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The *oncert- m, and but 1 ve "BLY swered admit Ss town, tranger got & nach, nearly ght off Beach autilus a was t open. young ‘hes in d to a h they un. 4 A 4 od xf a lh Be A SERMON FOR SUNDAY AN INTERESTING DISCCURSE BY THE "REV. DR. H. C. SWENTZEL. * Subject: The Divine Carpenter—Christ Be- longed to the Grand Army of Self-Re- specting Workingmen—His Life Con- demns the Sinfulness of Idleness. " BrOOKLYN, N. Y.—An interesting and forceful sermon was preached Sunday morning by Rev. Dr. Henry C. Swentzel, rector of St. Luke's Church, Clinton ave- nue, near Fulton street. The subjegh was “The Divine Carpenter,” and the R St. Mark wvi:3: “Is not this the carpenter?” Dr. Swentzel said: The glorious Son of Man was a mechanic. It is well worth while to consider those eighteen years which He spent at Nazar- kr og concerning which we would dearly love to know so much, but of which it is possible to learn so little. Whether He were rich or poor, whether He devoted Himself exclusively to the exercises of re- ligion or was occupied with other concerns as well; whether He were, so to say. a man among men, or lived a strange weird life as a recluse in the wilderness—these are queries upon which we may reflect with profit. During the period which began when the Christ Child went down from among the | doctors in the temple to the Galilean home to prepare for His public life there is only one bit of definite information concerning Him, and that is furnished almost acci- dentally in the text. Y The people who had known Him all along were astonished when they heard His Sasings and saw His mighty works. "The record which He made among -them in- bygone years. was worthy of im and ought to have prepared them to expect large things of Him sooner or later, but they conld not forget that He had lived among them as a common artisan. YVhen He returns to them with all the fame He had won and was about to spend a brief season with them in order that His former friends and npeighbors might not be neg- lected in His ministry, they recall His an- tecedents, and they ask with mingled won- der and scorn, ‘Is not this the carpenter?” The question establishes the fact that Jesus had been known as a'village carpen- ter. From the days of youth until He set out to do the stupendous work for which He was sent, He accepted the trade of His reputed father and was occupied largely «with its ordinary employment. He be- longed to the ‘‘working classes.” A de- scendant of the royal David He most sure- ly was, and yet He thought not of the throne of His renowned ancestor. He was indeed a king, but not after the world’s: fashion, for He ‘came to be King of men, to rule the heart and conscience of man- kind. He seems to have had mo ambition to attain unto a lofty station, and the par- aphernalia of earthly greatness had no charms for Him. is masterful purpose was to save the world, both the classes an the masses, and He would, therefore, iden- tify Himself personally and actively with the multitudes and not only vith a privii- eged few. He could tea¢h princely virtues without being a prince, aiid He would ben- «efit the hosts of mankind by allying Him- self with the conditions and experiences of the many. He understood. full well that mo political contrivances: could "bring the kingdom of God to this earth, and He con- sidered that the needs of the-millions could be served in no other .way. than by the moral and spiritual” democracy which it was His mission to establish. * ur Lord was a workingman. It must mot, therefore, be supposed that He held a ‘brief or thundered a bull of excommunica- tion against riches. He had something to :say against mammon worship, and He warned against the temptations of opu- lence, but He never branded wealth as es- sentially evil. He taught emphatically that the responsibility of people is in exact pro- portion to what they have, and that, inas: much as money entails numerous obliga- tiens,. they who have it can be saved only through the most devoted regard for their duties. Some of His disciples were well-to- «do, and both the midnight inguirer and the good man of Arimathea were dear to Him. “The common people heard Him gladly.” but others were not exciuded from I1lis blessing simply because they had posses- sions. The gifts of the Mazi at the begin- ning of His career and the rich man’s tomb wherein His mangled corpse reposed at the Jast, indicate that His mission included both the many and the few. e advocated none of the insane social or political here- gies which some believe in now, but, tak- ing full account of human inequalities, He taught the world to do its best, to live -manfully amid the strains and stress of life, to use the present situation