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VOL. XXIV. LITITZ, PA., F R I D A Y MORNING, JUNE Ii, 1901. NO 40
IT 'TIS EVER THUS.
" W r i t t e n f o r t h e RECORD.
I sit on my porch in a a old a rm chair,
As old men love to sit and dream,
| And from the shadows gathering there
Steals hack to me of my youth a gleam.
The drowsy hum of insect chiors
Falls on my ears like a lullaby
Of years long gone, as the day expires,
And the mournful winds in t h e tree-tops
sigh.
that if our prices are right you will make your purchases at chair;
home, and this we will assure you if you will come and see His ased form shrunk painfully, < < • « I a I Tho hva07afi nlovintr uri f h Vtio mh our stock, which consists of
SPRING and
sunnER SUITS,
. . . IN BOTH . . .
READY-MADE and
MADE-TO-ORDER,
in the latest novelties,
which I am prepared to offer at prices we as-sure
you cannot be undersold anywhere. In
the READY-MADE DEPARTMENT we are able
to show you the largest line that we have ever
carried. Suits for Men, Youths, Boys and
Children. Men's Suits from $4 50, Youths'
from $3 25, Children's from $1 50 and up. In
HATS,
SHIRTS,
NECKWEAR,
and anything in the line of dress for, large
and small, I am sure we can supply your
wants at prices equally as low as can be found
anywhere.
You are specially invited to come on the
Opening Day and examine our stock, whether
you wish to purchase or not, at the
Broad Street (¡lothiog House,
RECORD BUILDING.
The breezes playing with his white hair.
His toil-worn lingers clasp a cane
Adorned with natural curve and crook;
His eye grows moist as he peers in vain
I n t o the gloom with a far-off look.
I stand at his shrunken knee
And wonder what is in his mind,
I n t e n t , yet in perplexity,
The cause of his sad mood to And.
At last I say: " What troubles you,
Grandpa? Tell ine what gives you pain.
How good that childhood knows not, too,
That age has woes i t c a n ' t explain.
" My child," the sire in soft tones said;
" My thoughts were busy with the past.
[ Methought I saw those long since dead.
• Alas! that the vision could not l a s t !"
Lo! then I feel a soft warm hand
Steal into mine, then I hear
[ A child's voice urgently demand:
"Grandpa, did you know I was near?"
| And I t h a n k my God t h a t though I 'm old
Life still is glad with loved ones near;
That not all hearts are hard and cold;
That Heaven truly seems right here.
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and still the obstinate
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LITITZ, PA.
HEN Robin Sperry went down
to Luckdeu to preach lie had
only one old friend there, but
he made a great impression on
his hearers, and in the "reviv-als"
that followed his arrival a great
many very singular things were report-ed
to him—among others that he had
driven the devil out of old James Bar.
row, the notorious drunkard of the
place, and the people had seen him
the devil—run down the hill and jump
in the lake. .
Walking home in the evening after
one of the brightest meetings of the
course, arm in arm with his friend Si-las
Weld, Robin heard more of what
was reported of him than he had heard
before.
I am sorry," he said; " I think such
things hurt religion, and also hurt the
preacher of whom they are said."
You are not hurt by it, anyhow,"
said Silas. " Marjorie does not believe
in this nonsense, but she calls you the
best preacher she ever heard."
" She's very kind, I'm sure," said the
young minister. "Who is she?"
" She's the girl I'm engaged to, Rob-in,"
said Silas. " We are very fond of
each other, but her father and I are not
so fond. I am going to call there this
evening. Will you go with me?"
It's late for a call—9.30," said Robin.
Take me if you think best, or leave
me if you think better, when we get to
to the door. We have been friends too
long not to be quite frank with each
other."
I think it's likely she's in the sit-ting
room," said Silas, opening a gate
which led through the orchard and
making his way to a low door shaded
by a porch, at which he knocked in a
rather peculiar manner, and in an in-stant
the door flew open, and there
stood Marjorie herself, a pretty picture,
with the lamplight glinting on her
golden hair.
" Marjorie," said the young man, " I
have brought Robin Sperry to see you.
Miss Garnett, Mr. Sperry." Said Mar-jorie:
"Very glad. Walk in, please.
Silas, I 'm glad to see you, you know ;
but pa will not be late to-night; he said
so. Pa is a little particular, Mr. Sperry.
