Lititz Record

              THE LITITZ RECORD
I> Fahllahed evurj TtMsr HontSsg,
At $1.00 per Annum, in Advance,
Cisnea : BBQAD STBEET, Lima, ItáH-QASTKS
Co., PA.
J O B P R I N T I NG
01 every description neatly »nd promptly doaa
S.T KEASOSABUC KATES.
TITZ
YOL. Y II.
H E A D Q U A R T E R S F OR
H O U S E — S T I R E S
-AT-Keiper's
Great Furniture Warerooms,
4 5 N o r t h Q U E E N S t r e e t , L a n c a s t e r , Pa.
EVERYBODY
in Reed of KUKMTURE should give «8 a call. Great bargains offered.
Goods sold at lower prices than ever before known. We have a large
stock from which to make seleetions, and guarantee to give satlsfaetion
to all our patrons, who are cordially Invited to call and see for them-selves.
No trouble to show goods. @ Buying direet from the manufac-turers,
we are enabled to sell at bottom prices.
&9 3 3. M. KEIPER
LITO FURNITURE WAREROOMS.
If y o u ara l a need of Furniture, call at the LITITZ FURNITURE WAREROOMS, and by
convinced that you can purchase as cheap there as any plaea else. Call and see for yourself.
UNDERTAKING
In all Its branches in. town f i r country promptly attended to. Am prepared with Crump'«
Patent Corpse Preserver, w h i c h Is o n e of t h e best ever Invented. The body remains perfect!/
dry i n iU
Also Hearse, Coffin Stools, Chairs, Chin Supports and anything pertaining to the business
Have had years of experience in t h i s business, and ready when my services are needed, at
reasonable prices.
w . s i . E n s r c i K :,
irt-ly MAIN ST., LITITZ, PA.
GILL'S CITY GALLERY0» PHOTOGRAPHY,
No. 19 BAST KING Street, LANCASTER, PA.
o
Copying Old Pleturea a Specialty. Landseap« Views, Groups and EwiSd-tags.
Pbotocrapby In all lta Branches. ocis-l
A. R. BOMBERGER& CO.,
Have now on hand a n ew and large stock of
the latest improved
STOWS, HEATERS & GANGES.
They also keep on hand the largest supply
of every variety of
HARDWARE
to be found In this section, such as
Iron, Steel, Paints, Oils, Glass, Wood
and Willow-ware, Tinware,
Building Material, &c.
B O M B E R G E R & CO., LITITZ. Pa.
FLINN & BRENEMAN !
REDUCED PRICES FOR 1884.
We have m«de another great reduction in
Ironware, Tinware, Woodenware, Table Cutlery, Silverware, Britannia
Spoons, Table and Floor Oil Cloths, Lamp and Chandeliers.
Our 5, 10 and 25-eent Counters are covered with bargains'
Stoves, Heaters & Ranges.
The Largest Stock and Lowest Prices. Wholesale and Retail.
FLINN & BRENEMAN,
GREAT STOVE STORE,
No. 152 North Queen Street, LANCASTER, PENN'A..
TOSAI. BOX Read What a Patient says of ft.
"The Pastilles I purchased from yott in August
f>rove to me most conclusively that "while there la
life there is hope." They did their work far be-y
»o\Jnudu mluyi uutumuoiusatu e(x/Apueccit;ia<taiiioiuniisO, if omri I lc vecritmaiunjluyv dtiil«d.
not expect that a habit of FOURTEEN YEARS
DURATION could be completely gotten under con-trol
in the exceedingly short time of two mouths
I can assure yon that no false modesty will keep me
from doinff ail that 1 can in adding to the snccesa
which will surely crown so beneficial a remedy.1 *
Above extract from a letter dated—W. Ya. Deo. 26,3881
The Pastilles are prepared and sold only by the
HARR2S REMEDY CO. MFC CHEMISTS,
306« N. !0th. St. , ST. LOUI8, MO.
eent P3EE °M *®41'i ^^toest 53, two tmcXU $5, (tet sumthi 7
' SPECTACLES!
Hundreds of persons 111 Lancaster, Chester,
and York counties, Pa., and Cecil county, Md.,
and elsewhere, are wearing my Spectacles
with a satisfaction and comfort they never
received from glasses before.
THE BEST SPECTACLES AND
EYE GLASSES ON HAND.
Do not run the risk of Injuring your eyes
by unsuitable glasses, but call on Dr. BROWN
and get glasses that will suit your eyes and
do them good The only place to be properly
suited with glasses.
AI J . DISEASES OF EYE AND EAR
TREATED.
If your sight is falling, or If you need glasses
It will be to your interest to address or call on
DR. C. H. BROWN,
EYE AND EAR SURGEON,
NO. 20 WERT ORANGE STREET.
