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His subject was, ‘‘Esau’s Temptation.” He took his textr from Genesis 25:32: “And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die; and what profit shall this birthright do to me?” Professor Black said: ‘We cannot suppress a natural sym- pathy with Esau in this scene be- He seems as much sinned against as sinning, and in comparison with the cunning, -*_ crafty character of Jacob he appears “the better of the two. His very faults lean to virtue’s side, we think, as we look ‘at his bold, manly, impulsive figure. There is nothing of the cold, calculating, selfishness, the a ute trickery, the determination to get his pound of flesh, which make his brother appear mean beside him. ‘With ouf swift and random and sur- face judgments we are inclined to think it unjust that Esau should be set aside in the great history of grace for one who could be guilty of both malice and fraud in advancing his own interests. We are not at ‘present dealing with the character of Jacob or we would see that this hasty judg- ment, true so far as it goes, is some- thing less even than half the truth, and that though hehereandelsewhere- sinned and was punished through;all his life for his subtlety andselfishness, yet he wasnot themonsterof unbroth- erly maljco merely which this scene might suggest, and that he had qual- ities of heart and spirit which made it inevitable that he, and not Esau, . should be chosen for the line of God's purpose. Our subject is Esau and his weakness and fall in the presence of his oyermastering temptation. > Esau’s good qualities are very evi- dent, being of the kind: easily recog- nized and easily popular among men, the typical: sportsman who is only a sportsman, bold and frank and free and genérous, with no intricacies of character, impulsive and capable of magnanimity, the very opposite of the prudent, dexterous, nimble man © of affairs, rather reckless indeed and # . hot-blooded: and -passiqnate. , .~ tues are already, we see, dangerous- ‘1y near-to being vices. .a creature of impulse, he was, in a His, vir- crisis, the mere plaything of animal passion, ready to satisfy his desire . ‘without thought of consequences. . \Without self-control, without spir- itual insight, without capacity even to know what spiritual issues were, judging things by immediate profit and malerial advantage, there was not in him depth of nature out of “which a really noble charheter could be cut. This damning lack of self- “* control tomes out in the passage of ‘ our text, the transaction of the birth-- = right. Coming from the hunt hungry and faint, he finds Jacob cooking, .»pottage of lentils and asks for it. The . sting of ungovernable appetite makes" +. him feel as if he would die if he did : not get it. Jacob takes advantage of his brother’s appetite and offers to barter his dish of pottage for Esau’s “birthright. There would be more superstition in the minds of both of them as to the value of the birthright. Both of them valued it as a vague advantage, carrying with it a religious worth, but it meant nothing tangible; and here was Esau’s temptation, terribly strong’'to a man of his fiber. He was ‘hungry, and before-his fierce desire | for the food actually before him such a thing as a prospective right of birth ‘seemed an ethereal thing of no real value. If he thought of any spiritual privilege the birthright might be sup- | posed to confer, it was only to dis- iiss the thought as not worth con- ~ sidering. Spiritual values had not a high place in his standard of things. He could not be unaware of the ma- terial advantages the possession of the birthright would one day mean. He must have known that it was something to be recognized as the eldest son, with special rights of in- heritance and precedence and author- ity after his father’s death. These things were real enough to him, even though he might have no notion of a | deeper meaning in being the heir of the promise. But in the grip of his. appetite even these temporal advan, tages were too distant to weigh much. In the presence of immediate satisfac- tion the distant appeared shadowy and unreal and not worth sacrificing present enjoyment fcr. He feels he is’ going to die, as a man of his type is always sure he will die if he does not get what he wants when the passion is on him; and supposing he does die, it will be poor con- solation that he did not barter this intangible and shadowy blessing of his birthright. “Behold I am at the point te die; and what profit shall this birthright do to me?” The Bible writers speak of Esau always with a certain contempt, and with all our appreciation of his good natural qualities, his courage and frankness and good humor, we can- not help sharing in the contempt. The man who has no self-control, who is swept away by