Lititz Record

              Published Every Friday 5Ios>ning fey
J . FRANK BUOH,
Oii —X<>. 9 S. Broad street, Litite,
Lancaster County, Pa,
T E R M S OF S U B S C R I P T I O N . — F o r o ne
year $1.00, if paid in adyance, and $1.25
If payment be delayed to the end of year.
For six months, 50 cents, and for three
months, 30 cents, strictly in advance.
A failure to notify a discontinuance
at the end of the term subscribed for,
will be considered a wish to continue
the paper.
.^S-Atiy person sending cs five new
cash subscribers for one year will be
entitled to t h e RECORD for one year, f or
his trouble.
Bates of Advertising in the Record,
1 week...
2 weeks..
1 month....
2 months..,
3 months...
0 months...
1 year
1 In 2 in 3 in. 34 0. li e.
58 »0 1 25 2 25 4 00
75 1 35 1 WO 3 ?5 5 75
1 00 i 75 2 50 4 25 7 50
1 2b 2 J ft 3 00 5 '/fi 9 25
2 uo 3 ah 4 50 7 50 13 í>5
2 00 4 ta « 00 » 75 17 00
3 50 ti ¡¿5 H 50 15 (10 28 00 b 00 9 50 13 75 26 00 50 00
An Independent Family Newspaper, Devoted to Literature, Agriculture, Local and General Intelligence.
YOL. XXIII. LITITZ PA., FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1899. NO. 3.
7 50
10 00
J 2 SO
r oo
5» 01) 31 Oil
54 00 MJO
„Yearly advertisements to be paid quar-terly.
Transient advertisements payable
j in advance. @
I Advertisements, to insure immediate
i insertion, must be handed in, at the very
| latest, by Wednesday evening. 1 Job Work of all kinds neatly and
promptly executed at short notice.
All communications should be address-ed
to
RECORD OFFICE,
e Lititz, Lane. Co., ^a.
B ROAD STREET CLOTHING HOUSE.
Well Selected Stock for
û W i n t e r
A MATRIMONIAL ADYENTUR
r
The fall season will soon be at hand and
with it come thoughts of new wearing apparel
I have made early purchases of all kinds
of goods belonging to my line of trade, and
make this announcement so that my patrons
may know that they can buy now as cheap
as later and have the best selections from a
clean and fresh stock,
Kvery variety of
Pall and Winter Suitings,
Ready-made Clothing
for man and boy.
I would like every one to come and see
my big assortment of
Colored Outing;
and Other
nothing like it ever before seen in Lititz.
that can't be matched in some of the more
pretentious stores. I have all my Neckwear
selected from piece silk and made
Hats and Caps
in the latest styles, of course, and at prices
as low as the lowest.
H. B Ü CH 9
The Clothier,
Record Building,
Broad Street,
Lititz, Penna.
o b .
Ä U T U M N
Our Autumn Styles
H e a d $ N e c k w e ar
the outdoing of the past. Only a hint of what our stock
contains now shown in our windows.
L . B O M S , * -
1 4 4 N o r t b Q t i c c i ) S t r ç ç t ,
NEWT. WINGERT, Manager. . . . L A N C A S T E R , P A .
SEND US ONE DOLLAR
Cut this ad. oat and send to us with $1.00, and we will send you this NEW
I3IPKOVED ACHE QUEEN PAHLOR ORGAN, by freight C. O. 1)., subject to
examination. You c a n examine it a t your nearest f r e i g h t depot,
and if you find i t exactly ag represented, equal t o organs t h at
retail at $ 7 5 . 0 0 t o $ 1 0 0 . 0 0 , t h e greatest value youever s aw and
far b e t t e r t h a n organs advertised by others at more money, pay
the f r e i g h t agent our gpccial 9 0 days* offer price, $ 3 1 «75«
less t h e $1.00, or $80.1S, and f r e i g h t charges.
$31.75 IS OUR SPECIAL 90 DAYS' PRICE S ^ S
J " 1 ....... —pr j e e charg-ed
by others. Such a n offer was never m a d e before.
