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Aet.. pboue No. 182. Office on Corner Water & Pine Sts, Selmsgrove. P HflYPOLE i S OAF WASHES and DYES AT ONE OPERATION ..ANY COLOR. The Cleanest, Fastest Dya for BoUtd or Faded Shirt Waists, Blouses. u '-I : . . "'u-?ru""u"' "inn, etc., w irouoic wnetner Bilk, Satin, Cotton or Wool. Sold in Mil Colon i groetn mud Drufgittt, or mailod free for 15 conttf Aettess, IMS MAtPOLB SOAP DEPOT, UT Dma Strut. Nw York. f7S$ CANDY j -I ui?Ns all ' K C.,,t;: KvUGCSTS w A fflWII Or'WO PEOPLE. - '! . Colonel Wilson, of the lluladel phia Bulletin, has been looking up some interior Pennsylvania towns, and writes an entertaining article concerning them. After telling of the saleottlie entire village ofUhler town, Bucks county, to one man, some time agci, he tells ol a town not so far from Middleburg which will be of interest to our people. He says: "Pennsylvania can boast ot even a smaller town, and one with only two inhabitants. Its uaiueisNeko da, and it is on every map of the United States. Kekoda is in Perry county, five miles from Millcrsburg, on the Pennsylvania railroad, be tween Altona and Harrisburg, and seven miles from Liverpool on the Northern Central railnxid. The town has two mail deliveries daily and a daily stage line connecting it with Millerstown, Liverpool ami McKce's Half Falls. "The population consists of Mr. and Mrs. S. II. Baker, and never before in the history of the country has one man had to perforin more officers than this solitary male, lie is thejusticeofthe peace, postmaster, burgess, town council, chicfof police, election inspector, president of the board of health, blacksmith, drug gist, general storekeeper and the holder of many other otlices. Mrs. Baker is the president ol the Ladies' Guild, Health Protective Society and numerous other organizations, which she has created and promoted during her long residence in Nekoda. She is now in hor seventy-third year while Mr. Baker is in his seventy- sixth. They are hoth hale and hearty, and carry the burden of their many duties with u cheerful ness and strict attention to business that in comparison puts to shame the officials of some other towns who lave only one office to till, and cvcif neglect that. "Mr. Baker was liorn in .Nekoda. He hnows every stone in that inter esting place, where he has spent his useltil lite. Ihere is not a tree or shrub, aye, even a blade of grass, that is not laniiliai to his eve. The politics of Xekoda are strictly Re publican. The Squire, as Mr. Ba ker is affectionately termed by the other citizens, meaning his wife, always votes to please the cominun ity. "The Squire did his courting from Xekoda. The blushing dam sel whom he ask to share his many honors over fifty years ago was Miss Eliza Rickabaug, of Millerstown. Her father was the jolly host of the Crass Keys Hotel, which llourished in the old stage days. Many a night young Baker footed it home by the light of the silver moon from Millers town to Xekoda with the firm de termination in bin mind that the next time he saw Lizzie he would just out and say it. She had many suitors. Hint winter was a hard one for Sammy. His determination always weakened when he found himself in Lizzie's father's cosy parlor, and it was not until they were both capsized out of a sleigh into a snow lmk that Sammy found wurngc to speak. Then, at they frantically clutched at each other, Sammy cried: "Xow I've got you, and I'll keep you forever." This was how he proposed, and the mar riage followed shortly after, when the chief of police, burgess, town gouncil and all the other officials carried of! his bride in triumph to reign unmolested for fifty years as the first lady of Xekoda. "The statistics of Xekoda, for the last half century show that there have only been one marriage and two births. The latter blessed the union of Sammy and Lizzie, over forty years ago, since which time the offspring became full-fledged, and flew tfie nest. One became Mrs. Valeria Hopple, the wile of the agent for the Pullman Palace Car Company, at Broad Street Station, Phila., and the other is Colonel Joshua D. Baker, the manager of the Lafayette Hotel. The statistics which have been faithfully kept further show that there have been no elopements nor failures in Xeko da during this long period. The town is of a purely niercliantile character, its entire business being centered in what is known to the community as Baket's store, which is also the town hall,' church, ' residence-location, and everything 'else. It is in this building where grim justice presides, surrounded by well- stocked suelvtawtuiKWare, drugs, Xo one has ever been arrested for drunkenness. XTo other town in the United States can show such a record. Perfect harmony exists in the community, and a solid vote was cast lor 'C0,s, which has remained an unbroken law c.en