AT THE STATION.
———
A tiny tot in a torn blue dress,
With tear-stained. face and eyes of
brown,
A doll which receives an odd caress,
A little stocking that's fallen down;
Shyly looks but with wistful air,
At the regiment slowly passing by,
But she doesn’t recognize any one
there,
And she drops her doll and begins
to cry.
I gently ask in a soothing tone,
Ag I stoop and kiss the tearful face;
“Who are you watching for here,
alone,
this great
place?”
Slowly she raises her tear-wet eyes,
Then sobbingly whispers: “I's 'Htle
May,
An' 1 wanted to tate my papa by
sup'ise,
For ‘is weglment's tomih’ home to-
day.”
“Dear little girl, you must not cry,
Papa will be right along, never
fear” —
In big, crowded
noisy,
by,
Quick brushing
tear
into
then,
Dressed In
She climbs
away a
Ana the arms of one passing
a
to
of blue,
I
to wave me a last adieu.
~New York Led
turns
oer
=e.
A War Episode,
3¥y Wilson MeAlister,
you ?' The old
eoirl
iri
encourag
a soldier?
man
litle looked
smiled
facing the
at his wife and
ingly.
“ys Q,
“Why aint yon
the child laid down
candy and wiped
from her li
Inside
The rain
and the
keep t dry. The
tired watching t
pools on the w
ers and
gen at the bottom of the
Through the clouded
looked at the
until her eyes
then?’ and
popcorn
was close and hot,
at
been
the « it
had
windows
begun Washington
had
the se
ats had
in in
child
of he water for
rv
into
down to
. 1
eax
indow, 1
trickle slowly the
In ne
had
Inndscap-
glass she
dreary
J ached, 1
to the old man
information.
“If you are a goldler wh
Hke and
fighting, like my papa?
"The colonel fought all through the
other war, dear.”
lady, pleasantly,
“I know,” put in the child eagerly,
“he couldn't spared. Uncle John
couldn't be spared, either.
my papa went away.”
“How are you
woman?”
A man had in from a
car and sat down hy t
“All right, Uncle
the child, and she took }
in bers and pressed it affec
“How's the popcorn?”
“Pretty good: 1 it
Aunt Mary makes"
“Well, I gu not. Taint every on
that can pop corn like Aunt Mary.
Shall I get you some more. or mebbe
Jou want some candy?
with some a little while
“I don't want
John. When
home?”
“In a little while, won't
bother you.” she added to the old man.
as he rose to go.
to Georgla to
right tired. I'll
a while.”
“That's my Uncle John." exclaimed
the child, man left the
“He didn’t go to the war because he
conldn’t be spared. You see. grandpa
sald some one had to stay home and
do the work. Uncle John, he lives
with me and grandpa and pap and
Aunt Mary. He stayed home."
“Why, didn’t your papa stay home?”
“He said he could be spared better
than Unele John"
wet
‘hen she turned
for entertal and
nmen
dressed ane
answered the old
“amd "”
Irer
That's why
std ivye
getiin
g along.
come front
. hia 'a
HE CHI 8 sige,
John,” asaswered
2
118 rough
$ + %
tonately.,
yt
PRN
I seen a boy
ago.”
candy, Uncle
going to
any
we
are rev
=
I hope she
“We've been down
her papa and
back. Polly, after
Roe
be
she's
ag the
ear,
asked the old lady. after a pase,
“Bhe's dead. 1 never saw my mam
hier. I'm not sure. though. 1 asked
Papa one day. and he sald he hoped
not. Have you got a dog? I'v got a
He carries my basket to school
he can swim. [I've got a colt.
and
and
ie when he is old enough.
some doves and lots of chickens.”
said the old lady: “we lve In New
York and we can't keep pets there.
“1 don’t like New York.” answered
the child, gravely,
“What do you
York? Did you ever live there?”
