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DR. CHAPMAN'S SERMON |
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A SUNDAY DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
PASTOR-EVANGELIST.
Subject: A Disconraged Man—NMost People
Dissatisfied Because They Lead Too
a Life—No Room in the King-
Artificial
dom of God For Pessimism.
[The Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, D. D., is
now the most distinguished and best
known evangelist in the country. He was
second only to Dr. Talmage, but since the
death of that famous preacher Dr. Chap-
man has the undisputed possession of the
Pulpit as the preacher to influence the
plain people. is services as an evangel-
ist are in constant demand. His sermons
have stirred the hearts of men and women
to -a degree unapproached by any latter-
day divine. J. Wilbur Chapman was born
in Richmond, Ind., June 17, 1859. His
mother died when he was but twelve
years of age, and his father died seven
years ‘afterward. Consequently he was
not only deprived of a mother’s care at
the formative age of boyhood, but he was
thrown upon his own resources before he
had reached early manhood. He was edu-
cated at Oberlin College and Lake Forest
University, and graduated for the ministry
from the Lane Theological Seminary, Cin-
cinnati, Ohio, in 1882. hile there he
manifested the character and the spirit
which have followed him as an evangelist
all over the country. They have made his
ministry a continual success as pastor and
as a revivalist. His sermons are simple
and direct, so that their influence is not
20 much due to exciting the emotions as
to winning the hearts and convincing the
minds of those who hear him. Dr. Chap-
man is now in charge of the Fourth Pres-
byterian Church, New York City.] ~
NEW York City.—The Rev. Dr. J, Wil-
bur Chapman, America’s most famous pas-
tor-evangelist, who took charge of a mori-
bund church in this city several years ago,
and is now preaching to an overflowing
congregation, has: furnished the following
eloquent sermon to the press. It was
preached from the text: 1 Kings, 19: 4,
““But he himself went a day’s journey jnto
the wilderness, and came and sat down
under a juniper tree, and he requested for
himself that he might die.” .
The history of Elijah begins with the
seventeenth chapter of I Kings and starts
with the word ‘“‘and.” The preceding
chapter tells us of the idolatry of the peo-
ple of the reign of lawlessness and #he
apparent triumph of iniquity. It seemed
as if the end of all things had come, and I
suppose everybody living in that time
thought so, but if this was the impression,
the fatal mistake had been made because
God is left out of all consideration. It is
well for us to remember that He is never
at a loss. The land may be overrun with
iniquity, His witnesses,may be silenced,
but all the time He is prepariig a man in
some quiet village as He prepared Elijah,
and at the right time He will send him
forth with no uncertain testimony! There
is really no place for pessimism in the
gngdos of God. He has never made a
ailure in the past, He never will in the
future. “If God be for us, who can be
against us.” It is literally true that when
the enemy comes in like a flood this spirit
5 the Lord shall lift up a standard against
m.
The story of Elijah is most interesting,
and we trace him from his sudden appear-
ance here flashing like a meteor upon the
scene of action, down to Cherith, where
he is fed by theiravens, over to Zarephath,
where he relieves the distress of the wom-
an who meets him, but the most remark-
able scene in his life is on Mt. Carmel}
where, facing the prophets of Baal, after
their ability to call down fire from heav-
en he produces the fire from the very
hand of God, which consumed the sacri-
fice, licks up the water in the trenches
and gives him victory of a most remarka-
ble kind. The prophets of Baal are dis-
tressed, and the news concerning their de-
feat is carried to Jezebel. She is intensely
angry, and declares that Elijah shall be as
her prophets are at a certain hour of the
day. Instead of looking up to God and
triumphing over this wicked woman Eli-
jah does quite the opposite, and thus it is
: Jugs text is written to describe his sad
al). ©
How are the mighty fallen? It would
be difficult to=imagine a man in whose life
there was more of real contrast; now he is
master in prayer and the pendulum which
swings one way toward glory swings in
his life in the other direction toward de-
spair, and the prayer for victory becomes
a wail of distress; mow he is locking up
the heavens and holding the key and ap-
arently at his own will the rain tarries or
alls, and now utterly dismayed he is rush-
ing to the wilderness and wishing that he
might die, but Elijah is not alone in this
desire. The most of men have at one time
or another wished that they might end all.
