The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 31, 1893, Page 2

nro rem a, SS LIVE CARPET RAGS A Little Girl Plays With a Cop- perhead Snake. N. Y. Sun. For some reason it been the general belief among the people who live in the mountains of York, Lancaster and other where copperhead sna that this venomous snake has always will not bite children, and there are numer | ous wonderful stories told about the copperhead’s leniency towad chil- dren. Outside « stories ure not credited, but a well- known family, living on the Susque- hanna, believe them now. The fam ily consists of Jacob Loan, wife and two children, one a little girl 2 years old. Copperheads were plentiful that season, harvest hands having killed from 8 to 10 daily. One day the little one was sitting in the grass near the front gate, and her mother heard her laugh gleeful ly every now and then. She walked out tosee what was amusing the child so. When the little girl saw her she exclaimed: “Come, mamma, see the live car pet rags!” At the same time she held upa snake, grasped in the middle of the body, which squirmed in the air. Mrs. Loan saw at once that it was a cop- perhead. Although she was almost swooning with terror, the child's mother acted with rare presence of mind. It occurred to her that if she showed her alarm by cryingout to the child the latter would un- doubtedly become frightened and the change that would naturally fol low in handling or sudden dropping of the snake might anger the cop- perhead and cause it to bite. With a great effort Mrs. Loan said quietly and coaxingly: “Fetch it to mamma, dear. hurt it.” “But there's two of ‘em, mamma,” replied the little girl. “Ill fetch "em both.” She reached down and picked up another copperhead -that lay in the grass, and which Mrs. Loan had not seen, and came toddling jalong the path toward her mother with them. She retained her calmuess,and when the child was within a couple of yards of her spoke to her and said: “Put them on the ground, darling and let mamma see them walk.” This seemed to please the child and she placed the copperheads in the path. The two snakes caught sight of Mrs. Loan, and instantly their manner changed. The copper spot on the top of their heads began to darken in color, as it does when this snake is enraged, and they both made for the mother show- f {he mountaineers these Don’t +I that was begun over ing their great rage. The little girl clapped her hands and started to catch the snakes again. Hex mother rushed out of the path around the snakes, and snatching the child up in her arms flew to the house and into it, closed the door behind her and fell into a dead faint. The other child, a boy eight years old, was in another room making a kite. He heard the noise of his mother’s fall and his little sister cry ing and ran into the room. His father was at work near the house and the boy quicklyjsummoned him. It was sometime before he succeed- edin restoring his wife to con- sciousness and learned the cause of her swooning. Farmer Loan wentinte the yard the copperheads were still there and in a belingerent mood. They were soon killed. So gréat was the shock to Mrs. Loan that’she is still confin- ed to her bed and, the little girl mourned for her deadly playthings two or three days.” ion Fraud. Unearthed a Pens Leavenworth, Kan., August 22.—; A special pension examiner from Washington came to the National at this home, where he was admitted by transfer. with having fraudulently drawn a persion of $8 a month since March, 1891, on his brother's name. Wallis Lee was great on telling war s He is also charged ries and his duplicity woula probably | not have been discovered but for his brother Morgan applying for a pen sion, which led to inyestigution eight months ago. Negro Emigration. New York Commercial Advertiser. Bishop Turner of the African M. E. church is still of the op the negro will never reach his best estate until he forsakes the United States and emigrates to Liberia. He thinks it the duty of the gov ernment to place hundreds of millons of dollars in the hands of the negro that he may leave “the most race discriminating country on the face of the globe.” The bishop is cer tain that Liberia and no where else is the place for him to go, and he calls on the negro to pack up and go for the reason that this is the only future for them to go end the only future of the American republic to assist him to go. Of course Brother Turner takes a too serious view of the future of his race in this country as well as the future of the republic, provided this ion that people are not ticketed to other climes. Both the Republic and the negro will continue to exist even though we never send another ship to Liberia. If the colored people