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J . FRANK BUCH.
OFFICE—No. 9 8. Broid street, Litit*,
Lancaster County, Pa.
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VOL. XXIV. LITITZ, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 22, 1901. 24
Just 40 Days Ago We Ad
vertised Our Out Price
Sales of Heavy Wearing
Apparel, and it has Prov-en
a Success. Now We
Propose to Continue
these Sales to
To reduce stock I shall offer my entire line of CLOTH-ING,
consisting of
Suits,Overcoats, for men and boys,
Pants, Overalls, Shirts, Gloves,
Suspenders, Umbrellas,
Ties, Knit Jackets,
Jumpers,
Jerseys, Sweaters,
Hats and Caps, Mufflers,
Pulse Warmers, at a Reduction of
Remember, this is not a fake. If you will visit my store
and see every article marked in plain figures and deduct the
Fifteen Cents from every dollar's worth of goods you pur-chase
should be sufficient to convince you.
If you come early you will be able to secure some of the
best Bargains ever offered in this section of the county.
Thanking you for past patronage, I hope for a continuance
in the future.
. H. BUCH,
RECORD BUILDING, LITITZ, PA.
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All communications should be address'
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KECORD OFFICE
Iiititz, Lane. Co., Pa.
TO THE GRIP BROTHERHOOD.
W r i t t e n for t h e RECOBD.
If you're flat on your back,
Beaten down by the grip,
Don't give way to despair.
Keep a stiff upper lip.
Do not kick and complain,
Nor your sorrows rehearse,
For all outbursts of wrath
Will but make matters worse.
If your bones sorely ache
From your toes to your top,
Bear in mind that ere long
All the aching will stop.
If your blood seems afire,
And your skin dry as toast,
Try to think it a joke
That you're getting a roast.
If you shiver, and chills
In your back fairly swarm,
Then recall that old gag.
Oh, well, you're not so warm !"
If you think that your head
Is just ready to split, •
Then remember the chaps
Whose hats often don't fit.
When the doctor prescribes
Noxious stuff, db not frown;
Do not ask what it is,
Gulp the medicine down.
Make the best of your plight,
Though it's hard to endure,
For a spirit like that
Often hastens the cure.
Don't think you are a mark
For the grip's measly t r i c k s -
Many thousands of men
Are in the same fix.
And when better you feel
You must not get too gay,
Or to bed back you'll go
And there longer you'll stay.
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YOUR WATCH HAY BE
THE WINNER
Of One of the Two $5,00 Gifts.
From February 2d, 1901 to May 1st, 1901,
I will keep a record of the number on the movement (if the works have no number will
take the number of case)of every Watch brought to my repair hospital. To the owners of
the watches having the HIGHEST and LOWEST numbers respectively, I will give abso-lutely
Free the choice of any $5 article in my store.
D o y o u - H a ve
T h i s / N u m b e r , 2 1 8 9 4 ,
on the works of your watch ? If you have, bring the watch to my store and I will put it
in good order and keep it in repair for the next FIVF, years Free of Charge. It is the
first watch I repaired in Lancaster, almost TEN years ago 6
W. W . A P P E L .
JEWELEB and OPTICIAN 170 N. QUEEN ST., LANCASTER.
How Do You Feel?
SYMPTOMS :—Sore Throat, Headache, Aching Bones,
Fever, Indigestion and General Irritation of the System!
This is called the LaGrippe.
Thirty drops of Teaberry Elixir taken in hot water every
2 hours will surely cure you in the shortest time and have
no "bad effects. It will cure a case over night. Try it and
be convinced.
Sold at the OLD DRUG STORE.
Inland Chemical Co., Lititz, Pa.
NE night, just as it was grow-ing
dusk and the lengthen-ing
shadows brought weird
memories to me, I was dis-turbed
by the rattling of a
cab which stopped at the
door with a loud " W h o a " from the
driver and a pull that brought the
horse on its haunches.
A man sprung out of the cab, and
hastily running up the steps pulled
frantically at the door-bell. Although
it was nearly dark, I had time to dis-tinguish
the features of one of the lead-ing
lawyers of the city.
As my servant showed him into the
front parlor by whose window I was
sitting he came forward, and grasping
me by both hands said:
Mr. Martinot, we need no introduc-tion;
we both know each other pro--
fessionally so well that a personal ac-quaintance
is unnecessary."
