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VOL. XVII. L1TITZ, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 15,1893. NO. 15.
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executed at short mo&ice.
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-AT THE-BROAD
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CLOTHING HOUSE.
few and Superb Stock
To Select From.
My Fall ^ Winter Styles
A R C A L L I N.
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P R I C E ,
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Ready-Made Overcoats,
Ready-Made Suits,
For Men, Boys and Youths.
My Stock of Piece Goods
is from the best and prettiest to be found in Philadel-phia
and the shelves are filled with all grades and all
patterns.
Nobby Styles in Hats and Caps,
Neckwear, and all other articles for gentlemen's wear.
Give me a call and see what I have. Fair dealing
and honest prices.
W. H. BUCH,
" R ç ç o r d " B C i i l d i f y g , B r o a d S t r e e t,
LITITZ, P€NNA.
Cold Weather Shoes!
It is a True Saying, and one in which doctors are unani-mous,
that to keep good health
The Feet Must Be Dry and Warm.
Knowing that Warm Lined Shoes are becoming more
popular each year, I have bought and received
The largest Stock and Assortment
I N L A N C A S T E R CITY.
Ladies' Plain Cloth, hand-turned Lace Shoes, $1.00 pair.
Ladies' Plain Cloth, machine sewed Lace Shoes, $1.00, 1.25.
Ladies' Cloth, leather-foxed, Lace Shoes, $ 1.00, 1.25, 1.50.
Ladies' Cloth, leather-foxed Button Shoes, $1.50 per pair.
Ladies' Plain Cloth Button Shoes at $1.50 per pair.
Cloth Boots and Shoes for Men at $2.00, 2.50 per pair.
CHAS. H. FREY,
(Successor to Frey & Eckert),
The Leader of Low Prices
in Boots and Shoes.
3 a i > d 5 C A S T K 1 N 6 STRCCT, L A N C A S T E R , PA.
WINTER GOODS.
L A R G E S T S T O C K OZEP
SOFT and STIFF HATS, ,
CAPS and GLOVES,
For Men and Boys, in Lancaster City,
C O M P L E T E L I I s T E O P
Ladies' and Children's Muffs £ Sets
at prices lower than ever offered before.
Call and Examine Goods and get Prices.
H. L. BOAS,
1 4 4 N o r t b Q û e c i ) Street, - - L a n c a s t e r , Pa,
NEWT. WINGERT, MANAGER.
( J APT. VERNON, tall, lean, brown,
( A tbirty-five. Sir Robert Carstairs,
same age, pink and white, exqui-site.
Ezekiel Lampson, florid, befur-red,
bediamoned, age—more than fifty.
Scene and time-The Blenheim Club,
St. James's. The smoking-room, 4
P. M.
Sir Robert—At last! I knew
should drop on you soon. Where do
you hide? -I'm forever meeting your
wife, you know, but I never come
across you anywhere.
Capt. Vernon—No ? That's not sur-prising.
I have been in India—and
other places (yawning)—for which
consult the back numbers of The Army
List.
Sir Robert—Of course, yes. I heard
you were abroad, you know, or in the
country, or something. Lucky beg-gar
! London's been very dull the last
year or two.
Capt. Vernon—Indeed ! Have you
found it so ? The papers have reported
it much as usual, and you as having
been present at most things.
Sir Robert—Yes ? Well, I live, you
know. All I mean is that it is not so
•musing as it was.
Capt. Vernon—What isn't ?
Sir Robert—Why, going around,
you know.
Capt. Vernon—Bobble! if you say
"you know " to me again I'll get up
and punch your head, exactly as if we
were at school. " Going round," I
suppose, means dances, club suppers,
jewel robberies and other society past-times.
Then Cowes, Scotland, Melton
and so on. And it's beginning to pall,
isn't it? (Mr. Lampson enters the
smoking-room). Stop ! Don't answer.
There's some fellow just come in, and
he's dodging about behind you, and I
think he's listening, or trying to.
