ER a ime) Democratic tcp T rms, $2.00 a Year, in Advance, Bellefonte, Pa., July 23, 1889. : P. GRAY MEEK, - - - Eprror. Democratic County Committee, 1889. C M Bower Patrick Garrety oseph W Gross J W McCormick I I Gardner Ilis Weaver } W Hartman .J D Ritter J] H Riley on Gorton .L J Bing n Hepple Bellefonte, N. W. wo S. WwW is W.W Centre Hall Boroug Howard Borough. Milesburg Borougt Millheim Boroug Philipsburg, 1st W * 2d W £8 3d W Unionville Borough Burnside. Philip Confer Daniel Grove T 8S Delong ohn T McCormick amuel Harpster jr Geo. B Crawford ..J € Rossman A Bowersox .C A Weaver Wm Bailey .C C Meyer ‘ranklin Dietz John Q Miles D W Herring . Henderson J Gramley .D L Meek W F Smith .B F Arney + L Goodheart Hugh McCann R € Wilcox William Kerrin .R J Haynes jr College . Curtin ... ¥ erguson, E ® & Ww. DP Gregg, S. P... “ 88 N.P Haines, E. I 2 wl OWL P 8 N.P.. Snow Shoe, W. P &“ “ E. P Spri ..J N Brooks Ah m T Hoover Union Aaron Fahr Walker J H McCauley Ae Levi Reese WM. C. HEINLE, Chairmam. I ———————C———— Tanner to be Whitewashed. It is evident that the intention is to whitewash Tav~er. The complaints about the irregularity of his official conduct can no longer be ignored, but as it wouldn't suit to discharge him, the only remedy for the awkward situ- ation in which he has placed the ad- ministration is to get the public to be- lieve that he isn’t as bad as represent- ed, and that his Democratic predeces- sor was a goog deal worse. A committee has been appointed for this purpose, and :t can readily be believed that it will find no difficulty in exonerating the inculpated Com- missioner. An ex-parte investigation will be made, the committee bearing closely in mind the purpose for which it was appointed,and asit is composed entirely of Republicans, a report giving TANNER a lovely certificate of character may be confidently expected. Itiis said that it will extend its in ves- tigations back to Commissioner Bracx’s term, and as they will be conduet- ed strictly on the Star-chamber plan the job of exonerating the Republican Commissioner will be facilitated by im- puting irregularity and malfeasance to Brack’s administration of the offi ce. Something has got to be done to keep Taxyer in his place and retain the favor of the army of Pension seek- ers, and this committee can be entrusted with the white-washing that will be required to effect that object. Tt appears that in the cutting down of wages, which is going on all along the industrial line under this high tariff administration, no resg ect is paid to sex. The wages of the girls employed in the highly protected silk industry at Patterson, N. J., have bzen cut ten per cent., although they were getting but from $4.50 to 85 a week. The consequence is that 600 of them have struck. There are tariff duties amounting to 50 per cent. for the pro. tection of the silk manufacturers who want to starve their female employe s whose poorly paid labor contributes to their wealth. If these girls had voted last fall for the maintenance of the robber tariff it could be said that they are but reaping the fruits of their folly. Their sex kept them guiltless of such idiocy, but they must suffer just the same. The Republican papers fail to give an explanation why it was prac- ticing free trade and catering to Brit- ish interests for a Democratic adminis- tration to buy army blankets in Eng- land, and just the opposite for a Re- publican administration to procure from the same source a lot of bricks to be used in constructing the Congres- sional library building at Washington. An explanation of this matter so soon after the fuss about the importation of the army blafikets, would make niighty interesting reading. —It is reported that a great English syndicate is trying to get control of a number of Pittsburg steel works, They are doing this with a full knowledge of the amount of steal there is in a Trust, with the assistance of a high tariff. And It is Very Important, Philadelphia Record. The Liquor and Beer Dealers’ As- sociation In New York will meet at Rochester early in September. There is one important subject which ought to enlist the earnest attention of the asso- ciation,and that is the vile adulteration of vinous and malt liquora, This &vs- tem of fraud upon consumers has done more to promote the prohibitory liquor | wool industry in those States! I't has had movement than any other cause, The Tragic Side Of It. Sad Sequel To Republican Ante-Elec- tion Promises. Enfored Idleness, Starvation and Misery the Product of the Monoply Tariff Called Protec tion—T/e Good Work of Relief by Democrats. [New York Globe.] The monopoly tariff, insuring great operators in this country against foreign competition,encouraging trusts and com- binations less compact to put up prices on the one hand, or to stop production and curtail work and wages on the other, is, according to Mr. Harrison, Mr. Blaine, and the Federalist-Republican-Trust party, a great national