State to of Tale Of A Coat, Chester.— (George Lykens had a hearing before Magistrate Stockman charged with stealing Policema: John Piggott's uniform coat, which, according to the offiicer’s testimony) was taken from a police watch box in the western section of the city Piggott denies that the coat was stolen while he was dancing in his shirt sleeves at a Polish recption It was rumored that Piggott had placed his hat, coat and club window sill from which the was taken. The coat incident one of the matters which the Police Committee had contemplated inves tigation at its reco :t session, but as no witne eared, althoug several people were the matter was dropped was held under $300 for a hearirg. Security was furn Councilman William coat 8808 ap ished b; Deve ney Child Kills Woman. *{ttsburg.—R mand which years oid, a to receive, years old, of Millvale, suburb, fired at Miss Lang, } her al- most ioastantly. The ing oc- curred at the Augustiar home. A few weeks ago three cousins tha dead girl were burned in a fire which destroyed caus: d him Geor Augustian, shoot of death ir home LO the Lather League, Reading “Home thetheme at the sixt ly convention of the Ce League, of Berks Ce held at Spangsville, Addresses home missions were made by Rev, A ( Schenck, of Pl ladelp} William Mearing, New Holar Arthur T Mickler president the uther League "of Penrsyly of Easton, and Rev. M. Luther Zweil Reading. Missions" was tral or ’ Zig, Of Officers. The Riverside m 8 annual 183 Canoe Club Easto held it elected WW. A Ronald Richar« the navy, ant president the tague, i secretary, urer, 1 i i y Saiiroad Patterns Burn. Haz Fir buildin; rg terns at shops were and ahle the Lehigh VWeathe Train Runs Down Men. Sunbury while Dr. Harry M Neil, this mith, a prominre: Wer drivirz Railroad crossiz 1 by a pa part of was drags fore being ly lacerated nl place, YW Cars Kill Two Men. Scrarton James Joseph Bis ing in the Pittston, trip of cars sent vein incline by switchtender at plane. Both leave families ackho je, Exeter were the the Ww men Firebugs Foiled. Doylestown | inc 3 buildings ing to and the house, bar ings were and ready to appl Sasquehanna Scholarship. Belinag : y greeted a dent Charles he had IInive Ts is three ach donated singly : dine, of Hughesville: Browrnmiller, of Reading, Brown, of Tyrone. Presi that ia of each, gee Killed By Falling Clay. Readirz While wor bank of clay for the Gle Compary, at Shoe ke ravilie county, Jacob Franke, a aged 70 vears, was caught by falling clay and was injured so badly that he died a half hour later. His skull was fractured and he was injured in- ternally. Brick this laborer, ’ Chain Dogs For 100 Days. Reading.—Dr. W. G. Huyett, Wernrersville, this county. a repre- sentative of the State Live Btoek Sanitary Board, visited Rehrersburg of for 100 days, of rabies some time ago. Smowhball Battle In Sunbury, Selinsgrove. — Four irches of snow on Buffalo flyer, southbound, was utilized for a snowball by many passengers at Sunbury sta- tion. Filthy Habit Leads To Jail, Bethlehem. James Platish, of Blegfiried, was sentenced to jail for five days for expectorating in a trol- ley car. “What Is Ice Cream?” York.—President Robert Crane, of Philadelphia, who is presiding over the annual meeting of lce’croam manufacturers of the Stale, impress. ed upon the association in an ad- dress that uniform laws should be enacted in all of the states on the uestion of “What is ice cream?” is, he sald, would prevent trouble over interstate shipments ard from dissatisfacticn of manufacturers in states in which the standards set are higher than in others, | 71 i | Honor Ex-Governors, Considerable Interest has been aroused on Capitol Hil: by the move went inaugurated by the Punnayl vania Pablie Scheol Memorial Asso. Clallon to secure a monument to Paaddeus Stevens and Leorge Woll and Joseph this city The movemeat, which 13 «it chargo of Colonel O CC. Bosby- nell, or Philadelphia, has attracted much atteation amoag pacriotic and ‘raternal organizations wad members of the Legislature say are be- asked if the Are to into the Ca idea association 8 of the "Gre ns and the men who were Gov- roors between 1529 nad 1839 in tLe- alf of what is now the State's mag- nificent s tem Numerous have bee recelv- wwahell, it Is said who are taking an inter atter, 2d the next Legis will be memoralized on the It has been suggested that the men be place p in the or in the park. Ritner in Lhe, y statues