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YOL. XIII. LITITZ PA., FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 20,1889. NO 16
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Furnishing Outfit Call and be convinced.
Twenty years ago next month
paid my first visit to New York, which
was rendered memorable by the occu-rence
which I am about tc^ relate.
My visit to the metropolis was for
the purpose of ascertaining if there was
any opening there for a man in my
profession (that of a physician). In
my inquiries I was greatly assisted by
my college chum, Frank Duplaine^
who introduced ma to a friend of bis,
Edward Charlton, who was desirous
of disposing of his practice and leaving
the ci y.
" I think this would be a first rate
opening for you, (Jraham," said Da
plaine, "and I am sure that Charlton
will do the square thing by you
Though he's rather queer in some of
his ways, he's one of the most honest
fellows you ever met, and you can re-ly
implicitly upon his word."
I had several meetings with Edward
Charlton, the result of which was that
I purchased his practice, which, though
but a short time established, was a
very lucrative one.
Edward Charlton was a very taci-turn
man, rarely speaking except in
reply to questions, and then as briefly
as possible. But the old saying tells
us that still waters run deep, and de
spite his habitual silence there was
something about Charlton which in-voluntarily
commanded respect. I
found him to be a man of rare intel-lectual
attainments, one whose success-or
I was proud to become.
On the evening of the day on which
which the bargain was concluded be-tween
Charlton and myself, he, Du-plaine
and I visited the theatre to
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MAIN ST., LITITZ.
Fall and Wiqto, 1889.
Mrs. A, L. S]
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Winter Wear, in all the latest fashions.
Hats, Emmets, Flowers, Feathers,
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STAMPING A SPECIALTY.
M R S . A. L. S H E L L Y ,
Broad Street, Lititz :
After the play Duplaine proposed
that we have a game of billiards.
Charlton at first objected on account
of the lateness of the hour, f it was
nearly midnight, but his objections
were quickly overruled and we ad-journed
to the nearest billiard saloon,
a very large hall situated on the se-cond
floor of a building on Broadway,
above Tenth street. About half a
dozen men, all evidently persons of
wealth, were engaged in playing. As
we entered I noticed that, as Lis eyes
fell upon the face of one of these men,
Charlton started back a pact or two,
his countenance distorted with passion.
An instant later his features became
composed, and with a slow deliberate
step he approached the individual re-ferred
to and gave him a blow in the
face which sent him reeling backwards.
" Ha!" exclaimed the stranger, a
tall, elegantly dressed man. " Ha!"
he ejaculated, as his eyes fell upon
Chariton's pale, rigid face," Edward
Charlton."
" Aye, Percy Duuham," was the
stern response, " it is Edward Charl-ton,
who stands ready to give you any
satisfaction you demand."
" Charlton, my dear friend," inter-posed
Duplaine.
But the young man shook him off.
" Leave me to settle this matter in
my own way," he said quietly, " this is
a meeting which I have long looked
forward to."
" Satisfaction !" exclaimed the man
whom Charlton had insulted:, in a
voice hoarse with passion ; " I demand
it at once, and in this place."
" I am ready," was the response.
" Name your weapons."
" I care not vihat weapons I use.
Will those suit you ?" and he produced
an elegant pair of pistols.
Dun I am held a short consultation
with flis friend and then replied:
" They will suit me."
At this point the proprietor of the
establishment appeared on the scene.
" I can't have any fighting here,
gentlemen/' he began.
But Dunham's friends were pre-pared
for this emergency. Three oi
them placed themselves by the door,
and one of them, approaching the pre»
prietor, said:
" Sir, this thing must be settled here
and now. If you do not sit do wn and
take the matter quietly we shall be
forced to make you do so."
The man seated himself, saying:
" Since there's no help for it, I must
submit; but you all witness that I
wash my hands of any and all respon-sibility
iu the matter."
The windows were now closely cur-tained
by the friends of both parties.
Dunham selected a second from
among his friends, and Charlton re-quested
me to act in that capacity for
him.
" Which wall you take ?" asked
Carlton, handing the pistol case to his
opponent.
