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“THE PULPIT.
A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY
THE REV. Ri. M’DONALD.
Subject: “Beauty: How to Keep It.”
BROOXLYN, N. Y.—Sunday even-
ing the Rev. Robert MacDonald, pas-
tor of the Washington Avenue Bap-
tist Church, preached to young wo-
men. His subject was “Beauty: How
to Keep It.” His text was from Pro-
verbs iv, 23. “Keep thy heart with
all diligence, for out of it are the is-
stes of life.” Mr. MacDonald said:
What has such a text to do with
- beauty? Everything. The source is
the heart. Beauty of character de-
pends on quality of heart. Every
thought, desire, sentiment, ambition,
that enters the heart is soomer or
later expressed in character and con-
duct. All the life issues radiate from
that center. And when the writer of
the Proverbs tells us to keep the
heart with all diligence, he speaks
the foundation word of all wisdom and
carries us back to the primary cause
of truth or error, righteousness or
sin.
series that beauty of character is a
divine possession, existing only where
truth holds sway. And that we can
never satisfy ‘the claims of Almighty
God until we give back to Him that
which is possible to us all—beauty
of character, instead of illformed,
homeup, unsymmetrical lives. What
Michael Angelo said once to a young
artist about his statue applies to us
all. “Do not trouble too much about
the light on your statue. The light
of the public square will test its val-
ue.” So the light of the public square
beyond, which is the light of God’s
' countenance, the unerring light of
judgment, will be the test of our char-
acters. All modelling, all building,
should be with the light of eternity’s
public square in mind. We ar: all
under obligation, a contract based on
and rooted in our very constitution,
to build for eternity, inasmuch as the
Creator has marked out a ‘celestial
destiny for us all, and it ought to be
our chief business to conform*to that
gracious provision which will mean
realization. along all infinite lines
taroughout the eternal years. Be
careful, then, oh, be careful, what in-
fluences you bring to bear upon the
formation of your characters. No out-
ward embellishing, no exterior mold-
ing, will suffice. It depends upon
what you receive in your heart wheth-
er your character will be perverted
and deformed, or true, well propor-
tioned, beautiful.
Numberless are the precepts that
suggest themselves just here. All the
Christian virtues bound toward us to
offer their assistance to help us keep
that we have striven so hard to ac-
quire. We gladly accept their help,
but instead of packing your memories
with these multitudinous aids to the
retaining of this high possession, let
us fasten our thought on a few founda-
tion principles.
The first I would suggest is self-
control. No beauty of character can
be where there is no self-control.
Daniel Webster was once asked which
he thought the greatest virtue. It was
just after one of his most powerful
speeches, but in which, interrupted
and contradicted by the opposing
counsel, he lost his temper, and also
the case he was pleading. That even-
ing, in the course of conversation, he
was asked the question, and answer-
ed, ‘“‘Self-control, and it is the most
difficult, too.” Tis true, young wo-
men. It is an underlying principle,
including a host of greater virtues.
Who has not felt sorely the need of
greater self-control. Patience is rep-
resented in the Scriptures as the very
fruitage of Christianity, but patience
is only a constituent part of self-con-
trol—namely, self-control in pain, in
affliction. Very Christ-like it is. En-
durance of wrong treatment. Misun-
derstanding. So easy to complain, and
be disagreeable when the sky is dull,
and the way-drear. I refer not to
that patience that springs from our
natural disposition, which is purely
temperamental’ Constitutional hero-
ism is good, but it does not stand the
strain. A patience that fails at the
hardest point, is weak all through.
Nothing short of the Christ type of
patience will suffice.
But not only self-control in pain,
also in pleasure, another name for
which is temperance. Young ladies
need to be temperate as well as young
men. I am not referring to the liquor
question, although never more need
than to-day for temperance there, but
to the whole problem of living. To
be temperate in thought, in speech,
in desire, in act instead of extrava-
gant. It is so easy to let pleasure
run away with us and cause us to
think life has no value beside. Dissi-
pation is only extravagance in pleas-
ure. The curb has been thrown off
our necks. Pleasure was given too
much license. We entertained it too
freely, endowed it with our own per-
sonality, and before we were aware of
it, it took us up in its arms and ran
away with us. We handed the con-
trol of the situation over to it. We
became dissipated. We are lost. Self-
control in pleasure as well as in pain
is the demand. Temperance as well
as patience.
