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Early Spring
Announcement.
Springtime is about at hand and with it
come thoughts of new wearing apparel.
I have made early purchases of all kinds
of goods belonging to my line of trade, and
make this announcement so that my patrons
may know that they can buy now as cheap
as later and have the best selections from a
clean and fresh stock.
Every variety of
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for man and boy.
I would like every one
my big assortment of
to come and see
Colored Outing
and Other
nothing like it ever before seen in Lititz.
that can't be matched in some of the more
pretentious stores. I have all my Neckwear
selected from piece silk and made to order.
in the latest styles, of course, and at prices
as low as the lowest.
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FEED. ESSIG.
F O B THE DEVELOPMENT OF
AMERICAN M A N U F A C T U R ES
AND THE EXPANSION OF OUR
EXPORT TRADE.
Of the numerous National and Inter-national
Expositions projected for the
next three or four years in different
parts of the United-States, the one to
be held in Philadelphia in September,
October and November of the present
year is in many respects the most im-portant
to the commercial interests of
the country.
The Philadelphia Exposition of 1899
is a n exposition for the development of
American manufactures and the expan-sion
of our export trade, and it will be
the first national exposition of that
character ever held in this country.
Of recent years, expositions of goods
suitable for export have been held at
frequent intervals in the great manu-facturing
countries of Europe, attract-ing
foreign buyers and greatly aiding
export trade. It is the purpose to show
at next fall's Exposition every line of
manufactured products of the United
States especially suitable for export.
Such exhibits will form the principal
department of the Exposition and will
comprise everything which is, can or
might be exported, from locomotives
and heavy machinery to the smallest
noveltes.
There will also be a department of
foreign manufactured goods, but it will
not contain a single exhibit made by a
foreign manufacturer. This department
will consist of collections of samples of
goods made in t h e commercial countries
of Europe and successfully sold in all
foreign markets in competition with
American goods, and in foreign mar-kets
in which American trade has not
yet been developed. These samples
will be exhibited side by side with
American products of the same class,
and will show our manufacturers what
competition they must meet abroad,
as well as the peculiarities in the de-mands
of every foreign market. The
samples of goods of foreign manufac-ture
are being selected and purchased
abroad by representatives of the Expo-sition,
aided by the entire Consular ser-vice
of the United States.
A third department of the Exposition
will show how American goods must
be packed, labeled and shipped in order
to meet the requirements of foreign
trade, which vary according to the de-gree
of development or civilization in
each country ctf the world,
I n October a Commercial Congress
will be held in Philadelphia in connec-tion
with the meeting of the Interna-tional
Advisory Board of the Philadel-phia
Commercial Museum. The lead-ing
Chambers of Commerce of the en-tire
world have been invited to send
delegates and the Commercial Museum
has sent out invitations to its agents
and representatives abroad to send to
the Exposition their buyers or mem-bers
of their firms. There is every rea-son
to believe that at least 800 repre-sentatives
of foreign firms will be pres-ent
at the sessions of tbe Commercial
Congress and in attendance on the Ex-position,
in addition to the official dele-gates
and those representing commer-cial
organizations.
Nearly every Board of Trade, Cham-ber
of Commerce or other commercial
organization of importance in the Unit-ed
States affiliated with the Philadel
phia Commercial Museum as members
of its Domestic Advisory Board will
send delegates to t h e Commercial Con-gress.
They will be able to discuss with
the foreign visitors the varying peculi-arities
of the demands of trade in their
particular countries, and if the Ameri-can
manufacturer does not benefit
thereby, it will be his own fault.
The Exposition will be under the
joint auspices of the Philadelphia Com-mercial
Museum and the Franklin In-stitute,
two great public institutions of
Philadelphia, whose standing is such as
to assure the success of the Exposition.
The Board of ~B(rec;tors of the Btylade^
phia Exposition Association, the por-poration
organized to conduct the Ex=
position, includes a number of the most
prominent and energetic business men
o Philadelphia.
^.Sanction and support has been given
to the Exposition by the National Gov-ernment,
Congress appropriating $350,-
000 to aid it. The city of Philadelphia
has given $200,000 and the State of
Pennsylvania $50,000, and $100,000 is
being raised in Philadelphia by indi-vidual
subscribtions. A bill now pend-ing
in the Legislature of Pennsylvania
appropriates $200,000 more, making a
total Exposition fund of about $900,000.
