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VOL. XXVII. LITITZ, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 20, 1903. NO. 11.
Published Ev6ry Friday Morning t>y
FRANK BUCH.
OFFICE—NO. 9 S. Broad street, Lititz,
Lancaster County, Pa.
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NOW IS THE
TIME
Cold weather days have come and colder
ones are just as sure to follow.
We invite the public to inspect our
large line of
SUITINGS AND
OVERCOATINGS
in rich patterns and our line of
READY-MADE
CLOTHES
for Men, Boys and Children, which we
will assure you we have never before had
the equal. Hats, Caps, Neckwear, Shirts,
Suspenders, Half Hose, Knit Jackets,
Underwear, Sweaters. We are the leaders.
Come and see and compare prices, which
we know are right.
W. H. BUCH.
\ \ T B CARRY A F U LL
Y V LINE OF
FINE SHOES,
BOOTS
and
RUBBERS
FALL GOODS ARE NOW IN
PRICES ALWAYS AS LOW
AS THE LOWEST
E B Y ' S S H 0 E S T O R E,
BROAD ST., LITITZ, PA.
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The stores in the city none show you
such a variety of
HATS CAPS AND
GLOVES
To select from. If any dealer in the above lines
offers you the same goods for less money we will
advance difference toward purchases elsewhere.
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H S T A N D S F O R HARDWARE
J H A R D W X R L
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.
FRUIT OF ITS KIND.
Written for the RECORD.
The good tree must bring forth good fruit.
Obedient, you'll And,
To law that binds it branch and root
To reproduce its kind.
E'en so a good man must do good
By a divine decree ;
He could do ill but it he would -
A good man cease to be.
Hence it is easy to divide
All men by what they do,
If men are to be classified.
The worthless from the true.
The man performing evil deeds,
Whate'er excuse he makes,
I s bad e'en if he ably pleads
For laws which he forsakes.
A. S. B.
1. R. HOMBERGS! » CO,
LITITZ, PA.
PERHAPS (it was only perhaps,
you kno A7, but girl hearts have
been beating quicker for that
word these many years), and Mary
Willis said it in a low, soft tone to her-self,
as she rolled out pie-crust and
put seasoning with a liberal hand into
the rich mince pies she was making.
There was one—she held an old-fash-ioned,
green-edged, scalloped plate in
her hand, and looked at it meditative-ly—
yes, there was just meat enough
for one more pie ; she would sprinkle
it full of whole raisins, carefully
stoned, and a clove stuck in each one,
and she would put a little butter in—
just a little, less it might not be rich
enough—and about a spoonful of
brown sugar, to make it extra sweet
and dark, and then she would save it—
she knew for what. It was only that
perhaps Jared Cross would come
around on Thanksgiving eve, and
when the men were talking politics
and the women busy knitting she
would give him a glimpse of the well-filled
storeroom shelves and all the
pies she had made, and then he would
select this one, and he should have a
large piece from it.
Jared was always fond ot mince pies,
as she remembered perfectly well, and
now his mother was dead, and he was
living at Uncle Peters, and Aunt
Cross had rhematism, and altogether
there was not much prospect for Jared
to have any Thanksgiving unless he
came there for it.
And so Thanksgiving day came, and
there were uncles, and cousins, and
friends of all parties by dozens and
dozens gathered beneath Farmer Wil-lis'hospitable
roof; and in the cool,
gray twilight, as Mary flitted fro and
forward, always intent on some busy
mission, she was watching down the
lane for Jared. She would know his
broad shoulders and his well-worn
brown siirtout—and even as she watch-ed,
it came in sight—it, and a bright
plaid cloak which belonged to the
school mistress from Bear Valley.
Mary set her teeth together hard and
tight.
So that was where Jared was going
for Thanksgiving—and she had been
up there taking tea—just as though
that girl didn't know that Aunt Peter
Cross' was no place to go to tea, and
she down with the rheumatiz. "Well,
she hoped he'd have a pleasant even-ing.
