M KStSm 3af A. I i i lattfate K'KX' Volume XYH-Ne. 132. LANCASTER, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1881 Price Twe Cnte. m WATCHES, EDW. J. ZA.HM, Manufacturing Jeweler, Zahm's Cerner, - Lancaster, Pa. Tilings in our stock that wake Beautiful and Durable Christmas Gilts. WATCHES, . DIAMONDS, CLOCKS, SILVERWARE, SPECTACLES, JEWELRY, GOLD BRONZES, GOLD HEAD CANES, GOLD THIMBLES, SILVER HEAD CANES, SILVER THIMBLES, OPERA GLASSES. GOLD PENS AND PENCILS, HANDKERCHIEF AND GLOVE BOXES, GOLD BRONZE SMOKING SETS, PINE CIGAR SETS, BACCARET VASES. AM. TIJKSK AND MANY MORE AT ZAHM'S CORNER. LANCASTER, PA. VZOTUIJiW. GREAT SLAUGHTER IN CLOTHING. GBAHD IAEK DOWI AT GMTEE HAIL Will be sold in sixty days TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH of HEAVY WINTER CLOTHING, Without regard te cost. Hew is your time te secure a geed Suitet Clothing for very little money, Ruudy-iuadc or liutle te Order. OVERCOATS IN GREAT VARIETY, Fer Men. Youths and Eeya. Meii'd Dress Suite, Men's 15usinc-s Suits, Youths' Suits in every style. Heys' Clothing, a very Choice Variety., tOr Don't tail te call mid secure seme of the MYERS & Ne. 12 EAST KING STREET, I'uJt FOB SALE CHEAP. A FIRST-CLASS THREE-STORY BRICK DWELLING HOUSE, WITH A GOOD STORE ROOM. Tliis Property id situated en the corner et Mulberry and Lemen streets ; with nine geed rooms and large cellar ; also het and cold water and gas through the heasu. This Property will be sold cheap or exchanged ter a small house or building lets. Alse, a FIRST-CLASS ItKICIC STAItLE inlhc rear of the heuc, and occupied by Samuel Heeler, for sale new. Fer further particulars call en BAUSMAN & BURKS, Or at HOUGHTON'S STORE, 25 North Ouceii Street hviinituiie. MJRCIIANKK LOOK! LOOK! Loek te your interest. Yen can buy at IIEINITSim 13J EAST KING STREET. Parler Suits $15 te $.T;0 .Library Suits 7."te 150 Walnut Chamber Suits "te 2i"i Cottage Suits 2--te 4.1 Lounges Me 40 Patent Rockers $.3ote 40 Ac, &c, Se:. We will continue te give prices successively of goods iu our line. Leeking Glasses, Picture Frames, and FINE UOLDFRAMESspeeialllesat prices that defy cempet ion. It is always a pleasure te show goods at the C II K A PEST FUKNlTUIiE STOKE IN THE CITY. All goods guaranteed according te merits." HEINITSH, ISIS KAST KING STREET, lanS-Orad Over China Hall. F IOR RELIARLK PDBNITUBE Call at the Old Established Stand or Widmyer & Ricksecker, S. E. Cor. E. King and Ihikc Sts. PARLOR, CHAMBER AND LI BRARY SUITS. HALL, DINING ROOM AND KITCHEN FTJRNIT TJRE. MATTRESSES AND BED SPRINGS. The largest and Finest Assortment, and meutyall HOME-MADE WORK. Personal Attention given te UNDERTAKING. WIDMYER & RICKSECKER S. E. COR. K. KING AND DCKI2 STS. SLEIGHS, A-V. Carriages i Carriages I EDGERLEY & OO.'S, Practical 'Carriage Builders, Market Street, Rear of Central Market Houses, Lancaster, Pa. We have en hand a I-arg: Assortment et BUGGIES AM) CARRIAGES, Which we offer at the VERY LOWEST PRICES. All work warranted, vive us a call . 49Rcpairing promptly attended te. One set of workmen especially employed ter that purpose. n-Jft-ud&w BOOTS AND SHOES. W A GIT MOOTS. SHOES AND LAST rJi X made en a new principle, insnr ing romfert ferthe feet. "DM VPC! Lasts made te order. JdLHJIe miller, f ebU-ttd 133 East King street JEWEEKY, 4c. bargains. RATHFON, LANCASTER, PENX'A. sale. HOUh'S ANli STATIONERY. IOK TI1K LATEST NEW ROOKS, GOOD STATIONERY, AXD THE FINEST FAFETERIE, -OOTO- L. M. PLYNN'S, Ne. 458 WEST KING STREET. VALENTINES ASD- BIRTHDAY CARDS IN GREAT VARIETY AT FON HERSMITH'S BOOKSTORE, 32 EAST KING STREET, LANCASTER, PA. BLANK BOOKS AND STATIONERY. 1881 1881 VALENTINES ! ELEGANT STYLES, GREAT VARIETY. BOX VALENTINES, UNEQUALED. Call and see AT BOOKSTORE OF JOM BAEBS SOUS, 15 and 17 NORTH WEEN STREET, LANCASTER. RA. groceries. 8 O'CLOCK .COFFEE IS THE PUREST and best for the lircakfeud Table. ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC TEA CO., lit North Queen Street, jan20-lmd Lancaster, Pa 205 WEST KINO STREET. THE PLACE FOR Wines, Liquors and 95 per cent. Alcohol, Fresh Groceries, Pure Spices, and Best Cigars in town. All at RLNGWALT'S. JUST RECEIVED A LOT OF FINE FLORIDA ORANGES AT BURSK'S. FEW MORE UARRELS OF THOSE White Grapes at 20c. Per Pound, AT BURSK'S. BAKER'S & -l'lRUMPJl CANNED COBS at. 15 cents ; Winslow at 18 cents, AT BURSK'S. FOR A SHORT TIME ONLY WE WILL sell you 2 Cans of the Celebrated Gr. &R. TOMATOES, the Best in the Market for 23 cents, AT BURSK'S, 17 East King Street. TKTE OFFER SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS. Yeu will save money te buy at BURSK'S,' Ne. 17 EAST KING STREET. CLOIHING. OVERCOATS! Closing out at agrcatreductien our immense line of Novelties iu Overceatings. Pur Beavers, SealSkin, Elysi$H; Mentanak, Ratina and Chinchillas. All the New and me-t Desirable Styles STOCKANETTS, IN NEW COLORS AND CHOICE STYLES Why net leave your order atenceand secure an Elegant, Stylish, Well Made and Aitistic Cut Garment as low as $20. A LARUE LINE OK CHOICE English ill Mil Snip, AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES, AT J.KSMALXNG'S, THE ARTIST TAILOR, 121 N. QUEEN STREET, MW&S A RARE CHANCE! The Greatest Reduction ever made in FINE WOOLENS for GENTS' WEAR at H. GERHART'S t A Large Assortment, of Gciiuine English & Scotch Suiting O? sold during the Fall Season Ireiu S30 le 510. A Suit will be made up te order in the I!c-.t Style trem SSSO te S30. HEAVY WEIGHT DOMESTIC Suiting and Overceating, Reduced in the sanie proportion. All jjoeds warranted as represented. The above reduction will ler e.fdi only, and ter the next THIRTY DAYS. H. GERHART, Ne. 51 North Quesn Street. Special Announcement ! New is your time te secure bargains In CLOTHING ! Te make room ter our large sdecic fit" Cloth ing for Spring, new being manufactured, we will make sweeping reductions throughout our large stoek of HEAVY WEIGHT CLOTHING, -eoxaisTiNe of- Overcoats, Suits, &c, von MEN, BOYS AND YOUTHS. ODDS AND ENDS OF CLOTHING IN COA IS, PANTS AND VESTS, KELOW COST. Call early te secure the best bargain-'. D. B. Hostetter & Sen, 24 CENTRE SQUARE, 6-lyd LANCASTER. PA. CAltVETS. HIGHEST CASH TRICK V.I I.I. UK PAID FOR EXTRA NICE CATiPET HAGS. Carpets made te order at short notice and satisfaction guaranteed. Rare chances in Carpets le reduce -deck et 6,000 Yards Bnnls Carpsts, AT AND BELOW COST. Call and satlSty yourself. Alse, Ingrain, Rag and Chain Carpetsinalmestendlcssvariety .at H. S. SHIRK'S CARPET HALL, 203 WEST KING STREET, LANCASTER FA. -AltrETS, COAL, SC. PHILIP SCHUM, SON & CO., MANUFACTORY, Ne. 130 SOUTH WATER STREET, Lancasteh, Pa., ell-known Manufacturers of Genuine LANCASTER QUILTS, COUNTERPANES, COVERLETS, BLANKETS, CARPETS. CARPET CIIAIN, STOCKING YARN, &c. CUSTOM RAG CARPETS A SPECIALTY. LANCASTER FANCY DYEING ESTABLISHMENT. Dress Goods Dyed either In the piece or in Garments; also, all kinds of silks, Ribbon?, Linen, Cotten and Woolen Goods Dyed. Gen tlemen's Coats, Overcoats, Pants. Vests, &-., Dyed or Scoured; also, Indigo Blue Dyeing done. All orders or goods lctt with us will receive prompt attention. CASH PAID FOR SEWED CARPET RAGS. COAL. COAL. Ceal et the best quality put up expressly Je family use, and at the lowest market rates. TRY A SAMPLE TON. YARD 150 i.OUTH WATER STREET. d-22-lydRSl PHILIP SCHUM, SON .V CO Hanrastrr I-ntdh'grnrcr. THURSDAY EVENING, FEB. 3, 1881. A Strange Story. The ."Mysterious Sketch. Erckman Cliatrain. I. Opposite Saint Sebalt Chapel, iu Nti rembcrg, at tlie comer of Trabaus street, there is a little tavern ; it is narrow anil high, the windows if new as then are covered with a heavy coat of dust, and the sharp gable-end is surmounted by the Virgin in plaster. It was there that I passed the most joyless days of ray life. I had gene te Nuremberg te study the German masters ; bnr, being poorly sup plied with money, I was compelled te paint portraits and what portraits ! Fat old women with their cats en their laps. big-wigged