LANCASTER, Pa.
llFAWElK! We can guarantee the above amount to good, active
energetic
. A - G H E I s T T S !
Ladles as well as gentlemen^-make a success in the
business. Very little capital required. We have a
household article as salable as flour.
IT BELLS ITSELF!
St Is used every day in every famijy. You do not need
so explain its merits. There is a rich harvest for all
•who embrace this golden opportunity. It costs you
only one cent to learn what our business is. Buy a
postal and write and we will .-»end you our prospectus
and full particulars
T B B E !
And We know you will derive more good than you
have any idea of. Our reputation as a manufacturing
company is such that we can not afford to deceive.
Write to us on a postal and give your address plainly
and receive full particulars
BUCKEYE MANUF, CO.
Marion, Ohio. ^
L i t i t z S p r i n g s H o t e l ,
This is well known as one of
the best Hotels in the
State. Newly - f u r n i s h e d
Rooms, light and airy, and
Table supplied with all the
luxuries of the s e a s o n.
Situated along the B. & C.
R. R.
A. G. K I L L I A V,
mayl8-LY LITIIZ, PA
STUBGIS HOUSE
HOTEL AM MSTAIMT
This well-known House still continues to accom-modate
the public in the manner so weil known
and highly ap,: minted by its many patrons.
The Choicest Liquors, Wines and Ci-gars
at the Bar.
LAOKE liEBK and ofier REFRESHMENTS
at a i times.
Eelu Uns thanks for n,mx past favors. I hopt-to
ve-,ene your patronage ill the future.
a2s EDW. 8. STTTRGIS, Prop.
^ y I L L I A M J. HAMILTON,
REPRESENTING THE FIRM OF
Y O U N G , K E I P E R & C O . ,
Successors to Young SSKeiper,
WHOLESALE
CHINA, GLASS AND QUEENSWARE,
215 and 217 N. THIRD STREET,
, PHILADELPHIA. fe3-i
LITITZ, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 25, 1884. NO 21.
THE LITITZ RJ
A d v e r t i s i n g H a t e s :
One l a c t o n e w e e k . . . . . . $ JB
One incH, three weeKs 1.75
Otfeincft, six months.... 5.00
One lncii, one year 8.00
Two inches, one weeX 1. 25
Two inches, three weeks.' 2.0a
Two Inches, six months 8.00
Two Inches, one year. 1S.06
One-fonrthcolumn, one wees ..1 s.00
One-fourth column, three weeks. 7.00
One-fourth column, six months 15.00
One-fourth column, one y e a r . . . . . . . . . : . . . . . . . . 25.09
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Local notices will be charged at tie rate oi eigM
cents per line for each inserfiao.
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S E W I N G M A C H I M E CO
3 0 UNION SQUARE,NEW YQRK
CHI CAGO. ILL.«
« ORANGE, MASS.
•AND ATLANTA, QA.-— «j
C. FATE,
Agent for Lancaster, Pa.
D. 8. EWING, General Agent,
112/ Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
MARTIN EDDY
Sole agent and dealer
in Lancaster and ad-joining
counties forthe
sale of all the Ameri-can
and English Bi-cycles
and Tricycles,
No. 9 E. King Street,
Lancaster, Pa. Riding
School, No. 55 North
Oueen St. Please call
and see my stock of
j, machines, or send me
I your name on a postal
card, and I will mail
vou a catalogue/ree.
T H C b . x l . K E L L E R
SUCCESSOR TO Ì
W. HC. B Ö L L I N C E R p
VÍA TN STREET—LITITZ.—MAIN STREET
— DEALER IN—
G
F il ES H CAKES,-
FRUITS, NUTS, &0.
Bread furnished for funerals and other
^atsierings. in any quantity, at short notice,
and at lowest rates.
Cakes for )rEDI>l\aS and PAJITIJBS
0 8PF.CIAI.TY. —
fiSU Served anywhere free of charge.
MICHAEL ROTH,
T O N S O R J A L A R T I S T ,
Opposite the Mturgis Ho'.se,
M A I N S T R E E T , U T I T 2,
Keeps constantly on hand a '.rood stock of
FINE POMADES,
HAIR TONIC,
SHAVING SOAP,
jLnd everything else belonging to the track,.
Hair Cutting done with neatness and dis
«tell. Children's Hair Cuu.nii n Hneeijilty.
Egcpach'g Ba^erij,
L I T I T Z JPA.
F r e s h . B r e a d , R o i l s ,
B u n s , S w e e t C a k e s ,
S t r e i s l e r s , S u g a r
Cakes, &;c.,
Served dull in town and country. All order!
