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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-18
A DOUBLE DOSE OF SNAKE VENOM.
Mrs. Roots Extraordinary Experience With
Copperheads In Ohio.

Copperheads In Ohio.
GALLON, O., August 17.-Mrs Mary Root Of
Mamsbury, the day before the Fourth Of July
was bitten on her forehead by a copperhead
snake while she was putting pie on the swing
shelf in her cellar, the snake having climbed to
the shelf lin some way and lying there coiled.
The poison of the snake affected Mrs Root 30
seriously that for several days she was not ex-
pected to live being most Of the time delirious
The venom finally succumbed to treatment
and Mrs. Root gradually recovered, being
able to get out of the house for the first
time last week. Yesterday she went. into
the yard to hang up clothes. She had her
clothespins in muslin bag. She laid the bag
on the ground until she was ready to use 1t.
When she thrust her hand into the bag to take
out some clothespins her middle finger was
seized by something, and instantly a shock of
excruciating pain flashed from her finger to
her shoulder. She quickly drew her finger
from the bag and dropped the bag on the
ground. The instant it struck the ground
Comprehend snake ran out of the bag and hur-
ried away In the grass. Mrs. Roots cries
brought aid to her, but she became blind and
delirious before she could be taken to the
and DR.. Bail doubts that she will survive this
second injection of copperhead venom into her
system while it was still affected by the first
charge. The copperhead and its mate were
found in the high grass not far from where
Mrs. Root was bitten, and both were killed
Two cows and horse running in pasture on
a farm adjoining the Root place were found
dead and much swollen on different days Of
last week. The owner believed that they had
been poisoned by hired man he had dis
charged, and he started for the Justices office
to swear out a warrant for the mans arrest.
On his way to the Justices the farmer took q
short cut through the pasture where the cattle
had died. When half away across he was
startled by shrill rattle, and discovered in q
bunch Of grass ahead of him the deadly coil Of
a massassauqua, or marsh rattlesnake. He
killed the poisonous reptile and went no
further. He knew that the massassauqua and
not the hired man had killed his cows and
horsa.
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POSITION OF THE TWO CANDIDATES.

The Philadelphia Inquirer makes the fol-
lowing attempt at political argument, which
is principally instructive as an example OF
what the Republican organs are reduced to
in the line OF campaign ammunition:
Senator Delamater having denied to the CON-
plete satisfaction of all Republicans the charges
against him, it is now In order for Ex-Governor
Pattison to deny the charge made by the Media
american that his half million dollar extra
session Of the Legislature had no other purpose
than the destruction of Samuel J. Randall. 1t
is subject in which the Randall Democrats
are deeply interested.
1t is not in order for Ex-Governor Pattison
to do anything of the sort, because the
alleged charge" has no parity to the direct
impeachment of Senator Delamater's official
integrity; and further, for the reason that
every well-inIormed Pennsylvania knows
that Senator Cooper's yarn is purely the
product of Imagination. The reasons for
calling an extra session of the Legislature
were publicly stated. well kno WI and cred
liable to Pattison. That body had by its
partisanship and ineficiency failed to per-
form the duty enjoined upon it by the Con-
stitution, Of apportioning the State "imme-
diately after each United States decennial
census" and Governor Pattison called it
together to do its duty. That it failed to do
so, may be charged to the Republican idea
that the Constitution is not binding on cor
porations and members of the Legislature;
but for that theory Governor Pattison is in
nowise responsible.
This allusion of the Delamater organ to
the charges against its candidate, renders it
pertinent to call attention to the shape in
which these charges are left. Specific asser-
tions against Senator Delamater have been
made of character which if false would
make his assailants both civilly and GRIM
inally liable. If Senator Delamater had
taken his detractors into court, the burden
of proof would have been upon them; and a
failure on their part to fully su bstantiate
their charges would have vindicated him.
He was challenged to take that course and
has failed to do so until it is probably too
late to bring the matter to trial before cleo
tion. Under such circumstances q mere
denial is weak and lmpotent way to clear
a man seeking public position from the
charge that he has bought votes for himself
and distributed a corruption fund in the
Legislature.
If our public affairs are to be kept clean |
and above suspicion of corruption it must |
be understood that when public men are
charged with personal malfeassnce of that |
sort their assailants will at once be required |
to produce the evidence or be punished for
their ISLANDERS.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-18
THE IMPERIAL MEETING.