As for that pie—and she looked
at it ruefully—she'd taken too much
pains with that to waste it on a lot of
overgrown boys and cider-drinking
men ; she'd give it to the pigs, that's
what she'd do with i t ; nobody else
should eat it, if Jared couldn't.
Then, as she looked at the pastry
that had given her so much pleasure
and so much disappointment, she said
she'd give it to old Ma'am Parsons
down the valley. She was living there
alone, lonesome like, and it would
make her Thanksgiving day happier
to know that somebody thought of her
up on the hill.
So when the cider and apples were
brought, and everybody fixed cosily
enough round the kitchen fire, and in
the neat, big, square sitting room,
Mary stole out with the pie in her
hands folded in a white towel, and
tripping lightly across the fields, she
knocked at the door of the little cot-tage,
where Ma'am Parsons lived alone,
but received no answer. The latch-string
was hanging out; she pulled it
gently to rattle the latch, but still
hearing no sound from within, she
pushed the door open and entered, No
one was there, but a big Bible lay open
on the stand, and the iron-bowed spec-tacles
upon it. Ma'am Parsons had
evidently been called away in a hurry,
probably to see some sick neighbor,
Mary said to herself, and she would be
glad to find some trace of loving
thoughtfulness when she returned.
So Mary put the pie down on the ta-ble,
and a bowl full of preserved pears,
that she had been doing up the day
before. Ma'am Parsons would recog
nize those—they came from the grafts
taken from the old tree at her door.
The old tree was beyond bearing now,
but the grafts were strong and thrifty
yet.
Then Mary wrote a little note, sad
from the feelings that oppressed her,
yet kindly from the wealth of her own
kind heart.
"There's company up to our house,"
the note said, "and I can't wait until
you come back, Aunty ; but I have put
the tea-kettle over the fire, and set the
tea drawing, and I hope you will find
everything warm and comfortable
here ; and if you want anything to-night
or to-morrow morning, or at any
time, that I can help you to, j u s t blow
the horn at the door. I shall hear it,
and know what it means, and I will
come down and see to you.''
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Hours and hours afterward, when
the evening had waned late, when the
little people had gone to bed sleepy
and exhausted from their rollicking
play, and the old people had talked
themselves quiet, Mary sat alone by
the kitchen fire waiting for the last
sound of life to die out in the house,
that she might rake up the embers
and lock the doors, for she was a not-able
housewife, this brave young girl,
and took her invalid mother's place as
far as possible in all things.
But while she was sitting alone by
the kitchen fire she heard a soft rap,
at the window, and looking up she saw
Tared's face in the moonlight, earnesr
and smiling, as he beckoned to her.
In an instant the thought flashed
over her, proud and decorous Yankee
girl that she was, that he had been
spending the evening with Miss Wil-liams,
and it was worse than imperti-nent
for him to call there on his way
home ; she would not answer his sum-mons,
though it required a strong ef-fort
for her to sit still there in the
shadow and pretend she hadn't heard
him. She thought he would go away ;
and so he did—from the window, but
only to come quietly in at the door.
Sitting down on the settee beside
her he spread his hands over the dy-ing
embers to warm them, and said,
•With a slight shiver :
"It is chilly out to-night, Mary, and
I have been thinking of you all the
evening."
"I saw you go down the lane with
Miss Williams early this evening ; I
should think it most likely you had
been thinking of her since then."
Jared turned aud looked at her, lots
of fun brimming up in his brown eyes;
hnt.jwhe». he saw how tired and sad
she looked he answered her gently :
"No, little girl I have been thinking
of you, as I said, and the last thing
I did before coming here was to drink
a cup of tea and eat a piece of pie of
your making. While I drank the tea
I was thinking—no doubt it will sound
foolish to you—but I was thinking
how every one of those little grains
had been cuddled in the palm of your
hand, as you measured them out and
the pie was as sweet as though you
had stirred the mince with your finger
afore puttin' it between the crusts."
Mary was laughing and blushing at
his foolish words, and he, enjoying
her confusion, put up one hand and
drew her head down to his shoulder.
