hs rs 4 “HE Fa Si gi
LAUNCH OUT INTO TZR DEEP,
The Sunday Ssrmon as Dsliversd bythe
Brooklyn Divine.
TexT: “Launch out into the deep.
Luke v., 4. ; =~
s starting om the campaign of tha
world’s conquest, was a leoting Foie staf?
intellectral faces, and refined 3
and in Jerusalem. Christ might have called
into the avpojstleship twelve kworms, or
twelve rhetoricians, or tweive artistz. In.
stead He takes a group of men who had
never made’ a speech; never taken a lesson
in belleslettres: never been sick enouzh to
make them look delicate—their hands broad,
clumsy and hard knuckled, He choss fishar-
men, among other reasons, I think, becausa
they were physically hardy. Rowing makes
strong arms and stout coests. Much climb-
ing of ratlines makes one’s head steady. A
Galilee tempest wrestled men into gymnasts.
The opening work of the caurch wasrough
work, Corist did not want fwelve invalids
banging about Him, complaining all the
time how badly they felt. He leaves the
delicate students at Jerusalem and Poms
for their mothers ani aunts to take care of,
and goes down to the seashore, and out of
the toughest material makes an apostleship.
The ministry neel more corporeal vigor
than any other class. Fine minds and good
intentions ars important, but there must be
physical force to back them. The intellectual
miil wheel may be well built and the grist
good, but there must be enough blood in
themill rac:to turn the one and to grind
the other.
He chosa fishermen also because tney were
used to hard knocks. The man who cannot
stand assault is not fit for the ministry. It
always hss been and always will be rough
work, and the man whe, at every censure or
caricature, sits down to cry had better beat
some other work. It is no place for ecclesi-
astical doll babies. A man who cannot
preach because he has forgotten his manu-
script or lost his spectacles ouzht not to
presch at all. Heaven deliver the church
from a min stry: that preach in kid gloves
and from sermons in black moroc:o covers!
These fisherman were rough apd reads.
They had been in the sternest of all colleges.
hen they were knocked over by the main
boom of the ship they entered the Sophomore,
when washed off by a great wave, they en-
tered the Junior: when floating for two days
without food or drink on a piank they came
to the Senior, and when at lass their ship
dashed on the beach ina midnight hurricane
they graduated with the first honor.
My text finds Jesus cane aboard with one
of these bronzed men, Simon by name. This
fisherman had been swzepinz his net in shoal
water. ‘‘Push our,” says Caris'; ‘‘what is
the use of hugging the shore in this boat?
Here is a lake twelve miles long and six wide,
aud it is all populated just waiting for the
sweep of ycur net. Launch out into the
deep.”
Tha advices that my Lord gave to Simon
is as appro riate for us all in a spiritual
sense. The fact is that most of us are just
paddling along the shore. e are afraid to
venture out into the great deaps of God and
Christian experience. We think that the
boat will be upset, or that we cannot ‘‘clew
down the mizzan topsail,” and our cowardice
makes us poor fishermen. I think I hear the
voice of Christ commanding us, as He did
Simon on that day when bright Galiles sat
in among the praen hills of Palestine, like
water flashing in an emerald cup, “Launch
out into the deep.”
This divine counsel comes first to all thos
who ars paddling in ths margin ot Bibla re-
search. My father read the Bible throuzh
three times after he was eighty years of age
and without spectacles—not for ths mere
purpose of saying he bad been through ii so
atten bnt for hissternal profit, John Wolby,
the brother-in-law of Daniel Webster,
learned to read after he was eizhty-four
years of age in order that he might becoms
acquainted with the Scriptures. Taere is
no pook in the world that demands so much
of our attention as the Bible. Yet nin:-
tenths of Christian men get no more than
ankle deep. Thsy think it is a good sign not
* to venture too far. Taey never ask how or
why, and if they sea soma Christian b2com-
ing inquisitive about the deap things of God
they say: ‘‘Be careful; you had bettar not
go out so far from shore.”