THE ACME QUEEN is one of themostDURABLEAND SWEETEST
TONED instruments ever made. From the illustration shown, which
Is engraved direct f r om a photograph,you can f o rm some idea of i ts
beautiful appearance. Made f r om solid Quarter sawed
oak, antique finish, handsomely decorated and ornamented,
Latest 1 8 9 9 s t y l e . T1IE ACBI1S QUEEN is 6 f e e t 5 inches high,
12 inches long, 23 inches wide and weighs 350 pounds. Con-tains
5 octaves, 11 stops, as follows: Diapason, Principal,
Dulelana, Slelodls, Celeste, Cremona, Bass Coupler, Treble
Coupler, Diapason Forte and Vox Humana; 2 Octave Couplers,
1 Tone Swell, 1 Grand Organ Swell, 4 Sets Orchestral Toned
Resonator? Pipe Quality Reeds, 1 Set of 37 Pare Sweet Melodia
Reeds, 1 Set of 87 Charmingly Brilliant Celeste Reed«, 1 Set of
24 Rich Mellow Smooth Diapason Reeds, 1 Set of 24 Pleasing
(toft Melodious Principal Reeds. THE ACME QUEEN ac-tion
consist of t h e celebrated Newell Reeds, which a r e only
used in the highest grade instruments; fitted with Ham-mond
Couplers and Yox Hnmana, also best Dolge felts,
leathers, etc., bellows of the best rubber cloth, 3-ply
bellows stock and finest leather in valves. THE
ACME QUEEN is furnished with a 10x14 beveled
plate French mirror, nickel plated pedal frames,
and every modern improvement. We furnish free a hand-come
organ stool and the best organ instruction fooek published.
GUARANTEED 25 YEARS.
Issue a w r i t t e n binding 25-year guarantee, by t he
terms and conditions of which if a n y part gives out
qre r e p a i r i t f r e e of c h a r g e . Try i t one month and
wre will r e f u n d your money if you are not perfectly
satisfied. 500 of these organs will be sold a t $31.75*
ORDER AT ONCE. DON'T DELAY.
OUR RELIABILITY IS ESTABLISHED ^ ^
not dealt with us ask your neighbor about us,write
the publisher of t h i s paper o r Metropolitan National
Bank, or Corn Exchange Nat. Bank, Chicago; or German Exchange "Bank, Now "ioilc, or any r a i l r o ad or expr«fi3
company in Chicago. We have a capital of orer $700,000.00, occupy entire one of the largest business blocks in
Chicago, and employ nearly 2,000 people in our own building. WK SELL ORGANS AT $22.00 and up; PIANOS, $115-0«
and up; also everything in musical instruments a t lowest wholesale prices. Write for f r e e special organ, pi&ne
and musical instrument catalogue. Address, (Sears, Roebuck Se Co. are thoroughly reliable.—Editor*)
SEARS» ROEBUCK & CO. (Inc.), Fulton, Despfaines and Wayman Sts., C H I C A G O . ILL.
O WEN P. BRICKER
ATTOBNEY AND SOLICITOS.
Offlee- Fahnestock Building,
86 and 87 Bast King Street,
¡Lancaster, Pà.
AUCTIONEERING.
10J-tf
I "will Auctioneer public sales
a s cheap and good as anybody
and guarantee satisfaction. Ad-dress
all Letters to Lititz Post
Office.
FRED. E S S ! G
W r i t t e n f o r t h e RECORD.
( C O N T I N U E D F R O M L A S T W E E K)
T WAS a cold bright morning; the
sparkling dew lay heavy on the long
green grass; the first few bars
golden light lay shimmering across
the meadow and out over the little
stream beyond, as Jack and Edgar
started out toward the little station
from whence they should go to deter
mine the future, to "settle up this
blasted mistake," Jack h a l declared
under his breath. Anthony was silent
he could but bring all blame to his own
door. If he had not advertised, he
reasoned, she would never have written
and if he had not invited Jack to Kirk-wood
he would never have known
Linden too, was silent; he felt dejected
and moody. He did not in his heart
believe her guilty, or, if sometimes a
vague doubt would enter his mind he
would attribute it to some innocent
foible. He had a vague foreboding that
all was not right, that perhaps she had
been made the victim of some one, and
had been judged too harshly, and, as
they sped on their way a half hour later,
over the W. and C. road, he became
miserably angry with himself for ever
having doubted her
They arrived at Wooddale at 4 that
afternoon and immediately hunted up
a hotel. Having refreshed themselves
and made a few necessary alterations
in their toilets, they inquired the way
and soon found themse ves on the road
leading out to the Long farm. As they
neared a clump of trees surrounded by
a hedge fence, the same as those which
so. characterized Wooddale, Jack in-advertently
caught a glimpse of a figure
in blue bending over something on the
ground, and with a low whispered,
" There is Nellie," he vaulted thehedge
and stood before her.
