ANNIE CATRON. A BURDEN TO ME. N [SS ANNIE CATRON, #27 Main St, AY1 Cincinnati, Ohi writes: =~ As | have found eruna a blessing for a severe case of catarrh of the head and throat which I suffered from for a number of years 1 un only too pleased to give it my personal endorsement “Catarrh, such as I suffered from, made life a burden, to me. my breath was ensive, stomach bad, and my head opped up so that I was usually troubled with a headache, and altho I tried many so-called remedies, noth gave me permanent relief. 1 was rather uraged with = medicines when Peruna was sug- ted to me EE wire, I did buy a bottle, and before that was finished there was a marked change in my condition. Much encouraged 1 kept on until 1 was completely in a month's time, and 1 find that general health is also excellent.” People who prefer solid medicines should try Peruna tablets. Each tablet represents one average dose of Peruna. Man-a-lin the ideal Laxative. Ask Your Druggist for Free Peruna Almanac jor 1908. my Woman Runs Mouse Farm, Now furns most original woman among of femin- fine pursuits. Miss Abble Lathrop, of Granby, Mass.,, who Is making a small fortune running a mouse farm. Putting aside the traditional fear of mice, she seeming. ly has resolved to avenge woman- kind for centuries of suffering at their paws. For the tiny rodents are raised, not az pets, but to become the subjects of scientific experiments They id by Miss Lathrop to medical colleges. where they are in- oculated with the germs of various maladies for the edfication of the students. Long usage has relieved her of any dread of the mice, but she has not reached the point of emancipation where che can have any affection for them. —N. Y. Press C twice Shame. “I observe,” said Herlick Sholmes, of New York, “that you have recent- ly taken up your residence in Brook- Irn.” “Who told youn that?” other, visibly startled. “Nobody, but I noticed that yon blush whenever any one asks you where you are living.""—Philadelphis Press. overies 8 are si asked the C1KS AND DRAINS A FRE- QUENT CAUSE OF TYPHOID Purify These and You Will Be Safe From Contagion — Disinfecting the Only Preventative——Borax, a Simple, Safe and Sare Method, How to keep our homes clean, sweet and free from germ influences is a question. While there is no occasion for alarm, it is always well to be fore- armed on the theory that “An Ounce of Prevention Is Better Than a Pound of Cure,” and no ounce of prevention has yet been discovered that is more simple, more direct and more effec- tive, yet harmless to the human sys- tem, than 3orax. Borax has been known and used for generations as a purifier and preven- tive against epidemic Influences orig- inating from uneleanly conditions re- sulting from unsanitary sinks and drains, and when used ag a hot solu- tion in the proportion of two table- spoonfuls to a gallon of hot water flushed through the offending loca- tions, removes every trace of disease germs and renders the pipes clean and wholesome. Borax in addition to its hygienic qualities, is a bousehold necessity, and can be used for numberless do- mestic purposes. It softens the water, makes linen dazzling white, will cleanse evry article in the kitchen or dining room and make it bright, will prevent moths, soften and whiten the skin, remove dandruff and cleanse the scalp, and for cleansing and ster flizing baby’s milk bottle and nipple bac no equal, Borax, unlike every other cleanser and disinfectant, is absolutely barm- less to the system, and is safe, simple, economical, and can be purchased at any druggist or grocery. A dainty book In colors, called the “Jingle sending name and address of her baby stamps. Address Pacific Const Borax Co., New York. BROUGHT TO LIFE. M this (8pecial). disappeared Lancaster George Gable, who from city eighteen years ago and was sup- dead, appeared in Or- phans' Court and was awarded an in- heritance of over $11,000. The circumstances surrounding the offair were romantic. In 15%0, Ga- ble, who was an expert machinist, after experiencing domestic trouble, left his wife and three small children ind disappeared. All efforts to locate him failed, and he was given up for fead. Three years ago the courts 1:sposed of his estate, declaring him legally dead. But when he recently became heir 0 a considerable sum of money, at- orneys made special efforts to as sertain whether he was living. Fi: ally he was located in Sacramento, 'al., where he holds a responsible yosition with the Snuthern Pacific tailroad Company. Being apprised »f his fortune, he came East and a 1alf dozen of his oll friends identi- i ied him in court, where he was also sonfronted and identified by his wife, vho, believing him dead, remarried, yecoming the wife «of Constable A. Ml. Keesey, of this city. It is sald that Gable posed to be has effected and the raising of his Iren. HOME-MADE PRESERVES. Harrisburg (Special).