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YOL. XX. LITITZ, PA., FEIDAY MORNING, MAY 28; 1897. NO. 3:
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By the flow of the inland river,
Whence the fleets of iron have fled,
Where the blades of grave grass quiyer,
Asleep are the ranks of the dead ;
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day—
Under the one, the Blue;
Under the other, the Gray.
These in the robings of glory,
Those in the gloom of defeat,
All with the battle-blood gory,
In the dust of eternity m e e t;
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day;
Under the laurel, the Blue;
Under the willow, the Gray.
From the silence of sorrowful hours
The desolate mourners go,
Lovingly laden with flowers,
Alike for the friend and the foe;
Under the sod and dew,
Waiting the judgment day ;
Under the roses, the Blue;
Under the lilies, the Gray.
So with an equal splendor
The morning sun-rays fall,
With a touch, impartially tender.
On the blossoms blooming for all;
Under the sow and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day;
Broidering with gold, the Blue;
Mellowed with gold, the Gray.
Sadly, but not with upbraiding,
The generous deed was done;
In the storm of the years that are fading,
No braver battle was won ;
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day ;
Under the blossoms, the Blue;
Under the garlands, the Gray. THE RIGHT OF WAY.
T H E B L U E A N D T H E G R A Y .
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NEWT. WINGERT, MANAGER.
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"RECORD" OFFICE.
ES," said the old engineer
reflectively, as he filled his
pipe, " these interlockin' sig-nals
and so on are all very pretty in
theory, but the theory doesn't always
work out, as, for instance, in the At-lantic
City wreck. For my part, give
me the old fashioned way of stoppin'
at all grade crossin's, and there'll be
no trouble."
" And that reminds me," he contin-ued,
returning the borrowed tobacco
bag to the fireman, " of an incident
which occurred one time about twenty
years ago when I was running, on the
Crooked Eiver branch of this line.
At that time the Danville Road cross
ed us at grade near Monterey. There
wasn't no fancy set of switches nor sig-nals
there in them days; nor even a
watchman. The rule was that all
trains must come to a dead stop 300
feet short of the crossin', and alter
makin' sure the way was clea'-, to go
slowly over. Passenger trains had
right of way over freight, and freight
over coal."
" Well; sometimes we stopped, and
sometimes we didn't, especially if we
were late or in a harry. I was runnin'
the day express then, and on account
of the cars bein' painted black, as well
as our fast schedule, the train was
known as the Flyaway Nigger, some-thing
like the Empire State Express
and so on of to-day. There was a
mean, crusty engineer on the Danville
Road, who used to chase himself across
in front of me day after day with his
old mixed train of freight and passen-ger
cars until I got tired out. 'See,
here, Bill,' said I to him one night,
you don't want to be so durn quick on
the trigger in goin' over that crossin'
at Monterey ahead of me. You know
well enough I have the right of way
over your blame old train, and its only
fair you treat me white.' Bill snorted
out that I could go to the devil, and
that he'll run his train to suit himself
All right, Bill,' says I, 'if that's the
way you're goin' to act, you've got to
take the conrequences.' Goin' to
report me, I s'pose,' he said. Not
much,' says I, 'that ain't my style, but
the next time you get in my way, look
out,' and with that I left him for I was
too blame mad to talk."
" Well, next night I saw Bill with
his pesky little train crawlin' along
toward the crossin' just as I blowed
for Monterey. I had two express, four
coaches and a Pullman; a pretty
heavy train in them days; but I put
on steam,pulled the whistle and hustled
out lively. Bill had the start of me,
however, and he made his old teapot of
an engine nearly bust, but he got there
first and went lickety split over the
crossin', yankin' the train end of his
train right from the front of my engine.
Then I saw him and his fireman makin'
faces at me. 'All right, my boy,'
thought I, 'your turn will surely
come.'"
"Next night he did me up again,
and the night after that he once more
bumped his rickety old rollin' stock
under my nose. I nearly had a fit,
but I never let on. Of course by this
time the crews were on to the ctse,
and one scared brakeman reported me
to the superintendent. I got a note to
come to his office at once. I went,
explained everything, and come out
with the order that if I didn't get the
Flyaway Nigger over that croesin:
ahead of the Danville train that night
I might hunt another job. Oh, he was
a dandy, that superintendent.
