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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-03-24

lie seemed to get some comfort out Of
that sort Of misery 7 just INDUCED him
in It,
However, about that same time
Easter was getting close at hand, and
7 bought Hulda an Easter bonnet, or
hat. whatever they call it. The bit Of
stuff was cute, Too. As little as it
might have been expected Of me,
had taste in that way. knew what
would suit IIuldas style Of beauty, and
iAlew a great deal abolt the other
"hXin's she was getting for spring
wear so ! astonished everybody inter
ested by my selection made one day
at Los Angeles. II must be confessed,
/ however, that / told the young sales
woman from whom purchased the af-
fair all about iIulda, except her Chris
] tian name Some women are blooming
fools about names, and ! suspected
/ that this oEe didn't nave enough every
/ day common sense 70 know that lIulda
/ was a wholesome, sensible name that
/ fitted my donee much better than
any garment or bit Of millinery she
had in stock, not excepting kid gloves.
/ I even showed the young woman q
photograph of Hulda, and So Well,
| the Easter hat was a success.
Easter Sunday came, and as promis-
ing a day as ever dawned in the citrous
belt rode horseback with Hulda
over to Riverside that morning to
church, and was rs proud Of her as il
had been a cavalier Of the olden time
and she the ladylOvc had won in the
tourney. Oh. how she could ride She
was a Kentucky girl and sat her be-
loved Glly as if she belonged there and
didn't depend upon the cinch Of her
! saddle for her life, as do SO manT
| would-be horsewomen / see now and
then that make me shudder. They
ride for fad and don't know enough
about horse and his trappings TO
even be careful.
My ffty-hve years had not affected
my horsemanship. But we won't speak
Of that further than to say | was raised
on horse; yet was never raised on a
bucIsing broncho. They are not horses.
They arr only poor limitations, and |
never mounted one-never shall while
the walking is good.
We went to church at Riverside, ad.
mittcd ourselves publicly to be "miser.
able sinners several times, heard the
sermon and-luldas hat simply
oclipsed the aggregation. Then we
started home.
How Hulda's FLY got into that
luicksand In crossing the creek Is
something | have never entirely set.
lied in my mind, but she went clear
)ut Of sight for a minute, It seemed
md Hulda with her, but made a grul
1t hcr-llulda, ! mean-and got the
Easter hat Grst, That was not what
mostly wanted however. ] wanted
lulda; so threw away the hat and
;omehow we landed on the bank, al
here, except the Easter hat. Thai
loated off down the stream like any
Dther wreck. The iilly came out, too
md stood dripping and trembling OF
he shore.
IIulda first looked decidedly fright
ned, and puckered up her mouth t
ry, but thought better OF IL wher
he saw | had mud in my whiskcrs anc
,as ridiculously disheveled one way o.
| mother, and more or less disposed Il
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John PendletoR was young Metho.
dist preacher who had graduated at o
Virginia college where they turn out
any quantity of his professional
cloth" and he had come to California
in search of such of the lost sheep Of
Israel as might be wandering on the
ranges of sin in and about the San
Bernardino valley. That is to say, the
California conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church south had set him
on a circuit in that region, and he had
been riding it something more than
year when this end of this chronicle
Begins, which was just one year, to a
lay, as measured by Easter, after the
luicksand baptizing that Hulda and
lcr flly got as narrated in the para
graphs preceding the constellation of
stars that glitter in the white tirma,
nent just at tie head of this long par
graph.
Pendleton was a very good young
man, but he was enough of "misera.
ole sinner to retain a strong love for
,omc patrinonial acres and the ancient
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-03-24

say things that would have emphasized
the miserable sinners" confession!
But did you ever notice how quickly
woman can shake herself out and
look presentable? Well, that was what
llulda did She had been with that
illy in the quicllsand and water and
was as wet as a drowned rat. But
blest il she didn't give herself a few
touches some way, and in five minutes
looked as pretty as before, only little
older and somewhat more graceful and
dignifed
Femininity seems to partale of this
characteristic all the way through.
The flly had given herself few
shuddering shakes and fixed her toilet
nearly right. gathered bunches
Of eucalyptus leaves and wiped the
side-saddle some, spread a big ban
danna handkerchief over the seat, and
in twenty minutes from the time the
accident began lIulda and were can
tering over the mesa, within twenty
minutes ride of George Deans house,
Huldas blue eyes sparkling with fun
beneath the white scarf that was tied
over her nut brown hair, some tresses
Of which were flying in the spring
breeze with the ends Of the silken tur-
ban that had taken the place of the
Easter hat.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-03-24

the valley OF san rcrnardno. OF
cou-se he knew nothing about raising
and marketing oranges, and as con-
sequence he was we'll on the road to
grief by the time he had learned; and
it was about this time that !, jack
Gillette, an old bachelor with more
money than anything else except love
for George and his youngsters hap
pened ont his way and furnished him
with sufficient funds to keep the wolf
and the sheriff away from his door.
But he felt poorer than ever after he
had given me his notes for the money
lent him. It was his way to consider
himself that much worse off than moth
ing until the notes wero puid, and as
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-03-24

