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A SERMON I'OR SUNDAY 2 Devanes ands dnined fuike} JAPS ARE PROGRFSSIVE | Yet Japan's entire sncome is not nait BIG RANCH.
cause 2 Pagiay lower. It is a well-known as-large as that of New York city. The A S0GO0A Pyrets Wash
fact that the young of the human species hn = national debt was $253,099,500. The ) cre Garden Patch in as
A STRONG DISCOURSE ENTITLED, {is inferior in strength and activity to the { INTERESTING NARRATIVE ABOUT | [2ona’ ¢¢ “ti sh :
' ’ "| young of many of the lower animals True, + ES stock of golg was estimated at $62. ington,
5 ’ ¥ 3 s. - : . :
#. AN ADVANCE ORDERED. we walk round the cradle of the’ sieeping THEIR ODD LITTLE ISLES 600,000. The total amount of silver in | wu. Babcock of Walla Walla, and BRAKEMAN KILLED.
———— jfnt Yih soft and reverent step, and To5P oF oo 5 ph eirculation was $20,400,000, and of pa- | ig. p. Benson, of Tacoma, owners of
’ y this is fitting. Heaven itself looks down e Pooulation of Japan is Over 43, | por money, $61.300.000. : i a vey Tr— —
The Rev. Dr, John B.adams Tellsaf tlie] 1 0 0 SE i ie om aT Coie rac ory p Mii ig FEY w the largest single ranch in Washing- Butier County Man Arrested, Charged
Law of 1 rogress as Exewmplified In the | jf it is too strong to say that God stations pj > the Lountry Rapidly = : ce, thee ict ood of the Japanese, { ton, and probably the largest In the : i ’ ? g
Waxing Strong of the Infant — We |, quaternion of guardian angels at the four ing in Wealth—Rice the Chief Food | is the most important crop, and in! northwest were in Spokane recently. With Causing the Death of
Should Seize Our Inheritance. gorners of every fits crib ia the Jareg and Principal Crop. 1900, 205,667,080 bushels were pro- | ur. Benson was enroute from the George R. Flannigan.
opeed Bre wi 2g Jeon, 2p: righ a ay Piety a Neatly t i + totam duced. Rice land is worth nearly three | ranch to Prosser, Wash., and Mr. Bab —
bs o £ pf usand is g - i » i . : :
i Sit of iw ee York sl on of what the child will be, rather than from Nearly ons Os hi oa eT Dine arable land, and I 1900} sock was on his way to the hig Lynn Scott, a young man of Buffa-
the Ron v. Dr. John KE. Adams, pastor of | #0Y. Perception of what it now is Prise Yhe mpre Of Japan, wieh 2D nearly 7,000,000 acres were cultivated janch at Trinidad. lo township, Butler county; has been
Grace M. E. Church. preached his closing ot EE aman A i To or Eig Stusre mee, a as rice fields. A great quantity of Tige The ranch owned by these two men ; Placed under arrest on an information
sermons Sunday. During his pastorate of ’ pee y five hundred islands, however, are | js used in the manufacture of sake, comprises 6.000 s. which they | for manslaughter. He is charged
a little mor ] he ¥ iad It cannot stand, nor walk, nor even creep. |; : i : s : ; = I $ acres, ac 3 3 :
a little mo: than two years he has had 1 4 inl Tc 4 Ye , | inhabited, the remaining isles being | and in 1900 173,051,000 gallons were d 24.00 Tr 1 - with causing the death of George R.