every passion of the moment, whose life is bounded by sense, who has no appreciation of the higher and larger things which call for self-control—that man is, after all, only a superior sort of ani- mal, and not always so very superior at that. The author of the Epistle to the Hebrews calls Esau “a profane person, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.” “Profane” means not blasphemous, but simply secular, a man wko is not touched to fine issues, judging things by coarse earthly standards, without spiritual aspiration or insight, fecling every sting of flesh keenly, but with no sting of soul toward God. Bold and manly and generous and with many splendid constitutional virtues he may be; but the man himself lacks sus- ceptibility to the highest motives of life. He is easily bent by every wind of impulse, and is open without de- fense to animal appetite. He is capa- ble of despising the intangible bless- ing of such a thing as a birthright, even though he feel it to be a holy thing, because he cannot withstand present need. A profane, a secular person as Esau, is the judgment of the New Testament. + | surrender to the demand for present thing. lost." Being largely | This scene where le surrenders his birthright did not settle the destiny of the two brothers; a compact like this could not stand good forever, and in some magical way substitute Jacob: for Esau in the line of God’s great religious purpose. But this scene, though it did not settle their destiny in that sense, revealed their charac- ter, the one essential thing which was necessary for. the spiritual. suc- cession to Abraham; and Esau failed here in this test as he would fail anywhere. His question to reassure himself, “What profit shall this birth- right do to me?” reveals the. bent of his life, and explans his failure. True self-control means willingness to re- sign the small for the sakno of the great, the present for the sake of the future, the material for the sake of the spiritual; and that is what faith makes possible. Of course, Esau did not think he was losing the great by grasping at the small. At the mo- ment ‘the birthright, just because it wag distant, appeared insignificant. He had no patience to wait, no faith to believe in the real value of any- thing that was not material, no self- restraint to keep him from instant gratification. This is the power of all appéhl to passion—that it is present, with us now,.to be had at once. It is claim- ant, imperious, insistent, demanding to be satisfled with what is actually present. It has no use for a far-off good. It wants immediate profit. This is temptation, alluring to the eye, whispering in the ear, plucking by the elbow, offering satisfaction now. Here and now—not hereafter; this thing, that red pottage there, not an ethereal, unsubstantial thing like:a birthright. What is the good of it. if. we die? and we are like to die if we do not get this gratification the senses demand. In the infatuation of appetite all else seems small in com- parison; the birthright-is a poor thing compared with the red pottage. It is the distortion of vision which passion produces, the exaggeration of the present which temptation creates, making. the small look like the great, and discrediting the value of the The vivid, lurid descrip- tion in the Proverbs of the young man, void of understanding, snared in the street by the strange woman, gives both’ these elements of the ef- fect of passion—the weak surrender to impulse and the distortion of vis- ion which;blinds:to the real value of what is given up for the gratification: “He goeth:straightway as an ox goeth to the slaughter, till a dart strikes tough” his. liver; as a’ bird’ hasteth’ othe snare, and knoweth not that it “Is tor his life.” But it is not merely lack of self control which Esau displays by the. question: of: our text. Its also.lack of appreciation’ of “dpiritual values. In a vague wad he knew: that the birthright meant. a religious blessing, ‘and in the grip ‘of his temptation that looked to him as purely a se timent, not to be seriously considered as on a par with a.material advantage: The profane man, the secular man, may not be just a creature of im- pulse; he may have his impulses in good control, but he has no place for what is unseen. He asks, natur- ‘ally, What ‘shall it ‘profit? Men who judge by the eye, by material re- turns only, who are frankly secular, think . themselves great judges of profit; and they, too, would not make much of a birthright if it meant only something sentimental, as they would call it. The real and not the ideal, the'actual and not the visionary, the thing seen and not the thing unseen —they would not hesitate more than Esau over the choice between the pottage and the birthright. They judge by substance, and do not un- derstand about the faith