I motioned him to a chair.
" I will be seated," said he, "but
only long enough for you to get ready
to go with me I want you to go to
the Tombs. My client, in whose be-half
I have called to see you, is there.
He is in the shadow of the gallows.
The noose is around his neck."
I t is no unusual thing for me to be
called by a professional man, and there-fore
I gave no thought to the case
as we were rattling through the streets,
but the impatience of the lawyer was
such that he would not allow the cab-man
to slacken, even upon the slip-pery
pavements.
We were nearly there before he
mentioned the case. He seemed un-able
to talk from nervousness. When
the shadow of the Tombs fell upon the
cab he turned to me and said:
" I can tell you only one thing about
the case; my client is innocent. That
is absolute. In his confession to me he
could explain nothing; he only knows
that he is innocent."
With this brief prelude I followed
my guide up the stairs leading to the
Tombs and into the somber gallery
that runs along Murderers' Row. In
the last cell, surrounded by not more
than ten square feet of space, sat my
man. He occupied a wooden chair,
and when the turnkey unlocked the
door he gave no sign except to bury his
head deeper in his hands and groan.
At a glance I saw that he was a gen-tleman
. He was a man in the prime of
life, not over forty, well-dressed, clean-shaven
and handsome. This I saw in
spite of the dark gloom upon hiis coun-tenance,
for never in my life had I seen
such abject despair shown in the face of
a human being.
At the sound of the lawyer's voice he
lifted up his head, and at the mention
of my name a ray of hope seemed to
come across his countenance. He rose,
shook hands with us both and beckon-ed
us to seats on his rude cot. - . •
" N o w , " said the lawyer, leaning
back and leaving us face to face togeth-er,
" tell Mr. Martinot everything that
happened that night and conceal noth-ing
from him. Tell him just what you
have told me.''
Looking me straight in the eye and
beginning at the very beginning,
Franklin Jarvis told me this story:
" l a m a manufacturer of dress goads.
My business carries me down into Bar-clay
street and the lower quarters of the
town, and on that account I rise early
every morning. For many years my
wife has not breakfasted with me.
" We were married fifteen years ago,
and our story is an old one. We mar-ried
in poverty and were happy. We
grew to wealth and were indifferent.
When fortune began to smile upon us
my wife became ambitious and longed
to shine in the social set of which we
had read only a little aud in gilded
paragraphs.
" I opposed her and we quarreled,
sometimes gently but more often bitter-ly.
Our words at times rose high, and
when, as on a recent occasion, she
showed great extravagance in her at-tempts
to get into high circles I would
leave the house and not return for a
week at a time. Thus it grew steadily
on for the last five years, getting worse
and worse.
" I will tell you now," said he, hesi-tating
and half apologetically, " that for
the last five years since our trouble be-gan
I have been employing my spare
time in a little amusement which I
have very rigidly kept secret from my
friends. I have been writing stories.
During these periods when my wife and
I were estranged and neither of us
would humbleourselves enough to make
the first approaches I have withdrawn
from home and, taking up my quarters
in a hotel, have amused myself even-ings
writing fiction. This has been my
pastime, as other men drive horses or
seek the billiard table. My stories have
been in print, and doubtless you, Mr
Martinot, have read many of them un-der
an assumed name. My wife knew
of my little pastime and ridiculed it,
When I wrote at home I could only do
it in the still hours of the night when
she was asleep.
' Last Wednesday morning at the
breakfast table my wife brought up the
subject of a residence uptown. She
wanted to be opposite Central park and
to ride with the swells of Fifth avenue
I opposed her, and she retorted sharp-ly-
" ' You will regret this,' I said as
rose from the table. 'You may regret
it sooner than you think. By God,
cried, as the memory of the things she
had said swept over me anew, ' I wish I
could go away and never see your face
again.'
Of course I was sorry for the words
as soon as I had said them, and during
the day I squared matters with my
conscience by sending a basket of
flowers to her. I even notified a real
estate manager that I was in t h e market
for an uptown residence.
I was detained that night at my
office, and when I reached home the
church clock opposite was tolling the
hour of 11. I went softly iu at the
front door, and knowing that my wife
would be asleep at t h a t hour I walked
through the k>ng hall to a little study
situated at the rear end of the hall.
