Bil
Terms 82.00 A Year, in Advance.
Bellefonte, Pa., July 25, 1890.
P. GRAY MEEK, ‘Eprror
STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For Governor, ,
ROBERT E. PATTISON,"
Of Philadelpbia.
For Lieutenant Governor,
+ CHAUNCEY, F. BLACK,
Of York County. :
For Secretary of Internal Affairs,
WM. H. BARCLAY,
Of Pittsburgh. ~~
——The “survivors” of the officers
‘and men who served at Johnstown af-
ter the flood, have formed an associa-
tion and will hold reunions. Is’ this
preparatory to applications for pen-
sions ? : :
——When Secretary Brame tells
Republican farmers, who have confi-
dence in him, that the McKinley tariff
would do them no good, he furnishes
them with a large amount of food for
thought. :
Dax Ransperr, who is Marshal
of the District of Columbia under Har-
RI80N, predicts that his chief .will be
re-elected. This prediction is unques-
tionably the offspring of Dax's desire
to hold on to his office for ‘another
four years.
~——The number of Members present
whom Speaker REED dcesn’t hesitate to
count, whether they answer to the call
or not, have been dubbed “ocular quo-
rams.” If necessary for his purpose
the Czar would just as readily make
them binocular. 3
——After much hesitation a com-
mittee of the House has been appoint:
ed to investigate the charges against
Pension Commissioner Rava. Bat it
is quite evident from the make up of
the committee that inyestigation is not
its purpose. What it will not manage
to conceal it will whitewash.
amelie Judges to whom has been
entrusted the decision of th: TLycom-
ing judicial coutest, ast week arrived
at the stage of the investigation at
which they were able to commence
writing their opinion in the case. Ac
Judges are usually very deliberate in
such cases it is likely that the two
years since the contest began will have
fully terminated before their Honors
will determine this long mooted ques-
tion. :
The protective principle
meeting with a serious hitch in respect
to sugar. An amendment to the tariff
bill has been proposed which provides
that after a year from the passage of
the bill the President may reimpose
the duties on sugar as against any
country that may. refuse to accept our
agricultural produce free of duty.
This is an acknowledgment of the prin-
ciple that commercial liberality on one
side should induce equal liberality on
the other, and yet we have for years
been conducting our commercial policy
on the opposite principle.
Not Too Late.
is
The President's denial that the
Cape May cottage was a gift comes
late. The claim that he paid $10,-
000 for it, belated as it may be, is evi-
dence that the public censure of presi-
dential gift-taking has had an effect
upon his sensibilities which are not
any too fine. Probably for the same
reason he has declared that he will pay
the rent of the Cresson cottage out of
his own pocket. It 1s not too late for
him to announce that his family have
withdrawn from a real estate specula-
tion in which a syndicate of Washing-
ton operators intend to use them for the
purpose of booming their scheme:
Mr. HarrisoN owes this to the dig
nity and credit of the high office he oc-
cupies. :
They Must Be Patient.
The census enumerators are far from
being happy. They were compelled to
do a large amount of work in a very
limited space of time, and did it during
the hottest period of the season. Their
service was attended with many un-
pleasant experiences, and altogether
their task was far from being an envi-
able one. Now they are told that they
i
Suspicious Discoveries.
All these Western discoveries of tin mines
comeata very inconvenient time for the
statesmen who are vigorously opposing the
duty on tin plate on the ground that this coun-
try never can prodiice any tin.—TInquirer.
Bat isn’t it remarkable that they
come conveniently at the time when it
is proposed to clap increased duties on
tin for somebody’s especial benefit?
The report of the discovery of Calitor-
nia and Dakota tin mines, circulated
simultaneously with the appearance
of the McKinly bill, has something
about it synchronically suspicious.
Financial Absorption.
Every day there are evidences that
the “surplus” is rapidly approaching
exhaustion. Thus it is announced that
there isn't money enough to pay the
expenses of the summer term of the
United States District Court at Erie.
The Marshal might borrow the money
necessary to keep the wheels of justice
running in his district, but it is doubt
ful whether he will take the reponsi-
bility.
