Page 1 |
Previous | 1 of 4 | Next |
|
small (250x250 max)
medium (500x500 max)
Large
Extra Large
large ( > 500x500)
Full Resolution
All (PDF)
|
This page
All
|
Hffllll—UH TH«E LITITZ RECOUD b Published e w r Friday Murnlng, At $1.50 per Annum, in Advance. OFSTO» : BBOAD STEHST, laxm, LAH-CASTKR CO., PI-An Independent Family Newspaper, Devoted to Literature, Agriculture, Local and General Intelligence. JOB PRINTING-Of every description neatly and promptly done AT REASONABLE KATES. VOL. Y; THE S. B. COX C A R Are thoroughly reliable and combine in the all the points Sought by the C A R R I A G E OWRSER. highest degree Conscientious care and skill in the selection and use of best material. And the put the System—Energy—Push, most complete factory facilities in the State have ; 0 X CARRIAGES, Away ahead of all others. 333, 337, 339 and 341 Church Street, LANCASTER, PA. • mm FURNITURE If aro» arc In need of Furniture, call at the LITITZ FURNITURE WAREROOM3, and be convinced that you can purchase as cheap there as any place else. Call and see for yourself. UNDERTAKING In »11 Its branches in town or country promptly attended to. Am prepared with Crump'« I'atent Corps* Preserver, which is one of the best ever invented. The body remainsperfectty dry in it. Also Hearse, Collin Stools, Chairs, Chin Supports and anything pertaining to the business. Have had years of experience in this business, and ready when my services are needed, at reasonable prices. • w . n . E n s r c i K :, sO-ly MAIN ST., LITITZ, FA. j^EADY MADE HARNESS, LIGHT AND HEAVY, THE LABGEST ASSOKTMENT IN TOWN, NOW ON HAND AT F I S H E R ' S , Dk/LAXN" S T R E E T , at Lowest m Prices. Also Whips, Lap Covers, &e, convinced. L I T I T Z , Call a n d be HEADQUARTERS FOR HOUSE—STIRES —AT— Keiper's Great Furniture Warerooms, 45 North QUEEN Street, Lancaster, Pa. EVERYBODY In seed of FURNITURE should give us a call. Great bargains offered. Oeods sold at lower prices than erer before known. We have a large stock from which to Make selections, and guarantee to giye satisfaction to all our patrons, who are cordially invited to eall and gee for them-selves. No trouble to show goods. Buying direct from the manufa&- turers, we are enabled to sell at bottom prices. Ja9 J. H . K E I P ER ROBERT N. WOLLE, MAIN Street, LITITZ, Pa. DRY GOODS, PAINTS, LINSEED OIL, GLASS, OIL CLOTHS, CARPETS, Headquarters for Harrison's White Lead and Ready Mixed Paints, all colors. We are prepared to sell Carpets from one of the largest Carpet houses in th«. •ountry, by means of the wonderful Carpet Exhibitor, which we iavite our friends and neighbors to come and see. HARDWARE, QUEENSWABE, STONE WARE, CEDAR WARE, STATIONERY, GROCERIES. GILL'S CITY GALLERY0' PHOTOGRAPHY, No. 19 EAST KING Street, LANCASTER, PA. Copying Old Pl«tnr«s a Specialty. JLandscapo View«, Group» and Build-ings. pbotograpliy In all its Branches. OC18-1 LANCASTER P R I C E S AT THE LITITZ DRUG STORE. If 70a want a good piece of TOILET SOAP or SHAVING SOAP, Go to the Drag Store. Alio, Electric, Hair, Tooth and Shaving Brushes. Pocket Books and Fancy Good» In great variety. S H O U L D E R BRACES for both Ladle« and Gentlemen. Leather covered, Blastla, Electric, and Hard Rubber Trusses «B tuwd at regular prices. A good fit guaranteed or no sale. {Jork Shavings constantly on hand. Garden Seedi the most reliable, at the L I T I T Z D R U G STORE. B. FRANK SLOUGH Proprietor oi SORREL HORSE HOTEL, 49 and 81 WEST KING SRTHET, LANCASTER, PA.; Excellent accommodations for both man and »98-lj. S' TUEGIS HOUSH LITITZ, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 1.1882. NO. 52. THE LITITZ RECORD TO A CHILD. Tnou iiaat the colors of the Spring, The gold of kingscups triumphing, The blue of wood-bslls wild; But Winter-thoughts thy spirit nil, And thou art wandering from us still, Too young to be our child. Yet have thy fleeting smiles confessed, Thou dear and much desired guest, That home is near at last; Long lost in high mysterious lands, Oiose by our door thy spirit stands, Its journey well-nigh passed. 0 sweet bewildered soul, I watch The fountain of thine eyes, to catch New fancies bubbling there, To feel our common light, and lose .This flush of strange ethereal hues Too dim for us to-share! Fade, oold Immortal lights, and make This creature human for my sake, Since I am naughfcbut clay; An angel is too fine a thing To sit beside my chair and sing, And cheer my passing day. 1 smile who could not smile unless The air of rapt unconsciousness Passed, with the fading hours; I joy in every childish sign. That proves the stranger less divine And much more meekly ours. I smile, as one by night who sees, Through midst of newly budded trees, The clear Orion set, And knows that soon the dawn will fly In lire across the riven sky, And gild the woodland wet. and drill, io fit himself for his new po- i to bring out what was in the man, but sition. Horton enjoyed the reputation Jack was modest and didn't presume he A RED MITTEN. Hotel and Restaurant. This well-known House still continues to supply the public with O Y S T E R S AT THE LOWEST MARKET RATES, at any time of the day, delivered to any part oi town free of charge. OUR ELEGANT OYSTER SOUP served every Saturday night. It cant be beat Lager Beer and other Refreshments always fresh. Returning thanks for many past favors, we hope to receive your patronage in the future. EDWAltD S. 8TTJRGI8, n25 Proprietor. A- B. REIDENBACH, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, SURVEYOR AND CONVEYANCER, LITITZ. PA. I am now prepared to do Surveying and Con-veyancing in all its form. Papers carefully and neatly drawn. CLKE KING OB1 SALES, REAL AND PERSONA!« It was tlie afternoon of a clear, sharp January day of 3861, and the company numbered fully two hundred; there were men and women, boys and girls, flying and circling about, in masses, singly, by dozens, and by twos and threes, over the frozen surface of the beautiful Silver lake in Rockdale, a suburb of the flourishing city of B . New England is dotted with these small bodies of water, and it is astound-ing to recount what a surprising number bear the name of Silver. And so on Silver Lake this goodly company was disporting itself with all the gayety and zest the keen, bracing air and exhilara-ting sport combined to produce. Among the crowd were many lads and-lasses who imagined they were fond of skating and came to Silver lake for no other reason. It was singular, too, to note how much more gracefully the "outward roll," backward or forward can be accomplished by joining hands or being linked together by a walking stick. Those sticks in some instanees proved no non-conductors to the sym-pathetic thrill that pervaded the mag-nets at either end. The positive and negative conditions were fully realised in the case of brawny John Horton and rosy cheeked Abbie Latham, the daughter of the 'squire. She, with her plump, comely figure, and fresh, handsome face, lit up by a pair of laughing blue eyes, could have led awkward John, oh or off skates, any-where, with an apron string or a thread for a conductor. Not so with John. He could lead her nowhere , and the more the girl could balk and tantalize him, the u.ore she seemed to enjoy the skat-ing and his company; Many a ludicrous figure he cut, and many an awkward fall he endured by her sudden and unac-countable turns and shiftings, and her mirth and glee were at the highest at John's repeated failures to follow her difficult and tortuous windings. John was overgrown and massive, his twenty years of existence not having yet served to properly knit together and round out the proportions of his frame. She was lithe and quick, and as graceful as glie was skillful in the use of skates. . Apart from the throng, this afternoon, John espied a little red mitten lying on the ice, where it had been dropped by some one of the numerous children. Miss Abbie saw it too, and as John, by one of hia graceful movements, essayed to stoop and capture the article, she re-fused to release his hand; but, just as he bent forward she gave a wicked pull and John, unbalanced, was sent sprawl-ing