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AMERICAN WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE FLAG.
At first glance it seems to be an
American flag. e stripes are all
there and so is the blue background.
But the forty-four stars are wanting,
and in their place is inscribed on the
blue ground the name “Wyoming” and
beneath it one large star. It is the
suffrage flag, and while thus far only
one star recognizes completely the
political equality of women, still the
association has left space on their flag
for other stars as other States fall in
line.—New York Journal.
PROGRESSIVE WOMEN OF JAPAN,
The Japanese are advancing very
steadily and rapidly and the condition
of the women is being greatly im-
proved and ameliorated. The practice
of blacking the teeth is practiced now
only by the conservative, who still ad-
here to the old style. The Empress of
Japan is a very enlightened and most
progressive woman, who takes a great
interest in her sex. It is largely due
to her efforts that high schools and
colleges were established for women,
which did not exist ten years ago.
There is an excellent college for
women at Tokio and the grade of the
other schools has been raised from
time to time.— Washington Star.
TWO CHINESE LADIES PRESENTED.
The two most conspicuous women at
Queen Victorie’s last drawing-room
were, it is safe to say, Lady Sieh and
Miss Sieh, wife and daughter of the
Chinese Embassador. It was their dress
that made them so, but their promi-
nence was not due to the conventional
elegance of their gowns. Long trains,
bared shoulders elaborate head dresses
were eschewed by them, and they ap-
peared at the court of the English
sovereign in the picturesque attire that
they would have worn at a similar func-
tion in their own country.
Miss Sieh wore a Chinese court dress
in pink and blue, richly embroidered
in various colors. On her head was a
cap embroidered in pearls and precious
stones. In addition to her gown Miss
Sieh wore a shawl, an article of dress
thet in China is permitted only to un-
married women, and is then confined
to state occasions.
Lady Sich, who is mourning for her
father, wore a state dress in black,
sumptuously embroidered in gold and
colors. The breastplate was veiled in
crepe as a sign of her bereavement.
Her cap was also embroidered in gold
and pearls.—San Francisco Examiner.
A FAD IN FANCY WORE.
A present fad that is worthy of wide
and long popularity is to match the
decorations of the china and the table-
linen. For quite a period these two
essentials for table furnishing have
matched in general style and color ; but
the recent idea is to decorate both linen
and porcelain with the same design.
The tancy can be charmingly developed
for luncheons and teas; but for formal
dinners with many and varied courses,
the same motif in all the changes of
plates would become as monotonous as
the drawing-rooms of a score of years
ago, that were furnished regardless of
expense, but en suite.
The original Dresden style, consist-
ing of tiny magenta roses, purple vio-
lets, with pink and blue and yellow and
scarlet blossoms of unrecognizable
species, powdered irregularly over the
surface, producing a piquant medley of
contrasting forms and colors, is capable
of extended application to both china
and linen. Thanksto the ‘‘wash” silks,
the latter may be embroidered in this
manner without danger of damage, in
careful laundering. But considerable
artistic knowledge is required to blend
the colors into a harmonious whole,
and therefore a good model is desirable.
In almost every collection of china
there are some pieces decorated in this
style, and they are always to be found
in the shops. A variation of the Dres-
den style is to use tiny sprigs of but
one flower, as for-get-me-nots, violets,
sweet peas, wild-roses, etc. —Demozrest.
BENEFIT OF EEEPING ACCOUNTS.
‘Whether a woman is poor or rich, it
behooves her to acquire methodical
business habits, keeping her little
accounts accurately and knowing to a
cent just what she does with her money,
whether she has ten cents or $10 to ex-
pend on her own little personal wants,
says the Baltimore Herald. An allow-
ance is the first step toward this end,
if at the same time it is impressed upon
her that every sum spent should be set
down with unfailing regularity. In
black and white one notes how much
more easily the money can be spent,
how quickly it goes and just what fool-
ish little nothings have lured it from
our pockets. Without setting down
each item it is ten chances to one that
you will conclude you must have lost
some money when you cannot see how
that $10 bill went when you bought |
such ‘a few things. The neat little
figures are a genuine restraint, besides
instilling a habit and system that will
be of great value if fortune ever smiles
and a great estate comes to your hands,
and still greater if economy is a neces-
sity and the dollar has to be forced int:
doing duty for two. Unless th
accounts are kept accurately, and i}
cash made to balance every evenin
you had better not attempt any boc.«-
keeping at all, for slipshod metheds
are worse than none, and only
confuse everything rather than
help matters. If anything is worth
doing at all it is worth doing well, and
there is nothing so productive of future
good as the habit of looking carefully
out for the pennies when school days
are the only trials, and the allowance
of fifty cents a week goes for candy
and pickles. If this plan is once estab-
lished in childhood the girl will grow
to womanhood with a clear knowledge
of where her money goes and what she
has to show for it. !
