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The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-12-20

Tho result has been rsoently officiallv
announcad Of the election held on Nov.
soM Iaae for p member Of the advisory
committee to rspresent the contributins
employees Of the relief fund Of the r., w.
$3.50 =, railrosd. scondnetoE Frederick y.
elected FOR one year. beginning january
lst. 1895, over Conductor Charlton ID.
Lack, bya majority OF SAT out Of a total
OF 2440 votes. Mr.. Emerson Is a polite
and accommodating Official; he has dur
ing The, past year done moro good work,
success OF the relief fund-upon the
Delaware division more especIaily-than
any other member OF the advisory com.
mittee heretofore elected. he L. to be
congratulated upon his handsome victory
after such hot contest.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-12-20
PENNSYLVANIA RAlROA5.

HE Standard hallway Of America
,ho1LCrED THROUGHOUT ny r,,a
lnterlockins switch and Diosk Signal Nv.
lem.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1894-10-13

"The Snakes Swan Ashore With
3 4 Them"
strings sound asleep. Then we knew
he had been playing the music we
heard the night before. Il
my daughter took him in charge
then and taught him to play all the
popular airs Of the day. He could play
the instrument by crawling swiftly
back AID forth and striking the keys
with his head and tail. He grew so
fond Of music he seemed to live on 1t,
and wanted to play all the time when
he was awake. w. .
Zone night we took him up to the
village to a concert, where Blind Tom
was to play the piano. Well, you may
not believe it,: but when that snake
heard the wonderful music by Blind
Tom he went into a trance, from
which he never recovered, We did
everything we could for him, but he
died next day-just fioated away on the
music. 3
Eyes, New Jersey is a great country
for snakes" concluded the Railway
man with a sigh, and then the man
from Lakewood called for another cold
bottle. - .s .~"- ~ @.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1894-10-13
SWALLOWED HIS SMOKE.
How n Fresh Youth Was Convinced
G:.nt His Cigar Was Bad.

How n Fresh Youth Was Convinced
G:nt His Cigar Was Bad.
= small crowd of people was stand
ling in front Of one of the big show
windows Oh Main street on Saturday
night. says the Buffalo Express. A
rsood many well-dressed women were
there. Well. in the centre of the throng
was tic inevitable man who thinks his
own rights and privileges are super
ior to those Of everybody else. He was
putting a cheap cigar and blowing the
smoke into the faces of the women who
stood near him. Finally a m~ild-looking
young fellow expostulated with him.
~ Your cigar is very offensive to these
ladies' sir" he said.
''Ihen let the ladies get out Of the
way" answered the fresh youth.
The other remained silent for a min
ute and then, as the nuisance contin-
ued, he said in a more determined
tone: My friend, will you or will you
not stop smoking that cigar while you
nre in this crowd?"
/ won't" answered the fresh young
man. with an impudent lecr.
Il think you will" replied the 9TH
IT, and as he spoke he swung the palm
Of Il broad, muscular hand in front of
the fresh youths face. The big palm
str, OK. not the man, but the cigar, and
the next minute the fresh youth was
coughing and" splitting and going
through a system of Impoverished gym
nastics to get that cigar out of his
throat, where the big palm had driven
1t. And when he had coughed it up he
walked right out Of the crowd as fast
MS he could. and did not make even a
single bluf about it being necessary
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1894-10-13