Moses did, “And if Thou deal thus with
me, kill me, I pray Thee, out of hand, if I
have found favor in Thy sight, and let me
not see my wretchedness.” Numbers 11:
15. So also did Jonah, “Therefore hot,
Lord, take, I beseech Thee, my life from’
me; for it is better for me to die thap to
live.” Jonah 4: 3. And even the great
Apostle Paul said, “I am in a strait be-
twixt two, having a desire to depart and to
be with Christ,” but the trouble with the
most of us is we want to die our own way.
Elijah was not willing to die at the hand
of Jezebel, but he was quite ready to sleep
himself away into insensibility under the
juniper tree in the desert. Elijah made a
great mistake in running away. 1f he had
stood his ground he might have saved his
country, prevented the captivity of the
people, for I doubt not the 7000 that had
not bowed the knee to Baal would have
come forth, and they would have rushed
forward conquering and to conquer, but
Elijah is a picture of ourselves, and we all
like him have been times without humber
under the juniper tree. The object of this
sermon is to ask the question, “Why we
are thus discouraged,” and then to deter-
mine if possible what the difficulty was
with Elijah. .
Why are we? There are thousands of
people to-day who are utterly dissatisfied
_ with life because they are living too artifi-
~
cial an experience. We have very many
‘things that our ancestors did not possess.
The possession of these things ought to
bring to us great blessings in every way,
but as a matter of fact it is true that
‘ neither happiness, nor brotherly love, nor
power nor good have been increased in
the least. We have indeed gone in the op-
posite direction, and many of us are of
all men most miserable. We are discon-
tented because we are trying to be some-
thing that we are not. The business man
thinks he must keep pace with his compet-
itor whatever the cost to himself, and in a
little time he finds himself out of his lati-
tude. In society thousands of people are
aping the customs and manners of those
who are in an entirely different set from
themselves, by whose side they can never
stand, and if they did they would be only
the more unhappy, and there are thousands
of homes where instead of living a simple
life the members of the household are liv-
mg at a pace that is terrific, and all this
is killing the business man, the society
woman, the parents and’ the children, and
instead of possessing joy and peace we are
under the juniper tree. The thirst for
pleasure in these days is so great that we
have become absolutely unscrupulous in our
attempts to gain the objects of our de-
sires. We ‘ought to be satisfied with just
what we are and in the most natural way.
We have come into the world with differ-
ent gifts, some one with gold, others with
silver, still others with marble and many
with only clay, and our task is to fashion
these things into the strongest manhood
and the truest womanhood, and to do it
in the reost simple and unaffected man-
ner. We are too selfish in our’ living, we
lon,
and our-desires. This longing has become
uppermost in our living, and the man who
makes it so makes his appetite stronger
than himself, and his need is:dreadful, idr
he who lives simply to «eat; to drink, to
sleep and to dress, whether he be pauper
or. prince, is on the downward grade to de-
spa. & = 5 a y 3 ai
Contentment is one of the greatest
blessings in the world. It is not a question
of the possession of either poverty or
riches. He who knows how to be content
possesses the secret, not because he is
either poor or rich, but simply because he
knows how to be content. fhe mere fact
that we are Christians does not amount
to much in ‘many cases; if our religion in-
creases our confidence, our hope, our love,
it is good, but if it gives us the spirit that
we are better than other people, if we seek
to control the interests of other people
make them fashion their lives according
to our own plan, if we are good simply
that we may escape punishment, such a
profession of religion 1s almost worthless.
The difficulty is not in our surroundings,but
in ourselves. “Joy is mot in things, it is
in us.” .