Dunham selected «¡ne of the pistols,
which were precisely alike, and in-quired
:
" What shall the distance be ?"
" Ten paces."
" Ten paces ?" exclaimed I, but
Carlton interrupted me.
" It is to be a duel to the death,"
he said. We cannot both leave this
place alive, and the less time wasted
the better. Is all ready?"
All was ready. As the two men
took their places Dunham said in a
clear, distinct voice:
" I wish all present to witness that
my participation in this duel is an act
of condescension. There is, I believe,
no social law which compels a gentle-man
to fight a state prison bird."
Charlton's eyes flashed with a bale-ful
light, and his hand clutched the
barrel of his pistol fiercely as between
his set teeth he said :
" Had you a thousand lives I'd take
them all now."
A moment later the two men had
taken their positions.
As the word fire was given, the
simultaneous report of the two pistols
rang through the room and the body
of Dunham fell to the floor with a thud.
" Is he dead ?" quietly asked Charl-ton,
who stood unharmed, and ap-parently
as cool and collected as if
such affairs were an every day occur-rence
with him.
; He is dead! the bullet went
straight through his brain," was the
reply of the man who raised Dunham
to his feet.
I am satisfied," said Charlton, and
bowing, left the room, motioning back
Duplaine and myself, who would have
accompanied him.
Eight years passed before one of us
who were witnesses of that duel saw
Charlton again ; eight years, during
which time I made more than one
effort to learn the secret motive of the
combat, but in vain. Not one of those
present knew it, and the inquiries
which I aiterward made all proved
fruitless Edward Charlton's life be-fore
he came to New York, as well as
after he left, was a mystery to all who
knew him.
I had given up ail hope of learning
the secret when it was revealed to, me.
One morning in July, 1876,1 was
walking in one of the many beautiful
public parks of London, England,
where I was spending my vacation,
when a sudden turn in the road brought
me face to face with a gentleman whose
appearance seemed strangely familiar.
As I was trying to recollect where I
had seen him before, he stepped for-ward
quickly and asked:
" Do you know me, Mr. Graham ?"
I recognized the voice instantly.
" You are Dr. Charlton !" I cried.
" I am."
A short conversation followed during
which Charlton informed me that Lon
don had been his homo ever since his
departure from New York, on the day
ollowing the duel.
After a few minutes Charlton
pleaded a pressing engagement as ex-cuse
lor leaving me, but invited
me to visit him on the lollowiug
day at his house in Kensington, when
he voluntarily promised to narrate to
me the whole history of his connection
with Percy Dunham, the man whom
he Lad killed.
Of course I was at his house at the
appointed hour, and seated in the
cosy parlor of his little vine clad
cottage he told me the following story :
" I was born and brought up in the
town of R—, in Michigan, and from
the time of my earliest recollection
until my twentieth year my dearest
friend was Percy Dunham, the son of
a neigbor. We were almost insepara-ble,
and our friendship was likened to
that of Damon and Pythias. But
the time came, as you know, when we
were the bitterest foes, and the pri-mary
cause of this estrangement
was"
" A woman, I'll be bound," I inter-rupted.
" You are right, doctor; it was a
woman, and one of the best and most
beautiful women I ever met. Mable
Dane's parents moved into R
when Percy Dunham and I were just
20 years of age. We each loved her,
but 1 was the chosen recipient of her
affections. Mable and I became on-gaged
iu time, and apparently Percy
had trained himself to submission to
his lot. ®
" There is no one living to whom I
would as willing resign her as your-self,
Edward," he said.
" Ah ! I little imagined the demon
that raged in his heart when he spoke
these words. I never dreamed of
questioning his sincerity.
" The greatest obstacle to my im-mediate
marriage was my poverty, for
my parents had left me very little on
their death. Percy, on the contrary,
was a wealthy man, and for this reason
would have been preferred to myself
as a husband for his daughter by Mr.
Dane, who, however, did not undertake
to influence Mable in her choice.
" Time passed on, and one day I
heard of a chance of investing a few
hundred dollars very advantageously.