JAPANESE WOMEN AT HOME.
There is a marked similarity in the
daily routine of the inmates of Japanese
homes, whether they be the homes of
the rich or poor, the official or trades-
man. The wife is always the mistress
of the home, and hers is the duty of in
every way possible rendering the life
of her husband happy—and to be happy
herself, as far as he knows. The in-
struction of the daughters of the home
in the various domestic duties also de-
volves upon the mother. The ward-
robe of the entire family is the work of
her hands, with the assistance of an
aunt (obasan), maid, or her growing
daughters. The latter, by the way,
are taught how to sew while yet quite
little tots, and as they grow older in
years and skill, are initiated into the
mysteries of art needlework. Then the
dcughters are instructed in music, a
certain knowledge of the samisen,
koto, or some other musical instru-
ment being regarded as a requisite
accomplishment in even the the poorer
and middle classes, while the daughters
of the higher classes and nobility are
well versed in art, music and the poetry
of the country. The other accom-
plishments desmed desirable in women
consist principally in the artistic ar-
rangemennt of flowers and the details
of ceremonial tea making and drinking
(cha-no-yu).
The recitation or reading of histori-
cal poems (utai) is a favorite study, es-.
pecially if some romance is interwoven
into the story. Usually, the dramatic
poems (iorori) are ceremoniously read
or sung by the young maidens, while
an elder sister or teacher will thrum a
minor accentuated accompaniment
on the samisen.—Popular Science
Monthly.
TASHION NOTES.
Just now the pink tulle lamp shades
are carrying drawing rocms by storm.
Pearl gray as a color is making the
progress that will meke it fashionable.
It is English, of course, to wear a
new straw bonnet and a deep fur cape.
Trained skirts in the street now-
adays are the exception at home and
abroad.
Boas made of smilax have been seen
worn by young girls at evening enter:
tainments.
The close cottage bonnet is prom.
inent in the millinery exhibits for the
coming season. It is universally be-
coming, easily managed and liked by
everybody.
A novelty in black silk isa corkscrew
bengaline. There are also some very
pretty and effective striped patterns ic
which a wide brocaded stripe of satin
alternates with one of taffeta.
Neck ribbons are coming into style
again. They are generally in velvet
and light colors—green, yellow, pink,
ruby or blue—and are fastened by e@
jeweled stick-pin on one side.
A novelty in trimming is shirred
satin ribbon set in graduated groups.
There are about six widths of ribbon
in six distinet bands or groups of trim:
ming on some of the new skirts.
The silk linings of old evening toilets
can be cleaned with very weak camphor
and ammonia water, or gasoline, and
fashioned into pretty petticoats for
summer wear beneath light gowns.
Among the handsomest of the sea
son’s bonnets are those with gold wires,
with crowns of semi-transparent crochet
in black or colors. Ostrich-tips anc
aigrettes are the preferred trimming.
Skirts of new French dresses are
from four and a half to six yards wide
around the foot, but fit closely at the
top, the flare beginning below the
hips, and sometimes as lowasthe knee
The popular short waisted Empire
effect is often obtained by bands o
broad velves ribbon in two rows, with
lengthwise bands of the same ribbon
running between the upper and lower
rows all round the waist.
Street heliotrope is very pretty in
all its shades, but it is as trying to most
complexions as it is pretty. A soft
chamois-colored vest, with revers anc
cuffs of the same, striped with helio
trope gimp, are an excellent relief for
an unpatterned heliotrape gown.
There was a suggesticn earlier in the
season that skirts were to be gatherec
about the waist, but the skirts of the
handsomest recently imported costume:
are smooth fitted aboutthe waist below
which they suddenly expand and flax
outward in a truly marvelous manner
The Vandyke sleeve caps which tapes
to a point above the elbow are now
quite as often added to the short oper
‘acket as the square-shaped Russian
del. These caps are pleated very
11 at the top this season, to make
.1em stand out promineatly, thus giv-
ing a more dressy appearance to the
. already effective jacket.
THE ARBITRATION BILL.
Copy of the Measure Which is
Law in Pennsylvania.
