Bellefonte, Pa., June 10, 1898.
WHEN I AM DEAD.
When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me.
Plant thou no roses at my head
Nor shady cypress tree.
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet,
And if thou wilt remember,
And if thou wilt forget.
I shall not see the shadows,
I shall not feel the rain,
I shall not hear the nightingale
Sing on as if in pain,
And, dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise nor set,
Haply I may remember,
And haply may forget.
—Christina G. Rossetti.
MULVANEY'S TALE.
The Inexpressibles gave a ball. They
borrowed a seven pounder from the Gun-
ners, and wreathed it with laurels, and
made the dancing floor plate glass, and
provided a supper, the like of which had
never been eaten before, and set two sen-
tries at the door of the room to hold the
trays of program cards. My friend,
Private Mulvaney, was one of the sentries,
because he was the tallest man in the reg-
iment. When the dance was fairly started
the sentries were released, and Private
Mulvaney fled to curry favor with the
mess sergeant in charge of the supper.
Whether the mess sergeant gave or Mul-
vaney took I cannot say. All I am certain
of is that at supper time I found Mulvaney
with Private Ortheris, two-thirds of a ham,
a loaf of bread, half a pate-de-foie-gras and
two magnums of champagne, sitting on the
roof of my carriage. As I came up I heard
him saying :
‘‘Praise be a danst doesn’t come as often
as ord’ly room, or, by this an’ that,
Orth’ris, me son, I wud be the dishgrace
av the rig’mint instead av the biggest jool
in uts crown.”’
‘And the Colonel’s pet noosince,”’ said
Ortheris, who was a Londoner. ‘‘But what
makes you curse your rations? This ’ere
fizzy stuff’s good enough.”’
“Stuff, ye oncivilized pagin! Tis cham-
pagne we're dhrinkin’ now. ’Tisn’t that
I'm set agin. ’Tis this quare stuff wid the
little bits av black leather in it. I mis-
doubt I will be distressingly sick wid it in
the morning.” Fwhat is us !”’
“Goose liver.” I said climbing on the
top of the carriage, for I knew that it was
better to sit out with Mulvaney than to
dance many dances.
‘Goose liver is ut?’’ said Mulvaney.
‘Faith I’m thinkin’ thim that makes it
wud do better to cut up the colonel. He
carries a power av liver undher his right
arrum when the days are warm an’ the
nights chill. He wud give thim tons an’
tons of liver. ’Tis he sez so. ‘I’m all
liver to-day,” sez he; an’ wid that he
ordhers me ten days C. B. for as moild a
dhrink as iver a good sodger tuk betune
his teeth.”’
“That was when ’e wanted for to wash
’isself in the Fort Ditch,’’ Ortheris explain-
ed. ‘‘Said there was too much beer in the
barrack water butts for a God fearing man.
You was lucky in gittin’ orf with what
you did, Mulvaney.”’
“You say so? Now I'm pershuaded I
was cruel hard trated, seein’ fwhat I’ve
done for the likes av him in the days whin
my eyes were wider open than they are
now. Man alive, for the colonel to whip
me on the peg in that way ! Me that have
saved the repitation av a ten times better
man than him ! Twas ne-farious, an’ that
names a power av evil !”’
‘‘Never mind the nefariousness,’’ I said,
‘Whose reputation did you save?’
‘‘More’s the pity ’twasn’t my own, but
I tuk more trouble wid ut than av ut was.
"Twas just my way, messin’ vid fwat was
no business av mine. Hear now !”’? He
settled himself at ease on top of the car-
riage. ‘‘I’ll tell you all about ut. Av
coorse I will name no names, for there’s
one that’s an orf’cer’s lady now that was
in ut. and no more will I name places, for
a man is thracked by a place.”
*‘Eyah I’? said Ortheris, lazily, “‘but
this is a mixed story wot’s comin’.”’
“Wanst upon a time, as the childer
books say, I was a recruity.”
“Was you though ?” said Ortheris;
‘now that’s extraordinary !”’
“Orth’ris,” said Mulvaney, ‘av -you
opin thim lips of yours again I will, savin’
your priscince, sorr, take you by the slack
of your trousers an’ heave you.’
