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UnrccOngniZed Genius.

Rlack-browed Pete, the hero of q hum
dred stage robberieS and thirty-seven
train wreckings, sat lost in thought. His
dark brow was knitted and he held his
chin in his hand, as he had seen other
villains do. He was thinkink; thinking
thoughts of extra large calibre and big
bore
His wife, standing in the dusk and sha-
dow of the curtain, her white fingers
woven together, watched his face furtive-
ly. and her wOman's heart told her things
were going to happen.
At last he spoke.
"Unlcss," he said slowly though he did
not forget to place the proper infection
on his last three words, ~ get a job We
are doomed. We will return to Chicago,
where, in its wilderness, ! may once more
lead me wild, wild life."
The woman shuddered.
"Why, oh why, Pete?" she implored,
and the bowling of the wind outside sup
piled the shiver music. Cannot we stay
here? DO not drag me back to the life
had hoped We had left behind US for-e-e-
ever!'
Cease, woman.'' commanded her hus-
band YEARLY; II do nothing willingly, but
hundred and six stages, wrecked thirty
odd trains. saved twenty-three people
from drowning and perishing in the flames
and Jumped from the ten highest bridges
i'm the world and yet | have been in New
York ten whole days, and not q manager
has offered to star me! 'Tis cruel
world"
And in the silence that followed the gen.
tie throb of his faithful Waterbury might
have been heard operating against his
stalwart fifth rib.-E. j. A.. In Truth.
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UNCONVENTIONAL RALLIES.

Following the afternoon services in
the Frothingham theater and Elm Park
church there were denominational ral-
and the Academy of Music as follows:
Presbyterians. United, Reformed and
Cumberland Presbyterians, at the
Frothingham; Rev. j. A. Little, ID. D.,
Hokendauqua, in charge.
Methodist Episcopal Primitive
Methodist and Protestant Methodists,
Elm Park lecture room; w. l.. Turner
Philadelphia, presiding.
United Evangelical, First Presbyter-
ian church: Rev. Fl. F. Schlegel, Mey-
erstown, presiding.
Baptists and Free Will Baptists, Penn
Avenue Baptist church; Miss Frances
NJ. Schuyler. Wiliamsport, presiding.
Reformed Calvary, Reformed church.
Rev. j. w. Menninger, Lancaster, pre-
siding.
Colored delegates. Howard Place Af-
rican Methodist Episcopal church, JUS
tus Crump. Scranton. presiding.
Lutherans. Second Presbyterian
church; Rev. w. n. Hinman, -Colum-
bia, presiding.
Episcopal and Reformed Episcopal.
Grace Reformed church, Rev. Sydney
N. Usher. West Chester. presiding.
COngregationalists. in the Academy
of Music; Rev. Thomas Bell, of Scran-
ton, presiding.
Denominations not mentioned i'm the
above. Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton; Rev. W. G. Watkins, Scranton,
presiding.
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out--we shall find that in their destruc-
tion, in letting God rule supreme and
alone" In our hearts, and giving our
selves earnestly, faithfully, diligently to
winning souls, there come to us for
greater riches OF joy and blessing.
They that be wise shall chime as the
brightness of the armament, and they
that turn many to righteousness, as the
stars forever and ever"
Among the shining ones in glory, the
redeemed forever happy, the happiest
win be those earnest faithful laborers
for Christ who caught every opportun-
ity to do good, and, by cooperating
with the divine Spirit, won precious
souls to the Master.
SALOONS MUST GO.
After Mr.. Woodring's address came
Hon. John G. Wooley's most entertain
ing effort. DIR. Dixon, in introducing
him, said: II want to say to Mr..
Wooley before he begins that came to
this city recently and took charge of a
church located on a block that has
eight saloons. That church or those
saloons must go. 1t wont be the
church. (Applause).
Il don't KNOW" said Mr.. Wooley, but
what that Is pretty good place for
church. At least, would favor 1t as
a location for the churches, of some
ministers. They might, then, wake up
to a realization of the terrible evil of
the liquor traffic
Mr.. Wooley was given rapturous APP
plause and a GhautauQua salute and US
he conducted his address and started
for the Frothingham the applause fol-
lowed him to the door,
The solemn and impressive Christian
Endeavor conservation service brought
the meeting to a close. 1t was led by
Rev. II. w. Miller, of Reading. After
the. EndeavOr bcnediction-Mizpah
had been given the audience filed out
singing God Be With You Till We
Meet Again."
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machinery, without impelling force
without motive power Is utterly inef-
fective.
But there are forces on the human
side in winning souls. "A wire hung on
poles has no power in it, cannot give
light, cannot move street cars; but
when the wire Is properly attached to
the battery, the force OF the electric
current flows through II, and trOlly-
cars are driven by 1t. or light fills our
homes. The wire itself is nothing, and
yet the wire is necessary" Living
men and women must serve as the flow
to win, quicken, save, elevate souls.
The great principle of Christian En-
deavor, leaning on God, and the next
which follows logically is promise OF
obedience, and the next is obedience in
every possible line of Christian activity
all of which centers in winning souls.
among the winning forces on the
human side, the man-ward side, would
simply mention these: prayer, faith.
conservation, courage, tact, perseVer-
ance, love. All important and neces-
sary.
IF there is anything the average En-
deavorer in this hurrying age needs to
have impressed upon him, it y the ne
cessity of more prayer. BY praying
more we will not work any less and Will
accomplish vastly more.
What will not faith, conservation,
perseverance. accomplish? Faith, con-
secration bring perseverance, courage,
enthusiasm. And they are always 'ac-
complishing the impossible Difficult
ties have been yielding to these ever
since the world began.
VERY COSTLY BUG.
Secretary Morton, who is a better
statesmen than entomologist, was
showing a reporter through the Ento-
mological bureau, the other day, and
this is part of what the reporter says
he said: I've got bug in there that
cost the government $4,000; he don't
look it, but he did. It's y fact. One
day an outfit of scientists started in
pursuit of this bug. They ranged all
over the hemisphere and stuck to his
trail like bloodhounds: they ransacked
North America all the way from the
Isthmus to Alaska. After the most re-
markable adventures by flood and field.
they treed their bug and took him
prisoner. He was then brought cap
tive to Washington, and he's right
there now in that brick house, the
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CLEARED HIS CLIENT.
The Able Argument That Saved q
Cracker from Going to Jail.