tol Tho i8 10 of er” at Comme hool sy approval nel Bosl he re y the m ‘oli lature subject, Elatnes Capitol of Pottstown. Returning home from Joha WW, Chamberlain was to find that his wife aad dren had disappeared al that his wie had left the in the custody of Mrs Strohl, a celghbor. She told rohl she would only hours T hi 3 second the Kind to occur in Potts within the past two weeks ‘arriec Heib2ek deserted her months’ old infant, but was his work, surprised three chil be goae several is the ase of town Mrs ( three arrested Stripped York. ly Fly Wheel, While oiling a eorge Reider, of lothing caght in fore he could get of old muscles and gaaoliae Alpine, the fly loose, shoes ‘ ¥ i pair The he wis ter Milk Thieves. 4 A squad of Cam State aign to ex thieves w % y iteves who prey ipon the Joor Several arrests made a hin ree hi hog i A at 3 h Catherine A. Mrs C Lindsay. atherine A. r Lind. tative o of the Delaware C in this city. the late John cae ounty, She CC. President Moffatt, fferson College, accusing the and prom Cowieson, and who ready to a condition ill aot wear students treatment, ge R t h © Baseball In His Sleep. Hazleton cher Bo¥le, manager Eagles baseball bed in a dream effort to Hae crashed his fist His life was who was at the nolse and as he was making yw after the am clared the runner hills, hilip tho of room by frist Church Settlement. As the outcome of the sylvania eldership econ. the Church of God, held at J for more than a week, but which adjourned, an amicable settlement was reached as to Schuvl- kill property in dispute, held by the German cldership and claimed by the East Pennsylvania eldership itigation has been in progress for Amicable Hescues His Family. Shenardoah.--Barly in the morn Jacob Nuntrick, of Shepton, was awakened from sleep by dense smoke and found his home on fire. Ha sounded an alarm and securing a climbed upon the rear roof house, broke open a window and rescued his panie-stricken wife ard six children He was terribly burred about the head and body Just as he completed the rescue the buiidirg ~ollapsed. The loss waa $3.000. § irs or ing ladder, Plan Memorial, Reading. Rajah Tomple, Nobles Mystic Shrine, is arranging a memorial service to be held on October 27 in memory of for here At the same time a handsome memorial altar, presented by John Barboy, in memory of late members, will be de- dicated. To Have Centennial, Mount Joy. -— Rohrerstown, Lan caster County, is laying claim to an- tiquity. It will celebrate its cen- tennial in 1912. On the farm of 8, O. Frantz, near town, is a walled spring, over the entrance to which is a sandstone arch. On the key- stone of the arch is cut the name of John Leaman and the date of 1766. Recently a swallow made a flight of 160 miles at a rate of 134 mies an hour, FOR ROOSTING BOARDS, nest boxes or walls and floor of the hen houses, try the following preparation: Three the hand spray pumps or with a Journal. AN IMPORTANT JOB. One of the important jobs is get- ting some green feed started Inte fall and the entire winter. Too people neglect to prepare green feed and must depend on feed ing chopped up clover or alfalfa hay the piace of some real good feed for the flock to pick over on bright sunny days.— Farmers’ Home Journal LAY EVERY MONTH. The winter laying hen must started early in spring, hatched well, fed right, and kept in condition. Hens should lay every month of the and if their surroundings able and fed properly the feathers will fall a time and the new evenly that you will much loss of vigor.—Fa Journal. year are favor balanced feed, out so few at ones come never notice rmers' Home WORST KIND OF The worst kind of a step-ladder roost. on different levels ROOST. roost When there fowls is are always ing, also general confusion a’ ing time with 3 reach the highest point Fowls of heavy breeds are nearly ceriain injure their feet fiving down from high roost to a hard floor: birds are unable to fly chicks should not have er Shan a foot from eighteen inches the older birds is used have it telow the of wide boards, si the top it the birds should flocks: not over From the Farmérs' roost every bird trying to to very heavy Young high the ground: up TOOAts roosts roosts inded at used small the roos® ournal TO KEEP EG FRESH Fresh eggs in cold sor: at sixty five degrees Fasrenhe it undergo tle If any tare is sufficient to ties and prevent the rore <ommon bac: “American Medicine The problem presse