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YOL. XIX. LITITZ, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 11, 1895, NO. 5.
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of large cities. My stock of
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The stock of
SHIRTS, TIES,
COLLARS, CUFFS,
NECKWEAR, HATS,
CAPS, HOSIERY,
AND UMBRELLAS,
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no trolley. Give us a call and be convinced.
THE ROEBUCK PUBLIC FOUNTAIN
It was D e d i c a t e d and Handed Over
t o t l i e Borough of Xiititz.
Last Thursdaj- afternoon marked an
auspicious and memorable event in the
history of our progressive and pretty
little town. It was the occasion of
the dedication of the Roebuck public
fountain, which at the same time was
handed over from the donor to the
borough for iuture care and mainte-nance.
The perfect autumn day brought
many people to the scene to witness
the exercises. Chairs had been pro-vided
and were placed in the shade be-fore
the residence of Mr. A. W. Shober.
where the ceremonies were performed
facing the fountain.
anon, an old friend of Dr. Roebuck's,
which received a hearty applause. The
following is the poem :
There was a Spanish nobleman who lived
long years ago,
And he had grown quite aged, for the legend
tells us so.
Proud was he of his ancestry, proud of his"
land and birth ; —
To h im the Spanish kingdom was the pride
of all the earth.
He had fought in many battles and had hon-orable
scars,
For this doughty old Hidalgo was the truest
son oi Mars.
He was old, as I have told you, and dreaded
much the day
"When be should pass from off the earth, in
state be laid away ; ,
For though bold as any lion, the bravest of
the brave,
He shrank in terror from the gloom and
silence of the grave ;
Nor was it strange he'd rather bear t h e ills of
earthly toil
Than fly to those he lsnew not of, beyond this
mortal coil.
But he had learned of the new world that
lay across the sea.
Notes f r om the P e n n s y l v a n i a Experi-ment
Station..
The Babcock test for fat in milk has
come into extensive use within the last
few years for testing cows and herds in
place of the more expensive and troub-lesome
churn test. This has been the
case especially since the results of the
Columbian Dairy Test demonstrated
the substantial agreement of the two
methods when properly carried out.
The Babcock test, when correctly
made, gives accurately the amount of
butter-fat contained iD the milk. It is
often desirable, however, to express
the results of a test in terms of butter.
I t is well known that the amount ot
B Y THE WAY.
THE ROEBUCK PUBLIC FOUNTAIN, LITITZ, PA.
W . H . B U S H 9
RECORD Building, Lititz, Pa
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wear, and some men will prefer the Alpine Soft Felt _ to the
almost universally worn Derby. If you want a becoming Hat
at a reasonable price, you want to be coming in to see us
while there is a possibility of a good choice in our F A L L and
WINTER Stock.
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N E W T . W I N G E R T , MANAGER.
A Watch as Lapp as a
Would be inconvenient to carry, but would be large enough in t h e various parts
for you to see without a magnitying glass ; and when you had paid a fair price for
repairs you could examine and determine for yoursrlf if the work had been skill-fully
done.
How much botch-work Is buried in the smallness of the parts of the average
watch only the skilled watchmaker knows.
Don't make the mistake thai one workman is as good as another; and when
one charges $2 50 and the other SI.50 for a certain amount of work that the only dif-ference
is in t h e price. In watchmaking, as In other professions, the same rule ap-plies,
viz • Cbeap prices, cheap work.
To do good work one must have not only good tools but skill to use them. "We
have both and our Iriends and patrons will bear us out in the statementthat when
we undertake to do work it is done right. We get work from all over the county.
We do a great deal of work for railroad men, and you can send us YOUK "WATCH
WORK in perfect confidence t h a t it will be properly done. Give us a trial.
O . H . M E R N T Z , A g t .,
WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER,
116 N, QUEEN STREET, LANCASTER, PA.
A. R BOMBERGER,
LITITZ.
P A I N T S , O I L S , 6 L A S S , A 6 A T E W A R E,
STOVES, HEATERS, RANGES,
O I L HEATERS, WHIPS,
H O U S E F ( J l i N l S H l t i Gr G O O D S
R E F R I G E R A T O R S , I C E CREAM FREEZERS, ETC.