Sir Robert (looking round)—My
dear fellow, don't talk so loud. It's
old Lampson. (Mr. Lampson, who
has been hovering behind them, re-tires
agam).
Capt.. Vernon—And who's old man
Lampson ?
Sir Robert—Who's old Lampson ?
Weil, you are out of the movement.
Dosen't Mrs. Vernon ever tell you
things? That's Lampson. He's the
richest man in Europe, and always
growing richer. Just now he is
making millions out of some electiic
company. Every one says there's a
swindle in it somewhere, but it's a
tremendous affair, you know.
Capt. Vernon (warningly)—Bob-bie!
Sir Robert—Well, you don't know.
The thing's a company called the
Aladdin Illuminating Syndicate. It's
a sort of gratituous electric company.
They put in an instalment of their
stuff for nothing, if they may take
away all your gas fittings and oil-lamps.
You've seen the advertise-ment,
" New Lamps for Old," all over
the town ?
Capt. Vernon—What do they make
by it?
Sir Robert—No one knows. But
the shares are at a tremendous pte-mium.
My idea is that when all this
part of the town depends OD the syndi-cate
for light the supply will give out,
and gas and oil will go up ; and it will
be found that old Lampson owns all
the gas works and hag the oil shops in
the hollow of his hand.
Capt. Vernon—H'm Does
everybody think as highly as that of
Mr. Lampson ?
Sir Robert—Every one thinks a
good deal of him. I tell you, th8y say
he's the richest man in Europe.
Capt. Vernon—And be is a member
here—of the Blenheim ?
Sir Robert—Yes, of course.
Capt. Vernon (thoughtfully)—A
member of the Blenheim! You're
right. I'm clean out of the movement.
By the way, how's your wife?
Sir Robert—She's very well, indeed,
thank you. She's in the country.
Capt. Vernon—This country ?
Sir Robert—Of course. What do
you mean ?
Capt. Vernon—Oh, I thought it
might be "India, or abroad, or some-where,
you know," as you put it just
now. For, curiously enough, though
everybody I meet has always just seen
you and all the papers say where you
were yesterday and where you will be
to-morrow, I never came across any
mention of Lady Carstairs.
Sir Robert (after a moment's silence)
—My dear fellow, she never goes out
anywhere. She hates it.
Capt. Vernon—She has my best
sympathies.
Sir Robert—You see, she led such
a quiet life at home before I married
her, and, between us, got rather drop-ped
on by her elder sisters, so that
somehow things frighten her. She
won't go out anywhere.
Capt. Vernon—So you have to go
out for both ?
Sir Robert—Well ?
Capt. Vernon—Well ?
Sir Robert (a little sulkily)—I
think that'll do, Vernon.
Capt. Vernon—Do you mean that
we should not talk over our wives in
a club ? Good Lord ! What does it
matter ? If you go into the Imherbis
or the Peterborough you'll hear lots of
fellows talking about my wife.
Sir Robert (indignantly)—There
isn't a word against Mrs. Vernon.
Capt. Vernon (dryly)—Really ?
She dosed't deserve a word against
her ; but that's hardly the same thing.
Isn't it odd, though, how things turn
out ? Here's Lady Carstairs renounc
ing society because she has been quiet-ly
brought up, while my wife—who
could have been brought up in
quieter fashion than my wife? She
lived all her girlhood asleep in a quiet
country house. Literally asleep! And
every one round her was asleep. Her
mother slept because she belonged to
the school of old ladies who do not
open their eyes for fear they should be
shocked; and her father slept—
mentally and physically—from over-eating.
The servants slept from old
age, and she herself slept from ignor-ance.
Yet no sooner does she get
away from her home than—well, she
wakes up with a vengeance.
Sir Robert—Yes, it's curious. But
we are better off than many men.
Capt. Vernon—I am not complain-ing.
I have no cause; and if I had, I
hope I shouldn't come and whine to
you. I only say that it is odd that
we two, who were certainly more care-ful
than most men in our choice, and
who both married from love, do not
seem to have got quite what we want-ed.
