Dewan can
Bellefonte, Pa., March 14, 1890.
THE MEN WHO DO NOT LIFT.
The world is sympathetic. The statement none
can doubt; :
When £’s in trouble don’t we think that B
should help him out ?
Of course we haven't time ourselves to care for
any one, . ]
But.yet we hope:that other folks will see that
it is done.
We want the grief and penury of earth tobe re-
lieved
We'd haverthe battles grandly fought, the vic-
tories achieved.
We do not care to take the lead, and stand the
brush and brunt, :
At lifting we're a failure, but we're splendid on
the grunt.
Andithere:are others, so we find, as our way we
og, .
Who a to do their lifting on the small end
of the log.
They doa lot of blowing, and they strive to
make it known
That were there no .one else to help, they'd
lift it.all alone. ’
If talking were effective there are scores and
scores of men
Whe'd move a mountain off its base and move
it back again.
But as a class, to state it plain, in language true
and blunt,
They’re never worth a cent to lift, for all they
«do ig grunt.
—Chicago Herald.
Another Scandalous Chapter in the
Life @f Pennsylvania’s Republi~
cau Bess.
Buying Street Railroads With Pub-
lic Funds.
STATESMAN QUAY PUTS A PLIANT TOOL
IN THE AUDITOR-GENERAL’S OFFICE
AND BOLDLY RAIDS THE TREASURY
A SECOND TIME—STORY OF THE
PURCHASE OF THE WEST CHICAGO
RAILROAD.
From the New York World.
How stands Matthew Stan'ey Quay
to-day ?
Only a brief period elapsed after the
exposure in the World of the fearful ar-
ray of criminality of which the Penn-
sylvania statesman was the principal
factor, before the article, thirteen col-
umns in length, was laid before him.
The great treasury looter was in South
Florida engaged in the capture of numer-
ous tarpons and other subtropical fish.
-He carefully perused the damning tale
of debauchery and crime from the be-
ginning to the end. "What did he then
do? The readers of the World know
very well what an innocent man would
do under the circumstances. The Beav-
er statesman had been charged in speci-
fic language with participating in a
theft of the public money of Pennsyl-
vania. The declaration was made that
not only was the money of the people
taken from their treasury, but that it
was lost in speculation in stocks. Cate-
gorically the charge was made that he
became reduced to the point of threat-
ened suicide, and that Senator J. Don-
ald Cameron stepped in at the last mo-
ment and saved the wretched criminal
from public disgrace. An innocent man,
especially if he occupied the exalted
position of a Senator of the United
States, would have cast his fishing traps.
into the river and scarcely have waited
for the packing of his portmanteau be-
fore he started homeward to deny his
guilt and to prove his innocence.
But Statesman Quay is made of differ-
ent clay. He is entirely aware of the
truth of the specific charges discrediting
his personal honesty. He knows that
other people are conversant with the de-
tails of the crimes of which he is guilty.
‘What course is left for him to follow?
The bluff of a pretended libel suit might
suffice to mislead credulous persons into
believing that the dreadful specifications
of guilt were false. But a libel suit,
even in its earlier stages, would only
unmask stil! deeper the acts of which he
stands charged. There would be no sub-
servient Alderman Neeper to decide in
his favor: The Judges of the United
States Courts are not to be led by the
dictates of a corrupt political boss. No;
a libel suit that he would never allow to
go to trial would do Statesman Quay ne
earthly good. Few persons are better
aware of this indubitable fact than he.
The only course left was, therefore, si-
lence. “The mass of the voters are cred-
ulous. They will say that it would be
impossible fora man steeped in crime,
as 1t is charged that Tam, to hold up
his head in public. T can hold up my
head and T will do it.” Such were the
reflections of Statesman Quay, now
known as the man with the pachyder-
matous hide. His friends assert that he
will continue his tarpoon fishing until
April.
But if the man with the pachyderma-
tous hide, knowing himself to be guilty,
thinks he can ride over public senti-
ment by silence, the great leaders of his
party are by no means in a similar con-
dition of ostrich-like security. No cc-
currence has agitated the magnates of
Republicanism in a similar degree since
the present Administration came into
power.
