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A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY
THE REV. Wi. 'AM T. BEST.
Subject: Christian Prosperity.
Remsen, N. Y.—A notable sermon,
entitled “Christian Prosperity,” was
preached here on a recent Sunday by
the eloquent divine, the Rev, William
fT. Best. He took for his text, “The
righteous shall flourish like the palm
tree,” and said:
Look at the wonderful way in which
the Holy Spirit works on a man. Just
think of a man whose “throat is an
open sepulchre,” his “mouth full of
cursing,” his feet swift to shed inno-
cent blood, his heart ‘deceitful and
desperately wicked,” ‘*‘spreading him-
self like a green bay tree” (a tree that
is good for nothing, but to keep the
sunlight out of the marsh, the very
place ‘where it ought to shine), and
then think of the Holy Spirit taking
hold of that man, bringing him *‘from
darkness to light,” from the power of
sin and Satan to God, putting a “new
song” in his mouth, placing his feet in
the “way of peace,” taking away the
‘stony heart” and giving him an “heart
of flesh,” changing him from a hard,
fruitless, good-for-nothing bay tree into
an upright, useful, ‘victorious palm
tree, * It is wonderful! wonderful! but
that is not all,
“For God will give him all things.”
Christ will never leave nor forsake
him; the Holy Ghost will lead and
guide him into “all truth;? the angels
of Heaven will have charge concerning
him to keep him in all his ways. ‘He
shall be like.a tree planted by the riv-
ers of water,’ that bringeth forth his
fruit in his season; his leaf also shall
not wither and whatsoever he doeth
shall prosper.” “He shall flourish in
the courts of God,” le: shall flourish
“like the palm tree,” “he shall still
bring forth fruit in old age, he shall be
fat and flourishing.” ’, :
‘Fhe palm. tree is the prince’ of the
vegetable kingdom, .so named from its
noble aspect; it sometimes rises one
hundred feet, unbroken’ by branches,
bearing at its summit a magnificent
and graceful crown of large, fan-
shaped and feathery leaves, in the
shadow of which are suspended great
clusters of fruit. No tree can look
more lordly or beautiful. It is not,
however, only beautiful, for, from the
bottom of its lowest root to the top
of its highest leaf, it is useful; from its
leaves, baskets, bags, mats and brushes
are made; from its trunk, fences, canes,
poultry cages, building material and
fuel are obtained, while from its
fibrous webs thread is procured, which
may be twisted into ropes. and rigging.
It furnishes food, shelter, clothing,
fibre, starch, paper, wood, sugar, oil,
dyeing materials, resin
and a host of other things, in all, mak-
fing three hundred and sixty. In Egypt,
‘Arabia and Persia many of the inhab-
ftants subsist almost entirely on its
fruit. For more than one hundred
years it maintains its vigor and beauty,
and “there is no more charming aor
majestic sight than this king among
the trees of the plain,” “as it looks far
away in the distance and gazes into the
face of the sun, a symbol of life in the
midst of a world of death.”
The Christian may be compared ‘to
the palm tree in the following respects:
I. The palm tree is of humble
growth, its stem being thick in propor-
tion to its height, and is not more com-
plicated in structure than that of the
common. butcher-broom. -Sometimes it
produces a series of adventitious roots,
which thrust themselves into the soil
and serve to steady it. On account
of its weakness Pliny says, they will
sometimes plant three or four of them
together, forming one strong, lofty and
beautiful tree. - They were planted in
the courts of the temple.
The little things of to-day are the
great things of to-morrow. The King-
dom of Heaven “is like a grain of mus-
tard seed, which a man took and cast
into his garden; and it grew and waxed
a great tree.” When a man is born
into the Kingdom of God, he is but a
babe in Christ, and looks to those
around him for help; but how often he
is disappointed, and finds that they,
who should be his best friends, are
often his greatest foes. This teaches
him the great lesson of taking his eyes
off men and placing them on Christ,
and by prayer and faith to reach out
and take hold of the solid rock, so that
when the winds of temptation and
floods of doubt come, he is enabled to
stand. The great privilege, however, is
open to him of uniting with the Chris-
tian Church, and thus with people like
himself, planted. in the house of the
Lord, grow up into a beautiful Chris-
tian character.
