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A SERIGN TOR SUNDAY
AN ELOGUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED,
" “IMITATORS OF GOD.”
The Eev. Dr. John Reid Answers the
. Somewhat ' Narrow Criticism That
{| Christianity is Narrow in Its Spirit and
{ Coniracting’ in Its Effect.
BROOKLYN, N. Y.2 Dr. John Reid, pas-
tar of the Memorial Presbyterian Church,
preached an eloquent sermon Sunday
morning. His text was taken from Ephe-
sians v:1: ‘Be ye therefore followers of
d, as dear children. eid said:
he Revised Version giveswa better and
Songer translation: “Be ye therefore imi-
taters of God. as beloved children.” TImi-
tators, as children. Dore children of God,
be ye imitators of
Truth 1s tractally alw ays achievement,
superstriicture, the keystone, a last stroke,
There are avhat the metaphysicians call
“immediate truth,” that is, truth in con-
nection with which our knowledge is intui-
tive, and where it comes in as the direct
and undeniable testimony of the senses,
but as a general thing, acquired trut is
the result of work done, the issue of a bat-
tle which has been won. In other words,
‘truth has to conquer before it can com-
mand. But in conflict or warfare of what-
soever ki nd, disguise is ever a worse foe to
meet than denial. And I suppose that
what is frequently affirmed is probably
true; namely, that the Christian religion
has always suffered more from those who,
sometimes intentionally and sometimes un-
intentionally, have perverted and misrep-
rensented it, than it has ever suffered from
those who have even formally opposed it.
There, for instance, is the somewhat trite
criticism that Christianity as a scheme is
narrow in its spirit and contracting in its
effect: under it as a system men do not at-
tain the highest possible development, and,
therefore, They cannot display the fairest
i finest fiber of human character; it de-
elopes the passive and uninfluential, more
To the puissant and productive, elements
of our nature: it keeps its hand on life’s
brake. to check ‘and hold in, rather than
on life’s throttle valve to. open and let go;
itis in face a lion, buf in heart a deer; the
th 1ou shalt nots outnumber the thou shalts;
there, is an unmistakable flavor of pusil-
la inh of cowardliness, of spiritlessness,
which nothing: every wholly rémoves from
many of its principles and profe y
pentance, humbleness, meeknes
ness of injuries, .relinquishment of rights,
submis sion to what ca wmnot be seen, accept-
ance of what cannot be 'known—these are
not among the heroic virtues. All this has
been felt “and expressed, not only by the
superfie i=} and scofling, but by the respect:
ul and tl! shtful. And certainly it is all
forceful. If ib were trie, it might be even
fatal.
Yet from the beginning to end this whole
criticism that- Ghristianity is narrow in its
spirit and.contraeting in its effects moves
on a misconception. Human life can never
be 1 by a lifeless process. It is of ne-
i 1 to a living Person. And in
tv. it is the Almighty God who
andard.
lou
is the st Men are everywhere" ex-
horted and expectedsto ascertain His will,
to leep 5 word, to. lay hold of’ His
is
strength, to walk in His light, and so to
adorn His doctrine in all, things. It is the
example of God that is publishe as the
pattern. It is the purity of that 1s
put forth as. the test. It is the will of
God that is prescribed as the law. It is
the Tove of God that is. presented as the
motive power. It isthe glory of God that
is pointed to as the end. It is the appro-
bation of God that is urged as the inspira-
tiori and the sweet rew ‘ard. Likeness to
Godhood—that is Christianity’s ideal of
manhood; likeness; not simply a represen-
tation, but a reproduction; an image; a
likeness which has its place, not in a one-
ness or identity of attributes, but in a one-
ness or community of life. Tn Him we live
and move and have our being, said Paul.
with all clearness and confidence. “Tor
me golive is Christ,” said the same great
apostle, to the Gentiles. Literally, for to
me, that is, in my case, in so far as Iam
personally concerned, life is Christ. In my
view and understanding of the term, life is
but another name for Christ. Whatever
of life. or of time, or of talent, or o
strength I have, it is all His. “I live, yet
not J, but Christ liveth in me.” That
man’s great endeavor was, as near as pos:
le. to reproduce in his life the life of
his Mast
So here his exhortation to all others:
“Bd ye therefore imitators of God, as be-
toro children ? We have all known chil-
dren who were so impressed with the char-
acteristics of their fathers that we could
never hear their form of expression or see
their modes of action without thinking of |
those from: whom their opinions and con-
duecthad ree eived direction and form. (We
say; ‘ehivs of the old block; the father
lives: again’ in HL son, Just so the true life
of the Christian is, potentially’ at least,
simply a am of the life of the
Christ.
