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DR. CHAPMAN'S SERMON |
A SUNDAY DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
PASTOR-SVANGELIST.
Bubject: An Old Testament Wedding—The
Love Romance of Isaac and Rebekah
Retold—Teaches a lesson of Divine
Providence—invitation to Unbelievers.
[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. His services as an evangel-
1st are in constant demand. is sermons
have stirred the hearts of men and women
to a degree B02 ntosched by any latter-
day divine. J. Wilbur Chapman was born
in Richmond, Ind., June 17, 1859. He was
educated at Oberlin College and Lake For-
est University, and graduated for the min-
istry from the Lane Theological Semin-
ary, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1882. His ser-
mons are simple and direct, so that their
influence is not so much due to exciting
the emotions as to winning the hearts and
convincing the minds of those who hear
im. Dr. Chapman is now in charge of
the Fourth Presbyterian Church, New
York City.]
NEw York Crry.—The Rev. Dr. J. Wil-
bur Chapman, the popular pastor-evangel-
ist, who is now preaching to overflowing
congregations in this city, has furnishe
the following eloquent sermon to the
press. It was preached from the text
Genesis xxiv, 58: “Wilt thou go with this
man? And shé said, I will go.”
This is the story of an Old Testament
wedding in which our text is found, and
naturally because it is a marriage scene it
18 interesting. The saying that “all the
world loves a lover” is very true, and I
suppose 1s not without meaning the wide
world round, but there is somet ing about
an Oriental wedding which is especially
interesting. Again and again in this Book
of Inspiration. such scenes are recorded,
but of all the Old Testament stories 1
place this the first of its kind.
I I were an artist I should paint ‘it, and
if I were an artist worthy of my theme it
would surpass the other masterpieces in
the world’s great gallery of art, notably
that of the Russian wedding feast, which
has had admiration everywhere. The
heart of the picture is an old man; his
hair is whitened with grief which in the
past days has taken hold upon him, and
the lines of his countenance have been
peculiarly softened by the.touch of the
finger of sorrow, leaving an expression
which can.only come to those who have
been obliged to bear great burdens and
endure great afflictions.
braham is practically alone in the
world, for Sarah is gone. She who had
journeyed with him to Bethel, down into
pt and back again to Hebron, the
place of fellowship, is at rest, and in the
cave of Machpelah she waits by his side
to hear the summons given ‘at the resur-
rection morning. Abraham was desolate.
They had made so long a journey together
that their lives were like one.
“In the long years liker had they grown,
Till at the last she set herself to him
Like perfect music unto noble words.”
Above him is God, who has kept His
word with him when He said, “As I was
with Moses so I will be with thee 3”? about
him_the angels who keep watch over him
all day and all the night in sleepless vigil;
before him the trusted servant to ivhom
he speaks, “And Abraham was old and
well stricken in age; and the Lord had
blessed Abraham in all things. And Abra-
ham said unto his eldest servant of his
house, that ruled over all that he had, Put,
I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh,
and I will make thee swear by the Tord,
the God of heaven, and the God of earth,
that thou shalt not take a wife unto my
son of the daughter of the Canaanites,
among whom I dwell. But thou shalt go
unto my country, and to my kindred, and
take a wife unto my son Isaac. And the
servant said unto him, Peradventure the
woman will not be willing to follew me
unto this land; must I needs bring thy
.son again unto the land from whence thou
camest? Abraham said unto him,
Beware thou, that thou bring not my son
thither again. The Lord God of heaven,
which took me from my father’s house
and from the land of my kindred, and
which spake unto me, and that sware unto
me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this
land; He shall send His angel before thee;
and thou shalt take a wife unto my son
from thence. And if the woman will not
be willing to follow thee. then thou shalt
be clear from this my oath; only bring not
my son thither again. And the servant
put his hand under the thigh of Abraham,
his master, and sware to him concerning
that matter.” Genesis 24: 1-9.
