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the food, and added largely 10 the dam.
age further down. The water rose so
rapidly that many people could not es-
cape from their homes, and ran to the
upper stories, from which they were res
cued by men riding horses and mules.
The scenes of rescue were most thrill
ing. Joseph Ross, a teamster, had
in charge a pair of mules. He
mounted one Of them to aid some people.
The mule Toll into an excavation carry
ing Ross with it and he was drowned.
When left 1t looked as if one thousand
people were homeless. They were gath
cred on the mountain sides looking sadly
ct their homes buried in the water. The
Cambria Iron works were flooded, throw
ing two thousand men out of employment,
besides entailing a vast amount Gc dam
age to the mill. The sweeping away of
four or five large bridges added
greatly to the horror of the scene.
Twelve carloads of iron were run out
onto the Cambria bridge in an attempt to
save that structure. The waters gath
cred strength, ana swept bridges, oars
and iron away as if they were straws.
But one bridge remains, and it is badly
damaged. Lumber was swept down with
the feod in vast quantities. 1t is esti-
mated that one million or more feet
passed through the town yesterday morn
ing. The railroad depots were thronged
with victims of the food, who were res
cued in skiffs. Piano boxes and RATS
were used for this purpose. All the
trains on the Pennsylvania~and Baltimore
g. Ohio railroads are discontinued, the
tracks being submerged for miles.
At two O'Clock the water was still ris-
ing, and the people were pantc-stricken.
There is no doubt but that the loss of life
will be heavy. Three citizens Of Pitts
burgh are known to have been drowned.
They occupied a house just below the
dam, short distance above Johnstown.
They were Thomas FallOn, James Tight
and telegraph operator, name unknown.
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the matter, aid, iiiuising further iuouiriea.
she learned the whole history Of the case
On the following morning she had set on,
10 New York with letter from Mrs. Brown.
low to the mayor.
The detectives "ere soon satisfied that
this was indeed Mrs. Brownow, and ther
set out on their return to New York with
strange feelings of defeat and humiliation
not altogether unmingled with satisfaction
that an innocent man was not to be made
the victim of their mistakes The news yas
not taken directly to Mr. Brownlow He
knew nothing of the discovery until his at
torney, Mr. Parker, told him of the circpn.
stances. Then, for the first time, the iron.
nerved man yielded to the pressure of his
emotions, and tears came freely TO his eyes
and his voice was too choked for utteranca
In few days his wife had recovered sniff
GENTLY to be removed to the city, and when
the officers of the law had actually seen he,
and heard from her own lips the story ot
her experience, there was no DELAY in brinc
ing the unfortunate affair to IA speedy ter
mination.
The district attorney himself moved in
chambers for new trial. 1t was granted
and the following day set for its occurrence
The prisoner was brought before the bar
and In speech in which he fully exoner
ated him from any evil intentions towards
his wife and all suspicious of such, the dis
trict attorney moved that the case be nolle
pressed This motion was granted by the
Judge, and the prisoner was dismissed.
The meeting between Kim and his wife
was most affecting, and they resumed their
domestic relations with every augury for
happy relations in the future Both seemed
to take to heart the severe lesson taught
by the result of one short moment of ANGER
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showed in its style that the writer was in
the habit of htter writing. After two Oh
three hours work he had sifted from the
mass of letters half dozen in different
hands which he considered it worth while
to look into.
The first one he opened was begging
letter from some one who had announced
herself as widow and an entire stranger
to Mrs. Brownlow. Mr.. Parker proceede
no farther, he threw that aside and took up
another. This was an application for a po-
sition as a waiting maid from girl who
SAID that she had heard of Mrs. Brownlow
through some of her friends This also Mr..
Parker cast aside, and Ii feeling of discour-
agement began to settle down upon him.
The next one was another begging letter.
The fourth he opened with the idea that he
was simply wasting his time and injuring
his business by neglect for a merely
QuiXotic enterprise, but as he read the let
ter his eyes began to open, his face flushed,
and perspration started out upon his fore
head. Tt read as follows:
DEAR MRS. LEONORA: 1t is such O long
time since have seen you, that don't know
you will rember me. take my pen to rite YOU
becaws wood l< to no how you ar Ihave n Ut
bin to the City for sevrel years and sposs i
shood not find my way, if went Their. think
of you q CRATE meny times and wunder if You
ar as prity as you wer wen a little CURL. hurd
that you wer marid and got yur address from
lizy the Curl as worked for you for fue
weaks last Spring. she cam up to yonkers to
work and saw hur Their wen went over to
get sum Stuff from the Markett idoant ask
you to anser this letter becaws you may -Four.
get me and ma not care enything about me,
but awlwas Luvd you when a little CURL aud
want to tel you how Glad am that you are
hapy and hoap you Will be so.
