Age Shown by Dress.
A Japanese woman's age can be
told from her dress. "It is probably
the only country in the world where
women are not ashamed of their age.
~ The Stout Girl.
Let the stout girl pay particular at-
tention to sitting and standing cor-
rectly. She needs to have perfect
controlove r her waist and abdominal
muscles. The figure will be wonder-
fully improved, even without the loss
of flesh, if these muscles are held in
their normal position. Do, not allow
them to become relaxed and flabby. —
New York Press.
Female Doctors in Germany.
Prof. von Bergmann—the great Ger-
man surgeon, who attended the Em-
peror Frederick during his last ill-
ness, and had such a frightful quarrel
with Morell Mackenzie—has been tell-
ing the editor of a medical journal
that “I am decidedly against women
entering the profession. Briefly
put, his reason is that “so long as
women are unable to beat cooks and
tailors at the vocations which women
are apt to regard as their own special-
ties, so long will they be unable to
compete successfully with men doc-
tors. * * * 1] have too high a re-
gard for women to encourage them to
become doctors.”—London Chronicle.
Business Women of a Maine Town.
If Norway ever should have a may-
or the chances are 10 to 1 a woman
would hold the office. This Oxford
county village of 1500 inhabitants has
more than a score of women manag-
ing progressive lines of business. The
town physician is a woman. A wom-
an is justice of the peace. A woman
manages a dry goods store. Another
is photographer, a fifth is bank cash-
jer, a sixth is an undertaker, and still
a seventh is an insurance agent. Un-
til her recent resignation the Rev.
Caroline E. Angell was, for eighteen
pastor of the Universalist
h at Norway. Mrs. F. W. San-
born in responsible for the appear-
ance of the Norway Advertiser, the
local weekly. This by no means com-
pletes the list of the successful busi-
ness women of Norway.—l.ewiston
Journal.
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Destroyers of Art Love.
Though it has been asserted
that
absorption in the automobile pre-
cludes the cultivation of literature and
art, many society women refuse to ad-
mit the impeachment. They have
proved, they say, that the possession
of a garage does not mean the aban-
donment of library and art gallery,
and that a woman may superintend
the decoration of her home and yet be
an expert devil-wagon driver. Mrs.
Stuyvesant Fish, who is an enthusias-
tic motorist, still finds an auto of less
importance than the planning of an
attractive dinner. At a recent dinner
party she had upon the table the
“Winged Victory,” and a couple of
other bits of statuary, which, banked
about by roses in great crimson
masses and clumps of vivid green
ferns, gave a beautiful effect.—New-
port Press.
Animal Collections.
Almost everybody seems to be pos-
sessed these days with the craze of
collecting china animals. There is
hardly a drawing room without a por-
celain cat or dog, a parrot or monkey,
and in some there are veritable men-
ageries. One woman of fashion is
the proud possessor of a ‘“greenery-
yallery” cat, figured all over with
cabalistic designs in blue, and wear-
ing a sort of dog blanket of white
china patterned = with tiny posies.
She has a gay rooster on one of the
drawing room tables, with fantastic
plumage, and on the mantel shelf are
ome ducks and geese, a small dog
And several gay colored birds.
A young matron, whose marriage
“was much a recent event that her
friends were able to indulge in the
anbmal fad for gifts, includes in her
collection a gray and. white cockatoo
witH a yellow topknot, and a brown
and white monkey.—New York Trib-
une.
&
Will Work On For Woman's Vote.
One of. the suffering English “suf-
fragettes,” Miss Sylvia Panhurst, has
been making fresh plans since she
gog§ out of jail. She is more deter-
mined than ever that women shall
vote, apd she is going to work also
for prison reforms, which may be ef-
fected, she thinks, before women get
he franchise. “Think of it!” she
exclaimed, “there are thousands of
women imprisoned, and yet there are
no women prison commissioners or
inspectors. The thing that seemed
worst. to me in prison was that we
were not encouraged to wash more
thansonce a day and could not get
more than one warm bath a week.