"I don't know what you mean," she
said, presently. "I haven't turned
cook for Miss Williams—' '
"No," he interrupted her, " I forgot
that you didn't know where I had
been. John Williams was thrown
from a colt to-night and they thought
his leg was broken. His sister came
across lots for me to go down there
and see what I could do for him. We
didn't like to stop to your house for
help, because you had so much com-pany,
so we went and got Ma'am Par-sons
and took her over with us. We
made the boy as comfortable as we
could, and she said no bones were
broken. So then I went home with
her, and there was the fire your care
had brightened, and the tea and the
pie all ready for us."
The girl's heart was beating very
fast, as Jared said : "My Thanksgiv-ing
will be complete, Mary, if you will
promise to be my wife.''
After they were married she told
him that the pie had been made on
purpose for him.
How Dinah Viewed It.
On her return to her home in one of
the small provincial towns of the
South, her mistress brought the cook a
number of new and, to her, wonderful
kitchen utensils. Dinah had never seen
patent egg beaters, paring knives or
any ot the ingenious devices in com-mon
use in cities, and she exhibited a
satisfactory degree of pleasure in their
possession. When her wonder had
somewhat abated she said to her mis-tress
:
"Miss Sally, please, ma'am, do show
me somefin you got for youse'f."
Her eye fell upon an india rubber
air cushion, and she begged to be
shown its use. Her mistress, putting
it to her mouth, inflated it, and laying
it on the seat of a chair sat upon it.
Dinah raised her hands in astonish-ment,
exclaiming :
"Lor, misses, you is settin' on you'
own breff, ain't you ?"
D y s p e p s i a M a k e s One A f r a i d t o B a t
It whips us, with a lash braided
from nature's own violated laws. It
turns a pleasure into a torment. But
Cal-cura Solvent, Dr. David Kennedy's
new medicine, cures dyspepsia. Then
we sit down to a good dinner and wel-come
everything from the beef to the
pudding. What a change ! Write to
the Cal-cura Company, Rondout, N.
Y., tor a free sample bottle.
A N E W NAME.
"Divine Healer" Dowie has found a
new name with which to designate the
habitual tobacco-che wer. The name is
"stink-pot". Not a euphonious one
by any means, all will readily admit.
Whether the term is an apt one is a two-sided
question. Tobacco-chewers are
not all alike in habits of tidiness, and
that is what makes the difference be-tween
people that stink and those that
do not. Extremists, of course, will in-sist
on it that the habit of chewing
tobacco is a filthy one at best; but they
will admit that they have been about
people who used tobacco in that shape
and no one could have detected a smell
and to say that they stank would be
to utter a falsehood. It would also be
admitted that there are people who use
no tobacco in any shape or form, and,
yet they move in an atmosphere creat-ed
by themselves which is anything
but agreeable in the nostrils of the
average person coming in contact with
them. We would therefore suggest that
the term stink-pot might be more aptly
applied than when applied to the ave-rage
tobacco chewer. It is the person
of filthy habits that stinks, and tobacco-chewing
is not necessarily filthy.
T u r k e y s a r e S c a r c e.
The chances are that in many fami-lies
this Thanksgiving turkeys will be
almost as much of a luxury as diamond
back terrapin or canvas back duck. Ac-cording
to many farmers turkeys will
be scarcer than at any time within
their recollection. -All attribute this to
the cold rains that prevailed in spring.
A farmer who has been raising turkeys
for twenty years says that he will have
one-fourth the number that he raised a
year ago, when the crop was almost a
failure. In consequence, the price will
be very high.
In only a few sections will a fair
number be raised. On farms where
there were formerly fifty or one hun-dred
there are only a few, scores hav-ing
died during the spring and summer.
The weather was too inclement for
them in spring, and the cool days dur-ing
the summer caused many to con-tract
colds which resulted in their
death. Young turkeys, it is said, die if
a few drops of water are sprinkled over
them. They are most delicate birds to
raise, although strong enough when
they are grown.
A Final Lot of Don'ts.
Don't wear clothes ; they retard the
free movement of the body.
