2 vast. thods. s and yorld’e and sented. l-wide: of the f indi- have: btain- ss, of - thical | com- f the amily f Figs: eficiak nanu-~ Pp Co., rgists. s its st ber thou- Amer- , and t get. nic. e any. uding l. 50c. 1 not. parl | con- - rich rvest. er it > ppsS~ ction. ooner than upon s not. e not rfully 1ffers have 3 the ed to hand- from until eady 3 in. rided fore, vies Pain St, least suf- iney, ) for with and ’hen und aught nent ans= Pills dom eak box, Wr wants. * A<SERMON" Y THE REV~" Sra ENDER: The Call of God to Church of Christ. ‘Theme: the ba Brooklyn, New York.—Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church, Hamburg avenue and Weir- field street, the Rev. Ira Wemmell Henderson, pastor, took as his theme “The Call of God to the Church of Christ.”” The text was Phil. 1:27: “Stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the Gospel; and in nothing terri- fied by your adversaries.” He said: Let us unfold the text and trans- late it with care for the richness and exactness of meaning that it en- closes, that the authorized version which we have read hardly sets forth. “‘Stand fast persistently in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the Gospel; and in noth- ing scared by your adversaries.”” The apostle admonishes the people of God to stand fast steadily not spo- radically, to be of singleness of mind and heart and soul in their devotion to the work of the living Christ, to strive together with the best of team play for the truth, to be unafraid of their opponents. The figure is that of a frightened horse. Be not scared like a runaway. This is the word of Paul to the saints in Christ Jesus which were at Philippi. It is the call of Him who gitteth between the cherubim to His church to-day. This is the summons of God to those who are His people in the bonds of Christ. He promul- gates the plan for Christian’ action. He elevates an ideal for service. He asserts the positive and negative du- ties that relate themselves to Chris- tianity. He stipulates what is to be the aim and what is the measure of the efficiency of the church of the living Lord. The text affords as good a program for the guidance of those who are banded in the in- terests of the proclamation and ad- vancement of the Kingdom of God as could well be devised. And we may safely assert that it is because the church has too largely relinquished her grasp upon this pro- gram; lost, too largely, her con- sciousness of the mandatory respon- sibilities that God has laid upon her, her vision of her divinely endowed ideals, her unanimous fidelity to the plans and the purposes and inspired activities of Emanuel, that she has to a lamentable degree ceased to command either the influence, the respect or the love that within the memory of many a man alive was hers. And I believe that the moral and spiritual unhealthiness that is manifest in America is a direct re- sult of the desultory and flaccid alle- gidhce that:the”church- has granted to her God. : We have been too much afraid of our enemies and too uncertain of ourselves. We have over-empha- sized the power of the forces of en- trenched evil, and by implication dis- counted the capacity of the Deity successfully to energize His people and to realize His will in them. We have been silent when we should have spoken fearlessly, and voluble when silence, better would have served the time and the King’s busi- ness. We have, especially in the Protestant Church, let Christian 1lib- erty degenerate till in many quarters it has become synonymous with irreligious license. We have ex- changed prophecy for time-serving and ‘truthfulness for popularity, to an extent that is as disastrous’ as it is disreputable. We have lost the note of authority. And in our scramble to find the bait that will lure thé world toward God and that will draw men so far under the in- fluence of the church that we shall be able to demonstrate the good- heartedness of the Gospel and of the Christian life we have become such good fellows that we have lost our aim, missed the heart of Christian service and of Christian faith. The call of ‘God to His church means little to multitudes of people who are on the rolls of the church visible because they haven't listened long or intently enough to Him to know what He thinks or says or It is not strange that they do not ‘stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the Gospel.” How could it be otherwise? Faith is simply a catchword with them; the meat of the Gospel is a mystery that they have taken little effort to master; a hard fight is the last thing that they want; salvation means about as much to them as changing their clothes. Dr. Newman Smyth is not far wrong when he asserts that a new order of things will, in God’s provi- dence, supersede our present Chris- tian religious systems. If we are to judge them by the fidelity of the majority of their members to the exact Gospel of God in Christ, the sooner the churches of Christ, as at present ccnstituted, are superseded by a nobler order the better for the world. 