It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from this/these transcript(s) must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collection Coordinating Committee. Elizabeth Kane Journal 1900 MSS 3190 [Journal pages are pre-printed with days of the week; notes added & page numbers are in brackets; pre-printed text is indicated by bold font] [1] CALENDAR FOR 1900. [Inside front cover full pre-printed 1900 Calendar is included] [The following is a sticker pasted on the bottom of front cover] William Mann Co. Stationers, 529 Market Street, Philadelphia. [2] Mrs. Robert Winthrop 38E 37 EXCELSIOR DAILY JOURNAL FOR 1900. PUBLISHED ANNUALLY FOR THE TRADE. [3] [Lists pre-printed Table of Wages by the Week and Interest Tables for 4 - 6 Per Cent] [4] [Lists pre-printed Revenue Stamps and Principal Cities, Population, Distance from New York, and difference between Mean and Standard Time] [5] [Lists pre-printed Domestic Postage and Foreign Postage] [6] January, (1‒364) Monday, 1. 1900. After ceasing to keep diary for a year I begin again as I find that I cannot trust my memory for dates. We are just at the end (I hope at the end) of a blizzard, we being on the edge of it; it has been much worse further west. Sewer pipes are frozen. All of us are pretty well though Lila’s baby does not thrive. [7] January, (2‒363) Tuesday, 2. 1900. Wrote a long letter to Mary Field. The weather is stormier than ever, but Elisha and Evan got off on the cars to Mount Jewett. The boys were very good in my room all the morning, but it is not conducive to intellectual work to have their com- pany. I studied a little Spanish, drew cheques and did some accounts and some darning. I have received nearly $2400 these two days. [8] January, (3‒362) Wednesday, 3. 1900. We are in distress today as the gas to drive the Penna Glass Works, after fluctuating for some time has now stopped entirely, and Tom who has been up most of the night and out on the line all day seems to have been unable to locate the freezing point. Of course the Co. will hold us liable for the damages which will be very heavy. Perhaps in a lawsuit we may escape as the freezing is beyond our control. The supply of gas for town is almost gone, too, and the water pipes are frozen. Later. Tom got the gas thawed to the Glass works: I hope before it was too late. Mr. Davis has just been here to get our team to haul a load of wood to the Water Works. With it he hopes to get the works pumping again. [9] January, (4‒361) Thursday, 4. 1900. One of the most beautiful of winter days. I worked at odds and ends of accounts till then when Tom drove me to town and after attending to my business I walked home and then Tom drove me back again as there were signatures to make to deeds, letting Evan transfer again to me the land which he has held in trust. I found a statement of account from the Oil Trust people, showing an accumulated balance of over 1000 bbls on the Ljungfeldt tract. I felt fine, for that would sell for over $1000, nearer $1600. so I told the children that I was going to buy 20 shares P. RR. the interest to be given yearly after my death to Catherine for her life. Just now, it has come back to me that only 1/8 part of all this — about $140. dollars worth is mine. Flattening, but I meant well! Perhaps I’ll be able to do it yet before I die. [10] January, (5‒360) Friday, 5. 1900. Raw weather making one feel cold. There were very few at the union, two Mrs McCoy, two Ms. Kane, Mrs. Louise Parsons and Mrs Okerlind, six out of over sixty. Poor Elisha has no gas on that side of the valley, The baby has a bronchitis and the highly esteemed and devoted Delia is threatened with pneumonia. I had a letter from Dr. Croasdale, which I answered at length and then tore up my answer. Compiled our table of expenses for the year. Counting in charities I spend about $6000, exclusive of taxes, of which nearly half in gifts and charities. [11] January, (6‒359) Saturday, 6. 1900. News from Zella rather more favorable. Wrote to Dr Croasdale, Wanamaker, Puella Doonblazer and Mrs Neill. There is to be a reception this evening in honour of the newly married secretary (Russell) of the Y.M.C.A. and his bride. Tom and V are going, but Lila overdid herself hauling Willie in his sled to the hospital and back so she lay on her bed all the evening and I amused myself. [12] January, (7‒358) Sunday, 7. 1900. Evan was worn out with looking after various patients when he started this morning for Kushe- -qua at a little before six. He was to put skin-grafts on a little child at a farm on the Smethport Road, but I think the rest of his trip was chiefly devised to save Tom from I had rather a nicely attentive class [13] January, (8‒357) Monday, 8. 1900. Busy — no, idle all morning figuring as stockholder in the annual meetings of the B.L & K. and Kinzua & Riterville RRs. In the afternoon had long calls from Mr Shelley and Julia McCoy and then Lila drove me up to get the paper as we are all so anxious about the Boers. So far they are doing pretty well. Poor Sashy came home from kindergarten. Miss Stella is forced by her mother’s extremely nervous condition to give it up for the present. She hopes to begin again March 1st. [14] January, (9–356) Tuesday, 9. 1900. This is little Archie’s birthday, one year old. Four years ago today my Harry ended her earthly life, and if there is a heaven she surely went there. It is a beautiful, still winter day. I wrote busily till nearly eleven when I went to the bank, and post office. Elisha mailed me $1744 a cheque for some oil referred to Jan. 4. so I wrote to ask Fred. Perry to buy me 20 shares P.RR Ladysmith still holds out; the Boers having been repulsed after getting inside the works. Bertha came back as cook in the afternoon. I wrote to Mrs Leontine Taylor. also wrote for $1. worth of Swedish tracks. I have a few tiny Italian gospels and find I can read them almost as well as Spanish. [15] January, (10–355) Wednesday, 10. 1900. Evan left on the 6 A.M. train; the alarm having failed to wake the cook, poor Evan went without any breakfast and Lila tells me that there is no chance to get anything on the train before he reaches Wmsport. By that time I’m afraid he will be too faint and sick to eat. Yesterday evening there was beautiful moonlight, but it was followed by a heavy warm rain, and it is still so dark at 9 A.M. that I am using my gas light. The snow is lying in scattered patches only. Spent a long time tidying my closet shelves. Wrote to a woman in Colorado for leaflets; wrote a long letter to Helen, studied Spanish, sewed [16] January, (11–354) Thursday, 11. 1900. A horrible sleety day. I am pottering at home, wrote to Mrs Strong, Mrs Parsons and Mrs W. Coy about WCTU business. Am trying to restore my damasked dress, but find black work very hard on my eyes. Studying a little Spanish, making mucilage etc. [17] January, (12–353) Friday, 12. 1900. Everything is a glare of ice. Elisha slept here last night and I breakfasted early with him. He was in a great worry about getting Evan’s ac- knowledgment to his signature as a stockholder in the Kushequa Glass Works forwarded to Bouton by special messenger. [18] January, (13–352) Saturday, 13. 1900. Yesterday evening was a pretty dull one. They all went off to the practisings for Esther the Beau- tiful Queen, and I sat down to read and work. My spectacles were a little dim so I took them off to rub them, and off came one of the semi-circles that make good my reading glasses. So from then till dinner time today I was idle and did not find it pleasant. After dinner with the exception of sleighing over for the mail I sewed on my dress. In the evening gave Evan a French lesson but he was so sick and aching that I dismissed him to his room, where he sat up till his wife came home at midnight. [19] January, (14–351) Sunday, 14. 1900. Communion Sunday. Ten of my class were in Sunday School and I had a happy morning. It was Tom’s first Sunday as Superintendent. In the afternoon Sashy and Leiper were in my room squabbingly happy and I wrote to Helen and to Sabina, also ordered a Golden Test book for 1900, and a catalogue of Perry pictures. Undressed Sashy after tea. [20] January, (15–350) Monday, 15. 1900. Cloudy and thawing. I am expecting to go to Buffalo this afternoon. We went, Elisha Zella and I as she is to have her eyes treated and cannot use them during the treatment. So I shall keep her company. It was bad weather but we all went to the Lyceum Theatre and saw a capital play a story of the Indian Mutiny. [21] January, (16–349) Tuesday, 16. 1900. Zella and I and Elisha amused ourselves in the afternoon shopping at Hengerers for the store and hospital and Z. & E. went to the oculist in the morning. Elisha read aloud to us in the evening. [22] January, (17–348) Wednesday, 17. 1900. Elisha left on the 9.45 and Zella and I went to the oculist for the whole morning He had atropine in her eyes, so she had to wear black glasses but we finished up our shopping in the afternoon and I read to her and told her stories all the rest of the time. I got the oculist to look at my eyes and he raised the power of the right reading lens a half dioptric. He thinks I ought to have a tuck taken in the lids. [23] January, (18–347) Thursday, 18. 1900. Left Buffalo at 9.45 which train I nearly missed by Zella’s being delayed at the oculist’s. I had to leave her behind as it was. I left the train at Bradford and went to the Exec. Com. meeting which was quite a full one. Reached home at 7.10 and found that little Blanche had been much worse, and that Evan was much distressed about her. Sashy and Leiper were permitted much against my will to go to see the performance of Queen Esther. They did not get home till eleven. After all the practisings Lila was too unhappy to go [24] January, (19–346) Friday, 19. 1900. I hated to have our Mother’s Meeting at our house today on account of baby Blanche, but she did not seem worse than yesterday. We had quite a large gathering 31 in all to discuss the Cigarette Evil. I was persuaded to go to see the performance of Queen Esther and really enjoyed it. It was far better done than when I saw it in Phila Poor Lila was persuaded also to go and play her part but she looked as if she could sing “By the rivers of Babylon there we sat down and wept.” Tom’s paint and wig coupled with his extreme leanness made him look like the Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance, dear sweet fellow. The boys were so cross l day from last night’s excitement. [25] January, (20–345) Saturday, 20. 1900. Wrote a report for the Leader of our meeting and several letters on W.C.T.U. business. One was to Mrs Edith K. Bush[-]ng the State Supt. of Narcotics. Helen’s Julia is in very ill health from hypochondria. The last of the three performances of the Queen Esther [26] January, (21–344) Sunday, 21. 1900. [Page is blank] [27] January, (22–343) Monday, 22. 1900. Lila was in fine spirits this morning but Evan dashed her hopes by saying the baby was going in for a fresh access of iteo-colitis. Maggie says she is going to Erie tomorrow evening. [28] January, (23–342) Tuesday, 23. 1900. [Page is blank] [29] January, (24–341) Wednesday, 24. 1900. Such a stupid lecture at the Y.M.C.A. this evening. [30] January, (25–340) Thursday, 25. 1900. Evan so miserable about little Blanche that he has decided to con place her in the hands of a specialist. He first asked Dr. Holt of New York what he would charge to come on and the doctor said $500. and that he would much rather not come. Then Evan talked over the telephone with a Buffalo specialist named Snow and decided to take the baby on tomorrow. He wants me to go, but I told him that if I did I’d have to follow on the noon train as I would have so much to do and have been in bed all day with neuralgia from my right eye. [31] January, (26–339) Friday, 26. 1900. I got up at 1 A.M.. by mistake, bathed and partly dressed before I found it out. Up again at five and we all breakfasted at six to see the travellers off. It was 5 degrees below zero with a wild wind and a little drifting snow. They soon returned as the train was too much behind time to catch the connecting train at Corry. Mr Shelley came at ten o’clock to baptise the little one, Blanche Rupert. By dint of hard work I got ready to accompany them on the one o’clock train. We had to wait a whole hour at Mount Jewett and the wind was so piercing that it soon brought my neuralgia back. the little baby bore the journey finely and we took her at once on our arrival to the doctor. Evan rattled off a narrative of her symptoms at a hand-gallop, from nervousness I think and the doctor toiled slowly after him. He said he could not see so very much room for uneasiness as we did, but he wants us to stay two weeks at the very least. Oh dear! [32] January, (27–338) Saturday, 27. 