which is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. ‘How easy it is for all of us to drift into the class of the profane, the sec- ular, persons as Esau, to have our spiritual sensibility blunted, to lose our appreciation of things unseen, to be so taken up with the means of liv- ing that we forget life itself and the things that alone give it security and dignity! How easy, when soul wars with sense, to depreciate every- thing that is beyond sense,and let the whole moral tone be relaxed! There is much cause for the apostle to warn us to “Look diligently lest there be among us any profane person as Esau who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.” ‘We, too, can despise our birthright by living far below our privileges and far below our spiritual opportun- ities. 'We''have our birthright as sons of God, born to am inheritance as joint heirs with Christ. We be- long, by essential nature, not to the animal kingdom, but to the kingdom of heaven; and when we forget it and live only with reference to the things of sense and time, we are disinherit- ing ourselves, as Esau did. The sec- ular temptation strikes a weak spot in all of us, suggesting that the spir- itual life, God's love and holiness, the kingdom of heaven and His right eousness, the life of faith and prayer and communion, are dim and shad- owy things, as in a land that is very far off. “What profit shall this birth- right do to me?” ‘What shall it profit? seems a sane and sensible question to be consid- ered Jn a business-like fashion. It is the right question to ask; but it has a wider scope and another appli- cation. What profit the mess of pot- tage, if I lose my birthright? What profit the momentary gratification of even imperious passion, if we are resigning our true life and losing the clear vision and the pure heart? What profit to make only provision for the flesh, if of the flesh we reap but corruption? What profit the easy self-indulgence, if we are barter- ing peace and ve and holiness and joy? “What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world (and net merely a ~ontemptible mess of pot- tage) and lose his own soul?” What profit if, in the insistence of appetite, men go like an ox to the slaughter, knowing not that it is for their life? “Thus Esau despised his birthright.” Then and Now. . Once, we are told, it to6k- one sermon to convert 3000 souls; now it takes 3000 sermons to convert one soul.—Rev. T. J. Villers, Baptist, In- dianapolis. How God Judges. God can doubtless read the human heart, but He elects to judge men by their effect on the: neighborhood.— Home Herald. SABBATH SCHOOL LESSONS INTERNATIONAL LE! LESSON COM- MENTS FOR JANUARY 26. Subject: Jesus Cleanseth the Teme ple, John 2:13-22—Golden Text, | Psalm 93:5—Commit Verses 15, | * 162-Cemmentary. TIME.—27 A D. : PLACE, Fetus alem. EXPOSITION. . The zeal ‘of Thine house hath eaten Me up, 13-17. Jesus was an obedient Son of the law and went up to the passover ac- cording to the commandment (Deut. 16:16; Luke 2:41). He found in the temple men selling oxen, sheep and doves, and also changers of money. A similar state of affairs can be found in many churches to-day. All these things had something to do with the temple services, but it was being car- ried on for private gain, and Jesus was greatly displeased. The defense of buying and selling in the house oZ God often made to-day is that all this has to do with the support of worship. But this does not make it right in God’s sight, as is plainly taught by this lesson. Jesus put it all out of the temple in no gentle manner. If He were to go to-day to our places of worship with our fairs and festivals and auctioneers of pews, ete, etc., doutbtless He would put them out also and weuld be no more gentle than He was with ‘hese ancient de-: filers: of the house of God. It was not the force that there was in.the scourge of cords, nor the muscular energy that Jesus. displayed that drove these defilers out. It was the majesty of His presence and the con- sciousness on their part that they had no business there. Gentleness and thoughtful consideration for even the | birds were mingled with His severity: He did not drive cut those who sold the doves, but simply bade their own- ers carry them out. He gives a rea- son for His action, namely, that God’s house should not be made a house of merchandise. How many that profess to be followers of Jesus have for- gotten these words of their Master. In the use, of the words, “My. Father’s house,” He shows His right to act as Hé" did. "It’was His Fathef's: house and it was His business to cleanse it: The cleansing of the temple was only temporary. All’ these“ things: era’ brought back again (Luke 19:45). All religious reforms among men are temporary. Man’ is prone to back- | sliding and we cannot live to-day in