blessing. Previous to the last election American industry in all its branches was promised untold advantages from the support of this barbarous iniquity. The rich being made richer by their ability under this arrangement to fix their own prices upon the necessaries of life, which we must have, and likewise upon our labor, which we must.sell, or perish, were going, out of their own sweet pleasure, to take the most tender care of the American work- ingman who thus placed himself at their royal merey! The natural and logical result are al- ready apparent all over the country in the extreme distress of our laboring peo- ple, and especially in the lockout and strikes in such highly protected enterpris- es as those of Mr. Carnegie and the other fiancial chiefs of the trust party. But probably the saddest case is that of the bituminous coal miners in Illinois and Indiana, who after numerous reduc- tions, declined to submit to the fresh cut, which brought them down to 60 cents a day. Required to purchase the necess- aries of life, clothing, bedding, utensils, salt and sugar out of such wages at tar- iff and trust pricas, they saw that it was starvation whether they should strike or submit, and they chose to strike. They are the same unfortunate miners who were loaded into excursion trains by their employers and carried to India- napolis by the thousands to wait on Gen- real Harrison and express their approval of that worthy’s disinterested stand against any reduction of the benficent monopoly tariff. It is not likely that many of these men were actually deceiv- ed by the pretenses of the capitalists and politicians who thus used them, but their bread and butter depended upon compliance, and they obeyed. The tales of want and suffering which come up {from them now are enough to move a heart of granite, while, for the blight which has fallen on their industry, and deprived them of the opporunit® ef ear- ning their bread, they are as little sespon- sible as are the inhabitants of the Cone- maugh for the desolation of that val- ley. A workingman of Pittsburg, a Demo- crat, with a head and heart honestly de- voted to the interests of his class, and sympathizing with these miners in the calamity which has overtaken them, has started for their relief the tariff reform- ers’ fund, to which he and THE Prrrs- BURG Post invite contributions of any amount from any part of the country. The responce to this appeal ought to be as great in proportion as that in the case of Johnstown.—These men and their families are in a state quite as sorrowful, except forthe loss of life, as were the others. In some instances, itis said, they are actually starving. TuE Post will receive and forward everything that may be sent to it, and we devoutly trust that the great-hearted Democracy from the lakes to the guif will answer this call to their humanity. rr —— ——— Michigan Wool. Detroit News. Those farmers in Michigan who own sheep are now supposed to be getting the benefit of the duty on wool in the in- creased price they are receiving. They are willing to be taxed on their tools, their clothing, their food, their house furnishings, their fence hoards and even the nails that hold them to the posts, for | the sake of the profit that the tariff ena- bles them to pocket on their wool. And yet the record kept by F. A. Dewey of Cambridge, Mich., of the prices for which he has sold his wool during the past fifty years, and publish- ed in “The People’s Cause,” a tax reform journal, shows that between 1846 and 1860—low tariff years—his wool averag- ed thirty-eight cents a pound, as against an average of thirty-two cents a pound between 1867 and 1877 ~high tariff years. Just now prices vary from fifteen to twenty cents for unwashed and from twenty-five to thirty-two cents for wash- ed—an average below auy of the above figures. George 'W. Bond, a wool expert, agrees with Mr. Dewey. He says “Our fine wools have always been higher, other things being equal, when we are able to freely import wools of other countries at a low duty or noduty at all.” This is the secret of good prices for American wool under alow tariff. “The Amer- ican munufactor must have the power,” wrote the National Association of wool Manufacturers to Secretary Manning in 1885, *‘of selecting a portion of his raw material from all the world’s source of supply,” in order to compete with foreign manufacturers ‘for the possession of the markets of this county.” Not for the possession of foreign market; that was out of the question. But for the poss- ession of the home markets. The best result in wool manufacture are attained by mixing different grades. No two countries produce the same kind of wool. Soil and climate create ditfer- ences that cannot be overcome. The foreign manufactures have the whole world from which to choose their raw material. The manufacturers of the Uni- ted States are not granted this privilage, and in consequence they depress the home market by every