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They repairing ine, 1. catherford year who ons that in. life. Joe heme is in have any ned to go picked up valked the » Weather- ed that he - he could board, and e received his way rs old, but ort of job nsas City; rt Better.” 1an a geld 1se Grape- aver had a rh of the g. the very . gave me rue of pre- all (except digestible, ch (which nd various ctherwisc und easily 1 it has re- and made catarrh of »d entirely thanks te my almost ” Name tle Creek, " fhe Lory. el THE PULPIT, A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY .DR. LOUIS ALBERT BANKS. Subject: The Compassion of Christ. Brooklyn, N. Y.—Dr. Louis Albert Banks, at one time pastor of the Han- son Place M. E. Church, where he was most successful, preached there Sun- day morning on *‘The Christ Who is Touched With the Feeling of Our In- firmities.”” The text was from He- brews iv:15. “We have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.” Dr. Banks said: “The last part of this text explains the first. Christ is in sensitive touch with us in the temptations and trials of life because He has personally ex- perienced them. He is not a stranger standing off on the ramparts of heav- en, looking down,’ though it be ever so 'benevolently, upon sorrows and dif- ficulties which He has never person- ally known. Such compassion could not mean much to us. But Jesus Christ perfected Himself as the cap- tain of our salvation through suffering. For three and thivty years He wore our flesh, and tasted our grief, and He. is touched with the feeling of our in-, firmities. How nruch that ought to mean to us. When we-are in any trial or trouble, and we need comfort, it is not to the most-joyo have neyer known what sorrow was, to whom we go for sympathy. « “Some years ago I was surprised to receive from a very rich man in a city where I was then pastor a check for a large sum of money which he said he wished me to.use among the poor in my part of the city, and especially among children who were having a hard time of.it. I followed his direc= tions and gave him an account of how portions of it were used. Still other sums followed until I was véry much interested.’in the matter, and won- dered not a little at the cause of it. {After it had gone on for nearly a year I received a letter from him inviting me to take lunch with him at a hotel. When we met he said: ‘I suppose you. have wondered at- my sending this money to’ you; an entire stranger to me, and at my being so much interest- ed in the children of the poor in your section of the gity. But this is how it comes. . My father died when I was a very little boy. .My mother was left a widow with a large family of chil- dren, all of whom were too small to be of much help. She had to work very hard, but work as hard as she could, she was unable to procure enough food and clothing to give us comfort all the time. For two or three years I knew what it was to be hungry. Many-a night I have cried myself to sleep in silence lest my mother should hear and it should make her feel bad, because I was so hungry. I could not keep back the tears, and I knew she had no bread to give me. You would scarcely believe it,’ con- tinued the millionaire, ‘looking at me ‘now and knowing what you do of me that on mor> than one occasion. I have run and snatched a crust of bread thrown away from a wagon where some teamster had eaten his lunch,. and rescued it from.a dog, and sat down -and ate it gratefully, and washed it down ‘with a drink from the town pump.” Then the tears came into the big man’s eye and one rolled out on his cheek as he said: ‘Now you know .why I have so much sympathy for the poor children. -It makes me shiver on a cold night when I think of the bays and girls who have not <clothing: enough to:keep-them warm. For I have been in their place, and I know how it feels. . I know how a boy feels when he is hungry and eold, and, {God ‘helping “me, I shall never lose a <hance to help a boy or a girl that is in a hard place. “As-~I : listened . to this big-hearted ‘man there.came into my mind. the Scripture. we are studying.. He was able to. sympathize with .and. comfort others, because he had a fellow feel- ing with their infirmities and their SOITOWS. “So, no-one could be a Savior for us who had not suffered. No one could have compassion on us. in our weak- messes who had not himself been tempted and tried as by fire. Only a man who has