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Excitement in Topeka.
There is great excitement over the
“report that a bride who will come to
Topeka soon has a maid, says the To-
peka State Journal. This will raise
the limit and establish a new record
in Topeka. Oceasionally a Topeka
woman steals the housemaid or nurse,
exchanges their caps and aprons for
the lady’s maid kind and takes her out
of town with her in order to make a
noise like an aristocrat, but it is be-
{lieved the new bride will be the only
woman in Topeka who has a reaily
and truly lady’s maid all her own who
never helps out in the kitchen, nursery
ar laundry.
Gloves.
What variety!
Kid is smartest.
Fabric gloves are here.
In most cases gloves match.
Cleverly contrasted gloves are seen.
Gauntlets appear in fetching novel-
ties.
Showily-adorned gloves will not
“take” here.
Yellow chamois gloves are exceed-
ingly smart.
Elbow lengths in colored silk gloves
are sold out. . .
The elbow length craze was not ex-
pected to rage as severely.—Philadel-
phia Record.
Blames Wives for Divorce.
Neither careless husbands nor pret-
ty typewritists, but pastors and wives
are responsible for most modern di-
yorces, according to Mrs. Maria C.
Weed, who spoke before the W. C. T.
“The utter selfishness of wives drive
many . husbands: from their homes,”
said Mrs. Weed. “When a minister,”
she continued, ‘‘accepts a fee in which
fe feels certain that honor has been
partered for a title, is it not the acme
of inconsistency for him to persist
that the blunder which he helped to
censummate shall be a life sentence?”
—New York Globe.
Weaving Silk Rags.
Tiny looms for the weaving of silk
rags into strips which are afterwards
joined to make rugs or couch covers,
or even portieres, are among the in-
teresting inventions brought about by
the interest women are taking in all
forms of handicraft.
On the loom can be woven strips of
about nine inches wide, the warp
threads stretched as firmly as in the
big, full-edged affairs used for the
heavier sort of work. “Hit-or-miss”
pattern are popular in silk work as
they are in the old-fashioned rag car-
pets, used now only for kitchen or
aursery, but often strips composed of
two colors are made, with one used
for bordering the ends.
Cow Swallowed a Snake.
Mrs. Carrie Hagen, a widow of La
Crosse, Wis.,, was until recently the
proud owner of a beautiful cow, the
sale of whose milk contributed largely
to the woman’s. support. Five or six
weeks ago the animal became ill, and
Mrs. Hagen was forced to cease sell-
ing milk. Veterinary aid was sum-
moned. * The case was puzzling in the
extreme. Then Mrs. Hagen decided
that it was best to have the suffering
bovine killed. In order to satisfy her
curiosity as to what ailed the animal
she had it cut open. In the cow’s
stomach was a large reptile. It looked
like a water snake. In its lower jaw it
had four small teeth. It is thought
that the .cow, while pastured near
some creek or stream, had swallowed
a young snake, which had grown and
flourished ever since in the poor ani-
mal’'s stomach. Mrs, Hagen says the
snake was an inch and a half thick
and fifteen fect long. The assertion is
borne out by neighbors.—Milwaukee
Wisconsin.
Have Beautiful Hands.
Soft, white hands, with well-shaped
rosy nails, are an attraction not to be
lightly considered.
The hands should be manicured at
{east onte a weeli, and the time spent
on the task will be found well worth
the while. Always dry the hands care-
fully, and keep the flesh about the base
of the nails free, so that the half-
moons will show. If the hands are
very thin, fatten it by means of mas-
sage with a good skin food. A good
preparation for tender hands, which is
both softening and whitening in effect,
{s made of powdered marshmallow root
two ounces, carbonate of soda two
ounces, with twelve ounces of barley
stirred into it. While doing rough
housework always wear gloves. It
may seem a bother, but it repays the
trouble. At night rub the hands with
good cold cream, and slip on old loose
gloves. These are little duties that
take but a few mintues to do, yet if
persisted in regularly and systemati-
cally will resuit in softness and white-
ness of the hands.
How to Lift the Baby.
