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VOL. XXYI. LITITZ, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 5, 1902. NO. 13.
Published Ev^ry Friday Morning by
«. FRANK BUCH.
OFFICE—No. 9 S. Broad street, Lititz,
Lancaster County, Pa.
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give you a faint
idea of the stock we I
carry and shall en-deavor
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some idea of what can
be bought at our store.
"Written for t h e RECORD.
Even common thoughts to write,
Well I know, is joy to me ;
Grand ideas to indite,
Brings me'pure felicity.
Oh, the raptures one doth feel
Form to formless things to give !
That with pleasure makes one reel ;
That forsooth is life to live.
Oh, the blest creative art !
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While the flood of years rolls by,
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Men's Suits as low as
Men's Swagger Overcoats
Men's Reefers
Men's Working Coats
Men's Pants
$4.00, to $23-00
$5.50 to $11.00
$3-50
$2.00
90c to $3.50
Men's bestOveralls and Jumpers 50c
Men's good Working Shirts 50c
Men's Wool Shirts . $1.00
Men's Dress Shirts . 50c to $1.25
Boys' Suits from . . $2.00 and up
Boys' Good Overcoats . $2.00 to $4 50
Boys' Pants - , - - 40c and up
Boys' and Men's Sweaters, Boys' Brownies and
Overalls, Hats and Caps, Suspenders, Collars
and Cuffs, Ties, Gloves, Garters, Half Hose,
Umbrellas, Night Shirts, Pajamas.
A large line of Underwear, the A
No. 1 fleece-lined at 45 .cents, and
the best fitting White Shirt in the
market, called the
itillDJI
Record Building, Lititz,
W. H. BUCH.
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That has looks enough for the
dressiest dresser and wear enough
for the hardest wearer.
Made in all different leathers, all
the new toes and shapes, and in
Bluqher and plain lace. We are
really proud to be able to offer so
great a shoe for $3 and $3 50
OHAS. H. jriua X, Leader of Low Prices.
3 and 5 E. King St., Lancaster.
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Is not needed to sell our Hats,
Caps and Gloves. Values and
Prices speak for themselves and
form the reason for our steady
and ever-increasing patronage.
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Guns and Am munition,
Fishing Tackle,
Timothy Seed,
Fodder Twine.
D O N ' T F O R G E T O U R C H E AP
Ranges and Stoves.
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LITITZ, PA.
DO H O P E they won't all
blow away" said Mira to
herself, pattiDg the earth
in solidly above the seeds.
" I ' d like to surprise father
once with a real posy bed, like what
mother used to have when they was
first married.
She had made her flower bed on the
side of thé house likely to be the most
sheltered from the wind ; though no
one knew better than Mira Hayues,
after an almost lifelong acquaintance
with its freaks a n d fancies, t h e useless-ness
of a t t e m p t i n g to gauge t h e strength
or set t h e direction of a Nebraska gale.
Miry—Miry !" called a voice from
around t h e house.
Mira arose hastily, a n d gathered up
t h e little empty seed packets, thrust
t h em into her apron pocket, before an-swering
:
Yes, father. Why Pa Haynes,"
she continued, following her voice
around the corner, " you said you
wouldn't be up till plum 7 o'clock to-night.
The fire ain't even built for
supper! You a i n ' t broke down, have
y o u ? " Concern took the place of sur-prise
in her voice.
No, Miry, but two men want to
put up here for t h e night, so I came to
see. I reckon we'd better t ry to make
a place for them. Their team is pretty
well fagged out, and Clearwater is too
far to t r y for to-night."
" I f he had a place for t h em to sleep,"
began Mira, doubtfully.
" T h e y can have my bed, Miry, I
can b u n k down anywhere sich a night
ex this, a n ' they d i d n ' t want to go on
to town to-night, anyway. They want
to stop at t h e houses on t h e way."
