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i the the 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 0 0 0 JULY 4 THE READING DAILY TIMES AND DISPATCH, I DING, PENNA. PLEA- FOR A SANER FOURTH (Continued from First Page.) their national birthday, so should we keep ours. "It is fitting that should keep green in our memories the great blesssings that God hath wrought out for us, for the establishment of American independence was one of the greatest events of all history. It has meant more for the world and humanity than we can well imagine. Next to our redemption on Calvary it is one of the world's greatest events.

this great anniversary. How "Tomorrow we will again celebrate! celebrate it? I fear the celebration of the Fourth of July has lost its dignity. The day has come to be one largely of noise and carousal and revelry. The day is looked forward to many as one on which to have a big dissipation. No wonder some women object to holidays, for, said a certain woman, 'Every holiday, for us, means a Yes, on this day, tens of thousands get fearfully drunk and defile themselves and abuse their wives and children.

What dishonor to God, what a commentary upon true freedom, to get drunk on the Fourth of July! If on any day our people ought toade sober it ought to be on the natal of our republic. Some people think they can't have a good time without the free use of alcohol. Last of July a brewer a in Al- toona boasted that he sold 1,000 kegs of beer. "Another doubtful use of this day is the fearful noise and waste of powder. Millions of dollars be spent for fireworks which, I believe, could be put to better use.

Yes, if the money spent in Reading, as a rule, for fireworks was seen on a single pile it would be amazing. The amount spent throughit blown into the air. I have known out the nation is appalling, and all wolf men who did not pay their honest debts spend $15 to $20 on this day for pyrotechnics. And the noise of this day, in some cities, is unspeakable and distressing. Several days previous this noise begins, but especially from midnight of the 3rd to midnight of the 4th the noise is deafening and almost intolerable.

For people who are sick and who have sensitive nerves the noise is excruciating. They dread its coming and rejoice when it is over. Many thouwould flee from the city to the quiet country was it not for the menace of fireworks to their properties. Yes, many fires have thus been started and people will be maimed for life. Hands great loss of property occurred.

And, what is worse, many young and older and fingers will be blown off, eyes will be blown out and mortal wounds inflicted and little children mangled. "Last year over 400 boys and men died of tetanus, or lockjaw, as a result of Fourth of July wounds. Over 4,000 were maimed and blinded and killed. This is too costly be offered upon the altars of pariticisto. Only last week a fearful explosion took place, in Philadelphia, killing and maiming a large number.

It is a dangerous and is being carried to extremes. I hope to see the day when much of the Fourth July noise and danger will be prohibited. believe it would be a means of patriotism. Well, of course, there should "How then should it be bunting in abundance. And, since government and all power and authority are from God, and since our independence was from God, I believe would be supremely fitting to spend all hour in the house of God, in song and prayer and speech and thanksgiving.

Then, in the afternoon, it might be well have a parade and at the close of the parade have music and patriotic addresses. We should read the Declaration of Independence and especially trp to impress upon the young the principles for which our fathers fought and died, and set before them the heroes and the deeds of those great and ious days and try thus to qualify, both young and old, for nobler citizenship. In the evening bonfires might be built and bells be rung and the community, would outrival the glories stars. unitedly, give a pyrotechnic displays that That, to my mind, would be a rational celebration of a grand event, and would result in noble and lasting impressions for country and for God. "Such a celebration would not be followed the next morning by a heavy head and a bad taste the mouth.

Such a celebration would honor God and country and re-discover this great and glorious day. day is to be largely one of deafening noise and dangerous explosions and carousing and drunkenness, it would better not be observed at all. I plead for a better and a more rational observance of our great national holiday. "And what have we to celebrate and rejoice over tomorrow? Well, there is civil liberty, to and that is a grand thing. We are not in bondage to anyone.

