The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, August 04, 1911, Page PAGE 5, Image 5

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    THE JtaZISS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1011.
A CENTA WORD
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE TEN-HORSE POWER.
engine and shingle mill. J. W.
Tlsdell, Ariel. 2t
FOR SALE KELLY & STEINMAN
orick factory building. Including en
gine, boiler nnd shafting. Inquire of
J. B. Robinson. 60tf.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE PARTY WHO TOOK MY BOAT
will return same Immediately if
they wish to avoid trouble as they
are known. Mrs. Harris, White
Mills, Pa., Cltl
WANTED A GIRL FOR GENER
al housework. Apply at 1114
Court street. 59t4
FOR RENT TEN-ROOM HOUSE
on Eleventh street with all mod
ern Improvements, including fur
nace. J. E. Richmond. 57tf.
LEGAL BLANKs for sale at The
Citizen office: Land Contracts,
Leases, Judgment Notes, Warrantee
Deeds, Bonds, Transcripts, Sum
mons, Attachments, Subpoenas, La
bor Claim Deeds, Commitments, Ex
ecutions, Collector's and Constables'
Sales, Tax Collector Warrants.
Criminal Warrants, Etc.
A VACANCY EXISTS IN OUR
Training School for Nurses. High
school graduate preferred. Apply to
City Private Hospital, Carbondale,
Pa.
THREE experienced workmen at the
bench daily. All repairs finished
at the shortest notice. Sommer,
Jeweler and Optician. 30tf
ALL REPAIR WORK finished up-to-date
in all our different branches.
Sommer, Jeweler and Optician. 30tf
INVENTORY of our repair depart
ment shows 236 finished jobs wait
ing to be called for. Sommer, Jewe
ler and Optician. 30tf.
LOCAL NEWS
There is one case of typhoid
fever reported from South Canaan.
A dance ' will be held In the
I. O. H. Hall, White Mills, Saturday
night.
The Young Men's Guild of St.
John's Lutheran church conducted
a successful Ice cream social In the
church parlors Thursday evening.
After September 1 the large
field signs advertising different
brands of food and merchandise will
be removed in New York state, ' it
being a new law.
A beautiful pure white Shet
land pony, that had been a pet in
the family of John Weaver, for more
than twenty years, died Wednesday.
Misses Anna and Marie Ward re
turned home Wednesday night from
a vacation trip to Atlantic City.
The roughers went to work at
the upper glass cutting factory In
White Mills last Monday. Next
Monday the smoothers go on full
time, and everything that has wheels
will be running, in the flourishing
sister borough.
The Interstate commerce com
mission has ordered all express com
panies to amend their tariffs so that
the rates to intermediate stations be
tween producing and consuming
points will bo proportioned to full
rates between these points.
On Thursday next Mr. and Mrs.
F. W. Kreitner, sons Wlnton and
DeRoy, and the former's sister, Miss
Emma Kreitner, comprise a party
which will make a tour of this state.
They will visit Mr. Kroitner's broth
er, Jacob, in SIzervllle, the celebrat
ed mineral water place, before re
turning. Mrs. John Rosencrans of this
place, received a telegram on Wed
nesday announcing the death of her
brother, Leonard Quick, which oc
curred In Luzerne county on Wed
nesday. The remains were taken to
Hawley Thursday and interment will
take place Friday in the Paupack
cemetery.
The Town Council met in City
Hall, Thursday evening, with all the
members in attendance. Street Com
missioner Lawrence Woidner and
Chief Engineer John Lyons were nls
present, in tneir oinciai capacities.
Considerable business of Importance
was transacted and bills amounting
to $1200 ordered paid. A full ac
count of the proceedings will appear
In the next issue of The Citizen.
Monday evening, July 24, 1911,
the friends of J. W. Rohrbacker
gave him a surprise In honor of his
fifty-first birthday. Those present
were: Mr. and 'Mrs. T. W. Frick,
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Lucks, Mr. and
Mrs. W. E. Hafler, Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
Zelgler, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Fergu
son, Mrs. Minnie Deckard, Mrs. L. F,
Ammerman, Misses Ora Hafler, Ada
Deckard, Eloda Deckard, Beatrice
Hafler, Mildred Hafler, Myrtle Am
merman, Pearl Frick, Alice Zelgler,
Messrs. W. w. Stevens. Edward Gar
wood, Clyde Lucks, Howard Lucks.
