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Henderson, pastor, took as his text Philippians 1:21: “For me to live is Christ.” He said in the course of his sermon: ~ It is my desire to convey to your minds and to press lastingly upon your hearts some homely, yet help- ful, truths relative :» the Christ life. Persuaded of the similarity of your cares, trials, difficulties, problems, to my own, and recognizing the com- mon needs of all men, I would talk to you about this text. Horace, the old Roman poet, sings the praises of him to whom it is sweet and honorable to die for his country. I bring to you from the. Book of Books no note of death, but a psalm of life. ‘For me to live is Christ,” and to pass beyond the veil is but to enter into life more abund- ant.”” Thus says Paul. For him and for us there is no death. To live the’ Christ life here is to dwell within the glory of His presence there. ‘‘For me to live is Christ”’—a plan of self- dedication to His service here, an of our entrance into joy eternal ‘there. “Ifor apart from Me Ye can do nothing,” saith the Lord. St. Paul, the most strenuous of Christians, epitomizes the Christian life in these words to the church at Philippi. His utterance states the sum and substances of the complete spiritual life. Our aim and our pleasure it should be, as it is our duty, as men and women who love our Lord, to so live, that men, look- ing upon us, may view in us the risen Christ. The text presents to our minds a Broadly speaking tions in this life—to God, to society, to the home and to themselves. To set forth the same thought different- ly: Men have spiritual, civil, domes- tic and personal duties. Relation might be multiplied upon relation; duty upon duty could be indefinitely remarked. But that would be to suggest subdivisions rather than fun- damentals. Indeed, I am cognizant that the moral duty to the home ray easily be included under the head of social relations. But for the pur- pose of the moment we will resolve the ethics of the Christ life into the aforementioned divisions. The first, the greatest, the noblest imperative in the life of the man who desires to conform to the pattern of the true Christ life, who wishes to make the words of Paul his motto for right living, is to love and to serve and obey our Heavenly Father. I may say that the whole duty of man is bound up in this declaration. For, Christianly speaking, there is no department of life into which the service of our God does not enter. Loyalty to God is the basis of all purest living and highest thinking. To be true to the Father is to be loyal to society and strong for self. We may not be true to God and un- true to the social, civil and domestic conditions with which the mere fact of life confronts us. “The earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof,” sings the psalmist. To be a traitor .to the world is to be craven toward the Maker. We may not praise God with our lips and dis- obey Him in our every act. Our words, honeyed though they be, will count naught for us unto righteous- ness. The test of fealty is in action. We must measure true to the ideals that we preach. Prayer and praise are worthy, but they are not service. Prayer pleases God and it strength- ens us. Praise, no doubt, makes joy among the angels who surround the throne. But it is the service which does things; the prayer which re- solves itself into action; the praise that is founded upon the knowledge of a task, through His grace, well done, which makes most for pleasure and for joy in the heart of our King. The Christ was true to God and to man and to self. The happiness of His Father's universe was His hope and care. To His home, to His neighhors, to His country, to all trusts, the Saviour was faithfdil. He had an eye singly toward holy and hallowing service. Preaching a gos- pel of life, He lived a<life of love. And so, to be like Christ we iaust live like Christ. His hopes must be our hopes; His pleasures must be our pleasures. The motive in His life must be the force which, in our lives, will make for goodness and godliness. And godliness is but goodness raised to infinity. As the Christ was, so must Christian be, ‘truly spiritual. His guide and his guard must be the Comforter who cometh from above. Divinity, deep down in his heart, will be the power and the mainspring in his life. Christianity is pure politics, clean business methods, sturdy honesty and noble purpose, all rolled into one. A clear conscience means a brave ballot; and, conversely, a dirty ballot means a smeared soul. Up- right business methods earn their own reward; perhaps not in unde- served dividends and wrongly