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An Independent Family Newspaper, Devoted to Literature, Agriculture, Local and General Intelligence.
VOL. XXII. LITITZ PA„ FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 21, 1899. NO. 46.
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gROAD STREET CLOTHING HOUSE.
Well Selected Stock for
Fall Winter
MAMMY
« i The fall season will soon beat hand and
with it come thoughts of new wearing apparel
I have made early purchases of all kinds
of goods belonging to my line of trade, and
make 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.
Every variety of
Fall and Winter Suitings.
Ready-made Clothing
for man and boy.
I would like every one to come and see
my big assortment of
Colored Outing
and Other
nothing like it ever before seen in Lititz.
NECKWEAR
that can't be matched in some of the more
pretentious stores. I have all my Neckwear
selected from piece silk and made to order.
Hats and Caps
in the latest styles, of course, and at prices
as low as the lowest.
it it. Doli' I
w . BUCH J
The Clothier,
Record Building,
S. Broad Street,
Lititz, Penna.
. .The Exclusive Hat Store • « •
SPECIAL SALE
- HLL —
Rough B r a i d S t r a w Hats
that were formerly $1.50, $i-75 and $'.
$ 1 . 0 0 .
C R A S H HSTS
now
Formerly 50 cents, now 2 0 cents.
ARNOLD BROTHERS,
No.
ZAHM'S CORNER,
1 North Queen Street, - - LANCASTER, PA.
SEND US ONE DOLLAR
the. f r e i g h t agent our special
less t h e $1.00, or $30.75, a n d f r e i g h t charges.
(0.VU CO O l V V i W a i/ucgll/»»«"»« • >r _ _ "
t h a n orerans advertised by o t h e r s at more money, pay
t agent our «pedal 9 0 days' offer price, $ 3 1 . 7 5,
„,.00, or »30.75, and f r e i g h t charges. 531.75 IS OUR SPECIAL 90 DAYS' PRICE Less than
one-half the
priee sirr-ed
by others. Such a n offer w a s never m a d e „.„»„o.
. u p A C M E O U E E N is one of t h e mostDIJBABl.tAhD SWEETEST
l\)NBII lusir' iSni« erer mode. Prom the illustration shown, which
is enuraved direct f r om a photograph,yon c a n f o rm some i d e a o f l ts
beautiful appearance. Blade from solid Quarter sawed
oak. antique finish, handsomely decorated and ornamented,
latest 1 8 » » style. THE ACJIE QUEEN is 0 f e e t 5 inches high,
12 inches long, 23 inches wide and weighs 8»« pounds. Con-tains
5 octaves, 11 stops, as follows: Biapa«on, Principal,
Dulelans, Dlelodia, t'eleslo, Cremona, Bass_CoupIer, Treble
Coupler, Diapason Forte and Vox Humana;
1 Tone Swell, 1 Grand Organ Snejl, a»'
JÎ Octave Couplers,
4 8el& Orchestral Toned
24 Bleb Hollow Smooth Diapason - - - - - f i r ™ - „-
Soft Jlelodlons Principal Heeds. T1IK ACME QUEEN ac-tion
consist of t h e celebrated Newell lteeds, which a r e only-used
in t h e highest grade instruments; n t t e d with: Ham-mond
Coupler, and Vox Humana, also best Dolge felts,
leathers, etc., bellows of t h e best rubber cloth, 3-ply
bellows stock and finest leather in valves I J I i,
ACME OUEEN is furnished with a 10*14 beveled
plate French mirror, nickel plated pedal frames,
and every modem improvement. We furnish free a hand-some
organ stool and the best organ instruction booh published.
GUARANTEED 25 YEARS, ^ e v e r y ACME
Issue a w r i t t e n binding Si-year guarantee, by t he
terms a n d conditions of which if a n y part gives out
we repair i t free o f c h a r s e . Try i t one month and ;
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satisfied. 500 of these organs will be sold a t «31. IS.