TIE wan ald aged Winter .1yi
With lean hands folded, ciear eyes sealed,
His scant and matted locks close prest
Asainst his suuken temples, and
His rigid limbs composed 10 rest
The pine treos rocked their slender forms
And blen. their moaning Cotes o'erheaG;
TIE north wind bowed about the tomb
And rnouraed and moclcd the noble dead;
A wreath Of faded, Tithered e9v'rs-
Beneath the fallen leaves half hid,
And bathed Ia nature iCy tears
Repose upon his cO1a Id
Buc, lo the golden sunlight stopped
And kissed the grieviag pincs above;
The gentle south wind v-aIera1 by
And whispered Of uldying love
L touched the sleeper J 3lamny brow,
Caressed him With iis sa.my breath,
Cntil he stirred his pulseiess limbs
Q And struggled With the bonds Of death
Il cast aside the w.thered dowrs
That rested on the dreamer. 8 tomb,
And wound about his breathing form
4 wreath Of fresh and fragrant bloom;
Rebuked the bowling polar wind
And sent iy to the dista1; north,
Swung vide the portal Of the grave
And .ocund, 9dorous Spring came forth
The season resurrecaoa! And
Tho uew-'TiGnDhaG; o eg he mold
And dgG.l decay 9t natures ,5m,-
Is brighter better Than .lC c.I,
The newborn year III cuo's-a is
OF a.. that happy state Wi. drEZ,
When wased from life 3 brief tgOgbled dresa
We know one fair e.eraa. spring
s @ LAPIUs
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mon Prayer so far as religion went,
and had the Catechism and the Apos.
ties Creed by heart, as well as the
morning and evening services, and was
well up in the Collects In short, she
had been confirmed, but | solemnly
believe that she often smiled In sly
sort of way, when in the response
she said: We are miserable sinners"
She wasn't miserable little bit, but
was, for the most part, the happiest
sort of q girl
Being neither a blonde nor bru-
nette, but just a pleasant medium as
to complexion, / think she averaged
pretty fairly in all things at about that
standard, and she probably had some.
ahing like that estimate of herself,
for the very reason that she was so
well balanced.
People, generally, who were ac-
uuainted with her, liked Hulda, and |
was very fond Of her. could afford
that because was old enough to be
her grandfather, at the time of which
i write-and am yet, as to that Her
father and / had been schoolmates,
comrades-in-arms and lifetime friends.
Indeed our fathers and grandfathers
had been, before us.
For three generations, and well
along in the fourth, our people-mine
and Hulda's-had lived in the same re-
spectacle town in Kentucky, or at
least on adjoining farms SO close to the
town that we were considered as town
people, and we had been christened in
the same little church and at the same
bAptismal font for the last three gen
erations, including Hulda's
George Dean, Hulda's father, got
''the California fever" however, about
the same time that he began to get
some twlnges of rheumatism and a
touch of the asthma, SO he emigrated
10 the Golden state when Hulda was
ffteen and bought an orange ranch In
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HULDA'S EASTER HAT.
BT WILL YIssCHER.

~ : mU Ida DEAN
NJN-Ntl u yy1s a han n
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dotes on Methodist preachers and has
offered many a yellow-legged chicken
in her time upon the altar of her devo-
tion to those good and reverend shep.
herds and gentlemen,
Did any woman ever forget an Easter
bonnet? Not to my recollection, and
| am older now-much older than
when ! bought Hulda the hat and
afterward pulled it from her head.
Aunt Judith recognized that hat in
stantly, and she didn't wait until
'class meeting" was over to say sol
either. She claimed it for her niece,
then and there, and invited Mr. Pen
dleton home with her to see the young
lady to whom it belonged
lie went, and Hulda's blue eyes
made him more of a miserable sin.
ner" than he was before. But IIulda
wouldn't marry man who had to
ride any circuit that conference told
him to ride. She admitted that it was
good and lovely and Christlilie, and all
that, for them 10 do 1t, but she was 10
constituted that she must live athomo.
So she does. John breaches yet, but
only in the little chapel on his own
farm in FOuquier county.
| just came from there few days
ago, where | attended the christening
Of Hulda's second baby and first son.
He was baptized John Gillette Pen
dleton."
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\ Il ~ Il - - n ~
was a n a n d
some girl and a
country girl at
that Sensible
and dutiful, she
was not a saint
nor yet a sin
ner, except in
the general
way that we
oil confess in
the Litany
She had been
trained by thr
Book Of Com.
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Easter Item.