When we read of the blood-red tyrannies of Spain and Italy and Russia and Turkey, where men were downtrodden like slaves; where, they were the property of the state and existed for the state; where were hardly allowed to act think speak for themselves; where they were kept in abject poverty taxed almost to death, and were to battle like dumb driven cattle and had dignito right of their own, then we rejoice over our civil liberties. We have but to remember poor Cuba a few years ago. "Yes, when we remember the restriction on speech and press in European Jands today, and recall the treatment of the citizens of Poland, Finland, Armenia and Kishinev, Russia, with all the horrors of their prisons and Siberian mines and exiles, then we ought to rejoice over our civil liberties. In a land where every man is free as the air about him and the skies above him, where every man is free to express himself with tongue and pen; free to go hither and thither without restraint, and has a voice in government of his country and can rise to the highest honors of the nation, there is cause for rejoicing. Another matter for rejoicing religious liberty.

When we think or our forefathers, who were told how to worship according to prescribed doctrines and forms and to submit to hierarchies, no matter how corrupt and cruel: when we think how they were to treated when they refused; when we recall the horrible Spanish inquisition with its pillories, thumbscrews, dungeon orrors, racks, knives and death; when we recall the St. Bartholomew massacre and the Smithfield fires; recall all the martyrs who died, and the rest who were driven from home and lost their all, as, for example, the Huguenots and he Palatines, then we have reason to rejoice that we have religious liberty; hat church and state are separated. "Yes, if our forefathers had reason to ejoice on that first Fourth of July, how much more have today. Then our national domain consisted of 13 states, to low of 47. Then of a little strip along he Atlantic coast, 1,300 miles long and few hundred miles wide; now It is .000 miles wide, with Alaska, Hawaii, 'orto Rico and the Philippine's thrown A.

The sun never sets on our national omain. How rich that domain with 11 it's variety of climate and products -agricultural and mineral! No wonder B. ladstone said 'The United States will control the markets of the that Arst Fourth of July we had 3,000,000 population, now we have 000,000, and room for several hundred millions more. Then we had four coldred. leges, now Then we we have had not colleges 8 by single the dally, newspaper, now we have tens of thousands every morning and night, giving us an epitome of the world's happenings and pleading for human rights.

Then we traveled in stage coach, now we travel on palaces on wheels at the rate of a mile a minute. Then it took six months to cross the continent, now in six days. Then we had neither railroads or telegraph or telephone. Now we have hundreds of thousands of miles of each. Then we had not a single common school, now the little red school house, the people's university, seen everywhere.

Then we had slavery, a blot on the freedom we boasted for which our fathers bled and died, 'now there is not a slave in the land. Then we were at daggers' points and bloody war with Mother England, now we are reconciled and understand each other better, and mother and daughter have clasped hands to lead the world one to were a greatness little and power, freedom. isolated Then and confined to self, today we a are a world power with no superior. These are some of the national blessings to rejoice over on this anniversary day. "But while, on the Fourth of July, we will have many things to rejoice over, will have some things deplore.

There is Sabbath desecration, which is so bold and SO widespread, and for whose extension great efforts are being I understand much Sabbath desecration is going on in and about Reading. This was not always thus. Our forefathers were a Sabbath-keeping, a Sabbath-loving people. And there is the rum traffic, which is the greatest national peril today, and which is slaying 100,000 of our and women fourths of the crimes and murders of annually; which her the cause of threethe land; which, beggars homes and pauperizes and children; which in jails and pententiaries and courthouse trials costs our nation ten times the amount she gets in license fees; which is debauching politics and is dictating the policies of parties; which has its clutch upon the of the nation, and dominates both our great political parties. "Another great evil is Mammonism.

Our people are money-mad. Greed is a national disease. We worship the mighty dollar. This disease prevails from the child up to the white-headed octogenarian. The question is 'How can I get And, to get wealth, some men will sacrifice everything true and good.

They will stoop to selfishness, cruelty and dishonesty and violate rule of the decalogue and the Sermon on the Mount. The age here Mammonistic. Where are our Longfellows and Whittiers and Hawthornes and Bancrofts and Wendell Philipps' today? They are impossible. It is money, gold, stocks, pork, wheat, railroads, coal, oil, factories. I tell you 'Man does not live by bread Mammonism would dethrone God, abandon the church, quit missions and worship dirt.