1900. Evan was up very early to attend to everything he could about arranging for the baby’s “balanced ration” at the laboratory and also for our change of rooms. He left at 9.45 and we soon got ourselves settled in a nice little suite on the ground floor of the Lenox, an apartment hotel on North Street near Delaware Avenue. We have a sitting room with a large bay window and two closets one of which contains a refrigerator. A tiny hall leads to two small bedrooms and a small bathroom – quite sufficient for our wants. Lila and I are very comfortable. Our dining room is on the eighth floor with a magnificent outlook. In the afternoon we went to do some necessary shopping, and in the evening Lila read aloud to me while I crocheted, but my eyes hurt a good deal. We can’t tell anything about the baby yet as her treatment has just begun. [33] January, (28–337) Sunday, 28. 1900. I had neuralgia horribly again last night but this time in the left eye region. Baby seemed to me very restless and when she wasn’t Miss Ellithorp coughed. But they seemed to think she slept quite well poor little mite. She very decidedly objects to me. It has been very stormy all day. We went to the Westminster Presbyterian Church, which, but for the name, was a Comfortable Episcopalian one for we had a shortened Service (quite to my taste, bien entendu) without having to kneel till one’s back ached and without such a puzzlingly long variety of prayers to hunt from Dan to Beersheba. The sermon was rather platitudinous but the hymns “Lead, kindly Light” and “The clouds we so much dread” were favorites of mine and all the music was beau- tiful. After church I mean to stay to Sunday School but as L. had to go to the druggist, I went with her instead through the snowstorm. Wrote a long letter to Helen in the afternoon and a short one to Tom, and I don’t quite know what to do with the evening. Baby has been uneasy with constipation all day. [34] January, (29–336) Monday, 29. 1900. Bright sunshine this morning, though it seems very cold. Corry reports deep snow and zero weather. The morning papers tell of the defeat of Warren’s army and its withdrawal across the Tugela. We went down to the Star Theatre and took seats for Modjeska in “Mary Stuart” tomorrow night. It was so cold that one outing sufficed for me though Lila was out twice. We read aloud and worked and I studied a little Spanish. I am making a baby’s carriage quilt or it may be one for Sashy’s crib out of left overs of wool. Baby looks thinner than ever and seemed uncomfortable in her bowels all day. [35] January, (30–335) Tuesday, 30. 1900. The wind howled dreadfully all night. It is so cold and gray that I dread going out. Well, we went out and shopped all the way to the Hengerer’s, riding back with a fine ap- -petite for lunch. In the afternoon Lila read some of Richard Carvel while I crocheted. I also wrote to Zella and Virginia. Tom is nominated for school director in our ward, which may secure a decent place for Sashy instead of a basement. In the evening we went to see Modjeska in Mary Stuart, but after the scene between the two Queens in the park of Fotheringay Lila found the tragedy too much for pleasure and we came home. [36] January, (31–334) Wednesday, 31. 1900. The sky is bright this morning but I fancy that it is still very cold. I had letters about W.C.T.U. business that I cannot attend to till I get home. Baby weighs the same as yesterday 9 lbs. 7 oz. Lila and I went to see Modjeska in Much Ado about Nothing. The costumes were like those in a Watteau picture, tender colours beautifully harmonized, and sometimes picked out by a bright one like the Prince’s scarlet and gold. But I was sorry to see many children, evidently brought there by the mothers because the play was Shakespere’s. No one nowadays would devise such a vile subject and say such indecent things. Poor old Modjes- ka I pitied her for dishonoring her old age with Beatrice’s quips and coquetries. I wrote to Helen. Lila and I read aloud and worked in the evening. [37] February, (32–333) Thursday, 1. 1900. Wrote to Florence, having bought some foreign papers early in the morning. Also changed our theatre tickets for tomorrow instead of tonight hoping to have Evan. Also went into the Public Library and read parts of Chancellor Kent’s life. He married at the age of 21 a girl of 16 with whom he had fallen in love two years before when she was a bright rosy cheeked girl of 14, the daughter of the farmer with whom he boarded. He had not a penny and was $400. in debt. He mentions going over in 1772 to his Uncle Kane’s to be taught by Mr Kalna. So that gives me another name, and confirms the account we have of his telling Judge Kane how he and his cousins the Grants and Morrisons were pupils of his Kane cousins’ tutor. It is a frightfully cold day. Baby has lost a little more weight, but seems bright and cheerful and free from pain. In the after- -noon wrote to Ms Perry, Mrs. Rebecca Chambers and Mrs T. R. Parsons and a long letter to Zella who had written a doleful account of lack of gas, the dining room taking fire, having pain in her eyes from a cinder, and a blow on her head from a piece of furniture. [38] February, (33–332) Friday, 2. 1900. Very cold, but brilliant weather. Baby’s weight same as the last two days. She has lost 10 oz. in a week. Dr Snow thinks that the bismuth she took is still in her system and is the cause of her constipation. She has rejected some of her food twice since 2 A.M. and he proposes to cut off her newly added half ounce, and has stopped her cod-liver oil and bovinine. He insists that she will soon mend. Evan came in the evening and was much cast down by our report of the baby’s lack of progress. Went to see Sothern in the “Swong of the Sword” a fine spectacular play only: the house was thronged and the greatest enthusiasm shown: very different from poor Modjeska’s thin house and grand acting in Schiller’s noble tragedy. [39] February, (34–331) Saturday, 3. 1900. Left for home with Evan. Found Willie rather sick. Theresa at the hospital and Ed. laid up with grippe. Tom and V. had gone to Kq whence they returned long after I was asleep bring Archie Wright to spend Sunday. As Evan was busy at the hospital I had my evening to myself. [40] February, (35–330) Sunday, 4. 1900. Glad to be back at Sunday School. Rained hard while we were in church. Willie still feverish. [41] February, (36–329) Monday, 5. 1900. Busy as I could be all day, shopping, signing cheques settling accounts, seeing Mrs McCluskey about Ladies’ Aid affairs, and hemming and marking four table cloths before tea. After putting Sashy to bed went to quite a good concert with Tom and V. Evan joined us there. [42] February, (37–328) Tuesday, 6. 1900. Hunted up things from three trunks for C.M.E. B. and was busy till the moment of leaving. At Corry took the wrong train, lay over at Jamestown and did not reach The Lenox till 5 P.M. Baby seemed pretty well. Lila is trying an Irish wetnurse [43] February, (38–327) Wednesday, 7. 1900. Thawing in bright sunshine. Baby’s weight remains the same but she is very gay with her new diet. Lila doesn’t feel well, but accompanied me as I had to acknowledge a deed before a Commis- sioner for Pennsylvania. In the afternoon she took a long walk while I wrote a long letter to Helen. [44] February, (39–326) Thursday, 8. 1900. Rain clearing away with bright soft sunshine. Baby coughs a good deal but feels bright. She has gained two ounces over her lowest weight. Lila and I walked to the Library. I subscribed and took out an old novel of King’s “Between the Lines” and Mrs Oliphant’s Life of Edward Irving. Wrote to Caroline Lowrey, an old pupil of mine, and studied Spanish for an hour or so before lunch. [45] February, (40–325) Friday, 9. 1900. Baby gained an ounce, and we like the wet nurse We walked about a mile and three-quarters in the morning and Lila took a walk in the afternoon and in the evening we went to the druggist’s, Miss Ellithorp refusing to go. It was a beau- -tiful starlight and moonlight both. Lila was well tired by bedtime. I am beginning Irving’s Life and am galloping through “Between The Lines” by King. Lila is reading me Life on a South African Farm. [46] February, (41–324) Saturday, 10. 1900. A fine day for walking. We rode to the Library and walked back. I took out David Grieve. I am very much interested in Mrs Oliphant’s Life of Irving. The dear baby has gained three ounces. I have lost a letter that I got this very morning containing an order for refunding cost of my ticket, $2.65 [47] February, (42–323) Sunday, 11. 1900. Poor dear Evan reached here, worn out with care and fatigue and rheumatism, yesterday evening. He went with Lila to see the play of “The Christian” and was much disappointed. I staid at home and began the well written story “David Grieve.” The missing letter had fallen behind the bath- tub. Baby gained four ounces in 24 hours. We went to a gorgeous church in The Circle – Sara- cenic architecture, low arches, fretted carvings, coloring amber and dull green. Service highly ornate for a Presbyterian meeting house. sermon flowery but quite good: music exquisite. Poor Evan had to leave on the 8.50 A.M. train and expects to wait five hours in Bradford. I hope he will find out that the train goes on to Mt Jewett I wrote to Virginia and Helen [48] February, (43–322) Monday, 12. 1900. Baby coughs a great deal and had a bad night but seems bright today. She made no gain in weight, however. I bought a black silk shirt waist and while we waited to have it fitted for altering a great downpour of rain came on and my feet were wet through. Yesterday afternoon I went at 3.15 to Sunday School and being — not turned out, but completely ignored — endured the flat- -ness for some twenty minutes, then slipped out unnoticed as I came in and walked about till 4 when I went into the church for the short service that was to precede the song service. I have been contemptuous of these bids to draw outsiders, and I felt sorry for the old minister who saw the rush that filled up the half empty aisles and every seat and standing room in the galleries. But all was lost in the tide of feeling that bore one on wings of sound in that wonderful Stabat Mater of Rossini’s Quis Homo, sung by two women’s voices, and then my dear Tom’s favorite Pro Peccatis, and Eia Mater in noble voices of men. The gloom of evening settled down as the service ended in “The shadows of the evening.” [49] February, (44–321) Tuesday, 13. 1900. Did not sleep well on account of Baby’s cough, and got Dr Snow to examine her lungs. He said the cough was confined to the pharynx and ordered a croup kettle so as to steam her. I went out in a howling storm and got it. She weighs 2 ounces more, but still lacks four ounces of her best weight. We expected to return on Thursday but Dr S. thinks we ought to stay till Saturday. We learned that there have been some cases of measles in the hotel but the clerk asserts that there has been nothing recent. Wrote to Miss Scull, to Tom and to the School Board about a deed for the Welsh Street School Lot. Read aloud more than I should do to Lila who isn’t feeling well. After we had begun undressing Evan called us by telephone, or rather he called Lila and she me. The Auditor’s clerk so long vainly expected had come and of course Evan had no knowledge of the accounts nor where the books were. Evan had settled that Miss Casey should see him, but I shall call Tom up early and explain things to him and get Miss Oakley as she has done some book keeping for me on them. [50] February, (45–320) Wednesday, 14. 1900. Very cold and windy. The doctor did not come till quite late, and as Evan had told us not to go out before eleven lest Mr. (Cunningham, I think) the auditor should call us, we waited in till half past. He did call us a matter that is I hope now satisfactorily settled. After lunch we went to a matinée and saw the play Barbara Frietchie – quite a good one but, owing to the cumbrous stage setting required, there are three intervals of 15 minutes each two of them occur- -ring just at a crisis of feeling when it is bad to relegate the audience to outside influences. Read and finished David Grieve – by far the most interesting of Mrs Ward’s books that I have read and the most insidiously poisonous to our christianity. [51] February, (46–319) Thursday, 15. 1900. Stormy till afternoon. A few inches of snow have fallen. Baby had a bad night with her cough – and so did we! She also fretted a good deal in sympathy with Mrs Melvin who is parting with her eldest child. I wrote to Elisha. In the afternoon wrote to Virginia We rode to Hengerer’s and bought bedstead etc. for Mrs Melvin. I also got a doll for her child. In the evening struggled with a very poor light, studied Spanish, red “Irving” and crochéd. In spite of Oliphant’s assertion of his humility it seems to me that he had an inordinate appreciation of his position as a priest. His letters to his wife – oh dear, how solemnly pompous. Was she able to in- -flate with him! [52] February, (47-318) Friday, 16. 1900. Clear and very cold. Lila is uncertain as to whether she dares take the baby home tomorrow, as its cough is still bad. She gained one ounce. Weight 10lbs. 1 oz. [53] February, (48–317) Saturday, 17. 