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He conceived Himself, I think, from very early life, as a man of destiny with a work to do, a task to be ac- complished and a trust to be ful- filled. In thé morning of His life He said: “Wist ye nat that I must: be about My Father's business?” All through His career there was the evidence that He thought and felt that some important work would surely come to Him. Frequently He gave expression to this in some such form as when He said, “Now am I until it is accom- plished.” Nevertheless, we are told that He ‘‘set His face steadfastly to- ward Jerusalem.” Now, while it is true that Jesus conceived Himself as a man of destiny, with a word to do and a task to be aecomplished, it is noticeable that He never allowed Himself to be hurried toward the accomplishment of His task. If you have ever noticed that, I think you will be a little surprised to see how often it is said that His hour had not yet come. He Himself said, “My time is not yet.” “My hour is not yet come,” ‘The time is not ripe,” and just as He did not allow Himself to be hurried, so He never permitted Himself to he diverted from the main purpose of His life. Men tried to make Him king by force. Many of them expected that at ‘that time He would set up the kingdom of Israel, overthrow ‘the Roman power and be the Israelite leader, and He told them plainly that He would not be diverted from the saying. “My kingdom is not of this world.” But with all this, Jesus knew that His hour would surely come and th: entirety of His life was the preparation for fulfilling His hour, for meeting that hour when it came, and for completing His life. Every man’s hour, it seems to me, comes when he can freely and fully express the thoughts and con- victions that have been growing and deepening in His soul. It is surely a great moment when some voice sounds in the soul and says: “Now is thy hour; this is thy opportunity. Reveal thyself; show the world what is in thee; express thy nullity or ca- pacity; now is thy time to speak and to do.” Self-expression and the out- speaking of what is in a man, his true inner and deeper self, this is the joy and glory of life. It is sad that many never achieve this. Some, we must admit, do not seem to get the opportunity, but others through cowardice, time servers, trimmers, who are always wondering what the world wiil think and what their fel- low men will say, not asking what is the truth and the right thing to do, "not daring to stand before the world and speak their word and do their dead without thought of con- sequences, rever achieve this joy and glory. Jesus came to His supreme oppor- tunity toward the close of His life, saw it coming and met it with the high courage and the gay cheer of the valiant soldier. It seems to me that we misconceive ‘very Ilargely these last acts in the life of Jesus. We have dwelt so much upon the sadness and the suffering and looked at the sentimental side,.and these have had, I®think, sometimes too large a place in gur thoughts; for, after all, we must see that it was for this very purpose that He came into the world, and that His life would have been an utter failure but for this glorious culmination. To Jesus the cross was not merely a matter of sadness and sorrow. I these closing acts of His life that He faced them with joy and cheer and strengthened , courage. He recog- nized that after all this thing was the crowning joy and glory of His career. Here and now as never be- fore had the opportunity come to Him, not only to think His thought, but to speak His word and do His deed and live out His life and glorify God and to have God glorified :n Him. I said that His life was a prepara- tion. It was. Years of silence and meditation, of mystic communion with nature and God, in wisdom growing up to His task. To my mind His life was perfectly natural. He was not ready for His task be- fore His hour had come. He could not have achieved His destiny at the age of twelve or twenty or twenty- five, not until the Lour and the man met. There were times when He might have put Himself in the power of His enemies, but He hid Himself, and by and by He saw the elements gathering and, recognizing His own strength and knowing the will of God and seeing ‘that the storm was about to break, the storm of hatred, and jealousy, and envy, and false pride, with the step of the soldier and the mien and aspect of a moral and spiritual hero, He went up to Jerusalem, and men marveled. He knew His hour was come. He was about to be