Ligonier Banner., Volume 42, Number 42, Ligonier, Noble County, 9 January 1908 — Page 2

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Kedgaon, India—l have stumbled upon an extraordinary religious manifestation, as remarkable as anything in éonnection with the-great revival in Wales. So startling and wonderful is it that I feel quite unwilling to pass an opinion upon it, so I shall simply narrate, soberly and consecutively, what I have seen and heard concerning this “baptism with fire,” and pouring out of “the gift of tongues,” whereby ignorant, Hindu girls speak in Sanskrit, Hebrew, Greek, English and other languages as yet unidentified. The name of Pandita Ramabai, “the Hindu widow’s friend,” - is known among -educated people all over the world. She is the most famous of all Hindu women. There is an International “Pandita Ramabai association,” which cooperates with her in her work of rescuing, training and caring for high caste widows. She, more than any other woman, has made known to the world the horrors of the child widow’s lot in India. Herself a high caste widow, of rare gifts and education, her appeal has been made to people of culture; nor was her work regarded @5 strictly religious or missionary, not being associated with any religious body.

A World-Famous Work.

Ten years ago, at the time of the great famine, Ramabai took hundreds of famine orphans, and ever since she has had about 1,400 widows and orphans and deserted girls under her care, as well as 100 famine boys. All caste lines are now down, and the whole immense work is known as the Mukti mission, although in certain respects the/ original enterprise for widows maintains its separate identity. +

Because of the fame of Pandita Ramabai, and because of the greatness of her work, I conceived it to be my duty to take the hot journey qut to Kedgaon. Were it not for the mgﬁe fmportant incidents which follow, [

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. should tell at some length the story - of this great settlement, with its wide acres of farm land, its many modest buildings, and its varied forms of industry. Study and work are the rule for every girl; clothes for that multitude must all be woven on the spot, and the industrial plant is large. An uncommunicative English woma? guided me faithfully to every spot o the settlement that she thought of interest, from the cornerstone to the steam engine and the dying vats. But not a word did she say that would lead me into a knowledge of what is by all means the most noteworthy fact concerning this famous institution. Stumbling on a Revival. Of course, I was aware of the unusual religious experiences reported from many Christian communities in India: but I had never associated this ‘sort of thing with Pandita Ramabai’s work ; probably because some of her foremost . supporters in America are identified with the “new theology” which has scant room for the camp meeting type of “old-time religion.” My first clew was a pamphlet which I chanced to pick up, relating strange spiritual experiences on the part of some of Ramabai’s girls. I began to ask questions, which were answered, 1 thought, with seeming reluctance, and discovered that this revival was still under way. : . - For half an hour I had been hearing strange sounds, now of one person shouting I a high voice, now of the mingied utterance of a crowd, and now of song. At last it settled down into a steady roar, “What is that I hear?” 1 asked. “It is the girls’ prayer meeting,” was the answer. “Could I visit 'it?” I pointediy asked my guide, after ~ hints had proved unavailing. “Why—- - J—suppose—sgo. I'll see.” In a few - minates 1 found myself witnessing a scene utterly without paralle! in my experience of religious gatherings. % A Tumuit of Praying Girls. . ' Imn a large, bare room, with cement floor, were gathered between 30 and 40 ‘girls, ranging in age from 12 to 20. By a table sat a sweet-faced, refined, native young woman, watehing sober- - ly, attentively and without disapproval the scene before her. After a few - minutes she also knelt on the floor in The other oscupants of the room ~erying at the top of their lungs. The _ tumault was so great that it was ﬂ:

floor. Some were sitting orf their feet, with shoulders and*bodies twitching and jerking in regular convulsions. Some were swaying to and fro, from side to side or frontwards and backwards. Two or three were kneeling upright, with arms and bodies moving, One young woman, the loudest, moved on her knees, all unconsciously, two or three yards during -the time 1 watched. She had a motion of her body that must have been the most exhausting physical exercise. She, like others, also swung her arms violently, often the gestures of the praying figures were with one”or both hands outstretched, in dramatic supplication. Not infrequently, several girls would clap their hands at the same time, though each seemed heed-' less of the others. At times the cantortions of the faces were painfully agonized and perspiration streamed over them. One girl fell over, asleep or fainting, from sheer exhaustion. All had their eyes tightly closed, oblivious to surroundings. Such intense and engrossing devotion I had never witnessed before. It was full 15 minutes before one of the girls, who had quieted down somewhat, espied 'me. Thereafter she sat ‘silent, praying or reading her Bible. The discovery: of the visitor had this same effect upon half a dozen other girls during the next quarter of an hour. At my request the guide after a time asked the leader if I might talk with her, and while a dozen of the girls were still left, praying aloud and unaware of the departure of the otﬁers, the leader withdrew. .

A Strange Story.

My first interest was to kmow whether the girls had been “speaking with tongues” that day, for I had thought that I detected one girl ysing English. Yes, several of the girls had been praying in unknown tongues, thi® young woman quietly snformed me. Then, in response to my questionings,

she proceeded to tell me that these meetings are held twice daily by girls who have been “baptized with the Holy Spirit and fire;” it is common for them to speak in tongues which they do not understand, and also to be smitten dumb, so that they cannot’ speak at, all, even in their own language. During the early part of the meeting at which I was present, one of the girls had been obliged to write her méssage, because her tongue was holden. Sometimes the girls will go about their tasks for days, unable to utter- a word, although they understand perfectly everything that is said to them, and are able to pray in other tongues, and when they especially pray for the power to do so they are able to speak in religious meetings. The girls show no effect whatever of the terrible strain they undergo during these prayer meetings, and they all do their regular daily work. The burden of their prayers is intercession, that all the mission, and all India, may be converted and experience a great revival and receive the Pentecostal baptism. So much I learned from this young woman. . The Most Famous Indian Woman. Ramabai herself is a quiet, strong personality. She dresses after the Hindu fashion, but in white, and her hair is short, for she is a widow. She elects to sit on a low stool at the feet of the person with whom she converses, for the sake of better hearing. While we were talking her grown daughter, Monoramabai, her first assistant in the work, sat on the floor with her arm about her mother, and ?ccasionally interjected a pertinent word. Ramabai ‘ (the suffix “bal” means “Mrs.” or “Miss”) speaks simply, ‘naturally and directly. So she told me of the growth of Shadai Sadan, the work for widows, and one of the Mukti mission, the whole supported by faith “We do not mag' a special point of the gift of tongues; our emphasis is always put upon love and life. And undoubtedly the lives of the girls have been changed. About 700 ot ‘them ‘have come into this blegsing. We do nét exhibit the girls that have ‘been gifted with other tongues, nor do ‘we in'any wise call special attention to them. We try to weed out the false from the true;" for e are other spirits than the Holy t, and when & girl begins to try to speak in another ‘blood of Jesus, I go up to §,§ speak to her, or touch her on the

shoulder, and = she stops at once; whereas, if a. girl is praying in the Spirit I cannot stop her, no matter how sharply I speak to her or shake her.” ; . The Wonderful Gift of Tongues. “My hearing is pecaliar,” continuea Ramabai, “in that I can understand most clearly when there is a loud noise (a well-known characteristic of the partially deaf) and I move among the girls, listening to them. I have heard girls who know no English make beautiful prayers in English. I have heard- others pray in Greek and Hebrew and Sanskrit and others in lan: guages that none of us understands. One -of the girls was praying in this very room (the room of one of the English staff) a few nights ago, and although in her studies she has not gone beyond the second book, she prayed so freely and clearly and beau tifully in English that the other teachers, hearing, wondered who -could be praying, since they did not distinguish the voice.” “Yes,” spoke up the occupant of the room, “and she prayed by name for a cousin of mine whom I had forgotten, and of whom I. had never once thought since coming to India.” X