1900. Baby’s cough seems much worse, though she herself appeared bright enough. I had to leave to at- tend to things at home, and it was well I did, for Maggie was summoned away to a sick sister and of course Sashy would be untended. Then Virginia’s Archie has got either common or German measles which will run through the family. Virginia herself has an awful cold. Mrs Hays is ill with grippe-bronchitis and poor overdone Evan after two severe operations had to drive out there last night with the thermometer about zero. Sashy gave me no welcome whatever, being entirely absorbed in Maggie and some molasses candy. I galloped through two novels in my five hours journey and declined to be interviewed by Mr Milward telling him truly that I couldn’t talk on the carr. I detest that man. [54] February, (49–316) Sunday, 18. 1900. Evan was telephoned to by Lila last night that Baby was much worse and temperature something over a hundred. He cannot go to her, and this morning Miss Casey has nearly killed herself with overdosing with gelsemium to relieve neuralgia. Evan looks horribly ill. Wrote to Lila and to Helen Watts in the afternoon. Had a dear old Scotchman to preach for us. He dined with us, too. [55] February, (50–315) Monday, 19. 1900. Wrote to Neil MacEwen – Lila, Mrs. Elmore Miss Moynihan. Elisha came in while I was studying Spanish and spent a long time telling me about his lawsuit and also borrowed $4600. for two months, of which I advanced $3600 today. He is to give me a bill of sale on the engines and cars. Had a lonely evening as poor worn out Evan was with patients, and Tom and V. at a Y.M. C.A. concert. I sat up till they came home as I don’t like the children being left alone on the ground floor where no one can hear them if they wake crying. Lila telephones that the baby coughed incessant- ly all night but has been quieted during the day by some pellets. Weight 10 lbs. 2 oz. only one ounce gain in 3 days. [56] February, (51–314) Tuesday, 20. 1900. Such a brilliant, delightful day no wind and no thaw yet. Sashy and I walked to town and got him a larger pair of shoes: also went to see Mrs Rupert Poor exhausted Evan reached home after 11 last night and was out visiting patients before breakfast, and while he was gone came a summons to go to Ellithorp’s at Highland and that they wanted Miss E. Evan has driven out there now and will decide whether she shall come. Milward has asked to see me. He wants the prohibitionists to have social gatherings in each place and to have the W. C.T.U. join with them. Yah! Wrote to Mrs Andress about our local worker Mrs Strong — and to Dean Marshall. [57] February, (52–313) Wednesday, 21. 1900. Mailed our Penna RR. certificates receipts for conversion into certificates of stock. Tom was elected school director in our ward by a majority of 26 over Dr. Anderson. Dear Evan was out at Ellithorp’s twice yes- -terday, and was off this morning by six there again. Lila telephoned yesterday that the baby had lost two ounces. Evan hopes to go today to bring them home. Mary Field announces birth of grandson Robert Field Lidd[--] Wrote to her, and to Bailey Banks & Biddle. Evan started for Buffalo in the afternoon. V. T. & I walked to town and inspected the new cottage. Mr Milward sent me his schedule for proposed mid- -winter prohibition rally meetings and I forwarded it with a letter to Mrs Fritts. Wrote also to Helen making five letters today. [58] February, (53–312) Thursday, 22. 1900. Evan brought Lila and her troop to Kane but he has taken poor wee Blanche to the hospital as he thinks she has whooping cough. Lila has gone over to settle the babies. And since she left Willie’s crossness has shown itself in the German measles eruption, which Archie is just getting over. I have such a tired feeling in my limbs, more than my walk would account for and that pain in my left lung – perhaps it is only gaseous dyspepsia! Poor dear Evan, he has work and anxiety enough to break his heart. Dear old Toni left early for the Y.M. C.A. Convention so there is absolutely no help for Evan. [59] February, (54–311) Friday, 23. 1900. Blanche, her nurse and the other baby were taken to the hospital as Evan says she has whooping cough. Her weight on Wednesday had gone back to ten pounds. Willie has the German measles out slightly, I think, though it does not show any more today than it did yesterday. I wrote a reply to a letter from Jean Foulke, and must write notices for next week’s meeting. Wrote to Mrs Richmond Evan was twice out at Highland last night and is almost dead with overwork and anxiety. He was only in bed 3 ½ hours, and has two severe operations today, while the hos- pital seems to have erysipelas developing from that dirty old Neville. Little Willie seems very sick. We are overwhelmed with dismay at the brutal behaviour of the British to Cronje’s army. [60] February, (55–310) Saturday, 24. 1900. Wrote to Mrs Alice Hirsch and Mrs Louise Parsons Heavy snowstorm. Baby has gained 2 oz. that is, since the 19th – weighing now 10 lbs. 2 oz. [61] February, (56–309) Sunday, 25. 1900. Frightful blizzard, with the thermometer at 10º below zero, I would not have gone to church but that Toms being away at the Y.M.C.A. convention made me feel as if I ought to uphold young Marvin, the assistant. I had nine, out of sixty four present so I was glad I went, but I really ached in my lungs. What must it have been to poor Evan tramping on foot all morning and in the af- -ternoon going out to Highland. I am so thank- -ful to hear that he has reached the hospital on his way home. I saw the dear wee baby this morning. She had a better night. [62] February, (57–308) Monday, 26. 1900. Clear today and still very cold. I am trying a patent ink fountain of Evan’s. I don’t know whether my ink is too thick but it certainly doesn’t seem to run very well. Baby’s cough very bad but she weighed 10 lbs 4 oz. Tom got back in good spirits. Elisha’s RR. made its first run into Smethport. I did not go out at all as the weather was so cold. [63] February, (58–307) Tuesday, 27. 1900. It was well that Tom got back, for the water pipes burst, and but for his plumbing skills I don’t know what we should have done. The thermometer was 10º bel. at zero, but the sun is shining and warmer weather is fore told. Wrote to Elisha and to Mrs Shaw of Wellsborough. Baby had a bad night and day, but weighed 10 lbs. 6 oz. [64] February, (59–306) Wednesday, 28. 1900. Wrote to Mrs Morrison, declining to go to the Brookville Memorial Home. Baby only weighed 10 lbs. 5 oz. Had headache all day. [65] March, (60–305) Thursday, 1. 1900. Baby weighed 5 ½ oz: had a fair night. Soft snow and rain: wrote to Helen and began a paper for the nurses’ graduation, which I finished and Evan approved, later in the day. [66] March, (61–304) Friday, 2. 1900. Wrote to Sabina, drove to town with V. and held a busy W.C T U meeting which always tries me a good deal. Hemmed 22 towels on the machine, and did some crochet. Studied a little Spanish. The day was stormy. We are very much saddened by the defeats of the Boers. [67] March, (62–303) Saturday, 3. 1900. Wrote to thank the Johnsonburg Paper Co. for $100. Filled up a lot of Hospital cheques: wrote to Mrs Fritts. Called on Mrs Bunce, did some shopping, read my Spanish Testament. I do that every day. [68] March, (63–302) Sunday, 4. 1900. Archie Wright here. Told us of an Italian attacking him with a sharpened stick and threatening to take his life. I think Archie had been very teasing. Zella and Elisha drove out in the sleigh this afternoon. One ob- -ject was to warn us on Mr Arney’s authority that T’s father had served time as a burglar. Wrote to Helen. Day not cold but snowy in the afternoon. [69] March, (64–301) Monday, 5. 1900. Wrote to the lecturer, Miss Murcartt and to Mrs E. M. Fritts about engaging her for the Fall Convention. Wrote to Haug’s Library to see if they would dispose of a second hand copy of Mrs Oliphant’s Life of Irving Wrote for coloured wools to Wanamaker. Paid telegraph and china bills, bought stamps, drove Lila to the hospital. Resumed reading lessons with Sashy as his kindergarten teacher after keeping us waiting for months has accepted a post in New York without warning us of her intention. Called on Dr. Spangler’s wife: forget her name at this minute) (no, now I remember it) with Virginia. [70] March, (65–300) Tuesday, 6. 1900. Spent a long time in preparing answers for questions on W.C.T.U. topics to be asked at the social tomorrow. The day was too stormy to go out. Wrote to Mr E. H. Sibley and to the Auditor General and destroyed both copies of the latter letter, after I had finished, finding the letter unnecessary. Mended sheets, and worked on quilt, studied a little Spanish. [71] March, (66–299) Wednesday, 7. 1900. A regular March howler! Mrs. Quigley was clean- -ing my room, so I taught Sashy and worked in the Blue Room till now, eleven o’clock, when I’m going to write to Helen. Tom has taken V. and L to the Chautauqua Desk Factory. We had a social in the evening at Mrs. Tillie McCoy’s. The weather had ceased to be bad and the moon was struggling out, but walk- -ing was too slippery for safety. This kept some away, and a C. E. social, of the Congregational church detained others so there were only about 24 including four Kanes and five Mc.Coys. [72] March, (67–298) Thursday, 8. 1900. Tom took the early train to B Mt J. to see if he could learn anything about the Penna RR engineers and whether they are more likely to run to Buffalo via P Wilcox or Kane. Wrote to Mrs Fritts: heard Sashy read. Anna Cook left finally. We started to have a pleasant home evening when Tom returned from another trip to Mount Jewett. This time he met the P.RR. engineer who was cordial to him, having been a member of the First New 
Jersey, a regiment with which my darling had much to do, so for his sake the man was pleas- -ant to Tom. He says no money will be spared if they carry out their plan, even making tunnels through two ridges and a second Kinzua Bridge. But Tom thinks it quite likely that it is all a bluff. To go back – Tom was called to meet Evan at 8.30 for an appen- -dicitis operation with Virginia to help – so our evening was done for. I could not sleep and at 2 A.M. the boys were called out to Mabel Bray who is dying from a mis- -carriage. [73] March, (68–297) Friday, 9. 1900. Mabel died today. Poor weak misguided girl. I wrote to Professor Henrietta about the li- -brary, to Leary’s about Life of Irving, to Wana- -maker to order a book for an old minister. Drove the girls and children on an errand sleighride. The temperature was delightful but the air seemed to give me cold in my eyes. Worked a little read a novel, taught Sashy. [74] March, (69–296) Saturday, 10. 1900. Sweeney fired a letter signed by all the doctors in town, except Doane, asking as to the privileges of the doctors in regard to patients in the hospital. It worries us very much. [75] March, (70–295) Sunday, 11. 1900. Stormy and detestable. The Sunday School class was saddened by poor Mabel’s absence. Lila and I went to the funeral. The house was packed, so that many people could not gain admission. After wards we had to sit so long in the sleigh with the bitter snowstorm driving in our faces that the solemn impression changed into one of cowering discomfort. Evan had to go to Kq. to see Mrs. Ashbaugh with Dr. Burdick. The latter is in trouble over the newspapers attacking him to having given a Swede, Heglund, a prescription for a hint of whiskey when he was already passing through an attack of drunkenness. The man died in the lockup with the bottle, empty, in his possession He was a spree drunkard, and hard heart disease [76] March, (71–294) Monday, 12. 1900. Send off our P.RR Receipts for Stock All day taken up with anxious meetings of our Board of Directors about the alcohol question. The matter was referred to Elisha for decision and a new meeting ordered for Tuesday evening. [77] March, (72–293) Tuesday, 13. 1900. In the afternoon Lila and I after calling at three places and leaving cards went to the Methodist Missionary meeting. There were forty or fifty women: the topic was Alaska and the subject was most interestingly handled by Mrs Bunce. There was a well arranged pro- -gramme, and then refreshments, croquettes, salad sandwiches, sweet pickles or preserves, cake, coffee and ice-cream were handed round. I felt like the Queen of Sheba on seeing Solomon’s glory. No wonder our society died. [78] March, (73–292) Wednesday, 14. 1900. Couldn’t settle to work with my mind, as I am distressed for Elisha. Judge Morrison has decided a suit against him, shutting his RR. off from a surface crossing near Farmers’ Valley of the Shawmut and Great Northern. An over- -head crossing is out of his power both on account of the expense and the fact that there isn’t room to get down again to a grade to join the W.N.Y & P. He had arranged a sale of bark for $60.000, $15.000 of which was to be paid in cash, and he relied on it to pay his notes. Now he cannot deliver the bark within ¾ of a mile of the place. Oh how much trouble he has. I sewed and cut out Willie’s frock. In the afternoon I did some shopping visited Baby, Mrs Louise Parsons & a new Sunday School scholar Bertha Weiss. [79] March, (74–291) Thursday, 15. 