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Dr. Donald Sage Mackay preached on “How to Grow a Soul.” The text was from II Peter iii:18: “Grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.” Dr. Mackay said: ' In the course of my reading the other evening I came across this striking and suggestive sentence, “We can each grow a soul if we are willing to pay the price.” These words set me think- ing. What a tremendous possibility God has placed in the grasp of each one of us. We have in our power the opportunity of growing an immortal soul. That opportunity is this life—the question is, Are we willing to pay the price? Do we realize what the growth of a foul within us means? Do we realize what life is without a soul? We hear it sometimes said of one that he is a “soulless man.” Usually we under- stand by that description a man de- void” of the ordinary feelings of our common humanity, lacking in kindli- ness and sympathy, and incapable of generous action. True enough, but a soulless man in the real import of the avords, means a great deal more than that. To be soulless is to be dead at the vital centre of life. It is to be cor- rupt and degenerate at that point in character from which the divine and immortal springs into power. Soul- lessness is spiritual degeneracy. It is what Paul calls “Dead in trespasses and sins, without hope and without God in the world.” Is it worth while, then, paying any price if we can start within ourselves this growth of an immortal soul? “We can each grow a soul,” said the writer, “if we are willing to pay the price. '‘Assuredly it is worth it, for this is the one and the only victorious life.” More than that—this is the heart of all true religion. If our religion is not developing spiritual life within us our religion is vain. That is the great thought of Christ's teaching, and in that He has emphasized the deepest thought of all the great teachers of the world. You may remember, for in- stance. the words of Socrates in his Defense, addressed to his accusers, when in describing the greatest work a man could do he said, “For I do noth- ing but go about amongst you, persuad- ing you all alike, young and old. not to take thought of your persons or your properties, but to care about the great- est improvement of your soul.” Than that statement of the great Greek teacher the Gospel of Christ can add no stronger emphasis to the tremen- dous significance which belongs to the growth of a soul. : And yet it is just at this point that, for most of us, the real tragedy of spiritual experience unveils = itself. What is it that most troubles you in your religious life, if at any moment your give yourself to honest self-exam- ination? What is the real discourage- ment that haunts us even in our keen- ‘est prayers and most fervent supplica- tions? Is it not just this—our utter poverty in soul growth, the dreadful lack of any real evidence of progress in spiritual things? Judged by the or- dinary standards of life our souls do not grow. At the very best they sim- ply stand still, so that spiritually. even the best of us, are .pretty much-as we were fifteen or twenty years ago, with the same tendencies, dominant, the game temptations present. With others of us it is worse than that. In spite of our prayers and aspirations we are conscious, when we are brave enough to face the fact, that spiritually we grow more stunted and dwarfed as the years pass on. “Our faith becomes less fervid, the spirit of prayer dwindles, the sense of God evaporates in the stifling atmosphere of selfishness and wordliness that wraps itself like a sea fog around us. That, I repeat, is the spiritual tragedy that plays itself out in the secret places of our lives; spir- itually we do not grow as we ought; our souls lack that touch of life which reveals itself in ever deepening strength and power. Well. now having faced this two-fold fact—on the one hand .that each of us can grow a soul if he is willing to pay the price, and on the other hand that this soul-growth is not being realized within us as it ought—let us see this morning what are soine of the condi- tions in obedience to which sous-growth may become a glorious reality for each one of us. 1. Let us recognize in the first place what the soul is, what it represents. By the soul, we mean something deep- or than “the machine which ticks in the brain, that calculates and memor- izes, that learns the tricks of trade, and practices them in the world.” That is not your soul, although I dare say it is the only apology for a soul some of us have. The soul is that in you and me which has kinship with God. It is the chamber in which the divine and immortal within us dwells. The soul is the holy of holies in a man’s life. It is as Paul says, “The Temple of the Holy Ghost.” When, for in- stance, you feel at times, as surely at times we all de, an almost overpower- ing yearning after God, to know Him, to be like Him, it is your soul that is speaking. It is the immortal within you, crying out for its kinship with God. The vitality of your soul, there- fore, is the pledge of your immortality. Destroy the soul, and you destroy that within you without which eternity is unthinkable. That is why Christ put such emphasis on the awful possibility of losing the soul. “What shall it profit a man,’ He said, “if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?’ Noth- ing can compensate that loss. Christ does not say that “gaining the world” necossarily means loss of the soul; what He says is, that a prize even so great as the attainment of the whole world would not offset the loss of a single individual soul. Do we realize that? The first condition, therefore, in soul- growth, is To realize the issue at stake, to recognize the infinite value of your soul as your one and only asset when death. with ruthless fingers, strips von of all else. “Think of living,” said Carlyle, “for wert thou the piti- fullest of all the sons of earth thy life is no idle dream. It is thine own. It is all that thou hast to face eternity | with.” True, but living wiihout a soul is to make etermity a voidless blank. It is your soul within youn, claiming its kinship with God, that is’ the “only” thing worth living for. That is the first point. When you recognize that, you have taken the first step in soul growth. 2. The second condition is to recog: nize clearly the great hindrance te soul-growth. It is futile to ask why our souls do not grow naturally. as. for instance, the body does. Spiritual de velopment is one thing, natural growth is quite another thing. The fact musi be recognized, explain it how you will that soul-growth is tremendously hand. icapped and hindered bw forces which conspire its ruin. In other words, our souls are in the grip of a deadly dis ease, which dwarfs and stunts them. ‘What is that disease? A correct diag: nosis is the first step to complete the cure. Suppose for a moment you have a boy who, instead of growing inte health and strength, is pinched and dwarfed and anemic in appearance. You take the lad to a physician. and he will tell you that that boy of yours is really suffering from a wrong habit of life. He is not being nourished nrop- erly. His digestive organs are being overloaded with food which he cannof assimilate. What the boy needs is not more food. but less; not richer diet, but simpler. Nature is being thwarted by artificial living, and artificial living is the seed-plot of disease. And the physician will doubtless tell vou that, the boy being young, the cure is simple He will say: “Give nature a chance by simplifying bis daily diet.” Well it is even so with the health of the soul Our souls are starved and stunted by a disease, which is created and aggra- vated by a wrong mode of life. We are so gorging our minds with all the elaborated and artificial forms of liv: ing, that the spiritual within us is stifled. Sin is the disease which Kills the soul, but sin is simply a product of that sordid selfish life which clogs the great arteries of the soul. If deliber ately we follow a life which makes nc provision for prayer and communion with God, which cherishes evil habits and nourishes actions which begin and end in self, then we are deliberately killing the soul within us. What, then. is the price we have to pay if we want to grow a soul? We must change the mode of life which enthralls us, anc make provision, not for the things ol the flesh, but of the spirit. In that purer, sweeter, simpler atmosphere the the soul will inevitably begin to grow The vitality of your soul is wonderful Its recuperative powers are marvelous but these powers must have their op: portunity. Here is a disease which is stunting and slowly killing my sonl— am I willing to fulfill the conditior which will eradicate that disease. anc make spiritual growth a reality? 3. That leads to the third point What is that condition? And who of us, by his own strength. is sufficient te meet that condition? "We cannot cer tainly, by our own efforts, hope to ve verse those natural tendencies within us which war against our souls. We cannot, by any strivings of our own force spiritual growth. : If we are un- able to add a cubit to our physical stature, much less can we add to our spiritual growth. Yet, the call ol Christ is to “grow in grace. and in His likeness.” What, then, is the secret of that growth? The Gospel of Christ is the answer. Our souls grow as they come into living touch with Him.: We cannot transferm ourselves. but we-are transformed into His likeness, as we reflect the spirit of Jesus, and we re