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YOL. XXVIII. LITITZ, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1904 NO. 3.
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Jjanoaster County, l'a.
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H o t Weather T a lk
Keeping cool depends largely upon
yourself—not so much upon the "ices"
that you eat as the clothing that you wear.
For a comfortable warm weather suit
try serge—nothing neater—light enough
to wear a vest if you wish. Wool crash—
another ideal summer fabric—is a favorite
material for the popular two piece outing
suit.
In either of these light weight fabrics
we can suit you in quality, style, price
and fit.
Summer Comforts
Do not depend upon the outer suit alone ; headgear, comfort-able
and well fitting shirts and suitable underwear improve
life wonderfully during the heated term.
Straw Hats
The sailor shape in split or sen-net
straw is—so fashion says--
the " thing » 7 5 c up $ 2 . 00
Another stylish hat—comfort-able,
too—is an imitation Pan-amain
crash. Yours _ _ _
for 5oc
A new shape feather weight
hat—a beauty—very
light-sells for
Straw hats for the little folks—
white or in colors; ct\r
from 2 5 c to
Felt hats, too, in different
styles and colors from
$1.00 to
Shirts
A cool negligee shirt with fancy
madras bosom — link cuffs to
match— an excellent mr
value at
A percale shirt with plaited
bosom — assorted colors — with
cuffs—cool looking—
sells for
Madras — of same material
throughout, very fancy weave, in
raised corded effects, i . A A detached link cuff's JH.UU
A new and fashionable shirt in
latest designs—madras through-out—
background white, dj- n n $ 2 . 5 0 with colored figures 4>1.UU
UNDERWEAR
The thin, filmy, gauzy kind—cool and comfortable—are
the thing just now. We have them—cheap, too.
Balbriggan U n d e r -
wear—thin, cool, com-fortable;
seams will not
rip or irritate; e oc
per suit
Fine Mercerized Un-derwear
— silk front,
pearl buttons, different
colors, an elegant MP/T
suit; per suit / ft*"
Ecru Ribbed Under-wear—
first-class goods,
sure to give lasting
service; per 0Q
The Artful Aid of Little Things
Belts
For a two piece suit you need a
belt, looks better, you know, widths
are moderate—styles enough to suit
everybody 25C t o 5OC
Fancy Vests
Wash vests—white or fancy—are
the thing for summer e v e n i n g s -
make a better appearance than the
bulging negligee ^ t o p Q ()
Neckwear
Ties for summer are
of the reversible sort—
tying in a full short
bow. Narrow four-in-hands
in summery ef-fects
are popular
2 3 c to 50c
Collars
The general choice is
still the popular,double
fold shape; in becom-i
n g , c o m f o r t a b le
heights they will con-tinue
to be strictly " in
2 for 25c
Hosiery
Thd idea of neatness
is the keynote to hos-iery.
Popular right
along will be the black,
gray and tan grounds
with modest figure ef-fects
, 5 C t o 5 OC
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LIFE IS GOOD.
Written for the BECOKD.
All that is is for the best.
So the wise, at least, have said.
Prize the thought and make life blest
I n the light by wisdom shed.
All that is, if wisely used,
Makes for human happiness ;
While no good thing, if abused,
Can bring aught but bitterness.
Just believe that all is good.
Meaning all by Heaven made ;
Use things ever as you should,
And your faith is not betrayed.
You will learn from day to day,
And the lesson will be sweet,
That if lived the proper way,
Life is faultless and complete,
A. S. B.
BREAKING
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GENTLY.
A. R BOMBERGER, LITITZ, PA.
THE MESSENGER boy waited
while Jack Powers wrote his
answer to her note. She might
have telephoned, but it was her way to
send messengers with her missives.
"Very well, Kathleen," wrote Jack,
"I'll be there. You say lor the last
time. I wonder why ?"
He sent the boy with this note and
an order on a florist for a box of vio-lets,
as the message's accompaniment,
and then he turned to his work again.
But his eyes failed to do more than
stare at the figures before him. His
brain could not grasp their meaning.
