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Distillery one mile east ol R. R. Depot.
lOmay-ly
i i TT'S rather hard," said Kitty
} Penflax, as she scalded the milk-pail
with boiling water, and care-fully
wiped out the seams and de-pressions
of the shining tin pans until
not a drop of moisture could by any
possibility linger there—"especially
during holiday week,- when there are
so many little gayeties going on at
home, and when cousin Paul Penflax
has already telegraphed three times
for one of us to smooth his dying
pillow. But of course mother couldn't
come, and Selina's sprained ankle puts
it out of the question for her—and
Lizzie has-her drawing and penman-ship
pupils, and it's very mean and
selfish of me to grumble and repine
like this ! Yes, Cousin Penflax, yes,
I'm coming!" as a vigorous thumping
of a cane or umbrella, or some other
blunt-ended instrument signifijd the
presence of a dominant will in the
room upstairs. And she hastened to
attened the summons, pulling down
her dress sleeyes and flinging ofi her
green checked work-apron as she ran.
Paul Penflax lay among his pillows,
a little yellow, dried up effigy of a
man, with fretlul curves to the corners
of his mouth, sharp, beard-black eyes,
and hair of that peculiar sandy tint
that fades but never turns gray.
"Kitty," said he, "what time is
Who has taken away my clock ?"
' It's five o'clock, Cousin Paul."
"You're deceiving me, Kitty !
dark, aiu't it—pitch dark ?"
"But it's a snowy evening, Cousin
Paul, and the days are short. And
you know you gave the clock to Zanas
Throgg to repair."
"But I did not expect he was go-ing
to keep it always."
"Shall I send for it?"
"No o-o snarled the yellow faced
invalid. "I don't suppose he's touched
it yet. He's the slowest snail going.
Get some one to move the hall-clock
in here. I'm lost without the time of
day !"
"Yes, Cousin Paul," meekly answer
ed Kitty.
"Because you know," said old Mr,
Penflax, lugubriously, "every mi mite
is of value to me now. My days are
numbered."
"The doctor says—"
"I don't care what the doctor says."
interrupted Paul Penflax. "He can't
see an inch further than his own drugs.
All the Penflaxes die on New Year's
eve! It's the family fate."
"Ob, no, Cousin Paul because—''
"Your father died on New Year's
eve, didn't he ?"
"Yes, but—"
"And Ztchariah Penflax, down in
Massachusetts Bay, blown off the deck
of the 'Lively Sally,' in a squall, ten
years ago on New Year's eve ?"
"They didn't know whether it was
the thirty-first of December or the first
of January, because—"
"But I know," solemnly interrupted
Mr. Penflax. "And there was your
cousin Maria."
"She wasn't a Penflax !"
"But she married one. It's all the
same. The Penflaxers all go on New-
Year's-eve."
"All these are only coincidences,
Cousin Paul," pleaded Kitty, as she
tenderly straightened the sheets and
smoothed the pillow-cases.
"Hump!" grunted the sick man.
"When you see me in my coffin you'll
say it was 'only coincidence,'*I sup-pose
?"
'Please don't talk so," soothed
Kitty. "Here is your gruel, nice and
hot."
'You see!" said Paul Penflax.
"Shall I make you a cup of tea ?"
"You see !" he mournfully reiterated.
"Or would you prefer coffee?''
"You'll see!"
"I'm going to stew down a chicken
for you to-night," cheerfully went on
Kitty. "And Owen French says there's
such a nice little red calf out in the
barn. A New-Year's present."
"Calves and chickens don't signify
to me now," groaned Mr. Penflax.
"But I want the clock brought in,
where I can see it and hear it tick.
Every second is of importance to me
now. It's five o'clock, is it ? Very
well. Before midnight the Penflax
doom will have descended on me.
You've been very good to me, Kitty.
I wish I had a fortune to leave you,
but I've only the farm and—and the
big diamond stud that old Captain
Blossem gave me before he committed
guicide in the garret ten years ago.
I'm calculating^© give that to Mary,
my niece, who is so poor, down on
Beverick Beach. Mary's father helped
me years ago, when I needed helped
badly. It's all written in a paper
somewhere. And the stud is sewed up
in a bag of chamois leather in the
lining of my pillow-tick. Don't let
any one get at the diamond stud, Kit-ty,
until the lawyer comes."