At three o'clock tlie Lititz band put
in an appearance and after rendering a
selection, the order of exercises were
ready to proceed with, when President
of Council Samuel Seaber arose and
called the meeting to order.
The invocation prayer in appropriate
words was offered by Rev. H. E. Sem-mel,
when the quartette of male
voices sang a selection which took well.
Rev. W. H . Eewars of Annville,
whilom pastor of the Eitit/. Lutheran
church, then stepped forward and de-livered
the opening remarks in
language which caused every one to
give it closest attention, interspersed
with occasional witticisms that caused
smiles 011 the faces of many, yet not
out of place, while he did not forget
the generous donor of the fountain,
Dr. Roebuck, whom he took pleasure
in calling h im a friend, He said that
this dedication was an unusual oc-casion,
because the tendency nowadays
was toward utilitarianism and that it
was quite refreshing to see such gen-erosity
among the greed, gain and in-tensely
selfish spirit that pervaded the
national atmosphere. He closed by
saying that his friend had raised a
monument to himself, not only ma-terial,
but also in the hearts of the
people and suggested that the people
place a tablet on the fountain setting
forth the name of the donor with the
date, and a suitable inscription.
The quartette again stepped for-ward
and gave another song.
The presentation address was de-livered
by A. E. Hostetter, attorney of
Lancaster, who spoke at considerable
length on the history of our old town,
its many virtues and characteristics of
which it could well feel proud of, 011
which subject Mr. Hostetter is well
posted, having been a pupil of the
Eititz Academy many years ago. He
further said that we are apt to speak
of this time as an age wholly practical
and selfish, marked by the absorption
of the people and their devotion to
utilitarianism. Under the surface,
however, another powerful force is at
work. This is the conviction that 110
man ought to live for himself alone.
This conviction includes a new sense
of the true uses and responsibilities of
wealth. The orator than spoke of the
generosity and public spirit of the
giver of the fountain and dwelt upon
the wisdom of choosing some public
benefit for a memorial and upon the
appropriateness of the gift coming
from a man who had spent his active
life in alleviating suffering. Mr. Hos-tetter
spoke of the various aspects of
the gift, the influence it would have
upon the people and the inspiration
for nobler deeds which it ought to
cause. The speaker closed by present-ing
the fountain to the borough in an
appropriate manner.
Charles I. Eandis, our borough so-licitor,
delivered the acceptance speech
in short and well-worded Janguage, in
which he said that Dr. Roebuck, in
generously donating this fountain,
had done a fitting deed in this the
scene of his success. He has done an
honor to himself and the borough,
and although all will pass away and
their deeds be forgotten, yet this foun-tain
will keep t h e memory of the giver
green in the minds of t h e people. Mr.
Eandis then accepted the fountain on
behalf of the burgess and borough
council.
At this stage of the proceedings the
band followed with music and then
came an original poem composed and
read by Dr. J, H, Redsecker, of I,eb-
Where flowers in profusion bloomed, and
where the hum of Dee
And music of the mocking bird were heard
amidst the trees,
And where health, a boon and blessing, was
borne on every breeze. —
Of a fountain of perpetual youth flowing on-ward
to the main,
Where, if one drank or dip'd or bathed, he
would be young again.
'Twas thither, then, he turned his prow and
trim'd his vessel's sa,ils,
And safely in his galleon outstrode the
strongest gales.
He reached the fair and flow'ry land, found
not the fabled spring,
But from Indian warrior received death's
cruel sting. ;
The fountain which he sought in v a i n , the
boon for which he sighed,
Hath ne'er been found, though oft' desired,
since Ponce De Leon died.
Though centuries have passed since then, we
hold this maxim true :
We live, not in the years we spend, but in
the deeds we do;
For noble acts and princely deeds are not
alone confined
To those who are of royal birth, but those of
noble mind.
This work of art we here unveil, in purpose
and in plan,
Reveals to us a kindly act, done by a noble
man.
