ES3 ;! A an itfc B, P. SOHWEIER, THE OON8TITDTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XLV. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 21. 1891. NO. 5. III i AFi'ER THE STORM. Then Wiizbty wiud aroic and blew rem th sunset land, i Blew till the tall tree, bent like tne sienaer """" f ' Wildly tbelr tangled bought were tosea the ttniuesfa baud That emote the coweriu field with . lb dahing drifts ot raiu. But the wrath of the torm king died, n silruoe came like a boom; The far horizon glowed with gilt-edged auiethvst bars; ind up the ee of the nU;ht came (ailing the mystical moon, Ilt-r sapphire pathway atrewn with th. blossoming silvern stars. The Cosmopolitan. MY MASKED HERO. Be in-r in tl.at coudition of social degradation known as "shabby gen teel" that is, being too shabby to walk in fashionable thoroughfarei and mingle with wealthier people, and too genteel to partake of the public gener osity I betook myself a few week I ago to the east side of the city, and permitted a quaint, comfortable look ing little landlady to install me ia room ten feet long and five feet eight and one-half inches wide. I knew that the room was five feet eight and one. half inches wide, because that measure ment is my height; and when, in a fit of sybaritic indolence, I lay down crossw ise on the bed the top of my head touched one wall and my feet the other, a discovery which, in my super stitious mood, 1 regarded as an omen that I had at last found that place ir vociety I was best fitted to till. In such a miniature dormitory there could be but little furniture, and there was but little. Here is the inventory: A bed, a compound article of toilet table and chest of drawers, a chair, t looking-glass and a towel-horse. in the first drawer of my toilet table lay an exploded pistol cartridge and a quantity of tobacco, from which dis coveries I deduced that my predecessor must have been an excellent judge of the weed, and indulged his taste ex travagantly for one in his position. As I lay back in my chair, in the full enjoyment of a reflective mood, super induced and harmonized by the good tobacco of my unknown friend, 1 es pied in the corner near the toilet-table a little piece of black cloth ; and prying further into the nook I found its fel low. The piece would just have filled the eye-holes of a m.sk. Quoth I, sottovoce: "The previous occupant of this room wj gay and economical withal, for here is evidence that he has been masquerading, and that, too. In a mask of his own manufacture." Having been educated to a profes sion in which the necessity for putting , "this and that" together frequently arises (I mean the bar), I wrapped my discoveries in paper, subscribed the en velope with my name, and deposited them in my private pocket; "For," thought I, "many a tragedy has been traced with a slenderer clue, and many a thrilling romance has had a flimsier foundation. 'Who knows but that this smoker of tobacco had aa critical a taste for beauty as for the weed? May it not be that his heart is given to some high-born beauty, and he waits for wealth to offer her hi hand?" Dozing dreamily under the narcotic influence, I settled it all to my own satisfaction, as thus: This gentleman's name is Ralph de Mortimer with the possibility of a title and he is o ancient and noble family. He is tall, stalwart, handsome, baa mutton-chop whiskers, and teeth of exquisite white ness and regularity. He has been en gaged to be married to the surpassing ly lovely and accomplished Miss Ada Vere de Vere in a low-necked dress the flashing eyes, raven hair, Juno nian bearing, and no end of jewels being inseparable and understood con comitants. He was incarnate gene rosity and became answerable for a friend. The great financial crash ruined his friend, but left him just as be was before, minus a colossal fortune gone to the dogs. She loved him still, and would have married instantaneously had not a sordid papa, of pompous corpulency, forbidden the banns. De Mortimer had then betaken himself to this little rocm, and. with noble regard for his feelings, bad emerged from it only at night, and then only to walk the street opposite the great mansion at the West End and watch the light in his Dulcin.-a's chamber until its exceeding dimness proclaimed that his mistress was taking her repose after having tired her symmetrical ltttle jaws in s vapid, moony conversation with yonng Fitz-riantagenct, his ancient rival. Then he wended his way by devious rath; and tortuous windings to this room and tried to comfort his yearn ing heart with hope. His great black eyes grew moist as he experienced the affliction which, lay heavy upon Mm, and, like David of old, he wetted his puiow with tears. But when the sun-Homer's "Hand maiden of the morn"-arose, and scoured the iaurky sky into a brilliant hue he got out of bed-right foot first, tor luck-washed his face, smiled a Fwt genial lmiie of intelligence, and robed himself with an alacrity that be tokened a new