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CHURCH NOTICES.

O0O4bSAA NVA4S6Ss
PREsBYTER1Aa.
AssEMBLYs. 9TH AND SITS. N.w.-PREACH.
%,o1 Il n AND !se % .. Rss ssS
day evening at 1880 O'Clock It
CHURCH OF THE CoyENANT PREsBY-
a'n. I'M D .na es
DAY school at $50 Am; Junior 9. E. meeting
ssaS. ssScs at
METROPOLITAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,
s.ca g. hnd r. ,s pastor Ft p ss asan
Church of Pqpe ohis Sabbath ra sehHS ESQ
sTssation has been called BY Tie session to son.
slider tine report OF the committee on the call OF
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN. JOHN MARSHALL
srSee. Donald ana Ms a D. R sss vel
GuNT0NTEMPLE, 14rH AND N.W.-REv;
pr; G. E. Bradt will preach at II am. 4 and
Of young people. Evangeiistic meetings viii Be
ese week t aas zs each day
FOURTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 18TH AND
Sabbath school, $50 am; tie Lords supper.
ose pm Il Thd RssSF
meeting. 1t
THE EASTERN PREsBYTERTAN CHURCH,
Otu st. ana maryland ave. ne., lev luoHiuS
Easton, ID. pastor.-Servfces at IL am. and
7:3O pm; Rev. ]. p. Calhoon, DID,, from Pitts
burg, Pa. will preach. It
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS. KALORAMA AVE.
and Columbia road $50. S; s.; 10, Bible
Hunt will preach; pm, G. E. Mrs. Thos. q.
Noyes will sing at morning service. 1t
NEW YORK AVENUE PREsRYTERIAN CHURCH.
New York avenue. II and 18th sts.. Dr. Wallace
kadS sDr an on the
John Knox music led BY the Quartet - choir:
$50 pm, Christian Endeavor Society. 1t
CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. COR.
and Sd SITS. n.w.-Rev. Lacy /. Mofatt Of the
Forward Movement Of the Southern Assembly
will speak at II am and pm. IT.
WESTERN CHURCH. ST. BETWEEN 18TH
and Goth NV, Rev. Gerhart A Wilson, DID,,
pastor.-11 am, sermon by the pastor; 7:30 p M.
address by Mr.. D. b. Cooper on Christian Pa
triotism; $3.50 am, Sunday school; $3.50 pm.
Y. p. S. O. e. 1t
LEXINGTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Q AND
North Capitol sts.-Preaching at II am. and 80
pm by the pastor, Rev. W. T. Thompson. DID,;
@. E., CSC pm. Strangers welcome. Seats free.
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SUUTHENN THESb1 IEHIAN.
SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. NO. 2145 p
st. n.w.-Preaching at II am and 1880 pm. by
Rev. Harry w. Pratt of Petersburg, Va; Sunday
school at 10 am; services preparatory to COM
munion. on Thursday and Friday evenings at
7:3O. 1t
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CENTRAL UNION MISSION, e22 LA. AvE-oPEN
day and night; the poor and friendess always
pm. Sundays, 9:4o am. g pm. and 1880 pm.
All welcome. Sunday. Mr.. +. G. Grass will give
q lecture, Sowing to the Wind,' illustrated by
80 life size pictures. Pm Gospel wagon Wash
ington Circle, 4:4b; Market space, 6:45. 1t
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PROBATE COURT-Justice Anderson.
In re Justina H Hill; order appointing
Robert I. Hill guardian: bond, 5000; at
torneys, Kimball & White.
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,Iascngni at Rehearsal.

