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MILLHEIM PA.,THURSDAY. OCTOBER C., 18S7.
POLLY'S BISCUIT.
"Polly, don't buy your pearls to-day."
Polly Rutherford looked up quickly from
the jeweler's case she was ls-iiding over,and
saw Mr. Mellwaine standing at her side.
"Why shouldn't I buy to-day?" she cried.
"1 have lnul this huud rod dollars in gold for
almost a year, Mr. Mellwaiue, trying to
make up my mind what I wanted most ;
now my birthday Is almost here again, ai d
1 am afraid (irand|a will make this do for
two birthdays, if I don't hurry and sjs iid
IL"
Hit* Polly's gay little laugh was checked
by a look of unmistakablo compassion in
the gentleman's eyes. The* color faded a
little from her bright young face, hut she
would not ask any questions here in the
crowded store.
"You may put them buck to-day, Mr.
West," she said to the jeweler. "I'll come
again to-morrow."
"Very well, Miss Rutherford," said the
vexed salesman, concealing his dlsapiadtit
nient, "I shall reserve them for you."
Polly left the tempting store with Mr.Me
llwaiue, and once on the street turned uisui
him a pair of frank, questioning eyes,wldcb
lie found hard to answer.
Paul Mcllwainu was a friend of the Ru
therford family ; but not specially of little
Polly ; slie was only sixteen, a tnere child
to the hard working lawyer of thirty, ami
one he considered as altogether too frivolous
and empty. Polly was an only daughter,
living with a widowed mother in her grand
father's elegant house, and if she was not a
B|K)ilcd girl it was not the fault of the dot
ing old grandfather, whose idol she had
been from her babyhood.
"What did you mean, Mr. Mellwaiue ?"
she asked, presently finding that the ques
tioning look brought no reply. And then,
wcing how embarrassed he seennsl about
auswering, she said, with a sudden fear,
"Have you lsx-n at Grandpa's since I left ?
Is anything the matter ?"
"They are all well," he said, answering
the thought which he knew was in her mind,
"lint something has happened, Polly, of
course, or I would not have interfered with
your purchase."
"Oh ! tell me, tell me," said the girl in
an agitated voice. "Why do you keep me
ill HUSJS'USe. ?"
"What a bluuderer I am," thought her
couijNMiiou. "if 1 tell her out here ou the
street, there will Is- a scene ; but I'm in
for it now, and if I don't toll her 1 suppose
there will be a scene ; that's the way with
these tine young ladies."
"It is a hard thing to say to you, Polly,
but your grandfatlu-r has failed."
"Failed," repeated Polly vaguely, "you
mean he lnis lost his money ? Is that all ■
Is that what you were afraid to tell ui ?"
"That 'all' means a good deal more than
you seem to understand, said Paul Mell
waiue, impatiently ; "it means loss and
grief and disappointment and poverty to
uut ,W I yiit.l**me ~lu LliU World , It
means hard work to your mother who has
uu avr. xtfdi for work : to you "
He stopjied, and Potty im-hi rtU)ki>, tjaA...
ing the tinge of contempt in his tone: "Nev
er mind about me, but 1 sec now how bad it
will lie ; jswr Grandpa ! Mr. Mellwaiue
does—must—will anybody else lose by
Grandpa's failure ?"
"It is ton soon to say positively," he re
plied, "but I think not. 1 think lie has
quit business in time to leave his creditors
any appreciable loss."
Polly's head was up now, and her eyes
shining. "Dear old Grandpa," she said,
"bless his heart ; I am ashamed that I ask
ed the question ; I might have known.
Hut, oh ! I'm so much obliged to you for
keeping nie from spending my hundred dol
lars ; it was very kind of you, Jvery ; I
don't know how you came to find me. How
long have you known about G randjia ?"
"It only came out this morning, aud took
us all entirely by surprise. Hut here wc
are at your door ; good-by, my dear ; if I
can l>e of service to you in any way,(he luvd
meant to offer lier money, but he was sud
denly afraid to speak of such a thing lo the
spirited-looking girl ls-fore him,) remeiriler
tlio long intimacy between our families
gives me a right to help you."
"Thank you," she said simply; it was all
die had voice for, and, using her latchkey,
slie lot herself into the bouse.
"Bless ipe !" said the young lawyer,as he
walked off, "but the girl has pluck ! It was
very pretty, and entirely womanly, too, the
way she thought of others, her grandfather
and tho creditors. 1 didu't think little Pol
ly hail it in her."
