aca
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—A blanket of unusual dampness ap-
pears to have suddenly fallen upon the
Republican party in Ohio.
—The Bellefonte ringsters will dis-
cover that it isa good deal easier to
male a ring ticket than to elect it.
—If Brother BLAINE doesn’t keep his
weather eye on that Pan-American Con-
gress the Canadians will run away with
it.
—Tt seems to be out of place for the
common Jersey sand to be blown
through General GRUBB'S aristocratic
whiskers,
—As only four jurymen have so far
been drawn for the Cronin {rial the
Jjury-fixers shouldn't have much trouble
in fixing them.
—There are no factional differences
standing in the way of a Democratic
victory in our county this year. An old
time majority should attend such har-
mony.
—DMANDERSON was so tardy in return-
ing his unlawful pension that it looked
as if he would have held on to the boo-
dle if there hadn’t been so much fuss
made about it.
—The editor of the ring organ and
the chairman of the Republican county
committee would pull better together in
ths party traces if they were not both
after the same post office:
—1It is now evidentthat the ring man-
agers intend to slaughter GRAY in the
interest of FLEMING. Such cruel
treatment is unjustifiable. Tt is like
ieading a lamb to the slaughter.
—*“Though we losethe CHALMERSES
of Mississippi we gain the ELvriors of
Harvard.” That is certainly a good ex-
change forthe Democrats. College Pres-
idents are perferable to negro-butchers.
—The tax-payers interest requires a
change in the county management.
The right kind of a vote this year will
make it easy work to bounce the in-
competents out of the commissioners’
»ffice next year.
—When the farmers and the wage-
earners are on their ear about the way
their bills were kicked out of theLegisla-
ture,it isn’t a good time for the Republi-
can leaders to be offering prize banners
for an increased vote.
— When Minister Prenes, in making
his speech +to the German Emperor,
VOL. 31.
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How a Great Railroad Maintains Its | cord shows that the most important
Superiority.
Pennsylvania road is ahead of all oth-
ersin the qualities that constitute su-
periority. This circumstance is not
accidental, but has sprung from the
ability of its management and the ex-
perience and fidelity of those who oc-
cupy subordinate positions.
The estimation in which this great
railroad is held is shown by anincident
now transpiring. Inthe entertainment
accorded by the government to the
South and Central American members
of the Pan-American Congress, the
hospitality extended to them has in-
cluded a trip of many thousands of
miles through the country for their
pleasure and instruction. It
Pennsylvania railroad that is selected
to convey this distinguished party
through its extensive tour, it being the
one deemed pic-eminently competent
to furnish the most suitable car accom-
modatious, to effect the safest, most
comfortable and expeditious transpor-
tation, and to give, through its reputa-
tion, an eclat to the trip that shall befit
the high character of these national
guests.
It is needless to say that the Penn-
sylvania Company is doing this duty in
a style that no other could equal. The
o
train it has placed at the service of the
Spanish American representatives is a
marvel of elegance and convenience ;
the engine is one of its best, a machine
evolved from the skill and experience
of its best mechanics, and the men who
have charge of this perfect product of
railroad development have been select-
ed from the efife of its employes.
Wherever this train shall go in travers-
ing the 5000 wiles that will be compre-
hended in the trip, it will herald the
fame and testify to the greatness of
spoke of “the aid that the German sol-
diers gave us when we were fighting to
win our national independence,’ did he
mean the Hessians?
—-Every Democrat in the county
should go to the polls in November.
He will there meet many Republicans
who are going to assist bim in rebuking
inefficient county management and prof-
ligate State government.
—IJt doesn’t look well for the Repub-
lican organs to be now so rough on TAN-
NER. It was only a few weeks ago that |
they held him up adwmiringly as the re-
presentative of Republican gratitude to
the defenders of the old flag.
t
——Indications of uneasiness are ap-
pearing among the Republican organs
over the prospect in Pennsylvania this
fall. There must be something wrong
with their principles when they lose
confidence in 80,000 majority.
—BRrowN~ wants to point sith pride
to the result of the county campaign,
but FiepLer doesn’t want BrowN to
have cceasion to do any of that sort
of proud pointing, as it would be likely
to land BrowN in the post oflice.