‘While the manner of lifting a young
child is seemingly of minor impor-
tance, at the ti it § f enough
concern to rec ration. The
bones of an infant are soft, not easily
broken but very easily bent and shaped
if pressure is constantly exerted on or
near the same 1 lity. Pressure
should never be exerted on the chest
of a young infant; the ribs are very
small and frail, and finger pressure
such as would have to be exerted by
placing the hands around the body and
lifting the baby is not to be desired;
sometimes a marked depression is like-
ly to occur from this sort of haudling,
thus hampering the free action of the
lungs and interfering with the breath-
ing; cases of chronic coughs have been
known to result from such segression.
Handle the young infant without pres-
sure if possible; this may be aecom-
plished by placing the hag ier the
back, letting the head re Bist or
arm. Or extend two or fingers
upward for this purpcse, an@ with the
other hand lift the chiid by the clothes
at the feet.—Marianna Wheeler in
Harper’s Bazar.
Fashion Notes,
The woman who wears the gloves
with the small’ pocket for change
stitched to the palm is sure never to
lay down her pocketbook. ;
Line your Irish lace coat with mous-
seline; the bezauty of the lace will be
very much enhanced. :
Shoes of patent leather with white
kid tops and black buttons are pre-
ferred by some to the all-white shoes
to wear with light, thin gowns; it
would be hard to say which is the bet-
ter style for both are very modish.
Three box piaits front and back pro-
vide ample fullness for the small girl's
low-necked, no-sleeved dress which is
worn over a guimpe. The plaits are
fastened to a two-and-one-half inch
circular band which takes the place
of a yoke.
Automobiles and automobile apparel
now occupy the attention of a host of
men and women—especially the ap-
parel. Every woman seems to be try-
ing to find a coat and a ‘hat that will
be practical and becoming too, and she
is succeeding beautifully. There never
were so many automobile hats shown
and worn as this season.
The accordion-plated sheer blouses
which accompany some of the new
princess skirts are very dainty acces-
sories to this favorite skirt. The yoke
is of fine embroidery and cloth bands
like the skirt follow it and the bot-
tom of the short sleeves to give the
effect of an entire costume.
Wide tucks and flat ribbon bands
seem to be the favored skirt trimmings
for graduation and other sheer gowns
while folds of the same are much used
on wool materials.
Make one of your negligees with the
short sleeves slashed clear to the
shoulder and lace together the spread-
ing edges with velvet ribbon. ¢
Women’s Ignorance of Business.
Thousands of girls are sent out into
the world with what is called finished
educations, who can not give a proper
receipt for money, to say nothing of
drawing a promissory note, a draft or
a bill, or understanding the significance
and importance of business contracts.
Such a woman, says O. S. Marden in
Success Magazine, presented a check
for payment to the paying teller of her
bank. He passed it back to her with
the request that she be kind enough
to indorse it. The lady wrote on the
back of the check.” I have done busi-
ness with this bank for many years,
and I believe it to be all right. Mrs.
James B. Brown.”
Another society woman ip New York
City presented a check for paymerit
at the bank, and the teller told her that
it was not signed. “Oh, do they have
to be signed?’ she responded. “What
an awful lot of red tape there is about
the banking business.”
I know of a lady whose husband
made a deposit for her in a bank and
gave her a check book so that she
could pay her bills without annoying
him. Ome day she received a notice
from the bank that her account was
overdrawn. She went to the bank and
told the teller that there must be a
mistake about it, because she still had
a lot of checks left in her book. She
knew so little about business that she
thought that she could keep drawing
any amount until the checks were all
gone.
This sounds ridiculous and almost
incredible, yet the very girl who laughs
at it may ‘make even more absurd
blunders. Many an accomplished wo-
man, when given a pen and asked to
sign an important document drawn up
by an attorney or a’long-headed busi-
ness man, will sign it without reading
it or even asking to be informed of its
contents, only to learn afterwards by
disastrous results that she has signed
away her property and turned herself
out of home. Only a short time ago I
read of a lady who had won a suit in-
volving about $20,000. New evidence,
however, was brought forward, which
caused the court immediately to re-
verse its decision. It was proved that
the lady had sworn falsely. She was
perfectly innocent of any such inten-
tion, but she had sworn that she had
never signed her name to a certain doc-
ument. The document was produced,
and, to her utter astonishment, she saw
her signature affixed to it. She aec-
knowledged at once that the signature
was hers, although she had just sworn
that she had never signed the paper
in question. It appeared that, during
her husband’s lifetime, whenever pa-
pers were to be signed, he told her
here to write her name, and she did
told, without having the
lightest idea. of the contents of the
papers.