He was a sea captain once, and I think
that makes him so, and he isn't very
friendly yet to Silas."
They sat together around the fire—
the first of the season—and talked very
pleasantly. Marjorie was hospitable,
and cider and doughnuts, which neith-er
of the young men was yet fastidious
enough to despise, were brought from
the store room. In the midst of this
a slow clumping on the broad path be-came
audible. Marjorie clasped her
plump hands and Silas turned red.
" I t is pa," whispered Marjorie. "Oh,
I told you he'd be early, Silas. Hide
yourself. Run into the store closet-run.
Poor pa has been taking too much
hard cider—I know it by his walk.
He'll stop at nothing."
" You see, Robin," said Silas doubt-fully,
" h e promised to kill me if he
found me in his house again—and Mar-jorie
is nervous about it—come."
" Thank you," said Robin, "go your-self
if you like."
And Marjorie, who had never ceased
wringing and clasping her hands, push-ed
Silas into the closet and turned to
face her father, who stumbled in with
rather irregular steps and with a face as
red as one of his own prize beets.
" Oh, pa," she cried hypocritically,
" how nice and early you are ! And here
is the minister waiting to see you."
" How do you do, dominie," said Mr.
Garnet. "Make yourself at home.
I've wanted to talk to you this good
while. They say you can drive the
devil out of folk. Now tell me, how
does he get into'em ? Tell me that."
Mr. Garnet was very far from sober
and Robin thought it best to humor
him.
"When Satan enters a man's heart
it is through sin, of course," he said.
" Look here, young man," said Mr.
Garnet, trying to rise, " I've got plenty
of hard cider aboard, I know. Now if
Satan is in me, drive him out. I want
to see him. Come now, go at it."
" I think I had better take my leave,
Miss Garnet," said Robin. I
But before the words were out of his
lips the door of the store closet opened
softly, the lamp was suddenly blown
out, a smell of brimstone filled the room
and an awful figure stood before them.
Silas had possessed himself of a box
of matches, dampened the ends and
rubbed them over his face and hands,
and with two more bunches blazing in
his hands stood before the horrified Mr.
Garnet, his head tied up in a silk hand-kerchief
and a tablecloth draping his
shoulders.
' You want to see me; here I am
he saidf, in hollow tones. " You repro-bate,
look at me."
Marjorie shrieked. Robin stood bewil-dered.
Old Mr. Garnet sank on his
knees.
"Oh, dominie, keep him away," he
cried. " Oh, what am I to do?"
"Soften your hard heart," said Silas.
" Don't drink so much hard cider, and
let your daughter marry the man of
her choice, or I'll come and fetch you
next Christmas," and, flourishing the
flaming matches, he dashed out of the
door.
"Get up, Mr. Garnet," said Robin.
"Get up, sir; sit in the chair. Miss Gar-net,
will you light the lamp? Be calm,
be calm," and he held the old man's
hand in his.
"Dominie," gasped Mr. Garnet,
you won't raise him agaiu! There, don't
speak, listen. Why do you suppose he
came?"
Robin was very wrong ; he confessed
this afterward, but he was very young
also, and in love himself with a girl
who was far away, and Silas was his
friend ; and instead of making an ex-planation
of the facts he merely
s wared:
" I think he told you himself why he
came."
Yes," said " Garnet, "yes, that's true.
A year—the old boy said he'd fetch me
in a year if I didn't let Silas have
Marjorie. Dominie, what's your opinion
of Silas?"
" He will be good to your daughter,"
said Robin.
A week from that day Mr. Garnet
surprised the temperance lodge by tak-ing
the pledge, and shortly after Mar-orie
and Silas were married.
Making the Most of the Flashes.
A gentleman caught out in a terrible
storm at night narrowly escaped be-wilderment,
and perhaps a whole night
of wandering and exposure. " I made
the most of the flashes of lightning,"
he said, "and by what I then saw I
went forward into the deeper darkness
that succeeded. They almost blinded
me, and would have (left me the more
helpless, but I watched each time to see
how every object stood out clear and
distinct, and I marked my course for
the next advance. And so, by a series
of pauses and rushes, I got home.
" I t was a parable to me," he added,
and I have thought of it often. Our
days are not all alike to us. There are
times when we go on blindly doing the
inevitable, the customary, the duty
which presents no alternative. But
there come rare moments in which
duty stands out distinct as if a light-ning's
flash, and all things else fall into
their true relations. I am learning to
make the most out of the flashes."