aldermen, pertly burgomasters iu their three-cornered hats, the whole il luminated with oelite and vermilion by the handful. Frem portraits I descended te .sketches, and from sketches le silheuttes. Nothing makes life :i greater burden than te have your landlord, with his weazen face, bis shrill voice, and impu dent air, come te you every day ami assail your sensibilities with, "Well, .sir, well ! Am I ever te see the color of your money again '.' De you knew bow much your little bill amounts te new'.' Ne idea, probably don't want te have ! My line gentlemen eats, drinks, and sleeps calmly as if all the world were bis own. Your bill amounts te two hun dred ilerins, sir. A men! bagatelle, I knew, sir ; but I could nvike geed use of it just new, if 1 had it." ile who has net been forced le listen te the chanting of a gamut of this construc tion can have nil idea of its effect en the human mind. Leve of art, imagination, enthusiasm for the beautiful, everything poetic and ennobling in the realms of thought, is scattered te the winds by a linmngue of the sort. Yeu become awk ward, timid, limp ; yen lese all your feel ing of personal dignity, and seek te escape the gaze of your fellows. One night, being, as was often the Case, without a kreiitzer and menaced with im prisonment by the worthy ltap, I resolved te bankrupt him by cutting my threat. While T sat opposite the fc'indew occupied with this agreeable thought, my mind wandered off into innumerable philoso phic reflection?, mere or Jess edifying. " What is man'.'" I asked myself. ""An omnivorous animal; his jaws. provided with canines, incisors and molars, sufficiently prove it. The canines an! made te tear, the incisors te cut, and the molars te crush such animals and vegetable sub stances as constitute his feed. But when he has nothing te masticate, the creature man is a veritable snpcrpleniludc in na ture, a fifth wheel te the coach.' Such were my reflections. 1 did net dare te touch my razor for fear that the force of my logic would inspire me with the cour age te make an end of it. After having argued for some time in this manner, I blew out my candle and postponed the continuation till the next day. This abominable llap had completely brutalized me. in my art nothing but silhouettes; and yet my uppermost desiie was te have the money necessary te rid myst-lf of bis odious importunities. But that night a singular change came ever my mental cendi' ion. T awoke about 1 o'clock, lighted my lamp, and, enveloping mys,e!f in my veil-worn dressing-gown, I rapidly threw upon paper a .sketch u hi Jlamtintlc something strange and weird, that was totally unlike my ordinary conceptions. Imagine a somber court-yard, inclesed by high, dilapidated walls, which are pro vided with hooks seven or eight feel, lrem the ground. One readily sees that, it rep resents a butcher's yard. At, Hit; left there is a sort of lattice par tition, through which you see the carcass of an ex suspended by pulleys en a heavy framework. Sluggish stieams of bleed flew ever the flagstones toward a gutter already vell-lillcd with all sorts of debris. At the further side of the enclosure there is a shed ; under the shed a pile of weed ; en the wee. I a ladder, a few bun dles of straw, some coils of rope, a chicken coop and an old, unused rabbit cage. I low came these details te present them selves te my imagination'.1 1 knew net. I had no analogous lcminiscencc, and never theless every stroke of the pencil had the appearance of centsibnting its share to ward the representing of a reality. Nothing was wanting te give the sketch the sem blance of truth. But at the right there was a corner that remained unfilled. I was at a Jess te knew what te pat there. At that point it seemed te me that something moved. All at once T saw a feet, or rather the sole of a feet. Despite this improbable position, I followed the inspiration without pausing te consider. This feet was attached te a leg, and e:i the leg, the muscles of which