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ALWAYS Take into con -ideratio 1 ibat mom v save! is SH good ns money .!■< The ben way to have monev i t buy if'•« >«l goods the ri, lr price. The only leason tha: we handle only >:'>(,(!• : lire'. <)i.ality and tv II th< mut verj I price.-. We h'.ve tak. ■> uuil-nul i-.nrc to provide fiver;, th. new I>> Hut* and Goodf i «hi - Beatsoo, and an we have control of n.uny es-peciiilly go|.eo long as our country shall endure, and | to her ha.lumber by the gen tle, ceaseless movement of a large fan, while ho lay still, white and motion less, his respiration becoming every moment more soft, and natural, until nearly daybreak, when he turned over on his unwounded side, quietly opened his eyes and wonderlngly asked, as he g:.zed on the vision by hi > bed: "What has happened? When; am I? Have 1 been hurt? Ah! I remember now —that last charge!" The girl's voice trembled with joy as she answered: "You are in the hospital at I'rederieksVmr.—. You have been here six day!-; but, now that the fever is gone, you will soon get well. You mui»t not talk much, though, just now, unless you wish to dictate a few lines to your friends." "Oh! yes, yes," eagerly said the young man. "Uo please write a short letter for rne at once." Quickly bringing pen, iuk and paper, and saying: "You must be very brief, because the doctor forbids all exertion until he has seen you again," the young lady waited for him to begin. "What is the date?" !»• inquired, and being told, dictated as follows: "FitEDEßicKsncno, May 14, 1104. ".My dear Mother: "1 got a bullet through my right shoulder on the second day of the Wil derness fight. I am now in the mili tary hospital here and will soon bo able to carry a rille again. My old schoolfellow picked me up, but he was hurried off next day, and maybe has not had a chance to write you. l)on't IK; uneasy about me. Lots of good lady nurses here, and I'll soon lie well. "Your loving son, HEBHKUT." "And now, Herbert, tell me the ad dress," said the lovely amanuensis, reaching for an envelope. "The address—oh, yes, it Is Mrs. Frances Leslie, -10 Forty-fourth street, New York City." The words were barely uttered when the girl sprang from her seat with a glad cry and then, in full sight of all the night-watchers, bent deliberately over tin- cot ar:*l gently kissed the boy's smooth forehead. "Oh, thanlt God!" she exclaimed; "you are Herbert Leslie! lam Miriam Alnslie, your friend Fred's sister. No wonder I felt ho much interest in you! Fred has often told me of your mutual friendship." This was, naturally, a most joyful surprise to Herbert, and the next day, when lie was allowed to talk freely, he told Miriam all he himself knew of Fred's movements and begged for further information, lint she could only su.v that her brother's regiment was now almost const antly lighting and that she had not heard from him for weeks. Before mailing Herliert's letter Miriam bad Inclosed one from herself giving a more full account of bis condi tion and assnrlng his mother that he should not want f■.r anything; but on the fifth day thereafter Mrs. U-nlie her self arrived to take charge of her boy, and she and became at once great friends. Many a poor fellow, far from home and kindred, looked towards Leslie's cot with longing eyes as the two women hovered about him in lov ing ministration; but none of these for lorn ones were in any measure neglect ed, though it was impo'>lblo to i.upply what they most pined for—ths tender can; i,t their very own flesh and blood. Of all pluses in which to study the pathetic side of that ghastly evlJ, war, a great military hospital, filled with wounded men, in sorely the bent. When Mrs. Leslie first arrived, and saw lier only son stretched helplessly | upon his bed, she jjavo way, lu spite of j j * FTLKR. P .Y.. FRIDAY. A. I GU ST 18.1 893. e herself, to a flood of tears; but the y . young soldier was so bright and hope e | ful. so perfectly content with his lot, Ii ' ere-- 4 ?n «o f-.r r.s it kept l::a out of a the field, so sure of the speedy triumph of the union army and. withal, so getwi f " inely rejoiced at her I scnee, that she -, soon ceased to feel a : t but pride and f joy in her hero and his brave comrades, for each of whom sho had a cheerfnl s word and that sweet sympathy which i the daughters of America have ever r j shown to her patriotic defenders. 1 In less than a week Herbert was re -1 moved to the convalescent ward and from under Miss Ainslie's carc: but it 1 was astonishing how often in the course of each day the young lady had 1 occasion to consult her new-found r fri.