since. "The money question has always been an open one at Xekoda. Far mers from the surrounding country, who come there to market, are com pelled to change the standard tosuit lhe burgess, chief of police and the storekeeper. Yesterday it was three eggs for a two- cent stamp. To-day it is a head of cabbage and a bunch of carrots. Fine dress goods arc worth two bushels of corn a yard, while double-barrelled shot guns bring as high as two loads of hay. The standard is ever varying, but the population of the town inclined, if anything, to a cheese staudard. "The residents pride themselves on their horses, cows, sheep and poultry but the spring house must not be forgotten. It is in this cool sequestered spot that Mother Baker's dantie pies and big bowls of rich cream can always Iki found. This little spring house, with its quaint oaken door, is known to traveling salesmen from all over the State, and many a one drives out of his way to visit the hospitable town of'Xekoda, where good cheer is always ready and the door wide open." A Miner's Alaskan Experience IMvUl Wurtl Sty He Found Xtty yd u Thick m l'otatw. Public I(ltfcr, riiilulnlphia. Pa., March 4, 1K lwvid Ward, who left his home in Kansas City three years ago on a prospecting trip through Alaska with but little ot this world's goods, arrived in the city last evening and registered at the Central Hotel, lie had with him, as a mute testimony of the richcuss ot the newly disni vercd gold fields, nuggets" of the rich metal as big us guinea eggs. He is enthusiastic over the vast extent of the gold dejnisits in the re gions of Alaska, the morcsolxxaiusc, he says, by far the richest finds are on American soil at least 100 mile: trom the Canadian line. "If I tell you just what I think'" he says, you would hardly lielieve me. ' I SJK'Ilt tin 'co years in the cold region traversing g greater part ot the ter ritory, and I tell you frankly there is enough of the yellow metal there to make every one ef the l.",()(M) people already there or on the ir way Millionaires. Why, sir, nuggets ar are as thick there as jHitatm-s in a prosH'rous fanner's patch." To illustrate the richness of the field Mr. Ward gave an account of his rinding some of the nuggets he exhibited to a hditr reporter, sav ing : 'In Company with two native Indians, who acted as guides and jKickers, 1 v:as working my way along a big tributary of the Yukon, far over on the American side of the line, when we stopjied to rest for night. The natives Itegan digging into the ground so as to strike stakes for a cache for our provisions to keep them out of reach of the dogs, when one exclaimed that he had struck a rock and we must change our location. I examined the hole and found in it nuggels as iargc as potatoes. I soon discharged thena tvies and sont several months there. "After 1 had secured all the gold I could possibly carry I left for Dawson City, arriving there October 1. I left there for Dyeaaiul tok a steamer for Seattle, arriviug at the latter place early in November. At the Mint in San Francisco I exchang ed 100 ounces of my gold for $ 1 CS3. In all, I brought buck with me in round numbers $12,000 worth of gold. "I am now returning home from Washington, where I have been in the interest of my claim. As soon as I get it properly protected I will take a company with me to carry on operations. Kunning through the regions is a large river, which can be easily diverted from its channel. Its bed contains nugget? as thick as gravels in the bottom of many rivers. TOura American 2asasines Go- The wide range of the circulations of American magazines and the manner in which they penetrate the furthest points of the earth found new evidence last week, when a single list of five hundred subscrip tions to The Ladies' Home Journal was received by the magazine from Bulgaria, the list being headed by the name of Her Royal Highness. the Prinoww Maria Louisa, ' George Klondyke-Yukon-Alaska International Exploration jnd Investment Company. INCORPORATED . - , CAPITAL STOCK, - - $1,000,000,000. SHARES ONE DOLLAR EACH. Fl'LI. PAID AND NOMAJWKMAaiJL General Offices ; 5, 7, & 11 Broadway, New Combined Capital 8tviire Large Profit!! Tne Gn-akxl (Jood to the Ih'ratext Xutnbcr ! ! Your limited tnMm rhn ni. rm. will MHMira for you all tl ailvaiiluicra a rue noun, oi tiil command! when In- unuer our co-operative ulun ory goods, notions yA g?K ennan, the Saurian traveler, said ITGOSTS N0TRING to nrl for our prnarrut and aruiiainl your self with the comlriiMd arivantava e offer. The tnormoua profits to lie dr-rived from t!i development of Alaska Kll bmrlni proierlie I but one of Ilia many f alur. we van oftVr you. We invent ami make money for you wherever money can be made. Let your few dollar lie the nucleut of a cum Ing fortune. The Greatest Amount of Benefits -the Minimum Amount of Risks. Have von n...l. "i.". . .. , , . ws rB on yuu opportunity t0 ,j grrBt deul bettor In the cominir year. Ilava you failed to wv and lay aeide a .urpluaT Then lu tein the new year by maklnKan Investment In our atock. Our aharee are aold at par. at l per share, and are aold in lota of S .hare, and upwards. A quick decision, a wise move in the DrOtM-r flimntlrin will .l..u. r..r.w ..1-1 u. . .. . ... ' -"- mn urn new year riirm nyaeiminic your sur plus monoy-a hundred dollars, fifty dollars, twenty, ten or even five dollar.