What good can solitude do? Is it
good fon a woman to brood? Being
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in the third division, I was sent into
the exercise yard not more than three
times a week. On coming out the
first time I found my powers of ob-
servation greatly accentuated. I
seemed to see everything. I shall al-
ways remember the color of the sky
that day and the drifting clouds.
Among the prisoners, I alone looked
up; the others bent their eyes on the
ground. Theirs was the walk of de-
gpair.”—New York Press.
The White Lie.
We occasionally hear discussions as
to the ethics of the white lie, and in
these days the majority of the people
are to be found defending it, at
least by practicing it. A correspond-
ent has happened upon a story of an
ancient rabbi which shows that the
white lie—the very name is excusa-
tory—was not always a venial offense.
This rabbi came to a city where all
the people were truthful, married one
of the inhabitants, had two children
and prospered. One day a neighbor
called when the rabbis wife was wash-
ing her head and the rabbi answering
the door, seized by false modesty,
said that she had gone out. There-
upon both of his children died, and as
no one died .in that city before reach-
ing old age, the neighbors made in-
quiries, the rabbi confessed what he
had done and was ordered to leave
the city immediately. The yhite lie—
such seems the moral—may have
black consequences.
One may defend that “white lie,”
for the “white lie” is the social lubri-
cant. The “palace of truth” would
be a dreadful place of residence, and
the man who always says exactly
what he thinks deserves to be shot
for overestimating the importance of
his = thoughts. There is no such
abominable person as the “candid
friend,’ who always says what he
thinks. The real friend is the one
who, if we may borrow the sweet epi-
gram of the late Dr. Robert Wallace
in his brilliant maiden speech to the
house of commons, is the ‘sugar-can-
died” friend.—London Chronicle.
Fashion Notes.
The three piece costume
acme of perfecticn in dress.
With a suitable veil, goggles are
seldom necessary, unless one is daft
after looking the part she is playing.
Row upon row of tiny lace frills oc-
casionally comprise the under-blouse
worn with the waist of skeleton de-
sign.
Three or four tiny flat bows of vel-
vet or silk down the front of the lin-
gerie chemisette appear on some of
the smart new gowns.
so heavy as to drag
the skirt about the bottom is the
very last word in fashionable skirt
trimming for evening gowns.
A decoration of peacock feathers
upon one of the tiny feather turbans
is very becoming for a gray-haired
lady—if she has a young face.
A square plain yoke of allover em-
broidery to which the slight fullness
of the fronts is gathered make a late
design in corset covers for the stout
figure.
The tiny crocheted silk edge used
for finishing tea cozys and articles of
like nature, is very attractive as a
finish for the plain wool negligee or
bathrobe.
A stunning gown described by a
correspondent, had a short walking
skirt, a bolero short and loose enough
to show the bodice and an elaborate
treatment of braid.
The long graceful willow plumes
adjust themsélves so naturally along
the side of the hat and are so beauti-
fully soft and full that the price is no
stumbling block if the hat is becom-
ing. :
"As there is so great a demand for
handsome buttons of all kinds, it is
not strange that such substances as
jade, cat's-eye, and moonstones
should be pressed into service for
this purpose.
is the
Embroidery
What “Y{f’ Spells.
A gentleman once received a letter
in which were these words:
“Not finding Brown at hom, I deliv-
ered your meseg to his yf.”
The gentlenfan, finding it bad spell-
ing, and therefore not being very intel-
ligible, called his lady to help him read
it. Between them they picked out the
meaning of all but the “yf,” which
they could not understand. The lady
proposed calling her chambermaid, be-
cause “Betty,” says she, “has the best
knack at reading bad spelling of any
one I know.”
Betty came, and was surprised that
neither sir nor madam could tell what
“vf” was. -
“Why,” says she, “yf spells wife;
what else can it spell?”
And indeed it is a much better as
well as shorter method of spelling wife
than doubleyou, i, ef, e, which in reali-
ty spell doubleyifey.—From a letter by
[ Benjamin Franklin.