‘with you.”
| to strength, growing ir
HEP OLB Lee
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AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY
THE REV. R. H. CARSON.
Subject: The Story of Ruth.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—In Grace Presby-
terian Church the pastor, the Rev. Rob-
ert H. Carson, preached Sunday even-
ing from the book of Ruth. Among
other things he said: -
We miss a great deal of the beauty
aud power of the Bible because -of.
the manner in which. we are accus-
tomed to read it. There are very few
who take time to read a whole book
through at a single sitting. We dip.
into Scripture as if it were a book of
fate, reading a verse here and another
there, so it iS not surprising that we
rise from the exercise having received
but little help and spiritual refresh-
ment. There is no royal road to
knowledge. There is no way to gar-
ner the lessons which Holy Scripture
teaches save through that steady and
persistent searching of which our Sav-
ious spoke when He said, “Search the
Seriptures, for they are they which
testify of Me.”
It is our hope this evening to point
out some of the beautiful lessons con-
tained in one little book of.the Bible,
in one of the most delightful stories
ever presented for contemplation by
the mind of man. I refer to the book
of Ruth. Its very place. in the sacred
canon makes it a memorable piece of
literature. It is, as you know, pre-
ceded by the book of Judges, and fol-
lowed hy the book of Samuel. These
books are concerned almost exclusively
with the national history of Israel—
with the wars, defeats, humiliations,
murmurings, complainings, repinings
and repentances of the people. They
are not, in the main, pléasant reading.
Their pages are red with blood, and
violence, and rapine, and lawless deeds,
the unchangeable consequences of a
pation forgetting God and neglecting to
do His will. :
It is a great pleasure. therefore, to
turn from these books that tell of the
ups and downs of national life, and
fix the..attention upon the. charming
story of Ruth. That little book pic-
tures domestic life; it gives us a
glimpse into the quiet, everyday habits
and customs of the men’ and .wormen
of ‘that time, and we see them in their
homes, in the harvest fields, at: the
festivals, and at religious services." . .
Biography is, I think, the favorite
reading matter. We are deluged with
a- flood of fictitious biography in the
shape of novels which come by thou-
sands from the printing press every
year. It is an easy, but not very
profitable kind of reading, for in the
majority of cases there is a great deal
of unreality, too great an absence of
the lifelike, and too little of what we
know to be a common experience.
It is not so, however, in the book of
Ruth. There we have life truly de-
picted; there we meet with men and
women as we find them to-day—not an-
gels and not demons, but erring, endur-
ing, faithful and not unblest.
It is not my intention to enter upon
the story. 1 trust that you all know
it, or that if you do not, that you will
take a quiet half hour this very even-
ing, and peruse that little book, which,
in its superiority, is as far removed
from our modern stories as the east
is from the west.
Tn coming into touch, then, with this
piece of sacred literature, and consid-
ering for our edification some of the
lessons which it teaches, we see first of
all the superiority of character. The
two chief figures in the story are Boaz
and Ruth, and it is their characters
that .make them such. There is not
in the whole range of literature a bet-
ter type of manly, healthy religion
than is exemplified in the case of Boaz.
You remember that'scene in the har-
vest field. He went down to his reap-
ers, and his salutation without ‘any
cant or insincerity, was, “The Lord be
My friends; when. such.a
greeting as that can take place be-
tween master and men, it testifies to
the presence of a religion that leaves its
mark upon very act, and upon all the
conduct of life. It is the men like
Boaz who are the ornament and glory
of religion; the men whose beliefs in-
fluence them all in the manifold con-
cerns of life, in the forum, in the mar-
ket place, abroad as well as at home. .
Our Lord tells us who are to be ac-
counted blessed. It is not the mere
hearers of His word, nor they who can
cry, “Lord, Lord,” and affirm that they
have prayed in public places. It is
“Blessed are the doers of the Word,”
and blessed they alone. Such ‘in his
day was Boaz—a man of kindly feel-
ings, pure heart, strong conviction, true
purpose, and the benediction of the
Most High was upon him.
