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REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
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JACKSON AND FELL.
—
T:e Republican State Ticket Selected
by Acclama ion.
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{t took the Republican convention at
Harrisburg on Wednesday but 1 hour and
60 minutes to complete its work. When
State Chairman Frank Reeder rapped for
order there were 253 of the 261 delegate:
present. Only preliminary work was done
at the morning session.
There was a larger attendance at the after-
noon session and of course a great deal more
lifein the proce:dings. Ex-State Senator
Horace B. Packer of Tioga, was made per
manent chairman.
After the platform had been read and
adopted and the convention had passed a
resolution thanking Gen. Frank Reeder and
Frank Willing Leach for their ‘‘disting-
uished services’ as chairman and secretary
of the State Committee, Chairman Packer
called for the naming of candidates for Su-
preme Justice. District Attorney George S.
Graham, of Philadelphia, nominated David
Newlin Fell, of Philadelphia. U.B. REast-
burn, of Bucks, in behalf of Judge Fell's
uative county, seconded the nomination.
Judge Fell's nomination was made by
acclamation,
The nomination of Col. Samuel M. Jack-
son, of Armstrong, for State Treasurer. was
also by acclamation. He was formally
named by ex-Judge J. B. Neale, of Kittan-
ning. William R. Leeds, lof Philadelphia,
seconded the nomination. Col. Jackson
was by acclamation made the nominee for
State Treasurer and the convention adjourn:
<d to the tune of “The Star Spangled Bar-
aer.”
The platform reads as follows:
The Republicans of Per.nsylvania. in con-
vention assemb.ed, reaffirming their adhes-
ion to the declaration of principles adopted
by the Republican National convention of
1892, resolve:
That we demand theimmediate and un-
conditional repeal of the purchasing clause
of the act of Congress entitled **An act di-
recting the purchase of silver bullion and
the issuing of treasury notes thereon,” ap-
proved July 14, 1890.
We congratulate the country upon there-
cent prompt and patriotic action of the
House of Representatives, and request the
Senators from Pennsylvania to support sim
ilar legislation now pending in the Senate.
We favor the expansion of the circulating
medium of the country until the same shall
amount to $40 per capita of our population,
and approve the proposition to issue to na-
tional banks notes to the par value of the
bonds deposited to secure their circula-
tion. In this connection we repeat
the following declaration of the
last Republican National Convention:
“The American peop’e, from tradition and
interest, favor bi-metallism, and the Repub-
lican party demands the use ¢ of both gold
and silver as standard money. with such
restrictions and under such provisions, to
be determined by legislation, | as
will secure the maintenance
of the parity of values of the two metals so
that the purchasing and debt paying power
of a dollar, whether of silver, gold or paper,
shall be at all times equal. The interests
of the producers of the country, its farmers
and its workmen, demand that every dol
lar, paper or coin, issued by the government
it be as good as any other.”
Further, we declare that the obligations
of the government should be discharged in
money approved and current in all civi-
lized nations, and to that end that a largely
increased reserve of gold snould be gradual-
ly accumulated and maintained.
Swiftly upon the heels of the success of
the Democratic party in 1892 has followed
anprecedented national distress. A ruinous
£all in the price of farm and other products
and manufactures;the closing of workshops,
factories and mills; the reduction of the
wages of labor; the discharge of working:
men from employment; the cessation of
railroad extension and diminution of traffic;
bankruptcy and the suspension of banks,
are to-day the only monuments of its tri-
amph. The present condition of the coun-
. try is mainly due to the conviction that s
vital attack will be made upon the Ameri-
can system of protection. We reiterate the
belief we hive often ‘expressed that the
maintenance of #n adequate and stable
system of protective duties is essential to
the well-being of the Nation and the pros-
p-rity of labor and cavital and protest
against any amendmentsto the McKinley
bill until it shall have been fairly tested
and judged by its practical operation. 2
The heroic sacrifices and unfaltering patri-
otism of the Union soldiers and sailors in
the great War of the Rebellion created a
debt of gratitude that the Nation can never
pav, and the Republican purty, ever mind-
ful of their loyal services. and grateful for
their heorismi, renews: its declaration of
friendship for the surviving veterans, anc
its advocacy of liberaljpensions, and so far
as possible, will not only contribute to thei
comfort in their declining years, but will
hold in sacred memory their priceless and
: distinguished services on the field of battle
The National Democratic Admbiistation 17
ointment of officers in charge of the
ean Department at Washiugton, whe
are hostile to these surviving veterans, de:
serves the condemnation of everv loyal cit-
izen 1n the Nation, and the Republican
party of Pennsylvania emphatically de=
niounces the acts by which the heroes of the
republic are being arbitrarily deprived ol
their pensions as unworthy of the patriotic
American people and as reflecting dissredi
upon the great Republic made perpetual by
the loyal services of the Union soldiers and
ilors,
ae demand the enactment and enforce-
ment of immigration laws which shall
effectually prohibit the importation of ig:
norant and undesirable immigrants. Our
intelligent workmen should not be obliged
to compete with such labor. 3 :
We recommend that the representation in
the Republican National Couvention for
1896 be based upon the Republican vote at
the presidental election of 1892, and that
the Republican National Committee in
future State conventions shall be based
upon the vote cast’ at the presidential or
gubernatorial election immediately pre-
ceding, one delegate being allotted to each
legislajive district for every 2,000 Republi-
can votes, and an additional delegee tor a
fraction exceeding 1.000 votes, each district
to have at least one delegat.
