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" NEWS OF THE WEEK.
— Dr. Wilham E. Thornton, a promis
nent druggist in Baltimore, died on
the 11th from the effects of a fall on
the evening of the 10th, In pulling
the doorbell of a houte for admission
hig hand slipped off and he fell back-
ward into the area, a distance of nine
feet,
—ITeavy snow in the mountains has
caused a freight blockade on the Penn-
sylvania Railroad, and, for the first
time since the riots of 1877, the coms
pany has been compelled to refuse to
accept freight cars for points east of
Altoona. The blockake is shutting out
Eastern coke shipments and seriously
affecting the coke trade. No shipments
have been made since the 10th,
—W. T. Everett, a prominent far.
mer of Nansemond county, Virginia,
committed suicide on the morning of
the 11th, Loss of sleep from nu.sing
sick children is assigned as the cause,
— Among the localities that suffered
from the forest fires last full was the
neighborhood of Sigler’s Landing, a
hamlet in Tipton county, Tennessee,
The deep mould in the forest composed
of decayed earth was ignited and
burned down a distance of ten to
tweuty inches. The fire at this place
has continued to burn below the sur-
face of the earth, and at a dozen pointe
a blaze issues from crevices in the soil.
It is believed that there is a bed of
coal not very far underground which
caught fire from the burning mould on
the surface.
—Seven persous, all colored, namely
Tlorace Carter and two of his aaugh-
ters, 'ierre and Frisbie Allen, Priscilla
Smith and Cecilia Lewis, were drowned
by the upsetting of a boat, near Fair-
view, Louisiana, on the 11th, The
boat was capsized by swells from a
steamer.
- A despatch from Toronto says A.
A. Allan, the absconding cashier of
the defunct Central Bank of Toronto,
is now in Minneapolis looking for a
situat!on. Allan writes that he was
forced by the Directors fo do what he
did In connection with the affairs of
the bank,
— Near Philadelphia,
county, New York, on the 11th, 78
packages, containing 750 pounds of
prepared opinm, of the highest quality,
were found in the barn of Ephraim
Gardner, who was arrested at Redwood
on the evening of the 7th, and from
whom 1000 pounds of opium were
taken by custom officials at that time.
It is belleved that Gardner was one of
the chiefs in the ring of smugglers en-
gaged in the opium trade.
~—Two engines on the Erie and Wyo-
ming Railroad were demolished bya
collision, near Pittston, Penna., on
the afternoon of the 11th, and an engi-
neer named Slegel was killed,
—T1he house of William Hull, at
Minden, Ontario, was borned on the
evening of the llth, and his aged
mother perished in the flames,
—A party of Hungarians went to
the house of a man named Manlick, at
Silver Brook, eight miles south of
Hazelton, Pa., on the evening of the
12th, and indulged freely In whisky
and beer, They thén engaged in a
flerce fight, during which a lighted
lamp exploded, setting fire’ to the room
and the clothes of those present, They all
rushed for the door, which was locked
and the key could not be found. John
Ellas, aged 20; John Seddo, aged 23,
John Kobinko, aged 35; Michael Yan-
govitech, ageed 30, and Mary Manlick,
aged 16, were burnsd to death, and
‘our others were so badly burned that
t 1s thought they will die. Mrs, Man-
Jck threw her baby out of one of the
windows, but in falling it was fatally
injured. Half a dozen others, whose
names are pot known, were badly
burned or injured by jumping out of
the windows. It was a frame house,
It Is stated that the story of the tum.
ing over of the lamp is not believed.
It is the opinion of many that there
was a murder committed in the house,
and it was fired to hide the crime,
-The bucket shops which were
raided in New York on the 11th were
all open on the 13th, conducting busi-
pess as usual,
~The roof of the ordinance building
at the Washington Navy Yard fell on
the 13th, being unable to support in the
beavy weight of snow upon it.