Sir Robert—Don't let us talk about
it. But, as you know, thera was one
girl who would have suited us both, I
believe. Do you recollect how mad
we were on her? By Jove, Vernon
you hated me in those days.
Capt. Vernon (flushing a little)—
You mean Barbara Wardour ?
Sir Robert—Yes, Barbara Wardour,
the Princess of China.
Capt. Vernon—Yes; I was very
fond of her. But that was ages ago.
Why that absurd nickname ?
Sir Robert—I will promise to leave
off saying " you know " to you, for you
know nothing. Everybody calls her
that since her father's death. You
remember, he was always thought a
lunatic for buying all those teapot
things. Well, I give you my word
that at his auction the British Govern-ment,
two Rajahs, America generally
and a stock exchange syndicate were
all bidding against each other, and
green with jealousy. They took £70,
000 for pots and pans alone, and a lot
of medallion rubbish fetched nearly
as much the next day. Why didn't
you go to the sale ? Oh, I remember,
met your wife there and she said—
Capt. Vernon (interrupting—Yes,
that I was " 1a the country or some-where."
But about Miss Wardour.
Do you ever see her? Is she Miss
Wardour still?
Sir Robert—Yes. There's no one
good enough for her.
Capt. Vernon^Is she so proud ?
Sir Robert—No; not proud. But
she knows her value.
Capt. Vernon—As eyery good
woman should. And how clever she
was!
Sir Robert—Awfully ! And so good
with it!
Capt. Vernon—Yes. Most unworld-ly
girl! Well, whoever gets her will
be a lucky man. (Mr. Lampson is
seen approaching). Don't mention
her in front of this—this thing.
Sir Robert—He's coming to ask us
to dinner. What a bore !
Capt. Vernon—You can refuse.
Sir Robert—H'm ! He's rather a
big man in his way, you know. (Look-ing
up at the intruder). How do,
Lampson ?
Mr. Lampson (heartily)—How are
ye, Sir Robert ? Beautiful as usual.
What a button-hole! I want you to
come and have a little dinner with me,
to-morrow. Excuse short notice.
Amphitryon—and I'll see to the wine
myself. So you can't do better.
Sir Robert—Well,-you know
Mr. Lampson—I don't know. I
only know you're coming. You al-ways
do. Ex (Looking at Capt.
Vernon). Perhaps you've some en
gagement with your friend ? (Pauses,
and Sir Robert at length introduces
them to each other). If so, why not
bring him? May l count on you,
Capt. Vernon ?
Capt. Vernon—Well, you see
Mr. Lampson—I don't see. I never
see when I don't want to see. You
must come. It's rather a great occasion
for me. Don't tell every one, though.
1 suppose it will be in all the papers
soon enough, but the dinner will be
one of my last bachelor entertainments.
I'm going to be married.
Capt. Vernon (yery languidly, and
looking out of the window)—Indeed !
Er fortunate Jady!
Sir Robert (looking Mr. Lampson
up and down, and curling his mustache)
—Who on earth is going to marry
you, Lampson ?
„* Mr. Lampson—Miss Barbara Ward-our,
the Princess of China.
Time.
The young man had been there
several hours, but he was one of those
who are oblivious of the passing of
duration.
The girl had yawned behind her
cambric handkerchief until it actually
had a nap on it.
Still he stayed on and talked.
The girl's evident weariness at last
appealed to him.
" Bless my soul!" he exclaimed;
" what time is it ?"
She shook her head hopelessly.
" Time ?" she asked. " It must be
eternity."
The Game Association.
Lancaster Intelligencer.
Friday evening a meeting was held
in common council chamber of the men
who recently started a movement to
stock the county about Lancaster with
partridges which are to be brought
from the far est. The object of
these gentlemen, who are all gunners,
is not only to stock the county with
quail, but to protect them afterwards.
Quite a large number of gentlemen re-ported
to the call for the meeting.
The meeting was called to order at
eight o'clock, and the following officers
were elected : President, John B
Peoples ; secretary, David L. Deen ;
treasurer, James C. Wiley. President
Peoples thanked those present for the
honor and said he would leave nothing
undone to make the organization a
success and felt sure that Lancaster
would support it.
