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The herald., 1895-12-01

started toward the top the pulling is
easier, but the men have 10 be on the
alert to guard against his sezing the bot
tom or sides of the boat with his disc
like suckers. Once he fastens them, no
pulling will get him loose. and the hook
VIII pull out, and he will settle back to
bite no more for the present. AS he Is
drawn toward the top the Gshers keep
MIN poked away with long poles until. as
favorable opportunity presents itself,
he IS dextcrously yanked on board. They
must Dodge his angry, waving tentacles
even tnen, but long experience has made
them very clever at handling these fish.
A crew of three or four old hands will
often bring in dozen or fifteen good
sized devil.ish in days fishing, and
have known of thirty-two being landed
by two old half-breed Siwash fishers in
forenoon; The longest one caught within
my recollection IN the Sounu was taken by
old Captain Ben Rhodes of olympia two
years ago. IL measured thirty one feet
from tip to tip of It's horrible lentacles,
and its suckers were as big as sauovrs.
The old man was fishing for devil-hsh,
too, that day, but he wasn't fishing for
that size. HIS son Tom hooked the brute,
and in moment after he had the first
big, long arm wrapped around the bow
and a second fastened on the gunwale.
In lcss than two minutes the whole craft
was folded in the monsters Shiny en-
brace. Two tentacles were fast on the old
man. and he was hacking away at them
with clasp-knife that made no impress
sion at all. The boy kept his head ana
waited for the eyes and mouth of the
devIl-fsh to appear. at last they raised
over the stern of the dory, and Tom.
with thrust OF the boathook in the only
vital spot, Just between and below the
glazing, green eyes, ended the Dattle.
The old fisherman wasn't mite scared
by his experience, and. though he is close
on to 80 years old. he fishes nearly every
day. But, though those who do it for a
living say it's exciting sport and great
fun" concluded the Washington man,
knocking the ashes from mis- mssr-
schaum, II have sized up the game, and
personally do not care to indulge. New
York Recorder,
The herald., 1895-12-01
POKER PLAYING DIPLOMAT

Mr.. Won Schweringor of the German
embassy ut Washington is likely to carry
with him always some IDEAS of Am erican
ways of doing in polite society and enter
tanning foreigners in the matter of card
playing decidedly more in the nature of
dime novels OF the most melodramatic
and sensational character than is at all
compatible with the real state of affairs.
The cause of all this is that Mr.. Won
Schweringer has been made the subject
OF practical joke the racollections Of
which are likely to be of lifelong dura-
ton. The episode took place at Deer
Park when some of the young bloods and
sports in the fashionable life of that re-
sort put their heads together for the pur.
pose of terrorizing the foreigner who
happily for his future reputation for bra,
very proved himself game in the m ost
unexpected manner.
On the evening agreed upon Mr.. Won
Scbweringer was invited by the ringlead-
ers to take part IN quiet little game of
poker. When tho cards were dealt Mr..
Won Schweringer, on looking at his hand
discovered that six cards had been dealt
him. Thsreupon he laid down the cards.
vuletly TCudTkluR ludb ue WOtllu uOt play
that hand. One and another of the young
mon leaned exoitedly forward, exclaim-
ing that he would play; that he must do
SO or there would be trouble. The torme r
simply reiterated his former statement
that he would not play that deal. Then
th fun began for the young bloods.
Immediately from all sides of the room
flash If cold steel OH every side; pistols
were ierked from hip pockrts. dirks,
bowie knives and even razors caught the
CLEAN of the lights IN the oardroom.
Each and every weapon was leveled in
the direction OF the foreigner, while the
would have enlightened a cowboy in the
elasticity and scope of the English lam
gua2e.
Appalled, at first at such an amazing
spectacle, Mr.. Won Schweringer must
have felt the cold chills run up and down
his spine with sufficient speed to have
heated themselves to the boiling point.
With nerve and manliness that could
not have tailed to impress itself upon any
one not bent upon the successful carry
ing out of a practical joke. the unarmed
foreigner rose to his fe t with the digni-
fled speech: "Gentlemen, my life is in
your hands,"
The joke had gone too far. however,
for the young bloods to be satisfied with
any such tame ending az this. There
were wild VIII ,ops, and again, with re-
newed vigor, the pistols and bowie knives
were tlourished about. Then some one
in the crowd jumped upon a table. and
Immediately scene of pandemonium
ensued. In the midst of it all the for
eigner made his way out of the room.
Afterwards, in speaking of the truly
American game Of cards IN which 10 had
taken part. he gave tho briefest, most
graphic account OF the manner in which
L.. hal l.o.~ 49,
q great many times getting out OF that
door,
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A Touching Incident

