davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1904-09-07
A Personal Religion.
Emma Grdves Dietrich.

One of the difficult things for men to realize seems
to be their personal relation to God-that God cares
tor them as individuals and that they owe him love
and service which shall be real and practical
When some years ago, in the British naval ma
neuvers the CdmberdoaOn sunk by her sister ship
the sailors struggling in the water had no trouble TO
realize that the boats which were put out by the
vessels of the fleet were there to save them Each
one knew his personal safety was sought and where
one had shipmate in the boat, who called his name
and sought him. it had special meaning though that
sailor knew his friend would be seeking others even
though he not in need
30 Christ seeks us, and calls us by our name and
day after day labors for salvation. His love is
personal and real, and reaches down to everyone
But it asks return in love and service The story
is told of young officer, dying of consumption, a
good enough fellow who lived TIP to the ideals and
standards of his set, not immoral honest. brave
everything man could be, except that Christ had
no place in his life. He kept on planning for the
future, and had special dread of DEATH RELYING on
MS record" One day clergyman friend talked TO
HIM about his soul His reply was to point to his
spotless life. His friend turned to him. "Jack what
have you done not done that would have been
different if you believed there was no God? Or I'll
put it differently: What have you ever done or not
done for the sake of Christ your Saviour? IF vour
lie has been moral, hasn't it been goddess ?" I see
it now,' he replied. leave me and let me tbirl
about that question" 1t brought him to Christ and
the feeling OF real personal relation to his Lord
Morality will not answer. The standard of heaven
IS so high above standard that our own lives
would make poor showing.
What is our relation to Christ? What are we doing
Tor his sake? What are not doing because he dis
approves? The intimate relation with Our / ord thc
personal relation. is what we need giving him love
and service in return for the great salvation he Is
offering us and for the love which he bears to us
Our religion is personal religion. and our love
must be personal love for the Christ of C;aE1ee
The Lutheran Observer
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1904-09-07

Sometimes we are almost discouraged
The way is so numbered and steep:
Sometimes though we're spent with the sowing
There cometh no harvest to reap.
And we faint on the road and we falter.
AS our faith and Our courage are gone.
Till voice as we kneel at the altar.
Commands us: Take heart and go on"
-Mdrgdret T. SdHgSfer
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1904-09-07
What Have We Done TODAY :?

we shall do so much in the years to come,
But what have we done to-day?
we Shall give our gold in princely sum.
But what did we give to-day?
We shall lift the heart and dry the tear.
We shall plant hope in the place of fear.
We shall speak the words of love and cheer.
But what did we speak to-day?
We shall be so kind in the after-a-whle,
But what have we been to-day?
We shall bring to each lonely life smile
But what have we brought to-day?
We shall give to truth a grander birth,
And to steadfast faith deeper worth,
We shall feed the hungering souls of earth
But whom have we fed to-day?
We shall reap such joys in the by and by,
But what have we sown to-day?
We shall build us mansions in the sky
But what have we built to-day?
lis sweet in idle dreams to bask
But here and now do we our task?
Yes, this is the thing our souls must ask
what have we done to-day"
-Niron Waterman, in Christian Endeavor Word
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1904-09-07
September Z,
The Quiet Hour.
Faiths Prayer.

Lead me, dear Lord, by thine own hand,
Where'er the path may go;
1t may be fair or desert land.
do not need to know.
L only need to trust thy care,
TO know thy love is sure,
10 let thee all my burdens bear
And in thy strength endure.
Teach me, dear Lord, in thine own way,
Whate'er 1 ought to be;
The lessons may be hard to say,
The path too dark to see
But holding fast thy pierced hand
| cannot go amss;
Until | reach the unseen land
By faith I'll walk in this.
Guide me, dear Lord, by thine own eye,
In every step 1 take;
SO shall | feel thee always nigh,
And live for thy dear sake.
And looking up to thee, my Guide,
Through darkness or through light,
May | in trustful faith abide
Till faith is lost in sight
-EnlWa GrdOeS Dietrich
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1904-09-07

There is no true prayer without some response.
Invisible wires from heaven to earth ever vbrat
ing with divine blessings, and when prayer touches
them The electric stream of love enters the SOUL
Ne7Vmdn Hail.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1904-09-07

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are
loved by others would almost say that we are inds
pensable; and no man is useless while he has friend
Robert Louis Stevenson
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1904-09-07

dient 20 the heavenly vision" and without fear or
FAVOR ne went into the midst of all the rebellion and
idolatry and delivered his message
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1904-09-07
Sunday-schoo1.
ISRAEL REPROVED.
GOLDEN TENT.
SEPTEMBER Is, 1904.

