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Y O L . X X I I . LITITZ PA., FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 28; 1899. N O . 47.
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QROAD STREET CLOTHING HOUSE.
i V e l l S e l e c t e d S t o c k f o r
Fall 4 Winter
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
my big assortment of
to come and see
THE FRESH AIR CHARITY.
[ I n t o each n a r r ow a n d crowded court,
And down t h r o u g h each s t i f l i ng s t r e e t,
[ I n t o t h e homes where t h e p i n c h of need
Is added t o b l i g h t i n g h e a t,
[ Love is n ow going w i t h h a n d s o u t s t r e t c h ed
To l i t t l e ones w i t h e r i n g there,
[ Leading t h em o u t t o t h e far-off fields.
To hill tops a n d v a l l e y s f a i r.
| White-cheeked and puny, and weak, a nd
sick.
The crippled f r om d a y of b i r t h ,
| Faces so y o u n g , y e t l o o k i n g so old.
W i t h never a t r a c e of m i r t h ,
| Gently t h e y ' r e gathered in Love's strong
arms
And c a r r i e d f a r , f a r away,
| F a r f r om t h e t o w n a n d i t s h e a t a n d g r i me
To h a u n t s where t h e a i r s p r i t e s play.
| B r i g h t a r e t h e eyes t h a t i n wonder gaze
At f o r e s t s a n d meadows green;
I R a p t u r e t h a t never was k n o w n before
I s b r o u g h t by t h e s y l v a n scene.
| Wonder still g r e a t e r , t h e i r ears d r i n k in
Sweet s t r a i n s t h e y h a d never heard—
| Music e n t r a n c i n g t h a t ' s w a f t e d down,
The song of a n u n s e e n bird.
I W i n d s t h a t h a d n e v e r before caressed
The waifs of t h e h e a t - s w e p t town,
I F a n w h i t e n e d cheeks, a n d t h e s m i l i n g s un
P u t s o n t h em a t i n g e of brown.
| Days come a n d a n d go i n t h e far-off fields
Till Love w i t h h e r o u t s t r e t c h e d arms,
| Carries t h e l i t t l e ones to t h e i r homes,
All healed by t h e a i r s p r i t e s ' charms.
| Blest a n d t h r i c e blest is t h e c h a r i ty
That searches t h r o u g h c o u r t a n d s t r e e t ,
| G a t h e r i n g t h e c h i l d r e n w i t h e r i n g t h e re
And l e a d i n g t h em f r om t h e h e a t .
| P l e a s u r e i t b r i n g s t o t h e t o w n ' s poor waifs,
And s t r e n g t h t o t h e sick a n d w e a k ;
| Great is r e w a r d for t h o s e who a r e s o u g h t ,
But g r e a t e r for those who seek.
Til ft WAGER,
Colored Outing
and Other SHIRTS;
nothing like it ever before seen 111 L i t i t z.
NECKWEAR
that can't be matched in some of the more
pretentious stores. I have all my Neckwear
selected f r o m piece silk and made to order.
Hats and Caps
in the latest styles, of course, and at prices
as low as the lowest.
Ti
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W. H. BÜCH ?
The Clothier,
ecord Building,
S. Broad Street,
Lititz, Penna.
. .The Exclusive Hat Store • • •
SPECIAL SALE
a ^ O F H L L —
? o u g h B r a i d S t r a w H a t s
that were formerly $1.50, $1.75 and $2, now
$1.00.
C R K S H H R T S
rmerly 50 cents, now 2 0 C e n t s .
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AUCTIONEERING.
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I will Auctioneer public sales
a s cheap a n d good a s anybody
and g u a r a n t e e s a t i s f a c t i o n . Ad-d
r e s s all L e t t e r s to L i t i t z Po3t
Office.
FRED. ESSIG.
HERE were five of us in the party
—six, counting Long Tom, the
guide. After two days' hard
climbing, which the burros en-dured
with exemplary fortitude, we ar-rived
at the little village high up in the
mountains, through which threaded
the trout stream.
