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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-12-23
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
OF
The AmWell National Bank.

AT IAMBERTVILLE,
In the State of New Jersey, at the close of bust
ness, Dee II, 1895.
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EYGCulrlY'S Sale Of Real Estate.

by virtue of an order of the Orphans Court
- of the County of Hunterdon, dated the
9th day of November, 1895, l will sell at public
Vile. N J.. on
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No. 50 N. Union street, south of Coryell.
r s--Agency for the New Home Sewing
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-05
SCHOOL AND CHuHcH,

AN English vicar has been ssnt -
fail for a year at Birmingham 70, con-
tempt of court.
"A Yorkshire vicar who quarreIed
with the squire of the parish has been
put under q boycott by the latter. He
can obtain neither food nor lodging
in the village, the shopkeepers refuse
to sell him their wares, and he is obliged
to clean the church, light the lamps and
ring the bells himself.
According to recent statistics Of
the Presbyterian church baptism has
relatively decreased very largely in the
past 25 years. During that period the
membership of the church has grown
40 per cent, the number of adult bap-
tisms 1913 per cent, while the number Of
infant baptisms has increased less than
70 per cent.
ALI students of missions know that
the Moravians far excel all other bodies
of Christians in their devotion to the
cause Of missions. The Friends arc
credited with the second place in honor,
and it is said that in proportion to their
numbers they send more missionaries
to the foreign field than any other de-
nomination. In Great Britain about
one in $50 of the whole membership, or
one in 166 of the adult members, is q
missionary.
The forty-third general congress Of
the Roman Catholics of Germany, held
at Berlin, passed a number Of significant
resolutions, among them warning
German Catholics against coming to
America under the present economic
conditions; one condemning the prac-
tice of dueling among the officers Of
the army and navy; n deploring tho
fact that no Christian power has effect
ually espoused the aus of the Ar
menians; one opposing the employment
of married women in factories, and an
other advocating the repeal of the anti.
Jesuit law.
AT the recent general Methodist
conference at Corning several good
stories were told, and one that caused
more than ordinary amusement was re-
lated as follows: Three ministers were
interpreting the meaning of the text
David danced before the ark of the
Lord" The first minister said anyone
ought to know what that meant. Il
meant that David danced while facing
the ark of the Lord. The second minis
ter said David danced before instead Of
behind the ark, and the third said that
it simply meant that David danced be
fore the ark danced.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-05
SHE WAS SYMPATHETIC.
Ths Second Wife Wore Mourning f.
the First.

The Second Wife Wore Mourning f.
the First.
I had no idea who the people were
I was stopping with for the night in
the Cumberland mountains and ! cared
no more so long as 1 had food and shell
ter. 1 had some little opportunity to
study my host and his family. He was
q typical mountaineer of the saffron
complexion and the scrawny neck, with
his chin whiskers, and a more solemn
and serious man 1 never saw. He was
absolutely lugubrious a. he stalked
around the house like the shadow of a
great pain.
His companion, a woman whom I
imagined to be his sister, was also pain
fully solemn, but not nearly 50 bad as
the man was and very much better still
when he was out of hearing. She was
dressed in mourning, but it did not
seem to affect her seriously when the
man was not by.
Excuse me-" 1 said to the woman,
whom 1 happened upon at the wood
pile as I strolled around waiting for
supper, but is there anybody dead
around here?"
"Not jis' now" she answered, as II
it were 4 relief to her to talk about it,
that is, thar wus awhile back"
THE family doesn't seem to get over
1t very readily. Who was it and how
long has it been?"
Hit wuz Jeemes' wife; thet's him
you seen walkin' around here when you
fust come"
"Ah. that's sad. How long has she
been dead?"
Seven or eight months er SIGH a
matter"
There was a harsher note in the wom-
ans voice than grief.
81 presume" 1 ventured, "that you
are wearing mourning for her?"
yes" she said, rather sharply; that
wuz a notion of Jeemes'. He thought
ez how hit would look somethin' more
like eff I wuz to wear black for her.
Kinder show respeck for the deceased,
Jeemes said, and make hit easier for
him to bear"
I'm sure that was very good in you"
I said, with very apparent sincerity,
for 1 meant all 1 said.
That's what the neighbors all said,
an Jeemes kinder didn't expect !
would, l reckon"
"No, 1 should think he wouldn't. Sis
tiers as a rule don't put on mourning for
their brothers wives"
She looked at me with a flushed face.
81 amt no sister Nv bis'n," she said,
almost indignantly.
mop" l said, in some surprise.
"Then you must have been her sister,"
NO; ner bern neither" she said,
and her manner made me half regret
that 1 had mentioned the matter at all.
SIN his wifeI reckon l might as well
tell you fust as last-and married him
six months after his fust wife died,
and he said that now SEEM 1 wuz in the
family 1 oughter wear black, and hit
kinder 'peared that way to me, too,
an 1 done hit, but sometimes hit sorter
pears as eff l wuz forcin' the season er
Bein' as you air a stranger
an amt quite so useter things, I'd like
TO know how hit pears to you?" And
1 proceeded to inform her as to my opin-
ion on the subject and what 1 thought
she ought to do.-Washington Star.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-05