flect Jesus in the measure that we re flect on. Him. Make Christ the ‘theme of your daily prayer and meditation, and every moment you spend in His presence is a springtide of spiritual growth within your soul. That growth vou cannot check: no sin can hinder it if you are living in the atmosphere of Christ's life. It is not our strivings and strugglings that add to the stature of the soul; it is our faith. simple as that of a little child which, laying hold of the love of God revealed in Christ, builds up the soul. day by day, into His grace and into His likeness. Now, I ask, is there anything strange or mysterious about that? Is spiritual growth subject to laws any different from those which govern any process of mental development? Surely not To make any theme a subject of dally thought is to make that theme a potent influence in your life. Thé more deeply it lays hold of your mind the more pro- foundly it becomes a part of yourself. All you have to do is to fulfil the con- dition of continuous thought, and the object of your thought reacts upon you and * becomes a dominant factor of growth. We speak, for instance, of a man being possessed by’ some master passion—it may be the love of money, or of power, or of sordid self-indul- gence, or of some higher interest, but whatever it is, the result is the same. Constant dwelling upon it moulds char- acter into its likeness. So it is with the soul that surrenders itself to the influence of Jesus. As we think of Him, and as we enter into the spirit of His life, and breathe the at- mosphere of His love and purity, grad- ually we are transformed, and the soul within us leaps up into glad recognition of its lawful Love. Every power Wwe ftave, every facumity we possess be- comes interpenetrated by His spirit and because His spirit is life we live also. ——————- Excited. Rowland Hill used to tell this story of himself: “People say when I preach the Gos pel very earcestly, ‘How excited Mr. Hill gets’ Why,” said he, “I was walking through Wotton-under-Edge the other day, and saw some men dig- ging gravel. All of a sudden tke earth gave way and buried two or three ot the men. I ran off as fast as my old legs would carry me, and I shouted. ‘Help! help! help!” but people did not say, ‘Poor old Mr. Hill is getting dread- fully excited! “Qh, no! he might be as excited as he pleased when men’s lives were in dan- ger; but when a man’s soul was ip danger the proper thing would be to say. to him very quietly and calmly, ‘My dear friend, unless something shal! interpose, and you shali one of these days become somewhat different from what you now are, it will not be quite so well for you in another world as, perhaps, you might desire.’ "—DBelfast Witness. The models of fashion here cannot even be certain of passing muster as sae door mats in keaven, | Tr — emp We ok ren SIBBITH SCHOOL LE350M INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR FEBRUARY 25. Subject: Jesus’ Power to Forgive, Mark 1i., 1-12-—Ge'den Text, Mark, ii., 10= Memory Verse, 5—Topic: Forgiveness of Sin=Commentary. 3 . I. The multitude gathers to hear Christ (vs. 1, 2). 1. “And again.” At the close of the missionary tour in Gali- lee. “Into Capernaum.” “Which was His home or headquarters. ‘After some days.” Some days after the leper: had been healed and the excitement had quieted down. “It was noised.” The news spread very rapidly. “In the house.” Either the house which He occupied with His mother and His brethren (Matt. 4:13), or possibly that of St. Peter. When Christ is in the house, 1. Good men will be attracted to it. 2. Bad men will be benefited in it. 38. Divine benediction will rest upon it. 4. Beneficent ministries will flow from it. 2. “Many were gathe- ered.” The audience included Phari- sees and doctors of the law who had come from the towns of Galilee, Judea and Jerusalem (Luke 5:17). They had come to inspect and criticise this new Teacher. It was like the gathering of Israel on Carmel to witness the issue between Elijah and the priests of Baal. “About the door.” There was a great concourse of people so that the house and court were both filled. “Preached the word.” The doctrine of the Son of God. They had come partly to criti- cise and partly out of curiosity, and now Jesus seizes the opportunity to preach the Gospel. ; II. A palsied sinner brought to Christ (vs. 3,4). 3. “Come unto Him.” Access to Jesus seemed impossible. There were many obstacles in the way. Should they have waited for a conven- fent season? No. They must force their way to Christ. “Bringing one.” He was young for Jesus calls him son, but he was full grown for it required four men to carry him. There are many so weak and discouraged that. they cannot go to Jesus without assist» ance; we should always be ready to help such. “Sick.of the palsy.”