THE CITIZEN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1000. fflU I A LETTER BROUGHT TILDY How a Message of Love Was Borne to a Lonely Heart. By FRANK H. SWEET. Copyright, 1903, by American Tress Asso ciation. Lottie nud Jnck were nt the postof fice when the letter with lis sprawling, foreign looking address, facing up ward, was handed out through the window. They laughed In a surprised way as they examined It, while the postmaster watched them through the window with n smile upon his usually Bolemn face. "I've been postmaster fifteen years," he remarked, "and It's the llrst time fjiat name's turned up to my recollec tion. Do you think It's a mistake''" Lottie drew closer to her brother nnd scrutinized the missive half anx iously. There was 'Tlldy's' name lu unmistakable clearness, despite the blurred lines caused by thick ink and the long journey: "Miss Matilda Schneider." "Won't she be amazed?" Jack said slowly. "Won't she be tickled?" "Why, Jack!" his sister gravely In terposed. "You don't know whether the news Is good or bad. It may bo horrid news. Let's see the postmark." "Can't," said the postmaster from the window. "It's all blurred out. The Etamp is a German one." "Oh, isn't it funny-Tildy's having n letter!" the girl exclaimed, breaking Into another shrill little laugh. Then she added, "I wonder who It can be from." "The quickest way to know Is to run home and And out," Jack answered, "unless, of course, you wish to open it, which wouldn't exactly please Uncle Sam." Slyly winking at the postmas ter, he put the mysterious letter into his pocket and sauntered toward the door. On the threshold of the small build ing, which was both a store and post ofliee, ho paused. "If any more letters for Miss Schneider come today," he called to the postmaster, "please send them up." "Haw, haw, haw!" the old man laughed. Jack and his sister passed gayly out, Beoining to leave a tide of laughter bo hind them. They were sturdy, line looking young persons and walked with a free, graceful movement. The girl was of good height for one not yet sixteen years of age, but her brother's head reached considerably above her own. The light vehicle in which they had driven to town was waiting before the door, with white Dobbin tied to the post, resignedly tranquil. Perched upon the seat waited a Uttle five-year-old girl with flaxen hair. She wore a very white and milled iiS TILDY'S FACE LOOKED riTirULLV ST1IANGE. pinafore, and her mouth was wreathed with smiles. They all drove away, rather slowly, because old Dobbin was a little lame in one foot. The postmaster looked after the trio with a lazy Interest. "It's mighty lucky for them that there is a 'Miss Schneider,' " ho reflected, still smil ing. "If 'twa'n't for her they'd be three times orphans." The Wilton children were an unfail ing topic of sympathetic concern to their neighbors nnd friends. Their house was some distance from the village and was reached from the road by a grass grown driveway. Members of the family usually walked this path to save the aged Dobbin ex tra steps. Thus it happened when the gate was gained that Lottie and Aman da took the letter and went In search of Tlldy, while Jack drove directly to the stable. In the orchard back of the house Tlldy was discovered with their other sister, Rose a round faced, curly haired girl, older and larger than 'Amanda, though not so tall as Lottie. The German woman saw Lottie com ing under the boughs several rods away. She began to speak immediate lv without slighting her task. 'Do you want your sprigged muslin 'done up for the Miles party, or shall you wear your checked wool?" she fesked. Lottie eemed to be in doubt, for she stood silent beside the stooping figure with her hands behind her. "First, guess what I've got," sho said. Tlldy finished her task nnd stood erect once more, ano naa a strong, fine German face, browned by much contact with sun and wind, but the soft tints of youth had long since left It, nnd her brown hair, like her gown, was a trifle faded. "I don't know," she answered, smil ing. "Is it yours or Amanda's?" "Neither," returned the girl. "It is yours. Now guess what It is!" "It'th a letter!" screamed Amanda. Tlldy's eyes opened wider with a Blow astonishment. They were as blue as the cornflowers of her fatherland. "Why, there Isn't any one to write," she said. "Think!" Insisted Lottie. "Some rel ative, some" A sudden light broke over Tlldy's face, dimpling it and making it almost pretty for a moment. "I've got one relative," sho ventured softly. "He's a young brother. But he's In Ger many, nnd I never saw him. He doesn't write to me." Lottie ceased questioning nnd hand ed her the letter. "I guess you have heard from him," she surmised. "Per haps he Is coming to see you." Her last conjecture proved to bo a true one. Tlldy's brother was on the ocean even then. In a few days the ship that was bringing him would ar rive. Tlldy occupied a peculiar position in the Wilton home. She was not exact ly a servant and certainly not a mem ber of the family. When the children were robbed of both parents lu one short year It had been her presence, like a stanch sail, that had borne them through the troubled waters. Another letter came to Tlldy In a few days, but this one was addressed by another hand, and not a German one. It was written by the superin tendent of a great hospital in New York. Karl Schneider, Tlldy's