'Tis thus that we our youth renew. The
spring of joy we find
In friendly words and gen'rous deeds that
help and bless mankind
Unlike the fabled spring ne'er found in
flow'ry southern lands.
This fountain of refreshing, here in beauteous
splendor stands.
Whene'er we hear the music of its laughing
liquid lip,
'Twill speak to us with tend'rest voice of
sweet companionship;
For here may man and beast and bird, child-hood
and hoary age.
Their weary spirits oft refresh, theirparching
thirst assuage;
And generations yet unborn, when they
shall gather here,
With thankful hearts will bless this act, the
donor's name revere.
The quartette gave more singing
and then followed the dedicatory
prayer by Rev. C. L. Moench. An-other
piece of music by the quartette
was followed by Rev. F. Pilgram pro-nouncing
the benediction, when the
band closed the event with music.
The fountain plot was adorned with
potted plants and flowers and the na-tional
flag, presenting a most beauti-ful
picture. The public school child-ren
of Eititz and Warwick were
present and greatly helped to swell
the crowd, all of whom, large and
small, enjoyed the exercises. There
were quite a number of people present
from a distance.
THE FOUNTAIN.
The fountain is of bronze metal and
of most beautiful design. It is sur-rounded
with concrete pavement and
curbing, and the basin is also of con-crete.
Triangular plots of grass, en-closed
with concrete coping, give a
charming effect to it, and three elec-tric
lights make it a veritable " t h i ng
of beauty." Two of t h e lamp posts
containing the electric lights have
spigots from which the water is drawn
and in front of the fountain is a
trough for beasts. Hidden within the
concrete pavement that surrounds the
fountain is a receptacle for ice—a place
where a huge lump of ice is placed 011
top of the water pipes, (which are laid
in coils), thus giving all who pass that
way a drink of ice water. The foun-tain
was built by J. W. Fisk, of New
York, and Oster Bros., of Lancaster,
had the contract for the concrete work.
Excursion R a t e s to Atlanta.
On account of the Atlanta Exposi-tion,
the B. & O. R. R. Co. will sell
excursion tickets at greatly reduced
rates. Season tickets will be sold
every day until December 15th, good
returning until January 7th, 1896.
Twenty-day tickets will be sold every
day until December 15th, good return-ing
for twenty days from date of sale.
Ten-day tickets will be sold Tuesday
and Thursday each week until Decem-ber
24th, good returning for ten days
from date of sale. The rates from
Philadelphia will be $33.25 for season,
»25.25 for twenty-day, and 120.00 for
ten-day tickets. Correspondingly low
rates from other points on the line.
butter which a cow or herd produces
s not the same as the amount of
butter-fat, being usually larger. In
the first place, even with the most
careful work in the dairy, thereris some
loss of fat in the skim milk and1 butter-milk.
Oa the other hand, butter con-tains
several per cent, of water, salt
and other materials besides iat. Ijhe
combined results of these two factjbrs
is that the butter usually " overruns,"
as the creameryman expresses/it, the
results of the fat test. Obviously, the
amount of this overrun will ^depend
upon the completeness of the skimming
and churning on the one hand, and of
the amount oi material other than fat
incorporated into the butter, on the
other hand. Quite a diyersity of prac-tice
has obtained as to what should be
regarded as the butter equivalent of
one pound of butter-fat, with tl.e re-sults
that tests wade by different par-ties
have not been comparable and,
what is worse, that it was vt-ry¡diificult
to know whether two tests were com-parable
or not. Plainly, if one man
adds one-fifth to the amount of butter-fat
found while another adds one-eighth,
the test by the first man would
show a cow or herd to be materially
better than would an exactly similar
test by the second man.
This subject came up for discussion
at the Ninth Annual Convention of
the Association of American Agricul-tural
Colleges and Experiment Sta-tions
held in Denver, July 1 6 - 1 9 , and
the following resolution was adopted
which, at the request of the Chairman
ol the Executive Committee, is hereby
communicated to the press of the
State:
Resolved :—That this Association
recommends to the several stations
that the results oi tests of dairy cows
or herds be expressed in terms of but-ter
f a t ; and that when desirable to ex-press
these records in terms of approxi-mate
equivalent in butter, such equiva-lent
be computed by multiplying the
amount of butter-fat by one and one-sixth.