artifice in their power in order to compensate them for the duty they are compelled to pay on their imports. Besides, an over-abund- ance of one kind of wool makes that kind cheap. There is more of it than can be profitable used. So the price of American wool is depressed by the very instrument intended to make it more valuable, In 1867 there were 28,829 815 sheep in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York, Indiana, Illinois, ‘Wisconsin and Towa. In 1887 the number had decrens- ed to 12,850,563. What a wonderful stimulus the tariff must have been to the large. In 1867 there were 30,385,386 sheep in the United States; in 1870 the number had decreased to 85,804,200. In 1884 it was 50,656,624; in 1888 43,544 855 —an increase of only 4,159,379 under twenty years of protection. The wool clip has increased from 160,000,000 in 1867 to 265,000,000 in 1887, the average weight of fleeces being a pound more heavier. But thisis due to improved methods of breeding, and is as marked in free trade asin protected countries. The persistence of an economic error is shown in no case more plainly than in the tenacity with which the American farmer clings to a system of taxation that compels him to bear the greater part of the burden of government, sad- dles him with monopolies, and is rapid- ly driving him into the class of tenant farmers. mr r——— Lincoln's Pitiable Life [St. Louis Republic.] Some anonymous philospher who was wise in his generation Las remarked that men are what women make them, and someone else with even greater wis dom has proclaimed the truth that if you wish to know what a man is to be you must ask his wife. In his account of the merried life of Lincoln his law partner, Mr. W. H. Hernden, gives ap. propriate and curious illustrations of these truths. In her girlhood, long be- fore her marriage, Mrs. Lincoln had asserted that her husband should be pres- ident. ‘When she met Lincoln they were both ambitious, and ripe for each otherin that sense, at least. Lincoln had been unfortunate in his real love affairs; the first had driven him into emotional insanity under the effects of which he with difficulty refrained from suicide. A subsequent affair left him a victim of the blackest melancholia. When he met Miss Todd, he courted her for the influnnce of her family con- nection, and was accepted, though the much handsomer Stephen A. Douglas was his rival. Governing himself by his calculating brain, he seems never to have been able to master himself to any great emergency without a struggle—such a struggle as took place here; as a result of which he failed to appear when his bride and her friends waited for him at the altar. His strong, emotional nature had triumphed Teachers’ Salaries. Dr. Higbee, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, believes that teach- ers’ salaries should be increased twenty per cent. and that the standard be raised accordingly. This is a good suggestion. As things are now, possibly the ma- jority of teachers get all they are worth, but better men and women would enter the profession if paid well. The Lan- caster Kaeaminer would like to see Dr. Higbee's sugeestion carried into effect in the primary schools at least. Here is where the most talent and learning are required, and therefore, the bis: salaries should be paid. Unfortunately we grade, salaries according to the assumed digni- ty of the grade taught. something wonderful, and teachers all want to get there, partly for the salary, and chiefly from the sentiment thatsuch a position’is more dignified. All this is very funny, of course, as every man with two orains of sense should know that the child mind is the hardest to in- struct. So in the primary schools the merest tyro is placed or the last graduate from the High School. The country districts, especially, should think of what Dr. Higbee has said, as the majority of children there are small and, therefore, should have the best and wisest instruc- tors. If you want good ability you must pay for it, and when you do pay for it you ean insist upon it being of good quality. If our rural friends should agree to pay twenty per cent. more salary they could cet teachers with better certificates and the schools would improve accordingly. Am ———— Round Shoulders Squared. A stooping figure and a halting gait, accompanied by the unavoidable weak- ness of lungs incidental to a narrow chest, may be entirely cured by a very simple and easily, performed exercise of raising one’s self upon the toes leisurely in a perpendicular position several times daily. To take this exercise properly one must take a perfectly upright posi- tion, with the heels together and the toe at an angle of forty-five degrees. Then drop the arms lifelessly by the sides, an- imating and raising the chest to its full capacity muscularly, the chin well drawn mm, and the crown of the head feeling as ifattached to a string suspended from over his strength of calculation, and he