Lititz Record

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3. FRANK BUCH.
OFFICE—On Broad street, Lititx,
Lancaster County, Pa.
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• r i i t l t s . Lane. Co.. Pa,
m
O W E N P. B R I C K E K , Esq., attorney
at-law, is in town every Saturday and
'Monday moi ningaud eau be consulted
ou all legal business. Lancaster office
48 NT n t h Dulse street.
PHOTOGRAPHS.
the Philadelphia Photographer, at
the LITITZ GALLERY. Fine
Cabinets only $ 2 . 0 0 per dozen.
Famous for its Superior
7 3 Y e a r s a t M a n u f a c t u r i n g .
One-half mile east of L»ititz, on the Reading
& Goi umbia railroad. We conti nue to manu-facture
Double DigfeiM i(i}e Whi^eij,
and makes it a special object to supply the
increasing demand in the community for
PURE LIQUOR
for medicinal and mechanical purposes. All
who desire PURE BYE WHISKEY will be
furnished-with the genuine article at low
prices.
WHQLSSfltE AMD RETAIL. Rve Distilled for others by the Barrel
and Half Barrel.
GOOD RYE TAKEN IN EXCHANGE
FOR WHISKEY,
This whiskey is put into chaned barrels,
which causes It to cure much quicker and
colors it slightly red at first. To obtain a
pure article as it flows from the worm, the
Whiskey should be bought from the subscri-ber
direct, as he can not be responsible lor its
purity when bought from s-econd hands.
Old and New Whiskey Constantly on Hand.
While'all other distilleries in Lancaster
conn y discontinue manufacture during the
summer season, the undersigned is obliged
to continue in order to supply the very
pressi g demand for his CKLEBRATISD
PTTttI', RYE WHISKEY.
J. B. HERTZLER,
20ap-om Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa.
T H E OLD isms.
8. è. H. GROSH, Props.,
LITITZ, PA.
The Oldest Establishment of its Kind in
Warwick Township.
We have the finest styles of Fairy Queen,
Dei by, and End Spring
Piano ani Willie Chapel Billies,
AND FOUR POSTERS,
various styles of Jump-Seat Family. Car-riages,
McCau I and Market Wagons, &c., at
prices to suit all.
The Phiecon and three of the new Top
Buggies ottered at great bargains in the
RECORD on the lGth of March are sold, but
we still have great bargains in all kinds of
nijw work and a few extra good second-hand
Vehicles, one a neat
PIANO-BOX TOP BUGGY,
and the other a very li^ht running, com-lurtable
riding
FOUR-POSTER.
Wheels Ilooptid in the most workmanlike
manner at $1.50 per set.
Prompt attention given to repairing and
repainting old work. Prices as low as the
lowest.
We make a specialty of our improved
SPRIHG CUSHION,
which we claim can not be surpa.^sel for
comfort and durability. They have been
giving such general satisfaction, that we are
putting them in all our buggies. They
receive the highest praise from all who are
using them. For reference we give a few
names of the gentlemen who have expressed
their satisfaction and recommend them.
Nathan Bucb, Elias Miller, John Hess, Sr.,
II E. Miller, S. W. Brubaker, Monroe Buch,
Jacob A. Buch, Henry R. Erb, Dr. J. H.
Shenk, Dr. P J Roebuck, Amos Erb, Hiram
Buclier, David Landis, Abram Burkholaer,
T F Evans, William Evans. Sr , and others.
Oive us a call, Inspect our Work and get
Prices. 16mar
G . P F A T F T Z ,
i l i
« General Blacksroithing
in all its Branches,
M a i n St., - - LJtitz, P a.
Hew Wagons for one and two.horses
constantly on hand, made in my own shop.
Agent for the
WALLACE PLOWS
and all repairs thereto.
done in all its. branches for new' l o r k and
repairs. , .
My work and prices must give.satiS.Ca.ction.
Give me a call.
30ap-ly - ¿ f . ff, PWSÈWWM,
J^STA BLISHED 1845.
The I(EYf)T0WE pLÄMIM^MILL
F. O. STFBGIS, Agt.,
manufacturer of Doors,Sashi Blind, Shutters
Window Frames, Mouldings, Brackets,.etc.
