Pittston Gazette

              \ -f "I?f Oldest NewsDaDer in the Wyoming Valley. PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1890.' A WeeJdy Local and Family Journal. 'iCOLUMBUS DISCOVERED. THE RIGHT KIND OF A FELLOW. 'thing had happened -while she had been blabbering upstairs. What would her Uncle Robert say—do? offered a splendid price for her already. And it's yours. That's -what I've meant all along, Huldy." assume wnen completed. Tnen tno mold is made from this and then the wax is put in first, followed by a heavy coarse cloth, three thicknesses of which are used to give strength and firmness of character to the subject. navo a oust or isenjaimn rTanirnn at our house which every year requires wishing. The help had decided at a late hour to give Benjamin a bath, and with heavy tread had sought the bathroom for that purpose. So when the mistress of the house went there to discover the burglar she found tho white set features of the great man apparently drowned in the bath. A DASH FOE THE COLOES. oactenes. w uoevcr contronea tne corn field could control the artillery site. Hood's division advanced from the woods around Dunker church toward the corn field on the morning of the 17th. They had occupied the ground the day before, when the enemy was on one front only, the direct one, and they advanced cautiously through the tall corn toward what was supposed to be the only threatened point, and where re-enforcements were needed for a fight already in progress. The First Texas was in Wofford's brigade and was in the center, with two regiments on either flank. While marching forward in this manner CoL Wofford saw the columns of Union troops threatening his left regiments and ordered the First Texas to face to the left and help beat off the enemy. The regiment responded, but in a short time was ordered to move by the right flank again to correspond to the movement of the Union troops. These maneuvers threw the Texans out of line with the rest of the brigade and they entered the corn field of tall standing stalks fighting on their own hook. The enemy which the First Texas had been sent against was in the corn, and this was so dense that the eye could penetrate but a few feet. A HOME FOR SELF SUPPORTING GIRLS. The riuht kind of a fellow is modest and mellow. And generous and brave and benign; His nature's apparent and clear and transparent, Like yours, gentle reader, and mine. Huldah was pale and panicstricken. Oh, dear I what should she do? "It was week after next we meant to spring our little surprise," her lover con- , eluded. "But when you took on so t to-night, why, it frightened me. I 1 knew you were clean run down, and I vowed I wouldn't wait another minute. I persuaded Mr. Spencer, and we were off within ten minutes. THE MAN WHO FOUND AMERICA RUN Where tlie Independent Worker Can Live THE FORLORN CHARGE OF THE FIRST MINNESOTA AT GETTYSBURG. Comfortably and Cheaply. Hardly knowing what she was doing she hurried out into the road, and bending low studied the hoof prints in the dust ' TO EARTH BY BILL NYE, A lady was engaged in dressing the figure of Columbus. She attends to the costuming of all the wax people. She was just putting a wad of excelsior into his bosom as I entered. Another young lady has the somewhat monotonous job of putting on the hair and whiskers, one at a time. Many think that the wax works wear wigs, but this is not true. Each hair is put into the wax by means of a little steel jabber, and the wax pressed down again to hold it. It takes three days to put tho hair on a man like Liszt or Ole Bull. In getting up a figure of Col. Ingersoll of course one day would be ample. In the Columbus group there i3 one sailor who has not shaved for a week. This is effected by putting the beard in full, and then clipping it to the proper length. He looks quite lifelike, and has irregular teeth which, with his sandy, stubby beard, give him a regular sea dog look. In West Sixteenth street one's eye is caught by the glitter of a brass plate polished to the clearness of glass. The St. Clare house is a branch of St. Mary's, in Fourteenth street, and is a home for respectable, self supporting young women. It is the sweetest and cleanest of places, presided over by the Sisters of St. 'Francis of Assisi, who was, you know, a saint noted for his love of the poor. The costume of these sisters is very .effective. A black scapular covers the front of the gown, around the waist of which is a white cord tied in three knots. A cap with frUls and a long black veil complete the attire. The house is uniformly furnished throughout, the rooms on the top floor having the same conveniences and being as cool and comfortable as those below. •• s The beds all have patent wovsu wire spring mattresses, feather bolsters arfd pillows and snowy counterpanes. The single rooms cost §5 per week, and the scale descends from that to $1.50, all of the boarders being treated alike in the dining room. Protestant girls are being welcomed quite as much as Catholics. The idea of Christian charity of these noble women is to help all who need it, without question of religious difference. The St. Clare is an outgrowth of another institution, established twelve years r.go by a lady who sorrowed to see deserving young women seeking employment in vain day by day, and who had not the'means to pay fer their lodging. He hat no verbosity, no tongue tortuosity, And never la boastful and load; He Is (entie and quiet and plain in his diet, And never gets mad in a crowd. in a AVaxy State and Only Partly Clothed. Benjamin Franklin's Burglarious Tendencies at Last Exposed. The Notorious Genoese Surprised While The Number of Killed Unparalleled In History, Either Ancient or Modern—A He to grand and majestic, yet meek and domestic. And spends his spare evenings at home; He's a tireless searcher for all kinds of virtue, like the perpetrator of this "pome." All tending westward were half obliterated ; those turning east, or in the direction of Wakely, were fresh, and Huldah mechanically walked eastward. Try it some time if you think it improbable. You will be surprised. So no more at present. Similar Fate Befel :the First Texas on Antietam's Bloody Field. "So now it's plain about Topsy, isn't it, dear? And the license we've been after—Huldah, do you know that Joseph Brockway, 25, and Huldah Spencer, 21, are going to be married tomorrow, and have a long enough wedding trip to cure the worst case of nervous prostration going?" and ho kissed her soundly. [Copyright, 1830, by Edgar W. Nye.] Wandering about the other day and waiting for Otero to come forth and at the Eden Musee, the manager said, all of a sudden, as he noticed that I was being mistaken for a new wax figure, and that I seemed embarrassed by tho way people, especially strangers, ft§±CjU [Copyright by American Press Association.] f D* H He don't play the fiddle, part his hair in th« v middle, Nor dress like an angelic dude; When he goes to a party with Meigs or McCartjr Be never is noisy and rude. To what end? If Topsy had broken