glorified, and God was to to glorified in Him. He had been thinking and speaking and teaching, and now He was to exemplify and illustrate and give special proof of the truth of all that He had said. He.was destined to be cast out, yet He thoroughly understood that the time was coming when His spiritual supremacy and kinghood would be acknowledged to the limits of the earth and to the bounds of time. And how stands it this morning? Do we not see that He is the spiritual ideal of the race? The race is not turning to Confucius, or Buddha, or Mahomet. ‘they have elements of truth, but the highest good and the supreme truth are with the ‘young ‘come Props: of Nazareth. He is the spire itual king and the spiritual leader of the race, and aH turn to Him af flowers turn sunward to derive beauty and life. . I am sure, also, there must have been great joy in the mind of Jesus when He, at last, could speak the words: He wanted to speak. In the temple "He" stood -alone-—one against the city. He must have had rich joy when He was able to give ample ex- pression to His thought concerning the simplicity of the way of ap- proach unto God—the right of every man, without the intervention of syn- agogue, or church, or priest, or rit- ual; to come Himself, in His own personality, unto God: “God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him ‘myst worship Him in spirit and in truth.” Again, when His disciples had been quarreling among them- selves as to who should be the great- est, once more He had an opportunity | to“express Himself, not only to teach, but to live out, His thought. He girded Himself with a towel and washed their feet, and said: “Let him who would be great among you be your servant.” What high joy He must have had as He not only révewied His word, but by His action, for all time—for the generations yet unborn—taught the truth of the dig- nity of service; and if to-day the world is moving toward a wider brotherhood, if we are thinkinz not so much of ourselves and more of our neighbors, it is because He per- formed that -lowly service. He had been talking, also, about faith; that God was their Father and that He would never desert those who put their faith in Him. In'the hour of awful blackness, of excruciating physical and mental agony, His faith rose triumphant. Ah! there was the supreme triumph of His faith. Not in the words He had spoken, but in the life He lived and in the way in which He met the awful tragedy and in. the glorious culmination of His earthly life. The practical application of all this is not difficult. All. men have some sense of destiny, some con- sciousness of a call, some feeiing with respect to conduct. Every man has moments of Godlike aspirations. Surely, there come to us in mo- ments of high, spiritual endowment, when the sou! knows what it ought to do for its triumph or undoing, and man’s time shall come when he is true to the revelation. of truth that is in him, when he expresses in his speech and life the convictions that have grown in moments of su- preme inspiration and insight. The mighty men of the world are the men who have been able to do this. There was Paul and Martin Luther and John Wesley and Abraham Lincoln. God pours into some men more than He is able to pour into others, be-. cause they are able to receive more. While it is true that we cannot all be geniuses and giants, it is also true that every man may live his com- plete, full-orbed life. He may feel first that he has come from God; that his destiny is to return to God, and his business is to breathe in the teaching and love and spirit of the infinite Father, and day by day.be true to the beautiful, pure and noble suggestions that God will breathe into him: If a man will do this there is no question of his influence. The history of Jesus is proof posi- tive on the point. He lived His life truly and loyally, and His world, which is the universe, swings around in obedience to His truth. Ah, friends, if we will be as loyal in our place and limited sphere, the world will be lifted up by us just as Christ’s life-world was lifted by Him. It is in this sense that we are to follow Him and recognize that He is our example day by day as we go forth to the work and duty cf our life. The Only Safe Attitude. I remember some years ago climb- ing the Weisshorn above Zermatt Val- ley with two guides. There had been a series of severe storms and ours was the first ascent for some weeks, conse- quently we had a great deal of step- cutting to do up the main arete. We had left the cabin at 2 