A committee on by-laws was select-ed
: Messrs. John B. Peoples, I. N.
Wingert, H. E. Anderson, Robert
Clark and Geo. S. Franklin. The
committee on membership was selected
as follows : Messrs. David L. Doen, I.
N. Wingert, H. E. Stoner, Jno.Snyder
and Jacob F. Wolfer.
This name of the organization was
adopted " The Lancaster County Game
Association."
The announcement was made at the
meeting that so far $310 had been sub-scribed
for the purpose of securing
game and to carry on the work of the
association. That sum will be shortly
increased to $500,:and the membership
is sure to be much larger.
The organization recently formed in
Berks county sent an order to Kansas
for 1200 quail, which they will at
once distribute around the county.
L i t t l e for Creditors.
Lancaster Intelligencer.
Ex-Judge McMullen, auditor ap-pointed
to distribute the balance in
the hands of John D. Skiles, assignee
of Thomas Baumgardner and wife,
filed his report and it was confirmed
nisi.
The auditor had before him debts
aggregating $542,13414 The assets
for distribution in the hands of the
assignee are $46,227.43 and the many
criditors will get 8i per cent, of their
claims.
When Mr. Baumgardner failed it
was supposed that the creditors would
get a large percentage oi their claims,
but the above report indicates that the
creditors will get,a very small percent-age.
The report is subject to exceptions
and some of the creditors will no doubt
except, so that the legality of the sale
Of some of Mr. Baumgardners property
to his son can be tegted.
The auditors report in the assigned
estate of Ed win Eberman was also pre-sented.
The assets are $48,215.82,
and the liabilities $43,892.41. The
creditors will get 91 per cent, on this
distribution. There is other property
of Mr. Eberman not yet disposed of,
and when sold'his creditors will be
paid in full.
To B r a c e TJp
t h e s y s t em after " L a Grippe," pneumo-nia,
fevers, and other p r o s t r a t i n g acute
diseases; to b u i l d u p needed flesh and
s t r e n g t h , and to r e s t o r e h e a l t h a n d vigor
when you feel " r u n d o w n " and used-up,
t h e best t h i n g i n t h e w o r l d is Dr. P i e r c e 's
Golden Medical Discovery. It promotes
all t h e bodily functions, rouses every
organ i n t o h e a l t h f u l action, p u r i f i e s and
enriches the blood, and through it
cleanses, repairs a n d i n v i g o r a t e s the en-t
i r e system.
F o r . t h e most stubborn Scrofulous,
S k i n or Scalp Diseases, Dyspepsia, Bil-iousness,
and k i n d r e d ailments, the
" Discovery " is the*only r e m e d y t h a t 's
guaranteed. If it d o s e n ' t benefit or cure,
y o u h a v e y o u r money back.
Can y o u t h i n k o£ a n y t h i n g more con-v
i n c i n g t h a n t h e promise that is made
b y t h e p r o p r i e t o r s of Dr. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy ? It is t h i s : " I f we can't c u re
y o u r Catarrh, we'll p a y y o u $500 i n cash.
—ST. ELMO HOTEL, Nos. 317 a n d 319
A r c h street, P h i l a d e l p h i a . — R a t e s re-duced
t o $1.50 a n d $2per day. The t r a v e l -
i n g p u b l i c will s t i l l find at t h i s hotel the
same l i b e r a l p r o v i s i o n for t h e i r comfort.
I t is located i n t h e i m m e d i a t e c e n t r e of
business, and places of a m u s e m e n t and
t h e d i f f e r e n t r a i l r o a d depots,as well as all
p a r t s of t h e city, i s e a s i l y accessible by
s t r e e t cars c o n s t a n t l y p a s s i n g t h e doors.
I t offers special i n d u c e m e n t s to those
v i s i t i n g t h e c i ty f o r b u s i n e s s or pleasure.
Your patronage i s r e s p e c t f u l l y solicited.
oc7-ly GABLE & KRAUSE, P r o p ' r s.
