RE, THES SUNY SERMOL.
¥onesty Eulogized—Rulinous Modes of
Getting Money—Why Politics Has Be-~
come a Synonym Fer Truculency and
Turpitude—The Morals of the Gospel.
Text: “They that will be rich fall into a
temptation and a snare, and into many
foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men
in destruction and perdition.”’—1. Timothy
vi., 9.
i That is the Niagara Falls over which rush
a multitude of souls, namely, the deter-
mination to have the money anyhow, right
or wrong. Tell me how a mar gets his
money and what he does with it, and I will
tell you his character, and what will be his
destiny in this world and the next. I pro-
pose to speak to-day about the ruinous
modes of getting money.
In all our city, ‘state and national elec-
tions large sums of money are used in brib-
ery. Politics, from being the science of
good government, has often been be-
draggled into the synonym for truculency
and turpitude. A monster sin, plausible,
potent, pestiferous, has gone forth to do
its dreadful work in all ages. Its two
hands are rotten with leprosy. It keeps
its right hand hidden in a deep pocket.
The left hand is clenched, and with its
jchorous knuckle it taps at the door of the
court-room, the legislative hall, tho con-
gress and the parliament. The doorswings
open and the monster enters, and glides
through the aisle of the council chamber
as softly as a slippered page, and then it
takes its right hand from its deep pocket,
and offers it im salutation to judge or
legislator. If that hand be taken, and the
palm of the intruder cross the palm of the
official, the leprosy orosses from palm to
palm in a round blotch, round as a gold
eagle, and the virus spreads, and the doom
is fixed, and the victim perishes. Let
bribery, accursed of God and man, stand
up for trial.
The Bible arraigns it again and again.
Samuel says -of his two sons, who became
judges, “‘They took bribes and perverted
judgment.” David says of ‘some of his
ursuers, “Their right hand is full of
ribes.” Amos says of some men in his
day, “They take a bribe, and turn aside
the poor in the gate.” Eliphaz fortells the
crushing blows of God’s indignation, de-
claring, “Fire shall consume the taber-
nacle of bribery.”
It is no light temptation. The mightiest
have fallen under it. ‘Lord Bacon,Lord
Chancellor of England, founder or our
modern science, author of ‘‘Novum
QOrganum,” and a ‘whole library of books,
the leading thinker of his century, so
precocious that when a little child he was
asked by Queen Elizabeth, “How old are
you?” he responded, “I am two years
younger ‘than your Maajesty’s happy
Teign;” of whose oratory Ben Jonson
wrote, “The fear of every man that heard
him was lest he should make an end;” hav-
ing an income which you would suppose
would have put him beyond the temptation
of bribery—thirty-six thousand dollars a
year, and Twickenham Court, a gift, and
princely estates in Hertfordshire—yet
under this temptation to bribery, falling
flat inte ruin, and on bis confession of
taking bribes, giving as excuse that all his
predoceseors took them; he was fined two
undred thousand dollars—or what corre-
sponds with our two hundred thousand
dollars—and imprisoned in London Tower.
Even heathenism and the Dark Ages have
furnished specimens of incorruptibility. A
cadi of Smyrna had a case brought before
him on trial. A man gave him five hundred
ducats in bribery. The case came on. The
priber had many witnesses. The poor man
on the other side had no witnesses. At the
close of the case the cadi said: ‘This poor
man has no witnesses, he thinks; I shall
produge in his behalf five hundred witness-
es against the other side.” Then pulling
out the bag of ducats from under the otto-
man, he dashed it down at the fect of the
briber, saying: “I give my decision against
you.” Epaminondas offered a bribe, said:
“I will do this thing if it be right, and if it
be wrong, all your goods cannot persuade
me.”
The President of the American Congress
during the American Revolution, General
Reed, was offered ten thousand guineas by
foreign commissioners if he would betray
this country. He replied: ‘Gentlemen, I
am a very poor man, but tell your king he
is not rich enough to buy me.”” But why
go so far, when you or I, if we move in
honorable society, know men and women
who by all the forces of earth and Hell
could not be bribed. They would nc more
.be bribed than you would think of tempt-
ing an angel of light to exchange Heaven
for the pit. To offer a bribe is villiany, but
it is a very poor compliment to the man to
whom it is offered.
My charge is to you, in all departments
of life. steer clear of« bribery, all of you.
Every man and woman will at some time
be tempted to do wrong for compensation.
The bribe may not be offered in money. It
may be offered in social position. Let us
remember that there is a day coming
when the most secret transaction of pri-
vate life, and of public life, will come up
for publie reprehension.
We cannot bribe death; we cannot bribe
sickness, we cannot bribo the grave, we
cannot bribe the judgment of that God
who .thunders agaiust this sin. “Fie!”
said Cardinal Beaufort, “fle! Can’t death
be bribed? Is money nothing? Must I
die, and so rieh? If the owning of the
whole realm would save me I could get it
by policy or by purchase—by money.”
