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THE LITITZ RECORD
An Independent Family Newspaper, Devoted to Literature, Agriculture, Local and General Intelligence.
SVOL. XXVIII. LITITZ, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 9, 1904- NO. 13.
Published Ev*a*y Friday Morning foj
J. FRANK BUCH.
OFFICE—No. 9 S. Broad street, Lititz,
Lancaster County, Pa.
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W. H. BUeH'S
STORE NEWS
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THE season has come for the use
of these goods. An Overcoat
is just what you should wear
at present and not go until you have
contracted a cold for t h e want of it.
The saying, lock the stable after the
horse is stolen—wear the coat before
you have the cold. Before you buy
come and look my stock over. A
flue line to select from. I have the
long, short and medium lengths and
at reasonable prices. The Coat
called the Oxford at present is the
best styled Coat, neatly made, vel-vet
collar, long, good trimmings,
$7.50 and $12.00. Boys' $3.00 to
$5.00 and the YouDg Men's, $5.00
to $7.50.
An Up=to=Date
Line of
Clothing;
To select from. A good line of Boys'
School Suits, $1.50 to $5.00. Some
have the Vests with the Short Pants.
Just what most boys like. You
should see my line before you buy.
A dependable line of merchandise.
HATS, CAPS AND A
GENERAL LINE OF
FURNISHING GOODS
W. H. BUeH
South Broad Street = - Lititz, P . a .
LITITZ, PA.
I n d e p e n d e n t Telephone N o 22
Will you let us fit you in a pair of Winter Shoes, if you are promptly and
politely waited upon ; rightly fitted and you get the best style your price will
purchase?
If you get the utmost comfort that can be put into a shoe; and have the
guarantee of a straight-out shoe house ; to have any complaint, no matter how
slight, promptly satisfied, and to know that you get a dollar's worth for every
dollar you pay,
HOW ABOUT IT?
3 and 5 East King St.,
Lancaster, Pa. eHHS. H. FREY
For a Present-Get a Diamond
Always appreciated—besides a good i n v e s t m e n t . We h a v e t h e l a r g e s t s e l e c t i o n a j
lowest prices. Some e x c e p t i o n a l l y fine Stones.
HOLIDAY GOODS—Just s t e p inside our door a n d get a glimse of t h e b a r g a i ns
—a s i g h t y o u w o n ' t soon f o r g e t.
HENRY WEEBER
7 WEST KING STREET LANCASTER, PA.
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Moore & Reitz,
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COAL,
LUjTIBER,
Farming
Implements,
PHOSPHATE,
HAY AND STRAW,
SLATE, PAVING STONE,
MILLWORK,
MILL WAY, - - PA.
Highest Market Price Paid .
for Grain. ,
A Large Stock of Mill
Feed always on hand.
HAVE YOU
SEEN
The new way in which
we are getting up photo-graphs
?
It's a Platino Carbon
put up in folder form.
Very pretty and get-ting
to be very popular.
WOLF
THE PHOTOGRAPHER
22 N. Queen St., Lancaster* Pa.
LANCASTER, PA. 0
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Don't fail to see and price
our large line of
Stoves
Heaters and Ranges
Wringers
Washing Machines
Terra Cotta Pipe
Hardware, Cement
Paints, Glass
A. R. BOMBERGER, LITITZ, P A.
REMINDERS'
MACHINE gHOP
BOILERS, ENGINES and all
k i n d s ol new M a c h i n e r y a n d Repair
work of a n y •kind la the machine
shop.
STEAM a n d HOT W A T E R HEAT-I
N G a specialty.
G r i n d i n g of tools, s aw filing, grind-i
n g and repair of a g r i c u l t u r a l ma-c
h i n e r y , engine and boiler repairs,
pipe c u t t i n g a n d fitting, etc.
P r i c e s reasonable; satisfaction
g u a r a n t e e d . Give us a call.