Subject: Christ's
Brooklyn, N. Y.—Preaching at the.
Irving Square Presbyterian Church
on the theme, ‘“Christ’s Agony ‘and
Ours,” the Rev. Ira Wemmell Hen-
derson, pastor, took as his text Luke
13:34, “And ye would mot.” He
said: :
The lamentation of Jesus over the
City of Jerusalem was occasioned by
His clear vision of the depth of her
need, of the completeness of her re-
jection of Himself and the revelation
of and from the Father that He
brought, and by His firm conviction
that disdain for His Gospel meant
death for herself. Feeling in His
inmost heart that His was the truth
that could save the city of His people
from its sin; knowing, as He did,
that He was the long-heralded Mes-
giah who shqQuld lead His countrymen
into the liberty of that life within
Jehovah which should satisfy their
souls; and experiencing, as He had,
the temper of the minds of the ec-
clesiastical and clerical leaders of
the synagogues, Jesus was sick at
heart over the spiritual doom that
was sure to overtake His people. To
Jesus sin was the most awful, the
most terrifying, the most fearful
thing in the world. For Him the
word ‘sin’ summed up, short and
quick, all those agencies which were
anti-Godly and which led men far
from the Father. Sin meant destruc-
tion, disapproval in the eyes of God,
and its wages were the seeds of
death. The Gospel, on the other
hand, held for Jesus the kernel and
the conclusion of all those forces that
should gain men life eternal and the
full, enthusiastic favor of the King,
their Guide. Being born again of
God and entering into the freedom
of the spiritual life divine, Jesus con-
ceived these men, His brethren, as
obtaining deliverance from eternal
death.
With this philosophy and this vis-
ion of the need and the issue—both
of which Jesus had direct from God
— is it any wonder that He wept over
the City of Jerusalem? Sin is death.
My Gospel is the way of sure salva-
tion—the only way—and the true
guide unto life that is eternal. Thus
reasons Jesus. These men are bound
in and unto sin. How gladly would
I teach to them those spiritual truths
that should save them, but they will
not. Sin is their choice, separation
from the Father is their self-willed
death. Do you wonder why the Sav-
ior suffered unto bitter agony and
tears? His was the wide and com-
prehensive view of the world, its sin,
its need, its salvation, its denial, its
destruction. Any smaller or less
comprehending insight would have
been ‘of none avail. A great, limit-
less, universal understanding of the
situation as it was—and is—was. the
one means to stir the soul of the
Christ to its depths. A weaker man
with a smaller horizon would have
become discouraged or disgusted. A
big man, full of heart and grit, with
the richness of God’s love flooding all
his being, was the only one who could
mourn. Jesus wept—mnot from dis-
gust, or discouragement, but because
His whole soul yearned to lead His
dying brethren into life for evermore.
The weight of their guilt, the cer-
tainty of their dying, the uselessness
and the wickedness of it all came
upon the soul of Christ with resist-
Yess force and wrung His heart in
agony.
And now, beloved, this lesson from
the life of our Lord points a three-
fold duty for each of us. The accept-
ance by us of this triple obligation
which the agony of the Master calls
to our attention, will prove to the
world about us that our Christ wept
not in vain. And the duties three.
are these: First, we must be convict-
ed of the awfulness of that sin whose
logical outcome is death. Secondly,
we must have an experimental and
distinct knowledge that the only sure
salvation from this death-dealing sin
is through Jesus Christ. Thirdly, we
must, with weeping hearts, go forth
into the world as living evangels to
preach to all mankind salvation from
this deathly sin through Jesus Christ
our Lord.
