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VOL. XXVII. LITITZ, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 18, 1903. NO. 15.
Published Ewry Friday Morning by
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S i JjES, professor, I am afraid I
shall have to rent or sell
the farm ; my wife is so
miserable. I cannot carry
it on without hiring, and hiring eats
up all the profits."
I looked at the speaker admiringly.
He was about 50 years old, and as ro-bust
as a man of 30. His whiskers
were neatly trimmed, showing a full,
red cheek. He wore a jaunty hat and
natty cutaway coat, and below his vest
hung a single fob and heavy gold seal.
I was proud of him. He was such a
perfect specimen of a New York gen-tleman
from the rural districts that I
wanted to imprint his picture on my
memory.
"So your wife is miserable?''
"Yes. Kinder drooping, with a dry
cough and no ambition. She just
kinder drags around the house and
looks so peaked and scrawny it gives
me the blues. It does, I swan."
"Naturally weakly, wasn't she ?''
"She! Oh, no. When I married
her, she was the smartest girl on the
creek. She used to work for my father,
and the way she made the work stand
around took my eye. She was a poor
girl and her industry got her a rich
husband."
Here he took out a gold watch, look-ed
at the time, put it back and adjust-ed
the silk fob on the front of his nice-ly
fitting trousers.
"So she did well, getting married
on account of her industry ?"
Why, of course. She was getting
only $2.50 a week, and she became
mistress of a farin."
"Excuse me, but how much are you
worth now—confidentially, you know?
I am a scientific man and will never
use such facts to your injury with the
assessor."
'Well, professor, I could crowd
>,000 pretty hard."
'That is good. How long have you
been married ?"
"Thirty years next fourth of July.
We went down to Albany on a little
teeter, and I proposed the match and
Jane was willing."
How much do you suppose you
have made in these 30 years ?''
"Hum—am—lemme see. I got the
Davis farm the first ten years, then I
run in debt for the Simmons place, got
war prices for my cheese and squared
up both places. Well, I think I have
cleared up $30,000 since we spliced."
"Very good indeed. And your wife
has been a great help all this time ?"
•'Oh, you bet! She was a rattler!
She took care of her baby and the
milk from 20 cows. I tell you she
made the tinware flop! Why, we have
had four children, and she never had a
hired girl over six months in that
time."
"Splendid, and you have cleared
$30,000 in that time?''
'•Yes, easy."
"Now, how much has your wife
made?"
She ? Why, durn it, professor, she
is my wife."
I know it. But what has she made?
You say she was poor when you mar-ried
her. Now, what has she made?"
Why, you beat all! Why, she is
my wife, and we own it all together."
Do you? Then she can draw on
your bank account ? Then she has a
horse and carriage when she wants
them? Then she has a servant girl
when she wants one ? Then she rides
out for her health and carries a watch
and gold chain as you do? Is that
so?"
"Professor, you must be crazy. No-body's
wife is boss in that shape. Who
ever heard of such a thing ?"
"Now, look here. You say she did
well in marrying rich, and I cannot
see it. If she was getting $2.50 per
week when you married her and had
saved her wages, she would have had
now $3600.
If she had invested it, she would
have had $5000. Now you tell me she
is broken down, used up and miser
able, and looks so badly she makes you
sick, and she has no money, no help
and will probably get nothing but a
Scotch granite tombstone when she
dies."
"Professor, if you were a younger
man, I would lick you quicker'n a
young lamb can jump a thistle."
"What for? I am stating this case
fairly, am I not ? Your wife is no
longer young. She is no longer hand-some.
Her hands are as hard as
local editor's cheek, and she has
stooped over a milk can until she has
a hump on her back like a peddler.'
"Shut up, will you ?''
"She has raised four children. One
of them is at college. One is taking
music lessons in Boston. The other
two are teaching school. She is at
home alone, going around in a tread-mill
life which will end in a rosewood
coffin and a first class country funer-al"—
"Stop that, professor, will you ?"
"While you are still a handsome
man, with just enough gray in your
whiskers to make you look interest-ing.
No doubt you have been think-ing
of some nice young girl ot 18 who
would jump at the chance to marry
your 30 cows and 20 acres of hops."
"Professor, I won't stay here if you
don't let up on that.''