idea and determination rhSV mU immeate execution. breakfast, dinner and supper) pur chased a yard of black cloth and a pennyworth of elastic. Returning, he borrowed a pair of scissors, and nee dle and thread, from the pretty and industrious seamstress on the ground floor, and made a mask, muttering to himself in dulcet tones, "This is the evening of the masquerade, and, come weal, come woe, I'll see my love to night." When the appointed hour had ar rived, De Mortimer sailed forth, and at length, under cover of a throng of masquers, entered the halls at the Vera de Vere. He sought, found and ac costed his fair mistress; but in the midst of an enraptured dialogue that deceitful rogue, Fitz-Plantagenet, recognized his voice and betrayed , him. Rushing from the house, he was followed bv his well-hated rival. In a secluded portion of the street, when the varlets of the Vere de Veres had given up the chase, De Mortimer and Fitz-Plantagenet met face to face, and the rejected lover forced his rival to draw. The reports of the pistols still echoed, and the flashes had scarce ly left the muzzles of the pistols, when Oe Mortimer fled. As he lay down that night, despite the exciting scenes through which he had passed, his heart beat joyfully; his brain teemed with visions of celes tial happiness iu the future, when the bell rang vigorously and a youthful voice inquired, in shrill pertinacity, for "Sir Ralph de Mortimer." He leaped from the bed and opened the door one inch his dishabille for bade his opening it further and re ceived a telegram informing him that his uncle in Scotland had considerately died in the nick of time, good old soul, leaving him all his broad acres and his title of Earl. Then followed these emotions: Be wilderment, joy, grief, hilarious sor row ; and these facts : Immediate evac uation of this little room, visit to the mansiou of the Vere de Veres (reunion with the corpulent paternal consent), marriage at St. George's, and happi ness. Fully satisfied that my riddle wa solved, and that from the slender clue I had worked out a trntbf ul solu tion of the problem which had bothered me mentally not a little, I slept the sleep of a just man who had done a virtuous action and mokd ex cellent tobacco, into the possession of which he had come by a piece of good fortune. Waking up in the middle of the night I looked into the darkness, made more apparent by the ghost of a flick ering night-light, and saw standing on the opposite tide of the street, intently regarding the house, a policeman. "But his regard I regarded not That U to say, not then." It was only when, day after day or, more correctly speaking, night after night I marched out to take the air, which my shabby gentility denied me day by day, that I noticed the jealous solicitude with which I was followed, sometimes by one man, sometimes by another, but always by some one. Then I commenced to wonder why I, one of the most innocent of mortals, should thus be made an object of sur veillance. True, I had not walked all my days in the odor of sanctity ; but no clause of the criminal code had I infringed, no creditors could find it thus worth their while to watch me. I was not a Communist. I had no cel lar in which to store murderous weap ons. I thought of the sbirri of Italy, of the gendarmerie of France, but still was I at a loss to account for it. Xo clue could I catch to the mystery. But, having determined the fact that I was watched, I resolved to apply for an explanation at the nearest police tation. Thither I went, accordingly. "Mr. Sergeant," quoth I, "can you tell me why it is that at night my chamber window is watched by your minions of the moon, and that all my incomings and outgoings, and my wanderings to and fro, are scruti nized as thoroughly as though I were criminal?" "No," quoth he "Then," said I, "I wish you'd call the dogs off; I prefer to go where J list unheeded." "Where do you live?" said the Ser geant. "At No. 12 Queer street," said I. "Obi oh!" said he. And he laughed as though som theme of extraordinary jocularity had rivnrred to him. When he finished one hilarious explosion he began an other, until he devoured whatever iiilaritr had been jnven to him. Anon he called a constable and said : "Send Jackson here." .Wtann about it." said the sergeant. "Mr. Jackson," I began. "I occupy a little two-pair room at No. 12 Queer street, formerly occupied by a young nobleman," . "Nobleman be hanged I" icu.-.-i,!"nnnth I. deprecating'- Did you know the personage?" I asked i 'for I have here some little trifles. i x a im room (save 1 little mat x ximuu - ..