Deworraiic; atc
Terms, 82.00 a Year, in Advance.
Bellefonte, Pa., October II, 1889.
P. GRAY MEEK, -
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Democratic State Ticket.
Epi1ToR.
FOR TREASURER,
EDMUND A. BIGLER,
OF CLEARFIELD.
Democratic County Ticket.
For Associate Judge—THOS. F. RILEY.
For Prothonotary—L. A. SCHAEFFER.
For District Attorney—J. C. MEYER.
For County Surveyor—GEOQ. D. JOHNSON.
For Coronor—Dr. JAMES W. NEFF.
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Does Not Deny and Cannot Explain.
The Republican ring organ is twist-
ing and turning in every direction to
avoid any explanation of the misman-
agement of the county finances by the
Republican Commissioners. If it is
asked to explain what became of the
$2,797.60 of taxes collected off the peo-
ple of the county last year for State
purposes in excess of the amount paid
out, and which has never been account-
ed for, it answers that the editor of the
WarcaMAN was “disloyal” during the
war! If itis asked why the pledge
given the taxpayers, to run the county
on a two mill tax if they should elect
Republican commissioners, is not car-
ried out,itansw ers that the editor bfthe
WarcamaN always was a “copperhead
and traitor!” If it is asked why the
Republican Commissioners had to in-
crease the taxes of the people of the
county the present year$6,268, as the
increased valuation shows they have
done, it answers that the editor of the
Warcamax is a “red-handed rebel”
and “political pirate !”’
Possibly the organ and the Republi-
can ring that is backing it,imagine that
this manner of treating questions that
are affecting the pockets of every tax-
payer in the county, is entirely satisfac-
tory, and that the farmers and others
who are being robbed by the present
management care more about having
the editor of the WarcmaN denounced
to the full extent of its meager vocabula-
ry, than they do to have an honest and
fair understanding of what is becoming
of their money, why it is being
squandered, or why it is necessary to
increase their taxes.
If these things can be explained,
why does the Gazette fail to give the
facts as asked for? Why does it keep on
howliag about almost everything on
the face of the globe, and remain death-
ly silent about matters of so such vital
importance to the taxpayers of our
county ?
Does it deny that $2,797.60 of the
money collected last year as State taxes
is missing ?
Does it deny that it pledged the peo-
ple of the county that their taxes
would be but 2 mills on the dollar if a
Republican board of commissioners
were elected ?
Does it deny that the present year’s
taxes have been increased $6,268 by in-
creased valuations?
If it cannot deny these facts, and re-
fuses, as itdoes,to try to explain any of
them,what right has it to ask any voter
to cast his ballot to continue the rule
of a little ring that has shown its dis-
regard for the interests of the taxpay-
ers, as the Republican ring that is now
running this county has done?
About Those Pictures.
It will be remembered that immedi-
ately after the nomination of the Re-
publican county ticket the Keystone
Gezette published in its columns pic-
tures of two of the most important
nominees—FreyiNeg and Gray. The
time intervening between the nomi-
nation and the portraits being
80 brief—scarcely more than twenty-
tour hours—the prompt appearance of
those campaign embellishments was
generally regarded as a suspicious cir-
cumstance,indicating that in the case of
the Prothonotary the editor of the
ring organ understood beforehand
whom the ring was going to nominate,
and upon such previous knowledge had
the cut ready to accompany the an-
nouncement of the nomination. This
was a most natural conclusion, for there
wasn’t time enough to get that picture
prepared unless there was a foreknow 1-
edge as to whom it was to be prepared
for. The suspicious look of the thing
was the subject of general remark, the
impression being that FepLer got a
tip from the ring master as to the per-
sonnel of the ticket, and knew in ad-
vance what physiognomies would fit
the case.
There being such strong circumstan -
tial evidence, and everything pointing
toring work in this matter, we called
attention in our issue of the 13th of
September to the tale told by these
pictures. It pointed to no other con-
clusion than that Fiebre prepared the
Fleming picture from his knowledge of
the choice the Bellefonte munipulators
were going to make for Prothonotary.
This view of the case we expressed on
the 13th of September, and after wait-
ing three full weeks the ring organ
came out with a denial that it had the
Fleming cut prepared on the strength
of its knowledge that the ring was go-
ing tojifnominate him, declaring
that it also had a picture of Mr. Mar-
TERN prepared. It alleges that Mr.
