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I ing to realize the magnitude of these
 outlays, that the 500,000 owners of
 American railroad securities, from the
 Rockefellers and Morgans and Harri-
 mans down to the little One-share in vestors, all received in dividends but
 little more than was spent on coal | to be fed to the locomotives; that all
 the bondholders, spread over Europe
 and America, received no more than
 was spent onAhe upkeep of rolling l stock, and thH the heavy taxes but l slightly exceeded the cost of wooden | ties.
 | Steel is either prince or pauper,"
 said Carnegie-and it's railroad buy l ing that turns the wheel of fortune in l the industry. The railroads are the | foundation of the steel trade, for they buy more than third of all the prod
 ucts that are made from the ore of American iron ranges. When the rail-
 roads stopped buying in the silent
 panic" of 1903. the steel business
 dwindled to the pauper stage, and the shares of the new steel trust tumbled from $55 to $8.
 Again, when the panic of 1907 closed the railroad purse, gloom spread over | the Alleghenies, and steel shares col l lapsed a second time. Late last win ter, when all up and down the Ale
 heny and Monongahela valleys blast /, was in the doldrums because the rail-
 roads didn't buy. Prices were slashed, and the gloom spread to Wall street Steel shares sold at $41. Weeks went i by, and then the news came across the
 mountains, ''The railroads are buy
 ing" Now there is hardly an idle
 blast furnace to be seen in the valleys, | for the big spenders-the railroads are pouring in orders. And Pittsburg | is beginning to complain that the re-
 bound is too sudden and the pace too
 swift
 Some conception of the relation be- | tween the railroad business and the steel industry is had by taking an in ventory of some of the visible railroad property made from iron and steel
 the rails and rolling stock, the re- | newal of which is the foundation of 1 the steel industry. The rolling stock
 consists of 2,250,000 freight cars, 5O.- 900 passenger cars and 65,000 lOcomo- tives. The locomotives are worth an
 average of s12,000 each; the passenger
 cars, $6,000; and the freight cars
 $1 $1,000-giving an aggregate value of
 rolling stock of more than $3,000 .000,- 000 The rails now laid-35, 900 900
 tons-cost about $1, 900. .000,000 so that
 rails and rolling stock represent up-
 ward of $4.000,0O0,000.
 This four billions worth of steel ! made products wears out rapidly un- der our heavy American traffic Age
 adds no luster to the materials of in
 dustry on this side of the water Over
 in England. when locomotive gets along in middle life, they begin to tie ribbons on her. like pet COW. and proudly keep count of her mileage
 from year to year. This is nice for the
 locomotive, but hard on the steel
 mills and locomotive works. over
 here. to-day's giant of the rails Is to- morrow's candidate for the scrap heap To keep rails and equipment up to the American standard of use costs
 upward of $4OO,OOO,000 year. while
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The GoodIy Pumpkin F's'

The annual display ol pulr
 front of a downtown les''u
 larger than usual this year, .
 inscriptions which puzzle u' itiated, because they are pa'' m :. rind. are unusually clever.
 to inquiry as to the yellOW y.,,.s r it was said that the paup-a, sa,a from a farm on the HuosOa a ,sst| that of Alton B. Parker auI ,aa ' ,o| ranged in weight from " sst.,s| nounds. About two weeks D. \, are harvested" said a wal.s', U ,As scriptions are scratched Ou N N and in the ripening procsss .ss,
 ters become raised. Are .,.a, .us N Well, rather! Every a s,a sre r verted into pies and tne,s a.h Tdb1 pumpkin pies. NV"
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Times Ravaues.

