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VOL. XYI. LITITZ, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 7,1893. NO. iL
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SPRING SÄRD.
The Spring Season has arrived. So has my
superb stock of goods for the young man, the middle
aged and the old.
Choice Patterns in Piece Goods
for elegant Spring and Summer Suits, in all the
latest styles, at prices low enough for any one to see
at a glance that he is not being overcharged.
Ij Ready-made Clothing
are cheap and well-made—I buy and sell no other.
Each article must give satisfaction or money refunded.
Iy Neckwear Department
can't be beat. It is made up to my special order
from piece silk of my own selection, and each tie and
cravat bears my stamp on the inside. The styles
are indeed nobby this spring.
DON'T go away from home for the purpose of
buying a new Hat when you can save money by buy
ing a stylish one at my store. I have them in all
shapes and sizes.
You are cordially invited to call and see for
yourself.
W . H . B U C H ,
"Record" Building. Broad Street.
LITITZ, PCNNA.
s PRING HATS.
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144 NORTH QUEEN STREET, LANCASTER, FA.
NEWT. WINGERT, MANAGER.
YOU EXPECT
MARGERY'S SUCCESS.
The Best Millinery at the Bon
Ton.
PLACE BON TON
Millinery side by side with
other, and you willeasy see Bon
Ton superiority.
THE BON TON
Is not only the best here, but
as good as any in the land.
U
t i f EMON gauze and rose and tul-le,"
Mrs. Sayles said reflect-ively.
"And you, Amelia,
must have a yard or two more than
Margery—you are so much larger ! I
declare it is a blessing to be small and
slight when one has so little money for
clothiog ! But, girls, I think I can
afford to get the material for you if
you can do the making yourselves."
" Oh, anybody can make a simple
skirt," said Amelia, a stylish young
lady with sleepy, dark eyes and a
cream-and-strawberry complexion.
" I can try, mamma," said Margery,
a slim little maid with cheeks like
peach blossoms and long braided hair
which was brown in the shadow and
gold in the sun."
" Oh, you will never succeed, Meg,"
thè elder sister observed with languid
contempt. " You are not clever
enough and one must haye some talent
even to make the simplest garment."
" She is not very complimentary to
you, Meg, is she ?" Cousin Edgar ven-tured,
with a diverted smile behind his
morning paper.
Cousin Edgar was not precisely
their cousin. He was a very remote
relative of the family and he had just
come back from Australia, whither he
had gone some years before, when
Margery was a blithe miss in pina-fores.
But if she seemed to him no
longer a child she still remained the
sweet little friend whose sparkling let-ters
had brightened many a gloomy
hour in the strange land. He was
very fond of bonny Margery, certain-ly,
but all the same the elder sister
had a profound conviction he had not
yet revealed what he best liked and
desired. He had liked Margery of
course, but she was not clever. She
had no talent for anything ; she was
quite a little insignificant thing alto-gether
and Cousin Edgar would be
likely to bestow his choicest affections
upon somebody more brilliant and
mature. And Miss Amelia did not
doubt that somebody had already been
selected, eyen if he had not announced
his preference.
Oh, Meg does not mind what is
uncomplimentary," she said, with her
characteristic air of languid scorn.
" She has not a bit of spirit : she is
different from me in everything."
" Do you think you can manage the
tulle, Margery ?" the mother inquired
anxiously. " Your sister can help
you."
" I shall try to manage without her
help mamma," said Meg, with a
dubious shake of her long braids."
Perhaps, with her deficiency of
ability, Margery was perverse enough
to apprehend that the help might be a
hinderance, or that the instruction
might not be of much advantage to
the tulle skift.
"Well,there is nothing like trying,"
Mrs. Sayles said contentiously.
"And trying avails where boasting
fails," mentally rhymed Cousin Edgar
behind his newspaper, and with a pe-culiar
smile, which Miss Amelia per-ceived
and was pleased to interpret as
a hint of his faith in the superiority of
her gifted self.
"Meg has a fashion of boasting,"
she grandly remarked, but with a sim-per,
"but of course I am willing to let
her try whatever she likes without my
help. But she will surely spoil the
skirt."