excluding air has brought fort} erous methods MM In tors several condu series of tess, keeping the about «ight months in different ways and found that: Immersed in brine, were unfit for use: cent. bad: packed In bran or with parafne, mersed in sol cent, bad: coated with shellae or col lodion, 40 per cont packed In wood ashes, 20 per cent bad: coated with vaseline or immersed in a tion of water none bad From 8 many others, it thal a solution of = offer about the best meth preserving eggs, aside from cold storage glass is the common sium or sodium silics tained In the shops in the thick liquid something like gyicerine One part of this to nine of sterile water makes a preserving fluid of the proper strength The eggs should be clean, sweet vessel, an poured over them until they are well covered Preserved in this way a cool place, they will keep for months and often cannot be from the fresh article 1s conceded that they ack new laid eggs, but are ferior in nutritive ge change, of Germ years ago eggs for twenty BOme wrapped 0 paper, 80 per coated bad haar . salicylic acid, 50 per 70 per cent bad : solu glass or lime water, these experi as well been found lacs giass of Wate ame for poias ate, and is ob packed in a disting is generally in no way in value GRAND OLD There is gloom in the ¢ of the country, says the Post Express. HEN her domestic duties The Leghorns are languishing on their roosts, the Black Spanish are disconsolate, the Wyandottes are discussing the feasi the Plymouth Rocks are listless and even the Ban. tams are feeling blue and dejected. The cause for all this gloom and mel ancholia in the barnyard and coop of Agriculture, will retire from office In December. Mr. Wilson is not only the farmer's {riend, but he is the in spired bard of the great American hen. What F, D. Coburn, of Kansas, is ® alfalfa and the corned hog. Tama Jim is to the industrious hen. He has sung her greatness in Homeric measures and has preached her vir tues in language as irridescent as sun. shot dew, Statistics from his pen have taken in all the colors of romance, and never Petrarch wrote more spontaneously to his Laura than Uncle Jimmy has written to corres pondents who wanted to know how to persuade their hens to lay two eggs where only ene was lald before. He is a grand ed man, and ha will beat the record for length of Cakinet ser vice. | DUCKS, AN EXPERIENCE There is no doubt but what ducks are profitable under certain condl tions, the ducks themselves gell well, and besides there i8 the harvest features,’ but—well my experience was I admit not al! that 1 would al ways have liked*t to be When I began with ducks I knew about as much about them as a novice usually does which was nothing at all many things, I began with three or four which were given me and when they began lay in February 1 CER I did not ones however for they carefully saved set the first were too old I had any hens that evinced a to on them. When I did them however they hatehed well just in Jove with the pretty balls that the result, | saw anything in my life that get away with the amount that those young ducks « mash For fet were of uld. and the in a for me half might them each day for a time at feeding time r feed but at length and one day that was a house. Now food they did few weeks 1 kept them yard that my husband made but when they grown | ied ! let ve out a RTOW were that and of nearly they jet dec) to portion run, always came ed for the began to wen and teas wander the from they short to river distance the there and at run thing for led ducks always 1 had always been water was the night alas I had se atarall aturail wen’ told th ing best the 2 one As Piss Mil they fal HFT . 4 $v ure yenteen In y began to look for I never found even a sign them time business tol contract them with in winter the night one and as they ran at will De not Keon the with the duck good the for for the chi kensa, } 8 them fro: the Arink the riven ong the which th y wili get into | diana Farme« NOTES Twenty minutes h CYery other day hot foun- keep down tea ketlle ured scalding drinking of winter IM aver the germs this ch shade gome is alwars hot summer months something like a affords an lent have your Ix to gouth, and it in the woods where much shade droppings can the Poultry hot is wenther good for EATrY Low not neces during the shrubbers ket If possible or plum retreat yard locate there is too and dampness and where not used to advan