Ttaly has given up her scheme for building $104,000,000 worth of wav- She had unfortunately over- fact that ships. looked the important she hadn't the price. wheat The average yield of pel acre in France lias been steadily in- creasing for seventy years, until now it is one of the highest in the world, There is a lesson in agriculture which United States heed with profit. even the might Steadily American ideas of liberty are invading the sacred precinets of Great Britain. Mill operatives in Lancashire, England, struck because they were not permitted to shut up shop aud attend the Barnum cirens, which is touring Great Britain. 141 attie- By the launching of the new 1 ship Illinois one of the five warships 11,525 tons is placed in the water, to be fol- of the same displacement of lowed by the Wisconsin, there having been already lanuched the Kearsarge, The some Indiana, Mas- by over 1200 and the Adabama, ds the and the and Oregon the Kentucky Illinois lowa by etia scores of tons, sachusetts [1linois will not be quite as thick as that first three battleships, but it will be of better quality and of a greater re- tons. The armor of the of our sisting power. It will be seen, there- fore, that the Illinois forms a splen- did addition to the navy, and will add materially to its efliciency. The lack of education which pre- vails in Spain is something astonish= ing. Any knowledge of modern lan- onages and of contemporary history is extremely rare among even statesmen, courtiers, politicians’ and journalists, When the troduced teleorams, it covernment of Sagasta in- the censorship of foreign could tind no censor who understood (rerman, and hence it de- cided fo without transmit German messages examination, while identical messazes written in French were often suppr ssed. This lack of education, particularly iu the men who hold the destinies of the nation, could not fail to have its ill effect; and it is to this source that those terrible calamities may be traced which have reduced the Spanish people from being the greatest empire of Europe to their sad condition of today. The supreme conflict of the nations in the twentieth ¢entury is to be one of trade, observes the New York Mail and Express. A people ineapable of keeping pace with the new era of co mercial expansion and colonial goy- ernment must sink steadily in influ- Spain has lost her colonies, eee, and her commercial importance has dwindled vastly. in consequence. France has displayed the limit of her | $ | off, Malagascar, 10 colonial aptuess in and it is so disconrazing as little of lasting value in either Clen- tral Africa or Southern China, when compared with the accomplishment of | !* ] 3 f i | himself will someti: other powers. Italy's fiasco in Last Africa, in her Abyssinian ambition, dealt a death blow to her for In the similarity the eign Pros- pects. which ex- mfluences of isted in intellectual governing the early literature Italy found the root of deterioration which France, ; these nations experience in common today. but current which is Latin, and, therefcre 3 a national stream merely, in all-embracing in Southern Europe. with ifs conse A fire, courthouse at (quences, Easton, Md., recently, furnishes a hint for the novelist or the dramatist. To eonnteract the damp- ness in the vault of the probate court It lected, with the result that an oil stove was lighted. wis neo- fire was communicated to some unfiled and nun- recorded papers, which were charred of papers was the will of a late resident of St. Michael’s, who, for re disclosed, had ‘“‘eut off” his only child, $10, beyond recognition. One these ons not with bequeathing to the a daughter, the bulk of his small Methodist Episcopal church in his village. By this fire the condition, according to the law, was the same as if the St. Michael's citizen had neglected to make a will, and all of his property will revert to his next of kin, the daughter, who is traveling in the far West, as the rep- resentative of a Baltimore. uncle in the case, who deposited the will in the estate accident of commercial firin in There is an court, and who was by: the will, made the de- This uncle can eas ly be con- heir to the favorite horse of ceased. verted by the novelist into a wicked and scheming relative, the modest es- tate can be multiplied many fold, the quality of attractiveness cau be given to the daughter, the once necessary honest wooing can be added, and the book is ready for the publisher | question so that you shali be able sately to say," | vou know the rea | one ronnie | promise | oy; i tral line of 6000 years but has somehow | all things | HSK. Spain and Portugal is | Present decadence runs not in | a | ‘to their patients’ convalescence, and ar- I in the | 0, THMRGES SURDAY SERND: A GOSPEL MESSAGE. Subject: “Divine Direction’ — Advice Aimed to Cheer Those Who Feel They Have No Especial Mission in the World —Iollow God’s Guidance. Text: ‘“To this end was I born.’’