Max Pemberton writes a very interest
ing review OF Archibald Forbes new
work in the London Sketch. The author
OF The lmpregnable City Is at all tim es
an interesting writer, and in this instance
he is particularly so. He says:
1t was upon the eve of ths Franco Ger
man war CT 1870. and the small Prussian
garrison which held tho town of.Saar-
brucken expected nlomentarily to be
driven out by the French army corps
which lay no more than a couple of
miles from the ramparts. Those within
SaarDrucken-and Archibald Forbes was
of their mum ber-found the days of mac
ton and Of expectation hang somewhat
heavily upon their hands, and lacking
other amusement they proceeded to
marrying q gallant sergeant of the Ho-
honzolerns. The good fellows girl had
walked heaven knows how any m lies to
wish him God speed in the trouble, and
son, pretty wedding was contrived,
with the consent of the bridegroom s com
manding officer, who stipulated only
thar the gallant sergeant in question
should return instantly to his duties AT
the sound of the alarm.
All was in readiness, and the cier.y.
man was just about to join the couple in
holy matrimony, when the sound of q
bugls suddenly broke In on the stillnoss.
1t was the alarm. The bridegroom hur
riedly EN- br aced the bride, buckled on his
accoutermeDts and darted Off to the place
of rendezvous. In ten minutes more the
com bat was in full intensity tho French
had carried the heights overhanging the
town and were pouring down upon it
their artillery and mitrailleuse. Our
hotel was right in the line Of fire, and
soon became exceedingly disagraeabl,
quarters. We got the women down in the
cellar aud awaited events. A she'll
crashed into the kitchen, hurst inside the
cooking stove and blew the wedding
breakfast, which was still being kept
hot, into what an American colleague
called Everlasting smash" 1t was too
hot to stay here, and everybody moved
strategetically to the rear. A few days
later was fought, close to Saarbrucken,
the desperate battle of Spicheren, in
which the bridegroom's regiment took
leading part. The day after the battle |
was wandering over the field, helping to
relieve the wounded, and gazing shud-
deringly ON the heaps OF dead. Suddenly
came on our bridegroom in sitting
posture, with his back resting against
stump. He was stone dead with a bullet
through his throat.
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Therefore 1t Is Well to Know How to Properly
Roast, Bone, Boil or Stuff tie Bird
Now in Such Favor
Recipes for Dressing With Chenus,
Good, Old Fashioned Ways.Beauty of the Wild Turkey
How Make Dreamed Turkey and Other
Dainty Tempting Dishes

milk. Pat in a double boiler with an
onion in which four cloves have been
stuck, add blade of mace. and cook un.
Til the celery becomes tender. Remove
the onion and spice and thicken with q
little -four that has teen moistened with
some OF the stock that the fowl was boil
ed in. Season with salt and pepper and
boil for five minutes. 1t should be as
thick as custard.
TO make oyster sauce, put ons pint oil
small oysters, with their liquor, into a
saucepan and heat them to boiling point.
SKIM out the oysters and add to the
liquor one and one-half cups of milk, and
The herald., 1895-12-01