“Imitators, as children of God.”
ever the sentiments we may entertain re-
garding the. claims of aristoeracy or the
of democracy, we all make much of
r. The son of a lord may become a
. dauchter of a queen is of the
Everywhere men’ believe in
Family glory is a good intro-
< ction and a great help to any man who
can lawfully point to it as his. The valid-
itv of that introduction is never ques-
tioned, the integrity of that help is never
i yt where the man himself
nally deficient or person-
v deaenerate. For doubtless everywhere,
Ww ‘hen it comes to the purely practical side
of things, ‘what is he?” is of far greater
z than “whence did he come?
To from ‘a little tree is wort
more than a little fruit
when it is 1it that the market is
manding. And what this intensely pr
age demands is not so much ancestral
s palatable fruit.
I confess that sometimes I have found it
hard to preserve the proprieties when I
have heard people boasting of ancestry. I
have some wondered what the an-
ces x would if they suddenly saw the
progeny. Pate i not alwavs eas
iza yosterity. Neither in
i in things moral does
yossession: ever pay for present’ pov-
Gl must be some wv rin the
nel to make a river out of it, and it is
alwavs the present ‘water volume of the
stream that determines the real water
. value of the river.
“Oh, East is East, and W. o5t is West,
And never the twain shall meet,
11 Earth and Sky stand presently at
Godls great judgment. seat;
But there is neither East nor Wi est,
Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face,
Though they come from ‘the ends of the
Earth.”
These are strong lines of Kipling; brave
‘words, wise and true. When it comes to
the solemn strife and stress of lif
weighs more than “whence.” “Every man
in his own saddle” and “‘every tub on its
own bottom.”
Nevertheless, all people are disposed to
recognize the possibility of high honor in
honorable descent. But admit this to be
true, and it carries its own serious claim
along with it. It was the observation of
one of the ancients that the burden. of
government is increased to princes by’ the
virtues of their immediate predecessors.
Commenting on the saying, Dr. Samuel
Johnson, in one of his essays, remarked it
as always dangerous to be placed in a state
of unavoidable comparison with excellence,
and that the danger is always greater when
the excellence 1s consecrated by death.
Privilege of ancestry means responsibility
of heirship. Duly and morally considered,
from a big tree,
de-
©
Til
it can never be
the prineiple unc de
‘has a Father in God.
| able to res
What-
ii is" essentially
stewards ship. And ~*to ~ whom much i
giv en, of him-shall much be Tenaired,”
the law universally here anplied. That i is
ing this whole matter.
Children of God. be imitators of God. No-
blesse oblige. Nobilitv imposes the obli-
gation of moblehess. ‘Be ye therefore ime
itators of God, as beloved children.’
Whence am I? It is‘the old question by ]
which every man is confronted as soon as
he begins to draw lines of distinetion be-
tween himeelfsand his’ surroundings. “And
here, as.everywhere. no comment: on the
works of God like the word of God.
the beginning Gad created theheavens and
the earth.” That sentence seatters dark-
ness and doubt. The world: s" nof “eter-
nal; it had an actwal and definite begins,
ning. Man is nof theérehild of chande: he'
Afger that God had
spent much time’ and labor in fitting and
furnishing the globe, to be an abode. He
said, “Let us hake’ man in our image. af-
ter our likeness.” It is written, “So God
srented man in His own image; formated
man of the dust of the cronnd and
ied into his nestrils the breath of
ife, and man became a living soul”’—the
masterpiece of divine ingenuity and pow-
er, in whom there is no nremonition what-
soever of any higher physical Jife. = “Let
them have dominion over the fish of the
sea, and over the fowl! of the air, and over
the cattle, and over all the earth, ind over
every creeping thing that ereeneth npon
the earth.’ Divinely anthenticated on
heart and on brain, a being of boundless
aspirations, separated in moral and spirit-
ual nature, as by an impassable gulf, from
all other animal orders, man is at the head
—rational. responsible, immortal.