There are four bosom companions in
Jacksonville-the broker, the dentist,
the undertaken, and the capitalist.
Where you see one of them you will
find the rest-taking a drink. The un-
. dertaker and the capitalist admire the
dentist and the broker because they
can tell such wonderfully clever stories.
The broker and the dentist revere and
love the undertaken and the capitalist
because they are such wonderfully
good listeners.
This happy, admring quartet form
an ideal roundtable. and around this
roundtable the two listeners often hear
good stories by the dentist and the
broker. The dentist is an ina ginative
sort of story-teller, who manufac-
lures finales to fit Incidents. The
broker is a great reader, a realist and
philosopher
One night the broker told of law
suit in Alabama. A cracker from the
mountains was on trial for shooting
and wounding a 'ngger." He was ar
rested. and, having no money, the Judge
appointed the broker to defend him.
The broker was not a lawyer in the
legal sense of the word, but the Judge.
who was an old college mate of his.
said he was an idiot because he wasn't
one; in other words, that he was a
lawyer by instinct The broker cross
questioned the witness briefly, sending
In now and then a sarcastic and dis
comfiting trajectory. When he came to
make a speech, he said:
Gentlemen of the jury. I have taken
great pains to show you that my client
was a respectable citizen. Ten wit
nesses have asserted--on oath, mind
you-that he stands high in his COM
munity."
The defendant was six feet three
inches tall. and the jury smiled.
HE stood high in his community, and
that is sufficient. Now for the law. We
find In the thirtieth verse Of the six
teenth chapter Of Chitty on Pleadings
--Chitty, gentlemen, was one Of the
bravest generals in the Confederate
army-ths well-established principle
of law"
Here the broker snaps his eyes to-
gether and adjusts his glasses. holds
the book far off, elevates his chin, and
reads:
"'No respectable white man can be
guilty of crime
THAT, gentlemen, Is enough. leave
the case in your hands,
Each juror changed MS quid, looked
at his neighbor, nodded. and without
leaving their seats rendered loud and
emphatic verdict of mot guilty" and
then Joined in three cheers for the de-
fendant and his lawyer.
The undertaken found fault with the
story because nobody in 1t had been
killed
The dentist remarked that If any
body deserved killing it was the brok-
er.
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the Hotel Jermyn and Hotel Terrace
after last nights session.
Nearly all the state officers are quoted
as saying that the arrangements made
for this convention were the most com
plete in the history of state Endeavor.
MONDAY open-air evangelistic meet
ings We're held yesterday. as on We'd
nesday, at many shops and factories
and In several suburban districts in the
evening.
Miss Runk, the leading spirit of the
Allentown delegation, became i'll on
tuesday and was confined to her room
in the Hotel Jermyn until yesterday
afternoon.
What Mrs. ]. F. Hangi has done as
city Junior superintendent was very
forcibly illustrated in the. numbers and
doings at the Junior rally in Elm Park
church in the afternoon.
Rev. Charles Roads. ID. D., of Phila-
delphia, Is one of the most widely
known and popular Endeavorers in the
state. Evangelistic work Is his forte.
He Is Of the most unobtrusive and calm
natures Imaginable, but has fund of
quiet humor and jovialty which spreads
itself In any congenial gathering. He
and Rev. C. A. Oliver. OF York, are
dubbed THE Evangelistic Chums."
DR.. Crafts, during his address in Elm
Park church and the rockingham in
the afternoon, exhibited small car
penters saw which years ago he
brought from Nazareth. In the Holy
Land, the birthplace of Christ. With
this saw on the stage of the Academy
of Music. several years ago, he dubbed
Hon. Il. V. Powderly knight of Labor.
The occasion was public meeting in
the interest of Sabbath Observance,
over which Hon. Ezra II. Ripple, then
mayor, presided. Mr.. POwderly sat on
the platform and was one of the speak
ers. At the conclusion of Mr.. Powder
ly's address DR.. Crafts approached him
and striking him on the shoulder with
the saw, said: "T. V. Powderly, I dub
thee Knight of Labor" Mr.. Powderly
was at that time grand master work
man of the Knights of Labor.
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SHE MARRIES HIM AFTER ALL.

