Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 June 1889 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1889

the State Treasurer would then pay ont tho $1.0O.00O for the necessary work. When the Legislature met the money withdrawn from the treasury could bo appropriated, lie gaid that the money already subscribed 6honld be used entirely for the relief of the suti'erers. and the money from the State Treasurer should be used for restoring the vicinity to its condition before tho tlood. All debts alroady contracted for tho removal of debris should be paid, but nil money paid out for this purpose from the relief fund shall be refunded, so that every cent subscribed for relief of the stricken peoplo shall be used for that purpose alone. The Governor has $2."O,00O in liis hands now for the relief fund. A committee of seven well-known men of the State will be appointed to distribute the relief fund, and the present relief committee is to continue the work of relief till tho commission is appointed. After the commission has been appointed tho future operations of tho Pittsburg relief committee rests with it. In an interview to-night Governor Beaver said that he had been over the entire Hooded district, and found the supply depots all well tilled, but they must soon be replenished. "I found the streams tilled with debr.s and drift, in which there is a possibility of human bodies being imbedded, with a probability, if allowed to remain, they will endanger public health. It is now more lirmly impressed in my mind that the 'police power of the State must be exercised to restore things to their normal condition. Tbefunds which have come into my hands in such large amounts and from so many quarters outside of the State, and which nave been imposed upon me as a sacred trust, will be expended wholly and absolutely for the benefit of Individual sufferers. No part of it will be expended in workwhich is legitimately the domain of the State under its police powers. This I wish to emphasize, bo that all contributors to the fund may feel assured that their money .will be judiciously and economically expended for tho benefit of suffering humanity, and not to the work which should and will be undertaken by the State or municipal authorities." m INCIDENTS OF TIFE DISASTER.

Miss Jannett Ualford Relates Tier Experience In Escaping from the Deluge. Washington "Pott. Seated in a comfortable arm-chair in her father's apartments Miss Jannette Halford, daughter of the President's private secretary, last evening related her adventures of the past week in the flooded districts of Pennsylvania. Her auditors were Mr. and Mrs, E. W. Halford and a representative of the Post, and Miss Halford. who is an interesting, vivacious young lady of about eighteen summers, vividly detailed all that had occured since her mother and herself left Indianapolis last Thursday. "Our first intimation of danger," said Miss Halford, as her expressive brown eyes grew larger, "was at New Florence, where our train, the second section of the day express, halted. The water was pretty high at this point, and we were delayed a short time on account of a reported washout 6ome distance ahead. Subsequently, however, we ran down past Johnstown, where the water was already np to the second-story window-sills. The peoplo did not seem in any way alarmed at the prospect, stating that it was a regular spring occurrence, and would 60on subside. While lying at Johnstown, which was about 11 o'clock Friday morning, we ascertained that the rise in the water had occurred within fivo hours, for at 6 o'clock there was not a semblance of danger, although it was raining very hard. Then we heard that the dam was in danger, and it was determined to push on with our train to East Conemaugh Dorongh, where the railroad shops were located. "upon reaching that point we found the first section of the Indianapolis day express and the Johnstown accommodation train on two of the three tracks, and we pulled up alongside the three trains, a short . distance from the canal. Passengers took matters pretty easy in the cars, for some were reading and others smoking until about 4 o'clock Friday afternoon, when the engines began to whistle in the shrillest manner imaginable. At the same moment there was a loud cry, 'To the hills.' and passengers began to vacate all the trains in a hurry. It was raining in torrents, and it was probably owing to this fact thatl mado a desperate and successful effort to secure several umbrellas belonging to our part, for mother was one of tho first assisted out of the Pullman car, owing to the fact that she was known to bo an invalid. She first put on her rubbers and secured a shawl, and with a view to protecting her I obtained a gossamer that was hanging on the back of her chair in the car. "At this time the porter and myself were the sole occupants of the car, and as wo passed ont toward the buffet I struck my foot against a hand-bag which I know contained medicine that mother needed. I made an effort to take the satchel with me, but it was too cumbersome, and from the fact that I had to jump some distance from the car-step to an improvised foot-walk, I left the satchel. By this timo tho