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SUNDAY,
SERMON
Subject: . Loyalty to the Truth.
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Brooklyn, N. Y.—Preaching at the
frving Square Presbyterian Church
on the iheme, “Loyaltyto the Truth,”
the Rev. I. W. Henderson, pastor,
took as his text I. Kings 22:14:
“And Micaiah said, as the Lord liv-
eth, what the Lord saith unto me,
that will I speak.” He said:
The four hundred false prophets
were mere flatterers. They inter,
preted and delivered thz oracles to
suit the king's whim. + They paid
small attention to the measure of
truth that their judgment contained.
If they discovered wrong, they kept
quiet about it. If they foresaw evil,
they were equally silent. To be op-
timistic was to be-popular. Self-in-
terest dictated that they should re-
turn to the king good omens or none.
Pessimistic prophesies landed a man
in prison; and since Ahab wanted to
be coddled and cajoled and flattered,
they humored him to the best of their
ability and to his full capacity. They
were optimistic patriots. Therefore
they were favorites at court.
Ahab hated Micaiah because he
spoke the truth as it came to him
direct from God. The monarch dis-
liked premonitions of future evil and
demonstrations of existing sin. He
preferred a fancied security to defi-
nite knowledge of conditions as they
were. As Ahab complained to Je-
hoshaphat, Micaiah prophesied not
good, but evil; and for that reason he
“was heartily happy to jail him.
Micaiah might easily have taken
the advice of the king's officer and
become one of the lying- multitude.
He might, with profit to himself in
the eyes of Ahab, have reiterated in
earnest, rather than in s asm as
he did, the prophecy of the falsifiers.
Salf-preservation and the hope of
self-advancement might, imaginably,
have led him to have given the king
just the answer for which his heart
yearned. The profit from the ki Ss
pleasure was at hand and within
sight, the Lord would forgive him
quicker than the monarch. Many a
man has argued that way. But to
Micaiah the truth was more precious
than the benedictions of his ruler,
the favor of Jehovah was more satis-
fying than were the praises of any
man. ‘As the Lord liveth, what the
Lord saith unto me, that will I
speak,” he says; and his words are
an inspiration to the men of America
as they mark out the strict line of
duty we should follow in our time.
Too many of us lack the fidelity
of Micaiah because we fear unpopu-
larity. Cowardice suppiants courage
in no few hearts that are aglow with
a vision of the truth because men
dare not defy the disfavor of the
Ahabs of to-day. Smug self-satisfac-
tion cries down the leader who would
point the wrong; and above all, right
it. Optimistic patriots in the church
and out of it, with no eye save for
the glowing, lustrous surface which
hides a central life bitten deep with
sin, decry as pessimistic the man who
paints the evil as it is.
Self-glorification is easier than
self-examination. There is more
pleasure for the crowd in recounting
their achievements than in clarifying
the central -springs of life, and in
analyzing the depth and the conse-
quences of their iniquity. It takes
less brains to state the achievements
already accomplished than it does to
investigate and determine the sure-
ness and stability of the foundations
upon which success is built. It is
easier upon the head to relate blithe-
ly the unexampled progress of your
country or your church or your fam-
ily or vourself in the attainment of
material advantages, than it is to de-
cide whether or no the gain was made
righteously and in the fear of God,
and whether or no it will result in
future happiness and helpfulness for
all concerned. It is far more satis-
factory, from the point of view of
the opportunist, to take things as
they are and to make the best of
them. No man really likes to unearth
sin; it isn’t’ nice work and it is
dirty. But to bury the victims doesn’t
stop the epidemic. To congratulate
oneself upon the amount of water in
the reservoir, and upon the power
and efficiency of the pumps at the
water works, in no way diminishes
the heat of the fever. In these days
we want and hail men of mind and
of action who will look for the hid-
den germs of disease. Then, in our
desire to acclaim them we forget the
days when, in spite of the self-satis-
fied, the ignorant, the careless, the
wicked, they proclaimed the certainty
of our distress and disease; then we
forget that those men whom Wwe re-
viled as pessimists are our sayiors;
then we forget the vears of research
and of patient study into conditions
as they were, we forget the premon-
jshments of our fools grow wise, in
our anguish at the situation as it is.
I-say we forget. I may be wrong.
Perhaps we only then remember.
