5 Subject: The Religious Life. %i } FU Brooklyn, N. Y.—Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church on the theme “The Religious Life,” the pastor, the Rev. Ira Wemmell Henderson, took as his text Deut. 8:3, “Man doth notlive by bread only, but by everything that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.” He said: = - hey The one thing most necessary in the life of the individual and of so- ciety is religion. A man may exist in the possession -of all the temporal and material aids to comfort and to the satisfaction of the natural man but he never begins really to live until he is conscious of the divine personality and recognizes the valid- ity of the divine control. A man may exist without-a thoroughgoing sense of the reality and the control of “the Divinity that shapes our ends,” but .. he only is alive when he gains a con- sciousness of God and of his account- ability and infinite indebtedness “to Him. . ! In our day tco many.men are drift- ing from the religious life, too many are endeavoring to live without a controlling sense of _the reality of God, too many are endeavoring to live as though God were non-exist- ant and as though He were entitled to no alithority over their lives. Many - "good men, confusing ecclesiasticism with religion, and uncomprehending of the vast difference that there often is, though to be sure there should not be, between church membership and the Christian life, have turned and are turning, altogether too commonly for the peace of mind of the church of the living God, away from organ- ized religious systems primarily and from any sort of ‘religious observ- ance at all. Gazing upon the hope- less insincerity “of +=many Christians and the stupid indifference of many churches to the needs of society .and the demands of the times; -as con- ©" trasted with the beauty and -the-uni- versal interest gfi«the.God-mah and His Gospel, upon wiosé character and truth the ‘Church is founded, men have misjudzed « Christianity by its misrepresenting fruitage, and, in numbers that annoy us, have turned from religion entirely. Contemplat- ing the sins of individuals in the church, they have permitted their eyes to be withholden from the dis- cernment of the truth that the per- sonality and the pronunciamentoes of Jesus Christ as the oracle of God are the leaven that most surely could transform their own lives and effect a transformation in the social order of which they are a part. Many bad men, with the determination not to know or to serve God under any con- ditions, utterly are neglectful of the claims of the religious life upon their higher natures. They turn from religion because they are willfully desirous to be the followers of the devil rather than the servants of God. Many men have ganized religion because of intel- lectual difficulties. Some of these have gone out of the church to fol- low the bent of their peculiar ‘and personal religious conceptions and convictions; some have turned to philosophy and have deified man as sufficient unto himself; still others have to their entire satisfaction eliminated God from the scheme of things. In spite of the attitude cof a host of ‘men, however, a true religious life is as necessary to the welfare of-human- ity as are fresh air and pure food and the creature comforts that we desire, need and strive so persistent- ly to secure... No man is well round- ed; no man has realized the possibili- ties of manhood; no man is com- plete; no man is really alive until he is alive unto God. And noc man has sounded the limits of the capaci- ties of his own being until he has en- joyed a knowledge of the highest rev- elation of the character of God that is in the world to-day. A true religious life ought to ap- peal to every man first, because it is reasonable; secondly, because it is spiritually real; thirdly, because it is ethically influential. The true religious life is reason- able. It does no damage to our good sense, and it commends itself to our _ judgment. It does not shock our ideas of the fitness of things. It sat- isfies our intellects. Man, in the wis- dom of God, is an intelligent being; he possesses mental qualities that are fundamental in his make-up. Men must be convinced of the reasonable- ness of things before they can have any lasting hold upon them. That which is intellectually unsatisfying or that will not stand the tests ap- plied by the minds of men, they re- ject. Man does not demand that he - shall be able to . exhaust every subject which: comes under the province of his intellect, but he does demand that, whether or no he is able to explain all the things in which, as a rational being, he holds an interest, he shall