her halter and frisked up the road Huldah thought she might overtake her. If she had been stolen and ridden away at a foaming trot  MORE gallant jd recorded In 'story, was Gen. vncock's tribute First Minnesota • their forlorn He lives with frugality and sweet hospitality, And wants pie but two times a day; He never eats onions nor treads on your bunking, Nor growls when you get in his way. Taking Care of Iliin, harge at Gettys irg, July 2,1863. nlike many brilltit feats of arms, D dash of the rst Minnesota is attended 1vith ..ie most palpable ' A evidences of the itruggle gone through. The annals of ighting are filled with accounts of charges to the cannon's mouth and hand to hand encounters of indescribable fierceness where the loss of life is remarkably small. The percentage of loss in killed and wounded in the charge of the First Minnesota was the highest sustained by any Union regiment in the civil war, and it was exceeded by only three-tenths of 1 per cent by a Confederate regiment, the First Texas, in the fatal corn-field at Antietam. The percentage of killed in the First Minnesota, according to Col. Fox, the military statistician, was unequaled in all military experience so far as recorded. Of all ther grand exploits of that marvelous battlefield of Gettysburg, the charge of the First Minnesota was by all odds the most dramatic, the most eventful, the mCDst desperate. The story of the disaster of the second TnE COLOESday of the battle, when Gen. Sickles'Third In this thicket fighting began, anC corps was overwhelmed at the Peach Or- colonel of the First Texas statec chard, is familiar to every one. Sickles *n his report that as soon as the held the extreme left with one corps iso- ball opened he could not restrain his lated, and was attacked at a time when he men- Formation could not be maincould not be withdrawn, and the only tained and every man went on wherthing to do, as (Jen. Meade expressed it, ever he c°nld find a foeman, and no fprwas to stand and fight it out. The battle niidable check was made until the farther raged for hours with terrible fierceness, ed8e of the com field was reacted. Here and division after division was sent to the there was a rail fence and beyond a low succor of the Third corps. Hancock's Sec- ridge crowned .with Union batteries. As ond corps was on Sickles' right and con- 80011 88 the retiring Union troops passed nected his line with the main army on under their line of fire the batteries opened Cemetery Ridge. From this line detach- onWoflord's men, and the First Texas, mints had been made until there was being in front, close on the heels of the barely a skirmish line left to support the Union infantry, received a galling shower batteries, which were the mainstay of the °' rn^ss^ea- The men halted, and opening position. The turning point of Sickles' on the Sinners and horses inflicted a terfight was when the angle of his line was rible Punishment, compelling the artillerbroken in and his troops forced to retreat. kts to mber UP and prepare to move At this moment the Confederate com- away- But a fresh column of Union inmander ordered forward fresh troops to Gantry came up, and moving in solid lines pierce the interval between Sickles and swePt °n through the corn, pushing Wof- Hancock. The smoke of battle covered the ford'8 brigade before them, and the doomed whole field and anxious uncertainty filled Texas, far in the exposed rear, was the minds of Meade and Hancock, who the second time at a disadvantage, passed up and down the line on the ridge The commanding officer says in his retrying to keep the run of what was hap- Port that although he had but a handful pening to Sickles. When at last it was of men he hesitated to order a retreat, and seen that the Third corps must fall back when at last he did so the few men re- Meade ordered up reinforcements from an- maining to him turned at regular interother part of the field to support Hancock, vals and fired upoa the enemy. Four oi and Hancock himself went toward Sickles' bis color bearers were shot down under the field to see what could be done to aid the eye of the colonel, and ho recognized them stricken corps. all. Four others fell cifrrying the colors, While making his way to that point he but none of tho survivors could identify saw through a rift in tho clouds of battle them- Fmally the flag disappeared in the smoke that hovered over the field a Con- corn, the bearer falling unseen, and when federate brigade (Willcox's) moving up the colonel aaked for the standard he was boldly with flying colors within a few rods *°'d bad tbe field. When the of an exposed portion of his line. The en- remnant came together in the open field emy, if let alone, would strike a battery beyond the corn swarmed with Union supported by eight companies of the First troops, and it was too late to attempt to re Minnesota, and there were no other troops- covef 1110 flag. Out of 336 Texana that en in sight. Re-enforcements were on thT tered ,th® fl«ht 43 wero kuled and 141 way, but were some minutes distant. wounded, or 82.3 per cent. Looking over the Iittlo phalanx of a couple T!he commander, after recounting his of hundred or so the hero exclaimed action and hl3 loss' devoted mucb of his "Great God! is this all the men we have reportL*° exPlanafcion of the loss of his col here?" Then with a sweep of his eagle eye •? WF0,^?: , to the advanciag columns and their men- While falling back (being still in thi acing battle flags of red, he said to the co™ ®e!dD * Save the order to halt and in commander of the First, "Col. Colville, laired f°r colors, intending to dress oi advance and take those colors." them, when I was told the colors had gonC The men arose with a will and advanced °ut °f the corn fl/ld Then 1 the or coolly down the slope to the plain to per- der to move out of the corn and form be form their terrible task. The situation J?1 crest of a small ridge just outside was one that every man in the ranks could ? was w .n« , reac^ th*3 point that understand. It was a movement to save became satisfied our colors were lost, foj time, and the First Minnesota was to be a 1 loo^ed *n ®very dlr!?tl011 a,nd the? w,eTi stop gap to hold back the onrushing flood now"ere to be It was then too lata of hostile bayonets until succor came, to recover them. There was no one wh( There were 202 officers and men in the com- knew the spot where they had last fallen mand, and the Confederates numbered one a? owing to the density of the corn i division, Willcox's brigade being in ad- view of no object could be had but for i vance. Shot and shell tore over the Held, tb.18 time, also, the enem; and thousands of muskets were sending moJed UP within 35 or 40 yards of m; bullets across the plains to clear the road rear. blame, I feel, shoul( for the Confederate advance. At every attach to the men or officers, all of whon step some Minnesotians fell, but they heroically and well. There was ni coolly held their fire, advanced with bare such, «D°d.uct on their part as abandoning bayonets, and