.Could Play All the Popular irs Of
the Day"
ing Of the sort; had too good a head
for that. Hungry as he was, the eggs
would have made him only one square
meal.
\ THAT snake lay curled up on those
eggs for three weeks without leaving
them for q moment. Then fifteen rs
dne and healthy young chicks as you
ever saw were Matched out. I expected
the snake to: swallow them all the first
day. but he only broke his fast with
nest. Then he watched those chicks
as closely as any old hen could have
done, and when they began to grow
and get fat he looked just as pleased
as could be.
LAS soon as they got up to frying
size the chickens began to disappear.
I watched the snake, and soon found
that lie was eating a chicken every
other day. I thought he was entitled
to something for the patience and did
not disturb him. Do you know, that
snake lived IN spring chicken for thirty
days, and then he was as fat and sleek
as he could be, and ready to go back
into his hole for the winter.
That's what I call a great head for
a snake. If he had eaten the nest full
of eggs in the first place they would
have made him only n meal and left
him as poor as he was before. Instead
of that he PATCHED them out and then
got fat on the chickens"
"A few years ago We had a little
brown mouse snake in the house out
at my farm that had a great soul for
music and learned to play the piano.
Fact! It was the greatest reptile in Its
way that I ever heard of.
Zone night we were sitting in the par
lor. when the piano began to play soft
and slow, apparently of it's W accord.
My daughter had locked down the
cover of the instrument only a little
while before, and tie playing OF the
closed instrument frightened her al
most to death. None Of us thought OF
the snake at the time. The little rep.
tile was a great pet about the house,
but he usually went into his box and
went to sleep early in the evening.
1.-THE mysterious playing went on for
some time-soft, low music that reach
ed the soul. ALI Of us felt a bit shaky,
and dreamed of ghosts that night, for
we were afraid to open the piano.
Next day I had a man come to tune
the piano, but did not tell him anything
about the mysterious playing. When
he opened the instrument we found
the little snake coiled up among the
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1894-10-13
RAISE HOGS.
A Little Advice to the Farmers of
Minnesota and North Dakota.

A Little Advice to the Farmers of
Minnesota and North Dakota.
History is always repeating itself.
The individual who is wise enough to
profit by experience is IL that meets
with the greatest success in. his under
takinss. In the year 1891 the corn crop
throughout the West andt Southwest
was practically a failure. What was
the result? The farmers generally sold
off all their hogs. big and little, fat and
thin, stock sows and blooded boars,
everything was rushed madly onto the
market, creating IN over supply At the
time, and ~depreciating the price of
hogs to 3 cents live weight. At the
time Carl Judson, ex-secretary of the
state agricultural society, attic npted to
stop the wild stampede to sell the i'm
mature and seed hogs by calling the at
tention Of the farmers of the North
west, through the public press, to the
fact that hogs could be thoroughly and
profitably fattened on wheat barley and
rye, and that the wild rush to sell off
the stock hogs would result in a hog
famine that would put hog prices far
above any commodity of the farm.
Mr.. Judson's prophecy was fulfilled 10
the letter. As soon as the immaSdre
hogs were sold the market advanced
until the high tide was reached at
South st. Padf in Eebfaary, 1893, when
live hogs sold at $8.25 per cwt. Hogs
have been high ever since, and are
selling ut this time at from $3.50 to
$3.50 per cwt. Had the farmers Of
Minnesota needed Mr.. Judson's warn
ing it would have been millions of doh
lars in their pockets, but, alas. they
paid no more attention to 1t than to the
wind, and when hogs had advanced to
$S.25 they were buying pork for home
use and rushing about insanely to pur-
chase, at %exorbitant prices, stock hogs
to make a new beginning. Iowa, Ne
braska, Kansas and Missouri are the
great hog raising states. In these
states the corn crop is a dismal failure.
and the farmers are selling of and dis
posing Of all their hogs, brood sows
and bears, and for the reason that they
have no wheat and barley to substitute
for corn, but our Minnesota farmers,
If they have as much n rs the
Almighty gives, to geese, will take ad-
vantage of the situation and have hogs
in abundance for the market next year
when the hog producing states are
short and prices high. The farmers
of Minnesota and the Dakotas have a
market outlet at South st. Paul for
more hogs than they can produce.
Even now the pork packers r pur-
chasing hogs ut st. 10, Mo-, to keep
their large packing houses busy.
As q further proof of the situation
in the great hog-raising states. we
print the following from the Chicago
Evening Journal of the Goth inst:
"A farmer near McCalisburg, Iowa,
knocked about seventy five hogs In the
head because he had nothing to feed
them. This Is the first year in the
history Of Story county that the corn
crop was a failure. The past two
weeks has practically settled the corn
question this year, 1t being estimated
that tie yield will not be one-hah
Of former ears."-From Pioneer Press,
August "a.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1894-10-13
A scientific weather Prophet.