with all 4its ills for the glory of-God and the well- being of the human family. No Croesus «could haye been the Son of Man. The real ‘Son of Man must be typical and represen- tative in every noble way. He must be the brother of the toiling millions who earn their bread in the sweat of their face, and who deal every day with the urgent prob- dem of livelihood. ‘And yet Jesus did not accept the state of squalid poverty. He was no pauper. "The purpose of infinite love which brought Him hither could not prompt Him to ac- ‘cept the state of such a forlorn character. It would be impossible for any individual -who was poor through his own guilt to be «other than an incongruous and repulsive figure, or to stand as the model of perfect manhood. Pauperism is an evil in every sense; and while society is bound to help it, it is too degrading and polluting tc merit encouragement, and an enlightened state will wisely make laws by which, if ossible, to crush it. Guilty poverty should e rebuked and shamed. The Son of Man <ould choose it not, for then He would have -disgraced Himself and presented an inferior'ideal for His followers. Never by allowing Himself to be a burden to others -or by becoming an object of public charity, «could He have spoken to men and elevated their standards and raised the tone of their thought: Neither a high social degree nor a discreditable beggary would have been in harmony with Himself or the interests which He had in view; for in either case He would not have been in a position from which He could touch the minds and hearts and lives of the nations. The Son of Man must be where He can speak to all with equal advantage, where He can reach their ti and wie'd His blessed power over the sphere of their practical questions and activities. He could not have been one who was arrayed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuousiy every day, neither could He have adopted the portion of a squalid and self-inflicted poverty. He would mot be either rich or sinfully poor, but an honest, industrious, royal workingman. “Is not this the carpenter?’ In this en- wious and half reproachful question of His acquaintances is a happy revelation of the ideal of the Son of Man for all the world. It was in Joseph’s shop that He spent all save three vears of His manhood. It was at the bench and with the tools of a me- <hanic that He chose to live in order that His example might speak lessons of truth and inspiration to all human souls. The Scriptures lay stress upon His humble cir- cumstances, but they do not piace Him on a par with the thriftless sluggard who de- serves to feel the pinch of want. No ef- fort of ours can fathom the depths of His humiliation who, being the Son of God, be- came the Son of Mary and a carpenter; who, though He was rich yet for our sakes He became poor, that we through His pov- erty might be rich, but He knew no indi- gence. We see this divine Being in Naza- reth on a self-supporting basis, making a living by mending plows and yokes, re- pairing houses and doing &ii the jobs which fall to a village carpenter; we seé¢ Him working with His hands for bread and learning by day that way of labor which ET _ - so momsw sea belonged to the grand army of self-respect- ing workingmen. Not from a palace nor ‘yet from a hovel, but froth the workshop: of an artisan does Jesus of Nazareth make common cause with all the ‘people of 't passing generations. 5 i How surely our Lord condemns the sin= fulness of indolence, and how sublimely does His example urge the. employment of ‘our energies. "He might have maintained Himself without work, but to have done so would have been to set the seal of His sanction upon the very spirit that prompts the average individual to get through this world with as little effort as possiblé—the spirit that is plainly the spirit of the devil, and that is the prolific cause of crime and woe. He who fed the crowds from a few loaves and fishes might have wrought a daily miracle for Himself, but never once was His omnipotence exertéd in His own behalf. He accepted the very situation which confronts us. Engaged with the oc- cupations of His trade during so many years, He exalts industry into a divine virtue and brands sloth as a deadly sin. e has no favor for an ambition that longs for absolute ease. It may not be necessary for any one to be occupied with the bur- dens. of business, but we are all bound: to keep in personal touch with the life of hu- manity. There are other spheres of use- fulness than the field and, the shop, the office or the counting room. The church asks for thousands who are willing to fol- low the example of splendid heroes who have withdrawn from the haunts of trade and from the hope of gain in order to de- vote themselves