&
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Governor LowgRry of Mississippi
comes up smiling in his effort to knock
out the prize-fighters, and he is succeed-
ing in a way that is making everybody
else smile.
—A Kansas farmer has scored a great
success in making vinegar out of water-
melons. He started out with the object
of converting them into sugar, but the
enterprise soured on him, as it were.
—Grandpa HARRISON'S affections may
be centered on the crib in which Baby
MCcKEE nestles, but the crib that is
dearest to the Republican heart is the
one that furnishes the official provender.
—CLARKsSON’S axe has already chop-
ped off the heads of about 13,000 village
postmasters. The gore dripping from
that insatiable implement should satisfy
the most ravenous of Republican place-
seekers,
—The French appear to have effectu-
ally squelched BoULANGER, who for
some years past has been their chief
political nuisance. Couldnt something
of the same kind be done to MAHONE in
Virginia ?
—The American people would be bet-
ter pleased with the yanking of the
British lion’s tail in the Behring Sea if
it wasn’t so evident that it is being done
in the interest of the Alaska Seal Fur
Company’s monopoly.
~-Judging from the horrible charac-
ter which some of the Philadelphia pa-
pers are giving the drinking water of
that city, one would suppose. that
their columns were being run in the
interest of a beer syndicate.
—Not only have the industries been
in a state of turmoil since HARRISON
squatted himself in the Presidential
chair, but the elements also arein a bad
humor about it, as is evidenced by the
storms and floods that are ravaging all
parts of the country.
—The Hay Fever Association will hold
its next annual meeting at Bethlehem,
New Hampshire,in August. The for-
mula of the presiding officer in taking
the sense of the convention is likely to
be something like this: “Those in favor
of the motion will give their assent by
sneezing.”
—If BouLANGER had taken a few point-
ers from Colonel DubpLEY and other ex-
pert American election manipulators of
the Republican persuasion, he possibly
would not be so sadly in the soup as he
now is. He made a great mistake in
not acquainting himself with the effica-
cy of “blocks of five.”
—If TANNER should be bounced,
would it necessitate the removal of his
daughter who, in the truly paternal style
of the Harrison administration, has been
favored with an $1800 clerkship? Or if
she should be retained, would the ac-
commodating arrangement be continued
by which she draws the pay and a sub-
ordinate does the work ?
—It may appear strange that while the
Montana election is pending RUSSELL
HARrrisox is in Europe dallying with
the effete monarchs. Possibly his papa
conceived the briliant idea that the Mon-
tana voters will be so dazzled by his as-
soeiation with kings and nobles that they
will stop at nothing short of making a
United States Senator of him.
—A negro in Georgia who claims to
be CHRIsT is raising a great religious
commotion among the class of people
who furnish the bulk of the Republican
vote in that State. He is gaining a large
number of followers without the promise
of “forty acres and a mule,” which in
the carpet-bag period influenced the
gullibility of the southern negroes,
—-The Philadelphia Inquirer asks:
“Suppose the secret inquiry now being
made into the Pension Office affairs
should result in a complete vindication of
Commissioner TANNER, what is to save
it from being called a whitewashing
job ?’—Nothing whatever. With a well
grounded suspicion of the motive of the
administration in this matter, the people
are pretty well convinced that the Tan-
ner investigation committee is intended
to apply the whitewash brush.
—Alluding to a glut in the butter
‘market, the New York T7ibunesuggests
that the excess be tendered to the chair-
man of the Democratic National Com-
mittee to enable him to get the two fac-
tions of his party ‘together. From the
experience of last year the Tribune evi-
dently has a lively recollection of the
efficacy of “fat” in a campaign emer-
gency, but as a political lubricant it is
doubtful whether butter would prove as
efficacious as fat fried from manufactur-
ers.
—>Speaking of the readiness with
which the English parliament voted
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 34.
NO. 30.
Why He Will Be Nominated and Elec-
ted.
Recognizing the feeling that per-
vades a large portion of the Ameriean
people in favor of reinstating GROVER
CLEVELAND in the Presidency in 1892,
the Brooklyn Eagle makes the follow-
ing remark :
“It looks very much as if Grover Cleveland
is getting nearer to the Presidential nomina-
tion, without effort, than any other man is,with
effort.”