Kathleen's face persisted in dancing
about the inkwell, in a two step that
played havoc with business.
" I 'm a beastly cad," cogitated Jack,
"and that's what. But it must be done.
For the last time, she said. Perhaps
she's heard It would help things a
lot if she had."
He looked meditatively at a photo
graph which he fished from a dark
pigeon hole in his desk.
"She's a mighty nice little thing,"
he said to himself, "but"—
And then he took another photo-graph
from an inner pocket of his coat
and kissed it tenderly.
* * *
"Violets !"
Kathleen buried her nez retronse in
the purple fragrance and sniffed with
satisfaction.
'Jack always sends violets," she
said, to no one in particular, though
her maid sat nearby sewing some lace
on the dinner frock her mistress bade
her lay out for her to wear.
Kathleen looked gloomily upon a
tall vase of long-stetamed American
Beauties that stood on the table.
'That's the difference in men. Law-rence
sends big Beauties, because
they're my favorite flower. Poor
Jack ! How can I break his heart—
for I suppose I will. 'You say for the
last time. I wonder why ?' Heigho !
We must take our medicine, Marie.
Because I prefer millions to love in a
cottage—that s why. Hurry with the
waist, Marie. I must not be late at
my dinner with Jack."
s * *
No. I didn't think we needed a
cheperone to-night, Jack."
"Why not to-night?"
"Because, well—
" 'Life is too short to quarrel.
Life is too short to sigh'—
"I'll tell you by and by, Jack, after
the fish, perhaps."
"I, too, have something to tell you,
Kathleen."
For the space of ten miniites while
the garcon placed the soup before
them, Jack felt uncomfortable. Every-body
hates to attack a disagreeable
duty. When the duty involves a pret-ty
woman it is doubly distasteful.
However, he took a surreptitious peep
at the photograph in his breast pocket
and it nerved him to his task. Never-theless,
there was no hurry about it.
"Isn't it absurd, Jack, to say that
love makes the world go 'round
asked Kathleen.
In her diplomatic feminine way she
had wished to lead up to the subject
she had come to discuss.
"Of course it is," he answered,
"when champagne—if one has enough
of it—will do the same thing."
They both laughed, and then both
attacked their glasses with assumed
enthusiasm.
"Solomon—oh, Jack, do you remem-ber
how we trolled for salmon at Del
Monte last summer ?
Did he remember ? He had to pat
the photograph in his pocket to for-get.
"I read the other day," Kathleen
was saying, "that a girl who couldn't
make up her mind between two lovers
hasn't a mind worth making up."
She looked at him from the corners
of her eyes.
Jack's face lighted up. She knew,
then, and that was the meaning of
her desire for a farewell dinner. How
easy it would be now to explain.
But Kathleen was not waiting for
an answer.
"They say there's no skill in win-ning
a game where one holds all the
trumps. But in the game of hearts,
Jack, suppose one held just two. Don't
you think it would be hard to know
which to discard ?"
Bravo! thought Jack. What a clever
little diplomat Kathleen is !
But she veered to the other side.
"Isn't it nice, Jack, just we two sit-ting
here like this" oh, so tenderly.
"Isn't it like old times ?"
He really couldn't help it—one little
kiss was nothing.
Theie was a pause of some minutes
and then Kathleen sprang to her feet.
"Don't, Jack, or I won't be able to
brace myself to the ordeal. Don't
look like that."
He put his hand in his coat pocket.
Yes, the photograph was there. Had
he been untrue to her?"
"I'm engaged—engaged, Jack," said
Kathleen, excitedly. "I'm going to
marry Lawrence Smith, the million-aire.
Oh, Jack, I never really thought
you cared—why didn't you ask me
years ago—when I was a bud ? It's
too late now—too late. It's going to
be a grand church wedding. He want-ed
it to be a quiet affair, but I"—
"Thought it would be the last quiet
day he'd have, 110 doubt."
"Why, Jack, I never knew you to
make such a wretched ioke before.
High noon-at St. Luke's-June 8.
You'll be there?"