1900. Thermometer 10° above with a driving snowstorm. Elisha went away last night. Wrote to Hattie, to Sabina and Cora Wise. Worked on Willie’s dress and on some nightgowns. [80] March, (75–290) Friday, 16. 1900. We had quite a large Mothers’ meeting at Mrs Campbells, in spite of a bitter wind and snowstorm. Passed resolutions against “Sapho.” [81] March, (76–289) Saturday, 17. 1900. Thermometer 5° bel. zero. with bitter wind and some snow so that sleighing was good, but neither I nor the children ventured out. Evan operated on Agnes Craw- -ford for Appendicitis. Hers was a very bad cases as the appendix was in a mat of old adhesion and suppuration had begun in the new attack. Elisha and Zella came in to spend the night. Rev. J. Vernon Bell is our guest over Sunday. [82] March, (77–288) Sunday, 18. 1900. It’s not quite so cold: 10° above, and snowing at this hour, 9 A.M. Agnes passed a better night than Evan anticipated. Sashy is six years old. He would have finished the Second Reader but for Miss Welter- -oth’s keeping us expecting her to open her school. [83] March, (78–287) Monday, 19. 1900. [Page is blank] [84] March, (79–286) Tuesday, 20. 1900. [Page is blank] [85] March, (80–285) Wednesday, 21. 1900. Icy cold. I was at the annual meeting of our Ladies’ Aid Society where I was one of the minority on the question of lowering the dues. We hear that the doctors of the town intend to petition the legislature to stop the grant to our hospital: think they will hardly do that [86] March, (81–284) Thursday, 22. 1900. Lila has just telephoned that Baby Blanche has scarlet fever. What a calamity! Tom and I are going to Philª this evening to see Dr L. Webster Fox about my eyes, which give me a great deal of trouble. [87] March, (82–283) Friday, 23. 1900. All day having my eyes tried or attending Dr Fox’s clinic where I saw many varieties of human misery, among others a man’s eye was taken out and a glass ball put in the socket. If the operation succeeds the ordinary glass eye is slipped in and the patient can move the new eyeball as freely as the seeing eye [88] March, (83–282) Saturday, 24. 1900. My new spectacles were very successful. [89] March, (84–281) Sunday, 25. 1900. A pretty long Sunday. We went to Dr McCook’s church and found a supply. Then we walked past Mary F’s old home and out on the Darby Road, till we were blue, and then after dining in the P.RR. restaurant we wrote letters and then Tom escorted me to Pat’s and went on to the Y.M.C.A. where he had a delightful afternoon. I went “down among the dead men” with Pat and had a sad afternoon, but I think he was gratified – But “Alas for that gray shadow once a man!” I’m thankful that my dear husband wore out instead of rusting out! We tea-d at the P.RR. as Lily apologized for being unable to have us, and left on the night train. [90] March, (85–280) Monday, 26. 1900. Reached home on time. Found that Agnes Crawford had been so near death that Elisha and Zella were staying in town. Baby Blanche with her nurse and baby have been removed to the Rupert’s house. Two of the nurses have the scarlet fever lightly. I was busy all morning sorting any purchases, washing my hair and paying bills. [91] March, (86–279) Tuesday, 27. 1900. Snowy still [92] March, (87–278) Wednesday, 28. 1900. Finished my Non-Alcoholic Medication paper but it is so poor that I hope to re- -write part at least [93] March, (88–277) Thursday, 29. 1900. Working hard on the By Laws. [94] March, (89–276) Friday, 30. 1900. Evan went out to beyond Mead Run to attend a crushed man, whose leg he did up and then the man was brought to the hospital. Lila, Virginia and I went to Mrs Jones’ Evan- -gelistic meeting. It was a detestable day, raw and snowing, but still plenty of women could have been out and there were only three or four besides ourselves. [95] March, (90–275) Saturday, 31. 1900. Evan had a long operation 2 ½ hours on a woman, a charity patient from Emporium, who had been badly bangled at the Medico-Chi. But her in- -testines were so matted together by adhesive inflamma- -tion and the ovaries so diseased that her case is al- -most hopeless. He performed hysterectomy. Agnes Crawford and Miss Rooney are both doing well. In the latter case he for the second time performed the new operation of turning the end of the appendix in like a glove finger. [96] April, (91–274) Sunday, 1. 1900. Bright sunshine and a cool but spring-like day. Evan was called to a confinement at Sackett, about sixteen miles from here early in the morning. The poor woman who was operated on yesterday bloat- -ed during the night and will almost certainly die. (Note. She was much better Monday night) Evan brought Mrs Alf to the hos- -pital, well advanced in labour, and is also this evening in attendance on Mrs Neil MacEwen. [97] April, (92–273) Monday, 2. 1900. Felt very inefficient and consequently very cross all day. I think I tired myself too much by walk -ing both ways when I went to town. our carriages are getting done up. Poor Evan had practically no sleep having been with Mrs MacEwen till 2.30 A.M. and not being able to compose himself when he did get to bed. Mrs. Alf’s baby was born on Sun- -day evening and Mrs. Mac Ewen’s this morning at breakfast time, or at least Evan was called away without any breakfast. Then he had a terrible laparotomy and hysterectomy on Mrs Kitts. He scarcely thought she would survive it. The others are doing well. I dressed Sashy read my Spanish chapter, went to town after hearing his lesson, went to bank, post office paid for ice-cream – notified Magowan about social bought rubbers for Sashy, visited Miss Dickinson, Agnes and Miss Rooney. On my return looked up some points in the Medical Journals, wrote a long letter to Catherine, paid servants’ wages, mended my dress, studied a little Spanish as I crocheted and read to Sashy. After tea put him to bed and then Virginia read me an interesting article on the North Pole and a story while I worked. [98] April, (93–272) Tuesday, 3. 1900. Yesterday’s bright morning closed with a little snow and there is a hard frost today. Have heard Sashy’s lesson. Evan and Tom are going to take out Wm Kitts’ dressings. I found in the Medical Jour- -nal yesterday a reference to catgut made out of putrid material being the cause of the abscesses that are giving surgeons so much trouble. [99] April, (94–271) Wednesday, 4. 1900. [Page is blank] [100] April, (95–270) Thursday, 5. 1900. [Page is blank] [101] April, (96–269) Friday, 6. 1900. Social [102] April, (97–268) Saturday, 7. 1900. Must have taken cold at that social. [103] April, (98–267), Sunday, 8. 1900. Grippe Bronchitis [104] April, (99–266) Monday, 9. 1900. Grippe [105] April, (100–265) Tuesday, 10. 1900. Grippe [106] April, (101–264) Wednesday, 11. 1900. Better but weak, and still having a coryza and cough, but hope to go this evening to Bradford and at least open the convention tomorrow. Mrs Jones and her child have grippe: she can’t go. V. can’t go, as she must entertain Mrs Ellis and look after the seven children and the new servants. Mrs Hub- -bard can’t go, and now Mrs Magowan, the last of the four delegates wants to back out. [107] April, (102–263) Thursday, 12. 1900. [Page is blank] [108] April, (103–262) Friday, 13. 1900. Came back with pain in right side that developed at night into pleuro-pneumonia and bronchi tis [Entries for (pages 109–112) are blank] [113] April, (108–257) Wednesday, 18. 1900. Feeling badly [114] April, (109–256) Thursday, 19. 1900. The feeling badly developed into diphtheria and my dear Sashy is worse than I. [Entries for pages 115–119 are blank] [120] April, (115–250) Wednesday, 25. 1900. Send off stock receipts – [Entries for (pages 121–128) are blank] [129] May, (124–241) Friday, 4. 1900. Relapse of Pleuro pneumonia [Entries of (pages 130–133) are blank] May, (129–236) Wednesday, 9. 1900. Right leg very painful [135] May, (130–235) Thursday, 10. 1900. [Page is blank] [136] May, (131–234) Friday, 11. 1900. Pain in right leg: This subsequently got much worse [137] May, (132–233) Saturday, 12. 1900. [Page is blank] [138] May, (133–232) Sunday, 13. 1900. Had to have morphin in my leg again [139] May, (134–231) Monday, 14. 1900. My foot and leg are much swollen Evan says I’ve got sciatica and milk leg from extension of anti-toxin poisoning. Am to be pou[---]ed all down the leg [Entries from (pages 140–151) are blank] [152] May, (147–218) Sunday, 27. 1900. Evan propped me up with pillows and I nearly fainted from fatigue [Entries from (pages 153–162) are blank] [163] June, (158–207) Thursday, 7. 1900. H. W. Watts arrived [164] June, (159–206) Friday, 8. 1900. Am so enjoying Helen’s visit [165] June, (160–205) Saturday, 9. 1900. [Page is blank] [166] June, (161–204) Sunday, 10. 1900. [Page is blank] [167] June, (162–203) Monday, 11. 1900. Helen suffering much with a gathering from a bad tooth but she insisted on reading to me nearly all day. She heard of Carrie’s safe arrival at Hull after a stormy voyage [168] June, (163–202) Tuesday, 12. 1900. Helen miserable all day with headache shiverings backache and face swollen on one side. In the evening Evan decided that the place for lancing was found and lanced into a deep abscess extending almost into the autrum The children delighted with the circus. [169] June, (164–201) Wednesday, 13. 1900. My precious Sashy left at 8.30 A.M. with my Rupert to spend a fortnight at her sister’s in Clarion County. I hope the change will give him some appetite. Helen is better. I seem to have some oedema of the left leg, curiously. [170] June, (165–200) Thursday, 14. 1900. [Page is blank] [171] June, (166–199) Friday, 15. 1900. [Page is blank] [172] June, (167–198) Saturday, 16. 1900. I was transferred to the big armchair and wheeled into Lila’s room for a change: felt none the worse Elisha was out here in the evening and spent the night. [173] June, (168–197) Sunday, 17. 1900. [Page is blank] [174] June, (169–196) Monday, 18. 1900. [Page is blank] [175] June, (170–195) Tuesday, 19. 1900. Helen left in the evening. Her stay has been a delight to me and I have gained in strength every day in her company [176] June, (171–194) Wednesday, 20. 1900. Every one tried to keep me from missing Helen, so that the day passed pleasantly after all. I was drawn into the nursery to see the syringa blossoms and sat with my feet hanging down for quite a long while. [177] June, (172–193) Thursday, 21. 1900. [Page is blank] [178] June, (173–192) Friday, 22. 1900. [Page is blank] [179] June, (174–191) Saturday, 23. 1900. I have started to walk from my bed to the chair and various points in the room leaning on Miss Ellithorp. [180] June, (175–190) Sunday, 24. 1900. [Page is blank] [181] June, (176–189) Monday, 25. 1900. [Page is blank] [182] June, (177–188) Tuesday, 26. 1900. Put on my ordinary clothes and was carried downstairs on Kings Cushion, and had a ride round the house in my chair. But felt my weakness, pains and aches so much that the glorious day was a failure as a triumph of convalescence. [183] June, (178–187) Wednesday, 27. 1900. [Page is blank] [184] June, (179–186) Thursday, 28. 1900. Evan took me for a little drive before dinner my first outing for eleven weeks. Everything looked so lovely, and it was well we went, for a tremendous gust of wind and rain came after dinner. [185] June, (180–185) Friday, 29. 1900. Sashy returned, with a cold but otherwise very well and evidently having been very happy. Old Dr. Detwiler came to see us in the evening, full of some process of renewing youth that he wanted me to try. “Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly race of man Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance Where all should pause, as is most meet for all.” Elisha returning from the Prohi. Convention encountered his wife. Mrs. Hays, Dr H. and Agnes Crawford returning from their trip on the train at Erie. Maggie came back on the same train. Evan took me a little drive but there was a high wind that set me sneezing. [186] June, (181–184) Saturday, 30. 1900. Mrs Ellithorp left early. High gale from N. W. [187] July, (182–183) Sunday, 1. 1900. [Page is blank] [188] July, (183–182) Monday, 2. 1900. My leg is swollen & painful from over use [189] July, (184–181) Tuesday, 3. 1900. Catherine arrived this morning. [190] July, (185–180) Wednesday, 4. 1900. [Page is blank] [191] July, (186–179) Thursday, 5. 1900. Tom and Virginia left for their Canadian camp taking Leiper with them. The wee man was in high spirits, and I hope that he may gain strength. [192] July, (187–178) Friday, 6. 1900. Crawford’s little baby died of meningitis at 9 A.M. [193] July, (188–177) Saturday, 7. 1900. Funeral of the Crawford baby. Elisha and Zella and Mr. Arney dined with us. Many thunder- -storms. [194] July, (189–176) Sunday, 8. 