We must have Micaiahs, men of
loyalty to the trath at all hazards
and at any cost, no less to-day than
in the year that Ahab and Jehosha-
phat went against the Arameans at
Ramoth-Gilead. Our age, our coun-
try, the church has need, and a great
need, for men who will speak forth
what the Lord saith unto them. To
‘be sure those ‘who are folding their
arms in selfish ease” will declare
them, as they did the Garrisons, the
Phillipses of the sixties, anarchists
and fit subjects for the gallows. The
man who would battle with the social
evil to the death and declare the
wisdom and the truth of God unto a
white life for two sexes will find
detractors and enemies on every
hand. He who will annihilate the
monster of intemperanceand of legal-
jzed iniguity will, I-am much per-
suaded, find adherents of the devil
even within the sacred precincts of
the church of Jesus Christ. That
economic Isaiah who shall try the
truth of God against the entrenched
forces of gold-greedy materialists, in
the interest of the men who toil, will
find a fearful and unrelenting array
against him,
TRAE FAMOUS DIVINE:
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the adversary.
labor against itself will be forced to
combat with evil men among those
whom he wishes to uplift. But while
a man may with less timidity advance
new thought in the scientific world,
in no place will he find, many times,
a more uncompromising resistance
than in the church. Be it for good
or ill the simple fact is this, that no-
where has new light a harder fight
than among many who are the fol-
lowers of Him who was the essence
of all truth and who prayed the gift
of the Spirit for them that they might
have a sure guide into the fullness
of eternal wisdom. The fight of the
church of God against truth is the
amazing spectacle of the ages.
The odds against truth to-day are
tremendous; but even as Ahab never
returned to the city of his rule, so
surely shall eternal and refining truth
ccnquer in the age long struggle with
Two things are necessary that
truth may win and be accredited.
First, we must be sure that our in-
sight is correct, our truth born of
God. And then wé must be loyal to
the voice of Jehovah as He speaks to
us.
There is nothing more detrimental
to the dignity and standing of the
truth than irrational and ill-balanced
thought. Every bit of truth is the
word of God, but some statements
which are caricatures of truth are not
God-given, no matter how loudly and
how long they may claim the distine-
tion of divine inspirdtion. = All truth
may well be labeled, “thus saith the
Lord,” but all statements that bear
the motto, ‘thus saith the Lord,” are
not truth. T o are false prophets
to-day no less th#n in the reign of
Ahab. He who will declare a mes-
sage to men must first be sure of his
ground.
Not less important is it that a man
be loyal to the truth revealed to him
through the workings of God’s Holy
Spirit. Truth may negative most of
his own ideas and cherished pre-
conceptions. It may even subordi-
nate his noblest ideals. , But by it he
must stand. Micaiah went to prison
for the truth and Jesus of Nazareth
to the cross. Stephen was stoned by
his enemies, as was Zechariah, the
son of Jehoiada, the priest, because
he was faithful to the truth. John
the Baptist lost his head for declar-
ing that Herod had lost his. Luther
withstood a church and the Smith-
field martyrs suffered agony that
truth might be supreme. The long
list of heretics and excommunicated,
the host of those who have lost life
and friends, the army of those cru-
saders who, under God, Lave battled
hard with sin—all testify to the need,
the glory of loyalty to divine truth.
It is no easy thing to lead in the
march of progress or to fight the
forces of evil. Conservatism would
clutch progress by the throat and
throttle it to the rattle. Sin hates
the light and would overcome it.
But whether or no the opposition
be fierce we need and must have men
who will be firm for the truth and
not flinch in the hot fight. ‘‘There
is,” we are told, ‘‘no more hazardous
enterprise than that of bearing, the
torch of truth into those dark and
infested recesses in which no light
has ever shone.” But to that man
who, filled with power by the Spirit
of the Lord, will speak what the
Lord saith unto him there will be
not only the hard warfare on the
first line of the skirmish here, but the
the crown of victory in the life eter-
nal.
More and more the need is for
men of the mold of Micaiah; men to
whom the truth is more precious than
much fine gold; men whose integrity
is indivisible; men whose opinions
are the judgments of minds that
have been moved upon by the blessed
Spirit of the living God, who cannot
be bought, and who, filled with a
high and a holy devotion to their
divine commission as the revealers,
interpretersand torch-bearersof God’s
illuminating truth will balk at no
sacrifice; and be overawed by no op-
position; and be diverted by no power
from the declaration and the promul-
gation of that truth.