Raymond Zelgler. The evening was
spent in music, games and refresh
ments.
A New York city Sunday paper
coniniuea me loiowing: " Mrs,
Stephen Elklns and Miss Elklns. who
left Lucerne by motor car at the be
ginning of the week, are reported to
have arrived at Baden-Baden, where
they will mako a short visit." The
metropolitan papers have failed to
say that they have been at Southern
Tyro, Levico, the past six months
and that the Duko of Abruzzl has
been with them. Miss Elklns is the
daughter of Senator Elklns. She
and tlie Duko have been before the
public for over a year, hut during
the past six months their trace has
been lost eight of. The papers have
announced their being at different
places but none have been correct in
announcing their whereabouts. This
information was volunteered by a
friend of this paper that has an aunt
living in Levico.
The Ladles' Circle of the Grand
Army will hold a banquet picnic at
the home of Mrs. Cyrus Wooden on
Fair Avenue, Friday afternoon of
this week. All members of the cir
cle are cordially Invited.
Four of the candidates for
President Judge of Wayne county
spoke Thusrday at the picnic of the
Labor Grange at Calkins. George
Rose was chairman of the occasion,
and the orator of the day was Pro
thonotary M. J. Hanlan. Brief ad
dresses were made by Hon. F. P.
Kimble, Hon. C. A. McCarty, Judge
A. T. Searle and E. C. Mumford,
Esq., and Hon. Leopold Fuerth. A
Rev. Mr. Spier, Dunmore, also made
a few remarks. The affair was a so
cial as well as a financial success,
hundreds of people, and scores of
candidates being present from all
parts of the Shire.
PERSONAL
George Foster, Scranton, was a
visitor in town Sunday.
David Wilcox, Mt. Pleasant, Is
greeting friends In town.
Earl Gager, Scranton, passed Sun
day with friends in town.
Clarence Fermer, Corning, N. Y.,
is visiting friends In White Mills.
John Loercher is spending the
week-end in Scranton on business.
John Sampson, Carbondale, was a
business caller in town on Monday.
Jos. Denk, Scranton, is spending
a few days with Honesdale relatives.
Frank Erk and wife attended the
automobile auction in Scranton on
Monday.
Miss Emma Kreitner Is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Wlllard Penwarden in
Carbondale.
Miss Minnie Schoell returned from
a month's visit In Buffalo, N. Y.,
Wednesday.
Mrs. Walter Bache and daughter,
Washington, Pa., are guests of rela
tives here.
Mrs. Jael Arnold and son Earl,
spent a few days of last week in
Wllkes-Barre.
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Penwarden left
Wednesday for a few weeks' stay at
Asbury Park, N. J. .
Rev. and Mrs. C. C. Miller and
son, Franklin, spent Tuesday with
Carley Brook friends.
Miss Gwendoline B. Crossley, De
posit, N. Y., Is spending the summer
with her father at Starrucca.
William Lattler, Baltimore, Is
passing his annual vacation with
Honesdale friends and relatives.
Charles Wegge and bride return
ed Tuesday evening to White Mills
after an extended honeymoon tour.
Walter Moore, of the General Eleo
trie Company, New York, Is spend'
Ing his vacation with Honesdalq rel
atives.
Miss Etta Fuerth entertained a
number of friends last week at cards
In honor of Mrs. W. P. Boland, of
Scranton.
Mrs. Frank Gaffney, who has been
In a Scranton hospital the past few
weeks, has returned home much im
proved In health.
Miss Grace Corey, New York, is
passing her vacation at the home of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Corey, Court street.
E. P. Keen leaves Saturday for
Laurel Lake where he will spend
part of his vacation as the guest of
Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Dittrich.
William P. Rose and Carrio A.
Miller were married at the German
Lutheran parsonage, Hawley, Aug.
2, by the Rev. Rudolph E. Lucas.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Schoonover, of
Scranton, will spend Sunday with
the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
C. K. Schoonover, on Eleventh
street.
H. S. Batten, Philadelphia, a
former superintendent of the Hones
dale Gas Works of Honesdale, is a
guest of J. D. Weston at his Forest
Lake cottage.
Hon. E. O. Jones, Susquehanna's
representative in the Assembly, or
better known as Dirt Road Jones,"
attended a creamery association
meeting in Honesdale, Thursday.