“No. but papa dil, and so did mam.
ma. 1 was borned there, but ve lived
with Uncle John ever since I was a
little baby. Papa bates everybody
that lives In New York. Once when
I was a Mttle girl a man came up to
Uncle John's In a great big carriage
with two horses and he had a beaut).
ful lady with him. They drove up
right to the kitchen door and asked
for a glass of milk for the lady. Un.
ele John took it out to her, and when
she saw Aim she Just screamed awful
Joud, and they made the horses just
run out of the gate. Uncle John was
terrible mad, and said If papa’d been
there he'd shot him. They came from
New York, and I guess that's why
didn’t like them. Can you paint
tres 7’ : :
~ “No, my child,” irned the old
mau. “Why do you ask?” UL
18 a beautiful
painter. Uncle Jolin says that if he
wanted to he could make money
enough to pay off the mortgage in no
time, But he doesn't like to pain®
Once he painted a pleture of me and
a man gave him a hundred dollars for
it. Aunt Mary wanted to keep the
picture but papa sold it. He sald it re
minded him. What does reminded
mean?”
“Does that horse look like your
colt?’ asked the old lady irrelevantly
as she wiped her eyes,
The child peered through the
dow intently. “I don’t see any horse,
My colt is named Dick, after papa.
He is a bay, and has a white star in
his forehead. Md you have a uni
form when you were _a soldier? (This
to the colonel) My pipa’s uniform Is
Just lovely. 1t has gold on
{ it, and he's got a bag just like 1 carry
“My papa can. He
win
buttons
great, big gun, almost
long this car It's
geavy I can’t lift, anyhow. Was
f you ever in camp?’
| mA many times"
the old soldier. “I lived in camps for
nearly twenty years.”
“My, but that's a long time!”
tinued the child. “I'm only
tgoing on eight. My papa was only
camp weeks, 1 wus
He just
it took an long
He middle of
of in
any
and he's got 8
ns as almost,
as
SO
! great
i
|
con
Seven
two out to
looked splendid
awful
in
soldiers
3
in once.
{ only
tite to
See the
standing
better than
him. was
whole lot
line, but he looked Of
because he wears his hair so long
Aunt Mary
for my dolly. it
It trae
i from my)
dead before i
1 Of
€] con
i ID
| Don't you lke long hair?
| made hair
wouldn't stay on.
She it
but
sone
was ally
18]
hair. cousin
i Kit Kit
| foul, ut it k
i fer
didn’t
1
KBOW,
tv's Wilk
iY.
-
it on,
and it
rag, you
Grand
NeW edd
we
My dolly’s
iful dolly.
ma used to play with it when she was
a little girl, It's ed Polly,
| her wa bd
and i! iy
on
upon
uy lap and let
old laa
fussing
for the
+ much
in
while
about “Old
“Little Boy
voice, that quivered a Ii
the h but was very
for all that. And before the
next stop she was fast asleep,
“Poor little 1 repeated oid
lady. and she pressed the child closer
to her.
Sa tl
y
her lap and
the old lads
Mother Hab
Hue"
softly
bard”
SWeoeet,
tie on
musical
sang
and
low
{ort
IR notes,
of." the
at last the train reached
marshes of Jersey Clty,
broad
other
the
The
[se ngers were putiing on thelr coats
and hats and taking their pat veels
down from the rack and Just as the
i
the man from the front car came
“I'm very much obliged to you”
sald warmly, “]
We
We've been
father,
He's in
hope she didn't
bother you.
I home,
10 moet
I toon late,
down to
but we
the baggage car
now, She doesn’t know it yet, I
didn’t have the heart to tell her,
Come on, Polly,” and he took the child
gently by the hand. “Com. on Polly,
vearie. We are going liome now to
| Aunt Mary and grandpaps. Come
on.”
“I-1 want my papa.” cried the
| child softly, as she rubbed ler eyes.
FUWill he be home when we get
| there?"
“Jersey City! All ont!” called the
brakeman from the end of the car,
“Good-by and thank you!" sald Un.
cle John.