1900. What a season for thunderstorms. One follows an- -other, sometimes with only an hour’s interval. Lila took Sashy to church and he came home by himself, dear little fellow. His day has been happier than the last two or three because I have seen that he was occupied. He misses Leiper and the kindergarten here, and Effie’s company at Petersburg. Evan is distressed about a girl named Gallup who has peri-typhlitis. Thunderstorms This evening dear Sashy had a narrow escape with his life. Evan drove Catherine to church and took Sashy in the buggy. At the door when he halted for her to get out the horse took fright at two hooting engines and began misbehaving. Evan told Sashy to get out and the dear child puzzled and hesitating got his foot caught in the reins and could not extricate himself nor could Evan free him, since if he lowered the reins to let Sashy get his foot lose it would pull on the horse and to free the horse was to hang Sashy. Finally Evan told him to throw himself on his face and then Harry McCluskey came to his aid. [Entries from (pages 195–197) are blank] [198] July, (193–172) Thursday, 12. 1900. One succession of thunderstorms all the week. Yesterday evening Evan had to start in one of the very worst to Mead run to do up a man’s broken leg. He returned at midnight having had a very trying trip. [Entries from (pages 199–203) are blank] [204] July, (199–166) Wednesday, 18. 1900. The days are going on quietly. Evan and Lila are planning a trip to the Yellowstone by a new arrangement that won’t be half as good as one they are abandoning. I had been planning to take rooms at Chautauqua for August but in the event of their going to the Yellowstone I do not care to go to C. as it was really for them I meant the rooms. [Entries from (pages 205–208) are blank] [209] July, (204–161) Monday, 23. 1900. Walked upstairs without the least difficulty. [210] July, (205–160) Tuesday, 24. 1900. [Page is blank] [211] July, (206–159) Wednesday, 25. 1900. Really it is hard to know what to do with myself. My eyes tire pretty easily, and I cannot sew. I work on a crochet quilt – for Archie – and I read novels and write letters, but I can’t walk and I tire of everything so easily. Even a short drive gives me a hay cold. I have my Spanish phrase book but I cannot remember what I study – and then Cui Bono? [212] July, (207–158) Thursday, 26. 1900. I guess my blueness was for no better reason than a heavy cold. I am back in bed today [213] July, (208–157) Friday, 27. 1900. Sick [214] July, (209–156) Saturday, 28. 1900. Sick [215] July, (210–155) Sunday, 29. 1900. Sick [216] July, (211–154) Monday, 30. 1900. Pretty sick still but Evan and Lila have gone to Chautauqua hoping to have us follow on Wednesday [217] July, (212–153) Tuesday, 31. 1900. I’m to have a meeting of our union today here Am up but coughing and sneezing still [218] August, (213–152) Wednesday, 1. 1900. Reached Chautauqua with Sashy and C. and Maggie. Evan had a carriage to meet me and had engaged a very convenient room for me at the Columbia Annex, fronting the Amphi- -theatre. I was very tired for we had been kept awake by a violent thunderstorm in the night. One of the tanks was struck and the Standard’s alarm whistle sounded like some great animal in torture. Then we rose early to catch the “flyer” which as usual belied its name by being fifty minutes late. We knew that the train would not wait for us at Corry so we returned home. Tom drove me round by way of Tank Hill to see the fire. The men were still playing streams of water on the tank. We also saw that a beautiful, healthy hemlock near the roadside had been struck. [219] August, (214–151) Thursday, 2. 1900. Mrs. Fritts who keeps the Columbia is an inefficient old thing and serves no meals on time, so after trying one, Evan insisted on my joining him and Lila at the bailey, next door. Catherine, Evan and Lila went out rowing and bathing. [220] August, (215–150) Friday, 3. 1900. Catherine left in the afternoon, designing to finish packing at home and go to Newport on Monday afternoon. She had a fine time at Chautauqua, bathing and rowing every day, as well as taking all the lectures she could. I have started Sashy at kindergarten and will begin two classes in Parliamentary Law myself on Monday, taking half-courses so as to get ten lessons. [221] August, (216–149) Saturday, 4. 1900. Chautauqua [222] August, (217–148) Sunday, 5. 1900. Chautauqua. [223] August, (218–147) Monday, 6. 1900. Chautauqua [224] August, (219–146) Tuesday, 7. 1900. Chautauqua [225] August, (220–145) Wednesday, 8. 1900. Chautauqua. Lila feels the heat intensely, and is quite miser- -able: indeed she expressed herself as being in purgatory. Evan went home twice, returning without getting enough to eat, and one day he and Lila left on a 5.30 train for Buffalo, and were gone all day. The day was a disappointment to them as the operations were badly done and Evan could not conceive why he and other physicians were invited. He imagined he was to see the latest improvements skilfully done. [226] August, (221–144) Thursday, 9. 1900. Yesterday evening Evan was telephoned for, and drove all the way home, 74 miles. The patient, an appendicitis case, was as is so often the case dying when he arrived, and the intestines were black. Evan telephoned for Lila and she went home in the afternoon. I walked to the dock, sailed to Mayville with her (coughed all the way) and on my return walked up the hill. It was too much for me and I went to bed exhausted after tea. Tom and Virginia arrived about 5 P.M. They are occupying the room at Mrs. Chadwick’s that Evan and Lila left. [227] August, (222–143) Friday, 10. 1900. I think this day was full of enjoyment to dear Tom and Virginia. They sailed and swam and dived and went to lectures. I completed the little course on Parliamen- -tary Law, which I enjoyed. I can’t recollect the order of any of the lectures and concerts as this diary was left behind, but on the whole they were, either met up to what we have generally had, or else the hot weather, my own weakness, and the misery of Lila spoilt my enjoyment. [228] August, (223–142) Saturday, 11. 1900. I spent two hours at Sashy’s kindergarten, as Miss Page wanted to see the parents. Attended lectures as usual and a very fine stereopticon exhibition of a voyage round the world in a man-of-war. Very hot weather. [229] August, (224–141) Sunday, 12. 1900. Went to a lecture on Bible study from 9 to 10 in the Amphitheatre, and to the Communion Ser- -vice in the Presbyterian House from 10 to 11. Then took a lovely stroll with Virginia and Tom till noon, there being a fine breeze. After dinner a gust preceded a violent rain. V. and T. went to their cottage and I wrote letters. After tea we went to the evening Song Service, but the Amphitheatre was very damp and my bronchitis was the worse. [230] August, (225–140) Monday, 13. 1900. Sashy could not go to his swimming lesson as the day was raw and threatening but he went to kindergarten. I’m glad I decided to go home for the damp hurts me. T. and V. took another swim. I finished off Archie’s little blanket. While here I have read Hudson’s Law of Physical – Humph, I forget the last word of the title – and heard a lecture on “That Sublime Fool – the Sub-Liminal Self,” from Buckley. The most interesting lectures were from mission- -aries at home on leave, but there was less about China than I would have expected. [231] August, (226–139) Tuesday, 14. 1900. There was rain and wind on the little steam- -boat yesterday, and I feel pretty sick. Evan says I have over exerted myself, so I am back on medicines, and have to go to bed after dinner and not to get up to breakfast. [232] August, (227–138) Wednesday, 15. 1900. After a few days of misery. Leiper is violent -ly ill with measles. Bess is beginning to show it. I had a very queer letter from Ed- -ward Bell. He says he is a black sheep. [233] August, (228–137) Thursday, 16. 1900. Leiper rather better, poor Bess getting worse. Lila hopes that Willie has had a light attack. We had a tremendous thunderstorm in the night. Tom was busy at our church’s tent from breakfast till midnight, Virginia helping when she could leave the children. The N. W. Countie’s Firemen’s Convention is here for three days, and all the churches are serving meals. The W.C.T.U. has two barrels supplied with iced water, and the Grand Templars another. These with the two fountains have kept many people from the taverns I hope. Wrote to Edward Bell, Helen and Sybil Wright. I am sending her my blue silk party dress, as I think the fashion now is not un -like what it was 47 years ago, and Sybil’s size is more like what mine was than any of my relatives. The waist was 20 inches: mine since my illness is nearly 30! [234] August, (229–136) Friday, 17. 1900. I feel much better today. Am reading Motley’s Dutch Republic and have been writing up this diary as I sat on the porch. Both children are a little better: none of the others sick yet. I still fudge along a little at my Spanish, and today I have written up quite a lot of letters and done some mending It is a perfectly delicious day. [235] August, (230–135) Saturday, 18. 1900. Evan, Lila and Sashy took a picnic tea some- -where, and Tom took V. and little Archie to see some races (which were a failure) in the afternoon yes- -terday, so I had a good deal of my own society, though Virginia sat with me in the evening. Tom went to help in finishing off the tent work. She tells me that our iced water barrels were just stood down on the sidewalk instead of being up on a frame so that any one could throw trash into them, and no one could draw from the faucets, but just had to dip the cups in. I fancy that my $5. is thrown away. Lila and Evan, Virginia and Tom took a picnic tea this afternoon and did not get home till ten P.M. They sent poor Dr Hays up to keep me company and we got very tired of each other. She looks as white as a ghost. [236] August, (231–134) Sunday, 19. 1900. A happy Sunday. All of us at a lovely Communion service at the Congregational Church Read the long preface and two of the sermons in Farrar’s Eternal Hope in the afternoon, as well as the Literary Digest. I also wrote to Helen and began a letter to Florence. We spent the evening on the North Porch. [237] August, (232–133) Monday, 20. 1900. Rainy morning. I have been busily occupied in writing all day. Finished a long letter to Florence, begun yesterday, wrote to Janney about an offer for Schuylkill Point, to Hoskins about an error in his bill, receipted for $300 and sent it to Phila directed 13 W.C.T.U. letters, and attended to sundry bits of business. Dr. Hays in bed with rheumatism, Miss Casey with pneumonia and Miss Mac Millan the matron with appendicitis: what is Evan to do with the hospital? [238] August, (233–132) Tuesday, 21. 1900. I’m delighted to find my cough markedly bet- -ter. As it was a rainy day, I spent all the morning altering two summer dresses, and part of the afternoon in darning a fine table cloth. I have to do a little every day as it hurts my eyes. Spanish and Motley as usual I have bought a beautiful cut glass dish, price $10. for Mrs. Weeks in remembrance of her kindness while I was sick. [239] August, (234–131) Wednesday, 22. 1900. Wrote to Helen: had a little drive; sewed and studied [240] August, (235–130) Thursday, 23. 1900. Lila drove me about town a good deal in the morning after which I translated Spanish. In the afternoon called on Mrs Strong about her superintendency, and left Lila’s card and my own on Mrs Halliwell. I darned at the table cloth and made headway in Motley. Sashy has been complaining all day and is probably beginning measles. [241] August, (236–129) Friday, 24. 1900. Sashy is feeling better enough this morning to go out to play. I am busy preparing for our annual W.C.T.U. meeting. Re-elected by acclamation with a nice speech from Mrs McCoy, as Pres. of the Union. [242] August, (237–128) Saturday, 25. 1900. So much toothache last night that I deferred my visit to Elisha till I interviewed the dentist Am to go with Sashy and Maggie this P.M. unless his cough and cold prove to be measles. [Inserted is a newspaper clipping about an operation performed by Evan and Thomas Kane] [243] August, (238–127) Sunday, 26. 1900. Sashy’s cough lasted all night and by eleven A.M. the eruption of measles appeared. Little Harry had been sent away as soon as breakfast was over, and Elisha drove Maggie and Sashy home after dinner. I heard two very good sermons from a Junior Professor (tutor) of Bucknell named Fisk. I suffered much from toothache. It was flattering to end up our visit so abrupt -ly. [244] August, (239–126) Monday, 27. 1900. I reached Kane in a violent rainstorm and waited in the station till the worst was over when I hoisted bag and umbrella and made my way to the office. Heard that poor Dr. Hays has poisoned her finger. Evan is giving it hot air treatment which he hopes will check it. Sashy is doing very well. Zella has suddenly gone to see an aunt, on the ground that she cannot go after her children take the measles. [245] August, (240–125) Tuesday, 28. 