If he lia<l seen little Polly at this minute,
he might not have thought she lnul so much
in her ; she had slipped noiselessly into the
great handsome front parlor and dropped
down oil one of the low cushioned divans,
"all in a heap," as the girls say. For two
whole hours she kept herself hid in the jxir
lor, nobody knowing she was in the house,
aud in that long, silent time, when she
heard only the tinkling little bronze clock,
and her own irregular breathing, something
happened to Polly, almost like what hap
pens to tho moth when it conies out of the
cocoon. It happened to the Polly that was
hid away inside of tlie Polly that everybody
knew ; and who shall say but that this
great, startling change of fortune was not
sent to keep that inside Polly from lieing
smothered and dwarfed by tho outside
Polly !
When she went to And her mother and
grandfather, it was with a bright face and
steady voice.
A few days after this, Polly brought up a
dainty little breakfast to her mother, who
was quite overcome by their disaster, as
was the jKxir old grandfather.
"Come, mother," Polly said blithely, "1
made these biscuits, and you've got to eat
two. What a good thing it was that you
had that hobby about teaching me to do
things ; don't it fit in nicely now ?"
"It was a theory of your fatherV'answer
od the mother, In a depressed tone ; "I
promised him when you were a wee baby in
long clothes that 1 would have you taught
to do everything that women can do, and of
course, after his death, I felt the more bound
to do it. But I don't know why you should
make so much of it now ; you can't support
yourself by making biscuits."
"I don't know," said Polly, carelessly ;
"I dont know," she repeated more earnest
ly, springing up and walking alsmt the
room as if her mind were not following her
footsteps.
In a few weeks tho Rutlierfords hail mov
ed into a small down-town house, with all
the available rooms "let," and poor old Mr.
Rutherford was trying feebly to dischargo
the duties of a small salaried office into
which his friends had put him.
Polly's mother seemed quite crushed nt
first, but the girl herself was buoyant with
hiqs<, as every young girl hss a right U> Isi,
no matter what her stylo of living is —or Is
Thanks to Mr. Mellwaiue, she had her
hiindreil dollars now to invest in an enter
prise on wldeh she had si't her heart lar luore
than it h;ul ever lss-ii set oil the |K*arls.
And along with the hundred dollars she
had also to invest in it youth, health, good
sense, a brave sjiirit, and a proud iinle|wnd
euee. What else needed she for a happy
aud successful life ?
Her enterprise began with A visit, li*k t
ill hand, to seven or eight of the best city
hotels, and as many of the restaurants ; to
all of theiu she offered a dally, weekly, or
tri-weekly supply of tier dainty little beat
en biscuit, such as she had learned to make
down in eastern Virginia, from a famous
old cook, who lnul in slave days belonged to
her father's family. She was successful al
most up to her own cxiH'ctatlons, and far
beyond her mother's, and her elation could
not but infuse some hope into that lady's
weak spirit.
"We must have a new name for your bis
cuit, miss," said out) wise old restaurant
keejs:r ; "what shall we call them ?"
"Call them," said Polly, hesitating and
laughing, "call them the Polly-wolly-wink
uin biscuit."
The Polly-wolly-winkutn biscuit got to la
the fashion that winter ; after hiring mm
g<kml cook at what seemed ruinous wages, a
second and a third had to ls engaged ; but
Polly put on her great kitchen apron, tied
up her abuudaut hair into a high knot, and
s|s-nt four hours of every day in her kitch
en herself; no plea of other engagements,
no pretense that the cooks would do as well
without her, no tempting offer of sleigh
ride*, no Battering Invitations of any sort
could make the little mistress of the b
kery break her rule, or neglect lier work.
Naturally the biscuit grew in favor.
The last time I visited the l'olly-wolly
winkuiii bakery, it lnul niovi-d its quarters
to a large, well-lighted kitchen, with a
class-room.attached. Yes, a class-room;
for Polly had agreed to teach cooking to a
number of rich men's daughters at a good
round price JKT girl, and, not to lose the
chance of doing good because she v.-' |Ksir,
she selected a dozen jssir girls to whom slie
gave another hour a week, withput pay.
Mr. Paul Mellwaiue was my cicerone on
the occasion of my visit and when I had ad
mired and praised until tho English lan
guage was exhausted he said, gravely :
"Nevertheless a suit is pending in court
against the Polly-wolly-winkuni Iwkerj 4 ; it
is charged that Miss Rutherford is dishon
estly withholding from all tbe young gen
tlemen of her acquaintance the time and
thought and interest they believe to be their
due."
