Brana Wat
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
-—Nothing likes to be bossed. Un-
less it be the bovines.
—1If the leather trust is a go, the
Lord help our poor soles.
—- War clouds are again hovering over
Europe. Is this a chestnut,
—4Money talks’’—There are lots ot
office hunters waiting for its call.
—Governor TILLMAN, of South Caro-
lina, has a job worth having now.
—Economy is said tobe wealth, but
how is the man to get rich who has
nothing to economize.
—1It is quite evident that Uncle JER-
RY RUsk didn’t leave very good weath-
er recipes for his successor.
—There was a fisherman for every
trout on Saturday, but alas, there was
not a trout for every fisherman.
—The grand naval review of Hamp-
ton Roads will bea success. Everything
backed by water is sure of coming out
all right.
— ALEXANDRE, the boy king ofServia,
got ahead of the regents with a coolness
that would have done credit to “Young
America.”
--Eggs ought to be cheap down about
Hampton Roads just now, with each
one of those big ships ‘layin to” sever-
al times a day,
—1f women expect the right to vote
they must give up the hope of wearing
hoops, for how in the world could they
all get to the polls 1n one day ?
—The Philadelphia Times is a great
paper, but it didn’t find out the real
reason why men don’t go to church.
It is because they are not christians.
—The dynamite industry of the Unit-
ed States amounts to about $6,000,000,
yet when it comes down to blowing, it
will size up with any others we have.
~-Par Ean is still down in Chili.
Why don’t he come home? If his suc-
cessor is not soon named we will have
no honor to uphold at the Chilian
court. .
—Some paople are already expressing
the fear of not being able to drink the
Chicago water, while at the Fair
There is no use fussing about it there
will be lots of other stuff to drink.
—Anotker novelty could be intrc-
duced nicely in the shape of a souvenir
spoon. Something in the shape of a re-
minder of a “spoon,” don’t you know!
A miniature of her pa’s foot for a bowl,
for instance.
—The House ran away with speaker
pro tem TEWKSBURY one day last week.
It is a pity thers was not some wooden
man in the chair at the time, and then
there wouldn't have been much loss if
it had never come back again.
—The experience of a proof reader on
a newspaper advertising patent medi-
cines verifies the statement made by
Prince HERBERT VON BISMARCK, that
“when cne reads a medical book be im-
agines he has all the maladies described
therein.”
— Wonder what Holy JoHN WANNA-
MAKER will think when he hears that
ANra)NY BuvaN, ona of his postmas-
ters, traveled all the way from Mohawk
Hill, N. Y., to Philadelphia, to buy
“green goods?” Mr. WANNAMAKER
has laid himself open to censure for en-
couraging such green institutions as the
Mohawk Hill postmaster must be.
—The Union League, posing as the
organization of perfect Americans,
who above all others? are capable of
realizing the elevating influences of
Nineteenth century enlightenment, has
just refused to admit THEODORE SELIG-
MAN to membership because heis a Jew,
Such an action is a disgrace to the Lea.
gue and it will live to be ashamed of it.
—Commissioner BLoUNT’S action in
ordering the stars and stripes hauled
down from the government buildings
of Hawaii, at Honolulu, has been seen
through many colored glasses by differ-
ent writers ot the country. But since
he is to treat with that government re-
garding annexation he must necessarily
recognize it before he can begin the per-
formance of his mission,
-—The anti-Catholic societies, which
are springing up all over the West,
known as the American Protective As-
sociation, or “A. P. Aism” for short,
would be well named if the A. P. Aism
was contracted to ape-ism. Surely there
can be no men of intelligence members
of an organization that has for its one
purpose the persecution of a certain
class ot people simply because they pro-
fess the Catholic religion.
—In the sentence of the Dowager
Duchess of Sutherland, MARY CaARro-
LINE, to imprisonment in the Holloway
prison, London, for a term of six weeks
and to pay $1000 fine for contempt of
court, FRANCIS JEUNE, president of the
court of probate, has established a prece-
dent for the high flying nobility of Eng-
land to tremble at. When it comes to
matters of justice the English law rec-
ognizes no distinction between prince
and peasant.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 38.
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 21, 1898. NO. 16.
Hauling Down the American Flag.