1900. Sashy had a restless night and so did poor Evan for they telephoned to him from Warren to hold himself in readiness to go to a case of strangulated hernia on the flyer (Now I’m writing on Wednesday, and speaking of Tuesday night) On Tuesday morning I went on errands with Lila, but did not walk as my leg was much swollen with Kushequan exertions. At five after severe toothache the dentist drew my left, lower wisdom tooth, and I was so glad that Evan came upstairs to Felt’s office and advised its being done at once instead of waiting. [246] August, (241–124) Wednesday, 29. 1900. Evan left on the “flyer” for Warren, and did not return on the 11 A.M. I slept in the Blue Room and mistaking 6 for 7 A.M. got up and had my breakfast with him. Toni took me a lovely drive which left me with my usual influenza, and toothache almost as bad as ever. Sashy is quietly playing by himself as he was so irritable yesterday when dressed and playing with Leiper. The eruption on his face is beginning to fade. Wrote to Helen, to Mrs Hauck, and to Mrs Louise – the two latter about The Bulletin. [247] August, (242–123) Thursday, 30. 1900. Bad toothache all day. Sashy very cross [248] August, (243–122) Friday, 31. 1900. Sunday school picnic at our old Kane Place, Tom there all day, Virginia for as long as her pickling preserving and babytending allowed till the afternoon when she went with me to poor Mrs Jones’ nice prayer-meeting. Only myself, V. Mrs Palmer and a new member Mrs Davids were there, outside Mrs Parsons and Mrs Evans who held the fort as Congregationalists. [249] September, (244–121) Saturday, 1. 1900 To the dentist’s at 9 A.M. He worked at me for an hour leaving something (arsenic) in a tooth to kill the nerve. Wasn’t good for much the rest of the day but studied a little Spanish, knitted a little and read a good deal of Motley’s Dutch Republic. Wrote to Mary Field and to Mrs. Burnett. The poor Warren lawyer died from exhaustion. His name Charles T. Peterson I think Evan performed three operations. Dr Hays is worn out. [250] September, (245–120) Sunday, 2. 1900. Archie was sunburnt looking yesterday, poor baby. This morning he seems to have measles. It is a beautiful though very hot day. I woke very early but lay in bed reading till the clock pointed to a quarter to seven. Rose, dressed and found the clock an hour too early! However, the morning was too sweet to miss. Wrote to Helen before church, to which Lila took me. [251] September, (246–119) Monday, 3. 1900. Archie full of measles. Evan was dis- -appointed of starting for St Paul today as he had to go to perform appendectomy on a boy of 15, son of the supt. of the Glass Works at Hazlehurst. Lila drove me on errands – to Post Office, to Mrs Barlow’s, etc. [252] September, (247–118) Tuesday, 4. 1900. [Page is blank] [253] September, (248–117) Wednesday, 5. 1900. [Page is blank] [254] September, (249–116) Thursday, 6. 1900. Sashy quite ill with summer complaint. [255] September, (250–115) Friday, 7. 1900. Hardly any one at our meeting this afternoon so I shall call another for next Friday. Sashy is better. [256] September, (251–114) Saturday, 8. 1900. Received and answered letter from K. L. Schuyler Evan and Lila returned this afternoon from St. Paul looking like ghosts. Evan has been sick with cholera morbus, and has lost three pounds, reducing him to 112 lbs. He found all the hotels in St. Paul full when they arrived there at 11 P.M. and after driving in rain to several a friendly cabman got them a room over a liquor store. The trolley cars ran by every few minutes, keep- -ing them awake. Then St Paul and the cars were very hot (96 in the Pullman) and the mosquitos annoying. The contrast to the delicious freshness here was great. [257] September, (252–113) Sunday, 9. 1900. Communion Sunday: a lovely peaceful day. A baby was baptised, its father making profession of faith, its mother joining us on certificate from the Methodist Church, and its grandmother from the Scotch Hill Presbyterian, so three genera- -tions were represented. Evan was very weak and wretched all day. [258] September, (253–112) Monday, 10. 1900. Beautiful weather, though too dry, the dust being very bad. Evan is better. Most of us have headaches today. I wrote to Miss Mur- -cutt, Mrs. Palmiter, Mrs. Field and Mrs. Cham- -bers – all W.C.T.U. letters. Tom slept ill. He has to go to Smethport about our suit. [259] September, (254–111) Tuesday, 11. 1900. Another exquisite, breezy day though very hot. Tom telephones that another case precedes ours. Evan was up and down all night with a confinement. Wrote to Mrs Allen and to W.T.P.A. Called with Lila on poor Mrs. Hirsch. Finished draft of Hospital Report, knitted read Motley’s Dutch Republic and learn- -ed a Spanish lesson. The lawyers Jenks and Stone proposed a compromise which my sons agreed to accept but the Council wouldn’t under Mac Ewen’s influence. V. read aloud in the evening a very interesting paper on the Troglodytes of Cap- -padocia. Evan only went as far as Ormsby where he met Tom and agreed on the compromise. [260] September, (255–110) Wednesday, 12. 1900. I left Evan, Lila and Virginia sitting on the lawn in the moonlight, and I was waked at four by a violent gale which had raged for hours. It brought to mind the horrible storm at Galveston on Sunday. Our house is not damaged except an awning blown down. Evan was called out to Swoap’s at three and did not sleep again. I couldn’t sleep after four and the servants were too frighten- -ed to sleep at all. Evan left on the 7.35, feeling unable to stay away from Tom at Smethport as the dear fellow will be badgered by lawyers. I wrote a long letter to Helen and now I’m going to study Spanish. I have made two half curtains on the machine, too. Finished two frocks for Archie. [261] September, (256–109) Thursday, 13. 1900. My family insisted on my going to the Buck- -tail Reunion at Ridgway so off I go on the 3.25 train. Tom is already there and V. has gone to Kq. on her wheel and fancier she can catch my train and change her dress all in ten minutes [262] September, (257–108) Friday, 14. 1900. Came back from Ridgway with T & V. on the 11.28 having had a very dull time and feeling very tired. Was met with the announcement that the Council accepts the compromise. Ten days remain for the citizens to object in. If there is no “nigger in the woodpile” I shall be only too thankful to cease to be at variance with my fellow-citizens. Evan is as much opposed to the compromise as Tom and I are in favor of it. [263] September, (258–107) Saturday, 15. 1900. Beautiful but wind-stormy day. Drove out with Virginia on her errands and wrote letters, also studied Spanish, read Motley’s Dutch Republic and finished altering a dress and the last of two pairs of baby’s socks. [264] September, (259–106) Sunday, 16. 1900. I have a curious pain in my right side: I don’t know what it is, as it seems both outside and inside my ribs. I have a slight cold and cough, too, and Evan threatens to prevent my going to Convention. A gray threatening sky hangs over us this after- -noon though it was bright enough at church time. Leiper was taken out violently sick, probably from irregularity in eating yesterday. Sashy went to church with me and has spent the afternoon quietly in my room. He was at first in one of his perverse moods, but as soon as I gave up my book and showed him pictures and Bible stories he sweeten- -ed up and has since amused himself. [265] September, (260–105) Monday, 17. 1900. Evan and Tom left for Wilkesbarre in the evening to attend the meeting of the State Medical Society Evan has to read a paper there. Elisha and Zella put in an appearance at bedtime last night and left, after an early breakfast to take Agnes Crawford to Edinboro Normal School. The day turned out raw and rainy. They were uncertain if they could return on the late train but I sent up for them and delighted they were to be met and to find a fire going in their room as well as in the library. I had a long and tiresome time at the dentists but he finished filling the tooth whose nerve he had been trying to kill. Did a good deal of errand driving and called felt better. [266] September, (261–104) Tuesday, 18. 1900. Finished, I hope with the dentist. As it was a beautiful clear cool day after the rain I enjoyed some errand driving with Lila , and while she was having her eyes examined I walked to the Post Office and back from Evan’s office without fatigue though with some pain in my ankles. I spent a long time rewriting my President’s Address so that some one can read it in my place if I cannot go. I also prepared various papers that will be needed for Exec. Com. work. Virginia worked all day potting plants for winter in spite of being covered with Hives. The attack is really severe. Evan and Tom left for Wilkesbarre last night. [267] September, (262–103) Wednesday, 19. 1900. This is the day for Miss Murcutt’s lecture and I expect to be very busy, as I want to take Sashy to school for the first time. If I am able to go to the Convention tomorrow I could not be home to enter him on Friday as I intended. The Misses Murcutt are staying here, uninteresting women. Poor Sashy wilted right down with fright at school in the big room but he felt better at the afternoon session as little Carl André came out to take him by the hand and led him in. [268] September, (263–102) Thursday, 20. 1900. No Convention for me! It rained and I knew I ought not to venture. Lila went, with the two Misses Murcutt, taking my Ad- -dress and papers. Evan and Tom came back from Wilkesbarre and Sashy was taken to school by Evan. The lecture was not well-attended. The collection was $8.75 and the expenses $16! [269] September, (264–101) Friday, 21. 1900. Evan went to Kinzua and back, operating on Dr. Knapp’s mother for cancer. Another pa- -tient was ordered to come up for operation: stones in the gall bladder. I did not go to the Convention this morning as it then threatened rain, but it cleared up beautifully. However, Lila says I could not have walked the distances. [270] September, (265–100) Saturday, 22. 1900. I went with Tom after dinner to where he is having Nohlquist make an opening into the clay above the cannel coal vein in the woods beyond the Penna Glass Works below our old home. It reminded me so of old times, but instead of one of my own little boys my grandson was skipping over the stream and a young Tom was helping the “white-haired shadow wandering forlorn.” Ah well, I have a very very happy life and my illness aged me so much that it won’t be very long before I leave the dear ones here for the dearer ones beyond. I had a quiet happy day with books and work. Tom and Virginia went to Kq. on the train and returned on their wheels. Evan had a hard day’s work of operating. He took out I think 185 stones from the woman’s gall bladder. I am re-elected Co. President [271] September, (266–99) Sunday, 23. 1900. Cloudy morning. Stayed to S. School for the first time since my illness, but was in the Bible Class, Virginia teaching mine. [272] September, (267–98) Monday, 24. 1900. Such a perfect morning! Wrote to order bulbs for winter and spring. “ to Wanamaker two orders “ to Mrs Fritts W.C.T.U. business “ to Helen “ to Mrs L. E. Bailey W.C.T.U. [273] September, (268–97) Tuesday, 25. 1900. [Page is blank] [274] September, (269–96) Wednesday, 26. 1900. [Page is blank] [275] September, (270–95) Thursday, 27. 1900. Quietly spent at Elisha’s. [276] September, (271–94) Friday, 28. 1900. They telephoned that Catherine had come, so I returned in the evening. Zella and Elisha came up on the train to Mt. J. and E. stayed with me for the hour before my B L & K train came. I saw very little of him on this visit as he is very busy. Evan and Lila left yes- -terday driving to Clarion Co. [277] September, (272–93) Saturday, 29. 1900. Rainy day so did not go out. Catherine was in my room a large part of the day sewing and sitting out and reading aloud. Zella came in and secured our former “maid”, Bessie Olson. [278] September, (273–92) Sunday, 30. 1900. Lovely autumn morning. After church sat with Catherine on the porch watching the children crying and playing. Finished Farrar’s “Eternal Hope.” [279] October, (274–91) Monday, 1. 1900. [Page is blank] [280] October, (275–90) Tuesday, 2. 1900. [Page is blank] [281] October, (276–89) Wednesday, 3. 1900. Exquisite day. Out most of it. [282] October, (277–88) Thursday, 4. 1900. Cloudy morning, clearing up brilliantly. I had plen- -ty of driving about with Lila and Tom and worked on the reports. If I could get the number of charity days [283] October, (278–87) Friday, 5. 1900. Tom went to Oil City. [284] October, (279–86) Saturday, 6. 1900. Catherine and I left in the evening for New York via Phila so as not to travel on Sunday. [285] October, (280–85) Sunday, 7. 1900. All of a gloomy close day in Philadelphia [286] October, (281–84) Monday, 8. 1900. Reached Helen about 11 A.M. Rained furiously in the afternoon. [287] October, (282–83) Tuesday, 9. 1900. Rained all day so Helen and I stayed at home. [288] October, (283–82) Wednesday, 10. 1900. Helen at the Home all day. I took a walk by myself and was discouraged to find how little I could do. [289] October, (284–81) Thursday, 11. 