STORM ON THE COAST.
DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY AND
POSSIBLE LOSS OF LIFE.
BRIGANTINE BEACH
HEAVY DAMAGE TO PROPERTY
AT ATLANTIC CITY,
SUBMERGED, =»
Brigantine and Deters Deach are sub-
the safety of the inhabitants,
former place has been broken into frag-
ments by the waves,
THE DAMAGE TO ATLANTIC UITY.
ArraxTtic City, March 21.—Two
of the highest tides ever known since
the beach front has been bullt up were
those of last night and to-day, and as a
result the destruction of property bas
been unparalleled, The storm of No-
vember 25th made its worst inroads at
the upper end, but the present storm
struck the section lylug between Miche
igan and Texas avenues with unparal-
leled fury, the waves dashing in shore
much farther and with far more des-
tructive effect than those occasioned
by its predecessor,
The first effects of the presant
storm were felt on Tuesday evening, a
driving rain and high winds being the
preliminary symptoms, Wednesday
morning hail and snow took the place
of rain, the wind increased and the
waves dashed in with threatening
force. ‘they not only covered the
tracks of the previous storm, but
threw volumes of foaming water
around the buildings on the inner side
of the boardwalk, undermining them
to an alarming extent. The storm
gained ia streuglh as evening &p-
proached, and at 10,30 Wednesday
night the devastating ficod tide found
the shaky buildings, booths and pavil
fons easy prey, and they went down
before its irresistible onslaught like so
many reeds,
To<day’s tide found but little left to
attack. locks of four to six buld-
ings between Michigan and Texas ave-
nues, some of them three stories, were
at one stroke of the waves piled up in
ruins, The remaining portion of the
boardwalk was swept away and logs,
lomber and debris were strewn all
along the beach and carried fully half
a square up the ocean avenue. Such
wholesale destruction was never wit-
nessed and losses to beach property
must be something appalling, many of
them losing all they possessed,
A number of the houses between
Missouri and Georgia avenues were
occupied by people who felt sure that
they were safe, as their buildings had
stood the November tide, but when
Wednesday night's flood struck the
frail structures they hastily left
through back doors and in many cases
bad miraculous escapes, a notable one
being that of Professor Jones, a corn
doctor, who jumped out of his bed
when the waves enveloped his shanty.
He had just reached the door when a
detached board struck him and he fell
in among the ruins and seething surf.
He succeeded un reaching a place of
safety, but how, he cannot tell
From Michigan to Texas avenues
the ruin is complete,
son’s bath-houses, just below Michigan
avenue, are gutted and have fallen
over seaward. Ewald's photograph
gallery is wrecked,
into fragments, The front of
Switchback road is gone, so
is about thirty feet of the
View Excursion House covered walk,
Leedom’s pavilion, Doyle's, Guverna-
tor’s and Bowker's pavilions and
bath-houses, and William A. Iee &
Sons’ bath-houses are wholly or
partially destroyed. Below Milssis-
sippi, Pullitzer's bath-houses, Philip
Fitzgerald’s bath-houses and bar, and
all the small bath-houses and stands
are completely wrecked. The side and
front of the B, J. Kelly Iouse, at
Georgia avenue, 18 torn oul.
FPrestby’s house is gutited. Johnson
& Wilson's baths and other buildings,
below Georgia, are partially gone, and
all along these four squares the ruins
of houses cover the line of the board-
walk. Richard H. Lee's ocean terrace
has succumbed to the waves, and the
houses thereon are toppling over, the
occupants having escaped ina hurry.
Above lennsylvania avenue, Jack-
son, Bew, Adams and Johnson have
again suffered, and Kidd's photograph
gallery has been overturned on the
strand, Mr, Jackson had built 8 new
front to his bath houses, and a large
section of it waa badly damaged.
Opposite the Traymors the waves
dashid in with great fury and wade
several large breaks ip the board walk,
and at Park avenue it also made seri-
ous inroads, The outbuildings of the
Children’s Seaside Home are in danger
of collapse, several of them being un-
dermined,
For the first Lime in its history South
Atlantic City bas been visited with a
destructive flood tide. On two oc-
casions it flooded the whole place, and
the foundations of almost every house
have been seriously weakened, A 10-
room cottage supposed to be the
property of Mrs, Mary Coyle, was
completely wreckod at high tide to-day
and fell over on the beach in ruins.