" Nellie!"
" J a c k ! " were uttered spontaneously
and Edgar moved quickly on not wish-ing
to be a spectator to the scene that
followed.
Was this girl Nellie Wayne, alias
Lillie Dale, he asked himself as he sat
down by the roadside waiting for them
and could it be possible that the owner
of that sweet pure voice was capable of
such deceit? He wondered more and
more as the clearly uttered words of
Miss Wayne and the eager earnest tones
of Linden faintly reached him, and he
cursed the folly t h a t brought his friend's
affair to such a climax.
, To say that Nellie was surprised is
putting it mildly; and very agreeably
so. In her innocent trusting faith she
never doubted Jack or the motive that
brought him to her, and her heart beat
quicker as she looked at his six feet of
unreproachable manhood and realized
how much he was to her. And Jack
would have been ashamed to acknowl-edge,
even to himself, the object of that
visit, now as she stood before him in
all her dainty lovliness. These few
weeks in the country had brought an
additional charm to her, increasing the
lovely, healthy tint that made her so
fair, and adding a suppleness to the
slight form.
For more than an hour they sat and
talked, when J a c k suddenly thought of
Edgar and said: " I have forgotten my
friend, Nellie. Suppose we go in—I
want you to meet him. Besides I sup-pose
he is rather lonely with no—" and
bending over her, he kissed her, as she
led the way up to the house.
"Hello, Ed.! Where are you?"
called Jack as he and Nellie' sauntered
slowly down the path toward the arbor
from which Anthony emerged a minute
later. "This is the friend of whose
kind hospitality I am partaking. Mr.
Edgar Anthony, Miss Wayne" said
Jack as they met, and neither
could help noticing the strained and
surprised look that came over Nellie's
face as she heard the name. A sudden re-vulsion
overcame Jack as he saw it, and
all the latent fires of jealousy flared up
at once as he said in a sibilant tone:
"Ah, I see you recognize the name.
Nellie Wayne is perhaps not so pretty
a name as Lillie Dale and yet it would
have done as well toward hiding such
well-masked deceit as the other. Nel-lie's
sad and tearfilled eyes pleaded
eloquently for pardon, as she replied.
" Oh Jack, I did not want to do it,
but she insisted, and I wrote just for
her sake. But she said he was an old
man, Jack, and this—"
" So you admit that you wrote these
letters signed Lillie Dale," said Jack
furiously, standing back and looking at
her with angry scrowling eyes, that
could not hide the passion that was
stirring within, " a n d yet you stand
there—there—before me and plead for
pardon—you—you who have betrayed
all that man can give woman, all that
I have given you, a loving trusting
heart. You, whom I once thought so
innocent, so guileless! " You thought
he was an old man, did you?" he
sneered but the angry look gave way
to the startled expression that came
over his face as Nellie mercifully
swooned away. All the hatred of the
moment before left him when he saw
her there so pale and white, and his
heart went out in pity to the girl that
had wronged him as he stooped and
lifted her tenderly in his strong arms,
and bore her into the house.
Mrs. Long bustled into the room as
they entered and was very much ex-cited
as Jack explained that he had
brought Miss Wayne bad news, on
learning which she had fainted. They
tried all t h a t was in their power to re-store
her but still she remained bliss-fully
unconscious of everything. She
was removed to her room, and a doctor
sent for, while Jack and Edgar sat im-patiently
in the long cool room below,
both silent and moody, waiting for
some word of Miss Wayne's recovery.
" Lillie," softly whisnered some one
in the hall, and both young men started
at the name, followed by the low con-versation
that neither could under-stand,
when the door cautiously opened
and a young lady enters j . " Nellie
Miss Wayne is still uncounscious
though the doctor has hopes that she
will recover in a few minutes. Mr
Long tells me that she received bad
news, pardon me, but was it from
home." " You see " she went on hur-riedly
looking from one to the othe%
" we are very close friends and
thought perhaps—oh, tell me it is not
of Mr. Linden you have come to tell
her!" she pleaded clasping her hands
and striding quickly over to Edgar,
who thought her, as she stood before
him, the most charming woman he
had ever seen.
