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-J -L I 1. I I I I I i 4 i THE CHUISTIAN CITIZEN: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1888. 1 AN INTELLIGENT DOG. THE HERMIT 0E LEHMAN. ONE-EYED RILEY.

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itest improvements, strictly FIRST CLASS, and mam The Riley Wake Printing Fine Art, Book and-'Cmmercial Postal Servioe Performed by Black aud White doily. The Dog Route by Which the Inhabitants of Calico and tho Blsuiurtk Mining Camp Receive Tholr A Faithful Messenger. Ban Franoisoo Chronicle. If all tho mail service was as promptly and faithfully performed as is the dog route between Calico and Bismarck, there would be notnmg left to complain of, remarked Post-oitice Inspector T. F.

Traoy to A Chronicle reporter yesterday. Dog route) Do you mean that a dog carries tho mails there? asked the reporter. Certainly. Did you never hear of the dog Dorsey? No? Well, Dorsey is the regular mail earner between the post-office at Calico, San Francisco County, and the Bismarck mining camp, three or four miles over the mountains. Calico is a stage station and has a post-office, but Bismarck is neither, and, as the three or four miles between them are the kind of miles peculiar to mining districts, it was a great inconvenience for the Bismarck miners to get their letters.

The country between the two places is rough and steep, and the weather most of the year pretty hot, which made it considerable of a task for a Bismarck miner to get his mail from Calico. This was the condition of affairs when the genius of the dog Dorsey was developed. Dorsey belongs to the postmaster at Calico, and was not regarded in the highest favor in his youth, as it was not early discovered for what purpose he was put into the world. Dorsey is a black and white colly, with intelligent eyes, shaggy coat and pointed nose, yet he was thought to be a good deal of a loafer. One day the postmaster wanted to get word to his brother up at Bismarck.

He did not want to make the trip.himself, and no one else offered to make it for him. It suddenly occurred to him to try Dorsey. A letter was conspicuously tied around the dogs neck, his nose was pointed toward Bismarck and he was told to git. He trotted off a little way and then turned around inquiringly, but was met with a volley of 6tones thrown by some small boys anxious to teaoh Dorseys young ideas how to shoot. The colly took the advice and trotted off in a business-like manner.

The next day he came back with an answering letter tied around his neck and showed signs of having been well treated at the other end of the route. The experiment was repeated, each time successfully, and each time Dorsey assumed an air of greater dignity. The news of his success was the talk of both camps, and the postmaster received many requests from miners at Bismarck to send their letters over the next time Dorsey made a trip. The result was that pretty soon Dorsey had more letters than could be conveniently fastened to him. The miners theu ordered a handsome mail-bag made and fitted to the dogs shoulders.

The bag is fastened by two straps, one around his chest aud one under his body just back of his fore legs. When the mail bag was finished and supplied with the regulation brass lock Dorsey was formally installed as mail-carrier between the two points. Every day, just about the time the stage is due, Dorsey wakes up from his nap, stretches himself and walks into the post-office. When the stage has arrived and the Bismarck letters have been put into Dorseys mail bag, the postmaster sys: The mail is ready, and Dorsey soberly walks uj tp have the bag fastened on- Then he starts off on a little trail whiejh he has worn for himself over tile hills. If he meets stranger he makes a long detour, for be knows that he is engaged on important business and dont want to run any risk of having trouble.

He stays in Bismarck over night and returns with the mail the next day in time for the outgoing stage. He has never missed a connection, lost a letter, or been hehipd time. He is immensely popular with the miners, whose mail he carries so faithfully, and every evening at Bismarc.k the miners order an extra beefsteak for the canine carrier. I tjtiink they would lyqch any one who harmed Dorsey. They have had his photograph taken here it is." Mr.

Tracy showed the reporter the photograph of the intelligent-looking colly wearing his mail-bag, and standing with his fore feet on a block, his countenance radiating a large, comprehensive smile, possibly begotten of toe fact that no one could deprive him of his daily beefsteak on political grounds. CAPTURE OF A DEVIL-FISH. Excitement on Board of a United States Steamship, Payta (Peru) Special to N. Y. Herald.

For some days past the quiet harbor of Payta, Peru, has been infested with immense numbers of huge fish, and speculation being rife as to the exact classification ot the monsters, Lieutenant Commander J. J. Price, of the United States steamship Iroquois, armed with a stout harpoon, pulled away in the dingy hoping to capture and bring back one in order to find out what particular family they belonged to. When distant about one mile frojn the Iroquois he was seen to lean forward and let go the harpoon. The blow struck home and immediately there was seen a great commotion in the water.