Other houses are expecled to go
to-night, The boardwalk
up last season is a total
wreck, and the famous White
Elephant is toppling over and cannot
possibly remain intact through the
night, Six feet deep of solid embank-
went, for a distance of 30 feet, was
washed away. The few people who
bad the courage to remain in the
dreary, stormbeaten place, are in the
dread as to what the night will
also
.
soning. .
Up the Inlet at noon to-day the high
tide dashed over the bulkhead and
flooded the Inlet district down to the
street car stables, travel for
fully two hours, ilo damage
was done to y at this pomt.
the Baltic avenue
| water, and the distressing scenes
| ot November 20 were repeated in
any cages, Whie na considerabie
amount of water is still on the meads
| ows, the rallroad tracks have been kept
| clear of floating obstructions and there
bas been very little, if any, interrup-
{ tion to travel. A Leavy snow storm
| prevailed during the greater part of the
i day, but at this writing it has given
way to a drenching rain. The more
| robust hotel guests found amusement
| aud exhilarating exercise in watching
{ the wild waves and visiting the points
{ where the greatest bavoc was wrought,
AT SEA ISLE CITY.
The heavy storm has been unusually
| severe at this point, the seas dashing
with relentless fury. It has damaged
a large amount of property here and
caused a heavy loss. Two handsome
cottages north of the Continental Ho-
tel, wnich were nearing completion,
have Lad the foundations nearly
washed from under them, #0 that a
heavy wind would be liable to blow them
to the ground. The sea wail has been
wrecked for hundreds of feet and the
ocean front 18 in a deplorahle condition,
but arrangements will be made to re-
store it at once. The light house
premises have also sustained consider
able damage.
AT OCEAN CITY.
Another big tide came in this morn-
ing and caused a few slight washouts
on the rallroad, delaying travel for the
day. Little damage was done on the
beach, notwithstanding the surf was
very high. The total amount of dam-
age done on the beach during the six
days’ storm will not exceed $250,
Travel will be resumed to-morrow,
unless something occurs,
AT OCEAN GROVE, ELBERON
ASBURY PARK,
ASBURY PARK, N. J., March 21. —
Increased damage has been done along
the coast of this section by the storm
afternoon, At Elberon three bathing
houses have been washed into the
ocean and the sea lashed Into sueh
fury that the waves run up and over
into Lake Takahasse,
houses of
dents,
At Deal Beach the damage was con-
fined toa cut into the sand, near the
station, No. 0, that threatens the bulk-
bead which protects the watchtower
of the station. Along the coast from
Deal Lake to Ocean Grove the ravages
of the storm are less apparent, although
another portion of the boardwalk has
been carried away. The pier at Rosas
Pavilion, Ocean (irove, has been badly
shattered at t extreme end,
will cost considerable to put it in re-
pair,
Immense quantities of drift wood
and heavy timbers are being thrown
up on the © «ch, and this, it is feared,
will cause | mere damage. Gangs
of men a+ work to-night, gather-
i Ing, a8 weil .- they can, the timbers
we. Great difficulty
doing this work,
{| owing to the blinding snow-storm and
prevail. Upon the
the wealthy summer resi-
| the board walk, fishing pier, and two
| pavilions at Asbury Park.
MORE GOLD FIELDS DISCOVERED
MINERS FLOCKING TO SWEET GRASS
HILLS IN MONTANA —GULD AND S1L-
VER IN PAYING QUANTITIES,
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, March 18,
A special to the Tribune from Big
| Sandy Montana, says: This little town
ia full of excitement over the develop-
ment of gold mines in the Sweet Grass
ills, 55 miles northwest of here.
{| People have just arrived from the
| Gulch are making from $50 to $30 a day.
| The most of the gold is taken oct in
| the placer diggings. But blue ore
| has been struck by several parties in
{ the hills, and the country is full of
| prospectors from Helena and other
| mining districts, It the present rush
continues straightened times must
i Ingvitably result, as men from all parts
| of Montana and Dakota ars focking
{ here In great numbers without making
i adequate provision for subsistence,
Actual work at the mines Las
as yet only fairly begun, bot
the results are very
factory to the parties working claims.
