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FRIDAY, JANUARY 22. 1904. TIEE BEADING DAILY TIMES AND DISPATCH, READESTG, PENKA. FEIDAT, JANUARY 22, 1904. 3 HOW CONSUMPTION DEVELOPS AND HOW TO PREVENT AND CURE IT.

i I A slight cold, neglected, often settles in the head or throat, causing chronic catarrh. In the case of persons with weak lungs or who are in any way predisposed to bronchial or asthmatic troubles, this neglected cold is very apt to gradually extend down through the air tubes and into the lungs themselves, causing consumption. The illustration herewith shows at a FROM OVER THE BORDERS OF BERKS MONTGOMERY COUNTY. So jubilant was Carman Julean that his prosecutor, Frank had to pay half the costs for assault and battery, that he danced the office of the Ncrristown burgess. Mails which now go via Philadelphia will, after February 1, be carried by trolley car direct from Norristown to Lansdale, 10 miles distant.

Now the mail traverses 40 miles by railroad. William Savidge, Pottstown, aged 69, an ex postmaster and merchant, is dead. As a result of swallowing caustic soda 16 weeks ago, during which time she could, partake of no nourishment, a daughter of Harrison Schaffer, of Glan dale, is dead. Captured at the point of a revolver by Edward Walters, Pottstown, with a bag full of chickens that he had stolen from Allen Wick, a thief made his escape while being taken to the station house. Harry Campbell was terribly scalded at the Bridgeport roundhouse of the Reading railway.

No. 1 furnace, of the Warwick Iron Company, at Pottstown, will put into blast in a short time. Rev. David Barnhart, who died of smallpox at Bendersville, did not con tract the malady in Norristown, but in Philadelphia. For threatening Wallace Shaner, a Norristown trolley conductor, George Bartle, of Roxborough, was compelled to pay $15 by a Norristown magistrate.

Induced by mischievous companions to put his tongue on iicy metal, Lloyd Klink, a Pottstown boy, had a portion of it torn oft before he was liberated. CHESTER COUNTY. Lawrence Cox was held up on the streets of Kennett Square about 12 o'clock at night and robbed of $22. Hary and John McCallicker, twins, 21 years of age, of St. Peter's, dressed alike and looking alike, each paid $2 fine for alleged offenses in Pottstown Thomas Giles, a Junk dealer, of Lancaster, and Aaron Glasco, of Coates ville, both colored, are in the Chester county prison, at West Chester, charged with the larceny of 1,800 pounds of scrap iron from a car on the Pennsylvania railroad.

Burgess Pennypacker, of West Ches ter, has a warm spot in his heart for children. He does not intend toj stop the coasting unless the young people who engage in the sport become disorderly. At the January meeting of the bor ough council of Kennett Square it was decided to add $60 to the $40 usually appropriated to the firemen, thus making the annual appropriation $100. The firemen are endeavoring to reduce the debt of $1,200 on their new Silsby steamer. Samuel Carton, an Australian, who has been conducting a grocery store in Coatesville, his trade being principally from the foreign element, has left town.

He was considered a heavy property owner, but when the facts became known it appeared that his property was heavily mortgaged. Several business men who endorsed his notes would like to know his whereabouts. Irvin It. Saylor, the Parkerford miller, says there is ice three feet thick on one portion of his dam. He has filled his ice house with the thickest and finest quality in years.

Hon. John Acker, one of the oldest residents of West Chester, died at 1 o'clock Sunday morning at his home, 322 North High street, in the 90th year of his age. He has been a resident of West Chester for the past seven years, having moved there from Kentucky. A native of Uwehluntl township, he was the son of John and Katharine Acker, and was born November 26, 1814. The firemen of Oxford are contemplating the purchase of a new fire engine to replace the one the company has had in use for a number of years.

If a new engine is not secured this year a new chemical engine and hose cart may be added to the present fire apparatus of the town. YORY COUNTY. William A. Cook, a veteran of the civil war, well known in G. A.

