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THE PULPIT.
AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY
a BISHOP C. C.(MCABE.
Subject : The Preacher’s Commission.
! Brooklyn, N. Y.—The New York Ave-
She M. E. Church was crowded to its
most capacity Sunday morning when
Bishop McCabe preached the Confer-
e sermon. Bishop McCabe preached
nearly an hour. His sermon was a
ypical old-style Methodist oration,
and evidently pleased his hearers im-
mensely, for his remarks were punc-
tuated from start to finish with cries
of “Amen,” “Hallelujah!” ‘Yes, yes,”
and frequent laughter.
“ Bishop McCabe's subject was “The
Preacher’s Commission,” and he took
for his text the passage in Haggai:
“And the-desire of all nations shall
edme.” He said:
Haggai was one of the prophets who
went to the captive Israelites to help
to rebuild the walls of the ruined tem-
ple and of their destroyed city. Zech-
ariah was the ether one. They were
both men of vast hope and mighty
faith, and God gave them vision to
read the future, and, because they saw
the future, they were optimistic men.
They did not believe that anything was
too good to be true. We need such
men. We have enough men who tell
as how much better the past was than
the present, and who discourage us,
and we need men who talk hopefully;
men who speak of the future with de-
dight, because they know that the
Lord’s prayer—that the will of God
shall be done on earth as it is in
Heaven—will some day be fulfilled.
These two prophets went to the Israel-
ites, to Jerusalem, and struggled to
rebuild the temple, and they were
greatly needed. Cyrus, the King of
Persia, allowed them to go. Cyrus was
the conqueror of Babylon, and these
Jews had fallen into his hands and
he treated them finely. Cyrus was a
man who believed in religious liberty.
Tt is strange that 2500 years ago there
was a man in a high on earth position
who believed that every man had a
right to worship God according to the
dictates of his conscience. I know
Cyrus believed in religious liberty be-
cause he was not a Jew, and yet he
allowed these Jews to go and rebuild
their temple and ruined city. I think
God loved Cyrus on this account. I
know He did, because He sent him a
message by Isaiah, “I will go before
thee and make thy way straight before
thee” Cyrus would have made a
great Czar of Russia; there would be
0 more massacres of the Jews. And
what a great Sultan of Turkey. he
would have made! There would be
no more massacres of Armgnians sim-
ply because they were Christians. I
trust in God that the time will come
when a great man llke Cyrus will oc-
cupy every throne on earth, and when
the idea that one man can control the
conscience of another shall pass away
forever. I have myself seen 580 in-
struments of torture which were used
by men and devils—for I think the
devil inspired men to use such instru-
ments of torture—to make all men
think alike. I looked with amazed in-
terest at the “Maid of Nuremberg,” a
terrible instrument called by that
mame. It consists of great, wide doors,
in which I counted nine spikes, several
inches long. When the victim was
asked for the last time “Will you re-
pent?’ if he said “No,” these doors
were slammed, and the victim quiver-
ing on these spikes would suffer more
anguish than Jesus Christ did on the
<ross. Men and women to-day would
rather die than give up this old Bible,
or surrender the right to worship God
according to the dictates of conscience.
We enjoy liberty to-day because such
men and women have lived in the
world. Let us prize the boon which
they purchased with suffering and
blood.
These Israelites had been in captivity
for seven years; 42,360 of them went to
build the temple. Some were old and
some young. The young men shouted
for joy, for they did not remember
Solomon’s Temple, but the old men did,
and they wept. They wept, first, be-
cause of the contrast between the
amount of money which David gave
Solomon to build the temple with and
the sum they had now. Secondly, be-
cause of the contrast between the
number of men—Solomon had 80,000,
and now there were but 42,360. Solo-
mon had 3600 overseers to keep the
people at work—walking delegates, if
you please. I wish all walking dele-
gates were for that purpose. I won-
der if they ever had a strike among
them. I wonder if 16,000 of these 80,-
000 said to the other eighty-four per
eent.: “Unless you join our society you
cannot work at all.” It would not have
been allowed in Solomon’s time. I
had a letter yesterday from a promi-
nent man in this city, asking me if the
church was the friend of labor. I
want to state publicly the creed of the
M. E. Church. We are the friends of
labor; we are the friends of all labor—
of every man and woman who has to
earn a living by the sweat of the face.