1900. My beloved darling Sashy was operated on for appendicitis. Tom telegraphed to me after the operation and I came home by the first train I could catch. Sashy had a hard day of suffering, they tell me. [290] October, (285–80) Friday, 12. 1900. Reached home early in the morning. Sashy was doing quite well though complaining much of thirst. Temperature 100 average and pulse 112 to 114 [291] October, (286–79) Saturday, 13. 1900. Sashy had a fine night: temperature 98: some difficulty with his water. Did well all the rest of the day Evan had another operation for appendicitis on a young Irishman, and one on a man from Ohio [292] October, (287–78) Sunday, 14. 1900. Sashy is doing splendidly. Mrs Craven had a son this morning, so poor Evan was up from half past four and he has an operation at 8. [293] October, (288–77) Monday, 15. 1900. Wrote to Sabina thanking her for books: and was out a good deal errand driving with the girls. My precious is doing well. [294] October, (289–76) Tuesday, 16. 1900. Raw and rainy at intervals: turning cold but was out twice with Lila Finished correcting proof of Report: wrote to Mrs Chambers declining for Zella appoint- -ment as a State Supt. and to Washington about rooms for Convention. [295] October, (290–75) Wednesday, 17. 1900. An exquisite day. Sashy slept beautifully and Evan will try to take out the stitch today. The wound was sewed with Evan’s long stitch. I have been making a very pretty lilac dressing gown for him, and have only the buttonholes left to do, and to make an outside pocket if my scraps will permit. The stitch is out without hurting him and the wound looks beautifully. [296] October, (291–74) Thursday, 18. 1900. Sashy spoke two or three times of something itching under his ribs, not a pain but a hurt [297] October, (292–73) Friday, 19. 1900. Sashy’s “itching” proves to be an ulcer where the upper button was attached. [298] October, (293–72) Saturday, 20. 1900. A beautiful day, Sashy had a ride, carried in his fathers arms, Lila driving as far as Monson’s ice-house. I am trying to alter last winter’s dresses enough to get into them. [299] October, (294–71) Sunday, 21. 1900. After dinner Evan took me out to tell me that the thief whose peculations have been worrying us had been detected in the chil- -dren’s nurse (temporary) Miss Kehoe. She has been a patient in the hospital nearly two years, Evan finding her light employment since she has had the partial use of her arm. [300] October, (295–70) Monday, 22. 1900. Miss Kehoe’s sister also a patient is in- -volved in the thefts, but my brooch is not found, nor any of the missing sheets and towels. It seems like a kleptomania she has purloined so many useless trifles among the more important. She seems not in the least penitent. [301] October, (296–69) Tuesday, 23. 1900. [Page is blank] [302] October, (297–68) Wednesday, 24. 1900. Everything for this day written by mistake on the next page. [303] October, (298–67) Thursday, 25. Wed. 24th 1900. Early this morning Zella called Evan to say that Elisha had a chill in the evening and his head seemed very hot. Evan caught the train, break- -fastless and went out; found that Elisha had a severe attack of pneumonia, the whole of the right lung being aff consolidated. Tom and a nurse went out on the ten o’clock train, Evan returning at noon and going out in the evening when Tom came in. Lila and I spent our whole day scouring the country in a vain search for a servant for poor Zella and for a nurse to take Theresa’s place till she is well. This was the night of Cora Davis’ wedding but I had no heart to go. Tom and V. went. [304] October, (299–66) Friday, 26. Thursday 25 1900. Another lovely day. Tom has gone to Smeth- port to attend to business of Elisha’s. Evan got home at midnight, being afraid to stay long away from Lila, and went off on the morning train. He reports Elisha as doing better: temp. 102° resp. 20. Friday was a lovely day. I had Sashy out driving as he has been for a short time daily since Sunday. He is easily tired and says his wound is uncomfortable when he is held on my knee. Otherwise he runs about freely and is in the open air all day, yet seems to have no appetite. Tom bought Miss Russell up to me to dictate what I know about the Kanes. [305] October, (300–65) Saturday, 27. 1900. Just by chance I asked Evan to look at at Sashy’s scar this morning preparatory to taking off the plaster altogether, and there was a tiny opening of an abscess! The child is so patient that no one suspected any mischief. Evan opened up the wound and found the catgut knot making trouble, as he had feared it might. He, Sashy, seems as jolly as possible, having got over the chloroform, and while he is willing to lie abed he is playing as he lies on his back. The Y.M.C.A. Convention is going on, and Evan did the operation while I was unsuspectingly at a lecture. This P.M. he and Tom have gone to Kq. The reports from Elisha so far are splendid. I have spent a good deal of time marking counting and sorting linen this week as a dozen sheets with towels and pillowcases in proportion have disappeared. I think Miss Kehoe is not guilty of these, but Mrs Kelly and the Thomson House [306] October, (301–64) Sunday, 28. 1900. Rose as usual at six, and found Evan waiting to consult with me about Lila, whose condition had alarmed him so much the night before that he had had a consultation with Tom. She has hydramnios and if her time is not till Feb. he does not think she can endure it. – To make a long story short, we left with her on the noon train for Buffalo where she was examined by Dr. Mann. He thinks she will be confined early in November, and that there is a poor chance for the baby, wh. is very small. The danger of flooding for L. is great: oh dear! Evan will have terrible anxiety over the case. [307] October, (302–63) Monday, 29. 1900. Lila had a better night than usual, her mind being a little less worried about her future. We returned on the R & P. flyer and she rested at Mrs Wilcox’s for nearly two hours while we waited for the Kane train. Evan went down to see Elisha whom he found doing well. [308] October, (303–62) Tuesday, 30. 1900. Rained in the night but promises to clear. Sashy’s wound is discharging. He looks bright. Lila had no sleep. [309] October, (304–61) Wednesday, 31. 1900. A day of miserable pain for Lila. I was told of her having been in the first stage all night so this morning I moved all my things out of the Blue into the Gallery Room which were a truly wonderful accumulation, and then had the room scrubbed and made ready. I tried to be with poor L. as much as possible. [310] November, (305-60) Thursday, 1. 1900. Poor Lila got through a miserable night, and now at half past nine, has driven with Evan to leave Willie at his grandmother’s. Theresa had several boils lanced, making 16 in all, so she can hardly do more than creep about with Blanche Sashy’s wound is improving but he must still keep his bed and he requires all Maggie’s attention. Miss Ellithorp was sent for in the night but while L. has suffered so much as much as for a confinement her walls are so thin from distention that she has no con- -tractile energy. [311] November, (306–59) Friday, 2. 1900. Poor Lila still hanging on. I try to be with her as much as possible when Evan has to be away. [312] November, (307–58) Saturday, 3. 1900. All this week has been one of suspense about dear Lila who has dreadful nights, but rallies in the daytime. She has not strength to give birth to the child. Sashy has been out twice in his go-cart. I went out with Lila on errands in the morning but she soon had to drive home. What shall we do with Leiper? He plays truant, plays with fire, does not obey any one, yet is most lovable warm hearted and generous. [313] November, (308–57) Sunday, 4. 1900. Beautiful weather. After a miserable night Lila feels better. Evan looks as wretched as he feels as he thinks labour ought to be brought on. We (Tom, V. and I) went to church and Sunday School, and had a very pleasant time. [314] November, (309–56) Monday, 5. 1900. We were up nearly all night with Lila, who bore boy-twins at a quarter to one. They were not seven months and lived only a few minutes. I baptised them Lewis and Rupert. Lila seems to be doing pretty well this morning. [315] November, (310–55) Tuesday, 6. 1900. Election Day. I hardly stirred out, going in the afternoon for a walk as far as the cow-barn with Sashy. Leiper was in dire disgrace for truancy. Evan was out at Kq. to see a woman whose husband had infected her with syphilis. E. had a tiny cut in his finger and although he washed carefully and iodized it promptly or at least as soon as he got to Elisha’s he cannot feel safe. May God protect him! Lila is doing well. The R. & P. has notified Elisha that they are going to take off the trains that connected with his road. It is a great loss to him. Wrote to Florence: studied Spanish, knitted on Evan’s socks. [316] November, (311–54) Wednesday, 7. 1900. A very rainy day. Virginia Tom and Bess started for Mount Morris. Lila is in a great deal of pain with her breasts but doing well otherwise. Wrote to Helen. [317] November, (312–53) Thursday, 8. 1900. [Page is blank] [318] November, (313–52) Friday, 9. 1900. [Page is blank] [319] November, (314–51) Saturday, 10. 1900. Elisha and Zella were here and very miserable about their business affairs and the necessity of deciding whether to move to town or not. Owing to their being here I did nothing The trustees selected 53 acres out of their first 70. [320] November, (315–50) Sunday, 11. 1900. Mr. Shelley was chosen pastor. I would rather have kept him on as supply, not valuing him much. Evan drove him to Kq. [321] November, (316–49) Monday, 12. 1900. Tom drove me over early and I attended to various errands and went to the dentist. The rest of the day I did small jobs of knitting sewing and writing so as to be with Lila whenever she wanted company. The Park trustees have not finished selecting their 70 acres. [322] November, (317–48) Tuesday, 13. 1900. Oh dear, Evan says that another abscess seems to be forming in the place where the other catgut was, and that he fears he must open again tomorrow. Poor Sashy is very un- -happy about the prospect, and so are we. Tom has gone on subpoena to Smethport. Lila is beginning to sit up. Snow threatening. [323] November, (318–47) Wednesday, 14. 1900. Did not go out all this stormy day, till night when Tom and I went to a lovely show of Moving Pictures. Dear Elisha’s affairs are in a terrible way, and I cannot help him: will have to borrow the $5000. I must pay on those lands. Daisy Martin’s case is given up. [324] November, (319–46) Thursday, 15. 1900. A stormy snowy day. I wrote a long letter to Cousin Mary Field, of whose severe illness Mary Liddell informs me. Tom and I spent a long time going over the “Park” parcels and selecting about $53.000 worth on the basis of the compro- -mise though I think we are entitled to more. We loan them $5000. taking it out in land, and as the land amounts to a value of nearly $105.000 they should get either $50.000 worth, or on the other understanding they should have a total of $47.500 and we of $57.500. In either case our title will be un- -disturbed in future and we can use land on which we have paid taxes without benefit for nearly thirty years. We hope to find sala- -ble value for enough of it to enable us to keep certain parcels as home-woods. Went in the afternoon to carry books to a sick woman, a neighbour, as it was so dreary a day. [325] November, (320–45) Friday, 16. 1900. We had an interesting meeting at Mrs. Palmer’s and read alternately a synopsis of the laws of Pa. affecting women and children. [326] November, (321–44) Saturday, 17. 1900. Evan’s auto-mobile arrived today. I hope it won’t prove costly in more ways than one. [327] November, (322–43) Sunday, 18. 1900. A soft spring-like day. Many of the teachers being absent I got Tom to let me teach the lads in Mr. McCoy’s class. I enjoyed it, whether they did or not. Sashy went to church with us and behaved well. Lila came down to dinner for the first time and had a short drive in the morning. In the afternoon Evan had to go to Fort Agnes, Elisha’s farm on the hill. [328] November, (323–42) Monday, 19. 1900. Evan brought the patient in last night for operation this morning. His new auto-is leaking gasoline out of the tank. Tom and I drove out in the afternoon to see the properties on the West side that we propose taking and leaving, and then away down the Wetmore Road to look at N. V and O. from a distance. It was a soft gray day, ending in rain. Before that I walked to Davis’s to call on the bride: then was hailed by Mrs Mattern to go in to see an old time resident, Mrs Searles, and then I saw Mattern down with typhoid fever. In the evening went with Tom in spite of the rain to see an Impersonator–a Mr Day, in the Y.M.C.A. course. It was very good. [329] November, (324–41) Tuesday, 20. 1900. Wrote to Wanamaker about the boys’ clothes. “ “ Klickensderfer Type Writer Co (did not send till 21st) “ “ Mrs. Louise Parsons. Tom’s nose is excessively painful with Herpes. When he comes in from the Well he must lie down and have applications. Evan intends to go to Pittsburg to meet the Board of Public Charities. Wrote James Shields [330] November, (325–40) Wednesday, 21. 