s i is a sends 3 10008 erator pte. . & tleship: enting ® air cut e a ca e horse ed with > Wash. orse-of- wn,” if 5 those mworid” y every 1 horse. e horse e study e has a he sub- > would ders - or b a SiX- se nm:on- to auto, its evil rave Or “ah HOW sgics ob ht with: is rider. hen the y in the he same car. A nination e would had all 10t have en as a ing. are well *OmMmon le grave Lodge in »xploded ‘he bark . smal! tree was phenom- a very en sug t is said, that the suddenly expands Between is most unts for ce, while not af- £4 wood Logs of ' and ex- iperheat- in every 1s. The log. .ex- tly into e of the e beauti- ndeed it 5 of that n i1 need 18" castle, country of: Italy, IIT kept ed park. ully laid e delight uel, who yhood at $e ski rg on mas ee a Turban of Spanish Lace. An evening turban of old Spanisah {nce is all in white, save for the tips of the tails of two ermines. These two little animals are actually tied in a knot on the crown ‘of the turban. 1: ig beautiful rather than bizarre. Early Morning Call. ‘A Fort Fairfield lady living in the country says that a short time ago she was awakened at about 3 o’clock in the morning by a furious ring of the telé- phone in her house, Feeling from the wildness of the ring that somebody’s house must be on fire or that somebody was bleeding to death, she scampered down stairs and nervously seized the * receiver, only to hear a shrill soprano voice shriek: “Got your washin’ done yet? Had mine out half an hour ago.” —Lewiston Journal. - : A Suit For the Links. fA brown and white check in a loosely woven tweed has been successfully converted into a stunning golfing cos- tume by a famous tailor. The skirt is plain and graceful in its ankle length lines, and a russet brown cloth makes the chic banded coat, which is delic- igusly negligee, blousing just a trifle all round over a brown leather belt. The fronts are turned back and faced with the plaid, which material also fashions the smart little waistcoat that buttons over a shirt of white linen. The neck is arranged with the now de- creed turnover linen collar and small How tle.” "+ . : Not For the. Dumpy Woman, The trimming of the new skirt covers the entire area of the skirt, reserving a slight bit of unclaimed surface at the top. When the material is adaptable a pretty conceit is represented ‘by a skirt trimmed with three frills—to wit, a hroad one at the bottom, a narrower one half way up, and the third and last hardly a quarter of a yard from the waist line. Lots of sartorial solecisms will be spared us if the fat, dumpy woman will relinquish all claims to this particular effect, leaving these frills to her tall, slight sister, and adopt the equally smart directoire skirt, which, with its clinging, long lines, will accen- tuate Yor height at least several inches. j With Sling Sleeves. A striking feature of a white cloth evening pelisse is the sling sleeve. This peculiar sleeve is very full and shirred up onto a shallow yoke. It is edged along the open part (the sling) with sable. From the front this opening is quite like some very old-fashioned gar- ‘ments. From the back the sleeves look like huge sagging puffs. In addition to being edged around the neck and down the fronts with the fur it is adorned with two puffs of the cloth. The lowest one is four inches above the edge. One goes around in a’ line with the bust. The sleeve, to return-to the very novel feature, does not fall far below the elbow, which gives op- portunity to show the dress sleeve. Day of Rest. The day of rest is a terrible snare and delusion for the wife and mother; and ghe is glad when Monday comes and she has seven workdays of relaxation before her. SER la Verily for the busy housekeeper there is no rest, for housework, be it done ever so well to-day, ‘bobs up serenely on the morrow, te be done all ‘over again, and children’s appetites are of a fierce and terrible monotony, never sa- tiated, and clothes wear out and dust gathers, and many a poor woman Says with the.prophet: . “Vanity, vanity, all is vanity.” If no one else deserves it the faithful house-mothers of this and past genera- tions deserve an espegially choice slice of the ood things of the next world, for their reward in this is small and of Employment of Women. Our Government has never been very generous in the employment of women for clerkships, as the records of the warious bureaus show. \ ; But Consul Monaghan, of Chemnitz, : says that svomen have become an in- dispensable factor in the German pos- tal telegraph and telephone ‘service, in “ spite of the conservatism which pre- vented the utilization of feminine ac- tivities-in public work in Germany un- til nearly half a century later than in France and England. Some 4000 women in Germany are “now engaged in the Government tele- “ phone service. The pay is not high and “the conditions are rigid, but the hours gre light and the salary ($357 a year) offers a comfortable living. But the most satisfying feature of fe- male employment in Germany ‘is the Government. insurance policy against old age, and it is not to be forgotten active labor after the prescribed num- ber of years of faithful work are awarded a Government pension on the same plane with men.