ithe stisc The debt of the church, | It cannot think. It does not know. Ii > ts 3 vpwn, and 24,000 acres held by lease. i ) >
$20,000, was cz ated in January, 1903, the | as no true perception, nor any mental ac. | mere heaps of rocks. The chief | produced from 27,789 establishments. It is 50 miles from one end to the | l|aDDigan, a young West Penn rail-
mortgage burned and the church. is now | tion whatever, apart fron what we call |islands are the Hondo, or “Main Barley was raised in 1900 on 1,579,096 | other The land is in a section where road brakeman, son of James Flanni-
free from incumbrance. Sunday morning ipsiingt, It'is utterly without the moral | Land,” area 87.771 scuare miles; Shi- | acres, yielding 42,591,056 bushels; rye | {p ; hare © gan, of Butler. While at work on a
DE A bh a without love, without hate, |, } a os 17g eg= | [DT€e years ago there were 900 square | freight train going from Butler to Al:
Sr dus preached om "An Advanes BF BoD it h. Though bo. | KOKU, south of and separated from | on 1,697850 acres, yielding 37,176,867 fids wi Si : 0 gone FIO 2h
dered.” The text was from Exodus xiv: 0 re, t fait hough bz miles without a single settler. Mr. | legheny a few weeks ago Flannigan
15: ‘Speak unto the chi ildren of Israel, longin ta Lo Rigdon, J od, 3¢ Fnowy | Hondo by shallow channel, area | pushels;” wheat on 1,147,747 acres, Babcock purchased it about five years | was struck on the head by an ns
that they go forward.” Dr. Adams said: | @ little of God as Herbert 8 Snencer vsed | 7630 square miles; Kiushin, west of ylelding 21,006,766 bushels. In 1900, |, d believed it 1a b rell’] b
ord 3 | to insist he and the rest of mankind knew. = py i J ago an elieved it could be we eer keg thrown into the car from
al? ny ee ved, te = 1t is nothing but a Drcdls of Crooner, | Snikekmn, with the Bunge chathel be- | 736,933 acres were devoted to the silk supplied with water and be made a | the steep hillside near the track. His
the Red Sea. Before them was the sea. Prganized life, with inherent capabilities | tWeen, area 15,587 Square miles; Yezo, ante. and 120,702 acres to tea, which good paying farm. skull was crushed and death resulted.
Suread: out for mi: and Yeaguen: aed they hot yet manifest. It hasn't ability enough | north of Hondo, with an area of 30,143 produced 63,210,100 pounds. Japan The good wheat land is on a bench | Flannigan’s father investigated the
[28 Soir bios jo boat, fa, Pontos ea LE 2 alt are ils gad Fon of Ane raises more cereals and other food | 1100 feet above the Columbia river | ¢2Se aon a result made information
Bho nnn ot Phe Tohind then and | stage of its being. Wcre it not for that | 03st of China. area 13. Square | products than she needs herself. SO | 3ng two miles back from the river. aszins 0 colt. Scoil wos, released on
chariots, with tata rs and skilled first miracle of Providence ia human Life | miles. even should she be cut off by Russia A 30-horse power traction engine is 35 bait.
commmnders, tert on. thors tare or —the mother’ 2 love—it would perish from The Japanese Archipelago occupies | from the rest of the world she could used to pump the water from the Col- =
destruction. On either side, it would seem, toy Sarth on the fay of 1s bizth. the same latitude as that part of Amer- | support her armies as well as her own umbia back upon the bench and into In a fght With revolvers ai short
were formidable obstructions—mountains, ut wait 2 little and sec. Wait until ica between Savannah and Halifax. | inhabit 3 p range between Constable Thomas
, iy a etwe Y - | inhabitants. i i .
OF fortronsts. or sometning that could not | the mother’s fostering care, aad the fath. : ia a big reservoir holding 100,000 gal- Washabaugh, of Greensburg, and Ital-
Tis pasted. dor the Ioatlizes won us ov er’s Trees aoty SE he instruc. | Formosa, which Japan obtained as The =oil is held for the most part ly,ns” "Water from thic reservoir is BIS in i Bis ug, an Th
3 a : tion cf the schools and the churches, and the result of the Chino-Jananese war, | by > peonie w r i i ) ; : :
a oe for tar. a0 all the various appliances of Christian civ: | jjes between the same parallels as TE phe ee anes os Lato town, hs offen was shiol twice
Prem p Hi pees: of enh | lization have wrought their vast part in he hict ne foudnl gy 2 point where it will be handy for the | and was seriously injured. One bul-
ful Je emity to which they had been re- connection with the uaiversal law of de. | Tampa and Havanna. e _chlet | average holding is about ome acre, |yis traction engine that runs the |let entered his mouth, carrying away-
duced; whereunon thai holy man appealed Te SE and progrosseeand then i group 's separated from the Pulp which is valued -at about 180 yen. As plough, and is also used for domestic | his lower front teeth, the end of his
to God for help, and then came, probably | tf¢ ¢allC, now become the nan. ow | pines to the south by the Bashi chan- | a result of the Buddhist teaching the tongue, and lodged in the cheek. The
nos wonderful and indescribable the result! i : the For z or a purposes. < i
Ii tons s of thunder Hal sounded fu, tas That Hitle child now Stanly eroct and sie nel, from China by the Formosa chan- | people never ate beef, and regarded A 75-horse power engine and boiler second bullet struck Washabaugh in
the roar of the 0 this strange orders | veys the high places of the carth. He | nel, 90 to a hundred miles wide; from | butter, milk and cheese as poisonous. work on the river bank near the trac- | he shoulder, making an ugly wound.