MarTerx told us, after our strictures,
that the Keystone Gazette had prepared
to do the square thing with him in the
picture business, it having provided
itselfin that line for any emergency,
andjit makes the charge that we were not
honest enough to come out in our col-
umns and acknowledge that we were
wrong in charging ring work in the
nominations as indicated by the pic-
tures, after what Mr. MarTeErN had
told us.
Well, to make this story short, we
will say that when a newspaper waits
for nearly a menth before denying a
charge against it, there is considerable
reason to believe that the charge
wasn’t entirely without foundation.
And, as to what Mr. MaTTERN said to
us about this matter, we are fully jus-
tified 1n saying that he gave it to us as
his belief that the ticket was gotten up
by the Bellefonte ring, of which the
Keystone Gazette is the organ, and no
other inference can be drawn than that
FemLer understood the plan of the
ringsters.
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Something Interesting.
There can be no question that if the
ring organ should publish the full text
of the last grand jury's report it would
furnish to its readers something that
would interest them a good deal more
than the portraits of ring-made can-
didates. There is nothing interesting
in the pictures of nominees who owe
their places on the ticket to the wire-
pulling of political trickers. Their ap-
pearance in a ring sheet merely indi-
cates the subserviency of a party to
bosses who set up and pull down can-
didates at their pleasure and to serve
their own selfish ends.
Independent voters can't take any
interest in such pictorial productions,
although the organ boasts that it keeps
an assortment of them on hand to meet
any emergency. Bat its readers would
like to see in its columns a full account
of what the grand jury had to say
about the condition of the county build-
inge. This is a practical question that
concerns every taxpayer, particularly
after it was promised that if the county
affairs were placed in the hands of a
Republican board of commissioners
there would be a general inauguration
of reform.
Master Workman PowbpgrLy
some months ago impressed very forci-
bly upon the Knights of Labor the
benefit that a protected ballot would
be to them. If he should be a little
more explicit in telling his followers
that Bover and his Republican house
of representatives recorded themselves
against ballot reform and thereby an-
tagonized a measure that is of so much
importance to working people, his de-
liverance on this subject would amount
to something more “than a glittering |
generality.
—The Democrats on Tuesday
made a clean sweep in electing the city
officers of Indianapolis. The first
Democratic mayor since 1874 was elect-
ed, and the 776 Republican majority
at the last city election was changed to
a Democratic majority of 800. This is
the sort of greeting that Lis native city
sends to the incumbent in the White
Honse after five months of adminis-
tration run on the spoils principle.
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A Drunken Tailor Nearly Disembowe’s
His Brot’ e ~in’Law,
MrrroN, Pa., Oct. 4.—A highly ex-
citing affair occurred here this evening.
John Oberlin, a merchant tailor of this
place, attempted to kill his wife and her
brother and sister, Charles and Hannah
Cox, the latter two narrowly escaping
with their lives. Hannah received a
bad gash in the hand and Charles was
seriously cet in the abdomen, a wound
about two inches long being inflicted,
through which his stomach protruded.
Oberlin has the reputation of being a
peaceable man when sober, and it is
said that his wife is very quarrelsome
and abusive with him when he is in li-
quor. His attempt to kill his family is
attributed to this cause. Oberlin was
arrested by Chief of Police Kyle, of
Milton, and W. H. Johnson, of Will-
iamsport. The probabilities are that
there will be no prosecution, unless the
wound of Charles Cox proves fatai. The
injured man is a brother-in-law to At-
torney Dan Cox, of Lewisburg.
—George D. Green, a Duncannon
youth of eight years, jumped on to a
wagon a few days ago, and after riding
some distance was told by the driver to
cet off. In attempting to do so he
caught on the iron rod that is used to
fasten the endgate, which protruded at
the side of the bed about four inches,
running the entire length into his thigh
und making an ugly gash about four]
inches long and into the bladder. He |
hung helplessly on the end of this iron
rod until lifted off, when the boy walk-
ed to his home, nearly a quarter of a
mile distant, only to sink at his moth-
er’s feet through exhaustion. His death
Republican Outlawry in the South.
For years, in fact ever since the dis-
graceful failure of Republican carpet-
bag rule in the South, the Republican
papers and Republican speakers have
made ita business to charge directly to
Democratic influence or to the Demo-
cratic people of that section all the
outrages, crimes or lawlessness that have
been committed in any of those states.