The effects of treasury depletion
are seen at Carlisle’ where the Indian
pupils who have graduated at the
Training School at that place are de-
tained because sufficient money to send
them home isn’t available.
There is also a good chance of the
River and Harbor Bill being dropped
at this session on account of an iuad-
equacy of funds. Other expenses usual-
ly considered necessary will haye to be
postponed until the McKinley taxes
shall havea chauce to bring in more
money.
When Grover CLeveLanp closed his
administration there was a handsome
balance in the treasury, but the various
agents of financial absorption, who
have been given fall swing under Hax-
RISON, have got away with it.
| m——————)
—An American newspaper proudly
says that ‘‘when the sunis giving its
good night kiss to our western isle on
the confines of the Behring Sea, it is al-
ready flooding the fields and forests of
Maine with its morning light.” This
enthusiastic journal makes old Sol
spread himself over a larger stretch of
the earth’s surface than he usually cov-
ers at any one time, but in these long
days in that high latitude he may te
fight between combatants that usually
run away from each other after the
first fire. This kind of warfare is ha-
bitual and constitutional with the Cen-
tral Americans, and the same weakness
for petty wars extends to the other
Spanish American people. They have
been at it ever since they separated
from Spain and will be likely to con-
tinue their factional turmoils until their
_turoulence is restrained by some Ameri
can influence that will compel them to.
keep the peace and behave like civiliz-
ed republics.
A Doctored Census.
The Object to Continue Republican
Control of Congress.
WasHINGTON, July 21.—Sensational
developments are rumored in a few
days as the result of an investigation
that has been going on for some time.
The assertion is made that the census
bureau is being used to suppress south-
ern congressional representation, and
enough has been discovered, it is claim-
ed, to prove that the enumeration in
the south has been a mere farce, no at-
tempt having been made to count
thousands of whites and negroes in the
sparsely settled districts, and that in
thickly populated sections the figures
are being cut down in the final count
here in Washington with a direct intent
to reduce congressional representation.
It is declared that the Republicans
have positively determined to reappor-
tion congressional districts before an ad-
journment is taken this session, and that
this determination has been reached by
the party leaders upon the assurance of
the census authorities that a large num-
ber of districts will be gained in Re-
publean strongholds in the northwest,
and there will be a corresponding falling
off in Democratic districts of the south.
It is understood that southern mem-
bers are receiving numerous complaints
from their districts that the enumerators
have made no pretense of making full re-
turns. Especially has this been the
case in the enumeration of negroes. Tt
is claimed that at least one-sixth of the
blacks in the south have not been
counted:
The investigation has been going on
with great secrecy, and it is claimed
thut the evidence is overwhelmingly
conclusive us to a deliberate intention to
cut down southern representation.
But a more serious allegation is made
that returns are not being fairly counted
by the authorities here, and it is claim-
ed that this can be proved, and will be
proved to the satisfaction of every one.
It is positively asserted that the delay
in giving out official totals from the
census office, even in the case of the
larger cities, is due entirely to the doc-
toring process that is going on, and it is
able to do it ; and he ought to stretch
himself to his fullest capacity out of
compliment to the American eagle.
——The Philadelphia Evening Bul-
letin, one of the staunchest Republican
papers in the State, advises the con-
gress of its party to drop the Force Bill.
The Evening Bulletin is wise in giving.
this advice. It knows that the bill is
a partisan measure, intended for no
other than a partisan purpose. It is
fully conscious, although it does not di-
rectly say so, that a measure designed
1o forcibly control the elections is revo-
lutionary in its intention and wili
be as destructive to the Republican
party as it will be injurious to the
country. Congress could not do better
than to take its advice and drop the
Force Bill. :
Pestilent Partisan Clubs.
Having in its eye the club of office-
holders at Washington, of which Joux
I. Rakin, of this place, is President,
which met some days azo and endorsed
everything done by Quay’s Siace con-
vention, including his certificate of
character, the Philadelphia Record in-
dulges in the following just criticism:
_Those pestilent partisan clubs which Pregi-
dent Cleveland extirpated from the depart-
ments in Washington, appear to have bloomed
forth again in all their pristine vigor under
the patronage of Harrison's administration,
The ‘Pennsylvania Republican Club,” com-
posed mainly of clerks in the departments,
met in Washington on Monday evening to
glorify the chief distributer of Government
bounty in the person of Senator Quay and to
“ratify” the nomination of Delamater for Gov-
ernor. It need not be said thatthe unanimity
and enthusiasm in this assemblage cf spoils-
eaters were as perfect as a party boss coulo de-
sire. But their influence upon the election in
Pennsylvania will not extend beyond their
bare votes. When the power of the master ig
expiring not much account is kept of his men.