“Goodby!” added
through her tears,
“Poor little tot!” sald the colonel,
and the old lady, his wife,
as ag
Atlanta
her got
Polly, smiling
The Superstition About Friday.
The superstition that it is bad luck
fo be hanged on Friday will probably
stand the test of time, but otherwise
the evil fame of the day Is pretty well
dissipated-—-at least that seems to be
the case in New Orleans. Not very
many years ago the passenger traffic
out of this city showed a startling con-
ttaction every Friday, and the regu.
larity of the decline left no doubt as
to the cause. At present Friday Is
about as good a business day ax any
| other for the transportation lines, and
i
:
i
one prominent railroad man
that it Is peculiarly favored by for
tune, “I had the curlosity to lodk into
the subject recently,” he sald, “and In
eight years, which was as far back as
my data went, 1 found that the acel-
dent record of Friday was the second
lowest of any day of the week, Of
course, one may take any day of either
the week or the month and discover
{all manner of horrible things that have
happened In the past, but I have nev.
er been able to find a reason why Fri
day should be marked for special stiz-
ma. It is an absurd fact, however,
that railroad people were formerly
obliged to take account the super-
stition in making a forecast busi
ness, A new Orleans jeweler had
something interesting to tell along the
| same line,
f extinet,” he sald, “but tlw jewelry
{trade was certainly affected by it 'n
I have known lots of people
wouldn't think of buying any
{ thing intended as a gift on Friday, es
{ pecially If It was to be engraved, but
hears anything
the world
New Orleans
of
of
| the past,
i who
i nowadays one seldom
the Kind, 1
getting more practical.
Times - Democrat,
Stippose is
A CUBAN SQUIRREL HUNT,
Sharpshooiers.
“The
Know; they had
cert piteh so long tl
and
like
the
y for
Sars, ag
HATrD-2 O01
arg } 3
WOrs
should
BULOTron
the Tx
. FEE
"1
gyras
ions
aly
an
After t
be known
among the other soldiers.”
And t colonel
through a labyrinth of
Cuban campaign, telling
have appeared in
and
more interesting, vastly, than any pub
and
1 . angel
as ti squirrel
along
the
that
COrTres
rambled
yarns
stories
hie
of
never the
which
pondents’ reports were
the grim humor of war.
An Old Woman's Needie Work.
Mrs. M. A. Haggard is the name of
an industrious old lady who resides in
White Cloud. She is now approach
ing her eighty-fourth birthday, Re
cently she an interview to the
local paper, from which
as follows:
“Shen 1
bor made
gave
we
was od years old a neigh
Bghit of my undertaking a
cotnmon log cabin quilt, and said |
would never live to finish It. This was
very amusing to me, so 1 resolved to
keep a lst of my nopecessary needle
work from that date. Besides my
common sewing and housework-—-and
I mio a great reader-—thiz is a list of
work done by me in the past thirty
years: Serap quilts piecesd, containing
from 500 fo almost SL.000 separate
pleces, 112: quilted quilts, 39; embroi-
dered bedepreads, 10: embroidered pil-
low shams, 5; embroidered head rests,
6: embroidered and tufted sofa cush-
fons, 21: embroldersd doilies, 67: em.
broldered splashers, 2: embroidered
nightgown sets, 6; knitted bedspreads,
1: knitted dollies, 18; knitted toilet
seta, 6: knitted lamp mats, 28: knitted
hats, 2; knitted edging, yards, 59; knit
ted pulse warmers, pairs, 20; knitted
chair wsearfs, 6; knitted shoulder
capes, 4; Knitted shawls, 1; knitted
stockings, pairs, 117; koitted mittens,
pairs, 47; rag carpet, yards, 125; reg
rugs, 27,
“1 am not through with my work
yet. Besides the above list, T have a
large box of embroidered things that
I have done since my last birthday,
which was In April. and I expect to
do a great deal more.” Kansas City
Jourpal, .