terng peculiar quack, disturbed the
resting birds nap. But after they had
flown away he again closed his eyes,
and was soon peacefully doing.
Shortly afterward street car, sn route
to the CITY, hove j "a sight.
''fes that buzzard?" said the rotor
man to a passenger on the front end.
well. that bird has got In a habit Of
sitting on that arm every day about this
time. and he pecks at the trolley wheel
every time it passes Some of these days
it's going to reach that wheel, and there
won't be no MI re buzzard Left
The car whizzed on and reached the
pole as the last sentence left the motor
mans lips, and as il passed under the
arm something was heard to fall on the
car. The buzzard had peoked the trolley
wheel. San Antonio (Texas) Express.
The herald., 1895-12-01

thing playing idly over the edge of a
rock, like kep streamers waving with
the tide. 1t Is interesting to watch the
movements of the octopus as the white
rag dcscends. lie at once takes 1t to be
but pretends not to see it at ALL Grad
ually he edges his ugly head over toward
the rag, and the fisherman, moving it
away uncasily, excit,s the rascal's appe-
tite, and at last, with forward lunse OF
the parrot-lke beak. switter than thought
itssf, he strikes. Once its keen, savage
laws close on the cloth it will never let
20, not even If the hooks fail to secure il.
With every feeler gripping rocky ledge
like grim death, it will drag down on its
supposed prey and resist every attempt
to haul 1t upward.
''Once big villain is dislodged and
The herald., 1895-12-01

Gro sd singing at the ton OF her voice.
he approaches her automatically, say
ing,
"Ah me laddie, 10 that you? I am
very well. How's y,urself2"
"Pm all right. It's getting late, Mary,
and you had better como along now.
You've had good time and you need
Q rest"
"All right, mo boy. but as Pm tired,
send for me coach and four"
This means that Mary wants the patrol
wagon, and there 10 no use trying to ar
que her out of it. Mary enjoys the wild
dash Of the horses and the changing of
the bell, and when she steps into the
wagon she always waves her hat to the
crowd as she is driven off to the station
house.
The herald., 1895-12-01
A WOMAN EDITOR OF THE FUTURE

"Helen''
The managing editor of the future
spoke sharply. She was evidently angry
about something.
Yes, ma am" replied the private Sec
retary. quickly responding to the sum-
mons.
Write note to Miss Doolittle telling
her that we will dispense with her SER
vices in the local room in the future
"Yes ma'am'
She il drinking too much, explained
The herald., 1895-12-01
The Agrarian
Laws

Could do no more than the
Herald in its now famous di-
vision of land amongst the peo-
pie. Any person who is now,
or will become yearly sub
scriber to The Herald, will be
entitled to a lot in The Herald
subdivision in the town of
Lancaster. No additional
charge except 500 for notary
fee.
The following letter to the Herald from
the editor of the Lancaster Gazette shows
the character of the lots the Herald is
giving free to subscribers:
"A good thing-push it aIong"-ths
Herald combination proves to be good
thing. received two more subscriptions
today from those who want the Gazette,
up that new map. The fact that those
he lnfc ic Af-ian
refutation to the jealous charge of some
newspapers that the lots are worthless,
alkal, fake properties. Both lots taken
today are by Lancaster business men and
one of them wishes to improve his lot at
once. Our principal we'll borer was in
my office yesterday. He has put down IL
artesian wells in the last month. He au-
thorzed me to put an advertisement in
my paper that he would secure artesian
flows on the Herald addition to Lancas-
ter at one-half the usual price. He knows
as we all do that the water supply for
both surface water and artesian water is
abundant and easily gotten. man Of
fered to dig well on one of these lots
for S and take the subscription to the Ga
zette as part pay.
More alfalfa will be put in this season
than was in the valley altogether before.
There also will be hundreds of acres set
to fruit trees in the valley this year. The
1900 acres of growing fruit trees are SO
healthy and thrifty as to give the greatest
encouragement for future planting. in
another week the work will be begun at
Palmdale according to a contract signed
last week, by which the flood waters of
Little Rock creek will be stored. The
Coles will push the work and expend
$Ioo,ooo in the system which will bring
several thousand more acres under cult
walton in that section.
Altogether the future for Antelope VAL
ley looks very promising. Yours respect
fully, w. S. MELICK.
Editor Gazette.
The herald., 1895-12-01
A Buzzard's Electric Taking Off