between a dreamy Burne Jones and a
hero of the Chevalier Bayard type, so
dear to most women Somehow or
other Toms vigorous personality would
persist in mixing itself up with her
brain portraits until they were such a
bad composite that in despair she gave
up the personal appearance of her ideal.
Not that 1 care so much for looks"
she said to herself, but how pleasant it
would be to have a lover who under
stood my every thought, who antici-
pated every wish, and who would know
what 1 was about to say before the
words were formed, whose knowledge
was b~oundless, and whose soul should
be in touch with all that was good and
true and beautiful"
Oh. if she could but see such a one,
she thought to herself, how she could
unburden her soul to him.
Conversation would be a rapture, and
how ennobling, how elevating, life with
such a one would be! Just at this point
in her reveries Miss Rossiter {who
rather prided herself upon her calm
ness under the most surprising and try
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-05
Banana snow.

Fruit jellies are always attractive
and at this season one can use orange:
and bananas with good effect. Tic
make banana snow, pour one pint oi
boiling water on one-third of a box OF
gelatine; add the juice of one lemon
and two cups of sugar; when nearly
cold, strain; add the whites Of three
eggs beaten to a froth; beat the ~noie
together, put in a mould, adding slices
of bananas which have been carefully
peeled and prepared beforehand, AMI
set it On the ice to cool. To the three
yolks of eggs add one pint of milk, two
tablespoonful of sugar, one teaspoon.
full of cornstarch; flavor with vanilla OF
essence of lemon, cool it. and pour thi,
custard around. the mould of snow
when it is served. Boston Budget.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-05

This night referred to, however, she
did not allow herself to SO distinctly
formulate the thought
Once more she turned the converse.
ton to books, to art and music. But
what pleasure could there be in a con.
v~ersation where the other party con-
cerned knew before she spoke all that
she would say. He even indirectly
apologized once for anticipating her.
Il cannot help it, you see" he said, II
came In answer to your wish, burdened
with the conditions it imposed upon me.
1T does make conversation awkward,
I admit, but we may as well make the
best OF it, for I am powerless to leave
you, unless"
UNLESS what?" said Miss Rossiter
with more of the speed the parting
guest" in her tone than was consistent
with true p~oliteness, but the stranger
only smiled and looked once more into
the fire.
A Of injury commenced to
rankle in Miss Rossiter's mind. "And
all because of a foolish wish, that 1 have
heard a dozen girls make, my life is to
be spoiled in this way she thought.
Perhaps Tom would not have loved her
70 deeply had he really understood her.
The past tense of that last thought
sent a pang through her heart. Was
she always to be tied to this dreadful
mind reader of a realized ideal?
She supposed the only thing left her
to do was to live upon such a nigh plane
that she need not object or fear to be
as a printed page for him to read.
And yet, oh, the WEAKNESS of the
idea!
No more half severe, half coquettish
lectures to Tom on his stupidity, al
ways ending in increased alteration OF
his part, and increased affection on hers
for it always pleased her fancy, afte,
having firmly established her claim to
having in Toms mind, to be 30 eX-
tremely gracious and Penitently affec-
tionate that the large and appreciative
audience of one," as Tom remarked,
went home happy.
But all those old, happy times were
over, she thought.
Such a deep pity for herself filled
Miss Rossiter's mind that the great
tears gathered in her eyes, and one had
escaped from beneath the long lashes
and was slowly rolling down her cheek,
when two strong arms suddenly II
folded her and a sympathetic voice,
Toms voice, wa saying: What in the
world + you dreaming about you
poor dear?"
Now Miss Rossiter was not, as a
rule, wildly demonstrative, but upon
this occasion her manner was warm
enough to crafty the most ardent
lover.
She chung to Tom as if he had just
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-05
AN APPLE CAUSED IT ALL.