NOS..332 to 338 NORTH. CHARLOTTE ST
Lancaster, Pa.
J&g-Estimates furnished. 9apr-ly
D . S. S W E E T O N ,
PKACTICAIJ
STAIR BIMLM:R,
. No. 332 Horth, Charlotte Street,
LANCASTER, :Pa.
STAIRWAYS
complete or all the latest improved styles,
f u r n i s h e d a t s h o r t n o t i c e . NEWEL POSTS and.
BANISTERS always on hand and for sale.
Job Turning-Promptly Done..
No operation or business delay^ •Thouis'ands
of cures. AtKeystone House, Reading, P a,
2d Saturday of each month. Send for circul-ars.
Advice free.
I have made an effort to meet the
public demand with a full line of
Suitings, Spring Overcoating,
No fancy prices rule here, but low
popular prices prevail. To know that
you are getting your money's worth is
an item to be taken into consideration,
Bear in mind you can get a full outfit of
mens wear, at just as low figures as
any other store in the county.
will please bear in mind that I can fur-nish
them with Suits from
$7.50, $9.00, $10.00, $14.00,16.00
and will guarantee to give satisfaction,
having furnished suits io Posts for the
last two years, hence can speak from
^ experience. Thanking you for your;
past favors, I hope to continue your
future patronage.
H.
R E C O R D BUILDING, LITITZ.
W E A K N E R V ES
PAINK'S OEI-EKY CoMPousD.iB aNcrve Tonio wOhciac,h thnoessfee rw faoinlsd.e rCfuol nntearlvûoi sMr Cm«iiéihrym U-».lMt speedily cures-all nervous, diaordera. •
R K E U f t f A T I S f t l
. PAIKE'S .CELERY ^COMPOUND purifies ^.th* ' 'bciaöuosceLs EIlti edurmivàetsi snoîu, tf ttnhed; rleaßcttoicre aeetihde,M woliolcau- . ïtniaeî atn^ge o ri'egmanesd.y to f .:ca a tltiefaelut&mya;t cifolniidLi tion. ; ; Itis
KIDNEY COMPLAINTS
I'AINIS'S CKI/EHY COMPOUND quickly restores
This curative powor, combined with its nerve
: tonics; mftkca it the best remedy for all
kidney complaints.
D Y S P E P S I A
PAINT'S CELEBT COMPOTIN» Btrej^&KMitb® Ativ toor no ragcahn, sa.n dTqhuifile tiBa wthhey n ietr veeusr o01s etnve eaaigea* worse casea of -Dyspeiisia. too
CONSTIPATION
PAIHE'S OKIERY COMPOUND 1B not a It is a laziitlve.-tfivmf? eaey-anai
Nervous Prostration, Nervous Headache,
Neuralgia, Nervous Weakness,, Stomach
and Liver Diseases, Rheumatism, Dys- - _— _
pegsi^sad all affections of the Kidneys. WELLS, RICHARDSON&CO. Prop*
BXXKLINGTQN. VT.
tic. It is a laxative, giving oaBy ana®a»uw
action to tho bowels. Begulanty aurely l ot
lows its use.
Becommended by professional and business
men. SwMojDOOK.
Price $1.00. Sold by Druggists.
BONE I WRAPPER-LEAF BRAND
PHOSPHATE I smîmimms
BAU6H & SONS GOMPAW, OK1UENAL MANUFACTIJIÎEUS OF 1
RAW BONE SUPER-PHOSPHATE.
7_ 50C0om0 btoinnesd p cear pyaecairt,y a onfd ( smtirlwl morckrseru m. g. II ManuIfmapctourrteerras . and DrUl It Il LAAltCUIt DL irlll tAi A'rDrAA l
„ „ _ _ Buy BAUGH'S PURE HAW BONE MEAL.
