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YOL. X X X .
Fall 1906 Winter 1906
T h e L e a d e r
fN this season of the year when old Autumn
begins to bring forth her beautiful color-ings
of nature, it is always evident that
you are reminded of heavier clothing and any-thing
else in the line of clothing.
We are prepared to present to you this greet-ing
and invite you to come and examine our line
of SUITINGS and SUITS for a child from three
years of age to the middle-aged and old.
Our line of PIECE GOODS in Black, Blue
and Neat Mixtures are beauties—trouserings
that will make you look neat and snappy.
Our line of READY-MADE in Men's,
Youths' and Children's is superior to any we
have ever placed before you.
Our Medium Weight, Dark Gray, Oxford
Mixed and Brown OVERCOATS are swell,
either in the long or short, and the neat herring-bone
figure in R A I N COATS will again prevail
this coming season.
Not to weary you in a lengthy article of read-ing
matter, we wish to inform you we can dress
you in anything from head to foot with style and
comfort at prices surely right. J
H. B U CH
Leader of Clothing and Gents' Furnishings
RECORD BLDG, LITITZ
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Sensible, Serviceable,
Stylish
Soft Stiff and Crush Hats.
Novelties and Staples.
Earge Variety and Excellent Values.
WINGERT & HAAS,
(Successors to H. L . Boas)
O 144 NORTH QUEEN ST., - LANCASTER, PA.
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News for Purple Stamp Collectors
We Will Not Give Purple Stamps
After Dec. 31, 1906
Our reason for this decision is that almost every shoe in the house is cost-ing
from 2}ic to 40c per pair more than in the past ten years. Our $3 00,
$3.50 and $4 00 Lines alone costing either 10c or 15c more than heretofore,
and as $3.10, $3.60 and $4.15 would be Odd and Unpopular Prices, we have
paid the advance and retained the former retail prices, this decision alone
costing us from $3.00 to $4.00 ot our profits.
We had one of the two things to do, either advance the prices of all our
shoes in order to give stamps or maintain old prices and quality, and discon-tinue
giving them. Not wishing to ruin our reputation, we have decided on
the latter method.
3 and s East King St.
Lancaster, Pa. 6 H H S . H. F R E Y
Don't fail to see and price
our large line of
Stoves
Heaters and Ranges
Wringers
Washing Machines
Terra Cotta Pipe
Paints, Glass
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LITITZ, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 6, 1906. NO. 12.
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Lancaster County, Pa.
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powders or pills the
quicker will it return.
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in short order by regulating
the bowels and reinvigorating the
stomach.
It is a great blood medicine
and the favorite laxative of old
and young.
At druggists', 25c. and 50c.
A B o y ' s F o ot
Should be covered with an
iron shoe—some parents think
—because their children wear
out so many pairs of shoes.
We have no shoes of iron—
but you'll find here the next
best thing. Good, solid, flex-ible
leather; and one pair of
our boy's shoes will outlast a
couple pairs oi those you have
been used to buying.
Sizes to II, $1.25
Sizes 11% to 2, $1.25
Sizes 2% to 6, $1.50
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John Johnston, of 216 E. 2d St,
Plainfleld, N. J., who for over 14
years has been tax collector of
that city, writes: "About three
years ago I began to suffer with
dreadful pains in my kidneys. I
was also at tifvies very bilious, but
uiy most serious trouble was with
my water. Sometimes I could
hardy ],ass it, and when I did it
was attended with most excru-ciating
pains. Nothing helped
mi' »wi 1 began to despair. I de-cided
tc try
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TBE SCREW AUGER NOW IN GENERAL
USE.
J o h a n n Heinrich R a u c h was the Man
Who Brought it Forth—The First
One Still in Existence.
for I heard so much about its good results. It helped
me so that I kept it up, und now I have not taken
any fur a year and am in good health. I never have
any pains, my appt-nte is good, and my old bilious-ness
has left me. During the time I was tak-ing
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TRADE MARK-K
A U T Z ' S S T O RE
East Main Street, Lititz.
IF IT'S GROCERIES
AND NOTIONS
You want, Kautz, the East End Man,
can supply you. Come and see my
new line, if you want
Choice Prunes, Raisins, Cheese,
Crackers, Sweet Potatoes, Bolognas
and other Cured Meats
Try a bag of our superior kiln-dried
CORN MEAL
It makes the best and easiest frying
mush in the market.
Goods delivered free.
