3 2j 5 invelopcs c r.1 .',riiii- .11 v. , a job lot of noU f ' We bought a large con- J a jnment of envelopes t hand. They must p The price will do It. I and price for the ak- 'p .avtng bought so many J Q. secured a rock bottom f figure. Send for samples f and prices; f II 9 ya umlsh them printed than you can wry them printing. .- ' ' ijtaaeller, Editor aa4 PraprfeUr. A Fanlly Jaaraal, Devotee U leva, Seleses, Art, Political tommy aad Carreat Uttratare. Bates Om DolUr Per Aaaan, la Adraace XXXIX MIDDLEBTJRGH SNTDER COUNTY PENNA. APR 3 1902 NUMBER 14 ..JB 7 - d ' I Bar VBfc. W v Ar 1 pTnUKALUCOWlCSl session of court th held Ls 5c a yard and sugar 5o Intoalb.atRunkle'a. 4-8-2t to remain single," said fclor. "Then you bad better replied the married man. full He of 8vy,ton bM foT Misses and Children, call at K. Liaeller'M Millinery.Sellnsgrove. low who boasts that he has ..n disappointed In love bas r been stuck on himself. L.l Countr Sunday School I Ion will hold its annual con st Millhelm on the 8th of Apr. Lrcliant who advertises has all- fnicthiug to offer. Bead Bun- tut Reduction Ad In the Peer. 4-8-2t LderBillmyer, of Montour, has Ud himself as a candidate for L, to succeed the late Congress' tlk. WoRPDseller's Millinery is the r Ladies to satisfy their tastes Millinery art Store North St., Bellnsgrove. Doos fob Balk. Four full Gordon seljer bird dogs are of iirivate sale. Address, E. G. Winey, awinetora, ra. c a nice line of most stylish rv iroods on hand, the most at- eio be found. K. A. Wagen- Selini-grove. Indiana man who had been g for fifty years and who was t to have been murdered bas up married.' Great are the ac- isuuieuts of fate. h Ruukle's ad. in this week's Boy's Suits reduced from f4 to A general reduction on all goods brce the first two weeks in April, 4-3-2t ; - 4 High Grade Pen and Ink Portrait, tlO, from your photo, ready for lie for one dollar. You will be Btisfied. It's a creation. Write V, photo returned. Box 65, Elkhabt, Ikd. Pittsburg widow who proiwsed cheers for the pastor who jilted ust after prayer, may have con- Li somebody had something to be fulfor. bnAL Hotel fob Sale. The Hotel in Middleburg is offered ivato sale on easy terms. For par- lire address, H. Burns Smith, New Kensington, Pa. V. Aurand of this place wishes to the merchants of the county to e their orders for Levi Smith's lity and Water White oil and lu ting oil until his wagon arrives. kiT. March 21st, a yellow leather el was lost between Sellnsgrove Verdilla. Reasonable reward will ii for its recovery. Send lnforma- to Miss Cary Willis, Middleburgh, pdcacon Badcliff of the Episcopal kh of Selinsgrove delighted his nee with an Interesting talk Sun Jftftornoon in the Court Uouse of jplaoe. He Is pleasing and courteous those who heard him, hope to have tlensure of hearing him often. kdlvsl Come to our Milllnerv king Tuesday, April 8th, when you see every thing, that will Interest in Spring Millinery. Do not forget pate. Respectfully Yours. Misses Ulrich & Osmun. lnett Bros, offer a large assortment oes 50 per cent off. Some are odd others slightly out of style. That fj we want to get rid of them. We setting an entire new stock of sty Ml 008. Ml on A. . Soles In his new shav knd hair cutting parlor for your f cleaned with a refreshing sham' "a a clean towel to eacb natron fie north side of Market square op e Central Hotel Satisfaction guar eed. tf' Mnctt Bros, have taken possession heUMHon m nop b4va m A T-vvm 41t aa n ptt is In Phils, this week buying Roods. The new srooda will arrive latter part of the week. . They ex- io carry a complete line of merch- K Everybody is Invited to call mer they buy or not - ttha Conch ul wrks ta CM It... n n . . . . . FLITTING TO AND FRO. Tba llavlai Pppalact ChaaginglBg for Better r Want. MOVING AWAY FROM TOWN. John F. Smith from Swloeford to Kreamer, Isaac Stimeling from back of town to Bitter, Millard Hasslnger and family to Warren county, Harvey isowereox to LwisDurg, Henry li. Iliejtle. Frank Kechrial. Joe Cielan and J. B. Roth rock to Lewistown, James BnooK to uenvertown, Allium Musser to Klpple, ltlair