The awfulness of sin is a byword
rather than a belief among men to-
day. In our earnest and quite legiti-
mate endeavor to publish the glory
of the love of God for the sinner, we
have lost to a great extent our con-
sciousness and our former denuncia-
tion of the hideousness of sin. In
our endeavor to escape from the un-
reasonable curse of a bodily hell we
have, many of us, rushed to the other
extreme—that is to say, no hell at
all. In our earnest preaching of the
love of God toward the sinner we
have become, I fear, too lenient with
sin. My friends, the love of God is
a reality. The punishment and the
death of man brings no joy to the
Father's heart. Jehovah wants every
man to live within the light of His
countenance of love. To the end that
we might have life and that more
abundantly He sent His Son our Sav-
ior to reveal Himself to us. But sin
is always hateful to God. His whole
nature shrinks from it, as should our
natures, as from a thing unclean. He
can have no communion with it—nor
should we. Its pleasures are dead
fruit, its enjoyments are transient
and a mockery, its wages is death.
uman experience has proved this
o be so, and the word of the living
God sustains the charge. Sin is
death. In strict union within God is
life. Sin and God can have no com-
merce. Where sin is, God cannot be.
Where the Father is, sin is eclipsed,
for with Him there is no evil, but
only the fullness of eternal life. Sin
is death. Death is the Jack of life.
The ruddy apple drops from the leafy,
living bough and dies. The seeds of
quick consumption strike the human
heart and death ensues. In each case
the element of destruction has en-
tered. And as with the physical, so
with the spiritual.
, Godliness is life. Life is union
with the principle of life. The dainty
apple-blossom holds closely to the
budding branch and soon we pluck
the sound and luscious, wholesome
TRAIN HENDER!
THE FAMOUS DIVINE,
Agony and Ours.
fruit. “~The life that seems so near
the brink of death’s dark stream, the
heart that weakly beats, the blood
that boils at fever heat, all seize upon
the remedies that cure, and health
and healing vigor rush through the
weakened frame. In each case the
principle of life. has been at work.
As with the natural, so with the
spiritual.
Ah, yes, beloved, sin is bondage,
death, disgrace, unprofitable. God-
liness’is‘great gain and it will surely
bring contentment. Sin is distance
from God and there is no worse death
or hell Jesus leads wus nearer
Heaven, and within Him is the most
life and the best. But sin is death
and the sooner the world finds it out
and we Christians really realize its
awfulness the better for us and the
world.
This sin, however, is susceptible of
defeat. Our lives may be freed from
its power and made victorious above
its strength. The means are not
various, nor is the way hard. There
is but one means and one true and
happy way. That means and that
way Jesus has revealed. Coming to
Him for healing we may find ease-
ment for our souls. Trust in Him
will gain release from evil. A whole
life spent in His service will reap
a rich reward. His is the only gos-
pel that contains the truth entire.
His is the one salvation that our
spirits need. His is the gift of life
forever unto all who hear, believe
and live for Him. Being certain
that sin is death, we must preach to
men the way to life through Jesus
Christ our Lord. The trouble with
much of our testimony is that we are
a little shaky on our own founda-
tions and that too much of our testi-
mony is from the mouth out and is
not welling up from hearts that have
tasted of the joys of the Christ-
blessed life. Too much of our knowl-
edge of spiritual truths comes to us
.at second-hand and too little arises
from the depths of personal experi-
ence. Our ideas must be cut clear
as to what is the state and the
future of men who are continuing in
sin. We must feel that Jesus is the
need and the Savior of other men, as
He has been the need and the Savior
of each of us. We must get that
vision of the world which shall make
us weep as did our Lord, which shall
make us say with Paul, “Woe is me
if I preach not the Gospel.”
Ah, yes, beloved, we must, with
weeping hearts go forth to lead men
up to God. If sin is death and we
possess and know the way to life
everlasting, we must not rest until
we, too, have brought some brother
home to safety. I say we must. I
cannot say we may. Our orders read
‘“‘go thou,” not ‘“‘won’t you please go.”
Christ pleads with the sinner, but
His word is law, and so it should
be, to those who are His.
Come with me into the busy street
on any working-day, or to any gaudy
concert-hall on sunny Sabbath days,
and I will show you why you should
weep and work. There they are!
heedless, unhearing, uncaring, bound
more intent to make money or to
while the hours away than to save
their immortal souls. Young and
old, rich and poor, hardened sinners
and youths who are just entering the
road to death—each of them, all of
them, caring little, and thinking less
of the awfulness of their sin and the
outcome of their shame. Good men
who are wise in everything but their
conceptions of their - need of Christ.