One of the incidents of the picture would
be the setting forth of this servant. “And
the servant took ten camels of the camels
of his master, and departed; for all the
goods of his master were in his hand; and
1e arose and went to Mesopotamia, unto
the city of Nahor.” Genesis 24: 10. One
of the most picturesque sights of the East
is a camel train. With a peculiar swinging
gait these strange animals of the desert
push their way along on a most interest
Ing journey, but the picture can only be
appreciated when looked upon in the at-
mosphere of the Orient. I counted 100
one morning jeurneying toward the pyra-
mids beyond Cairo. The train of this old
servant was made up of ten camels only,
but they were the camels of a prince.
Their trappings were gorgeous, and side
by side with Abraham we watch them as
they go until they are lost to view.
The next incident is the approach to Na-
hor. It is the hour of sunset; the day is
dying out of the sky. There is really noth-
ing that can be compared with that time in
the East, when the day is far spent and
the night is at hand. The birds hush their
song, the cattle are still, all nature is at
rest, the hills are transfigured and the
rivers and the seas are like most beautiful
jewels. Ladened with precious gifts the ten
camels kneel just as the women are coming
forth to draw water from the well. The
old servant as they kneel begins to pray.
“And let it come to pass that the damsel
to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher,
I pray thee, that i may drink; and she
shall say, Drink, and I will give thy cam-
cls drink also; let the same be she that
Thou hast appointed for Thy servant
Isaac; and thereby shall I know that Thou
hast showed kindness unto my master.”
Genesis 24: 14, and the answer comes at
once. “And it came to pass, before he
had done speaking, that behold, Rebekah
came out, who was born to Bethuel, son
of Milecah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s
brother, with her pitcher upon her shoul-
der.” Genesis 24: 15.
Elastic of step, modest of manner, pure
of heart, fair of face she stands in the
presence of the servant of Abraham. As
to parentage she was the daughter of
Bethuel; as to condition .she was of virgin
purity; as to appearance she was fair to
look upon; as to education she was trained
to domestic service. This is Rebekah, the
bride of the picture. “And the man won-
dering at her held his peace, to witness
whether the Lord had made his journey
prosperous or not. - And it came to pass,
as the camels had done drinking, that the
man took a golden earring of half a shekel
weight, and two bracelets for her hands
of ten shekels weight of gold; and saic
Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray
thee; is there room in thy father’s house
for us to lodge in? And she d unto
him, T am the daughter of Bethuel, the
son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.
She said moreover unto him, We have
both straw and provender enough and
room to lodge in. And the man bowed
down his head and worshiped the Lord.”
Genesis 24: 21-26.
The next incident is the wooing and the
departure. The old servant tells his story.
makes his appeal, and the text is spoken,
“Wilt thou go with this man? And she
said, IT will go.” Genesis 24: 58. And the
camel train is moving once more, the fam-
ily of Rebekah watching until the last
camel is lost to view in the distance. The
journey is uneventful, but the end of it is
more than striking. “And Isaac went out
to meditate in the field at eventide; and
he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold,
the camels were coming. And Rebekah
lifted up her eyes, and when she saw
Isaac she lighted off the camel. For she
had said unto the servant, What man is
this that walketh in the field to meet us?
And the servant had said, It is my master;
therefore she took a veil and covered her-
self. And. the servant told Isaac all things
that he had done.” And Isaac brought her
unto his mother Sarah’s tent, and took
Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he
loved her, and Isaac was comforted after
his mother’s death.” Genesis 24: 63-67.
I,
Here is a lesson of divine providence.
Hear Abraham when he says, “The Lord
God of heaven which took me from my
father’s house, and from the land of my
kindred, and which spake unto me, and
that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy
seed will I give this land; He shall send
His angel before thee, and thou shalt
take a wife unto my son from thence.”
