Bellefonte, Pa., October 3, i890.
—
ON THE HILLS OF JUDEA.
Where is the morning brighter,
Where isithe air more bland,
Where do the stars glow whiter,
Than on this Po land ?
Slopes that sre srown and barren
Scarce show a spear-green sod,
But wait for another Aaron,
And'the blow of his quickening rod.
Never a wild voice quavers,
Never a song bird trills;
Only the warm light wavers
Overithe desolate hills.
Plodding, the pilgrim passes;
Patient the shepherds go;
Seeking the tender grasses,
Far im the vales below.
‘Shade there is nowhere growing
Wide as the eye can sweep;
Founts there are nowhere flowing
Down from the rocky steep.
Only the vulture veering
High like a wind blown weft,
Only the poppy beeping
Out from the rocky cleft.
Once there were orchards teeming,
Once there were pastures fair,
‘Once there were vineyards gleaming
Green in the golden air.
Now there is desolation ;
Then there was bounty ; then
Flourished a haughty nation
Strong with its million men.
How is its prowess shattered !
Dust are its priests and kings ;
The sons of its sons are scattered
Like seeds on the swift wind’s wings,
Their doom is a whole world’s scorning,
Yet where is the soul but thrills
Beholding the light of morning
On the Se Judean hills!
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Speech of Hon. W. U. Hensel at Reading*
The following forcible and telling
speech was delivered before the Demo.
cratic Societies, recently assembled at
Reading, by Hon. W. TU, Hensel, the
brilliant Democratic leader of Lan.
caster :
At the opening meeting of the Repub-
lican State campaign in Pittsburg last
Saturday evening, an orator imported
from Kansas is reported to have said, in
substance, that the meanest Republican
thief who ever cursed a Commonwealth
is better, politically, than the most ex-
alted Democrat whose character and
conduct blessed the State.
General Hastings, a speaker at the
same meeting, is reported to have said
that even if a Republican leader stole
from the Treasury, he was better
than a Democrat who sought to guard it
from spoliation. Mr. Delamater, who
was present, and sat on the platform,
neither resented, rebuked, nor repudiat-
ed these utterances Upon any other
theory than his sympathy with and his
faith in them, it is difficult to see how,
with any degree of confidence, the Re-
publican candidate can aspire to an
office for which he has plainly disquali-
fied himself. In view of the unmistak-
able provisions of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania, Senator Delamater’s
pathway to the gubernatorial chair js
barred by an offense to the accusation of
which he dare not plead “not guilty,”
and concerning which the public records
supply the ample evidence, The charge
of misdemeanor in his high office is not
born of partisan rancor : i depends up-
‘on mo doubtful testimony and the results
ofit are to be measured by a standard
which cannot be stretched or shrunken.
He has, a member of the General As-
sembly,as persistently violated the Four-
teenth section of the Nintk article of the
Btate Constitution, and he is disqualified
to hold the office for which he is ga can-
-didate, or any other in the State, for a
period that runs beyond the expiration
of the next Gubernatorial term.
It will be remembered that Mr. Quay,
al present a United States Senator from
Pennsylvania, was a candidate for State
Treasurer in 1885. In the campaign of
that year be had large material assist.
ance from Mr. Delamater, whose name
at that time was searcely known beyond
the borders of his own county ; and
there his reputation was rather that of
a thrifty banker than of the advanced
statesman and unselfish political re-
former ‘which his followers now set him
up to be.
HE PROFITS FROM PUBLIC MONEYS. -
Searcely had Mr, Quay taken hold of
the management of the State Treasury
than he began to repay his benefactor,
who had meantime become his official
bondsman. The records of the State
Treasury show that on the 1st of June,
1886, the private ban king-house of Dela-
mater & Co., at Meadville, Pa , of which
the Republican candidate for Governor
1s now—and was then—the head, had on
deposite $2,000 of the State funds, the
public moneys, to “use” and “make
profit” out of them. This amount con.
tinued there until.on or about September
1, when it was ipsreased to $30,000, at
which figures it wemained until after
December 1, 1886. Mr. Delamater had,
in the meantime, become a candidate
for and had been elected State Senator.