An act to establish boards of arbitration
to settle ali questions of wages and other
matters of variance between capital and
labor in the State of Pennsylvania.
Whereas, the great industries of this
commonwealth are frequently suspended
by strikes and lockouts, resulting at times
in criminal violation of the law and entail-
ing upon the State vast expense to protect
lite and property and preserve the public
Now 2
ace,
And whereas, no adequate means exist
for the adjustment of these tissues between
capital an labor, employers and employes,
upon an equitable basis, where each party
can meet together upon terms of eqnality to
settle the rates of compensation for labor
and establish rules and regulations for their
br nches of industry in harmony with law
and a generous public sentiment, “therefore
Section 1. Be it enacted, etc., that when-
ever any differences arises between employ-
ers and employes in the mining, manufac-
turing, or transportation industries of the
commonwealth, which cannot be mutually
settled to the satisfaction of a majority of
all the parties concerned, it shall be lawful
for either party or for both parties jointly to
make application to the court of common
pleas wherein the service is to be performed
about which the dispute has arisen, to ap-
point and constitute a board of arbitration
to consider, arrange and settle all matters
at variance between them, which must be
fully set forth in the application, such ap-
plication to be in writing and signed and
duly acknowledged before a proper officer
by the representatives of the persons em-
ploved as workingmen or by the represen-
tatives of a firm, individual or corporation,
or by both if the application is made joint-
ly by the parties, such applicants tn be citi-
zens of the United States. and the said
application shall be filed with the record of
alt proceedings had in consequence thereof
among the records of the courts.
Sec. 2. That when the application duly
authenticated has been presented to the
court of common pleas as aforesaid it shall
be lawful for said court if, in its judgment
the said application allege matters of suffic-
ient importance to warrant the interven-
tion of a board of abitrators in order to
preserve the public peace or promote the
interests and harmony of laoor and capital,
to graut a rule on each of the partiesto the
alleged controversy, where the application
is made jointly, to select three citizens of
the county of good character and tamiliar
with all matters in dispute to serve as mem-
bers of the said board of arbitration, which
shall consist of nine members all citizens
of this commonwealth. As soon as the said
members are appointed by the respective
parties to the issue the courts shail proceed
at once to fill the board by the sclection of
three persons from the citizens of the coun-
ty, of well-known character for probity and
general intelligence and not directly ~ con-
nected with the interests of either party to
the dispute, one of whom shall be designat-
ed by the said judge as president of the
board of arbitration.
Where but one party makes application
for the appointment of such board of arbi-
tration the court shall give notice by order
of court to both parties in interest,requiring
them each to appoint three persons as mem-
bers of said board within 10 days thereafter,
and in case either party refuses or neglects
to make such appginiinent, the court shall
thereupon fill the board by the selection of
six persons, who. with the three named b,
the other party to the controversy, shall
constitute said board of arbitration.
The said court shall also pppoint one of
the members thereof secretary to the said
board, who shall also have a vote and the
same powers as any other member, and
shall a so designate the time and place of
meeting of the said qoard. They shall also
place before them copies of all papers and
minutes of proceedings in the case or cases
submitted to them.
Sec. 3. That when the board of arbitrat-
ors has been thus appointed and constitute!
and each meraber has been sworn or affirm-
ed and the papers have been submitted to
them, they shall first carefully consider the
records before them, and then determine
the rules to govern their proceedings. They
shall sit with closed doors until their
organization is consummated, after which
their proceedings shall be public. The
president of the board shall = have full
authority to preserve order at the sessions, |
and may summon or appoint officers to
assist, and in all ballotings he shall have a
vote. Itshall be lawful for hie, at the re-
quest of any two members of the board, to
send for persons, books, or papers; and he
shall have power to enforce stheir presence
and to require them to testify in any matter
before the board, and for any wilful }failure
to appear and testify before said board when
requested by the said board, the person or
persons so offending shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and on conviction thereof in
the court of quarter sessions of the county
where the offense is committed shall be
sentenced to pay a fine notexceed ng £50)
and imprisonment not exceeding 30 days,
either or both, at the discretion of the
court.
Sec. 4. Thatas soon as the ocard is
organized the president shall announce that
the sessions are opened and the variants may
appear with their attorneys and counsel, if
they so desire, and open their case; and in
ail proceedings the applicant shall stand as
plaintiff, but when the applicant
18 jointly made the employers
shall stand as plaintiff in the case.