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FEtKl>. ESSIG.
W r i t t e n for t b e Record.
AWGE done say
know?"
" Well, how come I seed
him dis mawnin' all drest Up
for the 'casion, and Missy asmilin' all
over her purty face a n ' little Major in
his bestest"—" Howsumever, diden'
Uncle Tom tell me to r un for de doctor
an' Missy acryin' 's if her heart don'
break?"
" Go long wid your gossip, chile.
Where dis gwine happen."
"Diden' I hide in de bushes marn-jny,
an' seed i t ? " he questioned im-patiently,
as Aunty Chloe, or ' Mam-my,'
as she was called, bit her lip, while
a look of stern and almost cruel hard-ness
came over her features changing
instantly to one of pity and tender sym-pathy
as she thought of 'Mas'r North'
in his drunken condition and then of
his loving, pitiful wife, who bore her
trials so patiently.
" Oh, de Lord hab mercy on de poor
chile. How I wisht I could go in dar
an' comfort her. Lor' knows many a
time I has let m y work be a n ' took dis
chile to my breast, when she war no
more'n a baby. An' I seed her grow
up just de purtiest, sweetest girl in all
de country, wid her yellow curls an'
big brown eyes. An' when she come
an' tole me she gwine marry Major
North I wus glad an' said, 'De Lor'
bless you, houey.' Now seems ter me,
de Lor' don forget her altogeder, or how
come he t' 'low dat Mas'r get drunk an'
scold her an—an—strike her?" she
muttered, giving the door of the old cab-in
a vicious plill and hurrying up the
forbidden p a t h t o the great home.
She h a d been Missy's constant nurse
and comforter since she was a wee
baby, and had been her mother's nurse
before her, up on t h e old plantation in
Virginia. And when Missy's mother
had married she accompanied her to
her new home where shortly after a
daughter came to grace it. And then
Missy had grown to be a lovely girl of
twenty, when old Major North, an aris-tocratic
planter from Alabama, came to
visit Missy's father, accompanied by his
son, a handsome young man of twenty-three,
Missy's sunny, yet somewhat shy
manner, and young Major North's Im-petuous,
Impulsive nature, a typical,
warm-blooded Southerner, found a cer-tain
agreeable congeniality in each
other's society. From this there sprung
up a close friendship which ended in an
alliance well suited to both families.
When Missy left the old home to live
With Major North, whose table she was
well fitted to grace, Mammy had begged
to go with her, to watch over her, for
in her eyes she was still not more than
a child.
And after a year of happy married
life, t h e young Major would often come
home in such a drunken condition that
Missy's heart almost broke under the
hand of sorrow and misery that fell to
her lot. But patient and uncomplain-ing
she tried to be as she attended to
her duties,vainly trying to dissuade h im
from drinking, and as the effects of the
alcohol would pass off, h e would be
so repentant and weakly promise that
this would be t hè last time, when he
knew that he could not resist the temp-tation
should it again offer itself.
Mammy -was her only comforter, and
one day as they were standing in the
large window, they saw h im stagger up
the path in a perfect frenzy of drunken
rage. Missy sank on her knees and hid
her face in t h e folds of Mammy's dress
while sob after sob shook the trembling
frame.
The deep unutterable love in Mam.
my's eyes could hardly vie with the
sudden look of anger and fierce resolve
that lurked there, and as a heavy step
and profane mutterings were heard in
the hall, Missy gave one despairing
cry and swooned away.
Mammy forgot for a moment that she
was a slave, an old colored hireling, and
that the man (?) before her was her
master, when she saw Missy lying on
the floor, so deathly pale and white and
sostili. She only knew that she loved
her as she would have loved her own
and that this brute had brought her
much pain and misery; that he had
wronged her enough, inhuman as he
was, and that she must protect her. So
she stood over her, her eyes blazing, her
lips quivering, like some dumb animal
might watch over and as the Major
strode angrily forward, kicking Missy
with his heavy boot, and commanding
her to rise, with a strength one would
hardly have imagined she possessed
Mammy struck him, gave h im such a
blow that he reeled back against the
wall.
