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VOL.'I.—NO. 9.
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LOCAL QUIZ.
New potatoes, home raised, are ready
for the table.
Tuesday was the longe it
the hottest day of the year.
Mr». Harris of Hockessln removed to
Milwaukee, Wls.,
ul perhaps
Wednesday morn
ing.
Miss Bella Williams, of near Wil
mington, visited friends in the vicinity
on Tuesday.
Robert Justis was in Wilmington on
Wednesday.
J. B. Underwood, of Philalelpbla,
will shortly remove to Marsballton.
Thomas Twaltes, a former engineer
at the Kiamensi Woolen Mill, has sailed
for England.
Lincoln Elmer, of St. Lawrence, Mo.,
, Is spending a few weeks with iiis
brother, Frank Elmer.
Joæph H. Chamber*, of btanton,
was appointed guar Jim over hti child
by the Orphan's Court, last Satur
day.
The Kiamensi Gun Club defeated the
Grubo's Corner Gun Club, last Satur
day, by a score of 121 to 116.
David Eooff and George W. Spicer,
of Marshallton, were in Wilmington ou
business, last Monday.
Lewis Greenwalt, contractor, of L in
deuberg, is building a house at Els
mere,
Harry Smith, of Germautowu, has
leased the photograph gallery
dywine Springs. 7
A colored excursion of fifty, from
Wilmlngtoa^- spout Wednesday at
Brandywine Springs.
L^Mtss Marie Hayes, who has been
ft-achiug school at Graeu Spring, re
turned for her summer vacation
Wednesday.
Publio school No. 33, closed yester
day. Miss Amy R. Piser, the popular
school töaeher, has returned to her
fume in Middletown.
A leap ybar party will be held In Bur
gees' Grove, Hockessln, on Fiidav
. venlng, July 1st. The patrones3-s are
Mrs. John Burgess, Mrs. E. A. Thomp
son, Mrs. Frank McVaugh. Com
mittee, Misses Marion Burgess, Alice
and Anna Thompson, Margaret Camp
bell, Emaline and Mary Me Vaugh and
Mary Pyle,
An enterlainmeut will bo given in the
hall at Btanton, by the pupbs of tho
public school, on Thursday eve-dug,
the 80th Inst, for the purpose of raising
money to purchase a flag to place ou the
school house.
There are threo candidates for the
Republican nomijation for Bout Com
missioner of Christiana Hundred, at
follows: Ellis Hicks, George W. Thomp
son and John Lowther.
Letters of administration have been
granted to Anna M. Bough mm, of
Marshallton, administratrix of Louisa
M. Walker, late of Mill Creek Hun
dred.
W. W. Vansant, of Plensint Hill,
who mysteriously disappeared from his
home last Thursday, relumed on Fri
day evening.
Howard Jordan's, Star b. g. made
second time In the four-year-old trotting
race at Hare's Corner, last Friday.
Frank Dll worth, of Aslilaud, has be
gun harvesting his hay crop.
Several races were run oo Thur»d iy
the course of the Valley View Truck
Assoc'atlon, iKJJo^easIn, » y
Dr. Griffith, of Philadelphia, has
been spending a few days with John
Ball, a classmate.
Ripans Tabules cure indigestion.
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ALMOST A MURDER.
Parker Smith Again Figures in the
Ejes of the People by Stabbing his
Wife and Shooting his Moth
a
d
Pari ei Smith, colored, who was re
cently released from jill, wlieie be
served a sentence of one year for assault
ing Joseph L'-ach, is again ln trouble.
L ist Saturday he had a quarrel with
his wife, at the home o his father,
Thomas R. Smith, and succeeded in
s abbli.g her twice and shooting his
mother.
About 12 o'clock the quarrel began
with his wif?, which became sa heitid
t iat he picked up a »hot gun and at
tempted to shoot her. Hls mother, who
was near, tried to prevent him from
discharging the weapon, but in the
attempt received the lo.d in her lund
Not satisfied ui h tills, Smith diew a
pen-knlie end stabbed Lis wife iu the
bead and in the side.
After doing this he startsd at once
for Dr. L. II. Ball, aud then went to
UreeuDauk, where his sister live -, and
returned with her t> the ho.<86, feanng
tnat he had killed his mother, us the
injury s' e received was not inten ie>>.
Dr. Ball dressed the wouuds nf
Smith's wife, finding an aitery seveied
ln her head. It required sevrai
stitches to dress this wound. T ie
elder Mrs. Smith's hau l wa» badly lac
erated. The doctor found th it the
shot had lodged in the back part of the
band and that It wus impose hie to r -
move it, rendering it rather danger
ous.
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In tua meantime the younger Mrs.
BrnittTvT^nt to the home of her sister,
Martha Bari, WiidL lives in the teue
mei.t house of Armstrong
Smith followed her shortly after war •,
but was not » llowed udmLsion, for fear
ot doing h r lurther injury. Both the
wounded women will tecover Iu :» short
time unless something uotois -eu oc
erai
and
curs.
Smith dbwppe ired about 8 o'clock iu
the eye nhig t^aud ha» not beeu seen
slue
e is suppose 1 to h ive left the
r Constable Porter has the mat*
rin band.
Excl emtnt ran hi^h after the affair,
> sue' an occurrence has never been
Lown iu the vicinity.
1 Train Movenienis ut Faulklaiul.
From Wilmington and for Landen
., 11.22 a. m. 3.29
berg, Daily, 5 28 p.
p in.; except Sunday, 7.42. Suuday
only 9.49.
