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YOL. XXVI. LITITZ, PA., FRIDAY MORNING JULY 10, 1903. NO. 44
Published Evary Friday Morning toy
<j. FRANK BUCH.
OFFICE—No. 9 S. B r o a d s t r e e t , L i t i t z,
Lancaster County, Pa.
TEKMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.—For one
y e a r fl.O0, i f p a i d i n a d y a n c e , a n d $1.25
if p a y m e n t b e d e l a y e d t o t h e e n d of y e a r .
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m o n t h s , 30 c e n t s , s t r i c t l y i n a d v a n c e.
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at t h e e n d o f t h e t e r m s u b s c r i b e d f o r ,
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SPRING
T T has always been one fundamental principle
• of our business to sell clothing that is hon-est
through and through, at all times, at right
prices, and we are enabled to show you t he
neatest and nobbiest line of piece goods for
suiting this season that are in the market. I n
READY=ttADE
SUITS
for all classes and sizes we are prepared to
show you a better line than we have ever car-ried.
An inspection will at once convince you
of this fact, in both quality and price.
In the line of
GENTS'
FURNISHING
GOODS,
including Neckwear, Half Hose, Collars, Cuffs,,
Suspenders, Underwear and the latest in Hats
to be found any where. The celebrated
EIGHMIE
SHIRTS,
which have no competition.
Our stock for the season is now ready and
we would respectfully invite you to come and
examine for yourself and be convinced.
Record fiuiteing, Lititz,
W. H BUCH.
WE
GIVE
STAMPS
CHAS. H. JD XvJll- X , Leader of Low Prices,
3 and 5 E. King St., Lancaster.
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All the year round we are headquarters for
NEW, HIGII GRADE HATS AT LOW-EST
PRICES.
We have always succeeded in pleasing our
CUSTOMERS, and we feel SURE we can
please YOU, whether it be a STIFF, SOFT,
STRAW or PANAMA.
H. L. BOMS,
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Our HARDWARE stands for
HARD WEAR. Our line of
goods comprises not only what
is necessary for the kitchen but
we have the right prices on
Building Hardware, Glass,
Oils, &c.
1. R. BOMBIGER & EH,
REV. J. E,
THE NEW PASTOR OF LITITZ CHARGE OF THE
LUTHERAN CHURCH.
H E Wir,T, P R E A C H HIS INTRODUCTORY SERMONS A T LITITZ, KISSELi
HIIJIJ AN1> N E P P S V I L I j E NEXT SUNDAY.
LITITZ, P A .
Rev. J. E. Maurer is a native of Som-erset
county, Pennsylvania, where his
parents still reside. He graduated from
Pennsylvania college, Gettysbury, in
1880. After graduating in the Theolog-ical
Seminary at Gettysburg, Pa., in
1883, he went as home missionary to
the Kansas synod, and after laboring in
its bounds for two years returned east
to Gettysburg, Pa., where he was mar-ried
to Miss Annie H. Harris. He
then returned to his work in Kansas
and spent six weeks more serving his
church as a home missionary, under-going
the privations and perplexities
incumbent upon the work on the plains,
and which no doubt-did a great deal
toward making him the devoted chris-tian
minister which \ie is.
At this time iu response to a call he
came east and served the mission at
Butler, Pa., as their first pastor for fif-teen
years, after which he accepted the
call of ¡the Pittsburg synod to be-come
its missionary president, and
served in this capacity for several years,
organizing some of the most important
missions; in that synod.
In April, 1895, he accepted a call to
become pastor of the Boonsboro, Mary-land,
charge, and has labored there
since, and under his supervision as pas-tor,
the two churches of the charge
prospered. In 1901, the Maryland
Synod met in Boonsboro and honored
Maurer by electing him president.