" You touch dis chile agin, " she cried
huskily, "an I done kill you," and
bending guardedly down she raised
Missy's head into her lap, smoothing
back the golden curls and trying to
coax the almost inanimate form into
life. With thick mutterings the Major
strode forward, and fell on a heap be-hind
them.
Without attempting to rise lie grasp-ed
a corner of Mammy's apron in a vise-like
grip, and drawing himself up
threw himself upon her in all his im-potent
fury.
"You dog!" he muttered thickly,
"what are you that you should dare?'
and giving her a push which brought
her liead on t h e floor with such force as
to daze her for a moment, he gave her
blow after blow with his tightly clench-ed
fist, cursing her, spitting on her, al-most
killing her in his drunken rage.
Mammy turned over and over, moan-ing
aloud, yet inwardly thanking God
for letting her carry the cross instead of
her beloved Missy.
Then she lay quiet and still, while
hardly a breath passed her lips as t he
Major turned to Missy and commanded
her to rise. Seeing that she did not
turn he brought his open palm down on
her cheek, leaving a red thick mark
which seemed only to make him more
furious. I n her dying strength Mam-my
rose to her knees and catching him,
by almost superhuman power threw
him on the floor and held h im there.
Other servants hearing the disturb-ance,
had rushed in by this time and
hearing Mammy's pitiful little story,
loving hands bore Missy to her room,
where she was tenderly cared for. A
doctor was sent for at once, while the
servants held Major North, relieving
old Mammy, who crouched down into
a corner unobserved, almost dead with
the struggle.
•if S * -X- X
Everything was bright and cheerful
in the old home after the clouds had
passed away, for Major North had
sworn that he'd never touch another
drop, while Mammy, although she was
excluded from the great house, had
been tenderly cared for, a n d was often
visited by Missy. Major North thought
her dead and would certainly not have
tolerated a friendship between his wife
and her after that affair. So Missy
kept her presence a secret and Mammy
never ventured from ilie door, for she
was old now, and weak, never having
fully recovered from the affects of his
blows. But today little Tom had come
and told her t h a t ' Mas'r' was drunk
again, having just returned from town;
and that Missy had been ready to at-tend
a wedding, waiting impatiently
till twelve o'clock for him to return;
and that when he came, he struck her
as she met him on the porch, and that
he was sent for the doctor.
With a look of fierce determination,
she hurried feebly up t h e walk, think-ing
only of her darling Missy. As she
stepped into the room, aged, gray, a nd
bent and thin, she brought with her so
much of goodness and purity, that she
seemed a veritable angel of mercy.
And a veritable angel of mercy she was,
for on seeing her before him, her, whom
he had long believed dead, and at his
hand, which he had never ceased to re-gret,
he thought her figure her ghost,
and screamed aloud in his fright-
Mammy, comprehending it all, went
up to him, and laying a cold hand on
his brow said slowly but firmly,
Mas'r, I'se done come to fetch y o \"
He did not notice the smile that lurk-ed
in her eyes as she looked down stern-ly
upon him; he only gasped in his
fright as h e lay there.
"Oh, go away," he cried, " I shall
never drink again. I promise I shall
not. Good Lord, save me, save me,
and I shall never, never, do i t again.
Oh! go away Mammy, I promise.
Go away, oh!" and as Mammy solemn-ly
brought the Bible, he kissed it and
swore by all that he held near and dear
to him that he would never drink
again.
When he had quite recovered, they
told h im the truth, but he forgave them
all their half-unconscious deception,
and fully repentant, does all in his
power to atone.
BY THELMA.
A Shattered Idol.
The friend found t h e pretty girl, who
earns a living teaching music, staring
blankly at the wall.
" What on earth is t he m a t t e r ? " de-manded
the friend. " You look as if
you were in a trance."