Don't eat .anything., .Your stomach
may get out of order.
Don't drink. You'll get thirsty
again.
Don't remember anything—especial-ly
your debts.
Don't work. It is very bad for the
health to tire yourself.
Don't lend—borrow.
Don't want anything. If you should
want anything, don't buy i t ; beg or
steal it.
Don't try to say anything when you
talk. It consumes brain power.
Don't marry young. Don't marry
old. Don't marry at all. If you are
tempted to marry, attend Court on a
divorce lay.
Don't get sick. If you think you are
sick, whistle or turn somersaults.
This is Nature's cure.
Don't go to law. Choose the lunatic
asylum.
Don't get excited. Keep ice in your
mouth.
Don't read ; it may effect your eye-sight.
Don't fret, don't cry, don't laugh,
don't buy, don't sell, don't grieve,
don't love, don't play, don't humor
yourself in anything, don't breathe.
Don't ever be displeased. If your
favorite corn is stepped on, say "Thank
you."
Don't be dissatisfied with anything.
If your bank breaks, be thankful you
didn't have more in it.
Don't lose your temper. Nobody
will pick it up and bring it home, even
if they stumble over it.
Becoming Colors,
Not one woman in ten realizes the
importance of ascertaining and mak-ing
a careful study of the one particu-lar
color most becoming to her, and of
always having a touch of it introduced
in some part of her dress.
The auburn haired women looks best
in brown, shading into the tones of her
hair, or in rich dark greens.
The yellow haired girl can wear red.
The greens, too, are delightful on her ;
also certain yellows and black. White
is less becoming, but she must be bril-liant
in complexion or else most deli-cate
as to tints to wear grays and
blues to advantage. Blues, particular-ly
the pale and cold blues, are best
adapted to brunettes.
The woman whose hair is a dull
brown, and whose complexion and
eyes lack brilliancy, may still be most
attractive, but she should avoid bright
liued or glittering hats. Dull browns,
neither yellowish nor reddish, should
be selected. Avoid the satin straws.
Take the dull finish.
SO Y e a r s ' E x p e r i e n c e.
Rectal diseases cured 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
above diseases, free. At the Franklin
House, Lancaster city, every alternate
Thursday.
D r s . MABKLEY & SHOEMAKER,
J9 S. 9th St., Reading, Pa.
Life.
A man's life is full of crosses and
temptations. He comes into this world
without his consent, and goes out
against his will, and the trip between
the two is exceedingly rocky. The rule
of contraries is one of the important
features of the trip. When he is little,
the big girls kiss him, but when he is
grown, the little girls kiss him. If he
raises a large family, he is a chump,
but if he raises a small check, he is a
thief. If he is poor, he is a bad mana-ger
; if he is rich, he is dishonest-; if
he's in politics, it's for pie ; if he's out
of politics, you can't place him, and
he's no good for his country. If he
doesn't give to charity, he is a stingy
cuss ; if he does, it is for show ; if he
dies young, there was a great future
ahead of him ; if he lives to an old age,
he has missed his calling. He is intro-duced
into this world and to the next
by the same process. The road is
rocky, but man loves to travel it.
Great Loss from Insect Pests.
When it comes to figures of the
financial losses caused by insect pests,
the published papers and reports of ex-pert
investigators connected with our
Agriculture Department at Washington
and our agricultural stations elsewhere
furnish the chief and largest resource.
The figures given here are truly stagger-ing
in their immensity. Thus we have
it on the authority of Dr. Howard that
the actual money loss occasioned by in-sect
pests in this country every year is
not less than $35,000,000. According
to Dr. Howard, the grasshopper pest
which visited large areas of the West
in 1874-76 destroyed farm crops to the
value of $100,000,000 in a single season.
Observations.
Not unnaturally, the pretty married
woman who cultivates relatives in South
Dakota is regarded with amused inter-est.
Patches and hash do not stand in
high favor. When the patch is a lace
applique and the hash a croquette,
however, it is quite another matter.