—Boston Globe. Corzl and Its Imitations. “If you wish to buy coral beads,” re- marked the jewel enthusiast, ‘you must go to a reliable dealer. Why, aven celluloid may be so shaped and inted that the-average person would nof kaow the difference. There's one way to tell;- however, if the chain is . cheap. In this case the very perfection of the beads will convince the would-be purchaser of th spurioushess.: A string of small be at, say $8 or $10, little reniown.—Philadelphia Telegraph. |. will be full of little imperfections, iif they be real. The larger the bead of real coral the more expensive. The old carved coral jewelry of long ago, went out because it was imitated in celluloid till you couldn’t tell the difference be- tween pieces that cost $3 and $50. Just because the pretty. beads in delicate pink are so expensive most persons fancy the branch coral chains, five feet in length, that sell at $1 and less, and ‘are not real. But they are, and they are cheap because they are made of the tip ends of the coral branches, whieh’ are too.small to be carved into any- these chains are sold for a lire and a ‘half (thirty cents), Sorento being the favored purchasing place.”—Philadel- phia Record. : : Plaid Shirt Waist Dresses. The smartest shirt waist dresses for this season are-plaid, the real Scotch designs, or color schemes in the browns and greens, or dull two-tore plaids. In the most expensive goods it is not at all difficult to find the actual tartan, design,the Stewart, the MacDonald,the Bruce, the Wallace and so on through all the best known clans. - And if you are Scotch descent it is the very swag- ger thing to have a shirt waist suit in the plaid of your own clan. 3 : The materiais are a heavy Scotch wool mixture, silk molbair, wash flan- nel, light Scotch flannel, taffeta, silk and wool voile and straight cotton stuffs. If you want to be most fash- ionable you will have a wash flannel suit in some tartan color; a design that has been fought under, sung to, and that has been an inspiration to the bagpipes on many a battlefield. The wool or silk\shirt waist suits ail | have a pleated skirt, wide box pleats or narrow knife pleats, or cut circuiar or: accordion pleated. And the blouses are, pleated to niatch, full over the chest, for perfect comfort, loose in the arm-: hole, moderately full sleeves, with the’ comfortable elbow spring. They dre! very tailor made, all the pleats stitched and double stitched ant flatly pressed, and the silk suits sometimes trimmed with bands, collar and cuffs of suede leather. : An excellent plan for washing these linings to prevent fading or the hag’ gard look of well rubbed fabric is .to wash in hot suds of castile soap and borax powder. It saves boiling, the use of a board and any possibility of shrinking. Have a tub half full of water that has boiled, add four table- spoonfuls of borax and half a cake of shaved soap. When this is prepared it is a good plan before putting in your linings to first rinse out any laces or’ ribbons or veils that you, want to clean. quickly without injury. al i Your linings will come clean Ani a few minutes light hand rubbing, and should be rinsed in! cleat warm and then in clear cold water.. 1 § 4 This is also a good method for doing up the plaid suits of wash flannel, which should never have permanent: linings if there is any intention of sub- mitting them to laundry worries. You simply can’t wash two different sorts of: materials out in different ways so that they will agree afterwards, and it; is simpler to plan them separate from the start. It also makes ironing easier.’ The effort to iron a loose blouse witha fitted lining on the wrong -side might! easily, if women were not so patient, imperil household peace for a week. such feats in his daily office routine. The world would ring with the achiéve- ment, ; [ESAIGHS QF 25 TARE FAR £0 © * ZN Err rt RB + Velvet hats'are worn with yvelvet.cos- tumes. Sleeves are moderate in size, ending, at the elbow. : Tiny velvet checks are chosen. The quality is usually chiffon. y : Barbaric necklaces complete the fin- ish of some stockless bogiges. That old favorite, the palm pattern, is worked ont in a velvet-piped silk puff on the fronts ofa novel waist. Fur ties complete the collarless coat on a cold day. Ermine is first for dress wear and chinchilla is next. - Broadtail is smart. ’ a A velvet wrap--the darker the better —may be immensely brightened: and enriched by placing over the shoulders bronzy goldigalon. Feather boas, or rather stoles, are worn by very many fashionables.” Ata little distance white maroout is often taken for fox, while brown marabout looks almost as much like some of the rich brown fur Some of the most magnificent velvet dresses show corded shoulder shirrings in epaulette effect. These shirrings ex- tend out over and take in the’ sleeve tops. The cutofn a creation is so involved as to be a mystery Shoulder i part in the fc trimming. A c d collar, sueh as one of deep i ractieally un- hes And capes are so cut up and as to behardly recognizable. S for + thing at all. All along the Italian codst. His best argument.- J Fancy if mere man had to accomplish’( | follow: an ‘argumént whicly’ results in st to the length of a“deep yoke strips‘ of | ‘e for the most ns of other | ‘A SERMON FOR SUNDAY nt AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED, “THE WORLD'SINTEREST IN CHRIST.” «my - x % The Rev. Dr. Cleland Boyd McAfee Tells What is the Best Argument For Jesus —His Own Character Wath Its Striking Symmetry is Completely Convincing, BROOKLYN.—Dr. Cleland Boyd MeAfee, astor-elect of the Lafayette Avenue Pres- yterian Church; preached there Sunday. His subject was. “The World's Interest in the Success of Christ.” The text was from John xii:9:*" “Much people of the Jews, therefore, knew ‘that He was there: and they ‘came not for Jesus’ sake! only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom He had raised” from the dead.” Dr, McAfee said: § +0 A F890 4 "I 3 This 1s at least candid. There Was no magic magnetism about Jesus. He drew men to Him in no subtle, indefinable way. He drew them by what they saws Him do, by what they sasy Him to be. Here was a; vrowd drawn to Jesus by the effect He had ; had on.a man. That is the sermon of the morning in a sentence. The best argu- ment Yor Jesus is the effect He "has: on men. I.call it best, not as most philo- _sophical or profound, and not as bearing logical tests better than others. It is best because we can all see it and feel the force of it. . 3 ¥ I asked a wise man once what he count- ed the best argument in behalf of Christ. He replied, “Christian.” And what is the best argument against Christ? Instantly he peplied again, “‘Christian.” - Broaden'it. AVhat is the best argument for Christ and His gospel? The Christendom of to-day. Set Christendom over against heathenism and see what Christ can do with men. Set it over against the Christendom that should be and see what Christ has still to 0. Now all that is very simple, and it is at such simple points in our: lives that Christ comes into closest contact with us. “The only claim He makes to Kingship is based on. the fact that. He is one who. can. He can bring things to pass. He can ac- complish., He can achieve. You remem- ber how: constant His fame ran ahead of Him in I g and they told it. - He taught others and they announced it. Ie fed a multitude and they clung to Him. ym not suppos- ing that the crowd really believed in Jesus for what He claimed to be, but the crowd was drawn to Him by the effect He had had on men, and thus was brought under His spell. And no man will ever believe in Jesus on ‘the mere evidence -of lives about Him. THe must. accept Him for Him- self. But the effect He has on lives will have its part to-day as then in turning men ‘to-Him. [The unchanged life does not draw. The thoroughly changed life is His best argument. You remember I have already said -that there are better arguments for Christ than the lives of His followers—better philo- sophically and logically. 1 f He “is Himself a careful, candid study of His own character with its pe- culiar balance of traits, with its striking symmetry—that would be very convine- ing. For my. part .I cenjoy. the so-called metaphysical arguments, even some which a® not popular in the philosophical facul- ties nowadays. There are very profound books written which men might read with profit. : But we are just common men, and ‘we do very little profound “thinking. almost no abstract thinking, and we are reached sooner and most effectively by the ‘argu- ment of results. There are men, of course, not so bright as ourselves,iwho would be hard pressed just to read the books which present these obstruse arguments. In my reading; the other day, I ran across a sen- tence from one of these profound writers which will interest vou, just by way of illustration. It is a definition of religion and runs this way: “Religion is the ulti- mate and vital apprehension