perils are those of wealth and poverty, with Dives and Lazarus side by side, with one man owning one or two or three hundred millions, and the other as poor as Lazarus. Goldsmith well said: 'Ill fares the land, to hasten ills a pray, When wealth accumulates and men "Another peril is partisanship. Yes, I mean the partisanship that wears the collar, that will vote the straight ticket if Nero or Iscariot or Satan were at the head; that has'nt moral backbone enough to throw off the party yoke. What we need today is more independence, more men who will vote for men who hate covetousness, who love reighteousness and justice. "But a greater peril still is political corruption that debauches the ballot box; that hoists men of glaring dishonesty and vileness into office; that plunders the public treasury; that taxes the people to provide fat offices for henchmen; that passes a 'ripper' bill through our legislature and will give away trolley franchises, in Philadelphia, to favorites for nothing, which lare worth ten millions of dollars, and for which millions have been offered; that will blackmail and fasten corrupSt.

Louis and Minneapolis. am tion, such as prevailed in Neut York, not a pessemist. We will some day new Declaration of IndepenI have faith in the people. Mr. Lincoln truly said You ena fool some people all the time.

You can fool all the people sometimes. But you cannot fool all all the now, how can we make our Fourth of July mean something? How can we be true to trust? If our forefathers suffered, bled and died that we might be free and have such a glorheritage, then surely, great duties upon us. Well, we can cherpublic schools. We can diffuse intelligence. -intelligence will go a great towards preserving our liberties and heritage and averting the perils that hang over our nation's brow.

Let no hostile power lay its hand upon our public schools. Let us strive to make them more efficient every year. We can bath day, by example and precept, stand for better, recognition of the Sabdo all we can to secure a better servance of God's holy day. can fight the liquor eviL When the Turks outraged and slaughtered the Armenians we grew red in the face; go when Spain oppressed the Cubans we went to war and spent blood and lives and great treasure. Very well, the liquor traffic is doing greater damage to our people, by far, than this.

It is worse than a hundred General Slocum horrors every year. If citizenship of the land rise in their might they can make this foe bite the dust. Our descendants will be ashamed of us unless we do. can exercise a better citizenship. Let us break away from bitter partisanship, tear off the political collar and be free and independent to vote as we pray, and vote for God and country; vote for men who love righteousness and hate covetousness.

What the people ought to do is to put religion and F. conscience into politics. Some people say religion and politics will not mix. But they will where there is any religion to mix with, the brilliant Ingalls the contrary, notwithstanding. The decalogue and the Sermon on the Mount should have much to do with our politics.

and "We can do our duty by gospelizing the land, spread church, convert the unconverted, take our country for God. That will be the noblest and best patriotism. That will be the new patriotism. Better than navies and armies and fortresses as a protection is Christi- 100 anity, is Godliness. That alone will save the nation and preserve our liberties.

nation that does not serve God shall 'Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach any PATRIOTIC SERVICES. Lavish decorations in which the American colors predominated were used in the St. Peter Methodist Episcopal church yesterday and small flags were presented to all present at the Sunday school service. The pastor, Rev. T.

Callen, delivered a national ser- mon at 10.45 a. subject, "'The Secret lot a Nation's Greatness." At 7.30 p. m. a special Independence Day service was held. This the Wanner: "The Story Independence Day," Miss Edith Frame; from the Declaration of George e.

Crow: Extract from of John Adams," Copeland Callen; "Stand by the Flag, Miss Estella Kutz; "The National Miss May Saurbier: American Miss Edith Keeler; "The Permanence of Our John Auchenbach; "The Destiny of Our G. Frank Rickert. Rev. Samuel McWilliams preached patriotic sermon in the. People's church a last evening, taking for his theme, "Safeguards of the Nation." CORNERSTONE LAID INTERESTING SERVICES AT THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH.

The cornerstone for the new church of the Hope Lutheran congregation, to be erected at the northeast corner of Front and Greenwich streets, was laid with impressive ceremonies Sunday afternoon. The service incident to the laying of the stone, which began at 3 o'clock, was conducted by the Rev. M. C. Horine, D.

pastor of St. James church and president of the Ministerium of Pennsylvania, in accordance with the form provided in the Liturgy. Rev. H. W.