at the signal, within fifty °5 deserting their colors. The color yards of the enemy, they sprang ahead Parted back with them, and when the; with a cheer. were lost no man knew save him who hat Willcox's men wrapped their line at the with them." ends around the brave fellowB, receiving in ~ apology, made when f°nr out o turn the Minnesotian's first volley at e*ery five of his men lay dead or bleeding arms' length. The Confederate colors were shoT8 how strong is the soldier's rulm, seized and the advance was broken. Be- P8831011 f°r the honor of his flag. fore Willcox could rally his men the Union George L. Kilmer batteries were at work upon him, and what would have been a great Confederate surprise and triumph was checked. The supports of Willcox wandered off in the in But Huldah could not have sat still; she could not have waited. Doing something was better than doing nothing. She might find some trace of her. For awhile Huldah could not trust herself to speak. He to wise andjhe's witty, persevering and gr'tttry. And has a magnificent bead; He's all light and sweetness, he's thorough ooi njdeteness;He's perfection, in short —but he's dead! —Orchard Lake Howltiei ■. Her anxiety left her no choice. She went breathlessly tramping on up the dusty road. And when she did, though her voice was softly tearful, it was only to say: "How did you come to take Topsy? And where was Dan?" She thought she had been unhappy before, but now she was miserable. She was confused, too, in her misery. "Oh, Hinckley borrowed Dan this afternoon I But I reckon we'd 'a took Topsy anyhow on this occasion—eh, Joe? Wo was in a kind of a hurry this time, Joe and me 1" TOPSY. Ferdinand will be represented also. I saw his bust in beeswax. Ho was rather a plain man with a look of anxiety which I attributed to a feeling of uncertainty about the time when his new clothes would reach him from Grand street. Ferdinand rescued himself from oblivion by giving his hand in marriage to Isabella of Castile on the 18th of October, 1409. Five years later, Ferdinand was proclaimed king on the death of Henry IV, who was Isabella's brother. It is said, that her folks opposed the marriage on the ground that Ferd could not give the necessary bonds even if he got the office of king; but he did, and gave good satisfaction. She had gone a quarter of a mile before it occurred to her that she had left the house unlocked, as well as the barn. First Patient—Why are all the doctors, nurses and officials taking so much care of that man who has just been brought in? Ho doesn't seem to be hurt much. "He thinks more of Topsy titan he does of me!" said Huldah. Joe Brockway laughed. "Well," said Huldah with a quivering breath, "I've been a goose about everything—such a goose 1 But, Joe, I can't be married to-morrow—not tomorrow, Joe, I can't I" "You can and will be, my dear," said Joe masterfully. "But she is a dandy little ho rae, you know," he said, letting his gaze wander to where Huldah's Uncle Rotx irt stood stroking and patting Topsy. ' 'Lookat her shape, Just"  Bat what were the spoons or the butter dish compared with Topsy? Oh, dear! Second Patient—Oh, no! But he's a reporter who got hurt in order to get in and write the place up; and they're "onto" him.—Puck. She was glad it was getting dark; nobody would recognize her. Bat even so, people stared at the hurrying, bareheaded girl and wondered. Many were the appeals to thiB womanly heart, and never did she fail to give tha "' weary ones temporary shelter. At last aha decided to found a home where unprotected girlhood might be safe from the temptations which assail it on every hand. Only two or three rooms could at first be afforded; then a small house was ventured upon. The little mission grew into St. Mary's home for respectable women seeking employment. As St. Mary's grew Mother Clare, the foundress, evolved another charity. She decided to f onnd a home for girls who had found employment but who could not afford to pay the prices demanded by boarding houses. "I know," said Huldah. "I'voheaid Uncle Robert rave about her enough. Little head, arched neck, dander legs"  A Priori. "Got to be," said Uncle Robert. Attorney (in a breach of promise suit) —If it Wiis so dark you couldn't see her kiss him, could you? Witness—No. Once or twic. she mustered courage to ask if Topsy had been seen, but nobodv had seen her. And 6he was; and camo back—to a little house in Wakely—looking like a rose in bloom.—Emma A. Opper in Philadelphia Saturday Night. Joe brought his hand down -on his sweetheart's with another laugh. Attorney (triumphantly)—Why, then, are you positive that she did kiss liim? Witness—Because it was too dark for me to see her. She felt like a tramp, and she supposed she looked like one. Was she going to cry again? She would not! But if any other calamity had befallen her than losing Topsy—anything I And it was her fault, her negligence. In 1492 Ferdinand drove all the Jews out of his dominion because they would not advertise in a paper with which he was connected. It was in this same year that Isabella fitted out two of the three ships necessary for Columbus to go in and discover America, and when he returned Ferdinand and Isabella obtained a bull from Pope Alexander confirming their title to all the territory they had then or might thereafter discover in the western hemisphere. So Ferdinand and Isabella had quite a lot of wild land for sale at the close of that year, which if they had kept would now be very valuable. Take Minneapolis and New York, for instance; both of these towns were then in their infancy, and the ground was cheap. Take the land, for instance, on-f which Trinity church and Daly's billiard hall now stand. These lots are now worth millions of dollars, and yet a few years ago they were secured by planting the Spanish flag on our coast or buying a state of the improvident red man with a schooner of Tokay wine and a red carnelian nose ring. But Huldah's brown eyes were lifted seriously to his laughing blue oner. The Advance of Sanitary Science. TAKEN FOE WAX. During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries epidemics swept ovei the civilized world, almost depopulating it. Smallpox alone never entirely ceased, and every few years it became a great epidemio, even as late* as the Eighteenth century. Almost every person sickened of it once in his life. As immense number were blinded. Of infants, one-third died before their first year, and one-half before their fifth year. Asiatic cholera, the black death, typhus fever and other epidemics also wrought fearful havoc. Sanitary art, now become sanitary science, stands an able protector against such as these. Armed with the effective weapon she places in our hands, we no longer dread Buch visitations. Yet this science is but in its infancy. When it has reached its full growth the filth diseases, now already called the "preventable diseases," will be things of the past.