He qualified shortly after January 1,
1887, and the ameunt of the public
moneys which his bank had to use and
make profit out of—ran up to $47,914.-
28 before a month of his term had
elapsed. -
When Mr. Delamater took his seat he
swore to faithfully observe and support
the Constitution of the State, Section
14, of Article 1X, of that instrument
says :
“The making of profit out of the pub-
lic moneys, or using the same for any
purpose not authorized by law, by any
officerjofithe State or member of the Gen-
eral Assembly, SHALL BE A MISDEME-
ANOR, and shall be punished as may be
provided by law ; but part of such pun-
ishment s/all bedisqualification to hold
office for a period, of mot less than five
years." }
It cannot be: presumed that Senator
elamater was ignorant ot the provision
of this law, or in . doubt as to 1s mean-
ing. A sketch of his life, printed at his
expense, published by his authoriyy and
distributed by his friends, which I now !
hold in my hand, sets forth that he is a
lawyer of “thorough and ample train-
ing,” educated in the best schools of his
profession and possessed of “a law li-
brary of rare excellence.’ Moreover,
his admiring biographer declares he en-
tered public life to “‘subserve the good
of the public ;”’ he is one who had been
*‘drawn into political life by & belief that
his principles and methods of political
management were better and more just
to all than the methods prevailing.” In
the full light of his knowledge of the
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law, and in the promotion of the lofty
purposes which have drawn” him into
politics, the record shows him steadily
holding on to the public moneys, in
violation, of the constitution and con-
trary to his oath of office.
STATE FUNDS IN DELAMATER’S BANK.
These figures show the extent to
which Senator Delamater’s private bank
had the use and profit of the State funds
while he was a “member of the General
Assembly :”
February 1, 1887. eis el $47,014.28
March 1, 1877.. 47,914.28
April 1, 1887 ,000.
May 2, 1887... 40,0 0.00
June 1, 1887. 30,00,.00
July 1,1887...... 30,000.00
August 1, 1887..... .. 30,000.00
September I, 1887...ccuvuiirerererereners ens 40,000.00
Mr. Quay resigned the Treasurership
to take a higher place on September 6,
1887, and Delamatet’s use and profit out
of the public moneys for the time being
were terminated. But Quay’s man knew
Quay’s friends ; his successor evidently
knew where to place the public moneys
80 as to do the most private good. Inter-
mitted for a time, the favors of the State
Treasurer to Delmater’s bank were re-
newed. Almost simultaneously with the
beginning of what has been lauded as
Senator Delamater’s eminent services to
the Quay National Committee in New
York during the summer and fall of 1888,
began the restoration of the public
moneys to his private use and profit.
For fourteen successive months this ta-
ble shows his balances—while he was “a
member of the General Assembly.”
June 1, 1888 £50,000,00
July 1, 1883. 50,000,00
August 1, 18 50,000,00
September 1, 75,000,00
November 1, 1888..
December 1, 18s8..
January 1, 1889.....
February 1. 1889
March 1,1889......
April 1, 1889...
May 1, 1886..
June 1, 1889.
July 1,1889..
OFFENDING LEGISLATOR.
During all this time, while using and
making profit out ot an average of $50,-
000 of the public moneys, Mr. Delama-
ter was a member of the General Assem-
bly ; his official pay was only about one-
third as much as the yearly earnings
and profit which any well-conduct pri-
vate bank would make out of the funds
that his institution enjoyed from the
State Treasury. It is preposterous to
maintain that this condition of things did
not fall within the prohibition and pen-
alties of the Constitution. If that sacred
instrument has any authority, upon
whom shall it rest with more binding
force than the members of the General
Assembly ? If it can regulate and gov-
ern any functionaries of the Common-
wealth, in any relation, who shall be
held to closer accountability than the
members of the Senate, which is made
the constitutional jury to pass upon
State officials accused of misconduct in
office ? 1f the voice of any one Senator
can be stifled and his hands tied in an
inquiry into the management of the
State Treasury by the perennial de-
posit of $50,000, how easy to place the
funds of the State so as to head off all
investigation and to prejudge every pos-
sibility of impeachment ?
