Pittston Gazette from Pittston, Pennsylvania • Page 4

TAKING THE CENSUS. OBITUARY. xcept as a water shed, is practically V1IE ELDER MOTHER Advico of a the church of Christ regard to the reclamation of the recreant! You say a man has been a strong drinker. I say, COMINQ I FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1900. Wii At Riverside Park Base Ball Grounds, North Main Street.

3.RING CIRCUS rllLLIONAIRL MENAGERIE MUSEM AQUARIUM AHDy OYALROMAJi, mm Splendid in CHARACTER Magnificent IN Equipment Grand Spectacuus SfiEffl'ttiJiMi' Regal in Presentation cistd THE Greatest. Grandest Bpc Mb AneniiiP and plji urnmcmw BIG SHOWS, Three Rings, Halt Mile Race Track, 1,000 Features. 100 roenomenai Acts, 25UOW11S, 20 Hurricane Races, 4 Trains, 1,500 Employes, 6 Bands, 50 Cages, A Drove ot Samels, 1 5 Open Dens, a Herd of Elephants. C4.000.00 DAILY EXPENSED. worthless.

The Prohibitionists of Pennsylvania will hold a State convention in Pittsburg od Aug 8th. The employes of the Jeanesville IroD Works have received an advance in wages of five per cent. John H. Perkins, rock contractor, ot Askatn, died of miner's asthma, aged thirty four years. Triplet daughters were born to Mr.

and rfrs. Oscar McCord, of Port Carbon Schuylkill county. Carbondale city will be fifty years old next March, and there is talk of arrang ing a celebration. An extensive addition Is to be built at the axle works In North Wilkesbarre, for the manufacture of carriage springs. Mrs.

Peter Recor, who died at Kelayres, Schuylkill county, was the heaviest woman in that section, weighing 450 pounds. John Kurtz, aged forty nine, of Hyde Park, was killed by a fall of rock ir the Johnson mine. His w'fe and nine child ren survive. Mrs. J.

Diegnan Williams, aged thirty five, wife of the pastor of the Welsh Bap tlst Church, Edwardsville. died after a long illness of cancer. PHILANDER SUTTON DROWNED. His Body Found Floating In the Blver Last Friday. Philander M.

Sutton, aged sixty two years, an old resident of tnis place, was drowned in the river last Friday, having either fallen or jumped off the W. bridge. About 8:15 o'clock that morning, Chester Brown, of Washington street, while dig ging earth on the river bank a short dls tance below the bridge, noticed a man, un doubtedly Mr. Sutton, sitting on the outer railing near ths centre of the bridge. A short time afterward, he heard a yell, bnt men frequently fish from the bridgo Mr.

Brown thought nothing of the Incident. A few minutes later his attention was at tracted by some one coughing, and look ing around, he noticed that the sounds came from a body floating down the river. Brown called to the man to try and keep above water while he ran for a boat. He soon secured a boat and, with Ed. Denni son, rowed after the drowning man, whose body, strange to say, did not sink, bnt floated on the surface.

Owing to the rapid current, the body was not overtaken until It reached the line of pipes which crosBes the liver opposite Linden street. As the body was taken ashore, the man coughed several times. Physicians were hastily summoned and for almost an hour, Dra. Hileman, Johnson and Hartman tried to restore life. The body was then removed to the town hall, where an electrlo battery was used in hopes of savins his life, bnt without Whether the man jumped or accidentally fell off the bridge is not known.

Mr. Sut ton's wife died about a year ago and since that time he has been despondent. It is said that on several occasions he threat ened to take Mb own life. That he ex pressed such intentions recently gives color to the suicide theory. A bruise on the forehead, evidently re ceived by falling, was noticeable, and whether this had any effect in hastening death will probably be determined by the poet mortem examination.

The deceased was born in Bradford county in 1838 and was a son of Captain Sutton, of Harding, a pioneer resident of this valley. Mr. Sutton was well known throughout this vicinity. He was butcher by trade and for some time kept a shop in this city. He served in Battery Second Pennsylvania Artillery, during the Civil War.

Mr. Sutton's wife died about a year ago and he has since resided at the home ot Theodore Young, on Searle street. The body was taken to the home of his daughter, Elizabeth, wife of John Evans, of Delaware avenue, whence the fnneral will take place Sunday afternoon at o'clocfe. The deceased is survived by four sons and one daughter Louis Phi lander Mrs. John Evans, Robert Wesley, andLtD.

A coroner's jury com posed as follows was empaneled and an In quest Wf3 held Monday afternoon at three o'clock, in Sauire Ehret'a office W. F. Staley, William Richards, J. D. Monle, S.

B. Bennett, J. R. Ehret and B. Evans.

The jury rendered a verdict to the effect that the deceased came to his death by felling from the bridge atd drowning. WYOMINQ SEMINARY. Programme for the Annual Commence' ment Kxerclae. The commencement exercises of Wyom ing Seminary will be held June 10 13, and the following programme has been pre pared Sunday, June 1010:30 a. m.f bacca laureate sermon by Rev Charles M.

Glf fln, D. pastor of the Elm Park Church, Seranton. Monday, June 112:30 p. prize speaking contest for the Semlnaiy prizes of $1. and $10; 8 p.

musical soiree, an niversary concert by the music pupils. Tuesday, June 12 2:30 p. clew day exercises; 8 p. alumni oration by John M. Harris, of Seranton.

Wednesday, Jutib 138:30 a. com mencement exercises. LUZERNE BIBLE SOCIETY. Tbe Klglity lirat Annual Meeting Held Wllkesbarre. The eighty first annual meeting of the Luzerne Connty jJIble Society was held on Tuesday, May 1st, in Wllkesbarre.