Such, too, was Ruth, with her loving,
tender, considerate heart—one of the
fairest characters in the whole range
of Hebrew Scripture.
And the most noteworthy fact in this
connection is that these characters
were produced amid surroundings and
an environment that would have dis-
couraged the average person. It was
a lawless time; restrains were weak-
ened or entirely removed, and men be-
came a law unto themselves. Such a
condition of society is not favorable to
the cultivation and development of the
nobler virtues, and yet, amid such a
state of things, we have the stirring
example of these two who bravely
maintained the testimony and did the
right. It is not at all unusual to hear
men biame their surroundings for their
errors and mistakes; it is, indeed, the
common way by which we seek to con-
done our failings, but the excuse is not
valid. Some men, it is true, are more
strongly tempted than others; some are
in places that require a strong heart, a
firm faith, an unshaken confidence in
God and in the power of Christ in
order that they may be kept from the
evil that prevails around them; but no
man, if his purpose be true, can ever
be: wholly overcome. There is no
temptation that hath befallen any man
but what is common, and always with
the temptation there is a way of es-
cape if, trusting in the grace divine and
in the strength omnipotent, our heart
and wills be set on delivery.
Amid surroundings most unfavorable
these two saints went on from strength
grace and in
favor. both with God and men, be-
cause their hearts were right and their
spirits true. By their example we
should be taught; we should not weak-
ly blame our place or condition for
our Tailures, but, looking up to God, we
shoutd ask Him to search and try us,
do see if where is any wicked way dn us,
and lead us in the way everlasting.
2: But we learn again, from the story,
‘the place‘of good works in the religious
life. NE om EY “wt ;
1 do not think we would have heard
of Boaz and Ruth if their religious life
had consisted of faith alone. It is their
deeds, the results, in daily life, of their
‘faith that is especially dwelt upon. In
‘this respect the book of Ruth makes
-an admirable commentary upon the
epistle ‘of James. Indeed, one of the
most cheering features of modern re-
ligipus life lies in the fact that this
divinely appointed connection between
faith.and works is daily receiving more
attention. Far.be it from me to lightly
criticise our Puritan forbears, still as
we read about these heroic men of
‘whom the world was not worthy, does
it not sometiines seem as if the neces-
sity of “faith. was emphasized at the
expense: of the necessity of works to
correspond?. The two have been joined
together; their union constitutes the
perfect religious life, and what God
hath joined.together let not man put
asunder. What I am {trying to say has
been summed up in a sentence by the
late F. W. Robertson, a sentence which
the church should never let die, and
that sentence is, “Ifaith alone saves,
but not the faith that is alone.”
You remember Christ's words, “Do
men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of
thistles?”, . The man who rises from his
knees with the glow of the divine com-
munion upon his face, the man whose
faith hati made him a partaker of the
power of God, and who then goes forth
to live the life which his faith hath
revealed to him, is the man of whom
Christ alena will not be ashamed when
He ‘cometh in the glory of His Father
and of the holy angels to judge the
world. oc. :
It-is noteworthy, too, I think, that the
virtue in which Boaz .and Ruth ex-
celled ‘was the plain, everyday virtue
of kindness. The greatest material
blessings are the most common; air,
light; water, these are within the reach
of a!l. So also the greatest virtues
are-within the power of all to possess.
Paul says, “Now abideth faith, hope,
charity, these three, but the greatest of
these is charity.” It is possible for us
to attain to the possession of that grace
—the greatest of all. We all have di-
verse gifts and powers, differing one
from another, so that some mount
highe® tian others, but there is none
of us ib matter what our limitations
may ¥e# who cannot speak the kind
0 the kind deed and pass the
kindly ‘judgment, and that is charity,
the greatest of the virtues. What a
change would take place in this old
and weary world if only our deeds cor-
responded with our faith and we ful-
filled the royal law according to the
Scriptures: “Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself.”
But, again, the book of Ruth teaches
us the necessity of decision. We read
that Ruth and Orpah came to the part-
ing of the ways, that one turned back
to Moab and her people, and that the
other took her way to the land of
Israel. - Is not that a true simile of
life? Sooner or later each one of us
comes to the parting of the ways, and
we make the decision whose results are
endless. ‘ “The kingdom of Heaven,”
saith our Lord, “suffereth violence, and
the violent take it by force.” That
means that one cannot drift into it.