-nd. his mother, and how much her - visits seemed to aid in the youth's re > covery. Indeed, this progressed so very 1 rapidly that Herbert feared it was F "too fa-t to be wholesome," and he felt I sure of the fact when, a fortnight after - wards, he received an unlimited fur lough and was obliged to leave with his ; mother for New York. But there was no help for it. ?>lrs. Leslie was well able to maintain and care for her son in ] her own home and was too conscien tio-' , to allow him to occupy, longer than absolutely necessary, a place more j urgently required for another. Both took leave of sweet Miriam Ainslie i with something more than regret, but • those were days when the women of ; our land had to steel their hearts to ] suffering, and strengthen the hands of j fathers, husbands, brothers, lovers, sons by their own sublime example of I endurance. August?, ISC4, an order was published ! appointing Maj-Gen. Philip 11. Sheri ! dan commander of the new middle de partment. composed of the late depart i ments of West Virginia, Washington and Susquehanna, and September 5, our i friend Herbert Leslie, now restored to ! perfect health, once more left home, j with his mother's blessing, to rejoin the army. liut having been all his life ac customed to horses, and in fact a su perb rider, he now made application to be transferred to the cavalry corps, which, under Wilson, along with Tor bert's division, had lately been sent by Grant to Sheridan, who was then con fronting the southern forces under Gen. Early. This request was readily granted and Herbert joined in time to see his first service in this branch at Opequan Creek, where, September 13, Gen. Wilson, in a brilliant reconnois sance, struck the flank of Kershaw's I division and captured nearly two hun dred men of the Eighth South Carolina regiment. In this little affair our lately joined trooper behaved with conspicuous gal lantry, and here a most singular inci dei occurred. The enemy's Eighth 5v ith Carolina had .been pretty well broken up and many of its men, as stated, made prisoners, when Herbert saw, at a short distance away, a tall young officer standing alone and de fending himself with desperate cour age against tho combined attack of three federal horsemen, whose sum mons V> surrender lie answered only by a shout of defiance, while with hissword flashing around his head like a circle of living light, he had, so far, parried the blows of his assailants, who hu manely seemed more intent upon dis abling than slaying their gallant foe. Hut when tho fierce southerner, by a sudden thrust, had hurled one of his enemies to the ground, the other two spurred savagely on, and tho unequal fight must have resultuii iu the speedy death of tho rash confederate, had not something familiar in the peculiar, light ning-like play of his weapons attracted the attention of Herbert, who dashed up just in time to ward off a blow which would have cleft his skull in twain. Then, for the first time getting a fair view of the young man's face, ho almost dropped his own saber in astonishment as ho shouted: "My God! Sydney Temple, Is it really you? Surrender, man, surrender to your old friend. Further defense is mere tui c'ule." "And who, sir, are you who call yourself my friend?" said the panting ,i%#x DEREXDITRA UIMSKIJT WITH OESPERATE COURAGE. lieutenant, while all swords rested in in suspense. "Why, Syd," replied Herbert, In hia well remembered schoolboy voice, "don't you know your old classrnato and fencing pupil, Herbert Leslie?" "Good heavens, it is Leslie sure enough! I would not have known you from Adam in this rig," exclaimed Temple, grasping bis captor's hand; "I'll surrender to you, Herbert, though a moment ago I would havo preferred death to captivity." "It's all the fortune of War, my dear fellow. Don't bo downhearted about it. You're sure to be exchanged soon, and meantime you can givo your parole and we'll have a good talk over old times." But the opportunity for this proved brief indeed, an exchange of prisoners lieirig made the very next day, and tho foemcn-frlends parted, to meet again— when and where? However, each had time that name evening to tell the other his own short history since they last met in New York. "How in the world, Sydney, did you ever manage to get down south?" in quired Herbert, In the course of their conversation. "By a very simple, though rather ex pensive, process," laughingly replied Temple. "Early last March I took pas sage on a Cunardcr to Liverpool aud there got on board an English blockade runner, was duly landed near Charles ton, at once mado my way home, In a few days thereafter received a lieuten ant's commission aud joined the confed erate army about tho same time you enlisted in that of the north." "Aud your people, Sydney?" "Well, Herbert, you know that my father died years ago and only my mother and sister Sylvia, whom you ionco saw at tho old school, are left. They havo removed from Charleston and are now residing In