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VOL. XXI. LITITZ, PAm FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 4; 1898. NO. -26.
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ing but
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ENTERTAINING
THE BISHOP.
ZOOK JEWELER,
101N. Queen St., Lancaster
LOOKS
PRETTY.
Some frosty morning we have
admired the matchless painting
on our windows from the brush
of Jack Frost, R. A„ of nature
We have felt sorry that some
thing which looked so pretty
•could last. We have seen houses
painted to look pretty also. The
paint also did not last. Don'
buy that kind. Buy Longman
& Martinez Paints.
A. R. Bomberger & Co., Lit l i t , P a
THE children were all standing
around the minister's chair, and
he was trying with their assist-ance
to read the bishop's letter. It
didn't matter that some of them
couldn't read even cat. They were all,
down to Dummy Dee, the baby, try-ing
to help the minister find out wheth-er
the bishop waa coming to see them
Tuesday or Thursday. This was
Tuesday.
There were s'x children, and the
minister was their father. They had
jast moved to a new diocese, and bad
never seen the bishop, so he had writ-ten
that he would call, on his way
through the town, and spend a day or
two with them, and be was to come
either Tuesday or Thursday.
The mother of the family was in the
next room washing dishes. By and by
she, too, came and looked over her hus-band's
shoulder.
Why, it's Thursday, just ss plain
as any writing I ever saw," she ex-claimed
at once. "So we can go out
this afternoon and call on old Mrs.
Smithers just as we intended to do, in
Mr Jones's buggy."
"I don't know, I hope yon are right,
never saw worse writing," Slid the
minister, frowning and trying another
pair of spectacles
Bat they finally decided it was
Thursday, so directly after luneheon
they started and atier solemnly prom-ising
they would not get intd mischief,
and would play in the front yard all
the time, under the eye of a friendly
neighbor who promised to watch them
from her front window—where she
placidly slumbered all the afternoon—
the six children were left in a discon-solate
row on the fence, loudly wish-ing
that Mr. Jones's buggy was large
enough to take them all out to see old
Mrs. Smithers.
After the 3 o'clock train came in, a
tall man carrying a valise came walk-ing
briskly up the street until he
reached the minister's gate, where he
stopped and looked in.
Teddy, Dick and Harlow were play-ing
soldiers, and they were all officers
but Harlow, who beat the drum, which
waa nicer. Polly, Molly and Dummy
Dee were reviewing the troops from
the front porch. Polly was Qaeen
Victoria, with a kitchen apron train,
and the brass saucepan for a crown on
her head ; from this depended several
shingle curls, which hung gracefully
around her rosy face; but a stately
carriage was rendered quite impera-tive,
the saucepan crown being many
sizes too large, and prone to fall off if
jigged.
Molly loyally elected to be Mrs.
Cleveland, and her costume was a
buff holland, pink window shade—
which came off the roller just in time
pinned to the bottom of her dress,
and on her head was jauntily poised her
mother's red sweeping cap.
Dummy Dee represented the whole
infantile Cleveland family, "for he's
smart enough to be a dozen President's
babies," they all agreed, and Dummy
Dee sucked his thumb and did not
care.
"Does the Rev. Frank Thurston live
here ?" said a voice from the gate.
Polly, holding on her saucepan
crown, turned carefully in that direc-tion.
"Not now," she answered with
much dignity. "He does when he's
home, but he's gone to the country
with mother."
"Ah, then he did not get my letter"
"O, it's the bishop," they cried with
one voice. At once the troops broke
ranks, and with the queen and Mrs.
Cleveland they swept forward to greet
him, leaving Dummy Dee alone in the
rear. "Come in," they said. "We didn't
expect you so soon"—
"But there's water upstairs in the
spare room," said Ted, "'cause I took
it up."
"And mother aired the bed, and put
on the best whole sheets, that weren't
darned, this yery morning, beginning
to get ready for you," put in Molly.
"I am going to loan my pillow to
you, while you are here, 'cau3e there
aren't enough to go round when we
have company, and I sleep on
the sofa pillow," said Molly, her red
sweeping cap bobbing up and down
earnestly.