Their Imperial Majesties of Russia and
Germany met at Narva yesterday amid
accessories of the most imposing character.
Various Grand Dukes and Princes were put
in command of the attendant fleets and
military body-guards. All this parade was
for the sake of emphasizing the fact that the
two Emperors embraced each other and pro-
fessed eternal amity. After having done
this to their hearts content, each will re-
turn to his own realm and proceed to study
how to carry out his own selfish policy with
out regard to the wifhes or rights of the
other.
This show of preserving peace by a meet
ing of the monarchs has been a favorite
method of European statecraft since the
first Napoleon and Alexander met
at Tilsit. But that meeting did
not prevent the French Emperor from
carrying his army to Moscow a year
or two later, nor his Russian brother from
returning the compliment at Paris and de-
throning his imperial friend. 1t has never
been more eficacious since; and the best
commentary on the annual succession of
pacific visits among the monarchs of Europe
is the fact that each one of them continues
to strain his finances and burden his people
with the cost of increasing his army and
navy so as to be able to keep the peace
effectively.
In the meantime, this glitter and parade
of the imperial meeting is set off by the fact
that one of the EmPerOrs lives in constant
fear of assassination and internal con-
spiracies; while the statesman who created
the empire OF the other, is indulging in bit
ter retrospect during the leisure Of enforced
retirement st home.
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reciprocity is alleged to be that the
hated Chinaman is becoming too numer-
GUS in the South American countries,
and that the Californians do not
propose to be brought into competition with
the pauper labor of the prescribed Mon
golian. This, as specimen of political
foresight, is something delicious. The
reciprocity project coutemplates the
exchange of our -four, provisions and manu-
factures for the coffee, sugar and rubber ofthe
Southern republics. How, even supposing
all these products to be produced by Chinese
labor, the American laborer would be
brought into competition with it. is something
that would puzzle every one except Dem
ocratic organ anxious 10 catch at the ghost
of material to make political capital out
of
One fact makes this assertion especially
ridiculous; and that is that the policy ofreci-
procity. practically as Mr.. Blaine proposes
it, has been enjoyed by the Pacific coast for
many years. The Hawaiian reciprocity
treaty has given that side of the continent
free sugar, largely raised by Chinese labor,
ever since it went into effect. No proposi-
tion has yet come from the Pacific coast to
repeal that treaty because it brings ourwork-
Ingmen into competition with the Chinese.
On the whole, if there is any such
opposition to reciprocity from the Pacific
coast, as is alleged, it will be because that
section wishes to keep all the advantages of
reciprocity to itself and to prevent the rest
of the country from sharing them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-18
BLACKsNAKE SLEPT WITH BABY.

II is Found Coiled Up mt the Foot of tho
Cradle Nursing From the Bottle.
A big blacksnake was found coiled up In the
swinging cradle at Carlisle Pa, in which Mr..
and Mrs. John d. Frederioks baby was quietly
sleeping. Mr.. and Mrs. Fredericks are occupy
ing their mountain cottage near Penmar. The
baby was placed in the swinging cradle by the
nurse girl who left it for time. When she
returned she found a blacksnake coiled up at
the baby's feet. A nursing bottle. from
which the snake had taken all the milk, was
lying between the serpent and the baby.
The girls screams aroused the household and
frightened the snake, which tried to get away,
but was killed by Mr.. Fredericks. The baby
was not injured.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-18
Our Steamship Lines.