We commend the action of the last Leg-
islature in this State in setting apart from
the revenue of the Commonwealth an
additional $1,000,000 to defray the cost of
public schools, thus increasing the appro:
priation for that purpose to $5,500,000 ver
annum, and relieving the burden of loca
taxation to that extent. This act again for-
cibly illustrates the integrity of the Repub
{ican party in redeeming its pledge for the
reduction of taxation.
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SKETCH OF THE CANDIDATES.
A REVIEW OF THE CAREERS OF JUDGE DAVID
NEWLIN FELL AND COL. SAMUEL M. JACKSON.
Davip Newry FELL was Jborn in _Buck-
ingham township, Bucks county,in Novem-
ber, 1840. His father was su; erintendent of
the Bucks county schools aud conducted
his early education. He attended and
graduated from the Millersville StateNormal
School. In.August, 1862, immediately after
leaving school, he enlisted in the army, and
rose from the rank of lieutenant to major
of the One Hundred and Twenty-second
Pennsylvania Volunteers. At the close of
the war he studied law in Philadelphia with
his brother, the late W. W. Fell. and was
admitted to the bar on March 17, 1866. On
May 2, 1877. Maj. Fell was appointed by
Gov. Hartranft to a vacancy oa the bencn
of the Philadelphia Court of Common pleas
No.2. The same year he was elected with
out opposition for the full term of 10 years,
and in 1-87 was unanimously re-elected.
Cor., SaMUEL M. JAacKsoN was born on a
farm near Apollo, Armstrong county. on
September 24, 1833. He attended for awhile
the Jacksonville academy, in Indiana
county. but was unable to finish his course
by reasons of his father’s death. He joined
the militia as a drummer boy when 13 years
of age. Subsequently he became a captain,
When the iL out he recruited Co. G,
of the Eleventh Pennsylvania Reserves, of
which he was chosen captain, On July 2
1861, he was promoted to major, October 2%
the same year he was made lieutenant
colonel and on April 10, 1862, became
colonel. He served for three years.
At the close of the war Col. Jackson en-
gaged in the oil business in Venango coun-
ty, but subsequently returned to Armstrong
county. In 1869 he was elected to the Lower
House of the Legislature and in 1871 was
re-elected, Four years later he was elected
to the State Senate. In 1871 he became
cashier of the Apollo Savings Bank and
served as such until April, 1892, when he was
made collector of internal revenue for the
Twenty-third district, and served until July
1, 1885. In September, 1885, he was chosen
president of the Apolla Savings Bank, an
office he still holds.
KEYSTONE STATE CULLINGS
MORE CASH THAN IS REQUIRED.
DISCOVERY
STATE TREASURER MORRISON'S
ABOUT THE STATE BANKS,
HarrisBurG—State Treasurer Morrison
has been investigating the banks ot the
state on his own account and finds a satisfac-
tory yet peculiar condition of affairs. In an-
ticipation of the existing stringency the
banks have been swelling their cash reserve
far in excess of the requirements of the
national government. The balance sheet of
the treasury, he says, will show a surplus
of over $8,0.0,000 on September 1, but much
of this does not belong to the State. Under
the Boyer act three fourths of the personal
property tax must be returned to the coun-
ties, and when certain large appropriations
to educational and charitable institution
have been paid the surplus will be about
right. In 20 Othe state treasurer will be
permitted to open a letter on file in the de-
partment stating a sum on deposit in the
Girard trust company’s vaults in Philadel-
phia to the credit of the state.