No, death would not be bribed then; he
will not be bribed now. Men of the world
often regret that they have to leave their |
money here when they go away from the
world. You ean tell from what they say
in their last hours that one of their chief
sorrows is that they have to leave their
money. I break that delusion. I tell that
bribe-taker that he will take his money
with him. God will wrap it up in your
shroud, or put it in the palm of your hand
in resurrection, and there it will lie, not
the cool, bright, shining gold as it was on
the day when you sold your vote and your
moral prineiple, but there it will lie, a hot
metal, burning and consuming your hand
forever. Or, if there be enough of it for a
ehain, then it will fall over the wrist, elank-
ing fetters of an eternal eaptivity. The
bribe is an everlasting possession. You
take it for time, you take it for eternity.
Some day in the next world, when you are
longing for sympathy, you will feel on
your cheek a kiss. Looking up, you will
‘find it to be Judas, who took thirty pieces
of silver as a bribe, and finished the bar-
gain by putting an infamous kiss on the
pure cheek of his divine Master.
Another wrong use of money is seen in
the abuse of trust funds. Nearly every
man during the course of his life, on a
large or smaller scale, has the property of
others committed to his keeping. He is,
so far, a safety deposit, he is an adminis-
trator, and holds ir his hand the interest
of the family of a deceased friend. Or he
is an attorney, and through his custody
goes the payment from debtor to creditor,
or he is the collector of a business house,
which compensates him for the responsi-
bility; or he is treasurer for a charitable
institution, and he holds alms contributed
for the suffering; or he is an official of the
city or the State or the nation, and taxes
and subsidies and salaries and supplies
are in his keeping.
Another remark needs to be made, and
that is that people ought not to go into
places, into business, or into positions
where the temptation is mightier than
their character, If there be large sums of
money to be bardled, and the man is not
sure of his own integrity, you have no
right to run an unseaworthy eraftin a
hurricane. A man ean tell by the sense of
weakness or strength in the presence of a
bad opportunity whether he is ina safe
place, Hoav many parents make an awlu!
mistake when they put their boys in bank-
ing houses and stores and shops and fae-
tories and places of solemn trust without
¢ en discussing Whether they can endures
thn temptation! You give the boy plenty
of money, and have no account of it, and
muke tho way down become very easy,
and you may put upon him a pressure that
he cannot stand. There are men who go
into positions full of temptation, consid-
ering only that they are lucrative posi-
tions.
An abbot wanted to buy a piece of
ground, and the owner would not sell it,
but the owner finally consented to let it to
him until he could raise one crop, and the
abbot sowed acorns—a crop of 200 years!
And I tell you young man, that the dis-
honesties which you plant in your heart
and life will seem to be very insignificart,
but they will grow up until they over-
shadow you with horrible darkness, over-
shadow all time and all eternity. It will
not be a crop for 200 years, but a crop for
everlasting ages.
I address many who have trust funds.
It is a compliment to you that you have
been so entrusted, but I charge you, in the
resence of God and the world, be careful;
= as careful of the property of others as
vou are careful of your own. Above all,
keep your own private account at the bank
separate from your account as trustee of
an estate, or trustee of an institution.
That is the point at which thousands of
people make_ shipwreck. They get the
property of others mixed up with their
own property, they put it into investment,
and away it all goes, and they cannot re-
turn that which they borrowed. Then
comes the explosion, and the money mar-
ket is shaken, and the press denounces,
and the Church thunders expulsion.
A blustering young man arrived at a ho-
tel in the West, and he saw a man on the
sidewalk whom he supposed to be a labor-
er, and in a rough way, as no man has a
right to address a laborer, said to him,
“Carry this trunk upstairs.” The man
carried the trunk upstairs and came down,
-and then the young man gave him a quar-
iter of a dollar which was clipped, and in-
stead of being twenty-five cents it was
worth only twenty cents. Then the young
man gave his card to the laborer and said,
“You take this up to Governor Grimes; I
want to see him.” “Ah,” said the laborer,
«J am Governor Grimes.” Oh,” sald the
young man, ‘‘you—I—excusgme.’ Then
the Governor said: *‘I was much impressed
by the letter you wrote me asking for a
certain office in my gift, and I had made
up my mind you should have it, but a
young man who will cheat a laborer out of
five cents would swindle the government of
the State if he got his hands on it. I don’t
want you. Good morning, sir.”
I do not suppose there was ever a better
specimen of honesty than was found in the
Duke of Wellington. He marched with his
army over the French frontier, and the
army was suffering and he scarcely knew
how to get along. Plenty of plunder all
about, but he commanded none of the
plunder to betaken. He writes home these
remarkable words: ‘Weare overwhelmed
with debts, and I ean scarcely stir out of
my house on accout of public creditors,
waiting to demand what is due.to them.”
Yet at the very time the French peasantry
were bringing their waluables to him to
keep. A celebrated writer says of the
transaction: “Nothing ean be grander or
more nobly original than this admission.
