i 4 iy a ea ai re a - 1 5 A RAR — She Crate wg Ervin Brum ———————— HE STOLH A PRESIDENT, | you, my bos? Capt. Tom In the aute-be lum days of steam- {4 wh wnt offering his arm to the Gen, [ed at Marrietta, Lancaster county, | Where's the commit | surrounded by the fertile hills of the | | tee Tom? asked Oid Zach, hosting sway tuck in the B08, AMONE | yu rred aboard, the many fine funcy steamboats thas bis residence and walked down to- | plying for virus kuow where it comet ward the boat, He reached the stage. | from or how it ix obtained, open sore, These points are laid awa plank, aod looking up recognized the | To supply this imperative need are! and th n undergo the process of dr son of his old friend upon the roof, | various tostiiutions known ss vaccine (ing. Each beifer is capable of yield: aod shouted : virus, directly as it brushed from th Anybody bur? { * No. Where is fight engive 107 She ss here, towed in by the A ROMANCE IN LONDON LIVE. The London corre spondent of Toronto Week writes : i the jrass, rushed The boat the bounds of Pennsylvania. Sitaar | bemuiiful Lancaster valley, and rau in the Lov svilieand New Orleans | oop ag outysud by the time she had [d r ng oun the placid Susvuehanna is trade none we boat Saladin Qh: wee ow rol and commanded by the Inte Capt J hn Coleman, of this ety, wou Gis sun Tom was clerk of ber. Old Joanie Hughes was head engineer on lier and it used to be a aut} wt of common remark that he was sect, “on vate! "without a guage stick in his ha 4 and he always used it every ten or twelve mioutes, At every stroke he Saladio’s powerful egn w de hen she was running got el nds steam would shoot trom her scape pipe higher than the tops of her conmuney, aud every pul she made couiv be heard on a clear piel 148 Uistuuce Of ten miles. Capt. Colewsn snd bis son Tom were very popolar with the people all along shor, snd they hed no warmer friend than Gen, Zacharia Taylor, the h ro of the Mexicsn wer, and who hved on his planation just below Baton Rogue, on the Mississippi river, Wien ‘Olid Zach” was to be inaugu rotted President of the United States, commiti e composed of high officials g' d the most distinguished citizens of New Orleans, Vicksburg, Memphis, Louisville and Cincinnati were select- ed 10 accompany him from one city to another on a special s'eamboat chart- ered tor the occasion: The fisst com wii tee Orgauiled at New Orleans, sod was to go as far as Vicksburg, where the Vicksburg committee would re- them, as far as Memphis, where the Memphis committee would join them, and so on until General Taylor wonid reach Cincinnati on his way to Washington. Old Zach was not much of a man for display or “buncombe,” and bed a j fect horror for speech- making. Consequently he did not approve of the actions yf the commit tees who were loaded to the muzzle with patristic eloquence, and were only to glad of the oppourteaity to soot off their mouths on this oceasion He preterr=d traveling in his own quist way, bot remarked : I suppose as tis customary, 11 bave to grin. and bear IL Poe ciiizen's committee at New Orleans visited the levee for the pur- sul B lecting the boat that would leave that port, stop at the plantation of 24 Lo] of the*‘vld here," and convey him from | there to Viekshurg. mittee selected her to do the hoovors Cant. Coleman, for other, had remained no the trip, and the = laudin was Clarge hisson T feit thot | { mp i Mine Cause r n, sh uented ver On Lhe A wn quen iy sie canonuh i band engag wil and 119 p ofusion supplied and nothing was left undone to make the trip pleasant for the = President of the Uwited States, and the boat with the committee ou board was ready to | leave port at 1] o'clock that morning But they were doomed to disppoint- ment. as the sequel will show. Tom —or *Cajtain” Tom, if you please— was soured at the crawfish action of tl e committee, and made up his mia then and there that the North Amer es should pever take “Old Zach” to Viekshurg—and she dida’t’ With flags 8ying, cannon booming, the band playing See, the Conquering Hero Comes, people on board yelling, and amid tbe wild shouts smd buzzas 10,000 people on shore the North Ameica “let got” at 11 o'clock in the mo: ning «nd steamed on up the Mis