Doubtless the lives of most good men
and women have been helped by tak-ing
advantage of luminous moments-flashes
from on high that made uncer-tain
duty suddenly clear.
Sometimes as if by intuition the light
comes, sometimes in a great thought
struck from the anvil of another life,
sometimes in victory after self-conflict.
But these moments of revelation come
seldom. Make the most of them.—The
Youth's Companion.
Salads for Spring.
For a company dinner or luncheon
new salads are indispensable. A few
receipts may help the hostess out of
some culinary dilemma.
To make a salad out of stuffed cucum-bers
cut the bitter point or a small piece
from the ends of two medium-sized cu-cumbers,
peel them and cut them into
halves lengthwise; scrape out the seeds
and lay the cucumbers in ice water for
an hour or more. Peel one tomato, cut
it in half and remove the seeds; chop
the solid part with half aslice of onion,
one stalk of celery and a sprig of pars-ley
until all are fine, and mix them
with a little mayonnaise dressing.
Wipe the cucumbers with a soft cloth
and fill with the chopped mixture, put
ting a little more dressing over the top.
Cover a small platter with lettuce
leaves and place the filled cucumbers
diagonally across the dish, and in serv-ing
them cut each piece in half.
To make stuffed beef salad boil red
Bermuda beets of medium size until
well cooked and remove the skin v, hile
warm. Cut off the end of the beet and
with a sharp, round-end kuife take
out the centres, making a thick cup of
each beet. Let them stand over night
in vinegar. When ready to serve take
crisp celery and chop fine and mix the
celery with a mayonnaise dressing.
Place the beet cups on lettuce leaves
and fill them with the prepared celery,
heaping them and cover with dressing.
Sprinkle a little finely chopped pars-ley
over the dressing.
Walnuts, butternuts or pecan nuts
make a delicious salad. Have half as
many nut meats broken into pieces as
you have crisp cut celery and mix them
with a mayonnaise dressing. Serve on
lettuce leaves.
For a chestnut salad use the large
French chestnuts. Shell and blanch
the nuts and boil them until tender in
salted water. Take out the nuts and
cut them in pieces. Cover with a may-onnaise
dressing and place oh dainty
lettuce leaves to serve. If a Ffench
dressing is preferred put it over the
nuts while they are warm, but serve
the salad cold.
Another salad to serve with game is
made of acid oranges, walnuts and
watercress. Peel the oranges and re-move
all the white skin. Slice them
very thin, cutting down the sides in-stead
of across the fruit. Arrange them
in two rows on a flat dish and scatter
walnut meats over them. On either
side of the slices and through the cen-tre
place rows of watercress. Make a
dressing of two tablespoon fills of lemon
juice and four of olive oil, season with
salt and cayenne pepper and pour over
the salad. Place the dish in the refrig-erator,
so that the salad may be very
cold when served.
Fruit salads, as they are called, are
very popular, and often are served for a
first course. Have dainty pretty glass-es
and fill them with chopped pine-apples,
thinly sliced bananas, white
grapes, cut in halves and seeded, the
pulp and the juice of the orange, and
candied cherries. Cover with a dress-ing
made of four tablespoonfuls of
sugar, one gill of cherry, one table-spoonful
of marachino and two of cham-pagne.
Stir until the sugar is dissolved
and then pour over the fruit and let
them stand in a cold place an hour be-fore
serving.
A HOME THAT IS NICE TO GO TO.
What Constitutes Good Housekeep-ing—
A Little Boy's Definition
At a recent afternoon tea, where there
were a goodly number of intelligent
men and women assembled, the conver-sation
turned upon good housekeeping,
and one of the guests was asked to de-fine
the term, says the New York Led-ger.
After a moment's hesitation, he an-swered
: " Good housekeeping is that
sort which embodies order, neatness,
promptness and an average amount of
good temper. Allowing that the mem-bers
of the human family are by no
means angelic, one must not look for
too much, and it is therefore a part of
the philosophy of life to avoid great ex-pectations."
"Good housekeeping," said another
member of the party, " is to have a clean
house, wholesome food at regular meal
hours and that restfulness that is never
found where the presiding genius of the
establishment is a fussy, irritable, wor-risome
and given to fretting about trif-les."
