A GREAT FIRE.
LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS, THE SUF-
ESTIMATED
TWO HUNDRED PEOPLE HOME-
LESS,
I.Y NN, Mass,, Nov. 26.—Lynn, the
city of shoes, was this afternoon visited
by the greatest tire in its history, and
with two exceptions the conflagration
is the most disastrous which ever vis-
ited New England. The exceptions
are the great Boston fire of 1872, which
destroyed nearly one hundred million
dollars worth of property, and the
Portland fire of 1868, which caused a
loss of between ten and twelve millions,
To-day’s lire started at 11.55 a. w.,
raged over eight hours, devastated a
square mile of the business section of
the city, and caused a loss estimated at
ten millions. In fact, the greater part
of Ward 418 wiped out as regards Lhe
important shoe manufacturing blocks
and prominent places of business. The
tire started in Mower's wooden bulld.
ing, Almond street, over the boiler,
and spread with such rapidity that the
excellent Fire Department of the
city was powerless to cope
with it, This large wooden build
ing was soon doomed, and the
Hawes leaped across a NAITOW passage
way and communicated with the six-
story brick block koown as Mower's
block. When these two buildings got
well under way 1t was evident that a
terrible conflagration would result,
Almost simullaneously the four-story
wooden shoe factory of Bennett & Dar-
nard, on Central avenue, and the four-
story wooden building on Almond
street caught fire, and, when under ;
way, a hurricane of flames was in pro-
gress, which blanched the cheeks of all
who were looking on.
For eight hours the flames had full
sway, the efforts of firemen and citi
zens seemingly being of no avail, al
thougl, of course, they did valliant
work. The burned territory is bounded
by the following streets: Almond
Central avenue, at its junction, with
Wiliow; Union street, from Its juoc-
tion with Dioad, to the Boyden block
on both wmides; Mount Vernon street
entire, Central Square entire, Beach
street on both sides as far down as
Lee's lumber yard, Washington street,
from Mouoroe through to Union; Rail-
road avenue, all of Exchange street,
Broad street, from the engine house,
on both sides, up as far as the corner
o! Exchange; Spring street entire, be-
sides dwelling bouses too numbers to
mention ou Suffolk, Amity, Sagamore
wand Beach streets,
Aid arrived from Poston, Salem,
Marblehead and surrounding towns,
but their un‘ted efforts seemed to have
little effect on the hurricane of fame.
Scenes of the great Boston and Chicago
fires were 1epeated in all their horrors,
mothers fleeing with babes in their
arms and express wagons loading at
business and dwelling houses and tran-
feiring goods to a place of safely, in
many cases a second removal being |
NICessary.
After the fire had been in progress
two hours everybody declared it would
not stop until it reached the ocean. So
1t looked, and so it proved to be. Four
daily pewspapers are burned out, the
Item, the Bes, the Press and News,
three afterncon and one morning pa-
pers. Three national banks, the Cen-
tral, Security and First National, to-
gether with the Lynan lustitution for
Savings, located in the First National
block, are all wiped out. Twelve of the
finest shoe blocks In the city are in
ruins and about 25 stores. At this
writing it Is Impossible to state how
many dweiling houses are burned, but
they were mostly occupied by the poor
class, in the vicinity of Beach street
and the wharves, It is mpossible to
give any estimate on insurance, but
conservative estimates place the loss on
property at $10,000,000.
Lynx, Mass, Nov. 26.—About 8 P.
M. the conflagration was under control,
pot because of any human agency, but
because the open walter was reached.
‘I'he ruins cover at least 50 acres, and
some observers put it as high as 60,
Streets are lost in huge piles of debris,
and there is an open hole in the heart
of the eity a half a mile long, and a
third wide. Upward of 250 buildings,
dwellings and business houses are bur-
ned out.
At the lowest calculation 300 busi-
pess men have suffered. At least 3500
employes are out of work, most of
whom are employed In the shoe
shops. Thirty-five per cent. of these
are females, Mayor Newhall to-night
reports that 200 people are homeless,
and calls for ald.