in the morning, and it was nearly 9 before we reached the summit, which consisted, as did so many peaks in the Alps, of splintered rocks protruding from the snow. My leading guide stood aside, to let me be first on top. And I, with the long labor of the climb over and exhilarated by the thought of the great view awaiting me, but forgetful of the high gale that was blowing on the other side of the rocks, sprang eagerly up them and stood erect to see the view. The guide pulled me down. ‘On your knees, sir. You are not safe there except on your knees.” My young friends, God lifts us all to summits in life; high, splendid, peril- ous. But these are nowhere more splendid or more perilous than in our youth; summits of knowledge, of friendship, of love, of success, declares George Adam Smith. Let us, as we value our moral health, the growth of our character and of our fitness for God's service, use every one of them as an altar on which to devote our- selves once more te His will. Make Much of Your Blessings. We are too prone to forget our present blessings. We seldom ap- preciate them until they are gone. Blessings seem to multiply as they take their. flight. When they be- memories we doubly - prize them. Why not give them welcome while they are present with us. ‘Do not let the empty cup be your first teacher of the blessings you had when it was full. Seek, as a plain duty, to cultivate a buoyant joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.””—Christian Intelligencer. As a Man Thinketh, So is He. The government of thought means Heaven or Hell. For if a man has disciplined himself to crush that thought—which may come to the purest and holiest mind—still better, if he has acquired the power to change the current and to turn his thought instantly into other and no- bler channels, temptation is baffled at its very start and the man stands upon his feet victorious. A man will never regulate his passigns who has never learned to regalate his thoughts.—G. H. Morrisoi. SHA INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR AUGUST 5. 5 Subject: "alse Excuses, Luke xiv., y 15-24—Golden Text, Luke xiv., 18—Memory Verses, 23, 24-— Topic: Blessings of Salvation. I. An invitation to ‘a great feast (vs. 15-17). 15. “One of them.” One of the rich friends of the Pharisaic hest, whose remark gave the Saviour ocea- sion for delivering this parable which is called the parable of the great sup- per. “Sat at meat.” They were re- clining on couches around the table. “Heard these things.” The recompense at the resurrection of the just (v. 14). suggested to this guest a great banquet in the kingdom of the Messiah. “Blessed is he.” He extols the great- ness of the privilege. . *In ‘the kingdom® of God.” The kingdom of God, here, does. not signify the kingdom of heaven in the highest sense, but only the king- dom of the Messiah, of which the car- nal Jew here speaks. as the place of their happiness. 16. “Then said He.” The remark of the guest gave Jesus an opportunity to staté important truths. He deliv- ered the following parable to show that though the Messiah's kingdom would be offered to them under the most fayorable circumstances, yet they would reject it, the Gentlles, would em- brace the gospel. “A ‘certain man.” This man represented God, the Father. “A great supper.” Representing the rich and abundant provisions of the gospel. Only two regular meals are or- dinarily partaken of in Eastern lands. 17. ‘Sent His servant.” The com- mission to all those who hold the office of summoning the world to enter the kingdom of God is the same, hence but one servant is referred to. John the Baptist, Christ, the apostles and disci- ples all delivered the gospel message and issued a call to the Jewish people, The same call was afterwards given to the Gentiles. “That were bidden.” The Jews to whom the gospel was first offered. “Come.” The invitations of the gospel are full and complete (Matt. 11:28; Rev. 22:17). “All (things are now ready.” . “Now is the accepted time.” Every “provision is made for the redemption ‘of a lost world; not one thing is lacking. The plan of sal. vation is perfect. sl II. The excuses made (vs. 18-20). 18. “They all.” But few of the scribes and Pharisees responded. “Began to make excuse,” In worldly affairs peo- ple would be anxious to accept an invi- tation to such a “supper,” but in relig- ious matter it is very different, Men are unwilling to accept the offers of salvation. “The first said.” When the time came they all refused to enter in, each having some excuse. They were typical excuses: 1. Cares of wealth. 