“I’m mum, ’’ said Ortheris. “Wot ap-
pened you when you was a recruity 2’
“I was a better recruity than you iver
was or will be, but that’s neither here nor
there. Thin I became a man, an’ the
divil of a man I was fifteen years ago.
They called me Buck Mulvaney in thim
days, an’ begad, I tuk a woman's eye. I
did that ! Orth’ris, ye scrub, fwhat are ye
sniggerin’ at? Do you misdoubt me 2’?
“Devil a doubt? ’said Ortheris ‘but
I’ve ’eard summit like that before !”’
Mulvaney dismissed the impertinence
With a lofty wave of his hand, and contin-
ued :
“An’ the orf’cers av the rig’ment I was
in in thim days was orf’cers—gran’men,
wid a manner on ’em an’ a way wid ‘em
such as is not made these days—all but
wan—wan o’ the capt’ns. A bad dhrill, a
wake voice an’ a limp leg—thim three
things are the signs av a bad man. For
bear that in you hid, Orth’ris, me son.?”’
‘An’ the colonel av the rig’mint had a
danghter—wan av thim lamblike, bleatin,’
pick-me-up-an-carry-me-or-I’ll-die gurls,
such as was made for the natural prey av
men like the capt’'n, who was iverlastin’
payin’ coort to her, though the colonzl he
said time an’ over, ‘Kape out av the brate’s
way, my dear.” But he niver had the
heart for to send her away from the throu-
ble, bein’ as he was a widower, an’ she
their wan child.”
“Stop a minute, Mulvaney,” said I,
‘how in the worl! did you come to know
these things ?”’
“How did I come?’’ said Mulvaney with
a scornful grunt; ‘‘bekase I'm turned
durin’ the quane’s pleasure to a lump av
wood, lookin’ out straight forninst me, wid
a candelabrum in my hand for you to pick
your cards out av, must I not see nor feel ?
Av coorse Idu! Up my back an’ in my
boots n’ in the short hair av the neck—
that,s where I kape my eyes whin I’m on
duty an’ the reg’lar wans are fixed. Know?
Take my word for it, sorr, ivrything an’ a
great deal more is known in a reg’mint ; or
fwhat wud be the use av a mess sargint or
a sargint’s wife doin’ wet nurse to the
major’s baby? To reshume. He was a
baddhrill, was this capt’n—a rotten bad
dhrill an’ whin I first ran me eye over
him I sez to myself : ‘My militia bantam,
I sez, ‘my cock av a Gosport dunghill’—
‘twas from Portsmouth he came to us—
there’s combs to be cut,’ says, I, ‘an’ by
the grace av God ’tis Terence Mulvaney
will cut thim.’
‘So he wint menowderin,” an minander-
in,” and blandandhering round’ an’ about
the colonel’s daughter, an’ she poor inno-
cint, lookin’ at him like a comm’ssariat
bullock look at the company cook. He'd
a dhirty little scrub av a black mustache,
an’ he twisted an turned iviry wurrd he
used, as iv he found ut too sweet to spit
out. Eyah! He was a tricky man an’ a cur
by natur.” Some are born so. He was
wan. I knew he was over his belt in mon-
ey borrowed from natives, besides a lot av
other mathers which, in regard for your
presinee, sorr, I will oblitherate. A little
av what I knew the colonel knew, for he
wud have none av him, an’ that I’m
thinkin,” by fwhat happened afterwards,
the capt’n knew.”