When sifted out and hunted up, the
facts in these Southern outrages and
Southern lawlessness put the
shoe on the other foot entirely. From
the following which we get from an ex-
change, the political statements of
which any one can verify by referring
tothe election returns of the counties
named, the reader will see that the chief
obstacle in the way of the maintenance
of order in most of the lawless sections
of the South is the character of the Re-
publican population within them. The
counties in which most of these South-
ern outlaws reside are Republican ; the
officials of the counties are Republicans;
the criminals themselves are Republi-
cans, and the failure to enforce the laws,
punish crimes or prevent the lawless
acts, of which we have for years -eard so
much from the Republican press and
stump, is due entirely to the refusal or
failure of Republican sheriffs, Repub-
lican juries and Republican judges to
do their duty .
Every county in Kentucky into which
it has been necessary for the Governor
to send troops to restore order and pro-
tect the courts is a Republican county.
If there be any exception to this it has
escaped our attention and we will
promptly make this correction if we are
informed of our mistake. The statement
is important enough to be repeated,
that every county in Kentucky where
disorder and assassination have gone to
such lengths that only the military for-
ces of the State could restore quiet and
protect life and property is a Republican
county.
Boyd County was the scene seven
years ago of the riots and lynchings at
Ashland and Catlettsburg, which put to
asevere test the power of the State au-
thorities to maintain order and adminis-
ter justice. This county has been Re-
publican for years. Blaine and Harri-
son each got a majority of 229 in the
county. The Democrats carried it in
the August election and we hope this
was a victory for law and order as well
as for the Democratic party.
Bell County has been repeatedly dis-
figured by acts of individual and famiiy
violence. Two or three members of the
Colson family, from which the Republi-
cans last summer took their candidate for
Secretary of State, have been the leading
actors in these tragedies. Bell County
gave a large majority for Blaine and last
year it gave Harrison 928 votes, for
Cleveland only 279.
The Hatfield-McCoy vendetta was
fought out in this county and the neigh-
boring part of West Virginia. The trial
of several members of the Hatfleld gang
was concluded at Pineville, the county
seat of Bell County, on the 3d of last
month and resulted in one sentence to
the gallows and four to the penitentiary
for life. Itis hoped that this will end
the feud that has been raging for twe or
three years.
Rowan County has been the scene of
many family feuds and personal en-
counters. More than almost any other
county in the State it has earned for
Kentucky the reputation it has in the
North. Three or four years ago the
State troops were obliged to fire on the
mob. Rowan County cast its vote for
Blaine and Harrison.
Harlan County is a Republican
stronghold. In 1884 it gave Blaine 650
and Cleveland 217. In 1888 it gave
Harrison 837 and Cleveland 211, a
large Repnblican gain. Last August
there was a fresh outbreak of the How-
ard-Turner feud in the county, and
Judge Lewis, the county judge, led the
posse that went out to arrest the partici-
pants. The posse encountered Wilson
Howard and about 50 outlaws and there
was a battle resulting in four deaths.
The county judge had to lead the posse
because the sheriff, James A. Howard,
refnsed to undertake the arrest of his
relative unless the judge would promise
to admit him to bail, and the county
jailer, Barry Howard, also refused to
make the arrest. In the battle the out-
laws lost one man and the posse, who
were greatly outnumbered, lost three
men and were put to fight. The How-
ard gang then sent word to the county
seat tiiat they would come in and burn
the town and the farmers bezan to move
out of the county. The county officers
were relatives of the Howard gang and
no law-abiding citizen could secure pro-
tection. Twelve illicit stills were run-
ning all the time in the Howard camp.
Judge Robert Boyd, of the judicial dis-
trict, which includes Harlan County, at
once applied to Governor Buckner for
treops. The Governor thought a posse
might be crganized that would do more
good, but several arrests having been ef-
fected, the Governor, Sept. 12, ordered
one company of troops from Lexington
and one from Harrodsburg to go to Har-
lan County and protect the court and
the witnesses during the trial. Four
days later the Governor issued a pro-
clamation appealing to the people of
Harlan County to sustain the law and
put down disorder with their own re-
sources, but explaining that he had sent,
troops to help them to do this, for the
reason that :
only Republican counties, but they are
strongly enough Republican to over-
come the Democratic majorities in the
other counties of the district and make
the Thirteenth Congressional District
Republican. These are the coynties in
which midnight whippings and the se-
cret assassinations committed by the
Bald Knobbers have for several years
past given Missouri a bad name through
the Union. The Bald Knobbers began
their operations at Forsyth, Taney Coun-
ty, and took possession of Christian
County, at Chadwick, some time in
1885 or 1886. These two counties and
Greene gave Harrison 7,302 and Cleve-
land 5,251 ; Republican majority, 2,051.