The main buildings, which are now
under construction, cover eight acres
of ground, and the available exhibition
space will b« at least 200,000 square
feet. They will form a grand and im-posing
structure, embodying all those
features of design and construction
which experience of other expositions
has proven desirable.
Outside of the space occupied by the
main buildings there will be within the
Exposition grounds, which comprise a
tract of fifty-six acres of land on the
bank of the Schuylkill River, within
fifteen minutes' ride of the City
Hall, ample space for the erection
of detached structures for special exhi-bits.
There will be a large area for
amusement features, which promise to
be as unique and interestiug as the Ex-position
is practical.
HER WEDDING TOMBSTONE.
Spring Cleaning a Habit.
House cleaning is largely a habit.
The t h r i f ty housekeeper gets the way of
having a general upheaval twice a year,
and she could not dispense with it, or
she thinks she couldn't. And yet some
authorities declare the periodical house
cleaning to be an unnecessary infliction.
Their plan is to give one room a clean-ing
every week. Thus, if there are
seven rooms, each room gets a renova-tion
every seven weeks, and the house
never has an opportunity to become
dirty enough to need troublesome over-hauling.
But it is hard to make the methodical
housekeeper fall into this way. She
likes to t u rn the house out of windows
in the spring and fall, a n d she does it.
This is the time for spring cleaning, and
there are hundreds of poor men groan-ing
in spirit as they scent the battle of
carpet-beating, window cleaning and
paper-hanging that comes with the
first suggestion of continued sunshine.
So this spring there will be just as much
house cleaning as ever in spite of new
theories of management. The only
thing that is wanted now'is w e a t h e r -
that is, the right kind of weather.
Men dislike scratches on furniture.
Marks on the tables and chairs seem to
have a peculiarly irritating effect upon
the masculine mind greatly dispropor-tionate
to the importance of the injuries,
as it seems to the housewife. However,
since it is conceded that this is a weak-ness
of man, it is well to know l^ow to
meet it. Polishes should b.e used fre-quently
and vigorously. Qne of the most
satisfactory polishes is also the simplest
—/namely, a mixture of linseed oil and
vinegar, kept in a well-corked bottle
and shaken before use; the furniture
must be dusted first, then the mixture
can be applied over a small surface, pol-ishing
quickly with old silk rags. This
compound has a double advantage—it
does not form a cake over the- wood
(which cake invariably produces cracks
in it) and the combined oil and vinegar
remove many stains and grease marks
that ordinary polishes do not touch.
Mirrors and looking-glasses should be
cleaned every time a room is done. A;
little spirits of wine judiciously applied«
with a soft rag will remove the most
obstinate marks. Picture frames and
books, too, should be well dusted, said
the cupboard shelves dusted and relined
witii c.le.^n p^per.
Mpflstep. I^afee of tiagep.
The beer which is oonsumed through-out
the world in a single year, says the
London Home Magazine, would make
a lake 6 feet deep, 3 | miles long and a
mile wide, or 2319 acres in area. In
this vast lake of beer (says t h e writer)
we could easily drown all the English-speaking
people, to the number of 120,-
000,000, throughout the entire world, or
we could give a beer-bath to every man
woman and child at the same time in
the entire continent of America, while
all the peoples of England, Scotland,
Ireland and France could find standing
room on its bed.
Las Angeles ami the P a c i f i c Coast
Return.
Specii Excursion from points in
Pennsylvania, Maryland, District of
Columbia, Virginia, West ' Virginia,
Ohio, New York and New Jersey, on
the occasion of the National Educa-tional
Association meeting at Los Ange-les,
Cai., in July, 1899, at reduced rates.
For full particulars, address John It.
Pott, District Passenger Agent, C., M
&St. P. R'y, 486 William St., Williams
port, Pa.
0 YOU never heard of Melinda
Barbour's wedding tomb-stone?"
said grandmamma, in
a tone of surprise. '' I thought
everybody knew about that.
