4 The Sweetest Way to Tell the Story 1, 2, 3, and 5-lb. Packages w m m m hocolates GORGAS' REXALL STORES, 16 N. Third Street, and Penna. Station k =# SIGHT RETURNS WITH BUMP 1 Boston Man Blind Eighteen Tears Can Now See Boston. Pec. 16.—Stone blind for 4ine years and practically sightless for nine years before that, Frank H. j Haynes of No. 34 Summer street, Hyde; Park, once a famous horse racer, now j can see. Arising from his bed yesterday morn ing and groping about with his hands, his head struck the bedpost. A few minutes later he could see as welt as I ever. Mr. Haynes considers it a mir- \ aele. "When I awoke." he said, "I sat tip in bed. then stooped over to grope for my shoes. In doing that I struck 1 the post of the bed. I continued dress ing as best I could. "Soon I noticed what appeared to be' ' * N Rump s Leather Goods Traveling sets. Manicure sets. Col lar boxes. Cuff boxes and Emergency medicine cases. Golden Seal Drug Store, 113. Market Square. j ggaSSK<3EIpS 1 SOME ELECTRICAL S P SUGGESTIONS FOR 1 ImM Washing Machines, (a jpjjj - Carpet Sweepers. fiu Al Coffee Percolators. H Hjj^ Curling Iron Heater, jjH| • > /Bples!Mazda Lamps, s■£ JRJ aagl toa Portable Lamps, ft J IBfl Chandeliers, fAI gfi i,W Domes, 'M M Derk Lights. ffitj Mn \\j Flash Lights, Cfrt eA ' I Tree Outfits, pvl !318 Si? Stoves, Xfc till Vibrators, fj± R1 Electric Supplies. & Dauphin Electrical Supplies Co. f| ff JOHN S. MUSSER, President & 434 Market Street M BS "Of Course We Do Wiring." JfKl ELECTRIC TOYS We bought our toys before the war. We positively have the largest and most complete stock this side of New York. "Lionel" trains at cut prices Catalogue free. YINGST ELECTRIC CO., STREET Open Every Night *^ w " ==a==:r - ' - "jr ;; ft ] ' -INDEPENDENT, {jj! | I | J> ABRAHAM LINCOLN SAID! 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It will be distributed in the same bindings as the Pro- ♦ ' t J tcsttnt books and at the sarqe Amount Expense Items, with the necessary Free Certificate, w > b . 7 parc#l Include EXTRA 7 cents within X I | "» miles; 10 cents 150 to 190 ml las; for frcstar ask vour bostmujtar T ; ; anooDt to tnelade for * pound. * a shadow of my hand. Then I saw a ; towel I was holding. Then I saw the whole room. "I went to the mirror to see myself for the first time in nine years. I could hardly believe what I saw was myself. ]1 was surprised to find my hair had i changed from black to gray. '' My first thought was to see the i picture of my dead wife. I took it in my hands and it seemed good to seo her features again." MUFFLED AND DEAF TO DEATH Father of Seven is Killed for Failing to Hear Engine Williamsport, Dee. 16.—Albert Sher wood, age! 36, married, and father o-r seven children, was killed, while -lo se! h Snyder, unmarried, esc ape. I injury when a sleigh in which they were rid l ing was struck by a freight train at th Port Penn crossing of the Reading railway, near Muucy. The men wore caps, which they had ' pulled down over their ears in tihe cold and they were unable to hear the ap proaching engine. Sherwood's body was cut in two a'tor being drag-god some distance with the wreckage of the i sleigh. With a crop of 1.200.000.000 bush els of oats re(«orteil it is not likely that, the equine population will complain of I hard times this year. HARRTSBITRG STAR-INDEPENDENT, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, 1914. C. V. NB WS ADAMS CO. FRUIT GROWERS IN mm CONVENTION First Meeting of Three Day Session Was Opened at Bendersville To-day —Many Speakers Will DISCUSB the Fruit and Farm Subjects The tenth annual convention of the Fruit Growers' Association of Adams county opened to-dav at Bendersville will continue to morrow and Friday and it promises to be one of the most suc cessful ever held. Bendersville is in the heart of the greatest apple-groVing dis trict in Pennsylvania, and the fruit growers of Adams county are live pro gressive people who keep abreast of t he times and are strictly up to date iu the matter of growing fine fruit. These annual meetings are not con fined exclusively to the discussion of the fruit question,"but almost every ques tion that enters into farm life is open ed up and freely talked about. On Wed nesday President Robert "M. Kid oil, of Aspers, will deliver his annual addres? and Dr. O. .1. Marshall, f*tate Veteri narian, will give a talk oil the foot and mouth disease. How to get good roads will also be discussed. Thursday will be devoted to fruit culture talks, Prof. M. G. Kains, of State College: Prof. W. 'XI. Scott, of Baltimore, and J. W. Burke, of Batavia, giving special lee- I tures. I Apples will be the theme of the talk of Prof. 11. B. Knapp, of the New York State College of Agriculture, on Friday, followed by a ta!k on "Home Eco nomies'" by Miss Pearl McDonald of State College. Prof. M. S. McDowell, of State College, will talk on county extension agents, and Miss McDonald on the health problem. All through the >t">sii>ns there will be frequent discus sions, and there will be a question box f o be opened at intervals and tho in terrogatories will ho answered by ex pert*. The influence of this meeting will be apparent in tho big fruit crop in Adams eountv in 1910. J Have Located Runaway Boy Carlisle, Dee. IG.