-jn excellent tobacco, which I sniped). and from which I produced ro mance." , n. "His romance 1" said Jackon "hi Thfi w4 Smoky never bad none Larkin bad that little fr rooni- "Portland Island," replied Jackson "He was a masked burglar one of th worst of 'em. I think I'll keep thes trifles." . A Baggage-Master's Story. Many strange things are left behind by absent-minded travellers, and th baggage-master at one of the station in Boston had a particularly queei experience some time ago. At tht time it occurred it did not seem very amusing to him, but after the affaii was straightened out he laughed heart ily over it. He said, in speaking ol he case : - One night last winter a brakeinat came in and said there was a man with paralysis waiting outside. J went out and found the man sitting in a rolling chair that we keep for the use of invalids. A hackman who was with him said the man had come across the city from another station with s lady. When they got to our station the driver called a brakeman to get the rolling chair, and the lady went, at she said to get the tickets. There was some delay in getting the chair, but after a while it was brought and the invalid was wheeled to the gate tc await the return of his travelling com panion. He waited for more than an hour, and then the brakeman called me. The hackman described the lady and said she had two dogs with her. The man at the gate remembered that a lady of that description, with two dogs, had gone through the (ate, but he could not tell what train sb had taken, and, of course, he did not know her name. I took hackman' number, and he went away. Then, ai it was getting cold, the brakeman and I rolled the invalid into my office to wait for the appearance of somebody to take the man off our hands. The man's mind was so affected that he could not give his name, nor tell where he had come from nor where he was going. After a while he said he was hungry and would like some toast and tea. I got the toast and fed him as I would a baby. He said he had to take the tea through a glass tube. I had no tube, so I went to the restaurant in the station and got some straws and 'yj used those. I could not leave the man to go home to supper, and the situation was becoming very unpleasant. About nine o'clock policeman opened the door and asked if I had a paralytic. I said I had, and asked if he would take him. He said "Great Scott! No! I don't want him, but his folks are com ing in after him;" and he hurried out, as if be was afraid I would make him take the man. About half an hour later the paraly tic's wife and some friends appeared. The wife explained that the two dogs had caused her considerable trouble, and, as her husband was an invalid, ihe usually travelled alone. It did not occur to her that her hus band had started with her this time until she got away out to Hyde Park or Dedham, or some place out that way. Then sl took the dogs home, tele graphed to the police to look for her husband, but had to wait some time before she could get a train back to the city. I was relieved to get rid or the man, and I don't want any more -lost arti cles" of that kind to take cue of. I don't mind having umbrellas, pocket books, overcoats, lunch baskets and occasionally a baby I don't mind ba bies, for I have had several left in the cars, and they were claimed in a few minutes but when I have another paralytic I shall be trilling to have -omebody else take cre of him. Wolf Hanttng to Lapland. Mr. Seton-Karr. in a book of travels in Lapland, lately published in Eng- I. - . ... a. - A 1 M land, gives this sccouni ui a won hunt: "The forests near the arctic circle and in the ficinity of the Rif and Lof Fields, here I fell in with a large baud of LPP and reindeer, are often the scenes of wolf hunts during the winter. Tl-e presence of wolves near herds of ueer is always a source of anxiety to the owner as their most dangerous enemies, creating great havoc at times among the herds be longing to the mounta in Lapps. One wolf, they assert, can kill in one night as many ss thirty reindeer, while a band of wolves can make a rich Lapp poor. Tiie alarm being given of wolf tracks or wolves being seen in any direction within reach of the Lapps' camp, the swiftest runners on snow shoes prepare for a most exciting -shnse. -With the swiftness of the wind this procession of short men, In fur or blue coats and sugar loaf-shaped hats, rush through the wood and dart like an - ar row down steep hills and througn thickets, or jump down ledges several yards in height. Every one is making effort to be in front for only to the striker of the first blow does the j wolf belong, ana to mm ppeiiaw. all or most of the honor. The leading r tt U noon close upon his deadly foe, and he deals it a heavy blow across the , iin. with his stronjr spiked snowsnoe .nffinient merely to disable it, un less there are other wolves to be pursu- , d, in which case he falls it omngnt. -Barber "I think this is the first - a at n Tlprim time 1 ever snaveu jvu, .... j "You're mistaken there." Barbs j "Strange I fail to remember it, sir." ( Tictim -"Tou wouldn't be so liKelf to remember M L"-BQiten HeraM. The Drink Trouble Abroad. Kot the least important of the Inter, national conferences recently held ia Paris was that which met to study tb drink question. The European count ' tries have become alarmed at thq dangerous