water was about a foot and a half deep, and after I had waded about the distance of a block I felt my heart failing me. Mother was a short distance ahead, aud I determined to make a desperate effort to reach her. At this moment I looked back and saw what appeared to be a solid wall of debris of m clayey color, with a large two-story frame house in tho foreground. Burdened as I was with three umbrellas, a waterproof cloak and endeavoring to hold my skirts so as to expedite my movements, it seemed an age until I reached ths side of Mr. Ssaugler, postom'ce inspector from Illinois, and entreated him to help me. In response he took hold of my ami and hurried me up the hillside, and in a few moments I was safe with mother and other friends. "From this point we watched the movv. ments of the water and the fate that befell the trains so recently vacated. First the earth cracked and washed away, and ties. rails and cars on two of tho three tracks were quickly ingulfed aud hurried out of fight. A big house near the engine of our train acted as a sort of breakwater and the water divided, leaving our tram compara tivelv nafe. We. ascertained tho next morning that it did not como up beyond the lloor of the Pullman coach next to the batrgage car, nor in the car which mother and myself had to vacate so hastily. "Mr. Grithu aud his daughter had a terri ble experience in the Pullman to which I have referred, being cut off by the water so quickly that they could not leave it. The porter let down the berths and they climbed , into the upper onest where they remained until the flood subsided sufficiently to permit of their being removed from their per ilous position. "Such was the force of the current that eixtv-ton engines, heavy Pullman coaches and large houses were twisted and turned end over end as though they were pieces of paper, and tho wa er seemed to be a nolid wall of debris rushing along with a ter ri tying, grinding so rind. Ont of the thirtysix engines mat were in me suop yarns when the riood came only two remained on the tracks, and eoxne of ihem were carried a mile down the valley. "Miss Bessie Brvan, of Philadelphia, and another younc lady, lost tner lives in attempting to secure their rubber overshoes, although the conductor of the train reneatenlv cautioned the passeneers to leave everything behind and tlee for their lives to the high ground, about two blocks distant from the railroad track. "Hospitable people on the hillsides threw open their houses for our accommodation. ana me nexi morning we were unven across the mountains, a distance of eight een miles, to Ebensburg.beiug compelled to ride in wagons with no springs over the roughest roads imaginable. At this poiut a carriage was secured, and drawn by four splendid horses we journeyed forty miles in about six hours to a station, where we connected with a train bound for Altoona aud our trials were at an end." 31 r. Ilatton's Vivid Impressions. Special to the IutlianaioUs Journal. Washington. June 0. Frank Hatton, editor of thp Washington Tost, who was one of the paengtrs on the Chicago lim ited train, at Johnstown, contributes this morning a graphic description of the man ner of his escape from death. When the limited pulled into Johnstown, it was found that the placo was Hooded. Only a few minutes were wasted there. Then tho train moved cautiously on. "Mineral Point," he says, "was passed". From this spot on the speed of the train deceased. The f ury of the torrent, the roar of tho waters, and the whistles of the two Cieat iron monsters that were dragging th

train, blanched with fear the faces pressed against the windows of the car. As great bodies of water rolled down the gorges and over th9 track, covering the cars with spray, tho terrified passengers would

jump back, expecting the express train to be overturned. ine speed of the train gradually decreased, and then, as if tho engines had given up in despair, the train stopped. Passeugers alighted to ascertain our location. It was found that we were at the south end of the bridge which spanned the Conemaugh at the little town of South Fork, and at the point where the south and north forks come together, and near a telegraph tower, but no orders came to move forward. "The water came down the two forks with terrible force, telling of the ruin that was being wrought above. Portions of bridges, out-houses, logs, pieces of furniture and all kinds of material went tearing by and on down in the rapidly-swelling river. Ten, fifteen, twenty minutes passed, and there was no movement of the trains. The rain came down from the heavens above, while the floods of the two forks rolled and clashed as they joined together, making one mighty and angry river. People from the town of South Fork crossed the bridge and mixed with the passengers. Then, the latter did not know of the reservoir two miles above them, which was getting ready to let loose the vast body of water which it held within its confines. "'What if tho reservoir should break!' said a citizen. "God help us if it does,' responded an old woman, the mother of three boys, who had just come out of the mines with their faces black with the grime of honest toil. "'Where is the reservoir"' asked