The money would be sure to double in
» few weeks. Happening to be in
Dunham's house I mentioned the op-portunity
to him, regretting my in-ability
to avail myself of it.
" My dear fellow," said he, " I'll
lend you the money with pleasure.
" Here," pushing a check book
toward me, " fill out a check for any
amount you desire and I'll sign it."
"But," I began, but he would not
hear me.
" Fill it out, or I'll do it for you.
Will a thousand dollars be enough ?
If n o t"
" A thousand dollars ? My dear
Percy'—"' 'Tis yours if you will
accept the loan.'
" I filled out the check for the
amount mentioned and Percy Dunham
signed it.
" The next day I drew the money
A week later I was arrested for forgery
When the bank had returned the can-celled
check to Dunham he had denied
the genuineness of the signature. I
sent for him immediately not doubting
that there had been some mistake,
which could be easily and quickly
rectified. But what was my horror
when that infamous villian cooly de-nied
it to my face that he had ever
given me a check. I had fallen a vic-tim
to one of the most fiendish plots
ever conceiyed in the brain of man.
' Well, I was tried, convicted and
and sentenced to a terra of years in
the state prison.
" On the day when I was sentenced
received a letter from Mable Dane,
the only message she had sent me
since my arrest; a letter written in re-ply
to one I had sent her releasing her
from her engagement. In a few cold,
scornful words she accepted the release
and bade me tare well forever.
" After that I cared not what became
of me ; I went to my fate with but one
thought—revenge on the man who had
brought me to this condition. I
served out my term and then went
back to R to meet Percy Dunham
and settle my account with him. But
he had left the place, and I could gain
no information of his whereabouts.
Despite the bitter memories of the past,
tried to see Mable once more. But
she, too, and her parents had left R .
Was she married ? I asked. No;
they told me Dunham had sought
an alliance with her, but had been re-pulsed.
' I went to New York, where a few
years later I again met Percy Dunham,
under what circumstances you know.
Perhaps I should have left my ven-geance
to heaven, but the wrongs
which rankled in my bosom were too
bitter to allow me to wait longer."
Charlton paused and stepped to the
window. A smile irradiated his face.
• Come here, doctor," he said, " I
haye something to show you."
I stepped to his side. In the garden,
not far from the window, a beautiful
woman was engaged in gathering a
boquet, unconscious of our admiring
glances.
'That is my wife," Charlton said
proudly.
Your wife?"
" Yes ; she who was once Mable
Dane. I met her five years ago in
London, after I had abandoned all
hope of ever seeing her again. She
had loved me and believed in my in
nocence from the first, but had been
forced to act against her inclinations
and convictions by her parents. A
week after our meeting we were mar-ried,
and hope never to part again."
A Terrible Warning.
Some time ago two young mechanics
in a Maryland town entered in a co-partnership
as wheel-wrights and car-riage
builders. Both gentleman were
possessed of shrewdness and indus-try,
and were getting along in a yery
happy and contented way until they
determined to venture upon a rash un-dertaking.
Up to that time they had
been able to take things easy. They
had been coming to their shop in the
morning just when they felt like it,
and quitted in the evening just when
they pleased. There was no hurry,
no rush, no worry. Things went on
in a smooth, sober and comfortable
manner; but, as was intimated above,
they one day decided upon a change
of tactics.
They concluded to insert a conspic-uous
advertisement in the local daily.
More than this—they actually had
their names and business printed upon
several hundred circulars, and caused
the same to be extensively distributed.
Then, with a recklessness that was
truly astonishing, they managed to get
themselves frequenty mentioned in the
local columns of the newspapers.
They might have known that eyery-body
would read those notices ; but
mtjLi a singularly fatality they con-tinued
the same desperate manage-ment,
until at last they got themselves
into a most awkward fix.
They employed additional help, but
still their vexations were not over.
Only last week they discovered that
their shop was entirely too small.