' J. C. KEEKER, EUcabethtown. " ~ 3J.. BB. . HMAUCSKSMELAMÄA, NM, aBstoewremonavniilvlell.l e. £H.E KRASHUEFPYM &A NH 0<f8c TSEOTNT, LElRU,t «M. anheim. JN,. »H.. MSP ABSETO; fMiEaBit, £phratoT '«•:Wi KAMSAl'i DOUBLE EACLE PHOSPHATE,
JIO. lU'HNE NmEiGi LAEE,T S,t raLiabnneru«a.t er. NJOEHVNV lISA. LWSAEIJt. I&.A WUM:, BOKhLif,n tHialaral..t e.Haa4. JOBEPII K:. saCLTÍ!, Wwklaittw Ban.
I CambrW««.
STURGIS HOUSE
HOT0.:ANBvEESTAÜSA
IuITITZ, PA.
This well-known House still continues to
accommodate the public in the manner so
well known arid highly appreciated by its
many patrons.
-THE CHOICEST—
AT THE BAB,
LAGER BEER a n a other REFRESH-MENTS
at all times
Returning thanks for many past favors, I
hope to receive your patronage in the iuture,
E M . S, STURGIS, Prop'r.
ONE SQUARE N, OF R. R. STATION
L.ITITZ, P A .
This well-known Hotel is conducted in good
style and offers excellent acesjtnnaoilatioiis to
the traveling public a,t .the,loweBt ra.tps. "
WHEN YOTJ COME TO JJITITZ STOP HEEE.
F. G. CARPENTER, Prop.
Union House,
AKRON, PA.
All neccessary accommocjations for man
and beast, at'the mos t reasonable.rates. All
kinds of Temperance Drinks arad Choice
Cigars at the bar. The house Ts"one of the
finest buildings in th e yillag«./ When travel-ing
the Way please gi ve ifie a call.
<6®-Telephon e connection.
JOHN A. GETZ,
vin-tf ¡.Proprietor,
LARGE STOCK OP
S t o v e s a t C o s t .
A MAD STORY.
The business having improved so much
that more room is noeessary, I have deeided
to enlarge my blinding and. must sell off j ay
stoelc of Stoves to make the necessary
changcs. We are now ready to supply the
trade with
We have on hand a large stock of
Heavy Tinware, Knives, Forks;
Spoons, Tubs, Buckets, &c.
Special discount on Houses tire Goods and
as cheap as can be bought elsewhere,
Special attention paid to Rooting, Spout-ing,
Plumbing, Steam and Gas- Fitting.
Woods deliveredand all woi'k guaranteed.
J. A. MIKSCH,
MAIN STREET, LITITZ, PA
HESS & BEAR,
S f i l l L M L W E W r a .
LITITZ, PA,
Goal and Lumber kept under Coi ir.
We make a specialty of LI-ME-H-ITRNING
COAK.'WMCJi JSJDJH over ».screen and easily-loa<
ledi«M.lj,ouli,exta\9icharge. '
We also sell plastering Hair antl.Sajid a Bd
are-agents for-GUOCISER'» HOltEfST- PHOS-PHATE,
oiijf at the, be,it. flirtijiiser» in the
market for tobacoo and wheat.
Prices Reasonable In Everything we
Sell. Mimar-ly
That I, Philip Vanderbrok, de-formed
in body and repulsive in fea-ture,
should fall in love with one so
good and beautiful as Anne Gray, is
nothing to wonder at, for any one that
beheld her, king or beggar, old or
young, could not help but become a
subject of her sway.
But that one with my detormity and
repulsiveness should asP and expect a
return ol love from one so pure and
good, and, failing to receive it, turn
against her with a hate as mad as the
love had been, is a different thing.
Aye, it is a mad story of a mad love
and a mad hate.
It is a dark night. The dismal hoot
of the owl mingling with a roar of the
storm. The thunder rolls loud and
long. The lightning flashes with a
sulphurous hiss among the bending
and creaking trees around and above
my lonely hut in the woods. I am
old ; but the years are but as yester-day.
I am alone in the wilderness, but
the smiling face of her I sent riding
to death is fresh before me. The
storm, the thunder, the lightning, the
wilderness, the years, cannot hide; it
away from my eyes.
My time is short, and life will soon
be at an end. I feel my pulses, weaken
from hour to hour, but I will live till
the story of my mad love and as mad
hate is told. I will tell it, if for no
other purpose than that the writing of
it may divert my thoughts from that
is to Come.
