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VOL. XXI. LITITZ, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 17, 1897. NO. 15.
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The well-informed lady knows that she can find more
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Hard to Decide
A R U N A W AY
CHRISTMAS TREE.
I
If you have two bad ones, and that
should make it all the more neces-sary
for you to get a new one,
especially since they can be bought
for so small a price. Notice the
Latest Shapes we are showing,both
Soft and Stiff,
From $1 to $3.
Gloves $ Caps
In Endless Variety.
41-H. L .
144 Morti) Qûeeo Strççt,
. . . LANCASTER,
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NEWT. WINGERT, Manager.
T WAS Christmas day, and some-where
the other side of Fargo. We
had been snow-bound for three
days in Montana, or we'd Lave all
been home. At a little station a man
got on who was soon talking familiar-ly.
He seemed like an honest man;
indeed, the dominie detected a child-like
note in his character which he
suspected might come from the man's
long life close to the great heart of
nature. After he found that he could
not sell us any lots in Centrapolis he
laid aside business and told the follow-ing
story. We should have doubted
parts of it had it not been for the man's
intimate association with the great
heart of nature. He said:
" Queer place to spend Christmas,
gentleman; but queer tbings are al-ways
happening in a new country.
Makes me think of a little occurrence
at Christmastime last year out near
where I live. There are a few Scandi-navians
around there—bang-up class
of settlers. Honest as the day ia long,
and guileless ss a newborn babe. This
thing happened out at the Johnson
school house, near where my friend
Ole Erickson lives. A lew days before
Christmas Oie came to me and said :
" ' You see hare, Mr. Yackson'—
my name is Jackson—'you know mae
fader-en-law, old man Oleson ?"
" 'Yes,' I said.
" ' V e i l , hae haf a team of york-horses
aye vants to buy, but hae ash
too mooch for 'em. Aye tank aye
feex de old yentleman so hae sell de
lorses scheep. Dare bees going to be
Chreestmas tree out at de Yonson
schoolhouse—aye going to poot on
somet'ing nice for heern. Aye tales
mae vooman aye poot on vun cow.
Eet met heem feel good to geet a cow
Aye haf vun cow dat vas dry—she
doan geef no meelk now. Aye tales
mae vooman aye poots on dat cow for
mae fader-in-law. Dis cow not bees
mooch on geefing meelk any time—all
long legs, long horns, sweecb her tail,
unt keeck de meelk-pail forty rods.
Aye says to mae vooman dat ve keel
two birds vid vun rock—geet reed of
de old keecker, unt geet de team
scheep. Aye tank aye bees onto mae
yob all right 'nough !"
" ' But you can't put a cow on a
Christmas tree,' I said to him.
" ' Oh, aye not hang her oop on de
tree; aye yust, tie her to eet.'
"So he went off, and afterwards I
isard about how it all came out. Ole
and his wife took the cow, and jast be-fore
the thirg opened up got to the
schoolhouse. ' Ye vants to poot on de
cow," says Ole; but they wouldn't lis
ten to him. But Ole wasn't to be
bluffed that way; so he says, ' Tale
you vat aye do; aye stand de cow be-hind
de schoolhouse unt open de back
door a leetle unt poot de rope troo de
erack unt tie eet to be bottom of de
tree.' Some of 'em thought that was
lardly the thing, but they agreed to it
at last, and he stood the cow outside
the back door, which opened out, and
ran the rope which was around her
horns through the crack and tied it to
the tree just above the floor. Tbe tree
was a small one, which wasn't strange,
as it had come three hundred miles by
rail.