How often we speak that word “immor-
tal!” Man does not die—
“There is ro death. What seems so
transition; :
This life of mortal breath
Is but a suburb’ of the lifa elrsian,
Whose portal we -1ll deat
The good which a man Joes lives for-
ever. And the good man lives in it. Au-
gustine in’ his confessions.. Calvin in his
vindication. Watts and: Wesley in the
psalms and | ns ‘and spiritual songs by
which Christendom’s praises ave skill at-
tuned. Robert Raikes. the publisher, anc
Henry Difco, the divine—the ‘one still
gathers the children and the other still
guards the {réasures of the poor. Through-
out alli Germany, amid their restless lives
and the many emptations of their career,
hundreds. of yolne
is
NIPREV He n mechanics,
who knew fot ‘the namei=still bless the
hard of Clembns Por thes. the learned bro-
or of Bonii<h ause he laid- thie foiin-
tions af thp how s which open to them
tok y
their Youigh at Wei-
mar. gecronotis of the poets of
1 7
Germany,” 1 hard by the. #yavel of
Goethe, who the primeet of; th am a8.
ix the rest
different dn
e of one wl fake was
ym theirs. bit on whose
tomb the rans: “Under this lin-
den 1.from gingbhrongh. Jesns
Christ, n Fal Tet covery stray 122,
child’ ®h Fey via
cently va And theeau Yo
cared for little 1 receive him, O
Lord, Thy child. unto Thysel;. P .
“Gone forev »? “ No—for since oun
dying
Ever, ever, and ver was thé leading
light of man.
How are we to explain this? .MWhat is
the philosophy nf such, power over the rav-
ages of time? My: degr friends, we ought
me ‘thir out of the region o
speculative or eeslesiastical doctrine. where
they seem sometimes to have been con-
signed. We cannot contemplate immor-
tality simply as a doctrine of the Bible, or
a teaching of the church. Tt is more. 1t
is a vital power in the life. Given the
Fatherhood of God and the immortality of
man is the demonstration of human life.
Do you seel: the strongest and-tclearest
evidence of the existence of God? ¥ou
take it with vou wherever you go. You
yourself are that evidence. “The ‘argu-
ment from design?’ You have it. in. your
own body, the most wonderfully complete
of all known orcanisms. “The arg iment
from being?’ In the consciousness of
voir own pendence, vou have .a diy
tion not to be gainsayed of Him on whom
vou depend. Created as he is in God's
im-
age, man is an enitome of all God's crea-
tion. He is a duodecimo universe. The
human soul is a mirror which reflects God.
is true the image is marred and ob-
; there is but little of the intuitive
ving; the traces of the inhevent right:
eousness are very feeble: the flow of the
ssential holiness is torpid and inert—the
ge is a hroken cne; the picture is a
noving pict the lines in’ it dre not
ht; they are vibratory—but. the like
ness is the To be a man is to have
some perceptible race in God.
My dear friends, however broken and
marred the image may be in any, Christ is
e it in all. And th at verily is
the whole aim of Christianity: to bring us
hack to what God first intended us to be.
Believers! in Christ are in Him created
anew unto good works and have renewed
in themselv es the whole man aftersthe im-
age of God in knowledge and rizhteousness
and true holiness ! ~ We
Goil Dominatés All."
mountain of Fujiyama dominates
dscape in Japan, as the temple hills
As the
the la
of Jerusalem commanded the scene far all
around, so we believe’ God is to bet exs ted
in this vast conimunity, so as to dommaie!
3
it all. The sense of God
is increasing.
as unto the mour The church is £
nourish thi S COI usness of God, and ‘to
express it in lives of spiritn 4 power. Oh,
then, how one comes to love the churgh
when once her il mission is seen. We
are set to invite 3 world to’ come to its
nly true home. Wander hearts,; un-
easy consciences ubled come to
is not ‘fading;
£
souls,
the home of ho in God's great love
and blessed s service. Let the gates open
vide, that the n i
the home of th
God, let your
that the world may come home,
false barriers tl God woul
more and more 1e a a {o the chil-
dren of men, Jesus Christ, the Sa-
viour.
hristians ake to
thical and
those
i gion is myt
that it to some secret piace
where no mere legtuality: can wholly
follow it. It surely is mystical in these in-
timate experiences of the soul, but does 1t
not come forth in and move through
the activities of “human: life, outs in the
open world ‘a chastened, beautificd and
Christ-like spirit? This is our answer.