A turkey buzzard paid the penalty Of
having too much curiosity shortly after
noon yesterday. near West End.
He had evidently had a full midday
meal, for he looked satisfied with tho
world, and all the buzzards that in it are.
He needed rest, however, and so perched
himself upon one of the arms that hold
up the trolley wire. There he sat and
blinked at the sun. A couple of his
brothers clrcled about his head, and ut
The herald., 1895-12-01

Among living statesmen Mr.. Gosohen
probably Whites the worst hand. He is
extremely short sighted, and one day in
the house of commons he picked up one
OF his own memoranda and. after vainly
trying to make it out, exclaimed: "A
man who writes like that ought not to be
in public seryice.'
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-06-15

BY George r. Crawford e. CO.,
Real Estate Auctioneers,
1903 Bank street.

RTSTEE'S SALE OF CERTAIN IN
/ TERESTS IN y DESIRABLE FARM
az HANOVER COUNTY, LOCATED
ABOUT ONE MILE FROM KlLBY STA
TION AND ABOUT ONE-HALF MILE
FROM KENWOOD: ALSO ONE VERY
VALUABLE Marley virtue of GER
tain deed of trust. dated May 3, 1871.
duly recorded in Richmond Chancery
Court. Deed Book 81. page 6s default
having been made In the payment OF a
note therein secured | will sell by auc-
fion. on the premises, SATURDAY. June
%. 1898. at . L. NJ. all of the interest
OF Mrs Caroline T.. Beebe and Curtis
Chlttenden I'm the following described
property: All that TRACT OR PARCEL
OF LAND lying and being In the county
OF Hanover. Va. about one mile from
Kilby Station. on the Richmond. Fred
ericksburg and Potomac railroad, and
bounded as follows; on the east and
south by lands OF {. X. Francis, on the
north By lands Of Nass. and on the west
by Major HITS estate. and contains
Isl 35-lOO ACRES, being the same land
conveyed 10 Nathiel Chittenden by Jesse
Harvey and Lenora. his wife. by deed
beaf~ng date April 4, 1Ss2, duly recorded
in the clerks office of Hanover County
Court. Deed Book 10, page 4o3; also one
gray mare called Oracle.
TERMS. Cash as TO expenses OF sale
and TO pay a note of Sl2l 90, with IN
terest from May 3, 1895. and the balance
upon such terms as may be announced
at sale I. n. tfSAN fprD,
telo-lit Trustee
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In execution OF a certain deed OF trust,
dated May ~, 1892. and recorded In
clerks office Richmond Chancery Court,
in Deed Book li5 y. page JUs. default
having been made In the payment OF
certain notes therein secured. and being
so required by the holder thereof, / VIII
sell by auction. upon the premises, on
THURSDAY. JUNE 10Th.
at $50 o'clock T.. NJ. the above desirable
dwelling, which is described In said deed
as beginning at a point on the north
side OF Main street ca feet west Of Plum
street ana fronting on said Main street
81 feet ~. inches. and running back be-
tween parallel lines us feet inches to an
alley 70 feet wide"
The house contains rooms and IS In
very fair order This is situated in the
growing West End, where real estate IS
enhancing every day, and is a good In
vestment for home or rent-paying
purposes.
TERMS: Cash as 10 expenses Of sale
and 10 pay two notes as follows: one
of s7OJJB, with interest from May 10,
1888. and one OF S12T1, with interest
from November 10. 1893, and balance
upon terms TO be announced at sale.
WILLIAM GIBSON. JR.. Trustee.
HARRISON * CO., Auctioneers.
JelJ-Jt
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No. 1-Daiiy, tor Atlanta aDA points
beyond. with through pullman service.
NO. 4O3-"N estlbuled Limited Train,
Buffet Sleepers Richmond TO Atlanta.
leans and all points South and Southwest,
and at New Orleans with the southern
Pacific and Texas and Pacific railroads
TO all Texas points. No extra charge on
"Vestibuled Trains"
ARRIVE RICHMOND,
No. 402-"Atlanta Special. "Nestibuled
Limited Train"-6.40 A. NJ. daily.
No Snail and Express. 6.b I. NJ
daily
For tickets, Pullman reservations, &c,,
apply to II. ID. owen. ticket agent, bft1-
Street Station: Richmond Transfer Conn
pany. 9Ol east Main street, and company
office. $50 east Main street.
+. ST. JOHN, Nice-President
II. J. ANDERSON. Gen'l Pass. Agent.
JOHN II. WfNDER General Manager.
II. NJ. BOYKIN. City Passenger Agt,
S3e east Main street
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AUCTION SALES.--FUTURE Day.
-~~.~.O-~.~.~~c~~~~~~-~~~~ ~~~~--~~s~o~~~o~o-o>
BY n. W. Bowe.
Real Estate Auctioneer.
n COMMISSIONERS SALE OF THE
ENNIETRACT" OF LAND,
ON THE BROOK TURNPIKE. OPPO-
SITE SHERWOOD PARK,
CONSISTING OF ABOUT THIRTY Y
THREE ACRES OF
VERY HANDSOME AND EXTREMELY
VALUABLE SUBURBAN PROP
ERTY AT AUCTION.