exclusively to the ministry of Christian laymen. Everywhere are char- ities calling loudly for encouragement and service. Politics presents a wide range for the activities. of patriotism and of the very highest religion. here is something for everybody to do, and no one is justified in living for himself in a sequestered and at- tractive nook away from the demands that sound from every quarter. Kach 'individ- ual should have some occupation, a place in the world’s vast factories, a work of some sort which shall tell for the happiness of others. The Lord has a strong word for labor. He is the fellow and the champion of all toilers. He has a meaning for all those who work with their brain or with their hands, for all such are workingmen. He has forever consecrated the everydayness of life. ce adopts the workaday world. “The Light of Asia,” which states beauti- fully certain features of the Buddhist reli- gion, represents the incarnate Buddha as a. wandering beggar, asking food. Jesus Christ was no beggar. The mendicant, any more than the pauper, receives not the ap- proval of His own practice, by which He sanctified labor Eos end of the world. he Gallilean Carpenter was no less the incarnate Son of God during. the years which He spent at Nazareth than He was on the mountain of the transfiguration or on the first Easter Day. There are many" reasons why work is honorable, but it re- ceives its crowning glory from the exper: ience of the divine Christ during the long He was a mechanic. He has endured all’ occupations with dignity that nothing short of our own’ disloyalty’ can” possihly ‘take: away. It matters not what one’s daily’ toils are, they are worthy of fidelity and energy, and they are as much a-part of God’s service as the saying of prayers and the receiving of religious rites. The em- peror and his humblest subject, the prime minister and the street sweeper, the mil- lionaire and his valet, all are included in the spirit of industry and devotion which Jesus manifested at the bench which stood in a shop or, perhaps, at times under a huge tree at Nazareth. He has hallowed all vocations by the consécration of His personal industry, and they should be in- terpreted and accepted as a sacred part of the life which now is. : EE 3 The Nazareth Carpenter teaches that worldly place of itself is nothing worth. A man may be a man wherever hes, and labor is honorable whatever it. may be. Station or the lack of it does not make the man or his life. . The people oi lowly ‘degree may likewise learn precious ‘lessons of the Galilean artisan. They become dis- couraged because they fancy themselves to be of no account, and ‘they too often *cher- ish an udhappy contempt for their ddily toils. They despise the factory or the office as necessary evils. "Jesus has a lesson for them which He pronounces from the Nazareth shop. Long years He spent in obscurity. No murmurs escape Him, no signs of impatience, no evidences of a restless longing to be otherwise, no vulgar and godless disposition to try to improve upon the plans of divine providence. Quiet. ly day after-day He was concerned with the unimpressive and uninteresting mat- ters of His business, and His only aim was to be true to the state where He was des- tined to live until the time -came for be- inning the public ministry. Wherever the eaven)y Father has placed us we, the sons of men, can be the sons of God. The real things of life are not earthly ‘and tem- poral, and the true estimate of ourselvesis not the place—be it lofty or lowly—which we hold among men. The divine Carpen- ter is a comfort and an inspiration to all. Amid the employment of His trade did Jesus prepare Himself for His public life. There He was made ready, at least in part, to exercise all those transcendently great Sistas of mind and heart which marked is ministry. For three years He gave Himself up to His work as the world’s Re- deemer, but for fifteen years and more, as was probably the case, He was cnly a car- penter. Surely He did not spend all His time and energy upon His daily toils. Of- ten did He devote Himself to godly exer- cises of prayer and contemplation, without which no one can develop the traits of highest character. But He was no recluse. He settled the truth once for all that the place for strong-minded, stout-hearted folk to serve God is in the world; the arena for doing the Father's will is right here. where we have. abundant opportunities for the culture of holy graces and the practice of holy living. We need the benefits of occa- sional solitude, but we are bound to think so seriously of life and of God's cause as to give no place to the mawkish sentimen- talism which adores perpetual seclusion and calls it the noblest type of religion. The divine Carpenter