Jest you all go over into the cabin
there and make yourself comf'ble,
while I 'tend to gettin' this stuff un-packed,"
said Long Tom; " there ain't
no one there. My pardner, he's down
below."
The cabin appears to be two cab-ins,"
said the colonel, as we approached
it.
"That is for economy in ridge-poles,"
said the doctor, "sleeping apartments
on one side and the kitchen on the
other. In the space between you keep
your fishing tackle and worms."
We entered the right-hand section of
the twin cabin, which proved to be the
kitchen side. There was not much fur-niture—
a table of hewn logs, a chair of
bent saplings, and a rough bench.
However, we did not notice such fur-niture
as there was, for each member of
the party, as he stepped over the high
threshold, had his attention attracted
by the stove, and a brief* roundelay of
ejaculations went the group.
" Well, that staggers me," said the
stock-broker.
H'm," said the professor, in a mys-terious
tone, and rubbed his chin.
The stove was a plain, small cooking
range, rather old and rusty. The
strange thing about it was its position.
Its abbreviated legs stood upon large
cedar posts, which were planted in the
floor and were over four feet in height.
This brought the stove away up in mid-air,
so that the top was about on a level
with the face of the colonel, and he was
a six-footer.
We formed in a circle about the stove,
stared at it as solemnly as a group of
priests around a sacrificial tripod. We
felt of the posts—they were firm and
solid, showing that the mysterious ar-rangement
was a permanent, not a tem
porary one. Then we all bent our
necks and opened our mouths to look at
the hole in the roof through which the
stove pipe vanished.
Suddenly the stock-broker burst out
into a laugh.
" Oh, I understand it now," said he
" Understand what ?" asked the col
onel, sharply.
Why Long Tom has his stove hoist-ed
up so high from the floor."
"So do I , " said the doctor, "but I
suspect that my explanation is not. the
same that anyone else would offer."
Well, I will bet you that I am
right," said the stock-broker; "and put
up the money."
" I a m in this," said the judge; " I
have a clear idea about that stove and
will back it."
" I want to take a hand," said the
colonel.
The stock broker drew a Small yellow
coin out of his pocket and dropped it on
the table.
" He has the stove up there," he said,
" to get a better draught. In this rare-fled
mountain air there is only a small
amount of oxygen to the cubic inch,
and combustion is more difficult to se_
cure than in the lower altitudes. I
have heard that if you get high enough
you can't eook an egg—that is, I mean,
water won't boil—or something like
that," he continued, thrown into sud-den
confusion by the discovery that the
professor's eye was fixed upon him with
sarcastic gaze.
" I s that supposed to be science ?" de-manded
the professor.
"Well," said the stock broker, dog-gedly,
"never mind the reasons. Ex-perience
is probably good enough for
Long Tom. He finds that he gets a
better draught for his stove by having
it up in mid-air, so he has it there."
"The right explanation," began the
professor, "is the simplest. My idea is
that—"
"Excuse me," interrupted the stock
broker, tapping the table, "are you in
this?"
The professor made a deposit and pro-ceeded:
" Have you noticed that our host is a
very tall man ? Like most tall men of
his height he hates to bend over. If the
stove were near the floor, he would
have to stoop down low when he whirl-ed
a flap-jack or speared a rasher of ba-con.
Now he can stand up and do it
with ease, your draught theory is no
good; the longer the pipe, if it is
straight, the better the fire will burn."
"Professor," remarked the colonel,
" I regret to have to tell you that your
money is gone. Long Tom told me, on
the way up, that his partner did all the
cooking, and he is a man of rather short
stature." The colonel then paid his
compliments to the jack-pot, and con-tinued:
"Now my idea is that the stove
heats the room better there than on the
floor. It is only a cooking stove, to be
sure, but when the winter is cold it
makes this room comfortable. Being
up in the middle of the space it heats it
all equally well, which it could not do
if it were down below."
The doctor greeted this theory with a
loud laugh. " Colonel," he said, "you
are wild—'way off" the mark. Hot air
rises, of course, and the only way to dis-seminate
it is to have your stove as low
as possible. According to your idea, it
would be a good plan to put the furnace
iri the attic of a house instead of in the
basement.
