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are agents for CROCKER'S HONEST PHOS-PHATE,
one of the best fertilizers i n the
market for tobacco and wheat.
Prices Reasonable In Everything we
sell. 16mar-ly
RS. DECK was troubled about
many things. She craved the
newest fashion in sleeves, not
only ior herself, but for her little girls,
and wanted to have every sort of dish
and silver appliance fancy has invent-ed
to clutter the table and enrich the
shopkeepers. She belonged to two
missionary societies, and to the musical
and literary clubs, and she delighted
in giving dainty afternoon teas and
little dinners. Mr. Deck often said,
with smiling pride, there was nothing
slow about Sally, and then he would
give an odd little sigh as if he uncon-sciously
regretted his Sally's ability to
keep up with life's procession. But
no one noted that sigh, unless it was
little Tommy, whose quick ears and
sharp eyes noticed everything.
Tommy was so often called an awful
boy, it is probable he had his faults.
To sail on a mud puddle on a bobbing
bit of board, he would scour the little
city over, and if there was a ticklish
job of tree climbing necessary to the
rescue of some fellow's kite, Tommy
was always the boy to undertake it.
He would tuck nails in the pockets of
his Sunday clothes, and drive them in-to
impossible places with the potato-masher,
if no other hammer was avail-able,
and the times he had flooded the
house from the bathroom, and giyen
himself the croup and twisted his
ankles skating, could not be counted.
But Tommy never told lies. He never
even told tiny fibs when by so doing
he could have saved himself very un-pleasant
punishment. Tommy's eyes
were big, and the sort of gray that
often looked black. His hair was
brown and as thick on his head as it
could be without being solid, and over
his nose was a thick sprinkle of
freckles. The little boys all liked
Tommy, and so did the cats and dogs,
and so did Miss Bramhall, his teacher,
though he was stupid in number work.
But his sisters usually spoke of him as
little plague,' and bis mamma,
without being aware of it, felt him to
be a great hindrance to everything she
wanted to do. If she was practising a
sonata, he would break in upon the
adagio by beginning to sing "After
the Ball" to the best of his ability.
He had no voice whatever. Or, he
would, beset by some demon of unrest,
steal to the stairway and take the op-portunity
to slide down the baluster
rail, and leave upon it etchings drawn
by his buttons. If she were studying
a page of Browning, or trying to write
an essay upon art, it did seem as if
Tommy always chose the moment that
would disturb her most to play wild
Indian with a select party of friends,
just under her window. So it fell out
that by degrees Tommy fell more and
more to the charge of Mollie, the
nurse, and consoled himself when in
trouble by visiting the Tuckers, who
lived just around the corner in a brown
house. Mrs. Tucker somehow kept
bread in the mouths of her brood of
six by washing and what she called
" days' work." At night they gather-ed
about her and the one lamp, and in
all Shoreleigh there was not a happier
group. She was busy at something al-ways,
patching usually, but it was
wonderful the amount of work she
could get through with swarmed upon
by six pairs of arms, and talked to by
six eager tongues.
The Literary Club was going to
hold its annual banquet at Mrs. Deck's,
and that lady determined to make the
occasion one long to be remembered.
" There may be costlier ones by and
by, when Shoreleigh is a great city,:
she told Mr. Deck, " but there shall
not be a prettier one."
" Well," assented Mr. Deck, " so it
don't cost too dear, Sally, I've nothing
to say. I do not mean in dollars, for
you are always sensible about spend-ing
them, but yourself. You spend
yourself too lavishly sometimes." Mrs.
Deck only laughed at this, and went
off to the florist's and spent the whole
morning deciding whether she would
have roses or chrysanthemums for de-coration.
Chrysanthemums is newer, mum,"
said Mr. Higgs, rubbing his hands to-gether
so they rustled. "An' you gits
great variety. Take this 'ere white.