Here stood a small writing desk, and
here I knew I could be alone for an
hour to quiet my mind from business
events of the day and to indulge in my
favorite recreation of story writing.
" A plot had come in my mind as I
came up town in the cars, and I re.
solved to write it while it was fresh. A
flattering letter from a publisher who
had accepted my latest story made me
resolve to supply him with another
as soon as possible.
" 'This time my wife shall know of
my work and be proud of it. I will
enter society and court the litterati,
while she enjoys herself with the butter-flies,'
I said to myself, smiling, as I
dipped my pen in the ink.
" The plot of my story was a singular
one. It was 'The Murder of a Wile.'
" W i t h accuracy I went into each
startling detail, and as I wrote down
the bloodthirsty words I saw that my
anger for my wife was melting away,
even as the beauty of the story grew
underneath my fingers. When I had
finished I saw that I had achieved
what would be the gre test work of
my life, and that honors would pome to
me from the public who would read
my story.
"When I laid down my pen I
sighed a sigh of relief.
" ' I could not do that again for a
thousand dollars,' I said aloud. 'No,'
I repeated, as I walked through the
hall, still intent with the plot, 'no,
I could not do that again for $10,000.
" 'Did you speak, sir?' inquired a
woman's voice.
" ' W h o is t h a t ? ' I asked,
" 'It is me—Ellen, the cook. I heard
somebody walking around sir, and I
came to see who it was.'
" 'AH right, Ellen,' I said, 'it is I.
Go back to bed.' And Ellen, who sleeps
in the basement, went back down the
basement stairs.
" Bounding up the staircase I threw
open the door of my wife's room and
stepped aside. A moment later I was
pulling the bell frantically and shout-ing
for help.
" There upon the edge of the bed lay
my wife, with the blood dripping from
her head and heart. She was uncover-ed,
with one a rm hanging to the floor.
Her countenance was fearfully distort-ed.
She had been cruelly murdered—
stabbed in the head and heart. Stabbed
to death by the hand of a midnight
assassin !
me in the front door and leave
Come back for me in.one hour."
I hardly knew what I intended to do,
although my mind was full of vague
suggestions. As the front door of the
fated house closed between me and
the street a shiver ran over me in spite
of my many experiences, arid I walked
softly the full length of the hall and
seated myself in the little writing room.
Taking up my pen and ink I took
the blank sheets of paper before me
and began to write as though I were
living the night of the murder over
again. As I wrote I turned and laid
the sheets one by one upon a small
Cairo stand back of me, which had
evidently been used for that purpose,
for there were blotters upon it.
Scarcely had I written a page when
I thought I heard behind me a stealthy
step. On the second page I heard it
again. This time there were whispers
I listened and heard a voice say: "For
the love of God, can it be him?"
I sprang to my feet and turned
around.
A loud shriek rose to the ceiling, and
out upon the hall floor there fell a
heavy weight. It was a man, and
over him bent a woman..
"You seared him almost to death,
sir," said she. " I told him that it was
one of them detectives that they are
always sending here, but the back of
your head looked so much like mas-ter's
t h a t it scared him most to death.
" Why should that scare him?" I
asked.
"Sure, sir, I don't know, but lately
he lias been like, like"
At this moment the man opened his
eyes. •
Forgive me, forgive m e , " he cried.
I have dreamed of it day and night,
forgive"—-
" I will forgive you nothing," said I,
until you confess how your curiosity
made you creep-up behind your master
that night and read what he was
writing. Confess how you weut Up-stairs
and killed your mistress and
robbed her of her jewels; confess how
you hid after the others were called
and pretended to be asleep; and confess
how you have allowed an ; innocent
man to suffer for your crimes."
Truly frightened now, the wretch
told how he overheard the quarrel on
the morning and how he had planned
the murder of his mistress. And how
aud by what dastardly means he had
found the very description of the
murder before his eyes and had followed
it out with awful correctness.
" I n a moment the room was filled
with frightened servants and I was
sending them in every direction—for
physicians, policemen and neighbors.
" But there was nothing to be done.
She was dead. That much we all saw
at a glance. Her head was slashed al-most
beyond recognition, and the hand
that had done it was a desperate one.
