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VOL. XIV. LITITZ PA., FKIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 6,1891.
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liitilE. Lane. Co.. Pa.
uction ! Auction !
onday, Feb. 9th, 1891,
I will begin to sell the re-mainder
of odds and ends of
Overcoats, Suits, for men and
children, Pants, Overalls,
Shirts, . Children's Waists,
Underwear, Gloves, Hats, Caps,
Ties, Suspenders, Collars, Cuffs,
Cassimeres, Cottonadesf&c.,&c.
These Goods I will have as-sorted
on special counters and
they MUST POSITIVELY BE
SOLD in two weeks time, and
will be sold CHEAP—astonish-ingly
low. They must go and
the prices will make them sell.
Call and be convinced that I am
telling you the truth.
WALTER H. BUCH,
" R e c o r d " B ùi L i t i t z , P a .
BIG REDUCTION
I N -:-
Having to large a stock of Ladies Shoe Dressing on hand, I have decided to
sell it at a price which will t u r n it into Cash in a short time.
All 25c Dressings Reduced to 17c
« i5c " " " 10c
Acme 15c " " " 10c
The largest Assortment of 25c Dressings in the city to select from.
Button's Raven Gloss.
Wbittenaore's Gilt Edge.
Wood's Ladies Dressing. , ^ ,
Olio Dressings and others in Barrels and Casks.
All of these are New, Fresh Dressings, or money will be refunded.
THE ONE PRICE CASH HOUSE,
CHAS. H. FREY,
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gm- Store closed every evening at 6 o'clock except Monday and Saturday.
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H . L . B O A S .
FASHIONABLE HATTER,
Is Offering Balance of Winter Goods in (iif and Cloth
AND GLOVES
for such prices as were nevef offered befote. Try him if
in need of such Goods.
H i g h e s t Cash P r i c e s P a i d f o r all Kinds of Furs.
THE LOVER'S CUP.
144 NORTH QUEEN STREET,
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Distillery one mile east oi R. ft. Depot.
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LEAVE you with a heavy
I heart, Genie," aaid Ralph
Meredith. " While I am gone,
Ben Brander will have it all his own
way. I may lose you."
Genie laughed.
" We are engaged to each other,
Ralph," she said. " I like you, and I
care nothing for Ben Brander. I shall
not begin to flirt as soon as you are
out of sight, I assure you."
J hey were sitting side by side upon
a fallen log. Ralph pulled a bit of
moss off the bark and picked it to
pieces before he answered.
"Well, Genie, with a woman, out of
sight is out of mind, very often. A
year is a long time to be parted; many
things may happen."
" Our hearts will not be parted,"
gaid Genie. " Come, now, I'll go to
the witch well and drink the lover's
cup with you, and then whatever hap-pens
we'll meet again and be happy."
"You seem to mean that,"said Ralph.
" Do you believe that nonsense?"
" Well," said Genie, " our folks all
believe it. Mother has great sense,
and she does. They say a girl cannot
break her vow if she tries to do it after
drinking the lover's cup with a man
she is promised to. There was Miss
Nancy Vaughn, who, as we all know,
drank the cup with Jack Grey. She
jilted him and engaged herself to a
richer man, but he dropped dead at
the very altar, £.nd Jack made up with
her, after all. And Captain Spicer
was on a desert island five years, grand-mother
says, and his wife had fifty
offers, but refused them all. " We've
drunk of the lover's cup," she said,
' and he'll come back.' So he did.
Come, Ralph."
She arose and tripped away, Ralph
following her. They plunged into the
heart of wood, and soon came to a
natural fountain, gushing from a rock
into a sort of basin below. On a ledge
above the flowing water stood a cup,
cut from some translucent white stone
a curious thing with a handle on either
side, and a figure of Cupid carved
upon it.
It was not known who cut the cup
nor how long it bad been there. It
was a miracle that in all those" years
no one had broken or stolen it.
Probably the superstitions that
hung about it protected it.
It was said that in the course of
three generations it had been twice in
the hands of dishonest folk; but each
time as the thief turned away a blow
was dealt him by an unseen hand and
he fell to the ground, and was only too
happy to crawl away aliye. True or
false, every boy in the village believed
this solemnly, and the loyer's cup was
as safe as though guarded by a regi-ment
of soldiers.
As Genie stopped before the fount-ian
she turned and lifted her finger
warningly.