Looks like a big dahlia, an' this 'ere
white again are like a mep o' 'air a
droppin' back from a gal's face, an
this 'ere one again is piled up like £
lot o' thin-sliced cabbage, an' this one
again are like a sunflower for its
shapes, an' pink an' white of orange,
or—then again all lavender pink or
all gold color is 'andsome. Hoses ain't
what you can call old, but they ain't
no ways new, though I ain't one as is
too ready to force my opinion. Ladies
knows what they has and what they
wants."
While Mrs. Deck listened to Mr.
Higgs, Tommy was busy far away sail-ing
a mud puddle lake with Harry
Tucker, for it was Saturday, and when
he went home Mollie was too busy
finishing her new dress to note that
his feet and legs were wet. It ached
in Tommy's head the next morning
when he got up, but he did not think
to tell any one about it. His mamma
had been too busy thinking of her
part in the coming entertainment to
ask him if he had learned his Sunday-school
lesson. He had an old-fashion-ed
teacher, had Tommy, and had to
commit six verses to memory each
week. For quiet he retired, behind
the curtains in the bow window and
no one thought of the redness of his
face when he came out. But when at
dinner he ate little of his chicken, and
said he was too .sleepy to wait for his
pie, his father discovered that Tommy
was a sick boy, and sent off for Dr.
Sanders.
" Is it something contagious ? Will
I have to give up having the banquet
here?" asked Mrs. Deck, when, the
doctor had felt of Tommy's pulse and
looked at his tongue and his breast.
The symptoms are rather obscure
just now," said the doctor, wbo neyer
told anything of which he did not feel
very sure. " There's a good deal of
scarlet fever about and tneasels, and
I'm bound to say there's small pos
over in Bagdad."
Mrs. Deck threw up her hands, ex-claiming
: '' Small-pox!"
" Yes, but I suppose he has not been
over in that region. It may be simply
a slight stomach trouble. Children,
especially of a nervous, sanguine tem-perament,
are liable to iever for slight
causes."
" Have you been over to Bagdad ?"
demanded Mr. Deck of Tommy.
Yes, sir," replied Tommy, unfalter-ingly.
"I went yesterday morning
with Harry Tucker. We wanted to
see the thing old Uncle Lijah Blake's
made. It's a man sawing wood, and
goes by wind like a paper windmill.
Uncle Lijah said he'd whittle me one
for two nickels."
"Bless my soul!" exclaimed the
doctor. Then he looked at Tommy's
vaccination spot.
It never took good, you know,"
said Tommy's mamma. " The girls'
were all right, but Tommy's was con-trary."
Now, if any one can have the heart
to hold a rose over a hot fire and see
it quickly wilt and shrivel, he can
have some idea of what befell Tommy
Deck within the next week. He did
not have the small-pox, but something
nearly as bad, scarlet fever, and alter
that first day he knew no one. He
clung, however, closely to his mother,
whom he took to be Mrs Tucker, and
he wrung her heart by imploring her
not to go away. " I like you so," he
would whisper, huskily. " I 'spect I'd
like mamma, if I could get a chance
to get acquainted with her. But she's
awful busy, and I guess she don't like
boys as well as girls. I forget and
rumple her bangs and her frills, and I
torget about the forks and the spoons.
But you're so cosy to have 'round,
Mrs. Tucker, and please do tell me
that story about the wild bear of
County Clare again."
Unluckily, Mrs. Tucker herself was
kept close at home with her boy Harry
who was sick with the dreaded small-pox,
so the story of the wild bear could
not be repeated. Plenty of other
stories were, however, and dust gather-ed
in the pretty parlors and the Spring
bonnets came, and still Mrs. Deck
thought of nothing but Tommy. But
at last there came a day, and what a
happy day it was, when he knew her,
and old Dr. Sanders announced that
if he did not catch cold, and if he did
not have the dropsy, or half a dozen
other complications, he would soon
mend and be about again. To look at
Tommy was a sorry spectacle. His
hair had grown so thin, it looked like
the wiry seed vessels of wood and moss
and stuck straight up, dry and dead.