" I was too dazed that night to con-sider.
But the next day when the in-quest
was held I saw the awkward
position in which I was placed. The
coroner, in his search of the premises,
came upon the manuscript lying upon
the little table in my writing room,
and there, word for word, lay before
him the exact description of the murder
of my wife, just as it was in my manu-script.
If I had killed her before writ-ing
I could not have written down a
more accurate account of the details.
" T h e rest you know. My arrest,
imprisonment and impending trial fill
the newspapers. I am a doomed man.
Nothing on earth can save me! The
testimony of Ellen alone would convict
me. No chain of circumstantial evi-dence
was ever more closely entwined
around an unfortunate wretch like me."
"Drive me to the home of Franklin
Jarvis," I said to the lawyer. "Let
Bill Nye on Buzz Saws.
Owing to having been brought up in
Wisconsin, where you can scarcely
find a town that does not boast of
at least one saw-mill, of greater or less
pretentious, Bill Nye was familiar
with them. One of the stories that he
used to tell when on the platform with
James Whitcomb Kiley, the Hoosier
poet, was about saw-mills and buzz-saws
and ran about as follows:
" Northern Wisconsin is where they
yank a big wet log into a mill and turn
t into cash as quick as a railroad man
can draw his salary out of the pay-car.
The log is held on a carriage by means
of iron dogs, while it is being worked
into lumber. These dogs are not like
those we see on the front steps of a
brown-stone front occasionally; they
are another breed of dogs.
The managing editor of the mill
lays out the log in his mind and works
it into dimension stuff, shingles, bolts,
slabs, edgings, two-by-fours, two-by-ights,
etc. Atone of these mills, not
long ago, a man backed up to get away
from the carriage and thoughtlessly
backed against a large saw t h a t was re-volving
at the rate of two hundred
times a minute. The saw took a large
chew of tobacco from the plug he had
in his pistol-pocket, and then began on
him. They gathered him out of the
sawdust and put him into a nail-keg
and carried him away, but he did not
speak again. Life was extinct.
Whether it was the nervous shock or
the concussion of the cold saw against
his liver that killed him, no one ever
knew. We should never lean on the
buzz-saw when itmoveth itself aught."
A Queer 'Possum.
A Georgia negro caught two 'possums
in a trap. He took them home, put
them in a little pen, and gave it out in
the village that he would have the
fattest one for supper that night. He
lived alone in a little cabin on the out-skirts
of the town.
Two boys, bent on mischief, over-heard
him boasting of the 'possums and
resolved to play a trick on him. They
secreted themselves near his cabin, and
saw him kill and cook one of the
'possums. When he had placed it,
brown and juicy, on the table, he went
out doors to get some wood to replenish
the fire, which gave the only light
to the room. Then one of the boys,
having previously secured the live
'possum from t h e the pen in the yard,
climbed in the window,took the cooked
possum from the table and left the
living one in its stead.
The old negro came in singing with
an armful of lightwood knots. He
replenished the fire and then sat down
to his repast. In the dim light he
reached for that 'possum, and then
with a yell he jumped back. " Lawd,
have mussy!" he cried. " I killed
him, en I cooked him, en I tuk him up
steamin', en dar he sits ez nachul ez
life, wid not a hair singed ! O, Lawd,
des he'p me tor git way fum dis place
en I'll preach de Gospel de balance
er my days !"
Then, keeping close to the wall, he
reached the door and jumped out.
Once, before he made for t h e woods, he
looked back, and seeing the 'possum in
the same position on the table, he
shook his fist in its direction, saying:
'' Hay- dar, you gray devil—you ! Yo
race a i n ' n o good nohow ?"
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Musee.
One Reward of Curiosity.
Near the town of Baku, in the Rus-sian
Caucasus, are several tracts of land
whereon no cattle would feed, although
they were covered with unusually rich
herbage. The superstitious peasantry
declared that an evil spirit had be-witched
the meadows in question. By
and by there happened along a practi-cal,
matter-of-fact Englishman, who
started to investigate the phenomenon.