Seek the Lord, and we shall lve."-AMos V.
The independent., 1904-12-22
Normal, Neb.

The sort of peace advocated by En-
peror William and Roosevelt is no
peace at all. 1t is a heavily armed
neutrality. A real peace would mean
no greater army or navy than would
constitute strong police force, able
tn maintain order and see that the laws
were enforced. When large portion
OF the energies of man are directed to
building war ships, constructing war
material, clothing and feeding large
bodies of men who are not engaged IN
producing wealth, but consuming 1t,
il can not be called state of peace, in
any correct sense of that term.
The independent., 1904-12-22
WALL STREET SILENTLY At WORK

Editor Independent: The circulation
statement for December l has just
come to hand, and / briefly call atten-
ton to how it illustrates and corrobo-
rates what l have been saying.
1t shows a decrease of standard of
payment money" and an increase OF
subsidiary silver and national bank
currency. The decrease during Novem-
Der has been as follows:
Gold ..................... $11 ,631 ,44S
Standard silver dollars 80. 242, 1863
Treasury notes of 1890. .. $4,000
Total decrease of legal ten
der Northumberland. .S12,155,717
The increase has been as follows:
Subsidiary silver .........$ 701, ,235
National bank currency. 1897, 80
Total increase-not legal
tender except in very linn
tied degree ............$ 4,098,810
The independent., 1904-12-22
Rheumatism

Is one Of the constitutional
diseases. H manifests itself
In local aches and palms,
inflamed joints and stiff
muscles, but It cannot be
cured by local applications.
i requires institutional
treatment acting through
the blood, and the best IS a
course Of the great medicine
Hood sSarsaparina
which has permanently
cured thousands Of cases.
For testimonials Of remarkable cures
oend for Book on Rheumatism, No. z.
c. / Hoo Co, Lowell, Mass.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-04-28
WORK OF F|REBUGS.
Six People Cremated in
Their Home.
Reign of Terror Prevailed at Garrett,
Pa, Because of Strike.-Armed
Strikers Paraded the Streets
of the Town.

Somerset, Pa, April E0-An out
break even more DISASTROUS than the
riot at Boswell last January, has been
hourly expected at the town of Gar
rett, the scene of the mining opera
tionS of the Garrett Coal Co., the
Somerset Coal Co. and other lesser
operations. Trouble has been brew
ing there ever since the Inauguration
of the miners strike five months ago.
A number of the striking miners at
Garrett own homes there, but recently
the Garrett Coal Co. erected a number
of houses, and the bringing in of new
men to occupy these houses and take
the places of the strikers in the mines
has worked the latter up to a high
state of excitement and resentment
and for the last few days the town
has been a veritable mine of indigna-
tion that might easily be exploded and
probably result in great loss of life
and property. The strikers have been
parading the streets openly armed,
and they have prevented the moving
of the household goods of incoming
miners from the railroad station to
the new company houses.
A horror that may or may not be
connected with the strike situation at
Garrett, was the burning to death of
two women and four children in
their home at that place between the
hours of and o'clock Tuesday
morning.
Strikers armed with Winchester
rifles paraded the streets yesterday.
They say this demonstration is to
prevent the Italians from leaving the
community before the coroner's in
quiry has been completed. They say
that in doing this they are acting
under the instruction of the township
constable.
When Sheriff Coleman reached
Garrett last evening with his deputies
he found no alarming condition of af-
fairs. The sheriff's first work was to
arrest two Italians who were charged
with setting fire to the Meyers house.
The only evidence thus far against
the two Italians was statement
made by Meyers, in which he alleges
that they called at his house several
days ago to buy some butter, and
that when told that Meyers would not
sell butter to scabs they left, swear
ing vengeance.
During Monday night many shots
were fired, but no fatalities resulted.
Three months ago the Garrett Coal
Co. secured an injunction restraining
the strikers and all other persons
from interfering with the companys
employees. This injunction is still in
force, and the present condition of af-
fairs is in open violation of 1t.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-04-28
LARGE AND STORMY.
West Virginia Democratic Convention
was Full of Excitement.