must emigrate in order to be saved there is proof that Liberia is not tke place. All efforts at civilization there have been utter failures and undoubtedly this will continue to be the case. The bishop his fad reluctantly. surrenders There is in St. Louis an institution known as the “Mullanphy fund” arising from a bequest made by the late Bryan Mullanphy for the relief of distressed immigrants. The St. Louis Chronicle gives special atten- tion to the management and dis bursement of this fund, and discov- ered that in one month $665 was disbursed for charity from the fund and $4,829 for expenses. In the words of the Chronicle, “It cost six dollars in fees, salaries and other expenses to give away a single dol lar.” There is a proverb, said to be of Arkansas extraction, “It’s an ill wind that blows no whar,” and the benevolent shade of the late philan- thropic Mullauphy may smile at the thought that while the “fund” may not do much for the distressed immigrants it is a real boon to the distressed trustees.—Kansas_ City Star. Rather Hard on Jerry Simpson. Washington, D.C, August 24.— Hon. Jerry Simpson of Kansas finds himself in a queer local scrape: In an evil moment he espoused the cause of a woman who waats to open asaloon. Mr. Simpson interested himself to the extent of lending his influence to the woman’s application for a liquor license. Citizens who feel outraged with the Kansas con- gressman’s action have filed this protest with the city commissioner. | Hold Un ana Hold fast. ] | Rural World. | There is apparently no reason to! change the opinions heretofore ex-! pressed in these pages as regards the) ‘strength of our own crops and the| } weakness of those of Europe, or of! the demand that will necessarily fol-) j low. Present prices are no indica-| jtiou to supply and demand but of] the monetary condition of the money | market in this country and the im-| mediate and pressing necessities of | uve to realize at| Never was there a time when | producers could better afford to hold | their wheat. It must be borne in| mind that the Uniced States is now the ouly country that can meet the) | some farmers who hy once. European buyer with large supphes and low prices. Australia has about | cleaned cut all its surplus avd South ; America is shipping very little. The | advance in the roupee exchange and | the low figures offered by England) prevent free shipment from Indie. | aud the little sent is a loss to the shipper. Germany, with a short crop assured, will have to depend largely on this country, as she has prohibited the importation of Rus- sian wheat. France, if the latest estimates placing their crops at 240,- 000,000 bushels are correct, will have to import over 100,000,000 bushels to meet their requirements. To meet the steady drain that has been going on and probably will continue, this country has less than 450,000,000 bushels, and out of this home re- quirements must be met. Turned the Hose on a Woman, Larnard, Kan., Aug. 22.—For over six years Rose Chapman has kept a disorierly house here. Public sen- timeni has been gathering against the woman for many months. This morning they determined to take hold of the matter in broad daylight and rid the city of its disgrace. At & signal the fire bells were rung and 300 men gathered. The hose com- pany was pressed into service, “and after the windows and doors had been broken iv, heavy streams of water were turned into the house, | its contents drenched and the in-| mates drowned out. Rose escaped | through the back door, but wa3 cap tured Some of the hot heads ad- vocated lynching, but cooler counsel prevented and she was given hours to leave town. A SURE THING. Old Cases of Malaria Need No; Longer be Invalids. There is no trying to dodge the fact that quine will not always cure malaria. While it is doubtless true that large doses of quinine or some other nerivative of Calisaya bark will cure more cases of chills and fever than any other drug, it is equally certain that in chronic malaria it is, | in a majority of cases, a flat failure. | In every malarious district there are thousands of people who continually take quinine and yet continually have more or less frequent attacks of ma- laria. These facts need no argument. Every person who lives in a malrious locality knows them to be true. A remedy capable of curing these cases of chronic malaria that quinine ‘*We claim that a temporay resident who may leave agaip any day, and who was sent to the national capital as a law maker from his state, has no right to interfere in local affairs and sign petitions to the detriment of tax payers of our vicinity. Shipping Hay to the South. Deloss Morrison has _ recently shipped 18 cat loads of Vernon county hay to Florida, Alabama and South Carolina. He loaded eight cars for shipment Wednesday—one _jat Deerfield, one at Clayton, three at Nevada and three at Walker—for shipment south.