I think," said the colonel, " that I
could appreciate your argument better
if you would ante."
The pot is mine," said the doctor, as
he deposited his coin; "you will all
adopt my idea the moment you hear it,
and Long Tom, who will be here in a
minute, will bear me out. This room
very small; it has but little floor
space, and none of it goes to waste.
Now, if he had put the stove down
where we expected to find it, Long
Tom would not have made use of the
area underneath, as you will see he has
done. On all sides of the supporting
posts you will notice there are hooks,
on which he hangs his pans and skil-lets.
Underneath there is a kitchen
closet for pots and cooking utensils
of various sorts. What could be more
convenient? Under your ordinary
stove there is room only for a poker and
a few cockroaches."
The judge, who had been listening to
the opinions offered by the others with
the same grim smile that occasionally
ornamented his face when he announc-ed
that an objection had been over-ruled
now stepped forward and dropped
a coin on the table. He then rendered
his decision as follows:
' I t appears that none of you have
noticed the forest of hooks in the roof
ust over the stove. Tliey are not in
use at present, but they are there for
some purpose. I imagine that during
the winter huge pieces of venison and
bears' meat dangle over the stove and
dried for use later. Now,if the stove were
on the floor, it would, be too far from
the roof to be of service in this way."
" Here comes old Tom," shouted the
colonel, who had stepped to the open
door while the judge was speaking.
The old trapper put down the various
articles of baggage with which his arms
were loaded and came into the kitchen
cabin where we all stood. He glanced
at the group and then at the stilted
stove in our midst.
I see you air all admirin' my stove,"
said he, "and I ' l l bet you've -been a-wonderin'
why it was up so high."
"Yes, we have," said the professor,
how did you know it?"
" People must alius generally jest as
soon as they come into the place begin
to ask me about it—that's how I know-ed."
"Well, why is it up so high?" de
manded the stock broker, impatiently,
with a side glance at the well developed
jack-pot on the table.
"The reason's simple enough," said
Long Tom, with a grin that showed
his bicuspids, "you see we had to pact
all the stuff up here from down below
on burros. Originally there was four
j'ints of that stove pipe, but the cinch
wasn't drawed tight enough on the bur-ro
that was carrying them, and two of
'em slipped out and rolled down the
mountain. When we got here we found
that there wasn't but two pieces left, so
I reckoned that I would have to kinder
h'st the stove to make it fit the p i p e -
so I jest in an h'isted her. And tliar
she is. Say, what's all this here money
on the table for?"
There was a deep silence, which last-ed
so long that Tom ventured to repeat
his question about the money.
" It is a 'all handsin,' " said the doc-tor,
sadly, "and as near as I can make
out it belongs to you."
T) W I3 O f A CHIMNEY.
This »Foolhardy Fellow Will Bide
His Bike on a Home Trainer 195
Feet Above the Ground.
Few things in this world are more
useful than a chimney top, yet it is
hardly the place that the ordinary bi-cyclist
would choose as the site for a
race track. Yet on the top of the tall-est
chimney in Washington, D. C.,
Alexander M. Sehreyer is soon to begin
one of the strangest races on record.
In plain view of thousands of people
far below him, he will ride a chainless
bicycle for a week, on a home trainer,
while a dial in front of the machine
will record the miles as he reels them
o f f .
If Sehreyer succeeds in staying on the
home trainer on the chimney top, he
will have accomplished what no other
bicyclist ever attempted. But Wash-ington
wheelman say his chances of
ever coming down from the bicycle
roller alive are about the same that a
man has who jumps from the Brooklyn
bridge.
Sehreyer, who is known as the " Aus-tralian
Whirlwind," declares that he is
the originator of "roller riding." His
contention is that a greater speed can
be obtained by a bicycle on rollers than
in any other position in which it can
be placed. At an elevation of 10 feet
he recently rode a mile in 50 3-5 sec-onds.
,
The smoke stack on which he pro-poses
to reel miles off the rollers is all
that remains of the Capital Traction
power house on Pennsylvania avenue,
in Washington, which was destroyed
by fire several years ago. Its height is
195 feet and it is only nine feet in dia-meter.