Are they agents, f a t h e r ? " inter-rupted
Mira. The strangers were just
driving up to t h e barn in a light road
wagon.
" Yes, t h e r e ' r e a-sellin' steel ranges."
" Well, they can stay all night, of
course, I reckon, we can manage some
way—but you won't let t h em talk you
into buyin' one of them stoves, will
you, p a ? " Mira came close u p to her
father, and laid her hand somewhat
excitedly on his arm.
Her father shifted his eyes from her
face to the two men waiting at the
barn, a n d moved a little uneasily.
Why, Miry, you need a stove.
You said yourself, that the old one
couldn't hold out another winter ; an
you can't bake half—you know that,
Miry.'' There was something almost
pathetic in his insistence.
You h a v e n ' t bargained for one al-r
e a d y ? Father!"
" I laid out y o u ' d be m i g h t y pleased,
daughter, a u ' I meant to surprise you
only you have such a way of mistrust-
| i n ' everything. They say t h e y ' r e right
good stoves, Miry," he went on, ea-gerly;
" a n d jedging from the picter,
t h e y certainly air h a n d y ."
' B u t the money, father—you know
we haven't any money to pay for a
stove n o w ."
Her f a t h e r ' s face lost some of its un-easiness.
"Oh, t h a t ' s all right, Miry,
he said cheerfully. " T h e y a i n ' t warn-i
n ' their money. The stoves won't be
shipped till t h e first of September, au
I jest give a note to pay them. Harvest
will be over by t h a t time, a n ' I ' l l hev
t h e money all right. You do need i
stove, M i r y , " he added again, discover-i
n g from her face t h a t even t h e delayed
payment did not seem to set matters
right in her eyes.
Mary put a hand on both his arms
now, speaking hurredly, almost pant-ingly
:
Father, you haven't given them
your note, y e t . Tell ' em I d o n ' t wan't
t h a t k i n d of a stove. Tell 'em I have
my mind set on one down to Clear-water.
You can fix it up someway. I
d o n ' t w a n ' t you to give a note. 'Taint
safe, I had rather a n y t h i n g than you
would."
Why, Miry, I never looked for you
to feel that-a-way, or I wouldn't have
done it. They hed the note all made
out, a n ' a founting pen, a n ' I signed it
down to t h e field, I certainly air sorry,
honey."
" I t c a n ' t be helped, then, father,"
Mira tried-to speak unconcernedly, but
t h e white, drawn look about t h e mouth
disturbed her father.
" They let me hev it for fifty dollars,
bein' ez I was t h e fust one they struck
in this county ; and there a-selling reg-ular
for sixty-five. It was sich a bar-gain,
daughter,—an' if the harvest was
late, an' I didn't get grain enough
hauled off afore t h a t , why there's Kit,
you kuow, I kin get a hundred for her
a n y d a y ."
" K i t ! Oh, f a t h e r ! I ' d sooner use
t h e old stove a n ' eat charcoal crusts an'
r aw centers forever sooner! But t h e r e ,"
seeing his distressud look, " we needn't
to worry now. September's a long
way oft, and I'll reckon we'll scrape
t h e money together some way. Don't
you fret, pa, it'll come out all right.
You'd better go tell them men they
can stop—they appear to be gittin'
mighty uneasy about their lodgin'—an'
I ' l l h u r r y up supper."
Mira went into the house as she
spoke, and her father turned into the
path leading to t h e barn. He was not
an old man in years, but was of the
class t h a t age rapidly, and at 45 was
stooped and slow of step. People had
wondered, back in Illinois, w h a t Mira's
mother, who was a schoolma'am from
down east, had seen in Silas Haynes to
admire ; and some had even made so
bold as to put the question to Eunice
Newton herself, to be answered with
some asperity: They didn't kuow
Silas, she did !