No one who has watched the current
of public sentiment on. this subject
will deny the truth of the above ex-
pression. On the same subject the
Newport correspondent of the Boston
Herald says;
Ex-President and Mrs. Cleveland will visit
Newport early in August, and they will be
handsomely entertained. It is understood that
the distinguished visitors are to be the guests
of C. C. Baldwin, ex-President of the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad, and more recently one
of the New York Aqueduct Commissioners,
who was removed by ex-Mayor Hewitt. Mr.
Baldwin states that Mr. Cleveland will succeed
Benjamin Harrison as President of the United
States.”
That Mr. BALpwIN is entirely level-
headed in his opinion as to who will
be Mr. Benxsamiy HARRISON'S succes-
sor in the Presidential chair scarcely
admits of dispute. There are a number
ot reasons for such a succession. Mr.
Harrison's incumbency as President
is such an absurd failure that if it were
not so injurious to public interests it
would be a laughable farce. But it is
too serious a joke to have any fun in
it. The fact of its beings decided a
fiasco makes its contrast with CLEVE-
LAND's administration the stronger,
thereby strengthening the inclination of
the people to make amends for the
blunder of 1888 by restoring Mr.
CLEVELAND to the position from which
he was displaced by the most singular
freak in the political history of the
country. They are conscious that this
freak was produced by. a combination
of the worse influences that were ever
brought to operate in politics. They
are by no means in a complacent
frame of mind about having been made
the victims of the various villainies
that were compressed into the cam-
paign that defeated Mr. CLEVELAND.
They feel that to get square with the
rascals who lied to them about the
tariff, who corrupted the election with
money furnished by the protected mo-
nopolies, who debauched the soldier
vote with the bribery of prospective
pensions, and assailed with the sneak-
ing method of the assassin the family
relations of a good President and an
honest man, no other way could prove
more effective and satisfactory, or fur-
nish a more direct means of retribution,
than the re-election ot the high official
who, like themselves, was victimized
by these scoundrelly practices.
This is the feeling that is every day
becoming more strongly developed
among Democrats, and itis extending
to honest people outside of the Demo-
cratic ranks, who see in the burlesque
administration now at the head of
the government the legitimate result of
the means used to put it in power.
This is the reason why, as the Brook-
lyn Eagle says, “GrRovER CLEVELAND is
getting nearer to the next Presiden-
tial nomination, without effort, than
any other man is, with effort.” And
his nomination will be equivalent to an
election.
What They are Feeding On.
The Blossburg Advertiser of a recent
date contained the following :'
There is unprecedented suffering among
the miners, and over sixty families at Arnot
are starving. There is a small weed called
‘lamb’s quarters’ growing in the woods and on
the hillsides around Arnot, which is gathered, |
and after being fheronghly washed and boiled
in salt water, together with possibly a dish of
berries, constitutes the entire meal of many
families.
That is nice fare, indeed, for the sus-
tenance of workingmen who last vear
were promised “Plenty of work and
two dollars a day” as a reward for
their assistance in electing Harrison
and maintaining the great system of
tariff’ protection to American indus-
| try. These Tioga miners, no doubt.
performed their part of the contract,
but how does it come that they are
more money for the support of their roy- | "OW feeding on “lambs quarters” boil
al barnacles, the Philadelphia Inquirer ed in salt water, and berries picked by
1 : + { ro vaide ?
alludes to it as a remarkable instance of the wayside?
Tioga county rolled
‘the cheerful willingness of a certain | UP an unusually large majority for
class of people to enrich a certain other | 1IARRISOX and it oughtn’t to be that at
class.” But can’t we find a parallel
case right here at home ? For instance,
the cheerful willingness of the Republi-
so early a period ef his administration
' some of her working people are virtu-
ean voters to enrich a class of monopo-
lists through the agency of a tariff.
ally starving.
————
—The tariff stiil continues to bea tax.
‘burg by the fellows who are always
Death of a Plutocrat.
The death of CuarrLeEMAGNE Tow-
ER last week closed the career of a
man who was a wonderful money mak-
er. Beyond his capacity for accumu-
lation very little can be said of him.
Born in New York State, he commenc-
ed his business life something over
thirty years ago in Orwigsburg, the
county seat’ of Schuylkill county, mov-
ing to Pottsville when the court house
was moved to that place, and as he
gave much of his attention to the coal
lands of that region he in time became
the owner of some of the most valuable
properties of that kind.