“I think,” he replied, with a comical
wink, “that I could get mnlong with a
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The aristocracy of China and #paln
will agree that it has been a very hard
year for boy monarchs,
A medieal writer in India decinres
that segregation of patients, the only
effective way of dealing with the
that they prefer to die by the million
rather than submit to It.
The latest Chicago improvement is a
postoflice physician, He js
a salary of $1,700 per year for services
to receive
# breakdown.
There is a certain striking similarity
between the way Dewey did things ia
Manila Bay and way Kitchener
did things in the Soudan. Both anni.
hilated the foe before them; both have
shown themselves be consummate
diplomatists in dealing with the third
party, who would make himself obnox
the
to
IOUS,
Denmark makes a clear distinction
between the thriftless and the
able poor. The
English paupers,
| Cross on workhouse tm
the
respect
former are treated like
The Iatter
«shold, If
rang
if too fee
neved
dest]
Hs
ble
“is
tute, pension
L Of
themselves,
n old-ag
they
they
+ home
excinl
Has rag
» Hobson!
ile
* repairs
®OO0n
preval
{ 65 pr
Here's 1
{ should ask
i
’ 1 hiven 1
gingls iis Deen Jost
The
ded Tor.
knew how
marines
wen pros and in
addition thes }
in battle
of themselves
ie greatest
officers deserve £1
and
have
the fine showing they
The auxiliary cruisers did thelr work
well while the war lasted, and are now
banded back to their proper business
of carrying passengers to and fro
across the Atlantic, They have clear
Iy demonstrated thelr utility Ax an ar:
of the naval service in time of need
and vessels of their class will never be
wanting in such emergencies, It wil}
probably be long before they and oth
ers like them are a
they are always on call and
made ready for the service of war,
peace they pay thelr way with no
strain on Uncle Ram's pocketbook
which It cannot well afford.
The stubborn Britisher who was
prosecuted more than «€ixty times for
refusing to have
nated was given a testimonial benefit
the other evening by other stabboran
anti-vaceinationists This small but
easily
to the use of bovine virus, has, at last,
brought about the consideration of a
“oouscience clause” to be inserted in
the vaccination act, Tloze who are
against the use of virus ave preparsd
from vaccination,
by several medical experts, and it
seems probable that the law will no
longer force vaccinatios) on any one
who is conscientiously «pposed to the
introduction of the polsin into the sys.
tem.
Professor Mark H. Liddell points out
an alleged danger in the “Atlantic”
when he says: “lI would not say that
we have already lost Shakespeare, or
that we shall lose Shakespeare within
the space of a generation. What 1
would say is that we can lose Shakes.
peare, and more easily, too, than we
think. We English-speaking people
have already been advised to abandon
Chancer—in a journal, it is true, whose
advice is not usually worth taking, but
such straws show the way the current
sete, Perhaps it will be some time be.
fore any om will boldly tell us to
give up Shakespeare and thud show
that Shakespeare is already
ture, that we have lost Bpenser as pop-
ular Hterature, that we are losing Mil.
ton as popular lHterature, how shall we
ultimately escape losing Bhakespeare?’
Where does the real peril come in}
There has been a new and magnificent
edition of Chaucer brought out re
cently, Critical works about Shakes
peare are as plentiful as ever, It §
formances of Shakespeare in our thea
tres as formerly. But may this not
be owing to the fact that we have pos
n Shakespearean actor or act
ress? asks the New York Sun,
great
The Germans have a military phrase
which Is
Archibald Forbes,
very expres
the noted war
it as
defines meaning
ed from him as the crowning result o
moral and professic
This “fire-discipline,”
assiduous,
for tne
all
shoulder”
that it is
seek
old
nen
idea necessary
soldier to “eover” at ink=,
Under the
principle,
by tl
“shoulder to
vere supported morally
ie sense of comradeship with s
ie
with © they touched elbows,
of th
i
individual is
viiom
in
attack.”
men
but ow, 1h new
the
day %
swarm
thrown on own
isd ipl
more
ir FesOUTrees
and unless thoronghly ned Is
more pro
“eover.'