It is idle to say that the constitutional
provision against which Senator Dela-
mater has so grievously offended cannot
be enforced except by ‘appropriate legis-
latich,” and that its penalties cannot be
invoked until provision for punishment
is made by statutory laws. High author-
ity has declared that “the Constitution
is the legislative act of the people them-
selves in their sovereign capacity, and is
therefore the paramount law.” “When-
ever the sovereign power expresses its
will that a certain rule shall be estab-
lished, that expression mst be conclu-
ives, whether such forms have been ob-
served in making the declaration as are
customary and proper, or not. We may
query whe. her the will has been de-
clared; we may question and cross.
question the words emp oyed to ascertain
the real sense that they express ; we may
doubt and hesitate as'to the intent, but
when discovered it must govern, and it
is idle to talk of forms that should have
surrounded the expression, but do not.’
“An offense which may be the sub-
ject of a criminal procedure” is defined
to be “an act committed or omitted in
violation of public law either forbidping
or demanding it.” In a State where it
has been decided that to raise a liberty
pole was “a notorious and riotous
expression of ill will totheGovernment,”’
indictable even in the absence of statu-
tory prohibition ; where disobedience to
an act of assembly is an indictable of-
fense at common law, even if no penalty
is prescribed—in this Common wealth
surely it will not be contended that an
offense which the Constitution calls a
misdemeanor, and the punishment of
which it preseribes, is not indictable in
the Courts of the State.
Again and again it hasbeen judical-
ly established that the failure of a pub-
lic officer to do a public duty is indiet-
able, although the statute prescribing
the duty has affixed no penalty for its
neglect. By how much more shall the
act of a public officer, defined in the su-
preme law asa “misdemeanor,” be the
propersubject of criminal procedure ?
1f disobedience to any net of parli-
meat, even when no particular penalty
is assigned, was *‘contempt against the
King’s prerogative,” punishable by fine
and imprisonment at the discretion of
the King’s Court of Justice, shall an in-
fraction of the letter and the spirit of the
people’s constitution, the overriding law
of the land, be treated ‘with greater ja-
dicial tolerance ? (
THE CONSTITUTIONAL DEBATES.
But, fortunately, for this discussion,
the debates in the Constitutional Con.
vention leave us in no doubt as to what
was the intention of the clear-headed
and high-minded men who framed this
provision of that fundamental law.
Their own expressions confirm the un-
mistakable language of ‘this section.
The provision forbidding members of
the Legislature from having in their
control, and for their use and profit, the
moneys of the State Treasury, was -not
| inserted without deliberation and discus-
sion. Tt was not the repetition of an ex-
isting form. It was a new provision,
and in the original draft its languarge
was materially different from that which
was finally adopted. As originally ' re-
ported it read : “The General Assembly
shall constitute the offense of making
profit out of the public moneys or using
the same for political purposes by any
officer of the State, or member or officer
of the General Assembly, or any candi- |
00 | ensued over this clause, it was plainly
-Pattipan’s buttons, and in the middle
date for election or appointment, a mis-
demeanor,” etc. But, as though un-
willing to commit this protection of the
public moneys to the uncertain action
of the Legislature, the section was sub-
sequently changed. Instead of leaving
it to the General Assembly to “consti.
tute” the offense a misdemsanor, it pro-
ceeded to directly declare in the Consti-
tution “IT SHALL BE A MISDEMEANOR,’
beyond the power of the Legislature to
make it ctherwise by neglect of its duty,
by slighting or by transcending it.
Furthermore, in the discussion which
avowed that its intention was to pro-
hibit and prevent members of the Legis-
lature from getting control and custody
of the State moneys. No less eminent
and sagacious a lawyer than Mr. Mac-
Veagh, late Attorney General of the
United States, pointed out, by way of
objection to the sweeping provisions of
the proposed law, that even stockhold-
ers in a national bank competing for the
custody of State funds would be prohib-
ited from becoming candidates for the
State Legislature.
Nevertheless, without a division, by a
body made up in large part of many of
the most eminent members of the legal
profession, this provision was agreed to
as written in the supreme law, and the
construction that is now put upon it
was virtually approved.
WILL DELAMATER EXPLAIN?