This old soldier, after thirty years’ service,
this iron man and victorious general, es-
tablished in aa enemy’s country at the
head ot an immense army, is afraid of his
c,editors! This is a kind of fear that has
seldom troublbd conquerors and invaders,
and I doubt if the annals of war present
anything comparable te its sublime sim-
plieity.”
Oh! is it not high time, that we preach
the morals of the Gospel right beside the
faith of the Gospel? Mr. Froude, the cele-
brated English historian, has written af
bis own country these remarkable words:
“From the great house in the city of Lon-
don to the village grocer, the commercial
life of England has been saturated with
fraud. So deep has it gone that a strictly
honest tradesman can hardly hold his
ground against competition. You can no
longer trust that any article you buy is the
thing which it pretends to be. We have
false weights, false measures, cheating, and
shoddy everywhere. And yet the clergy
has sen all this grow up in absolute indit-
ference. Many hundieds of sermons have
I heard in England on the divine mission of
the clergy, on bishops,and on justification,
and the theory of good works, and verbal
inspiration, aud the efficacy of the sacra-
ments; but during all these thirty wonder-
ful years, never one that I canrecollect on
common honesty."
My hearer, what are you doing with that
fraudulent document in your pocket? My
other hearer, how are you getting along
with that wicked scheme you have now on
foot? Is that a “‘pool ticket” you haye in
your pocket? Why, O young man, were
you last night practicing in eopying your
employer's signature? Where were you
last night? Are your habits as good as
when you left your father’s house? You
had a Christian ancestry, perhaps, and you
have had too many prayers spent on you to
go overboard, Dr. Livingstone, the famous
explorer, was descended from the High-
landers, and he said that one of his ances-
tors. one of the Highlanders, one day ealled
his family around him. The Highlander
was dying; he had his children around his
death-bed. Hesaid: “Now, my lads, I have
looked all through our history as far back
as I can find it, and I have never found a
dishonest man in all the line, and I want
vou to understand you inherit good blood.
¥ou have no excuse for doing wrong. My
lads, be honest.”
h, my friends, be honest before God, be
honest before your fellow-men, be honest
before your soul. If there be those who
have wandered away, come back, come
home, come now, one and all, come into
the Kingdom of God.
I am glad some one has set to musie that
scene in August, 1831, when a young girl
saved from death a whole rail train of pas-
sengers. Some of you remember that out
West in that year on a stormy night a hur-
ricane blew down part of a railroad bridge.
A freight train came along and it crashed
into the ruin, and the engineer and con-
ductor perished. There was a girl living
in her father’s cabin, near the disaster, and
she heard the crash of the freight train,
and she knew that .in a few moments an
express was due. She lighted a lantern
and elambered up on the one beam of the
wrecked bridge on to the main bridge, which
was trestle work, and started to cross amid
the thunder and the lightniug of the tem-
pest,and the raclng of the torrent beneath.
One misstep and it would have been death.
Amid all that horror the lantern went out.
Crawling sometimes, and sometimes walk-
ing over the slippery rails, and over the
trestle work, she came to the other side of
the river. She wanted to get to the tele-
graph station, where the express train did
not stop, so that the danger might be
telegraphed to the station where the train
did stop. The train was due ina few min-
utes. She was one mile off from the tele-
graph station, but fortunately the train
was late. With cut and bruised feet she
flew like the wind. Coming up to the tele-
graph station, panting with almost deadly
exhaustion, she had only strength to
shout, “The bridge is down!” when she
dropped unconscious, and could hardly be
resuscitated. The message was sent from
that station to tne next station, and the
train halted, and that night that brave girl
saved the lives of hundreds of ‘passengers,
and saved many homes from desolation.
But every street is a track, and every style
of business is a track, and every day is a
track, and every night is a track, and mul-
titudes under the power of temptation
come sweeping on and sweeping down to-
ward perils raging and territic. God help
us to go out and stop the train! Let us
throw some signal. Let us give some
warning. By the throne of God let us
flash some influenes to stop the downward
progress. Beware! Beware! The bridge
is down, the chasm is deep, and the light-
nings of God set all the night of sin on fire
with this warning: “He that, being often
reproved, hardeneth his neck, shall sud-
denly be destroyed, and that without rem-
edy.” 3
THE SHBBHTSCADOL LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR SEPTEMBER I I.
T.esson Text * Sinful Indulgence,”” Amos
vi., 1-8=Golden Text: Isaiah xxviii.,
T=—Commentary on the Lesson by the
Rev. D. M. Stearns.
1. “Come and let us return unto tha
Lord. for He hath torn and He will heal us;
He hath smitten and He will bind us up.”