" You have seen the old stone house
down on the bank of the river, all shut
in with pines and evergreens? It's
nearly 100 years old. When I was born
it had been built ten years. When I
was a young married woman the Bar-bours
came to live there, and they were
a proud family, with whom nobody
could get acquainted.
"Mr. Barbour embezzled or did some-thing
of that kind, and went to prison.
After he had been there a year he hang-ed
himself, and that is the last of him,
so far as my story goes.
"Then his wife and little boy shut
themselves up in the stone house and
hardly ever went outside of the gate.
She'd had a good deal of schooling, his
mother had, and she taught him her-self
as long as she could, andj then he
bought books and studied by himself.
11 What did they live on ? O, the boy
farmed, and later, they say, he wfote
books on what they call natural history,
though to my mind, it was the most
unnatural stuff I ever heard tell of—all
about beetles and. things with 300 mus-cles
in their heads, and as could carry
1,200 times their own weight on their
backs.
" When she died, Mortimer seemed as
if he would go crazy. He planted her
grave with violets and pansies, and at
the head was a white marble monu-ment.
But he didn't display any taste.
Nothing on it but the old lady's name
and the date she died—not an angel,
nor an anchor, nor a lamb, nor a brok-en
rosebud, nor a bit of verse. And yet
he always seemed to set store by her.
" Then Mortimer, he just stuck to the
old house, same as ever, though now
he was alone. He wore,his hair long,
as was the custom in those days, and it
was curly at the ends, like the picture
of John Wesley. But he had eyes that
went right through you and came out
at the back of your head.
" Now, he was the last man in the
village I ' d ever have imagined would
have married. But when the little mil-liner,
Melinda McAllister, came into
the place he was struck. Everybody
warned her, and told her about his~
father's hanging himself in prison, and
how queer his mother was, and that
Mortimer was odd, too, and wouldn't
come to any good. . She listened, with
her eyes big and cool, and a little hot
patch of red on her cheeks like a daub
of paint, but she never said a word.
" Bnt we were not prepared for the
worst. A day or two before the wed-ding
in comes Mrs. Johnson, and says:.
Shut up the doors tight and the win-dows.
I've got something to tell you
that'll make your hair rise up,' she says,
whispering-like. So I shut the door,
she clasping her ha,nds together like
one possessed.
" 1 I t ' s about Melinda,' she went on.
' H e has got a tombstone for her.'
' " W h o ? " asked I, as if I didn't
know, but my knees knocked together
and I felt queer.
" ' M o r t i m e r Barb,our,' s£*ys she.
' My nephew Johnnie -was after a bird's
ne^t in a tree that stands in his garden.
The limb broke, arid down he went
right on the roof of the old outhouse,
^hat Wasn't been used for years. It
went in like tinder, and as »oon as he
could pick himself up and found no
bones broken, what should he see but a
new white gravestone standing in a
corner against some rubbish. He went
up to it, and saw " Melinda Barbour"
cut in it, and the date she is to die.'
" ' I don't believe it,', said I, but I
felt faint at heart.
" As soon as I said that I didn't be-lieve
it, Mrs. Johnson said we would go
ourselves and see. And we did go,
Mortimer being away in the fields, and
entered the cor.nl^ouse. We saw the
stonei, just as Johnniesaid, a real grave-stone
of white marble, and on it the
1 Melinda Barbour,' with the date
i^ept. 3,' below it, But, the rest we
eouldn't make out.
" ' H e ' s going to let her live three
months; may heaven forgive him,' says
Mrs. Johnson, meaning different from
what she said.
" The next day I went to Melinda
and told her the whole truth. And
would you-believe it, she said she
thought Mrs. Johnson and I had no
business prying into people's affairs?
' If he had bought me a thousand grave-stones
I ' d have him, just the same,'
she said.
" So they were married the next day
in the chapel, but Melinda was white
as a ghost, and she trembled so that she
could hardly walk. They went away
by train and we threw some old shoes
a f t e r ' e m ; but all the wishing of joy
was makebelieve, and I never saw a
bride with such a white, set face.
" They were away nearly three
months. Then they came back to the
old house. But folks said they were
not happy; that she was as "cold as a
stone, and he was always at his books
and old insects.