If it means anything it means that no
Senator nor member of the House shall
have control, custody or use of the State
moneys ; if he does he shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor, and is to be disqualified
from holding office for five years. That
is the offense prescribed, and the punish-
ment. The proofs are to be found on
the public records of the State, open
to all its citizens. = The Treasurer's book
shows that Delamater’s bank had the
use and profit of this money. ' He got it
while he was a member of the General
Aszembly. I pause for his explanation
or denial. I challenge his reply. If
Senator Delamater is not the “head” of
the banking house of Delamater & Co.,
he did not solicit, get and have this de-
pet of from $20,000 to $75,000 while
e was State Senator, or, if getting it,
he buried it in a napkin and did not
make useand profit out of it, let him
speak out !
But if he did thus flagrantly violate
the Constitution and set at defiance the
sovereign law of the people, he must
either withdraw his challenge to their
favor at the polls, or he must go down
before their condemnation.
EE ——————
THE OLD SHAWL,
“For once I've been make a fool of,”
said Mr. Pattipan, just before he went
out to breakfast one morning. “I've
taken bad money, and I no more know
from whom than I know the Koran. |
And what is more,” added Mr. Patti-
pan, “I shall offer itto some one if I
carry it about with me, and get into
difficulties. I'll leave it here.”
He put it into the china bowl full of
visiting eards that stood on a table in
the corner of his wife's parlor as he
spoke, kissed her, and took his way to
those regions vaguely spoken of, as
“down town,” and Mrs. Pattipan look-
ed at the counterfeit note, and in order
that she might not make some mistake
herself, tore it across the middle before
throwing it back into the china bowl.
“Mr. Pattipan never observes saffi-
ciently,” she said to herself. “His
organs of reflection are large, but his
organs of observation are small.
Mrs, Pattipan had stud'ed phrenolo-
gy in her youth, when it was fashiona-
ble to do so, and had a habit of attri-
buting people's virtues or failings to
their bumps. Then she went about
her household duties, ordered the din-
ner, scolded the servants, arranged her
bureau crawers and attended to Mr.
as his authorized biography declares ; if
a
he said, spreading both hands.
“How about zis?”
“Well,” said Mrs. Pattipan, “that is
lovely.”
“And zere is no more ; ’e come from
Paris,” said the old clothes man.
“Oh, he is sweet !"” said Mrs. Patti-
pan. “I'll see what I have.”
And upstairs she rushed, and gather-
ing from drawer and closet all the old
pantaloons with baggy knees, and all
the old coats with frayed cuffs and
greasy collars which were in the house,
laid them at the feet of the clathes
man.
But now it.was the old man’s turn to
be scornful.
“Zese rags! Oh, madame, not zese
rags for my lofely Cupid from Paris I”
he sighed, reproachfully. “Madame
vill find somezing else ; she vill not
expect ze poor old clo’es man to cheat
himself. Madame has some pretty silk
dress—cloak, a shawl—madame vill
see !”
Madame, who could not give up the
idea of possessing the Cupid, now that
ghe had once harbored it, ran upstairs
again. She searched her drawers, her
wardrobe, but she had nothing. Sud-
denly it occurred to her that she had a
broche shawl, and that she never wore
it. Shawls were out of fashion, and if
she hated anything it was a shawl turn-
ed into a cloak. The thing would lie
there useless for years, or she should
give it to Mr. Pattipan’s Aunt Jane.
She would never wear it again, that
was morally certain. Why not buy
the Cupid ‘with it ?
She unfolded the shawl and felt an
unusual contempt for it, it looked so
old fashioned. It had cost $25 when it
was bought, and was as good as ever 3
but what an ugly thing! Yes, she
would do it! She carried it down stairs,
therefore, and the clothes man con-
descended to accept it. However, he
also put into his bagthe old clothes gar-
ments.
“I vill not leave zem about to trou-
ble madame,” hesaid; “I vill oblige
her by carrying zem away.”
Mrs. Pattipan returned to her parlor
to adore her Cupid—certainly a very
lovely little thing.
“How Iadmire it! It's my ‘ideality’
and my ‘form,’ I suppose,” she said, be-
coming phrenological again. “I should
have been an artist, having form and
color so largely devloped.”