—The Republican ringsters are send-
ing Prohibition documents to Democrats
who voted fur the amendment. Of
course this movement springs entirely
from the deep interest they take in the
cause of temperance and morality.
— The Philadelphia Inquirer speaks of
the protection which “the farmer enjoys
on his wool erop.”” The farmer would
be bettersatisfied with such an enjoyment
if he didn't see the wool crop growing
smaller each year under a protective
tariff.
—1If the farmers think that itis the
right thing to have their taxes increas-
ed by the underhanded valuation pro-
cess, let them vote the ring ticket or
They will
1
stay away from the poles.
thereby indorse the sort of business that
s being done in the Commissioners’
office.
CARSON, of
county,
-~-The farm of RoBERT
Pine township,
which before the recent flood was worth
38000, was sold the other day for $2000.
A high food is as effective as a high
tariff in knocking the value out of farm
The only difference is that ‘it
Lycoming
land.
takes a tariff longer to do it
~The Gazette
Bulletin is mistaken in believing that
andidate DiGLiar in
the still hunt he is alleged to be engaged
#1. Democrats are never shod that way.
The only moccasin tracks that ever ap-
peared on the surface of Pennsylvania
polities were of Republican origen and
were made by the CAMERONS,
Williamsport and
wears moceasins
fection.
ous as in the system adopted for main-
taining the condition of the track. No
other
method of exciting the emulation and
stimulating the best exertions ot those |
to whose care the track and road bed
are committed. In another column we |
give an account of the inspection which
i
concrete fact.
of the Company in every department of
America’s leading railroad.
The high degree of excellence in
everything connected with the Penn-
sylvania railroad has been attained
only by the unremitting care and tech-
nical skill exercised in insuring per-
Nowhere is this so conspicu-
company has so efiective a
akes place every year and which
brings every foot of the road from Jer-
sep City to Pittsburg under the scruti-
iy of the most experienced and saga-
cious railroad experts in the world.
Rewards are given to the track bosses
whose sections are in the best condition,
and this stimulus exerts an influence
that produces results which amply re-
pay the liberality of the company and
vindicate the wisdom of such a policy.
This system has been pursued for years
with an effect that shows itself in the
safety and speed with which travel and |
ceneral traffic are carried over this
perfected avenue of transportation.
There was never anything visionary
un the management of the Pennsylva-
It has been all solid,
The great achievements
via railroad.
its enterprise have sprung from the
thought and action of a combination of
most remarkably practical mea.
Defeated Labor Legislation.
The account of the manner in which
the bills offered in the interest of
working people were treated at the last
session of the State Legislature, which
we give in another column,will furnish
interesting reading to those whoimake
their living by hard work. There were
» number of bills introduced.
touching the questions of semi-month-
such
«
lv payments of wages, pluck-me stores,
employment of women and children,
liability of employers in certain cases
for injury done to workmen, check-
weighmen for the benefit of miners,
and others involving the interest and
welfare of laboring men. Doubtless
the parade that was made at the elec-
tion of their friendship for the sons of
toil Ly the supporters of’ the monopoly
tariff, led the working people to believe | Grav and Musser into office.
that all that was necessary to have the Daily News shonld have published
their bills passed was to ask the Re
publican Legislature to do it and i
But the
{
would be done instanter.
Railroads have become a part ef the
civilization of the age that could notbe |
dispensed with, and among them the |
1s the!
re-
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all
STAT
BELLEFONTE. PA,
tailed to become laws. If they passed
one branch they met with defeatin the
other.
| There is but one way by which the
| wage-earners of Pennsylvania can ex-
| pect to secure the legislation that will
benefit them and which they have a
right to have, and that way is through
| the election of a Democratic Legisla-
ture and Governor. These officials
are not to be elected this year, but the
workingmen can do something in this
year of grace that will greatly assist in
electing next year the kind of Gover-
nor and Legislature that will accede to
| their demand for the legislation to
| which they are so clearly entitled.
A Set-back for Foraker.
Foraker and his backers in Ohio
are in a bad way and it all comes from
their overanxiety to make out a bad
record against CampBeLL, the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor. As the
latter stands well with the Ohio people
his enemies deemed it necessary for
their success that they should make
him appear to be no better than the or-
dinary Republican politician who is
constantly trying to make money in
some way out of the government.