a rod or two beyond. A peal of silvery laughter was her sympathetic comment, as with a graceful curve she turned and caught the tiny thing in her hand. . John blushed at his awkwardness, and held out his hand to receive the mitten. But the captor only held it before him, and gently moved away. " Won't you give it to me?" " I will find the owner." I can find the owner more easily than. you. I can't trust you; you would fail and erusti t h e poor t h i n g m trying to deliver it." And she saucily laughed again. You made me fall," said John in grieved tone. "You are always doing these things. If I skated more and studied less I'd soon be as much an adept as your friend, Joe Staples, whom you are always praising." You? Ha, ha, ha ! As graceful as Joe Staples?" and the'hilarity of the young maiden made John Horton's slug-gish blood course through his veins till his face was red as the scarlet kerchief that encircled his neck. All thi rest of that afternoon .John as gloomy and aiient. He moved around mechanically, or rather, auto-matically, and his companion concluded to serve no more tricks upon him. The sport finished, the two wended their way to the house of Mr. Latham, John's fair companion failing to rally him into any thing like conversation, He answered her only in monosyllables acd seemed morose and preoccupied. As he was about to take his leave John said seriously and a little sarcasti-cally, "Abbie, I'm going back to col-lege to-morrow and L hope you will en-joy the rest of the skating season in companionship more graceful than mine,'' " I hope I shall," replied she in the same tone. "You must feel bad about something; perhaps it's the mitten take it, no, not now—I won't give it up. If I ever think enough of you to surrender it, I'll send it to you by express. And then she smiled on John, with rare sweetness, but John had seen that smile before, and ielt she was only mocking him. So with a solemn good night he buttoned his coat close to his chin and with hands resolutely thrust into his pockets, turned homeward, re solved to waste na more time with skat-ing girls, who judged young men by fcha dexterity they exhibited in handling their heels. Houses to Rent and for Sale. Also, Agent for First-Class l i f e and Fir inaurane« Companies. 1 he asked. n. Among the earlist volunteer regiments thatleft tor the seat of war in the sum-mer of 41-861, was the—th Massachusetts, with Lieut John Horton as an officer of Co. B. Like hundreds of others he abandoned his books for the sword, aud had passed nights and days in study among the fellows of being an anchorite. He was reticent, sometimes gloomy, and although he performed his duties ac-ceptably, he had thus far failed to show any distinguishing qualities for a mil-itary career. He joined in few of the camp pleasures, and. when he was not on duty, reading or studying, was sure to be seen in abstract thought, walking about the streets of the camp, or in the region of country immediately around. Christmas and New Year in camp form-ed one of the brightest seasons to the hard-worked soldier in the years of the Rebellion, Though the quantity of useful and useless articles dispatched from home was at all times great, the bulk of contributions arriving in camp at this Jestive season sorely tried the carrying capacity of all engaged in sup-plying the army at the front. And the occasions of opening the boxes and bundles among both officers and privates were most interesting; and exciting. The officers of the —th had arranged to have an "opening," in the colonel's quarters, and thither all who were not on duty repaired. The evening was of course most enjoyable, for nearly every one had received from home some gift or token to remind him of a mother, sister or sweetheart, sometimes of all three. Horton was present, cool, gloomy and indifferent. He did not ex-pect any present. His family was scat-tered. and many of those nearest to him to whose loving sympathy he would naturally turn at this time had passed away. He did not feel in a sentimental or sympathetic mood, and yet no par-ticle of envy entered his mind in wit-nessing the enjoyment of other,«. As the major held up a small paper box, however, and called out "Lieutenant John W. Horton," the latter started and felt his. face aglow in' an instant. He took the parcel and in spite of entreaties in which not a few jokes were cracked at his expense, placed it in his pocket till the conclusion of the festivities, when he retired to the comfortable quarters he shared with Lieut Carter. Lieut Horton was. puzzled and cudous. After divesting himself of his overcoat, he sat down, placed the box on the' ta-ble, and in company with his compan-ion lighted the aoiaeing dudeen, deter-mined to approach and unravel the mys-tery as became a philospher. Carter got decidedly impatient before even the outer wrappings were removed, as Hor-ton conducted proceedings with weighty deliberation. At last Horton shook from the box a little red mitten snugly wrapped in a piece of white tissue pa-per. No note of explanation appeared, and Horton met his companion's gaze with a look,in which were pictured, at least half a dozen of the emotians that affect the human mind, the principal one being surprise. in. For the next three evenings our hero was engagedin writing letters—or rather a letter—for no sooner was each one completed than it was torn in pieces and burned. Horton felt himself in u tight fix, and hoped the enemy would make a demonsiration on the camp; that he might get out of it. He had rather face a hundred cannon than undertake the reception of that mitten. He knew he had loved Miss Latham, but his big, sensitive soul had been terribly iacera-tly by her apparently heartless behavior, and he had concluded to become indif-ferent, not only to her but to all woman-kind, This might be another of her heartless tricks, but when Jack recalled her words, "if lever think enough of you to surrender it, I'll send it to yoa," he ..felt the little witch did entertain some regard for him. Still, »s she had vouchsafed no kind of message with the surrender of the* mittfn, he was at a loss how to act. Write he could not. "If I asked Carter's advice," he reason-ed, " he would only laugh at me, Why can't these plaguey women let a fellow alone, anyway?" he muttered to himself. ' I was trying to forget her—and now be has opened all my wounds afresh. She did it to tantalize me, but 4*li show the flirt and the whole sex that I can't be tantalized." And then Jack took from his inner pocket an envelope, out of which he fished a little red object, on which he gazed for a few moments as a nataraligt • might gage upon a newly-discovered insect, with mingled curiosi-ty and tenderness. The soldier sighed as he replaced the trifle, and going to the door of his tent, gazed out into the darkness. The evening was mild and calm and the darkness almost peintrable. Scarce-ly a sound disturbed the sleeping oarnps, and as the enemy; across the Potomac were believed to intend no hostile de-monstration, the utmost precaution had not been taken to guard againstsurprise. As Jack stood gazing into the darkness a succession of flashes lit up the gloom and the sharp report of small arms broke the stillness. " Hello ! here's for fun exclaimed Jack, as he rushed for his ac-countrements. The long roil called the men into line, and in a few moments the regiment was prepared to receive the enemy. Being one of the officers at hand, Lieut Horton was ordered by the colonel to go forward with a detail of men, and ascertain the true state of af-fairs. Our pickets were retreating, the firing being answered by stray shots from the enemy ; no judgment of theii numbers could be formed, but our panic stricken pickets reported them to be ten thousand strong, at least. Horton de-termined to keep cool, and ascertain for himseif the number of the enemy. He had had little experience of fighting as yet, and his position was by no means a pleasant one. In this manoeuvre his excellent judgment was proved, for af-ter studying the situation as long as it was prudent, he hastened to the