been hungry, and has not known where to lay his head at times, knows low to sympathize with others wlio are in similar experience. Only he: who has been in the wilder- ness with ‘the devil, tempted on every side, struggling for his life, .knows how to sympathize and have true com- passion with tempted men and women to-day: Only He who has been crowned swith thorns, who has been spit upon and whipped with the scourge, who has fainted under His cross, knows real compassion, knows how to be touched with the feeling of people who are lashed by cruel misfortune and who are fainting under burdens too heavy for their shoulders. But Jesus Christ meets all these requirements, He knows all about it. “The incarnation of Jesus was no sham. He wore our humanity com- pletely, and there never was a more Iperfectly sensitive human nature. one more tender and exquisite in human feelings than that of Jesus Christ. As has been well said, Christ affected none of that hard indifference in which some ancient philosophers vain- ly gloried. He felt as a man, and He sympathized with the feelings of others. On different occasions we are informed that He was troubled in spirit, that He groaned, and that He wept. The story of His agony in the Garden of Gethsemane exhibits: a striking picture of the sensations of innocent nature oppressed with an- guish. It discovers all the contliet be- tween the dread of suffering on the one hand, and the sense of duty on the other; the man struggling for a while with human weakness, and in the end rising superior and winning victory. We hear the Savior say, ‘IFFather, if it be possible, let this cup pass from Me.” There is the dread of suffering natural on all our lips, but the next moment we hear Christ saying, ‘Nev- ertheless, not as I will, but as Thon awilt. |. Thy .will be . done.’ _ So our Savior was touched with the feeling of our infirmities. He was a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. His whole life was an experience of the ordinary trials and provocations that lead to evil, and these rere some- times aggravated into the most in- and happy, who tense temptations. He was made the target of all the arrows of Satan. But though He was tempted in all points. like as we are. He came off victorious; and without sin. “These reflections bring us to ap- | preciate the fact that Christ is ideally perfect as a friend and Savior for us in the weaknesses and infirmities with which our lives in this world are fa- miliar. We may comfort ourselvew with the assurance of several very inspiring reflections. “First—Christ, being touched with the feeling of our infirmities, will’ make a distinction between what ‘is weak and what is willfully wrong in’ us.” Jesus: gives ‘us a very - beautiful iHustration of this in His treatment of: the disciples, those three close friends,. Peter and James and John, whom He took with Him into the Garden of Gethsemane on the night of His be- trayal. He said to them as the bur- den of sorrow pressed upon Him: ‘My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death; tarry ye here and watch with Me.” And then He went away: a.lit- tle by Himself and fell on His face in prayer, and after a time He came back wishing the comfort of the association with His friends. And behold; they were all"asleep.” They aroused at His step, and Jesus. said to Peter, ‘What! could ye not watch with Me one houn?: ‘Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.’ Then Jesus, in the ten- derness of His great Leart, feeling sympathy and ‘compassion “toward them begins to apologize for them and” explain to them their weakness. ‘The spirit indeed is‘silling, He says, ‘but the flesh is weak.” Was there: ever: greater: tenderness than- that? . Oue can easily imagine the sarcasm of Na- poleon or Frederick the Great on an occasion like that. ‘But could’ any- thing more clearly illustrate the ten- derness of Christ in distinguishing be- tween our-weakness and willful wrong doing? - We may be.