The reasons for adopting this factor
was stated as follows by the commit-tee
having the matter in charge :
" The ninety day Columbian Dairy
Test is the most elaborate and careiul-ly
conducted on record. In this test,
96.97 per cent, of the fat in the whole
milk was saved in the butter. This
butter on the average contained 82.37
per cent, of butter f a t ; in other words,
117.3 pounds of butter was made from
each 100 pounds of butter fat in the
whole milk. The exact conversion
factor would therefore be 1.173. As
this is an awkward number to use, and
as one and one-sixth is so nearly the
same (the difference in computing the
record of a 14 pound cow for a week
by these two factors being only .07 of
a pound of butter) it has seemed best
to recommend that the latter be used
as the conversion factor."
I n t e r e s t i n g Notes and Events About
Persons, P l a c e s a n d Things.
LIKE THE fishing subject, the sub-ject
of education is always a fruitful
one for discussion and productive of
much thought and study. I have
been thinking a great deal of the waste
of time, that no doubt everyone of us
can vouch for, which occurs during
one's school days, time that should be
spent to good advantage, but which is
allowed to go for naught, sometimes
the fault of the teacher, but oftener
the fault of the scholar. During the
schooling period one is not apt to rea-lize
or put to use the splendid advice
we find in quotations, one of which
comes to mind so forcibly just at pres-ent.
"Count that day lost whose low descending
sun
Sees at thy hand no worthy action done."
But the schools of to day are all so
well conducted and so well principled
that as a rule there is more accom-plished
in the same time than was the
case some years ago. One year in
particular I shall never forget, and I
am safe in saying that those who at-tended
school that year will always
have cause to remember the term.
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THERE were only three divisions
then, primary, secondary and gram-mar.
It will not be necessary to men-tion
the names of the teachers who
presided over the schools the year I
refer to, although there could possibly
be no harm, as they were non-resi-dents—-
I refer to the* secondary and
grammar divisions—but there might
be offei:se taken should I do so, al-though
it is unlikely that this will
reach the eyes of the teachers referred
to. In fact, had the directors not been
so derelict in their duties in those
days, it is not at all likely that there
would have been such laxity in the
schools that year. But for downright
loss of time and entire neglect of
studies I am positive the public schools
of Lititz never before nor since wit-nessed
its equal. How much the other
scholars learned that term is only con-jecture,
but I didn't learn the one-tenth
part of the definition of a simple frac-tion.
What puzzles me is that none of
the directors nor the patents ever
" tumbled " to the way things were go-ing.
But we had lots of fun and sport.
Well, perhaps we didn't! It is only
after the lapse of years that one regrets
the loss of time that might have been
employed most profitably.
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60 NORTH QUEEN STREET,
—It is now claimed that smoke,
never issues from volcanoes, nor are
there flames from the same source
The red light seen above the volcano
is the glow of molten lava reflected on
the under side of the clouds of dust.
The clouds of dust are never mixed
with smoke. There are, it is true, bursts
of steam sometimes, but rocks do not
burn as coal or wood and give off the
finely divided carbon which we know
as smoke.
WHAT we didn't do is easier to tell
than what we did, That can be sum-med
up in a yery few words—we
didn't learn a thing, but did about
every thing else. One of our chief
amusements was a " fox chase " almost
every day, this during school hours too,
It happened that Harvey Geitner was
somewhat of a " pet " with the teacher,
and could do pretty much as he pleased
After school assembled it was his habit
to walk out the front door and let it
stand ajar. In the twinkling of an eye
we all followed the " leader " on all
fours until we reached the safety point
—on the front porch. It didn't take
us long to form our plans for the chase
and off we went, down the street and
invariably, through Billy Bollinger's
side yard, to his barn and from there
out into the country, always returning
shortly before the time tor school to be
dismissed. Did the teacher notice our
absence ? Well, hardly. It was her
habit to take up one of Dickens:
works and read aloud, but as we boys
weren't interested in Dickens just at
that time, we took to the " chase
about as complacently as a duck takes
to water.
