VOL. 56—NO 3 5 ITEMS CONDENSED. BULL'S HORN CAUSES LOCK JAW.—Joseph Wolfe, 15 years old, of Pittsburg, is (lying in Pittsburg from tetanus oaused by being gored by a bull. The case is so unusual that scores of dootors have examined the case. CARRIE NATION AT DELA WARE GAP.—Carrie Nation, the world's famous woman saloon smash er, is summering at Delaware Water Gap, where she airived last week. As yet Carrie has not interfered with the liquor traffic in that vicinity, but the hotel men are watching her every movement. RUSH BEFORE AUTO FATAL.— Frank Lenhardt, of Norristown, rush ed directly in front of a slow moving automobile and was immediately kill ed. CAR SMASHES PORCH—A heavi ly loaded trolley car coming down from Flagstaff Park at Mauch Chunk, jumped the track, kept on across the street and tore down tiie porch of the residence of Harry Teeney, on Broad way. No one was hurt. UNHURT IN AUTO DIVE.—J. H. Brommer.of Landingville,rolled down a thirty-five foot embankment iu a heavy automobile, and although the automobile was smashed to pieces he escaped without the slightest injury. HICCOUGHED TO DEATH—AbeI Mutton of East Bangor, died from an attack of hiccoughs following choleia morbus. He had the paroxysms for three days without relief and was in a state of coma the last twenty-four hours. BABY FATALLY BURNS GRAND PARENT.—WhiIe pressing her hus band's suit, Mrs. John Evans, of Ban gor, had her clothes set afire from gasoline which was upset from a cup by her three-year-old grandson. She will die. HAT AS GOOD AS JAIL KEY.— j Brought back from New York to an swer the charge of aiding her husband to walk out of the Schuylkill county ; jail in the disguise of a visitor, Mrs. I Ray K. Higgins said: "Why all I did was to take my husband's hat into ! him, and I did that openly. Every- j body could see me bring it in. A hat I is certainly not a jail breaking weap- ! on."i CATCHES LARGE CARP. —ln try ing to laud a six-pound carp at Spruce ; Oreek Miss Bessie Gallagher, of Al- j •oona, was almost dragged into the ; Juniata river several times. The fish ; took tho bait on a fly and a royal bat tle followed. Miss Gallagher, being quite a piscatorial artist, eventually i landed her prize, the largest of the species caught there this summer. DROPS FIFTY FEET, UNHURT. —Caught on a high trestle with a j train rapidly approaching and 110 avenue of escape from being run over I except to swing from the crossties, j John Shetwood, a negro youth, fell I fifty feet. Despite the terriffic fall he j escaped without a broken bone and ' after dusting off his clothes he con tinued his journey without assistance or medical attention. COURT HOUSE A PRISON.-With the county jail at Pottsville crowded j with 225 prisoners,the authorities will j be obliged to put new prisoners, who continue to be rapidly committed, in to special rooms in .the courthouse. This is a condition of affairs which i has never been equaled in this county \ and the authorities are unable to ac- I count for the wave of crime. IDENTIFIED 13Y TEETH.—An un- ! known man who fell dead at the St Clair Reading railway station, last June,and was buried at tho almshouse has been identified as Samuel Hazon. A letter received from Hazon's sister in Philadelphia, leaves no doubt that tie was her brother. A queer coincid ence about Ilazon's sudden death is that his brother also died at Chicago in the same sudden manner. Hazon j was peculiarly attired in a green-strip ed suit, brown shoes and white neck- j tie, and had two gold-filled teeth that ' led to his identification. EARTH SWALLOWS MAN AND HORSE—While plowing near Swatara the earth gavo way beneath J. A. Balsbaugh, and horse, man and plow were precipitated about nine feet. The horse struggled until it died,but Bals baugh escaped injury. This is the sec ond time that an occurence of tho kind has happened in that section,and it is feared that there is some underground cavity into whieh the earth's surface is sinking. BABY SWALLOWS CHURCH MONEY.