We are the friends, not only of the
sixteen per cent., but of the 80,000; of
100 per cent. of labor, and anybody
who is not a friend of 100 per cent. is
not a true friend of labor. That is the
creed of the M. E. Church, and I state
it for them because they do not seem
disposed to state it for themselves.
And I believe I state the creed of all
Protestant churches in this country.
Then, again, I think the old men
wept because of the contrast in the
plans of the two temples.
“The Desire of All Nations.”
one of the names of Christ. He had
over 300 different appellations. Jacob
called Him ‘“Shiloh;” Job, “The Deliv-
erer;” David, “The Shepherd;” Isaiah,
That is
“Wonderful,” “Counselor,” “Mighty
God,” “Everlasting Father” and
“Prince of Peace;” John the Baptist,
“The Lamb of God;” Paul, the “Fore-
runner;” at the Isle of Patmos, Jesus
said: “I am Alpha and Omega, the
first and the last, the bright and morn-
ing star,” and John called Him “King
of Kings and Lord of Lords.” But
the sweetest name of all is Jesus. O,
what a sweet name it is. He is my
Saviour. It took an angel to bring that
name. Gabriel said: “His name shall
be called Jesus”’—that is the sweetest
name of all— ‘His name shall be above
all names.” “At the name of Jesus
every knee shall bow.”
Jesus, my Saviour, to Bethlehem came,
Born in a manger in sorrow and shame;
O, it is wonderful, blest be His name,
Calling for me! Calling for mel
He did come, “and His own received
Him not.” The Jews are still lo
for Him. That is the most pathetic
thing in human history. A great
Hebrew scholar has translated the
‘New Testament into Hebrew as a lit-
erary venture, and a rich man in Lon-
don is spending a large fortune in cir-
culating it. I hope it will ly around
the earth. Let us get the Jews con-
verted, for that is the quickest way to
convert the world. Do you know that
there are 500,000 converied Jews? Let
the glorious work go on.
Now, “what think ye of Christ?’ Is
the wearer of all these glorious names
divine or human or an angel? Some
think He was a good man, a typical
man, the best man in the world, but
say He was not divine. They do not
even admit that He was an angelic
being. Some think He was God-man.
“God manifest in the flesh.” Jesus is
divine.” Peter believed that. Paul be-
lieved it. He said: “By Him all
things created that are in Heaven and
in earth, visible and invisible; all
things were made by Him.” Such
things cannot h~ said about an angel
or a human being. I think the epistle
to the Hebrews was written by Paul
to prove the divinity of Jesus. Some
scholars say Apollos wrote it, and not.
Paul, but Paul wrote it. There was
not anybody else great enough to write
it. We must have a divine Saviour.
No angel or human being could do
what we need. He must be an Al-
mighty Saviour, One who is “mighty
to save and strong to deliver.” Our
sorrows are too great for human cone
solation; our sins are too mighty for
the power of any man or angel. We
must have a divine Saviour—and we
have Him. Do you believe Jesus
Christ can save a soul in an instant?
I know it; I have seen Him do it a
thousand times. He can do it. He
stands ready. Will you have Him?
Do you desire Him?
Brethren in the ministry, it is your.
business to preach Christ's Gospel to
the world. Hurry with the Gospel
This is a sad world. There is one re-
ligion that teaches that sorrow is so
inescapable, that the best thing that
can be done is to be blown out like a
candle, and 500,000,000 Buddhists be-
lieve it. Hurry with the Gospel. Read
John xiv: “Let not your heart be
troubled; ye believe in God, believe
also in Me.” The presence of sorrow
affects me strangely. I have never got
used to it. It ought to awaken the
sympathy of every human heart. I
read a story of a Pullman car when, in
the night, all was quiet except a baby’s
voice. One man called out, angrily:
“Where is the mother of that child?