I met a young woman this winter in the
South who told me that she was the pos-
sessor of a $10,000 violin, and with a shin-
ing face she said, “You should hear the
music of that instrument,” and yet in the
hands of very many people it would have
been just a producer of unharmonions
sounds, while in the hands of this gifted
young woman it was truly marvelous, and
all because the music was in her, and the
violin was the best movement of the ex-
pression of that music.
en Ole Bull, the great violinist, played
in Princeton, one of the professors asked
him if the secret of his success was in tie
violin or in the bow or in himself, and le
said, “The violin and the bow amount to
but little. I never play until I feel that
there is music in me that must be ex-
frees, and then any instrument I touch
ecomes remarkable.” Many of us are un-
fitted for life because we have become too
artificial, have had wrong ideals and have
tried to be what we never can be.
friend recently sent me that wongder-
ful little book, “The Simple Life,” by
Charles Wagner, which every one would
do well to read. To the author of this
book I am indebted for some of the ex-
pressions used above, but in one of the
chapters he tells us in speaking of the
home life, “In the time of the Second Em-
pire, in one of our pleasantest sub-prefec-
tures of the provinces, a little way from
same baths frequented by the Emperor,
there was a mayor, a very worthy man,
and intelligent, too, whose head was sud-
denly turned by the thought that his sov-
ereign might one day descend upon his
home. Up to this time he had lived in
the house of his fathers, a son respectful
of the slightest family traditions. But
when once the all-absorbing idea of receiv-
ing the Emperor had taken possession of
his brain he became another man. In this
new light what had before seemed suffi-
cient for his needs, even enjoyable, all this
simplicity that his ancestors had loved, ap-
peared poor, ugly, ridiculous. Out of the
question to ask an Emperor to climb this
wooden staircase, sit in these old arm-
chairs, walk over such superanuated ecar-
pets. So the mayor called architect and
masons, pickaxes attacked walls and de-
molished partitions, and a drawing-room
was made out 'of all proportion to
the rest of the house in size and splen-
dor. He and his family retired into close
quarters. where people and furniture in-
commoded each other generally. Then,
having emptied his purse ‘and upset his
household by this stroke of genius, he
awaited the royal guest. Alas, he soon
saw the end of the empire arrive, but the
Emperor never. The folly of this poor
man is not so rare. As sottish as he are
all those who sacrifice their home life to
the demands of the world.”
I,
. difficulty with Elijah?
First his physical strength had been over-
taxed. e had been jaboring under the
highest tension, his nerves were unstrang,
and he was just in the position where
Satan could tempt him the worst. There
are many like him to-day. They are in
despair, and they need not so much a spir-
itual physician as the presence of a doctor
who can tell them that their bodies must
have rest, their nerves must be built up,
an.
their bodies are the temples of the Holy
Ghost, and that they may sin against God
Just as truly when they break commands
touching the body as when they commit
sins touching the soul. Elijah needed rest,
and instead of taking it he prayed that he
might die. ‘ §
Second, he looked away from God to his
circumstances. ‘Up to that time he en-
dured as seeing Him who was invisible,
then like Peter when he saw the wind that
was boisterous he began to sink. I do not
think that any minister could preach to-
day if he realized the iniquity that sur-
rounded him, the hypocrisy .in many
hearts, the awful sins in many lives; he
would grow faint and sick at heart, and
all because he looked down. while it is
possible, on the other hand, for anybody
to preach in the midst of all this desola-
tion if he keeps his eyes turned up, and
the difficulty with you is not that your
power is dead, but that vour eyes are fast-
ened upon the ground ‘instead of turned
upward to heaven, and the cause of your
distress is not that your mother has gone
away from your home, but that you are
standing like Mary looking in at the tomb,
when you onght to be standing with up-
turned face looking by faith into the very
midst of the angel company in heaven.
What if the difficulties are great, let us
look to God in it all.
The other day in my mail came a little
piece of poetry from a friend in England.
which has been singing its way like a bird
of paradise through my soul all the week.
“When the way seems dark and dreary,
Think of Him.
Lest thy heart grow faint and weary,
Think of Him.
For He knoweth all the way,
And His strength will be thy stay;
He can cheer the darkest day,
Think of Him.
What was the
“When some sorrow sorely presses,
Think of Him.
Tor through trials oft He blesses;
Think of Him.
He alone can understand,
Leave it all in His dear hand;
In His love for thee He planned,
Think of Him.
“When some anxious care perplexes,
Think of Him.
Lest thy inmost soul it vexes,
Think of Him.
Bring thy care and thou shalt see,
He will bear it all for thee:
He would have thee peaceful be,
Think of Him.”
III.