To Alfred Hilles, a Butte miner, is
ery of gold in paying quantities in the
hills, He has been working quietly at
Middle Butte, aud shows about $4000
for his labora, About a week ago,
however, a general rush commenced,
and now the country Is overrun with
prospectors, some of whom have abso-
lutely nothing, and supplies cannot be
brought in fast enough to feed any-
body. It looks as if a temporary famine
was Imminent,
The Sweent Grass Hills, in which
the gold has been discovered, are 55
miles by wagon road northwest of Big
Sandy, and just south of the interna-
tional boundary. The hills comprise
three buttes, varying in elevation from
7900 to 8400 feet. Water and timber
are abundant in East Butte, no timber
and water scarce in Middle p
Between and around the bs
broad bottom lands with
The richest placer diggifgs
Eclipse Guleh, tn Middle" !
Hazel Lines Gulch in the East Butte,
Silver, copper, iron and a fine
quality of marble have been
found, while coal 1s abundant on Milk
the present immigration continu
these mines will be developed In
short time, and prices of food, now at
the top notch, will go up out of might,
Searcely a man at the mines is getting
less than $4
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
—At the Mahanoy City Colliery of
the Reading Company, on the 18th,
while David Evans and his sons, David
and Edward, wers ‘‘robbing’’ pillars,
the roof fell upon them. The elder
Evans and his son Edward were killed,
David escaping with severe injuries,
An elevator In the machine shops of
Flynn & Emrich, In Baltimore, fell on
the morning of the 18h from the
fourth floor, a distance of forty feet,
severely injuring three men who were
upon it. The men were carrying on
the elevator a heavy iron bar, held
vertically, which as the elevator reached
the top struck the ceiling, and the
strain upon the light rope broke the
cog wheel controlling the drum which
at once gave way, causing the elevator
to fall, A fourth man who was on the
elevator saw the danger aud jumped
from the elevator to the fourth floor.
-A despatch from Parkersburg,
West Virginia, says that Detective
Baldwin and an armed posse, who
went into the wilds of Wyoming and
McDowell counties to hreak up a gang
of illicit distillers, have been sur-
rounded and their lives are Lhreatened.
1he moonshiner band is made up of
noted desperadoes, who for three years
| have defied the law, Thirty have been
captured, and it was while attempting
to arrest forty more the officers were
entrapped.
~The boller in Whitney & Tuttie’s
saw will at Pound, Wisconsin, burst
{on the morning of the 18th, wrecking
{ the building. Otis Clement was killed,
and August Regel, Frank Greenman,
i Julius Gokey, Henry Devey, Frank
Forcea and Philip Goodehild were se-
verely injured. It is feared some of
{ the injured will not recover. Josiah
{ Rhodes and his mother were drowned
{| while trying to cross the Ohio river in
a boat at Pomeroy, Ohio, on the 13th,
i Peter Nearshalsky, the miner who was
| imprisoned for 54 hours at Black Dia-
wond Colliery, at Mount Carmel, Pa.,
{and who was liberated on the 16th,
died on the 18th from nervous exbaus-
{ tion and internal injuries,
~Constable Harnishfeger from Los
| Angeles, California, to Garvanza vill-
{lage on the 17th to arrest B. 8S,
little girl, Sprague shot and fatally
{fire on kis deputies,
{returned to the city and gave the
{ alarm and a posse started after Sprague,
| During the battle which foliowed
| Sprague was shol through the abdo-
| men and fatally wounded. Sprague is
i thought to have been insane,
| in paying quantities have been discov.
fered in Sweat Grass Hills, 55
| northwest of Big Sandy, Montana, and
| that miners in Echpse Gulch are mak-
‘ing from $50 to §50 a day, Men from
{ all parts of Montana and Dakota are
| flocking to the new [felds, without
| making adequate provision for subsis.
{ tence, Itis feared that a famine will
| follow, as supplies cannot be taken to
the ground fast enougr to feed every-
i body.
~ An express train on the Inter
Colonial Bailway collided on the 19th
| with & special freight {traln near
R'monskl Station, Quebec. Both en-
| glnes, the baggage car and two freight
| cars were wrecked, Four train hands
| were Killed and two injured. The
| passengers escaped injury, In drilling
{ out an unexploded blast of dynamite at
{the Cumberland Hydraulic Cement
| Company's tunnel In Cumberland,
| Maryland, on the 10th, an explosion
{ occurred whereby
‘smith and Joseph Wegman were
fatally, and Noah Long and Solomon
{ Moore severely injured,
! the Midland depot, in Anderson, Indi
| ana, on the evening of the 18th, and
{ took possession. About thirty citizens,
{ armed with poles and barrel staves, [ad
| by the town marshal, went to Lhe
| depot and formed a gauntlet along the
i rallroad., Turough these lines of men
the tramps were [oreed to run, their
| speed belag accelerated by beavy blows
| well laid on by the men, be tramps
| were untercifully whippad, the blood
| time they had reacted the end of Lhe
| gauntlet,
{| =Three cases of drowning in Chesa-
| peake Bay were reported in Baltimore
{ on the 19th. They all occurred during
19th, John Manoughs, of New York,
was washed overboard from the bug-
eye Pinto, and was drowned In spite of
the efforts to save him, Solomon J,
Hall, of Baltimore, was missed from
the slope Undine, while the lay at
Oxford, Md. His hat and boots were
found on the wharf on the morning of
the 17th. John Cooper, also of Balti.