FEEDING MILCH COWS.
'Some P o i n t s F o r t h e D a i r y m a n W h i ch
Will he Profitable to Observe—Re-s
u l t s of S c i e n t i f i c Experiments.
Bulletin No. 24, of the station at
State College, Pa., just issued, gives
the results of an experiment by Pro-fessors
Waters and Caldwell and Mr,
Weld upon the question of the most
profitable amount of food for a milch
ow.
In these experiments, ten cows were
fed a ration beginning with 8 pounds
of grain and 12 pounds of hay and
gradually increasing up to as high as
19 pounds of grain and 27 pounds of
hay per day and head, and then
gradually decreasing to the original
amount. Throughout the experiment
accurate notes were taken of the
amount and cost of the food, the milk
produced by each animal and its butter
value as determined by the Babcock
test.
Perhaps the most striking lesson of
the experiment in the demonstration
it gives of the profit there is in liberal
feeding. The cheapest ration used
cost 18 8 cents per day and produced
butter valued at 26 5 cents, making a
net profit of 7.7 cents per day percow.
An increase of 2 9 cents per day per
cow in the cost of this ration made the
daily value of the butter 31 cents and
the net profit 9.3 cents per day or a
difference of 1.6 cents per day per cow
io favor of the more costly ration. In
other words, the farmer who attempt-ed
to economize by feeding the cheap-er
ration, would, with a herd of 25
cows, save $217 50 per year on his feed
bills, but would lose $337.50 worth of
butter that he might have produced
with the more costly ration, so that
his illjudged attempt at economy
would result in a net loss of $120.
The cheaper ration, moreover, is
what would ordinarily be considered a
good ration, and the majority of dairy-men
would be likely to feed less rather
than more, yet the results of this
bulletin show conclusively that with
such cows as these, the more expensive
ration was really the more economical.
A further increase of the cost of the
ration, however, to 25.1 cents per day
gave no further^increase in the butter
product, and the net profit was there-by
cut down to 5.9 cents per day or
1.8 cents less than with the cheapest
ration of the three. In other words,
the experiments indicate that there is
a certain medium ration for each cow
which will give the greatest net profit
and that any attempt to economize by
feeding less than this will result in a
loss, while, on the other, hand, it is
possible to feed a cow too much as
well as too little. Generally, however,
there is more daDger of feeding too
little than too much.
The experiment also brings out in a
striking light the great individual
difference in cows and the great im-portance
of a careful study by the
dairyman of each individual of his
herd, both as regards the amount of
milk and butter produced and the cost
of feed consumed. The net profit
yielded by each one of the ten cows
used in this experiment was the great-est
on the medium ration, but it varied
in amount from 2 2 cents per day to
24 cents per day, equivalent, for a
milking period of 300 days, to $6 60
and $72 respectively.
The increased profit coming from
the better feeding, too, varied greatly
with different animals, some respond-ing
promptly and freely to the increase,
while on others it produced but little
effect.
The figures of the bulletin show
likewise what great differences in profit
there may be between cows producing
yery nearly the same total amount of
milk and butter per year. For an
example, the records show that last
year :
Marguerite produced, 6,512 pounds of milk
and 296 pounds of butter.
Bamonaproduced, 5,459 pounds of milk and
279 pounds of butter.
By the customary standard of com-parison,
Marguerite would have been
regarded as the superior animal, bar-ring
difference in breeding, etc., and
would have commanded the higher
price. On comparing the daily net
profit returned by these animals, how-ever,
we find a remarkable difference
not indicated or suggested by the
butter and milk records.
Assuming that they remain fresh for
300 days and taking the average net
profit per day of all periods, we have
a yearly profit for
Marguerite of. $31 50
Bamona of 61 50
On this basis at the end of six years,
which, for this case, we assume to be
the productive life of a cow, and disre-garding
the offspring, they would have
made a total net return of
Marguerite $189 00
Bamona 369 00
This means that Marguerite would
have yielded ten per cent, compound
interest on a purchase price of $106,
while Ramona would have paid the
same dividend on a purchase .price of
WE ARE NOW READY
To make many people happy for Xmas. We have our show cases filled with
the best goods the market produces and at prices to suit the times. We have
. . P r e s e t s E x p c o s i ^ c a p d i o ^ x p e o s i v e ..
for the old or young, for boys and girls, and rings for the. sweethearts. Will
you come and look through my goods ?