But a second requirement is self-
command. This may be regarded as
intensified self-control. Self-contro!l
is passive. Self command is active.
The other is to force yourself on.
Patience and temperance are good, in-
dispensable to beauty of character.
Forbearance and forgiveness are hard-
er still. We speak from experience
in saying so. Controlling your speech,
withholding the adverse criticism
when just dying to speak, to give
vour adverse opinion. We often think
Wwe are not saying anything worth
waile unless we criticise. Forbear-
ance of the senseless gossip, and the
retailing of slander. Forbearance of
the disagreeable person.
Then forgiveness of that which it
is natural for you to resent. We like
to’ hold spite. They injured me. I
must get even with them. And we
never thought that the getting even
with one who has injured us means
to get uneven with ourselves and un-
even with God. “I will never forgive,”
spells human nature. But it also
We have already seen in this:
| that God comes in.
| friendless:.
spells basest sin. Not until we can
stand with Jesus and say, “Father,
forgive them,” have we any beauty of
character worthy the name. To hate
is human; to forgive is divine. To
remember that is to help yourself
over many a hard place of temper and
hatred. It is an axiom that no beauty
of character can be where no spirit
of forgiveness abides in the heart.
Hatred, anger, tying vourself up into
a knot, kiHs beauty. Forgiveness ex-
pands the heart, opens the mind, ex-
alts the spirit. Then beauty exists.
Would you be able to command self?
Get rid of sin. Bring in a stronger
will, God's, to reinforce your own.
A third necessity in the retaining
of beauty is celf-forgetfualness. This is
a passive quality, as is self-control.
It is also negative. But it is neither
passive nor negative until certain ac-
tive graces and positive virtues enter
in and make it so. I mean by self-
forgetfulness the becoming oblivious
to those desires and damande of vonr
nature, the remembrance of which
make vou self-contained and ill at
ease, even miserable and sinful. Ton
become so, pnssess faith. belief in
some personality greater thar vour-
self. Belief in anv objective fact or
person more important than vourself,
and they all are, for vou are a verv
insignificant factor in the life bprob-
lem, a mere atom in the midst of the
sensualities,: will produce gelf-forget.
fulness. The greater the object of faith
the greater the oblivion of self. for
it ‘gives self a chance to exnard
along the line of the other person's
excellence. ‘and gradually a newer,
larger self takes the place of the old
in your consciousness. It is a fore-
gone conclusion that faith in God,
through Jesus Christ, enlarges and
regulates the life as can no other per-
son, for you are immediately given
the worthiest possible object on which
to fix your attention.
Then trust. Do not be afraid tn
trust somebody. Test, then trust.
More loss comes to us mortals threugh
under trust than through over trust.
It is hard to believe it, just as hard
to believe as to believe that sins of
omission are more urvardonable at
the hand of God than sins of commis-
sion. Sins of omission are sn vague
and attenuated that thev cut little ror
no figure in our consciousness. We
need to be preached to that these are
the great lack among mortals in the
consciousness of Almightv God. The
higher and grander the obhiecect of your
trust, the more beautiful tbe charar-
ter fashioned. Reallv remarkable that
we are so constructed that we can
trust beyond sense percentions. Tt
shows us to be spirit more than anght
else. /The heart in us all was destined
before the foundation of the earth to
be God's guest chamber. Forbid him
entrance. = entertain less important
guests, and the spirit is burdened,
and the heart is sad. It is His resi-
dence, by both creation and redemn-
tion. And still we are such foolish
children not to yield to God and find
rest, eternal rest, infinite calm. that
no turmoil in time or eternity can
overthrow. All this heins us to see
why trust in Jesus produces heantv
in the life. He was the beautiful life
“par excellent.” All the virtues blos-
somed and emitted fraerance in Him.
Of course, self-forgetfulness is en-
hanced and made more sure through
love. And faith and trust alwars
blossom into love exercised toward a
spiritual object. I.ove is the peerless
transformer of our life. All eise is
medial. Tove only is ultimate. Love
only is all-powerful to mold like unto
itself. Love God and you become God-
like. Self slips out the same door
They pass each
other on the threshold. The evicted
tenant goes out bruised. defeated,
: The victor. ruler of our
fate, comes in with all strength of
cheer and grace of countenance, and
all wealth of blessing in His out.
stretched hands. No trouble hence-
forth to forget self. and no difficulty,
to be beautiful. In forgetting self
we forget our weakness and failures,
our disappointed hopes and sorrows.