At Washington the World's publica-
tion of Quay’s misdoings came like a
thunder clap. The average Senators
knew that he was personally a disrepu-
table old debauche who had been guilty
of all manner ot corrupt practices ; but
the details of the great steal of $260,000
from the State Treasury of Pennsylva-
nia were understood by only an extreme-
ly limited circle of men. Hence the
amazement which the World's story
created.
The President real the narrative care-
fully, and then he discussed it with sev-
eral good Pennsylvania Congressmen.
Senator Cameron was also included in
the Presidential inquiries. It is stated
on good authority that the virtuous
head of the nation received a shock from
which he has not as yet recovered.
Well he might, as he owes his place to
this same vote-buying Quay.
Secretary Blaine studied the article
carefully. He knows from experience
all about violent personal attacks, but
the charges which have been brought
against himself are as flea-bites to the
awful category of rascality of which
Quay is guilty. Speaking to a distin-
Gaited Pennsylvanian on the subject,
r. Blaine remarked that the World's
article is unique in the political his:ory
of the country. No other pubhe man
occupying the position of Senator Quay,
he said, has ever had charges brought
against him in print in the specific antl
diversified manner in which they were
launched by the World. As the Secre-
tary of State.is the recognized political
historian of the nation his comment
possesses unusual interest.
At the National capitol the exposure,
now three weeks old, continues to be a
source of discussion in the committee-
rooms and in the two chambers. The
effect on the party is the principal point
of interest. No onecares for Quay per-
sonally. ’
In the Senate there are some queer
specimens of mankind, but no one mem-
ber of this body can hold a candle to
the man from Beaver in point of “low
downness.” The last phrase was used by
a Southern member of Congress the
other day in speaking of the affair.
Men of the high character of Senator
Edmunds are disturbed because they
fear political complications. Senator
Don Cameron is worried, not on account
of the datwnage done .Statesman Quay,
but, as when he saved the latter from a
striped suit at the time of the Treasury
steal, he is alarmed lest the party shall
suffer. It isthe parly not Pachyder-
matous Quay, that worries the magnates
of the national capitol. The Washing-
ton Post of Wednesday last commented
on a despatch from Florida announcing
that Quay was troubled with insomnia,
by stating that his friends at Washing-
ton are afflictea with sleeplessness on his
account to a greater degree than him-
self.
Many letters have been addressed to his
fishing station, urging action of some
kind, but to all he turns a deaf ear. Yes,
Statesman Quay hopes to fish away the
effect of the World's exposure of his
villainies, Perhaps he derives sympa-
thetic enjoyment from the remembrance
of the ancient German proverb, “The
fish lead a pleasant life; they drink
when they like.”
In Pennsylvania no publication ever
occurred which has convulsed political
circles to a greater degree than the
World's exposure. The Republican
press at once adopted the policy of si-
lence, There was no attempt at denial
of the damaging facts laid before the
publiceye. Simply silence and that is
all. There's scarcely a Republican editor
in the Keystone State who is not aware
of the trustworthiness of the World's
historical study. A distinguished jour-
nalist at the head of a Republican news-
paper informed the writer that he knew
the details of the steal from the Treasury
at the time of its occurrence.
“Why did you not print them ?” was
the interrogation addressed to him.
“Because of the effect on the party,”
was the rejoinder.
This fear of “injury to the party”
causes the Republican newspapers to ig-
nore the Quay exposure, and the nu-
merous reputable gentlemen—men of
character and honor—who are at the
fore of some of the influential newspapers
of Pennsylvania, stultify themselves,not
from love of the man with the pachyder-
matous hide, for he has tew respectable
personal friends, but the fetish of party
damage stares them in the face. I have
not as yet heard of a single Republican
editor who personally denies the story
of Quay’s scampery. The World’sstory
has been extensively quoted by the
Democratic and independent press
throughout the State and country. The
burden of editorial utterance is that si-
lence on the statesman’s part is an ac-
knowledgment of guilt.