—One opics of especial interest which will at annual the State Horticultural ion at Lancaster, January 14 15, is “Home Preservation of Fruit A paper on the subject will be A. Surface, of Mechanics- H. wife of the State economic the Ure, Mrs. akes a Surface, like her hus deep interest in and in the matter of mr fruits for use out economic CRAETYV FEE . Her deal ng reputation subject will with the alue for household also treat of the com attained by and sion of the pally fruits will 88 10 be anned lies, This mers’ wives pure food valuable or preserved is LOW A % e¢ laws have been market for canned fruit and has been created sub ied t good THIEY 1 (Special) Treasurer of Ogontz, president of the Union ety for the Recovery Jenkintown United States Joseph again elected Mutual Soci- of Stolen Horses the Detection of Horse Thieves sixth annual meeting of the society, held at this place Other officials elected were H. Hallowell. secretary, Finance Committee, Penroze Heritage: directors, Henry Thomas Charles 8. Ki Blake, Abel 8. Roberts Hallowell, Frank Engle, Harper, George T. Nice, Ball. STATE ITEMS, was C Hallowell, neey, John Thomas B. Allentown capitalist: have leased fifty-five acres of land from Frank- lin Seidel, near Blandon, with a view of prospecting for iron ore. After a twelve years’ congregation of St. John's Lutheran Church, Phoenixville, has succeeded in freeing that edifice of debt. 0. 8. White has a remarkable rec- in Wilkes-Barre. He has covered the route ten vears and kept an accurate | account of the number of miles that | he and his horse Billy covered. He | miles. The State registar of vital statis- tics has threatened to institute pro- physicians In Lycoming County the charge that they failed to make reports of births. The number of births reported has fallen far below a baker, died in Chester, after an operation for an enlarged vein. Earnest Stroebel, and narrowly escaped bleed'ng to death before being taken to the in- stitution. Lewis Hackman, of Pine Grove, at- tended his sixty-first consecutive watch-night service New Year's Eve. His age is 86. The family of Harry Herr, at Conestoga Centre, was awakened at an early house to find their house in flames. They escaped was con- siderable difficulty. The house was completely destroyed. Morris Thomas, a fireman in the rolling mills at Coatesville, was buried under several tons of soft coal beneath a coal chute. With picks and shovels a big gang of men moved the coal in short notice and Thomas etill lives. Chief of Police Edward Turnbach and Recruiting OfMeer Hahn have perfected plans for the organization of a camp of Spanish-American War veterans in Hazleton. Mrs. Fannie C. Maxwell died at her home In Kennett Square after a long lliness. Bha was postmistress at Kennett Square for several years until the latter part of Cleveland's first administration. In the ofMce of the clerk of the Courts of Chester County there has been a slight falling oft In the issuing of marriage licenses during the past year, there being 779 issued in 1907, 33 less than in 19086. The Schuylkill Valley Traction power plant in Collegeville In antlel- | w, pation of a coal famine. E a A aa . —_ EXPLOSION IN STEEL CONVERTER. (Special) ~—Two men were killed and thirteen others were seriously injured by an explosion in converter No. 3 of the Edgar Thomp- son plant of the United States Stee) Corporation at North Braddock. Th dead are Paul Kurisck, 30 years, and Stephen Doviah, 306 years, both of Braddock. Six of the injured were Americang and the others Slavs. All were re- moved to a hospital in this city where it was sald their injuries were not serious. No official statement on the cause of the explosion has been issued but old converter mill men say the cause could hardly be other than that some of the molten metal sifted through the soapstone lining of the converter and came in contact with the steel sheathing, which perhaps was damp. When the explosion occurred, the bottom of the converter dropped out, throwing fifteen tons of molten metal into the pit where fifteen men were working at the ladles. There was no | explosion when the hot mass of steel struck the bottom of the pit, but instead flames of burning gas were ifent up, which burned the men in {the pit. The two men who were | killed had been working under the converter and their bodies were ter- i ribly mangled. The force of the explosion blew the sheet-fron roof off of the con- | verting mill and caused two of the walls to collapse, besides breaking |all of the windows in buildings in the | ¥incinity, and partially destroying the enginehouse and warehouse near the converting mill Pittsburg aged aged SAVES WHOLE FAMILY. Catasauqua | Hartig, self {Special}. Thomas 15 proved him- hero, he saving aged years, al the lives a Te and his of several of his younger brother sisters Hartig was he of rooms on flames Rushing grabbed one child carried down Young home and as house he saw one floor in house he arm and to safely rning, he on the the upper into the ineach them aren aroused his ps of their «¢ reset family which consists most of them