IT. “The palm tree grows in the
purest soil; it will not grow and flour-
ish in filthy places like some trees.”
Its heart is soft and tender, and is fed
by hidden springs, that flow beneath
the surface of the ground. Its roots
drink deep, and are sustained, while
they send up the moisture into the
leaves and branches, and they are re-
freshed and invigorated. ‘‘Its pres-
ence, travelers assure us, indicates that
water is near, and may be obtained
from springs, or by digging; according-
ly, Israel found twelve springs and
seventy palm trees at Elim.”
The palm tree Christian grows in the
purest soil, where the Gospel is
preached in its purity. David said,
“Who shall ascend into the hill of the
Lord? He that hath clean hands and
a pure heart” The Saviour said,
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for
they shall see God.” The blessing of
a ‘‘pure heart” and the blessing of
holiness are one and the same thing;
pure means unmixed, holiness means
wholeness, both mean perfectness. God
said to Abraham, “I am the Almighty
God; walk thou before Me, and be thou
perfect.” David said, ‘Mark the per-
fect man and behold the upright, for
the end of that man is peace.” Jesus
said to the young ruler, “If thou wilt
be perfect, go and sell that thou hast,
and give to the poor.” “Be ye there-
for perfect, even as your father, which
is in Heaven, is perfect.” Some men
say they do not believe in perfection,
but “what a man believes he believes
is very different from what he does
believe.” No man will cut the sleeve
out of his coat, or the toe out of his
shoe, or in buying a horse search for
one that has a spavin, in order to up-
hold his doctrine of imperfection. He
may say that a Christian cannot be per-
leap every revival.
fect, and yet if he is not perfect he will
talk about him all through the’ col-
munity. Men do believe in perfection.
What kind of perfection, then, does the
Bible teach? Not Adamic, nor Angelic,
nor sinless, but Christian ®perfection.
The palm tree Christian then, is a per-
fect Christian, an all-round man.
Water is a type of the Holy Spirit;
it is cleansing, refreshing and power-
ful. The woman of Samaria went out
to get a pitcher of water, but she got
a whole well instead. Often we Chris-
tians come with our little pitchers to
draw water out of the wells of’salva-
tion. What we need is the palm tree
idea; it is rooted and grounded in the
well, and therefore has the well in it,
in every fibre of its being The paliu
tree Christian lives in the Spirit, walks
in the Spirit, and draws’ his life, light
and power from this secret source, or
in other words, he is baptized with the
Holy Ghost and with fire. This opens
up the way to the next heading.
III. The woody fibres produced in
the interior of the palm tree are reg-
ularly pressed outwards, giving a uni-
formity of thickness throughout. It is
therefore straight and very lofty, al-
ways growing upright, and has not
failed to attract the attention of writ-
ers in every country where it is in-
digenous. !
If: the palm tree Christian is saved,
sanctified and baptized with the Holy
Ghost, he must work this salvation out,
so that there may be a uniformity of
thickness between his profession and
possession. He must therefore be
straight in all his dealings with the
children of men. A great many Chris-
tians are in doubt as to-whether their
lives are straight or not; now the only
way a man can tell whether he has a
yard of cotton or not is to place the
supposed yard of cotton alongside of
the yardstick, and if the one is just as
long as the other he comes to the con-
clusion that he has a yard of cotton.
The only way a man can tell whether
his life is straight or not is to place
himself alongside of the Word of God.
‘Take, for instance, the passage found
in Matt. 5:44: ‘Love your enemies.”
Now someone will say: “I can forgive,
but I never can forget.” Well, then,
you are not straight. Another will say:
“I can forgive and forget, but I can—
but I can never love them.” Well,
then, you are not straight.. “Love your
enemies.” Someone says: . “It does
not mean that” A minister, while
preaching, quoted the verse: “Thou
shalt love the Lord thy God with all
thy lheart,”’ ete, and then said: “It
does not mean that, for no man can do
that; but it means we are to try and
do it.” How would that brother like
to put “try” before all the other com-
mandments? Would he be willing
next Sunday to get up before his peo-
ple and say the Bible says: “Thou
shalt not kill,” but of course it does
not mean that, for no man can live
without killing; but it means you are
to try and not kill. The Bible means
what it says, or else it does not mean
anything.