5 Primarily the church must de- clare and elucidate the deepest spiri- tual truths of ‘the Kingdom of God without which there can be no found- ed or balanced ethics. She must stand as the evangel of God speak- ing with authority that truth ‘in Christ, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, which is supremely suffi- cient for the salvation of the souls of men. She must deal first with the souls of men in their relationship with the Father. Spirituality is her keynote. The reveiation and expli- cation of eternal spiritual mysteries is her chief business. The call of God to the Church of Christ to-day is mo different in es- sence than it was to the men and women of the church at Philippi to whom Paul wrote. If it was essen- tial for them to cut close to the pat- tern supplied to them of God it is no less necessary that we do the same. If they were called upon to stand fast persistently and to a con- clusion so are we. If they had to use team play to accomplish the work of the kingdom how can we win suc- cess by lesser methods &nd poorer fAdelity? But we have stood so fast, liter- ry ee het situs ally, that we have almost stood stilt. We have striven together. But the striving has been of the wrong sort. We have stood fast in one spirit. But very largely that spirit has been that we have refused to inconvenience ourselves in the interests of the king- dom of God, for the good of His chil- dren and for the glory of the King. But God commands something dif- ferent. He summons us to another variety of living. His call is that we shall be stead- fast in our adherence to and advo- cacy of those spiritual truths, that constitute the reason for and the richness of His church. Primarily the church is not an institution that exists to regulate morals, to supply a means for social intercourse, to gather a crowd. That is in no sense to minimize the imnportance, the place and the work of the church as a mentor and purifier of morals, a min- ister to the social necessities of men, a gatherer of men for the purpose of supplying that verve that comes simply and solely because we are a crowd filled with the same desires and adoring the same REord. For we must direct conduct and meet the needs of man as a social animal and recognize the value and the in- fluence of the crowd. But the call of God first to His church is that she shall be experi- enced in the knowledge of those in- effable and spiritual truths out of which spring the impulses that make for a godly ethics, a consecrated so- ciety, a spirit-moved crowd, in such measure and manner that she shall be able to declare, delineate and re- veal to men with compelling power that wisdom of the saving Father to know which and whom is life eternal. That is to ‘say that the call of the church first—and all the time—is to be a spiritual evangel. ’ Our duty is to be true to this call. To live to this work. To cleave to this program. To plan after this pat- tern. To exalt this as our ideal. Let us stand fast persistently in and for this, rather tLan pat upon our past. Let us strive together for this rather than among ourselves. Let us have the spirit of helpfulness rather than of laziness, and faith in God and in the power of His truth. Let us be in nothing scared by our adversaries. We have been. Si makes a brave show. We have taken to our heels, as it were, often at its approach. We have had an unreas- oning terror of its power. And we have chronically overrated its ability to beat us. But we have no more reason to be scared by sin than a child has to be frightened by Jack- in-the-box. The church can put sin to rout when it gets into right relationships with deity and into the proper sort of fighting clothes, or else God, who tan~ not lie, prevaricates. He says we can do it. He promises to enable us. He demonstrates the method. He pro- vides the stone and the sling, the helmet, the breastplate, the armor, the two-edged flaming sword of His own consuming truth. Either we cah or we cannot. If we can we ought. And we can if we will. For one, I believe.that sin, unliké Achilles, is vulnerable at every point. We have but to hit ‘with the right weapons and hard to -subdue it. For sin is a hulking, rotten mon- ster to whom we need’ be in bondage no longer than we desire- -thanks to the grace and the potency of God. And this is the call of God that we shall be true to the spiritual mis- sion for which we are endowed