Charleston, w. Va, April 21.-The
largest and the stormiest democratic
convention ever known in this state
was held here Wednesday. Many
democrats took advantage of the oc-
casion to vent their criticisms OF
others. Warren Hayes, who was
selected as a district delegate and
who is a supporter of Hearst for the
presidency, while making a speech
from a box in the theater where the
convention was held, scored ex-Sena-
tor Camden as a bolter in the past,
and with emphasis gave the lie to a
delegate who, an hour previous, had
been selected as an alternate to st.
Louis, because the alternate had
branded Hays in open convention as
a greenbacker. The alternate, Col.
Mccoy, of Tyler county, leaped upon
n chair in the convention hall and re-
sponded in stentorian tones that Mr..
Hayes was liar.
Senator Camden and the reorganiz-
ers were otherwise fiercely attacked
by regulars" but they had many
warm supporters, many of whom
were Bryan democrats, who came to
their aid at the proper time. And
yet, Notwithstanding the stormy
scenes, the convention ended in per-
feet harmony and amid enthusiasm.
Henry G. Davis, who is a cousin of
Senator German, was forced to re-
spond with a speech to repeated and
urgent calls. When Mr.. Davis men,
toned the name of German the dele
gates gave a remarkable ovation.
The four delegates at large and all
the district delegates except the two
from the Fourth district are for Cor
man for president first and Par.er
second
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-04-28
MILLIONS LOST BY FIRE.
Toronto, Ont, Is Swept by Terrible
CONFIRMATION.

Toronto, Ont, April 20.-Fire swept
through a section of Toronto's whole
sale business district last night, caus-
ing loss which will run up into the
millions. The fire started in a fac
tory in Wellington street about 8
o'clock. In less than an hour the
flames had spread from building to
building on both sides of the street
until the whole block was a mass of
flames and the fire was utterly be-
yond control of the local department.
Appeals were sent to every surround
ing city where fire apparatus could be
obtained asking for assistance. Mon
treal, London, Hamilton and Buffalo
they can be of assistance.
1t was believed at II o'clock that
the fire was under control, but a sud
den shift in the wind again famed the
flames into a roar, and clouds of
sparks and burning brands were car
ried down side streets until three en-
tire blocks were doomed.
Toronto, Ont, April 21-The total
loss by the fire which destroyed the
wholesale district of Toronto Tuesday
night will, according to the most con-
servative estimates, reach $12000,000.
The total insurance is $S,3G0,0 900.
The area swept by the fire en-
braced IA acres and from 5000 to
1000 persons are thrown out of en-
ployment. The work of tearing down
the dangerous walls was begun yes
torday
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-04-28
CUT DOWN YOUR FEED.
One of YaIe's Scientists Says Wa Eat
Too Much.

Washington, April 21.-The chief
paper read yesterday before the Ma
tional Academy of Sciences was n de-
scription of a series of experiments
recently conducted by the Sheffield
scientific school, of Yale. to determine
If the average human being is not eat
ing too much. Prof. Russell II. Chit
tenden, the director of the school,
who conducted the experiments, and
who read the paper, made the state
ment that the average healthy man
eats from two to three times as much
as he needs to keep him in perfect
physical and mental health and vigor.
Prof. Chittenden said three classes
of men were experimental on, several
professors at the school, including
Prof. Chittenden himself, several
students and squad of United States
soldiers. There was gradual reduc-
tion of meat and other proteid foods,
with little if any increase in starch
and other foods in nearly all the
tests. No fixed regimen was re-
quired in any case, the endeavor be-
ing to satisfy the appetite of each
subject. In only one case was meat
entirely eliminated from the diet.
At the end of the experiments,
which lasted from six months until
nearly year and were concluded
only few days ago, the entire lot of
men who had been Prof Chittenden's 8
subjects were in the best of health.
Their weight in some cases was al
most exactly the same as when the
experiments were begun and in some
slightly lower Their bodily yigOr
was greater and their strength was
much greater, partially owing to their
regular physical exercises during the
experiments and partially owing,
Prof Chittenden believes, to the less
amount of food eaten.
The daily consumption of food at
the close of the experiments was
much less than the recognized stand
ard and from a third to a half as
much as the average man eats.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-04-28

