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For Good Roads.
The editor of the Benton Argus has
made an analysis of the State road
pond issue proposition as it affects
Columbia county,and he puts to route
the advocates of the high cost argu-
ment, by showing that the entire
amount of direct State tax collected
from the people of Columbia county
is less than $2,000. Columbia eounty
is the home of William T. Creasy,
head of the State Grange, who has
peen leading the fight against the
proposed amendment to the Constitu-
tion to permit the State to issue bonds
to raise money for road building.
The tacts uncovered by the editor
of the Argus apply in proportion to
other counties the same as to Colum-
bia. He says:
«This fall every qualified voter will
have the opportunity to vote yes or
no in regard to the $50,000,000 bond
jssue for the building of State roads,
connecting the county seats of the
State with a chain of good roads.
«There is no argument /but what
good roads are a benefit to all alike.
There is a holy cry from some sources
about the cost of same, the graft, etc.
The cost of road building seems high
and we don’t doubt there is some
graft, but Mr. Taxpayer, do you know |
what it cost you direct for road builc~
ing, bridge building and the schocl
appropriation by the State? The only
tax you pay direct to the State is the
tax paid by the taxpayer who has
money at interest, and that tax for.
Columbia county last year was:
$7,512 91. - Three fourths of that
amount, or $5,634.74, is retained by
the county, leaving the actual amount
the State received $1,878.17. We are
going to give the figure that it ac-
tually costs each township.”’
The amount of personal property
tax paid by each township is given in
detail, the largest township paying
only $430.13 Mr. Creasy’s township
paid $10.21. It should be added that
the last Legislature made the per-
sonal property tax a county tax, so
that after this year no direct tax will
be levied on citizens by the State.
There never has been a State tax on
real estate in Pennsylyania. The
editor continues:
“Now we want to ask the veters.of
Scott, Orange, Fishingereek, Benton,
Sugarloaf, Jackson and Greemwood
townships, what excuse have you for
not voting for the bond issue? Wen’t
you save money, several times over
the amount above stated, by the
‘State taking off your hands the roads
they have and will, to build and main-
tain? You have a long time to think
it over, until November 4th.
«When a fellow shouts in opposi-
tion to the bond issue, ask him to
show figures. Make him show you
where itis going to cost you a cent
more to have good roads by voting
for the bond issue. Let those fellows
who are hollowing graft, get after the
heads of the Highway Department,
the contractors, have them arrested,
prove their charges, and put the
stripes on them.”’
Threshing for the Grain Moth
In the southeastern part of Pennsyl-
vania, and especially in Lancaster
county, there is a small wheat pest
that destroys hundreds of thousands
of dollars worth of wheat annually,
and concerning which the wheat
growers each year make inquiry of
State Zoologist H. A. Surface at Har-
risburg.
Professor Surface has by investiga-
tions learned that this pest, which
feeds in the inside of the wheat grain,
is the Angoumois Grain Moth, and
that it is not a difficult matter to pre-
vent the fearful loss which comes
from letting it feed unmolested. It
should be remembered that its injury
is done to the grain chiefly while it is
yet in the straw. The very small
light moth is too weak to penetrate
deeply into the grain in the bin, and
at best lays its eggs only on the top
or exposed grains. However, when
the wheat is in the mow or in the
stack for any length of time, the moth
has an excellent opportunity to gain |
access to each and every grain, and
it then becomes very, destructive.
Little white worms or larvae feeding
in the grain holiow it out until noth-
ing but a chaff hull remains. The in-
sect completes its transformation,
becomes a winged moth, and flies and
lays its eggs for another brood.
It is so easy to prevent loss from
the Angoumois Moth by threshing
the wheat early, that it, must be be-
lieved there is only one reason Why
the farmers in the southeastern por-
tion of Pennsylvania do nob generally
adopt this practice, and that reason
is that they are evidently not aware
of the fact that all that is necessary
to save their crop is to thresh it as
soon as possible after harvesting.
Last year Professor Surface re-
ceived a definite report from a Lan-
caster county farmer, who said that
his wheat threshed shortly after har-
vesting was sound and good, and sold
at a high price, while the loss on that
portion threshed in November amount-
gd to fifty per cent.
INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY SCI00L
LESSON
(By E. O. SELLERS, Director of Evening
Department, The Moody Bible Institute,
Chicago.) ;
RECENT MARRIAGES
IN THE COUNTY"
Miss Luella Melda Pritts, and Nor-
man Herbert Dickey, both of Broth-
ersvalley twp., were married at Mil-
ford Station by Rev. I. Jay Duke,
pastor of the Rockwood United Breth-
ren church. i
Miss Agnes Grace Shaffer, and
William Ernest Nipps, both of Wind-
ber, were married at Johnstown, by
Rey. J. W. Mills.
LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 21
THE GOLDEN CALF.
"| LESSON TEXT-Bx. 32:15-20, 30-35.
GOLDEN TEXT—“My little children,
guard yourself from idols.”—I John 5:21.
Miss Fannie Berger of New York
City and Morris Isaacson of Boswell,
were married at Boswell by Rey.
H. H. Kaminsky.
It is incredible that these Israelites
should turn aside after gods made
with man’s hands in the very midst
Miss Susan D. Little and Robert
8. Purcell, both of Jenners were mar-
ried at Somerset by Rev. G.C. Foh-
ner. ness, majesty and glory of Jehovah.
Yet. in life it is always but a step from
glory to degradation, and onc of the
easiest moments in which to trip up
the saint is at the time of his great-
est ecstacies. The human heart is
absolutely unreliable, unstable, nay,
it is wicked and is desperately de-
ceitful, Jer. 17:9. Following the giv-
ing of the decalogue God gave Moses
‘a series of laws and ordinances which
‘are an application of that fundamental
law and which form “the book of
the covenant.” Then the elders of
Israel are called up into the mountain,
given a vision of God, and given to
eat and drink in his presence, symbol-
izing communion (Ex. 24). After this
Moses and his servant Joshua leave
Aaron and Hur in charge of the peo-
ple and go up again into the mountain.
On the seventh day Moses entered the
cloud and remained for a period of 40
days during which time he received
the pattern of the tabernacle and the
order of worship. It was during this
period of time that the people sinned.
The first part of this chapter tells
us the fact of the casting of the calf,
vv. 1-6. God’s righteous anger and
Moses’ prayer of intercession, vv. 7:14.
Israel’s boast, 19:8, 24:3, 7, is now re-
vealed as being but utter weakness
‘and illustrates the worthlessness and
unreliability of human nature. The
drunkard’s promised sobriety, the un-
clean man’s promised purity, alike
melt in the fierce heat of temptation.
Their sin was a direct, positive vio-
lation of the first commandment, and
in it they also broke the second. They
did not want to substitute but rather
sought a similitude of God. Aaron
here appears in a poor light; he did
not like their proposition (vv. 7, 8),
‘but did not have strength of character
sufficient to stand against it. Aaron
is like those in the church and out of
it who prefer to control a movement
which is bad rather than to combat
the movement in its entirety.
Human Fickleness.
Notice Aaron’s attempt to link old
4deas with this new-fangled religion,
‘this “modern expression,” ‘tomorrow
is the feast of Jehovah,” v. 5b. Men
anfl women are today attempting to
gloss evil teaching and open sin by
associating with it the name of Christ.
Miss Annie 8. Helsel and Earle
Landers both of Holsopple, were mar-
ried at Holsopple by Rev A. A. Da-
vidson.
Miss Elizabeth Olah, of S8eanor, Pa.,
and Stephen Wash, of Richard town-
ahip, Cambria county, were married
at Windber by Rev. Bela Kerekes.
Miss Bessie Ross, and William
Gibbons, both of Shade twp., were
married at the office of the officiating
magistrate, Justice of the Peace, L.
D. Sine, of Shade twp.
Miss Anna Miller, and John Hyla,
both of Scalp Level, were married
at Windber, by Rev. James P. Saas.
Miss Annie Martin and John Hor
wat, both of Windber, were mar-
ried at Windber by Rev. James P.
Saas.
Miss Rachel Delilah Lowry, and
.Harry E. Landis, both of Berlin,
were married at Johnstown, by Rev.
Lawrence O. Hubbard.
Miss Josephine E. Brant and Ed-
ward, A. Queer, both of Brothersval-
ley twp., were married at Somerset,
by Justice of the Peace Walter Ww.
Knable.
Miss Mary Sarah Kroushacr, of
Northampton twp,, and Harvey M.
Bittner, of Glencoe, were mairied abt
Glencoe, by Rev. A. 8. Kresge.