Each party in turn shall be allowed
a full and impartial hearing snd may exam-
ine experts and present models, drawings,
statements and any proper bearing on the
case, all of which shall be
carefully considered by the said
board in arriving at their concln
sions, and the decision of the said board
shall be final and conclusive of all matters
brought before them for adjustment. and
the said board of abitration = may adjourn
from the place designated by the court for
holding its sessions, when it deam it expedi-
ent to do so, to the place or places where the
dispute arises,and hold sessions and person-
ally examine the workings and matters at
variance to assist their judgment.
Sec. 5. That the compensation of the
members of the board of arbitration sha'l
be as follows, to wit, each shall receive $4
per diem and 10 cents per mile both ways
vetween their homes and the place of meet-
ing by the nearest comfortable routes of
travel, to be paid out of the treasury of the
county where the arbitration is held, and
witnesses shall be allowed from the treasurv
of the said country the same fees now al-
lowed by law for similar services.
Sec. 3 That the board of arbitrators shall
duly execute their decision, which shall be
reached by a vote of a majority of all the
members, by having the names of
those voting in the: affirmative signed
thereon and astested by the Secretary, and
their decisicn, together with the papers and
minutes of their proceedings shall be re-
turned to and filed in the ccurt aforesaid
for safe keeping.
Sec. 7. All laws and parts of laws incon-
sistent with the provisions of this act be
and the same are hereby repealed.
The Largest on Record,
The tow boat J. B. Williams is now on its
way from Louisville to New Orleans with
the largest iow of coal ever put together.
It contains 1,000,000 bushel of coal, which
is from 50,000 to 60,000 bushels more than
any other tow on record. The surface of
the barges measures nearly three acres.
Children Burned to Death.
Three children named Brouilet, between
2 and 9 years of age, were burned to death
in a tenement house in Gareau Lane, Mon-
trea}
A Mile in Twenty-Five Seconds.
A new locomotive on the Ontario and
Western railway ran a mile in 25 seconds
on a trial 4rip the other day.
'XEYSTONE STATE CULLINGS
A BRAVE 10-YEAR-OLD.
#RANK ARTLEY RESCUES A CHILD
DROWNING WHILE MEN WAITED.
JonxstowN—The other day Helen Low-
man’s hat blew into the Conemaiizh river
as the child played on its banks. She tried
to get it, got into the current and was swept
away. Men and women who saw tae child
drowing ran about in distraction looking
for ropes or boards. Frank Artley, 10 years
years old, heard the girl scream as she lost
j ber footing. He leaped over the fences and
down a 12 foot embankment,throwing him-
self far out in the current without an in-
stant’s hesitation. The little girl was un-
der water when he reached her, but he
dragged her head out of water, and after a
gallant struggle, swam to where he could
touch bottom. Eager hands took the half
drowning child, and the boy went home
without a word over his exploit. When
admiring people came to praise his courage
and prompt action, the little feilow said
“I knew she was drowning, and that I had
to go quick. I can swim, and I wasn't
afraid. That's all.”
FROM
BERL Rae
FIGURES ON INSURANCE.
REPORT OF STATE COMMISSIONER LUPER SHOW=
ING THE BUSINESS DONE LAST YEAR
IN PENNSYLVANIA.
HarrisBURG—The annual report of
George B. Luper, Insurance Commissioner
of Pennsylvania, shows the following
business done by Pennsylvania stock com-
panies.
Income from fire premiums, $15,228,219
50; income from inland and marine prem-
iums, $2,169,547 383; total premium income,
$17,397,796 88; paid for tire losses, $9,658,-
420 22; paid for marine and inland losses,
$1,656,398 77; paid the commissions, $3,400,-
259 21; paid for salaries, $1,139,061 99; paid
for taxes, $406,339 84; paid for miscellan-
eous purposes, $1,055,779 32; total %17,325-
257 35; excess of premium income over
losses and expenses, $72,539 53.
The following summary shows the busi-
ness of all companies done in Pennsylvania
last year: Premiums received by stock
companies, $10,579,432; premiums and as-
sessments of mutual companies, $1,778,233
83; losses paid by stock companies, $6,694,-
751 38; losses paid by mutual companies,
$1,134,317 70.
ACTIVE WORK THIS SESSION.
ALL CLASSES OT LEGISLATION ARE FURTHER
ADVANCED THAN IN 1891,
HaArrissurG—The record of the house for
this session as compared with last shows
active work, The total number of house
and senate bills reported from house com-
mittees to date is 999, a3 compared with 917
up to May 19, 1891. The number passed by
the house and sent to the senate is 290
against 292'for the same period last season.