He quickly discovered that, although
the grass was undoubtedly rich and
succulent, it tasted strongly of parkflin,
a substance the flavor of which is in-tensely
repugnant to nearly all animals,
but especially so to cattle. Such was
the origin of the discovery of the Baku
petroleum deposits—deposits which
have already yielded millions of
pounds' worth of oil, and which show
no signs of becoming exhausted.
The Care of a Watch.
Always wind up a watch as nearly
as possible at t h e came time every day.
Do it as smoothly as possible to avoid
sudden jerks. Most watches are now
made keyless, but if a key has to be
used it should be kept perfectly clean
and free from grit or dust.
If a watch is hung up it must have
some support at the back, and if laid
horizontally it is well to place some
soft substance under it for more general
support, otherwise the action -of the
balance will cause a pendulous motion
of the watch and cause much variation
in time.
The watch pocket must be kept as
free from dust and nap as possible.
The most famous wax group in the
world is the group at the Eden Mu'see
in New York City called The Bulers of
the World. It contains wax represent
tatives of t h e chief ruler of each nation.
I t is a drawing room scene, and ap-parently
the Kings, Queens and Presi-dents
have gathered for a formal recep-tion
and are standing or sitting in easy
positions. All appear in court dress.
Within a few days after Queen Vic-toria's
death, a figure of Edward VII
and Queen Alexandria were placed in
this group. They are excellent repre-sentations
and it has taken several
months to prepare them. The costumes
were made in London by the Boyal
Tailors and are exact duplicates of
those that will be worn by the King
aud Queen at court receptions. Every
detail of the figures is perfect, even to
the characteristic poses.
I n addition to these two figures a
figure of President Diaz of Mexico has
been placed on exhibition. It repre-sents
the able statesman as he ap-peared
when inaugurated for the fifth
term as president, last December. To
accommodate these figures the entire
group has been re-arranged and the re-sult
is unusually artistic.
Many other important changes have
taken place in the hundreds of wax
groups and figures in the Musee and
the large halls and corridors are seem-ingly
new places. New moving
pictures are shown hourly in the Win-ter
Garden and the subjects are of
much interest. Included among theni
are many mysterious pictures which
never fail to please as well as astonish.
The Musee had a representative in
London at the time of the Queen's
funeral and the excellent pictures
taken will be shown in a few days.
Afternoon and evening concerts are
given daily by the Neopolitan Or-chestra
and the vocal selections with
orchestral accompaniment are en-thusiastically
received.
Give t h e Children P u r e Air.
A great doctor once remarked that
bad ventilation deforms more children
and destroys more health than accidents !
or plague. Baby should never be put |
to sleep in bed or perambulator with
the head under the bed clothing to in-hale
the air already breathed and
further contaminated by exhalations I
from the skin. "You are smothering!
the life out of your child's lungs," an
anxious mother was told not long ago.
" H o w would you like to drink the
water you wash in? Well, when you
cover your baby's head up you force
him to use air that it just as bad and
just as impure.''
Gold in the Crop of a Wild Goose.
A sensation was caused in New |
Westminster, near Vancouver, the
other day, by the discovery of $12 of
fine and coarse grain gold in the crop
of a wild goose. The goose was shot at
Pitt Lake, which is fed by numerous
mountiain streams. The sand bars
along the shore were known to con-tain
gold, but had never been prospect-ed.
Effective January 4th, the Seaboard,
Air Line Railway, the only line oper-ating
daily limited trains to Florida, put
on its magnificent new train, " Florida
and Metropolitan Limited," solid from
New York via Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Washington to Richmond, Raleigh, Co-lumbia,
Savannah, Jacksonvilleand St.
Augustine. ConnectionsatJacksonville
for Tampa and all Florida points, and at
St. Augustine for the east coast. This
train also carries drawing room sleeping
car New York to Atlanta, making
direct connections at Atlanta for New
Orleans, Mexico, Texas and Pacific
coast points. Leaves Boston 12.03 A.