T. is not so meuy years since the people were laughing at the tele phone" said the earnest inventor.
 That's true." answered MT. Sirius Barker. Now. instead of laughing al it. we lose our tempers. ."-Washine ton Star
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in the world. The country never runs along on even keel. The railroads, the arteries of commerce are highly sen- sitive to the ups and downs of trade, | because they carry nearly everything the country produces, from producer to consumer. In boom times the pro- duction of the country rapidly 1n- creases, and the demand for transpor- tation increases accordingly. Railroad gross earnings mount to record fig ures, and with them profits. To carry the growing tonnage big outlays must be made for new tracks, cars and loco motives, and for enlarging the capacity of the tracks and equipment already in use.
 The greater part of the hundreds of millions of dollars spent in recent years has been devoted, not to new mileage but to increasing the ton mage capacity of the lines built years ago. Hundred-pound rails, hundred ton locomotives, and 50-ton cars have replaced 6O-pound rails, 50-ton locomo- tives, and 25-ton cars. It is in the west that most of the mileage has been built.
 This extension and improvement of the railroads in boom times are paid for partly from surplus profits and the rest from new capital. Heavy out lays are accelerated in boom times by the ease with which new capital may be raised in the worlds money markets. The big profits make rail road investments attractive, and, as everything else in the country is ma king money and searching for place to put it at work, new railroad se- curities find a ready sale. The rail road purse, therefore, in boom times, is doubly stuffed-by receipts from big earnings and new capital from in- vestors. Money is spent lavishly.
 But the tables are turned in periods of panic and depression. The country produces less, trade slackens, and the demand for the product the railroads have to sell--transportatio Car famines" are quickly followed by miles of idle cars" on the sidings Earnings fall away, surplus profits dis appear The railroads, having more transportation for sale than the mar ket demands, have no need for big outlays to produce more transporta- tion They could not spend much mon- ey, anyway, because of their declin- ing profits and the disappearance of the investment demand for their se- curities. So, as the railroad purse in boom times is doubly stuffed, in pe- riods of depression it is doubly depict ed-by the cutting down of profits and the withdrawal of new capital Hence the rigid economy of ''lean" years.
 When economy is forced on the rail- roads, money is saved along the line of least resistance Taxes must be paid; the failure to meet interest charges means bankruptcy; the con tinuance of dividends at the regular rate is the salvation of credit.
 The first saving is made by stop ping improvement work out of sur plus earnings; then the current ex- pendtures for materials for the main tenance of way and equipment are cut down, and along with this economy goes the pruning of the cost of labor the biggest item of railroad expense
 It is interesting to note, in attempt
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sERMoNETTE.

blood Of the martyrs Is E Reed of the church. M all ages of the worlds his Nxyms there have been those who
 been called upon to suffer Righteousness sake. candisnee the days of Abel the subje heart of man has been ln- cratlesed by the evidence of good
 s in others and has led to
 ds of violence.
 Evil has no fellowship with
 works of righteousness and Wlen these last are manifest
 d condemn the evil, it gives
 se to those evil passions of Natalch persecution and murder Jude the very core.
 r, Jesus laid down just one rule
 ,r his disciples when persecu-
 ons come for righteousness
 ake, and that was passive re- & istance and love for those who
 ispitefuily used them.
 "Biessed are ye," he said, when men shall revlle you, and oersecute ou, and shall say all manner evil against you falsely, my sake. Rejoice ano be ceedingIy glad; for
 Is IT reward in Heaven,
 ! srsecuted they the
 as which were before
 who suffers in a
 eop cause, even unto
 n, out adding those eIe-
 snts v ich ultimately make { Tor vlc y.
 \ EHs | life lost but life Y ave Is not an influence erae # mighty influence be- \ gun which will increase with the years and help to bring to pass that final triumph of righteousness which Is to mark the trlunnphal return of Christ 2 and his complete rule over all the earth.
 Those who suffered In the days of the Maecabees for their loyalty 10 God and his law have not been forgotten in Heaven, 4 nor has sheir influence ceased upon the earth. 1t takes more thar the hand of wicked men to aestroy ne truth.
 \ The sth of God, crushed to \ earsh. Is sure to rise again with increase power.
 ai nae tainted" exelalns the \ psainaist, "unless ! had believed to ses the goodness of the Lord | in the land Of the living" We need the same faith. Such vision Of the final tri- \ umpn Of God and his righteous ' ness In the world Is the only f tning which can sustain in the A hour Of persecution.
 While Christians are not \ called upon to suffer nartyrdom \ ss lr the period of the dark \ ages, still prosecutions come in sther forms and the same \ spSrlt of loyalty to God and love ' for those who despise God and II hts servants Is as necessary to- \ day as in any past age.
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total wealth or all the southern Belgium Holland Switzerland comnne
 in 1910 in this country on crossses una" EnoIand Germany will spend warships In consumed in iocomot'ves than wor,d,s wahps-Engand France Ger many Russia, Japan the United States
 the maintenance or ene Eng
 
 The of the German army mis-~I cost the railroao more than all Europe will spend on navies
 onethird the product of tne stee mh The ecoalbi nearye all the dividends Car and repairs the bondhode returns
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-nE STORY.

