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4N ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY
: REV. GEORGE THOMAS DOWLING.
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Subject: “The Secrat of Peace.”
BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Dr. Thomas
Edward Dowling, minister in charge
of St. James's P. E. Church, St. James
place and Lafayette avenue, preached
Sunday morning on the subject, “The
Secret of Peace,” a study of the Shep-
herd Psalm. Dr. Dowling said:
Thirty centuries ago there lived in
Palestine a king, who in his boyhood
had been a shepherd lad. And in his
old aze, when he had seen life, with
its “sorrows and. its joys, this king,
David, sang a song, which it takes less
than two minutes deliberately to re-
peat.
Taree thousand years have gone
Since then; and to-day everything he
owned has turned to dust except his
sohgs. The throne on which he sat
—dust: the palace where he dwelt—
dust; the harp which his fingers wera
accustomed to sweep, the banner
Witl which he led the hosts of Israel,
his chariots, and his charioteers—all
dust! But to-day that song goes sing-
ing its way to the universal heart,
in the cottage of the poor and the
mansion of the rich, in the home of
the learned and of the unlearned, be-
cause it sings of what all the world
is huagering for—peace.
Wh
the cates it was with this song upon
his lips. Luther called it the “Little
Bibie,” and so it is, for it contains
in miziature the whole book. Henry
‘Ward Beecher, who once made Brook-
lyn famous, that greatest preacher
the world has ever known since Paul
stood on Mars Hill, called it “the
nightingale’s song,” because it sings
to us in the darkness. Listen while
I repeat it to you, that it may once
again sing its way into your heart.
(Dr. Dowling here repeated deliber-
ately the Twenty-third Psalm.)
Now I yield Him not simply admira-
tion. but adoration. It is the difference
between “He leadeth,” and “He lead-
eth me If you would know what
God may be to you, learn to appro-
priate Him. Learn to think of Him
simply not as a God, but your God;
not simply as a friend, but your
friend; not simply as a shepherd, but
your shepherd.
Now. when you receive a gift there
are three things which you do with
it. You accept it, ‘you examine it,
apd you use it. And the gift which
this royal shepherd poet of three thou-
sand years ago makes to us in this
Shepherd Psalm may prove more pre-
cious to you than any which you have
ever received, if you deal with it in
just that way; the way of appropria-
tion, of appreciation and of. applica-
tion.
As you notice how very easy it is
to appropriate it, because it abounds
with those personal and possessive
pronouns, in which, Martin Luther
said, the preciousness of the Bible
consists: “The Lord is my shepherd.”
“He leadeth me.” “Yea, though I walk
through the valley.”
What a great difference there is be-
tween the mere apprehension of a fact
and the appropriation of that fact, be-
tween knowing it and claiming it.
‘When you see a child in a runaway,
you are moved; but suppose it is your
child. There is the same difference
that there is between the stately man-
sion of a stranger and the little cot-
tage in which your mother rocked
you in her arms and crooned to you
the songs of your babyhod. So, my
friends, you never can judge of a re-
ligion until it has been transmuted
into a personal experience, until it
has become your religion. A histori-
cal Christ is, at the most. only a
Christ. I can look upon Him with
admiration. Ah! but when He has
become mine, and I have heard His
voice, and felt His touch, He is no
. longer simply a Christ but the Christ.
And then, when you have appropri-
ated this psalm, seek to appreciate it.
Notice, to begin with, the perfect spir-
it of trust which breathes through it
all. See how much it has to say about
Him and how little about ourselves.
Mark how every verse tells us what
He is doing.
My dear people, that is the whole
secret. The secret of peace is the
putting of God between our troubles
and curselves. I know the dark hours
which, have come into some of your
lives: I know your perplexities; for
though you are strangers to me as
yet, the experience of human hearts
js just the same the whole world
over, and the joys and the sorrows
of the men and women whom I learn-
ed so well to know and to love on the
Pacific shores are just the joys and
the sorrows which you are having to-
day. I know of the hour when some
young mother in this congregation sat
by ti e of her little one,
pering blindly, “I do not know
she should be taken from me:
understand it.” Well, my
why
1 cannot
dear child, do not try to understand
it, for you never. can here. Some
day I shall preach to you on “Things
to be Waited For,” and one of the
things to be waited for is the under-
standing of these mysteries of life.