" Remember," she said, " we must
lift the cup together, fill it as we hold
the handles, drink at one moment,
leave a drop to throw into the fount-ain,
and neither must release the cup
until it stands in its place again, and
not one word must be spoken by either
in all that while."
Thus warned, Ralph went through
the mystic performance properly, and
the two returned to Genie's home.
The next day Ralph was journeying
toward the far West, ami Genie was
beginning to count the days of his
absence.
At first Genie's words seemed to
prove true. Distance scarcely seemed
to divide these lovers. Their letters
were frequent, and grew warmer as
time went on. Six months were gone
when one day news came of trouble
with the Indians; then mails vtere de-layed
; then a strange letter came. It
began this way:
" DEAREST GENIE,—As I write to
you my rifle stands within reach. I
am watching a devil of a redskin who
is looking about the edge of the woods
near the Widow Taggart's little house.
There may be more behind him. He
does not guess that there is any one
near. Now he has gone away again.
He may only be hungry. God help
the poor creatures—they are that often
enough, only they are such demons
that one feels like saying,'Serves them
right!' Perhaps if the white men——"
There was nothing more, not acoth-er
word, so the letter ended. Genie
was terrified at first, but the letter was
enclosed in an envelope, directed in
Ralph's well-known hand, and she
could but faney a mistake of some sort.
However, as time went on her anxiaty
increased. No other letter followed
this. Vainly she wrote, there was no
answer. Meanwhile the family had
hidden a paper from her, in which
was given a full description of a foul
Indian massacre in " Lonely Village."
Twenty bodies, mutilated and unrecog-nizable,
had been buried when the
soldiers at last put the redskins to
flight.
At last Genie wrote to an old clergy-man
of whom she knew, who, though
he did not reside at Lonely Village,
sometimes preached there. The an-swer
that came confirmed her worst
fears. Lonely Village, the old man
wrote, was no more, those residents
who had not been murdered had de-parted
thence.
Ralph Meredith had been seen in
the thick of the fight. A girl, one of
the widow's daughters, the only one
living of her family, had told him that
Ralph had aske 1 her, if she escaped,
to post a letter she would find upon
his table; she had done so.
A garment, marked with Ralph's
name, had been found on one of the
mutilated bodies, and so, with kind
and pious words, the letter ended.
When she actually realized that
Ralph was dead, lost to her forever,
Genie felt that all happiness was gone
from her life.
She thought at first that she. should
not live, but grief rarely kills the
young After awhile she began to go
about a little, still dressed in the
mourning she wore for Ralph, and one
day she put a bunch of violets in her
belt, and in two years she left her
black off altogether. Time has a heal-ing
power, say what we will, and Ben
Brander began to follow Genie Bell
about again. He was a handsome
fellow, and had a charm about him.
At first she was very cold to him,
but in time he changed all that. She
could never love him as she had loved
Ralph, she knew ; it was he whom she
hoped to meet in heaven. But she
might have years to live; her friends
besought her to take the good that
was offered.
After awhile she began to feel that
it would be best to marry Ben, and so
she said '' yes " to him one day, and
their wedding day was set.
From that day Ben was happy and
she was wretched. Her conscience re-proached
her. She did not dare to
look at the little photograph of her
lost love which she kept in her room
and had hitherto kissed every morning
and every night. Its eyes seemed to
reproach her.
" I have been false to him," she re-peated.
" False! false! false!"
But she had not the courage to
break her promise to Ben, and so the
day before that of the wedding-day
came.
By this time Genie's conflict with
her emotions had become too dreadful
to endure and she had formed a ter-rible
resolution.
It was that she would not live to
marry Ben Brander, but would join
her true love in the other world. She
had procured some poison, at once fa-tal
and painless, and it was her intent-ion
to go to the old fountain in tne
forest, swallow the poison, pledge her
faith to Ralph in life or in death in a
draught from the "lover's cup," and
then lie down to sleep the sleep that
knows no waking. Then all would be
over; no one would blame her, and she
believed that Heaven would forgive
her.
" You must not come this evening,"
she said gravely to Ben Brander. "I
cannot see you if you do."
" Too busy with the fal-lals and fix-ings?"
he said. " Very well, I'll stay
away."
He was not quite contented with her
manner. He knew that she often
thought of Ralph Meredith, and until
to-day he had rather feared that she
would break her promise after all.
He thought of this a great deal as
he went his way, which led past the
railway station. A train had just
come in, passengers were alighting.