the power of a reformation wrought, twenty years ago. Every new’ generas: tion. must have its own reformation and every new year must haye its RV revival. = When Jesus cleansed’ temple a’ second time He: was Ris; more severe. He said that they had made the house of God a den of rob=' bers instead of a host of prayer (Luke 19:46, R. V.). Men in their LU] defiling of God’ s house -thu§ go fro bad to worse. At a later date. the}: disciples in recalling this incident saw in it a fulfillment of Old Testament’ prophecy regarding the Messiah- (v.. 17; cf. Ps. 69:9). It was zeal for His Father's house that constrained Jesus to.the .present action. God's. house or is it zeal for our own ideas that constrains some of us tof: attacks. upon the modern defilement. of the house of God? II. The sign that Jesus was the Messiah, 18-22. Both the disciples and the Jews recognized: in Jesus’ assumption of authority and in His words, ‘“My Father’s house” (v. 16), a claim to be the Messiah. The Jews at once demanded a sign to back up this claim. Jesus gave them a sign, a sign which they did not understand at the time, the sign of the resurrec- tion* (v. 19; cf. Matt. 12:38-40; 16:1-4). His resurrection from the dead is God’s seal to all the claims of Jesus. The resurrection of Jesus from the dead is one of the best proven facts of history, and it proves everything that is essential in Chris- tianity. It is God’s seal upon Jesus Christ’s claim to be a teacher sent from God who spoke the very words of God (ch. 7:16; 12:49; 14:10; 11, 24), It is God’s seal upon Jesus Christ’s claim to be a divine person in a unique sense (ch. 5:22, 23; 10:30; 14:9; Mark 12:6, R. Vy. It is God’s seal upon Jesus Christ’s claim that He was to be the judge of the world (ch. 5:22, 23, 28, 29). Not even the disciples of Jesus understood His words at the time, but after His resurrection they remembered them and they served to confirm their faith, as well they might. The final outcome was that the disciples be- lieved the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said, i. e., they be- lieved the Old Testament Scriptures which prophesied these things and’ the words of Jesus upon which God had set the stamp of His own endorse- ment. Happy is the man to-day who believes the Old Testament Secrip- tures and the word which Jesus speaks. Jesus’ miracles at this time led many to believe in Him, but Jesus saw the superficial character of their faith and did not believe in them (vs. 23-25, R. V.). When men believe in Jesus with that true and saving faith which leads them to commit them- serves to Him, then and only then «does He commit Himself to them. LEADING QUESTIONS. — What characteristics of Jesus come out in this . lesson? What fulfillment of prophecy is there in the lesson? What sins of the modern church are re- buked by this lesson? What does the lesson teach about the resurrection of Christ? How did the disciples show their wisdom? What is the best les- son in the passage? ei tii A Startling Decision, | Judge Pollard, Attorney-General of Texas, has recently made a startling decision against the liquor men in that State. In answering a question regarding the, new Baskin-McGregor law, Judge Pollard declares that the law will require that a saloon man must have resided in a county at least two years before he can take out a license. Since the wave of local op- tion spread over Nath Texas the sa- loonmen have emigrated to other counties and started anew in the business. In hundreds of . cases, therefore, they will not have been residing in their present locations for the requisite two years, and, ac- cording to Judge Pollard, their 1i- censes are invalid unless secured in accordance with this clause oi the new statute. Is it zeal for} EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS | SUNDAY, JANUARY 26. The Planting and the Training of the Church in -the Foreign Field— ‘Acts 14. 21-28; Isa. 19. 18-22. This is a story of the last days of the first great missionary, joprney. Paul and Barnabas way of Cyprus. They came back with a story such as returned mis- .slonaries always bring; of open doors, persecution, opposition and success! That journey, of the first missionaries was a praphecy and pie- ture of nearly every missionary journey that has been taken since its time. The details vary, the names differ, but’ wherever the preaching of the gospel among those who have not hitherto heard it is attempted in faith and courage the result is always the same. A church is founded, and converts are gather- ed into it, to form'the nucleus of a new Christian community. When Isaiah’s prophecy was writ ten, it was the height of improbabil- ity that an altar to Jehovah should ever be set up in Egypt Perhaps in other places "a man might worship the true God; but Egypt—how could Egypt be won to him? Doubtless