—_—
DROUTH IN FAYETTE.
UnxtoxTows.—With the exception of a
few isolated fieldsthe corn crop of the coun:
ty will not be more than half the average
yield. The mountain districts probably
fared a little better than the farmsin the low
lan~s, but even from Henry Clay, Whartor
and Stewart and the other mountain town-
ships the reports are encouraging. The droutk
is perhaps severest along the valley between
this place and Smithfield. Potatoes and
buckwheat also have suffered and will be
light yields,
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THE NEW REPUBLICAN STATE CHAIRMAN.
Harrissurc.—Judge Fell, Col. Jackson,
and Chairman Packer had a conference
and selected Col. B. F. Gilkeson, of Buck:
county as chairman of the Republican
State Committee. John A. McDonald, A.
D. Fetterolf and Jere Rex: will Ge the
secretaries.
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PERISHED IN A BARN FIRE.
CARLISLE,—The barn of Thomas Ahl,nea
Boiling Springs was struck by lightning
and burned and George Lutz the tenant ol
the farm, was burned to death.
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STANDING OF THE STATE LEAGUE.
W. lL. Yet. WwW. L. Foi,
York....«. 19 10 .657 Scranton. 14 14 .70C
11 .6€45 Harrisb'g 15 16 484
13 .552 Altoona.. 15 16 .484
4 25 (138
aston .... 20
Johnstown 16 )
Allentown 1¢ 14 ,533 Reading.
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Mes. Coxrap Jacoss, of Penn township
Westmoreland county. while gathering
cncumbers, was bitten by either a snake or
spider in the hand. Sheis old and the
wound may prove fatal.
CoUNTERFEITERs are believed to be opera-
ting in some secluded spot near the Ieisen-
ring road. ¢ounterfeit dollars and half dol-
lars have been turning up daily at Con-
nellsville.
I"arMERs near Crown Point, who have
lost much stock, found the thief prowling
around a hog pen and killed it. It was abig
jugnar and must have escaped frou some
circus.
Tramps robbed Joseph Covac, a Connells-
ville cokeworker of $500 as he was going to
get it changed into foreign coin preparatory
to sailing home.
Tur Mahoningtown postoffice and rail
road station were rifled by robbers Monday
night and several hundred dollars worth of
goods taken.
J.J. Ruopes, proprietor of the Marlin
House at Girard was killed with his horse
while out driving at Erie, by being struck
by a train.
ALFRED AsnLEY, editor of ‘American
Industries,” was killed at Mt. Gretna. bya
heavy pole, uprooted by the wind, falling
upon him.
Five Huxprep miners at Madison and
Aron near Greensburg went out on a strike
against a 10 per cent reduction in wages.
It is said that Fayette county's corn crop
will hardly be more than half the average
now, owing to the continued drouth.
Ox Wednesday about 200 Slavs left Con-
nellsville for Europe. The will return
when the coke trade improves.
Jonx McPHaARLAND and Mark Fulton, coal
miners, near Greensburg were killed while
at work by falling slate.
A 4-vear-oLp daughter of Michael Siskis-
ki, of Bradenville, fell into a well Sunday
nightand was drowned.
James McGINNIS was thrown from his
buggy near Templeton and killed,
Too Trivial.
Judge Chase of Vermont, was a
man of excellent sense, and a great
stickler for the dignity of courts.
At one time a case Bf very trifling
importance. which had well-nigh run
the gauntlet of legal adjudication,
came before the highest court in the
‘State. The counsel for the plaintift
was opening with the usual apologies
for a frivolous suit, when the subject
matter, *‘to wit, one turkey, of great
value,” caught the ear of the Judge.
«Mr. Clerk,” he calied out, in an
irate tone, ‘strike that case from the
docket. The Supreme Court of the
State of Vermont does not sit here te
determine the ownership of a tur-
key!”
THE way out of it for Australia is
to set her pugilists to killing rabbits.
i such other arrangement as shall
OUR BALLOT LAW.
—_—
FUSION AND ALLIANCE MAY
HAVE SEPARATE COLUMNS.
Only Political Parries Entitled to the
Big Circle For a Straight Ticket. The!
Voter Must Have a Clear Opportunity
to Designate His Choice of Candidates,
and the Names of All Who Have Been
Duly Nominated Must Be Printed on
the Fa ce of the Ballo:.
carmela
The Baker ballot seems to be as well un-
derstood this year as it was last and is the
subject of apparently endless controversy.