JHeK STRÄU
6 0 M o r t i ? Q û e e o S t ., L a ï K a â t ç r , P a .
Again, in the case of BianGa produc
ing 5,556 pounds of milk and 232
pounds of butter last year, we have the
following exhibit:
Average daily net profit for all periods 4.9c.
Total net profit for one year $14 70
Total net profit for six years, 88 20
The reader may regard these as ex-treme
cases, and yet they were select-ed
from the ten animals used in this
experiment, and there is no reason to
doubt that as great differences might
be found in any.ordinary herd.
The Cat H a d Gone.
A German paper says that a cook,
who had burned a five-pound joint of
veal, to avoid a scolding she threw the
spoiled meat away and told her mis-tress
the cat had eaten it.
"Indeed!" said the lady. " We will
see about that," and she took the cat,
put it on the kitchen scales, and found
that it weighed precisely five pounds.
" There, Katrine," she said, " I
suppose that is the five pounds of meat;
but please tell me where is the cat ?"
B r i g h t Boys.
"Huh !" said the first Benedick, "I
don't suppose that there is a boy quite
as bright as mine in the whole city of
Buffalo. The other night we had ice
cream for dinner. Now, he usually
likes ice cream, but this particular lot
seemed to -be too cold for him. What
do you suppose he did ? Why he went
and put on his overcoat and cap and
mittens and then ate it. Thought
that if he was warmer the cream
wouldn't be so cold. See ? Speaking
about bright boys."
" Well," said the Second Benedick,
" I've got a bright boy myself. He's
in the blue ribbon class and don't you
forget iis. Why, the other day he was
inquiring of the hired girl what she
was made of, and the hired girl happen-ed
to be making pies. So she held up
a lump of dough and said : ' You're
made of dough.' 'An' is brack ladies
like the washlady made of brack
dough ?' he asked. ' Yes,' she said.
He thought for a long time and final-ly
said: ' Mary, I don't believe it.
How'd they get the jelly in for the
eyes ?' And you will talk about bright
boys, will you ?"
" It pains me to mention it," said
the Third Benedick, " but I must say
that I've got a boy up at my house
who simply leads the procession. He
taught me a lesson the other day. It
was at the breakfast table and he had
a soft-boiled egg. He was making bad
work of it and had daubed his nose
and cheeks and hands. Finally I look-ed
over at him and said, in a manner
meant to be mildly sarcastic, ' Why
don't you put it on your hair, Reg ?' "
"And what did he do ?" asked the
other two Benedicks in the same
breath.
' He put it on his hair," replied the
Third Benedick, sadly.
A Great Army Wants Work.
It is estimated that the number of
unemployed in Chicago is nearly 117,-
000, and so great had their sufferings
become that the Illinois Conference of
Charities and Corrections, at a special
meeting Saturday, appointed a com-mittee
of 100 representatives to at
once proceed to raise a charity fund of
$1,000,000 for the relief of the most
pressing wants of the worthy and de-serving
poor.
Editor Stead, who was present at
the meeting, suggested that if the
ministers and millionaires were turn-ed
out into the streets for one night
the money would be forthcoming at
once.
By actual count, 1,119 men sought
shelter in City Hall for Tuesday night,
and as many more were stowed away
on Stone floors on Saturday night.
E i g h t R e c o r d Beaters.
The largest bell in the world is in
the Kremlin, at Moscow, 432,000
pounds.
The tallest iron tower is the Eiffel
monument at Paris, 989 feet.
The deepest mining shaft is at Priz-dram,
in Bohemia, 3280 feet deep.
The largest city in the world is Lon-don,
4,764,312 persons.
The highest waterfall is the Yosemite
in California, 2550 feet.