Hev. Maurer was invited to supply
thi\ pulpits of the Lititz charge by the
sera «tary ot the supply committee, on
SuncWi April 26. The following Sun-day,
jVIay 3rd, he was elected at Lititz
and K-'ssel Hill, and a few weeks later
he was ; <ilso elected at Neff'sville. Edch
of t h e s e c turches extended a call, which
lie accept
Rev. J . Mauer, who has been for
more than eight years pastor of the
Lutheran cfiurch, Boonsboro charge,
which e m b r a c e s the churches at Boons-boro
and Rohi ersville, has tendered his
resignation whi ch took effect July 1st,
to accept a call t o the pastorate of the
Lutheran church at Lititz, Pa.
Rev. Maurer tOpdered his resigna-tion
to the mempers of the Church
council at a special meeting of that
body. \
The secretary then i f a d the resigna-tion
which had been presented to the
council and was as folio-, ys :
To the Council and Members of Trinity
Lutheran Church. ^
MY DEAR BRETHREN: I, %God's kind
providence it has been privilege
to labor among you as pastor for a little
more than eight years. The riecord of
these years bears evidence ti •> many
pleasant seasons ôf worship in tl Ae sanc-tuary
and in pleasant fellowship* with
you, my brethren of the council i n the
prosecution of the Master's v. 'ork,
which has been to us one of mu tual
and prayerful interest. The " full c orn
in the ear" has not been abundant to
mortal eyes, yet as co-laborers our e i-forts
have been blessed with as mue! i
increase as human and christian labor-ers
are worthy of. Believing that it
will be for the best interests of all con-cerned
and in no way hinder the prog-ress
of the Master's work, I now most
kindly request you to grant me the
privilege of laying down the Master's
work in this charge, even as I took up
the work in His name.
And in view of my purpose and dé-siré
to accept a call to a new field of
labor, I hereby tender you my resigna-tion
as pastor of Trinity Lutheran
church and the Boonsboro charge, said
resignation to take effect July 1st, 1903.
Assuring you of my prayerful interest
in each one of you personally and the
work of this congregation, of which you
are the honored and faithful office bear-ers,
this message is humbly and prayer-fully
submitted.
Sincerely your brother in Christ,
J . E . MAURER.
At thé conclusion of the reading the
secretary offered the following resolu-tion
which was adopted by the congre-gation
:
Mr. Chairman and Members of Trinity
Lutheran Church :
This is to me as I believe it is to all of
you, a sad occasion, and one which we
would, if possible, have avoided. We
are called upon by our pastor to unite
with him in dissolving the relations
which have existed between us for a
little more than eight years, the im-port
of which we cannot fully realize
now.
The relations which exist betweeu a
true and faithful minister of the gospel
and his people are akin to those which
exist between husband and wife—mu-tual
love, mutual confidence and mu-tual
interests—and to sever these rela-tions
must necessarily cause heartfelt
i row and regret.
J o say farewell to him, who has for so
long a time gone in and out before us,
and broken unto us the Bread of Life ;
who has baptised our children, joined
them in wedlock, spoken words of com-fort,
and consolation to our sick and
dying, and performed the last sad
rites at the graves of our beloved dead,
is a word easily spoken.
But we are living in a transitory world
full of transitory things, and must look
for changes and separation of friends,
and we would bow in humble submis-sion
to the call of the Great Head of
the Church. Therefore,
WHEREAS, Our beloved pastor, the
Rev. J . E. Maurer, has iu a public and
formal manner tendered his resignation
to this congregation and submitted the
same to us to unite with him iu dissolv-ing
the pastoral relations now existing
between us as pastor and people, that
he may be free to accept a call, extend-ing
to him by the Evangelical Luther-ah'church
of Lititz, Pa, therefore be it
Resolved, that we reluctantly accede
to his request, sincerely regretting to
concur in an act, which compels the
sundering pf sacred, ties and the break-ing
up of the pleasant ' arid - profitable
relations which have existed between,
us for the past eight years,, and which
under divine guidance have been pro-ductive
of great good. In the removal
of our beloved pastor we feel that .this
church will lose an earnest, fearless
and faithful preacher, a vigilant watch-man
upon the wall, ever active in
guarding and promoting the work of
the Master; and in his true and de-voted
wife this congregation will also
lose one of its most efficient and faith-ful
workers ; one who has stood these
years at the head of the Women's Home
and Foreign Missionary Society, always
wise and helpful in its counsels, and
also one who has so faithfully and lov-ingly
been training the tender plants
of this congregation in the primary de-partment
of our Sunday-school.