seemed te be vigorously contracted, there seen lleatcd the tattered skirt of a dress. In short, an old woman, wan and dishevel ed, appeared, stretched out beside an old veil, struggling te frce herself from the grasp of a hand that held fa.?t fe her tin eat. It was a murder scene that I was sketch ing ! Horrer-stricken, T let the pencil fall from my band. The woman, iu this perilous situation, her features distorted with terror, her hands grasping the arm of the murderer, made me tremble with fear. I could net leek at her. Ilufc the man he te whom the arm belonged I could net see him. It was impossible for me te finish the sketch. "I am tiicd," said I te myself, my fore head dripping villi perspiration ; " I have only this figure te finish I will de it to morrow. Then it will be easy enough." "With this I returned tejibed. Iti a little while I was sound asleep. The next morning I arose at an unusu ally early hour. I had barely get ready te resume work en my nocturnal sketch when there came a gentle rap at my deer. "Come in." The deer opened. An elderly man, tall and lean, and neatly dressed in black, ap peared en my threshold His mien, with his small, deep-set eyes, and his big, hooked nose, surmounted by a high, bony forehead, was digiulicd and stern, ile saluted me with ceremonious gravity. "M. Christian Venius, the sainter?" said he. " At your service, sir." He bowed again, saying : "The Baren Frederick von Spreckdal." The appearance of the rich dilettante Ven Spreckdal, judge of the criminal court, in my garret, very nearly robbed me of my self-possession. I involuntarily cast a furtive giancc at my old worm-eaten furniture, my tern wall-paper, and soiled fleer. I felt humiliated by the dilapi dated condition of the surroundings in which my distinguished visitor found me ; but the baron seemed te take no notice of these details. He seated himself before my table, antl resumed. " Master Venius,"' said he " I conic " But at this moment his eyes fell upon the unfinished sketch ; he stepped in the middle of the sentence. I was seated en the side of my!ud. The sudden atten tien this august personage gave te one of my productions made my heart beat with an indefinable apprehension. He looked at it intently for a minute or two ; then turning toward me, he asked, in a very earnest tone : " Are" you the author of this -sketch, sir?" "lam." "The price of it?" " I never sell my sketches. It is the first step toward a painting." "Ah!" said he, as he picked up the paper with the ends of his long yellow lingers. He took a lens out of his waistcoat pocket, and set te studying the sketch in detail. The sun at this hour shone obliquely into my garret. A'en Spreckdal vas silent. The acquilinity of his big, thin nose seemed te me te have suddenly increased ; his heavy brews contracted, and his long, pointed chin had taken a turn upward, making a thousand little wrinkles in histhiu, colorless checks. The silence was se profound that I could distinctly hear the buzzing of an unfortu nate lly that struggled te escape from the toils of a spider's web. "The dimensions of the picture you pro pose te paint, Master A'cnius?" said he. without looking up. "Three feet by four. " "The price?" Fifty ducats." The Baren von Spreckdal laid the sketch down en the table, and drew from his pecMK a long green silk purse. "Fifty ducats," said he, slipping the rings of bis purse "fifty ducats! There they arc." I could hardly bjlievc my eyes. The basen ie.se, bade me geed morning, and descended the stairs, making his heavy ivory-headed cane heard en each step as he went down. Then, recovering from my stupor, it occurred te me that I had net thanked him, whereupon I plunged down my live flights almost as fast as gravitation would take me ; but, ai lived at the lower deer, I looked for my gener ous patron in vain. Ile was nowhere te be seen. "Humph!" said I le myself ; "this is very strange !" And I hastened back te my garret. The unexpected visit from the munifi cent Ven Spreckdal quite bewildered me I was ecstatic. " Yestc.