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5 ! to try and give you the best service in
• • • • • • • our line of Wearing Apparel that can
be had anywhere for the same amount
of money, suggesting the following articles:
Suits, Overcoats
Raincoats, Trousers, Knit Jackets
Sweater Coats, Underwear, Shirts, Ties
Collars, Handkerchiefs, Suspenders
Umbrellas, Gloves, Half Hose
Mufflers, Hats
and Caps
and in fact we think we are better able to give you
an idea of what we carry if you will come and make
an inspection of the line and you can depend on it
that our prices are right.
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CLOTHIER and GENTS' FURNISHER
Record Building, LITITZ, PA.
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Prices on all Winter Caps
and Gloves greatly re-duced.
This goods must
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Spring- stock, which is ar-riving
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144 NORTH QUEEN ST., LANCASTER, PA.
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$1.00 OFF SALE OF MEN'S SHOES
About 30 Pairs Men's Vici, Lace and Bluchers and
Gun Metal Button and Blucher.
$3.00 Shoes are now $2.00
$3.50 Shoes are now $2.50
$4.00 Shoes are now $3.00
Sizes 6, 6^4, S}4, 9's and io's.
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eHHS. H. FREY
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S. M. MYERS. Vice President.
JOB. T. BRENEMAN, Treasurer.
HERBERT C. MILLEK. Assistant Tr«asurer
JOHN 8. GRAYBILLi, Real Estate Officer
HON. W. V. HEN8EL, Solicitor
DIRECTORS:
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S. M. MYIEB
JOHN HEKTZLER
HON. J HAY BROWN
GRABILL B. LONG
JOHN D. SKILE8
OLIVER ROLAND M.D
JOHN A NA.UMAN
J T. BRENEMAN
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The Cat's Bridge
A STORY OF RARE POWER
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(CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK)
Behind him a will ot heated, male-volent
and inquisitive faces raised it-sell,
which one and all stared at Bole
slav as at a rare captured beast.
"I alone against all of them,"
thought he, and his chest swelled visib-ly.
"You are Cabinetmaker Hackel-berg?"
asked he, while he held the
drunkard with his eyes "You make
the coffins for the village."
The cabinetmaker slowly shook his
head, looking blankly before him.
Then he spoke in funeral tones ; "I
shall make only two coffins y e t ; one
for myself, and the other for my poor
child."
The crowd laughed furtively.
"Who else beside yourself makes
coffins in the village ?"
The people broke into tumultuous
laughter. It would prove no easy
task to get at the truth.
Hackelberg pnffed himself up
"What do you desire of me, sir? Do
you want a coffin from me? For
whom do you desire it ? For the fel-low,
for the dog, who betrayed his
fatherland? I am to make a coffin for
him, sir? Look at me, sir Am I not
horror ? That the deceased baron
has made of me"—he began to wipe
his eyes with the tatters of his satinet
coat—the villagers behind him shout-ed
in applause—"My child he took
away from me, he robbed me of my
child."
"I am of the opinion that you sent
your child to the castle," interrupted
Boleslav, but he would not permit
himself to be turned from his rigma-role.
' Under the lash he forced her to go
in the darkness of night and con-duct—
But do you think that I still
have a daughter ? No, sir; I have
cursed the woman—she is no more
flesh and blood of mine—I told her"—
"But you took the wagesof her sin,"
Boleslav was about to interrupt him,
but he bethought himself that he
would thereby admit the guilt of his
father to these wolves
"And you are free as a bird I told
her, and whoever meets you shall kill
you, I said to her, and now hetake
yourself to your gracious master—I
said to her—and he had best beware—
I said—"
At this juncture the yelling of the
people became so loud that it drowned
the voice of the undertaker. Strange
forms crowded in front ot him and
surrounded him Only his shrill, ma-licious
laughter issued from the mass
in which he had been swallowed up.
'Now then what did I foretell my
dear baron ?" asked Merkel with his
benevolent smile
Boleslav was leaning against the
back of the sofa and was looking with
clenched teeth steadily at the villagers
who were coming closer and closer.
