Deworeal Jat
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—The man who catches the largest
fish is not necessarily the biggest liar.
-—Itis only the lawyer who can re-
joice over a multitude of trials in this
life.
—Col. Tom OcHILTREE has the gout
and you can all look out ror some big
stories now. !
—If nature had never brought forth
cloves woman would be a far less sus-
pecting creature.
—“BLAINE IS not a candidate.” It
might be quite a propos to say the same
of Davip B. HiLL,
—Some farmers are far more interest-
ed in building roads to wealth than in
paving their way to glory.
—Sizzled tripe is away below par up
at Greensburg just mow, A Jewish
synagogue burned down last week.
—Allegheny’s election, under the
Baker ballot law, was another excellent
exposition of its cumbersome working.
—The Ways and Means committee
certainly had (sweet work on Wednes-
day. They were considering the free
sugar bill.
—Don’t get excited, dear people,
QuAyY and CAMERON are both back in
‘Washington. But they have'nt regis-
tered as yet. >
--When Maine instructs its delegates
for HARRISON, jit leaves the BLAINE
boom very much in the condition of a
bursted balloon.
—Gov. GRAY will no doubt have it
in for the organ grinder who plays ‘the
picture that is turned toward the wall”
within his hearing.
—An exchange remarks that there
are 3000 stitches in a pair of hand sewn
boots, but it forgot to make ¢he product
for Chicago an exception.
—If the building committee of the
World’s fair would exclude wooden
statuary, poor HARRISON wouldn’t dare
show himself on the grounds,
-—They tell us that HARRIsoN is
strong with his party, but from the way
many of the Republican conventions
have turned away from him, it must be
the kind of strengtha raw onion gives
to a fellow’s breath.
—The Harrisburg Patriot says: ‘free
silver coinage has not the right ring”
and we will thump the nail right on
the head by saying that, as a Democratic
journal, the Patriot is troubled with
the same complaint.
—The limbs of the trees, ballet dancs
ers, etc., hampered the working of the
Philadelphia firemen, at the Central
Theatre conflagration, on Wednesday
night. 'Tis strange that such a com-
plexity of limbs should have had a de-
moralizing effect on the firemen.
—We never had a very high opinion
of New England Republicans, and from
the price paid for Republican votes in
Bangor, on Tuesday, we rated them
higher than they do themselves. 50cts
was the ruling price all day.
--Young BURROWE came nearer
shooting ‘‘Modoc” Fox in the head
when he blew a hole through his coat
tails than he promised before the affair
of honor came off. The only mistake
was that BURRowE forgot where Fox's
brains are evidently located.
—Generally the chap who talks loud-
est about being bossed, is the one who
has some one’s collar tightest about his
neck. With most of such people it is
not so much a matter of following the
bell sheep as it is which particular mem-
ber of the flock shall carry it.
—A Cambridgeport benedict shot
himself and his bride, on Monday, be-
cause she discoverad that he had a cork
leg. It is evident that she had not
pulled it for ice cream j as the average
sweetheart would have known of it long
before their marriage.
—A Cambria county cow gave birth
toa calf which has two perfect tails
and six legs. The mother bovine must
have wanted her offspring to be a little
“fier” than common calves and it is
plainly evident, also, that she intended
there should be “no flies on it.”
--The only thing that was wanting
at the laying of the corner stone of the
GRANT monument, in New York, on
Wednesday, was a speech from DubLey
He has his hand in now and itisa
shame that he was slighted, for “blocks
of five’’ might help the monument fund
amazingly.
— Whether the Chinese exclusion act
holds good until ’95 or not, it is time it |
should berescinded, or something done to
prevent theinflux of undesirable foreign-
ors which now threatens this country. It
is a question whether Chinamen who
never intend to become citizens 2an do
the country as much injury as do the
“scums,’” ot other countries, whose sole |
object in attaining the right of free
speech isto excite citizens to anarchy
and revolt. No, if the felons, of every |
foreign prison, are t) be admitted, the in-
offensive Chinese + should not be ex-
cluded.
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VOL. 37.
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 29, :
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892.
NO. 17.
It Wont Effect the Result.