Then the soil is ready for the good
seed to be sown, for truth and right-
eousness to grow, for beauty to blos-
som. /
This array. of foundation principles
is hardly complete without self-sur-
render. The give-up principle in life
counts for all. The reason we do
not find is because we are afraid to
lose. We fail to take hold of truth
because we fail to let go of ourselves.
Through obedience we become divine,
Ah, you say, you are beguiling us into
religion. Just so. Did you dream
you could possess beauty of character
without being religious? We desire to
proclaim nothing other than the old
gospel. But to set it before vou in
new dress and under an attractive,
bewitching title. A man hearing the
second sermon of this series forced
his way to the pulpit after it was
done, and exclaimed, “I thought vou
would be sensational. The subject
looked it, but you everlastingly
preached Christ to-night. I am both
disappointed and pleased.” Yes. That's
where the effectiveness of the gospel
comes in. It refuses to be suppressed.
No topic, if the preacher be true, can
strike home, however roundabout the
journey it takes, without meeting
Christ somewhere in the way. And
when the meeting takes place, Jesus,
always gains the central place, and
glides into our consciousness as the
hope of glory. Christ’s place of resi-
dence is in the heart. He is the God-
destined Master of Ceremonies. He
directs the life issues that emanate
from that citadel of attack and de-
fense, Let Him in and all is well
Then it is easy to keep the heart
with all diligence. Remember, the
heart’s emphasis is always right.
Emerson said another lasting thing.
What the heart deems great is great.
The Master of Men as our Master
will see to it that all the life issues
will be true and beautiful. Sorrow
will not corrode those outgoing tides
of affection. Sin will not weaken
them. Death will not obliterate nor
overwhelm them. Nor eternity ex-
haust them. God will recognize the
beauty and exclaim, “Well done; en-
ter into the joys of thy Lord.”
Wesley's Motto.
John Wesley's motto: “Get all you
can; save all you can; give all you
can” should be taken to heart by
everyone who wants to become effici-
ent in the service of God and to
know the joy of fellowship with God
in Christ.
SIBBATH SEADOL LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR JULY 22.
Subject: Jesus Teaching How to Pray,
Luke xi,, 1.13—Golden Text, Luke xi.,
l—Memory Verses, 9, 10—~Topic: How
to Supplicate—~Commentary.
I. Christ teaching His disciples to
pray (vs. 1-4). 1. “Was praying.” It
was the habit of Christ to pray. “When
He ceased.” Perhaps He was praying
such a powerful prayer as to arouse
the feeling that they knew not how to
pray aright. “As John also taught.”
Each new dispensation may not only
have its new unfolding of truths, but
its new revelations may open new
modes of access, and new topics of
prayer and modes of worship. A differ-
ent prayer was offered in the Mosaic
ritual from the patriarchal form. John
opened up a new scope of prayer, and
this new dispensation requires of Jesus
to set the range of prayer in accord-
ance with the new range of truth, and
the new position of man with God.
2. “Say.” The beauty and value of
the lessons in the Lord’s prayer arise
from, 1. The tone of holy confidence—
it teaches us to approach God as our
Father (Rom. 8:15), in love as well as
holy fear. 2. Its absolute unselfish-
ness—it is offered for all the brother-
hood of man. 3. Its entire spirituality
—of seven petitions, one only is for any
earthly boon, and that only for the sim-
plest. 4. Its brevity and absence of
all vain repetitions (Eccl. 5:2). 5. Its
simplicity, which requires not learn-
ing, but only holiness and sincerity for
its universal comprehension. For
these reason the fathers called it the
“epitome of the gospel.” “Our Fath-
er.” An expression of love and conde-
scension. ‘Which art in heaven.” In
the former clause we express His near-
ness to us, in this His distance from
us. This phrase in the Scriptures
seems used to express, 1. His omni-
presence (1 Kings 8:27). 2. His maj-
esty and dominion (2 Chron. 20:6). 3.
His power and might (Psa. 115:3). 4.
His omniscience (Psa. 33:13-15). 5.
His infinite purity and holiness .(Isa.