col-onel, and informed him that the force consisted of not more than a regiment of infantry moving direotly for the camp, A hot skirmish ensued, the fight lasted for an hour or two. The demon-stration closed with the retreat of the enemy, oh whose heels Lieut Horton, whose fighting blood was up, hung with a tenacity that astonished las brother officers. Jack braved danger with a coolness that was amazing, and directed the fire of his men where it wonld do the most good. It was his ambition to capture somebody or some-thing, and he did, a Confederate cap tain and two privates who were " sur-rounded" b^ himself and one of his soldiers. But Jack, fired by this sue cess, rashly pressed ahead for more human plunder, when he was laid low by a bullet through the shoulder. had clone more then he ought. His wound was a painful one, and in a iew days he was on his way to Bockdale, where the reports of his achievements had proceeded him. Jack couldn't help feeling a little curious about how Miss Abbie would greet him if he chanced to meet her. He hadn't the remotest idea of calling on her, however. His time was his country's, and all hi» leisure moments were passed, even in those invalid days, in the study of military tactics. He did not want to be made a lion of; did not pretend to resemble that noble animal in the least. So he stayed at home and studied his books, Juat before his return to the army he attended a fair at Bockdale in aid of the soldiers. The young ladies were the principal attractions at this, as at all fairs; and among the young ladies none were more attractive than Miss Abbie Latham. She drove a remarkably suc-cessful business at the flower stand, one of her principal patrons being Mr. Joseph Staples, who purchased at least half her stock, and distributed it with a lavish hand. He had not gone to war, but had at least, and without compul-sion, hired a substitute. His patrotism was ardent, as he assured Miss Abbie, but there were other attractions nearer home.. Certainly Lieut Horton could but pay his respects to Miss Abbie. His face was paler and his form had become more trim and manly then when she last saw him. His features, Abbie noticed, bore an expression of sadness and suffer-ing ; he moved without awkwardness, and all the young ladies declared him to be the handsomest soldier in the hall. He won the sword that was voted for on this occasion, as he deserved to. Jack's heart throbbed a little as he met the gaze of the young lady; but if he felt any emotion it must have been slight; she was very busy with her customers, and especially with her wholesale patron, Mr. Staples, yet as the lieutenant bade her good evening and turned away he saw her eyes drop and a faint flush steal over her <sheek. For two old friends so long separated, the meeting was decid-enly cold and formal, and Jaok was chilled to the marrow. IV. Jack Horton was the hero of that night, and was mentioned in the com-mander's report for his coolness, cor-rect judgment and unflinching bravery, It needed just such an occasion as this v. relic in the Horton family, and it has been a wondering question to several cherubs that gladden the household why mamma has never knit a mate for it. A curio as Australian Torpedo. In the stiring events of the next, two years Horton bore his full shared—at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, An-tietam, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, down to Oold Harbor, where at the head of his regiment he fell desperately wounded, in the. terrible and, unsuccess-ful assault on that stronghold. He was conyeyed to the hospital at Washington in a seemingly hopeless condition, with several wounds, each of which was dangerous. The nurses mov-ed among the wounded men like angels of mercy, Some of the, soldiers lay hi a stupor, some were raying in delirium, and others dying in agony. For days Horton's life hung on a thread, his fever-ed brain mercifully rendering him un-conscious of suffering. As he awoke one morning, a soft and gentle hand was soothing his brow, when the damp-ness indicated that the fever was broken. He tried to open his eyes but was too weak ; speak he could not ; and, many hours passed before he\ could discern what was around him. Since the night of the Cold Harbor fight his life had been V blank. He remembered, noth-ing. And now he saw before him the physician, and the nurse with a sweet pale face, that looked familiar, but he could not recall the name of its owner. Again trying to speak, the surgeon kindly whispered, "Keep perfectly quiet and all will be well," .and the fa-male attendant at his motion, withdrew. The next morning his dim vision dis-cerned the same pale and anxious face ; and a gleam of wondering inquiry passed oyer his countenance as he gaa-ed upon her. At last he feebly whisper-ed ; "Where ami?" In the hospital, and with friends, " She gently answered. He would have spoken more but she withdrew. The next day he was strong-er, and he asked, " Where have I seen you?" At a sign from the physician, the nurse answered : At 3 our old home. Don't you know me i I'm Abbie Latham. You are get-ting better now, and will soon be. well," Jack was strong enough to begin to collect his thougiits, which were, of course, at once concentrated on his nurse. He improved wonderfully under her care, and one bright morning occur-red the last conversation we shall record in this romantic sketch, Miss Latham was sitting by the side of his cot," arranging a bouquet. The wounded man had begun to leel like his old self, and permission was given him to converse all he desired. How long have you been in the hos-pital, Abbie ?" 'Moie than a year," she replied, in a sweet, womanly voice. Jack thought he had never beheld a fairer creature. If she was beautiful as a girl, the scenes she had witnessed had touched and chastened all that was lov-able and womanly in her nature. She was no longer a girl—she was a tender, thoughtful woman. You have saved my life," said Jack, his eyes filling with tears. "No, no. Your strength has tri-umphed. I have done what little could. Oh, you were so terribly hurt !" And here her eyes filled, and her bosom heaved as she took his hand and gently pushed the brown curling locks away from his forehead. Jack had never felt so happy before in his life, despite the solemn character of the couversation. I can never repay you* Abbie. I'm only sorry for that. But if I dared hope—" "Perhaps you can, Jack," she replied with the sweetest and most confiding smile. "I found something in your in-ner ves.t pocket which has paid me al-ready." And she took from a blood stained envelope the little red mitten, •'Then you knew by that token that I had loved—at least, had never forgot ten," said Jack a little confused. "Yes ; and if my woman's sense had not told me, your talk in delirium would have proved it." Jack mentally thanked heaven that he had been crazy. "But, Jack, why didn't you answer my letter ? It was cruel of you." "Your letter?" "Yes ; the one I sent by post to ap-prise you of my present. Mr. Staples took-it to the offioe." "And I never received iti Do you suppose that fellow was mean enough—" "No, dear Jack, don't get excited. Let us suppose nothing. All's well that ends well," . The little red mitten is a treasured The latest offspring of Australian de-structive ingenuity promises to be a distinct success. Its motive power is not compressed air, neither is it con-tained in the body of the torpedo. To propel the weapon through the water at a speed of from fifteen knots to twenty knots an hour for 100 yards a separate engine, or at least a special connection with an existing one, is necessary. This engine drives two drums about three feet in diameter with a velocity at their peripheries of 100 feet per second. Their duty is to wind in two fine steel wires, No. 18 gauge, of the same sort as that used in the deep sea sounding apparatus of Sir William Thomson. The rapid uncoil-ing of*these wires from two small cor-responding reels in the belly of the fish imparts to them, as may readily be con-ceived, an extremely high velocity. The reels are