Genesis, 24: 7. We think of this as Old
Testament Mstory simply. We hear God
saying, “As I was with Moses I will be
with thee,” and we say certainly, but not
with myself. Why it is we always think
of God’s care of the patriarchs as mira-
cles, without its counterpart is in our own
lives, when Cod is our Father, everything
in our life is precious to Him, and the
very hairs of our head are numbered? He
is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
and He is your God. The angel of the
Lord is still living. We have grown world-
ly wise and speak of impressions, convic-
tions, coincidences, impulses, when all the
time it is the angel of the Lord speaking
to us. Have you noticed that there were
two servants, one winged one in the air
and the other in charge of the camels. It
is always so. It is by this double ministry
that providences are confirmed. All
through life we see it; in the conversion
of men, in things common and in things
unusual. You say, “I feel a strong im-
pulse to da a certain thing.” It is the an-
gel of the Lord troubling the stagnation of
your heart. You say that I am impressed
that I ought to do thus and so, when it
is the finger of God writing His purpose
on your soul. These are but the heavenly
ministers of Jehovah. Look around you
and you will find some opportunity for
service fitting into your impulse or con-
viction, and that which yesterday you
wondered at as a coincidence fills you
with the spirit of worship to-day as you
say, “The Lord was in this place and 1
knew it not.” “Life without a religious
interpretation is- little less than a trag-
edy.” while life thus viewed Ey have
many twists and turns, but ends in heaven.
a.
I find here a good picture of real service.
When Eleazar was leaving Abraham ‘he
said, ‘“Peradventure, the woman will not
be willing to follow me unto this land;
must I needs bring thy son again unto the
land from whence thou camest?’ And
Abraham said unto him, “Beware, thou,
that thou bring not my son thither again.
The Lord God of heaven, which took me
from my father’s house, and from the land
of my kindred, and which spake unto me,
and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy
seed will I give this land; He shall send
His angel before thee, and thou shalt take
a wife unto my son from thence. And if
the woman will not be willing to follow
thee then thou shalt be clear from this
my oath; only bring not my son thither
again.” Genesis 24: 5-8.
It is the same figure that we have of
the watchman upon the walls. Both of
these appeal strongly to us. We are not
free from responsibility until we have tried
at least to.win every soul over whom we
have an influence for Christ. I cannot con-
vert even the smallest child, nor can you,
but I can try to tell them what I have
been commissioned to say, for I am my
brother’s keeper. Oh, for the intense de-
sire to do our Master’s will that Eleazar
had. His camels are cared for, he has
entered the house of Bethuel. He is
weary with his long journey, the savory
meat prepared for his feast appeals to
his weakness, but hear him say, “And
there was set meat before him to eat;
but he said, I will not eat, until I have
told mine errand. And he said, speak
on.” Genesis 24: 33. Is not this like
Paul on his missionary journey. “In
jourreyings often, in perils of waters, in
perils of robbers, in perils by mine own
countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in
perils in the city, in perils in the wilder-
ness, in perils in the sea, in perils among
false brethren; in weariness and painful-
ness, in watchings often, in hunger and
thirst, in fastings often,
in coid and
nakedness.” 2 Corinthians 11: 26-27. And
is it not like Jesus Himself, when He is
‘weary by the well side, hungry with
much fasting and sends is disciple to
buy meat which He forgot to eat because
of the woman by His side. am sure
Rebekah saw in him the great love of
Isaac’s heart. And when they said,
“Wilt thou go with this man? She said,
I will go.”
III.
Yet there is more to the story than
this, I am sure. I know it because I
read that what was written afore time
was written for our instruction. The
great object and aim of the Bible is to
illustrate the operations of divine grace,
to show the works of Providence in the
minute things of life, to show us that
provision has been made for the fulfill-
ment of the great scheme of Redemption.
God speaks in every way; by direct state-
ment, by parable, by picture, by types.