-sure that Christ. will never misjudge us if. we are do- ing the best we can. He knows, it, and appreciates it. fo its full value. He sees every ‘battle 3 we make, even, when we are’defeated, and knows the motive behind - every ‘blow. that:‘is strack in His name. “ He* will. never’ reject or look with indifference: or con- tempt on any effort we make to serve Him because of our infirmities which make us to bluslr. What sve speak, in words are not the only pray ‘ers Christ hears, but every secret aspiration and longing for. goodness or for helpful service is a prayer which He hears and answers. There is no eloguence ot human lips that can compare with the penitential tears shed in secret, spring- ing from sincere meditation upon our duty to God, and heartfelt longing that we may render Him truer service. “Second-—Jesus, knowing our infirm- ities, will not allow us to be burdened heavier than we are able to bear. He will not allow ‘us to be tempted in such a way that there is no escape for us. He will not permit us to be. load- ed, unless we bring it on ourselves by our own sin, with unnecessary trou- bles. His measure about burdens is infinitely tender: ‘Come unto Me ‘all ye that labor, and are. heavy Jaden; and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in neart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is lights 5 “And in regard to temptation; we have the direct promise that His.|. grace. shall be sufficient for us, and that in every temptation He will make, 4 way for our escape, SO that" both in our sorrows and in our ddinger Christ, touched with the feeling: of our infirmities, stands ready to :com- fort and defend us. - We shall go neo path so lonely or uncertain but we: may find marks to show us, if we really seek for them, that Clirist has been over the way first. Alexander Maclaren recalls the custonis of pio- neers in- trackless lands, how" wher] one friend passes through: pathless forests. he breaks: a. branch “ever .and: anon as he goes, that these who. come. after may. see the traces of his hav- ing been there, and.may know, that they have not lost the trail. So Ww hen we are journeying through the murky Hight, and the’ dark woods of afffiction and sorrow; it-is a‘preciéus- thing to find - here and there w broken- branch or: a Jteafy stem bent down withthe | tread of Christ's foet. and the .kindly thoughtfulness .of His .hand. as He passed, and to remember that the path Hg trod He bas hallowed, and’ that there are lingering fragrances “and hidden strengths in the remembrance that He was tempted in ail points-like as we are, bearing grief for-wus, bear- ing grief with us, bearing grief like us. “Third—As. angels. comforted. Jesus in His sows, so. He will, succor us in our frials and weaknesses, How, tenderly * Jesiis prayed’ for "us before He offered” Himself upon’ thé cross as an atonement for our sins!" In that tender prayer in which ‘He expressly states that it was not only: for His dis- ciples, but for all who should believe on Him through their.words to the end of .the world, and therefore. in-, cludes us, the Savior prays: ‘Now I am no, more in the world; but these are in the world. Holy Father! Thine they; were, and Thou gavest them Me, Kéep them through Thine: own name, Sanctify -them - through -Thy. truth. Keep them from the evil one, that they may be where I am, and may behold the glory which Thou hast .given. Me.’ How tender Christ was to people in hard places during His earthly min- istry! Recall His journey ‘to visit Martha and Mary when their brother Lazarus was dead. Remecuber- the kindness to the poor woman whe touched His garments as the crowd pressed about Him. Remember the woman who brought her box of precious ointment as He sat at the feast in the house of Simon, who wet His feet with her tears and wiped them with the hairs of her head. In all these, and in multitudes of other cases how. conspicuous the tenderness and sensitive compassion of Jesus Christ in comforting those who are tried and troubled. Surely there could be nothing more attractive to us. Nothing which could more perfectly appeal to our confidence and to our faith than the character and the story of Jesus our Savior as set forth in the Word of God. 2 Narrow Way Easiest. It is easier to take the narrow than the broad way. If you go to destruc- tion you must leap over, the Bible, over the Church of Christ, over the prayers of parents and friends. You must leap over the love of the Savior Himself.—Evan Roberts. “heaven™ for, the return (Vs. 5-11). 5. SABBATH SCHOOL LESION INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR OCTOBER 15. Subjeet: Returning From Captivity, Ezra. i, 1.11-Golden Text, Psa. €XX¥., B= Memory Verses, 5, 6—Commeniary" on the Day’s Lesson. 1. The proclamation of Hite Cyrus to return (vs. 1-4). 