" Well, I didn't want to lose my job,
and I was blame anxious to take a
wheel off Bill's train, so I didn't feel
very much cut up over the order.
'Get a good head of steam on, Pete,' I
said to the fireman, 'the Flyaway
Nigger goes over the crossin' first to-night,
or Bill and us go to hell together.
'Good,' said Pete.
" We gol to Monterey two minutes
ahead of time, and was swingin' along
confident like, when, bust my hide, if
old Bill didn't loom up in the distance
hell bent for the crossin,' at a speed
which I could easy see was goin' to
land him there just about the time we
would be usin' them rails. I blowed,
and he blowed. We were both goin'
about the same speed, say forty miles
an hour. The passengers were dead
game« They was hangin' out the win-dows
yellin' and cussin' each other as
hard as they could, and I heard after-ward
that two of them staked their
accident insurance tickets on the re-sult.
" Bill was doiu' himself proud ; he
had a train of one flat, three box and
a passenger car, the flat being next
the engine. I saw he was about thirty
feet ahead of me, and I calculated I'd
go through him just about the flat car,
when Pete yelled, and I saw him
pointin' to the box cars. It was no
wonder he yelled. Oa every car was a
big sign :
DYNAMITE.
" 'Gosh,' thought I, 'there's goin' to
be some fun, sure,' and I braced my
feet against the cab. By this time we
were within twenty yards of the crossin,
and Bill's engine was just on the frog.
I saw Bill's face for a second, and you
bet your life he wasn't grinnin' at that
time.
Then came a bump, and it's the
honest God's truth I'm tellin' you
that before I knew what was what we
were spinnin' along on the other side
of the crossin' without even a bent rod.
Lookin' back, I saw we had cut right
through the Danville train between
the engine and the flat car, and that by
some strange means not a wheel had
left the track. It was the queerest
collision I ever heard of.
" Bill came to my house that night
and says he, 'Sam' if you ain't more
caeful you'll break something at Mon-terey
one of these days.'
" Bill,' says I, do you concede me
the right of way from now on ?'
"I do, Sam,' says he, solemn like.
" 'All right, Bill,' says I, 'come and
have a drink.'
" And that ended it."
The BGrroetahte rAs dSamho Fwos reCpoanusgobl idaantde dS. ells
of
THE COUBNOTYR'YS SISTER.
0 MUCH is heard and written of
the country boy who started from
the lowest depth of obscurity and
rose to become almost anything to
which his heart and ambitions tended.
Very many of the most distinguished
American statesmen, authors or theo-logians
were poor country boys. Am-bition,
energy, and, as a man quaintly
expresses it, " bull-dog tenacity," have
won him the position and name he
bears with credit.
But while the brothers attain honors
so easily, how is it that the country
sisters so frequently never have any ad-vantages
whatever ? It is a noted fact
that in a rural farming community the
girls have little or no acquirements
says what is gained for a time at the
district school, and then what is distill-ed
into them by constant application—
the household duties and dairy work,
to which all soon become proficient.
A country girl may start out in the
flower of young womanhood with as
ambitious a heart as her brother. The
boy and the girl may be nearly of an
age, and, perhaps, equal in intellect
and adaptation. After the boy has
waded through the elementary
branches taught in the back-country
school house he is sent to a college or
normal school, where he is fitted for a
meals cooked, and soon she forgets she
ever had ambitions for another kind of
life and the world goes on, never
knowing what sort of a crusader it
might have had. Perhaps it is her
own fault that she settles down in so a
narrow rut.
The farmers often take occasional
trips to the neighboring towns and
cities and so might the farmers' wives.
But the natural backwardness which
withheld the girl from advancing has
the same hold on the matron. Then
there are the innumerable household
duties and the children. So the wife
stays patiently on the farm, doing her
duty steadily and resolutely, waiting
for the rest she will have, so truly
earned, when another grave on the hill-side
burying ground tells of the end of
another life submissively carried on in
the quietness of a country farm.