You see," she explained as she saw
the wonder in Anthony's face, "you
see, I did something that was wrong
very wrong, and she, I thought—he
did not forsake her?" as her lips
quivered and she burst into sobs when
he did not speak. Edgar was dumb-founded.
He wished himself heartily
out of it. Here were mysteries that he
could not understand.
No he did not forsake her," came
in hoarse tones from the corner where
Jack sat as he rose and came forward.
" But hereafter Miss Wayne and I are
strangers. I am Jack Linden." But
he was interrupted by a startled
cry from this young lady as she reco-gnized
his face as the original of the
two photographs.
You —are —Jack Linden!" she
gasped, " a n d I want to say right here,"
she went on indignantly, " t h a t if you
thi ill you can gain the hand of Lillie
Dale by throwing over Miss Wayne
ou will ¡be sadly disappointed. Do
you think I should want to associate
with a man who has sacrificed all honor,
all—" • ' . . ..
"Compose yourself, madam," said
Jack shortly, inierrupting her passion-ate
flow of words. " I have no wish to
associate with any one; one woman's
faithlessness is enough for me at present.
Would you kindly tell me your object
trying to find out what has come
between Miss Wayne and myself?"
But here Edgar interposed; a new
light had suddenly dawned upon him
as he listened to this young lady, and
as he stepped forward he said quietly,
Pardon me, but are you not Lillie
Dale?"
She nodded wonderingly, and he
went on:
I am Edgar Anthony; and I fear
there is a grave mistake here, some-where.
If you will sit down, I will
give you the story of my share in this
affair, and perhaps we can explicate
matters."
A few years ago," he continued
after all were seated, " I inserted an ad.
in the columns of a matrimonial paper,
asking for correspondents. I had no
thought of marriage, since I was quite
youth at the time. Ever since I have
received numerous letters in answer,
but have not replied to any of them ex-cepting
the first few, until I received a
letter purporting to come from Lillie
Dale."
Then it was not Jack Linden who
wrote?"
" No."
" But the photograph ?"
" That was wrong; and that is what
caused this complication of things I
have no doubt. You see I did not want
to send one of my own, and again, I
had no late one."
" B u t , " Jack interrupted, how is it
that your writing is so similar to Miss
Wayne's?"
Oh, Mr. Linden ¡"exclaimed Lillie,
that was all my fault. I knew Nellie
was engaged and would probably never
found out, and so I asked her to
rite for me. She hesitated, indeed
she refused, but at last wrote for me,
for out of her unselfish heart she could
not bring herself to refuse."
" Then, Jack, old fellow," exclaimed
Edgar heartily, " Miss Wayne is inno-cent,"
but Jack was gone.
Upstairs in a little room another
scene was being enacted. "Darling,
said Jack leaning over the still pale but
radiant face, I shall never doubt you
again."
At least not until you have .suffici-ent
proof of my infidelity, laughed
Nellie."
No not t h e n , " he replied seriously,
never, never again."
# * « *
I n the week that followed Christmas
two weddings were celebrated.
Lillie radiantly happy, and Edgar
whose eyes show the love and admira-tion
he feels for her; and Nellie, sweet,
gentle Nellie, and brave, strong, re-pentant
Jack.
After all," said Edgar, looking
down fondly into Lillie's face, " I do
not regret that little 'ad,' for it has'
brought me—my wife."
B Y T I I E L M A.
: REMINISCENCES."
Deal Only in Pennies.
A member of an English firm of
Shanghai, China, in writing to a home
paper states that one of the great draw-backs
of that country is a proper coin-age
and the scarcity of "cash," the cop-per
coins which the Chinaman threads
on a piece of string and carries around
his neck to market, or at times carries
in a wheelbarrow. Imagine trying to
conduct an extensive transaction in
pennies.
A Word to Mothers.
Mothers of children affected with
croup or a severe cold need not hesitate
to administer Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy. It contains no opiate nor
narcotic in any form and may be given
as confidently to the babe as to an
adult. The great success that has at-tended
its use in the treatment of colds
and croup has won for it the approval
and praise it has received throughout
the United States and in many foreign
lands. For sale at the old Lititz Drug
Store.
Days gone by!
I wonder ho\y many of lis will ever
forget those days of " light hearts and
fancies free!"