MARY DONNELL.Y."
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and the description of how to reach her
house, she put in her pocket. The others
she left in her bureau, where Mr.. Parker
subsequently found them. With these and
small sum of money in her hand she started
out of the house. but she had not gone more
than block before she realized that she
was i'll prepared III dress for such jour-
ney. Not knowing what to do she stopped
at street corner for a moment in cOnfu
sion. There she was approached by poor
ly dressed woman who begged for charity.
On the impulse of the moment Mrs. Brown
low exchanged her costly opera cloak for
the woman's cheap but large shawl. This
garment SO disguised her that no one whom
she met on the journey suspected for a mo-
ment that she was really in full evening
dress. The cloak afterwards found in the
river may be accounted for in any way
that suits the reader. The police believed
that the woman to whom It was given COM
mitted suicide. and it is probable that the
body found and identified as that of Mrs
Brownlow was in reality none other than
that of the woman to whom the cloak had
been given.
Mrs. Brownlow, arriving at the railway
station nearest to the point where Mary
Donnelly lived, had not ventured TO take 8
carriage. She felt like cOnceallng her re
treat and had already become somewhat
startled and ashamed of her course. So she
walked long and dreary tramp through
the night, and it was not until early morn.
ing that she finally found her way down the
steep and rickety STAIRS Of the cliff to the
house where Mary Donnelly lived. The
Strain and exposure consequent to her
flight had thrown her into distressing i'll
ness, and the scanty means for providing
against such a calamity in the house, and
her absence from her husband, tended tc
make her recovery all the more slow. Still.
she absolutely forbade her old servant to
notify Mr.. Brownlow or any of her relatives
of her situation. 1t was her intention, as
soon as she should recover, to make her
way back home and explain every thing.
Time had passed, however, day after day,
without substantial progress being made,
and as the people under the cliff never saw
newspaper and rarely met any body from
the outside world, no news came to them OF
Mr.. Brownlow' arrest, trial and conviction.
1t was when Mary Donnelly had gone over
to Yonkers one day for provisions that she
heard conversation on the street regarding
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asking you to tell it to me offhand will try
to get il by certain questions. Now, then,
lid she have in her childhood any intimate
friends to whom she might have fed in this
emergency, and with whom she might be
IN hiding?n
81 can think of none," said Mr.. Cham
1ion All her friends are people who are
well known, and who are in the swim of
society and conversant with the news of
5he day. And it could not be possible that
any of them would restrain her from COM
ing back to her parents and friends in such
time as this. There are one or two of
her early acquaintance with whom she
was intimate until well along in her teens
Of whom have lost track, but know that
hey live in distant parts of the country and
even in foreign countries"
s.There were, then, no friends in humber
sfe to whom she might have gomez" con-
anued Mr.. Parker
''I think not" returned Mr. Champion,
,oldly 1--WE restrained our daughters as
sociates to the grade of society in which
she was born We alway discouraged any
association with poor people"
Him." was Mr.. Parker's only retort
Then after pause he asked: "Have the
servants that are now in your family been
nployed by you for many yearss"
No, only one or two. We have had the
usual changes of servants that mark every
familys domestic history"
"Was there any favorite servant in the
family at the time of your daughters child
hOod!n
Mr.. Champion thought moment and
chen said, with some hesitation: 'It seems
TO me there was As 1 think of it, there
was woman named Mary something-upon
my soul can not think what her last name
was nOw-for whom our daughter seemed
TO have the liveliest affection when she was
the merest child She left our employ
nearly fifteen years ago. and of course l
have known nothing of her since. I am in
,lined to think you are pursuing a very
shadowy clew."
That may be-" said Mr.. Parker; 1--WE
shall see. We shall see. Would Mrs.
Champion know more about this woman,
Mary, than you do?''
She might. will call her if you ex-
pressly desire it."
Ido."
Mr.. Parker touched bell, and when
servant responded to the call, he said
task Mrs. Champion to come to the study"
and in few moments the lady entered,
dressed in deep mourning.
Mr.. Parkers questions concerning the
sid servant were put to her, ami this was
her reply:
"The woman name was Donnelly or Don
ohue, or something like that, and when she
was with US she was about forty years Old
She left us because her mother had been
thrown on her hands, and, as they had
little property, they went off to live together
for the rest of their days. During the first
three or four years after she left us she
would return at long intervals to visit one
Of our other servants, and at such times
she always inquired after Leonora, and the
child frequently expressed great pleasure
at receiving her visits. We discouraged
them, however, because, as Mr. Champion
has Indicated to you, we did not care to have
her associate with people of that class"
"Do you KNOW asked Mr.. Parker,
"where this woman went after she left
you"'
my impression" replied Mrs. Champion,
twas that she went to Yonkers, but that
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-21
A Little FORESIGHT.