The Republican newspapers and
politicians are trying to make capital
out of the fact that Commissioner
BLouNT has directed that the Ameri
can flag, which the provisional govern-
ment in Hawaii had assumed to cover
their proceedings, should be taken
down. Some very cheap clap-trap is
indulged in concerning this transac:
tion, it being represented as an iondig-
nity to the flag. There is evidently
an intention to work upon the patriotic
sentiment of the people with an effect
something hike that produced by the
expression of General Dix: “If any
man hauls down the American flag
shoot him on the spot.” Bat the
American people are endowed with a
large amount of practical sense and are
able to discriminate between hauling
down the American flag where it had
aright to be, and taking it down from
an equivoc:l position in which it had
been placed by parties who had wo
right to put it there.
Ia the Senate last week a Republi
can Senator offered a resolution in-
quiring by what authority the Ameri
can flag had been hauled down in
Hawaii ? The resolution had a pa-
triotic look and was replete with the
spread-eagle sentiment. But it was
greatly shorn of its clap-trap element
by an ameadment offered by a Demo-
cratic Seaator inquiring by what au
thority the American flag had veen |
raised in Hawaii ?
This certainly |
would be the more proper subject of |
inquiry.
If that flag had been raised |
in that locality by the direction of the
American government, 0 haul itdown |
would certainly be an indignity and
an offense. But it was not run up by
aay such authority. Certain parties
assumed to use that flag to cover rev
olutionary proceedings, without tne
knowledge or consent of the United |
States government. It certainly was a
very great’ assumption to use it for
such a purpose. Ordinarily considered,
it was an abuse of our flag. It is true,
they claimed that they got under iis
cover with the ultimate object of being
annexed to the Uaited Suates, but it
was for the government of the United
States to determine whether the an-
nexation of the isla: ds was desirable or
not, and if it should determine in the
negative, what else is there to be done
than to direct that the flay, which was
put up without aathority, should be
taken down. Its employment for a
purpose in which the United States
government was not consulted, and in |
fact had no knowledge of unul after
the act, was nothing short of unwar-
ranted presumption.
Whether the anuexation of the is-
lands would be an advautage to this
country is an open question. Every-
body has a right to his opinion oa the
subject. The HarrisoN administra:
tion hurriedly moved for annexation
without inquiring into the facts. Com-
missioner BLOUNT was seal out to in:
quire into ali the circumstances con:
nected with the question. By his di-
rection the American flag, which had
been used by parties unauthorized by
our government, has been taken down,
and it is premature to express an
opinion in regard to this matter uatil he
has reported. In the meantime the
people may rest assured that Ameri-
can rights will be protected in Hawaii,
and that the islands will not be al-
lowed 10 fall into the hands ot any other
power.
——The Philadelphia Press says in
its Monday's issue: ‘Representative
Foour, of Union County, ina Harris-
burg letter to his paper, the Lewisburg
Saturday News, says it is talked
straight out in loud tones that Sena-
tor CAMERON is to be succeeded in the
Senate by ex-State Treasurer HENRY
K. Boyer. Some of General Goins
friends have also said that he is to be
a candidate, so that the campaign has
got an early start.”
Representative Focrr had better al-
low his constituents to remain in blissful
ignorance of any successor to Senator
CAMERON or he will not be around
when a successor is to be elected. Cam -
ErRON and Quay are both vindictive.
er ———
—Statistics and the condition of
the State asylums for the insane show
conclusively that lunacy is on the in-
crease in Pennsylvania. What can be
the cause of such a condition of affairs?
Surely the newspapers are not to
blame.
Extend the Investigation.
The Repablican Senators. were un-
able to get iu their work on Senator
Roach, of North Dakota, who they
think is too impure a man to be allow-
ed a seat in the same chamber which
containg such an aggregation of Re-
publican honesty and pusity as they
constitute. Lf upon re-assembling at
the next session ‘taey ineist upon
overhauling Senator Roacm it might
be well to let the inquiry go on.
But it should be made sufficiently
broad and comprehensive to in-
clude the antecedents of a number
of Republican Senators:
There would be no equity in inquir-
ing into the case of Roacm and leave
the smirched characters on the Repub-
lican side go uninvestigated. Quay’s
case, for instauce, would furnish ample
employment to an investigating com-
mittee, The charges published against
him by the New York World, which
have not been refuted by him, are of
suuch greater magnitude than those
that are brought against Roacm, and
are such as would not be unworthy the
attention of a committee looking for
smirched Senatorial characters.