When I asked why, in Ramabai’s opinion, tongues that served no useful purpose being incomprehensible to everybody should be -given, whereas the gift of tongues'on the day of Pentecost was so that every person in that polyglot multitude should hear the story in his own speech, she re: plied, “I, too, wondered -about that But it has been shown to me that if is to rebuke unbelief in the gift of tongues, she herself has been givens the gift.” :

"All these wonders I have set down impartially, as phenomena of great interest to all who give thought to religious or psychic themes. Neither Ramabai, nor the native teacher who led the meeting which I described, is an emotionalist, so far as I could perceive. Both, in fact, are persons of more than ordinary. reserve, cultury and discernment, nor can I explain the relation between what is happening at Mukti and the revivals that are being reported from various parts of India, most of them characterized by astonishing confessions of sin, on tho part of Christians and by prolonged and even agonized prayer, with pronounced physical emotion. . '~ Making Presbyterians Dance.

There has been a pronounced physical side to the demonstrations, as I found at Kedgaon. Entire audiences have shaken as if smitten with palsy, strong men have fallen headlong to the ground. Even lepers have been made to dance. Leaping, shouting, rolling on the floor, beating the, air and dancing, have been common. Concerning dancing, Bishop Warne said, “Personally, I have not seen much of the dancing; that is reported as most ly haying taken place in Presbyterian churches!” It is a fact that the dignified Presbyterians, even the Scotch church mijssions, have been foremost in these revival experiences. The revival has continued in various parts of the empire for more than a vear; I have reports from Lucknow,: Allahabad, Adansol, Moradabad, Bareilly, Khassia Hills and Kedagaon. The Methodists baptized 1,960 new converts during the year, besides the notable result of having secured more than 300 new candidates for the ministry. - . i Dramatic in the extreme have been the confessions of sin, and restitution therefore, and the reconciliations between enemies. £ ; Everywhere there is agreement that the lives of the people have been markedly altered for the. better. “The revival,” says one, “has given India a new sense of sin.” The spontaneous composition of hymns has. been a cyrious feature of some meetings;. Bishop Warne thinks that “there will be a new hymnology in the vernacular as an outcome of this revival.” While columns more could be written concerning incidents of this revival, there is only room here to add that it must not be assumed that all of ‘lndia is Dbeing stirred by these events. Many churches and missjons arc strangers to them, and the European population of the country as a whole know nothing about them. Yet it is the conviction of those who claim to have received the Pentecostal baptism that all of India is to be swept by a fire of religious revival. Some even say that they have been given direct supernatural assurance of this fact. (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.)

NO LIVING IN THE PRESENT. Devotion to Business Precludes All Nonsense Like That. SN ‘The messenger from Mars surveyed the multitude which had gathered to meet him with undisguised interest. Nor did be .hesitate to propound such inquairies as his curiosity prompt_ed.‘ “Where do you -all live?” he asked, speaking generally, “I live in the future,” said a young man, good humoredly. “And I in the past,” said an old man. “How odd! And does none of you live in the present?”’ “Pardon me,” said the Martian, hastily. “Perhaps 1 press my questions too closely.” At this a voice from the outskirts of the crowd spoke up, saying: “We have not yet learned how to live in the present . without interruption of business don’t you know.”—Puck.

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AY of the “Drys,” indeed! We are : } not going to try to §: explain the re- ] markable wave of Y temperance which L is sweeping the | country; = we. are ¢ not going to try and point out the . * individuals or the : . + societies to whom credit is. due for wirrs eeace v i wiskey | the victories over BOTTLE REPRESENTS THE Kin g AlCOhOl; PROPOATION OF THE TERR:L TORY IN THE UNITED STATES neither are we goe ee | 108 to attempt topredict where the reform movement will stop nor how L 5 lasting its effect | will be. We are just simply going to. present some of the remarkable facts as they > actually exist, and 2 tell as interesting a story as is possible concerning the present conditions of this temperance movement. As the temperance work: erss would put it, they are cleaning up the map of the United States and making it look white. There are five great big white spots which stand out like beacon lights. North Dakota, Kansas, Oklahoma, Georgia and Maine are wholly within the prohibition camp, and all the rest of the states except a western tier—Montana on the north and Arizona and New Mexico on the south, with Idaho and Wyoming, Nevagda, Utah and Colorado sandwiched in between—are marching under some form of local option banner which means that these states are more or less dry, in many cases more rather than less. In fact, in the south, the local option standard means. practically prohibition 'in most of the states.