Aseippl Lo take “Old Zach” on board sod convey him to Vicksburg. At about 5 o'clock tnat same eve. ping another boat quietly left the Jewee, going in the direction the North America took earlier. Every hour ber wheels turned around she shot a cloud of steam out of her escape as big as a haystack and high as a church steeple, and the noise that belehed with that cloud shork the earth beth sides of the river. It wes 81 fa and ¢ was walking the wars hing ite, and “Od Uncle Jimmie’ had her red hot snd still a heatie’. The vonthfall captain meant business aud never eyes until head accomplished wha be swore to his friends in New Olin 0 he would do The Baladin stopped to take on a hundred hogsheads SUgAr AL & plantation, and that seem to give ber balinst und aid materially in increasing her speed About mid. | night she went past a boat lying «i baok taking on sugar. The Baladin was fairly splitting the river open, Bhe had overtaken the North Ameri. cand her almost uonoticed by thoes on board the “Hagsbip” as she lay atthe bank. Next morning at sunrise the report of a gun on bosrd steamship caused an earthquake, and the Baladin landed at Gen. Taylor's Old Zach, in full uni , and followed by a negro man with an o'd levther = lis, ~ame from i Wie ra i A re in -Lo=he on the ] PK " : closed his i h . der} The Saladin | banoened ta be 1a port, and the com- | of the smoke house, and io her Zach's pleasure and satisfaction, | By 10 o'clock next morning Vieks- burg was in sight, the Saladin hosted | her color and fired her gun. She | went on up the river past the city, | amid the firing of cannon and shouts | ofjthousands, turned above town, pass | ed down again amid deafening cheers, turned, came back and landed, when the Vicksburg committee rushed anoard and took charge of Old Zach, Just before the boat hove in sight of Vicksburg Gen. Taylor sent for Capt. Lom and takiog him oy the hand sad: Tom, my dear boy, I only wish 1 {could go on to Louisville with you, and not have to stop at all these piaces and encounter all this fuss and ceremony as arranged for me, but | wouldu't do to treat all the commit tees from here to Washington did the first one. You'll shoulder this scrape, my boy. The General got off the Saladin and cime on to this city. The Norih Awerica—well, she got left, as did all on board upon that occasion, for she reached Vicksburg just after the Vicksburg committee left with the old | hero for Memphis on another boat, When the Sal din returved to New Orleans that trip, Tom Coleman, the youog captain of the Saladin, was re- ceived with open arms and lionized by everybody, and all he had to do to gel a fight on his hands was to say to one of the committee when he met him, got left, didn't you! Old Zach has long since been laid in his quiet grave within a few miles of the cliy— a grave almost unknown and unwark. ed, The loud voice of the huge Cha capelpipe on the old engine Saladin is hushed forever, the engine is motion less and the boat herself a thing of the past. Old Uopcle Jimmie has let g) the throttle ana the guage stick and laid down to rest; bu, the famil Liar form and face of Capt. Tom Cole { man can be seen almost any day as he | walks with steady steps through the | stree's to and from his office on Main strec £, above Third, where he is busi- [ly engaged in the railway supply busi | ness—the only man on earth who ever | stole a President of the United States aod rao off with him. have | — A — A WOMAN COMMITS SUICIDE Last Friday o'clock, says the wile M West miles from jo. W about 5 Journal Hutfaagle, re twp, evening, i Lewisburg thie 0 Samue fialo B Mili siding In ahou burg, commit ’ Riri - RIT wie and on Saw } He found on the north side hands was held an empty single barreled rifle She was lying upon her back, with ber head partly turned to the left- There was a fearful wound in the left eye and blood was oozing from it and from the left ear: The left hand was somewhat burned and blackened by powder, and the right band still held a small stick, abount half an inch in diameter and twelve inches in length. From appearances she had been in a sitting position, the left hand graspiog the muzzle and holding it close to the eye, while with the stick she touched