I t usually happens that when one is
in a state of nervous collapse the neigh-bor
on one side starts in to have her
winter kindlings chopped, while on the
other they take to fiendishly whacking
every rug aud other rag of carpet they
possess.
One says a stupid thing in a minute
and regrets it for a year if not for longer.
The less responsibility most people
have the more contented they are.
Persons who take to "blowing their
own horn"have perhaps discovered that
otherwise it will remain unblown.
Why do we persist in sharing our
trouble? No doubt others have enough
of their own.
Achievements of great men might
well remind us that most of us have
our limitations.
Only the most methodical woman
can bring herself to invest in furs on a
very warm autumn day.
1 Cent Makes $11,000,000.
It is said that the Standard Oil Com-pany,
by increasing the price of kero-sene
one cent a gallon and of paraffin
candles one cent a pound, add $11,000,-
ooo to its income. The rise in the
price of candles and in kerosene large-ly
affects the country, as the cities do
not use very much of either. Within
three years oil has been advanced from
8)4 cents to 13^ cents, while paraffin
candles have been advanced from 6)4
to 12)4 cents a pound.
The Early Catbird.
At i o'clock the catbirds have it all
to themselves, and they will not only
sing their hearts out into the trees and
the sky, but they will give us imita-tions
and >vill sing over again all the
sounds and melodies they have heard.
My nearest neighbor, Who builds in the
Tartarian honeysuckle, comes near to
me with evident comprehension of my
admiration and undertakes to tell me
that he is not like other birds, but
understands human folk. He jumps
about the limbs near to me and with
whistle calls back and forth, I envying
his musical ability and he possibly
wondering somewhat about my books
and my balconies. I should be very
lonely in the country without the cat-bird.
He only has the power of com-panionship
with us—Independent.
Early Mention of Niagara Falls.
The first historical notices of Niagara
falls are given in Lescarbot's record of
the second voyage of Jacques Cartier,
in the year 1535. On the maps pub-lished
to illustrate Champlain's discov-eries
(date of maps either 1613 or 1614)
the falls are indicated by a cross, but
no description of the wonderful cata-ract
is given, and the best geograph-ical
authorities living today doubt if
the explorer mentioned ever saw the
falls, Brinton's work to the contrary
notwithstanding. Father Hennepin is
believed to have written the first de-scription
of the falls that was ever
penned by one who had personally vis-ited
the spot.
Servants In Sofia.
"Twice a year, on April 23 and Oct
26," writes a young Bulgarian woman
living in Sofia, "our streets are full of
servants, and people bargain with them
for service. During the winter season
they are very cheap, as the peasants
send all their girls to the city to bp
hired, they having no work for them
at home. The price paid differs. One
can get a girl for her board, or pay up
to 20 lusor ($4) a month for one who
cooks, washes and irons. Girls are of-ten
thankful to enter a good family for
their board. For the men there is very
little work, and tlie papers are full of
suicides on account, during the dull
seasons of starvation."
Proof Absolute,
Peters—What proof did the doctors
have for declaring Blank insane?
Parr—He refused to take their medi-cine—
Baltimore American.
SAFE OPENING TOOLS.
Implements of Which Burglars Nev-er
Even Get a Glimpse.
"We have tools for opening safes,"
said the foreman of the machine room
of a safe factory, "that no burglar
could imitate even if he got them. But
it would be one of the most difficult
things in the world for him to get even
a sight of them. The tool room is
guarded as closely as a bank vault A
watchman stays in it all night. We are
very careful about employing our men.
'They must give bonds and have the
best of references. The chance of a
burglar getting into our employ for the
purpose of learning our methods is
scarcely worth thinking about.
"Very frequently we have hurry calls
for a man to open a safe where the
time clock has gone askew or where the
clerk has forgotten the combination.
You can readily imagine that with a
bank or -trust company it is an essen-tial
thing to have the safe open before
business begins. When we send a
man out he takes a wagon load of tools,
for he must open the safe without ruin-ing
the lock, and he does not know pre-cisely
what the trouble is. 'fie carries
a photograph of himself with our cre-dentials
on it. Nor will he open the
safe while alone. Some bank official
must remain with him, no matter how
long the job takes. That is for our own
protection. Some very queer alleged
robberies have been charged to men
sent out to open safes.