But I must begin at the beginning.
What I was does not matter ; what I
am you can gleam from my story.
Enough to say that I did not want for
worldly possessions, that my education
had been neglected on account of my
health, and a general waywardness in
my nature, and that the only thing
I had learned with any thoroughness
was telegraphy, and that I was an
orphan from my early youth.
I came to Wainborough, a small
village on the railroad, for my health ;
there I met Annie Gray. From the
first time I looked at her face my life
underwent a change, i forgot my
bodily deformity, I forgot my hideous
face, and had no thought or anything
but to where my eyes could follow this
one being who gave me the first fain:
impression of what an angel in Heaven
might look like. I succeeded in secur-ing
room and board with the Grays,
and from that hour I lelt happy and
contented for nearly a year.
Up to this time, however, I had not
thought of Anne in any other way
than that she was different somehow
from other women T had met before.
It seemed as if the air I breathed in
her: presence was purer,, fresher, and
more invigorating ; that life was a
boon instead of a burden, as it had
been to me heretofore ; that wherever
she was the world looked happier and
brighter to my eyes.
It was not until the beginning of
the second year of in. stay in Wain-borough
that I. was fully awakened to
the knowledge that- I was hopelessly,
madly in love. At this time there was
a change of station-agents at the rail-road.
The new agent was a young
man, and came to board with the
Grays. Before many years had pas-sed
my eyes were opened to the new
condition of things. Allan Ashtoa,
the new a^ent, is very attentive to
Anne, and she, on her part, seemed to
give him all the encouragement that
was needed to, make, him full deeper
and deeper in love. This dawned upon
me by degrees, from day to day, until
my own love:, spoke up in my heart,
and showed me the situation I was in.
It ¡3 true, at this time, that Anne
was as-smiling and kind to me as ever,
perhaps a little more than she had
been, but I noticed, too, that the big
Newfoundland dog, Carlo, was treated
to more frequent caressos than ho used
to get before Allan Ashton came upon
the scene.
This is how matters stood until one
night, when Anne had been playing
and singing for us, I went out on the
long gallery, to my favorite place be-hind
tho?Madera Ivines, at one end. of
it, to muse and dream awhile before
going to bed as had been my habit. ' I
had,been fitting,there but a short time-when
Allan and Anne came out of the
house. They went to the further e,nd:
of! itfte: .gallery from me, where they
stopped and stood close together. I
could hear nothing but the murmur;
of their voices, for they were speaking
very low,„but. I.could .see their every
motion plainly, for the moon was shin-ing,
full and bright.. Presently Allan's
arm wound itself .around Anne's
slender waist, and she lifted one of
her shapely hands and placed it on
his shoulder. They stood thus for a
while, and the picture that they made
to my eyes is burqed into my heart to
this day.
Even now, and death is almost upon
me, when I. think of that scene and
what followed, my heart and brain
seem on fire, and I can hardly sup-press
the cry of anguish that comes to
my lips.
Allan bent his head and touched
his lips to Anne's; it was then that I
was fully aroused to the consciousness
that she was lost to me forever. I felt
then that I could, without any com-punction,
kill the man that had stepped
between her and me.
With a wild cry I rushed toward my
rival, holding tightly grasped in my
hand a dirk that I had habitually
carried about me.
I do not know what power I was
stopped from killing Allan Aston •
He stood before me, smiling, happy,
' victorious in love, but defenseless for
his life. It certainly was no action of
his that saved him. Anne's eyes were
upon me, and I caught their glance of'
sadness and reproach. When she
spoke to me in her gentle tones the
knife dropped from my hand.
" Oh 1" she said " you ought to be
ashamed of yourself to scare me so.
Please pick up the ugly knife and go
and put it away."
Mechanically I obeyed her. Oh!
that instead I had plunged it to the.
hHt into her lover's heart. But I was
powerless.
I went to my room that night, love
and hate fighting for the mastery over
my. heart. It was a long night and a
terrible one, but that is past now.
Next morning I esjnu; down later for
breakfast. I met Anne alone at the
table. My appearance must have
betrayed to her some of the tortures I
had suffered during the night, for her
eyes hp,d a sad and sorrowful look in
them as they scanned my face closely.