1. “First year of Cyrus.” That is his first year as sole king at Babylon. He was king, twenty years before this, of Elam and gradu- ally extended his empire over the Per- sians and Medes; Babylonians and Chaldeans. For. two years after the capture of Babylon Darius was king of Babylon under Cyrus. Now Cyrus reigned at Babylon. “Word of the Lord.” See Jer. 25:12:,:29:10. The promise was that after seventy years the Lord ‘would bring His. people again to - Palestine. - “Stirred up—Cy- rus.” There is good-reason #o accept. the Jewish tradition according .to..Jos] sephus, that.Daniel, occupying a, high . position in the court of Cyrus, br Gught. to his attention the prophécies of Isaiah, which name Cyrus as* God’s* servant (Isa. 44:26-28; 45:1-4), and per- haps, alse,” the prophecies of Jeremiah, showing -that God had for this purposes given Babylon into the hands of Cyrus.; “Made a proclamation.” See chapter 6. _ “In writing.” . To prevent any mis- take or reversal. ’ 2. “God of’heaven.” “Hence the Con- (roller of all'men and affairs.” “God of “seems to have been a usuale ‘title’ ofthe Supreme Being among the: ‘Persians. ‘At this time the Medo-Per- ‘sian -empire- was very extensive, ex-, tending on the east to the Red Sea, on the.north to the Black Sea, on the west to.the Island of Cyprus and Eg gypt and on the south to XYthopia., “Hath charged me,” ete. Cyrus probably ac- cepted the prophecy of Isaiah as a charge to-build the temple. “The ex- istence of predictions in which, 200 years before he was born, his victor- ious, career and the important services he should render to the Jews were foretold, led him to acknowledge that all his kingdoms were gifts hestowed oni him by ‘the Lord God of heaven/’ and prompted him to fulfill the duty which: had Been laid upon him. long before his birth. This was the source and origin = of the great favor he, showed to the Jews.” 3. “Who 48. there among you.” The return was to be a volunteer movement. “His God be with him.” A ‘pious wish, indicat- ing the deep religious feeling and good- ness of ‘heart which eharacterized Cy- rus alone ‘of Persian monarchs. He ruled. his subjects like a father... No. |’ nobler - character appears in ancient history... “Let him: go.” AS the carry- ing away of the Hebrews had taken place at intervals of from soy enty to fifty years before, there were but few of the original exiles remaining, and it is somewhat remarkable that so.many- of their descendants; nearly 50,000 in all, should be willing to go to.d coun- try they had never seen. ‘Build the house.” This was their great errand, ‘not to build their own houses, but the housé of God. “He is the God.” We can understand this great truth far’ more clearly than could Cyrus. Let us see to it that we live out the knowledge ‘which we possess. «4. “Whosoever remaineth.” Somer persons . of rue and eminent piety SO. situated that they did not deem it their duty to 20, as, Daniel in the court of Cyrus; others were hindered by old age. "Many more returned-than we read of being carried away captive. “Tet “the men—help him.” Let =the heathen. population. help- him. .~ ‘Free will;offering.”” » Probably.that made by ‘Cyrus himself. . 11... The captives make preparations “Chief of the fathers.” Venerable men, heads of families, sohie 6f whom had- seen the first” tafirple; “Judah and B#rjamim® Thése #rtbes, ‘1a%st exiled; were:the-first | to return. But hat there were many. from.the-other tribes alsa whe Sunes appears from.many other passages. “Str engthened their hands.” Sls neighbors helped them and ‘contrib- wfed Lberally. 1... * ‘Cy rus—brought forth>*" ‘ete. * Nebuchadiiezzar “Mitte thought that he was uhceonsciously pre- isérving the sacred vessols of Fsrael in ‘av safe -and:imviolgble stronghold: till; the .day.avhen Jehovah .avould bring, ‘about their restoration to Ilis people. . ;Sheshihazzar.” The Chaldee or. S. Pers n. name of Zetubbabel, Ziv ell.) him at’ court” ‘as other Hames Word | given to Daitiel and his friends.” Born in“Babylon and*named by Mis friends Zerubbabel fexile * in <Babylom). * He’ was racognized as hereditary prince of: Judah; was leader of the first company of exiles and director of the rebuilding of the temple. . » ; 11. “All the vessels,” ete. This num-, ber, 5400, is more than double the sum, of verses 9 and 10, which was 2499, It's probable that only the Targer or more cestly véssals were nimbered in ‘detail, and the 5460 includes a great umber of smaller and less costly ones. , So they are reekoned by “Jose- phas. Bh the history of