~Two miners named White and
Hull, were fatally Injured on the
morning of the 20th by a coal car
running back on them In a mine near
Washington, Pa. A passenger train
on the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia Railroad left the track near
Greenville, Tennessee, on the morning
of the 26th. Engineer Gregg was
fatally, and the express messenger and
four passengers were badly, hurt, The
car and its contents were destroyed.
Dr. Witham BR, Warning, a well-known
physician in Atlanta, Georgia, fell
down a flight of steps at his home,
on the 26th and received injuries which
Salisnd bis death, He was 00 years
~A wreck occured on the Iowa
Central Railroad at Applington, Iowa,
on the 26th, Two men were killed, A
coal train and a work train on the
Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling Rall.
road collided on the morning of the
25th at Flushing, Oblo. Both eugines
a Ried. and tes
, Was wo
other men were injured. While a
train on the Indianapolis aud St,
NINE LIVES LOST.
BARK GERMANIA TOTALLY WRECKED
AT LONG BRANCH.
HER CAPTAIN AND EIGHT SAILORS
DROWNED - THK MATE AND
THREE OTHERS SAVED,
Asnury Park, N. J., Nov. 27,
The bark Germania was wrecked to-
night at Long Branch. The Germania
came ashore opposite the West End
Hotel, Long Branch. Before a life
line could be shot to her the vessel's
spars went by the board, and the vessel
quickly went to pleces and disappeared.
Four sallors were rescued. Captain
Windhorst and eight sallors were
drowned,
The vessel was completely wrecked,
She was consigned to Theo. Ruger &
Co., of New York. She was bound
from Stettin for New York. The
names of the sailors lost are Captain
Windhorst, William Baltz, Frantz Vir.
rossin, Ernest Bolter, Gustave Holden-
hainer, Richard Wittenberg, Arthur
Beaurer, John Schumacker and Gus-
tave Bergenheim, First Mate Doyen
and three men came ashore on empty
barrels,
When the vessel struck the captain,
it is sald, was drunk. He drew a re-
volver to shoot the man at the wheel
when a wave swept him over into the
boiling Ben.
The German bark Germania, Captam
Windhorst, sailed from Stet! in Septem
ber 50th for New York. She was a
vessel of 800 tons and was built in
Glasgow in 1874. She Lalled from
Dremen and was owned by D, H.
Watjen & Co.
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ANOTHER GREAT FIRE
TWO ACRES OF BUSINESS BLOCKS IN
BOSTON BURNED.
ESTIMATED LOSS, FOUR MILLIONS, w=
TWO EIREMEN REILLED.
Boston, Nov. 28,—The most disast-
rous fire from which Boston has suffer-
ed since 1872, and one which in prop-
erty loss more than rivals the great con-
flagration at Lynn on Tuesday, broke
out at 8.20 this morning in the six
story granite building, owned by Jor-
dan, Marsh & Co., and occupled by
Brown, Durrell & Co., dealers in dry
good, on Bedford streel, corner of
Kingston.
The first alarm rung in to-day was
immediately followed by the first gen-
eral alarm in Boston since 1872 To-
day's conflagration raged for six hours,
burned over two acres of territory
covered by maguificent structures and
entailed a loss estimated at $4,000,000,
The street playing the most promi-
nent part in the fire was Bedford, from
the Harrison avenue extension east
ward across Chauncey, Kingston and
Columbia streets, almost to the junce
tion of Sumner and Lincoln. It was
near the latter point that the fire
started working its way west,
There are about 200 firms burned
out, and 100 agents of New York and
Western firms have had their head.
quarters destroyed. The 79 insurance
companies known to be Interested carry
an aggregate insurance of $2 600,000
on the burned property. The total loss,
according to the atest conservative es-
timates, will reach $4,000 000,
Two firemen, Danlel Buckley, un-
married and Frank P. Loker, who has
a wife and child, have been missing
since early this morning. They were
last seen in the Brown Durrell building
and their bodies are believed to be in
the ruins of that structure, Several
firemen who saw them in the building
report an explosion of bot air, and
their own narrow escape, and are of
the opinion that the missing men were
overcome and unable to save them-
selves,
SNOW AND RAIN.
