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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-04-03
SAM BROWNS FIRST KILLING.
4 Nevada Dcspcrado Whose Career OF
Crime Was Started by IA Bully.


''At my first meeting with Sam
Brown, tho famous desperate, he did
me an honor that few men would caro-
to receive" said Wash Parker an old
time Nevadan "He invited himself to
be my travelling companion on two
days wagon journey ! was starting
out one morning with "a wagon and pair
of horses from little mining settle.
ment known then as Goldcrop As
came opposite the hotoI large man
standing on the veranda hailed me I'D
asked If l was going to Virginia City
| answered yes, and'he said:
90 1 reckon ri 90 along with you.
Tim Sam Brown, ho added May.
be you don't have much confidence III
me since hearing my name, but reckon
wen travel along together all right.
We'll, there wasn't anything to DO
said hut All right; jump aboard, and
Sam Brown, with carpethag in his
hand a..l his pistols bulging under bis
coat, came out to tile wagon and took his
seat beside me. He proved civil
enough companion, and we got through
to Virginia City all right with nobody
killed on the way. lie had taken along
q bottle of prepared cocktails, and had
"a box of cigars, SO that tho time passed
rather sociably as we made our journey
together.
"Wc went into camp that night at
Sandy Springs, about half way to Vir.
ginia City, and in tho course of the
evening he told me something of his
life and adventures One thing i'm par
ticular that remember was the way he
came to start out on his career of kill
ing. don't recall whether it was in
Texas or Missouri that this first affair
happened, but 1t was when he was
hulking young fellow, green and chick
en hearted to use his own words in
telling it. There was u certain gambler
in "a town where he was staying who
used to bully and abuse him when they
came together. Everywhere and whonov-
or the gambler saw him in saloon he
would kick him about and drive him
out of the place. One day man un-
friendly to this gambler said to Sam:
"'Why do you stand all this abuse
from that gambler? Take this pistol and
the next time he crowds you kill him.
Sam took the advice aud tho pistol,
and the next time tho gambler went for
him, instead of sneaking away and
looRing sorry, he shot his toImentor
dead. After he had thus got his hand in
killing men came easy to Sam, and he
made long score before his own time
came.
Though, as said, we made our jour
noy together all right knew it would
take too little to set things to going all
wrong for me thoroughly to enjoy Sam
Browns society. wasn't sorry to set
him down ut the Primaventura saloon
in Virginia City. whore we took drink
together, shook hands and went our
different ways. New York Sun.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-04-03
RUFFALO, ROCHESTER, & PITTS
- BURGH RAILWAY.

The short line between Dubois, Ridgway,
Bradford, Salamanca, Buffalo, Rochester,
Niagara Falls and points In the upper oil
region.
ger trains will arrive and depart from Falls
Creek station, daily, except Sunday, as fol-
lows:
I2O p. IN. and $50 p. m.-.Accommodations
from PunNsutawney and Big Run.
$50 u. m.-ButfalO and Rochester mail-FOr
Brockwayville, Ridgway, ,Johnsonburg,M Mt:
Jewett, Bradford Salamanca, Buffalo and
Rochester; connecting Mt JOhnsOnburg
with p. & T.. train ., for Wilcox, Kane,
Warren, Cory and Erie.
1858 "a. m.-Accommodation-F Sykes,
Big Run and Punxsutawney.
2;2O u. m.-Bradford Accommodation-FOr
Beechtree, BrOckwayville, EllmOnt, Car
mon, Ridgway, Johnsonburg, Mt. Jewett
and Bradford.
$40 d M ail-For Dubois, Sykes, Big
Run Punxsutawney and Walston.
Passengers are requested TO purchase tick
cts before entering the cars. An. excess
charge of Ten Cents will be collected by con-
ductors when fares are paid on tral ms, from
all stations where ticket Office Is maini aimed.
Thousand mile tickets nj two cents per
mile, good for passage between all stations.
j. II. MCINTYRE. Agent Falls creek Pa.
X. q. MATHEWS Il. q. LAPEY,
General Supt. Gen. Pas. Agent
Buffalo N Y. Rochester N. Y
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-04-03
NOW BE ON THE
| lookout Tower!
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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-22
cooKINo IN MApAaAscAR.