"You did not rest well last night,
Philip ?" she said in her sweet and
tender voice that almost, started the
crowded tears into my eyes. " You
should be careful of yourself," she
added, " and avpid all excitement."
I. felt as if my heart was leaping
into my throat to strangle me.
I looked at her beautiful face, and
before I knew what I was about I was
kneeling at her feet, holding one of
her hands in both of mine, pouring
forth the story of my-mad love, plead-ing
for hers in return.
She sat still and listened patiently,
the tears shining in her beautiful eyes
until the story ot my ihad love was
told. Then, she laid her hand gently
upon my head and stroked my hair,
much in the same manner that I had
seen her stroke Carlo's and her voice
was wonderfully sweet and low as she
spoke to. me.
" My poor Philip, I am so sorry."
she said. " I have promised to become
Allan Aston's wife, but even without
that promise I could never have been
anything more to you than I am now
—your loving friend. Now I want
you to promise me never to speak to
meagain like you have just donp. Will
you promise me Philip?"
How well I remember my promise
and the wild pleasure it gave me to
give it then. I knew it was the death-doom
to my love and happiness, but I
granted it. Had she asked my life,
how gladly I would have gave it.
This was my feeling when I was in
her presence and under her influence.
When I was out of:her sight, however,
another and a different feeling took
possession of me. I loathed myself,
and hated, bitterly hated her and her
lover. I planned and plotted night and
day how to destroy, the happiness of
them both ; I even thought of taking
their lives. This idea, after a while,
took complete possession of' me, and it
was with a sort of eager joy that I
watched.and waited for a good oppor-tunity
to.car.ry it into execution.
It was two . months or more before
the chance, came. Tn the meanwhile T
mingled with the household as of old
—'like one of them. I even became
on friendly terms with Allan Aston,
and spent hours.with him in his office
at the depot.
As I.have, already said, the oppor-tunity
came at last. Ashton was both
agent and telegraph operator at Wain-borough
station, but during all my
hours with him in his office I never
told him that I understood and could
read every click of his '* ticker." I
had had a definite purpose in view in
withholding this knowledge from liim,
only that I was always on my guard to
hide and vail my real feelings toward
him, and in doing this I took the
general precaution to give as little in-formation
about myself ¡us possible.
But one day when I was sitting in
the office all- alone, and I heard a call
from Wainborough, I went to the
instrument and , answered it. The
next-moment the.order came : " Side
track 229, due 11:30 at Wainborough,
„till.express 49 passes."
I wrote down the order and flashed
backj" O. K.," then looked back at the
clock and saw it was halt an , hour
before the train was.due. The minutes
' slipped. away, still Aston did not
make his appearance." Presently,
however, I heard life voice outside, and
at the same time came the shrill whistle
of the locomotiye not far away, I
was just about to step on the platform
to give the order to him when I heard
him say to some one " You are just in
time. There comes the train."
I looked around and saw it was
Anne Gray. She was going to the
city on the train that was just coming
rushing up, the train that was ordered
side-tracked till the express passed.
My opportunity had obme. I
instantly went back into the office and
crumpled the order up in my hand. I
felt like shouting for joy.
The train came up, stopped a few
moments, then I heard the conductor
shout*" All Aboard!"
I looked out through the window of
the office. I saw Anne, happy and
smiling, wave her hand through the
car window at her lover, and as the
train passed the office, and she saw me;
she smiled and waved her hand to me
A minute or so afterward Ashton
entered the office, looking glad and
happy. He came close up to where I
was standing, and, laying his hand , on
my shoulder said : " I am the happiest
man alive, Philip. Anne has just set
the day for our wedding—a month
from to-day." - '
" Fool," I cried, " she will not, can-n&
t keep it."
" What do you mean ?"
" Look," I shouted, as I straightened
out the paper I had crumbled in my
hand and held it before his eyes.
" Look ! this order came while you
were out making love. I answered it,
and now—"
I had no chance to finish my sentence
for Ashton clutched me by the throat
and pushed me violently against the
wall as if he meant to kill me there and
then. To save myself from falling, I
caught at a shelf upon the wall. My
fingers clutched something hard and
cold. In a moment I knew what it
was ; I had seen it there but a few
minutes before. It was Ashton's
pistol.