the trigger. The riflle was loaded with a hickory plug instead of a ballet. On a strip of paper torn from the New York Week: ly World was written : Now when you come home take good care oft be rest of them, This is my last. It is said that she also left a letter to her husband, the contents of which are not made known An joquest was held by Samuel Geigen, E who impanelled the following gentie. men as a jury : Dr. Sieans, W. L. Habler, | M. Barber, James Moss, D. W. Bankey sod CO, J Badger Their veri sas thas oh ; Lie Hulluagle came to her death Ly ber own hands hy shooting herself 10 the left eye with a single barreled rifle, while sitting on the North side of the smoke house, ia the yard belonging to Johu Diebl, and now occupied by the haehand of deceased, af reenid ia er hurrying to him gn his wife lying dead Mrs. Hoflungle was the deoghter of | Mr. lense Z ler, of West Buffalo twp, and was about 24 yeas of «ge, 8 leaves two smal! chilidrens The re mains were interred on Sunday fore’ noon in the Duokard cemetery. na ca— . AN IMMENSE VACOLINE FARM, Nom Dariog the small-pox epidemic, which bas heen ragiog in this ely for the last few weeks, the thousands of people who applied to the physicians and board of health have created a demand for an immense quantity of AS Wwe Lo more popular than | o fo0 1iiles up the river Tom bad ex- | the most complete virus farm in the the sing - 0; we, side wheel steam- |. 5,00 the situation fully to Old |wo Id This valuable source which, supplies every city in the United States [and every country in the world was ‘started by Dr | Marietta, in 1880, | HOW THE FARM WAS STARTED, | An interesting history | the establishment of the farm. Dr. | Alexaoder who has made the subject of inoculation one of deep study one day 1oformed that a full-blooded (raernsey heifer was a victim of spon taneous inoculation, An invesliga- tion proved this to be true. Tue ani | mal was housed, carefully treated and | usual | | developments awaited. The symptoms of small pox were observed-——the forming of a crust and fever. On the eighth day crust was removed, the affected carefully clespsed and a quantity purest bovine virus was extracted from the sore. An examioation by physicians demonstrated the value | the new-found preventative and now i prominently bovice virus has figured {as the source of a counteracting io {fluence which has robbed small-pox { of many of its horrors is proven by [the practical and beneficial resul i which attend the use of virus, The { present exlensivée vaccine farm Marrietta is the oatcome of these | periments, | A party coosisting of H. K. | ford, a prominent droggist of this city; Professor W. T G. W { MuMullin, of Philadelphia, and Geo | Small, of York, visited the farm yes | terday to inspect the modes employed [ib preparing the virus and shipping it. The farm employs from thirty to {fifty bands in the capacity of gather- | ers, packers, shavers, inocalators and { shippers. The stock used of | finest of Je rsey, Devon snd Holstein | heifers rangiog in age from 8 to 10 Siewart, in ed by the gatherers from the | rounding country, from i | who are paid so much for the hiring lof the animale, Lancaster county's | farm Idnd’s the most celebrated in the | sur | the | world, are excellent sources of supply | i h | { tor at Webster to the train dispaten- {as the rich grass cav<es the ealtie to be in the very finest condition The heifers are brought to the farm in twos | conveyed by a patent eart which am. | ply provides for the comfort f the animals while en route for he | Upon their arrival they are thorough: bor |. , : : . | is performed twice upon the same ani’ H. M. Alexander, of | surrounds | Wis inoculation the parts of | of | is Mul | the ] | months. never over a year and recruit. | farmers, | Hellow! Tom, bow are | farms, the largest of which is within | ing virus enough to supply from six | | to twelve hundred points, THE PROCESS OF RECOV ERY. Afier this operation, which never and They are supplied with food tendencies of which are cooling. mal, the heifer is again washed stabled, | the and the brutes remain quietly stabl d Daring the time the pro: for a week, cess of healing is in progressthe angry Appearance sores are