hesitated not to spend the years upon which His future work was founded amid the activities inci- dent to the daily interests of mankind. He was a bread-winner, a wage-earner. Work is God’s ordinance. If it was. a curse in the beginning, it is a blessing now. It is one of the best tonics. It is scarcely less than a sacrament. It may be debased, even as may the sacrament of the altar in which one may eat and drink damnation to his soul, but it is something of a sacra- ment which is intended, if used aright, to strengthen and uplift, and to further the divine plans. It is a sacred duty. It is the privilege and the prerogative of taking part in the vast activities of humanity. It is an invitation to the market place to dis- pense comforts, to have a share in the world’s progress and the making of his- tory. It proclaims independence, it disei- plines character, it schools the affections. We are oniy holy ground and are doing holy things when we go with Christ’s spirit to the daily round and the common task. The founder of Christianity, the incarnate Son of God, the universal Man, was a vil- lage carpenter. Holiness and Humility. The highest lesson a believer has to learn is humility. O, that every Christian who seeks to advance in holiness may re- member this well! There may be intense consecration, and fervent zeal, and heav- enly experience, and yet, if it is not pre- vented by dealings of the Lord, there may be an unconscious self-exaltation with it all. Let us learn the lesson—the highest holi- ness is the deepest humility, and let us re- member that it comes not of itself. but only as it is made a matter of special deai- i art ‘of our faithful Lord and wust be trodden by all bread-winners. He | ful servant.—Andrew Murray. period of which we know nothing save that x % kx * Kk * Kk dh KX * EE, By. ttle Jap Fighting Man RALPH D. PAINE re om ERE EE EW x kk * kx k kx Kk Kk _%X 2) HEN the allies had to fight hard at Tien-tsin to escape being whipped by despised Chinese troops, the Ameri- N 7 cans and Europeans be- lieved what they had heard of the quality of the Japanese fighting man. They joined forces with him, rather inclined ‘to class him as an experiment in modern warfare, they took off their hats to his courage, discipline, dash and endurance when they left him. But this campaign was not needed to prove that the “ready-made” army and navy of the Japanese was equal to any tests of actual service. In the Chinese War: one of the na- tional heroes of Japan was in command of a tin pot of a merchant steamer which had been pressed into service as a ttansport, mounting a couple of rap- id-fire popguns. This sailor, now Rear Admiral Kabayama, was not looking for action, but unexpectedly he found himself on the edge of the fight of the Yalu. Before he could get out of the way, his transport was cut off from the Japanese fleet and cornered under the fire of Chinese battleships and cruis- ers. The feeble craft seemed a hope- less insurance risk, but Captain Kaba- yama had no idea of surrender or in- activity. He dodged in and out of the fighting line; trying to pick a way to: sea, but doing his ‘share of the pound- ing whenever he ‘got a chance. His rapid-fire guns barked incessantly. He riddled and sunk a torpedo boat that was rash enoligh to make for him, and panged away at battleships with .amaz- ing audacity. When a.shell burst on pictures... caDhann Sid _ Another torpedo boat shot out of the ritekeand let. go. her forpedoes at. paint- blank range. “Here is where we all go-up in the air together,” said Captain Kabayama. But the torpedo dived clean under the ship, and to show that this ‘trifling escape did not daunt the Japanese skipper, he sent his ship full speed ahead gnd tried to ram the. big- The quarry dodged, and, feeling that he had done his share with the limited means at his command, Kabayama worked his way: through the battle and rejoined the Japanese fleet, his transport badly cut up, and many of ‘his crew killed, but -still in commis- sion. ald Ria ' Vice-Admiral Togo, now commanding a squadron:almost sure to be engaged in the next great naval fight, was a captain in the Chinese War. He com- manded a second-class cruiser, the Naniwa, which was in more hot fight ing than any ‘other ship of the Japan- ese navy, and earned his title as the handed way of doing things, and is not a safe man to take chances with in war. The British ship Kowshing and two others had been loaded upgwith troops and stores for the Chinese and ‘sent off for Korea. When in sight of | the Korean coast, the cruiser Naniwa came fin sight of the convoy, and promptly hove a few shells across the bows of the Kowshing as a-signal to stop and be captured. The order was obeyed, and Captain Togo signaled: “Remain where you