57:15). ‘‘Hallowed be Thy name.” The
“name” stands for the man himself—
bis character, his ability, his posses-
sions. ‘Thy kingdom * come.” The
kingdom of His power, His gospel, His
grace and His glory. “Thy will be
done.” The will of God is infinitely
good, wise and holy.) “As in heaven.”
By the angels and all the hosts of heav-
en. “So in earth.” “By mortals.
3. “Give us.” The good things of
this life are the gifts of God. “Day
by day.” In the order in which our
needs are felt. “Our daily bread.”
Life’s mostcommon necessity. Strength
to gain it, skill to earn it, power to eat
—all are from God.
4. “Forgive us our sins.” Sin is
here represented as a debt. “We alsg
forgive.” Else how could we entreat
Thee for pardon. “Not into tempta-
tion.” As the prayer for daily bread
raises us above care for to-day, and
the prayer for the forgiveness of sins
is meant to quiet us concerning the
past, so is the prayer against tempta-
tion a weapon for the uncertain future,
that we may not fall again under the
might of evil. ‘Deliver us from evil.”
From all the wicked fascination and
miserable results of sin, from its blind-
ness and insensibility, from its unspir-
ituality and rebellion, from its hard-
ness and its punishment; from all that
dishonors God and ruins the soul, from
its guilt, its power, its shame and its
doom.
1I. The parable of the importunate
borrower (vs. 5-8). 5. “He said.” Al
though idle repetitions in prayer are
forbidden, yet persistency and impor-
tunity in prayer, wrestling with God
and not letting Him go until He has
blessed us, are here distinctly taught.
See Luke 18:1-8. “Midnight.” In those
hot countries it is common, where it
can be done safely, to travel in the
night. “Lend me.” It was usual with
the Jews to borrow bread of one an-
other.
6. “Friend—is come.” Benighted,
belated and who has lost his way.
strong reason why he should have
prompt relief. 7. ‘Trouble me not.”
The trouble made him insensible both
of the urgency of the case and the
claims of friendshin. “In bed.” We
learn from travelers that it is usual in
the East for a whole family to sleep
in the same room, each laying his mat-
tress on the floor. “I cannot.” With-
out exertion, which was equal to. “I
will not.” 8. “His importunity.” ILit-
erally, his shamelessness; that is, his
unblushing persistence.
III. The disciples urged to persist-
ency in prayer (vs. 9-13). 9. “I say
unto you.” We have it from Christ's
own mouth, who knows His Father's
mind. “Ask—seek—knock.” In every-
thing, by prayer and supplication, we
are to make our requests known unto
God; then we are to ‘“seek”—continue
to ask and knock at the door of His
mercy.
i0. ‘“Everyone—receiveth,” ete.
Christ promiseth to hear and answer.
No soul can pray in vain that prays
as God has directed. 11, 12. “If a son
shall ask,” ete. From that which the
friend will do, the discourse of the Sa-
viour rises even to ¢that which one
could expect of a “father,” and from
that which an imperfect earthly father
does even to that which the perfect
Father in heaven bestows.
13. “Being evil.” Sinful people are
ready and anxious to give good gifts
to their children. *““How much more.”
How much more will one whose nature
is love and who is infinitely hoiy and
good give good things to them that ask
Him. “Holy Spirit.” The essence of
all good gifts which the Father in hea-
ven can bestow on His praying child.
“To them that ask.” The asking must
be hearty, sincere, earnest, fervent and
in faith.
What It Costs.
‘Some one estimates that getting
born costs the people of the United
States 225,000,000 annually; get-
ting married, $300,000,000 annual-
ly; getting buried, $75,000,000. Get-
ting drunk costs the people of the
United States $1,300.¢ 0
ly, or more
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SUNDAY, JULY 22.
How Brethren Can Help Each Other—
In the Christian Life—In Every-
day Affairs.—Gal. 6. 10.
The Old Testament dispensation
was full of the idea of helpfulness.
They must not glean after the reap-
ers, for that would rob the poor. Must
not build houses without battlements,
for that would endanger life, for peo-
ple lived much on the roofs of their
dwellings in that country. Must not
keep the wages of the hireling over
night, for his family might suffer for
lack of the money. Must not require
interest of a fellow Hebrew, or make
a slave of him—he was a brother.