The number sent to the governor this year
.is 83, against 78 last session. The governor
has signed or vetoed 54 bills this session.
Last session the executive had acted upon
only 48 bills up to May 19.
This the date of the final adjournment of
the session of 1887, the first that was held
under the present salary law. There were
not as many bills that session as this, but
the work was pushed along much faster,
though there were a large number of very
important measures considered during that
session.
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READING RECEIVERS CUT WAGES.
PorrsviLLe—In pursuance of the econom-
ical policy of the Reading receivers, in
connection with President Harris, the first
cut in wages announced here for years has
been ordered but applies only to those who
do not come under the regular established
$2 50 basis At Glen Dowr, Taylorsville
and other collieries, the miners engaged in
driving breasts by the yard have been drop-
ped 50 cents per yard, and the drivers
who formally received $10 20 will be re-
duced to $8 per week. A number of the
miners were not satisfied with the reduction
and left the works.
rf pe—
DIED IN A DENTIST'S CHAIR,
HARRISBURG—Mrs. Sarah Radel, 40 years
old, of Waynesville, Dauphin county, di ed
suddenly at the office of a dentist, this city.
Dr. Dr. A. Dashiell administered vitalized
air to the lady preparatory to having a
number of teeth extracted. A verdict was
rendered by a coroner's jury that the un-
fortunate result was purely accidental, as
the lady had taken the air before success-
fully and the doctor has been using the
treatment for three years successfully.
——
LIGHTNING ROD SWINDLERS,
GREENVILLE. — Lightning rod sharpers
have been reaping a harvest in Mercer
county for the past few days. Aaron Was-
ser of near Greenville was swindled out of
$104, Adam Hoff .cker of Perry township
paid $125, and others have been as effectual-
ly gulled
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FATAL FREIGHT WRECK,
LANcasTER.—A broken truck on a freight
train wrecked several cars on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, {rear Thorndale. An east.
bound train ran into them and 20 cars in all
were wrecked, Engineer C. W. Mann, and
Fireman John McCann, of Harrisburg were
badly injured, the former dying %his after.
noon. The fireman isin a serious condi
tion.
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BEAT HIM TO DEATH.
Cuarion—The night operator at Roxburg,
on the Allegheny Valley road, was assault-
ed last Fridav night by a gang of maraud-
ers, who were ‘‘taking the town” The man
was badly beaten and died from his injur-
ies. Two of his assailants named Mock and
McCann, were arrested and placed in the
Clarion county jail on a charge of murder.
CLARE, a ten-year-old son of Jury Com-
missioner W. M. Patterfield, of Venango
county was riding a harnessed horse to wa-
ter Sunday night when the animal became
frightened and threw him off. His feet
caught in the harness and he was killed by
being dragged.
“Ourrine” fishing is a favorite sport in
Tioga county. Peter Breming and two
brothers, near Liberty. stretched a line to
which eighty-four hooks were attached, in a
creek one night, In the morning every hook
but three had a fish their being 17 varieties,
THE men at the Henry mine, at Rathmel,
near Du Bois, who were out two weeks on
account of dissatisfaction with weights al-
lowed, have returned to work. They wera
given a check weighman.
Gus F1TzPATRICK, aged 16 years, and his
brother James, aged 20, quarreled at their
home in Dunmore over a revolyer. In the
scuffle the pistol was discharged and James
received a mortal wound.
Pennsylvania Legislature.
BA oe o>
Eicary-THIRD DAY—In the house to-d
Bliss of Delaware oflered a resoultion, whic
was adopted, referring to the fact that a
corporation has n the construction of a
rallway on the battlefield of Gettysburg and
asking the attorney general to inform the
legislature if it or the executive branch of
the state have any power to prevent the
completion of this species of vandalism.
The senate and house passed a large num-
ber of bills on second reading. In the senate
McCarroll of Dauphin amended Hewit's bill
to prevent adulteration of drugs, food or
spirituous, fermented or malt liquors by
exempting drugs from its provisions, after
which a special order was fixed for its con-
sideration to-morrow.
The bill to give manufacturers, spinners
and throwers of cotton, woolen and silk
goods a lien on goods was defeated.
No other business of general moment was
transacted and both houses adjourned for
av.
FicaTY-FOoURTH DAY —A message was re-
ceived at the morning session of the senate
from the governor announcing his approval
of these bills: Making election days legal
holidays; to prohibit the use of imitation
dairy products in institutions receiving
State aid, and to provide for the publication
of the Pennsylvania archives.
