Why She Coulda’t Com*.

•*t. too k

party. Ol coar»t you'll egEM.” ”1 thould like to abovawl ihingt.’ returned the firl in gray, ' •at I (car il

hn't ; ■ 1

"I»n't pomMe? Why upt?”

“I'm not allowed to rat im:rh o( ar.ything juat now. and 1 frar »och a dill; ncr would be too great a trittplation.”

cxp»U:ncd the girl in gray

i blua-

’’No; lawver'a”

“Lawyer*!"

"Yea. Yon *et. m» breach o! promtae ca»e comer to trial pretty toon, and I'm traintng down to show the rav-

age* ol blighted affectum.*' Soda Qalore In Wyoming.

Wyoming'* loda <!epo»it» are tfct greatest on earth. We have enough natural soda in our s'-da lake* to maur all the soda biscuits in the world lot the next two centuries and then throw in. (or good measure, sufficient salsoda and soda lye to cleanse all the tribes 1 ol earth during the two centuries they are feeding upon Wyoming biscuits, and still have plenty ol soda left to make window glass lor the United

States lor generations to come.

Try MYonrsetf.

"How on earth.'*, sail! tl Cals-ert streetite. "did Smith

that horrible affliction that makes him continually imitate a gasoline engine

with his Sips?"

"Sh-sh-sn!" whispered the householder from Mount Washington; "most deplorable affair, that, lie boarded lor many year* -^nd got bis lips to working that way from perpetually saying 'Please pass the prune*'"'

Thoae Boston Oirts.

Arthur—Misa Smarte callfd

Xorti.

t least, she insin-

lobster last night

uated that ] was. • Frank—I think rou must have been mistaken. I can't believe she'd do such

a thing as that

Arthur—Well.' then, what did she mean by answering me as she did? I said I never was so happy as when 1 was in the water, and she said: 'Naturally.' What did that mean.' I should Kkc to know, il it wasn't that I was a

lobster? Hope*.

NEW JEtSEY STATE NEWS.

A fairly well-dressed woman about ,U year* of age, who gave the name of Mary Clark and said she lived at a,1ij Market street. Philadelphia, dc liberately walked into the Delaware river opposite Haggerty's pavilion at the river front. Gloucester City, short ly before‘6 o'clock and tried to drown herself. J. W. O'Brien and George W. Fisher, members of the crew of thi police tug Ashbridge of Philadelphia mho were sitting in. front of the for mer's boathouse nearby, saw the woman's action and quickly pulled Aiei out # She was taken to the City Hall, wshrre she said she was determined to

end her lile.

Farmer* of Gloucester county met a' the home of State Master of- the Grange G. W. F. Gaunt and talked over the question of connecting iartr houses by phone. Evef-since the pro jrct has been brought out representatives of the telephone companies haw been offering all kinds of inducement* The committee into whose hands thi matter was left feel that jhe farmer! are able to operate a company of then own. and t'ut <hr profits into thei*

own pockets.

Misfortune seems to be following th» Lauicrbach familv of Trenton- .A lev day* ago Oiaeies Lauterbach. th-. father, committed suicide by drinkiny laudanum on the street. The son. Charles 1-auterbach, Jr , is lying ir McKinley Hospital suffering from thi amputation of his right hand, .the mem ber having been mangled in the tna chmery of a woolen, null, where the bo;

as employed.

George Fry. ol Lambertville, waperhaps fatally, injured by his team run "ing away. Fry was hauling stom ith a heavy wagon and double team He was thrown under the horses' feet One of the horses stepped on him ant he also^eceived other injuries by be ing dragged by the team. » Charles Tomlin has been electe principal of the Dias Creek Pubii.

School.

For his first ten baskets of swee; potatoes George Newcomb, ftf Pemuyl

He. received ft;.

Several cider mills in Gloccestei county have started *p. and the out

| put will be up to normal,

j Porteu* Brandhff was re-elected wa ter superintendent at the meeting of

Millville City Council.