The topic of this lesson is “Sinful Indul-
gence,” and it is assigned as the quarterly
temperance lesson. It is possible that the
committee meant the first eight verses of
chapter vii., for there is a reference in
verse 5 to bottles of wine. But we shall in
our meditation upon these verses consider
the book as a whole and thus gather what
we can of the mind of the Lord. Hosea in
Israel was contemporary with Isaiah in
Judab. as will appear by comparing Isa. i,
with Hos. i., 1. The great sin of both
Judah and Israel was that of turning away
from the Lord, as is simply stated in Jer.
ii., 13, and God’s constant ery to them was
that they should turn to Him again. See
Jor. ili; 1, 7, 12, 14,22; iv., 1, ste... This
Hosea urges them to do in the first
verse of our lesson, identifying himsell
with them in their sins, as did all the
prophets. typifying our Lord Jesus, whe
took our sins upon Him that He might
save us. See Dan. ix.. 5, 6, 8, etc., and Il
Cor. v., 21; 1 Pet. ii., 24. i
2. “After two days will He revive us,
in the third day He will raise us up, and wa
shalt live in His sight.” Ali prophecy is
full of a glorious future for Israel when
their sins shall be blotted out, and they
shall be a righteous nation before God in
the midst of the earth (Isa. Ix., 21; Jer.
xxxl., 33,34). In Ezek. xxxvii., 12,13, and
Dan. xii., 1, 2, this restoration of Israel is
associated with resurrection. It is possible
that in this verse there is a looking back to
Isaac being given back to Abraham on the
third day, a looking forward to the resur-
rection of Christ on the third day and to
the restoration of Israel two days or 2000
years after thelr scattering. Note also the
references to the third day in the life and
in the teaching of our Lord and take as a
constant prayer ‘“‘That I may know Him
Phd ine power of His resurrection” (Phil.
iy MY
3. *Then shall we know if we follow on
to know the Lord; His going forth is pre-
pared as the morning.” It is written in
John vii., 17, “If any man will do His will,
he shall know.” There must be a forget:
ting and a pressing on if we would know
Him (Phil. {if., 13). Israel grew weary ol
Him and of His teachings and guidings, and
they left off to take heed tothe Lord, forgot
His law, joined themselves to idols and
dealt treacherously against the Lord
(chapters iv., 6, 10; v., 4. 7). All intemper.
ance in meat or drink or in the pleasures
or occupations oflife is due to a lack of the
knowledge of God. His coming in glory,
Ful f0ouhtioss included in His ‘going
orth as the morning’’ isthe purifying hope
of John iii., 3. 2 P Fingaor
4. ‘‘O Ephraim, what shall I do untc
thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee?
For your goodness is as a morning cloud
and as the eariy dew it goeth away.’” Eph-
raim stands for Israel, the ten tribes. God
tried every way to win them, but their
piety was transient as a morning cloud dis-
persed by the rising sun (xiii., 3). They
gried unto the Lord, even howled upon
their bods, but {it was not with their heart,
and when they assembled themselves, ap-
parently to worship God, it was really for
corn and wine or in other words, to eat and
drink for their own pleasure (chapter vii.,
14). They did not know that the Lord gave
them their corn and wine and silver and
gold which they used upon Baal.
5. “Therefore have I hewed them by the
prophets; I have slain them by the words
of my mouth, and Thy judgments are as
the light that goeth forth,” They consid-
ered not that all their doings were before
God’s face (vii., 2), and that He saw their
divided heart (x., 2). Through the proph-
ets by His word, which is like a fire and a
hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces
(Jer xxiii., 29), He had sought to break
their pride and their rebellion, but their
doings would not suffer them to turn unto
their God (chapter v,, 4, margin). Many
know what they ought to do and know of
God’s love to thom and claims upon them,
but they stop their ears and harden their
hearts and prefertheir pleasures of sin for
a season. They will not believe that as
they sow so shall they reap, and they that
sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind
(chapter viii., 7).
6. ‘For I desired mercy and not saerifice,
and the knowledge of God more than burnt
offering.” Sacrifice was instituted when
God in mercy gave to man redemption gar-
ments (Gen. iii.; 21), thus foreshadowing
the sacrifice on Calvary wherein was mani-
fest the groat love of God to sinners. God
desires not sacrifice, for the bicod of bulls
and goats cannot take away sin (Ps. x1., 6;
li., 16; Heb. ix., 12). He does not ask gifts nor
religious favors from those who fancy them-
selves righteous, but He desires to give re-
demption freely, by the sacrifice. of Him-
self, to all who will receive Him. When we
learn to know God and His love and His
way, wenever think to offer Him anything
to win His favor or in any way propitiate
Him, hut accepting His propitiation, Jesus
Christ our Lord, we yield ourselves to Him
a living and will sacrifize, bought by His
blood.
7. “But they, like Adam (margin), have
transgressed the covenant: there have they
dealt treacherously against Me.” On
God’s part all is perfect; perdiect love and
grace and faithfulness for the undeserv-
ing. The break and the failure are alway’s
upon man’s part. Yet God changes not;
He abideth faithful and is ever the same
(Mal. iii., 6). Although they were guiity
of all manner of sin as recorded in the next
chapter and elsewhere, yet His cry to
them was, ‘‘O Israel, return unto the Lord
thy God; I will heal their backsliding; I
will love them freely’ (chapter xiv. 1, 4).