—Swallowing eight copper cents which were laid aside for church collection, little Dora Storie, of Min ersville.laid at death's door for sever al hours. The family physician was quickly summoned and he gave the tot an emetio and she succeeded in raising the money. After reaching the top,a man is apt to forget his friends at the bottom. REV.R. H. WILSON IN THE PULPIT The Rev. Raymond H. Wilson of Gap, a former resident of this city, addressed a large congregation at the Mahoning Presbyterian church yester- I day morning. Naturally not only the I members of the Mahoning church, but also our townspeople in general feel a keen interest in Mr. Wilson's minis terial career. It is noted with pride that he lias developed into a promising pulpit orator. His sermon Sunday, which had as its theme, "The Dying Thief," bore the stamp of originality and was delivered with true eloquence. The text will bo found in St. Luke 23: 43: "And Jesus said Unto him, Verily I say unto Thee, today Thou Shalt be With me in Paradise." Fol lowing is the sermon in part : "I may be asking a hard thing of you," the speaker began, "to come to Calvary and not keep the eye fixed on the Christ,but on the dyiug thief. But we can do so if we remember (not dishonoring Christ) that we could see and learn nothing but for his presence. Iu his light we see light. "The dying thief has played a prominent part through the ages in the discussion of the plan of salvation through Jesus Christ. Helms been the hope of every hardened heart, the sanc tion sufficient of eleventh hour death bed repentance. And as men are al ways justly suspicious of that which comes too easy Christ and his salva tion have been impeached. Men havij felt that Jesus in this instance abrog ated essential and eternal law to est ablish a mere anarchy of grace. " God's spirit may so illume, raise and support us that we may see how the claims of order and law are recon ciled with the unconditional promises of grace. How lie who declared that not one jot or tittle should fail of the law could justly and rationally say to the dying thief, 'Today slialt thou be with mo in Paradise.' Wo must ever remind oursevles that Christ founded His Kingdom in spirit wholly by il lustrations drawn from the natural and the social order. We look in vain among his sayings for dogmas or ipso dixits. The birds of the ail, tlie flow ers of the field and the incidents of common life body forth His truth. | Beneath the various phenomena of na- | ture and society is what we call life ! with its depth and mystery. All na- | tare is but the various forms of com- | mon clay. Its own life gives life to ! each of their varied forms. Organic chemistry tells how different organic substances are due to different oryst alizations of the atom within the mol ecule. The ordor of the onion and the fragauce of the violet mav be the same materials differently combined. Yet all this could justly be called a fancy. No one ever saw or will see a molecule let alone an atom. Hut because this is science in order to save our reputation for enlightenment we must swallow it without question. Cannot Christ thus transform the life of man. Cannot the baser as well as the better elements crystalize about Him when he acts up on our lives. "Iu the light of these considerations wo are asked to look at the dying thief in his relation to their eternal facts; first to society, second to his inuer self; third, to Christ on the Cross. "Society has a duty to the individu al as well as the individual to society. We get a more suggestive view of the dying thief when we turn away from the reflex influence of society on his destiny to the fact of his real in ner self. How does lie stand revealed to the great eternal facts before Christ? This after all is the great question. "Complaint, excuses and justifica tion of wrong doing, however, refined and rational, reveal the discouraging j fact that self is stil central in the theme. We neod not ask how or why i the dying thief could so thoroughly deny self. Those occult powers of the : spirit come as softly and mysteriously | as the dews of heaven. The presence j of the Christ accounts for it. "How the bitter waters become: sweet and the corrosive places plain 1 when wo acknowledge God in the j world with perfect submission and without reservation. Wo cannot und erstand all. Our railing does no good. The future is an impenetrable pall. Bitterness and railing accusation be set us before our triumphant surrend , or. After all God is greater than all | evil. He abides forever as our sun and I shield. [ "As to the relation of the dying j thief to Christ, surely this was not loveless. It was not a caprico of grace. , "St. Paul has said that, all Christ is summed up in penitence to God and faith in Christ. Surely by the power of the spirit the dying thief fulfilled the condition perfectly. How tender and characteristic of our Savior to honor his faith and forgive his ignorance. He had perhaps a crude idea of the spiritual kingdom, yet the living sav ior took, as it were this child, weary and bruised,in iiis arms when he said: 'not in the distressing distant future but today wilt thou be with me in Paradise, a walled, sheltered and pro tected garden, where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest.' " DANVILLE, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 18. 