the restoration of the Jews to their country, the names of three Jewish leaders and eof three Persians are prominent.” The first. Jewish leader was Zerubbabel, who left Babylon under this proclamation of Cyrus, B. C. 536, spvehty years dfter the first captivity. After ar intetfval of about twenty yeavs he was enabled to complete the rebuilding otf the tem- ple, in the reign of Darius Hystaspes, seventy years after the destruction of the temple, The second Jewish leader was Ezra, who went up from Babylon about eighty years after Zerubbabel, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes Longimanus. He labored chiefly to restore the institutions of Moses. The third - Jewish leader was Nehemiah, who went up from Susa, or Shushan, In the twentieth year of the same Ar- taxerxes. He rebuilt the wall and set up the gates of Jerusalem and pro- moted many reforms. Temperate Men Wanted. Men who use intoxicating liquors for any other than medicinal purposes need not apply for positions as guards at the Federal pentintiaries. The Civil Ser- vice Commission so decided upon the request of Attorney-General Mcody. The commission also directed that the papers of all persons now on the regis- ter whose applications show that they use intoxicating liquors as beverages should be canceled. classes,” the CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR OTES OCTQBER “R FIFTEENTH. Better Work Our Society Should Do. Heb. 6:7-12; 13:20, 21. Every noble endeavor.of yours has stored np a happy thought of you, a pleasant memory, in the mind of God. Two qualities ‘above all others the Christian - worker needs—for - the fu- ture, faith, and for the present, pa- tience. |, We are not to make ourselves per: fect—but the Perfect One is to make us perfect I.et us ‘have only one test of our work—not what men. think of it, nor. even whal we ourselves think of it, but whether it is well’ pleasing in the sight of God. Suggestions. If the society’s work is not grow- ing better all the time, it is growing worse. Hunt new taht they will new zest for the old tasks. No society can hope to do much better unless it learns from societies that’ dre doing ‘better. Have a’ wide- awake “information = committee. or Better wor: of . the society. means. better work of. the individual mem-. bers—of me. esis ; A. Few illustrations. No merchant can know whether his business is succeeding or failing un- less he Keeps accounts. The" young poet thinks his draft of ‘a poem is: perfect... -Tenny- son polished his ppems with each new edition till his death. Who get. promoted in a give store? Those that do" Better ‘work. It is" thus in our Father’s business. “Something to Say.” Do mot expect something to say in the prayer meeting without taking some time -to think before the meet- ing. Though you give another's thought in the meeting, make it your own by prayerful meditation; sand say It in your own words. . Carry with you a prayer-meeting note-bogk, with the topics for six months ahead, and spaces for writing down the thoughts and illustrations that will come to you if you watch for them. The hook will soon be full. . A’ reference Bible .will always help. you to “something to say,” for the best commentary on - Scripture is Scripture. The best time to get something to say on next Sunday is this Monday. The best way to get something to say is to try living out the Bible por- tion, and report the result. EPHORTH-LEAGLE it SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15. Better Work Our Chapter Should Do, Heb. 6. 7-12; 13. 20; 21, The author of Hebrews shows, in our ‘first ‘selection, the difference be- tween two soils, one fruitful and the other barren. The fruitful is- blessed, but the thorny ground. is cursed. But the better of the two is the thing that is hoped for concerning those written to;” The application ‘is “obvious. Bet- ter work and better results are ‘to be expected from the League. God -will faithfully do his part; now the ex- hortation is that we do ours. Tt is an individual matter. If ‘each men- ber*of- the Epworth Teague will do better, the organization will. But it: all. rests at last. upon the individual member. 