Margery said nothing, but her big
eyes flashed an answer of mute resent-ment
through a rush of tears.
"Never mind, Meg, the little affair
is not absolutely indispensable to the
great party; besides, you have plenty
of dresses, and you are charming in
whatever you wear," whispered Cousin
Edgar, bending toward her until his
yellow beard brushed the shining head.
"But I am not afraid of spoiling the
tulle," Margery protested, as Cousin
Edgar put down his paper, arose from
his chair, and, humming a merry
measure from some popular melody,
left the room.
"You are not such a child, Meg,
that you need encourage such familar-ity
from Cousin Edgar. I am sure
you do not know what he must think
of you," Amelia remarked, as the out-er
door closed behind him.
"Why, Amelia, how absurd and
cross you can be!" the mother inter-posed,
rebukingly.
But Margery did not seem to heed
the concluding sentence. Perhaps she
was already preoccupied with her plans
for the skirt which she was to have
and which she was not destined to spoil,
all discouraging predictors notwith-
The Bon Ton Millinerf Store,
13 East King St., Lancaster, Pa.
In the seclusion of her own dainty
chamber she cut and stitched with in-dustrious
determination, until the com-pleted
garment was a3 perfect as artis-tic
eyes and dextrous fingers and
conscientious painstaking could make
it.
"And now I will dress just as I
mean to dress for the party, and then
I will go down and show myself to
mamma and Amelia," she thought, as,
with pardonable pride, she surveyed
the exquisite consummation of her am-ateur
endeavors.
Smiling and flushed with the satis-faction
of her innocent triumph, she
arrayed herself, and tripped blithely
down to where the two ladies were sit-ting.
"Have I not done well?" she in-quired,
with a not unnatural exulta-tion.
"You have done nothing for which
you should be so ridiculously jubi-lant,"
Miss Amelia declared, crossly
and rudely. "Of course, that sort of
material can always be sewed together
somehow. But the dress has a dis-tressingly
unfinished appearance, I
should say; there are so many creases
and ridges all about the waist and
shoulders, are there not, mamma? And
the draping is neither correct nor
stylish. I should never dare exhibit
myself wearing it if I were you."
All the glad radiance vanished from
the sweet face. Margery was so tired
from her unwonted task and she really
had such a distrust of her own skill.
All the light and color vanished from
her bonny face, the sparkling eyes
brimmed with tears and a disappoint-ing
little cry came from her quivering
pink mouth.
But at the grieved cry two voices,
the one chiding, the other waggish,
sounded in unison.
"She has done her work excellently
well,"the mother said. "And my judg-ment
is worth something, I should
think. You know I did dressmaking
for a living before I married your
father."
"I am inclined to believe, Amelia,
that your own experiment has ended
disastrously," said Cousin Edgar, who
had been standing an unguessed audi-tor
just without the open door of the
pretty sitting-room.
"Oh, I decided not to get the lemon
gauze," Amelia languidly responded,
and with some just preceptible confus-ion.
I intend to save money for my
charity fund; and after all, I do not
think I care very much about the
party, and I shall stay at home, I
think."
But, despite the assertion, Amelia
did not forego the party.
"I should not like Meg to go with-out
me," she said to her mother. "Meg
latterly has a fashion of making her-self
too forward towards Edgar and
she requires so much watching and
checking. I shall send her home early,
mamma; and then I shall have Edgar
all to myself," she mentally added.
But her little arrangement was not
to be a success.
Cousin Edgar did not care to re-main
if Margery was sent home. He
did not care for dancing and the peo-ple
whom he did not know. Ke pre-ferred
to take Margery home himself.
" I preferred a cosy little chat with
you, Meg," he said to her as they en-tered
the familiar sitting-room and he
led her to an easy-chair in the window
niche, lighted by the warm,' spring
moonshine.
But the easy chair was just then oc-cupied
by a capricious and showy
workbasket all emerald satin and tin-sel
and plaitings of lace.
"Amelia must have quite forgotten
her workbasket and she is always so
particular about keeping her work in
her own room, too," said Margery ex-tending
a hand to take the article from
his rather awkward hold.