a largo country house, which we have lately bought, a few miles south of Richmond. Little Sylvia has grown into a tall and really beautiful girl—" "I am sure she has," interjected the listener— "and is a great comfort to my moth er, who fortunately, has an am ple incoir.e from funds safely invest ed in Paris, but she spends nearly all of it in assisting our soldiers, her whole time and my sister's also being devoted to that work, and since thousands of other southern ladies are doing the same, yon can hardly wonder, Herbert, that we fight so well" "You do indeed fight well, Sydney. One of our troopers remarked to-day, with more force than elegance: 'Them fean-lookin 4 rebs fights like ravin', dou ble distilled,ring-tailed hell-eats;*but we won't touch on these qnestions. Each of us if- firmly fixed in his principles, and perhaps in after years we shall meet simply as Americans only to re call this terrible war as a huge blunder on the part of some one." "All right, my boy, but meantime what has become of Fred Ainslie? You say he 'joined' with you. I did not think that Fred, tliongh he was a dear, ■ If 'low. would ever have voluntar : danger." "A . 'ess he fought well in his verv 1- j - o-ltle. I have told you how he hunted me up after the Wilderness fight. I have not seen him since then, but hear that he has never yet been wounded and is making a good record in h!s regiment." "I am very glad to know it 1 should like to see Fred, and, after meeting yon so strangely to-day. I should not be surprised to run against him, too, some time. His sister must be a brick—don't blush, old fellow, it was through no fault of yours that you happened to be placed in her ward. Just imagine that pretty little butterfly, Jessie Glynn, we boys used to admire so much, going into a hospital as nurse!" "Yet she has done that very thing Syd! I was never so astonished in my life as when on furlough in Xew York 1 went to look her up one day and found that she had entered the service of the sanitary association. She is at this moment in Fredericksburg hospital with Miss Ainslie, and all those other blessed angels. We cannot always ex actly guess what a merry little whole souled American girl trill do when the pinch comes." "Bravol for 'Jessie, the flower of Dumblanc,' as we used to call her. She ought to have been a south—, but I'm getting upon dangerous ground again. Anyway, it's a grand thing, Herbert, that both sides can honestly glory in their womankind. Everything must come right in the end, if only for their sakes." "God grant it!" reverently replied the soldier of the north. "And do you know, Leslie, where that hulking tyrant, Tom White, is now—you remember him'.'" "Rather! and I fancy that he is not likely to forget you in a hurry. Tom turned out as bullies generally do. About a year ago he used to strut around among his cronies bragging what he would do when he volunteered, which was always to be 'next week,' and then when matters began to look serious he skipped over to Canada to avoid the draft! His father was so cut up about it that he actually joined the Fifty-ninth New York himself, and the last time 1 heard of Tom he was follow ing the peaceful calling of a billiard marker iu Montreal." * "A quite congenial occupation, I should say," returned Sydney, and so the friends wore away the hours until, all too soon, the time of parting came anil they went their several ways to what each religiously deemed his duty. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Revenue. Winterbloom—Well, you may beat rne at poker, but I'll get even with you. I'm going to let my wife order a hun dred-dollar gown. Van Winkle —What's that g'ot to do with me? Winterbloom —You wait until your wife sees it arid you'll find out.--Judge. At (he Circus* Judson— I hope the performance won't lief, in for a good while yet. Nurse—Why, Judson, dear? Judson Why, because then it will be longer until tho show is over.—Har per's Bazar. Society Kpiiiode. '"I want somebody to show me where to unload this coal," said the grimy looking' man at the kitchen door. "You needn't ask mo about it," re torted the young woman. "I don't have anything to do with unloading coal. I'm the kitchen lady." "I can't help that," he rejoined. "I'm the coal gentleman and the father of three kitchen ladies, one laundry lady and one cash lady, and if you don't show mo where to put this coal I'll call the woman of the house." "I —I'll show you, sir," sho humbly replied, leading the way to tho coal house.—Chicago Tribune. "Cloth!" A story is told of a littlo girl who went shopping one flay with her moth er. On her return home, after having visited some of the large shops in New York, she seemed to be grappling with some very difficult problem. On being asked what she was musing about, sho said: "I wasonly thinking." "Of what, my dear?" askod her mother. "I was only thinking that it was funny how many littlo boys there wero named Cash."