connected with the shafts of the two propellers which drive the torpedo through the water. The pro-pellers work, as has long been known to be necessary to insure straight run-ning-, in opposite directions and both in one line, the shaft of one being hollow and containing the shaft of the other Now, at first sight it would seem as if hauling a torpedo backward by two wires was a sufficiently curious way of Speeding it "full speed ahead," but it is found m practice that the amount of ' 'drag" is so small, as compared with the power utilized in spinning the reels that give motion to the propellers, that it may be left out of calculation al-together. Of course it is. at once seen that this method of propulsion does away With the necessity for air-com-pressing engines and reservoirs pressed to 1,500 pounds on the square inch, which, however carefully constructed, must always involve a. certain element of danger, however small. Neither are any delicate little engines, controlled and stopped by complicated though ex-quisite mechanism required. But these advantages, great as they may be, are as naught compared with the power possessed by the use of the Brennan torpedo to guide and govern its course and movements. Sixty Feet Under tue Sea. The Antarctic Circle. The only Antarctic exploring expedi-tion sent out for forty years has been wrecked long before it reached the Ant-arctic circle, but the members of the exploring party have fortunately been saved. Tradition or hypothesis says that there is a great continent at the South pole, just as tradition or hypothe-sis says there are open seas at the North, but no positive proof has been furnished of either assertion. Much i is known of Antarctic polar regions than of Arctic. The former, besides beiiig even more inhospitable than the frozen North, are farther from the civilized centres whence expeditions are sent forth. When Wilkes was a Lieu-tenant in the United States Navy he explored southern seas and discovered good many indications of land, but they may have been islands, instead of parts of a great continent. Just forty years ago Captain Ross, commanding the Erebus and Terror, discovered two volcanoes, one of them active, whioh he named after his vessels. They were between the 77th and 78th degree of south latitude, and mark the nearest approach yet made to the1 South Pole. The wrecked expedition was of Italian origin, and was intended to help in the international scheme of polar work which went into effect on the first of the present month. Eleven stations have been established in the far North, each of whioh is to simultaneously make notes of temperature of air and sea, velocity and direction of wind and sea currents, variations of terrestrial mag-netism, pressure and humidity of1 the atmosphere, character and duration of storms, etc., and tha data thus collected for a whole year are to bo compiled and studied with relation to similar data collected at other stations outside the Arctic Zone. It is quite probable that these studies may afford all the informa-tion applicable to the study of meteor-ology that a successful Poiar expedition would give, aud the investigations, being carried on in comparatively low latitudes, are not attended with the dangers that beset Arctic voyages for exploration. Tlie Sliops of Pompeii. "I was once a diver—not a wrecker, hut a pearl diver— and a hard business it was," recently observed the captain of a Spanish brig to a reporter. ' 'We worked off the Mexican and Panama coasts, principally on the Pacific side, Sometimes we worked alone, but generally on shares, and some-times for pay. We went to the grounds in small sailing vessael, then we took the small boats and covered as much ground as possible. Each man had a basket, a weight and a knife. For sharks? Yes, but it is a poor defense, for it is ,almost 4m possible to swing the arm with any force under water. The best weapon is a short spear. Wheh you reach the ground you strip, put your feet in a big sinker, take the basket that has a rope for hoisting, drop over, and soon find yourself at the bottom. 1'hen your business is to knock off as many oysters as you can, and pile them Into the basket before you lose your wind. It is a t'ernble strain, but 1 could stand it in those days for six minutes, and 1 have known some men who could stay down ten; but it is sure death in the long run. If the ground is well stocked you can get twenty or more shells,but it is all luck. When the basket is full it is hauled up, aud after yon come up for your wind, down you go again, the sinker being hauled up with a small cord for that purpose. It was on one of these trips that I ran afoul of the animal that gave me a lasting fight. You will smile when I say it was only a star fish, but it really was. 1 went down sixty feet with a rush, and landing on the edge of a big bunch of coral, swung off into a kind of basin. The basket went ahead of me, and as I swung off to reach the bottom, some-thing seemed to spring up all around me, and I was in the arms of some kind of a monster that coiled about my body, arms ; and legs. 1 tried to scream, forgetting th»t I was iu the water, and lost my wind. It was just as if a plant had sprouted under me and threw its vines and tendrils about me. There were thousands of them, coil ing and writhing, and 1 thought I had lan-ded in a nest of sea snakes. I gave the signal as soon as i could, and made a breuk upward, part of the creature clinging to me, while the rest, 1 could see, was drop-ping to pieces. They hauled me into the host when I reached tbe surface, and pull-ed the main part of the animal from me. It was oval, about three feet across, and the five arms seemed to divide- into thou-sands of others. I piobably landed on top of that one, which at this time was tlie largest I had ever seen. I afterward saw the body body of one that was washed ashore on the Isthmus that must have had a spread of t-hitty-tive ieet. Their power of grasping i« considerable, but touch them in a certain way and they throw off their arms m a tegular shower, and are soon re-duced to an oval body. A Love of a Eooia. Advertising Rates: One Inch, one week..: $ One inoh, three weeks i.n One lnoh, six months 6.00 One inch, one year &ee Two Inches, one week. 1.S5 Two inehea, three weeks i,oo Two inches, six months g.at Two indies, one year u.oo One-fourth column, one week LOO One-fourth column, three weeks. T.W One-fourth oolumn, six months 11.00 One-fourth column, one year. ss.ao Local aotiees will be charged at tbe Ml* of etch* cents per Hoe for eaoh insertion. Reindeer. The part of the houses) facing on the street was used as shops, as in modern Italian houses. These have no connec-tion with the back, and are open to the street, through grooves in the walls and sills, and the iron, shutters found show that it was customary to inclose them at night. The wine shops—which seem to have been pretty frequent—Estill contain most of their fixtures. Large earthen jars, or amphoroe, occupy the interior, while in the marble counter are sunk a number of basins, evidently intended for holding the different wines called for by customers, and the names of popular drinks are inscribed on the walls. In the bakers' shops—which combined milling and baking—are hand or donkey mills for grinding the grain, kneading troughs, water basins, ovens and racks. Barbers' shops are still provided with seats for oustomer3; and the "fullers' establishments are known by their basins for washing the cloths, their stamps for stamping them, and other apparatus; and the taverns with their wine tablés, have their walls decorated with rude cartoons and coarsely humorons inscriptions. But time and space would fail to tell of all the wonders of this risen city; to describe its columned temples with the shrines and altars and statues; its stately theatres and luxurious therm»; its frescoes and mosaics and marble and bronzes; its manifold ornaments and domestic and manufacturing implements, The mu seum at Naples must have fifteen or twenty large rooms devoted to the thousand Pompeiian relics of various kinds; from