And yet we may know that while
we are waiting we may be waiting
in companionship with Him who un-
derstands it all. And there is no oth-
er help for us in our dark hours, ex-
cept in placing Him between our
troubles and ourselves.
Wilbur Chapman tells us of a little
drummer boy in our civil war who was
taken into the hospital mortally
wounded, and so they sent for his
mother from a distant city. But when
she came they said to her, “You can-
not go in; he’s too sick; he couldn’t
stand the shock.” And so she stood
by the door waiting and weeping and
listening. And when ‘she heard him
sigh, she said to them, “Let me go in:
1 won't speak to him. Tl just sit
by his bedside.” And so they per-
mitted her to pass quietly into the
darkened room and sit beside him.
But as she sat there the mother love
was too strong, and, reaching out her
hand. she laid it gently upon his ach-
ing forehead. He did not open his
eyes, but he knew that touch. She
saw his lips move, and, stooping down
to him, she heard him say: “I knew
you'd come to me; I knew you'd come
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to me” And if*you are ‘only willing
to welcome Him who Ioves you more
than yom ever loved your little one,
you may know that He will come to
you, and “as ome whom his mother
comforteth,” so will He comfort you.
And notice the blessings which he
brings when He comes. As David ex-
presses it in this psalm, “they that be-
long to Him shall find that their cup
‘overfloweth’ ”; not only abundance,
but redundance. It has sometimes
seemed as though there were a mix-
ture of figures here, and that as the
psalmist neared the end of his song
the scene changed from the open
fields of the flock to the guarded
household of the guest.
But this is not so. One of the mest
important duties of the shepherd is to
find a feeding place for his sheep,
where they shall not be injured by
poisonous herbs, and where he may
defend them against the jackals and
the wolves that prowl around. Our
Shepherd will protect us and provide
for. our wants, not only in the sa.
clusion of the fold, but while we are
still, if need be, out in the world. And
so David, sings,. “Thou preparest a
table before me in the presence of
mine enemies.”
Then follows the closing scene of
the day. The sun is setting, and the
flock is being brought home. But
some of them have been wounded,
and some of them are weary. And
so the shepherd stands at the door of
the sheepfold, rodding the sheep. as
it is termed; holding them back with
his rod, permitting them to enter one
by one. Here one has been bruised
or torn by the briars, and from the
horn filled with olive oil he bathes
the wounded head. And one is tired
and worn, and, dipping into the ves-
sel the large two-handled cup, he zives
him a drink. Thus the shepherd
cares for his sheep clear on till the
very hour of the homecoming. Noth-
ing is forgotten. And so the psalm-
ist sings, still with the picture of the
shepherd in his mind, “Thou anointest
my head with oil; my cup runneth
over.” But I am anticipating.
“The Lord is my Shepherd: I shall
not want.” What? Rest. “He mak-
eth me to lie down in green pastures.”
But the green pastures have to come
first. There is the contemplative life,
and the active life. And, my Dbreth-
ren, we need the first; that is the
meaning of these services; that is the
meaning of Sunday; that is the mean-
ing of Lent. It is a mistake for us
to suppose that we can get on in the
right life without these green pas-
ture experiences. Somebody says, “I
judge of a man by what he does.”
Yes; but what a man does grows out
of what that man is. And here in
these contemplative hours we find
Christian manhood and womanhood in
the making.
And then, there is the leadership:
“I shall not want”—guidance; “He
leadeth me.” That is the other side
of the Christign experience; the active
side. The purpose of these green
pastures is to send us forth to use the
strength which here we get.
And in this leadership of His there
are two facts which I would have you
remember. He goes before us: “He
leadeth.” He will select no path
which his sheep cannot travel. But
remember also that the sheep must
follow after: we must select no path
which He cannot travel.
“He leadeth me in the paths of
righteousness,” not always by the side
of still waters, not always in. green
pastures— sometimes the sheep track
may lie across the wilderness; but
if we are following him we may know
that they are always ‘paths of right-
eousness’’—right paths, and that they
lead toward home.
And finally, ‘‘I shall not want” com-
panionship. “Yea, though ‘I walk
through the valley of the shadow of
death, I will fear no evil; for thou
art with me.” He who is following
the Master shall find death itself on-
ly a shadow; and who shail be afraid
of a shadow? And thouzh the val-
ley may be there and the darkness,
He shall lead us out, as He leads'us
in. Death is not a blind pocket; it
is not a place of tarrying, only of
transition. 1 shall walk.“through the
valley of the shadow of death.”