For Wilmington and from Landen
Lerg, Daily, 7.14 and 11.80 a. in., 2.05
6.13 p- ro- Except Sunday, 11.30. a.
Mails.— From and to all points
the Landenberg branch, 11.22 a. in. and
2 05 p.m.; from and to Wilmington,
7.14 a. m. and 5 28 p. m.
Ripans Tabules relieve hausoa.
BEFORE 'SQUIRE RICHARDSON.
Mssia. D ckey & Cuaudler, of Stan
ton, opea their creamery
mornings to receivd the milk furn shed
by farmers residing in the vicinity, and
also to operate tbeir separator for about
two hours to extract the cream there
from. This necessary work was ob
jected to by some of the members of
the M. E. Church, and the result was a
complaint, to Esquire Richardson, at
MarshaLton, who summoned Messrs.
Dickey & Chandler lietoie him on the
evening of June 19th to sho* oause
why they should not he
Que and costs for (heir violaiiou of the
Sabbath. '
A large numb r of farm rs were
summoned, who testified tbat If the
Cieamery should be closed
morning they and 'their families would
be out j cted to the lerformance of a
great deal Of wor* iu taking care of
the milk and washing pans, etc. The
Squire aftei hearing the testimony or
both''slues said that while per o.tally
opposed to bun ay work lie felt, it to
be his duty to sustain the managers of
the creamery, and if the complaiuauts
did not agree with him they could cariy
the case to a higher court.
They replied that ti.ey were satisfied,
and were will lug to acquiesce to the
decision of the squire. All the cream
eries take In milk on Bund iy a-.d this
is the fir il complaint that has thus far
been heard of.
Sunday
ulcted into
Sunday
John Kramer was Bhof and killed in
Washingtou, D. C., by T. G. Arnold,
of Texas, an employe of the Post-office)
Department. Arnold claimed that he
thought Kramer was about to fire at
him. 4
Mrs. John Taylor, an bumble resident
of Anderson, Ind., has fallen heir to
$5 000,000 by the death of her bachelor
brother.
Ripans Tabules cure biliousness.
Green Robinson ( of Villa Rica, Ga-,
killed Mary Williame because she re
fused to marry him.
M. Ross was whirled in the shaftlug
at Round Lake, Ga., and killed
The "Independent Bung Factory"
and other properties at Elizabeth, West
Virginia, were destroyed by Are, the
loss amounting to over $8CU,000.
A freight collision occurred in Bt |
Louis by which nearly 100 feet of the
Twelfth street bridge was demolished.
It is estimated that the damage exceeds
$60,000, and traffic over Hie bridge will
be suspended for nearly a month.
A storm of extraordinary severity
raged in Minnesota, und In the south
ern-central section developedinto a fear
ful cyclone. Five counties-Jackson,
Martin, Faribault, Freebern and 15 ue
Earth, were devastated, and the nurn
her of persons killed Is ; » nseivatlvely
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The levee at the Bayou Sale, West
Feliciana, La., broke, letting in the
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A little nloe-vear-nlfl sin O.irri,
")**. robllng the
V. Va. °° " IeS 3 oni "* 0D -
A pet coon and rattlesnake, put in a I
box at Cinnlnnati, O., to fight on a
bet, fouu ht 80 minutes, the suaKb be
ing killed. i
estimated at from 40 to 50.
water over nearly the entire town.
Thomas Ohelsea B au, who gave up
the ghost In Bonlmro Tf!., soinu |
months ago, left $10,000,000 ami no
will or known relatives, and there are
■>ver 10Cf claimants abeadv
An engineer named A. V. Robinson
and three Italian laborers were killed
by th*4 wr« Jk of_a /umatmcHon dr.«in
which ran I^to some cattle near Glad -1
stone, Illinois. Twenty-flve others are
injured. I
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A freight train on the James River
division of the Chesapeake and Chio
Road Jumped the track between Lees i
and Stanard, Virginia, killing Englme; !
Richaxd Bclater and wrecking engine,
and train * I
A part ot the Ke tucky Melting i
Company's plant at Louisville w.,ï 1
burned, the loss amounting to $135.« i
* V '
000
Judge Bright Morgan, or Hernando, I
Mtsslsslppl, was shot aud killed, on the 'l
Illinois Central trjlu on his way to , 1
Memphis, by Lawyer Henry Foster. I
a delegate to the .Chicago i
n, „
a Chicago^ dwefling^Mattl^ Homan!
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the'Â'lo ÏÏTeTi 'in' 1 ,,® 0 " 1°
the porch to see a tight in the yard,
when the supports of the porch gave
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Two 100-foot-long apans of the great
Northern Pacific bridge over Clark's I
Fork river, Idaho, have been burned 1
d °^ ,n * t, , ... .
Borne Bel rast (Me.) young men
tarred and feathered Ernest Richard,
i^ ea . r f °ï' an * d roulai to, because he
paid attention to "L-z." Kelly a white
woman of 80 and shady character.
Morgan
Convention.
A passenger train on the Grand
Trunk Railway coming west r.n off
the track near Hllihurst, Quebec,
owing to a washout. The engineer,
fireman and express messenger were
killed.
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A car on tho electric rail way between
Wellsville and East Liverpool, Oiiio,
jumped the track rolled down the ba:ik ;
of the Ohio river. There were 25
passengers on board. The oar turned
over twice before It stopped, and a to
' h ® ÏTS w, re badlï I
hurt, but none were killed. '„„a
Marc J. Pendleton, the actor, was The
found dead Id Wade Park, Cleveland,
a bottle of chloroform by his ride. He
was in very ill heath, aud was threat
ened with losanitv.