E. E. K A U TZ
AT the recent gathering of oid
Lititz boys in the city of Phila-delphia,
Mr. Win. H Rauch,
an examiner in the United
States Custom House, who is a born
Lititz boy, read the following interest-ing
article:
Johann Heinrich Rauch came to this
country from Germany in 1769. He
was a skilled mechanic and settled in
Lititz, and set up the business oi
locksmith, the manufacture of coffee
mills, edge tools, etc. Up to this
period the ordinary screw auger was
unknown. Instead, what was then
called a "pot auger" was used, and
this tool had a propensity of splitting
the wood. This instrument was also
known under the name of " schpitz
bohrer."
Mr. Rauch, in 1776 conceived the
idea of making a tool which would
bore a hole without causing a split,
and went to Lancaster to consult with
his friend Judge Harvey, who kept a
hardware store, as to the feasibility of
his plans Judge Harvey, being him
self of a mechanical mind, at once saw
that Mr. Rauch's idea was practical
and advised that he go back to his
shop and make a model. This model
was made of lead, and while it failed
to bore a hole in wood, it was tried on
a large turnip, and found to cast away
the refuse in boring the hole, as readily
as the auger of the present day does
its work in wood.
Christian Henry Rauch, a son ot
Johann Heinrich Rauch and whom, no
doubt many of you can recall as
Squire Rauch" of Lititz, well remem-bered
the manufacture of this, the
very first screw auger ever made.
John Frederick Rauch, an elder brother
oi Christian Henry, also distinctly re-membered
the manufacture of this
lead auger and the anxiety as to the
possible results.
Mr Rauch then went to work and
made an auger from iron, bringing all
his fine skill into play, with a result
that we have to day a tool that so
readily bores a hole in all kinds of
wood without splitting the material,
as did the old schpitz bohrer,and which
has been very little improved over the
screw auger made in Lititz, Pa , one
hundred and thirty-five years ago.
Upon the death of Johann Heinrich
Rauch, the public sale which so neces
sarily follows the death of the head of
family in Lancaster County, was
held, and this auger passed into the
hands of Mr. Charles Lichtenthaler,
who then carried on the cabinet mak-ing
business at Lititz, and who was
the iather of the late proprietor of the
Lititz Springs Hotel.
Squire Rauch was often heard to say
that he would again become the pos-sessor
of the auger if he was forced to
sell his horse to raise funds to buy it.
But Mr. Lichtenthaler would not sell
and lived to a ripe old age. At the
Administrators Sale after his death,
Squire Rauch succeeded in securing
the desired tool, and didn't sell his
horse to raise the funds, either.
In 1859 Squire Rauch gave this
treasured heirloom to his son, the late
Capt. Edward H Rauch. In 1864 Capt,
Rauch was induced to loan the auger
to the great fair, held in Philadelphia
for the benefit of the Sanitary Commis-sion.
In the breaking up ot this suc-cessful
fair the auger was lost. The
matter was placed in my hands, and
after considerable trouble was traced
into the possession of Prof. Maxwell
Summerville, but who was in Europe.
Two years after the close of the iair,
however, the auger was again in the
hands of the rightful owner, who in
turn gave it to his son William H.
Rauch.
This antiquated but useful tool- is
now owned by Mrs. Madge Rauch
Teurer of Oak Lane, Pa., who not only
prizes it very highly as a family heir-loom,
but as a souvenir of the early
days of Ault Lititz in whose honor we
are gathered around this festive board
to-night.
I have brought the auger with me
and I take great pleasuse in doing so,
as it gives you all an opportunity to
see an exhibition of the skill of a citi-zen
of the little village we are all so
proud of—our own Native Lititz !
Farming Was Profitable This Year.
A veritable epic in figures, a tri-umphant
song in statistics, is the re-port
of the Secretary of Agriculture,
which tells the story of the American
farmers' marvelous store of riches won
from the soil in the year just ended,
reaching the astounding total of
$6,794,000,000
This exceeds the record-breaking
product of last year by $324,000,000.
The value of the farm products of
the nation during the last twelve
months would duplicate the entire
railroad system of the United States,
rail lor rail, tie for tie, car for car. The
American farm products of 1905 and
1906 would pay for every railroad in
the world, including the entire equip-ment.
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A WRITER ENJOYS A JOURNEY
TO FLORIDA.
A Wolf Chase at Clay.
A wolf chase was the attraction at
Clay on Thanksgiving Day and it
proved to be an unusual event. The
wolf, which was very wild, had been
brought from the mountains in Ari-zona.