And then there is the HippLe
MircHELL case. It will be remember-
ed that when the Republican Senator
from Oregon got into the Senate he
made his advent into that body under
considerable of a cloud. There was
more or less suspicion connected with
the fact that when he went to Oregon |
he found it expedient t> change his
name from [liepLe to MircdeLt
by which latter coznomen he nas
been known since he has been
in the Senate. [It Roacm is to be
investigated why nou HippLe®
MircHELL also an overhauling 2 Sen-
ator CHANDLER, of New Hampshire, is
one has been shooting off his
mouth very violently against Senator
RoacH, an ii wasn'ta bad suggestion
cwually thrown out by
a
give
who
Seaator
VORHER-, of Indiana, that it the over-
hauling of past records is to be the |
order of business in
department. woald be a sabject tor an
investizating committee that woa'd
not be unfruitfal of damazing develop
ments,
the Senate,
CHANDLER'S management of the navy |
i which a fabulous price is asked when
| there is mucn cheaper land in the
When the Senate meets again, if |
the microscope of inquiry is to be turn:
el on Senator RoacH, let that instra-
ment of minute investization be aso
tocussed on Quay, HiepLe MiTcHELL,
CHANDLER and some otner Republi-
can Senators who might he mentioned.
An Important Tribunal.
The Behring Sea Arbitration, which
is now in progress at the French capi-
| consent to using the larger portion of
tol, is a tribunal whose proceedings
are attracting much attention. The
parties to the controversy are of no
less dignity and importance than the
United States government, on the one
side, and government of Great Britain
on the other, and the point in contro
versy is the exclusive right of the
United States to control the seal fish.
ery in the Behring sea. Thais right is
claimed by our government as having
accrued to it when it purchased the
rights of the Russians in those waters.
The contention of the English is that
Russia in selling Alaska would not
convey the control of an adjoining
body of water which she never pos-
gessed. Those who will look at
the map will see that the Behring
Sea compises a large portion
of the northern part of the Pacific
ocean, and that the nation which as-
pires to 1ts exclusive ownership puts
in a very big claim.
However, this is a matter which the
great international lawyers will have
to argue before the arbitration now in
session in Paris. There is no doubt
that the United States has substantial
grounds upon which to base its conten-
tion, and whatever may be in it will te
brought out by its able counsel, which
includes some of the best legal talent
of our country. And there is alsa no
doubt that if the English had a claim
similar to that which this country be-
lieves it has derived from its Alaskan
purchase, they would insist upon hav-
ing the fullest advantage of it. Oue of
the leading characteristics of the Eng
lish government is its grasping dispos-
ion. It never relinquishes an ad-
vantage, and in this particular the Un-
ited States should be equally tena-
cious. The matter, however, has been
submitted to arbitration, and both
governments have bound themselves
to abides by the awarl.
phians, who wanted to make too much
out of it, will have themselves entirely
‘being antiquated and not of sufficient
| pose just as well,
{the appropriation in purchasing the
| struction of the new Mint is delayed,
They Wanted Too Much.
There is no doubt that the Govern:
ment needs a new Mint, the one that is
now making the coin of the country
capacity for the purpose of such an es-
tablishment. = And there can scarcely
be a question that the new Mint should
be located in Philadelphia where ‘the
coining has always been done, and
there being. no good reason why it
should be removed tosome other place.
But it looks as if greed and bad man:
agement on the part of citizens of
that city, who have been managing
the new Mint enterprise, have defeated
the object for which tney have been
aiming. :
Alter much effort on the part of
their Congressmen the bill authorizing
the building of a new Mint was passed,
and an amount of money for its con-
struction was appropriated. The ap-
propriation, with the amount accruing
from the sale of the old Mint. site,
should have been sufficient: for the
erection of the new structure, if man.
aged with judgment and reasonable’
economy. Bat immediately upon the
favorable action of Congress in this
matter an extravagant ambition mani-
fested itselt on the part of Philadelphia
to have the building located in the
most populous and expensive section of
the city where ground could not be
purchased except at exorbitaut prices.
