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VOL. XXXIII. LITITZ, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 14,1910. NO. 44
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I The Season is here for Men's, Youths'
I and Boys' Summer Wear, it s n o t b o a s t i n g,
• it's simply bringing to you the facts, when we tell you that
we are here to back up every word we say in our line of
wearing apparel. Our line of
MADE TO ORDER
or READY-MADE Clothes
in price will bear competition. Our line of Hats are the
latest snappy styles; the straws are now on sale from 10
cents to $ 8 . 0 0 , either soft or stiff. Our line of Shirts in
white or colored pleated fronts are all right. Neck wear
in the four-in-hands either in silk or wash ties are swell.
Belts, Suspenders
Underwear in Athletic Style,
Porous Knit and French Baihriggan.
Hosiery in the Fancy Colors
Pants and Overalls
Working Shirts, Junipers, white, plain blue,
or blue and white stripe, in fact a full line of
Men's Wearing Apparel.
Umbrellas, in size from 26 to 34 inch, in price
from 60 cents to $4.00; you may need one any day
OPEN EVERY EVENING
W. H. BUCH
CLOTHIER and GENTS' FURNISHER
Record Building, LITITZ, PA.
Liquid
Boro=Mentholine
Compound
A non-poisonous and efficacious Antisep-tic
and Germicide for Internal a
and External Use
UNEQUALLED AS A MOUTH WASH
A tablespooaful to a glass of
water in cleaning the teeth will
destroy Bacteria,prevent Snpper-a
t i o n and formation of Pus-Cav-ities,
preserve perfect cleanliness
and checks decay.
As a Spray or Douche in Ca-t
a r r h a l Affections it is invalu-able.
It is useful in all condi-tions
where an antiseptic and
germicide is indicated.
LEWIS N. MOYER, P. D.
Pharmacist
Main Street, Lititz
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Straw Hats
We Have More Styles in Straws and
Panamas than You'll Find Anywhere.
All the New Shapes and Shades in
Summer Weight Soft and Stiff Hats
WINGERT & HAAS
144 N. Queen St. LANCASTER, PA.
Remodelling Sale
IJNMATCllABLE PRICES ON fiOOD SHOES!
As we must make room for the carpenters who will soon remodel our Store, en-larging
the Window Space, take the Hall Way into our Men's department and run
a stairway in the store to second floor, enabling us to use the whole building for our
steadily increasing trade, we have decided on a Big Cut on odd lots of shoes and
lots of which we have too many for this time of the year. In this sale you will find
only dependable shoes not a pair of damaged shoes or objects having been bought
for this sale. Don't miss this opportunity to save money.
WE GIVE GREEN STAMPS
©HAS. H. FREY
THE SHOE MAN
3 and 5 East King St. = = Lancaster, Pa.
T h e N e w P h i l a d e l p h i a S t o re
Our Exhibit of New Goods
Is an Interesting Sight
SUITS
A new line of good styles
in men's and boys' S u i t s j u st
received from Philadelphia
STRAW HATS
All the latest styles and
shapes for mer. and youths.
Really a fine collection.
Read This and Save Money
This is our remarkable special offer. Men's 50c
Shirts reduced to 29c. Men's Overalls, good and
strong; selling price 60c, cut to 45c.
49 NORTH
BROAD ST. JOSEPH DREIFUS LITITZ.
P E N N A ,
r BREAD Q U A L I TY
WE EM PTJOY expert bakers
and use t h e highest quality
of m a t e r i a l . Our goods can be de-pended
upon to be good.
W. D. FICHTHORN
Branch Rtore Formerly Bow-
Rudy's Meat
Market
man's Bakery
M. M. SOUDERS
ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR
LITITZ, PA.
DYNAMOS, MOTORS, LAMPS, WIRES
ELECTRIC LIGHT SUPPLIES,
FIXTURES, PORTABLES, BEADED
FRINGE, SHADES, BELLS,
BATTERIES, &c.
Wiring Promptly and Carefully Done
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H0ME=MADE CANDIES,
For goodness sake and youi
c h i l d r e n ' s sake buy home-made
candies at Bollinger's store. We
are the only coniectionery in
town t h a t makes i t s own candy.
Oysters served in all styles;
fries for p a r t i e s a specialty.