IT WAS during the period of the | MaccahHes. Word had reached the kingdom of Greece that at Jerusalem in the land of the Jews the people served and worshiped a God unknown 10 the land where Jupiter held sway. and the question arose in the mind of AAe hing;
 *HoN can we allow such things to be9 Is not this an affront upon our great god, Jupiter. who has made Creees nreatg Our god may well be jealous md call into question our loy- atty to hfm If we allow such things to be-
 And having thus spoken with the gren men of his realm. and having re- Nefs their encouragement in the mat IT, he chose one of the old men 0f 4 hens who had long served in the temp e of Jupiter Olympius and sent him 70 Jerusalem with the command chat he should compel the Jews to de- part rom the laws of their fathers, and from the God whom they had been serving. and 10 do homage only to the great god of the Creeks, the mighty Jupfttr
 So g came with power and author fty to carry out the kings decree. And fl may well be imagined that his com ing caused great consternation in the city for they saw their beautiful tenn pie taken possession of by the Gen tiles and profaned with the worship of the god Jupiter On certain day. ac- cordinE to proclamation made through uut the city, the temple was re-dedi- cated to the god Jupiter, and the (,entiles filed it with all manner of m ractsng And reyeling And when there xsevn cesrtAIn F the Jews who would wi essafxrnxa to the new worship or vsald fe the evn customs which the Greeks had instituted, neither would depart from the laws of Moses. 1t aroused the bitterest passions on the mart of the Gentiies, and persecution broke forth.
 One of the honorable men of the city. a scribe named Eleazar. who was now weIl-along in years but who had ever been loyal to the law of Moses, beheld with horror the things which had come to pass In the city, and raised his voice against them. urging
 sufYer death rather than
 smselves by yielding to
 the wicked Greeks.
 Greeks have declared
 keen our Sabbath
 in the streets What
 hat we must share in
 nay homage to their
 get our God and his
 ~ain our lives at
 wicked Gentiles
 God. the God
 vacoby"
 rds of the
 d in fear
 ,th:
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The Passing of Evolution
 By REV. A. (. DIXON, D. D.,
 Psstor of the Chicago Ave. lMoody's) Church, Chicago.
There have been

There have been two schools of evolutionists, the naturaiistic and the supernatural istic. The natur. alist.c evolution ist ignores God and virtually, if not directly, de- nies his existence. The supernatural istic evolutionist believes in God as the great First Cause and regards evolution as Gods
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More kas HugeCer,,,
 Arn,y One Third ot Product of ol Steel Mil, !
 Used

additional equipment ann
 mileage is now costing a,,,.' M 100000 a year-that is ss s,0sna reached the point of putin, 1s'. s,.. ooo a year-as much as the vss'' \ or running the government :. uo's cars and locomotives. Tbs.a 'a'0 U pig items of railroad stes, ' ~ .lon. Steel bridges, structura, ~ z. buildings and block signals ' .'s '' structures steel tools and m,sl' and all the countless minor ,sa V. ol Iron and steel used on the ,sss M add, perhaps. s2OO.oOo,oOo , uo,s ~
 Here, then, we find the N ,su. now on a prosperity consumu,i,. or Ssoo,oOO,oOo worth of steel n,, a year. Small wonder thai ,ss S .Ihe railroads are buying" x, the steel industry this sumn.. llrted the cloud of gloom from burg. Steel is a prince .ss,. m months ago it was nsrs. thought it was.
 What the closing of the \, purse meant to the steel iudu,,, the year following the panic \, is strikingly shown in the s,... the output of rails and equjums,,| rail mills in 1906 rolled 4.OOO mi sold for $112,0OO,O0O the car X, 1907 turned out 2sO,OOO cars va,i ward of $30O,OOO,oOO; the locou works output was 7,5OO locoua bringing in something like ssoo all told, s5OO,OOo,OOO. Last "a, output fell away to 1,sOO,OOO Y rails, s53.O00,OOO; 76,OOO cars, nl 900, and 2,300 locomotives s2711 in all, $160,0O0.OOO, showing business to these three branci the steel industry of $340,0OO0 0O4
 One need go no further than | ports of the big works to see ~ oc that was wrought in the stesl by the closing of the railroad The Steel Corporations sales $766,000,0 900 in 1907 and $iS2t in 1908, a loss of $284, ,000,0O0 American Locomotive Com gross fell from s5O,000,Ooo to ,ll 900. One of the car works repu( decline in income from s36.0Oall $8,000,000. The car builders va worst sufferers, for the railroa ways stop buying cars when tfs0 clines. In the dull times aisef bank panic the idle cars on An railroad sidings would have mit solid strings across the countv.
 Railroad buying today is encn but men like Hill of the Great ern, and Brown of the New Ycif tral, predict that the railroad pul small compared with what t VI Hill says that the railroads ' grown as fast as the country nd we ought to build them twice q as we are now. Five billious q capital ought to be put into fa'l in five years, he thinks BfoM lieves that seven and a half bilis 15 years is a conservative esu But this is too low figure N now on a half billion year Oas new railroad capital. Four Dal' new capital has been put into can railroads since the panic and half these years have been years.
 One great industry that IS " ginning to feel the stimulus v road buying, and that Is llSely be revolutionized by an era ol construction, is the copper 'n' Copper today is waiting iol N roads to open their purses in e.ss reconstruction like that now r ress on the New York Central 2 New Haven. Copper will O00n never before in its speclaculss, lss.. when the news comes that '1's roads are buying.
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Rapid Telesrsp'gS.I g.l,