The monster traveled away from the boat, rope be-being immediately paid out, taking boat and crew along at a terrible speed. This continued for about two hours, at times pursued and pursuers being distant from the ship quite six miles. All this time the dingys crew had been backing water, and as there seemed to be no hope of bringing the brute in, one of the cutters, having on board two midshipmen armed with Springfields, proceeded to the scene of excitement. The fish was soon quieted with cold lead and towed to the Iroquois, where it proved to be a fine temale specimen of what fisherman generally call devil fish, a cartilaginous fish of the ray family. The outline was nearly an isosceles triangle, the apex at the tail, the altitude of the triangle or length of the fish being about half the breadth from tip to tip of the pectoral fins.

The skin was thin and rough, like that of a shark, color slaty black above, creamy white beneath, but darker along toe edge. Its length was ten feet, breadth twenty-two feet from tips to fins and weighed upward of fonr tons. The head was slightly protuberant along toe base of of the triangle and retracted, toe month being very large and cavernous. The large number of these huge fish in shallow water at this season of the year leads to the belief that this is their breeding season. The monster being too, large to take on board, tt was slung on the mainyard, carefully examined, measured, photographed and finally cut adrift Career of a Jersey Bear Closed After Bight Years or Depredation, Oakland (N.

Special, One-eyed Rileys back ogin!" shouted Jim Sliaftloy, the hunter, as he hurried into Stulls Tavern in this place on Thursday last. I got another shot at him, but he got away, This news was soon spread around the village and the excitement was great. Oue-oyed Riley was a bear. For eight years he had helped himself to mutton and pork iu this vicinity and had defied all efforts to capture him. His right eye was out.

It was put out by Alf. Daggen, a lumberman. Daggen had wounded the bear and they had come to a wrestle. Daggen fell down in trying to get away from the bear. The bear had its paws on the fallen hunters breast, when Daggen jabbed a stick in bruins right eye, gouging It out of the socket.

The bear left Daggen, and before it could renew the attack the hunter escaped. The next September Jim Shaft-ley caught a one-eyed bear iu a trap. He made up his mind to keep the big animal alive, and tied him in a log enclosure. Shaftley gave the bear the name One-eyed Riley. The very first night after its capture it escaped.

Ever since then it had at intervals appeared in the vicinity. It had been shot at a score of times. Jim Shaftley and his brother Bill followed it for twenty miles and failed to fetch it back with them. In the summer of 1881 the big one-eyed hear joined a number of children in the huckleberry woods back of Oakland, and drove them back to the village in short order. A party of hunters followed him to the swamp and watched the swamp on all sides for two days, but One-eyed Riley didnt show up, and the hunt was abandoned.

The next day the bear walked into Boltons pasture and walked out with a sheep. In August, 1881, Jim Shaftley met the bear along a trout-brook, where he was fishing. He had no gun, aud the bear went leisurely off into the woods. That was the last time the one-eyed was seen or heard of until Shaftley ran across him last Thursday. Jim had just shot a small bear on the edge of the swamp, when his dog scented another one in the swamp, and brought it out at toe very Bpot where Jim was standing.

The moment the bear appeared the hunter recognized his cunning old friend, One-eyed Riley. The bear stopped and turned quickly back the swAmp, and the ball that Jim sent after him did not hit the mark. The bear whipped the dog and drove it out. Jim hurried back to the village with the news. The other morning twenty-three hunters started out determined to run One-eyed Riley down.

They surrounded the swamp and sent half a dozen dogs into it to rout the big bear out. The dogs failed to find him, and after the swamp had been beaten tor more than an hour word came that the one-eyed bear had been seen in Siiaftleys meadows six miles away, since the party started out. The hunters turned for the meadow, spreading out through the woods. They had gone about three miles when one section of the party met the bear shuffling along back to the swamp. Three shots were fired at him.

The men who had seen him shouted for the others to be on the lookout, as he had turned oil into the thicket on the right. Hunters came running to the spot from all directions, and the bear met them whichever way he turned. He was surrounded at last, a volley of rifle balls was poured into him, and be died after nineteen bullets had pierced his vitals. He was probably the toughest beast that ever defied the hunter. His immense carcass was borne to the village iu triumphal march.