I Salt water crabs in the Great Egg

“Miss Passay packed ber trunk very | Harbor river are very plentiful.

COMMEICIAL REVIEW.

Omni Tndt C—aflat.

R. G Dun & Co.’s "Weekly Review

of Trade*' lays:

Earnings of railroads for Aoguit thua far show an average gain of 77 per cent, over last year s figures and 1&J per cent- compared with 1901. Distribution of merchandise is very heavy, more interruption to traffic being recorded, and in staple lines prices arc steady. Preparations for fall trade are vigorous, many manufacturers working overtime to fill importunate orders.

CoHections are fully as prompt as usual for the season, although in some lines there is lest inclination to discount

btUt

Failures this week numbered 174 in the United States against 196 last year, and in Canada 22, compared with at a Tear ago. Bardstreet' Wheat, inc.w U . the week ending .... J-4'3.191 bushels, against &040.& week, 4,591.805 this week last year 9.039,761 in 190: ind 3.113.641 in 1900 rot six weeks of the cereal year they aggregate 18,460^44 bushels, agains' a5-Jo5.°o8 in 1903, 4t.54fi.906 in 1901 and _17.ffu.438 in 190a Corn export! for the week aggregate 707.387 bushels, against 884. p8 last week, 93433 a year •go. 508.807 in 1901 and 3-017.089 in 1900; for six weeks of the present ceroa! they aggregate 6449.480 bushels, against 587.860 in 1903. 7.733430 in 1901 and 21,266.830 in 190a

0..,0*1 o.,JFREE PROOF FORBIDS DOUBT. late Sir Aadrew Clark is the following: - r.^vi..r*,aur At a dinner party one night he note- twvw-sr^ •aij’rwi ed that the lady .sitting next ‘to him Vj /£???£» !r.*/Usm?'**?'*?* at table passed a dish to which he help- ) . 1.0 •>'<> j''ur «' * <„"a, ed himself plentifully. I ►-«at-i.wi»v:t/.-—Jirw. U^s A-S^v»i«,v lie asked if she did not lifee it, a> .Tl<« cem*i fam* > it was excellent. She replied: j U-w-ey fin* t "Oh. yes. I like it. but my physician | **"" ’•-* forbids me to eat it.” ! ''Stuff and nonsense,” said Sit Andrew; "it could not hurt any one. Who ; is your physician?” To which the lady, whom the medi- I cal magnate had forgotten, answered. \ with j» demure twinkle in her eye: ! “Sir Andrew Clark.” J

“He said he'd die if 1 didn't marry j him.” "And still you refused?” a “Yes. I wished to find out before J promising, whether he-really loved me as much a* that or not Oh. Harriet. I'm p-p-pcrfcctly miserable! lie seems chediy healthy, and I d-do

The importation of American pork ? -odticts is no longer prohibited by urkey. TITS parwaoMitlv earn. No ataor uarvoasmssafter first dav'sus* of Dr. KUbc's Orwat • fipstoror.fStrial boilitandtrastUafiwe L H. Kant, Ltd., S»1 ArohBt.. PbUs.,P..

UTEST MARKET QUOTATIONS

, Fteur—Spring clqar. $33543370: best

Family $445.

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hurriedly thi* morning and started t'i Newport," said the first summer girl. "Yes." replied the otheff; "I think she has hopes of being insulted.'* •

"What?"

"She’s been reading about that young Favorably Struck. "Papa, have—have you seen Harold since you told him he was too poor to think of—of marrying me?” “Yes; 1 ran across him at the club last evening. We -got into conversation. and he struck me—cr ” "Struck you! Oh. papa!" "Struck me as 'quite an agreeable young man. I understand his unde has left him two hundred thousand.”

crabbing parties are having !i

sport.

Jacob Duberson and Mr*. Colwell of Tuckahoe. were thrown out ol a wa gon by a runaway and painfully injur-

ed. ,

The new ftral free mail delivery route from the Mullica Hill Postofhec to Jefferson will .go into operation

September 15.