The bishop felt himself borne along
by the current, and after be had made
a brief toilet in the spare room, de
scended to the sitting room, where he
found the children without their finery,
very clean and distinctly soapy, sitting
in sis chairs ready to entertain their
guest.
"We didn't expect you u itil Thurs-day,
because papa couldn't read your
writing ; he said he never read worse,"
remarked Molly, placidly.
"O Molly," said Polly, much dis-tressed,
"I think he thought the writ
iog looked pretty, but he didn't haye
the right spectacles."
" I brought him six pairs," said
Molly stoutly.
But the bishop laughed and laughed,
and when he raet the twelve eyes re
garding him with solemn wonder, he
laughed all the more.
' Father and mother have gone out
to kill two birds with one stone," said
Harlow. ' Old Mrs. Smithers, and a
chicken that they are going to buy for
your supper is the other, and mother is
goin;.r to bake a frosted cake big
enough for us, too. We always like to
have the bishop come," he added feel-ingly.
"Have you any children of your
own ?" asked Polly.
The bishop shook his head. 'Not of
my very own," he confessed, "but I
am great friends with somo children
who sometimes like me to tell them
stories."
Wish one consent they drew nearer,
and Dummy Dae climbed into his lap.
' D > it now, please," urged Ted.
"What about?'' asked the bishop.
At tbis, Dummy Dee took his thumb
out of his mouth with a plop, liko a
cork out of a bottle. "Mudder Gouth,"
he said ia a solemn voica.and immedi-ately
put it in again.
"There was an old woman lived
under the sun,
Who went out shooting without any
gun,
She shot, a wild goosa instead ot a
duck
And said, Oh ! my eye, what very
good luck."
responded the bishop promptly. And
Dummy Dee, perfectly satisfied, curled
up against his shoulder went sound
asleep
"About the dog, please," said Har-low
next.
' Do you know what will make a pug
dog's tail uncurl ?" asked the bishop.
Does damp weather do it like it
does mother's front hair ?" asked Dick.
"No," said the bishop, laughing.
"But I was visiting, not long ago,
where the lady had a very fat pug dog
with a tightly curled tail. She asked
me if I would like to see it uncurl. I
said I certainly should, eo she told me
that that pug was not always a good
dog; that sometimes he r an off and
got into bad company, and thus caused
much trouble. All the time she was
talking thu3 the curl waa disappearing
from his tail, and at last it lay quite
flat and drooping on the floor. 'But,'
said the lady then, 'he often, almost
always, in fact, is a dear little fellow,
very intelligent. He is a good watch-dog
and obeys me beautifully ;' and
when she had finished his tail was all
bunched up again."
"We had a dog once," said Ted,
"who barked at people when he
thought father wasn't around. One
night the yestrymen came out and
Mac didn't see father, so he barked at
the biggest vestryman. They were all
in a row on the walk—it was slick
from a sleet storm—30 lather ran
around in front of the frontest man to
try to get at Mac, but his feet slipped
and he fell against the next, till they
all fell down like t e n p i n s —"
"There come father and mother,"
called out Molly, who was nearest the
window, and instantly the bishop
found himself deserted by all but Dum-my
Dae, still sound asleep on his
shoulder. Through the open window
came the sound of many voices.
" I choose to tell," "no, lets all tell."
Then a composite shriek smote the a i r;
" H e ' s here! The bishop's here!"
Presently bits like this drifted in :
"He's real nice if he can't write."
"But how he can laugh ! When we
told him about his writing, and old
Mrs Smithers, and the chickens for
his supper, he laughed the greatest
l o t "
"And mothers hair not curling
when it rains "
"He makes be-youtbful poetry; it
put Dummy Die to sleep, just like
father's sermons. He's holding Dum-my
Dee now."
"Oh, hurry, mother, and make t he
frosted cake. He's expecting i t ; I
told him. And don't forget to make
it big."
"Are you sick or scared at anything,
mother? Did Mr. Jones's horse and
buggy cut u p ? You look kind of
pale. We've been awful good children.
You ask the bishop !"
BY THE WAX.
No Use for Them.