by symbols, if by all means He may make
known the riches of His grace; and here
is a whole chapter, one of the longest in
the Pentateuch, taken up with a wedding
story; there must be some reason. The
spirit of God would not use an entire
chapter to describe the journey of Abra-
ham to Mt. Moriah, and another to tell
of the death of Sarah, and another to
give an account of a wooing and a wed-
ding without meaning. I think it must
be that it is all to illustrate the mystery
of the church. In the 22d chapter of
Genesis, the son is offered up as a sacri-
fice, at least Abraham is willing to offer
him; in the 23d chapter of Genesis
Sarah is laid aside in the tomb, while in
“the 24th chapter the servant is sent forth
to win a bride for the son. It is at least
a perfect illustraticn of that New Testa-
ment story where Christ was offered, the
only begotten Son of God, where Israel
was rejected because . they would not
come home. The Holy Spirit, as a serv-
ant of God, is calling forth from the
world a bride for the Son. This is the
work of this generation. The Holy Spirit
is the one of whom Jesus spoke when He
said, “But when the Comforter is come,
whom I will send unto you from the
Father, even the Spirit of Truth, which
proceeded from the Father, He shall testi-
fy of Me.” John 15: 26. One day we
shall meet the Bridegroom, our eyes shall
see Him and the wedding feast shall be
spread, and all Heaven shall resound with
the music of that glad day.
TV.
I wish in closing to take up the ap:
peal of the Holy Spirit, and change the
text just a little bit and say to you all,
“Wilt thou go with this Man?’ ~ And 1
refer to Christ as this Man. He is the
chiefest among ten thousand. I hid you
come to Him who walked with men, ate
with sinners, smiled with little children,
wept with weary women and died with
sinful malfactors. “Wilt thou go with this
Man?” You who are Christians I ask you
the question, for many of°you have not
gone with Him, for “How can two walk
[it you will go with Him 1t must be in
some better way than in other days.
First: You must share His opinion of
men. He was always excusing weakness,
always helping the distressed and al-
ways rebuking unkind criticism. You may
need to forgive the man who injured
you Jterday, for He did, and if you
would be like Him you must do the same.
“Wilt thou go with this Man?’
Second: e will lead you into the
homes where distress is tarrying, reliev-
ing embarrassment as when He made the
water into wine. Driving the wolf from
the door as when He fed the multitudes.
You will need to give your money as well
ras your sympathy. “Wilt thou go with
this Man?” I think I see Him treading
the streets of our own city where dis-
tress has. gone before Him. There is a
child with a heavy heart, and He stops
long enough to breathe a benediction of
peace. Yonder.is a man upon the verge
of despair, and this matchless Savior of
ours bids him come unto Him that he may
find rest. There is a woman whose child
is dying, whose mother is on the brink
of Eternity, and He who spoke as never
man spake bids her listen as He. says,
“I am the resurrection and the life.”
There is a celebrated picture which rep-
resents Jesus walking through the multi-
tude. Before Him all the people are dis-
eased, while back of Him as he trods
they are all perfectly well. This is His
influence always. “Wilt thou go with
this Man?” -
I put it to all those of you who are
not Christians, and bid you remember
that it is not an invitation to come to
Christ simply but a command. and in
is name, after the manner of Eleazar, I
say, “Deal kindly and truly with my
Master.” By His beautiful life, wilt. thou
go? By His agony in the Garden, wilt
thou go? By His betrayal and His trial
of mockery, wilt thon go? By His chame-
ful death, I ask you once again, wilt thou
go? His marred face and His bleeding
back, His breaking heart, His cry of
agony, wilt thou go with this Man? Xe
hath trodden the wine press alone for
you; He was a man of sorrows and ac-
quainted with grief for you. It is the
moment of crisis’ in your life. “Wilt
thou go with this Man?’ Answer, and
answer it now as did Rebekah, “I will
go.” Oh, say it; say it. and the Devil
shall hear it and tremble, the angels
shall hear it and shout for joy. God Him-
self shall hear .it and shall rejoice with
joy unspeakable.
Seeking the Truth.
Nicodemus represents a large multitude
of men and women in the world to-day.
He was seeking truth if not salvation for
is restless soul. He was so interested
that he did not wait until morning, but
came to Jesus by night. Some have sug-
gested that he did this not because of his
anxiety, but because he' did not have the
moral courage to come to the unpopular
teacher by daylight. If so the offense was
not an unpardonable one, for Jesus did
not even rebuke him. He welcomes the
coming of the most timid, the most
doubting, the most unworthy. N icodemus,
like’ nearly all the world who know any-
thing "about Jesus, recognized His moral
supremacy. They know He is a teacher
sent from God by the same test that
Nicodemus applied. But that compliment
is immaterial to the Christ. That ae-
knowledgment has no saving value. “Ex-
cept a man be born again” is the ever-
lasting sine qua non. the absolute and ir-
revocable condition for a heavenly career.