¡'or funerals or public gatherings promptly
attended to. A special feature in t h e bustnesl
will be t he baking of GENUINE RYE and
BRAN BREAD. My aim shall be furnish a
good article at all times. Give me a trial and
satisfy yourself.
Have also added all necessary tojols for OP
namenting cakes, and am now prepared ta
ornament cakes for weddings and parties In
any style desired:
HORACE L. C9CHBACH. .
U C C 9 S T S SELL IT.
MHHAS1UM. Riverside, Cal. The firs' climate care»
Mose, Throat,Lungs, full idea, 86 p., route, cost, free
MARRIAGE " A s r f i i ^ L f a
GUIDE. 2 6 0 pgs.;
— Illustrated.
'All that the doubtful curious or thoughtful want to '
-knew, Cloth and giltbindin?50 cts, paper 25o, Man ;
riageGuide, 114 pl5c, sent sealed, money or stps,by
<DR. WHiTTlER ' Th© great specialist, Nervous Dabilityjinpedimenti
! lo Marriage, Consultation and Pamphlet iree,^^.»
WE ARE MAKING ALMOST DAILY
ADDITIONS TO OUR STOCK OF
WALL PAPERS
Our selections have all been made for the
Spring, and as fast as manufactured a ship-ment
is made. The styles are beautiful, and
the assortment so extensive.from the Common
Brown to the Finest Embossed Gilt, that it
gives pleasure to look through the line.
ONE, TWO AND THREE BAND FRIEZES.
Decorations for Ceilings in Elegant designs.
CENTRE PIECES, BORDERS, TRANSOMS,
&c„ &c.
DADO WINDOW SHADES
are becoming more popular every season. We
can show you
FIFTY DIFFEBENT STYLES,
In the prevailing colors.
PLAIN CLOTHS I N ALL G0L0ES
And Extra Wide Goods for Large Windows
and Store Shades. Fixtures, Cords, Orna-ments,
Picture Wire, Hollands, &c.
ECBU and WHITE LACE CUR-TAINS,
Bed Sets, P i l l ow Shams, Tidies and Lambre
quins. Brass, Ebony Walnutand Ash Curtain
Poles- Pier and Mantel Mirrors.
PHARES W. PRY,
57 NORTH QUEEN ST.,
Lancaster, Pa.
W A R W I C K H O U S E,
ONE SQUARE N. OF B. R. STATION,
L I T I T Z , P A .
This weil-known Hotel i s conducted in good
style and offers excellent accommodations to
the traveling public at the lowest rates. $ .
WHEN YOU COME TO LITITZ STOP HERE
m m F. U. CA BPENTEB, Prop.
COJlTiflEMTAL JIOTEL,
with first-class Restaurant attached,
Nos. 14, 16 and 18 EAST CHESTNUT ST., op-posite
1'enn'a R. R. Passenger Depot,
LANCASTER, PA.
Transient Custon solicl+ed. Good beds and
well-aired rooms. Moderate charges. Also
good stable room for horses.
ap« GEORGE FLORY, Prop'r.
THE COLUMBIA HOUSE,
E. A. HUTTON, Prop.,
Nos, 111 & 113 North Broad Street,
,Uear the Masonic Temple, Academy of
Fine Arts and Public Buildings,)
P K I L A E E L P H I A .
Terms: $1 MO per day. sll-ly
NO STGKE,
BUT A GENERAL PROVISION DEPOT
AT THE
R A I L R O A D RESTAURANT,
Where you. can get fresh and cheap at
at all time the lollowing:
Choice Apples,
Sweet Potatoes,
Irish Potatoes,
Scotch Herring,
Fresh Crackers,
Apple Butter,
Fresh Oysters,
Cider Vinegar.
White Wine Vinegar, &c,
And also Coal Oil b y the quart or gallon.
All goods delivered in any part of town free
of charge. Prices reasonable.
L. R. HACKER,
Lititz, Pa.
remedies. Deformities Treated. Call or write for list of
questions to be answered by those desiring treatment by mail.
CPersons suffering from Ruptnre should send their address,^
and iearn something to their advantage. It is not a tross.#
Address Br. C. L. LSBAP.GE, Preset and Physician In Chars»
Central Ued. Ss Snrg. Institele, S20 Xoenst st., St. tonls, Bo.
SUCCESSORIO UR.ILUIIS'DISIXMSARY, ITOARA,
Boots and Shoes.
For the Fall and Winter Season I have
purchased and have now in stock all gradee
of Boots and Shoes to suit everybody.
Men's Gum Boots and Shoes,
Boys' Gum Boots and Shoes,
Children's Gum Boots and Shoes,
Women's Gum Boots and Shoes.
My stock of all kinds of
BOOTS AND SHOES
Is complete and prices guaranteed as low ag
as elsewhere.