progress of alcoholism, and are searching for means to stem it. Their way of checking the evil is not by prohibition. They aim at purify ing the liquor rather than preventing its consumption. They advocate gov ernment interference to regulate the trade, or the establishment of a State monopoly in the manufacture or sale of drink. A State monopoly has been ; established in Switzerland, and Bis marck has contemplated something ol the same sort for Germany. In France and Belgium Governmeut Commissions have considered the ques tion and suggested various remedies. Drunkenness uutil a few years ago was all but unknown in France. One might have walked the streets of Paris at any hour of the day or night with out seeing anyone the worse for liquor. But now drunkenness is there in its worst form. The report of the recent Congress contains figures which prove that drink is now one of the chief causes of crime and of lunp.cy. The scourge of phylloxera which has swept over the country and thinned the vine yards has in some measure caused this. Distillers have gone to other sources than the grape for their alcohol. The great drink of the French peasantry and working people is eau-de-vie. This used to be distilled from fruit, but is now mainly extracted from veg etables. In 1850 only 70,000 hectolitres ot this liquor was distilled from vegeta bles; in 1681 there was 1,759,413 hec tolitres, of which potatoes and beet root supplied the most. The consump tion for that year was 1,445,000 hecto litres, or 12 litres for every adult man. Since 1881 it was increased at the same ratio. The habitual drinker of this! . . a l , ! poisonous stun soon oecouies a pnysi cal and mental wreck. Fourteen per cent, of the lunatics under treatment in France owe their insanity to alco holism, and in 18S5 it was the cause 538 accidental deaths and 8C8 suicides. French statesmen are anxious to do something to check this growing evil, either in the way of purifying the spir ituous liquors drunk, ' or t Hnritn'.ti. number of liquor saloons. Some statistics of the number o liquor saloons to inhabitants in dif ferent European countries were given at the congress. In England there is a licensed house for every 223 inhab itants, in Austria one to 266 inhab itants, in Denmark one for every 194, in Italy one for every 175, in Holland one for every 119, in France one for every 90 people, and in Belgium one for every 43. The Belgians drink more than any other people in Europe. They consume 70,000,000 litres of liquor every year, which gives 60 litres to every male adult. Paris is pretty well provided with liquor shops, or cafes, having one among every 88 inhabitants. The quantity of liquor consumed por head of the inhabitants, women and children included, is 6 litres in England, 10 in Sweden, 16 in Denmark, 9 litres in Belgium, and 7 in Prussia and France. Establishing Their Genealogy. It was at the depot in Macon, Georgia. A colored man from the country stood looking at the locomotive when the col ored fireman called out : "Hey, yo' nigger, what yo' look in' at?" 'Who's nigger?" demanded the other. "Yo' is." "So is yo'," "Look out, dar, nigger. I doao' take no sass ofTn shucks!" "Yo' is shucks yo'self." "Humph ! Do yo' know what my f adder sold fur befo' de wah?" "No." "Fo'teen hundred dollars in gold, sah, an' day reckoned dat was $200 under price. Who was yo' fadder, sah?" "He was de gem'lan who bought yo' fadder fur a waitab, sah, an' he alius 'lowed he paid a thousand dollahs tno' dan he Tras worth." Blaine Hasn't tiot Any Sense. Old Missourian (putting aside a newspaper) 'Well, it seems mighty strange to me that people never learn nothin'. It hain't been long since a o of big men was ruined by bein' mixed up in the pan-electric business, and now Mr. Blaine hasn't got any mora sense than to fool with that pan-American affair. It 'pears like them big men jest 6tay round Washington till they lose all their common sense." St Louis Globe-Democrat. A Tery Old Officer. Rear-Admiral Melancthon Smitl Is one of the oldest living officers of the United States Navy. He was retired ten years ago and is now seventy-six years of age. When he entered the navy, in 1826, there was no such thing in existence as a steam man-of-war, and be had been in service thirteen years before he performed his duty on a steam vessel. Tslnable Birds. The owner of the ostrich farm in Lower California paid $1,000 each for lis birds, and be has qnite a number f them. Twice a year their feathers are plucked, and each plucking is j forti 1300. DOWN IN FLORIDA I A - , HOW THE DARKIES HOLD CAMP MEETIXGS. Quaint Songs and Peculiar Ceremonies. The sun was sinking like a great ball of fire in a sea of pink clouds behind the distant pines. The trunks of the trees stood out darkly against the bright sky, and the gray moss, tinged with red, looked as if a fairy maid had changed its ashen hue. The only touud to disturb the peaceful calm was the low, plaintive tone of a mocking bird in a tree overhead. As