“Wherefore criest thou on Nes Sh climbs the heights, and, walkin; with God | Corea by Broughton channel, less than | Since the cnening of Japan to the tion engine, and with a 12-inch centri- Two Pliers Jrom the officer's Tevalyer
unto the children of Israel that they go Dy on Jorps of the mouatais, he gee 25 miles wide: from the Russian island | thought of the west. the government foal es Srrigato the tation load Stns Soomsenpe Bara, and he is
S ec 3 ne ars : 3 or 7 : 2 ’ 1 E y
Tops : he lit od an OE Ny nll He ini of Saghalien by La Perouse strait, 25 | has sought to encourage the establish- where the alfalfa is to be raised. es . 19, by fatally Burk :
Shag ig Bl ee De is superipr to cuns and syctems. His | Miles wide, and Kamtehatka by the | ment of dairies and the breeding of The entire ranch is new, raw land rn Sanghi of lewh 2
3 tnnito tat Tes > heart thrills with Isati re urile strai ot wee ¢ 50 ; i : : ? : Pan, /aynesourg, was chok
identally, let as attend to the oral hott hs Wid pela rh are } Kurile strait. Between the Japanese cattle, horses and sheep, so that in and this pring the first ploughing |to death to-day irom a candy bean
raeanings and uses of the text. The case g 5 solar in- archipelago and the Asiatic coast of | 1899 there were in Japan 1,451,530 : . 5 a : . y .
a > fluences. Ide sees. Hc knows. He un- | i, : > ? was done. A 75-horse power traction | entering her windpipe. The parents of
cceptional in nothing but the Corea d Manchuria lies the Sea of | head of cattl d 1,5 ) h b
. the moral truths and ua. | dcrstands. He reasons, He feels within TOR 2nd Mpnohuna i wr | pead of cattle and 1,500,000 horses, engine is used to draw the big plough, | the child were at Higbee when the ac-
en al always himself the mighty raas He calls out | Japan. ; a Spinning and weaving have been the having five three-bottom gangs, cut-| cident occurred, and owing to the dis-
and. everywhere presant among the people i Gods and God answers big By The scep- The population of japan was esti- | most important industries of Japan ting 18 feet. This spring 2000 acres | tance from ‘a physican nothing could
of God. Indeed, the principles here in- aT a Son , and the crown mated at 43,152,998, according to the | since time immemorial. Before the in- have. hoor ploughed up at the rate |Dbe dome to save the little girl's life.
. general and, the anal :ogies of | Ui" oon place on his brow. Henceforth’ last census, taken in 1898. There are | troduction of machinery there were of 60 acres a day. Next spring from | MT- ‘Corwin recently published a news-
et I think ory are pushin oS he is king, and alive forevermore, with a | four classes in the following propor- | spinning wheels in nearly every home. 2000 to 5000 roa ior will be | Paper at Ellwood City, Pa.