"No, cousin Penflax, I wont," pro-tested
Kitty.
"And now bring me the big Bible
and my spectacles,' said Paul. "And
call Owen French to move the clock
at once!"
"Won't you eat your gruel, Cousin
Paul ?"
"No," said Penflax. "What has a
dying man to do with gruel ? Isn't it
New-year's-eve? Isn't the Penflax
doom approaching ?"
, Kitty crept down-stairs, with an odd
prickly sensation in every nerve. She
knew that an old sea-captain had
boarded with Paul Penflax years ago,
but she never had heard of the suicide
in the garret—the great, dark, echoing
garret, with its angles full of shadow
and the mysterious creaking, scuffling
sounds, which might be rats, or might
be the wind under the loose shingles,
or rustling the bunches of dried herbs
that hung from the beams, or might
be—
She was glad when she saw Owen
French's stalwart form by the cooking
stove.
"I've brought you in a fresh supply
of wood and water, Kitty," said he.
It's snowing so that we shan't know
where the welt is to-morrow morning!
Now, Kitty, haven't I earned a kiss ?"
"Don'tOwen!" said the girl—and
yet she smiled a little as she added :
"Please go up and move the big hall
clock into Cousin Paul's room. He
wants it there."
"Bound to die, is he ?" said Owen,
shrugging his shoulders. "Well, I
suppose we'll have to humor him !"
He went cheerily upstairs, moved in
the big cherry-wood clock, where the
gilt sun never left off rising behind a
grove of painted poplars above the
face, and the huge brass pendulum
swung drowsily to and fro.
"Now what else can I do for you,
squire," said he, with alacrity.
"Nothing," said Paul, "Or stay.
My tonic, please, I need all the strength
I can gain."
"Is it this bottle ?" said Owen.
Mr. Penflax nodded without turning
his head—swallowed hi3 medicine, and
folded up his glasses.
"I'll rest a little now," said he—and
•honest Owen tiptoed out of the room,
painfully conscious of his squeaking
boots.
Paul Penflax shut his eyes and.
meditated gloomy over past, present
and future.
' I've been a miserable sinner,'-' said
he ; "but I don't know, if I was to live
my life over again, that—I wonder,
now, if this imagination—this strange,
drowsy feeling? I've heard doctors
tell that death was only a sort o' fall-ing
asleep, used-up sensation. Yes, it's
the Penflax fate. It's New Year's eve,
and I'm dying ! I wonder—what—
Kitty—" ,
Ouly a minute, as it seemed, and
there were footsteps and voices in the
room. But he lay there, unable to stir
hand or toot—even to lift an eyelid.
"I suppose they'll lay ma out now,"
said he to himself. "I'm dead. And
it wasn't so painful, after all ? I can't
see 'em, but I can hear 'em talk."
"I found him lying just so," and
Kitty's soft voice, "when I came up
stairs. Oh, dear! oh, dear! do you
suppose he's dead ?"
"As a door nail," said Peter Penflax,
a distant cousin who lived next do >r
"Must a' died just on the stroke of
eleven."
"I told them so. The Penflax fate !"
was the reflection in cousin Paul's
mind.
" Dreadful cold weather for a
funeral!" said Peter,
"Where is Owen?"
"Gone for the doctor" sobbed Kitty.
"For the doctor! That's only money
thrown away. He charges a dollar a
visit, growled Peter. You'd a'deal bet-ter
fetch the undertaker ! By the way,
Kitty, where'? that diamond stud of
his ? And all his papers ? I'd better
take charge of 'em at once."
"I don't know," said Kitty, thank-ful
that the mention of papers enabled
her to speak truly. "The lawyer—"
"Lawyers cost money," said Peter.
"I'm lawyer enough, and I'm the
natural heir. Paul was a regular old
miser—never helped nobody but him-self.
If he could, he'd took his money
with him, he would. And I mean to
find that diamond if—"
" You shall not touch a thing!".
cried Kitty, as Peter began to open
the drawers of the ancient mahogany
desk in the corner and pry around in
various directions. "He was good to
me, and I won't have his wishes dis-regarded
!"
"I'm bound to have that stud," said
Peter, "or I'll know the reason why!'
" And I'm dead and can't interfere!''
thought poor Paul.
"Sit down!" said Peter Penflax.