The tallest stone tower is the Wash-ington
Monument at Washington, 555
feet.
The largest university is Oxford ; it
has 21 colleges and five halls.
The greatest inland sea is the Cas-pian,,
which is 700 miles long by 270
in width.
—Convicted Murderer Charles Sal-;
yard's counsel at Carlisle will carry
his case before the Pardon Board on
the 26th inst,
I n Different P a r t s of t h e State.
The electric cars at Lebanon spin
at a 15-mile an hour clip.
A splash of molten iron in""a Read-ing
furnace seriously burned James
Sullivan.
A steel yacht 51 feet long is being
constructed in Pittsburg by C. A. and
G. E. Painter.
While picking coal on a siding in
Lebanon, James O'Connell was struck
by a train and killed.
On Monday last Charles Lemoine
left his Yardley home to collect bilk,
and has not returned.
While visiting friends in Reading,
Sames W. Lutz, of Philadelphia, sud-denly
expired on Saturday.
In attempting to cross the Susque-hanna
river at Plymouth on the ice
Walter Tomasz was drowned.
Seventeen Pittsburg churches united
in raising funds for the poor, and al-ready
$5000 has been collected.
There were seyenty-eight deaths in
Allegheny City last week, the largest
number in the history of that city.
An accidentally discharged gun in
the hands of W. H. Roland created a
panic in a Lancaster hotel Saturday
night.
.The Intercollegiate Press Associa-tion
of Pennsylvania met on Saturday
at Lancaster with eight colleges repre-sented.
Contractor William Call, of Read-ing,
got a verdict for §3500 against
the city of Lebanon for work done on
a reseryoir.
A miner named Kaufmann and two
brothers named ICing were injured in
a premature dynamite explosion near
Greensburg.
A masked burglar held up the agent
at Wildwood, a station on the Alle-gheny
Valley Railroad aud looted the
money drawer.
The Philadelphia and Reading's
great coal traffic continues, 14,058 ton
coming out of the Palo Alto district
on last Friday.
A little daughter of W. J. Harold,
of near Greensburg, was fatally burn-ed
by her twin brother, who was play-ing
with matches.
Catalogues of the furniture in the
State World's Fair Building, which
will be sold shortly, are being sent out
from Harrisburg.
Western Pennsylvania miners have
united upon 65 cents a ton as the price
for digging coal, while the operators
refuse to pay more than 60 cents.
The Philadelphia & Reading Com-pany
is the only railroad in the State
that has not made its yearly report to
the Department of Internal Affairs.
Judge Archbald severely rebuked a
Scranton jury, which acquitted Ab-salom
Arnold of a serious charge, al-though
he had not ©yen made a de-fense.
The excitement of the murder of
her child by her husband, who com-mitted
suicide, resulted fatally to Mrs.
Joseph Holzman, of Pittsburg, who
had suffered with heart trouble.
Chance for the Fatted Calf.
A fine-looking man, dressed in the
style of a Western frontiersman, step
ped from the Pennsylvania Railroad
train, at Centre street, Manavunk, and
inquired for Michael Snyder.
" He's dead," was the reply.
" Is his wile living ?"
"No ; but he has a son JohD, living
on Washington street.above Fountain."
The stranger wended his way to the
residence of John and awoke the
family. He was admitted, but none
knew him, except the house dog, which
went wild with joy, licked the man's
hands and sprang all over him. Then
the stranger revealed himself. He was
Micharl, the long lost brother, who
mysteriously disappeared in 1876,
while he was a policeman under Mayor
Stockley. Though search was made
in every direction for Mic iael, no trace
of him was found, and when his parents
heard that he had enlisted in the
Seventh United States Cavalry and
had perished with Custer in the battle
of the Little Big Horn, they mourned
him as dead.
When he established his identity
the children were awakened to see
" Uncle Mike" and the proverbial
fatted calf was killed. Michael tells a
strange story of his wanderings, drift-ing
from one place to another, and
finally locating in East Saginaw, Mich,
and making a fortune of $50,000,