Forney's H a m s b u r g F i n e Shoes
deserve special attention. They are well
made and are durable.
FRANK MILLER'S CROWN DRESSING
AND BLACKING
Is the best article in the market. Try it.
FRANK MILLER'S LEATHER REVIVER
for fine kid and other shoes.
Repairing of all kinds.
ocl7
S. L . DELBO,
MAIN ST., LITITZ.
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806% North 10th St., St. Loots, Ho.
ONE MONTH'S TREATMENT, $3; 2 MONTHS,$5; 8 MONTHS,®*
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IMAU1NABY EVILS.
Let to-morrow take care of to-morrow,
Leave thiDgs of the future to fate;
What's the use to anticipate sorrow ?
Life's troubles come never too late.
If to hope over much be an error,
'Tis one that the wise have preferred,
And how oft have hearts been in terror
Of evils that never occurred.
Have faith—and thy faith will sustain thee
Permit not suspicion and care
With invisible hands to embrace thee,
But bear what God gives thee to bear.
By this spirit supported and gladdened;
Be ne'er by "forebodings" deterred;
Just think how oft hearts have been sad-dened,
By fear of what never occurred.
Let, to-morrow take care of to-morrow;
Short and dark as our life may appear,
We can make it still shorter by sorrow—
Still shorter by folly and fear.
Half our troubles are our own invention,
And often from blessings conferred;
Yet we shrink in wild apprehension
From evils that never occurred.
J< U< O'MEARA & CO'W«.bii.si,,,.DX'.
QLirvoec eA»g,e nts WanteaKHv&array-ywfShïeeifetn. dS oGlde bnye Urarlu Sgtgoirsetss,,
A HOLD BACKWOODS BOY.
Jad was eleven years old and little
Chlo, his sister, was two years younger.
Bat this was a great many years ago
when their father, Mr. Dunlap, had.
just moved into a township in the
western part of Maine, which was then
a wild, uninhabited region, save where
here and there an adventurous settler
had planted his little log hut in the
heart of the wilderness, and laid bare,a
few acres of the forest as a nucleus of
the future home ot' himself and thriv-ing
family—almost a! ways a small
colony in itself.
Ah, who can tell what homesick mo-ments
and longings for the old asso-ciations
our pioneer fathers and mothers
endured, coming as did many oi: them,
from wealthy States and pleasant sur-roundings.
There musi have been a
mighty attraction in the wild, .free life
of the backwood man and a genuine
love of the simple and homely joys of
the rough hearthstone, to have held
them in these rude homes, almost iso-lated,
as they were, from the world.
But they lived in anticipation, looking
eagerly forward to a future of plenty,
when the wilderness should become
cultivated and fruitful through their
first persistent and hardy efforts.
"With an energy characteristic of the
first settlers, Mr. Dunlap pushed his
way on through toil, hardships and
many privations, at first felling and
clearing a patch large enough to put
up a log cabin for his family, then by
degrees cutting farther and farther- into
the primitive forest, till now quite a
large tract lay open to the sun, a part
of which was under tolerable cultiva-tion,
the rest laying black and still
smoking from recent burnings.
As beforestated, Jad was now eleven.
He was a dark faced, sinewy lad; tough
as a thong, inheriting much of his
father's pluck and endurance. What-ever
he undertook to do he was pretty
sere to carry through.
In these unsettled regions wild ani-mals
were numerous, especially the
wild.cat, lynx and glutton, or wolver-ine.
These creatures often come into
the clearings, and their frequent de-predations
became a great pest to the
settlers.
There was also an abundance of
smaller game to be had for the trapping,
and this fall Jad Was anticipating no
end of enjoyment in the warm Indian
summer days, trapping for "musquash"
(muskrat) and minis; along Eenny
brook, which ran past the clearing half
a mile away in the woods. His father
had helped him make his traps, and on
his vary first visit he was greatly elated
by finding a sleek and glossy mink in
one of them. This piece of good luck
had set Jad half wild, for mink skins
brought a high price at the "big set-tlement,"
twenty five miles down the
country, where his father always went
to do his trading.
Jad watched his traps eagerly as a
miser watches his money bags. But
with all his vigilance, what was his dis-may
to find, one morning in the trap
farthest up stream, that a mink had
been caught and taken out bv some
wild beast and devoured. The tail and
little featherly clumps of fur lay scat-tered
about the trap. Dire venegance
against the wild marauder at once'pos-sessed
his heart.
Little Ohio was a keen sympathizer
in his troubles. She was also his com-panion
in this trapping expedition, in
which it was her duty to carry the
bait—sometimes a squirrel, ottener a
trout caught from the brook.
"What d'you s'pose got him?" asked
Chlo, as Jad stood looking ruefully at
the tail, which he held between his
thumb and finger.