>'I aiu't goiu' to be domineered over
by no woman ? That diamond is here,
and I'm the next o' kin—Sit down, I
say, or I'll choke you like you was a
chicken !" .
"Oh, if Owen French were here !"
gasped Kitty, wringing her hands.
"Let go my throat! You hurt me !
You—"
"Let go her throat or I'll be the
death of you !" brawled a voice behind
Peter Penflax; and the interloper
jumped back to behold the yellow
visage and flannel bed-gown to match
of the supposed dead man close to him.
"What's them bells?" cried Paul.
"The old South Church ringing in the
New Year! And I am not dead!
Then I shan't die this year, the Lord
be praised! Get out of this, Peter
Penflax ! You ain't heir to my dia
mond stud yet, and I don't mean you
shall be! I'm powerful drowsy, and
my legs feel like cracked pipe-stems ;
but I'm as live as ever I was! Get
out, I say!"
"You're a ghost!" said Peter Pen-flax.
"And ghosts have no legal
right."
"I'm alive !" retorted Paul. "Kitty,
band me the tongs ! Yes I thought
that would scatter him ! And the old
clock stopped at eleven, did it ?
Everything's combined agin the Pen-flax
fate, I do believe. And now,
Kitty, help me back to bed, and give
me a swallow of my tonic ! It's there
on the table!"
"No, Cousin Penflax, it isn't," said
Kitty! This is the laudanum liniment
for your back !"
Paul Penflax opened and shut his
mouth like a piecc of newly invented
machinery.
"The laudanum liniment!" said he.
That accounts for it! Owen French
gave me a big dose of it last night—
reckoned it was the tonic! It must
have put me dead asleep, and I s'posed
of course I was dead ! But I wasn't.
I was alive enough to come to your
rescue, Kitty ! And you shall have the
diamond, after all! You've earned
it, my girl! Put wood on the fire.
Set the clock going. Fetch on that
chicken stew you told me about. If
I'm to live another year I may as well
be comfortable about it!"
But after that night Paul left off
talking about the Penflax doom. He
died comfortable in his bed, somewhere
in the heat of August, that year ; but
previous lo this he sold the big dia-mond
stud and divided its proceeds
equally between his cousin Kitty and
the widow down on Beverick Beach.
His room is empty now, and the old
dock in the corner has never ticked a
tick since that New-year's-eve when it
stopped at eleven!
"I declare," said Kitty French—for
she married Owen and settled down in
her inherited home by that time—"I
don't know which I miss most—the
old clock or Cousin Paul !"
And Peter, the miser, has never
once left off railing at destiny.
Quaint and Curious.
The butcher's recipe for getting rid
of superfluous flesh is to sell it.
If you were to take the conceit out
of some people, the remains would defy
identification.
"Is Deborah related to Charley
Henderson ?" "Yes, She i3 his sister
by a refusal of marriage."
Lovers are so light-hearted they can
read each other's thoughts with the
gas turned very low.
At 20 a man thinks he knows it all ;
a.t 30 he merely thinks he could have
known it all if he had tried.
You sometimes see people too old
to read, and too old to write, but did
anyone ever see a man too old to count
money.
A boy of 17 and a girl of 13 were
married at Columbus, Mo., the other
day. The wedding presents included
a doll and a-wooden gun.
Brown—"What! You going to
marry that woman ? She has no figure."
Robinson—"Ah, but, by dear boy, her
father has,"
At the husking bee, if you get a red
ear, you may steal a kiss; while, on
the contrary, under other conditions,
if you steal a kiss you may get a red
ear.
Father—"Is that stranger who calls
to see you a man of regular habits ?"
Daughter—"Yes, indeed, pa. He ar-rives
every night promptly at 8."
Corn—"Wonder why the pretty
young minister calls us the lambs of
his fold ?' " Dora—"On account of the
sheep's eyes we are always casting at
him, I presume."
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J O S E P H M . FEOEE,
oc7-ly Propr.
New Year Thou<rhts.
Renewed feelings ol ambition are
synonymous with the opening of the
new year. More resolutions are made
than at any other time, and as often are
they alas.! broken. But with some
the resolutions made with the dawn of
a new year have been carried through
to its close. Numerous lives of honor
and achievement can be traced to some
determination of purpose made upon
an occasion such as the first day of the
year affords for a fresh start in the
journey of life. We all desire success ;
the problem of life is its winning.