" It was a mild night, and the cow
cottoned to it all right enough, so Ole
and bis wife went around front and
took their seats with the others. There
was the regular exercises that they al-ways
have at such contraptions—sing-ing
by the Sunday school, speaking by
some members of the infant class, and
that sort of stuff, after which the minis-ter
got up and said: " My friends and
brethren and sisters, what a beautiful
tree we have here, and what rich fruit
it bears! We are, most of us, far
away from our former homes, and in a
new untried country. We know not
wbat may be before us for the coming
year, but of this tree and the many
presents it holds we are certain. We
can pluck the gifts of loved ones from
its branches, even as I do now, and
Just then Ole's cow jerk-ed around her
head, and the door swung open, and
she saw the light, let out one bellow,
and made a jump like a kangaroo,
yanking that tree out the door butt-end
first. Then she went tearing off down
the road towards home, bellowing at
the top of her lungs, kicking like a
bay mule, and snatching that tree
along behind like a plug hat tied to a
dog's tail. Ole came in to tell me
about it the next day. ' Dat old
keecker, she never stop teel she geet to
mae place,' he said,' unt de presents
all along de road. Unt de peoples
day say eef day can geet de tree, dat
day stand heem oop, unt day leench
Ole on heem. So me unt mae vooman
ve spend all de night peecking oop de
t'inga vid a lantern unt carrying dem
back. But ve tank some of dem geet
lost een de snaw after all,'
" ' D i d you take the cow over to
your father-in-law's this morning?" I
said to him.
" H i s face got as long as a fiddle,
and then he said :
" ' Yah, aye tek her ofer. Unt he
mek a grin cn bees face, unt he say,
" Dat's perty nice, Ole." Den after
a vhile aye say to him, " How mooch
for dat team of vork hoises ?" Unt de
ole faller say, " Two hundred dollar
but last veek hae say vun hundred
seventy-five. Den aye feel like aye
vish de cow she might keeck me forty
rod, like she do de meelk-pail,'
" I always felt rather sorry for Ole
because his scheme failed; but all of
us slip up on our plans once in a
while."
BY THE WAY.
Woman's Cruelty to Woman.
" Man's inhumanity to man," re.
marked Mr. Louie Veel, " can't begin
to approach woman's cruelty to wo-man."
" Are you prepared to specify, or do
you merely speak in general terms ?"
asked Mr. Frankfort.
" I am prepared to specify."
" Then proceed."
" I was at Capon Springs a week or
two ago, and enjoyed myself, as a mat-ter
of course although that has noth-1 forts which the teachers usually put
ing to do with my story. My room I forth to stimulate the ambition of the
Interesting Notes and Comments on
Persons, Places and Things.
SLOWLY but surely the old-fashion-ed
spelling bee is dying out. In the
cities and towns it is a past recreation,
while in the country its revival is only
sporadic, and seems to be rapidly on
the decline. What a change during
the past score of years. Then it was in
full swing, and every town of any pre.-
tendons had as many as half a dczen
bees during the winter, and in the
country districts it was almost a week-ly
occurrence. .There is no telling but
that it may suddenly bloom out as a
fad of the first magnitude and again
flourish in all its glory for a period,
but there is no denying the fact that
the spelling bee has fallen into inno-cuous
desuetude. This is perhaps ex-plainable
on the theory that after it
has run awhile it so stimulates interest
in the art of spelling that there are no
more spellers for it to Work upon, and
it is obliged to wait for another gene-ration
to spring up in order that it
may have material.
• * *
EVERY boy and girl who has attend-ed
school in the country knows the ef-opeoed
on a little porch which afford-ed
me a fine view, and I often sat there
in the evening. One night about 10,
I was sitting in my accustomed place,
watching the play of the bright moon-light,
when I heard a clattering of feet
down the stairs from the next floor
above, accompanied by voices. One
voice waB feminine and cross, the other
was masculine and soothing. The fem-inine
voice said it was tired of asking
pleasantly for hot water and not get-ting
it, and that it proposed to go to
the office and raise particular Cain. It
had asked the chambermaid to bring
up hot water, and it had asked real
young idea in the direction of good
[ spelling, and plenty can recall the
busy hum of industry that used to
I arise as word was passed by the old-fashioned
school-master or school marm
to " study the spelling lesson." It was
looked upon as the high water mark
| of the intellectual activity of the day.
It was in the country that the spelling
I bee existed in its pristine integrity.