Mrs. M. H. Mason and son, Fred
erick, Port Jervls returned to their
home Friday morning after a
month s sojourn with Mrs. Mason s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Keeler,
on Upper Main street.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Synar,
daughters Misses Sarah and Emma,
son Walter, and Miss Beatrice Good,
all of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., who have
been visiting relatives and friends in
Honesdale, returned home Friday
afternoon.
Mr. and 'Mrs. C. B. Lane, Mr. and
Mrs. William Zlnker, Mrs. Robert
mcKford, and son Robert, and
grand children, Frank and Irene,
Ed. Dalton, James Carley, Oliver
Reynolds, all of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
who are spending the summer at
Silas Dexter's place, Barclay's Lake,
near Narrowsburg, N. Y., were
Tuesday sightseers In the Maple
City.
Attorney F. B. Crossley, Chicago,
arrived Wednesday for a visit with
his father and brother at this place
and Fairview Lake. He accompan
led his father, Thomas Crossley, to
that lake Thursday morning, where
he will remain for an indefinite time
Mr. Crossley will represent the
Northwestern University of Chicago
at the National Bar association
which meets In Boston the latter
part of this month.
Claude Meredith, who for the
past few months has been the Scran
ton Truth's local representative, has
returned to PIttston. The position
is being filled by William F. Kloss
of Scranton, who has acted In the
capacity before very acceptably, and
again been transferred to Hones
dale.
INDIAN ORCHARD.
Special to The Citizen.
INDIAN ORCHARD, Pa., August
4. Nearly all of the farmers in this
vicinity have finished haying and
some have begun to harvest their
oats. Both crops are below normal
Miss Ella Dills, a teacher at Dur-
yea, is visiting her brother, S. K,
uias, ana family of this place.
Work has begun on the Episcopal
church which is to be erected at the
Indian Orchard cemetery.
The L. A. S. held their monthly
meeting at Mrs. A. M. Henshaw's on
Wprlnpsrlnv Inst, whloh wnft woll at-!
tended and from which a nice sum
was realized.
Mrs. G. W. Taylor and niece, MIs3l
Florence Colwell, Torrey, were visi
tors at the home of Mrs. L. R. Gar
rett last week.
O. D. Henshaw and family were
recent visitors at the homes of R.
B. Marshall and William Oliver
near Adams' Lake.
H. H. Crosby and wife were enter
tained at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Amazon Butler of Carley Brook on
Sunday last.
Miss Fanny Robinson, a teacher of
Stamford, Conn., was a pleasant visi
tor at the home of her cousin, Mrs.
O. D. 'Henshaw, on Friday last.
Edna Toms. Honesdale. is spend
ing her vacation with her grand
parents, at the Twin Ash farm.
Mrs. Lucy Hileman, Waymart. was
a pleasant caller at the home of
Mrs. W. H. Marshall on Saturday
last.
Augustus Paterson. wife, daugh
ter, Mildred, Carbondale, and Mrs.
Hileman, Waymart, passed here en-
route for Narrowsburg wfiere they
spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. Mur
ray. Several from this place snent Fri
day last at Lake Lodore; others in
tend to go on Wednesday next.
w. 'H. Marshall and wife called
on H. O. Wood and wife of Beach
lake on Sunday last.
w. C. Spry had a me day at haul
ing boarders on Saturday last. It
took several teams to do tho work.
Mary Maloney, daughter of An
drew Maloney, Laurella, Is spending
the summer at the Central House at
Beachlake.
Charles Smith and family. White
Mills, were the guests of friends here
last week.
Clella 'Mayo, Hancock, was a
pleasant visitor at the home of her
aunt, Mrs. J. W. Spry, last week.
un Saturday next the Berlin school
directors will meet and hire their
teachers for the coming school term.
Air. vangorder, Holllstervllle. who
has been assisting W. C. Spry at
haying, returned homo on Thursday
last.
IF WILEY SHOULD RESIGN.
By S. S. Robinson.
Some want "Doc" Wiley to resign,
They're bound that he shall go.
They have no use for pure-food laws,
it hurts their business so.
They want to dope our food and
drink
With cheap obnoxious stuff,
They do not care for human life,
ineir Hearts are hard and tough.
The fine wheat flour would then be
mixed
With harmless looking clay,
Our stomachs into brick-yards turn
ed,
To labor night and day:
The meat we buy would be "em
balmed,
The coffee made from flour.
The baking powder two-thirds
starch,
With little leavening power.
The soda-water will be doped
With coal tar products vile.
