Lititz Record

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Lancaster County, Pa.
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YOL. XXIII. LITITZ PA., FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 13, 1899. NO. 6.
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B ROAD STREET CLOTHING HOUSE. SO FATHER SAYS.
Well Selected Stock for
Fall ë Winter
The fall season will soon be at liand 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
m 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
% Pall and Winter Suitings.
I Ready-made Clothing
for man and boy.
I would like every one to come and see
my big assortment of
8 Colored Outing:
U and Other
nothing like it ever before seen in Iyititz.
I NECKWEAR w
\Sjjgf that can't be matched in some of the more
^ pretentious stores. I have all my Neckwear
• 0 selected from piece silk and made to order.
| Hats and Caps
0 in the latest styles, of course, and at prices 0
as low as the lowest.
W BUCH
The Clothier,
Record Building,
S. Broad Street,
Lititz, Penna.
We're
Catching
H M T
The reason is no secret. Finest
line of most select Styles to choose
from, with Price, Quality and Sat-isfaction
Guaranteed, or money
refunded.
L . B O H S . *
144 Nortb Qtiecfy Street,
NEWT. WINGERT, Manager. . . . LANCASTER, PA.
W H Y
Does a thoughtful man at this time of
the year provide with fuel, clothing and
provisions ? Is it not in winter in time
of need that there will be no want ?
S U R E
NOW
That is the reason why. Should he
not also provide, in time of prosperity,
for a time when adversity, or old age
takes place. One of the two will come.
Is the time to act. The NORTH
WESTERN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE
Co., will do for you what you cannot do
for yourself when reverses come.
An investment safe and sure.
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L. K. GROSH, Agent,
L I T I T Z , PA
T o S-u-ccess£"\o.ll3t
Overcome (or repair) an ill-behaved Clock or Watch and re-store
it to Timekeeping Service requires Knowledge and
Workmanship. Your old Grandfather's Clock, also your
French Clock, can be successfully cared for here. Send a
postal card to the store and your clock will be called for.
JEWELRY STORE,
101N. Queen S t . , Lancaster
I wish t h a t I'd been grandpa's child
That I could had the joy
Of fishing in those good old days
When father was a boy.
For t h e n then the fish grew bigger far
Than they do nowadays
And l i t e r a l ly packed the streams—
At least, so f a t h e r says.
They never caught a sucker then
That didn't weigh a a ton,
And pickerel were longer than
A modern Armstrong gun.
They used to yank out halibut
I n hundreds f r om our bays,
And shad r a n up the banks to bite—
At least, so f a t h e r says.
They never thought of using bait
To lure the wily trout,
They reached a bushel basket down
And simply dipped t h em out,
And in about an hour or two
They'd fill up several drays
And sow' t h em through the neigliborliood-
At least, so f a t h e r says.
I n short, they caught so many fish,
That 'fore their sport was through
The s t r e am where they were fishing would
Go down a yard or two,
And not an angler failed to, come
Home loaded in those days—
A habit f a t h e r still pursues,
At least, so mother says.
For t h i s reason experts test a n unknown
Cuban tobacco b y chewing it. Genuine
Havana tobacco tastes " s a n d y . " It
grits the teeth slightlj'. The other
kinds tastes "muddy." In the same
way, to a certain degree, the experts
can tell whether the season has been
good or not. The better t h e season the
greater the amount of sand deposit in
t h e leaves.
CUBAN" TOBACCO.
IT IS A VERY SENSITIVE AVEED
AND MAY BE EASILY SPOILED.
ZOOK'S
'Tobacco is t h e most sensitive thing
in t h e world," said a local dealer to the
writer the other day. "You can spoil
t h e best cigar t h a t ever was made by
lighting it over a smoky lamp or gas jet.
The finest tobacco t h a t ever grew doesn't
taste good after you have been eating
onions."