"And your wife does not look well
in that new Watertown wagon, so you
take your hired man and neighbor's
girls to meeting. Your wife never
goes anywhere, so you do not get her
a watch like your own, nor a new silk
dress, nor a pony that she could drive,
nor a basket phaeton that she could
climb into without a ladder. She
never says anything, so you have not
got her a set of teeth like youroivn,
gold and rubber, and her nose is push-ed
up into her forehead and her face
wrinkles. She never goes out. She
has to work in the kitchen, so she gets
no nice shoes like yours "
"Darn my skin if I don't"—
"No you won't. You will just let
her work right along, and then^you
will marry some high flier who will
pull every hair out of your head and
serve you right, too."
"Professor, for mercy sake, stop!''
"When you know, and I know, that
if your wife had a chance to rest and
had nice clothes like other women she
would be one of the best looking wo-men
of her age in the town."
"I swan I believe it."
"And, old as she is, if you were to
get out the carriage next Sunday and
drive around with the colts and tell
her you wanted her to go to meeting
with you she would actually blush
with pleasure."
"Darned if I don't do it."
"Then, Monday, if you were to tell
her you were going to hire a girl, and
that she must sit in the sitting room
by the new nickel-plated coal stove
and work on that new silk dress you
are going to buy her"—
"Professor, that's me."
"And then hand her a nice wallet
with steel clasps and with five nice
new $20 notes in it, and tell her to do
her own trading after this, because you
have got tired looking after so much
money."
'I will, as sure as you live."
'And then, when the tear starts in
her eye, and the same old blush comes
out that you thought was so nice when
you went on that teeter to Albany, if
you would kiss her''—
"It's all right, Professor."
"Then my friend, I should begin to
think she had made something by
marrying a rich man."
"You're right, old man."
"Then I think you wouldn't have a
miserable wife any longer. Then you
would no longer want to sell or rent
the farm, but would be showing the
mother of your children how much
you respected her for her life of devo-tion.
Then she would know she was
a partner in that $30,000. Then, if you
made your will all right, and she had
a good rest, I think she would some
time be an eligible widow."
;'Think so, Professor?"
T know it. Woman is a plant that
wants sunshine. You have been leav-ing
your wife in the shade too much.
She has lost her color. You have made
her think she is an old woman. She
has given up all hope of admiration
and love, and is only waiting to die
and get out of the way. Suppose you
were treated so?"
"What, me ? I am all right."
"Yes, I know. Women pity you
because you are tied to such a sorry
looking wife. Foolish old maids and
silly girls whisper behind your back
what a nice looking man you are, and
what a stick of a wife you have, and
you are just soft enough to wear tight
boots and oil what little hair you have
left on the top of your head and go
around figuring up how long before
your wife will die."
"Say now, see here, professor, there
is a limit to endurance. I am go-ing."
"I am coming down to see you next
week. Will it be all right ?"
"Yes, if you drop this kind of talk
and won't tell of my complaints about
my wife. I'll try your medicine.
Would you stick for that prescription
about the pocketbook and $20 notes ?
"How much did you say you had
made together ?''
"I cave. The dress will be all right,
and the pony and phaeton will be
handy for the gals. Come down and
see us, old man, bnt not a word about
this talk. If you wasn't an old man,
I'd"—
Tipping his derby back on his head
and shaking the wrinkles out of his
tight trousers, he put his hands into
his pockets and sauntered away.
"There," said I, "is one man who
has taken the only legal and God given
way of getting rid of a miserable
wife."
—The successful money-maker is
often a dismal failure as a spender.
—The fast young man is all right if he
isn't going in the wrong direction.
National Banks.
Y o u t h ' s C o m p a n i o n.
Sihce March, 1900, when the act per-mitting
the organization of national
banks with twenty-five thousand dol-lars'
capital became a law, nearly seven-teen
hundred new national banks have
been organized. This is about
one-half as many as there were before
the new law was passed. The majority
of the new banks have started with the
minimum capital. Many of them
have been old state or private banks,
which sought the privileges of the na-tional
banking act and gaye in return
to their depositors the security which
the provisions of that act insure.