at least be able to discern in them the evidences of reasonableness. Religion appeals to the mind of man. Not because he is able to sound all the depths of relig- ious philosophy or of religious truth or to explain all the manifold won- ders of religious experience, but be- use there is in religion tkat which 18 intellectually reasonable and satis- fing. No religious system that is worthy of attention holds the respect of humanity for long unless it be first of ll of no damage to our sense of thei fitness of things. The true relig- ious life commends itself to our best judgment and in the recognition of its imperatives we find rest and joy. The, true religious life is transcend- antlyiand delightfully real. It is not susceptible, perhaps, to arithmetical or gegmetrical demonstration. We are nof, able to prove it in its specu- lative d abstract phases by the ter- minolo or the experiences of the senses galtogether, but it is none the less regl. Laying hold ag it does upon th divine, it is simply inexplic- able in fall its outreachings through the medf§um of finite speech. As true it is th@t tongue cannot tell of the turned from or- glorfous realities of the spiritual life as it {s that the tongue has not yet told! the fullness of the glories of that richer life that is yet to be. But though the tongue may be unable to explain it all or to reveal in finite language the infinite experiences of the spiritual life it is none the less real. The spiritual religious life is the result of experience. It is ex- perience. It is just as exact and { scientific in its way and just as ex- perimental, mystical and abstract though it be, as any other scientific discipline. It cannot, of course, be demonstrated by the exepriences of the physicist alone, or by the ter- minology of the geologist alone, or by the rules of the algebraic formu- lae. But it has its own laws. Its own characteristics may be scientific- ally tabulated. Its experiences may be classified. Its reality may be in- vestigated --and proven by any open- minded, open-hearted man who will place himself within the realm.of its manifestations and . permit himself to be moved upon by its influences. It is spiritually real. ; Then, too, the true religious life such as has been revealed unto us in Jesus Christ is ethically influen- tial. It takes hold of the conduct of the man; and whereas he was be- fore satisfied with lax and easy reg- ulations for the ordering of his per- sonal and social life, it leads him past all that is superficial and insufficient and less than wholly righteous, step by step into such a recognition of the claims of God and of humanity upon his life that he is soon satisfied with nothing but the best in manners and morals, and is continually test- ing himself by an increasing measure to find whether or no he is worthy of the approval of Almighty God, his King. The real religious life that was practiced by our Lord and Sav- ious “Jesus Christ is a life that is militant in the life of the man seven days a week. It is no week-end religion. It is a force from the first stroke of the midnight chime on Saturday night to the precise moment when another week having gone ring- ing down the grooves of the past the bells shall boom again another mid- night note. It declares to men the reality of the divine authority and the insistency of human accountabil- ity to Him. It leads the soul into a larger recognition of the claims of personality and inspires humanity to square itself with the claims. of so- ciety upon the individual life. The true religious life in Jesus is as vital in national affairs as it is in individual. We do not need in our times more churches or a larger or- ganization. What we need most is that the present organization and the present churches shall make the re- ligion of the Lord Jesus Christ to be felt and realized as a vital force in all departments of our national life. The true religious life is the med- ium whereby comfort, joy, hope and courage are mediated in divine fash- ion to the human soul. In no other life is comfort so satisfyingly given. In no other life is the joy that hu- manity so largely needs so truly ministered. Here is our highest hope. Here we drink deep of courage and are most endued for ‘conflict against principalities and powers and pan- oplied effectually for the conquering of sin. The greatest mistake in the world is for a man to reject the privileges, the prerogatives, the appeals of the religious life. For the soul without God is not alive. Oxnly in the con- sciousness of His reality and in will- ing subjection of self to Him do we live. The live man is the one who lives within God through the grace and love