James Fisher, a farmer of West Am

well, was badly injifbed by being kicked by a fractious hor>e he was ungearing

May's Landing will soon have elcc

trie lights, the South Jersey Electric vnd Ga* Company having extended it-

system from Egi ** * ~

Forbidden Luxury. "Maria,” suddenly - amtouKced

Mr

have lost $50,000 in steel -stocks within the last few weeks." *T suppose that settle^ it.” moaned Mrs. Wil;am*. “I can’t have the hay fever this year!"

Time for Suspicion. The latest scare fr ">m the adulterate^ food camp is that imported wines — "doped." We grow suspicious. I possible that this is a conspiracy to make ns drink American champagne? ROBIN'S NEST MADE OF LACE. Woman Mlsaas Her Valuables and Finds a Bird the Thief. A Mrs. Newton, who lives in Cent01 street, put two fine iace collars out or the lawn In front of her house te dry a few day* ago. When she went to get them an hour later they wen BOB*- She waj sure nobody *tol* them, because she was sitting bestd* a window at the front of the house at the time and would have seen any body entering the yard. The next day she put another collar out and watched. A robin flew down from ax apple tree near by and carried oB the collar. An Investigation was madr and the other collars were found wov •n into the bird's aest in w crotch Ol the apple tree. There was also s amall lace handkerchief in the nest The-hlrd that was doing the “fine-art* neat building and Its mats set np a big outcry and pecked fiercely at the mat in tbs tree when the nest was beini Palled down.—Geneaao (N. T.) Die patch in Detroit News-Tribune.

Egg Harbor City to that

William S. Lloyd, of Millville, claim! have the (argot elephant ear plant ver rai>ed in South Jersey. One leal • five feet in height and forty inches in

idlh.

Burglars crossed the cemetery of lh< rst Presbyterian Church, in the reat bf the Trenton City Hall, climbed tc the roof of a high building, and robbed the Clayton grocery, store and tht Trenton Clothing Comnany's place. A gedd watch, nearly a nundred dollar.'

SCI

Mrs. Lydia Thompson, of Fanlsboro j«ll down the cellar of her home, breakiflg her right arm and seriously cutting her face and hands. Sea Isle City Council has settled tht differences with the local electric lighl company and the contract for lighting the borough for five years wilt be signed in a few daysThe State Firemen's Convention will be held m Atlantic City on September 8 and 9. and In all pans of the State representatives and members of as*., ciaiions are actively preparing for tht The WhitaU. Tatum Company, Millville. will this coming blast nse ga* in its glass factory lehrs instead oiwood, coal or oil. Experiments have proven that gas is not only cleaner but

cheaper.

Gray Hair

my scalp free from dandruff and has prevsnted my hair from turn-

SSJE*"-"”- r ' *• s °*'*'

There is this peculisr thing shout Ayers Hair Vigor—it Is s hsir food, pot a dye. Your hsir does not suddenly turn black* look dead and lifeless, Butgradually the old color comes bsck,—all the rich, dark color it used to have. The hair stops falling, too.

$4-ff>: choice Fhroii

Wheat-New York Ne

Philadelpha No. a, Sa«c; Bslthnorr

*fo- a. 81 Me.

Corn—New York. No. a. spMc: Phil adelphia No. a, 57546-57^: Baltimore

No. a. 57Mc.

. P?** - New Yorlr No. a, 43c; Philadelphia No. a, 41c; Baltimore No. 2.

4t>Mc

Hay-We _jjuote^ No. 1 timothy “iftso; No. a timNo. 3 limothi

»'3 oo^;'15.00.

