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VOL. XIII LITITZ, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 20,1890. NO. 42
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WALTER H. BUCH,
iVjERCBHNT TfllLOR « (¿LOTBIER,
LITITZ, PA.,
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I t I S C o l cL
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Charles Mycroft had settled himself
comfortably in his easy chair and was
about to take up a book which inter-rested
him very much, when there
came a rap at the library door, and he
looked up with a frown.
" Come in," he cried, and then
added in a growl under his breath :
" Confound it! I am always being
disturbed about something. Can't I
be let alone for a moment ?"
In answer to Charles Mycroft's
surly invitation to enter, the door was
opened and younsr Ralph Mycroft
stepped into the study of his father.
" I am sorry to disturb you, father,"
he said, a little nervously, for he saw
his father was annoyed at being in-truded
upon. " If you are busy I
don't wish to interrupt you. I haye
something to ask you, but it can stand
over until a more convenient time.
" As you are here you had better
tell me what ic is you want," said Mr.
Mycrolt, irritably, and he instinctively
buttoned up his pocket as much as to
hint that if his sou had come to ask
for money he had come on a very
profitless errand.
" You need not be afraid father; I
have n<»t come to bother you for
money," cried Ralph, and the old
gentleman breathed a sigh of relief
and looked just a little better tem-pered.
" Glad to hear it," he observed,
grimly ; " for if you had I tell you
frankly you would not have got it. I
give you a liberal allowance and you
must keep within your income. You
modern young men are very extrava-gant.
Now, Ralph, don't beat about
the bush, but tell me at once what ycu
want ?''
" If you please father, I want your
permission to get married."
" To get married ?" in surprise.
" Yes sir. Is there anything very
extraordinary in that? Most men
settle down some time or other."
" To whom ?" inquired Mr. My-croft,
throwing himself back in his
arm-chair and fixing his cold gray
eye on his son. " Come out with it,
Ralph."
" To the dearest, truest, sweetest
little darling in the world," said Ralph
with enthusiasm. " She is just the
sort of a girl you would like, father ;
with the bluest of eyes, the brownest
hair—"
" Oh, I dare say she is a very de-lightful
creature," cried Mr. Mycroft,
impatiently; " but who is she ? What
is her name ? I hope, Ralph, you
have not gone apd got yourself en-gaged
to some girl of low origin, with
not a farthiug to bless herself with,
because, if that is the case," working
himself up into a rage, " I'll disin-herit
you altogether. You shall leave
my house this very day."
Mr. Mycroft rose from his chair as
he spoke and looked fiercely at his
sou, his gray eyes flashing, his hands
tightly clinched. Ralph gazed at his
lather in surprise, and after a mo-ment's
hesitation, said quite quickly,
although his temper was beginning to
be aroused :
" Her name is Bessie Newby."
" What, Bessie Newby, the banker's
daughter," cried old Mycroft in de-light.
" You sly dog, why, you don't
mean to tell me that you have been
fortunate enough to get her consent to
be your wife ? Do you know she is
the richest girl in the country ?"
"It isn't her money that I care
for," replied Ralph, stiffly. " It
would be just the same if she were a
beggar."
" To be sure it would," agreed his
father with a delighted smile. " Come
Ralph, my boy, give ue your hand.
This is the happiest day I have ever
had in my life. You are a good fel-low,
Ralph, a discreet young rogue.
Come, now, I dare say a young fellow
like you can always do with a little
extra coin of the realm. I'll write
you a cheque this moment, my dear
boy."
" Don't do anything of the kind,"
said Ralph. " I have got quite
enough to go on with, father. I came
here to ask for your consent to my
marriage with Bessie Newby, and I
have obtained it. Good morning, fa-ther,
I will not occupy your time any
longer."
"Stop, Ralph, don't go in such a
hurry," cried the excitable old gentle-man.
" 1 assure you that you did not
disturb me at all. Take a seat and
have a glass of port, we will drink to
the health of little Bessie Newby, your
future wife."