F. Ainnson, of West Pittston, the society's agent, presented his report. During the past year be vilted 2,009 families, finding ooo or teem destitute of God's word. Of the destitute homes, 175 were supplied by uonauon, seven tj nine could not read in any language and eighty six re iused to receive a Bible. Considerable work was done among Italians and Slavs.

Auiuug iu pieasant imngs of the year was the furnishing of a New Testament in raised letters to a blind girl. The reoeipti were $1,324.20 and the expenses, $1,249.50. it you are In need of lace curtains at tend the sale at Antrim's. 3m 2t SUICIDE AT LAKE WINOLA. William Dolph, a Young Farmer, Takes Ills Own Life.

William Dolph, aged twenty two years. an unmarried farmer living on the border of Lake Winola, committed suicide Wednesday, May 2d, by shooting himself In the chest. The tragedy occurred in a field near his father's farm. Young Dolph se cared a gun at his sister's hones and started toward his own home. When he failed to turn up at supper time, a search was lnstl tuted, resulting in the finding of the young man body.

Near it was found a note, wnlcb Dolph said he did not care to live any longer, as nome was too unpleasant for him. An Dp to bate nam. Where are you going, my pretty maid I Up to the drug store, sir, she said. What do you need the drug store, pray I a. ui leu ueeu Kuay.

Is that what makes your skin so white I Certainly, sir, for I take it each night. Now, maiden fair, what may this be Why, silly fellow, of course, Pabfi's Tea, Bold by all dealers. Enumerators Will rIu Woik on the 1st of Jane, The census enumerators will begin their work on June 1st and must complete it within two weeks. Each census district bus been divided into two classes claea A and class B. Class A Is tbe cities and bor unghs where the fee of the enumerator will be as follows: Each living Inhabitant enumerated, two cents; each farm including greenhouse, truck patches atd gardens where produce is raised for the market, five manufacturing establishments, tweuty cents; eseludeath, five cents; each person defec tive In sight, hearing or speech, five cents; each prisoner, five cent; each proprietor of live stock, five cents.

Class is the townships, and the fets of the enuuifra tors in such place follows Each living inhabitant, two and one baif cents; manu facturing Btablltrliuieuta, two cents; each farm, seventeen and one half cents; each death, five cents; each person defective In sight, hearing and epeecb, five cents; each prisoner, five cents; each owner of live stock, five cents. Some of the data required by the census department, and which will be gathered by the enumerators, is as follows: Location Name of the street, house number, number of dwelling house in the order of visitation, number of family in ordsr of visitation. Name of each person whose place of abede on June 1, 1900, was in this family; enter surname first, then the given name and middle initial, if any, include every person living Jane 1, 1900. Omit children boiu June 1, 1900. Relation Relationship of each person to the head of the family.

Personal description Color or race, sex, date of birth, whether single, married, mother of how many children, how many of these children living. Nativity Place of birth of each person and parents of each person enumerated; if born in the United States or Territories; if of foreign birth, give the country only. Citizenship Year of Immigration to the United States; number of years in the United States; naturalization. Occupation Trade or profession of each person ten years of age or over; occupation and months not employed. Education Attend echoo! (number of mouths in each year); whether can read, can write, can speak English.

Ownership of home Owner or rented; owned, free or mortgaged; farm or house; number of farm scheduled. PASTOR'S ANNIVERSARY. Rev. Mr. Fletcher Make an Encouraging Report to His Congregation.

Sunday was the second anniversary of the installation of Rev. J. J. K. Fletcher as pastor of the Presbyterian Church, and at the morning servioe the pastot gave a brief resume of the church work during the past year.

Among other things he slid: "During the past year I have made 410 pastoral visits. I have attended twenty funerals and, outside of the regular Sunday services, have attended on an average three services each week. Theie hove been added to the church member ship twenty aid there have been dismissed to other churches niceteen. In financial matters the church has no reason to be discouraged. The year commenced with a debt of and closed with a debt of a little over $100, which, however, is more than offset by pew rents still due and nnpaid.

The chnrch has raised, there fore, about $900 more during the past year than duiing the first year of my pastorate." Mr. Fletcher spoke of the special efforts made during the year to reach the people outside the chnrch the Bible Conference held by Don O. Shelton, the six weeks of cottage prayer meetings held throughout the town and the two weeks of union ser vices held In the different churches. He expressed his appreciation of all tbe aid and assistance be had received in his work from the choir, the church officers and members, and, in short, from tbe whole congregation. ANOTHER MINE STRIKE.

The William i Colliery Employe Are Out Again. Official announcement wag made that tbe Connell Coal William A. col liery, at Duryea, which has been idle for two weeks for repairs, would resnme operation on Monday. The colliery did not start up, however. The onion miners employed in the mine ordered a strike, re fused to go to work, and persuadtd the non union miners from working, it was feared that there would be a clash between nnion and non union men, but no trouble resulted.

The men demand an advance in wages and have several other grievances. DRIVER BOY KILLED. His Head Crashed by Rsaaway an In Twin Shaft. Patrick Connelly, agsd eighteen years, son of Mrs. John Stewart, of Upper Pittston, was instantly killed in the Twin haft Saturday afternoon about 4:30 o'clock.

Connelly was employed es a team driver and was run Into by a trip of runaway cars, his bead being crushed. Tbe two mules were also killed. The accident occurred on the same spot where the Burns boy, ot Oregon, was killed a short time ago, Flnt Silk Woven in I'ltUton. There is on exhibition in one of tbe Main street windows of Brown "Bee Hive," a dress pattern of foulard silk that attracts considerable attention from the public, owing to the fact that it was cut from the first piece of silk ever woven in this city. The cloth was made in the Sterling Silk new mill, in Upper Pittston, and was presented by the silk company to Brown ei a compliment to Mr.