| more, was drowned from the schooner
Julia while In the city dock, Annapolis,
~A despatch from Indianapolis,
Indiana, says that the shortage of John
In addition to this he se-
cured $15,000 from the County Treas.
ury by fraud,
~BYy the burning of a dwelling near
Baldwinsville, Massach on the
afternoon of the 10h, Mrs, Kussell,
aged years, and two daughters,
aged respectively 5 and 15 years, of a
peighbor named Truehart, lost their
roof by a little girl, who notified the
Sheriff, Edward Powell, a river pirate,
succeeded in getting away, but the
others returned to their cells after
Dick Jones, a housebreaker, had been
shot by the Sheriff. It is thought that
Jones’s wound will prove fatal Roland
Bacon, 35 years of age, committed
suleide in his father’s store at Laurel,
Delaware, on the morning of the 20th,
by shooting himself in the left breast,
Ile had been drinking heavily for
three weeks, Some villain on the
evening of the 10th entered the weav-
ing room of the Graniteville Manu.
facturing Company’s mill at Granite-
and cut the
warps in all except fifteen looras,
The factory was forced to shut down
on the 20th, and it will take a week
at least to replace the warps in the
looms,
~A body found in Lloyd’s creek, at
Easton, Maryland, has been identified
a8 that of George N. Sidney, of 1144
Snyder street, Philadelphia. A heavy
rainstorm on the evening of the 10th
caused the waters of Richmond creek,
which runs through Dayton, Tennes-
see, to overflow the banks. Furnace
fires were putout and a mile and a
half of rallroad was washed up. A
number of houses were swept away
and several families barely escaped
with their lives, Alexander Vaughan
was drowned. Another gas well was
struck at Kempton, Indiana, on the
10th, When the drill was withdrawn
the gas becams ignited Iu some man-
ner and a stream of fire leaped forth,
In the little ro»m around the derrick
were fourteen persops, and all were
more or less burned, four of them
badly.
Our Consul General at Shanghai
has informed the State Department, at
the request of the Shanghai Committee
of the North China Relief Fund, of the
distress existing over a large area of
China, the result of floods in the Yellow
river sections and of droughts in por-
Anhoui. The committees desires to 1n-
vite the clhiaritable people of the werid
to respond to its request for funds,
Thousands are starving and dylog
from exposure in Northern China.
lelief has already been received from
but more is
Until the spring crops are
— As Robert Harbin, a wealthy far-
His
His head ana face
and death
Herman Lenck, aged 17,
was suffocated by smoke during a fire
on Third avenge, New
York, on the morniag of the 20th,
—dJd. J. BShedlove, a prominent
tallor, in Topeka, Kansas,
quarrelled on the evening of the 20th
over the terms of a lease for the bulid-
ing occupied by them. Five shots
subsequently discovered that Werner
bad been Killed and Bhedlove fatally
wounded, Circomstantial evidences in-
dicated that Shedlove did the shooting.
The boy had {re
quently asked his father for a pistol,
bad Leen refused,
and while
with It it was discovered by
on hia
shooting him through the
~—James Cocley went to the resi.
in Roane
county, Tennessee, late on the evening
of the 18ih, and called for Brown,
Brown refused to leave Lhe
Cooley threw several
hiouse
Brown,
and severely ine
Cooley was ar-
He wastaken before a magis-
drew a pistol ou the first
Before he could fire,
the Sheriff shot him in the
without
He was found guilty, gave
and bas fled to North
Carolica., A reward is offered for his
re-capture,
~George NR. Carlton, bookkeeper
for Smith, Bros, & Co., In Seattle,
Washington Territory, sent a note to
the firm on the 18th, together with tbe
safe keys, saying that he was ili. It
was discovered that he had left the
city and an examination of the books
showed that hie had embezzied $20,000.
