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I B s r r y g r a M M,
T H E ^ E W g O S T O N g t O R E ,
No, 2 4 Centre Square, Lancaster, Pa*
J On an afternoon in September
Chas. Weston was walking leisurely
on Broadway, New York. Absorbed
in pleasant thoughts' the expression of
his handsome face indicated perfect
freedom from anxiety or corroding
care. The hurrying crowd, the ceas-less
roar and rumble of city life, were
unheard or unnoticed. His heart was
in his house at Hartfort, the home of
his birth and of his boyhood, where
he had been spending his summer
vacation unrestricted by bank hours
or the routine of business life.
There was no shadow on that home.
A comfortable income supported it.
His mother was still untouched by
time. His young brother, a noble
and promising boy; Gertrude, his
sister, was all that a sister could be,
and Gertrude had a lovely female
friend
" There are monuments in life which
we never forget." The drives, the
ramble in woods, the boatings, the
pleasant things said and done, with
every look that accompanied them
were remembered now
In front of a music store he paused
abruptly. A college classmate, sud-denly
stood before him. Cordially they
grasped each other's hands. Who
could foresee the sad result of that
meeting ?
Why, Johnson, what has brought
you from the West? I thought you
were absorbed in your land projects.
" Even so. And that interest
brings me to the East. I have come
miles out of my way to see you in
reference to it."
" Whete were you going ?'
" Here, to get musie for Gertrude."
" Gertrudei! How well I remember
your beautiful sister and those happy
college vacations with you at Hart-ford.
Careless, boyhood days-r—never
to return. • Now, let us take the cars
for Central Park, I have much to say
to you."
Within the grqunds, Johnson took
his arm. " I must talk briefly for my
time is limited. Just now there is a
great boom in real estate in my state ;
^especially. Land almost worthless
hitherto has assumed fabulous prices."
" In making a fortune for myself I
must bring you in for a share
Weston looked laughingly into his
face. " Why, well, haven't \ ou out-lived
your passion for castle-builciing
yet ? Don't be offended. 'Tis only
the fault of of a too sanguine tempera-ment,
" Your heart is always right."
" Thank you. Thank you. I have
outlived my boyhood. And this is not
an allusion. Here, at the East, life i3
comparatively slow. At the West all
is on a grand scale. One need not
toil for ever in bank or counting-room
before he can reap the fruits of
his labors.
Now there is a golden opportunity.
It may never return. There are
lands which will be of immense value
when the contemplated railroad passes
through."
" Are you sure that it will take that
course ?"
' As sure as I am that I live!
There i3 a pause in the construction
because of contending parties, each
anxious for a certain route. The side
which I espouse is certain to win. I
have proved my confidence by invest-ing
every dollar I can spare, almost
everything that I own, and have in-sured
a fortune."
"I fear you are too fast in
calculations."
" You would not think so if you
were on the spot. Everybody is wild
with excitement."
" Not a healthy excitement. Slower
and surer is better."
" That is an exploded notion. Get
over it, and invest in these lands."
" You forget that I am not rich.
The property left me by my father is
small, but well invested.
My salary is liberal. That is all I
have. I cannot ris'k it."
" Borrow the money. You can
return it promptly."
" Never! Never! Do not suggest
it."
* * * *
Johnson left on the night train,
hurrying to the West. Then Same a
letter—"Do not cast aside my pro-posal.
It is a duty to your family.
You can place them in independent
circumstances. Bank money can be
easily and shortly restored.
" All is excitement here. Now is
your time. ' There is a tide in the
affairs of men.' Unconsciously, Jack-son
Was being made an instrument to
test the virtue of his friend. Just be-fore
he retired to his room a telegram
arrived; " Be quick, that you may
not regret it when too late."
The night that followed was one
never-to be forgotten. Midnight was
approaching.. Alone, in the stillness,
your
thoughts which he. had rejected with
indignation in the day came back
with strange persistency. It was an
hour of weakness, and Satan assailed
him with all his power.
