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THE ARGUS,
.TXCKSON, - * GEORGI 1
Canada, having secured the little in
ternational mug for yachts, may try
for the big one—the Defender’s cup.
This country exported $24,000,000
more of breadstuff's during the year
ending June 30 than during the same
period of last year.
Though Italy leads the rest of Eu
rope in suicide, as well as in homi
cide, Russia is ahead of her in the
proportion of professional men, espe
cially doctors, who commit suicide.
The story of the fortunes of T. H.
Rogers, one of the new Sheriffs of
London, reads as if the scene were
laid in America. He began to make
shirts years ago in a small room in
London, where he cut the garments
out himself, and now he employs 1800
persons in that business.
An oil lady, such as would have de
lighted the heart of the Emperor
Napoleon, has just been discovered at
Bodmin, Cornwall, England. She is
the mother of seven boys, all of whom
are serving in the British army. She
has recently been in receipt of a
portrait from the Queen and a check
for SSO as an appreciation of her ser
vice to the country.
Max O’Rell has no use for the Anglo-
Saxon new woman. He declares her
to be, “the most ridiculous produc
tion of modern times, and destined to
be the most ghastly failure of the cen
tury.” He says she wants to retain
all the privileges of her sex and secure
all those of men besides. “She will
fail to become a man,” Max kindly
assures us, “but she may cease to be
a woman.”
A circular of the Section of Foreign
Markets, Department of Agriculture,
compares our imports and exports for
the past three years. The figures
show that we exported of agricultural
products $75,000,000 less in 1895 than
in 1894 and $246,000,000 less than in
1892, That shows why we are short of
money. The deficit in receipts is
mainly due to the shrinkage of prices,
the quantities exported remaining
about the same. As against this we
imported goods in 1895 to the value
oi $87,000,000 more than in 1894.
The heavy and somewhat ancient
ordnance in use in Norway and Sweden
are to be replaced very shortly by
armaments of more modern manufac
ture. For this purpose a sum of sl,-
000,000 will probably be expended on
field and machine guns, and the order
will, it is expected, be placed with au
English firm. In any case, this order
may be regarded as a merely pre
liminary installment of extensive pur
chases, as a decided tendency has
manifested itself throughout the Scan
dinavian peninsula in favor of modern
methods throughout. There is to be
a thorough overhauling in both Nor
way and Sweden, and a long list of
contracts may be looked for by British
manufacturers. It is worth mention
ing that all the old rifles which were
recently collected for disposal have
just been sold at an average price of
less than seventy-five cents.
Harper s Weekly says: It is some
months since newspaper readers all
over the country began to read of the
remarkable effectuality of the elevated
railroad pillar opposite No. 5 Fulton
street, in Brooklyn, in killing and
maiming inoffensive citizens. This
pillar, it seems, forms one of the sup
ports of the Fulton street terminal of
the Kings County Elevated road. It
stands between the tracks of the Fifth
avenue trolley line, at a point where
the crowds from the ferry board the
surface oars. The pillar is so near
the traok as to brush off with cer
tainty and despatch any person stand
ing on the foot-board of a passing
car. Since the Ist of January twentv
two people have been crushed between
this pillar and moving cars. Two of
them have been killed, and a large
proportion of those hurt have been
badly injured. The pillar has been so
wuoh talked about, and its destructive
ness is so notorious, that it had come
to be known as Death’s Pillar. Strange
to say, nothing had been done about
it until the 11th of July, It smashed
a man’s head that day, and the Fifth
avenue trolley line concluded it would
be necessary to take extra precaution
So now every car stops when it
gets to that pillar. That trolley cars
should ba allowed to run amuck
against an iron pillar in a civilized
Amerioan city for six months, with
•ach a resulting tale of death and in
jury, is an amazing and incompre
hensible thing.
A HJBUIi ANSWERED.
FULL REPLIES TO TWENTY QUES.