Brown for the interest that he has iken, as a member of tbe Board of Trade, i a the establishment of the mill and In the general welfare of the city. Thcae ac quainted with Bilk goods say that the workmanship of the cloth on exhibition is very fine. The pattern, a beautiful com binatlon of blue and white, Is decidedly attractive. We are informed that Brown Co. will pr ent the silk one of their patrons, and some fair means of making the award is now being sought by the firm, State of Ohio, City of Toledo, Lrcas County, Frank J.

Che ey makes oath that he Is the senior partuer of the firm of F. J. Cheney doing business In the c'ty of To't lo, county and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of One Hundred Dollars for each and every case of catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. Frank J. Cheney.

Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. HKAL, A W. Greason, Notary Publio.

Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and miicous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. Cheney Toledo, O.

jySold by druggists, 75 Hall's Family Pills are the best. Large clams and little neck clams, and all kinds of fresh vegetables received dally at Frederick'! market. Phone connection "Yes, but he has reformed." "Oil," you say, with a lugubrious face, "I hope you are not mistaken; 1 hope you are not mistaken." You say: "Don't rejoice too much over his conversion, for soon be ill be unconverted, I fear. Don't make too big a party for that returned prod igal or strike the timbrel too loud; and, if you kill a calf, kill the one. that Is on the commons and not the one that has been luxuriating in the paddock." That is the easoii why more prodigals do not come home to their father's house.

It is the rank nfidelity in the church of God on this subject. There is not a house on the streets of heaven that has not in it a prodigal that returned and staid home. There could be unrolled before you a scroll of a hundred thousand uames the names of prodigals who came back for ever reformed. Who wos John ISunyan A returned prodigal. Who was Itichard Baxter? A returned prodigal.

Who was George Whitefield, the thuuderer? A returned prodigal. And I could go out in all the aisles of this church today and find on either side those who, once far astray for many years, have been faithful, and their eternal salvation is as sure as though they had been ten years in heaven. And yet some of you have not enough faith in their return. Greeting; the Prodigal. You do not know how to shake hands with a prodigal.

You do not know how to pray for him. Y'ou do not know how to greet him. He wants to sail into the warm gulf stream of Christian sympathy. You are the iceberg against which he strikes and shivers. Y'ou say he has been a prodigal.

I knorf it, bnt you are the sour, unresponsive, censorious, saturnine, cranky elder brother, and if you are going to heaven one would think some people would be tempted to go to perdition to get away from you. The hunters say that if a deer be shot the other deer shove him out of their compuny, and the general rule is away with a man that has been wounded with siu. Now, I say, the more liones a man has broken the more need he has of a hospital, and the more a mau has been bruised and cut with sin the more need he has to be carried into human and divine sympathy. Hut for such men there is not much room in this world the men who want to come back after wandering. Plenty of room for elegant sinners, for sinners in velvet and satin and lace, for sinners high sal aried, for kid gloved and patent leathered sinners, for sinners fixed up by hairdress er, pomatumed and lavendercd nud co logned and frizzled and crimped and banged sinners plenty of room! Such we meet elegantly at the door of our churches, and we invite them into the best seats with Chesterfieldian gallan tries; we usher them into the house of God and put soft ottomans under their feet and put a gilt edged prayer book in their hands and pass the contribution box before them with an air of apology, while they, the generous souls, take out the exquisite portemonnaie and open it, and with diamonded finger push down beyond the $10 gold pieces and delicately pick out ns an expression of gratitude their offering to the Lord of 1 cent! For such sinners plenty of room, plenty of room.

Itut for the mall who has been drinking until his coat is threadbare, and his face is erysipelased, and his wife's weddiug dress is in the pawnbroker's shop, and his children, instead of being in school, are out begging broken bread at the basement doors of the city the man, body, mind and soul ou tire with the flumes that have leaped from the scathing, scorching, blasting, blistering consuming cup which the drunkard takes, trembling aud agonized aud affrighted, and presses to his parched lip, nud his cracked tongue aud his shrieking yet im mortal spirit no room. Oh, if this younger son of the parable had not gone so tar off, if be had not dropped so low in wassail, the protest would not have been so severe! Hut, go ing clear over the precipice, as the youu ger son did, the elder son is angry aud will not go in. Sympathy For the Fallen. He not so hard in your criticism of the fallen lest thou thyself also be tempted, Do you know who that man was who Kabbath before last staggered up and down the aisle in a church, disturbing the service until the service had to Btop until he was taken from the room? He was a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ in a sister denomination! lhat man had preached the gospel, that man bad broken the bread of the holy com' munlon for the people, rom what height to what a depth! Oh, 1 was glad there was no smiling in the room when that mau was taken out, his poor wife following him, with his hat in her band aud his coat on her arm! It was as sol etna to me as two funerals the funeral of the body and the funeral of the soul Ueware, lest thou also be tempted! An invalid went to South America for his health and one day sat sunning him self on the beach when he saw something crawling up the beach, wriggling toward him, and he was affrighted. He thought it was a wild beast or a reptile, ant he took his pistol from his pocket.