covered with a healthy look ing surface and the pox slowly disap: | Pear, | are perfectly well | science, | { their owners. per day, all of which are packed | bunches of ten, placed in | tubes an” then covered with | vinls by a dexterous lady who t1rna it over | & period of thrity days, although of are | six weeks to the entrance | countries from where they | veyed to the interior, and | show that ninety five per cent. of the points operate with success | { noticeable that while large exception, seemed to be exempt the effects of the contagion en tists made the phenomenon a study Re | | | ! and a leading English physician made | the small pox | Curiously enough | | first discovered that the cow was | mediom through which | could be combined 3 | no other animal has used inoculation Philadelphia Times Dr Alexander who owns and mana ges this farm is a Hon i hewt 101 ] | | | nephew 3 Samuel Gilliland of this County | | THE —— OF A GINE 10 STORY RUNAWAY \ | Licht Agh rine passed Such | flashed over | i | | forty miles an hour: novody on her. was | the telegraph message he wire from the | er at Como one night during the win ter of 1883. he realized tha bu tant He throat in an ins had re iy cleansed and placed for a day upon | a diet of nex ana I'he and f l.on SUTIELN, a AY they mid mre Hnge, he in eg i his pe [hen the lance is scrape the tough skin to the flesh ur til the serum or liquid of he b appears. Bix spots about the size of a balt:dollar are scraped on each shaved space. Now comes the pain: ful part of this seeningly cruel opera tion, during which the poor brute twitches violently and with its ox: pressive eyes almost appeals for mercy. A scarifier. such as is used to vaccinate human beings, is vigor ously used and soon the quivering flesh presents so appearance resem: bling raw beef, From ivory points, each of which is beavily coated with virus obtained from former subjects, the oculation is produced, accompan: ied by the tremulous vibration of the heifer, which is more frightened than hurt at this stage. As soon as the serum dries the sabject is released from the operating table and stabled The first two days following the in oculating process but little evidence of its effects are seen, The third day a crust forms and, very curiously, ouly upon the shaved portions of the legs pox appear, either violent and asugry in appearance or mild, as the condition of the animal is affected the virus, This state remnis wardly unchaoged (00 two or days, but uuriog that time the crust or scab is thickening and the pox grow: {ing deeper. Oa the eighth day the | sures are ripe and the heifers are led from the stables into | where they are again strapped though | not #0 tightly as before, and the ex. a yon palr EL Lal three With a lance carciully scab which is as large sud thick as sn Soon afer the sore begins Lo discharge the lympb, or, using the technical ex: pression, * to weep” With fine brushes of camels buir the Opersior removes the lymphatic fluid and applies it to points of pure ivory, the thick cw of wridng paper, aud two inchos ug by one quarter wide, These points wre placed in racks, holding fifty each, vaccioe pointe. Bat few of those ap. i | | 0 response came An apartmen’, | traction uf the virus is accomplished, | hiting the | oyster shell, the operator carefully | sponges with (epid water the open sore, | ) | aod ordered removing all pus and foreign matter, | “0° TCT to report. The company sid are conted thoroughly with the eng L arrived at Lhat point was the intendon of the de spatcher to the doned runaway engine into the river. Ga, gs, ga, called the sounder, but no response came, The dispatcher looked at his train sheet. The Inst report be bad had from the train was st Pine Grove; she was then on time. If nothing had occurred to delay her she had already met the light engine. As the scene flashed like a vision over the mind of the dispatcher he grew sick and faint. The passeoger train was heavily load. od; many lives would be lost. Ii seemed to him as he sat there he could hear the terrible orash as the two engines met on the heavy grade; he could hear the shrieks and groans of the bruised snd mangled passengers, and could see the mass of ruined coaches