Oh, that there might arise through-
out this land men of the vision and
the fidelity of the prophets of ancient
Israel. Would that there might arise
among the ministers of the Lord to-
day a prophet of Jahwe, Jehovah the
Lord of hosts and of truth; a prophet
with a message and with the power
to express it tersely, intelligently,
forcefully, fearlessly. May God give
us a Micaiah who shall tell America
the truth concerning the conditions
of to-day. The people, in the church
and out of it, are weary and undesir-
ous of platitudes and of unaimed ver-
biage. Mankind awaits a prophet of
God. And when he comes in the
plenitude of wisdom and - of power;
furnished with a divine commission;
endued with a mission and a mes-
sage for a world in sin, may the
church have the insight and the grace
to see the marks of God’s calling in
him and in his message and not per-
secute him as did the fathers the
prophets of God aforetime.
“Ag the Lord liveth, what the Lord
saith unto me, that will I speak.”
May this be the motto of every man
who loves the truth. May it be also
our inspiration to fidelity and to a
glorius ministry unto men in the
name and to the honor of the iiving
God. And may we live so near to
God that we may be able to hear His
message and to speak with immedi-
ate authority to men.
The Power Will Be Given.
When Cyrus captured Sardis, the
only son of Croesus, who was dumb,
saw a soldier ready to give the king,
whom he did not know, a stroke upon
the head with his scimitar. The son
made such a violent effort to save his
father by a word that he broke the
string of his tongue, and cried out,
“goldier, spare the life of Croesus!”
He who will protect | loosened.
And so, if we love Christ and His
cause earnestly, our tongues will be
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM-
MENTS FOR DECEMBER 2.
Subject: Jesus Before Pilate, Luke |
xxiii., 13-25—Golden Text, Luke |
xxiii., 4—Memory Verses, 20, 21 |
—Commentary. |
1. Pilate endeavors to release Jesus
{vs:13-17).. 13. “Pilate.” Pontius |
Pilate belonged to an ancient and |
knightly Roman family. “Called to- |
gether.” Pilate summons the rulers |
and the people. 14. ‘‘As one that
perverteth.” As one that bas taught
doctrines injurious to your religion.
“Having examined.” At the first
trial he had heard_all that could be
brought against Him. ‘No fault.”
They had failed to prove a single
charge.
15. “Nor yet Herod.” Christ had
traveled extensively in Galilee and
vet Herod brings no charge. ‘He
sent Him back unto’us” (R. V.) This
i~volved a distinct acquittal. ‘Is
done unto Him.” “Nothing worthy
of death hath been done by Him.” =
Vv
16. *“Char’'ize Him.” « John says
that Pilate took Jesus and scourged
Him; but this was not cone until a
little later. “And release Him.”
Pilate hor:d that waen they saw
Jesus scourged they would be satis-
fied, but not so; they were clamoring
for His blood, and nothing short of
¢ th on a cross would satisfy them.
17. ‘Must release one.” This
verse is omitted in the Revised Ver-
sion. But see the parallel accounts.
II. The clamo-s of the Jews (vs.
18-28). 18. ‘‘They cried out.” The
chief priests moved the people (Mark
15:11). *“Barabbas.” An insurrec-
tionist, a robber and a murderer.
19. “Sedition.” Insurtection.
ILlatthew says he was a celebrated
prisoner. In some manuscripts he is
cailed Jesus Barabbas.
20. “Willing to release Jesus.” Tt
was probable at this time that the
me -onger came from Pilate’s wife
(Matt. 27:19) urging the release of
Jesus. Pilate repeated the proposal
of verse 16.
21. “Crucify Him.” Let Him Cie
the most ignominious death possible.
Had the Jews executed Him according
tc their law against false prophets
and blasphemers they would
stoned Him, as they repeatedly at-
tempted to do, and as they did +’ith
Stephen. His prophecy of crucifixion
was practically a prophecy that He
should be put to death, as He actual-
ly was, on a charge of high treason
against the Roman government. It
can hardly be supposed that these
people who were crying, “Crucify
Him,” were the same people who had
brought Jesus into the city the Sun-
day before with shouts of hosanna.
This was a Jewish mob urged on by
the authorities; that was no doubt
largely a Galilean crowd.