we proceeded on our way we emerged from the pine woods, and crossing a prairie we entered a dense-wooded hummock. Now we could plainly bear the darkies chanting, and their melodious voices sounded soft and :Iear iu the distance. Following the tound we made our way through the woods, and finally reached a clearing. There we saw an old church ready to fall to pieces from age and decay. Great boards were nailed across it to keep it together, and the spaces be tween the logs were filled with moss. Inside the old hovel the preacher was holding forth and a crowd of darkies who could not find room in ide were pressing around the door to hear him. Bad as some of them had been during the week, lying, thieving, itealing, yet for the time being they were the most religious set of darkies to be met with in that part of the country. Long and loud were the lamentations to the Lord for their past Iniquities and earnest were they now in singing His praises. Some were sunost hysterical in their fervor, cry ing and moaning to the good Lord to make them better. Others looked iolernn, and holding their books before them, which were in many cases up ide down, they devoutly joined in the chorus. Brother Harris gave out the first verse iu a deep, impressive voice, as follows : Dib wah a man, he name wah Lot, Dat's jis what de Good Book say, An' he hab wife, an' daughter got, Dat's jis what de Good Book say. Ilia wife she balk, an' make a halt, ' An' de Lawd he torn her into salt, Oh, dat's what de Good Book aay. .'Then came the hearty chorus: Dat'a Jia what de Good Book aay, it am, Tea, dat's what de Good Book aar, Jis read it froo, you'll find it true, Fo dat'a what de Good Book say. With scarcely a moment for breath ing time Brother Harris gave out the next verse : Old Adame, he wab de fust built man, Dat's what de Good Book say, An' Ebe came next, den ain began ; Dat'a jis what de Good Book say. Ebe bit de apple right in two, A berry wicked thing for Ebe to do, But dat's what de Good Book say, it am, Dat'i what de Good Book say. ' Without any intermission Brother Harris began another favorite song, accompanied by various high treble voices, with ringing variations : Oh, I long foh to reach dat heabenly sbo,' To meet ole Peter atan'in at do do ; He aay to me, oh, how you do? Come set right yondeb In de golden pew. Dat de good solid people do go clean fro' To dip in de gol'en aea. Repeating the quaint words of the last two lines over and over again, they lingered lovingly on last word "sea," ere they sang another verse, as follows: Good Mr. Jesus a-eittin' iu de prow, Come all jo niggahs, make yo bow, Oh I I look down on de wo'id below An' watch dein white trash shublin' snow, While angels' fishes ulp my toe When I dip in de gold'en aea. Then followed the sermon, by Br'er Harris. Poor old man, as he stood there iu their midst, shaking as if with the palsy, his eyes rolled np heaven ward, so that only the whites were to be seen, his long white hair showing his great age and his frame feeble and bent, one could not help thinking that his days were all but spent. For a few moments he stood silent oefore the crowd, violently swaying his body and waving his arms franti cally in the air. Then, in a loud, penetrating voice, he drew a fearful but vivid picture of the rich man in hell, whilst Lazarus smiled com placency at his misery from "de foot ob de great white frome." There, in the depths of hell, was the fallen, sinful brother, sitting on a hissing gridiron, the flames leaping and dart ing round him. As they stretch out their long forked tongues to devour him he groans and writhes in his agony, whilst a long-tailed devil grins sardonically at his misery and adds new fuel to the flame. As the poor victim tries in vain to escape the devil roughly pushes him back again. His throat is parched with thirst, and to add to his torments he hears the sound of rushing water near by, yet he can not have a drop to cool his tongue. The gentle breeze which fans the flames around him to fiercer intensity does not cool his heated brow. There is ever the tantalizing sight of Lazarus looking cool and comfortable, enjoying all the comforts of eternal life, whilst for him there is naught but eternal misery. At this some shrieked out, "Right nrab, good Lawd; come nigher dis poo' sinnah, Jesus," whilst, others moaned pittif ully as they grovelled on rnc ground at the minister's feet. After a while the enthusiasm passed away and only - a Uw low cries oi "Heah' Lwd" or groan wei to be heard, and then all was over. As the last sound died away, a wo man's voice, clear and sweet as a bird's, broke the stillness with the chant : " Boll on, sweet chariot, Come tub to carry me home. All joined in the chorus, filling the big hut with the melody of their deep, rich toices, and the air resounded with the sweet and soulful and enthusiastic strains. As the preacher depicted the thrill ing scene in his own peculiar words the darkies broke into a low, monoto nous