The trouble just now is in regard to plac-
ing of tke naraes of the Fusion and Alliance
candidates upon the official tickets. Some
claim they wiil be printed in party columns
if certified by a nominating convention and
some go so far the other way as to claim
the names will not be printed at all, but
must be written in blank space left for them.
Between the two are shades of opinion born
of varying imagination.
The Pittsburg “Commercial Gazette,” in
order to set the question at rest hada num-
ber of lawyers and politicans, who are
thoroughly familiar with theoriginal Baker
act of 1891 ahd the amendments of 1893,
interviewed.
There is no disagreement among these. They
say it is self-evident from a readingof the
law that the tusionists, not having polled
any vote at the iast county election must go
upon the official ballot by mean< of nomi-
nation papers. The Alliance candidates
must go on the ticket in the same manner.
At the last Pittsburg City election the Citi-
rens' Industrial Alliance polled’a sufficient
number of votes to entitle it to a party
column by certificate nt the next city elec-
tion. but that does not entitle it toa party
column on the ballot for the coming state
and county election in November The
Republican, Democratic and Prohibition
parties may have party columas and a cross
mark (X) in the largecircle at the top of
these columns will vote every name in the
column. On the other hand the Fusionists
and Alliance men must put a cross mark
(X) in the square to the right of each cin-
didate to be voted for.
The changes made in the ballot law, which
affect the appearance of the ticket, are, first,
that all groups are abolished and a single
mark in the large circleat the top of a party
ticket will vote the straight ticket; second,
that the addresses of candidates are omitted*
These are the only specitic changes that
affect the appearance of the official ballot.
In all other respects it should be printed
the same as last pear.
The change affecting parties is that which
reduces the vote necessary to entitle such
party to nominate by certificate and have a
party colnmn, from 3 per cent to 2 per cent
of the highest number of votes cast at the
next preceding election. For nominations
by nomination papers the number of signa-
tures for state office must equal one-half of
1 per centum of the highest vote cast for
any candidate at the last preceding election
and for the offices in any electoral division
of the state, such as county, city, borough
township, legislative, senatorial, congress-
ional or judicial district the signatures must
number as much as 2 per cent of the high-
est entire vote cast in the last preceding
election in fsuch division or district. All
nomination papers must specify the party
or policy which jthe candidate represents,
expressed in not more than three words,
These words must not be the same nor simi-
lar to those used by any party entitled to
nominations by certificate. Any objection
to a nomination on account of the party or
political appellation shall be decided by the
court of common pleas on hearing.
Section 14 of the amended law governs
the printing of the baliots. The first para-
graph says: *‘The face of every ballot which
shall be printed in accordance with the pro-
visions of this act shall contain the names
of all candidates whose nomination for any
office specified in the ballot shall have been
duly made, except such as may have died
or withdrawn.”
This should set at rest the contention that
names of candidates by nomination papers
may not-be printed. The act sayson the"
face of the ballot must be printed the names
of all candidates whose nominations have
been duly made. The second section pro-
vides that *‘the names of the candidates of
each political party, or body of electors,
shall be arranged under the title of the
offices for which they are nominated in par-
allel columns with the party or politicalap-
pellation at the head of each column. *#*
* + and shall be printed in the order,
as nearly as possibie of the votes obtained
in the state at the last state election by the
parties or bodies which obtained the highest
vote for the candidate at the head of its
column at such election.”
The law of 1891 provided {hat candidates
by nomination papers should be arranged
alphabetically to the rizht of the party
columns. This provision is now omitted.
The law of 1891, however, used nearly the
same language in arranging the candidates
by certiticates of nomination as is now used
for arranging ‘‘all candidates.” This amend-
ment was proposed by the Ballot Reform
association for the purpose of grouping
candidates bv nomination papers under
their political appellations, in separate coi-
umns, the more easily to determine their
status when making nominations for sab-
sequent elections. They may not have the
large circle for a straight ticket at the head
of their column.
The form of ballot recently sent out by the
secretary of the commonwealth had three
party columns for the Republican, Demo-
cratic and Prohibition parties and a fourth
column for writing names of persons not
printed on the ballot. This was taken by
some to indicate the construction of the
new law by the secretary to be that only of
the names of political parties entitled to
certificates of nomination should be printed
This would be contrary tothe language of
the first paragraph of section 14, which ex-
presslv commands the printing of the names
of *‘all candidates” whose ‘nomination has
been duly made’ either by certificate or by
nomination papers.