ANOTHER popular amusement, al-though
a most dangerous one, was
firing off small cannon and swivels,
which we made ourselves by taking a
limb of a tree, say about four or five
inches in diameter, and boring a hole
two-thirds through the centre. This
we filled up with powder, putting a
bung in the end and touching it off.
I t made a great racket, but that's
what we wanted. This shooting got to
be such a fad that we would even take
an ordinary spool, plug one end up
and fill it with powder, which was
touched off in the vestibule. The shoot-ing
part of the program came to a
very abrupt ending one day. Lawrence
Grosh was about to put a match to a
spool when one of the directors uncere-moniously
walked in and took Law-rence
by the ear. That ended the shoot-ing
but it didn't put a stop to, our
other pranks.
BICYCLE
Ts l c I k s :
JEWELER.
LANCASTER, PA.
ents is indeed a mystery. But a great-er
mystery is that the directors did not
take the matter in hand and mete out
well deserved punishment to us all.
That was a great year for sport, no
doubt, and those who took part in it
have reasons never to forget it, but as
for advancement it was a year with a
good sized blank to it.
* » *
A CHANGE of teachers the next year
brought about a big change in the
schools and marked an era of progress
that has gone steadily forward. Of
course after such a wild career we had
to be tamed down somewhat, and the
only amusement we indulged in was
breaking window panes in the attic of
the school, but on discovering that we
had to pay for them, our sport soon
ceased.
» • *
PRIOR to the episode referred to
above, perhaps half a dozen years be-fore,
a most amusing event occurred.
I t happened in the secondary school,
and while our teacher wasn't any too
kind to us, we might have overlooked
this little matter of unkindness, had
she shown more consideration for our
welfare and the contents of our pock-ets,
Now, you know, a boy's pocket,
especially when going to school, is his
workshop and play house, or more cor-rectly
speaking his storeroom, and
what it don't contain that will amuse
him during his spare moments would
be hard to think of. But our teacher
didn't take very kindly to the contents,
especially if a marble happened to
drop out during school hours and roll
over the floor.
» » *
THIS IS just what did happen one
day, and it excited her wrath. The
edict went forth thet every boy would
be searched that afternoon and every-thing
confiscated found in his pockets.
Boys have great miuds at times but
woefully lacking in application, as we
found out. Not relishing the idea of
having to give up our precious treas-ures
that we saw fit to carry in our
pockets, we hid upon what we thought
a great scheme. It was, but—well,
every boy pledged himself to empty
his pockets of their treasures and fill
them with stones. The bigger the stones
the better we thought the joke would
be. When the bell rang we all march-ed
in with our pockets bulging out,
and only one boy relented and quickly
threw his stones out the window. That
gave us away prematurely, and while
I won't mention his name because he's
bigger than I am, he now lives not far
from Broad and Orange streets. We
didn't think any too well of his goiDg
back on us at the last moment, but
he had the laugh on us the rest of the
day.
Oyer the State.
Reading's smallest man, Jeremiah
Ludwig, 39 inches tall, died of old age.
York county's fair, this week prom-ises
to be more successful than for many
years.
While assisting at an Allentown
funeral on Saturday, Mildrum Conner
dropped dead.
Poitsville is again without funds,
and a loan of $10,000, the limit allow-ed
by law, will be created.
Over 100 Poles, Huus and Italians
were naturalized on Saturday in the
Schuylkill County Courts.
Owing to the heavy death rate at
Scranton, the Health Board urges all
the people to boil all the water they
drink.
Rev. H. C. Astwood, colored, of
Harrisburg, will sue the school board
for turning his children out of a white
school.
Ill health caused Frank Anthony
employed in the office of the Carpen-ter
Steel Works, Reading, to commit
suicide with poison.
A bursting fly-wheel m the Home-stead
electric light plant killed Engi-neer
John Bowman.
Charged with passing counterfeit
silver dollars at Punxsutawney, Jack
Wright was jailed.