TIONB PUT TO MB. BRYAN
All the Important Points In the
Monetary Discussion Covered by
an Able New York Champion of
Free Silver— Convincing Answers,
The New York World asked twenty
questions of Mr. Bryan on the silver
| subject. It seems to imply, though
no one else will be likely to agree
with it, that he failed to answer them
in his great speech at Madison Square
Garden, and that those questions are
the best reply to that speech. J.
Faixfax McLaughlin, the well known
Clerk of the New York Surrogate’s
office, fully answers the World’s ques
tions in the columns of the New York
Suburban. Here are Mr. McLaughlin’s
replies to the World’s twenty interroga
tories:
1. “When,” says the World, “in the
history of this couutry has silver oc
cupied ‘its ancient place by the side
of gold ?’ Has there ever been a time
when the two metals circulated upon
equal terms as full legal tender money,
with the mints open to the free and
unlimited coinage of both? If so,
when was it?”
Answer. Silver occupied its ancient
place by the side of gold from the es
tablishment of the United States Mint
in 1792 to the demonetization of silver
in 1873.
2. “Yon say that the restoration of
that condition will, iuyour judgment,
restore the parity between money and
property. Will you kindly explain
what you mean by this?”
Answer. He very probably means
that a silver dollar worth 103 cents in
gold in 1873 before demonetization
would rise once more to par in gold
by free coinage of both metals, and
that as almost every commodity has
followed the decline in value of silver
since it was driven from the mint, so
almost every commodity or property
would follow the rise in value of sil
ver after the mint has been opened to
its free coinage once more.
3. “You point us to a larger field
of usefulness in supporting the gold
and silver coinage of the Constitution.
But what is the gold and silver coin
age of the Constitution? Congress at
first authorized coinage at 15 to 1.
How has 16 to 1 come to be the coin
age of the Constitution? In all the
period up to the time of the great sil
ver discoveries, Congress sought to
make the coinages ratio the same as
the commercial ratio. It never au
thorized coinage at any other.”
Answer. Read Hamilton’s report on
the establishment of the mint unde*
the Constitution of the United States
and the laws of Congress made pursu
ant thereto, and you will find that sil
ver an.d gold became the money of the
Constitution, and that the Federal
Government was olothed in terms by
the Constitution with the exclusive
right “to coin money” and to “regu
late the value thereof,” which it pro
ceeded to do by act of Congress of
1792 by placing the unit of value on
both metals at the ratio of 15 to 1.
This great measure met with the
hearty approval of Washington, the
President, Jefferson, the Secretary of
State, and, of course, of Hamilton, its
author, Secretary of the Treasury. In
the second part of ibis third question
of the World the editor says Congress
never authorized coinage at any other
ratio than 15 to 1. Can the editor be in
earnest in this assertion? He should
know that he is in error. Congress
changed the ratio in 1834 from 15 to
1 to 16 to 1, and in 1837 from 16 to 1
to 15.988 to 1. Therefore, the World’s
statement that “Congress at first au
thorized coinage at 15 to 1,” and that
“it never authorized coinage at
any other,” is bimply untrue,
and the answer to that part of Ques
tion 3 is: Read the act of Congress of
1834 and the act of 1837 changing the
ratio of gold to silver, and you will
find the refutation of the claim of the
World under this head.
4. “Will not free coinage at 16 to
1 reduce the value of the dollar unit
by about one half?”
Answer. No, it will tend most pow
erfully by well-known laws of supply
and demand to augment the valne of
silver to a parity with gold, and re
store the two standards of Washington,
Hamilton and Jefferson to their pris
tine unity as money.
5. “Will it not be in fact a repudia
tion of about one-half of all ourjdebts,
public and private?”
Answer. This question is answered
in No. 4, and is the weakest of all the
World’s twenty questions. In tracing
cause and effect in all human affairs,
the fallacy which confounds incidental
evils with logical consequences must
be discarded in every process of right
reasoning upon practical and theoreti
cal truth. Besides there are so many
phases in incidental occurrences, some
operating prejudioiously and others
beneficially in the eolation of every
problem, that the capuist who stops to
argue incidentals would find as much
to advance on this score in favor of
free coinage as against it. Again, if the
World be right in its argument under
the sth question then it would apply
equally against international bimetal
lism as against independent bimetal
lism.