by the indi- vidual of what is conceived to “e reality in its fullest sense, the inner truth of things; whether such reality be regarded as co- extensive with, as included in, or as dis- tinct from the world of natural phenom- ena, it always, however, being regarded as in some way related to the individual him- self; any such appreliension embracing be- ief, emotional response and the determin- ation of conduct, in -so far as conduct is supposed to have a bearing on ‘the con- 2 z nection of the individual with sueh real- ity.” Now that is not a very bad way of stating certain facts about religion, and vet I doubt ‘if some ‘of us would care’ to go far in books worded that way.: Some of von have been under the influence of re- ligion a good many years, but have never worded it just that way. There ‘are easier ways profound .trath: of Christianity. 'F wish it seemed possible, for example, to. get a wide reading for the two-year-old bbok by | Principal Fairbairn of ‘Oxford, Mansfield College. He has called it “The Philosophy of the Christian. Religion.” The book: grew out &f Principal Fairbairn’s’appoint- ment as. Haskell lecturer in India, “gHe had the sacred books of Hinduism and felt that he knew how to mweet its.positions. with syne. .understanding. + When = he i Hindu- | ism a very different thing ih practice, That turned him, back upon ai eandid study of his*own faith, to see avhether and wherein reached India, héwever, he foun it.might différ in presént practice’ from its original form. Such a study avas certain to result, profoundly. and it is a profound book. I wish all of us Christiahs might sentences as these: “The Son of Cod holds in His pierced hands the keys of all re-; ligions, explains all the fattors of their beinz and all the persons. through .whom they have. been realized.” “The Iaearng- tion is the very truth which turns ature and man, history and religion ‘into the Tuminous dwelling place of God.”. I think I shall not forget that phrase that the In- carnation turned the world into the lum- inous dwelling. place of God, that Jesus. once born into manhood, has never died out of manhood, and shall instead draw | manhood : into His own fellowship and likeness. i . We shall- be able to feel the nersonal meaning of all this when we stop to name over ‘some of the ‘traits w.ich mark the changed life. It isa life of faith—of gunist confidence in God. There is mo idleness nor lazy trusting that things wil come out right by.some mysterious method. It is the life of belief that we are-in a Ta- ther’s world, making our way to. a TFa- ther’s house. That faith stands ¢ against the doubt and fear and the unchanged life. And because it is faith in God it accomplish:s faithfulness to men and our duties., And this is what the world sees. It cannot sec faith in Cod. It can see only the faithivlaess in the life we live. From gross dishonesty oa un to unreliability, at whatever stage it app:> unfaithfulness prevents aa argument f Christ. This is the. argument of the cha life. And TY cannot mistake that 1c s. 0 d S is such argument which Christ Himself most | prizes and which the avorld most needs— needs not in these larger ways 1 places alone, there so much as in th en with whom it must deal most c 7. My brethern, it is the ar > mn changed; Christiani needed. The .book read. The 1 some fellows there is wanted an professions and our ac cate that something higher a actually taken hold of mus. We se its of the best Master; we are not “we tdo-not . people. We claim only this, as Christians, is journeving. Ile healed some. of wording the, and Fervieg. This is the supreme mark of | the Chtiskian:life—such a love as makes us | C ist’s’ sake. "Tt h 10 faultiess servants; we do not claim to } -; claim to be better “than other that -wé-are seeking to do as Christ ap- yroves, that we .re seeking to live the pro -kind of life He lays out for us. The practi- cal James in his New: Testament epistle puts it in a succinet way:. You say you are honest; very well; show.me your hon- esty without paying your debts and I will pay my debts to show my honesty. tis the practical outworking which convinces other men. Men are saved by their faith in Christ. But other men know that thoy are saved by the way they act. : Argument resulting so is worthy ‘of study. But it would be ‘so wild as to be silly. to expect men iho look on the re- ligion of Christ for the outside to labor over 600 pages of profound work. We are turned back again to the easier’ argument in Christ's behalf—the visible effect He has’ on life around. It was possible to study Jesus in His own character. The crowd came that day to see Him and to see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.” Indeed. Lazarus, changed