-t once to the Co. and receive by return mall your shares of .tock. llefore Ionic you may And that while you have li.lH.rrd on and toiler., your money has been ru.klng money for you. and while you have not gone to Alaska nor devoted your time and labor to other promising ventures, yoa have reaped all the benedtsand have enjoyed success. Send your money by check, money order, express money order or registered letter to International Exploration and Investment Co., r, 7, 1) it 11 P.roadway, New York, X. Y. Kchponsible agents wanted in every city and town. that he found this magazine in homes on the stcpM-s of Siltcria, while l'eary met with it in (ireenland. It is an interesting fact that The Lidies' Home Journal has subscriptions in filly-nine of the sixty-five generally accepted civilized nations of the earth. During the single mouth of Dccemljer last, for instance, it re ceived subscriptions from Svria, Japan, Uruguay, Turkey, Congo l'Yee State, Transvaal, Liberia, Xatal, Sierra Leone, Zululand, Havana, J'uilianias, Iiiinnah, ISrazil, Iloheinia, Canary Islands, Honduras, Costa Kica, Nicaragua, San .Salvador, Chili, China, Kgypt, Cuba, Kiji Is lands, (ierinanv, Hawaii, Madras Presidency, Hungary, Korea, Java, Straits Settlements, Malaysia, Siani, Samoa, Palestine, rem, Portugal, Tasmania and the Danish West Indies. From One Point of View. "Woman," she said, oracularly, "should bare all the privileges that man baa. She is Hhowing her ability to do all that he can do in the business world." "Yes," he admitted, "she Is rapidly bringing: herself down to his level." The more she thought of this re mark the stronger became her deter mination to keep out ot all suffrage movements. Chicago Post. There Never Was One. Great Ficture Buyer (to hostess) What do you think of an artist who painted cobwebs on the ceiling so truthfully that the servant wore her self into aa attack of norvous prostra tion trying to sweep them down? Hostess (a woman of experience) There may have been such an artist, but there never was such a sen-ant. Tit-Bits. "50 Years' Iipyeinls In n I'lililUhod by the New-York Tumi ie Second Edition. 32 Pages, 18 by 12 Inches. A general review of the advances and improvenieutB made in the lend ing brancb.es of farm industry din ing the last half century. Special articles by the beHt nt;ri cultural writers, on topics which they have made their life study. Illustrations of old fashioned im p'.ements. A vast atuouct of practical infor mation. A valuable aid to fanners who de sire to stimulate and profit. Extremely interesting and instruc tive. ONLY lo CENTS A COPY, by mi!. Scud your order to THE POST, Middleburg, Pa. A Rote from the Keillor. The editor of a leadinir .tate paper write "If you hud seen my wife last June aud were to seeeer to-day you would not believe she w the same woman- Then she was broken down by nervous debility and fullered terribly from constipation anp nick headiiehe. Huron's tel ery king- for the Nerves modeller a well womutt l non one month.', W. It. H-rnmn, Troicl ville; Middleswarth it fish. Mct.'lura; If A. KhriKht, Aline will ijive you a free siimi'le package of this ureal herbal remed' i-.r,-.-sues i'c and iH: Not With Her Voice. "He does not love me any more," The ma Men sang to shame him; And as the notes reached papa'n ears Ha murmured, "I don't blams him." -Town Topics. TUB MAG.NET THAT DREW THrJW. ! ,4 ' ''-"a " I ' ' t-' i kh i :':J, ij i ' I s By thousands the women rush into the show when they read the dime museum sign: "The fat lady's weight baa been greatly reduced, from a thousand to uine ninety-nine." Y. Journal. Oaasjhter of Mother Oooee. "Where ire you going;, my pretty moMr" "I'm going to Europe, sir," she Mid. "And why are you going, my pretty maWf "To purchase duke, sir." she said. Chicago Dally News. Bennd to Keen On. Flip There'll always be a good deal ot traveling. Quip How do you make that oat? Flip Because no sooner does one man get back than all those that haven's traveled have to start oil at one to escape hearing him talk about It-ST. Y. Journal. Meam. Young Wife The Bible telle us to east our bread upon the waters end It will return to as a hundred told. Young Eusbeuul WU, tor heaven's sake Mary, don't east any of the bread yon make upon the waters, then. M. Y.WorkL Look 2 Look 2 ! 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