the loaf of bread stamped with the baker's name, and the kitchen cook-stove and gridiron and egg-boiler, to the most delicate cut-glass vases, the richest gems, and the most exquisite work of the artist's brush and the sculptor's chisel. A youDg girl of Hartford, Conn., by the exercise of her own innate good taste and putting every spare penny where it would do the most good, has furnished forth a charming room at a comparatively small expense and sufficiently aesthetic to please the most fastidious person. The floor, painted by her own hands, is a dark wal-nut shade, partly covered by a large rag made of,cheap ingrain carpet in a small pattern bf cream and olive, bordered by a broad band of plain olive felt. The inex-pensive wall paper is plain olive, fleeked with pink,finished by a nairow olive frieze, terminating at the corners with a cluster of four tiny pink fans. One window faces a dingy brick Wall and she painted the win-dow panes in bright water colors,following a preity traced pattern, which gives a bit of stained glass quite effective in the pret-ty room. , The other window is draped gracefully with long full folds of sprigged muslin, depending from rings on a plain pine roll, to be replaced in the winter with a heavier curtain of olive cotton Sau-ne1. The furniture is light wood and a lamp with a rosy transparency stands on a five o'clock tea tablé of unvarnished wood and throws a soft light over the room, Which also contains books, shelves of pine, a cou-ple of second hand easy chairs and a small dry goods box for shoes, covered by her own hands, with pink and olive cretonne. A large clothes horse, on which she pasted thé story of Cinderella in Walter Crane's pictures over olive psper, shuts off the washstand and bedstead trom view. Tiie toilet accessories, set off with fresh sprigged muslin over a pink lining, are a pink, and white washbowl and a large pitcher of the quaint shape that comes now in the cheap-er grades of china; a second hand ward-robe, draped with a portiere of olive Can-ton flannel, contains the unsesthetic dust pau, broonos aud other homely articles necessary to neatness and. comfort, all tri-fles of that description bought at the five-cent counters. A pretty willow rocking chair, ornamented with olive and pink rib-bon, and a knitted hassock to match, the two latter Christmas gifts, stand on the rug- On the olive draped mantel are grandma Nankin's teapot,two tall silver candlesticks and a large ginger jar, not decorated and spoiled with gummed on piotures, but left in its pristine blue aud white beauty, filled with white daisies gathered on Sunday af-ternoon walks. Two or three photographs of good subjects, that are better than chromos and cost less, hang on the wall and complete the pretty refuge of this pi oud and industrial girlj who is self re spectmg enough to earn her own living rather than be dependent upon her rich relations. DENTIST (examining patient's teeth;) "Well, sir, they talk about coming at the eleventh hour, but it's a quarter to twelve with all your teeth, I'm afraid," On a thirty miles journey from Mukka-- vuamo to HeJligsKoven in Norway, during which he encountered a terrific storm, M. du Chaillu had an opportunity of observing the endurance of the reindeer. In ascend-ing the hills they were so exhausted by their struggle? with the snow that ttiey would drop upon it and lie on their backs, apparently in great suffering, then breathe very hard, and be so utterly helpless that a stranger would think they were abmit to die; but in a few minutes they would re-gain their breath, rise to their feet, eat snow and set off again. The expedition had to go down a narrow ravine by a very steep and dangerous descent; it was on the western shed of the mountains and above the tree vegetation, and this was how Peter and Bphraim, two clever Finns, managed it. "Numbers of sleighs were 1 ashed together by a long and strong leather, plaited cord, which was first se-cured to the forward part of each, then passing along the middle was made fast, after which it was attached to the next in the same manner and so on, and four others were connected with mine. With the exception of the leader eacch reindeer was secured to the rear fit his sleigh by à leather cord from the base of the horns; almost every sleigh had a deer behind, Each man remained in his vehicla the dis-tance apart beina; small. Peler was to take the lead. The spare reindeer were tor thé first time harnessed and the tired ones put behind. Peter had to start the whole train which would go with great velocity; he rode with his leg outstde, turned back somewhat, with his feet touching the snow. "Every man but me," saye M. du Ciialliu, seated himself in the same posture, the feet acting as rudder and drag in the snow. I was not allowed to ride^that way, for they said my legs would surely be broken. When eyerythmg was ready Peter looked back and gave the sig-nal, aud started his reindeer down the hill in a zigzag course, This required great dexterity, as we flew over the snow with astonishing speed. At times the sleigh would swerve on the declivity, but wo went so last that we were soon out of dan-ger." How strange a sight—had there been any upon the great waste to see it, that living line—ad once rushiug and wriggling down the steep snow field, would have been; the flying animals, - with their red nostrils, flying horns and clinking hoofs, and the wary, vighant men. The moss'tracts, vast as they are, have to be carefully husbanded, for the crop takes from seven to ten years to grow. Year after year wdl a Lapp family roam over the same tract as their ancestor«, all their eeeiaies devoted to the tending aud increase of their herds. M. . du Cliaillu things tha reindeer owned by the Nomad and S ja Lapps number about 400,000. In tha province of Fmmarkea alone there are over 65,000. The moving season is the beginning of May; then tbe herds leave their wimer pasture grounds by the livers and in the woods and migrate to the higher lands near the fjords. A "moving day' at Keutokeimo is a fine sight, as the great herds muster for theirpassage|over the snow-clad, trackless hills. The newly-born calves are either carried or put in a sleigh. Kemdeer are never housed; they enjjy the cold and revel in tbe snow. Food is never given them and unless they "are specially trained to do so, they will not touch moss that has been gathered. When the snow is so deep as to defy their dig-ging they are almost as ill off as Iriah tenants evicted after a bad harvest; and the brief spring of Scandinavia tries them, for the snow melts during the day and^a thick crust forms at night, so that their feet breafc through and they suffer from lameness. They are very tame and yet strangely wild or rather nervous, and it is bad to startle them. All Oftedient Woman. ' 'There goes L a ¿10 « n agai n," said on of the patrolmen to the reporter. The woman was reeling. Her skirt was be-drabbled, and on her attenuated figure looked like a weather-beaten rag. "8tie is only twenty years old at tnat," contin-ued the officer. Hhe is going to the sta-tion to be locked up,'' he said, as he still looked after her. "But she is alone," sug-gested the listener. "Of course she is, \ answered the officer. "Taat's the thing to admire in her.She's less trouble than any offender 1 ever saw—I mean to the police, No matter where an officer comes, across her, if she is drunk, all hs has to say to her 'Liz, you git to the station,' and she gits all alone. One day, up to Lincoln Park, there was a crowd, and Liz kind of edged herself in, and the ofiicor says to her. 'You go to the station,' and she walked right to the lock-up. A man who knew her stopped her on the street and says; 'Liz. where are you going?' 'Don't bother me,'she says to him, 'I'm busy; I've got to go to the lock-up.' No matter where she is, if she is ordered to go to the station, she goes. Une day I sa w her looking at a circus procession, aud I says to her, just to see how she would act,- says L to her: Liz, you inoseo to the lock-up.' 'Can't 1 see the show first V says she to me. 