H. W. R E M M E RS
S05 E A S T MAIN ST.
EST. 1857.
6R0ST8 G i l l I IS
Cor. Apple and Centre Sts.
NEW WORK MADE TO ORDER
Fine Jenny Lind just finished
at a Bargain
Repairs Promptly Attended To
The Grosb Carriage Co.
WE LIVE BUT ONCE.
W r i t t e n for t h e RECOKD.
We live b u t once; hence l e t us t ry
To m a k e our l i v e s so t r ue
That every m i n u t e passing by
New t r u t h shall b r i n g t o view.
One life is q u i t e e n o u g h t o win
The l a u r e l s of renown,
If one will b u t a r i g h t begin
The s t r u g g l e for l i f e ' s crown.
One life is q u i t e enough to t a s te
The bliss of hope a n d joy,
If one will n o t a m o m e n t waste,
But'vreil his t i m e employ.
One life is q u i t e enough t o g a in
E ' e n i m m o r t a l i t y;
E x e m p t i o n , too, f r om grief a n d pain
For a l l e t e r n i t y.
A. S. B.
ISA,
THE
HAYMAKER.
I n d . P h o ne
7SA
^ f REGULAR Amazon !" said Fred
A— Mallandaine, shrugging his
jl shoulders. "On the very top
of a load of hay, with a straw
hat pulled down over her eyes and a
pitchfork in her hand !''
"Now, Fred," called out his sister
Nellie, "you are talking arrant non-sense
!"
"A rnan must believe his senses,"
said Mallandaine. "I asked for Miss
Fane, and the ancient beldame who
was shelling peas by the kitchen win-dow
pointed one skinny forefinger
across the fields and answered, 'There
she is a-gettin' in the hay. They all
stirs round liyely in these parts when
there's a shower comin' up. You'll
find her in the hayfield.' "
"And you ?" questioned Nellie.
Mr. Mallandaine smiled ironically.
" I ?" said he. "You must bear in
mind that I was looking for a young
lady, not for a farm boy's assistant;
so I j u s t turned around and came home
again."
"But there must be some mistake !"
cried out impetuous Nellie. "My Flor-ence
Fane is a princess among women,
tall and slender and graceful, who
plays the harp and writes delicious
little essays and—•''
"There was neither harp nor writ-ing
desk on the top of that load of
hay," said Ted, very decidedly. "And,
pray, Nell, don't be oflended, but I am
rather disenchanted with your rustic
belles after my afternoon's experience.
Give me a cigar, please, and don't let
anyone disturb me for a while, there's
a darling."
Nellie obeyed.
But while she iound the cigar case,
handed the newspaper and regulated
the exact fall of the curtain folds
which should be most agreeable to her
brother's optical partialities, she puz-zled
her brain as to how and why and
wherefore this little plan of hers for an
instant attachment between Fred, and
Florence Fane had thus come to an
untimely standstill.
" I t is the most unaccountable thing
in t h e world," said Nellie to herself.
" I t h i n k I'll go over and see what it
all means."
Low and long, with gabled fronts
and bay windows, the Fanes farm-house
stretched itself out under the
umbrageous walnut trees, with Flor-ence's
easy chair on the porch, and
Florence herself posed like a wood-land
nymph, all mauve muslin, curls
ot pallid gold and fleecy folds of Shet-land
shawl.
"So glad to see you, dear!" said Miss
Fane with the princess air which seem-ed
to sit so naturally on her.
"Dear Florence," said Nellie, plung-ing
precipitately into her subject,
"where have you been all the morn-ing
?"
"Where have I been ?"
"Believe me, I am not asking for
mere curiosity," pleaded her visitor.
" I have a reason. You will answer
me, I know."
"Certainly. Why shouldn't I ? " said
the serene one, lifting her golden
brows the sixteenth part of an inch.
