“THE KEYSTONE STATE Short Order. The Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias awarded $500 to the Knights who participated in the par ade at York. The prize of $350 to the uniformed company traveling the greatest distance went to Williams port. Lancaster received $50 for hav ing the largest number of uniformed men. Glen Rock Lodge received $350 for having the largest number of men of any subordinate lodge outside York, Its members numgered 115. In addi- tion to these prizes, the Grand Lodge presented each uniformed lodge mn parade with $100. The Grand Lodge made amendment to the constitu- tion which for the election in 1005 and every fourth year there- after of two supreme representatives, in 1907 fourth year reafter of ee represen tatives. After the ces the Grand Lodge meet in McKeesport in Superintendent of sche of Norristown, has prepared a to the Instruction in whic ie an Ce prov ides and every thr supreme T1 11 x ~f if. tnstajiiation Of ON adiourned to 1908 ols Landis, report State Superintendent of Public hic! that superintendents be relies ed of for grad- He says examit take My candid opinion 1s that 3 i suggest ¢nunt i uation schools EL e class ny time, this duty belongs properly to the su- pervising principals, or where there are none, that its performance devolv- es upon the During a storm at Norristown, light- ning struck the large ice house of Gan- ser & Heffner. on Perkiomen Creek, near Salford Station, Fire destroyed the building. The building was three- fourths full of ice. While the intense heat meited much of it, the remamng like a huge iceberg. The owners estimate the loss at $10,000 Governor Pennypacker granted re- qusition papers for J. E. Collins, the fugitive broker, wanted in Pottsville t harge of em- bezzlement. Colh leased from at Stamf after be- there requisition. from In country ations up half : Hy. teachers of the district ice stands wWio answer time awaiting SAVS absence ¢ in issu A. Chalfant, of the Spang-Cl steel manut Hos tween stranger and de the him wheels When 1 several 3 passed Davish go others for killing in shelf in a had been when she sistance band which she ariel #0 ang 1o Secu £* 1 Vv esiey, t B. Morris, the manner window the f rce 1 the he struck He t | off ¢ The attending 1s not seriou More leaf in Berks C: ever before, received the hich is FY Er und FF she ast southwestern part of e tobacco district from th mdication that ¢i . will be large. Dissatisfied stockholders of the Cru cible Steel Company are forming a stockholders’ protective and at the annoal meeting poration, in October, an be made to name the majority Board of Directors : Several sections of Lancaster county suffered severely by a rain and hail storm. The farmers in the vicinity of Maytown, Marietta and Mt Joy were sufferers to a large extent through the loss of either the whole or portions of their tobacco crops The hail beat the leaf to ribbons Brickerville and vicinity also suffered severely. The finest tobacco on hun dreds of acres in the county was ruin ed. The damage to the tobaceo crop will amount to thousands of dollars John Walton, a Philadelphia car. penter, employed on a farm near Bear. town, was held up near the nickel mines by four men and robbed of his possessions. David Clark and George Dennis and Frank Mimm have heen lodged in jail, charged with the crime While driving a shaft at the Pine Hill Colliery miners suddenly came upon a cavern in which they found a number of loaded wagons. The open: ing Droved to be old workings of the Black Heath Colliery, abandoned forty years ago. While picking huckleberries on the mountains along Hagerman's Run, D. W. Mack and son, Lewis, of South Williamsport, walked into a den of about thirty rattlesnakes. An excit- ing fight followed, the two men us- committee, of the cor effort wiil of the snakes were killed ~ + 3 y COMMERCIAL REVIEW. R. G. Dun & Co.'s "Weekly Review of Trade” says: Labor controversities are the most serious drawbacks to recovery in bus- iness, most other important factors tending toward improvement. De- spite some reduction in the yield of wheat, crop prospects are most en couraging, and the loss in quantity of higher prices, so that the agricul iron and steel placed, and at WOK