2. Pursuit of wealth. 3. Attractions of earthly ties. ‘“Have bought—must —see it.” He lived, as do all in that country, in a village, and had to go out into the country to reach his farm. These excuses were all trivial, and yet they appeared to those making them to be real reasons why they could not possibly attend the feast. “I pray thee.” I beg of thee. “Have Ime ex- cused.” Release me from my obliga- tion. 19. “I go to prove them.” Mark the increasing rudeness of. the speakers. The ‘first pleads a “must needs;” the second merely states his intention—“I g0;” the third says bluntly, “I cannot,” and omits the courtesy of asking to be excused. The true lesson from all three is, that innocent and right things keep men away from the gospel feast. Feeble excuses: 1. Worldliness .6f spirit. 2. , Absorption in commercial pursuits. 3. Relative obligations. 20. “Married a wife.” He should have said to his wife, “Come, let us both accept the invitation to this gospel feast, at once.” “Therefore I cannot come.” This was just the reason why he should have come. 1. When young people enter upon the active duties of “life they need the help and guidance of the Holy Spirit. 2. No home is a truly happy home without Christ. 3. We need Christ to bear out burdens with us and help us through the hard places. 4. A Christian home is a pow- er for good in the community. 5. The influences of the home mold the char- acters and lives of the entire family. III. The invitation enlarged and urged (vs. 21-24). 21. “Being angry.” Not the anger of passion, but of indig- nation. “Go out quickly.” There is no time to be lost. The feast ‘is ready. “Streets and lanes.” Extend the invi- tation to the publicans and sinners— ‘the . outcasts. “Bring in—the poor,” ete.! The picture is one impossible for us to realize in our land. In the East, rich in beggars, opulent in misery, without poorhouses or hospitals, or other organized means of caring for and lessening misery, and with laws and social organism multiplying it, such a throng as is here described may be often seen in the city streets or squares. 22. “It/is done.” God's true ministers carry the gospel to the worst classes. “Yet—room.” The lord of the house has prepared a very great feast for very many. 23. “Highways and hedges.” Out- side of the city. By this is meant that the gospel would be preached to the Gentiles. “Compel them to come in.” Not by force, but by earnest entreaty. “House may be filled.” How anxious the Lord is to save every person. No one needs to be lost. 24. “I say unto you.” Christ ‘is here half continuing ‘the parable and half expounding it. “None of those men.” A solemn an- nouncement of the coming rejection of the Jews as a nation for their unbelief. “Shall taste of My supper.” Shall en- joy the blessings of the gospel. True Success. Do what God calls you to do and you are a success.—Talmage. Refused To Preach. When Rev. C. M. Sheldon. of To- peka, arrived at the Portland Tewis and Clark Jxpcsition to keep an en- gagement with ¢he management, he found tbat the amusement features of the fair -vere open on Sunday. Haivng corsentad to speak on the understandin- that suck was not the case, he refused to speak when he found that te had been misled: He was, however, heard in two of the tity churches. Bhs $a 4 ¢ " “T AUGUST FIFTH. Duty, . Privilege, and Excuses. Luke 14: 15-24. (Consecration Meeting, ‘With Special Thought of Our Pledge.) Men who will agree in nothing else = will agree in making excuses to avoid , 0 doing their duty. . Possessions and the care of them keep many from God. Their posses- Sy = : sions possess them. car horn whenever a stranger Wordly business keeps many from | Proaches. the Father's business; it will prove re to be a bad business before they are London has society of persons through with it. call themselves euphagists. They Pleasute and social joys keep many | lieve in being merry at meal times from the’ highest joy, that sweetens thereby aiding digestion. and -enriches all pleasures. Suggestions. — till it is done with gladness. there can be no excuse; when He does not ask us, we need no excuse. If duty seems a harsh word, it is because you have not gone back of the word. How proud we should. be if an|on July 5, 1825. earthly ruler gave us the opportun-| was celebrated in honor of the e ity of serving him that the Ruler of | with a parade through the universe gives us! Hlustrations. ‘“Endeavor’” means ‘‘on duty.” We are sentinels in the King’s army. thrown into boiling water. gan, an American circus pider. hold water.” The holes in the sieve | per, and married her. He was ba were eaten by the rust of worldiness. | oq by the Sultan, and the' Princess A promise is mot a chain binding us expelled from Turkey. to our duty; it is a tool helping us La do our duty. A volunteer and a conscript both a difference! Christian Endeavorers| ever her vocation. She takes it to are wolunteers. Questions. Is my religious work a genuine | take it to the cigar factory, if that Quotations. Your next duty is just to determine what your next duty is.