"If one of them thinks of raising a
hand, the rest will beat me to death,"
was his thought Here is where cool
blood will tell
"Let me pass, men," he said, while
endeavoring with his hands to open
a passage for himself
And whether it was the cold, steelly
glance of his eyes, or the gleam of the
militia cross on his cap, that restrained
the maddened throng—the way was
open to him ; he entered the crowd.
At every step he expected the first
destructive blow from behind to de-scend
upon him ; for he was safe only
so far as his eye reached. Yet no—
unassailed he reached the open ,air.
The whole multitude—now made up
partly of women and children—trotted
after him
When he arrived at the gardetr of
the parsonage, he felt how a tightness
passed up from his heart to his throat
and closed his windpipe.
His last hope rested in the hands of
the pastor. Would he also turn him
away from his threshold ?
And how would he be received by
Helene ?
Would she not shrink away from
him, if she saw him in such a condi-tion,
dusty and disordered, and es-corted
by this rabble ?
And thus it happened.
A frightened hand pulled open the
glass door of the veranda. That was
she. It must be she. A light haired
tall figure, that raised her trembling
arms in remonstrance against him atid
the crowd—uttered a weak cry of ter
r-or—and vanished before Boleslav
could cast or even send a searching, ap
pealing look upon her beloved features.
White mists waved before his eyes
Half bewildered he mounted the steps
of the veranda and locked the door be-hind
him, awaiting the events that
were to come.
The villagers who besieged the ves
tibule, flattened their noses against
the glass walls to get a better view
Then the metallic voice of the
preacher within was heard. He ap-peared
in the veranda with a heavy
walking stick.
The villagers were not a little afraid
ot his discipline, and they had scarce-ly
caught sight of his brandished cane,
when they hastily left the windows
and withdrew to the garden gate.
Then he turned to Boleslav, and
measured him with a dark look from
top to toe. His eyes then rested on
the militia-cap which he held in his
hand.
"Were you in the army ?" he asked.
' Y e s "
"If I did not see the cross above the
viser, I would ask, for or against Prus-sia?"
Boleslav, whose thoughts were still
busy with the blonde figure just van-ished,
did not comprehend his mean
ing on the instant, and then he re-buked
him in sudden anger.
Still the old preacher was not the
man to be-frightened, and while their
black looks were exchanged, he cried
out •.
"Boleslav ot Schranden, am I justi
lied in this suspicion or not ? For the
sake of the cap which you are wearing,
admittance shall not be denied you.
But be as brief as possible. For a
Schranden there is no berth in this
house
Boleslav struggled for words. "My
dear sir," he stammered ; "forget for
the moment that I bear the name of
Schranden."
The old gentleman laughed bitterly
to himself. "Much asked for," he
muttered ; "much asked for."
"See nothing else in me except a
son who wishes to bury his father,
and to whom the fulfillment of that
high and holy duty is prevented by a
disreputable populace. I now appeal
to you the pastor of the church, and
ask you whether you intend to allow
such an act ot wantonness. And yet
one ventures—".
"Stop—about whom are you talk-ing?"
"About my father."
"That man has been dead these sev
en years past. Do not trouble me
with him.'1
"Parson, these are false and cowardly
equivocations "
"The old gentleman raised himself
erect. His jaws were working.
"My son," he went on, "it would
require only a word from me to turn
you over to the mob lying in wait lor
you out at the garden-gate ; but once
again, for the sake of the cap which
you wear, you shall be forgiyen. And
what I have said, I will also prove."
He walked up to one of the cabinets,
in which the church records were kept,
took down a book and opened it to a
page on which the figures, "1807,"
were marked at the top
"Read here, my son."
Boleslav read : "March 5 died John
Eberhard, Baron of Schranden, ex me-moria
hominum. extinguatur."
At the end stood three crosses.
"That is a false entry," cried Bole-slav.
"Yes, my son," replied the old man
solemnly ; "that is an open and delib-erate
misentry, With these ciosses I
buried the man seven years ago, who
in spite of his acts of violence and his
unrestrained passions had been my
friend to that time Then there came
a night in which the games of the
burning castle lighted these walls as
brightly as the day. Then besought
God's pardon for him who had set fire
to i t ; for it was set on fire ; it burned
simultaneously at four corners. From
hencetorth, thought I, the place where
the deed was perpetrated, will be
effaced from the memory of man with
the perpetrator himself. And now
my son, you present yourself and tell
me that he departed this lite just a
few days ago and was awaiting a
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Christian burial. I can't grant it, and
forsooth on account of this record,
bury nobody twice. If you report me,
I shall be condemned. That is self-evident.