I wish she would keep it quiet.” The
father of the child answered: “The
mother of my babe is in her coffin in
the baggage car. I hope the passen-
gers will excuse me; I am doing the
best I can.” The other man rushed out
and said: “Sir, forgive me. I did not
understand. I would not have said it
if I had known. Let me take that
babe. I will keep it all night and you
shall rest; you must be tired.” His
heart was changed and full of sym.
pathy.
Oh. the world is full of sorrow and
sin; but we have the remedy. Let
your feet be like the roe’s upon the
mountains. God grant the commission
anew to-day to preach the Gospel.
The Time is Short.
Ah, my dear friends, you who are
letting miserable misunderstandings
run on from year to year; you who are
keeping wretched quarrels alive be-
cause you cannot quite make up your
mind that now is the day to sacrifice
your pride and kill them; you who are
passing men sullenly on the street, not
speaking to them out of some silly
spite, and yet knowing that it would
fill you with shame and remorse if you
heard that one of those men were dead
to-morrow morning; you who are let-
ting your neighbor starve till you hear
that he is dying of starvation, or letting
your friend's heart ache for a word of
appreciation or sympathy which you
mean to give some day—if you could
know, and see, and feel all of a sudden
that “the time is short,” how it would
break the spell! how you would go in-
stantly, and do the thing which you
might never have another chance to
do!—Phillips Brooks.
Responsibility For Possessions.
Do you wish more strength? But if
you had more and misused it your
condemnation would be greater than is
your reproach now for work undone.
Do you wish more money? But if you
had more its rust would the more sure-
ly eat your flesh as fire, while the re-
sponsibility for its proper use would
burden the soul. Do you crave a larger
field of work and influence? But what
if, when gained, the field were untilled
and the influence that of an evil star?
A young minister had few to hear his
best sermons; he complained to John
Brown, of Haddington, and this was
the reply: “You have as many hearers
every time you preach as you will care
to answer for at the day of judgment.”
—Pacific Baptist.
Nearer Heaven.
Bless God for the wilderness; thank
God for long nights; be thankful that
you have been in the school of poverty
and have undergone the searching and
testing of much discipline. Take the
right view of your trials. You are
nearer Heaven for the graves you have
dug, if you have accepted bereave-
ments in the right spirit; you are wiser
for the losses you have bravely borne,
but you are nobler for all the sacrifices
you have willingly completed.—Dr.
Joseph Parker.
Live Holiness.
It is better to live a good life than to
be talking about it, better to live holi-
ness than to proclaim that one lives it.
If the sun makes a noise we do not
hear it. The brilliant electric lights
blaze forth without crackling. The
lighthouses flame out their rays over
the perilous seas without the procla-
mation of bells or the firing of cannon.
So the truest, purest and best lives
simply let their light shine, as the
blessed Saviour commanded.
Need of Backbone.
A contemporary suggests that one
thing which Christians as well as oth-
ers need at the present day is back-
bone. Not a backbone like a ramrod,
that cannot yield or bend, but a well
articulated spinal column, which. is
strong enough to hold a man upright,
and keep him from being crushed be-
neath the burdens that press upon him,
These are days of easy going piety;
and men are tco often ruled by com-
promise rather than by conscience.
cause | SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
© FOR MAY (3, : =
Subject: A Fierce Demoniac Healed,
Mark v., 1-20~Golden Text, Mark v,
19~Memory Verse, 15=Tovic: Gres,
Facts Respecting Salvation,
“1. The fierce demoniac (vs. 1-3). 1.
