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YOL. XXVI. LITITZ, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 27, 1903. NO. 29.
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LITITZ, P A ,
WAKING
THE OLD
TOWN UP
TWO BOYS stopped near the bar-rel
on which the old man with
the corncob pipe was sitting.
"We simply have got to do some-thing
to wake up this town," asserted
one of the boys.
The other nodded solemnly.
" Merely as a matter of business it
must be done," he said.
The old man on the barrel went
through the motions of laughing, but
there was no sound or even a chuckle.
He was on his regular perch passing
the time in his customary way a nd
with his usual noiselessness. His laugh
was like the good child in the story
book—it could be seen but not heard.
I t ' s outward indications were a wrink-ling
of t he face and a gentle shaking
of the whole body.
" Man au' boy I ' v e lived in this town
nigh on to seventy years," he said at
last, after removing his pipe from his
mouth with great deliberation, "an'
there ain't no body waked it up yet,
cept for a minute or two when Doc
Riley's horse run away aud smashed
right into Dolly Burden's mill'nery
store."
" Well, we'll do it somehow," retort-ed
the boys, as they passed on to their
office.
Ralph Devon and Martin Sellers pub-lished
a paper. It was not much of a
paper from one point of view, but from
another it was worthy of notice. If
you compared it with the dailies that
came up from "the c i t y " on the 12.35
train you would regard it merely as a
rather interesting amateur sheet, but if
you compared it with the two local
weeklies it was not so bad. I t was a
good deal smaller than the latter, but
it had a freshness and a brightness
that commended it. It had no tradi-tions
of dignity and conversation to up-hold,
which was very much in its favor.
When it was started on its career of en-lightenment
a small hand press, owned
by one of the boys, had been capable of
doing the printing, but in time the
clever and interesting way in which it
treated local news had given it a suc-cess
that enabled the boys to enlarge it
slightly and let the contract for t he
printing to the publisher of one of the
older weeklies. The other two papers
gave the news of t h e week for t h a t vi-cinity,
but there was always a desire to
see what "The J u n i o r " (for t h a t was its
title) had to say about it. There as an
originality in its views and reports that
was at least amusing, and youthful ar-dor
gave it an aggressiveness (not al-ways
wisely directed) that compelled
attention. So, although treated with
patronizing good nature that denied it
very serious consideration, it neverthe-less
had prospered and was now begin-ning
its second year. But the boys
wanted to "boom" it—indeed, they
were always devising schemes to bring
to public notice, but so far they had at-tempted
nothing of sufficient magnitude
to satisfy them.
I n the little room they had rented for
an office they continued the discussion
begun on the street.
'What's the matter with the elec-tion?"
asked Ralph, after a thoughtful
pause. "If we could get t he first and
most complete news of t h a t it would be
a great thing for us."
Martin looked doubtful. It was an
"off year," as t h e politicians say, but
the gubernatorial elections were of con-siderable
interest, and in a neighboring
state the efforts of defeating an aggres-sive
demagogue who was striving for
power had resulted in a most acrimoni-ous
contest. All that part of the coun-try
was absorbed in the details aud
anxious as to t h e result.
'The election is Tuesday, and Wed-nesday
is publication day," persisted
Ralph. "It couldn't be better. The
'Observer' aud 'Sentinel' will get an oc-casional
telegram from friends in the
city and a few bulletins over the long-distance
'phone from Flitchburg, but
their publication days are Thursday and
Friday. If we could get the 'pony'
press service for t h a t night we could
beat them on bulletins and get our paper
on the street before the dailies get here
from t h e city.
'What's the pony press service?" ask-ed
Martin.
'You're a nice kind of a newspaper
man, if you d o n ' t k n ow t h a t , " returned
Ralph scornfully. I t ' s a minor tele-graphic
news service that t h e big press
associations give to t he smaller papers.
Maybe we can't get it, but we can try.
Suppose I go to the city and see what I
c a n d o ."
Martin was readily convinced that
the plan was worth a trial, but he insist-ed
upon first finding out whether the
necessary local arrangements could be
made.
The editor of "The Observer," in
whose establishment "The Junior" was
printed, considered the scheme vision-ary
and impractical.
"You can'tget the 'pony' service for
election night," he asserted. '-'I once
made the attempt and failed."
"But if we do," urged Ralph, "you
get our paper out at 6 o'clock Wednes-day
morning instead of Wednesday
noon."