—George Mac- donald. Do thy duty, that is best; Teéave unto thy Lord the rest ‘ —Longfellow. Opening Remarks. Make them brief. of life is: In Norway, fifty ve England, forty-five; Belgium. forty-three; Austria, thirty-nine; In Holland potatoes are not rece Three minutes| in the parcel post, Denmark will is long enough. receive almanacs, and Egypt will Make them enthusiastic and | permit sausages to be posted. sprightly, in manner as well as mat-| many refuses anything of Amer ter striking the keynote of a good meeting. Don’t try to say everything vou can think of concerning the topic. Try will set others to think of the other| bY Spain. things. EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS SUNDAY, AUGUST 5. by innoculating animals with the ins found in the musecies of horses Faith by Hearing.—Rom. 10. 14, 15. that fatigue is the result of the accum- Faith is not a “gift,” not some new, | ulation of certain toxins or poisons in or infuced by Christianity, but the] tired person is inoculated with his : day to day. It is that which en-| as if after a long sleep. courages a general to risk a battle, or a captain his ship, or a merchant his investment. Some one says that Free tt WHAT NIAGARA COSTS US. not. hold together for a day. Faith ventures on God's side and on the side of right, something within seem- ing to reach out and grip on to some- thing which is invisible, but seems like the. very ‘‘substance of things not “seen.” For faith is necessary in Annually. for the Outlook, makes out that Falls. The total hydraulic energy of even more so, if possible. ence; or as we know mathematical | requires about thirteen tons of co demonstrations, and so we must trust. Religious faith, trusts itself in the ously hands of God knowing nothing, and enduring all things, in the full con- fidence that it will be well in the end. Faith is a mode of perception, and by it we perceive the truths of God. So < that, when the mind reaches out be- plant costs not less than $50 a ho 3,500,000 horse-power steam would require about 50,0 000 tons of coal per year. : To generate electric power tifically demonstrated, seeking and | charges and operating expenses. trusting God, it becomes flooded with|agara power can be generated a light that never was on land or sea. | sold in large quantities for $1 its faith it touches the hand of God Faith is the appropriating act of the soul by which Jesus is accepted and embraced. It is the “hinge that turns the whole soul about,” and en- ables it henceforth to ‘“‘endue as see ing him who is invisible,” i o believe: all things are possible to him | try an annual saving of $35 a ho ble from the use of coal and steam engine. if all the hydraulic energy of Falls were utilized for power | “Step out on the promise.” Scene esta SALMDN COOKED IN BOUILLLON. Lay a two pound slice fresh, firm | costs the people of this continent COURT consumption of 50,000,000 tons. pour over enough cold water to cover, | a spectacle. add two tablespoonfuls vinegar, three |ing to those who would consume two tablespoonfuls salt. let the fish| ments. come quickly to the boiling point, then Iy until the flesh flakes. a garnish of mueszhrcoms and a rich|tion in which 50,000,000 tons : coal were annually consumed. S a conflagration might be one the most magnificent sights in sauce. The huge undertaking, that: con- the stamping out of tuberculosis, sicians in regard to all symptonis by putting out the fire. that are not those of acute and brief illness; to teach physicians to re nize the early phases of the dises A Little Vague. and to furnish for the imperilled poor { hoard on a farm saw an advert food and good housi ¢ erto unknown—to cure needy without pauperizing them. a letter of inquiry. She received Princess Fehim was Margaret Mor- san, an American circus rider. Prince Fehim saw her ride, fell in love with - a : her, and married her. He was ban-, four dollars for children old eno ished by the Sultan and the Princess 't0 eat. All ages and sexes to “We charge five dollars a week men, four and a half for ladies was expelled from Turkey. more if difficult.”