From the Union and Advertiser.
You love me? All, | know.
As men love. no better, dear,
Worship? Yes. a month or SO.
Tendersness? Perhaps a year.
After that the quiet sense
OF possession: careless care,
And the calm Indifference
That all married lovers wear.
Blame you. dearest! Not at all
AS fate made you. SO you stand.
As fate made you, so you fall
Far below loves high demand.
Yet stranges Is loves deep law!
l can look you through and through,
Tracing plainly natures flaw
In the heart she gave to you.
Knowing al! my heart must stake,
All the danger, all the fear.
And yet glad. even so, to make
This! my losing bargain. dear!
30. Madeline 8. Bridges.
Carlyle Smith.
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SUNRISE MEETINGS.

Yesterdays exercises of the third and
last day of the Christian Endeavor
convention We're opened by series of
sunrise prayer meetings. These meet
ings We're begun at $50 O'Clock and
were held In the Penn Avenue Baptist,
Second Presbyterian. Plymouth Con-
gregational, Providence Presbyterian,
Green Ridge Presbyterian, Dunmore
Hickory Street Presby-
terian and Elm Park churches.
The meetings were all well attended,
many besides delegates being present.
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EXCURSION TO FARvIEW TODAY.

If fair weather prevails 1t is probable
that a large number will take advant-
age of the low-rate excursion tn sight
ly Farview today. Tickets will be sold
at IS cents each for adults and 40 cents
for children and are good on all out
going Delaware and Hudson trains up
to noon.
The return trains will reach Scranton
at 2.27. 1926. 4.37 and 5.45 p. m, the lat
ter connecting with the Black Diamond
express on the Lehigh Valley railroad
at Wilkes Barre.
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| whisky and tobacco yearly, twice as
much as is spent for bread. Give this
| country more gold, it will buy more
| champagne. Give us more silver and
| 1t will buy more beer. This Is no joke.
"There Is u parallel between the hon
est, thrifty man and the drunkard and
| spendthrift. but it Is widely separated.
feel the pinch of poverty and want to
| know a remedy. What is to be done
for the poor? Are you to explain the
| financial situation to him? or tell him
to quit drinking? which? 1 despise the
man who is professed clean church
man but a dirty politician.
The Christian man should do his
| own political thinking and not be so
weak as to let others do his thinking
for him. l want to eXhort to duty the
Christians who see the right and knows
how TO do it, but who says he can't.
l touch no particular party, but score
the influence of liquor and corruption
in politics.
| You say you don't see the Lord in
politics? You don't know how to focus.
You are not trying to find the Lord.
Your lens wavers. / wish no one to
think i want to make political con-
verts, but no Christian can afford to
vote any but clean ticket for clean
man and We don't see much of either
in the two big parties"
HIGHER SPIRITUAL LIFE.
| The choir sang an anthem at the
| close of Mr. Woolley's address, after
which Rev. Sidney n. Usher, of West
Chester. was introduced. Rev. Mr..
Usher spoke for higher spiritual life.
His was the last stated address of the
| session.
| Rev. Grant c. Teuller, of Chicago,
sang by request "As You Co." hymn
dedicated to the convention and the
words of which were written by Mr..
| Teuller.
Rev. +. II. Romig. of Lebanon, con-
Quoted conservation services. The choir
and congregation sang and Rev. Mr.
Romig offered a short prayer and then
made short eXhortatory address. The
meeting was closed with a benediction.
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CONVENTION NOTES