Sunday School Teacher-Now, can
my little boy tell me what Easter is
celebrated for?
Good Little Boy eagerly Eggs, ,-
Texas Siftings.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-03-24

HAVE used Dr. Thomas Eclectric Oil for
Group and colds, aud declare it positive
cure Contributed by VIM. Kay, 90 Ply
mouth avenue, Buffalo, N Y. ~
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-02

There are three periods IN adult life
when one seems more liable to go
wrong than at other times. The one
is at thirty-six years of age, when thin
people tend to become fat and fat peo-
pie thin: the next is between forty-five
and fifty, when the appetite fails,
nervous diseases appear, when one no
longer likes to stoop much and begins
to prefer riding to walking; and the
next is at sixty-one, when the same
phenomena appear more markedly.
With regard to the sexual distribution
of disease, one may say that ordinary
kidney, lung, and brain diseases.
accidents of all sorts, scarlet fever. and
late consumption are most prevalent
among males, and cancer, diphtheria,
typhoid fever. and early consumption,
among females. The most distressing
case of nerve breakdown among un-
married women is that sudden change
of circumstances that ensues when a
father dies who, through carelessness
or improvidence, has neglected tn make
adequate provision for his unmarried
daughters.-Leisure Hour.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-02
GENERAL NEWS

7HE Central hotel. one of the land
marks of Ration, \. NJ, has burned.
Three railroad men who boarded in the
hotel perished. The fire was caused
by the explosion of lamp.
AT Smithville, Tex, on the oath
Frank Scott, a negro ex-school teacher,
and Charles Chapel, a negro gam bier,
who had long been at loggerheads.
met, when Scott fired at Chapel, miss
ing him. Chappel then caught Ed
Turner, a railroad brakeman. and
held him in front of him. but Scott shot
and hit Turner above the heart. killing
him instantly. Scott then walked up
TO Chapel and shot him through the
lungs, from which he died in about five
minutes.
A DISPATCH from Bloomington. Ill.
on the 26th said that hog cholera was
causing great loss in localities around
that part of the state.
The weavers in the worsted cloth
mill of Ross. Miller & Co.. at Manya-
yunk. Pa. have struck for an increase
of - per cent. in wages. They said
that they had been subject to reduc-
ton equal to 30 per cent. since last
spring and that SS.5O per week is all
they can earn on a thirteen-hour turn.
The null but recently started up after
long iGleness.
THE conversion of Princess Alix 10
the Greek faith took place in the pres
cnce of the procurator-general of the
holy synod AT Livadia. The ceremony
was private. Her marriage to the ear.
exitch was said to have taken place
afterwards.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-02
Postal Changes.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3O.-The following
postmasters were appointed yesterday:
Indian territory-Adair, Cherokee
nation, W. G. Langley, vice J. E. Hall;
Bartlesville, Cherokee nation, T. A.
Stewart. vice ]. II. Bartles; Benning-
ton, Choctaw, A. II. INITIAL, vice j. n.
Jones. All three of the old post
masters were removed.
Jemima E. Potts was appointed post
master at Mayfiower, Barry county.
Missouri.
The post Office at Amboy, Rocks
county, Kansas, has been discontinued
Mail for that point will hereafter be
delivered at Palso. The Office at Art,
Newton county, Missouri, was also dis
continued. Mail to Wall.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-02
BUSINESS MEN swIyDLED.
NAVY ESTIMATES.
Congress to BE Asked for About One-Fift
More Than Last Years Appropriation.