the writer of an old man. "Two miles and a half up the south branch,' responded he, pointing in the direction. "It needed bnt a glance at the topography of the country to show that should tho reservoir, which was described as three miles long, one mile and a half wide and sixty feet deep, empty its mountain of water down the sides of the gorge through which the south fork flowed. Tho limited express would bo destroyed and all on board swept into eternity." Mr. Hatton suggested that the train be moved across the bridge. The conductor at iirst said that he had orders to stay where he was, but he finally consented to tako the train across. "About fifteen minutes af ter the limited had reached the north side," says Mr. Hatton, "the engine of tho freight train, which had remained on tho south side, gave a tierce shriek, and tho train started for the bridge. . Intuitively every one knew the dam had broken and that tho water was coining. The inhabitants, shrieking and crying, ran for tho mountain side. The two engines on the limited started with the train up tho track, followed by a freight train. The writer was in the rear of the next to the last car on the limited. The roar of the waters was almost deafening. In less time than it has taken to write this paragraph it had struck the bouses nearest tne bridge, and they were lifted high into the air and tumbled over in tho surging stream. Tho engine of the escaping freight train, which had given the alarm, had hardly reached the north side when the bridge went down, aud the freight cars were borne off by the rushing waters. As the passenger train tied up tho track, the back-water of the north branch carried by it articles of furniture from tho houses which, a few seconds before, were standing by the side of the track. "There was great excitement among the passengirs on the train, but it was soon discovered that danger was past, and a Thank God we are safe' went up from the hearts and lips of all on board. The limited train lay at Wilmore all night and nntil late on Saturday afternoon, when it proceeded slowly cast, reaching Altoona about 7 o'clock that evening." George Sylvester's Thrilling Story, Philadelphia Record. The most thrilling story of the whole disaster is told by Geergo Sylvester, who saved his wife and three children after a heroio struggle. Mr. Sylvester was on the second section of the day express, which fought its way out of Johnstown through the flood which tore through the town just before the dam burst. "When we were a short distance down the valley from Johnstown," said Mr. Sylvester, "the engineer heard a wild report that there was a land-slido down the road, and he side-tracked the train at Conemaugh. The first section had also been side-tracked here. The passengers climbed out of the cars to look at tho flood which roared down the valley with frightful velocity. The two sections emptied their loads on the hill side, and all stood looking in wonder at the torrent, Suddenly the shout no one knows where it came from 'The dam is broken, run for your lives!' When the unbridled sea struck tho big ronnd-house, in which thirty-six engines were standing, it swept it away as though the massive structure had been a sand-heap. The heavy engines were thrown a great distance, and some of them landed a thousand feet down stream. An erratic turn in the flood's force, only, saved the entire day express and its passeugers. Then, before we knew it, tho flood was upon us, and a rush np the mountainside was all that saved any of us. The force of the torrent was marvelous. It swept down, taking with it immense barns, which it crushed like paper, and then scattered the fragments. We could see strug5 ling victims swept away before our eyes, he salvation of our section was almost' miraculous. The first section was standing between our section and a freight train, so that some of the passengers, after tho flood had risen, could not get out. These were tho passengers who were lost. "Ihe first section was seemingly protected by heavy freights side-tracked at that point. Tho section was struck by the mad cataract, and driven high into the air. The shrieks of the victimsGod knows how many there were could be heard above the storm's roar, and we could see their blanched faces as they were swept down. One horrible glance was all we saw of tho lost passengers. Wo conld form no estimate of the loss even after the fload had subsided. The terror-stricken passengers fled up the mountains in every direction, and wo never saw any of them until we fought our way into Altoona, and found many who we thought wero dead. I suppose the exact number of the dead passengers will not be known until all the excitement is over. Tho torrent dashed and roared down the stream for half an hour and then subsided. The space where the first section stood was a stricken spot. One train was saved, but with the exception of a few Pullmans in the first section tho day express was no more, and tho wrecked cars lay in the valley, jammed against the mountain. Then the lire added terror to our misery. The four Pullmans, all that remained of the Atlantic, were soon blazing from contact with burning limo which stood in some freight cars the