the prophet himself did not know, but his vision leaped across the ages to see Egypt with an established worship of God, her idols forsaken, her historic but "mistaken faith aban- -doned, and altars everywhere. ‘What was hard to believe concerning. Egypt was even more incredible. concerning the rést of the world; but altars to Jehovah -have been set up in every land, and in-.every land they multi- ply. There are those now living, in all probability, who will ‘survive unti] the day when it can be said that the gospel has been preached to every tribe and nation of the earth. "From the very beginning the: Chris- tian . Church has insisted that it knows no -racial, political or linguis- tic boundaries. It has .dared to go everywhere: sometimes with the pro- tection. of the:civil power, but oftener .yithout any. other. guarding thap. that afforded’ by Him who ‘commanded: the foreign: nissionary movernernt. -»So it: has game; to. pass that “the, history of the church ‘and the history’ of, the world are inseparable?" Thé church’ As. undertaking - its’ work. more ‘faith- fully, inst is generation,,than ever be- fore: it" is. facing greater problems: and: 15° nesting” with far Fieater sad on. |-CeSS... 'Eheye «is. not-.space,, hee 2 recount the story, of the church’s ad- (vance; of even to’ suggest it: al apne ‘mustisnfice, ov... i: pre ek neh; x Sr _TWENTY- SIXTH. denomination: on: Ven, BEY Jed iL, ja Philip a missionary. “Acts 8:° 26-31. Missions. a duty. ; Luke 197, 29- 40. . Our stewardship. 1 Pet. 4: 57-11. Sending His word: geletly: “Psi 147: 11-15. 3 J Giving ourselyés. 2 Cor. 8: 1 7. Decne God’s- goodness. Mark 1: 35-45. Is ours a ‘Christian nation? The Ltest is not outward religion, but in- ward character (v. 2 Freedom—from what? land of freedom only as from sin (v. 6). The best way to deal bread to the hungry (v. 7) is not to give it to him, but to give him, a chance to earn it. The national fame that - is best worth having (v. 8)—the only fame worth having—is the renown of just dealing with all. Men from all the world are here. Make them Christ’s, and our nation will have a Christian relation with all the world. There is romance in home missions as well as in foreign missions, but it needs more knowledge to see it. The home missions of to-day mean our nation of to-morrow, to provide for which is the great duty of to- day. The best way to learn about this complex work of home missions is first to take one branch of it, such as schools among the Indians, familiar- ize yourself with that, and then pass on to another branch. Hlustrations. Home missions stand at the cross roads, with lines .from everywhere, and also lines to everywhere. Home missions are a form of na- tional hospitality. These foreigners are our guests. « Success in business requires the choice of a specialty, and so does success in learning about home mis- sions. Specialize on the Chinese, or the Italians, or on eity missions. A mill soon becomes valueless if more raw material continually comes in than finished product goes out. So with our country. .a survey. Ours is a it is free ™ Germany Facing the Problem. Dr. Abegg, a German Government official of the Department of the In- terior, is in the United States, mak- ing a study of American liquor legis- lation, both for himself and for the use of the German Minister of the Interior. The German Government has of late interested itself in the alcohol problem in various ways, chiefly through the department with which Dr. Abegg is connected. So far, this activity has been chiefly along the lines of issuing bulletins giving the people information regard- ing the action of. alcohol on the hu- man system, and encouraging tem- perance movements. Dr. Abegg states that the notion of high license is be- ginning to take root in' German Gov- ernment circles. At present the li- | cense runs only about $25 a year in American money. The plea of self-defense, declares the. Louisville Couriér-Tournal, is a back number. The 113,000 word hy- pethetical question and a first-class ali will suffi had ‘gone out; from - Antioch into Asia Minor by ‘| necessary’ clerks and other subordin- Topic—The . .home mission . work of our : J [talian, wakr ANARCHY PREACHED ‘Society of Jtalion Socialists Threatens Pastor of Greensburg Church : z With Death. i A society known as the. Italian So- ‘clalists, with ohjects similar to, those of Anarchists, has been discovered at Mount Pleasant. where an Jtalian priest, Rev. Ignace Petrieco, has had trouble. At a congregational busi- ness session one member demanded that the priest . -speak on Anarchistic subjects instead of giving advice as to drinking and carousing. ‘Tell us how the rich are made to support the poor in Italy! You're afraid to tell us!” shouted a man. The man, with three companions, was ejected. The next day