Every person carries in his or her own
hand the key that unlocks either the
door of success or failure.
The true key of success is labor, and
it requires a strong, resolute will to
turn it. It is hard, earnest'work, step
by step, that insures success, and never
was this truth more potent than at the
present time. Positions of trust and
eminence are no longer secured at
a single leap. Men and women have
ceased to succeed in ahurry. Occasion-ally
there will be an exception, but the
instances are rare. Success, a writer
has said, is the child of confidence and
perseverance, and never was the mean
ing of a word more clearly defined.
The secret of many successful careers
is the thorough performance of what-ever
has been undertaken.
An excellent maxim is that which
counsels us never to put our hands to
any thing into which we can not throw
our whole energies harnessed with the
very best of our endeavors. Persever-ance
is essential to success, since - it is
often achieved only through a succes-sion
of failures. In spite of our best
efforts, failures are in store for the ma-jority
of the race. It remains, then,
for us all to do the best we can under
all circumstances, bearing in mind that
races are not always won by the swift-est
feet nor triumph in battle secured
by the strongest arms. It is not so
much the possession of swiftness or
strength as it is the right application
of them by whieh success is insured.
In starting out upon the journey of
life it is well:
First, to obtain eyery kernel of
knowledge within your reach.
Study people for the knowledge they
can impart to you.
Read books for what they can. teach
you. -Next, see what your tempera-ment
best suits you for.
Mark your tendencies and apply
them.
Be sure you have not mistaken your
calling.
Once certain, apply yourself to your
chosen work.
Then work hard, earnestly and
incessantly.
Don't consider any thing beneath
you.
Be patient, honest and pleasant in
manner.
Treat all persons alike, high or low.
Have a smile for all, a pleasant
word for everybody.
Success may not come at first, but
it will not be far off, and when it does
comes it will be the sweeter for its
delay.
Notes by the Wayside.
The dentist always goes to the root
of the trouble.
Crooked men can hardly look you
straight in the face.
The heart generally holds the key
to a lock of hair.
People in the lowlands would do
well to roost high if a thaw sets in.
The world has its favorites, and
leads them a merry dance, to be sure.
Tight money don't worry Old Sol.
He can always rays what he wants.
If you have a skeleton in your
closet the sooner you open the door
the better.
Some society folk measure life by
the number of invitation cards they
receive.
There are bitter bubbles in the cup
pleasure holds out, and they burst
sooner or later.
A snow storm demonstrates the fact
that the underground wire carries tha
most messages.
There are 2,700 husbands in New
York City, it is stated, who are sup-ported
by their wives.
Programme of the Evangelical Al-liance
of the United States.
The Evangelical Alliance for the
United States have issued an invitation
to all churches to join in the observance
of the week of player, from January 4
to 11 inclusive. The programme pre
pared is as follows :
Sunday, January 4,—Sermons. The
Glory of the Triune G id, Jer. x. 6-7 ;
Hab. iii. 3-4 2 Cor. iv. 6, and xiii. 14.
Monday, January 5.—Confession
and Thanksgiving. For the nation,
community church, family and in-dividual
Confession. Hosea, xiv. 1-2; 1
John, i. 8-9, Psalm xxxii. 1-5 ; 2 Sam.
xii. 13. Thanks giving: 1 Thess. v.
18 ; Psalm c.: Psalm ciii.; Neh. xii.
43.
Tuesday, January 6—The Church
Universal. Prayer that the power of
the Holy Ghost may rest upon it, Acts
ii. 1-18 thstt the disciples of Christ may
be one, John xvii, 21; that the Church
may gain a truer and broader concep-tion
of her mission, Matt, xxii, 35-39 ;
Matt. xx. 28 .; John xvii. 18. Prayer
that the International Conference at
Florence, next April, may be crowned
with special blessing.
Wednesday, January 7—Nations
and Their Rulers. Prayer for all in
authority I. Tim. ii. 1-2; for peace, Isa
ii. 4; for the abolition of slave, opium
and strong drink traffic, Exodus xxi.
16, Psalm lxxii. 4; for ,»11 needed re-forms—
temperance, Hab 11. 11-12;
Sabbath, Neb. xiii. 15-22 industrial,
Jer. xxii. 13 ; social, I. Cor. vi, 18-20 ;
political, 1. sam. ii, 36 and viii 3.