My answer is: The farther you go from
chore the better if you have the right kind
of ship. If you have woridly philosophy for
the hulk, and pride for a sail, and self con-
ceit for the helm, the first squall will destroy
you. But if you take the 3ible for your
cratt, the farther you go the better, and
after you have gone ten thousand furlongs
Christ will still command, **Launch out into
the deep.” Ask some such question as **Who
is God? and goon for ten years asking it,
Ask it at the gate of every parable; amid
the excitement of every miracle; by toe soli-
tariness of every patriarchal thrashing floor;
amid the white faces of S:nnacherib’s slain
turned up into the moonlight; amid the fly-
ing chariots of the Golden City. Li
. Ask who Jesus is, and keep on asking it
of every Bible lily, of every raven, of every
star, of every crazed brain cured, of every
blind man come to sunlight, of every coin
in a fish’s mouth, of every loaf that got to
be five loaves, of every wrathful sea
pacified, of every pulseless arm stretched
jorth in gratulation; ask it of His mother,
of Augustus, of Herod, of the Byro-
pheenician woman, of the damss3l that woke
uo trom the death sleep, of Joseph, who bad
Him buried, of the angel posted as sentinel
«t His tomo. of the dumb earth that shook
and groaned and thundered svhen He died.
A missionary in France offered a Bible in
an humble dwelling. The man took it, tore
out a dozen pages and with them began to
light his pipe. Some years after the mission-
ary happened in the same house The family
had just lost their son in the Crimean war,
and his Bible had bean sent back home, The
missionary took it up and saw that it was
the very same Bible that he had loft in the
house and from which the leaves had been
torn. The dying soldier had written on one
of the leaves of the Bible, “Rejected and
scoifed at, but finally believed in and saved.”
The Bible may bs used to light the pipeo?
witticism by some, but for us it is a staff in
3ite, a pillow in death and our joy for eter-
nity.
Walk all up and down this Bible domain!
Try every path. Piunge in at the prophe-
cies and coms out at the epistles. Go with
the patriarchs until
lists. Rummage and racsack, as children
who are not satisfied when thay come to a
new house until they know what is in every
room and into what every door opens. Open
every jewel casket. Examine the skylights.
Forever bz askinz questions. Pat to a
higher use than was intended the oriental
proverb, *‘Hold all the skirts of thy mantle
extended when heaven is raining gold.”
Passing from Bonn to Coblentz on the
Rhine, the scanery is comparatively tame.
But from Coblentz to Mayence itis enchant-
ing. You sit on deck and fesl as if this last
flash of beauty must exhaust the scene: but
in ‘a moment there is a turn of the river,
which covers up the former view with morse
luxuriant vineyards, and more deflant
castles, and bolder blu¥: vine wredtbed,
and~grapes 80” rips that if the hills be
touched they would bleed their rich life
away into the bowls of Bingen and Hock-
heimer. Here and there there are streams
of water melting into theriver, like smaller
“joys swallowed in the bosom of & great
gladness.
" And when night bezins to throw its blacx
mantle over the shoulder of the hills, and
[you are ap ng barkation at
Wayence, the lights along the shora fairly
pewitch the scene with their beauty, giving
ons a thrill that ho feels but once, yet that
lasts him forever. Ho this river cf God's
ward is not a straight stream, but a wiading
aoe then per. Joules 0 4 a
iri ntage pressing 1
ed with cistles of
EA oS hn
ou mest the evange-/
parexwitn une strong tower into which the
vening amid the
ish that gleam from the shors of heaven.
je trouble is that the vast majority of Bible
voyages stop at Coblentz, wnere the chief
gloriesbezin.
The sea of Gols Worl is not like Gen.
nessarat, twelve miles by six, but bound-
Jess, and in any xe direction you can sail
on forever. y then confine yourself ta
a short }salm or to a few verses of an
epistle? e largest fish are not naar the
shora. Hoist all sail to ths winis of heaven.
Take hol of both oars anil pull away. Be
like some of the whalers that went out from
ow ord or Portsmouth to be gons for
two or threo years. Yea, calculate on a
litetime voyage. You do not want to land
until youlaniin heaven. Sailaway, O ye
mariners, 10r cwernity: Lianasa out ato
the deep! ;
The text is appropriate to all Christians of
shallow experience. Doubts an fears have
in our day been almost elected to tha parlia-
ment of Christian graces. Some coosider it
a bad sign not to have any doubts. Doubts
and fears are not signs of health, but esters
and carbuocles, You have a valuaole house
or farm. It is suggested that the title is
not good. You employ counsel. You have
the deels exsnune:, You search the record
for TROFLEAgS: judgments and liens. You
are not satistiad until you hava a certificate,
signed by the great seal of ths State, assar-
ing you that the title is good. Yet how many
leavs their title to heavan an uadecided mat-
ter! Why do you not go to the racords ani
find out? Give yourself no rest, day or night,
until you can read your title clear to man-
sions in tho skies.