“Wan day, bein’ mortial idle, or they
wud never ha’ thried ut, the rig’mint gave
amshure theatricals—orf’cers and orf’cers’
ladies. Youjve seen the likes time an’
agin, sorr, an’ poor fun ’tis for them that
sit in the back row an’ stamp wid their
boots for the honor av the reg’mint. I was
told off for to shif’ the scenes, haulin’ up
this an’ draggin’ down that. Light work
ut was, wid lashinsav beer and the gurl that
dhressed the orf’cers ladies—but she died
in Aggra twelve years gone, an’ my tongue’.
gettin’ the better av me. They was actin’
a plaything called ‘‘Sweethearts,”’ which
you may ha’ heard av, an’ the colonel’s
daughter she was a lady’s maid. The
capt’'n was a boy called Broom—Spread
Broom was his name in the play. Thin I
saw—ut come out in the actin’—fwhat I
never saw before, an’ that was that he was
no gentleman. They was too much to-
gether, thim two, a whisperin’ behind the
scenes I shifted, an’ some av what they
said I heerd ; for I was death—blue death
an’ ivy—on the comb cuttin’. He was
iverlastin’ly oppressin’ her to fall in wid
some sneaking schame av his, an’ she was
thryin’ to stand out against him, but not
as though she was set in her will. I won-
der now in thim days that my ears did not
grow a yard on my head wid listn’in’. But
I looked straight forninst me, an’ hauled
up this and dragged down that, such as
was my duty, an’ the orf’cers’ ladies sez
one to another, thinkin’ I was out av listen’
reach ; ‘what an obligin’ young man is
this Corp’ril Mulvaney.” I was a corp’ril
then. I was rejuced afterwards ; but no
matther, I was a corp’ril wanst.
“Well, this ‘Sweethearts’ business wint
on like most amshure theatricals, and
barrin’ fwhat I suspicioned ’twasn’t ’till
the dhress rehersal that I saw for certain
that thim two—he the blackguard, an’ she
no wiser than sheshould ha’ been—had put
up an evasion.’
“A what 2’ said I.
‘E-vasion! Fwhat you lorruds an’
ladies call an elopement. E-vasion I call
it, bekase, exceptin’ whin ’tis right an’
natural an proper, tis wrong and dhirty
to steal a man’s wan child not knowing
her own mind. There was a sargint in the
comm’ssariat who set my face upon e-va-
sions, I'll tell you about that’’—
‘‘Stick to the bloomin’ captains, Mul-
vaney,”’ said Ortheris ; comm’ssariat sat-
gints is low.”’
Mulvaney accepted the emendation and
went on :
‘‘Now, I knew that the colonel was no
fool, any more than me, for I was hild the
smartest man in the rig’mint, an’ the colo-
nel was the best orf’cer commanding in
Asia ; so fwat he said an’ I said was a mar-
tial trath. We knew that the capt’n was
bad, but for reasons which I have always
obliterated, I knew more than the colonel.
I wod ha’ rolled out his face with the butt
hav my gun before permittin’ av him to
steal the gurl. Saints knew av he wud ha’
married her, and av he didn’ she wud be
in great torment, an’ the divil av what
you, sorr, call a ‘scandal. But I never
struck, niver raised my hand on my super-
ior orf’cer an’ that was a mericle, now I
come to considher it.’
“Mulvaney’s the dawn’s risin’,”’ said
Ortheris, ‘‘an’ we’re no nearer ‘ome than
we was at the beginning. Lend me your
pouch. Mine’s all dust.”’
Mulvaney pitched his pouch across, and
filled his pipe afresh.
‘‘So the dhress rehearsal came to an end,
an’ bekase I was curious I stayed behind
when the scene shiftin, was ended an’ I
shud ha’ been in barracks, lyin’ as flat as a
toad under a painted cottage thing. They
were talkin’ in whispers, an’ she was shiv-
erin’ an’ gaspin’ like a fresh hukked fish.
‘Are you sure you've got the hang av the
manewvers ?’ sez he, or wurrds to that ef-
fec’, as the coort martial sez. ‘Sure as
death,’ sez she, ‘but I misdoubt ’tis cruel
bard on my father.’ ‘Damn your father,’
sez he, or anyways 'twas fwhat he thought,
‘the arrangement is clear as mud. Jungi
will drive the carriage afther all’s over, an’
you come to the station, cool an aisy, in
time for the 2 o'clock thrain, where I will
be wid your kit.” ‘Faith,’ thinks I to my-
self, ‘thin there a ayah (native female ser-
vant in the business tu !’?
