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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-22

mis- own No word passed between them,
for none could have been heard above
the shrek of wind and the roar of
waters They seemed to be driving
with frghtful speed, and, as the brother
and sister stood hand in hand awaiting
their fate, they expected that each sue
ceedlng moment would see their craft
dashed to pieces on the cruel reef
Minutes passed and still they swept
on. Suddenly Grit uttered a great cry
oil reAef that was almost a sob.
We've passed the breakers! We're
clear of the reef We're out in the gulf
We're safe, Matey girl" he shouted.
10 anyone not sailor 1t would have
seemed that they were anything but
safe out in the open sea, driving
through inky darkness. and with the
worst squan of the season bowling fur
iously about them; burt Matey was a
sailor. she knew, and deep down in
her heart arose a fervent prayer of
Thankful, Bss.
The next change of scene was most
surprising. Daylight had come, the sun
was rising. Before a gentle breeze, with
all sail set, the Polyanthus was an
preaching great steamer that had
struck on an outlying spur of the reef,
.during the binding bewilderment of the
recent squail.
L do believe it's a wreck Matey had
exclaimed rapturously when her sharp
eyes first discovered the stranded shin.
on if II only should be-" cried Grit.
who could hardly believe that 50 great
la piece of good fortune had befallen
them. Then, with anxiously bea ding
hearts the young sailors had shaken
out their reefs, and laid a course to-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-22

any indication of madness; but the
only sign he discovered was of perfect
and an indomitable will.
Still, as the boy again stepped over the
side ready to descend into the crystal
depths, and the canister was handed
to him, his suspicion of the captains
sanity was revived by the latter's part
ing instructions
Take care of this can as you would
of your own life he said earnestly.
Don't let it hit against anything, and
place it gently as far in the crevice as
you can reach. 1t holds your life and
fortune, as well as mine
These words were so strange, and
the whole business was so different
from the usual proceedings in connec-
ton with wrecked ship that even as
Grit worked at his novel task, far be-
meath the blue surface, the one thought
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-22

mysterious submarine disturbance, and
running rapidly backward.
Polyanthus again picked up her moor
ings off the glistening coral beach and
the young wreckers made their sTay
to the little house beneath the cocoa
nuts in which their step-mother, as yet
UNCONSCIOUS of their return. sat nearly
distracted by a sudden accumulation
of troubles. She was wild with anxiety
over Grit and Matey. A man had come
from Key West to look at the Poly
anthus with view to purchasing her.
but finding her absent, and being
pressed for time had gone away again.
He had moreover left behind him a
letter from the northern commission
house to which Mrs. Albury had sent
her tomatoes. stating that the entire
shipment had arrived spoiled and
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-22

II did not give it much attention at
first, but when I became blind in the
right eye I was much alarmed. 1 consul
that I was siIfferine from granniated lids
and that the granulationS caused a con-
dition which he named panus. a ground
prevented clearness of vision at first then
gradually blindness.
My cure was rapid and complete, and
II e evS[y way most Satisfactory. w III also
one year has now elapsed since treat
ment."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-22
ONE GOOD TURN
Deserves Another-So Says Mr..
Thomas Hazeldine. a Resident
OF Sandy, Utah.

Mr. Thomas Hazeldine was treated and
cured by DR.. De Monco of catarrh one
year ago. many self styled specialists had
failed, hence when his present trouble
came on he placed himself at once under
the same care with equally as good re-
suits, read what ne says:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-22
ON THE REEF.
A Thrilling Story of Disaster and
Good Fortune.
BY KIRK MCNROE.

Author of the Mate Series" Rail and
Water Series" White Conquerors, y
''Fur-Seal's TOOTH etc.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-01-27
IT MOVES THE WORLD.