Suddenly he saw a figure that he
thought he recognize.!. The blood
seemed to leave his heart. He started
foward. Yes! it was Ralph Meredith,
and their eyes met, and they uttered
each other's names.
" How strange that you should be
the first to meet me !" Ralph cried.
" We thought you dead !" gasped
Ben.
Neither of the men held out a hand
to each other, or made any sign of
friendly greeting.
" The Indians took me prisoner. My
skill in drugs saved my life," said
Ralph. " They made a medicine man
of me. I have just escaped. Genie
Belle? Tell me about her."
" We are to be carried to-morrow,"
said Ben. " This is the wedding-ring"
—he took from hia pocket a little box.
" You cannot blame Genie," he went
on. "She wore black for you as if she
were your widow. If I comforted her
at last, remember we thought you
dead. She is very happy now. You'll
make her wretched, I suppose."
Ralph turned away and leaned his
head against the trunk of a great elm
that shaded the road, for awhile, then
he turned again to Ben.
" Luck is against me," he said,' but
I have not come back to make folks
unhappy. She has forgotten me—she
loves vou. There is no one else in the
place I care much to see. I haye no
relatives heie. Good-bye—you may
consider me dead again," and he turn-ed
upon his heel.
" Does he mean it?" asked Ben tf
himself. " If he does so back it will
be all over for me. Genie cares more
for him now than she will ever care
for me while she lives.
"Yes, he really stems ;o mean it,"
he added, as he watched Ralph out of
sjght. " He has gone back to the de-pot."
And Ralph indeed had done so, but
no train was yet due, and he walked
away again. Instiuctively he turned
toward the great woods where he had
so often rambled with Genie. The
memory of the fountain and the lover's
cup was strong upon him. He turned
his feet that way and saw the pearly
water flowing into the shallow basin
the strange stone cup standing in its
niche, the shadow of the great trees
falling over all, the whole place unal-tered
as if he had left it only yester-day.
" Why did they not kill me with the
rest, there at Lonely Village?" he
sighed.
Suddenly a light step sounded on
the path, he stepped back into the
shadow and saw a woman approaching;
the next instant he recognized Genie.
She was pale and there was a strange
look in her eyes. She reached across
the basin and took the lover's cup iu
her hands, she filled it at the fountain,
and lifted her eyes to heaven.
"Ralph, my beloved, to whom I
plighted my troth beside this fountain,"
she said, "listen while I repeat it this
time for eternity."
She emptied the cup. " Now God for
give me and receive my soul," she
sighed.
Ralph saw her take a vial from her
bosom and lift it to her lips; he under-stood
all, and springing forward clasp-ed
her in his arms, while she clung
sobbing to his breast.
" The charm of the love's cup is
fulfilled, darling!'' he cried, "we meet
again! You are mine and l am yours!
And since you love me still, no map
shall come between us while we both
live!"
A little later a messenger came to
Ben Brander; he brought with him a
note containing only these words:
"Ralph has returned to me."
The Probabilities.
The high prices of corn and oats
and the low prices of hogs and beef
has made it unprofitable to feed cattle
or hogs this fall. Many farmers are
holding the corn and sending their
stock to Chicago, where, on account of
the large supply, the prices have been
low. As the majority of feeders have
been doing this and holding their corn,
two things may be looked for in a
short time. Corn will not be as high
as many expect and those that hold
too long will lose money. After this
rush is over, cattle and hogs will go
up in price and bring good returns for
those that can hdd them back. Corn
is too expensiye to feed at the present
prices and other feeds must be made
to take its plaee. The cheapest fodder
that can be found at the present time
is corn stalks. These are going to
waste in many places and may be
bought at a low figure. They may be
pastured as they stand, but a better
way where practiced is to cut them
and run them through a cutter.
They still have some good in them and
it fed in this way in connection with
corn they will carry a lot of steers
over for some time. For hogs the corn
will go farther if shelled and soaked
for a few hours.
MANY YEARS AGO.
$100 For His Wife.
LEBANON, Pa., F e b . 1.—Alderman
Miller, of this city, has been handed a
letter sent to a neighbor of his who
sought the justice's advice. the
writer of document has already stolen
the other man's wife, and he now
wants the wronged husband to sur-render
all claim to the woman in con-sideration
of the payment of $100.
The writer adds that he thinks he is
doing a generous and honorable thing
in making the offer.
A B i s Gun Cast.