E#, - &H1g&
DR.. Rudolph Falb Of Berlin has Is.
sued his yearly prophecy IL regard to
the weather Of Europe. Possibly proph-
ecy is hardly the correct word to apply
to his announcement, for the basis of
his calculations Id claimed to be ctrictly
scientific In theory, being taken from
the central meteorological institute for
the German empire, In Hamburg. Prof.
Falb never claimed infallibility, and
the Emergencies between his prophecies
and their fulillment have, as q rule,
been confined within reasonable limits.
Thus, re he fOretOld terrible earth
quake In Eastern Europe, say, for July
is, and 1t actually took place on the
18th. or the 18th. M considered he had
accomplished 4 fair piece Of work.
Even a city man on his way home In
he evening cannot be sure he will
catch his train and be III time Tor his
dinner at his place down In the coun-
try and earthquakes that have for
milable obstacles to- overcome cannot
be expected tor be absolutely pnnctual.
At the same time Prof. Falb has set
himself to study these Emergencies,
and now maintains that he has discoy-
cred the principle that underlies them.
The professor Aments that the public
are 50 woefully ignorant OF the first
principles Of meteorological science
that they can make no. allowance for
new combinations or the modification
Of existing conditions. There will, Of
course, be always people n he com;
plains, who, III their lack OF under
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1894-10-13
uNcANNY SPOT in a caNoN.
IL Cave in the sierra Ncvadns wher.
Thousands az nnt. Tav>

y Cave In the Sierra Nevadlns Where
thousands OF Dats Live.
Of Ill the strange places to be found
"a TIE renote recesscs Of the Sierra
Neyadas lone IS any stranger than a
Dat cave In kaweah canon. There is
nothing particularly strange about the
cave itself, says the San Fra ncisco
Call, but the fact that it is the dwelling
place IT thousands Of the web-winged
animals makes 1t a most unca1ipy and
u usual spot. The cave is III the wall
OF the canon, not far back from the
water, in the rainy season, and there
Is nothing about the appe ar ,nce of
the opening to attract attention during
the day. Ralt approach the place ut
about dusk and 4 black stream of sha-
dowy forms will be seen passing in and
out Of the opening, accompanied by
the most peculiar odor in the world
and a soft, rustling sound. The bats
have been asleep all Jay and are going
u In search of food. To enter the
cave In the day time Is not a difficult
8 but 1t is somewhat unpleasant.
The opening is large and a man a
enter In M erect position. About ten
feet N the entrance makes a turn
and an inky blackness exists. Go a
little farther, SO. as to be away from
the air at the entrance, aud a most
d~ishgreeable odor' strikes the nostrils
and every few feet one treads upon the
dead body Of a bat. While the cave is
in darkness a profound silence exists,
but strike a light and Il sound like a
waterfall is heard. Thousands Of bats
that have been asleep ut once awake
and commence to fly in circles about
the cavern, which can be seen to be
very large. Round and round they go,
Increasing in speed every moment, and
the odor of the "a becomes more and
more disagreeable. When this happens
it is a wise thing for the explorer to
to make his escape and postpone fur
Their investigation until night, at which
time the cave is deserted. Even the
dead bats on the floor will disappear,
having been eaten by the others as
soon as they awoke.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1894-10-13

New Jersey has something more
than mosquitoes, malaria and summer
resorts" said a man from Lakewood
at the Hoffman Cafe says the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat. I've have snakes
down in the piny woods, and Ill bet
any amount you name that such rep
tiles can not be found in any other To-
cality In this country.
They are intelligent snakes, the kind
we have down in Jersey. You have
all seen trained snakes in shows, no
doubt, but for quick intelligence, horse
sense and ability to learn, give me the
Jersey reptile every time.
1.-THE widow Johnson, Nancy Johnson,
lives in a little cabin in the piny woods
four miles out of Lakewood, and earns
Il scant living selling eggs and chickens
in the town. Nancy keeps a lot of pet
snakes about her cabin, but she has
one big black and white spotted fellow
who is worth as much to her as q
horse. He's the best trained snake
l ever saw. The old woman has taught
him to do any number of smart tricks
and to make himself generally useful
about the cabin, but the cleverest thing
he does is to gather up the fresh eggs
from the nests every morning and take
them to town for the old woman.
Mrs. Johnson is a bit feeble, and 1t
is about all she can do to walk to town
and back every morning, so she trained
B%ill-that's what she calls the snake
to take the hen eggs. to market for her.
Every morning Bill makes a round
Of the hen nests and gathers up the
fresh eggs. His stomach holds just
two dozen eggs, and when he has swal-
lowed that number the old woman
takes UP IN empty market basket and
starts for town. with the snake craw-
ling along at her side.
"BEl always seems just, as pleased
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1894-10-13
Orfrlnaa.