"I'm afraid not, Kathleen-I"-
"Oh, we can still be friends. This
is the twentieth century, you know,
and jealousy is out of date.''
"I know, but"—
' Oh, say we can be friends still,
Jack. I never could bear those stuffy
little apartments, the modern love in
a cottage. It's much better this way
dear."
"I know, Kathleen. But-"
"Oh, don't think I meant anything
horrid. I'm not that kind of a woman,
Jack. But. Lawrence likes you-I
think he wants you to be best man.
Will you?"
"I'm awfully sorry, but I couldn't,
really."
The tension, drawn so tight a mo-ment
since, was ready to snap. Had
it done so, the man would have laugh-ed,
the relief was so great. But his
duty was still undone, and doubly re-pugnant
after her confession.
'Oh, you must," pleaded Kathleen,
"else you know what people will say."
She looked at her watch.
"I must go now," she said, "for we
are going to a ball to-night. Promise
me, Jack, that if Lawrence asks you,
you will be his best man at our wed-ding.
Do it for me, dear, won't you?"
She gave him a good-by kiss, to
make her plea more profound.
"Oh, the mischief! I can't. Kath-leen,"
he said, squeezing her little
hands warmly. "I would if I could,
you know, but it's impossible "
"Why, dear?"
The words were warm, but the tone
was cold.
"Well, I'll tell you-I've tried to tell
you all the evening, but you didn't
give me a chance. I'm going to be
married myself the same day."
is your sense of smell strong? Test
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LITITZ, PA.
THE FIRST MATCHES.
An Old Bachelor S a j s:
Some women can't even take other
people's woes philosophically.
It is a fact that the average woman
had rather be interesting than sane.
It is just like a woman's perversity
to call a new baby a cherub when it
looks like a broiled lobster.
A girl who marries at 18 or 20 and
is kept busy raising a family, forever
laments her lost years of fun.
A woman sees herself through rose
glasses, though preferring to use her
naked eye upon her neighbors.
The woman who was married at 14 or
15, like the woman who lives to be over
90, is given to bragging of her achieve-ment.
Judging by the line of talk some wo-men
give you they are either lacking
themselves or they take you to be non
compos mentis.
A woman's idea of good eating is
tissue paper wafers with ices in flower
shapes. When fresh, these wafers are
as good as tissue paper, but, too often
they are stale and about as eatable as
ordinary brown paper.
Cleveland's Joke".
On one of his fishing excursions
Grover Cleveland came across a little
girl sitting beside a stream dangling a
line in the water. The child knew Mr.
Cleveland by sight, having often seen
him pass with basket and rod, and,
feeling sure of his sympathy in her
present occupation, she looked up and
addressed him, saying pleasantly,
"Good morning, Mr. Cleveland, I'm
fishing."
"But you haven't any bait on your
hook," Mr. Cleveland remarked, call-ing
attention to the omission as she
pulled the line up out of the water.
"You can't catch fish without bait."
"But I don't like to put the bait on
the hook," answered the little girl, de-precatingly
: "the worms wriggle so.
They won't keep still while I put them
on. If you'll put the bait on for me
I'll let you have the fish, Mr. Cleve-land,
if I catch one."
"Ha ! ha !" laughed the ex-President,
"This isn't the first time I've met with
such a proposition. Give me your hook,
little politician," and he proceeded to
gratify the young angler by baiting her
hook for her.
J o h n W a l k e r , of S t o c k t o i i - o u - T e e s,
C r e d i t e d W i t h M a l t i n g Them.
The first really efficient lucifer match
must be put to the credit of John Walk-er,
of Stockton-on-Tees, who in 1827
placed them on the market under the
name of "Congreves," in compliment of
Sir William Congreve, the inventor of
the war rocket. These matches were
sold for a shilling a box, which con-tained,
besides a few dozen of the
matches, a little piece of folded sand-paper,
through which each splint of
wood had to be drawn before it could
be made to inflame. An original tin
box, stamped with the royal arms and
bearing the word "Congreve," is pre-served
as a curiosity in one of the Lon-don
museums.