THE PRINCIPAL DAMAGE SUSTAINED
BY BRAIDROAD COMPANIES,
ALBANY, N. Y., Nov. 28.-—The
Troy local trains on the New York
Central Road were all delayed this
afternoon and to night by land slides at
the clay embankmesct just balow the
Troy Iron Works, At 10 o'clock this
morning the first slide occurred, the
bank settling down over the east track.
Assoon as It was discovered the road
master put a gang of men to work,
For a time they got on very well, but
in the afternoon the bank began to
come down in a big slide so fast the
men could not shovel it out, and, for
a time, all traflic was done op this side
of the river,
The slide was the largest ever seen in
this vicinity, and four frame houses on
top were moved by the slide, and one Is
in a dangerous position, Trains ran
up as far as the iron works on tbis side
and transferred passengers,
Warenpury, Conn., Nov, ¥8.—
The storm last pight swelled Little
Brook under East and South Main
streets, and filled twenty store cellars,
causing damage to goods to the amount
of $4000, The Naugatuck Valley,
from Thomaston to Birmingham, is
turned into a sea by the rise in the
Naugatuck river, The Naugatuck
Railroad is covered in many places,
A bad washout at Ssymour delayed
passenger trains this morning. The
bridge over the creek at Union city
was washed away. The Dusham dam
at Naugatuck gave away at 4 o'clock
this morning. There is also a bad
wastions on the Meriden Road in this
city.
MONTREAL, Nov. 28,-.The storm,
which stuck this locality 24 hours ago,
is still raging with full force. Four
teen inches of snow have fallen, but
the wind now seems to be abating, All
Incoming malls are delayed, rall-
way services 1s badly interfered with,
The loeal companies are
transportation
rh is stot, sioitYy 30d
the in with business is not
serious,
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
SA —
~Uhief IMost-office Inspector Rath-
bone, in his annuus! report to the Post.
master General, shows that B01 persons
had been urrested during the year for
all kinds of offences against the postal
laws and regulations and for varidus
erimes committed, Including burgla
Hes of post-oftices and robberies of the
mall,
~The latest report from Butte,
Montana, concerning the St. Lawrence
mine fire Js that there 18 no air to fan
the fire, and the carbonle acid gas gen.
erated will eventually put 1t out, Five
men are known to be dead in the mine
and two to four are variously stated wo
be missing. The twin mines, the An-
aconda and St, Lawrence, employ over
1000 mien.
~An explosion of natural gas oc-
curred at the residence of Scott Haw-
thorne, in Dayton, Ohlo, on the morn-
ing of the 26th, Two children were
killed, and Mr, Hawthorne, his wife
and father received tercible injuries.
William Dyer, Ira Coamberlain and
Sun Dyer, while hunting near Wash-
ington, Indiana, on the 25th, were
accidentally shot by George Cuamber-
lain, Sun Dyer died in a short time,
A boiler at the Allegheny Bessemer
Steel Works at Duquesne, Pa,, ex-
ploded on the morning of the 26th,
wrecking the boiler house and killing
William Marshall and George Cooper.
Robert North was badly injured. The
cause of the exnlosio2 18 not known.
«A despateh from Harrisburg. Vir-
gluin, says that the rain still continues
aud Lhe streatwns are still rising. The
farmers are discouraged, The corn is
rotting in the (elds, The country
roads are almost impassable, A light
(all of anow prevailed on the 27th at
Minneapolis, A telegram from Liteh-
field, Minnesota, reported the setting
in there on the morning of the 27th of
“a genuine blizzard,” Snow had fallen
fo a depth of three inches and was
drifting badly. The temperature wus
quite low. A despatch from Aspen,
Colorado, says that the heaviest snow
in years has fallen during the past
three days,
— Near Huntington, West Virginia,
on the 27th, the Chesapeake and Otlo
Hallroad bridge crossing the Guyan-
dotte river fell while a freight train
was crossing it, precipitating the cars
into the water. Engineer R. V,
Freeman was killed and other train
bands slightly iojured. The bridge
had been condemned for some tle,
John McCarty, a conviet, who
savagely assaulted Philip La Coste in
the State prison at Providence, Rhode
Island, on the 26th, hanged himself on
the 27th in a dark cell. He tore the
lining of his coat nto strips to make
the noose. La Coste Is recovering.