It is probably 2,048 now, as three Bald
Knobbers were hanged for their crimes
at O-ark, May 10 last. We do ‘not
know that these three men were Repub-
licans, but their biographies, published
the day after the execution, state that
two of the three served in the Union
Army during the Civil War, and we
presume the Republican party will claim
them. At the celebration of the Fourth
of July last ‘the two Miles brothers,
Bill ané Jim, shot and killed the sheriff
of Taney County, G. KE. Branson, and
his deputy, Ed Funk. The latter was
the deputy who assisted Sheriff Branson
in the encounter with the burglars at
Cummings’ store, in Bear Creek, last
week, in which the alleged detective,
Dennis, was killed by young Combs.
The Miles boys are under indictment
for the murder of the Bald Knob leader,
Captain N.N. Kinney, at Forsythe, last
August.”
It appears futher that the sheriff of
Taney County, like all the officers of the
county, is a Republican. Sheriff Bran-
son has a brother who is the circuit
clerk, and the Bransons belonged to the
Bald Knob organization, while the
Miles boys are: anti-Bald Knobbers.
Sheriff Branson ordered the Miles boys
to give up their weapons, and instead ‘of
that they promptly killed the sheriff and
his deputy, and with a grim humor the
account of these transaction says that
the duty of maintaining the peace now
devolves upon the coroner.
On the 16th of July, Justice of the
Peace Johns, on entering his office in
the court house of Taney County,
“found his books and papers had been
removed and thrown into the muddy
street. On his desk he found this notice,
written in pencil, on a piece of paper:
‘If you don’t leave the county in 10
days you will be lynched. Signed,
Bald Knobbers.” Mr. Johns has been
an anti-Bald Knobber.”
A couple of months ago Common-
wealth’s Attorney Moore, of Patrick
County, Va., wrote to Governor Lee
appealing to him to aid the former in
punishing desperadoes who are guilty
of lawless acts along the North Caroli-
na and Virginia border. This does not
designate any particular locality, but it
describes in a general way as the scene
of this lawlessness the two tiers of bor-
der counties in these two States. This
is the Republican belt. Of the North
Carolina counties that join Virginia nine
gave majorities aggregating 2,288 for
Harrison last November and eight gave
a majority for Harrison in this belt, 891,
while the State as a whole was carried
by the Democrats by a plurality
of more than 13,000. Now, if
we cross the line into Virginia, we find
that of the counties adjoining tho North
Carolina line nine gave Republican ma-
Jorities of 4,670, while four gave Demo-
cratic majorities of 1,756 ; net majority
in this belt for Harrison, 2,91 |, though
the Democrats carried the State by 1,-
500.
And yet there are God-fearing and
lawabiding men in the North who imag-
ine that the Republican party is made
up of just such reputable citizens as
themselves, who imagine that every in-
crease in the Repubiican vote in Ken-
tucky, Missouri, Virginia, and North
Carolina is a gain for peace and pros-
perity, while every Republican loss is a
sign of retrogression. These people will
know a great deal more about the party
that they are training with and assist-
ing than they do now if they will read
the National Democrat regularly. We
skall give them some information pre-
sently about the State that gave Harri-
son over 80,000 majority last year.
me.
Jaunty Jackets.
The practical-minded girl, regardless
of the poetic glamor of Indian summer
talk, has got her outdoor winter-wear or
is getting it.
Jackets are universally popular and
becoming. They are made of all
sorts of goods, from light-weight suiting
and ladies’ cloth to thick, heavy cloak-
ings of men’s overcoat goods. Light
fubrics are lined or faced with silk or
cambric, and heavy goods ordinarily
have sleeve linings more for comfort in
putting on and off than for additional
warmth. Braiding and embroidery are
the favorite decorations for jackets, al-
though many are finished with a sim-
ple binding of braid-
Among the jackets are many with
straight fronts rolled back to show some
portion of the lining and a little of the
vest. They come in many colors. The
light browns are trimmed with gold
braid. Sometimes the entire vest is of
heavy braid.