The parties who agreed to sell their
properties for this parpose asked eo
much for them that most of the ap-
propriation would have been consum:
ed in purchasing the site. The loca-
tion having been secured by negotia-
tions of a. decidedly speculative char-
acter, Secretary CarLISLE was asked to
approve of the transaction, his approv-
al being necessary belore the work
could go on. But the Secretary with.
holds his assent. He can not see the
vecessity of building a mint on the
most expensive ground in the city. He
looks upon such an establishment as a
mere coin factory, and believes that it
would be an unjustifiable ‘waste of
money to put a factory on ground for
suburbs which would answer the pur-
Sach. misuse of
the public money might be expected of
an extravagant Republican adminis-
tration, but it would be entirely out of
place under Democratic management.
The Secretary would not be doing his
duty to the government if he should
site for the building, and if the con-
or should entirely fail, the Philad.l-
to blame for the failure.
will Not Be a Candidate.
We notice that a number of our ex-
changes insist on making State Senator
MarkLEY, of Montgomery county, a
candidate for the Democratic nomina-
tion for State Treasurer. This woald
be an excellent political movement it it
could be accomplished. * Or. MargLEY
is one of the most popular Democrats
in eastern Pennsylvania and his ex-
cellent record as a Representative and
Senator, his high character and person.
al maguetism, would make him an
exceedingly strong candidate, but un:
fortunately Dr. MARKLEY is not an as’
pirant for the position, nor could he be
induced to accept the nomination were
it tendered him unanimously. The
WarcamaN is authorized to say that
under no consideration will he allow
the use of his name in this connection,
——Epwin BoorH, the greatest of
American tragedians, is lying at the
point of aeath at the player's club in
New York city. Stricken with par-
alysis it is feared that he will not re-
cover. Mr. Boon is quite old and has
not been the same man since his stage,
companion, LAWRENCE BARRETT, died 80
suddenly two years ago. In the event
of his death the stage will be left with
but one really notable tragedian, Mr.
Henry Iiving, and the indications
point to the conclusion that 1t will be a
long time before his equal will appear.
——Governor PATTISON on Tuesday ,
appointed Prof. N. C. Schaeffer, of the
Kutztown Normal school, to succeed
De. WALLER, as State Superintendent
of pablic instruction.
The Next Removal in Oraer.
From the New York Times. rhe
The American flag haviig been re.
moved from the Government buildings
at Honolulu and the marines of the
Boston having been removed from the
streets of the town to the vessel where
they belong, the next removal in order
would seem to be ‘that of Minister
Stevens, who ordered ‘the flag to be
raised over a foreign Government and
called upow the marines to keep it in
place. There ‘is much ground for the
opinion that the whole socailed rev
olution in Hawaii and the ‘setting up
of the provisional Governmeat, as well
as the unautherized protectorate, were
due to Mr. Stevens, and it is almost
certain that a different attitade. on his
part would have prevented the whole
complication. According to the latest
reports he is stilf playing the part of a
mischiefmaker, and he should be re-
called. As a persistent promoter of
annexation he should no longer have
even a nominal official relation to our
Government. :
They Can Well Afford to Keep Quiet.
From the Doylestown: Intelligencer,
The New Jersey Legislature is a
trifle “worse than the Pennsylvania
Legislature. The former is Democrat.
ic and its especial sin is of direct and
wilful commission in the passage of the
infamous race track bill, The Legis-
latare of Pennsylvania is Republican
and its principal neglect is in the mat-
ter of apportionment. ~ The : laws re.
quire this duty to be performed, but it
is not, and the majority party mast
bear the larger share ot responsibility.
Political dishonors are pretty even.
There have been worse things actually
accomplished by Democrate in New
Jerseyv—and some of them have gone
to jail for their doings—but the Repub-
hican legislators of Pennsylvania who
helped put Andrews in a seat in the
Legislature to which he was not elect
ed have no room to eriticise their
neighbors of Jersey who have commi-
ted mcre notable and widely affecting
outrages. :
Brought About by Republican Bad
Management.
From the New York Sum.
We fear thut the United States would
not make as favorable a show in a re-
view of the carrying vess:ls of the com-
mercial countries of the world as’ it will
‘make next week in the naval review in
our waters. It is not to our credit that
the two best steamships in the Atlantic
trade owned by an American, company
were built in a British shipyard, or that
wa have not any steamships bn the, Pa.
cific that are superior to those of the
British line between Vancouver and
Hong Kong. Ttis to our discredit that
our country controls a less proportion of
the carrying trade of the world (apart
from the coasting and lacustrine trade)
than it controlled sixty or seventy or
eighty years ago.