. 1. If takes away the sense of feeling. 2.: It weakens the will so that when men would do good evil is present with, them. -3. It produces a fixed condition: of evil, with intense suffering. “Borne of four.” Each one holding a corner of the “pallet” or bed, which was mere- ly a thickly padded quilt or mat. There was co-operation in this work.. One could not have done it; it needed four. In the union of hearts and hands there is = strength. 4. “The press.” seemed quite impossible for the crowd to make an opening sufficiently large: for them to pass through. “Uncovered the roof.” Luke say, tiling.” “Broken it'up.” Oriental roofs: were made of different kinds of mate rial. Luke says they let this man down, through the “tiling.” They appear to have broken up the tiling or thin stone slabs, sometimes used at this day. ¢ III. Christ forgives sins (vs. 5-7). 5 “Saw their faith.” Many of the gifts of healing and restoration were: ob- tained through the faith and prayers of the friends of the sufferers. See Matt. 8:13; Mark 5:36; John 4:50. faith. “Son.” He spoke with tender-: ness. Matthew. adds, “Be .of : good | cheer.” “Thy sins are forgiven.” {R. V.) Our first great-need is the forgive- ness of ‘sins. Jésus rightly puts’ this: ahead of the healing. of.the body.. ... . 6. “Certain of the sé&ibes.” The scribes ‘were the leaders of the mation. the theologians... .“Reasoning in. their hearts.” Our. word ‘dialogue is de- rived from the same Greek word. 7. “Blasphemies.” “But God only.” They rightly understood that all sins are sins against God. and theréfore only He could forgive .them.. See Psa. H1:4. IV. Christ heals disease (vs. 8-12). 3. “Jesus perceived.” Jesus knew their thoughts (Matt. 9:4). When Bar Cocav declared himself Messiah, the rabbins quoted Isa. 11:3, ard examined him to see if he could reveal the thoughts of their hearts. He failed and they slew him. “Why reason ye?’ Matthew says, “Wherefore think ye evil?’ 9. “Whether it Is easier to say.” etc. Some think that in these expressions Jesus is merely asking which is the easier claim to make. But He evidently means more than that and uses the term “to say” with the farther thought of ‘do- ing.” He then shows that He has the power to forgive sins by at once heal- ing the palsied man. 10. ‘‘That ye may know.” “Son of Man.” This is the titie which Christ most frequently applied to Himself, sometimes interchanging it with the “Son of God.” This title is never ap- plied to Christ by the writers of the Gospels. Jesus appropriated to Him- self the prophecy of Daniel (Matt. 26: 63, 64; Dan. 7:13). It is applied to Christ more than eighty times in the New Testament. “Power on earth.” They were thinking of God as being in Heaven, and Jesus calls attention to the fact that there is power on earth now to forgive sins. 11. “Arise.” Here is the test. Christ shows. His ability to forgive sins by His ability to heal. . 12. “He arose.” “Before them all” This thing was “not done in a corner.” Christ's miracles were performed in the most public manner and were never questioned by those who witness: them. “Amazed.” Luke adds. “They were filled with fear.” “Glorified God.” They had a high degree of reverence for God and were filled with admira- tion for His powergand goodness. “On this fashion.” Christ's works are without precedent. He acts independ- ently and advises with no one. They had seen three marks of His divinity: 1. Forgiving sins. 2. Perceiving thoughts. 3. Healing disease. The works of Christ are astonishing the world to-day. He is the same mighty Saviour. and is still able to forgive Proved of Great Benefit, Edward Kendall & Sons, of the Charles River Iron Works, Cambridge, Mass., says: : “The continuance of the no-license policy has proved of great benefit to this section of the city. The working- men are regular in their attendance, and no time is lost on account of drunk- enness. They do more and better work now, and the wages whica would be spent for drink under the old conditions now co to their families.” It “through the {. Jesus .|- “saw” their faith. Real faith “acts.” Christ always notices. and commends - FEBR UARYTWENTY: FIFTH. Neesima, and. Missions in Japan.