Through the years of Eunice Haynes'
married life none had ever heard her
regret her choice or lay to Silas' charge
their straitened circumstances. So
trustful himself, and so loyal to his
friends; not even experience h a d taught
Silas Haynes to look for different traits
in others. There had been notes sign-ed
with friends, that had to be met
alone, and money loaned without se-curity
to those whose word was not as
good as their bond. The steel-range
men had not been the first agents that
had cajoled Silas into a purchase of
their wares, until a claim in Nebraska
had at last become a necessity.
The odds had finally proved too
heavy for Eunice, though t h a t her love
had never wavered there was ample
proof in her dying charge to 12-year-old
Mira :
Take care of father, Mira—dear,
dear pa !" And indeed, with all of t he
misfortune, a more devoted and affec-tionate
husband and father t h a n Silas
Haynes would have been hard to find.
But it had come t h a t Mira, at that
early age, had bade farewell to child-hood,
to assume the management of a
house—along with the care of pa ! She
had all of the thrift and ambition of
her Yankee ancestory, and had some
way been able to direct the financial
affairs of the household into more pros-perous
channels t h a n they had known
in years. Perhaps with his vernacular
of speech—Haynes was a Kentuckian
by b i r t h - she had likewise inherited
from her father sufficient other char-acteristics
to enable her the better to
understand and cope with the failings
t h a t had so perplexed t h e devoted wife.
' My daughter says you air welcome
to sich accommodations as we h e v , " an-nounced
Silas to the men, a n d assisted
in p u t t i n g up their team before attend-i
n g to his own, with the hospitality
t h a t came to h im like breath itself.
The strangers found the supper well
cooked and tasty, not w i t h s t a n d i n g the
defective stove. But when one of t h em
attempted a jocular, and what was
intended for a complimentary remark
in t h a t vein, h e was met by so discour-aging
a reply t h a t he hesitated bring-i
n g out t h e cuts of t h e new range, or to
dilate to his hostess upon its merits.
" I ' l l tell you what it i s , " he remark-ed
to his companion, after they had
retired to their room, it's a mighty
lucky t h i n g we tackled t h e old man in
t h e field. There wouldn't have been
any sale for us when that girl had her
say in. Yon can bet your profits
on t h a t !"
" We'll manage it so t h e profits will
be all r i g h t , " laughed the other. " I
only hope this country is full of just
such suckers as this old chap here."
I t was not t h e meeting of the fifty-dollar
payment alone t h a t weighed so
heavily upon Mira's mind. The girl
was an eager reader, a n d devoured any-t
h i n g in t h e way of printed matter t h at
came in her way—the supply was limit-ed
enough. It had only been a short
time ago, t h a t in t h e columns of a f a rm
journal, an item of something of the
following import met her eye:
" F a r m e r s have learned at last to
have an open eye for the lightning
rod gentleman and the man with the
fruit g r a f t s ; but it seems there are
always new lines along which the
sharper may get in his work. The lat-est
scheme is the steel range. As in
times past, in case a range is bargained
for, t h e obliging dealer greatly prefers
a note to cash in hand. Later the
farmer receives notice t h a t a neighbor-i
n g bank holds this note for collection
On investigation t h e note is found to
be raised one and even two ciphers,
f r om what was its original face—and
again the farmer pays for his experi-ence
!"
The necessity for looking after pa
had perhads given more significance to
t h e item, and the mention of their
guest's business had at once recalled it
to Mira's mind. The appearance had
not served to reassure her, and their
ill-judged laughter upon retiring to
their room confirmed h e r suspicions.
F i f t y dollars might be secured, even
if K i t , t h e favorite horse, h a d to be sac-rificed
; but five hundred dollars, or
possibly five thousand—Mira laughed,
a grim, ungirlish laugh, when her
thoughts h a d reached this height. The
whole place, homestead and tree-claim
stock and all, would not market for
two-thirds t h a t a m o u n t ; and she hop-i
n g they might soon begin laying a
little by!"
