White p some shifting at the Grey Iron Works on Moyday, the caupler was torn out of a car which caused a slight delay. The partnership of E. Sumpman & Bro, has been dissolved by mu. tual consent. The business will hereafter be conducted by Emanu- el Sumpman. Charles H. Dillinger and Minnie M. Baker were united in marriage at the home of the bride by Rev, A. S. Hottenstein of East Peters- burg, last evening at seven o'clock Our best wishes accompany them through life. Elizabeth, wife of B. C. Portner, died at her home in this borough of consumption, on Thursday, in her 29th year. Deceased was a daughter of Henry Davis and is survived by a husband. The fun- eral was held on Monday afternoon with interment in the Eberle ceme- tery. On Friday afternoon while Benj. Welsh was taking a barrel of iron from the first to the second floor on the elevator, at the Grey Iron, the barrel caught at the second floor and the cables being very strong, they kept the elevator moving up- wards, mashing the barrel and ele- vator into kindling wood before it could be stopped. Welsh who was on it, jumped off uninjured. Nd Grand Holiday Opening. Don’t miss the Holiday Opening.’ Large assortment complete, prices low. A handsome 1902 calendar given away free to every purchaser, at S. Cohen & | I'ro’s. Philadelphia Shoe Store, Locust street, Columbia, Pa. Largest shoe store in Lancaster county. — >» 247 | fore Christmas, Decembcy wes Nehemiah S. Teacher. | ed 4 TOM DoW | etery on Monday for cllets ; in memory of his five children. Gantz, “Whose There?’ «Its Me”. Albert Johns, a moulder at the Ma- rietta Hollowware Warks, who lives at | William Watson and wife will Maytown, received a ‘call’ at his leave next Tuesday for Steelton home from an unwelcome visitor at an! where they will be the guests of| early hour Thursday morning. . Charles Miller over Christmas. Johns was awakened about three o'clock | by a noise on the first floor. He heard | steps ascending the stairs and inquired, | “Who thete?”’ “Ii's me, gruff voice and then the intruder beat a retreat. An investigation showed that the caller had stolen a box of ci- pairs | Mr. A broken bolt caused the | to drop off the wind- -pump on the { Musser farm tenanted by Benjamin | | Brubaker, z 24 miles southwest of | | town. | Joe McGarvey sr., who recently | bought the property he occupied of | | William Widman jr., has not to take it and Monday into the Cutler property. Miss Phoebe Risser, teacher of the Pleasant Hill School, will hold a grand Christmas entertainment on Tuesday evening, December 24. All are invited. Admission 10c. 1 replied ¢ gars, some tobacco and serveral of stockings. The residence of Jacob Miller, Sr., south of Maytown, on the moved Vinegar’s Ferry road visited | during the same night, and a quantity of food stolen. A nn Who Was It? A man in town was so disgusted at the high price of corn, he resolved to try an experiment. He fed his chickens on corn 1ueal mixed liberally with saw- In the a] oo : course of time eggs laid by hens fed with [23°€ on the Promises of Peter this mixture were tested in an incubator Nisley 2 miles west of town and finally, out of a dozen, only two Thursday, January 2 were abortive, the remaning ten bring- ing forth nine woodpeckers and a de—| licate check with a wooden leg. That system of feeding has been abandoned, for fear that results of future tests would onlybe a bunch of toothpicks from each placed in the incubator. { The BULLETIN would make ex- cellent Christmas giftto a far off friend. | { Try it, only 50 cents. ie a X, Pool Table For Sale. A good second-hand pool table, 414 iby 8 feet. Also a full set of ivory balls and | i full rack of cues. All to be sold very cheap. | Apply at this office. was Claylon L. Nissley, administrat- or of Maria R.Risser deceased, will dust to reduce expenses. due on The personal property of Jonas E. Hostetter will be sold at 10.30 tomorrow forenoon on the farm of Elam M. Hostetter in East Don egal township and that at his resi- dence in this place at 12 o'clock. 2F Or egg al |italist, gave the Topeka newsboys | their annnal dinner on Thanksgiv- { present clothes fa i work acco { who saved the year got a size wheel decided : sell her personal property at public. R.! John E. Nissley, a Florin young | man who has become a Kansas cap- | | ir To 113 of his 175 guests he T'obacco Ox Ris hereby called to meet on MO A. (hall, North Oueen street, Lancaster, to to the posed removal by Congress of the tariff I Cuban tob Every grower is interested in this matter and [there should be a full attendance. WO [oounty | December 23, 1901, in the G. [take some action relative pro- acco. tobacco Davip HoLLENBAUGH, B., EZRA HERR, Secretary. President. > New Bridge at Steelton. It is said that a new steel bridge will soon be built across the river at Steelton Cum- The bridge wiil be constructed connecting that town with New, | beland. for a trolley line and wagon way and the fare will be five The corporators of the bridge company erested in trolley lines between Mount cents. in- are also int and Holly; Boiling Springs {Middletown and Elizabethtown and Womelsdorf and Myerstown. ———— A Crash in the Fog. Engine No. 134 crashed into the rear of an east-bound Pennsylvania Rail- train at the water tower 6:20 troad freight at Elizabethtown, Friday morning, the result being adam- about o'clock ; caboose One The e and wrecked two cars of the forward track was blocked a short tine. ‘accident was due to the, fog. B ; aged engin a train. mpl Manheim Enierces Vaccination. Th cided thatthe compulsory law shall be enforced in that borough ail recently eighteen pupils were dis- e Manheim school board