There is trouble within the circle of
the Republican organization. A deep
soul-harrassing, liver-paralyzing trou-
ble, One that boodle, false counting,
official patronage or fraudulent returns
wont reach, and itis causing a heart
ache that is distressing and a despon-
dency that is demoralizing, among the
leaders of the party. It is the fact,
that North Dakota Republicans, have
practically dicfranchised themselves at
the coming election by failing to pro-
vide by law for the election of presi-
dential electors. The result will be a
loss tothe Republican candidate of
three electoral votes, which under cer-
tain contingencies might be necessary
to secure his success,
The fact that the legislature of that
State had neglected to provide for the
election of electors was not discover-
ed until last week, and as there is no
way by which a legal election can be
arranged for, appearances indicate that
North Dakota's vote for president will
not “be in it,’ next fall, and the three
votes certain that Mr. Harrison
counted on from that State, will not be
there to be counted when the time
comes.
The fact that the people of Dakota
have practically disfranchised them-
selves is not a matter that any good
citizen will rejoice over, although the
fault lies at their own doors. Had
they elected men as representatives, to
put the machinery of their State in
working order,whohad a wider knowl
edge of the necessities of a new com-
monwealth than the narrow-minded,
bigoted, Republican crowd they select-
ed had, their political situation would
not be what it is to-day.
It is to the fact that the voters cared
more for politicians than statesmen ;
more for partisan than public interest,
that legislators © who would over
look this more important matter were
elected, and if the situation does no
other good, it may, to a certain extent,
teach the Republicans, of that part of
the country, a lesson that will hereaf-
ter induce them to choose, as represen-
tatives, men who are fit for the place
and whoknow what the needs of their
State require.
In the meantime we want to encour-
age our Republican friends, who are
so much cast down in consequence of
this matter, by assurring them that it
won't make a particle of difference in
the result whether North Dakota
votes or not.
The country will be Democratic next
fall and the next president will be a
Democrat, even if they had a half doz-
en North Dakotas to add to the few
States there is a prospect of them car-
rying. :
A Double Teat.
The McKINLEY bill turns out to be a
kind of a double ended teat for the fav-
ored few, for whose benefit it was pass-
ed, to feed from. We have shown
time and again that the._biggest mon-
opolies and fattest manufacturers were
the parties whose pockets protection
filled to overflowing, by increasing the
price of everything they had to sell.
It makes millionaires of men like Car-
NEGIE and‘ then on the adornments
that only these favored few can pur-
chase it reduces the protection prin-
ciple to thelowest point and give: them
every advantage to make their pur-
chases at the lowest possible price.
The poor men of the country buy
clothing and upon this the government
taxes them 80 per cent. to protect the
manufacturers.
The rich men buy diamonds and
McKinney and his Republican
| tariff bill only taxes them 11 per «cent.
Thus, while Mr. CARNEGIE and oth-
i ers who are the special wards of the
government, are secured in charging
just what ever figure their greediness
may demand, for the manufactured ar-
iicles they furnish the people, they are
also allowed the privilege of purchas-
ing their diamonds and other costly
ornaments in a market, that is only
protected by an eleven per cent. duty.
Would it be more than justice to
close one of these teats at least, and
| allow the poor people of the country
i to buy the clothing they must have
vith as low a rate of tariff upon it, as
(is imposed upon the “‘gew-gaws" and
diamonds the rich take pleasure in
displaying ?
Running Away From the Issues.
It is quite evident from the fact
that committees of colored men have
lately been calling upon President
HarrisoN, in order that opportuni-
ties may be afforded "him to air his
opinions as to the condition and rights
of the colored people, that a systema-
tic effort is to be made again, to bring
the race question into. prominence in
the coming campaign, and to use the
darky and the sympathy that is sup-
posed to exist for him, for all it is
worth, for the benefit of the Republican
party.
We refer to this matter not that we
fear the resultin November, but as a
pointer showing how hopeless Repub-
lican success must appear, to those
who have the management of the af-
fairs of that organization in their
hands, if the contest is made upon the
issues now most prominently before
the public.
There is no closing of eyes to the
fact, that the leaders of the Republican
party well know that not an intelli-
gent vote is made for the candidates of
that organization, by an appeal to the
people on the question of the condi-
tion of the negro in the South. It is
equally well known that the race ques:
tion, if left alone, will settle itself’
much better and in a much shorter
time than if political prejudices are
aroused and political lines drawn in
that section of the country in which
the colored vote is the most numerous.
in every instance in which this ques-
tion has been brought to the front,
that the more in it is agitated and used
in political campaigns, the worse it is
for the negro and the farther apart the
two races get.