Then she placed it on the cabinet
shelves, and as she retired to a distance
to observe the general eftect, saw that
the counterfeit bill that she had thrown
into the china bowl after tearing it
across had vanished. The old clothes
man had taken it—there could be no
doubt of that.
“But he was so acquisitive he could
not withstand temptation,” said Mrs,
Pattipan. “Well, 1 hope he will not
pass it on some poor person,and I don't
care if he gets himself into trouble—he
deserves it.”
pid—how much better than an old
shawl that she detested! Still, she
would not mention the old shawl or
the coats to Mr. Pattipan. Since she
had wade the awful mistake of ex-
changing his best trousers for a match
holder it was understood between them
that old clothes men were not to be
permitted to cross the threshold.
No; she could buy what she pleased
and Mr. Pattipan never thought of ask-
ing where it came from. It should go
so. But,oh! her lovely cupid—how
she adored it!
At} 5 o'clock in the aftornoon Mr.
Pattipan returned in very fine spirits.
“Well, Ducky,” he remarked to
Mrs. Pattipan, “I've got a surprise for
you. Shan’t tell you what it is until
[ have had dinner. 1t is a birthday
present.”
Then he concealed a bundle beneath
of this task heard the door bell ring.
It rang twice without being answered
—cook and Sara Jane being in a deep
quarrel, occasioned by the reproofs of
their mistress—so Mrs. Pattipan, hav-
ing peeped over the balustrade for
some seconds, descended the stairs and
opened the door herself. Through the
glass ehe could see that it was only a
peddler of some sort, who would be
sent away at once, after which she
would attend to the culprits below
stairs.
As she opened the door she saw up-
on the steps without an old clothes
man with a basket of china on his arm.
A fat little old fellow with an immense
nose and a benevolent smile, who push-
ed his basket into the door as an en-
tering wedge, and said very softly and
tenderly and with persuasive waves of
his hand from the cheek outward :
“Laty—dear laty—a-me-aible laty,
vill you not exchange some ole clo’es
which are of no goot, for some elegant
new vases vich vill make you alvays
some bleasure ven you look at dem ?
Elegant vases! Oh, vou shall see
dem.”
“No,” eaid Mrs. Pattipan, no, 1
think not.”
But the woman who deliberates with
an old clothes man at the door is lost,
The basket wedged itself further in.
“It vill cost noding to look at dem,”
said the old clothes vender. “It vil be
8 bleasure and cost noding.”
“Very well,” said Mrs. Pattipan, “I
don’t really promise, you know ; you
never ‘give much for the clothes. I
think your acquisitiveness is more
largely developed than your benevo-
lence. Seems to’ me so, looking "at
you.”
“Madame is very good,” said the old
clothes man, waving from him the com-
pliment he fancied Be had received, “I
go in—danks.”
He. enterered the parlor. Mrs,
Pattipan rested herself on a chair near
the window, and the old clothes man
exhibited his stock of common vases,
at which Mrs. Pattipan looked con-
temptuously.
Finally, regarding her with an acute
eye, the old clothes man restored all
these to his basket, and saying :
“No, dese are not to madame's
superior taste,” he pat his hand in his
the sofa.
Mrs. Pattipan felt pleased to be re-
membered. She was as charming as
possible during dinner time, and Mr.
Pattipan made her guess what he had
brought her; but her guesses were all
failures. Not roses—not a book—not
his photograph—not a watch—not a
ring—not a dress rattern—not a muff!
“I meant to buy a muff,” said Mr.
Pattipan ; “but this was brought into
my office by somebody—quite as
though I had asked the spirits to help
me, you know. Come along, my dear;
I want to see you sail up and down the
parlor in it. You ‘are quite a queenly
figure, you know, and a shawl’—
“A shawl ?”” said Mrs, Pattipan.
“Ah!” said Mr. Pattipan, who was
now unfolding his parcel beside the par-
lor table, “ashawl! Itisa splendid
one—a cashmere, or some Indian place
of that sort—wonderfully valuable; but
you know he smuggled it, and so sold
it for nothing. For a shawl like that
forty-five dollars is nothing—and I
knew ou were out of shawls. You
used to wear them so elegantly in our
courting days, and I haven't seen one
on you for years!”
