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YOL. XXII. LITITZ PA., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 24, 1899. ÎNO-29.
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^ g E O A D S T R E E T C L O T H I N G H O U S E.
Early Spring
Announcement.
Springtime is about at hand and with it
, come thoughts of new wearing apparel.
^ I have made early purchases of all kinds
ijp of goods belonging to my line of trade, and fmake this announcement so that my patrons
may know that they can buy now as cheap
as later and have the best selections from a
^ clean and fresh stock,
'^f Every variety of
I Spring ^Summer Mings.
| Ready-made Clothing
for man and boy,
I would like every one to come and set
my big assortment of
Colored Outing
and Other »im
nothing like it ever before seen in Litite.
that can't be matched in some of the more
pretentious stores. I have all my Neckwear
selected from piece silk and made t© order.
in the latest styles, of course, and at prices
as low as the lowest.
W. H. BUCH,
The Clothier,
Record Building,
S. Broad Street, >
Jjititz, Penna.
f i t ;lusive Hat Store* • •
Spring Styles
i n M e n ' s a n d B e y s' ffeadwear
Now ready for your Inspection
A Beautiful Line of Stiff and
Soft Hats from all the
Leading Mfrs.
From
? B C O R N E R ,
No. 1 N o r t h Q u e e n Street, - - LANCASTER, PA.
We Study to Please the Most Fastidious.
Our gathering togefhgr of a p y e l t i e g for
E A S T E R G R E E T I N G
jg gMBri^iJ 8i all' fts feflsN the day. Waist Sets,
feasfi S^ts, Hearts, Hat Bjng, Stick Pins, Medalligng, Bracelets,
P y p a n Q Ghajns. I/ate§t s i l v e r aevelty is % C@rnb C l e a n e r ,50c.
JEWELRY STORE,
1 0 1 N . Q u e e n S t . , L a n c a s t e r
at the prices at which we are offering
Whitewash, Scrub, Horse, Paint and all other
kind of Brushes, and well they may for such
bargains have not been known before. Could
our Brushes speak, they would remonstrate
at the low prices at which we sacrifice them.
But our prices speak and the brushes remain
dnmb through the bustle with indignation.
. 8 . BOMSHRI SO,,
LITITZ, PA.
THE COUNTRY
CORRESPONDENT
s y IT Y N E WSPAPERS often poke
I / » fun at the country correspond-ents,
but let me tell you that the
country correspondent is of
much more importance than the city
reporter and is. in closer touch with af-fairs.
There is no affectation about
him and he does not go in for " style
in writing, but he often,makes more of
a stir, relatively, with a six-line para-graph
than the' city newspaper- man
can with a double-column head and v
page of war type. I was a country cor'
respondent once myself, says a writer
in the Pittsburg Daily News.
Looking back at my past it is a mat-ter
of wonder to. me,that >1 did not come
to a violent end. I believe I raised
trouble enough to make my killing jus-tifiable,
but a man bom to be bald will
never die with a full crop of hair on his
head. And I had hair then and more-over
I used hair oil on it. This is the
way I got into the newspaper business:
I wrote a letter to the editor of our
county paper about a man with whom
the editor had some trouble, and who
was being lambasted in the paper. I
told a secret of his past and it was duly
published. . Instead of making any
trouble for the editor the fellow called
at the offipe, paid g, year's subscription
for the paper in advance and he and
the editor settled their dispute over a
glass or two of lemonade. You see only
one secret of the the past had been re-vealed,
and as the fellow had quite a
past, he thought it just as well to let it
go at that.
Following this the editor wrote me a
letter q,nd offered me the pogt of corre-spondent
for the Bugle in our town. I
accepted it by return mail with the un-derstanding
that he should keep my
identity secret sô that I could work
with a freer hand. He agreed to this.
The job wi}S nominally an honorary
one, for I furnished my own stamps
and paper, in return for whioh the edi-tor
once spoke of me as "our wide-awake
correspondent at Pineville," but
of course he gave no name. • Only he
and I knew who the man was. The
first thing I did was to adopt what I
was pleased to call a " nom de plume."