-A telegram from Bealiefoate, Pa,
reports on the morning of the 27th,
that the murdered body of a young
girl named Clara B. Pierce was found
two miles from Karthaus. It is be-
lieved that the murder was commitied
about © o'clock, as the girl had been
seen jn that neighborhood about that
time, A tall, slim man, wearing a
light suit of clothes aud a deaby hat,
bad been seen with her a short time
before, and he is believed to be the
murderer. A man bas been arrested
at Vanderbeit, on the Beech Creek
road, who answers that description.
His name is nol known at present.
~ Hans Jacob Olsen, 50 years of age,
was dragged from his howe in Preston,
Wisconsin, by masked men on the eve-
ning of the 24th, and hanged to a tree,
Olsen was partially losape and some-
what quarreisome, and had been or-
dered by neighbors to leave the country.
George Clough shot Mrs, J, G. Ludwig
and her niece, Eva Wooster, In Rock-
land, Maine, on the evening of the 25th,
and then committed sulelde, His
body was found on the morning of the
27th, The two women may recover.
~John W. Brown and William §,
Henderson, colored, clerks in the post.
office In Charlotte, North Carolina,
werearrested on the 27th on the charge
of rifling registered letters. One of the
letters opened by Henderson was ad-
dressed to John Wanamaker, Philadel
phia. Granville K, Young, Assistant
Postmaster at Ruby, Tenuesses, has
been arrested for nifling letters,
~Wilham McComb, aged 18 years,
was accidently shot dead while gun-
ping at Reboboth, Delaware, on the
afternoon of the 28th, He was cross.
ing a ditch on a fence, holding bis gon
by the muzzle, when it went off and
the load entered his head, Josephine
Welsh accidently shot and killed her
lover, Charles White, in West Eifza.
beth, Pa. on the evening of the 27th,
while toying with a revolver. The
young couple were to have heen mar-
ried soon. While Ossie Johnson was
playing with an old pistol in Rome,
Georgia, on the 25th, It went off, and
the bullet struck Edward Landell,
who was near. He died from the
wound on the evening of the 27th.
~Charles D. Cole, aged 28 years,
was killed on the 28th, ia Anna Arun
del county, Maryianes by the prema-
his gun. The four.
Miller, of Baltimore county, Maryland,
was killed by the bursting of a gun on
the afternoon of the 28th, oseph
yngham
sha't, st Wilkesbarre, Pa,, was killed
on the 28th by being caught by the cage
it was ascending. He had tried 10
in after it had started, William H.
wards, a private in the
per.
hu pe ; unled bY Jieutsian:
assel Gi. Bing during target practice,
at Attantie City, on the afternoon of
the 28th, ;
William Hod, a farmer near
Greenville, Noy Rie, shot smd
killed his wife an quacrel
lohael
The Toys.
My Ute son who looked from thoughtful eyes
And moved and spoke In quiet grown-up wise,
Having m law the seventh time disobeyed,
{ struck him and dismiss’d
With hard words and unkiss'd,
His mother, who was patient, being
Then fearing lest his grief should b
I visited his bed,
But found him siumbering deep,
With darkened eyelids and their lashes yet
From his late sobblug wet,
And I with moan
Kissing away his tears left others of my own ¢
For, on a table drawn beside his head,
He had put within his reach
A box of counters and a red-vein'd stone,
A piece of glass abraded by the beach,
And 81x or seven shells,
And two French copper coins arranged with
careful art,
To comfort his sad heart,
So when that night 1 pray’d
To God | wept and sald;
“Ah, when at last we Tie with tranced breath,
Not vexing thee in death,
And thou rememberest of what toys
We made our joys,
How weakly understood
Thy great commanded good,
Then, fatherly not less,
Than 1 whom thou hast molded from the clay,
Thou'lt leave thy wrath and say,
I will be sorry for their childishiness,
Covendry Palmore.
dead.