torrent had failed to touch. The mass began to crackle after the flood passed over the spot, and the cruel flames soon licked away the cars. Then we began our journey across tho mountains to Ebensburg' The story of the eseapo of the three young mothers, with babes in their arms, from tho ill-fated first section of the day express is exceeded in interest by few of the occurrences connected by the Johnstown deluge. Theso three young heroines are from Pendleton, Ind., bound for Delaware. Their names are Mrs. Gussie Knlp, Mrs. Clara DeWitt and Mrs. Florence Murpb3. One of their fellow-passengers said: "No words are adequate to express tho heroism of these young mothers." This gentleman had been compelled to watch their battle with death, but was powerless to give them any assistance. "Think of it," said he; "hardly more than girls, with crying babies in their arms, they fled to the mountains amid incredible dangers. When they reached safety no thought of their own injury entered their heads. Their lirst thought was for their offspring." The heroic mothers modestly sat in the waiting-room at tho station yesterday morning waiting for tho trains. The children were all lively, and the trio started away on the 9 o'clock train for Delaware. Mrs. Murphy and Mrs. Kulp went to Wilmington, and Mrs. DeWitt to Dover. Etcape of the Chicago Limited. Philadelphia Record. E. W. Clark, the banker, was the first passenger of the Chicago limited express to arrive In this city and tell the story of the limited's wild race up the valley with the flood in mad pursuit. "We did not stop at Johnstown," said Mr. Clark, "but at South Fork, eight miles east, the engineer got orders to run slowly, as there were landslides ahead and the river -was goiugup pretty fast. By the time we ran through i tho valley and came to the South Fork

bridge across the Conemaugh tho stream

was roaring like a cataract.- in river fairly seemed to lift itself in the air. Then a report reached us from tho engineer of a freight which followed right behind us that the reservoir was in danger of bursting. here we were standing a burst of the dam meant death to us all and a complete wreck of the t rain. The passengers became frantic at the prospect of being swept down the Conemaugh, and the conductor was appealed to to risk the torrent and dash across the South Fork bridge. The conductor hesitated, but every moment the Conemaugh was roaring up tho valley at a more frightful speed, and the spray flew high over the bridge. Ihefe was not a moment to be lost, for the engineer of the freight right behind us was frantic, and begged our conductor for God's sake to cross the bridge in safety. His pleadings had their effect. We ran the limited across tho South Fork, although the structure shook and quivered ominously. But the limited reached the east bank in safety, aud a freight train followed us. Scarcely had the last car of the freight crossed the bridge when tho dam burst. "In less time than it takes to tell, the seething mass of water swept against tho bridge and threatened to engulf the train where it stood. Then began the race of the limited with death. Tho engineer threw open the throttle, and away wo dashed for Y llmore, the storm hissing after our train. Over the bridge at Lilly we went at fifty miles an hour. Once over the bridge wo were safe, but none of us will ever forget this weird race. Wo lay at Lilly until Saturday night, and then started across the mountains to Altoona." Mrs. C. W. Talbot, of Chestnut Hill, also tells an interesting story of how the limited was saved. "The train ran madly to the Lilly bridge," she said, "and stopped. The report quickly spread that the bridge was so weakened that it would bo unsafe for the train to cross. The conductor came through, and an unknown passenger urged him to cross, declaring that it meant death to stay where they were." "I cannot go; I have no orders," replied the conductor. "You must go. We must take the smaller risk to avoid the greater," said an unknown passenger. "The passengers will relievo you of responsibility." A certificate was drawn up relieving the conductor of responsibility, which all the passengers signed. Tho conductor ordered the train ahead and it crossed the bridge. A few moments later the waters rushed down, carrying away tho bridge, and would have entirely wrecked the train had it stood where a few moments before it was seemingly safe. Counterfeit Policemen. Johnstown", Pa., June 1). Horace Mann, a private detective, came up from Philadelphia to-day with seven of his men, in response to a request of General Hastings. Counterfeit policemen and deputy sheriffs in the full panoply of a tin star and a club, were as easy to fiud as an old tin can. A . pair of shears and a piece of stair banister was all that was required, and they could not be told from the genuine. Chairman Scott and General Hastings issued a supply of cards to Chief of Police Hart to be given to all officers, and told him all without them would be arrested. Tho Chief put them in his pocket and lour of his men, who could not show cards were arrested by Mann's men. Chief Hart got angry ana ordered his men to shoot anybody who interfered with them. He was