So that in attempting to make the
colored citizen —his condition and
prospects—a question in the presiden-
tial election, the Republicans are not
doing it as a matter of benefit to the
negroes of the country, or in the hope
of securing the support of the intelli-
gent voters, but as a blind to’ attract
the attention of the unthinking thous-
ands {rom the real question at issue.
This movement is an admission that
the record of the Republican party—
its force bill, its Czar ReEp, its bil-
lion dollar congress and its McKINLEY
tariff legislation—is not such as will
command the support and secure the
endorsement of the people. It is an
acknowledgement, that the intelligent
presentation of questions effecting the
welfare of the masses, is to be aban-
doned in the coming campaign, and
that the prejudices, sympathies and
sentiments of the voter is to be relied
upon, for whatever strength the Re-
publican party may show.
It is, in fact, “showing the white
feather’ on the tariff question and an
attempt to hide the wrongs and the
rotten record of the Republican party
behind the black skin of the Southern
negro.
Would be Deeply Interested.
The Pittsburg Times is exhibiting a
sample voting bootn to show, to the
curious the workings of the new elec-
tion law. If its proprietor, Mr. Curis.
Maczg, would give his audiences an
occasional illustration of the methods
used in obtaining {the needed results,
by false counting, to which his party
resorts at nearly everv election, and
with the minutiz of which he is per-
tectly familiar it would add an interest
to his show that would throw some
other parts of it far in the shade.
3
Che Democratic legislature of
New York has passed ja new Tegisla-
tive and senatorial apportionment bill
for that State, which on a political ba-
sis,as indicated by last fall's election,
will give ¢the Democrats a majority in
three senatorial and six legislative dis-
tricts, Based on a Democratic major-
ity of almost 50,000, at the last elec-
tion, to make a legislative apportion:
ment that insures them but nine ma-
jority on joint ballot,is an exhibition of
political fairness on the part of the
New York Democracy, that should
put to blush the work of Republican
gerrymanderers in Pennsylvania, Ohio,
and elsewhere.
——1If you want printing of any de-
scription the WATCHMAN office is the
place to have it done.
Pulling Wool.
The hardest job to accomplish that
our Republican friends have undertak-
en for some time is to pull the wool
over the eyes of the people on the ques:
tion of the benefits of free wool. Todo
this seems an almost impossible work,
but the organs of that party stick to it,
as if the life of that organization de-
pended upon the wool question alone,
and the hopes of Republicanism were
a8 closely allied to the sheep as is the
tick that sticks to it the year round.’
The great trouble with them is that
the facts prove just the reverse of their
statements. In place of free wool des-
troying the industry of sheep-raising,
the census shows that during the only
time there was no tariff on wool—from
the organization of the government to
1824—that there were more sheep
raised in this country, in proportion to
the population, than there has been at
any time since.
Another stubborn truth that they
will not or cannot explain is, that in
“free trade” England, where there is
not a penny of = protection offered. to
wool growers, and where land ' com-
mands the highest price, more sheep
are raised in proportion to the popula-
tion, than in this country with its
high protection and millions of acres
of cheap lands.
Another is, the acknowledged fact
that since the duty on wool was increas
ed by the McKiNvLeY bill that the price
{'of domestic wool has decreased and the
And it is also an admitted fact, proven '
farmer or sheep grower has been and
is to-day, getting less for his wool than
he did before the provisions of that
bill went into effect.
These are three positive, admitted,
and undeniable facts that stand in the
way of the wool pulling business, on
the part of Republican politicians, and
will stop it completely until theyican
explain, why under seventy years of
protection the sheep raising industry
has never prospered as it did, when it
“had no protection ; and] why under
the highest, protection it ever had,
domestic wool commands a less price
than when it had less protection ?
Doing As He Pleases.
Just as those who best “know him
thought he would, General Grrce is
already kicking over the Republican
traces and refuses to trot in political
harness under the crack of Mr. Quax’s
whip. It is said that to the surprise
and dismay of the ring, he purposes
making his own appointments and, has
.gone Bo tar as to choose a chief clerk,
promote a relative, and to knock Joun
GLENN'S influence all into smithereens,
by turning him out of the position of
corporation, clerk.