IV. The palm tree is an evergreen.
“It grows slowly but steadily, unin-
fluenced by those alterations -of the
seasons which affect other trees.” It
does not rejoice overmuch in winter's
copious rains, neither does it droop
under the drought and burning sun of
suminer, nor can the importunate
urgency of the winds sway it aside
from perfect uprigiftness.
Someone has said there are four
classes of Christians: 1st. The sleepy
Christian, who: wakes up to everything
when it is too late. 2d. The fair
weather Christian, who serves the
Lord when the sun shines. 3d. The
grasshopper Christian, who takes a
4th. The palm
tree Christian, whose path is as the
shining light, which shineth more and
more unto the perfect day.
the great troubles in the Christian
Church of to-day is that tHere are too
many grasshopper Christians who are
greatly warmed up in a revival meet-
ing, but after the meeting is over be-
come cold and indifferent. The palm
tree Christian must set his face “like
a flint,” for he professes to be follow-
ing Christ and doing as Christ would
do under every circumstance, and
while it is true that everything
changes, he must never change from
the “highway” to the “broadway.”
When he is plowing and the plow-point
strikes a stone, he is a Christian.
When the cow gives a-pail of milk and
then kicks it over, he is a Christian.
When he is putting up stovepipes in
the fall, he is a Christian. When they
are taking up the missionary collec-
tion, he is a Christian. In all places,
at all times (without a single holiday,
not even election day), under all cir-
cumstances, and at all costs, he is a
Christian.
V. From antiquity the palm tree has
been regarded as the choicest of fruit
trees. It has been known to produce
600 pounds of dates in a year. “Its
fruit is abundant, pleasant, medicinal
and exhilarating;” ‘those who only
know the aate from the dried specimen
shown beneathalabelin shop windows,
can hardly imagine how delicious they
are when eaten fresh.’ Pliny says:
“When they come from the trees they
are so deliciousthattheyare eaten most
greedily.” It is a staple article of com-
merce, and a Moslem tradition says:
“They are the chief of all the fruits
of the world.”
If the life of the palm tree Christian
testifies to the fact that he is saved
and sanctified, and that there is noth-
ing more transient about it, he will
not only have the fruits of the Spirit,
but shall teach transgressors the ways
of the Lord, and sinners shall be con-
verted. During the last few days I
have read so much about the palm
tree that I have a perfect hunger for
dates, and it seems as though I cannot.
wait until I go to town and get some.
The palm tree Christian has a hunger
for souls. Moses said: “If Thou wilt
not forgive their sin, blot me, I pray
Thee, out of Thy book.” Paul said:
“He could wish himself accursed from
Christ for his brethren.” John Knox
said: “Oh God, give me’ Scotland. or
1 die.” Is there any fruit so delicious
to our souls as leading others to
Christ? Ob, brother, sister, “Lift up
your eyes and look on the fields, for
they are white already unto harvest!”
Begin to-day and gather this fruit unto
life eternal.
VI. The palm tree grows
heavy weight and pressure.
ists say it grows when it is most
pressed down. You cannot keep it
down, or make it grow crooked, even if
you lay heavy weights upon it.
So it is with the palm tree Chris-
tian; the wore you try to keep him
under
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down; the more he grows.
“Away |
said, ‘with. regard .to Christ: -
with such a fellow from the earth’ for
it is not fit that He should live!” . “Cru-
cify Him!” “Crucify Him!” “We will,
not have this man Christ Jesus to'réign
over us.” =
“They drove the nails into His hands,
The spear into His side.
The crown of thorns into His brow,
And they mocked Him till He died.”
They ‘smote the Shepherd and the
sheep were scattered, so.that from all
appearances Christ .and His religion
were things of the past; but were they?