mills there is a notable in crease in activity. Railway earnings in July were only 2.4 per cent. smaller year previous, and at many there evidence of returning for being Delayed orders are len is in mercantile collections. But sever der consideration mitigate against a resumption of normal resumptions of trade and manufacture, Failures this week in Unite.! are 230, against 220 week 231 the preceding week and 178 the corresponding week last year. Fail ures in Canada number 18, against 1 week, 20 the preceding week and 10 last year Bradstreet's savs: Wheat, including flour, exports for the week ending the te last ast against 1.613.265 last week, this week last vear, 4,244,263 in 1902 and 8R31,100 in 1901. From July 1 to date the exports aggregate 6,365, 3172 bushels, against 15047.253 last 20.704,20% in 1002 1001. Corn exports for the week ag gregate 273.365 bushels, against 415, Bis last week, 884.428 a vear ago, 70, 611 in 1002 and 900,714 in 1901. Fron July 1 to the exports of carr 2,583,000 bushels, against 6,242,003 in 1003, 404.337 in 1002 and 2.224.413 in 1001. YOar and 212.807.1485 it date FLOUR-—Firm and recipts, 2,623 barrels; ex barrels Easier; spot No. 2 red August, 013m p a 04's; October, 0334000 No laltimore, Md anged; orts, 3,265 WHEAT contract, Western Se h spot 03M @O8 Ys; tember, 044 December, [64m R6M CORN—Dull; gust, 36140563; OB}; steamer sp oN z September, year, 40. steamer mixed, 53! , OATS —Unsettled; old, N¢ vo. 2 mixed, 41! No. 2 Western, : re, 92% LARD-W 1g refined Western steamed, continent 7 25 2 Ar a . Hin America, 3, comp a 2.00 7% 18 Phra SG AN Southern ithern UTS # a 61%: CABRBAGES t sweets 1204.50 Steady fancy hand. 3 ther domestics, 3! : ! ACL Quiet; ong Island Jersey, per barrel 2807 Ln Live Stock York. — BEEVES at 7vita ve sides: 1,652 Heel t Dressed : » $ 2 ROW 16°;¢C ung for unchanged: ex. quarters per p calves cattle and 2.000 ALVES Dressed ¢ steady: ives r dressed veals, o@12V5c. per pow untry dresced, RBatie SHEEP AND LAMBS--Sheep low hs 150 ff. Sheep, 2.750 5.5007.25; culls, 400 Nominally steady cago—~CATTLE-—Good to prime 5.256.285; poor to medium, stockers and feeders, 200@ 8, 1.28(4.00; heifers, 2000 canners, 1.50250; bulls, 2000 calves, 2.50@ Texas-fed tfecrs, 3.0000 4 50 HOGS —Mixed and butchers, 525G 50: good to choice heavy, 5.2505.80; rough heavy, 480@s.10; light, 5.25@ 5.50; bulk of sales, S.20@%540. SHEEP Good to choice - i’ - ’ $50. ambs HOGS { 1 5.040) 1.060. COW §.25; £00 ge $00; hi wether 3.7501 4.20; fair to choice mixed, 3.000 1.75; native lambs, 400@0.75 WORLD OF LABOR Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join ers now has 1,701 unions chartered, In the Government factories of Rus sia wages rarely exceed 206 shiMings a month. A new departure is to be made at the Pembroke dockyard by the em- ployment of women as tracers Flumbers are perhaps the best paid of any mechanics in the City of Mex- ico. They get from $2 to $4 a day. More than 3500 Japanese laborers have just landed in Mexico ander con Canadian manufacturers claim that Recent reports from the Mendocina (Cal) lumber regions are to the ef. The Chinese Government is to re- Chinese coolies shipped to the South Africa mines, San Francisco (Cal) team drivers respectively. e Northumberland (Eng) Coal decided to make no change in the rates of wages Practically to interest or comcern is shown in lelor circles over for- ems ployers of var.ous lines i i NOTES AND COMMENTS, It will be a surprise to many to know that with all the money that of New of harbor metropolis this country, the commercial The Baltic was obliged to ODE TO THE COB, The glutton's heart begins to throb With summer pleasure dear, Je eateth corn upon the cob And smiles from ear to ear. — Philadelphia Press. AN EXCEPTION. “My son, don't forget that there i always room at the top.” but think ot what there's a fire."