Warmkessel, the pastor of Hope congregation, with trowel in hand, performed the act of laying the stone in the name of the Triune God. The pastor announced a that the following artible, General Council Church Book, Gencles were placed in the stone: Holy Bia eral Council Sunday School Book, list of names of charter members and the amounts of their contributions, names and amounts of subscriptions of members and friends of the congregation to date, names of the superintendent, officers and teachers of the Sunday school, copies The Lutheran, Orphans' Home paper, Reading Times, Eagle and Lutheran almanac, coins of 1904, by and names of the present vestry and building committee. At the conclusion of these ceremonies the large congregation was invited to proceed to the basement of the new church, where, sheltered from the hot rays of the sun, further services were held, under the direction of the pastor. The service opened with the singing of "A Mighty Fortress is Our God." Then followed an eloquent and profound sermon by Rev. Dr.

Horine, who took for his text Ephesians 20 "And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner-stone." Addresses followed by Rev. J. J. Kuendig, D. in the German language; Rev.

F. K. Huntzinger, Rev. J. F.

Snyder and Rev. C. E. Kistler, the pastor making a brief closing address. After the singing of another hymn, the audience was dismissed with the benediction by Rev.

Dr. Horine. MATRIMONIAL EVENTS Joseph H. Beamensderfer, 367 Schuylkill avenue, and Amanda, daughter John Wagg, 1336 Cotton street, were married on Saturday evening by Rev. W.

Grace H. Myers Lutheran at the church. parish There houses reception. Wallace F. Staudt, of Summit Hill, and Laura daughter of Adam Waldman, 130 North Front street, were married at the home of the bride's parents on Saturday evening by Rev.

Philip Kirchner, assistant pastor of St. John Lutheran church. A reception followed to the immediate families and relatives. The' wedding of Amos S. Angstadt, North Eleventh street, and Miss Katie Schmidt, 427 Mulberry street, took place at the home of the bride on Saturday evening.

The ceremony was performed by Rev. Dr. J. J. Kuendig.

Miss Catharine Schmidt was the maid of honor and George Schmidt best man. A ception was held. William McLaughlin, 114 North Third street, and Sarah, daughter Moses Drupp, 115 North River pre street, were married Saturday afternoon Rev. J. Kershner at his parsonage.

A private wedding was that of Wilson Bertram, 631 North Ninth street, and Sarah, daughter of George Ernst, 1033 Greenwich street, which was performed F. Huntzinger at his parsonage on Saturday evening. A reception followed to the two families at the home of the groom. On Saturday morning William Leicey, 637 Mulberry street, and Mary, daughter of John Trievel, of Stony Creek, were married at the parsonage of Rev. F.

K. Huntzinger. Harry Mathias, of Shanesville, and Miss Junie W. Moyer, of Bechtelsville, were privately married on Saturday by Rev. M.

H. Mishler at his parsonage, 534 Franklin street. Harvey W. Beard, 804 Bingaman street, and Bessie daughter of Samuel D. Hyman, of Mohn's Store, were married on Saturday by Rev.

W. J. Kershner at his parsonage. They will go to housekeeping in this city. Morris B.

Kiefer and Sallie daughter of Samuel G. and Susanna Keiser, both of Fleetwood, were married by Rev. F. K. Huntzinger on Saturday afternoon.

Alfred H. Frey, 1635 Centre avenue, and Mary daughter of John K. Wanner, 136 Bern street, were married on Saturday evening by Rev. J. Franklin Snyder.

A short reception followed at the home of the bride. The wedding of George L. Dieffenbach and Laura daughter of William Stout, both of 231 Mulberry street, took place on Saturday evening. Rev. K.

Huntzinger performed the ceremony at his parsonage. A short reception followed at the above address. Rev. James Tonkin, pastor of St. Matthew Evangelical church, married at his parsonage, Saturday evening, William H.

Glase, de, 332 South Seventh street, and Mary daughter of Thomas Hartman, of Mt. Penn. There was no reception. FAMILY REUNION. There was a family reunion at the residence of Mr.

and Mrs. Val Wilk, West Oley street last evening. Besides the members of they family the guests were all members the Philharmonic band. A splendid supper was served and the event was a very enjoyable one. ASSOCIATION CHANGES NAME.

The Unique Athletic association has decided to change the name of the organization to the Arlington Athletic association, and these officers were chosen: President, John Hiester; vice president, Cleveland Wickel: secretary, C. Balloch: treasurer, Charles Pott eiger. The Unique base ball team will bereafter be known as the Arlington. SUNDAY GAMES AMERICAN LEAGUE. At Chicago- R.H.E.