~Stephen N. Wilson shot and mor-
tally wounded Archie Irwin in St,
Louis on the evening of the 13th,
They are both colored, and they quar-
reled over an assertion made by Wil-
son that the female teachers in the
colored schools were the wives of pro-
.prietors of negro gambling houses and
disreputable saloons. Brack Cornett, a
noted outlaw and leader of the noto-
rious train robbers, was shot and
killed on the 13th while resisting ar-
rest by Sheriff Allee, of Frio county,
Texas. J. W. Hacker shot and killed
Mabel Sterke in Berlin, Wisconsin, on
the evening of the 13th, and then com-
mitted suicide. Hacker was 19 years
old and his victim a year younger.
They met some time ago at the Girl's
Home in Belle Plaine, Io and fell
in love with one another, he mar.
riage was opposed by the girl's par
ents, and she was sent to visit rela.
tives in Berlin, Hacker learned of
her whereabouts and followed. Mes
Irene Parker, wife of a house painter
in Washington, D.C. attem to kill
“her two children early on the morning
of the 14th, The younger child, aged 7
years, received seven cuts across her
head, which were made by a hatchet,
The woman then attempted to cut the
throat of her eldest daughter, aged 12,
in Jefferson
Chester Every, 40 years old, shot and
killed his daughter, aged 17, in Al-
toona, Penna, , on the 14th, aud then
committed suicide,
The bonds which Frank MeNeally
stole from the Saco and Biddeford Sav-
ings Institution, in Saco, Maine, have
been recovered by his brother Harry,
and are on their way to this country
from Europe.
—An explosion occurred on the 14th,
in the yoming colliery, at Park
Bowkley, near Wilkesbarre, injuring
five men, two eof them,Jacob Monohan,
aged 35 years, and John Boyle, aged
40, fatally. other explosion of pow
der occurred on the morning of the
14th, on the Pittston branch of the
Lehigh Valley Rallroad, by whieh
three men were badly injured, ons of
whom, John Reed, fireman, will lose
his eyesight. Men had drilled a foot
hole in the rock and fired several small
charges of dynamite to enlarge it for
the reception of powder. Eight kegs
of powder were opened on the spot,and
two of them were emptied in the hole,
where they were exploded by sparks
which were still shive. The explosion
ignited the powder in the other kegs,
and a second explosion occurred.
— Mrs. Isabella Fopless: 32 years old,
cied in Baltimore, on the 14th, from
the result of burns received on the
evening of the 13th. she had just
given ber sick husband some medicine
and going down stairs tripped, causing
the lamp to explode. The burning
fluid was thrown over her person.
~—R, 8. Porter, a wealthy farmer,
and his wife had an encounter with
burglars at their home, in Lawrence-
ville, Illinois, ¢n the evening of the
12th. Early in the evening Mr. Porter
responded to a knock at the door, when
a man entered and placed a revoiver at
his head, Ile threw his assailant to the
floor, and while struggling with him a
second man entered and held Murs,
Porter at bay with a revolver. She
went at this one with a poker, while
her husband struggled with the first,
Two more. of the gang came in to the
assistagce of their coufederates and a
terrific fight ensued, Some of the
neighbors became alarmed by this time
and the burglars made a hurried de-
parture, Mr. and Mrs. Porter were
badly, and perpaps fatally, injured.
— A section of one of the elevated
railroads in course of construction in
onthe morn.
ing of the 14tl, and crushed in the fore
part of a street car, which was passing
under it at the time. Four persons
were killed and one Injured,
~—A farmer named Bean, living nesr
Concordia, Kansas. had a feed grin ler
run by a wind mill. While elimi ing
over the grinder his clothes were
caught in the shaft, and he was squeezed
to death. Mary Ward, aged 14, while
athering wheat in the lower art of
the Barker & Co, mill, in Wi ester,
Virginia, on the 156th, was ¢u. ht in
the machinery and Killed, nall
frame grocery in Danville, Vion a,
was burned early on the morning of
the 15th, and a colored man asleep in
the building was burned to death.
Hiram Moore, an old man, who lived
alone in Camplell county, Virgioia,
perished by the burning of his house
on the evening of the 14th, Beven
stores, two hotels, a machine shop and
a residence in Dell Rapids, Dakota,
were burned on the evening of the
14th, The fire was started by the ex-
plosion of a lamp.