— Isa. 50:4-10., . Neesima knew. that . whatever he gained of.the: western learning was his: only ‘in':trust, and he was a-faith-. ful. trustee. : Neesima could say with Paul, <I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.”” What he said he followed, ind what he heard he obeyed. Neesima was one man against a nation, but he was also one man with 30d; and he was “not ashamed.” Neesima had many trials but one trust, and thg one trust was more than equal to the many trials. Facts in Neesima’s Life. Neesima was born in Tokyo, Feb- ruary 12, 1843. When he' was six- teen years old, the reading ofl a geography of the United States caus- ed him to long to know more of America. A chance copy of a Bible In Chinese gave him the principles of the true religion. On July 18, 1864, at the risk of his life, Neesima ran away to this coun- try. On the way, at Hong Kong, he sold his sword to buy a New Testa- ment in Chinese. The owner of the ship in which he sailed, the Hon. Alpheus Hardy, of Boston, "became in- terested in him and gave him an edu- cation. He graduated from Amherst Colleg in 11870. He spent a year with the Japanese government embassy, visit- jng all European capitals -to study pystems: of education. Graduating from Andover in 1874, he was ordain- ed as the first Japanese Christian evangelist, and returned to Japan fi December. : : : His great. work was the establish- ing at Kyoto of the greatest Christian college and theological school in Ja- pan, the Doshisha. The name means “one endeavor.” .. The Doshisha was opened Novem- ber 29, 1875. There was tremendous opposition, both to the foreign relig- jon ‘and’ to ‘the foreign teachers, but Neesima “had strong friends at court. _ In. 1885 Neesima again visited the United States, and the Doshisha soon after. broadened into a university. At the time .of. Neesima’s death it had 700 students. Neesima died on January 23, His lasf.. words were ‘Peace! Heaven!"”- Four thousand persons attended his funeral, including the governor and a delegation of Buddhist priests, and the funeral procession was a mile and a Half" long. 1890. Joy! : - “4--FORGIVENESS. Alternate Topic for February 25: What Christ teaches about the for- giveness of sins.—Matt. 6:12, 14, 15; 18:21, 22; Luke 7.36-50; John 3:14-21. EPWORTH LEAGUE LEsaONa SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25. .- A Pure .Life.—Rom. 6. 15-25. ‘This one thing I do,” said Paul He believed in singleness, that is tc say, purity of aim. He :made , a specialty of salvation. The captain 4of an ocean steamer is in charge of fifteen hundred people, and has au-, thority "and responsibility over .a thousand activities. But his business i$ to get his.ship alongside her pier, safely at any cost, and as swiftly as may be. That one business gettles many questions which might otherwise trouble ‘the captain. The Christian's great business is tc make his Christian life productive and profitable. - He has been set apart for this. He must be in command of himself, and for this definite pur- pose. He is to develop a character fit for heaven, and it is so great a task that it demands all his powers, linked te and co-operating with the might of «fod. He must live the sim- ple, the true, the pure life. The Christian who has this concep- tion of his lifework is saved from much trouble and vexation of spirit Pome things are impossible to him hot because they are wrong in them- celves, but because they will hinder him in his great task. Will he dance’ play cards? spend his evenings at the theater? or at some cheap and frivo!- >us ‘party’? JWill he keep his mind constantly océupied with the details 7f his femporal affairs? Will he be sager for the small rewards of earth? He will do none of thess thinzs, or the thousand other things unworthy > the Christian name. He is “de- voted,” ¢sanctified,” ‘‘consecrated.,” to a life which has no rocm for these things. “I couldn’t help it,” is often a good reason and a poor excuse. The apol- ogist may speak the truth. but he cannot avoid his responsibility. The man who has formed the habit of swearing is likely to be profane with- put being conscious of it. The im- pulse to swear springs up at the in- stant of provocation, and the act is quicker than his perception of it. He didn’t mean to swear, he may say. Nor did he, this time. But ten years ago he could not swear without stop- ping to think what to say. And he is responsible for the habit. WASHING BLANKETS. A housewife whose blankets always retain their softness without shrink ing gives the secret. Make the suds in a tub with any good white soap, having the water hot. Dissclve in it a tablespoonful of borax. Run threads around - soiled spots on the blanket 80 that they may be found after they are wet. Rinse the blankets up and down v.-orously, rubbing only the + marked spots. Never rub soap direct- ly on them. Prepare another hot suds with borax and put the blankets in it. Rinse up and down for several minutes, then rinse in clear hot wat- er, softened with borax. Rinse in as many hot waters as necessary, then run blankets through a wringer. Housekeeper. THSTANEROEIANTES great "AN EX-HERO. pl pa Mg boyhood’s heroes!