Detroit 2 1 0 0 0 0 4 11 Chicago 000000000 000000 0 5 Batteries--Mullin and Wood; Owen and Sullivan. Umpires King and O'Loughlin. Attendance 8,800. At St. Louis- R.H.E.

Cleveland 0 1101000 03 0 St. Louis 000 0 0 01 0 0 1 10 1 Batteries- Rhoades and Bemis: Howell and Kahoe. Umpire Connolly. NATIONAL LEAGUE. At Chicago R.H.E.

St. Louis 2 3 3 0 1 1 0 2 7-19 19 2 Chicago 10000001 02 6 Batteries O'Neill and Zearfoss; Brown, Kling. UmpireO' Day. At Cincinnati- R.H.E. Pittsburg 000020000 2 7 Cincinnati 0000000 0000000 0 5 Batteries- -Flaherty and Smith; Hahn and Schlei.

Umpire Zimmer, Attendance 8,200. SATURDAY GAMES P. R. Y. M.

C. A. club won its first game Saturday afternoon since it joined the City League by defeating the St. Peters aggregation by a score of 7 to 6. The score by innings was as follows: R.H.E.

P. 000 0 0 0000 00000520 0 07 11 4 St. Peters 30 2 0 6 16 6 Batteries- Gries and Tobias; Smith and Swartz and Foley. The P. R.

Y. M. C. A. and the AllScholastic will be the opposing teams in the City League game this morning.

start at 10 o'clock. Wise will pitch for the P. R. and Haage for the champions. Green, the new shortstop from Birdsboro, will be in the game.

In the afternoon the Robeson and St. Peters will come together. St. Peters the box. Robeson will look to Gift.

will. have pale either Britton or Swartz in OTHER LOCAL GAMES. Millmont-Reading A. Park- side, 4. At Blandon-Spruce Iona, Bland, 2.

Second and Greenwich streets grounds -Calvary Reformed A. 14; St. Barnabas A. A 4. At Hiester's Landing--Albright Shenton Printers, Pressmen, 3.

At Sinking Spring- Jupiter, 13; Glenside A. 11. At Womelsdorf-Reading Putnam, Womelsdorf, 8. Stony Creek-Jolly Rover A. 12; Stony Creek, 5.

Wernersville-Shamrock 17; Wernersville, 8. At -Fleet wood, 12; Unique A. 4. At Boyertown-Cinco, 10; Newmanstown, 2. At Leesport- Birdsboro, 8.

ON THE P. R. NEW STATION AT HARRISBURG TO BE OPENED IN TWO WEEKS -NEWS ALONG THE LINE. Last week the P. R.

car shops turned out 19 engines, which were repaired. The locomotive shops are very busy and some of the machines are running on double time. The foundry has been on half time and will close altogether for a short time on account of the company having purchased a lot of steel castings, which lessens the work in that department. The Reading Railway will change the alignment main line tracks at Swedeland, the following contracts ond' in connection with the work have been awarded: Grading masonry to Kelly, of Philadelphia; construction and erection of a 20-foot span steel girder bridge to L. F.

Shoemaker of Pottstown. At present the tracks at that point pass between the stack of the Heckscher furnace and the stock house, interfering more or less with the free operations of the furnace. Under the proposed change the tracks will be shifted from a point five-eighths of a mile above Swedeland to a point one mile below it, passing east of the furnace stack and along the west bank of the Schuvlkill. It has been finally decided that the new Philadelphia and Reading Railway passenger station in Harrisburg will be opened on July 17. Contractor L.

H. Focht, who is doing the work, states that the building will be positively finished at that time. G. W. Somers, a veteran P.

R. engineer, died at the Pottsville Hospital yesterday afternoon of injuries received at Frackville on Thursday night. He was employed as an engineman upon what is known as the "level" and was under his engine making repairs when a trip of empty cars collided with the engine. Somers was caught under one of the driving wheels and his left side crushed before he could be extricated. was 70 years age and had the employ of the Deceased, Reading road for about 30 years.