But she was too late; at that instant
his clumsy man's fingers slipped and
the basket fell, with the contents scat-tered
at his feet. And with the fall a
paper parcel rolled open to disclose in
the gaslight an incomplete overdress
of lemon gauze.
"And Amelia said she did not get
it," Margery murmered, in simple as-tonishment.
"She disliked to admit that she
wasn't clever enough for the task,"
Cousin Edgar laughed, as they viewed
what to his inexperienced man's eye
seemed one glaring, gigantic and irre-parable
fiasco of lemon gauze.
"I do not wonder she was so cross
and critical," Margery said. "We
must not tease her about it, Cousin
Edgar."
"Why do you always call me cous-in?"
he returned, with a look that
stirred the bonny cheeks to a wavering
crimson. "I am scarcely that, you
know, and besides I have a reasonable
expectation of being something nearer
some time."
"I know and I am glad for Amelia's
sake," she returned, gently, but some-how
the crimson blush had paled to
pink again.
"For Amelia's sake," he echoed.
"That Amelia boasts a particular claim
to all the talent of the family, I am
aware, but I certainly haye not been
conscious that she supposes she has an
I exclusive and individual right to all
the relatives also," he finished, wag-gishly.
"But I thought you were so fond of
her," Margery faltered.
"My charming little Meg, I am fond
of nobody but you," he answered, as
he put an arm around her and kissed
her bonny face. "And you so near
and dear to me that I wish to keep
you all mine forever--my love, my
wife."
When Miss Amelia at length re-turned
from the party she stared an-grily
as she beheld the two together.
Cousin Edgar contentedly settled in
the easy-chair, and Margery shyly
nestled on the ottoman beside him.
But the stare changed to an express-ion
of mortification as she perceived
the unlucky lemon gauze on the con-venient
table.
"Never mind, Amelia; you must
have another new dress directly," said
Cousin Edgar, noting the startled
glance and changed expression. "My
little Meg must have you for a brides-maid,
you know, and I mean to pre-sent
something more elegant than
gauze to her maids of honor."
Miss Amelia attempted something
congratulatory, but she accomplished
only an incoherent stammer.
"I could not congratulate them,
mamma," she said afterwards to her
mother. ' I was too much amazed. I
am sure I cannot understand why I
should always make mistakes and
failures in everything. Of course, Meg
is not at all clever, but she always
manages to have just what she wants."
A D n m f o u n d e d D e a d h e a d.
One of the Boston theatre managers
was down at the seashore last summer
and while wandering about the hotel
piaza ran across a friend who touched
him up for a pass. The manager
searched in his inside pocket and then
shook his head.
"I'd give you one, willingly, but I
didn't bring my cards. I don't see
how I can do it without the pass."
The deadhead looked blank. Sud-denly
the manager spoke.
"I'll tell you what I can do. In-stead
of using a card, I'l just write
'Pass bearer' on your shirt front, and
that will get you in all right. Will
that do?"
The man assented, and the pass was
written. That evening the deadhead
showed up at the theatre, and the man
at the gate nodded when he looked at
the shining bosom.
"All right; that's good."
The deadhead passed through the
gate and started into the theatre. He
had only taken a few steps when the
gatekeeper called him back. The man
looked surprised.
"What's the matter now? Isn't it
all right?"
The gatekeeper nodded.
"Yes; but you must surrender the
Not o n e W o m a n i n a H u n d r e d C a n Do
i t G r a c e f u l l y.
"There are not many women who
know how to eat," said a lady the oth-er
day. "Wasn't it Lord Byron who
said something about not wanting to
see a pretty girl eat? I lunch in a big,
crowded restaurant, and, looking
around it, I rarely see a single face
that ¡3n't out of shape,with the mouths
wandering all over the place; And
such bites as the women take! And
how fast they eat! It's what I was
taught to call 'bolting' my food. And
then they will talk with their mouths
full. The words come out as rapidly
as all that food will permit.
"I think that every child should be
taught to eat before a looking glass,
and then she can see for herself what
a painful spectacle she makes of the
perfectly natural process of chewing
and swallowing. As it is, not one per-son
in one hundred knows how to eat."
P u r g i n g t h e P e n s i o n B o l l s.