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i nVt 66111 ° f a drn - en 8pTVe a i of
erai light occurred at Gregir, Wyoming, ing,
between a squad of colored cavahy
town Une »"ïe" Äre^wL "kllSS 1
and two were wounded " Boh
• at
•FOtin v. Buggies, who, with hls n
youug< r brother, Charles, robbed the
Xer n MÄme" wife S?," to
Wood land) 1 CalBornuT ill tora^esperae
flvht, In which ltuggles woe mmullv ,
wounded y fog.
rpv,- ..
rv3« e re ®^ en ^ a the town of Gufiford, ^
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— Oorneil University has opined a I* a
dairy school, where ehet sa aud butter . coal
and feedin « »re Hie |
Buuject ror study, pany
Ripans Tabules : best liver tonic.
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rt f"l I f'» K i ESBAnRE ' Pfl —Hoorge Fishe",
?» LA! 1 -' F et,Jined n '' mo »»d phis
tnat he found that John Washington
was temporarily fl! ing his place at the
domestic fireside. Before Washington
could leave, Fisher produce! a pisfol
and fired at him, the bullet enter
ing his heart and killing him inatant
Shot and Killed While Rescuing
Woman From Her Husband.
iy
ATTEMPTED TO BRAIN HIS WIFE.
Then seizing an axe he attacked hi 8
wife and striking her several blows in tie
head, nearly killed her. She will not
recover.
intoxicated at the time
and after he sobered up be expressed
the most profound regret at the the oc
currency At the hearing he stuck to the
story that on coming home he had
found his wife aud Washlneton
together, but other witnesses testl
, . a J the hearing that Wash
ington had not left Ills own house
Habt, mna. It la said, he
KSdÄtrS
of the same house
After a hearing the murderer was
sent to jail wifhout bail. He has two
pretty children, and the parting with
them was most affecting. Fisher has
done but little except weep and moan
»luce the murder, and refuses to tie
iieve that his victim is dead. Fisher
has always been a peaceable man, and
drink was his only fault. He was at
tempting to escape when arrested. 2
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THE HUSBAND'S STOBT DENIED.
Fisher
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A Shifter Gets in the Way of the
Doylestown Express.
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Fortuuate Fscane of Several Paaaeu.
ruriuuaie escape or several Fassen
* er8 bnt Slight Injuries.
Traffic Sent by Other Tracks
üntu ^o-Dar.
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** Lansdale, Pa.-r-The most exciting
wreck witnessed on the North Penn
Railroad in a long while occurred neir
Oreland, a small station beyond Fort ,
Washington. The Doylestown express •
pas?es this place at the rate of a mile a
nalnute, the fastest time made at any
PMnt along the road.
I The Jenklntown shifter, Patrick
englceer, was runiiln« ahea.l ol ,
S'Æwïe ÄdlÄS
wnoMalakTOong^^wMeanght!
I The express locomotive was thrown
from th .tra. k against an emhaTk
ment. Both engines were completely *
i wrecked. i
TWO KILLED, MANY INJURED.
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| The engineer ot the express train
wmiam Fenton, was kiiled outright.
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THE DEAD
INJURED.
William Hudson, fireman, was badly
scalded and injured internally. When
brought to Lansdale he had strength
enough to sit alone; but was suffering
greatly l -X_--
Oscar Barnes, baggage master,
also seriously injured,
I Theo. Magill, the express messenger,
1 was so seriously injured that it has
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l I a<1 . ph ^ »- «
S 00 *? 0 * 01 Frank Fenrose escaped
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the dead and injured reside in
i ,a3 ' l " f to f r' n ' a ? d h J* ve been ln , tlle em '
of the railr °a'l company for many
ye 5vl* ,
PA88ENGEB8' FORTUNATE ESCAPE.
Baverai «f U>« passengers who oocu
'l >led "® ata ln tha »moking oar were
1 nJ ure<1 . but not eerlouBly. Tuis car
w " turned up on its aide and badly
wrecked.
Among the Injured were George Hul
xol, Ambler, side bruised, aud cut
of '
hurt hnK ' vvlllkinK ' Nortb Walea; ^
W - J - ^ nard . Owvnedd: leg broken,
John Gusiinn Fort- WnNhinatnn
hand badly cut ' ^ W gt '
Conductor Harry Miller, Lansdale;
hand scalded.
William Nice, Worcester; face scald
ed.
The englreer on the shifting engine,
Patrick DugaD, has one of his hands
badly cut and left the scene of the accl
dent for Jenkiotown to have hls wound
dressed,
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to
the
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THE WS OF A HI
ug
ing
for
who
Eastern anti Middle States.
Orlando Trout, a one-armed man,
was bathing with several companions
»ear Steelton, Penna., when he got be
ncath nia depth and was drowned,
Two others narrowly escaped drowning
to attempting to
A B "> broke out In Ch'cora, Fenna..
'„„a abou t li o buildings were destroyed.
The water supply gave out and tfie fir. -
men had to lear down and nestroy
buildings with dynamite in order to
Trout.
road
After pleading grilling to 12 charges of
forßery ' Jobn s Sclielfle » ° r Bead
ing, Pa.,was sentenced to two years'
Imprisonment.
Fole5, J who was J n 'P ,icatw1 by 1
Boh Lewis, the negro who was lynched In
Port Jervts recently for an assault hotel
Lena McMahon, was held toai.swer the
charge of blackmail. 8 both
Ripans Tabules prolong Ufa. 1
City.
Actor banian's reason is return- **<■»
fog.