But there was still another difficulty
with Elijah. First, he was alone. In
verse 3 we read that he left his servant
at Beersheba, and he himself went into
the wilderness. It is a great mistake to
be alone when trouble comes. “Bear ye
one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the
law of God,” gives us a picture of human
fellowship, while the verse, “Take my
yoke upon you and learn of Me,” gives us
an idea of that fellowship which we may
have with Him.
John McNeill, the great Scotch preacher,
has a fine illustration of this point in his
sermon based upon I Samuel, the 27th
chapter and the first verse, “And David
said in his heart, I shall now perish one
day by the hand of Saul; there is nothing
better for me than that I should speedily
escape into the land of the Philistines,
and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me
any more in any’ coast of Israel; so shall I
escape out of his hand.” ‘David said in
w
to satisfy our appetites, our passions,
they themselves must remember that
in, +
his heart,” and Jolin McNeill says it
would have been well if instead of saying
it in his heart he would have said it out
loud. It is the thing we say in our heart
that grows to such great proportion and
leads us to believe that we are on the-
verge of despair. Without question the
passage is true, and Mr. McNeill suggests
three cures, -
First—Why didn’t David say it aloud
to his servant and let his servant argue
him out of his position, for there are many
things we think we would never dare to
say to our dearest friends. 3
Second—Why didn’t David pray it. He
was a master in prayer, and if he had but
fallen on his knees and said it to God, at
least have tried to say it, he would have
found that his very tongue would have
cleaved to the roof of his mouth, for there
are things we think that we would blush
if we dared to sav them to God.
Third—Why didn’t he sing it. He was
much of a singer, was David, and if he had
but put it in a song his face would have
grown hot, and he would bave ended with
stammering and stumbling, and then said
Mr. McNeill. “Why may we not follow
this rule, and when we have a difficulty.
imaginary or real, let us say it, or pray it,
or sing it, and if we cannot say it. and it
won’t pray. and will not sing ‘there is
nothing in it. It is but the devil’s delu-
sion to plunge us into despair. is
Fourth—He sat ‘down. That was a great
mistake. He never should have given up.
Tf he had only kept going he would have
found victory. ere are so many people
in the chnrch to-day ‘who have done just
exactly what Elijah did. They have sat
own. The man who once taught a Sun-
day-school class is now doing nothing and
fast slipping awav from Christ. The mem-
ber of the church who used to be faithful
at the prayer meeting is now absent and
sitting down in his home he is of all men
most miserable. That man who was once
in the church and loved the church has
sat down in the world. and he questions
if he ever knew Christ, so let us keep
going. It is when a man is idle that Satan
trips him up.
Fifth—He wanted to dictate to God
when he said to Him “Let me die.” Tt is
a good thing that God did not take him at
bis word, for he would have died under a
cloud. and would have been buried in the
desert. What a mercy it is that God does
not give us all we ask for. And my own
experience I deubt not is yours, the things
that God has refused to me have been my
greatest blessings. Then let us remember
that “no” is just as much of an answer as
“ves.” and vour experience in your home
has been that no for your children usually
is the better answer. Bnt how gracious
God is in His dealings with those who are
out of the wav. He calls Adam in tender-
ness when He says. “Where art thou?”
He woos David back again to virtue in
the story of the ewe lamb, and gives us a
picture of Himself in the seeking love of
the father of the prodigal for his boy, lets
us understand something of His forgive:
ness when He sends in the person of His
Son to write upon the sand His disposition
to remember no more the sin of a guilty
woman, and then whispered to Elijah as
he is under the juniper iree in a still
small voice. and continues to whisper un-
til at last Elijah is on his feet and fleeing
for his life back aecain into_the light. Oh,
let us come out from under the juniper
tree. It is a sad place to find a Christian
and a good place to keep away from.
Spear Points.
The light from heaven can never lead
astray. tion,
The world must read the Gospel in liv-
ing epistles.
esignation is putting God between
one’s self and one’s grief. un
The most momentous truth of religion
is that Christ is in the Christian.
The time tp show your Christian man-
hood is when it is put to the sore test.
You cannot dream yourself into a char-
acter; you must hammer and forge your-
self into one.
The light of the Christian shines bright-
est for Christ, when he is least copscious
that it is shining.