M., New York 12.55 P. M., (from 23rd
Street Station Pennsylvania Railroad),
Philadelphia 3.29 P. M., Baltimore
5.45 P. M., Washington 6.55 P. M.
arriving at Southern Pines, N. C., 5.53
A. M., Charlotte 9.51 A. M., Columbia,
S. C. 10 A. M., Savannah, Ga. 12.2-5 P,
M., Jacksonville 3.50 P . M . , St. Augus-tine
5 P. M., Tampa 5 A. M., Atlanta
4.35 P . M. Connections are made both
a t the Eden | at Miami on the east coast and Port
Tampa on the west coast, for Key West
and Havana. The "Florida and
Metropolitan Limited" is luxuriously
equipped in every respect, with Pull-man
drawing room car, compartment
car with drawing rooms and state
rooms, observation car, through day
coaches and unexcelled Pullman din-ing
car service.
For further information, call on or
write to all Pennsylvania Railroad
offices, or representatives of the Sea-board
Air Line Railway at 306 Wash-ington
street, Boston, Mass.; 1206 and
371 Broadway New York; 30 South
Third street, Philadelphia, 207 East
German street, Baltimore; 1434 New
York ave., Washington, or to R. E. L.
Bunch, general passenger agent, Ports-mouth,
Va.
Crosby is Cross.
The Crosbys were going to the theater
the other evening and Mr. Crosby was
fuming and fretting in the lower hall,
where he was waiting for Mrs. Crosby
to " hurry up or the play would be all
over before they got there."
Presently Mrs. Crosby came hurrying
down the stairs, and, glancing at her
husband, said:
Oh, Henry! Wait a moment.
You
What now?" said Crosby furiously.
" I never saw the equal of you women !
We have been married fifteen years,
and not once in all that time—have I
ever known you to fail to forget some-thing
and delay us j u s t when we ought
to be off. It's always your handker-chief
or your opera glasses or your fan
or something that——"
But, H e n r y —"
" G o and get what you've forgotten
and don't stand there excusing your-self
for forgetting it. The first act of
the play must be over by this time and
here you are "
Henry, listen to me. I——"
You've forgotten your fan. I sup-pose.
Well, tell me where it is and I
will go and get it for you. My soul !
I don't know when we'd ever get any-where
if I was as forgetful as you are.
Why don't you keep your wits about
you long enough to "
For goodness sake, Henry, keep
still and "
How can I keep still when you
provoke me so? Here I've been all
dressed and waiting a solid half hour,
and you come down simply to tell me
th$t you've forgotten something
and "
I haven't forgotten anything,
Henry Crosby !"
Than what under the sun and
moon ahd stars are you waiting here
for?"
" Simply because you have forgotten
to put on any necktie."
What? No necktie?"
"No, you haven't any necktie on,
and I 'm not going with you without
one, for "
" Great Caesar ! Why didn't you tell
me that I didn't have on a tie, and not
stand there staring at me and saying
nothing. You women beat the band,
anyhow!"
Over the State.
Mrs. Thomas Hepner and Miss Clara
Mulhollèn were badly hurt at Altoona,
in leaping from the upper windows of
the Hepner home, at Pinecroff, which
was discovered on fire.
Miss Amanda Harvey, of Franklin,
Pa., who came prominently before the
public a few weeks ago though the
publication of a story that she had
fallen heir to an $800,000 estate left by a
Toledo, O., business man, who, she
declared, was her step-father, has
brought action against J o h n C. Foringer
for alleged breach of promise, claim-ing
$10,000 damages.
Mrs. J . J. Robb became the mother
of twins at Greensburg, Pa. Mr. and
Mrs. Robb are mutes, but since the
children came the mother can hear
fairly well.
An anti-cigarette league has been
formed in Chambersburg with twenty-seven
members.
Harry L. Beehtel was thrown from
his sled while coasting at Waynesboro,
and his collar bone and two ribs were
broken.
Harry Judge, an Altoona boy, six-teen
years old, tried to board a Penn-sylvania
train at Cocemaugh and was
ru n over and killed.
Rev. J. E. Whitaker, of Rochester,
was installed as pastor of Trinity
Lutheran Church, at Lancaster, suc-ceeding
Rev. Charles S. Fry, now of
St. Luke's Church, Philadelphia.
Pietro Parressic and Baise Tarrora,
aged twenty-one and twenty-five years
respectively, employed on a construc-tion
train, were struck by a Penn-sylvania
freight train at Spruce Creek
and killed.
Lancaster Court ruled against Dr.
M. Siegler in his suit for $5000
damages against Upper Leacock town-ship,
for a broken leg received in a fall
down an embankment.