Christian character is w ¢om3 up t1 hizhe
er standards. We hava now to hunt
through our librarv to find one Robert
M’Cheyne, or one Elward Payson, or ons
Harlan Page. The time will come when we
will find halt a doz2n of them sittinz in the
game seat with us. The graca ot Goi can
make a great deal better men than thoss I
have mentioned. Christians seam afrail
they will get heterodox by going too. far,
They do not believe in Christian perfection.
There is no dan of your being perfect for
some time yet. I will keep watch anl give
vou notic3 in time, if you yet too nea: pe.-
fection for the safety of your taeolozy.
One-half of you Christians are simply
stucic in the mui, Why noi cut loose from
everything but God? Givsnot to Him thas
formal petition made up of 0O5"='‘0
Lord” this and *‘O Lord” that. When peo-
ple ara cold and have nothing to say to God
they straw their prayers with “0's” and
“forevar and ever, Amen,” and tainzs to
fill up. Tell God what yon want with the
feeling that He is ready to give it, and be-
lieve that vou will receive, and you shall
have it. Shed that old prayer you have
been making these ten years. It is high
tims that you outgrew it, Throw it aside
with your old ledzers. and your old hats,
and your old shoes. Taks areview of vour
present wants, of your present sins and of -
your present blessings, With a sharp blade
cut away vour past half aul half Christian
life, and with new determination, and new
plans, and new expectations launca out into
the deep.
The text is appropriate to all ths unfor-
given. Every sinner would crma to God it
he thouzht he might come just as h-=is.
People talk as though the pardon of God
were a narrow river, like the Kennebec or
the Thames, and that their sins draw too
much water to enter it. No: it is not a river
nor a bay, but a sex. 1 should like to per-
suade you to launca out into ths graas deep
of God’s mercy. I am a merchant. I have
bougnt a cargo of spices in India. I have,
through a bill of exchange, paid for the
whole cargo. You are a ship caotain.
give you the oriers and say, “Bring me
those spices.” Yon land in India. You go
to the traderand say, **Here ars the orders.”
and you find syuryihing all right. Youdo
not stop to pay the money yourself. It is
not your business to pay it. Ths arrange-
ments were made before you started. So
Christ purchases your pardon. He puts the
papers, or the promises, into your hand. Is
it wiss tostop and say, *Icannot pay for
my redemption?’ God does not ask you to
pay. Relying on what has bean done, launch
out into the deep.
The Bible's promises join hands, and the
circle they make will compass all your sins,
and all your temptations, ani all your sor-
rows. ‘Theround table of King Arthur and
his knights had room for only thirteen ban-
queters, but the round table of God's supply
is large enough for all tha presant inhabit
ants of earth and heaven to sic at, and for
the still mightier populations that ars yet to
Do not sail coastwise along your old habits
and oid sins. Keep clear of the shore.
out where the water is deeoest, Ob, for the
mid sea of God's merey! ‘‘Be it knowauato
you, men and Lretorep, that throuzh this
Man is preached unto you forgiveness of
sins.” I preach it with as much confidence
to the eighty-year-old transgressor as to the
maiden, Though your sins wera blood red
they shall be snow white. I'he more ragged
the prodigal, the more compassionate the
Father. 0 you say that you are too bad?
Tha high water mark of God’s pardon is
higher than all your transgressions. “lhe
blood of Jesus. Christ cleanseth trom all sin.”
Do you say that your heart is hard? Sup-
poss it were ten times harder. Do you say
that your iniquity is long continued? Sup-
pose it were ten times longer. Do you say
that your crimes are black? Suppose that
they were ten times blacker. Is thers any
lion that this Simson cannot slay? ls there
any fortress that this Conqueror cannot
take? Is thereany sin that this Fedeemer
cannot pardon?
Itis said that when Charlemagne’s host
was overpowered by the three armies of the
Saracens in the pass of Roncesvalles his
warrior, Roland, in terrible earnestness
seizad a trumpet and blew it with such ter-
rific strength that the opposing army reeled
back with terror, but at the third blast of
the trumpet it broke in two. 1see your soul
fiercely assailed by all the powers of earth
and hell. I put ths mightier trumpet of the
Gospel to my lipsand I blow it three times.
Blast the first—**Whosoever will, let him
come.” Blast the second—*‘Seek ye tho
Lord while He may be found.” Blast the
third—*"Now is the accepted time; now is
the day of salvation.”
Does not the host of your sins fall “back?