1910 TWO SUSPECTS UNDER ARREST Qnite a commotion was caused in this city Saturday morning by the ar rest of a couple of hoboes suspected of being implicated in the burglary s , at the D. L. & W. station. The presence of four detectives'industriously on the job seemed to add to the importance of the capture. The hoboes, each in him self an interesting type, finally gained their freedom. Ever since the burglary Detectives Adaruson and Spellman of the D. L. & W. railroad company have been in Danville working in conjunction with detectives of the Pennsylvania Rail road. who are trying to obtain a clew to the burglars that cracked the safe at the station at Catawissa a short time ago. Their labors seemed barren of results until last Saturday morning when two hapless hoboes alighted from a freight train, one of whom in a strik ing manner resemblod an individual to whom suspicion pointed. Detectives Adamson and Spellman quickly nabbed the hoboes and hustled them off to the lockup, at the same time notifying Detectives Keller and Thorp of the Pennsylvania Railroad, who came up from Suubury on the 10 :2li train. INJURED INNOCENCE. The four detectives accompanied by Officer Miucemoyer and Voris proceed ed to the lockup where the hoboes weio subjected to the worst grilling they ever experienced. Unfortunately for them they told irrational and con flicting stories. One of the men gave his name as John Ryan; the other as James Leon ard. Both assumed an air of injured innocence as they were led to the lock up. They seemed to be in ignorance of the robbery anil inquired what had occurred in town to lead to their ar rest. Ryan, who had a short fiery red beard, was the man to whom suspicion pointed. Despite a keen eye he seem ed very obtuse and stupid, and when requested to give an account of him self on the night of the robbery lie made such a bungling job of it that for awhile it looked bad for him. POOR MEMORY Both of the suspects were very anx ious to bo classed as tramps merely. Ouo of them recollected that he had t worked a little at haying somewhere during the past summer; he had also j worked for a contractor at Kingston, j but he wasn't sure whether he had given lkis right name there or not. It did not seem very clear to tlio other fellow whether he hail done any work or not during the present summer. Ryan on being asked to explain why lie had adopted the life of a tramp re plied: "I guess 1 hit the bottle a little too strong —like a good many others. " OfticerJThorp recognized Kyau as a 112 bum recently detained in the lockup at Suubury, where lie was traveling with an umbrella mender aud where his conduct seemed to bear out his representations that he was only a j tramp whose worst offense seemed to be that of getting drunk. The hoboes were grilled for nearly an hour, after which the detectives > retired to talk the matter over. It was finally agreed that,although a few cir- | cumstances seemed suspicious, the , evidence against the men was not strong enough to hold them on. They were released during the afternoon. TOM RYAN SCORES Tom Ryan, Danville's Heavy weight ' athlete, took two of the prizes offered for the events at the Bloomsburg fire men's picnic at Columbia park on Sat- | urday. In the shot put Ryan took first place, distance 35 feet. The prize was a | diamond stud. In the fat men's race Ryan again captured first prize, a pair of cuff bot tons. j FATAL COAST INTO AUTO ALLENTCWN, Aug. 16. Noble Moyer.a Western Union mess enger, 14 years old, lost control of his bicycle coasting clown the Lehigh mountain Sunday evening, and, strik ing the auto of Milton G. Kline, suf fered a fractured skull, dying at the hospital during the night. To avoid the accident Kline ditched his machine,breaking the front wheels. He stoped so suddenly that all its oc cupants were thrown out, including his mother, two sons aud himself, all sustaining painful injuries. Of six autos that passed only one stopped and its occupants, as soon as they saw there was a hospital case, rushed on. The boy had to be taken to the institution on a jolting wagon, although his chances for life would have been enhanced by a quick trip. LEOPARD SCALPS CHILD.