broth er, had arrived In America very ill. The note gave no particulars, but re quested that Tlldy come to her broth er as quickly (ts possible. She read the letter in the linen closet, where Lottie found her a few moments later sitting on the floor with her face burled In her hands. The sight of her forlorn, motionless figure was a shock to the girl. Tlldy's face when she raised It looked pitifully strange. The Wiltons had seen it bright with smiles many times, but never tear stained. All through that afternoon, when the girls helped to get together the few possessions which Tlldy needed for the journey to her brother, sho seemed to their startled fancy another person. They were all conscious of a grave respect for her that they had not known before. A farmer who lived up the road had offered to drive Tlldy to the station. All the Wiltons hurried down the driveway with her and stood beside the stone wall when she went away. Not until the farmer, in his high bug gy, had taken her from view did re grets occur lo mar the peace of those left behind. "You might have driven her down yourself, Jack," Lottie said reproving ly as a cloud of dust faded in the dis tance. "You ought to have kissed her," he retorted, with a pang of indignation. Tildy, seated alone and feeling very sad, noticed that the cars were filled with good natural people returning from some excursion. The new scenes and the flying, unfamiliar landscape might have made this a red letter day in her career if her errand had been a happier one and her heart had been less anxious. Poor Tildy! The world seemed a very wide one as she hurried on and the strangers jostled her rudely and impeded her way when she timidly pushed through the great station. Hut at last she stood beside Karl's bed in a long, window doited room. Then the universe seemed bounded by the walls that closed about Uie slender lad. She forgot everything else while she hung over him and hold his hand lu a tender clasp. Ho spoke but a few words to her, for his days were ebbing fast. At the close of a week his short sojourn in a foreign laud had nearly ended, nnd one evening, still holding his sister's hand aud smiling In her face, he started ou another journey. This time Tlldy's brother found his way to a happier shore. Several days passed before Tildy, stunned nnd helpless, roused herself to thluk of the familiar routine of duty. Sho was too much wearied to summon thoughts, but at last sho did write a short note to Lottie iu which sho spoke of returning to the Wiltons nnd touch ed upon her loss In a quiet, unobtru sive way. It was a labored epistle, which cost poor Tlldy much effort, and was written with a lead pencil. But Lottie forgot to make even a smiling criticism upon it, and the humble sheet of paper seemed to her to hold some clement that made it eloquent. All tho family gathered in the sit ting room to hear this letter read. The elder sister delivered it with a gravity that made Tlldy's words dou bly Impressive. A startled trio stared at her as sho rose after it was finished. "I tell you," she said with a sob, "It's a shame a perfect shame!" Jack and tho little girls sank back in their seats, weakly surrendering before her sweeping nssertion. It never oc curred to them to question what sho meant. Something in her manner made them understand. They had felt the unwritten pathos of Tlldy's note, and it hurt them vaguely, but they natu rally recoiled from Lottie's next words. "She's been n sort of slavo to us," she said quietly, and this idea, hurled so suddenly, smote tho listeners like a blow. From nearly every corner of the room some reminder of Tlldy's faithfulness twinkled before their eyes as they stood there breathless. "Sec! Sho doesn't even expect any Bympathy from us!" Lottie went on relpntlesslv. "And. oh. she is tho bit friend we hnve! How could we? tlow could we?" The only comfort that the silent oue. could grasp was the fact that their accuser held herself included in the blame. Hose's sweet treble voice was a welcome sound nfter au interval or dreary quiet. "Can't we begin to be good now, till? minute?" the little girl suggested, paus ing anxiously, expectant of a forbid ding frown ou Lottie's brow. But. to her great relief, her sister acquiesced gracefully, raising no objection nt nil to tho plan. They all began to bustle about the room, hardly knowing what they wen to do, but feeling very cheerful at the turn affairs had taken. Jack proceed ed to raise his spirits In quite a boyish manner, but he lingered at tho door awkwardly before ho left the room. "I say, Lottie," he ventured, "she decorated cake for tea aad special things, you know, when hen a fel- THAT N1QUT TILDY WAS ACTUALLY HAITY. low came home." He paused, blush lug vividly. But Lottie understood. "Wo will have the decorated cake and tho rest," she answered gently. Then Lottie went over to where Jack stood and laid her hand upon his arm. "She shall have a royal welcome, dear," she said, smiling, though her eyes were tearful. Through the rest of the day every thing connected with tho Wilton house was tending toward tho "royal wel come." It surprised the girls to And how cheerless Tlldy's room appeared when they entered it. They had never seemed to see before that It was bare of ornament. They carried in pretty things from their own rooms and laughed i.inong themselves as they made tho plain apartment bright and comfortable. It