Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-05
DR.. r.. II. barrow has removed his
office to Rooms s and 3, Arlington blk,
st; tel. office, 1894, res. SOD.
SHORT STORIES.

Eleven years ago John McCIoskey of
this city went up The trail with cattle
belonging to John l.. Lyle. He irifted
to Dakota. says a San Antonio dispatch
to the st. Louis Globe-Democrat. Two
years later. on the ranch whore he was
employed, there was a battle between
rustlers and cowboys, and McCloskey
was reported among the slain. For nine
years his relatives here supposed him
to be dead. and made some effort to To-
cate and mark his grave, but took no
further action concerning him. Last
night Mrs. Banks, nee McCloskey, who
lives on Soledad street, heard her dogs
barking v%iciously. and going out to in
vestigate size was lifted in the arms of
a bearded stranger. When she got her
breath and Indignantly started into the
house for help, the man with a laugh
followed and made himself known. 1t
was her brother. long mourned as dead.
After leaving Dakota McCloskey vent
to Oregon, where he was engaged in
mining and made a great deal of
money. For three years past he has
intended coming home to surprise his
| people. One of his brothers is now a
deputy sheriff of this county.
An entertaining omance comes from
Vienna this week. Last August a
| young Hndu CullllS ulilSell SOuiU sodl-
! dor Way, who said that he had had a
falling out with his noble family in
Hungary. married a school-teacher of
Klagenfort, who was the daughter OF a
civil officer. The ceremony was per-
formed at a lonely farm house by Father
Imre, and soon after the young couple
visited the wffe's parents, where the
husband developed an unpleasant ten
dency to borrow money of his father-in-
law. This led to domestic ruptures, and
soon the bride informed her father that
her husband was u This proves
to be the case. She is Countess Sarolta
Vey, daughter of a colonel In the
army, who, having a large fam
lily of daughters, brought up Sa-
rolta as IL boy. When, however, a
reol heir was born she was accustomed
to her boys role, and refused to be
treated asa girl. She is well known in
Pesth, where she visited cafes in men,
clothing and drank and smoked with
journalists and officers. All her life
she had worn male attire. and recently
had appeared in uniform. She published
a collection of poems under the name of
Sander. and associated with young men
who were not in the secret, in manly
amusements. 1t is probable that Father
Imre was not a priest, and hat the girl
in going through The form of marriage
only executed another eccentricity in
order to procure money, of which she
was in great need.
The daughter of a wealthy Boston
merchant, deceased, fell in love
with II man and became engaged to
him, says the Boston Gazette. Without
cause he neglected the lady, and finally
became SO rude to her as to force her to
breake the engagement. While that
lasted, however, the lady had made a
will, giving to the man the sum of $685.
900 or whereabouts, and making him CO.
executor with her mother aud other
relatives. The lady being deeply at
tached TO the man, his treatment of her
so affected her as to become indirectly
the cause of her death. She had eX-
pressed her intention OF changing her
will as soon as she should return to her
home from the summer resort where
she tarried, but her death came sud-
denly, and her will stands. 1t is UNDER
stood that the man not only accepts tho
gifts named in the will, but also persists
in serving as c~o-executor of the lady's
property. 1t is "a melancholy fact that
there is no law in Massachusetts that
can reach this cruel state of things.
"That bag business" said another
woodsman, "makes me think OF when /
Nho pibhihE 1907 hiH
on Scrub Oak ridge. I'd filed IL twelve
quart pail ami | wanted to get ds many
more, so / stood the pail on top OF a big
stump, raised the bale up, and covered
the berries with leaves. Then / went
over the other side OF the ridge. a quar-
ter of a mile, probably, to pick the
other pailful. 1t took me over an hour,
and when | got in sight of the stump
what did / see but two cub bears stand
ing on the stump with their noses in my
pail Of huckleberries. They were on
opposite sides Of the pail, and the way
they hogged in reminded m of W
pigs. I yelled as loud as | could, and
the cubs rolled of the stump like two
balls. One OF them had the bale of the
pale over his neck and / chased him for
almost a mile, but he got away in the
thick brush and i have never seen my
pail from that day to this"
Another back HOodsman told about
how a bear bothered a man who moved
into his neighborhood from a region
where bears don't roam through the
forests and fields. The newcomer had
lost a pig and two sheep before he had
lived there three months and he bor-
rowcd a trap to catch the bear. No one
told him how to fasten the chain 10 a
chunk OF a log, and so he set the trap
close to his little smoke-hOuse, and