" I don't know, unless 'twas a glut-ton,
or a wildcat. Pa says they are al-ways
nosin' round to get the bait out
of traps and what's caught in 'em. Con-found
him 1 Seven dollaas gone down
his throat!" he exclaimed, wrathfully.
" I t ' s too bad," cried little Chlo.
"Can't you catch him?"
Jad thought a moment. His father
had a steel fox-trap. He would set that
and have the thief. Leaving Chlo, he
hastened to the house, got the trap and
raced back to the brook. It was set at
last to his satisfaction, and baited with
a squirrel, which he had brought along
to bait his mink-traps with. He drove
a stake down through the ring in the
trap-chain, so as to hold whatever was
caught.
Two days passed and not a mink had
been near, but thè bait was gone out of
the steel trap, and also from two of the
rnink-traps. With his usual persever-ance,
Jad rebaited them and waited.
The bait was again eaten out of most of
his mink-traps, and, what was more ex-asperating,
another mink had been
caught and eaten.
Jad's patience now nearly gave way,
and he was tempted tò tear hia trap up.
But on second thought resolved to try
once more. He wiuld bait only the
fox trap. Jad did not visit it the next
morning as usual, for he was obliged lo
finish harvesting the potatoes. But
after dinner, his father having gone
to assist at putting up a log cabin for a
newly-arrived settler, some two miles
distant, Jad and Chlo set oil for the
brook, hatchet and fishpole In hand.
As they neared the place where the
fox-trap was set they heard the eham
elinking.
" I bet my head we've got him!" Jad
cried excitedly, dashing through a
clump of cedars.
And, sure enough, there he was. A
big, round-headed wild-cat!
" At Jad's sudden appearanca the
creature bounded and leaped frantically
to free himself: but the stake was a
strong one.
After cutting a stout green <> club
three or four feet in-length, Jad stuck
the hatchet beneath the strap which he
wore f©r a belt, and going as near as he
dared struck at the creature with all
his might. He missed, however, and
the cat darted round ts the other side
of the stake, bringing up with a sudden
jerk, where it crouched, growling low
and watching the boy with 'fiercy eyes
and ears laid back.
"Oh, don't go so near him, Jad!
cautioned little Chlo, retreating across
the brook. "He'll fly at ye 'fore ye
know it!"
"Let 'im fly!" cried the now-excited
boy "He's going to get his head
cracked 'fore I 'm done with 'im! Take
that ye sneakin' thief!" he added, ven-turing
up and bringing down the club,
with a quick blow, just grazing the
animal as he again jumped to the
other side.
Then round and round the stake they
flew, Jad thumping the ground, trap,
anything but the cat, whieli adroitly
kept out of his reach, all the time furi-ously
snarling and spitting. It was
hard telling which was pursuer as they
gyrated about the stake amid a perfect
whirlwind of dead leaves.
But in an unlucky moment Jad's
club got under the trap chain, and
bringing it up suddenly he threw the
ring over ther top of the stake. With
a bound the creature was off, the chain
rattling after Mm and catching under
roots and stones.
There was not a second to lose, and
the boy gave hot chase, They ran on
tor fifty rods or more; then, seeing Jad
so close upon him, the cat scratched up
the trunk of a hemlock, trap and all,
and from the branches glared at the
panting and excited boy.
Jad's courage was now up to the high-est
pitch, and throwing down his club
he began to climb the rough trunk.
"Don't go up there, Jad, for pity 's
sake, don't!" implored little Chlo, now
coming up all out of breath.
• "Yes, an' let him go off with pa's
trap in his foot, wouldn't ye? Just like
a girl— 'fraid of her own shadderl"
cried Jad scorntully. "I tell yer, he's
got to pay for them mink with his
skin—see if he don't!" and he climbed
on laboriously, giving vent to his in-dignation
in threats which he meant
to put into execution.
Beaching the lower limbs, Jad
grasped the hatchet firmly, ready for
an assault. As he came within a yard
of the cat it kept clasving and making
attempts to leap down upon the boy's
head, all the time growling fiercely.
Throwing the hatchet back over his
shoulder as far m he could reach,-Jad
struck at the big head in the crotch of
the tree just above him. But the
creature dodged the blow. He again
struck and missed; but the next time he
was fortunate enough to hit the cat on
the head, fairly knocking it off the
limb to the ground, where for a mo-ment
it lay stunned and motion-less.
Jad slipped quickly down the trunk,
thinking the victory won. But the
animal, recovering itself, set upon the
boy with true feline grit, and the next
moment they were engaged in a lively
tussle, while little Chlo ran back and
forth shouting for help at the top of
her voice,, ,
The woods resounded with the con-fused
medley. Jad now found that he
must fight for his life, and with another
desperate blow he again stunned the
creature, and, before he could recover,
the resolute boy dispatched him.