" One day I had a letter asking me to
come and see her. She was lying
down on a lounge ,when I got there,
white and so thin, her big eyes with a
sorry, hungry look in them. But she
had on a smart gown, and was as pret-ty
as a picture. As soon as we had
shaken hands she said:
" 'Do you know what day tomorrow
is ?" I thought for a moment, and said
it was September 3. ' The day I am
going to die,'she said, in a soft, quiet
way. Then she said he was very good
to her, but she couldn't get that grave-stone
out of her head day or night.
" All at once it came to me how mat-ters
were. She had been too proud to
give him up. Besides, she loved him,
too, and she had been too proud to tell
him about it, and so betwixt the two
the poor child was almost beaten out.
She asked me if I would go out to the
outhouse with her and see the stone.
She wanted to see it and was afraid to
go alone.
" Then a queer thing happened.
Mortimer had come-into the next room
while 3he had been talking, and heard
every word. I never saw anybody so
moved as he was when he came in.
" ' I s it that tombstone which has
stood between us ?" he said, and went
on to explain that it had been ordered
for his mother. He was such a bad
writer that the stonecutter mistook the
name Malvina for Melinda and after
the stone was half done it was found
out, and they made him pay for it. So,
as it was his, they brought it to him,
and, not knowing what to do with it,
he had just put it away in the outhouse
and forgotten all about it.
" A f t e r t h a t ? Dear me, they were
tbe happiest couple you ever saw.
They used the gravestone for a front
doorstep wrong side up, and it was
quite pretty. Melinda was very proud
of ' h im and believed every word he
wrote about the beetles, just as his
mother had done, whieh only goes to
show that the old saying is true, that
love is blind."
R o t A L
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SAMPSON ON CERVI5RA.
The Spring Openings.
Sunday-SchobîTeacher—''Now, chil-dren,
we must bear in mind that be-tweri
our last- week's lessons and this
quite a period of time is represented as
having elapsed. During this time a
very important event has taken place.
Yes, Annie, you may tell us what it is."
Annie—"We've all got our spring
hats."
Friday.
Washington was married on Friday.
Queen Victoria was married on Fri-day.
Declaration of Independence was
signed on Friday,
Napoleon Bonaparte was horn on Fri-day,
Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on
Friday.
America was discovered on Friday.
Mayflower landed on Friday.
Joan of Arc was burned at the stake
on Friday.
Battle of Waterloo was fought on Fri-day.
Bastile destroyed on Friday.
Julius Caesar assassinated on Friday,
Moscow burned on Friday.
Shakespeare born on Friday.
King Charles beheaded on Friday.
Battle of New Orleans fought on Fri-day.
Lincoln assasiuated on Friday.
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The Spaniard "Would B e t t e r Have
L e f t by Night.
Writing in the Century of the naval
battle of Santiago, Admiral Sampson
says: When we come to consider the
strategy of Admiral Cervera in leaving
the harbor, it must be said first of all
that it would have been much better, if
he could have done so, to leave by
night. That he could not do so is the
testimony of officers of his fleet. We
know from what they said subsequent-ly,
while they were prisoners, that this
plan had been considered by the admi-ral
and his officers. Two advocated go-ing
out by night; the others were all in
favor of the sortie by-day. The great
difficulty in a night attempt was our
dazzling search-light. A search-light
shining direct in one's eyes prevents
him absolutely from seeing anything
else; it is as though he were looking.at
the sun; and it was that effect upon
them, taken in connection with the
necessity of seeing their way out of the
channel, that made them hesitate. This
feeling was in itself a compliment to
the efficiency of the blockade, but we
did not attach so much importance to
the dazzling of t h e enemy as to the illu-mination
of the channel so that we
could see everything t h a t was going on.
I t was a continual wonder to us why
they did not fire at our search-light,
which was always within range. To
be sure, it would have required pretty
good marksmanship to knock it out,
but it would have made the man who
was manipulating it quite uneasy to
know that he was the center of the
enemy's Are.
The enemy had no search-lights at
their defenses. All the necessary ma-chinery
was in place for the establish-ment
of one on Socapa, but they never
got so far as-to complete the plant and
actually use it.