"The queerest case I have had in
my practice," said the dentist, "occur-red
the other day, when a woman
came into the office and wanted me to
buy back a set of false teeth. She
.«aid she had been using them for
eight months and that they> had given
her good service, but the times were
bard, her landlord was pressing her
for rent, and the teeth were her only
valuable possession."
"She might have added," remarked
the listener, "that, haying nothing to
eat, she no longer had any use for
teeth."
interesting; Notes and Comments on
Persons, Places and Things.
THE terrible loss of life caused by
the wreck of the United States battle-ship
Maine recalls the disaster attend
ing the loss of the steamer Arctic,
mention of which was made in these
columns several months ago. The
steamer, a side-wheeler of the old
Collies line, started from Liverpool
with a full cargo of general merchan-dise,
a crew of about seventy-five men
and nearly 600 passengers. This was
in September, 1854, when it took four-teen
or fifteen days to make the trans-atlantic
trip. The voyage had been
pleasant and uneventful until reach-ing
the vicinity of Cape Race. A
dense fog enveloped the sea and sky,
but the weather was dead calm and
the sea was almost as smooth as glass.
The vessel was obliged to go ahead
very slowly and cautiously. Sudden-ly
a French propeller, the Vesta, one
of the new iron propsller steamers,
came out of the curtain of the fog It
was too late to avoid a collision, and
the French boat struck the Arctic
aslant abaft the starboard bow, and
then sneered off, leaving part of her
iron nose sticking in the side of the
Arctic.
# * *
IT IS believed that there is but one
survivor still living of that awful disas-ter.
Ha is Thomas Garland, now
seventy-six years of age, and residing
in New York. His thrilling escape
with about forty others and the terri-ble
fight against death by thoie who
perished forma a remarkable narra-tive
worth repeating. Among those
who perished were Collins himself, the
founder of the steamship line, his wife
and scores of prominent New Yorkers.
The story as told by Garland is as fol-lows
: "It was just about noon, and
nearly all the passengers were at din-ner
in the cabin. I was below in the
engineer's room looking after my fur-nace.
The collision jaired the Arctis^
but not very much, and as the Vesta
sheered off it felt just as though she
was scraping against our side. No-body
aboard thought that we were
seriously injured. Captain Luee, in
fact thought that the most injury had
been done to the iron propeller, and
he feared, that she would sink. He
roared to her captain through his
trumpet, but got very little satisfaction.
The Vesta came to a standstill, and
the Arctic steamed around her three
limes, ID wide circles with the crew on
the lookout for persons in the water,
but the four frightened sailors who had
leaped into our rigging were all that
we saw. The circling around the pro-peller
took half an hour's time, and
• that the Vesta got up steam
afresh, and before Captain Luce knew
what her commander was up to, she
had started off into the bank of fog
again. He fired signal guns to bring
her back, still believing her to be in
danger of going to the bottom, but she
paid no heed to the booming calls."
* * *
ALL THIS Garland found out after-ward,
as be was down in the engioe
room, The water came in on item
and was soon above their knees, aod it
was evident that a bad collision had
taken place. They were then ordered
on deck, as the water shipped was be-ginning
to pull the steamer over.
"When we got up on deck we found
the passengers there ahead of us hud-dled
astern a?jd in a panic. The men
had blanched faces and the women
were screaming and running about
wringing their hands in a frensy of
fear. Others were kneeling on the
deck over weeping children and pray-ing
for deliverance. Captain Luce
had discovered by this tim9 that the
vessel had been hard hit, and he or-dered
the men to take the cargo out of
the bow and middle hatchways, to find
out exactly what damage had been
done. When the holds were partly
cleared it was found that the French
propeller had knocked a hole in our
starboard big enough for a man to
walk through, and the sea was pour-ing
in in torrents. She had no water-tight
compartments, and we knew she
was doomed. When I went aft again
I saw Captain Luce with a pistol in
his hand, and I also saw, to my sur-prise,
that all six of the metallic life-boats
had been taken irom the davits.
It appeared afterward that he had lost
control of his officers who had looked
ont for themselves in the scramble for
the boats. Five boats had got away,
carrying some passengers, but mostb
officers and crew."