Not all God’s messengers ‘are angels.
Any hand that knocks at the door may
bring a call from the King.
It is better to build a life than to make
a fortune. Character is a greater accom-
plishment than riches.
e who manifests humility. love and
gratitude when told of ‘his faults has
made large attainments in the Christian
life.
Spiritual sustenance cannot be effective {
in an abstract form, as pure Truth; it
must come to us through the: energy of a
spiritual life. 3
We need a faith that will “grasp
Christ with the heart” in order to ‘“‘en-
dure to the end.” eart communion
alone will give us this grasp.—Ram’s
Horn.
Things That the World Needs.
There are many things that the world
needs, and there is much work to be
done in many directions; but most of all
does the world need God, most of all
does” it need righteousness, faith,
and love! The world needs better con-
ditions for its poor and wretched, better
tenements in which to house them; but
it needs also better lives for the tene-
ments when built. It needs better oppor-
tunities for its teeming multitudes; but
it needs also clearer vision to see the op-
portunities and stronger wills to grasp
them. The world needs scientific knowl-
edge, but it needs religious emotion as
weil. It needs its thunderous industries,
but it needs the sense of kinship to God.
It needs its practical ideals; but it needs
supremely the vision of the Highest. “As
the heart panteth after the water brooks,
so panteth my soul after Thee, O God!
My soul thirsteth for God, for the Living
God!” From Him we came, and we are
disguieted until we rest in His bosom—
until we feel the ocean of His love flowing
about our imperfections swallowed up in
His perfection, and our restlessness melt-
ing into His everlasting peace.—~Rev. Mr.
Shutter.
A Child Messenger of God,
The still form of a little boy lay in a
coflin surrounded by mourni ivriends. A
mason came into the room and asked to
look at the lovely face. “You wonder
that I care so much,” he sgaid, as the
tears rolled down his cheeks, “hut your
boy was a messenger of God to me. One
time I was coming down by a long ladder
from a very high roof and found your
little boy close behind me when I
reached the ground. ‘He looked up into
my face with a childish wonder and
asked frankly, “Weren't you afraid of fall-
ing when you were up so high?’ and,
before I had time to answer, he said:
‘Ah! I know why you were not afraid—
you had said your prayers this morning
before vou went to work.” I had not
prayed, but I never forgot to pray from
that day to this, and by God’s blessing
I never will.”
will.
The Raward of Prayer.
True prayer never {fails to bring its
reward. Prayer consists of supplication
and thanksgiving. Petition is but an in-
cident of prayer, and it may well be
doubted whether that which consists o
petition alone is true 7 r. Prayer is
communion with God. Spending a large
portion of time in company with God. we
become more and more like God. Inti-
mate relations are established hetween
our Heavenly Father and the man of
prayer.
Three Gifts to Man.
God has given three gifta to man, faiti.
hope, love. Without faith there could
be no trust in anyone; without hone, life
wonld be darkness, and without love it
would be a living death. The three are
in daily e toward men. Their
highest exe is godward.
a
. contrary,
ifs proper place before the Kakemono,
hope .
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FLORAL ART IN JAFAN,
Special Language and Treatment of Every
Variety of Blossom. |
- If the art of the florist is highly hon-
ored among us: it is st'll more so in
Japan. In the latter country nothing
is left to chance in connection with the
arrangement of flowers, everything
being done according to laws. Vases
for flowers and Bouquets differ with
the conditions of the environment and
with circumstances. - There are flow-
ers which must be used for this. anni-
versary, for that fete, others, on the
which are absolutely pro-
hibited. - Ilach of the siyles used in
the floral art has a name. The first
and mest ancient is called Shin-no-
hana, Ivhich consists in a methodic
composition of branches and varied
leaves around a central stem which is
straight and vertical. The Rikkwa
style differs only in the fact that the
central stem is always curved and is
never in the centre. These two sim-
ple and primitive styles have been re-
placed by others much more compli-
cated. The introduction of a more
modern art is due to a celebrated phi- |
losopher, Senno-Rikiu, who was the
creator of the real floral schools. Each
of them possesses certain secret condi-
tions, conserved with a jealous care,
and known alone by the adepts.