this text as the law of the universe ap: iio fat will rule the world and conquer | tions; Imperial family, 53; nobility, | Osaka is now the centre of the cotton loughed. To operate this plough ne.| A man believed to be John Shall:
plied to the church. The physical occasion | 42 : oo ih ie | 4951; gentry, 2,105,696; common peo- | industry, where there have been erect- | 2 Cu sncC. kis . | gle, on his way from Pittsburg to
of this text, in all of its essential features, Such is the law of progress which is le, 41.050.568 I hes q 5 v i i cessitates four men and four horses. Glen Campbell, was struck by an en-
finds its duplicate in the oral occasion i Appjed it 25 church, both collec: pe ¢ aan n these Ques iy ed so many factories that it has been One man and a four-horse team sup: bi 0 pas Bod di Yin, x
of this service. We are the children of | ively and individually. We are here sol- | include 1.575 Ainos, of Hokkaido, | called the Fall River of Japan. In A d coal. One engincer, one 7 : 2 pe LE og
Sr ves. I can prove it by St. £ynly commandad to rise up aad ice our | 70.801 Japanese living abroad, and | 1900 there were 1,135,111 spindles in a one plough Coder Gh Siva ual ig 2
Paul “i Yo bo Chriss. then nee ye) Anacriance ever before in all the ages 12,664 foreigners. In addition, how- | operatiom in 79 different spinning os : 1 are ro Bi ng old
Abraham’s seed, and foi according to | \VaS there such a concurreat blast of trum : are the 3,000,000 inhabitants of a1 ; 1= o-- | Plete the crew. The engine takes two | sided in Pittsburg. In one of his
the promise.” The Red Sea is before us | Pets from all quarters of tie § lobe oaling ever, are the : inhabitants of | mills, employing 12,170 men and 43,375 tons of coal a day and about 4000 | pockets was found an account book of
Not that Red Sea that washes the sands of the church to go forward, Tet the co | Formosa, so that the present popula- | women. About $100,000,000 are now gallons of water. The coal had to be! the Burnside Supply Company. He
Arabia and- floats the commerce of the | ums for and the march begine tion is estimated at 50,000,000. Hondo, | invested in Japanese cotton mills. taulod this Boring from a half to|had red hair and was rather well .
East, but the Red Sea of moral hindrance the chief island, is the most densely Although China is the original home s 1ti- | dressed. -
—a sea that is deeper than the Atlantic “I Gave Them Myself.”® . Sag three-quarters of a mile. The culti ;
Oooie L 2 ? . - ed, : y : e H. C. Frick Coke Company has
and wider than the Pacific. Phar S434 Brmother to Wig one dare’ When populated having 381 to the square | of laccuer work, Japan now excels in vated land will be put into wheat and | The H. C. Frick Cok C h
aoh’s army is pursuing us. Not the an- my children were young I thought the mile, and its southern districts have | this art and has driven out Chinese let the contract to Patrick Reagan, of
tiquated Egyptian division, now extinct,
but the infernal brigade itself, still in the
field and strictly up to date in every par-
ticular—and these enemies from the neth-
ermost pit, inspired with inconceivable ha-
tred and, in the words of Milton, ‘armed
with hell flames and furv,” and followi ing
us in overwhelming numbers and with un-
appeasabple fiercen 3 Such is our situa-
tion this very hour, and as we stand to- day
amid these threatening environments, the
captain of our salvation calls to us from
heaven, “Go forward,” and in obedience
to this order lies our duty, our safety and
our happiness.
Let us apnroach our subject step by
step. God is the author of the universe.
‘The universe existed in the Divine Mind
as an ideal before it existed in itself as
a substance. The ‘deal was complete and
per fect as well as Leautiful and good; but
the first states of the actual . averse did
not realize that perfect ideal of the Di-
vine Mind. What then? Did God fail?
Did His active energv “rove unequal to
By no means.
God gave the universe this imperfect form
at first, not because He could not do other-
wise and had to abandon His ideal but be-
cause He saw it better to realize His ideal
gradually Hironsh the law of progress than
to realize it r by an act of erea-
tive power. 7 ard of His own
12 universe a crude
mas3 of unore nized in trer and force;
an then, intr. sting His sublime work to
the law of progress operated by respon-
sible intelligences, He directed that in due
time all should be reduced to order, har-
mony and beauty. This is Me story of the
universe in its entirety and in its parts.
This is the story of the worlds and of their
productions. This is the story of minerals,
vegetables and animals; of general species
and individuals; of angels, women and
men. This is the story of matter in all its
combinations, of life in all its forms, and
of mind in all its phenomena. Lh
rief, so far as we have yet learncd,
story of all creation, and of all pro
tion.
Let me
oak.
illustrate what I mean by the
God's ideal for the oak is a majestic
tree, six feet in diameter and ter feet in
height, with mighty roots taking deep
hold of the rocks and mighty branches
sweeping the clouds—a very giant that can
wrestle with the storms and play with the
lightnings. But in its beginning, as it
sprouts from the acorn, the oak 1s a tiny
shoo ®nwhich the foot of a little child could
effectually crush. God makes it thus and
says to it, “Go forward;” and then the lit-
tle plant, obedient to the Divine com-
mand, through cloud and sunshine and
changing season, soon goes on and out an
up, until at last, by means of the law of
progress in the form of growth, it has
Foltl ed the word of God, and stands be-
fore the eyes of men in all the imposing
grandeur of its towering and solid matur-
ity.