Pure men who will“come to Jesus
if so be some one will only put them
to the test. Leaders in the church
who profess the Christ, but who mis-
represent Him. A weary, heavy-
laden host — and. we can lift
the crushing weight of sin. Look at
them and consider. Is it any wonder
now that Jesus wept? Ah, beloved,
we ought to weep—weep like Jesus
because men are dying right before
our eyes, within reach of our hands;
weep—weep unlike Jesus because we
are unworthy ‘servants of our DMas-
ter, because we are recreant to our
duty and our trust.
My friends, men who sin are
doomed to death except Christ enters
in the life and saves. To each of us
the question of our God comes clear
and strong to-day as it came to Isaiah
the prophet in the year that King
Uzziah died, “Whom shall I send and
who will go for us.”” Will you refuse
the Father or will you say with
Isaiah, “Here am I, send me.”
a The Piety of Usefulness.
Someone once said to Cromwell:
“You, sire, know well the usefulness
of piety!” ‘I know something bet-
ter,”” Cromwell replied, ‘the piety
of usefulness.” The phrase works
both ways. Piety is useful, and use-
fulness is a function or activity of
piety. If it is meant that simply to
be busy is to be religious, a subtle
terror lurks in the remark of Crom-
well. But if the meaning is that
the piety demanded by the age is not
a self-engrossed religiousness which
dwells apart in reflective unconcern,
but the practical kind of faith that is
busy in the King’s business, an im-
portant truth is thus brought to our
notice.
The Soul's Greatest Need.
Rest is the deepest want in the
soul of man. All men do not desire
pleasure; all men do not crave in-
tellectual food; but all men long for
rest. It is the need which sometimes
makes the quiet of the grave an ob-
ject of deep desire. There the weary
are at rest. And it is this which,
consciously or unconsciously, is the
real wish that lies at the bottom of
all others.
The Chureh’s Duty.
Part of the Church's duty is te
press on to their duty Christians al-
ready won to Christ; to care for their
spiritual development; but first of
all, and above all, the Church is here
to evangelize the world.—Archbishop
of Canterbury. ’
' THE GRIPPE.
An ache In the back and a pain in the
1cad—
That's the grippe!
in the throat and a yearning for
wees That's the grippe!
A river of heat, then a shiver of cold,
A feeling of being three hundred years
A choke
bed
A willingness even to do as you're told—
3 That's the grippe!
An arrow of pain, now in this place, now
1at—
Sr That's the grippe!
A fooling of doubt as to where you are
alt—
; That's the grippe!
A stupid sensation—of course, wholly
ew. —
A foolish depression—why should you
\ eel Dblue?—
A doubt as to whether this really is you—
That's the grippe!
Strange visions at
you of rest—
. That's the grippe!
A taste in your mouth, and a weight on
your chest—
: That's the grippe!
tired sensation that runs through your
veins,
queer combination of
pains
vapid admission of absence of brains—
That's the grippe!
night, that deprive
A
A
A
aches and of
A marvelous weakness, come on in a
ay
That's tlie grippe!
petulant wonder: ‘I vill i
Any low long will it
A
That's the grippe!
Season, of fever, a season of freeze
quivering weakness that's felt at t
Yoong S s t at the
Say, If ever there was a cuss-ed disease,
It’s the grippe!
-—Somerville Journal.
A
A
Aunt—I think you say your prayers
very nicely, Reggie. Young Hopeful—
Ah, but you should hear me gargle!—
Punch.
He Worked Like a Trojan for Them
Too—"“Wonder who was the first wo-
man to get her gowns from Paris?’
“Helen of Troy, no doubt.”—Boston
Transcript.
“What is your attitude on this in-
come tax proposition?” ‘Simply this:
Give me the income and I care not
who tries to collect the tax.”—Balti-
more American.