—ah, o Zavere they! Tl never look upon their likes again: Bob Simpson seemed to me, when I was ten. To be a very Launcelot; I:ay At might, considering how I some day Vould try to be as great as heiwas then. 1 longed to look like him; all other men I fancie Lad been made of baser clay. how grand He played the alto horn, and when the banc Marched down the street I trotted at his side; How splendidly his breast seemed to ex- pand, And how I envied him!—To-day he’s drie And bent, and on a little patch of land He toils to keep the village mart sup- plied. —Chicago Record-Herald. Cremnitz White—“I'd do anything in the world for art.” J. Caustic—"*Well, why don’t you quit painting.”—Judge. Charley—*“Rowell claims to be a self- made man.” Jack —*"I dont think much of the method of construction.” “There’s room above,” the wise man sighed, “Then reach it while you ean!” “1 will, for I'm,” the lad replied, “A second-story man!” Miss Antique—“The man I marry must be a hero.” Miss Pert—"There’s no doubt about that.”—Philadelphia Record. “What is that old saying: ‘ut a beggar on a horse and—'" “He'll kick because it isn’t an automobile.”"— Philadelphia Press, There is one consolation in being a poor man nowadays, anyway: No one is sufficiently interested in him to ask: “Where did he get it?” “And why have you never married, Mr. Priestley?” asked Miss Oldgiri. “Because,” said the curate sternly. “1 do not approve of games of chance.’— Life. i P Skrawler — “I've scen Snippen, the | tailor, going up toc your studio every day for a week. Is he sliting for you?’ Dauber—“No, he’s laying for me.”—Cleaveland Leader: “Did you hear that the daughter of that rich man in the next block had been.driven from home?’ “No! When did it bappen?’ “Just after she got into the carriage.’’—Baltimore Ameri: can. . ’ . English Motorist—“Is life held so cheaply , in America?” American Motorist—"‘Really, I don’t know. No true sportsman ever stops to ask if a thing is cheap or not, in America.” —Puck. : 2 ‘He says his blood is blue—good -iack! He’s such a haughty fellow! His eyes are brown. his hair is-binack, His cheeks like apples mellow, But just the same, adown ‘his’ back There.runs a streak of vellow. —Cleveland Leader. Blobbs—“When I get up to make a’ speech I feel as though I had forgotten everything I ever knew.” Slobbs— “Whatzan ideal witness you would ‘make in a Trust investigation.” —Phila- ‘delphia Record. 5 “I have been’ misquoted,” said the. new congressman. “Well” answered the experienced statesman, “wait and see how it turns out. Sometimes a man is lucky to be misquoted.”— Washington Star. : “I intend to pursue a literary career,” said the ambitious youth. “How would you advise me to study and practice?” “I should advise you,” said the man with the bulgy forehead and pointed whiskers, “to study economy and prac- tice self-denial.’—Washington Star. Washington was crossing the Dela- ware. He stood. “Better sit down, sir,” suggested an aide. “Sit down!” re- sponded lustily the Father of Hig County. “And, pray, what sort of a picture would that make?’ Blushing under the rebuke, the aide resolved to monkey no more with art. — Philadel phia Ledger. Hens of Kansas. Nightingales, larks, swans, and such poetic fowl have been hailed and hymned until the world is very weary of them. Where is the robust Ameri. can bard who will write Ligh with joyous pen the harmless, necessary hen? Why do our children read about those fabulous geese of the Roman capitai? Th: hens of Kansas are worthier subjects. Here is one year's work of them: $7,226,111 worth of eggs, which, as a Kansas economist does well to remind the world, is interest at five per cent. on $144,522. 200. To say nothing of the “broilers” and other by-products. Kansas hens make more money for Kansas than do her sheep, wool, barley, flax, sorg- hum, oats, potatoes. The hen should be the bird of Kansas as the eagle is ‘he bird of freedom.—*With the Pro- ;ession,” Everybody's Magazine. a Russia’s Petty Tyrant. In “Russian Peasant Riots” in Everybody's Magazine, Ernest Poole thus describes the “Natchalnik:"” “As you may know, this Natchalnik is the Czar’s ‘Inspector.’ He watehes Zemstvos and peasants alike. He is the tyrant of the district. He forces the peasants to elect his creatures for judge and clerk and road-member. 