6. “Is there not danger that it will
canse the return to ns of all the
American securities held abroad, thus
preoipitating a panic of great propor
tions, with long vears of depression to
follow?”
Answer. Not unless European hold
ers of American securities are bereft
of reason, and mean to bring about a
panic in whioh they, themselves,
would become the victims of their own
folly and madness. England tried
that dynamite game in 1892-3 in or
der to prevent free coinage in the
United States, and President Cleve
land lent himself to the English era
snde. Where fs President Cleveland
to-day ? The Democratic party is once
more in absolute control of bimetal
lists, and the champions of free coin
age are marching on to very probable
victory in 1896. No, no, the holders
of American securities didn’t buy
them to lose money, but to make
money, and this country is too rich to
fear a panic in which the foreigner
has everything to lose and nothing to
gain.
7. “Will not your election upon the
Chicago platform cause the calling in,
between November and March, of all
collectible debts, all loans, all mort
gages that have expired? And will not
this produce such a distress as this
country has never known, particularly
in the West and South?”
Answer. Not unless creditors have
gone crazy, and have lost faith in the
future of the United States, which Mr.
Mulhall, the great statistician,declares
to be the richest and most powerful
country of ancient and modern times.
8. “Will not free and unlimited
coinage drive all the five or six hun
dred millions of gold and gold certifi
cates out of use as money or as bank
reserves? Will it nob cause a cur
rency contraction of the most disas
trous proportions, inasmuch as the
utmost capacity of the mints to coin
silver cannot make good this with
drawal for several years to come.”
Answer. No, it will have tho oppo
site effect. Secretary Carlisle tried to
scare the Democratic parly by this
phantom, but didn’t. If $600,000,009
of gold should go to Europe in conse
quence of $600,000,000 ot silver becom
ing money here, the gold would be put
in use there and the silver here, and
thus there would be added $1,200,-
000,000 to the circulating medium of
the United States and Europe, and the
evil would be promptly solved with
which we have been struggling for
twenty years, to wit: hard times from
the scarcity of money. If the mints
cannot coin silver fast enough, as Mr.
Carlisle said, why the scales are ac
curate enough to weigh the bullion;
ani Congress can issue silver certifi
cates against the bullion, and solve
that difficulty without waiting “for
several years.”
9. “Will not free coinage place us at
once on a financial level with Mexico,
India and China, and can we afford to
go upon that level?”
Answer. If free coinage of silver
will relieve this country from its em
barrassments, make it cease to borrow
gold by issuing bonds, and increase
the amount of primary money in the
United States from sl6 or sl7 to $33
or $34 per capita then it matters little
whether we are in company with
Mexico and the other silver countries
which constitute two-thirds of the
human race, and as to levels where
the United States sit will probably be
McGregor-like,at the head of the table.
10. “Is there any country in the
world to-day which gives free and un
limited coinage to silver?”
Answer.' More tfian half the world.
And it is but a few years (1856) since
Germany was on a silver monometal
lic basis. England down to 1816 and
France down to 1874 were on a silver
and gold basis at 15f to 1.
11. “Is there any country in the
world now on the silver basis which is
as prosperous as the United States?”
Answer. Germany reached the sum
mit of its greatness under it, and
Mexico now on a silver basis is one of
the most prosperous countries in the
world; read Senor Romero’s paper
published some months since in the
North American Review, if there is
any doubt of this.
12. “How is our country to escape
like conditions if we go to a silver
basis?”
Answer. Ask France, which from
1803 to 1874 was a silver and gold free
coinage country at 15£ to 1, and in
consequence became the most prosper
ous financial State in Christendom.
13. “And if free coinage will raise
the commercial value of silver to the
coinage rate, how is free coinage to
make money cheaper or easier to get,
how is it to relieve the debtor class,
how is it to increase the price of wheat
or any other commodity?”