“A powerful bad thing is a ayah. Don’t
you niver have any thruck wid wan. Thin
he began soothin’ her, an’ all the orf’cers’
ladies left, an’ they put out the lights. To
explain the theory av the flight, as they
say at Muskthry you must understand
that after ‘Sweethearts’ nonsense was end-
ed there was another little bit av a play
‘Couples’—some kind av couple or another.
The girl was actin’ in this, but not the
man. Isuspicioned he’d gone to the sta-
tion wid de gurl’s kit at the end av the
first piece. ’Twas the kit that flusthered
me, for I knew for a capt’n to go trapesing
about the empire with the Lord knew what
av a truso on his arrum was nefarious, an’
wud be worse than easin’ the flag, so far as
the talk afterwards wint.’’
‘Old on Mulvaney.
said Ortheris.
‘‘You’re an oncivilized man, me son.
Whin a gurl’s married, all her kit an’ ’cou-
trements are truso, which manes weddin’
portion. An’ ’tis the same whin she’s run-
nin’ away, even wid the biggest black-
guard on the arrmy list.
‘So I made my plan of campaign. The
colonel’s house wasa good two miles away.
‘Dennis,’ sez I to my color sargint, ‘av
you love me lend me your kyart, for me
heart is bruk an’ me feet is sore wid tramp-
in’ to and from this foolishness at the Gaff.’
An’ Dennis lent ut, wid a rampin’, stamp-
in’ red stallion in the shafts. Whin they
was all settled down to their ‘Sweehearts’
for the first scene, which was a long wan, I
slips outside and into the kyart. Mother
of Hivin ! but I made that horse walk, an’
we came into the colonel’s compound as
the divil went through Athlone—in stand-
in’ leps. There was no one there excipt
the servants, an’ I wint ’round to the hack
and found the girl’s ayah.”’
“Ye black brazen Jezebel,’ sez I, ‘sellin’
your masther’s honor for five rupees—pack
up all the Miss Sahib’s kit an’ look slippy !
Capt'n Sahib’s order,’ sez I ; ‘goin’ to the
station we are, I sez, an’ wid that I laid
my finger to my nose an’ looked the
schamin’ sinner I was.’
‘Bote acchy,’ says she ; so I knew she
was in the business, an’ I piled up all the
sweet talk I'd iver leaint in the bazars on
Wot’s truso?”’
to this she bullock, an’ prayed av her to
put all the quick she knew into the thing.
While she packed I stud outside an’ sweat-
ed, for I was wanted for to shif’ the second
scene. I tell you a young gurl’s e-vasion
manes as much baggage as a rig’mint on
the line av march. ‘Saints help Dennis’
springs,’ thinks I, as I bundled the stuff
into the thrap, ‘for I’ll have no mercy !”
“I’m comin’ too,’ says the ayah.
‘No, you don’t,” says I, ‘later—pecky !
You baito where you are. I'll petchy
come an’ bring you sart, along with me,
you maraudin’ -—niver mind fwhat I called
her.”
‘Thin I wint for the Gaff, an’ by the
special ordher av Providence, for I was
doin’ a good work, you will understhand,
Dennis’ springs hild to-night. ‘Now, whin
the capt’n goes for that kit,” thinks I,
‘he’ll be throubled.’ At the end av ‘Sweet-
hearts’ off the capt’n runs in his kyart to
the colonel’s house, an’ I sits down on the
steps and laughs. Wanst an’ again I slip-
ped in tosee how the little piece was goin,’
an’ whin ut was near endin’ I stepped out
all among the carriages and sings out
very softly, ‘Jungi I” Wid that a carr'ge
hegan to move, an’ I waved to the dhriver.
‘Hitheraoed !’ sez I, on’ he hitheraoed till I
judged he was at proper distance, an’ thin
I tuk him fair an’ square betune the eyes,
all I knew for good or bad, an’ he dhropped
wid a gugle like the canteen beer engine
whin ut’s runnin’ low. Thin I run to the
kyart and tuk out all the kit an’ piled it
into the carr’ge, the sweat running down
my face in dhrops. ‘Go home,’ sez 1 to the
sais. ‘You'll find a man close here. Very
sick he is. Take him away, an’ av you
iver say one wurrd ahout fwhat you've
dekkaoed I’ll marrow you till your own
wife won’t sumjao who you are!” ThinI
heard the stampin’ av feet at the ind uv
the play, an’ I ran in to let down the cur-
tain. Whin they all came out the gurl
thride to hide herself behind wan av the
pillars, an’ sez ‘Jungi’ in a voice that
wudn’t ba’ scared a hare. I run over to
Jungi’s carr’ge an’ tuk up the lousy old
horse blanket on the box, wrapped my
head an’ the rest av me in ut an’ dhrove to
where she was.”’