Railroad tickets are good to return
on any trains up to and including Mon
day.
Miss Della p. Evans. of the West
Side, Is the only woman among the
thirteen vice-presidents.
Persons who forget the name Of DR..
Stewart, of Harrisburg. refer to him as
the handsome" preacher.
There. were. Informal gatherings at
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INJECTED WEAKNESS INTO WHAT
SHOULD HAVE BEEN STRONG
MARKET.
WHEAT CLOSED AT A LOSS.
HEAVY RECEIPTS OFFSET THE
EFFECT OF HIGHER PRICES AT
LIVERPOOL.
CORN AND OATS HELD OUT FIRM.
Both Ended the Day Unchanged and
PROVISIONS, Though Inactive,
Scored Small Advances.

| CHICAGO, Sept. 19.-The late steady ad-
vance of wheat eliminated today In such a
! general rush for profits that December closed
snaoe lower In spite of conditions that
ordinarily would have caused a substantial
rise In price. Corn was similarly affected but
! closed unchanged, as did oats Provisions
closed unchanged to sc higher Wheat opened
strong and sold at &c for December before
the session had progressed very far OF full
nc above yesterdays close. The continue
tion OF the strength of the market was chiefly
because OF higher quotations from LIVERPOOL.
however, New York wired that yesterdays
capleo oHers OF wheat to the United Kingdom
ana continent were not generally accepted.
Another dlsagreeable fly in the ointment was
the Minneapolis and Duluth receipts. which
numbered 135 cars. compared with / 16a
week ago, and LIS on the corresponding week
OF last year. Beerbohm's report ON the wheat
STOCKS OF the United Kingdom was a surprise.
this ABOUT 80 ooo 700 bushels less than at
TINS tlme last year. This gave new stimulus
10 the Dull sentiment. But the partial halt in
the foreign demand and the old time theory
lnat aIter DC bulge reaction was in order,
ana the fact that the longs had handsome
prof1ts to their credit started active reajizino
ana short selling. The closing price was
oiAWo!7sc. Corn was rather firm and at one
III Slme tse leading speculative future sold up
&c, put lost most of it later. The cash de-
mana continues fair May opened 1Sc higher
at zoe, advanced to 25ac, then eased off IN
ana closed steady at 247sc. In oats the early
the aggregate business was good. Nav onened
nc higher at 1880 but eased off later. closing
steady at 191s@19Ac. Provisions were dee
SSiie aa.y INACTIVE "a tive January pork closed SC
$3.50 January ribs unchanged at s3.45,
estimated receipts Monday: Wheat, 200 cars.
corn corn $50 cars; oats, 290 cars; hogs, So 600
The leading futuras ronoo5 - s,,
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2O657.

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silk or wooden material. 1t is par
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The pattern is cut with novel jacket
fronts adorned with large revers which
turn back from a full blouse effect
either of silk or the same material as
the rest of the bodice. The back is
made in one piece, with it's slight full
ness confined by gathers at the waist
line. The two-piece sleeves are very
modish and becoming and display the
approved amount of fullness. A collar
and belt Of ribbon are used to finish
the neck and waist line. The costume
opens in the center front.
20,657-LADY'S BASQUE WAIST
with Jacket front and two-piece
sleeves requires for medium size AZ
yards material % inches wide, 2%
yards So inches wide or rs yards 48
inches wide. Lining required IL yards;
gimp represented yards; ribbon 31a
yards. Cut in 5 sizes, 80, "a, SO. 3S and
40 inches bust measure.
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NEW YORK STOCKS.
Market Largely Perfunctory, But
Closed at Advances.