piled high in the wir, The operator at Grant was evideat- 2 throw the switch and send aban | ly asleep. Hoping agaiost hope he by | again seized the telegraph key and be. Lug the operator at Bailey, B ba, ba, merrily cried the rounder, but hai € Again and again sounded the eall for silence was the only reply. If the collision could not be avert Bailey, but | od the next best thing Ww do was to eare for the viels, The foreman of the round-house was summoned; a hot engine was ordered oul, The wreck: ing crew wore wroused from slamber physician wud surgeon with bis knives sid rmws, bis lint and bandages, was 10 vied to the depot. By the Lime the wrecking train was ready 10 start Lae « at We Sn the pope Hi What the passenger train was coming. A moment later ho announced its ar rival, gradoally subsides, the In from eight to tsn days afier the extraction of the virus the animals , exempt from small, pox and none the worse for their un’ willing coutribution to the interests of They are then returned to The maximum capacity of the farm is from thirty to forty thousand points in the glass wooden packer, | to the shi per, | These points preserve their virtue for the shipments t, China and Japan occupy | {hose con’ statistics About forty years ago smallpox | was prevalent in Eogland and it was | numbers were affiicted milk maids, without an from al Operas BE - The dispatcher’s heart leaped to his enger, Did they get together? No. | This information was as startliog as lit was true. dow had a frightful collision been averted? By what in- had the saved terposition of providence lives ol the passengers bes n from an impending doom? With the arrival of the train at Como came the sequel. passen per Light engine No, 10, in charge of | engineer Jack Hartzell, had orders to ran from Kenosha Summit to Webster regardless of the passenger train which was due there near midnight, Besides himself and his fireman, Roadmaster Da {| WAaE in Kelly the eah, Four section men were in the back part of | BepPAratse d from the men in the cab by hold back the coal a wooden gate to This latter fact was unknown to the dispate her, the yi comple ie mounts control When half way down ain the engineer | |of the engine. He applied the re verse: no effect. The tank and water brakes were set, but the speed was of the un intricate machinery of the little lessened, Some Masoer gine was broken, and she was plunging down the steep mountain incline and around the sharp curves at & rate of speed that threatened destruction | herself and death to her oc | 1pants Engineer Hartzell jomped aod landed on the ground uninjured, the | fireman came aext, and then the road. | master. The latter escaped with slight | Wroises $v this time the section men in the {coal tank began to realize that the en- Zine ping at a frightfu g WAS run them If J run like this I am going to get the cab « His face Lerror stricken of epeed, and one of { LO his compan ACK Is climed over int mly to it deserted, blanched and that fi move, he went back to his compan The ttained such he was go eral minutes he did not Le time had » al Lo allem ahead mact roken and had cause | ed the sudden stop The passenger train! The thought flashed through the mind of the sec. tion man, and with a promptness boro of long experience he seized a lantern from the signal of the eagioe and started down the track, As he toroed the first curve the bead light of the delayed passenger train flashed into sight. The lantern waved across the track. Toot, wot, respouded the whistle and the train came (0 & standstill, It was probably the most miracu- lous escape in the sonals of railroad. ing. Many of the passeogers had been complaining to the conductor of the passenger train sbout being late. When they realized that the delay had prevented a horrible accident and hod probably saved them from a frightful dwmih, they were profuse in their apologies, and some with their (now un resident of Denver) | the coal tank | rate remarked | find |' “ {which I want to tell vou something I heard as | came from ‘Partvers’ the other night, About forty yenrs ago a Mrs, Munroe, a childless widow with a inrge fortune, took a house in Curzon streel for the season, snd wanting a ompanion, bethought