The work of purging the pension
rolls of impostors has apparently be-gun
in earnest. A long list of names
was sent to Secretary Smith by Com-missioner
Lochren, with the recom-mendation,
which has been approved,
that the same be dropped from the
pension rolls. In this list 11 were de-serters
at large, as appears from the
records of the War Department. A
number did not serve the required 90
days; others drawing widows' pensions
had remarried; one had never been in
the army or nayal service, Several
were drawing pensions on account of
disabilities resulting from their own
vicious habits, and one was living in
"open and notorious adultery."
— S T . E L M O H O T E L , NOS. 317 a n d : 319
Arch street, Philadelphia. — Rates re-duced
to $1.50 and $2 per day. The travel-ing
public will still find at this hotel the
same liberal provision for their comfort.
It is located in the immediate centre of
business, and places of amusement and
the different railroad depots,as well as all
parts of the city, is easily accessible by
street cars constantly passing the doors.
It oifers special inducements to those
visiting the city for business or pleasure.
Your patronage is respectfully solicited.
Oc7-ly GA B L E & K B A U S E , Prop'rs,
W i s e a n d O t h e r w i s e.
Lady (to gentleman who ha3 the
obnoxious habit of putting his mouth
close to your face when talking) "You
smoke bad tobacco, monsieur!" Gent
(astonished and smiling) "I! Why I
never smoke." Lady "Then perhaps
you had better."—Esprit des Aufres.
In a tete-a-tete we are never more
interrupted than when we say nothing.
—Mile, de Lespinasse.
If you really want a man to keep
cool don't tell him to.—Washington
Star.
A woman would be in despair if na-ture
had formed her as fashion makes
her appear.—Mile, de Lespinasse.
He—"I don't believe your father
ever does as he agrees to do." She—
"Why, Charley, how mean of you!
Papa always does jnst as he says he
will. Three days in succession I have
asked him for $10, and he said he
wouldn't give it to me, and he didn't
—so there.—Boston Beacon.
To make love when one is young
and fair is a venial sin; it is a mortal
sin when one is old and ugly.—De
Bernis.
The art of conversation consists le3s
in showing one's own wit than in giv-ing
opportunity for the display of the
wit of others.—La Bruyere.
I never borrow trouble," said the
impecunious man who likes to dis-course
of his own affairs. "Well," re-plied
the busy man, "I'm sorry, but I
haven't anything else to lend to-day."
—Washington Star.
"Oh, I think it's lovely to be mar-ried,"
said a young woman to the lady
on whom she was calling, "especially
when you have a husband who is not
afraid to compliment you." "What
does your husband say?" "He said
yesterday that I was getting to be a
perfecc Xantippe." "A Xantippe.
Do you know what she was?" "Oh yes;
I asked Charley afterwards, and he
told me she wss the goddess of youth
and beauty."
Here to-day and gone to-morrow—
the man who borrowed a $5 bill from
you,
Perhaps some expert in color effects
can explain how it is that a man often
looks bluest when he i3 in a brown
study.
"One of de penalties of greatness,"
said Uncle Eben, "is ter be specially
conspicuous ebry time yer makes er
fool of yerself."
A beautiful woman pleases the eye,
a good woman pleases the heart; one is
a jewel, the other a treasure.
Not a sound has ever ceased to vi-brate
through space; not a ripple has
ever been lost upon the ocean. Much
more is it true that not a true thought,
nor a pure resolve, nor a loving act
has ever gone forth in vain.—Robert-son.
Figgs—"Do you believe in second
marriages?" Fogg—"Yes, for women.
A widow is a perennial danger to soci-ety
until she is married again."
The manly way is to treat lightly
the judgments passed on us by others,
but to be honorably sensative about
the judgments we are compelled to
pass on ourselves.
Police Commissioner—"Officer Mul-arky,
you are charged with being
asleep while on post and on duty."
Officer—"Not guilty, sir, I was off
post at the time."
I n s t r u c t i v e P a c t s a n d F i g u r e s.
The world annually consumes about
650,000 tons of coffee.
Tobacco was first discoyered in
Cuba in the year 1492, but was not
taken to Europe until 1555.