R. circles, was married in York to Miss Martha J. Collins, a young woman of Fennimore, this county, by the Rev. C. E.

New comb. LEHIGH COUNTY. While Dr. Warren D. Kunkel, of Ful lerton, was returning home from a pro Always the rmber the Full Rromo Quinine lOnaDty.

Crtp in 2 Days axauve Cores a Colt! tsi glance the intimate and close relations between the various air tubes and the lungs, and how easy it is for neglected bronchial and catarrhal troubles to extend down into and fasten themselves upon the breathing apparatus. That consumption is the most terrible and deadly of all diseases is proven by the fact that the deaths each year from this awful scourge are greater than from all other contagious diseases combined. At the first sign or indication or trouble the sufferer should immediately seek the best medical advice he can find instead of wasting precious time with stomach nostrums, which never cured a single case of genuine consumption, but which weaken the pa tient constitution at the very time when he most needs all his bodily functions in their best working order. The only sure way ever discovered to eradicate the consumption poison is by the inhalation of the healing oily vapors of the Koch "Tuberculine, men icated with germicidal and curative oils. These wonderful vapors penetrate to the very seat of the disease, killing the germs and permanently curing consumption, asthma and all lung diseases.

Hundreds of people all over the land have been cured by the Koch treatment and are today living monuments of its success. The Reading office of the Koch Lung Cure is at 60 South Sixth street, where consultation, examination and trial treatment are given absolutely without additional cost. fessional call, he was attacked by three footpads. He put up a stiff fight, knocking down two of the men and putting the third one to flight. It is believed the men were the same who were implicated, in the Siegfried's robberies.

SCHUYLKILL COUNTY. Examining a revolver that he brought to the Indian Ridge mine to shoot rats, John Ukaitis, Shenandoah, an 18 year old driver, accidentally shot himself in the right breast and died within half an hour. With tons of ice and snow covering the watersheds, held fast by the arctic cold, Pottsviile and surrounding territory is threatened with a water famine, which won't be relieved until spring. There is likelihood that consumers will be put on short supply. Angered because a crowd of North Mahanoy colliery slate picker boys persisted in calling his father "Dago" and "Snake Eater," Joseph Weedo, 15 years old, plunged the blade of a penknife into Alfred Shafer's side, near the thigh, inflicting an ugly wound.

Weedo is being held for court trial. DAUPHIN COUNTY. The Graduate Nurses' Association, of Pennsylvania, are now in convention in Harrisburg. A committee from the Pennsylvania State Pharmaceutical Association called upon Governor Pennypacker and presented the names of W. F.

Horn, of Carlisle: D. J. Thomas, Scranton; Jacob H. Stine, Reading: C. W.

Boyd, Butler, and E. J. Boring, Philadelphia, for member of the State Pharmaceutical Examining Board, to succeed Paul W. Houck, of Shenandoah, whose commission expires next June. NORTHAMPTON COUNTY.

Ardrais Bedi, Easton, employed at the Vulcanite cement plant, at Alpha, N. was found under a huge heap of coal. I He started to work and when he could not be found an investigation was made. With her limbs broken, and bruised and cut in face and body, 15 year old Florence Dewalt, Bethlehem, was carried to her widowed mother's house, having been injured in a coasting accident. She may be crippled for life.

BUCKS COUNTY. and Mrs. Isaac Holcombe, 0j Doylestown, have Just celebrated the 50th anniversary of their wedding. The night telegraph operator in the Perkasie railroad station shoots a man wno auempis 10 rou mm, out Liie 111 truder escapes. Thieves Tuesday night stole two horses belonging to Jonathan Cornell, of Holland.

They were arrested a few hours later at Bustleton. The booty was recovered. Driven to shelter by the extremely I 1 cold weather, John Daniels, aged 22 CATHARINE PETERS, years, was lodged in Doylestown Jail, After suffering intensely since Tues a self confessed horse thief. He stole day morning, Catharine Peters, aged a horse from the stable of John Stew two and one half years, daughter of art, of Bridge Valley, and attempted to get away on horseback. When he arrived at Breadysville he was so nearly frozen that he decided to take the chances of capture rather than freeze to death astride the steed.