chant, which gradually became louder and louder, nntil at last the whole assembly were writhing and shouting, overcome with frenzy caus ed by the fear of a like punishment. Beating their hands violently together, they entreated the "Good Lawd to come down right now and save poo 6innahs." Some were crouching on the ground, whilst others were waving themselves backward and forward until they fell exhausted to the ground. Suddenly the minister, as if inspired, rushed through the throng, calling on souls to escape the devil. "Fuh he's right arter yo' po' sinnah ! He's ready fuh to take yo' old black soul." One of Dakota's Flacky Daughters. Miss Lizzie Dnnfield has spent the past six years in South Dakota. Miss DutEeld was among the first young ladies to brave the hardship of claim life and take up land in Dagota, and she is now the fortunate owner of 320 acres of excellent farm land, half of which is a short distance from Harold, Hyde County. The other quarter sec tion is near the thriving town of Aulkton, and all of which will certainly be valuable property in time. All the adveutures of life far out upon the prairie, with the nearest neighbor a mile and a half distant, the perils in storm and flood and the danger of liv ing alone for weeks at a time, have been undergone. She was one of those brave and resolute Dagota school teachers who, with a few pupils under her care, encountered the awful storm of January, 1888. During the long night which followed the dreadful blizzard, with scant fuel, she kept her self and the children from freezing only by the utmost exertion nntil all were rescued from their fearful situa tion at 5 o'clock the next morning. "Fingers and Toes Couldn't Better It." Florida girls are not like their Ala bama sisters (by the Age-HeralcCt es timate), for the former abhor slang. But for dowuright emphasis of expres sion, and that brevity which is the soul of wit, they yield the palm to no other State. Several weeks ago a number of brave young men and beautiful wom en from the interior came in on an ex cursion. A small knot of the visitors were walking leisurely through the park, when the following conversation was overheard between two of the vis itors. It is reported verbatim, though it is impossible to reproduce the draw ling, earnest tone in which it was de livered: "Sal," asked one, displaying the folds of her new dress, and taking a sly hitch at her bustle, "Sal, how do my dress fit?" "Fingers and toes couldn't better it." "Do John seem to notice it?" "Can't keep his eyes offen it." "Do my bustle shake about any ?" "Shakes jes' like jelly," replied Sal, as they proceeded on their way with an air of triumph indescribable. Jack sonville (7a.) Time- Union. San Francisco Products. A trayeller just returned from San Francisco, after a considerable stay in that city, tells me that what impressed him most was the girls and the fleas. Both are large in size and plentiful in numbers. "The women are the finest-locking specimens yon ever saw," says the young man. "They are well-developed, healthy and handsome. Of course I was duly impressed. But next to them I think the fleas take up the largest share of attention. They have no mos quitoes in San Francisco, but the fleas, their name is legion. I don't wonder that desperate measures were taken to get rid of the Sn Francisco flea. He is everywhere in your clothes, in your bed, in the carpet, in the furniture. The flea is one of the principal objec tions to the glorious climate of Calif or- The Snake Gave Him A Chance. While Mike James, a boy of four teen years of ago was going through the woods near Clarksville, with his father one day last week, he said : " Father, if a snake was to bite me, you just ought to see how quickly I would bandage my leg with this rubber strap." The boy spoke positively, and no sooner were the words out of his mouth than he ex claimed: "I am snake bitten." His father, turning round, saw his son di awing the bandage tightly around his leg, just above the bite. The old mau killed the snake and found it to be an adder of the most deadly kind. Tho administration of internal remedies it once commenced: First one plug, then an old time twist of home trade, went down like food; then one pint of Corn whiskey. All this made him very sick, and he vomited freely. Ha is yet unable to walk, but ia rapidly WfflTtrfag-.TtianttfoBrtatati A. CALIFORNIA BARONESS FBTKR DONAHUE'S DACGHTEb MARRIES A GERMAN BARON. ?our Million Dollars Left by the Argo naut Horseshoer. A tall, slender and not very irnpos :ng figure stalked about the Richelieu for a couple of days this week, says the Chicago Herald. The tall young man was quite dark and had an un mistakable foreign air. He rode about a good deal In the swellest equipages that could be hired. He was accompanied by a striking-looking lady of youthful mien and strongly marked Celtic features. The two were the Baron and Baron es von Schroeder, of San Francisco, New York and Berlin. The Baron, though a