county, Flmon I. Her rold from Franklin to Milton, Hay mond KaU to Harrisburgn MOVING INTO TOWN. A. K. Gift. Esq.. from Lincoln, Neb.. who has been away for 12 years, Geo. C Stuck, the Kreamer blacksmith, in to win. r. r-eese's nouse, jonn j. llamer trom Troxelvll e to Swlneford iuto the house bought of Jas. B. Enter line, George Musser from Washington twp. to Franklin, Isabella Boush from to the house bought of A E. Soles. Jonathan Bingamau from Centre twp. to U. A. Schoch's farm vacated by Jas. Snook, Henry Mengle from Mt. rieasant Mills to rroinoiiotary snin del's farm, Jamos Leitzel from Perry township into H. B. Biegle's bouse, J. A. Mengel from Mt Pleasant Mills, Anthony Walter from Union county to West Market St., Israel Shawyer from Adams township, John Bogers from Harrisburg, Mrs. Kline from Cen treyllle to the house vacated by Hay mond ICatz, John Shannon from his fnrmto Swiueford, Curtin Bowersox from his farm near the Red Bridge to his home on West Market Street, H. Milton Amig from Washington twp. to his house In Franklin, 8. F. Hack enburg from Suydertown to Midleburg ABOUT TOWN. H. H. Grimm to the house vacat ed by James Bowesox, Albert Edward Soles to the house vacated by H. H. Oriium, Mrs. Lewis Miller to Swine ford, Calvin Bingaman from Joesphat Walter's to James P. Smith's house. George E. Specht from th Molser house to Joseph Clelan's, Jame Ituw ereox from West Market St to lloury B, Biegle's house, Herman It ltcnn inger to Henry Miller's house, Joseph Dreese and Clarence Graybill to the new house built by W. W. Wittenmy er at the bridge on Sugar St., Lewis Troup from East Franklin to Shanon's farm, Chas. H, Walter to the house be bougbtrrom Unas. a. oieuer, rrana W. Snecht to Fred Smith's house. I. H. Bowersox moywl his confectionery from A. K. Gift's to the room in O. A. Schoch's house. Mrs. Jacob Hassing er to Paul Billhardt's house, C. H. Dunkelberger to the house opposite J. F. Stetler's. Adam Howell from Bobt Shambach's to West Market St.,Foster Smith to Beaver's, Seth Winey to W. W. Wittenmyer's house, Boyd Stetler and Foster Btegle to the new houses they erected in East Franklin, Milton Derr to Geo. Smith's house. George Walter to his home in Franklin, Amos Bowersox from Shlndel's farm to H H. Benninger's house in Franklin, Geo. E. Snecht chancres his watron maker's shop to Joe Clelan's lot where ho moved, Win. Smith moved into Morris Erdiey 's bouse. A FEW FLU'S ABOUT THE COUNTY. W. H. Bover from Salem to Krea mer, Nathaniel Trewitz from Freeburg to Mt Pleasant Mills, Daniel Hacken burg from Troxelvllle to Milroy, Lin coln Zieber from Middlecreek to Bea vertown, J. J). Aibogast to Beaver Springs, Amelia Stroub from Shadel to Kicbneid, James u. blook irom uea ver Springs, to Benfer P. O.. A. E. Aucker from Verdilla to Chulasky, Geo. A. Brosious from Mt Pleasant Mills to Northumberland. J. L. Gray' bill from Richfield to New Holland, Lancaster Co., Catharine Shrawder from Port Treverton to Iran Kiln twp., Levi ltnirer from Pallas to Selinsgrove, J. L. Brubaker and A. S. Brubaker from Chapmah to Harper, Ivans , Sam uel Wagner from Chapman to Nanti coke, John B. Bamer from Selinsgrove ta Riverside, The Officers of the Lewistown Divis ion are considering the matter of changing the time of the afternoon train leaving Sunbury for Lewjstown. They would like to know whether it would suit the people along the line better to have the tram leave Sunbury at 6:25 p. m. instead of 2:15 p. m. We think that the change would be' an improvement over the present arrangement, as at present, no one can leave a station on this division and go any further than Sunbury or Lewistown and get back the same day. Under the other ar rangement, a trip could be made as far as Lock Haven, Mt Camel, Wilkes barre, Harrisburg and intervening stations and return the same day. One could leave Philadelphia at noon and get home the same. day. Middleburg should have this train and so should every town along the road, but as Be llnsgrove would not be satisfied without an afternoon train, and Middleburg, tie county seat, needs the afternoon train to accommodate the people fiom the East who have a few minutes busi ness here, instead of running the after noon train only to Sellnsgrove,' it should run at least to Middleburg. an m mm aav Uae iumI tirlndlns atak Devoe Lead and Zlno Paint wear twice id In a day. No cure, no pay. Price as long as lead and oil mixed by hand fots. v . tf.1 . 