While taking out hot ashes at her
Hamburg home Mrs. Titus Egolf's
clothing caught fire and she was fatally
burned.
The Schuylkill County Commission-ers
have fixed the tax rate at 7 mills, a
decrease of 1 mill.
Elk county paid $388.75 iu bounties
for the scalps of wildcats and other
wild animals captured within her
boundaries during the past year.
Clarion county paid $297.28.
Miss Maud J. Mulbury, superinten-dent
of the Pottstown Hospital, has
left that institution on account of
differences between herself and the
trustees.
An excellent quality of marble has
been discovered on Laurel Hill, about
a mile north of Keedysville, Washing-ton
county.
The United Evangelical Church
annual conference will convene in
Hazleton on February 27.
WASHINGTON, D . C.
Genesee Pu re Food Co., Le Roy, N. Y. :
Gentlemen:—Our family realize so
much from the use of Grain-O that I
must say a word to induce others to
use it. If people are interested i n their
health and the welfare of their children
they will use no other beverage. I
have used them all, but Grain-0 I have
found superior to any, for the reason
that it is solid grain. 3
Yours for health, C. F. MYERS
Character.
The growth of character is like that ]
of a plant. Desire is t h e seed. Here a
person has a great variety to select I
from; but if he does not select, allowing
all to grow that spontaneously present
themselves, he is sure to have nothing |
but weeds. And if he makes a good
selection, its productiveness depends I
greatly upon the manner in which he
treats it. His surroundings are as fer-tilizers;
and his capacities indicate the
nature of the character which he may I
most successfully develop, and are |
therefore as the soil.
E X C U R S I O N S .
California—Mexico—Hot Springs, Ar-kansas.
The Missouri Pacific Railway, the
fast mail route between St. Louis and
Kansas City, in addition to its Colorado
short line to Denver and Salt Lake
City, and the Rocky Mountain route to
California* also embraces in its system
the Iron Mountain route, the short
line to principal Texas points—the
true southern route to California. For
D A V I D C I T Y Neb Anrill 1900 I t h e of 1900 and 1901 regular U A V I D ^ I TV , A en., April I , IJ00 weekly, personally conducted and in-
Genesee Pure t o o d Co., L e Roy, N. Y.: expensive, though comfortable ex-
Gentlemen:—I must say in regard to cursions to Los Angeles and San Fran-
Grain-0 that there is nothing better cisco will be operated, over this route
or healthier. We have used it for Personally conducted excursions—all
years. My brother was a great cortee | expenses' paid—to Mexico Special
drinker. He was taken sick and the
doctor said coffee was the cause of it,
and told us to use Gruin-O' We got a
package but did not like it a t first, but
now would not be without it. My
brother has been well ever since we
started to use it.
Yours truly, Ln.R.TK SOCHOK. 4
excursion tickets to " The World's
Sanitarium H-ot- Springs, Arkansas,
America's famous winter and summer
health resort. |
Write tor full information to J. P. I
McCann, travelling passenger agent, or ;
W. E. Hoyt, general eastern passenger i
agent, 391 Broadway, New York.
S l o w
g r o w t h
o f h a i r
c o m e s
from lack
o f h a i r
food. The
h a i r has
no 1 i f e.
It is starved. It keeps
c o m i n g out, gets
thinner and thinner,
bald spots appear,
then actual baldness;
The only good hair
f o od
y ou
can
buy
is —
I t
f e e d s
t h e r o o t s , s t o ps
starvation, and the
hair grows thick and
long. It cures dan-druff
also. Keep a
bottle of it on your
dressing table.
It always restores
color to faded or gray
hair. Mind, we say
"always."
$1.00 a bottle. All druggists.
" I have found your Hair Vigor
to bo the best remedy I have ever
tried for the hair. My hair was
falling out very bad, so I thought
I would try a bottle of it. I .had
used only one bottle, and my hair
stopped falling out, and it is now
real thick and long.
NANCY J . MOCNTOASTLE,
July 28,1898. Yonkers, N. Y.
MTrffs the Doctor.
He will send you liia book on The
Ilalr and Scalp.'"-Ask him any ques.
tion you wish about your hftir. You
will receive a prompt answer free.
Address, DR. J. C. AYER,
Lowell* Mass.
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