There are 360 different mountain
peaks within the limits of the United
States, each of which exceed 10,000
feet in height.
A sponge having a circumference of
5 feet 6 inches has been taken from
the waters of Biscayne Bay, Fla.
A chestnut tree said to be 2000
years old still flourishes at the foot of
Mt. Etna. It is 218 feet in circum-ference.
All the Chinamen in the United
States came from one of the 18 prov-inces
sf the celestial empire—most of
them from one corner of that province.
A block of coal weighing 41,000
pounds, probably the largest ever
mined, has been taken from a mine in
the State of Washington.
The weight of the earth, as calculat-ed
by Professor Maskelyne.the astron-omer
royal of England, in 1774, is
6,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
T w o - I a n e r s .
A Kansas City negro left a $200,-
000 estate.
Spain has 350 World's Fair exhibi-ted.
Australia boast 1000-year-old tim-ber.
Paris will have an exhibition of
aged people.
One man in four has defective
vision.
Sahara Desert covers 1,000,000
square miles.
It Seems to Be a Mystery
To the people of Lancaster county how I can sell my
Watches so cheap. Yet I have been doing it right
along, and will continue it until I have sold one to YOU.
If you want to buy a Watch let me give you prices. I
know I can save you money.
JACK STRAUB, Jeweler,
No. 6o North Queen Street, Lancaster.
N a v i g a t i o n of t h e Air.
Professor Bell, the electrician, dis-cusses
in the June number of Mc-
Ginn's Magazine the prospects for
aerial navigation, and says :
" Of course, the airship of the future
will be constructed without any balloon
attachments. The discovery of the
balloon undoubtedly retarded the so-lution
of the flying problem for over a
hundred years. Ever since the Mont-golfiers,
taught the world how to rise
in the air by means of inflated gas-bags,
the inventors working at the
problem of serial navigation have been
thrown on the wrong track. Scientific
men have been wasting their time try-ing
to steer balloons, a thing which in
the nature of the case is impossible to
any extent, inasmuch as balloons, being
lighter than the resisting air, can never
make any headway against it. The
fundamental principle of serial naviga-tion
is that the ship must be heavier
than the air. It is only of recent
years that men capable of studying
the problem seriously have accepted
this as an axiom."
N o t e s o f N a t u r e.
One of the peculiarites of the cocoa-nut
palm is that it never stands up-right.
A Malayan saying has it that:
"He who has looked upon a dead
monkey; he who has found the nest
of a paddy-bird ; he who has beheld a
straight cocoanut palm, or has fathom-ed
the heart of a woman, will live for-ever."
Sir John Herschel says that if a
solid cylinder of ice, 45 miles in
diameter and 200,000 miles long, were
plunged end first into the sun, it would
melt in a second of time.
Sturgeons, for their size, are the
weakest of all fish ; they are found in
some parts weighing over a ton, but
are perfectly helpless when attacked
by a swordfish the size of a herring.
The " Life Tree " Jamaica, will con-tinue
to grow for years after it has
been dug up and its roots exposed to
the sun. Leaves severed from the
limbs will remain green for weeks.
The tree can only be destroyed by
fire. ;
T u r n e r ' s Last Words.
Mr. Frith tells the story of the
great Turner's death. He had sent
for his favorite doctor from Ramsgate.
" Well, doctor," said Turner, " you
can cure me if anybody can. What's
the verdict? Tell me the truth."
" I am afraid I must beg you to lose
no time in any worldly arrangements
you decide to make."
"Wait a bit," said Turner, "you
have had nothing to eat or drink, yet,
have you ?"
" No, but that is of no consequence."
" Yes it is. Go downstairs and you
will find some fine brown sherry—
don't spare it, and then come up and
see me again."
The doctor refreshed himself, aud
then returned to his patient.
" Now, then," said Turner, what is
it? Do you think so badly of my
case ? Wasn't that good sherry ?"
" I grieve to say that I cannot alter
my opinion."
Turner put his hand out of bed,
pressed that of the doctor, turned his
face to the wall and never spoke
again.
T r u e W i s d o m.
** I told you," said the teacher apolo-getically
to Tommy, " that I should
whip you if you did not tell your
father you had run away from school,
didn't I !"