They then bought lumber, employed
workmen, and will have just about
finished another shop in the rear,
somewhat larger thanthe original one
Strange infatuation ! Both these
young men might have been enjoying
a very comfortable nap this very after-noon
if it had not been for their own
unguarded conduct. But their is no
further rest for them except on Sun-days,
and a few short hours after tea
every day.
We cannot say where it will all end.
Deluded creatures ! We warn them
in time! If they don't mind they
will be compelled to employ still other
assistants, and make still other addi-tions
to their shop. But advice seems
to be thrown away on suph venturous
people. At all events they should
consider the example they are setting.
They should remember that other me-chanics
and business men may go and
do likewise. Then what a calamity
will they have to contemplate! A
town that was once quiet and sedate
rendered bustling and noisy with the
hum of business, the buzz of factories,
and the rush of accelerated commerce.
We turn from the picture with fear
and trembling.
—Wrap up the "Little Darling" in
Hornberger's blankets.
The Trials of a Batcheior.
Did you ever see a man in the
solitude and privacy of his study at-tempt
to sew a button on by himself?
It is in all details one of the most
interesting performances in the world.
First he hunts for the button. Gen-erally,
to secure it, he robs Peter to
pay Paul and cuts one from some
other garment. This may be much
larger or smaller than the size he is
wearing. He hunts for a needle.
Probably he goes out and buys a
paper of needles. He always chooses
the largest, having an impression that
large needles will sew stronger than
small ones.
As to the thread, begets the coarsest
he can find, and this he doubles. He
takes the big needle in one hand and
his coarse black thread in the other,
bites off the thread to the desired
length, then he tries to twist it to a
fine point. Generally in this he sue-,
ceeds iu making two and sometimes
three fine points out of one end. Of
course he cannot get all of these points
through the needle's eye at once.
He tries hard to make the needle
and thread get on friendly terms with
each other. Sometimes the needle
kicks, and sometimes the thread.
Sometimes he really imagines he has
threaded his needle. It is an ocular
delusion ; the thread has missed the
needle's edge by half an inch. It is
harder work than sawing wood.
At last the needle is threaded. Now
he tries to-sew the button on without
taking off his trousers. Thi3 proves
a failure. He twists himself into an
uncomfortable position and so would
sew. But he cannot sew so. He runs
the needle in his finger and makes an
inaudible exclamation. Again the
needle slips into the fleshy part of his
hand, which induces a very audible
dash from the operator. The record'
angel knows what is going on inside
of him and debits him with every
item. He sews hard.
He has forgotten all about the
necessity for a thimble. He jams his
thumb down on the needle's head,
and it punctures his thumb or runs
under the nail. By and by he ssws
the button eye full of thread. His
big needle does not pass through any
more. He must stop. He ends by
winding the thread as many times as
it will go under the button, and per-haps
he leaves off with two or three
inches of thread sticking outside.
A woman can, through many out-ward
indications, tell when a man has
been trying to sew on a button. He
doesn't know the shibboleth of needle
and thread, and it catches somewhere
every time. At last the button is
sewed on, and he Í3 proud of his work.
Too Near the First of the Mouth.
" One thing I'ye got against Christ-mas."
" What's that?"
" It comes too late in the month."
" How does that affect it ?"
" Why, when a man's wife gives him
a splendid present the bill is sent to
him in about a week. It would bet-ter
if he had about three weeks to get
ready for it."
Drunkenness—Liquor Habit—In ail
the World there is but one Cure, Or,
Haines' Golden Specific.
It can be given in a cup of tea or coffee
without the knowledge of tiio person
taking it, effecting a speedy and perman-ent
cure, whether the patient is a
moderate drinker or an alcoholic wreck.
Thousands of drunkards have been cured
who have taken the Golden Specific in
their coffee without their knowledge, and
to-day believe they quit drinking of
their own freewill. No harmful eifect
results from its administration; Cures
guaranteed. Send for circulars and full
particulars. Address in confidence,
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O. .
A Moneyless Christmas.