—Dr. Cyru* Edson in Forum. were feeling of me and wondering if I were hollow: "Come np stairs with me. I want to show you something. Did you ever go into the work room where wax 'figures are made?' Attorney (furiously)—From what actual knowledge of your own, sir, can you state that she kissed him? "Well, I'm not adamant exitctiy, Joe," said Huldah slowly. "I'm: not a fossil, and it's hard to have an uncle who cares as much for a hone as he does for you, and to hear unftbina but horse talk from morning till night, and to get so lonesome sometimes you Just don't know what to do! "What's the matter?" he said g ayly. Once she thought she saw her cropping the grass by the roadside, and her heart bounded; but it was only a peaceful red cow. Witness—From my knowledge of the girl.—Puck. And thus it comes about that Instead of living in a crowded, dirty tenement a self supporting young woman can find a comfortable home with the Sisters of St: Francis. What a grand work to protect virtuous girls. Mother Clare and her sisterhood have vowed the balance of their lives to this cause of humanity. How many will rise up and call them" blessed!—Edith Sessions Tupper in Chicago Herald. "No." ! "Well, take the elevator with me. Otero will not danco yet for an hour and you can see the whole business—studio, work shop, etc.—in that time, and you will enj?v it just as much as you would remaining here with that vacant and guileless look, being constantly taken for 'Henry Irving or the deathbed of Napoleon."At the next half mile stone she was sure she saw Topsy ahead of her, with the thief on her back, but it was Hiram White on his old rackabones with a bag of grist. A dude of evidently limited equestrian powers was about hiring a horse at a livery stable. The keeper insisted that he should pay the hire in advance. "Oh, you don't trust me! Perhaps you think I'll come back without the horse?" Just the Other Way. "Oh, Joe,"Huldah murmured meokly, "I ought not to say it! I don't know what's the matter vrith me. i— I"  She was getting tired at last. She had raced along in such a frightened heat that she had not thought of distance."Not at all, sir; just the opposite. We're afraid the horse will come back without you."—Judge. And Joe Brockway heard a stifled sob, saw a swishing start and fouml himself alone on the fr ont steps. "Huldah!" he cried, and gave chase. Through the hall he ran, and into the sitting room ami the kitchen, and then out into the ba ek yard and around the house, sending two dozing cats wildly fleeing, and going through Huldah's petunia bed. Bnt if you have a child invulnerable to ' all other influences, and he cannot bespoiled by any means already recommended, give him plenty of money, without any questions as to what he does with it. The fare is cheap on the road between hare and Smashupton. I have known boys wit£ five dollars to pay their way clear through, and make all the connections on the "Grand Trunk" route to perdition. We know not why loose cash in a boy's pocket is called pin money, unless because it often sticks a hole into his habits. First, he will buy raisins, then almonds, then a whisk cane, then a breastpin, then cigars, then a ticket for a drunken excursion, and there may possibly be money enongh left for the father to buy for his boy a mffln Let children know something of the worth of money by earning itt Overpay them if you will, but let them get some idea of equivalents. If they get distorted notions of values at the start they wifl neVer be Daniel Webster knew,erverything e.vfcept how to use money,. From, boyhood? he had things mixed up. His mother gave him and Ezekiel money for Fourth of July. Money In Youthful Pockets. I So I said yes we would go. I had .never watched the process, and very few people, as I understood it, were permitted to go into the mysterious chambers where great men were made and unmade even quicker than the newspapers could do it. The principal works —wax works, I may say, or tableaux foundry — would seem to bo facing Twenty-third street, one floor above the entrance. Quite a number of people are busy there all the time adding new figures and tableaux to the great collection in the halls below. Every time a monarch croaks and a new president is elected the genius of the wax sculptor up there is called into use, and before you know it the head of the new republic, in a neat fitting suit of clothes, is inserting his nice pink hand into the bosom of his frock coat and trying to look far away, while people are watching him earnestly in the great group of potentates. I was first introduced to the main wax worker and artist of the whole establishment, whose name I wish I had secured, because he was bo courteous and obliging. He showed me all about it, so that I could now do it myself if at any time I should decide to retire from literary pursuits and give myself up entirely to art. But where was she? Why, almost to Benton's comers—almost two miles. And houses were scarce here. Corrections Made to Order. Staggers (to McCorkle)—I understand you referred to me as a moral leper. McCorkle—Well? Huldah glanced around her fearfully. How dark it was getting! Staggers—Well, you'll have to take it back. Still she pressed on. The thought that it was Topsy she was searching for spurred her. ' McCorkle—Certainly, if it doesn't suit you. I'll take back the moral leper and call you an immoral leper.—West Shore. "Hang it!" he cried, coming to a baffled stop, with a reddened face and disheveled hair. But she was growing weak. Her anxiety and her long tramp and her nervous fears here on this lonely road were more than she had bargained for. She found herself trembling. Isabella's bust as it will appear in this great historical tableau will have a brunette appearance with black hair. She will have a far off look and hollow legs. She was having her measure taken for a throne on the day I visited her. Isabella died Nov. 26, 1504, and Ferdinand, after pawing up the earth with his tumultuous grief and making a perfect show of himself at the grave, proceeded to marry Gerinaino De Foix. She wa* niece of Louis XII of France, imd if she had been a grass widow could have been called De Foix Grass, which would have been a bon mot. Ferdinand died Jan. 23,1516, and had a marble prevarication placed over his tomb, whioh went Of Course He Would. "I don't see why they call them the Mrtl sea waves, Jack." "Why not, Jim?" Couldn't Have Been a Clierub. Old Blocque—I don't believe in being too hard on naughty children. Chipley—Indeed? His good looking countenance showed a little wrath, considerable distress, and some indecision. "Because if I had a beauty like that MC«h Dashaway throwing herself into my arms two or three times a day I should be the reverse of sad."—Boston Courier. "I believe I'll tell her this minute, 'r he muttered. "What'll she say about Topsy then? Little simpleton—dear little simpleton!" Poor Huldah! her faithful, grieved little heart swelled with despair: Old Blocque—No. I remember with Humility the fact that I myself didn't lie young.