Suggestions hurled back at one
moment returned the next.
" Making your family independent."
" The money can be returned before
missed." " No harm will come to any-body."
Then his better nature asserted it-self.
Honor, honesty, self-respect,
character, were at stake.
Above all, God's command forbade
the act. The deed itself was to de-nounce,
whatever the issue. Again
that voice: "Your young brother's
future ;" " his college course ;" " his
profession."
He walked the floor in an agony of
mind, asking himself, "Shall Satan
have the ascendency ? Has God for-saken
me ?"
The conflict was a sharp one. Every
nerve was strung to its firmest tension.
The occupant of the room below won-dering'as
he heard the rapid, irregu-lar
tread so late at night. At last it
ceased.
Exhausted in mind and body, Wes-ton
had thrown himself, without un-dressing,
upon his bed and fell into a
troubled sleep. The conflict continued
in his dreams till the perspiration
stood in great beads upon his forehead
In a ruderless boat he was tossed
upon the waves. Frightful billows
were surging around and over him.
No hand was near to save him.
" God help me ! God help me !" he
exclaimed.
A moment more and there was
lull in the tempest. All was still; so
stiil that the silence was oppressive,
The darkness was like a well before
him, and then, upon that darkness,
in letters of light, he read—
" When thou passest through the
waters I will be with thee ;{and through
the flood, they shall not overflow thee,:
Transfixed, he gazed upon them.
Slowly they faded away. Once again
the handwriting appeared upon the
wall:—
" He is able to succor them that are
tempted."
These words also faded.
Then through the darkness, a soft
light gradually diffused itself, and from
the midst a face, a form emerged. It
softly appeared nearer and nearer, till
it hovered over him..
It was his mother's form, his moth-er's
face that looked upon him with
unspeakable compassion and love.
She laid her cool hand upon his fore-head,
bent down and kissed him.
" My son ! My son ! whither, goest
thou 1 For the love of God and of
yo'ur mother come back to me !"
With a bound he sprang to her out.
stretched arms. " My mother I my
angel! mother !" he cried, in a voice
of agony. The vision faded. All was
still. In a dream God had sent his
angel to minister unto him, and that
angel was his mother !
As consciousness returned he press-ed
his hand to his forehead and then
sank upon his knees
" Thank God ! Thank God ! I am
saved!" •
And he was saved ! He was free.
The bonds of Satan were broken!
Temptation came to him in after
life; but the memory of his conflict
never left him. Henceforth, he was
" strong in th.e power of his might."
•1» ifc jfc Sjt •
For months no tidings came from
his friend. Had Johnson realized his
prospective wealth ? or, was all lost ?"
At last a brief letter—
" Thank heaven, you did not em-bark
in my enterprise! I am ruined !
The opposition company carrried the
day. Bribery is evident. Anyway,
he railroad took the other course, and
[eft our lands almost worthless. I
meant well, Charley. Give me credit
for that."
Weston had never doubted it.
Now he wrote, "Draw on me" Will,
for $—— ; saved from my salary long
since, and profitably invested. Pay it
in future, if you wish, to some strug-gling
church at the West., For the
present, accept it as a claim of friend-ship."
Slowly, but surely, Weston moved
on in his career to assistant cashier ;
and finally to president, where he now
stands, holding the public confidence.
The sister's friend now presides
over his beautiful home. The mother
and sister are with him in the winter
months, and his brother stands high in
the profession of the law.
All know the story of his conflict
and his victory/ " love him" all the
more for the dangers he has passed,
and never forget the sustaining"—
" When thou passest through the
waters I will be with thee, and floods
they shall not overflow thee."
Sweeping Carpet.
I mind one of the days when I used
to delight in a good stiff broom, a
commodious dust cap, and open
windows, and then, for a " clean
sweep." But, phew! the dust that
settled afterwards, and the roll of lint
and dust that I carried out on my
pan!