It needs a strong exertion of the will,
a decision that abides. Memorable
forever is Ruth’s decision. When sho
says to Naomi, “Entreat me not to
leave thee, or to return from following
after thee, for whither thou goest I
will go, and where thou lodgest I will
lodge, thy “people shall be my people,
and thy God my God,” she takes her
place among the first ranks of those
to. whom the high and gracious hearts
of all ages pay reverence. Friends, it
is a great thing, it is a needful thing in
life to pe capable of a clear resolve.
The man is {0 be envied who can part
between this and that of opposing
claims And* eciisiderations, and is able
to say, “Here 1 see my path; along this
and uo other will I go.” Indeed this
ability to make decision is the founda-
tion ofall true and successful life. In
religion there is no escape from it.
You cannot drift into a state of salva-
tion ir a crowd. ‘‘Once to every man
and nation comes the moment to de-
cide in the strife ’twixt truth and false-
hood, for the good or evil side.” To
each of wus individually comes the
choice what to do. Many a one, I
think, is kept from the freedom and
joy. of Christianity not because these
things are undesired, not because the
call of Christ is unheeded, or His
claims unacknowledged, but simply
for the want of the power of decision,
of strength to go forward upon a per-
sonal quest.
Young friends, to you especially this
lesson comes. You have still with you
the power of choice, and to you from
out eternity comes the cry, “Choose ye,
choose ye, this day whom ye will
2ray God that you make the
choice, and receive His grace to
abide therein.
Delusion.
The common conception of life is
false. The vast majority of people are
laboring under a delusion. You stand
where the tides of humanity roll swift
and strong—you sce men accumulating
colossal fortunes at a bound and living
in a dazzling splendor; you notice the
sleek, fat and pleasure-loving epi-
cureans at the clubhouses; the coarse,
amorous Falstaffs at the social funec-
tions; the Ceopatras, the Salomes and
society queens whose studied grace and
wine flushed cheeks entrance but to de-
stroy and you say: ‘This is life, life
at high noon and high midnight of the
twentieth century.”—Rev. C. G. Green-
wood.
His Perfect Naituralness,
Nothing is more wonderful about our
Lord than His perfect naturainess. His
absolute balance, His reality. reason-
ableness, artlessness, completeness.
Nothing excessive, nothing wanting:
nothing artificial, nothing unsymiuetri-
cal; no underdoing, no overdoing. The
goodness of Christ was like the sun-
shine, the breeze, the dawn, like the
sweet summer rain braided with the
rainbow.—William I. Watkinson.
A Glorious Gift,
ence is in itself!
ever disturbs the quiet enjoyment of
that cousciousiness—in the int
| conviction oi the presence ot
i Blanco White.
DANGERS OF GASOLINE.
it is Far Mcre of a Menace to Life
Than is Gunpowder.
Gunpowder is safe when compared
with. gasoline. Gunpowder stays where
it is put while gasoline will expand
and burst a can if warmed and it has
a ghost which will hunt for a light
to ignite it if the can is open or leak-
ing. And, too, gunpowder exerts less
“heat and force in expanding than gas-
oline.
Using gasoline for cleaning anything
in a room in which there is a blaze
of any sort is very dangerous, for its
gaseous ghost will hunt the flame.
A popular way of burning oneself
to death is to use a pan of gasoline,
for cleaning some article, in a room in
which there is a fire or light.
Among the serious accidents in
Ohio last year were five from gasoline
being poured into the wash-boiler. The
gasoline floating over the clothes was
converted rapidly into vapor which
made the air above the stove an ex-
plosivée compound.
Every day of the year brought an
account of a woman burned to death,
while cleaning some article with gaso-
line, by the gas from it reaching a
light or a stove.
The Wrong Can.—Seventeen serious
accidents were from gasoline being
mistaken for kerosene, either by the
user taking the wrong can or by a
sdealer filling .a can from the wrong
tank, and in seven accidents gasoline
was mistaken for water. ..A mother
brought gasoline from the store ina
tin bucket and her daughter filled the
coffee pot with it and was burned to
death by its explosion.