8. ‘‘Gilead is a eity of them thal work
iniquity, and is polluted with blood.”
Gilead was noted: for its spices (Gen.
xxxvii., 25; Jer. viii., 22), but now it was
anything but a pleasant odor to God.
Even the priests were full of iniquity, as
stated in the next verse, and yet they
sought to cover up their iniquity by their
sacrifices as if God could not read their
heart. God will receive a sinner, however
great hissins, if only the sinner will con-
fess his sins and turn from them to God.
“Only aeknowledge thira iniquity; turn,
O backsliding children,” ure His entreaties
to His erring people (Jer. iii., 13, 14). With
cords of a man and bands of love (Hos. xi.,
4), even His great love in the man that is
His fellow (Zech. xiii., 7) did God seek to
draw this people to Himself. If only we
can be broken down to see our own helpy
lessness and nothingness and in our weaksy
ness take holl of His strength, all will b$
well.—Lesson Helper.
The largest kitchen in the world is’
in that great ‘Parisian store. the Bon
Marche, which has 4,000 employes. The
emallest kettle contains 100 quarts and
the largest 500. Each of the fifty
roasting pans is big enough for 500
cutlets. Each dish for baking potatoes
holds 225 pounds. When omelets are
on the hill of fare, 7,800 eggs are used
at once. For cooking alone 60 cooks
and one hundred assistants are always
at the ranges.
The golden rcse which the Pope gives
every year toaroyal. lady distinguished
for loyalty both to the Pope and to the
Church of Rome is made of pure gold,
and is valued at $10.000, There is a
golden rose on the center, in which the
Pope pours balsam. this being sur-
rounded with smaller rosebuds and
leaves, all of the purest gold, and chis-
eled with éxuuisite workmanskhin.
~ Rodgers,
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED
CARELESS SHOOTING.
Ball Misses the Targst and Kills a Girl at a County
Fair.
A deplorable accident happened at
the Parker fair at Butler one day iast
week. Among the side attractions
there was a shooting gallery. Anna
Kelley, aged 14 years, was with some
friends standing a little distance in the
rear of the target. which was protect-
ed by a board blind,” when someone
who was shooting missed it. The ball
passed through the crack between two
boards of the blind and struck the girl
in the back of the head. She was heard
to exclaim, “Oh!” as she sank to the
ground, and never spoke afterward.
Death resulted in ten minutes. The
name of the person who fired the fatal
shot is not known, as he laid down the
gun and walked away.
The following pensions were issued
last week: William P. Murray, Cal-
lensburg, Clarion, $8; Albert Sadler,
Turtle Creek, $8; Thomas B. Young,
Strattonville, $6; John CC. Johnson,
Emporium, $6; Levi. Enock, Allen,
Cumberland, $8; William H. Davis,
New Kensington, $8; William H.
Soldiers’ home, Erie, 38;
Joseph Corbin, Hollidaysburg, $10;
George W. Neff, Altoona, $8: Robert FE.
Templeton, Mariontown, Indiana, 36;
Shannon Witherite, Marion, Clearfield,
$6: Samuel Hartzell (dead), Island,
Clinton, $8 to $12; Baltzer Decker, Har-
risonville, Fulton, $15 to $20; Daniel E.
Taylor, Bendersville, $8 to $12; Henry
M. Calkins, Mainsburg, Tioga, $8; Ar-
villa E. Hartzell, Island, Clinton, 3$§;
Clara A. "landers, Osceola, Tioga, $3;
Nannie J. Perry, Grove City, $8; Susan
Burkhart, Eutaw, Washington, $8;
William H. Boyd, Allegheny, $8; David
Craft, Phillipsburg, $8; William
Craven, Emporium, $2 to $8: William
Patterson, dead, Washington, $8;
J.afayette Jaques, 'Tryonville, Craw-
ford, $8; Jesse J. Nichols, dead, Beg
Run, Jefferson, $6 to $8; Jackson All-
shouse, Wilmerding, $6; Benjamin
Vann, Allegheny, $6 to $8; August
Griecke, Costello, Potter, $8 to $12;
John A. Bash, Shiremastown, Cumber-
land. $16 to $17; Josiah E. Lyon, Coyie-
ville, Butler, $6 to $10; Martha M.
Nichols, Big Run, $8; Klizabeth C.
Rentz, Carnegie, $8; Martha Hutzon,
Braddock, $12.
During a riot among foreign miners
at Mt. Carmel, the other night, Mrs.
David Jones died from excitement, and
Chief of Police Nicholas Morgan was
badly used up. The foreigners were
making a great racket, and the Chief
tried to clear them out, as they greatly
disturbed Mrs. Jones, who lay sick.
The gang pounced upon him, and he
was soon knocked senseless. Police
came to their Chief's rescue, and nine
of the rioters were arrested. The sick
woman died while the fight was in
progress.