Train of Mishaps Resulting from an At
tempt to Gather a Choice PippIn.
From Chenille Corners comes a tale
of woe with an apple on top of it. One
Sunday morning while walking about
his farm John Schneider espied a tempt
ing morsel at the top of his apple tree,
and straightway went about procuring
it, to his own misfortune and grief.
1t so did happen that John was at
tired in his choicest raiment, and while
climbing the tree his neither garment
was destroyed. U~ndaunted, however,
he reached for the apple. Something
broke and he fell. Immediately be-
meath the tree the festive honey bee
made honey, and the farmer inyolun-
tarily found himself deposited upon a
beehive. Thereupon the bees set them
selves upon the unfortunate for a period
and, hen yet unrevenged for the de-
struction of their home, made war
against the family horse, grazing near
by. The horse rushed to the house
wife for protection and invaded her
kitchen.
Mrs. Schneider was cooking the mid
day meal. The stove was overturned,
and in preventing a confiagration shs
narrowly escaped being burned.
Schneider hurried to her rescue and was
kicked in the pit of the stomach by the
once docile horse, which then set itself
about demolishing the contents of the
whole house, but was frustrated in his
designs by the of the doors.
Mrs. Schneider then turned upon the
horse. She rushed at him with a
broom. Instead of hitting the horse
the broom came in contact with q
clock, which was thrown from its shelf
and practically demolished.
The horse ran out of its own accord,
and in the yard met the family COW.
The cow received a kick in the side, and,
terrified, ran at the pet dog and tossed
him into the air. She repeated the per-
Torrance until the dog was dead, when
she started down the road scattering all
who were out for a Sunday walk.
And over all the apple innocently
hung, and still hangs.-Cleveland Re
cordpr
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-05
Hanged and Vanished.

An English custom of not so long age
was to hang smugglers on gibbets ar
ranged along the coasts, and then tar
the bodies hat they might be preserved
a long while, as a warning to other cul-
prits. AS late as 1922 three men thus
vanished could have been seen hang
ing before Dover castle. Sometimes the
process was extended to robbers, as
s~assins, incendiaries and other GRIM
inals. John Painter, who fired tho
dockyard at Portsmouth, was first
hanged and then tarred in 1776. From
time to time he was given a fresh coat
of varnish, and thus was made to last
nearly IA years. The weird custom did
not stop smuggling or other crims. but
no doubt it worked some influence az
q preventive.-Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-05
Hctoria,s Descendants.