May the blessings of God.attend the
work of our beloved brother and family
as they go to their new field of labor,
is our earnest prayer.
The action of the pastor was not gen-erally
known or anticipated and to
most of those present the announce-ment
came as a great and unexpected
surprise. The congregation was deep-ly
affected during the severing of the
ties that had so long existed between
j lastor and people, and there was a
s. '.rong and deep felt expression of the
lo ve and esteem in which he is held.
1 'iev. Maurer has been an earnest and
zeal. 9us worker whose efforts have not
been without success, and his intention
of go. 'ng elsewhere has caused a pro-nounet
id feeling of regret throughout
the entJxe community.
Rev. i Vlaurer will be iu his new field
Sunday, July 12, to preach his intro-ductory
sermon.
Noi Entirely Settled.
" I supp o s e / ' said the dying husband,
"that you wif3 marry again after I 'm
gone."
" I d-doi't 3c
the faithful wife.'
the m-matter very
\v, J-john," sobbed
I h-haven't given
uch t-thought."
—Some -people's' «
is to indulge in tfaf
afford-
TO WOMEN.
W r i t t e n for t h e RECORD.
Oh, women, if thou but c o n s i s t e n t be
As -woman, in t h y most exalted sphere,
Mankind with graces all t h i n e own to
cheer,
Adorned with native t r u t h a n d modesty,
Unspoiled by love of fame and f l a t t e r y ,
Thou hast t h e power to accomplish here
A mission t h a t is holy, and, ne'er fear,
A mighty a n d a glorious destiny.
I n beauty thou a r t simply rivalless
I n all t h e m u l t i t u d e of l i v i ng things ;
Thy presence, if t h o u be but loyal,
brings
A f o r e t a s t e sweet of heaven's happiness.
Without thee e a r t h were such a desert
drear
No man could be induced to linger here.
A. S. B.
idea of bridges
they can't
HATE men!" declared Angela,
thumping a cushion with an energy
imperiling her glove. This was al-most
her first remark since Dutton had
announced her.
I had pins in my mouth, so risked
only a chuckle.
" I do, I detest them !" she reiterated.
" Of course, dear, we all do," I re-marked
when my speech was free.
" What has he done?"
" Oh you're laughing at me •"
I had been ; but there were tears in
her voice now, and I went quickly
across the room and convinced her of
my love and seriousness.
" Something is wrong," I said, when
she was somewhat appeased. " What
has Tom done?"
" He is selfish, and cruel, and fickle,"
she burst forth ; "and I ' ve written to
break off our engagement." Drawing
a letter from her pocket she flung it on
the sofa.
"Angela!" I gasped. " What non-sense!
You know that it would break
your heart."
I don't care. Besides, I 'm not sure
about that. It's what he counts ou, I
suppose, when he behaves so."
I saw that she was angry and miser-able.
"Tell me," I said peremptorily.
"He's gone without a word, to that
wretched Scientific Expedition which
we both decided was impossible. He's
wild about going to Jerusalem, or the
Antipodes, or some such place, to hunt
for bits of moss or petrified snail shells.
He cares more for them than he cares
for me."
" You knew, when you accepted him,
that he was a scientific man,"I ventured
furtively.
She ignored my words.
" And now within two months of our
wedding, he goes off for six or seven
weeks suddenly, leaving nie to be ques-tioned,
and pitied, and wondered about,
and laughed at —"
"Oh, no ; no one does that."
But they do, they have. It's 'so Mr.
Ashtou has joined the Expedition. I
hear it's to take quite eight weeks.' Or,
Oh, Miss Keene, but I hear the wed-ding
was fixed for July !' At home it is
worse, for they don't know what to say;
and I won't let them say anything.
Helen, help me ; tell me what to do !"
I left her and went to the window.
By just such an angry mood and an
after mood of pride, I had slain my own
happiness. I did not mean Angela to
slay hers.
He has told you he has gone to join
the Expedition?" I asked returning.