The animal was liberated near
the Clay hotel and it ran toward the
east, finally taking a northerly
course. A number of dogs had been
liberated, but they were atraid to tackle
the wolf. Quite a lew men continued
the chase and finally the wolf was
captured alive about four miles away
from where it had been liberated.
Evan Hacker cornered the animal and
threw a horse blanket over it.
Predicts an Open Winter.
A New England weather prophet
says the coming winter will be an open
one. He notices that the birds are stay-ing
later than usual this fall, which is
always taken as a sure sign that winter
will not come until after Christmas. The
hens have hardly begun to shed their
feathers, while in most years they have
moulted and started in to lay by this
time.
A Hamburg man who has observed
things during his lifetime, believes that
winter will not set in early, because the
past weeks swarms of mosquitoes were
hovering in his yard, like swarms of
bees, which is unusual if a severe win-ter
can be expected. These are signs
of open winter and combat the claims
made by some prophets several weeks
ago for a hard winter.
Woman.
She works harder before breakfast
than man works all day.
She has more humor in an off-hand
word than man had in his funniest
story.
She shows more pathos in her gen-tlest
sigh than man shows in his most
lugubrious wailings.
She can economize more with twenty-five
cents than a man with a dollar.
She can dress herself neatly and at-tractively
for less than it costs a man
for shoes and hats.
She has more patience in opening a
drawer than a man has in laying the
foundation of his fortune.
She displays more grace in fallingout
of a hammock than a man displays in
his favorite dance.
She has more dignity ID a nod of her
head tha^i a man has in a bow that em-braces
his eutire anatomy.
She can show more justice in feeding
chickens than a courtful of judges can
show in a hundred volumes of printed
decisions.
She shows more ingenuity in the
things she does with the left-over boiled
potatoes than the greatest inventor who
ever signed a patent specification.
He Did As Instructed.
Last week's issue of the Manheim
Sentinel contains the following article:
A good story, and its truth is pretty
well authenticated, comes from north-west
Rapho township. It is as follows:
A few days ago a young farmer had
occasion to leave his home for the
afternoon. In his employ is a colored
lad, and prior to leaving the place the
farmer gave the boy instructions what
to work iu his absence. He enumer-ated
a number of chores to be done and
at the conclusion of the list the lad
asked what else he might do if he
finishes what had been planned for
him. The farmer unthinkingly and
in a joking manner said "kill the
pigs." Nothing more was thought of
the matter, the farmer left and the lad
went about his work. He done all he
was told to do and actually found time
to kill the pigs. The farmer was of
course vexed at the lad's slaughter of
about $40 worth of little pigs, but then
and there learned he had in his employ
a faithful boy, and learned that it don't
pay to fool with him.
Floods the body with warm, glowing
•vitality, makes the nerves strong,
quickens circulation, restores natural
vigor, makes you feel like one born
again. Hollister's Rocky Mountain
Tea, 35 cents.
LEWIS N . MOYER.
The State F a i r Held at Tampa was a
Great Attraction a n d Worth
Going to See.
The Turkey.
Did those who enjoyed their Thanks-giving
dinner realize that the turkey is
a "vavaavis" in Germany. There they
call it Truthahn ; while in France it is
a Dindon ; in Italy they lengthen the
name in Pollod India ; in Holland they
need but say Kalkoen, and in Russia,
where they are as pleutiful, perhaps
more so, than in this country and where
they eat them (Herman T. Frueauff is
ourauthority) as we do spring chickens,
they call them Indushka. Now let every
one take his choice,a drumstick, a «ing
or a piece of the breast of this delicious
American turkey at your Christmas
dinner. But don't all speak at once in
these various foreign languages as in-dicated
above. For what's in a name?
We care not how you suffered, nor
what failed to cure you, Hollister's
Rocky Mountain Tea makes the puni-est,'
weakest specimen of man or wo-manhood
strong and healthy. 35 cents.
LEWIS N . MOYER.
Good Investment of One Dollar.
If you have bad breath, constipation,
pain in the small of the back, discolored
skin, nervousness or dizziness, your
only wise course is to take Dr. David
Kennedy's Favorite Remedy, of Ron-dout,
N. Y . It will cleanse the blood
of all impurities, regulate the Kidneys
and Liver, and thus restore a healthy
glow to your cheeks again. 14
Of course you pay your mensy,
But you get your money's worth,
For what does money mean to you
When Rocky Mountain Tea's on
earth ? LEWIS N . MOYER.