My economical soul has since learn-ed
better. I found that a broom,
especially a coarse one, would wear
out, or tear out, the surface of a wool
carpet, particularly the surfaces that
are ivoven in large figures. If one
uses a broom they should select a fine
one, but the cost of a carpet sweeper
will be many times saved' by using
one. All sweepers that I have seen
are made adjustable, and when they
wear so as to be too short to do their
work thoroughly, a screw driver and
a rew moments spent in lowering the
brush a trifle, will make them as good
as new.
We used to have trouble with grease
spots on carpets, but the use of benzine
has removed that trouble by removing
the grease. Some clean their carpets
by wiping them with cloths wet with
naptha. I have never tried this, but
am assured by those who have, that
such a washing will cleanse and
brighten up a carpet wonderfully.
Others scrub a wool carpet with
brush dipped in' water with a little
ammonia in it. If quickly done, and
wet but slightly, the carpet will be
greatly improyed. However I am not
fond of work that must be done by
getting down on one's knees,-and
have found that a carpet can be
cleaned and brightened by first sweep-ing
thoroughly, then going over it a
second time with a broom dipped in a
large wash bowl of cold water and
shaken out. A little ammonia in the
water is an addition, and the broom
should be dipped and shaken often.
It is surprising to see how black the
water will look after the floor is
done.
One of the nicest ways, in fact the
one nice way, of sweeping a carpet in
the room of an invalid, is to wipe it up
with a wet cloth, often rinsed out of
clear water. This is not an easy way
of sweeping, but we do not mind a
lame back where the comfort of a sick
person is concerned.
Twice a year a carpet should be
carefully beaten, if it receives much
wear. Often times the carpet on a
big, shut up parlor, needs no shaking
oftener than once in twelve or eighteen
months; but rooms that are much
used, gathering a great deal of dust.
I have found that it is good economy
to rip and change breaths, or to turn
the carpet about, or both, in order to
bring the worn spots into the new and
less used places. When the " worn
spots " become the greater part of the
carpet, then I resort to rugs. These
not only brighten up the floor, but
save the carpet greatly.
If the dining room has a carpet, or
even a Kensington Art square, econo-my
cries loudly for a crumb cloth. It
should be large enough to hold the
chairs set around the table, and may
be made of—almost anything. You
will smile when I tell you that I have
seen coffee sacks sewed together and
spread smoothly, making not a bad
looking crumb cloth beneath the row
of chairs that adorned the side of the
table.
Barkis Was Wiilin'
" Young man," he began, as he
caught him at the hall door, " you
are coming hère quite often of late."
" Yes, sir."
" Which one is it ?"
" Maud, sir."
" Maud, eh ! Well, Maud is a good
girl and a great favorite. I have no
objections, sir. I used to go to school
with your father, and I know all about
you."
"Thanks."
"Just make yourself at home, sir.
Do you happen to have $25 or $30 in
your vest pocket ? I'll hand it back
next week. Yes, Maud is a nice girl,
and if I should lorget this loan just
speak at>out it, will you ?"
—The way to get rid of a bad cough
or cold ii to use Dr. Coxe's Wild
Cherry and Seneka. Price 25 and 50
cents. Sold at the Lititz drug store.
The Well Bred Girl.
A social authority gives prominence
to the following as things of which a
well bred girl is never guilty ;
She never laughs or talks loudly in
public places.
She never turns around to look
after any one when walking on the
s.treet. *
She never accepts a seat from a gen-tleman
in a street car without thank-ing
him.
She never takes more than a single
glass of wine at a dinner or entertain-ment.
She never snubs other young ladies,
e ven if they happen to be less popular
or well favored than herself.
She never raises her lorgnette and
tries to stare people she doesn't know
out of countenance on the street.
S l ow Trains.
" I want to go to bed, so give me a
room as soon as you can. I ought to
have reached your city early this after-noon,
and here it is 11 o'clock."
" What made you so late ?" asked
the hotel clerk, as he threw down a
key to which was attached a rough
edge brass tag about the size of a
buckwheat cake.
" Oh, slow trains ! Slow trains !