"You can have the run of the office,"
answered the editor, but you will have
to make your own arrangements with
the pressman and t h e compositors. It
means night work for them."
I t was decided that one of t he com-positors
would be enough, and he and
the pressman readily agreed to do t he
work at something less than the regu-lar
rate. They liked the boys, and t he
unions, with their times rules and iron-clad
rates, were not so much in evi-dence
then as they are now.
Next day Ralph started for " t he
city," by which name the nearest me-tropolis
goes in all the smaller cities aud
towns tributary to it. Here he knew
the struggle would come, but it was not
so hard a one as he had supposed. The
local manager of the press association to
which he applied laughed when the er-rand
was stated.
"What do you want with the 'pony'
service?" he asked.
"We want to beat the two other
papers and 'boom' our town," replied
Ralph, promptly.
"Well I 'm afraid I can't give it to
you," said the manager. "You are in
the territory of the city papers, and they
expect the election news to give them a
large sale."
"Are the editors of these big dailies
afraid of two boys?" demanded Ralph,
scornfully.
" I t does seem rather absurd," admit-ted
the manager. Let me see your
paper."
Ralph showed him a copy and he
laughed again. The whole thing seem-ed
to impress him as a joke.
" I really don't see how that little
sheet can do any harm," he said, "but
aren't you tackling a big job with a
pretty small publication?"
"We know what we are doing," an-swered
Ralph, confidently, "and I have
the money in my pocket to pay for
what we want."
He failed to state that he had emptied
the treasury of "The Junior" in order to
provide the necessary funds, but that
was quite immaterial, anyway.
'Your business enterprise appeals to
me," said the manager after a moment
of thought. "I'd like to see you succeed,
but our contract with the dailies will
not permit us to this service without
their consent. If you can secure that
you shall have the 'pony' press service
for election night."
The first of the editors approached
was not inclined to give his permission,
but when Ralph showed him "The Jun-ior'
' he laughed as t he press association
manager had done.
" I don't see how that can h u r t us,"
he said, "but I don't see how the press
service can do such a paper much
good."
" I t will help us beat the papers that
get bulletins by telephone," asserted
Ralph, "and it will make the people
take us more seriously if we do that.
We're going to make the biggest kind
of a Splurge we know how, but I should
not think a big paper like yours would
be afraid of two boys."
This last remark was a master stroke
of diplomacy. It had been effective
with the manager of t h e press associa-tion,
and it was effective with this edi-tor.
It certainly did seem small and
petty to take a serious view of such ri-valry.
"Go ahead," said the editor, "and I
hope you win. When you get the writ-ten
consent of the other papers interest-ed
come back and you shall have
mine."
Late in the afternoon Ralph again
called on the manager of the press asso-ciation
and proudly produced the docu-ments
necessary to insure him the
"pony" service.
"They have refused every similar ap
plication so far made," said the man-ager.
"How in t he world did you do
i t ?"
" Well," replied Ralph, " I told each
one of them that I shouldn't think he
would be afraid of two boys, and that
seemed to do a lot of good. Then, after
the first one consented, the others were
easy. The last one said he didn't
believe his paper would 'pass' any div-idends
because of ours."
" B y the way," said the manager,
when the details were arranged and
the money paid, "there's a telegram
here for you. It came in care of me."
" I t must be from Martin," explained
Ralph. " He's my partner, you know,
and this is the only place he'd have
any chance of catching me."
I t was from Martin, and it ran as
follows :
"Operator off duty at eight. Refused
to keep open later. See manager."
' More trouble," commented Ralph
shortly, " But I ' l l bet that operator
stays on election night. I've got to
see about running a press rate anyhow."
' You boys have got the right stuff
in you," was the compliment he heard
as he started for the telegraph office.
The manager there was obliging. He
looked at the paper and laughed as all
the others had done, but he listened
with attention to the explanation of the
plans and nodded an amused approval
of each detail.
" So you're got the 'pony' service
and intend to use some specials, too,"
he remarked at t h e conclusion of t he
recital.
" Well, you're all right and you Cer-tainly
shall have the night press rate
of half a cent a word. " B u t , " he added
thoughtfully, " a r e you sure you can
stand the expense ?"
" I'll make a deposit to cover it now,"
answered Ralph.
" You'll do," laughed the manager.
"You're business from the ground up."
" T h e operator," suggested Ralph,
"refuses to stay on after eight o'clock."
" The operator," answered the man
ager, " will stay on duty until you
are through with him."