Surely we ought not to rest satisfied
as long as our commercial fleet upon the
high seas issmaller, not only than that of
England or of Germany, but also than
| that of France, of ltalv, or Holland.
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America for Americans.
From the Williamsport Times:
Judge Magee, in commenting upon
the petition for a saloon for Hunga- |
rians in Braddock, significantly remark-
ed that the court had not yet been
asked to license an American to keep
a saloon for Americans. The Judge
saw at a glance the tendency of the re-
quest made of the coart, which must
be als» seen by every person conver-
gant with the clanishness of foreign
residents in our cities. Separate sa
loons would prove most powerful fac-
tors in preventing that assimilation of
foreign elements into. American citiz:
enshin, hy affordieg places where for-
eigners might congregate and perhaps
plot and plan. Think of such dens
bein labelled: “Hungarian saloon,”
“Polish saloon,” “Bohemian saloon,”
etc. The dangers possible behind
such signa cause shudders at the
thought of them, id
AEE ——————
Won’t We Be in Clover.
From the Lebanon Star.
Another member of President Cleve.
land’s cabinet knows ‘‘wbat we are
here for,” the Hon. Hoke Smith, of
Georgia, Secretary of the Interior. Sec-
retary Smith is said to have remarked
that he will not consider the work of
reform ended until eyery Republican
in his department has been removed.
The Petition Business Overdone.
From the Atlanta (Ga.) Journal.
The petition business is greatls over-
done anyway. We doubt if a single
important office has been or will be
awarded at Washington on a petition.
Usually very little attention is paid to
petitions, for the good reason that the
appointing power understands how
little they mean.
BI TTIIR
Dedicated to the Philadelphia Press
from a Republican Contemporary.
From the Williamsport Republican,
We fail to see the occasion for any
tuss over the fact that our flag does
not now float over the capitol of
Hawaii. No one who does not love
that flag pulled it down. No one who
does not love that flag dare pull it
down,
Spawls from the Keystone, or?
—In fall of éoal in Ashland colllery, Tobia
Miller, of Logust Gap, met death,
—Montour county's new jail, which cost
$2800, is- ready to embrace prisoners.” | 7
~ —Tén year-old James Sweeny fell 50 feet on
an Oneida slope and was fatally injured.
; =There are in the Willliamsport boom
ready to be sawed 130,000,000 feet of logs.
—Work has been begun on the Reading trol.
ley system, and cars may be running by June
—Survivors of Allen’ Infantry, of the First
Defenders, banqueted in Allentown Tuesday,
—Controller Gourley, of Pittsburg, has be-
gun an audit of that city for the past ten years,
—The Pennsylvania Typographical Union
met and was banqueted of Harrisborg Tues-
day. 2
—Berks county school teachers complain
that farm laborers are better paid tham them-
selves. $0 1d
-~William Miller, afarm lad in Peachbottom
township, York county, was crushed: to death
by a field roller.’
—Bessie Hoffecker, of Birdsboro, may die ag’
the result of a fall through a straw house en a
Nantmeal farm.
—To capture a retreating Italian sv Schuyl-
kill Haven, Constable; Jobn Butz shot him
through the arm.
—A log jomped from a mountain slide on
Tim Gray’s Ran, Lycoming county; and: killed
Washington Teamer.
~A.grand jary at Easton recommended the’
building of a free bridge over the Delaware:
River-to Philipsburg. ad |
—Hurrying te meet hie $rain, John L.. Sny
der, an:aged mail carrier at Riegelsville, sank
dead when he reached the station.
—Allentown liguor licenses will expire Tires
day and the town will go dry until the last of’
the week, when new licenses will be granted.