During the last dress rehearsal al
the Metropolitan Opera House OF Mas
cagnis japanese opera, Iris" which
was produced last autumn for the nrst
time in America, Mascagni, who was
conducting the orchestra, was greatly
annoyed by the ineffective perform
ance of one of the singers in a partlc-
ular scene. The passage was very
intense one, a love scene between the
chief reprobate and the heroine.
"Do not move so timidly! Stand
farther to the right. Play with more
vipor. more color. more variety" shout
cd the composer above the surge OF
the music.
The unfortunate actor, Thoroughly
discomfited. went from bad to worse
in his impersonatiOn and now was
singing almost continually out OF tune
The exasperated composer could stanc
II no longer He stopped the orchestra
and beckoned the singer down to The
footlights.
"Since all other methods for maKins
the massage effective seem to have fall
ed" he remarked sarcastically IN nj
most scrupulous italian, suppose yo'
try singing it on the keyT-Harper
| Weekly.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-07-18

Sir John Moore. the English soldier
whose death at Coruna evoked from
Charles Wolfe one of the most memor'
able poems in our language, left be-
hind him a manuscript diary, which Is
only now to be pr3nshed. 1t extends we
are told, from Dec. 8, 1892, to Dec. ~
1908. and covers the whole period from
the siege Of Toulon to Moore's ad-
vance on Sahagun, twenty-three days
before his death. 1t deals with the
siege OF Toulon, at which Napoleons 5
career began. with the capture OF the
West Indian islands, the Irish rebellion
Of 179s, the campaign in Holland
in 1893, the campaign in Egypt Of lsoo'
in which Sir Ralph Abercromble fell;
Moore's creation of the Light division
at shorncliffe, the expedition to Swe-
den and the campaign in Spain up TO
sahagun.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-07-18

"a nearest at hand? How can we cease
TO be towards better than by running
our honorable obligations when we
know we owe to our God ana our
Christ? We have all read OF the ko-
man sentinel who during an awIul
eruption Of Mount Vesuvius was ready
n die at his post when the officer or
the guard did not relieve him ana al
low him to fly for his life. Should we
not be equally ready to be brave anu
true TO that great Commander VINO
shall vet ride the white horse or VIC
tory and in the great millennial DAY
come TO claim and defend his own! DE
has placed us here to do our duty, 10
live his life in the world, to serve MIN
nv serving our fellow men. Shal we
cravenlv desert our post? Shall we.
declare that the task assigned us Is 100
hard for us? Rather let US look to him
for the almighty strength that ne
nromises 10 his faithful servants that
we may endure as seeing him VINO Is
Invisible. So let US stand undaunted
beneath his standard until his sum
mons reaches us and we quit with the
triumphant shout: Il have fought
good fight. I have finished my course
have kept the faith. Henceforth
there Is laid up for me a crown OF
righteousness"
The bravest act IN all the world for
some men Is to publicly confess
Christ. While we are preaching today
on the suicidal sin are you ready 10
be as brave as william Cowper once
was? In a time Of great mental de-
nression he was on his way to the
river Thames to take his own llre'
When he arrived near the fatal waters
he saw q man fishing at the end OF the
dock from which he intended TO throw
himself into the stream. He turned
hack. Then he went home and tried
70 stab himself to dtsth, but the knlfe
snonned in two. len he tried to
hang himself, but the rope broke
Then william Cowper realized what
he was doing and how cOwardly nc
WAS. He confessed his error before
; the world and gave himself up, as new
ar before to sound forth the divine
nraise. Oh. my friends. viii you no
realiZe that one Of the clief reasons OF
= the cowardly tendency to suicide i
the unwillingncss to publicly confess
) and work and I've for CHRISTI rs a.
l roads were once supposed to lead L
Rome. every act and dael and thoug'.
/. of your life Should lead you to III
4 foot of the cross Then. oh. then !
e vou are true to Christ. you will neve
: be false to yourself. TEen. on. then
$ your life, instead Of having Il "ulcida
8 tendency, will be an eternal life OF tr
d umphant joy!
f Copyright. 1908. by Louis Klopsch.I
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1
LYNCH LAW.
II May Have Taken It's Name From .
Mayor of Galway.