And now, having appropriated this
psalm, having sought to appreciate it,
let us try to apply it. I mean to-day,
here and now, and to-morrow, and
to-morrow, and to-morrow, every day.
For you observe that until we reach
the very last verse it is all im the
present tense. He is not speaking
of any distant elysium, far away in
the futurc. “The Lord is my shep-
herd; he maketh me to lie down in
green pastures; He leadeth me beside
the still waters.” All the blessings
which I have described may he yours
now. Will you take them for yours,
and apply them to the problems of
your life to-day? Oh, learn to prac-
tice the presence of God. Try to
think of Him as really at your side.
Speak to Him when you are in trouble
or perplexity. Suppose you make a
test of this Shepherd psalm only for'
to-day. Suppose you say: ‘From now
until the hour when I fall asleep at
night 1 will to live with this
thought supreme: that God is mine,
and that He loves me, and i
me.” See what it will mean to you
in peace and comfort and joy. And
then realize that if you can do it for
one day, you can do it for every day,
and the problem of vour life's mean-
ing is solved. And when the last val-
ley shall have been passed, and pass-
ed through, and you are drawing near
to that fold, which James Lane Allen
describes as “the final land where
the mystery, the pain, and the yearn-
ing of this life will either ba infinite-
ly satisfied or infinitely quieted,”
though you shall have changed your
place, you will not change your com-
pany; He who was with you here will
be with you there, and this song shall
still go singing its way on and up
into the eternal light: “Goodness and
mercy shall follow me ali the days
of my life, and I dwell in the house
of the Lord forever.”
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All Pervasive.
There is not room enough in’all
created things for the soul of man—
a narrow river,
and besides is
ground and
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foundering in the shallows. Jesus
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SIBMITH SCHL LESS
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR JULY 29.
Subject: Jesus Dines With a Pharisee,
Luke xiv., 1-14—Golden Text, Luke xiv.,
11—=Memory Verses, 13, 14—Topic: ‘The
Believer’s Social Duties—Commentary
I. The true idea of Sabbath observ-
ance (vs. 1-6)..1. “Chief Pharisees.” It
has been suggested that this man may
have been a member of the Sanhedrin
with a country ‘home in Perea. “To
eat bread.” Our Lord had no home
and, when He was invited to dine, it
was as proper for Him to go on the
Sabbath as on any other day. ‘They
were watching Him.” R. V. were
maliciously watching Him.
2. “A certain man.” This man may
have been brought there by the Phar-
isee in order to test Christ. ‘Before
Him.” Before the company had taken
seats at the table. “Dropsy.” A dis-
ease in which the body or some part of
it is filled with water.
3. “Jesus answering spake.” Jesus
knew they were deceptive, and He was
ready to meet them. ‘The lawyers.”
The teachers of the law who were
present. “Is it lawful,” etc. They are
in a dilemma; as lawyers they ought to
know, but if they answered in the
affirmative they would endorse Christ
and His work, while to answer in the
negative would be to show their lack
of love and lay themselves liable to a
charge similar to that given in chap-
ter 13:15. It was seriously argued
that to walk upon the grass with nailed
shoes was a violation of the Sabbath.
4. “Held their peace.” Unable to con-
demn, unwilling to concede. But such
silence was our Liord’s complete publie
justification. If the contemplated mira-
cle was unlawful why did not these
great religious authorities forbid it?
“Took him.” Took hold of him (Luke
20:20; 1 Tim. 6:12). .%“Healed him.’
Showing the opinion of Jesus as to
healing on the Sabbath day. “Let
him go.” Dismissed him and turned
back to the Pharisees, whose sancti-
monious hatred was worse than this
poor man’s disease.
5. “Iallen into a pit.” Jesus silences
them completely by calling attention
to the fact that they on the Sabbath
day would have mercy on a beast in
distress. Read Matt, 12:10-13; Luke
13:14-17. G6. “Could not answer Him.”
Silent, but not convinced. The question
was unanswerable, If they would de-
liver an ox or an ass from a pit on
the Sabbath, by what reason or com-
mon sense eould they say it was wick:
ed to save a man from his affliction?