Dropping the hatchet, Jad threw
himself on the ground, panting and ex-hausted.
Poor Chlo now came timidly
forward, trembling and castmg fright-ened
glances at the animal, as if she
half expected it would even now leap
upon her.
"Oh, Jad!" cried the little girl, see-ing
the boy's tattered frock, "you must
be awful hurt! And, oh, see your
arm!"
".No, I ain't hurt, neither," declared
Jad, stoutly,, sitting up, "not much,
anyway. That's only a little scratchl"
regarding his arm ruefully.
I t was a pretty big one, however.
Binding some birch withes firmly about
the creature's hind legs, Jad, with little
Ohio's assistance, dragged him to the
house.
"My patience alive!" cried their
mother, running to the door, as she
caught sight of the children. "Jad
Dunlapl you venturesome boy, where
did you get that wildcat?"
"He got into our trap, an' then run
off up a tree with it, and Jad elim' up
after 'im," little Chlo hastened to ex-plain;
' 'I told him not t o , " she added,
seeing the gathering rep-roof in her
mother's eyes.
"And you got well scratched," said
Mrs. Dunlap, turning Jad about and
eyeing his bleeding arm, "I guess
'twill learn you to let the wildcats
alonel"
"He won't eat any more of mv mink,
anyway," muttered Jad.
He did not get much sympathy from
his father either, who ehided him se-verely
for his want of prudence, and
bade him be more cautious in the fu-ture
about attacking such animals.
I t took a long time to heal up Jad's
lacerated arms and shoulders, and it
was a numbei of days before he got
over the soreness and lameness enough
to visit his traps. However, Jad was
not troubled again that fall, while
two more mink were added to this little
pile of furs, which he sent on his
father's load down to the "settlement"
not long after.
' How To Spoil.
A Desolate Eegion.
To spoil steak—fry it.
To spoil tea or coffee—boii it.
To spoil custard—bake it to long.
To spoil house-plants—water them
too much.
To spoil butter—do not work out all
the milk.
To spoil a carpet—sweep it with a
stiff broom.
To spoil pan-cakes—bake them on a
luke-warm griddle
To spoil a breakfast—grumble all the
while you are eating.
To spoil potatoes—let them lie and
soak in water after boiling.
To spoil bread—use poor flour and
sour yeast and let it rise until too light
and it runs over.
To spoil scissors—cut everything
from a sheet of paper to a bar of cast
iron.
To spoil garments in making—cut
them out carelessly and run all the
seams.
To spoil' a school—change teachers
every time some one in the ' distric
finds fault.
To spoil children-—humor them to
everything they happen to think they
want.
Soda Springs, Monroe County, Cal.,
has been called the dead sea of the
Sierra, and a writer from that section
says:
"The southern end of Monroe Vallev
is a chain of obsidian hills and moun
tains of scoria, which coffiu volcanoes,
extinct for hundreds, maybe Thousands
of years. These rise to an elevation of
a thousand feet above the floor of the
valley, and add a picturesqueness which
aids Ihe entrancing panorama furnished
by the valley itself. They are three
miles long, and although surrounded by
an almost barren waste, so desolate are
they that they seem deserted here and
left in isolation, rising like the parent
limb from which all other desolation
had strayed and become lost in its wan-derings.
Their base is skirted by a
belt of pines, and anon along their sides
trees are perched and withered shrubs,
but these do not diminish, but rather
add another dreary feature to their
loneliness. No song bird's notes, it
seems, have ever awakened an echo
here, and silence and desert solitude
hold eternal court. When the snow
storm rests her tired wings about their
forms and when the midnight wraps
them in its sable shroud, no deeper
hush invades that stillness. Well paci-fied
at best, no death could calm; no
grave subdue it more. I have seen,
deep in the East, when the gathered
clans of the elements stalked threaten-ing
upon the darkness, the lightning
bent on some terrible mission of ven-geance,
burn a path through' the mut-tering
storm and pass like a vision of
death, to destruction; I have seen the
last rays of the retreating sun creep
into the clouds, lighting them in their
raised station into radient splendor; I
have viewed those rays retreat, leaving
the clouds hung like a banner of crape
across the barren sky, and I have seen
the moon stalk from the midnight like
a ghost to the grave, but nothing so
suggestive of glory departed as this, a
submerged cabin.
But probably the most romantic and
interesting object the lake contains be-neath
its surface is the walls of a cabin
which lies against the base of one of
the islands under fifteen feet of Water.
Who built the cabin here is a mystery..