In 1920 the worlds commerce was es-
timated at G5S, coo. 900; in 1889 it was es-
timated at e3. ST. 900, 900.
IRELAND has $4,000 houses of one
room each, 357. 900 of two to four rooms
and 304, 900 of five or more.
THE Austrian savings banks are pat
ronized by 1.s5o,ooo dcpositors, who
have on deposit $G13, oo0,o 600
4 GREAT BRITAIN is first in merchan-
disc, Germany being second, the United
States third and France fourth.
CANADA, Belgium, Holland and
Sweden are all assessed at about the
same figure 900 100000 each.
TIE official returns of Berlin proper
tv show 20. roo houses, valued at 1885,
400, 900 and renting for rs, SOo,0 900.
OVER $500, 100000 of the peoples
money in Italy is invested in the royal
navy, arsenals, docks and harbors
THE United States is first in the
value of horses, Great Britain coming
second, France third and Germany
fourth.
THE United States is estimated by
Mulhall to produce $685., ooo,o 900 of min
erals every year; Great Britain, $685.
n0O 600
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-01-27
ST. LOST OF WAR.


THE repu bic Of Brazil spent last
year on the army SO, 100000 milreis: on
the navy, IS, 900, 900. A milreis is about
SIS cents.
LITTLE Switzerland has an enormous
army in proportion to population. The
population is 1000, 900; the standing
army, 10000.
OVER 1000, 900 French women were
made widows and 100000 French
children were made fatherless BY Ma
poleon's campaigns
THE cost of an Armstrong steel gun
is estimated ct $500 for each ton of
weight; of a Krupp gun, 5000; OF a
Wnitworth gun, 1925.
AT the battle on the Thrasymene,
where Hannibal defeated the Romans,
there were 65,0oo men engaged, OF
whom II, 900 were killed.
THE .nunber of nacn withdrawn from
industry to take part in the civil war
on the Union side was 2.772. 4os; the
confederates enlisted over GOO, o00-
4VITH the exception of Belgium,
whose debt has been incurred for in
ternal Improvements, every European
national debt is in great part war
debt
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-01-27
MARTS OF THE WORLD.

ATTORNEY GENERAL OLNEY has fur
nished an opinion to Secretary Car
Isle that clearing certificates
are not liable to taxation.
AN order has been received BY the
Richmond (Varl Locomotive and Ma
chine works to build twenty new loco
motives and rebuild ten old ones for
the Atchison, Topeka &c Santa Fe rail-
road.
DISPATCHES from Cincinnati report
the organization of a S2,ooo,o00 com
pany to develop $4,000 acres Of coal
land in West Virginia, and of a 81 ,o0o,-
900 company to develop the mari de-
posts in eastern Virginia.
DURING the year ending June 30,
1888, there were 6G6s3o0 tons of coal
mined in Arkansas. There were %
mines in operation, employing 1852
men This does not include some small
open workings, where coal is taken
out for local use.
TUE coinage of the United States
mints in November reached the ex-
ceptionally large value of S11. o3l, 40 5,
of which $40, 7s9, 800 was gold coin. The
MINOR coinage, 1882, 900 pieces, of which
100000 were onc-eent4 pieces, was
demanded for the Christmas trade.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-01-27
CHOICES OF THE PEOPLE.

Ex-SEcRErARY OF AGRICULTURE Col
MAN clears fifty thousand dollars an
nually from his stock farm in Missouri.
UNITED STATES SENAToR-ELEcr Tnos1-
AS D. MARTIN, of Virginia, never
smoked, chewed or drank, and doesn't
swear.
SENATOR GoRMAN, of Maryland, in
tends to make a journey with his FAM
lily early next summer to Alaska. They
will travel extensively along the Pa
cifc coast.
CONGRESSMAN U. S. Hall, of Mis-
souri,, is the largest farmer in the state.
lie has eighteen hundred acres OF fine
bottom land and this year raised about
fifty thousand bushels of grain.
EX-SENATOR DAWES is living quietly
in his PittsGeld home. Strangely enough
he seems perfectly contented with o
quiet life after about thirty years OF
an unusually busy public career.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-01-27

III. DE I'IsLE discovered an animal
Guile that could run SIX inches III a sec
ond, and calculated that it must move
it's legs no less than 200 times IN that
brief period.
THE nillers are greatly annoyed BY
worms which appear ia the flour from
time to time and then ri yst erioalsly dis
appear without pairing the value Of
the flour.
LArREILLE once cut off the antennm
Of an ant, and its companions, evident
" compassi donating It's su1ferings, an
nointed the wounded parts with drops
of fluid from their mouths.
THE apFides are the uilch kline OF
the ants. and are regularly approached
and MIXED BY the latter. Ants have
been known to keep the aphides in cap
tivity, as cows are kept in cities.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-01-27
A strange Plant.