The more striking ones are grass
green, lined with white and braided in
black or a corresponding shade of green.
ed in gold filigree,to be worn when
driving, is particularly fetching.
The military jackets have no vests.
They are looped down the front, fit
perfectly over the hips and are braided
in straight and slanting lines.
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Bad Management.
Four Months ago the generous peo-
ple of this country contributed over $2,-
“Official information has reached me |
that the laws of the State are set at defi- |
ance in your midst; that some of the |
civil officers, elected by yourselv s and |
sworn to discharge their duty to society |
not only refuse to execute the laws, but |
give covert assistance to the criminal |
classes; that murders and assassinations |
are perpetrated with impunity : that civ-
il officers are resisted by force of arms in
the discharge of their duty, and that the
pecple of the county have permitted
themselves to be so terrorized by thelaw- |
less acts of a few individuals as to have
refused obedience: to the civil authorities |
in their efforts to arrest persons charged
with the commission of crimes.”
The three counties of Christian,
followed forty-eight hours thereafter.
Greene and Taney in Missouri, are not
000,000 to be applied to the relief of the
sufferers from the overwhelming flood
at Johnstown on May the 31st last. The
greater portion of this fund still remains
in possession of a so called State Flood
Relief Commission appointed by Gover-
nor Beaver. But the persons composing
this commission, instead of hastening to
fulfill the sacred duty of charity com-
mitted to them, have dawdled away the
time in the useless discussion of a method
by which the distribution of the money
should be made. Meanwhile the peo-
ple of Johnstown are shivering from
cold and suffering for lack of proper
shelter end clothing. This state of
affuirsissimply a disgrace to the common-
wealth and an outrage upon benevo-
lence.— Philadelphia Record.
Another,a white cloth jacket embroider- |
A PE EE CAR
Farmer Chase's Inquisitive Pig.
It Put Its Nose Into Everything and
Suffered in Consequence.
ScraNTON, Oct. 7.-—A curious old
sow on Horace E. Chase's farm in
Lehigh township has got herself into
several scrapes this summer on account
of her inquisitiveness. One day in July
she sauntered into a huckleberry
patch on Red Ridge and rooted into a
nest of young rattlesnakes. The mother
snake happened to be at home, and
the old sow hadn’t rooted long before
the angry reptile struck her on the
chops and made her squeal.
Holddrige, Mr. Chase’s hired man, was
cutting brush on the ridge, and ran
down to see what the sow was up to.
He found her fighting the watchful
old mother snake, and he let her go.
The sow was mad, and she kept at
the snake till she killed her, devouring
the reptile as soon as she could. Hold-
ridge then drove the hog away and
poked in the brush with a stick. He
found seven dead young snakes, and
while he was looking for more of the
old sow’s victims, the furious hog re-
turned, jumped into a mass of kuckle-
berry bushes close by and quickly
killed a full-grown male rattler. In
the scuflle she was struck by the snake,
but she didn’t mind the biteat all,
Holdridge said, and pretty soon she
cantered toward home.
Early this month, Jonathan Wilsey,
whose farm joins that of Mr. Chase,
captured a young raccoon in a hol-
that he might have the coon if he
wanted it, and one day Mr. Chase placed
the coon’s box on his stoneboat and
drew it home. He left the coon’s cage
on the stoneboat while he was taking
care of the horses, and when he came
out of the barn he saw the old sow
nosing around the cage. She was
curious to know what the cage contained,
and she found out right away, for the
ugly coon set its sharp teeth into her
nose and; sent her away squealing as
though a knife had = been thrust
into her throat. The old sow’s nose
was sore and tender until last Satur-
day, when her inquisitiveness got her
into more trouble and made her nose
bleed again.