11-21-ly. Mrs. Joseph Bowee is visting her son in New York City. Hon. J. A. Lumbard was at the county seat Monday. v Miss Carey WUlls visited friends at 8elinsgrove last week. J. B. Enterline of Riverside was at the county seat over Sunday. Miss Isabella Snyder of Sunbury spent Easter with her parents. C. H. Wenrich of Verdilla dropped in to pay his subscription Saturday. James Kline who has been working in Virginia, is visiting his family here. William Smith of Perry township was at the county seat Monday morn ing. Edw. M. Greene and wife spent a few days with W. W Wlttenmyer and family. , One of N. A. Bowes' childreu is sick with scarlet fever and the house is quarantined. M. MUlner of Kants is in Philadel phia aud New York this week buying new goods for his store. Theodore Bow, of Kreamer, who this spring retired from fanning, was at the county seat Saturday. Mrs. Frank S. Blegcl has been seri ously 111 for the past week. She has symptoms of Typhoid fever. Fleming Bower of Lewisburg spent Easter in this place with his grand' mother, Mrs. Catherine Bower. Mrs. Geo. W.Wagenseller and daugh ter, Esther, fcpeut several days last week with her sister at Sunbury. We learn that our friend and sub scriber, David Steinlnger has moved from Loch lei to Northumberland. Samuel Maurer, one of the most sub stantial citizens of Washington town ship was at the county seat Saturday. Prot. Blchart Lloyd Schroyer, Prin cipal of the publio schools of SehW grove, was at the county seat Monday. Wilmer and Bryce Harter of Sunbury spent Easter with their grand parents, Dr. J. W. Orwlg and wife at this place. Clyde O. Smith of Herndon and his two brothers of Sellnsgrove were at the county seat Monday afternoon between trains when the former took out letters administration on estate of his father, Benjamin J. Smith. John D. Lenig of Pallas, Joseph Stef- fen of Schnee, J. W. Fisenhaur, Kissi mee, and Peter G. Stahl were cash cal lers last week. S. P. Sampsell of Kreamer, one of our most prompt paying subscribers, drop ed in Saturday to compliment the printers. Mrs. James P. Smith attended the funeral of a little grand child, the in fant of her daughter, Laura, at Eliza' bethville. Miss Laura Schauibach, who has been employed at the Sunbury Silk Mill, is spending a few days at home w ith her mother. Chief Burgess John F. Stetler has moved the rear portion of his residence back from the main building to make room for a new addition. W. W. Wittenmyer and Mr. Gellnct went to Philadelphia Monday morning to lay in a stock of new goods for the new firm of Gellnet Brothers. Misses Bertha Seebold and Eva Steinlnger visited Miss Eva Seebold at Sunbury last week and took in "Florodora" at the Opera House. I. IL Bowersox will now have his confectionery store and ice cream par lor in Hon. G. A. Schoch's room re cently vacated by Haymond Katz. Geo. J. Scuoch of Sellnsgrove and his son, Dr. J. C. Schoch of New Ulmn, Minn., Monday were the guests of County Treasurer Benneville Smith. James E. Mageee of Kreamer and Mr. Freed of Liverpool took account of stock for the transfer of W. W. Wltten myer's store goods to the Gelnett bro thers. f - H. BurnsSmlth of the New Kensing ton National Bank was in this place Friday and Saturday of last week look- ing after the Central Hotel property, which is now offered at private sale. The following united with the Evan. Lutheran Church Easter morning Thomas J. Specht and wife, Mrs. Lew is Miller, John Shipton and Leroy Stetler; Misses Marion Schoch, Bertha Seebold, Bessie Smith, Blanche Swarti and Eva Steinlnger. Uh'a Wsrk Eadel BOUSH. Charles Boush, an aged citisen of Freeburg, departed this life on Monday morning, March 24, from consumption, after an Illness covering six months or more. He was