Conscious of sin and imperfections, this. is.
still our answer. od is our home. Slowly
r stubborn natures te lis con-
dl His presence is our best
He is the great beautifiery of
human life. Differ as we may in our creeds
and philosophies, 2h s is the issue of relig-
ion, this is the prod: et of fellowship with
Him, our Father, our God, our.eternal ref-
uge and home.
we yield ¢
stant pre
education.
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An Impressive Spectacle.
When you stop -to consider what the
church of God 1s, the spectacle of hun-
dreds of thousands, even millions, of souls
wending their w By tq the places of wors
throughout the land becomes impressive.
Why “do they cs What is the perma-
nent element in life that maintains this
vast interest? Changes occur among na-
tions, institutions rise and fall, traditions
wax and wane, creeds are made and un-
made, and yet men continue to w orship.
Lead a Simple Life.
Be content to lead a simple life where
God has placed you. * Be obedient; bear
vour little daily crosses—you need them,
and God gives them to ‘you out of pure
mercy.—Xenelo
“In
disown and ;
Value of Taste, -
The woman who has to be satisfied
with one suit in a season wisely
choose a’ material and style ‘which so
harmonize and adapt ‘themselves to
her figure and complexicn that the ob-
server will note the general effect of
harmony and be attracted by it rather
than by one -item. of the whole. A
woman is well dressed when she brings
about such-a result.
Maidens Should Go to West Virginia.
The fact is brought out in recent
compilations at Washington that West
Virginia is the only State east of the
Rocky Mountains that is short of its
quota of women. For every 521 males
there are 479 females. It is the only
commonwealth east of the Mississippi
where man still is found, by right
of numbers, in indisputed sway.
The average number to a family in
West Virginia is 5.1.
An Exquisite Frock,
Among the loveliest evening gowns
recently designed is a -pompadour frock
in the daintiest of silver-gray silk pat-
terned ‘with pink rosebuds. The skirt
is bordered with a pinked out flounee,
the gaugings above the heading being
finished with two .rows of narrow
green ribbon velvet. The bodice comes
toa Tong’ point in front, and over this
falls a jabot of fife Jdge, between
white silk,
tori’ acdentuating each point,
yi . Perfume Their Dogs.
One of the ‘affectations ‘amo
ionable’ women now adays is to. have
or/coiffureorlittie accessories of vard-
robs, ‘even’ Jif 5 be’ Shiy some special
iliper ame which they’ endeavor to asso-
ting ¢ards, or Ahejr carriages,
as heir, dress, ,, Ong would: in. think
fthis is ‘enough but according “to the
fume their, net dogs; ‘and their aim is
to discover, some unique perfume and
guard ifs name as a jealous secret.’
ei
as The Smocked Frock. -.
Smocking is coming baelk into favor,
and a material that smocks better
than almost. any other is pongee. A
little. gown for a girl of ten was of old
rose pongee, with a plain, round skirt,
smocked all around the waist. A low-
necked waist had a circular yoke of
pongee, trimmed. with French knots
and Oriental embroidery. Below the
yoke was a band of smocking which
extended in a straight line: across the
sleeve: The sleeves ‘were loose puffs
to the elbow and were gathered into
bands of embroidery.’ A soft sash of
black -louisine was worn.
: A Touch of Gold.
A touch of gold is upon everything.
The gold does not take violent forms,
but is used delicataly. It is not seen
in wide strappings nor in broad bands,
nor yet in heavy applications. On the
other hand, it is used in ‘very subtle
ways. Threads of gold are run around
the square-cut bodices worn by high
art young women; gold stitchings dec-
orate the fronts of blouses; gold trac-
eries adorn buttonholes as an outline,
and half’ the buttons show touches of
gold or are surrounded ‘by gold orna-
ments, Such ay gold filagree. In this
ing a shirt waist suit all of one tone
without a hint of contrast ting” color or
in mix ed" goods. ! Thee come for fall
the most delightful * mixed ‘suits, in
gray with splashings-of red and blue
These have the nub effect
up into very’ pretiy shirt
awaijst suits. They call for four pieces,
the skirt, the eton, the very wide gir-
dle and the chemisette. The nattiegst
of the fall shirt waists, with their
skirts, are made on the blouse order,
with open frout, under which a liftle
light svash shirt waist can be worn if
desired.
and: green.