TO the Editor OF The Dispatch:
That bald-beaded misstatement that has been
gong the rounds of the press for many years
that the Cunard Steamship Line have never
lost man or ship by accident for Al years" has
again been resurrected. and even crept into
your carefully guarded columns on the 18th
inst. The Cunard Steamship Company is a
carefully managed company, and for many
years had remarkable luck, but they have had
their share of accidents as well as other we'll
conducted lines. 1t is only two or three short
years ago that they lost one of their finest and
neetest steamers. the Oregon, by accident Just
outside of New York Harbor and she lies at
the bottom yet. The White Star Line have
just as good record. and other good lines are
croWding them closely. Ocean travelling is as
saIe as railway travelling nowadays.
. SoUTHsIDE, August 16. Ex-CAPrA1N.
lEx-Captain neglects to state that not
single life was lost when the Oregon went down.
The Oregon was not classed as Cunarder, but
on that trip was under control of the company.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-18
A "REMINISCENCES OF '64.

Well, yes, 1 was Q soldier.
served till the war was done,
Our company mustered out but ten
That listed in '6l.
IT'S little you young folks know OF war,
And pray you may never know,
It's terrible, terrible thing at best,
Every vet here can tell you so.
And hold the time is coming
When right will be understood,
And no means used that breaks law,
For all Gods laws are good.
It was my turn on picket
One night In early June,
The air was full of music
Ny heart had caughtits tune.
While pacing in the moonlight
My mind ran to and fro,
To mother. and the dear old home,
To father and brother Joe.
Our parent died. we were ten years old,
Twin brothers, Joe and me,
A Down East farmer took me home,
Joe went to Tennessee.
Ten years had passed. we had never met,
But somehow that summer night,
With its shining moop, brought his face again
So plainly, to my sight.
Iheard a step, .'Haltl who goes there?''
The moon shone bright as day,
And through tine bushes saw man,
And he wore suit Of gray.
saw his bayonet glisten.
And quicker than can tell
A hash-a shot-and by the brook
The wounded rebel fell.
was by him in moment
To stop the red blood's flow,
When-my od.-the revelation.
That reb was brother Joe.
Traitor, " you say, 10 his countryi''
Well friend, that may be so,
But whether In blue. or whether in gray,
He was stili my brother Joe.
-Eifza Lamb AartyB IN Boston Giobs.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-18
He Defends His City,
% the Editor Of The Dispatch:

To the Editor OF The Dispatch:
The welfare of this nation is in the keeping
of the press. The special section in the care of
a aPittsburg afternoon paper is the Columbian
exhibition of 1898, judging from an editorial
headed: Congress must act" in its issue Of
Saturday evening. As citizen OF Chicago 1
beg to protest against such utter 'rot' as it
contains. rise to amend the motion of your
esteemed contemporary by suggesting that Con-
gress delegate to its editor full power to settle
this question Of site 1T Chicago, on the simple
principle that fools step In where angels fear to
tread, and that, according to French author
ity, the first qualification for writing the
critique Of a book is not to have read il By
all means Congress must take some "action"-
adjourn, for instance. AUGUST E. GAUS.
PITTSBURG, August 16
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-18

THE village was more full of people and
wagons and venders' stalls than was ever
country town at fair time. Oberammergau is
still backwoods village, which the nineteenth
century has touched but slightly. The streets
are built, like Boston, along the meandering
cowpaths of the original meadow. The houses
are low built of stone, with wooden roof pro-
jecting its caves far over sides and front and
back, and carved beams in the shadows of the
angles. Nearly every house has a cross at its
front gable Many houses have their roofs well
freighted down with rows OF great rough
stones laid on the tiles. The outside walls are
smoothly plastered, and decorated, in many
cases, with queer mural paintings. The plct-
ures are almost all of a religious character.
The streets are aisles in the queerest picture
gallery in the world.
Our errand, first Of all, was to the burgo-
meister, from whom we held an order
reserving place in the theater and
lodging in the village. Several
thousand other people had the same errand
The burgomeister sat in his room at the top of
three flights of stairs. Those three flights of
stairs were packed with people from topic
bottom. That was the only way of getting up
and there was no other way of getting down.
Up aloft, at the burgomeister's door. people
were admitted in blocks of i've. And when
they had got their ticket-and-lodging orders
filed they had to push their way down those
three crowded flights oil stairs That was inter-
esting for everybody 1t was the only ill-man.
aged thing In Oberammergau.
Arrived at last at the burgomeister's desk,
we elearn that all reservations lapse on Friday.
Our seats are gone our lodgings have departed
with them. Somebody else has got them. We
have to be content with the best that still re-
mains This best is place outside in the un-
rooted part of the theater, and a lodging in
Unterammergau, two or three miles away. And
still it rains. -. a$
However, 1t is very bad thing which has no
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-18