The object of the law was to give safe
and sound banking facilities to the citi-zens
of the small towns, and to attract
capital to those towns. The figures
quoted seem to indicate that there was
an urgent demand for such legislation.
I t is of great importance to every
community that its business men shall
be able to obtain money when they
need it. The merchant may desire to
build a new store, and he must borrow
part of the cost; the farmer's barns may
need enlarging, and he has not ready
money till after his crops have been
sold; the lawyer plans a new house,
and he cannot erect it unless he can
borrow.
Of course if it were possible or wise
for a man always to postpone expan-sion
of business facilities until he had
the ready money to pay for the needed
improvements, banks would not be so
necessary; but much business is done
on borrowed capital. It is borrowed
money that builds railroads and erects
large office buildings. Managers and
promoters hire money just as they hire
men, and that town in which money
can be obtained easily by its enterpris-ing
citizens is the town which flourishes.
Open the Cab Window.
Wm. C. Whitney, of N. Y., has for
several years past made it a rule to keep
the window of his cab open whatever
the weather might be. To this he attri-butes
much of his good health and he
began the practice under the advice of
a doctor.
He is assured by this means of being
from an hour or two in the open air
whatever his duties may be. Of course
he is too much occupied to walk to and
from his office.
Physicians all advise fresh air now
for the maladies to which the wealthy
are subject. For uric acid troubles and
all forms of gout, patients are told to re-main
as much ta the open «ir as they
can, since it has a most beneficial effect
on them.
" A man sitting in the hot and smoky
air of a cafe for several hours," said a
doctor to a reporter the other day,
may do himself almost as much harm
as if he were drinking, although he
does not touch a drop. The bad air has
almost the same influence on health.
" I t is for that reason that so many
men of wealth have adopted the habit
of riding with their cab windows open
as they go to and from business.
Effacing Herself.
I t is commonly supposed that a wo-man,
no matter what her previous—or
future—condition of servitude, feels en-titled
to be most conspicuous figure at
her own wedding. A clergyman, re-calling
some of his experiences in
Washington Post, tells of one exception
to the rule.
It was his first wedding, and was per-formed
at his house. The bride and
groom were strangers to him. She was
fully six feet tall and broad in propor-tion,
while his head reached barely to
her shoulders as they entered the room.
The clergyman learned afterward that
she was extremely sensitive about the
disparity in their sizes, and he had
good reason to believe, for as they went
forward to take their places and the
witnesses began to come in, the bride-groom
halted and moved a chair for-ward.
The bride looked at the clergy-man
in evident embarrassment. Then
she seated herself in resolutely.
" I 'm feeling faint," she said. "If
you don't inind, I think I'll take it sit-ting."
And with as much gravity as he could
muster, the clergyman performed the
ceremony with the bride in the chair.
The Family Pew.
In principal religion the English aris
tocracy of the present day is in advance
of that of a generation ago. There is
just as much private charity and more
organized charity, but the village
church is no longer the center of do-mestic
affection. In the old days, says
the author of a recent boot on social
changes in England, it was inseparably
connected with memories of ancestry
and parentage and early association.
All the family had been christened in
the village church; the eldest sister
had been married iu it. Generations
ot ancestry moldered under the chancel
floor. Christmas decorations were an
occasion of much innocent merriment.
Religious people, of whatever persua-sion,
regarded church-going as a spir-itual
privilege, but even those who, were
not very religious recognized it as a
civic duty. "When a gentleman is sur
ses terres," said Major Pendennis, "he
must give an example to the country
people; and if I could turn a tune, I
even think I should sing. The Duke
of St. David's, whom I have the honor
of knowing, always sings in the country,
and let me tell you, it has a doosed fine
effect from the family pew."
Before the passion for "restoration"
set in and changed the parish churches
of Engand, the family pew was the ark
and sanctuary of the territorial system.
It had a private entran.ee, a round table,
a good assortment of arm-chairs, a fire-place
and a wood-basket.
"You may restore the church as much
as you like," said au old friend of the
author, who was a lay rector, to an in-novating
incumbent, "but I must in-sist
on my family pew not being touch-ed.
If I had to sit in an open seat I
should never get a wink of sleep again."
Smallpox Epidemic in Pennsylvania
Towns.