| The ‘vases are extremely variable in
form and. character, and the matter
which composes them is equally differ- |
-ent. . Some are of bronze, richly orna-
mented,t others are derived from. the
vegetable” kingdom, as the bamboo |
flower tubes. Further, all are used in
special circumstances, the formula
being master, and harmony being nee-
essary between the flowers and the!
vases which hold them. Thus for the
Yugen-tei, which symbolize sympathy |
and tranquility, one should employ the !
iris in a vase of bamboo with two
compartments; for the Yu-shin-tel char-
acterizing affectionate attachment, a
vase of bronze called Suna-bachi, with
a branch of pine around which is
twined a. bough of glycine; foi the
Ura-raka-tei, which represents sereni-®
ty, a vase of bronze containing white
chrysanthemums, ete. Severity de-
mands the Eulalia japonica, an orna-
mental ‘plant cultivated in European
gardens, and the Patrinia scabbiesae-
folia, arranged in a small bropze vase
called Nozame. Security has for em-
blem an aqmatic plant, and veneration
a pine or other evergreen tree,
Each month has its flower and each
circumstance, happy or unhappy. Fe-
licity is expressed in February by the
Ardisia japonica, ete. Thus it is a se-
rious mistake to offeir the wrong flow-
<r, and: further certain combinations
of flowers are permitted, but others are
rigorously prohibited, and to each plant
is attaciied a Symbolic signification.
Special bouquets are made for birth-
days, deaths, for the first day of the
eighth. month, on the oceasion of. en-
tering a religious life, and for numer-
0us.ceremonies. . :
The place a bouquet occupies ‘in a
room is also- important. A bouquet has
or painting, which ornaments every
well-furnished room of a ‘Japanese
house. Between this painting and the
bouquet there should exist a harmony
based on conventions .and traditions.
Thus, before every painting of the fa-
mous artist, To-em-mei, who loved
chrysanthemums, one should always
place a bouquet of chrysanthemums,
The manner in which a floral composi-
tion should be examined is also fixed.
One should remain respectfully at a
distance. of three feet. Only after
showing his admiration for the paint-
ing may one express admiration for
the bouquet, which it is impolite to re-
gard too attentively or too long. The
first thing said should be of the color
of the flowers, Spoken simply and
quietly in a soft voice. approbation
being expressed by different words
suited to different tints,— Nature.
Misnamed “Trouble Hunters.”
Damage done to telephone and tele-
graph wires by the recent storm of
snow and sleet has brought into prom-
inence a class of artisans that is prac-
tically unknown to the general public
—the “trouble hunters.” By far the
most intelligent and skilful outdoor
vorkers in the great city, the “trouble
hunters,” by their appearance and ac-
tion, belie their warlike nanie,
Quiet, unostentatious, intensely inter-
ested in their work, the “trouble hunt.
ers” go about the city laden down with
the instruments with which they do
the delicate work of testing the Wires
and finding the location of breaks.
Peril is a common incident of the
work. Crossed electric wires that fall
from high poles and from the roofs of
houses are the principal points of dan-
ger. Then, too, the “trouble hunters”
are exposed «to all kinds of weather,
and often work days and nights at a
time when wires are “out.”—New York
Herald.
His Last Trin.
A pathetic incident of an old horse
of Ipswich, Massachusetts, formerly
owned by an expressman, is related
by the Boston Herald:
On account of age and debility, the
old horse had been taken from work
and turned out on the farm to graze
One day he made hig appearance, un-
attended, at the railway station,
backed into position as if he had an
express wagon behind him, and waited
as in the old days.
Shortly after the train arrived the
old horse went slowly away: to the
village, where he backed up to ihe
express office as had been his custom
for years. Then, after a reasonable
time, he started up the voad toward
the farm, and later in the day was
found dead by the roadside.
One swallow may not make a sum
mer, but grasshopper can make a
spring.
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A TE ER CE a a pe li er
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS GONDENSED
PENSIONS GRANTED.
Ordered to# Cuba—High School Stu.
dents Strike—Passenger Rates
Cut—Foundry Sold.
Among the pensions granted during
the past week were: Thomas H. Co-
wan, Cannonsburg, $6; David H.
Grove, Blairsville, $12; Isaac Arm-
strong, Lemont, $10; Charles W.