How tenderly we think of them
How reverently we weave around each
pleasant memory some subtle fancy
that binds us irrevocably to the past!
Many of us are gone now—some have
been called in their early days from
lives of pleasure,and promise and hope
some have realized their ambitions, and
have laid down the burden of life only
after a long weary struggle—and have
been glad to rest; some have toiled
weary undulating path and have
stopped where they began. As we
think back over the long weary years,
with their cup of sorrow and their
burdens and trials, the pain does almost
outweigh in the balance.
Albeit past grievances are forgotten
and we t h i n k oiily of the many happy
hours spent with loved ones at home.
wonder where Dolly is now, the
bright little playmate who was the sun-shine
at home and at school. Through
the long years that have slowly dragged
on, we have lost sight and knowledge
of a great many that were our dearest
and most intimate friends. (We live
in the hope of seeing them in the eter-nal
home and so we patiently sit and
watch, knowing that we have not long
to wait.)
The revocation of my girlhood days
is indeed a pleasant one. The meadow
just beyond the orchard, the little
stream with its incessant ripple—the
spring where we stooped, panting from
the run down hill after play to see who
should be first—the cool basement
where we gathered after school to beg
or steal a biscuit of Mary—how vividly
they are all pictured to me as I sit and
dream of the past. And then there
was Nellie and Betty and Fussy; and
Nervy and Amy and Sis; and Jimmy
and Tom and Baby, and last but not
least, your graudiriam.
To be sure I was little once like you,
and as I tumbled down from t h e hay
mow or rolled around in the long green
grass, I felt more like a queen in my
common brown homespun than I do
with this bit of lace on my neck.
When Nellie was ten, she solemnly
and confidentially declared her inten-tion
to marry Jimmy when old enough,
and I promised never to tell. But alas,
one day Nellie appropriated a slice of
orange t h a t belonged to me, and out of
revenge I went and relentlessly and
.scornfully told J immy all that she.had
said. " B a h ! " said Jimmy, " I didn't
ask her," and I felt quite elated over
the destruction of Nellie's air castles.
But he did ask her in course of timé,
and Jimmy always declares that he
never would have thought of Nellie, if
I hadn't in a revengful mood actually
made the suggestion. Well, well, so
things go, I am content.
When Betty and Dolly were nearing
their 12th and 13th years, Neighbor
B moved to Berks county, from
where, for long years afterward at in-definite
intervals, little sunny epistles
would come to Us telling us first of their
new home and associations and later of
their companions and social obligations.
And then Betty was married and then
Dolly, and as they left their home and
mingled with strangers the letters
ceased to come, and we missed them so!
But we know, that although separated
for more than fifty years we are not
forgotten, and we live in the hope of
meeting again.
And then there was Fussy—yes she
left us, and oh, how we mourned the
dear little friend and playmate!
And Nervy, who married and moved
West, where she died among strangers,
and Amy, sweet, gentle Amy! Always
so modest, so timid, so tender, so kind!
Oh how we all loved her, the angel of
our crowd! And then there was Sis.
How we used to talk at night relating
and planning, until our tired eyes
would close and we slept the sleep of
innocent childhood. And then there
was Tom, big manly fellow that-he was,
that put us all to shame when he began
blushing and stampering and using his
fork to eat. How ridiculously awk-ward
he was at first, and how we did
laugh at him for wanting to be grown
up.
And then the baby! How we used
to tow him around in our little wagon,
letting h im stand for hours in the sun
behind the barn while we rolled on the
straw or played in the granary.
"Mollie," my mother would say "do
you know that you are helping mamma
a great deal by watching the children ?"
and I felt quitó important as I sallied
forth to hunt some stray playmate.
Oh, those weré happy days!
G R A N D M A .
Admiral Dewey's Check.
Admiral Dewey's check on a New
York bank for the sum of $10 has occa-sioned
no end of perplexity to a perfect-ly
wellmeaning citizen. The check is
regularly drawn and was issued in the
ordinary course of business. Nobody
doubts that there are ample funds in
the bank to meet it. There are no com-plications
of indorsement, identification
or anything of that kind. In a word
everything is as right as right can be
and yet the holder of the check can't
make up his mind for the life of h im to
deposit the paper and get the proceeds
as he ordinarily would. It befell in
this way: The holder of the check is a
officer in the navy and a member of
the University club. His name
neither here nor there. He is a mem-ber
of the committee of alumni of
Annapolis appointed to raise the money
which is to pay for carving the crest of
the Naval academy on one of the marble
medallions that are to adorn the facade
of the University club building on F i f th
avenue. There is one of these medall-ions
for each college whose alumni are
eligible to membership in the club, and
the cost of carving is borne by the
alumni of the respective institutions,
says the New York "Sun."