Yes ; just a few hurried lines to say
he,had gone off to South worth after all,
about the Expedition, and he would
write again.; Of course he has not writ-ten
again."
" I t won'tjlas.t as long as you think,"
I declared. \ ,." ^ -
Tom, himself, said it. couldn't be
done quicker. Oh, how 1 detest him !
Can't you see how it' goads me'. liow
neglected I feel! how mortifying it is?"
" Yes," I sighed. " That's life, my
dear. But think, just for a moment,
how little a thing he has done."
Little!" ,1:'
Yes, you don't know that he won't
be back sooner. It was thoughtless to
leave you to be hurt by people's re-marks
; but you know Tom's head is
often in the clouds. Compare this with
that day you promised to stay in for
him, and went skating."
" That was so trifling. Surely, Tom
didn't want me to give up every-thing."
"You want him to give up what he
has wanted for years."
"Certainly, unless he prefers it to
his wedding. But I supppse I am less
to him than a scrap of moss."
" You are not," I replied. " He loves
you."
"Lovesme!" she echoed scornfully,
he has treated me abominably. And
the letter is written."
• There was silence for a while; looking
up I saw tears in her eyes.
" Angela," I pleaded, " think of the
future, if you send that letter. Putting
aside his pain, just face your own. Nev-er
to see him again; or to meet as
strangers. Every happy man and
woman you meet, every pair of sweet-hearts
on a holiday, pressing the pain
deeper in your heart, and not only the
pain of your love, but the ghastly pain
of pride and unforgiveness. And if—it
does happen sometimes—death should
step in before a word could be uttered
However great your love, all must stand
over then—forever."
She did not speak, but sat twisting
the letter-in her fingers.
For long we sat there, and I pleaded
as if I were pleading for my own past
self. Angela was terribly obdurate ;
there were all those hours of pain and
mortification and shaken trust to wipe
out, and this was not easy. If I could
had but known the truth, whatever it
was, I could have pleaded better. Why
had Tom Ashtou rushed off in this
manner, with but a few written words,
for what was, apparently, the gratifi-cation
of a generally reasonable, but
not selfish desire? I knew he detested
writing ; but that, of course, was no ex-cuse
to offer an angry girl. My own
belief in Tom's love and faithfulness
was unchanged ; but Tom was not my
lover; my eyes were not obscured nor
my heart aching with the inexplicabil-ity
and the pain of thé situation.
I had succeeded in changing the as-pect
of affairs a little, for Angela ceased
gripping her letter and was gripping
my hand instead, when, at the conclu
siou of my most impassioned speech,
she disconcerted me by demanding :
" Well, then, what am I to do?"
For a moment my gained ground
seemed to be slipping from me. I had
no ideas ready. I hesitate'd beneath
her imperious eyes. Then to my un-utterable
relief, the door opened, and
"Mr. Ashton," announced Dutton pla-cidly.
I cannot describe the following sec-onds,
uor the expression on those
faces. Tom's was all unsuspiciously
happy, as far as I could judge. An-gela's
I trembled. I knew that the first
words would make or mar, and know-ing
my own duty at the moment, I
murmured that I would order tea, and
made my escape. I might as well have
murmured that I would order Maxim
guns or balloons, for all the heed they
paid, which was what I wished.
I t seemed half a day that I wandered
in the garden, wondering whether the
worst or the best had happened, but I
suppose it was only an hour. I know
I had the strength of will not to order
tea. Then I sat iu the arbor and tried
to form plans for making things right
if they persisted in going wrong.
At length two figures came out and
strolled away toward the gate. I did
not stir, for I had no doubt that my ex-istence
had no place in their minds,
but I argued well. At a bend in the
path, however, Angelia caught sight of
me, and commanded Tom to go on by
himself, she ran to me across the turf.
" Well?" I queried.
" It's all right," she said radiantly.
"Didn't he go?" I demanded, dar-ing
to risk a blow at my past endeav-ors,
in the face of her restored trust.
1 Yes, he went. He heard suddenly
that the exposition had been postponed,
and, without waiting for anything, he
rushed off to make inquiries first hand
and—and—"
"And?"