Germany has had five sovereign,
since Queen Victoria began to reign.
She herself will in future be recognized
as the ancestress Of one of the most
powerful rulers. Her grandson wears
the iron o of Germany. Her grand
daughter is empress of Russia. Another
granddaughter is crown princess Of
Roumania. Her second son rules over
the principality of Saxe-Coburg. The
hereditary princess of Saxe-Meiningen
Is her granddaughter. The heir to the
throne of Greece is her descendant; the
grand duke OF Hesae her grandson. Sh4
has no fewer than 81 descendants wha
one day between them promise TO be al
the head of more than half of Europe
Chicago Times-Herald-
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-05

been rescued from some dreadful ca
lamity and she feared to lose him
again, and when he begged her to tell
him what was the matter, that he
didn't understand" she exclaimed
rather Historically: "Oh, that is the
beauty of it! l don't want you to I'M
derstand, Tom, dear, and I'm so glad
you don't. 1 don't think I ever care to
be understood again. 1t was only a
dream, and he's gone, thank goodness,
but you never can know how 1 suf-
fered."
Tom looked deeply puzzled at these
seemingly random and incoherent re-
marks, but at her express desire for
bore questioning her. Whatever it
was she had dreamed the effect pro-
duced was that he had had a warmer
welcome than ever before during their
engagement, and he was satisfied.
At the next meeting of the German
club Miss Rossiter, who a few weeks
before had read a stirring paper adj
vancing the theory that some time on
this earth there would be a golden age,
when kindred souls would live in the
full delight of realized ideals, read an
equally stirring paper combating and
fatty c~ontradicting her own pet the
cries.
On the way home from the club Mrs.
Denny. who prlded herself on finding
the hidden springs which produced ac-
ton in her friends minds, suddenly re-
marked:
Nan Rossiter, you have some reason
for so suddenly changing your mind
about those theories of yours"
yes" replied Miss Rossiter, with an
inscrutable smile; Il have a reason,
but that, as Kipling says, is another
story, and one 1 refuse to tell."-Phila.
dalphia Times.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-05
rride Gneth Befors a Fall.

The following anecdote was new
many years ago, but will bear repeat
ing. 4 certain Spaninsh knight, very
poor but proud, and rightly so. as his
birth was as high as a kings, arrived
late one very dark night at an inn in
France. Riding up to the entrance on
his forlorn nag, he fell to battering the
gate. He finally awakened the land
lord, who, peering out into the night,
called:
"Who is there?"
"Don Juan Pedro Hernandez Rod.
riguez de Vel,anova, count of Malofra,
Knight Santiago and Alcantara," re-
piled the S%paniard.
ST am very sorry" shouted the land.
lord, "but I haven't room enough for all
those gentlemen you mention" And
lie slammed the window and retired
Harper's Round Table.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-05

back luxuriously in her great easy
chair, preparatory to the rather I'M
usual indulgence of an interpretive
mood.
She could not be called interpretive
as a general thing, for she was far too
busy with charities, flower missions,
Tolstoi clubs, church and society in all
their fullness, to allow herself the
popular fad of self-analysis; and then
there vas Tom Lenfield; she had been
engaged to Tom for nearly a year.
He was a dear good fellow, and was
succeeding so well in his business, and
yet-well, she was vaguely conscious
that she had not been as deeply disap-
pointed as an engaged girl should be,
when she had received his note that day
telling her he had been called out of
town Unexpectedly and might not be
able to return in time to be with her
that evening as he had planned.
She wondered if, after all, she did
love him as she should.
She sighed a little and determined to
allow herself the pleasure of feeling
rather miserable upon this subject.
Tom was a dear, she thought, but if
he only had a little more love and ap-
probation for the things she cared fori
Not that he was not all love and ap-
probation for her, she admitted to her
self, for she knew that he considered
her the very loveliest and cleverest girl
in the world; still there was no denying
that Tom was rather slow sometimes,
and so practical. She remembered how
at the art exhibition they had stopped
before a picture of the impressionist
school that it vas the thing to admire.
To be quite honest, she was not entirely
sure whether she really understood and
admired it herself, but she had heard so
much talk about it from people whose
judgment she held to be entirely above
criticism that she had at last persuaded
herself that to her, too, it was replete
with life and meaning.
At any rate it was annoying to have
Tom look al her in undisguised amaze
ment as she praised its virtues, and to
hear him exclaim: THAT daub! You
surely don't admire tnat?" But then he
was Sc penitent when she had explained
it to him, and even If he did not under
stand, it was pleasing to hear him say:
~You are the cleverest girl, Nan. I
often wonder how you can care for a
fellow whose only p~retense to good
taste is his love for you" She remem-
bered how, a few weeks ago, at a SYM
phony concert, she had looked into
Toms face to see if in some degree he
did not feel the joy of the music that
flooded her soul.
He was fond of music, in his way, but
he was candid enough to confess that a
bright, pleasing bit of light opera
brought far more plessurable emotions
to him than the most soulful melodies
of the great masters.
On this particular occasion Mics
Rossiter remembered that he had re-
turned her rapt expression with one of
anxiety, and had murmured tenderly:
"What is it, darling? Are you sitting in
a draught?"
Oh, dear, it was always draught, or
something equally annoying to her.
She wondered if she could choose for
herself. what her ideal would be like.
She pictured to herself several types
of her own creation. finally wavering
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-05
The Nest Egg.