The ianguage of the second paragraph dis
tinguishing between a *‘political partv’’ and
a ‘‘body of electors” and in directing ar-
rangement of names ‘‘as nearly as possible”
according to the vote obtained at the pre-
ceding election and ‘‘beginning with the
party or body which obtained the highest
vote for the candidate at the head of its col-
umn at such election,” is all construed to
mean that candidates by nomination papers
shall be given separate columns. In regard
to the three parties entitled to nominate bv
certificates, they can as easily be arranged
by their vote as the party for the first col-
umn may be desienated. So the ‘“‘as nearly
as possible’’ provision evidently refers to
“bodies” having an indefinite political
standing.
It is the opinion of nearly all those con-
versant with the laws of 1891 and 1893 that
the fusionists and Alliance will be entitled
to ‘‘body’’ columns on the official ballot or
in the
language of the sixth paragraph of the four
teenth section, ‘‘zive to each voter a clear
onnortunity to designate his choice of can-
didates by a cross marx (X) in a square of
sufficient size at the nght of the name of
each candidate and inside the line inclosine
the column.” The =ame paragraph con-
tains two provisos, First, that the voter
may designate his choice of an entire group
of presidential electors by one cross mark
in a larger square which shall be placed at
the right of the surnamesof the candidates
for president and vice president at the head
of such group.” such mark to be equivalent
to a mark against every namein thegroup.
Second, '‘That a voter may designate his
choice of all the candidates of a political
party by one cross in the circle above such
c2Zamn,’”’ The circle is thus made to apply
only to “political parties,” while the othe:
designations are all made fo apply to the
candidates ofany “political party,’”’ or‘‘body
of electors.”
The law might have been clearer in regard
to the arrangement of columns.as the law of
1891 wae. But the omission of the distinction
between candidates by certificate and candi-
dates by nomination papers in the arrange-
ment of columns can only be construed to
mean there shall be no distinction. Each
“political appella tion’ is entitled to a
SUNDAY SCHOOL
1.ESSON FOR SUNDAY, SEPT. IT.
“Personal Responsibility,” Romans xiv.,
12.23. Golden Text: Romane
xiv., 21. Commentary.
12. “‘So then every one of us shall give ac-
count of himself to God.” This epistie may
be divided into three sections and labeled
doctrinal (chapters i. to viii.), dispensational
(chapters ix. to xi.) and practical (xii. to
xvi). The practical, with which we now have
to do, may be subdivided as follows: xii.,
character ; xiii., relation to civil rulers; xiv.,
relation to brethren ; xv., labors ; xvi., Chris-
tian salutations. So that we find ourselves
to-day dealing with the practical question of
right relations to the brethren, and especially
in the matter of eating and drinking. We
+ less” (Math. xii., 7).
/
are reminded of the judgment seat of Christ
(verse 10 ; see also II Cor. v., 10) and of in-
dividual responsibility.
13. ‘Let us not therefore judge one an-
other any more, but judge this rather, that
no man put a stumbling block or an occasion
to fall in his brother's way.” In I Cor. iv.,
5, we are exhorted to judge nothing before
the time until the Lord come. In Jas. ii., 13,
it is written that ‘‘he shall have judgment
without mercy that hath showed no mercy,
and mercy rejoiceth against judgment,” while
Jesus Himself said, ‘‘If ye had known what
this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacri-
fice, ye would not have condemned the guilt-
We are here not to live
unto ourselves, but unto the Lord (verses 7,
8) and by a Christlike life lead people unto
im.
14. “I know and am persuaded by the
Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of
itself ; but to him that esteemeth anything to
be unclean, to him it is unclean.” Jesus
taught that ‘‘not that which goeth into the
mouth defileth a man, but that which cometh
out of the mouth” (Math. xv., 11). And Paul
in another place teaches us that if oneshould
see fit to accept an invitation to eat with an
unbeliever the proper thing would be to eat
what is provided, asking no question for
conscience sake (I Cor. x., 27) unless the
host should say, “This is offered in sacrifice
to idols.” Then a believer could not eat of
it. The glory of God must be the one aim in
all eating and drinking as well as in all else
(I Cor. x., 31).
15. ‘‘But if thy brother be grieved with thy
meat, now walkest thou not charitably. De-
stroy not him with thy meat for whom Christ
died.” This matter is more fully dwelt upon
in I Cor. viii., 1-13, and is summed up in
verse 13, “Wherefore, if meat make my broth-
er to offend, I will eat no flesh while the
world standeth.” The great question with a
believer should not be, **May I do this or
that and not sin?” but ‘“‘How cam I best
hasten His kingdom and win men to Him?”