"Let me see—I was in the glen,
sketching the beautiful mossy bould-ers
by the spring until the shower
came up, and then I sat in my own
room and wrote a few letters."
"Then it couldn't have been you,
after a l l ! " bluntly ejaculated Nellie.
"What couldn't have been me ?.'
"The girl with the pitchfork on the
top of t h e load of hay."
And then laughing heartily at her
own blunder, Ellen Mallandaine re-lated
the morning adventure of her
brother.
" I t must have been I s a , " said Flor-ence
Fane, with a slight shadow of
annoyance upon her smooth brow.
" I s a !" the little sister who has just
returned from boarding school ?"
Miss Fane inclined her head.
"There is no end to that child's
pranks," said she impatiently. "And
papa indulges her in everything. Dear,
dear ! I hope your brother wasn't
very much shocked?"
"I—-I am afraid he was," said truth-ful
Ellen. "He supposed it was you,
of course. And he said you were a
regular Amazon, and that he didn't
care to make the acquaintance of a
farm boy's a s s i s t a n t !"
Florence clasped her pink hands to-gether
in sylph-like despair.
" I t ' s enough t o drive one frantic,"
said she.
And in the same moment a brown-cheeked
damsel, with chestnut curls
tangled around her neck and in a pret-t
y brown cambric dress, burst into the
room like a beam of sunshine.
" I t isn't true !" said she defiantly.
Mr. Mallandaine regarded her on h is
part with a sort of meek propitiation
and when at last he had descended and
stood on t h e green turf beside his fair
rescuer he held out his hand.
" I hope we are friends ?" said he
"Oh, certainly."
Isa forgave him his London preju-dices
and he began to see things
through the medium of her clear and
I 'm not an Amazon, and nobody has J brilliant eyes. They had called her
any business to call me a farm boy's
assistant !"
"Isa !" softly pleaded Florence, lift-ing
her white palms, as if to ward off
this sudden gust of breezy defiance.
And the hay would have been
spoiled if I hadn't helped to get it in ;
and poor old John Knight would have
been discharged tor forgetting; and,
besides, wasn't Maude Muller, in the
poem, a haymaker ? And did anyone
dare to criticise her ?
" I am sure—" mildly commenced
Miss Mallandaine.
"Oh, don't make any apologies,"
said little Isa, w i t h her retrouse nose
in the air and two red spots on her
cheeks. "And tell your brother, Miss
Nellie, that I am as little anxious to
make his acquaintance as he is mine."
And exit Isa, not without some
slight emphasis on the closing of the
door.
Fred, laughed a little when the
younger Miss Fane's defiant message
was brought to him.
"She need not be alarmed," he said.
"There is no sort of probability that
we shall be brought into contact with
each other.
But "Man proposes and God dis-poses
!" says the sparkling proverb ;
and the week was not out before Fred-erick
Mallandaine, strolling among the
picturesque woods which surrounded
the old house which the paterfamilias
had taken for t h e summer, found him-self
in a.ruined sawmill, where tall,
sweet fern bushes grew through the
yawning crevices of the moldering
floor, and the sunbeams sifted like
misty lines of gold between the cracks
in the roof above.
There must be a view from that
peak," said Fred, to himself; and
springing up a slight ladder, which
reared itself from beam to beam, he
picked his way across the perilous
flooring to the window, which looked
out over a breezy stretch of vale and
upland, where the blue windings of a
river flashed in the sunshine, and the
undulations of a distant mountain
chain seemed to close u p the horizon
with its purple gateway.
As he stood there, feasting his eyes
upon the prospect, a slight noise be-low
attracted his e a r ; he hurried to
the edge of the floor, only in time to
discover that the ladder, his sole means
of escape, was walking off upon the
shoulders of a stout, silver-haired old
man, who whistled cheerfully as he
went.
"Halloa!" he shouted. "Hold on
there, my man ! Where are you going
with that ladder ?"
No answer—no response of any na-ture.