+22. ‘““What- evil ‘hath He done.”
How many and what various persons
bear testimony to the innocence of
the Holy One — Pilate, Herod, Pi.
late’s wife, the thief on the cross, and
the centurion at the crucifixion. ‘And
let Him go.” Pilate is laboring hard
to release Him; he could have ended
this whole matter with one word. It
was at this juncture that Pilate
asked, What shall I do then with
Jesus, which is called Christ? This
is a question every person must an-
swer. 1. Every person must accept
or reject Him. 2. Rejecting Christ
is the great sin of the world. 3. If
we reject Him here we shall be re-
jected by Him hereafter.
923. “Instant.” Insistent, urgent.
“Prevailed.” The reason why he fin-
ally yielded seems to have been the
one given in John 19.12, “If thou let
this man go, thou art not Caesar’s
friend.” But Pilate gained nothing
even with Caesar, for he was soon
recalled, degraded and hanished to
Gaul, where he committed suicide.
11I. Pilate pronounces the death
sentence (vs. 24, 25). 24. “Pilate
gave sentence.” Before Pilate pro-
nounced the sentence he took water
and washed his hands publicly, thus
expressing in acts what he uttered in
words, “I am innocent of the blood of
this just person; see ye to it” (Matt.
97:24). The people accept the re-
sponsibility and ery, “His blood be on
us, and on our children.” That blood
wes upon them, not as vengeance,
but as a natural consequence of their
conduct. Within forty years the city
was destroyed amid scenes of cruelty
which defy description. No history
can furnish us with a parallel to the
calamities and miseries of the Jews
at that time. There was rapine, mur-
der, famine, pestilence and all the
horrors of war. The account given
by Josephus is heart-rending. Pilate
again ascends the judgment seat,
which was set up in a raised place in
the open square, and delivers his final
decree. 25. ‘‘He delivered Jesus to
their will.” Jesus i$ now mocked the
third time, about 8 o’clock, Friday
morning, in the court of Pilate’s pal-
ace. See Matt. 27:26-30; Mark 15:
15-19; John 19:1-3. When Jesus is
brought out before them, Pilate
makes one last effort to release Him
(John 19:4-15). Now it is that he
permits Jesus to be scourged, hoping
that will satisfy them; but the cry is
still, “Crucify Him,” and He is taken
back into the court and His own
clothes are put upon Him. It was
at this time that Pilate said, “Behold,
the man!” And well may we stop
and behold Him. He was ‘a man of
sorrows, and acquainted with grief”
(Isa. 53:3). In Him we see a per-
fect exhibition of meekness and love
and a perfect example for us to fol-
low. * He was the God-man and as
such made the great atonement for
the redemption of mankind.
There's a deal of difference be-
tween using the Bible as a text-book
of life and as a book of texts.
Filled With the Divine Issence.
The heart which can carry the
burdens. and sorrows of even the
most forsaken, which can make room
for the griefs and toils and cares of
the hapless multitude, is filled with-
out measure with the life and love of
God.—Charles F. B. Miel.
Labor Men Urge Temperance.
The business agent of a labor
tinion in Chicago has been preaching
the gospel of temperance to his fel-
xe
DECEMBER SECOND.
Courage or Cowardice—Which?—Luke
12:4, 5; .Gal. 1:9-12; Jer.
1:6-10, 17.
Much fighting-——among men and na-
i i mply because men are too
cowardly to stand by the principles of
peace (Luke 12:4).
“He's not afraid of anything,”
say in admiration;
ed fear is one of
human qualities (Luke 12:5).
Pleasing men is well enough if it is
a by-preduct of our lives, and not the
7 (Gal 1710).
ess of God’s presence is
man’s prison and the good
(Jer. 1:8).
Suggestions.
The word “courage” comes from the
Latin word cor, heart. Whatever the
appearance, a man is couragecus if
his heart is brave.
The mo$t valiant exercise of cour-
age is manfully to grapple with one’s
dearest sins and tear them out of
one’s life. :
No one is likely to have the true
courage if he admires the false cour-
age.
Spiritual courage is helped by phy-
sical courage, but physical courage
cannot endure at all without spiritual
courage.
we
but a well-bestow-
the most valuable
bad
the
man’s fortress
Hlustrations.
“Your face is pale,” sneered one
scldier to another. ‘Yes,’ he ans
wered:; “if you were as much afraid
as I am, you would have run long
ago.”