Alexander Eicher, of Greensburg,
with the Tenth Regiment at Manila,
writes that there is a fortune there for
a shrewd Yankee vender of cheap re-
volvers and watches. The natives are
particularly anxious to gain posses-
sion of revolvers and fabulous prices
are being paid for them. Forty del-
lars has been offered for an ordinary
revolver. A cheap yellow watch sells
for as much as a gold one.
At Greensburg, a few days ago,
George Maxwell, convicted in the crim-
inal court of assault and robbery, ‘was
sentenced to the penitentiary for five
vears. John Blenick pleaded guilty ta
a charge of robbery and. was sent to
jail for eight months. Albert Mcadows
pléaded guilty to robbing the Balti-
more and Ohio station at West Newton
and was sent to jail for four months.
The amount of life insurance carried
by Henry M. Myers of the H. M. My-
ers Company, who died recently at
Beaver Falls, will aggregate fully
$125,000. Most of it is in stock compa-
nies, but some in beneficial organiza-
tions. Mr. Myers took out $20,000 orly
a few weeks ago.
The body of Mrs. Frances Campbell,
wife of a prominent merchant of Ittis-
burg, was found floating in the Sus-
auehanna river at Sunbury last week.
She had been despondent over the
death of a two-year-old daughter, and
had often threatened to take her life.
For stealing a ton of iron grate bars
Henry Fortuno, of Philadelphia, is
locked up in jail at Norristown. He
was driving off with it from Thomas
Lynch’s brickyard when Mr. Lynch
overhauled him and took him before
Magistrate Lenhardt.
Driving along on a. load
Charles Bitting, farmer for Dr.
G. Mensch, of Pennsburg, was jolted
from his seat and fell upon his neck,
rupturing a. blood vessel. Death
sulted almost instantly.
Alice, the 4-year-old daughter
George Peck, of Chambersburg, wan-.
dered from home on Thursday morn-
ing last and was found three days af-
ter standing on a ‘large rock in the
mountains unhurt.
The strike at the
of hay,
James
re-
of
Dickson Manufac-
turing Company's CHff works, at
Scranton, has been adjusted in favor
of the boilermakers, riveters and heat-
ers, and the entire force has resumed
work.
Horse thieves attempted to get away
with a valuable horse owned by Samuel
Mowery, south of Greenville. The
horse became unmanageable, kicked
the buggy to pieces and returned home.
Bass Ecker, one of the principals in
the torture and robbery of J. WW. Pat-
terson and his aged mother, near
Greensburg,” was last week sentenced
to 12 vears in the penitentiary.
Seven Scranton. merchants, charged
with violations of the Pure Food law,
will be prosecuted in Court by Agent
Summers because they failed to com-
ply with an alderman’s decision.
John 1. Swink of Pittsburg has
brought suit at Youngstown against
the Pittsburg & Lake Erie railroad for
$25,000 damages for injuries received
alighting from a train.
Awakened by smoke, Adam W. Ditz-
ler and family fled from their burning
home, at Murray Station, I.ebanon
County, just in time to escape being
caught under the falling roof.
Attempting to jump on the safety
car on Mount Pisgah plane, Mauch
Chunk, Hugh Conaghan, of Summit
Hill, fell under the wheels, and lost a
leg and a hand.
Mrs. Reed, wife of Rev. G. M. Reed,
of Newville, is seriously ill with ery-
sipelas, the result of an insect bite,
which produced blood poisoning.
While his mother’s back was turned
the infant son of A. W. Sausser, of
Easton, upset a crock full of boiling
« water over himself and was scalded to
death.
Joseph Wagner, aged 15, while at-
tempting to board a freight train near
Williamsport, had his legs so badly
mangled that they had to be ampu-
tated.
Mrs. George R. Starbird, the wife of
a prominent citizen of Wilkesbarre,
fell from a trolley car at Kingston
Monday and was instantly killed.
Fifty more recruits for thé United
States Artillery service left Hazelton
for Fortress Monroe, making nearly
100 sent from that city in a week.
‘up the moment IT wake!
SPANISH SOLDIER'S LETTER HOME.
You sent us away with idle prastie
To conquer “‘a gang of thievea,’
Whose legious would flee in the bast of the
battle .
Like Autumn's withered leaves:
Their rough riders fought where they could
not see,
Their legions know not how to flee,
They hurled us into eternity,
With ne'er a chance to pray!
List to the men who fought amain,
Who saw their comrades die in vain,
Hearken to us!
And ere you sail across the seas, with dreams
of glorious victories,
Ere you leave the old, old sod,
Take your baby on your knee, kiss your
wife full tenderly,
Make your final peace with God.
You sent us to fight a bloodless nation,
Of other nations the less;
The dregs and wash of all creation,
The *‘drift” from across the seas.
We came. We met them on the field,
They charged us till our columns reeled,
They crushed us and we had to yield.
You warned us to die, and not surrender,
You swore before the Lord
The ‘‘Yankee pigs’’ would deem it tender
To put us to the sword.