How could Jesus have made plainer the
necessity of the “New Birth?’ How is, it
therefore that more than half the world,
more than half, perhaps, of nominal Chris-
tendom, are persistently searching for
some other way. Why is it so? . The
world appropriates other common bless
ings from, God's hands without demur or
question. His sunshine and sweet air are
taken greedily and counted good. Millions
have tested His plan of life, His way of
salvation, and rejoice in the experience.
They give us their word that they find
joy and peace. And yet the world is slow
to follow. Is it a sign of a perverse heart,
or a constitutional incapacity to act in
one’s own interest? Jesus was patient with
the slow believing Nicodemus. But He did
not have nearly twenty centuries of
Christian testimony to bear witness to the
truth. That is why it will be less tol
erable in the judgment for us than for
those of Tyre and Sidon and the genera-
tions that have gone to their reward and
doom.—Ram’s Horn.
Spear Points,
Conscience is God’s deputy in the soul.
Immortality is the glorious discovery of
Christianity.
Christ reckons not by what is parted
with, but what is kept.
It is a weak religion that a man ean
hide from his household.
conscience void of offense before God
and man is an inheritance for eternity.
There is no human life so poor and
small as not to hold many a divine possi-
bility.
Humility is the altar upon which God
wishes that we should offer Him our sacri-
ces.
The same spirit of faith that teaches a
man to cry earnestly, teaches him to wait
patiently.
More dear in the sight of God and His
angels than any other conquest is the
conquest of self. .
No true work since the world began was
ever wasted; no true life since the world
began has ever failed.
To love God is our happiness, to trust
in Him is our repose, to surrender our-
selves entirely to His will is our strength.
When God designates our work, He will
give what is needed for its accomplish
ment, if we keep in touch with Him.
“Purse-and-All” Consecration.
Many who count themselves wholly the
Lord’s do not count all their possessions
the Lord’s. Yet either we and all that
we have are Christ's, or we do’ not feel
that we or anything that we have are
Christ’s. There is no half-way consecra-
tion in God’s service, although many
seem to think that personal consecration
only applies to those things that are
specifically included. That was a very
positive truth stated by Prebendary Fox
at the Student Volunteer Convention in
Toronto, when he said, “There are thou-
sands who will trust Christ with the sal-
vation of their souls who will not trust
Him with the key of their cash-box.” It
has been well said that personal conse-
cration must: be spelled ‘‘purse-and-all”
consecration, or it practically amounts to
nothing.
The Daily Level.
It is the man who lives the well-regu-
lated daily life who is fit to meet an
emergency when it arises. Little bits of
pure inspimtion very seldom come to or
are acted upon by slovens, self-indulgent
or undisciplined people. “Similarly, the
Christian who lives ordinarily at a lower
level of grace, whose Christian life is de-
pressed and feeble, is unable to seize on
great opportunities of usefulness when
they occur.
Have Faith.
If you will look up you will walk stead-
ily. Do not ignore the danger, nor pre-
sumptuously torget your own weakness;
but “when I said my foot slippeth, ‘Thy
mercy held me up.” Rec e the slip-
pery ice and the feeble foot and couple
with them the other thought, ‘‘the Lord
knoweth them that are His.”—Alexander
McLaren.
The Strongest Things.
There are some good things in all men,
low they may have fallen,
1
no matter
and
every effort should be exerted to
make them the st things in the
individu Rev. Dr. Scott
together except thev are agreed?” And
life of every
1 ey, Boston, Mass,
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED
PENSIONS GRANTED.
Company B Inspection —- Tar Paper
Plant Sold — Choked to Death.
Bend Issue Defeated.