—On the arrival at Norfolk, Vir-
ginia, on the morning of the 156th, of
the New York, Philadelphia and Nor-
folk Railroad Ferry steamer, three
men, giving their names as Edward
Best, of Pailadelphia; James Parker,
of Indiana, and William Andrews, of
Richmond, were arrested for robbing
the Post Office at Salisbury, Maryland,
on the evening of the 14th, Best bad
on his person about $200 in money, a tin
funnel for using powder to blow open
a safe, and a bull dog pistol. Andrews
had one hundred dollars and a spool of
thread for use as a signal cord, Tarker
had a hundred and fifty dollars in
stamps and a bull-dog pistol. The ex-
tent of the robbery is stated at about
fifteen hundred dollars,
—Collector Magone, of New York,
promises some startling disclosures
shortly respecting the opium smug-
ging along the Canada border. It is
thought that the country from Ogdens-
burg to Watertown, on the line of the
Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg
Railroad is literally lined with smug-
gled opium. The opium 15 brought
from Asia by way of Vancouver and
the Canadian facific Railroad to the
St. Lawrence river.
- In Baltimore, on the afternoon of
the 14th, Mra. Mary Vickman, while
riding in a street car, swallowed nearly
an ounce of landanum, with suicidal
intent. She was saved by prompt medi-
cal treatment. On the morning of the
158k her home, she cut her thromt,
Her husband, who was present, took
the knife from her, but she is said to be
in a-cntical condition.
~Oliver P. Truett, shot his wife and
himself in York, Pennsylvania, on the
15th. Mrs, Truett may er; but
the husband is thought to be fatally
wounded. The shooting was the resuit
Jarrett Brooks was
(J, C. Beale, a prominent trader at
Clinton, Maine, took some whisky out
of a bottle on the 14th, and died at
pight. His son, god 1S, arauk Joie
ant
Ag dict des RA,
receiver at the Hudson Iron
Hudson, 2
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It stood of
Pagel
and in every direction. BStoekhouses,
elevators and air columns were blown
to atoms and sent in every direction,
Patrick Duckley was fatally inlured.
The loss is estimated at $50,000,
~ Frank Hunter, Harry Brock and
William Schumaker, all about 12
years of age, were drowned at South
St, Louls on the 15th, by breaking
through the ice,
~—John M. Underwood, a wealthy
and prominent citizen of Idanvers,
Massachusetts, 70 years of age, was
found frozen to death some distance
from his house on the morning of the
16th, He was a somnambulist, and
probably walked out of the house dur-
ing the night while asleep.
~It i8 stated that near Akron,Ohlo,
on the morning of the 15th, ‘‘people
were thrown out of bed and windows
und ceilings crumbled, while the earth
rocked, the convulsions being preceded
by terrific reports of an explosion. A
great fissure in the earth 1s the only
sign of the strange occurrence. Ieo-
ple fled from their houses, and the
greatest excitement prevailed,”
—(harles Snyder, an employe in the
rail department of the Lackawanna
Iron and Coal Company, In Scranton,
Penna., was killed on the 16th, He
and a companion were jostling one an-
other, when Snyder fell beneath a 25
foot fly-wheel going at the rate of 80
revolutions per minute,
— An express train and freight train
on the Rome, Watertown and Ogdens-
burg Railroad collided on the 16th, at
Canton, New York. Doth engines
were wrecked, the baggage car was
shot over the top of the engine and
down a fifty foot embankment, and
two or three of the freight cars were
smashed, having been dashed over the
embankment, The express car was
telescoped, Robert Archibald, fire-
man, and Thomas Peden, baggageman,
were killed, Two other train men
were injured, but not fatally, A pas.
sopger and freight train on the Grand
Trunk Rallroad colhded near Toronto,
Ontario, on the 16th, Four trainmen
were killed, None of the passengers
were seriously hurt, Mrs, Albert
Traffert and her 12 year-old son were
crossing the Ohio and Mississippi track
near Shattuck, Diipois, on the 15th,
when they were struck by a train and
killed, larry Hires, a brakeman on
the North Penn Railroad, was killed
on the 16th, by being struck by an
overiead bridge. Richard Morgan, a
miner, was struck and killed by a train
on the Central Railroad at Warrier
Run, Pa., on the 16th, He Is supposed
io have been intoxicated, as It was pay
day, and an empty bottle was found in
one of his pockets,
—Captain Robert 8S, Hart committed
suicide by shooting himself, in Coving-
ton, Kentucky, on the 16th, He was de-
spondent on account of iliness and
being out of employment. Albert 1.