Now do what you please
Bury the corpse. Show him all re
spect that you think he deserves ; but
leave me out of the proceedings.''
"This, then, is the grace, the for-giveness,
which you preach," cried
Boleslav, with tears of rage in his eyes.
The old man raised himself slowly
and dropped his hand heavily upon
his shoulder.
"For the cap,'s sake I shall also
answer as to that, although the sight
of you is repugnant to me. I would
deny to no one his good resting-place.
In all things I would be charitable,
only not with your father. For who-ever
sins against his fatherland, vio-lates
all the laws of heaven and earth,
dishonors the mother who bore him
and disgraces the children he begets.
Him one ought to drive away from all
human society, for he is like a leper.
Death and misfortune accompany him
whithersoever he goes. How great do
you suppose the guilt of your father is
and what all he made known ? The
few hundred Pomeranian soldiers who
lie buried on the banks of the Anger
I do not lay fo his charge. Tall grass
is wavering over their graves and
their ®wn parents have doubtless
ceased to grieve for them ; but come
here, my son—"
He took Boleslav's hand and led
him to the window.
Look out—what do you see at the
garden fence ? A mob of wild beasts
are there, that pace up and down with
blood thirsty cries, watching whether
their prey was coming soon to satisfy
their hunger, and who are never-theless
too cowardly to attack and
rend you, when you step down among
them. And look at me, my son. I
am put here by God to declare his love,
and I preach hatred. And all this the
misdeed of your father has made of us.
Down yonder in Schranden you will
not find a good thing; for the poison
of your father works in us and is
transmitted from generation to gen-eration,
until the Lord shall destroy
from the face of the earth the place ot
the wickedness—Amen."
Boleslav, stupefied with amazement
and horror, moved to the door without
a word.
Holding the holster with the pistols
in front of him he walked toward the
mob of villagers.
The preacher was in the right. They
yelled and mocked behind him. Horn •
icidal mania blazed from their eyes,
but no one ventured to touch him.
When he arri ved at the draw-bridge,
behind the piers ot which a woman's
form awaited him coweringly, a wild
desperate resolve took shape in his
mind.
He would secure burial tor his lather
by force of arms
Do you wish to earn another nice
lot of money?" he asked the young
woman.
She looked at him a while in doubt
and surprise, and then, as though she
just understood, violently shook her
head
"Why not?" he growled.
She commenced to tremble. "What
good will money do me, sir?" she
asked appealingly ; "they will just
take it away from me, anyhow."
•Who?"
"The people—all the people—I beg,
sir, only no money."
"¿Manifestly her mind is disordered,"
thought Boleslay.
"Besides there is enough money
here," she went on in a whisper, with
a frightened look around her. There
is money in „the cellar, a whple chest
fall, there where the wine casks are;
and there I always take as much as I
need. For myself I need nothing, sir;
at most a new waist."
"Do you wish to earn a new waist
for yourself ?"
"That I need not earn, sir. When I
make my next trip to Bockeldorf, for
my lord will have to have something
to eat, then I will bring one along."
"Will you, then, without earning
anything make a long trip for me to-night?"
"Whether I will, sir? If you only
wish it, sir."
CHAPTER V.
The following day the village of
Schranden was surprised by a visit,
which occasioned its merrymaking
residents no little disappointment.
I t was almost five o'clock in the
afternoon, when two hay-ladder wag-ons
were driven along, on the village
street, each conveying five or six pas-sengers
with rangers' coats, military
caps, and rifles suspended from their
shoulders with broad slings.
Upon the front wagon there sat in
addition a woman, who at the very
instant that the horses turned in at
the ehurch-block jumped oft with a
wild leap and ran in the direction of
the castle.
In front of the Black Eagle hotel
they made a halt.
"The mountaineers, hurrah, the
mountaineers," shouted Felix Merkel,
as he waived a foaming j ug of beer at
the window.
But the new-comers had to this
spirited welcome no other response
than a black, well-nigh hostile, silence.