A Quaker often shows more courage
by refusing to go to war than a sol-
dier in the hottest battle.
Peter, who whipped out his sword
in Geths ane, shrank from a wo-
iman’s tongue in the high priest's
courtyard.
Perhaps Paul's mest courageous ac
s iing his journey to
spite of his friends’
knowing what fate
Am 1 bold where Christ wants me
bold?
Is *my courage. firmly based upon
Christian faith?
Courage consists not in blindly
overlooking danger, but in seeing it
and conquering it.—Richter.
Courage without discipline is near-
gr Dbeastlihess than manhood.—Sir
Philip Sidney.
Courage is always greatest when
blended with meekness.—Chapin.
God is the brave man’s hope and
not the coward’s excuse.—Plutarch.
EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2.
Temptations and How to Meet Them.
Matt. 4. 3-11.
Daily Readings.
The sphere of temptation.—1 John
8.15, 16.
How they work.—James 1. 13-15.
A cheering promise to the tempted.
—I Cor. 10. 13.
How to endure to the end.—Heb.
12. 3.
The snare of plenty.—Deut. 8. 11-
18.
Do not choose bad companions.—
Prov. 1. 10-14.
Topic—Temptations and
Meet Them.—Matt. 4 3-11.
It must be that temptations come.
It is in the case, essentially. Temp-
tation: grows out of our moral free-
dom, which is the supreme attribute
of human nature. Without this en-
dowment, as says Dr. Austin Phelps,
“a man would have no right to say L
Without it a humming bird is his
equal: with it he is‘ kindred of the
angels.” Further, he says: “Few men
can stand on the summit of a lofty
tower without a momentary sense of
peril in the consciousness of power to
plunge himself headlong. A special
police guard the Column Vendome, in
Paris, to prevent that form of suicide.
So fascinating. often, is the power to
do an evil deed.” Temptation is
solicitation to exercise this godlike
power of choice in ways forbidden by
highest wisdom, by God himself.
There are two main sources of evil
prompting and solicitation. “A man
is tempted when he is drawn away
of his own lusts.” James said. That,
of course, is true. “I fear most of all,”
said Luther (was it?), the great
pope inside, Myself.” There is, ac-
cording to Scripture, from Genesis to
Revelation, another source of temp
tation; namely, the evil personality
we call the devil, or Satan. ‘He goeth
about like a roaring lion seeking whom
he may devour.” “He has many
wiles, even appearing as an angel of
light, sometimes, perhaps oftenest so
__at least when he tempts people who
mean to do right. Besides this evil,
invisible personality there are multi-
tudious sources of temptation in the
world. Evil persons tempt us to do
wrong. The pressure of life’s neces-
sities, or its fancied needs, is heavy
upon us. Men lie, steal, forge for
tnis cause.
How to
Begin With the Cross.
“Being found in fashion as a man,
He humbled Himself and became obe-
dient unto death, even the death of
the Cross.”
Except a man’s faith begin here—
with the Cross of the Lord, with the
broken body and shed blood, as God’s
own sacrifice for sin—it is impossible
to understand how he can have peni-
tence enough, or freedom enough, or
love enough to enjoy and fulfill the
life to which this death was the re-
demption. But if he has remembered
Christ here, there is in truth, by the
reality of the incarnatien, no part of
common life which may not equally
be a remembrance and memorial of
His glory.—George Adam Smith.
Kansas Prohibition Popular.
‘Kansas was never as temperate a
State as it is to-day, and the prohib-
Itory policy was never surer of popu-
jow-unionists, and has won many of
them over.
lar endorsement, taking the State as
=< whole.—Topeka Daily Capital.
EONG YIN GONG (ALMOND SOUP)
Take three pints and a half of
plain soup broth and place in a sauce-
pan with a finely chopped onion, a
teaspoonful of chopped parsley and
seasoning of a‘teaspoonful of pepper.
Add three ounces of raw rice with
half a tablespoonful of butter and
boil for thirty-five minutes. Scaid
three ounces almonds in boiling
water (after they have been shelled),
drain and peel them and chop al-
monds to a powder. Place this pow-
der in a saucepan with two cups-of
milk and boil for ten minutes, stir-
ring once in a while. Now press this
milk mixture through a cheesecloth
into the soup. Mix well, boil for ten
minutes and serve with slices of
toast.