Commander Dash, which is not the
name of the officer in question, wrote
to Admiral Dewey at Manila apprising
him of the medallion scheme, and in-timating
that the admiral's assessment
was $6 and some odd cents. By return
post the committeeman received a nice
letter. Likewise the admiral inclosed
his check for $10, sending a little more
than was asked for, because—well,
apparently because that's the kind of a
good fellow Admiral George Dewey is.
Commander Dash opened this letter
in the smoking room of the University
club one evening, and, as there were
several Annapolis men present, he read
it aloud. There was respectful silence
until the reader came to the passage,
I inclose my check for $10, which,
etc.," when some fellow broke in with:
Say I'll give you $50 for that
check!"
"Fifty devils! I'll give yon a hun-dred
!"
Hundred 'n' fifty!"
"Two hundred!" "Three hundred!"
Four hundred!"
Rattlety-biff-bang! And so on untill,
in less t h a n a jiffy, tlie bewildered com-mander
found himself the center of an
eager gang of amiable savages in even-ing
dress, every man-jack of teem bound
to own that check, and deuce take the
expense.
It" was exactly at this point that the
cemmander's perplexities began. It
was hard to turn away all that good
money, more by token that it would
come in handy for a number of little
frills particularly desired at that time
in connection with the medallion, and
sundry other vanities needed at the
new clubhouse in behalf of the An-napolis
alumni (most of whom, being
nothing but heroic defenders of their
country, are of course, chronically hard
up). But, on the other hand, what
right had he to part with the admiral's
check in such fashion without the ad-miral's
consent ? To write to Manila
and get back an answer would take a
month of Sundays, and be too late.
And, finally, how was he to decide be-tween
two of the savages in evening
dress, each of whom asserted, and swore
to it, that he was the rightful author of
the highest bid ?
I n his perplexity Commander Dash
put the check back into his pocket,
telling the excited bidders each and
severally to go to the deuce. All of
which happened some days ago. But
the fate of the admiral's check isn't
decided yet.
Give t h e Childareu Drink
called Grain-O. It is a delicious, appe-tizing,
nourishing food drink to take
the place of coffee. Sold by all grocers
and liked by all who have used it be-cause
when properly prepared it tastes
like the finest coffee but is free from all
its injurious properties. Grain-O aids
digestion and strengthens the nerves.
I t is not a stimulant but a health build-er,
and children as well as adults, can
drink it with great benefit. Costs about
\ as much as coffee. 15 and25c. 3
The Best Shooting-.
The shooting in Iowa, Minnesota and
South Dakota this year promises to be
very good, as the rainfall in all these
states was abundant. The best locali-ties
for chicken and duck shooting are
on and tributary to the lines of the Chi-cago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway.
A copy of a recent publication issued
by the passenger department of that
road can be had on application to John
R. Pott, District Passenger Agent, 480
William St., Williamsport, Pa., and
enclosing three cents in stamps for
postage.
To Retain One's Beauty.
Dont roll your eyes up into your
head as if they were marbles; a fine
pair of eyes will be utterly ruined by
this operation.
A girl with a pretty mouth will purse
it into the prettiest bouton, and con-tinue
thé habit until many lines form
about the lips, and the once lovely
mouth has to be put into the hands of
the beauty doctor.
Nearly every woman bites or sucks
her lips.
Others contract the brows and pro-duce
two furrows between the eyes.
Others wringle the forehead with
frowns.
Others perpetually wear a tip-titled
nose.
I t must be remembered that a truly
expressive face does not consist of a set
of features hung on strings or wires.
Not Subject to Brain Trouble.
A certain doctor had occasion, when
only a beginner in the medical pro-fession,
to attend a trial as a witness.
The opposing counsel, in cross-examin-ing
the young physicians, made several
sarcastic remarks, doubting the ability
of so young a man to understand his
business. Finally he asked:
"Do you know the symptoms of con-cussion
of the brain?"