genuine article of baron, does not look to be the wearer of such a title, while that of "Baroness" fits the Hibernian face of his excellent wife about as a genuine diamond fits the bosom of a negro minstrel. Though permanent residents of thii country, the Baron and Baroness hug their titles with death-like grip. Neither would for one moment lay aside the precious prefix to their names or substitute the plain American "Mr. and Mrs." The Baron and Baroness von Schroeder are very rich that is to say, with greater accuracy, the Baroness it very rich. She is the only daughter of the late Peter Donahue, of San Francisco, who died a few years ago, leaving about four millions to his widow and a son and dauglter. Baron von Schroeder appeared about the same time from Germany, and though poor as a church mouse he and his title attracted the attention ot the rich Miss Donahue. The Baron and Baroness divide their time about equally between New York and San Francisco. They have beautiful residences on both sides of the con tinent. The other day, when the Baroness clad in a gorgeous sealskin and the Baron with a fur trimmed coat and a ten-pound cane left the Richelieu to enter one of Mr. Payne's luxurious drags, an old Sacramento man, who happened to be enjoying Major Drum tnond's hospitality, smiled, and eald : "I wonder what old Peter Donahue would say if he saw that. Dear old Pete ! He was the salt of the earth He could take twenty-eight fingers a day regularly and snore the roof oil nis castle at night. "Peter Donahue was one of the bes horseshoers in New York when he went to California in 1849. He worked at his trade up to 1853 shoeing horses and in general blacksmithing and in 1854 he started up a little foundry. Peter used to get an ounce of gold in dust ($16) for shoeing a horse and four ounces of gold for "setting" the tires of a wagon. "It was Peter Donahue's little black smith shop that formed the nucleus of the present magnificent Risden Iron Works of San Francisco. Old Peter, however, made the bulk of his fortune in real estate. He bought water loti in San Francisco when they sold as low as $10 each. What is known as the Academy Building in that city, on Pine street, which has passed from the Donahue estate into the hands of the Baroness von Schroeder, and is viflued at $250,000, was built upon ground which cost old Peter two ounces o dust or $32. "When Feter had grown rich ht onilt a great stone vault in Calvary in an appropriate spot. With the pride that he ever felt in his antecedents, and of the wealth that had come from hum ble beginnings, he had set in the arch over the doorway a big medallion In stone representing the arm of Vulcan, and under it the motto: 'Labor Omnia Viucit.' "The old man had not been laic away many months when the Baron and Baroness Yon Schroeder sent a stone cutter to chisel off the arms of the Vulcan and the motto, and insert in letters of gold the simple names: "Donahue Von Schroeder.' " Shaved Sheep With the Mumps. Pat and Mike, two verdant Irishmen from the "Old Sod," came across i drove of fine Berkshire hogs whi!i traversing a country road. Not being well acquainted with American pork in its live state, Pal inquired of his friend, "What might be the name of thim animal with the fat cheeks?" With true Irish wit Mike replied; "Faith, and thim looks to me loike shaved shape wid ths mumps." Life. They Take Care of Their Meat. Prof. Behrend, an English medical authority, who anticipated the dis covery of Koch, points out that in the course of a practice of thirty years, largely among Hebrew patients, he has not met a single case of phthisis in the members of that faith, their im munity from its attacks being undoubt edly due to the Jewish method of ex amining and slaughtering cattle. A Musical Prodigy. Raone Koezalski, a Polish boy ot five years, is the latest musical prodigy of Europe. He is going to play In Berlin the Mendelssohn Concerto in D, a Chopin mazourka and other compc sitions equally difficult. NEWS IN BRIEF. There are 16,000 public schools in Missouri. Indiana is burdened with a debt of nearly f 10,000,0(30. Texas expec s 590,000,000 for her cotton crop this year. The 50,000,C03 Mohammedans of India want home rule. Twenty two hundred railway trains leave London daily. Age for age, girls are taller In Sweden and heavier as welL Alaska's ice-bound territory has been shaken by an earthquake. The orange crop In Spain and south ern Europe genera'ly is a failure. Excessive ugliness is a disqualifica tion for service in the French army. The bicycle craze prevails In Den mark, and the ladies there ride them astride. It is said that t!iere are 13,000 bras9 lands In this country, witti 150,000 per formers, An elm tree in Lee, Mass., hasjust been cut down which Is kno n to be 108 years old. "True milky and Pre opals" it Is re ported, are being turned up at Moscow, Idaho. Nearly 750,030 a year Is paid by the British Government for the carriage of malls. There are now more public