I t was ' G. U. Ess who.' I thought that
was ratljeç qlever. I ^ad gçgn letters'
signed fQuess Who' and ' U Guess,'
but none of them had the striking orig-inality
of ! G. TJ. Esswho,' The letters
and words were so j n gg n ¡0 u s }y d}v}ded
and connected, I told myself, ttiat it
would b,e a puzzle }n itself foç those who
read the ' Points from Pineville."
The interval between the mailing of
my first letter and the receipt of the
paper containing it was a long and tedi-ous
one. I was anxious to hear what
the people would say about ' G-. U. Ess-who's'
letter and particularly about 'G,
U. Esswho.' I had ç^n Idfta that I
would be blamed for it at the start and
I had thought out a plan to throw off
suspicion. I would denounce the let-ter
and thft writer vehemently on e.vçyy
possible o c c ^ o n .
The p?ipeç qame and my letter was
in it. I read it over three or four tjmes
befoff I Igft tt(9 pQpfqfftpg, and I spent
the seat of the day throwing myself in
the way of men to hear what they had
to say about it. But they didn't men-tion
it that day. I. felt hurt. The
next day, however, the town was talk-ing
about gorap qiie had'^'aq jt'ftnd
had told |P.mg o,n§ glsg fi^out }t and it
spread. 4 1.
Being new to the business and know-ing
only that as the correspondent of
the Bugle I was charged wjtl}
that nioïiilg qf t^q^qwn, wsçe cor-rect,
I had jumped into tlint part of my
work in one leap. I had written gome*
thing like this; " I f a certain married
man doesn't cease his visits to a certain
widow woman of this town we will ex-pose
his hypocrisy. A word to the wise
is sufficient." , *.,
Now I didn't know ^ ^ lliatf, TO
anything ^ke t^iat go\ng oh, iput' Ï hail
read paragraphs of the same soyt ^n t^e
news of otlior. towng, and I felt t ^ t
was b,ut due, |o qnr to\yn (t
sbqnld-j3.fi. guppgtgcjqf. hivingaspftnda^
I h^d forgotten t % t w§r§ t*we§
op fquf marriagWbie viidowg in the
town ef whom othe? jealous females
had said at church sociables and other
public places that they were no better
than they oiight to be, which was true,
for none of us are, Not only did 1 nut
them under su|p^c|.on |jy tli¿'paragraphJ
but in my |>lihd dévotion ! to iiïy! jour-nalistic
duty,11 hail sown seeds of jeal-ousy
in a half dozen or more bomes that
had been peaceable and happy Ami
furthermore, 1 ^'ad'half thq'toSyii i^fc-i^
g aiap.ut ti^fe otlier half and §11 talking,
agôuit tl\e w|dovys. it kept thg, may^gd
ir^en o,ff tjjç s ^ t s after dark for
awhile, anyhow.
Everybody was trying to 'guess who'.
I began to feel t h a t it would not be long
until I would be appreciated, But to
my intensç d|§gugt nearly. q,ve,ry' mftle
pqrgon in the t8wn was mentioned as
the possible writer of tlie letter ; e.xcept
myself. IJot that \ wanted'" to
kflown ju§t ti^çn, ^ut t l ^ t |t >vfiiipd§(|
m§ whiin ttH\v denied 111c the Uanor of
suspecting me, That turned me
against them, I grew more misehiev.
ous and rancorous in my letters on this
account. I wanted revenge on . the
town for the slight.
An estimable young man of the town
was paying attention to an equally es-timable
young woman, 'qpjgct'toatÇf-mony}'
p t^e^ersbri&l':adverHsementb
say, and'lhe went to a neighboring town
once and twice a week to call on her.
One night he missed the late train and
liad to walk home. T^efo^owing week
'i PinevilJe " poniained this paragraph:
There is a strong attraction at Stump-town
for E. J . G. It takes him down
there every week. He went down last
Saturday and got left. Ha, ha, Ed.
How did you like your walk ?"
