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Published Every Friday Morning by J. FRANK BUCH. OFFICE—LNanoc. a9s tSe.r BCroouandt ys,t rPeae.t , Lititz, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.—For one yIfe paar y$m1.e0n0,t ibfe pdaeilda yien d atdoy tahnec ee,n da nodf y$e1a.2r5. moFnotrh ssi, x3 0m coenntthss, , st5r0i cctelnyt si,n aanddv faonrc et.h ree at the Ae nfad iloufr e tthoe n otetirfmy a sduibssccornibtiendu afnocre, twhiel l pbaep ecro. nsidered a wish to continue cash subscrpiberesros n fosre nodnien g yueas r fiwvei ll nebwe entitled to the RECORD for one year, for bis trouble. THE LITITZ RECOR 1 in 2 in 3 in. y* o. a c. icol 7550 1 «SO5 11 2M5O 82 2255 45 0705 170 5000 11 (2X5) 12 7155 28 (5K0l 45 2255 97 5205 1125 15)01) 2a <5K0) 84 2255 4li I5H0) 7H 5705 1187 (2K5l 8218 0000 58 0m0 f9i 2550 1»8 7550 2185 0W0) 2580 IÜH0) 594fj 0CO0 An Independent Family Newspaper, Devoted to Literature, Agriculture, Local and General Intelligence. YOL. XX. LITITZ, PA., FEIDAY MORNING, MAY 28; 1897. NO. 3: B ROAD S T R E E T CLOTHING HOUSE. SEASONABLE . Ï Ï N D . REASONABLE Ready-Made for Men t Bop. SUITS FOR MEN at the following prices: $3.50, $4.50, ¿5-00, $5.50, $6.00, $7 00, $8.00 and $9.00. SUITS F O R BOYS, from 10 to 18 years of age, at prices from $3 00 to $8 50. SUITS FOR CHILDREN, from 3 to 15 years of age, knee breeches, $1.50, $2.00, $2.50, $2.75, $3.00, $3.50, 75, $4 00 and $4 50. The nicest line ever brought to Lititz. A LARGE LINE OF HATS - CAPS t f°r somle£ 25c to $3.00. • SHIRTS! SHIRTS! SHIRTS! __ from 2 5 c t o $ 1 . 5 0 . A very nice line of Neckwear and Leather Belts. W. H. BUCH, BROAD STREET CLOTHIER. T H E B O N T O N ! Summer Styles I N . . . Trimmed A.T . . . Low Prices. THE BON TON, 13 East King Street, Lancaster, Pa. S OFT A N D STIFF HATS FOR SPRING WEAR. D O Y O U N E E D i > A N E W H A T ; WE HAVE THE STYLE YOU WANT. SSOTIFFTF HHAATTSS ffrroomm $510 tco t$o3 . $5. STRAW HATS from 10c to $2.50. LARGEST LINE OP MEN'S and BOYS' Golf and Yacht Caps at 25c TO BE FOUND IN LANCASTER CITY. H. L. Bates of Advertising in the Record. te„rYlye.a rlTy raandsvieerntti saedmveenrttsi steom been tpsa ipd ayqaubalre- in Aaddvvearntcisee. ments, to insure immediate ilantseesrtt,i obny, Wmeudsnt ebsed haay ndevede niinn,g a. t the very prJoombp tWly oerxk ecouft eda lla t kshinodrts nnoetiactel.y and edA tlol communications should be address- RECORLiDt itzO, FLFaInCeE. ,C o., Pa. 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 . a 1 4 4 N o r t b Q û c e o S t r e e t , - - L a n c a s t e r , P a. NEWT. WINGERT, MANAGER. Visiting Cards Neatly Printed at the^*- "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.
Object Description
Title | Lititz Record |
Masthead | Lititz Record 1897-05-28 |
Subject | Lititz (Pa.) -- Newspapers;Lancaster County (Pa.)—Newspapers |
Description | Lititz newspapers 1877-1942 |
Publisher | Record Print. Co.; J. F. Buch |
Date | 1897-05-28 |
Location Covered | United States;Pennsylvania;Lancaster County (Pa.);Lititz (Pa.);Warwick (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) |
Type | Text |
Original Format | Newspapers |
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Identifier | 05_28_1897.pdf |
Language | English |
Rights | Public domain |
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Description
Title | Page 1 |
Subject | Lititz (Pa.) -- Newspapers;Lancaster County (Pa.)—Newspapers |
Description | |
Location Covered | United States;Pennsylvania;Lancaster County (Pa.);Lititz (Pa.);Warwick (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) |
Type | Text |
Original Format | Newspapers |
Digital Format | application/pdf |
Language | English |
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LARGEST LINE OP MEN'S and BOYS' Golf and Yacht Caps at 25c TO BE FOUND IN LANCASTER CITY. H. L. Bates of Advertising in the Record. te„rYlye.a rlTy raandsvieerntti saedmveenrttsi steom been tpsa ipd ayqaubalre- in Aaddvvearntcisee. ments, to insure immediate ilantseesrtt,i obny, Wmeudsnt ebsed haay ndevede niinn,g a. t the very prJoombp tWly oerxk ecouft eda lla t kshinodrts nnoetiactel.y and edA tlol communications should be address- RECORLiDt itzO, FLFaInCeE. ,C o., Pa. 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 . a 1 4 4 N o r t b Q û c e o S t r e e t , - - L a n c a s t e r , P a. NEWT. WINGERT, MANAGER. Visiting Cards Neatly Printed at the^*- "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. |
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