aged 79 years, 9 months and 11 days. He was born in Peun township, June 13, 1822, and baptized August 17, 1822, by the Bev. Mr. Schmidt He was confirmed In the Lutheran faith by the Rev. C. C. Miller, at his own request shortly before be died. He was married to Matilda, daughter of the late Jona than Straub, which union was blest with four children, three sons and one daughter, of whom only the daughter, Mrs. F. 8. Boyer, of Lawton, Mich., survive him. The deceased was a stoue mason by trade, and a fair mechanic, and was known and worked as such over all the nearby counties. There are a few homes in Freeburg and vicinity which have not some specimens of his handi work within their confines, but hunt ing and trapping was his chief delight and he roamed over all the montain- ous sections of this and adjoining counties in quest of game. It was a rare time when his premises did not shelter one or more wild specimens of his skill as a trapper, and probably there was no one person of his time in the county who prepared and sold more pelts than he, the result of his success as a hunter. The funeral took place Thursday morning, aud was conducted by Rev. C. C. Miller. J. H. Arbogast directed the obsequies. Interment in L. A It Cemetery. BIEOEL. Lucy Edna, a daughter of Henry Riegel, of Washington township, died on Tuesday, aged 6 years. She had been sick with measles and pneumonia set in and was the immediate cause of bet death. The funeral services were conducted by Bev. C. C. Miller. P. L. HaJus directed the obsequies. Inter ment In Falrvlew Cemetery Thursday afternoon. BENJAMIN J. SMITH. The above named resident of Penn township died last Wednesday and was Interred in Wagenseller's Union Ceme tery Saturday. Obsequies in the Se llnsgrove Beformed church. During the civil war, Mr. Smith was a member of Capt George W. Byan'B company, F, 131st, P. V. I. The deceased was a brave soldier and participated in the battles of Fredericksburg and Channel lorsville. The funeral was under the auspices of Capt Davis Post, 143 G. A. It, of which organization Comrade Smith was an honored and faithful member. Letter to Henry Dietrich, MlDDLEBUBQ II, PA. Dear Sir : Buckland, Main, is a sea coast town : hard place for paint About seventeen years ago, Farrand, Spear & Co., Rockland, began with Devoe, Their first sale to paint the Farringtou residence, well known there. Mr. Farrand says the house appears, Irom the street, to be well painted now, and has never been repainted. We should like to know more defl nltely about a' Job of paint that has lasted seventeen years on a sca-sldc house. It Is the longest time we have had a report on. Lead and oil lasts three years a first- rate Job and nobody says it lasts long' er. We are content to say that Devoe lead and zlno lasts twice as long: but we know of houses innumerable, on which our paint has exceeded six years, Yours truly, F. W. Devoe & Co. W. W. Wittenmyer has transferred bis store to the Geludt brothers, and the latter gentlemen took possession on Apr.lstTheWittenmyers have been in the mercantile business in this town for almost seventy five years, longer than any other family in Central Penn. During this time they have occupied the same corner where their fine busi ness block now stands. The business was established in 1823 by the late Sam uel Wittenmyer and was conducted by him until 1870 when his son, Waldo Wittenmyer, entered the firm. This partnership of Samuel Wittenmyer & Son was continued until 1889 when the senior member of the firm retired. From 1889 until until now W. W. Witten myer conducted the business. We wish the new proprietors the success which their predecessors enjoyed for so many years. NO RELATION. By Lady Caak, ate Ttantasce Claflla of Undoa FotttM Port. Sujh Is the heading of a great Lon don Daily in its relation of the claims of two poor women under the "Work men's Compensation Act which have just been tried at the Merthyr County Court "Maria Jones claimed against the Dowlals Iron Company, as personal re presentative of D. W. Thomas, collier, sixteec, whowss killed on April 5th, at