The Reading Company announced yesterday that its mines have been closed down until July 6. William Auge, aged 29, of 349 Miller street, while at work at the P. R. shops, fell from a locomotive and badly injured his left hand. The ambulance removed him to his home.

John Schwanger, engineer of the P. R. gravel train, stricken with paralysis, was removed from 711 Winter street to 1409 North 9th street in the ambulance. Roger Althouse, master mechanic and car builder at the shops, has returned from Saratoga, where he attended the convention of carpenters and builders as a delegate. Lewis Litchie, residing on 10th street near Douglass and employed in the sheet iron department, had his left finger mashed by some castings falling on it.

George Weber, of 1235 Cotton street. machinist at the shops, left this morning with his family for Atlantic City and Sea Isle City. The ash pits are all completed now and in full working order. AMPHION HOT LINERS. The Amphion Base Ball club will journey to Kutztown today, where they will play the Kutztown team.

One game will be played in the morning and one this afternoon. Nevin Mengel, of Boston, a member of the club, is in Reading to spend the Fourth. Samuel Raudenbush is spending several days at Virginsville. Garrett Anthony, Clyde Anthony, Garrett Anthony, Arthur Weber and Edward Brown are fishing at Springmont on the Perklomen, OVER THE BORDERS OF BERKS LANCASTER COUNTY. Thirty-seven business men of Akron, Terre Hill, Ephrata, Clay, Lititz and other points held a meeting for the purpose of resisting the payment of $36 each to a New York State collection agency by which they were roped On the farm F.

Kinzer, near New Holland, Cyrus Singer started to unload a load of hay with a hook, rope and two mules and at the same time Andy Bowman began to pitch off another load. Bowman got done first. M. M. Richmond, late proprietor of the Styler House, New Holland, has bought out on interest in a travelling glass blower show now at Quarryville and will take the road.

B. L. Nolt, of Vogansville, has been elected a director of the they Holland National Band to All vacancy caused by the death of Cornelius Roland. While digging a well, W. W.

Spangler, of Ephrata, struck a vein of graphite. It is ten inches thick, twenty feet below the surface and is almost pure. J. Frank Nissley will on June 9 succeed John Fink as proprietor of the National Hotel, Bainbridge, Bernard Doyle's old stand. A young son of R.

D. Good, residing south of New Holland, was badly injured by being kicked with a mule. Dr. J. B.

Wells, of Terre Hill, has saved the lives of twenty-five horses afflicted with lockjaw in that vicinity. Dogs killed Eli Yocum's twenty turkeys near Penryn. While pouring kerosene on a wood fire, Grace, the 10-year-old daughter of Abraham Beech, Lancaster, was burned to death, the oil exploding and the child's clothing catching fire. H. E.

Beck, of York county, 28 years old, a railroader and white man, was granted marriage license to marry Margaret Elizabeth Guy, 25 years old, of Lancaster, a colored woman, and wedded her. This is the third such license since the aMrriage License law went into effect. MONTGOMERY COUNTY. A new alarm system went into effect at Norristown Saturday, During the storm that passed over the Perkiomen Valley, the roof of St. Paul's Lutheran church, near Pennsburg, was damaged and part of the roof of Perkiomen Seminary torn off.

Boys found a human skull in a Norristown creek, and the police are puzzled. There were 134 deaths in Pottstown last year, and singularly enough the same number of births. Senator-elect P. C. Knox purchased a pair of seal-brown, bangtail horses for $596 at a sale in Norristown.

Rev. E. P. Pfatteicher, of Trinity Lutheran church, Norristown, will devote his vacation to gratuitously helping reorganize St. Mark's church, New York, whose membership was so badly demoralized by the steamer Slocum disasteriary Roberts, of Consohocken, was elected assistant physician of the Norristown Insane Hospital.

Night schools are a proposed innovation in Pottstown, under the management of the local Young Men's Christian association. John Booth, of Conshohocken, took his seat as a new member of the Board of Trustees of the Norristown Insane hospital. For assaulting a girl pupil Howard Bickings, janitor of Bridgeport school, was sentenced to three and a half years in jail. Pottstown's steam road roller is now doing such good work in the mud and cinder streets that the junk dealers have given up hopes of getting a bargain. A disastrous lightning and hail storm swept a belt of central Montgomery count, Friday, and played havoc with growing crops, the hail and leveling wheat, corn and rye.