16. ‘Let not, then, your good be evil
spoken of.” A perfectly lawful act, some-
thing that I might do or enjoy with a clear
conscience betore God, might be misunder-
stood by a weak brother and become to him
a stumbling block, in which case it would bs
for the glory of God and the good of the
weak brother for me to refrain from even
that which in God’s sight might be innocent.
17. *‘For the kingdom of God is not meat
and drink, but righteousness and peace and
joy in the Holy Ghost.” The chief business
of those for whom Christ died is not eating
and drinking, but a right relation to God,
our neighbors and ourselves. The founda-
tion is righteousness (Rom. x., 3, 4; II Cor.
v., 21), the state is peace (Rom. v., 1; Eph,
ii., 14), and the manifestation is joy (John
Xv., 11; xvi., 24; Rom. xv., 13). All willbe
disorder and confusion until we seek first the
kingdom of God and His righteousness
(Math. vi., 33), not for ourselves merely, but
for all whom we may reach.
18, ‘Tor he that in these things serveth
Christ is acceptable to God and approved of
men.” Having received Christ as our
Saviour we are always accepted in Him
(Eph. i., 6), but for this reason we seek to
be accepted of Him as to our service. “We
labor that whether present or absent we may
be accepted of Him" (II Cor. v., 9). Salva-
tion full and free is God's gift to whosoever
will. We are saved by grace not of works
lest any one should boast (Eph. ii., 3; Rom.
iv.. 9). but we work because we are saved.
This is profitable to men, and we shall be re-
warded according to our works (Eph. ii., 10,
Titus iil, 8; I Cor, 11, 8; Rev, xxil., 12).
19. ‘Let us therefore ullow after the
things which make for peace and things
wherewith one may ediiy another.” Ous
Lord and Saviour is the Prince of Peace, and
a mind staid on Him will have a perfect
peace. Thus we saall be able to publish
peace (Isa. ix., 6; xxvi., 3; Iii.. 7; Bom. x.,
15).
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20. “For mcat destroyed not the work of
God. All things indeed are pure, but it is
evil for that man who eateth with offense.”
‘Unto the pure all things are pure, but unto
them that are defiled and unbelieving is
nothing pure” (‘Titus i., 15). In this lesson,
however, it is the brethren-—the believers--
whom we are to be careful not to offend.
21. “It is good neither to eat flesh nor to
drink wine, nor anything whereby thy
brother stumbleth or is offended or is made
weak.” It is only telling a part of the truth
to select from this the drinking of wine and
made it a so-calied temperance lesson, while
the many other things that offend are left
antouhed. A good worker on the side of
total abstinence may possibly be a stumbling
block in other directions, and so in other
departments of Christian work. The only
sure way is to adopt II Cor. iv., 11, as a daily
motto and be willing to die to self in all di
tions that the life of Christ mav be manife
in our mortal flesh. Wien we ean truly say,
“Not I, but Christ, who liveth in me” (Gal.
ii., 20), all will be well.
22. ‘‘Hast thou faith? Have it te thysel
before God. Happy is he that condemneth
not himself in that thing which He allow-
eth,” for if our hesris condemn us not then
have we confidence toward God (I John iii.,
21). To live always sas in the sight of the
Lord with a constant aim to please Him will
surely give a life free from offenses. “Walk
before Me and be thou perfect. upright, sin-
cere,” was God's word to Abram (Gen. xvii.,
1, margin). To us the Spirit says through
Paul, “Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as
to the Lord and not unto men’ (Col. iii., 23).
23. ‘And he that doubteth is damned (or
condemned) if he eat, because he eateth not
of faith, for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.”
It is sin to do what you doubt to be right ; it
is also sin not te do what you know to be
right (Jas. iv.. 17). If everything is tested
by “Will it please Jesus?” all will be well.
All life is either for self or God and others.
Christ was wholly for God and man, never
for self, and could truly say to His Father,
*I have glorified Thee on the earth.” All
right relations to man must spring {rom
right relations to God. Without faith it is
impossible to please Him, for he that cometh
to God must believe that He is, and that He
is the rewarder of them that diligently seek
Him (Heb. xi.).-—Lesson Helper.
ee
Washing Liquor.
The following is a good laundry
preparation,and is sold in some quar-
ters at a fancy price per gallon: Soda
ash, in fine powder, four ounces; oil
of citronella, one fluid ounce; par-
atfin oil, one gallon. Shake the cit-
ronella with the paratlin oil, then add
the soda ash and dissolve; add two
tablesp onfuls of this mixture. and
one pound of soap to each boilerful of
slothes.