* * *
THE passengers aboard were then in
the wildest panic, and discipline had
gone to the dogs. The crew behaved
in a most selfish manner and gave lit-tle
heed to the saving of any of the
passengers. Garland continues: "I
pressed forward through the crowd,
and looking over the stern of the ves-sel
saw the sixth lifeboat just descend-ing
from the bulwarks. One of the
assistant engineers was in her, with
some of his associates preparing to get
off like the others. I leaped over the
stern, landed in the boat, and my
weight brought her down with a tre-mendous
splash into the water. Cap-tain
Luce leveled his revolver at rae.
" 'Come back or I'll shoot,' he cried.
" 'Shoot and be damned,' I retorted.
'I'm going to look after this boat.'
"Captain Luee didn't shoot, and we
fastened the painter to the slern, and
held the boat there while we were
busy rigging up a raft. For more
than an hour before this probably we
had all been busy chopping away
spars and throwing them overboard,
along with boxes and big crates and
things that would float and hold a
man or woman up. This was before
th8 officers got panic stricken and
deserted the steamer. The steamer
had listed far over, and from the boat
we were witnesses of a scene that I
used to see every time I closed my eyes
for years afterward. The lifeboat was
nineteen ieet long, and thirty-two per-sons
. had climbed aboard. The load
brought the gunwale within six inches
of the water. To take another person
on board would have capsized her.
All those who were working at the
raft had to keep beating off men and
women who tried in a frensy of des-pair
to clamber aboard. They were
drowned before our eyes. I saw wo-men
climb down the ropes with little
ones clutched to their bosom,scream-ing
wildly, only to be forced off into
the water to be drowned by others
who were descending the same ropes.
It was a sight to make one's heart
stand still.
* * *
AT 4 o'clock Captain Luce was
standing on the roof of the wheelhouse,
holding an invalid boy who had gone
to Liverpool to be treated by a fa-mous
surgeon. Six other passengers
were on the roof with him. It was
then only a question of minutes when
the big side-wheeler should go down,
and at 4.20, with the captain and the
six passengers and the sick boy still
on the wheelhouse, she foundered.
Somehow the wheolhouse was wrested
free from the deck when the steamer
went down, and the captain and the
men with him clung to it and got it
turned bottom side up, so that they
could clamber into it like a big wood-en
box, and after drifting about for
thirty-six hours they were picked up
by the ship Campria and brought to
land. The lifeboat in which Garland
was drifted around for three days,
without food or water for its unfor-tunates.
The agony for want of water
was dreadful, three of ihe men going
crazy under the strain. On the even-ing
of the third day they were rescued
by a Scotch bark bound for Quebec.
The disaster was a tragic sensation in
New York for many weeks. Captain
Luce never went to sea again. He
was a man of wealth and retired to
his home at Yonkers, where he died
several years ago. It is believed he
was the last besides Garland who sur-vived
the wreck.
* * *
FORTUNATELY the loss of life by
shipwrecks ia growing smaller every
year. PHIL,
Views of a Bachelor.
Most men know a good thing when
they don't eat it.
Some men are mean enough to kick
a dog for looking comfortable.
A man neves* appreciates a woman's
real value till he marries somo one
else.
You can never keep down a man
who knows when he can't tell a funny
story.
A womsa can never be angry with a
man for kissing her if he does it ar
tisLically.
A woman never realize? how much
her husband'« health means to her till
her palm dies.
The rarest, but the most invulner-able
kind of innocence Is the kind
that comes from knowledge.
If a man really believed that a girl
would grow to look like her mother at
the same nge he would move away.
Every mats thinks he has more big
trials and every woman thinks she has
more little worries than anybody else.
—I*. h not a remedy put up by any
Tom, Dick or Harry; it is compound-ed
by oxpert pharmacists!. Ely Bros,
offer a 10 cent trial size. Ask your
druggist. Ful! siz> Cream Balm 50
cants, Wa mail it.
ELY BROS , 56 Warren Sc.., N . Y. Cit>.
