THE ARMY OF THE UNEMPLOYED. | destestestestuvsastarsastesfestustost [LAME IN THE MORNING. | Feels As If Your Back Would Surely MADMAN IN CHURCH. to Preach. Reading. — Great excitement pre- Church, when a demented man, breaking into the place, preached a germon to an imaginary audience. Rev. 8S. B. Wengert, the pastor, re- gides in the parsonage adjoining the church, and while seated at the breakfast table heard the crash of fa!iing glass. (ireat was his suprise when he saw ite pulpit a young man, whom he gnized as Harry X Rowe, a member of his congregation Rowe was and his trousers rolled up above his knees Iu and he carried an immense and persons who i ice through in bare-footed wers afraid t police tal JAIL READING PREACHER Politician Convicted of Disorderly Prominent heeping House, WELCOMES PRISON TERM. At As Reading Arrested at R. Riek, Burglar Caught Reading Claims This City Home. the home Emma widow, a Harry Willard Street, Philadelphis to five years Eastern Penitent he is a morphine attempt to was first pieasure at fiend Rick He {0 priso the Lie is ing ‘EET JOE Qs the drug habi: while confined CUT IN STEEL WAGES, Ten Per Cont. 18.000 Men. Cambria Company's Heduction Affects Non-Suited In Slander Case, Mrs, James Fah husband wera non- o- % { S000 iram ¢ and defa- According to dam- .“,1 ulle, thpnir t+ ¥ fey eg ria suited in ages against Burgess of Pottstown mation of characie Judge Weand, the burgess had made the allegation malice in the course of dizial proceeding H slander «¢ By Falling Slate, rave Wiliam Lel miner, Pino Grove years } old th hing pil Reading employed at ro lars at Zhiladelphia & Ceal and Iron Company's Lincoln Colliery, w killed by a fall of top slate A widow and children ¥ him four TViVEO Well Known Mason Drops Dead, Coatesville J. Coates. Fire Company, No. 1, prominent in Ma sonic and Knight Templar circles, dropped dead here while riturning to kis home He was and fraughten for Hon. W A P Thompson Howard o1 thief of Washington ‘ OATS, geefetary tn 11-Year-Old Girl Killed By Express, Readiug dna, the davghter of Mrs. Elica Frush Valioy, thie county, by an express train on the Eas! Peun branch of the Boading Rafl- road. She was hurled a distance of forty-fiy feet and was instantly kilied. : 11-year-old Wentzel, of was struck Mahanoy Tries Extinguisher, Mahanoy City. The fires whic broke out at midnight at Bear Run and Maple Hill mines, of the Phila. delphia & Reading Coal & Iron Com- pany; from unknown causes, have been extinguished, Several hundred employes under the direction of D vi- gion Superintendent Pollard and Dis trict Superintendent McDonald, aid ed in fighting the flames, SUES HER MOTHER-IN-LAW. Altoona. Mrs, Catherine Minzei- borg Brought sult against her mother. in-law Mrs, Amelle Minzenberg, oF Altcona, for 256,000 damages for | band. She says in her statement that she was married In New York, June 8, 1908, and lived happlly with her husband until January 5 last, when ' her. MEET AT CATASAUQUA. Lehigh Women's Foreign Mission. ary Society Elects Officers, Catasauqua. The thirtieth nual of the Women's eign Missionary Society of the Pres bytery Lehigh was held in the First Presbyterian Church. The opening meeting was in charge ol Rev. Charles Miller, of the Firat Church, and addres:zes were made by Miss Belle Graham, missionary of India, and Rev. Dr. J. L. Potter, of Persia The second day's session was charge of Mis. H. A. Croaidale, Delaware Water Gap, after which address of welcome was Miss Kate MeV. Smith, The following officers were elected resident, Miss Webster h Chunk; president A. B. Jack, Mrs. lL an meeting For ol in of an given by © i Hazleton; vi B Hapgood tieberry e~-presi Easton Hazleton: Allentown ; De! Silliman i, Pott Deitz Peo Ea Mis tomig, oasdale, J. M AWHRT Abhsconding \ \ ash Boy Caught, Altoona 5 3 itt rri{ he ban) captured in recognized d of He who learn¢ ewWspaper. and lothes J¢ STATE ITEMS. Philadeiphia and Mt. Ca He had arrange fo ria, where hi reside, and railroad to v a Reading from and killed “i 10 Mit ‘armel to ranfports n ’ fe and five child: was walking along Locust Gap when killed Nazareth High S« Lite TY has elected these officers President, Floyd en the ihe hool NOCiety Connell; vice-presi dent, Frank cretary, Miss Helen Oswald secretary, Miss Minnie Ke ; lreasurer Kahle Stocker; to hous 5 fF +h i OF 3 children and mas of his great- children were pi of Joseph B Vea ry wont at the andler, a fs ¥ rio i sf the (iv War, urying HY a who was bur.ed at Betheida Ground, at Upper Darby Wilfred 1.. Stauffer, Irwin Fisher and Alker, of Norristown were appointed by Court to assess damages for an acre of ground want. ed by Lower Merion School District The ground belongs to the Wisiar tate, on Montgomery Avenue, near Church Road The main building of the Easton Foundry and Machine Company, at West ‘Easton, was destroyed By fire, entailing a loss of $100,000 The building destroved was 400 fee! lonz and 80 feet wide, and contained the office, the machine, pattern and structural iron departments Nearly 100 men are thrown out of employ- ment Mrs. Oyrus Sousley, of Albany, in lerks County, aged about 40, waa found by her children hanging in the garret of her home when they re- tarned from school No cause 18 a°- signed for the act. The Workingmen's