" I s the man deaf?" cried Fred, in a
sort of frenzy.
That was precisely what old John
Knight was. As deaf as the proverbial
post!
Pretty Isa Fane was waiting for
him on the edge of t h e ruins, holding
up one pretty finger.
"Hush, John !" said she. Don't you
hear someone calling ?"
" I didn't mind anybody," said old
John, whose dull ears could catch Isa's
clear, sweet voice, when all the shout-ing
of the farm hands was inaudible
to him.
" I t must be the owls, or some one
shooting squirrels in the glen, may
b e "
"No," said Isa crisply; "it's a voice
calling. Stay here, John, until I come
back."
John stood still, contentedly, with
the ladder on his shoulder, while his
young mistress hurried up the steep
bank as fast as she could.
"Who is i t ? " she cried in a voice
sweet and shrill as a t h r u s h ' s warble.
" I t is I !" responded Fred. Mallan-daine
plaintively. "I climbed up here,
and now someone has taken the ladder
away and I can't get back."
Isa stood there, tall, slight, brown-cheeked,
with her hands clasped be-hind
her back, and the wind blowing
her chestnut curls about, while a mis-chievous
light scintillated under her
long, dark eyelashes.
"Oh," said she, " I understand. You
are Mr. Mallandaine ?"
"And you are Miss Isa Fane ?" said
he, coloring and biting his lip.
"Exactly,' 'responded t h e girl. "And
here is an excellent opportunity for
me to be avenged. You have called
me an Amazon, a farm boy's assistant
—all manner of names ; and you're at
my mercy now."
"Yes," confessed Mr. Mallandaine
penitently. "It's all t r u e ."
"Don't you t h i n k it would serve you
r i g h t , " went on Isa severely, "if I sent
old John home with the ladder instead
of recalling him to your assistance?"
"Of course it would," said Mallan-daine.
"So do I , " said Isa ; "but I mean to
be magnanimous. John—John !"
Clear and flute-like her voice sound-ed
down theglen, and old J o h n ' s husky
accents replied :
"Yes, yes ! I 'm coming."
Isa Fane in the meantime ' stood
looking at Mr. Mallandaine as coolly as
if he were a sphinx or an obelisk, or
some such marvel of t h e universe.
a child, but she was such a bright,
original sort of a child !
And one evening about a fortnight
subsequently Mr. Mallandaine aston-ished
his sister by saying :
"Well, Nell"—the name he always
used when he was in an especially
good humor—"I've a piece of good
news for you. I have proposed to Miss
Isa Fane, and she has been graciously
pleased to accept me."
The Pacific Coast and War.
War between Japan and Russia makes I
commerce boom along the Pacific Coast
in far greater measure than the impulse
given trade and shipping by the Phil-ippines
campaign which poured millions
of dollars into San Francisco, and lesser |
amounts to other cities. Puget Sound
got a large share, but in an Oriental
war Seattle would get more in propor-tion,
as she is now more fully repre-sented
on the Pacific. San Francisco
has but nine liners to t h e Bast, repre-senting
29 per cent, of the Oriental ton-nage
from the Pacific Coast of the
United States. Vancouver (B. C.) has
five liners, representing 16.1 per cent, of I
the tonnage. Portland has three liners,
representing 9.7 per cent. Puget Sound
has fourteen liners, representing 45.2
per cent. Besides these are the fleets of |
coastwise, Honolulu, and Alaskan
trade, which could be drawn on if sup-plies
for a Russo-Japanese war make
the demand.
Russia and Japan have to buy, and
no nation is so well prepared to sell as
American. Because these two powers
must buy In the United States, and be-cause
the railway men of this country
have prepared themselves on land and
sea for just such an outbreak, this war
means many millions of dollars to the
United States for food, a part of which
will be distributed among the Pacific
Coast States, and millions more for
transportation, a share of which goes to
the ports where the trans-shipping oc-curs.