revealed and mediated in our Lord Jesus Christ. i ————————— Every Road Leads to Jesus. ‘A young man just starting upon his work in the ministry was one day talking to an aged minister in Lon- don, who had spent a lifetime in the service. The young man said, “You have a great deal of experience; you know many things that I ought to learn. Can’t you give me advice to carry with me in my new duties?” “Yes, I can,” was the response. “1 will give you a piece of advice. You know that in every town in England, no matter how small, in every ham- let, though it be hidden in the folds of the mountains or wrapped round by the far-off sea, in every clump of farmhouses, you can find a road which, if you will follow it, will take you to London. Just so every text you shall choose to preach from the Bible will have a road that leads to Jesus. Be sure you find that road and follow it; be careful not to miss it once. This is my advice to you.” et The Soul Winner's Equipment. Be filled with the Spirit. (Eph. 5: 15.) This is the call to every Chris- tian to be filled with the Spirit. That is what is needed to-day. Only those who are filled with the Spirit can be soul winners. To be filled is the privilege of all. Christians are known by their fruits. ‘“With- out Me ye can do nothing” (Jno. 15: 5). It is as impossible to live the Christian life without the Holy Spir- it as to.live.natural life without air. There must be an emptying of all else before there can be a real filling. Holiness must prevail. The little sins if tolerated will hinder the Spir- it from having full sway. This is not only a privilege for every Chris- tian, but a duty; for it is a com- mand: ‘‘Be filled with the Spirit.” —C. B. Styers. Drawing Men. : The holiness of Christ did not awe men away from Him, nor repel them. It inspired them with hope. It was not that vulgar, unapproachable sanc- tity which makes men awkward in its presence, and stands aloof. Its pe- culiar characteristic was that it made men enamored of goodness. It ‘“‘drew all men unto Him.” This is the dif- ference between greatness that is first rate and greatness which is sec- ond rate — between heavenly and earthly goodness. The second rate and earthly kind draws admiration on itself. You say, “How great an act—how good a man!” The first rate and the heavenly imparts itself —inspires a spirit. - ES Story of God’s Love. Christ’s life makes the letters that alone can tell the story of the love of God to man.—Home Herald. SHBEATH SCHOOL LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM- MENTS FOR MAY 26 BY THE + \ REV. I. W. HENDERSON. / TF barat J Be —, Sa er unig - Subject: Childhood and Education of Moses, Ex. 2:1-15—Golden Text, Acts 7:28 — Memory Verses, 8, 10. EIN The first. two verses give us an {ne gight into the humble beginnings of Moses. A simple man and woman marry. And from that inconspicuous union the leader of a mighty people and the leader of a social epoch ap- pears. The mighty men of God have quite generally and equally remark- ably been the children of humble homes and of simple parentage. It is unnecessary to mention names; they are familiar to us all. In the light of these verses every marriage is fraught with everlasting possibili- ties. And just because in our own homes perhaps we may unwittingly and unconsciously be rearing the fu- © ture leader of a nation it behooves “us under God to look carefully to the teaching and the training. of our youth. The mother love of the humble soul-who gave the breath of life from God to Moses was as loyal and as faithful as any that we.may suggest. She could not see her child slaugh- tered, beautiful baby that he was, and so trusting in the compassion of womanhood she floated her child into the presence of the princess of the Empire. Somehow or other we are im- pressed with the fact that this simple woman must have been supremely conscious of the providence of God. And her confidence was rewarded. Her intuitions were correct. The mother in the princess went out to the lonely little waif in his little float- ing ark. By the most fortuitous of circumstances Moses is returned to the custody of his mother before be- ing taken to the palace to live among the princes. It is after Moses ‘énters into the inner life of the palace that our in- terest in his character deepens. We are impressed with the fact that in spite of the ease and pleasures, the peculiar charms and seductions of the palace life Moses did not lose his interest in his own people or his sympathy for their distress and ops pression. The first act recorded of the man as he contemplates the social conditions under which his brethren live is indicative of the character and the future life of the man. Filled with a holy indignation at the cruelty of the Egyptian taskmaster in his dealing with his kinsman, he strikes the Egyptian down. We may not be able precisely to justify the act, but we can readily understand the provos cation and the spirit of the man who in midst of ease could so condemn and resist unnecessary hardship be- ing forced unwillingly upon any hus man being. 