Kebler, brother of Charles Kebler,
who recently committed suicide
in Cincinnati, when the knowledge
of his forgeries was about to become
known, on the 16th killed himself. He
used two revolvers, holding one in each
hand and directing one to his brain and
the other to his heart, and fired simn-
ultaneously, No cause is known for
the deed except the disgrace of his
brother.
~The Commissioner of Agriculture
has just received from Europe a con-
signment of choice silkworm eags,
which he will distribute gratuitously to
all persons who desire to raise silk
worms, and who are so situated that
they can do so satisfactorily. He will
also be able to furnish books of instruc-
tion in silk culture before the sericuil-
ural season comiuences,
— Four men entered the Cisco Bank,
in Cisco, Texas, on the allernoon of
the 15th, marched the three men who
were in the bullding into one corner,
where three of the robbers guarded
them, while the other went through
the bank and took every dollar in it, a
gold watch and other valuables de
posited there for safe keeping, The
robbers got from $4000 to $6000. After
getting about 200 yards away from the
bank the robbers fired their pistols,
which alarmed the town, and in ten
minutes the Marshall and several citi-
zens were in pursuit,
In Bald Knob, Missouri, on the
evening of the 16th; Thomas Walt.
ham, suddenly returning home, found
James Blakeny with his wife, Blakeny
tried to get out, and shot Waltham
three times and one of Waltham's
children once. The injured husband
ghot and killed Blakeny, and then feil
mortally wounded. The child may re-
cover. James Taylor. 13 years old,
was placed in jail in Covington, Ken-
tucky, on the evening of the 16th, with
his mother, charged with the murder
of the boy's father at Independence, on
the 13th. It appears that Lansing
Taylor, the dead man, and his wife
were fighting in the presence of James
and two elder sons. The woman says
she called on her son for assistance,
but James was the only one to respond.
He seized a gon and struck his father
th it, The gun was disc! and
ng Taylor was Killed, The boy
says he did not know the gun was
Jnaded. Deputy Sheriff William
Thompson was shot and killed at Bos.
ton, Colorado, an the 16th, by “Jack”
White, **a horse thief,” whom he was
ing bo arrest.
«The special Treasury agent sent to
Watertown to Jnveiitigats She oplum
smuggling cases ‘have secured
evidence that the smugglers bave con-
federates In New York. It is also said
“one or more Covernment officials
Andrews, charged with robbing the
Post-office in Salicbury, Maryland,
were on the 17th, committed by the
United States Commissioner in Balti-
timore in default of $5000 ball each,
~~An explosion of natural gas
wrecked the house of Joseph Franklin,
on the outskirts of Meadville, Penna,
on the morning of the 17th, Mrs,
Franklin was severely Injured, Some
weeks ago Mr. Franklin disconnected
the gas pipe, and had the meter re-
moved, but for some reason the pipe
was not plugged and the gas escaped
into the cellar. On the 17th, Mrs,
Franklin went into thee cellar with a
lighted lamp, when the explosion oc-
curred,
—A boller on a plantation at Bas-
trop, Loulsiana, exploded on the 17th,
killing four men and injuring four
others so badly that they are not ex-
pected to recover.
~—Joseph I. Fitzpatrick, a New
York politician, shot himself in a
Bowery saloon on the evening of the
16th, and died on the 17th.
50th CONGRESS.— First Session.
EENATE.