Riding through the state of Florida
on a train gives one a wrong impression
of her resources. I heard a man say,
"Travel through a few miles of pine
tree forests and you will see Florida."
Probably he never got off the train
No better place was afforded to study
Ihe nature of Florida in a short time
than at the state fair at Tampa, which
was held in November.
Attending a fair in the south was
quite a novelty and I was anxious to
see if it was conducted on the same
plan as in the north. There were horse
races, fakirs, gamblers and side shows
John L. Sullivan, the great boxer, held
forth at this fair. This is a new ven-ture
for John. He boxed a few rounds
with his partner and told of a few of his
experiences during his varied career,
charging a quarter to see the show
He is rotund in figure, but makes light
of it, according to one of his stories
which follows : " 'John,' said an Irish-man,
'if you take that extension off
you'll be a great fighter still.' Yes,
and i f l had as much fun taking it ofT as
I had putting it on I'd do i t . '"
The fair surpassed the northern fairs
in the fact that not only were all the
things displayed that grow in the north
but the tropical fruits as well. One
farm alone had enough exhibits to
make it's owner almost self-sustaining.
This farm exhibited oranges, lemons,
sugar cane, egg plants, pumpkins, mel
ODS, beets, sweet potatoes, white pota
toes, oats, rye, corn, peas, beans, tur-nips,
pecans, butter, eggs, hams, can-ned
pears, canned peaches, jellies, dif-ferent
species of wood and wines. What
more could a man ask for?
The displays seen at the fair were so
varied that it is hard to know where to
begin with a description. Pyramids of
oranges and grape fruit, varying
color from bright yellow to very red,
were shown, together with the rest of
the family of many citrus fruits.
The tobacco exhibit would interest
our people. Seeing Sumatra tobacco, I
asked the man at the booth : "What do
you receive for your tobacco ?" "From
$1 75 to $3.00 a pound." It is pro-nounced
the equal of an y tobacco raised
in Cuba. It was beautifully spotted
and staiks'were exhioited over twelve
feet high. Mr. E. B Emby, of Pasco
county, had thirty acres of tobaeco,
which he- marketed for $15,000 this
year.
It is estimated thet the amount of
cotton displayed at the fair is worth
$3000. The more valuable cotton grown,
which is the " Sea Island" variety, was
shown: With many of the bales were
also exhibited the cloth which that kind
of cotton will make, which varied from
the finest, almost silk-like to the coars-est
fabric. The sails of the cup defend-er
" Columbia " were made from Flor-ida-
grown cotton.
The corn can hardly be compared to
our corn in size, while the rye and oats
were up to the standard. The wheat
would hardly pass for screening. The
poor results obtained from the latter
cereal can be overlooked when it is con-sidered
how successfully rice can be
grown. One exhibitor showed seven-teen
varieties of hay. It is possible to
raise six crops of alfalfa from one field
in a year. On the east coast there is a
place where a crop of potatoes and a
crop of corn are grown in a year on the
same ground and good ones at that.
The weather favors the Florida farmer,
for there is not a day in the year that
it is too cold to work out of doors.
Trucking is extensively engaged in in
the state, and lettuce, squash, radishes,
etc., are now being shipped to the north.
On exhibition at the fair there was a
beautiful collection of native timber,
embracing seventy-three varieties. The
manner of tapping pine trees for the sap
was demonstrated. Bight here let it be
said there is no better paying business
in the world than the turpentine busi-ness.
Canning factories are springing up in
the south and there was a good display
of canned goods. Dyes and paints are
manufactured from native products. A
large display was made of phosphate
rock, which is used as a fertilizer. It
is quarried like ordinary rock and pre-pared
in about the same way as we burn
limestone. Growing wild and abun-dantly
in the woods is a root called
cassava, from which starch is made,
said to be equal to the starch made from
any other substance. Factories making
cocoanut oil and cottonseed oil exhib-ited
their products.
Of course it is not possible to raise all
these products in any one part of the
state. There are certain sections that
are especially adapted for raising cer-tain
products. There is a variety of
soil—loam, sand, muck, etc. The land
is divided into hammock, pine, prairie
and swamp laud.
Before I got to the fair I was uuder
the impression that the long-nosed ra-zorback
pigs were the only breed raised.