BETHLEHEM : Engineer-in-Chief
Melville and Lieuts. Lonng McElwell
and Perry, of United States navy, wit-nessed
the pouring of a 75,000 pound
casting for the manufacture of govern-ment
armor and plates at the Bethle-hem
iron company's ordnance works.
The casting is the largest ever made.
A Brief Sketch of the Old Moravian
Sister House at Lititz and a Glance
at Some of its Inmates.
8T.EI.MO HOTEL,, JSOS. 317 a n d 319
Arch street, Philadelphia.—Bates re-duced
to $2 per day. The traveling
public will still find at this hotel tne
same liberal provision for their com-fort.
It is located in the immediate
centre of business, and places of amuse
ment and the different railroad depots
as well as all parts of the city, is
easily accessible by street cars con-stantly
passing the doors. It offers
special inducements to those visiting
the city for business or pleasure. Your
patronage is respectfully solicted.
JOSEPH M. FEGER,
oc7-ly Propr.
BY A MORAVIAN NTJN.
II.
It would now be in place to describe
the government of the Sisters' House.
There were practically two heads, a
spiritual and a temporal leader, who
divided the authority between them.
The '' pflegerin '' (there is no English
equivalent that would convey the full
meaning of the term) was the spiritual
head of the sisterhood. She had to
take charge of all religious matters. It
was her duty to look after the wants
of the soul, and she was consulted and
confided in as a kind of mother-confes-sor.
The " vorsteherin '' was supreme
in all practical, worldly matters. She
was the business manager and treas-urer
of the institution, also the go-between
in all matters of importance
arising from the intercourse of the
sisters with the outside world In
cases of extreme need when it was
deemed advisable for her to consult
some one of wider experience and
more business knowledge than she in
her contracted sphere was supposed to
possess, she was allowed, nay obliged,
to confer with a married brother in the
village known as the "Curator," or
literally the " choir-adviser " or ad-viser
of the sisters' choir. This man,
like the pflegerin and vorsteherin, was
appointed by the Provincial Elders'
Conference, the highest authority of
the church in the northern district.
The sisters, as I said before, lived in
room companies. The vorsteherin and
pflegerin decided as to their adaptation
to one another in years, tastes and
temperament and endeavored to make
their social relations as pleasant as
could be under the circumstances.
There were no written or printed rules
in sight, but each sister on entering
the institution was instructed in the
ways of the same, and if they did not
conform to her taste she could leave
at once if she so desired. In some
respects the rules were extremely
severe, and punishment was as prompt
and irrevocable as the laws of the
Medes and Persians. A delinquent was
immediately expelled. On all ordinary
occasions a lecture trom the pflegerin
sufficed. There was no severer penalty
than expulsion, and that was looked
upon as an unpardonable disgrace.
Let me add that in the annals of the
institution there were very few names
of such as had deserved and conse-quently
suffered this penalty.
The sisters varied in age from seven-teen
to ninety. Those between the
ages of twelve and seventeen, none
under twelve being admitted, were
known as " grosere madchen," or
larger girls, being regarded as no
longer children and yet not having at-tained
to the dignity and self-control
of womanhood and therefore sister-hood.
The sisters being supposed to
be credited with a certain amount of
womanly discretion had more liberties
and privileges, but the older girls had
their '' vorgesetzte '' who lived with
them in their rooms all the time.
These vorgesetzte were chosen from
among the older sisters and appointed
to this office by the vorsteherin and
pflegerin. The girls were entirely
subordinate to this sister, not even
being allowed to go to the village
store without her permission. There
were, however, always some black
sheep among the girls, and the
" vorgesetzte " seldom found her path
strewed altogether with roses. If she
was a sensible woman she made allow-ances
for the frolicsomeness of youth.
If she was not, so much the worse for
her. No petty tyranny was allowed.
Naturally enough offences which in a
sister would have been unpardonable
were condoned in a maiden of thirteen
who was regarded as little more than
a child, and who, when all else failed
and even the vorsteherin proved
obdurate, invariably found an unfail-ing
friend and source of consolation in
the pflegerin.
The older girls and their vorgesetzte
were directly responsible to the
pflegerin. On one occasion, tradition
saitli, the pflegerin, at that time Sister
Hiiffel was obliged, for some reason or
other, to be absent several days. Dur-ing
her absence the girls became so un-manageable-
as to cause a kind of panic
among the timid old sisters. However,
in spite of the woeful tales that were
poured into her ears on her return, the
pflegerin wisely made allowances for
the colorings of the sisters' imagina-tion
and said and did nothing to the
relief of the conscience-smitten
culprits.