Miss Sadie May Blough, of Holsop-
ple, and Benjamin Cable of Windber,
were married at Holsopple, by Jus-
tice of the Peace, D. W. Border.
Miss Susan Meyers, of Garrett, and
Willis Spangler, of Rockwood, were
married at Garrett, by Justice of the
Peace William Clements.
Miss Marie E. Nicholson and Bru«e
W. Phillippi, both of Markleton, were
married at Casselmar, by Rev. F. F.
House. is a travesty. The fact, however, that
Aaron gave the Israelites what they
asked for, shows that he had some
Miss Bstie Lee, and Henry Earle
Hollada, both of Springs, were mar-
ried atthe home of the brlde’s pa-
rents, by Rev. G. D. Miller.
his people. We have here presented
also the fickleness of human gratitude.
Moses is with God on their behalf
(Heb. 7:25), yet they forget him and
God who had performed such mighty
signs on their behalf, and demand new
new leadership (v. 1 and Ps. 106:21).
Art has a place in religious life, but
a spiritual worship alone is acceptable
to God, John 4:24.
It was a sacrifice (vv. 2, 3) of gold
to make possible this calf which was
doubtless a representation of the
Egyptian god Apis and may or may
not have been life-size, and may have
been solid or only veneer, but neith-
er such earnestness nor sacrifice
saved them.
God's Word Immutable.
Moses’ prayer of intercession, vv.
11-14, is wonderful. It centers about
the idea that Israel is “Thy people”
(v. 11), and that God's word is im-
mutable, “Remember,” etc. (v. 18).
Moses was moved with pity and had a
passion for the honor of God's name.
As Moses and Joshua approached the
camp they heard music, v. 17. What
a commentary upon the debasing use
of one of God's noblest gifts to man,
the gift of music. Reaching the camp,
they beheld the fullness of iniquity
and depravity which was the develop-
ment of this disobedience, v. 25. See
also Rom. 1:21-25, Rom. 6:23, Jas. 1:15.
Moses’ passion also manifested itself
against their sin by breaking the ta-
bles, grinding the calf to powder and
compelled them to drink the water,
into which it was flung.
In order to complete this story we
should call attention (vv. 30-35) how:
Moses returned into God’s presence,
‘made.a confession for the people, truly
faking the place of intercession when
he desired to be blotted out rather
than have their sin go unforgiven. Go
on into the next chapter, vv. 13, 14,
and read his great heart cry and God's
answer of grace. :
The Teaching. We have here a story
of the frailty of human nature and
the feebleness of human resolutions.
We see in Aaron the weaknes of a
religious leader who attempts to com-
promise or to yield to the clamor of
a mistaken people. There is also pres-
ent in this lesson the possibility of
prostituting right things. The Israel-
ites made & proper request in their de-
sire to go forward. They lacked pa-
Miss Edith Kline, of Windber, and
Newton Coplin, of Paint borough,
were married at Windber, by Rey. F.
W. Ware.
Miss Amanda Pebley, and Harry
Growden; both of Reitz, were mar-
ried at the home of the bride’s pa-
rents, by Justice of the Peace, L. D.
Sine.
Miss Ruth McKenzie, of Garre't,
and Olay T. Yaist, of Meyersdale,
were married at Meyersdale, by Rev.
H. L. Goughenour.
Miss Verna Florence Weyant, of
Shanksville and Daniel MeCarthy,
of Windber, were married at St.
Anthony’s church, Windber, by the
Rev. Angelo Leone.
Are Your Kidneys Well?
MANY MEYERSDALE PEOPLE™IKNOW
THE IMPORTANCE OF HEALTHY
KIDNEYS.
The Kidneys filter the blood.
They work night and day.
Well kidneys removef impurities.
Weak kidneys allow impurities to
multiply.
No kidney ill should be neglected.
There is possible danger in delay.
If you have backache or furinary
troubles.
If you are nervous, dizzy or worn
out.
Begin treating your kidneys at
once.
Use a proven kidneyf remedy.
None endorsed like Doan,s Kidney
Pills.
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Proyed by grateful testimony.
Robert Floto, cigar maker, Cum-
beriand, St., Berlin Pa., says: ‘‘Doan’s
Kidney Pills greatly benefited me.
