Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-15
A
Big Ones Told at Another Session Of
the Anaanisa.s Club.
WHERE IMAGINATION RUNS RIOT
Strange Experiences and Still
Stranger Fteaks of Nature.
GUESTS ALSO TAKE A HAND

lat1ors of previous stories mad SHOWN 100
great a tendency to self-glorification upon
the part of the tellers as to deeds OF
bravery and daring by which they had won
credit. The stories of the evening, ne SAID,
must therefore be devoted to natural phe-
M mena. John Brcadhead, visitor from
the Chicago board of trade, was recognized
as a member of a fraternal society to the
Ananias Club, and was invited to enter
tain the members with story.
WELL" said he, II am not story teller.
but upon the subject of this evening 1 may
be able to impart some information con-
cGrring the northwest. The firm or which
I am member owns large wheat farm
in Manitoba. 1t is a fine wheat section,
but the climate is too variable to SUIT me.
My farm is thirty miles north OF winnipeg,
and by the time wheat ripens there is ire
quently cold wave that freezes not only
the wheat, but turns all of the whisky into
men to work in the field, stimulants being
necessity there. Last fall went to the
farm. and having nothing to do but watch
the men, 1 whiled away the time with a
harmunicon, upon which am somewhat OF
an expert. The men had climbed the
wheat stalks and were picking the grain,
while l played some well-known tunes.
Suddenly blizzard struck us-the men
fell to the ground, and, piling them into
wagons, 1 covered them with ice in order
to thaw out the frozen places, and got
them to the house. I had warmed myself
up by blowing the harmonicon, and kept 1t
frozen too tightly for there to be any vi
bration. The blizzard lasted for three
weeks, but one morning the sun came out,
and l started down the road l had travers-
ed from the wheat field to go to town and
take a train for Chicago. After had gone
about mile 1 heard strains of music, but
could see no one playing. 1t seemed all
around me, and the tunes were those
hG6 frtn to ,1ayy ,1ap, ,rtrhf in hn
zard. The strains continued until l reach
ed the point where we had started from,
and then l realized that the air was thaw-
irg, and the notes that had frozen into the
atmosphere were being liberated
A Lightning Trick In Kentucky.
A vote of thanks was rendered the visitor
and a general invitation extended to the
Chicago board of trade for its members to
make the club headquarters while in Wash
ington. Mr.. John Wilcox of Kentucky, who
was elected member at the last meeting,
being called upon, told a modest and
pathetic incident from the blue grass state.
Il feel somewhat diftdent," he said, las
am not used to telling my experiences. 1
had thought to describe my sensations upon
one occasion when got between two angry
bulls, and they threw me from one to the
other, each catching me on its horns until
l finally alighted on the back of one, thus
saving my life, but adventures are barred
by the president. / know one case of nat
ural phenomena, however, which may be of
interest. Kentucky is occasionally visited
by lightning, electric, as well as political
l have always made a study of the subject
of electricity, and especially of electric pho
Biography, which may make this story more
interesting to me than to others. A friend
of mine started to ride from Barboursville
which Is the county seat of Knox county
to Pineville, in Bell county, distance of
about forty miles the way he travelled
half hafW ba
places storm came up. The country is but
sparsely populated, and there were no build
ings OF any kind in which he could take
refuge, SO, stopping his horse under a tree
and tying the animal he concluded to wait
until the storm was over 1t was a fearful
storm, and the tree would not shelter horse
and man, SO my friend ran to another large
tree, where he could watch the horse The
wind blew, the lightning flashed, and the
thunder roared 1t seemed as If the noun
tains were falling down. Suddenly a Jagged
streak of lightning ran down the tree uLder
which stood the horse and struck the ami
NAL. killing him instantly. My friend was
watching and naturally felt greatly terrified
Soon after the killing of the horse the storm
ceased as suddenly as it had started, and my
friend had to walk the remaining distance
to Pineville. When he reached the town
everybody stared at him. then followed him
until the little mountain hotel was full of
curious people, anxious to get a look at
him. Greatly annoyed he went to his room
and looked in the mirror There upon the
pupil OF each eye was Well-defned picture
of his horse, with saddle on, Just as 1t was
when the lightning struck it. That was two
years ago and the photographs are plain
yet, my friend wearing glasses to hide them
although his sight is perfectly good"
A Strange Reconciliation,
1.-THE strangest thing ever knew in ma
ture," said Albert Senter, was in Texas
The town of Cisco at the junction of the
Denver and Rio Grande and the Texas Pa
cific railroads is right in the cyclone dis
trlct. Eastland, the county seat is twelve
miles east of Cisco and not SO large a Mace
Between the trio Is a creek. in which the
water is not deep. There lived in Cisco a
couple who could never get along and the
wife finally left her husband and went to
live with her parents on the outskirts of
Eastiand. Ihey mad not seen each other ior
nearly three years, when one day the little
city of Cisco was almost entirely DESTROYED
by cyclone The man at the time was sit
ting on his porch, and the wind picked him
up, carried MN our on the prairie, then
rolled him along, until he reached the creek.
when he stuck in the mud. That night an
other cyclone came from the other direction
and struck the house where the wife lived
1t was not SO severe, and after blowing away
a few houses passed out on the prairie
Among the residences destroyed was that
of the wife. She started to run and the
wind blew so hard that she could not stop
within ten feet from her husband. He sue
ceeded in extricating himself first, and, see
ing some one else in trouble although nav
ing no idea to who she was, helped his
wife out Then, for the first time in years.
they spoke to each other, and the result of
the wind blowing them into the same hole
from opposite directions was a reconcilia-
ton, and they are living together now. I
have known cyclones, to do many queer
things, but that Is the only instance of two
combining to unite family
LIQUOR SELLING IN ENGLAND.
Rigorous Enforecmdnt of the Law
The License Fee.
London Correspondence New York Times.
What primarily tastounds and puzzles the
Londoner about the New York situation is
that the fact of an excise law being en-
forced attracts attention and is considered
something remarkable. This part of the
thing is incomprehensible. The public house
and the publican here seem to be about as
numerous as the saloon and the saloon
keepers are in New York. 1 have no sta
tistics, but from appearances there is no
appreciate difference. The variations in
character are the same, ranging from the