“They.” Jesus and the disciples. “The
other side.” They crossed the Sea of
Galilee from Capernaum to the Eastern.
shore. “Gadarenes.” This name in
Matthew is Gergesenes, and in the Re-
vised Version is Gerasenes. >
2. “The tombs.” These tombs were
either natural caves or recesses hewn
out of the rock, with cells upon their
sides for the reception of the dead.
“A man.” Matthew mentions two men.
Mark and Luke speak only of one,
probably the fiercer of the two, with-
out denying that two were healed.:
“Unclean spirit.” Called unclean be-
cause the spirit defiled both body and
soul, the outward filth being a type of
the inward defilement. :
3. “Could bind him.” Attempts had
béen made to bind him because he was
exceedingly fierce (Matt. 8:28). Luke
tells us that he was naked. 4. “Fet
ters and chains.” Fetters were for the
feet; chains for any other part of the
body. “Tame him.” It was impossi-
ble to bring his wild, savage nature un-
der restraint.
5H. “Night and day.” He was de-
prived of sleep. “Mountains—tombs.”
Here the demoniac had his home; for
all maniacs wera cutcast as soon as
they became violent, for that age had
ne provision for taking care of them.
Institutions of pity for the unfortunate
are among the gifts of Christ; an-
tiquity knew nothing of them, or of
the spirit that would produce them.
“Crying.” Probably with hideous yells.
“Cutting himself.” Here is an impres-
sive picture of what all men would
become under ths absolute dominion of
Satan” } .
II. The demoniac goes to Christ and
is delivered (vs. 6-13). 6. “Ran and
worshiped.” As a man he is attracted
toward Christ, but when under the
influence of the demons he desires to
withdraw from Christ. 7. “And
cried,” ete. It is‘impossible to account
for his strange consciousness of a
wonderful power in Jesus, or for the
utterance of language which comes, as
it were, from a being within the man
on any other hypothesis than the ex-
i-fence of beings superinduced upon
men. “To d> with Thee.” Literally,
What is there between Thee and me?
What have we in commosn? Why in.
terferest Thou with us? The devils
ationce recognize their great enemy
with divine power. “Torment me not.”
Herein the true devilish spirit speaks
out, which counts it a torment not to
Le suffered to torment others, and an
injury done to itself when it is no more
permitted te be injurious to others.
3. “What is thy name?” Christ asked
the man (not the demon) his name in
order to get his attentiecn and bring
him to a consciousness of hig own per-
sonality. “Legion.” The demon an-
swered, speaking through the man.
The Roman legion ccusisted of about
six thousand men. The svord has cote
to piean auy large number—a host.
10. “Bescught.” The demon knew
who was in authority over him. “Out
of the cquntry.” This is explained in
Luke 8:31. They did not wish to be
sent “into the deep; that is, the abyss
of hell, into the bottomless pit (Rev.
20:3). Send us anywhere, anywhere
but to perdition. Send us to the most
shattered man; send us to the lowest
creature, intc man or Least, bird cr
reptile: anywhere but into hell. 11.
“Great herd.” Thougl the Jews did
not eat pork the Roman scidiers did
and the swine may have been kept to
Supply their wants. 12. “Into the
swine.” How could demons enter
swine? We do net knew. But we see
many things quite as difficult to under-
stand. The connection of mind and
body in us is an equally great mystery,
3. “Gave them leave.” The devil
cannot so much as irouble swine with-
out leave from God. “Were choked.”
Cavilers have charged our Lord with
wrong doing in “sending” the demons
inte the swine and thus eansing such a
great loss to the owners: but it should
Le noted that what Jesus did was to
drive them cut of the man and then
permit them to go where they wished.
. The effect of the cure (vs. 14-17).
11. “YFied,” Their
gone. “In the city.”
the sea. “Went out.” The quickness
with which intelligence flies in the
East. Matthew says. “Behold. the
whole city came out to meet Jesus.”