Foulk, New Castle, $12; Jonathan
Merritt, Scottdale, $17; Henry Irvin,
Altoona, $17; Andrew T. Harvey,
Cochranton, $8; John Barckley, Pitts-
burg, $30; John A. Mcintyre, New
Castle, $4; James H. McGill, Dun-
more, $14; Balser Shissler, Soldiers’
‘Home, Erie, $12; James N. Thomp-
son, Indiana, $12; Thomas Copley,
McKees Rocks, $17; James H. Bigue,
Union City, $17; Andrew Jackson,
Emlenton, $10; Tamson Binch,
Brownsville, $8; John Thompson, Du-
quesne, $6; Samuel J. Patten, Alle-
gheny, $6; Peter Emmert, Braddock,
$8; Absalom -S. Gardner, Nossville,
Jou Charles H. Henderson, Lewiston,
12.
The United Engineering and Foun-
dry Company practically has com-
pleted the purchase of the chilled roll
foundry at Vandergrift of the Apollo
Iron and Steel Company, for a sum
said to approximate $325,000. The
acquisition of the new foundry gives
the combine four operating foundries
and the largest ouiput of rolls of any
concern in the world.
Harry J. Watson, late captain of
Company B, Tenth regiment Nation-
al Guard, who served with that reg-
iment in the Philippines, and who
was appointed to a first lieutenancy
in the United States artillery, will
go to Cabana barracks, Havana,
Cuba, having been assigned to duty
in the Twenty-second company of
coast artillery.
A new corporation composed of
Philadelphia and Pittsburg capitalists
has purchased all the sand manufac-
turing plants located at Mapleton,
Huntington county. The capital
stock is $900,000. The transfer in-
cludes the Juniata Sand Company,
Macklin & Stevenson, Columbia Sand
Company, and in addition ome at
Hancock, Md.
Two men were badly hurt and
eleven loaded ore cars were dropped
to the bottom of a gulch by the break-
ing of an axle under a car of a Pitts-
burg, Bessemer & Lake Erie freight
train while it was crossing the Bull
Run trestle near Millersburg, which
was partly destroyed by the accident.
Charters were issued by the State
Department at Harrisburg, to the fol-
lowing corporations: The Roches-
ter Cut Glass Company, Rochester,
capital, $50,000; the Beaver Trust
Company, Beaver, capital, $300,000;
the Mound Brick Company, Beaver
Falls, capital, $15,000.
The home of James M. Dougal, sta-
tion agent at Gravers Ferry, was
burned. The: fire "originated from
sparks: from a passing locomotive,
which were carried nearly 200 yards
by the wind. Loss on the house is
$3,000 and on household goods $500.
The Durfkirk * Coal Company has
been chartered at Harrisburg to de-
velop 400 acres of coal lands near
Pigeon creek, on the Monongahela
and Washington branch of the Pitts-
burg, Virginia and Charleston Rail-
road. Captial $100,000.
The "drivers at Laurel Hill mines,
at McDonald, came out on a strike
because a colored man has been em-
ployed to drive in place of a white
man, who had been discharged. Pres-
ident Patrick Dolan was called to
settle the matter. :
Two burglars succeeded in getting
away with $20 from the office of the
Union Lumber company, of Donora.
They exchanged shots with several
citizens who had been alarmed by
their exploding the company’s safe.
Frank Fink, Henry Carroll and Will-
iam Murray, alleged burglars, were
captured at Oil City. Revolvers jim-
mies, dynamite caps, nitro glycerin
and a full kit of burglar tools were
found on each of the gang.
The Pittsburg, McKeesport and
Connellsville Street Railway Compa-
ny attempted to lay tracks through
Everson, near Scottdale, but was pre-
vented by the Supervisor. An in-
junction was applied for.
A store in Saltsburg was robbed of
goods to the amount of $200, princi-
pally watches and jewelry. The
thieves gained an entrance through
the front door, using a jimmie in their
work.
The will of Nathaniel S. Houfeman,
oi Bellevernon, leaves $800 to the
Olive Baptist Church. Should the
church disband the amount is to be
paid to the Mount Pleasant Institute.