divid- ed or diverted profits, but in happi- ness of heart. Honesty is but a step toward holiness.” Nobility and sin- cerity are mighty forces. And these the facts the civic and the business worlds are recognizing more and more. Dishonesty is’ a bad asset; and the Christian man, who stands four square to the world upon the rock Christ Jesus, is to have the call. Time-serving politicians may scoff; those who dcfine character in the terms of preferred stock, and who prefer gold to goodness, may con- tinue to misjudge what is highest in life; sin may seem still to have the stranglehold upoa the world; Chris- tians may stumble, yea fall, upon the King’s highway, be derelict to duty and to faith, may imitate poor, fore- warned Peter and deny the Christ, but “he eternal principles of individ- ual and of social righteousness are bound to win. But while many of us are, through the grace of God, enabled to approxi- mate righteousness in our wider so- hh cial relations, there are but few of us who are Christlike in the home life. I have sinned must be our plea; for pardon must be our prayer. A renewed life must be our resolu- tion, that Christ may be our portion. The gross sins of the believing Christian are, largely, not those of immense or awful delinquency. Most of us managed to keep out of prison. Few of us have to stand for trial upon charges of overt crime. Most of us, by the mercy of God, are guilt- less of the sins which shock the senses. The defiling sins of the Christian in his home life are what we are likely to term the weaknesses of life. For you and for me, petty faults are oftentimes the greatest sins. With us the proneness to say the unkind word; think the unwor- thy thought; to do the hard act or to speak the stern sentiment; to give the rein to anger or to let passion rule; these are the most detrimental and defiling sins. Many a mother who would give up life itself for the child -7ho nestled at her breast; many a father who 1ot only would, but does, work long and weary h-urs for the loved ones of his home and hearth; many such a man and many such a woman finds the love of those most dear to them ‘s lost and lost to them perhaps forever, because of un- Christian uncharitableness in the home. } “For me to live is Christ,” you say. But do you live the life? Are you thoughtless of the rights of others? Are you self-centred rather than world loving? Are you heedless of the neéds/of men? These are minor things in life; these are the trifles. But to the soul that is growing up toward God, and out toward men, and that is spreading roots through the eternities, they spell either fail- ure or success. As has been said, ‘success is made up of trifles and success is no trifle.” Selfishness, hastiness, inconsider- ateness, all these are the sins which weight the soul. For those of us who have laid our hearts at the feet of Christ, they are the sins which keep us from attainment unto spirit- ual perfection and the strength of the Saviour. They are the cancers which gnaw ct the vitals of the man spiritual, and which consume the very life’s bloed. Leaving behind these lesser sins we may grow into the stature of the Son of God. Put- ting meanness and pettiness behind us we may become like Him who was in all things pure. But only as we exclude the smallnesses of life from our natures do we grow. But we must always remember that we have a duty to self as well as to society and to the Saviour. Here, again, duty to God presup- poses and implies a right relation with self. We cannot be true to God and untrue to self. Right relations with God preclude an evil inner life. “To thine own self be true,” the poet sings, ‘‘and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”” He might have said, with equal surety, that loyalty to God precludes disloyalty to man and to self. * Trueness to self implies Christianly speaking, that the man is in harmony with man- kind and with God. Trueness to the highest and ho- liest motives and ideals that are within us brings greatest happiness and peace. Right thoughts produce and conserve a right life. High thinking is a tonic. Low thinking breeds disease. Cleanness of heart means cléarness of head. To grovel spiritually is to declare one’s self to be a sloven mentally. We must keep ourselves ®*purified of unwholesome- ness if we would attain the heights where holy men dwell. Education is not salvation. Know!l- edge is power and should induce pu- rity. But the pure in heart—mind you, not the strong in mental force —the pure in heart alone see God. The vile of soul are always in the depths of hell, and all the wisdom of all the ages could not pull them out. A clean