Father Petrieco re- ceived a letter declaring that a priest who was afraid to preach anarchy had no place in Mount Pleasant. “Why should we be without work and our families starving when to kill a few of the rich would mean that we would get lots of work and plenty to eat?” the letter said. “You better get out of town between :two suns.” Father Petrieco laid the situation before Chief Burgess S. M. Crosby. Another threatening letter was receiv- ed later and the priest is in fear of his life. He says the Italian Social- ists are a strong society having head- quarters’ in Pittsburg, and that many crimes perpétrated by it have been laid at the door of the. Black Hand: Burgess. Crosby ordered the arrest of the four men who had disturbed the meeting. . Each .was fined $5 and warned against writing threatening letters. A guard "has been placed about the parochial residence for fear of dynamiters. RAILROAD COMMISSION NAMED Governor Makés Appointments Provided. by Act of Last Legislature. as The members of the Pennsylvania Railroad Commission created at the last session of the legislature were appointed by Governor Stuart. They are: Nathanial, Ewing of Uniontown, Judge .of the United . States district court for ‘the ‘western district of | Pennsylvania, whe will be chairman of the’ commission; Charles N. Mann. of Philadelphia and John Y. Boyd of Harrisburg. : ‘In. the ; order. in, Thick. they . are. named the" terms are for five four and three years respectively. In an- nouncing the appgintments the gover. nor ‘made no comment. The: commissioners wilt receive: $8, 000 a year each and. expenses.: are, empowered to appoint, subject to. the approval of the governor” a secretary -at $4,000, one attorney at $4,000, a marshal at $2,500, and the ‘ates. WILL BE TAKEN TC TO FLORIDA Italian Held for Alleged Crime In 1889 Turned Over to South ern. Officer. -'Brookville..—Gabriello Colosimo, an was turned over to. Deputy Sheriff BR. F. Sabate of ‘ St. Johns county court, Florida, by the Jeffer- son county court, after a hearing upon a writ of habeas corpus. Colos- imo will be taken to Florida for trial upon a charge of murdering Joseph F. Llambias, a former member of the Florida legislature, at St. Augustine, in 1889. Chief of Police John E. Barr of Brookville, six weeks ago received word that a murderer was at large They |. PENNSYLVANIA STATE NEWS ENGINE COLLIDES WITH TRAIN Ore Man Is Killed and Another Hurg and Thirty Cars Are ‘Wrecked. Punxsutawney.—A runaway Buffalo and Susquehanna "locomotive kill- ed one man, seriously hurt another and wrecked itself and a freight train of 30 ¢ars.- The engine is said to have been going 90 miles an hour when, two miles north of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg junction, it crashed head on into an approaching freight rain. Fireman Bert Griffith of the runa- way locomotive fell from the tender and died soon afterward. Brakeman B. Williams was cut and bruised about the body. The engineer and fireman of the freight train saw their danger and jumped in time to save their lives. CHILDREN BURNED Were Locked Up and Cremated Be- fore Neighbors Discovered Blaze. Greensburg. — Two children were cremated in a coal company house at ‘Hannastown, near here, this after- noon. Mrs. Antoe Kuska, wife of a Polish miner, locked her children, John, aged three years, and Alzbeta, aged thrge months, in the house while she went to a store half a mile away. The dwelling caught fire, and when neighbors discovered 1t, the flames had destroyed the entire lower floor. The blackened bodies of the two in- fants were found later in {he Tuning DeCosta Loses Case. : The Pennsylvania supreme court at Philadélphia refused to grant the .ap- peal of William B. DeCosta from the decision of the superior court, which affirmed the ' decision vof the lower court, convicting him of perjury. The action is the result of testimony given by the defendant in the Hartje di- .vorce, suit. As soon jas the decision of the supreme court. reaches Pitts- tburg” DeCosta “will be 'sentencéd to the penitentiary, het 4, se “Found Unconscits; Dies.’ Kittanning. -— Supposedly - from in- Juries suffered by..a fall in the op ‘mory here of 'Comvany K, N. G. Peter. Cunningham, a veteran of 2 ‘Civil. war; died .at the Kittanning General, Hospital. Mr, Cunningham was Janitor at the | armory and is ‘thought: to shave tripped.:and, fallen, striking his head. He is, supposed to ‘have ‘lain several *dajs without food or:medical; aid. . He. was discov- ered unconseiqus, : ‘New- Peesident for: WoTnokic The - trustees .,of , Waynesburg, Col- lege élected Dr. William Mestrezat Hudson of « Clarksburg, “W." Va.; presi- dent of the, college. Dr, Jacob , Bucher, ‘who has been acting presi- dent, was elected vice president and professor of biology.. Dr. Hudson is 35 years of age and was