But the trumpet does nof, like that ot Roland,
break in two. As it was handel down to us
from the lips of our fathers, we hand it down
to the lips of our children, and tell them to
sound it when we ara dead, that all the gen-
erations of men may know that our Godisa
rardoning God—a sympathetic God—a lov-
ing God—and that more to Him than the
anthems of heaven: more to Him than the
throne on which He sits; more to flim than
ars the temples of celestial worship is the joy
of seeing the wanderer putin his hani on
the door latch of his Father’s house. Hear
it, all ye Nations! Bread for the wor:t hun-
ger. Medicina for the worst sickness. Light
for the thickest dariness. Harbor for the
worst storm. L
Dr. Prime, in his book of wonderful inter-
est, entitlel ‘Around the World,” describas
a tomb in India of marveious architecture.
Twenty thousand men were twant “two
years in erecting that anl the buildings
around it. Standing in that tomb, if you
speak or sing, afier you have ceased you
hear the echo comin frem a height of one
hundred and fifty feet. It is not like other
echoes. The souni is drawn out in sweet
prolongation, as thouzh the angels of
God were chanting on the wing. How many
souls in the tomb of sin will lift up the
voice of penitence and prayer? It now they
wouid ery unto God the echo would drop
from afar, not struck from the marble cu.
.a of an earthly mausoleum, but sounding
Dock from tha warm heart of angels flying
the news, for there is joy among the angels
of (od over one sinner that repenteth!!
WirE—*“What's that white stuff
on your shoulder?” Husband—
“Chalk from a billiard cue, you
know.” Wife (snifing)—“Hereafter
1 wish you to use chalk that doesn’t
smell’ like ' toilet: powder." —New
York Weekly. = - Ea
“Raised to Life” Acts IX. 32-43. Golden
Text, Acts: IX. 8. Commentary.
83, “And it came to pass, as Peter passed
throughout all quarters, came down also
to the saints which dwelt at Lydda.”
lievers are eall saints in various
epistles (see Rom. i., 7: I fa Bete.
omitting the italics), because all. wh
receive Jesus Christ as their Saviour ara ii
Him washed, sanctified, justified, and Has
made unto them wisdom zhite
i., 30; II Cor. v., 21).
Lydda is between Jerusalem and Joppa,
about ten miles east of Jopoa.
33. ““And there he found a certain man
named Zneas, which had kept his bed sight
ars and was sick of the sy." Jesus
ealed those who had been alghtésn and
thirty-eight years sick, and Peter had al.
ready been the channel of health from Jesus
to one forty years afflicted (Luke xiii., 16;
John v., 5; Acts iv., 22), so that a sickness
which had lasted Sighs yeara would not
seem an inspperable difficulty to Peter or to
any one who believed (Jer. xzxif., 17; Mat.
xix., £6; xvii, 20).
34. “And Peter said uato him, Za>
Jesus Christ maketh thee whole; arise ani
make thy bei: and he arose imme liately.”
Compare iii, 6, 16, and iv., 10. The great
tact of our Fedemption is Jesus Christ risen
from the dead, and alive for evermore, hav-
ing all power in heaven and on earth (Rev,
i a th. xxvii, 18). This was made
piain to Saul in the last lesson by the ap-
pearing of Jesus to him, and is now i
lair to Aineas and td the people of Lydda
v this miiracie.
35, “And alf that dwelt at Liydda and
Saron saw him, and turned to the Lord.”
Note the expression ‘turning to the Lord”
in chapters xi., 21; xv., 19; xxvi.,"2), and in
I Thess. i., 9, see what it means turning
from. Weare all by nature turned from
God, and repentance is a turning to God, to
serve Him, ani wait for His Soa from
heaven (I Thess, i., 10). If more of the posver
and works of the risen living Christ were
seen in us, there would be more sinners
turning to God, and the kingdom would be
greatly hastened.
36, “Now there was at Joppa a cartain
disciple named Tabitha, whica by interpre-
tation is ed Dorcas. This woman was
full of works and alms ceeds which
she did.” Both of the names of this woman
signify “‘a roe or hart or gazaile,” and are
indicative of swiftness. I Chron. xii.
8; Songs ii, 17; viii, 14 Sae believed
tbat the king's business required haste,
and whatever was to be aone should
be done quickly. She is called a disciple—i.
e., a taught or trained one. All who trul
receive Christ are holy in Him, but not a
such are willing to be trained by Him. All
true disciples or trained ones will, like
Dorcas, be full of good works (Eph. ii., 10;
Titusiii., 8; John xv., 8.)
