SNAPSHOTS AT STATE NEWS Ail Pennsylvania Gleaned for Items of Interest. REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD Farmers Busy In Every Locality- Churches Raising Funds for Many Worthy Objects—ltems of Busi ness and Pleasure that Interest. The Reading Railway will give Cres sona a new station, up-to-date in every respect. The Beard Construction Company, of Reading, has been awarded the con tract to erect 2,000 bungalows in Flori da for a Pennsylvania corporation, at a cost of $300,000. Blood poisoning, developing from bruises received by being struck by tongs while at work in the iron mills, caused the death of Horace Wood ward, of Conshohocken. Misses Lillian Davis, Viola Missimer and Nellie Wood, young women of Chester, walked to Wilmington, Del., 14 miles. They returned on the trol ley car. The eight-hour law for mine station ary engineers went into effect at the colleries of the Delaware. Lackawan na and Western Company at Wilkus- Barre. John Bush, of Tionesta, trapped a mink a few days ago thai measured 32 inches from tip to lip, one of the larg est taken in that section of the coun try for many seasons. Leo W. Long, Frank Clark and Ern < , Roth,well-known citizens of Wilkes- Barre, have departed for a six weeks' cruise to the Bahama Islands, Cuba and Porto Rico. Reuben Sminlc and Johnson B. Frees, Reading shoe merchants, have constructed a bungalow, 8 by 11 feet, made altogether from empty shoe cases. Mr. and Mrs. Louis G. Michael, who vent to Russia from Troy two years ago, to teach the farmers of Manchuria how to grow better corn and more of it to the acre, are visiting in Bradford county. They have another year of service contracted for in Russia. John A. Day, of Youngsville, War ren county, has completed a gas well on his home lot in that borough. The supply being more than sufficient for all of his needs, he lias not given the well a shot. W. D. Whitney, another resident of the borough, finished a si milar well recently, and both men no longer pay auy attention to the click of the meter. The Milton Electric Company is ar ranging for the building of two con crete towers to carry their wires over the river at Lewisburg. The company has made several efforts to secure the use of the bridge for its lines, but the Commissioners and the company could not come to terms. The towers will be built between the two bridges. The span of wire between the two towers will be 150 feet. Some names of applicants for liquor licenses in Luzerne county are: Mary Stein, Roman Moxey, Margaret Boos, Anthony Sidor, William Beers, Mich ael Stout, James Poland, Casper Spit tle, N. G. Barral, John Dropowisky, Fred Sauer, Anton Weiss, Michael Schinon, Edward Pickles, John Peruna, John Trimble, Charles Korn, John Firelack, John Staysick, John Sunday, William Ambrosia, Fred Lager, Sylves ter Martine. One of the prizes in the collection of the Union Fire Company, Lebanon, is the flag which was carried by the Lebanon company of cavalry in the Revolutionary War. Because of the age of the flag its material is now scarcely strong enough to bear its own weight, and it has been placed in a case. The flag was found in the effects of the late Major Fred Embich, who was a commander of a company of soldiers, by Millard Reinhard, and by him presented to the company more than 25 years ago. Wearied of the inconveniences occa sioned by the old system, or lack of sysiem, in procuring water on his two farms, J. G. Bower, of Allenwood, has installed a compressed air pump, a gasoline engine and 2,900 feet of pipe to force and carry water from a large spring on one of the farms. Each stall for horses and cows has a faucet and the houses and other buildings are equipped with numerous faucets, doing away with the old pumps, the moss-coveretl buckets and the "long hauls" by pails. After many years of hard labor to get its own home, the Allentown Pub lic LibriLry was moved into the haud some structure on Hamilton street. Louis Richards, a well-known mem ber of the Bar, has been selected to prepare a new city digest of Rending, at a cost not exceeding $2,000. M. Shaner Chrisman of Chester Springs, has been appointed consulting engineer of the Catskill aqueduct, sup plying New York CUty with water, at a salary of $4,500. BULLER OPPOSES PLANTING FRY To Stock Streams With Larger Trout Commissioner's Desire. IS NO FOOD FOB MINNOWS Plenty of Natural Sustlnence for Ma ture Fish Such as Crawfish, Fresh Shrimp and Larvae—Former Feeding Grounds Gone. Harrisburg.