“Nor on anybody else!” Mus. Pat-
tipan said to herseli, but she beamed
upon her husband.
“Here it 18 I" said he, flinging it
abroad. “Now put it on.”
The room was not a large one, and
as the shawl swept into the air it
struck the cabinet on that particular
spat on which the Cupid was perched.
The lovely bit of china danced wildly
for a moment, then toppled over and
fell to the floor. Nothing remained of
it but gleaming fragments as Mrs.
Pattipan stooped to pick it up.
“Never mind the gimerack, Ducky.”
remarked her spouse. *I hope it is
that confounded match safe that you
gave my best trousers for—ha! ha!
ha! Come, try onthe shawl!”
Mrs. Pattipan, with a secret wail for
her treasure, obeyed. She turned her
back and allowed the drapery to fall
over her ample shoulders, and glided
as gracefully as possible up and down
the room.
“Charming!” said Mr. Pautipan,
“You must wear that freely. Don't
save it for best. By Jove! I'm glad I
bought it. The little old fellow ‘came
into my place with the parcel, and
pocket and drew forth a little orna-
ment of very beautiful china—a Cupid
with a butterfly on its shoulder. ‘Zere!’
bless me if he wasn’t a curiosity | He
called me a worthy gentleman, and he
wanted to show me a shawl, Well, I
Atall events she had her lovely Cu-
—
wouldn’t look «t it until he told me all
about the Vale of Cashmere, where it
was made, and asked me to smell the
attar of roses! and suddenly says I,
‘The very thing for ducky I’ and I had
Pringle, the clerk, in and put it on him
and he said he thought it must be
genuine, for his grandmother had one
Just like it"—(“No donbt,” said Mrs.
Pattipan to herself)—*“and out came
my little $50 bill and he gave me a $5
note, and done it was!"
Mrs. Pattipan had reach the end of
the parlor and was standing quite still
with her back turned. She could not
control her features at that moment ;
she had just recognized her own old
broche shawl-——the one she had given
to the clothes man. She knew it only
too well by the pattern. And there
was the little fray darned by her own
fingers, five years ago, when she did
occasionally wear the shawl to mar-
ket.
“Turn about, Ducky,” said Mr. Pat-
tipan. “Now, do you know, _ haven't
seen you look so elegant for a long
while! We'll go to the opera to-night
—comic—and show it off. I know
women like to exhibit elegant things
wheu they have them—and here is the
change the old fellow gave me out of
the fifty—a five dollar bill. Take
care, its been mended. You'll want
some little fallal.”
As Mrs. Pattipan came to her hus-
band’s side she was aware that she
should see the counterfeit bill that the
old clothes man had stolen from the
china bowl, and indeed she did; and I
cannot help but believing that some of
the very finest phrenological develop-
ments must have heen hers, for she
smiled up into Mr. Pattipan’s face and
said: “My dear, you are really gen-
erous!” and put the worthless biil in
her pocket with a little air of coquetry
and actually wore the faded, old fash.
ioned broche shawl to the theatre that
evening and was happy in it.
But after all, to have a husband
who thinks one a beauty at 45, and is
anxious to make one happy, compen-
sates for any such little mortifications
as that which Mrs, Pattipan experi-
enced when the lady in the seat be-
hind her whispered audibly :
“Well, that shawl must really have
come out ot the ark !"—DNfary Kyle
Dallas, in Fireside Companion.
Stunning Testimony as to
Treasury Raid.
Quay’s
Why Col. Wickersham Was Unable to
Get Money to Pay School Expenses.
Ool.\J. P. Wickersham, of Lancaster,
late Superintendent of Public Iastruc-
tion of Pennsylvania, in a recent inter-
view, told a New York World report-
er that he would not vote for Quay’s can-
didate. Of the Boss and his methods he
said:
“T was at my desk, at the State capi-
tol, at Harrisburg, during a considerable
rtion of the period described in the
istory of Matthew Stanley Quay, pub
lished last March in the columns of the
World. 1 read that very remarkable
story carefully, and its perusal caused
me to indulge in many reminiscences. I
had but little official intercourse with
Mr. Quay, who was for a portion of the
time of my service an absolute dictator
at Harrisburg. He is a man of wonder-
ful attainments in the art of manipu-
lating men—executive ability we call it.