Indians bom and iaised in the vicinity,
who count their years in gray hairs, say
the surface of the lake has never been
but a few feet below its present level,
and that less than sixty years ago it
was higher by 100 feet. They know
nothing of the cabin's origin. Some
accredit the edifice with being the job
of a primeval white race—some stone
masoii of the time of the man of ancient
Carson footprint fame; others find an
author for the work in the nomadic
priests, who a eentury since were in that
section. Whoever built it,-nob jdy oc-occupies
it now. The roof is gone, the
door has fallen down, and there is a
general air of sad neglect about it. The
owner has passed away and the agent
for the property is out of town. But
one day some enterprising showman will
nail a legend on the frönt garden wäll
and make a fortune exhibiting it to the
tourist, who will then journey to*' view
the live sea of the ¡sierra. The two
islands on Mono lake, like most of its
local surroundings, are of volcanic ori-gin,
and upon one of them internal fires
are still apparent.
Hot and cold mineral springs are nu-merous
about the lake, and everywhere
signs exist of the terrible tumult of na-ture
which long ago convulsed it, but
now so silent it seems even a sighing
wind must be lost to wonder here.
A*ved, we approached the Solemn
scene, and silently we gathered around
the sad and neglected grave and bared
our brows. We were standing by the
tomb ot a buried monarch which had
given birth to mountains—grand, aw-ful,
lasting. We had never stood in
such presence before, we might never
again. „ Our feelings could be imagined
but by'those who would uneartd the
remains of a mammoth animal of ex-tinct
species among those of her sons,
for such was this. 2fo marble stone
was reared above the lonesome spot, no
dated page. Its work aione stood to
sentinel its slumbers. And this is the
grandest monument that beautif.es the
earth. Well may the man who leaves
such living trace of his existence sleep
upon the ocean's bed, or melt alone
among the des»ert's solitude, for a me-morial
of magnificence rises over him,
wherever he be. No other monument
is fit to mark the sleep of such great-ness,
and no other sleep is fit to be
marked, We had no fear now. It
seemed so subdued that we stood reck-lessly
upon its brink, much as the timid
citizen stands beside the corpse of the
murdered desperado, and gazed fear-lessly
down at its unpenetrable dark-ness.
we talked in subdued tones,standing
by it, of it affecting solitude aiid of its
desolate surroundings. Par down in
the mountain subdued voices repeated
what we had said. We tried agam and
again and learned that here was one of
the most wonderful of echoes. It will
repeat any conversation, however
lengthy, it may hear. By standing
here an orator may become an audience
to his own speech and hear it repeated
as he recites it in a refraction of his
own voica I have a weird melody re-garding
the late John Btown which I
delight to sing to echoes, and I tried it
here. I sang the first verse and chorus»
and we sat down and waited. Pres-ently,
from deep in the crater, a distant
but singularly distinct voice begun, in
a solemn, unearthly basso, to sing
"Johh Brown." There was sadness in
the tone and it seemed to burden the
air without with a xnelaucholy that was
affecting. It gradually receded as if
being sung by a body retreating, and
finally died away and all was silent..
Earthly songs sweeten as they grow
fainter in tne distance! This sad,
weird, tar away voice from the dead,
grew sadder as it passed and ceased,
leaving sorrow in the oppressive silence
succeeding it. The"sound is no longer
heard in the crater of Mono, but it
haunts my ear and my memory, and I
shall hear it again through every silence
in my life. Unconsciously our eyes
moistened, and it was minutes before
either of us spoke.
I t was amusing to bear its grim ren-dition
of a lively song. I exchanged
song and hymns with it until I became
hoaise, and then bade it adieu and was
about to depart, but my companion
said be was anxious to have his voice
repeated from the fhouth of a mountain
and 1 waited for him. He is a com-poser
of verse, and has many romantic
idyls of his own which he warbles, but
his efforts in getting any of them popu-lar
with the public have been entirely
unsuccessful, I detected his designs.
Never having been ablfc to get one of
his songs repeated by anybody, he was
going to take advantage of this moun-tain,
and make it siiig on9. Out of
compassion I reluctantly consented to
become: an audience, but not without
many misgivings. He opened the con-cert
with one of his favorites, and we
both rather impatiently waited- It was
nearly fifteen minutes before the echo
ventured on it, and then it made two
jerky discords and became silent. After
a brief interval it tried again, ceased
again, and in the third attempt went
off into a series of chattering, like the
drivelings of a maniac, I wai'ed for no
more, but started down the mountain
on a mad run, and the reckless poet
followed closei at my heels. We did not
stop until the valley was reached, and
when we paused and looked back, the
crater was swaying with convulsions,
and that volcano, which had slept away
ages, turned over in its slumbers and
muttered a terrible imprecation, and in
fear that it would boil over and follow
us with its fiery rath, we fled r again,
nor paused until we stood upon the sky
piercing summit of Sierra and looked
down upon it fearlessly from our haven
of safety.