Now we come to the work of the in-stitution
. This was variously divided
and assigned according to age,
strength and ability. Certain ones did
the cooking and waiting on the tables,
others worked in the laundry, and
others again milked the cows, made
butter and took charge of the dairy
There was a sick nurse, and a janitress
who kept the halls clean and did
various odd jobs about the house. The
sisters were obliged to keep cheir
rooms in order themselves. There was
a married man who managed the farm
while the sisters did the lighter work,
planting corn and potatoes, making
hay, reaping, husking corn, &c. They
also had entire charge of the vegetable
garden. When the heavier work, like
ploughing, digging, &c., was to be
done and in busy seasons, like haying
and harvesting, additional help, male
of course was obtained out of the
village.
{Continued on second page.)
Tallest of Young Women.
Miss Ella Ewing, of La Grange,
Scotland county, Mo., now in New
York, is thought by the New York
Morning Journal to be " the greatest
giantess in the world."
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ewing, two
ordinary-sized individuals, are the
parents of the girl. They are now
with her in New York.
Mrs. Ewing says that but for a pair
of shoes Ella would still be iu happy
seclusion at La Grange. A year ago
the La Grange shoemaker found him-self
compelled to gel a new last to
suit the increased size of the girl's foot.
He sent to St. Louis for it. The
St. Louis last - makers furnished
the last free, but stipulated that
they were to have a pair of shoes made
from it. Thus the story got into the
local papers. A German doctor in-vestigated
the matter, and it is upon
his advice that the trip to Europe is
now being undertaken.
Miss Ewing is eight feet two inches
in her stockings. She is 18. She is
" green " and bashful. Her feet are
eighteen inches long. " She is all
arms and legs."
Her arm, from the shoulder to the
tips of her fingers, is four feet, and she
can touch the tips of a ten-foot rule
held horizontally across her breast
and arms.
Her weight is 245 pounds, and she
has weighed as high as 260 pounds.
She wears a ring on one of her
fingers which easily covered the width
of three of her mother's fingers.
" I used four balls of yarn in every
one of her stockings," said her
mother.
" I t takes thirty-two yards of
ordinary cloth to make a dress for her,
and the cloak we had made for her
cost $104, and it's very plain cloth at
that, said her father.
" Her meals," said the hotel-keeper.
" They're stupendous. She can eat
more than any three guests here, and
we have some big eaters.
The Ewings will sail for Europe
this week.
A Cigarette Victim.
BETHLEHEM, P a . , F e b . 1.—A lad
named Commodore, at Hattelsville, is
seriously ill and the doctor, as well as
the members of the family, are of the
opinion that his sickness is directly
due to cigarette smoking. He smoked
two packs of cigarettes a day.
Nearly a Riot in the Court Room.
DECATUR, 111., Feb. 1.—Nearly a
riot was caused during the Crawford
murder trial yesterday by William
Woodruff, a witness, declaring that
Mrs. Mathias Crawford's victim, had
had improper relations with different
men with her husband's consent.
Mathias attempted to strike Woodruff
with a chair, and revolvers were
drawn in the court room. Woodruff
was arrested for perjury and was
taken to jail to save him from being
lynched.
Pennington's Jjittle Air Ship.
CHICAGO : Inventor Pennington
gave a sort of an exhibition at the
Exposition building of the floating
qualities of his air ship. The buoy-ancy
chamber was made of oiled silk,
instead of aluminum, and there was no
car attacked. The side rudders and
wings were also missing.
There being no place for storage of
batteries on board of ship, they were
placed on the floor, with wires leaping
from them to the propeller wheel,
which works by electricity. When
the ship was released it floated upward
some forty feet, but the storage batter-ies
being weak, only a weak curreut
was sent along the wires, and the pro-pelled
wheel made but 50 reyolutions
a minute, when it should have made
250. After remaining suspended for
a time the ship was brought to earth
again and another experiment will
made to-morrow.
Over t h e State
A case of small-pox at Erie has
been traced to a letter carried from
Texas.
During the past year 473 buildings,
valued at $1,214,844, were erected in
Scran ton.
The old-fashioned spelling-bee is un-dergoing
a revival through the coun-try
sections.
Chester county's three alleged fire-bugs
were acquitted after a trial that
lasted three days.