Green Fruits and Vegetables.—Ape e*—Maryland and Virginia, per brl. ncy 8oc6$i 00: do. fair to good, 60S TJc. Beets—Native, oer hunch iKiS'.v-

Cabhage—Native,

£a.so: do,

45°- Cantaloupes—Anne A run 6c Gems, per basket, istgyoc; do East err Shore, Maryland, per crate, 25®50c Celery—New York State, per dozen 3a&«oc. Carrots—Native, per bunch 1 @iMc- Corn—Native, per dozen, field

io@i2c; do, per dozen, sugar,

Cucumbers—Anne Arundel, pec basket 4°<§ , 50c. Damsons—Maryland and Virginia,, per full barrel $5-oo®5 50. Egg plants—Native, per basket 50@6oc Huckleberries—Eastern Shore, Maryland and Virginia, pet quart 6*4@7c Lettuce—Native, per bushel box 40^ 50c- Lima beans—Native, per bushel box $1.40® 1.45. Onions—Rappahannock, per half barrel basket 601^650: do. per brl $l.25®t.5o; do. Maryland and Pennsylvania, yellow., per bu 5t>@ 55c. Pears—Eastern Shore, Bartlett, per basket 6og8oc; do. per box $1.00® r.io; Maryland and Virginia common, per basket asfgso. Pineapples—Florida. per crate, as to size, [email protected] Squash—Anne Arundel, per basket a' @3<*- String beans—Anne Arundel per bn. green. 60^650. Tomatoes— Potomac, per 2-basket carrier. 3o®soc do, per 6-basket carrier asigabc; do. pci

carrier, cultivated. io@Boc; do, per

basket ao^a 1 ^; do. Anne Arundel pt» basket 30®4Pc. Watermelons*—Nont Carolina. selecU, per too $15 [email protected]; do. primes, per too $8.oo®ia.oo: do.

rulls. per 100 $5 oo@6 00.

Potatoes. — White— New, Easterr Shore, Virginia, per brl No. 1. $t.40(g 1.60; do. seconds. $i [email protected]; «lo. Rap pahannock. per brl $1.40®!.60-do, seconds. [email protected]; do. culls. SOW7SC; 3J9 Eastern Short. Maryland, pcf t>rl. no «. SJ-SOfg'i-fiS; do. seconds, fixxQuy do. native, per bushel box 55@66c Sweets—Yellows. Maryland and ' VirS ua. per brl $30003.25; do. North rftlma. per brl [email protected];. Yaras\'ew, Virginia, per brl $3.2502 50; do ’otomac, ^faryland. per brl $2.500475 Live Poultry. — Chickens -J-Hen* heavy 10 medium, —@iac; do. old rooster*, each 25®30c; do. young large, 2 lbs and over. —014c; do young, small i)d to lbs. —feu; do, ra . under itflbs, —gtje. Ducksf. 3 lbs and over. —(ffijic; do, ‘•"cy. large- old, io0ntf; do. fatu^, A^all- -yp9'- do. muscovy and mon-

Mi*. WlasJoWs Soothlayfynip tor tti»drt\ tMtkSng^oOM Uwxaaw, iwduoastafiainmaUps .allays paU.QBras wind coUe.ttc. atxittls

laasswrw PiM's Oars tor Ooawmptloa * svaJ myitta thras/wars ago.—Mu, TwowasItossi>»,s4xyto«fc..ii»ew>rt.y. v..yso. it. iaf>.

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CAflCASETa lo4sv. lo: • Taka r«r mtwia ■aeney rsfaatoS. Th*

ime;.... an with Casrsmi

, SafeM ataiar*. bookm fraa. A44r»*# l*---*lnx R*m»4y Cnn---*,

Hast* 4 IbwaSa. rtaaaa. Whan yocr twavrla 4<

r—>P>* Ihu all —a_ •— of aug'Hn*. Wo mattn - en *»4 atav well ■attl yaa T

Chic.,..- wow y^n.