Have you tried our ice c r e am ?
W. H. Bollinger
E a s t M a i n S t r e e t , Lititz
Send us a $1.00 and
we will mail you
12 pair men's half
hose prepaid.
We ship direct to you Irom
t h e factory at Lititz and you
save t h e storekeeper's profit.
A No. 1 hose, not seconds, nor
made u p specially for mail orders
—but are the kind turned out
by us for years.
Being reinforced at toe and
heel—the places a s t o c k i n g will
go into holes the quickest —
makes t h em long-wearing. They
look good and feel soft on the
ieet.
You can pick out an assort-ment
of the following colors :
BLACK, TAN, GRAY, WINE,
NAVY, LAVENDER
Sizes q1/2 to i i yi
Fulton Hosiery Mills
LITITZ, PENNA.
6oal
Lumber
©erneut
Tobacco Shooks
W. H. Muth & Co.
Lititz, Pa.
Up to the Hour
The old and new, if good, are
in this store. An article
new and good, just put
i7n1t1o6 o u^r s¡tofceki, gise rsoil- Irenton-- 7-Jewel Watch
One grade of movement
only
$5, $7 and $9
according to cases
Call and look this
and other new things.
Tf)e Stooy H e a rt
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| A Fairy Tale of the Black Forest
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Translated from the German of William Hauff by A.S.B
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Remed ies a^Ton ics
FOR
Dpon ui i llttrryv , HHoogrss esE,Ctca ttle
MANUFACTURED BY THE
CONTINENTAL FOOD CO.
Numerous testimonals in this
section. Saved an entire flock of
chickens in one instance. Sold by
Chick Peed
for Sale. John Schleith
The traveler in Swabia does well to
t a k e a look at the Black F o r e s t ; not
so much on account of the tiees, al-though
such immense reaches of splen-didly
tall pines are not everywhere to
be seen, but on account of the people
who difler s i n g u l a r l y from t h o s e round
about them. They are uncommonly
tall, broad shouldered, strong limbed,
and it seems as if the invigorating
odor which i s emitted i n t h e morning
by t h e pines had imparted to them a
freer breath, a clearer eye and a stead-ier,
even if a rougher, courage t h a n to
t h e i n h a b i t a n t s of t h e valleys and low-lands.
And net along in bearing and
growth, but also i n manners and cus-toms,
t h e y are widely distinguished
from those dwelling outside of the
forest. Those on t h e Baden side of t he
Black Forest dress themselves in the
most beautiful garments. The men
are full-bearded, using no razor on
their faces ; a n d t h e i r very t i g h t knee-trousers,
black waist-coat and red
stockings lend t h em a somewhat odd
but serious and noble appearance.
The people are generally engaged in
t h e manufacture of glassware ; but
they also make watches and peddle
t h em around in m a n y lands.
On t h e opposite side of the forest
dwells another branch of the same
race ; but t h e employments of these
people have caused t h em to differ in
manners and customs from t h e glass-manufacturers.
They trade in their
timber. They fell and cut their pine
trees, and float t h em down t h e Nagold
to t h e Neckar and Rhine, clear down
to Holland ; and at the seaside one
recognizes the Black Foresters and
their l o n g rafts. They make a s t o p at
every c i t y located on t h e banks oi the
s t r e am to give t h e people an opportu-n
i t y to buy their joists and boards
but their longest and heaviest beams
t h e y sell to the mynheers for ship-building.
These people t h u s are accustomed to
rough, r o v i n g life. Their j o y is to
descend the river on their lumber;
t h e i r grief, to walk back on t h e bank.
Hence also their garb differs greatly
from t h a t of the glass makers on the
other side of the forest. They wear
waistcoats of black linen, green sus-penders
as broad as a man's hand,
trousers of black leather, with a poc-ket
rule prejucting from t h e pocket as
a badge of honor ; but their pride and
j o y are t h e i r boots, probably t h e larg-est
to be seen anywhere in t h e world,
for t h e y can be drawn u p a foot above
t h e knee, and the rafters can wade
with t h em in t h r e e feet of water with-out
g e t t i n g wet feet.