Nothing hurt me so much as when
heard that Ed. had whipped a measly,
little sueak who didn't know enough
to tell the t r u th truthfully, on suspicion
that he was the Pineville correspondent
of the Bugle. It was like shoving a hot
iron into me that such a fellow should
get the credit for a gem of that sort
I was on the point of publicly declaring
that I had written it, but when I saw
the other fellow that Ed. had met
hesitated. One of the merchants in the
town said that the fellow Ed. had
whipped would not stoop to write such
silly things and the next week, the
Bugle contained this: " W e are forced
to expose the reprehensible conduct of
one of our merchants, who was seen
last week chipping the lead from his
one-pound weight. This man is a mem-ber
of church and he ought to know
better. He need not t h i n k to hide the
cheat by using lamp black,"
I not only had my revenge on t h e man
who made the uncalled-for remark, but
I put a temporary stop to the use of one-pound
weights in the three stores in
the town. People said they had notic-ed
that the pounds were light, and they
insisted on having their sugar and other
stuff weighed without the use of one-pound
weights. But they forgot about
it a week or two later when they read
this In my weekly letter: " There are
several old whited sepulchres of sin
about this town that we intend to show
up in their true colors. Space forbids
us doing it this week, but more of this
anon."
This was in response to % letter from
the editor to mftke my letter as breezy
as possible. He had heard of the talk
that I was causing, and he wanted
more of it. So I ran in the 'whited
sepulchres.' Not that H?nçw of i\ny,
but that I thought }t sounded well and
that it wquld do no harm, I was as-tounded
at the consternation It created.
Letters were written to tlie editor ask-ing
him for the name of the Pineville
correspondent, threatening him if he
published anything in his paper about
the writers, inclosing the arrearages due
on subscriptions, paying for new sub-scriptions
and asking him as a husband
and father not to, disturb the peaee of
their families by digging- into the past.
I had been doing, tl^e freelance business
with such unheard of freedom that no
one knew where 1 would strike the
next blow, < O, l.\ Esswho ' was a per-son
of importance. I felt it. I knew
that they could nqt long deprive me of
the simple justice of putting my name
on the list of suspicious characters. It
was discouraging t h a t they didn't sus-pect
me, still I enjoyed the fuss I had
stirred up among the ' whited sepul-chers.'
I wouldn't have believed't gf
some of them, I s a t ^ e r surprised
at guçh a larS'e «pd assorted collection
as indicated by the letters the editor
sent me.1 I felt that ^t would not do. to
say nothing more, about it, ag I
tended to do wl^e,n I t rqqrç, imofl,/-
go I g^ld my ngxt letter ti^at o,ut çjf
respect for their families I had çq.ne\ud-e.
d to w^thhol^ tl\e exposyr§§, I gave
ttjem waning to reform or take
the conséquences. That restored the
town to its normal condition, and took
a haggard, anxious look from the faces
of a number of men. But (t ^yqu^cl
never do to allo,\y. $ $ tqwfl fo t^çk
into | t | former, ^uigtu^e, §9 I wr-ots:
Wonder, what exeuse the men who
took part in that disgraceful affair in
that Main street house Tuesday night
gave their wives for staying out until
the wee sma'tjou^'l ?"
ifqw; tl^e fdjsgmpefuj a f f t i r ' was mere-ly
a dog fight for- $10 a side, It was
pulled off quietly after bed-time on ac-count
of the opposition of the burgess
to it. But the men who had been out
late that night could not make their
wives believe t h a t after t h e publi^t^Qi^
of t h a t paragraph Tifle qi.qiie,
young i^qiWàn ïiad'tqld her that h,e,
•Was Kept out late, that night auditing
the book| of t^e. ^odge,. ïfe. djd.
TV.ant to t e ^ %} tfutft for, ^ ë - did
flojt , ^ p p p v g dqg fighting. Sijie çqfl-ff,
onted lîim w^th the para^vaPÏi later,
and tl^en l^e tqjcl ^eç i k f t f it was the
dog flgiit that had kept him away from
home. But she declared that it was
something more disgraceful than a dog
fight, otherwise he would have told her
the t r u th in the first plp-^e, ^he -wani
home h^p mother.''She said she
wouljti, not ijive with à !man who was so
dfeceitful. l ie started out; to hunt 'G,
IX. Esswho.', Oilier men' we^e looking
for the same, man. 4 not
thought ¿¡f, I did not h^ear- rô.y name
mentioned' e.v.çn as a p.rofe,abi^ty.-
iloW ipfty toflgug ïike smotterjng
genius, Vint when J saw how dreadful-fy
in earnest the man was whose wife
had left him, I kept the bushel ovër
my light.