His cheeks were thin, and his fingers
were skinny, and for that matter the
whole of his body was peeling. He
trembled when he tried to sit up, and
he wanted to do a thousand things he
could not, and if he had never really
been an awful boy, he became one
during the weeks of his convalescence.
But it was his mother who -read to
him, played dominoes with him, and
taught him to use his paint brushes.
All. things end, even unhappy things,
and after sulphur had made the whole
house sweet, and white-wash and paint
and scouring had purified Tommy's
sick room, and Tommy himself was
allowed to go out on sunny days, Mrs.
Deck scared him and surprised his
sisters and Mr. Deck by the declara
tion that she was going to turn over a
new leaf. Tommy, with quick re-memberance
of the days before his ill-ness,
broke out impetuously: " O,
mamma, don't! Just go on."
" Well, perhaps that's what it will
amount to. The parlors are the
pleasantest rooms in the house, and I
have taken down everything in them
that can be easily soiled or broken, so
we can enjoy them every evening, and
I am going to stop making frills of
any sort, fancy cakes, fancy frocks for
girls, and all sorts of things that take
a great deal of care and time, so that
we can haye leisure for more stories
and study together."
" Good," cried Tommy. " That'll
be a love-your-home club, Mamma
Deckt won't it, your new leaf ?"
P l a y e d Ball W i t h $ 6 0 , 0 0 0.
OXFORD, Pa., March 11.—Million-aire
Jacob Tome, president of the
Cecil National Bank, of Port Deposit,
Md,, thoughtlessly left a package con-taining
$60,000 in his seat on leaving
the Baltimore Oxford express at Port
Deposit last Thursday. Mr. Tome
had been in Washington during the
day selling some bonds and accepted
the payment in cash, which was care-fully
wrapped up in order not to create
suspicion.
On his arrival at Port Deposit he
left the car, but forgot the package.
At the same station the Port Deposit
Musicale and Dramotic Association
boarded the train. One of the young
men noticed the package, and gave it
a toss to a companion, who returned
it. The valuable ball was kept in
motion until Rising Sun was reached,
where they expected to perform that
night.
Captain E. L. Gilligan, conductor,
noticed they left the package that had
afforded so much amusement, and
kicking it up stepped to the rear plat-form
of the train and shouted to the
young men that they had left their
package, and would have thrown it to.
themj but the train had passed too far
from the station.
At Nottingham Conductor Gilligan
received a telegram from Mr. Tome to
take charge of the package he had
left on the seat and return it to him
on his arrival the next day at Port
Deposit, as it contained $60,000 The
paekage rested in the safe of the ex-press
car over night at this place and
was delivered the next morning.
Mr. Tome is 84 years of age and
transacts business as formerly, but this
act of forgetfulness will put him on his
guard. It is stated that several years
ago he left a package containing $9,-
000 on one of the Philadelphia, Wil-mington
and Baltimore trains, and it
is still missing.
casual
him
A Difference Now.
He loved the girl.
That was plain to the most
observer.
He sent her flowers.
He wanted her to go with
wherever he went.
Every spai% moment he devoted to
her.
When he was beside her he Was the
willing slave of her every wish.
Did she drop her fan, he was the
first to pick it up.
Did she want a glass of nectar, he
flew to fetch it.
Did she want a I easier chair, he
moved all the furniture in the room in
order to gratify her.
Did she ask this or that, he was only
too glad to be of service.
His voice was a flute note for her
always; and his days were spent in
thoughts of her.
But that was-years ago.
How different now.
He married her.
"Good News for All—Now Will You
Go With Us t o California.
I will sell you a first-class ticket
from Chicago to California for $32.50,
or a round trip for $55 50 ; from St.
Louis $27 50 and $47.50 respectively,
and from eastern points at correspond-ingly
low rates. Round trip tickets
good for diverse routes. If of interest
to you, write me for full particulars.
State your destination, the class ticket
and how many wanted, and I will
name you a rock bottom rate to any
point west or southwest.