I Those held ia the city were more or
less weak imitations. They lacked
that sincerity and intensity of purpose
which made it a real institution in ru
ral regions. In its original home those
who participated did so for the purpose
pleasantly several times, and hot water of spelling, and they spelled with all
had not come, and it (the feminine | their might and all their soul, and all
voice) was utterly disgusted with such
shiftlessness, and that now it proposed
to make it sultry for somebody.
" The masculine voice suggested that
it was not worth wkilo to be so annoy-ed
by trifles, my dear, and that if
Peter were spoken to about it he would
bring up the water. The feminine
voice would listen to no compromise
whatever, and proceeded down stairs
toward the office,.to carry out its pro-ject
of raising particular Cain.
" After a short time the feminine
voice was heard ascending the stairs
again, and from its tone I gathered
that its mission to the office had been
eminently successful, and that hot
water and ice water would be on the
way to the room occupied by the femi-nine
voice ia a short time.
The feminine voice and the mascu-line
voice had scarcely died away on
the staircase when Peter lumbered up-stairs,
hot water jug in one hand and
ice water pitcher in the other.' He
did not appear to have a yery distinct
idea of the location of the room to
which he was to carry his burden. So
he stopped on my floor, rapped at a
door, and to the lady who opened it he
said:
" ' Is dis whar de hot watah goes
missis ?
" Now this lady could not have fail
ed to hear all the remarks made by
the voice from the next floor, for she
had been in her room all the time,
and you know how sounds travel in
summer resort hotels. Nevertheless,
she replied very sweetly to the porter's
question:
" ' Yes, this is where it is needed—
the hot water and the ice water, too.'
"Peter left both jugs and departed,
no doubt happy in the consciousness of
duty well performed. I don't
how long the voice on the upper floor
waited for its hot and cold water, but
I understood, from what I heard next
day, that another crop of Cain was
raised in the office on the following
morning, much larger and more lux-uriant
than that of the previous eve-ning.
And so I say that man's inhu-manity
to man isn't a circumstance to
woman's cruelty to woman.
their strength. And how they could
spell. The longer the words the easier
they were mastered, and the champion
was looked upon as the best educated
person in tbe assemblage.
• #
THERE were a number of spelling
matches held in Lititz, about twenty
years ago, usually in old Orchestra
Hall, which is now used for other
purposes. They proved very spirited
contests,and it created a deal of amuse-ment
to see some well-known citizen
tripped up on an easy word. There
were some good spellers here at that
time, and others who were not so good ;
in fact, the less said about their ortho-graphy
the better they might like it.
In this sonnection it would not do to
mention names, as I might get not on-ly
myself but the editor of this paper
in hot water. I was in most of the
classes, too, but it is needless to men-tion
that none of the prizes ever came
my way; in fact, I was generally look-ing
for a seat in the audience after
tackling the first word fired at me.
But, then, spelling never was in my
line—except I had a dictionary handy.
It is not likely that a spelling bee to-day
would create the interest those
did a score of years ago.
* * *
THEY teach spelling in a somewhat
different manner now in most of the
schools from formerly, but with all
of their improved methods it consumes
a large part of the time of the young-sters
who enjoy the benefits of our
system of frea education, and the art
is so difficult of accomplishment that it
is almost necessary, in order to attain
anything like perfection, that there
should be something like the spelling
bee to supplement the schools and keep
up an interest through a portion of
adult life. The English system of as-sembling
letters to form words is a
most perplexing one, and it seems as if
eyery means was exhausted to make it
as difficult as possible. Sound has lit-tle
to do with the spelling of words;
if it did the greatest difficulty would
be surmounted, and learning to spell
would be one of the easiest accomplish-ments,
whereas with our complicated
spelling reform is trying to accom-plish
:
" I h e r has now been a ful haf cen-tury
of atempts at reforming the spel-ing
of our language, nearly evry
atempt posessing more or les merit,
The riter has been aware personaly of
the diferent schemes as they were pro-mulgated
during 40 years."
How much more sensible than oar
present complicated system. Almost
anybody could spell in that way, and
the style corresponds very closely with
that of those who are now ignorant of
the art. When this reform is intro-duced
and recognized, as it must be
some time by a people who are so
much disposed to cut off waste and to
hasten methods as are the American
people, the spelling bee will probably
be out of date, for everybody who
knows the sound of the letters could
then spell correctly with very little
practice and study.