The spoils system could not produce
anything more obnoxious or objection-
able than these organizations of office-
holders whose allegiance to their party
masters compels them to convert the
civil service into a palitical machine.
Central American Turmoil.
News of international contention
comes from the Central American
States where one should expect to find
the most amicable relations between
the little republics of that region wh ch
but recently participated by their rep-
resentatives in the conference at Wash-
ington that was intended to inaugurate
must wait for their pay until Porrer |
and his corps of assistants at Wash-
ington overhaul the figures, which
will take quite a time,as it is likely that
months will be consumed in manipu-
lating the returns for partisan ends.
The poor enumerators, who need their
money, will have to exercise their pa-
tience while the census is being doc-
tored.
a lovely condition of Pan-American har-
mony and good will. The delegates. of
Gautemala and San Salvador bad
hardly gotten home from the conference
|
the intention of the census office to com-
plete the figures of all the present con-
gressional districts of the country and
arrange them for the reapportionment
before any totals are published. :
At the census bureau these rumors are
laughed at, as almost unworthy of de-
nial. ~~ Nevertheless, those making
the charges seem to be terribly in
earnest. i
The Wage Earners’ Wrongs.
Here, then, is the wage earners’ in-
dictment of the wag:s system :
Every man has a right, because he
has a duty, to earn his duily bread by
the sweat of his brow. The wage sys.
tem denies this right to myriads of wil-
ling workers. In America, the work-
ingman’s Eldorado, nearly 1,000,000
willing workers were thrown out of em-
ployment in 1885. “Enforced idleness,”
says Carlyle, is the Englishman’s hell.”
Taat system cannot be right which turns
1,000,000 of willing workers in .rich
America into this hell and locks the
door against them: Jvery man has a
right to the product of his own indusiry ;
under the wage system the greater part
of the products of industry goes intd the
hands of the few tool owners. The
wealth of this country has increased
during the past quarter century from
fourteens billion to forty-four billns.
A careful statistician estimates tbalthe
wages of 5,200,000 unskilled labcrers
were in 1884 less than $200 a jear,
while the average wages of werkinen
engaged in manufactures, incluling
skilled laborers, was but $346 a jear.
That system cannot be right wlich
gives the profits of industry to the/few
and compels the many to live alyays
raying, “Give us this day our daily
read."—Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbot in
Forum. |
[This is a true picture of the condtion
of the wage earner, and it is remurk-
able that it is true in this country)
which for so many years has had the
advantage of tarifl’ protection sa) to
be designed for the benefit of age
earners.—ED. WATCHMAN. ] !
Dudley’s Facilities.
|
A writer in an interior city of Mis-
souri informs us that pensioners and
those who want pensions: are king
flooded with circulars - from Blogs-of
Five Dudley, offering his: services as
attorney under the recent Disuaility
ditional ‘allowances, and ‘setting forth
his superior facilities in that line.
Among these superior facilities héper-
haps failed to mention that h¢and
Lemon have such a “pull” or the
Pension Commissioner that thej can
obtain favors denied to competing.
sion sharks.— St. Louis Republic.
Prum Barrs,—Select large, ripe
plums, wash them well, and mae in
each one a deep cut with a sharp nife.
Make a smooth, soft paste, cut Wth a
biscuit-cutter a circle of dough bhlled
very thin, placein it one ofthe arge
ful of sugar, and a small lump of htter
pinch together the edges of the dagh,
before those diminutive national
ities commenced to pitch into each
other in regular Spanish-American
style, and if accounts are trie the bat:
tle that came off’ between their forces
some days ago was quite bloody for a
and bake quickly. :
——New York physicians and. Tere
i have contributed to a fund for th as-
| sistance of Dr. Douglass, who attided
| General Grant in his last illness;and
“who is now in needy circumstances
act, to secure for them pensions aul ad- |
plums or two small ones, one teasoon- |
Southern Opinion of the Force Bill.