Thursday, January 8—The Church
at Home. Prayer for a sense of per
sonal responsibility and for co-opera-tion
in the evangelization of the city,
country and frontier, Matt. x. 5-13,
Mark xiii. 34, Acts viii, 4.
Friday, January 9.—The Church
Abroad, Piayerfor increased mission-ary
spirit, co-operation and enlarge-ment,
Joel ii. 28-32. Eph. iy. 11-16,
Psalm lxii.
Saturday, January 10—The Family.
Prayer for sons, daughters and ser-vants
; for Sunday Schools and all
Christian Associations for young
people; for schools, seminaries, colleges
and universities. Prov. iv. Deut. vi.
4 15 ; Mark x, 13-16, Eph. vi. 1-4.
Sunday, January 11. —Sermons.
The manifestation of Christ in His
people. John xvii, 21-23; Col. i. 27; 2
Thes.i. 12, Eph. iii, 10-21.
A LancasterJEIotel Kpbbed.
A bold robbery was perpetrated at
Henry J. Kegel's East End liotel, No.
434 East Orange street, Motulay morn-ing.
As a result of the robbery Mr.
Kegel is out $200, that being the
amount stolen. The money was stolen
from. Mr. Kegel's sleeping room, on
the second floor front, and was taken
from a tin box kept in a cupboard in
the room.
Between 8 and 9 o'clock Monday
morning a neighbor called at Kegel's
for change for #5, and he went to his
bed-room and got the change. In about
half an liour Mr. Kegel again went to
the room for change and found that he
had been robbed. The tin box was on
the floor, and near it was a tweezers,
with which the lock was forced off.
Mr. Kegel at once reported the theft to
the police, but up to the hour of going
to press there was no light thrown 011
the theft. The money taken consisted
of $20, $io, $5 and $1 bills, three $1
gold pieces and a number of silver dol-lars
and half dollars.
The only way to get to the room in
which the money was kept was from
dining room. A person could sneak
•into the dining room from the bar-room
or the yard. The theft was com-mitted
by some one familiar with the
premises and who knew where Mr.
Kegel kept his money. "Watches and
jewelry were not touched.
The only suspicious person about
the place was a tramp, who asked for
something to eat but he left hotel after
he was fed.—Intelligencer.
Wise Words.
Not to love is not to lire.
Look up, and you will climb up.
Life without hope is living death-
Selfishness is the assassin of the ss®L;
If you live to die, you will die to-lfce.,
It is not the crown that makes ttft»
King.
Teaherry Elixir, or Dr. Fahnes»«®B;'Ss
Favorite Drops.
Every day in the year, is the feswy®«»
arc likely "to need a good bsasattolidl
remedy for pain in the bowels, diaaiislioea,,
headache, rheumatism, or bae&aelto tliat.
will act like a charm. To b®< peirffetly
safe, use Tea-berry Elixir, o r l t o j p i b u e - '
stock's Favorite Drops,'.and fad1 ¿peedy-relief.
There is really notiBiOg to- equail
it. Sold every where by ail e&Kggists au
25c per bottle.
—Are you married ? if not send your.,
address to the American ©¡»responding;
Club, Box 643, W. 01arkstoH®g,ya. 3o-ly
Wanted to Know.
The wife of a respectable citizen of
Brooklyn wanted to know what tlie
sensations of a shop-lifter were, and
she therefore stole six pairs of gloves
and $10 worth of lace from a store.
She was arrested, loeked up, held for
seven hours, and her husband paid
$250 to settle the case.
A Woman's Reason.
Clara—"Jack -intends to have
everything his own way when we are
married." L ;
Clara's Mamma—"Then why do you
marry him ?"
Clara—"To relieve his mind of a
false impression."
Over t h e State.
Jacob Hoy, a retired farmer of Or-wigsburg,
died on Friday night of a
cancer, aged 57 years.
A Pittsburg rascal has been fleecing
colored persons by advertising to take
the kinks out of their hair.
John Kauffman, a Reading street-car
conductor, has been arrested for
assaulting John Heck, a lame passen-ger.
A receut wind-storm straightened
the spire of St. Peter's Church, at Mid-dletown,
whieh was bent by a similar
storm in 1826.