Certainly General Davip McMur-
TRIE GREGG has mistaken the pui poses
tor which he was elected, It wasn't to
do things right in the Auditor Gener-
el’s office, as he seems inclined tojthink
it was, but to do the bidding of, and
be of service to Mr. Quay andjhis ring.
Really, if he don’t waken up to the ac-
tual situation soon and quit making
such mistakes, as putting Quays
friends out and men whom he thinks
he can trust, into the position he bas
to give, he'll be denounced by his own
party as a political traitor. It was
not the State or the people he was
elected to serve, it was Quay and his
ring. Evidently he don’t understand
the situation.
A Republican Prediction.
Evidently Senator WasHBURN, of
Minnesota, has had a vision of the fu-
ture. He sees the hand-writing on the
wall, and warns his party of the dan-
ger ahead in the tollowing manner :
“We are in a dangerous position. There is
no enthusiasm anywhera for Harrison, but on
the contrary there is a generally prevailing
impression and opinion that his nomination
means defeat, provided the Democrats take
advantage of their opportunity and nominate a
strong man. The people have decided in
many elections that they want a new presiden,
every four years. That mandate has all the
power of a constitutional provision, and a fail-
ure to recognize it is likely to bring down the
people's judgment in. a way to enforce their
decision.
With CrarksoN and Quay and Fog-
AKER, and Duprey, and Prarr, and
WasHBURN, all openly against him;
with the tens of thousands of hungry
republicans, for whom places could
not be made, rallying around their
standards, and with the weight of the
MecKiNLey bill pressing him down,
WasHBURN correctly sees defeat in the
nomination of Harrison, aad has the
courage to gay £0.
The Highest Republican Ticket.
From the St. Louis Republie.
Under the Republican tariff system
the average taxes on the woolen cloth-
ing of the people are higher than the
average taxes on any other class of ar-
ticles whatever. “The following table
showing this to be the fact is from the
eighth page of the introduction to the
Treasury report on imports, issued by
the Harrison administration for 1891:
Average Ad
Valorem Rate
Collected,
Per Cent.
Manufactures of Wool...........iveis) ans
Tobacco and manufactures of.......... or
Spirituous and malt liquors and wines........
Earthen, stone and chinaware..........
Glass and manufactures of.....
Silk, manutactures of......
Cotton, manutactures of...
Flas mannisvtares of.
Leather and manufactures of. 33,23
Iron, steel and manufactures of. +.33,03
Chemicals, drugs, dyes and med 30,50
Fruits and nuts... sronsam 7,85
As it stands, this is an ugly showing
for Republicanism, for it demonstrates
that Republicanism taxes the flannel
shirt of the worker higher than it does:
the champagnes, the fine brandies, the
silks, the diamonds, the pictures, the
statuary, the bric-a-brac of the protected
millionaire. Butit is only part of the
truth. It does not show the full extent
of the Republican tax on the ‘people’s
clothing. It shows only such taxes as
yield revenue--not such’ as entirely pro-
hibit imports.
The McKinley bill differs from any
other tarift bill ever p#sed in this coun-
try in that it openly adopted this princi-
ple of prohibitive taxation and applied
it as a means of cutting down the rev-
enues of the Government by shutting
out certain articles altogether.
The rule of the McKinley bill is to
put the lowest taxes on articles used
only by people of means; the highest
taxes on articles of clothing and every-
thing else in common use. Hence the
tax on woolen clothing averages over
seven times as much as that on rubies,
sapphires, emeralds and other precious
stones, and it is 30 per cent. higher ihan
the tax on silks.
Working Another Job.
From the Philadelphia Record.
A little bit of a job has cropped up in
the Senate under the pretext of promot-
ing the culture of the silk worm in the
United States. A bill has been intro-
duced to authorize the Secretary of the
Department of Agriculture to establish
five experimental stations in different re.
gions of the country for raising silk
worms, and to appropriate for each sta-
tion the sum of $5000. There is also to
be a Superintendent of Silk Culture, to
be attached to the Agricultural Depart-
ment, with a salary of $2000. Eachsta-
tion is to be provided with an overseer,
who is to see to the culture of the silk
worms.