He is aremarkable man in many re-
spects, and if he had in other respects
controlled the reckless side of his nature,
he would have been a leader of whom all
of his party might have been proud.
‘‘Autocracy is as natural to him as to
the czar. He adopted the policy of
silence on his own part, and the exac-
tion of unquestioning obedience from all
with whom he was in contact in the po-
litical machine of the State You will
scarcely credit the extent to which the
autocracy extended. Ho would sit in
his office on the hill at Harrisburg, and
compel every one, high and low, to run
at his bidding. The old soldier, Gov.
Hartranft, was no exception to the rule.
Quay would say to his messenger : ‘Tell
Hartranft to come here; I want him,’
and Gov. Hartranft would obey. Gov.
Hoyt was served in the same way, and
the state treasurer, the auditor-general,
and the secretary of internal affairs were
as so many minor clerks.
AN ENCOUNTER WITH QUAY.
“I had an encounter with Quay when
he was secretary of the common wealth.
Our duties were disconnected, and there
was rarely any occasion for official in-
tercourse, as I have mentioned. But
one day I received a message from him,
delivered by a messenger,that he wished
me to come to his office. I responded :
“Tell Secretary Quay that the distance
from his office to mine is exactly the
same distance as from my office to his.’
“I do not think he ever forgave my
hardihcod ; but then be is master of dis-
simulation. The order was never re-
peated.
“In 1879 I had much trouble in hav-
ing my warrants cashed at the treasury.
You will perceive that it was my duty to
sign the vouchers for school expenses all
over the state. Teachers’ salaries, the
heating and lighting of school houses,
and the necessary repairs came under
my official cognizance. Warrants for
the soldiers orphans were accepted and
signed by me. I had, as I said, difficul-
ty in obtaining money, and finally Mr.
J. Blake Walters, the cashier of the
treasury, and to all intents and purposes
its sole custodian, informed me that
there was no money to pay the warrants
and I must wait. State Treasurer Noyes,
everywhere known as “Old Square Tim-
ber,’ from his honesty, had not the grip
on the business details,and Walters con-
ducted everything much as he saw fit.
‘Square Timber’ Noyes was as honest a
man as ever drew breath, in my opinion.
We differed in politics, he being an old-
fushioned Democrat and I, as at present,
a Republican; but 1 knew and respected
his sterling worth.
“I pressed hard for the filling of my
warrants. The school system of the
state was suffering, Teachers were un-
paid, and the soldiers’ orphans’ needs
were not supplied as they should have
been, Blake Walters was defiant and
used to dismiss me without any other
explanation than the stereotyped one,
viz, Jack of money. As T persisted
there came an order from Gov. Hoyt
not to send in warrants until there was
money to pay them. 1 wa: not bound
to respect any such instraction, ard I
did not obey. How little did I then
understand the cause of the barren treas-
ury !
“The time arrived for the newly elect-
ed state treasurer to assume his office,
‘Square Timber’ Noyes was elected in
1877. His successor, Samuel Butler, was
elected in 1879. He came from West
Chester, and was a strictly honest, con-
scientious man. How the ‘ring’ came to
select him for treasurer I never could
understand. He was, 1t is certain, out
of place among them. He came to Har-
risburg to look over the condition of the
treasury before assuming control. Tt is
customary to verify the statemerts of
the public moneys with the amount be-
longing to the treasury. Butler and I
were personal friends, and we were fre-
quently together.
BUTLER’S ALARMING DISCOVERY,
“One day he came to me in an agitated
condition. He was greatly excited, and
sat down in a chair and “informed me
that there was something that alarmed
him terribly. I wondered what it could
be, for I knew him to be a cool, level-
headed man, who was not given to need-
less alarms. His agitation was altogeth-
er too real to be misunderstood. Some-
thing of a serious nature was evidently
on his mind. Finally he said that he
had found a greatdeficiency in the treas-
ury and that he feared it ‘would reach
the sum of $300,000.