In the south, where prohibition has spread like a'tidal wave, the chief reason has been the determination of the whites to suppress negro lawles®ness. A majoi'i_ty of the crimes of violence which have resulted in lynchings have been ‘induced by drink, and it was argued that if liquor be placed beyond the reach of the negro it would be a more effective way of restraining his brutal and criminal instincts than any number of lynchings. - Tnere are now five prohibition states—Maine, Georgia, North Dakota, Kansas and Oklahoma. In eight states and territories—Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico—saioons are licensed with virtually no restrictions, although some of-these have recently passed Sunday closing laws. In all the other states there is some form of local option. In nearly all these localoption . states the “dry” territory has been steadily increasing for the last ten years. In the south as a whole it has doubled; in Texas it has tripled; in Kentucky it has spread so widely that the prediction is confidently made that within three years the state will take its place beside Georgia in the prohibition column. To-day 97 out of the 119 counties of Kentucky are wholly “dry,” and of the remainder only four are wholly “wet.” This seems an extraordinary condition for Kentucky, the home of, blue-grass whisky, the state in which $100,000,000 is invested in distilleries.

Stepping over the border into Tennesses you cannot get a drink anywhere except in the cities of Memphis, Nashville and Chattanooga, and it looks as if Tennessee would race Ken-

PLEASANT FOR THE “JASSAX)” His Trip Down the Mountain Made Easy for Him. : He was a newcomer in the mining ‘town, and as everything he saw appeared novel and interesting, he kept up a rapid fire of questions that seemed mighty foolish to the boys. The placid little pack burros, mostly ears and voice, pleased him immensely, and he supposed they were kept ‘as pets ‘or else as camp scavengers to nibble the labels from old cans and eat stray newspapers. He came ‘across omne packing a wheelbarrow ‘secured on its back, with wheel dnd handles in the air. | i “My good man,’ he asked the owner, “can you tell me why the little donkey is tied to the wheelbarrow in that odd fashion?” : . “1 shore can, stranger,” replied that ~accommodating individual. “This here jassax has been acquired-by old Walapai Huggins for a house pet at the Bully Boy mine, an’' bein’ as the anni}mule is too dellycat to walk all the way over them rough trails, the old

tueky to get into the ranks of prohibition states. : 5 ' Georgia became a prohibition state on New Year's day, and the law is so drastic that wine cannot. be used at cammunion services in churches, nor can druggists sell any form of liquor except pure alcohol. In Alabama 75 per-cent. of the state is dry under a county option law. In Mississippi 68 out of 75 courties are already dry, and a state prohibition campaign is being waged with every prospect of success. Florida has 34 out of its 47 counties dry, and Gov. Broward is actively leading a campaign for state prohibition. South Carolina recently repealed its famous dispensary law and substituted local option by counties. A movement for state prohibition has just started, and 17 out of 41 counties have voted for no saloons. A large percentage of North Carolina has no saloons and the the prohibition campaign is active. Virginia has 72 dry counties out of 118. West Virginia has 30 out of 55, and Gov. Dawson is actively fighting the liquor traffic. : - Fourteen of Maryland’'s 23 counties are dry; in Delaware the election last month resulted in about half the towns going dry. : i

Louisiana has 18 dry parishes and parts of others are also dry, and it is illegal to solicit orders-for liquor in any of the dry districts. : Missouri’s local-option law has made 44 of her 115 counties abolish saloons. Sunday closing even in St. Louis is rigorously enforced.- :