William TTanr« u_ «
ro Henrr Bronson, of Rye», N. ped
' oni1,
John Simmiogdinger, of Tremont, bulio
a -» was fatally injured by a fall of
coal lD Blackwood Colliery. La
The plant of the American Ice C >tr- ana,
pany at Fast Hampden, Maine, wu* boat
burned. Loss $75 Odd. '
heck the progress of the fire.
Henry Walters, arrested In Bristol,
I'«., for stealing horses at Trenton, has
confessed that i:e has stolen altogether
21 horses.
The doors of N«* versink Mountain
Hotel, that stands 1000 feet above
Schuylkill at Reaulng,
open for the public.
William Henry Palnton /fas hanged
at York, i'enna., for, thfi mur'er
Mrs. Michael SLtz^rt'rWe'-. on M no » 81
the D01. The woman \,us suungied
death by Palnton and two others wh?
robbed Stromiugei'd house,
fii'*
ar^ thrown
A Mow from a wagon shaft knocked
little Neil Brennan, of Allentown, Pa.,
down an embankment, breaking his
jaw and
8 ' In the same barn at Lenhartavilie
" erks County, Pa., in which the former
owner , henry FrauuMter, killed h!m
■oh' three years ago, Benjamin Herber,
the subsequent pnreba er, hanged him
self.
Six workmen were serfouôLy^ burned
by a fire which fo'lowed an'explosion
of natural gas about two and a half
niiles south of McDonald, Penn a. A.
Cailisle'» injuries are thought to be
* atal -
Patrick Burns, foreman of tho Penn
sylvanla Badroad oar inspectors, was!
instantly killed near Gallitzln, Fenna
bv a freight train. 6
«<***«». his »«* »->« fa»,
chndrtn, of Pottstown, had a narrow
e8ca * H1 in tf,e,r nightclothes from their
burning home.
Christian Keller, 8 years old. and
A. tliur Newbold, a boy, were burled
alive by the caving in of an embank
ment lu BiooklyD.
John B. Scanlau, nged 41 years, was
killed, 0 Dd Samuel Rldall and Wllbao
Williams were fatally Injured by a fall
of rock and coal In the Murray mine a'
Wilkesbarre.
Charles Abraham, a French Canart
an, was arrested at North A.
I Massachusetts, for attempting
I Wlf e f o death. At 2 o'cloc£jHp^^Pc.
morning he went to his wife's lieoafJe,
poured kerosene oil over her night
drefs, struck a match and lighted the
I garment. The woman was terrlbl r
I burned.
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into a furnnee nnd
si, e was insane at the time in
aupncp 0 r the «rinne C ° **
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• John Riley and Charles Morton, both
coloied, of Chester, P-nna., quarre'led
over a e-aire of "craps,** when Morton
shot and killed Riley. The murderer
escaped. ^
, PowelI g| liner a p 0 lanfler. In the
Fa - •""**"
Dnnlel yeare oll] _
injured in a mill a* Trenton,
New Jeriy, while arwork at. ytrj.
* Hr 8aw - A plank which he waar paw
i i>& slipped and entered his abduniHn.
The plant ofHfie* Franklin Count,
Creamery Assocyation, at St. Allans
Vermont, saiirtfj be the largest in the
United states,/ was burned to the
ground. The fo ss is about $25,000.
fk \j riflim pjjf.q»,
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John Gossart, Henry Bryan and
several other young men of Waynes
boro, Penna., were playfng "Jesse
James" when Gossart accidentally shot
ind kiLed Bryan.
i Mrs. Arthur Beverly, of Waltham,
Massachusetts, was found burned al
mo t to a cinder. She had saturated
garments with kero eue, crawled
fire to herself.
Colonal .lob;
for the u
killed bjy a
H»y.
In Allegheny, Tenna., Ernii Welsh
entered the ljair dressing place of Mis*
Maggie Butt
s Lot her th rough the heart. He then
committed r^iclde, shooting himself is
the breast. ( It is said Welsh, who had
a wife and frimQyjn Baltimore, killed
Miss Buttress because she refused tr
listen to his advance».
Harry McKillips, of Lancaster, met
his death by being thrown under a
Pennsylvania Railroad train at the Gap.
He and two other boys of that city
were stealing a ride to Philadelphia,
when hq fen from the train.
South and West.
, drew a revoi
and
Great soarclty cf silver change
exists.
After chasing the Red Rock train
robbers 250 miles, the thirteen deputy
marshals have returned to Guthrie, O
T., unsuccessful.
Sixteen buildings, constituting the
business portion of itockport, Miasourl,
were burned, the lose beiDg $75,00 ).
David Naylor, a young farmer of
Olarlngton, West Virginia, was beaten
to death by a gong of Slav and Polish
miners. They then placed his body on
the railropd track, and it was run ove;
by a train and cut to pieces.
Charles Whaite, an aeronaut and Ira
peze performer, fell about 1 00 feet at
Tolcheater Beach, Maryland, owlmz to
(be failure of a parachute to open pro
lerly. He was reported not seriouaTV
injured, but determined to "let balloon
ug alone in the future."
John Panel* a Baptist preacher, liv
ing on Guest river, has been arrested
for the shooting and fatally wound lug of
William R. Dav.dson, at Norton*«, 14
miles from Slone Gap, Virginia. Pane j
who is a cripple, shot Davidson in self .be
defence.
The biggest American merchant ship I
afloat, El Noite, was launche-' at New
oortNews, Va.
The League of Friends, a Louisville |
(Ky.) Blrort-termer, got itß death blow. , I
Ripans Tabules relieve headache.