Why the Eyes Tire.
One makes a great mistake by saying
that the eyes are tired and that the
retina or seeing portion of the eye is
fatigued. This is not the ease, for the
retina hardly ever gets tired. The fa-tigue
is in the inner and other muscles
attached to t h e eyeball and the muscles
of accommodation which surround the
lens of the eye. When a near object
has to be looked at this muscle relaxes
and allows t h e lens to thicken, increas-ing
its refractive power. The innerand
outer muscles are used in covering the
eye on the object to be looked at, the
inner one being especially used when a
near object is looked at. It is in the
three muscles mentioned that the fa-tigue
is felt, and relief is secured tempor-arily
by closing t h e eyes or gazing at
far distant objects. The usual indica-tion
of strain is a redness of the rim of
the eyelid, betokening a congested state
of the inner surface, accompanied by
some pain. Sometimes this weariness
indicates the need of glasses rightly
adapted to the person, and in other
cases the true remedy is to rub the eye
and its surroundings as far as pain may
be with the hand wet in-cold water.
in the State.
The farmers of Hillsdale, Lebanon
county, are having a lot of trouble with
hunters who are so near-sighted that
they mistake chickens and tame pig-eons
for grouse and quail. They are
threatening to get near-sighted, too, and
treat the hunters to a dose of birdshot.
Harrisburg is rejoicing over the pro-spect
of a new nine-story hotel, which,
if erected, is to cost $500,000. The pro-ject
has progressed as far as the drawing
of plans. The location of the proposed
hotel is to be at the corner of Second
and Locust streets, and the house will
contain 286 rooms and a large conven-tion
hall. Pittsburg and Harrisburg
capitalists are said to be fathering the
new project, and work upon the struc-ture
is to begin next spring.
The Oxford Press says turkeys are
not scarce in that section of Chester
county, and intimates t h a t the farmers
are holdiDg them back in the expecta-tion
that turkey meat will be more ap-preciated
about Christmas time. It
mentions several farmers in East Not-tingham,
Lower Oxford and E l k town-ships
with flocks of from 15 to 72, which
are in reserve for future market needs.
Cambridge Springs, Crawford coun-ty,
is a popular health resort in North- Observations. I western Pennsylvania, but the Hotel
RideirWhichiaas contributed hot a little
to the fame of the place, was planned
on too large a scale to be profitable, and
the Crawford County Court of Common
Pleas has issued a decree ordering it to
be sold for the benefit of creditors.
With a new purchaser it will probably
be managed on a more modest scale and
prove profitable.
A Typical American Village.
Certainly the strongest testimonial to
its advantages that any, pleasure resort
can have is the fact that it has been
selected as a rendezvous by the best
society and made the objeetiveof a good
deal of capital invested in beautiful
homes. Georgian Court, the home of
Mr. George J a y Gould, at Lakewood,
the ideal American Village of beautiful
residences, represents an investment
that one would not be apt to suppose
was made at random.
Lying west of the Village on an estate
of two hundred acres the spacious man-sion,
in the Georgian style of architec-ture,
modified by the spirit of the French
a little way of I Renaissance, lends a distinguished air
they suspect t o t l i e landscape. The main entrance,
where there is a garden with vases and
statuary, looks to the north. On the
south the wild forest growth has been
allowed to remain in its natural state.
The Italian Garden, covering several
acres, extends to the court which is
larger than the mansion itself and con-tains
a riding school, a racquet court,
lawn tennis court, squash courts, bowl-ing
alley, automobile room, gynasium,
swimming bath, Turkish and Russian
baths, needle bath, club parlor, break-fast
room, kitchen, and some thirty bed
rooms.
A descriptive booklet on Lakewood
has been recently published by the Cen-tral
Railroad of New Jersey, which will
be gladly given to anyone applying for
it, to C. M. Burt, G. P. A., Central
Railroad of New Jersey, 143 Liberty St.,
New York City.