15. “See him—sitting.” There is a
marvelous contrast between the man’s
former and his present condition. In-
stead of wandering among tombs, in
nakedness, and filling the people with
terror by his wild, maniacal ravings,
he is now sitting at the feet of Jesus,
clothed and in his right mind. Those
who come to Christ and take Him as
their Savior always come into their
right wind. . “Were afgaid.” They
knew they were in the presence of one
who had great power. and perhaps
they feared Jesus might send upon
them the punishment they knew they
deserved on account of their sins.
When Christ comes into a place there
is either deadly fear or great rejoicing.
16. “They saw it? Those who fod
the swine and others who may have
been there when Jesus landed. Then,
toe, the disciples may have told the
story. 17. ‘To depart.” = They no
doubt feared greater losses. They pre-
ferred swine to Christ.
IV. The -saved man at
Christ (vs. 18-20). 18. “Be with Him.”
How different is this grateful man
from what he was before he met the
Savior. ide loved Jesus now and de
sired to join himself to Christ.
19. “Go homsa—tell.” We owe var
first duty to our home and friends. 20.
“Decapolis.” From deka—ten, and
polis—city, meanirg ten cities.
occupation was
Gergesa, near
work for
More Power,
There Is only one way by - which
more power can be obtained, and that
is by waiting en the Lord in confidence,
in obedience and in patience.—Rev. W.
Y. Fullerton.
True Source of Happiness.
The true disciple of Jesus needs not
to forget himself in order to be cheer-
fui in his very innermost soul: for the
source of his happiness is not in the
outward world, but within himself.—
Zschokke,
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTES
Christ's Life..: ~kessons From His
Miracles of Healing. Matt. 9:
27-34; 25: 31-40.
Christ is always saying to us, “Ac-
cording to your faith be it unto you"
Faith is the key to all blessedness.
The blind men were healed, not so
much that they mignt see as that
they might speak. Their gratitude
was better than their vision.
There are still “dumb devils”
need casting out!
Do you think of Christ as sitting on
a radiant throne? Think of Him as
suffering in the body of the next
wretched man whom you could help.
Suggestions.
The only thing at which Christ
wondered was the splendid faith of a
Gentile. Perhaps He is now wonder-
ing at our unfaith.
Christ healed bodies in order to the
far more important healing of souls.
Christ’s promise that we should do
“greater things’ than He is fulfilled
in the marvels of modern science.
Will Christ answer prayers for
healing now? Yes, if the prayer is
willing to be denied.
Hlustrations.
To Christ, the Creator, a sick hu-
man body was like a halting machine
to the inventor of it.
" There .was no real marvel in
Christ’s healing; the marvel would
have been if He had kept from heal-
ing,—as if a fire should burn without
heat or a lamp without light.
Christ’s miracles were the mint-
mark stamped upon His teachings.
Healing radiates from Christ as
light frecm the sun, and the true
Christian must reflect it like a mir-
ror.
that
Questions.
Are you trying to heal the sins
and sorrows of those around you?
Has Christ been a Physician to
your soul? -
Are you spreading the
the Great Physician?
The medical mission is the out-
come of the living teachings of our
faith.—Isabella Bird Bishop.
praise of
Christ is now, through ‘His dis-
ciples, healing more sick, opening
more blind eyes, binding up more
broken-heated, than He did in Pales-
tine eighteen hundred years ago.—F.
N. Peloubet.
EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS
SUNDAY, MAY 13.
Investing Our Lives.—2 Tim. 4. 6-8.
Anniversary Day.
The seventeenth anniversary of the
Epworth League will be celebrated on
May 13.
A complete and attractive program
will be prepared, which every chapter
ought to use. It is intended to be sim-
ple, sensible, and full of interest. Its
successful presentation is meant to be
within the powers of the smallebt
chapter, and yet the largest should find
it entirely worthy of being used.
Do not permit any light reason to
interfere with the use of this special
program. It affords every chapter the
one opportunity of the year to put its
work fairly and strikingly before the
whole church.