The stalwart Republicans of Pennsyl-
vania attempt to condone the misdeeds
of their boss by asserting that the
charges of the World apply to his acts
in the past; that none of the misde-
meanors are of recent occurrence. In
order to convince these complacent
friends who apologize for crime on the
ground that it occurred last week in-
stead of yesterday, I will anticipate
the narration of a transaction which
otherwise would have been deferred un-
til a future publication. It will be con-
clusively shown that the Beaver states-
man did not mend his ways with the
progress of time. Undeterred by the
narrow escape he had when he took part
in thelooting of the State Treasury in
1879, the adventurer again exploited the
people’s money and enjoyed its profits
when he had been elected by a servile
Legislature in 1887 to the Senate of the
United States.
QUAY AGAIN USES THE PEOPLE'S MONEY
TO FEATHER HIS OWN NEST.
In order to make plain the story of
Statesman Quay’s recent exploit, it will
be necessary to describe some of his sur-
roundings, to refer to certain of his
friends and accomplices and to consid-
er the means he employed to rule the
great commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
A prominent politician—a follower of
the Beaver boss—sapiently announced
to the specialeorrespondent of the World
that the exposure of Quay referred to
past deeds only and that sympathy
would be felt for the man who was try-
ing to live down former indiscretions.
“How about the affair of the West
Chicago Railway stock?’ I asked.
“Who in h—Il told you that?” he
cried, involuntarily. Then he quickly
changed to “I mean what is that
about?”
I will inform him in the course of the
present narration. It has always been
the practice of the statesman to have a
number of tools on whom he could at
all times and under any circumstances
rely. Tn different localities in Pennsyl-
vania, at Harrisburg, Philadelphia,
Reading, Pittsburg and in each of the
valious counties, Quay has satellites
who breathe, as it were, only to do his
will. For a period of nearly fifteen
years prior to May 22, 1888, there was
no single person to whom Quay could
turn, with greater confidence of prompt,
unquestioring action, than to A. Wil-
son Norris, of Philadelphia. Norris
was a bright young man of good fami-
ly; a gallant soldier during the war and
a well-read lawyer. He married a rela-
tive at Lewistown, in Central Pennsyl-
vania, a thoroughly estimable lady, who
posseseed considerable wealth. Owing
to reasons for which neither husband
nor wife was responsible, their married
life proved a failure. Norris became ac-
quainted wich Mrs. Elizabeth Roberts,
a widow, who married in extreme youth
a boy who left her alone at seventeen
years of age. With her he established
an alliance which lasted for eleven
years. Although his lawful wife was
living, a ceremony of marriage with
Mrs. Roberts was gone through in
which a clergyman took part, and Nor-
ris and his bogus wife lived together.
Norris was very prominent in the Grand
Army, and his strength in that direc-
tion gave him a political following
which was valuable to Statesman Quay.
At first Norris secured the place of re-
orter of Supreme Court decisions at
arrisburg, and he was used by Quay
in the great treasury steal of 1879. Sub-
sequently he was made United States
Pension Agent at Philadelphia. This of-
fice he held until he was given the nom-
ination of Auditor-General of the State
of Pennsylvania by Quay, and was elect-
ed and assumed office May 2, 1887.
‘With Norris in charge of the Auditor-
General's office, Statesman Quay had
no fear that any of his schemes against
the State Treasury would be exposed.
As related in a previous article, Quay
secured by treachery the office of State
Treasurer in 1885, and on Jan. 18, 1887
he was made United States Senator.
The full story of Quay’s deeds when in
charge of the treasury is vet to be told.
Norris and his bogus wife kept house
in various locations in Philadelphia.
Their establishment was the resort of the
higher(?) class of politicians of both
parties, and for a considerable period of
time State politics were conducted in the
handsome apartments. Quay used to
receive and entertain his friends at one
of the Roberts-Norris mansions, first at
1385 North Twenty-first street, and after-
wards at 620 North Eighteenth street.
Distinguished members of the Republi-
can party used to flit in from the various
sections of Pennsylvania or from Wash-
ington, anil they were alway secure of a
welcome beneath the hospitable roof.