—Harper's Young People. KcononiUtl Kslraritgttiice. Mrs. Savingcash—See, dear, here's a whole dozen of lovely pink lamp shades I bought to-day. Mr. Savingcash Why, wo haven't a lamp iu the house and don't need one. Mrs. Savingcash—Yes; but I got them at such a bargain!— Chicago Record. _________ Counted fur Three. Florence—That Miss Howard must be very popular. She said she bail three proposals in one evening. Bertha That's just one of her tricks. I'll bet that it was that stuttering Tom Burton, and he always says everything over three times.—Boston Globe. Ill* Hyinptoiim. "I am troubled at times, doctor," said tho caller, "with a rush of blood to tho head." "The symptoms," replied the doctor, after making a brief examination, "in dicate a rush of whisky to the nose." — Chicago Tribune. Til UN 111: CIIANIiKD THK SUBJECT. m it- : j* t\ y i H LjJ L t ) ■ i ißkej ('holly And now that you've finished school, Miss Daisy, 1 oppose you conju gate lovo in several languages. Miss Daisy —No, but 1 can decline "you" in English. - Brooklyn Life. A QUEER FAMILY. Five Eccentric Men Who Lead Very Strange Lives. They Will Not Permit a Woman to Cros< Their Threshold Their Money Ia nil Deposited in m Strange N.ifr. At the mouth of a coal bank in Xes shannock township, six miles from New Castle, Pa., stands a little two roomed cabin, built mainly of logs and plastered with mud. The roof is made of clapboards and the one door of the cabin is a plank that swings on a pair of rude wooden hinges. Everything about the cabin has an air of antiquity, says the New York Advertiser. The occupants are miners and their appearance is in keeping with their surroundings. The father, John Lewis, is a widower, seventy-three yuars of age. a little stooped by his continuous work in the mine, but still enjoying good health. There is nothing about his appearance to indicate eccentricity, except his long beard, which reaches below his waist. While working he keeps it tied in a knot, and on coming out of the coal bank his first attention is given to his beard, and he never ceases washing and scrubbing at it un til it is as white as snow. For over fifty odd years a razor has never come upon his face and he regards his whisk ers as almost sacred. Mr. Lewis lias four sons, who are no less odd in appearance than himself. They are John and Edward and Georpe and William, two sets of twins, aged about fifty years. None of the boys has ever shaved, and as they are almost exact counterparts it is next to impos sible for even those intimate with the family to distinguish them apart. This curious family is of Welsh extraction, but the boys were all born in New Cas tle. Their mother dying shortly after the birth of George and William, Mr. Lewis bought the coal bank in Nesshan nock township, put up the above described and removed thither. For one year he had a housekeeper take care of the children, but since that time no woman has ever crossed the threshold of his humble home. Mr. Lewis has an aversion to their society, and when lie makes his month ly visit to New Castle for supplies he buys at the stores located on the out skirts, acd if perchance he sees a woman on the sidewalk he will take the middle of the street. The sons very seldom visit town, and when they do always in company with their f :thcr, to whose side they cling more closely than a ten-year-old hoy. None of the family is able to read or write uud they are consequently very superstitious. They have no faith in banks and, although worth probably ten thousand dollars, hoard their money. The income from their coal bank is quickly changed into gold, to be deposited in their safe. This safe,ac cording to neighborhood gossip, would baffle the ing'euuity of the most expert bank robber. It consists of a stout iron box three feet square. This box is placed at the bottom of a well twelve feet deep located underneath the cabin. The well is filled with stone and from a trap door a common gas pipe three inches iu diameter leads to the box. Deposits in the safe are made by dropping the coins down the g'as pipe. The men never take anything 1 out and a coin once dropped there is supposed to be salted down for life. There is said to be three pounds of dynamite secreted in the well which can be tAuchcd off by a secret fuse at any time in ease of an attack by rob bers. A knowledge of this fact has doubtless kept the Lewis family free from the notorious gang that has been committing depredations in Lawrence county during the last year. The fam ily is not known to have any relatives in the country and who will get the contents of the iron box and their real estate is a matter of much