—John xviii. 87 After Pilate had snicided, tradition says that his body was thrown into the Tiber, and such storms ensued on and about that river that his body was taken out and thrown into the Rhone, and similar dis- turbances swept that river and its banks. Then the body was taken out and moved to Lausanne, and put in a deeper pool, which immediately became the centre of similar atmospheric and aqueous disturbances. Though ‘these are fanciful and false traditions, they show tlie execration witn which the world looked upon Pilate. It was before this man when he was in full life and power that Christ was arraigned asin a court of oyer and terminer. Pilate said to his prisoner, ‘Art thou a king, then?’ and Jesus answered, “To this end I was born.” Sure enough, although all ‘earth and hell arose to keep Him down, He is to-day empalaced, enthroned and eoroneted King of earth and King of heaven - That is what He camerfor, and that is what He accomplished. Dy the time a child reaches ten years of age the parents begin to discover that child’s destiny, but by the time he or she reaches fifteen yenre of age the question is on the -child’s lips: “What shall I do? What am I going to be? What was I made for?” It is a sensible and righteous ques- tion, and the vouth ought to keep asking it until it is so faliy answered that the young man, or young woman, can say with as much truth as its author, though on a less expansive scale; “To this end was I horn.” ! There is too much divine skill shown in the physical, mental and moral constitu- tion of the ordinary human being to sup- pose that he was constructed without any divine purpose. If you take me out of some vast plain and show m9 a pillared temple surmounted by a dome like St. Peter's, and having a floor of precious stones and arches that must have taken the brain of the greatest draftsman to design and walls scrolled and niched and paneled and wainscoted dnd painted, and I should ask you what this building was put up for, and vou answered, ‘‘For nothing at all,” how could I believe you? And it is impos- sible for me to believe that any ordinary human being who has in his muscular, nervous and cerebral organization more wonders than Christopher Wren lifted in St. Paul's, or Phidias ever chiseled on the Acropolis and built in such a way that it shall last long after St. Paul’s Cathedral is as much a ruin as tho Parthenon—that such a being was cons:ructed for no other purpose and to execute no mission and without any divine intention toward some end. The object of this sermon is to help vou find out what you are made [or and help vou find your sphere and assist you into that condition where you cansay certainty and emphasis and enthu and triumph, “To this end was 1 born. First, I diccharge you from all responsi- bility for most of your environments. You are not respongible for your parentage or grandparentage. You are not responcible for any of the cranks that may have lived in your ancestral line and who, 100 years before you wers born, may have lived a style of life that more or less affects vou to-day. You are not responsible for the fact that your temperament is sanguine or melancholic or bilious or lymphatic or nervous. Neither are you respons.ble for the place of your nativity, whether among the granite hills of New England or the cotton plantations of Louisiana or on the banks of the Clyde or the Dneiper or the Shannon or the Seine... Neither are you TERY iirle for the religion taught in your fatner’s house, or the irreligion. Do not bother yourself about what you can- not help ora circumstances that you did not decree. "Cake things as they are and decide the fo this end was I born.” How will vou decide it? + By direct application to the only Being in the universe who is com- patent to tell you-—-the Lord Almighty. Do son why He is the only who: cai tell? Beczuse He ean see everything between your cradle and youn grave, though the ve be eighty years and besides He is the only Being who ean what. has been happening in “the last 30) years ‘i ancestral line, . and for thou ol years .'clear ‘back to Adam. there is not one person in all that ancees- that see and even old Adam turn up in your dis- Tho only Being who can take hat pertain to you into consid- eration is God, and He is the one you can Life is so short we have no time to experiment with occupations and- profes- sions. ‘The reason we have so many dead failures is that parents decided for chil- dren what they shall do, or children them- selves, wrought on by some whim or fancy, decide