Ralph took a seat, and the wine be-ing
poured out. drank the health of
his future bride with great enthusiasm
and liis father did not allow him to
leave the room until he accepted the
cheque which he had so liberally offer-ed
him on hearing of his engagement.
" How lucky I didn't fall in love
with a poor girl," thought Ralph;
"then dad would have cut up very
rough if Bessie was without money. I
wonder how she got on with her father.
Bessie tells me it will be all right, but
he looks like a stern old fellow.; but
then the girl has got sucb a coaxing
way with her that she may manage to
get his consent. I'll ride over and
tell her the news, and if all has gone
well, persuade her to agree to an early
marriage. I love my darling so much
that I can't do without her. I must
have her always with me."
Ralph hurried to the stables with a
light elastic step, and in a very short
time his horse was saddled and he
rode away—went straight to the bank
and thence to the jeweler's, where he
bought his lady-love an engagement
ring.
He left the shop, and was about to
get into the saddle when he was touch-ed
on the shoulder.
" Good-morning, Mr. Ralph My-croft,"
said a voice, and turning round
he confronted a man of about thirty—
a man who walked with a stoop, a
man with a sullen crafty face and a
pair of restless eyes.
"Good morning, Oliver Gray,"said
Ralph, who did not stem particularly
pleased at the meeting ; " when you
touched me on the shoulder you quite
startled me."
" Oh, I dare say I did startle you,"
said Oliver Gray with a strauge, un-pleasant
laugh ;. of course you were
pre-occupied thinking of your ap-proaching
marriage."
" My approaching marriage !" cried
Ralph, angrily ; what do you know
about it, man ? Who told you I was
going to get married ?"
" No one," replied Oliver Gray ; " I
only happened to hear that Bessie
Newby was the happy bride."
" Perfectly right," said Ralph, and
he rode away.
Oliyer Gray stood looking after the
young man with an evil frown on his
face; he was not a very pleasant
looking man at any time, but at that
moment he looked at his worst as he
hissed between his set teeth :
" I wish you would la.ll off your
horse and break your neck, Master
Ralph. You shall never marry Bes-sie
Newby. No, you shall never
touch a farthing of her money. Oliver
Gray swears to that, and he will keep
his word."
Unconscious of the evil thoughts
and wishes of Oliver Gray, Ralph
rode on, feeling very anxious to see
Bessie and give her the ring.
At the lodge-gate of the banker's
private house he came upon the bank-er,
who was giving instructions to
some workmen who were making; a
veranda round the lodge. Mr. Newby
on ^seeing Ralph opened the gate for
him with a pleasant smile and walked
beside his horse up to the carriage
drive. He was so very pleasant and
agreeable that Ralph very much
doubted that he had been asked by
Bessie to give his consent to their mar-riage.
The little darling, when it
came to the point, was afraid to speak
to her father, Ralph told himself; and
he was very much surprised, therefore
when Mr. Newby said :
" I am yery fond of Bessie, Ralph,
but she loves you and you must marry
her. It is a sad thing for a man to
part with his only daughter, and I
shall miss her very much. I knew
you will be a good husband, and I feel
sure that you will make my girl hap-py.
You will find Bessie in the sum-mer-
house ; I will see you at dinner."
And before Ralph could find words to
thank the good old banker, he had en-tered
the house and closed the door.
" What a kind, generous-hearted
old fellow Newby is," thought Ralph.
" I shall always love and respect him.
How noble of him to give Bessie to
me when she has so many rich ad-mirers.
Why, Oliver Gray is worth
tens of thousands."
When he had given his horse in
charge of a groom he hastened to the
summer-house, where he found Bessie
awaiting his arrival.
He was not long before he had slip-ped
the ring on her finger.
The gill blushed up to the roots of
her rich brown hair and hid her face
upon his shoulder to hide the tears
that had come into her large blue eyes
•tears of grateful happiness.
" My darling," said Ralph, and he
kissed the ripe, red lips passionately,
so passionately that timid little Bessie
looked so frightened that Ralph felt
quite angry with himself for kissing
her so warmly.