These comments were elicited by the
simple question: "Why aren't cigars
b e t t e r ? " or rather, "Why are they so
b a d ? " The tobacconist would not
allow t h a t t h e y were "so b a d . " They
might be better if Weyler h a d n ' t adopt-ed
his policy of concentration and de-vastated
the plantations; but, after all,
i t was generally t h e smoker's fault if his
cigar d i d n ' t taste good. He had been
lighting t h em over lamps, or had been
eating onions.
Now, you smoker who, through years
of experience, has acquired a nice, dis.
c r i m i n a t i n g taste in tobacco, knows the
difference between an aromatic Vuelta
roll and a wad of Pennsylvania leaf.
He is not to be deceived by the plaus-ible
tobacconist. He knows cigars are
not what they used to be, and he wants
to k n ow why, a n d whether they will
ever be a n y better? The answer to the
first question will indicate whether
there is a n y answer to t h e second.
DETERIORATION IN CIGARS.
The war in Cuba was, of course, the
general cause of the deterioration in
cigars, but it affected the tobacco in-dustry
in a somewhat different way
t h a n is commonly supposed. Weyler
did destroy many tobacco plantations,
but he also spared many—when the
owners would pay for the privilege of
being spared. Tobacco was also raised
j r i n g t h e insurrection by people who
did not pay for t h e privilege, in those
parts of the island most favorable to
tobacco growing, but it was raised un-der
difficulties. Cigars have been poor,
not because there was no Havana to-bacco—
though the supply of this has
been short and has been eked ouj; with
domestic varieties—but because the
Havana tobacco, owing to improper cur-ing,
was tasteless or r a n k . This, again,
was a result of t h e Cuban war.
I n order that tobacco of the fine
H a v a n a vaiety may have that body
and aromatic perfume which are its dis-tinguishing
characteristics, it must be
cut ripe and cured where it was raised.
I t requires a steady heat of 90° during
t h e process of curing to develop the
flavor and color. Such a steady tem-perature
prevails in Cuba—it is un-known
in this country.
Now, during t h e insurrection tobacco
growing was carried on in the hills of
t h e Havana and Pinar del Bio pro-vinces,
where it could in a measure
escape both the notice of Spaniards and
insurgents. But toward harvesting
time, owing to t h e increased vigilance
of t h e hostile parties, the industry be-came
extremely hazardous, and the to-bacco
was, therefore, picked green and
sent to t h i s country to be cured.
The result was a t once apparent to t he
eye and the taste. Instead of coloring
in beautiful chocolate or coffee browns,
t h e tobacco dried a yellow a n d sickly
green in streaks and spots. Look at
any of t h e H a v a n a cigars now on sale,
even those of the better quality, and
especially the milder brands, and you
will see t h e significant green streaks.
PROSPECTS FOR IMPROVEMENT.
So much for t h e first question; now
for the second: When will cigars be
better ?
This season, perhaps. With peace in
t h e land of Cuba growers there have
been able to go back to t h e proper me-thod
of curing, a n d t h e former quality
of t h e product will be secured. The pre-sent
year has been unusually favorable
for tobacco, and the crop, although
somewhat short, is a tine one. The
quality of a crop of H a v a n a tobacco de-pends
upon t h e relative amount of sun
and rain during t h e season. Too much
r a i n makes a poor crop. The water
washes away a large p a r t of t h e nicotine
and aromatic juices i n the leaves, and
t h e cured tobacco is correspondingly
weak and lacking in flavor. An expert
can easily tell, simply by looking at
t h e leaf whether the season has been ex-cessively
wet or not.
Tobacco raised in a very wet season is
t h i n in texture a n d of a smooth surface,
while t h a t raised in a normal or favor-able
season is t h i c k and has a velvety
appearance. This velvety appearance
in fine H a v a n a tobacco, by t h e way, is
said to be caused by t h e fine sand which
is absorbed by t h e plants.
The soil i n H a v a n a and P i n a r del Bio
provinces is a fine, sandy, red earth.