her of her niece Jessie, the eldest daughter of a van in Beottland g + lady only just out. The girl vas written for, came, and proved a great suecess; for she was an excellent dancer, ex- ceedingly pretty, and blessed {good digestion, and, consequently, with a good temper, It was after the | May drawing-room, at which she bad | Yen presented at S | House that him Nemo ? first time, fi (ier £4 444 ing with #" , and at the ball Caplan meeling i des rate] fore the end of the evening. rides in the early mornines | i * merpentine, Arlingt A few street or Park Lane, 1 ‘ drums’ the opera theatre once, end dint w ers or and balls, and ther 18t at the et | the season he pr fH» | cepted, The lover having Mrs. Munroe give her niece an al what et the (1 on town, instead wed a1 get gener MArriag upsetting the little manse close to the loch on Piccadilly, the rn nge blos d Ohe (quiet : the east Oust Mo st was filled with ) view ceremony one early sulumn m and Miss Jessie in « and Brussels lace sat James the elite { rs in the | barie fashion through the bar wed ding breakfast, a'te rway n flounced gown and round-curtgined ing with her br honeymoon to the Ita rsa legroom i SEO MAE A w'th his ship fora of months, his wile { selected Was ni ter all she her aunt 1« remsl were Lo he very wo id OOD As were all writie last Of 1he If away whieh J oesi band at the ra very bad arrived mot thes ir > ff 2t iragged 1 n so th dav Was 10 meet er TEE No one Munroe who him 8 pote to read and then to 0 Mis pretty tlie epaply | way tal but Mrs slrange | was on the platforn viking white and gave k him & from the ‘pmete had fi that The poor lady Her CArelesness had beea duped | 10 wn 'm ring 10 Paris wept, BK | t be forg d snd w that {In ver: she fie Vel 6 ng ssly deceived her. So year after vear came and went, and | matters grew from bad 1» worse, A woman educated #0 long ago was not #0 likely 10 be able to help herself as {is the Girton-trsined girl of the day, with her practical common sense, and it became more and more difficult for her to keep her head above water, Within the last ten years, however she has found occupation and if you like to come with me some afternocn | can show you waers a small, spare woman in neat bonoet and shawl, with fine chibs-blue eyes and lint-white hair, diligently sweeps a crossing in the heart of her old meighborhood which small woman is Mrs. Munro's nicer the girl who was presented to the Queen, who danced at 8 House, who was married at St. James Piceadilly, sodfhad an [wlan | 0 eymoon. She refuses all belp vow from any one. How do I koow this ! I was told the story by a convection of her husband, Do I think its true 7 Emphatically yes, - THE MEANEST MAN LAST. ce who had so gr FOUND AT aboard fervently | thanked God fer what they considered | a divine interposition of Providence. | The dispaicher bad mentally re. {solved that the operators at Grant snd When | men | wives ar i oh IA ren Batley should ne discharged, { be learned that the four section had been vecapauts of the engine, he felt grateful that the two operators | had fwiled to respond to his call Had they been at their desks the engine | would have been sent crashing into | ike river and four human lives would | have heen uukoswingly saerificed, A combination of accidents bad | wrevented 8 dire calamity. — Denver | a —_ i A sad warnlog to spring lovers (abled from the land of tiisngos and bull:fights, A yourg girl a len offically hugged to death. — Yo ng men cannot oe to esrhful, 1 le nite Lines oLher and of from meanest meh 08 { America went n, Nebraska, Into Kaoeas the Mind you he wasn’: a Nebraska, he was an interstate emi grant coming from somewhere rast of At Wymore there is a werchaut who carries hisstock io a baskel, and he is famous all that land over for his popoore. He came on the oar with nis wares, and this mean Wan, who was with his wife, little child of perhaps 3 years, and his father-in-law, asked the price of corn. Five cents a package was 100 wach. He dida’t waub any, After the merchant les the oar, the mean man sad: “1 want some o that 'ere popeorn, but 1 kin git ft cwaper than tet. Presently be is down WAY. the Mississippi.
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