—John Eggensbreger.aged five years,of Beav er Falls, leaned too close to a cage in which a ferocious leopard was kept. As a result the animal reached through he bars and almost scalped the child. So serious are the injuries inflicted that his life is despaired of. 500 FROM HEBE HAD LOTSJF FUN Saturday's Scores. Danville, 5; Bloomsburg, 1. Berwick, 3; Shickshinny, 2. Nanticoke, '.I; Nescopeck, J. STANDING OF THE CLUBS w. L. P.C. I W. L. l'.C. Nanticoke.A O l.ooci | Berwick....2 2 .MO Ulonni 1 .7901 Sllick'ny.. I 3 .2-10 Danville. .2 2 .SOOI Nescopeck 0 t .000 "Did you hear the score?" was the sloagn thrown from the throats of the 500 houksy Dauville rooters as they surged from the Bloomsburg Athletic Park Saturday afternoon, after the sizzling 5 to 1 spanking that Captain Nipple and his trusty base ball yoemen administered to the Bloomsburg Speed Boys. "Did you hear tho score?" was the pertinent querry hurled from trol ley car window and platform as the specials and regulars sped toward Dan ville,carrying the monster happy Dan ville contingent back home. And from Bloomsbuig's downcast denizens, as they watched their hopes and hard earned money depart, came back for answer—a row of sickly grins. There are just a few games in a sea son that get into the ultra class and nobody who was at Bloomsburg will question the assertion that this was one of the few. The most potent cause for Dauville satisfaction in Saturday's victory was the attack of acute con fidence that broke out in the Blooms burg camp before the game and which had assumed the proportions of au epidemic by the time the game was called. Their exuberant spirits induced them to risk large wads of their hard earn ed cash on the result of the game, the amount brought home by the Dauville sports being variously estimated at be tween §ISOO and .41000. Not a bet that could be found by the Dauville con tingent was left untaken, and by the time the game was called Bloomsburg money was getting very scarce. Another exhaust they provided for their bubbling enthusiasm was the band, whose selections,however, were confined to one tune while they march ed unto the field and just one more as the crowil was departing. The Blooms burg enthusiasts had made all arrange ments for a big parade to celebrate their victory, but the pegeant did not have a chance to perform. MONSTER DANVILLE CROWD. The crowd that attended the game from here was a large one. Starting with the one o'clock trolley regulars and specials were jammed to over flowing. About a hundred took the 2:10 D. L. & W. train. Included were men and women, y „ing and old, for the word had been passed that Dau ville was going to trounce their old rivals. Tho ground records showed 1200 paid admissions, and of these not less than ."jOO were from Danville. THE GAME. With all the before-hand incidents tending to bring the degree of joy up to summer heat, the game itself capped the climax of ecstacy. It was a hum mer from every view point. Blooms burg, with their dandy team, played dandy ball in every department, but still were outplayed aud out generated by Dauville in every position. Blooms burg fought hard from start to finish, but the onslaught of Dauville batters on Shawkey was not to be withstood, while Mcllale, with his mystifying shoots, turned Bloom batters into outs with amazing ease. Back of the giant Colby collegian the eight other champs did sleight of hand tricks with balls from Blooms burg bats. Danville fielded errorlessly —took every one of the 40 chances that were necessary to retire Bloomsburg iu the nine innings. THE BIG NORSE. Of course the star of the game was Mcllale,Danville's new pitcher. From beginning to ending he gave such an exhibition of twirling as has never been seen in Bloomsburg. Bloomsburg had seven hits, but they came when Mcllale said they should hit; ho had six strike outs, and the}', too, came when he had decided that a strike out was about due; tho rest of tho time Bloomsburg bats were laying ground ers or raising flies to Danville field ers, where the masterful Mcllale had previously decided they should go. It would bo difficult to convince the Bloomsburg fans that they had gotten anything out of the game, but we would like to inform them that every person on the ground got a liberal ed ucation in base ball pitching when they saw McHale work. He included in his repretoire every thing that