One day 1 1 roasted ' the ra|Jrqad ^ m -
pany, whie^ a§ ^ grinding, spùlïêss c.oi>
p o r t i o n has always been regarded Ipy
thé average man as his enemy since the
day the flrçt r%ht oj'way de,^
gd. I sa^d of $ ; «,'. T^at o}d W i that
m p e s ioi a railroad depot here is a
disgïflee to our-, town, Som© of our
enterprising citizen^ ai1® talking of pass-ing
around the hat to get enough mon-ey
to build a decent place for people to
wait on trains. Shame on such a
grasping corporation!"
This met with instant and unaqlmQVW
approval. It wa( | without dis-sent
G|; lï'. 'Ésswho ' had h i t the
nail on the liead.' They seemed to for-get
his past sins in their admiration of
the body blow he had dealt the railroad
company. It was an ' ¡^>ly Written
piece,,.' ft§ysaid, ï eould scarcely con-tain
"myself. I was wild when I heard
that certain persons, who had been
picked out as t h e author of it had not
denied it, but had simply laughed in a
'knowing way.' So I called on the
town barber. I told h im my secret and
produced documentary evidence to "su-stain
my claim to t h e authorship of the
Pineville letters in the Bugle. I told
him I knew he could keep a secret.
He said he would, and soon I began to
fear that he might. It was three weeks
after that before he told a blessed soul
I almost felt like going to him and
choking it out of him. I never knew a
man to keep a secret so aggravatingly
long before. And the worst of it was
when he finally did tell it the people
had forgotten all about my excoriation
of the railroad company, but had a live-ly
remembrance of t h e rest of my past,
If there is any place where it is true
that genius is its own reward, it is in
Pineville. My ambition was crushed.
I had to abandon both journalism and
Pineville;
Take Your Choice.
The following are the set-ups of the
two Republican factions to be voted for
at to-morrow's primary: The nomina-tions
by Quay faction are as follows:
Sheriff, Thomas L. McMichael; Pro-thonotary,
John Grosh; Register of
Wills, A. H. Diffenbaugh; County
Treasurer, J . G, Stauffer; Clerk of Quar-ter
Sessions, H. L. Trout; Clerk of Or-phans'
Court, S. S. Brubaker; County
Commissioners, M. L. Greider and
David E. Mayer; Prison Inspectors, W.
W. Bones and Isaiah D. Eaby; Direc-tors
of the Poor,'H. W. Graybill and
Frederick Shoff; Auditors, G. G. Land-say
and"Thomas-J. Marsh; Delegates to
State Convention , Dr. J . Francis Dun-lap,
Lieutenant E, R. Eckman, A. W.
Snader, S. G. Zerfass, Chester W. Cum-mings,
B. Yeokev, Amos Herahey,
John B, Kendig, :
Following are the anti-Quay nominal
tions:
Sheriff; A. B. Kready; Prothonotary,
Andrew H. Hevshey; Register of Wills,
William K. Seltzer; County Treasurer,
Captain Edward1 Edgerly; Clerk of
Quarter Sessions, Michael R. Hoffman;
Clerk of Orphans'Court, Jason K. Eaby;
County Commissioners, George E,t
Bard and Amos S.' Mowrer; Prison In-spectors,
Elam H. Denluigorand Dan'I
F. Hamakey; nireetorai of the Poor,
Hiram Buck waiter and J. M, Sl^ultz;
Auditors, Harry Fairlamb, and Daniel
H. Heitshu; Delegates to State Conven-tion,
Captain C, E- Itennjng, Dr, E, B,
Miller, W- Scott Seldomridgej A, H,
Shenk, William R. Harnish, George C,
Johnson, A. S. Htwknesa, I>r, J. L,.