Take the cagle as another illustration.
God’s ideal for the cagle is an imperial
bird of great size and strength, with
amazing keenness of vision and with pin-
tons for majestic flight, the mountain crag
its castle, and its pleasure ground the sky.
Such is the Divine ideal for this noble
bird. But the young eaglet emerges from
the shell a feeble little creature, and if
You could see it during the first ‘week or
two of its exis tence, and could stroke with
Your hand its soft yellowish down an
look into its pale bluish eyes, its feeble
ness would propabl v excite your pity. But
the little thing feeds and exercises, it
ws and strengthens, until at last, un-
the operation of this law of progress,
soar from the nest, launch into the
air, gaze directly into the noonday sun,
down the storm clouds under its
seven foot spread of wings, and sail from
continent to continent, through the oceans
of azure above, over the oceans that roll
del ow.
But in this discussion we must rise out
of life into mind, and then still asc
from the mtellectual to the spiritual.
will, therefore, consider man as an illus-
on of the truth we are “pursuing.
s idea) for man is a most exalted and
1e being, with mental and moral en-
ndous scope, so im-
in parts and powers
, that 1t seems the whole
der
culminate in him. God de-
in IIis own image, intended
and companionship
communion
nself, determined to make him His
the earth 1, and. pr
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Him forever. 1
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very best thing I cox uld do for them was
to give them myself. So I spared no
pains to talk to them, to read to them, ta
teach them, to pray with them, to be a
ovine companion and friend to my chil
ren
“I had to neglect my house often. 1
had no time to indulge myself in many
things, which I should | have liked to do.
I was so busy adorning their minds and
cultivating their heart’s best affection
that I could not adorn their bodies in fina
clothes, though I kept them neat and com:
fortable at all times.
“I have my reward now. My sons are
ministers of the Gospel; my grown-up
daughter is a Christian woman. I’ have
plenty of time now to sit down and rest,
plenty or time to keep my house in order,
plenty of time to indulge myself, besides
going 2 about my Master's business wher
ever He has nced of me. I have a thou
sand memories of their childhood to com:
fort me. N that they have gone out
into the world, I have the swest con
sciousness of having done all I could te
make them ready for whatever work God
calls them to do.”—Life and Faith.
Covering Sins.
There are two ways of covering sin—
man’s way and Ged’s way. You cover
your sins, and they will have a resurrec
tion some time; let God cover them, and
neither devil nor man can find them.
There are four expressions in the Bible
with regard to where God puts sins:
He puts them behind His back. Ti
God has forgiven me, who shall bring a
cnarge against me?
He has blotted them out as a thick
cloud. You see 2 cloud to-night, and to-
morrow there isn’t a cloud to be seen.
He casts them into the depths of the
. Some one has said, “Thank God that
Is a sea and not a river; a river might
dry up, but the sea cannot.” The great:
cst bles ing that ever comes to me this
side of heaven is when od forgives me.
Have you been fo
The fourth exy ion is that He re
moves them as rar as the East is from
the West. Do you know how far that is?
some good mathematician will fig:
+ sins,
us ou
leanse us from all un
I'hen make sure that you
DL Mood r
Toincipics of Mor: ality,
Possibly there is too litt] tention giv-
en by the leaders of religious thought to
the relations of sin to society and to im-
pressing the duty of abstract righteous.
upon all classes of men. It is not
sin in its relation to God that we mean,
but sin as it affects man's value to him-
self and to society—the socio logical aspect
of a violation of God's law. There are
some men who can be rene hed only in this
He is faithful
§ and to
>
13,
1teousness.
forgiven.—
way. Sin against (Ged has no terrors for
them. The thouzht of future accounta-
bility does not appcal to them; but its
temporal consequences, its e Ss on civ
il and social life and upon the sinner him-
self, may, if rightly presented, have a
deterrent influence. ~The world to- day is
blinded by vicious ideas of right and
wrong. Sin, in some quarters, is less ob
noxious than a breach of social etiquette.
Iniquity is justified in many quarters if it
can be made to pay. But society is safe
only as correct principles of morality dom-
inate it, and correct ideas will come only
through leaders of religious thought.—
United Presbyterian.