These are but specimens of the grac-
ious statutes of Israel. In the New
Testament this graciousness of pur-
pose is still more fully manifested;
and the Mosaic bud came to a full
and sweet fruitage in the gospel of
Jesus Christ. That fruition involved
the expansion of the law of helpful-
ness until its boundary lines covered
all the world. “I am debtor,” ex-
claimed Paul, “both to the Greeks and
the barbarians, both to the wise and
the unwise.” (Rom. 1. 14.) That is,
he felt that he owed the gospel mes-
sage to everybody. “Shall we take
the children’s bread and east it tc
the dogs?’ asked Jesus of the Syro-
phoenician woman. “To the lost
sheep of the house of Israel was 1
sent,’”” he said. And so it was. “Ta
the Jew first and afterward to the
Gentile,” was the divine plan. And
so when the woman refused to ac
cept the rebuff, saying, “Yet the dogs
eat of the crumbs that fall from their
masters’ table,” the Lord heard and
healed the absent daughter. So the
Gentiles received the touch of the
helpful hand. Other like instances
are on record. ‘‘All the world’ be-
came kin to Jesus. It was very hard
for the Jew to accept this expansion ot
the Old Testament idea of brother-
hood. A wonderful vision was neces-
sary to convince Peter that God was
no respecter of persons. Sometimes,
at this day, professinge Christians
seem slow to understand the new in-
terpretation of the law. It is easy to
believe that Christ died for the Anglo-
Saxon, but not so easy to believe, or
at least very deeply to feel, that he
died for the Negro, the Chinaman or
the Hindu. “Charity begins at home.”
So let it put out the helping hand to
every needy brother and every needy
cause. It is a great thing to be able
to realize one’s identification with the
movements and enterprises which
have God back of them and in them,
and which, therefore, must win, and
whose purpose is the blessing of
others. Let the charity which be-
zins at home make home sweet.
CHA STN ENDEAVORNOTES
JULY TWENTY-SECOND.
Christ’s Life. VII. How Christ Pray-
ed, and How We Should Pray.—
Matt. 14:23; 26:36-44.
We are not always to pray alone;
but unless we pray much alone, we
can never pray with others.
God wants in our prayers, not what
we might desire if we were wiser and
better, but just what we do desire,
graced with ‘as Thou wilt.”
Prayer is the steam, watching is
the helm; each is useless without the
other.
We ‘are not heard for our much
praying, but we are heard every time
we truly pray.
Suggestions.
The only eloquence in prayer is
love and obedience.
Praying at regular times, when we
may not feel like it, is the only path-
way to the prayer “without ceasing.”
No one can truly pray unless he
believes in direct answers to pray-
er.
What is more rude than a prayer
that talks but never listens?
Ilustrations.
Prayer is a hand stretched out, not
palm upward, to beseech, but palm
sidewise, to grasp God’s hand.
Prayer is a Jacob’s stairway into
the clouds. We cannot see where it
rests, but we see that it does not
fall.
Prayer is a language to be learned,
and the best way to learn a language
is to surround yourself with those that
speak it.
Every society should have a press
committee if only of one member.
Place upon it the society's most
skilful writers, and also some En-
deavorers whom they will train up
for the work.
Write about anything connectad
with your society or church that {is
of interest to the people for whom
you write. Do not hastily conclude
that because a matter interests you
it will therefore interest every one
else.
Send it to the local paper, the de-
nominational paper, the Christian En-
deavor paper. But send to each only
what each is most likely to want.
———
TO BREW GOOD TEA.
To brew good tea one needs a per-
fectly clean, dry, if possible warm tea-
pot, no old stale leaves left from the
previous brewing and for a pot to hold
sufficient for two breakfast cups (with
the milk), one teaspoonful of
tea. The water added at the rt ent
it boiis up. Should the ]
off at the moment, ‘add’ a dash of
cold water to the kettle and boil up
again. On no account use water that
has been boiled, without adding some
fresh. Let the tea stand
minutes
for Icur
pouring out,
before
at heart
measura-
EPWORTH LENGLE LESSONS
Intangible.
No gem was ever polished which
Compared in radiance with the
dew at morn;
No silken fabric ever shone so rich
As the soft petal of the rosebud
worn.
Yet dew and roseleaf are despised
ne
Who seek to gain the treasures of
this earth. .
They somehow don’t give satisfac-
tion when ”
put the usual
“What's its worth?”
You question,
In Chicago.
“What do you make of the saying,
‘A king can do no wrong?’ ”’
“Oh, whenever a king does any-
thing wrong it is all right.”