This propusition does not threaten to
involve the Government in anything
like the expenditure which the morus
multicaulis mania cost many individu-
als a generation ago. But instead of
erecting these stations and fastening an-
other Bureau of the Circumlocution Off-
ice upon the taxpayers of this country, a
few Chinese women could tell Secretary
Rusk all about raising silk worms at
very littlecost to the Government, Trav-
elers give interesting accounts of the ten-
der methods of the Chinese women in
nourishing the silk cocoons without the
help of Government experimental sta-
tions. Instead of cultivating silk worms,
the evident purpose of this job is to rear,
at public expense, a few more choice
specimens of the genius of crustaceans
known to natural and political history
as Tite Barnacles.
The Evangelization of Dudley,
From the Indianapolis Sentinel.
Some of the newspapers of the country
think it the “climax of impudence’” that
‘W. W. Dudley should have made an
address at the laying of the corper-stone
of the new Episcopal church in Rich-
mond. Why so? Mr. Dudley has been
“vindicated,” and the Judge who vin-
dicated him has been rewarded. The
President who rewarded the Judge will
be renominated by the Republican party
and all religious people will be asked to
vote for him because he is a truly pious
man. Mr. Dudley is the corner-stone
of the Republican edifice of morality.
The chief trouble with Mr. Dudley’s re-
Ligion is that he has ‘not been working
at it,”’ and we are gratified to see him at-
tending to church duties.
Deserving Defeat.
From the Pittsburg Post.
The Republicans, under the lzader-
ship of ex-Speaker Reed, broke a quo-
rum of the house,on Saturday, by refus-
ing to vote, and repeated the perfor-
mance yesterday. These are the pa-
triots who waxed furious last session
over filibustering of this sort. But
with their large majority, it the Demo-
crats cannot keep a quorum in the
house for business they richly merit
all the annoyance: the ex-czar can,
invent for their edification,
Mrs. Christopher Columbus.
From the Arkansas Traveler.
Who ever thinks of Mrs. Christo:
pher Columbus? Yet to her the great
discoverer was indebted for encourage:
ment, She was a Miss Palestrello, of
Lisbon, the well-educated, brilliant
daughter of a navigator with whom she
made hazardous voyages, and who
gave her as a dowry a valuable collec
tion of charts, maps and important
memoranda made during his voyages,
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Altoona has been flooded with counterfeit
money. ‘
—There are 125,000,000 feet of logs in the
Williamsport boom.
—Wednesday General Gregg became a resi-
dent of Harrisburg.
—Easton business men are endeavoring to
organize a Board of Trade.
—Tower City isto have anew hosiery mill
that will employ a hundred hands.
—The First Reformed Church of Lebanon
will celebrate its centennial on June 5.
—George Huber, a Pennsylvania Railroad
track-walker, was killed at Harrisburg on Sun-
day. .
—Sanitary experts are unable to explain the
cause of ‘typhoid fever at Chester's Military
Academy.
—Mrs. John Petticoffer, of Wowelsdorf, has
a priceless heirloom in the shape of a 300-year
old tea set.
—The Kutztown State Normal School has
700 students and the buildings are crowded as
never before.
—In a free fight at Wernersville, Berks
county, Samuel Schaeffer lost his nose. It
was bitten off.
—Berks county farmers will plant an in-
creased acreage of potatoes, even if they _ean't
get much for them. apy
—Adjutant General Greenland has issued an
order disbanding Company G. of the Thir-
teenth Regiment.
—A young man calling himself George Stew-
art has'been passing forged checks for small
amounts on Reading grocers.
—Alexander Matthews, of Lancaster, is
missing, and his father-in-law accuses him of
forging his name to five notes.
~—Forest fires at Klapperthal Park endang-
ered the Neversink Mountain House and it
was only saved after a hard fight. ~
—Eight men ‘of Bethlehem have together
;subscribed nearly $200,000 to a compeny which
will purchase manganese mines in Cuba.
—Eddie Dunkle, the fifteen-year-old-run-
away of Reading, has returned hime. Atmer
Dean, his companion, left him at Memphis.
—The pall-bearers at the funeral of a little
Hungarian girl, at South Bethlehem, earried
lighted candles to the church and cemetery.