—Chicago t appent Jour ~res; when nal, ON THE WAY. She-—Yes, | just love dogs! Then I'd like to be a dog. ~Never mind; youll Brow. Harvard Lampoon HIS WORLDLY GOODS. De Fly Blazaway—Well, 1 all 1 had. De Fly-—Where Blazaway—At Free Press. Were you ever held up? was relieved oO was it? altar. —Detrou | th he A YONKERS BEAU. Patience—Isn't your friend Georgle an entertainer? Patrice—]1 don't tertained an idea, Statesman, y $0 Yo % think en even. —Yonkert he ever THE MACHINE'S CANDIDATE. “Nuriteh expects to gel the nom {nation for Governor.” “indeed? What does he base bY hope on? “Well, he' “But nominee Philadelphia % a self-made man, and '—- suceesaful Gubernatorial - usually hine-made. ~ Press is ma CURIOSITY. carriage with was ust passed us and Mrs. Pyke husband )- woman who gave Mr {in (George 4 J You sud 0 Pyke RLS fust wha ask about time Women Boston irious CAUSE OF HIS CHOLER. “What makes you so mad wilh you father-in-law, Rattiy?” Between me and that | was going to « daughter Why didnt the prevent it7"'—Detroit Free JOHNNIE'S CRITICISM pa” geried little pickle, "are you a ge say Bumper man? self-made and I'm proud of IL" man.” continued the inquisitive replied “But, youngster, looking glasa? Cliacinnatl “why didn’t use = Enquirer you IN DOUBT. Hi Tragerdy—Yes, we Oshkosh. Lowe Comerdy audience think your Hamlet? Hi Tragerdy—Why—er--he went out before | had a chance to ask his - Philadelphia Press opened in And what did you: of A TAKEOFF thought sald there paper th Shapleig excellent “1 you . -— picture in tas take off on Miss gider it a really “Yea: but gust, isn't it” al was h? taken in a bathi Houston Post. it's BUT THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS “Don't worry over it, if there is any bad news coming you'll re it soon enough. Bad news travels fast, know." “Yeos—if it isn’t Petersburg.” Kanias eive you held City up in SL World. WHOLESALE. Ethel—The ladies want me to seil kisses at the charity bazaar. Pearl—Are you going to? Ethel--Yes: I've got Jack to buy them all up in advance-—Detroit Free Press, WEARING. Nurvig-—That dog of Naybor's will be the death of me yet, There's never a day passes that he doesn’t run out | and bark at me. Purvis—Why, a barking dog seldom bites. Nurvis—That's just it. I wouldn't mind being bitten and have it over with. It's the suspense that's killing | me. Philadelphia Public Ledger. HIS RECORD. “1 stand squarely upon my record,” sald the political candidate. “Well,” yelled tho little man at the rear end of the hall, “you can hardly | be blamed for wantin’ to keep the blamed thing from bobbin’ up.”—Chl | cago Record-Herald. WHEN HE GETS IT. “Heard ye quit yer job at th’ Con | tinental Hotel, BIL" “Yep, quit last week.” “Whut're ye doin’ now?” “Got a job porterin’ at that new | tote! for women only.” "How d've like th’ change?” “Oh, 1 like it well enough when I got it"—Kansas City World : while the channel fura of lost building in their The econOmy vessels is passage great of the finest harbor on the Ab coast, or out lantic With 7 per cent. of the world’s lana area and 5 per cent. of {ts population, the United States has 25 per cent. of the world's wealth, declares Leslie's Weekly. The of the United States property, real and personal, in 1400, was $94.000 000 000, as compared with $50,000,000,000 for Great Britain $45.000,000,000 for for Germany $22.000,0006,000 value Ireland $45.000,000,000 $32 000.000 for Russia, for Austria-Hungary, for Italy and $12.000,000,000 for Spain, . of in and France, $15,000 O00 0 Moreover the United States’ lead i f all the other in wealth Is ig nations ag faster than prepon- them all {except Russia in population, Creas her aerance and China) nyer subject and ex and espe It would be whether an inquiry gudden perature t marked by it nat ! are variatio the when It is arn 1@ Ave! 80 RE® aad Keon hie a iti his wWiaR the opportunities inci cazor the minorily femind ment want t ear Perhaps women's clubs » matter up and m arranged a WOMmAn women Th be no tamper anage to shail we that ant only there will : oF neither will it uch be m & Hudson but young from 3 ream ¥ 4 i probab'y the Delaware employ % none take and w take on vice accept them for position after they have passed age limit Brookiyn E The authorities that a rarely wi rail roader after he haa passed the pre In it wil them » ages of 21 to 85 them will allow to years in ser but not any new the agle BAY man develops into a go active service an period The Oldest Car in America. The car that stands in the roun.d- house at Plainville, Mass, is the oid railroad coach In the United States and as such makes