The hole in the center from which
the smoke used to issue will be boarded
over, and on the boards Sehreyer will
set up his home trainer, according to
the New York '.'Journal."
On one side of the chimney top will
be erecled a tiny one-room house, where
the bicyclist will live during the week
in which he is making his roller ride.
At the base of the chimney is a door
by which Sehreyer will gain admission
to the chimney. Then the door will be
locked, and not!ling more will be seen
on earth of Mr. Sehreyer for a week.
I don't want to be bothered with
advice," Sehreyer explained yesterday.
A sort of windlass is being construct-ed
on the chimney top edge. A long
rope will run through it to the ground,
and hy it the bicyclist will receive his
three meals a day.
To protect Sehreyer from the sun's
rays a gigantic parasol will be fitted to
the handle bars of his bicycle. To any
ordinary thunderstorm he will give no
heed. In the event of an exceptionally
severe shower the bicycle will be low-ered
by the windlass to the ground
while Sehreyer will take refuge in his
shed.
With the exception of the Washing-ton
monument Sc.ireyer will be the
highest thing in the nation's capital.
There can be nothing bidden or secret
about his bicycle riding.
There is scarcely any part of Wash-ington
from which he will not be seen
There will be no gate receipts.
As the match is only against time and
the laws of gravitation, there will be no
prize money for the winner.
To defray his ¡expenses, Sehreyer will
sell advertising space on the Pennsyl-vania
avenue side of the chimney.
Ants, and How to Get Bid of Them.
Many households are annoyed by
small red or black ants. The centre
of trouble in either case is the nest from
which the different individuals come
and to which they return. In this
case two kinds of ants are present.
Most of the members of the colony are
workers, while one or a few larger fe-males
of "queens" will be found.
During the summer winged males
and females are are also produced, but
these almost immediately leave the
nest to start new colonies. The eggs
are produced by the queens in enor-mous
numbers, and for the most part
become workers.
From the foregoing it is evident that
as long as females and even a few work-ers
remain in the nest to produce new
workers, the destruction of those out-side
can give but temporary relief. It
follows that the first efforts should be
towards the discovery and destruction
of the nest with all its inhabitants.
The only metho.d of locating the nest
is that of watching the workers and
tracing them back as they return from
foraging expeditions. This is often
difficult as the path may be through
galleries in the floors or timbers of the
house, but with patience the nest usu-ally
can be found. It is often located
in walls, under floorings, in sills, or
similar places. Once found, if carbon
disulphide or kerosene be injected into
the nest, through one or more of t he
openings by which the ants enter, de-struction,
of the colony will follow if
sufficient of either of these substances
be used.
I n the case of the little black ant and
of the other larger kinds which some-times
occur, the nest is quite likely to
be out of doors under some stone, or
perhaps showing as a small ant hill.
Here, too, treatment of the nest either
by carbon disulphide or kerosene is ef-fectual,
the best method of using the
carbon disulphide being to make one or
more holes in the middle of the nest
with a small stick and pour in each an
ounce of the disulphide and close up
the holes at the top. Drenching the
nests with boiling water is also usually
successful..
If it should prove impossible to locate
the nest, the only treatments which
can be used are temporary. It is claim-ed
that a heavy chalk line around any
dish it is desired to protect will keep
the ants away, but this is at best doubt-ful.
Pieces of sponge soaked in sweet-ened
water and placed on shelves
troubled by ants will attract them in
large numbers, and throwing the
sponge in hot water several times a day
when covered by ants will destroy
many. A syrup made by dissolving
equal parts of borax and sugar in boil,
ing water has also been recommended
as being very effectual in destroying
ants; and other methods of treatment
have appeared from time to time. Cer-tain
it is, however, that with queens
left undisturbed in the nests, the ants
will multiply.
—The "honest farmer" racket is a
chestnut in politics. There is just as
large a percentage of honest farmers as
any other business, but no more. The
fact that a man is a farmer does not
make him honest.
Mother and Son Killed.