" I do," replied the doctor.
"Well," continued the attorney,
"suppose my learned friend, Mr. Bag-ing,
and myself were to bang our heads
together, should we get concussion of
the brain?"
"Your learned friend, Mr. Baging,
might," said the doctor.
R o y a l
I R . A B S O L U T E L Y " P J J UE
B a k i n g
A B S O L U T E L Y ^ U R E
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
ROYAL BAKINQ POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
You assume no risk when you buy
Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diar-rhoea
Remedy. The Inland Chemical
Co., of Lititz will refund your mony if
you are not satisfied after using it. It
is everywhere admitted to be the most
successful remedy in use for bowel com-plaints
and the- only one that never
fails. It is pleasant, safe a n d reliable.
jy-4mo.
"Writing to the President.
From the date on which the president
of the United States begins his annual
message until the close of each session
of congress 1,200 to 1,500 letters are re-ceived
each day at the White House.
Even in the dull summer season the
daily average is fully 300. Only those
of obvious importance reach the eyes of
the president, or even those of Secretary
John Addison Porter. They are all as-sorted
by Mr. Porter's corps of clerks.
Eighty per cent, of them are forwarded
to the various executive departments,
and, by order of the president a type-written
form of acknowledgment is
sent from the White House to the
writer of each letter, no matter how
humble the correspondent or how in-significant
the subject of his communi-cation.
The letters received are all in-dexed,
and those retained at the White
House are carefully and systematically
filed, so that, if ever needed in legal
trials, or in the investigation of crim-inals,
they may be easily found.
Many of the letters addressed to the
president are manifestly the emanations
of disordered brains, yet only a few are
so hopelessly unintelligible as to render
reply impossible. Nearly every de-partment
maintains a "crank file,'
but it is the aim of each to deal as
courteously as possible with all corres-pondents.
Strange as it may seem, the
most unreasonable letters received by
the president are not the productions
of cranks and lunatics. They come
from the vast army of the plain people-those
who with a little more general
intelligence or better developed reason-ing
power, would be the "backbone
and sinew" of the nation. Most of
these letters are extremely touching,
as much for their bad spelling, errors of
syntax and lame logic, as for the pathos
of the messages that they convey.
They are the vehicles for every desire,
every hope and every variety of claim,
real or imaginary, that the human
mind can conceive, says the New York
Sun.
Scores of these letters are filled with
gratuitous suggestions and well-meant
advice. Appeals for charity by the
hundred reach not only the president
but Mrs. McKinley from persons who
cannot imagine how a middle-aged
couple with quiet tastes can possibly
find use for $50,000 a year. This sum
would be exhausted in three days were
an attempt made to answer all these
ppeals.
Excepting requests for charity, the
largest number are from people who de-sire
the president's assistance in per-sonal
matters. Quite a number are
from old Union veterans, who imagine
that their pension business would be
expedited if the president, who was
once their comrade in arms, would call
on the commissioner of pensions with
verbal request, or at least send an
autograph letter in each case.
New to the 'Phoue.
The other day a rustic-looking in-dividual
came into my office and
walking straight up to me, said:
"Say, mister, is the boss in ?"
"Yes,' I said, " I 'm the boss; what
can I do for you ?"
"Well," he replied, handing me his
his card, "My name is Joshua Brown,
and I keep a farm over in Jersey, right
next to Tom Flemmings. I make some
of the finest butter. Mr. Flemmings
sent me here."
While thus speaking, he placed ou
my desk a package he held in his
hand and began undoing it.
O, I don't want any butter here,"
I said.
This is something fine and I ' l l let
you have it cheap," said Mr. Brown.
Just for a joke I asked h im how much
he had and what he wanted for it,
writes a correspondent to the New
York "Sun."
Only $2," he quickly replied, "and
there is close onto five pounds here."
This seemed rather cheap, so I said:
Just wait a minute and I'll ask my
wife if she wants any butter."
I called my wife up on the telephone
and after speaking to her about five
minutes, I turned to the farmer, who
was now quite impatient, and said:
"No, my wife does'nt want any butter
to-day."
"Say, mister," remarked Mr. Brown,
"you t h i n k you are smart; now if you
didn't want any butter, you would
have told me that right away and not
keep me here and try to make a fool of
me." ,
"Why, what do you mean ?" I said,
"Didn't you see me speaking to my
wife and ask her if she wanted any
butter?"