—The parents of ! 16-year-old Rav Wolf, who ran awav t'rom his home in Carlisle a week ago, | because his father objected to his too assiduous attention to the movies, have i located the bov at ("olcbrook. Virginia, j where young Wolf told friends of his family that he was out for a good time. Herman Wolf, the young man's fa iher. wired the Winchester, Ya., police ! officials to hold his son. Broken Pas Pipe Causes Fire Carlisle, Do,'. 16.—Prompt work on I tho part of \\ illiani A. Jordon, care- j taker ot' the building, doubtless saved i from destruction or serious damage by :ire the Jacob Tome Scientific building, i one of the largest departments of Diok j nson College, when a leaky union in a ! i-*?* piP, e was set on tire and the melting pipe dirc-cted a monster blow-torch BgtiMt the ceiling of the building. The "ire broke out shortly after noon yes terday. \\it;i tho ceiling of the room in •yhii-li the tire started, ablaze, and the ntense he;Lt from rue burning gas si-orching his face an 1 clothing. Jordan succeeded in turning the gas. The fire was later extinguished. Lieutenant Samuel M. Strite Dies Hagerstown. Md., Do-'. 16.—Ueuten aiit Samuel Melclior Strite. 49 years I nited >t;ites Xavv. retired, who had command of the after 8-inch turret •on Admiral I>oweyV. flagship Olvmpia ■ during Manila bay battle, died' here yesterday. Graduating from Annapolis Na**al Academy he saw >-ervie<- in the United States I oast survey and at Marc Island Navy yard, California. He was com mander of torpedo boat sailed : around the world with North Atlantic ' squadron and served tihree years ill Hearing sc a . Kor several years ho whs inspectar of stool for naval uses at Munhall and Lieutenant ~-trito wits a son of former .lustiie Sam • uel Strite. and brother of former Mavor A. bra ham C. Striie, of Hagorstown*. Bank Gave Out Waynesboro. Deo. 16. —The Citizens' I National bank < iiristmas savings fund ■ rhecks are being cashed in largo nuni- I i bers in.l much money is being put in I circulation for Christmas. Tho Citizens' Christmas savings fund j had about 1,000 members and there was paid out to them $22,000. The first year the Citizens had 440 j members of its Christmas club, t'be sec ond 700 and the third 1,000. TO ADDRESS FARMEB3' MEETING State Zoologist Surface to Talk on De stroying Corn Pest , I*' Surface, State Economic Zoo i legist, will talk to the McCormick Farmers Club at its monthly meeting ! to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock at' the Sporting Green farm, conducted by j E. E. Ijower on the Carlisle pike, near Hogestown. Professor Surface will talk j | along the same line-; as speakers at j the previous meeting have ' followed, namely describing the pest that has foeen destroying corn and clover, and I ! suggesting lemedies. j At the January meeting of the club | Hiram Billett, general superintendent ,of the Boonymead's fnrnis, will speak |on the proper rations for feeding | dairy cows. BOMB HTJRLS FATAL COUPLER Dynamite, Used to Clear Railroad Wreck, Reverses Rule Pottsville, Dec. 19.—Herman Koer- j I per, 16 years old, of Tremont, died at J the Pottsvillc hospital yesterday, tLs, the result of an explosion o>f dyna mite at a railroad wreck in Tremont l i Monday. A locomotive left the track and A i order to free it from the incumbais of j i wrecked cars a charge of dynamite was i put off to brea.k the couiplang pin. The j pin hit young Koerper in the head, fracturing his skull, and striking al i most with the force of a bullet. J As dynamite usually strikes down ( ward, the result of the exipioffiou was i a shock to the railroad officials. Masons Elect Their Officers Samuel C. Cerkins, Royal Arch Chap ter, Xo. 209, Masonic Lodge, fMechau-! icsiburg, has electe WH^BSS^^ m $& $1 I -flf '' jj^j 1 - PRINCESS LWOFF-PARLAQHY Princess Lwoff-Parlagliy, who for the last few years has been living at the Plaza Hotel, New York, surrounded by an entourage of servants that in cluded three butlers. maids, waiters, a private physician and special repre sentative, it was learned, has left the Plaza and is living with a friend in an apartment In New York. The Prin cess. who is an artist of no mean talent has left the greater part of the pictures she'has painted, together with her val uable bronzes, tapestries, potteries and ecclesiastical hangings, in the posses sion of the management of the Plaza. There seems to be a question of th.- non-payment of a bill to the amount of •boat $12,000. one of the inmates came up to Mm and, touching hia hat, exclaimed: "We all like von better tlian the last one, air." "Thank you," said the now official pleasantly. "And may I ask wbyf" "Well, sir," replied the lunatic, "you see, you are more like one of us."— Kansas City f%ar.