Therefore they represented that as a
member of Congress he tried to induce
the passage of a bill requiring the gov-
ernment to use in every precint a pat’
ent ballot-box in which eertain Ohio
nen were interested. It was charged
that a company had been formed for
the manufacture and sale of these bal
lot-boxes, three-twentieths of the capi-
tal stock of which were represented to
be held by Camper... HarsTEAD
went so far as to publish in his paper
an alleged fac simile of the stock list in
E RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
OCTOBER 18, 18
The Right Kind of G. A. R. Talk.
It is encouraging to see that ‘some
members of the G. A. R. are beginning
to kick against the licentious policy of
making the public treasury the prey
of the pension sharks. The better
thinking class of soldiers comprehand
the evil of using the government's
bounty to the old soldiers as a means of
political bribery, as is evidently intend-
ed by the politicians who are!{pushing
indiscriminate pension schemes, and
can fully measure the harm that such
a policy inflicts apon the reputation of
the veterans as a class and upon the
welfare of the body politic. Noah L.
Farnham Post, No. 458, G. A. R., of
New York city, is one of the organiza.
tions which cannot approve of debas-
ing the members of the order to the
level of treasury raiders. Ata meeting
it held last week it passed the following
resolutions :
Wiereas, It is apparent to this post that the
action of some Government officials and the
ill considered talk of some popularity seeking
legislators (notably Senator Ingalls of Kansas)
do serious injury to the hard-won reputation of
good soldiers and the Grand Army; and
Wiereas, The only veterans who are of right
entitledito pensions are those whose pecuniary
circumstances are so unfortunate as to justify
them in burdening the country with their sup-
port, and who by wounds or disability incurred
in the service of the country as combatants are
prevented from earning a living in their re-
spective callings, as they might have done had
such wounds or disabilities not been incurred ;
and
Wuereas, The Grand Army of the Republic
isan association organized for the purpose
of enabling old soldiers to take care of them-
selves and each other; and
WHEREAS, As much real patriotism may be
displayed by refraining in time of peace from
inflicting unnecessary burdens on the country
as by coming to her defence in time of war
therefore be it
Resolved, That any old soldier who applies
for or accepts a pension except under the con-
3
which CaMPBELL's name was made to |
appear as one of the heaviest holders, |
The Republican organs fairly ¢loated |
over this charge. The orators howled |
about it on every stump, and no subject |
ever caused ForRAKER to sound a loud- |
er blast on his fog-horn. They thought
they had the election sure by any ma- |
jority that might be named.
At this stage of the comedy Har-
STEAD gave it a tragical turn by coming |
out in hig paper with the admission that
i the subscription list of the stock of the
| ballot-box company, with CAMPBELLS |
name in it, was a vile forgery that had
been imposed upon him by one of
| Foraker’s unscrupulous henchmen, |
and that the charge of jobbery against |
the Democratic candidate rested upon !
nothing more substantial than a bare-
| taced lie.
| It iseasy to imagine how Foraxper’s
jaw fell when this retraction was made
public. It requires a pretty heavy
shock to paralyze that jaw, but the ex-
posure of this forgery has gone a great
way toward it, and in November its
paralysis will be completed.
A Song Out of Season.
The Daily News ackaowledges ihe |
receipt of a campaign song which it
didn’t do right in not publishing, al-
! though it gave a few of the sentiments
expressed in the interesting ditty. The
poet is represented as bursting forth
with the exclamation, “Freyina is the
leader who is always bound to win.”
Of the candidate for District Attorney
he says, “We will vote for BiLLy
GRAY, he is just the man we want.”