It was not fifty days until a band of
men and women avere in an. upper
room, praying for the coming of the
Holy Ghost, and when He came 3000
were converted and added to the
church by the power, and the Chris-
tians went everywhere preaching the
Gospel. "Then said the persecutors:
“Stone Stephen!” “Tie Thomas to a
a pillar” “Crucify Peter!” “Throw
John into a cauldron of boiling oil!”
“Chop off Paul's head!” ‘Stop them!’
“Stop them, or they will turn the world
upside down!” They killed the apos-
tles; but did they kill Christianity?
Never! They might just as well try
to stop the earth turning on its axis, as
to prevent the coming of Christ's king-
dom on earth. Christians have had
their thumbs in the thumb-screws;
their feet in the stocks; their lips cut
off; their eyes bored out; they have
been eaten by wild beasts; they have
been burned at the stake; they were
tortured in every conceivable manner.
Women have had their children taken
from them and themselves outraged.
“They were stoned, they were sawn
asunder, were tempted, were slain
with the sword; they wandered about
in sheep and goat skins; being desti-
tute, afflicted, tormented, of -whom the
world was not worthy,” and yet
through the burning of Rome, and the
Dark Ages, and the massacre of St.
Bartholomew, through all the past cen-
turies Christianity has been growing
“like a cedar of Lebanon;” it is flour-
ishing like the palm tree. This. leads
to our next thought.
VII. The palm tree is emblem. of
victory and rejoicing. The Jews em-
ployed palm branches on the feasts of
tabernacles, and on festive occasions.
They carried them before princes and
distinguished personages, waving them
in token of joy and triumph. The
Egyptians waved palnl branches in
-honor of Osirus. and bore them before
conquerors in their triumphs. The rea-
son given by Plutarch why the sym-
bol was adopted by the idolators-is the
nature of the wood, which so power-
fully resists recumbent pressure; but
more enlightened nations bear palm
branches after a victory, to acknowl-
edge the author of ‘their success and
prosperity.
Said the presiding elder to the dis-
couraged minister, who had run away
from his charge: “Have they ever
spat upon you?’ The minister said:
“No, they have not gone that far.”
“Did they ever crown .you with
thorns?’ And the minister began to
weep. Then said the elder: “Who is
going to reign at the end of this
world?’ Ob, friends! Jesus Christ has
won and is going to reign until all His
enemies are put under His feet. How
would one of the political parties feel
toward its opponents, if that party
knew that the victory was won already
and that all the work from now until
November would bc spent simply in
getting its majority? The palm tree
Christian has victory over the world,
the flesh, and the devil; yea,
death itself. Tertullian said:
conquer when we fall.” We read such
statements as the following, in connec-
tion with the death of the martyrs:
“He has received the palm of martyr-
dom.” “He has been crowned with
the palm of the martyrs.” St. Agatha
replied to the tyrant: “If you do not
rend my body upon the rack, my soul
cannot enter the Paradise of God with
the palm of martyrdom.” There are
palms upon the tombs of Caius,-Tibur-
tius, Valerious, Mamimianus, Filumena
and others. At Cawnpore, in India,
there is a well, enclosed by a wall of
white marble about twenty feet high
and fifty-seven paces in circumference.
On the stone that covers the well is in-
scribed these words: “Sacred to the
perpetual memory of a great company
of Christian people, chiefly women and
children, cruelly massacred near this
spot by the rebel Nana Sahib, and
thrown the dying with the dead,, into
the well beneath, on the 15th day of
July, 1857.” In the centre of the en-
closure is a sculptured angel of resur-
rection with illumined face, and hold-
ing high two palm branches, meaning
victory. To-day we remember Paul
with admiration, but Nero with dis-
gust. The future pages of history will
condemn the Sultan of Turkey, but
uphold the Armenian Christians. The
land, which the blessed Christ has
trod, shall yet become as the Garden
of Eden. Jesus Christ is coming back
to the earth. Oh, blessed thought!
VIII. The palm tree is a type of
Heaven. The weary traveler in desert
lands looks forward to the palm tree
with great joy, for it promises him
food and shelter overhead, and wells
of water underneath. The first thing
of interest in the promised land was
the city of Palm Trees. It was em-
ployed in the real temple of Solomon,
and in the visionary temple of Ezekiel.