Two weeks ago Farmer Chase's boys
caught a fifteen-pound snapping turtle
near the Lehigh River, and last Satur-
day Farmer Chase invited eight of
his neighbors to meet at his house
and partake of turtle soup. The hardy
farmers and hunters where on hand
and Mr. Chase brought the turtle out to
to the wood vard to kill it. The tur-
tle was placed ona log, and after a good
deal of coaxing it stuck its head out of
1 its shell long enough for -ne of the men
to chop it off with an axe. The head
rolled off the log and lay in somechips,
and while the stalwart woodsmen were
sitting and standing around and getting
hungry the old sow came grunting
along with her head down. She investi-
gated the surface of the chip yard
pretty thoroughly, and presently she
came to the turtle’s head and turned it
over with her nose. One turn didn’:
seem to satisfy her curiosity, and so she
rolled it over and over, grunting pleas-
antly all the while. But suddenly the
old sow went cantering out of the yard
and up the road, squealing at every
jump. The jaws of the turtle’s head
were fastened to the gristle of her nose,
and every few steps she jammed her
nose against the ground and tried to
get rid of the painful annoyance. Four
of the men took after the sow, chasing
the squealing brute away past Mr. Wil-
sey’s place where she run into a brush
fence. The turtle’s head was still with
her, and while the men were trying to
catch her, out from the brush she ran,
took a back track, and dashed toward
home. Mr. Chase and all of the other
men made an effort to head her off, but
she ran between them and on down to
Gilbert Silkman’s farmhouse, where she
plunged into a mud puddle. The old
sow was exhausted when the men reach-
ed her, but she was still able to squeal a
little, and with- their jackknives they
soon cut the turtle’s head away from the
sow’s sore nose. Then they pulled her
out of the mud, and on Monday Mr.
Chase drove her home and penned her
in, declaring that he would keep her
there until she is fat enough to be killed.
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A Colored Preacher Who Wears a
Thirty-Five and One-half Shoe.
America’s champion, “Big Foot
John,’ has been unearthed in the wilds
of North Carolina, and he has his shoes
made in Philadelphia. He is a divine
and a gentleman of color, being prop-
erly known as the Rev. John 'W. Farn-
ham, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
church at Charlotte. The size of his
boot is thirty-five and one-half, which
necessitates a sole of twenty inches in
length and seven inches broad. Rev.
Farnham stands six feet ten inches in
his sizable stockings, and weighs 410
{ pounds when stripped of his impedi-
I ments. When he strides up the sanctu-
ary aisle the foundation rumbles as if
under the influence of an earthquake
shock, and the stranger within the gates
| jerks round, expecting to see Gabriel
| and the Last Day hand in hand. The
| enforced itineracy of Methodistic clergy-
| men has caused Brother Farnham no
{ little annoyance, for no sooner does he
| find ir one town a cobbler who can fit
| his feet than he is hustled off to another
far distant. Recently, however, the
| problem has found a solution. The
{ dominie has had a quantity of mammoth
| lasts and uppers, sufficient to last till
| doomsday, manufactured and sent to a
| shoe house in Philadelphia. Thus pro-
| vided he can rise superior to his big-
| footed fate by having the finishing
! touches added whenever there is need.
{ The privilege of half-soling the rever-
| end’s boots is counted a rare one.
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City, county, borough and town-
ship school officers should not lose sight
of the fact that under a recent act of the
legislature, no tax levied by them can
| remain a lien on real estate longer than
| two years from the time of the assess-
ment, unless the same is recorded in
the prothonotary’s office, and no lien so
| entered shall remain a lien for a longer
( term than five years, unless the same is
! revived and continued by a writ of scire
Jacias within the said period and duly
"prosecuted to judgment.
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Bill |
low tree on his farm. He got it
alive without injuring it and kept
it in his possession for several
days. Mr. Wilsoy told Mr. Chase
wee
Polly and the Hen.
The following good parrot story is
told in Youth's Companion: Our next
neighbor, writes a correspondent, owned
an amusing parrot that was always get-
ting into mischief, but usually got out
again without much trouble to herself.
‘When she had done anything for which
she knew she ought to be punished, she
would hold her head to one side, and
eyeing her mistress, protest in a sing-
song tone, “Polly is a good girl,” until
she saw her mistress smile; then she
would flop her wings and ery out in ex-
ultation, “Hurrah! Polly iz a good
girl!”
She was allowed to go free, and usu-
ally took her exercises in the garden,
where she promenaded back and forth
on the walks, sunning herself and warn-
ing off all intruders,
One morning a hen strayed out of
the chicken yard and was quietly pick-
ing up its breakfast when Poll marched
up to her and called out “Shoo” in her
shrill voice, emphasizing the remark
with a smart pick of her sharp beak on
the chicken’s head. The poor hen re-
treated to her own quarters, running as
fast as she could, followed by..Poll, who
screamed “Shoo” at every step.