The whisky will a compound be
Of watered fussed "lie,"
The candy will be sweetened dough,
Tbo sugar mixed with sand.
The tea and spices won't escape
Tbe dopers cunning band.
The benzoate of sodium
Will in the canned goods be,
The vegetable's well as fruit,
preserved by acid "free."
The "coppered" peas will tempting
lOOK,
They'll be a lovely green,
They'll be as good as tonic pills
To make one's hunger keen.
We'll buy the colored oleo
For butter that Is real:
The lard will fee an awful mess
Not fit to grease a wheel.
The drugs will be no earthly good
To combat with disease.
We'll have to take the "Water Cure"
And drink some plain herb teas.
If Doctor Wiley should .resign
'Tis plain to see our fate.
We'd die off like the poisoned flies
uy things wo drink or eat.
So let us hope that "Doc" will stay,
And Keep his same old place.
He Is a benefactor sure
Unto the Human Race.
THE WEATHER FOR JULY.
Total rainfall for the month meas
ured on seven days, with traces on
as many other days, is 2.03 inches,
wnicn is one-rourth inch more than
last year, and 2.30 Inches less than
July average of 4.33 inches for forty
years from 1.07 inches in 1D07 to
9.28 inches in 1887.
Highest July temperature regis
tered from 69 degrees, 25th, to 98
degrees, 4th; average 84.3 degrees,
last year Sis.u degrees. Highest in
July for 51 years is 98 degrees this
year, and 97 degrees 14th, 18C8.
Lowest temperature varied from 66
degrees sixth down to 41 degrees 26;
average 54.7 degrees just the same
as last year and lowest on my rec
ord is 35 degrees on the 21st, 1890.
Greatest dally range 38 degrees on
tho 9th and 19th, and least six de
grees on the 17th: average 28.9 a&
grees, last year 29 degrees. Warmest
day on the sixth; mean 81 degrees,
and coldest days were tho 26th and
28th, mean 59 degrees.
Average dally mean for tho month
69.8 degrees, which Is 1.8 degrees
above July average of 68 degrees for
44 years; from 60.8 degrees in 1884,
Stomach Prescription
BEST ONE EVER WRITTEN
"MI-O-NA is the name of the great
stomach remedy arid G. W. Pell guar
antees it to cure the following stom
ach ailments and symptoms, or mon
ey back.
Upset stomach, pain in stomach
belching of gas, biliousness.
Heartburn, sour stomach, lump of
lead stomach, after dinner distress.
Nervousness and headache caused
by stomach derangement
That all-in feeling in the stomach
after a night of sociability.
Bad effects of overeating or drinto
Ing; sea or car sickness.
Vomiting of pregnancy, or any
stomach distress, and the price is
only 60 cents a large box.
to 73. 8 degrees in 186S; and seven
teen degrees higher than last year.
Two days were cloudy, 14 fair and
15 clear: average 73 per cent, of sun
shine, near the same as for July last
year and 1909.
Hottest place heard from during
the month, was in Salt Basin, Death
Valley, Cal., during the third week,
when 140 degrees was registered,
and at midnight 112 degrees.
Greatest rain was at Manilla, P. I.,
reported on the 25th;. rain had fal
len fifteen days; four days 77 In
ches, one day 39 Inches.
THEODORE DAY.
Dyberry, Aug. 1, 1911.
Death of Joseph Higgins.
Joseph Hlgglns, aged about 32
years, died of lung trouble at the
home of his mother, Mrs. Ellen Hlg
glns, on Ridge street, Thursday
about noon. Besides his mother he
leaves one sister, Miss1 Mary Hlgglns.
Mr. Hlgglns has been home since a
year ago last May. He was an excep;
tlonally bright young man and was
admitted to the bar at Eagle Pass,
Texas, when but 18 years of age. His
mother and sister have the entire
sympathy of the community In their
bereavement.
Death of Stephen Bergman.
Stephen Bergman died at his home
Wednesday evening after an illness
6f four days of chronic gastritis. Mr.
Bergman was a faithful employe of
u. ai. spettigue ana worked at his
trade, that of tinsmith, up to within
a day before an operation was per
formed to relieve him of his suffer
ing. He was taken suddenly 111 last
Friday night and on Saturday Dr.
Charles Thompson, of Scranton, as
sisted by Dr. W. T. 'McConvlll, of
mis piace, operated upon Mr. Berg
man. The stomach was found to
have "been perforated and food had
oozed out and had started to fer
ment around the intestines. His con
dition, was .not very encouraging
irom tne time or operation, as Mr.