Here were porkers of the Jerssyj red
and Berkshire breeds that surpassed iu
weight any raised in our section. Here-ford
and Jersey cattle made a nice
showing. The south is an excelleut
place for stock raising. Large tracts of
laud for grazing can be bought at $3 an
acre
The poultry exhibit showed that
Florida is awake to importance of this
branch of their farm. While the heavy
breeds are raised, the chic,-ens best
adapted to the climate are the White
Wyandottes, the Barred Plymouth
Rocks and Leghorns. High prices can
always be obtained for poultry and
eggs, and thousands of dollars are re-ceived
from shipments made to other
states, REB.
WITHIN THE COUNTY.
Four hundred tons of coal will 1 e
distributed to deserving poor of Lancas-ter
by the Charity Society of that city.
The expenses of J. Harold Wicker-sham,
defeated candidate for Congress
on the Lincoln ticket, in this district,
were $368.85
While on the road to Clay to attend
the wolf chase last Thursday a horse
was scared by an automobile and went
down an embankment, completely
smashing the wagon and two of the
occupants were painfully bruised.
Large shipments of creamery skim-med
milk are shipped daily from Mt.
Joy to the Lancaster caramel factory by
trolley.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin L. Nissley, of
Rheems, who have gained quite a repu-tation
in selecting and dressing choice
turkeys, forwarded by express ten
bronze turkeys to prominent men
throughout Pennsylvania. One of them,
a 36-pounder, was addressed to A. J.
Cassatt, President P. R. R. at Over
brook, Pa.
J. Frank Nissley, of Mt. Joy, has in
his possession a rare relic in a vest, the
first one ever worn by his grandfather,
Jacob W. Lindemuth, dec., and made
for him in 1799, at May town. It is in
excellent condition, but not quite up to
date in style
Harry K. Smith, poultry dealer of
Akron, already has upwards of 200
chickens and three incubators filled
with eggs. Mr. Smith expects to ex-tensively
engage in this industry.
The Lincoln Fire Company, of Lin-coln,
which some time ago received a
charter, and which owns a fine lot, is
about to erect a commodious engine
house. The company has fine fighting
apparatus.
Daniel Clemens, a Lancaster painter
and musician, was awarded $50 dam-ages
against the Conestoga Traction
Company, though he sued to recover
$25,000. He fell from a trolley car last
summer and declared that his leg had
been injured, though he failed to show
that he lost a single day's work.
A party of hunters from the vicinity
of Denver went out fox hunting. Be-fore
they went very far their hounds
started off on a trail. A moment later
the baying of the hounds indicated that
they were close on to the fox, and be-fore
they could quite reach the fox the
dogs had caught it and killed it. A
steel trap with a rather weighty chaiu
to one of its legs was responsible for its
being so easily caught.
A fat hog strayed from the premises
of John F. Balthaser, Ephrata's well
known butcher, and when tracked the
next morning was found impounded on
the Clare Point Stock Farm of Thos.
A. Wilson. It cost Mr. Balthasera five
dollar bill to get his porker out of hock,
he says.
ABORIGINES OF AFRICA.
Vaalpens Seem to Be *l»e Lowest Or-der
of Cannibals.
An obscure race may possibly be the
true aborigines of Africa south of the
Zambezi.
These are the Kattea, or Vaalpens,
as they are nicknamed by the Boers on
account of the dusty color their abdo-men
acquires from the habit of creep-ing
into holes in the ground, who live
in the steppes region of the north
Transvaal as far as the Limpopo.
As their complexion is almost a
pitch black and their stature only
about four feet, they are quite distinct
from their tall Bantu neighbors and
from the yellowish Bushmen.
The "dogs" or "vultures," as the Zu-lus
call them, are the "lowest of the
low," being undoubtedly cannibals and
often making a meal of their own aged
and infirm, which the Bushmen never
do.
Their habitations are holes in the
ground, rock shelters and lately a few
hovels. They have no arts or indus-tries
or even any weapons except
those obtained in exchange for ostrich
feathers, skins or ivory.
Whether they have any religious
ideas it is impossible to say, all inter-course
being restricted to barter car-ried
on in a gesture language, for no-body
has ever yet mastered their
tongue, all that is known of their lan-guage
being that it is absolutely dis-tinct
from that of both the Bushman
and the Bantu.
There are no tribes, merely little
family groups of from thirty to fifty
individuals, each of which is presided
over by a headman, whose functions
are acquired not by heredity, but by
personal qualities.
So little information is available corn
cerning the Kattea that it is impossi-ble
to say anything about their racial
affinities.—Scientific American.