"That is a dreadful charge, Polly-wink
um," said I. "What are you going to do
about it ?"
"I'll engage Mr. Mellwaiue to defend
me," replied the little bakeress, running to
look into an oven. Ilut somehow her face
was red even la-fore she opened the oven
The Conductor's Jaw Dropped.
One of those smart Alexanders who travel
on chock and the inability of the public to
change S2O bills for a glass of soda or four
tobies got into a Penn avenue car the other
day and tendered theaforesaidf'JOforhis fare.
Of course the conductor could not change
it, and so he got his ride free. This was re
peated until the conductor got tired of it
and after the fourth or fifth time of its
repetition ha determined to get even with
the fellow. By visiting the toll-houses,
and by other means unknown, the manipu
lator of rhe bell-punch managed to scrajxi
up $19.95 in pennies.
Placing these in a little bucket he quietly
awaitod the appearance of his victim, hav
ing posted the driver and some other inti
mate friends who happened to le on board.
When the unsuspecting young man with
the plethoric pocketbook put In an appear
ance ami promptly produced the "20" with
many apologies the conductor pocketed the
bill and amid tbe grins of spectators pre
sented it to his customer. The young man
looked pretty cheap, and, after feeliug the
heft of the bucket thoughtfully got off the
ear and disappeared around a corner. Then
the conductor took the bill from his pocket
and proceeded to fold it up nicely, so that
it would fit into a convenient corner of his
jKjoket book. Something in the appearance
of the bill caught his eye, and as he ex
amined it a little closer , his jaw dropped a
bout a foot. The bill Was of the genus de
nominated by the siKirting fraternity as
"queer." The young man had also been
laying for the conductor.
Coining Changes in Postal Stamps.
The Postofllco Department, has made
changes in color and design of some of its
adhesive stamps and impressed upon en
velopes. The two cent adhesive stamp now
issued iu rod will bo changed to green. Tbe
three oeut adhesive stamp, now issued
in green will be changed to vermillion
The design of the adhesive stamps will re
main unchanged. Int he staui}>cd envelopes
the two cent envelope will be changed from
red to green, the four cent envelope will be
changed from green to carmine, the five
cent from brown to dark blue, the thirty
cent from black to brown, ami the ninety
cent from carmine to purple. Tbe design
of the stamped envelopes will also be the
tho same as now, except with the one, two
four and five cent denomination. The
heads on these stamps fhave been re-en
graved and have different appear
ance from the old stamps and the orna
mentatiaii around them is also slightly dif
ferent. One purpose in making the changes
in color is to have that of stamped envelopes
correspond as nearly as possiblo with that
of the adhesive stamp.
The Hessians.
The prejudice of our forefathers against
tlio Hessians of foreign mercenaries who
were seut to this country by the English
government to subdue tlio colonies was so
great that these troops have since always
been spoken of with contempt. They were
really regarded among the best soldiers in
Europe. Tlio contract of England with the
Landgrave of Hesse called for 12,700 men,
besides "throe corps of artillery," the latter
probably numbering a few hundred gunners
in all. But the Landgrave practiced the
grossests frauds, roeeiviug pay for the full
number, counting incomplete battallions,'
deserters, the dead, etc. In addition to tbe
Hessians, England employed 5,723 Bruus
wickers in the revolutionary war.
Terms, SI.OO per Year, in Advance.
A mm KKDSKIN.
An lih!lhm Who ltd I ng> Railroad
A recent letter fruin Newloii, Mo., to the
KauaiM 4'ity Journal nays: Had tiny one
predicted a quarter >!' a century ago that an
American Indian would hulld a nllroul lie
would have Ini-ii conslderi'd a fit object for
a lunatic asylum. flat to-day the people of
Newton County, Mo., a county adjoining
the Indian Territory have witnessed a scene
Hiich a* man never liefore betielil. Mat
thias Kplitlog, a half Cayuga and half Wy
andotte Indian, lwrn in an Indian village
in Canada, to-day at Neosho drove the ttr.it
splko for the Kansas City, Fort Smith and
Southern Hallway. This dtviaiou of the
Kansas City, Fort Smith and Soutliern rail
way was chartered the Htb of last March
under tlie laws of the State of Missouri,
with a capital of $3,000,000, and now then
are about 35 miles graded ami ready fr the
iron.