37. “And it came to pass in those days
that she was sick and died, whom when they
had weshed they laid her in an upper cham-
ber.” No evil can befall a child ot God; not
even satan can lay a finger on such without
God's permission. Both sickness and death
may glorify God (John x',, 4, 14, 15) by giv-
ing occasion for the display of His grace and
power. Precious in the sight of the Lord is
the death of His saints—to die is gain, td'de-
part and be with Christ is far better (Ps.
cxvi., 15: Phil i, 21, 28)
38. **And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh
to Jopps, and the disciples nad heard that
Peter was there, they sent unto him two
men desiring him that he would not deiay
to come to them.” Whether they thought
that God might through Peter give Dorcas
back to them, or whetisr they wanted only
the comfort of the Spirit’s words througu
him, is not very clear, While thank.ul ror
the comtort of such words as Il Cor.v.1;
Phil, §,. 21; I Thess. iv., 10-18, moss of us
are selfish enough to want our friends back
again, even though we know, or at leastpro-
fess to believe, that having died in Christ
they are now unspeakably happy.
80, “Then Peter arose and went with
them. When he was come they brought
him into the upper chamber, and all the
widows stood by him weeping, and showing
the coats and garments which Dorcas made
svhile she was with them.” Ooserve Pater’s
romptness, remember the signiticanee of
Ps and pray for that quickness fo re-
spond to the call of the Spirit which 2s bere
suggested. It wasa sad house; the sorrow.
Ing hearts, and tearful eyes, and the works
wrought by the hands now cold in death; all
proclaimed what a blessing she had been
who was now no more with them. Happy
are those who prove their relation to Christ
by their abundanca of good works.
40. “But Peter put them all forth, and
kneeled down and prayed, and turning him
to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she
opened her eyes, and whenshe saw Peter she
sat up.” Peter had seen Jesus pus them all
forth except the rather and mother and tac
three with Him (Mark v., 40). Elijah and
Fiisha wera both alone with the dead bodies
which they raised to life (I Kings xvii, 19;
If Kingsiv., 83). If we would know the
wer of God, it must be in being much
alone with (3od. Even Jesus found it neces:
sary to be alone with God (Luge ix, 18
John vi., 15). ! :
41, “And He gave her his hand, and
litted her up, and when he had called the
saints and widows, presented her alive.”
A few moments betora it was all tears and
sadness, but now all is joy and gladness,
and it 1s the work of the risen Cnrist wha
‘nas the keys of hades and of death. What
reunions and joys unspeakable there will be
when Jesus comes, and Hs may come any
moment. “Even so, Lord Josus, come
quickly!” It Dorcas had gained by dying,’
what shall we say of her return to the
mortal body, yet to labor a little amid the
cares and sorrows of this life. Well, if
for Jesus's sake” had been her strength
before, how much more would it sustain
ber, now that she had seen Him at home
and tasted the glory. Not unto ourselves,
but unto Him is the great thought of the
true believer (II Cor. iv., 11; v. 15).
42, “And ‘it was known throughout all
Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.
Thus the works of the risen and. living
Christ, made manifest through His follows
ers, draw people unto Him. = Peter had no
wer to heal Zneas or raise Dorcas, and
ne did not protess to have, but he honored
Jesus Christ and Christ was honored in the
eyes of others through him. What we do
will draw to us; what Christ does will draw
to Him. Not I. but Christ.
43, “And it came to pass that he tarried
many days in Joppa with one Simon, a tan-
ner.’ e are not told how he spent his
time, but wemay well imagine him preach-
ing Jesus to meny and strengthening the
disciples with the Word. The next lesson
will give more light upon why he was kept
some time at Joppa.— Lesson Helper.
Land of the Midnight Sun.
One of the most delightful of Eu-
ropean trips is that to the north or Nor-
way. the land of the midnight sun. A
man who desires a complete change of
sceno can not do better than spend a
month among the sparkling fjords of
Northern Norway in the month of June.
It is a strange experience to one reared
in southern latitudes to see the sun
shining brightly during the entire twen-
ty-four hours. It sinks in the western
horizon, seems to roll along it afew
moments and then, instead of sinking
out of sight, once more starts on its up-
ward journey. While the clocks are
chiming the hour of midnight, one feels
that he is standing on the apex of the
word—that behind him is all of man, ail
of the civilization of the centuries, all
of time, while before him, only a few
miles distant, is that mysterious pale, a
never-melting wilderness of ice, the
boundless expanse of eternity.