" Keeping a house in order, remark-ed
a veteran, " is not so difficult if one
adopts a systematic course and sticks to
it."
"But, my d e a r , s a i d a venerable
mother in Israel, " have you ever kept
house on a system and lived up to it ?
I have been trying it for three-score
years, for I began early, and I assure
you that there is nothing fixed about
housekeeping except the law of uncer-tainty.
I have many a time planned
my work for the day, and when every-thing
was arranged and I saw clear sail-ing
ahead of me, word would come up
that the preserves were working, or the
bread had turned sour, or Dick had
dropped the egg basket and there was
not a thing in the house to make cake
with; or the range wouldn't work and
nobody could tell why, or any one of
the thousand and one things that beset
every housekeeper who tries to do
things clear up to her light on all these
subjects.
The best definition of good house-keeping
that I ever heard was that
given by a little slip of a boy who, after
listening for a long time to very learned
discussions from some of his mother's
club associations on the best way to or-der
a home, was asked; 'Well, my lit-tle
man, what kind of a home do you
think is best ?' A beautiful light came
into the child's eyes. He tossed back
his yellow hair and shook his head: ' I
don't know much about it. Just the
only kind that I like is the home that
it's nice to go to.' And when all of the
philosophy, theory, science and wisdom
of the subject had been exhausted, the
women there assembled had to agree
that the very best home, after all, was
the home that it was nice to go to."
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NEXT CHATAUQUA ASSEMBLY.
Program Shows the Engagement o f
Many Distinguished People.
The annual sessions of the Pennsyl-uania
Chatauqua will open at Mount
Gretna oh Tuesday, July 2, and con
tinue until August 8th. This attractive
place is becoming more popular every
year because of its comparative inexpen-siveness,
the high cla s entertainments
and instruction, combining just enough
mental work for rest and recreation.
The State board of health, on its visit
of inspection last season, was loud in its
praise of the complete system of under-ground
sewerage and the sanitary con-dition
of the grounds. Aside from its
healthfulness as a mountain resort, the
program for the coming season makes
it a specially desirable place to spend
the vacation. Among the distinguished
instructors are such ¡persons as Prof.
Francis H. Green and Dr. Lincoln Hul-ley,
who will also give a series of enter-taining
lectures; Dr. N. C. Schaeffer,
State superintendent of public instruc-tion,
will deliver several lectures, while
Edward P. Elliott and Charles F. Un-derbill,
both noted impersonators, will
each make several appearances. F. R.
Roberson, the noted traveller and lec-turer
on " China of To-day " and one
on "Norway." Leon Vincent, whose
lectures on literature have won for him
reputation everywhere, will lecture
daily for a week. Rev. Dr. J. H. Stahr,
president of F. and M. college and of
the State Teachers' association, will de-liver
an educational lecture, while Dr.
George C. Groff", late superintendent of
instruction in Porto Rico, will give
several lectures, some of them illustrat-ed.
The Imperial hand bell ringers,
the American trio, the Beethoven quar-tet,
the Carolina jubilee singers and solo-ists
and specialists, will appear at vari-ous
times, \y hile such well-known teach-ers
as Prof. McGinnes, Prof. Deatrick,
Mrs. H . J . Jenkins, Miss Agnes Craw-ford,
Dr. Eugene May and the Rev. Dr-
Spooner will lecture on special subjects.
we'll be
How Emery Is Quarried.
Co-operators may be pleased to know
that among the few trades of the world
in the hands of the laborer is that of the
emery quarryman. Emery comes from
the Island of Naxos in the Eastern
Mediterranean, whence it has been ex-ported
for the last two centuries or more.
The beds are in the northeast of the is-land,
the deposit descending into some
of the neighboring islands, the emery
being found in lenticular masses, rest-ing
on layers of schist in limestone, al-most
identical with Parian marble, the
finest marble known, which comes from
the island of Paros close by.
There are about 300 men engaged in
the trade, all of whom have to be mar-ried
before they are admitted to the fra-ternity.
The material is much too hard
to be dug out, or even blasted. Great,
fires are lighted around the blocks till
the natural cracks expand with the
heat, and levers are then inserted to pry
them apart.