Inder sleep,
NANQE,
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Nance Williams was not beautiful,
in the ordinary sense of the word, She
was sunburned and freckled and her
nose had too much the suggestion of a
snub to be an ornament, But she had
fine eyes—not large, but small, ex.
pressessive and fringed with heavy
black lashes, She was a strong-limbed,
well-developed and hearty girl of 22, or
thereabouts at the time of this story,
and was known to the Skytown ecom-
munity as a fearless woman, and no
less peculiar than brave,
Peculiar, indeed! She had no rela
tives that any one knew of, and was all
alone way out in that western country,
and for « woman to be alone In Da-
kota, In '82.3, and especially *‘hold-
ing down a claim” ten miles from any
one,’ presented a spectacle of self-sacri-
fice and daring, rarely exhibited by the
gentle sex,
But Nance was equal to the emer
gency. If she had a heart to dare, she
bad an arm all-suflicient for her pro-
tection. She could handle a gun with
the skill and ease of a professional
ranger, and had more than once dem-
onstrated ber superb marksmanship, 1
have seen her break the wildest of
broncos to the saddle, and by a score of
similar acts proclaim berself the mis
tress of her situation,
Yet, with all her masculine quali.
ties, she was feminine to the greatest
degree in some of the sweeler virtues
of her sex. She was ready-witted,
bright and tender-hearted, and when-
ever she came into the store to trade it
was a treat for me to draw her out in
conversalion, She was usually very
reserved, but from time fo time I
gleaned a few facts concerning ber
early life, She was born in California.
There was a tinge of Indian blood in
her mother’s veins and ber father was
a miner-—a “forty miner.” Her whole
life bad been thrown in the most rug-
god surroundings, aud 1 could not but
wonder how she had grown up into her
scathless womanhood, She was a dia.
mond in the rough—1I could see that and
I gloried In it, but how she supported
herself and why she buried herself
away out in that lonely region afar
from womankind and civilization were
mysteries to us all,
Along in the summer of "83 a young
fellow from the east came to Skytown
and settled down among us, He was
a pale, sickly individual, slightly builg,
bad blue eyes, curly yellow hair and
wore goggles. He was very refined in
his language and dress and carried him-
self with such scholarly air that he was
immediately christened ‘‘Professor.”
His father, he told me, had sent him
West for his health, He bad come to
Dakota with the avowed intention of
roughing it, and wanted me to advise
him the proper method for seeing the
greatest amount of pioneer life in the
shortest possible time, 1 advised him
to take up a clalmn, roll up his sleeves
and do as we Dakotians did. He fol-
lowed my advice to the letter. I intro-
duced him to Charley Atwood and he
purchased of him the relinquishment of
a fine quarter of a ground, three miles
from town, remodeled the shack a lit.
tle to suit his convenience and started
in to experience Dakota life, In some
manner he became acquainted with
Nance Williams and they grew to be
steadfast friends. I knew their friend.
ship was warm, but did not dream it
was 80 stroog as after events proved,
One night about 8 or 9 o'clock,
Nance Williams came into the store,
She approached me and said in a low
tone:
‘I'd like ter speak with you, Mr. Bar-
low,” 1 was somewhat surprised, but
conducted Ler to my little cubby-hole
of an office. .
‘What do you supposes Rice Fields
ing, Tom Jenkins an’ all that guog are
goin’ to do to-night?’
‘1 cannot imagine, Miss Williams,’
mid 1, in a tone of alarm.
‘They're over at Spangler's plottin’
to beat the Professor out 0’ his claim!’
‘You don’t tell mel’
‘I do, though, You see, the Profes.
sor 1s out o' town, an’ that gang knows
it, so they're goin’ to try and steal his
place.
‘But they can’t!