LESSON FOR SUNDAY OCTOBER 9.
sanctification and rademption ( Cor; vii, 11;
.- ROUGH ON THE DOCTOR.
NO DEATHS IX POTTSTOWN FOR TWO WEEKS
AXP NOBODY SICK. 2 3
The doctors of Pottstown are out of a job.
There is nothing for any of them todo.
Three weeks ago tlie health authorities on
account of the cholera scare, cleaned the
place so thoroughly that not a single ‘death
‘has occurred in two weeks, except one last
body is sick! The borough Council pro-
‘doctors must starve asa result.
THE OLDEST POSTMASTER IX THE COUNTRY.
John Datestiian, postmaster at West Mil
ton, has received notice from the authori
ties at Washington that he is the oldest
postmaster in the United States, having
bees appointed in 1831 and s=rved continu-
ously for 61 years. Mr. Datesman is now past
82 "years of a.e and still hale and hearty.
He was born in Northampton county and is
one of the picneers of Union county.
ANOTHER RAILROAD WRECK.
A disastrous wreck on the Philrdelphia &
Lake Erie railroad destroyed two freights
and two engines. Fireman William Teerch-
man died from his injuries,and two or three
ed at Lovells, and was caused by a confus:
ion of train orders at Corry.
THE ENGINEER BLAMED FOR IT,
The coroner's jury investigating the death
of William Caldwel: of Philadelphis, the
fireman killed in the collision near Mt. Joy
last Wednesday, réndered a verdict that his
death was due to gross neglect of duty and
violation of the rulesof the company by
the engineer of the eastbound train, Jacob
Michael of Philadelphia.
A TRAIN WRECKER ARRESTED.
Amos Redman, of Mercer, was arrested
at Stoneboro for attempting to wreck a train
on the Lake Shore road, six miles west of
Franklin. He was put off for not paying
his fare, and placed obstructions on the
track, He is thought to be insane. Red:
man was taken to Franklin for a hearing,
WAGERED HIS "LIEE AND LOST,
As a result of a wager that he could not
board a Lehigh Valley passenger train while
in rapid motion, at Shoemaker's, neai
Mahony City, Thomas Ogden, aged 19 years,
had both legs cut off, and was frightfully
mangled and died shortly after.
: BITTEN BY A COPPERHEAD.
Mrs. Thomas Gaggin, wife of a miner, at
the Ridgewa$ works, near Uniontown, was
bitten by a copperbead snakeand will die.
This is the second fatality in this county
this season.
MERCY FOR ELMER BRUNER.
The death sentence of Elmer Bruner, ot
Cambria county, was commuted to im-
prisonment for life on the recommendation
of the Board of Pardons. p
EVIDENTLY BORN TO BE DROWNED,
Daniel Milleron, aged 8 years, was
drowned at Monongahela City, by falling
off a raft into the river. About a month
ago he fell into the reservoir and was res:
cued with difficulty,
DROPPED DEAD FROM DRINKING.
An unknown man dropped dead at Mon-
ongahela City caused by excessive drinking.
; Ar York, the Center hall block was burn-
ed. Loss, $20,000 as follows: 1. Herse,
clothing, $15,000; Webb's restaurant, $1,000;
C. Piceung, tobaccoes, $500, and B. 8. Peter
man & Co., $100. All fully insared.
A prseaton from Harrisburg says the State
fish commission will distribute carp during
October and November to all applicants in
the State.
THE presses, type. engine and all the othe:
machinery of the Washington Keview ana
Exammer will be sold at public sale at}
o'clock p. m. on Octocer 13.
Wrnriax Eameprigrp and his horse were
found in an abandoned ore pit near Willi
amsburg. EXmpfield, while under the influ
ence of liquor, was driving along the desert
ed road during the thunder storm Sunday
night, and it is supposed his horse becami
frightened st the lightning and ran off the
road into the pit. 1t was full of water and
both were drowned.
Tae plate department of Light’s rolling
mill at Lebanon, which has been idle for 1i
months, started up Thursday.
Tur East Pennsylvania Synod of the
Lutheran church, in session at Lancaster,
has statistics showing a communicant mem-
bership of 20,167. “The total receipts from
all sources during the past year were
$239,553 60. There wasraisel for benevo-
lent puposes $264,562 12,
GeorcE WILsON, an employe of the Union
Drawn Steel Company, of Beaver Falls, was
,squeezed between the side of the works and
a box car and killed. !