You told us that! Caramba! you lied.
They raised us up, else we had died,
They laid us tenderly side by side
With their own boys in blue!
—New York Sun,
HUMOROUS,
‘‘Are the boxes in the opera house
in tiers?” ‘‘No; but the people who
pay for them are.”
“How did Jessop feel when the sur-
geons found it wasn’t appendicitis?”
‘A good deal cut up.”
Mother—What was going on in the
parlor last night, Madge? Madge
(slyly) —Only the engagement ring,
ma.
Staylait—I’'m a man with a good
deal of go. She(wearily)—I shouldn’t
have believed it if you had not told
me.
“Will you marry me?’ ‘‘I am al-
ready engaged to four men.” ‘But
you can marry only one, you kuow.
Let me be the one.”
‘““There’s a bonnet,” said the editor's
wife, ‘‘that is a perfect poem.”
‘“Yes,” he replied absent-mindedly,
‘but we never pay for poetry.”
Hardluk—My life reminds me of
the career of a golfball. Feltz—Why?
Hardluk—Because I am helped out of
one hole only to get into another.
He—And she gave me one of those
sweet little curls she wears. Now
will you believe she loves me? She—
Oh, she must. Those curls cost her
$1.78 each.
Gentleman (looking into the apart-
ment of musical composer)—Excuse
me, does Mr. Secretary Meyer live
here? Musician—No; he lives an oc-
tave higher.
Cholly—Ethel Knox told me last
night I wasn’t over half-witted. Su-
sie—I shouldn’t feel badly about
that; she never did know anytling
about fractions.
““T have heard that she walks in her
sleep,” said the gossip. ‘‘Indeed!”
returned Mrs. Parvenue scornfully.
‘So common,isn’t it? I should think
she would ride.”
Greymair — My
thoughtful woman.
mine.
things she thinks about me if I hap-
pen to be detained down town.
wife is such a
Betterhaws—So’s
“My dear,” said a fond wife, ‘‘when
your last letter under my pillow.”
“And I,” murmured her husband, ‘I
often went to sleep over your letters.”
Little Pitcher— Uncle John
you are awfully smart, I guess. Miss
Poesie—How do you know he does,
Johnny? Little Pitcher
could not be very hard work for you
to write poetry.
He (looking at the water)—Here's
the swell of the steamer;
will soon be here. She (looking land-
ward)— Oh, he doesn’t belong to the |
steamboat; he’s a clerk at the dry
goods store uptown.
First Sunday School Scholar—How |
far have you got in the question book? |
We've got as far as ‘Original sin.”
Second Sunday School Scholar—Ob, |
long ago. We are
’
we got by that
“Past redemption.
His Wife—How in the world will
you ever catch that first morning
train? Her Husband—Why, T'll get
His Wife—
But, my dear, you'll have to get up
much earlier than that,
She stamped Ler foot. ‘‘Look at
me in the eye.” she commanded.
complied. “Thirty dollars, please,
he observed, after a moment, A
’
faintness came over her as she remem- |
bered that he was an oculist.
Fedwell —There was a surprise at
Jumson’s house last night. Gabson
—Friends presented him with some-
thing valuable, I suppose? Fedwell
—No; the peopli3 who were going to
surprise him with a gold watch didn’t
show up.
Biggins—So yon are a victim of in-
somnia? What do you take for it?
Wiggins—Oh, anything that comes to
hand; sometimes an empty bottle,
sometimes a hairbrush or bootjack. 1t
is the cats’ insomnia I'm the victim of,
you know.
Biggs—1I see you have that servant
girl we used to huve. She has such
an awful temper that 1 don’t see how
you manage to get along with her.
Diggs—Oh, that’s easy enough. We
manage her by letting her manage
everything else.
“I tell you,” cried Nupop enthusi-
astically, ‘‘that baby of mine is a
wonder. © Think of it, only eight
months old and can talk!’ ‘‘Pshaw,”
remarked his friend carelessly, ‘‘I’ve
known some men that cursed the day
they were born.”
. Social Prestige.
“What is a parvenu?”’
““That’s what the man who got rich
ten years ago calls the man who got
rich yesterdas.’’--Chicazo Record.
You couldn’t imagine all the
! i a month, usually one of
we were engaged I always slept with |
| Which have
| plains part
thinks |
| great
He said it!
| tions amounting to a milli
| option is
ry
He |
| and
I price.
THE MARKETS,
PITTSBURG.
Grain, Flour and Feed.
WHEAT-No. 1 red.
No. 2 red
CORN-—No. 2 yellow, ear
No. 2 yellow, shelled
Mixed oar. rrr
OATS—No. 2 white
No. 3 white
RYE—No. 1
FLOUR—Winter patents
Faucy straight winter
Terry
HAY —No. 1 timothy........
Clo cer, No. 1 Fa.