"To mechanics in our business it is
laughable to read that a full kit of bur-glars'
tools has been found beside a
safe. As I have said, it would require
an express wagon to carry them, and
burglars don't work that way. If they
care to take chances by blowing up a
safe with dynamite it is another mat-ter;
but those fellows nearly always
get caught.
"A police officer told me that burglars
make their own tools. The big crooks
are all spotted and are afraid to go out
and buy the material for them. Som
of them send their wives and children.''
-^Philadelphia Ledger.
POULTRY POINTERS.
The best way to feed corn to young
chickens is cracked or erushed.
A good dust bath will go far toward
keeping fowls in good condition.
Clear, raw corn meal wet with water
im not a good feed for young ducklings
at any time.
Destroy the nest of a sitting hen as
soon as the chickens are a day old.
Give her a new nest and burn the old
one.
Separated early arid raised up by
themselves, pullets are worth at least
25 per cent more for use than if al-toweirl
to
On the farm if more than one breed
is kept it is necessary that they be
kept separate, and one or the other
must be kept confined part of the time.
It is important to keep the young
turkeys dry until they are about eight
weeks old, and even then they should
be strong and well developed. Damp-ness
is almost always fatal to young
turkeys.
Religions Training: of Japanese.
Little or no importance is attached
to the religious training of Japanese
children. Whether the parents be
Buddhists or Shintoists it matters not,
for in either case the children rarely
take any part in the religious life of
their parents or elders, and indeed
usually grow up in blissful ignorance
as to what it is all about. True, they
may occasionally be taken to the tem-ple
and taught to rub their palms to-gether,
clap thrice and incline their
heads toward the shrine as they toss
their offering of rin through the wood-en
grating of the huge money till.
They may have some vague notion
that there is something meritorious in
all this, but nothing more, although
every Japanese home has a latticed
niche, or kamidana, dedicated to the
service of the household Lares and
Penates, or Daikoku and Ebisu as they
appear in Japan.
No Reptiles In Newfoundland.
Everybody knows that there are no
snakes in Ireland, but very few know
that Newfoundland is just like Ireland
in that respect, and there is no record
that Newfoundland had a St. Patrick
to drive the snakes off either. There
is plenty of game in Newfoundland,
but not a reptile of any kind—snake,
toad, frog, lizard or even turtle. An-other
queer thing about the province is
that while some wild animals are
abundant there no one ever saw a
squirrel, porcupine, mouse or lynx any-where
within its boundaries. This is
all the more singular because the ad-joining
provinces of Nova Scotia and
Cape Breton have all these animals
and many kinds of snakes and other
reptiles.
An Achievement.
"I don't see why you should be so
proud of winning that case," said the
intimate friend, "You were plainly in
the wrong."
"You don't understand these things
at all," answered the lawyer. "That's
the very thing that makes me so
proud."—Exchange.
The Wisdom of Wisewell.
Noitt—That fellow Wisewell could
have given Solomon a few pointers.
Askitt—Come on with the explana-tion.
Noitt—When he and his family went
to the country for a month's vacation
he took his gas meter along.—Leslie's
Weekly.
Himself to Blame.
"Didn't you once say that your wife
was the making of you?"
"Only once," answered Mr. Meekton.
"Henrietta heard it and said it was
very unldnd and unjust to blame her
in that manner."—Washington Star.
Going Too Far.
Mrs. Boffin—I read in the paper that a
woman, in looking after another wom-an
to see what she had on, fell out of
a window.
Mr. Boffin—Well, that only goes to
show that some women in trying to fol-low
the fashions can go too far.—Illus-trated
Bits.
THEOLD RELIABLE
Absolutely Pupe
THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE
OVER THE STATE
Edward R. Smith, aged 68 years old,
at Tatamy, near Easton, was found
along the road with an ear torn off and
his skull fractured. He had fallen from
a wagon loaded with slate, and the
wheels had passed over his head.