thereupon arrested himself, taken before Chairman Scott, and taught the limits of his authority. Mann's men found six barrels of whisky and 500 worth of silverware hidden in some of tho workmen's tents. They stove in the heads of the whisky barrels, poured it out and 'confiscated tho silverware. Will Hold an Inquest. Greensburg, Pa., Juno 9. The jury empaneled by the coroner of Westmoreland county to inquire into the cause of the death of the 218 persons whose bodies were picked up at Nineveh, to-day returned tho verdict that each of thorn "cam to his death by violence due to the flood caused by the breaking of the dam of the South r ork reservoir, and. as well the aforesaid coroner as tho jurors aforesaid, do certify under their oaths that the said deceased died of violence caused by tho action of the flood, and there is such strong suspicion of such violence or other unlawful aeiss, to make an inquest necessary." Miscellaneous Happenings. Johnstown, Pa., June 9. Father Tahney is a Catholic priest whq believes that where Peter is, there is the church, and that churches, as well as persons, can be made without stono walls. His church, to-day, was under the blue sky, in Patrick Matthews's side-yard. Tho grass was his footstool, and the June roses, that swung in the air, wero his censers. Tho Matthews residence and yard commands a view of the wrecked walls and shattered tower of St. John's, and tho ruined and torn parish cemetery, now filled with trunks of trees, stones, broken headstones and crosses. Beforo him stood a pitiful remnant of his parishioners, whom he touchingly exhorted to a performance of prayer and duty. Many of his listeners were moved to tears. The tower of St. John's Roman Catholio Church was blown up this afternoon. This is tho church which caught fire in the eventful Friday night and was burned. The tower stood alone, and was a constant menace. to passers-by. It was condemned and danger signals placed near it; but as a measure of safety tho authorities to-day ordered that it be demolished, and a chargo of dynnraite was placed under it, and the tall tower was soon a heap of bricks and mortar. Mr. W. M. Ferguson walked down from South Fork to-day, following the line of tho Pennsylvania road. He said that all the railroad tracks from .South Fork to tho viaduct were swept away. The old Portage viaduct is gone. A part of tho road known as the "deep cut" is half filled with earth and sand, and the tracks are lost. A mile and a half of tracks from Mineral Point to the cut is lost. A frestle-work is being built where tho deep-cut bridge once stood. From the viaduct the South 1 ork road was six miles. It will bo three weeks before the road will be open fortravel,andmonths before it will be restored to its former stability. This afternoon private Wm. Young, of Company C. Fourteenth Regiment, committed suicide in his tent by shooting himself in the head. Ho was a farm laborer, and resided near Mansfield. Pa. Ho had been sick for several days, but nothing in his manuer indicated that he contemplated taking his life. He was twenty-nino years of age, and leaves a wife and two children. The body of Miss Bryant, who was tho companion of the missing Miss Paulson, of Pittsburg, was identified by relatives today. It had been interred under tho name of "Miss Wilmington, but through the published description of a ring worn by Miss Bryant her friends had the body exhumed and identified. It will bo taken to Wilmington, Del. The Western Union Telegraph Company is pushing forward its lines, and to-morrow will open an office in Johnstown. The Associated Press will also secure quarters in the city proper to-morrow, and the whole newspaper force will bo transferred from the west side of the railroad bridge into what was the business portion of Johnstown. Two floaters were caught in the river at Warsaw, Ky., on Sunday, supposed to be from Johnstown. Bodies of animals and a cart were also seen passing. Condition of the Pennsylvania Lines. Philadelphia, June 9. At the oilice of the Pennsylvania railroad to-day it was stated that tho line was gradually getting into shape. The-completion of the Montgomery bridge has had the effect of producing a general movement of freight. One thousand and two hundred car-loads were moved east and west to-day, and this will have the effect of removing a great deal of uneasiness among business men, caused by the inability of the railroad company to distribute freight. At one timo it was feared that many of the iron furnaces and rollingmills would have to shut down on account of coke and coal famines. A great deal of fuel has been sent out. and more will follow right along. President Koberts and (jleneral Manager Pngh left at 11:25 to-night, on a special train, for Altoona. They will inspect tho work at various points along the

route, and will move eastward .from Altoona on the middle division of the main line. Some idea of the damage to the Pennsylvania lines by the recent flood may be formed from the statement that nearly 5,000 men are employed, in many cases working sixteen hours a day. This great army of workmen is building bridges, and replacing track carried away, filling in and grading the washed-out road-bed.