If perchance these energetic friends of the
‘Boss’ brought chipper young women
along and introduced them as daughters,
nieces or wards, never a denial of en-
trance was put forth, and they remain-
ed as long as the visiting statesmen,
their protectors, tarried. In the event
of the arrival of one of these aforesaid
statesmen who was unfortunate enough
not to possess or had deemed it inexpe-
dient to bring along a chipper daughter,
niece or ward, a chipper and usually
very pretty daughter, niece or ward was
quickly found in Philadelphia beneath
the North Eighteenth street roof-tiles.
Quay passed much time there. One
night in 1878, the plan for the nomina-
tion of Gov. Hoyt was set in Mrs. Rob-
erts-Norris’s back parlor amid the clink-
ing of wine glasses and the cacchina-
tions of certain chipper daughters, nieces
and wards, who chanced to be in atten-
dance. The secret statesmanship of the
Keystone State was born and developed,
during Statesman Quay’s regime, under
similar ciicumstances.
‘Wilson Norris was a man who would
have ornamented any circle had he not
been the victim of disease which proved
his ruin and which enabled Quay to
maintain an ascendancy over him. He
was a confirmed dipsomaniac. For
long periods he was in unfit condition
to attend to business. His bogus, wife Mrs.
Roberts-Norris, a woman of remarkable
energy and great business talent, used to
aid in the preparation of official papers
and various other kindred work connect-
ed with Lis public duties. Had it not
been for her he would have been forced
out of the Pension Office for neglect of
duty. Quay and Norris used to disagree
openly, but to use the latter's own
words, ‘The old man is like a father
to me, and I can’t stay mad at him.”
On one occasion “Papa” Quay tested
his filial regard. Norris had been din-
ing out azd returned home in a state of
excessive fatigue. He lay down on a
sofa and sought to sleep it off. Mean-
while the Beaver statesman, his po!iti-
cal father, came in, and ‘being then in
an exhilarated condition, invited Mrs.
Roberts-Norris to go out and get some
supper. The latter, who was, in the
face of innumerable temptations, always
true, I am informed, to Norris, consent-
ed, and the pair hied them first to Mec-
Gowan’s famous hostelry for terrapin
and ‘“fizz ;”’ afterwards to the neighbor-
hood of the domicile of Mistress Abby
Kingsley, located not a dozen miles from
the corner of Eighteenth and Chestnut
streets, where more ‘fizz’ was absorb-
ed. Meanwhile Norris had roused from
his slumbers and missed his “father”
and his so called wife. Suspect-
ing, or rather knowing the for-
mer only too well, he started
in pursiit and pounced into the
room where Quay and his pettie Lizzie
were seated at a table with beady glass-
es between them.
“What in h—I1l are you doing
with Lizzie, you infernal old rascal 77
be shouted. “You wouldn’t spare the
cradle or the grave, curse you |”
And then the irate man proceeded to
seize the startied statesman by the throat
and to thump his head against the wall.
The two were separated and Norris bore
the frightened Lizzie home. Next
morning Quay went to see his political
child, and after prolonged discussion the
affair was amicably arranged. An in-
timate friend of Norris told the above
anecdote to me, with the explanation
that Norris personally gave him the de-
tails.
The remarkable feature of Norris's
dual marital situation was that the
house where he kept his putative wife
was not many squares from the house
where he alternated his residence with
his lawful wife.
One fine morning during Wilson
Norris’s incumbency of the office of
Auditor-General, a cab sped to the door
of a person in Philadelphia with whom
he was on confidential terms. The
vehicle contained the Auditor-General
and one other person. The former
quickly stepped out; his companion re-
mained within. As Norris passed up
the conventional white marble door-
steps characteristic of the Quaker City,
he involuntarily placed his hands to his
breast and moved his fingers as if mak-
ing sure of something concealed in the
inside pocket of his waistcoat. He rang
the bell, was admitted and in a few min-
utes wascloseted with his friend. After
a few preliminary remarks the Auditor-
General exclaimed: “I'm cursedly
nervous !”” and then he removed a pack-
age from his breast pocket.
“Do you see this?” he said, in a low
voice, ‘It represents hundreds of
thousands of dollars of State funds. It
is going to carry Quay through another
deal. By God,I’d think he had enough
fingering Treasury money. I'm afraid
of a smash up.”