A Christmas without § spending
monev! Midwinter holidays without
dolls or picture books, tops, toy can-non
or jumping jacks, colored candies
or any " store presents " of any kind
whatsoever! Christ's nativity cele
brated without a Christmas tree or a
Christmas carol or a gathering of the
children—no evergreen shrub spark-ling
with glass, no Santa Claus and no
pantomime. Could such a thing be
in a Christian land ?
Yea, verily.
And it is not so very long ago that
just such a Christmas was the rule in
three-fourths of the United States
nay, it is the rule now in considerable
sections where there are no large
t'jwns.
So easily do we get accustomed to
what is, and so naturally do children
believe that the system they first
noticed has always been the system,
they first noticed has always been the
system, that most people do not know,
and even the older ones are forgetting,
that the Christmas of to-day is com-paratively
a* new thing.
But what was the old time Christ-mas,
and with what sights and sounds
was it ushered in! Well, in the first
place, it was—in all the rural regions
at any rate—a time when no money
could be" wasted." • f •
Children must have their fun with-out
extra expense, save as each child
had carefully sayed his pennies. As
to deliberately handing out a half
dollar to a boy for Christmas—the
average father would as soon have
thought pf giving him a deed for the
farm.
It was a season for rabbit hunting
and sledding if there was snow enough,
and for sliding if there was ice, for a
good dinner and an extra piece of
pie, and then, perhaps, for some home
made presents.
A little later toys began to come in
say about 1850—in the central west,
and such toys I Blocky horses, square
cornered cows, dogs made of clay and
burnt black in the fire, and so forth ;
a collection of them now would throw
a group of children into convulsions
of laughter.
Be it remembered that less than
fifty years ago Cincinnati, Louisville
and St. Louis were the only cities
really known to the great mass of
people living west of Ohio and north
of Tennessee, and nine-tenths of the
people under twenty years of age had
never seen a city of 10,000 inhabi-tants.
And in those days rural
America celebrated Christmas literally
without money and without (cash)
price.
Plenty of people who don't like to be
called old can recall the time when, in
all the book stores of the rural regions,
only two or three kinds of "story
books " could be found, and as to holi-day
books and holiday goods as such—-
well, they could be found in the cities,
probably, but not one child in a hun-dred,
taking the country through,
ever «aw one of them.
-IJQW prices tell the tale-ger's
blankets.
•Hornber-
—Don't shiver and chill-bed
blankets.
-Hornberger's
Wheat in a Sweat.
Stacked wheat goes through a de-gree
of warmth dependent upon the
moisture found in it at stacking. The
"sweating" process known among
the wheat growers and favored by them,
as the wheat often looks plumper and
keeps better aft r it, may be the result,
the assistant chemist at the Mis-souri
experiment station suggests, of
both the direct action of the oxygen
of the air on the materials of the wheat
or straw and of fermentation, or a com-bination
of both. Thi3 would involve
some loss on the total weight of the
stack. Wherever heat occurs there
must be the consumption of material.
The grain may grow, however, through
the well-known transference of ma-terial
from the steins of plants to their
seed, that occurs when cut before
groth is absolutely complete. The
grain may keep better after sweating,
inasmuch as the warmth may result
in the evaporation of some of the
moisture of the wheat plant. The
sweating may also be fermentation.
An Unnatural Mother.
' I believe I've got the meanest ma
• rn j j
in lexas.
' What did she do ?"
' Just before Christmas she put me
into long trouserE. She did that so I
would have to wear short stockings
that wouldn't cost so much to fill.
What do you say to that for meanness?
She'd make a nice stepmother, she
would."
A Good Ijooking Pace
We like to see. Yet Erysipelas dis-figures
the features and the disease is
as dangerous as it is repulsive. It is
sometimes called St. Anthony's Fire,'*
Htid oiten ends in sudden .death. 8.
B. Carpenter, Grandville, N. Y.,-liad
it in both legs, and was cured by Dr.
David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy,
of Rondout, N. Y. This medicine ex-cels
all others for the blood.
State Items.
Men in the iron trade throughout
the Lehigh Valley are pleased with
the outlook.
Lancaster has a woman who smoked
two big cigars in seven and a half
minutes.