As in the case of all other industries,
this was initiated by hand labor alone.
The splints of wood were no doubt
originally dipped in the igniting coin-position
one by one but subsequently
they were tied up in bundlesand dipped
in block, the workman giving each
bundle a twist with his hands, so that
the end of each splint would be free to
move to a certain extent, and absorb a
little more of the compound than it
would, if kept quite still. The next ad-vance
was to fix the splints in a frame
so that each was separated from its
neighbor, and this frame, containing
about 1,500 matches, would be brought
down on a marble slab upon which the
composition was spread. The tipped
matches, still in their frame, would
then be dried in air for a few hours, and
afterward placed in a heated chamber
to complete their desiccation. Manual
labor, as will presently be seen, is now
almost wholly dispensed with in the
manufacture of matches. The employ-ment
of yellow phosphorous for the
charging of matches made the industry
a very unhealthy one, and the working
people, if not in the best of health, ran
the risk of contracting a terrible disease
known as necrosis of the jaw bone, the
vulgar name for which was "phossy
jaw." With, improvements in manu-facture
this evil has now been elimin-ated.
Apropos.
The sea captain walked up to the
game counter. "I want a pack of
cards," he said.
"What kind?" asked the clerk.
"Can't you tell by my looks that I
am a seaman ?"
" I can."
"Then," said the old salt, as he mer-rily
tossed a twenty-five cent piece upon
the counter, "give me a quarter deck."
How Women Travel.
"When a woman passes her first
night in a sleeping car slie experiences
a timidity that is most disagreeable,"
remarked a member ot the gentler sex
who travels considerably. "Her first
impulse is to remain up the entire
night, but as lateness approaches she
becomes so fatigued and her eyes grow
so heavy that she decides to retire. She
goes to her berth, and, after drawing
the curtains carefully, starts to remove
her clothing. Fearing that some of
the other passengers may be able to
penetrate with their inquisitive eyes
both the dim illumination of the car
and also the curtains she becomes ner-vous
with alarm.
Thoughts of train robbers likewise
flit through her mind, and she hesitates
again and again about turning in. Na-ture
at last conquers, and she removes
a few more of her wraps, but still re-frains
from undressing and climbs be-neath
the blanket. Then comes the ter-rifying
thought that someone might by
mistake enter her shelf, and really her
mind is thrown into a state bordering
upon hysterics. At last she quiets
down and gradually falls into a troubled
doze.
Glad the night is over, she is awake
at the first streak of dawn, and hurried-ly
replaces the few garments she must-ered
up courage to remove. Then she
seeks the toilet compartment and awaits
her turn at the washbowl. After fool-ing
some time with the oddly arranged
faucet she asks for instructions and pro-ceeds
with her primping. She always
fihds she has lost her comb or brush,
and usually forgets and leaves her en-gagement
ringlyingupon thesink. The
soap is not the kind she is accustomed
to, and between all these dreadful
things and the horrid lurching of the
train she is certainly relieved.when des-tination
is reached. After a few such
experiences, however, she becomes ac-customed
to travel, and rather likes it."
Dr. D a v i d K e n n e d y , B o n d o u t , N. Y.
DEAR SIR:—Some time since I was
troubled with blotches coming out on
my breast, of a scrofulous character,
and my general system seemed to be
out of order. I was induced to try Dr.
David Kennedy's- Favorite Remedy.
The first bottle drove the eruption away
and I feel better every way. It is a
splendid blood medicine.—Henry S.
Eldredge, Rochester, N. Y. 1
Gravy Shortening Life of the Race.
"Young man," said Senator Pettus,
of Alabama, aged 83, "the reason peo-ple
get fat is because they eat too much
gravy with their meat. Observe me.
The Congressional Directory says I am
83. Maybe I am, but I don't feel that
old by 40 years. I have never eaten
much gravy. I was raised on a plain
diet, and I have lived on it all my life.
In this day gravy is called sauce, I
know. It's a French word that means
gravy, and if it had not been given a
French name by the English-speaking
races I dare say not so much of it would
be eaten. It is shortening the life of
the race, just likeso many other French
abominations are, and the sooner we
banish it from our diet the better will
be the health of the generationof young
men and women coming on to take our
places.