Both Simon and -Judas Maccabes en-
tered Jerusalem after their victories,
bearing palm branches. Solomon cov-
ered all the walls of the Holy of Holies
round about with palm trees to iadi-
cate its heavenly connection, and being
honored by the ministration of angels.
The Christian pilgrim looks forward
with joy to the time when he shall “sit
down with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
in the Kingdom of God,” to eat of the
Tree of Life and drink of the Water of
Life. The Christian has a home in a
city, where they need not the light of
the sun, where the walls are jasper,
and the streets gold, and each one of
the twelve gates a pearl. A city,
where there is no cemetery, for there is
no sickness, pain, nor death. A city,
where they need no policeman, for all
is peace and perfect love. He shall
have a new name, a white robe, a
crown upon his brow, and better than
all else, he shall have a palm in his
hand. Oh, who would not be a Chris-
tian? Someone says, “Why?’ Why?
“The righteous shall flourish like the
palm tree.” v
Showing Our Trust.
There is no better way to show our
trust than to busy ourselves with the
things He asks us to do.—Maltbie D.
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In considering a room in relation to
its lighting it is necessary to arrange
the celors in the order of their warmth.
‘browns, reds and olive greens fall un-
der the warm tones, and blue, blue-
green purple and the neutral shades of
the warm colors under the cold tones.
The warmer colors, especially the yel-
lows and browns, bring sunshine and
light into a room, while the colder col-
ors, the ‘coldest of which is blue, may
be depended upon to soften too brilliant
a glare. Red, although a warm color,
is inclined to absorb light, so that al-
though very rich and warm in sunlight
or even in artificial light, it makes a
room seem dark, even gloomy in ordi-
nary daylight. This twofold quality
makes it a very difficult color to han-
dle. } .
A high room allows of a frieze, up-
per third treatment, or drop-ceiling,
while a low room is very much im-
proved by an indication of vertical
lines in a design or by an arrangement
of vertical panels. The ceiling may be
lowered in appearance by being tinted
or papered, but if it is papered it is
better to use a plain color rather than a
design.—Harper’'s Bazar.
Well to Know.
“If more women knew how quickly
and thoroughly coal oil acts as a clean-
ing agent there would be fewer tired
backs and aching bones on cleaning
day,” said 4 little woman, whose apart-
ment is always as fleckless as. the
streets of d certain town celebrated for
its immaculate condition.
“Ever since the hint was given to me
by a practical friend, a fifty-years’
housekeeper,” she continued, “I’ve been
learning to use. the oil for more and
more purposes each week—in fact, I
am a coal oil crank. I wipe up my
stained wood floors with a rag moist-
ened with the oil, and find that in addi-
tion to removing every scrap of dust, it
darkens the boards a little every time,
which .is a desideratum in my case, as
the floor is soft wood and wears easily.
“All the woodwork I wipe with an.
other rag on which I sprinkle a few
drops of oil. Anything of porcelain,
like a bath tub, it cleans most beauti-
fully; also the bath room, wash stand
and closet, only taking the precautions
pf changing your cloths. The wall
back of my range I painted deep red.
When it becomes greasy and dusty I
find that the oiled cloth makes a splend
id cleanser, although I confess I tried
It in the first instance with fear and
frembling.”—Hartford Post.
Bombay Toast—Melt one ounce of
butter, add two well beaten eggs, one
teaspoonful of finely chopped cooked
lean ham, one teaspoonful of chopped
parsley, salt, pepper and. cayenne to
taste. Stir over a slow fire till the
eggs begin to set, then spread the mix
ture on pieces of hot buttered toast.
Yorkshire Cake—Make a good biscuit
dough with baking powder and pat out
in large cake about half an inch thick
and place on a well-greased griddle.
Cover with a pan, place over a moder
ate fire and bake about ten minutes;
then turn and bake ten minutes on the
other side. Split open and butter while
hot and serve.