Congress to BE Asked for About One-Fifth
More Than Last Years Appropriation.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 30 Secretary
Herbert. in his estimates, will ask con-
gress for about one-fifth more than was
appropriated last year for naval ex-
penses. The current appropriations
are S2j. .5S5, SEC. -: the new estimates are
$50, ,952, ,02040, showing an increase of
about $500. 1913. The appropriations
for the year beginning July 1,1S90, 0,werc
S23. 1876. OBS. 80; those for the next year.
S3l, ,541 .645.1 rs: those for the following
year. S23, jas, 226 SC: those for the year
before the present one, S22, 10i, ,061. IS;
finally, those for the current year, as
has been said. S25, ,5S5. S26. -. Thus the
current estimates are within 5000. 900 of
the highest appropriation for the last
five wears
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-02
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

THE men who robbed the Pacific Ey-
press Co., in The Dalles, Ore, of Sl40.-
600 have been apprehended and all but
5000 recovered. One of the robbers
confessed.
| COMMISSIONER LoCHREN, of the pen
sion bureau, in his annual report re-
views the case of Judge Long. of the
Michigan supreme court, at some
length. The commissioner also dis
cusses the work of the special examin-
ers.
THE secretary of state has made a
protest to the German government in
regard to the injustice to the United
States of the order prohibiting the i'm
portation of American cattle and fresh
meat into Germany.
THE wholesale millinery establish
ment of j. ]. Porter & Co., Pittsburgh,
Pa. was destroyed by fire on the 29th.
Loss, about S350.000. The fire caused a
stampede in the theater next door.
A DISPATCH from Parkersburg. w.
Va, of the 29th said that the long
drought had caused great distress
among farmers and lumbermen along
the Little kanawha.
AwAGoN containing party returning
from dance near Lebanon, Ind, was
struck by Big Four train and five of
the merrymakers were killed.
A DISPATCH to the Times from Shang-
hal states that it was reported there
that the Japanese had completely
surrounded Port Arthur and that the
Chinese forces defending the place
could not hold out long.
A STREET fight at York, Ala, result
ed in the wounding of two prominent
citizens, one fatally. and the killing of
the chief of police, j. w. Thompson.
SECRETARY MORTON has retured to
Washington from his European trip
and reassumed his duties at the depart
ment of agriculture.
IT has been determined that no
troops can be used to suppress the law
less bands in the Indian territory un-
less called upon by the courts to assist
the United States marshals. The re-
quest for troops would then come
through the department of justice.
CAPT. CHARLES Book. commanding a
squad of twenty Indiin police, has
captured near Wagner. 1. T., Joe
johnson. Nose Price, Dick Reynolds,
Jim Bates and Lon Perry, five members
of the Cook gang. The officers sur
prised the outlaws in camp and had
them covered with Winchesters before
the robbers could get their guns and
the capture was made without shot
being fired.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-02
WOMAN HYPNOTIzED
A Maiden Lady Unduly Influenced
Hangs Herself
FIVE OF THE COOK GANG CAUGHT.
The Outlaws Surprised In Camp-Suicide to
Escape Disgrace-A Little Girl
Dead from Eating jim
son Weed.