—Nevada Mail. See The World's Fair For Fifteen Cents. 3 Soldiers’ Home at this place to day and caused the arrest of Wallis Lee, a pretended veteran of the rebellion, for perjury on fifteen different counts: The examiner charges Wallis Lee with never having been in the rebellion, and with imperson- ating his brother, Morgan Lee, a citizen of Pittsburg, Kan., who was a soldier with a good record. By claiming to be Morgan, which it is said he has sworn to many times, Wallis was four years in the Mar- shalltown (Io.) Home and two years Upon receipt of you address and fifteen cents in postage stamps we will mail you prepaid our Souvenir Portfolio of the World’s Columbian Exposition. The regular price is fifty cents butas we want you to have one we make the price nominal You will find it a work of art and a athing to be prized. It contains full page views of the great building with description of the same, and is executed in the higest style of art. 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It will be sent free to any address for a limit- ed time. “A Queer Case. — Rochport,* Mo., Aug. 23.—The wife of Bud Naylor, who lives north of town, took morphine, mistaking it for headache medicine, fourteen| days ago, and has been in a coma- tose state ever since, the famlly be- few minutes. At times in her sleep she is seized with cramps, and it re- quires the strength of four men to hold her, but she does not become | to ay AN ABANDONED WEDDING- A Bashtful Lover, A Desperate Widow and the Muddy Kaw. Kansas City, Mo., August 24.— Romance tradgedy and humorous were closely mingled in the story of | anabandoned wedding and an at tempted suicide in Armourdale Mrs. Ada Schaef-| fer, a widow whose home is at 830 South Fourth street, has been court: | ed by Charles Grisby, a young man | several years her junior last evening. night there was to have b ding. A huudred guests but 5 Grisby was too bashful} ur and a few minutes before | the preacher came a message privi-| ately conveyed the information to} the bride to be that Charles was not} willing. Of course she told the | friends and it was not long until all the guests werejwhispering about it. In the commotion the weeping wid- | ow disappeared and then somebody said she left by the back door and was headed for the Muddy Kaw. A searching party wes organized and jast as the preacher was seen ap- proaching the guests started for the river. ‘The trail led past Swartzs- child a.d Sulzbergers’ packing house, and there in an eddy in the dark water floated two white shoes. A man had been seut for a rope and hooks to drag the river, when the bride and would be suicide was found hiding behind some bushes She said she wanted to die, but the thought of spoiling her good clothes unnerved her, it was not long until she consented to go home and not “make a scene” About eight oclock she again disappeared, and again the searching party was organized and heuded for the river. In the gloaming a white figure could be seen far out on a sand bar. The deserted bride with skirts raised was wading out to finda dry place to drown herself, and for a second time she was rescued. Then some- body suggested that the police be called and that she be taken to the station for safe keeping when a voice said: “No you dont call no police while Tm here” and Grisby, the missing groom stepped out from the crowd where he had been unnoticed- Nobody questioned his right to interfere and the widow was taken home and put under guard of friends jand Grigsby again disappeared. 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A brother of the deceased, Samuel Morgan, a farmer in Henry county arrived here to-day and identified the remains. He had never suspected his sister's true condition and broke down completely when the coroner's jury brought in their verdict this morning. Ex-Confederates Gather. Higginsville, Mo.,Aug. 23.—The tenth annual reunion of the ex-con- federates’ association of Missouri was held here to-day. The attend- ance was unusuaily large, most of| the prominent members of the as- sociation being present. Extensive preparations had been made both jhere and at the home, and the city | was beautifully decorated. About 100 tents were pitched on the grounds at theJhome. Arrangements were also made to feed the assem- bled multitude. It is estimated ing unable to rouse her for but a} pi apa imated that nearly 2,000 people took dinner thereto-day. Judge Gibson of Kan- sas City delivered the annual address and General Jo Shelby, also spoke. conscious. 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