—Puck. She peered ahead. Nothing and nobody to be seen; no Topsy. A light gleamed from a house far ahead in a ghostly way, and an owl hooted away off in the woods. But after a moment's reflection he walked toward the bam, where Huldah's Uncle Robert was s till engaged with Topsy. Mrs. Bunker (of Boston)—I think that Miss Waldo was the most perfectly dressed woman in the room. A Boston Toons Woman's Taste. Lila—I always thought Mr. Slowpop rory bashful and retiring, but last night ho actually kissed me. Pear Friend* Again. Oh, what was that? It was only a friendly stray cat robbing against her, but it was too much for Huldah in her strained state. Huldah had fled up stai rs to her bedroom. There she sat, vrith her face hidden in a fold of her dress and her tears soaking the starch out of it Oh, dear! oh, dear! What was she crying about? Everything? It was her Uncle Robert, for one thing. He was kind of course. But if he were not quite so wrapped up in that new trotter, if he ever would to her aJboot anything else—about her own poor little affai re, for instance— and stay in the bouse sometimes instead of the bam! What did he want of Topsy, anyhow? Huldah wished he had never seen her. Mrs. Emeraon—She has exquisite taste. Did she wear jewelry? Maud—Dear me! How surprised you must have felt.—Yenowine'a News, As the boys came back from the village the mother said, "Daniel, what did youbuy with your money?" and he answered, "I bought a cake, and a candy, and some beer, and some firecrackers." Then turning to Ezekiel she said, "What did you buy with your money?" "Oh," said Ezekiel, "Daniel borrowed mine." Mrs. Bunker—Spectacles only.—Jeweler's Circular. The New Policeman. She recoiled in fright and gasped, and then sitting down on a smooth, flat stone near by tried to smile— strove to rally her scattering senses and quietly fainted away. The Judge—Officer Grady, please arrest Lawyer Case's attention, Grady—Yes, sor, av ye'U please mek £Dut th' warrant.—Cost on Herald. Excusable Profanity. Managing Editor—William, go into the next room and see who is swearing. Snch language cannot be nsed in this office. The artist of whom I speak makes heads and hands and finishes up the job, while another artist, whose name I did not get accurately enough to print, unless I could at once escape, makes the bodies. The process is very simple indeed. Anybody could do it. It is as easy as running a paper or perfecting the tariff so as to be generally agreeable. On the other hand it is a ruinous policy to be parsimonious with children. If a boy finds that a parent has plenty of money and he, the boy, has none, the temptation will be to steal the first cent he can lay his hand on. Oh, the joy that five pennies can buy for a boyl They saem to open befoi-e him a paradise of licorice drops and cream candy, you cannot in after life buy so much superb satisfaction with five thousand dollars as you bought with your first five cents. Children need enough money, but not a superfluity. Freshets wash away more corn fields than theyculture.—Rev. T. De Witt Talmage in Ladies' Home Journal. She was not on the stone when she came to herself. Joe Brockway was on the stone, and she was in Joe's arms. The Tarther the Better, Tom—Fret I wants to borrow $5 of you, Jack. William—Please, sir, it's Mr. Jones. He filled his fountain pen with mucilagr by mistake, sir.—New York Herald. She remembered it all in a minute, and was indignantly ashamed of herself. She sat up suddenly and rigidly and stared. Yes, Joe was holding her, and her Uncle Robert was kneeling beside her, with his florid face whitened and a lantern in his hand, and the buggy stood in the road. Jack—What does he want it for? Tom—He's going away. Jack—Going away? Good! ten.—Epoch. A Wise Nephew. Here's "Dear me," said the old lady, who was visiting her relatives in the city, "I wonder where the tobacconists get so many cigars from?' For since Joe 'aad taken a partnership in a hardware store in Wakely it was doubly lonesome for her here in Cheever. The sculptors were working op a group of Christopher Columbus. The artist has seized upon the happy moment when Columbus is just about to discover America, and he is debating in his own mind whether or not there is anything in it. One can see readily by his deep, earnest look that it is a problem in his brain which he has not yet settled whether it will pay him to discover a country which will-introduce the use of plug tobacco and freedom. Another Thing. "They cabbage them," was her nephew's response.—Washington Post. "Did you tell Skittles that I was an infamous liar?" "No, I did not. Quite the reverse, in fact. I said you were a famous one."— New York Sun. "Huldah," Joe was gasping, "what is it, dear—what is it? How did you come here? Huldah"  Ah! she hod not been quite fair in letting Joe think her tears were all for her Uncle Robert. A Hot Day. "I thought you'd gone to Wakely, Joe," Huldah said tremulously, at which her Uncle Robert gave an excited laugh. / Mrs. Popinjay (from the hammock)— How does the mercury stand now, Socrates?Dreused for the Occasion, In France women oftener than men guard the railroad crossings, raising and lowering the gates. One afternoon on the edge of the forest of Fontainebleau I remember watching a woman" binding"1 sheaves in the wheat harvest. All the color notes about her were .low toned, from the blues and grays of her apparel to the yellow brown of her skin and her eyes, which were like those of a patient animal. She was not a romantic looking peasant as she bent lifting the great yellow bundles; rather one of the women of Bastien Lepage, the "honest" painter; but a would be Millet or second edition of Marie Bashkirtseff seemed to have found her picturesque enough to be interesting, for an easel was planted in the shade of a straw stack and the chic Parisienne, her high heeled, ribbon tied slippers peeping from under her skirts of muslin and Valen-.lennes, her broad brimmed, poppy covered hat pushed back from, her forehead, was measuring the harvester against the sky with her pencil while she sketched and ate apricots to idle away the afternoon.— Cor. New York Commercial Advertiser. The French Peasant. Since Joe had gone to Wakely! Wakely was such a lively place, with possessions of which Cheever had never Mr. Popinjay—It isn't standing, dear. It is running np the tube four degrees a minute.