J o l t e on t h e Kislioi)
Bishop H u n t i n g t o n once went down
to a town in Connecticut to perform a
marriage ceremony, which had a ludi-crous
finale for him. He arrived the
day before t h e weddings and he left at
t h e same time the bridal pair did, al-though
he was driven to a different rail-way
station. As he passed through the
station, carrying his traveling bag, he
was aware t h a t he was creating a sen-sation,
but was totally at a loss to ac-count
for it. In t h e car he found that
he was still the object ot amused at-tention.
The porter positively snicker-ed
as he passed his seat, and finally
just as the train drew out he came up
and assisted the churchman to remove
his overcoat, says t h e Washington Post.
" W h a t is t h e matter with you, my
m a n ? " asked t h e bishop. The porter's
snicker broadened into a laugh.
" A i n ' t you done lef' the lady, s a h ?"
ne chuckled.
" E h ? " exclaimed the bishop, in sur-prise.
Then his eye fell on the side of
his traveling bag, which the porter had
just turned around. There, glued to it,
was a wide s t r ip of w h i t e satan ribbon,
on which was painted in large letters,
"Married this morning."
The facetiously minded best m a n had
mistaken the bishop's traveling bag for
t h a t of the bridegroom, and a chuck-ling
black porter worked late into the
night removing t h a t ribbon.
P r a i s e s I n s t e a d of P u n i s h m e n t.
After t h e battle of Manila, when the
Olympia was in Manila harbor, a
powder boy lost his coat overboard,-and
asked permission to go over" after it.
He was ordered to remain on the ship
but disobeyed, and, slipping around to
t h e other side of t h e vessel, dropped in-to
the bay and swam around, and
finally recovered his coat. He was
hauled on board a n d placed under arrest
for disobedience of orders and was
finally brought before t h e admiral.
Dewey questioned h im abruptly, and
tears came to t h e boy's eyes. He reach-ed
i n t o t h e pocket of t h e dripping coat
and took out a woman's picture.
" I t ' s my mother," he said. "The
picture I ' v e got."
'My boy," said Dewey, after a mo-ment
of silence, " a lad who would risk
his life to recover his mother's picture
will not be punished by me. You ought
not to have disobeyed the order. But
I congratulate you on h a v i n g done it.
Does Coffee Agree With You?
If not, drink Grain-0—made from
pure grains. A lady writes: " T h e first
time I made Graino-0 I did not like it
but after using it for one week nothing
would induce me to go back to coffee."
I t nourishes a n d feeds t h e system. The
children can drink it freely w i t h great
benefit. It is the strengthening sub-stance
of pure grains. Get a package
to-day f r om your grocer, follow t h e di-rections
i n m a k i n g i t a n d you will have
a delicious a n d healthful table beverage
for old and young. 15c a n d 2oc. 2
Cigars of His Own.
' F i g h t i n g Bob" Evans tells this
story: "When Eulate, the comman-der
of the Viscaya, got on board of the
Iowa I look h im into my cabin and
gave h im t h e best I had. Through the
open port h e saw his vessel beached and
burning. Tears trickled down his
cheeks. I felt very sorry for t h e poor
fellow as he moaned, 'Adois, Yiscaya!'
Adois, my noble ship!' After he had
composed himself a bit I offered him
a cigar—the best on the Iowa—a 5-
center. He looked at it, thanked me,
straightened up, laid back his should-ers,
and, r u n n i n g his h a n d inside of his
coat, brought forth a n 'invincible' t h at
couldn't be bought in New York for
less than a dollar. 'And captain,' he
said, emotionally, 'will you have the
goodness to t r y one of mine?' It was
t h e best smoke 1 ever h a d ."
Occupation and Longevity.
Diagrams prepared by an expert for
one of the large life insurance com-panies
to illustrate the comparative
longevity of clergymen, farmers, tea-chers,
lawyers and doctors, show that
forty-two out of every 170 ministers of
the gospel reach the age of seventy.
The farmers come next, their propor-tion
for seventy years of age being forty
out of 170. Next come the teachers
with thirty-four, the lawyers show
twenty-five, and the doctors are last,
with only twenty-four out of 170.
Brunnerville School Report.