Now we are not so unjust, we hope, as
TO accept as true a wholesale indictment
of business men as such, especially indi-
viduals who manage their own business,
have high ideals and are satisfied with
a reasonable return on their invest
ments, says the CongTegationalist.
The business men who have turned
business into treason are relatively few
but especially conspicuous, and they
work under the form of the corpora
tion or monopoly. They tolerate meth
ods as directors of corporations which.
had they remained individual employ
ers they would have scorned to employ.
They water stocks and capitalize air,
and expect the public to pay dividends
on the same. They bribe members OF
boards of education, municipal legis-
lators and national parties. They steal
with one hand and donate to churches
colleges, hospitals and to social better
ment with the other. They denounce
anarchy imported from Europe. and
manufacture it themselves at home.
They would be insulted were their loy-
atty to democracy challenged, when in
sooth they are both spokesmen for
plutocracy and its exemplars.
obviously, If these things be true
those who believe in honesty in busi
ness, in statecraft, have certain duties
to perform
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-04-28
NOTHING BUT DEFAMATION.
Bryan's Malicious Attacks Upon
Those Who Are Not of His
Way of Thinking.

Mr.. Bryan has been maligned by many
Incorporate critics, but his fame began
in his own intemperance of utterance,
and he furnishes good texts every week
for eXhortations in behalf of sanity,
sobriety and fair judgment, says the
Chicago Record-Herald In the latest
number of the Commoner, for example,
there is an assault upon Judge Parker,
whose gratuitous assumptions and Of
only to an irrational, self-absorbed per-
son whose sense of the decencies of con-
troversy was thoroughly benumbed by
his violent prejudices.
Mr. Bryan says that there Is no doubt
that the corporate interests have an un-
derstanding with Judge Parker" II
this means anything it is that the Judge
as president would be the mere tool of
the corporations. He would violate his
oath to help them, would make his ad-
ministration subservient to them in
every respect. A specific charge is that
he would appoint corporation men to
the supreme court, and in this connec-
ton there is a characteristic fling at the
three democratic justices and Justice
Holmes for their dissent from the mer-
ger decision. These four judges and
Judge Parker himself are traduced
through mean innuendo as though they
were faithless to their trust and the enc
mics of the people. For the effect on
his readers minds Mr.. Bryan might as
we'll declare that they were yile cor
rupt parasites, who were betraying the
public at the behest of capitalistic COM
bines.
When the most is admitted for him
namely, that he is an honest enthusiast
for cause-it is very apparent never
theless that his methods are ineXcusable
The effrontery or the insensibility with
which he ascribes evil traits and evil
motives 10 other men is amazing. BY
common report all the judges at whom
he sneers are upright, conscientious Of
ticials and citizens. There is nothing
that we have read in the reviews of
Judge Parker's life which would indicate
that he was not fully as scrupulous as
Mr.. Bryan, as good a man, as good q
neighbor, as honest politician. But the
Bryan opinion briefly stated is that
Bryan represents not only all the vir-
tues but all the people, all humanity,
while Parker is a malignant, abhorrent
monstrosity formed to do the bidding
of soulless and wicked creations of the
law.
That, we say, is the Bryan opinion be-
cause it is the logical deduction from
the Bryan insinuations. Looking at the
spirit and import of the latter, it would
really be impossible to exaggerate them
by any form of statement. They carry
the grossest insults to every person who
falls under the displeasure of the CEN
sor, and the insensate egotism from
which they spring is becoming infinitely
wearisome
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-04-28
LOOKS WERE AGAINST HIM.
Admitted of Wrong Inter
pretation.