The victorious hunters were received with cheers. The killing of this cunning old brute was celebrated by a ball at the tavern. The festivities were kept up until daylight, and the bear furnished the viands for a rousing backwoods feast. TWO TAME TURTLES. Remarkable Intelligence Exhibited by a Fair of Hard-Sliell Creepers.

Philadelphia Newel One beautiful sunny day in the early spring of last year Mrs. Robertson, of 852 West street, was surprised to find at toe gate opening from her yard in the alley two turtles, one a hard turtle and the other a ground turtle. She took them both In, and they have since become regular household pets, following her around the house like dogs, allowing her to pet they and handle them with impunity. They have made friends with the three household cats which Mrs. Robertson keeps, and, although of different species, they frolic together in a dignified manner all day efll cept at meal times.

When their meal, consisting of bits of meat and sometimes a couple of bones, which they are expected to polish, is given them, it is amusing to see their lace for the dish in which it is set out, and the one reaching the dish first is sure to be attacked by the slow one. Since the advent of cold weather the turtles have buried themselves in the ground under the cellar floor and will remain there until the warm weather comes again. Tom and Jerry are the mimes given to these two curious pets by Mrs. Robertson, and she has become very much attached to them. Vitality of Men and Women.

Liverpool Postl Some interesting facts concerning the relative vitality of males and females are shown in the forty -sixth annual report of the English Register-General. In each 1,000 living persons there are 487 males and 513 females; but for every 100 females 103.5 males were born. At every age of life the death rate was lower in the females, and the difference is greater in early years. In both sexes a diminished death-rate is taking place. This is more marked in females than in males, at all ageB.

The improvement is especially notable in women up to forty-five aud in men to thirty-five. The mean expectation of life of a male at birth is 41.35, and of a female 44.65 years. The annual expectation of illness is, counted by days, nearly the same in both sexes. Bras Enough to Start a Beil Foam dry. Esielline (D.

T. BeiL) The Bell made a small advertising con ti act the other day. The add was to go in thirteen times, top column, next to poetry, following and preceding pure marriage-notices, paper sent regularly during life of contract, electrotype used, failures to insert made up, editorial mention, electro underlaid, 3 e. o. w.

w. p. d. etc. No pay if these conditions were not lived up to.

They now write us and say that If you prefer it to cash we will send, you the amount iu Godfreys enti-suction rubber composition." Godfreys anti-suo-tion rubber composition! After ail these conditions to want to load ns op with Godfreys anti-suction rubber composition! Galll follow-mortal, gall! Strange Career of a Man Who Could Have Lived In Comfort. The Remarkable Idiosyncrasy of a Despondent, Widower His Hut In the Wilderness of Wayne County, Fennsyl lanki. LMilford (Pa.) Cor. Cincinnati Times. Austin Sheldon, bettor known as The Honnitof Lohmuu, died at the residence of a citizen of Lehman township, this county, recently, aged eighty-three years, He was born in Stonybrook, in 1802.

He was a member of a prominent and well-to-do family. He learned the blacksmith trade, and ot tho age of thirty years had accumulated several thousand dollars. He was a man of very strong religious belief, and at the age of thirty-two he married. His wife died soon afterward. She had been dead but a short time when Sheldon disappeared from his native village.

About the year 1840 a man giving the name of Austin Sheldon, and exhibiting many eccentricities, purchased a tract of wild land on the Moosic mountain, iu Canaan township, Wayne County, ten miles from Honesdale. He put up a hut in this wilderness, and lived there the life of a hermit. He seldom appeared at any of the villages, and kept aloof from all communication with any human being except as necessity required it. No one knew or could find out any thing about his antecedents. He remained in the wild spot he had chosen for two or three years, until the lumbermen and tanners had cleared up the region all around him and made his retreat less retired.

He then sold the property and disappeared. In the year 1845 a number of hunters were tramping through Lehman township, Pike County, when they discovered a singular looking beiDg living in a miserable hut or cave iu an isolated portion of the region. He would give no account of himself except to say that he had been living there for three years, and that he had not seen any human beings during that time until the appearance of the hunters. He subsequently came to this place, bought the tract of land on which his hut was located, aud it was then learned that his name was Austin Sheldon, but taut was all tnat could be learned of tbo mysterious hermit. He remained in the mountain cave until 1S73 before any thing of his history became known.