The teachers of Springfield decidcd
after a warm discussion that spring i3
more pleasant than autumn.
The Glen Rolling Mill at Allentown
is ad vertised for public sale to foreclose
a mortgage of $60,000, held by the
Allentown Rolling Mill Company.
The Montgomery Oil Company has
been organized at Norristown, with a
capital of $150,000, to refine oil at the
Slemmer Brothers' Oil Works,
A bullet fired into his leg twenty-five
years ago at the battle of Thatch-er's
Run, Yd., has just been removed
from the leg of Rev. M. P. Doyle, of
Reading.
Every purchaser at a Hamburg
jewelry store received a chance to win
music box and the jeweler has been
held for keeping a gambling establish-ment.
Lansdale wants candidates for its
Councils. Here is a chance for some
of the many overzealous candidates
for the postmastership of neighboring
towns.
The school teachers' lyceum at
Glen Mills was interrupted a few days
ago by two armed hoodlums, who en-tered
the place and defied any one to
put them out.
During a performance of " Uncle
Tom's Cabin" at Pottstown W. E.
Crandall, who took the part of Marks,
was badly bitten by one of the blood-hounds,
and a physician was summon-ed.
A slick-tongued swindler visited
Mckeesport and sold the women of
that town 300 cases of needles at
rates of three cases for $1, on the
misreprsentation that they contained
tickets calling for big prizes.
Mayor Ec%erly, of Lancaster, ve-toed
the resolution giving an electrtc
railway company the use of the streets
of the city, on the ground that it re-quired
an ordinance to give the right.
The wall of house on which hg was
working fell to the ground and Con*
tractor Charles E. Evans, of Chani-bersburg,
was buried. His life was
saved, as he fell under the protecting
ledge of a step.
With a pair of crutches and a well-regulated
cough a tramp succeeded in
arousing a great deal of sympathy at
Chambersburg. He was finally ar-rested
for stealing a book, and as an
excuse he pleaded that he thought it
was a prayer-book.
The body of Bernard Nitz, a tramp,
presumably a resident of Rock Island,
111., was found alongside the Pennsyl-vania
Railroad tracks. In his pock-ets
were $50 in cash and a certificate
of deposit showing a balance of $350
in the Rock Island National Bank.
Dr. Higbee Dead.
Dr. Elnathan Elisha Higbee," State
Superintendent of Public Instruction,
died on Friday morning in Lancaster
from the effects of a par^lytjp stroke,
received a few days ago.
Deceased was born in St. George,
Vermont, March 27, 1830. He grad-uated
at the University of Vermont iq
1849. In 1853 he was elected assistant
teacher in the Hieh School at Lancas-ter,
which position he held for a year,
The writer of this article well remem-*
bers at that time his earnest discussions
at the debating society in the Abbey-ville
School-house of which society he
was a member. He afterward entered
the ministry of the Reformed Church,
and in 1864 was appointed Professor
of Church History and Exegesis in
the Theological Seminary at Mercers-burg,
Pennsylvania. In 1871 he was
made President of Mercersburg Col-lege,
and in 1881 became State Super-intendent
of the Public Schools, which
position he held at the time of his
death. He was a very genial man,
with a high degree of culture and re-finement,
universally respected by all
educational men.
He leaves a wife and four children
(Fannie, wife of Prof. George W. Mull
of Franklin and Marshall College,
Herbert, Lucy and Helen),
Confidence.
Tramp (to little Willie, who has
opened the front door)—Have yer had
yer Christmas dinner yet, little boy ?
Little Wiliie—No ; we're just going
to eat it now.
Tramp—Then perhaps, if I wait
around, I can get some of the eatables
left over.
Little Willie (feeling of his stomach)
There ain't going to be anything left.
It. is Good Work to Give Health.
The only remedy for blood disorders
is one that will expel the germs of
disease, and make the blood pure and
rich. That is best effected by Dr.
David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy of
Rondout, N. Y., a medicine of great
value in the treatment of all blood
disorders and diseases of the Kidneys.
I t tones the system and helps to do
good work.