H a M n f Wmwter
Absolutely
Pure
DISTINCTIVELY A CREAM OF
TARTAR BAKING POWDER
Royal does not contain an a t om
of phosphatic acid (which is
the product of bones digested
in sulphuric acid) or of a l um
(which is one-third sulphuric
acid) substances adopted for
other baking powders because
of their cheapness.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK,
OVER TSE STATE.
Prenton Long, of Easton, was cim-mitted
to jail charged with stealing a
Salvation Army collection box, con-taining
23 cents.
Nine freight cars were robbed at
West Milton, and wine, cigars and a
quanity of merchandise were taken.
John Miller of Emaus, has an orange
tree, twelve inches high, bearing twelve
specimens of the luscious fruit. He is
also the owner of a lemon tree having
lemons fourteen inches in circum-ference.
Mayor March has issued orders to the
Easton police to arrest all boys carry-ing
Flobert rifles.
William Turner, of York County,
was crushed to death at the McCall's
Ferry dam, a large mass of concrete
falling upon him.
Otto Schnable, aged 48* a tinsmith,
was found dead iu the basement of the
Mount Vernon Hotel stable, at Easton,
after "a night out."
Riley Hurl, of Port Trevorton, was
instantly killed on the Zartman Tim-ber
Company railroad, near Dornsife,
by a locomotive running over him.
The thirty camps of the Patriotic
Order Sons of America of Lancaster
County, have pledged contributions to
the Thaddeus Stevens Memorial School.
As Robert Loose and Irwin Altender-fer,
of Hamburg, were taking a spin
around town in their automobile, pre-paratory
to housing the machine, they
struck the 5-year-old daughter of George
Bond, breaking her collarbone and
otherwise injuring her.
The father's sou marrying the daugh-ter
of the father's wife, and yet neither
of the contracting parlies being directly
related with each other, constituted the
peculiar state of affairs at the wedding
of Charles Schwoyer and Miss Annie
Fink in Pottstown on Thanksgiving
day.
Jewels valued at $5000 which had
been placed in a dresser drawer by Mrs.
Jacob Siesel, wife of a wholesale liquor
dealer in Pittsburg, were stolen from her
rooms at the Beachwood Inn.
Harry Cooper, of Hummelstown, died
at Lebanon, from frightful injuries sus-tained
in an accident on the Hummels-town
Electric Railway. He misjudged
the speed of an approaching car, and
in attempting to board it was struck,
his body being hurled 90 feet. Cooper,
who is 17 years old, was returning home
from a call on his sweetheart.
While gunning on the Conewago hill,
near Lawn, Harry Oberholtzer of Mil-ton
Grove, shot a catamount which had
been chased up a tree by his dog. The
cat is a large one and is the first killed
in that section for several years.
1 We discuss the young boys who
smoke and the boys and men who
smoke cigarettes," said Mrs. S. Mc
Bride at the annual meeting of the
Young Women's Christian Temperance
Union in Philadelphia, "but what of
the women and the girls who smoke?
There are a great many of them in Phil«
adelphia, I am told, but we never at-tack
them. There is certainly nothing
more disgusting.
A Queer Marvlnse Custom.
Members of the M'jiji tribe, who live
on the Limpopo river, wear an extraor-dinary
"márriage dress." This weird
and uncomfortable looking costume is
made entirely of split reeds, fastened
together with grass, and the unhappy
bachelor who contemplates matrimony
is compelled to wear it for three solid
months before the happy event comes
off, meanwhile leading a life of strict
seclusion. What effect this extraor-dinary
custom has on the popularity
of marriage among the M'jijis is not
known, but it was only with the ut-most
difficulty that some members of
the mounted police, who encountéred
some would be Benedicts, induced them
to allow their photographs to be taken.
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The above question is often asked con-cerning
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The answer is that "Golden Medical
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and acts especially favorably in a cura-tive
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thfi-chronic or stages nf t.hocc
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cures.
Prescrilitlon is adylsefl
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lrregtiTari tiesnytflenj, tq wQjpen onTy. it
is a powerful yetTgentTy acting'lrivigfcfat-ing
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giving the formulas of both medicines and
quoting what scores of eminent med-ical
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as guides in prescribing, say of each in-gredient
entering into these medicines.
The words of praise bestowed on the
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have more weight than any amount of
non - professional testimonials, because
such men are writing for the guidance of
their medical brethren and know whereof
they speak.
Both medicines are non-alcoholic, non-secret,
and contain no harmful habit-forming
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these medicines of known composition,
any secret nostrum.
Dr. Pierce's Pellets, small, sugar-coated,
easy to take as candy, regulate and' in-vigorate
stomach, liver and bowels.