A Benefit That Netted SI, 500. Baltimore, June 9. The benefit at tho Harris Academy of Music by the Thompson Opera Company, in aid of the Johnstown sufferers, netted over $1,500. Every cent taken was given to the fund. Drowned in the Monongahela, Pittsburg, June 9. At 10:30 o'clock tonight Margaret Carroll, aged thirty-two; Maria Thomas, aged thirty-one, and Magpie Thomas, aged two years, wero drowned in the Monongahela river. The party, in company with two men, who were intoxicated, were crossing the river in a skill', which was upset. The men were rescued and placed under arrest. The body of Margaret Carroll was recovered. Poverty Causes a Suicide. New York, June 9. Theresa Astor, wife of a cigar-maker, named John Jacob Astor, committed suicide to-day, by taking Paris green. Astor claims to bo a cousin of his millionaire namesake, and has frequently been "written up" as such in newspaper articles. He earns only $6.50 a week, and lives in a miserable tenement. Despondency, because of povertyf is given as the cause of the woman's suicide. Killed Herself Through Grief. New York. Juno 9. John Crane, a workman in a slaughter-house, fell down an elevator shaft this evening aud was killed. His wife, Minnie, on hearing of his death, jumped from a window of her room in the third story of a tenement-house and "was fatally injured. VICTORIA'S DAILY LIFE. A Peep at the Inner Scenes of the Queen of England's Household. Mrs. Alexander, In Philadelphia Times. The inner life of the court has little in it to tempt a Sybarite simplicity, dutifulness, conscientious performance of work are its characteristics. At 9 her Majesty breakfasts alone, unless some of her children, grandchildren or personal friends are staying in the palace, and she is rarely without them. In summer, at Osborne, Windsor or Balmoral, this meal is generally 6erved out of doors, in some alcove, tent or summer-house, after which tho Q ueen either drives in a small pony-carriage, accompanied by ono of the princesses, or she walks attended by a lady-in-waiting or maid-of-honor, with whom she converses with friendly ease, and followed by two Highland seryants and some favorite dogs. Luncheon is served at 2, the convives being her Majesty's family or royal guests. Until this hour, from her short after-breakfast exerciscj tne Queen is diligently occupied with olhcial correspondence and business of various kinds. Long training has made her a politician of no mean ability and breadth of view, her natural common sense forming an admirable basis for such a superstructure. It assists, too, in enabling her to choose her friends well and wisely, though the court surroundings are not calculated to help royal personages in forming a just juflgment of character. Human nature puts on a somewhat too angelic guiso, where everything may be won by amiability and nothing by the reverse. In the mornings the maids of honor (they are nine in all) in waiting for the time are with the princesses, reading or practicing on the piano, singing or playing lawn tennis with them, as any young ladies, companions together, might. Tho lady-in-waiting accompanies the Queen in her afternoon drives and visits, which are most frequently to the poor and humble workers, often to simple gentry or any one in trouble. Afterward this lady reads aloud to her Majesty in her private sitting-room. The royal dinner hour is S:S0, and that meal is snared by those of the royal family then residing with the Queen, by distinguished visitors and some of the household in rotation, viz., lords and ladies in waiting, maids of honor, equerries and grooms-in-waitiug, this latter official holding a considerably lower position than the equerry, though to the uninstructed it sounds like a distinction without a difference. The Queen is a woman of strict business habits and steady application. The amouut of correspondence she gets through is enormous. In the private portion of this cor respondence her Majesty is assisted by her private secretary, a lady-in-waiting, and a maid of honor, especially the Dowager Marchioness of Ely, one of the ladies, who is a valued friend. When the court is at "Windsor the members of the household in attendance are ono lady-in-waiting (these ladies are always peeresses), two maids of honor, a lord-in-waitiug, two equerries, one groom-in-wait-ing, also the keeper of the privy purse, tho private secretary, assistants in both departments and the master of the household. The attendance is the same at Osborne and Balmoral, with the exception of the lord-in-waiting. To attehd to her Majesty's toilet and wardrobe there are five maids, viz., threo dressers and two wardrobe women. Tho senior dresser, who has been many years with her Majesty, is specially charged with the task of conveying orders to different tradespeople jewelers, drapers, dress-makers, etc.; one dressor aud one wardrobe woman are in constant attendance on the Queen, taking alternate days. Dress is a matter in which, even in her young days, her Majesty does not appear to have taken much interest. At present her perpetual mourning allows of no crude color combinations. Some of us elders have a pleasant, if vague, recollection of Victoria Kegina a good many years ago, say forty or forty-three, in a very simple and becoming bonnet tied beneath the chin, a wreath of wild roses under tho brim framing a sweet, kindly young face. Ah me! sorrow and experience have writ their cruel marks on hers and ours since then. T1IK MOON AND THE BOTTLE. Curious Circumstances That Induced a Man to Swear Off Drinking. New York Herald. Among the favorite resorts of the anglers hereabouts is Greenwood lake. This beautiful sheet of water lies partly in New York and partly in New Jersey, and it attracts dailv during the season the famous anglers of this section of the country. Coming down on tho train the other day a Newark man told mo a curious story which shows that even lienor may bo blamed for things of which it is not guilty. "It is now several years ago," said my acquaintance, "since I nave touched a drop of liquor, and I have not the remotest idea of ever touching it again. I am not a prohibitionist, and my abstinence is due to some rather peculiareircumstances. 