The whole day may be profitably de-
voted to the anniversary theme. Per-
haps the pastor may be willing to
preach a special sermon at the morn-
ing hour. The evening service should
be entirely devoted to the special pro-
gram. Of course, there must be an
understanding with the pastor, so that
the chapter may have his consent and
cooperation.
Magnify the occasion in every pos-
sible way. Emphasize its importance
by careful preparation, by vigourous
advertising, by general participation.
Let the entire celebration be on the
high level of the League’s true import-
ance and dignity.
If some chapters find that they can-
not use the anniversary program they
should yet plan to celebrate the day in
some way or other.
Every year the official program pro-
vides for the installation of officers
and the graduation of Juniors. These
exercises may he made part of the cel-
ebration. even though the rest of the
program is not used.
Wheat has two uses. If may be
eaten, or it may be sown. Eaten, it
satisfies the appetite of the moment
and ministers to the needs of the body.
Each grain has one grain’s value, and
no more. It abideth alone.
Sown, it dies. But out of the death
of the wheat comes the life of the
harvest. The grains are buried in the
dark earth. The fields are brown and
bare above them. But soon there is
a shimmer of green, then a sea of gold.
Each grain of the sowing has risen
from death, but with its life and its
value multiplied thirtyfold.
Life may also be put to two uses.
It may be eaten, or it may be sown.
It mal be consumed as it comes, each
day’s power and worth used to satis-
fy each day's desires. That way there
is gratification for the moment, but no
gain of influence, no strengthening of
the forces of life, no enlargement of
life’s meaning.
Life may be invested for others.
And that way comes the increase of
influence, the widening of life's out-
look, the enrichment of life’s purposes
and results
On the Pacific Coast fifty years ago
only a few gold-made prospectors; to-
day thriving, hustling towns and
thickly settled farming communities.
The huge lumber traffic of northern
California, Oregon and Washington
is a great attest of American pros-
perity. Annually for the last three
years more than 1,000,000,000 feet of
redwood, pine and fir has been taken
from these almost inexhaustible tim-
per tracts and shipped to California
coast points, and more than 200,000,
000 feet sent abroad.
A PIPE OF MANY PEOPLES,
Euglish Ladies and Indian Lovers Pined
to Play the Flageolet.
The flageolet is of peculiar interest
to Americans, says the American In-
ventor, as from time immemorial it kas
been the medium through which the
Indian youths courted their sweet-
hearts at a distance, when they were so
unfortunate as to be unable to gain a
persondl audience.
The love, or courting, flute of the
Apache is made of a round stick of
cedar about twenty-four inches long,
split lengthwise and hollowed to form
an air chamber. A hole is made on
each side of this diaphragm, and a
shallow air passage cut from one hole
to the other.
Above it a cap of wood is placed
for the purpose of covering the upper
hole and the air channel. The lip is
made of a thin sheet of lead. and the
‘whole bound together with a slender
thong. In the tube part, or body of
the instrument, are placed six finger
holes, a condition that points unmis-
takably t: the influence of contact with
the white man.
The Adageolet, as ord narily under-
stood, may be described as a whistle-
headed flute. In the seventeenth cen-
tury English ladies often played on it.
Sometimes two or three flageolet tubes
were constructed, with one head. for
the purpose of introducing notes in
harmony. * i
An old ©nglish diary of 1667 con-
tains this quaint referenc. ioc the dou-
ble flageolet: “To Dumbleby’s, the pipe-
maker, there to advise about the mak-
ing of a flageolet to go low and soft.
and he do show me a way to do, and
also a fashion of having two pipes of
the same note fastened together, so
as I can play on one and then echo
it upon the other, which is mighty
pretty.”
WORDS OF WISDOM,
Farmers make a lot of money for the
people who sell whet they raise.
Every boy needs a good education
so he can realize how little he knows.