The storm was so severe that it interrupted trolley traffic for three-quarters of an hour. While he was picking cherries at his home at Pottstown, a limb broke and Stephen Schroyer fell 15 feet. He alighted on a fence, the pails penetrating his clothing and flesh and holding him head downward, a prisoner until he managed to free himself. Although no bones were broken, he was badly bruised. It has just leaked out why Frances Scembro, of Conshohocken, spurned the love of Thomas Wasnoski-he had fallen in love with her picture and furnished her parents money to bring her from Poland.

She loves another, Thomas Podbilski, of nearly her own age 18 years- and whom she has known since childhood, while Wasnoski is twice her age. Frances and Podbilski are to be married this month. Wasnoski must answer at court for threatening her life because she spurned his ardent wooing. Edward Thorn, of Norristown, twelve years old, lost an eye playing A companion knocked the pointed stick SO hard that it penetrated the eyeball. Young Louis Dutill, of Bridgeport, was run over by a wagon and seriously injured.

John Weyand, of Pennsburg, has been paid $20 reward for the capture of a horse thief. Norristown's School Board will elect a physical culture teacher. The window of John Such, who was killed by gases, due to alleged defect in machinery, has brought suit against the Warwick Iron company, of Pottstown. She has seven children. CHESTER COUNTY.

Besides President Roosevelt 1777 persons paid admissions to Washington's headquarters, Valley Forge, during June. In tears, Miss Lila Demey, of Coatesville, a pretty bride-to-be, waited in vain, as her intended husband, Roy Bunker, failed to put in an appearance 2.30, the hour set for the wedding. With the house decorated, a big dinner prepared and the preacher, Rev. George Boddis, in waiting, the bride-groomelect never came. Chester county had only 68 June brides this pear, against 78 for the previous June, when business was better.

Colonel Fred A. Tencate, who has been cashier of the Phoenix Iron Company for the last forty years, has retired from that office, and has been succeeded by J. Wells Pennypacker. SCHUYLKILL COUNTY. In order to bring illegal liquor dealers to terms the Sons of America and the American Mechanics' Lodge of St.

Clair, have offered $100 reward for the arrest of all such dealers. After purchasing a farm and making every preparation to retire from the railroad, John Somers, of Mahanoy City, an engineer for 30 years, was caught under his own engine at Frackville during the night and killed. Andrew Kiefski, a young married man of Shenandoah, was bitten on the wrist by his pet pug dog three weeks ago. He thought nothing of the wound until Wednesday, when the hand began to pain, and later his case developed into hydrphobla, and he WAs taken to the hospital, where he bit William Nieman, the night watchman, on the arm and attacked him with a chair. The liquor men of Schuylkill county, on account of the flagrant violations of the Brooks law, have determined to put down all speak-easies.

To better accomplish this preliminary steps were taken merge the Knights of Fidelity and Royal Arch, liquor, men's organizations. State President Lownes and State Trustee Malone, of Philadelphia, are directing the movement. Sadwalader Biddle, secretary of the State Board of Charities, and Mr. MacLeod, of Philadelphia, inspected the Schuylkill County Insane Asylum, where lunatics are overcrowded and herded like cattle. They will recommend practical measures for the relief of the unfortunates.

A number of insane found huddled in jail will also be cared for. The confining of mildly a affected lunatics with confirmed idiots was strongly condemned. The fire the Potts Colliery, which broke out last aMrch, throwing 400 men and boys out of employment, has been extinguished, and will be resumed in several weeks. The mine was flooded, causing enormous damage. James Rowe, a one-armed chute boss, stooped at a coal station near Pottsville, to remove a lump of coal from the track, when a train struck and killed him.

Rather than face death on the gallows, George Lynch, who was convicted murder of his wife last week, committed suicide, hanging himself with quilt strips in his prison cell. Lynch's two little daughters were the principal witnesses against him at his trial. His remorse was terrible to witness after the murder. Annoyed because boys were persistently setting off fireworks upon her doorstep, Mrs. John Muscabage, of New Philadelphia, from her window, fired a revolver into a corner crowd.