He is an old offender. DELAWARE COUNTY. After a vigorous fight on the Chester and Darby pike, Stewart Keyes, of Ridley Park, put a negro footpad to flight. Elizabeth Braden, an active church woi ker in Media for 40 years past and a prominent woman, is dead as a result of a stroke of apoplexy. Chester will publish a list of the people who have not paid their school taxes.

Nine boys were arrested by the Chester police for stealing coal from the Reading trains. Seven of the lads were sent to the county Jail for 30 days. LANCASTER COUNTY. In the First Presbyterian church, Lancaster, Samuel R. Fraim, a young business man, and Miss Mary Grace Metzger were married before a fashionable assemblage by Dr.

J. Y. Mitchell. Mrs. David Foehl, aged 85 years, was burned to death at the home of her son, Jacob Foehl, near Martinsville, while alone.

Her garments were ig nited from a stove. Another of ex President William B. Given's appointees has been dismissed from the Lancaster County Railway and Light Company's services. Oscar M. Hoffman, of Columbia, retires as secretary and treasurer and Is succeeded by John s.

Grayblll, of this city. P7J bo. 23c OBITUARY JACOB MOYKR. Jacob Moyer died Wednesday at the residence of his son in law. Frank Ban man.

Boyertown, aged 75 years. He is survived by three daughters and one son. Henry, of A lien town: Mary, wife of Jacob Freed, of Reading: Kate, wife of John Clark, of Philadelphia, and An nie, wife of Frank Bauman, with whom he resided. One brother also survives, Simon, of Mahanoy City. nTAsiTPHTn iitxn.u.

Elias Liehtel died on Wednesday evening at his in Boyertown, of general debility, aged 80 years. IKV1N FROMM. Mrs. Sydney Kromm, wife of Irvin fr'romm, Jefferson township, died on Wednesday evening. She was 32 years of age.

Her husband and two children survive. They are Eva and a babe one week old. Her mother, Mrs. Rebecca Freeman, of the same township, and these sisters and brother also remain: Mrs. Levi Kirst, Reading: Mrs.

Samuel J. Rissmiller, of Jefferson, and Monroe Freeman, of Reinholds' Station. Deceased was a member of the Lutheran congregation at Host. CHARLES H. BLOCK.

Charles Henry Bloch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Bloch, of near Fleetwood, died, aged 13 years, on Wednesday evening from injuries to his head, sus tained by falling on the ice. He went to school at Walnuttown on Monday and at noon fell on the ice. He leaves the following brothers and sisters: George, Lloyd.

Boyd, Hettie, Sallie, Edna, Alma, Birdie and Elda. JOHN M. KEIM. John M. Keim died of grip and old age Thursday morning at his home, 635 Franklin street, aged 84.

He was bedfast eight weeks. He was born in Chester County and came to Reading 80 years ago. He was last employed as a carpenter in the P. R. car shops, retiring three years ago.

Twa, children remain, Elizabeth wife of J. T. Keim, of Chester County, and A. E. Keim, of Columbia; also a brother, Samuel, of Atlantic City.

He was a member of the People's M. E. Church. MRS. LEWIS 11.

WUNDER. Susanna, widow of Lewis H. Wunder (nee Setlay), died of paralysis at 8.40 Wednesday evening at her home, 525 Elm street, aged 84 years. She was stricken two weeks ago. She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, was the last of her family, and lived in Reading all her life.

Two sons and two daughters remain. Select Councilman W. W. Wunder is a son. EMILY CLOUSER Emily, daughter of Henry and the late Susan Clouser, died of heart trou ble Thursday morning at the home of the father, 1220 Cotton street, aged 9 years.

She leaves her father and a sister, Alice, at home. She attended St. Paul Lutheran Sunday School and the 13th and Cotton streets school, taught by Miss Sallie Darrah. HATTIE M. GEORGE.

Hattie wife of Henry J. George, died at the Reading hospital Thursday afternoon, from diabetes, aged 50 years. She had been admitted to the place about three weeks ago. She is survived by her husband and a daughter. The remains were removed to deceased's late home, 918 North 10th street.