for themselves, without any im- ploration of divine guidance, So we have 10w in pulpits men making sermons who ht to be in blacksmith shops making res, and we havein the law those who instead of ruining the cases of their clients ought to be pounding shoe lasts, and doctors: wha are the worst hindrances fected your character, position. ou plowsh tist= trving to paint landscapes who ought be whitewashing board fences, while i taneous pi Tsaae. So some of those who have beer characterized for stupidity in boyhood or girlhood have turned out the mighties: benefactors or benefactresses of the humatr race. These things being so am I not right in saying that in many cases God only knows what is the most appropriate thing for you to do, and He is Bh one to ask? And let all parents and all sehools and all universities and all colleges recognize this, and a large number of those who spent their best years in stumbling about busi- nesses and occupations, now trying this and now trying that, and failing in all, would be able to go ahead with a definite, de- cided and tremendous purpose, saying, “To this end was I born.” > But my subject now mounts into the momentous. Let me say that you are made for - usefulness and heaven. judge this from the way you are built: You go into a shop where there is only one wheel turning and that by a worlk- man’s foot on a treadle, and you say to vourself, “Here is something good being done, yet on a small scale,” but if you go into a factory covering manv acres aad vou find thousands of bands pulling on thou- sands of wheels and shuttles flying and the whole scene bewildering with activi- ties, driven by water or steam or electric power, you conclude that the factory was put up to do great work and on a vast scale. Now, I look at you, and if I should find that you bad only one faculty of body, only one muscle, only one nerve, if 3 could see but not.hear or could hear : not see, if you had the use of only one foot or one hand, and, as to your higher nature, if you had only one mental faculty and you had memory but no judgmeut or judgment but no will, and if you had a soul with only one capacity, I would say not much is expected of you. But stand up, O man, and let me look you squarely in the face! Ilyes capable of seeing everything. Ears capable of hearing everything. Hands capable of grasping everything. Minds with more wheels than any fac- tory ever turned, more power than any Corliss engine ever moved. A soul that will outlive all the universe except heaven. and would outlive all heaven if tbe life of the other immortals were a moment short cf the eternal. Now, what has -the worid a right to expect of you? What has God a right to demand of you? God is the great- est of economists in the universe, and He makes nothing uselessly, and for what pur- pose did He build your body, mind and soul as they are built? There are only two be- ings in tlre universe who can answer that question. The angels do not know. The schools do not know. Your kindred cannot certainly know. God knows, and you ought to know. A factory running at an expense of $500,000 a year and turning out goods worth seventy cents a year would not be such an incongruity as you. O man, with such semi-infinite equipment doing noth- ing, or next to nothing, in the way of use- fulness! ‘‘What shall I do?’ you ask. My brethren, my sisters, do not ask me. Asli God. There's some path of Christian use- fulness open. It may be a rough path or it may be mooth path, a long path or a short path. t may be on'a mount of con- spieuity or in a valley unobserved, but it is a path on which you can start with such faith and such satisfaction and such cer- tainty that you can cry out in the face of earth ard hell and heaven, “Lo this end 1 was born. You have examined the family Bible and explored the family records, and you may have seen daguerreotypes of some of the kindred of previous generations, you have had photographs taken of what you wera in boyhood or girlhood, and what you were ten years later, and it is very interesting to any one to be able to look back upon pic- tures of what he was ten or twenty or thirty years ago. But have you ever hada picture taken of what you may be and what you will be if you seek after God and feel the spirit’s regenerating power? Where shall I plant the camera to take the pic- ture? I plantiit on this platform. Idirect it toward you. Sit still or stand still while I take the picture. It shall be an instan- taneous picture. There! 