The veterans roll of honor, the pen:
sion list, was increased during the
past week by the following: - Andrew
Mills, Altoona, $6; Herman Quarn-
strom, Warren, $17; John Palmiter,
Kinzua, $6; Charles H. Rush, Clear
field, $14; Samuel Kuhns, Franklin,
$12; William Hirst, Altoona, $8; John
A. Stroupe, Pigeon, $12; James H.
Kimble, Lavansville, $17; John H.
Scott, New Albany, $17; Jacob Ander-
son, Belknap, $10; Thomas M. Yohn,
Honey Grove, $12; William Swanger,
Derry station, $14; Conrad George,
Everett, $12; Samuel Church, Mifilin-
burg, $10; Andrew J. Bower, Union-
town, $10; Cookson D. Green, Knox,
$14; Elizabeth Rodgers, Philipsburg,
$8; Alfred Burrows, Sharon, $12; Will-
iam H. Carroll, Someset, $10; John T.
Barre, Meadville, $8; John F. Baird,
Brinkerton, $17; Elizabeth R. Rantz,
Sharon, $8; Emma R. Pawling, Som-
erset, $12.
The tar paper plant of the Cambria
Steel Company, at Johnstown, has
been sold to the Barrett Manufactur-
ing Company,of Philadelphia, the
trust on tar paper, which operates
large plant in: Chicago, Philadelphia,
Brooklyn, St. Louis and other cities.
An official of the Barrett Company
was placed in charge of the plant,
which produces its tar paper from
the bi-products of the Cambria coke
works. The consideration is in the
neighborhood of $250,000.
Harry Dutter, aged 22, near Mt.
Chestnut, Butler county, was found
dead in a field, where he had gone
to work. The young man had car-
ried his dinner with him, and part of
his meal consisted of hard-boiled eggs.
He had partaken of a hearty meal,
finishing with one of the eggs, part
or one lodging in his windpipe, chok-
ing him to death.
Five burglars blew open the safe in
Daub & Pressler’s grocery store, Craf-
ton. The explosion aroused the citi-
zens and a desperate fight ensued be-
tween the officers, the citizens and the
thieves. One officer was shot and an-
other was struck with a chisel. The
burglars escaped with the cash box
containing about $30.
The Senate committee on patents
has reported favorably the House joint
resolution authorizing the depositing
in the Carnegie library of Pittsburgh
of the patent specifications and draw-
ings on deposit in the clerk’s office of
the United States Circuit Court for
the western district: of ‘Pennsylvania.
James Hockenperry; of Saville town-
ship, Perry county, was arrested,
charged with being one of the four
masked men who entered the home of
the Misses Hench, in Liberty Valley,
in March, and forced the occupants to
hand over several hundred dolsars. He
was committed to jail for a hearing.
The inspection of Company B.
Tenth Regiment, N. G. P., was held at
New Brighton, under the direction
of Major S. W. Jeffers. Other officers
present were Colonel James E. Bar-
nett, Captain Clarence Rehn, Captain
and Assistant Surgeon John Coffin
and Major H. C. Cuthberston.
Nearly 100 delegates were present
at the 17th annual convention of the
Methodist Women’s Foreign Mission-
ary Society of the Erie conference, at
New Castle. The -report of the
treasurer showed that more than $1,000
had been raised for foreign mission
work. J
John Smith, foreman of the ma-
chine shop at the National Steel plant,
at Sharon, was present with a hand-
some gold watch by the men of the
shop. Mr. Smith leaves soon for
Steubenville, O., where he will be em-
ployed in the Labelle Steel Works.
While Joseph Masquelier, of Stur-
geon, was explaining the working of
a new shotgun to his wife the gun was
accidentally discharged, the contents
entering her right foot, mangling that
member in such a manner that it will
have to be amptated.
The County Commissioners have
awarded the contract for the super-
structure of the new Westmoreland
county court house to the Lindsey
Construction Company. It is to be
built of Troy granite. The bid was
$570,378.
At a meeting of citizens of Kane, a
large sum was subscribed for the re-
lief of the Marienvillie fie sufferers.
The Business Men's association can-
vassed the town previous to the meet-
ing. The total amount raised was
£500.