OTHER DEATHS. William H. Thompson, a waiter at the Hotel, Allentown, died suddenly of heart disease Wednesday, aged 47. Mrs. Josephine Terry, of Reading, is a sister.

Samuel Hess, a member of the Holiness Christian congregation of Reading, died at Pottstown. He was a native of Oley, Berks County. The two year old child of Jonathan Smith, of near Kempton, died from the effects of a needle which it had swal lowed about a week ago. Thjs is the third death in this family within three months. The last of the twin children of Adam Mohn, Kempton, died of whooping cough.

An eight months old child of Joseph Shive, of Fegleysville, died. MRS. DARIUS L. BRENSINGER. Mrs.

Lydta B. Brenslneer. wife of Darius L. Brensinger. Grill, died from 'a complication of diseases yesterday af 28 days' 4 I JACOB SCHEIFELE.

Jacob Schelfele aged 60 years died in I 'v, IT' 1 ceased was a native of Germany, but lived in this country for 3S years, most or lms time Demg spent in Reading, "'here he followed the occupation of i house in 1S97. Undertaker Auman took the body to the home of a relative of the deceased, 444 South Seventh street. Airs. s.aie u. ana tne late Milton Peters, 518 South Eleventh street, died in the St.

Joseph hospital from burns. at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Since the death of her husband, several years ago, Mrs. Peters has been employed at the Reading Cotton mill, where she earns a livelihood for herself and four children. On Tuesday morning she prepared the materials for dinner and then went to work, leaving the three younger children in the care of the eldest daughter, aged 11 years.

While the latter was busy about the house, Catharine climbed on a chair and pulled a pot containing boiling water and lima beans from the stove, The pot upset and its contents fell on Catharine. The little one's cries at tracted the attention of the sister and the neighbors. Dr. A. F.

East tem 1 porarily dressed the injuries, after which the ambulance removed the child to the hospital. Coroner A. N. Seidel viewed the body last evening and issued a certificate of death. The body of the child was removed to its late home last evening, by Undertaker Theodore C.

Auman. THURSDAY FUNERALS. The funeral of Jacob Hetrlrh. son nf the late William and Lydia Hetrich, took place from his residence, 933V4 Franklin street, at 2 p. m.

Rev. W. H. Myers conducted services. little Schaeffer and Amelia Freehafer sang a number of hymns.

Delegations were in attendance from Camp 61, P. O. S. of Lexington Commandery and Commercial Club. Interment in Aulenbach cemetery.

Funeral director, Huntet Henninger. The funeral of Charles D. Nagle took place from the residence of his son in law, Henry E. Hawman. 112 Chpntnnt street, at i.au p.

m. Rev. 11. H. Ranck conducted services.

The choir of the Andrew Reformed church sang a number of hymns. The bearers were TO PREVENT THE GRIP. Laxative Bromo Quinine romoves the ause. To get the genuine, call for the comrades of' deceased during the the War in Company 1st Pennsyl vania Volunteers. Relatives and friends were present from Philadelphia, Coates TrinitheranemeterTunerial director jX cemetery uneria! alrector Jonn Lutz.

The funeral of Samuel son of Rebecca J. Waesner, took place frotr i the residence of his uncle, Solomon Ringler. 337 Franklin street. West 1 Reading, at 2 p. and was largely attended.

After brief services the cor lege proeeeaea to Bethany Lutheran church, where services were conducted by Rev. W. A. Snvder. The choir snnu a number of hymns.

The Baptist Boys' I Brigade attended the funeral of their I dPjlH PnmrnHA tn a w4v A ...1 dead comrade In a body. A guard of ,1 mmniwiul c.v 11. ed alongside the hearse. Delegations were in attendance from Lodge No. 12, A.

and the Luther League of Bethany Lutheran church. Interment in Alsace cemetery. Funeral director, Theo. C. Auman.

The funeral of Anna, daughter of Amelia and Anthony Brown, took place from the residence of the parents head of Walnut street, at 8.30 a. m. tiev. w. li.