are or take the consequences.” The Kowshing was ordered a little later to follow the cruiser, but the panie-stricken Chinese would not let the British skipper obey the command, and threatened to murder him if he did not turn tail and run for it. Cap- tain Togo was not playing at war, and when he was disobeyed he opened’ up svith the five guns he could bring to bear, signaling for all Europeans to leave the Kawshing. The terrified ship tried to get out of range. Captain Togo chased her; and, feeling annoyed yver the situation, let go a torpedo from one of his bow tubes. Herr von Han- neken, a Prussian officer in the Chi- nese service, was on board the Kow- shing. A few seconds after the Nani- wa torpedo hissed into the sea, he re- lates, “the day became night. Pieces of coal, splinters of what had been the ship, columns of water, filled the air. [ believe all of us leaped overboard, or were hurled skyward. Many of the arew reached land by swimming. The Japanese captain would give no aid in rescuing the Chinese. He was not at that time educated up to the hu- manities of warfare.” Songs are sung and stories told to this’ day of a Japanese sailor in the Yalu battle. While standing on the rail of his ship he was struck by a fragment of shell, fatally torn and knocked off into the sea. He rose for a moment in a whirl of bloody foam and shouted to his comrades, “Japan forever!” then sank. It was the same quality of patriotism that showed in the tale, told in broken English, by a Japanese navy lieutenant, whom an American correspondent met in Naga- saki not long ago. The young officer was in command of one of the torpe- do boats which attacked in fletilla the Chinese battleships in the harbor of Wei-Hai-Wei. As all naval experts take for granted, such an attack means the destruction of most of the torpedo boat force, and success is achieved if one of them lives long enough to send its deadly weapon home. T is what ‘his deck and swept away a”gun crew, he ordered ‘tivo of his. officers to fetch: their cametds and get some realistic: zest Chinese battleship in the’ fine. “Fighting Admiral.” He has a’high- * kh kok Fh kK RK happened at Wei-Hai-Wei. lieutenant: “The fire was very heavy. The two torpedo boats nearest mine were rid- dled and sank with all on board before they were within striking distance. We were hit many times, and had some killed and wounded. But the engines were working still, and the steering gear was not smashed, and enough of us were left to attend to these things and also to serve the torpedo tubes, so | we were very lucky. It was the hap- piest moment of my life when we were still afloat within 600 yards of the big- gest and finest battleship left in the Chinese navy. We fired two torpe- does, just an instant before a shell went through our boilers. : “Mine was the only attacking vessel left in action. My boat blew up and sank before the torpedoes were much more than out of tha tubes. I went to the bottom and came up again, and while I was trying to swim ‘out of the storm of shells I saw the ‘battleship sinking like a.stone. One torpedo had blown her bettom-out. There were only four of my crew. of nearly thirty found alive, -but they died happy be- cause they had helped Japan.” Thre immortal deed of the Japanese private who blew open the Tien-tsin gate, when it was certain that’ he would be blown up with it,-had-an ear- lier counterpart in as desperate a feat of valor at the siege of Ping-Yang, in the Chinese ‘War, . The Ping-Yang de- fenders made bloody and hard held re- sistance. The Japanese troops tried to storm, the massive walls and the stout gate :again and again, but were driven back with discouraging losses. After one retreat from the walls, a private “of’ infantty, named Harada, remained behind, crouching under the shelter of the overhanging battlements, The--Chinese warriors within: were shouting ‘over their triumph, when Harada sealed the wall unseen and dropped -inte~the midst oi a hundred of the defenders. Before they realized who. Harada was, he had shot three of them, “Ba¥vneted another, clubbed his rifle and smashed his way-to the gate. It was tlie’ work'of a moment to throw’ down the. great:iron bar which held the gate closed, and he flung it open for" his comrades ‘to finish the job. - Hara- da did ppt rush out to join ‘tliem, but neld the gate with his back to the wall, until the attacking. force scampered in and toek the fort with-bloody suc- cess. Strangh to say, they.found. the lone private-alive and still fighting; al- though badly cut and battered. He was decorated by the Empéror, ang, in ad- dition to the ballads, mide apoiit him, he is:.held up to the’ scheolboys-ofJa-- pani’ as tHe kind of citizen thé country’ needs -in :lter+ defense, - ano Said the