nroduction of green food should be given as much any branch of the farm's it should be studied as care as dairying or hog raising and profits from urce are not inconsiderable the weeds and grass are tall owing to extra rains, limber neck may be expected if dead chicks are allowed on the range or runs The tall weeds and grass easily hide chicks. Weak ones often during the day and are excel iitry the don’t he income fully this = As drop over sult. limber neck Porto Ricans Interested. In Porto Rico the Spanish exhibi tion of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuber with decided success. cities, Including about one-third of all the towns in the island, were vis ited and over 100,000 people viewed the éxh'hit. The poor transit facili to haul the exhibit from place to place on ox carts, like a traveling country circus, EE ——————— Latest from Atchison, This is the latest story in Atchison; that the theory is all nonsense about kissing being dangerous on account of germs conveved from one mouth to another. “I've kissed hundreds of girls,” he declared, “and I'm not dead yet” Promptly one of the listeners In quired: “But what about the girls?” —Kansas City Journal, But the man is wueckier who has folly early and comes into wisdom ang appreciation of the more lasting virtues of woman. That is a just ob- servation which Macaulay makes, ex- plaining how the quiet, middle-aged widow of the buffoon Secarron won Louis XIV, from his brilliant court beauties. “Her character,” says Mace aulay, “was such as has been well compared to that soft green on which the eye, wearied warm tints and glaring colors reposes with pleasure.” When all is sald the woman of sense and sympathy and in fine, the woman who understands—is she who keeps her lovers. —Octave Than. et, in Harper's Bazar. by repose WOMAN'S WAYS. There is nothing crue! as selfish burg Dispateh, Many & woman who loves her hus. band well enough to die for him nags him until he is glad to die The man who is tied to his apron string has a halter around the neck of his success that throttles it There is small reward for virtue The wise girl i8 she who darns stockings and atoes In the window men may observe her d earth so the Pitts eige on love, says wifa's secret pares pot front where all mesticity GAVE FR sald 1 to and FAME tell EEDOM. Miss ebrity, their “Do me," Mar- tineau, “if praise cel like thing do said she, every rel fal 9° «1 ish i else not lost never," far v 5 ral mwralaes Eeneral prais« yf those | love an appro sleen r I highly value newspa censure The mos ge Or are perfectly ndifferent advantage ity to sire, whic every thie wughing, know! a show lion.” Of course, » her. 1 asked her adorst and an expres ir “Since 1 vernment.” she had Broug- who supplied » i ky princip! that to 3 been made . OF TUN AleT 1 dig not i undecs how u ral times us ¢ ved by Bi sion have She sald, o of had illustrated been by the ham and her with pod, the subjects in her request of Lord gtories, rham m, Lord Dus the materials, the Poorlaws, on Taxation. She by them to write which account Te or en, viz was employed on these two subjects, on ard her mother had London, as the transmission of Pam- phiets by the mail, became too bur thensome, frequently tiring her to wheel the Post Of fice. For the last two years she and her mother have resided In London, have a small hou adjoining the Park, which is as and pleasant as In the Here she had daily intercourse with the members of the Cabinet and leaders of the whig party, particularly the above named gentlemen. She never visite and receives them only ified bours every day, but Parliament sitting, dines out night, remember) every day while at Lord Durham's in the coun try, at table, a gentieman sitting next her observed. There is one subject, Miss M.. I think your genius admir ably calenlated to illustrate.” “What that,” said she, with eagerness, glad to be instructed The lL.awe” replied he. “Why,” exclaimed Lord D., “in what corner of England have you been living, that yon go not know, this 18 the very subject on which she has most ably written” Diaries and Letters of Margaret Bay- ard Smith, in Scribner's Magazine, TOO MUCH PRETTIL NESS Americans dresg well, says the Paris correspondent of Truth, and it seems to me the least wealthy dress in the best taste. Their great de fect is a Jove almost amounting to a passion for what is pretty, dainty, cunning and amusingly fanciful The latter, 1 