Jaat tend From MsrTalion. When. In 189], Mias Balfour wits r|sUiug the West of Ireland end studying the condition of the people, she .asked one of them bow they were gettieg In a particular tillage. "Arrah. mlu. sure and if It wasn't for the famine we'd be shtarvlng.”—John Bull

The Colonial Tile Company, capita 1 I'grels, io@Tic Guinea fowl each" isfij -ooo.ooo. to manufacture and sell wall , aoc. Pigeons—Old, strong’flyers, per and floor tile, was incorporated at [pair aofgasc; do. young, per pair—dt

Trenton, with Amandus Britts. Louit j aa

Selle. Edmund F. Myers, all of Tiffin, j Butter—Separator 21 @22; Gathered I O. as incorporators . (Ono ao^ic; imitations -/S?,*. George Sharp, of Endpept*. saved Eggs —Choice, Maryland and Pei

btrildingsTrc— • *• * • - - -

Ptiti or Omo. Pitt or Tour 00, ( Lees* Cocxtt. t **• Faaxx J. Cutxtr raa'to oath that be I* aealor Dartaor o! th* firm ot P.J. Cazxai A Co., doln? baetow In the Clly ot Toledo fkianly and Mtat* atoreiud. and that said firm will pay the •om of oxx ncvoacD oot- !-*»» tor «ieh aad e very e ia. of csTaaaa tha: eaanot be cured by the use of Ban's Carasxx Coax. Faaxx 3. Cxrxxi. 8worn to before ms act subserllied In my ,—■— . pres sees, this Sth day of Doosm ber. • saau ( L D.. ISSfi. A. W. OLaaaox. 1 —v— ' Xstory Pahfi,-. Hall's latarrh Care Is taken Internallr, an I act* directly on the blood and mueoes surlaoos ot tbs systa-m. fiend for tastimbnlais. ires. F. J. Cxixxt A Co., Toledo, a Bold by all Dru exists, Tfc. Hall's Family PIUs ate tbs bast. There nre some people whose Use le the world It would be as hard te de-‘ fine as the uses of pieces of parsley draped around meat on the tnblc.-At-cblson Globe.

Pay-Pay Frisada. A man has a lot more friends on his pay day than he has on tbein.—New York Press.

ileal Co.. Bshlmoss, Md.. maaafseturss Erxrwstick, which is said to peases* unnsnal msnt, at d makes certs asset curs* ot tbst dread disease, rtm mat tarn, which Is a very e--mao c. painful aad dangeroo* diaeaaa. The sals of this —tedy I* Increasing ■> n rapid rata, wblea • *- "—• — • n| |ta Intrinsic

^IgjyxaWlilL _ ^ mck bsumhc k-ai# bays: Hq THfUHAf JlMt AKD IA£M SAVfB MU HASH THE CCAffSfSf f r/*£S 7 FAMICS tr/MOOT fNdUIIY TO Tiff GOODS. AO WASHBOARD LSID. A CHtU) /S YIABS 01D CAM DO TK[ FA/f/lY WASftl.HG AlMf HURIH Of TUL ORDINARY TUNC* COST. A TR.'Al fS All W ASM. tf YOUR 6R0CIR DOCS NOTHANDLC If SIND 6*rs. UNI /BAR OR SOert CORA007. YOUMU f/NO If/S All Wl CIA/At fORlY. COST NO f OYIRH cr&.PlA MUD COR CACH IN FA MU Y THE ATIANT/C H’f'O. COMPANY, eiAi. r//yto*?er. mo.

Bilious? \ Dixzv? Headache? Pala bsck of your eyes? It’s your liver! Use Ayer’s Fills. Gentlv laxative; all vegetable. Sold for 60 years.

Want year mocstecbc cr bear; a beautiful brown or rich black? UsBUCKINGHAM’S DYE

BACKACHE.

A boll of lightning made a hole seven feet deep in the haystack, but Sharp, ia bare feet, stamped out and smothered the flames.