s-.g 4"5E EZEA& EaatIT&@%@ Ay~s E&G. EgE"E@2-I+
John Hookham Frerc was a scholar
and a man Of much literary ability,
but one Of those whose work, for
some reason, finds a very slight hear
ing. But even liz his literary work
should be quite forgotten, the stories
Of his absence OF mind will live as
long as incongruDus error continues
to amuse.
One morning he sat repeating some
verses to Mr.. John Murray. Iii Mr..
Murray's office, and his host l,acame
SO interested In the poem that he ask
ed the poet to go .lcsne with him to
dinner and continue the recitation.
Mr.. Frere. startled to find 1t so late,
excused himself. He had been mar
ried that morning, he said. and 1t was
already past the hour when he had
promised his wife to be ready for
their .iurirney In the country.
Another such story rests on the au-
thority ofshis wife herself. Mr.. Frere
had just been introduced to her at
an evening party, and offered to take
her down stairs to procure some re-
freshment.s He became so interested
In their conversation, however. that
he drank the glass Of negrls he had
poured for her, and was about to con-
duct her up stairs again when she
laughingly reconstructed with him for
having forgotten her needs. 5@
s'This,"" she said. convinced me that
my new acquaintance was, at any
rate, very different from most OF the
Young 4 around tls!' .s@2
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1894-10-13
DOCTORS FEES.
In the Case Of Royal Patients They
Are Sometimes EnOrmous.

In the Case ~ Royal Patients They
Are Sometines En0rmous.
Some Of the fees paid by royalty have
been eminently BETTING the giver and
taker. The late physician to the Prince
Of Wales received for four weeks att
tendance at Sandringham, during the
Illness Of his distinguished patient
from typhoid fever, not only the usual
title Of barOnet, but q fee OF 10000.
Sir Morell Mackenzie Ii reported to
have received more than twice this
amount Tor his treatment Of the late
Emperor Frederick Of Germany.
Dtmsdale, q prominent practitioner OF
London, In 1762, was called thence to-
st. Petersburg to yaccinate the EN-
press Catherine IL, for which he re
ceived not only the equivalent OF $780,
600 but an extra $4,000 for travelling
expenses, the title OF baron, and q life
pension OF $500 yearly. His Royal
Highness the NaWab Of Rampur, India
recently paid an English army surgeon
Sf5O.OOO for q three-months' occasional
attendance In an ordinary attack OF
rheumatism. The late Sir Andrew
Clark. GladstoneB physician, often
charged 81 CO for running down from
London to liverpool, and the Int Sir
William Gull commanded equally high
rates Tor similar services. Az Russian
surgeon charged d wealthy notable
@ Odessn $4,000 for opening IN alb
cess q the hip, the time occupied being
about ten minutes, And, better still,
while on the same visit he took d
.cnance shot IT another patient 81 the
9 Of q similarly simple operation,
1or which he received nearly $500
more. certainly enough extra ato
pay z Tee of the railway porter on
ms homeward Journey.
But in all this, it is not so mach The
doing as the knowing how to az ii.
Wnen the French peasant said that
mere we're not ten franes' worth Ut
paint on hosn Bonheur's Horse Fair, q
ne Wna Incapable of valliiag hIgh MT.
i've dollals Tor a1nputating the le y
sag fhessrlrgeon. and nine hundred
and p~inetyilve To- KNOWING how
ana the victim was thankful according
siy.--Dr Shrady IA the Forum.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1894-10-13

Lived ON Spring Chicken .
Thirty Days"
fast, and the old man knew 1t was go
ing to the bottom.
The old man cut the strings that
held the snakes to the boat, for he had
no idea Of letting them drown. When
the reptiles saw that the boat was GO
ing down what 10 you suppose they
did? Why, they got as close together
as possible, and as they were all big
fellows. eight or ten feet long, their
bodies made a good raft. The passen-
gers on the boat I'LL stepped out on this
live raft ind the. snakes swan ashore
with them, landing every man safe ant
dry on the bank.
After that old 81 could have sold
those snakes for d small fortune, hut
he refused to part with 4 single one Of
them
I'VE have q lot Of snakes out our
way" said the mar from Railway,
land some of them are just as smart
as any of those trained reptiles In the
side shows. Down on my farm last
spring / had an experience with a
chicken snake that had a great head.
One Of my hens was carried off by a
hawk early in the spring, on the very
day she began to set on q nest of ff
teen eggs. The next morning a big
black chicken snake crawled out OF q
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1894-10-13
RIB TICKLERS.
rHE TESTERS, VIEW or LTFE's
INCIDENrs.
some Of the Very Latest Produc-
zion. Of the Humorist
From various Sources-For oid
and Young.