—Opposition to the prac tice of planting trout fry and advocacy of stocking streams with larger fish were contained in a statement issued by State Fish Commissioner Buller. Excerpts from the statement follow: "I would advise for this season's fishing the stocking with seven or eight-inch trout, the fish to be placed in the streams as soon as weather con ditions permit, and for future fishing to stock with trout not less than from four to six inches in length. There is not food supply sufficient in the streams for the fry, while there is usually plenty of food for the larger trout, such as crawfish, fresh shrimp, the larvae of the dragon fly and min nows, which are all natural food for the larger trout. Years ago the moun tains and meadows were covered with extensive forests, the streams were overhung by foliage and fallen timber, and trees in the streams created many natural hiding and feeding places for the young fish. The timber is about all cleared off and the drift wood has practically disappeared, thus elimin ating the feeding grounds, and for that reason so few of the small trout survive. The suggestion that you stock a stream with minnows and crawfish and begin the planting of grass is a very good one, and it is al so suggested that where it is possible to do so to place drift wood in the stream and try to restore some of the natural conditions which existed here tofore." Wins $145,830 Verdict. Clearfield. —The largest verdict ever obtained against any common carrier in the many discrimination cases brought by operators in the Clearfield soft coal region was that returned by a Jury in the Clearfield Common Pleas Court in the case of the Sonmen Coal Company against the Pennsylvania Railroad, giving the plaintiff $145,830.- 25. This company operates a mine in Cambria county near Portage, and claims damages for SIBO,OOO This company operates a mine in Cam bria county near Portage, and claims damages to the amount of SIBO,OOO. Former Mayor Vance C. McCormlck, of Harrisburg, is president of the com pany. Injured operators all over this coal Hold have been bringing suits in the Clearfield Court. Only a few weeks ago the Puritan Coal Company, of the same county, obtained a substantial verdict, as also did the Walnut Run Coal Company, of the same county. The Beulah Coal Company's suit, in which about $200,000 is asked for. will be tried next. Judge Allison O. Smith has presided at all of the trials. Horses Tail-Ribbon War. Pottstown. —A ribbon in a horse's tail was the trivial cause of a serious shcwting affray here The decoration had been placed on the nag by Ballard Banks, and he accused John Wade, who recently came here from delphia, of removing it. Following a quarrel over the matter Wade procur ed a double-barreled gun, and Banks was taken to the hospital with over 200 shot in his anatomy. Wade was locked up, and in admitting that he did the shooting said that Banks had threatened to "do him with a pitch fork." Both men are employed by J. M. H. Walters, a Philadelphia business man, who has a farm near here. Triplets Well at 70. Chester. —Mrs. Rachel P. West Leys and Miss Kate D. West, her sister, Moth of this city, and their brother, Elias H. West, a prosperous farmer, of Upland, who are triplets, celebrat ed their 70th birthdays. All are promi nent members of the Society of Friends and possess the best of health. They are members of the West fam ily, one of the oldest in Delaware County, and descendants of the paint er, Benjamin West. Bled to Stop Headache. Harrisburg.— Steven Iran, a Mace donian from Steelton, died at the Har risburg Hospital shortly after being admitted, from loss of blood, which he declared was due to an operation performed on him by a fellow-country man for headache. The man said he had been bled to relieve his pain, and, becoming weak, took a car for the hospital. He died before the name of the man who operated on him could be obtained. Quick to Rebuild Old Dam. Phoenixville.—With the breaking of the old dam in French Creek, which has furnished power for iron mills here for nearly 100 years, there is grave danger of a temporary cessa tion of work in the steel plant and the rolling mills of the Phoenix Iron Com pany as soon as the present high wa ter subsides. The Iron company's en gineers got to work on plans for the rebuilding of the old dam within an hour after it failed beneath the pre«s ure of a swollen creek and tont of broken ice. MmKrioNAL SIIfiSrSCIIOOL LESSON Br Ber. Wllltnm Brans, D. D.. Director Bible Conn* Mood; Bible InsUtuM, Chlcaifu. LESSON FOR MARCH 3 CALL OF THE FIRST DISCIPLES. LESSON TEXT—MARK 1:14:28; Luke 8:1-11. MEMORY VERSES—I 6, 17. GOLDEN TEXT—The harvest truly Is plenteous, but the laborers are few. l'ray ye therefore, tho Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest.—Matt. 9:37-38. (This exposition of the lesson is based on the narrative in Luke 5:1-11.) Already in our previous lessons we have seen Christ as the founder of tho Kingdom of Heaven upon the earth. He was born a king; his baptism was la a sense the inauguration of the king; the temptation, the testing of the king. Being himself thus pre pared, we see him starting out to re cruit the first members of his king dom, who, in addition to being mem bers of the kingdom themselves, should also be instrumental in enlist ing others under its banner. In the call of these first disciples, wo recognize the essential conditions which were to underlie all subsequent calls of dlsclpleshlp. To discover these conditions should be the purpose of all who teach this lesson. The fundamental condition, or condi tions underlying entrance int,o the Kingdom of God, are forever the same with each succeeding generation. "Tho gifts and calling of God are without change." We are told that the "crowds