Afowevy- Dr, Witiuer, (if Conestoga,
was nominated by the factions for Coro-net1,
TERRIBLE FIRE IN NEW YORK.
and
About Newspapers.
Many newspapers in the United
States are now changing their price
from one tq two ©ents,
California newspapers are now pyor_
hibited by law from printing political
cartoons or. caricature^ against pefipiii..
.T'h,e. Flying Roller. ^h^ name of a
new pap^- \n l i i ^ i g a n.
I t is tl^onght t h e feig Baking powder
i r u s t , just organized, will effect a sav-ing.
of|^0.Q,0®Q a year in advertising. •
B,x-(3ovgpnor Altgeld is speakingnear-ly
every night in Chicago in his fight
for Mayor. One of the leading papers
there never prints a line of it.
-- The small army, of jquprft%t!S jn Jf§w
York, thr.Q\Yfl ftn.i of employment after
th,e ^pan^ti w-ar, ato pietty well em-pjqyed
again, the newspapers having
made up in receipts for losses last year.
The Mayor of Macon, Ga., is engaged
in collecting subscriptions for ®pp}y-ing
one daily nevfip^pw to each family
wit^|i} municipality that is with-ftu
t one. Ho says he does this in t h e In-terest
of law and order and wisdom and
iobriety in the community.
A Reliable Woman AVaut ed.
We want a reliable woman in
county to establish a 4.ot^e,t parlor, for.
the s|k\ of Niciiolg'- Celebrated
Spiral Spring. Corset^ ' Ttae. hj^t $;l.G0i
Cx)rsets. in the, Avorld. E;v«f,y ^
warrante,d no,t to, ^ miftt, absq-
Jute]\y ^p^av^oug to moiature or- per-,
gpiva't^ofl. ' & ne-yy pair given toy ©very
pai? tl^at iff^Rks, Ciiiamntee printed on
each WW©ti Beeommended by over
I'l.ii.«) Physicians,' I furnish complete
atoob oir consignment and pay a salary
of $40 to $65 per month and e x p e r t s.
$3.00 sample outfit free, pyloes reduced.
Send 10 cent§_pqgtage for sample and
DB. G. D. NicholSj
Tf --'!ni New Canaan, ('01111.
Scientific I^org^^ojeing.
J . P. S^ndws!, of- S'ehaefiersjtq^.n,
^efean^n county, a farmer, qf years
experience, in the'same village, ha.8 es-tahiished
a laig§ business as a seientific.
¿Oise He studies t h e foot of each
horse and then fits the shoes in accord-ance
with the peculiarities of individual
hoofs. Farmers and owners of d i v i ng
horses are beginning $a »ee that many
an a n ^ a l that limps simply does so on
account of misfit shoes. Mr. Sanders
has customers coming from a dHanv«
of over five,mMes;; ", H%lea.¥n,e4 t h a t r a d^
with ifegfirise, at one time a
b,iackamith of Schaefferstown. Mr.
Sanders said that outside of shoeing
horses, there was hardly any work left
for the modern blaoksmith, hence he
found It necessary to cultivate his
knowledge along this one profitable line
of the business. Enterprising black-smiths
in other localities are taking th©
same course as Mr. Sander^'' ©if the
whole, the skill of o,u^: fermOrs in.
creased wijfchiiOfee last five years.1 1
tiivo the phildten a Drinlt
called Grain-O, It is a delicious, appe-tizing,
nourishing food drink to take
the place of coffee. Sold by all gsoesera
and liked by all whp, hay« u'^eajt be-cause
when pyaperty prepared it! tastes
yke the finest eoffee'but is free from all
its Injurious properties. Grain-0 aids
digestion and strengthens the nerves.
I t is not a stimulant but a health build-er,
and children as well as adults, can
drink it With great benefit. Costs about
i as much as coffee. 15 a n d 25e. 3
The Windsor Hotel Destroyed
Many Iiives Xjost.