Mr. Splitlog has furnish the "siuews of
war" out of his own ain pie fortune, and Is
backed by heavy capitalists lo complete the
road, and before the Ist of next January he
will have the cars running from Jopliu, in
Jasper Comity, to tbe town of Kplitlog, in
McDonald County, a distance of about
thirty-flve miles, and Matthias Kplitlog, the
millionaire Indian, who is probably the
richest man of bit race, w ill henceforth Is-1
kao.vn all over the country : s the only In
dian railroad man (at least the first) in the
United States or in the whole world.
The occasion of driving the first spike on
the main line of this new road was a matter
of more than ordinary interest to the people
of Neosho. At 3.15 there were alsrut one
thousand jienple assembled at the )**iut
where the inatn line crosses the 'Fri-co
track. After music by the Indian band
from the Territory, and selections by the
Neosho band, Mr. Charles W. Smith of tia
construction company, held the spike in
]to*ifiuti, and In four liold strikes Mr. Split
log drove the spike home in a carefully se
lected whiteoak Tic. Cheer after cheer was
given for the road, Matthias Kplitlog,Neosho
and the enterprise, after which many came
to the tr.u kto look at the spike. Mr. Split
log wielded the sledge with a familiarity
ami precision which Indicated that lie had
used bis sledge with good eiVcct when he
built bis steamboat on the l>etroit river.
Mr. Kplitlog was horn in the \ear ISI3,
and while a boy was apprenticed to a car
|ientor and millwright, and, although his
wages were only $7 ]er month, young Split
log thought he was getting rich. He im
bibed a love for machinery and inventions
which has made his life a useful and event
ful one. In the year 1842 young Splitlog
joined the Wyandot tea, who were the last
of the Indian tribes then iu Ohio. Iu 1843
Splitlog came west with some of the tribe,
and found, after his arrival at Westport
landing (now Kansas City), that he only
had 50 cents in his pocket. He induced an
old lutllau to go bio security for tbe price of
an axe. With this axe he cut cordwood
for the steamboats at 25 cents per cord, and,
after paying for the axe, which cost $2, he
soon saved enough to buy a pony.
~ Atw>ul lh6 year ISCIhe married Elizaßar
uctt, a grandnieee of Harry Jacques, the
old Indian who went his security for the
price of the axe. Her father was head
chief of the Wyandotte* when he died in
1838. Her mother was a part Wyandotte
and part Seneca Indian. They have fam
ily of five children—four sons and one
daughter. Splitlog was never idle, and in
most of his undertakings he was successful
At an early day he built a mill near Wyan
dotte, which was first run by horse power
and afterwards by steam. Splitlog's mill
was a success ami was long an old land
mark near Wyandotte. He began to spec
ulate in real estate, and, although he can
neither rem! not write,he has been one of the
most successful speculators in the neighbor
'ooOd of Kansas City, and is to-day worth
over $1,000,000. Many interesting incidents
could be written in connection with his use
ful life.
Bashful Bridegrooms.
A justice of the peace in Saratoga county
recently joined a pair who were so embar
rassed that they hardly knew what they
were doing. The man wore a white straw
hat which he whirled on his finger liefore
the ceremony liegan. When told to stand
tip he jumped before the justice with great
alacrity. For a few moments he did not
know what to do with the hat, but finally
found his way out of the difficulty by put
ting it between his knees. This was too
much for the bride. With the handle of
her parasol she caught the hat, pulled it
from its position and then, abashed at her
audacity, dropped hat and parasol to the
floor.
The same justice tells a story of another
couple who came to lie married. The man
was dreadfully puzzled, and without real
izing the act pulled a cigar from his pocket
and began twirling it aronnd. When that
jmrtlon of the ceremony was reached where
bride and groom join hands, he happened
to have the cigar in liis right hand. What
to do with the cigar he apparently did not
know. The justice paused a minute and
then again directed the pair to join hands.
Ily this time the poor fellow's embarrass
ment was painful. He gave one agonized
look at the justice of the peace and stuck
the Cigar in his mouth. Before the ceremo
ny could lie concluded the justice had to
take the cigar from between the man's lips.
MAKING THE FIRE FLY.
A Man whose Electric Fingers Cause
II tin Great Trouble.
I From the Philadelphia News.]
Anton Saveme, a Belgian cabinet
maker employed at a Kensingtonship
yard, has the wonderful power of pro
ducing electric sparks by rubbing bis
fingera. Saveme is a little swarthy
fellow, about 40 years old with a
busby head of hair, keen blue eyes—
very rare among his countrymen—and
very small hands. His motions prove
that ho i a excessively nervous,
and his sense of hearing, sight, and
smell, as he assured a reporter of the
Daily News yesterday, are uuusally
acute. His parents still live on a farm
in Belgium, near Brussels, and he is
the youngest of a family of eleven
children.