"Now, mark you, I don't object to a
little gravy on my meat, but just a little
—just enough to aid deglutition. It
does not aid digestion at all, you know;
on the contrary, it harms it—first, by
interfering with the functions of the
salivary glands, then by preventing the
gastric juices from doing their perfect
work, and finally by neutralizing the
action of the alimentary juices. So I
tell you to quit eating gravy on your
meats.
The Great Reading Fair.
Berks county has always been noted
for its large and highly successful agri-cultural
exhibitions. The coming exhi-bition,
to be held in the city of Reading,
on Oct. 4, 5, 6 and seventh, judging by
the preparations in progress, will eclipse
all previous efforts in that direction.
Many special attractions have been pro-vided,
and the display in every depart-ment
promises to be very fine. In fruit
the county is rarely excelled, and a line
assortment of varieties may be expected.
The races will be exciting and diversi-fied
by a special programme of amuse-ments.
Many large shows have been
booked. The railroad companies have
granted liberal concessions and will run
excursions during the fair, and will also
sell excursion tickets good for the week.
Reading is one of the most attractive
cities to visit and is seen at its best dur-ing
the week of the county fair.
He Was "Raised."
A year ago a manufacturer hired a
boy. For months there was nothing
noticeable about the boy except that he
never took his eyes off" the machine he
was running. A few weeks ago the
manufacturer looked up from his work
to see the boy standing beside his desk.
"What do you want?" he asked.
"Want me pay raised."
"What are you getting ?"
"Three dollars a week."
"Well, how much.do you think you
are worth ?"
"Four dollars."
"You think so, do you ?"
"Yessirf an' I've been thinkin' so fer
t'ree weeks, but I've been so blame busy
I haven't had time to speak to you
about it."
Mrs. Shelby's Poultry Raising Ideas.
Mrs. Jacob Shelby, wife of Mr. Shel-by,
who farms Whit-Acres, the fine
farm of Henry C. Penny packer, in
Schuylkill township,near Phoenixville,
is the champion poultry raiser of that
section. This season she raised 550
ducks, chickens and turkeys, and all
without an incubator or brooder. Mrs.
Shelby don't believe in hatching and
nursing poultry by machinery. She
turned the hatching and nursing over
to the hens, and they did it much bet-ter,
and raised stronger broods than the
machines, she says, and she can prove
it by her own 5-50 fowls.
Deceived.
Lady—I bought a refrigerator here,
and you said it would keep things
spendidly, but it won't.
Clerk—Maybe you don't put enough
ice in it.
Lady—And do you have to put ice in
i t ? Laws, anything will keep with
ice in it. What's the refrigerator for?
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Piles, Fistulae, Fissures and Ulceration
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above diseases, free. At the Franklin
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Thursday.
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19 S. 9th St., Reading, Pa.O.
Fishing in Barnegat Bay.
Barnegat Bay is the largest inland
body of water of the State of New Jer-sey,
'"covering upwards of 300 square
miles of surface. As a perfectly safe
sailing, rowing, fishing and shooting
water area, it has no equal in the North
and no superior anywhere. The nerve
centre of operations in the fishing sea-son
is at Forked River, Waretown and
Barnegat and of the shooting season, at
Harvey Cedars, both on the Central
Railroad of New Jersey. Forked River
has the largest number of cat boats,
both with sails alone and with sails and
motors, for rental with operations, at
from $2 to $5 per day, directly on the
edge of the best fishing ground. Harvey
Cedars has the largest number of sneak
boxes, decoys and stands for duck and
geese shooting, at similar rates per day.
There are plenty of all-the-year-around
hotels at rates of $2 and $2.50 per day.
All northern sea fishes and all water
fowl are plentiful in their respective
seasons. There are no licenses to be
paid by non-residents. Naturally,
weakfish are most sought for by the
general fishing public, because they are
more plentiful and easier caught than
other species. For bait, shrimps and
shedder crabs are best and may be had
from baitmen at the various resorts.