speculation. They have no intimate friends, their dealings with the world being confined to selling coal, and in this connection it might be mentioned that five large dogs are used by the men in hauling the coal from the bank. These dogs are treated as members of the family, sharing the same roof and eating the same victuals. Father and sons take week about at cooking. They do their own baking and washing and three poundsofsugar.it is said, lasts them nearly a month. Every member of tho family is an inveterate smoker. None of them is ever sick and they attribute their good health to the use of tobacco. Evolution of the Neglige Shirt. When the neglige shirt first became popular, says the Philadelphia Record, it was a flannel or silk shirt with a soft collar and no cuffi to speak of. Its object was to relieve a man of wearing starched bosoms and collars anil cuffs In hot weather, when they are notonly uncomfortable but likely to wilt down from perspiration and give the wearer a slovenly appearance. Now, however, the only difference is found in the color. The neglige shirt is as stiff asa board and the collar even stiffer; so are the cuffs. In fact it isn't neglige at all. The same thing applies to the russet shoe. When It first came out its chief advantage lay In the assertion that It wasn't necessary to have it shincd every day or so. Some one, however, had to invent a patent polish for the neglige shoe, and it costs more to shine that than it docs a reg-ular black shoe. The firifcreful Olrli of slum. The Siamese girls are the most graceful women in the world. Their joints arc very supple, and a part of their education is made up of bending their joints back and forth to make them so. They are all short haired, aneinj» constructed could yfK I IZr: I tyisiP i FIG. t. be nailed up against the building high enough away from the top of the poul try house to be sure of the pigeons not being in danger of cats or rats. Put it up 4 or ."> feet from the top of »ha roof of the henhouse. You cau reach it by means of a ladder placed upon the roof of the henhouse, and will not incon venience your getting up to inspect the nests of the birds within. The box should be (5 feet long by 3 feet wide by 8 feet at the top and 2 teet at the I bottom. This makes a roomy house where two pairs of breeders can bo nicely accommodated. The top has a pair of hinges to enable you to raise or ; lower it. Roofing paper ean be tacked upon the ' lid so a-s to throw off the rain perfectly. Two pairs of pigeons will be enough to j care for at first: the young ones can be ' put in a room not occupied in the barn T~r i ! i c» l—!—I : ! N fur/rAnc/ . \ "Q j I I I II! I I 1 —i—l i v tt'STo > POO* , 5' 7 / '| . % \ vvwpow ~ f/n -5 or *ow shed until you find a market for them. It is best after they learn to eat and fiy about to keep them away from the old birds; they do much bet ter and do not annoy them when they are setting on eggs again. The plan is clcariy shown in Fig. 0 and the coop in Figs 1 and 3. The former gives an Idea of the construction, the latter the details of the interior. In order to make all the room possible on the ground floor, raise the nests up two feet from tho ground in the darkest part of the coop A wiudow and an entrance form the front, a di>or on the outside—a place to enter the coop by. Tho length of the building is seven feet, width five and one-half feat, hight six feet at Ujp and four feet at base, giving a gcxxl slant to the roof. Roosts, dust box, water fountain and feed trough are provided. It will ac commodate five or six hens and a male, not more. Learn to handle a small flock, then you will have experience when you branch out in a larger way. —J. W. Claughrey, in Farm and'tiome. THE POULTRY YARD. TIIKKK is to be a grand poultry and pigeon display at the world's fair, Chi cago, Oetdber Iff to 28. Br keeping coops and house* disin fected by dry earth or plaster an epi demic of cholera may bo avoided WHEN you have the sprayer on your back step into the poultry house ami spray it with tho Bordeaux mixture. Spray roof, walls and floor thoroughly. WORMS burrow deeply In a dry time. When this cheap food supply is cut oft from the flock they will appreciate an occasional ration of meat or cut green bone. To KICK!' fowls in a yard In tunmer on an exclusive diet of grain hi inex cusable cruelty. A partial diet of grass and vegetables is vastly better and cheaper. EUUN arc a better aod cheaper food than pork for this hot weather. Farm ers can raise the price of eggs by using more of them on their own tables and promote health at thu same time. WK do not recommend our readers to depend on "a lining of tarred paper to prevent llco from harboring in a poul try house. I'ut the paper outside, use whitewash and kerosene Inside, and dry llmo or pyrethruui in nests and lice will uot trouble the flock, abd the house will be protected by the paper from the weather.