A telegram from Seranton,
Penna., reports that a week ago
Charles Nier ran a needle into his
foot. Burgeons sought in vain for it.
On the afternoon of the 21st Nier
“was taken to the plant of the Subur-
ban Electric Railway and his foot held
near one of the dynamos. In 15 min.
utes the needle was drawn out.”
~The team of Henry Mott, of Al
burgh Springs, Vermont, went through
the ice on Lake Champlain, st Rouse’s
Point, on the 2Ist. Mr. Mott was
drowned and Mr, Mott was badly cut
by the str
wound,
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PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE. |
BEATE, |
In the Senate, on the 18th, Mr. |
Packer introduced a bill providing that |
telephone companies be added to the |
list of corporations required to report
to the Auditor General and z'so that
the fiscal year, when all such com-
panies are required ts present their
reports, shall end on June Ade |
journed,
aia
Lr
resolution
amendment for the classification of
cities was passed finally, Bills were
also passed giving the Becretury of the
State Board of Agriculture power to
stamp out contagious diseases AMON
domestic animals, and to expedite Lhe
distribution of money from sales of
real estate upon execution, The special
committee on the Australian Ballot
bill reported several amendments to
the bill. Adjourned.
In the Senate on the 20th bills
were introduced by Mr. Reyburn in-
creasing the rates allowed Delaware
river pilots, and by Mr. McAleer fixing
the salaries of judges, Among the
bills reported negatively were those
fixing the weight of a ton of anthracite
coal at 2000 pounds, prohibiting com-
mon carriers from engaging in wining,
and to prevent discrimination by rail-
| roads, DBlils were passed finally allow-
| lng insurance companies to change the
{ the operation of factory insurances
| companies, Adjourned,
In the Senate on the 21st. Mr.
| McAleer’s bill fixing the salaries of
F Judges, was reported with amend-
| ments, making the salary of Common
Pleas Judges in Alleghany the same as
{those in Pmladeiphia,
| year,
{ tions receiving support from the State,
| The bill making 2000 pounds of anth-
racite coal a legal ton, which had Leen
reported negatively, was recommitted,
| Bills were introduced by Mr,
authorizing the courts to appoint
| deputy constables and police upon pe-
| tition, and by Mr, Penrose, to prevent
traffic in registered bottles, The bill
| for the Incorporation and regulation of
{ Young Men's Christian
| was passed finally.
HOUSE.
In the House,
| & State Board of Arbitration
| dispules between employers and em-
| ployes, said board to consist of three
| members, to be appointed annually by
| the Governor, one lo be an employee,
| anot.er an employer, and the third Ww
i be appointed upon the joint recom-
| mendation of these two. Several
| effectual attempls were made to have
| pesolutions passed making special
| orders for bills. On motion of Mr.
| requested to consider the expediency of
| and resolutions, Adjourned,
In the House on the 19th, Mr. Capp
| moved 10 suspend the rules and place
on the calendar Lhe negatively reporied
mil regulating the wcorporation of
cily passenger raliways,
was lost for want of two-thirds
| ily, the yeas being 100, the nays 72.
| The bill to prevent the crossing of
| steam railroads at grade in cities of Lhe
frst and second classes was passed
| finally; also, the bill in relation to the
| srection and leasing of wharves and
| collection of wharlage thereon. Ad-
| journed,
{ In the House, on the 20th, Mr.
| Wherry introduced a bill to enforce
| Article 17 of the Constitution in rela-
tion to common carriers, The bills
| establishing a State Board of Educs-
| tion, for the incorporation of passenger
| rallways, and “for the education of
| children 1m cities and boroughs’ were
| reported negatively, Bills were re
| ported favorably making it lawful for
ship-building corporations to increass
{ their capital stock, to provide a better
| system of fire escapes, and to suthorize
| mutual fire insurance companies of
{ other States to do business here. A
bill was introduced by Mr, Fietcher
| fixing the rate of mlotage.
| prevent the standing aside of jurors by
constitutional majority, Adjourned.
In the House, on the 21st, Senate
| bill 133, relating to the incorporation
| and regulation of passenger railways,
was, on motion of Mr. Keyser, recom-
mitted. The General Revenue bill was
passed finally by a vote of 173 to 7 and
gent to the Senate, Adjourned,
Dr, W. Chandler Roberts, in a
a Soc'ety of Arts lecture, has stated
that the gold colnage of Great Britain
is estimated to consist of not less than
790 tons of an alloy of gold and copper.