A drunken man pushed his way into
a Reading parlor where a social gather-ing
was in progress, and was only dis-lodged
at the point of a gun.
Miners employed in a deep shaft of
the Newport colliery, at Glen Lyon,
on Friday,felt the force of an extensive,
"squeeze," and fled in safety from the
workings.
An explosion of natural gas caused
by a leaking pipe completely wrecked
the residence of E. Herkoltz at
McKeesport, and dangerously injured
Mrs. Herkoltz yesterday.
Alexander Mengel, a Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad engineer who
recently disappeard from his home in
Pine Grove, has been heard from in
Chicago, in an apparently demented
condition.
Captain Samuel Kellar, a Pesylva-nia
Railroad conductor, who was re-cently
elected Sheriff of Dauphin
county, was about to tender his Resigna-tion,
the railroad company, when lie
was granted leave of absence for three
years.
Nellie Condon, 16 years old, was
taken into Court at Williamsport, on
the applicatin of her father (C. T.
Condon, of Elk county), who desired to
gain possession of her. The Court
allowed Nellie to decide for herself, and
she preferred to remain with her uncle
and aunt.
Lehigh county has nearly $50,000
in her treasury.
Non-voters cannot serve on juries in
Lawrence county.
The Centre Iron Works, of Belle-fonte,
will soon start again.
Philadelphia capitalists have bought
a tract of coal land near Mansfield, O.
The price of turkeys fell from 19
cents to 8 on the day before Christmas
at Scran ton.
West Grove farmers sent 19,500
pounds of Christmas turkeys to Phila-delphia.
Seven-inch ice has been cut 011 the
lake at Mount Gretna. The lake will
yield 6000 tons.
Ex-State senator William Henry
Sutton is very ill of pneumonia at his
Haverford home.
It is said that both Senators Quay
and Cameron have indorsed A. M.
High for Postmaster of Reading.
Mrs. William Walter, ol Easton, is
over 100 years of age and has just been
photographed for the first time.
A Scranton kitten, born a few days
ago, has not the least semblance of eyes
nor even a place for the peepers.
A citizens' petition is being signed
at Allegheny asking the Grand Jury
to investigate the county work-house.
While playing the part of Santa
Claus at a Pittsburg Church festiyal,
William Strong was arrested lor theft.
An Oil City saloon-keeper has been
fined 1250 and sent to jail for forty
days for selling liquor to an intoxicat-ed
man.
Chairman Patton, of the Prohibition
State Committee, is traveling through
the State working up the cold water
cause.
The Commissioners of Delaware
county are having a fight among
themselves over the appointment of a
Mercantile Appraiser.
Oscar Ocker, arrested at Slatington
for larceny, jumped from a train twice
in trying to escape, but both times was
overtaken by the officer.
A Hungarian, enraged because he
could not get a pair of shoes to suit
him hit the salesman with a coal
scuttle.
A speaker at a Hyde Park Sunday-school
entertainment said that persons
who told their children "Santa Claus
stories'' were guilty of the gravest kind
of falsehood.
—When a man mend3 l i s ways, it
will usually be found that it was a
woman who sewed on the patches.
Drunkenness—Jjiquor Hateit--in all the
World There is but One Cure, Dr.
Hains' Golden Specific.
It can be given in a cup of tea or coffee
without the knowledge of the person
taking it, effecting a speedy and
permanent cure, whether the patient is a
moderate drinker or an alcholic wreck
Thousands of drunkards have beeti
cured who have taken the Golden
Specific in their coffee without their
knowledge, and to-day believe they quit
drinking of their own free will.
STo harm effect results from its admin-istration.
Cures guaranteed. Send for
circular and full particulars. Address
in confidence. Golden Spedifie Co., 185
Race street, Cincinnati, O.
Death of a Cigar Manufacturer.
John E. Brugger, for over 40 years
a resident of Ephrata, died on Sunday,
aged 62 years. When a young man
he came to this country from Germany
and settled in Ephrata, where he has
resided ever since. He was in ill
health for five years with a complica-tion
of diseases which terminated in
dropsy. He was a cigarmaker by trade
and carried on business for mat y
years. He leaves a wife and one son,
John B. Brugger. Thi lu;eraiso,
has a cigar factory in Ephrata.
—A great revolver.—The Earth.