But a short while ago the inhabi-t
a n t s of t h e forest believed in wood-prites
and only very recently could
hey be reasoned out of those super-t
i t i o u s notions. And it is remark-ihle,
too, that t h e wood-sprites, which
according to the story, dwell in the
Black Forest, adopted the peculiar
arb of their locality. Thus they as-sured
me t h a t t h e Little Glass man, a
ood fairy, three and a half feet high,
never appeared otherwise than in a
peaked hat with a wide brim, with
waistcoat, bloomers and red stockings.
But Dutch Mike, who had his abode
on t h e other side of t h e forest, is rep-resented
as a very tall, broad shoulder-ed
fellow in t h e garb of a raftsman,
and several, who saw him, declare
t h a t they would not wish to pay for
t h e calves whose skins would be re-quired
to make his boots. They said
that an ordinary man could stand in
t h em u p to his neck, and t h a t was no
exaggeration.
With these wood sprites, i t is said,
a y o u n g Black Forester once upon a
t i m e had some adventures, which I
will relate.
There lived in the Black Forest a
widow, Barbara Munk. Her husband
had been a charcoalburner, and after
his death she held her sixteen year-old
son t o t h e same vocation.
Young Peter Munk, a tall youth,
was satisfied, as he had seen nothing
else in his father, t o sit a whole week
over the smoking pit, or black and
sooty, an object of abhorrence to the
people, t o drive to t h e villages to sell
h i s charcoal. But a collier has much
leisure to reflect on himself and others
and when Peter Munk sat at his pit,
t h e gloomy trees and the deep silence
of t h e wood sometimes moved him to
tears and vague longing. Something
saddened him, something vexed him,
he k n ew not what. Finally he realized
what vexed him, and t h a t was his con-d
i t i o n . "A black, lonely charcoal-b
u r n e r , " he mused. "It is a wretched
life. How respected are the glass-workers,
t h e watch-makers, and even
t h e musicians of a Sunday evening !
And if Peter Munk, washed and
dressed, appears in his f a t h e r ' s Sun-day
waist-coat with t h e silver buttons
and in brand-new red stockings, and
t h e n it someone follows h im and con-siders
: who can t h i s y o u t h be ? prais-i
n g inwardly the stockings and my
s t a t e l y walk—behold, when he passes
me and docks around, he is sure to
s a y : Oh, it is only charcoal munk-p
e t e r . ' '
Likewise the rafters on the other
side were an object of envy to him
When those forest g i a n t s came over
in fine clothes, wearing half a hundred
weight of silver in buckles, buttons
and chains ; when t h e y watched the
dancing with spread-out legs and im
pressive faces, swearing in Dutch and
smoking with long stemmed pipes
l i k e t h e most d i s t i n g u i s h e d Mynheers,
then he looked upon such a rafter as
t h e most perfect picture of a happy
man. If these h a p p y men then reach
ed into their pockets and produced
h a n d f u l s of great big dollars and diced
for half shillings, up to ten florins, he
wellnigh lost his senses, and he crept
back sadly to his h u t ; for on many a
holiday evening he had seen one or
t h e other of these lumber k i n g s lose
more t h a n his father earned in a whole
year.
There were three men in particular
of whom he did not know which one
to marvel at most. One was a big,
s t o u t man, with a red face, and he
was regarded t h e richest man in the
vicinity. They called h im F a t Ezek-iel.
He made two t r i p s every year to
Amsterdam with lumber, and had the
good fortune to sell it for so much
more t h a n others, t h a t he could drive
home in s t a t e while t h e y went on foot.
Another was t h e tallest and t h i n n e st
an in t h e whole forest, and he was
called Tall Slyfox. Him Peter envied
on account of h i s exceptional cunning.
He contradicted the most eminent
people, took u p as much room as four
stout persons, no matter how crowded
t h e bar-room was ; for he either plant-ed
both elbows on the table or drew
up on t h e bench one of his l o n g legs ;
still nobody dared to interfere with
him, since he possessed u n t o l d wealth.
The t h i r d was a handsome young
man who was t h e best dancer far and
wide and consequently had been
dubbed, "Dance-Floor K i n g . " He
had been poor and served a rich lum-ber*
dealer. Then suddenly he became
very rich. Some said he had found a
pot full of money under a pine tree,
while others contended t h a t by means
of the s p i k e pole with which raftsmen
occasionally spear fish, he had fished
u p a package of gold pieces, and that
t h e package was a part of the great
Niebelungen Hoard which was buried
near Bingen ; in a word, he had sud-denly
become r i c h and was respected
by young and old as a prince.