A Chicago and Grand Trunk Kail- '"
road locomotive exploded one mile east
of Climax, Mich., fatally iniur'ng £n
glneer Wood, Fireman Smith and ^
Brakeman Parker, all residents of
Battle Creek.
J. A. McCormick found D. O. Jone oa
Mrs. McCormick'« bed room, in a
hotel at Arkansas City, Kansas, and in
the shooting affray which followed I
both men were killed. Jmr
Mr». George Beaudry, of South 1
City. Michigan, jumped into the rfv„
**<■» two of *>er children. AU were
drowned. 3
Frederick Miller, of Baltimore, drop
ped dead bidding hls wife good-bye.
Edgtfleld, ö. C., and were riddled witR
bulio
Six men were drowned in the Bayou
Foorche, at Napoleonville, LoulsD
ana, by the sinking of a small ferry
boat * tnd
/& IT HAPPENEI
has
trait
of 1
81
to '
wh?
I upon my hor»e
W»» riding north fro
day
ton glad and
I loot «11 longings fur ronown ;
oootai t to ride along
aj>len<lld conory,
An A
-od now and thou
A song all full of ehe
«s 1 kept
i h,
fii'*
!•
dot^s
t my eyas on high,
there came a maid due south
Jpou her horse u-rMlng by.
A maiden, with a pretty mouth.
aria;
olllded
^,'ioys we talked,
aid who walked
er iblugs.
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vVe lftCf
Who)
t'iay could rlde
ied mid happy ui
ual bliss wo could
ipou the drive
» we travel side by eld--»,
or and Driver."
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Pa.,
his
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Ooi
hide.
W-'va
nut
•The
pup
' llJL
0KDSM AN'S HELP.
Mv
In ion is, if a suicide does not
i soou as he
îicted injuries
by
deed
s to
kill hU bsft
'^Jmortli
despairing w
half were updone, and
A. jive.
be | I feel/that I understand whit I am
ftullfingjabout, for I was once within
»'TkcSof taking my own life.
was! When the silver fever began I
, unmarried and bent upon picking up
6 ,a fortune somewhere around the
aDd
1,10 annulations in which I had used
not only my own money, but some
thousands belonging to my widowed
[ uot,ber bad turned out badly. Hav
,n ff J 118 ^ enough cash left to pay the
B '«JP££ se * °* tbe Journey and buy a
hors%l wont out to Nevada and
Joined a party of the boy* bound for
the mines. We started over the
(mountains, butl soon became mighty
a'
A.
outright.
ur
g!uin. After some days I was obliged
to call a halt My old enemy, asthma,
got a grip on me, and one night when
we reached a straggling town on the
?cjil r said: -
broke up!"
next a^^H^they reluctantly
I started to catch up
w,tTf~FJl&following day at a
point where they Intended prospect
r
wJ.comod
The supper was washed down with
plenty of strong drink, and under its
infiuence the blue devils which had
be -»et me departed. I grew genial,
and when later a little game of poker
wa) proposed I readily assented, for
np °" ikU1 ^
Well, sir, 1 played as if the flend
f a3 , urg ,^ " e on - luck waa
dead against me, but I became reck
* U - S J I staked every dollar I owned
:i, .J saw a U raked in by the sharpers.
m >' horae and watch . and
t,n ® ra -
à convinced that I had nothing more
flf value, the gang stopped playing,
l^ft me to sleep off the effects of
H' wretched liquor. When 1 awoke,
sun had been up several hours,
cb ed tremend ously, and
fflm to twice 'its normal 1
size. I had a confused notion that
something had gone wrong, but what
was it? Gradually the events of the
night before came back to
iSjfttted up. Where were my jolly
companions?
Gonel The camp was deserted!
My horse had vanished, likewise my
money.- The dreadful truth con
fronted me. The villians had left
'lire alone in the wilderness, penniless
and without the means of overtak
ing my friends.
,1 cast myself on the ground again.
buried my face in my hand, and gave
vent to my despair. Long after the
first paroxysm of rage ana despon
dency had spent itself, I lay there.
Finally feeling the need of food, I
got up and foraged about. Amid the
debris near the place where the Are
had been, I found some crusts of
bread and a canteen half full of
water. In my necessity, I was thank
ful for even this beggarly fare.
As it would be foolhardy to con
tinue tho Journey afoot, I decided to
return by the way I had come. At
nightfall I reached the town I had
left the afternoon before. It was all
astir. A traveling show was to give
a performance tbat evening. By
chance there remained in the depths
of one of my pockets a Mexican gold
piece which I had carried for years
for a hansel. This paid for my sup
ing fo*jorc.
J was too ill to do so, and it was a
week before I set out again, more
low-spirited than ever,
re ched the place there was no trace
it them. They had evidently been
^appointed in their expectations
and gone on, no doubt concluding
that their silent comrade had aban
&r*ed the enterprise.
At dusk, however, I came upon a
ûi.rap. Around the fire were a group
, who with rough cordiality
to their evening meal.
When I
of
nnÆ .. , .
at the log-house
tavern. The landlord insisted upon
payment in advance, although I had
expended a round sum upon all the
Extras at his command during my re
cent sojourn there,
callously to the story of my mis
fortunes and made me understand that
.be could not accommodate me after
'the next morning.
"Such is the way of the world! At
least tho next twelve hours are pro
Jvldcd for!" I soliloquized bitterly.
"And to-morrow? Well, to-morrow
I will shoot myself 1"
1 reached this determination quite
calmly. I cursed myself for not hav
arnid the wilds, instead
He listened
to
*
to
'" 8 done .. . , . .. , , „
struggling back to the scrai-civil
ization of the miserable town. You
^ a y m y troubles had begun to affect
my brain. Very probably; no man
can be in his right, mind who seri
oa ^ meditates suicide,
I could not stay In my cheerless
room alone with my gloomy thoughts.