" Ralph, I am so happy," is all she
can say as they sat side by side in the
summer-house, and Ralph gives her
another kiss, which doesn't frighten
his little Bessie.
They sit there fjr over half an hour
in a state or wild ecstatic happiness.
Ralph's arm encircles Bessie's waist,
Bessie's head still rests on his shoul-der.
All at once a strange fancy comes
over Bessie, an instinctive feeling ihat
they are being spied upon. She look-ed
up and saw a white sallow face and
a pair of restless eyes glaring at her
from a clump of thick evergreens.
" Oliver Gray !" repeated Ralph,
and he followed the direction in which
she pointed, and saw the man with
the restless eyes gazing upon them
with an evil and sarcastic smile.
Ralpn rose to his feet and made for
the bushes with an angry exclamation,
When he arrived at the spot where
Oliver Gray had been standing he
was nowhere to be seen, and he return-ed
to Bessie, looking vexed and angry.
" The scoundrel has frightened
you," he said, looking at her white
face ; "he deserves a horse-whipping."
" I was rather startled," admitted
Bessie; '' but Ralph, promise you will
not quarrel with him. Oliver Gray is
a dangerous man to offend."
" I will promise anything you wish,
darling," replied Ralph,, trying to
laugh, but failing sadly in the effort.
A strange feeling of dread had taken
possession of Ralph and Bessie, a feel-ing
that they could not explain to
each other—a dark, black, shadowy
presentiment of coming evil.
^ 'fc ^ . •
Everybody in the village of Kings-ton
wa3 looking serious, for there was
an ugly rumor afloat.
Mr. Oliver Gray, one of the most
influential men in the place, had re-moved
his money from the bank, and
a few hints he had let fall made every
one who had deposited money there
in a fever of impatience to follow his
example. The banker's manager
came to him with a pale startled face,
and Bessie's father saw at once that
something was wrong.
" What is it ?" he asked.
" There is a run upon the bank, sir.
I am afraid we shall have to suspend
payment."
'• Great heavens !" cried Mr. Newby,
and in that one moment he seemed to
age ten years. He rested his arms
upon the desk in front of him and hid
his face upon them, suffering as much
agony as a sensitiye man could suffer
in such a strait.
But even in his trouble he was
grateful in his knowledge that his
little Bessie would have a. stout arm
to lean upon, for he knew the innate
nobility of Ralph Mycroft's nature
and felt convinced that he would only
love her more devotedly when he
heard of the trouble that had fallen
upon her.
And he was right. He had not
misjudged Ralph, who went straigh
to Bessie on hearing what had happen-ed,
and was was with her when her
father arrived heme, careworn and ex-hausted
by the trouble through which
he had passed, and feeling in that
state of mind when a weaker man
would have ended everything by put-ting
a bullet through his head.
Bessie looked up at her father as he
entered the room and smiled through
her tears, for her lover's arm encircled
her waist, and had he not just whis-pered
a hope that she would name an
early day for their marriage ?
The old man sat with them and lis-tened
to their fresh, hopeful, young
voices, but they seemed to come from
a distance, and presently when he rose
to cross to the window, his limbs failed
him, and he fell forward on the floor
at his daughter's feat.
" Don't be frightened, my darling,"
cried Ralph, reassuringly, but there
was a terrible fear at his own heart as
he looked at the white drawn face
" Don't be frightened, but let me ring
for the servant, and then I will go,and
fetch the doctor. Be brave tor my
sake and his."
" Yes, yes, I will dear Ralph !"
cried • the girl, rising above her
troubles with the true nobility of wo-manhood.
There will be plenty of
time for her to weep by-and-bv.
Ralph found the doctor at home,
and he was speedily kneeling beside
the prostrate figure, whilst a terrible
hushed silence in which poor Bessie
could hear her heart beat.
" Tak6 her away," said the doctor,
turning to Ralph, and then Bessie re-alized
the fact that she was father-less,
and a merciful unconsciousness
numbed her suffering for the time be •
ing, as Ralph took her in his strong
young arms and carried her to her
chamber, Eis poor, drooping lily, his
poor, suffering little love, who had
never been so "dear to him as at that
moment.
