“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
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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
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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.
H H
Kan.,
receded,
YITS permanentivenred, No fitsornesvonss
rat Aav's use of Dr. Kline's Great
Nervallestorer $2triall stile apd treatise Troe
The mos: widely known Eogish wiiler
5
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Plao’e Cure for Consamplion isan infailibie
medicine tor coughs and colds,-N,
11, 1900
License is paid in London on 7000 auto
raabies
Miss M. Cartledge gives some
helpful advice to young girls.
Her letter is but one of thou-
sands which prove that nothing
is so helpful to young girls who
| are just arriving at the period of
womanhood as Lydia E. Piok-
ham's Vegetable Compound.
“Dear Mrs, Prvenau:—1 cannot
reise Lydia E. Pinkhan's Vege=
ble Compound too highly, for is
is the only medicine | ever tried which
cured me, | suffered much from my
first menstrual period, I felt so weak
and dizzy at times | could not pursue
my studies with the usual interest,
My the ights became sluggish, 1 had
headaches, backsches and sisking
spells, also pains in the back and lower
Limbs. In fact, I was sick all over
“ Finally, after many other remedies
had been tried, we were advised 10 get
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, ead 1 am pleased to say
that after taking it only two weeks, &
wonderful change for the better tock
plsee, and in a short time I was in
rrfect health. I felt buoyant, full of
ife, and found all work a pastime, I
am indeed glad to tell my experience
with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound, for it made a dif-
ferent girl of me. Yours very truly,
Miss M. CamrrEper, 533 Whitehall St,
Atlanta, Ga." ~ 28008 forfeit If original d
above [etter proving pen memess cannet be produ
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