Peter often thought of these three
men when he sat alone in the pine
wood. It is t r u e each of t h em had a
great fault which made h im odious to
t h e people; it was their infernal
stinginess, their hardheartedness to-ward
creditors and poor people; for
t h e Black Foresters are a good natured
people But one knows how it is in
such cases. If they were hated on ac-count
of their averice, t h e y were re-spected
for their wealth; for who
could throw away the dollars like
ihem as if one could shake money
from t h e pines ?
This will not do any more," one
day remarked Peter sorrowfully to
h i m s e l f ; for t h e day before had been
Friday, and all t h e people a t t h e hotel;
if I do not soon strike something
better, I shall do myself harm, if I
only were as rich as fat Ezekiel, or so
c u n n i n g and powerful as t h e tall Sly-,
fox, or so famous as the Dancefloor-king,
and could throw the dollars at
t h e musicians like pennies. Wonder
where t h e fellow got t h e money ? "
He t h o u g h t of all kinds of ways in
which one might get money, but none
appealed to him. Finally t h e popular
fairy t a l e also occurred to him, of peo-ple
who long before had become rich
t h r o u g h Dutch Mike or the little
Glass Man. During the lifetime of
h i s father other poor people often
came to visit them, and then the con
versaticn often was about rich people
and how they had become rich ; and
many a time the little Glass Man
played a p a r t ; yes, it he remembered
r i g h t l y , he could recall almost the
whole of t h e l i t t l e stanza, which one
would have to repeat at t h e pine tree
in t h e middle of t h e forest, if he was
to appear.
I t began :
Keeper of t h e pine-tree wood,
Very old and k i n d and good,
Yours t h e land on which I stand—
But no matter how hard he taxed
h i s memory, he could not recall any
more of t h e stanza. He often con-sidered
whether he ought not to ask
t h i s or t h a t old man, what t h e rhyme
was ; but a certain disinclination to
reveal his t h o u g h t deterred him. Be-sides
he felt convinced that the tale
of the l i t t l e Glass Man was not well
known and but few k n ew t h e stanza ;
for there were not m a n y rich people in
t h e forest, and—why had not his
father and t h e poor people t r i ed their
luck ?
He finally got his mother on one oc-casion
to speak about the l i t t l e Glass
Man, and she told him what he al-ready
knew, could only recall t h e first
lines of the stanza, and told h im at
last that only people born on a Sun
day between eleven and two o'clock
could interview t h e sprite. He him-self
would be qualified, s h e added if
he only knew t h e stanza, for he was
born at noon on a Sunday.
When Peter heard t h a t , he was near
ly beside himself with j o y and desire
t o enter upon the adventure. It
seemed to h im sufficient to know
part of t h e stanza and to be born on
| S u n d a y to have t h e l i t t l e Glass Man
1 appear t o him.
Consequently one daj' when he had
sold his charcoal, he did not l i g h t a
fresh pit, but put on his f a t h e r ' s dress
coat and new red stockings, put his
Sunday hat on his head, took his five
foot black-thorn cane in his hand, and
took leave ot his mother : " I must go
t o the enrollment office in the city,
for we shall soon have to draw lots
who is to serve in the army, and I
wish to remind t h e official once more
t h a t you are a widow and I am your
only s o n ."
4 H i s mother approved of his plan
but he turned his steps to the pine
wood.
The pine wood is located at the top
of t h e Black Forest, and at t h a t time
t h e r e was no village within a radius
of s i x miles, ay, not even a hut ; for
t h e s u p e r s t i t i o u s people considered it
dangerous there. They were also
averse t o c u t t i n g wood within that re-serve,
however tall and magnificent
the pines were for often the axes had
slipped from t h e helves for t h e wood-choppers
and cut their feet when they
worked there, or t h e trees had fallen
suddenly, pulling the men down and
i n j u r i n g , or even killing, them. More-over
they could only use the finest
trees t h e r e for firewood ; for t h e r a f t e rs
would never t a k e a bole from t h e pine
t h i c k e t i n t o a r a f t , for t h e s a y i n g was
t h a t both man and timber would come
to h a rm if they were together in the
water.