Then the story was told how Quay
had made a fresh raid on the public
tunds. :
I have traced this act of the pachyder-
matous statesman from the beginning to
the end, and itis not strange that Wil-
son Norris was nervous, or that he
should say :
“If this affair turns out like the 79
business I'll skip to Canada.”
Quay was served when State Treasur-
er by William Livsey as Cashier of the
treasury. When his election to the
United States Senate occurred he could
no longer act in the State offica, and
Livsey, a pliant follower of the Boss,
was appointed to the office of State
Treasurer. 'W. D. Hart succeeded him
and diel. Then Livsey was re-appoint-
ed, and Boyer, the newly elected
Treasurer, who owes his election to
Quay’s influence, does not step in his
place until May next. During the period
when Quay was Treasurer he had the
power to use the treasury funds very
much as he pleased, providing that he
looked out for the welfare of “the boys”
of the inner circle.
In Philadelphia there is a little cote-
rie of sharp, able and sagacious men who
constitute what is known as the Horse
Railway Syndicate. They control tram-
ways in various cities, including, as is
well known, the Broadway and Seventh
Avenue Surface Roads in New York.
In order to fight their way along, in
common with other corporation mana-
gers, they have employed a lobby. It
may be said without any qualification
that the Harrisburg legislators do not
propose to allow the evanescent and
fugacious dollar to roll past their pock-
ets when a simple act like the casting of
a favorable vote will cause the coin to
trundle inside. On past occasions the
syndicate had occasion to call on States-
man Quay for the exercise of his kird
offices in shooting bills along towards
enactment, and he had been ajuseful and
unscrupulous agent, as certain specific
instances, of which I have the details,
would demonstrate if I were to make
use of them here. When Quay was in
finarcial trouble he would go to certain
members of the syndicate for aid, and
as he has generally been in a condition
of impecuniosity, on account of his bad
luck in gambling, his calls have not
been as infrequent as might be imagined.
The Philadelphia syndicate cast a
number of eyes on the railway property
in the Windy City known as the West
Chicago Company, and on ascertaining
that the business chances were good
straightway absorbed the plantby pur-
chase. Then bonds were issued togeth-
er with stock in the company. The
syndicate was under obligation to the
Boss, and, when the scheme had at-
tained the right stage, a certain mem-
ber of the financial clique gave the
Beaver statesman a chance to pocket
some profits. He was offered $400,000
in bonds of the West Chicago Railway
and: each bond carried a share of the
capital stock, Among the observations
plainly made to the eager statesman was
the excellent advice that he should not
gamble away the profits of the transac-
tion, but that he should give them to his
good wife. Quay assented, for he
would have agreed to anything that
would put coin in his pocket. In order
to agree to his part of the transaction, it
was necessary to raise the sum of $400,-
000. Did he visit banks and secure the
money ? Not a bit of it? Why should
he ? Had not he the State Treasury at
his finger-tips, so to speak ? = As cooly as
if he had never on a previous occasion
speculated with and lost a large amount
of public money, with the connivance
of an official of the Treasury he sent the
required sum in State funds down to.
Philadelphia and it was deposited in the
People’s Bank, located on Fourth and
‘Walnut streets, which was and is to-
day the depository of the Horse Rail-
way Syndicate. The President, the
notorious. “Addition, Divison and
Silence” W. H. Kemble, was, as every-
body knows, saved from the penitentiary
after he had pleaded guilty in court—
prior to the conviction of Emil Petroff
—by the influence of Statesman Quay
over the State Pardoning Board. Quay
allotted a portion of what he received to
Wilson Norris, and the official of the
Treasury previously referred to got a
share of the prize.
Nota dollar of his own money did
Quay use, but he took the State money
and by that, which was no more or less
practically than simple embezzlement,
purchased $400,000 worth of West Chi-
cago Railway bonds; together with the
accompanying stock. He took the same
chances that he boldly assumed when he
embarked in the speculation of 1879.
The fact illustrates exactly the character
of the man. He is a born gambler.
