i
net of huge
Feappear,
with
not
will be
quirement
COME.
rumor
bon
about Uu
Baka
POKES
looked upor
favor Whether o
the
headgear
NO Pt
YOR
nobleman, as
}
z } yy & lens
fs born to him
the company's
certain su
amount,
girl has
he is entitled to a
to a suite of
income and home
hers until
The
generations
Thanks to it
maids unknown
mark nobllity.~—~New
annual
hed the
fixed
the read
apa
are she either
3
Or society Gs
It has always prospered
poverty-stricken old
among the Den
York Tribune
are
MAKER
the
BUTTER
Grimston,
EXPERT
Lady Helen eldest
Verulam,
has just se
the Essex County
through the three
ter maker from
council, She went
churning, mak
perintendence of a large dairy at Gor
hambury,
TRAVEL IN MEXICO.
The quearest mode of travel I saw
seated complacently in a
chair bore upon the back of a man
Some Mexican women are afraid
even of the mule cars, while they look
upon the rapidly spinning trolley with
such trembling of knees,
they em
ploy the human carrier at a few cents
for each trip—~Travel Magazine.
——————
FASHION NOTES.
The silk straw hats are excellent!
for between Season Wear.
A scarf of pale mauve is embroid
yer.
The wide and narrow pompadour
ribbons continue to be popular, buf
are rivaled by those In Persian de
signs, with their rich, glowing yet
harmonious blending of colors,
A goodly portion of the French
model skirts show the return of the
ruffle In all {ts variations as a skirt
arnamentation.
The soft, thick suede that looks
very much like panne is very popu
lar for belts with tailored blouses of
white linen,
The button pins are used where
the halr is worn on top of the head
Those soft sleeves wrinkled all the
way from the shoulder to the hand
are best made of some very sheer
material,
The sallow woman should be taught
to eschew tan,
Many a trig sweater being worn
by the girls was purchased iu the
poy: or men's department. :
q Hb PULPIT.
———
A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY
DR. N. M'GEE WATERS.
Subject: Joy in Work.
Brooklyn, N. Y.-
sermong on “The
the Rev.
In his series of
Choice of a Pro-
Dr. N. McGee
nue Congregat ional Church, Sunday
preached on “How a Young Man
May Find Joy in His Work. ' He
The story of labor is a checkered
one, It is only in our highest civiliza-
tion that work is coming to its own.
In his savage state man is the lazy
Indeed, it {8 not natural
any animal to work, save as fit
This is the view of
find embodied in the old Genesis
story, where labor 8 set down as a
punishment for Adam's sin, where
he is told, as he {8 driven from the
Garden, “Thou shalt eat.thy bread
by the sweat of thy brow.” This is
not only a very uninspired part of
the Bib le: but this sentiment certifies
that ft is a very old part
How labor was despised
most signal ustration
of Christ You remember
the muititudes who heard Him
He cast a spell. All the people sald
that no man spake as He spake. The
loftiest spirits pressed about Him an
asked Him if He were the Me
Yet they scarcely could believe
Joy. And what was the basis of the!
doubt? Their skepticism was all in
that question of theirs, ‘Is not this
the carpenter's son?” How could
a& workman be the real Saviour? They
marveled at His wisdom They con-
fessed that He spoke with authority.
They followed Him as sheep follow
& shepherd But He was a carpen-
ter, and so the high and mighty set
Him down for a fraud. It was be-
cause thelr eves were holden that
they mistook the dignity of toil
a disgrace.
work we
received
from the
its
life
over
how
still true. But increasingly the world
is coming to honor the toiler.
whether he works in a profession or
a trade, and is correspondingly com-
ing to de 8pige the idler, whether he
be rich or poor. How
United States has done with
democracy bring this about,
with its great men, almost all
them coming from the eabin
plow, we may never know.
much
its
to and
country since
Jews in which
table to earn
Little do we
time to find out,
contributes to
the land of the ancient
it was counted respec-
one’s living
think, or have taken
how much our work
our happiness
us w
if we
would
I suppose most of
to eat I suppose
ally asked, we
first requirement
labor was that it
and feed us, and
the first requirem
The second
ment a8 man
whether he
it shall m
work m
lens it
how or
the boy
wer
EaY
we made
should clothe
house
ent
and gr
makes
knows it
ake a man
i the lo
atest
other we
w ho is
young man who
is a hardship and some
There is one man, however, mor
fortunate than that Ing man
that is the young fell yw who
in a silken nest and g¢
lege in an automobile There is
nothing wrong about a silken
and is nothing bad
automobile, except its trail
cannot raise an eagle in eiderdown
and it requires far more of a man
to amount to anvthing in eollege who
goes through it In an automobile
instead of walking We
that we must ! » struggle The
reason why rich men's sons rarely
amount to anything, is because they
never develop their muscles. There
is no teacher lke work it
bring him bread, but no less It must
bring him culture. “The Man With
the Hoe"-——he needs not 80 much pity
Moses was a herdsman; David was
a shepherd;
Benjamin Franklin knew no college
~-he was a printer's devil; Robert
leisure
imes
r
I
and
is born
you
yest thro
there
about an
But you
soft raiment;
magnitude.
nly through
work, and there are some things col-
leges cannot teach Literature and
history and the liberal
lagt the ornaments of life; even read-
are all named the “conveniences of
life.”
But
dustry,
these are fundamentals
thrift, courage,
hove, love.
the threads which. woven together,
make the eternal life of man. ¥ you
have forgotten these,
have gained the whole world,
have lost your own soul,”
in-
honesty
you
work and calling open to men. When
you stand before a task, look for a
teacher, If it offer thee not wisdom.
desp'se its wage. If thy ealling
vield thee not culture for mind and |
heart, it is but a cofMin for thy better
nature. Demand of your life work
that it shall make a man out of you.