heart fits a man for life’s labors. We cannot submit ourselves to the rule of our evil passions if we would escape ruin. ‘‘Our bodies are. good servants, but poor masters,” is an apt and a wise saying. The Christ was a power, because He had a healthy mind and a pure heart. To Him evil was hateful. For Him love was the law and the light of the world. For God is love. To be pure, to be gentle, to be no- ble, to think kindly and to act wor- thily, to be right toward man and in the sight of God, to be growing con- stantly into God-likeness, that is to be truly Christlike. And to those of us alone who are trying, as Chan- ning has said, “to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common,” who are liv- ing nearest to the source of all love and of all life, is it given to say, with very truth, “Forme to live is Christ.” Seeds That Grew, Seeds That Didn't, “I have noticed that when the green leaves have _ appeared, and have lifted themselves a little above the soil, it often happens that a bit of soil adheres tquthem and seem to wezight them. But, as the plants go on growing, they cast off these specks of earth and push on valiant ly. Some of my seed must have been dead, for though they had abundant time for sprouting, they did not all appear; they lay there inertly amid the earth. “Which things have been a kind of a parable to me. Though the liv- ing seeds in their growing have car- ried on their leaves some of the soil as they grow they are flinging it off, while the dead seeds are help- less under the earth. A Christian may be carrying some mean and un- seemly earthliness. But if “he be really athrill with the new life and growing, he will be quite sure to slough it off in time. Let me be patient with him and give him a chance. God does. The hopeful fact is that he is alive and growing. Dead seeds are powerless. So are dead souls.”—Dr. Wayland Hoyt. The Footstool and the Watchtower. How many answers have been missed simply because we did not follow our petition with a heaven- ward eye and with the calm wait- ings of expectant faith! Remember, when you pray, go at once from the . ness, but in their own works. — EE NE TEMPERANCE -TOPIS INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR AUGUST 19. Subject: The Judge, the Pharisee and the Publican, Luke xviii., 1-14— Golden Text, Luke xviii, 13— Topic: . Effective Prayer. I. The judge and the widow (vs. 1-8). 1. “Spake a parable.” In re- sponse to a question of the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God should come. Jesus gave them warn- ings and instruction as to the coming, and especially as to the need of being always prepared (17:20-37), and naturally turns to the subject of prayer as a means of preparation. “Men ought.” It is their “duty” to do this. ‘“‘Always to pray.” The habit of prayer in private, in the family and in public should be cultivated. “Not to faint.” Not to grow weary and discouraged because of the delay of the answer. Why must prayer be im- portunate? 1. Not becaule of God’s unwillingness to answer. .2. To cher- ish and cultivate our faith. 3. To in- tensify our desire to receive. Prayer that is not persevering indicates a lack of faith. 2. “A judge.” According to Deut. 16:18, Israel must have in all the gates of the city judges, who were un- der obligation to administer justice, without respect of persons. See Exod. 23:6-9; Lev.19:15. “Feared not God —man.”” He was unprincipled and cared for no one but himself. 3. “A widow.” A widow, without influence and unable to bribe, had little to hope from a wicked judge. ‘‘Avenge.” The original means “to vindicate one’s right.” The rights of this widow were interfered with and she was asking the judge for protection. The widow is often taken as a repre- sentation of the church after Christ’s death. 4, 5. “For a while.” These verses show the abandoned character of the Judge referred to. 6. “The lord.” That 1s, Jesus. 7. ‘Shall not God.” We are not to suppose that the char- acter of God is at all represented by this judge. The great truth which our Saviour designed to teach is that “men ought always to pray, and not to faint.”” The application of the parable may be made by contrast. 1. God is not compared to the unjust judge, but contrasted with him. If a hard-hearted, wicked judge, who cared for neither God nor man, but only for himself and his own inter- ests, would yet grant justice on ac- count of the perseverance of the widow, how. infinitely more readily will Gqd give us the help we need. 2. And if the unjust judge does this for a poor widow, in whom he has no in- terest, how much more: will our Father grant the prayers of His own children. 