Always ready to risk everything he pos-
sesses on the turn of a card or the tum-
ble of a set of dice, he apparently trust-
ed his luck and ran the risk of the State
Prison unflinchingly. The fate which
overtook him was different from that
which resulted from the previous defal-
cation, and the West Chicago scheme
proved successful. The profits of the
transaction to Quay arose trom the sale
of stock which practically 20st him
nothing but that which by other mcn
would be counted as honor. Of
course the word is not to be used in con-
nection with the acts and deeds of the
eminent statesman of Pennsylvania. He
sold stock as high as 82 or 83, and, of
course, made a pile of money by the
daring he displayed. The bonds were
used to make the State Treasury good
and Don Cameron was not again called
in at a suicidal moment. Hart, the
new Treasurer, knew all about the
deal, and itis understood that he had his
little piece of mutton.
It is impossible to conduct raids on
the State Treasury without the know-
ledge of a number of persons, and they
require subsidizing to keep them quiet.
An experienced member of the Penn-
sylvania Legislature informed me that
there have been members of the Harris-
burg ring who would demand $5,000 as
the price of silence and accept $50.
Aye, and he named many of them, as
I shall hereatter.
The fate of Wilson Norris must be re-
lated in order to bring to light a portion
of the subject of the story. His conviv-
ial habits increased during the anxiety
he felt over his part in the deal. At
one period Quay also became nervous,
and he and Norris walked the room to-
gether and indulged in reflections on
the steal of 1879, wondering whether
there would be a disastrous ending to
the new enterprise. Norris drank heav-
ily, and his “very bad spells” left him
dangerously prostrated. In February,
1888, he became alarmed over his condi-
tion, and in a moment of anxiety lest his
pretty little daughters by Mrs. Roberts-
Norris should suffer want,he penned a
note to Statesman Quay, his ‘political
father,” as follows :
PuiLapeLprHIA, Feb. 5, 1888.
My DEAR CoLoNEL: In the event of
my death I wish as my last request that
you see that Lizzie for herself and the
children receives my $10,000 in the Chi-
cago deal. This is the only legacy I
can secure them and I trust you to look ;
after it. Yours truly,
A. WiLsoN NORRIS.
Col. M. 8S. Quay.
In less than four months the versatile
and engaging writer was in his grave.
Congestion of the brain followed a peri-
od of wild excesses and his body now
rests in a forlorn cemetery near Lewis-
town.
After his death Mrs. Roberts-Norris
endeavored to obtain a settlement with
Quay in accordance with the terms of
the letter. When the Senator was at
New York running the campaign she
paid him a visit at the headquarters of
the Republican National Committee.
Rich were the promises made. A |
henchman was detailed to make Mrs.
Roberts-Norris’s trip to New York an
agreeable one, and she was got rid of as
quickly as possible. Atlength, finding
out that the ‘‘political father” of Norris
did not intend to do anything, the mat-
ter was placed in the hands of A. Syd-
ney Biddle, of the eminent legal firm of
Biddle & Ward, on South Fifth street,
Philadelphia. A single move by Coun-
sellor Biddle accomplished wonders. A
response from Statesman Quay quickly
followed. Silas W. Pettit, a lawyer of
Philadelphia, was appointed to act for
Quay, and fina'ly stock to the value of
$10,000 was turned over to Mrs. Ro-
berts-Norris through Syndney Biddle.
Pettit informed the lawyer that Norris
had no claim on the funds for value re-
ceived, that Quay had allowed him to
come into the transaction es an act
of friendship. There is no doubt that
the statesman would have done the
woman if he dared. Bill Hart, the
State Treasurer, madea row over the
matter. He was in the deal sufficiently
to be fearfully worried lest blame
should fall on him, and he worked him-
self into a fit of nervousness which end-
ed in prostration from which he never
recovered. Like ‘‘Square Timber”
Noyes and Blake Walters, Hart, so
his friends allege, got his death as a re-
sult of the unscrupulous dishonesty of
the arch-gambler and risk-taker, States-
man Quay.
I paid a visit to the private residence
of Mrs. Roberts-Norris. She occupies a
handsome house filled with tasteful furn-
iture. In a large upper room, used as a
boudoir, stood an open piano and many
elegant articles of use and ornament.