Texas is one of the most notable exa.mpies of the ' revolution, for 147| counties are absolutely dry, 53 are partly dry and only 47 are totally wet. ] The sale of liquor on dining cars is forbidden, and a traveler on a train may | not even drink from his own flask. ‘ Oklahoma has just adopted a con-‘ stitution that forbids the sale of liquor. ‘ Kansas is a prohibition state, and the last of the “speak-easy” saloons has just been suppressed by popular opinion. ‘ : Nebraska has local option by villages and cities; 400 are dry, 600 wet. South Dakota is about one-quarter dry. North Dakota has been a prohibition state so long that in. some of the counties there no jails. ; Minnesota has 123 dry towns and rigid Sunday closing. : lowa, once a prohibition state, has 65 out of 99 counties dry and 11 other counties have only one saloon each. ‘Wisconsin has 650 dry towns. Michigan, under a county option law, has only one dry county. A prohibition wave is rolling through Illinois; eight counties are totally dry, while six allow saloons in-only a few:’ precincts. 7 : Six hundred and eighty of Indiana's* 1,016-townships are dry, and‘the temperance people expect to increase the license fee to $l,OOO. In Ohio 1,140 out of 1,376 townships are dry and 60 per cent. of the municipalities. : Pennsylvania seems little affected by the temperance wave, but there is one dry county. : New Jersey has no local option, but has recently begun a vigorous closing of saloons on Sundays. New York has township option, un--der which 602 towns in the state have no saloons. Only 24 towns in Vermont allow liquor to be sold. New Hampshire is nominally a prohibition state, but only 62 per cent. of the population lives In really dry territory. Massachusetts has 250 dry and 100 wét towns. Connecticut has 96 dry towns out of 176.

man drives him up hill an’ at the summit jes’ naterally turns him down the other side. Yessir, it do come hard on old Walapai, but it’s mighty restin’ for the jassax.”—Success Magazine, Actor-Managers. If Lillian Nordica finally carries out her project for an American Bayreuth she will not be the first singer to emerge as a manager. Jean de Reszke has a private theater in Paris, acoustically perfect, and there the other day Rossini’s “Barber of Seville” was sung by the owner, his brother Rdouard, Adelina Patti and Mario Ancona, and many people remiember the ill-fated venture of Van Dyck, a Wagner tenor once almost the idol of a section of the Metropolitan opera house public here. Last season he gave German opera in London. -

H. W. Putnam, of the Harvard class of 1869, was elected president of the Germanic Museum associgtion of Harvard at a recent meeting of the association, in place of Carl Schurz, de ceased. g a 0

Jﬁ ORTING . 4 : - e ares < AICTS . 73~ AND S AANCIFES / RRN SRR AT RR NI SRR SR RN SRR AA A AP PP PP PP PP PP The- prospects for a Princeton-Har-vard football game for 1908 are very bright. Circumstances which have arisen in the last year point to it with the greatest certainty. Nothing definite will be announced until after the Christmas holidays, but the conferences which have been held between the powers that be, at both Harvard and Princeton, indicate that all that has been said about the possibilities of the game is fact. There are just three men, as far as Princeton is concerned, who have the decision of the matter. They are J. B. Finn, director of athletics at the Tiger institutica and a member of the football rules committee; Capt. Eddie Dillon of the 1908 team, and the head coach. But there comes the hitch. The head coach for next year has not yet been engaged: Bill Roper has held down the job with great success for the last two years, but it is understood that some difficulty is being experienced in getting him for 1908. Just how it will end up is only a matter of conjecture, but indications, are that influence will: be brought to ¥ear to secure the great head of the Tigers for at least another year, for prospects are brighter than ever for 1908, and Princeton feels a sort of semi-confidence that she will beat Yale then.