Edward McCullough, of Ellwood
City, while attempting to board a mov-
ing freight train on the Pittsburg and
Western Railroad, fell under the
wheels and had both legs crushed.
A postoffice has been established at
Breezewood; Bedford county, Simon
J. Pee, postmaster. The special
service at the postoffice at Rexis, In-
diana county, has been discontinued.
City councils in joint session at Al-
toona elected Thomas H. Greevy, city
solicitor; E. J. Dunphy, member of
board of water commissioners, and
Harvey Linton, city engineer.
Rogan Powell, a farmer, living |
near Sharon, Pa., became ill while |
driving near his home and fell dead
as he entered the office of a physi-
cian,
The Hollidaysburg Gap Iron Works
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Arab Marriage Procession.
A marriage procession among the
Arabs is a very elaborate affair. The
camel which bears the bride is de>
orated with bright henna dye on his
neck and shoulders, while there are
verses from the Koran inscribed on
the hangings. His uncouth legs are
often swathed with bright cloths, his
head bedecked with plumes and small
mirrors, while his back is resplendent
with bright-colored bits of tinsel,
which glisten against a patchwork of
many-hued cloths. A hood or: cage
conceals the bride, and no doubt adds
to the discomfort of the cramped ride
on the beast.
and last of all the musicians, chiefly
drummers, who attract the crowds by
their incessant pounding on small but
high-keyed instruments. If the jour-
ney to the groom’s home is a short
one, it is lengthened by stops at fre-
quent intervals, and all the while the
lover must not show any eagerness
to welcome her, no matter what his
feelings may be. The Arab may be
affectionate, but he cannot with diz-
nity betray emotion. Among the lower
classes buffoons accompany the pro:
cession with =~ performing bears or
other wild ani s, and when the
bride is wealthy largess is distrib-
uted along the route in the form of
clothes or coin. ‘When the groom's
tent or fixed home has been reachzd
the bride is expected to show great
reluctance about ‘entering it, and in
some cases she has to be lified by
the husband over the blood of a sheep
he has just slain.
A CHINESE HOBGOBLIN.
Legend of the Celestial Brownies of
1,700 Years Ago.
An American father residing tem-
porarily in China, writes this curious
legend or fairy tale to his small son
in Wisconsin: “We passed by some
large mounds or tombs between here
(Tengchow) ‘and Chefoo. They have
a little crown to them, somewhat like
the Mohammedan graves, and are
said to be the tombs of giants, who
came here and held the province of
Shatung for a long time, some 1,500
or 1,700 years ago, and the language
spoken here was introduced by them.
They are said to have been ten feet
or more tall. And this is a story I
heard: In the time of the story all
the people were killed at the age of
60. Well, there was one man who
loved his mother very much, and so
instead of killing her according to law,
he hid her in a sort of mound and
carried food to her. every ddy. At
about that time there was a hobgob-
lin who destroyed the people, and it
was said that he was destroying all
the people in his part of the country,
and that he was presently coming to:
this man So in his trouble he went
te uis mother, and told her he was
afraid he should not be able to bring’
her any more food. She said: ‘Don’t
be troubled; take this ‘black cat and
put it up your sleeves, and when the
hobgoblin comes you just iet the cat.
go.” A few days after, while at the
court, the cat began to squirm, and
suddenly gave a dart and killed the
hobgoblin, which was a big rat!”
The consumption of sugar in the
United States in 1899 was 2,094,610
tons. ‘Nearly two million of. these
were imported. California yielded
72,944 tons of beet sugar and Loulsi-
ana most of the rest.
The potato forms nearly 14 per
cent. of the total food of the people of
this country.
who use that best of all
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TORERS AND TISSUB
BUILDERS, the genuine
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it brings back the color
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Sl
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have been sold to a Harrisburg manu-
facturer, who will increase the ca-
pacity of the plant.
irove City high» school graduates |
refuse to take part in the cofimence- |
ment exercises because the number |
of free tickts allotted to each pupil |
was cut down. {
F. O. Fleming has been appointed !
postmaster at Cyrus, Venango county, |
and Harry Cubbinson at Harthegog,
Mercer county. |
Ground has broken for the
new $15,000 Presbyterian church at
Freeport.
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