N the island Of Reunion is plant
known as the wild orange, which pro-
duces a fruit, green at first, aftersvard
Blush, and ycrging into purple as u
ripens. This has been tested and
found to make beverage ia every
wav equal TO coffee and at much
lower price. The product is called
.1rlussacnda,'' and can be used
alone or mixed with pure coffee> II ls
announced that about twcnty-four
thousand acres of this plant are now
being cultivated. It is most lllfeiy,
however, that chieory, more than col
fee, viii suffer from the Introduction
Of ssInussacnda.a
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-01-27
GEMS or THOUGHT.

NoBILIrY consists in virtue. Don
Quixote.
BETTER not be at all than not be
noble. Tennyson.
MoDEsrY. prudence, wit and civility
are the clements Of true nobility.
German Provcrb.
CHARACTER is not cut in marble, it Is
not something solid and unalterable.
It Is something living and changing.
and may become diseased as our bodies
do. George Eliot.
TIE face Of a woman, whatever be the
force or extent of her mind, whatever
be the Importance Of the object she
pursues, is always an obstacle or . rea-
son in the storyof her life. Mime. de
Stael.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-01-27

to their owners, all remain questions
as interesting and well-nigh nnsolved
as they were before the days Of our
po~ s.. microscopes. Eotwithstand-
ing the fact that hundreds Of en-
tolnologiats have been and are inter-
ested In his subject, we yet arc only
at the stage where we can affirm that
the honey bee sees q very different,
flower from the one ii which We o.
serve her Ia search for sweets, IL
though Of what that difference Is and
how it Is produced we can form but
little idea
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-01-27
HOW the BEE Secs.

We are SO used to regarding the
world around us from the standpoint
of our own sight that it is hard to re-
alize that to other creatures, far OUT
numbering us and, perhaps quite as
important in the economy OF nature,
it must look quite different. The
honey bee, for example, is supplied
with pair Of compound eyes with
hundreds of facets, each capable OF
sight by itself, and several occelll or
little, simple eyes more closely allied
to our own. How these eyes are used
what are their separate functions,
what sort of images they can present
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-01-27
BOISE CITY REAL ESTATE.

The undersigned has several
I'M raved and unimproved lots in
5oise City !; also several five and
ten acre tracts ofland within one
and one-haIf miles Of the city,
which he Offers for sale at bar
gains, either for cash or time p ay-
ments. lie will remain in Della
mar during the winter and viii
shs " plats and location Of prop
rites and give prices.
a splendid chance offered for
making safe and profitable in
vestnients of savings in a grow
ing city. Plass can be seen at the
Nugget" office.
NELSON TREEIAND,
DeLamar, idaho
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-01-27

The DeLamar Tailor's Club consists q
so members.
To become member each person
must pay $l.00.
For each rattle every member shall
pay S1.00.
One rattle every Saturday evening.
Every person winning suit will drop
out. aud get his suit promptly.
The remaining members will continue
until each one wins a suit.
Upon member paying 3S times he
will be entitled to suit without fur
ther payment.
a member upon leaving town can re-
nit $1.00 each week thereafter until
winning snit, bnt upon falling to pay
before each raff1e he cannot recover
what he has already paid in.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-02-09

Frank McKenna, who was arrested
yesterday for jumping board bill in
East Hartford, was released this morning
His father settled the bill. 1r
Michael Lawlor' of Scovill street, an
employe of the Hall q Epson Go, slipped
and fell while unloading ice from a wagon
this morning sharp stick passing
through his upper lip, making an ugly
wound, which was dressed by DR. Hayes,
William Smith of Philadelphia and Miss
Annie Lillian Conlon, milliner at Miss
Coquet's millinery rooms, were married
at 2:30 yesterday afternoon at the resi-
dence of the Rev DR. Barton, pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal church.
Judge Root yesterday decided the case
of John b. Fox VS. Minnie label in favor
of the defendant to recover costs. 1t WAS
an action to recover on a monument con-
tract. The case was decided IN Thomas
ton before a justice in favor of the
plaintiff and an appeal was taken.
Several of the police officers We're fooled
last night and if some one does not suffer
for 1t, 1t will not be their fault. A tip had
been given out that Il tightl was to take
place in an ice house on the Meriden road,
about three miles from the city. The Off
GERS went to the house in question and re-
manned in waiting. The fighters IN the
meantime, with their friends, went to
saloon on Baldwin street and in the cellar
pulled off the bout between 10 and II
O'Clock. The contestants were Nelson
Flanagan, known as Jack Nelson, and Joe
McGrath. The fight was with two ounce
gloves and was fast and furious. McGrath
was put to sleep in the third round.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-02-09
NUTMEG GRATINGS.
Excerpts From the Columns of Our Daily
Exchanges.