Two years ago I used this remedy
and it did its work so well that 1
have no hesitation in giving this
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cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, | siring something that appealed to
New York, sole agents for the | their senses. We thus see the disas-
ter of disobedience, even though the
end desired be a good one.
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of such a demonstration of the holi- |
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UNITED STATES
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of the
SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNI-
VERSARY SERVICES.
The Board of Foreign Missions of
the Reformed church in the United
States will celebrate the seventy-fifth
anniversary of its organization in the
old historic First Reformed church
at Lancaster, Pa., beginning on
Monday evening, September 20th and
ending on the evening of Tuesday,
September 30th. Among the speak-
ers for this occasion are men promi-
nent in the work of the denomina-
tion, as also a number of abie repre-
sentatives from other Foreign Boards.
The Board. was organized in the
year 1833. Five of the original mem-
bers pledged $120 each towards the
support of a missionary. The first
offerings received by the Board after
its organization were on October
23rd, 1838, from the German Reform-
ed church, Trenton, NM. J., per pas-
tor, Rev. John H. Schmaltz, $4.00
and the Ephrata Reformed church,
Lancaster county, Pa., per pastor,
Rev. D. Hortz, $7.31 1-2.
The first foreign work supported by
the Reformed church was in Tur-
key under the auspices ot the Amer-
ican Board. This relation was kept
up from 1840, until 1865. The first
foreign missionary of the Reformed
church was the Rev. Benjamin
fchneider, D. D., who was born in
Montgomery county, Pa., and labor-
ed under the American Board for
a period of 42 years.
The Reformed church has impor-
tant missions in Japan and China.
Some of its missionaries have been
among the mighty forces in doing
pioneer work.
The Tentative Program for the
Anniversary Services, presents a var-
ied and interesting array of subjects.
A general invitation has been issued
through the pastors to all the mem-
bers of the church and the officers
To call such an association scientific |
| endeavors of all Christians.
idea at least of God’s attitude towards |
i at 6:30 p. m.
ot the Board hope that these Jubi-
Hee Services may honor a work thao
is calling forth, in our day, the best
CHURCH SERVICES.
Evangelical church, L. B. Ritten-
| house, pastor—Sunday school at 2:00
|p. m. Preaching at 7:30 p. m.
Methodist Episcopal chprch ser-
vice, Rev. G. A. Neeld pastor—Ser-
| Vices at10:30 a. m. Sunday school 9:30
‘a. m. Epworth League at 6:45 p. m.
| Evening seryice at 7:30.
Church of the Brethren—Preaching
110:30 a.m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday
School, 9:30 a. m. Christian Workers
Bible Class,
Saturday evening, 7:30 p. m. Teacher
Training classes meet Monday evening
7 and 8 o’clock, respectively. Sunday
School Workers’ Meeting, Friday
evening, 30th inst., at 7:30.
At the A. M, E. Zion church Sun-
day School at 3:00 p. m. Preaching
at 11 a. m. Ohristian Endeavor; at
| 7:45 p. m.
Evangelical Lutheran church, J. A.
Yount, pastor— Sunday school next
Sunday at 9:30 a. m. Morning ser-
vice 10:30. Evening services 7:30.
Luther League, 6:45p. m. Mid-
week service Wednesdny 8:30 p. m.
Christian church, J. A. Hopkins
pastor—Preaching next Sunday in
the Christian church at 11 a. m.
SS. Philip and James Oatholic
church, Rev. J. J. Brady, pastor.—
Mass next Sunday 8:30 and 10 a. m.
Vespers and Benediction at 7:30 p. m.
Brethren Church:—H. L. Gough-
nour, pastor. —Preaching seryices
{on September 21st, at Summit Mills
iu the morning, Salisbury in the af-
ternoon and Meyersdale in the even-
ing. O.E. at Summit Mills on Friday
evening and at Meyersdale, on Sun-
day evening at 6:45. Sunday school |
|at usual hours. All are invited. |
erm renee eect
Married in Her Everyday Clothes.
A nineteen-year-old Leavenworth
girl eloped with a Leavenworth boy
of the same age and after the mar-
riage ceremony she called up her
mother and broke the news. “You
| didn’t get married in that dress you
wore today?” was the first thing the
mother said, but she got around to
the ‘Bless you, my children, bless
you,” before she hung up the receiver. |
—Kansas City Star.
| the women got to vote on it.
|
DOLL-MAKING AN INDIAN ART
Marvelous Miniatures Are Those
Turned Out by Clever Aborig-
ines of Mexico.