-lay," said I te myself, as I contemplated the pile of ducats shining iu the sun "Yesterday I sinfully considered the advisability of cut ting my threat, and all for the want of a few miserable Ilerins. Hew fortunate that I diil net open my razor ! If ever I am again tempted te end this existence, I will profit by experience and put it off till the morrow." After making these wholesome reflec tions, I sat down te finish my sketch. A few strokes of the pencil is all it required. But these two strokes I found it impossible te-make ; T had lest the thread of my in spiration. Cudgel my brain as I would, I could get nothing from it. that harmonized any better with the rest, of the sketch than a figure of Itaphacl would with the fre quenters of one of Teniers's pet-houses. While I was thus absorbed, I was sud denly inteirupted by Bap, who, as he vas in the habit of doing, entered my room without rapping. As his astonished eyes fell upon my pile of ducats, he cried out ina tone tint enraged me beyond all con cen con teol: " Se, se, Mr. J'ainler, I catch you, tle 1? LY-rhaps you'll tell me new you have no money !"' As he spoke he came forward with his fingers crooked, as though about te seize something, and with a certain nervous ag itation that the sight of geld se often pro duces in the avaricious. Fer a moment I was stupefied; but the recollection of 1 he indignities I had been compelled te inbuilt le from the fellow, his greedy leik, and bis insulting smile were in-no than sufficient te arouse me. I sprang toward him, seized him by the shoulders, and, quick as thought, put him out of the room, slamming the deer in bis vnhrar face. But no sooner was he outside the room than the old curmudgeon began te cry out at the top of his voice : ' My money ! pay me my money, you thief ! Give me my money !" My neighbors cams out of their rooms, and aided fe the confusion by shouting out : " What's the matter l ' Who's a thief :' Whaftall this?" Before the veithy Bap cettltl satis-fy any of these inquiries, I flung my deer open, and by a ".veil directed kick sent him heels ever head down the first pair of stairs. " That's what's the matter !" I cried, and returned le my den, boiling the deer securely, while my neighbors made the house resound with loud peals of laughter. I was well satisfied with myself ; I felt truly triumphant. The episode had put new life into me. I returned te my sketch and had just finished it quite te my satis faction, when my attention was arrested by an unusual noise. It reminded me of the striking of the butts of muskets en the pavement. I looked out of the window, and saw three gendarmes in full uniform, leaning en their carbines and standing direct lv before the street deer. " The devil !" said I te myself net a lit. tie terrified ; " have I, perhaps, broken some of the fellow's bones ?" And new see the inconsistency of the human mind : T, who yesterday cared net a button as 1 thought whether I lived or net, te-d.iy trembled iu every nerve at the thought thsfc ! had, perchance killed my landlord, and should be hanged for it. The stairway became the scene of con fused and ominous sounds the step? of feet incased in heavy beets, the clanking of arms, and tones of voices which at that moment struck- me as being of ba-s the basest. Suddenly sonic one tried my deer. It was fastened, which seemed te give rise te a general clamor. Jjttt seen a voice was heard above the ethers ; it cried out ; "Open, in the name of the law !" I arose te find that my knees -had sud denly become very weak. " Open the deer !'' the ve'cc repeated. It occurred te me that I might escape ever the reef : but I had hardly thrust my head out of the window when I was seiz ed with a sort of vertigo, and quickly withdrew it. I had taken in at a glance the windows below mc, with their shining panes, their flower pets, their bird cages, and their gratings ; and, still lower, the