When a man talks weather to you it
is a sign he thinks you are a blamed
fool.
Everybody's head would be filled
with brains if they were no use to
him.
People can enjoy doing most aay-
thing unless they make their living
by it. :
Either it isn't hot enough in the cold
season or cold enough in the warm
season.
If a man married a rich wife prob-
ably it would be just his luck to go
and die.
To a man spring brings tender
thoughts of a fishing rod; to a woman
of a bonnet.
A nice thing about living in the
suburbs is it never seems hard to die
when your turn comes.
A man gets along with his landlord
almost as comfortably as with his
wife's relatives.
A woman calls a man a good husband
when he will blame anything she does
to annoy him on the weather.
A man always thinks he would be
willing to drink less if he had half as
much money as he spends on it.
It would be much easier to be good
if you thought it was smart to keep
anybody from catching you at it.
A girl is going to have a good time
at the stupidest kind of a party if she
is going to wear a new dress at it.
You have to understand human na-
ture mighty well to know that other
people aren't any bigger fools than you
are.
If a woman rode across on a steamer
and came right back again without get-
ting off the ship she would talk about
the time when she lived abroad.—From
“Reflections of a Bachelor,” in the
New York Press.
Little Shoe Sense.
The hoe should be three-fourths of
an inch longer than the foot, for the
foot works forward in walking.
Short shoes force the toes back. and
finally the joints become distorted and
bulge cut on the sides and above. Thus
corns. bunions and other disorders are
developed, says the Chicago News.
Walking shoes should not be worn
in the house, neither should the same
pair be worn on consecutive days, thus
giving them a chance to rest.
If the shoes are cleaned every day
and oiled once a month they will last
much longer. Gil them, especially on
the soles and about the stitches where
the uppers join the soles. For this pur-
pose castor oil is very good.
The heels should always be kept in
good repair. Rubber heels will prevent
the jarring that comes from contact of
the heels with pavement.
Be carefull always to have
laces and ribbons in your shoes.
fresh
Noth-
ing so marks a woman untidy as worn-
ribbons or flowing, stringy shoe ties.
People Who Never Sneeze.
“Africans never sneeeze,” said a
globe-trotter, ‘and their desendants,
the colored people of our own land,
if they are pure-blooded, don’t sneeze
either.
“A cold; damp atmospheric condition
is the cause of sneezing. Since it is
practically never cold and damp in
Africa, no man sneezes there, whether
he be native or foreigner.
“The natives, because they have
never sneezed in Africa, can’t sneeze
when they leave Africa—for the same
reason, perhaps, that one who has
never been in the water can't swim
when he falls overboard.
“At any rate, be the fact what it
may, the fact remains that the African,
either in the jungle or on Broadway,
never rends the air with a ker-choo.”
—New York Press.
Indiana bas the second largest school
fund.
TETSTONE STATE COLLIS
BUYS 1,200 ACRES OF LAND
Ligonier Companies. to Develop
Timber and Coking Coal in West-
moreland County.
David M. Menoher of Ligonier, rep-
resenting the McConnellsburg Manu-~
facturing Company and the Byers-Al-
len Lumber Company, both Ligonier
concerns, has purchased from Clear-
fleld and Jefferson county capitalists
1,200 acres of timber land in Ligon-
ier township, Westmoreland county.
The purchase price was $20,000. The
tract is along the Pittsburg, West-"
moreland & Somerset railroad and
will be developed immediately. It is
underlaid with coking coal and ovens
will be ereeted.
Attorney General Hampton IL. Car-
son filed a bill in equity in the
Dauphin ccurts to restrain the Penn-
sylvania and allied companies from
collecting a $10 rebate on each in-
terchangeable mileage book sold. The
reasons cited by the attorney general
for bringing suit are similar to those
given at the time his bill was sent
to the State printer for printing. The
date of hearing has not yet been fix-
ed.