‘Miss Sahib,’ sez I, going to the station?
‘‘Capt. Shib’s order !”” an’ without a sign
she jumped in all among her own kit.”
“I laid to an’ dhruv like steam to the
colonel’s house before the colonel was
there, an’ she screamed an’ I thought she
was goin’ ‘off. Out come the ayah, sayin’
all sorts av things about the capt’n havin’
come for the kit an’ gone to the station.”
‘‘Take out the luggage you divil |’ sez I
I, ‘or I’ll murther you !”’
‘The lights av the thraps people comin’
from the Gaff was showin, acrost the parade
ground, an’ by this an’ that, the way thim
two women worked at the bundles and
thrunks was a caution! I was dyin’ to
help, but seein, I didn’t want to be known
I sot wid the blanket roun’ me an’ coughed
an’ thanked the saints there was no moon
that night.”
“Whin all was in the house again I niver
asked for buckshish, but dhruv tremenjus
in the opp’site way from the other carr’age
an’ put out my lights. Presently I saw a
nagur man wallowin’ in the road. I slip-
ped down before I got to him, for I sus-
picioned Providence was wid me all
through that night. ‘T'was Jungi, his
nose smashed in flat, all dumb sick as you
please. Dennis’ man must have tilted him
out av the thrap. Whin he came to,
‘Hutt !’ sez I, but he began to howl.
‘You black lump av dirt, I sez, ‘is this
the way you dhrive your garri? That
tikka has been owin’ me me-owin’ all over
the bloomin’ country this whole bloomin’
night, an’ you mut-walla as Davy’s sow.
‘Get up, you hog!” sez I, louder, for I
heard the wheels av a thrap in the dark ;
‘get up an’ light your lamps or you’ll he
run into I” That was on the road to the
railway station.”
“Fwhat the devil’s this ?’’ sez the capt’n’s
voiee in the dhark, an’ I could judge he
was in a lather av rage.”
“‘Gharri dhriver here drunk, sor,’ sez I,
I’ve found his gharri sthravin’ about can-
tonmints an’ now I’ve found him.”
‘‘Oh, sez the Capt’n ; fwhat’s his name !”’
I stooped down an’ pretended to listen.”
‘‘He sez his name’s Jungi, sorr,’ sez I.”
‘‘Hould my harse.’ sez the Capt'n to his
man, a’ wid that he gets down wid the
the whip an’ lays into Jungi, just mad
with rage an’ swearin’ like the scuft he
was,’’
“I thought, after awhile he wud kill the
man, so I sez: ‘‘stop, sorr, or you’ll murd-
her him I’ That threw all his fire on me,
an’ he cursed me into blazes an’ out again.
I stud to attenshun an’ saluted ; ‘Sorr,’
sez I, ‘av ivry man in the wurruld had his
rights, I’m thinking’ that more than
wan wud be beaten to a shakin’ jelly for
this night’s work—that never came off at
all, sorr, as you see? ‘Now’ thinks I to
myself, ‘Terence Mulvaney, you’ve cut
your own throat, for he’ll strike, an’ you’ll
knock him down for the good av his sowl
an’ your own iverlastin’ disghrase.”’
“But the Capt'n never said a single
wurrd. He choked where he stud, an’
thin he went into his thrap without sayin,
good-night, an’ I wint back to barricks.”’
‘‘And then?” said Ortheris and I to-
gether.”
“That was all,”’ said Mulvaney ; “niver
another word did I hear of the whole
thing. All I know was that there was no
e-vasion, an’ that was fwhat I wanted.