Then saw it was not a wild beast. It was a man, an Immortal man, a man made in uou own image, and the poor wretcn crawled up to the feet ot the invalid aud asked for strong drink, and the invalid took his wiue Husk from his pocket and gave the poor wretch something to drink aud then under the stimulus be rose up aud gave his history. He had been merchant in Glasgow, Scotland. He had gone dowu under the power of strong drink nntil be was so reduced iu poverty that he was living iu a boat just off the beach. "Why, said the invalid, "I knew a merchant iu Glasgow once, a merchant of such and such name." Aud the poor wretch straightened himself aud said, "I am that man'" "Let him that (hinketb he stundeth take heed lest he fall." Again, I remark that the senior broth er of my text stauds for the spirit of envy aud jealousy.

I he senior rot he thought that all the honor they did to the returned brother was a wrong to htm, He said. "I have staid at home, and 1 ought to have had the rlug, und ought to have had the banquet, aud I ought to bave had tbe garlands." Alas for tb spirit of envy and jealousy coming down thruiigh the ages! Cain aud Abel, Esau and Jacob, Saul pud David, Hainan and Mordecai, Othello and Jago, Orlando aud Angelica, Caligula aud Toiquatus, Civsar aud l'omney. Columbus and the Spanish courtiers, Cambyses and the brother he slew because he was a better uiaiksninn. Dionysius and 1'hiloxenius, whom he slew because he was bi tter singer. Jealousy among painters.

CloS' tcrman and Geoffrey Kueller, Hudson and Kevuolds. I'laneia, anxious to see a nieture of Kaphael. Ilaphael sends him a picture. Francia, seeing it, falls in a fit of jealousy, froui which be dies. Jeal ousv among authors.

How seldom cou temporaries speak of each other! Xeno phou and l'lato living at the same tlmo, but from their writings you never would RECORD OF THE PAST No Stronger Evidence Can Had. Look well to their record. What they have done many times in years gone by is the best guarantee of future results. Anyone with a bad back; any reader suf fering from urinary troubles, from any kidney ills, will find in the following evi dence proof that relief and cure it neat at hand; Mr. John Ryan, engineer, of 377 E.

Union street, Circleville, says: "For 20 yeara I was an anxious seeker after a kidney remedy which would do what it claimed, but it was not until I had got bold of Poau's Kidney Pills that I was able to say at last I bad found one, the value of which had not been over stated. Strong as this statement is, there are many of our citizens who will endorse my words to the fullest wtent. If ever a man had cause to be thankful, it is one relieved of pains from which he suffered as long and as much as I. When I tried Doan's Kidney Pills I was almost without hope of ever finding a remedy to effect a cure. In a day or two I realized I had a kidney cure that cured.

This experience continued until I was absolutely without ache or pain of any kind, Doan's Kidney Pills for aale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Mailed by Foater Milburn Buffalo, N. sole agents for the U. S.

Remember the name, Doaa'a, and take BO aubatitutav m'CAKNA. Francis B. McCanna died about 12:80 o'clock last Friday at the Mercy Hospi tal, Wilkesbarre. The end was not unex pected. He had been in 111 health for a year, suffering for stomach trouble, and for several days his condition had been very serious.

The deceased was sixty three years of age, and had been Identified with the business life of this city for niatij years. Born in County Letrirn, Ireland, he came to this country in 1867, and made his home for a short time witu his sister, Mrs. Ann Allen. Afterward he spent two years in Virginia and three years in Cali fornia. He was a stone mason by trade, and he undertook stone contracts In those States with considerable success.

Return ina to Pittston, he continued in the stone business, built as a home for him self the building on South Main street now owned and occupied by Paul Bohan, and raised a large family. His wife, whose maiden name was Rose Dally, died some seven years ago. Mr. McCanna also erected the valuable block on Main street where be lived during tbe latter part of his life, and in which he kept a hotel for a number of yeara. He never held any publio omce, but was well known ss a shrewd and successful business man.

He is survived by the following children Charles driver for Niagara Engine Co TUlle, wife of Edward HouBer, of West Pittston; Kate, wife of William Stark, of California; Annie, wife of Jeremiah Lee han; John, Nellie, Joseph and Geraldine, all of this city. The following brother and sisters of the deceased also survive Mrs Ann Allen, Mrs. Paul Bohan and James McCanna, all of this city, and Mis. Angus Cameron, of St. Louis, Mo.

CHARLES P. CAMPBELL. Charles P. Campbell died on Sunday afternoon at his home in ShickshlnDy after a brief illness of pneumonia. The deceased was a son of William A.

Camp bell, who was superintendent of Luzerne rounty schools for two terms. He was born in Beach Haven la 186, graduated from tbe Bloomaburg Normal School in 1877 and from Swarthmore College in 1832. For nine years after graduating, he served as clerk in his father's hard ware store in Shlckshtnny. Becoming interested in politics, In which he took the Democratic Bide, he was appointed deputy Register of Wills and served in that office for two terms under P. V.

Weaver and S. W. Davenport. Since retiring from the reg ister's office, he has been looking after private business interests. He was a thorough business man.

He was Interested In several business enterprises at Shick shinny. He was a member of the Maaonio order, the P. O. S. of and the Elks His wife, who, with a little daughter, stir vives, is a daughter of ex County Treasurer Lot Search, of Shlckshinny.

THOMAS O. THOMAS. Thomas G. ThomaB died on Monday at his home on Wilfrci street, Upper Pitts ton, after an Illness of three years' dura tion. Mr.

Thomas had been a sufferer from what was termed tuberculosis of the bone and two and a half years ago underwent an operation in the University of Pennsylvania hospital. He never recovered from the shock, passing away on Monday morning at 6:40 o'clock. Mr. Thomas was born in Brigend, South Wales, fifty four years ago, and immigrated to this country many years ago. For thirty five years he lived in Hyde Park, and came to Pittston about four years ago, He was a brother of W.