and that we shall fight sin fearlessly to a finish. May we be true thereto. The Stones Bear Witness. It is truly marvelous how the truth of the Word of God is being vindi- cated by modern discovery against the attacks made upon it by interest- ed critics. Few more exciting stories have ever been told than that which was narrated last week at the annual meeting of the Palestine Exploration Fund. ' ei At $he very time when the earlier parts of the Old Testament were be- ing dismissed with contempt as ‘“‘un- historic,” the spades of excavators were busy, disinterring long buried Canaanitish cities, ‘with the result that “high places” of idoltary have been brought to light containing re- mains of human sacrifices offered to heathen deities. Thus the abomina- tions of the Ammonites are, actually exposed to our gaze. Even more interesting Is the dis- covery of the form of the ancient Philistine temples. Men who have made sport of the story of Samson pulling down the pillars of the tem- ple upon the heads of his enemies, become, in turn, the objects of de- rision, as it is now clearly shown what the ‘pillars’ were, and how easily a strong man could have dis- placed them to the undoing both, of himself and of his foes. Inthe light of these expert discoveries," believers have no need to apologize for their Bible; rather, they ‘ought to ‘expect an apology from those who have re- lied upon imagination rather than sound fact.—London Christian. Gospel Truth the Instrument of Re- vival. The great historian Lecky has, in a noteworthy passage. in his famous “History of England in the Eight- eenth Century,” declared that the secret of success of Methodism was merely that it satisfied some of the strongest and most enduring wants of our nature, which found no grati- fication in the popular theology; that it revived a large class of religious doctrines which had long been al- most wholly neglected. The utter de- pravity of human nature, the lost condition of -eyery man who is born Finto“the world, the vicarious atone- ment of Christ, the necessity to sal- vation of a new birth, of faith, of the constant and sustaining action of the Divine Spirit upon the believer's soul, are doctrines which in the eyes of the modern evangelist constitute the most vital and the most influ- ential portions of Christianity, but they are doctrines which during the greater part of the eighteenth cen- tury were seldom heard from a Church of England pulpit. Every student of the period knows that the wide and simple preaching of these doctrines of vital personal religion developed that nobler life which saved England from decay.— London Christian. Best Armor, Worst Cloak. Religion is the best armor in the world, but the worst cloak.—John Newton. SABBATH SCHOOL LESSONS INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM. MENTS FOR FEBRUARY 9. Subject: Jesus and the Woman of Samaria, John 4:1-42-——Golden Text, John 7:37—Comunit Verses 23, 24—Commentary. TIME. — December, A. D. 27. PLACE.—Sychar. i EXPOSITION.—I. Jesus’ reveals Himself as the Messiah to the woman of Samaria, 19-26. The woman of Samaria had said to Jesus, “Give me this water, i. e., the living water (v. 15; ef. vs. 10, 13 and 14). Jesus will answer this prayer, but first the wom- an must be brought to realize that she is a sinner. Conviction of sin usually precedes the reception of the Holy Spirit. So Jesus aimed a sharp thrust at her conscience, “Go call thy husband” ‘(v. 16). It was effective. Heart and life were laid bare. She briefly answered, “I have no hus- band.” But little did she know how Jesus would drive the answer home to her own conscience (vs. 16-18). The woman tried to parry the thrust by engaging Jesus in a theological dis- ‘eussion. This is a common method used by men when we try to drive home to them a conviction of their own sin. + They seek to ease their conscience by drawing us into a dis- cussion on some side theological is- sue. The woman failed in her at- tempt. Jesus’ answer to her question went even more deeply to the need of her soul. It was beginning to dawn upon the woman that Jesus was a prophet indeed. He had read her heart. Jesus shpwed her the utter formality and worthlessness of all her worship of which she had made her boast. The standing controversy be- tween the Jews and the Samaritans was whether they should. worship at Mt. Zion or Mt. Gerizim (v. 20). Jesus shows to the woman: that this is not the real question at issue. The question is not where we shall wor- ship, but how we shall worship. These are strong words with which Jesus exposed the hollowness of the B worship of this woman and her fellow Samaritans, “Ye worship ye know not what,” but the words are equally true of much modern so-called