Wirniy five days there have been six fires
in Bellefonte, all "ascribed to incendiarism.
The total loss was $20,000, with only $6,000
insurance. The citizens are greatly alarmed.
Ar Easton, Isaac Workheiser and Edward
Martin, brothers-in-law, were drowned in
the Delaware by the overturning of their
boat, which was loaded with stones.
Elias Wise, of Boiling Springs, was in-
stantly killed by a passenger train on the
Philadelphia and Reading railroad by jump-
ing from the train while it. was in motion.
StaTEN BARNES, a prominent citizen of
Hopwood, was run over by his heavy road
wagon near Uniontown and fatally injured.
He was driving his three-hoise team down
the mountain with a wagon load of mine
ts, and in attempting to apply the brake.
is foot s.ipped and he fell under the wheels
He was horribly ¢rushed.
Tue four smallpox patients at New Cas-
tle, are reported to be getting along nicely.
Davip McDovALD et al of Beaver, have
been awarded $1,382 damages against the
Pennsylvania and Erie railroad for dam-
ages sustained in changing tracks on their
property. ;
A LEAK in the reservoir at Scottdale has
shut off the supply of water,and the citizens
threaten to bring suit for alleged negligence
of the council.
DrraraerIA and typhoid fever are aging
in Dunbar, Fayette county, occasio by
bad sanitary conditions. Eighty cases are
reported.
Tue Westmoreland paper mill of West
Newton has been compelled to shut down
on account of the water being contaminat
with sulphur. «
Tax smallpox cases are under control at
New Castle.
Tar Mt. Pleasant House at Mount Pocono
ed by fire. * The guests escaped,
but many of them lost clothing and jewel-
ry. Thefire is thought to have been caus-
ed by the accidental turning over of a lamp.
Saturday. and that was & death by aceident. |;
This is something remarkable, considering |
that the town has 16,000 population. No- |
poses to continue scrubbing, even if ‘the |
others were injured. The accident happen- |
£15
Artistic Neatness and Finish Character
: iss the Autuma Styles. = 25
ASTER ROBERT
HERRICK sang of “‘a | :
sweet disorder in the
dress,’ but the woman
of to-day will none of
5.it. Artistic neatness
serve not only in the
—Z__ plainly severe tailor.
+. made butin the car
d ‘riage costuries and
¥h rich in-door gown,
if *' i garniture must not
wil. run mad or give any
¢ symptoms of ‘‘sweet
disorders.” One is
forcibly reminded of
RGowy. this fact by glancing
et the high novelty of the moment—the
bodice with revers, the material of which
must be of the darkest shade represented in
your gown. [For instance, if you select a
plaid cashmere, the cor-age must be plain
A oA x
Apt 0
nH HEIR 1
ORE ds
Nasser nes
A COUNTRY CLUB COSTUME.
and the revers reach well out on the sleeve
and have two rows of buttons. At the back,
the corsage has narrow dress coat tails with
buttons. The distinguishing feature of this
corsage is the broad, round, stiffened belt,
narrowing at the back and passing under
the coat tails. The sleeves are tight-fitting in
the plain material, with a shoulder puff of
the plaid staff. = There is something very
stylish about such a corsage with its silk
plastron ard large embroidered silk mus-
lin bow at the throat.
7 if | AN
DRESS COAT CORSAGE.
Some charming autumn gowns are al
ready shown by the modistes. In the initial
illustration you will find pictured a very
fetching out-door gown. a foulard stamped
with Hiowerets, The SRIF being ornamented
with a deep flounce set off with an insertion
»>f Chantilly laid npon a ribbon of the tone
>f the flowerets. The corsage is pointed front
and back, and finished with a small ruffle.
The lace insertions of the yokeand sleeves
are made in the same manner as those of
-he skirt. There is a lace ruche at the neck
ind wrists,
There are strong indications that the
great designers will continue to draw
mspiration from the picturesque costume of
the Russians. It will be remembered what
1 success some of the Kussian gowns bad
[ast winter. They are a very original
people, as all the world knows, andin win-
ter especially their long fur-trimmed cos-
tumes are sure to find many admirers. In
the picture’ you will find presented a
zount'y club costume made with a long
Russian blouse, over which is worn a vest
of heavy black silk guipure, set off with
gold and silver threads.” At the back the
vest is in the form of a round yoke. The
belt is fastened with an old silver buckle
The bottom of the skirc is ornaniented with
a ruche made of two strips of the material
folded together. At the back the blouse
has three box pleats below the guipure
yoke, the stuff falling from these pleats is
gathered at the waist The blouse hooks
aown to about iv inches below [the waist,
below which it is sewed. Itis put on over
the Lead. There are gathers at the neck
and at the waist which are held in place by
the belt. There isa galloon®ullar and cuffs
with the same trimming.