All in all, Ralph felt that he had put
in a good day's work, and Martin
agreed with him when they talked it
over the following day. But there
were still problems to be solved. Where
was the news to be bulletined ? Their
office was a little back room and it was
impossible to do anything with them
there. The other papers had offices
that were larger and more accessible,
and the scanty news received was read
aloud as it came in, but this plan
could not be followed by Ralph and
Martin aud it would not have suited
them anyway. They had] set out to
wake the town up and they intended
to do it. 1 _ *
" We must h i r e lT TialT7' ' said RalpE^
" and get out some handbills to let t he
people know where to come to get t he
news."
" H a v e you enough money left?'
asked Martin.
" We'll get enough from the sale of
the paper and the extra advertising for
that day," asserted Ralph. "Every
merchant in town will come in when
they learn what we intend to do."
" But we'll have to pay for the hall
in advance."
" Perhaps not. Let's see."
The proprietor of the hall was skepti-cal,
but they showed him the contract
for the "pony" press service, the re-ceipt
for the money paid for it, told him
of the arrangement made with the tele-graph
company convinced him that
they would surely beat the paper
from "the city," and he agreed to run
the risk. " I ' l l get enough to pay for
the lighting anyway," he said, " a nd
I'll chance the rest."
Next they went to work to secure
the advertising, and, while it was not
customary to pay for t h a t in advance
(owing to an uncertainty as to t he con-tinued
existence of the paper,) they
succeeded in collecting enough to have
the necessary handbill printing done
without running further in debt. Small
boys were engaged to distribute the
handbills, and they were scattered far
and wide--not only in the town, but
in the nearer villages and all the sur-rounding
country. News of a startling
innovation travels rapidly, too, and
this plan savored so much of " t h e city,"
that even farmers decided to come in
aud get the latest returns.
Election night was almost as exciting
and lively as "circus day." There
were many teams hitched in the public
square and an extraordinary number of
people ou the street. Over the hall en-gaged
was the sign, "Election returns
received here," and within two negroes
with banjos kept the crowd amused,
while Ralph looked after t h e bulletins.
He had a right busy time of it, too, for
as soon as h e was through with the dis-patches
they had to go to the printing
office, where Martin wrote the neces-sary
headlines and put t h em in shape
for publication in the paper. Ralph
was in his element. He fairly gloried
in his position of importance, but he
kept his wits about him and there was
not a hitch in the program. Long be-fore
the end he had his whole audience
singing to the accompaniment of the
banjos, and yet his uplifted hand
would bring instant silence. He proved
himself a master. The boys carrying
the telegrams (and they included special
dispatches that a city friend was send-ing)
caught the spirit of the affair and
they raced as they never had before.
I t was enough to make any lad proud
to be thé centre of such au assemblage,
to see the excitement reflected on the
faces of the farmers and others who had
never imagined such a feat possible in
that region and to hear the compli-ments
and expressions of wonder
caused by this display of enterprise.
Perhaps the thing that thrilled him
most was the homely exclamation :
1 By gum ! ef it aint just like the
city !"
That kept ringing in his ears long
after the crowd had dispersed, and he
carried himself a little straighter and
with more dignity in consequence.
The cheering when the news suited
the majority of t h e people was music to
his ears—there was something very me-tropolitan
about it—and the arguments
and singing and the stamping and all
the other indications of excitement
were very pleasing, but somehow that
wondering exclamation of the old
farmer seemed like a concentration of
all the rest and affected him more than
anything else.
As Ralph was leaving the hall to join
Martin at the printing office a youth
stopped him with the query, "Goin'
to get your paper out at 6 o'clock?"
" Yes," answered Ralph.
" Can't make it 5.40, can you ?" was
the next question.
" W h y ? "
" I ' m the news agent on the West
Elsburg branch, and t h e train leaves at
six. I could sell some papers if I had
em. 'Most everybody comes to the
stations."
" H o w many could you sell ?"
" Oh, two hundred or maybe more by
leaving some with boys at the stations
and collectin' on t h e back trip."
" We'll have 250 for you at half past
five."
This meant hard hustling, but they
had the papers ready. Martin pre-pared
the copy, and t h e compositor set
it up. Ralph "made up" t h e paper,
and the pressman finished the job.
The two hundred and fifty were de-livered
to t he news agent on time, a nd
shortly after six half a dozen boys were
on the streets informing those astir
that all the news of the election
could be had for five cents, while
Ralph and Martin were busy with their
mailing lists. A little after seven they
emerged from the post office, where
they had left the papers t-hat went
through the mail, and stopped to con-template
the result of their labors.