into new life, was.so strong an argument that” his enemies. would have killed him to silence him. 72. “iE And it is still the commonest method to explain away or to deny the effects of Je- sus in the.world. Tf He has laid hold on a people, we_must find out how climate and ancestry and customs have been the real uplifting agencies. If He makes’a charac- ter attractive and winsome, we tal about disposition and training. That is, we want Lazarus explained away unless ~ : mean to acknowledge the power of Christ. The changed Jife is the argument which the world finds most forceful. The world is interested; not in Christ's theory, but in His success. That argument can be made in a large way. His influence can be traced through the long stretch of years. Our own race.and nation could be made an illustration. Or the minds of men could be pointed to peoples only yesterday in savagery and now lifted into a well begun civilization. I read recently the life of James Chalmers, the missionary in the South ‘Seas. Just after he became ac- quainted with the people one of his wife's friends, as a mark of respect and affection, brought her a piece of human flesh, nicely cooked, as a dainty: for her own table. They were often invited to cannibal feasts. ? On a new island, only four years ago, Chalmers’ was ‘killed and his body eaten. And the gospel of Christ, with the arts of | civilization, has taken hold upon such peo- pie and make them fraternal and safe and helpful. . There is no Christian island in the South Seas where a voyager is not safe: there is no non-Christian island where he'is safe. hl It is a life of hope. It has not yet re- ceived. its best things. The best times are not past nor present, however glad they may be. There are better things to come out: of the Father's lovt as we go- on in the Father's world. And this hope works. into the sieht of men in the form of cheer, of brightness, of encouragement. Some ome asked the other day what I theughé -of ring Christians. It was a new. phrase to me. : We do not think much of silly Christians, I suppose. of shallow Ch tians, whose joy compares with real joy a giggle compares with a laugh. But what can one ‘think of a Christian life’. whose hope never comes out into the cheer and brightnéss of a joyous life? 1 heard a child say a little piece once, in which was explained that one day in heaven God. be- came weary of the dinging of the harps and the singing of the angels, so He si- lenced them all and sang a strain of music Himself, and ere it had died away He caught it. threw about it a beautiful plu- mage and ‘cast it into the air, and so the songbirds came to earth. They are God’s music sent into life. And are we other? Who so well as we may catch the glad strain of joy and make our lives a gladden- ing influence in the world? And if instead we droop and pine, and will not bear the sorrows as though they were charged with glad meaning from our Father, and will not cast a radiance of joy into other lives, where is the changed life? The Kings of the Holy Roman Empire were crowned with a triple-crown, in one of which was a nail of the true cross. And in the triple crowning which’ marks the changed life, one bears the nail of the cross. . For. supremely the changed life is the life of love, and love means sacrifice, Jove means service, love means helpful- nes. . No man can see another’s love save as it shows itself in the service of helpful ness it renders. When men seek the su- preme ‘example of love they look’ upon a figure which glorified: the cross, which had the pierced hands and feet and side—a figure of Orie who came as a i ezsenger of glad tiding: - of -peace—Ilis feet beautiful nppn the = mountains, but bloodstained. ‘And love is the hid fact of that best’life, ponHEgsinto sitht of othert‘as helpfulness helpful among men for Chr 13 no mare pity of other me np shallow see sufferi’ than.that. If is the cornpanding motive ia all life—t > serve. It means. laying out our lives for. that wherever :they arc lived. Soniétimes itt Comatids large things. ‘Some- fimes it scones ort in -the -dadly, common life, We may not do for men what they want, but we learn to do for thém in one meadire what they meed. And i comes a constant help to other Theso are the plain dhanred life, “hich” stands. ag argument for Christ. th, within. which, comes ut ia view as faithfulness everywhere. os ¢H ming out into vie as cheerful- ness. ercouragement, brightness. ; Love, breakiae ont into service. Is your life so needs; it is triply marked, not by fortunate birth; not | in #halloiv ways, bit deenly and bécause vou have known Him? If it is, then you in your commonplace life are Zlis daily argument, the Lazarus of the present day, drawinz