But there is another life which is
seemingly, more intolerable than that
of performing the functions for which
woman was created—the duties of wife
and mother, which are her lot. No-where
in the whole world is the title
of " old maid" given with such pitiful
significance as in the country. They
BY THE WAY.
InterPeesrtsionng s.N Poltaecs esa nadn d CTohminmgesn. ts on
THERE is so much in the little
things that go to make up life that
we are prone to overlook them until
called to our attention in some re-markable
way. A case in point is one
that occurred in the Superior Court of
San Francisco some time ago. It was
one on which a fortune of $118,000
hinged, and all on acsount of the gram-matical
construction of a sentence. The
priza depended on the exact meaning
of the word " theirs " as it appears in
a clause in a contract. This is the
sentence: " And at their option the
Adams Company is to have the use of
all the machinery and coal-hoisting
appliances now in use by the Southern
companies " It is plain that the word
is a pronoun, standing for an antece?
dent noun in the sentence, but there
are two such nouns, and the point at
issue was as to which it refers. The
jury devoted twelve days to the con-sideration
of the point, but could not
entangle the matter, although the
learned judges and half a dozen high-
The above named aggregation
wild beas s and arenic attractions is to
exhibit in Lancaster, Saturday, June
5, and lis consummation was referred
to by the New York Mercury—the
very highest authority on such matters
—as follows:
" Mr. J. A. Bailey, sole owDer of
the Great Adam Forepaugh Show, has
just concluded arrangements with
Messrs Ephraim, Lewis and Peter
Sells, bv which the show owned by the
latter and known as Sells Brothers'
Enormous Railroad Shows is consoli-dated
with the Forepaugh Show, thus
making the new show one of the
largest in the world.
" The combination thus effected will
have a most tremendous influence in
the future upon every other show in
the country, except the Barnum &
Bailey Greatest Show on Earth, owned
solely by Mr. J. A. Bailey, and the
Buflalo Bill Wild West Show, in
which Mr. Bailey has a joint interest."
The owners of some inferior shows,
as might be expected, have resorted to
various disreputable schemes to dis-credit
and belittle this potential enter-prise,
but are squarely rebuked and
contradicted by the press of over a
hundred cities, from New York to San
Francisco, which unite in declaring
that it assures everybody a great deal
more entertainment for the established
price of admission than has ever here-tofore
been given, while at the same
time tending to protect them from the
incursions of second class and often
disreputable shows. Moreover, that
it brings into permanent union the
biggest menageries, circuses, and hip-podromes
of the era, and deservedly
conspicuous for possessing, and in
many instances monopolizing, animals,
artists, and acts of the rarest and most
superior kind. No other exhibition,
for instance, has three herds of such
performing elephants; trained sea
lions and seals; giant male and female
hippotamuses; a two horned monster
Sumatra rhinoceros, a full-grown polar
bear, a flock of ostriches, African
eland, Niger antelope, and gnu. No
other presents an inverted aerial bicy
cle act, amphibious actors, or such a
brilliant host of hippodromatic cham-pions
and male and female bareback
riders, bicyclists, clowns, acrobats and
mid-air originals and racing and per-forming
beasts, and none other can
approach the size or splendor and sen-sation
of its united grand and gorgeous
street parades. It is, in every way,
from the biggest trains and tents to
biggest and best exhibitions, a union
of acknowledged circus giantB.
But what if a girl has a hankeriDg
to branch out in the sea of knowledge,
also? Should she make her modest
request to the family she is bidden to
dismiss the subject at once by her
father. It would be wasting money
foolishly to spend it on a " girl's larnin.'
Her mother reminds her that it re-quires
no book knowledge to learn to
milk, churn, cook and do all the other
many duties that belong to a house-keeper
on a farm. She needed no edu-cation
futher than the one which gave
her the reputation of being the neatest
and most frugal farmer's wife in the
country, and neither does her daughter.
So the girl's ambition in that line van-ishes
in smoke.
A country girl is handicapped in all
soits of ways. She cannot go out in
the world and make her way by her-self,
as her brother can, or even as
girls in cities. In the first place, her
greatest trouble is an overweening
bashfulness, which makes mingling
with strangers a positive torture.