“The Rev. Mr. Sixthly has a good
deal of nerve. “How so.”. “Why,
he bought a barrel of old sermons and
had them charged to the church.—
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Mistress (severely)—Jane, the pia-
no looks like it had not been dusted
for a month. Servant—That's no fault
of mine, ma’am, I've only been here a
week—Chicago Daily News.
“Tompkins says that when he mar-
ries it will be to a girl whose intellec-
tual accomplishments are inferior to
his.” “How foolish of him to remain
a bachelor.”—Milwaukee Sentinel.
Little Willie—Say, pa, what is the
difference between a statesman and a
politician? Pa—A statesman, my son,
is able to deceive without lying and a
politician lies without deceiving.——
Chicago Daily News.
Fluffy Young Thing (at the play)—I
believe this man in front of us is try-
ing to hear what we're saying! Man
in Front (turning around)—You do me
an injustice, my dear young lady. I
am trying not to hear it.—Chicago
Tribune.
Hungry Hank—I'd be obliged to yer
lady, for a meal Mrs. Bright—Ah,
you're one of these after-dinner speak-
ers. Hungry Hank—Not exactly, lady,
or I wouldn't be so hungry; I ain't
even got so much as a chestnut about
me.—Philadelphia Press.
The Governess—Did you visit the
Louvre while you were in Paris,
ma'am? Mrs. Newcoyne—I forget; did
we, John? Mr. Newcoyne, Why, I
don’t see how you can possibly forget
that place, Jane! That's where you
had your pocket picked !—Puck.
«And this,” said the Tibetan guide,
“js one of our praying machines.”
“How ignorantly heathenish!” ex-
claimed Mrs. Globe Trotter.” “And do
you not do your praying by ma-
chines?’ “Indeed, no. We have a
preacher to do it for us.”—Cleveland
Leader.
“Have you ever made any effort to
popularize yourself with the masses?”
“No,” answered Senator Sorghum:
“I let them caricature me and lib2l
me until they got tired of it. Now
they're relieved to find I'm not as
black as I was painted.—Washington
Star.
“Friend,” said the beggar, “won't y=r
help a poor, sick guy? De hospital doc-
tor gimme a perscription an’ I'd like
ter use it.” “Want me to buy the medi-
cine, eh?’ asked Walker. “No, I got
de medcine all right, but it's ter be
took after meals. I tought ver might
gimme de price o' one 0 de meals.’ --
Philadelphia Press.
Visitor to the West Indies (who has
been warned against bathing in the
river because of, alligators, but has
been told by the boatmen that thers
are none at the river's mouth)—By
Jove, this is ripping! But, I say, how
do you know there are no alligators
here? Boatman—Well, you see, sah,
de alligator am so turrible feared ob
de shark.—Punch.
’
Free and Continuous.
Caudle—Why do you call
a liberal educator?
Waddel—He lectures without pay.
Caudle—Then my wife must be in
that class also. She has been doing
the same thing ever since the day she
led me to the altar.—Chicago Daily
News.
Speaks
KEYSTONE STATE GULLINGS
LEGISLATIVE DOINGS
Some New Measures Proposed—Bills
Passed Finally—State News in
General.
Life sentences for burglars are pro-
vided for in a bill introduced by
Representative Sedwick of Armstrong.
His bill is modeled after an Ohio law.
Among other things the bill provides
that any person entering any dwell-
ing house at night with intent to
commit a felony or with intent to
steal or carry away property of val-
ue, if it be other than the first of-
fense, shall be deemed a ‘hardened
criminal, and shall be sentenced to
undergo imprisonment at solitary con-
finement in the penitentiary at hard
labor for life. If it be the first of-
fense, and if the jury shall recom-
mend mercy, or if the offense be
committed in the day time, the sent-
ence shall be imprisonment not to
exceed 20 years, nor less than 5.
The Kirby bill, providing for elec-
tion by the people of members of
the board of tax assessment and re-
vision passed the House by a unani-
mous vote.
The judiciary general committee
reported out favorably the bill reduc-
ing the State fee for notary publics
from $25 to $15 per year.