good side anywhere. We found a man with an
einspanner driving one horse and after the
curious customs of this country, having the
pole which we use with two horses; and thus
we got to our lodgings at Unterammergau.
Here we were. then, in this out-of-the-way
Bavarian village,in the house of peasantpeople.
lodged with family who know not one single
word Of the language which is spoken in the
land of the free and the home of the brave. 1t
Is astonishing how ones memory of old German
lessons is quickened under such circumstances.
How,conjugations and declensions and long-ago
vocabularies somehow come back. Whoever
has never been to Germany has no idea how
much German he really knows.
Hotel Accommodations.
A LONG, low hall, with bare floor, ending at
one side in a narrow and precipitous
ascent leads to our room. The ceiling is low,
the floor uncarpeted, and ir is provided after
the German fashion, that the sleeper shall get
what slumber he may, under a feather bed.
The walls are hung with bright colored prints
of religious pictures. One is copy of Ru-
ben's "Holy Trinity which is in the Old Pima
kothek at Munich. The favorite pair of pic
tures several times repeated, show the Master
and the Virgin Mother with hearts pierced and
Between two windows is a great crucifix, ter
ribly realistic and unbeautiful, thorn.crowned
and blood-stained. Beneath it are vases of
flowers such as grow in our own meadows,
daises. and buttercups and forgetme-nots.
The living room down stairs is also hung with
the same kind of pictures in bright reds and
blues Here, too, are cruci6xes. Beneath one
crucifix is cup of holy water. From the knob
of closet door half dozen strings of beads
hang ready for praying fingers. Almost half
the room is filled up with the great green
earthenware store, having bench all around
it, comfortable, no doubt in the Alpine weather
of the highland winter. After supper of
bread and berthe beer of Ettal-the family
go out in the kitchen and we hear them saying
prayers together.
The rainy streets in ODerammergau aref full of
people. There are six thousand here this wet
Saturday-an addition of six thousand strang-
ers to the small fifteen hundred inhabitants OF
the little village! Two thousand will be turned
away tomorrow morning from the doors of the
Passion Theater, finding no room. For them
there will be arepetition of the representation on
Monday. There have been more visitors to the
Passi on Play this year than ever before in all
its history. The play is performed every Sun
day from June l to September Is, with occa-
sional Wednesdays. But SO great are the
crowds, that additional Monday representa-
tions have come to be almost regular neces-
sity.
The village orchestra parades the streets,
cannon are fred from the neighboring hillside.
people are talking in groups at The corners, or
looking at the queer houses and the queer
costumes, or buying wood carvings at the
houses Of the villagers. Oberammergau is astir
with authorization So the sun goes down on
And still 1t rains! G.. H.
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Injustice to the Soldier.

IV IHe EuILor OF Inc Dlspatch:
Are you not wrong in the position you take
concerning the dispute between Mr.. Mckinley
and General Butler, as expressed in your edi-
torial in THE DISPATCH?
What are the facts7 The Government agreed
to pay the soldier in gold. or its equivalent but
paid him Tin the language of Hon. Thad.
stevens) In q 'purposely deprecated cur
rency." On the other hand, it contracted with
the bondholder to pay the interest in gold and
the principal in lawful money" or greenbacks,
and then changed this agreement to gold for
both principal and interest; and this, too,
after the war was over. This was a twofold
injustice to both the soldier and the taxpayer
OF the country. The plea of ''patriotism'' is
all right: but why confine it 70 the soldier
alone? Ought 1t not to apply to the bondholder
as well? CHARLES BoNsAII
PITTsBURG, August 16
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-18

"GooDBy to that corpulent old Treasury
surplus if your Uncle Ben Butler ever
gets whack at it," remarks the Phil
adelphia Press The esteemed organ
should read the statements of that
eminent Republican, Senator Edmunds, In
order to inform itself as to the probability that
the fat will all be taken out of the Treasury
surplus by Republican Congress long before
Ben Butler can get chance at it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-18
EMERY NOT THROUGH.