Answer. There is an axiom among
the schoolmen that nobody can give
what he hasn’t got (nemo dat quod non
habet), and since the gold bugs have
cornered gold and outlawed silver, sev
eral million of American citizens have
been reduced to beggary, have be
come tramps, as the direct conse*
queuce of the crime of 1873. There
fore, when the regulator of the value
of money, now in Downing street,
London, once more crosses the sea and
takes up its abode m the United
States, which it can only do by open
ing the mint to silver, as in the brave
days of old, the days of Washington,
Jefferson and Jackson, of Polk,
Buchanan and Lincoln, then the beg
garly sixteen dollars per capita will
rise to thirty-four dollars per capita of
money of ultimate redemption, and the
thing is done, labor is enthroned once
more, the products of the soil are
emancipated from the grasp of
monopoly, and trade, “the calm health
of Nations,” is restored to normal con
ditions.
14. “There was last year on deposit
in the savings banks of this State
alone $343,873,574. Do you think it
fair or just to impair by 47 per cent.,
or by even 1 per cent., the value of
this money?”
Answer. This question is so point
edly addressed to Mr. Bryan, and was
so admirably answered by him in his
Madison Square Garden speech,that it
is well to answer it in Mr. Bryan’s
words:
“Our opponents,” said Mr. Bryan,
“constantly parade the advantages of
a gold standard, but these appeals will
be in vam, because savings bank de
positors know that under a gold
standard there is increasing danger
that they will lose their deposits be
cause o! the inability of the banks to
collect their assets; and they still
further know that, if the gold standard
is to continue indefinitely, they may
bo compelled to withdraw their de
posits in order to pay living expenses. 4 ’
15. “There aie in this State 88,719
pensioners. Can you look with favor
npon any policy that might result in
paying them in a depreciated cur
rency?”
Answer. This debt was contracted
from 1861 to 1865, when gold and silver
at 16 to 1 was the money of the United
Stales. It is proposed to pay the debt
to the pensioners in the self-same
money.
16. “There are in the country 5838
building and loan associations. Tbeir
assets last year wero $150,667,594.
Can yon think it fair or beneficial to
the working oeople to reduce by 47
per cent, or any lesser sum, the value
of these investments of the thrifty
poor?”
Answer. On tbe contrary, the grava
men of the objection to silver coinage
is that it will pat uo prices for prop
erty and commodities. You must first
withdraw that objection before you
can advance this argument. If prices
go up, the property of these associa
tions will bo enhanced in price, not
diminished, and the poor will be bene
fited, not injured.
17. “The thirty-nine old style life
insurance companies alone doing bus
iness in this State last year had in
force here nearly 2,000,000 policies
insuring over $5,000,000,000. The
assessment companies and various be
nevolent orders have a vast amount
more. Would it not be an injury and
a wrong to the beneficiaries of these
policies to compel them to receive in
payment depreciated money?"’
Answer. Mr. Bryan, in his Madison
Square Garden speech, gave a cogent
and excellent answer to this question
where he said: “These policy holders
know that, since the total premiums
received exceed the total losses paid,
a risiug standard must be of more
benefit to the companies than to the
policy holders.”
18. “Is there any way to render it
certain, or even probable, that the
wage earners will be compensated for
the increased co3t of living?”
Answer. Avery large proportion of
the wage earners of the country are
out of employment to-day. A still
larger proportion of them are working
on half time. The millionaires who
have cornered gold are responsible for
this, by making money scarce and
dear, with a gold dollar worth 183
cents, and not until the currency be
comes adequate to the needs of the
country will the wage earners have
fair play, and idle hands be able to
earn the living which the gold cham
pions have deprived them of. Nothing
but the free coinage of silver can
effect this amelioration in the condi
tion of the wage earners.
19. “You attribute the decline in
silver to the demonetization of the
silver dollar in 1873. Do you not
consider that the increase in the
world’s silver production from 61,100,-
000 ounces in 1873 to 165,000,000
ounces in 1895 had something to do
in causing this decline, even though
gold, the standard money of all the
commercial Nations, has also increased
its yield meanwhile?”
Answer. The all-sufficient answer to
this is, the entire world’s production
of silver for the hundred yeprs from
1792 to 1892 was $5,077,529,000, while
the production of gold during tbe
same century was $5,683,216,000.