1 The second act recorded of the man after his life of ease in the palace of Pharaoh is equally indicative of the temperament, and more indicative of the philosophical insight of the man. It was also the means to the reveals ing of the denseness of the very peo- ple whom he wished to rescue from affliction. His admonishment of the two fighting toilers shows us his wis dom. Their answer, which drove Moses in fear into a distant region- to escape the king, reveals the lack of insight of these men whom he wished to aid. . The most amazing thing in all the world is the unkindnessof the world’s toilers to each other. The oppregsion of the poor by those who are socially and industrially above them is an un- questioned feature of too large a por- tion of our modern life. But the un- charitableness and unkindness . of multitudes of the working class to- ward their own kind is as inexplica- ble from the standpoint of wisdom as it is appalling. I am conscious that the courtesy and generosity of many men and women among the poor is an object lesson to many who are boun- tifully blessed with this world’s goods. But no man who {is at all familiar with life and observant of conditions in the industrial life as they are can fail to be impressed with the appalling amount of divergency and discord among the very class in society to whom union and amity is strength. The salvation of the work- ing class to-day is to be tolerant of wise advice, to lay aside contention, to cease to fight among themselves, to make life easier for themselves as they progress toward better condi. tions by the exercise of a common _courtesy ard good will, to pull to- gether. The advice which Moses offered is all too.often answered with the an- swer of these men to Moses. Men who might be leaders of the people into a freer and a larger life are dis- couraged by the inhospitable replies of the very people whom they wish to aid. Moses was not offering pate vonage. He was offering sound ad- vice. A child of the common people, though bred in luxury and ease, ha had a heart that felt for the common woe of his people. There is a vast difference between patronage and sound advice. Oftentimes the sound- est advice may be annulled by the appearance of patronage. But when- ever there may arise in the provi- dence of God a leader, whether he live in luxury or in squalor, who has the marks of a divine gift for leader- ship, may the hungry, tired; weary host of this world's oppressed have the sense not to rebuff him, but the wisdom to welcome him with rejoic- ing, attend to his message, ponder his advice, adopt his wisdom as their own guide, follow his leadership out of Egypt up to the confines of the land of promise and enter in. How to Correct Others. It is important to wait the moment of God to correct others. We may see real faults, but the person may not be in a state of profit by being told his faults. It is not wise to give more than one can receive. This is ‘what I call preceding the light; the light shines so far in advance of the person that it does not benefit him. pur Lord said to His apostles: “I have many things to say to you, out you cannot bear them now."--Mad- ame Guyon. _his remarkable cures found a way attending alike to the.high and low. ' eagerly EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS SUNDAY, MAY 26, the World from Sin.— Jonah 3. 1-9.—{(Missions.) Passages for reference: Psa. 127. 1; Prov. .11. 10, 11; Matt. 10. 5-39. The main reference for the lesson tells us of Jonah's second commission to .preach to Nineveh. Obedient to his command, his word was with" ef- fect. Jesus commissioned his discip- les to go throughout all the region : proclaiming the truth and telling them what kind of a reception they might expect, he . The world lies before the church with the ery for help making a con- stant appeal: Not one portion of the world to the exclusion of the rest, but | the whole world, all kinds and con- ditions, are to be reached and won to the Master. Educationai work and social reforms are secondary to the one great work of saving from sin. Paul said that he made himself all things to all men, if by. all means hes might: save. some. - - Any legitimate method” of getting at the hearts of men we are authorized to use, so that we may get them