There was a flash and a report, a'nd
my hated rival lay weltering in his
blood, dead upon the floor, with a
bullet through his heart.
There was a terrible railroad acci-dent
that day a few miles from Wain-borough.
They brought Anne home,
but I never looked at her face.
They said that Allan Aston shot
himself because he had neglected his
duty. They found the telegreph order
in his hand, and his own pistol lying
beside him on the floor.
Wit a n d Humor.
An Italian beggar arrested in New
York confessed that he had not washed
himself in fifteen years. He was afraid
of the consequence.
A prisoner in a Missouri jail threat-ened
to blow it up unless released, and
as they didn't want a blown-up jail on
their hands the audience turned him
out.
A candidate for Alderman in Cin-cinnati
promised a certain petty office
to fifty-six different men, and when
elected gave it to his brother, the fifty-seventh.
The smallest elephant in this country
drinks eighty gallons of water per day.
How wise Nature was when she gave
the elephant a disgust for the taste of
lager beer!
Coleman, the borax man of Califor-nia,
said not more than three months
ago : " It is only the rascals and sap-heads
who fail in business." Which
class.does he come under?" •
Holland reclaims an average^ of
eighty acres per day from the sea and
the salt water is no sooner crowded out
than cabbage is crowded in. Sauer-kraut
is King of Holland.
After the signal service has said,
" Colder with rain," and " warmer,
rain," and " increased cloudless, with
rain," it really ought to rain sometime
that week, but it dosen't always do so.
The item that Vermont has a law
against, .Sunday smoking on the streets
is incorrect. It was repealed with the
old Puritanical ordinance making it a
misdemeanor to court a girl Sunday
evening.
John L. Sullivan cries whenever, he
gets drunk, and this is taken by his
friends as evidence that he is still very
much of a gentleman. There is no
case so desperate but what some sort
of evidence can be scared up for the
defendant.
Sam Jones is mad because a Chicago
paper, asserst that only one convert out
of ten made by him, " sticks " to his
religion longer than four weeks. Mr.
Jones says it is worth .a great deal to
make a good man out of a bad one for
even a week.
—Mr, Adam Hart, of Clinton Town-ship,
Lycoming Co., Pa., celebtatedi his
100th birthday on Sunday. He re-members
the death of Washington,
cast his first vote for James. Madison,
and was a soldier of the war of 1812.
He still has possession of bis faculties
and lair health.
PRETTY LEGS.
A Problem That is Agitating Social
Circles in Sail Francisco.
We assert as a cardinal article of
faith that there is intrinsically no more
reason why pretty leg3, masculine or
feminine, should not be legitimate ob-jects
of admiration than there is why
any other part of the "human form
divine" should not be admired.
Sculptors and painters, ancient and
modern, have never thought it neces-sary
to cut the human body in two at
the waist in order to limit the raptures
of the lovers of beauty to the upper
part alone. They have recognized the
artistic value of the lines of the lower
limbs, and have immortalized them-selves
by reserving for later genera-tions
the men and women of their day
in all their native majesty and beauty.
It was reseryed for a more degenerate
age to hide the legs of their women
beneath a mass of drapery which pos-sesses
no grace of outline or motion^
and which, in many cases, does not
even define the contour of the form
beneath. That is, if nothing more,
an outrage on art, and as such be
severely reprehended.
WHAT IS A P R E T T Y L E G IS A QUESTION
which nas been much agitated and
discussed, chiefly, we are bound to say,
by writers of the sterner sex. In legs,
as in other things,fashions have varied.
Tom Moore grew enthusiastic over
Light, lovely limbs to which the spirits pla y
Gave motion, airy as the dancing spray.
When from its stem the light bird wings
away.
Oh the continent of Africa,. on the
contrary, tastes run in a different di-rection,
as travelers tell us of native
beauties whose legs measured twenty-eight
inches or more at the calf, with
other dimensions in proportion. In
these more modern times and more
civilized countries the prevailing
style does not tend to either extreme.