A barber washed some wigs in gaso-
line and put them in a drawer. Soon,
a streak of fire was seen from the
stove to the drawer -and.the wigs were
consumed without firing the: building.
To dispose of gasoline after use by
pouring it into a sink or house sewer
is to invite calamity, for it floats on
water and continually gives off its
vapor. Cleansing with it should be
done in the open only. When dirty
it should be thrown upon the ground
which wlil absorb it while the four
winds dissipate its gas.
Clothing can be chemically cleansed
by ammonia or benzine soaps without
danger. A safe substitute is galatin-
ized in which 25 percent benzine is
added to a mass of soap, water and
ammonia. It can be handled without
spilling; the amount of vapor given
off is slight and the amount of in-
flammable material in it is small.
Perhaps the revenue tax on alcohol
for use in the arts will be removed
and then potato alcohol may be pro-
duced as cheaply as it now is in Ger-
many, and, as a result, will displace
gasoline . for domestic use.
To Put Out the Fire.—Gasoline fires
may be extinguished with wet rags,
woolen cloth, sand, earth or ashes, if
the amount of the fluid involved is
small. If the amount be large, a
little water spreads it, a deluge of wa-
ter smothers it. It is particularly im-
portant that any can or tank from
which burning gasoline is boiling or
flowing should be cooled with water
to lessen the amount of vapor given
off —H. D. Davis, Ohio State Fire
Marshall. :
A Catskill Scene.
In a dreamy mood you finally make
your way back to the road and idly
wander on until you reach the village
postoffice and general - store. You
gaze curiously at its. barn-like appear-
ance and at the queer characters con-
gregated there. ‘It is the noon-hour,
and they are waiting for the one ‘great
event of the ‘day, the arrival of the
rural mail-man—whose white horse
can be seen coming leisurely up the
road at a snail’s pace. A smile curves
your lips as you mark the contrast
between this raw-boned farmer, in
his blue-jean overalls, and the city
postman, in his spruce gray uniform.
Nevertheless, in sunshine or storm,
the rural mailman is as faithful as
his city cousin. You ask this uanique
“Uncle Sam“ how he likes travelling
the mountain roads in stormy weather
and a mild look of surprise breaks
over his honest features as he sirokes
his chin and drawls: “O-h, I don't
li-ke it so very good.”—Four-Track |
News.
Do Your Duty.
Don't abject that your duties are so
insignificant; they are to be reckoned
of infinite significance and alone im-
portant to you. Were it but the more
perfect regulation of your apartments,
the sorting away of our clothes and
trinkets, the arranging of your papers
— “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do,
do it with all thy might,” with all thy
worth and constancy. Much more if
your duties are of evidently higher
your duties are of evidently higher
wider scope; if you have brothers, sis-
ters, a father, a mother, weigh earn-
estly what claim does lie upon you on
behalf of each, and consider it as the
one thing needful to pay them more
and more honestly and nobly what
you owe. What matter how miserable
one is, if one can do that? That is
the sure and steady disconnection and
extinction of whatever miseries one
has in the worid.—Carlyle.
In Wooden Shoes.
Anne, the duchess in wooden shoes,
who brought Brittany in the pocket |
ding gown. to her husband,
of her we
the King of France, kept the g
ment for herself, and, when the Bi
{ bf Saint-Malo protested
| strenzghold which she built to cow
{ too independent Maloons, she carved
What a glorius @i1ft conscious exist | oT i i
Heaven must essen- |
tially consist in the absence of what- |
against
at
tion which may sti
“Grunt wh
my good
“Grunt-who-will”
on her tower the irre
(Quicqu’er
it remains to this day.
KEYSTONE STATE CULLINGS
FOUR KILLED
Excursion Train on Philadelphia &
Reading Railroad. Runs Down
Carriage.
Four persons, two of them a bride
and bridegroom of a day, were: killed
on the Philadelphia & Reading rail-
road at Gwynedd, 18 miles from
Philadelphia, by an excursion train
which ran down their carriage at the
station. Two of the victims were
Thomas Jaquett and his wife, of
North Wales, Pa., and Mr. and Mrs.