G. Thomas, secre tary of the Board ot Trade, and of Griffith Thomas, until recently superintendent for for the Newton Coal Co. A sister, Mrs, Llewellyn Hopkins, lives in Seranton. Tbe deceased is survived by his wife and three children John, of Taylor; William and Anna, at home. THOMAS M.

Thomas M. Harkness died on April 27th last at his home in Los Angeles, aged sixty three years. The deoeased was for merly a resident of this city, and was well known to many of our older people. He was born in Leadhills, Scotland. From I860 to 1863 and again from 1869 to 1372 he resided In this city.

He also lived for five yeara in Wilkesbarre. Afterward he made his home in Iowa and about one year ago moved to Los Angeles. He bad been ill for four months of Brlght's dls ease, tils wife and two children survive. He was a brother of mine superintendent Adam Harkness, of this city. MRS MART ENGLISH.

Mrs. Mary English passed away on May 2nd at the borne of her daughter, Mrs. Anthony Earley, on Broad street, after a brief Illness. Mrs. English had lived in this city for many years, and until recently had her home in Oregon.

Her husband died many years ago. She was an industrious woman, very devoted to her family duties, and as a neighbor was highly esteemed. She is survived by the following children Robert English, the con tractor; David English, of Oregon; James English, who resides in Connectlcnt, and Mary, wife of Anthony Earley. MRS. MARGARET KAElHEFt.

Mrs. Margaret Eaeafer, wife of George Kaeufsr, onteide foreman at the Fern wood colliery, died on Thursday evening, May 3 For the past year the had been a sufferer from apoplexy and asthma. The deceased was fifty one years of age and had lived here for some three years, previous to which Dupont had been her home for fifteen years. She was a member of the Broad Street Presbyterian Church. dee her husband, the following children survive: Ursie, Barbara and Charles.

MRS. JOHN RINOSDORPH. Mrs. Catherine Bingsdorph, wife of John Ringsdorpb, passed away Saturday morning at three o'clock at her home on Sixth street, Wyoming. She was twenty one years of age and was the eldest daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. William D. Owens, of West Pittston. Mr. Owens Is mine superintendent for the Lehigh Valley Coal Co.

in this district. Mr. Ringsdorph and Mr. and Mrs. Owens have much sympathy in their affliction.

MRS. JAMES MOORE. About five o'clock Sunday afternoon occurred the death of Mrs. James Moore, at her home on South Main street. About one year ago, the deceased suffered a stroke of paralysis, from which she never recovered.

She was forty one years of age and was the daughter of Mrs. Marian PorteuB, of Swallow street. She formerly resided at Avoca, but moved to thia city bout seven months ago. JAMES MACKIN. James Mackin, an aged man, living on the upper end of Broad street, died Wednesday evening, May 2, after a few days' Illness.

Tbe deceased was an unmarried man and lived alone. Locomotives Run With Oil. One of the largest railroads on the Pacific Coast has decided to substitute oil In place of coal as fuel on Its engines. But whether the experiment will prove a suoeess remains to be seen. In this respect it differs from the famous Hostetter's Stomach Bitters which has made a decided success in its fifty years of cures of stomach ills such as dyspepsia, Indigestion fid blllousress.

Do not experiment with unknown remed'ts when this safe and reliable medicine ca be had of a ly druggist. Try a bottle ar be coivlnced. It will build up your debilitated system, strengthen your weak stomach and make it capable of digesting the food taken into it, and when this is done health must naturally follow. ft LESSON FROM THE PARABLEOFTHE PRODIGAL SON. Hev.

Dr. Talninae's Denunciation of Self HlKhtrouaneaa null the l.nrk ot Sympathy For the Fullcu and I'u fortnnute. WASiiiNOTON 0. In this discourse Ir. Tulmage pleads for hi arty reception to all those who have done wrung nud want to get back, while the unsympathetic and self rigiitvous arc excoriat eil; text, Luke xv, 8, 'And he was angry und would not go in." Many times have 1 boon asked to preach a sermon about the elder brother of the parable.

1 received a letter from Canada saying, ''Is the elder sou of the parable so unsympathetic and so cold that he is not worthy of recognition?" The fact is that we ministers pursue the younger son. You cau hear the Hupping of his rags in many a serin nic bnt ze and the crunching of the pods for width he was nn unsuccessful contestant. I confess that it has been d.fliciilt lor me to train the camera obscura upon the elder sou of the parable. I could not get a negative for a photograph. There was not enouuii light in the gallery, or the chemicals were too poor, or the sitter moved in the picture.

Hut now I think I have him, nut a side face or a three quarters or the mere bui but a full length portrait as he appears to me. The father in the parable of the prodigal had nothing to brag of in his two sons. The one was a rake and the other a churl. I find nothing admiinble in the dissoluteness of the one, and I find iiotu ing attractive in the acrid sobriety of the other. The one goes down over the larboard side, and the other goes down over the starboard side, but they both go down.

From all the windows of the old home stead bursts the minstrelsy. The lloor quakes with the feet of the rustics, whose dance is always vigorous and The neighbors have heard of the return of the younger son from his wanderings. and they have gathered together. 1 he house is full of congratulatory. I sup pose the tables are loaded with luxuries, not only the one kind of meat mentioned, but its concomitants.

"Clap!" go the cym bals, Thrum!" go the harps, "Click!" go the chalices, up and down go the feet nside, while outside is most sorry spec tacle. The Senior Sona A liner. The senior son stands at the corner of the house, a frigid phlegmatic. He has just cope in from the fields in very substantial apparel. Seeing some wild exhilarations around the old mansion, he asks of a servant passing by with a goat skin of wine on his shoulder what nil the fuss Is about.