“I then could not help thinking of my
rejected warrants to pay the school ex.
penses. I am not quite positive whether
it was on the first visit from Butler that
he informed me that he had told
‘Square Timber’ Noyes of the deficiency ,
but he stated that when Mr. Noyes be-
came aware of the real condition of the
treasury he became frantic. The old
man did not know what to do. He
wrung his hands and I think cried like a
child.” He had trusted everything ' to
Blake Walters, and the terrible result
came upon him like an avalanche. But-
ler asked me what he should do.
“Secure a good legal counsellor as
quickly as possible,”
“My advice was promptly acted on,
and Lewis Hall, a prominent Harris-
burg attorney, was retained.
‘An interval of time elapsed, during
which Butler used to make frequent
visits to my office to report the situation.
He was quite as much disturbed, I think,
as if the treasury deficiency had oc-
curred with himself as the treasurer.
He would sit with his face buried in his
bands or with his head bowed on the
table and sigh and groan as he talked.
He could not make the deficiency grow
less, and there was a heavy presure on
him to tide over the deficiency accept
the paper and assume his office,,
“Whose paper do you refer to 7”
“To the paper of “the persons men-
tioned in the World's history, to the
paper of Quay and Blake Walters,” re-
sponded Col. Wickersham. “The press-
ure came from Quay, Walters and the
other members of the ‘ring,’ generally.
“Old Noyes was crushed by the weight
of the calamity which had befallen hit.
QUAY’S PAPER REFUSED.
“Butler never deviated from the path
of duty, but it was a rugged path to fol-
low. He felt under obligations for his
election to the office of treasurer, and he
would have liked to adjust the difficulty
without exposure, but condone the mat.
ter by accepting individual receipts or
notes for the money of the people he
must not, and from the beginning to
the end he refused to do it. From what
he said, they stormed and raved about
his ears, vainly as it proved.
“Blake Walters was drank and trucu-
lent. He was a bright man and a good
fellow at times, but a thirst for liquor
overpowered him and placed him in the
hands of stronger wills than his own.
Finally the ‘ring’ became desperate over
Butler’s refusal, and then the scene at
the Lochiel Hotel occurred, at the time
of Mr. Chris Magee’s visit, as described
in the World. Finally the money was
guaranteed or restored to the treasury
through the aid of Senator Cameron,and
Samuel Butler took the office.
“There are many details of the trans-
action which at present have escaped
my memory,’ continued Col. Wicker-
sham, ‘that bear on this case which ref-
erence to memoranda would freshen, It
was a trying experience for poor Butler.’
‘What do you think of the candidacy
for Quay’s man, Delamater ?
“I cannot consistently vote for him in
the light of my knowledge, but I am
only a private citizen and my individual
vote is of no consequence.’
“You know Senator Cameron well,
do you not 2”
“Yes, indeed, I do. He is ga manly,
bighearted fellow, for whom I entertain
good feeling. There is one thing you
may rest absolutely assured of, e will
never deny the part he played in settling
the treasury deficiency, depend upon it.’
“What do you mean 2’
“I khow whereof Ispeak. He will
never deny it, no matter how strong the
pressure that is brought to bear on him.
More than that I will say to no man.”
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Bad Female Habits.
In all the large cities there are thous-
to the habit of using pernicious drugs—
the most common vice being the opium
habit. Some women buy the crude gum
and eat it regularly every day, while
others buy laudanum and” drink it in
quarter-ounce, half-ounce, and even
ounce portions. Some delicate stomachs
cannot take laudanum, and so paregoric
is resorted to, and soothing syrups, that
are put upon the market for the sooth-
ing of babies, become the ruin of grown
persons. And then there are the Dover
powders and morphine pills, both of
which act rapidly, especially the latter.
The habit seems more a disease than s
vice, for the whole nature of the victim
undergoes a complete revolution, moral,
mental and physical.
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Lemon Pie.—One lemon, one cup
sugar, three eggs, one cup of water,
half tablespoonful cornstarch, one table..
spoonful flour. Cook over a kettle.
Bake crust separate. Frost with the.
whites of the eggs.
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SPICED MoLAsskS CAKE.—One cup
sugar, half-cup butter, stir ‘well to-
gether ; three eggs, one cup molasses,
oné cup sour cream, one teaspoonful
and cinnamon, 2} cups flour.
ands of women who give themselves up -
soda, one teaspoonful cloves, nutmeg
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