The following interview with Pro-
fessor William A. MecCalloch is printed
in the Chicago Tribune. Mr. McCalloch
is one of the greatest teachers in North
Carolina and a former United States
Consul to Bahia. What he says gives
a good idea of the opinion of intelligent
Republicans in the South. We quote:
“The reason there is so much rot said
and done by Northern people and states-
men concerning the Southern suffrage
question,” he said, “is because not one
in 10,000 up here understands the social
conditions of the South. There are
greater evils than the suppression of
votes. Ignorant and superstitious votes
are themselves worse, and those who
cast them have no right to the ballot.
Where intelligence is in the majority it
may be well to grant the franchise to
the ignorant; but where ignorance—
even barbarism ofttimes—is in the ma-
jority the community certainly ought
to deprive that class of the rizht to vote
or to have that vote counted. In the
North ignorance may have the ballot
without great danger; but there is a
decided difference between allowing ig-
norance to vote and still remain con-
trolled and allowing it to vote and itself
gain the control. We in the’ South do
not deny the negro a vote because his
skin is black, but because he is the
ignorant majority. It is really a ques-
tion of self-preservation with many sec-
tions of the South—but we shall never,
I fear, convince the North of that so
long as the Shermans and the Forakers
and the rest of that ilk are believed.
It is they who have made us what you
delight to call the ‘Solid South’ in
much the same tone as if the term
meant a band of Nihilists or Molly
Maguires. Cruel and life-taking meth-
ods of depriving the negro of his vote
will, however, never again be known in
the South unless by unwise and section-
ai legislation on the part of Congress.
on a question of that kind, and any de-
cided move the wrong way can only
resu.t to the further disadvantage of the
negro in the South.
“At present the colored vote is to
some extent suppressed, not for the
good of the Democratic party but for
the safety of the Southern people; and
the “Solid South’ is hound together in
Democracy only because she knows that
Republicanism is mistakenly and, I
believe, ignorantly endeavoring to_ruin
ber social condition. Of course the
party takes this course partly to gain
ands of its followers indorse its particu
lar principles in that direction simply
because they have no means of under-
standing the fearful conditions which
irabarrsss. our people. We ae con-
stantly etrugeling with the dread of
being overwhelmed by the superstitious
white demagogues whose rule weuld re-
sult in the most vicious and ignorant
legislation. Under such circumstances,
would the whites of the North act
difierently ? I know they. would not.
We are of the same race, though I fear
a part of the North has forgotten it.
Our ambition is the same and our love
of country is equal. I doubt if this
stupendous question can be solved by the
Democratic party. There is a grand
chance here for a brave Republican
statesman of the North, who is unselfish
gress with a measure that would dispel
these doubts, misunderstandings and
clouds. If such a man could be found,
and he were strong enough to carry
Congress with him, do you know what
would happen ? The Solid South would
be buried forever beneath a million
votes.”
A Snake Story.
d Big Blacksnake Which Doted on
Fresh Eggs.
RicamonDp, Ind.,, July 20.—Miss
Julia Levering is a farmer's daughter,
and she-lives' near New Paris. She
went out to the barn cn Monday to
gether hens eggs. She wus returning
to the house with a dozen of egs in her
apron when she saw the head and part
of the body of a big blacksnake at one
side of a big chopping block.
rest of the snake's body slowly ap-
peared around the chopping block she
she dropped to the ground.
She does not know how long she was
in the swoon, but when she came to
her mind, she was sitting where she
had fallen. Every one of ber eggs was
gone, and so was the snake. The eggs
she had been depending on to make up
part of the cost of a new dress she had
weak when she recevered from her
faint she had strength enough to be
indignant and hard set against snakes
ular, for she was certain that the black-
snake had taken advantage of its scar-
ing her into a helpless: swoon aud gob-
bled all ber eggs.