a pitcher should have, and besides fielded his position in spectacu lar form. A Bloomsburg batter would spauk viciously at a shoulder high floater that McHale had started at his ankles, and miss it by a foot; then stand dazed while the big smiling fel low before him would groove a smoke ball across the plate that he was too Continued on 4th Page. NEW RULES GO INTO EFFECT Several new iules have gone into effect at the tuberculosis dispensary, tliis city, during the few days past. One of the most important of these relates to the deporting of immigrants that have nnlawly landed in the Unit ed States. Henceforth, it will devolve on physicians in charge of tuberculos is dispensaries to enforce rule 32 of the immigration laws and regulations, which provides that the case of every alien found to have become a public charge from causes existing prior to landing shall be reported to the im migration officer stationed nearest the place where the alien is confined. As is implied all indigent foreign patients applying to the tuberculosis dispensary for treatment must be re fused admission, provided the disease was contracted by them prior to their lauding in this country and provided such landing occurred within three years. RULE NOT VIOLATED. At present there are thirty-five in digent patients receiving treatment at the tuberculosis 'dispensary here. Of this number there is not one whose case is covered by rule 32 and who, therefore, is subject to exclusion and deportation. Another new rule has gone into ef fect at the dispensary, which urfor tunately debars one or more poor per son, victims of tuberculosis, badly in need of help, from treatment at the local dispensary. The rule provides that any patient at the dispensary who makes application and is admitted to the Mt. Alto sanatorium and leaves there without being honorably dis charged shall never be readmitted to the sanatorium nor treated at the local dispensaries. A dishonorable dis charge follows only when patients break the rules of the sanatorium re lating to the use of tobacco and alco hol or leaving under three months con trary to advice. Up to the present four indigent patients have made ap plication through the local dispensary for admission to Mt. Alton. With the exceptions above noted patients have remained under treatment there until discharged by the physician. NOT GENERALLY KNOWN. It seems that a good many persons are unfamiliar with an important rule at the tuberculosis dispensary that is rigidly lived up to. This rule forbids that the physician in charge treat the indigent patients for any other disease than tuberculosis and that he treat them only at the dispeusary; what at tention the patients may require at their homes is given by the visiting nurse. Exception to the above rule lies in those cases where the tuber culosis patients before they were ad mitted to the dipsensary were regular patients of the physician in charge. 1911 MODEL. Thomas J. Price's new car, a Pack ard 30, ISUI model, arrived in this city Monday evening. It is one of the urost beautiful and expensive automobiles in this section. It is a fore door body, seven passenger car. The wheels are equipped with Continental demount able rims, the car carrying two tires already pumped up. The machine lias a Packard standard blue body,the door lines being black. The fender hood, the radiator, all metal parts are en ameled black. The run from Atlantic City to Dan ville was made on Monday, the car be ing in charge of John K. Allen of Philadelphia. In the party were Mr. anil Mrs. T. J. Pi ice, Miss Price and her guest, Miss Whitten.of Wakefield, Mass., and Edward J. Price. 113 Letters on Pin Head. Sharon, Aug. l<i. —On the head of an ordinary pin Paul P. Wentz, of this city, has engraved the alphabet four times and then added Itis name and the dato when he completed the work, making 113 characters in all. lie was graduated from Bouman'.s Technical school in Lancaster about a year ago and is now working for Fred Koehler in this city. For the wonder ful pieoo of work that he did he used an ordinary watchmaker's tool. Mr. Weutz is only 22 years of age. Snake Dream Causes Paralysis. Slatington, Aug. 10.—Going to bed after a hard day's work, Goorge Geor gopulus, a local candy merchant, dreamed that he had a fight with a big blacksnako. He dreamed that it had encircled his leg and arm and was about to bury its fangs in his body. He awoke with a start to find that his left side was totally paralyzed. DROPS DEAD IN CHURCH.