—Lippincott’s. A Sevillan mother of the vor! pleasure? her place of occupation. Are my Christian duties growing in — joyfulness? Late statistics show that a Span ol, my excuses be acceptetd by | jjieq less than two-thirds as long The goose is trained by inhabitants of Siam to give a hoot like a motor ap- who be- and Ants are extraordinary fond of liver, Nothing is really done for Christ| and may be exterminated by laying raw liver near their haunts. The liver, When Christ asks us to do a duty, | when covered with insects, should be In New York State slavery ceased {fo exist by the freeing of the slaves For years this date vent Greenwich street and Broadway, New York City. Princess Fehim was Margaret Mor- Prince We speak of excuses ‘‘that will not | Fehim saw her ride, fell in love with 1ish- was king take the soldier’s oath, 'but with what | class keeps her baby with. her what- the open market place, for instance, in all seasons of the year. just as she would was iard pr as a Norwegian. The average duration ars ; forty- four; Switzerland, forty-four; France, Ba- varia, thirty, and Italy, thirty-two. ived not not Ger- ican origin, and has some clauses directed against Japan; while airguns, maps, wax matches, rosaries, relics and j jew- to say just one thing, in a way that elry are the miscellanous lot barred A United States patent has just been issued to a German named Weichardt pn what is in fact an “anti-tired-feel- ing serum.” This antitoxin is produced tox- that are much fatigued. The patentee says pecwiiar power supernaturally granted | the various organs, and that when a wnti- same principle by which we live from | toxin he rapidly recovers his strength “without this principle society would | Its Expenses Put at $122,500,000 H. W. Buck, an engineer writing we have an expensive luxury in Niagara the the religious life as in everyday life— | Falls, says Mr. Buck, -would repre- 1 This is a| sent about 3,500,000 horse-power. realm where we cannot know auite as | To generate one horse-power contin- we know the palpable facts of exist-| uously for a year by a steam engine al. To generate, therefore, continu- by 00,- by steam with the most modern steam rse- yond the confines ot the things scien-! POWer a year, allowing for fixed Ni- and 5 a The blessed truth is that when the horse-power a year, or for $35 a hearing soul reaches out the hand of horse-power a ye«: less than is possi- the From the above it will be seen that the DUT= “Only | Poses there would result to the coun- rse- that believeth.’ Do not be afraid.| power for 3,500,000 horse-power, or $122,500,000, and in addition there would be an annual saving in coal These figures illustrate what it an- salmon in the grate ol a fish kettle, | nyally to maintain Niagara Falls as They represent the sav- the sprigs parsely, a sliced onien, three| power, and not the profit of those whole cloves, six whole ‘peppers and | who might own the power develop- This waste involved in prohibiting push baek where it will simmer gent-|[the development of Niagara power Serve with [| might be likened to a great conflagra- of uch of the fronts those who have enlisted for world, ond people might come fron: all parts to view it, but the human warns the New York Evening Posh | 00 would certainly be justified in is to persuade people to consult phy- using every effort to stop the waste A Boston lady seeking summer ise- on a scale hith- | ment giving a deserintion of about the weak and |gych a place as she wanted, and sent the following information as to terms: for and ugn pay KEYSTONE STATE COLLINGS FOUND BEAR ON FRONT PORCH s Telegraph Operator Is Surprisasd at His Early Morning Visitor and Keeps His Distance. John Boyle, a Lehigh Valley tele- graph operator, employed nights at Mauch Chunk, had an exciting experi- ence when he returned to his home one morning ‘at Penn Haven. Upon approaching the door of his home Boyle found the front porch occupied by a big brown bear. It was the first instance bruin has been encounte: id SO c.use to home and Boyle kept ac a ace. The family were still aslees Bruin finally tired of his and meandered slowly up the nearby mountain. Boyle was unarm- ed and decided to leave the hunt for others. Two attempts were made to burn the home of John O’Donnell at Frank- lin. The family were asleep upstairs. At 2:30 o'clock Mrs. O'Donnell dis- covered fire at several places