Miss Levering rose to her feet, and
looking toward the board fence at one
i side of the yard shesaw the blacksnake
| lying at full length, already overcomes
i by its impulse to lie at rest and dige
i the eggs. The girl ran to the woodpile,
i got the axe and rushing upon’ tho big
i snake chopped its head off before it
I knew what was going on. Twelve
| suspicious protuberances along
: snake’s stow uch were sufficient evidence
{ that the eggs were where Miss Lovering |
All
had suspected them of being.
i doubt on thesuhject was dispelled when
{ Furmer Levering dissected the spake
i
later on. Every egg was there, and
‘each cne as flawless as when it was
i taken from the nest.
EA NASER PASS OYE
Drienp AprpLE DuMPLINGS. —One
' pint of dried apples, cut, one-half pint
i of sweet milk, two teaspoountuls of bak-
(ing powder and one tablespoonful of
{ butter or lard. Use flour sutlicient to
make into small biscuits, and drop into
i boiling water and boil quickly till the
“apples are done. Cut the apples into
small bits with seissors, and soak into
» warm water before making. = Eat with
cream sauce flavored with nutmeg,
Sr SS ————————
——The trouble with recommending
a man is that you are apt to be held re-
sponsible the rest of your life for his
failure.
The latter 1s playing with edged tools’
its own ends ‘nthe North; but thous-:
race which is led against us by a few
and patriotic enough to go before Con-*
Miss,
Levering stopped, and as she relates it,’
felt herself turning cold. She couldn’t.
find her voice to scream, and when the:
wes herself long enough to know that
set her heart on, and although she was
generally and that blucksnake in partic-'
the |
More Dignified Silence.
Philadelphia Times.
torney who is accused of paying the
money to the three Beaver county dele-
gates which induced them to vote for
Major MecDowell, of Mercer county,
for Congress, thereby deserting and de-
feating Congressman Townsend, the
candidate they were s:lected to support,
shows that he understands the modern
and popular method of meeting a charge
of political dishonesty.
‘When asked what he had to say in
reply to the charge he replied: “I
have nothing whatever to say.” After
a moment's reflection he added : “You
can say this : Mr. Quay, the Republi-
can leader, has established the prece-
dent of answering no charges, and the
Republican vote of the district will
approve or disapprove of Major Mec-
Dowell’s nomination and also of the
action’ of the Beaver county politicians
in the matter, as will be shown by
Delamater’s vote.” He might have
added that Delamater had set the same
example by his failure to reply to Sena-
tor Emery’s charges.
There is no denying that Attorney
Wallace has high authority for his
poten, If Boss Quay and Candidate
elamater may decline to answer charges
of political dishonesty and secure the
unqualified indorsement of a State Re-
publican Convention for such refusal,
why need. Attorney Wallace do other
than preserve a dignified silence ? The
mere fact that one of Quay’s favorites
was beaten by the boodle game, in this
instance, does not change the principle
of the thing. If Quay and Delamater
are to be commended for keeping silence
ander the charges against them, Attor-
ney Wallace is to be commended for
his silence under like circumstances, and
his candidate, McDowell, for refusing to
to come off the ticket. It’s a poor rule
that will apply to Quay and Delamater
and not apply to Wallace and his can-
didate as weil. :
Made Sausage Meat of a Boy.
He Fell into a Cement Mixer and Was
Ground to Pieces.
PrrrsBURG, July 20.—Eugene Car-
roll, the 9 year old son of C. A. Carroll
and grandson of Mrs. Rook, of the
Dispatch Publishing Company, on Fri-
day afternoon met with an instant and
horrible death. The boy was riding on
the stone and cement mixer of Booth &
Flinn, which js stationed on Highland
avenue, near Staunton avenue, when he
fell into the mixer and was instantly
crushed to death: : :
The mixer is a long, flat car, which
contains a cylinder about 25 feet long
and 12 inches in diameter = Attached
to the cylinder are large dnd heavy cast-
iron blades, which revolve at the vate
of fifty revolutions to the minute. ‘The
box covering the cylinder « is “usually
where the men shovel in the cement and
stone, but yesterdry the doors were left
open. The little fellow had. climbed
upon the opposite side from where the
men were working and seated himself
on one of the upright. beams at the end
of the car. The sudden movement of
the car by Engineer William Conley
caused him to lose his balance and fall
into the revolving cylinder.