* - * *
UNTIL this iz acomplisht we wil hav
to fall back on our old friend, D. Web-ster
whenever in dout as to wether a
certain word shud be speld ie or ei.
PHIL.
Tips from Puck.
When a man again meets a former
love, he always finds some cause for
self congratulation.
Singular as it may seem, the smooth
person is not tbe one who is rubbed,
but who rubs others the right way.
I t is not so hard to be wrong as it is
to know that the other fellow is right.
Just as soon as some people can
make enough money to Jive comfort-ably,
they want to liye stylishly.
Any man will get along if he gets
started in the right direction ; but the
only way for some men seems to be
down-hill.
I t does no harm to believe in Fate'.if
you act as if you did not.i
You can't convince two birds in the
bush that one in the hand is of great-er
value.
Worry won't keep away trouble,
and advice won't keep away worry.
The man who comes to the conclu-sion
that he has made a fool of himself
is usually mistaken. The women did
it.
Ridicule can only kill causes that
'deserve to die.
Necessity is the mother of invention,
but comparatively few of her children
turn out as well as expected.
The European concert has given a
very expensive performance.
The tramp's motto—" Wot are yer
g i v i n ' u s ? '
It's astonishing how much patience
some people have with themselves.
When you say " I don't care," try to
see that your tone of voice doesn't in-dicate
that you do.
I t looks as if Greece might get her
base by being hit with a pitched ball.
That isn't Marathon, but it's better
than nothing.
After all there are only four kinds
of people; those who interest us, those
who amuse us, those who annoy us, and
those who bore us ; and the alias of the
last two classes is Legion.
How little can we know of the
mighty Future and what it holds for
us! When, years ago, as modest little
lads, we sat at the scarred desks in the
school, how little did we guess that we
should grow up and fail to become
famous!
Went to Bed with tbe Chickens. I and many instances nonsensical system,
" Papa, is Mrs. Bigelow very poor t" it is now one of the hardest to attain
" No, Cedric, Mrs. Bigelow is well in fact the world can boast of but few
off; don't you know what a nice house | good spellers. I have known some of
she has?"
" But she sleeps in the hencoop, pa-
„p„a . t>
" Why, Cedric 1"
" She said she did."
" What do you mean ?"
" Don't you remember when she was
here to dinner night before last she
excused herself, and said she must go
home early because she went to bed
with the chickens ?"
The Homeliest Man in Lititz,
As well as the handsomest, and others
are invited to call on any druggist
and get free a trial bottle of Kemp's
Balsam for the Throat and Lungs, a
remedy that is guaranteed to cure and
relieve all Chronic and Acute Coughs,
Asthma, Bronchitis and Consumption.
Price 25c.and 50c.
the greatest editorial writers in this
state to misspell apparently easy words
that would not trouble scholars in the
secondary and intermediate classes,
I t seems to be a gift more than an ac-tual
accomplishment, and there are
many eminent men of ability as writ
ers who have been obliged to rely on
editors and printers to dress up their
words in conventional garb.
* * *
TIME and again movements have
been started having in view the reform'
ing of our spelling, which, though it
has been in the agitating stage for
long time, has thus far made but
slight progress. Here is a sample
paragraph to illustrate just what this
The Deadly Gridiron.
The shocking record of fatalities on
the foot ball field in the brief period
since the opening of the season brings
us face to face with the question of
public and private responsibility for
the continuance of foot ball as it is
now being played. All other forms of
athletic sport are free from any such
danger. Bicycle contests and even
century rides, in which hundreds en-gage,
are almost wholly free from
fatal accidents, as are all other track
and field athletics. Even prize-fight-ing
does not lead to fatal results to the
same extent as foot ball, and whenever
it does we call it manslaughter, and
deal with it'accordingly. In England,
where the game originated, it has no
such sad record of young lives destroy-ed
ss in this country, and this seems to
prove that fatal injuries are not a
necessary part of the game. One final
conclusion may as well be accepted.