They were tired but happy and quite
ready to go to bed.
" H o w are you coming out?" asked
Martin, for Ralph was the financier of
the firm. The latter produced a sheet
of paper with a lot of figures on it.
"Counting the money due on our ad-vertising,"
he said, "we are even now,
and the returns on more than half our
circulation are not in. We will come
out ahead and we have done what we
have set out to do." Here he noticed
the old man perched in his accustomed
place on the barrel, and he turned on
him suddenly. "Haven't we?" he
asked.
" H u h ? " exclaimed the old man, so
startled that he nearly dropped the
pipe.
"Haven't we waked up the town ?"
The old man indulged in one of" his
noiseless laughs before replying.
"You've got her so all-fired wide
awake," he said, "that I reckon she
won't git to sleep again for nigh onto a
week."
STRIKE COMMISSIONERS' REPORT.
Outdone.'
He was the champion liar of the town.
Like most men of that profession, he
took himself seriously,and resented any
suspicion of his veracity. One even-ing
at his favorite lounging place he
was outdoing himself ou his pet topic,
the Civil War. With the ease acquired
by long practice he was reeling off yarn
after yarn about his exploits, though
every one knew that he had never been
anything but a sutler's clerk.
" T a l k of mud," he w a s just saying,
" our campaign in the Wilderness was
the worst. It rained for days without
letting up. Poured by the bucketful
the whole time. When it did stop we
hooked right up a n d started off with
our artillery, stumping and splashing
along till we were all covered with
mud. Pretty soon we came to a regu-lar
water hole, but we drove right
along, and do you know that first team
went right out of sight. Yes, sir, eight
mules, lumber, gun and all sunk out of
sight. All we got out was the driver's
h a t ."
A newcomer in the town, who had
not as yet learned to respect the man's
foibles, then spoke :
" I ' v e seen some mud, too, in my
time. When I was a boy over in Jersey
on my father's farm, we h ad a terrible
wet spring. The roads were sloppy
aud folks did not hitch up, unless they
just had to go. One day I saw a hat
out in the road right in a big puddle.
I thought it was funny, that hat out
there, so I waded out to get it.
"Maybe now you won't believe me,
but I swear it's so. Well, sir, you can
believe it or not, just as you like, there
was a man under that hat. Aud says
I, 'Why, hello! can't I help you out?'
' 'Oh, no,' says he, 'guess I can get
along. I 'm a-horse back.' "
The champion glared at this irrev-erent
speaker. "Humph !" was all he
said. " A n y fool can lie." And with
that remark he left the room.
A Present Evil.
Noted clergymen in diffèrent cities
have denounced from their pulpits the
customs prevalent among fashionable
women of drinking to excess and gam-bling.
This is said to exist to an alarm-ing
extent, increasing daily; and is
viewed not only as a detriment to t he
principals in the case, but as a perni-cious
example to the young. This is
not the.first time that such an accusa-tion
has been made, for some time ago
leading people recognized the evil, and
protested against it, feeling that they
were well fortified by actual proofs in
their possession.
The trouble has arisen, no doubt,
from thoughtlessness, and that peculiar,
almost general attribute of woman, to
become enthusiastic over whatever may
please the fancy. When the inclination,
hobby, or passion, is directed toward a
noble object, women achieve magnifi-cently,
for they are not easily daunted
—possessing patience, endurance, aud a
pertinacity that is marvelous. In a dia-metric
way they are the same enthusi-asts,
and it is pitiful when the mind
does not reason well. The blighting
influence of liquors, and t he danger of
the too fascinating practice of gambling
with cards (that are innocent enough
of themselves), are pitfalls that every-one
ought to shun. It has been'decreed
that women uphold the morals of t he
nation, aud when they fail in this holy
mission, what can be expected of men?
The clergymen in question must have
thought they were well informed before
taking such a decided attitude, and pub-licly
expressing it, but let us hope that
it was, in part, at least, a misrepresenta-tion.
It is not pleasant to t h i nk of wo-man's
dethronement.
Self=Irrigating Potatoes.
Economy of production was one of
the subjects touched on by Professor H .
W. Wiley in an after-dinner speech
last week before the New York Society
of Medical Jurisprudence. Referring to
new methods that are being brought
into operation, and practicability, he
An Advance for the Miner of lO per
Cent, and Prohibits Union or Non-
Union Discrimination.