Several men nearby saw him fall,
and shouted to the engineer. The ma-
chine was stopped, but 1t was too late.
The boy was almost ground to pieces.
Every bone in his body was broken and
when lifted out of the box he almost fell
to pieces. :
: Sold Too Cheap.
Coal Operators Strike a Bonanza. Near
Scranton,
Scranton, Pa., July 20.—About two
months ago William Moore, of West
Market street, sold 100 acres of land sii-
uated in Dickson borough, just across
the ¢ity line, to Messrs. Benner, Watkins
and Williams, coal operators. The
price was $25,000. Soon after the land
nad been deeded over, the new owners
erected a McIEthen mine drill upon the
place, and in a few days the huge anger
was penetrating the bowels of the earth.
‘This set Moore to thinking, and two
weeks ago he sought the coal operators,
and offered them $30,000 to sell back.
“We would not sell for. ten times
that sum,” replied the artesians, and the
old man turned away murmuring words
of regret at having sold the tarm. On
last Wednesday morning the drill broke
through a vein of coal 10 feet thick at
tne depth of 150 feet. The coal is of.
the finest quality, and there are “mil-
lions in it” for the new owners. The
value of this land now is estimated at
over $1,000.000. This opens up a new
coal sub-field, and in a locality where
the presence of coal was not even sus-
pected. ,
Damage of the Storm in Schuylkill.
PortsvinLe, July 20. —There is every
indication that the damage done by the
storm of Thursday last in this "county
| will reach $100,000. Pottsville has lost
| between $25,000 and $300,000. Ashland
alone loses more than that figure, the
latest estimate placing her loss at from
: $40,000 to $50,000. In Minersville,
: Schulkilli Haven and St. Clair no aggre-
' gate of the loss has yet been reached but
it will not be small. Many of the farm-
ers in the southern end will lose badly
in their outstanding crops, which have
been damaged by the heavy rains where
‘not wholly destroyed ;
Schuylkill Haven seems to have suffered |
almost as severely
as Pottsville and !
1
Ashland, and Cressona’s loss is also |
heavy. Aaburn and Port Clinton, |
. Hamburg, Shoemakersville and Norris- |
towr, all felt the storm, the damage
to crops being very heavy in upper |
Berks. : :
AprpLE Fritrers.—Pare two large
apples, cut them in slices half an nch
thick ; core them with a round cutter ;
put them in a dish and pour brandy
over them, let them lie for two hours;
make a thick batter, using two eggs; |
have clean lard, and make it quite hot;
fry two at a time, a nice hght brown ;
ut them on the back of a sieve on pa-
er, sift pounded sugar over them; |
splaze them with a shovel or salamander, |
dish on a napkin.
W. D. Wallace, the New Castle at-
“his high office to such a scheme.
kept closed on the opposite side from |
I eonld not be hid fro
'| longer. wan
by the hail.
i of the villiage in her’ company.
The Battle-Cry of 1890.
Philadelphia Times.
1. Tax reform, by the repeal of all
needless taxes on the necessaries of life;
the repeal of all taxes on the raw mater-
ials of our industries, in. harmony with
the policy of every other protective
country of the world and the repeal of
the taxes which foster monopoly, trusts
and‘ combines to tax the masses for the
benefit of the classes.
2. Ballot Reform, by absolute freedom
of all voters from the dictation of politi-
cal or business masters, and the absolute
secrecy of every citizen’s vote.
3. Civil Service Reform, by the over-
throw of the vicious system that de-
grades local, State and national govern-
ments to the control of the professional
spoilsman, and excludes integrity and
competency for the dependents of party
bosses, ir
4. Public Economy, by the restora-
tion to solvency of a now bankrupted
Naticnal Treasury * without “imposing
additional turdens on the people to
maintain needless officials and satiate
the greed of monopolists and proiigates.
5. National Peace, by the defeat of
revolutionary measures aiming at the
control of elections by force and fraud ;
creating 200,000 new Federal officials to
be paid out of a Treasury already bank-
rupted, and rekindling sectional strife a
quarter of a century after peace.