3. And if the unjust judge will do it for the sake of deliverance from some vexation in common life, how much more will God save His children from their adversaries. 8. “Speedily.” Suddenly, unex- pectedly. “Son of man cometh.” Whedon thinks this entire parable has reference to the second coming of Christ. He says: The church is a widow in Christ’s absence; she has an oppressive adversary, being the persecuting world, or the devil. “Faith.” This word is sometimes taken to denote the whole of true re- ligion. II. The Pharisee’s prayer (vs. 9- 12). 9. “Trusted in themselves.” Jesus now proceeds to show another reason why many prayers are not an- swered. The Pharisees did not trust to God, or the Messiah for righteous- They vainly supposed they had themselves complied with the demands of the law of God. ‘Despised others.” Dis- dained, treated them with contempt. 10. “Two men.” Both Jews. Two extreme cases are here chosen—a rigid, exclusive, self-satisfied member of the religious society of Israel; and a Jewish officer of the hated Roman government. 11. “Pharisee stood.” The Jews were accustomed to pray standing. The Pharisee went to the temple to pray, because it was a public place, and therefore he would have many eyes on him. “I thank Thee.” His prayer is a thanking, his thanking is a boasting, not of God but alone of himself. At first he boldly contrasts himself with all men considering him- self better than they. ‘Extortion- ers.” Selfish, greedy men who take away the goods of others by force and violence. ‘Unjust.”” Those who are unfair and dishonest in their deal- ings. 12. “I fast,” etc. The law re- quired but one fast day in the year, the da¥y of Atonement (Lev. 16:29). “Tithes.” A tenth. ‘Of all that I pos- sess.” Rather of all that I require. See Revised Version. He was clothed with phylacteries and fringes, not with humility. He felt no need of confessing sins. III. The publican’s prayer (vs. 13, 14). 13. “Publican.” One employed as collector of the Roman revenue. It was the basest of all livelihoods. He felt that he was a sinner, and shame and sorrow caused him to look down. It was usually the cus- tom to pray with uplifted hands, and with look turned toward heaven (1 Tim. 2:8; Psa. 123:1, 2). ‘‘Smote— breast.” A token of anguish and self-reproach. I am a sinner and can- not be saved but in Thy way. 14. “Justified.”” His sins were blotted out, and he was acceptec. “That exalteth himself.” Boasts of his own goodness. ‘‘Abased.”” Shall be brought to shame. ‘That hum- bleth himself.” By confessing his sin and unworthiness, and pleading for merey from God. ‘‘Exalted.” Lifted up from the depths of sin, and made an heir of God. From sorrow he is admitted into the realm of praise, The Dewey has reached the Philip- pines. A long, difficult and wearying task her tow from Maryland to the other side of the world has been, tire- some to the men who managed it and not unaccompanied by danger, re- marks the New York Sun. Soon the United States may dock its biggest ships without bringing them home or renting accommodations frcm oth- er nations. Great is the increase in footstool to the tower.—J. Vaughan. our power in the Far East, for a dry dock in time of need is worth a good many battleships. CAMSTIIEXDENDRNDTE AUGUST NINETEENTH. Is the Sin of Phariseeism? Luke 11: 42-44, Phariseeism is form without sub- stance, thes one tenth without the nine tenths. In condemning Phariseeism Christ did not condemn forms; we must have the clothes, but we need a body inside them. The Christian fears Pharisee fears neglect. The latter seeks the chief places; so does the former—that he may place others in them. Hypocrisy is the most dangerous of sins, as it'is so often concealed from men, and especially from the hypocrite himself. - Suggestions. It is not praying till we cease to think of men that hear us, and think only of the listening God. It is not giving till we begin to long to do good with our money, and cease to desire to get good from it. It is not Christian service if we work for Christ on condition that He will work for us. The only cure for Phariseeism is self-surrender, which instantly gains all that hypocrisy thinks to gain. A Few Illustrations. Phariseeism is an ornamented box, empty-—and opaque} sincerity is a full box—made of glass. Phariseeism is a shout against a cliff expecting back the echo. Phariseeism is a tower with a de- cayed foundation; and the higher it goes, the greater is its peril. The hyprocrite is a chameleon, tak- ing his color from the changing cir- cumstances around him. Questions. Is my worship in the Spirit and in truth? Do those nearest me believe most in me? Would I be willing that my most hidden acts should become the most open? What fame, the Quotations. All false pretences like flowers fall to the ground, nor can any counter- feit last long.