The hen had her revenge a fow days
later, when Poll extended her morning
walk into the chicken yard. Here, with
her usual curiosity, she went peering in-
to every corner, till she came to the old
hen upon her nest. The hen made a
dive for Poll’s yellow head, but missed
it. Poll thinking discretion the better
part of valor, turned to run, the hen,
with her wings wide-spread, following
close after.
As she ran Poll screamed in her shrill-
est tones, “O Lord! O Lord!”
A member of the family who had
witnessed the whole performance,
thought it time to interfere in Poll’s be-
half, as the angry hen was gaining on
her. He ran out, and stooping down,
held out his hand. Poll lost no time
in traveling up to his shoulder. Then,
from her high vantage ground, she
turned her head to one side,and looking
down on her Joe, screamed, “Hello
there, shoo!”
The frightened hen acknowledged de-
feat by returning to her nest as rapidly
as she had come.
rat ma eens
A Terrible Scourge of Diphtheria.
CARBONDALE, Pa., Oct. 7.—The epi-
demic of malignant diphtheria which
has broken out in this city, threatens to
work fearful results, and the people
have been thrown into a state of terror.
In the last two weeks about seventy-
five new cases of the most virulent type
have been reported and a large number
of deaths have taken place. In many
places entire families are stricken down
and no one is left to care for them, their
friends and neighbors fearing to lend as-
sistance lest the disease be conveyed to
their own families. New cases and
deaths are reported every day, and while
at first the malady was confined to child-
ren, now thereare many adults down.
The malady broke out in the part of
the city that is noted for its unsanitary
condition. Impure drinking water,
stagnant cesspools and foul vaults are
ascribed as the cause by the physicians.
In the locality known as Welsh hill
there has been over fifty cases, some
blocks having scarcely a house without
an attack of the disease. The condition
of the premises of many of these people
is filthy, and the authorities have been
very lax in enforcing sanitary regula-
tions.
The people are incensed at the suthori-
ties for their neglect which has brought
on the contagion, and the matter has
been reported to the state board of
health, at Philadelphia, and its secre-
tary, D. Benjamin Lee, who is now at
Johnstown, isexpected here in a few
days. Disinfectants are being used lib-
erally in the unclean districts, and the
schools are being wa‘ched so that none
who come in contact with the contag-
ion shall be allowed to enter the build-
ings. Rightvears ago a similar epidem-
ic broke out in the city.
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A Dog’s Daily Race.
Near Mount HEagle station on the
Bald Eagle Valley Railroad is a “catch”
mail station and the man who ‘catches’
the mailbag there daily, when the
mail train passes, comes from some
place back in the ridges. A small
vellow dog that is with the mail car-
rier every day furnishes a little excit-
ment for the train hands and the passen-
gers by running a race with the engine
drawing the train. The train is usually
going at about 30 miles an hour, and
the dog keeps up the race for almost two
miles. He starts in on his run as
the engine passes him and the race
ends when the rear passenger coach
passes him, which is not until about
two miles of tiack have been covered.
Engineer, fireman, bagegageman, route
agent, conductor and brakesman, all
enter into the excitement of the daily
race, and the passengers, too, become
animated with a desire to see the ‘“yaller’’
dog keep up his record. Quite recently
one of the train men stood on the steps
of a passenger car and patted the dog
on the back as he ran by the side of the
train. The shouts And cheers of train
men and passengers apparently has a
great effect on the dog. After the two
miles is reached and he begins to fall
behind the train, he makes the trip back
to his master at as rapid a speed as
when following the engine.—ZLock-
Haven Express.
Col. Fred Grant, Minister to Aus-
tria, writes to the editor of the New
York World that his father in his last
illness, had discussed the subject of his
burial place and had irdicated a kindly
feeling for St. Louis, Galena, Ill., and
New York, but insisted that wherever
his own tomb might be located a place
should be reserved for his wife at his
side. In view of the authoritative offer
of a site fora tomb for the dead General
at the Soldier's Home at Washington,
with the promise that Mrs. Grant might
also be buried there, Colonel Grant says
that the family have been and are now
ready to accede to any plan for his tomb
which the nation may decide is best,
provided, of course, that his expressed
wish be carried out. The Grund Army
now has an opportunity to take charge
of the monument project which New
York has treated with such di:graceful
indifference, and the veterans should not
hesitate.