p? THE SERMON
THE REV~
: haw HEN DERSONN
Subject: The New Note.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—Preaching at
the Irving Square Presbyterian
Church, Hamburg avenue and Weir-
field street, on the theme, “The
Church’s New Note,” the Rev. I. W.
Henderson, pastor, took as his text
Mark 12:30: “Thou .shalt love the
Lord thy God with all thy heart, and
with all thy soul, and with all thy
mind, and with all thy strength.” He
said:
The adaptability of the Gospel is
wonderful. In every epoch and in
every age wherever the truth-of God
1s it has been revealed in Jesus Christ
has been preached, it has been found
o'be a fit guide for the leading of the
minds and hearts and souls of men, a
true solvent for the evils of the
epoch and the age in which it has
peen declared. Always it has pos-
sessed a message that has been pe-
zuliarly adaptable to the individual
and social iniquities and to the indi-
vidual and social spiritual yearnings
and. necessities of the society to whici
{ft has been proclairzed. When in
apostolic times the preciousness of
budding human life was discounted
and largely unrecognized the vitaliz-
ing. Gospel of Jesus Christ revealed
the beauty and the value of life it-
self. When in the ante-Reformation
Jars the truth was endangered 1y the
egrettable unwisdom of the ecclesi-
astical authorities of that day and
time the compelling Gospel of Jesus
opened wide the treasury of written
:ruth that had been preserved in all
its fragrance through the ceiituries
and a new era for ankind began.
As in those times so throughout
Christerydom it has been. Whatever
may have been the sins, the spiritual
yearnings, the mode of thought, the
manner of expression, of any genera-
tion, the Gospel has always adapted
itself and been found humanly adapt-
able to the sins, the yearnings, the
thoughts, the terminology of the
period. Every revival in Christian
history, especially in the history of
the last four hundred years, has had
jts peculiar message, adaptable to
ihe sins, the yearnings, the spiritual
1eeds, the thought and the terminol-
pgy of the time in which it has been
preached. Historians tell us. that
when in the days of Jonathan Ed-
wvards—days in which. Christianity
was largely legalistic in thought and
speech—the fiery prophet of the liv-
ing God wished to bring men into an
spen realization and confession of
:heir sinfulness and their accounta-
bility to God he preached: them ser-
mons on the essential fact and neces-
sity of Divine sovereignty; and with
burning zeal declared to humanity, as
God gave him opportunity to sow the
seed of His truth, the wisdom of
yielding self into the control of the
Divine Ruler of the universe. Wesley
preached the truth of the freedom of
the will to a nation to whom freedom
was life. “Whosoever will may come”
was not all the Gospel then, nor is it
all the Gespel now; but it is the lever
of truth by which men in the days
of that great revivalist were most
guickly turned to love and serve God.
We are face to face with another
great world-wide revival. We are
in the midst of it. It may not be rec-
ognized in some quarters and it may
be blinked in others. Many men
refuse to recognize it or they may fail
to have the insight to perceive it, but
it is here none the less. Evidencing
itself within the church it is express-
ing itself more largely perhaps out-
side of the church than within it.
Men are Gospel-hardened to the
messages of yesterday. Not that they
disdain Christ, but because the pro-
clamations of the past have lost,
through perfunctory familiarity with
them, the power to cut deep into their
souls. The edge of the truth has
become dulled for them. It needs to
be brought to the tempering fire of a
flaming truth that shall startle and
attract men. It must be laid hard on
the wheel of a compelling Divine ver-
ity that shall put an edge on all that
has become dulled. The preaching of
Edwards will not do it, the oratory of
Wesley will not do it, the burning
messages of Finney will not do it, the
declaration of God’s love in the
mouth of Moody will not do it. These
are our places of departure. The
truth that these men have declared,
the men-we-are-after know. We
must vitalize that dormant truth by
flinging a new message into their
souls. We must warm the chilled
embers of their own religious ex-
periences with the blaze of a modern
message that, having its inspirations
in the historic Christ, shall be in-
dwelt of His presence and energized
of His spirit for a special ministry
to-day. Men know that God is sov-
ereign; they know that the human
will is free, for are they not exercis-
-ing it against God every day? They
know that personal responsibility
personal sin or decency is inescapa-
ble; they know that God is love. We
do not need to prove these things to
_ them most insistently. What we need
to do is to proclaim before them a
new note from the old Anthem of
God’s revelation of His truth and
Himself in Jesus Christ that shall
find a correlative note in their own
souls and lead them back into har-
mony with the age-long chorus of the
redeemed of God. It is the business
of the church of Jesus Christ to strike
this note and to assume leadership.