Squires, of Chester, Pa., who were
visiting them. Mr. and Mrs. Jaquett
had been married the previous night,
and were spending a portion of ther
honeymoon at North Wales, and went
driving in the evening. Ag they ap-
proached the railroad crossing at the
Gwynedd station an excursion train
from Menlo Park came rushing down
the tracks at the rate of 40 miles an
hour. There are no gates at the
crossing and the occupants, evident-
ly expecting the train to stop at the
station, attempted to cross the
tracks in front of it. The locomo-
tive struck the carriage with terrific
force, shattering the vehicle and
throwing Mr. and Mrs. Jacquett and
their guests and children some dis-
tance. All were’ killed instantly.
A full county ticket was nominated
by the Prohibitionists of Lawrence
county at their convention. The
candidates are: Congress, the Rev.
G. Ferguson, New Wilmington;
assembly, the Rev. John Gealy, New
Bedford, and James eebles, Scott
township; sheriff, Charles S. MeCul-
lough, Edenburg; jury commissioner,
Joseph F. Cunningham, Mahoning-
town. No nomination was made for
the district attorneyship, A two-cent
railroad faré was indorsed and so-
called social clubs with bar attach-
ments were denounced.
A tree prevented a trolley car of
the Butler Passenger Railway Com-
pany from plunging over an embank-
ment into a lake at Almeda park.
The front truck left the track while
rounding a curve. Four persons were
injured. They are: Attorney Frank
H. Murphy, bruised: George Cole-
man, Pittsburg, abdomen injured;
Henry Dodds, head bruised and
shoulder hurt;#John Rohonsky, ankle
sprained and body bruises.
One of the most extensive coal deals
ever closed was put through when
Taylor, Taylor & Company of Wash-
ington disposed of 20,000 acres of land
in Gallia and Lawrence counties,
Ohio, and Cabell and Mason counties,
Virginia, for $500,000 to eastern cap-
italists. The land was optioned in
January at $7 to $10 an acre and held
at $25 an acre in addition to the coal.
The oil and gas rights are included in
the deal.
A strike was declared by the
Amalgamated Association of Street
Railway Employes affecting 122 of
the 183 motormen and conductors of
the Lehigh Valley Transit Company,
at Allentown. Their demands are for
recognition of ‘the union, reinstate-
ment of the 15 discharged men and
that no other employes be discharged
for union allegiance.
A Pennsylvania railroad passenger
train ran’ into an open switch at
Green Ridge and was wrecked. Wil-
liam Burns, the engineer, of Sunbury,
was killed and C. H. Leach, the fire-
man, also of Sunbury, had an arm
torn off and received other injuries.
The passengers were badly shaken
up and a few slightly injured, but
npne seriously.
Earl Gwynn of Salem township,
Westmoreland county was run ‘ down
in the Youngwood yards and crushed
almost beyond ' recognition by the
wreck train. Young Gwynn hadattend-
ed a party in Hempfield township and
while on his way home with several
friends became confused on the net-
work of tracks.
The Bennington Coal Company at-
tempted to start its mines near Gal-
litzin non-minion and a demonsira-
tion by the strikers ensued. Sheriff
Blackburn was asked to go to the
mine with deputies to protect the
company’s property and employes.
He complied with the request.
The Philadelphia Bureau of Health
directed the owners of 37 slaughter
houses to abandon their establish-
ments. There are 171 such places in
the city and an inspection showed 37
of them, by reason of their unsanitary
condition, to be prejudicial to
public heaith.
The Republican county convention
met in the Clearfield opera house
and nominated the following ticket:
Congress, A. 1. Cole of Dubois: sen-
ate, Josenh Alexander of Madera: as-
sembly, . J. Currier, Grampian; A.
S. Moulthrop, Dubois; James Minds,
Ramsey.
The South Penn Oil Company has
drilled in a well on the Fehl farm,
Connoquenessing borough.. Butler
{ County, which was reported to be
flowing at the rate of 600 barrels a
day.
John Bodmer, 20 years old, was
hanged at the Chester county prison
for the murder of Michael Sfies, on
November 12, 1904.
A formal bill of complaint against
the Pennsylvania Water company,
plies the borough of Wil-
rg, setting fqrth £ ‘the wa-
"is impure, unwholesome, unfit for
{ drinking and for domestic and culig-
| ary purposes.” was filed ir
common
pleas 1 af instance of. the
Wilkin ealth and hor-
ough cou