— In the case «fithe State against the Poti
ville Iron and Steel Company, Judge McPhers
son, of - Harrisburg, directed the company to
pay $2835. ! ih
—Weary of collecting road taxes at New Ben-
ton, Dauphin county, Supervisor W. B. Reed’
has disappeared afterwriting a note intima<
ting suicide. Bh
—A thirtebn: pouad stone was hurled a quar--
ter of a mile by a Hast at Cornwall, and iterash-
ed througirH. Bi. shirk’s house, wrecking con-
siderable furniture; ae 2410 Go
¥
—A majority of the commissioners appointed
to investigate have reported against a change
in the boundary line betwéen Lackawanna and
Susquehanna counvies. :
—The convention of the State Typegraphicay
Unions, as. Harrisburg, Tuesday, indorsed
George Chance, of Philadelphia, for Public
Printer at Washington.
—For asserting that Expressraamm Henry
Becker would serve beer to anyone for a dol-
lar, Judge White, Allegheny, has been sued
for slander to the.twae of $10,000.
—There sre still 21 cases of smsall-pox in
Reading and the Board of Health will inves.
tigate the charge that one physician is respon-
sible for the'sp read of the disease.
—The Presbyterian congregation of Clarion
has secured:$10,500 toward she erection of their
contemplated rew church building. Of this
sum seventeen persons contributed $500 each.
—Charters were Tuesday granted to the Mc-
Keesport and Braddock Passenger Railway
Company, eapital §50,000. and the Bradford
Chemical Company, of Bradford, capital
$50,000. ;
—A-“jutant General Greenland issued an or~
der Friday honorably disebarging- First Lieu-
tenant J R. Fell and First Lieutenant Thom-
as D. MeGlathery, both of the Firs§ Regiment
Philadelphia |
—Somerset county will celebrate the cen~
tenary of its organization on April 17, 1895: On
September 12.of the sam> year the town of
Somerset, formerly called Brunerstown; was
selected as the county seat.
—A quantity of Elk county timber wilibe in
the fore:try exhibir atthe World’s Fair. Com-
missioner J P. K Hall, of Rideway, has been
actively engaged in procuring specimens of
all woods that grow in that county.
A bachelor of 35, living on Eleventh street,
Erie, dreamed the other night that be had a
wife and seven children. Next morning a
basket with.a baby in it was found on his frent
-door-sten. And now he’s afraid to go into the
back yara for fear the wife and the other six
.children may turn up, too.
—There are now more white pine logs afloat
this spring than for many years,. says the:
‘Clearfield Republican. 'Tt is stated that twenty:
million feet of pine were cut and put 'in’ last
i winter for Williamsport parties. Twelve mil-
lion feet were-put in on Mosquit> creek. The
timber tracts on that stream were. cleared: of
timber this winter, and the drive this spring
will be the: last: made on that stream,
—Considerable excitement prevails at
Wilkesbarre over revelations: concerning the
condition. of affairs at the Danville Insane Asy-
‘lum. The institution is'only large emough
to.aceommodate 700 people when taxed to its
full eapacity, says the Wilkesbarre Loader,
yet at the present time there are 1,200 patients
‘being cared for there. Many of them are
compelled to sleep on the floors and undergo
other hardships. The result will be that
many of them will have: to be turnediaway.
—The Cooley family have again separated,
s1ys the Uniontown &tandard. After the trage-
diesin which some of its ‘members figured
during the past year the family reunited after
a long separation. For years Lute Cooley had
worked at his little shoe shop. in Faivehance,
bat lived apart from. his wife and ehildren,
who made theirhome on the little: patch of
ground out on the Smithfield road. After the
death of Frank and: Jack the home piace was
disposed of, and the family came to town to
maka their home with Lute, All was well for
a while, but in afew days the trouble in the
household became so extensive that Mrs.
Cooly and the girls and the little boy left and
took u» their residence in Monkey . Row, on
the east side of the creek.
~The Wilkesharre Revord has this early
1 “worm” story : A Polish. woman named Mary
Yutsko, ‘of Turkey Hill, Plymouth, had a
thrilling ‘experience with a black snake on
Sunday last: She had been out walking with
her three year old child and was: passing on
herreturn home through a narrow strip. of
woods near her home. The child complaiged
of being tired and the two sat down upoa the
ground. They had been seated but, 8 mos
ment when the mother was horrified to see a
great snake entwining itself about the child's
body. She hastily picked up a branch from a
tree and attacked the reptile, when it sprang
at her and coiled itself around her waist and
arm. Her shrieks attracted (he attention of
two young men from a near-by house, ‘and
they cama to her assistance and killed ‘the
reptile. It was ablackenskq and nearly seven
feet in length.