Granted that these remarks be
true, what then shall be our new
note? What note shall we strike?
What word of God shall be our watch-
word? What text in the Scriptures
.shall epitomize our thought? About
what idea shall our preaching re-
volve? In my humble judgment the
text which shall epitomize the mes-
sage of the new revival is that which
is to be found as indicated in the
text for this evening in the Gospel
according to St. Mark, the 12th cap-
ter and the 30th verse: “Thou shalt
love the Lord thy God with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul, and with
all thy mind, and with all thy
strength.” And the idea that shall
crystallize our thinking shall be the
conception of human love for God.
As the basis of .Moody’s evangel was |
1 nal hereafter.
for.
the love of God for men, so, I verily
believe, ere we shall do the work for
Jesus that we desire to perform, we
must declare, with insistency and
with cumulative force, the dignity,
the wisdom, the fairness, the efficacy
of human love for God.
The .trouble with us to-day is not
that we do not know that God loves
us. The trouble is that men do not
love God. The evil which afflicts us
can only be cured by- the exercise of
a controlling and vitalizing ,love for
God, such a love as shall mellow and
beautify the souls of men. The in-
iquity which scourges us now and
torments us would not be if, in the
past, men had loved God. A thor-
oughgoing love for God will make
evil conditions in this world as im-
possible as they will be in the new
Jerusalem hereafter. The golden
rule has failed to accomplish its mis-
sion, not “because it is not a truth,
but because it is only half a truth,
as it is popularly used-.to-day. The
second commandment is a safe guide
for our rule and practice through life
only when it is correlated with that
primarycommandment whichourLord
enunciated as at the logical centre of
the moral and spiritual realities. The
golden rule is not enough of a guide
for us as we travel toward the undis-
covered country. We must be more
than moral if ave “desire happiness
here and hope to enter into joy eter-
The gelden rule must
be vitalized by the living first princi-
ple of the kingdom of God . The trou-
ble with the world is that men have
been altogether too well satisfied to
do and be done by, as God never in-
tended they should. See for a mo-
ment how this half truth” works in
practice. You and'I dre on the Stock
Exchange. You are satisfied that if
by trickery or falsification or by the
spreading of dangerous reports, true
or untrue, I can ruin you, I may do
so, provided I afford you equal oppor-
tunity to do _the-same-te=me. You
and 1 are trading horses. It is all
right for, you 16. fleece me with my
eyes open so long asl am permitted
to fleece vou in the same manner.
You and I are in business. It is
proper for me to steal your trade,
provided you have an equal oppor-
tunity to steal mine. Of course this
meets a modern interpretation of the
golden rule, which says, “Whatsoever
ye are willing that men should do
unto you, do ye even so unto them.”
But how grievously it violates the
spirit of Christ's law. The principle
of the business world too largely is
this, that it is all right for one dog
to eat the other, because they have
agreed that it shall be fair to play
the industrial and commercial game
that way. “Thou shalt love - thy
neighbor as thyself,” we are told.
But when this law is separated from
The correlated truth that Christ de-
lared, and transplanted alone into
Fos lives of multitudes of men to-day,
we understand what an awful half-
truth it has become.
In all seriousness, I do not desire
that some men shall love me in the
way they love themselves, outside of
Christ. I do not care to practice the
golden rule as to-day it is promulgat-
ed in our social life, outside of Jesus
Christ, or to have it so practiced upon
me. For some men have no compre-
hension of their own value and the
demands of their own integrity upon
their lives; and how, therefore, can
they appreciate the value of the lives,
the minds, the hearts, the souls, the
peace and purity and happiness of
their fellow men? Some men have
such a small estimate,
themselves, judged by the way they
treat themselves, that we should be
untrue to ourselves did we not resent
like treatment by them of us. Some
men have such a debased idea con-
cerning what is right for men to do
unto them that they cannot be ex-
pected to know, unless the grace of
God inform them, what they should
do to their fellows.