"Ah, go on!" replied the farmer.
" Im not as green as all that; you can't
make me believe you keep your wife
locked up all day in t h a t little box on
the wall, now."
A Wonderful Care of Diarrhoea.
From the Times, Hillsdale, Va.
I suffered with diarrhoea for a long
time and thought I was past being
cured. I had spent much time and
money and suffered so much misery
that I had almost decided to give up all
hopes of recovery and await the result,
but noticing the advertisement of
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar-rhoea
Remedy and also some testimoni-als
stating how some wonderful cures
had been wrought by this remedy, I
decided to try it. After taking a few
doses I was entirely well of that trou-ble,
and I wish to say further to my
readers and fellow-sufferers t h a t I am a
hale and hearty man to-day and feel as
well as I ever did in my life.—O. R.
MOORE. Sold at the old Lititz Drug
Store.
Over tlie State.
Captain James Dougherty, aged sixty
years, of Chester, in command of the
tug Chester, died of injuries received in
falling into the hold of the boat.
A York county Coroner's jury re-turned
a verdict holding Harry Meals
responsible for the -death of George
Ross, to whom, he had administered
morphine.
Sheriff Sellers, of Dauphin county
has had a force of men destroying fish
dams in the Susquehanna River the
past week. There are in the stream
»bout 150 within his jurisdiction. All
those north of Harrisburg have been
removed, as well as those opposite that
city.
George F. Landusey, a tailor, of Mt.
Carmel, who was injured in theE Dun-ellen
wreck in New Jersey, settled with
the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
for $650. He lost one tooth.
Marshall Chandler, a machinist in
the Sharpless Separater Works, of West
Chester, while operating a lathe, was
caught by a belt and hurled with great
force to the ceiling.
A great feature of the York county
fair this year will be a number of races
between automobiles. The handsome
court of honor erected for the cen-tennial
will.be left standing until after
the fair and will be illuminated three
nights that week.
Running after a horse, Mrs. Jere-miah
Gingling, near York, fell dead
from heart disease.
Rev. Gurney Weber lias resigned as
pastor of the Reformed Church at. Glen
Rock, York County.
A new model school building, to cost
about$35,000, is to be added to the Key-stone
Normal School, at Kutztown,
Snyder County has had a couple of
frosts, the earliest for fifteen years.
Merchandise valued at $300 was
stolen from Wolf Miller's store, Glen
Rock, York County.
Joseph Lynch was instantly killed at
Luke Fidler colliery, near Shamokin,
by wagons crushing his head.
Andy Sanke, charged with cutting
his brother's throat, was acquitted at
Uniontown, the jury being out only
twelve minutes.
A heifer attacked six-year-old Josie
Long, of Beechwood, Wayne County,
inflicting wounds from which she is
not expected to recover.
While Isaac Peifer a Lebanon Val-ley
College student, was riding at Leb-anon,
the post of his bicycle broke and
he was severely injured.
A huge blacksnake that tried to es-cape
by creeping in to a hole, was pulled
out by the tail'by Wellington Wentzel,
of Moselem, Berks county, and killed
G r a i n - O B r i n g s R e l i ef
to the coffee drinker. Coffee drinking
is a habit that is universally indulged
in and almost as universally injurious.
Have you tried Grain-O ? It is almost
like coffee but the effects are just the
opposite. Coffee upsets the stomach,
ruins the digestion, effects the heart
and disturbs the whole nervous s.ystem.
Grain-O tones up the stomach, aids di-gestion
and strengthens the nerves.
There is nothing but nourishment in
Grain-O. It can't be otherwise. 15
and 25c. per package. 4
permanently postpones the
tell-tale signs of age. Used
according to directions it
gradually brings back the
color of youth. At fifty your
hair may look, as it did at
fifteen. It thickens the hair
also; stops it from falling
out; and cleanses the scalp
from dandruff. Shall we
send you our book on the
Hair and its Diseases?/
Ths Best Advice Free.
If von do not o b t a i n a l l t h e bene-fits
you expected f r om t h e use ot
t h e Vigor, -write t h e doctor about i t.
Probably there is some difficulty
w i t h your general system which
may be s a s l l y removed. Address^
DB. J . 0. AYEK, Lofwell, Mass.