—Geo Eptenheimer, of Philadelphia, drop ped dead while attending services in Rehoboth M. E. church. Mrs. Epten heimer was sitting beside her husband when he was stricken with heart dis ease. WILL THERE BE OBJECTIONS? Geueral interest centers on the next ! meeting of council, Friday night, the j date set for hearing objections to the | paving of Bast Market street between J Mill anil Pine streets. Unless very strong opposition should develop council will proceed forthwith J to prepare an ordinance authorizing the improvement. The committee will i no doubt report at a special meeting and the ordinance will be adopted as quickly as possible to the end that formality may be complied with and the two remaining squares ready for paving by the time the section now under way is completed. THE PROCEDURE Following the plan usually adopted in such cases the costs will not be as- j sessed until the paving is completed. The owners of properties abutting on the two squares will then be present- ; ed with a bill for the costs as com- i puted. Should property owners decline to pay their share of costs a petition will be presented to court asking for the appointment of a jury of three men as provided by the Act of May 31, 1897. • Section 2 provides as follows: In exercising the power aforesaid all pro ceedings for the ascertaining of dam ages and the assessment of benefits,in cident thereto shall bo as now provid ed by law in reference to payment of costs, benefits, damages and expenses of public improvements within muni cipal corporations. ; As brought out in Section Bof the Act of May 18, 1891, the mode of pro cedure referred to is as follows: On petition viewers shall be appointed who shall assess the costs and expenses of grading, paving and curbing of the street or alley upon the propelty bene fited,according to the benefits, if suffi cient can be found,but if not,then the | deficiency, when finally ascertained, j shall be paid by the municipal corpo ration. THE DIFFERENCE Obviously in the paving of the two squares between Mill and Pine streets no -amage will result to any of the I properties abutting, which implies ' that there will be no deficiency for the municipality to make up. If a jury be appointed it may bo a question wheth er the costs of paving assessed on prop erties "according to the benefits" may j not exceed the amount that they would ! have had to pay had owners petitioned ' for paving in the usual way. FOUND DYING MAN MILTON, Aug. l(i. While on hie way home from Shinier & Sons' mill, where he is employed, about :i o'clock this moiuing, Elmer Sanders, of New Columbia, discovt ted the mangled body of a man lying along the Reading railroad tracks a sl.oii distance from the station at West Jul ton. The man was still breathing, but died a few minutes later. One leg bad been cut off and there was a deep gash in his head. The unfortunate fellow was identified as Peter Richards, a resident of Pottsville, who had been working at the new high school build ing at this place. He was about twen ty-five years of age and single. A bot tle partly filled with whisky was found in his pocket. The supposition is that lie was struck by a freight that passed through here about 2:30 o'clock. PRONG IN APPENDIX SCRANTON, Aug. lti. Thomas Duffy, a machinist,23 years old, of Dunmore, near here, was op erated upon in the Scranton private hospital yesterday for the removal of a dentist's tool, which lie swallowed a week ago while having his teeth fixed in tho office of Dr. Harold Davis, of Dunmore. The tool was a two-inch steel prong with a quarter-inch burr at one end. The physicians had to force it down Duffy's neck into his stomach last week. It worked its way to the veri form appendix, and set up a condition similar to appendicitis. The appendix was found to be inflamed,and the steel instrument imbedded in it. Duffy's condition is critical. DIES IN STRANGER'S HOME.