1 have it. It is done. You can see the picture in iis im- perfect state and get some idea of what it will be when thoroughly developed. There is your resurrected body, so brilliant that the noonday sun is a pateh of midnigh: compared with it. There is your soul, so pure that all the forces of diabolism could not spot it with an imperfection. Taero is your being, so mighty and so swift that flight from heaven to Mercury or Mars or Jupiter and back again to heaven would not weary you, and a world on each shculder would not crush you. An eye taat shall never sied a tear. An energy that shali never feel a fatigue. A brow that shail never throb with pain. You are voung again, though you died of decrepi- tude. You well again, though you coughed or shivered yourself into the tomb, Your ¢veryday associates are the apostles and prophets and martyrs, and the most exalted souls, masculine and feminine, of all the centuries. Thearchangel to you ne embarrassment. God Himself your present and everlasting joy. That is an instan- ure of what you may, be and what I am sure some of you will ba. If you realizo that it is an imperfect pic- ture my apology is what the apostle John said, “It doth not yet appear what we shall be.” ‘To this end was I born.” It T did not think so I would be over- whelmed with melancholy. The world does very well for a little while, eighty or 100 or 150 years, and I think that human longevity may yet be improved up to that prolongation, for now there isso little room between our cradle and our grave we cannot accomplish mueh; but who would want to dwell in this world for a eternity? Some think. this earth will finally be turned into a heaven. Perhaps it m put it would have to undergo radical repairs and thorough eliminations and evolutions and revolu- ay are here are others making bricks who ought (0 be remodeling constitutions or shoving planes who ought to be transforming litera- mre Ask God about what worldly busi- | ness you shall unde until you Are so | positive yon ean in ¢ estness smite yqar | hand v plow handle, or your ecar-j ch, or your Blackstone’s *Com- vour medical dietionary, or vour Dr. Diek’s Didactic Theolozy ing. -For this end was'I born.” "There are | children who early develop natural affini- | ties for certain styles of work. When the | father of the astronomer Forbes was going to London he asked his children what present he should bring each one of them. The hoy who was to be an astronomer cried ] Jring me a telescope!” And there are children whom you find all by themselves drawing on their slates, or ‘on paper, ships, or houses, or birds, and you know they are tobedraftsmen orarchi- tects of some kind. And you find others ciphering out difficult problems with rare interest nnd success, and you know they are to be mathematicians. And others making wheels and strange contrivances, and you know they are going to be mach- inists. And others are found experiment- ing with hoe and plow and sickle, and yow® know they will be farmers. And others are always swapping jackknives or balls or bats, and making something by the bar- gain, and they are going to be merchants. When Abbe de Rance had so advanced in studying Greek that he could trotzlate Apacreon at twelve years of age, there was no doubt left that he was intended for a scholar. But in almost every lad -there comes a time when he does not know what he was made for, and his parents do not know, and it is a erisis that God only can decide, Then there are those born for gome especial work, and their fltness does not develop until quite late. When Philip Doddridge, whose sermons and tiooks have harvested uncounted souls for glory, began to study for the min- istry, ‘Dr. Calamy, one of the wisest and best men, advised him to turn his thoughts to some other work. Isaac Bar- row, the eminent clergyman and Christian scientist—his books standard now, though he has been dead over 200 years—was the disheartenment of his father, who used to gay that if it pleased God totake any of his or | and the world so fixed up tha tions and transformations infinite to mako it desirable for eternal residence. All the east winds would have to become west winds, and all the winters changed te springtides, and all the volcanoes extin- guished, and the oceans chained to their beds, and the epidemics forbidden entrance, t I think it would take more to repair this old world than to make an entirely new one. In the seventecnth century all Europe was threatened with a wave of Asiatic bar- barism and Vienna was especially be- sieged. The king and his court had fled and nothing could save the city from be- ing overwhelmed unless the king of Po- land, John Sobieski, to whom they had sent for help, should with his army come down for the relief, and from every roof and tower the inhabitants of Vienna watched nnd waited and hoped until on the morning of September 11 the rising sun threw an unusual and unparalleled brilliancy. It was the reflection of the sun on the swords