George Musholo was wounded twice in the left and removed to the Pottsville hospital. Rev. Joseph Lenarkiewcz, an exile from Poland, for twenty-seven years rector of Kaismer's Polish Roman Catholic church, died after five days' illness. was 66 years old, and before coming here was stationed in Phila- delphia. DAUPHIN COUNTY.

The famous old Lochiel farm, owned General Simon Cameron, and by him for the Clan Cameron home in parks and presented to Harrisburg by Scotland, hare been divided into three James Cameron, a grandson of the old statesman, to whom it was be- queathed. YORK COUNTY. Robert McKinney, of the McSherrytown base ball team, Hanover, had a narrow escape from drawning. While drawing water the pump bed gave way, and he dropped into the well. caught hold of the pump, and with difficulty extricated himself.

In celebration of his one hundred and third birthday anniversary, George Mihm, a retired farmer near Silver oldest resident in this section, walked nearly half a mile Friday, being able only to tatie steps about three inches long. consumed several hours in the journey. The autopsy on the body of John Keech, of York, who was found along the Codorus Creek, shows that the man was doubtless murdered. As yet the motive for the crime is unknown. When bill for $11.14 for meat provided for the dogs at the citp ond was befor the York City Councils, E.

A. Dempwolf, of the Thirteenth ward, objected on the ground that the dogs have, according to the bill, been fed on porterhouse steak at twenty-five cents a pound, when he is willing to feed them for nothing. The appropriation for the dog fund will, he said, not last long at this rate. LEHIGH COUNTY. Several days ago, Mrs.

E. B. Hartman, of Mountainville, bought a fish from J. Weil, the huckster, and while dressing it she found an alligator six inches long in the stomach. An insect having attacked and destroyed many cabbage plants in this country, a sauerkraut famine is threatened.

AT SOUTH MOUNTAIN INTERESTING PROGRAM THAT WILL BE OBSERVED AT THE STATE ASYLUM TODAY. July 4, 1904, will be observed in a fitting manner at the Asylum for the Chronic Insane, at South Mountain, by an interesting program. At 9.30 o'clock this morning the patients, who number 800, will be marshalled in the corridors and marched to the grove where the exercises held. This will be the program observed: Prayer, John G. McGowan, Reading singing, "America," by choir composed of patients and employes; reading of "Declaration of Independence," John u.

Rhodes, Wernersville; music, band; address, Hon. Henry M. Dechert, president of the board of trustees of the asylum, Philadelphia; song, Messrs. Turner, Usner, Stevenson and Luft; address, John G. McGowan; duet, Mrs.

Samuel S. Hill and Miss Minnie Flickinger; song, "Red, White and Blue," choir; address, Hon. Thomas P. Merritt, of the board of trustees; vocal solo, Miss Lizzie I. McGowan, director of music of the Reading public schools; music, band.

Following the program, refreshments will be served, consisting of ice cream, cake and lemonade, ON NORTH FIFTH STREET. The residents of Fifth street, between Spring and Robeson, have completed for a grand patriotic demonstration be this evening. The illuon an elaborate scale. The Municipal band, under the leadership of Lewis A. Scott, will render an interesting program.

This is the committee of arrangements: Robert L. Schwartz, chairman; L. Eddie Bower, secretary; Albert Miller, treasurer; Thomas Nolan, Daniel S. Dease, Herbert M. Boynton, R.

S. Meck, Harry Egolf, Walter Russell, Miles Brendle and Charles Reinert. SOME OUTINGS. The S. D.

S. will have an outing at Fields' Farm, near Womelsdorf today. The Socialists will hold a picnic at Babb's Woods today. There will be music and addresses. TOURING IN AN AUTO.

Howard Longstreth and M. Ashbrook Griffith, of Philadelphia, left Reading yesterday afternoon to continue their Fourth of July outing tour to Wernersville and Lebanon, in their automobile. They a left the Bellevue, Broad and Walnut streets, at 1.30 o'clock Saturday afternoon and, with 40 minutes for stops, arrived in this city at 6.20 o'clock that evening. Their 14 batteries held well until a few miles from Reading, when they showed signs of playing out, and, at Ninth and Penn streets, they dled entirely. The tourists spent the night at the Mansion House and met a number of old friends..