NEW YORK, Sept. 19.-Today's stock mar
ket q perfunctory affair, dealings being on
an abnormally light scale, and the fuctua-
tons, generally speaking, fractional. Traders
were responsible for the limited operations
and during the greater part of the session
worked upon the bull side in anticipation of
decidedly favorable bank statement owing
to the continued heavy gold imports. The ex-
hibit, while not as disappointing upon the
two previous occasions, failed to come up to
expectations, although the shipments of cur
rency by the banks to the interior were light
er than had been prefgured. The statement
showed gain in legal reserve Of only 81, GS6, :
$50 and of 81. 47S500 in specie Deposit in
crease only 1921 500. A prominent banker es-
Inmates that of the $27, 1856 $50 in gold which
has arrived to date, about SIT, 600 has been
absorbed by the treasury department and the
banks have probably gained about 81, COO 000
In addition $685. 200 was deposited at the
subtreasury for examination today. The bal
ance is said to be accounted for other deposits
at the subtreasury and assay office for ex-
animation. In the early dealings covering ad-
vanced Western Union and Manhattan over
point and Leather preferred and Chicago Gas
were strong features. After the publication
of the bank statement frecessions occurred all
around. The market closed firm at slight
gains generally.
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VIII tend 10 console him who can enjoy a
good smoke.
The voices of the White Cloud minstrels'
are again heard in the distance. They ex-
pect to make their appearance about the mid
die of next month. before which time more
details will be published. however
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAs.
Capitol Lodge No 81 conferred the second
rank upon two pages Wednesday evening
last, and will confer the third rank unon
seven candidates on Wednesday next; Those
entitled to this rank requested to be
present not later than $50 p. m.
An entertainment will be given by Web
ster Lodge No. 20 the evening of Thursday
Oct. l. and every Pythian will be welcome
The programme is: A lecture on Pythianism
by Chief Sanderson, of the U.
H. n. p; stereopticon views of prominent
men in the order. and music and dancing.
This lodge sends to the grand lodge. which
meets in Minneapolis Tuesday, Edward N.
Hazard and DIR. Keam as delegates, unin-
St Paul No. 2, U. R. X. P. will meet at
Pythian hall this Sunday morning at $3.50 to
nave the division photographed.
ROYAL ARCANUM.
Minneopa council will hold grand reunion
of its members Monday evening for the pur-
pose OF bringing together once year every
are new recruits since last year. The reunion
will take the form of grand social session,
and the council will sustain its reputation for
a high-class entertainment.
Hamline council met Monday evening and
transacted important business. Past Grand
Regent Hartigan was visitor.
Chill w. Hazard, of Allegheny Pa, past
supreme regent was a visitor In st. Paul
during the encampment.
Duluth council recently conferred the de-
gree on class of twenty six at one meeting.
They are very much alive UP in that neck of
the woods.
st. Paul council conferred the degree Mon
day evening. large attendance is requested
for next meeting, when plans for the fall will
be outlined.
Seven Corners council met Monday evening.
Cecilian council, of Minneapolis moved into
Ramsey council gathered together to the
number of eighty odd last Tuesday evening.
DAUGHTERS OF ERIN.
Division No. will hold their annual ball
at Liedertafel hall Friday evening.
WOODMEN OF THE WORLD.
St. Paul Camp No. g. Woodmen of the
World, held its regular meeting Monday even
ing, Sept A. which was the largest attended
meeting ever held by the camp, the occasion
being the comforting of the protection degree
upon thirty-four new members. The large
hall was crowded to its utmost with visiting
city, among them a delegation of forty from
Mendoza camp, who had assembled to wit
ness the impressing ceremony which was per-
formed in very creditable manner by the
officers of the camp. After the ceremony
sumptuous banquet which had been prepared
was served and good addresses were made
by members of the several camps. That the
pering is evidenced from the fact that fifty
applications have been acted upon during the
month of August, st. Paul camp now being
one Of the largest camps in the state.
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LAKE FRONT CASE.
On for Hearing Before the General
Land Office.

WASHINGTON, Sept 19-Commis-
sioner Lamoureaux, of the general land
office, today heard an argument upon
an application to enter a portion Of the
Chicago lake front. The applicants
are Matthias Benner and Henry M.
La Toilette, and they were represented
by numerous counsel. The land in
volved is tract north of, and abuttfng
on the Chicago river and contains about
LOO acres. 1t is claimed by the appli-
cants that the land was not included
In the original survey Of the govern
ment in 1921, but that a small portion
Of 1T was plated by the purchasers Of
the AUDITING property, who filed the
first plat Of land as an addition to Chi
cago claiming the land to the then lake
front. There has been many accesions
by artificial and natural means since
/ the survey. The applicants claim that
the land is not now occupied and is at
the disposal of the government.