3 : The second ‘selection ‘isa prayer that this may be accomplished, and we ‘thus “become “perfect” ‘that is, symmetrical and complete, goad work. And . it. will be.a wise, study for. each chapter to see how. work: and where they can. do better for’ Christ. ‘The Epworth League that is con- tent to just keep up the organization;- to hold its meetings and fill its of- fices, is no help to the church. That League only which is studyi ing to do better to improve-in all. its depart- ments, is the growing and profitahle chapter. There are many reasons for this: No Growth Means Decay. We can- not stand still. We groW or die. We are doimg better or we are not doing so well. We are demoralized if we are not getting better. True in the experience of the individual, it is true of societies. We only maintain our ground by getting on te higher ground. If the League has been helpful in the past it ought to be more help- ful in the future. New departments and new methods mean new spheres of usefulness. The devotional meet- ing, once the only service held, has now led to the Bible study class, the mission study class, the Morning Watch, the multiplied local guilds and forms of service in each community. But is this the best? By no means. We are to study how better to reach and save the boys,” the “lapsed unreached and un- churched masses of our cities and larger towns. The Epworth League has not yet begun to measure up to he possibilities of its usefulness. In the hands of the young p<ople rests very largely the future of our church. Can the church mest the de- mands of a changing future? Yes, if the Epworth League will learn to .do better work. SILK LACE. After washing, silk allowed to lie for haif an hour in a little warm milk, to which a very little gum water has been added. Then squeeze nearly dry and iron on the wron'g side on a board covered with several thicknesses of clean flannel ~—Home Notes. “Swedish school children under the guidance of their teachers annually plant about 600.000 trees. “first . in. every. lace should be | WEALTH OF AMERICAN RAILWAYS Commercial Value of Nation's Roads Over ¥leven Billions. The vast commercial value of the railroads of the United States is dis- closed in a recent bulletin of the Cen- sus Bureau. This value is placed at $11,244,852,000, and is among the various States as follows: Ala. ....$150,211,000 | Mont.. ..$196,209,000 Alaska . 100, 1000 Nebraska. 263, 170, 000 Arizona 68, 356, 000 { Nevada... 43; 745, 1000 Ark, ,.. 124; 7626, O0iN. H..... 70 786, ,000 Cal"... 350, 694, 000 | N. J.. 53 568, 000 Colorado 198.261 1000 NM... 86,400, 2000 Conn. . 105,369, 000.IN. Y..... 898, 299, 000 Del. .... '17.985.000 I N.C... 118, 146,000 DP. Col. 5,578,000 N. Diss «ew 123,390,000 Florida . 80,467,000 | Ohio . . 689,797,000 Georgia. 156,603,000 | Okla 78,668,000 Idaho.. 91,877,000 reas. . 75,661,000 Illinois, . . 805,057,000 | Penn. ..1,420,608,000 Ind, Ter 79,405,000 | x Island’ 25.719.000 Indiana. 375,541,000 C.u..0 75,500, iowa ... 344 847.000 > B..... 49,646,000 Kansas . 356,356,000 | Tenn 131,166, Kent’eky 155,772,000 | Texas 237,718,000 Louisiana 123, 401, 1000 Utah.. .. 90.325,000 laine .. 80, 146, 000 | Vermont. . 37,311,000 Marylnd 132, 342, 000 | Virginia. 211,315,000 Mass.. 250, 1052, 1000 | Wash. . . 182.837 1000 ‘Michizan 277, 597 0600 | W. Vir. . -201,799,900 Minn. .. 466,734 1000 Wischsin 284510 ooh Miss. .'l, 107,884,000] Wyoming 109; 307; 2000 Missouri. 309,768,000 Of this immense aggregate it will be observed that Pennsylvania, with $1,- 420,€08,000, has about one-eighth and leads all the States of the Union, ex- ceeding New York, which has the sec¢-1| ‘ond largest value, by $522,386,000, and Illinois, the third, by $615,551,000. The percentage of tax . valuations, compared with the commercial value,.| is given as follows, a number of the States, for which returns were not available, not being included: Alabama 35.9 | Nevada ..ev,... 31.5 Arizona'....... 9.7] New Hampshire 28.3 Arkansas ...... 27.8 | New Jersey..... €9.5 California ..... 26.3 | New Mexico 9.9 Colorado, ...... 25.0] New York...... 25.6 Connecticut ...114.4 | North: Carolina. 61.4 Dist. Columbia 44.6 | North Dakota.. 18.0 Tlorida ........ 27.1. 10Di0y. .& i gine: + 19.4 Georgia 40.3 | Oklahoma ...... 15.2 Idiho :........ 11:0 { Rhode Island: :. 61.5 Illinois .. . 63.8 | South Carolina. 39.0 Indiana ....... 44.2 | South Dakota... 28.9 Towar. rs ....... 16.7 | Tennessee 46.6 Kansas 16.94 Texas. ois ven. 40:0 Kentucky ..... 40.90 1TtaN .. ones nee 220 Louisiana ......" 28.91 Vermont ....... 73.3 Michigan ....... 70.9 Virginia... vo. 37.7 Mississippi .++« 21.7 | Washington ... 14.3 Missouri ...... 21.7 | West Virginia.. 14.2 Montana ',..... 18.7 | Wisconsin 76.6 Nebraska ...... 