saved. Probably there is no meags better adapted to gain an admission into a new country for the gospel than by the medical missionary. The story is an interesting one. Medical mis- sions deal with the bodies of men and women, and with them in often the mest lcathsome forms, but the his- tory of that work reads like a ro- mance. Many cities and provinces have been closed to the regular mis- sionary, till the doctor came and by Rescuing into the respect and .sympathy. of the leaders. The condition of medicine in the heathen world {s most terrible. The heathen believe that disease is due to an evil spirit. “In some coun- tries to secure relief they deify their maladies, so that with them small- pox, measles, and typhus fever are gods which can be thrown off man, not* by medicine, but by invocation and exorcism. They resort to horri- ble remedies, like human flesh, as a cure for leprosy.” ‘The treatment of the sick is often marked by an in- humanity which staggers one’s confi- dence in human: nature.” They fre: quently abandon the incurables to the storms, and leaving thein outside the“cities let them die without any at- tention, Opposed to such cruelty comes the practice of the medical missionary and his tenderness; and his disregard for the classes to which his patients belong is a strong plea for the Christianity that he displays, CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTE MAY TWENTY-SIXTH. Home Missions:—The Progress of the Southern Mountaineers. 52: ‘7-12. Matt. 4: 12- Isa. Jesus a missionary. 17. Missionaries sent forth. 13-19. Debtor to the unwise. 15. Beautiful messengers. 1-6. Forsaking all. Luke 9: 59-62. God qualifies. Ex. 4: 11-17. Home missions: The progress of the Southern Mountaineers. Isa. 52: T-12. Mountain countries seem nearest to God, and it is an especial privilege to bring their people near to God. The missionary is a publisher. As as the newspapers spread he makes public Mark 3: Rom. 1: 13- Isa. 52: abroad bad news, the good news. Our nation owes so much to the Southern mountaineers that “the eyes of all the nation” should be watching out for their welfare. Our missionary host has mighty re- inforcement, with God for vanguard and God for rearguard! The Southern mountaineers are found chiefly in North Carolina, Ken- tucky, Tennessee and West Virginia. This region is 500 miles long and 250 miles wide, with a population (1900) of 2,657,497. About two millions of these are mountaineers, whom Walter H. Page, a Southerner, calls “The Forgotten Men.” They live in extreme isolation and great poverty, farming in an exceed- ingly rude fashion. They are an un- schooled people, and ignorance and immorality always go together. Yet they are descendants of Scotch- Irish Presbyterians, deeply reverenc- ing the Bible, and naturally of strong and sturdy characters. From their stock came Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln. They were most efficient fighters in the Revolution, and they were a tower of strength to the Union in the Civil War. The degeneracy of this noble race came from their isolation. They are out of touch with the world of thought and progress, and it is this, with the pure gospel which makes it all possi- ble, that the missionary brings to them. The government is said to be ex- perimenting on the effects of certain foods in making men fat or lean. The agricultural experiment stations hav- ing done so much good, it is desirable that human experiment stations should be established. Then no man would need to deplore his excessive weight or the scant covering of his bones. He would read the latest bul- letin of the experiment station and eat accordingly. Somebody has figured out that while the profits of trade between the nations of the world amount to $2,400,000,000 a year it costs $3,000, 000,000 a year to maintain the mili- tary and naval strength of the trad-. ing nations. And the worst of it for Uncle Sam is that his outlay seems to be largely displayed in quarters of the world where he gets little or no ‘ordinary one cent postals issued by trade, laments the Boston Herald. Ho ¢ Chemistry Detects Typhoid By PROFESSOR Ik. DUNCAN. One great laboratory concerns it- self, for one thing, with “the typhoid agglutometer” for the diagnosis of typhoid fever, one of the greatest triumphs of applied bacteriology. The method rests upon the original discovery of Widal that the blood- serum of a typhoid patient differs from normal blood in this all-import- ant fact that when brought into con- tact with living typhoid germs it causes these germs to. cohere into clumps or colonies, to ‘‘agglutinate.’”” There thus arose a method of detect ing typhoid fever, depending, how= ever, upon. the