George H. Day, former proprietor
of the Hotel Allen, at Allentowp, died
in New York aged sixty-two.
It is said that Northampton County
Commissioners conduct their official
deliberations in Pennsylvania Dutch.
For the first time in the history of
thé Farmers' Institute at A tglen no
papers by women were read at the
last meeting.
Evangelicals at Allentown are
secretly planning to counteract the de-posing
of Bishop Boman at the com-ing
session of their East Pennsylvania
Conference.
Jonn Zunal, of Eckley, had to be
released, as his wife had withdrawn
the charge of infanticide against him
and the officers couldn't get at the
little body.
A grave prepared at Macuugie for
Peter Heilig was found to be full of
water, and the interment had to be
postponed until the hole was pumped
out.
Dr. Mcintosh, of Harrisburg, says
he visited a town in this State where
no one could understand his English,
and he saw workingmen's notices post-ed
in four different languages.
William Wolf was buried by caving
earth thirty feet down in a well he was
digging in Spring Garden township,
York county. Rescuers dug so rapid-ly
that, though they got him out un-conscious,
he lived.
A bogus Masonic lodge has Deen
exposed in Scranton.
A Scranton Judge has decided that
piano playing is manual labor.
During the late floods a Montclare
man shot eighty-one muskrats.
There are 400 idle houses in
Williamsport due to the high rents de-manded.
Eighteen divorce cases were acted
upon in the Tioga County Courts at
the last term.
Walter Horton, of Sheffield, one of
the largest sole leather tanners in the
country, died on Saturday night.
George Hoffman, of Carlisle, serves
green corn on his table all winter,
much to the astonishment of his guests.
He preserves it in a pickle.
A girl in Huntingdon township,
Luzerne county, who walks four miles
to Sunday-school has only missed
three Sundays in twelve years.
The jswelry store of John F.
Schmitt, at Homestead, was robbed on
Saturday of $2000 worth of diamonds
and watches during the proprietor's
absence at supper.
The mangled body of John Koons,
a clerk in the City Treasurer's office
at Harrisburg, was found near West
Fairview, where it is supposed he was
struck by a train.
Jail For Faith Curists.
DES MotNES, l a . , Feb. 1.—A man
named Prestman became seriously ill
fiye weeks ago with typhoid fever.
His wife, being a strong believer in
" Christian science," or " faith cure,"
summoned Sarah Garner, who prac-tices
that art. From that day to this
the " scientist," together with a flock
of believers, has been praying for the
sick man's recovery. No physician
was called and no medicine was given.
A brother in law of the sick man ap-pealed
to the authorities when the
patient lest his reason. City Physician
Matthews proposes to have the man's
wife indicted for murder if he should
d e . ;
Drunkenness—liiquor Habit—in alt the
World There is but One Cure, Dr.
Hains' Golden Specific.
I t eau be given in a cup of tea or coffee
without tbe 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 been
cured who have taken the Golden
Specific in their coffee without their
knowledge, and to-day believe they quit
driiiking of their own free will.
No h a rm 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.
General News.
Fire opal has been found in Wash-ington
State.
American defaulters last year made
away with $8,520,000.
The United States Goverment has
issued a pamphlet on mushrooms.
The dinner to Senator Gorman in
Baltimore will be attended by Repub-licans
also.
Hunter Warren Hume has taken a
census of the Adirondack bears.
There are 4000 of 'em.
State Treasurer Hardenn, of Geor-gia,
slapped the mouth of State Geolo-gist
Spencer, and a duel is imminent.
The National Electric Light Asso-ciation
will hold its thirteenth session
in Providence, R. I., on the 17th in-stant.
California politicians are struggling
for Senator Hearst's place. He is not
dead yet. Morris Asto's bank account
is slated.
What becomes of miners' widows ?
The Avondale disaster in 1869 result-ing
in sixty-seven widows. All but
eleven have remarried.
Be careful how j ou slap folks on
the back. Lawrence Murray whack-ed
officer Adams in New York and
the policeman clubbed him.
James A. Smith, a leading ice mer-chant
of St. Louis, has been indicted
for fraud and for embezzling $31,000
from Charles P. Chouteau.
John D. Rockefeller's gift of $1,600-
000 to the Chicago University is being
paid in installment of $100,000 each
thirty days. Mr. Rockefeller says
that he has " just beguu to make
money."
—Are you married ? if not send your,
address to the American Corresponding
Club, Box 643, W. Clarksburg, Va. 3o-1y