II. A parable of humility (vs. 7-11).
7 The selfish struggle
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for precedence as they were taking
their places at the table gave Jesus an
opportunity to teach a lesson in humil-
ity. “When He. marked.” Nothing es
capes the eye of the Lord. “How they
chose out.” To take the highest place
when it is not our due is public vanity;
to obstinately refuse'it when offered,
is another instance of the same vice
though private and concealed. “The
chief rooms.” The chief seats. R. V.
The guests reclined on couches around
the table which formed three sides ot
a hollow square. On each side there
were three places. The middle place
was the most honorable.
8. “Bidden—to a wedding.” He
speaks of a “marriage feast” (R. V.)
because the rules of procedure would
be more carefully insisted upon. “Sit
not down.” The pride that apes hu.
mility violates the spirit of this teach.
ing. . 9. “He that bade.” The host
who has authority to decide the mat
ter. “With shame.” Sooner or later
pride will hiave a fall. °°
10. “In the lowest room.” The high
place was occupied very briefly; the
lowest place was permanent. “Go up
higher.” The way to rise is to begin
low. What Christ commanded He Him-
self did. “Then shalt thou have wor:
ship.” “Have glory.” R. V. Have
reverence, respect and honor in the
presence of the company. 11. “Who-
‘soever exalteth,” etc. Now follows the
‘great principle illustrated by this para:
ble. Humility is the passport to pro:
motion in the kingdom of God. The
one who is proud and seeks to be hon-
ored above others, shall be abased, or
humbled, both by God and man.
III. A lesson on our duty to the poor
(vs. 12-14). 12. “Call not thy friends.”
The second parable is to the host. It
is a sharp rebuke on account of a fault
which is almost always committed in
the choice of guests. “Nor thy rich
neighbors.” “He that giveth to the
rich shall surely come to want” (Prov.
22:16).
3. “Call the poor.” Feasts to the
poor are not forbidden. He that giveth
to the poor lendeth to the t.ord. What
the Saviour here commends to others
He has Himself fulfilled in the most
illustrious manner.
14. “Shalt be blessed.” The poor
who have been fed will bless thee, and
so will the Lord. ‘‘Resurrection of the
just.” There is to be a future state, we
are all hastening on toward the resur-
rection. At that time God will re-
ward those who have done good, for
His sake, without the hope of any
:arthly recompense.
Tor the sake of a few hucketfuls of
diamonds a mass of hard blue vol-
canic earth that would form a cube
overtopping the mightiest cathedral
is sannually quarried, trucked and
washed in the South African dia
mond mines, remarks the New York
Tribune. Very high expert opinicn
estimates the. loss in the world’s total
production at not more than 5 per
cent. in a hundred years, SO jealously
are diamonds treasured. The South
African fields, Mr. Gardiner F. Wil
liams states in The National Geo-
graphic Magazine, alone have eontri
buted $400,000,000 to the world’s
stock; the desire for the im-
perishable jewels is scarcely satisfied
with the yearly fresh supply.
yer
Reward Dwindling. .
The Nobel awards are constantly
becoming smaller. At the first di
tribution they amounted to 150,
kronen ($40,711), but this year they
have been reduc:d to 138,089 kronen.
The income from the Nobel endow-
ments, according to the latest re-
ports, was 1,378,000 kronen ($372,060),
but the expense of management has
been so great that less than one-half
of this sum has been distributed in
prizes.
EPIORTH LEAGUE LESSONS
SUNDAY, JULY 29.
————
How The Churc Can Help
World.—Col. 4. 5-16.
The alienated condition of large
portions of the population, even in our
own and, is evidence that there is
great need of some mighty evangel to
call people to the consideration of
things which concern their eternal
welfare. Only a fraction of the
vouth of our country is found in the
Sunday school and the young people’s
societies. The calendars of the crim-
inal courts are full. The prolific
sources of a great portion of the
crime and misery, the liquor sa-
loons, are Kept open by government-
al provision, and are as much pro-
tected by governmental police power
as churches are from molestation.
Surely the world needs help. There
is graft everywhere, it would almost
seem. Another picture lies before us
as we write. The door of Christen-
dom stands ajar, and a comely figure,
representing Christianity, is looking
out. A ‘‘heathen Chinee” is a little
way off, shouting to her: ‘“Ho, there!