use of a powerful microscope and, what made it impos- sible for physicians, .a confinually renewed supply of fresh typhoid germs as test reagents. But notice the progress: Next it was discovered that this “clumping” effect of typhoid blood: upon typhoid bacteria was just as efficient: wher“ the typhoid bacteria were ‘dead, and, finally, dt Was. 60b- served that shen: the blood-serum-of a typhoid patient was added to a’ liquid suspension of the dead” mi- crobes in a test-tube, these dead mi- crobes cohered to an extent so-ex- treme that they fell to. the bottom of the tube in a mass visible to the naked, unaided eye. Because of this fact, this firm now sends to physic- ians in- the remotest parts of the country a pocket apparatus contain- ing an ounce vial filled with sterilized dead typhoid germs, together with accessory apparatus, so that the phy- sicianl may determine whether the pa- tient’s blood will cause these mi- crobes to “clump”’—to determine, in fact, whether the suspected patient has typhcid fever.—From Harper's Magazine. WORDS OF WISDOM. The strongest lobby is public opin fon.—Governor Woodruff. . : Knowledge of divine =. things is lost to us, for.the mcst part, by in- credulity.—Heraclitus. There is nothing so dreadful as a battle won, excepting only a battle lost.—Duke of Wellington. All good things can be worked out by good means. Those that canaot are bad.—Charles Dickens.” Character is to wear forever; who will wonder or grudge that it cannot be developed in a day.—H. Drum- mond. ! It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand as to recall a word once spoken.— Menander. 5 Men are never more awake to the world than when they are furiously awake to the evil in the world.—G. K. Chesterton. Every human being is intended to have a character of his own, to be what no other is, to do what no other can.—Channing. He who is something will do some- thing; he who is more will do more; and he who is most will do most.—J. Freeman Clarke. Between the great things that we cannot do and the small things we will not do the danger is that we shall do nothing.—Adolph Moncd. Nothing good bursts forth.all at once. The lightning may dart out of a- black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him to prepare the world for his coming.—Hare. The high prize of life, the crown- ing fortune of a man, is to be born to some pursuit which finds him in em- ployment and happiness—whether it be to make baskets or broadswords, or. canals, or statutes, or songs.—Em- erson. te The New Postal Card Regulations. The new postal law went into effect March 1st whereby it is permissible to send souvenir postal cards through the mails, containing writing on eith- er side. Hitherto it has been per- missible to send cards with the writ- ing on the reverse side only. Many of the handsome cards are manufac- tured in Germany. The laws there permit writing on the left hand half of the front of the card, with the right half reserved for the address. These cards are often very hand- some, and the reverse side is entirely occupied by the lithograph. To write on the reverse side of these cards is difficult because of the glazing of the surface, and also because it mars the beauty of the cards. By the new law people will be permitted to write on the front of the card, in the space reserved for that purpose, as is per- mitted in foreign countries where they are made. Hitherto extra pos- tage has been charged in cases where people have written on the front of these souvenir post cards. They are now forwarded at the price of one cent each. : The new law does not refer to the the Government, which are without ornamentation of any kind. These cards, of course, have an entirely blank reverse side, for the sole pur- pose of the communication. No writ- ing will be permitted on the address side of these cards. They bear the words, ‘This Side For the Address Only,” as they have hitherto. Rich Indian Allotment. Application was made here to-day by Dixie Colbert, a Chickasaw Indian, to sell part of his own allotment and parts of the allotments of five of his children adjoining the town site of Sulphur, 734 acres in all, for town site purposes. In the application to make the sale it is set forth that Col- bert and his children are to receive $72,495 in cash for the land they want to sell.