Sympathetic.
Mrs. Harduppe—‘John, I'm sure
there’s a burglar in the house.”
Mr. Harduppe— ‘Well, I feel sorry
for him; I know what it is to work
hard for nothing!”
A Possibility.
Bert—*“Young! Innocent! Why,
my boy, she’s already buried three
husbands!”
Percy — “Bai Jove!
she’s making a hobby of it.”
At the Present Time.
“J was away from Friday night
until Monday morning, and it cost
me $50.”
“Visiting friends?’’—ULife.
Comparatively Kasy.
“They say Mrs. Blank works her
friends for a living. I should think
she would find it very hard to do.”
“She does, but, you see. before
that she tried working her relatives.”
—Detroit Free Press.
She Knew.
“It must be awful,” remarked a
gushing young girl, ‘‘never to have
had a chance to marry.”
“Yes; but not nearly so bad as te
have had a chance and let it slip,”
said the lady of uncertain age.
Good Cause For Delay.
“They say that Mr. Witte will go
home at once if Japan’s terms are tog
high.”
“That’s absurd. He's to get $200
a day.”’—~Cleveland Plain Dealer.
His Reason.
Solomon explained his magic car-
pet.
“It doesn’t show if I forget to wipe
my feet,” he announced.
Considering the number of Mrs.
S.’s this was indeed an advantage.—
Harper’s Magazine.
Her Object.
“Did you hear that statement Mrs.
Tattle is making?”
“Yes, and every word of it is true.”
“But, I supposed Mrs. Tattler was
merely a gossiping romancer.”
“Well, she’s telling the truth this
time because she knows it will make
more trouble.” — Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
True Love. 4
Mag — ““Are youse sure yer hus-
band loves youse?”’
Lil—“Why, cert. He’s shot at me
twict, set fire to de house onct, an’ he
puts poison in me coffee every time I
looks at anudder man.”’—Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Wisdom of Youth.
‘‘Remember, my son,” said the
sage of Sageville, ‘that money is not
the end of your existence.”
“Of course not,” rejoined the
young man. ‘It’s only the means.”
—Columbus Dispatch.
His Reason.
“I say, old man, how did you ever
happen to marry your first wife’s sis-
ter?”
“Well, you see, it saved me from
having to get used to another moth-
er-in-law.”’—Meggendorfer Blaetter.
Natural.
“Bluntly can never take a hint!
It doesn’t make any difference how
much roasting he gets. It never
phases him.”
‘“There’s a reason for that. He
was raised in an incubator and
doesn’t mind the heat.” — Detroit
Free Press.
It Was Blond.
Clothier— ‘Let mesell you a Klon-
dyke overcoat, mister. It is full of
long hair.”
Uncle Silas — “No you don’t, by
heck. I bought an overcoat once that
only had one long hair on it, and my
wife came near getting a divorce.”’—
Chicago News.
The Joy of It.
Newitt—‘ ‘No; of course, Batchel-
ler doesn’t keep house. He just has
apartments at his club.”
Wrounds— ‘He doesn’t know what
life is. Why, half the fun of going
to your club is lost unless you’ve got
a home to stay away from.”’—Phila-
delphia Press.
Bunglers.
“I see,” observed Senator Slye,
“that ten bankers have been indicted
out in Denver.”
“What for?”
Shugar.
“For trying to steal trust funds.”
“Trying to steal! By hoky, but
they ought to be indicted.”—Louis-
ville Courier-Journal.
inquired Senator
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CEFSTONE STATE CULLINGS
JUDGE WEDS DIVORCED WIFE
Porto” Rican Jurist Marries Woman
From Whom he Separated in 1901
Announcemen was
Judge James Harvey
San Juan,
made that
MacLeary of
Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of Porto Rico, was
married at Philadelphia to Mary
King Maci.eary of Auburn, N. Y.,
from whom he was divorced in 1991.
The ceremony was performed by the
Rev. ierick J. Clark, assistant
rector Trinity Prciestant
y
ion of thousands
in money
, distributed by the
s. Margery Harris
un township, Washing:
ges on the good treat-
, which was a favorite
. The will was filed
The estate is a big one
3 xndchildren are the sole
heirs. Mrs. Harris makes an almost
equal distribution on condition her
horse, Turk, “be not sold, but cared
for and permitted to live and die on
the farm in Kast Pike Run township
on which he was raised.”
r
and tl
District Attorney Bell of Philadel-
phia, caused the issuance of a war-
rant for the arrest of Henry Behren-
erg, president of the Mountain Ice
Company, on a charge of conspiracy.