holidays in Honolulu thau any lu other city in the world. Slam keeps np with the procession. She is to have an electric railroad thirty miles long. In Victoria, Australia, bricklayers and masons work but seven aud one half hours per day. Nearly t wenty thousand pounds of bread Is daily eaten in the Eultan ol Turkey's household The distance between the rows of gold lace on a German admiral's sleeves must be .27529 of an inch-neither more nor less. Mexican contractors are Importing thousands of Chinese laborers to wortc on railroads In course of construction there. Silk from paper-pulp is made smooth and brilliant, has about the same elast icity as ordinary silk, aud is about two thirds as strong. Foot-and-mouth disease is still pre valent in Germany, and seems to have gaine 1 a foothold In the western prov inces. The oldest soldier iu Europe, Vic tor Zambelli, died recently at Venice after eighty-two years of set vice. H began In the Austrian army. It is expected that the India rict crop this season will be larger than the aveiage, and that 10,000,000 hundred weight will be available for export. rure gold Is so soft that It would soon be worn away by use, and it Is al ways alloyed with a varyli proportion of copper or silver, usuaiiy about one tenth. The Illinois State Board of Agri culture repotts tnat the Hessian fly plague prevails to au alarming extent in every winter whiat county of the State, The exports from the Ottawa dis trict to the United States for the last three months amount to S 330,000 more than HGO.Oi'O Iu excess of the experts for the similiar period iu l!-80. Practical New York dairymen claim it has taken at least ten and a half pounds of milK on the average this sea sou to niake a pound of cheese. This is in excess of ordinary years. The Minister of Agriculture for Hungary is taking steps to have vast tracts in that country planted with American vines, which have thus far resisted the ravages of Pnyloxera. Zoe Gayton. a Sau Francisco wom an, is walking across the continent for a purse of 81 a mile, providing she walks more than fifteen miles a day. She is In Nevada about one huudred miles ahead of time. The Benicia Agricultural Works at San Francisco have turned out the largest roller-chain traction engine In the world, weighing about twenty tons. It burns straw and will pull forty plows, doing the work of seventy horses, over and above the power for propulsion. The cattle men of Southern Arizona are making an endtavor to raise $I0,Ou0 in order to sink we Is along the old em igrant trail to California. The burden some railroad rates, which eat up the profits of the cattle producers, are the cause of this movemeut. Out of the average half a million letters that arrive daily in Berlin 10,000 are Insufficiently addressei or are not addressed at all. some only bearing the names of the addiessed. In 1823 Italy was a land of begg;irs. The reople were so poor that lu a city of 20,000 Inhabitants a traveler was unable to purchase a pair ot gloves, or iu one of the 11,000 a cake of soap. A little 4-year-old girl in England writes with her left band andwritesher words backward, as they are reflected In a mirror from ordinary writing. Her fr'ends have to read them by the aid of a looking-gla-'S. Eleven battle ships, with an aggre gate displacement of 70,000 tons, are now being built for the German Gov ernment. At Elberg no fewer than seventy torpedo boats are being built for the Government. A marine curiosity is ou exhibition at Astoria. Oregon. It consists of an ordinary seaweed s-ime twenty feet In length, and at the lower end the cluster of roots have a firm bold of an aggrega tion of marine shells several pounds In weight. These shells are occupied by a curious inhabitant that hns a beak that resembles a chicken's, tnly ills divided lerpendioularly 1- stead of horizontally. Cairo. 111., boys are doing a whole sale business in sparro vs. The birds make a roost tn an old chimney In an -abanoned house. The bos have secured a net, and after the birds go to roost at night they epread the net over the chim ney's top. Every morning they have from 50 to 2lOFparrows, for which they get l1 cents per head bounty. Russia has agreed to bear the expanse of increasing the efficiency of the Mon tenegrin tirmy, and that principality is virtually a Russian province. The muncipal government of London, which has a population of 4 500,0&, costs the taxpayers 125 00,000. The population of New York City Is 1,530, 000 and its muncipal government costs the taxpayers $37,000,000. A Russian guaid on the Prussian fron tier near Slupcarecently shot dead four persons who were s.bout to emigrate to Brazil. A contract has been made at Selem, Oregon ,to dig a ditch three miles long for the drainage of Lake Labl.h bv which means 3-500 acres of valuable laud. will be reclaimed , -.-. A He's down for ten year ..Icwuwherer'I . to W ' . .1- . ; ' : ' .... ... r " w Ttfror qpptttto for
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