‘and make
Belts and Bodires,
Belts and bodices of all gorts and
descriptions are ‘worn “with waists of
dinner and. Ball gowns. “Silk, ‘satin
and velvet -on the bias are in favor,
or ribbon, but thé long sash énds hate
not 4met with’ poputar approval, ‘ahd
the bodice is ‘fastened with buckles or
fancy buttons. - The! diffe t colored
bodices considered so:smart last win-
possible toshave a variety cif ditlere: nt
effects for the one gown.
These bodices are cfich claborate
affairs of pleats which ar> really a
part of the gown itself.” Cn ono gown,
for instance, the folds of the bcdice are
high at the back k, carried 3 ir gq
point.—Harper's Bazar. us
rN
Elements of Character.
Writing on character building 1a the
October Delineator Mrs. Theodora W.
Birney places above all others the fol-
lowing elements of character,
go far toward enat blia g their possessor
to achieve a aad legitimate
success ir e"’—honesty, decision,
punctuality "and perseverance. Elsec-
where she say “The very forunda-
ticn cf che ter is sincerity—honesty
and truthfu 33 are but other nar
for the same thiing<—and if parents con-
tinually set their children an
S
turned. hack double revers faced with:
a miniature diamond but-
scme distinciiviesazote: about their: dress.
*ciates with their mote.paper, their visit’
as Ww ell | reversed.
latest’ “adiices, some ‘women even ‘per-
way gold 7 introduced into the gowns
of te- i
. Shire Wi Waist Snits, ;
There e is quite a little fancy for buil 3
ter will ‘be fashionable as ever, and
certainly tliey are a great addition to
almost any “down, besides raking #4
“which’
example i
ser-
in
of what avail are
of insincerity,
mons and maxims from their lips?
‘every way children fashion their con-
duct after that of the adults about
‘them. Fortunate are the children
whose training and environment are
such as to, establish habits of all the
virtues, who are trained in habits of
reverence, honesty, courtesy, etc.
Habit is indeed ‘en’ natures,” and will
stand by one under stress and strain
that would weaken the average moral
fibre; hence, it behooves us every day
.to see “that uninterrupted habit has
an opportunity to perform its marvel-
ous work in ‘the moral nature and in
the wonderful brain cells which reg-
‘ister with such unerring accuracy all
that is said and done.”
eros ve
Timely Gossip.
A woman can control a man’s opin-
ions by seeming to agree with them.
A girl’s purse always has a healthy
look until its contents are displayed.
While women have a lively imagina-
tion they try to keep the fact a secret.
The man who undertakes to instruct
a woman in politics must be madly in
love with her.
A woman's Voice’ ands much
making her popular with men.
Spinsters write the best love
probably because their ideas
tender passion are imaginary.
Girls,. don’t speak of other girls
-oung persons because they are not in
your set. Don’t attract the notice of
ingers by actions of the loud order.
are so ready to fight against
love, says a writer in the Philadelphia
Bulletin, we doubt it and push it away
from-us, giving it only a half welcome
when. we find that it is.useless to re-
sist'it. But wen the ugly. little demon
‘hate. thrusts himself forward, we en-
‘courage him by the mere fact of our
faith in him. Things should be exactly
We should seek love and
give him every encouragement to tarr
' Do 'you think the multi-millionaire is
happy if he has no love in his home, or
that the most beautifully gowned
woman on earth is satisfied without
love?
A woman who
toward
stories,
of the
as
is. sarcastic winces
1swhen it comes back. to her in kind.
For Old Folks.’
If ‘the ‘young people of the family
have never given an old people's party
they don’t know how much pleasure
they have denied their elderly friends
and themselves.
There comes a time when one’s: work
seems dohe, the usefulness passed.
Then it is that old people sit down with
‘more or less patience to wait. No young
person can appreciate what patience
this requires—this waiting for the sum-
mons to take the long, long journey.
VWhat do these elderly friends of
yours and mine find to think about?
Time was when they were sought,
their advice is not asked, their desires
are not considered. ' Their tastes are
old fashioned and not to be followed.