1 was spending a week at the lake, stopping at the club-house of the Greenwood Lake Association. Tho weather was miserable, as it rained most of the time. Finally we had a bright day, but the tish did not bite well. Sitting on tho portico of the club-house that evening, I was watching the lleeting clonds and the unusually bright moon, which appeared to be about first quarter. M3' guide was lounging near me, aud 1 was anxious for sport. I called to him to get ready and started across the lake. T cast for awhile, but as the bass did not rise I took to trolling. I never had livelier sport, and I whiled away a couple of hours in the most intense enjoyment, such as only an enthusiastic angler can have. I could not let out twenty feet of line without catching a bronzeback. I considered this rather curious, but was thunderstruck when I looked up to the moon and found it in the glory of fullness. Was I dreamingf The moon certainly was at lirst quarter about two hours aeo. and the tish were not biting at all. Nobody has ever yet explained the vagaries of the bass, and so I thought little of this. "But the moon perplexed me. Naturally I blamed it on the bottle. I had purchase! a quantity of very fine old whisky, and had a bottle of it with me. The tish lost all their interest for mo, and my guide wondered why I sat there musing. The more I thought of it the more was I worried. Finally, I handed my guide tho bottle and asked nim to imbibe. I have never in my life met a guide, no matter how limited his knowledge of the habitat of tish. who was not a good judge of whisky. The guido took a nearty pull aud smacked his lips; then he declared that it was the finest whisky he had ever drunk. I called his attention to the moon, and ho remarked that he had noticed it late on the previous evening and spoken of its brightness. He said that the moon had reached its full on tho previous night. 1 concluded

that something similar had happened to me about twentv-fonr hours later. T was all broke up and returned to the club-house. 1 went to bed without saying a word to anybody, wondering what vagaries my mind would conjure up next. Every few minutes I looked out of the window, but the moon remiined exasperating full. I did not dare to say a word to anybody for fearof being pnt into a straight-jacket, but I solemnly declared that never would I touch another drop. I went home by the morning train, considerably worried. When I arrived in the city I "bought a paper, in order to divert my mind from the moon, which I was continually seeing before me in all stages of fullness and emptiness. The first thing mv eyes encountered wero the headlines: Last Night4s Eclipse of the MoonValuable Astronomical Observations.' "The people on the ferry-boat probably wondered why I looked so happy, but to this day I have kept the vow 1 made on tho previous night." THE OCEAN TIGER.

The Ravenous Character of the Various Species of Sharks. New Castle (Eng.) Chronicle, It was reported the other week that a sailor engaged in scraping the sides of a troop-ship in tho harbor of Sierra Leono was drawn into the water and promptly devoured by a shark. This is not an uncommon experience, and a boatman has been bitten in the short time it took him to dip up a pitcher of water, while his craft was under full sail. WTo are assured that it is nothiug uncommon for the ravenous fish to spring a foot out of the sea in order to secure their prey. For miles they will follow a vessel, on the lookoutfor any stray unfortunate who may tumble or be thrown overboard, and so deep do they swim under the surface that it requires the practiced eyes of the natives to detect their presence. Many of the West India harbors are so haunted bv the white and hammer-headed sharks the least amiable of the 150 different kinds known to zoologists that it is dangerous to bathe even a few yards from the shore without an outlook being posted. Yet the West African negro has been known to face tho brute, not only with impunity, but even to come oil" as victor in the end. All but amphibious, tho swimmer cautiously approaches his enemy, and then, just at the moment when tho great fish turns over to seize him his mouth being so placed that it is necessary the daring black plunges bis knife into its white belly. Tho pearl-divers are also sometimes successful in their attacks on sharks which try to seize them, though, it is needless to add, such a modo of combat is possible only when the monsters do not come in numbers, and under the most favorable circumstances requires a coolness, a dexterity, and a courage which are not to be acquired except by long experience in such perilous encounters. As a rule, however, it is seldom that a man who is so luckless as to drop among sharks ever appears again. There is a shriek, a white outlook is seen tinder the surface and a fin above it, a reddened crest tops the next swell which breaks against the ship's side, and the horror-Stricken teamen know that their messmate will be seen no more. It is a