press ed upon Jesus to hear the Word of God." The preaching of the Word of God is always a drawing card. Tho crowds have not wearied of the preach ing of the gospel, but only of the aver age preacher who fails to preach the gospel. Wherever you find a man who, like Moody, Torrey, Spurgeon, and many others, preaches the Word of God, there you will find the streets full of men and women still pressing to hear the message. Fire will always at tract those who are cold, and food those who are hungry. So will the preaching of the simple gospel attract the hearts of men for whom it Is pre pared. The world was made for the gospel, and the gospel for the world. All great sermons in the Bible were preached in the open air. If the peo ple will not come to church, then let us take the church to them. If it was not beneath the dignity of Jesus Christ to hold open air meetings, it surely cannot be beneath any pretended and assumed dignity we may profess to pos sess. Let some ministers who, dur ing the hot months of the year, preach to but a corporal's guard, go out into the open air and preach to the crowds. The best way to reach the masses Is to go after them. Jesus requested of these men the loan of their boats, and they at once complied with the Master's request. In other words, he asked these men to surrender their business for a little while to him. And they did. How magnificently he repaid them is seen In the miraculous draught of fishes. No man can surrender his business to Jesus Christ without eventually be ing a gainer by it. He "shall receive a hundredfold more In this life, and In the world to come life everlasting." Next, Jesus requires that these men recognize him as knowing more about their business than they do them selves. Ho requires them to do what their own common sense tells them there is no use in doing. This is evi dent by the answer of Peter: "Lord we have toiled all night and caught nothing, nevertheless," etc. The word "Lord" meaning "shipmaster." Christ required from these men the surrender of their whole lives. They forsook their nets, and their business, and followed him. This was final and complete obedience. Ever after they were to devote their lives to catching men, not fish. No man can enlist under the ban ner of Christ, nor become a member of the Kingdom of God, who is not willing to make an absolute surrender of himself and all that he has and expects to be to the Christ and his service. "So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple." Of course, Christ may not, in fact does not call upon us all to leave our daily vocation and become preachers or mis sionaries. No; ofttimes he calls upon us to do what is very much harder — to stay In business and use it for him and his kingdom. There can be no question, however, but that ere we can become Christ's disciples there must be the complete surrender of ourselves to his absolute and authoritative con trol. This Is the crucial test of Chris tianity. And it is just at this point of unconditional surender that many peo ple hesitate and ofttimes refuse to comply with the terms of disciple ehlp. Implied, yea, clearly stated, In this call to membership In the kingdom, was was the consecration of these fishermen to the task of catching men. In some Sunday schools, there is kept what Is called a "Fishermen's Roll," on which there 1b recorded each Sunday the names of those who have brought in new members. It Is a great work to bring others to Sunday school and to church; it is greater still to bring them to Jesus Christ. In the first chapter of John we have a detailed ac count of how these disciples caught their first "fish" for their "shlpmas ter." AKED EQUAL TO SITUATION Example of the Soft Answer That Turneth Away Wrath—Also the Truth. One of Dr. Aked's most ardent sup porters when that divine was pastor of Mr. John D. Rockefeller's church is fond of telling what he considers a striking example of Dr. Aked's wit. Dr. Aked was fond of taking long country walks, and one day, being far in the country and wandering through a field, he and his friend noticed a sign nailed to a tree. "No trespassing here." Hurrying to get out of the forbidden ground they met a farmer who assailed them grimly with the remark: "Trespassers in this field are prose cuted." Dr. Aked smiled at tke irate farmer. "But we are not trespassers, my good man," said he. "What be you then?" demanded the farmer. "We are Presbyterians, my dear sir," replied Dr. Aked and walked away. SCALP HEALED IN FOUR DAYS "It affords me pleasure to tell of the good Cutlcura Soap and Ointment have done my little girl. She had eczema on the scalp last fall. The trouble began this way. First a small mattery pimple appeared. The pimple broke and the matter, a watery sub stance, ran on the skin, forming a hard crust which was very itchy. It was on the top of her head, and the crust be came as large as the palm of my hand. My doctor said it was eczema. "I used a remedy but had no success with It. I used it nearly two weeks, then a friend recommended Cutlcura Soap and Ointment. I used the Cutl cura Ointment, applied it on tho scalp at night and morning, and in four days the scalp was all healed, no sign of crusts or scabs could be seen. Then I washed her hair with Cutlcura Soap. She has not had a sign of ec zema since Cutlcura Soap and Oint ment cured her, and I shall always keep them In my house. I can prove this statement by my neighbor and family." (Signed) Mrs. 11. B. Cooley, Marlboro, N. Y.. April 3. 