had once more became irresponsible, in- capable for the time of calculating at all. When his mind cleared, a lady friend reopened negotiations for the marriage nd it was very privately celebrated. "hen Lincoln, who had ‘said nothing about it at the house where he boarded, was dressing for the ceremony, some one asked him where he was going. “To ; I reckon,” was his prophetic reply. “To and the presidency,” he might have said with equal truth, for the match led him directly into both, if his most inti- mate friend is any authority. Mrs. Lincoln revenged on him to the full the shame and disgrace he had put upon her. He felt he deserved it, and it is the most admirable trait of his charac- ter that he bore it with a Socratic pa- tience. It is not quite so admirable that he made little attempt to conceal either his patience or his provocation, but too much is not to be expected from his lack of training in the direction of the finer feelings. Tn illustration of what his family life was, Mr. Hernden relates that on one occasion a man who had called at the Lincoln house to see Mrs. Lincoln on business angered her and was overwhelmed with such a torrent of abuse that it does not strain metaphor to say 1t swept him hopelessly oft’ the pre- mises. In the proportion that he re- covered from it, he grew violently angry himself; and in that condition he search- ed for and found Lincoln, of whom he demanded instant “personal satisfac- tion.” By no means a stranger to brawls, Lincoln had no thought of fighting here. : “My friend,” he said, with his mild- est and saddest looks, “can’t you stand fora few minutes what I have stood for many years?” Before the pathos of the appeal fury melted into sympathy and sympathy he- came friendship. The fellow-suffe rers were always friends afterwards. Lincoln never had a home or home- life. Even his children could not make one for him. “Je touched the ground only to gatherstrength for a new fight,” as his biographer expresses it, evidently with Goethe's idea in his mind. He re- laxed to play with his children,and then immediately fell into his usual state of introspection. is only sympathy with his wife seems to have been in their common ambition—the White House, in- to which she drove him from home. Would it have been possible otherwise for a man of his deeply emotional na- ture: a man who could “fall in love” so deeply as to become mentally unbalanc- ed? Could such a man have so resisted the charm of domestic happiness as to sacrifice it to ambition? It is in all probability impossible. Mrs. Lincoln made President Lincoln and taught him patience. And when the poor womun died the physicians found that all her life she had been the victim of disesse by which they accounted for her vialent temper. They did not attempt to ac- count for her ambition or for his, er e—————— DEATHS BY LIGHTNING.—At . the meeting of the Royal Meteorslogical Society, held recently in England, a paper On the Deaths caused by Light- ning in England and Wales from 1852 to 1880, as Recorded in the Returns of the Registrar-General,” was read by | Inspector General R. Lawson, L. L. D, The total number of deaths from light- ning during the 29 years amounted to 546, of which 442 were of males and 104 of females. In consequence apparently of their greater exposure the inhabitants of rural districts suffer more trom light- ning than those of towns. It appears also that vicinity to the west and south coasts reduces the chances of injury hy lightning, and that distance fron the coast and high land seem to increa e them, An Important Element Of the success of Hood's Sarsaparilla is the fuct that every purchaser receives a fair equivalent for his money. The fa. miliar headline #100 Doses One Dollar,” the ceiling above. Slowly rise up on the balls of both fect to the greatest pos- sible height, thereby exercising all the muscles of the le and body; come again into a standing position without swaying the body backward out of the perfect line. Repeat this same exercise, first on one foot, then on the other. It is wonderful what straightening-out power this exercise has upon round shoulders and crooked backs, and one will be surprised to note how soon the lungs begin to show the effect of such expansive development.