An epidemic of smallpox has broken
out at Spangler, a little mining town
in Cambria county. Twenty cases
have already been reported to the au-thorities,
two of which are in the
Westover Hotel, which is under quar-antine
with thirty people inside. The
people of Spangler generally are op-posed
to vaccination, and for that rea-son
many of them have not been vac-cinated
; neither have their children.
On Thursday, at the advice of the
health authorities, physicians called
at the public schools to vaccinate the
scholars, but the teachers locked the
doors and refused to admit them. The
schools will be closed until the epi-demic
is checked.
The village of Time, iu Greene
county, is in the throes of an epidemic
of smallpox. There are about fifty
cases and scarcely a family in the dis-trict
is free from the scourge. The dis-ease
was at first diagonized as chicken-pox.
The contagion spread rapidly, as
there was no quarantine. The schools
have now been closed and additional
physicians have been called in.
Toy Pistol Outlawed in Chicago.
The Chicago Post says: "The value of
the toy pistol ordinance, or rather
amendment to the firearms ordinances
of the city, lies wholly in its enforce-ment.
We have laws. State and muni-cipal,
prohibiting the sale or lending of
firearms to minors as well as the dis-charge
of firearms within the city lim-its,
but who would know that these
laws exist, judging simply by the man-ners
in which they are enforced ? Prac-tically
they have been dead letters for
years. In view of the great number of
deaths and disabling injuries—4,500 in
the United States for the last Fourth of
July—attributed chiefly to this danger-ous
and senseless toy, we may have an
energetic effort to enforce the law for a
time, and consequently the next Fourth
of July may have a much shorter cas-ualty
list than those of recent years.
The amended ordinance provides for
this. It imposes a penalty of $100 for
any one who "shall sell, loan or furnish
any toy gun, or toy pistol, or toy fowl-ing
piece, or other toy firearm in which
any explosive substance can be used."
It Wasn't Good Form.
George Davis, a member of one of Bal-timore's
old families, has recently been
visiting in Denver. He was returning
to his hotel from a dinner party when
he was held up by footpads. They
went through his pockets and were
much disappointed at the result—35
cents. "Where is your watch?" de-manded
one of the robbers gruffly.
"My watch!" exclaimed Davis, with
his highly cultivated English. "My
goood fellow, don't you know it is
beastly bad form to wear a watch with
evening clothes?" "Well, I'll be
d-—d," said the robber, as he calmly
twisted the pearl studs out of his vic-tim's
shirt front. " 'Tain't good form,
eh ? Well let's see what kind of form
you can show traveling down the
street." Mr. Davis traveled, doubtless
well pleased to get away from the com-pany
of such ill-bred fellows.
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Most Recent Fad.
The fad for pets is growing all the
time, and every young woman has a
dozen or more animals of various
species upon which she lavishes much
affection. The raccoon is one of the
new ideas. They are considered ex-tremely
neat, as they persist in wash-ing
all the food given to them before
eating it. Toy dogs of all kinds are,
of course, always en regie. A New
York society woman has a wee white
dog which she can put in her muff,
and which is voted "too sweet" and
"too cute" by all her friends. It does
not seem to be much larger than a spar-row,
and it is warranted not to grow.
Dogs even take on such a human in-terest
and are made such friends of the
family that recently on the death of a
well known man a near relative has put
all her dogs in mourning, and they pa-rade
Fifth avenue with crepe blows.
One especial pet has all its blankets
this winter in black, with only silver
monograms.
Cigars, $4.50 Each.
A report from Cuba says that a parcel
of the dearest cigars in the world, 1,500
in number, has just been despatched
from the famous Vuelto-Abajo tobacco
fields in Cuba, for the consumption of
of an American multi-millionaire
smoker. The price of one of these ci
gars is equal to $4.50. None but the
most faultless leaves are used in their
production. The making of them is
restricted to the most experienced work-ers,
who can only make a few cigars a
day. Every cigar is wrapped in fine
Japanese paper and enclosed in a small
air-tight box of perfumed wood.
How Insects Make Music.
The grasshopper has a wing that is
very curious to look at. You have seen
this little insect, I have no doubt. Its
color is light green, and just where the
wing joins the body there is a thick
ridge, and another on the wing. On
this ridge there is a thin but strong
skin, which makes a sort of drumhead.