As they sit in this enforced idleness
of age and think and rock, the contrast
between these days and better, livelier,
more fruitful days, can but strike sor-
Tow to their hearts.
" Do you young folks ever think what
it nreans to be old, neglected, for-
‘gotten?
* Have the dinner party. Have
prom ptiy at noon and have good thing
to eat—good, old-fashioned things, oi
the now fangled s salads and mixtures
that your own grandmother never ‘eats
and that your grandfather scorns.
Invite a congenial party and be sure
there are comfortable: chairs enough
‘to'gy around.
it
ny pleas-
“ It is seldom, .indeed, that any
ure. is planned for the old folks. The
young people really belicve that egrand-
father and grandmother have lost in-
terest in things of to-day. Try them
and ‘see. plain to''them that the
party is theirs, just fori them: There
will benno
need to plan entertainments.
They will ar ost enjoy talk 1g over old
tim
Xs
If .possitle ~-a comfcriable carriage
should be .scnf for thr gunesis and
shonld, be ready 1> take them home
when the is passed.—New
afternoon
Haven Re
Seasonable Apparel.
of dot.ed net aro onz {2
CF rill ng for collars and cufi
BOY by .the.yarc,
" Tor most figurcs -a high belt
coraing with a shox skirt.
Muslin
[Ss comes
c pretlisst clirred
and habg folds all sx.nnd,
Cne can Bre half a .dez:n {ailefa
geywas without cchieviny mon. ony.
Brown hclignd i ccarse brown
canvas apaar ty be in Harlcular favor.
* Whilc, lien ah Co, casily that
Twvsy women prefer the heavy cotton
Iatrics:
If ome Cocsn’t like buttons up the
girdle, throe pert little bows are highly
approved.
If you are‘going away, have one of
those chambois-lined silk neck bags to
carry your jewelry ia.
The kimonos and negligees shown in
the - shops arc fascinating enough to
make any woman {c3l indisposed.
A skirt yoke is convenient when the
figure is not cuficiently ' slender to
have the skirt full around the belt.
Thdre is a wee toilet case that slips
into your pocket as easily as an en-
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WHAT : SEA {SERPENTS ‘ARE.’
‘Blonsters ‘That Have Survived Most of
Their Species.
Professor Charles IL. Edwards, of
Trinity College, told the Hartford Sci-
entific Society recently a lot about the
sea serpent and had shown on a screen
pictures of .the monsters calculated to
scare an innocent youngster out of
vear’'s growth, says the Hartford Conr-
ant. Unfortunately, none of the piec-
tures was an actual photograph, but
the lecturer seemed to tend to the be-
lief that there was something doing
in the monster line, and the Rev. Jas.
Goodwin, the President of the society.
said at the close of the lecture that he
for-one believed more in the thing than
he had before. ‘As to how great that
previous belief had been he did not
say.
Professor Edwards, in the first part
of his lecture, had thrown on the
screen pictures of sea monsters as rep-
resented in years past. He explained
in his talk that, while he spoke of “sea
serpents,” the so-called and oft-re-
peated sea serpent could not be a big
snake, but some other kind of a mon-
ster (if it was anything). As back as
far as Job mention is made of a great
leviathan, and accounts of some great
things are found in all early histories.
One myth seems to have come from a
sperm whale and another from a squid.
Even the Indians had a belief in a
monster serpent and thought one lived
in the great lakes and broke up the
ice in the winter when it became irri-
tated.
Professor Edwards gave a long list
of dates when the great sea serpent
has been reported, and related some of
the circumstances. ‘They streteh from
1639 down, into 1903. A bishop. Com-
modore Preble, crews of British war-
sliips, ,and many persons have made
the reports.” A noted appearance was
at Gloucester and Nahant, Mass., in
1817. when hundreds of reputable cit-
izens saw something and testified to
it. Tt is estimated that from” 600 to
T00 persons Baw it,- and people even
drove’ glong the beach ip crowds,
keepingiup, with it as it swam off the
shore. Professor Edwards said there
was no doubt that something was seen
at that time.