“They say they can. They say they'll
try it an’ give the tenderfoot a big
scare, anyway. Why, I never heard
of such an outrage?’ WL
‘How do they intend to go to work
to get the Professor's claim?
they'd take along a keg of whisky an’
move into his shack an’ stay there,
They're goin’ up to-night, They won't
have any time to-morrow ‘cause the
Professor’ll get back then, You know
he went to Jimtown Tuesday, Can’t
you do somethin’, Mr. Barlow?’
‘The law won't uphold them,
Misgn?
Bhe snapped her fingers,
‘That for the law! I tell you these
fellers shan’t get into the Professor's
shack If I can help 18.’
Bhe drew herself together like an
angry Amazon and her eyes were twin
coals of fire,
‘I beg of you don’t be rash, Miss
Willlams, Remember
There came a chorus of yells from
Spangler’s, Nance Williams listened
a moment,
‘Hear that,’ she raid harshly, ‘they're
gettin’ ready to go. It's time 1 was
movin’, You mark my words Mr,
Barlow, thel roressor’s claim is safe—
Nance Williams says so,
She rushed out of the store and away
into the night,
Shouts and yells eame from Spaug-
ier's, and not long before Nance had
goue a drunken rabble rode by the store
in the direction she had taken. I felt
certain something of a serious nature
was threatened, so, as soon as [ could
leave the store, I saddled my horse and
followed,
Tom Jenkin’s gang bad a haif-hour
the start of mefand I put my horse
the run in order that I might be on
hand with #8 little delay as possible,
As my borss clattered over the bridge
that spanned the Pipestem, [ heard a
succession of faint rifle shots from the
direction of the Professor’s claim,
‘My God,” Iecried, ‘the girl will be
killed!” and 1 lashed my horse to grea-
ter speed,
It had never occurred to me that I
would be helpless in an encounter with
the drunken rabble, I had thought of
nothing but getting upon the ground
in the quickest possible time, for it was
more than probable that Nance Wil-
liams would be alone at the mercy of
the crowd, As 1 drew nearer and
nearer my destination 1 heard cries
from time to time, and my nerves were
all a tremble with excitement and ap-
prehension, When I came close to
the Professor's claim shanty, however,
I realized that Nance Willlams was in
no immediate danger for the men,
some ten or twelve in number, stood
counselling together. From thelr loud
talk I gleaned that they had met with a
disappointment-they had thought that
the Professor was in Jimtown, while
they had found him in the shack on
hand to protect his property.
‘What's the matter, boys?’ I
quired, springing from my horse,
‘It's Barlow,’ said Tom Jenkins to
his associates in a Jow and not very de.
lighted voice, Then, advancing to-
ward me, he asked: ‘What do you
want, Ike Barlow?’
“To see fair play,’ said I promptly;
‘what are you fellows here for?’
*"T'ain’t nothin’ to you. You go back
to town an’ leave us alone,’
While I was bharangring Tom Jen-
kins, Rice Fielding, his partner, tried
to steal up to the door of the bouss,
Ie had gone barely hall w y, however,
when a rifle was thrust through a
partly-open window and fired in his
direction. The bullet whistled uncom-
fortably near him, and Rice retreated
with more haste than gracefulness,
‘No use, Rice,’ saad Tow Jenkins;
‘the feller means business, There's
only one way to get at him, an’ that's
to burn him out.’
‘Look bere,’ I cried excitedly; ‘have
you men any idea of the crime you are
perpetrating? This outrage—
There were several derisive yells
from the crowd and I could see they
were Loo much bent upon mischief to
be influenced by me,
*Say, Barlow, you krow as well as 1
do that Charley Atwood hadn’t no
right to jump that claim in the first
place, That there place belongs to me
an’ Tom, an’ the rest of the fellers
are goin’ to help me get it back, 80 you
Just keep mam an’ get out o’ the way.’
Ah, that was the idea! It was a fact
that, the quarter had onginally been
filed on by Rice Fielding, but he never
went near it and wade no pretention of
living up to the law, consequently it
became jumpable, ana Charley Atwood
had taken advantage of the fact, Al
the while Atwood held the place Field-
ing had made no move to get it back,
but now that the Professor had bought
it a fancied wrong tangled in Fielding’s
breast, In this view of the case I
thought best not to tell the men they
were battling against a woman.