The report of the Commission ap-pointed
by the President in October
last to inquire into the anthracite coal
strike was made public on Saturday.
The Commission recommends a gen-eral
increase of wages, amounting in
most instances to 10 per cent.
Some decrease of time.
The settlement of all disputes by ar-bitration.
Fixes a minimum wage and a sliding
scale.
Provides against discrimination of
persons by either the mine owners or
the miners on account of membership
or nonmembership in a labor union.
Provides that the awards made shall
continue in force until March 31, 1906.
The commission discussed to some ex-tent
the matter of recognition or non-recognition
of the miners' union.
More than once the commission re-ports
its incapacity to make an award
on t h e demand of the miners for a rec-ognition
of their union, because the
union is not a party to the submission.
Attention is called to the fact that Mr.
Mitchell appeared before the coin mis-sion
as " the representative of t he An-thracite
Coal Mine Workers," and not
in his official capacity. It also calls at-tention
to the fact that the agreement
to arbitrate was reached between the
operators and a coal miners' convention.
The commissioners say that trades
unionism is rapidly becoming a matter
of business. If the energy of the em-ployer
is directed to discouragement
and repression of the union he need not
be surprised if the more radical ones
are the ones most frequently heard.
They express the opinion that differ-ences
can best be settled by consulta-tations
by the employer with a com-mittee
chosen by his employees," but
they add that " i n order to be entitled
to such recognition the labor organi-zation
must give the same recognition
to the rights of the employer and of
others which it demands for itself and
for its members." They add :
'The union must not undertake to as-sume,
or to interfere with, the man-agement
of the business of the em-ployer."
They also pronounce as untenable the
contention that " a majority of t h e em-ployes
of an industry by voluntarily
associating themselves in a union ac-quire
authority over those who do not
so associate."
One Thing at a Time.
I t is not wise to undertake too much
at one time. To do one thing well at a
time is as much as the best may hope
to accomplish. There is much t r u th in
the simple rhyme—
" One t h i n g a t a t i m e , a n d t h a t done well,
I s a v e r y good r u l e , a s m a n y c a n t e l l ."
An eminently good rule that is, as all
human experience proves, and to follow
any other is to set at naught one of t he
most valuable lessons of the best of
teachers. There may be people who
can do two things well at the same
time, but there are so few of them, that
they are not worth taking into account.
The ordinary mortal can be well satis-fied
to be able to demonstrate his
ability to do one thing well at a time.
Therefore unless one is quite sure that
he or she is something of a genius, one
had better be content with a single un-dertaking
at a time.
" I simply wish to mention, without
exactly recommending it, this sugges-tion
from an agricultural source. It
comes fom a man who proposes to plant
onions with his potatoes, with the idea
that the tear-making qualities of his
onions may act on the eyes of t h e po-tatoes,
and make the latter crop self-irrigating."
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—A wealthy Frenchman died in a
coffin, which for years he used as his
bed. His sitting room used to be a
little chapel built over the family bury-ing
place.
Too Inch Reading Matter.
How true it is t h a t "enough is as good
as a feast," and that "too much of a
a thing is good for nothing." It holds
good even in reading matter. One may
have too much of it, aud by reason of
the excess, be as badly off as one who
has none at a l l ; just as the person with
an overloaded stomach may suffer as
much discomfort as one who is hungry.
So the person who reads too much will
quite likely remain as ignorant as he
who reads to little. To read hastily
and without properly comprehending
and assimilating what one reads leaves
the reader not only little the wiser for
his reading but does him harm by cre-ating
in his mind a condition akin to
that of dyspepsia in the digestive
system. One may read too much in
these days of abundant reading matter
aud thereby clog the machinery of t he
mind and suffer from intellectual
apathy. That is to be guarded against
by all who wish to derive profit from
their reading. One should never read
when he has lost all appetite for it, and
quit promptly when the mind no
longer receives clear and distinct im-pressions
from the printed page or
column. No matter how much reading
matter you may possess, do not fall
into the mistake of thinking that you
must go through it all in a stated period
of time. Read rationally and under-standingly;
Tourist Rates via the Seaboard.
Winter Tourist Tickets are now on
sale at greatly reduced rates, via the Sea-board
Air Line Railway, to all points in
Florida, also to Cuba and Nassau, as
well as to Pinehurst, Camden and t he
leading Southern Winter Resorts.
These Tickets are good for stop-over,
either going or coming, until the end of
the Winter Season.