FE i.)—No. 1 white mid., ton
Brawn middlings
Bran, bulk
8 "RAW-—Wheat.
bd pt
CS ON ON = Ot OC OD 0 Ck Me
Dairy Products
BUTTER Elgin creamery
Ohio creamery
Fancy country roll
CHEESE-—Ohio, new
New York, new
Fruits and Vegetables,
BEANS-—Green, © bu....
POTATOES—White, ® bbl
CABBAGE—Per bbl
ONIONS—Choice yellow, # bu.
3 Poultry, Etc.
CHICKENS—Per pair, small... 8
TURKEYS—Per Ib
EGGS
40
50@
14
Pa. and Ohio, fresh.... 13
CINCINNATI °
FLOUR.... .3310@ 3
WHEAT-—No. 2 red
CORN —Mixed
OATS
EGC
PHILADELPHIA.
ELOGR., ....... 0 Gr eaniree ® 3 75@ 4
WHEAT--No. 2 red 68
CORN—No. 2 mixed
OATS-—No. 2* whit
-Crenmery, extra. ...
EGGS—Pennsylvania firsts...
NEW YORK.
FLOUR Patents
WHEAT--No.
CORN-—No. 2
BUTTER Creamery...
EGGS-—-State of Penn
Central Stock Yards, East Liberty, Pa.
CATTLE.
Prime, 1300 to 1400 ths.
Good, 1200 to 1300 Ibs
Tidy, 1000 to 1150 tbs
Fair light steers, 900 to 1000 ths
Common, 700 to 200 ths.... ...
8 510w b
4 9% 50%
475 49
423 4
37 © 4
Medium 4 12
4 10
34)
toughs and stags
SHEEP.
{ Prime, 95 to 105 Ibs
Good, 85t090-I1bs; ..........
Fair, 70 to 80 tbs
Common.....
Spring lambs
TRADE REVIEW.
The Largest Wheat Crop Will be Earvested -Demana
for Iron Froducas a Rise in Prics.
R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of
trade reports as follows fur last week:
The smallest failures ever recorded in
any month for five years were those of
August. No other month since the
monthly reports were commenced by
Dun’'s review exclusively has shown
defaulted liabilities as small - within
$1,000,000 and the ratio of such defaults
to solvent business, represented by
| exchanges through all clearing houses
only: $108.70 in $100,600, is smaller by 26.5
per cent than in any previous montn.
The clearings having been the largesc
ever known in August, and 23.0 per
cent larger than in 1892.
The enormous volume of business in
the most inac-
tive of the year, demands attention.
Postponement during ths months of
war of some contracts and purchases
now come forward
of the increase and
strong absorption of securities
plains part, but there i also been a
decline in the average of prices
for all commodities, so that it takes
a much larger volume of business in
tons or bushels to mak: up transac-
in more than
true
ex-
in. 1892. ‘It is therefore
| that business is larger that
the boat |
and ye ere is
1mn-
best of all past years,
every prospect of much further:
crease,
There is no room to doubt that the
wheat crop, even though it may fall a
shade below some estimates, will prove
the largest ever . harvested, and al-
though Beerbohm estimates: Europe's
crop at 232,000,000 bushels more than
the last, that would be about an
average yield, while other evidence is
less favorable. Foreign buying has
strong, that Atl exports
the week have been 85.326,81%
against 5,534,758 bushels last
vear, and = Pacific exports, 458.881
bushels, against 252.651 bushels. last
But receipts at the West are
wing, and the price has dropped
5 cents for spot, though the September
«ec lower for the eek.
The improvement in the iron indus-
not only continued, but be-
more impressive because, after
enormous buving of materials has sat-
istied the nevds of great consumers
months to come, the demand for pro-
ducts is great that both materials
products gradually advance in
Bessemer pig has risen to $1055
at Pittsburg, local coke at Chicago
and anthracite foundry at the East are
strong, and also bars and plates ad-
vance a shade, with most structural
and plate mills filled with orders for
months to come, and 25,000 tons rails
scld at Chicago for delivery next vear.
The advance in tin plates, in spite of
production far greater than was
thought possible not long ago, is evi-
dence that the consumption of steel in
that branch will be heavy. The wire
nail”works also report a better de-
mand, and the output of Connellsville
coke has started up, gaining 10,000
tons for the week.
The woolen mills have rather batter
crders this week, but not enough as
vet to warrant running nearly [uil
force, with the price of wool held at
the West much above eastern mar-
kets, and by the markets about 1 cent
higker than the mills are bidding. In
cotton manufacture there is better de-
mand with a sixteenth in print
cloths, though brown sheetings are a
shade lower, the demand for other
goods being still fairly strong.
Failures for the week have been 171
in the United States. against 191 last
vear, and 22 in Canada, against 25 last
year.
oniy
has
comes
i0Y
[0
rise
Insurgents Bsizing Islands.
Several shipleads of Philippine in-
surgent troops have invaded the south-
ern islands, with the view of seizing
everything possible prior.to the settle-
ment of the peace conditions. General
Rios, the Spanish commander, with a
flotilla of gunboats, is acting energet-
ically,