Without attracting by his accumula-
tions the public attention that has been
attracted by some of the other wealth-
grabbers of this plutocratic period, he
died possessed of the enormous wealth
of $25,000,000. In addition to his coal
lands he got posesssion of Lake Supe-
rior ore lands which he sold for six mil-
lions of dollars, cash down. The meth-
ods by which such a colossal fortune
was acquired may not have been in
conflict with the letter of the law, but
there is something radically wrong in
conditions that admit of vast acquire-
ment of wealth by a limited few while
a large class of people are every year
finding it more difficult to gain a bare
subsistence. In such cases as that of
TowEr appear in their most repulsive
light the features of a situation which
so exorbitantly assists the rich in grow-
ing richer, and so relentlessly consigns
the poor to lower depths of poverty.
While in pursuit of wealth the deceas-
ed plutocrat in question appeared but
once prominently in public life, and
that was some years ago when he was
a candidate for United States Sena-
tor, depending upon his money to se-
cure his election, It is not known to
what extent he was plucked at Harris-
lying in wait for such a customer, but
he failed in the object of his ambition.
It was at a time when the Cameroons had
pre-empted the United States Senator-
ship; otherwise it cannot be believed
that the virtue of a Pennsylvania Leg-
islature would have been proof against
the pecuniary influence to which
CHARLEMAGNE Tower proposed to
subject it.
Changing Its Views.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, the
leading Republican paper of Missouri,
which in the campaign of last year was
among the ablest supporters of ITARRI-
soN and the theives’ tariff, is now be-
ginning to see that the tariff is respon-
sible for the Trusts, and is demanding
that salt and sugar be put on the free
list in order to prevent combinations of
monopolists from robbing the con-
sumers of those articles.
It is surprising that a journal like the
Democrat, which ordinarily is conducted
with iatelligence, should not have been
able long before this to understand
how a high tariff promotes such mo-
nopolies as the Salt and Sugar Trusts.
When it was clamoring a year ago in
support of the protective system repre-
sented by Harrrson and his party,
Grover CLEVELAND was pointing out
in his message the effects of high
tariff duties which are just now becom-
ing apparent to the Globe- Democrat in
the robbery practiced by the monopo-
lists whom the tariff has assisted in
securing the control of some of the ne-
cessaries of life. At that time this St.
Louis paper was denouncing the posi-
tion taken by CLEVELAND and the Dem-
ocrats on this question as rank free
trade. Now itis ready to goso far as
to demand free trrde in sugar and
salt.
——During the campaign of 1888
the Republicans were quite noisy in
charging the Cleveland administration
with favoring a lot of “pet banks” by
making them the depositories of large
amounts of the government money. The
orators and editors of the party worked
themselves into a fine imitation of vir-
tuous indignation over these ‘pet
‘JoHN PuLESTON.
banks” favored by a profligate admin-
istration. Yet the Treasury report on |
the Ist of July, 1889, showed that the |
Harrison administration was keeping
$47,432,377 of the government money
in “pet banks,” about the same
amount that the Cleveland administra-
tion allowed the banks to have for the
benefit of the business of the country.
by those who were so noisy on this
subject a year ago.
BELLEFONTE, PA., AUGUST 2, 1889.
A Republican Tory.
There was quite a lively time in the
British Parliament some days ago over
the question whether the taxes of the
people of Great Britain should be in-
creased by additional grants of money
to members of the royal family. One
of the Prince of Wales’ daughters was
about to be married and the contention
arose upon the proposition to make
her the beneficiary of a public endow-
ment. Upon the ground that the roy-
al family had been sufficiently provid-
ed for, the Liberal members opposed
the grant, some of them making strong
speeches against it. Of course the
Tory members supported it, Lord
Raxporpn CHURCHILL making a par-
ticularly strong speech in its behalf.