"Did you see h i m ? " asked the pretty
music teacher, faintly.
"See whom?"
" That horrid man who j u s t went
out !" And t he pretty music teacher
shuddered.
" I f that man insulted you why
didn't you call t h e police?" demanded
the friend.
" I am afraid that the police wouldn't
have anything to do with it. I have
been giving his daughter lessons on the
piano lately, and I instructed her to
practice very softly, as I know how an-noying
it is to the neighbors where one
is learning to play. And just now that
gréât, big brute of a man came charging
in here and said the only reason that
he left his daughter take music les-sons
was to get even with a man living
next door who played t h e flute, and if I
could not instruct his daughter to p u t
enough muscle into her playing so it
could be heard through a six-inch wall
he would get some one who could!
" A n d to t h i n k that I have alyvays
considered music a divine art to which
I had consecrated my life!"
And the pretty music teacher broke
down and cried.
A Reciprocity Iieader.
One of the leading speakers on t he
part of the United States at the Inter-national
Commercial Congress to be
held in connection with the National
Export Exposition, to be held in Phila-delphia
next fall, will be the Hon. John
A. Kasson, special reciprocity commis-sioner
of the Department of State. In
his letter accepting the invitation Mr.
Kasson said: " I appreciate most highly
the plan and purpose of the Congress
and its possible utility in clearing t he
pathways of international trade. If I
can in any way co-operate in t h e reali-zation
of the purposes of the Philadel-phia
Museum it will be a pleasure to me
to do so. It should be made successful
under such patriotic and intelligent
ministration as seems to be always char-acteristic
of Philadelphia public enter-prise."
The Song of the Cyclone.
Here is the way the Kingsley, Iowa,
Times " sings the song of the cyclone:
Ever see a cyclone, say ? Bite the
world and munch away? Eat up
houses, fences, trees, just as easy as you
please ? Get a hustle on its jaws, Swipe
the earth with fiendish claws ? Hump
its back, and take a r un through a n or-chard,
just for f u n ? From a hill to
hollow flit, seeming to get strength
from i t ? Never seen one? Well, I
jing! It's a pesky sort of thing. Ever
see a cyclone, say ? Take the track and
speed away ? Switch its tail, and snort,
and bound, just like lightning, o'er t he
ground ? Get a swift move with its feet,
racing for the winning heat? Then
cavorting up arid down, heeding no
laws of the town? Pushing everything
aside ? Out upon his gayly ride? As
though owning all the track, ever on-ward,
never back? Never seen one?
Well, I swow! i t ' s a buster, anyhow!
L e f t C a s h t o A l l C o i n e r s .
The funeral of Edward Y. Perry, the
eccentric millonaire of Hanover, Mass
took place lately at his home in that
city, and was conducted in strict com-pliance
with the wishes expressed by
him just before his death. Mr. Perry
was one of the oldest business men in
Plymouth county and was famous
for . his peculiarities. When he . knew
that he was going to die he ordered his
friends to see to it that there were no
religious services over his body. They
could attend his funeral if they so de-sired,
but there were to be no " fulsome
eulogies," and no speculations about
his life after death. He forbade the
tolling of bells and requested that his
body be buried in a pine coffin covered
with white cashmere, and t h a t a sim-ple
marble slab should mark his grave,
says t h e New York " Sun."
There was a large crowd at t h e funer-al
and a number of t h e friends of Mr.
Perry made brief speeches, being care-ful,
however, to-keep within the limits
set by him. At t h e conclusion of t he
services and before the interment, ac-cording
to Mr. Perry's orders, the will
was read. I t left the old homestead and
,000 to Mrs. Perry (who, however,
predeceased her husband), and remem-bered
a number of others with small
bequests. It then ordered that a plot
of land in t h e city owned by Mr. Perry
be divided into ten lots and a lot be
given to the first ten worthy persons
who came along and were prepared to
build on the land. The remainder of
the estate, Mr. Perry ordered, should
be converted into a trust fund, the in-come
from which was to be spent on
the poor. Food, fuel and medical at-tention
are to be provided for all worthy
persons, and young men of moderate
means who want to go to college are to
be assisted to do so. No preference is
shown to any person, and t h e trustees
simply have the power to judge of t he
worthiness of applicants for assistance.