There was little use disclosing her
forebodings to her father now, though
she upbraided herself for not having
forewarned him. To t h e men had been
given her f a t h e r ' s room off' t h e kitchen.
Mira herself slept in t h e room opening
from the little sitting room, and she
had fitted up a bed for her father on
t h e lounge of t h a t room. Long after
he had forgotten the blandishments of
t h e importunate steel range men in
t h e sleep t h a t is t h e reward of honest
toil, his wakeful daughter on the
doorstep of their little home, still tried
to plan some means to escape disaster,
s h o u l d h e r w o r s e f e a r s . b e realized. It
was a clear, moonless night. What
breeze there was blew in her face where
she sat.
" I wonder w h en the wind has blown
from t h a t way before," she thought.
" F u n n y how t h e only chance to burn
off t h a t prairie father wants to break
should come at night. What a blaze
it would make in the d a r k !"
¡¡¡Whimsically, t h e thought of how a
prairie fire might affect their two guests
who were evidently quite new to the
country, occurred to her, bringing a
smile to her lips. With the thought
came, as an unexplained impulse, a
strange idea, t h a t as she sat, grew into
a resolve.
" I ' l l t r y it " she said, after a time.
Rising, she c a r e f u l ly closed t h e shutters
opening into the sitting room, and
stealing softly inside, she lowered the
shades.
I t was about 12 o'clock, when the
strangers were aroused by a r a p on the
door of t h e i r sleeping room.
" I thought I had better tell you,"
said a voice outside, " t h a t there's a
big prairie fire a-coming."
I t was a little more t h a n a minute be-fore
t h e y were dressed and at the front
door. A red line of flame stretched
across the entire width of an eighty
t h a t lay in t h e east. The fire was prop-ably
a half mile off now, but certain-ly
coming their way. At places where
t h e last season's grass was particularly
rank, the flames seemed reaching the
skies, again they hugged t h e ground in
a creeping serpent-like fashion. Ex-tending
far both to t h e n o r t h a n d south
of t h e houses a n d barns, a glance was
sufficient to force t h e peril of their sit-uation
upon t h e two men.
" G r e a t heavens !" exclaimed one of
t h e m e n , " it will burn everything up
h e r e ."
" I t looks like i t , " assented t h e girl,
calmly.
Her ui> concern reassured the men
for a u i n s t a n t . " Do you t h i n g there's
any danger ?" he asked.
• ' I reckon there is," she returned in
t h e same tone. ••
" W h e r e ' s your f a t h e r ? " asked the
other.
" Asleep, I reckon."
" W h y , for conscience's sake, girl,
d o n ' t you get h im u p ?"
" I f we're going to burn anyway,
there a i n ' t a n y use to call him. Pa's
seen a fire before, I thought maybe you
h a i n ' t ."
That t h e girl was frightened out of
all reason seemed evident to the two
men. One of t h em attempted' to call.
She only laughed at them, the verita-ble
laugh of a maniac.
There a i n ' t no use shoutin,' p a ' s a-layin'
on t h e ear h e a i n ' t deef i n ."
The fire was steadily approaching,
bringing unspeakable terror in its arms
of flame.
Do you suppose there would be any
chance to drive away from i t ? " ques-tioned
one to t h e other.
" There wasn't no escape for J o n ah
t h a t I ever heerd on, a n ' I reckon the
Lord's as good on a h u n t now as t h e n ,"
observed Mira.
The girl's clean crazy, Tom, shall
we h i t c h up and t r y for i t ?"
" 'Crazy,' " sneered Mira. " I won-der
what you be—thinkin' you can out-r
u n a prairie fire !"
Could you tell us what to do?"
cried t h e one called Tom, in despera-ation.
I might if I was minded to. It
looks like we was being punished for
harborin' of you ; an' I don't feel* to
send you off a-robbin' of any more
people w i t h your steel ranges."
" If you know how we could escape,
for God's sake say so ! How have we
harmed you ?"