balcony ; lower still, the street lamp ; then the sign of the "Red Cask;" and, finally, the three shining bayonets that only awaited my fall te split mc as they would apiece of cheese en a toasting fork. On the reef of the house across flie street there vas a big cat hiding behind a chim ney, and watching a little band of spar rows that were engaged in settling their differences in the gutter. One can net imagine with what clearness ar.tl rapidity the human' eye takes in a sit uation with all its minutest details when the visual powers arc stimulated by fear. At the third summons, " Open the deer or wc shall force it 1" seeing that escape was impossible, I slipped back the belt. In an instant a stalwart fellow seized me by the cellar, and a little, pompous offi cial, whose breath vas offensively odorous of alcohol, announced : " Sir. you are my prisoner J" He were a bottle-green, single-breasted coat, buttoned te the chin, and a high bat patterned after a stove-pipe. He had side whiskers, rings en all his fingers, and was called Passauf. (Anglicized, " Mind your eye." He vas the chief of police. Five mere bullet-headed minions of the lav waited for me en the stairs. " What de you vant of me ?" I asked Passauf. " Down stairs !" be cried, as he made a sign te his underlings who had me by the cellar te drag me in that direction. While the order vas being obeyed, he, with assistance of the ethers, hastily searched my room, turning everything tepsy-turvy and inside out. 1 descended the stdu supported en each side like one in the last stage of consump tion. They thrust me into a cab between two bravny fellows, armed with heavy clubs secured te their wrists with leather straps. I vas glad they drove away without delay, as in a very few minutes we should have had all the idlers in the neighbor hood about us. As seen as I had sufficient control ever my organs of spcech,I turned te one of my guardians the one whose mien seemed te mc the least forbidding and asked what Iliad done. "Hans, he asks what he has done ha, ha, ha !" says he te his comrade. Their laughter fairly chilled my bleed. It vas net very long before a shadow enveloped us, and the sound of the horses' feet echoed under an archway. We vere at the entrance of the Raspclhaus. It is there that one may say : "Hans cet autre. .Ie vei fort bien ceiuuie l'en entre. Et ne vei point coiuine en en sort." Iicerery well Uowene gets into tldadcn (or cave), but I de net soe hew one get out. All is net rose-colored in this verld. Frem the persecutions of Bap I fell into a dungeon, from which it is only the minor ity that escape. Dark, spacious courts ; windows in long lines like a hospital, and furnished with grating ; net the smallest clump of ver dure, net even the leaf of a bush or a spear of grass such was my new lodging place. It was enough te make one pull out his hair by the handfuls. The police officers and the jailer pat me provisionally into a sort of ante-room. The jailer, as well as I remember, vas called Kasper Schluessel. With his gray woolen cap, his pipe in his mouth, and his bunch of keys at his vaist, he re minded mc of the god Hibouef the Caribs. He had the same large eyes, with a yellow circle, that sec in the night, a nose like a comma, while his neck disappeared be tween his shoulders. Schluessel locked me in as mechanically as one locks his bureau drawer, his thoughts the while seeming te . be far away. As for me, I steed fully ten min utes with my hands behind my back, look ing de vu at the fleer. "Bap," said I te myself, after taking a complete survey of the situation " llap cried out as he fell, ' I am killed ! I am killed !' but he did net say by whom. I will swear it was my neighbor, the old merchant with the green spectacles, and he will be hanged in my place" This idea I found very consoling, and I consequently breathed mere irccly. I nev proceeded te examine my prison, or rather my cell. It had been newly whitewashed and thcie were no sketches en its walls