The' nméthers of* Japan “hive played their partin the heroic annals of ‘their soldier sons. When an infantry regi- ment-was: marching through ‘an®inland village qa. its way to the front in 1894, a woman“insisted on seeing a lieuten- ant of the company in which her son was a‘private. The officer’ consented with reluctance, because he feared that she “would-plead that her only boy might be allowed to stay at home. But what- she "had ‘to say and what her heart was full of was this: “I have come to thank you for your kindness to-my son, and to ask you to see that he does his duty well. I am a widow, and he is my: only son, but I have told him that when he goes into battle he must be quite willing and ready to die for his Emperor and his country. I have to'd him, too, that I shall dies of shame if he disgraces himself as a coward.” Anothier mother, whose son was her sole support, was told that her son must return to the colors when the re- cent mobilization was ordered, in pre- paration for war with Russia. “The duty to the flag,” she said, “comes before the lesser duties to the home. Though I should die of starva- tion, yon must not hesitate. You must think ef your country: not of me!"— Collier's Weekly. Humboldt’s Emerald Sold at Auction. “A gigantic emerald” is the title which the auctioneer in his catalogue bestowed upon a precious stone just scld at an art auction in Berlin. It once belonged to Czar Nicholas I: of Russia, who presented .it ‘to the fa- mous explorer Humboldt. It is four inches long and .two and four-tenths inches in diameter, and is cut on four sides, the remaining sides being rough. The setting ,is curious and artistic. The précious’ stone is embedded in a silver rock, -around which seven little gnomes are grouped, cutting the rock with their axes. This work of art rests on a pedestal of ebony, decorated with silver. The price it brought at the aue- tion—$500—was considered very moder- ate. Voices Made to Order. Voices made to order are the latest things in surgery. Actual operations have demonstrated that the larynx, or vocal box, can be successfully removed and the patient may recover. In order to restore speech to the patient an arti- ficial larynx and vocal chords are pro- vided. The voice artificially produced is incapable of inflection, but. although it is a monotone, t} S periect- land" “hospital. +'been begun by Thomas’ Lynch, Mur- ‘from a .tially- destroyed the plumbing shop ly able to carry on a conver EVSTANE STRTE GULLINGS SOLD COCAINE TO BOYS. Suit for $50,000 Damages for Loss of Life in Elevator—Two Child- ~~ ren Burned to Death. Lewis Swatzer and John Mahey, of Erie, lost their lives by the explosion of a locomotive on the Philadelphia & Erie railroad near Kane. Both were asleep in the caboose at the time 04 the explosion and before they could be rescued : Mahey’s body was burned to a crisp, while Swatzer died a short time after being iaken from the burning wreckage. The engineer and fireman were blown out of the cab of the engine by the force of the explosion, but were not fatally in- jured. Michael Pallone, an Italian, was hanged at Brookville, for the- murder of Rosso Roccto, a fellow-country- man, last June. - The crime was com- mitted at Anita, a mining town near Punxsutawney. Less than 50 per- sons, including the sheriff's jury and the physicians, viewed the execution, although a crowd of about 700 filled the streets surrounding the jail. John Batiste Acclo, under sentence of death was to have hanged at the same time as Pallone, but has been re- spited for 30 days. The greatest meeting of the simul- taneous evangelistic campaign was held Sunday afternoon at the Alvin theater, Pittsburg, when 1,000 men tand boys expressed their intention of entering the Christian life. The large playhouse was crowded with men -and boys from top to bottom and fully 3,000 persons were in the building. Men stood for two hours in uncomfort- able positions unwilling to leave the meeting. Rev. W. E. Biederwolf preached on “The White Life” and he held his immense audience in utmost silence ‘throughout his discourse. Five outlaws attempted to rob the Baltimore and Ohio railroad station in Butler. Night Agent Charles Postle- wait shot through the door at them once and in reply bullets crashed through the window and door, barely missing him. Flying particles of glass from the splintered window ‘struck him in the eyes, temporarily blinding him. The robbers were scar- ed off by the approach of officers be- fore they could take advantage of his position. Hoan Mrs. Sarah IL. Hay, widow of Maj. Samuel W. Hay, a veteran of the civil and Spanish wars, has filed a state- ment in a suit against Bella, William, James: W., Charles F. and Albert Ar- rott,. trustees of the estate of James W. ;Arrott, in which she asks. $50,000 damages for the death. of Mr. Hay, who was the victim of an elevator ac- cident in the .Arrott building, Pitts- burg. Charges of mismanagement have been preferred against Miss Irena Fal- lon, superintendent of the Westmore- An investigation has ray Forbes and J. Howard Patton, the executive committee of the board of directors. AThe charges grew out of differences between the superin- teridént and“the staff of nurses.’ : . Bd. Smith, a’ negro, changed by Hamilton Boothem, of Charleroi, with giving his son Maurice Boothem co- caine, pleaded guilty and sent to jail without bail. It is alleged he furnish- ‘ed it to a large number of boys. Since his arrest a number of boys have been dangerously “ill © caused, physicians gay by the drug being cut off. nA stubborn fire in Second avenue, New Kensington, which was started defective flue par- ‘owned by Michael Lancelot and an adjoining residence occupied by Wil- liam Weyland. Both buildings were frame. The loss is about $2,500 with $1,300 insurance. ’ Howard, the 38-year-old child of Charles E. Harris, New Castle, was burned to death in the house. The boy's clothes canght fire from a stove upstairs, and set the house on fire, but the blaze was extinguished before much’ damage was done to the dwell ing. i . William Poff, of Plymouth, Luzerne county, was instantly killed on the Pennsylvania, railroad, near Johns- town. The unfortunate man had been in the West looking for work, and was returning home to join his family. He was 45 years old. The annua] Sabbath school conven- tion of the Pittsburg synod of the Reformed Presbyterian church will be held in New Castle March 8 and 9. Delegates from more than 30 churches in this vicinity will attend. Prof. Harry E. Sayers, a member of the New Kensington eouncil, has an- nounced that he will be a candidate for Assembly. There are already seven candidates for the four vacan- cies, including Joseph B. Heister, Elsie May and Robert Shenafelt, aged six and four years, respectively, were burned to death in their home in Johnstown. Their mother, who is a widow, had goné across the street to visit a neighbor. A. Sargamus is a prisomer in the Lawrence county jail, at New Castle, He is charged with cutting Mrs. Mar- garet Rosser with a razor. The wo- man’s condition is serious. also of this place. Miss Anna Cray, of Pittsburg, has been chosen superintendent of, the Uniontown hospital. She is a gradu- ate of Mercy hospital. ‘The ‘home of Chalmer Williams. at Hillsville, was destroyed by fire. The loss is about $4.000. The Pennsylvania railroad is mak- ing rreparations to construct new yards at New Castle, Pa. The com- pany recently purchased 25 acres of land from John 1.. Crawford for $7S.- 000. Valuable papers and blue prints in the engineering department of the-Bal- timore and Ohio raiiroad, at New Castle, were destroyed by a small blaze in the freight station, before the flames could be put out. The sixth annive f Rev. M. W. Keith’s pastors Mahoning- town (Pa.) Pr hurch, was celebrated with s ~ Solved Problem in His Sleep. Répresentative John J. Gardner-of New Jersey, is no dreamer. None the less, he has evolved a -plan. to work out ‘“‘catch-problems” in his sleep. AS the remarkable story goes, this indus- trious chairman of the labor commit- tee works them out correctly. A few nights ago Mr. Gardner worked at one of these perplexing problems for sev- eral hours, finally deciding to sleep over fit. In the night he arose and worked out the problem with ease. The following morning he discovered the paper with the problem worked out with mathematical precision, but did not recognize the figures as his own. It required the word of his wife to convince him that he had worked out the problem and now he is dis- posed to think that the next time he has any puzzling question of state craft he will “sleep over it” and hope to find the solution in the morning.— Washington Post. : Field for Women in Japan. The Japanese goverment railway bureau proposes to employ young wo- men to sell tickets at the central sta- tion at Yokohama, and if the innova- tion proves a success all the male ticket sellers on the government rail- ways will be displaced by the other sex. At first sight the rapid manipu- lation of tickets seems to be an occu- pation for which feminine figures are peculiarly suited, but there may be ob- jections, and they will no doubt find adequate expression in this country should a similar proposal be made.