—Farm Journal. To Prevent Poultry DlwaiH. There arc but few diseases of fowls In summer. Cholera is very rare, as in many cases the disease said to be cholera is something else, roup and in digestion being frequently mistaken for It Give fresh air at night, with plenty of fresh water during the day. The doors and windows of the poultry house should be open both day and night, and if nn open shed can be used for roosting it will be found superior to the poultry house, lirain will cause bowel disease if fed too liberally durLng the warm weather. Popular. Amy—How does Olive cotno to get so ■ntJiy proposals of marriage? Hudson—She always takes her hat off in the theater. Truth. FKKIGIfTICI> WITH I.OVK. He—l cau't really express my feel ings. She—lndeed! Well, if they are as bulky as you are yourself you had bet ter send them by freight.—DllMl a Week. _______ IMv*rslnn. Wool— I've found out why barbers keep up such a clack while they have you in the chair. Van Pelt WeUT Wool-To distract your attention j from the way they comb your hair.— I Truth. CONVENIENT BARN. Excellently Adapted for tha Keeping ol sheep and Dairy Caw*. In the sccompanyingillustratlons are given the elevation and the interior arraugement of a farm barn that probably gives the most room for the money of any that could be devised. Its square construction and flat roofs permit all the hay and fodder to be placed above the first floor, thus leav ing this entire tloor free for the quartering of stock, while the cellar below can be utilized for the storing of roots, which should form no inconsider able part of the feed consumed bv the stock, and for the storage of the man ure, the root cellar being, of course. Kit;. It — PIfBSPKCTIVK VIKW OF BARN, separated from the manure pit by a j tight, wall. A perspective view of the barn is shown in Fig. 1. Such a barn is excellently adapted for the keeping of sheep, three sides of it Wing devoted to the pens for these, while the feeding of all the sheep can be done from the main floor; or, it can be very well made to serve the purpose of a dairy barn, with a silo in one corner, extending from a cemented floor in the cellar to the hay and fodder floor. When arranged for sheep, the pen can be advantageously arranged, u« shown in Fig. 2, each pen having communication with the neighboring pen, and also with the feeding floor. An inside feeding rack may be used, iuto which hay and other fodder can be pitched directly from the feeding floor, and this, in some respects, is the best plan to pursue, for it permits a tight m 13 i E-? < 5 n* jf *=! | s I ;■*» If! FIO. a— FI.O«XPLAH FIQ. 3.— FLOOBPLAN FOB SHEEP BARN. FOB DAIRY BARN. board fence between the feeding floor and tbo pens, to a height of three feet or so. thus keeping the lambs from coming through from the pens to the feeding floor and soiling the floor and hay. But if the flocks are fed directly from this floor, let a perpendicular opening be provided for each sheep to feed through, rather than the long hor izontal opening provided by the re moval of one board from tho partition, which is so commonly seen, but which necessitates the wearing off of all the wool above thesheeps' necks, to the loss of the wool and to the sheeps' manifest disfigurement These upright openings can be made by removing at least two boards from the partition, and using slats, or rounds just far enough apart to admit a sheep's head and neck with the greatest comfort If the barn is to be used for dairy purposes, an interior arrangement, such as is seen in Fig. 3, will be found convenient In either ease hay arid fodder is placed in tho second story by driving the hay carts into the central feeding floor and rais ing their contents through a central "well," or large opening in the center of the second story floor by means of a hay fork, this well being properly pro tected by a tight wall around It four feet or more hi height To make it im possible for children to fall through such an opening, even though protect ed by a high wall, the opening may be covered, when not In use, by a hinged grating.—l). Worcester, In Agricultur ist LIVE STOCK NOTES. Sr.K that the horse collars are kept soft and free from dirtor sore shoulders will be sure to result KEEP lambs growing well during the first year by giving them the choicest posture with some grain. GIVE the w»»rk horses plenty of grain food with anough protein or muscle forming food to keep them in condition. GIVE sheep a handy shelter into which they can go In case of storms. A wet fleece Is one of the sheep's worst enemies. GIVK calves mill; which has been brought to bl»>od heat Cold milk, sour inllk and too large quantities of it at a time are s