" That's all right," responded
Thomas. " I didn't tell him. One of
your lickins is a picnic by the side of
one of dad's."
W a s G o i n g There.
Rural Justice. " I sentence the
prisoner to be hung."
Lawyer. " But you can't do that,
you Honor; he must go before a
higher court."
Justice. " Well, ain't that jes' where
I'm goin' to send him ? Swing him up
an' call the next case !"
B o u n d to S e l l Them.
Crusty Customer—" You say those
glasses are three times as valuable as
I wear. I can't see it."
Bright Salesman—" Certainly not,
with those imperfect old glasses.''
Over t h e State.
Having slipped down a mine slope
at Hazleton, Michael Teist was found
a corpse.
A heavy log wagon ran over and
crushed lifeless little Tillie Baker, at
Hazleton.
Sixiy mildly-insane patients were
taken from the Norristown Asylum to
Wernersville.
Sand for making china glassware
will be mined from the Blue Mountain,
near Reading.
By the closing of the big iron furn-ace
at Rock Hill, Huntingdon county,
500 men are idle.
Wages paid to miners in the Potts-ville
region this month are two per
cent, higher than last month.
Two horses owned by P. A. Small,
of Yorkhaven, were killed by a train,
but the driver escaped unhurt.
Mrs. Alvan Markle opened the
throttle that started the electric power
house engines for the Hazleton trolley.
The reyenue office at Reading was
closed, its afiaiss having been transfer-red
to the Philadelphia Internal
Revenue office.
Thomas Shannon, cashier of the
Pittsburg and Western Railway at
New Castle, is missing, and his accounts
are said to be short $1500.
Just before his marriage to Miss
Harper, George Eisenhart, of Shamo-kin,
discovered that he had been rob-bed
of $400, and the wedding was
postponed.
H o w to Get Sleep.
Sleep rules have an addition. It is
to place the right hand on the fore-head
and the left at the back of the
neck, while counting 49. The ration-ale
of this process is thus explained by
Dr. Salisbury : The palm of the right
hand and the fore part of the body
are both plus (or positive) magnetic
poles. The left palm and the back
part of the body are minus (or nega-tive)
poles. Like poles repel, and by
thus placing the palms of the hands
over the various centres of plexuses, a
vital current is directed back into the
body, its normal circuit is re-establish-ed,
and its energies are guided and
evenly distributed among the organs
situate along its course. The physical
and mental systems will become pas-sive,
contented and comfortable, all
parts working together for the com-mon
good. Thé result will be com-posure
and recuperation. All dis-tracting,
harassing, melancholy imagi-nations
and gloomy forebodings will
have passed away ; the stomach and
bowels and all their glandular append-ages
will renew their healthy functions
while digestion and assimilation, pre-viously
at a standstill, will go on nor-mally.
Overwork and improper food
are at the bottom of our sleeplessness.
C o n t e n t m e n t .
Given all the comforts and many of
the luxuries of life, how many people
are discontented solely from a habit of
comparing their lot with those of more
fortunate acquaintances! They do not
specially object to walking—they like
the exercise—but, whenever their next-door
neighbor's carriage dashes by
them, they grow suddenly tired about
the knees and feel a weakness in the
back with which pedestrianism does
not agree. Woolen gowns would be
perfectly comfortable if silk ones never
rustled in front of them. John
Smith's brick house is better than he
eyer expected to own, and he would
be content enough with it if Thomas
Jones, who went to school with him
when he was a boy, had not moved in-to
a stone-fronted mansion with hand-some
portico.
A F i s h Story.
It is a popular impression that live
fish may be frozen stiff and readily re-vived
by carefully thawing them. To
test the accuracy of this impression, a
New Haven ice manufacturing com-pany
recently placed five live perch
in water and froze the water solid.
The freezing process took about sixty
hours. As the water congealed from
thé outside inwardly, the fish con-tinued
to swim about as long as they
had room to move.
The cake of ice containing the perch
was left in a solid state for a day or
two and then cut open, and the fish
taken out and placed in water to thaw.
They were carefully watched for a
long time, but none of them exhibited
any sign of life to the observant
watchers.