Then he pays his respects to arother
candidate with the strain, “Three
cheers for Musser, he is the people's
choice”
There isn’t much poetry about this,
and there is a good deal less fact. The
only thing that Fremixe will win
will be a complete drubbing at the
polls: there is no part of the county
where they are tearing their shirts to
vote for BiLLy Gray, and Musser isn’t
built to fit into a judge's chdir, even if
| it is only an associate judge's.
|
Campaign songs don’t count for any-
thing this year. The people haven't
| forgotten that it was only last year that
| the Republican
| through the conutry that if Harrison
(and the high tariff were
there would be ‘plenty of
two dollars a day,” with
After such
songsters bellowed
successful
and
roast beef
work
“1 thrown in, an experience
Lit would be difficult to sing Frewixg,
dirt atl |
but stil
«
¢
the song in fail It
wonld have furnished the voters some-
18 a curiosity,
ditions above set forth is in the opinion of this
| post, guilty of conduct calculated to injure the |
| good men who were and are willing to give
their blood and. their lives for the country
without any reward beyond the approval of |
their own consciences and that honorable fame
{ which is dear to every patriot; and
Resolved, That the post strongly eondemns
any attempt to make use of the Grand Army of
| the Republic for political purposes or as an en-
gine to aid in dissipating the surplus that has
been accumulated in th® Government Treasury
by unwise and unnecessary taxation.
This is the only position that can be
taken on the question of pensions by
veterans who have respect for them-
selves and regard for the stability of eur
institutions. They cannot fail to see
that to influence the votes of a large
class by a bribe held out in the shape
of government largess is to strike at
the very foundation of our free govern-
ment. And farther, to indiseriminately
"admit to the list of pensioners every
kind of claimant, endangers the per-
petuity of the system, for the burden
will become so heavy that the people
in disgust will demand such a change
as will affect the worthy with the un-
worthy. 1tis to the interest of the de-
serving ciass of soldiers to check the
licentious use of pensions for politieal
effect which burdens the people with
unjustifiable expense and endangers
the interest of these veterans whaese
condition worthily entitles them to the
support of the government.
om —————
Adequate Panishment.
JonN EiRENBERGER was tied te the
whipping post in Baltimore some days
ago and thirteen lashes werelaid on his
bare back until the blood ran, as a
punishment for having beaten his wife.
He was so impressed: by this style of
treatment that he said he would leave
the city, never to return.
We do things differencly in Pennsyl-
vania with sublimated ideas of
civilization whic are far above the old
fashion method of punishment at the
whipping post. We allow the brutal wife
beater, as in the case ofthe Philipsburg
wretch, to slip through the hands of
the officers of the law and then sneak
back and murder the woman whom he
It Hoe-
KINS, after abusing his wife, had been
summarily punished at the whipping
post, in all likelihood it would have in
duced his migration to other parts with
the probability that his wife and moth -
our
had previously maltreated.
er-in-law would be living to-day and he
not a prisoner in our jail awaiting a
It was the trifling
trial for murder.
with his first offense that encouraged
the commission of the second and the
greater. The rough experience of the
whipping post would have so impress-
ed Bim with the conviction that the
law meant business that he would have
hesitated about exposing himself turth-
thing to laugh at.
ep to its penalties, .
in regard to the pension laws are calculated to |
Awvaqiry vig
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NO. 41.
vd ‘OANGSINMAVH
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9.
Why He Is Honored.
The meeting ot the Democratic So-
cieties of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
last Tuesday was an encouvaging sign
ofa better order of politics in the old Key-
stone State. It was a movement in
which not only the Democracy, but the
friends of good and honest government
generally, were interested,and it is grati-
fying to learn that the assembling of
the =ocieties was attended with the
greatest enthusiam and a determined
purpose to advance the political re-
form so much needed in State and
coun try.
An indication of the feeling of these
assembled Democrats was furnished by
the enthusiastic manner in which: the
mention of GrovEr CLEVELAND'S name
was met. The merest reference to him
evoked round after round of applanse..
When the letter of the ex-Pregident:
was read the excitement was beyond
description, the andience cheering ak:
most to the point of exhaustion. Why
is it that this leader exerts such an in-
fluence upon the feelings of Democrats?
{ Simply because they recognize in him
an honest man whose only aspiration
as a public servant was to advance denz-
ocratic principles and promote the wel
fare of his country. A publiccharacter
of this kind is always dear to the Dem-
ocratic heart, and whether Mr, CrLiavz-
LAND shall again be the leader of his
party or remain in private life, he will
always be honored by those who be-
lieve that demeccratic prineiples and’
practices are necessary to a republican
form of government.
Bold Rascality in Montana.