small gutted bs by the up- who were unconseclous and then est of the ansiste in persons : The ¢ which ting honse wa was caused of a candle JOKED AT DEATH SENTENCE. Franklin received a death, rail, wife joked was being taken back to jail: “1 never flinched, did I 8h said. “Any than { Special). After sentence of murderer, as he way, I'd drowned.” fter being egan singing: i Summer Time.” In passing sent*nce on Strafl {Judge Criswell reminded the prison- ler that death was the common fate of us all, "Something from which | we cannot escape and something for which we must be prepared.” He then exhorted Strail to prepare him- self for the life beyond rather be hanged his cell Good a € Old in the placed “In CURFEW FOR RENOVO, {Special ). To signalize the inauguration of the new curfew law, 500 boys from all parts of the town assembled around the electric i station, and when the first note of the whistle that gives the preliminary warning was heard the crowd broke into a storm of cheers and shouts and | hundreds of tin horns were blown land cowbells rung. The chief of police stood with the {throng and tossed his cap in the alr as the alarm was sounded, and he | gave orders for the boys to scamper | home, which they obeyed in a wild | scramble and ap parent good humor. Renovo | BEGIN NEW YEAR PLOWING. Cn Lebanon (Special). ~ne of the i strangest sights witnessed in the Le i banon Valley in many years was tak en in by travelers when they saw farmers starting the new year doing their spring plowing, Farmers throughout the district are assured that the winter Is going to be the mildest in years and they are there fore making the best of it by plowing early. The agriculturists say they find many worms almost at the surface of the ground--an nnmistakable in dication of mild weather. STATE REV] ENU ® DECLINES. Harrisburg (Special). — About $2. 000,000 was withdrawn from State depositories during the month of December by State Treasurer Berry to meet current expenses and comply with the provisions of appropriation bills. Some of the depositories pro. tested against the withdrawals on account of the financial stringency, but the State Treasurer found It necessary to make the demands. The revenue of the State has fallen considerably behind that of last De- comber, owing to the business de. pression. The total receipts so far this month have not been much over half a million, Killed By His Own Wagon. Hazleton (Special). Walter Yost, aged 31 years, was jolted from his wagon at Bugar Loaf, the wheels passing over his body, killing him instantly. Yost was engaged in haul- ing cornstalks from the fleld, and having secured a load had started for the barn, but In driving over the frozen ground was jolted from his’ seat, falling directly in front of his, wa His arm, and neck were sa instantaneous. broken and death w VIRGINIA MERCHANT RID OF A VERY BIG GRAVEL STONE, Another Remarkable Care of Scrious Kidney Trouble, C. L. Wood, a prominent merchant Fentress, Norfolk Co., Va., was » suffering some A months ago with fre- | quentattacks of hard pain in the back, kid- neys and bladder and the kidney se- eretions were frregu~ larly scanty, or pro- fuse. Medical treat- ment falled to cure bim. “At last,” says Mr. Wood, began using Doan’'s Kidney Pills, and before one box was gone, I went through four days of intense pain, finally passing a stone, one-half by five-sixteenths of an inch in diameter, I haven't had a sign of kidney trou- ble since.” Sold by all dealers, 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. of With A Silent Guard. Modern science seems to spend its | time undoing its own efforts. Take, for instance, so-called burglary-proof safes, that by means of compressed oxygen and acetylene gas he could produce a flame so hot that the steel doors of a safe would fuse in it like lead in an ordinary gas fet, In addition, the accessories requir- ed are of a handy size, and there is no noise. Observation is all the safe- breaker has to avoid, Now it is suggested manufactur- ers should add a simple apparatus to the material used in making safes which would liberate certain chemi- cals, rendering it dangerous——or even fatal-—to tamper with the walls or door. No doubt burglar will coming this, at least, against scientific find a means of over- but for a little while, protection can be obtained the sclentifie eracksman. The Eternal Lottery, Governor Vardaman, of Mississip- pi, tells an amusing instance of the negro's attitude toward matrimony. A darky clergyman in the state named bad married two negroes, and after the ceremony the groom asked: “How much yo' charge fo' this?” “1 usually leave that to groom.” was the reply “Sometimes in time the times less Five parson, doliaha ig n said the two dollahs, ain't got in a monf.” the stipulated “Pahson.” gement’'s a Ah reckon fot © money, groom. "Ah'll give an’ cheated ya! Ah mo’ in returned here arrar lashun, an’ worst of it Ah figeers dat me a dollah an’ seventy-five Harper's Weekly Ah'll give yo time the groom sald he, "dis kind o’ YOUse gpec’- got de vo' cents.” End Of His Sentence, The sympathetic woman was visit- ing Charlestown prison and her heart was almost bursting with pity for the poor prisoners. 