The following is a report of t h e Brun-nerville
school No. 1 for the first
month :
No. in attendance during t h e month,
males, 12; females, 10. Per cent, of at-tendance,
males, 97; females, 99.
Those who did not miss a n y days are:
Boy Doster, H a r r y Miley, Howard Bit-ner,
Clarence H a r t r a n f t , William Wis-ler,
Willis Hackman, Edith Hassler,
M^ry Althouse, Bosa Habecker, Mary
Bitner, Ida Schaeffer, Alice Husson,
Lizzie Bentz.
WILLIS C. ESBENSHADB, Teacher.
—On t h e 10th of December, 1897, Bev
S. A. Donahoe, pastor M. E. Church,
South, P t . Pleasant, W. Va., contracted
a severe cold which was attended from
t h e beginning by violent coughing.
Pie says: "After resorting to a number
of so-called 'specifics,' usually kept in
t h e house, to no purpose, I purchased
a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough
Bemedy, which acted like a charm. I
most cheerfully recommend it to the
public." For sale by James C. Brobst,
Druggist, Lititz.
So They Gave Him tlie Same.
" I t is my private opinion," said
Smith, as h e chanced to meet Jones on
t h e street, " t h a t man Brown is crazy.'
"Be charitable," laughed Jones; "he
has j u s t been married."
" I dout care if he has" stormed
Smith.
"That is no excuse for h im to abuse a
m a n . "
" W h a t has he been doing?" asked
Jones.
"Doing? I happened to leave my
watch at home this morning, and
chancing to meet Brown on t h e street a
few minutes ago I stopped and asked
h im what time i t was, and t h e only an-swer
that I received was a string of
abuse t h a t would have shocked a mule
d r i v e r ."
" I t h i n k I can explain it,"
Jones after h e h a d laughed to his h e a r t 's
content. "You see, Brown was mar-ried
the other day. He was the last
one of his set to get married, and his
friends decided to have a little f u n w i th
him. When Brown had received an
invitation to a wedding he h a d invari-ably
sent a mantel clock as a wedding
present. Brown and his mantel clock
got to be a s t a n d i n g joke among his
friends, and it was always looked for-ward
to, and he never disappointed
them. They were all alike and the
idea got about t h a t he bought them by
t h e gross a n d kept t h em on h a n d for an
emergency.
Well, when Brown's cards were
sent out we got together a n d decided to
get even w i t h h im by each one of us
sending h im a mantel clock of t h e same
pattern. I d o n ' t know how many he
received, as t h e returns are not all in yet,
but as near as I can gather he has about
four to each room. That is why it
i s n ' t safe to say a n y t h i n g about time to
Brown."
—"I wish to express m y t h a n k s to the
manufacturers of Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Bemedy, for
having put on the market such a
wonderful medicine," says W. W . Mas-singill,
of Beaumont, Texas. There
are many thousands of mothers whose
children have been saved from attacks
of dysentery and cholera i n f a n t um who
must also feel t h a n k f u l . It is for sale
by James C. Brobst, Druggist, Lititz.
A Lasting Tan.
" I t ' s a f u n n y world," said the small
boy.
" H o w so?" inquired the man next
door.
"Well' said the boy, "you know our
folks let on t h a t t h e y were going to t he
seashore for a week or two? Every-body
else on t h e street h a d gone some-where,
so there wasn't much risk in
saying t h e y were going a n d then stay-i
n g home. They couldn't trust me;
they k n ew I ' d be out and around the
neighborhood giving the snap away,
and so t h e y sent me out in the country
to Uncle Jim's. When their seaside
t r ip was over they just opened up the
front of the house and sent for me to
come home. The night after I got
there Mr. Bunker came around to call
on sister, a n d they were sitting on the
porch and I was in the hammock.
P r e t t y soon Mr. Bunker looks h a r d . at
sister a n d says:
" W h a t a lovely coat of seaside tan
you have acquired, Miss E t h e l . Nature
evidently laid it on w i t h a charmingly
even h a n d ."