They seemed to stop everywhere and
at all the little cross roads."
" That's queer."
" I should say it was. Why, at one
place they stopped about seven
minutes, while half a dozen people
came out of the only house to be seen
in the neighborhood and boarded the
train. Did you ever hear anything
like it?"
"Never."
" I have," said a little old man with
long, shaggy hair, who had overheard
the conversation while searching the
Philadelphia directory for the name
of a Boston firm.
" You have ?"
" Yes ; you may not believe it, but
it's a fact. Some years ago I used to
travel a good deal on the Old Colony
railroad, up in Massachusetts. There
was a place called Wheat Shaft Lane,
where the train stopped nearly every
day for an old woman, who was always
there to send some eggs into town,
Now would you believe it ? One day
the train stopped as usual for Aunty
Betsy, who was there with her eggs,
but she only had eleven. She said
that an old hen was still on the nest,
and she wanted the train to wait until
she could make up the dozen.
"Yes."
" Well, I'll be darned if that train
didn't wait while the hen lay the extra
egg." '
The late arrival said he guessed he
would go to bed, the bediamond hotel
clerk swooned, 'and the little old man
walked down the corridor and drop-ped.
wearily into a chair.
Work: on t h e Gun Plant.
Work at the naval gun plant in
Washington has been delayed some
what by the non-arrival of the forgings
for the eight-inch guns. These are
contracted for with the Bethlehem
Steel Company, but failure to procure
the the necessary material has caused
a temporary let-down in the work at
the foundry.
Congress last year appropriated for
the improvement of the plant and the
erection of the necessary buildings the
sum of $1,000,000, and the last Con-gress
supplemented this sum by giving
$625,000 additional.
The Bureau of Ordinance contracted
some time ago for the purchase of the
improved new tools and machinery.
Buildings for their reception will be
ready by the latter part of this month.
It Didn't W o r k very Well.
A Winnepeg correspondent tells of
a neighbor, one Farmer Brown, who
is not well educated. His daughter
has attended a boarding-school and
lately they resolved to have a party of
the neighboring farmers and their
wives. Previous to the party she in-structed
her father that when speak-ing
of anything, for fear of offending
he should add, " the present company
always excepted." He was late for
diuner, so Jane invited the guests to
begin operations. They had not long
commenced when in rushed Mr. Brown
covered with perspiration. " Why
are you so late, papa ?" asked Jane.
The fact is, Jane, I've been visiting
neighbor Smith's pigs, and they are
the finest lot of pigs I ever seed, the
present company alius excepted."
The Homely Girl. *
There is an old adage that says,
" Beauty is but skin deep, but ugly
goes to the bone." It does not bear
the truth on its face. A homely girl,
if she realizes she-is not pretty, is gen-erally
good, generous ; and, if she gets
married, makes a good wife.
The pretty doll of a girl, with the
face of a wax figure and with sylph-like
form, generally becomes the cross,
ugly old woman. She grows ill-natur-ed
because her beauty has faded, which
was all she prized when young.
On the contrary, the homely girl
welcomes age, because it brings with it
the respect due to accumulated years.
Age is the leveller of distinction, and
the pretty, vain minx who would
slight a homely sister of her age, will
pay due respect to the aged of her sex.
The homely girl never attempts co-quetry.
In the absence of personal
charms she cultivates her mind to
make up the deficiency, and generally
succeeds. Let the homely girl take
courage. Men of sense and honor ad-mire
her for her good qualities of mind
and heart.
At a F a m o u s New Y o r k R e s t a u r a n t.
A lady was taking luncheon with
her daughters at a famous restaurant
in the city. Her check amounted to
something less than $5. She handeel
the waiter a bill and he brought her'
change for $5. She declared that the
bill she had given was a twenty-. She
was a very quiet and refined woman,
and her belief about the amount of
money she had giyen to the waiter
was evidently honest. But the waiter
asserted that she was mistaken. He
went to the desk and inquired. The
answer came back that it was a $5 bill
The lady put up her purse and was
preparing to leave. The. head waiter
asked her to step to the cashier's desk
The young man then asked her if
she was quite positive she had sent $20
up to him. She replied that she felt
sure of it, because she had a twenty
and a five in h^r purse when she came
in, and the twenty was gone. With-out
any more words, the cashier count-ed
out the change for $20 and passed
it to the lady.