It is thought that the tiniest dolls
are those made by Mexican Indians.
They are barely three-fourths of an
inch long in many cases, but are nev-
ertheless perfect in detail.
The method of manufacture is as
follows: First there is a diminutive
framework of wire. This is then wound
with fine silk thread until the proper
figure has been secured. The cos-
tumes are then cut according to the
character of the doll, and fitted to it.
With needles that can scarcely be |
held in the fingers, needles of which |
the eyes are almost invisible, various |
designs are embroidered on the dolls’ |
clothes with the finest of silk threads.
So cleverly do the Indians execute
these designs that even through a |
powerful glass the details appear to |
be perfect, although the work is ae |
complished without the ald of any
—enlarging device.
Once properly dressed, the doll is |
given its hair. Even to the detalls |
of braids and ribbons this work is |
carried out. Then there are formed |
the eyes, nose, mouth, hands and |
feet.
In Mexico these dolls are. sold for
ridiculously small sums, It takes about
two hours of painstaking labor to
make one of the simplest of the man- |
ikins. |
Some dolls are provided with tiny |
baskets of flowers, fancy sombreros, |
water jars and other paraphernalia. |
The baskets are made of hair by the
Indians of Guanajuato. The bits of
pottery are made of clay, in exact im-
itation of the practical sites. All these
accessories are sewed to the dolls. |
Miniature roses are embroidered in
the costumes of the dancing girls and
ornaments are arranged in their hair.
Wreaths of flowers are hung about the
ghoulders and the arms are formed in
graceful and life-like attitudes of danc-
ing. The matador is complete in |
every particular—his costume being
gayly decorated in many colors, the
hair dressed in true Spanish fashion,
including the conventional queue,
TIME PROVED THEIR WISDOM
One Case Where Women Voters Have
Had a Chance for Good Laugh
on the Men.
“Fourteen years ago I lived in Des
Moines, and the town started to buy
its waterworks from the private cor-|
poration that owned them,” says al
writer in Farm and Fireside. “The |
proposition involved issuing bonds, so
Their
ballots and those of the men were put
into separate ballot boxes, and con-
sequently could be counted separately.
“The town was to get the water |
works for $850,000, which was cheap. |
Well, the women gave a Snug major- |
ity of their votes for buying, the men |
gave a slightly larger majority against |
buying, and the proposition was vot- |
ed down.
“Now, with the water system badly |
run down and intrinsically worth very |
little more than then, the town is try-
ing. to figure out a way to scrape up |
$2,500,000 to buy those same works!
Occasionally it walks around behind |
the town hall and kicks itself earnest- |
ly for a spell, just to remind itself |
what a fool it was because the men
didn’t have as much sense as the
women when that other vote was tak-
en! Don’t tell me the women haven't
sense enough to vote. I've seen ‘em
try it. -
armen
Making of a Campaign Banner.
The services of 12 men are required
to produce one of the big campaign
banners.
Two men prepare the strips on
which the lettering is done. Two more
look after the lettersng of these strips,
the painting of the names of elubs or
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associations ordering the banners, the
captions for the portraits and the offi-
ces for which the ncminees are to con-
tend.
Two men work on the centerpieces,
generally consisting of an eagle and
shield. One man devotes himself to
the special portraits and the others
assemble the various parts, sew the
touches to the banner.
The “portrait man” scorns to do any
sther work than the main portrait.
The rest he calls “filling in.” By
working on the same faces day after
day this artist becomes so skilful and
so rapid in execution that he can paint
the portrait of a candidate in the
dark and paint it as true to life as the
standard of the campaign banner in-
dustry requires.—Harper’'s Weekly.
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Trees Lightning Never Strikes. -
Lightning is said to differentiate Bas
tween trees as well as men and won
en. Some years ago Mr. McNab, &u.
fellow of the Botanical Society of Bde
inburgh, investigated ‘into the gener: -
ally received opinion that neither tule
beech nor the birch is ever struck o¥
lightning. He collected informatioms
regarding lightning-struck trees
throughout Great Britain, and found
no single instance of either of these
species being struck. Investigation im
North America gave similar resulis.
He found, indeed, that in the foressi
regions there a beech tree was: res-—
garded as the safest place in a thm
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