" ' W h y blame nature ?' I yelled from
t h e hammock. ' Sister laid it on her-self
with t h e mucilage brush.'
" You should have heard sister y e l l!
I wouldn't have told on her, but the
mean old t h i n g s«id I couldn't take
her bike when I had a busted t i r e ."
" A n d what was the result?" asked
t h e m a n next door.
"The result," replied the boy with
another deep-drawn sigh, " t h e result
was t h a t I got a t a n n i n g t h a t wouldn't
wash o f f !"
Fortune in Hard Woods.
The h a r d wood business has increased
to such mammoth proportions in the
last decade t h a t Chicago is unquestion-ably
the largest consuming market in
t h e world.
The receipts so far this year indicate
t h a t by J a n u a r y there will have been
placed i n t h e forty different yards fully
1,200,000,000 feet, valued at upward of
$30,000,000.
The largest consumers of this vast
amount of hard wood are t h e 310 f u r n i -
ture factories, t h e many piano and or-gan
makers, the agricultural machine
manufacturers, the palace car works
and the building interests. An inven-tory
completed a week ago showed 30,-
000,000 feet in stock at the Pullman
yards.
European demand for black walnut
takes nearly all of t h e limited supply of
t h a t wood, leaving only enough to meet
the piano and organ requirements. In-diana
a n d Ohio, t h e best forest States in
t h e country, wasted more of this valu-able
wood in rail fences and in fires
t h a n t h e value of t h e remainder of their
trees, a n d those States are now being
scoured for t h e rails, which can be made
i n t o table legs a n d similar pieces.
—During the winter of 1897 Mr.
James Beed, one of t h e leading citizens
and merchants of Clay, Clay Co., W.
Va., struck his leg against a cake of ice
i n such a manner as to bruise it severe-ly.
It became very much swollen and
pained h im so badly that he could not
walk without t h e aid of crutches. He
was treated by physicians, also used
several kinds of liniment a n d two a n d a
half gallons of whiskey in b a t h i n g it,
but n o t h i n g gave a n y relief until he be-gan
using Chamberlain's Pain Balm.
This brought almost a complete cure in
a week's time a n d he believes t h a t had
he not used this remedy his leg would
have to b,e amputated. Pain Balm is
unequaled for sprains, bruises a n d rheu-matism.
For sale by James C. Brobst,
Druggist, Lititz.
Planting a Tree.
The failure or success of t h e young tree
for t h e first two or three seasons after
p l a n t i n g out depends largely on how
this work is done, says the "Woman's
Home Companion."
The young tree as it comes f r om the
nursery row has been deprived in di,
ging of probably half its roots, whose
office it is to supply nourishment to t he
top or to t h e branches a n d leaves.
The supply thus diminished so con
siderably necessitates a rather severe
p r u n i n g of the top, cutting away an
amount proportionate to the amount
of roots or rootlets left behind in dig-ging.
This p r u n i n g should be done just be
fore planting the tree, using a sharp
knife.
Cut away about three-fourths of the
top, preserving a strong center shoot or
leader, which should be cut back well.
The lower lateral branches should be
left longer t h a n t h e upper, w h i c h should
be pruned back r a t h e r severely.
A n y broken oi injured roots should
also be pruned so that the ends will
be smooth.
I n p l a n t i n g t h e tree in t h e ground set
it no deeper t h a n it grew in t h e nursery,
which d e p t h may be determined by t he
discoloration of t h e bark at t h e base.
Let the roots rest on a bed of well
loosened soil.
Beplace t h e subsoil or clay a t t h e bot-t
om of the excavation with topsoil,
and let the excavation be somewhat
larger t h a n merely necessary to accom-modate
t h e roots.
Fill in about t h e roots w i t h pulverized
soil, using the hand to perform the
work.
After t h e roots are covered tread the
soil well w i t h the feet.
All t h e soil used for filling should be
trodden down quite firmly.
After t h e tree is planted stake it and
tie to t h e stake, or better still, make a
compact hard mound of soil about
t h e base of t h e tree, to prevent t h e wind
from whipping it about. In t h e Spring
remove this mound.