Burk held services. Inter ment in Charles Evans cemetery. Fu neral director, F. F. Seidel.

The funeral of an infant daughter of Charles and Lizzie Moyer took place irom me residence or tne parents, at interment private in Hinner shitz eemetery. Funeral director, F. F. Seidel. The funeral of Miss Jennie Hemer took place from her residence, 1041 Chestnut street, at 11 a.

m. Rev. E. Kistler held services. Interment in Au lenbach cemetery.

Funeral director, Hunter Wenninger. MATRIMONIAL EVENTS Irvin G. Maurer, 35 South Front street, and Ida. daughter of William Bean, 44 Oak street, were married by Rev. F.

K. Huntzinger at his parsonage. A reception followed at the home or the bride parents. Miss Margaret Yost, formerly of Reading, was married to C. W.

Yost, of Elkhart, at that place. A large reception followed the ceremony. Guests were uresent from Buffalo, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and Reading. The bride is a daughter ot Mr. and Mrs.

Frederick Yost. The couple will reside at Elkhart, where the groom is in the employ of the Lake Shore Railway. On Wednesday John K. Boltz, of this city, and formerly of Lebanon, and Miss Jennie Slike, of Lebanon, were privately married in that city by Rev. J.

H. Sandt. The groom is a son of Samuel S. Boltz, proprietor of St. Elmo Hotel, of this city, and is employed his father.

4 Rudolph, son of Bernard Elbert, of 1149 Muhlenberg street, and Emily Has daughter of John Glapp, 10 North 5th street, were married Wednesday Rev. F. K. Huntzinger at his parsonage a MARRIAGE LICENSES. The following marriage licenses wer issued yesterday: Miehael Pietkiewicz.

son of Franl and Mary Pietkiewicz, 610 South Sev enth street, and Amelia, daughter John and Mary Sinikus, 620 Pine stree Harry Moll, Hyde Park, and Jenni D. Wertz, Centre Square. Romanus W. Troutman. farmer, so of Jacob and Radozy Troutman.

an Lizzie, daughter of Jacob and Alic Schaeffer, both of Rehrersburg. A STILL ALARM. The Schuylkill Fire Comnanv receiv ed a still alarm call from 319 Nort River Btrppt anH inn 1 is i 1 1. li chemical engine. An overheated stov pipe nad set fire to the woodwork of room on the first floor.

The flames ha. been extinguished with buckets of wate before the arrival of the firemen. SOREJANDS Itching, Burning Palms. Painful Finger Ends, Shapeless flails. Inflamed, Itching, Burning, Sore, Tender and Perspiring.

ONE NIGHT TREATMENT. Soak the hands on retiring in a strong, hot, creamy lather of Cuticura Soap. Dry and anoint freely with Cuticnra Ointment, the great skin cure and purest of emollients. Wear, during the night, old, loose kid gloves, or bandage lightly In old, soft cotton or linen. For red, rough and chapped hands, dry, fissured, itching, feverish palms, with brittle, shapeless nails and painful finger ends, this treatment is simply 'wonderful, frequently curing in a single application Complete local and constitutional treatment for every humour of the skin, scalp and blood, with loss of hair.

may now be had for one dollar Bathe with hot water and Cuticnra Soap, to cieansrrsnrface of crust, and scaiesT tn1 tinften the thlrkniiail ent Ha. Dir. without bard robbing, and apply Cuticura Ointment freely, to allay itching, irritation and inflammation, and soothe and heal, and lastly, take the Cuticura Resolvent Fills to cool and cleanse the blood. This treatment affords instant relief, permits rest and sleep in the severest forms of Eczema and other Itching, burning and scaly humours, and points to a speedy, permanent and economical care of torturing, disfiguring humours, from pimples to scrofula, from infancy to age, when all other remedies ana tne oest pnysicians nu. SolathmskwrittewetU.