The following bills passed finally:
Authorizing the Chief of the Depart-
ment of Mines to employ two addi-
tional clerks and a stenographer and
typewriter. ;
Making the open season for taking
rabbits from October 1 to December
1. Fixing the limit for State armories
for infantry companies at $25,000 and
cavalry troops at $35,000.
Providing that the fees of the At-
torney General shall be paid daily in-
to the State Treasury.
Increasing the annual allowance of
the State Zoologist to $40,000.
Authorizing the corporate authori-
ties of boroughs to expend not more
than one-half of the annual appropria-
tion for roads and streets in curbing
and paving or macadamizing any
street, lane or alley.
The two Allegheny county court
bills were passed finally by the
house. They will now be sent to the
governor - for his consideration. The
vote on the first bill was 147 to 21.
The second bill received 110 votes, or
just six more than enough, while 48
members voted against it. The Alle:
ghenians who were not present were
I. B. Smith, Hunter, McCullagh and
Schad.
Mr. Dearden of Philadelphia has a
bill to tax. all stock, bill, note, ex-
change, merchandise and real estate
brokers, commission merchants and
real estate agents. The rate is from
$10 to $100, according to the volume
of business done.
The House of Representatives went
on record by a small majority, as op-
posed to the repeal of the State con-
stabulary bill, after one of the most
heated debates since the opening of
the Legislature. The discussion was
on the resolution introduced by Rep:
resentative Garner, of Schuylkill, to
place the constabulary repealer on
the calendar, as it had been reported
negatively from the committee. The
vote was 100 to 75 in favor of putting
the bill on the calendar, but it re
quires a constitutional majority of
104.
Mr. Creasy introduced a bill, which
if passed, will add about $300,000 to
the State revenues. It will compel
National and savings banks to pay
four mills tax on the market value of
their stocks. At present the banks
have the option of doing this or pay:
ing 10 mills on the book value. The
latter option- was = always enjoyed.
This will place the National banks
on the same basis as trust compan:
ies.
Judge Evans of Pittsburgh, sent
enced Common Councilman William
A. Martin of the Sixteenth ward, con-
viected of soliciting a bribe to vote
for and aid the passage of the Pitts:
burgh and Tube City Railroad Com-
pany's franchise ordinance through
the body of which he is a member,
to pay a fine of $500 and costs of
prosecution and to serve a term of
three years in the Western peni-
tentiary.
Jacob Bowman, a
old, was found in a
near Wymp's Gap in
almost frozen to death
after feebly trying to
man was in Fairchance and started
over the mountain for home. Falling
in a snowdrift, he was evidently un-
able to rise.
At 12:45 in the
blaze was discovered
of the State
on the first
70 years
deep snowdrift
the mountain,
and he died
speak. Bow-
farmer,
morning a slight
in the offices
department of health,
floor of the northwest
wing of the new capitol. Several
chairs and a desk were burned and
considerable damage was done to the
costly decorations of the room.
The suit of Mrs. Lucy Cowan Lowry
of Pittsburg, in contest of the will of
her father, Dr. Frank Cowan, was dis-
posed of by the jury at Greensburg,
rendering a verdict that he was of
sound mind -when he made the will
on September 3, 1901, and the codicil
on February 8, 1906.
The record price for coal in the
Greensburg district was paid by the
Jamison Coal and Coke Company,
when it took over 500 acres from
William Steel of Hemnfield town-
ship. for an amount exceeding $1,000
an acre.
The treasury statement for Februa-
ry shows a balance of $9,6¢4,335.52 in
the general fund and $1,880,770.48 in
the sinking fund These funds are
distributed in about 150 banks and
trust companies in various parts of
the State in sums ranging from $5,000
to $1,000,000."
Engineer Yingst was killed and five
were injured in a wreck on the Real-
ing Railroad near Shippensburg. The
wreck was caused by a side wipe.
James Ferry, of Altoona, who killed
his wife in a drunken frenzy, was
convicted of second degree murder?
in the Blair county court.