Mr. Newby never rallied, and Ralph
went to Bessie eyery day until the
funeral was over, and his father made
no attempt to interfere in any way.
He could do as he liked, the old man
told him grimly, but at the same time
he bade him have nothing to do with
ier now she was poor. Ralph, how-ever,
still yisited his future wife, and
one day he asked her when she in-tended
to marry him.
"Oh, not yet," she cried, with a
faint blush; " not so soon after papa's
death."
" Then, my darling, we must give
up seeing each other so constantly, and
in a little time you will have to go
away to your mother's relations."
" And leave you I" she said, piteous-ly,
clinging to his arm.
" Yes, my darling, unless you give
me the right to be with you all my
life, to watch over and care for you
always."
'' Your father—what will he say ?"
" I am not talking of my father,
dear. I am asking you a question
which must be answered at once, with-out
delay."
" But, Ralph—" '
" My darling, listen to me. People
will talk of your remaining here
alone and unprotected. Besides,"
speaking very gently and tenderly,
" this is no longer your home, and I
want you to give me a husband's
right to watch over and protect you.
Thipk of it, darling. I will come for
your answer to worrow." And gravely
kissing her on the forehead, he left
and went out to think of the future,
for he had not the slightest doubt as
to what her final answer would be,
and he knew his father would cast
him off utterly the day he married
Bessie Newby.
In tha meanwhile, Bessie, sitting in
the pleasant garden belonging to the
beautiful house which would soon
pass into other hands, thought gravely
and soberly of all that her lover had
said.
Of course her answer would be
" yes," when he came for it; what
other answer could she give ?
She was so l«st in thought that she
did not see a gentleman crossing the
lawn, and gave a violent start as a tall,
dark shadow came between her and
the sunshine.
" I beg your pardon, Miss Newby,"
said Oliver Gray, for it was he, " I
hope I have not startled you."
" Not very much," returned Bessie,
thinking that he had called to condole
with her and wishing in her heart he
had stepped away.
" You are not looking well," said
her visitor, seating himself, uninyited,
in the garden seat, and bending for-ward
to look into her face. " I am
sorry for your loss, Miss Newby,-very
sorry. But to change a painful sub-ject,
have vou heard the news ?
Young Mycroft's father is going to
cut him off with a shilling. There
has been some sort of shindy between
them, it seems."
" Indeed," said Bessie, in a faint
little voice.
" Yes," observed Mr. Gray, watch-ing
her keenly to see the effect of his
words, " and I think the young fellow
feels it horribly, too. He looks quite
a different fellow lately."
" If you will excuse me, Mr. Gray,"
and Bessie rose as she spoke, " if you
will excuse me, I think I'll get back
to the house. The wind is chilly this
morning."
Thus dismissed, Mr. Gray had no
alternative but to walk away, which
h? did at once, whilst the girl, after
waiting until he was out of sight, once
more sat down on- the bench, and
resting her head upon her hand, re-lapsed
into deep thought.
Could she come between father and
son and allow her loyer to sacrifice
himself for her sake?
The tears filled her eyes and rolled
silently down her pale cheeks, upon
her black dress, as she sat with clasp-ed
hands and drooping head, a poor,
forlorn, little figure that might have
moved even Oliver Gray to pity if he
had seen it then.
And when Ralph came for her an-swer
the following day he found that
his pretty bird had taken flight, and
no one knew whither she had flown.
But the servant gave him a little
tear-stained note, which his darling
had left behind her, in which she told
him not to search her out, as it was
best for them to part.
" If your father came to me and
told me he was willing that I should
be your wife, things would be differ-ent,
but he will never do that, so it
only remains for me to bid you a long
good-by."
The young man's face darkened as
he read the letter, for he naturally
thought that this was his father's
work, an idea which was strengthened
by a few words Oliver Gray let fall
when he* happened to meet him at the
gate as he left the house.