—Burlington Free Press. DIGNIFIED FOB ONCE. dreamed—an opera house and a park with a fine band pavilion. ArWi pretty giria—Wakaly was noted for its pretty girls! "I swow she's all right!" he ejaculated. we've been scairt out of our wits. Why, we thought you'd lost your senses, wandering around like this. We borne mighty near not seeing you, neither." Columbus was at this time very poor. First he had sought to secure a concession from the legislature of Spain, but in Spain it costs as much to get a just appropriation as it does in Albany. He went on to show that if he did not discover America some one else would, and that the result would be that some less deserving and far plainer man would get his pictures on tho America® greenbacks. But pooh! pooh! said the legislature, seeing that Columbus had no means with which to promote legislative action, and he being a plain man, entirely ignorant of whether a bill had to go to its final passage or over to the Smithsonian Institution, was guyed and fooled with by men who should have known better until his money was gone, and our best Indian tribes were waiting impatiently all the time to be discovered.on to state that it would be a cold day before Spain had another king with as much pop and high purposes as Ferd had. Not Appreciative. Ethel—Mamma sings baby to sleep every night now. A hotel keeper at Lyons had posted on his door this notice: "English, German, Italian and Spanish spoken here." An American arrived and asked for the interpreter in as decent French as he could summon. "Monsieur," replied the landlord, "these is noiv ." "What! no interpreter? And yet yea announce that all languages are spoken here." The reply was charming: "Yes, monsieur—by the travelers."—San Francisco Argonaut. The eyes of wax figures are of glass, and are fastened in by means of rods which pass up through the interior of the head and fasten the eyeball from the rear. Wax people are noted for their dignity and repose. They haye no brains, but they never forget to be digr nifled. I hato dignifi«Ml people. I never tried to be dignified but once, and that was two weeks ago, I wore a handsome new frock coat and suit of dark blue, and a new, shining Russia iron silk hat, to drive my family over the Finger Bowl road on Staten Island and on to South Beach. I was proud and haughty, dressed up, serene and mentally vacant in order to look dignified. People who saw us driving thus afterward paid me a high compliment by telling my wife what a dignified and thoroughly clerical looking coachman she had. What was the matter with her? Was he not her own true lover? Had he not devoted many a day to coming home to see her? Wasn't he home for that purpose now? Interested Visitor—And how does the baby like that? Ethel—Oh, she cries, and cries, and cries!"—Somerville Journal. "No, no!" cried Huldah, passing her hand over her dazed eyes. And then, struggling to her feet, she nerved herself for the worst. And still Huldah sobbed on. Quite Different. She was tired and nervous, she reflected, dismally. Doing all the housework and canning strawberries at the same time had been too much for her, she supposed; and she had not felt well lately besides. "I came clear up here trying to find Topay." she faltered. "She's lost, Uncle Kobert! She's either got loose or been stolen, and it's my fault." C "Is that a love letter?" asked one young lawyer of another, who was poring busily over some closely written sheets. Summer Shore Dweller (as the buokboard goes through the bridge)—Hang on, Billy! It isn't as bad as it might be. "Oh, no," replied the other confusedly. "It is jutt a writ of attachment."— Somerville Journal. Billy—I knovr it, Sam. We've got our yachting caps on!—Puck. Their Petition. "Lost!" Joe cried. "There she stands in the thills." When several persons combine in an effort $q obtain desired privileges they are usually successful. There lies great virtue In numbers. Elsie, a little New England girl, was delighted with the prospect of a trip to California, and it never occurred to her that all her twelve dolls were not to go also. uiiu Way Out of 16. "Is that Topsyf' Huldah gasped, and her Uncle Robert laughed again. He—Ethel, I'm ashamed of you! I saw that beastly foreigner kissing you repeatedly. Why didn't you tell him to stop? And she gathered np a fresh corner of her gown and cried harder. Father—I think I saw you in rather close contact with that young man last evening. I demand an explanation. The Associated Press. She did not know how long die stayed there, but when she went down stairs at last there was nobody in sight or hearing. "I swan, you are all right!" he repeated. "That's Topsy, sure. Help her into the buggy here, Joe, and let's get this thing untangled a little. Tramped for two miles did you, HuldyP' Clara—It's all right, father. He's a member of the press association.—Low- Lowell Citizen. He—Couldn't! What do you mean? She—I can't speak Uia language.— Judy. She—I couldn't, dear. "QBEAT GOD! IS THAT ALL?" "Tell me where they're to. be packed, mamma," she said, "and I'll put them in They mustn't be mmpled and tumbled." The standing of the churches ia the United States at the present time is represented as follows by The New YocksIndependent:Standing of Churches in the Cnited States. "Alas!" some great chief would say after vainly searching the horizon, "another day has went by and my people remain undiscovered. My great speech to the pale face, which I have prepared for the Fourth Reader, is still in manuscript form. Day after day goes by and we get no reliable European news. Bah!" terval, and Meade's re-enforcements came to the scene and the crisis of danger on Cemetery Ridge was over. But the First Minnesota was gone. Forty-seven  rallied on the return. Fifty dead or dying and three times that number were wounded. Not one was missing, for never a soul surrendered, and no man dodged the ordeal and left the ranks. Forty-seven heroes marched back to the ridge, and the blood marks of Confederate shot were the certificates to account for the absences of 215 brave men left behind. She had expected to find that Joe had gone, but where was her Uncle Robert? "Elsie, dear," said mamma, regretfully firmly, "I really can't allow you to Luke all that set of dolls. You may have two, any two you like, but there I draw the line. Twelve dolls are quite unnecessary." v "You poor little girl!" Joe murmured. "Huldah, how could yon? And Topsy right as a trigger! Huldah, do yon know where we've been and what we've been for?" One Effect of the Ice Famine. Since that J have not tried to look dignified. Ho Was Proud, Churches. Ministers. Co^^al' 4,OSO#IO C,G70,aaa 4,292,291 The table showed a masculine litter of cold greens and lemon pie. Oh! and here was a note pinned to the table cloth: "He's a mean sort of a fellow." Bank President (to cashier in jail)— Why didn't you go to Canada? Methodists. 64,711 Roman Catholics... 7,622 Baptists. 48,371 Presbyterians. 13,018 Lutherans. 7,911 ts. 4,Ca9 Episcopalians. —5,327 "What has he done now?" "I asked him to lunch and he ordered a bowl of cracked ice. I had to borrow money to pay the bill."—New York Herald. Wc had quite a fright not long ago, and I might tell it here, perhaps, as well as elsewhere, for I think the chief charm atDout a letter or tnis mnQ is its informality, truth and acouraoy, 81,766 8,888 32,343 9.874 4,618 4,040 4,100 Cashier (haughtily)—Because I've got some pride about me, and I didn't want to go np there with only $25,000 and live on a back street in a strange city.— West Star. Elsie made no reply, but went quietly on altering a skirt for Lady Etheliuda, the, prettiest one of the waxen and cbina faced family. 