Cheese Fritters—Cheese fritters can
be concocted with a chafing dish, and
they are very toothsome to any cheese
lover. Mix four tablespoons of Par-
mesan cheese with two tablespoons of
stale bread crumbs. Beat four eggs
well and add the first mixture. Sea-
son with salt and paprica. Drop from
tip of spoon in small cakes on a hot,
buttered blazer. Brown on one side,
then turn and brown on the other side.
~ Walnut Pudding—Half a pound of
shelled walnuts, one-quarter pound
baked bread crumbs, one quart milk,
seasoning. Pass the nuts through a
nut mill, mix the nutmeal and the
bread crumbs in equal proportions and
add sufficient of the milk to make a
soft mixture; a dessert spoonful of the
best oil, a little salt; a little finely
chopped onion or celery may .be added.
Put in a dish and bake in a moderate
oven until firm and of a rich brown
color.
Fruit Salad—Half a tin pineapple
chunks, four oranges, four ripe bana:
nas, two lemons, two ounces nutmeal,
a few almonds. Cut up all the fruit
small, grate a little of the rind of the
lemons, chop the almonds and mix all
together with quarter of a pint of
water (excepting the nutmeal), and al-
low to stand for six hours in a cool
place. Add caster sugar according to
need before serving, sprinkle over it
the nutmeal and garnish with erystal-
lized cherries and cream.
, Nut Sandwich—Barcelonas, Brazils,
walnuts or almonds put through a nut
nill.
slices of bread and butter and cut into
sandwich shape. 1f a little orange
ower honey be mixed with the nut
meal, or if cracknel biscuits be used
jnstead of bread, a very dainty sweet
sandwich is obtained. If preferred, a
little salt may be. mixed with the nut-
meal. and a little mustard spread on
the buttered bread, and a sprig of
watercress put in each sandwich.
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Babcock.
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KEYSTONE STATE CULLINGS
CONFESS DARING ROB BERIES-
Bellefonte Boys Admit Number of
Crimes—One Pulls Revolver on
Officer.
Bach armed with two revolvers,
Henry Gordon, aged 19, and James
Daie, aged 16, wera arrested at Belle-
fonte and confessed to a series of
daring robberies. For months burg-
laries of siores have been reported.
Gordon and Daie were suspected.
Trey left town and broke into the
poziofics and siore of Morrison &
Glenn, a: Roland, four miles away,
and stole over $300 in mcney and a lot
of goods. They were tracked to Mill
Hall where consiable Charles Sayder
arrested them. Gordon drew a revol-
ver, but Snyder seized him and pre-
venied him from shocting. Practi-
cally all the stolen money was re-
covered.
George Crumrine, Arthur Huff and
Edward Wyke, were arrested charged
with maltreating a 17-year-old boy,
Frank Morris of Vanceville, Wash:
ington county, escaped lynching
through prompt work of the officers.
The taie of cruelty toid by Morris is
shocking and has aroused the com-
munity. His condition is serious and
he may not recover. M was
found early in the morning at the foot
of a small cliff. He says Crumrine,
Huff and Wyke lured him into the
woods some distance from his fath-
er’s house and, after filling him with
whisky until he was helpless, began
rhaltreating him. Te ry
They poured oil over his body,
then set it afire in places, he says,
smothering the flames before much
damage was done, but causing him
excruciating pain, They beat and
kicked him, he alleges, and then,
tying a rope about his body, dragged
him half a mile to the cliff, After
binding him to a board Morris de-
clares they threw him to the ground
below, 25 feet. He says they then
followed him to the foot of the cliff
and after beating him again piled
stones on him and ran away. He lay
there all right and was nearly dead
when found.
During a severe electrical storm at
Punxsutawney, two men were killed
instantly, two others seriously in-
jured and a number of buildings
struck by lightning. The dead are:
Bert Weiss, 20 years old; Clyde
Blose, 18 years old. The injured were
Laird Blose and Clyde Frampton.
Both cof the dead boys were killed
while in the vicinity of barns. Weiss
was standing in the door of the A. J.