1911. Al though Cutlcura Soap and Ointment are sold everywhere, a sample of each, with 32-page book, will be mailed free on application to "Cutlcura," Dept. L, Boston. Of the Same Mind. The bishop grasped the purser's arm with a gentle, ecclesiastical pressure. "I would explain to you," he began, "that I am very much pleased with my room mate. That is, I find him a gentleman in every respect, and I wouldn't have you think —er —my com ing to you with these valuables Is — er —a —any reflection upon him, you know. His appearance is—er —in ev ery way " "Oh, that's all right," interrupted the purser, "the gentleman has been to me with his own valuables, and he says the very same things about you." —Hampton Magazine. A Painful Occasion. "What is the trouble next door?" "Little Tommy Tibbies is giving a coming out bawl." "A coming out ball? I don't under stand." "His father has just released him after a short session in the wood shed." Good Sign. Mrs. Knirker —John never remem bers to mail my letters. Mrs. Docker —Perhaps he is cut out for a statesman. The microbe of love is often destroy ed by the germ of'suspicion. WSnh CASTORIA Always Bought i'l ALCOHOL—3 PER CENT * j AYegetable Preparation for As- M towi similatingtheFoodandßegula- ! Kfiflrs tnA w - % ting the Stomachs and Bowels of M Signature / A)J Promotes Digestion, Cheerfu- M * Ir ?j ness and Rest Contains neither Qf 112 k l> Opium.Morphine nor Mineral al\ IT' FT NOT NARCOTIC |LUY P*!f» SOIH OrSAMV£I/YrCMEft ft A JJ hi /W« s—4 , § \ jtlx Sfnm • 1 V 1 J; ftxhtUtS+Ks .. I Jt S» . |tl I ( fe~- (\ JP 1 In [{je JJL VI j. A perfect Remedy forConstipa- F\| Alt IIS fi Mil lion. Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, I 11 ip w w WO Worms .Convulsions, Feveris- I li/ _ _ ness and LOSS OF SLEEP I M Lft r |lyp|» facsimile Signature of I * Thirty YPATQ TTJ THE CENTAUR COMPANY,, | |||| IF |UM I O 84 NEW VORK. _ • f_ WHH CASTORIA Exact Copy of Wrapptr. TMa •■MTAU* MMMMV, N«W VORR WOULD THAT EVERY FAMILY KNEW ITS VALUE The Wish of the Ursuline Sisters of Waterville, Me., in Indorsing Father John's Medicine for the Cure of Consumption. "We, the undersigned, cheerfully recommend and indorse the use of Father John's Medicine as a sure and immediate relief for all colds, throat and bronchial trouble, having used it with success for one of the members of our institution who was threatened with consumption of the throat. Hear ing of the many cures by Father John's Medicine, wo made a trial and are glad to state that after taking three bottles, a decided change took place, the patient Saving a Desperate Man. "Why did you get engaged to Har ry? You swore that you would never, never, have anything to do with such a man." "Yes, dear, I know I did. But—well, I wouldn't have accepted him If he hadn't made such a perfectly dreadful threat." "Oh! That old stall about rushing out and committing suicide?" "No, worse than that." "But any of those threats are bluffs. I suppose he said he'd kill the next man who called on you, eh?" "No, no! I've heard that before, Dearie, he threatened that if I did not accept him he'd go and propose to you. And I believe he would have done it, too—he was perfectly desperate!" Evil of Idleness. Work develops all the good there is in a man; idleness all the evil. Work sharpens all his faculties and makes him thrifty; idleness makes him lazy and a spendthrift. Work surrounds a man with those whose habits are Industrious and honest; in such so ciety a weak man develops strength, and a strong man is made stronger. Idleness, on the other hand, is apt to throw a man into the company of men whose object in life Is usually the pursuit of unwholesome and demoraliz ing diversions. —Darius Ogden Mills. Strength in Calmness. The calm man, having learned how to adapt himself to others; and they, in turn, reverence his spiritual strength, and feel that they can learn of him and rely upon him. The more tranquil a man becomes, the gTeater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Even the ordinary trade will find his business prosper ity increases as he develops a great er self-control and equanimity, for people will always prefer to deal with a man whose demeanor Is strongly equable.—James Allen. Temperance Is reason's girdle a,nd passion's bridle, the strength of the soul, and the foundation of virtue. — Jeremy Taylor. no You I'w Ivjre Salve* Apply only from Aseptic Tubes to Frevent Infection. Murine Eye Salve In Tubes—New Size 25c. Murine Eye Liq uid 25c-50e. Eye Books In each fkff. An engaged couple prefer a lip to lip silence rather thin a heart to heart talk. TO fl RE A coi.n IN ONIC DAT Tako I.A.X ATIVK llltnuo Onlnine Tmhletß. ItruMistsrefund money If It fails to «-ure. K. W. 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