§ ' rele
2 £5: { as
presence
dange
16. in Austria 14
pg Ru and
8 and in Italy 8. These fig
££
WH the
tty more interesting than it
with all due reference to
We speak only for
but what
fre inl
Sex
1 NStates:
:
less
And the
1 Le
Gif
doubt
truth i
convict
where
iit to
to convict
The net resu
therefore, of the
between
is
in a jury trial
iy a fair criterion
of criminal
i
bias the
vision
SOXeR,
The Latest from Moscow.
After writing his peace pronuncia-
mento, Emperor Nicholas witnessed
the unveiling of the monuthent to
Czar Alexander II. He was accom
panied by two brigades of lancers, a
of artillery, and four regi
ments of dismounted dragoons. Twen-
back the crowd.
tecently he witnessed a
view of the troops, $0.4000 veterans
and 40,000 mobilized recruits. The em.
peror was accompanied by the lmper-
inl guard and the Sihobeloff Legion. In
the afternoon he witnessed the lay-
ing of the foundation stone of the
Alexander 111 fine arts musenm, Ten
squadrons of Cossacks cleared the
streets, The emperor was accompa
nied by the Romanoff body guard 1.000
strong, the Polish light cavalry, the
Malikoff hussars, the Cparina dra.
goons, and seventeen regiments of the
grand re
guarded by eight battalions of sappers
At the ball in the evening the Krem-
lin was surrounded by $4,000 Circas:
sian and Georgian picked recruits,
During the intermission on the dance
program Nicholas was approached by
a courtier of great popularity.
“Is it true, your majesty.” he smik
ingly inquired, ‘that you desire to re
dace the size of the army?”
Nicholas looked through the open
window across the sea of glittering
bayonets,
% A
The Use of a Hairpin.
When a Lewiston (Me) motorman
found his trolley car stalled two miles
from the city, as the result of a fuse
burning out, and no wire 21
nd to repair the damage, he bor
vowed a hairpin from one of the fe
tons
C—O A Ss MAA
THE KEYSTONE STATE.
—
Latest News Gleaned from
Various Parts
———
FARM SCHOOL OPENS.
Founder of the Unique Ipstitutica Me
views First Year's Work-—Splendid
Results Achieved in Pace of Great
Difficulties Other Interesting News
Items,
The friends of the National Parm School
gathered at Doylestown Ly the hundred from
Philadelphia to attend the second anmual
meeting that marks the close of the holidays
and opening of another school year. This
unique institution was opened about « year
6g0, and has enjoyed a most successfal term
under the presidency of Dr. Joseph Kraus-
kopt, its founder. Atthe business session
Dr. Krauskopt was reslscted president, The
other newly elected officers are: Viee-nvesi.
dent, M. H. Lychten; treasurer, M. M. Neow-
wan; directors, Harry E. Kohn, Adsiph
Elchbolz, Herman Jonas, Isaac Bllverman,
Balph Blum, Herman Blumenibal, Sam D.
Lit, Howard A. Loeb, Beojamin F, Heller,
Mano! Kaufman, Ely K. Solig and Arthur
Rosenberg, The total income for the year
was $0852.80 and the expenses $6460.74,
leaving a balance of $8392.06 to be added to
the These figures do not include
the #1000 expended for the erection of the
Bose Krauskop! memorial green-houses,
which were fittingly dedicated in the after-
noon, The memorial address was made by
Bev. Dr. Honry Berkowitz. Adolph Eicb-
boiz accepted the building on behalf of the
farm school. Dr. Krauskop! sald in part
“Though this the second annua!