was Hose who thought of tho patchwork quilt that was made of a thousand bits of gay silk and cherished in tho Wilton household as a treasure of peculiar value. Only ou state occasions as a mark of peculiar honor was it brought forth, and when Lottie and Hose together spread it upon Tlldy's bed each felt Its pres ence to be a delicate attention that could not fall to meet its true inter pretation. Amanda's offering was a cluster of spring flowers which wore so assured ly the stamp of her clumsy little lin gers that Lottie gave it a post of hon or, where it told its own story. Tlldy's train stopped at tho station late in the evening. A light rain beat against tho windows. The scene was dreary enough as she peered out un smilingly, but she gave a start of sur prise at the glimpse afforded her of Dobbin's white figure standing out clearly through the mist. She had not expected Dobbin. Sho had hoped to reach the house in some manner, but to be assisted by a horse so old and highly respected as he was, at such nn inconvenient hour, was an unwont ed honor. And Jack, too ho must have come to meet her. She hinted her amazement to the young man as they were jogging along nnd expressed reluctance at making him so much trouble. But a greater surprise await ed Tlldy at tho old stone wall. Lot tie and Hose and Amanda were there to help her alight from tho carriage. Sho could hardly believe her senses when tho girls surrounded her nud flung their nrms about her neck. "Oh, Tildy!" one or tho other kept repeating. "Oh, Tlldy!" Tho tired woman clung to them si lently, her heart beating wildly with bewilderment and a strange joy. Why her young brother had drifted into her life only to be swept away again was a mystery that Tildy could not understand, but there was one sweet certainty that her mind laid hold of and kept always. It was suggested first at the station by Dobbin's famil iar visage, with Jack beside him wait ing in tho damp. It seemed to shine out from the lantern that swung be fore them like a hugo firefly as Rose, dancing merrily along, lighted the lit tle group up tho driveway to tho house. Lottie and Amanda, nestling so close on either side of her, made tho same thought an undisputed truth. This was not the return that sho had fancied; this meant more than going back to servitude. It was a home coming! Nothing could matter now, sho told herself, trembling nervously. These young orphans loved her nfter nil. She had loved them for years nnd years. They belonged to one another. That night when she fell asleep under t'i? Bilk patchwork Tlldy was aetui It-happy. HEINZE BLED FOR $40,000. Wall Street Broker Held on Charge ol Fraud In Copper Stock Sale. New York, Aug. il. Donald L I'ersch, a Wall street broker, Is held In the Tombs In default of o0,000 ball, aud thereby hangs a tale of tangled fliiauce through which somebody In Wall street nipped V. Augustus Hclnze, the former copper king, for $40,000. Perseh is specifically charged with the larceny of $-10,000, a profit ob tained by the sale of 15,000 shares of Ohio Copper common nnd -1.(100 shnres of Davis-Daly Copper common, which M. M. Joyce, nn agent for' llelnzo, placed with the Windsor Trusr com pany of this city ns security for a loan of .$,"0,000. In some manner as yet unexplained the stock was not held by the bank, but wns turned over to a clerk acting for Perseh and at the hitter's orders thrown on the curb market and sold for $00,000. How Perseh obtnined the capltnl to carry through the deal nnd why the stock was relinquished by the trust company are points yet to be cleared up. After his arrest Perseh intimated that there were nie "higher up" lu the transaction. lie was arraigned be fore a magistrate and nfter unsuccess ful efforts of his lawyer to have bail reduced to $25,000 was committed to tho Tombs. Behind the case is the mystery of how Perseh knew when and where M. M. Joyce, representing F. Augustus Ileinze, placed the securities. Perseh had his desk in the offices of W. L. Clark, a note broker, who llrst directed Mr. Joyce to the Windsor Trust com pany for the purpose of obtaining the loan. District Attorney Jerome has taken active charge of the case, and other arrests may be made. Charles Katz, treasurer of the Eastern Brewing com pany, aud Henry Uhlmnn, n business associate, were among the witnesses examined at the district attorney's of fice. Uhlman admitted that he made out a note for $50,000 in Persch's fa vor, but did not know to what use it wns put. He was to receive $200 for it. but he understood the note wns not to be discounted for use Injiny way. European Flowers. Only 10 per cent of all tho different European flowers have any perfume. WHEN THE ENGINE COMES s no time to be regretting your neglect to get insured. A little :are beforehand is worth more than any amount ol regret. KRAFT & CONGER, I General Insurance Agents 1 HONESDALE FA. . Holmes Memorial, St. Rose Cemetery, 1 Carbondale, Fa. i I III Y ntr. I ' . lit' Designed and built by MARTIN CAUF I ELD Tooth Savers We have the sort of tooth brushes that are made to thoroughly cleanse and save the teeth. They nre the kind that clean teeth without leavlne vour mouth full of bristles. We recommend those costlnc 25 cents or more, as we can guarantee them and will re place, free, any that show defects of manu facture within three months. O. T. 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