H. J. Beam and his mother were
struck by a local freight at Rutherford
station, on the Lebanon Valley Bail-road,
Saturday morning and instantly
killed. The Beams were farmers and
lived within a half mile of the scene of
the accident. They were driving to
Harrisburg when the train struck their
team. Beam's neck was broken and
his mother was badly mangled. The
horse was also killed. Beam was 35
years old and his mother GO years.
Dewey Took the Hint.
Here is a story that Capt. Coghlan
told at Winfield, Kan.: Dewey sailed
into Manila harbor, fought his battle,
and then cut the cable. The English
admiral wanted to help him, but didn!t
dare. But he thought that Dewey
might take a hint. So the English ad-miral
sailed over to Dewey and said:
Ah, I see you have cut a cable."
Yes," answered Dewey. "Which
one?" asked the innocent English ad-miral.
And then Dewey, knowing for
the first time there were two cables,
rushed back, grappled for the second
cable, and cut it.
—The man who sits down and waits
for a golden opportunity to knock at
his door will need a soft cushion on his
chair.
I t Was No Dream.
Patrick McDennis arrived home in a
bad state of wreckage and a closed eye.
Oh, Patrick, Patrick!" wailed Mrs.
McDennis, "you've been foightin'
agin!"
"Oi(ve not," answered Patrick, as
he looked at his eye with the aid of a
small looking glass, "Oi've bin experi-meutin'
wid drames."
Is it out of your head that ye are ?'
gasped Mrs. McDennis.
Oi'm not. Oi had a drame last
night that Oi had a foight with McDuf-fy,
an' McDuffy pieked up a brick an
heaved it at me, an' as it was about to
hit me in the oi Oi woke up. Wil
this mornin' I got to quarrelin' with
McDuffy an' the fir-rst thing that he
did wuz to pick up a brick just the same
as in the drame. ' Bedad,' says Oi, 'it
th' drame over agin.' McDuffy threw
the brick an' Oi saw it comin' str-raight
for my oi. Said Oi to meself, said Oi,
Oi'll wait until it gits here an' thin Oi
will wake up an' have the laugh on Mc-
Duffy."
' Is it crazy that ye are?" cried Mrs.
McDennis.
' Oi must have bin dr-runk," admit-ted
Patrick, " for instead of wakin' up
when the brick arrived I went to slape!
Oi'll niver belave in drames agin!"
A b s o l u t e l y ^ u k e
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
ROYAL BAKING POWDEB CO., HEW YORK.
The Mountains at Beading.
Under the shadows of Mount Penn,
Mount Washington, and Neversink
Mountain, is the beautiful city of Bead-ing.
I t is one of the oldest settlements in
Pennsylvania, having been laid out in
1748 by William and Richard Penn,
proprietaries of the province, and nam-ed
after the English cathedral town of
Beading.
For a one-day outing no more attract-ive
destination could be chosen. The
train service via the Philadelphia &
Beading Bailway enables one to make
the trip from Philadelphia, or even
from more distant points, reaching
Beading in the mid-morning, and re-turning
in the late afternoon or eve-ning,
after riding over the two famous
mountains by electric and "switch-back"
railways, and partaking of the
good cheer for which the various moun-tain
hostelries are celebrated.
A leading attraction is the Neversink
Mountain Bailroad. Starting from
Ninth and Penn Streets, in the heart
of the city, and only a few minutes'
walk from Franklin Street Station, P.
R. Railway, the road winds round
and round the wooden slopes of the
mountain, affording, as it rises, daz-zling
and kaleidoscopic views of im-mense
extent and beauty beyond words.
ride of four miles accomplished in
twenty minutes, and the journeyer
alights at the great Neversink Moun-tain
Hotel. Beared upon the eastern
creast of the mountain's loftiest height,
this edifice occupies a situation of strik-ing
and commanding advantage. View-ed
from its broad piazzas, the landscape
stretches for miles in every direction
like a vast and varied picture.