One would have thought that, on hearing that his younger brother had got back, he would have gone into the house and rejoiced, and, if he were not conscientiously opposed to dancing, that he would have joined the oriental scbottish. No, there he stands. His brow lowers; his face darkens; his lip curls with contempt. He stamps the ground with indignation; he sees nothing at all to attract. The odors of the feast, coming out on the nir, do uot sharpen his appetite.

The lively music does not put any spring into his step. He is in a terri ble pout. He criticises the expense, the injustice and the morals of the entertainment. The father rushes out bareheaded and coaxes him to come iu. He will not go in.

He scolds the father. He' goes into a pasquinade against the younger brother, and he makes the most uncomely scene, lie says: "father, you put a premium on vagabondism. I staid at home and worked on the farm. You nev er made a party for me; you didn't so much as kill a kid; That woman have cost half as much as a calf; but this scapegrace went off in fine clothes, and he comes back not fit to be seen, and what a time you make over him! He breaks your heart, and you pay him tor it. That calf, to which we have been giving extra feed during all these weeks, wouldn bo so fat and sleek if 1 had known to what use on were going to put it.

That vagabond deserves to be cow hided instead of banqueted. Veal is too good for him." That evening, while the younger son sat telling his father about his adventures and asking about what had occurred on the place since his de parture, the senior brother goes to bed disgusted and sl.ims the door after him. That senior brother still lives. You can seo him any Sunday, ony day of the week. At a meeting of miulsters in Oer many some oue asked the question, "Who is that cider son?" and Krummacher answered, "I know him; I saw him yesterday." And when they insisted upou knowing whom he meant he said, "Myself; when I saw the account of the cod' version of a most obnoxious man I was irritated." First, this Benlor brother of the text stands for the self congratulatory, self satisfied, self worshipful man.

With the same breath in which be vituperates aguinst his younger brother he utters a panegyric for himself. The self righteous man of my text, like every other self righteous man, was full of faults. He was an ingrate, for he did not appreciate the home blessings which he had all those years. He was disobedient, for when the father told him to come in be staid out. He was a liar, for he said that the recreant son had devoured his father's living, when the father, to far from being reduced to penury, had a homestead left, had instruments of music, had jewels, had a mansion, mid instead of being a pauper was a prince.

This senior brother, with bo many faults of his own, was merciless in his criticism of the younger brother. The ouly perfect people that 1 have ever known were utterly obnoxious. I was never so badly cheated iu my life as by a perfect man. He got bo far up in hU devotions that he was clear up above all the rules of common honesty. These men that go about prowling among prayer meetings and lu places of business, Uilliug how good they are look out fur them; keep your hand ou your pocket book! I have noticed that just in proportion as a map gets good he gets humble.

The deep Liississippi does uot make as much noise as the brawling niountain rivulet. There has been many a btore that bad more goods in the show wiudow than inside on the shelves. The Self HlKhteous Man. This self righteous man of the text stood at the coruer of the bouse hugging himself in admiration. We hear a great deal in our day about the higher life.

Now, there are two kinds of higher life men. The one is admirable, and the other is most repulsive. The one kind of higher life man is very lenient in his criticism of others, does not bore prayer meetings to death with long harangues, does not talk a great deal about himself, but much about Christ and heaven, gets kindlier and more gentle and more useful imtil oue duy his soul spreads awing, and he tlies away to eternal rest, and everybody mourns his departure. The oth er higher life man goes around with 8 Itible conspicuously under his ami, goes from church to church, a sort of general evangelist, is a uuisaucp to his own pastor hen he Is at home ami a nuisance t' other pastors when he is away from home, runs up to some man who is count ing out a roll of bank bills or running up a difficult line of figures and asks him how his soul is, indices religion a dose of ipecneuuuha. Standing in a religions meeting making nu address, he has a jiHtronizing as though ordinary Christiana were clear away down below him, so he had to tnjk at the top pf his voice in order to make them bear, but at the same time encouraging tlivtu to hope on that by climbing many years they may after awhile come up within sight of the place where he now stands.

I tell you plainly that a roaring, roistering, bouncing sinner is not so repulsive to me as that higher life malformation. The former may repent; the latter nevsr gets over his Pharisaism. The youngur brother of the parable came back, but the senior brother stands outside entirely oblivious of his own delinquencies and deficits, pronouncing his own eulogiutu. Oh, how much easier it is to blame others than to blame ourselves! Adam blamed I've, Eve blamed the serpent, the senior Again, the senior brother of my text stands for all those who are faithless about the reformation of the dissipated and tbe dissolute. In the very tones of bis voice you can hear the fact that he has no faith that the reformation of the younger son is genuine.

His entire manner seems to say: "That boy has come back for more money. He got a third of the property; now he has come back for another third. He will never be contented to stay on the farm. He will fall away. I would go In too and rejoice with the others if I thought this thing were genuine; but it is a sham.

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For sale by Frank Gordon. suppose ttiey beard ot eacti other, ne ligious jealousies. The Mohammedans praying for rain during a drought; no rain coming. Then the Christians begin to pray for rain, and the rain cornea. Then the Mohammedans met together to account for this, aud they resolved that God was so well pleased with their pray ers he kept the drought on so as to keep them praying, but that the Christians began to pray, and the Lord waa so disgusted with their prayers that he sent rain right away so be would not hear any more of their aupplicatlone.