In execution OF decree OF the Circuit
Court Of Hcnrico. entered April O, 1919,
in the suit of Rennie, etc, against Morris
and ais, we Will sell by auction. on The
premises. on
MONDAY. JUNE -. 1885,
at : O'Clock p. NJ. the VERY ATTRAC-
TIVE AND HIGHLY VALUABLE
TRACT or SUBURBAN LAND above
referred TO. with the improvements there
on, situated on the Brook turnpike. about
one mile from the city Of Richmond, I'M
nediately opposite Sherwood PARK, ana
embracing about % ACRES OF land, In
an exceptionally good neghborhood, on
the best road leading from the city, anu
occupying a most commanding position.
The property will be sold either as a
whole or in Subdivisions as may seem
best 10 the commissioners; and plat Oh
# can be seen at the Office of the auc-
toneer.
AS regards topography. accessibility.
and neighborhood. this land has but lew
EQUALS and should commend Itself 10
investors and others as Offering an op-
portunity for securing a property with
great possibilities in the near future
In addition TO the fine drive upon which
the land is lOcated-the best In Eastern
Virginia-it should be borne in mind That
the Barton Heights electric railway -
but a short distance east OF THIS favored
tract. and, with the pecuniary assist
ance of property owners In this vicinity,
II can doubtless be extended 10 the turn
pike
TERMS: Cash sufficient to pay the costs
Of suit and sale, and one-fourth OF The
residue Of the purchase-money, and the
other thrce-fourths on credits of eight
sixteen, and twenty-four months, Tor
notes. with interest at 6 per cent. added
and secured by deed Of trust; or all
cash. at the option Of the purchaser.
GEORGE l.. CHRISTIAN,
J. JORDAN JEAKE,
JOSEPH CHRISTIAN.
Special Commissioners.
In the clerks Office of the Circuit Court
OF the county Of Henrico.-Rennie and
ais, plaintiffs, against Morris and ais,
defendants.
!. J. T.. Broaddus. clerk OF the SAID
court. do certify that the bond required
Of the special commissioners by the de-
cree rendered I'm said cause on the 9Th
day OF April. 1895. has been duly given;
Given under my hand as clerk % the
said court this 9th day OF June, 1880.
j. Il. BROADDUS, Clerk.
je11.13.151S.2O.212 &2i
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