In a telegraphic account of this par-
liamentary set-to it is stated that after
Lord Rawporpu had concluded his
speech in favor of lavishing the Eng-
lish tax-payers’ money on the third
generation of the royal family, “among
the very fitst of the men who ran up
to his Lordship in the lobby and pour-
ed over him a torrent of flowing and
gushing congratulations, was Sir Jor~
Pureston.” :
Those members of the editorial fra-
ternity of Pennsylvania who attended
the meeting for the formation of an
editorial association, which was held
in Danville in 1857, will remember a
dapper and rather foppish looking
young man who was selected to act as
secretary on that occasion. That he
made an efficient secretary should go
without saying, for he was very smart in
every respect. He was decidedly Eng-
lish in appearance. We have a vivid
recollection of the remarkable choker-
collar he wore. That young man was
Somehow or other
he had drifted from England, into the
Wyoming coal region and at that time
‘was connected with the = Pittston
Glazette—its editor, we believe. He was
intensely. Republican in his political
sentiments, and some years after, when
the “cruel war’ broke out, was re-
warded for his loyalty with an official
position at the seat of government
through the influence of that incor-
ruptible old patriot, Simon CaMERON,
who at that period was so liberally dis-
pensing contracts and offices to loyal
Pennsylvanians. Young PuLestoN,
from the position in’ the Treasury de-
partment to which he had been ap-
pointed, got an acquaintance with HeN-
rY CLEWS, who was also an English-
man and was then assisting Joy Cooke
in placing the government securities.
It wasn’t long before PuLeston was
found in London, connected with the
English branch of the New York
banking firm of: HeNrY Crews & Co.,
and from one step to another he in
time became one of the financial mag-
nates of the English metropolis, and
eventually a member of Parliament.
In doing all this it hadn’t been neces-
sary for him to change his American
citizenship, for he never had any. He
had been an intensely loyal Republi-
can, a Cameronian office-holder, an as-
sistant in floating the national loan,
and all the time a subject of her Brit-
annic Majesty, Queen Victoria. He
is now Sir Jou~N PuLesToN, through the
favor of his gracious sovereign, and one
of the most supple of the Tory follow-
ers of SALISBURY and BaLFouRr in the
support of every measure for the op-
pression of Ireland. No other mem-
ber of his party can surpass him in
toadying to royalty, as was evidenced
by his alacrity in congratulating Lord
Raxporpn CHURCHILL oa his speech in
favor of squandering more of the English
people's money on Victoria's almost
innumerable progeny.
In this connection it may be believed
that Sir Jou tendered a hearty greeting
‘to Prince RusserLn Harrison during
the latter's recent enjoyment of the
hospitality of England's royalty and
Tory nobility. This would be ndtural,
not only on account of his former con-
nection with the Republican party, but
also because he instinctively knows a
Prince when he sees him. It may be
further believed that Sir Joux would
be a proper person through whom
Joux 'Jarrerr might convey to the
English Tories President Harrison's
assurance that the American people
entertain a strong affection for the Brit-
ish lion and that every decent Ameri-
: . ‘ i can condemned President CLEVELAND'S
But there is no more fuss being made !
SackviLLE WEsT.
that when that
dismissal of Lord
Itis well known
shining light of Republicanism and
pillar of protection, Jars G. BLAINE,
was in England last year, he was quite
intimate with Sir Jou~x PuLesto, and
possibly to the influence of that bloom-
ing Tory may be attributed the decided
English leaning that is being display-
ed by the Harrison administration.
Who knows but that it was suggested
through this channel that it would be
a great stroke of policy in the way of
keeping in with the English for the
President to send that letter to Queen
Victoria congratulating her on the
birth of the Battenberg baby ?
RAS.
A National Flower.
We see that some of the papers are
still hammering away on the subject of
a national flower. They appear to
think that the United States is much
in need of one, and quite a variety of
the floral productions of this and other
countries are suggested as suitable for
such an emblemetic purpose. The rose,
the lily, the violet, the arbutus, the as-
ter, the sunflower, and even the holly-
hoek, have been mentioned in this con-
nection, and one newspaper comes out
strong for the golden rod, as if Colum.