I t is the rubbing of these two ridges
or drumheads together which makes
the queer noise you have heard. There
is no music in it, certainly. The insects
could keep quiet, if they wished, but
they must enjoy making the noise.
The grasshopper sometimes makes
two rubs on its drumhead, and some-times
three. The moment it is very
dark they begin. Soon the whole com-pany
is at work. As they rest after
rubbing, it seems as if they answered
one another.
Did you know that bees hum from
under their wings ? It is not the stir of
those beautiful light wings we hear- It
is the air drawing in and out of the air
tubes in the bee's quick flight. The
faster the bee flies the louder the hum-ming
is. Did you know that insects
feel? They have nerves all over them,
through their wings and out to the end
of every feeler.
Briefly Told.
The proportional increase in the popu-lation
of the cities was less during the
last ten years than previously.
Most reptiles are notoriously deaf, ex-cept
caymans and crocodiles ; the boa
seems absolutely so.
Thirty-seven per cent, of the Ameri-can
people now live in cities of more
than 4,000 inhabitants.
The surplus of the Western Union
Telegraph Company has risen, as shown
by the reports just issued to $13,619,000.
Fifty-nine per cent of deaths from
consumption are people under 45 years
of age; 29 per cent, from 45 to 60, and
12 per cent, of people over 60.
In nearly every street in Japanese
cities is a public oven where for a small
fee, housewives may have their dinners
and suppers cooked for them.
Land in Castile is in greater part de-voted
to the production of wheat, and
during planting and harvest times labor-ers,
especially reapers, are brought
hither from Galicia.
THE OLD RELIABLE
Man and Woman.
A man will run as fast as he can to
cross a railroad track in front of a train,
Then he will watch it till it goes out of
sight. Then he will walk leisurely
away. He seems to be all right and
probaby is. That is a man.
A woman in a street car will open a
satchel and take out a purse, take out a
dime and close the purse, open the
satchel, put in the purse, close the
satchel, and lock both ends. Theu she
will give the dime to tne conductor,
who will give her a nickel back. Then
she will open the satchel and take but
the purse, put in the nickel, close the
purse, close the satchel and lock both
ends. Then she will feel for the buckle
at the back of her belt.
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Absolutely Pure
THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE
Sermons in Sentences.
Grumbling is the child of greed.
Sincerity is never self-conscious.
I t takes all of life to know all of love.
Style is no substitute for sterling
strength.
Character may be sold, but it cannot
be bought.
The Jife that does no good is guilty
of much harm.
The hope of this world is in the hard
things we have to do.
No man moves this world until he is
profoundly moved himself.
I t takes more than a bellows in the
pulpit to start a fire in the church.
What Americans Consume.
We drink about our own weight of
liquid every three months and Ameri-cans
consume a little more than 3
pounds of solid food per day each. We
get away with about $5,000,000,000
worth of food and drink per year. We
consume about 1,200 pounds of food per
year as a fair national average, and
physiologists tell us that a man needs
1,600 pounds, a woman 1,200 and a child
from 500 to 1,000, so that we are pretty
nearly correct or a fairly well fed
people.
Settles Accounts in Odd Way.
Morris Bailey, for 38 years a practic-ing
physician of Titusville, Pa., cele-brated
his 85th birthday recently in a
novel manner. On his books were ac-counts
uncollectable, extending over
half a century of time, and amounting
in the aggregate to about forty-two
thousand dollars. These he consigned
to the flames on his birthday. He has
$1,000 worth of accounts remaining
which he expects to "settle in the same
manner."
Woman and Little Things.
A man may look at life as through
field glasses. He gives himself a wide
horizon, and does not always heed the
things which lie nearest him. A wo-man
has more of the microscopic in-stinct.
She sees the importance of lit-tle
things, and that is how so many
have genius enough to make $10, or
even less, provide the necessities of a
household.
An Inch of Truth.
Dr. David Kennedy's new medicine,
Cal-ccura Solvent, has been successful
in cases which have baffled good doc-tors;
and what it has done it may be
trusted to do again. Whether your
trouble be acute or chronic the result
will be the same; only in old cases you
must be faithful and patient. For full
information and a free sample bottle
write to the Cal-cura Company, Ron-dout,
N. Y. 1
OYER THE STATE.