The message for our own time, the
appeal of to-day, must be based on
the text I have read. Its theme must
be the love of man for.God. Loving
God, we shall conserve the interests
of our own personalities and gain a
divine value of our own worth to God
and to the world. ‘Loving God, we
shall know the value of our brethren.
Do you suppose for an instant that
men would have the audacity to pub-
lish declarations that they were only
worth a paltry couple of hundred mil-
lions if they really loved God as God
means they should? Do you suppose
for an instant that they would boast
that they can buy legislatures and
judges and the government, if they
loved God as Jesus loved Him? If
we loved God as Jesus means we
should, do you suppose that we would
stand for child labor, with all its hor-
rors and cruelties; for the saloon
as it is, ‘with all its fruitage of vice
and crime and misery and poverty
and despair? If we loved God as
Jesus means we should, have you the
slightest suspicion that we would per-
mit women by the thousands to be
sent into the brothel in economic self-
defense? If men loved God, would
it be thinkable that they would mur-
der and rape, and steep themselves
in drunkenness, in bestiality and
crime? Do you think that if we
could get men to love gots they
would not have again a liv con-
sciousness of His a as Ed-
wards declared it, and of their free
will to do the right as Wesley de-
clared it, and of their personal re-
sponsibility as Finney declared it, and
of their indebtedness to divine love as
Moody declared it? I think not.
The new note of the church will be
the love of men for Ged. For it is
the second logical step in the scheme
of redemption in Christ. God in
Christ hath already loved men, and
now loves them. It is for them
to reciprocate His love. The new
message must be the central truth of
the kingdom of God on its manward
side. We must lead men to love
God. Then shall we reach them.
Getting men to love God, we shall
transform the individual character;
we shall regenerate society; we shall
make wars to cease and all nations
throughout all the earth to dwell in
righteous and godly fraternal rela-
tionships... The task is great. But
it is not impossible. The means and
the method we shall discuss at an-
other time. But when we shall have
gotten men to love the living God,
‘then shall we hear a voice out of
Heaven saying unto us, “Behold, the
tabernacle of God is with men, and
He will dwell with them, and they
shall he His people, and God Himselt
shall be with them, their God.”
seemingly, of-
Poultry and Fruit Growing.
‘A combination of fruit growing
and poultry raising is especially rec-
ommended in a bulletin from the
Pennsylvania Department of Agricul-
ture. Locate the poultry houses if
pessible so that the runs will be in
the orchard. The fowls will destroy
thousands of harmful insects, thus
greatly benefiting the trees<and in-
creasing the prospects for fruit and
the fowls will at the same time gain
great comfort and benefit by the pro-
tecting 'sliade of the trees. Plum
trees and cherry trees are especially
benefited by the presence of fowls
about their roots. Peach trees will
grow most rapidly and soonest give
an abundant shade.—Weekly ~Wit-
NESS. : ili
The Family Horse.
The faniily horse is not what is un-
derstood by a ‘‘eoach’ horse, though
the latter is usually .all that could
be desired for the horse that is to
give coyafort and convenience to each
member of the- fa
horse, so called, is driven by a regu-
lar hired driver; and if fhe horse has
style, life and size, he answers the
purpose very well; but in the case of
the fEBYITS ho there must be per-
fect safety: when each and every
member of the family becomes driver.
The family horse must be sound, kind
and willing, cool-headed and intelli-
gent in an emergency. He must be
safe to leave unhitchel, for a horse
that one can’t trust to stand for a
moment without hitching is no kind
of an animal with which practically
every member of the family
trusted.— Weekly Witness.
mily. ~The. eoach
orée,
Dest and Cheapest Fence.
Experience, that grim, practical
teacher, has many a time and oft
proven that the most expensive, most
unsatisfactory, most absurd and most
inartistic fence yct invented is that
blot on any landscape called a picket
or paling fence.