The Seaboard is the short route from
the North aud East to Florida aud t he
South Atlantic States.
For further information and Book of
Winter Tours, apply to Agents of t he
Seaboard Air Line Railway and those
of connecting lines. Also for "The Land
of Manatee," about a region on the west
coast of southern Florida, in three book-lets:
No. 1, Historical and Discriptive;
No. 2, For Gardener and Fruit Grower;
No. 3, For Tourist and Sportsman. Ask
or send for the one you want.
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i Portsmouth, Va.
THE mo REUMBLE
POWDER A b s o l u t e l y P u r©
THERE ÍS NO SUBSTITUTE
OVER THE STATE.
The citizens of Schwenkville, after
three attempts, have secured its incor-poration
as a borough. The territory
contains about 200 acres of laud, a pop-ulation
of 350, 85 dwellings and 100
voters.
The Reading Chapter of the Daugh-ters
of the Revolution has awarded first
prize to Miss Elsie Rote in the annual
essay contest at the local high school.
Miss Mabel Wann received honorable
mention.
Resolutions advocating legislation in
favor of improving the public highways
were adopted at a meeting of the Eas-ton
Board of Trade in conjunction with
citizens.
Susie L. Levich, aged 6, living at
Sheppton, is dead from excessive rope
jumping. The girl dropped over on the
street after skipping the rope.
John B. Roach, the Chester ship-builder,
has taken the contract to build
a large tug for the Ocean Steamship
Company.
Chester officials have discovered that
the city has $11,000 more than was in-cluded
in the estimates.
George Klinedinst, aged 13, of Spring
Grove, was shot in the head by his
younger sister. The lad was seated at
a table eating, when his little sister
spied a rifle in a corner. She brought
it to her shoulder, not knowing it was
loaded, and pulled the trigger. The
bullet struck the lad back of the left ear
and penetrated the brain. His condition
is critical.
CiJos. L. Carter, a Philada negro lad,
aged 11, leaped from a third-story win-dow
of his parents' home, sustaining in-uries
which proved fatal a few minutes
after his admission to a hospital. Bar-tholomew
Carter, the boy's father, is
under arrest. It is said the father was
whipping the boy for disobedience.
Joys of Teaching.
A Philadelphia school teacher tells
this story: Last week I was teaching
a spelling lesson to a class of little
second graders. The word "each" oc-curred,
was written on the board, and
from it I expected to derive "peach,"
"reach," "teach," etc. Pointing to the
word ou the board, I said: "Can any
child give a story using 'each?' " A
hand was unhesitatingly thrust up and
a little German girl replied. "Does
your back each?"
Taste in Whisky.
One of the distillers of fine Kentucky
whisky recently in Washington talked
in an interesting way about the prepar-ation
of whiskey for consumption as a
beverage. He declared that those who
drink whisky, even those who may be
called steady drinkers, know very little
of its compositioni Men from patron-izing
a certain brand become accus-tomed
to it, and their particular brand
is set up as a standard of quality. Some
people are prejudiced against a blended
whisky, but if the blend li.-m been sci-entifically
and honestly produced^ t he
product shocld be satisfactory. - A
whiskey two years old, blended with
another six years old, cannot be objec-tionable.
The worst evil in the blend-ing
of whisky is the practice of some
dealers in impoverishing the liquor by
the addition of water so as to reduce its
strength. That is something which
should be left to the man who is to
drink the whisky. He can water to
suit his taste. The fancy of whisky
drinkers is a curious thing. West of
the Ohio river the people do not want
to drink " r y e liquor," east of that
river the call for the Bourbon is not fre-quent,
and for the most is confined to
men who are accustomed to drinking
Bourbon at their Western homes. The
fashion for ordering Scotch and Irish
whiskey, that was so much in vogue a
few years, is on the vane. If Con-sumers
had known that most of the
"Scotch" they drank never saw Scot-land,
the fad for the consumption of
that liquor would not have attained
the proportions it did.
Bright Pupil.
A pupil in one of t h e rural schools of
Lehigh county was told by his teacher
to form a sentence with the word
cuckoo in it. The you ngster at once re-plied:
"Chust because she made those
cuckoo eye«."
—A fool and his money are soon
parted, and it's much the same with a
fool and his wife.
—Rich food often results in a poor ap-petite.
— Even the burglar sometimes breaks
into society.
—The Poet—"Some day I shall wake
up to find myself famous." The Cynic
—"Oh, you'll wake up all r i g h t ."