The house amendment to the Penrose bill
to abolish the Philadelphia public buildings
commission were concurred in The Hewit
pure food bill was passed finally.
The Senate passed finally these House
bills: To prohibit fire insurance companies
of other States or Governments from doing
business in Pennsylvania except througn
agents and officers residing in this State; to
fovide for establishing «nd ascertaining
ines and boundaries between two or more
cities boroughs or townships.
In the house a communication was re-
ceived from the governor announcing his
veto of the bill to regulate the treatment of
contagious diseases in cities and boroughs,
The governor thought the matter can better
be left to the untrammeled control of the
local boards of health. The house sustained
the veto, and passed finally the bill for
reorganization of the national guard. A
number of appropriation bills were passed
finally. among them that making an appro-
priation to the Pennsylvania reform school
at Morganza of $70,000.
Ercury-Firra Day.—The Governor to-day
vetoed the bill to give cities. boroughs and
townships half of the revenues derived from
foreign fire insurance companies.
The Senate passed a number of appropri-
ation bills in addition to the following:
Making it unlawful for persons to advertise
themselves as doctors of dental surgery
without a diploma; authorizing incorpora-
tion of drainage companies; House bil to
authorize church corporations owning bur-
ial grounds to purchase other grounds;
to empower the Governor to suspend
the State quarantine; to create a
Quarantine Board; to authorize
the Governor to appoint a quarantine
physician and to purchase or lease or ac-
quire land for a State quarantine station,
and to abandon the present lazaretto: to
rovide for the painting of portraits of John
’enn, Thomas Penn, Major General Han-
cock and Brigadier General Reynolds: tor
the release of sureties on bonds required in
various courts and the substitution of new
sureties: to Provide for publication, in sep-
arate pamphlet form, of the list of corpora-
tions; making an appropriation of $196,000
for the maintenance of the Pennsylvania
Soldiers Home at Erie, and for improve-
ments to the building, making an appro-
priation of $208,000 for the maintenance
and education of soldiers’ orphans.
Several House bills were passed finally
for the payment of members of the Nation-
al Guard who contracted diseases while in
the pSrformance of military duty at Home-
stead.
In the House bills were passed finally ap-
propriating $260,000 to the normal schools
of the State, $177,000 to the Huntingdon
Reformatory, and $30,000 to purchase land
for the Western Penitentiary. The bill
authorizing the appointment of policcmen
in boroughs was passed finally.
The governor to-day signed the following
bills: To abolish the Philadelphia pubhc
building commission; providing for the ex-
penses of presidential electors; requiring all
deeds of sheriffs to be recorded in the office
of the prothonotary; defining to whom ben-
efit certificates issued by fraternal societies
shall be paid: providing that city and coun-
w officers Ete monthly returns to
the state treasurer; to authorize cities and
boroughs to establish police pension funds;
to prohibit the employment of minors
under 14 vears in or about elevators.
Ereury-Sixta Day.—The Senate to-day
passed the resolution of Senator Dunlap ap-
propriating $1,000,000for the iraprovement of
roads; the house bill to en ble taxpayers of
townships and road districts to make con-
tracts for the improvement of roads was
passed finally by the senate. Representa-
tive Nesbit's road bill was reported to the
senate from committee without the $1.000,-
000 which it contained and with an amend-
ment providing for a county tax not ex-
ceeding one mill for improvement of roads.
The senate has been doing some great hust-
ling during the past few days, and wiped
from the calender every senate bill except
that which prescribes a standard quantity
of bottled porter. ale and beer, to prevent
deception therein. Two important measures
go down. Oneis Logan's bill changing the
basis of distribution of the State appropria-
tion to common schools trom the number
of taxable citizens to the number of schools
and the other the Hackenberg license conrt
scheme. The senate will now dis osc of
house bills only.
In the house 13 bills were passed making
appropriations of $10,000 to each of the 13
normal schools in the state. A bill was also
passed finally making an appropriation of
$26,371 to pay the expenses of the committee
on elections. The McCarroll bill to empower
traction and motor companies to lease apd
purchase street railway lines was passed
finally by the house—yeas, 142; nays, 3z
As was anticipated, Governor Pattison ve
toed the bill to reimburse the several
counties for one-half the net cost of the
re-erection and construction of county
bridges which were swept away by the
great floods of 1X89 on the ground »f uncon:
stitutionality. He also sent messages giving
his reasons for vetoing Senator McCreary's
bill providing for the purchase of Giles D
Price's index to local legislation, and the
bill of Senator Brown of York authorizing
the erection and maintenance of ell-weirs
and fish baskets. He vetoed the latter bill
because it is contrary to the policy pursued
by the state fish commissioners for a quar-
ter of a century, and he thinks the commis-
sioners, who have a made a study of the
subject, should be the best judges.