The out-door gown represented in the il
lustration is a charming autumnal creation
in chevroned cashmere with embroidered
dots. The bottom of the skirt is garnitured
with a broad band of the stuff, box-pleated,
as shown, and between each pleat there is
a bow of ribbon. This handsome gown
should have no other trimming than that
indicated. The belt closes at the back with
?
‘with steel.
' ulation will permit.
wasculing model.
from surnmer styles
velvet shoulder puffs will be aff
latter being pieced out by a lac
caught in at the elbow. Closaly pl
plastrons will be worn under
gorsages with broad corselet
material well boned; and then,
there will be revers. Such a gown
in the picture. A very lovely ¢
silver grav wqolen. trime-~4 wit
The galloon
skirt in manner indicated, and appea
aso on the revers and sleev: {
plastron, revers and puffed sles
silk. The corsage is finished with dr
tails, and the stiffened corselet fo
of the plastron. The straight
covered in front with the pleated
the back swith the galloon, whic
shape extends down to the middl
back. Where the buttons are usually
ed at the back. you set two short pieces
the palloon crossed.’ ©
The cut of the skirt has undergo!
changes at the hands: of the gre
When, ' for instance, your materia
width, you take three breadtl
front and two making up sides an
You leave your back seam st
other seams being cut bias on both sides,
that if your material happens to
you really maks a series-of A's. But sh
your material be narrow width, yon fi
your {ront breadth soas to havea
line in fhe middle, all the other edges bei
cut bias, but you should take care to have
straight line in. the middle of the b:
either a fold or a pelvadge.. i
Proud Impeeuniosity. pe
A few days ago I met with the
toughest case in my whole experience,
said the agent of a very successful
debt-collecting firm. I tackled my
man for $15 he owes to a restaurants
He's an artist. Pani
“I’m sorry,” said he leaving off .
work on the picture, and pushing his
velvet smoking-cap on the back of
his head, while he looked lazily at
the bill; “but I cannot pay thisTor a
few months yet.” ic :
“Why not?” said I. :
‘Because I have u more pressing
Hability.” Pana
«More pressing than a bill of th
kind?” said I sarcastically. - : ;
“Yes, a good deal,” said he. *T'm
buying a pair of shoes on the install-
ment plan, and the second shoe is to
be delivered to-day if 1 can make
partial payment. The coin is here,”
said he tapping his waistcoat pocket.
“All right,” I said; “but you'll just
give that coin to me on account, or
111 sell you up.” : >
Sell what up?” he drawled out.
“Why, these pictures,” said I,
sweeping my arm in a comprehensive
way round thestudio. td
‘“These pictures? All right, my
boy! Go ahead! If you can sell them
P11 be much obliged * you. It's more.
than 1 can do.” i :
With that he lighted his pipe and
went on painting as tranquil as a
summer’s day. 1 admired him, and
asked him out to have a drop of some-
thing. : ;
“Excuse me,” he said standing
back and regarding his picture with
one cye closed, and not even glancing
at me; “I never enter into focial re-
lations with my tradespeople.” >
I was was faint when I got down
to the strect.— Yankee Blade. 7
Man Objects. ;
In the name of all that ts good.
why should girls, who are dowered by
nature with a hundred charms which |
make them sweet and loveable, copy
rude man? Do you find anything in
lite so detestable asa womanish man,
girls? Well, then, you know exactly
pur feeling with rezard} to thei man.
nish girl. And yet there are few
things we enjoy that you have not
gathered unto yourselves. : You weal
sur clothes as nearly as the police reg.
Our coats, out
shirts, collars, cravats, and gloves
have been made yours; you cut your
hair short and surmount it by a boy's
hat. You adopt our slang, and,
alack-a-day! even points; many of
your pretty lips are familior with the ,
taste of the cigarette. © You play
pards for money, bet on horses, and
talk shop at the races. I don’t kno
but all this contains a certain moral
lesson for the man—if he doesn’t lik
the copy he should improve the orig
inal. Nevertheless, he objects to th
method, of instruction. Hold to th
old-fashioned charms which consti
tute your real power, girls, and le
alone the feminine imitation of a b
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