No one can name less rates than I
and you will find it to your interest to
correspond with me before arranging
f.>r tickets, as l am always in a position
to name the very lowest possible rates
and right from your own home. Will
send illustrated pamphlet of Midwinter
Exposition to any address on receipt
of two cent stamp ior postage. J. P.
McCann, E. T. agent Missouri Pacific
and Iron Mountain route,
Elmira, N. Y. ; or to W. E. Hoyt, G.
E. P. agent, 391 Broadway, N. Y."
Why Women Wear Out.
One reason why the average woman
wears out, grows old and plain before
her husband, is that through a mis-taken
idea of duty she lays out for her-self
at the beginning of her married
life a scheme or plan of duty and em-ployment
for her time, every hour fill-ed
with work, with rare and short
periods of relaxation. This she follows
religiously for years, feeling that she
has done her duty, because every
household event occurs regularly and
on time, while she soon becomes merely
a machine, a thing without life of
itself, of volitian. She settles into her
ruts and goes round and round on the
same track everlastingly. Can any
woman keep brightness, originality of
thought or speech, or even mere pretti-ness
with such a life, and without
those things how can she keep her
husband and growing children full of
loving admiration, which is the strong-est
chain by which she can bind them
to her ? How bright and jolly the
neighbor's wife seems when she calls.
In nine cases out of ten it is because
the surroundings and talk of your
home are variety to her and rouse her
to originality and brightness of speech.
In her own rut she may be as dull as
anyone.
Ten Years of Economy.
A quiet, pale looking man .walked
meekly into a Fair mount # avenue
saloon and ordered a beer. The foam-ing
mug was placed before him, and
eagerly grasping it he dashed it off
without a stop and ordered another.
This he disposed of in the same un-ceremonious
style. Planting a ten
cent piece on the counter he observed:
" There's the first money I have spent
in ten years." The bartender looked
incredulous. " Yes, sir, that's the first
money I've spent in ten years. I
managed to get enough to eat and
clothes to wear all that time, too but
those ten years were spent in the
penitentiary up here."—Phila. Record.
Conundrums.
Why is a man with many debts like
a gushing young lady ? Because he
owes (oh's) so much.
What is the most brilliant trick on
record ? The electric.
What is the noisiest pet in the
world ? Trumpet.
When is your cash account like a
wire bent into a circle ? When both
ends meet.
Where should blind people go ? To
some island (eye-land).
What aunts are most unpleasant to
have in the house ? Discordance.
What noted fictitious character does
a railway conductor always carry with
him ? Punch.
-ACK STRAUB'S WAÎCHES.
JACK STRAUB'S
W Ä T C H E S
6 0 Nortlj Qûççq St., Laoçaâter, Pa.
The Fireside.
Cherish your home with infinite ten-derness.
You cannot love it too much
nor give it too much time and thought.
Remember, life has nothing better to
offer you ; it is the climax and crown
of God's gifts. Make every day of
life in it rich and sweet. It will not
last long. See to it that you plant no
seeds of bitter memory ; that there be
no neglect and no harshness to haunt
you in after years. Your little ones
will die and go hence with your words
and spirit planted in their eternal
nature. Sons and daughters will go
from you into the great world, to live
as you have taught them, to be atrong
or weak according to the spirit you
have engrafted upon them. How you
will yearn for them, whether living or
dead. How sweet or how bitter will
be the memory of the days when they
prattled about you in the home from
which they have gone forever. So
live with them and train them now
that when they are gone you and they
can look back on the past with thank-fulness
and not regret.
DEATH OF S. S. LONG
At His Home Near Sheridan, After
Three Years' Illness.
Samuel S. Long, aged 70 years, one
of the most prominent citizens of Leb-anon
county, and senior member of
the well-known produce firm of S. S.
Long & Bro., of New York, died at
bis home about one and a half miles
from Sheridan,Friday afternoon, about
3 o'clock, after a lingering illness of 3
years with lung affection. He was able
to move about up to three months ago.
Since then he was confined to bed.
Last Sunday he recognized and spoke
to John B. Schultz, of Reading, but
was then very weak. He was uncon-scious
only a short time prior to death.