Physicians of Carbondale are watch-ing
with interest the development of a
tiny baby girl born to Mrs. William
Gibbs. The infant Weighs a trifle less
than 2 pounds, is 12 inches tall, and 3
inches across the shoulders. The child
appears to be healthy and thriving, al-though
she does not grow.
George Taylor, of Tyrone, an engineer
on the Tyronedivision, Penn'aEailroad,
while hauling his train in the vicinity
of Sandy Ridge, spied a large deer. He
got off the engine, went into the tele-graph
office, secured a gun and killed it.
The animal, which weighed 19Q pounds,
was loaded on the pilot of the engine
and taken home.
A pocket-book snatcher has creat-ed
terror among thewomen of Westches-ter.
Three lost their pocketbooks in this
way. Miss Victoria Hawkins was held
up on North Church street, Miss Bow-man
on West Miner and Mrs. Louise
Rambo, on South Church street. The
thief escaped.
William Dickson, of Proctor, Lycom-ing
county, and Mrs. Elizabeth Gard-ner,
of Lynchburg Va., were married
at Montoursville by Justice of the Peace
Fackenthal. It is said they arranged
the match by correspondence. The
bridegroom is 66 years old and the
bride 50.
Three prisoners escaped from the
Lebanon county jail. They were Al-bert
Dutton, of New Jersey; John Os-borne,
no home, and George Wilson,
of Phila. The three men were com-mitted
several days ago on twenty days'
sentences for begging and disorderly
conduct. They were confined in a cell
in the basement apart from the other
prisoners. They are supposed to have
been assisted by outsiders, the locks of
the cell having evidently been opened
by a false key. They then filed off a
bar of a cellar window and got out.
Gored by a savage boar on his farm,
near York, Franklin Sprenkle is suffer-ing
from serious injuries.
Lack of orders has caused the Parkes-burg
Iron Company to close its mills,
throwing 500 men out of work.
Citizens of York are planning a big
public demonstration to celebrate the
opening of the York Haven power plant
on January 1.
The Norway Iron and Steel Company
has assured its puddlers and heaters at
the York plant that, in spite of the de-pression
in the steel trade, there will be
no cut in wages.
Slattery & Company, coal operators
of Tuscarora, Pa., have joined the
Royal Oak Company in refusing to
abide by the decision of the Anthracite
Strike Commission.
Wind Gap, Northampton county,
has secured a new silk nml that will
employ 100 hands.
THE PRISONER
Who escapes from jail is by no means
free. He is under the ban of the law
and punishment is written over against
his name. Soon or.
l a t e h e w i l l be
caught again and.
bear added punish-ment
for his short
escape from his cell.
Those who by the ,
use of palliative
powders and tablets
escape for a time
from the sufferings
of dyspepsia are in
the same condition
as the escaped pris-oner.
Soon car late j I
they will go back to
the old condition
and pay an added r
penalty for tempor-ary
release.
Dr. Pierce's Gold-en
Medical Discov-ery
cures dyspepsia
and other diseases
of the stomach and
organs of digestion
and nutrition. Its
cures are lasting.
«For about two years
I suffered from a very obstinate case of dyspep-sia,"
writes R. E. Secord, Esq., of 13 Eastern
Ave., Toronto, Ontario. «I tried a great num-ber
of remedies without success. I finally lost
faith in them all. I was so far gone that I could
not bear any solid food on my stomach for a long
time; felt melancholy and depressed. Could not
sleep or follow my occupation (tinsmith). Some
four months ago a friend recommended your
'Golden Medical Discovery.' After a week's
treatment I had derived so much benefit that I
continued the medicine. I have taken three
bottles and am convinced it has in my case ac-complished
a permanent cure. I can conscien-tiously
recommend it to the thousands of dys-peptics
throughout the land."
Accept no substitute for « Golden Med-ical
Discovery." There is nothing « just
as good" for diseases of the stomach,
blood and lungs.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets stimulate
the liver