81 have just called. Miss Simpson"
said the angry lover. ITO say farewell;
but before I say it I want you to know
that I have discovered your falseness.
and 1 despise you for it"
"Why Billy, what ever IS the mat
teri"
T didn't pass the gate, last evening !
see YOU with your head on another,
mans shoulder. Who is the happy
man?" l
but, Billy, I haven't seen n man
but you dearest; honest, l Z
No. I suppose not. Then, maybe:
am blind, deaf and dumb, and an diot.
Maybe you didn't have company lase
evening"
"No one, Billy, but my best friend,
Emily. No. 1 didn't and l hin you
are a wretch" -,
"And you didn't stand at the gate?!'
"Oh. yes, we did. We were ounun
the stars in the big dipper-maklns
wishes on them"
ooh, yes, I suppose 1 was blind.
Now, maybe you'll describe Emily 10
me-"
"Why. she had on her Knox hat, her
black blazer suit, a white shirt waist,
with a black satin tie and a white duck
vest. You krow Emily, Billy"
Bi,ly-"Um-m-! I see."
And what might have been a modern
tragedy was averted and Billy maze
up at once.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1894-10-13
Talks to Him All the Way"

~ n L thc "Ays'
as car be when he is doing anything
to help the old woman, and going to
market with the eggs s his special de-
light. Nancy talks to him all the way
to town as they trudge along together.
OF course he can't talk back. but he
shakes his tail and blinks his little
black eyes to let her know that he un-
derStands.
when they get to the store where
the woman sells her eggs she puts
down the empty basket and Bill crawls
up and puts his head N it. Then the
old woman catches him by the tail,
stands him on his head. he gives a
wiggle of his body and out roll the two
dozen eggs just as fresh as when the
hens laid them.
II call that the most wonderful trick
ever done by a trained snake. There
is no dish these reptiles like better than
fresh eggs. Just think of the self-con-
troll Of Bill. He carries two dozen fresh
eggs down in his stomach for an hour.
He must be able to taste them every
time he wiggles his tail, yet when he
gets to market he gives them all up
without SO much as asking for a. bit
of shell. l call that self denial.
"You car train q Jersey snake to do
a lot Of useful things, and they can be
trained to work together with just as
much n as horses. Some ten years
ago old 81 Abercombie had a ferry on
the Shrewsbury river, five miles above
Red Bark. He poled a fiat boat until
he got too old and then he trained q
lot Of snakes to take the boat over for
him
"The river at, that point was full Of
big black and yellow water snakes, and
for a long time Abercombie had been
tanning and petting a lot of them.
HE took some forty Of them, and,
tying short pieces Of Irvine around
their necks, he taught them to swim
across the river and draw the boat at
ter them. They could take it across In
half the time it took the old nan to
pole it over, and they soon got so they
seemed to enjoy their work. The thing
got talked about and folks would 60
miles out of their way to cross the
river at Abercombie's ferry, just to see
the snakes pull the boat over The old
man was making money right along.
"FinaEy his boat sprung a leak, and
it kept filling with water until n day
when he was going across with an ex-
ira heavy load it began to settle down
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1894-10-13
SCIENTIFIC MATTERS
SOME NEW WRINKLES IN THE CsE-
FUL ARTS.
Turpin's Ghn That q Throw -
o shots q Mlnute-Mammoth Elec-
trical Machinery.

In European military circles at the
present time the one absorbing ques-
ton Is: Is the new engine Of destruc-
ton invented by NJ. Turpin as formid-
able as it seerls to be? The inventor is
still a very young man and has had q
remarkable past. He 1t was who, nine
years ago, invented the smokelcss pow
der, which has already been adopted
by every country in the world as the
only possible propelling force Of the
future. Later on his researches in
chemistry, and particularly in picrio
acid. enabled him to evolve melinite,
for describing the constituents of which
at length In a French paper he was
cast into prison by NJ. de Freycinet and
kept immured for nearly two years