During t h e first few seasons t h e young
tree should be well mulched with ma-nure
or grass clippings Winter and
Summer.
S i o r OWL ftAKING
Smmwjmfji "Pure POWDER
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
ROVAI BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
Pennsylvania Oddities.
George Shaible, Williamsport, ex-pects
to receive t h e big s um of $185,000
f r om the estate of his uncle, General
George Shaible, late of the Prussian
army, and, best of all, he expects to re-ceive
it in about ten days.
I n view of t h e reported statement of
Admiral Dewey that he wants a good
band to march ahead of t h e Olympia's
sailors when they parade through New
York's streets, t h e Pottsville Chronicle
suggests t h a t New York could procure
no better musical organization for this
purpose t h a n t h e famous Third Brigade
Band, of Pottsville.
The huckleberry season of 1899 closed
this week in the Lehigh region. It
was t h e biggest season yet experienced
by t h e shippers, and 743,400 quarts were
sent to t h e E a s t e r n markets from Hazle-ton
alone. Thè prices for the pickers
ranged from 10 cents a quart early in
t h e season to 3} cents when the berries
became abundant. The total amount
paid the huckleberry pickers in the
Lehigh region, who are mostly women,
reached the enormous figure of $38,120.
I n Carnegie Hall, Pittsburg, State
Superintendent of Public Instruction
N. C. Schaeffer, in an address on "Pat-riotism
a n d T a x a t i o n , " took occasion to
say t h a t in his opinion the true test of
patriotism was in a person's willing-ness
to pay his just share of taxes for
t h e support of t h e government; as these
were days when t a x dodging had be-come
a fine art. He wanted the tea-chers
to instruct in the schools the
benefits which come to t h e homes from
payment of taxes.
A rare relic h a s been found by work-men
n e a r l r w i n ' s station on thePennsyl-vania
Bailroad. It is a twelve-pound
cannon ball, lodged ten feet under
ground, and doubtless performed its
duty in t h e celebrated battle of Bushy
Bun, fought close by, by Colonel
Boquet, on August 13, 1763. The fight
lasted three days, and was a victory
which not only brought about the re-lief
of Fort P i t t , besieged by Pontiac's
and Guyasutha's dusky forces, but kept
t h e aborigines subdued for more than
t h i r t y years.
The "Peimsy" Pension List.
The officials of t h e Pennsylvania rail-road
company are a t work on the em-ployes'
pension list which they hope to
put i n t o effect on J a n u a r y 1st, 1900.
The company has 3000 men in their
service who are over sixty years of age;
fifty who are over sixty and ninety-nine
men who have been in their ser-vice
forty-five years; one sixty-three
and another sixty-one years. Their
pension system goes i n t o effect J a n u a ry
1 next and 775 men will be on the list,
of whom 622 will be over seventy years
of age. The system provides for 75,000
men and will require about $325,000
a n n u a l l y . Employes between sixty-five
and seventy years of age who
have served the company t h i r t y years
will be allowed to retire from active
service.
They estimate t h a t there are at least
fifteen men residing in Columbia who
will come under the provisions of the
pension list.
The Best Shooting.
The shooting i n Iowa, Minnesota and
South Dakota this year promises to be
very good, as t h e rainfall in all these
states was abundant. The best locali-ties
for chicken a n d duck shooting are
on and t r i b u t a r y to t h e lines of t h e Chi-cago,
Milwaukee a n d St. Paul Bail way.
A copy of a recent publication issued
by the passenger department of- t h at
road can be h a d on application to J o hn
B. Pott, District Passenger Agent, 486
William St., Williamsport, Pa., and
enclosing three cents in stamps for
postage.
Big Spiders From Ceylon.