'No' says 1 to her; 'you move along, and she just sacrificed the pleasure of see ing that show parade to obey orders, and Started off. But I called her back and told her, she could stay, and she thanked me and said she would go after she got through looking at the parade if X wanted her to, She's bettor at minding what said to her than lots of first-class children. But she drinks awful hard." Women's Clotlies In spite of the labors of the esthetes, and in spite of the higher education of women, the women still have wedge waists, crinolettes, high heels and various other things in opposition to the canons of beauty. Woman still impedes her every motion with her clothes, and still makes an instrument of torture of her own hair. Man wears comfortable and sensible garments, and man tastes the unspeakable rapture of baring hi» bald pate to every breeze that blows. There is but one conclusion to arrive at from the feminine love of uncomfortable clothes. It is that women have duller sensibilities than men, and women have duller brains than men. Men would die under the torment of women's clothes, If a man wants to proye his superiority to woman he has only to point silently to his clothes. Old magazines and peri-odicals show in their illustrations the men's costumes invariably wise, good and graceful, while the women's are painiul, laughably, disgracefully fool-ish and ugly. While comparing the clothes of men and women, we aro surprised that the superiority of man should be questioned. If men are not superior to women, how came they to get the upper hand in the first place? How-ever, this has nothing to do with the clothes question. Women have not worn decent-looking clothes since the fall of Bome save once, during the French revolution, when they revived Roman dresses. In history we read of woman who seem superior to men, they were mostly dressed m clothes that, like men's raiment, left the frame free to perform its functions. The Kansas women recently besought Congress to give eighty acres apiece, cooking stoves, plows, cattle and schools to the Kansas negroes. Now, look at that. Such aa idea, so contrary to the principles of political economy and history is at war with stiff bonnets, heavy skirts, pinch-ing oorset-steels, and scratch ing frizzes. The first sign of -woman's progress towards the ballot will be improved clothes. At present women are too conventional, too anxious to do a3 others do, to take a bold step foward. Fooling Bartenders. bartenders in by a For some time past Pittsburg, have been victimized gan, who conducted his operations" m this wise: He would enter a saloon, call for a drink, and offer in payment a genuine silver dollar. Before the bar-tender could pick it from the counter, he would say: "See here, I don't want to swindle you; that's a counterfeit," The barkeeper would then scrutinize the eoin, and admire what he believed was a clever imitation. The confidence man would then ask for an offer on so many pieces to be delivered as per sample. A contract was .commonly made at 50 cents on the dollar. A number were victimized in this way, and after mak-ing cash advances would receive iu return boxes filled with fragments of scrap iron, or other worthless material. One of the men has been arrested. He made a full confession, and urged the excuse that if people were willing to buy counterfeit coin it was little pity they should be swindled,
Object Description
Title | Lititz Record |
Masthead | Lititz Record 1882-09-01 |
Subject | Lititz (Pa.) -- Newspapers;Lancaster County (Pa.)—Newspapers |
Description | Lititz newspapers 1877-1942 |
Publisher | Record Print. Co.; J. F. Buch |
Date | 1882-09-01 |
Location Covered | United States;Pennsylvania;Lancaster County (Pa.);Lititz (Pa.);Warwick (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) |
Type | Text |
Original Format | Newspapers |
Digital Format | application/pdf |
Identifier | 09_01_1882.pdf |
Language | English |
Rights | Public domain |
Contact | For information on source and images, contact LancasterHistory, Attn: Library Services, 230 N. President Ave., Lancaster, PA, 17603. Phone: 717-392-4633, ext. 126. Email: research@lancasterhistory.org |
Contributing Institution | LancasterHistory |
Sponsorship | This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. |
Description
Title | Page 1 |
Subject | Lititz (Pa.) -- Newspapers;Lancaster County (Pa.)—Newspapers |
Description | |
Location Covered | United States;Pennsylvania;Lancaster County (Pa.);Lititz (Pa.);Warwick (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) |
Type | Text |
Original Format | Newspapers |
Digital Format | application/pdf |
Language | English |
Contact | For information on source and images, contact LancasterHistory, Attn: Library Services, 230 N. President Ave., Lancaster, PA, 17603. Phone: 717-392-4633, ext. 126. Email: research@lancasterhistory.org |
Contributing Institution | LancasterHistory |
Sponsorship | This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. |
Full Text |
Hffllll—UH
TH«E LITITZ RECOUD
b Published e w r Friday Murnlng,
At $1.50 per Annum, in Advance.
OFSTO» : BBOAD STEHST, laxm, LAH-CASTKR
CO., PI-An
Independent Family Newspaper, Devoted to Literature, Agriculture, Local and General Intelligence.
JOB PRINTING-Of
every description neatly and promptly done
AT REASONABLE KATES. VOL. Y;
THE S. B. COX
C A R
Are thoroughly reliable and combine in the
all the points Sought by the
C A R R I A G E OWRSER.
highest degree
Conscientious care and skill in the selection and use of best
material.
And the
put the
System—Energy—Push,
most complete factory facilities in the State have
; 0 X CARRIAGES,
Away ahead of all others.
333, 337, 339 and 341 Church Street,
LANCASTER, PA. •
mm FURNITURE
If aro» arc In need of Furniture, call at the LITITZ FURNITURE WAREROOM3, and be
convinced that you can purchase as cheap there as any place else. Call and see for yourself.
UNDERTAKING
In »11 Its branches in town or country promptly attended to. Am prepared with Crump'«
I'atent Corps* Preserver, which is one of the best ever invented. The body remainsperfectty
dry in it.
Also Hearse, Collin Stools, Chairs, Chin Supports and anything pertaining to the business.
Have had years of experience in this business, and ready when my services are needed, at
reasonable prices.
• w . n . E n s r c i K :,
sO-ly MAIN ST., LITITZ, FA.
j^EADY MADE HARNESS,
LIGHT AND HEAVY,
THE LABGEST ASSOKTMENT IN TOWN, NOW ON HAND AT
F I S H E R ' S ,
Dk/LAXN" S T R E E T ,
at Lowest
m
Prices. Also Whips, Lap Covers, &e,
convinced.
L I T I T Z ,
Call a n d be
HEADQUARTERS FOR
HOUSE—STIRES
—AT—
Keiper's Great Furniture Warerooms,
45 North QUEEN Street, Lancaster, Pa.
EVERYBODY
In seed of FURNITURE should give us a call. Great bargains offered.
Oeods sold at lower prices than erer before known. We have a large
stock from which to Make selections, and guarantee to giye satisfaction
to all our patrons, who are cordially invited to eall and gee for them-selves.
No trouble to show goods. Buying direct from the manufa&-
turers, we are enabled to sell at bottom prices.
Ja9 J. H . K E I P ER
ROBERT N. WOLLE,
MAIN Street, LITITZ, Pa.
DRY GOODS,
PAINTS,
LINSEED OIL,
GLASS,
OIL CLOTHS,
CARPETS,
Headquarters for Harrison's White Lead and Ready Mixed Paints, all colors.
We are prepared to sell Carpets from one of the largest Carpet houses in th«.
•ountry, by means of the wonderful Carpet Exhibitor, which we iavite our
friends and neighbors to come and see.
HARDWARE,
QUEENSWABE,
STONE WARE,
CEDAR WARE,
STATIONERY,
GROCERIES.
GILL'S CITY GALLERY0' PHOTOGRAPHY,
No. 19 EAST KING Street, LANCASTER, PA.
Copying Old Pl«tnr«s a Specialty. JLandscapo View«, Group» and Build-ings.
pbotograpliy In all its Branches. OC18-1
LANCASTER P R I C E S AT THE
LITITZ DRUG STORE.
If 70a want a good piece of
TOILET SOAP or
SHAVING SOAP,
Go to the Drag Store. Alio, Electric, Hair, Tooth
and Shaving Brushes.
Pocket Books and Fancy Good» In great variety.
S H O U L D E R BRACES
for both Ladle« and Gentlemen. Leather covered,
Blastla, Electric, and Hard Rubber
Trusses
«B tuwd at regular prices. A good fit guaranteed
or no sale.