In recent trials oI T 'ls bstsssa ] high-speed telegram distauce z miles. nhn a.sOo distineI''t i ct i've uip''' were tr.nsmitteu
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8 .2 ==s:s saurass if is only eight s,s X. uessses mi1as oer minute, or half 2. ol X. N itv it.,'a at the equator, and '.s,s,s, a' # if is nothing. A wind 'ns.si ls1,sss { inr ir along the earth's su',,,,s s,,,r,1 anuator a~s is continually ss,',l ,sr :, places which have a s'. s,rd \ thap p,arI itself. Hence the ,,. w'1u ap { behind, taai that is. will come 2, sloss. ss will plalb become an east !, ~,ss ,ss 2 then. M the wind north 2, at t. tss oue IS ue0dr drawing win it west-.i. ,a..ss' sl < law of composition ,'..e,lop. ol ,gio U an intermediate ulnr,suest ! from northeast to no' sh,s s rel servations confirm ...,ess ,s.' that
 rioln wioas rr render to navlsai,Ssr ss''Dss. nu been D, tns 'a,'ed paciic and Atlantic ss, s
 inc fl, trade winds have 'D~-
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It is seldom we come to crisis in life without being buoyed up by a strange exultation.-C. A. Dawson Scott.
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have learned by experience that no mans character can be eventually injured but by his own conduct Rowland Hill.
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The greatest evils are from within us. and from ourselves also we must look for our greatest good.-Jeremy Taylor.
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Alaskan Waterws'.,

Alaska has 4,ooo lnmsrs. m d' ways navigable for stean,srss' ,ns'nssd < about 5000 miles are .,.,ne,srIss ,ns,srls Yukon river and i's
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1909-12-04
Church Services
PRESBYTERIAN.