His physician was Dr. Louis Liyin-good,
of Womelsdorf. The news of
his death caused unusual sorrow in a
neighborhood where he was universal-ly
esteemed and noted for his charity
and good nature.
Mr. Long's life was an example of
what perseverance and industry can
accomplish in this country. He was
born a poor boy and died worth prob-ably
a half million dollars. He owns
over 1,200 acres of land, which in-cludes
five of the finest farms in Leb-anon
county. The one on which he
spent the summer months for the past
twenty-five years was a model one in
eyery respect.
Mr. Long was born in the vicinity
of Ephrata and was the son of a farm-er.
When quite young he went to
New York and took a position in a
store. Later, he and his brother Isaac
started in the produce business in that
city. They bought up eggs, butter
and poultry in Lebanon county, and
besides large refrigerator store houses
along the Lebanon Valley railroad,
they established similar buildings in
other states. Their transactions in
eggs were enormous. When they were
cheap in Europe they imported them.
Their business grew to great propor-tions
and they controlled a consider-able
part of the egg trade of New
York. The firm is still in existence
doing as large a business as ever.
Most of the eggs are now received
from the west.
Mr. Long had his winter residence
in Jersey City. He was very fond of
fine horses, and owned as high as 75
at one time. He also fattened cattle
for market on an extensiye scale. On
one of his properties, known as the
Cherrington farm there is one of the
finest trout ponds in eastern Pennsyl-vania.
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A Great Spot on t h e Snn.
An enormous spot, yisible to the
naked eye, now darkens the surface of
the sun. It has been pointed out by
M. Bruguiere, president of the Flam-marion
Scientific Society, of Marseilles,
and by M. Antoniadi, of Constantino-pie.
According to the observations taken
in Paris yesterday, it measures 70,000
kilometres in length ; in other words,
nearly six times the diameter of the
earth. The day star is at this moment
in a maximum state of activity.
Photographs of the phenomenon are
being daily taken at the observatory
at Juvisy, and some interesting en-gravings
of them will shortly be ready.
Over t h e State.
Last year Allegheny county made
247,000,000 cigars.
Eight citizens of Kiuzna have been
convicted of flogging Frauk Bright.
United Presbyterians of Oxford
dedicated their new $12,000 church.
Editor S. W. Boyd and J. H. Orr
had a second battle on the street at
Wilkesbarre Saturday evening.
A survivor of the Jeansville disaster,
known as "Big Joe," has sued the com-pany
for $25,000 damages.
The Gravity Club, at Reading, was
raided by the police on suspicion that
stolen chickens found their way there.
Dr. Emory Johnson addressed a
public meeting at Bryn Mawr, called
to consider the establishment of a
jorougb.
It is thought the nun school teach-ers
in Pittsburg will discard their
official garb if allowed to retain their
positions.
Accused of illegal fishing at Harris-burg,
James Dougreck has been arrest-ed
at the direction of State Fish Com-missioner
Ebel.
Contractor H. H. DeLong, of Read-ing,
whose son has been arrested for
forgery in Lancaster, says the boy was
ruined by fast living.
Thomas E. Heather, of Herington,
Del., went to Reading with a police-man
and took home his wife, who had
been absent several months.
After writing a letter that he would
kill himself, Tax Collector Paul Rein-hardt,
of St. Clair, Allegheny county,
disappeared and is still missing.
Mechanicsburg Christian Endeavor
Societies held a union meeting which
was addressed by W.C.Templin, Rev.
W. C. Hesser and Mrs. J,,hn Saneer.
A B i g Mill t o Remove.
The mammoth Johnson Steel Works,
with its 2000 men, and gigantic outfit,
which will require 800 acres of land,
will remove from Johnstown, Pa., to
Cleveland, O. This city secured the
works through the intervention of
Congressman Tom L. Johnson, who is
one of the principal owners of the
company. A plant costing $3,000,-
000 will be erected here and will in-clude
four blast furnaces, a converting
plant, a blowing mill, a street railway
mill and a shape mill.