He was always fond of reading a Bible and never made any visitor welcome, frequently refusing to permit an interview with them at all. Finally, in 1873, the remarkable instance of the mysterious man having lived for over thirty years secluded in a wilderness, occupying a filthy cave scarcely large enough to admit the presence of himself and another, and in all that time never having touched his bands or his face with water nor LL hair or beard with razor or comb, which as, apparently, a matter of religious pride with him, led to a local newspaper mailing mention of it. The item was copied throughout the country, and finally as printed in a Connecticut local paper. A few weeks after the original publication of the item, a fine looking, middle-aged gentleman, accompanied by a fashionably dressed lady of evident culture, arrived in this village, aud asked to be directed to the hut occupied by the hermit of Lehman. The lady was a sister of Austin Sheldon, and the gentleman was her husband.

They had read the item about the hermit in the Connecticut paper; and that was the first intimation thoy had ever received of his whereabouts since his disappearance in 1832. They had long supposed him dead. They were driven as near to the Sheldon hut as a wagon could be taken through the woods, and they reached the hermits abode at night-fall. They could not recognize in the grimy, unkempt object that disputed their entrance to his abode their long-lost brother, but he admitted his identity. His relatives begged and pleaded with him to leave his wretched life and return with them to Connecticut, where every comfort and every luxury awaited him.

He emphatically refused to do so or to accept any help at their hands. They were forced to return without him. It was from his sister that the story of Sheldons life was first obtained here. Sheldon continued his miserable, uncommunicative life in the mountain cave. One day in 1882 he surprised the inhabitants of the village of Dingmans, nine miles from his by appearing there to obtain a new suit of clothes to take the place of the ragged and patched garments he had worn ever since he came to that region.

He said he intended to look after a wife. He visited several "women in the vicinity and proposed to them. Being refused he returned to his cave, and after a time disappeared. He was seen a few days later thirty miles away, and he said he was on his way back to Connecticut. He walked all the way back to his native place.

A few months later he walked back and once more took up his abode in his old cave. He said he could not possibly live among civilized scenes. A few weeks ago his physical and mental condition became such that he was taken in charge by charitable persons, at the house of one of whom he died. During Sheldons long and lonely life in the Pike County wilderness, he several times was nearly frozen to death in his cave. Timely discovery of his condition saved his life.

More than once he was in peril for days by forest fires surrounding his hut. He had numerous escapes from wild animals. Sheldon slept in an upright position on a chair made from the butt end of a log, with a back of laurel branches. His hair and whiskers were extremely long, and matted with twigs, burs and whatever became fastened in them. His nondescript garments were held npon him and together by twines and withes.

He had read and re-read the Bible, and said he had taken up his abode in the wilderness, so that he might serve God with more singleness of purpose. He appeared in Milford regularly once a year to pay his taxes on his land. Nashville Practical Jokers. Atlanta Constitution. Young men in Nashville used to have a Strange idea of fun.

About twenty yean ago, during a cold spell, they organized a society with fun as its avowed object. The fun consisted in raising money and distributing it among the poor people ot the city and county. In the course of one winter they raised and gave away seventeen thousand dollan. The young men who were engaged in this frolic are now gray-headed, but they maintain that they never in their lives enjoyed themselves much as they did during that memorable winter. A few such practical jokers would be a blessing to every town in the T7uit.nl 'll! TarHirlnt- Ills M'lfo mn) Jillilreu with iteil-llot Pokers uud Surgeim's Knives A Till i' of IicntIUh Cruelty 1U.

Wj-etkctl, (Ch cujjo li iald. The Washingtonian Home yesterday received ns sad a wreck as has, probably, or been recorded. Not only the patient himself but his entire family, consisting of a wife and lire children, have been practically ruifled by bis excesses. On Friday a carriage drove up to the Dearborn avenue entrance of the Criminal Court building, and from it emerged Dr. Charles D.

Bradley, of SO Rush stioet, accompanied by lame friends, who took him before Judge Prendergast. The insane cases proper had been disposed of and tho room was almost clear of the usual crowd of curious spectators. There was no jury, and the affair was conducted as quietly as possible. It was shown that Dr. Bradley, quite a prominent physician, bad been addicted to the use of cocaine to such an extent as to render him practically insane.

The story was told that the doctor had, under its influence, performed experiments on his family that have made them physical wrecks. His claim was that be could inject the hydrocblorato without pain and remove the flesh without injury to the patient. Qe injected some of it into his own arm and then with a red-hot iron burned it out without fliuchiug. Seme more of it he injected into the wrist of his three-year-old child and then with a knife cut out the flesh, the little one apparently Buffering no pain. He used the drag promiscuously in the family, and became himself a slave to it, until in a little time his practice fell away and his family was reduced to want.