bia would be satisfied with a flaunting
weed for an emblem,
But really we ean see no good reason
why the United States should have a
representative flower. Such trampery
may have been suitable enough in the
middle ages when the half civilized na-
tions of those times required distin-
guishing symbols. The rude barons of
England fought for half a century un-
der the opposite banners of the red and
white rose. The lily answered the |
purpose of advertising that the banner
on which it appeared belonged to
France. But we have nosuch use for
a flower. To'adopt one would merely
be showing deference to a custom of the
played-out past, ‘Thigignot the age,
and we are not the people, to indulge
in such nonsense,
Something to Think About,
The following paragraph from the
Altoona Tribune furnishes a subject for
serious thought :
It is generally believed that the negroes of
Georgia ave slightly higher in the he of in-
telligence than their brethren of Alabama,
Mississippi and Louisiana. And yet we are
told that large numbers of colored residents of
Georgia have gone out after a man calling him-
self Christ, accepting all he says as gospel
truth. It is even said that two or three human
sacrifices have been made in obedience to the
order of the false Christ who has at last been
arrested and locked up. If this is the intellec-
tual status of Georgia negroes, what must be
the condition of those in the gulf states, and
who surpass the whites numerically?
These are the barbarians to whom
the Tribune's party would give the po-
litical control of the South. Because
the intelligence of that section will not
permit this mass of ignorance to domi-
nate it politics, frantic appeals are
made to the general government to ex-
ercise its power in inflicting such a
wrong upon enlightened people. This
is just what is meant by the demand to
secure what is called the political rights
of the Southern negroes. It is natural
that the Republican party should sym-
pathize with these degraded barbarians
without whose numerical strength it
would be in a minority of over a mil-
lion,yet there is no justification for sub-
jecting the wealth, culture, civilization
and intelligence of a large section of
the country to their rule.
A Scene of Starvation.
The Braidwood coal district of Illi-
nois hasn't met with such a calamity as
befell the people of the Conemaugh
Valley, yet there is a condition of dis-
tress and suffering existing there almost
as harrowing in its details as if the re-
gion had been swept by a flood.
Congressman LAWLER, of the Chicago
relief committee that has been down
in the Braidwood neighborhood help-
ing the sufferers, reports their condition
as being “most horrible.” Giving par-
ticulars, he says:
In one instance a horse died in the street,
and the flesh was stripped from the bones ina
few minutes and eaten by the famishing peo:
le. The breasts of mothers nursing their in-
Pats he says, have literally dried up for lack
of nourishment,and children may be seen with
the skin, hardened and dried, clinging to the
bones of theif faces.
If such a scene of starvation had
been described as occurring in England
those who have been taught to believe
in the beneficence of a tariff system
would readily have attributed it to the
blighting effects of free trade, But how
can the Braidwood situation, and the
almost equal destifution in other indus-
trial localities in this country, be re-
conciled with the doctrine that tariffs
are necessary to promote the prosperity
of the working people ?
pa
Spawls from the Keystone,
—The Reading Fagle says that city has $50,
000 invested in bicycles.
—George Ballantyne, who wears a cork leg,
is one of the fastest bicyclists in Huntingdon.
—Julia Boyer has been sent to jail in Pitts-
burg for the theft of a latch-key valued at 2
cents.
—South Chester has a big tony cat that was
raised by a little terrier which adopted it soon
after its birth.
—A West Chester gentleman has computed
that there are 852,480 grains of wheat in a bush-
el this year,
—A young lady at East Nottingham has dis-
covered a turtle which bore the initials “Th.
T.” and date “1771.”
—A 98-cent alarms clock scared burglars out
of a well-to-do residence in New Castle early
the other morning.
—The fishing parties eamping out in Berks
county make a comforting tea from a balsam
plant that grows wild there,
—The vineyards near Reading have been so
injured by the heavy rains that only a half
crop of grapes is expected.
—DMecArthur’s Mill, at Norristown, has closed
in definitely, making the third factory there
which has shut down within. a month.
—Scranton has a Christian. science er faith-
cure society, numbering 125 members, which
holds services every Sunday evening.
—A cane consisting of 5864 pieces has just
been made and presented toa friend by Will*
iam Schaeffer, of Linfield, Montgomery county,
—Mr. Fishel, a bicyclist of Butler, rode down
the Main street three nights ago: with both
feet thrown comfortably over the handles of
his wheel.
—Mrs. Eliza Shomers, of Annville;. who ran
a splinter under her thumb nail about a weel
ago, died from lockjaw on Friday night in
great agony.
—1In crossing the mountain near Strasburg,
a Chambersburg miss met a copperhead snake
and broke its back with the first stone she
flung. .
—Steve J. Owens, of Lancaster, offers te do-
nate all the ground necessary to any persons
who will ‘locate a manufacturing establish.
ment in that city.