S t r u g g l e d W i t h a Thief.
Burglars on Saturday night raided
Jacob Litch's house at Lebanon, and
he was badly hurt. Mr. and Mrs.
Litch were called to the front door by
a loud rap. No one was at the door
when it was opened and the couple re-turned
upstairs. There they met a
burglar, and Litch grappled with him.
The thief was armed with a heavy bar
of iron and with one blow he felled
Litch to the floor. Frightened by the
woman's screams the intruder fled.
The, wounded and senseless man was
then cared for. His injuries are severe
but not dangerous.
A Queenly Head
can never rest on a body frail from dis-ease
any more than the lovely l i l y can
grow in the sterile soil. When Con-sumption
fastens its hold upon a yictim,
the whole physical structure commences
a decay. At such a period, before the
disease is too for adyanced, Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery will arrest
and cure it. So certain is this, that an
offer is made to refund the money paid
for it when a failure can be found under
the condition of a fair trial.
Conscience.
It is strange and solemn power
which conscience wields. In your
secret soul you commit a sin. It is a
mere passing thought, perhaps. No
human eye has seen it, no tongue will
ever speak of it, yet even in the dark
you blush at it. You are degraded in
your own eyes. You feel guilty and
wretched and this guilty wretchedness
does not pass away. It may at any
time revive. Conscience comes to us
in lonely hours. It wakens us in the
night. It stands at the side of the bed
and says, " Come, wake up and listen
to me." And there it holds us with
its remorseless eye, and buried sins
rise out of the grave of the past. They
march by in melancholy procession
and we lie in terror looking at them
Nobody knows but ourselves. Next
morning we go forth to business with
a smiling face, but conscience has had
its revenge.^
The Philadelphia conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, in session
at Easton, is considering important
constitutional changes. Bishop An-drews
ordained seventeen deacons and
nine elders.
K i l l i n g Off t h e Deer.
PORTLAND, Me—Chief Game Com-missioner
French has just returned
from an extended trip through the
Northern woods looking into the re-ports
that have come to him of the
wholesale slaughter of deer during the
closed season.
What Mr. French saw is much
worse than anything that he expected.
In the woods northeast Moosehead
Lake the slaughter is the worst that
has been done for ten years. The
work is done by Canadians who hunt
large game for the skins.
Several men told Mr. French that
in many places they would come upon
six and eight dead carcasses which had
been left to rot, the hunters' having
taken the skins and only what meat
they needed.
Inthe Allagash region the slaughter
is even worse than this, the deep snow
leaving the deer completely at the
mercy of the hunters. The scarcity of
snow the last few Winters has giyen
the deer a good chance to multiply,
but this year the deep snow has placed
everything against them.
A Sand Storm in Kansas.
The worst sand storm in years raged
in the city of Pleasanton last Sunday
from nine in the morning until five in
the afternoon, the velocity of the wind
being nearly seventy miles an hour.
Farmers report wheat in plowed
ground blown out and in stubble
ground the sand lodged, forming
miniature hillocks. Many fields are
said to be ruined in places where the
soil was light. The storm came from
the northwest. Trees, outbuildings,
fences and other property suffered
! ieavily.
H o w F a s t t h e E a r t h Turns.
Everybody knows that the earth
makes one complete revolution on its
axis once every 24 hours. But tew,
however, have any idea of the high
rate of speed necessary to accomplish
tbat feat. The highest velocity ever
attained by a cannon ball has been
estimated at 1626 feet per second,
which is equal to a mile in 3.2 seconds.
The earth, in making one revolution
in 24 hours, must turn with a velocity
nearly equal to that of a cannon ball.
In short, the rate of speed at the
equator has been estimated at nearly
1500 feet per second, or a mile every
3.6 seconds, seventeen miles a minute.
—A smart little boy in Norwich is
—or was—rather ambitious to be a
letter-carrier. A short time ago he
secretly secured a bundle of old love-letters
that his mother had treasured
since her courtship days, and dis-tributed
them from house to house
throughout the neighborhood.