'• We've decided to go together."
"Angela!"
"Ob, it's no good talking! And I
can't stay for anything but congratula-tions,"
she declared flagrantly.
So, of course, I gave her what she
wanted. Then she joined Tom, and
with a wave of her hand, disappeared.
I burned the sealed letter 1 found on
the drawing room floor, straightened
the cushions we had pounded so severe-ly,
and then, instead of framing plans
of action I drank my belated tea and
gave myself to thinking out Angela's
wedding present. But I was rather
tired.
Sunbeams.
When a woman sees or hears the
word " confess," how she pricks up her
ears!
Every time a man picks up a baby,
some woman' present screams, "Look
out for its back !"
The things which a woman " has on
her conscience " are feather weights in
th e opi n io n of men.
Did you ever know a man who did
not have some woman to watch and see
what he was up to?
In a house where there are young
girls;- you will always find some irons
oti the back of the stove. ,
How easily you have been swindled
in.your time ! Don't laugh at others.
Help them keep their money.,
A sick-bed isn't conducted properly,
according to many, unless the preacher
is invited in to pray for the patient.
The peanut is moving up. Years ago
he was met only at the circus; now
you can find him salted, and lying in
cut glass.
The dry goods clerks say. that women
who are too poor to buy new clothes al-ways
get the fashion plates, and enjoy
them.
The real sensible people grow more
careful with their money, and are more
wary with their friends, as they grow
older. ;
Somehow we always expect some
people to use the expression "coup d'
etat" and look at us as if they wonder
if we understood. /*
The smart men have discovered that
consumption follows the corset in the
same manner that the cocktail follows
the flag. * ? ,
What has become of the old-fashion-ed
country woman who was kept so
busy that she never had time to get a
new set of front teeth.
Too Strong- To P r i n t .
First Assistant Postmaster General
Wynne, who is one of the leaders in
the present assault on the crooked
work which has been going on for an
indefinite period among- certain
officials iu the Post Office Department,
was, before his appointment to.office,
a Washington newspaper correspon-dent,
and by reason of that, always
more or less of a sleuth. What Mr.
Wynne thinks in general of offical
crookedness he has expressed more
than once in public, but his innermost
thoughts can only, be known from
personal conversation, when there are
a vividness and vigor to his language
not possible in cold type, or even hot
type, for that matter.
Recently two or three of his old
associates on the Row appealed to
him for something more on the sub-ject
of the scandals than had been
given out.
"Oh, now, boys, you know," he
said pleadinglj', " I cannot in my po-sition
tell you any more than I have
told you."
" Then tell us what you think of
the situation," they insisted.
The First Assistant Postmaster
General took a long breath. ." Good
Lord!" he exclaimed, " I can't; it
wouldn't be fit for publication."
The Man in the Street.
"There's an old man down in Mis-sissippi,"
says private John Allen, a
resident of Tupelo,"who is a queer com-pound
of shrewdness, human and mel-ancholy.
Now long ago Sam had the
misfortune to lose his wife, who hailed
from Birmington, Ala. The day after,
during the course of his arrangements
for the funeral, Sam went to the rail-way
station and inquired of the agent
the price of a round-trip ticket to Bir-mingham,
and also a round-trip ticket
for the corpse.
"You'll need a round-trip ticket for
yourself," said the agent, " b u t you'll
want a ticket only one way for the
corpse."
"Look heah, Mistah Jenkins" said
Sam. " I knows what I'se about and
and I knows what I wants. Mah wife
has a hundre' kinfolks at Birmin'm
and dey all want to see her body befo'
she's buried. Use figured it out dat
it'll be more economikul foh me to take
her to Birmin'ham and back ag'in dan
it'll be to feed for a week the passel of
niggers from Albany dat'll come to the
funeral."
He Knew the Game.
Three men were traveling in the
smoking compartment of a Pullman
car, when one, in referring to "The
Pit," commended its realistic phases.