8he passed them one by one and never uttered a word She was instructed not to #peak to the inmates and she had given her word The temptation soon became too strong. however, as she saw one poor chap listlessly sew- ing shoes “Poor man,” began the sympathe- tic woman, “isn’t that terribly mo- notonous? Won't you be very glad when your sentence has expired?” “No, ma'am,” came the doleful reply, “mine's a life sentence.” Boston Herald Thought He'd Tost His Pension. “That,” sald Senator Beveridge of a witticism to the Cleveland Leader, “was quaintly put. 1t is like the re- mark of the old ve‘sran. This aged man, going from his room one night to let out the cat, stumbled on the into. the hall. “Why, his wife, is that you? Did you fall down stairs?’ ‘Yes,’ grunied the old fellow, rising slowly. ‘Yes 1 did. and for about a minute and a half I thought Ta lost my pension. iw FOUND A WAY To Be Clear of the Coffee Troublex, Silas,’ called “Husband and myeelf both had the coffee habit and finally his stomach and kidneys got in such a bad eondi- tion that he was compelled to give up a good position that he had held for years. He was too sick to work. His skin was yellow, and 1 hardly think there was an organ in his body that was not affected, “I told him I felt sure his sickness was due to coffee, and after some dis- cussion he decided to give it up, “It was a struggle, because of the powerful habit. One day we heard about Postum and concluded to try it, and then it wag easy to leave off cof- ee, “His fearful headaches grew less frequent, his complexion began to clear, kidnays grew better until at Inst he was a new man altogether, as a result of leaving off coffee and tak. ing up Postum., Then I began to drink it, too. “Although I was never as bad off as my husband, T was always very nervous and never at any time very strong, only weighing 95 Ibs. before I began to use Postum. Now I weigh 115 Ibs. and can do as much work as any one my size, I think. “Many do not use Postum because they have not taken the trouble to make it right. I have successfully fooled a great many persons who bave drunk it at my table. They would remark, ‘You must buy a high One young man who clerked in a grocery store was very enthusiastic about my ‘coffees.’ When I told him what it was he sald, ‘Why, I've sold Postum for four but I bad no idea It was like th Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read’ "The Road to Well Town of Big People. Accordiog to Benjamin W. Klemm, a traveling glove ralesman, Kansas City orders are for the biggest glove made, with the smallest sizes onm't- ted. » States,” sald made clothing mor- All tailors khow that The Weggest differ ence ig in the width between the i shoulder blades. I pot it down to 180 many of the Kansas people hav- ing been on the farm in thelr vouth, or engaged in hard work, of stooping over desks or i behind counters. Tallorg' patterns all run large. 1 also know that or- ders for shoes are for larger than those gent in from any {city of like size in the country, {it is not the first time 1 have { about assorted glzes In gloves i above the average. “Senator Warner hat to fit him here ior New York when {last spring. He had no trouble ting one in Kansas City, though.’ : Washington Herald. in the United t Klemm; “ready chants say so, |e be the fact, tanding not Washington could in Highly Suspicious, “It Is a rule to which good law- vers usually adhere,” says a Phila- | deiphia attorney, ‘never to tell more than one knows There wag an In- istance in England, not many years ago, wherein a lawyer carried the rule to the extreme. “One of the agents in a Revigion Court objected to a whose name was on the regi the ground that he was dead revision atiorney declined to the assurance. however, and demand- ed conclusive testimony “The agent on the other gide arose and gave corroborative evidence as to the decease of the man In ques- tion, ‘But, man’s ter. ‘Well,” was know. It's very ‘Ag 1 suspected, barrister ‘You don't er he's dead or not.’ “Whereupon the witness continued: ‘I was saving, sir, I don't know whethes not; but I know this—they him about a month ago on cion.' "Harper's Weekly. Midland person gter on The gir, how do you know dead?’ demanded the the reply, ‘I difficult to prove.’ returned the ’ that buried BUusmp Might Help Some, Jack—-1 hear are { that homely Miss Gotrox ! Tom-—Yes; she has half a million her own right Jack-—-But money i lead to happiness, { Tom-—True, in the Wasted Do You engaged to in doesn’t always aid man ought Chic to help Now but rome search CARO Opportunities, Clancy that there? 'E’s a millionaire Doolan Be hivens! Olde niver of thought that Of've here for the ialways as sober as | Bloper’s Hall-Holiday i yer see seen him pass years, an’ Ally last folve an owl FITS, 8t. Vitus'Dance Nervous Dissases per manently cured by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. 