Excerpts From the Columns of Our Daily
Exchanges.
Clinton Is. Davis, chairman of the demo-
cratic state central committee, who had
quite severe illness this winter, is yet
confined to his room, and can give only If
regular attention to business of any kind
Nathan Sprague, who was probably the
tallest man in the county, if not the state
was buried at New Milford yesterday. He
stood six feet, nine inches in his stocking
feet, and had the physique of giant. He
was well known throughout the state
through his participation in all the
parades in which New Milford was repre-
scented.
\ number of marriages have been con-
tracted between the male and female at
PENDANTS at the insane hospital in Middle
town this winter. The latest fad is to get
leave of absence for a week or so, go away,
get married and come back and go to work
as if nothing had happened.
Four Italians were drowned in a pond
near Croton Falls yesterday. They were
in gang of Italians who were engaged in
cutting the ice on the pond and while
working on weak section of the ice they
broke through with four others. Four of
the Italians were rescued but the four
whose names were not known, went down
and were drowned. Yesterday afternoon
two of the bodies We're recovered. All the
men who We're drowned had families who
resided in a suburb of Danbury.
Louis La Premier, sentenced to ten
years imprisonment recently in New
Haven, for killing his wife, on II plea of
guilty, changed from one of not guilty, is
repining' over his sentence. He claims
that he was insane when he was in court
and did not know what he was about
when changing his plea.
Burglaries have been frequent in tie
neighborhood of Clinton of late. Several
stores, houses and summer cottages have
been entered and several nights ago the
store of w. II. Stafford was robbed of
silverware worth 500.
\ case of disgraceful cruelty is reported
from Chesterfield, New London county,
where a man turned his sick wife out of
doors in the blizzard of last week. The
poor woman walked through snow foot
deep for nearly a mile, carrying her babe
in her arms, to the house of neighbour
who took her in.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-02-09
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
A Fireman of Twenty-Five Years Expert
ence Gives His OpfnIOn of ex-Chie

n Fireman of Twenty-Five Years Expert
ence Gives His Opinion of ex-Chief
Snagg.
To the Editor of the DEMOCRAT:
Will you please give me space in your
paper to say few words in reference to
the discussion now going on in relation to
the action of the board of fire commission
ers in refusing to re-elect Mr. Snagg as
chief of the Waterbury fire department.
Personally Mr. Snagg is all right and I do
not wish to be understood as saying any
thing about the gentleman beyond his re-
lations to the fire department. For twenty
five years have been an active member
of the local fire department and think 1
ought to know something about Mr. Snagg's
fitness for the position. During my whole
experience as a member of the fire depart
ment have never known the ex-chief to
issue one order at any of the many fires
that we have had in this town, that met
the approval of the experienced members
of the department, and while no one cared
to opeRly condemn his maneuvers, at some
of the most disastrous fires we have had to
fight 1t was an open secret to the tiremen
themselves and conceded by all who dis
cussed the tactics employed by Chief Snagg
that the i4e department had not performed
as good service as could be acc plished
under a more capable leader. What bet
ter proof of Mr. Snagg's ineficiency
strategist at critical moment can [ cite
than his futile efforts to subdue the flames
at the recent fire in the Lilley
block? The mans tomfoolery around
that fire was not only condemned
by the fremen but a laughing stock for
the kids" on the street. Let no man say
that to Mr. Snagg belongs the credit of the
efficiency of our fire department. The
various improvements that have been
made in the department from time to time
were conceived and talked up by others
than Mr. Snagg, AID were thought out and
put into tangible shape by the board of
fire commissioners. I make this statement
without fear of contradiction by any fire.
man who has been long enough in the de,
partment to talk of men and their methods
for the past fifteen or twenty years. I
hope the board of fire commissioners will
not recede from the stand they have taken
in this matter. John w. Mcdonald would
make a much more efficient chief of the
department than Mr. Snagg or any other
man in the city, and in endeavoring to
elect him to the position the democratic
| members of the board of fire commits
| sioners deserve the credit of every citizen
who wishes to see the fire department
raised to the rank of tirst-class volunteer
fire department. Those men who are
lying awake since Mr. Snagg was ousted
had better 90 to bed and have a good sleep.
We own over $40, 900 worth of property
around here, and we never slept with
| greater ease in all our lives than we have
since the management of the fire depart
ment was taken out of the hands of Chief
Snagg
JOIN G.. LUNNY,
| y 81 MOI cfr
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-02-09
TRAIN WRECKED.
A brakeman Who Was Sent Back With
Flag Shot Four Times.