W. A. Stone has bought 150 acres
of coal near Smock, from the Pitts-
burgh Coal Company for $1,300 an
acre. He has also purchased the
plant of the O'Connell Coal and Coke
Company, near Smock for $70,000, and
will increase the plant from 35 to 150
ovens. A new company will be organ-
ized with a capital stock of $200,000,
and among those interested are W.
A. Stone, L.. H. Frasher, W. E. Crow.
and Dr. W. H. Hopwood of Union-
town.
May day in Pittsburgh passed quiet-
ly, so far as labor disturbances were
concer Building trades work-
men, h the exception of the car-
penters, remained at work. While
some of the larger concerns employ-
ing carpenters announced they were
unable to continue work many said
that the men in their employ were
competent and worth the $4 a day
that was demanded.
The First National Bank of Free-
land, which was declared insolvent,
and placed in the hands of a receiv-
er March 17, 1906, having complied
with the conditions imposed by the
comptrolier of the currency, preced-
ent to resmuption, and its capital not
being unimpaired, has been permit-
ted to resume business as an active
national banking association.
The Armory Board adopted plans
for a new armory for Company E,
Tenth Regiment, at Mt. Pleasant. The
siructure will be of brick and stone
and up to date in the matter of con-
veniences. A committee was ap-
pointed to arrange for an armory at
Bradford, and the site selected at
Corry was approved.
Two men were taken to the hos-
pital in a dying. condition, a third
is seriously stabbed, several others
are injured and seven men are in the
Windber lockup as the result of a
clash between union and non-union
men at Paint Creek, near Windber.
Newton B. Weddell,. of Chambers-
burg, who was arrested while run-
ning away with $400 he had secured
from Mrs. Zlipha Ruthrauff on the
representation that he meant to buy
her a grocery store, was sentenced to
three years in the penitentiary.
Gov. 8S. W. Pennypacker issued a
requisition on Gov. Pardee, of Cali-
fornia, for the return to Pennsylvania
of L. lI. Mitchell, who is wanted in
Luzerne county to answer a charge of
conspiracy in connection with a min-
ing deal.
Capt. Charles J. Harrison and Mil-
ton J. Pritts of the Somerset County
National bank, sold 1,500 acres of
“A” and “B’ vein coal to the Pen-
wood Coal Company, a $150,000 cor-
poration composed mainly of New
York capitalists.
The hig stock barn of the H. C.
Frick Coke Company at Dorothy was
burned, with five horses, valuable ma-
chinery and much hay and grain. The
loss is $6,000, covered byesinsurance.
Five footpads held up and robbed
Leo Marks of $50 at a lonely bridge
in North Bridgewater. Marks was so
geverely injured that it was an hour
before 1} could crawl into the vil-
lage and give an alarm.
George G. Gans has purchased from
W. F. Paiterson of Waynesburg 300
acres of coal land in Center township,
Greene county, and 100 acres of coal
land in Marion county, W. Va.
Palmyra, 10 miles west of Leban-
on, had a serious fire. The blaze
started in Shiner’'s bake shop, soon
spreading and destroying a residence
and several large barns.
After living to the great age of
over 108 years Mrs. Mary McKit-
trick met death at her own hands at
the home of her son, Luke McKit-
trick, near Uniontown, Pa.
The poor directors of Fayette
county have taken action to provide
needy persons bitten by mad dogs
with proper medical attention.
The Boston Clothing Company’s
store at Connellsville was entered by
robbers, who got away with nearly
$900 worth of goods.
Governor Pennypacker reappointed
General John A. Wiley of Franklin
and George F. Davenport of Mead-
ville trustees of the Polk Institution
for the Feeble Minded.
The body of Luther Neiman, a
Pennsylvania railway engineer wha
had been missing from his home in
Harrisburg 10 days, was found in tha
Susquehanna river.
The Governor issued a death war-
rant for the execution of John Bod-
nar of Chester county on June 28
Major W. H. Davis will be the next
postmaster of Pittsburg.