I went out and found myself follow
Jmr tïMBnntlnr throng that made its
£7^7^° S f, 0W ' , l* WaS m00n . li ?h'
"V-S IS'T o' 1 '
,ent at t ^!?* ' he .i!f° P s they
came up to the entrance.
Suddenly I thought, "Why not go
I had half a dollar's change
with a kind of savage triumph I
should not need money to-morrow and
why not seek distraction during the
Intervening hours.
1 paid the admission fee of two bits
tnd In. It was early and I
iei«ojfeeÿ a place gqlöf fcßip the_cur
ant
I
ask
so nage arïï*^^H||§!
me said it^WI^H
king of swordsmer^
down
in two on the palm of a man'sTE
and then
take a plucky devil to hold them for
for him."
His majesty seemed in a bad humor.
He cast his eyes over the group of
men nearest to him and said, with a
Spanish accent:
"Friends, my assistant has, as you
say, struck. 1 cannot perform the
most Interesting of the sword feats
unless some
the apples. I will give $20 to who
willdoit"
There was a commotion around me,
but so thrilling had been the de
scriptions of the danger attending
the feat and such the reports of the
diabolical temper of the swordsman
that no one responded. His glance
fastened on me. I suppose it would
be said nowadays that he hypnotized
the bill that heTW
the fellow's head. It'
»I
will volunteer to hold
not
he
by a
deed
to
am
within
up
the
aDd
used
some
Hav
the
a
and
for
the
me.
Why shouldn't I*do it, I thought.
I was on the point of taking my own
life, and if Senor Espada should save
me the tfouble, «»o much the better.
What matter to me if the sword
should go an eighth of aa inch too
ly
of
T , , , , ;»
I advanced and nonchalantly faced
the spectators. He glanced at me of
approvingly and a little curiously as in
he told me to extend my right arm
a t i^Ü 611 m yJ? and -
I did so. He set the apple upon it.
His sword was a beautiful weapon,
with Jeweled hilt and a glittering
blade inscribed with Arabic-charac- by
ters. He made a few rapid passes
with it. 'Twas as if forked lightning
played about me. Involuntarily I
shivered, but I persuaded myself that
the shudder wa3 caused by the chilli
ness of the air, since I did not care
what the result of the adventure of
"JSJJ" .. , Inff
men the lightning seemed to smite
My arm fell to ray side, a dark- at
ness came before my eyes, but, by the
applause, I knew the apple had been the
twain.
Ine senor beamed upon me.
I'Bravo. he whispered. of
*53* kneel : . '
l did so, and bent my head.
He put another apple on the nape be
°™ y S? c 7, °*
My situation was terribly perilous,
for if his hand should slip or tremble
in the least degree, or if I should
shrink or stir I could hardly escape the
lecapltation. the
At that moment my insane despair and
left me. 1 saw how precious life ic. tion
1 became possessed with a tierce de- who
sire to live; to live even if abandoned and
by all the world, if bereft o f every
tn*»g • ou; r to* >Mt. jjunk-suuuVtlkiQnuua
the sweet air of Heaven. A rearful is
conviction forced itself upon nA that. him,
the swordsman's daring experiment 1
would prove my death. Only the
dread „of being branded a coward pre- the
vented me from crying out, from J.
springing up and declaring he should the
not proceed. The effort to remain j
motionless was a frightful strain i
upon my nerves. Never shall I for- «
get the ordeal. said,
A few seconds passed. They seemed ; ciEar
an eternity to me. Then, I felt a au(i
thin, cold line touch my neck-there
was a tunjult of cheers. ^ away
The swordsman put his hand upon ed
my shoulder and bade me rise. 1 did e( i
so mechanically. I could hardly see, 'aid
but I was dimly conscious that a but
crowd of excited people were calling "
and stamping and waving bandana good
handkerchiefs. Half-dazed I followed a
the senor behind the curtain. My pricM
neck was wet I put up my hand ex
pectlng to find blood. I was sure It brand
must be cut, so plainly had 1 felt the
k " bl f' e m . . .. Isay:
No, the moisture was but the the8e
clammy sweat caused by the mental
anguish through which X had passed. | U9U
A cracked mirror in the dross,ng- j If
room assured me there was not even :
a scratch. An attendant poured £x
somethlng from a flask aud handed It
to me in a small glass. I
I drank It down. It was a strange slyly
liquor, but It revived the palsied :
pulses of my heart. The senor put a f 0
»20 gold piece into my hand. My tm- !
pulse was to toss it hack to him. I S
had not thought of the paltry bribe Buflalo
when I agreed to help him, and I
would not go through the experieuce
again for a thousand such.
far!
"P
starting up.
"Ah, very good!" he exclaimed with
a bow of thanks and an insinuating
smile.
your man, pard!" I cried
"I will call you up when I come
out."
The show began.
It was u sort of
country circus, dime museum and
Buffalo Bill performance on a small
scale.
I waited the advent of the swords
man with the utmost ir^oerturbabllity.