and shields and helmets of John Sobieski and his army coming down ever the hills to the rescue, and that day net only Vienna, but Europe, was saved. And see you not, O ye souls ba- sieged with sin and sorrow, that light breaks in, the swords and the shields and the helmets of divine rescue bathed in the rising sun of heavenly deliverance? Let everything elso go rather than let heaven go. . What a strange thing it7must be to feel oneself born to an earthly erown, but you have been born for a. throne on which you may reign after the last monarch of all the ourth shall have gone to dust. I invite you to start now for your own coronation, to come in and take the title deeds to your overlasting inheritance. Through an im- passioned prayer, take heaven and all of its raptures. What a poor farthing is all that this world can offer you compared with pardon here and life immortal beyond the stars unless this side of them there be a place large enough and beautiful enough and grand enough for allthe ransomed! Wher- ever it be, in what world, whether near by or far away, in this or some other con- stollation, hail, home of light, and love and blessedness! Through the atoning merey children away he hoped it might be his son of Christ, may we all get there! Y (IE SEDBATH SCHOOL LESSOR INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR NOVEMBER 27. Temperance Lesson Text: Proverbs iv. 10-19—=Golden Text: “My Son, if Sin- ners Entice Thee, Consent Thou Not,’”? Proverbs i.,, 10—=Commentary. 10. “Hear, O my son, and’ receive my sayings, nnd the vears of thy life shall be many.” We may think of David address- ing Solomon (see verse 3), but it will he more profitable for us to receive the words as from God our Father to all who are His ahildren by faith in Christ Jesus. We may hear His words and not receive them, but when we hear and receive, or believe, for believing is receiving (John i., 12); we thus have life (John v., 24). It will make this teaching simple if when we read of wis- dom, as iny.rses 5, 7, ete., we toink of Him who is the wisdom of God (I Cor. i., 24, 301. In Jas. i.; 21, we are taught that the word inust be received with meekness. 11. “I have taught thee in the wav of wisdom: I have led thee in right paths.” Her ways are ways of pleasantness and all lier paths are peace (chapter iii., 17). “He always leads by a right way to our city. of habitation (Ps. evii., 7). He is the Way, und He is our Peace; when He puatteth forth His sheep, He goeth before, aud to follow Him is to go in perfect peace, for His will is always wisest, and His way is always best, ana in perfect acquiescence there is always perfect rest. Abide in His love. 12. <*When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened, and when thou runnest thou’ shalt not stumble.” There is no straitness with Him. His is an abundant way: abun@#it grace and glory; all our need supplied. according to His riches (Phil. iv., 19). Pbilip’s 200 pence would have given each of the 5000 a little, but our Lord's way was to fill them with as much as they desired (John vi., 1-12). When His people hearken unto Him and walk in His ways, He fills and satisfies them (Ps. Ixxxi., 10-16). He makes them to be satisfied with favor and full with the blessing of the Lord (Deut. xXxxiil. The blessing which maketh rich aad to whielk our toil addeth pothing (Prov. x., 22, R. ¥.). 13. “Take fast hold of Instruction, let her not go, keep her, for she is thy life.” She is a tree of life—life unto thy soul (ehapte- iii., 18, 22). By comparing text with text we get the unity of the Scriptures, the one- ness of thought, for all centers in Him who is our life (Deut. xxx., 20; Col. iii., To walk in His way and keep His command- ments is life and righteousness (Deut, 83; vi., 25), but He is the end of law righteousness toevery one that helieveth; 80 it is summed up in receiving and wi ing in Him (Rom. x., 4; Col. ii..6). Having received the word with meekness, the next thing is to hold it fast. for it is a faithful word (Titusi., 9; Rev. ii D by his servants questions 2 word of God, the believer sh hint to hold that portion firmly. -14. “Enter not into the path of the wicked and go not in the way of evil men.”’ Sineco the devil tempted Eve in the garden of Eden he has been ever seeking whom he may devour, and he seems to find multi- tudes willing to be devoured. 15. “Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it and pass away.” Be not deceived; evil communications corrupt good manners, Awake to righteousness and sin not, for some have not the knowleege of God (I Cor. xXv., 34). Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful (Ps. i, 1). If Eve had not stopped to look at the tree, the fruit of which she was forbidden to eat, she might not have fallen, If Achan had not looked upon the gold and the garment, he, too, might not have sinned. All that is not of God we must turn away from, lest wo fall into temptation. Looking unto Jesus is the only way to run our race. Be- holding the glory of the Lord is the way to become like Him. 16. “For they sleep not except they have done mischief, and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall.” To kill and to destroy, to give torment and anxiety, is their master’s business and theirs. They speak loftily, they set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth (Ps. xxiii; 8,9). David said concerning them, “They that seek my hurt speak mis- chievous things and imagine deceits all the day long” (Ps. xxxvili, 12). The Son of Man came-to- save,-not to destroy; He gives life and life abundant and joy and peace and glory. The followers of the devil are ever taking all they can get and give nothing real in return. The Son of God gave Himself for us and, bore ail the devil’s hate that He might redeem us from Lis power. : 17. “For they eat the bread of wicked- ness and drink the wine of violence.” Con- trast the bread and wine of Melehisedec in connection with the blessing of the Most High God, possessor of heaven and earth (Gen, xiv., 18, 19); also the bread and wine of the communion, representing our Lord’s body given for us and His blood shed for us that we, eating Him, might live by Him (John vi., 54, 57). The ungod- ly may besaid to live upon the flesh and blood of those whose downfall they ac- complish, but our Lord, by humbling Him- self unto death, gives His life to be oar life. He isthe bread from heaven. 18. “But the path of the just is as the shining Jight that shinethh more and more unto the perfect day.” He is the truly just one who suftered for our sins, the just for the unjust. He is the true light, the light ot the world, and as Heisincreasingly made known His light will shine more and more until He shall have gathered out of all nations His complete body, and after that He will come with all His saints the Sun of Righteousness, and then it will be the perfect day on all the earth, ushered in by the morning without clouds of Il Sam. xxiii., 3, 4 If we are justified by faith in Him, then, though our path may lead through many a dark valley as Joseph’s did, and David's and Jevemiali’s, it is ever leading on to the perfect day ot His kingdom when weshull be like Him, for we shall see Him as Heis, 19. **The way of the wicked is as dark- ness; they know not at what they stumble.” The wicked are children of the night and of darkness; they live in darkpess and when they die they go out into the outer darkness where is weeping and Vhen sq of the take the the more y bi ould all as there gnashing of teeth (I Thess. v., ¢, 5; Eph. v., 8; Math. xxv.,30). The Lord knoweth the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish (Ps. i., 6). Aschil- dren of light let us walkin the light, hav- ing no fellowship with the words of dark- ness, but trusting the Lord to so shine in us that many may be turned from dark- ness to light (II Cor. vi., 14; iv., 6). The righteous need not stumble (verse 12; Jude 24, R. V.), but the wicked, being blind, see not their stumbling blocks,—Lesscn Helper, It Was Such a Pleasure. Once, when Madame Nordica was singing at a concert in Texas, she for- got her warm overshoes. A cowboy, whom she had utterly fascinated, of- fered to bring them to her and did so, but he brought only one at a time. When Madame Nordica thanked him, and in her gracious way regretted to have given him so much trouble, he said to her, Don’t name it, ma'am. 1 wish you were a centipede.” Stockholm has an opera house which is said to be the finest in Europe, al- though others have a larger seating capacity. It took seven years to com- plete it and it cost more than $1,600,- 000. Private enterprises made the scheme possible, although the property hag already passed into the possession of the municipality. KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED | DEFENDED HIS MOTHER. Lad Seizes His Stebather's Revolver and Is Wounded In the Head—The Fatlver Was Pointing a Gun at His Wife, James Clements, of Philadelphia. who has not lived with his wife fo some time, the other day entered the grocery store: Kept by ‘Mrs. Clements, and was pointing a revolver at h when William Lindemayer d the arm of his step-father tand struggled Sez During the struggle (Cl charged the pistol twice, one of balls entering the heroic lad's causing a dangerous wound, the inflicting a slight wound in the hand his ‘brother who had his assistance. Clements left but was arre the minutes lat The following last week: Franklin, $12; John Franklin, istown, $2 Rochester Mills, Smith, East ( ments di the hea Oth George, come the Street A s1 pensions Hoch, Susan were granted Letterkenny, Brown. Oil City J Welst Levi -Br: Nathaniel S. $6 1 $10: Henry $ ‘harleston, Tioga, $10 $17; Adam Himes, Canister, Blair, Joel: H. ‘Betz, Altoona, to Morgan Morse; Mench, rfodd; $25 to $39: Charles Caskey. 