Behrenberg: is located in Jersey City,
but if necessary to insure his appear-
ance for a hearing the district at-
torney says he will make requisition
on the governor of New Jersey.
> ‘les I. Schwab is negotiating
for the purchase of 4,000 acres of
coal Iand in Northern Cambria coun-
ty. The deal involves $1,590,000.
Providing a suitable site can be se-
cured hy the Williamsburg board of
trade, Mr. Schwab has promised to
erect there a pressed steel gar man-
ufacturing plant.
Col. James E. Barnett issued orders
from headquarters here relative to
the Tenth regiment while enroute to
and at the annual encampment of the
state of troops at Gettysburg. On
account of illness *here is a possibility
Col. Barnett wil be forced this year
to remain away from the encamp-
ment. He may also resign the com-
mand.
Gecrge Phiilip, 30 years old, gave
himself up to Sheriff George J. Sea-
nor, of Greensburg, confessing ,to hav-
ing robbed several postoffices in
Missouri and to having assisted in
plundering the store of the Hammond-
Berkey Supply Company at Boliver,
Westmoreland county.
One boy was killed and another
severely injured by an electrical
storm which passed over Williams-
port. ‘'t'he boy killed was Edward
Frantz, 17 years old, who, with his
brother Jacob, aged 19,
to their father on ti
was talking
porch of the
Frantz home near Muncy.
George l.ee, a negro farm hand,
was arrested for stealing $180 from
Henry Harbison, a milk
cil, Washington county,
found on his person. He confessed
when arrested. Lee saw the approach
of the officers and threw away over
$100, which has not been found.
The Bessemer Contracting & Bal-
last Company of McKeesport, was
awarded a contract for the erection
of 100 coke ovens at Millsboro, West-
moreland county, for the Bessemer
Coke Company. It is said another 100
ovens will be started as soon as the
first contract is completed.
Capt. C. F. Barclay of Cameron
county was nominated for congress
in the Twenty-e.ghth district by the
Republican conferees in Dubois. The
nomination was made on the tenth
ballot.
In the suit brought by C. L. Greek,
contractor, for $50,000 damages
against the Pennsylvania Railroad
company for alleged discrimination,
which was submitted to arbitrators, a
finding for the defendant company
was returned at Altoona.
One thousand acres of coal land in
Jefferson township, Washington coun-
ty, were sold by farmers to W. W.
Luce and R. L. Biddle, of Donora,
representing the Pittsburg-Wabash
dealer of Ce~
and $40 was
| Gas Coal company, for $75,000. Eight
farms were included in the purchase.
Giovanni Malini, an Italian, was
hanged in the county jail at Union-
town. The crime for which Malini
paid the penalty was the murder of
Antonio Reppi at Yorks Run on the
night of August 23, 1905.
State Senator Arthur G. Dewalt, un
successful candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Governor, filed
his statement under the corrupt prac-
tices act at the State Department,
stating that his expenses were less
than $50.
Walter Fries of Meadville, was kill-
ed, another fataliy injured and three
seriously burned as the result of a fire
in a soda bottling works. The fatal-
ity and injuries were caused by a
bursting soda charging tank, falling
walls and the flames.
An appeal has been made to Nat-
ional President Mitchell, of the Unit-
ed Mine Workers, to bring about a
settlement of the strike of the 1,200
employes of the Jermyn mines in Old
Forge, near Scranton.
Fire destroyed the country home of
liver Evans, Jr., near Robbins sta-
tion. The loss will total $15,000. In-
cendiarism is suspected.
The veteran associations of the
One Hundred and Tenth Pennsylvan-
fa Infantry and the Twenty-second
Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiments
will hold t annual re-
unions at Tyrone, on Friday, October
19. Ther nts will hold business
meetings s yr and will unite in
a big eampfire in the evening.
Alden H. Weed and Thomas J. Mc-
Avoy, trading as E. R. Hawkins &
Company, manufacturers of woolen
goods, were declared bankrupts in the
United States district courts at Phila-
delphia. The liabilities are given as
| $944,339 and the assets $652,446.