Your doorstep needs cleaning!”
These are some of the objects lying
on and about the doorstep; the liquor
traflic, loot, war, opium, trade,
scandalous plays, erotic .novels and
commercial greed. Is it not a part of
the
the business of the yourg host of
Methodism to clean the doorstep of
the house of Christianity?
Our daily Scriptures show us the
method by showing us, as Christians,
what we are and what our relation-
ship to the world is. Christians are
salt; they are light—two essential
things. Salt stands for all things
preservative. Society would go down
into the reek of Sodom if it were
not for the element of Christian mor-
als in. it.. .And_ but for these our
country would go the way of the dead
empires, whose wreckage strews the
shores of time.
Must our nation ‘join the company
of the dead? We hope not; we do not
believe it will. Our faith is founded
on the fact that the leaven of Chris-
tianity is in it, and this constitutes a
force which can more than neutralize
the power of evil tendency, and will at
last make every house a house of
prayer.
CHRISTIAN ENDENORNOTES
JULY TWENTY-NINTH.
Gardiner, and Missions to
America.—2 Cor. 11:23-30.
Christ came, as He said, to bring
us ‘‘the abundant life.”” The result,
when one receives it, is ‘labors more
abundant.”
The true Christian rejoices in his
stripes for they bring him into clos-
er fellowship with Him with whose
stripes we are healed.
‘Who could not live nobly. if he could
live indepcndently and isolated? But
Latin
the heroic life is the one that is
faithful to large responsibilities for
others.
Do vou bear lightly the sorrows
and trials of fellow Christians? Then
look to your own Christianity.
DIVIDED LIVES.
Alternate Topic for July 29: Divided
Lives.—Matt. 6:24; 2 Kings
17:33-41. .
As it is impossible to be at the
same time a citizen of the United
States and of ancther country, so one
cannot belong at the same time to the
kingdom of heaven and the kingdom
of the world.
There is only one way to enjoy re-
ligion, and that is to surrender to it.
If you want to know whether your
life is divided, classify your long-
ings.
You want God to be wholly for vou;
must you rot be wholly for God?
It the farthest hidden corner of
your heart is Satan’s, he has a right
of way to it.
A flesh-and-blood heart, divided,
means death; so with the spiritual
heart.
Worldly success in any sphere ab-
solutely requires a whole-hearted de-
votion to the object sought. So with
beavenly success.
INSTEAD OF HASH.
A writer in an exchange suggests
that the remains of a dinner be made
into a salad instead of the everlasting
hash, gives the following diree-
tions: beef, potatoes, beets and
turnips in cubes, keeping each sep-
arate. Cut the cold cabbage fine.
Place on a platter a bottomless
wooden mold or pasteboard box with
compartments, such as eggs come in,
and fill each compartment with a
different vegetable and one or more
with meat. When all are arranged set
in the icebox until cold, then pull up
the frame in which the different
things are molded, leaving them all
Serve with French dress-
se or a boiled dressing,
in shape.
ing, mayonna
as preferred. If you have no resw
lar egg compartment box, take any
pasteboard box and with strips of
pasteboard mark into triangles or
squares.
great raliroau
men who had
shipped goods over it were convicted
of rebating in Kansas City, the juries
coming to a quick agreement, declares
the Brooklyn Eagle. While the to-
baco men were being indicted here
the promoters of an ice monopoly in
Toledo, Ohio, and of a bridge trust
at Norwalk, Ohio, pleaded guilty to
t A few days
company and
ago a
several
violating the anti-trust law of that
state. Several states have such laws,
those of Missouri and Texas being
more drastic than the Sherman law.
Apparently a time \s come when
those” 1 will either have Oo 32
or repeaicd.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Public spirit is mostly lung power.
A man’s riches are his children and
they spend themselves.
Corruptiqnists will stop buying votes
when there is no more voting.
A nice way never to disagree with
your wife is not to have one.
It would be pretty comfortable not
to have a large family to support.
A man with an automobile doesn’t
have to be.a bachelor unless he wants
to.
After a man has run an automobile
for a season he is no longer in the rich
class.
It would be a lot more fun marrying
money if you could spend it with some-
body else.
Boys would learn a good deal more
in school than they do if they got pun-
ished for it.