Eréury-SEveENTH Day,—The Senate to-day
passed a large number or buls on second
reading which originated in the house, re-
ceived many reports from committees
(among them the general appropriation
bill) and adjourned until Monday evening.
In the house the senate bill appropriating
$1,000,000 to aid various townships in the
improvement and maintenance of ‘roads
was favorably re orted. Senate bill to re-
peal the act of 1855 imposing a fine of $25
for violation of Sunday law passed second
reading. A motion of Douthett of Butler
to reconsider the vote was defeated. The
bill to empower courts to grant transfers of
license for the sale of vinous, spirituous
malt or brewed liquors or any admixture
thereof, passed finally.
The governor sent to the Senate a message
to-day in which he announces his approval
of these bills: To further define the evi-
dence of stock ownership and the right to
vote therecn; to extend limitations of ac-
tions to a right to mine ore on lands where
the same has not been exercised for 21 years
to provide that bridge commissioners, view-
ers and surveyors shall be paid by the pro-
per county, or by petitioners to courts: to
enable boroughs not divided into wards for
school purposes to establish public high
schools. The governor gave notice to the
house of his disapproval of the Farr com-
pulsory education bill.
The governor has approved the bill to re-
peal the prohibitory liquor law in Mt.
Pleasant. Westmoreland county.
SUNDAY SCHOOL
“Reverence and Fidelity.” Ecclesiastes
x., 1-12. Golden Text: Romans
xii., 11. Commentary.
¢“This is the book and mirror of the natural
man. The thread of the book is the expres-
sion, ‘Under the sun,” whieh is found in it
more than twenty-flve times. Its conclusion,
‘Fear God and keep His commandments,’ has
in it no redemptive power, but prepares the
way for the Redeemer from above dhe sun,
who alone can make all things new” (W. J.
Erdman). The life of Ecclesiastes compared
with that of the Song of Solomon is like the
seventh of Romans compared with the eighth.
It is the fruitless effort to do good and be
good apart from Him who alone is good. In
all the *‘times” of chapter iii., 1-8, there is no
‘time to pray.”
1. “Keep thy foot when thou goest to the
house of God and be more ready to hearthan
to give the sacrifice of fools, for they con-
sider not that they do evil.” Our feet may
take us to the house of God, but unless our
hearts are right with God we shall be as fools.
The life of a Christian is in the New Testa-
ment compared to a walk. We are to walk
worthy of our vocation, walk in love, walk as
children of light, walk circumspectly (Eph.
iv.,1,v.,.2,8, 15)
2. ‘‘Be not rash with thy mouth and let not
thine heart be hasty to utter anything before
God, for God is in heaven and thou upon
earth. Therefore let thy words be few.” Not
only do our feet need keeping, but also our
mouths. David's resoluton was a good one,
“I said I will take heed to my ways that I
sin not with my tongue® (Ps. xxxix., 1). His
prayer is always appropriate, “Set a watch,
O Lord, before my mouth ; keep the door of
my lips” (Ps. exli., 3). How can we order
our words aright before God? I know of no
way so good as being filled with His words.
See how in Hos. xiv., 2, He puts the very
words in our mouths which He would have
us say. And there are prayers throughout
the Psalms suitable to every possible ocea-
sion.
3. “Yor a dream cometh through the mul-
titude of business, and a fool's voice is known
by multitude of words.” There are dreams
from above the sun—from God Himsel{—ot
which many are recorded in Scripture, but
ordinary dreams are from wordly cares. As
to a multitude of words, we are told that
in such there wanteth not, sin (Prov. x., 19),
and this may be true even of some prayers
we know about which occupy anywhere irom
10 to 20 minutes or more. Contrast with such
waste of words and time the prayer of our
Lord in John xvii., not over five minutes in
length.
4. ‘“When thou vowest a vow unto God,
defer not to pay it, for He hath no pleasure
in fools. Pay that which thou hast vowed.”
Compare with this verse Num. xxx., 2, Deut.
xxiii., 21-23 ; Ps. Ixvi., 13, 14, and be careful
how you make promises to God. He is the
faithrul promiser (I Cor. i, 9; x., 13; I
Thess. v., 24; II Thess. iii., 3; Heb. x., 23),
and our part is to trust Him, confide in Him
for all His promises ere in Christ, yea
amen (II Cor. i., 20).
