3Vmcricait. VOL. 53—NO. 18. DK. IRVING H. JENNINGS, Office Hours A. M.to 12 M. 104 Mill St., 1 I'. At. to A P. M. Danville, I'd. SHUL.TZ, ILL. - ! ly in touch with the rank and file. | while traveling 011 the cars whenever at all convenient, he makes it a prac tice to ride in the smoking car, not j for the purpose of undulging in a | smoke, but to get in touch with tho traveling men when they ruay be , found in a mood most willing to com ! municatu. Practical and observing, the average traveling man may be re garded as an exponent of current i thought. The burden of tht> talk indulged in ; by these business men the bishop has found to run along two lines. One of these seem to centre on the idea that there i* something radically wrong with the bible. The men have not got ten the idea froui personal study; tiiey had not read books of biblical critic ism, neither have they listened to any lectures ou the subject; but so far as the speaker can determine tliey have lieeu influenced wholly l>y newspaper sqnibs. The bishop paid a flue oompliiuent. to the mortem uewspajier and held it up as an indispensable agency in the twentieth century civilization. The newspaper, however, is not the place to look for reliable criticism oil biblic al subjects. To illustrate how little weight is to be attached to such at tacks and criticism found in the news papers the speaker related an anecdote. He called one day 011 an acquaint ance, who was an editorial writer on a leading newspaper. The latter pre sented the bishop with a fine work on theology with the explanation that he had just written a review of the work and had no further use for it. The bishop observed that the leaves were uncut and asked the writer to explain. The latter made no secret of the fact that ho had only referred to tho table of contents and the last chapter and from these indirect sources had con structed a lengthy and exhaustive re view. Another burden of thought ou the minds of men that Bishop Darlington discovered is that we ''are making too much of Christ"—that the evangelists and poets of these latter days are magnifying him unduly, placing him on a higher pedestal than the early teachers of Christianity. Somehow the idea seems to prevail that the ord er in which the divine personages are given in the trinity should be observ ed and that the Sou should come sec ond, following the Father. This idea might be due to the doctrine of Crapsy recently given publicity or to the higher criticisms of the day. Most of these attacks center on the gospels and the book of revelation, which contain so much to console the Christian. Higher criticism, which is attacking ! the bible, is divided into three camps —the radical and conservative camp of Germany and the English camp. It is worthy of note, the speaker said, that these schools all agree that the epistle to the Colissians is authentic—a book which, as revealed by the text, places Christ upon a very high pedestal: "For in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead.'' Incidentally, the speaker paid bis compliments to the school of thinkers who denominate themselves "agnos tics." The original or literal mean ing of this work, he said, is "ignor amus. " The bishop held that we do not put Christ high enough. We are too much tainted with this unitarian heresy. Christ is the head of the oliurch. In Him is all fullness and perfection. All hope is in this great God and Savior. We know a great deal about Christ in these days; we read of his life and we travel over the land where his foot prints lay. But it is a vastly different thins to know about Christ and to know Him, the one thing necessary. Do we not put Christ too far away from us—2ooo years ago? Do we get the real living Christ—the present Savior? Very beautifully indeed the bishop applied these thoughts to the class just confirmed. Every life, he said, has its own trials and sorrows—its own gethsemane. All should endeavor to so live that when the time of trial comes they can say with their Savior, "Thy will, not mine be done." Bishop Darlington Sunday evening officiated at Grace Episco]ial church at Riverside,conducting evening pray er and preaching a sermon. There was a large attendance. ESTABLISHED IN 1855 IB 111 HI DEE The jury in the Whittaker trial at Sunbury rendered a verdict of murder iu the first degree Tuesday evening. They came into court at 8:45 o'clock and announced that they had arrived at a verdict. Judge Savidge, the pri soner and the lawyers iu the case were summoned and a large crowd of spect ators gathered iu the court room to hear what tiie fate of the murderer would be. The jury was polled, and each man answered "guilty" as his name was called. Attorney Kline, for the defense, moved for a new trial. The court gave him ten days in which to file his rea sons. If satisfactory his motion will be granted. The ,iury deliberated slightly over two hours before arriviug at a verdict. They took sixteen ballots. On the first, eight stood for murder in the first de gree, two for second degree, one for j manslaughter and one for acquittal on | the ground of insanity. The dissent i ing jurors were swung over to the side | of the majority by the following evid ence which received but slight con | sideration in the trial. | As Whittaker sat beside his wife in j the sitting room of the Williams resi - dence in the presence of the two fami , lies he stroked her throat. He then led I her into the parlor and slashed her ; with his razor. The jury wero con -1 vinced that while fondling his wife's I neck Whittaker was even then tliiuk ' of killing her, and took her into the other room because he was afraid to commit the deed in the presence of ! so many people. The jury gave but scant considera tion to the insanity plea. As the de fendant has always acted in a perfect ly rational manner they believed he knew as well as auy normal man could kuow what he was doing when he murdered his wife. The remarkable feature of the case was that the expert testimony that the prisouer is both an imbecile an i an epileptic remained substantially in tact. Dr. J. E. Robbins, whose con duct on the stand created as fair an impression as that of any witness who ever testified in a Northumberland county court,had stated that Whittak er doubtless knew the difference be tween right and wrong, even though he wasn't saue. But the law does not recognize insanity except iu so far as • it impairs a man's ideas of right and wrong. And so the jury, after the first ballot, made their deliberations with- I out considering in the slightest wheth er the prisoner is sane or not. Of 113 murders in Northumberland county only two, Cressinger and Mc- Manus, have thus far suffered the death penalty. In the general satisfaction | which exists over the verdict sympathy | is felt for the father and mother who , have already buried eleven children, ; and of whose remaininsg two, one is subject to almost daily fits, and the other is doomed to an ignominous ! death on the scaffold. Plenty of Work. | There is no probability of any of the wage-earners of Danville and vicinity being idle the coming summer,if they i sincerely desire work. With all our industries in full blast, with the reconstruction of North Mill street and other municipal improve ments under way, to say nothing of | the building operation at the hospital j for the insane and the probability of ■ piping and filling up the canal, there ' should be work for a grout many more people than are usually employed in Danville. As a result the farmers are facing a crisis in the help problem and there is more than cue who has not the re motest idea where the hands are to come from that he will need to help to harvest his crops. It is a question whether in its palm iest days Danville was the scene of greater activity than will characterize the place this summer. A Surprise Party. A surprise party was tendered Oscar Kocher Saturday evening at his home on Bloom road. Refreshments were served. Those present were Mrs. Oscar Koch er, Mr. and Mrs. Leander Kocher, Mr. and Mrs. William Houser and daugh ter Dorothy, Mr. and Mrs. Eifert.Mrs. Emery Heimbach.Mr. and Mrs. Harry Balliet and Miss Balliet.Mr. and Mrs. Michael Breckbill, Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Krum, Mr. and Mrs. Simon Kocher, Mrs. Maurice Leighow, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Baylor, Mrs. Lucy Walter, Missos Sara Krum, Lizzie Kocher, Pearl Krum, Edna Leighow ; Messrs. Lewis Snyder, Howard and David Leighow. Auto Vs Express Train A race took plaoe on Sunday <> • i Hazleton to Delano, a distance of tm: teen miles, between a Lehigh Valley railroad express train and A. J. De pew's large touring car, and the auto came out ahead.