That is to say, the production of gold
for 100 years ending in 1892 through
out the world was $555,687,000 in ex
cess of silver.
20. “You speak of the ‘ciime against
silver’ involved in suspending the
coinage of non*circuiatiDg dollars.
Has your attention been called to the
fact that the Government coined only
296,600 silver dollars in 1873, but
that from January 1 to June 30 of this
year it coined 7,500,412 or 908,691
More (small caps are the World’s) than
in the entire eighty-one years of its his
tory up to 1873?”
Answer. The World seems to forget
that its test of comparison is not a fair
one, since the coinage of silver in 1873
lasted for less than one month and a
half, when the mint shut down on it.
But for that, over $2,000,000 of silver
would have been coined during that
year. It will be observed, secondly,
that the World carefully omit3 the
word dollars in its second and third
sets of figures, i. e., 7,500,412 and 908,-
691, but is very careful to use the word
dollars when referring to the trifling
sum of 296,60 ) “silver dollars”
coined during the first forty-three
days of 1873. Why did it do this?
For the very good reason that the
figures were being juggled with, and
that the 7,500,412 referred to as coined
this year was not dollars, wholly, but
half dollars, quarters and dimes. But
why did the World use,that word More
with a great big M if it meant to bo
fair? It ought to know that there was
coined at the mint during the eighty
one year3 before 1873 in silver dollars
and silver fractional currency of the
United States $143,465,150.70. It
ought to know that about $100,000,000
in addition, being foreign silver coin,
freely circulated in this country be
tween 1792 and 1873, which ad led to
the foregoing, made $243,000,000.
The Cheap Dollar Bugaboo.
In one breath our goldbug friends
howl “fifty cent dollar!” and in the
next they declare that free coinage i9
all for the benefit of the silver mine
owner. Well, if the silver miner will
only get a fifty-cent dolhurfor his fifty
cents’ worth of silver, wherein is the
benefit to him? But if, on the other
hand, he gets a dollar for his “fifty
cents’ worth” of silver, the silver dol
lar under free coinage must be, not a
fiftv-cent, but an one hundred-cenfc
dollar. There is no one quite so in
consistent as the argumentative gold
bug.—Wheeling (W. Va.) Register.
If idleness does not produce vice, it
commonly produces melancholy.
THE FIELD OF ADVENTURE
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THRILLING INCIDENTS AND DAR
ING DEJfcPS ON LAND AND SEA.
The Heroine of |a Shipwreck—Nearly
Drowned by His Pets—A Wife
Saves Her Husband.
¥rs. m. t. McArthur,
who "is visiting Oakland as
the guest of Mrs. Ambrose,
lives to tell a tale of hard
ship at sea which few women could
have survived. She is one of the sur
vivors of the good ship Milton, which
burned to *the water’s edge in mid-
Pacific in 1882. Despite her rough
experience whioh has been her lot, she
is a bonny little woman with a charm
ing manner.
The Milton was a wooden ship, built
in Nova Scotia to ply to and from
Newcastle as a collier. The day that
she was launched Captain H. T. Mc-
Arthur was made her master, and to
gether with his family took up quar
ters on the craft. Thenceforth until
the ill-fated ship sank aflame upon the
high seas Mrs. McArthur did not leave
her accept on one occasion when she
was absent for a month.
On August 9, 1881, the Milton
weighed anchor at Newcastle and put
out to sea. Soon afterward sultry,
disagreeable weather sent the captain
to his bunk, a siok man.
Weeks went by, and he was still
confined to his cabin. Finally one
day, when those on board were occu
pied with thoughts of Christmastide,
and were making preparations for its
observance, the first mate, Charles
E. Carroll, came to the bedside of the
sick captain and reported a fire in the
cargo with which he could not cope.
The captain got up. Mrs. McArthur
had to walk beside him to support
him, and she literally carried him
about the ship as he gave his orders
for the fighting of the fire.
But the fire had gone too far. Cap
tain McArthur climbed up on a coil of
rope, and with his wife at his side and
his little children clinging to his
knees, he told the crew the ship was
lost, and ordered the long boats cut
away.