The worst fire New York city has
"seen for many years was on Friday af-ternoon
last when the seven-storied
Windsor Hotel, on fifth avenne, ex-tending
from forty-sixth to forty-seventh
street, was completely destroy-ed,
causing the loss of no less t h a n fif-teen
lives and the i n j ury of many others
The fire occurred just as t h e St. Pat-rick's
day parade was passing. The
hotel was crowded with sightseers. The
flames started in the' lace curtains of
the large parlor on the second floor. A
boy pulled the chain attached to the
fire alarm, but the chain broke, and he
ran. to the office crying fire. The boy
then ran to the basement and alarmed
the women who were at work there.
Within three-quarters of an hour the
building collapsed to the street, leavin
but a mass of debris.
The hotel, built in 1877, was almost a
veritable fire trap. All the reserve po-lice
were ordered to the scene. All
chance of escape by means of elevators
and stairways was cut off in a twink-ling
and the people were at the mercy
of the flames.
Windows were thrown up on every
side o f t h e building, and guests, mostly
women, in all stages of terror, made
their appearance and made frantic ap-peals
for assistance.
Some fled in terror to the roof of the
hotel and as the huge tongues of flame
shot up around them the panic-stricken
men and women leaped into space and
were crushed to death on the stone
flagging below.
From the windows the same terrible
scenes were enacted. Guests, frantic
and crazed, leaped from all the floors
and were picked up mangled.
Mrs. Abner McKinley, wife of the
President's brother, was at the hotel
with her invalid daughter, Mabel. In
her terror she was rescued and borne
down the fire-escape. Remembering her
daughter, she begged that her life be
saved. Mabel was awakened, and seiz-ing
a rope swung out SO feet above tlie
ground. Brave firemen ran up long
ladders, and just as the young lady's
hold was slipping gathered her safely
in their arms,
Mrs. Warren Leland, wife of t h e pro-prietor
of the hotel, was watching the
parade with her daughters. Helen
jumped and was dashed to death. Mrs.
Leland died from her injuries. The
other daughter was saved. Airs. Kick,
widow of the Chicago soap mUiionaire,
is among the killed. 5
In What Maiitn Were You Born.
Here Is an old astrological prediction,
said to indicate, with tolerable certain-ly,
the character of the girl according
to the month she happens to be born in
says an c h a n g e ;
i f a girl k hovn in January, she. will
be a prudent housewife, given to melan-choly,
tat goad tempered.
If jn February, a humane and affec-tionate
wife and tender mother.
If in March, a frivolous chatterbox
somewhat given to quarreling, -
If in April, inconsistent,, «at intelli-gent,
but likely to good looking.
If in May, handsome and likely to be
happy.
If in June, impetuous, will marry
early, and be frivolous.
If in July, passably handsome,, tat
with a sulky temper,
. I f in Augus^^ amiable and practical,
likely to marry rich,
I f in September, discreet, affable and
much liked'.
If in October, pretty and coquettish
and likely to be unhappy.
If in November, liberc^, Jsifld of a
mildjdisposition,
If ir| fte^jmbjei) well proportioned,,
no.veity and extravagant,
TO, F H E L/A^TI OF SUNSHINE
Take, t h e ^ n ^ l n e Route from Ohi-
<?ago te Angelea, San Francisco
and other points in California, and
escape, t h e rigorti of winter in the East
a n d i f o r t h .
Pullman Tourist Cars for first and se(^
ond class passengers leave Qhteogo
every Saturday at 2 o'^o^k p, m. via
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Railway to Kansas City, thence to Cal-ifornia
via the Atchison, Topeka and,
Sante Fe Railway—a real ^un^hine
Route.
Tiyjs. t^ei «parlfeat afternoon team
te^f Chicago for th,e, West after arri-val
o f morning trains, from the East,
thus, avoiding tedious delay.
The Sunshine Route is essentially the
and most patronized through car
line for men, women and children,
Every attention paid to the needs of
passengers en route.
Send for a SA^ahine Route time-table
fo^dey. It eosts nothing.
Address John R. Pott, District Pas-senger
Agent, 486 William street, Wii-liamsportjPa,
"
A Bfusio^l Prodigy.
Allen R,, the 14-year-old son of W.