While one of the doctors at the Allen-town
Hospital was passing his hand
across the back behind the shoulder
blade of Edward M. Deysher, who was
accidentally shot on December 1, he
noticed a slight protuberance. An in-cision
revealed the bullet, which had
passed clean through the right lung.
Deysher is rapidly recovering.
John Schnell, aged 42 years, commit-ted
suicide by shooting himself at the
home of his brother in Big Creek, about
3 miles from Lehigh ton. There is no
known cause for the deed.
Three men of Mt. Joy, who were ar-rested
by Fish Warden Criswell, of
Steelton, for illegal fishing, each paid
8.45 for their sport.
A West Chester trolley car struck a
carriage occupied by Dr. John Clark, of
Philadelphia, who narrowly escaped
serious injury or death, and whose driv-er,
named Davis, was badly hurt.
Two fathers, of Slatington, were ar-rested
for allowing children under 13
years of age to work in their school-slate
factory.
Mrs. Sarah Langley, of McKeesport,
aged 56 years, a widow, living with her
son Edward, aged 24, was mistaken by
her son recently for a burglar and
was shot at by him 3 times. One bullet
took effect and the woman is in a seri-ous
condition.
While three brothers were playing
Indians at Pittsburg, Warren Fry was
shot dead, Henry, aged 13, and Ben-amin,
aged 15, Were armed with Flobert
rifles, and were chasing the little fellow,
who hid behind a bed. Benjamin aim-ed
his rifle and snapped the trigger, the
gun being unloaded. Henry did the
same, forgetting that the night before
he had placed a cartridge in the rifle.
The bullet struck Warren in the right
cheek and lodged in his brain.
Armed with whips and carrying a
kettle of tar, 30 men set out to "white
cap" John Carmody, a 15-year-old boy.
Carmody had been working for L. C.
Eaton, of Lawrenceville, and when
sensational stories affecting the good
name of a prominent lady in the village
were, circulated they were traced to
Carmody aud found to be false. This
aroused the wrath of the villagers, and
the men, who were masked, resolved to
give the young man a coat of tar and
feathers. The boy, however, antici-pated
the attempt and fled to Buffalo,
N. Y., where his mother resides.
Franklin and Marshall College de-baters
beat a State College team and
made it appear that labor unions do not
injure the country's industrial welfare.
William Duff, a crippled tramp,
sought the shelter of a barn at Seven
Valley, York County, and was terribly
injured by a fall and almost frozen to
death.
For assisting in the shooting to death
of Jacob Risher, at Mt. <>rmel, Wil-liam
Swift was convicted of second de-gree
murder at Sunbury.
*/ sleep well enough at night,
And the blamedest appetite
Ever mortal man possessed. "
Riley's farmer is the very picture of a
man advanced in years, yet in the enjoy-ment
of peffect health, A good appe-tite,
good digestion and sound sleep, are
the chief factors in
a vigorous old age.
Life is sustained
by food, When; it is
properly digested
ana assimilated.
When digestion
fails, there is a loss
of nutrition which
soon shows itself
in physical weak-ness,
nervousness,
sleeplessness, ete.
Doctor Pierce's
Golden Medical
Discovery cures
diseases of the
stomach and other
organs of digestion
aud nutrition. It
strengthens the
body in the only
way possible,—by
enabling the as-similation
of the
nutrition extracted
from food.
«I used ten bottle»
of Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical D i s c o v e ry
and several vials of
his 'Pleasant Pellets'
a year ago this sçring,
and have had no trouble with indigestion since,»
writes Mr. W. T. Thompson, of Townsend,
Broadwater Co., Montana. "Words fail to tell
how thankful I am for the relief, as I had suf-fered
so much and it seemed that the doctors
could do me no good. I got down in weight to
125 pounds, and was not able to work at all.
Now X weigh nearly 160 and can do a day's work
on the farm. I have recommended your medi-cine
to several, and shall always have a good
word to say for Dr. Pieicë and his medicines."
The Common Sensé .-Medical Adviser,
1008 pages, in paper covers, is sent free
on receipt of 21 one-cent stamps to; pay
expense oi mailing only. Address Dr»
R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.