Far up in t h e mountains of Ceylon
there is a spider t h a t spins a web like
bright yellowish silk, says the Pitts-burg
Dispatch, the central net of which
is five feet i n diameter, while t h e sup-p
o r t i n g lines, or guys, as t h e y are called,
measure sometimes ten or twelve feet,
and, riding quickly in t h e early morn-ing,
you may dash right into it, the
stout threads twining round your face
like a lace veil, while, as the creature
who has woven it takes up his position
i n the middle, he generally catches
you right in t h e nose, and, although he
seldom bites or stings, the contact of
his large body and long legs is a n y t h i ng
but pleasant. If you forget yourself
and t r y to catch h im bite he will, and,
though not venomous, his jaws are as
powerful as a bird's beak and you are
not likely to forget t h e encounter.
The bodies of these spiders are very
handsomely decorated, being bright I
gold or scarlet underneath, while the
upper p a r t is covered w i t h t h e most de-licate
slate-covered fur. So strong are
t h e webs t h a t birds t h e size of larks are
frequently caught therein, and even
t h e small but powerful scaly lizard falls
a victim. A writer says that he has
often sat and watched the yellow
monster—measuring, when waiting for
his prey, with his legs stretched out,
f u l ly six inches—striding across the
middle of the net and noted the rapid
manner in which he winds his stout
threads around the u n f o r t u n a t e captive.
He usually throws t h e coils about the
head until t h e wretched victim is first
blinded and then choked. In many
unfrequented d a r k nooks of the jungle
you come across most perfect skele-tons
of small birds caught in these ter-rible
snares.
Things That Women are Doing.
A New York jaiiitr. ss is accused of
selling kisses a t 50 cents each to mar-ried
men. One wife settled her com-plaint
a n d was quiet when t h e husbaud
bought her a n ew dress.
Martha Moore Avery has announced
her candidacy for t h e Socialist nomina-tion
for Mayor of Boston.
An old woman named Walven, a res-ident
of Kiskatom, N. Y., cut her
daughter's throat and then swallowed
a dose of poison. Both women are
dead.
A j u r y in t h e county courts at Bridge-ton,
N. J., awarded Mary McBlain
$3,000 in her suit against Bobert Edgar,
o f V i n e l a n d , for indignities suffered at
his hands.
With more t h a n 300 living descend-euts
throughout the United States to
wish her a longer life a n d fuller measure
of happiness, Mrs. Catharine Watts,
who resides with her son, William
Watts, near Sellersville, Pa., quietly
commemorated the 103 anniversary of
her birth.
A woman labor agitator from Pitts-burg
arrived at Bloomsburg, Pa., and
called a meeting of the miners. Her
arguments succeeded in causing the
men to remain out, with but little
prospects of their returning unless the
10 per cent, addition is granted.
Mrs. F r a n k Melcher sued her hus-band
in Philadelphia to collect $6,000
alimony due her. He had deserted her
22 years. The courts decided she had
no case.
Mrs. W a r r e n , a t West Chester, wife of
ex-State Zoologist Dr. B. H . Warren,
has sued for divorce on the ground of
desertion.
Cow Milking Machine.
Cows can be rapidly milked by a new
machine, which has a seat for t h e op-erator,
which also supports four flexible
arms ending in rubber teats to be at-tached
to t h e animal's udder, suction
being produced by t u r n i n g a crank to
operate a piston in a cylinder.
Drink Grain-O
after you have concluded that you
ought not to drink coffee. It is not a
medicine but doctors order it, because
i t is healthful, invigorating and appe-tising.
It is made from pure grains
and has t h a t rich seal brown color and
tastes like the finest grades of coffee
and costs about I as much. Children
like it and thrive on it because it is a
genuine food d r i n k containing nothing
but nourishment. Ask your grocer fo
Grain-O, t h e new food drink. 15 an
25c.
Ths Smart Yonns' Wife.
Young Mr. and Mrs. Smith were pre-paring
to make a visit to friends for a
few days. Their baby was only 3 months
old, but wi>s an important member of
the family just the same. Mr. Smith
was np stairs and Mrs. Smith down
stairs, p u t t i n g on her things and get-ting
ready to start. ' 'Hubby, " s h e called
out to her better half on the floor above,
"please bring me my gloves! They are
lying on the dresser. And bring me my
overshoes and veil and that hatpin lying
on top of the chiffonier and a few of
those animal crackers for baby, and
don't forget the baby's toothbrush."