" H o w have you harmed us?" repeat-ed
Mira. "Ask t h a t ? " A workin
poor pa into b u y i n g of one of your old
stoves so that you could steal our
whole place, maybe, I have heard of
your k i n d before. If you d o n ' t get to
but one house in this county, all the
better for t h e r e s t , " she added, with in-fierceness.
" I swear we weren't after you for
more t h a n t h e fifty dollars," began the
one eagerly.
" Will you show us how to get out of
here if we give you back t h e note ? " in-terrupted
t h e other. The moments for
pariey were growing short, with that
awful flame nearly a half mile nearer
now.
" I don't know as I ought to, an'
t u r n you loose o n other people," hesi-tated
Mira.
" W e won't strike another house in
t h e c o u n t y , " was t h e ready promise.
" G i r l , " ' s h o u t e d t h e other, " t e l l us
how to get out of here, a n d I ' l l promise
to give up t h e whole business."
" Well, t h e n , " assented Mira.
A lamp burned in the kitchen and
i n t h e l i g h t f r om t h e open door, t h e re-quired
slip of paper was procured and
handed to Mira. She pressed i t against
t h e window to make sure of her f a t h e r 's
signature, a n d then slipped it i n t o her
bosom.
" I ' l l help you to hook u p , " she
said.
The horses were ready to lead out.
Whether or not the phenomenon of
their being ready harnessed at t h at
hour of the night occurred to them,
later, there was too much at stake now
for questioning.
" D r i v e straight along this road, di-rected
Mira, when they were in the
wagon, " u n t i l you strike a grove of
young trees close a t your left. There's
a big field of breaking on t h e other side
—if you get past t h a t in time you won't
have to drive so f a s t ."
Even if swindlers t h e men were not
lacking in humanity. With the fire
pressing dangerously near,they lingered
long enough before p u t t i n g t h e i r horses
i n t o a run, to ask :
" W o n ' t you t r y to save yourself?"
'' I reckon pa and I will manage
somehow; returned Mira. " W e have
before."
Mira returned to t h e house, but not
to arouse her father, who still slept un-disturbed.
She stood at the door look-out
a t t h e sheet of flame.
The sound of the flying wheels had
not long ceased, when one head runner
after another leaped into the sky, fell
again to t h e ground, sent up a feeble,
gasping flicker, and then, died away,
until all along the line showed only
f a i n t ly t h e dull red glow of the ashes.
The prairie fire had reached its proper
limit, and had died a natural death at
t h e edge of t h e well-plowed fire-break.
The danger was now passed, though
with a mind alive to the tricks of
treachery t h a t a prairie fire m i g h t play,
Mira brought a chair a n d watched the
night out at the door. The smoke
came in her face a n d smarted her eyes,
and there were tears on her cheeks—but
t h e note was secure !
She was there in the early morning
when her father arose. The door into
t h e room t h a t had been occupied by
their guests was thrown open, tmd he
discovered that it was empty as he
came out.
' T h em men air s t i r r i n ' a i r l y , " he re-marked.
' Yes, t h e y wanted to get o f f , " mur-mured
Mira, and then added h a s t i l y:
I told t h em I d i d n ' t w a n ' t that steel
range, a n d t h e y give m e back t h e note."
' W h y , Mira, if t h a t wasn't clever of
t h em !" ejaculated Haynes, in pleasant
surprise.
' Yes and father t h e wind was just
right last night, so I burned off that
eighty we want to break this s p r i n g ."
'Well, Miry Haynes!" exclaimed her
father, stepping out to survey the
blackened field. " I f you don't beat
a l l . " A glance of pride back at his
daughter revealed how pale and worn
was her face. "You oughtn't t' hev
done it, child, you look al beat o u t ."
' Oh, I ' m all right, pa, I ' l l sleep
when you get out to work, p a " - and
Mira arose and took her father's faee
lovingly between her two hands—" I
wish you'd promise me never to buy
a n y t h i n g ag'in without lettin' me
know."