This system is continued, the blocks
are reduced in size to masses of a cubic
foot or less, and they are then shipped
as if they were coals. There are said to
be 20,000,000 tons yet available at Nax-aud
last year's export was 3,950
tons. It is one of the hardest substan-ces
known.
A Considerate Conductor.
It was on the 1 o'cloek car of ¡.the
State Street Line in Chicago early Mon-day
morning. The car, which had
heen bowling along quite rapidly, was
hailed by a belated female at Twenty-ninth
street. The driver stopped and
the young woman, who was not by any
means beautiful, jumped aboard the car.
She took a seat among the sleepy men
inside, but the next-moment she jump-ed
up again, blushing furiously. She
went out on the back platform and
whispered something very confidential-ly
to the conductor. The latter began
immediately to grin. The car was now
at Thirtieth street and the conductor
jumped off and ran ahead. " Now's
your chance," he called to the girl, and
she jumped off and dodged around a
corner. The car waited. "Hurry up
there, lady !" called the conductor. A
moment later the girl came back, care-fully
rearranging her skirts, and carry-ing
a $1 bill in her hand. She was
blushing more furiously than ever. The
conductor rang the bell to go ahead and
took the lady's fare, giving her back a
handful of small coins. "What was
the matter?" asked an inquisitive pas-senger
on the back platform. " Oh,
nothin'," replied the blase conductor,
"ou'y some wimmin uses dehrstockin's
fur pocket books and sometimes it's in-conwenient."
Open to Offers.
Charley (to his sister's beau)—" Say,
Mr. Griggsby, pa bought a big dog this
afternoon, and he's chained up behind
the house, and he's going to be let loose
at 10 o'clock."
Griggsby—"Indeed, Charley."
Charley—"Yes; and he bought a
shotgun and had copper toes put on his
boots to-day, and he says if you don't
leave by 10 he's going to take the law
into his own hands. Now, I want to
talk business. What'll it be worth to
you to have me poison the dog, take
the shot out of the gun, hide the boots
and set the clock back an hour?"
Change of Heart.
Husband—" My gracious,
late; get your things on."
Wife—"My dear, it's raining pitch-forks
and the wind is blowing a hurri-cane."
We have strong umbrellas."
My dress will be ruined."
Wear your waterproof."
And you know you have a cold."
I can wear rubbers; I wouldn't miss
that opera for—"
Opera? This is not opera night; it's
prayer meeting night."
" Oh! I wonder if our preacher thinks
people are idiots enough to stir out of
the house such a night as this."
—The aches of rheumatism are dis-pelled
by Excelsior Rheumatism Elixir
at 25c a bottle.
Honeymoon Money Stolen.
I t was an unfortunate affair in more
ways than one whereby Charles Eber-ly,
the Reading Railway telegraph op-erator
at Linfield, was robbed of $425
on Friday evening. It represented the
savings of his life time, and with the
intention of going with his betrothed,
a Lenhartsville girl, to Philadelphia to
buy furniture to start housekeeping, he
had drawn the money from bank Fri-day
morning. Whether the marriage
will be postponed by the robbery is not
known, but friends have proffered
their assistance to tide him over his
trouble.
GOSIIEN, 111.
Genessee Pure Food Co., Le Roy, N. Y
Dear Sirs:—Some days since a pack-age
of your Grain-O preparation was
left at my office. I took it home and
gave it a trial, and I have to say I was
very much pleased with it, as a sub-titute
for coffee. We have always
used the best Java and Mocha in our
family, but I am free to say I like the
Grain-0 as \yell as the best coffee I ever
drank.
Respectfully yours,
FANNY WILLIAMS.
—10c buys a pack of Celery Headache
Cure. Perfectly harmless. Sold by the
INLAND CHEMICAL CO.
A Pathetic Picture of the Abandon-ed
Farm.
There is a deep pathos in the picture
by W. L. Taylor, called "The passing
of the Farm," which appears in the
June issue of The Ladies Home Jour-nal.
The bowed and sad-faced figure
of the lonely widow, standing with one
hand 011 the open door of the waiting
coach while she takes a long last look
at her old home, makes a strong appeal
to the feelings. The sad November ' I used to think she would get into trou-sky,
the distant misty hills, the closed ble if I didn't follow her around, but I
house, the deserted barns, and above find she is able to care for herself. There
—Mothers of good judgment and ex-perience
give their little ones Teaberry
Elixir. Keeps away cholera infantum
and all summer complaints, 25c per bot-tle.