Its first cost is always astound-
ing to the inexperienced because of
the unexpectedly great amount of
lumber necessary to encompass even
a small lot. Combined with this is
the exasperatingly slow daily prog-
ress and heavy
account caused by the skilled labor
that must be utilized in its erection.
And then there comes another as-
tounding expense—the painting. And
after it is all completed and paid for,
what has the possessor to show
it? Well,
ance of repairs;
—some small boy needed
bat. Beyond, a couple
missing. Some young
more
man
are
has
proved his muscular strength to his |
bills are continu- |
how shapby it gets and |
best girl.
ous, and, oh!
what a wad of money it takes to re-
paint it! But still worse than the
practical financial aspect is the men-
Repair
the family.
Low stone, concrete or boulder
walls are by all odds the most beau-
tiful fences. They
vines and made things of beauty.
But they come high and must be
topped with barb wire or spikes so
that they shall not be used as open- |
air meeting rooms by budding politi-
cians, or those lorn ones who are
quite sure they have met their affini- |
ties for keeps.—Washington Star.
How to Grow Large Onions.
It is the ambition of every cultivat-
or to raise large onions. The only
way of growing them to an immense
size is to start the plants indoors and
set the seedlings in the open when
the ground becomes tillabie. In this
way one can raise onions as large as
the Bermuda and Spanish varieties.
In fact, many of the so-called im-
ported onions are nothing more than
home-grown bulbs produced by this
method. The variety known as Prize-
taker does not look unlike the Span-
ish type and it is equal to it in mild-
ness, flavor, size and color. Good
seed should be secured and sown ear-
ly in boxes in the greenhouse or hot-
bed. When a hotbed is used the
boxes are not necessary, although
they
to the field before
removed.
The seed must
the plants are
be sown rather
thickly in rows a half inch deep and
three inches apart. When the seed-
lings are large enough thin them to
stand half an inch apart in the row
so ‘that ‘stocky plants will be
duced. The soil in the seedbed should
be very rich and cf a light texture to
insure a rapid, unchecked growth.
In growing the plants give them
plenty of air. but do not allow them
to become chilled during the early
stages of growth. If they are kept
too warm they become drawn and
spindling and never make a satisfac-
tory growth during the summer.
When the weather settles prepare a
rich bed in the garden and put the
plants in in rows from twelve to fif-
teen inches apart. Plants should be
four or five inches in the rows.
Some stable manure ought to be
incorporated with the soil by plowing
or spading it in. Chicken manure
makes an excellent top-dressing when
it is lightly Yaked in before setting
the plants. During the growing sea-
sufficient,
lor five hours between,
can be |
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strain on the bank |
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are convenient at transplanting |
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son two applications of nitrate of
soda will add much to the size and
crispness of the bulbs. Wood ashes
will take the place of poultry drop-
pings if the latter can not be ob-
tained. If the ashes are used they
should be applied as a top-dressing
at the rate.of 100 bushels to the acre.
The most important thing after the
plants begin to grow is frequent cul-
tivation to keep the weeds down and
the surface soil loose. While many
of the other large growing varieties
may be raised in this way the Prize-
taker stock is the one most likely to
give satisfaction.—Indianapolis News.
Feeding- a Horse.
We go to France for good horses,
and following is from “the Petit Jour-
nal Agricole, of France, on how -to
feed good- horses:
“Three meals are
with an interval .of four
to keep a
horse in gocd condition. Oats take
at least two hours to digest; hay
takes three hours, and because it
takes so long to digest it should be
given when the day’s work is over.
The evening meal should be a full
meal, the animal being then at rest
and able to digest its food at leisure.
There should bé aminterval of half an
hour-between the return of the horse
to the stable and his Setang is even.
ing meal.
“Too much food at a meal or too
long abstinence between meals, fol-
lowed by voracious feedings, is con-
ducive to colic and indigestion... -Ir-
rezularly fed,
his impatience by letting his hoofs
play about the woodwork of his stall.