The world hateth the pampered per-son.
Excitement is but a poor thing to
live on.
Many consider a poor excuse better
than none.
Learning by doing is one way of ac-quiring
knowledge.
When love links arms with common
sense nobody believes in him.
It takes an admirable quality or two
to float some despicable personalities.
Those persons who object to .being
done" are in for a lot of annoyance.
Pie eaters like to flatter themselves
that their headaches are due to brain
fag.
The variations which some play up-on
t h e t r u t h at least speak volumes for
their inventiveness.
One trembles to t h i n k how few per-sons
would be sought were there noth-ing
in it for t h e seeker.
Straigtforward affection is often
shorn of t h e high-pressure, lovey-dovey
sort of expression.
Many persons have
making confessions
others of their own shortcomings.
Somehow we look with suspicion up-on
an advertisement offering " a beau-tiful
lady's gold watch cheap."
Often persons who pretend to be the
most precise in language err the most
dreadfully when they forget them-selves.
A peculiar idea of some one-sided in-dividuals
is to fancy all women bad
who do not pass their lives in their
kitchens.
Gil Bias speaks,of "a lift to Heaven
on the packhorse of charity." To-day
he would probably have written society
instead of Heaven.
Noisy Dogs and Noisy People.
Noisy dogs invariably belong to noisy
people. Noisy people will, of course,
deny this, but listen to them some day
when they scold a dog for barking.
Whose voice is loudest ? Whose fierc-est?
Whose harshest? We have heard
people disciplining dogs for growling,
and have been much more frightened
of the dogs. When from a front door
we can hear a dog inside a house begin
to howland bark the moment that the
bell is sounded, we know very well
that he has caught the trick from some
one in the house.
Harmless Coffee.
A process of treating coffee by whieh
it is deprived of its unwholesome qual-ities
is about to be exploited in New
York. The method of treatment was
evolved by a doctor of that city, who
has tried the product on himself and
others, with the result that he has se-cured
sufficient financial assistance to
build a laboratory from which the treat-ed
coffee will be distributed.
SO Years' Experience.
Rectal diseases cured permanently.
Piles, Fistulae, Fissures and Ulceration
Cured, without the use of knife or un-dergoing
an operation. Also, specialists
and cure guaranteed in diseases of the
ear and throat—especially catarrh and
running ear. Bend for little book on
above diseases, free. At the Franklin
House, Lancaster city, every alternate
Thursday.
D r s . MARKLEY & SHOEMAKEB,
19 S. 9th St., Reading, Pa.
Counterfeiting Alleged in York County.
A sensation was sprung in Red Lion
and Windsorville on Wednesday, when
it became known that United States
Secret service men had been in those
towns for two months, working in cigar
factories, shadowing and running to
earth clews of alleged crookedness.
This crime it is said, included counter-feiting
of cigar stamps by the million,
and a new counterfeit $10 bill. Many
arrests will be made during the week,
it is asserted, aqcL those arrested will be
held on the minor charge of manufac-turing
and buying cigars in the county
at small shops and hauling them to
Red Lion. There it is stated, they have
been stamped and marked with the
numbers of the large factories. Resi-dences
of the two towns are awaiting
developments with interest.
A MATTER OF HEALTH
POWDER
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History Repeats.
Alexander the Great was sighing for
more worlds to conquer.
" I ' l l tell you what I'll do," he an-nounced
finally, evidently not unmind-ful
of the proposition made by another
of history 's great fighters.
"What is that, Aleck?" asked his
friend Ptolemy.
" I ' l l offer to meet three worlds in the
same ring."
OVEB TflE STATE.
Two unidentified tramps were killed
and another injured in a wreck of a
west-bound freight train on the Penn-sylvania
railroad near Middletown,
last Saturday. The tramps were steal-ing
a ride and when the train was
wrecked two of them were caught be-tween
box ears and squeezed to death.