meeting of the Farm Bek
must be remembered that the “secon
piles to the association and not the
#chool. By right this ought to be desig-
nated us the first annual meeting of the Na-
School, for it is oniya year
spital,
is ealled
Ws
National i, 5
ap
*
to
its puplis, What bas been accomplished in
the one-half year iu field work you will hear
from the head master of the school. Our
fields themselves, as well 88 our barn, will
likewise report to you what has been
achieved during the pastspriog sod sum-
mer, There has beer an additional work
accomplished, which we cannot show, but
which, In importance, possibly outweighs
other barvests, garnered in durine the
mouths, I refer to the improve
on the land itself. Olid
had to be repaired, and pew ones had
uiit, tons of stone had to be removed,
# had to be dog out, underbrush had
» be cleared, roads bad to be bulls,
bad to dug, the orchards had
cieaned out, the dairy and stable and other
outhouses had to be repaired, a water reser
voir with a capacity of 7.00 gallcas had to
be bulit, thers was grading, digging, buiid-
ig to be done, all requiring much bard
work and exacting a grest amount of time
otherwise expended,
But it was a plopeering experience which
wiii stand some of our boys in good stead,
some day when required to do pioneer work
for themselves, either on farms of thelr own
or a8 heads of sgrieultural settiements,
Our farm today is, by reason of these im-
provements, worth several thousand dollars
more this year than it was a year ago, Peo
ple are forever advoeating the necessity of
relieving the congested city centers by sost-
tering some of that overcrowded and unem-
ployed population over the country, and by
f8ix
fences
Oo be
trenches
be in be
tare, It is generally scknowledged that
herein lies one of the most practical and
beneficial solutions of the vexing slum and
problem. Here a practical at.
f the sup-
port given it Is an indication of the sincerity
pursuit of agriculture as one of the solutions
of one of the social problems, then we fear
The good to
by this laostitution is to serve
benefit of ali, It ought, thereloge, to
comand the support of all.”
Stricken With Small-Pox,
The small-pox brought to Phoenixville
from Porto Rico, by Jobs and Samuel
Wisnd, members of Battery C, is spreading
to an alarming extent in that vicinity and a
general epidemic Is now feared. Besides
four members of the Wiand family, balf a
dozen others are down with small-pox.
When the Wiand brothers were firet taken
sick the family physician prosounced the
disease to be chicken-pox. Becores of neigh-
bors visited the Wiands, never realizing the
danger they were ip, and now many of them
are sick with the disease, All the churches
and schools of the neighborbood bave been
closed, and the health officers at Phoenix.
ville, Spring City and Royerstord are doing
their utmost to keep the small-pox from
spreading.
Little Girl's Awful Fate,
A fatal aceldent occurred at the flour
mills of William H. Smale, of Derbytown.
Mr. Smale bad gone into the mill for some
purpose and bis 1l.yearold daughter Maud
followed kim. She was looking at some ma-
chinery when in some manner ber dross be.
came entangied In some shalting, which was
making about 400 revolutions a minute, In
the twinkling of an eye she was hurled
round apd round with great force, Belore
assistance could be given her body was
trightfully mangled. Her neck was broken
and both her feet and one hand were tora
from her body.
Train Fatally Injures a Babe,
While Alice Kemper, the &-year-oid
daughter of D, G. Kemper, was playing on
Lemon Street crossing of the Peunsylvania
Rafirond, at Latucaster, she became bewlle
dered and ran into the milk train which was
passing at the time. he received injuries
that will prove fatal,
Costly Limekiln Fire.
Willam P. David's limekilns and sheds in
Uppes Merion Towzship, near Bridgeport,
wore ontirely destroyed by fire, Several
freight oars on a siding were burned. The
total joss wae about $5,000,
Brothers Mest After Many Years,
w
years, In 1560 Richard enlisted in the Union
Army, and nothing was beard of him wu
F. A. Dodson learned a few weeks ago
hie was in Chicago.
Tota 31. Bb HH. Shagar.
ohn ugar, a lending merchant
Iabanon, died i
after an lilners of