admit, Is first cousin to chic. But prettiness is the nega. tion of higher beauty, and this most French women are artistic enough to see, Spanish American ladies and Dra. gillans are also infatuated with the passion for what is pretty, and do not lose It in Europe, which the North American often does They get bitten with it in the chapels of convent schools under she moved to req: send a harrow to se quiet country makes at two while {at Once, ape in in Poor MARRBD BY Maman faves tneinlad arettiness Tha styie in lace do not go to Belgium but to Venice, and if you want ad look for it in the portraits of the great Italian masters. It will put you out of the conceit with the modern creations of the Rue de Ia Paix. 1 never saw the late Sybil Sander son in a prodigally costly stage or drawing room dress. She knew she had a neck, shoulders and arms that spoke for thelr own matohless bean: ty. To dress out would have been a profanation, A light cambric undergarment, s Florence silk underskirt, and a nun's- vell frock, sleeveless and with a gath- ered corsage, were all she needed. She had no taste for jewelry or for any sumptuosities except when out driving or sledging In snowy weather. Her faith in the beauty unadorned maxim was absolute. The present trailing hide large and not too well shaped feet. American ladies who have gen- erally rather small feet with high in steps often object to the awkwardly long dresses in which couturfers and couturiers find their and femmes de chambre hung and throat diseases. The best eyesore of too large the best jakers directed to furnish to make the and to employ The French the Germans ought skirts are to advantage too often way to cover feet The y finest shoen the shoe or boot the ings fine uppers never sq A tight imprisons and often kills ami the nose, and Blralr manner ueeze the jed versation tight Frend h capital does not flow when The two sting en a shoes are worn have as advantages, t or genius and the caps false 1 Cs ogical ¥ the Vienna Jes ian all couturiers en they employ and are Fi ench: oi + ’ all . ities are not allows ZDDING SUPERSTITIONS A br wedding ice who finds dress blessed bride As a Tue, in ator; in tormy y o © 1 a 3 would have don h £1 had it not been for the ual on aT (th which many Probably of th ndantly ot been passen- "ur the a water-log instances they inqu enourh or ung enough to trace th but my lady herself, much her chargin, soon found out the source of the disagreea ascent “At least a ymen have Fare in the six weeks and me to do Tren. their furs, to every time god ui to very Tow . were isitive allant » lady's is odor to my furs, very Hie scnre of we ast something « ovate which smelled heaven they got wet” gaid a West Side fur dealer. “This complaint of a bad odor it hs never been a common one, and in several cases | have been unable to suggest a remedy. In previous ses sons | have occasionally called upon to doctor up a neck piece or muff of cheap material that had been improperly dyed; but this fall wom en have shown me expensive furs that sent forth the defestable odor of the tannery goon as the rain struck them. In some cases | was able to work a cure, in others not When trouble had to me » od Deggea £4 iurs been ar the hed the acute stage the purification was ef fected only by taking the garments to pieces, thoroughly cleaning the gskine and remaking them, while in less critical cases the disagreeable scent could be partially offset by rip ping the garment open and lining the inside with sachet bags. Both plans are rather expensive, and, as neither can be guaranteed As & sure cure, they should not be recommended un fess the fur is of extra fine quality and worth the experiment ”—New York Press. ron FASHION NOTES. Blouses of fine plain muslin and crossbar lawns are much worn with tailored linen and serge suils The rage for jet bas extended to hair bands, and black ribbons are es pecially chic upon blond heads. Fibre grass waterproof bags In stead of suit cases are being used by many travellers. They are more con venient to open and less conspicuous than suit cases A number of this season's gowns for young girls show the panel front and back which has proved such a popular feature for older girls amd women. The met coat, dyed the same color as the skirt and braided all oven continues to flourish. It is often slooveless and sometimes is in the cutaway style
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