Mr. Perry's estate is p u t a t about $1,-
000,000, and consists of farm lands,
woodland, interest in business concerns
and personal property.
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insertion, must be handed in, at the very
latest, by Wednesday evening.
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B a r i n o
A b s o l u t e l y "PURE
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
"PICTURESQUE SCENERY!'
Feather Swindlers.
The authorities in Virginia, Mary
land and southern and western por- I A Waiter's Dilemma,
tions of Penn'a are looking for the It was in one of the large downtown
three fakirs, who said they were em- restaurants that the short little woman
ployed by a large feather renovating | and her tall husband went for dinner
works that for five cents a 100 pounds one night last week,
would make feathers as good as new] " Will you have oysters?" asked the
and take pay in cash or feathers. The man, glancing over the bill of fare.'
process would make the feathers so "Yes," said the short little woman,
fluffy, they said, that the bulk would as she tried in vain to touch her toes to
be increased 100 percent, and t h e house I t he floor. " And, John, I want a has-wivts,
glad to make two feathers grow] sock."
where only one grew before, fell easy ] John nodded, and as he handed his
victims. i order to the waiter, h e said: "Yes, and
At nearly evevy farm house they bring a hassock for the lady."
came to the men secured a bedtick] "One hassock?" asked the waiter,
or two full of goose feathers, which] with what John thought more t h a n or-they
loaded on their wagons, giving dinary interest, as h e nodded in the af-the
women a written receipt for t h e ! flrmative. Still the waiter did not go,
ticks and promising to return them in 1 but brushed the tablecloth with a towel
three weeks. The three weeks expired] and rearranged t h e articles on it several
long ago and no feathers have come j times, while his face got very red
back, in consequence the price of tick- Then he came around to John's side
ing has advanced at the country stores and, speaking sotto voce, said: " Say
and holders of feathers are selling them ['mister, I haven't been here long, a nd
at high prices. :
Big Game Preserve in this State.
One hundred sportsmen have arrang-ed
for t h e purchase of about five thou-sand
acres of woodland in the hunting
territory known as Beaver Dams, in
Blair and Huntingdon counties. They
will fence it in, build cabins, stock t he
woods with large and small game, and
the streams with trout. A professional
gamekeeper is to be secured in Ger-many.
He will have two assistants.
New York, Philadelphia and Pittsburg
sportsmen are identified with the move-ment.
I I 'm not on to all these things. Will
the lady have the hassock broiled or
fried?"
Is it Right for an Editor to Recom-mend
Patent Medicines ?
F r om Sylvan Valley News, Brevrad, N. C.
I t may be a question whether the
editor of a newspaper has t he right to
publicly recommend any * he various
proprietary medicines which flood the
market, yet as a preventive of sufferin
we feel it a duty to say a good word for
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar-rhoea
Remedy. We have known and
used this medicine in our family for
twenty years and have found it reliable.
I n many cases a dose of this remedy
would save hours of suffering while a
physician is awaited. We do not be-lieve
in depending implicitly on a ny
medicine for a cure, but we do believe
that if a bottle of Chamberlain's Diar-rhoea
Remedy were kept on hand and
administered at the inception of an at-tack
much suffering might be avoided
and in very many cases the presence of
a physician would not be required. At
least this has been our experience dur-ing
the past twenty years. For sale by
the Inland Chcmical Co., Lititz:
Cheap Things in Manila.
Paymaster Eugene Coffin, writing
from Manila, Philippine Islands, says
the New York Times, to a friend in
Washington, says: " I am living a t t he
Hotel del Orient. The floors of t h e ho-tel
are of hardwood and all sawed out
by hand. These people have never
seen a sawmill. The staircases of t he
first t hree floors of t h e hotel are of rose-wood.