There is something about reform that
gives those who do it mighty mean
dispositions.
It would make a trust man feel worse
if the way the public abuses him cost
him anything.
When a man has a little money he
pretends it is more than it is, and
when a lot that it is less.
A girl thinks she is mighty sweet to
her mother for kissing her for bring-
ing up her breakfast in bed.
Young people come home from school
for their vacation so as to go away
again somewhere else for it.
The needle in the haystack seems a
good deal easier to find than the pub-
lic official who is for the public.
Hardly any woman could stand the
monotony of life in small communities
if there wasn’t so much scandal there.
There's no use telling a girl she is
pretty; to do the work you must tell
her she is the prettiest one you ever
saw. !
A man can get a good deal more ex-
cited over a muifed fly at a baseball
game than having his neighbor's house
burn down.
‘When you see a woman painting up
an old chair it's just as likely as not
it is for the lawn. so that she can
speak of it as the summer house.
When a woman reads about the
the packers dress beef it worries her
terribly to think how bad it will be
for the baby when it gets old enough
to eat real food.—From ‘Reflections of
a Bachelor” in the New York Press.
SPARE THE WILD FLOWERS.
to Those Who Destroy
Because They Do Not Think.
This is the season of the year
when dwellers in cities and towns
may be seen returning after holiday
excursions, loaded down with flowers,
leaves, and branches of trees, torn
off from their stems by people who
wish to carry away with them the
heautiful things that nature so lav-
ishly spreads abroad in the spring.
To admire and to desire to possess
these beautiful things is natural, yet
to tear them down and carry them
away shows a deplorable lack of
thought. The least informed person,
if willing to pause and think for a
moment, knows very well that a few
hours after the twig has been parted
from its branch or the flower from its
stem, twig and flower alike must lose
all resemblance to the beautiful
growing thing that inspired the wish
for possession, and is no longer
worth having. Thus, for the gratifi-
cation of a passing impulse, one has
destroyed a beautiful object that but
for this hasty act might have given
pleasure to other people for days or
weeks.
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An Appeal
It is not uncommon to see people
coming from the country laden with
branches of dogwood for example,
four feet long; lilacs are town down
and defaced, and bunches of more
ephemeral flowers like violets, but
tercups and others are wilting in
every hand. If people would recog-
nize how fleeting is the gratification
derived from this destruction of the
flowers, and how selfish it is, they
probably would not be guilty of it.
A well regulated person does not—
even if the opportunity occurs—de-
stroy shrubbery in the public parks
for the purpose of carrying away
with him the flowers or branches.
In towns and cities such an act is
commonly regarded as an offence,
and any one found guilty of it is
likely to be punished, by a fine or
otherwise. Yet, the principle is the
same, whether the destruction is
wrought in town or im country; but
in the country the owner does not at-
tempt to protect his shrubbery or his
wild flowers, unless they are close to
his house.—Forest and Stream.
Want to Be Smart.
The craving of the Alaskan Indians
for education is almost pitiable, says
the Southern Workman. Ask them
what they need and the answer is the
same:
“Schools for the children
they may become smart like
man.”
They are very affectionate people to
so that
the white
their children; every benefit i T
the child. The older people fully real-
ize the fact that they represent the
past. They have alwa been produc-
ers, and their faith in themselves is
half of the struggle that lies before
them. To this end they should be
provided with day schools in all of the
villages of a hundred adults
In some sections where the families
are distributed over a large area of
country, and in the case of the chil-
dren of parents unable to provide for
re more
their support, and again where or-
phans may be enslaved by dis rol-
ati , board chools or homes are
equally nec
CEYSTONE STATE GULLINGS *
GOT $4,000 ON FORGED PAPER
Man, Who Worked Slick Game,
rested as He Left Door of the
Workhouse.
Ar-
Greensburg, Pa., July 19.—Upon the
completion of his sentence in the Alle-
gheny county workhouse tor an at-
tempted bunco game at the Hotel Lin-
coln, Pittsburg, last winter James
Riley was arresed by Deputy Sheriff
Edward M. Kepple. He was brought
to Greensburg and after waiving a
hearing before Justice of the Peace J.