olivet Presbyterian Church, Fourth
and Broome streets. Rev. ]. c. Lane.
pastor. Divine worship. 1O.45 a. m. Open
meeting Of the c. z. Society, 7.45 D. m.
Junior c. f. service. 10 a. m. Sunday
school and adult Bible class. $50 D. m.
Gilbert Presbyterian Church, Thirteenth
and french streets, Rev. c. L. Jener-
son, d. d. pastor. Preaching, 1o45 a.
m. and 8 p m. subject. The Heavenly
Vision; Sunday school, 1880 m; c. f..
$50 p. m.
Central Presbyterian Church. Sunday,
December 5th. 1909: 1890 a. m. preaching
by Rev. ]. II. Crawford. subject. ''rhe
Severity Of Jesus II m, Sunday school;
SIS .. m, prayer meeting OF Y. P. s. c,
E.: as D. m, preaching by Rev. ]. H.
Crawford. subject, 1.-THE Melody OF Re
demption."
East Lake Presbyterian Church. Twen-
ty-seventh and Market streets. Rev. z. B
Welsh, pastor. Divine services and
preaching by the pastor at 1880 a m
subject: 'Iife's Greatest Crisis" at 10
D. m, subject, strength Through Weak
ness" Sunday school at ? p. m. Y. p
S. c. e. at p. m. Bible study and
prayer meeting on wednesday evening a
745 o'clock. You are cordially invited
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1890 a. m; sacramental meditation, -
reasonable service" Sunday school, 2 p.
M; Epworth League $50 D m; Preach>
ing, 80 D. m, subject BE Reconcned to
Cod"
Brandywine NJ. +. Church. END and
Market streets. II. Clay Turner. pastor.
$780, Sacrament OF the Lords Supper and
reception OF members $50. sermon by the
pastor. subject. "The Choice OF Moses"
Trinity NJ. r. Church, corner end and
Church streets. John White. sr.. pastor
Glass meeting at 10 a. m. preaching at
II a. m; Sunday School at ? p m; Ep-
worth League at z p. m, In charge Of
Junior League; preaching at 7.45 p. m. by
Rev. A. Atwell. All are cordially invited.
Swedish NJ. +, Church, East 18th street
near Head, Rev. Charles Paulson. pastor
Preaching services 1870 and 7SO. Sunday
School at Il O'Clock and Epworth League
at p. m. The pastor will exchange pull
pitt with the Rev. c. z. Lindgvitt, OF
Philadelphia.
ST. Pauls' NJ e Church. Market and
Seventh streets. Charles A. Hin, minister
Holy Communion at $780, Sunday schoo
at g Christian nEdeavor at $50: preach
ing at 100. subject Repentance"
Elsmore NJ Z. Church. Rev w NJ. Nc
Cam, pastor. Preaching IL a. m and "a
p. M; Sunday School. 10 a. m; class meet
Ing $50 D. m; Epworth League, p. n
Sunday School board will meet at clos
Of morning service.
Goodman NJ. r. Church i4tlh and du
Font streets. V p Northrup. pastor
Glass at 9,45 a. m. communion and re
ception OF members at 1045 a. M sunda,
School at 2l5 p. M; Epworth League a
CAS- p m. leader Mrs. Laura Binker
preaching and song service at AS p. m
All are welcome.
Harrison Street NJ. E.AChureh. Rev C
T. Hyatt. d. D., pastor 1870 q. m. recep
ton Of members followed Dy the Holl
Communion; p. M. SUNDAY schools S.
p. m, Epworth League; 7.SO p. m. preach
ing by the pastor, subject, Back Il
Bethel"
Union NJ. +. Church. corner Fifth AM
Washington streets. Rev W. +. Corkran
pastor. Glass meeting. 915 a. M. sacra
ment OF Lords supper 1890. sunda.
School, ?. m; Epworth League go :
m. topic. 1.-THE Ruin Of Idleness." Lead
ers. Mrs. Harvey sanderson and Mis-
Martha Mon Gar Preaching by TIE pastel
7sO p. m. Free pews and a hearty wei
come TO everybody
Wesley NJ +. Church, corner Jacks
and Linden streets. Rev Thomas r. Va
Dyke, pastor Glass meeting at 9r
, preaching by the pastor at 1890 and 8
Morning subject. The Triumph OF Faith.
Sunday School. q Epworth League 6s
4 at which the topic viii be Ruin Of Id,
e ness"
Il East Lake NJ. r. Church. Thlrtiet
e and Tatnall streets. Rev. j. G. Brewing
. ton. pastor; class a30 a. M; preaohin
1890 a. m. by Rev. j r. Young; Sunda
school, . p. m; Christian Endeavor,
p. m. preaching, D. m, by the pa
n tor. subject. Christian Conservation
% Talents"
T. Kingswood NJ. r. Church, Fourteen
Continued on Eighth Page.
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MUSICALE AFTER SERMON
AT CENTRAL CHURCH

The usual service win be held in
Central Presbyterian Church, King
street below Eighth, tomorrow morn
ing at 1890 o'clock. when the pastor,
the Rev. J. II. Crawford, will preach
on THE Severity of Jesus" Sunday
school will be held at II. including
the adult Bible class, which is taught
by the pastor
Christmas music is now being re-
hearsed by the Sunday school. The
Y. p. S. c. Il. at 6.55 O'clock will be
led by Miss Agnes S. Eaton. The
evening service will begin at 7.3C
o'clock with an organ recital given by
the organist Norris Morgan. 1t will
be followed by a musical service by
the chair. The pastor will give a short
talk on THE Melody of Redemption
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CITY BAPTISTS AGREE ON
NEW MONEY RAISING PLAN

The regular quarterly business meet
ing OF Second Baptist Church was held
on Wednesday evening. at which time
the church decided TO adopt a systemat-
&c method Of raising money for benevo-
lent purposes and a committee was ap-
pointed 10 arrange the plan to into
effect the first Sunday in January, 1910
The past wear has been a successful
one in a financial way along all lines.
but II is exepcted that the new method
win increase the contributions to mis-
sionary and other benevolent objects.
Notwithstanding the fact that the church
has been raising money for the new audi
torium and church house now in course
of erection. the contributions for the
church current expenses has increased
and for benevolent objects It has exceeded
the record for number Of years.
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MEMS SOCIETY IN
CHARGE OF SERVICES

The Mems Society Of Rodney Street
Presbyterian Church will have charge OF
keh Sunday evening services 6n the
church during December. The pastor. the
Rev. Charles L. Candee. has been invited
to speak on subjects which will appeal
especially TO men. The subject for to-
morrow VIII be "A Strong Man Grown
Weak-Sampson;" December 18TH Every
Man in His Place; December 18th,
Courage" December 26th. A Christmas
service.
Those who have heard Mr.. Candee
preach will know that the subjects will
be treated in an interesting as well as
an instructive way. The Mems Society
hopes to make these meetings particular
~ interesting. Special music will he
furnished.