Another resort of great beauty and
attractiveness is Mount Penn, reached
by an eight-mile " switch-back" or
gravity railroad, starting from and
terminating at Mineral Springs Park,
Reading's Public pleasure ground. The
ride up the mountain is a novel sensa-tion,
and the view from the summit of
Mount Penn is one of superb beauty
and grandeur.
The Philadelphia & Beading Rail-way
operate twelve trains each way be-tween
Philadelphia and Reading on
weekdays, and three each day between
Lititz and Reading. Excursion tickets
are on sale every day at their principal
Ticket Offices. For copy of Booklet.
Pleasant Places " on the Philadelphia
& Beading Railway, address Edson J.
Weeks, General Passenger Agent, Phi-ladelphia.
A Well Clothed Hobo.
While trudging along in the broiling
sun, Max Shelling, 47 years old, no
home, was arrested by a Philadelphia
policeman. When the patrollmen
searched him, they found that he had
on four coats, five waistcoats, four
pairs of trousers and four shirts and a
juniper. In going through his clothes
it Was found that he had thirty-two
pockets filled with all kinds of mer-chandise.
Is it Bight for an Editor to Becom-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 the right to
publicly recommend any of the various
proprietary medicines which flood the
market, yet as a preventive of suffering
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.
In many eases a dose of this remedy
would save hours of suffering while a
physician is awaited. We do not be-lieve
in depending implicitly on any
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 sate by
the Inland Chemical Co., Lititz:
English Misapplied.
The following advertisements have
been clipped from various exchanges:
"Notis—If any mon's or woman's
cows gets into these here otes, his or
her tail will be cut off as the case may
be."
" Wanted—For summer, a cottage for
a small family with good drainage."
"Lost—Near Highgate archway, an
umbrella belonging to a gentleman with
a bent rib and a bone handle."
"Mr. Brown, furrier, begs to an-nounce
that he will make up gowns,
capes, etc., for ladies out of their own
skins."
" Bulldogs for sale; will eafc anything;
very fond of children."
" W E 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 Oi critical Coi,
Lititz.
The First Anniversary.
I t is just 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 the
railway world in the line of passenger
accommodations. At a cost of a quar-ter
of a million dollars that progressive
company furnished the traveling pub-lic,
in its Pioneer Limited train, com-forts
and facilities the 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 lias 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 the
West and the other leaving the Twin
Cities for the East every evening in the
year) and they stand to-day a monu-ment
to the builder's art. No regular
passenger train service in America is as
well known as the Pioneer Limited.
From the standpoint of passenger traffic
the past twelve months have been the
most successful in the history of the St.
Paul road, made so very largely by the
Pioneer Limited. The patronage of
this service is a striking illustration of
the fact that the public appreciates a
good thing.
A Swindler's Work.
L a n c a s t e r Intelligencer.
A very clever swindler has been
going the rounds of the blacksmiths c
Lancaster county, and strange to say
about nine out of every ten have been
caught. It's the old story of a glib-tongued
individual who offers some
thing for comparatively nothing, and
all classes of people, it seems, are look-ing
for such offers.
Lancaster county blacksmiths as
rule are a pretty intelligent class, and
it's the more surprising that they
should have been humbugged in the
way they have. The benefactor who
came to their relief at this time, when
the price of blacksmith supplies are
going up to outrageous heights, had
prices to offer at which he could have
sold jobbing houses train loads of goods,
but did not want their trade; he wanted
to give the consumer alone the benefit,
and his horse shoes at $2.40 a keg,
bolts at half price, rasps and even bi-tuminous
coal put up in bricks deliver-ed
to their shops for less than half the
price they could buy it from any legiti-mate
dealer were enticing. Occupied
to these surprising prices was a cash
discount of ten per cent, which he pre-ferred
to have in advance of course, as
sort of a guarantee of good faith on
the part of the customer. That's where
he caught them. Some for as little as
90 cents, and from that to $25.
One fellow, who smelled a rat, sug-gested
that when the goods arrived at
the station he would mail them his
checks, less ten per cent. But at this
he threw his hands up in horror, de-claring
Checks hurt his eyes, they were
sick seeing them, thousands of them
came to the house .a day and the task
of endorsing them was stupendous—
one which they were trying to do away
with. A business of such magnitude
convinced the village blacksmith that
his guest was a fraud, and he frankly
told him so. The blacksmiths were
not the only victims he caught. The
liverymen and the hotel men too suffer-ed.