—Cicero. He is already half false who spe- culates on truth and does not do it. —F. W. Robertson. No true man can live a half life when he hag genuinely learned that it is only a half life. The other half —the higher half——must haunt him. —Phillips Brooks. EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS SUNDAY, AUGUST 19. The Sunday School Union and Local Sunday School Interests.—Deut. 31.12, 18. Our church has no less than 33,184 Sunday schools under her care, with an enrolled membership of 3,227,376, besides a Home Department member- ship of 150,629. This includes the schools in mission lands. While we have less than one-sixth of the Pro- testant Church membership in the United States, we have one fourth of the Sunday school people. If the Sunday school is the right arm of the Church, the Epworth League is her left arm; and upon these two mem- bers of the body ecclesiastical de- pends the future of the body. The I.eagug should know about our Sun- day Rhool Union. It is the head of all the Sunday schools of the denomi- nation. It furnishes all the litera- ture, ‘“‘helps,” etc., for ine use of the schools. Beyond this the Union is a benevolent society, and disburses, in a benevolent and charitable way, the money contributed by the churches, Sunday schools, and individuals. It gives about $7,000 per year to sup- port the Sunday school work in our missionary fields. In connection with the Tract Society, the Union prepares and distributes Good Tidings, a beautiful weekly paper for the color- ed people of the South. During the year 1905 there were printed, of that paper, 1,736,000 copies, being a week- ly average of 33,585. The "Union also furnishes supplies gratis to very weak schceols; particularly in the initial stages of church organization. Up till now the ‘work of the Sunday School Union has been supported chiefly by collections from the churches, this being one of the ‘‘Dis- ciplinary’’ causes. But last General Conference made it obligatory upon the Sunday schools to take a collec- tion for the Union. The class in any Sunday school which gives the larg- est amount, provided that it be not less than one dollar, to this cause, will receive a handsome silk ban- ner. The receipts from the Confer- ence collecttions last year for the Union were $29,918.68. Of this sum the Sunday schools contributed only $1,095.04, only 132 schools having given anything. The schools every- where ought to wheel into line. EQUIVALENTS. Sixty drops equal one teaspoonful. Three teaspoontul!s equal one takle- spoonful. Fecur tablespoonfuls equal a quar- ter of a cup or half a gill. Eight © rounded tablespoonfuls cf dry material equal one cupful. Sixteen tablespoonfuls of liquid equal cne cupful. One cupful of liquid equals two gills or half a pint. One heaping tablespoonful of suzar equals one ounce. One heaping tablespoonful cf but- ter equals two cunces. One cup of butter or sugar ejuals cne-half pound. Two cups of flour equal cne-hall pound. i ————— There is a paragraph going the rounds of the press to the effect that n a crowded street car in Washing- ton the other Secretary Taft rose and gave his to three ladies. ALCOHOL IN GAS ENGINES, Only Slight Changes Needed in the Mechanism. It has been asserted that the farmers use more gasolene every year in small engines than do the owners of automobiles. We do not know whether the statement is true, but a great many people will have a chance next year to substitute al- cohol for gasolene. If, as has been said, grain alcohol can be produced for ten cents a gallon in large quan- tities, it ought to retail for less than gasolene, which now costs from eighteen to twenty-two cents. Care- ful tests show that the same amount of power can be ‘had from a given quantity of alcohol as from gasolene. One estimate makes it possible to get a horse-power from a pint. of either per hour. Alcohol can usually be made to work in an engine in- tended for gasolene, but in building entirely new engines the designs will probably need to be modified in cer- tain ways. The opinion is expressed by the Iron Agé that the most important change that will be required will be in the cylinder and its intermediate parts. Other things being equal, the essential factor in determining the economy and efficiency of an ex- plosive engine is the extent of com- pression that is possible with the mixture of vapor and air. This is greatly in favor of alcohol, since the compression can be carried much higher than with