1,239,018 1,086,043 431,985 460,178 He would then eat a light breakfast of maize, get married, and taking his cross gun on his shoulder go out and shoot a canvasback muskrat for his luncheon. Columbus, as he will appear at the Eden Musee, has a dark but pleasant face and pleasant whiskers. I took his head in my hand and looked into his steady, gentle eyes. Also into his vacant head. Am going to Wakely. Be back early. Tney were in tne Duggy now, ana Topsy—yet, Topsy—waa trotting toward Cheever as only Topsy could trot. Bat Huldah could not free, her cold little hand from Joe's. My wife is not easily frightened. She is a Chicago girl who married beneath her station, so I am told; but we will let that pass. The other evening she was comparatively alone and reading "Three Men in a Boat." She likes English humor, because it is so pure and has such plain directions with each book. She was reading it thoughtfully and prayerfully—knowing that no one could read English humor and not go away a better man—when sho heard a heavy footfall along the hall. Wakely—what for? Oh, ye*! Huldab divined in an instant. There was a man in Wakely giving an exhibition of horse training. Joe had told her, and of course Joe had gone back with him. A Suitable Ravine. Later in the day, when her mother entered the room devoted to packing, sh( saw a curious sight. Supported against a trunk sat a row of dolls in traveling costume, as far as they could manage such, and above their heads was pinned a large placard bearing the words "W© are waiting to be packed." She—Just see what a yawning ravine that is! This loss amounted to 82 per cent, of those engaged. The killed and mortally wounded numbered 75, or 28 per cent.—an appalling loss when one reflects that the meaning is that of every five men four were hit, and of every four one was silenced forever. The justification for this sacrifice is best expressed in the language of him who was responsible, GeD. Hancock. He said: "I ordered those men in there becaus« I saw that I must gain five minutes time. Re-enforcements were coming on the A little colored gij l, accompanied by a tall, gaunt,-white man, attracted considerable attention, at the Union station. The girl was clad in a plain, dotted calico gown and wore a straw hat. The iaau had on a suit of rusty jeans, and was constantly smoking a short cob pipe. While waiting for tho western passenger train the man engaged in conversation with an employe, and after a brief chat told a remarkable story, to prove which he produced evidence in tho way of letters and newspaper clippings. He said that his name was Leslie Carter, and that the father of the negro child he had with him was called Jack Carter, and was a former slave of his. Tho child is now 13 years of age. Ten fears ago the father of the child left ilr. Carter's place, a small garden farm neat New Orleans, and went west. Before leaving he entrusted his child to Mr. Carter's care. a. coioreu Uirl's I nr«e xaberlt^ho.e. His First Sight of a Cigarette. "Yes, tell her the hull thing," said Uncle Robert explosively. He—Yes; it would be just the thing for Fairmount Park in Philadelphia- Burlington Free Press. Was he angry with her? Huldah wondered. And was her Uncle Robert displeased because she had neglected his supper? If they were she deserved it. She was a poor, lachrymose, disagreeable thing—she, Huldah Spencer, who "Huldah," said Joe, and his voice trembled a little, "we've been to Wakely to get a marriage license—our marriage license, Huldah. It was a surprise you see—it's a surprise we've been planning for weeks. You've been working too hard, and we both knew it, and I made up my mind to take you right out of it whether you agreed or not, and take you off for a good solid rest with me. What was the use of our waiting till next winter? That was your idea—'twasn't mine You've worked yourself to a shadow almost, and lately you haven't been well, either. So I got up this little scheme several weeks ago, and your uncle fell right in with it"  They Kept Quiet. The head and face of the figures sire made first in clay, as a sculptor would do it. It is fun. I made one. It was pleasing, but the man it resembled I had never met. He was a stranger to me. When the clay is sufficiently hard to use What mother could resist the united appeal of a dozen doUaD Not this one, and to California the tweive went.—Youth's Com panion. "The ancient Egyptians were a very secretive people." "Is that so?" "Yes: mummies their word."—Yenowine's Newe. Tolstoi In Poor Health. It was not my footfall, for mine is light. It would not wilt a maidenhair fern—I tread so lightly—especially at a late hour. The tread slowly approached. My wife shivered and bolted her door. The step turned toward the bathroom! Sha had heard of burglars coming into a private residence, taking a bath, and then going away—after stealing a few things. run, but I knew that before thqyeould reach the threatened point the Confederates. unless checked, would seize the threatened position. I would have ordered that regiment in if I had known that every man would be killed. It had to be done, and I was glad to find such a gallant body oi men at nana wining to mare too terrible sacrifice that the occasion demanded." Count Leo Tolstoi, w e are sorry to hear, is seriously ill. .He has inflammation ot the bowels; and, as those who have read his latest novel will bo sufficiently aware, he has a bitter antipathy to doctors. There is a danger, wo fear, of the count emulating the "Peculiar People" in declining to hav« medical assistance, and in that case the world is likely to have nothing more from the pen of the author of "Anna Karen inn." It is deplorable that the man whose literary works have made such a deep mirk upon tho minds of. his contemporaries all over Europe, and whose latter daj influence fiver since he turned teacher and preacher has had the largest and strongest element of good, should fall in his old age into the quagmiro of whimsies indicated by the extreme doctrines ot "The Kreutaer Sonata" and by such hobbies of a rocluse as this contempt for th» aid of medicine.—Pall Mali Gazette. had had % reputation for brightness and prettiness! tor that purpose a plaster mold is made from it, in sections, of coarse, so that it may be easily removed; then the melted flesh colored wax is ponred in until it has attained a thickness of from an eighth to a quarter of an inch, and then it is allowed to harden. After sufficient time for this the bust is removed and num- Schooi Open*. I bered and catalogued, so that it may be "It is now time," said the school called into use years hence if anyteacher on his return to work after a thing should occur to bring up this figsummer's yachting, "to set the spanker to the public notice. The World s and keep an eye upon the bnoys.»