{Jork Shavings constantly on hand. Garden
Seedi the most reliable, at the
L I T I T Z D R U G STORE.
B. FRANK SLOUGH
Proprietor oi
SORREL HORSE HOTEL,
49 and 81 WEST KING SRTHET,
LANCASTER, PA.;
Excellent accommodations for both man and »98-lj.
S' TUEGIS HOUSH
LITITZ, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 1.1882. NO. 52.
THE LITITZ RECORD
TO A CHILD.
Tnou iiaat the colors of the Spring,
The gold of kingscups triumphing,
The blue of wood-bslls wild;
But Winter-thoughts thy spirit nil,
And thou art wandering from us still,
Too young to be our child.
Yet have thy fleeting smiles confessed,
Thou dear and much desired guest,
That home is near at last;
Long lost in high mysterious lands,
Oiose by our door thy spirit stands,
Its journey well-nigh passed.
0 sweet bewildered soul, I watch
The fountain of thine eyes, to catch
New fancies bubbling there,
To feel our common light, and lose
.This flush of strange ethereal hues
Too dim for us to-share!
Fade, oold Immortal lights, and make
This creature human for my sake,
Since I am naughfcbut clay;
An angel is too fine a thing
To sit beside my chair and sing,
And cheer my passing day.
1 smile who could not smile unless
The air of rapt unconsciousness
Passed, with the fading hours;
I joy in every childish sign.
That proves the stranger less divine
And much more meekly ours.
I smile, as one by night who sees,
Through midst of newly budded trees,
The clear Orion set,
And knows that soon the dawn will fly
In lire across the riven sky,
And gild the woodland wet.
and drill, io fit himself for his new po- i to bring out what was in the man, but
sition. Horton enjoyed the reputation Jack was modest and didn't presume he
A RED MITTEN.
Hotel and Restaurant.
This well-known House still continues to supply
the public with
O Y S T E R S
AT THE LOWEST MARKET RATES,
at any time of the day, delivered to any part oi
town free of charge.
OUR ELEGANT OYSTER SOUP
served every Saturday night. It cant be beat
Lager Beer and other Refreshments
always fresh.
Returning thanks for many past favors, we hope
to receive your patronage in the future.
EDWAltD S. 8TTJRGI8,
n25 Proprietor.
A- B. REIDENBACH,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE,
SURVEYOR AND CONVEYANCER,
LITITZ. PA.
I am now prepared to do Surveying and Con-veyancing
in all its form. Papers carefully
and neatly drawn.
CLKE KING OB1 SALES, REAL AND PERSONA!«
It was tlie afternoon of a clear, sharp
January day of 3861, and the company
numbered fully two hundred; there
were men and women, boys and girls,
flying and circling about, in masses,
singly, by dozens, and by twos and
threes, over the frozen surface of the
beautiful Silver lake in Rockdale, a
suburb of the flourishing city of B .
New England is dotted with these
small bodies of water, and it is astound-ing
to recount what a surprising number
bear the name of Silver. And so on
Silver Lake this goodly company was
disporting itself with all the gayety and
zest the keen, bracing air and exhilara-ting
sport combined to produce.
Among the crowd were many lads and-lasses
who imagined they were fond of
skating and came to Silver lake for no
other reason. It was singular, too, to
note how much more gracefully the
"outward roll," backward or forward
can be accomplished by joining hands
or being linked together by a walking
stick. Those sticks in some instanees
proved no non-conductors to the sym-pathetic
thrill that pervaded the mag-nets
at either end.
The positive and negative conditions
were fully realised in the case of brawny
John Horton and rosy cheeked Abbie
Latham, the daughter of the 'squire.
She, with her plump, comely figure,
and fresh, handsome face, lit up by a
pair of laughing blue eyes, could have
led awkward John, oh or off skates, any-where,
with an apron string or a thread
for a conductor. Not so with John. He
could lead her nowhere , and the more
the girl could balk and tantalize him,
the u.ore she seemed to enjoy the skat-ing
and his company; Many a ludicrous
figure he cut, and many an awkward
fall he endured by her sudden and unac-countable
turns and shiftings, and her
mirth and glee were at the highest at
John's repeated failures to follow her
difficult and tortuous windings. John
was overgrown and massive, his twenty
years of existence not having yet served
to properly knit together and round out
the proportions of his frame. She was
lithe and quick, and as graceful as glie
was skillful in the use of skates. .
Apart from the throng, this afternoon,
John espied a little red mitten lying on
the ice, where it had been dropped by
some one of the numerous children.
Miss Abbie saw it too, and as John, by
one of hia graceful movements, essayed
to stoop and capture the article, she re-fused
to release his hand; but, just as
he bent forward she gave a wicked pull
and John, unbalanced, was sent sprawl-ing
a rod or two beyond. A peal of
silvery laughter was her sympathetic
comment, as with a graceful curve she
turned and caught the tiny thing in her
hand. .
John blushed at his awkwardness, and
held out his hand to receive the mitten.
But the captor only held it before
him, and gently moved away.
" Won't you give it to me?"
" I will find the owner."
I can find the owner more easily
than. you. I can't trust you; you
would fail and erusti t h e poor t h i n g m
trying to deliver it." And she saucily
laughed again.
You made me fall," said John in
grieved tone. "You are always doing
these things. If I skated more and
studied less I'd soon be as much an
adept as your friend, Joe Staples, whom
you are always praising."
You? Ha, ha, ha ! As graceful as
Joe Staples?" and the'hilarity of the
young maiden made John Horton's slug-gish
blood course through his veins till
his face was red as the scarlet kerchief
that encircled his neck.
All thi rest of that afternoon .John
as gloomy and aiient. He moved
around mechanically, or rather, auto-matically,
and his companion concluded
to serve no more tricks upon him.
The sport finished, the two wended
their way to the house of Mr. Latham,
John's fair companion failing to rally
him into any thing like conversation,
He answered her only in monosyllables
acd seemed morose and preoccupied.
As he was about to take his leave
John said seriously and a little sarcasti-cally,
"Abbie, I'm going back to col-lege
to-morrow and L hope you will en-joy
the rest of the skating season
in companionship more graceful than
mine,''
" I hope I shall," replied she in the
same tone. "You must feel bad about
something; perhaps it's the mitten take
it, no, not now—I won't give it up. If I
ever think enough of you to surrender
it, I'll send it to you by express.
And then she smiled on John, with
rare sweetness, but John had seen that
smile before, and ielt she was only
mocking him. So with a solemn good
night he buttoned his coat close to his
chin and with hands resolutely thrust
into his pockets, turned homeward, re
solved to waste na more time with skat-ing
girls, who judged young men by fcha
dexterity they exhibited in handling their
heels.
Houses to Rent and for Sale.
Also,
Agent for First-Class l i f e and Fir
inaurane« Companies.
1 he asked.
n.
Among the earlist volunteer regiments
thatleft tor the seat of war in the sum-mer
of 41-861, was the—th Massachusetts,
with Lieut John Horton as an officer of
Co. B. Like hundreds of others he
abandoned his books for the sword,
aud had passed nights and days in study
among the fellows of being an anchorite.
He was reticent, sometimes gloomy, and
although he performed his duties ac-ceptably,
he had thus far failed to show
any distinguishing qualities for a mil-itary
career. He joined in few of the
camp pleasures, and. when he was not
on duty, reading or studying, was sure
to be seen in abstract thought, walking
about the streets of the camp, or in the
region of country immediately around.