1 : 36 to. 88: Eimmma Duchanan, Ashley, ames P . Mazepha, Thomas Muntz, Hoboken, Hiram _Goodnoe, ford, $12; Royal D. Wykeoff, Hammers- ley's Fork, to 38: Paniel -Braum gardner, Brookville, $16 to $17; Abra- ham Ik. Garrett, Mechanicsbul 36 to $8; Moses Haslett, Wolfburg, $17 to Lydia J. Sample, McKeesport, Mary Stoltz, Altoona; Martin Hammon, Cassville, © Huntingdon, Joseph M. Silvis. Eddyville, Armstrong $10 to $17: Jane Edmiston, Altoona, $3; John Hurd, Altoona, $3; Thomas Rook, Bedford, 317 to Abraham Swartz Bodford, $10 to 812: John - Manspeaker, Gracevi Bedford, $14 to ENA thaniel t\wson,. Franklin, $12 to--$17. Newton Rhodes, Spartansburg, ‘ri Peter 1 <h 0 SK (lass 36: 5: drad- $6 {9 LW | the fay laws of i the {generally was issued last | letting | persons { found profaning ment i [1y called ford, 36-to $17; Martha Smith. Locust rove, SX. roclamation ent Beaver moral’ purification . af be printed in “dodger tributed about the ..'The asks his police to arrest and prosecut all owning “or. patronizing gambling disorderly houses om buildi such perating unlawful or drinking and any 1 worldly Lord's day, streets burg persons rOOMms, for purposes, all club rooins person cmploy- usd nlaces, by or bu eo the day couple Sul A Polish borough, near Scranton, locked two little girls. 6 and 4 old, room one day last week and wei piel The children j with matches: Neighbors heard screams and broke in the door. vounger child Ww found death. The hands and older child were badly burned to extinguish the flames: At the board of trade meeting cently ‘the first step toward forming a new county, with Johnstown the county seat, was taken by the appoint- ment of a committee of about Very prominent men of the city and suburbs. It is proposed to form the new county out of parts - of Cambria, Westmore- land, Somerset and Indiana, leaving Johnstown about the : geographical center. Joseph Rath, a praomin Sheakleyville, was attack day by an angry bull an He succeeded in getting the nose ring and subduin terrible struggle, in probably fatally injured ran, an invalid, who wi fight, sustained a shock Ir was unconscious for hours. Soeretary. Thomas J. Edge ogist H.-T. Fernald, of the cultural department, ‘have just a circular explaining the term emic zoology'' and showing portancé of the same in extel animals. that are injurious They: estimate that loses annually fr: $15.000,000, freight and: a TE jumped the track and capsized on the Dradford, Bordell & Kinzau railroad a few days ago on the mountain a mile east of Bradford. Conductor 1tobert MeKkKnight jumped, was eaught in a barbed wire fence und crushed Geath. He was 50 years old ard leaves a family. Herley Sharon, suit against place. Sigler Brown burglary and larceny, but quitted. The plaintit? th arest was made with malicious Mrs. Clara Dingman of -Beaver the divorced wife of a stree! ductor, s brought ag: J. K. White of New Bright of the county, alleging promise of marriage and damages. Lawrence county) what to do with w after its contract county workhouse Two grand juries building a workhot been done. A l4-months-old girl of Mr. and Mrs William Cross, of New Uastle, ‘was terribly burned the other morning. She hada lighted some paper and had been playing with it, swvhen her clothing: took tire. There is but little hope of her re- covery. Albert, aged 9 years, son of William Means, of near Dunbar, last week found some dynamite caps. which he placed on a hot stove. They exploded, | damaging the stove and tearing two fingers from the boy's right hand. J. Otis Reeves of Bellevernon is in | jail charged with the embezzlement of $2.275, said to have bolonged to the es- | tate ‘of his = father, Capt, John H. Reeves. He had charge of settling the estate. An Jim." in New robbed. A new postoffice has been established at Olivedale, McKean county, with larry Ewing Gaffney as postmaster. On the charge of stealing $100, the life savings of Robert Henthman and sister, near Shippensburg, George Kelly has been lodged in jail. While hunting on the mountains Thomas Kenvin, of Hazelton, had his right hand blown off as he dragged his sun through the bushes. Henry Lipps, aged 40, of Grapeville, | was killed by a freight train at Jean- nette the other day. He was 4a worker. Adam Johnson of Beaver Falls, con- victed of illegal liquor selling, has been refused a new trial by Judge Wilson. Joseph La France, an old machinist of Johnstown, fell dead while at work last week, Dulmore their in a it out ayed their The burned -t of 1 try living in years Lo coal. as arms re= as Ho farmer of the othe! run down. ent ed Zool- agri- and State e minating to crops and Pennsyl- MY othe Joa st cars sid to Bresvn, - of rg has begun a 310 WW. Sigler; had Hill, noo dan of the arrest he wi near = alleges suit wrkhouse iSoners with expires have but cgheny next -March. recommended nothin 186, g has aged man, known as “Italian was held up by a highwayman Castle, knocked down and glass PgR fel CS I BEANS { slightly lower at $10 10, ciation lat Pittsburg, i prices are held back. THE MARKETS. PITTSBURG. Grain, Flour and Feed. WHEAT—No. 1 red No. 2 red CORN.