The Borough Council of New Brigh-
ton laid on the table a motion pre.
sented on behalf of H. C. Conklin, of
New York to purchase the newly-built
sewer system. Council refused te
consider the sale of the system at any
| price.
Attorney Charles Falls, of New Cas-
tle, who was supposed to have suicid-
ed in I.ake Erie, was met last week in
Denver, Col, by Roy Brandon. Falls
is traveling with a theatrical troupe.
J. M. Mcllvaine, of Hickory, Wash-
ington county, has offered a reward
of $500 for the body of his son, W. E.
Mecllvaine, who mysteriously disap-
peared from his home January 14.
Charles Bittner, aged 25, employed
as a driver in the Somerset Coal Com:
pany’s mine, near Meyersdale, fell
down the shaft, a distance of 45 feet,
and was fatally injured.
The residence of Harry Cornell, near
Blairsville, was destroyed by fire, caus-
ing a loss of $4,000. The family had a
narrow escape from being cremated.
The Hdwards woolen mills, at
Spartansburg will be removed to Oil
AMERICAN TRADE ABROAD.
Manufactured Products of Yankee In-
genuity in Remote Places.
Punta Arenas in Tierra del Fuego is
the southernmost continental spot on
the globe, but the modern lighthouse
on that lonely coast is equipped with
electrical machinery made in Schen-
ectady, N. Y. The firm that manufac-
tured it has also pushed electricity
farthest north by installing dynamos
at Hammerfast, in Norway, and,
though it is a far ery from the deep-
est drifts of the Calumet and Hecla
mine to Yanteles, in the Andes, 14,
000 feet above the sea, two consign-
ments recently left Schenectady, one
for the deep mine, the other for the
mountain. By the bedside of the pope
is placed every night an American
flashlight apparatus in the form of a
cylinder with an incandescent blub in
one end—in effect an electrical can-
dle. At Bagdad, Aladdin has been re-
placed by a New York concern. Lamps
of fanciful patterns are sent from
New York to a point on the Persian
gulf, and thence conveyed over some
300 miles of desert on camel back.
They are then placed on rafts and
towed 100 miles up the Euphrates and
again loaded on camels and carried
to their destination, 200 miles from
the river. These lamps decorate the
palaces of the Sultan of Morocco, the
Prince of Siam and several rajahs in
British India; and they are also pop-
ular in Jerusalem. From the Falls of
the Couvery, one of the sacred rivers
of India, to Kolar, in Mysore, Amer-
ican electrical engineers have recent-
ly set up an American transmission
plant under somewhat remarkable
circumstances. There are still wild
elephants in Myscre, and there will
always be white ants. But as a white
ant will venture not more than five
or six feet up a pcle in search of ed-
ible woad, the steamer from New Yori:
carried out to India iron post sockets
seven feet high in which rose the
poles—to the discomfiture of the ants,
To disconcert the elephants and pre.
vent grounding of the current through
any behemoth that might venture to
test the wires with his trunk, the en-
gineers, after careful measurement,
strung the wires just beyond reach of
the biggest possible elephant stand-
ing on hind legs and groping.
Large Dritislr Families.
Mrs. Mary Lancaster, who was bur-
fed recently at Lancaster, in England,
left 110 grandchildren ard fifty great-
grandchildren. Around her grave
were 100 descendants, relatgs the
London Chronicle. But a still more
remarkable case is recorded by Lord
George Lyttleton in his “Miscella-
neous Works,” in an account of a tour
in Wales. ‘He mentions the death of
a Welsh farmer near Festiniog at the
ripe age of 105. The Welshman had
married three times. By his first
wife he had thirty children, Not
deterred by this family, he married
again, and had ten by his second. By
his third wife he brought the children
to forty-four, the last child being
eighty-one years younger than the
eldest. At the farmer’s funeral there
was an attendance of 800 descendants.
A few families like that and Canada
would probably no longer call for
settlers.
Artificial incubators are being used
in England for pheasants and other
game birds. Nearly all the ostriches
on the South African ranches are also
raised in incubators.
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