—[The Family Doctor. teferred to the G. A. R. Philadelphia Evening Telegraph (Rep.) The story now is that Secretary of the Interior Noble, Assistant Secretary Bus- sey, and the cockalorums of the Interior Department have been up to the White House talking the plainest sort of plain talk to the President about the energetic Tanner and his ways: and that the Presi- dent has told them that he can't afford to dissmiss Tanner, because to do so would be to make the G. A. R. “agin him.” Well, all we have to say to that is that if Mr. Harrison said anything of the kind it is the worst indignity that has ever yet been put upon the real veterans and decent men who are con- nected with the Grand Army of the Republic. We know very well that the members of that organization are not— taking them as they come —gifted with supersensitive natures. If they were, some of them that belong to this city would scorn to occupy their post rooms at the public expense. But this kind of a tribute to their political potency is one that is calculated to make such of them as have not been completely demoralized by the pension legislation” and the pen- sion talk of the last few years squirm a little. rn e——— po “Timely Questions.” The Johnstown Democrat, under the caption of “Timely Questions,” asks the following. “How much of Governor Beaver's million and a half has been wasted in aying a horde of officials, bosses and clerks fo doing com- paratively little and others for doing nothing? To what extent is the relief fund depleted by holding meetings at Cresson? Why not prac- tice a little economy In handling money that is ‘nded for people of the valley who suffered om The general impression is that the detailed statement given by the governor, instead of explaining anything, only serves to mix things up, and the indignation of the Johnstown peo- ple is growing greater and greater, The Pittsburg Times, (Rep.) in com- menting editorially upon the ‘statement by the governor, says: The whole husiness, o far as Governor Beav- er has anything to do with it, is becoming a huge scandal, taking his stafements as they stand. We may say there are things about it that are disgracefully disereditable—the neces sary outcome of Governor Beavers stubborn refusal to he advised, and of the pursuit of ob- jigs Wholly foreign to ohjects of benevo. ence.” ———— A Woman's Strange Taste. “Ilow much are slate pencils?” asked a woman as she stepped into a stationery store yesterday morning. “Ten cents a dozen.” “Grive me one dozen.” Then unwrapping the package, she deliberately bexan to eat the pencils, Yes eat them, not just chip the ends with her teeth, as do school children, but biting off substrntial (uarter-inch | pieces and crushing andswallowing them with infinite relish. This was a remarka- ble achievement tor a staid, mutronly person, such as she appeared to be, and naturally was questioned concerning this strange propensity. From whut she had said in replying it seems that this unu ul system of diet was by no means confined to slate pencils. Gravel is a staple article of food with hep. properiy stained and assorted: oysters and clam shells and friable sandstone she masticates as a man eats soda crackers and asks for more.— Aulus, Me. Gazette, A Tr ——r——_ o— stolen by imitators, is original with and true only of Hood's Sarsaparilly. This can easily be proven by any one who desires to test the matter, For real economy, buy only Hood's Sarsaparilla, the same effect, also, on the country at Sold by all druggists, —Dinkelspiel (to the waiter) Gey von hortion ohf mudden-chops, mit two shmall Rhinevines, und der dice-box, Dis vas Misder Ickstein, mine vrent from St. Louie, who I vos enderdainin’ in der citys.” Hich schools | and grammar schools are looked upon as | The American Farmer, Harrisburg Patriot. During the hot, sultry season when the president is resting at Deer Park, Blaine sniffing the cool breezes that play about Bar Harbor, and the Disstons, Dobsons and others of the tariff-fed monopolists are enjoying the salty air of the watering places that line the shores of the middle and lower Atlantic, the “American farmer” is busy at work. To him there comes no week of rest from work and care, for surcease of labor with him means loss of crops ard inevi- table ruin. While he is sweating be- neath the boiling sun of July and Au- gust, the editors in the employ of salt trusts, sugar trusis, steel “trusts and various other combinations, are busy ar- | ranging the figures of the crop report. One of these tells us that “Trade is un- usually dull for this season, but the ex- cellent condition of the crops gives a comfortable assurance to us that agri- | culture, the basis cf all our wonderful prosperity in the past,will again lighten the dark gloom of despondency which at present lowers upon our manufac- turing and mining enterprises.” Ex- actly so, It is the agriculturist and not the manufacturer that furnishes “the basis of all our wonderful prosperity.” And for this,how is he rewarded ? Taxed on his coal, his salt, sugar and soap. Taxed on his nails, fence-posts, harness and wagons. Taxed on his mower and reaper, and on the twine that is used to bind his sheaves of grain. Taxed on his straw hat and cotton shirt, his shoe- strings and pants buttons. Taxed on his rain barrel, wash tubs, tin dippers and butter crocks. Earthenware, glass- ware, hardware, bricks, store and lum- ber, glass jars for holding fruits,and wax for sealing them, are each and all taxed to the farmer who must sell his products in the markets of the world, taking Liverpool, England, prices, because the price in that market fixes the maximum price in this