' I won't, Miry. I wouldn't hev
yesterday, only I kinder wanted to
surprise you." There was still au
under-strain of pathos in his tone.
' I t was beautiful of you, pa !" ex-claimed
Mira, impulsively. " You
a i n ' t h u r t nor n o t h i n ' because I d i d n 't
want i t ?"
'Why, no, honey !" returned Haynes
h e a r t i l y .
And then Mira pressed a kiss of
t h a n k s g i v i n g upon his lips.
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tlie Atlantic.
I t is a somewhat curious fact t h a t to
t h e average American " a u ocean voy-a
g e " means a voyage to Europe, which,
when he allows his thoughts to t u r n to
it as a n experience, presents itself to his
mind only as the long and expensive
t r a n s a t l a n t i c trip. He seems unaware
t h a t it is possible to take an enjoyable
" o c e a n voyage," coastwise, on a luxu-riously
appointed steamer a t a compara-tively
slight expenditure of time and
money." The Merchants and Miners
Transportation Company, whose ships
ply between Boston, Providence, Balti-more,
Newport News, Norfolk, Savan-nah
and Philadelpha, has, apparently,
noted this mental peculiarity of the
average American and taken measures
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full of interesting information about
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rates, its routes and its ports. It draws
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n g under the most comfortable circum-stances.
No transatlantic liner is a
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steel ships of t h e Merchants a n d Miners
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passengers through such pleasant wa-ters.
If you feel t h a t a brief and inex-pensive
-sea voyage would be a delight-ful
holiday for you, or if you have oc-casion
to make a journey n o r t h w a r d or
southward for business, it will pay you
to write a n y agent of the Company or
W. P. Turner, General PassengerAgent
of the Merchants and Miners Trans-portation
Company, Baltimore, Md.
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The latest suggestion for t h e solution
of t h e servant girl problem is embodied
in a plan adopted by t h e Chicago House-wives'
association.
According to t h i s plan serving maids
may hereafter be obliged to hold diplo-mas
issued by t h e association in order to
secure positions in the homes of mem-bers
of theorganizatiou. The testimon-ials
will be granted only after a maid
has been in one family a year and has
performed her duties with a certain de-gree
of proficiency. Real parchment
will be used a n d the holders will be de-scribed
"as satisfactory," "good" or
"remarkably efficient."
Graduate "cooks," " w a i t i n g maids,"
'ladies maids" and "laundresses" will
be t h e classes of household servants.
Riddles.
What is i t we often tell others to do
and c a n ' t do it ourselves? Stop a minute.
Why are teeth like verbs? Because
t h e y are regular, irregular and defect-ive.
Why is a spider a good correspond-ent?
Because he drops a line at every
post.
What is t h a t which the more you
take away f r om i t the larger it grows ?
A hole.
Why were gloves never meant to sell ?
Because t h e y were meant to be kept on
hand.
Why is a poor friend better t h a n a
rich one ? Because a friend in need is
a friend indeed.
Which is t h e only way a leopard can
change its spots ? By going f r om one
spot to another.
Why is t h e Danish coast a bad place
to go lor a quiet holiday ? Because of
t h e sound which is there.
What is t h e best early closing move-m
e n t ? To go to bed at 10 o'clock and
close your eyes in sleep.
What is it we all like to have, but
never want to keep? A good appetite.
Why is a corn-field like a galvanic
battery ? Because it produces shocks
When is a woman like a newspaper
article? When she appears in print.
Why is there never anybody at home
in a convent? Because it's a nun in
habited place.
Liquid Air.
" A few years ago, when liquid air was
new, we were told it would revolutionize
t h e power problem," says Amateur Me-chanics.
' 'A passenger t r a in was to r un
f r om N ew York to San Francisco on a
barrel or two, a n d a small express wag-on
would haul enough in one load to
take t h e largest steamer across the At-lantic.