mea to Him. 21} The Lighest Ieroicm. There: is yet,a harder and higher hcro- jsm—to live well in the quiet routine of life; to AI a little space because God wills it; to go on cheerfully with a petty round of little duties, little occasions; to accept unmurmuringly a low posicion; to smile for the joys of others when the heart is aching; to barish all ambition, all pride and all restlessncss in a single regard to our Saviour’s work. ; Moreover, to do this for a lifetime. is a still greater cffort, and he who does this is a greater hero than he who for onc hour ‘storms a. breach, or for one day rushes onward: tndavnted in the flaming front. of shot and shell. Tis works will follows him. : le may not be a hero to the world. but he is one of (tod’s heroes; and thounh the builders of Ninevah and Laby- lon be forgotten and ur ywn, his memory shall live d be blessed.—Dean Farrar. : i. Tlave We Little Faith? Are vic to h tha: wi must wil be to them a ¢ 2. Or does not a pegpie, the call so to ad methods. by the hizhest financial by and our a me that great wealth rather than a bless- ¢ now come to us, as just our political tesmanship, our atest wisdom, training, I t a source of n, but of beneficent slam Lawrence, Bos 0 power 7—Bishop W ton. st patien ith the de a8 | ment which cannot bear to | It is co far deeper thing] so life Peri Fatmen 2 i maris of the »" go little faith ia men | ‘'WITand HUMOR of THE DAY Conserving the Type. 4 ‘Ah, yes, we blondes are getting scarce,” The flower of the beauty flock sighed; And further scarceness to prevent, She went and blew in her last cent For one more bottle of peroxide. : ng a ’ 4 “Doing and ‘Telling to Order." “Henpeck ‘tells' his wife everything ” a rE thatilte does.” ju = : : ~ “Yes, and he:does éverything that she tells him.”—Illustrated Bits. _ Two Questions. Sire—“Are you sure ycu love me for myself alone?” al He—*“Did you think L'loved you for your mother 2’—Somerville Journal. : Gathers None. '"Portoise—“There is no moss on my back!”” : The Hare—“That’s because you're a species of rolling stone.”—Detroit Free Press. Where He Got Them, “His ‘nose: is like his. father’s, but where did he get these black eyes?” “Ie called me a name yesterday and I gave them to him.”’—Cleveland Plain- Dealer. ot Didn’t Use One. : “The trustee of, the company has flown witli-the cash.” “Did he use a flying machine?” “I said he had flown, didn’t 1?” =Tort Worth Record. : : The End. Upson—“Is love a disease?” Downs, — ‘The worst in the world. Pickleson nearly ‘died with it.” . Upson—**What cured him?” : Downs— Marriage.” — Detroit Free Press. poet : #. Flying Leap. Ida—“Where did you first meet Har: ola?” . May—*“Down at the beach. He pro posed to me while we were on the springing board.” Ida—"And you accepted him on the jump, eh ?’—Chicago News, Just Their Size. Ensign (of the Baltic fleet) — “Your Excellency, 1 am informed that there are dangerous rumors afloat.” Admiral (excitedly) — “Where are they? Tl tackle ’em, no matter how dangerous they are. Pll blow ‘em out of the water, I willl” : A , — ¢ . Careless Man. Mr. Nooritch—“Our friend Jizgins has. made a lot of money offén a shoe- string start, but “he still talks like a roustabout.” Le of few. Mr. Sturckile—“¥es, I potice:so. Now that he's made his.pile; why don’t<he hire a tooter and learn to talk proper, like I done?” ; : | 1 Too Much Work to Do. ¥illage. PostmasScer ~~ “We ought to have another clerk here.” Inspector—“More than she can do, cil 7 Village Postmaster—"Yes; why, some- times she don’t get through reading all the post cards Dbeforé 10 o'clock at night,”—Tit-Bits. A Definition.. “Teacher,” asked little “what's a ‘Anfazon?”’ { “A woman who fights, teacher kindly. “Gee! I guess maw must be a Ama- Zon, then,” softly murmured Johnny, with vivid recollections of certain com- bats under the parental roof. Johnny, replied the . Exciting Game. “Pag!” exclaimed the big policeman on Washington Boulevard. “Is this a game of tag?’ asked the chauffeur of the urnumbered racing machine, “Yes, and you are ‘it.’ ” And then the policeman walked the chauffeur off to the station.—Chicago News. : = Very Lifelike. 5 “1 see you have a photograph of my wife—Mrs; Pyle Onstyle—in your show E case. It's Yery like Her,” 1 the eld erly caller, wi) . “Yes,” replied the photographer, somewhat bitterly, . “and she hasn't paid me for it yet.” . “Ah! that’s stiil more li adelphia Press. The Questi “John,” said his wife “What is it, dear?’ ] “You've 1 husband. yeen suppoygting kins for Congress i months, haven't you?’ “Yes, my love.” “And he was ele “He, was, 1 cted, wasn't he? KEYSTONE STATE CULLING HIGHER WAGES FOR MINERS. Notice That Improved Markets Will Justify Increase in Pay—Ton of Dynamite Expleded. The operators of the mine at Mor- ris Run, Clearfield county, where a strike has been on sinee spring, made public the following notice, signed by the Morris Run Coal Mining «company, John Magee, president: “Improved market conditions warrant this com- pany in attempting to pay higher wages. It will therefore pay 82 cents per gross ton for mining so long as business will permit, with correspond- ing rates for other labor from March, i904. Applications for work. will be considered "with reference to families that have beer aiflicted with sickness, preference being given to those in need.” > The report of Secretary of the Com- monwealth Frank M. Fuller submit- ted-to Governor Pennypacker shows that during: the year 194 charters were granted to street railway com- panies; to locomotive railway com- panies, 54. There were 364 certifi- cates granted extending , routes of street railways. Charters granted under the act oi April 29, 1874, num- ber 2,982. Fifty-four bank charters were issued. ' Loan associations char- tered ‘weré 112. Fees due the Com- monwealth to the amount of $231,033.- 19 were paid into the State treasury, and ‘the bonus paid in amounts to $1,- 723,754.23. Charged with permitting school at- tendance of children not successfully vaccinated and because a board of health physician had not endorsed the school doctors informations .were fil- ed against five principals of Altoona schools. D. L. Hoffman, W. W. Os- born, S. M. Harkness, M. W. Black and W. C. Ream. The health authori- ties are said to have been defied and a test case’is to be made. _ Judge John B. Steel, in‘ the. Or- phans’ court, at Greensburg, denied - the right of Mrs. Nellie Hooker, wife No. 1 of J. P. Hooker, late of Mones- sen,“ td the exception of wife K No. 2, for. proceeds of the sale of Hooker's estate. It was also ruled ‘that -al- though wife No. 2 earned by her own toil thé greater portion of the estate left by Hooker she is to get none of it. : The proceeds of the sale will be turned over to creditors. : A ton of dynamite in a log house at the Atchison mine of the Connells- ville Coke company exploded, but not a man was hurt, although windows were broken in houses two miles away. The log house caught fire while the employes were at ‘dinner. A stable, the check house and other buildings were damaged ” and = tele- phone wires were torn down. Joseph Finler, convicted of man- slaughter in the Beaver county courts for the killing of Frank Johnson at the Rochester tumbler works last June swas sentenced two years and six months in the Western Penitentiary by Judge J. Sharp Wilson. Johnson was a striker and Finler was a coal and iron policeman. The Pennsylvania railroad added eight new crews of 48 men to the mid- dle division. The 116 crews on the division were unable to handle tha trains and the number was increased to avoid freight congestion. Extra men will be promoted to regulars and the men suspended last spring puti on extra. : ot 4 William Reifsteck,:63 years old, died! at Altoona, from injuries received from a fall on the ices” Reifsteck Was employed in the Pennsylvania rail road: shops dnd leaves a wife) add’ four children. ¢ : Chauncey Litshaw and Wredericid Hilliard were placed: on trial in But ler county, on charges of burglary. They are alleged to be two of the ig who. cammitteds the H3lliott SER Jacksville, last Juna./ 5% + ] Mrs. Elizabeth Dennie has entered suit against S:"P. Kettering of Sharoy, for $20,000-for the.death-of her four vear-old daughter, who was. run dowy and killed’ by an ice wagon of the det fendant.. AE i Mike Bollock, aged 385, ‘a Slavisi miner, was killed by a fall of slkaté at the Leisenring Neo.:1 mine of .thé H. €. Frick Coke Company. His bedx was, interred in. the Slawish cemetery at Trotter: . The will of George: Munsch has been probated at Butler: St. Fark’s German Lutheran church, Butler,*r ceives a -legacy of $500 and the Ge man Lutheran church of Chicora, Pa. $200. o ‘ a : Thomas Salisbury, colored, of Moret wood, may ‘die from injuries received in a fight. at Mt. Pleasant. Michae Green, his alleged assailant, has eludy ed arrest. i Carl Pagant of Braddock, wag: kill? ed by a train at Donohue station. ii¢ is supposed to have been on his way to New York when the accident.-ecs curred. y 3 i - QD ee my ue} The home of Samuel Brent, eight miles north of Somerset, Pa., was ‘de? stroved by fire. Mrs. Brent and three children escaped in their night ¢lothes and walked through the .snow: to the nearest “neighbor’s. . nmon Council of Jamestown, has ed an ordinance providing for:a > over the Pennsylvania railroad from: the Twelfth to the Thip- wards. 2 at | Cambridge at public?sale $o ». 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