Wrong Acting From Wrong Thinking.
In China a man is required to mourn
three years for the dea tn of his father,
100 days for the death of his mother, and
not at all for the death of his.wife. In-
deed, a Chinaman would feel disgraced
if he showed orrow on account of
the death of his wife. This tells its own
storv of life in a heashen country with a
civilization thousands of years old.—Re-
formed Church Record.
Simplicity.
Simplicity is the crow jewel of all
virtues. Great messa reat truths,
great discove e events are
ever simple € nDimpiicity
makes the g and the ob
scure to places of eminence is the
bright charm of inn 100d and
1 i
the { the old and learned.—
475 inhabitants to the sauare mile.
There were 78 towns having a popu-
lation of 20,000 or over.
Because of the insular character of
their home the Japanese in recent
years have taken a greater interest in
their army, so that at the beginning
of the war with Russia they possessed
ships with a total tonnage of 200,000.
Aside from four torpedo gunboats, 20
torpedo boat destroyers, with 10 build-
ing, 46 torpedo boats, with many more
building, Japan's fleet has a displace-
ment of 111,974 tons. It consists of six
battleships, six armored cruisers and
14 protected cruisers. Of the battle-
ships four have a displacement of
more than 15.000 tons each. The re-
mainder are of more than 12,000 tons.
All are supposed to have a speed of
18 knots an hour. The armored
cruisers are of 10.000 tons. The pro-
tected cruisers range from 2700 to
4700 tons disnlacement. One has a
speed of 24 knots an hour. Japan has
four well-equipped dockyards, capable
of both constructing and repairing
ships. In the Japanese navy in 1902
tuere were two admirals, nine vice-ad
mirals, 225 rear admirals, 65 captains,
119 commanders, 167 lieutenant com-
manders, 220 lieutenants, 305 sub-lieu-
tenants, besides other subordinate of-
ficers and 31,688 sailors.
The Japanese army has a war foot-
ing of 421,000 men. -Military service
is compulsory, and the army has
adopted Germany as a model. It is
divided into three groups, the perman-
ent establishment, of 7500 officers and
190,600 men; the reserve, of 35,000 ad-
ditional men; and a ‘territorial re-
serve” which would bring another 200,-
000 men into line. The artillery num-
bers 1200 guns, and the cavalry 90,0060
horses.
Since Japan was opened to the world
it has been rapidly growing in wealth.
Six great banks and 1802 smaller in-
stitutions carry on the banking busi-
ness. The Bank of Japan, founded in
1882, has a capital of $15,500,000. In
the 681 banks there were deposits in
1900 amounting to $139,534,330, or
$2.75 per capita. The unit of circula-
tion is the yen, worth 50 cents, which
is divided into 100 sen. Smaller coins
are 5, 10, 20 and 50 silver sen pieces.
zFivefold has been the increase of the
foreign trade in the last five years. Ja-
pan’s imports and exports in 1901
amounted to $272,406,000. The leading
countries from which Janan obtains
ber imports, and the value of the com-
merce, are as fcllows: England, $35.-
656,800; United States, $31,224,600;
China, $14,890,200; Germany, $14,451, -
800, and British India, $11,703,000. The
United States leads as the market for
Japanese exvorts, and in 1990 bought
$26,145,000 worth. The British island
of Hong Kong stands second with $19,-
521, China, $15,886,200; France,
England, $5,577,500 and
,930,200.
From
imported in
New International Encyclopedia, goods
to the amount of $87,946,000. The same |
authority gives Japan's exports in 1960. |
1900, according to The
as $74,809,800.
The total revenue of the govern-
ment from all sources in 1901-92
amounted to $138,748,500, and the ex-
penditures to $137,943,712. The reve-
taxes on sake and other liquors, cus-
toms duties and an income tax. Among
for
the c hr expenses ranks the army,
hich $19,000,000 was appropriated in
$10,000,00¢ adminis-
educatio
the navy,
ion of justice,
pensiovs.
legislative departments,
all parts of the world Japan. |
"kets.
wares from many of the world’s mar-
In 1899 the value of the output
of lacquer finished goods amounted to
$2,280,114. Japanese porcelain has
also brought wealth to the island em-
pire, and the value of this product in
1899 was nearly $3,000,000. In 1899
the bronze and copper product was
$691,875. The manufacture of paper
employs a greater’ proportion of the
Japanese people than it does in any
other country. The 65,514 paper es-
tablishments of Japan in 1899 turned
out a product worth $8,272,754.