" I didn't know that your father
was in the habit of paying visits of
condolence," he observed, after bid-ding
Ralp i " good-morning."
" Did you see my father here then?"
asked Ralph, and the frown of his
handsome face deepened when Oliver
Gray answered in the affirmative.
He excused himself as soon as he
could, and hastening hoine, went
straight to his father's study, pushing
open the door without the ceremony
of knocking.
" What is it ?" asked Mr. Mycroft,
staring at him at him in surprise, for
he had never seen such an expression
on his son's face, and it startled him
a little.
" Can you ask ?" cried Ralph, and
he put poor Bessie's tear-stained
letter into his hand; " this is your
work."
Mr. Mycroft put on his spectacles
and read the letter quietly, and then
folded it methodically and laid it on
his desk.
"A brave girl that," he observed,
" but why do you make me responsible
for this? I have not even seen Bessie
Newby since her father's death."
" Father, is this true ? Oliver Gray
told me he sa>v you leaving the
house."
" Oliver Gray is a liar !" cried Mr.
Mycroft, with more force than polite-ness.
" I haye never been near the
•place. I say, where are you going to
now ?"
" To wring that fellow's neck for
telling me such a falsehood, and then
to find Bessie."
" What, you won't give her up ?"
" I should be a wretch, indeed, if I
deserted her now."
" But you see what she says in this
letter. She won't have you without
my consent."
" I shall try and persuade her to
alter her mind."
"You will, will you?" said Mr.
Mycroft, looking at his son. " Well,
go and find her out and come back
and tell me what she says. Don't
touch that Gray, mind-; he isn't
worth it. You'll promise your father
that much, I know. All you have
got to do is to find the girl."
Ralph did find her after a long
search. She was stayiDg with an old
servant, who was only too proud to
serye the child she had nursed in her
own home as an honored guest.
But although Bessie was pleased to
see Ralph, she still held to her deter-mination
not to marry him without
his father's consent, and he returned,
home, feeling sad and a little angry at
her persistence.
" So you have come back," said his
father. " What did she say ?"
" She won't have me," returned his
son, gloomily. " Don't speak of her
again, father. It is all over between
us. I shall get over it in tims, no
doubt; but I can't stay here, I shall
travel."
"Travel!" cried his father, and
then he added, with a smile : " And
leave your wife at home ?"
" Have I not told you that Bessie
has refused to marry me ?"
" But she has not refused me yet,"
said Mr. Mycroft. " She is a plucky
girl and I like her. She'll make a
capital wife, I am sure, and so," with
a sigh, " we'll say more about her
want of money. When will you be
ready to come with me to bring home
my future daughter ?"
Ralph was ready at that instant,
but he had some consideration for his
father, and so it was not until evening
that thev commenced the journey.
The young man was quite bewildered
at the change which had taken place
in his father.
And Bessie, what wis her astonish-ment
when father and son appeared
before her.
" You see I have come," said Mr.
Mycroft, in his abrupt fashion.
" Thank you," answered Bessie, for
she knew what he meant, and her
eyes filled with tears as she bent and
kissed the old man's strong right
hand.
We all of us make mistakes, but
there was one action in his life which
Mr. Mycroft had cause to regret and
that was the day he consented to his
son's marriage with the banker's
daughter.
They were a very happy couple,
and Mr. Oliver Gray often turned
aside in his walks that he might not
meet Mr. and Mrs. Mycroft, and see
their smiling faces.
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WHY OUR WINTERS GROW MÍLDEE.
Sergeant Dunn Tells of t h e Effect or
I r r i g a t i n g Western Lands.
Sergeant Dunn, of the weather bu-reau,
talked to the Academy of Scien-ces
at Columbia college, N. Y., on the
subject of " The Change in Our Cli-mate
and its Causes." That the cli-mate
has changed in recent years he
showed a comparison of official tem-perature
records. " The records show"
he said, " that since 1876 there has
been an increase of heat in this city,
except for the years 1885, 1886 and
1888. Those years show a light defi-ciency.
" In 1889 the surplus heat for Jan-uary
was 21°, while the same month
this year shows an excess of 328°
mean temperature above the normal,
an increase of 156° for February, 44°
for March aud 52° for April, the
month of May closing with an excess
since Jan. 1 of 789°, or 250° more
than for the same period for 1886.