A little woman, not over 5 feet in
height, with a handsome face and a fine,
rounded form, clad in a fashionable
morning gown, appeared in answer to
my card. I soon discovered the secret
of her power which caused the old ring
of politicians to flock to her former resi-
dence. She knows State politics like an
adept, despises Statesman Quay and re-
solutely refuses to say one word inculpat-
ing Norris in the dealings with the for-
mer. Womanlike, she says Quay has
deeply wronged her, but she will not
give him away. That she possesses dam-
aging evidence against the statesman
there app=ars to be little doubt, but she
refused to submit it to me under any
circumstances. The friends of Wilson
Norris who shared his confidence are not
as close-mouthed as his quasi widow.
There are other interesting illustrations
of Matthew ‘Stanley Quay’s greatness
which are next in order.
Chinese Medicine.
The San Francisco Examiner reporter
says the doctor pulled out a drawer
from under the counter and exhibited
hundreds of mummy grasshoppers.
“These are good for little children,”
he said. “In China every spring mil-
lions of these bugs come in the fields.
Pretty soon the grasshopper dies and the
meat turns into a fly. The hind legs
and little tail drop off and the little fly
goes away. Then there is nothing but
the shell left. The laborers in the fields
gather these and dry them in the sun.
I'hev make good medicine in powders.
“Chinese babies never die from con-
vulsions when teething like white babies.
This powder acts on the stomach when
the stomach teeth are coming through
and makes them good and strong.”
A Forestry in Germany.
The Germans have been = the
pioneers in scientific forestry, as in so
many other lines of progress. With a
total forest area of onlv 34,346,000
acres, of which 11,234,000 belong to
the state, the German empire has no
less than nine schools of forestry, and
during the three years ending with 1888
it pabiished 177 books on the various
branches of the subject. There are also
ten periodicals devoted to forestry, and
a gencral association of foresters with
annual meetings and ten local societies.
An April Trip to Washington via Penn -
sylvania Railroad.
On April 3d the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company will offer a most desir-
akle opportunity of visiting Washing-
ton. 1t'is a period of the year when
the handsome city wears its most attrac-
tive nspect, and itis also a time when
the Government departments are busi
est. Excursion tickets, valid for ten
days and bearing stop-over privilege in
Baltimore, in either direction, will be
sold from Pittsburg at $10, and at cor-
respondsngly low rates from the stations
mentioned below.
A special train of parlor cars and day
coaches will leave Pittsburgat 8.00 a.m.,
but those who prefer to start in the even-
ing may take the trains leaving at
7.15 or 8.10 p. m.
The following are the rates and sched-
ule of specirl trains .
Rate Train leaves.
Pittshurg../... iin. $0.00 00 a.m.
Altoona..... 7 5 H fe
Bellefonte
Clearfield.
Philipsburg.
Osceola.
Tyrone.....
Huntingdo
Lewistown J
Washington.... ve
Those who care to make
trips farther South may purchase at
Washington reduced rate excursion
tickets to Mt. Vernon, Richmond, Pe-
tersburg, or Old Point Comfort.
Return coupons will be accepted on
any train within the limit, except the
Pennsylvania Limited.
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flying side-
Farm Notes.
Nine cases out of ten, where a vari-
ety of fruit which once flourished in a
given soil, has ceased to flourish and
perfect fine fruit there, the change is
due to the fact that the soil has become
destitute of the necessary mineral ma-
nure.
The amount of solid and liquid ex-
crement voided in twenty-four hours
by a horse, as found by the Cornell
professors, is but a little less than fifty-
seven pounds. The horses weighed
about 1300 pounds eacki, and were lib-
erally fed of oats and hay.
A fifteen-mile journey is an average
day’s work for a horse. How far does
the cow travel in a poor pasture, nip-
ping a penny-weight of grass here and
there, to get her daily ration ? Then
she is expected to pay for it through
the milk pail.
Fruits and vegetables are perishable,
and some attention should be given the
time of harvesting and shipping in. or-
der that no delay may occur in reach-
ing the market. A few hours on a
warm day will make quite a difference
in the appearance of fruit in market.