In the U. 8. Senate on the 13th
bills were reported to provide for the
erection of public buildings by con-
tract with the lowest bidder, and lor
a commission on the alcoholle liquor
traflic. A bill was reported and
passed for the erection of a building
in Washington for the safe-keeping of
Government records not required for
constant reference, Bills were passed
appropriating $350,000 for the exten-
sion of the public building at Newark,
New Jersey; appropriating $500,000
for a public building in Yortland,
Oregon, and in relation to certain In-
dian lands In Colorado. Adjourned,
In the U, 8, Senate on the 14th, the
bill to authorize the sale to aliens of
certain mineral lands was reported and
placed on the calendar. The Blair
Education bill was considered, and
Mr. Hawley spoke In opposition to it
Pending consideration of the bill to
provide for the compulsory education
of Indian children, the Senale went
into executive session and afterwards
adjourned,
In the United States Senate on the
15th, the Blair Educational bill was
passed yeas, 39; nays, 20. The cre-
dentials of John 8. Barbour, Senator
elect from Virginia, were filed. The
House bill for the appointment of eleven
division superintendents of railway
mail service was passed with an
amendment making the number two,
in addition to those heretofore au-
thorized.” After an executive session
the Senate adjourned.
In the U. 8 Senate on the 16th, the
bill appropriating $500,000 for the
erection of a lighthouse at or near
Diamond Shoal off Cape Hatteras, was
passed, A resolution, offered by Mr.
Plumb some days ago, requiring the
Secretary of War to furnish Senators,
on their request, lists of perscu3 to
whom copies of the Rebellion Record
are to be issued, was passed. One hun-
dred and eight private pension bills
were passed, Afiler an execuliye ses-
sion the Senate adjourned,
inthe U., 8 House of Representa-
tives on the 17th, the Blair Educa-
tional bill was received from the Sen.
ate and referred to the Committee on
Education. The Urgent Defliciency
bill was passed, with an amendment
offered in Commitlee of the Whole,
directing the Public Printer to enforce
rigidly the provisions of the eight-hour
law. Mr. Bayne, of Pennsylvania,
from the Committee on Rivers and
Harbors, reported a joint resolution,
which was adopted, authorizing the
Secretary of War to appoint a board of
three engineers of the army whose duty
it shall be to examine in all their rela-
tions to commerce the lands known as
Smith's Island, Windmill Island and
Petty Island, in the Delaware river,
between Philadelphia and Camden,
The Board shall report to the Secretary
of War whether those islands consti-
tute an obstruction to commerce, and,
if so, they shall report a plan for the
removal of those islands in whole or in
part, and for the improvement of the
harbor of the port o: Philadelphia.
Adjourned,
HOUSE
In the House on the 13th, a bill to
punish the advertising of lottery tick.
ets in the District of Columbia, after
discussion, was referred to the Judici-
ary Committees, by a vole of 117 to
115. The resolution asking the Treas.
ury Department for information in re.
gard to the refusal of the Canadian
authorities to allow American wreck.
ing vessels to assist American vessels
when in distress in Canadian canals or
waters was reported and agreed to.
Adjourned.
In the House on the 14th, Mr. Mills,
from the Ways and Mesns Committee,
reported a bill to provide for the pur-
chase of United States bonds ly the
Secretary of the Treasury, and it was
referred to the Committee of the
Whole. Bills were also reported and
similarly referred for the rehef of im-
porters of amimals for breeding pure
and for the erection of public
uildings in Allentown and Lancaster,
Pennsylvania. The bill for the li-
on the 15th, bills were
establishment of a Bu.
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CURED BY A MISTAKE.
Heroic Treatment Unintentionally
Applied saves a Young Woman's
Life.
It is pot generaily known that the
recent recovery of Miss Lydia Jordan
Cincinnati, from diphtheria was the re.
sult of a fortunate aceldent, Outside
of a few, the family and a few friends,
the serious condition of the young lady
was not generally known,
Miss Jordan is one of the most pop.
ular young women in Walnut Hills
society, and it is sald that she will
shortly marry a young Avondale man,
About two weeks ago she went to
see a friend who was sick with dipth-
eria, and, unthinkingly, sat in the
room for over an hour. In a few days
she began to show symptoms of the dis-
ease, and it soon developed that she
had it in the most virulent form.