Sold by the INLAND CHEMICAL
Co., Lititz, Pa.
What Children Pear.
President G. Stanley Hall, of Clark
University, has been collecting faets
concerning the fears of children. The
fears of children, he says, are generally
created by parents and servants. He
found that 1,701 children had 6,456 fears,
the leading ones being the fear of light-ning
and thunder, reptiles, strangers,
the dark, death, domestic animals, di-sease,
wild animals, water, ghosts, in-sects,
rats and mice, robbers, high
winds, etc.
A few of those fears are rational. In
New Jersey no children were found to
be afraid of high winds, but in the West
•that fear naturally leads all others. At
Trenton, however, sixty-two children
were found who dreaded the end of the
world, a fear created entirely by adult
teaching. His tabulation shows what
education can do in this respect.
No child was found to be afraid of
the devil. Two hundred years ago and
that fear would have led all the
rest. Few were found who were afraid
of ghosts, a fear that would have stood
high on the list not long ago. The fear
of robbers and of wild animals is a sur-vival,
though robbers have not disap-peared
as completely as wild animals.
Forty-six New Jersey children were
afraid of being burned alive, a mon-strous
thing to inculcate in the child
mind. Fear will always be one of the
strongest influences in human life, but
at least it is possible by teaching what
real danger consists of to eradicate
groundless fears.
Carrie Nation's Husband Quits.
David, the 73-year-old husband of
Carrie Nation, told his Indiana rela-tives
that he would not live with his
wife. He intends to spend the remain-der
of his life with his daughter and her
family at Marion, Ind.
He said: " I could not keep up with
Carrie. The pace she set was too fast.
BUCHANAN, Mich., May 22.
Genesee Pure Food Co., Le Roy, N. Y.
Gentlemen:—My mamma has been a
great coffee drinker and has found
it very injurious. Having used several
packages of your Grain-O, the drink
that takes the place of coffee, she finds
it much better for herself and for us
children to drink. She has given up
coffee drinking entirely. We use a
package of Grain-O every week. I am
ten years old.
Yours respectfully,
FANNIE WILLIAMS.
all, the dejected figure,
to one's throat.
bring a lump in- j is too much hard work about this cru-sade
and too little in it.:
Summer Opening at the Eden Musee
The summer season at the Eden Mu-see
opened on June 1st. What this
means to the hundreds of wax groups
on exhibition there is an interesting
story. The wax figures at the Musee
have always been treated with nearly
as much consideration by the employ-ees
there as real persons. Strange as
it may seem the rank of the wax repre-sentatives
have much to do with their
treatment. The Kings and Queens, for
instance are handled much more care-fully
than the criminals and tramps.
But all of them have to have costumes
appropriate to the season, If they don't
have they look uncomfortable. With
this idea in view all the figures are giv-en
two costumes a year, a summer cos-tume
and a winter costume. The sum-mer
costumes have just been donned by
the Musee's wax figures. Before the
costumes were given out each wax fig-ure
had to go to the Musee's workshop
and be washed and scrubbed. Then,
they were given new coloring and their
features straightened up to make them
look happy. Then they were clothed
in new costumes of the latest style ac-cording
to the station of the person rep-resented
and placed on exhibition. The
result is quite startling. The whole
interior of the Musee presents a new
appearance and there is always perfect
harmony because none of the figures
are sweltering in heavy winter cos-tumes.
This remodeling and rejuvens,
tion of wax figures has been a lorg
and difficult task and most of it has
been done at night but the pleasing ap-pearance
given to the interior of the
Musee has been well worth the troublei
The wax figures, of course are only a
feature of the many attractions at the
Musee. Moving pictures are shown
hourly and so much pains is expended
in the securing of interesting subjects,
that each exhibition consists of different
pictures and nowheres in the world are
so many and so good pictures shown.
Each week sees at least a dozen new
additions and most of the pictures are
taken expressly for the Musee by its
own artists. The afternoon and even-ing
concerts are of such a high charac-ter
that the Musee is becoming famous
for its classical music.
Over the State.
Nineteen residents of Royersford and
Spring City, convicted of stealing coa[
from the Reading Railway, were sen-tenced
from one to six months in jail.
A two-year-old son of Andrew Ford,
of Concord township, Chester county,
fell headforemost into a post hole. He
was found dead in the hole an hour
later.