Work is a great Influence giver.
And here we come upon another
blunder.
you do that gives you influence so
much. That is what the world
thinks, It is the way you do it.
Quality counts for more than kind.
It is trua, of course, that there are
gome vocations that in themeelves
damn the worker. All labor that
makes merchandise out of men's
vices is of that sort. It is true also
that certain kinds of work give more
consideration than others,
The minister, because he is a min
fster, occuples a larger place In the
community than the day laborer.
That is, he does if he ministers. His
great calling will not serve in itself
Many a laborer in many a village has
ST a i at
n parson has n.
For, after all, the thing that counts
in influence is mot mon.y or posses.
Rus wall HY Aus: Foy ar
-_— —-— i."
which he is at
community.
There Is a little town out in Min-
negota called Rochester, A few years
ago when I was there it only had a
few hundred people In it. It was
a nice little, commonplace, prairie
town. It is not the capital of the
it Is not the seat of the uni-
the penitentiary ig not even
there; nor have they a church with
relic working miracles It is not
the home of a United Btates Senator,
nor any politician. And yet it is the
Mecca of a pilgrim host. From every
Btate in the Union, from across the
sea, from every capitdl and country
of civilization men are journeying
to Rochester, Minnesota.
And those who are going are the
scholars, the authorities, the masters
in surgery
What takes them
this: An old doctor by the name of
Mayo has been practising in that
little town for a generation. His two
sons, now in early maturity, practise
with their father The fact is that
they have been doing such marvelous
things with the knife, and such fine
work as surgeons, that the great mas-
ters from Paris, Berlin and Vienna,
ag well ag this country, are singing
their praise, and go out to that little
town to sit at the feet of these men,
and pay homage to the guperiority of
last judged in the
State:
versity;
there? Simply
work
it is always so If you re-
all it is by the things
have done well—whether you
raised a field of corn, sewed
§ old garment, made a
or written a poem.
the great happiness
all know what a game
You set up so many
two balls, and you
or a spare,” or else
you don't The game 8 to knock
over as many pins as possible. Men
become very skillful in it and gain
a great deal of pleasure by doing it.
That is the philosophy of all play.
erection of artificial difficul-
or barriers and learning to over.
come them with ease and skill, That
makes the exhilaration of tennis, and
baseball, and bowling and golf
I am told, and I do not know any-
about it myself, that therein
mania for making money.
A great game Now, in
work is just exactly the same
The difficulties to be over-
are not artificial, to be sure,
very real ut they are there,
work ig the game of bridgin
over with skill and ease an
are
kin ple,
Work is
bringer. Yon
of nine pins is
pins, and you rol
make a “strike”
ties
thing
iles the
That is
thing.
come
but
and
them
final analyeis, for a healthy
man there {8 no game in the world
80 exciting and so exhilarating as
his work. 1 suppose you Ilong-
suffering folk who zit in the pews
and are more or less at times tempt
ed to somnolence, have never real-
was anything exciting
hing business And
gay to you that 1
keener joy than when
take a theme and
analyze it, and
mark out the
umina-
In its
yet 1 want to
of no
and ready I
through
illustrate it, d
be made in its il}
then sit down to writ
Your fingers will not fiy
fast enoug! If it turns t well
there is exhilaration and
] Making
points to
and
#1
on, 1G
Now the that there is so
because
Fork is a man
gener
ally thea drudgery.
We want 3 work as ex-
pressing a man's message Stephen-
Steg thought
SON's poem
down in
Watts’
canvas: St
Wren's
Why,
se bull der
ig thou ights
nith make
? anvil express his
vy shall not the farmer pub-
lish his secret? Almost ANY man can
learn the technical part of any work
from a niry to Bo but no
man hath mastered a trade till it be-
comes a language through which he
can express himself to all men 0,
the drudgery of life lies in the fact
that we bend above our work Ilike
driven cattle with never a
ressing himsell We have
to
BONE engine
dressed up in
Tennyson
s got
we a “IX reen® ta
v atts : pe in
ne
blacksn
that we make our vocation proclaim
the world the truth that Cod
hath put into our hearts!
———— a
The Narrow Way.
Matt. 7:13, 14
Narrowness is Christ's idez of the
way of life, a straitened way, the way
For a moment nanse and
vise? Jt is 11
o'clock, the orthodox regulator at the
watchmaker's points with exactness
to that hour. “Very narrow,” exclaim
all the cheap timepieces of the neigh-
and they persistently point
but
is only inex-
actness, which ls another word for
untruth.
So ortho
marks with exactness each rock
doxy in the harbor channel
of
nals out. A liberal pilot might be
careless of those signals, but the pas-
senger would prefer that the pliot
{ should be overcautious rather than
E. Partridge, Pomo~
na, Tenn,
—
A Prayer.
Grant, we beseech Thee, O Lord,
the Giver and Guide of all reason,
that we may always be mindful of the
nature, of the dignity, and of the
Grant us Thy favorable assistanc: in
the forming and directing our judg
ment, and enlighten us with Thy
truth, that we may discern those
things which are really good, and,
having discovered them, may love
and cleave steadfastly to the same.
And, finally, disperse, we pray Thee,
those mists which darken the eyes of
our mind, so that we may have a per
fect understanding, and know both
God and man, and what to each is
due. — Simplicius (transiated by
George Stanhope, Dean of Canter.
bury, 1704).
ane hit Yourself to God.
be remedied and care for things
come that cannot be prevented may
easily hurt, but can never
1 will, therefore, commit myselt to
4 both and enjoy the present.