Christmas and New Year in camp form-ed
one of the brightest seasons to the
hard-worked soldier in the years of the
Rebellion, Though the quantity of
useful and useless articles dispatched
from home was at all times great, the
bulk of contributions arriving in camp
at this Jestive season sorely tried the
carrying capacity of all engaged in sup-plying
the army at the front. And the
occasions of opening the boxes and
bundles among both officers and privates
were most interesting; and exciting. The
officers of the —th had arranged to
have an "opening," in the colonel's
quarters, and thither all who were not
on duty repaired. The evening was of
course most enjoyable, for nearly every
one had received from home some gift
or token to remind him of a mother,
sister or sweetheart, sometimes of all
three. Horton was present, cool,
gloomy and indifferent. He did not ex-pect
any present. His family was scat-tered.
and many of those nearest to him
to whose loving sympathy he would
naturally turn at this time had passed
away. He did not feel in a sentimental
or sympathetic mood, and yet no par-ticle
of envy entered his mind in wit-nessing
the enjoyment of other,«. As
the major held up a small paper box,
however, and called out "Lieutenant
John W. Horton," the latter started and
felt his. face aglow in' an instant. He
took the parcel and in spite of entreaties
in which not a few jokes were cracked
at his expense, placed it in his pocket
till the conclusion of the festivities,
when he retired to the comfortable
quarters he shared with Lieut Carter.
Lieut Horton was. puzzled and cudous.
After divesting himself of his overcoat,
he sat down, placed the box on the' ta-ble,
and in company with his compan-ion
lighted the aoiaeing dudeen, deter-mined
to approach and unravel the mys-tery
as became a philospher. Carter
got decidedly impatient before even the
outer wrappings were removed, as Hor-ton
conducted proceedings with weighty
deliberation. At last Horton shook
from the box a little red mitten snugly
wrapped in a piece of white tissue pa-per.
No note of explanation appeared,
and Horton met his companion's gaze
with a look,in which were pictured, at
least half a dozen of the emotians that
affect the human mind, the principal
one being surprise.
in.
For the next three evenings our hero
was engagedin writing letters—or rather
a letter—for no sooner was each one
completed than it was torn in pieces
and burned. Horton felt himself in u
tight fix, and hoped the enemy would
make a demonsiration on the camp; that
he might get out of it. He had rather
face a hundred cannon than undertake
the reception of that mitten. He knew
he had loved Miss Latham, but his big,
sensitive soul had been terribly iacera-tly
by her apparently heartless behavior,
and he had concluded to become indif-ferent,
not only to her but to all woman-kind,
This might be another of her
heartless tricks, but when Jack recalled
her words, "if lever think enough of
you to surrender it, I'll send it to yoa,"
he ..felt the little witch did entertain
some regard for him. Still, »s she had
vouchsafed no kind of message with the
surrender of the* mittfn, he was at a
loss how to act. Write he could not.
"If I asked Carter's advice," he reason-ed,
" he would only laugh at me, Why
can't these plaguey women let a fellow
alone, anyway?" he muttered to himself.
' I was trying to forget her—and now
be has opened all my wounds afresh.
She did it to tantalize me, but 4*li show
the flirt and the whole sex that I can't
be tantalized." And then Jack took
from his inner pocket an envelope, out
of which he fished a little red object, on
which he gazed for a few moments as a
nataraligt • might gage upon a newly-discovered
insect, with mingled curiosi-ty
and tenderness. The soldier sighed
as he replaced the trifle, and going to
the door of his tent, gazed out into the
darkness.
The evening was mild and calm and
the darkness almost peintrable. Scarce-ly
a sound disturbed the sleeping oarnps,
and as the enemy; across the Potomac
were believed to intend no hostile de-monstration,
the utmost precaution had
not been taken to guard againstsurprise.
As Jack stood gazing into the darkness
a succession of flashes lit up the gloom
and the sharp report of small arms broke
the stillness. " Hello ! here's for fun
exclaimed Jack, as he rushed for his ac-countrements.
The long roil called the
men into line, and in a few moments
the regiment was prepared to receive
the enemy. Being one of the officers at
hand, Lieut Horton was ordered by the
colonel to go forward with a detail of
men, and ascertain the true state of af-fairs.
Our pickets were retreating, the
firing being answered by stray shots
from the enemy ; no judgment of theii
numbers could be formed, but our panic
stricken pickets reported them to be ten
thousand strong, at least. Horton de-termined
to keep cool, and ascertain
for himseif the number of the enemy.
He had had little experience of fighting
as yet, and his position was by no means
a pleasant one. In this manoeuvre his
excellent judgment was proved, for af-ter
studying the situation as long as it
was prudent, he hastened to the col-onel,
and informed him that the force
consisted of not more than a regiment of
infantry moving direotly for the camp,
A hot skirmish ensued, the fight
lasted for an hour or two. The demon-stration
closed with the retreat of the
enemy, oh whose heels Lieut Horton,
whose fighting blood was up, hung
with a tenacity that astonished las
brother officers. Jack braved danger
with a coolness that was amazing, and
directed the fire of his men where it
wonld do the most good. It was his
ambition to capture somebody or some-thing,
and he did, a Confederate cap
tain and two privates who were " sur-rounded"
b^ himself and one of his
soldiers. But Jack, fired by this sue
cess, rashly pressed ahead for more
human plunder, when he was laid low
by a bullet through the shoulder.
had clone more then he ought. His
wound was a painful one, and in a iew
days he was on his way to Bockdale,
where the reports of his achievements
had proceeded him. Jack couldn't help
feeling a little curious about how Miss
Abbie would greet him if he chanced to
meet her. He hadn't the remotest idea
of calling on her, however. His time
was his country's, and all hi» leisure
moments were passed, even in those
invalid days, in the study of military
tactics. He did not want to be made a
lion of; did not pretend to resemble
that noble animal in the least. So he
stayed at home and studied his books,
Juat before his return to the army he
attended a fair at Bockdale in aid of the
soldiers. The young ladies were the
principal attractions at this, as at all
fairs; and among the young ladies none
were more attractive than Miss Abbie
Latham. She drove a remarkably suc-cessful
business at the flower stand, one
of her principal patrons being Mr.
Joseph Staples, who purchased at least
half her stock, and distributed it with a
lavish hand. He had not gone to war,
but had at least, and without compul-sion,
hired a substitute. His patrotism
was ardent, as he assured Miss Abbie,
but there were other attractions nearer
home..
Certainly Lieut Horton could but pay
his respects to Miss Abbie. His face
was paler and his form had become
more trim and manly then when she last
saw him. His features, Abbie noticed,
bore an expression of sadness and suffer-ing
; he moved without awkwardness,
and all the young ladies declared him to
be the handsomest soldier in the hall.
He won the sword that was voted for on
this occasion, as he deserved to. Jack's
heart throbbed a little as he met the
gaze of the young lady; but if he felt
any emotion it must have been slight;
she was very busy with her customers,
and especially with her wholesale patron,
Mr. Staples, yet as the lieutenant bade
her good evening and turned away he
saw her eyes drop and a faint flush steal
over her |
Tags
Comments
Post a Comment for Page 1