II May Have Taken It's Name From
Mayor of Galway.
About the year 1900 one James F1tz-
steplens Lynch was mayor Of the town
of Galway, in Ireland. lie had sent MS
son on a trading expedition TO Spain
with q good cargo and large sum Oh
money. The young man returned Win
n shin load of valuable comvSodltles'
which he reported as having been pur-
chased with the money and with the
proceeds Of the outgoing cargo. AFTER
some time a Spaniard came along de-
manding payment from the mayor ior
the goods he alleged had been pought
on credit by his son. The mayor de-
clined payment as his son averred ne
had paid in cash for the goods. JUROR
tunateIy for the latter, sailor VINO
had been one of the crew Oh eXamlna-
ton by Mayor Lynch declared that MS
unworthy son had spent in reckless
debauchery not only the money intrust-
ed to him, but the proceeds OF tue
cargo as well; that he had then bought
goods from large firm on credit, ana
that when one of the partners or the
firm came down to the ship before sail
ing TO receive the money young Lynch
murdered the man and had him thrown
overheard to conceal the facts from
his father.
The young man was Immediately ar
rested and brought before his father
who, Notwithstanding the tearfui en-
troaties of his wife and daughters. SEN
tenced him to death. He took him up
stairs I'm his warehouse, adjusted
rome around his neck, having hrst Sc
| cured it inside, and then pushed the
| voung man out of the window, where
his dying struggles were witnessed Oy
the inhabitants of the town Of Galway.
In the town records this entry Is YET
to be seen:
"Jomes Lynch, mayor Of Galway,
hanged his own son out of the windo"
for defrauding and killing strangers
without martial or common law, 10
show a good example to posterity"
II NAV be from that incident that
lvnch law took its name. 1t Is not Pc
culiar American institution, as Is COM
monty supposed. but has been practiced
IN other countries. The English had a
walled town in Devonshire Of the name
of Lydford, which became noteu TOT
the summary punishments inflicted on
notorious offenders. They became pro-
verbal in England as Lydford iaw'
and 1t is not impossible that lyncn may
be a corruption of Lydford. In Scotland
it was known as "Jedburgh justice"
James Lynch, justice of the peace
in one of the Piedmont counties In VIZ
ginia. whose methods were both sum
mary and severe, is also credited witn
having given his name to this offhano
and expeditions mode of dealing witl
: criminals now generally known al
lvnch law.-Pittsburg Gazette.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-07-18

The cost of our school S%Gtem. puoilc
and private, is probably not less than
$500 100000 a year Our public COM
mon schools, which provide for more
than 100000 children. cost S2l3.2'4'-
354 in 1900. OF this S3S.OS3,553 went
for sites. buildings, furniture aud ap-
paratus, S13G.031.S3S was paid In sal
aries TO teachers and superintendent,
and the rest went chiefly in care OF
buildings, grounds, etc. There are
24I321 bulldogs in the United states
used. for school purposes, and their
value including land and contents OF
buildings, is placed at $53S,623,73o'
Today there is enough schooling sup.
plIed to give every citizen 99S days OF
rolid education as his life supply. Fifty
years ago the average was but 42o
days. and when the nineteenth century
opened the average was but eighty-two
days. Today Uncle Sam gives his chi
dren more than twelve times as mut
schooling as he did 100 years ago.
Homiletic Review.
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Minfsters' Salaries.

The ministry is a vocation that calls
for higher standards of scholarship
and greater capacity for leadership and
sacrifice than ever before. AS the
wornout preachers who have saved
nothing must 90 upon the roll OF an
nuities and add to the burden OF the
churches. would it not be better pollcy
TO pay them larger salaries in the days
of their greatest power and usefulnessF
Chicago Record Herald.
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Marriage Extremes In Britain.

A recently published table OF the
British census gives the respective
ages Of all the married couples in the
kingdom. There is one husband OF
ninety-fve years who has wife OF
twenty-one, while three husbands rang
ing in age from eighty-fve to ninety
five have secured wives of twenty-five
Elderly wives and youthful husbands
are rarer, and the greatest disparity In
this direction is between a wife OF SIX
ty-five years and her husband OF twen'
ty. The oldest couple In the list are
aged 100 and ninety-fivs respectively
while the youngest pair have only num-
bered sixteen and fifteen summers 70
spectively.
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The ",laddest Act of Courage"