one of the respondent's coal-pits, by a fall of the roof. Respondents objected that the relationship between applicant and deceased (a natural son) was not legitimate, and his honour, having re gard to the ruling in Dickenson and the North Eastern Railway Company, dis missed the claim. "In the matter of Ann Prosser and Messrs. Hills, Plymouth Colliery Com pany applicant claimed ou account of the loss by death through an accident of Rees Prosser. She had been married to the deceased twelve years, and lived with him until his death, but, being the sister of the deceased's wife, was not his lawful wife. On that ground the claim failed. In both cases sums of ten pounds paid into court by the respondents for funeral expenses were ordered to be paid out and no expenses were allowed." We quote the foregoing as two per tinent instances of the brutality of our laws in such cases, and of the need of a sweeping redress. For years we have publicly advocated the legal recogni tion of all parental relationship wheth er legitimate or otherwise, and have pointed out that the cruel disabilities of a woman who marries her deceased sister's husband, are based upon an ex tremely doubtful interpretation of a passage in Leviticus. Unfortunately, the Bill for legalizing marriage with a deceased wife's sister, although passed triumphantly through the "Commons" by overwhelming majorities, was de feated in the "Lords" mlxiy through the action of the Lords Spiritual. With a few honourable exceptions the Bight Reverend and Most Bevereud gentle men, after the maimer of a Traders' Uniou, combined in a solid phalanx for the preservation of theological con celts against moral and civil equity and natural rights. Bishop who were strangeis to the very door-keepers or who seldom occupied their episcopal benches, rushed to Westiminster with Indecent haste to block the latest effort in the cause of freedom. We owe these purblind legislators few thanks for any thing they have ever doue, aud least of all for this, and we are well assured that whatever the duration of their ec clesiastical power may be, their secular authority Is fast approaching Its end. The handwriting is on the wall and can be read by him who runs. The fair spirit and goodsensoof the Eng' lish people are already in rebellion against the mediaeval pretensions of priestly peers, and every legislative success of theirs against the liber ties of the nation will only hasten their Parlimentary extinction. But for their so swelling the minority it was able to outvote the majority of tho secular Lords over the lust Bill. Mrs. Aim Prosser would have received substanti al compensation from Messrs. Hills for her husband's death, whereas the poor woman lias had to pay his funeral ex penses and has been probably ruined by the costs of prosecuting her claims. All this may be strictly in accordance with the ordinary notions of employ, era and capitalists, but for the Right Reverends and Most Reverends, this Is "to visit the widows and fatherless in their affliction" with a vengeance, and utterly opposed to the apostolic teach ings. There is a largo party in this country which desires to consider mar riage as a purely civil contract for mere mutual convenience, to be dissolved by mutual consent if deslied, and the Bi shops have given practical emphasis to this doctrine, and have decided that those who have been "united In holy matrimony" may, notwithstanding, have no relation to each other. Merthyr Is the chief industrial centre of the Welsh principality, and conse quently should contain no small num ber of "Illegitimates." There must be hundreds of mothers there in the same position as Maria Jones before her un fortunate boy was crushed to death by the falling roof of a coal-pit The boy appears to have been the mainstay of his mother who was neither maid, wife, nor widow. To console her for the loss of her son the law Informs her that he was toot legally related to her, and therefore it Is preposterous for her to claim under the act specially enact ed for that purpose. And yet, we are gravely told by commentators