8 trial bottle snd treatis: free ur. HR Kline, LA 1 Arch Bt, Phils , Pa rather was and have the right beautiful and not have him A girl would man fell her she riot than to be tell her so be Opportunity knocks but once, but it's different with the human knocker Why Sloan’s Liniment and Veterine ary Remedies Are the Best to Use, Let me tell you why Sloan's Link ! ment and Veterinary Remedies are the safest and most practical on the market today. In the first place, Dr. ary surgeon, and fr his earliest in- fancy he was sssociated with horses. He bought and sold horses while yet very young. He practised as a veterinary for twenty years, and has | battled successfully with every dis ease to which that animal is subject All his remedies experiments made to save life or re lieve suffering while he was practis ing his profession, Any reader, by writing to Dr. Earl 8. Sloan, 615 Albany street, Boston, | Mass, will receive “Sloan's Treatise 'on the Horse,” free. This book tells ' bow to treat horses, cattle, hogs and ' poultry. A smart girl mother; she lets her fool herself become a fixture in over t million homes. It can be obtained from all drug ies free. sure to inquire early. The 08 Atasnae is already published, and the | yh. will 50m b be exhausted. Do not put | one to-day. Boome men are =o rich they can af- ford to antomobil le. Only One “Krome Quinine That is Laxative Brom» Quinine. l.v% for the of E Ww. Urove, Used: i» World over to Cure a Unld in One Day 3 A woman's idea of a smart man ons who always agrees with her. is a m— So ——— ———————— A SASHA " Runniog “Pown The My this. Mother No, dear, no person; Banta Claus i: papa. Johnny Humph. Then p=. | the family was Jonah? Bun, theie is of New York of Ointments For © atarrh That Contain Mercury, as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely devange the whole sys- fem when #ntering in througs the mucous surfaces, buch articles should never be used except on pres vi ph otis from jeputable phy- wicians, asthe damage they will go 1» ten fold to the can possibly derive froes them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, mansfaciured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, U., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting wid and miuce riaces of thesystenn, In buying Halls Caterrh Cure be sure you get the genuine, It 1s taken ine ternaily and made in lowedo, Unio, by ¥. J. Cheney & Co. lestiuomals free Bold by Druggists; price, per pottle, Take Hall's Fanuiy lis for tion. Beware i you good us ali 190 Cutist pa A Graduate, A man often thinks he is teaching a girl how to kiss, when she is tak- post-graduate course Life DOCTOR SAID “USE CUTICURA™ of Eczema on Childe Disease Had Reached a Fearful State-Order Resulted in Cure. “When I was small 1 was troubled with eczema for about three months. It was all head. It reached such a state that it was just a large scab all over, and the pain and itching were terrible. 1 doctored with an able physician for some time and was then advised by him to use the Cutienra Rem- edies, which I did and [ was entirely cured I have not been bothered with it since. I used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment, but do not know exactly how much was used to complete the cure. Miss Anabel Wilson, North Branch, Mich., Oct. 20, 07." jlikes to hive a be her mother girl won't reason a aperon is so it yrup for Children tion, allays pain cures wind colic, 25ca bottle grand On in gocs ragtime engagament marriage in An opera Piles Curcd 10 6 (0 14 Days. Pazo Ointment 1s guaranteed to cure case of Ilching, Hind, 1 bleeding « any ruding inCed. 50c, sw Prot ev refy of a wom iB USEUA Che A Man 5 4 Never fatis. At dn sich curs Sanitary Lot Truth and Quality Well-informed in i are essential to 1 peal to the walk of life an success and creditable stand ingly, it is not claimed that Sy: and Elixir of Senna is the only remody known value, but why it is the best of personal and the fact that it clean sweetens and relieves the internal o yich after effects and without having t« one of mas laxatives is on wh it acts without any debili It acts pleasantly and naturiiy ane ponent purchase the STU { Co., only, and for sale by all leading drug: | gists. "MOTHERS and grandmothers all over this conntry say you will reared hand 5,44 hoe ar you have at ohnson’s oT ht down to op Fo nly bites, Alien and cures spraine, lameness a ESTABLISHED 1810, 25¢., three times an much 200. AN dealers LK JOHNSON & 00. Boston, Mass. wish © know abit NTS! Do you wish ty know abou’ TRAD AL MAKK « wish 10 know about FENSIONS! Dy vib how shout FAY and BOUNTY Wilkie, Auorueyat-la ¢ Bal Wha Blidine. ni Indiana 4 Joan sshin nd 1861 age after they reach 2 {oensioner deserts wie Sus war be eutitied bat his pension. dean iN Thi: Bir IT WILL PAY sso —————. *2here's a Reason. % HANDY
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