That was the reason that the trees
in the pine wood stood so close togeth-er
and were so tall t h a t even in broad
day-light the gloom there was like
n i g h t , and Peter Munk felt quite
creepy as he passed along ; for he
heard no noise, no ax, no foot-fall ex-cept
h i s own. Even the birds seemed
t o s h u n t h e pine gloom.
Peter had now come to t h e highest
spot of the pine wood and faced a
pine of colossal girth, for which a
Dutch ship-owner would instantly
have paid many hundred florins.
Here," he reflected, " t h e Treasure
keeper in all probability dwells,"
raised his Sunday hat and bowed pro-foundly
to t h e tree, cleared his throat
and said : "I wish you a very good
evening, Mr. Glassman." But no
answer came and every-thing was
silent as before. "I may have to re-peat
the verse for a l l , " he concluded
and mumbled :
Keeper of t h e green pine wood,
You are old, and kind, and good,
Yours the land on which I stand—
While he was repeating the words,
he perceived to his great terror a very
peculiar little creature peeping out
f r om behind t h e thick pine. He felt
as if he had seen the Glassman, as
t h e y had described him—a black
waistcoat, the l i t t l e red stockings, the
l i t t l e hat, e v e r y t h i n g tallied, even the
pale but shapely and shrewd little
face, of which they told, he believed
he had seen. But, alas, as quickly as
it had peeped out, t h e little Glass Man,
so q u i c k l y it also vanished again.
"Mr. Glassman," Peter called after
l i t t l e hesitation, "be kind enough
not to t r y to fool me—Mr. Glassman,
if you imagine that I did not see you,
you deceived y o u r s e l f ; I s aw you look
out behind t h e t r e e "
Still no answer ; only at one t i m e he
t h o u g h t he heard a low, hoarse gig-gling.
Finally his impatience got the
better of his fear which h i t h e r t o had
restrained him.
"Wait, you l i t t l e fellow," he cried ;
" I shall soon have y o u " ; j u m p e d be
hind the tree ; but no keeper of the
green pine wood was there, and noth-i
n g save a small, s p r i g h t l y squirrel
which raced u p t h e tree.
Peter shook his head. He realized
t h a t he had carried his conjuration on-ly
to a certain point, and that he pos-sibly
lacked JIO more than a single
line to complete the stanza to draw
out t h e l i t t l e Glass Man from his re-treat.
He thought and t h o u g h t , but
to no purpose. The squirrel showed
itself at t h e lowest limbs of t h e pine,
and seemed to encourage or to mock
him. He made his toilet, curled his
beautiful tail, looked at him with
knowing eyes ; until finally Peter was
almost afraid to remain alone with the
creature ; for at one time the squirrel
seemed to have a human head with a
pointed hat, and then it was q u i t e like
any other squirrel, except that on its
hind legs it wore red stockings and
black shoes. In a word, it was a j o l ly
b e a s t ; nevertheless Peter shuddered,
for he fancied that all was not as it
should be.
Peter went away more rapidly than
he had come. The gloom of t h e pine
wood seemed to become deeper and
deeper, the trees became denser and
denser, and he began to shiver with
fear, so that he r a n at his top speed ;
and only when he heard dogs barking
at some distance and soon thereafter
saw smoke c u r l i n g upward from a h ut
could he compose himself. But when
he approached the hut and saw the
garb of the people, he realized that
driven by fear, h e had t a k e n t h e wrong
direction and had come to t h e r a f t s -
men instead ot to t h e glass-makers.
The people who lived in the hut
were woodschoppers, an old man, his
son, t h e master of t h e house, and sev-eral
g r o w n - u p children They kindly
received Peter, who asked to stay all
n i g h t , without inquiring about his
name or residence, gave him apple-j
a c k to d r i n k and i n t h e evening a fat
h e a t h cock, the best eating of the
Black Forest, was set before h im for
supper.
( TO BE CONTINUED )
f After carefully look-ing
through the dif-ferent
factories and
mills employing fe-male
help, I must
say the shirt factor-ies
are least injurious
to the health.—Dr.