Cooking being an art, every race has a
style of its own. The Malagasy, like the
gentle Hindoo, knows how to prepare his
mess OF rice. 1t Is not boiled to mash
as in England or as our potatoes are
sometimes pulped, but, covered with a
proper sufficiency of water is carefully
treated until the grains are swollen fl
to burst and yet remain full, intact, soft,
and rather mealy. The manioc root Is
an easier dish to prepare. 1t is some-
times served boiled, as yams and sweet
potatoes, and again as a. sort of cold por-
ridge. Native coffee they understand
how to make and the aroma Is excellent,
but tea, alas! you have to look to the
brewing of that from start to finish II
you desire a drinkable cup. Poultry and
game are eaten fresh and the cooks have
a clever and withal cleanly trick of
dipping the dead animals in boiling water.
which enables them to pluck them easily
and quickly The preparations for truss
ing come later. There is no lack of var
iety at a Matagasy table, but all the
same you miss the wheaton bread, sugar,
and condiments when cloyed with rice,
fowls, manioc and eggs. The staple fuel
Is bunch grass. which when dried burns
fierceiy and settles into a glowing ember
that gives off good deal of heat. All
the cooking is done on earthen hearths
and the roasting, boiling and baking in
big iron pots. The grass being slightly
aromatic tine odor Is as agreeable as that
of a hardwood fire.-London Telegraph.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-22
GREAT MENNONITE MOVEMENT.
To Central Minnesota on the Northern
Pacific,
Pioneer Press.

Pioneer Press.
Within a year the Northern Pacific
land department expects to have settled
with from 100 to $50 families of Mennon-
ties three townships near Ulen on the
Manitoba branch of the road in Central
Minnesota, 2SS miles from st. Paul. II
has already laid the foundation of a
thriving colony in the Red River valley.
month ago a party of ten, and last
week another party of twelve, escorted
by Juius Siements, of Mountain Lake,
Mimi. went there prospecting, represent
ing many families at home. Settlers in
this territory come from Southern Mlnne-
sofa, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Man
itoba. The colonization is conducted and
directed solely by the Northern Pacific
land department. Speaking Of this, Land
Commissioner Phipps said:
Some win come in as soon as thresh-
ing Is over. We have already sod 3,00O
acres. Most of those who bought land
are well-to-do, sel,ing out their home
farms at high prices, and all having
plenty of money to get a good start
The people we have already secured are
from Mountain Lake and Manitoba. One
Nebraska man who was here the other
day, told me his farm was worth from
SIS to $25 an acre, but since he has seen
central Minnesota ne Will sen IL " or
more cheaper to get here as soon as pos
sib.e. We are doing very good busl-
ness"
One of the largest colonies of Mennon-
ties which ever moved in this country
in a body may come from Nebraska to
Minnesota next year. p. Jansen, of jan
sen, Nebraska, has been in the city a
couple hof days comforting with Mr..
Phipps and the state auditor regarding
the best arrangements which can be
made for his people, VINO comprise about
200 families. No definite conclusions have
been reached, but it Is probably the immi-
grafton from the Mennonite colonies OF
Nebraska to this state next year will be
very large. Mr. Jansen speaks very
highly of the lands he has visited in
this state, and has proved his sincerity
by buying some land for his sons to
locate upon. He is a great politician
and a very influential man in his terri
tory, being an intimate friend Of Sem
ator Thurston. His father was one OF
the first Mennonites driven from Russia
and he started a big colony in Iowa,
which he afterwards moved to Nebraska.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-22
CHEAP TELEPHONES.

The idea is gaining ground that the
day of cheap telephones for the million
is at hand. Whether this impression Is
soundly based is an open question; but
there can be no doubt that many rough
and ready uti.iazi1ns of tie telephone
are now being made in which the fear
of infringement suits plays a very small
part. For instance a number of South
Dakota farmers have helped themselves
to a telephone system covering eight
niles of wire by supplying themselves
With transmitters and making c0nnec-
tions with the barb wire which constitutes
toe fences in that part of the country.
The staples have been removed from the
fences along the taking line and insu-
lated fasteners substituted. The farmers
have thus managed to secure at the ex-
pense of a few dollars each what is prac-
tically useful to them as a regular ex-
change system. Incited by the success
Of this installation a number of stock
men porpose to build a telephone line
from Pierre, S. D., to Midland, a central
point in the COW country; for the pur-
pose OF securing storm warnings from the
Pierre weather bureau. In that part of
the country, as is well known, storms
swoop down at certain seasons with such
suddenness and severity that fast riders
are kept in readiness to carry the warm
ing of impending cyclones form one post
to another. The greater promptitude Of
communication will be a boon to the
community. A special fed is also being
opened UP for the telephones in many
countries where Isolated residence is at
tended with more or less danger. In Mex
leo telephone lines are being run to ha-
ciandas that are twenty. thirty and even
sixty miles from the nearest village. 1t
is proposed to have regular installations
on the Indian tea plantations. Such SER
vice would give the planter an immense
advantage by placing him In constant
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-22
PACIFIC COAST GRAPE DISEASE.