' The mineral denosits of Japan are
not especially rich. Coal beds, how-
ever, have been found sufficient to sup-
ply the Jananese themselves for cen-
turies to come. The coal output in
1899 amounted to 6,700,000 tons. Of
iron the same year, 51,000,000 pounds.
Copper, gold and lead are also found.
but in no great quantities.—New York
Thibune Review.
Man and Sheep.
A flock of 100 or more sheep, bleat-
ing piteously in Starr Garden park,
yesterday, attracted the attention of
a Nineteenth district policeman,
whose ‘Investigations revealed some-
without a parallel at least in
life. Henry Jarmon was the
sheep, and it is about
city
driver oI the
and of him that this item will tell. The
aforesaid bluecoat was amazed when
he saw the sheep clustered in the cen-
tre of the park. He made his way
through the assembled animals and
was astonished to find Jarmon lying
! unconscious upon the ground. It re-
quired only a short while to revive
Jarmon, and he told to the sympa-
thetic officer the story of his plight.
He had driven the sheep for 42
miles without stoppage. He was due
to deliver them in a Jersey town at a
certain hour, and being conscientious
he did everything to carry out his
contract. The sheep bravely stood the
ordeal of the long march, but Jarmon
succumbed to fatigue.
Jarmon must have been liked by
the sheep, for no sooner did he give
out and sink to the ground than they
gathered about him, and, as if realiz.
ing that disaster had befallen their
friend, began the cries that finally
brought timely assistance. Jarmon
was revived with suitable refresh-
ment, shooed his four footed compan-
ions in line, and sheep and much loved
guardian passed down Lombard strest
en route for the South street ferry —
Philadelphia Telegraps.
Furniture Atmosphere.
fiand Rapids, Michigan,
ired tne bulk of the furniture
until now it has practically
no competitor, There are 10,000 skil-
led wood-workers in its 40 factories,
the’ value of whose annual output is
about $12,000,000. Great ‘quantities of
mahogany are imported from Cuba,
Santo Domingo, Central America, and
Aftica,ssand in many houses in the
gradually
, entrances and even porches are
built of rare woods. Skilled design-
ers, employed by manufacturers in
| other cities, live in Grand Rapids, in
| order to work in a
nue is raised chiefly from the land tax, |
furniture
phere.—The World's Work.
atmos-
They All Went.
A mother
her
was trying to impress on
4-year-old son the importance of
fo bed early.
know,” she began,
tens always go to bed
“the little
with the
' he interrupted,
along,
“but
00.”
goes
oats.
In addition to this the company is
going into the sheep and cattle busi-
ness, using the part unfit for cultiva-
tion. As an indication of the size
of the ranch, a strip 18 miles long
and three miles wide and lying on the
west side of Columbia river has been
fenced. To do this necessitated four
carloads of barbed wire. In addition
to this a part of the ranch east of the
river is also fenced. The ranch lies
in Douglas, Kittias and Chelan coun-
ties.
Mr. Babcock and Mr. Benson are
putting in 30 miles of telephone line
over the ranch, which will be in op-
eration in a few days. -In addition
to these big holdings Mr. Babcock
personally owns 11,000 acres of wheat
land in the Eureka flat country, near
Walla Walla, said to be some of the
most valuable farming land in the
vicinity. It is all under cultivation.—
Spokane Spokesman-Review.
Walked Himself Well.
When told that he had but three
months to live, a wasted shadow of a
consumptive, Charles E. Norris of San
Francisco, made up ¥is mind, three
years ago, to fight death with all the
force of his will. Today, says the
San Francisco Chronicle, he iS strong
and hearty, and the shadow of death
has fled from him.
His is a new cure for the dread con-
sumption. He walks it away. Fe has
tramped from the valley of death to
sunny health, and expects to keep on
tramping to the end of his days. His
record now is 11,540 miles.