This bashfulness, or want of self ease,
is rarely overcome. It seems to be in-herent,
and no amount of associating
with other people will wear off the
awkwardness, whicih somehow always
is inexcusable in a gill. Then she has
been reared so differently that the
occupations which many girls could
take up to enable them to progress in
the world are unknow to her. There
are only a few industries to which am-bitious
country girls have any idea of
turning their hands. These are teach-ing,
sewing and a few other feminine
employments, and these require a
more extensive preparation than many
are able to devote to them.
It almost seems to the rural-bred
girls that the only prospect ahead for
them is to get married. While this is
not generally an unpleasant feature in
a girl's life, yet frequently mercenary
marriages are made in the farming
districts as well its elsewhere. Two
farmers, whose splendidly-cultivated
lands adjoined each other, are very
well satifised to have the son of one
and the daughter of the other marry,
and almost any young man is eligible
who has a good farm. It is not au un-usual
thing for cousins to intermarry
for several generations to keep the
property in the family. In fact, this
custom is carried on in an extensive
farming community, perhaps, more
than anywhere else. This is the cause
of the clainnishness so often seen in a
settlement of this kind. Everyone is
related, and all stand up for each other
in any controversy with the outside
world. If a young man does make a
break and marry outside of the settle-ment
the marriage is not a success.
Either the strangers finds out that she
is regarded as a creature of a different
sphere and is considered as an inter-loper
by her husband's family until
bad feelings ensue, or else the husband
will become alienated from his people.
Although with shame it may be said,
a country girl's ambitions die with her
marriage. True, perhaps, it is a mer-ciful
Providence which interposed and
soon obliterates from her memory the
dreams of what might have been or
what she wished to be. And the
commonplace, narrow life of her
mother's seems the natural order of
thiDgs when it is her own. It may
seem a little appalling at first when
the desires to go out into the restless
world and mingle with the busy work-ers
has been blasted forever, and the
monotonous routine of a farmer's wife
has been assumed, but the cows must
be milked, the churning done and the
priced lawyers helped to disentangle
have all the awkwardness and want of | the intricacies of the problem,
polish clinging to them which clothed
the callow girl, together with an angu-larity
and crudeness which is toned
down in the wife. They are unloving
and unloved, always tossed about from
pillar to post, depending on brothers
or sisters for a home, where they are
welcome so long as they are useful,
and then quietly informed that their
room is preferable to their company.
Nevertheless, homely and uncared for
as they are, there are lives of martyr-dom
among the old maids of a country
community of which few ever know.
No one knows the sacrifices made, the
hopes blasted, the life utterly changed
from what was hoped to be. And yet
people ridicule an old maid, who, per-haps,
is called cranky and fussy by
those to whom she has devoted her
! ife and who require the most from her.
The life of a farmer's daughter is
not necessarily dull and prosaic. She
may be much happier and have more
diversities if she choose. Or she may
let well enough alone and settle down
contentedly with what she has. But
it is only when the heart's desires have
to go forever unfulfilled and the girl
learns bitterly the meaning of " might
have been " that her life seems hope-less
and purposeless, and she feels
vaguely the unjust equality of the
human kind.
She Was Prepared.
A certain minister always felt it to
be his duty to give each young couple
a little serious advice before he per-formed
the marriage ceiemony, and
for this purpose he usually took them
aside, one at a time, and talked very
soberly to each of them regarding the
great importance of the step they were
to take, and the new responsibilities
they were to assume. One day he
talked in his most earnest manner for
several minutes to a young woman
who had come to be married to a
bright-looking young man.
"And now," he said, in closing, " I
hope you will fully realize the extreme
importance of the step you are taking,
and that you are prepared for it."
"Prepared," she said, innocently.
"Well, if I ain't prepared I don't know
who is. I've got four common quilts
and two nice ones, and four brand new
feather beds, ten sheets and twelve
pairs of pillow dips, four alllinen
table cloths, a dozen spoons and a good
six-quart tea kettle. If I ain't pre-pared
no girl in this country ever
was."