What appeared to us the most favor-able
change Cervera was to have been
prepared to come out with a full head of
steam, and then to have chosen a very
cloudy, dark night, or one when a
dense rain or squall was x^assing over
the harbor—when it would be very dif-ficult
to see in any circumstances—and,
guided by screened lights placed along
the channel for the purpose, to have
made for the open sea. His ships might
have run out of such a storm in about
an hour; so long as thesquall continued
they probably could have counted upon
being invisible to a great extent. It
would have been difficult to identify
the particular ships, and in the con-fusion
and darkness they would prob-ably
so far have escaped observation
that they might have been out of sight
by the time the weather cleared up or
the squall had passed. There were sever-al
such nights, and very anxious ones
they were for tfs.
Dismissing the question of a sortie by
night, there were several things he
might have done by day: (1) to take
the course he. did take alongshore to the
westward; (2) to take a similar course
to the eastward (3) ; to divide his fleet
between the two courses; and (4) to
scatter through our fleet. When they
all came out and started along the
beach our lire was easily concentrated
on them. It would have been worse to
go eastward, as he would have had to
engage not only all the vessels lie did,
but the New York and the vessels at
Guantanamo—the Massachusetts, New-ark
and Marblehead, which could have
been notified by telegraph. He might
have made a feint to go in a certain di-rection.
Two ships sent in one direc-tion
would probably have called out
most of the strength of our vessels, and
have given his others a better chance'
than they had. What would have
happened if they had boldly attempted
to dash through the fleet can only "
matter of speculation. There could
hardly have been as much concentra-tion
of fire upon them and in the smoke
and confusion some of them might have
got through.
Over t h e State.
J . A. HasbrookP in jail at Williams-port
on a charge of burglary, escaped
by the aid of a rope made of bed quilts,
then over the outer wall by a telephone
wire.
I n the street at Allentown Saturday
night Bertha, the three-year-old daugh-ter
of Joseph P. Leidner, was killed by
a trolley car in sight of her mother and
grandmother.
F. B. Ryan, a flagman, was crushed
to death between car bumpers at Lamo-kin.
Much valuable timber on the Blue
Mountains, near Hamburg,was destroy-ed
by fire.
Incendiary fires, causing much dam-age,
occurred near Dubois and in West-moreland
county.
York sportsmen are distributing 700
Kansas quail in the country around
that city.
June 10 has been fixed as the date for
Republican primaries in Lebanon coun-ty.
A fine new church will be built by
the Emanuel Reformed congregation at
Hanover, York^county.
An illuminating corporation may in-clude
Pottsville, Shenandoah, Tama-qua,
Ashland and Mahanoy City in its
field of operations.
The grandchildren of the late Steph-en
B. Mills, formerly of York county,
have decided to contest their grandfath-er's
will, under which his estate of $5,-
000,000 went to his two sons.
Llewellyn Stout was found guilty of
murder in the first degree for causing
the deathfof Station Agent Wurster, at
Bingen, on the P. & R. Railway.
A mysterious fire broke out in A-.'
Mitchell's bakery at Reading-on Satur-day
night, and before it could be con-trolled
$3000 worth of damage was done.
While running to the fire George Weis
and James Geist, firemen, were thrown
from the hose wagon and badly hurt.
Give t h e Children, a Drink
called Grain-O. It is a delicious, appe-tizing,
nourishing food drink to take
the place of coffee. Sold by all grocers
and liked by all who have used it be*
cause when properly prepared it tastes
like the finest coffee but is free from all
its injurious properties. Grain-O aids
digestion and strengthens t h e nerves.
I t is not a stimulant hut a health build-er,
and children as well as adults, can
drink it with great benefit. Costs about
J as much as coffee.. IS a n d 25.c. S
ties from your blood. It is
also a tonic of immense
value. Give nature a little
help at this time. Aid her
by removing all the products
cf disease from your blood.
If your bowels are not
last righty Ayer's Pills •will
make them so. Send for
ctir boolt on Diet in Consti-pation,
•• . « s w V ^ i ' j
VSi'Sia fo. our Dootora.
We the exclusive services
of snma-of t h e most eminent physi-cians
in t h e United States. W r i t s , j
f r e e l y a n d receive a prompt reply,
without cost. .
Address, DR. J. C. AYEH. i 1
Lowell, Mas»7 i