Frank Beatty was sent to jail on a
charge of forgery preferred by Attor-
ney Harry E. Blank. Two years ago
Riley came to Greensburg and put on
record a deed transferring the farm of
James Smith in Ligonier township ‘to
himself. He applied to Mr. Blank for
a lean of $4,000 and the money was
furnished. The deed had on it what
purported to be the signature and seal
of Guy B. Flyte, a notary public of
Ligonier. Smith read of the exchange
>f property in Greensburg papers and,
coming to the county seat, declared
the signatures of himself and wife for-
geries. The mortgage secured by
Riley on the forged deed next turned
up. Attorney Blank identified Riley
following his arrest at the Hotel wuin-
coln.
A huge $1,500,000 deal, whereby the
Pennsylvania railroad has purchased
nearly 400 acres of land between Law-
rence Junction and Moravia and will
make great railroad yards, is announ-
ced. The deal has been under way
for some months, but the properties
included have been so quietly pur-
chased no intimation was received by
the public until now. It is said the
yards to be constructed will be among
the largest in the United States and
will be more than three miles in
length.
A novel feature of the Pennsylvania
exhibit at the Jamestown Exposition
will be a historical display, which will
occupy a prominent place in the Penn-
sylvania building, and is being pre-
pared under the direction of Marion
Dexter, Learned of the University of
Pennsylvania and Albert Cook Myers
of Kennett Square.- The purpose is
to illustrate how the early settlement
of Pennsylvania was extended into
the Great Valley and the Piedmont
region in Virginia, with especial at-
tention to the influence of Pennsyl-
vania in the making of the South.
A warrant was issued by Alderman
Moser, of Lancaster for David H.
Locher, of Philadelphia, on a charge
of embezzlement. The accused suc-
ceeded his father, the late C. H.
Locher, as president of the City
Trust Company, of this city, in Oec-
tober, 1904. Three months later the
institution failed, owing depositors
$1,000,000. The prosecutor in this
suit, John Veit, of Columbia, alleges
that three days before the bank clos-
ed its doors he deposited $900, and
claims Locher knew at that time that
the bank was insolvent.
David R. Locher, president of the
Qity Trust Company of Lancaster,
when that institution collapsed, today -
waived a hearing and gave bail for
trial at court on a charge of embezzle-
ment preferred” by Benjamin Veit of
Columbia. Veit charged that Locher
received a $900 deposit from him after
he knew the trust company was in-
solvent. Similar suits were entered
against Locher by Hiram EKhrhart and
George E. Zellers of Lancaster.
The hopes of many of the boomers
of the Uniontown & Wheeling Short.
Line railroad, which it has been pro-
posed to build from: here through
Greene county via Waynesburg and on
to Wheeling, have gone glimmering.
Options on valuable property were
allowed to expire. A number of
others ran out a few days ago.
Conneaut ' Lake Navigation
any, which has been paying the
Conneaut Lake Ice Company $1,500 a
for exclusive traffic privileges on
, has served not: that it will
more. Steps are. being taken
nine whether the lake is pub-
or owned by the Con-
Ice Company.
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ty
Judge Williams at Sharon sentenced
Carrino Sullazo and Pasqual Avidino,
convicted of manslaughter, to
vears each in the penitentiary.
zo stabbed Mike Corrisio at
Sharon, and Avidino shot
Reed, a miner, at Leesburg.
Af
eight
Suila-
South
Edward
a meeting of the stockholders of
the Pittsburg, Chartiers & Youghi
gheny Railroad Company, the capital
stock of the corporation was increased
from $1,600,000 to $1,500,060. The
increase of the capital is to take care
of improvements from time to time.
Robbers looted two Mahoningtown
At the Myers & Graham
‘e store they jimmied a rear
1 stole cutlery and revolvers.
so entered Frederick Stang’s
establishment and stole
$200 worth of clothes.
At the Hilisville quarries of the G.
W. Johnson Limestone Company,
near New Castle, Joseph Crouch’s
blown off by a delayed
tailoring
about
head was
blasting ‘charge.
Ten of the 20 mills of the Greer tin
plant, at New Castle, resumed work
About ‘0 men are affected.
Charters were issued at the state
ment as follows: Wheatland
ailway Company, of Wheat-
cor county, to build a line
1g through the streets of
a $6,000. Greensburg
Street Railway Company,
line 10 miles long from
reensburg, capital
1
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four residences
a large quan-
entered
James
no and