Under tho influence of the stuff he claimed he was its discoverer, that it would revolutionize medicine, and that the world would recognize in him a benefactor whose name would go down to the ages. He became a fanatic on the subject a wild dreamer. He mortgaged all he possessed even his horse and buggy, to pur. ue his favorite study. His wife an invalid and bis children ruined in health, their condition was heartrending in the extreme.

The furniture in the house is in the hands of the Sheriff, and absolutely nothing is left but a jar containing a physiological specimen preserved in alcohol, belonging to toe Doctor. The scone in the court-i oom was dramatic. The poor victim seemed to realize his situation, and suddenly raising his voice to a high pitch and becoming highly excited, called on God to help convince the Judge and the physicians present that his theory was right. In an agony of despair, running up to the Court andplucing his baud on the Judges shoulder, he cried: My God Almighty, you will kill my wife as sure as there is a God in Heaven 1 usk you as a man. Judge Prendergast, to try the cocaine, and if I am wrong then do wilh me as you will.

I He commenced the habit about last May, and it has grown on him gradually until its culmination in the ruin ot seven people. Three of the children were sent to St. Vincents Hospital, and his wife and the remaining two children to St. Josephs. It is considered doubtful whether any of them will ever recover their normal condition.

Dr. W. R. Brower, who attended Bradley, in conversation on the subject of the drug cocaine, said: The properties of it as an anaesthetic were only discovered about a year and a half ago. It is a powerful cerebral or brain stimulant, and is the purest and simplest we have.

It is most marvelous in its effects. Under its influence the devotee becomes highly elated, loquacious, and talks excessively. llis movements are active and incessant. He is given a sense of exhilaration, self-satisfaction and a feeling of grandeur; he toinks he owns all creation and everything is under his control. The condition of mind it brings to him is most peculiar and scarcely to be doscribed.

This gradually wears off, and the ultimate effect is to destroy his appetite, ruin bis digestion, make him sleeplessly nervous, the result inevitably being complete brain exhaustion, so that the poor creature is literally unfit for work of any kind. But the remarkable effect of all is the destruction of the moral sense and the disturbance of the affections. Bradley has quarreled with nearly all jhis friends. A short time ago, while I was in Dr. Dudleys office, he was present and threatened to shoot me.

On another occasion he ordered Dr. Irwin, of the North Side, out of his house. The infernal habit is becoming general very fast. Almost every medical journal I pick up contains something concerning its prevalence. I think it will soon take the place of morphine and opium, and, said the Doctor, with emphasis, it is the most infamous drug of that class that bos ever been brought before the people.

It is the most diabolical of any of the narcotics and the most fascinating and insinuating. Its primary effects are the most delightful and toe results the most dangerous of any of that nature that have ever come before the medical profession. It is going to give us more tronble than any of the other narcot-Jos. Some time ago its expense was a great barrier to its use, but now that it has become cheaper its circle is widening with fearful rapidity. Opium, cannabis, Indica or hasheesh and moiphine are no comparison to it in its horrible after-effects.

The nervous by stem suffers to a greater extent under its influence than any of the others. You can sleep morphine off in great part, but cocaine makes food or sleep distusteful to the victim. I can not describe it better than to say it is venomous. To be sure, as a medicinal agent it has its advantages. It is a wonderful reliever in pain locally.

Its function is double; while it soothes pain locally it stimulates the brain at the same time. An immense amount is now sold by the drag bouses, both as a medical property and to be used for the gratification or rather ruin of devoteee. It was usod in General Grants case to relieve the pain in bis throat; it kept him comfortable, and its judicieus use undoubtedly prolonged his life. The foot of it being used in his case helped to publish its effects to the world and greatly accelerated its consumption. The house where Bradley lived, at 36 Rush street, is a fine brick dwelling, but lonesome and deserted-looking now.

A front window bears the legend In bright letters, Doctor Bradley. Not an article is left that could be sold or mortgaged. The block of dwellings on the south side of it is being torn down, and it will probably go next and disappear typical of the sad wreck who only aebort time ago sheltered with his wife and little ones under its protecting walls. PRINTERS! AND RUBBER STAMP MAKERS. S'' if IX H'.

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