country. Some day the farmer will understand the scheme of tariff robbery that consigns him to un- remitting toil,the workingmen to strikes and lockouts, and the syndicates of manufacturers to the seaside or jour- neyings to Europe. In the meanwhile, let the farmers of Pennsylvania ask themselves the question—“how doth it profit a man {o gain the whole of noth- ing and lose the results of his labor by unnecessary taxation ?” Another View of John Wanamaker's Soul. Saturday Globe, There is absolutely no excuse for the Post-master-General. Nchody has any special love for telegraph companies or other corporations, but they are entitled to fair treatient, something which they do not get in a great many cases where power is lodged temporarily in the hands of some unfair or ignorant man. This seems to be the title with which Mr. Wanamaker has been content to decorate himself. Neither in justice nor equity is there anything which would justify the Postmaster-General in using his power in the way he has done. Such a rate is simply ridiculous when itis known that the average cost of messages is probably ten or twelve times as much as the rate fixed in the new order. The real motive of the reductior is not at present known. It may be that the Western Union Company, which is the principal of all these corporations, had refused to contribute to Mr. Wana- maker's Half a Million Dollar Corrup- tion Fund last year, or it may have de- clined to give the desired number of free passes to the Postmaster-Genl's assistants, or other officials. Whatever the motive may have been, it is certainly not a business one, <o that all the talk of the advantage of having a business man in the office of Postmuster-General turns out to be futile. No just man, even if he were nota professor of religion who stood on the street corners and uttered loud prayers where the public could hear them, would ever have thought of try- ing to inaugurate such an unjust policy as this. co e——t— cn Deplorable Destitution. In a state of destitution a Pennsyl- vania coal miner laid down and died a few days ago and it is said that tie only thing found on the corpse was a Republi- can campaign promise of better times, and on this thin diet aided by a little Whisky he had been living ever since last November, when he voted for a high tariff. But he found the Repubii- can campaign promise. getting thinner and thinner until finally there was no more sustenance in it and hope itself perished. Then taking his last drink of whisky, in which he always found more comfort than in the promise, he gave up the ghost. And that is the way it will be with hundreds of thousands pnblican voters; they will all be ed to their futhers ‘ere the prowises of better times made to them by that party are realized. : is ss n—————— The Iniquity of the Sait Trust. Philadephia Record, The promoters of the Salt Trust | boastfully assert in their prospectus that their combination has a “marked differ- ence” from the “transient forestalling operations” recently witnessed ‘in grain, popper and other'staples.” There is, indeed, a marked difference in that the conspiracy to control the price of salt is worse than all the rest, Itisa plot against the health and life of the | people in attempting to limit the supply of an absolute necessary of human ex- | 1stence. In all other material respects | | the Salt Trust does not differ from its | congeners, except that it is more bold { and impudent in its character and pre- , tensions than most of the others, msc ——— Harrison, Morton and 20 Per Cent, Less Wages, Wilmington (Del.) Every Evening, Lt is a relief to learn that Carnegie und his striking employees have come to an agreement without bloodshed, hut will the duped éperatives who have sud. mitted to a cut-down of 20 per cent, be ready to fall in line in the next presi- dential campaign behind banners glori- fying high tariff’ and “protection to American labor?” How much of the 517 Per ton “protection” on steel rails goes tothe workingman under this reduction? And would he have hurrahed lust full for “Harrison and Morton and the whole Republican ticket and 50 per cent. low- er wages?’ , next day it will be fit for bottling. A Young Man Yet, Washington Post, The most notable contest in South Car- olina politics over federal patronage has been ended by the appointment of ex. Congressman Robert Smalls as Collector of the Port of Beaufort. The salary is comfortable. There is not much import- ing done, but the clearance of vessels with cargoes of phosphate is heavy. It is one of those ports where tne receipts will hardly pay the expenses of the Cus. tom Hous But it needs a vigilant ang scrupulously honest coll: ctor, for the in- bound phosphate ships have a way of packing away snug little cases of light goods with high duties, TUuder one col. lector the finest French bLiandies were retailing in Beaufort for less than they were wholesaling in New York. y Smalls isa man of strong native shrewdness, and though factional fights have shaken his hold in Beaufort the negroes look upon him as a colored Moses. The following story is vouched for by the gentleman who overheard it: Two negroes were fishing off the dock at Beaufort. “Tell you,” said the younger one, “Bob Smalls greatest mahn in dis lan’, “Oh, no,” suid the other “not de great- es’ mahn. He smart mahn, dough.” “Tell you, he greates’ mahn,” replied the first.speaker. “wirs’ he ran out de Planter, di'n he?” tYenh.” “Den he wuz made cah’p'n.” “I di'n’ tink o’dat.” “Den he run fer shurff, di’n’ he?” “I ’clar’ I done forgot dat. Yes, he run for shurfl.” “Den he run fer legislater?”’ Yeah.” “Den Gub’ner Scott mek ‘im Brae: dier-Gin’1?” “I done forgot dat, too.” “Den he run fer de Newnited States Cong’ess fer to set cross-laigged’ n’ tawk polities wid Gin’l Grant?” “Forgot all dat, ‘clar’. He big mahn, suab, but he an’t bigger'n Gawd.” “Naw,” said the first speaker, some- what nonplussed, “but” (slowly)—¢“hut Bob Smalls, he young mahn yit.” r———— In “Early Days.” Terre Haute Express. Somebody asked Une’ Joshua if he was not in Leadville in that interesting period of the city’s history generally known as the “early ds “I war dar fur ’bout free weeks befo’ I could git away;" the old man replied, “but it wa'nt no place for a coon in dem times.” “They never gave you any trouble, did they, Uncle Joshua asked one of the hearers, “Oh, nuffin’ serious to speak of,” the old fellow answered; “but dat dey didn’t is mo’ de kindness of the Lawd than de fault of dem miz’ble reskils what was dar in dem tines I ‘members one oc- casion distinctly, sab, mighty distinctly indeed, sah. Dey was a dance er some- thin’ of de sort one night, and, of cose, a feller he gets killed.” Dey starts outto bury him an’ laik a fool I starts to fol- ler de crowd. Gwine up de hill to de buryin’ ground de dead man he roll out, an’ none of dem drunken fools never no- tices it until dey gitsdar. Den dey was a time, 'n no mistake, Fverybody cus- sin’ an’ a-hollerin’ and me lauchin’ fit ter kill. ‘Bout dat time a big, slabsid- ed-lookin’ feller from Missouri says to me. What you laughin’ at nigger? If you think we come out here to be fooled you is a little bit off you base. We'll jis’ have a funeral anyhow now weis heah.” An’ wid dat he opens out on me wid de ole forty-five, an’ in less dan an instance every one of dem fools was a-crackin’ away at one poah nig- ger. An’ you ought ter a-seed me go. An'dat was my last ’speeriunce of Lead- ville. . nr o—————— Uncle Sam as a Free Trader. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Our high-tariff administration isim- porting from England 550,000 enamel- ed bricks to be used in the construction of the Congressional Library building. As government imports these bricks free, it buys them abroad because it can get thew much cheaper there. The plea is that the administration is dutifully sav- ing the people’s money by buying on a free-trade basis wherever it can buy cheapest. But what is right and politic for the government to do in a business matter this same administration would prevent the people from doing. They are not allowed to save their money by buying where they can buy cheapest. er—————— A Serious Problem. Boston Post. It is difficult to conceive a situation more humiliating than this: On one hand Mr. Harrison has his Commission- 8 of Pensions depleting the Treasury for the profit of the claim agents to the dis- may of the party, and on the other he has the threatened “di-satisfaction among the soldier element” in case of interfer- ence with the “policy” of his incompe- tent official. It is indeed, as the “Jour- nal’ says, “a serious problem; a very serious one for the administration, Biren Beer.—One gallon, of water, one quartof molasses one-quarter ounce of wholecloves, one-quarter ounce of white ginger root, one-half ounce of whole allspice, one ounce of birch, one-half ounce of sassafras. Boil all for three hours. After taking it from the fire pour itinto a clean tub and add one and a half gallons of water. Let it stand until milk-warm; then add two table- spoonfuls of bakers’ or brewers’ yeast. Stand away in the celler or some cool place duiing the night, covering it. The (rne Or two raisins with a few holes punched (in them with a fork add greatly to the flavor, Putit in strong bottles, cork tightly and tie down with twine. Set itin a cold cellar, and it will be fit for use in four days, rn —— SPICED RED CurrANTS.—For every five pounds.of currants, take three pounds of brown sugar and a quart of vinegar; one heaping tablespoonful of ground cinnamon; two round teaspoon- fuls of ground’ cloves; one round tea- spoonful of ground allspice; one round teaspoonful of powdered mace. Boil the currunts with the sugar as for jam. When quite thick, add the vinegar and spices, and boil, stirring well, from ten to twenty minutes more, or until like jam,
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