‘refreshers’ at odd times is
also bad. Remember: that both stom-
ach and bladder should never be load-
ed in work time, whether light or
heavy work is done. A horse, there-
fore, should not be ridden or driven
immediately after a meal, on the
same principle that it ought noc to be
fed sooner than half an hour after
work is over. Between one end of
the year and another a horse con-
sumes the amount of dry heating
food which calls for a special regi-
men to neutralize the excessive pro-
tein consumption that has taken
place. Thus in autumn a ration of
carrots given before the evening meal
of oats is good, and so in the spring,
at the fall of the winter coat, a little
ground meal is beneficial, mixed
with hay and oats, for the evening
Another maxim much disre-
garded in practice is that the horse
should be watered long before being
put to work, and then very sparing-
Iv.”
Farm Notes.
A cow that does not eat heartily
will not yield an abundance of milk.
There ought to be two step-ladders
on every farm. The one for the
house should be about five feet high
for the orchard and
outdoor work, about nine feet. Make
yourself, taking the house
One of the handiest things about a
from the wheels
of an old buggy on which is mounted
a light frame, constructed to hold hay
or other light material. A pair of
hand shafts can be attached, and
these should be supported by a stick
hinged to the handle.
Station experiments show that the
| growth of turnips late in the season
proceeds rapidly as long as the weath-
open, and point to the advan-
the ground as long as it is practic-
able, especially if the seed was sown
late. - If left too long, however, OI
until the ground is frozen, the crop
will be harvested with more difii-
culty.
When wind breaks, in the form of
hedges of straight rows of trees, are
not desirable a group of evergreens
will turn the currents and break the
foree of the wind. It is well also to
note that on the cold side generally
—the north and west—is the place
to set the very hardiest trees. Among
them birch; poplar-and willow rank
first. The birch is one of the hardiest
of all trees and may be planted very
close as a wind break.
Sheep are excellent foragers, and
secure a large amount of their
food from certain plants that are of
peri.
ods of drought there may be a scarc:
ity of even weeds or coarse herbage,
in
to have them consume such
yet there are periods when
should be assisted. It pays
foods,
sheep
i to give sheep an abundance of pastur-
age, provided good breeds are used.
Luxurious Royalty.
Queen Alexandra's bedroom is pan-
eled in pale rose silk with hangings
of white satin, those of the bed being
surmounted by the imperial crown.
The curtains of her boudoir are of
ivory silk, bordered with heliotrope.
Here the panelings are of ivory silk
in gilt moldings, and other accessor-
ies are Beauvois tapstry, French car-
pet and Louis XVI. furniture. Her
Majesty's bathroom is quite new, and
was specially built out. It is fitted
with a bath of Grecian marble from
quarries which had been disused a
thousand years.—London M. A, P.
~-Bohemia alone,
Tecessar¥ and
he is given to showing |
Showy |
TELEGRAPH OPERATORS JOKE.
In Fun He Sent a Cable Message to
Emperor Napoleon.
“The story of Billy Holtbam’s
costly joke illustrates that the laugh
is not always on the side of the
joker,”’ said W. B. Bassett, an old
time telegraph operator to a reporter
of the Kansas City Star.
‘The incident occurred a short
time after the Civil War, when Holt-
ham was’ assistant operator in Den.
ver, Col. In those days two operat-
ors did all the work of the Denver
office. Holtham opened the office
one morning, took the daily paper
and began reading about the war Dbe-
tween Germany and France. All at
once the desire to perpetrate a prac-
tical joke seized upon him. Taking
the pencil from his pocket he indited
the following cablegram upon one
of the office blanks:
“To the Emperor Napoleon, Garden
of the Tuilleries, Paris, France: Colo-
rado will not accede to the cession
of Germany to France. Please let
Gov. Gilpin: or ary
other man.’
“Holtham ealled up Omaha and
sent the cable to’ the man on duty
‘there, just as he would have sent a
bona fide
cablegram.
“Omaha was the repeating office
for all Eastern business. © Holtham
then tore wp his copy and threw the
remains in the waste-basket. Then
he. sat down and laughed. He sup-
posed that the man on-duty in Omaha
would, of -ecourse, see the joke and
after laughing himself over it would
throw his copy into-the waste basket.
But the Omaha operator was
who took everything seriously and
hanging the cablegram on the New
York hook thought nothing. more
about it.