Without looking up at the shouters,
they drew forth from between the lad-ders
all sorts of implements, saws,
hatchets, digging irons, and began to
unhitch the horses.
The villagers becanje sullen.
Then Carl Englebert, who acted as
leader, stepped up to the window out
ot which Felix Merkel leaned with, his
broad shoulders, gave him a military
salute and said :
"May it please you, lieutenant, we
have not come to hold a festival or
any other kind of merrymakifag— we
are burial people.''
The earthen jug fell from Felix's
hand with a crash at JJngelbert's feet.
The beer splashed up at his legs.
An uproar arose in the interior of
the inn, as if a battle was to be fought,
and the windows were defiantly shut.
Engelbert shouldered his rifle. ' 'The
wagons will proceed up the road,'' he
commanded. "Forward! march!"
The line was formed, while a group ot
natives held in awe by the rifles trotted
after them, they marched toward the
castle.
On the bridge stood Boleslav to re-ceive
them.
Engelbert gave him his hand in
silence. Still as Boleslav tried to em-brace
him, he drew back.
The latter in this excitement did not
notice it.
'I knew it that you would come,"
he stammered ; "knew well that I have
friends yet—that you would not leave
me defenseless to these wolves.''
No one answered him.
In line and limb they stood stiff and
silent as a wall, only their glances stole
timidly past him.
Engelbert was the first to speak.
"You called ; we are here, but we do
not have much time to spare. Tell us
what you have for us to do."
And in confused and incoherent words
he told them how the ignominy which
the villagers had planned to heap upon
his father had extended itself to him
the son, and what he had decided to
do with the help of his friends.
Engelbert exchanged a look of com-prehension
with his friends, and then
said :
"We have brought the necessary
tools—if you will furnish us the re-quired
lumber, we shall soon have a
coffin made'. Everything must be
ready for the move this evening."
And he bent down to examine a
charred joist which lay amid the ruins
of the stables.
'This will answer," he said ; "but
saw off the charred parts ; that will
save us the paint "
And he walked around with Boleslav
to hunt two or three joists more.
Then something bright whirred up
before them and instantly disappeared
behind the nearest wall.
Boleslav clenched his fist He had
recognized Regine.
"Pardon me," said he, "that I could
not send you a better messenger ; but
I had no one else."
Engelbert would have spoken, but it
seemed that some mysterious power
tied his tongue.
'And doubtless you also had to dress
her firsti?"
Yes,", replied Engelbert, whose lo-quaciousness
set the upper hand, "I
found her exhausted, lying in tatters
at my door, when I got up at night to
see what the dogs were barking about
She had walked the twenty-five miles
in seven hours. I would not have be-lieved
it possible before. And your
sheet of paper she held clasped in both
hands She tried to get up, but sank
back again ; and I fetched whisky,
bathed her temples, and also gave
her — "
One of the comrades who had fol-lowed
him, looked at him with aston-ishment.
He was abashed, and broke
off in the middle of the sentence.
In the following hours the people of
Schranden, who kept running in rage
and bewilderment along the bank of the
river, heard on the island's hammer-ing,
sawing and ringing, that seemed
to augur them no good.
Were they in this wise to be baffled
in their dearest plans? Meanwhile
Felix Merkel ran around in the guest-room
like a wounded bear. He remem-bered
the mountaineers well enough to
understand that they, if angered or
assailed would stop at nothing. There
would be such a shedding of blood as
the madmen yonder did not dream of,
as the inevitable result.
On the other hand—was it to be al-lowed
to the sneak who bad dared
under an assumed name to win the
confidence of his comrades and in the
same way by fraud the lieutenancy—
was such a triumph allowed him ?
The senior Merkel the while had
other cares.
He stepped out upon the porch and
called down to the multitude with his
peculiar paternal benevolence :
" As the presiding officer ot this vil-lage,
I cannot permit it that you are
using the public square for such dis-order.
Find for yourselves at once my
children, a closed room—there you can
indulge in antics as much as you
please."
(TO BE CONTINUED)
One of Col. Ball's Stories.