General Ben Viljoen says the mad
dest act OF courage" he ever saw was
that Of British colonel in the Boer
war He says:
eve were lying behind powders high
ND on one side OF a kopJe, ana the
khakis were coming up on the other'
We saw their hats appear over the
crest .hefore they had aux view even
of the top of the hill. far less OF us.
Then came their faces, then their
breasts. and we fired. The first rank
went down like a swath of grass. But
others pressed forward, the coIonei
leading. We fired again and the colonel
reeled and fell forward, shot through
the leg. But almost instantly ne was
ND again. the wounded leg hanging
horribly limp and trailing upon the
ground: he leaped upon rifle, using II
as n crutch, and so forced himselr 1or-
ward in Jerks, calling hoarsely to MS
men. beckoning them angrily on with
his arm. and thus limping calmly 10
tbe very muzzles of our Mausers. II
was splendid, 'and when he fell lor
the last time-well, we were sorry.
"What was his name?" | asked.
Colonel Lloyd of the West Riding
regiment. Months after we laid q
wreath of flowers on his grave, ana
the card bore the inscription; In honor
of a brave enemy 1t was an act dill
cult to forget"
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Chicago. July 12.-In view OF the
increase in the crime of SELF
as shown by the latest
statistics, the subject chosen by DE-
Tolmnyc for his discourse today is
most Aimoly one. His text is JOB H. D.
Course God and die"
Two ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, herce'
definite, outrageous! The one urges
the broken hearted father, the hnancial
bankrupt. the physically tormented
man. 70 Grit lis teeth and. with hash-
ing eyes and uplifted hand, hurl Il tu-
file malcdiction at the Almighty, 10
curse God with an eternal blasphemy.
What shocking, appalling suggestion!
Enough to make all heaven stahd
aghast in horror and to render even the
domon infested caverns Of a hopeless
inferno silent with fear and to turn
the flushed checks ahame with the fires
or eternal woe white with terror.
Curse God, Who could do that but a
human being crazcd and desperate ana
reckless under intolcrable anguishF
The second Indictment puts in the
hands Of the sufferer the suicide
knife. the hangmans moose or the Wal
labeled with the two fatal words
"Dcadly Poison" TO how many IN
every age has that insldious temptation
come? In the United States alone
more than $4,000 persons have yielded
70 il during the past four years. Ii
Chicago alonc 1.204 persons passed ou
Of life by the suicides gate in three
ycars-nine victims on a single SAP
| hath. In two months Of the presen
vcar scventy-five lives have ended II
self immolation. How long VIII tn'
human race listen to that hideous voic'
which bade Job seek in death escap
from his misery? That tcmpter's voie
Is sounding louder and louder ever.
day. Shall the crime of SELF murde
be allowed longer to spread the pei
nicious doctrine that with one strok
of the razor across the 1ugular Vel
| or Win one plulSS III i'N"N " = =
locomotive or with one leap frem mig
building or nfty palisade the would b
suicide can nhd rest. eternal rest 90
given. blissful oblivion for aliwho ar
weary of life and peace for souls sic
of the results Of SIM
The increasing suicidal epidemic
the present generation should be hattie
in its onward march of destruction.
lift nv voice today in warning aSalni
this evil 1t cannot be stayed Dy VI
braiding mangled corpse or by cal
ing a dead man a coward. woul
prayerfully and earnestly try to ino
cate some Of the causes which produ'
1t. Then. in guarding you against u
incipient evils, might perhaps by u
grace Of God keep some from ever to
tering and swaying On the verge OF u
Drecipice or tumbling into SUICIDE
grave. The gunpowder magazine CT
he exploded by a spark. we Wou
deal this morning with primal caus
rather than with resultant coniiagr
tiOnS.
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c.n.ro, crant. supreme Courage.

General Grants courage was su'
nreme. No man could face danger with
greater composure. He did not seem
"a know the meaning of peril when
duty called him to risk his life.. At one
time saw the general escape death BY
a very slight margin. We were break
ing camp at Spottsylvania Court House
and under the fire Of a Confederate
battery. All of the headquarters equl-
mage had been removed except a camp
stool. and on this the general was sit-
ting. while the shells Of the enemys
guns shrieked over our heads. A smell
passed just over the general, not miss
ing him apparently by more than rew
inches, and struck the ground ABOUT
thirty feet away. Without showing
the slightest nervousness he called to
me TO get the shell. saying, Let's
see what kind of ammunition that bat
tery is using" went and plcKed up
the shell, which was six pound spner-
ical case, and the general examined II
as coolly as if there was not an enemy .
gun within 100 miles of him.-Nationai
Magazine.
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His Mistake.