gasolene without danger of premature explosion. The same rule obtains here as in other explosives; guncotton is a compara- tively harmless substance until closely confined. Compression in a gasolene engine ranges from forty- five to sixty pounds a square inch, varying according to the design and the rapidity of the cooling of the cylinder. A higher compression being possible with an alcohol mix- ture, the combustion is more per- fect and the energy greater with equal volumes of gas. In all gas engines, except those of the throttling type, the cylinder is completely filled with the mixture during the stroke just preceding ig- nition. If the clearance were as small as in the ordinary steam en- gine the heat due to compression would be so great as to cause in- flammation of the gas before the pis- ton rod had reached the end of its stroke. To overcome this, the com- mon gasolene engine is made with a clearance equal to one-fourth to one- fifth of the volume of the cylinder. This clearance will have to be re- duced to meet the requirements of an alcohol mixture and obtain a higher compression before ignition by the spark takes place. In this country engines have not been de- signed for the use of alcohol, neither have endeavors been made to modify the ordinary engines for that purpose. The price of alcohol has been so ex- cessive as to discourage and in fact prohibit its employment as a fuel for power purposes. There has been absolutely no incentive along that line. But much work has been done in this direction in Germany and France, where alcohol is cheap and engines using it are common. Shipping Fish Without Water. Consul-General Richard Guenther writes that experiments made in Ger- many in the transportation of live fish have demonstrated that fish can live out of water for days. The gills of fish are similar to the human lungs, and are constanly washed by water containing oxygen. The thin membrane of the gills sep- arates the blood in them, vitiated with carbonic acid, from the water containing oxygen, ard the practical result is the same as with the human lungs. It had been noticed long ago that many kinds of’ fish could live out of water for some time provided that the gills remain wet. In order to keep the gills wet the evaporation of the moisture had to be prevented; for this purpose the fish were placed in an atmosphere thoroughly satur- ated with water vapor. An hermeti- cally closed wooded box was filled with water to the depth of about one-third of an inch, or the bottom was covered with wet rags, which through evaporation kept the air in the box always saturated. The fish were placed in the box, which was then shut hermetically by the lid. Through a tube oxygen was intro- duced. Before entering the box the oxygen passed through several water bottles, which thoroughly saturated it with water vapor. In this way the fish are always in ‘a pure oxygen at- mosphere. The result of the experi- ments was surprising. Carp, tench, bleak and other fish remained in the box for from three to four days perfectly well. When they were then placed in water they swam about in a lively manner and appeared per- fectly fresh. This mode of tlransportation is much more economical than shipping live fish in water tanks. By the latter method the weight of every shipment was ninety-three to ninety- six per cent. water. Scotland Yard. Scotland Yard, widely known as the headquarters of the London po- lice, is a historical place, said to have been the site of a palace where kings of Scotland were received when they came to London. It is near the banqueting hall, Whitehall. The Scotch kings retained possession of it from 959 till the rebellion of Will- iam of Scotland. Milton, Sir Chris- topher Wren and other notables lived in Scotland Yard. (EVSTONE STE COLLINS SUES THEATER MANAGER Woman Wants $20,000 Damages for Injuries Received in Hollidays- burg Opera House. Juniata Baker entered suit against David Thompson, proprietor of the Williamsburg opera house, to recover $20,000 damages. Miss Baker was a member of the Ritter Concert Com- pany, which showed at Williamsburg last February. The opera house caught fire and in the panic many people wa-~ hurt. Miss Baker claims that the injuries that she received are due to the defendant’s neglect to provide proper exits and fire escapes. No treasure trove ever found equal- ed in value the 14-foot vein of Lykens red ash coal which prospectors of the Philadelphia Coal & Iron Company found several hundred feet beneath the earth’s surface at Glendower col- liery, Taylorsville, in the Hecksher- ville Valley. The vein contains mil- lions of tons of the highest priced an- thracite