-—No. 2 yeilow, ear, ...... No. 2 yellow, shelled. , Mixed ear....v.. .«.ic.ovivs OA'TS-—~No. 2 white. ... No. 3 white BY E-=Nool. haa a0 ‘LOUR--Winter patents. ...... Fancy straight winter Rye flour HAY —No. 1 timothy Clover, No. 1.... FEEKD-—No. 1 white mid., ton. Brown middlings..... Bran, bulk STRAW . SEE Timothy, prime. .......0.0. 0. Dairy Products BUTTER—Eigin creamery. ....$ Chio creamery... Fancy country roll CHEFESE-—Ohio, new New York, new Fruits and Vegetables, A [Lima ¥ qt EL POTATOES—Fancy White, ® bu CABBAGLE—Per bb! ONIONS Poultry, Etc, CHICKENS— Per pair, small... $ TURKEY: EGGS--Pa. and Ohio, fresh.... CINCINNATI, & No. 2 red CORN No. 2 mixed OATS: No. 2 white.. BUITER--Creamery, extra. ... EGGS—Pennsylvania firsts SA NOE Ro NEW YORK. FLOUR--Patents...... W HIIAT-= No. 2 red.. CORN--No. OATS White Western. BUTTER -Creameory. LEGGS- State of Penn LIVE STOCK, Central Stock Yards, East Liberty, Pa. CATTLE. Prime, 1300 to 1400 Ihs. Good, 1200 to 1300 Ibs. A Tidy, 1000 to 1158. 1bs. ......... Fair light steers, 900 to 1000 ths Common, 700. to 900 ths. ... ... HOGS. Medium Heavy Roughs and st SULEP. Prime, 95 to 105 tbs Good, 8510 90 hs, Fair, 70 10 80 Ibs. Common, . Veal Calves Springer, extra Sine Springer, good to choice ... Common to fair Extra yearlings, | Good to choice yearlings. ..... . Medium COMMON... i... Jes din Lad TRADE REVIEW. 0) + 0 Glass Workers Resume Operations Iron Manufacturers Gain in Orders. GG. & weekly © reports as follows for R. trad The ovement of week: Ca.’s view Dun is clearer and the im- situation in business which election clearing h Known larger cent. larger rs have mthracite coal output much bevond the pres markets, the trouble mi have on St 3 of now the fleonsequance. It is notewort changes ‘the price ‘of but slightly changed. the week, flour included, have $76,000 bushels from Atlanti ports, 2,191,334 last: year. making in two of 9N,312,- 8 ttied, is hy that en ugainst all 1 for Wt i bushels, agains exports amounting for bushels, against Ss, against : ve Such shipme the middle November alr 1ant the belief that the demand for grain is be greater than hi bean Cotton « pects app that even extreme ( thers little en { tdvance, View ofr held: |} and abro: gement between 1 stopped, this duction of goods: has fainged. A i : previous demand my woolen manufac gained in orders for the which justifies the heavy materia recently ses also better order OT 8 youl yy. but th. demand i: and much machinery still waiting i ? While sales wool at the three chief mar- Kets are heavy, 28234500 pounds © in three weeks, against 20.865.902 last year and "17,103,100 in 1592, include two they large for export, covering 3,000,- aF- of this iN wot ed tote week, ak tur divery is ol sales 1009 pounds of Montevideo and Austral- wool at 16 and which make clearer asked by holders ian ly. prices 18 cents respective- the fact that here are re- I latively high. Iron is in bigger demand ail the time, and yet production steadily increases, and at Pittsburg bessemer pig the ne asso- being undersold. Orders for plates are beyond all precedent, in- cluding material for cars, bridges, ves- sels and work of all sorts, and struc- tural work is seasonably quiet, though the mills have much ahead, while in bars the demand is considerably better with orders for material at (‘hicago. Some works are short of orders and The expectation rail association is of 6,000 cars at the East is that the proposed {will meet an extremely heavy demand for the next year, especially for trolley lines, but it is stated that prices will not be advanced above $20 at tne [Cast and $21 at Chicago. In iron products the next will probably be record- hreaking year. Failures for the week have in the United States, against year, and 26 in Canada, against 32 year. a 99 = been 267 last last The chief of police of Norfolk, Va. fears smallpox. ‘He has given orders that witnesses ‘will hereafter not be required to kiss the Bible but only to raise the right hand when being sworn. a
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