-N«w fau"now' o* course, at once attracts at- York Sun. tention to Columbus and his group of ■ - rocky pie biters from Spain. Here we see them in all their wanton wildness and freedom. Columbus had not got his clothes on yet when I saw him. He has a good figure, though, and a nice pink torso. He was 58 years of age at the time he had this torso taken, I believe. The bodies of the entire Columbus grcrap had been made, and with cheap ribbed underwear on them they stood in a little convention at one end of the room. Some were kneeling, some were standing and some were in other attitudes that would have looked heroic if the drapery had been a little more extensive. The bodies and limbs are made as follows: First they are modeled in clay in the position exactly that they are to "But what do you mean, Mr. Ivory, by laughing so at my piano playing?" He Wm Pleated. She went and sat down on the back porch. She did not want any sapper. How could she eat with that lump in ~sttbbt one sat loosing outmso the pleasant Jane evening desolately. But a spark of interest came into her eyes suddenly. The square hole in the side at the barn which marked the position of Topsy's stall, and from which her trim little head was usually poking itself—it was empty. •Tm trying to show I'm pleased with It. People always smile or laugh when they're pleased, you know."—Philadel- Philadelphia Times. Mr. Jervis — Gimme Luke. another one, His Son (home from Amherst)—Why, father, you've had sis in less than half a minute, The only other regiment in the whole war to reach a percentage of loss among the eighties was the First Texas, Hood's division, in that terrible ground of carnage in front of Dunker church, Antietam, Sept. 17,1SC2. The situation on the ground was one of the most trying known to modern warfare. The Confederates were on the defensive with inferior numbers. The odds were with them if they could foresee the points of attack, McClellan was moving in two columns, direct in front and a flank movement on Lee's left, where Stonewall Jackson had command. Around Dunker church, which stood near a turnpike, was an elevated wooded position which McClellan hoped to seize by a combined assault from two directions. Mr. Carter took the child out of kindness to the former slave. Jack Cartel? then left the south. After knocking about the west for a number of years he settled in Denver and opened a barber shop. He prospered in business and began to speculate in real estate. He got hold of a valuable piece of property while prices were low, and when he died a short time ago he was worth something over 335,000. He had not written to Louisiana during tho ten years of his absence, and when his attorney wrote to Mr. Carter announcing the death and the value of tho property which tho little negro child was to inherit it was a great surprise. Later she heard him slashing around in the bathtub at a great rate and she was thoroughly scared. Sho tried to call some of the servants, but could not reach them. Finally after what seemed like a thousand years she decided to see for herself. Sho could not wait. So with loudly beating heart she opened the door of the bathroom softly. Mr. Jervis—You don't expect a man to fill his pipe with jest one 'r them little packages of that terbacker, do yerf —Judge. "Like a thousand of bricks I" said Uncla Robert. "Didn't relish the idea of letting you go, Huldy, but it had got to come some time, and I knew what was for your good. So I went and bought Topsy. It was jest on your account I bought Topsy, Huldy. I'd had my eye on her for a good while. She wasn't in good condition, you see, and the man sold her cheap, and I sayB to Joe, 'I'll buy that mare. If there aint a few hundreds of clear money in her, I dont know my own name. Fed up and took care of she'll be a valuable horse. I'll buy her,' says I, 'and sell her in Biz months for twjce what I'll pay, and that'll be for Huldy,'says I. And I've done it I've took owe of her faithful, and I've be^p Waiting for a time in theexpectation of seeing the head Huldah went into the kitchen and to the t»a.» where hung the bam key, and then out to the barn. Tea, Topsy's stall was empty And so was Dan's—Dan being the old sorrel her Uncle Robert always drove. Where was Topsy? Her Uncle Robert never drove Topsy. Besides Dan was gone. And he never lent her. What had become of her? The question, "What are the wild waves saying?" has never been satisfactorily answered. Tho Wild Waves. A Bccord Breaker. "So that dog has a record, has he/ What for?" "Killin' cats. He killed the cat with the nine lives."—Munsey's Weekly, The most that can be said is, they are generally announcing tidings of some kind or other.—Philadelphia Times. Tho light was low, but in the bathtub, just above tho water, was the pale, still face of a man! The High Peaks of ludla. He had borrowed our bathroom for suicidal purposes. IIo Got a Raise. From where I write the mountains form a semicircle about me, and there are twelve mighty peaks of snow, each of which is more than 30,000 feet high. As for mountains of two miles and more in height I can see dozens of them. I am In the very midst of the Himalayas, and at what the world says is the best point to view them. Man here is fully as interesting as nature, and we have servants and guides who are more like the people of Thibet than of India.—Frank G. Carpen ter's Letter. Wife—What do you Buppose baby is thinking about? Cooking Up a Reason. Charley Silliboy—Mr. Duste, do you consider mo worthy a slight increaso of salary? By his will Jack Carter appoints his former master administrator and leaves his entire property to his little' daughter. The child cannot understand tho great change that has taken plaeo in her circunW stances. Mr. Carter intends to take her to Denver, and after the usual formalities have been gone through will sell the prop* erty and return to Louisiana, where he wilt educate the girl in the best manner.—St, Louis Globe-Democrat. When I camo home all was in confusion. I was never so welcome. In a lit tic brief excited talk I was told what had happened. I took my trusty Excallibar and went to the door, listening to sco if the dead burglar had revived, Ho had not. Slowly I opened the door and peered in. On the Confederate front there was a wide, open stretch, with some elevated positions available for Union cannon if the Confederates would allow them to remain. Directly in front of the church, some hundred yards distant, was a field of thick corn and a small, detached wood, and on the Confederate left flank of the corn field was the best high, open ground for Union The Brute—I 'sposehe'a thinking what to cry nbout to-night.—Life. Mr. Duste—A difficult question to answer, but I will see what I can do for you. You believe in the oldadago "Time is monej'?" Huldah was in a tremble. Topsy— if it had been anything buf Topsy I Had she been stolen? Had she got loose and ran away? The door had been looked, but there was the big back door into the bammd. Sorne- Appropriate Enough. Mr. Larkin—I see that at a wedding in England the bride was accompanied by four little boys dressed in sailor suits. Charley—I do thoroughly. Mr. Duste—All right, then; hereafter you may work twelve instead of ten hours each dav.—.Tew«1ars' fSmrilur Larkin—That's all right. It was a marry time affair, rou know.—JucLre. To go back a little, I must add that we