“This” happened about the middle
of the month and nothing more was
heard of the fateful cablegram until
about the middle of the following
month, when Mr. Woodward, the
Denver manager of the Western
Union office, received the following
mdssage ‘from ‘the. secretary of the
cable company in New .York:
‘Please come down with
dust.’
“Woodward "scratched his head,
but could not solve the enigma, and
replied:
** ‘Don’t understand your message
about dust. Please explain.’
“ ‘In due time an answer
ceived, saying:
“* “Your cablegram to Emperor Na-
poleon, Garden of the Tuilleries,
Paris, I'rance, signed Governor Gilpin
cr any other man, $187.50 in gold,
please remit.’
‘“‘At this juncture Billy Holtham
stepped in, and, pushing the message
toward him, Woodward remarked:
“ ‘What do you suppose that New
York idiot means by that?’
*‘Holtham read it. and, turning
pale, blurted out: ‘Why, I sent that
thing to Omaha as a joke, supposing
the man receiving it there would see
the point and throw his copy into
the waste basket as I did with mine.
‘“ “Joke!” replied Woodward, an-
grily. ‘Do you understand that gold
is now worth just two to one and the
cost of your little joke is $3752’
“Manager Woodward wrote a letter
to the cable authorities explaining
the matter to them and asking that
the cablegram be cancelled, but they
were inexorable and demanded pay-
ment in full. At that time cable-
rams were enormously high and
payable in gold at that. The result
was that poor Holtham had to make
the amount good and the telegraph
company permitted him to pay $50
a month until the whole sum was
paid. Fortunately operators were
then paid $125 a month salary, and it
was not as hard upon Hcltham to li-
quidate the obligation as it would
be upon a telegrapher at the present
day, ‘with salaries so greatly reduced.
“The late Edward Rcsewater, who
was manager of the West Union of-
fice at Omaha when the incident took
place, secured copies of the cable-
gram and of all the correspondence
relating thereto, and put the whole
thing in a frame, and it is -no doubt
somewhere among his collection of
telegraphic curiosities.”
the
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Berlin Bars Billboards.
3illboards are prohibited ‘in Ber:
lin, but public advertising is con-
fined to neat pillars on the edge of
the sidewalk at the principal street
corners These columns (called
“Litfass Saeulen,” after the -origin-
ator) are twelve feet high and threa
feet in diameter, the exterior having
an advertising surface of from eleven
to twelve square metres.
In April, 1901, Berlin advertised
for bids for the privilege of these
advertising columns for ten yea
and the successful bidders are pay-
ing an annual rental of 400,000
marks ($95,000). At that date there
were 700 columns already erected,
and the number was at once to be
materially increased.
The city may use
the columns for storing utensils for
street-cleaning and sand for use in
the streets, for switeh apparatus, for
public electric lights and meters for
electric street railways, ete. These
columns, therefore, are provided with
doors and locks.
All placards must be approved by
the police authorities before being
posted. The city authorities have
the right to demand at any time the
free posting of official notices.
At the present time, as in America,
multicolored, changing, electrically
illuminated signs are much in vogue,
so that the business part of the city
at night is dazzlingly brilliant.
“Sandwich men” are occasionally
seen, but this is regarded as degrad-
ing labor and is not much practised.
—From Consular Reports.
the interior of
a man ;
KEYSTONE STATE GULLINGS
RAISES SUBURBAN RATES
Reading Road Takes First Action
in Plan to Combat Two-
Cent Fare.
Following, by agreement, immedi-
ately upon the heels of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad’s suit to test the con-
stituticnality of the two-cents-per-
mile fare bill the Philadelphia and
Reading railroad announced that it
would increase the rate of fare to all
suburban points by about 40 per cent.
It was also officially announced the
Reading would also test the consti:
tutionality of the act in the courts.
The next concerted step of the rail-
roads in the warfare against the fare
act will be the raising of freight rates
over the whole state, with the excep-
tion, however, of those on hard coal.
WEDDING LEADS TO ARRESTS
Parents of Young Bride Charge That
She Was Married by a Conspiracy.