This is, that fatalities must cease or
foot bail must stop. The choice of
these alternatives rests largely with
the colleges which have set the pace for
this dangerous sport.
Balzac's Cynicisms.
When a rascal is loved by an honest
woman, she either becomes a criminal
or he an honest man.
Next to the pleasure of admiring the
woman we love is that of seeing her
admired by others.
Woman loves by sentiment, where
man loves by action.
" As you please," are the wife's first
words of indifference.
Money matters can always be set-tled,
but feelings ar6 pitiless.
There are but few moral wounds
that solitude does not cure.
A man should find all women in
his wife.
There are some men who are always
polite—they have gloved souls.
Women are apt to see chiefly the de-fects
of a man of talent and the merits
of a fool.
No man has ever yet been able to
discover the means of giving friendly
advice to a woman, not even to his
own wife.
Love, after giving more than it has,
ends by giving less than it receives.
Royal makes the food pure,
wholesome and delicious.
POWDIR Absolutely Pure
A Mysterious Duel.
A duel was fought in Texas between
Alexander Shott and John S. Nott.
Nott was shot and Shott was not. In
this case it was better to be Shott
than Nott. There was a rumor that
Nott was not Shott, and Shott avows
that he shot Nott, which proves either
that the shot Shott shot at Nott was
not shot, or that Nott was shot not-withstanding.
Circumstantial evidence
is not always good. It may be made to
appear on trial that the shot Shott shot
shot Nott, or, as accidents with fire
arms are frequent, it may be possible
that the shot Shott shot shot Shott
himself, when the whole affair would
resolve itself into its original elements,
and Shott would bs shot and Nott
would be not. We think, however,
that the shot Shott shot shot not Shott
but Nott; and anyway it's hard to tell
who was shot.
How to Get Old.
Sir James Sawyer, a well-known
physician of Birmingham, Eng, has
been confiding to an aiudience in that
town the secret of longevity. Keep
the following nineteen commandments
and Sir James sees no reason why you
should not live to be 100:
1. Eight hours' sleep.
2. Sleep on your right side.
3. Keep your bedroom window
open all night.
4. Have a mat to your bedroom
door.
5. Do not have your bedstead
against the wall.
6. No cold tub in the morning, but
a bath at the temperature of the body,
7. Exercise before breakfast.
8. Eat little meat and see that it is
well cooked.
9. (For adults) Drink no milk.
10. Eat plenty of fat, to feed the
cells which destroy diseased germs.
11. Avoid intoxicants, which de-stroy
those cells.
12. Daily exercise in the open air.
13. Allow no pet animals in your
living rooms. They are apt to carry
about disease germs.
14. Liye in the country if you can.
15. Watch the three Ds—drinking
water, damp and drains.
16. Have change of occupation.
17. Take frequent and short holi-days.
18. Limit your ambition ; and
19. Keep your temper.
—After meals you should have
simply a feeling of comfort and satis-iaction.
You should not feel any
special indications that digestion is
going on. If you do, you haye indi-gestion,
which means not-digestion.
This may be the beginning of so many
dangerous diseases, that it is best to
take it in hand at once and treat it
with Shaker Digestiye Cordial. For
you know that indigestion mat
poison, which causes pain and sickness
And that Shaker Digestive Cordial
helps digestion and cures indigestion
Shaker Digestive Cordial does this by
providing the digestive materials in
which the sick stomack is wanting. It
also tones up and strengthens the di-gestive
organs and makes them perfect-ly
healthy. This is the rationale of its
method of cure, as the doctors would
say. Sold by druggists, prica 10 cents
to $1 00 per bottle.
The Pulse of Progress.
The phonendoscope is one of the re-cent
inyentions which promises great
things for the medical practitioner.
By its use the most obscure sounds
within the interior organization of the
human body may be distinctly heard.
I t is the invention of two professors in
the University of Parma, in Italy. It
is constructed somewhat on the princi-ple
of the telephone, only, considering
the uses to which it is to be put, it is
much more delicate as a sound trans-mitter.