Now it is unknown outside of
laboratories, and, in fact, only four uni-versities
in t h e country a r e equipped to
make it. Careful tests last week at
Cornell University demonstrated the
fact that a one-horse-power engine
working continuously for one hour
could produce only enough liquid air,
when converted into power, to run a
one-horse-power engine one m i n u t e ."
-The guide was showing h im t h e big
trees. "This o n e , " he said, "is suppos-ed
to be about two thousand years old."
What a twentieth century club it
would make!" commented t h e professor
lie Pronounced It "Budge."
Not very long ago a Western banker
called at t h e office of Haligarten & Co,
and asked for Mr. H e n r y Budge, says
t h e New York World. He pronounced
i t plain " Budge."
'You want to see Mr. Boo-jay ? " said
t h è office boy.
"No; I d o n ' t want to see Mr. Boo-jay
want to see Mr. Budge, " said the
banker.
" Well, there is no such man here, '
said t h e office boy.
"Yes, t h e r e is, " said t h e banker,
have been corresponding with him for
ten years. "
' H ow do you spell i t ? " asked t h e of-fice
boy.
"B-u-d-g-e, " said t h e banker.
" T h a t spells Boo-jay, " said t h e boy
"Well, it spells Budge in Kansas,
said the banker, " a n d I aint going to
boo-jay from this seat until I see Mr,
Budge."
—The pastor of a wealthy church in
Philadelphia always counts t h e collec-tion
himself. One Sunday morning he
made known t h i s fact to his congrega-tion
f r om t h e pulpit. "Brethren, when
1 look around this congregation this
morning I say, Where are the poor?
But when I shall get i n t o t h e vestry and
count t h e collection, w i t h its superfluity
of dimes a n d nickels, I shall exclaim,
Where are t h e rich ?"
Tourist Rates via the Seaboard.
Winter Tourist Tickets are now on
sale a t g r e a t ly reduced rates, via t h e Sea-board
Air L i n e Railway, to all points in
Florida, also to Cuba and Nassau, as
well as to Pinehurst, Camden and the
leading Southern Winter Resorts.
These Tickets are good for stop-over,
either going or coming, until t h e end of
t h e Winter Season.
The Seaboard is t h e short route f r om
t h e N o r t h a n d East to Florida and the
South A t l a n t i c States.
For f u r t h e r information and Book of
Winter Tours, apply to Agents of the
Seaboard Air Line Railway and those
of connecting lines. Also for " T h e Land
of Manatee," about a region on t h e west
coast of southern Florida, in three book-lets:
No. 1, Historical and Discriptive
No. 2, For Gardener a n d F r u i t Grower
No. 3, F o r Tourist a n d Sportsman. Ask
or send for t h e one you want.
C. B.RYAN, G. P . A.
Portsmouth, Va.
- T h e Custom House of t h e United
States admit all clerical robes a n d vest-ments
used in church services free of
duty. A clergyman not very long ago
landed in N ew York with a large collec-tion
of surplices, stoles and vestments,
and with a pair of trousers. The Cus-tom
House examiner passed t h e clerical
robes without a murmur. But he drew
a t t e n t i o n to the " p a n t s " with the re-mark
: "You must pay d u t y on these,
for o n l y those articles which you wear
in divine service a r e free of d u t y . " "My
good fellow," replied the cleric, "you
surely would not expect me to officiate
in my church without my 'pants
They were passed free of duty.
Out of the Mouth of a Child.
" P a , " said the seven-year-old,
heaven a nice place?"
"Yes, my little daughter,'' replied
t h e father. "It is said to be."
" B u t you will never know for sure
will you, p a p a ?"
THE OLD RELIABLE
POWDER Absolutely Pure
THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE
OVER THE STATE.
Safe-blowers secured $25 in t h e rail-road
station at Ligonier, near Greens-burg.