—The old barlow-knife or “toad sticker”
once owned by President Buchanan, and
found four years ago at Wheatland, is at Shy.
der’s Hotel, Lancaster.
—PFair catches of whitefish are being made
at Erie daily, but the fish are scarcer than
they used to be, as a result of systematic and
remorseless fishing.
—A. B. Wanner, a Reading lawyer, recently
built a $25,000 house, and, after living init a
week, moved back to his old home. He says
the new house is too fine.
—A Williamsport paper of Saturday evening
says: Every day a big cargo of logs is brought
back by rail and tumbled into the boom. The
big saw-mills will soon start up.
—Bob Springer, colored, was 101 yers old
on Saturday, and celebrated the event at his
home in Beartown, Lancaster county. A brass
band lent zest to the festivities.
—A Pennsylvania Railroad official in Pitts & ,
burg said lest week that the “curiosity travel”
to Johnstown would make up a good share of
the company’s losses by the flood.
—An evening or to ago, Mabel, a little 4-year
old child of ‘Joseph Ringer, of Greensburg,
came nearlosing her life from eating “sour
clover” that she had gathered about the yard’
—A Delaware county man bought a pair of
live chickens and placed them on the floor
while he made some purchases at the grocery.
When he came back the hens had laid two
eggs.
—dJohn Yerkes, of Leopard, Chester county,
was stricken with paralysis while driving, and
fell down back of the horse: The animal
kicked him, and then he was run over by the
wagon. f
—John Featherham, of West Nantmeal, had
a finger cut off while holding a horse. The
member was caught between the halter-strap
and a tree limb while the horse was trying to
back off. .
—A vacant store-room in the new Bennett &
Phelps block in Wilkesbarre has just been
found to contain myriads of dead flies—fully
a bushel of them—and the question is what
killed them.
—A bieycler on an immense wheel ranover a
9-year-old girl in Wilkesbarre the other night
withour losing his balance, and sped of off
into the darkness. The child was badly eut
and bruised. :
—An aerolite about the size of a goose egg,
which fell from the sky, in Liverpool, Perry
county, one night recentty, was picked ap- the
next morning by Mrs. J. K. Blattenberger,
who has it now. !
—At Renovo a couple of nights ago an in-
furiated wife flung a can at the face of a man
whose wife, she said, had “tried to deaden her
husband’s heart toward her.” The edge of the
can made a gash which a doctor had to patch.
—A cunning frog in a pool near Wiliams”
port pretends to,be dead until he is covered.
with flies, when he takes a sudden header and
thus secures a meal of the insects. When he
feels hungry again he sets himself as before*
—Mr. J. Jardine, of Phenixville, having re-
duces the height of his front steps, Mrs. Jar-
dine, forgetful of the fact, made a misstep in
coming out of the door with a babe 'in' her
arms, the other night and was badly hurt by
the fall. . !
—Ex-Burgess T. H. Windle while walking
over his tarm in Cain township, Chestercounty,
on Monday caught a large blowing viper. The
snake is a very rare reptile in that section
this being the second one ever known to have
been captured. .
—0. F. Mingos dnd two others went to Lopeze
Sullivan county, recently, to view the first
trial of a new splash-dam at Kipp’s lumbér,
mill. The rush of water swept away the dam
and a flying log struck Mr. Mingos a crushing
blow on the forehead, of which he died two
days later.
—Mr. J. W. Closser, of Waynesburg, in saclk-
ing some, wool he had bought during the past
week noticed that one fleece seemed very
heavy. Onopening it up the biggest part of
the carcass of a defunct sheep fell out of the
nicely done up fleece, which he had paid 33
cents per pound for.
—W. Harrah, of Fayetteville, Franklin coun.
ty, went to bed a few nightsago after ‘reading
of midnight robberies and dreamed of burglar
In his efforts to escape them he sprang from
his bedroom window, alighting on his left
shoulder, knocking the joint out of place, and
fracturing the shoulder blade.
—A Wilkesbarre paper says: When a visitor
would fall into the hands of the barbers at the
encampment of the Thirteenth Regiment he
would | charged 65 cents for a shave. If the
man objected the “guard” would be called out
and make a prétense of taking him to the
guard-house, where he would generally pay
up.