Now, I put ut to you, sorr, is ten days’ C.
B. a fit an’ a proper treatment for a man
who has behaved as me.—Rudyard Kip-
ling.
The State of Crops.
Wet Weather is Not Very Beneficial to Them.
The weekly crop bulletin issued by the
government department of agriculture
shows that wet weather has interfe:ed
with crops. It states that another week
of rain ranging from light to heavy together
with the previous saturated condition of
the soil, further delayed the completion of
the seeding of corn and potatoes. Early
planted corn is up and doing well, but ow-
ing to the cold wet soil considerable of the
later planted failed to germinated and there
is yet a large acreage to seed. Many more
potatoes will be putin as soon as the
ground can he worked. Nearly all farm
work is much delayed and in some sections
there is still much plowing to be done for
corn. Ground is being prepared for buck-
wheat as rapidly as conditions will permit.
Grain and grass made rapid growth and
under favorable conditions a large yield
may be expected, but the rank growth of
wheat and rye has caused it to be weak in
straw and lodging is feared. Most reports
are favorable for a large yield of fruit.
Trucker’s crops are doing well. Meadows
and pastures are in good condition. Slow
progress is being made in tobacco culture.
——A Philadelphia lawyer has been dis-
barred because he erased by acid the record
of a mortgage. This is not sufficient pun-
ishment. Unless the statute of limitation
Joris it he ought to be sent to the peniten-
lary.
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The Quay Convention.
Has Candidates All Nominated on the First Ballot
and the Platform for Everything but State Re-
form.
The Republican State convention met in
Harrisburg on last Thursday and named
the party ticket that is to be submitted
to the voters this fall as follows :
Governor, William A. Stone, of Alle-
gheny.
Lieutenant Governor, General J. P. S.
Gobin, of Lebanon.
Secretary of Internal Affairs, General
James W. Latta, of Philadelphia.
Judge of the Superior Court, William
W. Porter, of Philadelphia.
Congressmen-at Large, Galusha A. Grow
of Susquehanna, and Samuel A Davenport,
of Erie.
The last four are renominations.
There was scarcely any opposition to the
program for the work of the convention as
outlined by Senator Quay and. his lieuten-
ants, those opposed to the nomination of
Mr. Stone for the head of the ticket con-
tenting themselves with the concentration
of their vote on Charles W. Stone. The
vote was uncomfortably close for the Quay
adherents, Colonel Stone receiving only
fifteen more votes than the number neces-
sary to a choice. The 163 votes cast for C.
W. Stone represented the combined strength
of that candidate and John Wanamaker.
The latter provided the only sensation
of an otherwise cut and dried convention
by presenting a letter of withdrawal in
which he denounced the methods of the
dominant Republican action and urging his
friends to support C. W. Stone. Mr. Wan-
amaker’s retirement from the fight came as
a startling suprise to his delegates and it is
understood that he determined upon that
course only a short time before his letter
was read to the convention. The with-
drawal is interpreted to mean that Mr.
Wanamaker has placed himself in a posi-
tion to run as an independent candidate
for governor if he so elects.
He has repeatedly, in his speeches,
served notice on the convention that if W.
A. Stone was nominated he would con-
tinue his fight against the Quay organiza-
tion. Mr. Wanamaker went to Philadel-
phia on the late afternoon train. He de-
clined to make any statement, referring to
inquiries to his letter read to the conven-
tion.
The candidates and Chairman Wheaton
met after the convention and re-elected
John P. Elkin, of Indiana, chairman of
the state committee. Mr. Elkin will ar-
range a reception for the candidates at the
state headquarters in Philadelphia, at
which they will be formally notified of
their nomination.
The convention was called to order at
11 o’clock by State Chairman Elkin. Sen-
ators Penrose, Magee, Durham, Secretary
of the Commonwealth Martin and other
party leaders were greeted with applause
from the galleries when they took their
seats.
The attendance was the largest since the
convention in 1890. The galleries and
stage were crowded with spectators. The
Philadelphia delegation occupied seats to
the right of the stage and those from Alle-
gheny to the left. Congressman William
Connell, of Scranton, who withdrew in W.