' —Drillers boring the two artesian wells at
the Pennsylvania Agricultural Works, York
have already penetrated 75 feet of solid rock.
—The fifth annual convention of the Harris.
burg district, of the Young Men's Christian
Association closed on Sunday, at Gettysburg.
—By a landslide Mrs. Thomas Curtain was
crushed to death at Yatesvllle while picking
coal. Several others narrowly escaped the
same fate.
—Charged with kidnapying 14-year-old May
Hendrickson, a preacher’s daughter, whom he
married, Harry E. Robinson, of Bedford, was
sent to jail.
—The mangled remains of Samuel Foltz, an
assistant foreman of the Pennsyivania Rail-
road, were found scattered a'ong the track
near Conewago.
—The First Defenders’ Memorial Assoecia-
tion, with the object of erecting a monument
to the Ringgold Light Artillery, has been
formed in Reading.
—Through the efforts of Rabbi Max Lupen,
of Philadelphia, the warring Hebrew congre-
gations in South Bethlehem have settled their
differences and united.
—The committee of Lancaster's City Coun-
cils appointed to build a new city water reser-
voir has instruzsted the Mayor to effect a loan
of $150,000 for that purpose.
—The First Presbyterian Church of Hous-
tonville, although but little more than three
years old, has 204 members, 36 of whom were
received during the past year.
—A stranger, supposed to have been Rich-
ard Smith, a printer, of Washington, D.C.,
was yesterday run over by a train at Christia=
na, Lancaster county on Monday.
—J. B. G. Kinslee, of the Lock Haven Repub-
lican, celebrated his seventy-second birthday
last week. Seventy-two, and yet he is as
bright as one less than half that age.
—Elijjah Bull, of West Nantmeal, Chester
county, is dead. He had been a Justice of the
Peace for forty-five years, receiving his first
commission from Governor Shunk.
—George H. Imes, one of the projectors of
the State fair for colored people to be held at
Harrisburg, says that every town of 1000 peo-
ple in every country in Pennsylvania will
make exhibits.
—The Allentown Shirt Company is at pres-
ent engaged in making a large quantity of
white shirts for the, United States Govern-
ment for distribution among the soldiers of
the regular army.
—John Keith, a colored resident of Holli-
daysburg, called John Bentley a rebel and
qualified it with a very impolite adjective.
Bentley flattened a bullet against Keth’s head
and then went to jail.
—Michael Toole, o f Fayette county, commit.
ted suicide by drowning, on Monday. Toole’s
wife was killed on the railroad at Braddock
two years ago. He worried over this and fam-
ily matters, and was almost demented.
—Jethro Martin, a former resident of {Wash-
ington county, has been arrested at Martins-
burg, Mo., for the murder of his father, Rev.
Thos. Martin, last January. His attorneys
will enter a plea of insanity at the trial,
—A farmer of Chester is much puzzled over
the fact that every day he picks up fifty eggs
from his hennery and there are ony forty-nine
hens and a rooster. Either the rooster lays
eggs or some ona of the hens lays two eggs.
—In making a division of the liquor license
money, which amounts so far to $9,275,8Schuyl.
kill county will receive $16,995; the boroughs
and township, $67,980; the State, $14,330. Shen-
andoah leads the list with over $10,000 and
Pottsville $7,000.
—Elmer Bruner, the murderer of Farmer
Reese, was se' enced by Judge Parker, at
Ebensburg, lo... veek, to be hanged by the
neck until dead. His motion for a new trial
was refused. The prisoner showed no signs of
weakening when the sentence whs pronounced.
—Alfred J. Patterson, who' died at his resi-
dence in Mifflintown lately,” was the Demo-
cratic candidate for Congress in that district
in 1884 and for the Judgeship of Perry and
Juniata last fall. The New Bloomfield Advo-
cate says: ‘‘It is believed the travel and worri-
ment of that contest told on a constitution
never to robust and hastened the complica-
tion of diseases which ended his life.
—A wedding in Franklin township, Chester
county, was the last chapter of a peculiar ro-
mance. George T. Dance was to have been
married just a year ago to Miss Armstrong,
daughter of James Armsirong. She contracts
ed consumption and soon died, but on her
death-bed she secured a promise irom her lov-
ev that he would marry her sister Florence.
That promise was kept on Wednesday last.