They use solid mahogany here
for the cheapest things. I took out my
rule the other day and measured some
of the boards in the floor, and, to my
surprise, they were 22 feet long and 30 J
inches wide. You can hardly realize
how wide 301 inches is. Take a tape
measure and mark i t off, and you will
understand how amazed I was. There
is a fortune here for t h e m a n who will
come in and start a saw a n d planing
mill. They saw all their lumber here
by hand, a 'chino' at each eud of t he
saw. These boards have been in use
twenty years, and not a chink or a
crack in them.
I had nine duek suits made to order
for me here and paid $25.50 in gold for
the entire lot. I pay eight cents a suit
for washing it. They never saw a wash-board
here. They wet a n d soap the
clothes, then thrash t h em on t h e stones,
swinging t h em over their heads as you
would a flail. There is not a cook stove
in Manila save those brought here by
our boys. But they have plenty of sew-ing
machines. There is not a fiatiron
on the whole island.
1 When our boys first got here they
got 54 Mexican dollars for a United
States twenty-dollar piece, but the rate
of exchange has-fallen now u n t i l it is
only two for one. We are paying off
the boys in paper money now, and the
natives take to our currency very kind-ly.
They have never seen so much
money in all their lives as our boys are
spending now."
Neely's New Series of Picturesque
America—Given Away by the Balti-more
& Ohio R. R.
The first volume containing thirty-two
superb half-tone engravings, 8x10
inches, made from photographs in t he
Eastern portion of t he United States,
in the Allegheny Mountains, Shenan-doah
Valley and t h e surrounding his-torical
territory.
These views include New York Har-bor,
Brooklyn Bridge, Susquehanna
River, Harper's Ferry with John
Brown's Fort, John Brown's Monu-ment,
Jefferson's Rock, Battlefields at
Winchester and Fisher's Hill, Cheat
River, Indian Creek, Old National
Road, etc.
These views have been selected from
the famous series of photographs owned
by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com-pany.
Sent FREE to any address in t h e Unit-ed
States, Canada or Mexico upon re-ceipt
of twelve (12) cents in stamps or
to cover postage and packing.
Copy may be seen at a n y ticket office
of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
I n sending orders, address D. B.
Martin, Manager Passenger Traffic,
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Baltimore,
Md., marking envelope "Picturesque
Scenery."
An Epidemic of Diarrhoea.
Mr. A. Sanders, writing from Cocoa-nut
Grove, Fla., says there has been
quite an epidemic of diarrhoea there.
He had a severe attack and was cured
by four doses of Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He
says he also recommended it to others
and they say it is the best medicine
they ever used. For sale by the Inland
Chemical Co., Lititz.
Ages of Animals.
According to some naturalists the
length of life of animals is as follows:
The rabbit lives from six to seven
years. ;
The squirrel from seven to eight
years.
The fox from fourteen to fifteen
years.
The cat from fifteen to seventeen
years.
The dog from sixteen to eighteen
years.
The bear and wolf, eighteen and
twenty years. ;
The rhinoceros from twenty to twen
ty-two years. •
The horse from twenty-two to twen-ty-
five years.
The hen from twenty-five to twenty-eight
years.
The porpoise from twenty-eight to
t h i r ty years.
The camel and crow one hundred
years.
The tortoise one hundred and ten
years.
The eagle one hundred and twenty
years. -
The elephant four hundred years.
The whale one thousand years.
" WE HAVE sold many different
cough remedies, but none has given
better satisfaction than Chamber-lain's,"
says Mr. Charles Holzhauer,
Druggist, Newark, N. J . " I t is per-fectly
safe and can be relied upon in
all cases of conghs, colds or hoarseness.
Sold by the Inland Chemical Co.
Lititz.
Let Her Go at That.