The Republicans having failed to
carry Montana with money have de-
termined to stealit and have set abou
it as coolly as & commen thief would
go about stealinga ham from a coun
try smoke house. After the votes were
i counted they found themselves short of
the number of members of the Legisla-
ture needed to give them the two Uni-
ted States Senators. By throwing out
a certain voting precint such a clange
can be made in the Legislature as will
remove the obsiacle to their getting the
| desired Senators, and if is accordingly
{announced that the precint will be
thrown out. The objection that it was
earried by the Democrats is not to be
considered when the advantage to be
gained by throwing it out is needed’ to
earry their point. Rut it is hardly prob-
able that they will get the control of
| the Montana Degislature by sush ras-
cality, bold as it is. They tried te buy
the State and failed, and now. they
They will
| fail as completely in this dishomest en-
terprise as they did in West Virginia.
! won't be allowed to steal it.
The #eystone Gazette last week
was unusually tame in suppest. of thet
county ticket. Itis shrewdly suspect:
ed by those who think they can see in-
to the motive for this lukawarmness,
that it wouldn't suit FiepLuz's designs |
to have the: Republican county ticket
elected this fall, for Chairman Brows |
is working hard te bring abeut such a
result and would have the eredit for it, |
and as a natural consequenee it would |
strengthen his claim to the Bellafonte
post office. For reasons. of personal
interest ipprLER doesn’t want Baowx's
claim to the post office: strengthened.
If the ticket should be. defeated by a
thundering big majority the editor of
the organ could point to it and say with
plausibility : “Brows no good; he!
can’t run a campaign and isa’t entitled
to a share of the official spoils.’
|
|
——The proper thing tor Democrats
to do at this time is to arrange to get
out the full party vote. There ought
to be no trouble in. polling 95 per cent.
of the vote CLEVELAND had last fall in
this county. That proportion of the
Democratic ballots of the county cast
at the comirg election will insure a
Democratic majority of 800 for the en-
tire county ticket. This is the time
to make arrangements for getting out
the full vote.
Hopeless of electing anything
in the eounty this fall, the Republicans |
are now offering to trade their entire
ticket oft for a FresiNa
Prothonotary.
Votre
No
will listen to overtures of thi kind.
I ——
If you are a Democrat, remem-
ber the way to assist your party is to
assist in getting the full Democratic
vote to the polls.
for for
good Democrat |
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Two gunners neav Williamsport found a
snow white squirrel.
—Philadelphia fruit preservers are scouring
the State for apples.
—A creamery at Kunesville was robbeel. of
200 pounds of butter. Sopa
—In Chester county there are twenty-seven
registered veterinery surgeons. .
—Green lane, Montgomery county, is the
best shellbark locality in the State.
—It is calculated that at least £160,000 will lse
realized by the Pittsburg Exposition.
—H. K Polk, of Kennet Square, found a
pheasant on the stairway of his house.
~ Tools valued at $1960 have been stolen
piece-meal from a Pittsburg carriage factory.
—Erie consumers are’ up in arms because
the rates for natural gas has been increased.
—South Bethlehem is raising funds to have
a Philadelphia carpet fim remove its factory
there,
~Two daughters of Dayid Wills, of Gettys-
burg, will be married on the same night Oc~
tober 24.
—Jush after his death a pension was granted
to William. H. €hillcos, a veteran of the Mex-
ican war.
—There ars twenty-five saloon keepers yet
to be tried in Reading for violation of the
Yguor laws,
—Steel is. being turned ont of a Reading
mill whic h is said to be superier: to the Shef-
field product.
—In the absence af a Bible a document was
sworn to in the Reading Courts on. a copy of
Smull’s Hand Book.
—Mr, Earnest, of Norristown, was twice
thrown from his carriage while ont driving
with. his girl a tew nights ago.
—The heart of a Reading dog which died: in
a Philadelphia dog infirmary was found clctted
with huudreds of worms,
—The contents of a whisky barrel in a Wills
Lamsport saloon was carvied off by a thief who
took it away by the buckstful,
—Alderman Pinkerton, of Lancaster, will.
name his new born twins after Grover Cleve-
land and Benjamin. Harrison,
—The question is raised by a Chester pape:
whether or not the sidewalks are for. the ex-
clusive use of the store keepers.