Beliefs of a Bachelor.
The average married woman has an
idea that all men propose exactly
alike.
No girl ever believes that her father
and mother have the right ideas about
marriage.
A woman can bale a man more dif-ferent
ways in five minutes than a
man can love a woman in a year.
A girl can never understand how a
man can know much and yet have
such an innocent look in his eyes.
Many a man begins his downward
career of dishonesty and deception by
pretending he likes to kiss a baby.
No man can love his wife complete
* * *
THE Southern companies referred
to have the money which is at stake,
and if a jury decides that the " their "
refers to them, they will keep it. On
the other hand, if it should be decided
that " their" refers to the Adams
Company then the Adams Company
will get it. The sentence occurs in a
contract by which the Adams Com-pany
was to unload all the coal ships
of the Southern Pacific Railroad Com-pany
for five years. The Adams Com-pany
owned machinery for unloading
the coal, but it broke down, and then
the Southern Pacific Company's ma-chinery
was used, the Adams Company
claiming the right to use it by virtue
of the clause quoted. After the con-tract
had run six months the Southern
Pacific's machinery also broke down,
and the Adams Company alleged that
the Southern people ought to repair it.
The Southern people objected and in-sisted
that as long as it used the machi-nery
the Adams Company should keep
it in order. The trouble thickened, and
finally the Southern Company turned
the Adams Company out and got
another concern to unload the coal.
Then the Adams Company brought
suit to recover $118,000, the profit
which would have been made had the
contract run* its agr*e ed le*n gth.
THE Southern Pacific Company's
lawyer did not see the possibilities in
the queer bit of grammar until long
after litigation had been begun. It
was admitted in the first answer to the
suit that the Adams Company had
the option of using the Southern
Pacific Company's machinery. But
the latter company now rests the en-tire
case on the contention that the
word " their" meant the Southern
Companies and not the Adams Com-pany.
In the sentence under dispute
appear the words "Adams Company
is," and the Southern Companies
claim that the word company is there
fore written in the singular sense and
the word " their " cannot apply to it.
If the writer had meant it to apply to
the Adams Company he would have
used the word ' its" instead of "their."
The other side claims that the word
" their" must refer to the Adams
Company because the latter is the
nearest noun to the disputed pronoun.
These cases are what the lawyers like,
as they can carry theia from court to
court. A corporation seldom gives in
until the highest court has been reach-ed,
as a favorable decision is often
worth more to them for future use
than the amo*i int in*v olved* to gain it.
To SAY the least, the sentence in-volved
in the dispute is very obtuse
and opens a loophole that the courts
alone must settle, but it is doubtful if
they can settle such cases satisfactorily,
as this sentence admits of two inter-pretations,
notwithstanding the gram-matical
construction would seem to
simplify the meaning. People as a
rule are very careless of their gram-mar
even in writing out contracts, and
it is a most common occurrence to hear
learned as he was in legal lore, did
not succeed in writing a will that could
not be broken. But what would half
the lawyers do if people never made
any mistakes in legal documents?
=l< &
HERE is the old camel chestnut that
used to puzzle us greatly when we were
boys, perhaps as much as it did the
three sons involved in the transaction.
As I have not seen it for a dozen years
or more, it might do no harm to let
those who are now boys scratch their
heads over the mystifying puzzle:
Abou Ben Eli McGuiEa, being full of
years, died, leaving to his three sons
his seventeen camels, for the simple
reason that he could not take them
along with !>im. The will, duly at-tested,
said the eldest was to have one-half,
the second son one-third and the
youngest one-ninth of the seventeen
camels. The boys were a little per-plexed
at this, as it seemed to inyolve
the cutting up of a camel, and camels
were worth three dollars a day on the
Sahara that season. But the boys, if
not first class mathematicians had
level heads and did not go to law to
prove the old man insane, but went
instead to the good old Cadi Hassan
O'Donohue, who had taken a medal in
mathematics at Gala.
" Boys," said the good C^di, re-proachfully,
' you should not bother
one with these little matters. Ask me
a harder one." But seeing that they
were troubled, the benevolent old man
asked the hostler to toot out his old
dilapidated camel, whkh had seen its
best days traveling with Barnum's
circus as the sacred gnu of Persia.