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arhna far of of I THF I ATFfsT NFWQ am. a aw. FROM THE BHIGGS HERESY TRIAL WHY IT WON'T COME OFF METHOD 1ST PACIFIC COAST RALLY NUMBER OF BISHOPS TO BE CHOSEN NAMES OF CANDIDATES DISCUSSED BAPTIST ANNIVERSARIES TRYING TO BE EXEMPT FROM THE INHERITANCE TAX MISSIONARY SOCIETIES GREATLY IN FAVOR OF IT SOME STA TISTICS REGARDING THE DISCIPLES OP CHRIST AND THEIR CHURCHES SOME INTERESTING FIGURES. 1 Special to The Times. 1 New York, Jan.

21. Nobody in the Episcopal Church can. be found who looks for a heresy trial because of the recent utterances of the Rev. Dr. Chas.

A. Briggs. These are the reasons given by those who ought to know, why there will be no trial: 1 It would amuse Presbyterians unduly; 2 It is regarded as idle to present charges to Bishop Potter, who in a sense stands responsible for Dr. Briggs, and in some measure must defend 3 Bishop Greer came in under peculiarly harmonious conditions, and nobody wants to disturb the very beginning of his episcopate; and 4 The Episcopal Church has too much breadth. Some say Presbyterians have too much breadth and that the Briggs trials in that body could not take place today.

The paper read by the Rev. Dr. Briggs before the Church Club of New York, which created the latest flurry, is to be published in one of the monthlies, by no means contains all of his utterances that gave offense. Much was said by him in comment, after the reading of the paper had been concluded. Virtually, and in brief, he denies the validity of Episcopal ordination in any other sense than Presbyterian or Lutheran ordination, while Episcopalians generally hold their ord ers to be valid in the sense that they hold Roman Church orders to be, but deny in turn the validity of Presbyter Ian and Lutheran orders.

It is only a flurry, it is declared on all hands. Methodists are planning a great mis sionary rally for the Pacific Coast. The Quadrennial Conference meets in Los Angeles on May 4, to remain in session throughout the month. The bishops hold their semi annual meeting in San Francisco about the middle of April, to make up a schedule of appointments. There will return from the East several missionary bishops to attend the con ference and They include Bishops Thoburn, of India; Hartzel, of Africa; Warne, of India; Moore, of China, and Warren, of Denver, but who has been for some time in foreign ser vice.

On April 28, immediately before the opening of thfe conference at Los Angeies tne missionary rany is to oe held in San Francisco, to continue until May 1. It will bring together Methodists from the entire region west of the Rocky Mountains, and be conducted somewhat on the lines of the recent rally in Philadelphia. The promotion of the meeting is in the hands of the Mis sionary Society. frit is probable that the number of new bishops to be chosen at Los Angeles will be six. Some say no more than four will' be decided upon, but others predict as many as ten to be elected.

Bishop Merrill will, it is stated, be. vot ed non effective, and it may be that one or two more will be so relieved, ow ing to advancing years. Bishops Hurst and Ninde, of the regular list have died, and Bishop Parker, of the missionary staff passed away soon after his election four years ago. There is vigorous demand among Methodists for younger men than heretofore to be chosen to the superintendence Vigorous middle age is, at least, called for by Methodist sentiment. Missionary Jurisdictions are asking for regular bishops, not mission ary ones, and it is said that one is needed for Southeastern Ahia, another for China, and athird for Korea, Japan and the Philippines.

Methodists are asking also for closer relations with their bishops. Under present practice a bishop is like a commercial drummer, they say. The districted episcopate could not, it is admitted, be resorted to without first changing Methodist law, and so a solution of the matter is suggested in assignments of the same bishops to the same conference for the iuadrennium. discussion of these and corelated Questions is going on among Methodists at this time. Discussion of names in connection with the six new bishops is going on lively.

The Rev. Dr. James M. Buckley, who has been called the Pope of American Methodism, has long declared he would not accept the office of bishop, but there Is now a disposition to elect him, and go as far as possible toward compelling him to accept. Other names to date include President Goucher, of the Woman's College, Baltimore; Chancellor Day, of Syracuse University; President Bashford, of Ohio Wesleyan University: President Raymond, of Wesleyan University: the Rev.

Dr. W. McDowell, of the Board of Education; the Rev. Dr. Edmund M.