This great increase assures us of two
things: First, that the greatest excess
of heat occurs in our coldest months ;
second, that the months of July, Au-gust
and September have a tendency
to be cooler than the mean."
Sergeant Dunn rejects the theory
that an approach to our coast at the
Gulf stream has caused the change,
and advances his own theory that the
change is due to the increasing area
of irrigated lands in the central part
of the country east of the Rocky
mountains.
" Within the last year or two most
of our storms have traveled across the
country north of this city, and have
followed each other in such rapid suc-cession
that it was only on rare occa-sion
that an area of high pressure with
a cold wave could slip down from the
Northwest and overspread this part of
the country. During the months of
December, 1889, January and Febru-ary,
1890, but one storm centre passed
south of this city, which is one factor
in accounting for the scarcity of cold
weather. The same period embraces
28 well-defined storm centres which
passed north of this city, each in turn
causing a steady flow of warm air
from the south northward over the
central valleys and this region.
" All storms like the electric current
follow a path of the least atmospheric
resistance; an increase of moisture •
offers extra attraction to a storm. The
immense area of country surrounding
the irrigated lands offers resistance to
the storm on account of its dryness,
and instead of passing over thousands
of miles of such land that they take
up a course which offers the greatest
attraction and least resistance over the
artificial waterways. Since 1874 irri-gation
has expanded until 4,300,000
acres of the most fertile soil have
b^en made available for raising crops
of all kinds. This spreading of water
over the principal portion of the cen-tral
plains has induced an increased
rainfall. The planting of trees and
general vegatation on what was a bar-ren
waste has a further tendency to in-crease
the rainfall, and the larger the
area covered, the greater will be the
fluence to prevedt a relapse."
As to the future, Sergeant Dunn
said : " In my opinion tfie permanency
of a change in our climate, depends
entirely upon lhe action taken in fur-ther
irrigation. If the lands in the
northwest are first irrigated the effect
will be a continuance of our storm
tracks over the higher latitudes ; 011
the other hand, if the Southwest lands
are first reclaimed the storms will as-sume
their former course and a great-er
number will pass off the coast south
of New York, thus drawing down
upon us the cold wave as in former
years."
Influenza.
I f you have a bad cold, cough, &c., or
t h e La Grippe, use " Dr, F a h n e s t o c k 's
F a v o r i t e Drops." A f u l l dose, in sweet-ened
w a rm water, at b e d t i m e will relieve
you at once. Try it. Sold by all d r u g -
gists a n d c o u n t r y storekeepers.
She S p a n k e d a Man.
A large, w e l l - d r e s s e d woman was ob-s
e r v e d s p a n k i n g an elderly man on the
s t r e e t s i n New Y o r k 011 Tuesday. The
man proved to be Charles W. Butler,
manager of the Buffalo Blind and Sash
company, a n d he h a d t h e woman a r r a i g n -
ed in t h e H a r l em Court for assault. The
woman was Mrs. Kate Astrich. Her
lawyer said Butler was in debt to lier
husband, and when she asked for the
money the man i n s u l t e d her. Then she
assaulted him. She was discharged.
OWEN P. BRICKEK, E s q . , a t t o r n ey
at-law, is in town every Saturday and
Monday mórningand can be consulted
u all legal business. Lancaster office
48 North Duke street
ST. ELMO HOTEL, N o s . 317 a n d 319
A.rch street, Philadelphia.—Rates re
duced to $2 per day. The traveling
public will still find at this hotel tne
same liberal provision for their com-fort.
It is located in the immediate
centre of business, and places of amuse
ment and the different railroad depots
as well as all parts of the city, a-,
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.
JOSEPH M. FEGEB,
oc7-ly Propr.