except in one corner, where a gallows had been crudely outlined by my predecessor. Light vas admitted by a bull's cye seme nine or ten feet from the fleer. As for the furniture it vas limited te a bunch of straw and a bench. I sat down en the straw and clasped my hands around my knees in the most unen viable frame of mind imaginable. I had net been long seated when it occurred te me that Bap, before breathing his last, may have denounced me. The thought brought mc quickly te my feet ; I coughed involuntarily, and imagined I felt a chokiugscnsatien, as though the hempen cord wcre already round my neck. Just at this moment my hallucinations were interrupted by footsteps in the pas sageway. Schluessel opened my deer and bade mc fellow him. He was still as sisted by the two officers who had had the honor of lodging me in prison. They re ceived mc with a triumphant smile as I issued forth, as though they were proud of their achievement. I seemed te take no notice of them, but, summoning all my fortitude, I followed with a tolerably firm step. We passed through long galleries, lighted from distance te distance by small grated windows. On the way I saw, be hind massive bars, the famous Jic-Jack, who was te pay the penalty of his crimes the next day en'.thc gallows. lie vas in a strait-jacket, and was gagly singinsr : "dc suls lc rei dc ces mentagued !" When he saw me. he cried out : " He, comrade ! I'll keep a place for you at my right." The two policemen and the god Hibou looked at one another and smiled, while I felt the goescflcsh creep devn my back and fheuldcrs te my vaist. Concluded To-iuerrow. He Dropped It. Free Prcs.. Yeu may have been a passenger en a street car at a time some ene picked up a half-dollar off the cushions, or a dollar bill from the strav, and anxiously inquired for an owner. At such a time every man instinctively feels in his pockets. Every man feels like saying that he is the lucky party, but an inward veice somehow re strains him and he remembers that Geerge Washington could net tell a lie. The money is invariably pocketed by the finder and he is set down in the opinion of his fellow passengers as contemptible and mean. On a Woodward avenue car yesterday a young man purposely dropped a green back en the fleer and, at a proper moment he picked it up and observed : "Who lest this dollar ?" Every one looked at him, and every mouth watered. "Did anyone drop this bill?" continued the young man as he held up a corner. There vas another embarrassing pause. Then a man reached out for it tvith the remark: "I dropped it, sir. Yeu are an honest man te return it." " Are you sure you dropped it?" " I am. I am net a liar." "But you sec you ," stammered tiie yeund man. " Yeu give me my money or I'll wrirg your neck !" interrupted the ether, as L reached out for his victim. The young man gave it up. ne looked vhitc and red and green, and he felt se bad ever it that he seen dropped off the car and took the icy walk. m Competitive Examination. A number of candidates for schoolmas ters' certificates were recently examined in Germany. One vas shown a stuffed squirrel and asked, "Where is this spe cies of squirrel te be found ?" " In tbe dealer's vindew," was the reply. "What is this?" asked the professor, showingan shewingan showingan ether candidate a butterfly. " That's a butterfly, sir. " Ne doubt, but whatkind of butterfly ?" ' Aeh Himmel," was the answer, "ve have se many of them in our parts that ve never pay any attention te them !" " It is new four o'clock here," remarked the examiner te a candi date for honors in geography; "What time is it in Londen?" "Well, it must be quite as late there," was the reply. "Hew many square miles does the North Pole cover?" was an other question, te which came the answer, "Ne ene knows. A great many people have tried te go there, but net one lias succeeded in the attempt." "Hew de you teach children the difference between the right and left bank of a river?" " I don't teach