Gertrude Reddington, a servant girl
in Scranton, swallowed a small plate of
false teeth and her life is in danger.
Edward Thomas,' of Carversville,
Bucks county, was instantly killed by a
fall while repairing a chimney at a resi-dence.
He fell a distance of about 30
feet, breaking his neck.
On account of the weight and size of
Mrs. Evans li, Jones, who was buried
at Shamokin, it was necessary to carry
the casket over an awning and down a
flight of steps made especially for the
last occasion.
Amos Brown, aged 55, one of the old-est
Penn'a Railroad freight conductors,
while making up his train at Columbia
for Phila., was instantly killed. The ca-boose
was run back, which knocked
Brown down and crushed his head. He
leaves a widow and several children.
Residents of Fairmount avenue, Pitts-burg,
are much worried over the powers
of a fifteen-year-old school boy, who has
been hypnotizing children in the streets.
He hypnotizes little girls and compels
all sorts of antics. Parents are alarmed.
The police say the boy is a wonder as a
hypnotist and have warned him to de-sist.
They say his specialty is to make
larger boys submit to being whipped in
fights with smaller ones.
Judge Bittinger, at York, scored court
house officials for taking a half-holiday
on Saturdays. He said the offices should
be open for the convenience of the pub-lic.
Oswald Victor Hartman, who burg-larized
an Overbrook house, was, at
Norristown, sentenced to five years' im-prisonment,
and his wife, who helped
him, got 18 months.
Petroleum has been discovered on the
farm of 'Squire Womelsdorf, one mile
east of Huntingdon.
There was a heavy frost in the moun
tains east of Pittsburg Sunday morning
and the thermometer was down to 28.
While swinging on a derrick wire
over a stone quarry at Coatesville, John
Griffith, a boy, fell and was probably
fatally hurt.
Injuries sustained while jacking up a
boiler at the Warwick furnace necessi-tated
the amputation of the right arm
of William Winters, of Reading.
John Breeze, of Plymouth, while out
on the Susquehanna River, Saturday
night, iD a boat fishing, fell overboard
and was drowned. His body was re-covered
Sunday.
While watching a base ball game at
South Fork Saturday evening, Harry
Shower playfully ran across the rail-road
track and was struck by a train
and killed.
Raymond Bennington, a telegraph
messenger boy, took a header from his
bicycle at York and sustained fatal in-juries.
Some Other Ground.
We had been talking to a colored
minister on the depot platform at Tall-adoga,
for some time, when the Colonel
turned to him with: "Now, Josiah,
you are a preacher oi the gospel?" "Yes,
sah." "You preach virtue, honesty,
charity and all that?" " I does, sah."
And you are supposed to live up to
them yourself?" "Sartin, sah." "Now,
then, suppose I had a hog, and he was
running at large, and you—" "White
man, stop right dar!" interrupted
Josiah as he raised his hand; " I knows
what you is gwine to say, but you can't
make no p'iut on me. De hog law has
got so strict dat nobody but a fool nig-ger
would think of stealin' his pork.
Try sunthin' else, sah. Put it on the
ground that you had lost yer pocket-b)
ok an' I had found it, an' ax me
what I'd do."
Hoodoo Owls.
A citizen of Moutville announces that
he saw a black owl on Christmas Day
while out hunting, on a branch oi a
dead oak in the woods a few miles north
of the village, says the Hartford Times.
The incident recalls a story told a half
century ago of a boy who saw a black
owl near Montville and coaxed the
dazed bird to the ground and fed it.
There is a superstition that a black owl
is of especially evil omen and people
prophesied that no good would come to
him from the occurrence. The story
adds that the boy fell into a well and
was drowned in the following month.
Not Up to Sample.
" How do you buy your apples? By
the barrel?"
" That's the way I try to buy them,
but when I get home I generally find I
have bought them by the top layer."
Worse ltemains Behind.
" Is there anything more nonsensical
than your poetry!" asked the very can-did
friend.
" Oh, yes," responded the great mag-azine
editor, " we are going to publish
love letters of famous, men,"
That Fellow Feeling.
" Did the gentleman give you noth-ing
for rescuing the lady from drown-ing?
Why didn't you ask him?"
" | I didn't have the gall to after he
told me she was his mother-in-law."