SOLDIERS
COLUMN.
AT COLD HARBOR.
Some
Varied Exveriencss on Picket
After That Battle.
A TRAIN o
incidents oc
Habor, Va., on
the 2d of June,
1864, which I
should like to
give your read-
ers, believing
that they will
be of interest,
and to show
that a soldier’s
life is made up
of a variety of
strange experi-
ences, and not always fighting and
marching or keeping vigilunce, even
on a picket line,
The Ninth Corps reached Bethesda
church after a hard march from the
North Anna River, something after
dark on the night of the 1st. The
rebels had beat us there, and were
ready to give us a warm reception.
At midnight three companies of my
regiment—the 2d Pa., Prov. H. A, —
were sent out about a mile and a half
in advance, toward Bethesda church,
on a picket line, We were posted
slong the edge of a dense piece of
woods. Immediately around us was a
clearing about a quarter of a mile
square, the ground being a little
marshy and rough.
We were delighted to find a well-
preserved line of breastworks along
the edge of the piece of woods. It was
near here that the battle of Gaines’s
Mill was fought during McClellan’s
retrograde movement across the Pen-
insula.
We soon concluded that we were
mighty near the rebel lines. We could
hear their mules whinneying, artillery
moving, ete, just through the woods;
consequentiy we kept quiet until day-
light, realizing that we were only a
thin picket line. We had come out
here irom our lines on an old traveled
road into this open square, the road
leading out through the woods into
the rebel lines and out toward Gaines’s
Mills.
When daylight came we had a cur-
iosity to learn how fur away the rebels
were, and some of the boys got over
the works into the woods, One mem-
ber of my company went a few rods to
the right and stepped out into the
road, as if tocross, and in an instant
we heard a crack and down went the
poor fellow,shot by a rebel sharpshoot-
or who commanded the road and no
doubt was posted in a tree,
Later in the day Capt. Samuel I.
Davis, of Go. I, Leing seut out to view
the picketline, came along the edge of
the woods on the opposite: side of the
road from us. We saw he was about
to cross the road. He did not under
stand the word of warning we gave
him, butstepped into the road and re-
ceived his death wound from the same
sharp-shooter. How terrible this sort
of warfare seems !
The ludicrous part of our experience
on the picket-line I now wish to re-
late. Theenemy made no advance up
to 8 p. m. Some of the boys became
careless, Porter C. Burns, of my
company was one. He was a practical
watchmaker by trade and a good
mechanic. As we had marched falong
from the Wilderness battlefield he had
constructed a small kit of tools suit-
able for tinkering watches, foraging
through old abandoned blacksmith
shops, ete. He had made four extra
pockets in his uniform, and each eon-
tained a comrade’s watch waiting to be
repaired,
Burns concluded to repair a watch.
He spread a rubber blanket on the
ground, took the watch apart, and
commenced operations. All at once
the woods rang with a clear bugle call.
Lieut. Gausline, springing to his feet,
says: ‘Boys, now look out; that’s a
rebel bugle call to advance.”
We soon saw them coming, and up,
and gave them a volley,and they broke
and ran. It was laughable, amidst
all the excitement, to sce Comrade
Burns, ina nervous state, trying to get
the corners of the blanket together to
save the watch. As he ran the pieces
could be heard jingling and being
strewn along the ground. the rebels
coming up shouting “Stop, jou —=—
Yank!” He barely escaped, No doubt
they captured the watch, or frag-
me: ts.
When the Confederates made the
advance they immediately opened up
with a mortar battery, throwing shells
across the woods into the open square.
In the stampede I was knocked
down, a shell bursting beside me, and
I was run over by an unmanageable
horse ridden bo the Colonel of the (I
think) 24th N. Y. Cav., who happened
to be out to the open square at the
time, receiving a slight wound in the
head and hand, and only escaping be-
ing captured by a member of my com-
pany helping me to my feet.
I lost my gun, gum blanket and
haversack, I was eventually taken
prisoner at Burnside’s mine explosion,
1n the crater in front of Petersburg,
Va., July 30, 1864, and not released
until the end of the war.—CLARENCE
WiLsonN. in “National Tribune.”
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A PHILADELTrHIA girl broke off her
engagement because the young man
refused to shave off his mustache.
The dear girls usually do not set
their faces against such things so
strongly as that.