At last he appeared aCl summoned
when
the
up!"
up
a
im'
its
had
for
waa
and
of
and
1
the
my
I
of
of
to
a
more
trace
been
a
I
second thought, however, I pocketed lo
the coin. Cope,
I got back to the tavern. Having what
reached ray room, I fell on my knees, severe
as I had been wont to do in child
hood and early youth. "My God,"l| I
cried, "how wicked I have been to after
think of lightly casting away the the
priceless boon of existence which
Thou do^t grant me!" 1 got
I prayed as I had not prayed in chair
years. j held
Then I flung myself upon the bed trick
and sank into a deep sleep. Tho out,
draught which the senor had ordered one
for me must have contained a sedative, ! I
for 1 did not awake till lato in the
morning. | In
I sprang up with a new energy, supposed
Had I not youth and strength and when
the world before me? All day I talking
strove to devise a plan for going on was
to the mines. The landlord was ob- far as
sequious again. 1 had the where- ward,
with to pay for my entertainment, prevent
and the fame of mv exploit had made
* ît^eemed the awordsman seldom 1 ^1»
actually performed that last feat, I
since only at rare Intervals could bè | h , er
found a dare-devil like myself willing ? f
to run' the risk of being beheaded, i £™ ad
Ihejstory of the insubordinate assist- , cov
, exists
On
ant was a fiction.
The morning following that which I
I bad rashly determined should be my ' au '*
a
and have
And to thin]J^H^H|||
away with myself
was at band! How ofteinN
so. A man blows bis brains
at the hour which brings the turn
fortune's tide.—Free Press.
snap-shots AT ''chosts.'*
PlOtl
• of Indiana In the Weird Dane«
They Affe
Among the latest work of the Bu
reau of Ethnology which is being pre
pared for the Chicago exhibition Is
set of six large transparencies, en
larged from kodak pictures of the
ghost dance.
There have been many accounts
the dance given ol late in the papers,
and some spirited illustrations, said
to have been taken from life, but
can be safely said that they are all
the work of a
that these pictures
vivid Imagination, and
the only ones
that have yet been taken from life.
They are the work of Mr. James
Mooney, of the bureau, who has for
two years past made a careful study
of the dance in all its phases, and
has seen it enacted a hundred times
or more, says the Washington Post.
The ghost dance is a purely
llgious performance, aud being par
ticularly secretive !u all matters con
net ted with his religious beliefs and
observances, the Indian was natural
ly loath to admit outsiders to a view
of this importai + . ceremony, tout by
discreet and diplomatic approaches
this opposition was overcome, and
the result is an invaluable collection
of snap-shot negatives, taken directly
in the dance circle, with hundreds of
Indians in all stages of dress and un
dress leaping and shouting around.
Some of the pictures show the
dancers in the state of mesmeric
catalepsy into which they are thrown
by the nervous excitement of the
dance. Both the messiah himself
and two of the dauce leaders, Sitting
Bull (Arapahoe) and Cedar Tree, arc
expert hypnotizers, and five minutes'
work with a black handkerchief or an
eagle's feather can throw almost any
of their followers into a trance, lea v
Inff them standing motionless, with
arms outstretched, for half an hour
at a time, until they fall unconscious,
Others of the transparencies show
the dancers in the state of collapse
that follows their exertions, and
others again illustrate the attitudes
of prayer and supplication.
The pictures are altogether a most
anique collection. With them will
be sent to Chicago many life-sized casts
°* the J Qdl ans In costumes and va
rious utensils and ornaments con
nected with the ghost-dance cere
mony. There is in the possession ol
the bureau an original letter from
the messiah, explaining the method«
and object of the dance to a delega
tion of Arapahoes and Cheyennes,
who carried back the information!
and spread the dance among all the
prairie tribes. ■fciià2ver,
j n-; uiesXfTCTIT'Or «nrjï
is called by the whites who /know I
him, is a full-blooded Piutè and
speaks no English. The credit ol
preparing the transparencies from
the kodak negatives belongs to Mr.
J. K. Hillers, the photographer of
the bureau.
_
ci^ar Buyer«.
« Give me three ^ cigars," he
said, throwing down a dollar. Th<
ciEar handed out three ni»*™
au(i cen . c h . n „„ whioh*th«
customer pocketed and *then walked
away "How did vou know he want.
ed three-for-a-quarter cigars?" Fast
e( i "Why "answered the dealer -h.
'aid good cigära didn't he»" "Ye,
but those are not the best you have "
" Courau not but fellows always say
good cigars when they want three for
a Quar t» r Tf thev hiirhe^
pricM cigars they walk un to the
^uMnd caU outThe naS.e1f Sî
brand or the price they want to pay,
everybody can hear them. They'll
Isay: 'Some of your perfectos,'or'Are
the8e Garcias fresh?' or 'Your best
imported brand ' or 'Throe nf m.
U9U ^ klnd , or something like that
If they w „ . " , h , v
quletly^and tan the case (Tver'thri
£x confaiufa g the kin? they wanJ
without sa? ng a word andVthei
wint™w„ ?ers or stoZ ih"y come in
slyly when there's no ore else around
"hen a felïow waSte n afa thret
0 r-a-quarter he lust stein ud and
coodones^^nd every '
S mau kno^ what he means "
Buflalo ExnreL
P s .
i 1
M hat Ailed Him.
lo the reminiscences of Mr. G. W.
Cope, the painter, the author relates
what seemed at the time a pretty
severe ill-turn which overtook him
suddenly in Florence.
I was sitting at a table reading
after supper, when I observed that
the pendent lamp-tweezers and ex- \
tingulsher were vibrating. Presently
got sleepy, and then all at once my
chair was drawn from under me. I
held fast to the table, and thinking a
trick had been played on me, I called
out, 'Boxall, that's uot fair;" but uo
was in tho room.