Graffius barn when a bolt struck the
place and the Blose boys were just
leaving the barn belonging to their
father, former county superintendent,
G. A. Blose of Hamilton.
At Irwin, three boys, each about
eight years old, made a raid on Bon-
ner's department store in true west-
ern style. While one was on guard
the other boys broke into the estab-
lishment and rifled the cash register
of | $6.25. They also stole revolvers
and then fled. One of the boys, nam-
ed: Perry, was captured but his com-
pahions are still in hiding. Perry
said the revelvers were taken so they
might hold off any officers who might
pursue them.
Michael Callahan, a laborer, and
Kenzie Hart, an employe of the Can-
onsburg Stee] Company, were struck
by a freight train on the Chartiers
branch of the Pennsylvania railroad,
near the Canonsburg station and
ground to pieces. Neither was mar-
ried. It is supposed that the men
were on their way to Canonsburg
and did not hear the approach of the
train.
At New Castle, Abraktam 8S. Fulk-
man, aged 81, applied for divorce from
his wife, Mrs. suiza Jane Fulkman.
The aged husband alleges his wife,
who is but five years younger than he,
has deserted him. They were married
in 1904 and lived together three
months, when the wife left Fulkman’s
home, he alleges.
The Hon. Nelson P. Wheeler of En-
deavor, Forest county, a dark horse,
was nominated for congress by the
Republicans of the Twenty-eighth
district, consisting of Venango, War-
ren, Forest, Mercer and Elk counties,
to fill the seat now occupied by the
Hon. Joseph C. Sibley.
The Republican Congressional con-
vention for the district composed of
Montgomery and Bucks counties as-
sembled to nominate a candidate for
Congress to succeed Irving P. Wang-
er, the present Republican incum-
bent. Mr. Wanger was renominated
by acclamation.
W. J. Mclain of Claysville, pur-
chased an old-fashioned bureau at an
administrater’s sale. While it was
being cleaned a roll of bills was found
amounting to $486. The money was
covered with a piece of newspaper
and had evidently been hidden for
many years.
Lewis Emory, Jr.,, the Lincoln
party candidate for governor, was in-
dorsed by Beaver county’s five dele-
gates to the Democratic state con-
vention, who declare they will sup-
port fusion as long as there is any
hope.
The Aluminum Coating Company’s
plant in South Connellsville, closed
for two years, will resume operations
this month under new management,
headed by George W. Delameter of
Oil. City.
State Treasurer Berry has dropped
Miss M. Olive Barnett of Hillside,
Westmoreland county, and appointed
in her place Samuel Weil of Allen-
town, former secretary to Congress-
man Kline of that city. Miss Barnett
is familiar with the routine of the
treasury and Berry retained her until
she had coached the appointees. She
Is a cousin of former Treasurer Bar-
nett, by whom she was originally ap-
pointed.
The Blair
convention
county Democrats in
adopted resolutions
indorsing l.ewis Emery, Jr., for gov-
ernor and instructerd the state dele-
gated to vote for him.
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Americans Are Paint Users,
It has been remarked that the Amer-
fcan people consume more paint, both
in the aggregate and per capita, than
any other people in the world. In a
recently published article on the sub- *
ject it was figured that our yearly
consumption is over 100,000,000 gallons
of paints of all kinds, of which over
one-half is used in the paintings of
houses.
The reason for'this great consump-
tion is twofold: a large proportion of
our buildings, especially in small
towns and rural districts, are con-
structed of wood, and we, as a people,
are given to neatness and cleanliness.
For, take it all in all, there is nothing
so cleanly or so sanitary as paint.
Travel where we will throughout the
country, everywhere we find the neat,
cheerful painted dwelling, proclaiming -
at once the prosperity and the self-
respect of our population. i
Fifty years ago this was not so;
painted dwellings, while common in
the larger cities and towns, were the
exception in the rural districts; be-
cause, on the one hand, a large pro-
portion of those buildings were tem-
porary makeshifts, and, on the other
hand, because paint was then a luxury.
expensive and difficult to obtains+in the
out-of-the-way places, and requiring
special knowledge and much prepara-
tion to fit it for use.
The introduction of ready mixed or
prepared paints, about 1860, changed
the entire aspect of affairs. As the
Jack-of-all-trades told the Walking
Delegate in one of Octave Thanet's
stories “Any one can slather paint.”