The grape diseases on the Pacific coast
Is reviewed in the report compiled by
Newton B. Pierce and issued by the Ag-
ricuitural Department. "It states that
more than one-half the grapes in tho
country are grown on the Pacific coast,
California alone having approximately
100000 acres of vines. It Is shown that
the main reason why vine diseases are
more destructive on the Pacific than on
the Atlantic coast Is because the Euro
pean or tender varieties are grown in
the former and the American or hardy
vines In the latter part of the United
States The most serious of the plant
maladies is the California vine disease
which has already killed more than
10000 acres of the most thrifty and pro-
ductive vineyards. Whole vlne-growing
regions are now denuded, and the d.
sease is at work fifty miles from where
1t begun its ravages. So far 1t Is esti-
mated that the disease has caused a
direct and indirect loss of not less than
S2O,0OO,0O0. its effects are seen for the
first season on the foliage of the vine,
but by the second season reduced
growth of the canes is apparent. Pow
derry mildew Is one of the most common
fungus diseases of the vine, hut II is
easily treated. Sulphur, the report says,
is the agent used in nearly all cases,
the fumes destroying the tender spores
and vegetative organs"
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-22
THE ART OF TALKING.

To be able to talk well is quite as much
a talent as to be able to play or sing
well, and quite as worthy Of cultivation;
indeed, many people would find 1t much
easier to play a piece Of music or sing
a song than to carry on a conversation
for any length of time.
1t is certainly a most delightful and
useful talent with which to be endowed,
for few people are Indifferent to the
pleasure of listening to a good talker.
A good talker is not necessarily a bril-
liant one, and 1t is quite possible that
in thinking over the words Of one who
bears this coveted reputation we may
find that there was nothing especially
witty or brilliant in them, and that they
were pleasant to helr merely because
of the expression and tone of voice en-
Played.
A good talker knows when to be silent
and recognizes the fact that the old say
ing, "too much Of a good thing is good
for nothing" is most applicable to con-
versation, and that after a time even
the most brilliant talk may pail upon the
listener. He understands when to be
silent in order to give others chance
of speaking, and realizes that, although
people may enjoy their conversation,
they also like to hear their own voices
occasionally, and that to take an in
telligent interest in their remarks is one
OF the surest ways to gain reputation
Of being a pleasant companion.
He may think that his opinion Ia the
only one worth having, but II he he a
wise man he will show no trace Of this,
and will listen to the opinions OF others
with at least an appearance OF interest.
Most people have grain OF vanity in
their composition and like to be listened
to attentively while they speak, and re-
sent being interrupted However much
we may disagree with their views and
theories It is breach OF ordinary DO
liteness to break in while they are talk
ing Let them finish their sentence. and
then speak.
TO talk weil-that is, inteligently and
in a way interesting to otlers-a fair
amount OF general knowledge is neces-
sary. One must know what Is going
on in the world and keep pace with the
times. And another very important
point is to suit ones conversation to
ones audience, to use tact In the sub
jects introduced. and TO avoid anything
.ikeiy to cause offense.
Very frequently the greatest takers
are by no means the best. They tax
cften for the sake Of fosaking. and NOT
ecause they have anything worth saw
II is better TO say too little than
to- much, and, although no time or
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-22
NOTES or THE PLAYERS.

New York Theatrical Tidings.
Apropos of the recent successes made
by some melodramas that contained in
their plots material that has seen the
footlights for many years, Edward Mich
ael, who is here to cancel Mrs. Lang
try's tour, recalls a rather interesting
circumstances. 1t seems that Bernard
Shaw, the London dramatic critic and
author of "Arms and the Man." ana
a friend decided to write a melodrama
that should bur,esque az the traditional
features of the good old English piece OF
thut kind. They put into their concoc-
tion the courtly lord the milk and water
hero, the bad man who rises in the morn
ing with the simple purpose of being
bad al day, the adventures who smokes
cigarettes and puffs all the smoke into
other peoples faces, and all the express
sions they had heard as boys from these
characters. They lent their work to a
manager to read, and he was so en-
raptured a5y 1t that me Immediately
bought it and toured it for several years
throughout the English provinces, with
very satisfactory pecunfary results. The
point of the story that is of special in
terest is that the piece made money for
its authors as a legitimate melodrama,
and it was apphuded and wept over by
numerous audiences who never for
moment suspected that at the time 1t
was written a huge joke was supposed to
be involved in it. There Is undouh'e1'y
a urge class of theatre goers that mas
no .eanings toward Ibsen, Maeterlinck,
"the new woman" and all kir1s of social
problems. Such expressic as Papa,
kiss mamma" emanatins from a child
unconscious of the fact that its parents
have separated, and "Al viii yet be
we'll" strike very responsive chords in
many human breasts and that is one rea-
son why such a pay as 'SThe Sporting
Duchess" which was not put upon a
plane with "a scrap of Paper" and dip
;omacy," nevertheless is able to play to
an average of $1,7O0 a performance.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-22
A COUNTRY OF HOMES,
.G.obe-Democrat