If political leaders in Washington
would know why Pennsylvania, with
her 80,000 Republican majority, is [now
considered debatable; why Republicans
of conspicuous intelligence and. charac-
ter are daily declaring against the party
ticket, and why the overwhelming Re-
publican States of the West are threat-
tening revolution, they have the. causes
‘clearly stated in the foregoing summary
of the popular battle-cry of 1890.
The President Sharply Criticised By
‘His Indianepolis Neighbors.
IvpranaroLts, July 22.—The Glen
Echo land-deal scandal; in which the
‘people of the White House have figured
so prominently, has crea‘ed a genuine
sensation here. The affair is looked up-
on as not only affecting Mrs, Harrison
and her daughter, but as seriously com-
promising the President also. It is a
well known fact that John W. Scott
never possessed any money with which
to invest extensively in real estate, and
his part in the affair is looked upon as a
‘ blind intended to deceive the public,
and for that very reason makes the tran-
saction ‘more reprehensible.
"Among ‘Mr. Harrison’s old friends,
especially his fellow church members,
there is a good deal of - feeling over the
matter. They express the deepest re-
gret that he should lend himself. and
One
of them said yesterday that he could not.
understand the affair, as. it was unlike
Mrs. Harrison, :
“When she said tha. she would not
lend herself to a scheme to boom prop-
erty,” said he, “we thought the hit a
good one at Cleveland, but now that
she has done just what she blamed him
for; it looks very strange, indeed.”
- No credence is put in the statement
from Washington that Mr. Harrison
has been kept in ignorance of the
matter.. During and after the eampaign
Mrs. Harrison boasted - that she always
consulted her husband, and this is known
to be a fact. The scandal and its ef-
fect upon the administration is the chief
topic of conversation to-day.
‘Love Leads to Death.
fii nink dae
Two Girls Plunged in Trouble Seek
Relief in Suicide.
+ DOYLESTOWN, Pu., July 22.—~Jennie,
the 20-year-old daughter of Samuel
Weldon, of Danborough, died this
morning from the effects of a. dose of
paris green. For some months past she
bad been living with the family of
"Squire W. W. Hall, and formed an at-
tachment for Raymond Hauser, who
worked as a farm hand for ‘the Squire.
Her father had toid Jennie that she
must cease receiving the young man’s
attentions, but notwithstanding that her
lover left the employ of Hall and went
to live with Ja neighboring farmer,
they clandestinely continued to meet.
They loved not wisely, and the secret
m the world much
‘DETERMINED TO DIE. .
On Monday Jennie went to her home
just across the fields from Squire Hall,
and told her ‘sister of her troubles, and
said that she intended to commit suicide.
She then returned to the Squire’s and
swallowed the poison. In the evening
she visited her home again and told her
mother what she had done. A physician
was sent for, whoendeavored to counter-
act the poison, but. without success, and
Jennie died early this morning.
COULD NOT BEAR HER TROUBLES.
New BrooMrIELD, Pa., July. 22.—
Mamie Hostetter, aged. 16 years, daugh-
ter of Frank Hostetter, the village black-
smith at Loysville, Perry county, was
found dead in her bed on Sunday mora-
ing. On the bureau in her bedroom
was an empty laudanum bottle and a
note which read. “Bury mie in the
New Bloomfield Cemetery, alongside of
grandfather. I cannot bear my trouble
any longer and want to die.”
Mamie had a lover named George
Boyer and the two were to be seen to-
gether on all public - occasions.
FORSAKEN BY HER LOVER.
- Recently George transferred his affec-
tions to another young lady, and on
Saturday evening was seen on the streets
The
fickleness of her lover so preyed on 'the
mind of Mamie that she purchased the
laudanum, returned home, wrcte the.
note, swallowed the poison and retired.
A younger sister occupied the bed with
her, and being unable to rouse her in
the morning, sounded the alarm,
The dead girl was a general favorite,
comely in appearance, and her rash act
«
, has plunged the community in sadness,
Her last request was complied with,
"and her body was buried here this after-
1 noon.
Winks—Has your wife a cheerful
disposition ? Finks—Oh, very. Last
night when I was dancing round the
room on one foot, after having stepped
on a tack, she laughed till her sides.
"ached.