NO. 39
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I know not bow I do it/ be mid
last evening a* tbe reporter mw sparks
shoot from Saveme 'a fingers. Tbe
cabinetmaker rubbed his finger tips
rapidly up aud down upon his trous
ers Then holding bis bands ont with
ibe fingers widely extended, jeta of ti
ny yellow flumes, or leug sparks shot
out. They seemed propelled by soma
unseen force ten or twelve inches into
the air, when they vanished. Tbe
right band appeared more charged
with electricity, if the sparks are elec
tric, tbau tbe left. The lump in
SavcmeV front room was pat out so
that tbe sparks might be seeo in all
their briliancy. It was a wonderful
sight. Aguiu and again did tbe bushy
bead Belgian rub his fingers and bold
them out while tiny sbowers of bright
sparks darted out as if from toy fire
works.
*1 was not always so.' said Saverne,
lightning the lamp and his black pipe,
Oiled with villanous tobacco, at the
the same time. 'When I bad boon sick
ten years ago it was said I would die,
I lay so weak one night in my fath
er's bouse when there camo up a storm.
Such thunder and lightning I never
knew before. And my body bad queer
sensations. While I lay covered up
with bedclothes, my mother sat hold
ing her face in ber hands by my side,
and I seemed to feel a thousand needles
pricking my limbs and chest and the
soles of my feet* It was not so pain,
ful for queer thrills came with every
prick, and when the thunder rolled a
way and the rain stopped 1 rose up,
leaned back, and put out my band to
take that of my mother's. My eyes
were closed, but I beard ber say An
ton 1'
'What V I gasped weakly.
'Your hand.'
'I looked at it The one nearest to
ber. It was all aflame. I was terrified.
My cry brought my father and sisters
to the room. Tbey looked at me to
horror. I look my other band from
the clothes to rub the right Sparks
shot from the fingers of the left Soon
tbey died away, but I baye but to rub
my bauds, as you have seen and the
lights come.
Saverne told of the hardships
brought upon him by his singular
faculty. The neighboring peasants in
Belgium avoided him and told awful
stories of bis being in league with
the devil Men would not hire him to
plough or work in harvest time. His
own family clung to him, but the farm
was small and be came to this country
five years ago. Here be learned the
cabinet-making trade and got employ
ment at finishing ship interiors. Bat
when his companions saw his faculty
or infirmity they treated him coldly.
His ignorant neighbors in Scbleswig
street regarded him as possessed of an
evil spirit Saverne's electric fingers
are the curse of bis existence.
Profitable Mistakes.
An enterprising young undertaker
once went out to Jamaica from Lon
don in hopes of bettering his condi
tion. He was not disappointed, busi
ness flourished, and be wrote to his
father in England to send him a sup
ply of black and gray cloth and twenty
gross of black tacks. Carelessly how
ever, he omitted to cross the T, and
the order was read 'twenty gross of
black jacks.' So bis relative bad made
and slipped to him this large quantity
of quart and pint tin pots, ornamented
with painting, and to which the maker
had given the quaint name 'Black
Jacks.' The young man, as may be
imagined, was aghast at receiving the
apparently useless consignment; but
an ingenious friend consoled him by
offering to take them off him hands at
the invoice price and glad enough he
was to agree to this proposition. His
bright friend then advertised for sale
a new and fashionable punch vasejust
imported from new England, and dis
posed of every one of the jacks, mak
ing 200 per cent Some after
ward, as the yonng men were talking
over the lucky blunder, the friend
said to the undertaker in fun : Write
to your father now and order a
gross of warming pane, just to see
whether the well-informed people of
London will have the sagacity to con
sider sncb articles necessary in this
latitude. Number one laughed at the
idea, but thinking it was a' good joke
really did as suggested and sure e
nough the literal old goose of a father
actually dispatched a gross ot warm
ing pans to the tropical island of
Jamaica.
Again the son was in despair, and
again bis friend came to the rescue
and purchased the lot He then
knocked off the covers and sold them
to the planters as a new kind of sugar
ladle. Tbey went off like hot cakes
and be realized a large profit
Both young men returned home to
England with fortunes, and bad many
a good laugh as tbey related the story
of the black jacks and warming pans,
number two always ending with,'noth
ing is lost in a good market," and
he might have added 'A ready wit
can make things fit'— American Ag
riculturist.