Chris- tian worship. “Salvation is from the Jews.” To them were committed the oracles of God (Rom. 3:2). Of them the Christ, the Saviour of the world, is born according to the flesh (Rom. 1:3). The Jews were the first her- alds of a crucified and risen Saviour, in whom salvation is offered to all men. The world owes to the Jews a debt that it can never repay. But while salvation is from the Jews, the Jews as a people have rejected it. The Heavenly Father is seeking wor- shipers (v. 23, R. V.) God is seeking not only those who will serve Him and obey Him, but those who will worship Him. He does not find many worshipers, though He is seeking them. Prayer is not worship. Thanks- giving ‘is. not. worship. Worship is | bowing “before God in adoring con- templation of Himself. ‘In our praye ers we are taken up with our needs; in our thanksgiving we are taken up with our blessings; in our worship we are taken up with Himself,” and He is seeking worshipers. Does He find one in you? And God is seeking only one kind of worshipers, those who worship in spirit, that is, in.the Holy Spirit, and in truth, that is, in reality, not in mere pretemse (cf. Phil. 3:3, R. V.).. The flesh seeks to intrude into every sphere and even into the sphere of worship. But the worship which the flesh prompts is not acceptable to God. We are absolutely dependent upon the Holy /Spirit to teach us how to worship and to lead us into accept- able worship. God is a spirit, not a mere outward form. Though God is spirit in His essential essence, He does manifest Himself in visible form (Ex. 24:9, 10; 33:18, 23), and. the glad day is coming when the pure in heart shall see Him (Matt. 5:8; 1 John 3:2). The woman knew that the Messiah was coming and was waiting until He came to tell her all things. He, indeed, is the one who does tell us all things, but He was already there. Jesus makes one of the clearest and most unmistaka- ble declarations that He is the Mes- siah to this outcast Samaritan wom- an, “I that speak unto thee am He.” II. The Samaritan woman becomes a witness for her new-found Saviour, 27, 29. The disciples were greatly surprised that He talked with a wom- ‘an. Women are of no more account in the eyes of some men to-day than they were in the eyes of the disciples. The disciples ought not to have been surprised that Jesys talked with a woman, a Samaritan and a sinner, if they had only stopped to think that He had condescended to talk with them. : The woman, however, does not wait. She hurries into the city to tell others the good news. In her eagerness she even forgets to take her waterpot with her. She came out she went back with a whole well in her heart (cf. v. 14). When one real- ly finds Jesus he is willing to leave all that he may go and tell others about Jesus. Her message to the men of the city was the old gospel mes- sage, “Come.” And what were they to come and do? ‘‘See a man.” That is what we most need—to see Jesus €cf. 1:29). She sums up what Jesus had done in a short sentence, ‘He told me all things that ever I did.” And then asks the question, “Is not this the Christ?’”’ Could there be any better proof that He was the Christ? She brought the whole fown to the Saviour (vs. 40-42). LEADING QUESTIONS. — What does this lesson teach us as to how to deal with souls? What does it teach us about Jesus? What does it teach about God? What does it teach:about worship? What does it teach about testimony? ne ———————————————— The pottery industry in this coun- dry, like many other industrial ac- tivities, laments the New York Eve. ning Post, seems to be behind Japan ; In recognizing the importance of in- dustrial education and has made lit- tle effort to induce State Legislatures to make grants for schools to develop State pottery deposits. More robberies in French art mus- eums. This will eventually improve curs, rejoices the Bostcn Transcript. 1 .ing in its nature. to get a waterpot full of water and’ SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8. Help and Deliverance in God. Isa. 29. 18,19; Psa. 146. 