18.5 | Wyoming 73 - The valuation given does not HEL the value of Pullman cars or private cars. The value of this equipment, in- dependent of the commercial use to which it is put, is estimated as follows Pullman cars, $51,000,000; private cars, $72,000,000. The publication is intended to show the estimate placed upon the railroads for business purposes and it purports to give their market value rather than the tax valuations. In a note it is explained that “the value submitted was determined not with” 4 view to discovering a proper purchase price for the > railways of the United States, nor as “a basis” for. taxing these railway properties,’ "but _ as one step in ascer- [airy for the Consus Bureau the total ealth of the United. S States.” Pras amare s —— aL Den Dutler Vindicated. If Benjamin I. Butler takes any in- terest in things here below he will have-a chance to say “I told you so” witen he glances dat New Orleans. During the time~when he xvas in con- tral of-things in that town in the Re- bellion days he stamped yellow fever out so completely that it did not dare to sneak back until long after he left the town. He cleaned up New Orleans in 1862 as it had not been cleaned be- fore since the days of Bienville. And not since Bienvillé’s time was the town - freer ‘from yellow fever and other pests than he made it. : General Butler may or may. not have had a line on the mosquito theory of infection. He’ ‘made the Crescent City sO clean, ‘howeve; fer, that a mosquito cold 16% fiy over it utiless he brought iis rations with him. There were no feedingegrounds for -him. left in that tawn when Ben's soldiers and labor- ers. figished their werk of ¢leansing, deodorizing. and disinfecting. The mosquito, rem ained away while Butler had his headquarters there. * He estab- lished a Federal quarantine against the stegomyia compared with which the present barrier is as’ full of holes as any of: Rojestvensky’s ships.—St: Louis Globe-Democrat.. . . The Vanishing Watering Trough. As ‘we drive through the country these warm days we are led to notice how seldom one sees a watering trough by the roadside, which is quite in con- trast to the condition of things a doz- en years ago when one was to be found every few miles. These troughs were a source of much satisfaction to the weary steed which was allowed to quench its thirst while on a long drive, and it seems too bad to note their gradual disappearance. Just why they have passed we do not know, for they certainly were of no incon- venience to anyone and were a bene- fit. Would it not be well if the towns and cities should do more to encour- age the locating of these troughs, and thus bring more comfert into the lives ot the dumb beasts who serve us so faitsfully >—Bath Independent, The Pedometer in Lurops. #According to my writs W. Y. Morgan from Ven “1 have traveled through 171 miles of cathedrals, fifty-six miles of public buildings and eighty-five miles of are galleries — all in ten days. people may think my pedometer is too rapid, but I know it is too slow. You know a good bird dog learns never to ‘set’ for anything but a game bird. And it is well established that people with a certain kind of rheumatism can tell the approaching changes in the weather by the twinges in their joints. And it is a fact that even when I do not know there is a cathedral or an art gallery within 100 miles let me ay» proach one accidentally and my feet will begin to ache.,"—Kdnsas City Star, pedometer,” Some distributed | “| strangers. KEYSTONE oTATE GULLINGS MUST PROVIDE FOR POOR Decision Rendered Regarding ths Care of the Indigent Sick by Counties, “The Attorney General's depart- ment has. furnished State Health Commissioner Dixon with an opinion to the effect that it is the duty of the county commissioners of coun- ties, where there are 20 poor direc- tors, to provide sustenance for all in- digent persons residing within their district, who are affected with dis- ease, or who are kept from their regular employment by reason of quarantine established by the State hea!th department. In an opinion to the poor directors of Somerset county the deputy attorney general decides that any person applying for admission to hospitals receiving State aid must satisfy the authorities that he is unable to pay for treat- ment, and unles he can show that this is the fact they should refuse to admit him at all, or, if there be.ex- tenuating circumstances