W. Stewart, of Newmanstown, has de-veloped
an extraordinary musical tal-ent.
He is receiving special i n s t r u c t^
on the piano at Albright College, at
which institution he f l u e n t l y renders
selections on tl}6 stage that delight the
large audiences that gather there on
special occasions. He spends a certain
number, of hpurs each day practicing
classical music. His, technique i;s
peciaily commendable fojj. a»© of his
years. Young Ste,vwt was musically
inclined, bgfojf© h e was fairly able to sit
- - p^ano stool. Several years ago
mAL POWDER
JmsmmE&Y fojBE
alces the food more delicious and wholesome
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
A GOOD DAIRY NEEDED.
ho was one of t h e most proficient mem-bers
of the Newmanstown Junior Drum
Corps.
German Baptist Conference,
The German Baptist Brethren will
hold a conference at Mastersonville,
Lancaster County, May 17-19, at which
delegates will be present from all parts
of t h e United States and Canada.
A Mint of Money Waiting for Some
Enterprising American Milkman.
The war and blockade wrought ruin
and disaster to the dairy business in
Havana. Milk still sells at 30 cents a
quart. I am giving medical attention
to a score of reconcentradoed orphans
i n a little mission, the children requir-ing
milk, which cannot be purchased
because of the price. Condensed milk
is used instead, not only in this instance
but by families and restaurants general-ly.
Such daries as there are must prove
a curiosity to the visitor from t h e states.
Cows are kept in stalls in storehouses
on the main streets, from which they
are never taken for exercise, fresli air or
grazing. Day by day they stand in
idleness, without moving a hoof. Some
of them appear healthy, but close in-spection
reveals that they are overbur-dened
with fat. Others have been kept
up so long that they are wholly unfit
for milking. Since the United States
forces took charge, some of the cows,
the property of private individuals, are
being sent out to graze; but their lives
are being risked every minute of the
time, writes a correspondent of the
Chicago " Record."
On the Prado is a dairy of the kind
described, which is alongside a girls'
seminary. The buildings look alike,
their entrances are counterparts, both
are occupied in part as residences. In
the one a dozen or more cows are stalled
and milked, in the front part of the
house, to be seen from the street. It is
as if a dairy were located in a private
residence along the best part of Fifth
avenue, in New York.
Occasionally a milch cow and her calf
are seen driven along the street. This
is a perambulating dairy. The cow is
led to t h e front door and milked in the
presence of the customer. The advan-tage
is gained of knowing that t h e milk
is not watered. Cows thus treated are
poor and scrawny. The American who
will come in with a lot of good cows
and start a first-class American dairy
ought to make a small fortune out of it.
The perambulating breakfast vendor
a feature down here. Men are seen
about 11 o'elock in t h e forenoon travers-ing
certain portions of Havana with
breakfast buckets made after the fashion
of the American laborer's apartment
bucket, in which are teamed to the door
fish, one kind of meat, potatoes, bread
and butter, coffee and perhaps eggs or
some other additional article. By this
practice many families avoid the neces-sity
erf cooking the midday meal. The
breakfast vendor is not always an in-viting-
looking character, but this mat-ters
little with these people if he sells a
fairly decent meal and if they cari avoid
having to cook for themselves. In very
hot weather t h è practice is said to be
much in vogue.
Street beggars are a nuisance in Cuba.
They have always been tolerated, but.
are now more plentiful t h a n before the
war. Doubtless there are many meri-torious
cases, but t h e public soon grows
weary of having a dirty palm thrust un-der
its eye ©very minute. Down near
he Pasaje hotel—a .hostelry quite as
well-known and generously patronized
as the more heard of Inglaterra—and
al'ong the south end of the Prado, in
the crowded quarter of the city, there
Is to be seen almost every conceivable
kind of human (deformity in rags and
tatters, begging for alms.' All such
cases should be removed to suburban
quarters and properly cared for in an
almshouse, TÍwre are plenty of aban-doned
baisacksi,, hardly in condition for
Oil? tioops, around Havana. The gov-ernment
might'well fit up one of these
and place therein all really needy sub-jets,
all hideous-deformities arid the pro-fessional
beggars infesting t h e city, dis-tributing
them rationg until the .Cuban
government gets on its feet, making
sueit of them work the garden patches
at hand as are able to do manual labor
of this kind.