Mills, who was secretary of the commission in charge of the raising the 20,000,000 fund; the Rev. Dr. Henry Spellmyer, of Newark, president DePauw University, and somewhere near a score of others. As a rule it may be said that Methodist bishops are tejl from official positions, such as uhu "iiciy a luiii in niui tl It seems fairly well settled that the Baptist Anniversaries this year will be held in the Euclid Avenue church, at Cleveland. This is the church to which John I.

Rockefeller belongs. The committee of reference will have a report to make on the relation of the benevolent societies, and evangelistic methods and prospects will occupy a whole day, perhaps Vonger. The work Is in charge of the American Baptist Home Mission Society. Combined efforts are making by missionary societies in the United States and Canada to secure exemption from I in m4 a THE CHURCHES. the inheritance tax.

The recent meeting of the officers of these societies, who come together annually, voted that it favored such exemption. It is claimed that when persons leave by will certain sums to missionary purposes it is, to say the least, indelicate for the state to step in and demand a part of it. One remedy is a change in the law, but failing that, the? public is to be educated. That is, those who have the making of wills, for themselves or for other people, are to be asked to make provision outside of the bequest for all taxes, in order that the full sum given to missionary benevolence may go intact to such purpose. There are 85,000 Disciples of Christ in Ohio, out of a population of 4,000,000.

Leaders among the Disciples are pointing out that Ohio is an empire, the meeting place of East and West, and that it is the duty of the 553 Disciples churches to expand into two thousand at least. A list of county seats, wherein Disciples have no churches, has recently been prepared, together with a list of 125 towns of 1,000 inhabitants in each, wherein there is no Disciples' church. KING OSCAR IS 75 MESSAGES OF CONGRATULATION POURED IN UPON THE KING AMONG THEM EVERY ROYAL FAMILY OF EUROPE WITHOUT EXCEPTION WERE REPRESENTED KING GIVES BANQUET. Special to The Times.l Stockholm, Jan. 21.

King Oscar is 75 years old today and all Sweden and Norway have Joined in congratulating him on the anniversary. It is a gala day in Stockholm and everyone is observing the holiday. The city and harbor are gaily decorated, and during the forenoon the usua salutes were fired. In the messages of congratulation that poured in upon the King every royal family of Europe without exception were represented. This evening the King gave a banquet at the palace to the foreign ministers.

King Oscar has almost completely re covered from the protracted illness from which he has been suffering for the last two years and which caused him to retire temporarily from the arduous duties of his high position. A long period of travel and recreation has vastly improved his health. Many who have seen him recently remark that no man of his years bears his age better. The diplomatic banquet at the palace this evening was followed by the annual grand ball in which King Oscar, in spite of his years, kept pace with the younger set. Two thousand Invitations were issued for the function.

Shortly after 9 o'clock, the King, his sons and other members of the Royal Family entered the palace ballroom and took their seats on the dais. King Oscar opened the ball and then went about chatting freely with his guests. Queen Sophia, who does not attend balls, operas or other festivities on account of ill health, celebrated her husband's birthday by distributing a large sum of money "among the poor and needy. The Queen, in fact, devotes nearly her entire time now to charitable and religious work. Her most cherished occupation is to alleviate distress.

and, being strongly impressed by re ligion, she is vividly interested by the religious movements of her time. She has been much impressed with the work of the Salvation Army and is understood to have contributed liberally to its financial support. More than one charitable institution has been founded through the initiative of the Queen, above all the "Sofiahem met," or Sophia House, in Stockholm. She has on many occasions started the idea of important works of charity for instance, when she formed and carried out the plan of the great fancy fair in Christiania for the benefit of the families of the wrecked fishermen from Finmarken. BUCKEYE HEALTH OFFICIALS.

Annual Meeting and Conference of Ohio State and Local Boards. Special to The Times. Columbus, Jan. 21 Physicians and others who look after the physical well being of residents of the Buckeye State are gathered here today for the annual meeting and conference of Ohio state and local boards of health. Sanitation, water supply, and measures to prevent the spread of contagious diseases are some of the subjects that will receive attention.

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