CHARLES W. WEISKR has been eminently successful as an editor. He was educated in the public schools of Allentown, the preparatory department of Muhlenberg College, and in a school in New York city, where he was preparing for an examination for a cadetship in the Naval Academy at Annapolis. It had been his father's ambition to have him enter the navy of the United States, but the untimely death of the elder Mr. Weiser caused an abandonment of the plan. After doing clerical work for some time, young Weiser determined on a newspaper career and entered the office of the Chronicle and News and learned the printing trade. He subsequently worked in Philadelphia, but returned to Allentown and took up active newspaper work. In 1894 he and Kirt W. DeBelle secured control of the Morning Critic, a newspaper that had little circulation and less influence. The venture was a dubious one because there was a general impression that a morning newspaper could not be made to pay in Allentown. The paper was conducted under the title of Morning Critic for six months when the new publishers determined upon a change of name and on Jan. 1, 1895) the Morning Call made its bow. Mr. Weiser adopted a vigorous, independent policy and the paper prospered wonderfully under his editorship. Mr. DeBelle retired from the firm and David A Miller became Mr. Weisel's partner. In October, 1904, Mr. Weiser retired from the firm because of ill health He went to Philadelphia with his family and for six months was confined to the University Hospital, during which time he was operated upon fourteen times. After doing general literary work for several years he returned to the editorship of the Morning Call on Jan. 1907, and remained until March 29, 1909, when he was offered the editorship of the Democrat, which had been purchased by a syndicate of Democrats with the avowed purpose of having Lehigh county returned to the Democratic column. They figured on doing this with the aid of a fearless Democratic organ. Under the editorial guidance of Mr. Weiser, the Democrat began to prosper, the Republican party was completely routed and in 1911 them who had set out to redeem the county to Democracy had the satisfaction of seeing every office in the county filled by a Democrat, excepting those held by the opposition party by grace of the law that permits minority representation. Mr. Weisel's untiring work as editor of the Democrat contributed in a great measure to this victory.

As a political writer Mr. Weiser commands attention all over the state. The Democrat is widely quoted and exercises a powerful nfluence. As a humorist Mr. Weiser has won fame from Maine to Texas, and his pithy paragraphs have done much to advertise the city. The name "Bud" Weiser was conferred upon him by Colonel Geo. W. Bailey, of the Houston (Texas) Post, the premier editorial paragrapher of the country, and it has clung to him ever since. As "Bud" Weiser he is known the country over. Mr. Weiser is also noted as a writer of Pennsylvania German dialect humor and he created the character of Sim Schmaizgsicht, the sage of Leder Eck Poshta. The doings of Sim, his wife Cass. their son Benneville, Mose Biffel, their hired man. Em Hofferdeckel, the love-lorn maid, Yuni Naasbium, Jerry Kiwel, old Jud Schtrumpfoos, have served to drive dull care away for many a moment.

Mr. Weiser is married to Sarah A. Kistler, a descendant of one of the oldest families in the upper end of the county. Her parents were Aaron B. Kistler, now deceased, and Mary Elizabeth Kern Kistler. Mr. and Mrs. Weiser have three children: Charles Kistler. Helen Ruth, and Nelson Aaron, and reside in a pretty home at Fullerton. Pa.