Poor liubby had a hard time finding
everything his wife wanted. He was a
long while making his appearance and
finally his wife called to him, "What
is keeping you, dear?"
"Oh, that confounded toothbrush for
baby ! I have everything but t h a t ."
Then Mrs. Smith laughed. "You silly
duck," said she, "did you ,not know
that I was only joking? The baby,
bless lier dear little heart, hasn't a tooth
to her name."
That was why hubby got so mad and
"said things" as he was coming clown
stairs. A man never likes to have a joke
played on him by his wife.—Pittsburg
Chronicle.
Over t h e State.
George Kline, aged thirty-three, a
Lehigh Valley brakeman, was struck
by a bridge at Audenried and crushed
t o death. He resided at Weatherly.
He h a d only been employed a week ago.
The Quakertown & Bichlandtown
Trolley Company has paid the Sellers-ville
Turnpike Company $5,000 for the
privilege of laying trolley tracks on its
road.
The employees of the Pencoyd Iron
Works, who were sent to Africa to
build t h e famous bridge for the Eng-lish
Government over t h e Atbara river
in t h e Soudan, have arrived home.
The fifth annual convention of the
P e n n ' a Bankers' Association is to be
held at Scranton, Thursday a n d Friday,
Oct. 19 a n d 20.
James Shinners was burned, to death
at Mahanoy City in a fire which des-troyed
his home.
Sheriff Brobst served 02'J papers in
Schuylkill, Carbon, Luzerne a n d Lack-awanna
Counties in the twenty-one
bills in e q u i t y entered by B j r k s County
farmers against coal companies for
allowing dirt from the mines to come
down the Sahuylkill Biver. The caal
dirt greatly damages the f a rm lands.
F r om injuries raaeivel by a sewer
cave-in, J o h n Bo we died in the Altoona
Hospital.
The newly-organized Pennsylvania
Match Company has begun t h e erection
of its factory at Bellefonte.
By a cave-in at the Greenwood col-liery,
Tamaqua, William Kay, Frank
Shuffel and Conrad Barlett were ser-iously
injured.
Charles J. Taylor has been elected
first lieutenant and P h i l i p H . Garbrick
second lieutenant of Company B, F i f th
Regiment, at Bellefonte.
Bellefonte is h a v i n g a building boom,
t h e result of t h e industrial revival.
Coal falling in the Edgerton mine,
near Archbald, Lackawanna County,
killed J o h n Poverich a n d Michael Kal-dander.
F r om burns sustained a couple of
weeks ago, when his clothing caught
fire, four-year-old Clarence Heck died at
Reading.
Justice of the Peace S. D. Bitter,
of Freemansburg, Northampton Coun-ty,
was seriously injured in a run-away
accident, being thrown against a
barbed wire fence.
Same as Gambling.
AH newspapers that publish the re-sult
of chancing off articles violate t he
U. S. postal laws and make themselves
liable to have papers thrown out of the
mail bags.
A11 persons advertising and selling
tickets of chance violate the laws of
Pennsylvania and make themselves
liable to fine and imprisonment.
You assume no risk when you buy
Chamberlain's Colic Cholera a n d Diar-rhoea
Bemedy. The Inland. Chemical
Co., of Lititz will refund your mony if
you are not satisfied after using it. It
is everywhere admitted to be the most
successful remedy in use for bowel com-plaints
and the only one that never
fails. It is pleasant, safe an:l reliable.
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you do not.
But it comes
We are sure
Nobody wants it.
to many thousands every year.
It comes to those who have had
coughs and colds until the
throat is raw, and the lining
membranes of the lungs are
inflamed. Stop your cough
when it first appears, and you
remove the great danger of
future trouble.
stops coughs of all kinds. It
does so because it is a sooth-ing
and healing remedy of great
power. This makes it the great-est
preventive to consumption.
Put one of
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral
Plasters over your lungs
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