a pathetic to all people who remember the earliest days of rallroading It by all the countryside over the ralls between Providence at a pace would be regarded as almost fune real. Today it stands neglected and many years, and enmeshed by count less cobwebs—a rusty, useless thing in a remote corner of the round house. as it rolled Joston which almost incredible vehicle could possibly have been the predecessor of the magnificent Pull man of today. Its outlines suggest a stage couch rather than a raliroad car, and the jolting of the crude struc ture was but littie broken by the dell cate-looking springs beneath IL The roof of this venerable convey ance was used to accommodate gengers on days when travel was “heavy” or the weather fine. Time has made many ravages on this coach, and to keep it from further in jury it has been necessary (0 nal boards across the sides and over the wheels that mar the quaint eflect pas ’ io It Walked In. landlord of the City hotel at Barns boro, Cambriz county, from his slumbers by a crash in his room Opening his eves, he startled to see a big Lear he noise had aroused Mrs. Haney and she screamed for help. Her sprang out of bed and seized & chal to protect himself and wife. Bruin came towerd ey swung the chair still hotel About Mrs screaming and the guests of the were coming from thelr rooms this time the bear ing and he decided to leave emerged from the landlord's room in to the hall there was a rush to get ou! of the way. Arms were quickly ob tained, and the begr driven off immense Stalk of Rhubarb. Asa G. Bunker of Ashville, Me, has gathered a rhubarb stalk from his gar den that measures 60 Inches in length, 38 inches across the leaf 7 tnches around the butt and welgued 3% pounds. ACHED 'N EVERY BONE, Chicago Society Woman, Who Was So Riek She Conld Not Sleep or Eat, Cured by Dosn's Kidney Fills, Marion Knight, of 33 N. Ashiand Ave. Chleago, Orator of the West Side Wednesday Club, says: “This winter when [started to use Doau's sidney Plils 1 sched in every bone and had intense paius i! in the kidneys and pelvic or ganas. The urine was thick and cloudy, and | could barely eal enough to RS ad live. 1 felt a for the better within a week The second week | began eating heart fiy. | began to improve generally, and steady sight, of youth for gtret bh if need neryes and He 24 bw good bh these are must be or 26 ho he must a'ert retentive in his mem aring attri able and good butes keen awake Hr ve in his mind and If the new safety the general fault can be found with it fare of the traveling body must dom: faate the private gain of the vidual, ory the of public Bays Forest and Stream. The the ambitions young scientist New York, for instance, the last Leg enacted that applicants to eollect birds for scientific in license $200 for faithful observance of This is only one manifestation The sentiment has reached Mexico. Consul W. W. Canda writes from Vera an agitation has been on to prevent the wanton destruction ‘of birds throughout this country; a pro to the Government by the Association for the Protection of Birds, and it is confidently expected that it will meet the approval of the Executive. This law iz intended to prevent the killing of certain classes of birds useful to the agriculturist. Other kinds, auch killed only at stated periods of the year. All birds of prey. and others destructive to the interests of the farmer, may be killed at any time and by anybody. The Irish Parliamentary fund fos the year 1803 amounts to 363.045. well. 1 nad spent. hundreds of dollars for medicine that did oot belp me, but $6 worth of Doan's hidoey Pills re stored we to periect beaith.,” A TRIAL FREE-Address Foster Milburn Co, Buffalo, N. X. For sale by all dealers. Price, BO cts, Disproved Old Superstition. The of a Canaan, N hen wh hatched thi chick ene from a setting of thirteen egy recently may be remark able considering that sha performance ch rteen considered the fact eggs: on Friday, May 13. with one two other unfavorable conditions pre valling. Their First Time in a Bed. Coe farmhouse near Ottawa, after the flood had somewhat they found two hogs and three dogs comfortably occupying one of the beds upstairs. 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