To be free from the rage of perpets
ually buying something new is a certaln
revenue.
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FERRER RARER
A LESSON IN GEOGRAPHY.
Is It a Wonder?
“Dear teacher, will
what the inhabitants of
called?”
“They
boy.”
“And are the people of Mexico called
Mexicones?”’
“No, my boy: the) are called Mexi-
you tell me
America are
are calle Americans, my
And the people of Greece are
| called Greecycans?”’
“No; they are called Greeks.”’
“Then, are the people of BSpain
called Speaks?’
“No, dear boy;
Spaniards.’
‘Indeed; and are the people of Por-
tugal Portugards?’’
**No, my boy; they are called Portu-
guese,’’
‘*And the people of fiermany are
Germungeese?’’
**No; they are Germans.”
“Ob! and are the people of
way Normans?”
“No; they are Norwegians,”
“And the people of Sweden, are
they Skowhegans?"’
“No, dear boy; they are Bwedes.”’
**And are the people of Sardinia Sar-
dines?”
| **No; they are dardinians.”’
“And in Japan are they Japanians?”
“They are Japanese.’
“And in Morocco, are they Morocco-
| ese?’
“Oh, no, They are Moore.”
“And are the people of Patagonia
| Pats?’
i *“No;they are FPatagonians.”’
| “And in Hindoostan are they iin
| doostanians?”’
“No; they are Hindoos,”'
“And in Holland, are they IHolloos?’
“They are Dutch.”
“In Belgium are they Belch?”
“No; Belgians,”
“And in Poland thoy are Polians?”’
“They are Poles.”
“And in Russia, are
“No; Russians.’
“And in Wales, they are Wallians?"’
“They are Welsh.”
{ “In Scotland, are they bdeuleh?”
“Seoteh,’
{ *And in Ireland Itech?”
{ *No; Irish.”
{ “And in France, they are—Fish?”
“No; French.”
“And in Eogland, loach?’
“No; English.”
“Aud are people
called Switch?”
“They are Swiss,”
“And the people of Sicily are Siss, —
{or Sissys?"’
| “Sicilians.”
| “And in Turkey areibey Turkeyans,
{or Turkey?”
| “Neither; they are Turks.”
| “Apd in Italy, they are Its?"
| “No; Italians.”
| “And the people of Denmark, dear
| teacher—**
“The people of Denmark may go to
Copenhagen. I think we have had all
the geography we need for one day.”
they call them
Nor-
they Rushes?"
in Switzerland
MADE A MISTAKE.
A Man May Be a Countryman and
Yet Know How To Spar,
He had & mouth like a carpet bag.
His hair looked as if it had beer cut by
{across eyed barber aMicted with the
| shaking palsy; and, moreover, be ap-
peared to be a redolent hayseed. All
day long be had hung about the place,
| occasionally *‘asking the boys,” and
| between times “dong the lone act.”
| Along the middle of the afternoon
{two young men meandered in, like
| Judge Finn and Colonel Blood, looking
| for whisky and trouble. While they
| were being served (be gentleman with
{the rural air steppea up and asked for
| the same.’
| “You're not drinking with
| remarked the younger man who
{ “called on.”
‘ Oh, yes, 1 will,” replied the other,
| meaning, as he afterwards explained,
| that he would drink at the same time,
| The young man gave him a light
| openback hand tap on the cheek, calied
{him “Old Hayseed” and warned him
| to keep away.
{ “Don't do that again,
“1 don’t
ty
us,
had
young man.”
said the other. like 10 be
cuffed!”
| “You don’t. eh?” apd then followed
{a harder one on the other cheek, and
| the young man, who up to that Lime
{had quite a fancy for himself as an
amateur sparrer, ‘put up his hands”
in the most approved style.
The next instant that wmasguided
youth resembled nothing so much as a
Maux penny with the St. Vitus dar ce.
In sixty seconds he was humped up in
ous corner.
“Want any more!” queried “Old
Hayseed.”'
The victim spit oul a mouthful of
blood teeth and bad language. and was
understood to reply that he had enough,
bat that be would like to know who it
was that “did lum up.”
Never you wind who I am. I've
fought ia public five times with small
gloves and once with kids, and I won
five times and I got a draw ihe olher,
Good morning!”
Evil Effects of Tobacon.
Says the New York Medical Journal:
“In an e mental observation of
thirty-eight boys of all classes
society and of average health who had