7-9. Southern Educational: Work. The prophet looks forward to a day when the deaf, the~ blind, the poor, the meek, shall hive their chance. He was not thinking of the work of Southern °' education, but if he had been his words could not have been more to the point. The work our church and other churches are doing for whites and blacks in the South is the Christly work of opening the deaf ears and the blinded eyes to Christian truth, and of making the poor and the meek to rejoice. Nothing is surer than that the work of Southern education is the Lord's work, so unselfish is it, so compas- sionate, so brotherly, so truly redeem- It has secured jus- tice for those who knew nothing but oppression, it has fed hungry minds, it has broken the prison bars of ig- norance, it has opened the blinded eyes of prejudice, it has lifted up into self-respect the bowed-down, and it has brought material, social and spiritual salvation to thousands of the fatherless and widowed of both races. Read the literature of this work, and see if this is not simple truth. This theme is meant to have spe- cial reference to our work in the South, which is conducted in the schools and colleges controlled by the Board of Education, Freedmen’s Aid and Sunday Schools. ,. This work of the Board concerns it- self with educational effort among both races, because the two races in the South are interdependent, and the chiefest foe of both is ignorance, with its resulting prejudice, hatred and strife. The safety, not to say the prosperity and happiness, of each race depends, above everything else, on the fully-rounded Christian education of the other. There is abundant hope for perma- nent success in this work. The South is belated, but not degenerate. Both races reached by our schools are rich in promise. Its white people are of purest American stock—the stock from which Lincoln sprung. They are Protestants and patriots. Over one hundred and forty thousand men from the mountains sprang to the defense of the Union.. Behind its black peo- ple are from five ten ten generations of American-born ancestry. In the single generation since slavery they have clearly demonstrated their eager- ness and capacity for education and the higher life. CHRISTIAN ENDERVOR NOTES FEBRUARY NINTH. Ministering to Strangers and the Sick. Matt. 25: 31-46. Loving the stranger. Deut. 10: 18-19. Hospitality. I Tim. 5: 1-10. Brotherly love. Heb. 13: 1-3. Jesus and the sick. Luke 4: 38-41. The calling committee. Jas. 5: 13-15. . Christ's command. Matt. 10: 5-15. Christianity -is a glorious thing now; but its present glory is only a shadow of what it will be (v. 31). There is something of the sheep and something of the goat in each of us, and we cannot divide them; only Omniscience can strike the just blow (v- 32). The Kingdom is not earned by us, but inherited; not prepared by us, but prépared from the beginning (v. 34). Christ's identification with the needy is not a figure of speech; he is in them (v. 35). ° Suggestions. Is hospitality a lost art with us? If so, with it we have lost much of— Christ. Each of us is some time to be sick, and to know in our own experience how blessed is kindness then. Foreigners are strangers, and this lesson is a home-mission plea for hos- pitality toward them. All our social committees should endeavor to turn our sociability where it is needed,—toward the strangers and the sick. iltustrations. Our homes are part of our Christian capital. Is it lying idle?. Sickness is a Christian opportunity. Some are shut away from the world that Christ: may come in to them. Their feet are clogged that they may be blessedly caught. What if the size of our heavenly, mansions depended upon the number of rooms in our earthly mansions used for Christ? No excursions so far as those one may take with “shut-ins”! Stairways rise from sick rooms into the unseen world. Fiorida ¥nosphate Mines. New phosphate mines have been es tablished by local companies in Flori da during the past year, and but for the difficulties of the labor situation the outrun would have been consider ably larger. As it was, a slight in- crease was made for the year from these mines. On account of the shortage of phos. phate rock on the part of mamufactur- ers on this side of. the water and in Europe, the increase from Florida mines has been readily taken at pre vailing prices, the demand being of such proportions as to warrant the belief in a slight increase in values during the coming year. Many mines are sold for a year ahead and the manufacturers who have not thus pro- vided for their needs will be some: what handicapped.—American Fertil izer. Because one sheep slipped and fell over a precipice, out in the Cascade mountains, relates the New York Tri bune, we are told eleven thousand others followed him and were all killed. Poor beasts! They were al most human in their blind and heed: less imitation of their leader! FPWORTH EAE LESSONS PENNSYLVANIA STATE NEWS HAND OF DEFENSE FORCED Commonweaith Establishing Facts at Graft Trials Which Must Be Explained. Harrisburg.