It is always described as black or
brow nish, with eyes in the. upper part
of the head, swimming at a. speed of
‘five or six knots, carrying its ‘head out
of water, generally with a mane, and
proceeding Wifi “a "humping motion
like a caterpillar. A curious appear-
ance was one reported in 1898-99 in a
Swedish Lake, where, it was declared,
a huge animal’ had been’ seen*a num-
ber. of times, and ‘had ‘been watched
through glasses for long, periods. Ii-
nally a newspaper Sent an eminent nat-
uralist to ‘investigate, “and he reported
as his conclusions that several mon-
sters from six to four feet long had
certainly been seen in the lake.
Professor Edwards said that prob-
ably in all the many cases reported
something had been seen, for it is im-
possible to believe that all these people
were liars. The universal declaration
that the thing proceeded with an un-
dulating motion does away with the
theory ‘of ‘its being actually a big
snake. - H¢é showed that the stories
might grise fr om the appearance of a
manatee, a big stingray, a gigantie
squid (one yas caught with arms and
body 100 feet-long), a basking shark
whales, or school of porpoises. A few
vears agoswhat was called the Fiorida
monster was found near, St. Augustine,
vith arms nearly 100 feet long. the
basking shark grows to f-rty feet long
certainly.” There is no known lim:t
to: the growth of fishes.
:
Telegrams in 1903.
It is, just sixty years ago since the
first telegraphic message was sent by
the Morse system -from Baltimore to
Washington, and the first message by
the Atlantic submarine .cable was dis-
patched six years atterward—that is to
say. in June, 1850. Siuce then the use
of the telegraph has developed at a
marvelous rate, until at the present
time a million messages are sent over
the world's lines -every tw enty-four
hours. According to some returns re-
cently issued the dite ‘of telegrams
dispatched in all in 18
reached the enormous total of 36+848K.-
474. As a user of the telegraph Great
3ritain heads the with 92,471.000
dispatches, the United States is second
with 91,391,000, ang France
rd sith 48,114,15 Germany. 1
a, Austria, SA and Italy foi
in the order named,
countries
et
list
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We have had the bicycle honeymoon
and the motor honeymoon, the town
honeymoon and the country honey-
moon, the yachting honeymoon and
th sporting honeymoon. but, says The
it was reserved { an Austrian
nobleman to revive the walking honey-
Valking IToneymoon.
moon. rinee Waldenburg and his
bride, immediately after their mar-
ringe, started on a {rawp through It-
aly, their only companion a milk- white
mule, which carrics their traveling out-
fit; or such of it as happens to be ab-
solutely Indlsponmanie But while
they have zll {lic cnjoyments of va-
grancy, they do not entirely turn their
backs upon civilization. - An army of
servants in advance to make
things comfortable for the couple at
the places svhere they nightly lodge.
{ravels
hanges ia tho Churches.
Dav. Dr. Edward Evcrett ZIale, in
the International Quarterly, says that
with every year it becomes more and
nore certain that by the year 2000 no
ceclesiastical organization now existing
in America will retain its present form.
This statement was made as early
the year 1870 by the distinguished
President of Brown University. Thir-
ty ave more than justified a
seemed somewhat
swaartlinZ,,
. back
KEYSTONE STATE GULLINGS
RETIRED ON PENSIONS.
Three Men of Altoona Who Have
Reached Age Limit—Fight With
Burglars at Beaver Falls.
Patrolman William Kircher, of
Beaver Falls, detected two men trying
to force an entrance into a Seventh
avenue clothing store. through the
rear door. When the would-be-thieves
saw the officer they started to run.
Kircher fired at them and they stop-
ped and returned the fire with inter-
est. No one was hit, and when
other officers, attracted by the shoot-
ing, arrived on the scene the burglars
escaped in the fog.
Five Italians boarded a car at Bag-
gley Sunday evening. One of the men
lowered a window. Conductor An-
thony ordered him to close it. The
man refused and Anthony shut it.
While his back was turned the Ital-
ian suddenly whipped out a stiletto,
plunged it into the conductor’s neck
and drew it downward, making a
wound more than a foot long along
the spinal column. Two other
Italians then attacked him. One stab-
bed him on the shoulder and the
other thrust his knife into the con-
ductor’s abdomen, ripping ‘it open and
almost disemboweling him. William
McGary of Baggley was the cnly other
passenger and he sprang to Anthony's
rescue, and knocked two of the men
down. The rioters threatened him
with their knives and he was un-
able to prevent their escape. Ab-
thony died on the way to the Greens-
burg Hospital. :
A Hallowe'en prank cost the life
of Roy ‘'Saltsgiver, aged’ 20, and
Charles Monilla, an Italian, is in the
Greensburg jail charged with murder.
