Fire on South Mountain.

Miss Ackerman arrives as we go to press.

If you like the HELPER, help others to it.

Mr. Standing is suffring with quite a severe
attack of La Grippe.

Miss Lida Standing came home from her
school at Shippensburg for a day or two.

Did you never see anything green? Then
look at the freshly painted cistern pumps.

Captain Pratt is again at his desk, showing
the signs of having passed through a serious
illness.

Mrs. Shultz, of Lititz, was Miss Luckenbach's guest on Friday. The two were friends in girlhood days.

Lester Henry, a brother of Timothy, has ar-
rived from New York, and has entered the
printing office.

One of the evening papers of town says the
band is to give a concert in Harrisburg on
the 33rd of November. When is it?

The band gave Mr. B itzel a serenade on
Wednesday evening at his home in town, the
occasion being that of his wooden wedding.

Mr. Chas. Mullin, and Miss Mullin of Mt.
Holly, with friends from a distance, were
among the interested callers on Wednesday
evening.

On Monday, Mr. Will Harvey, of Milroy,
stopped off between trains on his way home
from Philadelphia, to visit his sister Mrs.
Bakeless.

Simeon George has arrived from his New
York home. Simon received a warm wel-
come from the band and from his many
friends at Carlisle.

On Saturday evening, Miss Shaffner entertained the large audience of pupils and faculty with an interesting talk upon her recent trip to England and Iceland.

Tomorrow we play the Naval Cadets at
Annapolis.

Once or twice a year we are favored with the
presence of officers of the Y. M. C. A. This
week we have had with us Mr. Hugh McA.
Beaver, State Secretary, who conducted a gen-
eral meeting on Thursday evening. It was a
quiet impressive service, and calculated to do
much good among our students for the cause.
Mr. Beaver has a pleasant voice and an earn-
est manner which attracts.

Miss Martha Barbour, of Metzer College, is
giving lessons in elocution on certain days to
our pupils. Now is our opportunity for vocal
gymnastics. It may be unpleasant, but do
not hesitate to open the mouth, revolve the
jaw, twist the tongue and breathe as directed,
and it will result in everlasting good. The
one who tries the hardest will achieve the
greatest benefit. O, but we need it.

On Monday Miss Shaffner spoke at the
opening exercises of school on the girlhood of
Frances Willard and Lady Henry Somerset.
On Tuesday Mr. Hendren discussed Banks
and banking; on Wednesday Miss Quinn
gave an interesting description of London
Bridge which she has seen, and on Thursday
and Friday there was an exhibit of art, draw-
ing and kindergarten work of the school with
discussion and comments by the teachers.

The young ladies in their society last Friday
night discussed with a great deal of animation
the subject whether an uneducated man was fit
for matrimony or not. Education is at a pre-
mium in that little circle of thinkers, and the
Man-on-the-band-stand does not believe that
one of that blessed number will ever marry an
uneducated man nor an immoral man in
any sense. They are growing to be Social
Purity women, Temperance women, women
of brains, who will be able to think and act
for themselves: such women as only EDU-
CATED men of good common sense wish to
have for help-mates through life.

Herbert Littlehawk, of South Dakota, is
down with pneumonia, the first illness he has
had in his long stay of 10 years with us. The
hospital force are doing all in their power for
him. Until the crisis has passed it will be
impossible to tell as to his recovery. Sitting
in a draft, throwing oneself on the ground,
wearing an undershirt one day and taking it
off the next, wearing a sweater for a few days
for Sunday and for socia-