Going to the rear of the house
where there were no windows or doors
through which a rifle could be fired,
preparations were made to burn the
building. A billet of wood was sate
urated with the oil of a lantern one of
the men had brought, and, Nght.
ing this torch and taking an arm.
ful of straw, Rice Fielding ap-
proached to burn the 'rofessor's shack,
Before he put the plan lato operation,
however, a figure appeared on the roof
of the house. Standing aloft, stern and
undaunted, upon the flat roof, Nance
Williams covered Rice Fiekiing with
her rifle, :
‘Not another step,
in.
dR Ee aR
ie
Ingly, ‘another inch or you're a dead
i
‘Good Godl’ yelled Fielding, ‘it’s
Nance!’
There she stood erect as a statue—a
target for a dozen guns!’
‘Nance Williams!’ I eried, ‘for God’s
sake come down,’
‘If they take the Professor's claim
they walk over my dead body fer get
it. What are you goin’ to do, Rice
Fielding?’
‘Don’t shoot boys, Nance, put up
your gun—I'll quit. In heaven's name
don’t stand there,’
‘I'll stand here till every last one of
you gits acrost the Pipestem, Now,
you fellers move or I'll shoot you any-
how!’ :
Well, they ‘moved,’ and I never saw
such a dismayed lot of men as mounted
their horses and rode toward Skytown.
They were not tous much inebriated to
realize that twelve men bind made war
on one woman, and they went Lack
conscious of defeat,
But what ailed Fielding! Art the
very climax of his expedition he had
weakened, What caused it? Nance
Williams happened to be In the store
two or three days after and I asked
her,
‘Huh!’ said she, contermmptuously,
‘he wants me ter marry him, an’ I'd see
him dead an’ buried afore I'd stoop so
low as that after what he tried to do to
the Professor.’ She paused a moment,
and I saw a tear steal down her cheek.
‘I never liked but one feller in my life,
Mr, (Barlow, an’ Bill—he died, 1'll
tell you ‘bout him sometime. Good
by.’
She left the store in a hurry.
‘Women are women the world over,’
thought I, and I pitied poor Nance
from the bottom of my heart,
A Pitiable Story,
Judge Cowing Tempered Justice
with mercy the other day in a way
that the public will heartily approve.
It was in the case of a wretched woman
who admitted stealing some articles of
clothing and pawning them under truly
pitiable circumstances, ber husband
baving got out of work and having
pawned first Lis clothes and then his
tools, and she herself having pawned
most of her clothing, When her hus.
band learned of ber crime he tried hard
to earn money enough lo redeein the
stolen articles, The woman appeared
in court with an infant four weeks
oid. She pleaded guilty to petit iar.
ceny and the husband to receiving stolen
goods, As Judge Cowing was con
vinced that the theft was committed
under compulsion of hunger, he sent.
enced them to one day’s imprisonment
in the Tombs, A more pitiful story is
not often heard in our eriminal courts.
Our charitable institutions say that it
is impossible for any one to starve in
New York. This case shows that
people may come very close to it, how-
ever, And the practical question
arises: What became of these people
after their one day's imprisonment?
What has been done to help them
tide over present difficulties and find the
husband work.
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How tO Rescue the Drowning.
A noted swimmer In answer to the
question: “What is the Dest course fo
pursue in auding people who are
drowning,” says: “Take them by the
back hair and hold them at arm length,
I've noted one thing about drowning
people. When they are sinking the first
time if they see you and they rise again
they know where to grapple with you,
and the result is you both go down to-
gether, with a strong probability that
you will be drowned. It is my advice,
that if you go to rescue a drowning per-
son you should swim around him and
keep behind him, 80 he won't see you
when he comes Gp the second time,
Another thing whenlgoing to a person's
rescue try to gain his confidence, It is
a fact that one finger placed under a
swimmer’s body will keep him afloat ir
you can only get him to believe 11."
A Dog Slory From Scotland,
A gentleman employed at a collery
near Glasgow had a dog called
“Jimmy,” which be parted with to a
friend at the collery some miles dis.
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