The wreck was caused by a car jump-ing
the track.
Fifteen pretty girls, armed with new
brooms, waited upon Councilman C.
Boyer, of York, to call his attention to
the bad condition of several of the
street crossings in the ward, and to ask
him to bring the matter before the City
council. The girls are workers in an
East End silk mill, and are compelled
to wade the muddy crossings to and
from their work. They won.
William Groff, of Bechtelsville, Berks
county, shot himself through the
heart at his residence Thursday night
while his wife was putting the children
to bed. v
Nathaniel D. Reber, of Shubert,
Berks county, within a single week
lost three children, namely, Nora, aged
10; Earnest, aged 4, and Mary, aged 16;
by diphtheria, and two others are now
down with the disease. The three chil-dren
were bu ried on Friday i n one grave.
An unkown man was killed Sunday
night, above Bristol, by a Pennsylvania
Railroad train.
Cumberland Valley farmers expect to
haul water all winter for their stock be-cause
of the drought.
Screams of several women in Ziegler
Brothers' Bakery at Bristol, frightened
off a burglar Sunday.
Men in the Lehigh Valley shops at
Easton started on a nine-hour day
schedule Monday with only five hours
on Saturday.
A Lackawanna Railroad train at
Plymouth Sunday killed a man sup-posed
to be Charles Gray, of Scranton.
The centennial of the birth of Dr.
William Shadrach, who raised' thou-sands
of dollars for Bucknell University
was celebrated at Altoona.
Dr. Walter H . Parcles, of Lewistown,
has just been notified of his appoint-ment
on the staff of Commander-in-
Chief Blackman, of the Grand Army.
Anthony Zubolos was crushed under
falling bucket at Morea, Mahanoy
City, and died at the hospital.;
According to the Hazleton Sentinel,
Mrs. Kantner, of Lofty, has a German
bible in a good state of preservation
which is upward of three hundred years
old, and has been in the Kanter family
for several generations.
As an evidence of the growing scarc-ity
of tan bark in Pennsylvania may be
mentioned the closing down indefinite-ly
of the North American Tannery at
Lewistown, Mifflin county. This has
been one of Lewistown's standard in-dustrial
establishments for many years,
but tanneries can't be run without
bark.
THE MARRIAGE QUESTION.
The professor who announced that "love
and romance die out w i t h t h e sound of the
wedding-bells," was t h e first to start tlie
ball rolling. It would s e em a brave woman
who marries w i t h t h i s echo in her ears, yet
we have not heard that there were fewer
marriages d u r i n g t h e .year. There are un-h
a p p y m a r r i e d lives, b u t a large precentage
of tt lese u n h a p p y homes are due t o t h e ill-ness
of t h e wife, m o t h e r or daughter.
During a l o n g period of practice, Doctor
Pierce found that a p r e s c r i p t i o n made up
e n t i r e l y of roots and herbs, without t h e use
of alcohol, cured ninety-eight per cent; of
such cases. After using this remedy for
many years i n his private practice he put
i t u p in a f o rm t h a t can be h a d at any store
where medicines are handled.
Backed n p b y over a t h i r d of a c e n t u r y of
remarkable and uniform cures, a record
such as n o other remedy for the diseases
a n d weaknesses peculiar to women ever
attained, the p r o p r i e t o r s and makers of Dr.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription now feel
f u l l y warranted in offering t o pay $500 in
legal money of t h e "United States, for any
case of Leucorrhea, Female Weakness, Pro-lapsus,
or F a l l i n g of Womb which t h e y can-not
cure. All t h e y ask is a fair a n d reason-able
trial of t h e i r means of cure.
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription cures
headache, backache, nervousness, sleep-lessness
and other consequences of wom-anly
disease. "Favorite Prescription"
makes weak women strong and sick wom-en
well. Accept np. substitute for the
.medicine which works wonders for weak
women.