Since 1861 I have been a great suf-ferer
from catarrh. I tried Ely's
Cream Balm and to a l l appearance
am cured. Terrible headaches from
which I hacl long suffered are gone.—
W. J. Hitobcock, late Major U. S.
Vol. and A A. Gen, Buffalo, N. Y.
WILMAM M. SINQKRI.Y DIES.
The Well-Known Journalist Expires
Very Suddenly.
William M. Singerly died suddenly
at his residence, 1701 Locust street,
Philadelphia, Sunday afternoon. Heart
disease was the immediate cause of
death. Mr. Singerly had been suffer-ing
for about ten days from a o l d and
had remained at home since last Wed-nesday,
although his indisposition was
in no way serious. While sitting in
his bed room smoking a cigar he was
seizad with a violent fit of coughing
and immediately afterwards fell over
dead, in the sixty seventh year of his
age.
The physicians say they had fre-quently
cautioned Mr. Singerly that
his heart was weak as a result of ex-cessive
smoking and of late his custom
was to take a "dry smoke." Sunday
however, his cigar Was lighted and it
is thought that the smoke brought on
the coughing spell, the severity of
which ruptured a vessel of the heart
William M. Singerly was proprietor
of the Record Publishing Company ;
president of the Chestnut Street Na
tional bank and the Chestnut Savings
Fund and Trust Company, which re-cently
collapsed ; and president of the
Singerly pulp and paper mill. He was
a member of the Fairmount Park
commission and until lately its treas-urer
; and a trustee of the Philadel-phia
Commercial Museum.
Over t h e State.
Congressman Robbins, of Greens-burg,
looks for war with Spain.
Elk county Democrats look for
Pattison's nomination for Governor.
Baby carriages are to be banished
from the Pillsburg market houses.
There are 850 business places in
Chester county subject to mercantile
tax.
Copper has been found in large
quantiiies at Leithsville, Lehigh
county.
A chemical fire engine will be add-ed
to Coatsvilla's fire extinguishing ap-paratus.
Lancaster county expects to reap a
rich harvest from the Cuban tobaceo
shortage.
Fourteen students of Grove City
College, Sharon, have been suspended
for dancing.
Freeman Fry, yardmasier at Cata-wissa,
was horribly mangled while
coupling cars.
Andrew Geshow, a track walker on
the Lehigh Railroad, was killed by
cars at Wilkesbarre.
A two-year-old daughter of Milton
H. Plank was kicked on the head by
a horse and died soon afterward.
The North Cornwall furnace, at
Lebanon, which has been idle the
past eight years, was put in blast.
An explosion destroyed the genafor
room of the gas house at Stroudsburg,
and severely burned Milton Edinger,
an employee.
The local unions of United Mine
Workers, at Hazleton, have collected
30 to assist in Sheriff Martin's fur-ther
prosecution.
Frank Hoffman, Kinter Roberts
and William Heslop left their homes,
at Johnstown, last week to enlist in
the United Statea navy.
In the fire at his house on Saturday
night $237 in bank bills were burned,
which P. J. Hal!, ot Bethlehem, had
placed beneath his pillow.
Congressman I. P. Wanger will de-liver
an address at a Washington's
birthday celebration to be held at Tel-ford,
Montgomery county.
Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas fell dead
from heart disease in her pew at the
Congregational Church of Shamokin
during service on Sunday.
A marriage license was issued at
Bloomsburg to Andy J. Robbins, aged
58, and Jeruaha Fensiamaker^ aged 70,
a widow for the second time.
It is generally believed that Ed-ward
Rodgers, whose decapitated body
was found on the railroad at Snake
Run, near DaBois, last week, was mur-dered.
The Lebanon county Sunday School
Association elected John H. Black,
president; A. C. Zimmerman, secre-
The, 'Homeliest Man iu JjititB,
As well the handao: aefA, and others
are invited to call on any druggist
and get free a trial bottle of Kemp's
Balsata tor the Throat and! Lungs, a
remedy That is guaranteed to> enre and
relieve ali Chronic and Acute Coughs,
Asthuis, Bronchitis and Ccnsamption.,
Price 2§c and 50c.
Brief and Carious.
In 1000 cases of the morphine habit
collected from all parts of the world,
the medical profession constituted
forty per cent, of the number.