A neighbor criticised the book on the
point where Jadwiu is described as fig-uring
out commissions, and said that
any big operator would have carried
the data in his head. The third gentle-man
was appealed to, and, agreeing
with the second, thought that "The
Pitt" was wrong on that point.
" But," persisted the first, "did you
ever carry wheat on margin ?"
" Oh, yes," replied number three.
"Large quantities?"
"Very large."
" How many bushels ?"
" One hundred and fifty seven mil-lion."
Then number one and number two
looked at number three and asked him
his name.
"Joseph Leiter," he replied,
The Helpful Word.
James M. Beck made use of a humor-ous
anecdote to introduce an address at
a recent college commencement in
Brooklyn. Unavoidable duties had
prevented him, Mr. Beck said from
making any but the most hurried pre-parations
for the occasion, and so he
would commend to the audience the
motto of a good old woman he had
heard of. Her pastor came to comfort
this woman, who had suffered a sad be-reavement.
" Well, my good woman," the pastor
remarked, " iu your bitter trial I hope
you have found some ray of comfort
from the Scriptures."
" Indeed, I have, dominie," was the
confident though tearful reply.
"That's grand, sister," exclaimed
the parson sympathetically, but tell me
what passage of the Word helped you
most." "Grin and bear it."
THE FIRSTBORN.
Why is i t t h a t t h e firstborn child i s so
o f t e n t h e h e a l t h i e s t of a f a m i l y of chil-d
r e n ? The r e a s o n seems t o suggest i t -
self. As c h i l d follows c h i l d t h e m o t h e r
h a s less and less v i t a l i t y ; often not
enough for herself a n d none, t h e r e f o r e,
for h e r c h i l d.
E x p e c t a n t mothers who u s e Doctor
P i e r c e ' s Favorite P r e -
s c r i p t i o n find .that i t
keeps t h em in vigor-ous
h e a l t h . They eat
well, sleep well a nd
a r e not nervous.
When baby eemes i ts
advent is p r a c t i c a l ly
painless, a n d t h e
mother is m a d e hap-p
y by t h e b i r t h of a
h e a l t h y child. If y o u
would be a h e a l t hy
m o t h e r of h e a l t hy
c h i l d r e n use " F a v o r -
i t e Prescription."
"X will be very glad to
say a few wojrds for Dr.
Pierce's Favorite Prescrip-tion,"
writes Mrs. P. s.
Douglas, of Mansonville,
Brome Co., Quebec. «Dur-ing
the first four mouths,
when I looked forward to
becoming a mother, I suf-fered
very much from nau-sea
and vomiting, and I
felt so terribly sick I could
scarcely eat or drink any-thing.
I hated all kindsfl
of food. At this time I
wrote to Dr. Pierce, and he told me to get hta
' Favorite Prescription ' and a bottle 6f ' Golden
Medical Discovery.' I got a bottle of each, and,
when I had taken them a few days, I felt much
better, and when I had taken hardly three parts
of each bottle I felt well and could eat as. well as
any one, and could do my work without any
trouble (I could not do anything before). I feel
very thankful to Dr. Pierce for his medicine,
ana I tell all who tell me they are sick, to get
these mcdicines, or write to Dr. Pierce."
Those who suffer f r om chronic dis-eases
are i n v i t e d t o consult Dr. Pierce,
by letter, free. All correspondence
s t r i c t ly private. Address Dr. R. V.
Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y .
Dr. P i e r c e ' s Pleasant Pellets cure bil-iousness
a n d s i ck headache.
Things Pleasant People Avoid.
I t is bad to make remarks about the
food at dinner.
To talk about things which only in-terest
yourself.
To contradict your friends when they
are speaking.
To grumble about your home and
relatives to outsiders.
To say smart things which may hurt
one's feelings.
To be rude to those who serve you,
either in shop or a t home.
To refuse ungraciously when some-body
wishes to do you a favor.
To behave in a street car or train as
if no one else had a right to be there.
To speak disrespectfully to any one
older than yourself.
OYER THE STATE.
As she was about to board the train
for Mahanoy City, Mrs. John Quill fell
dead, in the presence of her husband
and five children.