AND THIS BRINGS TO US
an unanswerable problem indis'solubly
connected with the subject of legs—1
that is, legs of the feminine gender.
The problem is this. Why is it that
a girl or woman will," willingly, and
even gleefully, put on a bathing suit
whidi terminates, except for a stock-ing,
at the knee, ¡and in that costume
race and run in and out of the water
or sun herself with all possible com-pancy
on the beach, surrounded by
" horrid men," when the very same
day, if her house dress or street dress
happens to blow aside so as to reveal
a single inch of stocking she is covered
with confusion as with a garment, and
mentally accuses herself [of immodsty;
of impropriety and of all the minor
sins in the feminine gender ? It is the
same young man, the same young wo-man.
AND THE SAME LEGS ;
why, then, such a difference ? Can it
be, in reason, that the little space be
tween the beach and the hotel has
dower to make that a sin which was
no sin? to convert a modest, innocent
girl into a brazen, shameless creature ?
to alter the relations between the
sexes so that a man who sees for , an
instant on the street what he has seen
at will on the beach is a monster and a
villain ? If this be true, locality is a
more potent force thas philosophers
have ever dreamed of, and' the sins
which have heen laid.to the charge of
the devil, or any other all-prevading
principle of evil, must now be shifted
to the shouldersjofthe demon of locality.
We must revise our code of .morals
and make the ethical qualial. of: an
action dependent not upou intent but
on the place where it occurs.
THERE IS BUT 0NTEP03SIBL,E EXPLANA-TION
of this apparent anomaly, and that is
the power of the tyrant which
rules the world—custom. It
is obvious that should custom so decree
our women would abbreviate their
flowing robes and curtail their sweep-ing
skirts, even until the patella itself
should be hinted at, if not shown, in
which case the mystery which now
surrounds the dainty ankle and the
swelling calf would disappear, and
pretty legs would be as legitimate a
subject of comment as pretty faces
now are. Whether such a custum will
ever come into vogue it is not possible
even to guess. Feminine habiliments
have been subject to changes quite as
startling ; and as a writer of distinction
—a man, of course, and a Frenchman
at that—has asserted that every wo'
man really believes iii her inmost
heart that
SHE HAS PRETTY LEGS,
it may be that in some future ago of
the world the sex will emancipate it-self
from its present thralldom and
insist upon its inalienable right. to
make the most of "his natural advant-ages
; and that custom may insist just
as strongly upon an exposure of - the
feminine leg as.it now demands that
it shall, except during the bathing
season, be absolutely -concealed from
view.
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Northampton's Financial Manage-ment.
Easton, May 28.—The new Board
of County Commissioners has appealed
from the report of the county auditors.
This action is taken to enable proceed-ings
to be brought against the excom-missioners,
who admitted having
obtained money from contractors and
others as presents and who confessed
judgment to the county for. the
amounts. The new commissioners,
intend to order a thorough investiga-tion
into all contracts, all work and
all bills paid out in the erection of
Leighton bridge and in enlarging the
courthouse. The prospects are that
criminal proceedings will also be in-stituted.
Sage Adyice.
A young man who was about to
start in Michigan went to an old re-tired
merchant the other day to secure
business advice.
"How mush cash have you got?"
was the blunt inquiry,
" About $300." ?
" And how much stock will you put
in?"
" About $2,000.
" Um ! Then your first move must
be to engraye your name : on a flag-stone
in front of your store ; your next
to paint your signs on all the fences for
ten miles around the city."
"And why, oh, Sage?"
" That the public six months hence
may recall the fact that you went into
business instead of going into a lunatic
asylum ! •' Good morning, sir ?"
He Had a Poetic Imagination.
(Theodwinkle Brown comes into tho house
at 10 o'clock with a bleeding nose.) .-
Mrs. B—Theo, what has happened? . "
Mr. B—Stumbled ; over-a post .that some
idiot left lying across the walk in the front
yard out there. '
Mrs. B—A post? You «re mistaken. Ro
one left a post there.
Mr. B—Couldn't I see it? It's moonlight
and bright as day. • "•
Mrs. B—A post across the walk!
Mr. B—You como out and look for your-self.