Sachs, New York.
Girls
Wanted
NO DUST
NO FUZZ
NO DIRT
NO SMELL
NO OIL
NO PRISON
R u l e s & L a w s
Are you looking for light, pleasant, steady and well-paying
work, in an up-to-date and well-managed factory, where you
will be courteously treated ! Prices as good and better as are
paid for similar work. We have added new machines and
are in need of more girls
above 14 years of age.
Will teach you free and
p a y w h i l e l e a r n i n g.
Call and speak it over
or write Superintendent
David L Blumberg
SHIRT FACTORY
LITITZ = = - PA.
Those residing nearer to Rothsville can apply at firm's factory at that place.
HomeWork
• If you have spare
time and wish to add
to t h e family income
we can furnish you
with light, pleasant
& well-paying home
work. Apply at the
Shirt Factory, Lititz
The Lititz shirt fac-tory
is here to stay.
Good wages go hand
in-hand with steady
work. The manage-ment
has done every-thing
it has promised
as the employees will
tell you.
WITHIN THE COUNTY.
P, E . Shirk, of Blue Ball, rigged up a
mower operated by a gasoline traction
engine and cut eight acres. It is re-ported
to have worked well.
On the f a rm of Elias B. Esbenshade,
m Strasburg township, twenty-four
four-horse loads of hay, estimated at
50 toDS, were taken from a ten acre
field.
Charles W. Espenshade, of N ew Hol-land,
is not afraid to plant peach trees.
This week he bought for fall planting
250 trees from W. H . Benson, Salesman
for Hoopes Bros. & Thomas.
Corn is doing well. Its critical time,
t h e period of shooting to tassel and
silk—has not yet arrived, however, and
t h e crop will depend upon whether it
gets sufficient moisture at t h a t time.
J . Gr. Reist is now c u t t i n g his second
crop of alfalfa clover on hia f a rm near
Rheems. It is j u s t four weeks since he
cut the first crop. The first cutting
stood SO inches and the second 28
inches, making 58 inches of grass.
Mr. Reist expects to cut hia third crop
from this same field six weeks hence.
Mayor McClain, in a message to
Councils at Lancaster, calls t h e present
City Hall "a disgrace, unsightly and
u n s a n i t a r y . " He recommends the
erection of a suitable building. The
city will also borrow money for paving
and $75,000 to build a d am at the water
works.
J . B. Witwer, of E p b r a t a , formerly
proprietor of the Bowmansville hotel,
has bought the Lancaster County
House, at Adamstowu.
J o h n B. Hershey, of P e n n township,
has experiemented and mixed oats un-til
he has a new variety which is
stronger in t h e straw and larger in the
head than any in the neighborhood.
He has oamed it the "single-tinker."
There will be some tall stories of
yields of oats when the crop is harvest-ed
and threshed. Some stands over
six feet in height and on individual
heads 100 grains has been counted.
There will probably be yields close to
100 bushels to t h e acre, with the aver-age
away above fifty.
Columbia can boast of a five-genera-tion
group, and in it the great-grand-mother
is but 54 years old, and the
grandfather is only 39. Mrs. Lydia
Doinky, 78 years old, is t h e great-great-grandmother,
and Annie Steckley, 16
months old, t h e fifth-generation baby.
Fifty Thousand Turtles.
F i f t y thousand live diamondback
turtles were shipped from New Orleans
recently in a tank car to New York.
B. M. Wichens, who operates one of
largest turtle-breeding plants in the
world in Jefferson Parish, across the
river from New Orleans, filled the taDk
car with filtered cistern water and put
in the necessary food to supply the
creatures during the trip. To fill the
large order in so short a time, it was
found necessary to resort to, artificial
incubation, 200,000 eggs being put into
warm water for the purpose. Most of
the turtles are from t h r e e to six mouths
old, the age at which they are most
desirable. Each year the demand for
se% food seems to increase, u n t i l that
business has grown to enormous pro-portions,
especially in t h e civilized por-tions
of the world.—The Christian
Herald.
OVER THE STATE.
Charles H. Burns, a West Chester
restaurateur, has hatched out a lot of
little s n a p p i n g turtles from eggs taken
from a large t u r t l e and placed in a box
of sand in the sunlight.