OUR GREAT NATIONAL GAME. Proof That Baseball Favor la No Rs spactor cf PSroona. Tha baseball farer u co rcspectei of persons. The broker with the high hat acd the bank account and th* barefooted boy stand side by sMe and eagerly await the next toning. Bui there Is some lltUe interest wfcen It ss out that the fever that comet with the first gams reaches the dignified ecclesiastic. But It does, sno it sometimes goes very high. One day last summer, when the lead Ing teams were romsirg very close a reporter called on Cardtoal Gibbons to ask bins some questions regarding the pope's encyclical which had re costly been published. The cardinal granted the Interview and the reporter left the room. He was going ■ the steps when bis eminence, leaning over the landing, called out: "Have you heard today's score? * "Tea," said the surprised report*-, t yraz l to I and to our favor." "Good," said the cardinal, with a smile, "that puts us tiro' points ahead J sean't Itr ” l The reporter didn’t know, but ha re allied that th* cardinal knew a great many things that ha didn't know/* Public Ledger.

• pcrdozen/ty^cti

ff. per dozen-i6'/i 17; do. Prices to* ic higher.

per dozen, 15(216c SS-!**,/ ??. _* ,, 5 n 8 ®5> c - Jobbipg

Cheese-Large, 60-lbs, ii@iiHc; do, j6-lbs, 20-lbs, ii^®iiM-

Ur* Slack.

Chicago. — Cattle — Receipts pnnn head; market slow and weak; Texans' $5.00; Western $300: good to prime steers $5.100350; poor to-iwwiwm IjAjg.po; stockers and feeders $25* 04-30; cows $1.5004jo'; heifers laic @4-75: cznncrs f1.5txa3.70; bulls $2.2< S460: calves $35007.00; Texas fed steers $3500475: Western stem 13 50046a Hogs—Receipts 24^xx head; tomorrow ao^xn; left over, jom; market ihsde lower; mixed and butch-

*5; good to choice heavy

BROMO- 61 SELTZER evass ALL Headaches 10 CENTS--EVERYWHERE

Backacf 10 1s a forerunner and • of the moat common sympns of kidney trouble stud

mb displacement.

KEIftMSS BOLUHAN’S EXPBUENCE. • Bono time ago I was to s very week condition, my work mad* me <r mns and mr back ached frightfully 1 the time, and I had terrible hoad-

Isoo.

,*• Mv opt her got a bottle of Lydia i Plnltbam^ Veuetable CtomOUtid, for me, and H seemed to

S-TO: bulk

340. Sheep—Receipt* 8000 head! theep 10 to 25c lower: lamb« steady good to choice wethers $3400385: fail to choice mixed $2.300340; nsrivr

lambs $5 000365.

f bock and help me s

onz«, *no x old not get so tired as . .batore. I continued to tain 1i, a»d H

»7 $4-65®5.jo | brought health and strength to me. of sales $A15 / - I and J want to yon for the

wood it has done me."— Hiss Kx-, BotmuJtj Utod SL & Wales Art

sissinat

t York City. —1

INDUSTRIAL AKD SCIENTIFIC ROTES. The baby should weigh twenty and rae-half pounds on his first birthday. Only one medical student in twelve bolds a degree in aria. The United. States now takes hsll the world’s crop of robber. Every Frenchman is bom wiib a drln

Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound curat Necause ft Is 1»« greatest known remedy for kidney and womb trouble*.

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ASTHMA TAtlOrS ASTHMA RfMUY wtt cere ony case of Asthma by psraistaot use. Kaf«lar aim baa, by atoll. Me.; (kroa far SLOBI. TijWr IC*. (rta Cm S|riit<. Fl«.

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relieved or cored by their .eos. 80 common la U that diseases originate from the stomach It may be safely seamed there Is ne condition of ill baaltb tb'.t will not be benefited or cwrvd by the occasional nsT of Rlpana Tabules. Physicians know theta aad speak highly of them. All draggtsto sell them. The five-eent package is enough for an ordinary aeeaxlo*. aad the Family Bottle, sixty cents, contains

4PVERTISE“ ITS?** IT PAYS Heat Eruptions Disordered Stonuda | drhla|' promptly rdieved by this grand old remedy, a- mm* OS.M