Bergman was not allowed to take
any nourishment Into his stomach,
owing to several stitches having been
taken to close the perforation made
by the ulcer. If food had been tak
en the action of the stomach would
have broken the stitches and the pa
tient would nave been no better.
The mortality in cases of this kind
Is high owing to the patient being
unaDie to taKe nourishment. Much
also depends upon the physical con
dition of the patient.
Stephen Bergman was born in
Honesdale September 13, 1869,
where he has resided his entire life.
For about twenty years he has been
in the employ of O. M. Spettlgue,
with the exception of two different
times when he formed a partnership
with Charles Markey and another
time with Harry Deck, both of which
were in the plumbing business and
were of short duration.
Fraternally, Mr. Bergman was a
member of two organizations, Oslek
Tribe of Red Men and Fraternal Or
der of, .Eagles. He was also an ac
tive member of Alert Hook and
Ladder company of Texas No. 2.
Mr. Bergman leaves a wife, two
daughters, Helen and Hilda; also
two Drotners ana three sisters,
nameiy, unristian, ueorge. Mrs.
Joseph Westbrook. Mrs. Edward Tay
lor, all of Honesdale, and Miss Anna
uergman, at home.
The funeral will be held Saturday
afternoon from St. John's Lutheran
church; Rev. C. C. Miller will be the
officiating pastor. Interment will
be made in the German Lutheran
cemetery.
OVER NIAGARA IN A BARREL.
Bobby Leach Badly Battered But Is
Able to Be About.
"Bobby" Leach, 49, of Niagara
One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in
chandise will be Given Away Absolutely Free by
The Clark
to the persons securing the largest number of points in the
the following contest :
1st Prize $50.00 in Gold
2nd " 25.00 " "
3rd " - 10.00 " "
Next 10 Prizes 5.00 " "
Next 40 " One pound each of Clark &
Snover "Stripped" or Top Wave Tobacco.
Fifty-three Prizes in all, and every one worth working for
All you have to do to win one of these prizes, if you secure points enough, Is to save theNEW CLARK &
SNOVER YELLOW COUPONS, BEARING THE EXPIRATION DATE, JUNE 1, 1012. No others accepted In
this contest), and either mall or bring them to The Clark & Snover Company's office, No. 112 Adams Avenue,
Scranton, Pa., before 12 o'clock noon, October 31, 1911, and, in addition to tho premiums listed on the backs
thereof, you will be given credit for all the new coupons returned, beginning with the morning mail August
1, 1911, and closing with the last mail before noon, October 31, 1911, acording to the following schedule:
In addition to this, we will give contestants credit for two points each for every advertisement they send
in, In which the name "THE CLARK & SNOVER COMPANY" appears. These advertisements may bo taken
from the newspapers, dance programmes, pay envelopes, or from any publication in which an advertisement
containing our name apears.
This offer is open ONLY to CONSUMERS of Clark & Snover Tobaccos, and no jobber, dealer, coupon col
lector or broker is elliglble to enter the contest, and coupons or advertisements turned In by any but CON
SUMERS of our tobaccos will not bo accepted for credit in this contest. Therefore, Mr. Consumer, f you want
to win one of these prizes, hang on to your coupons.
' Tell all your friends about this contest and get them to use CLARK & SNOVER "STRIPPED" or "TOP
WAVE" Tobacco, and If they do not want to enter the contest, they can give you the coupons.
The Clark & Snover Co
ii3 Adams Ave., Scranton, Pa.
Falls, Ont., Tuesday afternoon went
over the Horseshoe falls at Niagara
Falls, N. Y., In a barrel and still
lives. Though lie was severely bat
tered and bruised in the drop of 158
feet over the brink of the cataract,
he sustained only superficial Injuries'
and Tuesday night was able to bo
about his house. This is the second
time in the history of the river that
the trip In a barrel on October 24,
the cataract has over been success
fully navigated. Mrs. Anna Edson
by police on both sides of tho river,
Leach was forced to make his start
from LaSalle, a village 2 miles
above the cataract on the United
States side of the stream. Albert
Mang and William Perry, old river
men, took him out In a launch Into
the Canadian channel. They stopped
at Navy island, where everything
was made shipshape and Leach was
placed In the barrel, a steel affair, 11
feet long, the ends of laminated
wood. Leach was hung in a canvas
hammock.