Relief Associa tion, of Milton, has elected the {ol lowing officers: President, A. J Hester: vice-presdent, J. R. Ben der: treasurer, D. W. 8. Botts; fec retary, A. H. Yerg:. Board of Man agers, John Fetzer, W. H, Davis, W 0. Ferry, Frank Derr, A. Wolhielter, A. Mertz, James Moyer and L. Strine While sawing lath at the portable saw mill near Selinsgrove, Charles Kratzer, 30 years old, was gtruck upon the head by a plece of timber and killed. Kratzer was alone at this mill, and his body was not faund for several hours, A large force of men have be- un work on the completion of the roadbed between Parkesburg and Christiana, and the managers of the PP, C. & LL. Trolley Company say cars will be running between Coates ville and Lancaster by the Fourth of July. The Orpheus Club, of Will'am:- port, has elected the following offi- cers: President, George H. Young, vice-president, Prof. P. M. Bullard, secrelary, G. W. Manevel; treasurer, Leorge Morris 11. Schaeffer, a prominen’ member of the Berks Bar, and » vard at her home in Lower Baucon Mrs. Annie LL. Herman was fatally Ah DIM rR Not Due to st Percentage of Cases rade bh we SEW Batters CRLeT How far uj » ita ¥% An Wou man wheele rer vouched for labor worker ‘entral Park or a distance o Herman Hobin of the American Labor that rai: Organ deration of i jizer cont Department be 1t inabi more t thelr member { 120.000 ldie Union Men, Accordi Mr. Rob would then be at least 12 men work in New York Of homeless men and vagrants umber under ordinary ynditions, | about 30,000 From meagre facts as may be © total | number of Ne fork more than host-—enough most ag large as That the cau number of work 1505 was but rather business It is following table Idle on accoun Tack of work Sickness, accident, old age . £X0 her reasons PEE A Stupendous Army. Never in the history of any great! municipality has such a stupendous army of unemployed been collected at one time, according to the eco- nomic statiscians who have com- plied the above figures, and others, for the information of the legislators at Albany. The number of families applying for assistance to the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor for the last six months is fifty pér cent. more than for the corresponding months of a VYear ago in three months, November, December and Jannary, 900 able-bodied men, will- ing and anxious for work, came to this society for aid. The year pre- vious only nineteen such requests were received. Savings banks in the poorer section of the city report extraordinary drafts in recent months. The actu- ary of one of the largest insurance companies says: Raise Cash on Policies, “As compared with the season of 1907-1908, the loams for the season of 1908-1900 have increased thus far over seventy per cent, while the num- ber of lapsed policies increased to more than fifty per cent. The above figures speak for themselves, and prove conclusively that the holders of smaller policies are terribly af- fected by the present hard times’ This condition is general among in- surance companies. Eight Months’ Coal Supply One Company Has 2,500,000 Tons, Reading, Pa. — Figures computed here show that there is sufficient an- thracite coal on the surface to supply the trade for the next eight months at least, It is said that the Reading Com- pany has at least 2,500,000 tons of coal at its storage yards at Abrams, Landingville and Mahanoy City, and that nearly a million more tons will be added by the end of March, If a strike does not interfere with the ng to neon ore 0.000 union ) City the | out of fa is, silected the 's unemployed is | Imagine such a | opulate a city al- ster se of the astonishing at the end of | to strikes or sick-| 1 y the represented out not due s easion of | by the Ness, ap 1008 | 5.5790 salt fi in 1.063 266 plans, M. Fox is au. that a ma- in the seventy-five have been found employ- magis- imprisoned in one ast ve committed, ir own request, more de is winter than | have gent in y fi f Years of my Mary E en's Trade “This dis hoon Year WO trent kerse has is pitif Leen it have misfortune nt dread iy fear t thie is too often of #ing re do not now lay y will keep these fill ant fifty girl yg 1¢ order then dismissed of gai tension orders on a ut at girls « te the two days, and are all is ¥ trades This in branches high true in ment making the women of New York phy. gical and nervous wrecks. It is a most deplorable condition of affairs.’ Julian Warne, whose eff Frank for a bill now pend fn Albany, ir rig TAR ine INE the causes and effects of the mnem- ployed in New York State, and to sug- gest remedies, are meeting with gen- approbation from all organiza- said “Not wishing to be sensational, but as truthful as possible in our limited of getting accurate figures on present industrial conditions, it is ab. solutely fair to that more than 200,600 men are looking for work in New York City alone Crowded to the Roofs “look at any city institution to-day where the indigent get aid. They are crowded to the roofs—the city can’t care for more. The hospitals are filled and so are the insane asylums Where will New York place her un- fortunates in another year if the pres. ent ratio of unemployed keeps up? It is a terrible question to face “When a city's wardens turn out 2700 prisoners before their terme have expired to make room for incom. ing erowds, you may imagine what demands are made on the city’s insti tutions.” Professor John Bates, of Columbia University, in suggesting a remedy for the economic ill, says: “Loss of employment by large bod. fes of men personally fit is due to mal-ad justment, since there is never a time when there is not within the linsits of soclety to which these men belong a need of their labor and a chance to dispose of its produce. The trouble would now be relieved by § migration from populous centres te the country.’ Perey Alden, M. P., in "The Un employed,” says: “There is a rapidly growing feeling that the community has a responsibility for t%e unem- ployed and must discharge that re. sponsibility, not by inflicting paint and penalties upon the genuine work. gay Puts Union Above the Law and UU. 8, Judge Refuses Citizenship, Danville, 111.-—U, 8. Judge Wright rofused naturalization to W. Strong, a memberof the United Mine Workers of America. When asked “If it came to the int that the union and the laws of the United which should you follow?” Strong answered: “The union, of course.” Judge Wright says: “1 can never nt the right of nited States to any man who follows the dictates of his trade union rather than the laws of our land." DAVAO ANLEN DAV ADEN AN Sb A woman's interest in a divorced man, thinks the Indianapolis News, never lets up until she discovers why was divorced Cu he wedding Constity the in his Atl benedicis of lives the makes lively Mendelssohn march, tion, chirps anta and the world to live When ture it's bed man likes ause he'd spend fhe home if he oon- York evening ; Pri New Kiss All of whicl dares days timent but an alk t has become plain Washington the Herald, that while vernment hag done something right the go in the forest rese the meet setting aside lands, 1 direction by rvationg and timber taken ars exigen such a big problem aad As 4 not adequate face it vitally im slens the in SO that + portant to our health nation proving government only national govern do what it can that State governments must too big eve for ne It it is federa patent that not ment must the various help the but The prize for the longest ever written may fairly be to the elder Dumas, who holds a further record for of production. In the seventh twenty-nine volumes which compose the “impressions de Vovage,” notes the London Chronicle, there is a sen tence describing Benvenuto Cellini which fills three pages, or 108 lines, sentence awarded probably fertility of the sentence is broken by sixty-eight com mas and sixty semicolons. but as il containg 195 verbs and 122 prope: names, the reader is somewhat be wildered before the end is reached When William Was Young. This anecdote concerning one Wil helm, Kalser of Germany. bears in herent evidence of its truth. When the muchdiscussed monaroh was a of his tutors drawing a map of Afri ca. the per word “Germany” across the pa teacher. “That is not tory.” helm. ~<{hicago Tribune. A sss It has been found that underiying the plain of Sharon, in Palestine, at various depths ranging from 18 to 80 feet, there is an inexhaustible sup . Break. LeRoy 8. Currier, 46 Purchase St. Newburyport, Mass, says: “For years my kidneys gave me trouble. 1 had doll pains in the small of the back and felt lame every morning when getting out of bed. The kidney se- cretions passed too frequently, compel ling me to et up often at night. After several remedies that { tried had falled, | used a box of Doan’s Kidney Pills. They did their work well | now have no backache CAD : and gleep sple Bold uy glory all dealers 50 cents a box. Milburn Co., Buflalo, N. Y. 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Child a Mass of Dreadful Sore, Itch ing, Irritating Humor for 2 Months ~=In Terrible Plight—Discase Cured by Cuticura. “My six year old daughter bad the dread- ful disesse called hives for two months. She became afflicted by playing with chil dren whe bad By scratching she caused large sores which were writating. Her body was a complete sore but it was worse on her and back. We employed a phyaician who left medicine but it did pet belp ber and | tried several remedies but without avail, Seeing the CUnticurs Beme dies advertised, 1 thought 1 would try them. I gave her a bot bath daily with Caticura Soap and anointed her body with Cutienra Ointment. The first treatment relieved the itching and in a short tisee the disease dwmappeared. Mx. G. L. Fradhoff Warren, Mich, June 30 and Juiy 13. 08." Potter Drug & Chem. Corp, Sole Props. of Cuticura Remedies, Boston, Mass. are arms : Uruguay is about to establish its first wireledgs telegraph station at Lobes Island. Brown's Bronenial Trornes relleve Throat IrrHations cansed by cold Of use ol the voice In boxes 25 cents. Sam ples matied free Jobs |. Srown Button, Mass "Soa, There are ouly 55 female . cieng In the German Empire, phy —-— i health! | Gariad Ten corraote diam or Hives, kidneys, stomach and bowels; over.’ a Sites pation, purifies the blood India has enacted a law for the protection of wild animals and birds The local government is empowered to declare a close time during which it will be unlawful to capture, kill or to deal in any cpecified kind of same or the plumage of any specified