Because he accompanied harles
Yeazer and Miss Sue Wingard: to
Cumberland from their homes near
Johnstown and married. them . in
Maryland, the Rev. W. A. Bowman,
of Windber, has been arrested on a
charge of conspiracy preferred by
the bride's father,
The young husband and
Mrs. Albert Giffin have been
on the same charge. The parents al-
lege that those arrested had entered
into a conspiracy to rob them of their
daught and she herself, if al-
Towed i own way, vould never have
married Yeag
Mr. Bowman: disclaims
edge of any conspiracy.
Mr. and
arrested
TOP
ner
all knowl
WCMAN PERFORMER HURT
Her Weight Pulls Out Teeth of Man
Who Holds Her.
Swinging high in the air during
the Wallace-Hagenbeck circus per-
formance ‘at Johnstown, Mlle. Dupress,
a trapeze expert, fell to the ground,
sustaining internal injuries that may
cause her death, The woman was.
doing her usual trapeze act with a
male performer, and it was while
being suspended in mid-air by means
of a rope clutched in his teeth that
her weight pulled ont several of the
man's teeth, and she shot to the
ground below. Several thousand peo-
ple witnessed the accident
Operates With Forged Checks.
Martin “ Doubbiles, who savs he 1s
from Foxburg, was lodged in jail at
Clarion, charzed with. forgery. He
deposited a $500 check at the Citi-
zens Trust Company bank last Satur-
day, purporting to be signed by Sam-
uel Aut. Later at Arnold Bros.’ cloth-
ing store he presented a $25 check on
the Gold Standard Bank at Marien-
ville, Pa., signed with the same
name. At Summerville he presented
a check for 8750 on the Citizens
Trust Company of that-place, signed
with A. W. Corbett's name. He now
admits the ckecks were forgeries’ ™
Fire Destroys Harrisburg Church.
building of the
Brethren congre-
which was to
have been dedicated this - summer,
was. destroyed by fire. The church
being built by sub-contractors,
nearly all of whom carried insurance
sufficient to cover their losses, which
will aggregate $30,000, Rev. ‘J... A:
Lyter. pastor of the- church, is. a
former enaplain of the House of
Represe
new church
Street United
Harrisburg,
The
Derry
gation at
was
ntatives.
Pimple Caused Death.
the . death of
igar Creek
county. The
the = right
canused
aged 56, of Si
A pimple
Jacob Rice,
township, Venango
pimple appeared back of
ear last Thursday, and he rubbed it.
It became sore the following day and
on Sunday his neck began to swell
Before a physician reached
was dead. The
; hlood poisoning
Rice's
swelling
had
home
Milked Cows.
On the Kelly farm, north of
ington, B. Mom ‘e came upon two
huge blackenakes milking a cow be-
lonzing to a tenant. Moore killed
both reptiles, which measured six
feot two inches each. For several
days the tenant had noticed his cows
were failing in their ilk supply.
Since the snakes were killed the milk
has increased.
C. A. Raises $39,000.
friends. of the Young
Association of Du-
of 20 days for
sociation of a
success was
Snakes
Wash-
supply
Dubois Y. M.
Officers and
Men's Christian
finished a canvass
to -clear the as
debt, and thei
ce elebrats »d with the ringinz of church
bells. ~The -asseciation has: a fine
building in the heart of the business
district, and property. is valued
at $50,000.
0,000
its
Reyburn Makes Appointments.
Mayor Revburn of Philadelphia an-
nounced the appointment of H. James
3. Sheehan, as director of
the department of public safety; Jos.
&. Daldwin assistant director of the
department of public health and
charities, and Jos. S. Mclaughlin as-
sistant director of the department of
supplies. - The appointments were
confirmed.
assistant
Woman Burned to Death.
In a fire which destroyed her resi-
dence in Tylerdale, Mrs. Lizzie Jor-
dan was burned to death and her
niece, Miss Maude Jordan, escaped by
jumping from a second-story window,
receiving severe injuries. The origin
of the fire is unknown. :
Bessie Willis Convicted.
At Washington the jury in the case
Willis, charged with the
Ben Williams, brought in
voluntary manslaughter,
was sentenced to
but 17 yeals of
of
murder of
a verdict of
and the defendant
Morganza. She is
eza.
Jessie