Flag Shot Four Times.
Houston, Tex, Feb 9.-Train robbers
wrecked a train on the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas railroad, last night at the high
bridge over White Oak bayou. When the
passenger train reached the bridge the en-
CINE and tender cleared the track all right,
but the baggage and mail cars jumped the
track and rolled down the emhankment.
The smoker fell on top of them. Joe
Elliott, a brakeman, was sent back to flag
approaching trains, but he had not pro-
ceeded far whena volley of rifle shots were
fired at him by the wreckers, who were in
ambush. The other members of the crew
were hard at work trying to rescue the in
iured passengers and train hands under
the wrecked cars and did not go to
Elliott's assistance He managed to crawl
on his hands and knees back to the train
and is now dying at the hospital in this
city. Four bullets entered his body. In
the overturned mail car Lou Morris, the
mail agent was found terribly injured.
His head was cut and bruised and he Is in
ternally injured. II. Hatton, the express
messenger, had several ribs broken, and
sustained other less serious injuries. j.
H. Cartin, the baggagemaster, is badly in
iured about the head and is also internally
injured Others, whose names could not
be learned, sustained various injuries, but
not Of a fatal nature. All of the injured
have cen brought to the hospital in this
city. y sheriff's posse is now in pursuit
of the wreckers who made no effort to
rob the tram after wrecking it.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-02-09


BRIDGEPoRT, Feb 9.-AIiss Ella Sturges.
the telegraph operator at the Fairfield rail
road station, refused yesterday before the
superior court to divulge the contents of
certain kilograms, even when ordered to
do so by Judge Shumway. The suit is one
in which John S. Throckmorton of Ohio
some years ago obtained a judgment of
$4,000 against George d. Chapman, but
could not collect because the latter had
transferred his property to his wife
Throckmorton alleges that the transfer
was fraudulent. Miss Sturges pulled from
her pocket a paper and read to the court
the law on evidence in such cases, cited
authorities for the court, and stated that
the manager of her company had told her
to decline to answer. The court investi-
gated, found the young woman was right
and excused her.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-02-09
WORLD OF SPORTS.

Joe TheisOn of Meriden has been s. gned
by Manager Burns to play first base for the
Springfelds
Harry Durant is trying to arouse interest
in a scheme for state base ball league,
embracing the towns of Hartford, Water
bury, Meriden, New Britain, Bristol, Win
sted, Wallingfordand South Manchester.
Berbauer, the Pittsburg second base
man, thinks Van Haltren is the best run
getter in the country.
John Ward favors penalizing the bunt
hit by calling all foul hunts strikes, but
does not think the bunt hit should be done
away with altogether.
Duffy, Delehanty and Thompson were
the only league players to score more than
200 safe hits last season.
Klobedanz has decided to play with the
Fall Rivers next season.
Champion jim Corbett will not play ball
in Baltimore during the coming summer.
Manager Hanlon said last night that owing
to or positions he had ceased negotiations.
Tom Esterbrook, the veteran player has
abandoned his business in Brooklyn. and
is looking for an engagement with an East
ern league club as first baseman.