.G.obe-Democrat.
"The greatest thing for a country" eX-
claims. Col. Ingersoll, "is for all of its
citizens to have a home; and in this
respect our own country is to be regard
ed as the greatest in the word. Our peo-
PIE have what may be called the treside
instinct in a larger degree than those
of any other nation They are pre-emin-
entity home-makers, and the proportion
of them who own homes is in excess of
that known elsewhere The history of
the country from the first Is the story
of a constant struggle for the ownership
of land and the multiplication of family
hearthlstores. This purpose has been
the controlling one in the work of sub
DUNG the wilderness and extending the
sway of civilization between the Allan
tic and the Pacific. The log cabins of
the earliest settlers represented the in
spiration which was to insure the
development of our unprecedented re-
sources and the winning of a surprising
order of prosperity. Wherever American
courage, industry and fortituds have been
manifested there have homes been es-
t5blishsd, and the domestic virtues nour-
ished and encouraged. 1t is true as Col.
lngersoll says, that patriotism Of the
best sort is always founde where such
proprietors of country are sure to love
it, and to hasten to it's defense In a time
of peril, as has been so grand,y illustrat-
ed in our own case.
There is no other one thing to which
we are more indebted for our national
welfare and progress than the homestead
avs. That great measure of practical
benelicence gave more homes to home
less people than all the rest of the in
fluences at work in that direction dur
ing all the proceeding history of the coun-
try. 1t provided an opportunity for which
tens of thousands were longing; it
Helped the poor and hard working by
enabling them to help themselves. We
are too apt to forget that in the absence
of this incentive and assistance the set
t,ement of the new West would have
been indefinitely postponed. 1t was the
homestead law above everything else that
caused immigration to go beyond the
Mississippi and the Missouri and to fill
the waste Places with productiveness
and all the means Of comfort and en-
joyment. The government was an i'm
mense gamer by the policy which thus
increased the sources of its prosperity
and strengthened the devotion of the
people to its principles and institutions.
vast addition was made to the homes
of the country in a comparatively short
time, and with the homes came churches,
schools, newspapers, railroads, and all
the other advantages that have contrib
uted so much to our aggregate happiness
and greatness. The historians of the
future will not fail to dwell upon the i'm
portance of this movement and to praise
the wisdom which made it possible.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-22
ANTS AND THEIR HABITS.

Among the wonders of insect life the
ways Of the ants have always stood
out prominently as illustrations of the
| foreshadowing in lower life of the social
existence of higher beings. Instincts OF
| s.ave-mlaking and of storing grain, for
example, present us with traits of ant
character of extreme interest, and we
have also to reckon with the practice OF
agriculture as another and additional vir-
tue of this insect group. In Sonora, in
Mexico, we learn from the account
lately given by Prof w. 7. McGee, the
agricultural ants are to be found. These
ants are tenants at will. They pay no
rent, 1t is true, but are certainly to be
commended for their marveously in
dustrious ways. 1t seems that a clear
ing is first made by the ant settlers,
and this clearing may vary in diameter
from a few feet to thirty feet or more.
The open space is really playground
or an exercise yard, for 1t Is at the
margin Of the space that the crops of
the ants grow. The crop consists Of a
grass which Is said to grow luxuriantly
all around the edge of the clearing, and
the grass ring itself varies from three
feet to twenty feet in width. Breaks in
the grass ring affords entrance to and
SAA' tAOit ehS NAN"ihtoi "4iiNh 80 NhNS
brought into communication with other
ant farms.
The seeds of the grass form the food
store of the ants and in the district in
habited by them other vegetation Is
extremely scarce. The statement is made
that other plants are actually exter-
minated by the ants in order to preserve
free from harm or plant invasion their
own ciearlngs. Dependent on their plant
food the ants take every care Of their
crops The ground is prepared and the
seeds harvested; the whole operations
of the insects being apparently con-
Quoted according to routine which Is
not, perhaps, surprising to us In view
of the highly specialized instincts noted
in other ants.
If the species Of ant which Prof. Nc
Gee has described in the agricultural ant