I felt giddy; I must he 111; and 1
struggled to bed without undressing,
the morning I was quite well, and
supposed that I had been faint; but
when I got out I found every one
talking about the earthquake. It
a severe shock, and was felt as
as Rome. Many houses fell for- to
ward, and had to be propped up to
prevent their falling into the street,
___
^1» not surprising that Eugland Da
«disinclination to arbitrate
er differences with the government
Venezuela. It requires a very
ad ® n ?„. c t ha "^ lb!la h 8tJte3, " Bn of
, cov f r ^at any such go\erument
exists Just at present *
'* lbe fruit be Miter.
» im» smell very swiet
a few
drowned
ful wav for aid.
of the flood too, have beei^ff^^Rfp
stances of genuine heroism
stand out as a welcome relief to thr
usual somber hues of life.
Among the strangers recently lo*
cated in the locality Just above St.
Louis was a man from Iowa. He had
settled In a little cabin near the river,
and knowing no one, was unaware of
his danger till he found himself in the
center of a sheet of water five mlle9
wide and rapidly rising. Unable to
escaoe, he was step by step driven
with his few effects to the flat roof
of his cabin, and prepared his frugal
meals there for two days,
who
lives to save him, and succeeded m
bringing him safe to dry land.
Other similar cases have occurred,
In striking contrast with those nu
merous Instauces where the possess
ors of small boats and skiffs have
compelled unhappy wretches to give
them almost their entire possessions
for merely passage to land.
A pathetic and mysterious Inci
dent occurred In a southern suburb
uf'-St. Louis, known as "Happy Hol
"fow, " r vvh^r.e poy^rAy- and «fa n to ra «- '
ally reign, which embodied In itself
very evidently the elements of an in
teresting romance. Happy Hollow
side of the street or alley or
creek (river Du Peres,) doesn't know
Happy Hollo w on the other 6ide, and
doesn't desire to. The poverty und
misery, and usually thecrime, of each
individual, is surly' and desire»
companlouship. Hence when a gray
haired gentleman and young giil
moved Into the neighborhood and
took a little shanty down on the
levee, no one asked any questions for
cared anything about them.
attention except
Their
Dane«
Bu
pre
Is a
en
the
of
said
it
all
and
ones
James
for
study
and
times
par
con
and
view
by
and
00
of
un
the
the
arc
an They attracted
any f° r their neat appearance,
v- clothes were clean, in-spite of their
manifest poverty, as were also their
hands and faces. After Happy Hoi
low recovered from Its shock of
prise at this phenomenal cleanliness,
It went Its way without another
and thought of the strangers.
The new residentsof Happy Hollow
had not been there] long w]m
fl <x> d came. By the end
day they are cut off from escape
on the third their little shanty
va- swaying to and ftp. The few rough
spectators who edred enough to note
their distress wero^.udifferent. Oue
ol or tw» -who had boats called over and
asked how much money he had,,and
when the old man shook his head
sadly, they turned off with a laugh
and went to the nearest saloon.
Oneman.lessbrutalthantheoth
ers, sprang into a skiff and started
■fciià2ver, but he was drunk ^and, cmfe
rrrc" 4«-^— vtrctrtr—tvvttre ' —
I bottom iJke a lump >of lead. The
righted itself and floated along
ol tbe water, and the old
the only chance for escape drifting
away. Springing into the muddy,
of seething waters he succeeded by
most superhuman efforts in reach^B]
the little boat only to find that
oars had lost out. Just as hlH
became aware of this fact, h» turned"
aiu ^ saw the little shanty, washed
from Its foundations, come drifting
down the resistless stream, while the
y0 " n * * trl 8t0 ? d , ln the doorway,
Castings look of regret'behind
him ' he 8 P ran * from hls b 0 " 1 . whlch
was a haven of safety, Into the water
once more ' and «*WhS »be edge of I
" bis shanty as it came past. Climbing
Into the ricketty doorway, he had
Juat claaped h , ls ""P»" 1 » 0 In his
arms when a pile of driftwood struck
the little building, tore it to pieces
» child's play-house, and the
? ujdd )'' roar ' n K waters swallowed up
forever two human lives.
, A reporter for a morning paper
found amon * the debrls »"bed
»shore next day several books with
other things from the little shanty.
Among them were ''Histoire de la
Pocsio provençale,'' by Faurlel,
Kant ' a "Kritik dir Keinen Ver
nunft ." and well-thumbed copies of
flomor and Shakspeare. Each work
was in its original tongue, and had
evidently been read before. The
name of the owner on the fly-leaves
' or '""«r cover had been carefully cut
out, and the secret of their lives, If
there was one, w as hurl ed with t. h ^
owners in the a
Two men
him, finally risked their own
i 1
no
•u
man saw
waters of tl
at Mississi
The terms employed by
of one nation as the choic
In their vocabulary of endearment are
often employed for quite the opposite
purpose by other peoples. One of the.
roost famailiar and most coveted V
\ phrases of endearment among the '
French, for instance, is "my little
pig," and "my little puppy dog," is
also much appreciated,
When a French husband calls his <
wife "a cat," she does not fly into a f
passion of resentment, as an English!
speaking wife might do in the samel
circumstances, but takes It as a gen-J
tie compliment.
On the othor hand, If he were tol
call her a "duck," she would be very
much offended.
Not long ago, In Germany, letter»
written by the late Count von Moltke
to his betrothed were published. In
these the great soldier frequently
railed tho lady "my little kernel of
:offee "
Da ™ S at'
autll0 ' ri tytliat, nvfewof thewriu"
character and profaselon. ''mv little
"am 0 f ^wdcr®T"mv lltUe lumn
of le id" would have bemi more ao
nyouriate ^
* ^
Queer Pet Kmt
A man with the big head is always a
»Uwuger to himself.