he should be admitted only as a paying patient. R. E. Zimmerman, a hardware dealer of Béaver Falls, was robbed of about” $100 in money by two young They made a small pur: clase, gave Mr. Zimmerman a $5 bill to change and learned that' he had his money in his safe, which was un- locked. Then one of them got him out on the sidewalk to shew him a washing machine while the other left the ‘store, went around the block, crawled "in ‘through the back” window and went through the safe. The merchant did not miss the money for an hour. Rev. E. J. Gwynne, D. D., presi- dent of Keystone College at Martins- burg, Blair county, and brother-in- law of W. W. Blackburn, of Pitts burg, and 4 man who has been. a Methodist all his life, applied for ad- mission to the Huntingdon Presby- tery of the Presbyterian Church, giv- ing up his membership in the Meth- odist denomination. In order to fit himself for the Presbyterian pulpit he will take a post-graduate course in Princeton Theological Seminary. The new station of the Wabash railroad at Hickory was destroyed by a fire. C. C. Coates, the agent, was not awcre that the buiiuing was ablaze until -he was driven from his office by the flames and smoke. He just bad time to seize the money drawer and flee from the building. All the tickets, furniture, freight and express were destroyed. The loss is about $10,000. The nineteenth the old Bucktail at the home of State Senator E. A. Irwin, at Curwensville, colonel of the regiment. Many veterans went to the Gettysburg battlefield, where a marker was placed on the spot where a colonel of.the regiment, Charlies W. Taylor, fell. i After having been practically dead for 12 months, Wehrum, in Black Lick valley, is about to be rejuvenat- ed. A year ago the Lackawana Coal company closed its mines. Since then annual reunion of almost all the papulation has left. From now on, officials say, . additional men will be taken on until the full quota is at work again. Captain John F. Drayo,, one’ gi the leading coal and river men of the Upper Ohio. valley died at his honie in. Beaver in his 86th. year. Dravo was a member ofthe legislature for several® terms -and.a prominent man in the business affairs of the City of Pittsburg. ARLI w Gh de The Maryland Coal, company, . a Georges Creek corporation, has pur; chased 37000 acres of coal lands ‘at South Fork: * “Approxirhately $500,000 will change hands on this. deal." This is the first venture of the Maryland Coal company in Cambria county. Samuel Rider, a well-known oil driller - of - Butler, was found ‘dead: in bed: at ‘the home of Frederick Dam- bach, in Connoquenessing. He was a son of the late Jacob Rider, and was; by years old. His wife and four children survive him. Congressman A. PF. Cooper has named .John R. Walker, of, Berlin, Somerset coun ity, as. candidate for the West Point Military academy.: The alternates are BE. K. Fogg and John D. Locke, of this place. Thére was no competitive examination held. » Discovering boys in his orchdrd stealing apples Karl Burk, whose farm is just west of Altoona, started to chase them out. While pursuing them one of the party turned and opened fire on him with a revolver, shooting him in the right leg. Walter Bates, 48 years old, was kill- ed at Oil City while working in the new goverament building. He was di- recting the hoisting of a large stone, when the crane broke and the stone and machinery fell on him. Bates formerly lived at Bradford. At Corry, Pa., Carl Gerston, aged 8, after school jumped on a freight train in sight of his teacher, who told him to get off. He rode some dis- tance and. then landir i front of another ich him instantly. Rev. W. H. Miilthon pastor of St. Sharon, has tion to e weeks. He all declines to Alsen The National works can Sheet and Tin Plat Monessen, will rest October 16. Only 10 of the 25 mills will be started. The plant has been idle since June 15. The plant has been equipped with a new boiler house costing nearly $100,000. Two strangers went into the store of the Rochester Carpet company, and asked the manager, C. H. Hickey, if they could purchase an empty store box. While Mr. Harris took one of them into the cellar to pick out a box the other stranger tapped the money for four u Reformed “tende red his effect’ in six persecution, but 2 matier, of the Ameri- company, of operations years 5 drawer, securing $40. regiment . was held | Capt. ;
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