The train on which the distinguished
citizen was travelling for the purpose of
fulfilling lecture engagement was late,
and he arrived at his destination only
an hour or two before the time appoint
ed for the meeting.
He went straight to a hotel and was
shown up to his room, relates the Chicago
Tribune.
He was tired and dusty.
Boy" he said, bring me whisl5"
The boy went to execute the mission.
and few moments later committee
from the local society under whose aus
pices he was to appear called upon him
in his room.
He was conferring with the committee
when the boy returned, bearing u tray
containing a glass of water and small
glass with a red liquid in it.
whats this?" he demanded
Its the whisky you ordered, sir"
Il didn't order any whisky" he gasped.
81 ordered whisk broom"
But every member of the committee
representing the Turkeyville Total Abb
stinence society will believe to his dying
day that the distinguished lecturer got
exactly what he had ordered on that oc-
casion.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-04-28
College Honor (O Deteriorating.

College honor Is at a low ebb in the
University of Pennsylvania. A number
of freshmen and sophomores actually
refused to take part in the annual bowl
light" on the campus few days ago;
and, very properly, have been con-
demned by their classmates to duckins
in the frog pond of the Botanical gar
dens.
In the face of a great moral crisis OF
this kind it is not surprising to read
that the classes forgot their traditional
hatred of each other, and joined enthu-
siastically in chastisng the poltroons.'
One of the degenerates had the effront-
cry to tell the ducking committee that
he had kept out Of the fight because he
didn't want to ruin his clothes. "A howl
of derision went up at this" and he was
hustled off to the pond. Another young
freshman had the nerve" to confess
that he kept out of the class battle be-
cause his parents told him he must. or
course, there was but one thing to do
with such a mammals boy as that
dump him in the frog pond-and 1t was
done.
The most humiliating case of all, how
ever, was that of two sophomores who
would not fight. Humiliated in the ex-
treme, the classmates of these men de-
livered them over to the freshmen to
be haZed. For an hour" wrote an OBJ
server, they were compelled to push
pennies around on the gravel with their
noses, sing, and make speeches, while
the crowd looked on and jeered." The
case of Pennsylvania may seem hope
less with such towards in the student
body, but it is cheering to read that
"hazing will continue until every fresh
man or sophomore who failed to go in
the bowl fight is given a trial"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-04-28
ACQUITTED OF BRIBERY.

Jury Decides that Senator Burns Did
Not Receive Pay for Supporting a
Certain Bill.
Grand Rapids, Mich, April 21.-
State Senator David e. Burns was
yesterday acquitted of bribery in con-
nection with the Lake Michigan
water scandal. The jury was out five
hours.
The charge of bribery against Sen
ator Burns related to bill which he
introduced in the state legislature of
1898. 1t was alleged that this bill
was backed by the men interested in
the water deal and that Senator
Burns was paid $500 for his efforts in
support Of the measure.
The chief witness for the prosecu-
tion was ex-City Attorney Liant X.
Salisbury, who swore he paid Burns
the money in the interest of the Lake
Michigan deal. The defense was a
general denial and alibi as to the time
Salisbury said he paid the money to
Burns. The case has been on trial
for two weeks. This was the first
acquittal in the water scandal cases.
Three present and former city ottic-
ials have been convicted and ten have
pleaded guilty
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-04-28
The CoIored Man Wins.

Springfield, H., April 21.-The SUI
preme court yesterday, in the ia
nous case of the mayor and city
council of Alton against Scott Bibbs,
colored, for a second time reversed
the decision of the Madison county
circuit court, which refused to issue
an order on the mayor and council
of Alton to admit Bibbs to the Wash
ington school, that being the nearest
school for him to attend. The Doug
lass and Lovejoy schools had been
set apart in Alton for use of colored
pupils. The supreme court holds
that the contention of the city coun-
Gil that no discrimination was made
against Bibbs on account of his color
is ridiculous.