At a Salvation Army celebration at
Homestead an effigy of t h e devil was
burned.
Musicians of Allentown have organ-ized
a branch ot the American Feder-ation
of Music.
Caught between cars, Brakeman
George A. Littletown was seriously in-ured
at York.
About a dozen Pittsburg National
Guardsmen are to be Court-martialed
for failing to go to t h e mine regions.
The Westinghouse Company, at
Pittsburg, has received contracts for $7,-
000,000 worth of work in Australia.
York burglars show a strong prefer-ence
for sweetmeats a n d provisions.
A 7i-pound pike was caught with
rod a n d line by Jacob Mishler, of Car-lisle.
The Perry County Electric Railway
Company will build its line i n t o Dun-cannon.
Despondent because of t h e t h e recent
dearh of his wife, Charles Flemmings
committed suicide, at Easton by drink-i
n g laudanum.
F r a n k Thompson, of Philadelphia,
was arrested at Carlisle, charged with -
a t t e m p t i n g to burglarize the jewelry
store of F. C. Kramer.
The trio caught in t h e store of H. K.
Latshaw, at Jacksonville, Cumberland
County, was committed to jail as burg-lars
a t Carlisle.
A man who registered at the Lafay-e
t t e Hotel, Reading, as " M i l t o n Gerg-hart,
Reading," was found dead in his
room ; but no one in the city appeared
to k n ow him.
Two 16-year-old girls of North
Scrantou were brought home from Dan-ville,
by their fathers. They went there
renew acquaintances made with
members of the 12th Regiment while
t h e command was s'ationed at North
Scranton during the latter part of the
coal strike.
Pennsylvania Limited struck a
wagon on the Morrellville crossing,
near Johnstown, and instantly killed
Robert Bricken, aged 14, who was rid-i
n g on the rear end.
Several valuable head of cattle be-longing
to Joseph Smith, of Dreibelbis,
Berks county, died from lead poison-ing.
In some unknown manner they
obtained white lead while grazing in a
field.
Grief over t h e death of her sou, Reg-ister
of Wills H a r r y F. Longnecker,
who died several weeks ago, caused the
death of Mrs. Godfrey Peter, a well-known
resident of Allentown.
The health authorities of Schuylkill
county are greatly agitated over t h e es-cape
of Thomas Brenuan, a smallpox
suspect, who escaped from an outbuild-i
n g of the Schuylkill County Alms-house,
where he was being temporarily
held. He was recaptured, but not be-fore
he had visited seyeral homes at
Schuylkill Haven and had received a
change of raiment at one of them.
Louisa Keefus, 21 years old, who
boarded on Jefferson street, Phila., com-mitted
suicide by t a k i n g a large dose of
roach poison. She was broken-hearted
over a letter which she received from a
young man to whom she had been en-gaged
to be married. •
While F r a n k Shingle, 30 y e a r i old,
of Douglassville, was walking over the
Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, which
spans t h e Schuylkill at t h a t place, he
was struck by a passenger train and
hurled iuto the river twenty-five feet
below. Being so badly injured t h a t he
could not swim, he would have drown-ed
but for the train crew, who pulled
h im out as he was sinking.
An Apt Answer
A Sunday-school teacher recently told
her class about the cruelty of docking
horses. "Can any little girl tell me,"
she said, "of an appropriate verse of
Scripture referring to such t r e a t m e n t ?"
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Hermit of The Woods C h a n g e s His
Abode.
Gottlieb Grohdvohl, an eccentric Ger-man,
who has lived the last ten years
in open air in t h e Conewago Hills, has
decided to change his residence, and
with his three faithful dogs has gone to
t h e S w a t a r a H i l l s , in Dauphin county.
Gottlieb lived in a field close to a woods,
practically without any shelter. His
only associates were his dogs. He lived
in this manner t h e greater portion of a
half century.
—On Thursday, Dec. 26, 1832, the
first street cars began r u n n i n g in New
York city.