A stab wound of the heart has just
been sewed up by Dr. Rech, of Frank-fort,
and the patient recovered.
Health Officer Weaver, of Norris-town,
Pa., states that the odor of form-aline,
the new disinfectant, is a combi-nation
of "bilge water and the emana-tions
from a sauer kraut kettle." He
adds, somewhat superfluously, that no
germ will survive it.
One of the fertile German manufac-turers
has put upon the market a sub-stance
called gastromyxin, which has
the virtue of increasing the natural
yield of the pepsin in the stomach.
There is no plant which animals so
detest as the castor oil plant, it being
poisonous to the whole animal world.
A goat will starve rather than eat it,
and those destroyers of everything
green, the locust, the army worm and
the tobacco worm, will not feed upon
it.
In the investigations of the effects of
tobacco during the epidemic of cholera
at Hamburg it is stated that there
were no live microbes after twenty-four
hours in the cigars made up with wa-ter
coataining 1,500,000 cholera mi-crobes
to the cubic centimeter.
So far as the most recent statistics
go, the known proportion of blind
people is about one in fifteen hundred,
which would give a total of one mil-lion
blind persons in the world. The
largest proportion is found in Russia,
which has in Europe 200,000 blind in
a population of ninety §ix millions, or
one in every four hundred and eighty.
Most of these are found in the north-provinces
of Finland, and the
principal cause is ophthalmia, due to
the bad ventilation of the huts of the
peasantry and the inadequate facilities
for treatment. A great deal of the
blindness in Egypt is due to blowing
sand.
tary, and Dr. J. L Leinberger, treas-
A Woman Brakeman, I urer.
Mrs. Jennie Mulligan, of Brainerd, Walter Goodwin, sentenced to be
Minn, is earning her daily bread on hanged at Wellsboro, March 31, fur
top of freight cars of the Northern Pa- wife murder, declares he has grounds
cific railroad. She is the only woman for knowing he will not be hanged on
of this employment in the world, and that day.
the fact that she is in grim earnest is A barn on the farm ot Dr. Jacob
attested by three months of service. Meliinger, near Highville, Lancaster
She has already acted as a substitute county, was burned. Five cows were
freight conductor, and her ambition is burned to death. The loss is estimated
to become a passenger conductor. The at $4,000
indications are that she will attain her A Luzarne county Coroner's Jury
ambition unless she should chance to attributes the fatal railroad collision at
remarry. She is the widow of a rail- Sheppton to the fact an employe's
road man, tall, erect and good-looking, watch was five minutes slower than
and only a little over thirty years old. standard time.
While at work she wears bloomer Dennie Sherlock, of Hollidaysburg,
overalls, a double-breasted combina- started his kitchen fire wi h kerosene,
tion skirt and tight-fitting jacket, with the explosion that followed igniting
a common leather belt around the the house, which was totally destroyed,
waist. A coil of hair on top of her His loss is $1200.
head is covered by an ordinary skull After courting twelve days Amos P.
cap with the regulation long peak in Rice, of Guliford, and Mrs. Annie M.
front, and the bottoms of her overalls Heefner, of A!to Dale, Cumberland
are laced with a pair of extra high county, were married on Saturday,
canvas-top shoes. She is considered a The groom id seventy ; his bride forty,
first class, capable employe, and it Is 1 A move is on foot to organize a
said that she will not be compelled to a light artillery company of 120 men,
"twist brakes" the usual length of in Kingston, L'izerne county, to go to
time before receiving promotion. Cuba ia case of war, or if no war oc-
Mrs. Mulligan became a brakeman curs, to be organized into a battery of
not from choice, but from sheer neces- the Penn'a National Guard,
sity. Her husband had lost his life on Hairy Howards, aged 18 years, liv-the
railroad, and she went one day to jog on a farm near the state hospital
the superintendent's office and laid her for the irmnp, near Norristown, was
case before that official, which resulted shot in the face and body with bird
la her employment as a brakeman, a shot by Philip Sands, colored, aged 16
jwjsstion offered to her in jest but which years. The shooting was done in fun,
«lie took in earnest. I it is said.