Saltsgiver was one of several boys
who in.a. spirit of fun toek the de-
livery wagon of Antonia Primeron, an
Italian grocer of Vandergrift Heights,
intending ‘to. drag it .te. some out-of-
the-way place. They were. seen by
young Monilla, who was employ ed by
Primeron. Monilla tried to,make the
boys give up the wagon, but
they are said to . have taunted
him. He followed the boys
for several blocks and fi-
nally whipped out a revolver and shot
into the crowd four times. One of
the bullets struck Saltsgiver in the
of the head and he fell: dead::
Fire in Jchnstown destroyed the
three-story. Cobaugh. building .and the
residence of ex-Mayor. .L. D. Wpod-
ruff, causing a loss of $44,500, partly
Sovhyse by insurance. ‘The, losses are:
s follows: Crofford, Adams & Ripple,
Be building, $20,050; Barnhart:& ‘Co.,
plumbers, $8,000; W. Al Adams gro-
cer, $5,000; 'L. D. Woodruff, .$6,000;
tenants of second floor of building,
$2,500: five secret societies on third
floor of Cobaugh building, parapher-
nalia, $3,000. The fire is said to have
been caused hy spontaneous combus-
tion in the plumbing shop.
Three employes of the Pennsylvania
railroad at Altoona have been retired
on pensions. Adam B. Hamilton, fore-
man of the tin shop, after 35 years’
service, reached the age limit. Ths
employes of the shop presented him
with a gold watch and a purse of
gold. R. B. Bartley, for 45 yeas in
service, most of the time in the boiler
shop, received a gold-headed cane and
gold watch and chain from his fellow-
employes. Amos Beatty, who for 44
years worked in the paint shop, re-
ceived a leather’ rocking chair from
his associates. :
Roy James, 16.'years old, accident-
ally killed himself with a shotgun at
the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Woods, of
Bakerstown. James and reorge’
Weakland went to the Woods home
last night, to meet Charles Woods.
While he finished his supper his boy
down in the, Fuisnen. A
shotgun was sitting’ in corner.
James reached for the weapon, and
drew it toward himself, muzzle first.
There was a logdsrepork and James
friends sat
fell to the floor, shot near the he:
He died in five minutes.
The First, "Evangelical | Tiutheran
congregation of Leechburg, dedicated
their handsome’ mew “ church. The
dedicatory sermon was delivered by
Dr. D. H. Geissinger, president of the
Pittsburg. Synod. Rev. William J.
Miller, who was pastor of the old
chur¢h for 11 . years; delivered the
evening sermon. * The edifice was
at a cost of $30,000, of which
has been paid. Rey. M. L.
is the present pasior. sw,
lev. C. H. Hess, a Dunkard
dropped dead: in the Dunk-
at Wrightsville while de-
livering the sermon at the funeral of
levi Strickler. The Rev. Hess had
just made the remark, “I am ready to
die” when he fell to -the floor .and
died... He was 65 years old.
Harry Swoop, of Lewiston, special
fish warden of that section, of ithe
State, has been arrested of the
charge of embezzlement, because st
is ;alleged, she withheld fines ch
should have gone to the department
of fisheries. : SRR
At Irwin all the mines have taken
a spurt in produétion’ apd shipping.
The Westmoreland Coal Company last
week Fade a news record, having
reached an output of 7.000 “tons "3
day at St kafton, Larimer and Ex-
rected
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port colleries.
Nick Schotti, an Italian miner
Velsten, was crushed to
fall of rock” .
The’ Rainey. coke works and coal
mines at Mt. Braddock started Mon-
day, giving employment to 1,200 men.
of
death by a
18
her
Miss Lizzie Taylor, years
committed suicide at home near
Meadville, Pa. M Taylor, while her
parents were away from home, swal-
lowed carbolic acid and died before a
physician could .be summoned.
oid,
The First Baptist church, of Ro-
chester, has extended a call to Rev.
J. E, Darby D. of W aynesburs
Pa. Br erly preached in
Union ty, Uniontown and Pittsburg
The Methodist i 1] ‘Church at
1eboro « was rededicateds Rev.
liam H. word
Allegheny College, deliv
mon.
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