His case is further evidence of the
efficacy of the “open-air” cure, which
physicians are now recommendirg. He
has been asked to take others with
him on his tramps, but has refused.
unless they agree to go, as he is, pen-
niless. “If they are able to afford the
Iexuries of good hotels, snug beds,
rich foods, they stand small chance
of being cured,” he says. His last
three years’ experiences have been of
hardship and of health, and the one
he could not have won, he says, with-
out the other
Norris is 63 years old. He had trav.
eled extensively before he started on
his consumption tramp. He knew
life and men, and the knowledge gave
him the courage it required to leave
San Francisco with but $1.60 in his
pocket and face the fight for life. His
wife and daughter were dead, his
brothers and sisters scattered and no
one depended upon him. His money
had been frittered away on doctors’
bills and medicines.
The “Shaking Sickness.”
The extraordinary malady known
irom its curious symptoms as the
“shaking sickness,” which is attacking
the pupils at the girls’ schools and col
eges of Basle and neighborhood
shows a tendency to spread, writes ths
Geneva correspondent of the London
Express. The attacks commence grad
ually with headaches and slight ner
vous tremors, which increase until the
victim becomes helpless, and, in ex
treme cases, paralyzed.
Dr. Thomas Linn gives it as his
opinion that the malady is a form of
spinal meningitis, and closely akin tg
the “spotted sickness.”
The disease is most common in
schools where the ventilation is bad
and where the sanitation is neglected
Mower;
of the family.”
ns to be a
blcom
Uniontown, for the erection of 20 new
ovens near Elm Grove. The works
may be increased to 400 ovens. In
all there are to be three new Frick
plants erected in the southern part
of Fayette county.
James Risbin, of North Hunting-
don township, was shot and killed by
Thomas Stack. Risbin, John Tray,
Martin Thornton and several others
were driaking at a shanty on the out-
skirts of Irwin when Stack came
along. A dispute arose, it is said,
as to the distribution of a quart of
whisky.
Twenty-eight passengers on a car of
the Johnstown Street Railway Com-
pany were more or less injured when
the car left the tracks in the Eighth
ward and plunged over the embank-
ment into Stony creek. The car did
not overturn, fortunately, and the in-
juries of the passengers consist of
bruises and cuts.
John Lowery, of Loyalhanna, whiie
visiting friends near Perryopolis, went
swimming in the Youghiogheny river
and is said to have been attacked by
cramps causing him to drown. Marks
about the head aroused suspieion of
foul play.
Nicholas Raugh, aged 17, was rid-
ing to work on a coal train at Hazle-
ton, when his dinner pail fell from
his arm. He jumped, landing on the
opposite track, where a passenger
train struck fevering his hoad,
Mrs. Barton Woodw ard, of Menellen
township, Fayette county, was serious-
ly injured in a runaway accident near
Uniontown. The breaking of a hold-
back strap is said to have frightened
the horse.
Engineers making the survey for
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad short
line from Confluence te Morgantown
have completed the final survey to
about three miles beyond Farming-
on.
him,
The Westmoreland Passenger Rail-
way Company has secured the right of
way for its proposed line through
Unity township, Westmoreland coun-
ty, from Latrobe to Greensburg.
Mercer probably has more spinsters
than any town of its size in the State.
A census recently taken shows there
are 103 “old maids” in that town, out
of a population of less than 2,000.
Brigadier General John A. Wiley. of
Franklin, has accepted the position
of Chief Marshall of the parade on
Pennsylvania Day at the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition in St. Louis.
Mrs. John Sarver, 63 years old, com-
mitted suicide by hanging herself to
the limb of a tree at her home, about
one mile from Freeport. She had
been ill for some time.
William Merrill, of New Castile, was
badly hurt by falling out of a second
story window. His condition is seri-
ous.
The Bowser family will hold its
family reunion on the W. P. Bowser
farm, near Walk Chalk, on September
6
Louis Speece was killed in the mine
of the H. C. Frick Coke Company,
near Dunbar. He leaves a wife and
family in the old country.
Eva Koons, two years old, is dead
bilt from injuries received
from a hammock
Governor S. W.
fixed October 4 as
ecution of John Cal’
at Vander
by a fall
Pennypacker has
he date for the ex-
‘han, of Washing-
ton county. Callihan was convicted
of killing Moss Bay, colored, with a
hatchet.
George Conley, of Johnstown, was
probanly fatally ht »y being caught
1 with lime,
when it upset.
near Seward.
yenters® union re
he agreement
ontractors ar
n May 1 v