Francis Hardon Burr, captain of Harvard’s ’OB football team, has had a remarkable football career at Harvard. He came from Phillips academy at Andover, where he spent a few months before entering college. Before going to Andover he had.played a year or two at guard on the Noble and Greenbough team, but had displayed no particular football ability. When Burr entered Harvard there was a dearth of big men for the varsity line. Freshmenr were still lowed to play on the varsity teag and 'the coach picked Burr out for his powerful build. He gave a won-

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Now that the football season is a thing of the past college men about the various clubs in New York are looking forward to the rowing season next spring. It has developed that following the army and navy football game in Philadelphia an informal conference was held by rowing, authorities from Pennsylvania, Cornell and Annapolis. The navy men stated that the academy was anxious to extend its participation in rowing events as fas as possible, and had -no idea of dropping out of the Poughkeepsie regatta in spite of the poor showing made by the middies’ crew last year. Participation in any athletic event away from the academy, however, is dependent on the permission of the navy department. This, it is believed, will -be easily obtainable when the time comes. It is expected that the middies will enter a four-oared crew, as well as an eight, but it is unlikely that there will be,a freshman crew entered, :

Cornell university has accepted a challenge from Brazil to send a socker team to South America next summer for a series of games with various South American teams, The challenge came from the Paulista Association Football league, which governs the sport in the vicinity of Rio Janeiro. through the manager of the Corneli team, who is a native of Rio Janeiro it provided for a guaranty of the expenses of a team of 15 men. Several members of the Cornell-team are South ‘Americans and it was decided to accept the challenge and send a team to Brazil and to .other South American countries as well. The team will depart after the close of the col. lege year and visit Rio Janeiio first. After playing there other games will be arranged. Negotiations have been opened with the Argentine Football league at Buenos Ayres and the Uruguay league 'at Montevidco in the hope of extending the tour to those countries. ol T !

AMUSING THINGS OFTEN OCCUR THAT ONLY THE OFFICIALS HEAR. et WHERE A FRESHMAN FAILED 1= T Forward Pass Gets the Players Mixed Up and Usuaily Calls for Some Quick Thinking on Matter of De- . cisions by Referee—Ball Occasionally Hits Goal Posts. o If football officials would tell all that they see and hear in the course ‘of football games it would make mighty interesting reading for the crowd of spectators that sit in the stands and miss some.of the liveliest and most curious incidents of the contests. It ‘would have added to the gaiety of the occasion had the spectators at the Yale-Brown game been able to- hear Dennie of Brown during the game. - On plays which he niade himself he would start giving signals when the teams lined up and he would still be .giving them when the man was downed. On ‘kicks he was invariabiy giving signals after he had kicked the ball down the field and his ends were chasing it, and on his own - runs around the end the last sighal was knocked out of him "precipitately as the Yale tackler nailed him. He talked incessantly and even his own players had' to soothe him at times. i It would also have been worth the price of admission ‘to have heard a Princeton freshman protest against a decision by Referee Thompson in the game which preceded the Yale-Brown game:. The Tigers had kicked and the Yale back was waiting for the ball when the Princeton ends hit him. The ball landed on: the ground and a Princeton forward grabbed it and carried it on across Yale's goal line. Referee Thompson calmly stood * on the spot where the catching back had stood until the ball was brought back. The excited Prineetonian exclaimed: “Why, he never signaled for a fair catch, Mr. Referee.”

- “That does not make any difference,” said Thompson decidedly. “You can’t touch that man while the ball is in the air,” he added. “Yale's ball,” and he gave the Blue youngsters 15 yards. ‘ 1 . ¢ The point came up in several games during the past season and incorrect rulings were made. No signal for. a fair eagch is required. Interference occurs when a back who has an opportunity to reach the ball is prevented from making a catch. . e In the Harvard-Indian game, when the ball hit the crossing on Hausar's attempt at a field goal, and bounded back into the field of play, there was a spirited session. An Indian knocked the ball over Harvard’s goal line and fell on it there, and there were wild cries for a touchdown. The ball had been batted toward the Crimson goal by the forthwith, with an additional five-yard penalty besides. Some in the stands who knew the game pretty well declared it should have been a touchdown anyway, but the Harvard goal posts are flush With the goal line, and a ball which strikes them does not cross or strike ‘on the “goal line, 'as required to make a touchback. Were the:posts behind the line, or did -the ball' strike on top of the crossbar it would have been a touchback. : : In the Prineeton-Indian " ‘game a similar case of batting the ball toward the opponents’ goal line occurred, but the penalty was not given.. The: official held that the batting of the ‘ball was unintentional. Others elaim there is no room for the consideration of intentions under the rules; that they are mandatory. = - - LS Again, in the West Point-Cornell ‘game, when Mountford caught a fersvard pass ahead of his goal line, and fell back over it, scoring a safety, discussion arose. If Mountford was_ behind his line it ‘was a touchback; if ahead of it a safety. On a similar play in a recent game :the ball was caught by one of the side making the pass, when behind the goal line, scoring a touchback, while had he caught it one foot ahead of the line it would have been a touchdown. The man ‘wWas thrown back into the field of play and immediately claimed he had been behind the posts when he caught the ball, deciding his own fate. Had he claimed he was in the field of play he would have retained the ball and had a chance to score on another play. There were loud protests against the ruling. . i B i :