1f any one opposes him, he simply calls this person a dangerous conspirator and throws him without trial into jail, The wise Russian law provides that the Natchalnik can imprison a peasant without trial for only three days at a time. but I have known cases where a troublesome ‘honest government’ peasant was put into jail three days, then freed for three hours, then put into jail again, and so on for weeks.” apnea eS (ETON SE GILUNGS *G3ION3ILN3S H31ZZ3IgW3 Poor Director of Greene County Given Three Years and Two Months in the Penitentiary. Poor Director Spencer M. Colwell, who pleaded guilty to embezzlement of county funds, was sentenced by Judge Ingraham of Waynesburg, to pay the costs of presecution, a fine of $600, be removed from his office and undergo imprisonment in the penitentiary for three years and two months. Three bills to carry out the re- forms advocated by Gov. S. W. Pennypacker in his call for the extra session of the Legislature were pass- ed finally and sent to the Governor for his action. They are the Roberts corrupt practices bill and the Sena- torial and Representative reapportion- ment bills. Several measures intend- and sent to the executive. The Governor signed the bill fixing the salary of the Insurance commissioner at $6,000 a year and abolishing the fees of this office. The bill goes into effect on May 1 next. Under the pres- ent system the salary of the commis- sioner is $3,000 a year. In addition his personal fees amount to $15,000 or $20,000 a year. This is the sec- ond bill passed by the extra session to be signed by the Governor, the other being the Greater Pitisburg bill. The Valley Coal. & Development Co., composed of farmers of Fairfield township, Westmoreland county, has been organized, with a capital stock of $500,000. Application has been made for a charter. The company owns over 4,000 acres of coal, under- lying several farms. The tract is in Fairfield township, with “the . execep- tion of 200 acres in St. Clair town- ship. The body of coal extends from Lacolle, on the main line. of the Pennsylvania railroad, to Fort. Pal- mer, six miles north of Ligonier. Judge Mahlon Stout ordered the names of Henry lear and Samuel Z. Freed, members of the Bucks county bar, stricken from the list of attor- neys. Both men were charged with missing funds entrusted to them by clients, and as a result disbarment proceedings were instituted against them. Lear was formerly president of the Doyfestown National bank, and was recently convicted in the United States court of misapplying the funds of the bank. i Two four-story brick: buildings in the heart of the business section of Shamokin were destroyed by fire, en- tailing a loss of $180,000, against which is an insurance of $15.00 One of the structures was occupied by English & Henry, wholesale no- tion dealers, whose loss is $60,000, with 25,000 insurance. Hack & Senner occupied _the "other build- ing. +3 Andrew Carbon, an Italian boarding boss at Hazel Kirk, is in jail at Mo- - nongaheld, for shooting ~~ Anionio Sunday, 16 years old, as the result of some joking among his boarders. In this joking Sunday joined in and made some remarks derogatory to the grub served by Carbon. This so angered Carbon that he shot Sun- day in the head. ‘ The Clyde Coal Co. was made de- fendant in a suit for $60,000 damages for the death of four men in a gas explosion in a mine at Fredericks- town last October The claimants are’ Mrs. Emma Marsh) Mrs. Myrtle Har- vey, Mrs. Matilda Moffi and Mrs. Ern- esta Tanzi, each of whom asks for $15,000 for the death of her hus- band. George W. Dentinger, 24 years old. is in jail at Mauch Chunk, charged with the killing -of W. H. Oswald. 45 years old, at the home of the former at Weissport. Oswald was visiting Dentinger when the men quarreled and in the fight which ensued Os- wald was so badly beaten that he died a few hours later. An unknown man fell from the rail- road bridge over the Monongahela river at Brownsville, on a cake of ice which was passing and was kill- ed. Men on ghore saw the accident and put out on a raft, rescuing the body. The vietim is supposed to have worked at the Lynn coke works. The Sharon policemen have been granted an increase in wages. Pa- trolmen were advanced from $60 to $65, and after serving one year on the force will receive $70. Roundsmen re- ceive an advance of $5 a month, and “hief of Police Crain also got an in- ro Farmers in Donegal and Indepen- dence townships, Westmoreland Co., owning 5,000 acres of coal land, have formed a compact not to sell their fuel for less than $100 an acre, nor fo dispose of it except in a solid block, A . Father Auselm Mynarczsk, a Polish priest of New Kensington, was con- victed in the Westmoreland county court of assaulting a woman of his congregation. The priest gave bail | pending an application for a new trial. Frank Pantall, 22 vears old, of | Punxsutawney, was crushed between cars on the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg railroad, near Butler, Pa. Petro Marchetti, one of the best- known Italians of Butler, was killed by a train while walking home from Work. Marchetti was 38 vyvears old and unmarried. Two brothers reside in Butler. Edward Reed, who was shot in a querre] with “Patsy” Williams, ‘an Italian, near l.eesburg died since. Hi 1 is now in the Mer- a Pennsylvania i { *, dropped dead at Ai- toona. He was 44 and leav : Ya m EAVES ni rf years old
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