An aged rural citizen engaged the local
town poet to write an obituary on his
brother. After numerous failures, the
poet submitted the following:
H e . l e f t t h i s world of sorrow
And e n t e r e d h e a v e n ' s gate,
W i t h a spotless robe of g l o r y on,
At t w e n t y m i n u t e s t o e i g h t .
. Well," said the old man, as the effort
« as m u l to h i m , " hit wuz r'aly fifteen
minutes past nine when he got thar,
'cordin' to m y timepiece, but, anyhow,
ho wuz such a liar hit don't make no
dift'runce. Let her go a t twenty to
eight."
Made $1,000,000 Farming.
A millionaire farmer is clearly to be
reckoned a sort of latter day miracle;
all the more so if he lives in Missouri,
and farms all around, and all t h e year
round. Tarkio, Atkinson county, is
his local habitation. David Rankin is
his name. To be strictly accurate, t he
Hon. David Bankih. He has served
more than one term in t h e state legis-lature.
He owns and manages 23,000
acres of land in Atchison county, worth
from |50 to.$100 per acre, and not in t he
market even at those figures. He h a s
bought every acre of it since 187G, most-ly
from speculative eastern holders, who
were gleeful a t getting $6 to $10 an acre
for their holdings, because the railway
had passed by them.
The farms run from 600 to 3,000 acres.
To work them requires between 130 and
150 hands, 700 horses, more than 100
wagons, ploughs, harrows, planters, cul-tivators
and seeders innumerable.
Each ranch is in charge of a competent
foreman, who gets $50 a month and
board. Farm hands are paid $20 a
month and board. Usually the fore-man's
family runs the farm -boarding
house. Beside the various foremen
there is a farm superintendent, at a
salary many a bank official might envy.
I t is questionable, however, if his best
endeavors are worth as much as the eye
of the master, says the Atlanta "Con
stitution."
All the land is arable, yet but little
more than half goes yearly under tbe
plough. Perhaps 2,000 acres are sown
to wheat. The remainder is, planted in
corn, and yields in average years 800,-
000 bushels. Not a grain of it is sold
until i t has been transformed into fat
stock. In addition to his own crop Mr.
Rankin buys whatever corn his neigh-bors
have to sell. He buys also their
stalk fields, after the corn is gathered
aud turns into them herds of cattle to
gather up their rich gleanings. Beside
all that he buys ton upon ton of cotton-seed
meal for feeding. Small wonder
that his lands grow and increase in fer-tility
under continuous cropping.
Over the State.
B. T. Fletcher, agent of the Hartford
Life Insurance Company, has disppear-ed
from Philadelphia, taking with him,
it is charged, $2,000 due the heirs of t he
late Charles Runkel, on an insurance
policy.
Flames are raging in the Dodson
mine, at Plymouth, and it is being
flooded with water, pumped from the
Susquehanna river. It is expected t he
flooding will consume several months.
Andrew Davis, six years old, was
killed by a trolley car, ia front of his
home, 4903 Haverford ave., Philadel-phia.
Lancaster assessors' returns show a
real estate, valuation of $86,389,345 for
the county, and $20,891,060 at interest.
Frank Pierce, a Reading Railway
brakeman, of Bridgeport, made a nar-row
escape from death by falling under
a moving freight train.
Morris Luckey, aged six years, fell
from a bridge, at Allentown, aud may
lose a leg.
While swimming at Harrisburg, Al-bert
Cumming, aged 12" years, rescued
an older companion, Charles Couples,
from drowning.
Edwin G. Shoemaker had the index
finger of the right hand caught in i! ^
machinery at Miller's soap works, Lan-caster,
and crushed.
Harry L. Berry, 16 years old, of
Royersford, attempted to enlist at Har-risburg.
A telegram from his mother
was received forbidding his enlistment,
and he was sent home.
Henry, a Penn'a Railroad brakeman
at Columbia, was nearly killed by being
thrown under a moving freight car.
He was dragged quite a distance and
terribly bruised.