well-ascertained fact that the skeletons of sheep, pigs, dogs and cattle which have fallen or been thrown overboard have been recovered many days subsequent to their being swallowed; and it is on record that in the stomach of a shark killed in the Indian Ocean a lady's woik-box was found, while in another the incriminatory papers which had been thrown away by a hotlychased slaver wero recovered from tho maw of an involuntary witness thus curiously brought into court on the barb of a porkbaited hook. Ruysch, ono of the most trustworthy of the old naturalists, afiinr' that a man in mail homo loricatus, he call him was found in the stomach of a whit shark; and it is recorded by Blumenbach that in one case a whole horse was found. It is undeniable that many have been killed with ample capacity for such undesirable contents; and Basil Hall tells of one out of which was taken the whole skin of a buffalo, besides a host of other trifles which had been dropped astern in tho course of tho previous week. m SAVED BY A BEIX BUTTON. A Telegraph Operator's Novel Use of a Hotel Electric CalL St. Louis Fost-Dlspatch. "Some years ago," said A. Howard, "my life and $20,000 belonging to my partner, Jim Bigney, and myself, wero saved and a gang of robbers broken up by means of an electric bell. Jim and I had been telegraph operators, but had abandoned the business for mining. We had luck in prospecting, and after a few years sold our claims for $27,S00, of which we took $7,300 in promissory notes and started East with the balance, chiefly in bank notes. It appears that thre outlaws learned the real value of our old trunks and contents. I had left Jim at the clerk's desk of a new-fangled hotel in a Western town and followed the parties as they carried the baggage to the front end of our room on tho fourth floor. After dismissing them 1 had shut the door and had turned to the washstand behind, when I heard the door swing slowly open behind me. "Thinking it was Jim, I turned, only to find aman holding a six-shooter in mv face, another locking tne door and a third making a break for the trunk. I inquired what right they had to disturb me in dressing, lint the man with the gun remarked: Might makes all things right, stranger, and this is might,' tapping his weapon with the disengaged hand. " 'Back him up to the wall and keep him covered until we get tho stuff, and then we'll slit his throat and lope,' resumed the leader. "'Put your hands behind you,' commanded my jailer. I did, when a happy thought struck me. My right hand had come in contact with a knob, which I recognized as the electric bell which communicated with the clerk. Unobserved by them, I began sending the following message: Jiin Three robbers have the door locked, and are just waiting to get our dust to murder me. Get aman and step-ladder, and don't make a sign of noise, put a gun through the transom and shoot. Bo quick and careful.' 'My only hope was that Jim might bo still lounging where 1 left him, in which case his ear would quickly catch on. Thero was a chance in a hundred, and I began to sweat very freely. But I started, repeating tho message, and was nearly through when, bang, bang, two shots were lired from over the door, and the man who had not been hit turned just enough to let mo hit him back of tho ear with mv right hand. It would be painting it a" shade light to say we had sprung a surprise party on the visitors. I had a gun in a moment, and kept the thieves at bay until the two men outside got in and tied them np. except the leader, who was as dead as a man ever gets to be. Tho other wounded ono died in a hospital three months afterward, and my jailer was killed in an attempt to escape Jail about the same time. "As I had expected, when tho bell began ringing the message in the oftice Jim was there and commenced taking it. The clerk gnzed in such astonishment that be forgot to start a boy up to answer it for a minute, when Jim pulled his gun and remarked: The lirst man that leaves this room cets all I've got here in the neck.' When he had got tne 'ringogTam.'os he afterward termed it, he rapidly explained, cautioned everybody else not to follow, took a drummer fie had met on the train, snatched a ladder, and as soon as he could climb around the job was done.',' Black Knot on l'lum Trees. Garden ami Forest. At the Massachusetts experiment station the black knot on plum trees has been treated with linseed oil, turpentine and kerosene. Theso remedies were applied with a brush as soon as the warts begin to appear, and as they do not all come at once, applications were made three times during the summer, all the warts being painted over each time. In the autumn, microscopic examinations found no spores in the warts; in fact, none of the sacks (perithecia) were developed enough to produce spores beforo the warts were destroyed by the remedies. Where kerosene aud turpentino were applied so liberally as to spread about on the branch and run down over it, the branch was killed. No such injury came from using the linseed oil. The warts should be saturated in every case. The treatment of black knot hitherto recommended was cutting off the diseased branch and burning it. If this dangerous fungus can be controlled by any less heroic treatment it will be a great gain to plum-growers. Will Rometody Explain? . Baltimore American. When a man privately in his honset invites another to a seat on the floor, it is a knock-down insult: but when he doe the samo thing publicly in a legislative hall, it is a standing honor. Isn't this rather - singular!

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