graduated from : ‘Waynesburg = College in 1892 with highest:honors, from Princeton in 1893 and from Princeton Theologi- ‘cal Seminary in 1896. Parmele to Build Electric Road. The farmers of Eastern Crawford county have taken the project. of an electric. railway to connect Meadville and Titusville into their own hands, and: have formed the Central Craw- ford Traction Company. The object is to build or secure the building of a road to connect with the Meadville- Cambridge line at Longs, Stand, four miles east of Meadville and with the Titusville road at Clapvilie,-a Stretch of 20 miles. at. Fuller, near here. The circum- | stances of the alleged killing were | detailed by the informant. Chief | Barr took the accused into custody. SCRANTON MAN HONORED Approves Trolley Merger. Harrisburg. — Governor Stuart has approved the merger of four trolley lines in Northampton county as the Easton Transit Company, capital, $2,- 000,000. The companies are the vid Easton Transit. Easton and Bethle- J. W. Carpenter Is Appointed Judge In Lackawanna Ccunty by Governor. J. W. Carpenter of Scranton, was | appointed additional law judge of | Lackawanna county by Governor Stu- art, to serve until the first Monday of January, 1909. | Judge Carpenter is a Republican, | and takes the place made vacant by | the recent resignation of Judge John | P. Kelly, Democrat. He was appoint- | ed a judge of the Lackawanna coun- ty courts a few years ago, and was afterward defeated for election by Judge Newcomb, Democrat. TRAIN KILLS TRACKWALKER Body Found Many Hours After by Crew of Switch Engine. H. W. Foster, a track walker on the Allegheny Valley Railroad be- tween Donley and Kiskiminetas Junec- tion, was killed by a train at night and his body, hurled through tree tops along the river bank, was not discovered for two days. The crew of a shifting engine notic- | ed a lantern and a cap lying beside | the track, and upon investigating | found the body. Within 100 yards | of the same spot, three weeks before, another track walker was killed. Harrisburg.—Former State Treasur- er Frank G. Harris of Clearfield was turned down for reappointment as a | member of the State Board of Game Commissioners by Governor Stuart. | Arthur Chapman of Doylestown, | Bucks county, takes the place of Har- ris, who was appointed three years ago by Governor Pennypacker. Ask Government to Pay Loss. Lumber firms in Forest and Clarion counties have presented claims to the government aggregating $25,000 due to the new dam in the Allegheny river at Springdale. During the fall | of 1906 they claim they were notified | the dam was in operation, and accord- ingly sent rafts and barges down the river to Pittsburg, but when the dam | rte rete, | Refused Reappointment. | | | was reached they found they could | not cross it. They were compelled to tie up for the winter above the] dam, their rafts were .frozen iw the | ice and carried away with the spring { freshet. | lehem and Northampton Central. | R. Fehr, Easton, | Tribune | vice { Baer of Greensboro, hem Transit, Easton Palmer and Beth- H. is president, and S. H. Sargeant, Philadelphia, secretary and treasurer. Towne Buys Scranton Tribune. Scranton. — If was authoritatively announced that the Scranton Tribune, owned by a stock company headed by ex-Congressman Connell, will change hands February 1. The new owner is to be Congressman Charles A. Towne of New York, who will have others associated with him. The is a Republican morning daily, and has been B existence since | 1891. No More Voting In Church. Beaver Falls.— Trustees of the Methodist Protestant church who al- Towed the church building to be used as a polling place last year have csanged their views and have refus- ed to lot the building this year. Butler.—Following a series of bur- { glaries the residents of Portersville and vicinity have organized a vigil- ance committee of 37 and armed squads patrol the country every night. | No depredations have occurred for a week. New Castle—Rev. Dr. Scott E. | Hershey of Wooster, Ohio, has noti- | fied the First Presbyterian congrega- tion here that he will accept the eall recently extended him. The salary | offered ig $2,000. New Castle-—Thieves wisited the | country home of Attorney S. L. Me- | Cracken, of this city, and stole a $450 saddle horse and light wagen. Washington. — The county officers: Washington Bar Association elected these President, Boyd Crumrine; president, R. W. Knox; secre- Edgar Murdoch. — Lawrenee the €-yvear-old son of Harry Greene county, tary, Baer, | died of lockjaw, resulting from a | slight injury inflicted with a small stick in the hands of a playmate. Washington, Pa.— Professor Frank R. Hall, county school superintendent, has Wind rawn his candidacy for re- ele n cn acccunt of failing health.
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