CELERY JELLY.
Cover two cups of celery stalks cut
in small pieces with one pint of hot
water. Add a few slices of onion,
two sprigs of parsley, salt and pap-
rika to suit the taste. Let it simmer
for about three-quarters of an hour,
then strain through a cheesecloth
bag, allowing the liquid to be per-
fectly clear. Add to the celery water
two tablespoonfuls of gelatine soft-
ened in a quarter of a cup of cold
water, and squeeze in the juice of one
large lemon. Strain again onto a
large platter, wet in cold water. It
should form a layer an inch thick.
When cold and thoroughly hardened,
cut it into small squares and fancy
shapes. Jse five or six to garnish
each ‘plate of salad. This garnish
would probably be nice with a chick-
en salad served with mayonnaise.—
American Cultivator.
FISH CHOWDERS.
A fish chowder prepared either
from fresh haddock or from codfish
and made according to the following
rule is a genuine old New England
dish and is most appetizing: Have on
hand two pounds either of fresh cod
or fresh haddock, and cut it up into
square pieces. As the bones help to
flavor they should not be taken out.
Place three slices of pork in a deep
kettle, and when they are ‘“‘tried out”
remove them, and into the melted
fat put a layer of fish. Then cover
it with a layer of cooked potatoes
taken from a bowl into which five
medium sized cooked potatoes and
one good sized onion have been
sliced in very thin slices. Then place
over the layer of potato, another
layer of fish, and so on, until all the
potato and fish are used. As each
layer is added sprinkle with pepper
and salt. Pour enough water over
the mixture to prevent the fish from
burning. When this has entirely
Boiled away add a quart of milk and
bring it to the boiling point. Do not
let it boil more than a minute. Pour
into the soup tureen a piece of but-
ter almost the size of an egg, and
about six lightly moistened crackers.
Then pour the fish chowder into the
tureen and serve immediately.—New
York Tribune.
PINEAPPLE JELLY.
Choose perfectly ripe pineapples,
pare them and remove the eyes.
Now grate the pines, and to every
cupful of the grated fruit add one-
quarter of a pound of white sugar, al-
lowing them to stand together for
three hours. Place on the stove in
a preserving pan and let come slowly
to a boil. Continue boiling very
slowly until the fruit is quite soft,
then pour into a jelly bag and have
the syrup drain through without
squeezing into an earthenware basin,
leaving it in the bag until the syrup
has all dripped out. To each break-
fast cupful of syrup add a quarter
of a pound of white sugar and boil
slowly, skimming at frequent inter-
vals. After it has been boiling for
about a quarter of an hour place a
small quantity of it in a saucer to
cool. If it is stiff the jelly is done;
if not, continue the boiling process
for a time longer. When done let it
cool until it is lukewarm and pour
into glasses. Cover with rounds of
paper so that no air can get to them.
Rub the hands on a stick of celery
after peeling onions, and the smell
will be entirely removed.
Never wash combs, clean by brush-
ing and pulling a piece of cotton
through the teeth.
Match marks on a polished or var-
nished surface may be removed by
first rubbing them with a cut lemon
and then’ with a cloth dipped in
water.
To keep tortoise shell combs
bright rub them, after wearing, with
soft leather. When they become dim
clean with rotten stone and oil, ap-
plied with chamois leather.
To keep meat for a few days in hot
weather, sprinkle it all over with
roughly pounded charcoal and put
some charcoal under it. If a bird is
to be kept put a2 lump of charcoal in-
side of it, and after #t has been
drawn, and sprinkle charcoal over
the breast and between the pinions.
KEYSTONE STATE CULLINGS
PULLMAN PEOPLE SENTENCED
a
Not Guilty of Aduiterating Milk, but
Techanically Responsible for
Formaldehyde in It.
the Pullman
guilty of
Ruling that
had not been
Company
aduiterating
its milk and cream, but that it had
been technically responsible for the
presence of formaldehyde in its food
supplies, Judge Alexander D. Me-
Connell at Greensburg imposed the
minimum sentence provided by law,
and the 16 indictments against the
company were settled by the taking
of verdiets in six cases. The resuit
of the trials is regarded as a practi-
cal vindication of the Pullman Com-
pany, while at the same time estab-
lishing a precedent which will prove
of advantage to the pure food com-
mission, in that county rather than
Federal courts have jurisdiction in
such actions.
The Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western railroad and its switchmen
arrived at a satisfactory adjustment
of the demands of the latter and ent-
ered into an agreement, which will
continue for one year from January 1
next, when the present agreement ex-
pires. The men wanted an increase
of 10 ents per hour and a 10-hour day
on all divisions of the road. The
settlement made calls for an increase
of four cents an hour in the Scranton
and Buffalo yards, the smaller yards
to have a proportionate increase. The
10-hour day is granted on all parts
of the system.
One man was fatally hurt and two
received serious injuries in a prema-
ture dynamite explosion in a mine of
the yilworth Coal Company at
Rices Landing. The fatally injured
is Jobkn Fowler, aged 35 and the
1¥nard
men had
an old en-
piece of slate
seriously injured e Patrick
and Archibald Smith. The
been blasting. co
ry in the mine w
is thought to have f{: on a per
cussion cap. The injured men all liv-
ed at Rices Landing and have fami-
lies.
1
Washington.—Council has let con-
tracts for the erection of a sewerage
disposal plant to Williams, Procters
& Potts > New York for $78,610.—
The death of Luther Regland, a 19-
vear-old boy, at the Washington hos-
pital swells Washington county's
murder list in the last 10 days to five.
Regland was shot at Westland by an
Italian, Charles Scravan, during a
quarrel. Scravan is under arrest.
Governor Pennypacker appointed
Thomas J. Lynch of South Bethlehem
a member of the State Water Supply
Commission at a salary of $3,000 a
year. Lynch is executive clerk in the
Governor's office at a salary of $1.-
500. He takes the place of John E.
Whitworth of Kittanning on the Wat-
er Supply Commission.. Whitworth is
corporation clerk of the State De-
partment and resigned from the Wat-
er Supply Commission recently.
State Treasurer Berry received a
check for $100 from a man in Erie,
with the request that it be applied to
the ‘conscience fund’ and that his
name be withheld. In a letter the
maker of the check says he failed to
make a return of certain money he’
had at interest and that he preferred
to make his settlement direct with
the State treasury instead of with
the county authorities.
The board of directors of the Phila-
delphia Rapid Transit Company de-
cided on an increase of 5 per cent in
the wages of its 7,500 Motormen and
conductors, to take effect December
1. This means an additional outlay
of about $270,000 a year. The men
are now receiving 20 cents an hour.
Two years ago the employes were
granted an increase of 5 per cent.
Following the visit of President W.
B. Corey to Greenville, official an-
nouncement was made that the
United States Steel Corporation had
appropriated over $1,000,000 for the
improvement of the Bessemer & Lake
Erie railroad during the coming year.
Miss Nancy R. McConnell, aged 70
was struck by a Pittsburg & Lake
Erie passenger train near Bellevernon
and died an hour later. Miss McCon-
nell lived alone in Rostraver town-
ship, and is said to have left an es-
tate of $500,000.
Orin Young and several companions
had chased a rabbit into a hollow log
near Sharon and while Young was
looking in one end, one of the other
boys shot into the other end. Young's
face was peppered with shot and one
eye destroyed.
At Cherry Valley mines, near Bur-
gettstown, on the Panhandle railroad,
Joseph Gentry and John Martin, Eng-
lish coal miners, quarreled and Gent-
ry struck Martin down with a blud-
geon, death resulting almost instantly.
Gentry escaped.
Frank Morgan, aged 26, whose
home was in Greensburg, was drown-
ed in the Allegheny river near Frank-
lin. He was operating a ferryboat
when a collision snapped the cable
He jumped off and tried to swim
ashore, but sank.
After eating some medical tablets
which he got without the knowledge
of his mother, the 3-year-old son of
Mrs. Mattie Smith of Farmington,
Fayette county, died within half an
hour :
At a conference at Mahony City,
between the officials of the United
Mine Workers and the Dodson Coal
Company the grievances of the 600
employes who struck on Thursday at
the Morea colliery were amicably ad-
justed. Work will be resumed.
The Ephrata Board of Trade has
opened negotiations for the establish-
ment of a shoe factory that is now in
operation in New Oxford. The pro-
posed plant will employ more than
100 hands.
E. H. Hostetter, a politician of Han-
over, York county, committed suicide
by shooting himself in the head. Fi-
pancial troubles are blamed.