—Step by step the Com- monwealth is establishing facts in the trial of the capitol conspiracy charges which must be explained, and in their explanation Contractor Sanderson will set up a defense which he hopes will satisfy the jury that no intent to de- fraud the state existed, and that his contract was executed legally. With the testimony of Rev. Samuel C. Huston, brother of the architect, that the bills for furniture on which the indictment is based were approved on a blank certificate signed by the architect before he went abroad in the spring of 1905 and the demonstra- tion of the peculiar method of meas- uring the furniture, at @$ession, the hand of the defense has been forced. VIOLATED MINING LAWS Five Employes Give Bail for Their Appearance in Court. Connellsville.—F. L. Thomas, mine superintendent; F. K. Smith, foreman, and Samuel Rollins, James C. Pan- coast and A. Hoenschem, fire bosses, all of Banning No. 2 mine of the" Pittsburg Coal Company, waived hear- ings before Justice of the Peace H. M. Smurr and gave bail for their ap- pearance at court to answer charges of violating the mining laws. Deputy Mine Inspector Daniel R. Blower of Irwin made the information. It is alleged the five defendants discovered miners beyond danger boards in the mine and failed to no- tify the state inspector. Frank Guide, employed in the Davidson shaft of the H. C. Frick Coke Company, was committed to jail by Justice Smurr on a charge of violating the laws. State Inspector T. D. Williams is the prosecutor. THINK DEMANDS TOO GREAT Coal Company Appeals From Mine Inspectors’ Instructions. Uniontown. — The Pittsburg Coal Company has filed its apeeal here from the decision of the mine inspec- tors affecting the operation of the Banning mines. It is set forth that on January 24, 1908, a letter was received by William Kelvincton, su- perintendent of the Banning mines, in which he was instructed by the in- spectors to use safety lamps, provide an air current of 200,000 cubic feet volume at the mine openings, and when a shot was abaut to be fired sprinkle sides, roof and dust for a distance of at least 100 feet from the shot, and to provide water works nec- essary for doing these things. e The company contends that the de- mands being made upon it are unrea- sonable and too rigid and in some re- spects almost impossible to meet. SEEKS PARDON FOR MURDER Went to Penitentiary for 20 Years for Killing George Carter.’ Greenville—Application 1s to be made to the State Boara or Pardons for the discharge of Walter Wheat- on of this place, sentenced at Frank- lin in 1898 to 20 years in the peniten- | Lary for the murder of George Car- er. The conviction was secured by De- tective George B. Perkins of Pitts- burg, largely. through the confession of George McKay, a youthful accom- plice, who was sentenced to the re- form school and released several years ago. Since he was sent to the peniten- tiary Wheaton made a confession in which he charged that a man named Anderson, of the Clapp farm, whose shotgun was used to kill Carter, had instigated the deed. : PECULIAR WILL. Woman Left Fortune of $125,000 at Disposal of Executor Named. Washington—Alleging the will of Nancy W. Kuntz of Washington, was procured by undue influence an ap- peal was taken by Samuel Workman from the action of the county regis- ter in admitting the instrument to probate. Mrs. Kuntz died last June, leaving a $125,000 estate. The will names | R. C. McConnell as executor. He is authorized, after a few minor be- ‘| quests, to dispose of the rest of the estate as he sees fit. It is stated others besides Workman are inter- ested in the contest. Death Sentence for Italian. ,Sharon.—Judge A. W. Williams im- posed the death sentamce on Angelo Lombardi, who shot and killed Pas- quali Panelli in Sharon September 13, 1906. The tragedy, it is said, resuit- ed from Lombardi’'s infatuation with Mrs. Panelli. The attorneys for the condemned man will carry the case to the supreme court. This is the first time a death sentence has been pass- ed on a murderer in Mercer county. Wabash Surveyors at Work. Altoona —Surveyvors have appeared at Morrison's Cove, an agricultural valley in the southern end of this county, and are said to be laying out a route for the Wabash Railroad. The proposed line passes through the cen- ter of the Cove and touches Martins- burg. It is understood options on val- uable properties have been secured in this city and Hollidaysburg to give the Wabash an entrance. Beaver Falls.