No special tackle is required and any
pole with ten yards of line is sufficient.
To catch weakfish, select a spot near
where others are fishing, in channels at
the edge of saltgrass areas.
To know of the Barnegat Bay region
send 6c in stamps to C. M. Burt, Gener-al
Passenger Agent, New Jersey Cen-tral,
143 Liberty Street, New York
City, for Sea Shore Book.
Flies and Typhoid.
Science has given the housewife a
strong reason in addition to the many
good ones she had already had for wag-ing
relentless and unremitting war upon
the Musca domestica, otherwise called
the house fly. Science has shown that
this insect is one of the most ubiquitous
and maglignant disseminators of the
deadly typhoid bacillus. Evidence on
the point seems conclusive.
The fly is notoriously one of the filth-iest
of insects. It habitually feeds
upon the foulest of organic matters. In
matters of this kind typhoid bacilli
flourish most numerously. With its
antennae, eyes, legs, wings and entire
body covered with bacilli collected from
these substances the fly sails to the
pantry where food is kept or to the table
where it is being eaten. It lights on
the bread, proceeds to. the meat, tests
the fruit and vegetables, perchance
tumbles into the syrup. On everything
it touches or passes near it deposits in-numerable
typhoid bacilli. It is in this
way, according to science, that flies
propagate typhoid. All who eat food
that they have visited expose them-selves
to this disease, whether they get
it or not.
The practical deduction from these
facts is that one of the best ways to
prevent typhoid is to keep flies away
from food. Shut them out with screens.
Chase them out with a dishcloth, as
the old-fashioned housekeeper did. Lure
them to death with sticky fly paper.
Leave no food, cooked or uncooked,
wet or dry, where they can get at it.
Be especially vigilant to prevent them
from buzzing over the dining table
while a meal is being eaten.
If flies were prevented from carrying
bacilli to food typhoid epidemics would
become much less frequent and deadly.
Horrid Tammany Man.
A story is told about an experience of
Mayor McClellan, of New York, a few
years ago at a social affair in Washing-ton.
Mr, McClellan was then Congress-man
from the Twelfth New York Dis-trict.
He was introduced to a gushing
young woman, daughter of a Western
Democratic politician. She was deeply
interested in politics, but her knowledge
was not proportioned to her zeal. She
had a brother living in New York, who
had ambitions for the career of a states-man,
and she was bubbling over with
the young man's plans. These were
the chief topic of her conversation with
the Congressman from the Twelfth.
" My brother's going to run for Con-gress,"
she remarked by way of intro-duction.
" A h ? " said Colonel McClellan.
" Yes," she continued: "he's going to
run in the Twelfth District. He thinks
there ought to be a gentleman in Con-gress
from that district and a horrid
Tammany man has the place now."
Colonel McClellan did not disturb her
joy by disclosing the identity of the
horrid Tammany man."
Where It Comes From.
When chewing those delicious licorice
drops did it ever occur to you where it
came from ?
Well, it is made from the root of a
southern plant.
These roots are a rich yellow in color,
and taste, oh, so good. But they are
not used right away. They are mashed
until a thick liquid is brought out. This
is boiled and boiled until all the water
is boiled away and the gummy stuff
that remains is cooled and then rolled
into sticks as you buy it.
Wise and Otherwise.
— Sharpe—"The Young Women's
Poker Club invited you to play with
them. Why did you refuse? " Wheal-ton—"
Because I would never raise my
hand against a woman."
— Teacher — "Now, Tommy, when
any one gives you anything you should
always try to give them double in re-turn.
Give us an example." Tom my
—"Yes'um, Billy Brown gave me a
black eye an' I give him two iu re-turn."
A MATTER OF HEALTH
POWDER
Absolutely Pure
m% msimmm
OVER THE STATE.
Mrs. Phoebe Lord, a woman over 80
years of age, and an old time resident
of Warwick township, Chester county,
was taken to the County Home. At
one time she was a social leader and a
.woman of affluence.