Why 1t Is Of NJ re Use Than An Unlin-
tied QUAINT tY of Afte rtIluurht

Why 1t Is of NJ re Use Than An Unli,n-
tied QUAINT ty of Afterthought.
A little foresight is of more value than
much afterslght, says the Sunday School
Times. Foresight is the plapner, aftersght
is the critic, of our deeds. What painful
scenes, em5arrassments, regrets, dsap-
pointments, self-accusations, the habit of
looking ahead and planning to meet and to
arrange the future will avoid? Time and
money spent in designinga building perfect
ly, in definitely predetermining principles
and rules of action, and marking off limits
before embarking in any new project, in
mapping out work, in arranging engage
ments, in avoiding conflicts of duty ana the
impossible demand to be in two Places at
one time, are we'll spent. But the fore
thought is more difficult than the after
thought. The one requires intense applica-
ton to systematic consideration and search
OF the fell: of the possible; the other sug-
gests itself instantly and naturally AM
body can see that the door is in the wrong
place aftcf the house is built, or can say
that the speech was IA mistake after it had
"een delivered and its effect noticed. 1t is
easier to critcse we'll than to construct
We'll; but it is more useful to construct
plan perfectly beforehand, than to criticise
it afterwards.
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A MOMENT OF ANGER:
Tho History Of Mr.. and Mrs
Brownlow's Quarrel
BY ROBERT HOTE.

As the defendant closed his speech .
murmur of iLcredulity ran through the
room, and people thought more than ever
that Mr.. Brownlow was either actually III
sane or feigning insanity.
And have you nothing more to says"
asked the court at last. ''Your explana-
ton comes very late. You have had all the
time necessary to prepare an ingenious
story Why did you not state these facts
at first in the same form or take some
other course than thSt of rigid silence in
this matter!"
Il did not think it necessary" said Mr.
Brownlow, 'to take my servants into my
confidence, and l thought that after few
days Mrs. Brownlow would return to her
home"
"But why have you been so reticent
when questioned by the officers of the law"
THE officers of the law did not approach
me in the proper manner. Instead of dis
persing the crowds in front of my house. they
came to me. They credited public gossip;
they insulted me in the most outrageous
manner by making accusations which it
was beneath my dignity as a man to listen
to. An honest man must not be at the
mercy Of the stupidity of idlers. The whole
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fendant's course had precluded any posi-
bility of securing a new trial, all they could
do was to try TO secure executive elem
ency. A petition was circulated among the
influential and wealthy residents IN the
c;tv nraving that his sentence be at least
commuted until it should be definitely
nroven that Mrs. Brownlow had died by
violence. Various obstacles lay before the
success of this petition Perhaps the great
est was that the incumbent of the Guoer-
material chair was a thoroughgoing politi-
clan. and would fear to offend the general
public by extending to rich man FAVOR
that might without special risk have been
granted to poor man.
When Mr. Brownlow had been taken to
the cell which he would occupy untll ne
should be put to death he called for the
services of lawyer, but not for the pur
nose of making a move for freedom. He
would not permit the lawyer TO talK
about that. but limited his services
strictly to putting his affairs into such
shane that there would be no possible
question of their disposition after MS
death 1t was, perhaps, characteristic OF the
man that in choosing his attorney he passed
over the eminent men in the profession
whom he personally knew and sent Tor Mr..
Henry Parker, the young. lawyer assigned to
defend him by the judge, and whom MT:
Brownlow had rebuffed so coldly and
emphatically. The most important work for
Mr.. Parker was, of course, the drawing up
of his strange clients will. Mr.. Parker S
astonlshment may, perhaps, be imagined
when Mr.. Brownlow directed that all his
property without exception should be
given to ''Mrs. Leonora BrownloW, my
wife, when she shall return to her home"
Mr.. Parker was made trustee for her with
a salary of five thousand dollars yearly, to
be drawn from the estate until the lady
should appear to claim the property.
The young lawyer protested in vain at his
clients extraordinary testament, pointing
out that it made him, Parker, actually the
heir to the property, for no one believed
that Mrs Brownlow was alive.
"You are Mistaken" responded Mr.
Brownlow, quietly; 81 believe it,
So the will was drawn as directed and
duly witnessed by officials of the jail. But
Mr.. Parker went about his duties with q
strange feeling of oppression and doubt
Was the law about to take the life of an
irresponsible man, or was it about to muir
der an innocent mana 1t must be one Of
these If he were hanged the will could
not be contested successfully by Mr.
Brownlow's relatives, for it would be the
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THE YOUNG LAWYER PROTESTED IN VAIN.
theory of the law that any question of Mr.
Brownlows sanity had been settled by the
trial. And yet the unfortunate man
seemed to be irrational. And yet again Mr.