Col. George Ball, who was receiver
for the defunet Lititz National Bank,
was an entertaining talker when he
was at bis leisure. "The smallest draft
issued by the U. S. Government in the
business in which I am serving," he
related to a friend, "was for one cent, I
sent on the account to headquarters and
in due time the man received the draft,
payable to the amount of one cent."
He iooked at it in a puzzled way and
remarked, "What the h 1 do I want
with it." A lawyer who was within
hearing distance offered him a dollar
for it, and the offer was no sooner made
than taken up. "It is quite probable
that it was never cashed," the Colonel
added with a laugh.
Adds Heathful Qualities
to the Food
Economizes Floor,
Butter and Eggs
Horn
D 4 K t N£> VO¥/D£% \
The only baking powder J
made from Royal Grape Cream '
of Tartar i
No Alum—No Lime P h o s p h a t es
A WONDERFUL CHEST.
Contains 16,529 Separate Pieces of
Wood.
Rudy Carpenter of Warwick has
completed a chest which contains
16,529 separate pieces of inlaid wood.
The dimensions of the chest are seven-teen
inches in length, twenty inches
in width and seventeen inches in
depth. The first view of it would
naturally suggest that the design upon
it had been painted. The four sides
and the top and underside 01 the lid
contain beautiful patterns made possi
ble by thousands of little blocks of
wood in contrasting colors. The dec-orations
are peculiar, unique, but well-defined.
As you study the style your
eye will play tricks on you and in-stead
of one pattern, as you thought
at first, new combinations will present;
themselves to you like some trick-puzzle.
Some of the pieces of wood
are no larger than a pin head. Black,
white, red, yellow, brown and different
shades have been used, representing
many kinds of wood. All these
blocks have been fitted together with
such accuracy that it is hard to dis-tinguish
where they meet.
The interior arrangement of the
chest is unique. Fitting the inside is
box which you pull upward by
grasping two rings. Giving a half
turn to these rings will hold the box
in position after you have pulled it
upward. Thirteen drawers then face
you besides which there is a secret
drawer.
Mr. Carpenter is a brick layer by
occupation, and together with his
brother Abraham, they spend much of
their spare time in a little carpenter
room ot their own, making violins,
wonderfully designed clocks and many
other things in wood-work, which
few people, even if they had the abili-ty,
would have the patience to under-take.
A Puzzler.
The cork 011 a fisherman's line weighs
half an ounce. What should be the
weight of his leaden sinker so as to
cause the cork to just float? (Specific
gravity oflead beingll, and, of cork, J).
Horse Wouldn't Stand For It.
The supplement of "rats," "tresses,"
"switches," "puffs" and heavens only
knows what else for female adornment,
probably was what suggested an idea
to a Lititz man. He has a good horse
as far as ability is concerned, but its
beauty is marred by the sparse growth
of hair on the tail, which is familiarly
knows as a "rat tail." Thinking to
overcome this he attached a switch,
and the horse promptly resented it by
kicking with all its might. The owner
saw it would never do, but the greatest
trouble was when be tried to detach
the artificial appendage. Everytime
he got within encouraging distance of
the horse one or both of the rear feet
struck out like a regular Johnson up-percut.
After wasting a lot of time,
not to speak of the danger he risked,
the human mind conquered over brute
force, but the man never tried it again.
FOUND MUCH PLUNDER.
Recover Goods Claimed to Have Been
Stolen by I r a Booz.
Following the arrest of Ira Booz, of
Lancaster, who is also known as Ira
Benson, the home of Booz was searched,
at No. 502 Beaver street, and found a
lot of goods ranging from lead pencils to
dynamite. The goods found were con-veyed
to police station in a wagon. The
goods included six bottles filled with
rock powder of the kind used for blast-ing.
Some of these bottles hold more
than a quart. A half dozen other bot-tles
contained oil of the kind used in
drilling through iron. There are sever-al
small cans of powder, a box of caps
used to explode charges of powder and
dynamite and a small battery. There is
almost a full set of carpenter tools.
There are five large daggers with deer
leg handles, which are brand new, be-sides
a big bladed knife that closes.
One box contains about a gross of lead
pencils in their original packages, never
having been opened. There are many
packs of new playing cards, three cheap
watches, Elk pins and other badges,
cigar cases, games, puzzles, a dozen
new whiskey glasses, new handker-chiefs,
large bunches of dainty writing
paper and envelopes of the kind used
by ladies. Booz is about twenty years
of age and he had been suspected of
robberies before. ,
OVER THE STATE.