Sees that post lying there? That's what
ilono it. , •
Mrs. B—Theodwinkle. Brown, that is noth-ing
but the shadow of the trunk of that pine
tree! '
Mr. B—It is, hey? Well, what if it is?
Don't you knoW (hie) that the shadow of a
pine tree is just as hard a thing: to;kick
against and fall over as tho shadow, of . a
hickory tree ? Sing'lar some women don't
know anything after moonlight ^Detroit
Free Press.
Much Xike Other People.
The latch key which opens into the cham-bers
of my consciousness fits, as I have suffi-cient
reason to believe, the private apart-ments
of a good many other people's
thoughts. The longer we live, the more we
find we are like other persons." When I
meet with any » facts in my own mental ex-periencej
I feel almost sure that I sH find
:them,repeated,or. anticipated in the writings
or tho conversation of others. This feeling
gives one a freedom in telling his own per-sonal:
history he could not have ^.enjoyed
without it.
It gives many readers a singular pleasure
to find a writer telling them something they
have .long known or felt, but which they
have never before found any one to put in
words for-them. An author does not always
know when he is doing the service of the
angel who stirred the waters of, the pool of.
Bethesda. Blessed are those who have said
our good things, for us.—-Oliver Wendell
Holmes in Atlantic.
Drilling a Gas Well.
The cost of drilling a gas well is usually
from $3,500;to $6,000. The method pursued
is the,same as for an.oil well. The weight of
the drills with the attached "jars" is 3,000 to
4,000 pounds. These rise and fall four to five
feet, ; and are constantly rotated,, so as to
bring the bit into contact with the entire cir-cumference
of . the drilling. For a deplji of
500 feet the hole is bored eight inches in
diameter and is cased with ,5 5-8 piping. Be-yond
this depth the hole is continued with a
diameter, of six . inches until gas : shall be
reached or the well abandoned. A easing of
four inch pipe is used for this lower portion.
Under ordinary circumstances about fifty
days is required for the drilling.—Chicago
Times.
A Slim Alligator Crop;
"The crop of alligators is decidedly slim in
the south," said a man who had just returned
from Florida. "In fact, the supply is giving
out, and the alligator seems on the road to-ward
extinction as rapidly as the .bjiffalo.
The slaughter for their hides has been waged
so fiercely that it is no Vender the stock has
been depleted. It is only a matter of a few
years until the last survivor of a mighty
mouthed race will be dodging tho bullets of
the hunter in = some lonely lagoon, and
wearily, waiting, for the end to come."—Chi-cago
Tribune.
Effects of Bloonlight.
The influence of the moon upon vegetation
is an interesting problem awaiting solution.
A recent, writer upon the subject mentions
that wood cutters. in Cape Colony and in
India insist that timber is full of sap" and
unfit, to be cut at full moon. . Another ob-servation
of lunar influence in Cape Colony
is the rapid spoiling of medts and other pro-visions,
when exposed to moonlight) theugh
this may be due to the fact that the light
serves as a guide to insects.—Ar^ansaw
Traveler.
' Too CnrJoua About Mattery.1
Little Precocity—Uncle, what paint do
you uso?
v Uncle-^-For what, dear?
... "To paint your nose. Is it the same kind
ma uses on her cheeks?"
Little precocity is hurriedly sent to bed.—
Texas Sittings.
P a r t i n g off t h o Ways.
Little Johnny . (after a spanking)—Aunt
Susie, are you going to heaven?
Aunt Susie—Why, yes; I hope so. ;
Jolmny- Well, wheij yi>u die and I die and
we both go to heaven, and, get to^be angels, I
shan't fly where you fly.—Washington Post.
Ke You r Own Judge.
Never mind what the world thinks aboufc
you. It (Hires little for you anii: thinks less
about, you. Better think about "and, for your-self.
"Sou âre your own best companion and
judge.—Philadelphia Call.
If you let others think, for you .you will
soon iliul yourself adrif fc on. theendless shores
of indecision. •
"5Tou will always fine! if harder to listen
than to talk; but the ear is better than the
tongue. .. • -••-••
The wise man is the man who knows what
to do when the time comes.: "