coal. - The find may be worth $20,000,000, and was discovered near the dividing line between Foster and Barry townships. Clarence D. Simpson, senior mem- ber in the firm of Simpson & Wat- kins, the coal operators of Scranton, gave out details. of the organization of an $8,000,000 corporation known as the Pennsylvania, Beech Creek & Eastern Coal & Coke Company, which has secured control of 44 Western Pennsylvania soft coal mines, a num- ber of coke interests and some elec- tric light and water companies. The interests involved include the Penn- sylvania Coal: & Coke Company, Beech Creek Coal & Coke Company, the Webster Coa & Coke Company, the .North River Coal & Wharf Com- pany, and a number of electric light and water companies. The new cor- poration will have its headquarters in New York. Its backers are chiefly from that city and from Boston. Judge J. F. Taylor has named At- torneys R. H. Meloy and J. R. Mec- Creight, of Washington as counsel for Elmer Dempster, slayer of Mrs. Samuel Pearce and children, telling him that if he wished to secure addi- tional counsel in the event of his friends raising any money he was at liberty to do so. Augus Patterson and John Rucher, accused by Demp- ster of the murder of John Koboda in Independence township two months ago, were taken into court and Attorney Clarence E. Rehn of Washington was appointed as coun- sel for them. A terrific wind and rain storm struck Harrisburg, instantly killing Charles M. Richwine and Chic Befrandi, and slightly injuring sev- eral employes of Pawnee Bill's Wil¢ West show. Richwine was a Penn- sylvania railroad brakeman, and waa struck by lightning while standing under a tree near the show grounds. Befrandi, a Japanese acrobat, wha sought shelter under a tent, was struck on the forehead by the light- ning and died almost instantly. Two heavily loaded trolley cars, one on its way from Philadelphia to Allentown, and the other bound for a camp meeting, collided two miles south of Allentown, killing John Easer, motorman of the Philadelphia car, and injuring more than a score of passengers. It is alleged Motor- man Fitz disregarded the red board and ran out of the switch into ‘the target set against him. A sharp curve was the place of the accident. ‘While Ernest Sauers, a wealthy German resident of Dry Hill, near Broad Ford, was attending religious services Sunday, a gang of boys enter- ed his home by prying open a window and stole $1,800 in money. James McGill, aged 18; George Beatty, aged 16, and Harry Holiday, aged 16 were locked up in the Connellsville police station charged with being im- plicated in the theft. The grand jury found true bills of indictment against 14 members of the Philadelphia Ice Exchange, charg- ed with conspiracy to increase the price of ice. There is but one indict- ment containing six counts, and this will enable the distrct attorney to prosecute the defendants jointly. The trial has been set for September 5. Gov. Pennypacker issued an order congratulating the National Guard of Pennsylvania upon the success of the recent division encampment at Get- tysburg. The governor says in his order that the National Guard de- serves the encouragement and appro- bation of all law-abiding citizens. Restaurant keepers in Altoona and Lakemont Park evaded the blue laws, prohibiting the sale of ice cream on Sunday, by serving the cream with sandwiches and coifee. Col. Robert Westbrook disposed of 25 gallons, but refused to sell by the plate. At the Fifteenth Republican confer- ence held in Williamsport, Congress- man Deemer was unanimously re- nominted for a fourth term. The dis- trict is composed of Clinton), Lycom- ing, Tioga and Potter counties. At Monongahela Robert Graves, a miner, was held for court in $300 bail on a charge of larceny preferred by G. P. Ushossky, a fellow miner, who accused him of taking $270 from his vest pocket. Ira Waggoner, aged 16, of Youngs- ville, was accidentally shot and kill- ed by a friend with whom he was shooting at a target. There was a serious fire in the East PineiKnot colliery of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company, near Pottsville. The fire started in the boiler house, and before it was ex- tinguished six boilers were rendered useless and several small buildings near the boiler house were destroyed. The loss is estimated at $100,000. Lightning destroyed the barn of vol. H. A. Gripp, one mile east of Iyrone with all its contents. The darn had recently been built at a cost of $9,000 and was the largest in Central Pennsylvania. Mr. Gripp's loss will exceed $14,000, partly cove Wed by insurance.
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