“Tae short story seems $n be quite
the fad nowadays,” said one club man
to another. “Ishould say so. It seems
to me that nearly every man I meet
stons to tell me how short he is.”-
a
PEE fetters of sin are riveted in
fire,and burn as well as bind.
curred at Cold ,
CHILDREN’S COLUMN,
A FAIR EXCHANGE.
L little Swiss lady whose name was Jeanne,
Lived elcse to the Swiss frontier;
While over in France, across the way,
Lived her,little French neighbor, Madame
Aimee,
Ior friend of many a year.
\nd every spring, by a long-tried’ plan,
Vhcse value you'll see at a glance,
They made of their houses a fair exchange;
For said Jeanne, “One is better for travel
and change,
30 1 spend my summers in France.”
ind when any one called at her new house
door,
And asked for Madame Aimee,
She said, “I'm sorry she’s not at hand ;
She's gone for the summer to Switzerland,
3ut you'll find her over the way.”
St. Nicholas.
THE CHILDREN’S WHITEBOARD.
Tt can’t be called a “‘blackboard,®
secause it wasn’t black, but it is des-
ined to take the place of one.
A blackboard, either at school or at
home, is apt to make lots of dust and
lirt, and some mothers, after one has
been bought for the use of children at
1ome, feel obliged to let them use it
»uly at certain times—when they are
10t dressed clean, or when the nursery
or playroom has not just been swept
or dusted.
To make a ‘‘whiteboard” buy a large
piece of sheet celluloid and tack if,
wrong side out, on a flat board just
Celluloid large enough cam
be bought for about fifty cents. Ar-
tists’ thumb tacks or nice gilt headed
tacks can be used. ’
Along the bottom of the board nail
a hollowed piece to hold the crayons
and put in one or two tacks to hold
the little sponges and cloths used to
clean the board. Hang the sponges
up by strings run through them.
Two screw-eyes in the top of the
board will suffice to hang it up by.
The ‘‘crayons” are heavy, blue and
red pencils, or thick black ones. These
the size.
make dustless marks and can readily
be rubbed off the celluloid with a damp
sponge. When wiped dry with a cloth
the board is ready for use again.—
[Chicago Record.
THE ANDAMAN DWARFS.
There probably never was a boy or
oirl who did not dream of possessing
for his or her own pleasure a band of
pygmies who should do what they were
bidden like so many animated dolls.
in Africa,
Andaman Is-
Dwarfs have been found
but the
lands, in the Bay of Bengal, arc the
natives of the
smallest race of people in the world.
The average height of a full-grown
Andaman is four feet five inches, and
few weigh over seventy-six pounds.
They are marvellously swift of foot,
and as they smear themselves with a
mixture of oil and red ochre, present
Tew trav-
ellers care to encounter any of the
warlike little people, for their skill in
throwing the spear and in using the
very strange appearance.
bow is only equalled by their readi-
ness to attack strangers.
Altogether their traits are not such
them additions
to the playrooms of children, since
as to make desirable
they have been said to eat men alive.
They are as black as coals, and seem
to find it desirable to tattoo them-
This artistic
usually begin when they are eight years
selves. venture they
of age, using bottle-glass for the pur-
pose of getting their flesh into a con-
dition to receive the color and retain
it. They eat fish, turtles, and wild
honey, and are rarely satisfied with a
luncheon that does not provide them,
eatables. They
and in
with six pounds of
live in huts made of leaves,
spite of their freedom, which amounts
to wildness, are exceedingly irritable.
—[Harper’s Young People.
a
Wonderful Fall in a Biblical River.
The River Jordan, in Palestine, has
the most remarkable fall or descent of
in the world. The
name of the river is from the Hebrew
word Jarden, meaning the descender,
any short river
and thet it iswellnamed may be judged
from the following figures concern-
ing its fall: At its source, near Has-
baye, the stream has ‘an elevation of
1,700 feet above the level of the Med-
iterranean Sea, and at the place where
it empties into the Dead Sea it is 1,300
the level of the Mediterra-
nean, making a total fall of about even
3,000 feet. The
baye Springs to the Dead Sea is
total
river, counting the
feev below
Has-
120
length of the
windings of the
distance from
miles, and the
che#unel, 200 miles. From this we
must subtract twenty miles for the
lake and morass of Hooleh, and the
Sen of Galilee, leaving but 180 miles
of river proper, which gives the river
an average fall of seventeen feet to
the mile throughout its entire course.
Few
fewer still descend as the Jordan does,
paterfalls.
rivers have such a fall, and
without either cascades or
—[ St. Louis Republic,