Srrange to say this fellow has cov-ered
Pennsylvania pretty well, doing
whole counties and finding victims
everywhere. He is described as a stout
man, of good address, full of fun and
apparently a hustler. The firm which
he represents, and of which he is said
to be a member, is the Lament Broth-ers,
of Boston.
Over tlio State.
There were four deaths in Bristol the
past week, the combined ages of the de-cedents
being 303 years.
A number of horses in East Goshen
township, Chester county, have ;tlic
lock-jaw.
William Blommer, a Hazleton wheel-wright,
fell from the second-story of a
building, and died an hour later.
Thieves tore up the tracks of the
Schuylkill Valley Traction Company
between Harmon ville and Conshohock-en
and stole 900 feet of heavy bond wire
This is the third time within three
months that this company has suffered
heavy losses frona wire thieves.
John Jones and Philip Clink were
held in bail charged with stealing a S5
gold piece from 13-year-old Charles
Winchester, of Manayunk.
Clerk of Courts W. H. Young reports
that the industrial activity is booming
the matrimonial market in Montgom-ery
county.
Thieves carried away sixty fine fowls
from William Binder's hennery, in
Phoenixville.
Sparks from a Reading locomotive set
lire to the lumber yard of Kulp &
Kline, at Lansdale, and it required hard
work to put out the blaze.
Mrs. Lillian Mason made a complaint
to the Mayor that the Allentown Shoe
Mfg. Co. burned its leather scrapings
on the outside, making a nuisance and
poisoning the air.
E. D. Landis, a Harrisburg huckster,
captured a huge tarantula in a bunch of
bananas. The insect was one of the
most poisonous varieties and measured
over four inches with the legs stretched.
Citizens of North Coventry, Chester
county, organized the Shenkle 'Coon
and 'Possum Club. George A. Upde-grove
is president.
Milton Ritter, who sustained injuries
in the Exeter wreck, effected a settle-ment
with the railroad company. He
received $75.
Thomas F. Hood while helping to
unload a freight car at New Holland,
had his right leg badly crushed and
broken above the knee.
Lockjaw, the result of running a rus-ty
nail in his foot, caused the death of
Justice of the Peace Cyrus B. Kelly, at
Trout Run.
Eleven-year-old Michael Metro, ol'
Cranberry, who hurt his fingers under
the hammer of a revolver on the 4th, is
dying of lockjaw.
Manasses Heiberger, of Claussville,,,
Lehigh county, 70 years of age, durm
harvest mowed no less than 200 sho'
of grain with the cradle, and bound ;
the sheaves together.
While William Smiley, a trucker
siding near Allentown, was on his wa^
to the Bethlehem market with a load
of produce, he was held up on the pike
by two Italians. Fie drew a revolver
and tliey ran away.
Coal cars breaking loose oh a p'ane at
Jermyn, Lackawanna county, rushed
down on Walter Greenslade, who was
working on the track, and crushed
him.
yon i
ever
see a snow
storm m
summer?
We never did; but we have
seen the clothing at this time
of the year so covered with
dandruff that it looked as if it
had been out in a regular snow-storm.
No need of this snowstorm.
As the summer sun would j
melt the falling snow so will
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.
melt these flakes of dandruff in
the scalp. It goes further than
this: it prevents their formation,
It has still other properties:
it will restore color to gray hair
in just ten times out of every
ten cases.
And it does even more! it
feeds and nourishes the roots |
of the hair. Thin hair becomes
thick hair; and short hair be-comes
long hair.
We have a book on the Hair !
and Scalp. It is yours, for the
asking.
If YOU do not obtain all the boneBta
vou expected i r om t h e use ot tlio Mspr
write the doctor about it. Probably
there is some difficulty with your gen-oral
system which may be easily I«- |
ivert. Address, ,, „ „ „ .
DR. J . C. A ¥ B i t , Lowell, Mj»s».