* * *
PLACING the aged brute with the
seventeen camels the boys had brought
along, he said : " There are eighteen
camels. I_shall now give you'half of
the eighteen, which is nine. How does
that strike you ?"
" It hits me where I live," said the
eldest, who was stangy, but withal
pleased at getting half of eighteen,
rather than half of seventeen.
" The next boy shall have one-third
of eighteen, which is six. Are you
there, Moriarity ?"
" You bet," said the boy.
" The next will have one-ninth of
eighteen, which is two," and so the
youngest collared his two camels.
Thus two and six and nine made seven-teen.
and still was the good Cadis' aged
animal left unscathed,™ The people
marveled, as the Cadi had given each
more than the will called for, which is
rather unusual in courts of law. And
they said one to another, " That's what
it is to be good at figures."
* * *
Do YOU see the point? PHIL.
ly while he is eating a cold dinner off a company spoken of in a plural sense,
of a dry goods box out in the kitchen.
Of Course it Will Talk.
Mother—Do you think baby will
ever talk ?
Father—Heavens, yes. It's a girl.
There is a Class of People
Who are injured by the use of coffee.
Recently there has been placed in all
the grocery stores a new preparation
called GRAIN-O, made of pure grains
that takes the place of coffee. The
most delicate stomach receives it with-out
distress, and but few can tell it
from coffee. It does not cost over one
fourth as much. Children may drink
it with great benefit. 15c and 25c
per package. Try it. Ask for it
GEAIN-O,
and the claim that " their " does not
refer to the Adams Company would
not be taken as decisive in any court.
How often do we see company used as
plural by good writers, too, as " the
company have," and for that reason it
is doubtful if much reliance will be
placed on this view of the matter.
There is a most timely lesson in the
casa. People are too apt to disregard
the little things, and put all the stress
on what they suppose to be of the most
importance. A little thought on the
part of those who had the making of
this contract in dispute would have
ayoided all misunderstanding. Even
the great lawyer, Samuel J, Tilden,
Over the State.
At York Haven a paper mill em-ployee
was killed by the fall of a screen.
Knights Templar will hold their con-clave
at Easton, beginning on Monday.
Pittsburg's filtration commission has
approved plans for a pure water filter.
Edward Jumper, a 15-year-old
Scranton boy, was arrested as a clever
pick-pocket.
Insane Adam Ely was arrested while
desecrating graves in a cemetery at
Wilkesbarre.
A Philadelphian was given " knock-out"
drops at Columbia and relieved of
money and valuables,
One-year old Earl Hoke died from
concussion of the brain at Lsbanon.
He fell out of his coach.
Governor Hastings will deliver the
commencement address at the Penn>
sylvania State College on June 16.
Falling on the sharp roof of a
building inMcKeesport, Monsieur Lee,
an aeronaut, was perhaps fatally hurt.
An alleged swindler by means'of bo*
gus checks, R. W. Westcott is in jail
at Harrisburg for defrauding citizens
of Middletown.
Nine-year old Robert Harris board-ed
a freight train to ayoid tardiness
at school, in Wilkesbarre, and was
killed as he alighted.
Arrangements have been made by
Leyi Brothers,of Paterson, N J , to es-tablished
a ribbon mill and employ
300 hands at Wilkesbarre.
Ferdinand Moersch, aged 78, of
Pittsburg, fell from a window a year
ago, and has since bad suicidal mania.
Saturday he shot himself dead.
Harry Fasnacht, who is charged
with criminally assaulting Lizzie Frey-meyer
in North Lebanon township a
year ago, was captured at Palmyra.
Two thousand employes of the Read-ing
Iron Company met and resolved to
confer with the company concerning a
proposed reduction of wages on June 1.
William F. Young, a well-known
McKean County lumber merchant,
has mysteriously disappeared with over
$800 in his pockets, and foul play is
feared.
Becoming suddenly ill and escaping
from her attendants, Miss Clara
Dampman,aGeigertown school teacher,
disappeared and has not since been
found.