Gushington-I wonder whats tne
matter with Starr, the tragedian. de
never notices me any more.
CIittick-Didn't | hear you tell hiin
his stvle was very much like Booth'sf
Gushington-Yes. But surely
Crittick - That's where you maoe
vour mistake. You should have saia
Booths style was like his'-fni'aue'
phia Public Ledger.
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Atheism Rcsponsible.

a
r;re+ Charge atheism with the chief
rcsponsibillty for the crime. SELF mur'
der is tie hiGcous black visaSed eA'
ecutionpr of the mcrciieSs monster we
call atheism, agnosticisn. inlldeilty' II
is the old, shiny serpent coilcd up uh
der the overshadowing branches OF tht
rnarIed and worm eaten tree OF uhDe
lief at the foot Of which sits the GRIN
njnr. bear eyed hag misery grooming
dirgc fer lullaby. 1t is the death ral
tie of human being whose parche'
lins have been set to the rim OF th'
choljrc filed with the scorching, POI
sonous connection Of blasphcmy ant
folsohood compounded by Noltaire'
pousspau. n Thomas Paine or KoDer
G. IDgcrsoll. Ii is the milestone we
with human blood, upon which III
moral sensibiitirs can be Dluh'eu al.'
IF tbc saulc time the suicides kniI
sharpcncd. fer it teaches immortal ma
that there is no hereafter and that Il
Is responsible for his life's actions
no Divine Maker and King.
No Suicidal razor was ever hone
unon the leaves of the opened blpi'
Though the morning newspapers Il
most every day are blackened VIII
the awful obituary tragedies OF HE
! and women who have dellDeratei
tal,en their lives by the bloody nan
Of self murder you cannot find anon
those who pershed, in the full posse
cion Of reason. single cOnsecrate
Christian church member. You cal
not find one person among them d
who realized that he was DeloVe
child of God and that lie expected
90 to meet a loving Heavenly rain
unless the person killed himself du
ing a fit of temporary insanity, as q
Hugh Miller. the great Scotch sciehu'
who blew out his brains during me
tai arrangement, or that eminent Ne
York clergyman who, in dellriul
loaned from window. WhyE L
Bible distinctly and emphatically q
clores that no man has a right 10 COZ
nit self murder. 1t warns men ID
thev must answer for this terrll
crime before the judgment seat
Christ and It holds out to them
hope of pardon during all eterm
Read the eighth chapter of Reveiauo
"And murderers and whoremong'
and idolaters and all liars shall III
their part in the lake which Durh,
with fire and birthstone, which Is
second DEATH" Read the first epis
of John. third chapter and hfteei
verse. "No murderer hath eternal
abiding in him" In the sound OF st
a divine warning, does any Chrisu
man. with his eyes wide open, atten
IN sound the "opcn sesame or
pearly gates Of the New Jerusal
with the crack of suicidal plsl
Dare any Christian. by self destructi
obliterate that life which God ai(
can give and which God alone mas
right to take away?
Put on the Gospel Armor'
The whole tendency of the gospel
Jesus Christ is opposed to this suicl
endemic: the whole tendency OF III
lief is tc promote and increase 1t.
+he atheist life is a single span,
abutment of which is the cradle
the other the grave, at which ne m'
annihilation. To such man Their
" no better principle Of life than to
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First Girl-Those stockings are
lovely color. Are they fast'
Second Girl-If ySs had seen me yes,
terday when l met COW you wouiu
not have asked that question.-Houston
Post
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"some men," said Uncle Eben' viii
mt in weeks prayin' fob rain an den
kick cos dey happens to git deir reel
wet."-Washingto Star.
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Be True to Christ.

Now, my friends, as the suicidal sin
is often caused by a coward's heart,
how can we best become brave ana
trueP How can we better fght this
tendency to self murder than by nobiy
and conscientiously and dauntlessiy
meeting the most pressing duty when