The Ex-senator Ha. n Bunch of Facts In
Store for Delamater.
Bradford special to Philadelphia Times.J
Ipropose at time and place not yet deter.
mined upon to give the public punch of facts
as undeniable as Mr.. Delamater's Chambers
burg denial was broad and inexpllcit. The day
in which unscrupulous politicians could sweep
away with wave of the hand stains of cor.
ruption with which they are tainted has gone
by with me and should be with every thinking
and well.mesning citizen in the State,
LEWIS EMERY, JR
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-18

THE example of the Allegheny Fire De-
partment in giving the fremen of that city a
vacation on full pay has inspired the firemen of
this city with the idea that Pittsburg ought to
do ss well as Allegheny. Everyone knows that
the life of a fireman is one of constant service
and frequently recurring hazards, with mini
mum allowance for absence from duty. All
will agree that the men who yield such constant
and gallant service should be literally treated,
whatever difference of opinion there may be
as to the details of the vacation proposition.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-18

THE report from Boston is to the effect
that General R. A. Alger enjoyed the G. A. R.
parade and the shouts with which he was
greeted of "Hurrah for the next Presidentr'
How General Harrison enjoyed it Is not stated;
but Alger will do well to be on his guard
against attacks more vital than those of the
shouters on his barrel
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-18

AS The DISPATCH commented on the
report that Robert Bonner was going to let
sunol trot for a wager of $4,000 it is no more
than justice to notice the fact that Mr.. Bonner
writes to explain that under the terms of sale
the control of that trotter was left out of his
hands for year, and he has nothing to do with
the proposed match. Mr.. Bonner very cogently
says: Il have never allowed any of my horses
to trot for money. have no idea of changing
my lifelong position" 80
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-18
A Chance for Christians,

11uI5Of OI 1He DIspdbCns
On account Of the dire calamity tthe Johns
town food) that is still fresh in the minds of
the people, the press of the country created
sufficient agitation to cause instituted one of
the noblest works Tin the shape of prompt
action in charities bestowed) that ever man be-
held. Now would it not be equally as BETTING
Tor the cause OF humanity to adopt similar
measures for the mitigation of the sufferings of
those poor. unfortunate. prosecuted Hebrews.
ALLEGHENY, August 16. A CHRISTIAN.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-18

WHILE it was reported few days ago that
Speaker Reed refused to let members of the
House leave Washington to attend the Grand
Army gathering, it seems that Major Nc
Kinley was able to get there to answer Ben
Butler. Mckinley was the right man in the
right place on that occasion; but taken in con-
nection with the former statements it looks as
If leaves of absence. like osculation, go ty
favor.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-18

The distress of the New York Tribune
over the fact that the Hon. Matthew Stanley
Quay is playing into the hands of the enemy"
and that of the Philadelphia Press because he
is permitting ''the minority to rule the ma
jority," are very pathetic Those anxious or
gans may solace themselves over the fact that
when the junior Senator of Pennsylvania plays
into the hands of his opponent he generally
winds up by taking the odd trick. and that the
majority of the Senate are in favor of laying
aside the ''sickly kitten" to recuperate another
SEASON
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HIGH SPEED ATTAINED.

The Cruiser san Francisco Makes Over
Nineteen Knots.
p SAN FRANCISCO, August 1.-THE new
cruiser San francisco, during preliminary
trial trip on the bay yesterday, developed the
highest rate of speed she has yet attained.
Information is given by reliable authority
that with l20 pounds of steam and l20 revolu-
tions her speed was at the rate of l9s4 knots per
hour, which is three-quarters of q knot over
contract requirement.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-18
Markets In Chicago,

To the Editor Of The Dispatch:
Is there place in Chicago where produce,
etc, is sold as at the Pittsburg market hnusef
PTTTsBURG, August 16 J.O.L.
[Chicago has no regular market house,
we understand; but of course, there are
places-and plenty of them-where produce
and provisions are sold.1