—Muscogee Correspond- ence Kansas City Times. KEYSTONE STATE COLLINGS RINEHART INDICTED "7 * Grand Jury at Waynesburg Accuses Him of False Pretense and Forgery on 14 Counts. > Cases connected in various ways with the failuré of the Farmers and Drovers National Bank occupied a large portion of the attention of the courts of Greene county for several days. The grand jury returned true bills against former Cashiery:J. B. F. Rinehart on 14 counts. Twelve are on charges of forgery and two of false pretense. The following suits have been filed on. notes rediscounted by the defunct institution: Farmers Bank of Middle- town azinst Jas. L. Tams, $5,000; same against John J. Koebert, $5,000; same against J. F. Tilton, $5,000; against Robt. Munnell, $3,000; First Na- tional Bank of Berwick against Robt. W. Munnell, © $3,600;. same against John J. Koebert, $3,000; same against J. FE. Tilton, $3,000; “‘sanmie~against J. L.- Tams, 33,000: First National: ‘Bank of Courtland, O., against W. H. Ullam ' - and J. B. F. Rinehart, doing business as WW. H. Ullom & Cg., $5,000. os SOLDIERS PENSION BILL PASSED House Amendments Increase the Ap- propriation. : The intro- soldiers’. pension bill, duced by Senator J. Henry Cochran, of Lycoming county, passed both branches and awaits the action of Gov. Stuart. The amendments insert- ed by the House increase the appro- priation to $5,300,000. The amend- ments were concurred in the Senate, but, according to Senator Cochran, he and representatives of the G. A.R. of the State will appear before the Governor and request him to cut. the amount to $3,800,000. In the Senate Rodgers, of Alle- gheny, called up the anti-bucket shop biil, and it passed by a vot2 of 36 to 1. This bill passed the House previ- cusly. : The Senate passed finally the Rey- nolds bills prohibiting railroads from cngaging in mining or manufacturing along their lines, from owning stock in parallel or competing lines and canals, and prohibiting discriminating in freight and passenger rates. The penal clause in the original bills has been eliminated: The louse passed finally the Coch- ran bill, providing a State pension for veterans of the civil war, by a vote of 196 to Y, INDUSTRY CAUSES BOOM NEW New Town of Mariani Sends Land Prices Kiting. The announcement that the Pitts- burg-Buffalo Company has planned to build an extensive coal and coke works and establish a town of 15,000 people in the Ten Mile valley near Zollarsville has resulted in a phe- nomenal boom in realty prices in southern Washington county and northern Greene. Farmers who one vear ago would have gladly let go their holdings, coal and surface, at $300 an acre, are now asking $1,000. Legislature Adjourns. The Legislature finally adjourned after Senator Blewitt had moved a vote of censure, which he did not press, upon Speaker McClain for hold- ing up Senate bills. The speaker de- fended his course by saying that he desired to expedite business. : Speaker McClain was hissed members on the floor of the house. * Senator Sisson, of Erie, was elect- ed president pro tem. of the Senate. Gov. Stuart has 580 bills passed by the Legislature upon which to act in ym oY ‘the next 30 days. Teachers for Thiel College. Secretary A. L. Yount of the com- mittee appointed by the Pittsburg Synod of the Lutheran Church to re- open Thiel College, at Greenville, in September, announces the selection of the following faculty: Prof. O. F. H. Bert, of Geneva College , dean; Prof. F. D. Bushby, of Concordia Col- lege, Moorehead, Minn.; Prof. E. L. Baker, of Greenville, and Prof. IR. Fieldsted, of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Expects to Reach 100. The oldest resident of East Finley. township, -and probably of Washing- ton county, is John Finley, who last week celebrated his 97th birthday. He expects to reach the century mark. He has always lived on the farm where he now resides, inherit- ing it from his father, for whom .the two townships, East Finley and West Finley, were named. Postmaster David A. Templeton, of Washington, has notified the road supervisors of Canton and Hopewell townships that unless a portion of the road over which rural delivery route No. 9 passes is improved at once the service will be discontinued over that portion of the route. Six months after he disappeared the body of Wm. Andrews, a lumber- man, 40 vears old, was found under a large oak tree in the woods east of Addison. It had fallen and crushed him-as he was cutting it down. The House defeated the Habgood child labor bill, 73 ayes and 87 noes. Sheriff Thos. M. Pentecost, 63 years old, died suddenly at the sheriff's residence, Washington, of heart fail- ure. Mr. Pentecost was a“ Republi- can and a direct descendant of: Dor- sev Pentecost, the first president judge of this county. The Majestic Theater Stock Com- pany of Rochester, has let contracts for a $90,000 playhouse to W. A. Shan- er, of Beaver Falls. Forest fires have swept over 10 square miles in two townships of Ve- nango county.
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