5. ““Better is it that thou shouldest not
vow than that thou shouldest vow and not
pay,” because that would be simply lying,
and neither deceit nor lies can dwell in God’s
sight (Ps. ci., 7). Some people called Chris~
tians think it all right to make promises to
their fellows which they have heither ability
nor intention to meet. We would commend
to such the last clause of Rev. xxi., 8, “All
liars shall have their part in the lake which
burneth with fire and brimstone.”
6. ‘‘Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh
to sin.” One member of the body may cause
another member or even the whole body to
suffer. We know this to be true physically.
It is also true spiritually. See I Cor. xii,
12-27. If we believed this, we would be more
careful of others’ feelings and watch lest we
should thoughtlessly cause another to suffer.
7. “Forin the multitude of dreams and
many words there are also divers vanities,
but fear thou God.” God said to Abram, “I
am the Almighty God ; walk before Me and be
thou perfect” —margin, upright or sincere—
(Gen. xvil., 1.) Jesus says to us, “Lo, I
am with youalways” (Math. xxviii., 20.) This
fact believed is the greatest possible corrective
of one’s life if we think of Him as the One
who so loved us that He gave Himself for us.
Then His love will constrain us to love what
He loves and to avoid what He dislikes.
8. ‘‘He that is higher than the highest re-
gardeth, and there be higher than they.”
Oppression of the poor and perversion of
justice are among the perplexing things of
life even to this day. But itis a very old
story. David, Asaph and Jeremiah were all
disturbed by these things (Ps. xxxvii., 1, 2,
Ixxiii., 3; Jer. xii., 1). but light is found in
the context of each passage, and this verse
of our lesson assures us that God does see
and care.
(Heb. x., 36, 37 ; Rev. xiii., 10 ;xiv., 12). The
finished story will make ail clear.
9. ‘““Moreover, the profit of the earth is for
all ; the king himself is served by the field.”
Nothing lives unto itself : all things exist for
the good of all; even the king with all his
wealth has to depend upon the produce of
the field. No one can truly talk of being in-
dependent. The God in whose hand our
breath is, and whose are all our ways, in
whom we live and move and have our being
(Dan. v., 23; Acts xvii., 28), will require an
account from us for thesethings.
10. ‘‘He that loveth silver shall not be satis-
fied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance
with increase. This is also vanity.” The
king who could make silver to be as plentiful
es stone (I Kings x., 27) was qualified to
gpeak upon this subject. A greater than
Solomon has advised us that we should lay up
treasure in heaven, and by His Spirit has
taught us that the love of money is the root
of all evil (Math wvi., 19-21; I Tim. vi., 10).
Nothing under the sun can satisfy the human
soul, but it ig written, “My people shall be
satisfled with My goodness, saith the Lord’
(Jer. xxxi., 14).
11. “When goods increase, they are in-
creased that eat them.” To possess and en-
joy is worth while, but to possess merely for
the sake of gazing upon is surely vanity, and
yet take out of most lives all that is not truly
profitable, and how very little of earth's
goods will be left as the portion which gives
satisfaction? Nothing under the sun can
satisfy the eye nor flll the ear (chapter i., 8),
but 1ét us behold our Creator and Rede&mer
in the person of Jesus Christ, and He will be
to us the chiefest among 10,000—yes, alto-
gether lovely (Song v., 10, 16).
12. ‘““The sleep of a laboring /man is sweet,
whether he eats little or much, but the
abundance of the rich will not suffer him to
sleep.” Riches are uncertain, and profit not
in the day of wrath (I Tim. vi., 17 ; Prov. xi.,
4), but there are durable riches which accom-
pany righteousness, even the riches of His
grace and glory (Prov. viii. 18; Eph. i, 1,
18), which the poorest laboring man can have
without money and without price, and which
will cause him to sleep all the more sweetly.
—Lesson Helper.
Value of Nickel Motal.
Nickel is a metal of more impor
tance than 1t used to be, since it has
been discovered that combined with
steel it makes the best and hardest
armor for war ships, and these south.
ern Oregon mines should not have
been allowed to pass into the hands
ot an English syndicate. The nickel
for the armor of the battle ships now
building at Philadelphia is procured
from Canada under a regular cop*ract
with the navy department. It is al-
most the only material eatering into
the new war vessels which is not pro-
duced in the United States.— Boston
Journal
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