Oh. this accursed spirit of envy and jealousy! Let us stump it out from all our hearts. Tbe Absurdity of Jealousy. A wrestler was so envious of Theog enes, the prince of wrestlers, that he could not be consoled in any way; anil after Theogenes died and a stntue wa lifted to him In a nubile place bis en viotis antagonist went out every night and wrestled with tbe statue, uutll one night he'threw it. and it fell on him and crushed him to death, bo jealousy Is not only absurd, but it Is killing to tbe body, and It Is killing to the soul.

How seldom it is you fiud oue merchant speaking well of a merchant In the same line or Dust ness. How seldom it la you bear a phy sician sneaking well of a physician on the same block. Ob, my friends, the world is large enough for all of ui. Let us reioiee at the success of others. The next best thing to owning a garden our selves is to look over the fence and ad' mire tbe flowers.

The next best thing to riding in fine equipage is to stand on the street and admire the prancing span. The next best thing to having a ban' auet given to ourselves Is having a ban quet given to our prodigal brother that has come home to his father a bouse. Besides that, if we do uot get at much honor and as much attention at others, we ought to congratulate ourselves on what we escape in the way ot assault The French general riding on horseback at the head of bis troops heard a soldier coinnlain and say. "It is very easy for the general to command us forward while he rides and we walk. Then tbe general dismounted and compelled the complain ing soldier to get on the horse.

Coming through a ravine, a bullet from a sharp' shooter struck the rider, and he fell dead Then the general said, "How much safer it is to walk than to ride! Once more I have to tell you that this senior brother ot my text stands for the pouting Christian. While there la ao much congratulation within doors, the hero of my text stands outside, the corners of his mouth drawn down, looking at he felt miserable. I am glad hit lugu brious physiognomy did not spoil the festivity within. How many pouting Chris tians there are in our day Christians who do not like the music of the churches. Christians who do not like tbe hilarities of the young pouting, pouting, pouting at society, pouting at the fash' ions, pouting at tbe newspapers, pouting at the church, pouting at the government, pouting at high heaven.

Their spleen Is too large, their liver does not work, their digestion is broken down. There are two cruets in their caster alwayi sure to be well supplied vinegar and red pepper! Oh, come away from that mood. Stir a little saccharin Into your disposition, While you avoid the dissoluteness of the younger son, avoid also tbe irascibility and the petulance and the poutipg spirit of the elder sou, and imitate the father. who bad embraces for tbe returning prod' ignl and coaxing words for the splenetic nialcoutent. The Father's Fort Irenes.

Ah, the face of this pouting elder bog is put before us In order that we might better see the radiant and forgiving face of tbe Father. Contrasts are mighty. The artist, in sketching the field of a terloo years after the battle, put a dove ji) the mouth of the cauuon. Uaphael, in one of his cartoons, beside the face of wretch put the face of a happy and In' noceut child. And so the sour face of this irascible and disgusted elder brother Is brought out In order that in the con trust we might better understand the forgiving and radiant face of God.

That is the menuing of it that God is ready to take back anybody that is sorry, to take him clear back, to take him back forever and forever and forever, to take him back with a loving bug, to put a kiss on hi parched lip, a ring on hia bloated hand, an easy shoe ou his chafed foot, garland on bis bleeding temples aud. heaven in his soul. Oh, I fall flat ob mercy! Come, my brother, and let us get down into the dust, resolved never to rise until tbe Father's forgiving hand shall lift us I Oh, what a God we bave! Bring your Hoxoiogies. Come, earth and heaven, and join in the worship. Cry aloud.

Lift the palm branches! Do you not feel the Fa titer's uiiu around your neck? Do you not feel the warm breath of your Father against your cheek? Surrender, younger ioii! Surrender, elder son! Surrender, all! Go May aud sit down at tbe banquet. Take a slice of the fatted calf, and afterward, when you are seated, with oue hand In the baud of tho returned broiher aud the other baud In tbe band of the rejoicing father, let your heart beat time to the clapping of the cymbal and the mellow voice of the flute. It is meet that we should make merry and be glad, for this, thy brother, was ilcnd and is alive agaiu; he was lost and Is fiitiud. Copyright. 1000, by Louis Klopsch.J Ilia SrmlpulltlcaJ tailing.

John Sieed narrowly escaped being tent to the detention hospital the other Jay by Justice Quiun of the Hyde Park police court. Speed had been arrested for disorderly conduct. "What's your name?" asked the Justice. "John Speed, your honor," responded tho prisoner lu a flippant tone. "What do you do for a living?" asked Justice Qulnn.

"I'm a tiller In the noisy," came the itartling reply. "You're a what?" asked the court, astonished. "A filler In the noisy a dummy in the hand wagon." The justice was impatient at the seeming levity, but asked the man to explain. "Don't get fresh now. I'll send you where you can get salted down." 'There is great demand for bands nowadays," said the prisoner, "to stir up enthusiasm for political meetings.

Usually the politicians waut to make a big show for little money, so they hire a baud wagon and get about six real musicians and fill the rest ot the seats with dummies. I wear a uniform, blow a horn that has a cork In it, aud, though I don't make any noise, yet from a certain standpoint I am as important to the success of the band wagon as any man in It, It requires a great deal ot hard work to become a good dummy." Justice (Juinu was greatly Interested aud let Speed go with a warning. Chicago Iuter Ocean. All the neweat aultlnga, fancy Teatinftt, eo. DaFoaisT ATrsu, Merchant tailor, IVeetPituiton.

fib TlTi COUNTY AND STATE. Items of all Sorts Gathered From Ei changes and Condensed for liasty Reading Seranton city owns property valued a $550,819. The Carbondale Leader baa entered upon its twenty ninth year. Mrs. LewlB Shaver, aged sixty nine, of Shavertown, died of pneumonia.