The insurmountable difficulty with
our predecessors was to get the paint
ready for “slathering.” That the coun-
try was ready for paint in a convenient,
popular form is shown by the imme-
diate success of the industry and its
phenomenal growth in fifty years from
nothing to 60,000,000 gallons—the esti-
mated output for 1900.
Some pretty severe things have been
written about and said against this
class of paints, especially by painters
and manufacturers of certain kinds of
paste paints. Doubl.less in many in-
stances these strictures have been jus-
tified and some fearfully and wonder-
fully constructed mixtures have in the
past been worked off on the guileless
consumer in
paint. But such products have had
their short day and quickly disap-
peared, and ‘he too enterprising man-
ufacturers that produced them have
come to grief in the bankruptcy
courts or bave learnel by costly ex-
perience that honesty is the best pol-
icy and Lave reformed their ways.
The chief exceptions to this tule are
some mail order houses who sell direct
to the country trade, at a very low
price—frequently below the wholesale
price of linseed oil. The buyer of such
goods, iike the buyer of a ‘gold brick,”
has only himself to blame if he finds
his purchase worthless With gold
selling at any bank or mint at a fixed
price owners of gold do dot sell it at
a discount; and with linseed oil quoted
everywhere at fifty to seventy cents a
gallon, manufacturers do not sell a
pure linseed oil paint at thirty or forty
cents a gallon.
The composition of prepared paints
differs because paint experts Lave not
yet agreed as to th» best pigments
and because the aaily results of tests
on a large scale are constantly im-
proving tue formulas of manufactur-
ers; but all have come to the conclu-
sion that the essentials of good paint
are pure linseed oil, fine grinding and
thorough incorporation, and in these
particulars ¢1l the products of repu-
table manufacturers correspend; all
first class prepared paints are thor-.
oughly mixed and ground and the lig-
uid base is almost exclusively pure
linseed oil, the necessary. volatile
“thinners” and Japan dryers.
The painter’s opposition to such pro-.
ducts is based largely on self-interest.
He want: ‘to mix the -paint Limself.
and to be paid for ding it; and to a
certain class of painters it is no reec- ’
ommendation for a paint to say that it
will last five or ten years. The longer
a paint lasts the longer he will have
to wait for the job of repainting. The
the shape of prepared ,
latter consideration has no weight with” *
the consumer, and the former. is a
false idea of economy. Hand labor
can never be. as cheap or as efficient
as machine work, and every time the
painter mixes paint, did he but know
it, he is losing money, because he can
buy a better paint than he can mix
at less than it costs him to mix it.
Prepared paints have won, not only
on their actual merits, but on their?
convenience and economy. They are
comparatively cheap, and they are in-
comparably handy. But when all is
said, the experienced painter is the
proper person to apply even a ready
mixed paint. Ie knows better than
any one else the “when” and “how”
and the difference between painting
and “slathering” is much greater than
it appears to a novice. Every one to
his trade, and after all painting is the
painter's trade and not the household-
er’'s. 2
Early Training Does It.
Spoiled children are apt to develop
into spoiled men and women, for
what are these but children of larger
growth. I11 nature, the same as ill
manners, is a result of improper
training in early childhood. The
child that is brought up to good man-
ners will ever be well mannered. Its
manners will be unconscious, there-
fore, easy and natural.—Erasmus Wil-
son. :
A Reticent Tombstone.
Dr. Sawyer, of Williston seminary
at Easthampton, Mass., was discuss-
ing the early education of the older
gereration. “It was not such as
people get now,” he said, “but I am
not ashamed of it. When I.think of
it 1 am always reminded of an epitaph
1 once saw in a desolate little town.
It devoted two lines to the virtues of
the good woman buried there, con-
cluding with this line:
‘She averaged well for this vi-
cinity.’ "—iE body’s Magazine.
Longest Underground Hello.
The longest underground tele
phone line in the world has recently
been completed, and extends from
New York City to New Haven, Conn.,
a distance of over 70 miles. If this
system proves to be a success, its ex-
tension to other cities may be ex-
pected very soon.
A london
against
cabman has provided
possible accidents by invent
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as such or drawn by a horse.
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