A little boy and his sister were al
lowed this summer to collect the eggs
from the hen-coops. but they were
told they must never take away the
nest-egg. The little girl, however, did
so n morning by mistake, and her
brother told her she must take it right
back, because that was what the old
hen measured by."-Harper's Round
Ta',le.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-05

a fine daish lake
tailor CLOTH, -
r of the "a
vored materials
for demi-dress
gowns. b j S
handsome mate
rial, like other
soft woods, lends
itself admirably
to the style OK
gowns as they
are now fash
toned. Cashmere
in sin or
double weave
looks best il
single colors, and
russell
pale tan, d o
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-05

gray n fawn are considered the mOSt
artistic when this textile is Used. A styl-
ish costume Of the new double weave
in fawn color is combined with very
lustrous repped silk of the same shade
relieved on the bodice with Lyons vel
yet of a deep ruby color, ard another
handsome mocei, formed Of mauve CASH
mere, has a simulated UaGerskirt,
sleeve-paffs and vest of pale reseda
fai!le silk, with collar, girdIe and deep
turnback cuffs of reseda velvet. Heavy
faced cloths, Venetian, ladies' and the
stylish costume cloths are extensively
used for very dressy and elaborate tailor
gowns, with the gored skirts trimmed
With only a band of fur, braiding or
galloon. On the jacket or waist, how
ever, fancy runs riot, and the most ex
travagant and astounding colors and eff
xcts are INDUCED in; velvet, SAITH
gtit braid, jet and fur often appear
~ n bodice, yet, strange to say, this
pixture in French hands is most effect
i've. Rich MORE fabrics are again ex-
hremely fashionable, and the MORE
pcplins which came out last year., and
annot really he called novelties, arc be
.sg made up in great numbers. This
watered material can be found in all
xs fashionable colors, and, in black
particularly, is very handsome for
street costumes, while for evening the
tints are exquisite. Velvet jackets of
every description are worn with moire
skirts, but on all MORE or all velvet los
ume considered more elegant, and are
certainly far more fashionable. Fine
cut jet is used to decorate gowns OF
almost every color and kind, and, Of
course, on black poplins as well AZ
every other handsome black textile, the
Mew jet garnitures are most enhancing.
The sleeves of MORE gowns and other
4 such rather wiry materials have little
II no stitfening in them, but in woods
and similar fabrics a silk lining with
only the thinnest of crinoline is used.
The round waist is very much in evil
ience on both day and evening gowns.
In the last edition of the Robes de Luxe
nearly two-thirds of the colored French
plates showed a round waist or a round
effect among the superb models.
There are likewise many fancy styles
with short points. postillion backs, cir
rular backs, and eton, bolero ard
basque effects adj libitum, ard there
fore all can be suited; but, alas, all will
Lot choose Alright. Fine ribbed woels,
silks ard velvets were very largely Ell
evidence at a recent fashionable gather
ing of society people in New York. Ard
rorduroys in dark colors were uses
both for waists and entire costumes.