The fact is that the lady was mis-taken.
But this particular restaurant
retains the good will of the wealthiest
people by the utmost confidence in
their integrity. They rectify mistakes
when they know the mistake is not
their own rather than have their best
customers offended. They will even
trust a stranger for an extravagant
dinner and take his visiting card for
security. The system is really profi-table
in the long run. They cannot
be cheated twice, and the friends that
they make by their liberal methods
outweigh a hundred fold the occasion-al
losses they sustain from trusting dis-honest
people.
The lady mentioned could probably
not have secured her money as she did
in any other place in New York.
But she had all the appearance - of
sincerity, and the good will of an in-fluential
woman- like her meant un-doubtedly
a large profit in the end
Had she been refused she would never
have patronized the place again,
She told a hundred people of her gen
erous treatment there. It is easy
enough to see that in certain circles
this manner of doing business is a
very wise one.
His Incentive.
S. S. Teacher—"Johnny, you did
splendidly to-day."
" Yes, ma'am."
" I wish all the little boys in the
class would study their lesions as you
do. Are you struggling to win the
prize?"
"Naw. Dad said he'll gimme a
ticket to the next circus if I got off
my lesson without a break."
Monster Mississippi Bridge.
Work on the great bridge which is
to span the Mississippi riyer at Mem-phis,
Tenn., has been commenced. The
bridge proper is on the cantilever plan,
and will consist of a channel span 770
feet in length. This is said to be the
longest single span of the kind in the
world, and its construction is a difficult
piece of engineering. The bridge will
also have two spans, each 620 feet in
length. The bridge will be 34 feet
wide, and while only one railroad
track will be used at present, the
strength of the bridge will be such
that two tracks can be laid. The
bridge will be approached from the
west oyer an iron trestle 5200 feet
in length and an embankment 1800
feet long. The eastern approach is
over an iron trestle 1000 feet long.
The bridge will be 75 feet high, the
estimated cost is $2,200,000.
OWEN P . BRICKEB, Esq., attorney
at-Iaw, is in town every Saturday and
Monday mor ning and can beeonsulted
on all legal business. Lancaster offlee
48 North Duke street.
The " Old Maids' Society."
The history of the " Old Maids' So-ciety
" in Berlin is an amusing one.
In 1880 some 23 unmarried women,
with a profound distrugt of mankind
in general, organized a society whose
principal object was to demonstrate the
fact that marriage was a failure. In
order to keep the members faithful to
their vows a forfeit of $250 was to be
paid by each who should so far forget
herself as to take a husband. The
society was measurably popular, and
in 1883 had §1 members. But, alas
for the fraility of human nature ! On
the first of the present year there were
but two members left, while there
were $6719 in the treasury which had
been paid in for forfeits. The two
surviving members wisely divided the
funds, gave a large donation to a
hospital, dissolved the society and are
doubtless married ere this.
"Husband, I Want Y o u t o Try It."
: I had suffered for years with a com-plaint
the physicians called Gravel,
and they had gi ven up the attempt to
help me. My wife heard of Dr. David
Kennedy's Favorite Remedy, of Ron-doùt,
N. Y., and spoke as aboye, To
please her I got a bottle. Used that
and two or. three more, and presently
the trouble vanished never to return.
—Washington Monroe, Catskill, Y. Y,
General News.
John Everhart, a wealthy retired
citizen of Pittston, died aged 80 years.
Silas Updegraff, a merchant of Wat-sontown,
Lycoming county, shot and
killed himself.
- Wiliam Smith, a miner, was fatally
injured by a fall of coal , at. Draper
colliery, Pottsville.