He was badly exhausted when tak
en out of the barrel below the falls
and it was necessary to apply oxy
gen to revive him. He thought that
his leg was broken, but examination
showed that it was merely sprained.
" I minded the tumbling above the
falls more than the big drop," said
Leach. " It came near killing me,
the way I was tossed about before I
hit tho brink."
HOW TO MAKE JELLY "JELL."
One of the most pressing topics
In house-keeping circles Is how to
get jelly to "jell," and what the
reasons may be for its refusing to
attain that delectable state. This is
not a subject confined to the women
of the household by any means.
Mere man Is perhaps not as much
interested in It just now, but he will
be during the winter months when
the jelly put up during the sum
mer mkes its debut upon the table.
The question is so important that
an enterprising newspaper, the
Cleveland Press commissioned an
expert on preserving, Alice Gltchell
Kirk, to present to its readers the
real "Reasons Why Jelly Won't
Jell." While we are not competent
to pass upon the soundness of her
deductions we must say that her
conclusions appeal to us as sound
and we know of no better service
we can render the people of Hones
dale just at present than to make a
brief digest of Miss Kirk's coyp-
rlghted article.
As to the kind of fruit to be used
Miss Kirk says:
All fruits for Jelly should be
purchased UNDER RIPE, as at
this time there is a starchy sub
stance called 'PECTIN which is
necessary for Jelly, 'and this
quality is lessened as the fruit
ripens. If the fruit should bo
over-ripe and the Juice ferment
or the jelly is cooked too long,
the pectin loses Its power of
making jelly.
Having caught your berries you
proceed as follows:
Berries should be placed a
few at a time In the colander
and washed quickly so as not to
absorb the moisture. Then put
into a large bottom aluminum
preserving kettle and heat un
til the Juices are well started.
Pour all into a double, three
cornered cheese cloth bag and
harig up to drip. A 10-cent
harness hook screwed up over
tho kitchen sink where the bag
has room to hang and drip into
a bowl is a great convenience.
Do not squeeze the jelly bag
if you wish tho Jelly bright and
sparkling. You may do so and
boil this Juice separately.
Where no water Is added to
fruits bring the Juice for five
Coupons marked "Value 1 Coupon" ono point
Coupons marked "Value 2 Coupons" two points
Coupons marked "Value 5 Coupons" five points
Coupons marked "Value 10 Coupons," ten points
minutes (never hard boiling
with or without the sugar).
Have tho sugar heating In a
moderate oven.
A FAILURE.
By Ella It. Littell.
Yes, Jim, I'm sure a failure, Lord
knows I've done my best;
I've worked like a slave all my life,
and never had any rest,
For even in meetln' I'm plannin
how Kate and tho kids can bo
fed,
And the thought of It ha'nts me
sometimes till I'm almost out
o' my head.
I've got a good woman, Jim, of man,
no better will ever live;
How she has set up nights, and
worked, and scrimped, and give
But now her health's a fallin' an
what am I goln' to do,
With six young ones to take care of,
and the baby 'alnt yet two?
My brother's a Baptist preacher
oh no, he 'alnt much like me
I 'ain't one of the pious sort some
how I couldn't be;
He's gettin' an awful sal'ry six
hundred a year or more,
While I'm a flghtln' and strugglln'
Just to keep the wolf from tho
door.
Just look at old 'Squire Wheeler,
now, he's the richest man in
town,
He's al'ays climbed right up the hill,
while I've been goln' down;
I never niade any money I wasn't
built that way,
But everything comes to some folks;
they can al'ays make things
pay.
I'm gettin' about discouraged; no
use to fight against Fate;
And I know what will be will be, I
al'ays have told Kate.
And if it's God's will that I should
be poor, why poor I've got to
be;
It's just as plain as the nose on your
face, that's the way it seems to
me.
My life has been a hard one; there's
no denyln' that,
I'm Just an all round failure, but
don't please pass the hat;
But still I can't help hopln. Jim,
that some time I shall know.
Why 'tis that every prize in life, has
al'ays missed me so.
Sherman,' Pa., Aug. 3.
STALKER REUNION.
The tenth annual reunion of tttp
Stalker family will be held the last
Wednesday in August in tho
Abrahamsvllle grove. All relatives
are cordially inyited. As this meet
ing comes only once a year let every
one ho present If possible. Emma
Stalker, Secretary.
W. AV. WOOD,
Gold and Mer
FOB TREASURER.
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