The Milton then stood 1280 miles
from Cape St. Lucas. There was
enough food on board to soantily sup
ply each of the three long boats for
forty days. The captain doled out
the provisions, the boats were hastily
equipped with blankets and extra oars,
and as darkness came on that Christ
mas eve, the three boats pushed off.
The wretched group of ship-wrecked
mariners sat as if in a trance all that
night, watching the Milton’s destruc
tion. Long before the morning of
January 1 dawned the Nova Scotian
craft was no more; only a few charred
timbers remained afloat, and they
were soon carried from sight by the
currents.
The three overloaded long boats
started out in the direction of land.
Although no one suffered from the in
clemencies of the weather, it was not
many days before all felt the pangs of
hanger and were moved to despera
tion when they realized that the sup
plies were becoming exhausted.
In ten days the boat manned by the
first mate disappeared in the night
and was never again heard of.
Soon after the second mate’s boat
began to lag and fall behind, and fin
ally they admitted that they had no
one in the boat able to pull an oar. It
was then agreed that each boat should
shift for itself, and they separated.
There were two hams in the cap
tain’s boat, besides a jug of water and
some lighter provisions. Eight people
lay all day and watched their little
pittmce dealt out to them by the only
cool head in the group, Mrs. Captain
MoArthur.
Three rations a day for the first two
weeks were served, and then it dwin
dled down to two. One meal a day was
soon a necessary limit, and before the
month was oat it was one every two
days. The seaman began to suffer
from the cravings of thirst, and two
went stark mad, then died, and were
rolled overboard by the plucky wo
man wno was in charge. Captain Mc-
Arthur, notwithstanding his weak
ness, manufactured a crude condenser
and condensed a supply of water to
drink. Finally death overtook Mrs,
McArthur’s little baby boy. She
sewed his remains up in a sack, stowed
them carefully away in the bottom of
the boat, and tnen took to the rudder,
which the men had given up.
For forty-six days this supreme
misery was endured before the English
ship Newbern hove in sight and picked
them up.
On February 25, 1882, the Newbern
sailed into this harbor and landed a
quartet of sick, disheartened survivors
of the Milton. The captain and his
family went at once to the Hotel
Devon, and the next day buried their
child they had brought with them to
place in a grave on land. One by one
the remaining sailors have passed
away, and barring the possibility that
two of the second mate's boat still live,
Mrs. McArthur and her family alone
survive to recount that fearful
ence.
A son was born to Mrs. McArthur
soon after the party was rescued by
the English ship, and she named him
Newbern. Newbern McArthur is a
great brawny fellow to-day.
The McArthur family reside in
Southern California, where they have
a little ranch, the captain having
given up the sea.—San Francisco
Chronicle.
Nearly Drowned by Uis Pets.
George Bietauset, a New York
brewer, has a big white bulldog and a
lively little Scotch terrier who are
universal pets. Accompanied by his
wife and two boys the brewer the
other night took his dogs to the river
to give them a dip. The dogs were
fastened together on the ends of a rope
eight feet long. Bietauset held the
rope by the middle and kept the bull
dog on the dock while he gay e *k
terrier a bath. The bulldog, in pra ®
ing about, got the check rope bo
tangled arouqd one of Bietauset’s legs
that the brewer had to let go to free
himself. The instant he released his
grip the bulldog sprang into the river
and its master, being unprepared, was
dragged from his footing into the
water, He fell head first, and the
two dogs, tugging at the rope, ren
dered it impossible for him to keep
his head above water.
He struggled vainly for five minutes
and was becoming exhausted, when a
young man named William Walsh
sprang into the water and held up the
brewer’s head. As he did so, how
ever, the two dogs got the . idea that
he was going to hurt their master, and
both sprang upon him. He had to
devote almost his entire energy to
beating the dogs off and keeping them
from dragging their master’s head
under water. It was a desperate bat
tle, and in five minutes Bietauset be
came exhausted add fainted away.