— London Chronicle, William T. Richards, the celebrated * marine artist, will erect a unique sum- mer residence on a small island off Newport. The rocks and deep founda- tion will be blown out and the en- trance to the place will be from un- derneath the building. J. T."Clary, chief master-at-arms om the United States battleship Nevada, with service stripes on his arms de- noting 28 years of naval service, re- cently completed 100 trips around the world, - ; There: are thousands of bicycles bes ing sold through the, Southern States, where the bicycle craze has struck the negroes, and the wheel has almost been abandoned by the whites. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous- nessafter first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great NerveRestorer. $2trialbottleand treatisefree Dr. R. H. KLINE, Ltd., £31 Arch St., Phila. Pa Gamblers on ocean steamers operate im groups of two or three. 4 The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture C‘ves to Salzer’s Lats its heartiest en- dorsement. Salzer’s New National Oats yielded in 1903 from 150. to 300 bu. i acre in 30 different States, and ‘you, Mr. ‘Farmer, can beat this in 1904, if you will Salzer’s s.eds are pedigree seeds, bred up through careful selection to big yields. x Per Acre. Salzer’s Beardless Barley yielded . 121 bu. C 300 Salzer’s Home Builder Corn.... bu. Speltz and Macaroni Wheat.... 80 bu. Salzer’s Victoria Rape.......... 0,000 lbs. Salzer’s + Teosinte, the fodder * wOnAeTE:. fess BT ee va Oe ,000 Ibs. - ‘Salzer’s Billion Dollar Grass.... 50,000 (bs. Salzer’s Pedigree Potatoes...... 1,000 bu. Now such yields'pay“and’ you can have ‘them, Mr. Farmer, in 1904 : SEND 10C. IN STAMPS J ‘and this notice to the John A. Salzet Seed :Co.,. La Crosse, Wis., and you will get their ‘big cat log and lots of farm seed samples free. [A.C.L.J. . The ‘most valuable feathers are those of, the mirasol, a bird of Argentina. f Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup forchildren teething, softenthe gums, reduces inflamma- tion aHays pain,cureswind colic. 26c. abottle Copenhagen has the largest inclosed deer ‘park in the World. Its area™is4200 acres. * “Not So Bad. On an average five editors'a week are sent to prison in Germany for the crime of lese majeste, Taking «corn,: cord wood and potatoes for subsecrip- tions, in the United States, isn’t so bad, after all. a Sr b Deafness Cannot Be Cured vy by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion ofthe ear. Thereis only ona way to cure deafness, and that is by consti- | tutional remedies. Deafness is causéd by dn’ . inflamed condition of the mucous" lining of * the Eustachian Tube. When thig tube i5'in<? - flamed you have a rumblingsound or imper-: fect hearing, and when it is entirely. closed Deafness is the result, and unless.the inflam- mation can be taken out and this tube re- stored to its normal condition ‘hearing will® be destroyed forever. Nine c out.of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an. inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any” ° case of Deafness (caused by éatarrh)that can-"- not be eured by Hall’s'Catarrh*Cure.: Send for circulars free. F.J. CaENEY & Co., Toledo, OQ. Sold by Druggists, 75¢. 353 a is Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation An Astonishing Comparison. *: =x If the newspapers circulated in the | United States in a year were printed in book form they would make’ 4,000,- 000,000 12 mo. volumes. “ate For 30c. and This Notice The John A. Salzer Seed Co:, La Crosse, 7is., will send free 1 pkg. May 1st Carrof:............ os - s 100 1 pkg. Earliest Green Eating Onion.....10¢c. 1 pkg. Peep Of Day Tomato....5%... a 1 pkg. Salzer’s Flash Light Radish. .10e. 1 pkg. Long Quick, Quick Radish.......10. 1 pkg. Salzer’s Queen of All Radish. .10c. ve six rare novelties, the choicest and fine their kind, have a retail value of 70c. but they are mailed to you free, to- gether with Salzer’s big catalog, well worth $100.00 to every wide-awake gar. dener, all upon receipt of but 30c. in post« age and this notice. [A.C.L.] A locomotive, when going at ‘express speed, gives 1056 puffs per mie. Pur~saM FADELEsSS Dyes produce the brightest and fastest colors. . In a cubic foot of honeycomb there are about 9000 cells. Piso’s Cure is the best mecicine we ever used for all affections of throat and lungs.— Ww. O. ExpsrLEY, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. The first ruler honored with the title of “His Majesty’ was Louis XI. of France. This Will Interest. Mothers. Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for Children, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children’s Home, New York, cure Constipation, Fever= ishness, Teething Disorders, Stomach Trou= bles and Destroy Worms; 30,000 testimonials of cures. All druggists, 25c. Sample FrEz. Address Allen 8. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Red-haired peopie. it is stated, are less Liable to become bald. -
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