The family physician, Dr. Disney,
begau to lose hope, so strong a hold bad
the disease taken upon her system,
Miss Jordan kept getting worse and
worse, until finally the doctor found to
bis utler consternation, that a false
mewbrane was forming in her throat,
This is regarded as the worst possible
form of the disease, and one which is
absolutely incurable,
The rapid growth of the membrane
was attended with increased difficulty
in breathing. It was gradually closing
the air passage. The doctor informed
Mr, and Mrs, Jordan that the struggle
was over, and the disease had won.
The unhappy parents were almost
wild with grief. The girl had been an
especial favorite with them on account
of her bandsome face and sunny dispo-
sition, It hardly seemed real to them
that she could be lving on her death-
bed, with her young life slowly fleeing
away with each laborious breath,
The doctor said that in a few hours
all would be over, Already the mem-
brane had grown over tie throat so
that only a hole the size of a large
needle remained,
The girl was lying
thrown back.
head were
wit her head
The veins in her fore-
swollen, and her face was
fiery red, In every curve of her form,
in the clulching of her lingers, one
could read the agony she was endur-
ng.
Dr, y bad leen very
Miss Lyd, and seeing that
more could be
medicine ‘to be used when the breath.
ing bad about stopped.” and started
away. He folly expected never to see
the girl again until she lay in the coflin
with the whiteness of death in her
features, The medicine was some sim-
pie restorative that might compel the
soul to fret a little longer in the body,
but could not do any good,
The medicine was placed on a small
table near the bed among a lot a pivals
of similar size and shape. The father
and mother sat close by the bedside of
their dying child. Soon the sound of
the breathing grew louder and harsher,
The writhing of the frame showed Lhat
the end was very near,
Mrs, Jordan started up, took from
the table what she thought was the
last phial the doctor had left, and
measuring out a dose poured it quickly
down her daughter's throat,
The effect was instantaneous and
horrible. The girl writhed and quiv-
ered as she had not before, Her finger
nails tore into her flesh, Her face grew
black and her wide, staring eyes fairly
started from their sockels, No scream
issued from the lips, It was the per-
sonification of mute agony. This only
lasted for a minute,
Suddenly there was a sharp cracking
sound. The girl's body lifted itself
from the bed, There was a terrible
gasp, & groan, and then a fit of racking
coughing. The swollen veins began w
subside, the black color of the face
changed to a dulljred, the eves slowly
closed and the girl began to breathe
again,
While this was happening and the
girl was at the very height of her suf.
fering, the mother Jooked at the bottle
whose contents had produced this ter-
rible effect. To her horror she discov.
ered] that, by mistake, she had given
the girl a large dose of aqua ammonia,
a sufficient quantity to have suffocated
a well person.
The doctor wasimmediately sent for,
and when he arrived was told what had
been done, To his astonishment he
found the girl resting easy and looking
far better than she had for a week.
Her lips and the lining of her mouth
were burned by the ammonia, as her
throat must have been also. An ex-
amination into Miss Jordan's condi.
tion showed that although she was very
weak, yet her throat was comparatively
clear and there was every indication of
certain recovery.
On the cover in front of her the doe:
tor found the false membrane which
had been the cause of all the trouble,
and which the girl had ejected in that
last paroxysm.
A German Legend.
Disney
nothing
noting
There was once a poor, but very
honest, contented and merry kind of
man in the village of Tilleda, who
happened lo be giving a christening
feast, for about the eighth time, to
some of his neighbors, Desirous of
showing all respect to the party at
the chnstening, he set before them
sha a" Sontag ine he possessed,
fch, being quickly despatched, his
seemed to be looking for a little
more.
“Go, then,” sald the father to his
ki
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surprised
;
“Xen,” replied the timid girl, *‘bul
I have got no money.”