At the "Tip-end" of England.
A fire and dinner put us all right;
having determined to come here, I was
also determined to see all that could be
seen. And so, as there: was -a slight
lull in the storm, but not in tHS wind,
we went out. All around .the aspect is
bare; a heavy mist has settled dowu
upon everything, so that .We' cannot see
maAy miles distant. The roar of -the
waves at the foot of the cliffs is loudly
heard, and as they break upon the'dis-;
tant rocks the sea is white with 'their
foam. The land here is 225 feet above
the water, according to government
survey. Endeavoring. to. get to, the
bottom, we zigzag here and there, and
slip over the rough granite rocks, or
around them, with difficulty. Over-hanging
are some detached onei?, wjtiich
seemingly might be easily toppled over.
With considerable difficulty went as
far as it is possible to go; no human
being could do more than this, so we
were obliged to be content. Seventy
feet of more sheer down the precipitous
rocks, the sea ;is. beating with a thun-dering
noise, and sending up the spray
in our faces.
Here, then, we must stop, we are at
the very western extremity ; in a cleft a
few feet beyond there is a bunch of
grass, which we secure as a memento
of the place. It is as near the base as
can be reached, and we muse, and muse
and muse. All around and below, the
split and jagged points of granits are
landing up, threatening death to any
unfortunate mariner who comes near
them. The rushing sea, driven by the
strong west wind, has honeycombed
and made caverns in them, whence the
gulls fly crying out ; and as the wind
howls among these Caverns andi crags,
it seems as if the demons of the air
were let loose. The shading of th?, sea
from its foam o£ white into a light
green, and then into a darker hue, I
never seen so perfect before. Sitting
.here, in a shelcered. nook iof.tho.; rooks,
and endeavoring to describe the scene,
1 Wish not a suggestion to be made nor
a word to bespoken; silence becomes jis
now; the cruel, trackless sea is'before
me.- At the very extremity of England
I sit and look westward. Between me
and the rocky New England 'shore,
there is not an inch of dry land. Strain-ing
my eyes ont over these troubLous
waves, there is nothing, to be seen but
mist and heavy clouds.
ïTorelsn Shores.
He was a porter in a wholesale dry
goods house. His salary was not
large enough to warrant him in buying
a fast horse and wearing silk under-shirts,
but he was growing fat and
smoking fair to medium cigars. In an
evil moment the tempter came and
whispered in his ear that he could make
$20,000 as easy as rolling . off a log.
With that much money An his hind
pocket, he couid cheese> the racket and
have a new tailor every week in the
year.
Yesterday morning at 9 o'clock the
porter invited the senior partner to go
upon the root with him to see about
lepairs. There was a wicked leer on
his face and a queer hght in his eves,
but the guileless senior partner noticed
nothing but the fact that that the
porter was getting a brandy-flush on
his nose. No sooner had they reached
the roof than the villain seized his em-ployer
and held him suspended oyer the
dizzy height and cried out:
"Your check for 120,000 or I drop
you into the alley!"
"Say $15,000."
"Never;"
"Make it $17,000."
" I will not! Give me what I ask or
over you go!"
"Yery well—I knock under. "
The senior partner sat down on the
icy cover of the trap door and wrote
the c*>eck for the sum named. The
porter seized it and swiftly descended
and closed the trap to keep the victim
oh. the roof. It was but the work of
five minutes to run to the bank and
present the cheek.
"Never had a cent oh deposit with
us!" said the cashier as he shoved it
back.
The porter had made a false move,
and he had lost. He crossed the river
on the ice, and is now a wanderer on
foreign shores.
Tea.
Young Hyson and "rosebud," form
the attractions at those delig.hiful social
entertainments known as "teas." There
is something BO charmingly informal
about them, so chatty, so unostenta-tious,
and, withal, so dignified and re-speetable,
that they capture the hearts
of maids and matrons. People who
think balls "11011111," who claim that
the hundreds_of dollars spent for terra-pin
and such delicacies at evening en-tertainments
might be= better t pent-, and
who look upon champagne as a "delu-sion.
and a snare," such people just dota
on teas. Some of these teas are unique
in surprises that originate with the
hosless—some of them very charming.
Beautiful bits of china are introduced;
there are sometimes separate small
tables for groups, and flowers as pretty
favors or gifts to give away are not
made much of. As they do not require
much . effort they are frequently made
occasions for the first introiuctioii ia aa
official social way, if it may be so
termed, of a daughter^ After a girl has
distinguished herself pouring oat tea
for others and older ladies and serving
a few gentlemen she may safely venture
upon the more trying ordeal of a I
reception.