1900. Wrote a long letter to Helen: worked on a little over-pinafore of gray linen bordered with chintz flowers for Archie. Studied Spanish; was to go to a dime social of the Ladies’ Aid but there was a terrific gale. [331] November, (326–39) Thursday, 22. 1900. Tom and I went to prayer-meeting late. It was a warm thunder and lightning evening with showers. Tom’s derrick on the Orcutt farm blew down last night: one of hundreds. [332] November, (327–38) Friday, 23. 1900. Heavy winds and rain. Tom busy all day with stuck gas-wells. Word keeps coming in of the heavy losses to life and property in Wednesday’s gale. [333] November, (328–37) Saturday, 24. 1900. Another steadily raining day. Evan drove 70 miles in the 24 hours, for he drove through the mud to Kinzua to perform an operation which he did not to do after all. He returned to a late tea to find that Elisha was imploring him to go to Kq. to help Burdick with a man who was crushed by a log train. So off he went again not reaching home till 3 A.M. and then he was too tired to sleep. Poor Elisha has got ringworm I went out in a pause between rains but was driven in. Studied my Spanish: finished El sí de las Niňas – a little play; finished Life of Mary of Lorraine, and began that of Lady Margaret Douglas in Miss Strickland’s Scotch series; read Weir of Hermiston; worked on a little charity sack I am embroidering and pottered about various odds and ends of housekeeping. Tom came in late for tea, soaked with rain and with a toe lamed by dropping a tool on it, but in good spirits at finishing and connect- -ing up two wells – one RDK at N. Kane: the other on the Hedman farm [334] November, (329–36) Sunday, 25. 1900. We have had a very rainy week but today seems the most hopeless. I woke before five and lay abed reading. This is Temperance Sunday and the Sunday Schools and preachers everywhere are asked to observe it. Tom has a list of articles which could be purchased for family use by the money that three beers a day would consume in a year. Evan was waked last night at one o’clock by Miss Casey’s frantic ringing central to try to get a policeman to eject two drunk- -en men who were trying to get in the hospi- -tal. She drove them off with a revolver. Then at three he was called out to a confinement. He only reached home at breakfast time. [Entries for (pages 335–338) are blank] [339] November, (334–31) Friday, 30. 1900. Wildly busy all day, settling accounts and try- -ing to have everything in order before leaving. Was at our Evangelistic prayers-meeting: most of the women had been personally drummed up by me. [340] December, (335–30) Saturday, 1. 1900. Gray skies: frozen ground: packing for my start to the Convention. [Entries for (pages 341–346) are blank] [347] December, (342–23) Saturday, 8. 1900. Lila, Sashy and Maggie joined me and we went down to Atlantic City, reaching there about noon. The Shelburne is a delightful hotel in every way, but our bill is $12 a day. The sea looked gray and sad and I think Lila and Sashy were much disappointed, but that will pass. [348] December, (343–22) Sunday, 9. 1900. Lila and I had a very good sermon in the Presbyterian Church. [349] December, (344–21) Monday, 10. 1900. My dear Helen joined us at lunchtime. It is Sabina’s treat, and makes our stay delight -ful. We read aloud, sew, and walk. [350] December, (345–20) Tuesday, 11. 1900. Lila tries to be out of doors either walking or riding in a chair almost all day. She is quite a convert to Atlantic City. [351] December, (346–19) Wednesday, 12. 1900. Atlantic City. We took Maggie and Sashy to a matinee where an acrobat did won- -ders and the child enjoyed it but not so much as Maggie. [352] December, (347–18) Thursday, 13. 1900. Atlantic City. Helen, Sashy and Lila are wonderfully better. [353] December, (348–17) Friday, 14. 1900. Left Atlantic City: the sea wind gave me toothache and neuralgia, but I sent money for Sabina Watts to go to spend Saturday and Sunday with her mother. We spent the whole afternoon shopping at Wanamaker’s. [354] December, (349–16) Saturday, 15. 1900. Reached home from Atlantic City, and finding many letters to answer worked till I nearly fainted. Evan gave me ammonia and strychnine. [355] December, (350–15) Sunday, 16. 1900. [Page is blank] [356] December, (351–14) Monday, 17. 1900. Went out to Kq. Spent the evening gumming envelopes and folding letters about the Anti-Canteen Bill. [357] December, (352–13) Tuesday, 18. 1900. Worked all day with Zella, finishing off 2340 letters. [358] December, (353–12) Wednesday, 19. 1900. Maggie left to go to Erie and thence to Washington and I am to try how Sashy gets on without her. [359] December, (354–11) Thursday, 20. 1900. The Senate has voted down the Anti-Canteen Bill, allowing the free sale of beer while refusing wine and spirits. The Republican Party is in the hands of the brewers. Elisha’s letters could not have reached the ministers in time, but if they read them the reminder that the General Assembly was squarely against the Canteen, may strengthen some temperance men. I wish our minister was not so flabby. [360] December, (355–10) Friday, 21. 1900. Meeting of the W.C.T.U. on the Conven- -tion. [361] December, (356–9) Saturday, 22. 1900. Walked all the way to town and back. There is hardly any snow. Finished little Willie’s cushion and a pink chair cover for Virginia. Poor Sashy was rude to Rev. C. A. Jones and had to go over and apologize. Mr J. is a gentleman and evidently took it in the proper way. Virginia is very busy with church decorations. I have doleful letters from my older friends with whom Age is dealing unkindly and it makes me feel sad. [362] December, (357–8) Sunday, 23. 1900. A mild day raining only occasionally, but I have decided not to go to church, having a meaty sore throat. I started a coryza but Tom has dried that up with some lozenges of camphor, some other ingre- -dient of chlorodyne and evidently belladonna for my throat and nose are dry and I find reading painful, so I’ve been tidying my room. Afternoon Evan thinks that Leiper has diphtheria. Oh, I hope, I hope he is mistaken! [363] December, (358–7) Monday, 24. 1900. Whatever it is that Leiper has it isn’t diphtheria Two more houses placarded on Bayard Street. I have a bad cold: so has Lila [364] December, (359–6) Tuesday, 25. 1900. [Page is blank] [365] December, (360–5) Wednesday, 26. 1900. Writing letters to finish up Christmas and necessary business. Wrote to Mrs Fritts to appoint meeting Blickensderfer To say type writer didn’t come Dr Topham Thanks Dr Hays “ and enclose cheque for Mrs H. Mrs Rice about unprepaid freight Cortina For German Records enclosing $11 Miss Casey Thanks Catherine Remailed English letter Cousin Mary Field Helen [366] December, (361–4) Thursday, 27. 1900. Well it was that I wrote those letters yes- -terday, for in the afternoon Evan put me to bed with orders to keep absolute silence and neither to read nor write and he had Miss Quin to attend me. [367] December, (362–3) Friday, 28. 1900. Bed [368] December, (363–2) Saturday, 29. 1900. Bed [369] December, (364–1) Sunday, 30. 1900. Bed [370] December, (365–) Monday, 31. 1900. Bed till noon. Miss Quin left. [371] Memoranda New Year’s Day 1901 Evan had me down to dinner and I think the talking didn’t agree with me though I tried to keep silent. But as he had to go to Kq. to see a Mrs Franklin after dinner and as Tom, V. & L., went with him as far as Mt. J. our guests, Dr Hays and Spangler remained on my hands for awhile. I have occupied myself busily with letter-writing, accounts for the year, payments of dues, Spanish etc., and am well in every way except that my cough continues. Consequently today Friday Jan. 4. I can’t go to our meeting. Tom is busy with the description of our se- -lection of Park lands and I spent a couple of hours going over it with him. Also I type wrote instructions for our meeting for Virginia. Monday, Jan. 7 Boys started on the new school term: don’t know whether Sashy will be able to keep up in Miss Boyd’s room. Leiper is in Miss Howe’s [372] Memoranda Jan. 22. Queen Victoria died. Our dear Leiper is very ill with pneumonia: temp. reaching 105° [373] Memoranda [Page is blank] [374] Date. Cash Account...January. Rec’d. Paid. 1 Citizens’ Gas Co. Dividend 600 2 Warren RR “ 42 Spring Water Co. 345 54 Kane Gas Light & Heating Co. Div 875 “ T. L. K.’s Salary 500 Discount on Renewal of Davis & Kane [--] 29 77 9 Oil on Disputed A/C 1744 13 “ sec §49 121 36 Have bought for self 7 shares P. RR 350 ordered for Proportionate a/c 20 shares 11 Elisha paid interest on Renewal of Note, and gave new one for $5220.74 365 45 (one year) secured on Kinzua & Riterville 12 Bought 20 shares P.RR at 130 ½ <$1305> Com. on Purchase 1.25 1306 25 At my death C.M.E.B. is to have the dividends on the above 20 shares for life. the principal to belong to my heirs. 15. T. L. K. paid me in repayment of his share of gas investment – principal 2000 Int 70 2070 18 Pension for 2 months to Jan. 4 60 __________________ 6753 05 1656 25 [375] Date. Cash Account...February. Rec’d. Paid. 1 Received of F. W. Perry Bal. on Stock 12 50 Mrs T. R Parsons Union to County Work 3 3 “ County for Capt Hunt’s Memorial 2 2 2 Brenholtz Rent on Lilas house 10 Oil on Tidewater Line 210 34 6 Paid to Evan’s a/c for Buffalo 22 Spring Water Co. Div. 159 BK “ “ “ from E. K. K. 63 BK Brenholtz on Lot, dated Jan 24 10 ½ year’s Int. on Lake Shore Bonds of BK N.[-]. Central & Hudson River RR 70 6 Have drawn cheques favor T. L. K. 500 Board of Pres. Missions Freedmen 5 5 Oil from §49 226 58 New Ext. of CB&Q 20 March Spg Water Co. Coupons 120 March 6 Oil from §49 149.08 “ Kanesholm farms 326.61 475 69 Have loaned Elisha Jan 1 & Feb 19 6000 “ 30 E. K. K. repaid on a/c of above 1000 <$200> April 7 “ “ Discount on Note Oct 15 to 8 mos 9 33 Discount on 600. 8 mos 28 “ “ 1409. 60 1 yr 98 67 21 Oil Kane 316.95 Kanesholm [---]588.03 905 38 Holgate Co. 16.68. Warren RR 42 58 68 [376] Date. Cash Account...March. Rec’d. Paid. Paid Bill out of $210.34 for [-]el Cloth for hospital [377] Date. Cash Account...April. Rec’d. Paid. 19th June 1 Deposited ck from P.RR. this is for 4 90 surplus of dividend of Studs Also ck. of P.RR. for Div. on $1000 25 6 Oil on Kanesholm Farms 350 60 9 Water Rent for 1899 Mt Jewett 220 13 P.RR Div. on 20 shares (C.B.) Phila 25 June 15 EKK renewed note for $200 and sent cheque for $3.50 discount 3 50 June 28 Gas Light & Heating Co. 1250 July 2 T.L.K’s Salary 500 Dividend on Kemp & Kane 850 “ “ Del & Hudson 42 “ Lot in Mt Jewett Fantine R. Burdick 199 50 3 Div. on Citizens Gas Co. Only 1000/c/. 1200 14 Paid off Note on a/c Erulicut Gas Lands 2625 16 Pension received 90 “ Davis cheque for $52.95 disc on Note 52 95 52 95 rec’d and sent for dep. a/c T.L.K. July Spg Water Co’s Note TLK’s salary 420 Hudson RR Semi-an 70 Aug 13 Div 8 o/c Holgate Bros. Co. 80 20 Tank Lot Rent 300 23 M.D. Oil 154.73 bbls @ 1.25–1.99 191 42 ___________________ [378] Date. Cash Account...May. Rec.’d. Paid. Aug 24 Drew from Phila Bank 1474 34 To discount notes of A. Miller 500 “ 400 Gaffney Bros. 599.84 1499 84 making 25.50 gain [379] Date. Cash Account...June. Rec’d. Paid. Sept 8 W.D. Oil 42.59 bbles 53 24 26 W.W. Estate On a/c of Capital 92 47 Oct 12 Pension Office 90 17 Warren RR. D. L&W. RR 42 28 J. Davis’ share of discount on note 12 76 Nov 24 Spring Water Co. Coupons due Sept 135 (HAK Trustee repays $15 coupon No 7) “ C.B.&!, Neb Ext. coupon due Nov 1 20 26 Gaffney’s Note repaid: proceeds put in Fidelity 599 80 29 P.RR Div. 47 shares 58 95 “ Extra Div. 50 c of share 23 50 Dec 6 Kanesholm Oil through EMK 693 27 §49 June 6/ 160.11 July 18/ 121.39 Dec 1 341.52 $623.01 less Taxes 406.98 216 04 18 M.D. Oil 147 89 Dec.28 Rent house at East Kane Pump Station16 “ “ Kanesholm Oil from EK Kane 107 04 “ “ Mrs Harp money from T.L. Kane 63 33 31 K.G.L.& H. Co. Div 15 00 [380] Date. Cash Account...July. Rec’d. Paid. 1901 Jan 1 K.G.L. & H. Co. div on $2500! 1500 “ “ Share of Tom’s salary 500 Div. on Albany & Susquehanna RR. 42 Guaranteed by Delaware & Hudson 7 Div citizens’ Gas Co 720 16 Oil on §49 29 16 17 “ M.D. (Tiona) a 1.35 11 87 19 Kanesholm Farms Oil 170 19 §49 “ 82 99 Feb 1 Int. on Lake Shore Collateral Bonds of N.Y. Central & Hudson River RR 70 [Pages 381–385 are blank except for pre-printed headings regarding cash accounts for each month of the year] [Pages 386–397 are blank except for pre-printed headings regarding bills payable for each month of the year] [398] [Page is blank] [399] Lime Water 3 oz Cream 8 “ Milk 16 “ Barley Water a a 48 oz Sugar of Milk 5 – 6 even Tablespoonsful Equal parts 8 oz. in 6 bottles, plug with cotton, keep in a cold place. Feeding for healthy child of 6 months Dr. Snow of Buffalo. [400] EKK Jr. weighed Sept 13. 1900 40 ½ lbs [401] LEGAL HOLIDAYS [Lists of Legal Holidays and Days of Grace] [402] Nov 5 EKK Jr. weighs 42 lbs. Dec 14 “ 46 Atlantic City CALENDAR FOR 1901. [Inside back cover full pre-printed 1901 Calendar included]