Brnnnerville School No, t Report.
The following tea report of t h e Brnn-nerville
School No. 1, for the sixth
montbi Attendance during the month,
males, 15; females, 13; per cent, of at-tendance,
males, 95; females, 98, Those
who were present during- the whole
month are: Howard Bitner, Clarence
Hartranft, Amos Meiley, John Habeck-er,
Monroe Meiley, Daniel Brubaker,
Henry Bucher, Mamie Bitner, Ida
Schaeffer, Sadie Royer, Fannie Bituier,
Katie Kauffman, L i M e Bentz, Lizzie
Schaeffer. Those who missed one day
or less are; Christian Gib!.el, Willis Gib-bel,
William Wissler, Jacob Eberly,
Willie Althouse, Willis Hackman,
zie Keith, Sadie Eberly, Lottie Royer,
Fannie Habecker Mary Shoemaker.
The pupils who, did «ot miss a day
during the, entire session are: John Ha-becker
,( Jda Schaeffer, Sadie Royer.
W, C. ESBENSIIADE, Teacher.
Over the State.
I n the Big Mountain Colliery, Nor-thumberland
County, Joseph Hendro
was crushed to death under a mass of
rock.
A number of men recruited at Sha-mokin
by Lieutenant Moses for the reg-ular
army have been sent to t h e Twen-tieth
Infantry, at Plattsburg, N . Y .
The Shamokin police believe t h a t the
man who two weeks ago stole a double
team from Liveryman W. W. Muir, in
that town, is now held as a prisoner at
West Chester. .
With the organizing;of the new City
Trust Company, with a capital of $150,-
000, at Lancaster, the last private bank-ing
house in that cityv that of D. P.
Locher & Son, passed out of existence.
While Ms train stood on a siding
near Northumberland, Conductor Ed-win
McAlpine heard half a dozen
tramps plotting'to rob his crew, and
attacking them with a brake stick, he
put the whole party to flight.
The Town Council of Pen Argyl and
twenty representative citizens inspected
the Bethlehem-Easton electric road and
urged the owners to extend the line to
the slate regions of Northampton Coun-ty-
' .•
Clarion County is to have a new $40,-
000 almshouse.
The State Fish Commission reports
that after t h e February blizzard melting
snow affected the water at the Allen-town
hatchery, and at least 1,000,000
trout f ry perished.
The dead body of Frank Fisher, of
East Whiteland, was found on the rail-road
tracks near Frazer. Fisher had
evidently been killed by a train.
Fifteen thousand barrels of oil were
burned in the fire a t the large oil tanks
at Hay's Grove, Cumberland county,
on Saturday.
Owen A. Kern, the Cedarville hotel-keeper,
who was shot by Frank Krause,
his hostler, on March 3, died from his
wounds.
Wajjes of Pedagogues.
A few comparisons to show the pay
of school teachers in Pennsylvania and
other States will prove timely : The
average wages for teachers in this Stato
are, for men, $320.24, and for women,
$306.64. In Massachusetts the average
is fl,319.50 for men and $483.82 for
women; New York, $650.30 and $464.50,
and Illinois, $463 and «339. In the
country districts of Pennsylvania the
pay is about three-sevenths as much as
in the boroughs and cities, says the
Philadelphia Press. In this State the
pay for both men and women in the
coun try will average $225. The pay for
women in the boroughs is about $225,
and i i r t h e cities from $400 to $680. The
average wages Of women teachers in
Erie is $400; Pittsburg, 8550; Allegheny,
$580; and Philadelphia, $680.
I n Pennsylvania there are seventeen
teachers who get less t h a n $100 each per
year; 1,270 who are paid less than $150,
and 6,653 less than $200. Last year the
wages of the State's teachers were re-duced
an average of 94 cents; and t he
year before $.3.73. New York's teachers
had their wages advanced last year an
average of $8.06, and thè year before
$3.89.
And is it not due to nervous
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