—The heaviest real estate: owner in. Berks
county is James ©. Levengood, of Womels-
drof, proprietor of fourteen farms.
—A green mail agent.on the Reading Rail.
road hung. out the mail bag catcher and hook-
ed a reel of hose from a water tank.
—Miss Elizabeth Barre, of Reading, = has
sued the street car company of that city tor
$25 000 damages forthe loss of a leg.
—Pittsburg eable gripmen and condnctors
are aggrieved because the company requires
them to buy a 217.50 uniterm overcoat.
—“The most wide awake man in town,”
says a Prentis paper, “is Josh Dernan. His
wife has just presented him with twins.”
—A log Loom company is contemplating the
erection of a permanent splash-board dam at
Willinmsport to facilitate the booming business.
—The father of Benjamin Hickmen, of. West
Chester, kept a diary, since 1801 to his deaths
and since that time his daughter has assumed
the duty.
—As he wus sleeping on a bumper. of ga
freight car near Altoona, William Ryan, a
Philadelphia tramp, had his legs jammed up
into his body.
—Saveral stones, forming one ball-like mass
twelve inches 1m circumference, were found
in the stomach of a. Hellertown horse. which
dropped dead:
—Five yearsago John Sill, of West Chester
purchased ad cent peach and buried the seed,
This season he picked eight baskets trom the
tree which grew. therefrom.
~The Iron workers’ association of Reading
gave a royal welcome to its Treasurer, who
had been imprisoned for violating the liquor
laws, upon Lis release last week.
—Christian H, Showalter, salesman in a. cloth~
ing house at Lancaster was conyicted of hay-
ing committed a felonious assault on Susanna
Walton, who is not 16 years old,
—In order to vent his.spite on a fellow jury-
man a Pittsburger said. he would stay out six
months before he would agree toa verdict of
any kind. The court.repremanded him.
—The editor of one of the York papers is ap~
pealed to by a miss for some reliable way of,
telling whether a man is truly in love with her
| or whethey he is toying with her affections.
—Cornelius Crowley, of South Bethlehem
whose body was found in the river there on
Saturday, is believed to have been fo ully dealt
with, aud Coroner Weaver is making an inves-
tigation.
—Charles Tinbosk, aged 30 years, was killed
by a tail of coal on'I'uesday in the Mottet mines
Wilkesbarre, sud John Aravis, aged 25 years
was killed by a fall of rock in the Kingston
No. 3 Mine.
—The Reading Iron Works, which failed
six months ago, has offered its creditors 4 per-
cent, mortgage bonds guaranteed by the Read-
ing Railroad Company at the rate of 50 per cent
of the claim.
—~Fhe hoard of pardons at a special meeting
refused to grant a rehearing to Peter Barono-
wiski, who murdered two, women in Schuyl-
Kill county, and is ander sentence to be hang
ed on Uctober 23.
—The neighbors of milkman Finnie, of Hol-
land Staion, who is under bail tor selling adul®
terated milk, have made up a purse to defend
him, and to show up tue unreliability of the
milk testing apparatus.
— Peter Lannigan and a friend residing in
Bridgeport, Montgominery county, were struck
by a locomotive near that place on Saturday
night. Laonigan died in three hours. His
companion escaped unhurt,
AB. Gilbert, of Coleraine township,
Lancaster county, while puttiug a pain of hay
ladders in his barn on Saturday, fell thirty
caught in
— Isaac
feet and suck on a spike, which
Lis mouth tearing iv to ns ear.
—A witness in the Lancaster County Court
opposing the grauting of a license to G. B,
Withers said that drunken men and wonien had
; held mock religious services in his house,
using eer and whisky for,baptismal purposes,
—While Mary Tarwey was standing on a
railroad platform at (iiendon, Northampton
county, on Sunday night, she was struck by
the bumper of a passing engine, thrown under
the wheels and had her leg
the ankle,
severed above
—While hunting back of Durmor, near Pitts
| ton, several days ago, a man came on a rattle-
made a
His dog grabbed the wild-cat
snake, and as he shot at it a wild-cat
jump for him.
. by the hind legs, and the wild-cat whirled and
sent the dog away yelping. Then the sports-
man made a fierce kick, which sent the cat
out of sight down a deep mine-hole,