SPARTA, Wis, Oct. 30.-Samuel S.
Buxton, who was arrested recently on
charge of having murdered Mary A.
Jones. a maiden lady, at her home a
few miles from this city on the 21st
inst, where she was found hanging by
the neck, has confessed the murder.
Preliminary hearing was held soon
after midnight, when he waived exam
ination. He was Immediately removed
to Sparta. fears being entertained that
a mob might attempt to take him from
the jail.
The crime is one of a revolving ma
ture. Three years ago Buxton, by a
series of obscene letters, purporting to
come from a witch and directed to Miss
Jones. hypnotized her and caused her
ruin, the intimacy being conducted to
the day of her death. By the same sys-
TEN of deceit the infatuated woman
consented to be strung up by the neck
in the belief that it would cause
the death of Buxton's wife. The
second time the experiment was tried
Buxton pushed the chair on which the
foolish woman stood and she swung
into eternity. Buxton took what money
there was in the house and left for his
home short distance away, where he
was arrested, brought to the city and
lodged in Jail. His motive for commit
ting the murder is that he was tired of
the woman.
Buxton has a wife and three chill
dren. The murdered woman was a
near neighbor of the Buxtons and lived
alone.
As soon as court was called yester-
day afternoon Buxton was brought in
and pleaded guilty, and was immedi-
ately sentenced to Waupun for life.
Miss Jones' parents are said to live
near Kansas City.
COOK GANG RUN DOWN.
WAGNER. /. r.. Oct. 3O.-Capt.
Charles Book, commanding a squad of
twenty Indian police, just arrived here
having in captivity Joe johnson, Nose
Price. Dick Reynolds, Jim Bates and
Lon Perry, five members of the Cook
gang, captured by him near here yes
terday morning. The officers surprised
the outlaws in camp and had them COW
ereu WlUn NlncneSIerS DeIOre Tue ToU-
bers could get their guns and the cap
ture was made without a shot being
fired. Capt. Book reports the rest of
the gang in this vicinity and after es-
corting his prisoners to Fort Gibson
will return and renew his effort to
capture the ringleaders.
SUICIDE TO ESCAPE DISGRACE.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Oct. 30.-The audit
or of public accounts yesterday an
nounced the result of the recent exam
ination of the Normal Park Loan asso-
citation at Chicago and finds the late f.
w. Porter, secretary of state, defaulter
go, ,OOO The affairs of the association
are all right. Porter was for twenty
years auditor of the Rock Island road
and died suddenly at Cincinnati re-
Gently. Investigation shows suicide to
escape disgrace.
POISONED BY EATING JIMSON WEED.
SEDALIA, Mo-, Oct. 30.-The little
daughter of Paul Weunsch has died
from having eaten jimson seed, which
she found while playing in an open lot.
Fortunately the children with her did
not eat any of the seed.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-02
GROCERIES BURNED.
The T. Green Grocery Co., of Kan
sas City, Destroyed by Fire.
PANIC IN A PITTSBURGH THEATER.
Fire In a Wholesale Millinery Store Causes
Stampede In the Theater Next
Door-Business Men
Swindled.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Oct. 30.-Fire
broke out in the southwest corner OF
the fourth floor of the T. Green Grocery
Co.'S building. Santa Fe and st. Louis
avenue, at 1:5O this morning. The
fourth floor was quickly ablaze and
before the firemen could get well to
work the flames worked down to the
floor below. Three engines and the
water tower soon threw six streams on
the flames. Shortly afterward every
company in the department except
Nos. L. and IA were at the scene. The
fire spread with lightning rapidity,
and soon involved the entire third and
fourth floors.
The building was erected in 1885 at p
cost of $4,000. 1t was the property of
Thomas Green and was insured for S15,-
600. The stock at this season would
aggregate about $4,000. 1t was the
property of James Green and was in
sured for $4,000 The insurance is di-
vided among several companies, but
this morning Mr.. Green could not give
their names.
PANIC IN A THEATER.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Oct. 30. - What
promised to be an ugly fire broke out
about o'clock last night in the whole
sale millinery and trimming goods es-
tablishment of ]. J. Porter &.Co. of Lib
erty avenue. The loss to the firm is
total. estimated at 100000, and dam
age to the building, which is owned by
Hon. Ii. +. Jones, will increase the loss
to about S3j0,000. Nothing can be
learned at present of the insurance.
When the alarm was turned in the
performance at the Academy of Music.
next door. was in full blast. A panic
followed, but nothing serious resulted.
The Seventh Avenue hotel is three
doors above Porter & Co.'S place and
the guests were inclined to be panicky.
The hotel people, however, succeeded
in quieting their fears. Many rumors
were current of accidents, fatal and
otherwise. but as far as can be learned
at midnight these stories have no truth
in them.
BUSINESS MEN SwINDLED.
SALINA, Kan, Oct. 30.-Several mer-
chants here have been swindled by
middle-aged man claiming to represent
a New York commercial union that
furnishes goods to its members at
greatly reduced prices. The company
claims to buy the goods at auction and
can sell them way below their actual
value. A fee of 81 is demanded of the
merchant. for which he is given a GER
tifcate. The name of the swindler is
not known. and he was careful to con-
ceal his identity. lie used an ear trum-
pet and evaded questions. Abilene and
Junction City merchants were worked
by the same man.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-02
HISTORY REPEATED.

PRIOR to 1857 tea was sold in Eng
land for $50 pound.
THE compact of the "Mayfower" wa.
signed on the lid of Elder Brewer
chest on November 81, 1920.
GEN. NELSON MONROE, who served un
der Gen. Edwin d. Baker at the battle
OF Balls Bluff, is of the same family
with James Monroe of Virginia, and is
a direct descendant of the founder OF
Lexington, Mass. He received no less
than eight wounds in the war, one OF
which was at Balls Bluff when fighting
by Gen. Bakers side.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-02
The County CLERK Upheld.

TOPEKA, Kan, Oct. 30.-The case of
Foley, the populist county printer of
Labette county, who refused to print
the official election ballot as certified
by the republican county clerk, was
tried in the supreme court yesterday
afternoon. The court held that the
clerks certificate was good, and a per-
emptory writ of mandamus, compelling
Foley to print the ballot as furnished,
issued. Foley objected to the ballot
because the position of the populist
ticket did not suit him.