Robert Bergenstock was struck in t he
eyes by molten metal at Allentown and
seriously injured.
William Wolle, aged 11 years, carried
a bullet in his head three weeks before
it was extracted at Allentown. He t ad
thought a brick hit h im when shot.
Eugene Spalding reported to the
Greensburg police that his wife, to
whom he was married two weeks f go,
had been kidnapped by an unknown
maiv on t h e Pittsburg pike.
While two girls were picking berries
near Williamsport, a man with a gun
suddenly appeared and shot at them.
Pursuers, who overtook him, were un-armed
and he escaped.
The York banks have $4,000,000 on
deposit.
Eyeglass swindlers have been operat
ing with success in Cumberland and
Franklin counties.
The Ashland & Centralia Electric
Railway Company has secured fran-chises
in Ashland.
Washington Camp, P. O. S. of A., at
Lebanon, has a membership of 1000.
During the funeral service at Tama-qua
over the remains of his sister,
Lewis Wagner, of Mahanoy City, was
stricken with pasalysis and rendered
speachless.
Nine-year-old Joseph May is dying
at Shamokin from lockjaw.
The First Anniversary.
I t is j u s t a year since the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul road inaugurated
its celebrated Pioneer Limited passen-ger
train service between Chicago, Mil-waukee,
St, Paul and Minneapolis.
This service marked a new era in t he
railway world in t h e line of passenger
accommodations. At a cost of a quar-ter
of a million dollars t h a t progressive
company furnished the traveling pub
lie, in its Pioneer Limited train, com-forts
and facilities t h e best ever produc
duced. This train has been described
many times in newspapers and maga-zines,
but should be seen and examined
to be appreciated. In beauty of finish,
richness and elegance of furnishing
nothing equal to it has ever been at-tempted
by any other road. The car
builders were nearly a year in complet-ing
the Pioneer Limited trains (there
are two—one leaving Chicago for t he
West and the other leaving the Twin
Cities for t h e East every evening in t h e
year) and they stand to-day a monu-ment
to t h e builder's art. No regular
passenger train service in America is as
well known as the Pioneer Limited.
From t h e standpoint of passenger traffic
the past twelve months have been t he
most successful in t h e history of t h e St.
Paul road, made so very largely by t he
Pioneer Limited. The patronage of
this service is a striking illustration of
the fact that the public appreciates a-good
thing.
Epidemic of Lockjaw.
Eight more deaths and six new cases I
were t h e record on Friday in t h e appar-ent
epidemic of lockjaw that is a t pres-ent
afflicting New York and vicinity. I
This brings the fatalities reported since
July 4 up to twenty-three, a record that
has never been equalled in the same
time in the history of medicine in the |
city.
The most awful feature of the myste-rious
affliction is t h a t up to date there I
has not been a single recovery, despite
the efforts of skilled surgeons treating |
the disease by modern methods.
And is it not due to nervous
exhaustion? Things always
look so much brighter when we
are in good health. How can
you have courage when suffer-ing
with headache, nervous
prostration and great physical
weakness?
Would you not like to be rid
of this depression of spirits?
How? By removing the
cause. By taking
Cheap Excursions, 1898.
National Educational Association at
Los Angeles, Cal., July 11 to 14.
For all these meetings cheap excur-sion
rates have been made and delegates
and others interested should bear in
mind that the best route to each con-vention
city is via the Chicago, Milwau-kee
& St. Paul R ' y a nd its connections.
Choice of routes is offered those going
to the meetings on t he Pacific Coast of
going via Omaha or Kansas City and
returning by St. Paul and Mi nneapolis.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
R'y has the short line between Chicago
and Omaha, and t he best line between
Chicago, St. Paul and Minneapolis, the
route of the Pioneer Limited, the only
perfect train in the world.
All coupon ticket agents sell tickets
via the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
R'y. For time tables and information
as to rates and routes call on or address
John R. Pott, District Passenger Agent,
486 William Street, Williamsport, Pa.
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