It is claimed that land plaster is a
special fertilizer for cabbages. If this
is true there is no reason for neglecting
such a crop, as plaster is as cheap as
lime. Plaster is excellent for clover
and grasses, and its use has always
been beneficial compared with its cost.
Professor Heury says of feeding cat-
tle : “You cannot be too careful about
putting your feed and money into
young cattle and avoiding old ones.”
This is more applicable to hogs than
cattle, as the hoz reaches maturity
in about one half the time the cattle do.
It is yet a long time before any seeds
of mellons can be planted ; but the
mellon bills, niade up of plenty of ma-
nure, will be in excellent condition for
growing a crop if the hills are made
ready in time to allow the manure to
rot in the hills.
It is said that a coat of boiled linseed
oil and ground charcoal on any kind
of post will prevent its rotting. Any
good paint willno doubt do just aswell.
The mineral paints are very cheap,
and a coat of them on the post before
it isset in the ground would at least
double its life.
Professor Sanborn, of Missouri, in
more than 100 feeding tests determined
that to make a certain amount of gain,
pigs weighing 220 poynds required 18
per cent. more food ; pigs weighing 270
pounds require 50 per cent. more food,
and pigs weighing 325 pounds require
78 per cent, more food than pigs
weighing 70 pounds.
Slow germinating seeds,such as pars-
ley, carrots and parsnips, should be
of the best quality and should be plant-
ed early, so as to take advantage of
the spring rains in order to have
the young plants well advanced in
growth before the dry season comes on.
The seeds should go in as soon as the
ground is warm.
It has been suggested that fruit-
growers have special marke or labels
on their fruit-boxes, that castomers
may know who produced the fruit and
from whom to buy. In this manner
the fruit grower who sends choice fruit
to market will not be dependent on the
failure off his neichbors to properly as-
sort their fruit. Merit and profit shoulp
| go where they properly belong.
If the fertihty 18 hot 1n your soil,
put it in. Apply the iecesssary fertil-
1zers to grow the crop and make the
crop pay for them. In other words,
manufacture raw materials into a use-
ful and marketable crop that will ‘pay
all expenses and reward you for your
labor. Then you do not make some-
thing out of nothing, but something
valuable out of something not so val-
uable. |
On the question of pooling milk, Pro-
fessor Robertson, of Canada, appears
4 to be level-headed. He recently deciar-
ed in the Ontario Dairvman’s Conven-
tion : “I'm not fool enough to pool
my 4 per cent. fat milk with my neigh-
bor's 3 per cent. stuff.” There are
a good many others in the same boat,
andit is decidedly against the pooling
system, whether of milk or cream.
The largest single crops grown on an
acre in 1889 were : Corn, 255" bushels
of shelled corn, green weight, which
shrunk to 239 bushels when kiln dried;
potatoes, 738 bushels ; oats, 135 bush-
els ; wheat, 80 bushels. These crops
are the largest ever secured from one
acre under similar circumstances that
guaranteed their accuracy, and were
ised in competition for the American
Dr. Peter Collier says, in the Elmi-
ra Husbandman, that the intellectual
activity which has been aroused among
our agricultural classes during the
‘past ten years has been astounding,
and in every direction the people are
reaching out for help to enable them
to more intelligently conduct their
affairs. Nowadays thousands of farm-
ers are discussing the problems con-
nected with the feeding of their crops
and stock in terms which were to them
without meaning, an inkuown tongue,
less than ten years ago.
Answering the question : “Shail we
plant the Russian apricot 27 asked at
the meeting of the Ohio State Horti-
cultural Society, G. T. Trowbridge
said that the apricots wenow have
would thrive where the peach would
grow. The tree was as hardy or har-
dier than the peach; but the trouble
was its early blooming ; blossoming
something earlier than the peach, the
crops are nearly always destroyed by
the late frosts. If it should be shown
that the Russian varieties blossomed
as late or later than the peaches. then
we could plant them with the hope of
growing an occasional crop of apricots.
——The children’s health must nog
be neglected. Colds inthe head and
snufles bring on catarrh and lung af-
fections, Ely’s Cream Balm cures at
| once. Tt is perfectly safe and easily ap-
plied into the nostrils. It also cures ca-
tarrh, the worst cases yielding to it.