“Come with me,” said the old
housekeeper; “syou shall bave it for
nothing; and better wine than your
father ever bought in his life”
They both then proceeded along ap
old, deserted road, the old lady inquir-
ing very particularly, by the way,
what the appearance of things then
was in Tilleda—who was alive, and
who was dead,
“Once,” sald she, “1 was as young
and pretty as thou art, before I was kid-
napped and buried under ground by the
knights, or, rather, night.niders who
stole me away from the very house
that now belongs to thy father. Bhortly
before this, they had also seized four
young ladles of these parts, who were
often afterward seen about here on
their richly-caparisoned steeds, They
were entrapped and carried off in
open day by these mountain knights
as they were coming from church at
Kelba, They made me, as I grew
older, into the housekeeper, and en-
trusted me witii the keys of the cellar,
which, you see, I still wear.”
By this time they had reached the
cellar door, which the old housekeeper
unlocked, It was a five, spacious
cellar, and on both sides it was well
laid out with rows of vats and butts,
Most of them were either quite, or
more than balf full, and broaching
one of them with great dexterity, she
took the little firkin and filled it up to
the brim,
“There,” she sald, *'take that 10
your father; and whenever he may
happen to be giving a treat, you may
cone again; only see that you tell no
one, besides your father, where jou
have it from. And moreover, lake
heed that you sell none of It, nor give
it away, for in neither case will it be
worth anything at all. If any one ven-
tures hither too btain wine for sale, jet
him be warned; his last bread has been
baked —now go!”
Unluckily, just opposite to them
lived the landlord of the village lm
who dealt as largely as he could In
adulterated spirits. He, among othe
had also a taste of the knights’ wine,
“My friend, you might mix this with
wine still. Where ean you
He resolved to watch; and be fol-
for
the fourteenth time, with hes
ittie Orkin, toward the Kyflbause:
nills,. He hid himself, and saw her
come the exact way from the oid
cellar, with ber firkin quite full shortly
afterward, Accordingly, next evening
he set out himself, having first rolied
into a little cart one of the largest
empty barrels he could find, intending
to ill it with the same precious kind
He thought it would be
easy to convey it down hill and be made
a vow to return every night until the
cellar became empty. As he ap
proached the spot where he had
marked the path the day before, the
sky suddenly began to grow dark and
lowering. The wind rose and whistled
portentuousiy of the gathering rain,
which soon fell in torrents. The
tempest carrfed him and bis barre
trom one side of the road to the other,
At last, down the hill be went, and
continued to fall deeper and deeper
until he finally found himself lodged i
a burial vault,
Here appeared an awful procession
before his eyes—a regular funeral,
with a bler hung with black, and his
wife and four neighbors, whom he rec-
ognized easily enough by their gail and
garments, followed in ils wake. Al
this sight he very naturally fainted
away; and on recovering, some hours
afterward, he still found himself in the
dimly lighted vault, and beard the old
familiar steeple-bells of Tilleda striking
twelve, Now he knew that it was the
witching hour and that be was the:
lying under the church and the burial
ground of the village, in a gloomy
vault, He was certainly more dead
than alive, and scarcely ventured to
breathe. But, seel a monk now ap-
proaches him slowly down the narrow
steps, opens the door, and in perfect
silence puts some money into his hand,
and then, taking him up in his arms,
he laid him down at the foot of the
mountain. It was a cold, frosty
night. By degrees the good host came
a little to himself, and crepi, without
either wine or wine casks, as far as
home. It struck one just as he
reached it; and he felt himself so un-
well that he must take to his bed. In
the course of three days he died, and
the money which he had brought
home, given ham by the ghostly monk,
was just sufficient to defray his funeral
expenses; his wifeand the four neigh-
bors, as he had seen them, following
him to the grave.
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Children of the Gypsies.
Along with unconscious native
ethical bealthfulness comes such phys
ical care as we advanced people know
nothing of. Because the gypsy mother
and father are themselves perfect types
of good health healthy children are
born to them. Because every aypsy
woman on earth is loyal to her mate
many children are born «wo them De
cause the instinct of fatherhood,
motherhood, partnerhood is inviolable
with busband and wife gypsies Jove
a Yacsrst
alraus
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