has de- missed for having failed to become vac- Some of them have cinated. since complied with the law and returned hool. gy” every vaccination | {m. tojc correc t disorders of the s Al} < “ afternoon until Mondiy east track was used. etl em ree but in :, J. Snell wanted to attend a party, was afraid to do so on account of pains his stomach, weich he feared would worse, te says, to a lady friend, who said: Colie, « holera and Diarrhoea put you in condition for the t emedy ind enabled me ’ N. that two doses cured me : have a good time at the party. is a resident of Summer hill, remedy is for sale by Pa. Mr, Y o> Two Extremes. Many of cur citizens are killing quite | weighty porkers this season as usual | and Albert Fike still upholds one end of weig ghed that 412 strong the list with a pig pounds while T. F. Stoler is a favorite for the othe that tipped the beam at 66 pounds. for good each reasonably hope move once Noone can health unless his bowels day. When this is not attended to, orders of the stomach arise, biliousness, headache dyspepsia and piles soon follow. If you wish to avoid these ailments keep you bowels regular by taking Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets w hey so easy to take and mild and gen- tle in effect Sold at J. S. Carmany’s, Ilorin, Pa — Le ete Church Chronicle. Methodist Episcopal Church—Preaching Sunday evening at 7 p. m. by the pas- tor and Rev. John Boehm on alternate eve- Epworth League at 6 p m. at 9 a. m., Amos Risser Super- Class meeting Sunday morning at 10 a. Prayer-meeting Thursday 7 p. Rev. Wayne Channell Rev. John Eoehm assistant pastor. a Ctl eecniciiiniises nings. bath School intendent. m. pastor, ain app stite like a bear If you would have Chamber- and a relish for your meals take lain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets. They stomach and regu liver and bowels. Price, 25 cents. at J, 8S, Carmany’s store. 2 the | Samples free row | “I was telling my troubles ! ‘Chamberlain’s | will | party.’ 1} bought a bottle and take pleasure in stating , to Suell | This | J. 8S. Carmany Florin | end with a ¢pig- | dis-! hen required. ! Sab- wl fear of the futures writer arose and tossed her { stories into a drawer and shut their { up with a bitter laugh. “I wonder whatever made me think I could write?” she said. “It was all a mistake. I have no talent. T am a i mere scribbler. myself too seriously. woe-begone, Marian. And go on with your work, both of you. to write something after my kind.” And that evening she read them a mew story; a story at which Kate laughed in a half frightened way, and of which Marian said candidly: “It doesn’t sound like you, Madge. | Of course it’s bright and funny, and | { 11 that—but your last story was beau- i 3 Full” “And didn’t sell,” sai@ Madge. i “What is the use of writing beautiful things? TI have a drawer full of them, {and every cne of them has traveled all ayes the country. Now I'll try the public instead.” less than three weeks after- muase And am that the story was accepted, sino “oO urther contributions. I'ifty dollars! Oh, impossible! It must be five, or, at the most, fifteen. But no—the three heads bent over the | check, and there it was, i be mistaken. And then the three sis- | ters embraced one another and cried nd laughed, and did more absurd gs than they had ever done since the struggle for a living had begun with them; and Kate ran around the | room, waving the slip of paper as i though it were a banner. But after i the first gush of gladness was over the pale young author sat down and looked at them wistfully. ** she said, “to | that all thys money has been | paid for the lightest and most ineon- | | “It is so discouraging, sequential thing I ever wrote.’ think “It would be much more discouraging f it hadn’t been paid at all,” said Kate; ind presently the author was dancing gayly around the room, I have been taking | Don’t look so | I am going | to | vards came the reply, notifying Miss | a check for $50 and inviting | too plain to | | o ’ Madge lifted a pale [at him. He was the editor | sent back the beautiful story | wrote itself. { “What would you do,” she askd | with a thrill in her young voice, “i | you were poor, and could not wait; | if there were others depending on you—if anxieties were crushing your very soul—?" “Well,” he said, carefully, “there are higher duties, perhaps, than mere- | ly writing what one likes to write. Per- | haps we are too quick to judge what is our lifework. If we only knew, it may | be that our lifework is keepiugthe pot | boiling, and payin® debts, and taking | care of those dependent om us. 1 | seems a pity that—that we canno | work out our dreams. You see, {ing once established a reputatio | this kind, one becomes its slave ins of its master. I regret that I did | have the opportunity to examine sd | of your sericus work before you st | ed out on this line. There might hl | been great power in it. I judge t you would have written with streng | —and no doubt with wonderful path os”—for he had seen the glanceg | turned on him. 24 “Yes,” was the gay reply—or | her voice altogether gay?—and x | new tone was thrilling through it | have discovered 34 last where my ius lies. I have the most undoubted ent for pot-boiling, and from this ¢ | on there will be peace between | and the tribe of milkmen, and we | have winter wraps and cool things | summer, and the larder will be alwd full. What are beautiful stories t write themselves, compared that?” And because Marian was looking | her, not understanding, she suag | snatch of some merry little song | she folded the manuseript and puf into its envelope. She had accep ber life as it was. ei