them that, because there is no river in our parts." Anether candi date was shown a skeleton map and asked te name a particular mountain ; but he observed that the map was a bad one, as the names were net marked in it as in the one at home. Which was far superior. "Why did the companions of Columbus refuse te go further?" was another question. " Because," replied the candidate, "they hail come te the spot where the ship would have tipped ever ; for you knew, sir, the earth is round !" Hew He Secured a Dinner. It is an awkard thing sometimes te be absent minded. A certain noble lord it is stated, found this out te his ce.-t the.ether day. It se chanced that the dining-room of the club which he frequents was quite full, when a man who knows his failings pretty veil happened te eeine in very hun gry. Of course the waiter said there was no room at present. Suddenly the new comer espied Lord X. Said he te the waiter, "Has Lord X. dined?" "Ne sir." "Well never mind take hint his bill and tell him he has had his dinner." The waiter hesitated for a moment, but com plied, and handed Lord X. bis bill. Queth Lord X., "What is this for?" 'Your dinner, my lord," leplicd the waiter. "My dinnei 1" said the forgetful 9110. "Have I really had it? "Yes, my my lord," said the waiter. "Dear me," was the reply, "I thought I vas just going te have it ; but I must have made a mistake ;" and he get up antl went out, leaving the table for the use of the genius who had profited by his absent-mindedness. MKLTINO SNOW TO ultTAIX WATER. IVells, Cisterns and Itlvuletn Dry Vp la and About Kingsten. Net in many years has water of all kinds been se scarce in Kingsten, N. Y., anil surrounding country as new. The drought began nearly a year age, and at no time since has the soil had anything like a nor mal supply of water. Streams were very low all summer, and crops were parched and shortened, It w.i; supposed by many that the evil would e-j remedied by the usual copious late fall rains. But instead came the heavy snows and severe cold of early winter, and new wells and springs never known te fail before, are either dry or tee low and foul te be of ser vice. The streams, brooks and rivulets are frozen nearly solid ; saw mills, grist mills and ether factories dependent upon water as a meter, are idle and everybody is looking anxiously forward te the break up of winter as the only bone of relief. Cisterns in the city have also become very low and empty, and the principal occupa tion of hundreds of householders is melt ing snow te obtain water for drinking and all ether purposes. Beet's are well supplied witli snow, but nature has thus iar shown very little disposition te thaw it and frozen leaders would have refused te con duct it into the cisterns if slie had. Throughout the county and adjoining lo cality also the scarcity of water is a seu ice of great inconvenience. Farmers arc compelled te melt snow for their stock in many cases. This is done in large ket tles hung ever fires outside 111 the old-fashioned way and the process is attended with much time and labor, as is readily apparent. Fer family uses iu such cases of course the same source of water supply must be resorted te. Tlie 1 popular verdict l- s?cm;r:dly tlie right inifl fviniiii.(tiii.r 111- liilt,.i ITikiif.li fiVptin V..V. - W..U.. ....If, .' --1... .. WW...... .M. tbe people liave Ieiik feincr; decided that it in the bcBtcengli remedy ever introduced. one .rEIVELEJCS. LOUIS WEBKK, WATCIIMAKKK. Ne. I50i NORTH QUEEN STliEKT,near P. It. K. Depot, Lancaster, Pa. tJeld, .Silver anil Nickel-cased Watclie, Chain, Clocks, Ac Ajjent ter tins celebrated Pantoscepic Specta cles and Eye-tili w-ch. 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A large stock of Pure Confections, all of which will be sold te Merchant- and Huck sters at the lewst market rate. Try ROYER'S UNCLE SAM CANDY. Mall Order promptly attended te. -l!-3n;tl ! si m . 4 -., ,.,.
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