—That portion of the | Standard Oil Company's eight-inch pipe line from the Texas oil fields to | the Atlantic Seaboard that passes through Beaver county, is now being constructed, giving hundreds of men and teams. Found Guilty of Murder. William Donley of Renovo, charged with slaying his nine-year-old niece, Mary Donley, at Renovo October 29, 1907, was found guilty of murder in | ' the first degree by the jury. THREE SKATERS ARE DROWNED Plunge Into 12 Feet of Water; Two of Party Are Rescued With Difficulty. Wilkes-Barre. — Five boys, ranging in age from nine to 13, on their way to school in the northern part of the city, went on a pond to slide, when they broke through the two-inch coat- ing of ice and all fell into 12 feet of water. Three were drowned and the cther two were rescued after a hard struggle. The drowned. John Swanson, Philip Geiger, John Terschak. Their bodies were recovered. A man em- ployed at a lace mill nearby saw the boys go through the ice. He gave the alarm, and a number of men went to the rescue. One of the men found that one of the boys was his own son, and rescued him at the risk of his own life. Sev- eral of the other rescuers had nar- row escapes from drowning. REVERSE: DECISION Court Upholds Contention That Neo Rate Was Filed Before Pipe . Was Shipped. Philadelphia.—The charge of unlaw- ful rebating upon which the Camden Iron Works was convicted and fined $3,000 in September, 1906, was dis- missed by Judge Dallas, in the United States appellate court. The decisiom is based upon the finding that no pub- lished tariff or rate had been filed with the interstate commerce commis- sion and consequently the Camden company could not have been guilty of rebating. The government charges were brought on a shipment of pipe sold by R. D. Wood & Company, agents of the Camden Iron Works, to the mu- nicipality of Winnipeg, in 1904. Wood & Company were first tried on the charge and acquitted. FREIGHT BUSINESS CUT Report Shows Falling Off of 35,000 Cars in Month of December. Philadelphia. — Though the official record is not yet complete, an indica- tion of the falling off in business following thie financial flurry, is shown by a remarkable decrease in the num- ber of freight cars moved in Decem- ber and January over railroad lines east of Altoona, in Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey. The report shows that there was an approximate decrease of 60,000 cars on these lines in January. The De- cember report shows a decrease of 35,000 cars, as compared with Decem- ber, 1906. : Sends Conscience Money. Sharon. — Twenty-six years ago a man rode from Jamestown, this coun- ty, to Andover, O., on the Lake Shore Railroad without paving his fare. Yes- terday D. T. Murray, division super- intendent of the road, received a let- ter from the man, whose name is withheld, enclosing $1 which was for- merly the fare between the two points. The writer. said he is about to die and wants to leave the world without owing a penny. Deserted 21 Years Ago; Exempt. Washington—Joehn Mulherron walk- ed into the office of Sheriff J. C. Mur- phy and said: “I have traveled in al- most every part of the United States in the last 21 years, but cannot forget I am a deserter from the United States Infantry. I want to be locked up.” Sheriff Murphy learned that under laws passed since Mulherron’s deser- tion he is exempt from arrest. “Now I may amount to something,” ex- claimed Mulherron as he thanked the Sheriff and left. Firemen Have Hard Fight. Altoona.—While battling with a fire in the home of William Irwin, chief of the Pennsylvania department, many firemen were frost-bitten. The cold was intense. Irwin’s house was destroyed along with those of J. Cowan and E. B. Stotten, adjoining. The losses aggregate $18,000, partial- ly insured. Pittsburg Bridge Foreman Killed. Ellwood City—While directing workmen on the new Pittsburg, Har- mony & New Castle Street Railway bridge, crossing the Connoquenessing Creek here, Foreman Frank Aken was struck by a guy rope, hurted 40 feet to the ice below and instantly killed. He was married and resided in Pitts- burg. Rolling Mills to Resume. The National Tube Company issued orders for the general resumption of the rolling mills at McKeesport. About six hundred men will be re-employed under this order, and the big plant will then be about 75 per cent active. The rolling mills will be put in shape for resumption also. Settles Old Claim. Washington. — After waiting more than 42 years, William G. Birch, a veteran calvaryman of Claysville, has settled with the government over a claim of $2.81. Birch served through the Civil War as a member of Com- panies I and K of the Sixteenth Penn- sylvania Volunteer cavalry. When discharged there wag four days’ pay due him along with An allowance of employment to | 68 cents for clothing. Must Report Births. | Judge Alison O. Smith of Clearfield | county. has decided that physicians | and midwives are responsible for the reporting of births occurring in their | practice to local registrars in their statistics of the State Department of i Health. | Washington.—In a runaway at | Waynesburg, Mrs. James Knight | jumped and escaped injury, but her | husband stayed in the buggy, which was upset, and he sustained several bones and internal injuries. hrols 1 | broken
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