In putting paper in a stove at Leb-anon,
the little daughter of Charles
Field was fatally burned.
Picking a dynamite cartridge with
a key and exploding it, Joseph Beam-tis,
of Pittston, was critically mangled.
Elwood Gray, accused of stealing a
horse from Mrs. R. A. Gould, in
Chester county, was captured near
Oxford.
OwiDg to the frequent suspensions
of work at the colliery, O-car Stein, a
miner, near Pottsyille, committed sui-cide
with poison.
Damages for $1850.50 were recov-ered
at Pottsville by C. B. Wagner
from the Lehigh & Wilkesba rre Coal
Company for culm washed upon his
land.
Another ineffectual attempt was
made at York to sell the Tidewater
Canal and Columbia Dam to satisfy
claims of $1,000,000. A bid of $30,-
000 was made.
The Ebervale Mines were entered
for the first time since being flooded
eight years ago.
G. Frank Anthony, assistant gen-eral
manager of the Carpenter Steel
Works at Reading, committed suicide
with prusic acid.
Savario Spinello was arrested at
Norristown for the murder of Charles
Roller, near Hammcmton, New Jersey,
on October 4.
While sinking an artesian well two
•new coal veins were struck at Park
View, near Hazleton,
THAT a very serious accident did
not happen from this careless shooting
can be attributed more to good luck
than good management. It makes me
shudder now when I think what might
have resulted from some permature
explosion. That all this took place in
front of and inside the school without
raising a great outcry among the par-
WELL, the first t h i n g on t h e p r o -
gramme was the search for the hidden
treasures. I think I was the first to be
searched. At any rate I know I had
several pretty large stones hid away,
but little dreamt what was in store.
After the stones had all been taken
out the teacher put on her thinking
cap, that's what we thought she did
at any rate. Procuring some twine,
she selected the largest stone from each
boy's pocket and tied it around his
neck. We looked like so many cows
going around the streets, with a bell
on in search of pasture. As if this
wasn't enough to add to our discom
fort, the directors suddenly took in in-to
their heads to pay the school a visit
that afternoon. They looked at us as
if they thought we were part oi some
neglected stone quarry, or were trying
to discover the mysteries of the stone
age. At any rate we had the satisfac-tion
of knowing that the teacher's
scheme didn't work as well as she
thought it would, as the directors,after
hearing our explanation of the occur-rence,
seemed to side with us. They
suddenly remembered their sthool
days, and thought it wasn't altogether
right for the teacher to confiscate the
contents of our pockets. Bat then a
woman never can understand a boy. I
always will believe she was instrument-al
in bringing about that director's
visit on that particular afternoon. It
was a most remarkable coincidence at
any rate.
* # *
BUT DON'T mention stones to any of
the boys should you happen to know
them. PHIL.
Literary Notes.
The editor of the Review of Reviews
finds several incidents in this fall's
political situation on which to com-ment
with effect in " The Progress of
the World " f o r October ; the part
played by the liquor question in the
New York campaign is very clearly
described. The present difficulties of
the U. S. Treasury and the bearings
thereof on national politics are discuss-ed.
The opening oi the Atlanta Expo-sition
and the recent patriotic gather-ings
at Louisville and Chicamanga,the
international yacht racing fiasco, the*
building of American battle-ships and
Lord Wolsely's appointment as Com-mander-
in-Chief of the British Army,
are among the topics included in the
month's survey. The Madagascar cam-paign,
the massacre of missionaries in
China, the American question and pro-gress
ia South Africa under Cecil
Rhodes (whose portrait serves as the
frontispiece of this number of the
Review) are matters of international
interest which also pass under editorial
review.
—Five train loads of Oregon f r u i t,
shipped to be sold as such, have been
sent East in the last few weeks. The
fruit was mostly pears and prunes.
Oregon growers are putting forth great
efforts this year to make the fruits of
that State known in the East. They
say that hitherto almost all Oregon
fruit has been sold as Califorian. They
also claim that the Oregon fruit has
more than held its own in direct com-petition
with fruit from California.
Oregon farmers propose to go into the
fruit business extensively.