Many Indiana county horses are af-flicted
with a malignant mange, which
is causing the owners much uneasiness.
A large Arctic owl, known to orni-thology
as the snowy owl, was recently
killed near MifHintown by John Shirk.
•A Union town woman who sued for
divorce testified in court that her hus-band
had threatened to fill her body so
full of lead the undertaker would not
be able to lift it.
Miss Mary E. Roberts, of East Ebens-burg,
received by parcels post, from
friends in Dorcaster, England, a plum
pudding, a mince pie and a fruit cake,
the whole weighing 5 pounds 11 ounces.
Postage, TOs 6d.
Mrs. Gilbert Moore, of Oneida town-ship,
Huntingdon county, rescued three
frogs from a watersnake. One it had
wholly swallowed, the second was half
swallowed and the third was caught in
the snake's tail. All were alive.
Five weeks ago Mrs. Charles Beam,
of Berlin, broke a twig from an apple
tree in her yard aud put it in a flower
pot to support one of her house plants.
Five clusters of fragrant and beautiful
apple blossoms have opened on this
twig.
Mr?. Charles Brown, of Oil City,
leaned her arm upon a cushion, and it
picked up a needle that entered the
flesh its entire length. The doctor had
to make an incision to reach it with
forceps. At the same place Dudley
Carnahan, in his bare feet, stepped
upon the lapel of a coat in which were
four needles, all of which entered his
foot. It took "the doctor, an X-ray and
a kuife to put him right again:
Judge William E. Porter, of Law-rence
county, has a unique plan for im-proving
the roads. His plan is a jail
on wheels, that is, a place where pris-oners
can be locked up at night and
transported from place to place and em-ployed
in road-making during the day.
During the last summer he put his idea
to a test and the results were eminently
satisfactory. The prisoners graded
away a high hill on the West Pittsburg
road, near New Castle, and constructed
a cement bridge over a culvert 80 feet
long.
WITHIN THE COUNTY.
Hundreds of ducks of all varieties
flew up the Susquehanna on Sunday.
Mrs. Henry Pefler and Mrs. William
Manning, both of Mt. Joy, twin sisters,
were 78 on Saturday.
The stable of J . H. Levenight, near
Marietta, was entered and a valuable
horse stabbed and left to bleed to death.
Ground has been staked off in Eliza-bethtown
for a factory for the Lancas-ter
Scale Company, and work at build-ing
will begin as soon as the weather is
fit.
The County Commissioners have ap-pointed
Hon. Ephraim S. Hoover, of
Manheim township, a Prison inspector
of the county, to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of the late Richard V.
Regar.
Monroe W. Buch, of Penn township,
has been appointed R. F. D. carrier of
Route No. 5 from Manheim, succeeding
John A. Lehn, who resigned several
week ago. Mr. Buch has been substi-tute
carrier on Route No. 1 for some
time.
I t has been fully decided, according
to general rumor, that Governor Stuart
is going to appoint Horace L. Halde-man
of Marietta, as state treasurer, to
serve from the first Monday in May in
place of Treasurer-elect Stober, who
died.
At two public sales held at the White
Horse hotel in Salisbury township, on
Tuesday, $20,000 worth of liye stock
was disposed of. TheChurchtown band
furnished music ; there was a big crowd
and the sales were followed' by a fox
chase.
Walter B. (louder, son of Mr. and
Mrs. B. B. Gonder, of Strasburg, left
this week for the Philippine Islands to
be gone three years. He will go by
way of San Francisco and return by
the Suez canal, thus going around the
world. His business is to investigate
and report to the government upon
sugar producing crops and soils adapt-ed
to sugar production.
Growing wheat shows little winter
injury so far. The plant got a poor
start in the fall and the fields were cov-ered
with ice for several weeks, creat-ing
the fear that much of it would be
smothered. So far as can be seen little
of that has taken place except possibly
in spots. But the critical time of alter-nate
freezing and thawing, heaving of
the ground and breaking of roots is yet
to come and the prospects, while not
distinctly bad, are none too promising.