His wife, who had been a helpless
spectator of the struggle, gave a loud
scream and fell back upon thß pier in
a faint. Finally some men got a boat
and the brewer, Walsh and the two
dogs were dragged ashore. Bietauset
was unconscious, but was about in a
few days. As he lay on tbe pier hie
two dogs sat beside him, licked hia
face and whined.
A Wife Saves Her Husband.
A few years ago my husband, then
stationed in India, was stricken down
by fever, and on me devolved the duty
of watching him. Oar bungalow lay
at some little distance from the bar
racks, and on the morniug of the day
on which we expected the crisis to oc
cur I was anxiously awaiting the doc
tor’s visit.
When he arrived, after taking my
husband’s temperature, he would not,
he said, utterly forbid me to hope.for
it was still barely possible that the
violence of the fever might even yet
give way to natural sleep, and recov
ery might ensue, provided his slumber
remained unbroken. For some hours
my husband continued to toss and
moan piteously. By and by he passed
into a disturbed sleep. Seating my
self at the foot of the bed, I prepared
to watch tiil he awoke.
An hour passed, when, opposite me,
through the veranda, I saw a large
hooded cobra come gliding into the
room. On it came, elevating its hid
eous head and emitting a hissing
sound. As the venomous oreature
passed me the glare of its eyes made
my blood run cold. It drew nearer
and nearer to the bed; then, rearing
up, appeared to be about to insinuate
itself among the pillows, but finally
dropped down and coiled itself among
the folds of a shawl which lay beside
the bed. I advanced softly, and rais
ing my right foot, ground the heel of
my right slipper down upon the vic
ious head. I felt it writhe and the
tail twist violently around my ankle,
but not until it relaxed its folds did I
remove my foot. There, thank God,
lay the cobra dead. The doctor found
me lying unconsoious soon alter. My
husband made a rapid recovery, and
treasures as his most sacred treasure
blue silk slipper.—Golden Penny.
She Killed the Bear.
A party of Philadelphia sportsmen
hunting deer in the wild portion of
Clearfield County, in the ceiitro of the
mountains of Pennsylvania, weie hur
riedly called out on 9 morniug by the
guide, who had discovered two bucks
a few miles away. Hastily starting,
the men did not carry a large supply
of ammunition, and what they had
was all used or wasted in bagging the
deer. Starting back to camp, they
encountered a bear, and as they could
not shoot they all ran, each going in
a different direction.
The bear chased the guide, and he
took the direct coarse towards the
camp log house whero his wife was
preparing a meal. With a yell he
dashed into the honse and up into the
loft. His wife ran out of the back
door, closed it, and as the bear had
gone inside, she hurried around, closed
the iront door and made the bear a
prisoner.
The intrepid woman then tied a dog
to a pole, thrust the howling canine
through the door and thus coaxed the
bear out. As bruin appeared she
struck him with an axe and killed him
at the first blow.
One of the hunters commented on
her manner of fishing for a $59 bear
with a dog worth $139, bat the woman
retorted: “We generiliy shoots 'em,
but we never runs from ’em.”
Gave His Life for His Master's.
His faithful watchdog was all that
saved an lowa farmer named Daniel
Fritz from death in an awfnl form,
and as it is the dog is dead and
Frit? has a broken arm and is badly
hart. Fritz and his dog were passing
through a pasture in which a bull,
which was not supposed to be danger
ous, was feeding, when they were sud
denly charged by tbe animal. Before
he could reach shelter Fritz was caught
on the sharp horns of the ball and
tossed high in the air. His arm was
broken, and, unable to escape, he shut
his eyes just as the bull charged a
second time. His dog, however, sprang
at the bull’s throat and held on long
enough for Fritz to escape. The dog
was gored and trampled out of shape
by the bull.
Toltl to Hang Him Well.
Franz Csonka, a famous seventy
year-old brigand, was hanged recently
for murder at Essegg, in Slavonia. He
smoked his pipe to the gallows, tapped
the hangman on the shoulder and said
to him: “Do your job well; don’t
make a fool of yourself.” He was the
most fearless of the band of Bosza
Sandor, with whom he committed
many robberies and murders in the
Bakonyer forests.