II ka uiackatone that Christianity is Inter woven with the law and constitution, and forms a serious part of them. We should be glad to know where It came in in this lustance. The rleh Dowlals Iron Company will have to be careful of the lives aud limbs of their legiti mately born employees, but as for the illegitimate they will probably hence forth form the forlorn hope of their works aud of every other dangerous In dustry, and, in spite of the Workman's Act may be exposed to accidents with the utmost recklessness without any fear of lines, mulcts, or compensation. In this respect our legislators Iiuva made a serious omission which should le remedied without delav. Thev have even retroocded from the elementary principle of our Angle-Saxon forefath ers in which the "wereglld" was paid to the "natural" relatives of tho de ceased, as is proved by "The Ancient Laws of England," published long ago by the Record Commissioners. At present the state of the law res pecting bastardy and marriage with a deceased wife's sister, is a scandal to Eugland as an intelligent and Christian country. The two cases inentioued will be multiplied a thousandfold. Ar tificial ties are hereby declared to be superior to natural ones, so that a son is no relation of his mother's, nor a a husband of his wife's. The whole thing Is too Indecently tolerated, too cruel to be passed unnoticed, and too mischievous to lie continued. Wo pro tested against it again and again, and have a kiud word to say tor the illegi timates In our latest work, "The Chil dren of Scorn." We appeal to every true-hearted man and woman to join in our crusnde against social Injustice and the oppression of tho pxr. Nor do we offer any apology for returning to the subject again lu this paper, for so long as the uleuding hearts of mothers aud wives are wounded afresh by tho iniijuitle of depravsd and n orstrous . laws, we shall continue to appeal aud pray for justice. Gone To Bt A Soldier. Far away in a western tent, To be a soldier he has gone. Now scrying In a regiment, Far from his beloved home. For three loin; vears he went nu-nv To serve his country true, "V Some day we'll hear the people say That he wus a hero. too. He was a member of the baud, And played a tenor horn, But the last shake of bis hand, Made us all feel quite forlorn. He was his father's only son, His mother's hope and joy. A loving sister, only one, Had this patriotic boy. Oh ! how hard it must lie to leave, A sweetheart, young and fair, But alas, the time come we believe, That her sorrows yet he'll share. We pray lie can all harm dodge, While to lie a wnldier he has gone. Aud Ood will o'er him watch, And again lead him safely home. Charles O. .Slmnibach. JnNt aa a Flr spreads lu dry grass and weeds, so does an inflanmtioii of tho throat the re suit of a cold grew down into the sen sitive airpassnge of the lungs. The old, like the lire, should be promptly dealt with. When you begin to cough, use Allen's Lung Balsam. It will certainly heal the sore throat and lungs and it may save you from consumption. ROCKEFELLERS GET Ju.ooo.ooo. Two of the big Rockefeller companies Standard Oil aud Consolidated Gas one day last week declared $21,500, 000 In dividends to the lucky persons who own stock in these coritorations. Of this amount, $20,500,000 represents the Staudard Oil dividend of 20 ier cent on the ? 1,000,000,000 of capitaliza tion, while the gas company will dis burse f 1,500,000 to its stockholders. John D. Rockefeller, with his brother, William, owns a controlling interest or $55,000,000, In Standard Oil stock, so that he received that day cash $.s,000, 000. William will get a paltry $3,000, 000. Ledscht Aukst war cs elf yar das der Bachman shue for kaufft hut su all all Shnyder Kounty and Northumber land Kouuty. Now uff cm nakscht Midwuch aud Dunncrschdaug dut ar Millinery and Notions slharta and hut for fluuisl do shenuhta heet lu dqr weldt und en Trimmer fun Nl Yorg das net gabutta si con, Don Kum alia Lcld and Sane Enl und won es gUck lich gate wella mer niae breef schrlva. W. D. Bahcman, 425 Market St, Sunbury, P. A