in the kitchen and dining room. Mr. O’Don- nell and a neighbor extinguished the flames before they had dome much damage. Three hours later, when Mrs. O'Donnell got up, she discovered a fire in the dining room. This, also, was extinguished. The screen on a window into the cellar was found to have been removed and the door leading from the cellar into the kitch- en was found standing gpen. It had been closed the' night before. A valuable driving horse owned by Mantia Brothers & Company of Derry, went mad after having been bitten by a small dog a month ago. Samuel Mantia was attacked by the horse which he was attempting to harness, and was bitten on the arm. He re- fused to believe at first that the ani- mal was suffering from rabies, and fastened it in the stable, when later it became violent, kicking down the stall. Mantia went to the Pasteur de- partment at Mercy hospital, Pitts- burgh. At a meeting of the Philadelphia board of health announcement was made that 20 slaughter houses recent- ly condemned as unsanitary had clos- ed permanently. Sixteen other estab- lishments were impreved by order of the board, and the owner ,of one slaughtering house who refused to obey the mandate to improve his plant was ordered prosecuted. Seeking to spite her husband, who, she thought, was friendly with other girls, Mrs. Nellie Jones, a former snake charmer with circuses and car- nivals, attempted to commit suicide at Altoona, with chloroform. Ske was discovered by other occupants of the flat just in time. “I wanted to surprise Tony when he came home,” was her only explanation. Miss Grace McNulty, aged 13, a daughter of ¥. M. McNulty, of Car- negie, was drowned while rowing in a canoe in Lake Rowena, near Ebens- burg, Cambria county, and Eugene O. Herron, aged 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Herron, of Pittsburg, who was with the young woman at the time narrowly escaped the same fate. Sparks from the pipe of a careless smoker in the powder house of the Woodvale shaft of the Rockhill Coal Company at Three Springs eaused an explosion in which two men met their: death and seven were probably fat- ally burned. The accident was the most serious in the history of this mine. The’ dead. Daniel Black, min- er; Milton Rohrer, miner. ! The Pennsylvania & Maryland Street Railway Company of Pennsyl- vania, capitalized at chartered by the state department to build and operate 30 miles of street railway in Somerset county. The line will extend through Berlin, Brokers Valley, Garrett, Meyersdale and Salis- bury. ? The Rev. Dr. Thomas Parry, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, Wilkinsburg, for 10 years, whose pas- torate closed last year in the midst of considerable misunderstanding in the church, has received a unanimous call to the pastorate of the First Presby- terian church, Wichita, Kan. The Scottdale Daily Independent, issued by the Scottdale Printing and ! Publishing Company, with J. W. Moody as editor, suspended publica- tion after an existence of 269 days. This is the second daily newspaper to fail in Scottdale in recent years. D. Prescott Packard, one of the best known criminal lawyers in Mercer county, suffered a stroke of paralysis while sitting in the National Hotel office, at Greenville, and grave fears are entertained for his recovery. The First and Mellon National Banks of Pittsburg and the Corn, Farmers & Mechanics, Franklin and Girard of Philadelphia were designat- ed as reserve agents for the First National of Johnstown. Henry Matz, a young farmer, was instantly killed by lightning whije ly- ing cn his bed at his home, Allegheny- ville. ‘The bolt entered his room trough the side of the window frame. Fire destroyed the Crystal Ridge breaker of A. Pardee & Company at Hazelton. The loss is about $60,000, covered by insurance. *The Lutherans held their reunion at Lakemont park, near Altoona. Nearly 13,000 people were present. An empty canoe found floating in the Cheat river, near Cheat Haven, by campers, led to the discovery of the drowning of John G. Richey, aged 28, of Pennsville, near . Connellsville. After recovering the canoe the camp- ers looked upon the shore and found a ‘suit of clothes containing a Scott- dale lodge B. P. O. Elks card bear- ing the name .! John Richey. hieves broke into a camp ear in Rh a number of Italian section 1 ds had their quarters, on a the Pennsylvania lines, north Beaver Falls, while the men Y rk end carrizd .away $300, clothing, etc. $200,000, was Towa, ANG
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