— The infirmities of his advanced age prevented Michael Collins, aged 70 years, who had been discharged from the Phialdelphia hospital, from reach ing the home of relatives, but lie was taken in and cared for by Mrs. John McOandles. Next morning Mis. Me- Candles went to tho strauger's room to arouse him and she was startled to find him dead. An orchestra dance will be held at DeWitt's Park tonight. The music will be furnished by Miles & Foulk's or chestra. A delightful time is assured to all who attend. B. L. Dielil is remodeling his homo on Bloom road. ESTABLISHED IN 1855 FIRST VISIT IN 49 YEARS After a life-time of labor not unmix ed with trial and hardship,for the first time in nearly half a century the Rev. N. L. Sayers of Plaquenime, La., hrg returned to Montour county to view the hearthstone of his early days and to seek the few that still survive who knew him as a boy and a young man. Mr. Sayers is a representative of an old and pioneer family of this coun ty. He was born at Washingtonville and was the sou of John Sayers, who in turn was born about two miles from Washingtonville. In 18(il lie joined the union army enlisting in the Seventh Pennsylvania cavalry. After the war he settled in Indiana. ENTERED THE MINISTRY. Twenty years ago he entered the Methodist ministry in Louisiana. At present he is a member of the Gulf Conference. For eight years his work has lain in the great swamp region of Louisiana. His principal appointment is at Bayou Chene.St. Martin's parish. As a Methodist minister Mr. Sayers faces conditions that are wholly un ique. Before obstacles that he has to contend with and the privations that he endures every day of his life the hardships of the old time circuit rider in this section dwindle into insignifi cance. A DISMAL LIFE. In the swamp region there are no farms—no towns—nothing in the way of houses even, exceptafew "shacks" primitive beyond belief. Yet through out this great area human beings sub sist and families are reared. Large tracts of timber land are be ing cleated, but the principal occupa tion of tho people ate fishing and trap ping. Mr. Sayers' circuit embraces two hundred miles. He travels exclusively in a boat, winding his way in and out among the bayous or inlets from the lakes or large rivers that move loiter ingly through the illimitable swamps, where mosquitoes formidable in size and in untold millions assail him. The clergyman's boat is propelled by gasolene and is equipped with a head light. It is a specially designed craft: it affords sleeping quarters and is, in deed, the only home that Mr. Sayers knows for long intervals. SPARSELY SETTLED. The great swamp region is very sparsely settled. Among those who have penetrated the place and are try ing their fortunes lumbering and in other vocation? are s'>me college men. Tho . flie people, however, are gross' • l'iint, although emotional and . < no means unresponsive. On iiie who! Mr. Sayers is consid erably encouraged liy results. The peo ple art willing to le taught. In many iu>tnnc> s l.c finds large families living outsii'o of ivrdloet— not because of innate depravity, ir should be ex plaiued, but rutin I because they have so long bem mj'.kefed. As soon as they are shown tie error of their ways the men and women rearing families agree to be married and Mr. Sayers ties the belated nuptial knot. There are many persons who know nothing of the plan of salvation—who know nothing of the Bible and are familiar with the word God only as it occurs in profane language. CALLED TO THE WORK. Mr. Sayers declares that it is a settl ed conviction with him that he is call ed of God to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ into this almost impenetrable and long neglected field. Frequently his congregations number less than a dozen : twenty-five or thirty seems to bo about tho limit. Services are held wheiever shelter can be found from the scorching sun; often at night un der the light of the moon. Strange as it may appear the climate is not unhealthy and Mr. Sayers is the picture of health. Mosquitoes, how ever, are a ceaseless torment and are in evidence tho whole year round. The only relief afforded is by means of mosquito netting. Snow is pratical ly unknown in tho swamp region and ice even the thickness of glass is a rarity. The present is Mr. Sayeis' first vis -1 it to his old home since he left here j forty-nine years ago. Auto Dashet Up a Porch. Pottsville, Aug. 10.—An unoccupied ' automobile raciug baakward at break neck speed down steep Norwegian street yesterday threatened the lives of a number of pedestrians, and final ly dashed over a pavement and up a porch, where Charlott and Belle Rich were siting. The ladies saved tliem sevlos from being scooped up by re treating into their house. The auto mobile, which belonged to Engineer Harty E. Wilson, of the Pennsylvaina railroad, was released on its perlions trip by boys. If a girl can't marry her ideal, she goes after some other girl's ideal.
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