Parker could not help a feeling that he was
innocent
The young lawyer decided that in the
time intervening before the execution he
would make great effort to discover the
truth of Mrs. Brownlsw's disappearance.
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A good snare OF the tet'o' "A.
tended for Households, n. T., are az
dressed Muleheads, ""Horsefeet'' Wv
A Milwaukee man made callnoI D
fllel it with powder and douo't .hs
shot, got in front OF it and touono1 r,it
thing off. His purpose was to coin--
suicide and he succeeded.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-04-19
SPEAKING editorislly OF the retiring

SPEAKING editorislly OF the retiring
and incoming governors of this Terri
tory the Oregonian of Friday says :
Hon. Eugene Semple, who retired
Tuesday from the governorship OF
Washington Territory, has discharged
the duties of that Office efficiently and
acceptably for two years. In present
his successor, Governor Moore, for in
auguration, he displayed true political
philosophy, remarking in the course
Of brief and pleasant speech upon
the fact that he, as representative of
a Democratic Chief Magistrate, had in
his term occupied the position from
which, in the usual and accepted order
Of things, he was ro~ displaced by a
representative of Republican Presi-
dent, adding that "Such a procedure
is not inconsistent with the heartiest
good will between the gentlemen WHO
90 out and the gentlemen who come
in" Governor Semple retires with
the best wishes Of his fellow citizens,
whose interests he has conscientiously
striven 10 advance, and Governor
Moore enters upon the duties TO which
he has succeeded with the general ap-
proval aud confidence Of the people.
The wisdom OF a policy that urges the
naming Of citizens OF a Territory for
its federal Offices is demonstrated in
the good feeling incident to this occ.-
sion.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-04-19

DURING the late campaign in this
Territory We noted the queer antics uf
those who We. e toaaying 20 Mr.. Allen,
the "hay-io, t siraw-foot' fcolishness
at Seattle, in which the campaign pro-
,essi, II entonej their steps with the
repetition in concert of" Allen; Allen !;
John B. Allen" That was before time
showed what the h rvest would be,
however, and the crop must have been
some what impaired in value by" cheat
i; recent observations indicate the true
inwardness of human motives. These
same friends OF John B. Allen still walk
with martial tread, but it is not in
torch-light procession, nor by the
flare Of red lights and as their
heels touch the ground with emphasis
one fdncies he hears words Of like
fythm of the famous slogan, but Of
vastly different import, sounding like,
Damn it Damn it! Sold, - damn it,
But then, as intima ed. it may have
been only fie k of the imagination,
induced by Inc glum countenances of
the wire-pullers who had so ingloriou.-
ly" got left"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-04-19
Spokane and Eastern.

SPOKANE FALLS, April I'D. c..
Cosrin, OF the Spokane Falls & North
ern railr ad, was among the passen-
gers 10y the morning train from the
East. He Us he has bought all t e
material for the new rod aud that by
the middle of June it will be on the
ground. The freight cars are being
made in Michigan, and will be loadsd
so they will bring good supply of
rails with them on their outward trip.
They are to be conpl ted by the Goth
instant, and will be here early in May
Trac k-laying will then he common ed,
The engines, which will be six-wheeled
moguls, are ordered of the Baldwin To-
connective work., in Pennsylvans, and
are to be completed in six weeks. TIL
passenger aches will be along soon
afterwards, but by June, long before
the road is completed, all the material
will be in SIP kane.
In few days 1000 men will be at
work on the road for the purpose of
grading the As miles of road, AID Col
vile will be reached at an early date.
The passenger and freight cars will be
of the very best M iterial and make,
and ever thing will be fl st-class.
US. Consul Dead.
WASHINGTON, April 16.-The de-
paltment of state has r, ceiv,d a dis
patch announcing the death to-day of
United States Consul Ditta at Bres-
lau. He wa app iated in 1878.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-04-19

A NEW INDULGENcE.-A London
special to San Francisco PAPER says
that "The ingenuity of the women OF
London and Paris in inventing new
designations is without limit. To the
morphine habit the devo.ees OF sem
eationalism have now added the prac-
tice Of smoking tea cigarettes. Special
grades of the finest tea are used, and
the effect of the cigarettes is said to be
delightful for fully an hour after enc
has been smoked. After that comes
the reaction in tie form of a nervous
trembling and excitabiliiy which is
best endured, according to woman of
title, who rather goes in for all these
things, by drinking a thimbleful OF
frozen absinthe. Thus, by industri-
ously ringing the changes on NOR
phine, tea, cigarettes and absinthe.
with q few intrigues. some scandal,
and a raft Of late-French novels, the
women OF society manages to worry
through the day. l wonder if the
American girls great success abroad
is not due to her nsturalness and
health. There is q lack of ruddy
cheeks in London now"