Joseph Harbot, who recently cut
his throat with a razor at Trout Run,
Lycoming county, died on Saturday.
Work has been resumed at the ore
mines of the E. & G. Brooke Iron
Company, at Beartown, Lancaster
county.
James Hitchings, a young car run-ner
at Gay lord Slope, Wilkesbarre,
was squeezed to death between tvTO
cars.
A Meadville widow whose husband
died seventeen years ago has received
$6 conscience money anonymously
from Cleveland, $5 of the sum being
interest.
At West Chester on Saturday Judge
Waddell affirmed the will of Ella E.
Sharpless, written on a scrap of paper,
Which bequeathed $30,000 to her guar-dian,
Dr. H. Fronefield,
Judge Metzgar, at Williamsport, de-cided
the controversy over the Stark
children by giving their custody to
their father, with permission to their
mothers to visit them.
The Americus Republican club of
Pittsburg celebrated General Grant's
birthday by a dinner at which nearly
400 covers were laid. The guests in-cluded
many prominent party men.
Rev- George William Douglass has
been elected rector oi St. James' Epis-copal
Church, Lancaster, to fill the va-cancy
caused by the election of Rev.
C. F. Knight as Bishop of the diocese
of Milwaukee.
The assignee of the Reading Iron
Works issued orders to start up the
large pipe-mill of that company on
May 5 for the purpose of finishing a
large quantity of pipe under process of
manufacture at the time of the suspen-sion.
Just alter the sexton of Neshaminy
Cemetery had dug a grave for Miss
Margaret Long, of Hartsville, who
died lately, a lafge monument, which
she had erected to the family's mem-ory,
fell over into the grave, filling it
with tons of earth and marble.
During the Lucinda oil excitement
Mr. Willets paid $25,000 bonus for a
lease of Georeg Clark's farm, sunk a
well and got nothing. He now sues
for his bounds money,claiming that the
land ffas represented to him to be on
the oil belt. The case will be a test
one.
Heber Yohn, baggage agent at tlie
station, Conshohocken, was cutting
grass on; a high hillside with a lawn-mower
while standing on a step-ladder,
the mower being ingeniously supported
by a rope tied to a fence above. Ac-cidentally
he cut the rope, with the
mower, and there was a crash ; man,
ladder and mower falling fifteen feet
in a heap. He escaped with cuts and
bruises.
A Pugnacicfus Hawk.
A big hawk dashed down into the
yard of a colored man near Americus,
Ga., and grabbed a chicken. The old
hen interfered, and the two had a
fierce fight. A daughter of the house
ran out to capture the hawk, and it
turned upon her, tore her hands and
face severely with its talons, and then
went off with the chicken, and ate it
within 100 yards of the house.
A Woman Sentenced to Death.
Josiah and Elizabeth Potts were
sentenced to be "hanged at Virginia,
Neyada, for the murder of Miles Tau-cett
at Carlin. This is the first time
the death sentence-has been pronounc-ed
on a woman in Nevada.
, W h a t t o T e a c h t h e Buys.
To be obedient.
To have patience.
To read books worth reading.
To be temperate in all things.
To keep themselves neat and clean.
To. shun evil company and rough
ways.
To take'off their hats when they
enter the house.
To get their lessons and obey the
rules of school. r
Always to be employed in some use-ful
occupacion.
Never to chew, suoke, drink or use
profane language.
To keep early hours and always to
be punctual and industrious.
S T . E L M O H O T B L , S O S , 317 a n d 319
A.rch street, Philadelphia.—Rates re-duced
to $2 t^r day. The traveling
public will still find at this hotel tne
same liberal provision for their come-fort.
It is located in. the immediate
centre of busiKess, and places of amus-ment
and the differen t railroad depots,;
as well as -all parts of the city, are
easily accessible by street cars con-stantly
passing the doors. It offers
special inducements to those visiting
the city for business or pleasure. Your
patronage is respectfully solicted.
J O S E P H M. FEGER,
oc71y- , Propr