After being discharged from the
Miners' Hospital, at Fountain Springs,
Frank Gotosky disappeared, and is be-lieved
to have fallen into a miné breach.
In the Tenth Mining district (Shen-andoah)
there were three fatalities in-cident
to coal mining in June, being
the lowest mortality for any month in
many years.
After terrorizing pedestrians in the
business section of Shenandoah a mad
dog took possession of a liquor store,
and kept the employes on the counters
until he was shot.
While barefooted Vlady Catsky, aged
eleven, was picking coal on á dump' at
Pittston, á mad cat attacked him, tear-ing
and biting the flesh on his hands
and feet frightfully before it was beaten
off and killed.
The sight of a bunch of particularly
fine cherries caused Mrs. Carrie Hor-ner
of Ashland to forget her more than
three score years. She climbed the
cherry tree, fell out and was fatally in-jured.
Man's disregard for a woman's ad-vice
cost three lives at Wind Gap,
Josiah Miller, William Unangst and a
small boy got inlo Miller's buggy to
take a ride, near Point Phillips. Mrs.
Miller stood in front of her house to see
them off". Hearing a train approach-ing
on the Lehigh & New England
railroad, she begged her husband not
to try to cross the railroad. He laugh-ed
at her fears and drove on. When
close to the crossing he saw that the
train was very close. He tried to stop
the horse, but it was too late. The en-gine
smashed the buggy, killing Miller
and Unangst outright, and fatally in-jured
the boy.
While crossing Oley Valley tracks at
Endlichs' Crossing, near Reading,
Alexander Kauffmau, aged 14, was
struck by a Boyertown electric car
and killed;
While talking with friends at Alle-gheny,
Mrs. Catharine Sohn fell over
in what was supposed to be a faint, but
it was found that a mystn-'o"« bullet
wound in her head had kill« >¡ IK r.
Struck by a Reading passenger train
at Trevorton, William Nyehart, eigh-teen
years old, was instantly killed.
Run down by a train while returning
from, a Fourth of July celebration,
Arthur and Robert Patterson and
Frank Hardy weie killed at Oak Grove.
The body of John Nolan, a barber of
DuPout, who disappeared last Tues-day,
was found iu a dam .near there
and there is a suspicion of foul play.
Italian laborers working in the Wa-bash
tunnel at Green Tree, Allegheny
county, engaged iu a riot, in wh'ch two
men were fatally hurt and three others
seriously injured.
Couldn't Keep it I'p.
Doctor: '' What! your dyspepsia no
better? Did you follow my advice and
drink hot water an hour before break-fast?"
Patient: " I tried to, doctor, but I
was unable to keep it up more than five
minutes at a stretch."
., What are They For? '
Boys with hats on the back of their
heads and cigarettes and smutty words
in their mouths are cheaper - than old
wornout horses. Nobody wants them
at any price. Men will not employ
them; girls will not marry them. They
are not worth their keeping to anybody,
and they will not keep themselves. If
any boy who happens to read this and
answers this description let him take a
look at himself and do what his con-science
says is best to do. *
30 Years' Experience.
Rectal diseases cuied permanently.
Piles, Fistulae, Fissures and Ulceration
Cured, without the use of knife or un-dergoing
an operation. Also, specialists
and cure guaranteed in diseases of the
ear and throat—especially catarrh and
running ear. Send for little book on I iiess man, rather shortly.
She Used 'Em all.
Little B o y - "
words are there i
guage?"
Grouchy Father
she knows."
, pop, how many
the English lau-
' Ask your mother;
Unanswerable.
Mr. Tomkins (to wife of his bosom)
After all, my dear, woman was an
after thought. You remember Eve was
onJy aside issue." ,
"Harry," she said, thoughtfully.
"What is it?" responded the busi-above
diseases, free. At the Franklin
House, Lancaster city, every alternate
Thursday.
D r s . MARKLEY & SHOEMAKER,
19 S. 9th St., Reading, Pa. ,
J i I wish you could rearrange your
business a little bit.-" » -
• " h W ? " v v •" - - H " ; f
"So as to be a bear on the • Stock Ex-change
instead of at liome." < , ' •