It is about the size and form
of a large watch, and consists of two
superposed plates and a hearing tube,
Applied to the medical sciences, the
phonendoscope serves for the hearing
of all the normal and abnormal sounds
of the human organism, and its practi-cal
results are very wonderful. Not
only can the sounds of the organs of
respiration and circulation be heard
by its use, but also those of the mus
i cles, of the joints, of the bones, of the
capillary circulation, and the first
! feint indications of prenatal life.
—Rev. Arthur Mursell not long ago
lectured in London on the subject of
" Shirtsleeves." The meeting, curious-ly
enough, was presided over by a Mr.
Cuff.
Over the State.
While unloading iron ore from a
steamship, at Port Richmond, John
McGuire, aged 35 years, was struck on
the head and killed by an iron pulley
General Gobin, commanding the 3d
brigade, has appointed a general court-martial,
to meet ia Lebanon, on the
20th instant, for the trial of an alleged
deserter, and of such other cases as
may be presented.
There was much trouble at the
Union station, in South Bethlehem,
owing to a contest between the Lehigh
Valley railroad and a cab company,
which insisted on meeting trains at the
station, after the railroad had given
that privilege to another company.
An attempt was made to wreck a
fast freight train on the Reading rail«
road at a sharp curve near New Phila.
on Thursday night, by the misplace-ment
of a switch. No damage was
done except a break in the switch
rail.
Chauncey Arnold, white, 29 years
old, and James Williams and Lafay-ette
Young, both colored, were commit-ted
to answer at Doylestown the charge
of committing numerous robberies in
the neighborhood of Newtown and
Hulmeville, Bucks county. Arnold,
who is an old offender, was the fore-man
of a gang of laborers on a new
trolley road, and is alleged to have
directed the thieving operations of the
colored men.
State School Superintendent Schaf-fer
declares thai manual training
should be made a part oi the public
school system.
Mrs. Garrett Slemple and her SOD,
of Shannonville, who were bitten by a
mad dog, have lived without water for
18 dayp.
A wounded deer, which had taken
refuge in an abandoned hut in Lu-zerne
county, nearly killed two girls
and a man, who attempted to capture
it.
Philip Hiil, whose execution was
postponed at Pittsburg just as he was
about to step on the gallows, says that
he confidently expects to be hanged
eventually.
About 500 car loads of freight now
pass over the middle division of the
Pennsylvania Railroad daily. If this
keeps up it will break all previous De-cember
records.
Two children of Ed ward Bowley, of
Lycoming county, have been awarded
$2000 for injuries received by being
dragged over a precipice by a team of
horses. The township must pay.
While chooping down a tree Jacob
Pysher, of Fiickville, Northampton
county, dropped dead.
Patrick Maloney died at Plains,
near Wilkesbarre, of a broken neck,
the result of being struck by a car.
Proceedings have been commenced
for freeing five miles oi the Douglass-ville
and Yellow House turnpike, in
Berks county.
A West Chester Magistrate held
Dr. F . P. Coburn for a further hear-ing
for stealing Mrs. Sallie E. Snare's
false teeth.
Claude Lsonard has sued Herman
Aukan & Company, of Lebanon, for
$10,000 damages for injuries receiyed
while in the firm's service.
The State Board of Public Charities
has recommended the erection of a
hospital in Schuylkill county for the
care of the county's indigent insane.
While ascending a mine slope at
Ashland, Alfred Peters leaned over
the side of the carriage and was crush-ed
to death by projecting timbers.
William Lewis, of Wakefield, Bucks
county, disappeared Friday with two
heifers that he had been engaged to
drive to the home of a farmer who had
bought them.
A Board of Trade has been organiz-ed
at Mount Carmel with a capital
stock of $10,000, all of which is sub-scribed.
The congregation of the A. M. E.
ChUrch at Bristol presented to their
pastor, Rev. A. M. Buckley, a purse of
money in honor of his 50th birthday.
The large barn and outbuildings on
the farm of Cnester Lazarus, at Bres-lau,
Luzerne county, were entirely
destroyed by fire Saturday night.
There was much grain and a hundred
tons of hay in the barn. The live
stock was saved.