The farmers in the vicinity of Phoe-nixville
are busy filling their silos. The
feeding of ensilage to stock in winter
is growing in popular favor and almost
every up-to-date progressive farmer
now has his silo.
Following a short idleness, the Slat-ington
rolling mill has resumed oper-ations
on orders that will keep it busy
for at least six months.
The glass works at Downingtown
have resumed operations after an idle-ness
of two months. The green and
flint furnaces were started.
James Eisenberg, of King-of-Prussia,
was awakened by an electric buzzer in
his sleeping apartment. This is con-nected
with the barn. He secured his
gun and went out. He met a stranger,
who excused himself by saying that he
was seeking shelter from the cold.
When Eisenberg entered the barn the
man fled. He had hitched up the best
span of horses and was about ready to
drive off.
The Republicans of the 26th congres-sional
district nominated G. A.
Schneebeli, of Nazareth for Congress.
He had no opposition.
The bodies of two infants, each about
five months old, were found in a box
on a vacant lot in Germantown. The
skull of one of the infants was crushed
in, and the police suspect that the chil-dren
were murdered. An investigation
is being made.
Mrs. Davis Craven, of Jenkintown,
was fatally burned by her clothes catch-ing
fire from a bon fire. She died short-ly
afterward. She was burned in a
most horrible manner.
Pleading for their liberty and weep-ing
at the thought of the disgrace that
was about to come upon them, a white-haired
woman, over 70 years old, and
her daughter, a young woman of un-usual
beauty, were arrested in a Phila-delphia
department store on the charge
of shoplifting. Their bags were filled
with goods said to be stolen. They
gave cash bail.
Five cows, recently bitten by a dog
owned by A. D. Fitherolf, of Kistler's
Valley, Lehigh County, have had to be
shot.
Boys playing "cowboy" stoned and
almost killed Miss Minnie Minnich, a
passenger in a train, near her Pottsville
home.
The ironworkers on the new Homoeo-pathic
Insane Asylum, Rittersville, Le-high
County, are out on strike for 50
cents an hour.
The Allentown Fair will be responsi-ble
for the location in that city, iu all
probability, of a large automobile man-ufacturing
concern.
Falling downstairs, Mrs. Mary Kalt-rider,
80 years old, was seriously injured
at York.
f - - w / T n
WHAT GAME OF A LETTER.
My Dear Aunt Kate:
I must tell 3'Oil the good news. Right
after receiving your letter, the day before
New Year's I started in with new resolu-tions
on the first gf the year. I wrote to
Dr. R. V. Pierce, at Buffalo, N. Y., as you
requested me to do. I gave him all my
symptoms, which were that I was tired—
so tired—all the time and did not care to
go anywhere, depressed and sad, and all
ambition gone, backache and a dragged-out
feeling, could not sleep, limbs feeling sore
and aching. I followed the doctor's advice,
which he -went to considerable pains to
make plain to me—to rest every day—a nap
a/ter lunch—complete relaxation—cultivate
repose of mind, try not to worry, get a9
much outdoor air as possible, and prac-tice
long, deep breathing, expanding the
lungs. Then for a uterine tonic, Dr. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription, coupled with a w a sh
he told me of. I must say that after follow-ing
his advice for four months I feel per-fectly
cured a n c f t i t t a new woman.
Yours affeetionally, JEWEL.
Letters like the above are not unusual.
Mrs. Kooman, of 832 Grant Ave., Schenectady,
N. .Y., says: ,!I continued with the medicine
until I had taken five bottles, also two vials of
the 'Pleasant Pellets,' and I was cured. I al-ways
recommend Dr. Pierce's medicines to my
friends when they are not well."
"Mv daughter is in quite good health, thanks
to Dr. Pierce's medicines. My wishes are that
all who are afflicted will try tlietn and see what
good can be done for the sick," write? Mrs.
Elizabeth McConell,*bf Rochester, Ind.
Send 31 one-cent tamps to Dr. R. V.
Pieroe, Buffalo, N. Y., for his Common
Sense Medical Adviser, 1008 pages.