There were only two fatal accidents in the mines of the Hazleton district during April. Editor W. H. Capwell has been appointed burgees of Dallas borongh, to fill a vacancy. Rev.

Nelson J. Hawley, recently M. pastor at AsksrWf is seriously ill at Dor ranceton. Congressman William Connell, of Scran ton, has registered as a candidate for re nomination. Robert Brace, for thirty two years business man in Towanda, died of pneu monia, aged sixty nine years.

New iron bridges are to take the place of old wooden ones on the Bowman's Creek Branch of the Lehigh Valley. At Beaver Falls, E. B. Grim shot a man whom he caught robbing his store. The victim was Emmet Ylock, an ex convict.

Forest fires are doing great damage to timber near Stall. Albert LewlB has a large force of men at work fighting the flames. Henry Oplinger, aged seventy nine, died of apoplexy and heart trouble at his home in Huntington township. He formerly lived in Parsons. Warrants bave been Issued againBt twenty two licensed liquor dealers in Seranton.

They are charged with selling liquor on Sunday. The collections made by Internal Revenue Collector T. F. Penman during April aggregate 1 $133,757, an increase of $4,065 O'er April, 1899. Oliver L.

Stewart, of Huntingdon, was killed by the bursting of an emery wheel. He was the Republican candidate for Senator in the Huntingdon Franklin district. Charles S. Osborn has purchased of Ned C. Tiffany a half interest in the Nicholson Examiner and the paper now bears the firm name Tiffany Ocborn, editors and proprietors.

The Susquehanna Dental Society held a banquet at Hotel Sterling, Wilkesbarre, in honor of Dr. Charles W. Beck, of that city, who has just completed his fiftieth year in dental woik. The fourteenth semi annual convention of the WilkeBbarre Conference of the Evangelical Lutheran Minlsterium of Pennsylvania will be held in Freeland next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. A Pittsburg correspondent of the Examiner, a Baptist journal in New York, states that Rev.

T. E. Jepson, formerly of Carbondale, has received a call from the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, New York. A pcatoffice has been established at Retreat, this county, for the benefit of the asylum Inmates at that place. Dr.

Charles Mayberry, superintendent of the institution, will be appointed postmaster. The aggregate coot of liquor licenses issued in Lackawanna county this year is $188,500. The county's share is $37,700 and the State will receive $47,461. The remainder goes to the municipalities. While Sophia Elasser, a little Williams port girl, was watching the erection of circus tents, a gust of wind blew down several poles.

One of them struck the child on the head, injuring her fatally. Bey. Charles Kelly, formerly pastor of the Towanda Catholic Church, who has been at a Jesuit retreat in Europe for a couple of years, will return to this country next week but will not locate in Towanda. The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of Pennsylvania will meet at Harrisburg, Tuesday, May 15. The headquarters of the Grand Lodge officers will be established at the Lochiel Hotel on Monday, May 14.

William Kennedy, aged twenty three, of Soranton, a private in Co. Eleventh United States Infantry, died at the military hospital on Governor's Island, N. Y. The body was taken to Seranton for burial. There is some talk in Wllkesbarre of In viting General Otis to visit that city when he returns to this country from the PhlllD plnes about the middle of June.

It was in Wilkesbarre that General Otis found his wife. While three foreign speaking laborers were working in a coal chute at a Glen Lyon colliery, a partition broke, and great mass of coal rushed upon them. Two of the men were rescued alive, but the third, Michael Llshock, was smothered to death. Seranton capitalists are said to be in lewaiea in tne project for a new hotel at Crystal Lake on the site of the Lake house, destroyed by fire during the winter. Stephen Whitmore, of Jerinyn, who was the owner of the Lake house, is promoting the new scheme.

The structure will cost $30, CC0. Ueorge W. Fritz, a prominent resident of Seranton, died suddenly while on a fish ing expedition in Sullivan County. N. He was born at SpringvlHe, Susquehanna county, sixty three years ago, and located In Seranton in 1856.

For a quarter of century, he, was in the harness business In that city. Joseph E. Boyle, a Wilkesbarre Heights merchant, narrowly escaped being shot. A policeman saw a man enter Boyle's store. Thinking it was a burglar, he secured help, fired a warning shot, entered the store, and searched it without sncctss.

Later the man was fenod crouching behind a barrel, and proved to be the owner of the store. General Silas M. Bailey, one of the famous Old Guard which stood by General Urant In the convention of 1880, died at his home in Uniontown, aged sixty four years, of brain trouble, which resulted from a bullet wound received during the war. After the war, President Johnson breveted him Major General of Volunteers for gallant service. He was elected Penn sylvania's State Treasurer by the Republl cans in 1881.

The Susquehanna Dental Association, in session at Wilkesbarre, chose Williama port as the place for the next meeting and elected the following officers: President, vr. atratton, Seranton; vice president, Dr, rary, v. nxeeoarre; recording secretary. Dr. Thomas, Wllkesbarre; corresponding secretary, Dr.

Nellie S. Kelser, Jersey snore; assistant secretary, Dr. Nellie Carle, Wilkesbarre; treasurer, Dr. Hertz, Easton The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co. has purchased of the Tobyhanna and Lehigh Lumber (Jo.

30,461 acres of laDd. Most of the land is located in Coolbaugh township, Lackawanna county, which adjoins Pike county on the Pocono mountain. The rest of it is in Lehigh, Covington and Clifton townships, in Lackawanna county, and Sterling and Dreber townships, in Wayne county. Generally stated, it is the land embracing the Pocono tributaries to the Lehigh river, which latter stream the Le iilgh Coal and Navigation Company con trols under a State grant of the firet part of the century. The consideration is $30, 461, oi an acre.

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