McGraw to Return to Game. ! " Johnny McGraw, manager of the)‘ New York National league team, is going to get back into the game. The l scrappy little leader will not rely’ solely on Doyle at second. He is going to get to work in the-spring and will be perched on second when the bell rihgs at the Polo grounds. Mec-. Graw believes he can make good; as | his leg is perfectly sound again. Besides, he realizes that Bridwell needs some training in inside baseball. Devlin, Bridwell,.McGraw and Tenney will make a mighty ‘tricky and fast infield. Bridwell is one of the fastest .youngsters in the business, but in Boston he never had a chance to display his real worth. : ; ete ' Gridiron Chiefs for 1908. Tackles and halfbacks, in a majority of cases, have been chosen to lead - the football elevens of the country next year. In a list covering both big and little schools generally these two positions have found the ; greatest | favor, no less than 13 captains having been elected from each of them Quarterback ranks next with nine saptains and center and end are tied with eight each. From these it is a. big drop to the. next, fullback, with only four, while the guard position apparently developed the fewest gridiron leaders, only three schools choosing their captains from that position, Illinois being one. | sL e More Bread Eaten in Cold Weather. . According to bakers, people eat 20 per cent. more bread when the ‘weather is cold than when it is mild. |

~ERIE'S NEW EQUIPMENT. . During the year now drawing to & ctlose the Erie Railroad has put itself into the best of condition for the handling of the immense gquantities of freight that pass over the rails of this, one of the most important -of ~all freight lines of the Trunk-line group of railroads. There have just been delivered to the Company the last of an order of 3,000 box cars, each with ‘a capacity of 40 tons for the handling of merchandise freight that originates in the numerous factories on the line of the road. To the 4,500 steel hopper gondolas for carrying coal and ore that were added to the equipment in" 1906 the Erie has added in 1907 3,000 more cars of this type, ‘each with a capacity of 50 tons. This gives to the road a total of nearly 30,000 of each of these types of cdrs added within the past five years, thus fitting it for the rapid handling of freight of all classes. ' The Erie has also added within the year 27 new express cars of the ‘most modern type for its express freight service which has been growing rapidly of late. . ~ To help haul these cars the Erie has purchased within the year 35 locomotives of the Consolidation type,: all of which have been put in service on the Western end of the road, be--sides. the three Mallett type engines. which have been widely noted as the largest engines ever constructed. " Sixty . passenger coaches of the latest type have been added to the passenger equipment for use on the lines in the Suburban territory about New York city and the first all steel passenger coach manufactured for use - on steam rail lines is now being tried out-on the through 'service, to see how it will serve during the cold weather. This experimental coach.is being subjected to the most onerous tests that its efficiency in service as well as its safety may be, determined. It was the Erie that first built and used the all steel postal car, an experiment that proved so successful that two more are to be added to the equipment early in the new year. The Erie also put into service during the year the first motor car of the Ganz type used in this country, and is now giving it a thorough trial on its Newburg branch to see if it will work as well as it is reported to have worked in Europe, where the type of car has been' in service for several years. Jd:. H..MADDY.

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