Oil is to be used on t h e State road in
Smithfield township,Huntingdon coun-ty.
This will keep down the dust and
will preserve t h e road. In t h e process
t h e oil is poured on t h e road and a layer
of fine limestone screening is rolled i n to
it. Porter township may follow suit.
If it does, there will be a continuous
stretch for six miles of oiled road be-tween
Alexandria and Huntingdon.
To build a five-room house in seven
hours was the feat accomplished by
Joseph P. Breneman, who is erecting
the new armory at Harrisburg. Mr.
Breneman and some of his friends own
an island in t h e Susquehanna river near
Washington borough, a n d they are con-verting
it into a private pleasure resort.
A few days ago Contractor Breneman
sent a force of forty men to the island
with the necessary lumber and in less
seven hours the structure, 18 by 26 feet,
with an annex 10 by 12 feet, was ready
for occupancy.
York county farmers are greatly an-noyed
by an insect which resembles a
mosquito. One farmer, who was plow-ing,
was c o m p l i e d to quit work on ac-count
of the bugs stiugiug'uimseif and
horses. Berrypickers are compelled to
protect their faces and hands by a
heavy covering to avoid the vicious
attacks of the new winged terror, the
stinging of which is more painful than
t h a t of a mosquito.
Both South Bethlehem and Bethle-hem
are to have public buildings.
Postmaster G. Will Reigel, of Bethle-hem,
and Postmaster H . W. Thatcher,
ot South Bethlehem, received word
from t h e Treasury Department, author-izing
the purchase of sites. An appro-priation
bill passed provides for t h e ex-penditure
of $20,000 in each town for
t h e land.
Columbia county furnishes wagons,
as well as missionaries, for Africa. Ed-ward
Buck, of Millville, has j u s t com-pleted
a wagon which he has shipped
to Kongo, Africa. Burt YouDg, of
Unity ville, has been engaged there "for
a year or two as a missionary and is
home on a visit. He needed a hand
wagon which was strong enough to
carry several hundred pounds, a n d had
Mr. Buck make h im one. The wheels
are buggy wheels cut down to about 20
inches, a n d otherwise it is made along
lines of the Millville f a rm wagons.
Sixty buildings destroyed by fire and
t h i r t y families rendered homeless by
t h e explosion of a fire cracker thrown
among the s t r aw in a barn was the sad
and costly result on t h e F o u r t h in Ben-ton,
Columbia county. The business
and resident portion of t h e town were
reduced to ashes, e n t a i l i n g a loss of prob-ably
$300,000.
Chickens Must Have Pure Water.
An audience of 100 chicken fanciers
and farmers heard professor M. E Jaffa,
of t h e University < f California, lecture
on poultry raising Jaffa declared adobe
soil the very worst for chicken raising,
and added that those using such land
must supply grit for their chickens in
order to be successful. He also advised
some form of lime. Alfalfa, he says,
does not contain enough lime.
J a f f a laid particular stress upon the
necessity of supplying chickens with
fresh water. "Any water unfit for hu-man
consumption is not good for fowls,"
he declared. "Any drinking fountain
unfit for use as a cooking utensil be-cause
of filth is unfit for chickens. If
these two rules are followed, disease
will not exist among chickens."
New Industrial School.
Preparations are being completed for
the Hershey I n d u s t r i a l School, at Her-shey,
Dauphin county, next September.
This school, which was recently founded
by M. S. Hershey. t h e chocolate manu-facturer,
will be a manual t r a i n i n g and
agricultural institution and only boys
will be admitted from Dauphin, Lan-caster
and Lebanon counties. The
school in m a n y respects will be similar to
Girard College at Philadelphia. All pu-pils
must be orphans a n d one of t h e re-quisites
will be a perfect physical con»
dition.
Mr. Hershey who is now in Europe,
will complete the arrangements for
the opening of the school, after t h e re-t
u r n to Hershey. Meanwhile, the af-fairs
of the new school are being looked
after by the trustees, who are the di-rectors
of the Hershey Trust Company,
George E. Copenhaver, formerly of
Mifflin county, who is t h e superintend-ent
of the farms for Mr. Hershey, will
be the superintendent of t h e new school
and a matron will s h o r t ly be engaged.
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