A. Stone's favor, sat on the stage with the
newspaper men. General Frank Reeder,
the choice of the Northampton delegation,
was also a spectator from the stage.
After the reading of the call for the con-
vention and the roll of delegates, General
B. F. Fisher, of West Chester, presented
the name of Senator Penrose for temporary
chairman. Nobody else was named and
the senator was selected by acclamation.
The chair appointed the following com-
mittee on contested seats : Auditor Gener-
al Levi G. McCauley, of Chester; D. A.
Gorman, Indiana; R. S. Murphy, Cam-
bria ; Floyd L. Kuiver, Bradford; J. C.
Brown, Columbia ; Cyrus H. Blood, Jef-
ferson, and E. K. Smiley, Venango.
Chris L. Magee, of Allegheny, suggested
that the convention proceed with the
speeches nominating candidates and that
the reports of the permanent organization
and resolutions committee be in order was
presented. The committee convened im-
mediately in the rear of the hall and re-
ported Frank W. Wheaton as permanent
chairman, who was elected by acclamation.
His speech of acceptance was very brief.
The convention then proceeded to the
selection of a candidate for governor.
Thomas M. Marshall, Jr., of Allegheny,
presented the name of Col. W. A Stone,
for that office.
General B. F. Fisher, of West Chester,
seconded the nomination.
Representative Charles F. Chidsey, of
Easton, named General Frank Reeder, the
choice of the Northampton delegation.
Joseph M. Huston, of Philadelphia, pre-
sented the name of John Wanamaker.
A. S. L. Shields, of Philadelphia, pre-
sented the following letter from Mr. Wana-
maker withdrawing his name, which was
read by Secretary Rex.
HarrissurG, Pa., June 2nd.
At a meeting of the representatives of the
Bouse Teno: this morning, the following
resolutions were unanimously adopted ,
‘Resolved, That in view of the means employed
by the Republican state organization in the elec-
tion of i in the interest of one candidate,
and the control of the convention by machine
methods with the obvious result of defeating,
rather than registering, the will of the people, we
respectfully request you not to permit your name
to be voted for by the state convention, and, fur-
ther, be it
Resolved, That we request all delegates friendly
to you to vote for Hon. Charles W. Stone.”
It is plain, therefore, that I cannot consent
to be a candidate before the convention.
Imay, however, be permitted to thank all
my friends throughout the State, whose good
will I so highly value, for their earnest and
hearty support of my candidacy.
There never has been a moment that I
would not have withdrawn if anyone of the
five men named in my letter to the Bourse
meeting, or other man of such a type of men,
had been selected for governor by any rep-
resentative body of the Republican leaders.
FAVORS CHARLES W. STONE.
Inasmuch as the Hon. Charles W. Stone
was one of those selected at the Bourse con-
vention, it is most agreeable to me to now
express my satisfaction with the recommen-
dation of the members of the Bourse confer-
ence in favor of Charles W. Stone receiving
the votes of your convention.
I think it proper and fair to take your
time to say briefly that the protest I have
felt called upon to make against the political
machine has been made within the party
and against its methods, and not against
individuals, except so far as they represented
a system of politics. I have held, up to the
door of the convention, that the Republican
party was wise enough. honest enough and
strong enough to correct any wrongs and
abuses within the party. I still have that
hope. There is no need for angry contro-
versy. No man knows it all or owns it all.
Inspiration seldom carries for twenty years.
A man carrying the keys of power by heredity
descent or holding them by clevernoss or
mental energy, must surrender them when
the tired people so demand.
To suffer the political machine to sell for
cash the commonwealth’s justice or retain
squatter sovereignty in the state of national
offices is only to kill the political party thus
indulged. A mighty revolution has set
within this state. Pennsylvania is no longer
docile or unresisting to Republican bossism.
HOSTILITY TO MACHINE METHODS,
Unconditional hostility to all machine
methods is the loudest war ery within the
Republican ranks throughout the common-
wealth since the days of the civil war. It is
not factional unfriendliness or un-Republican
1m me, with my continuous record as a Re-
publican that cannot be challenged, to speak
thus plainly to my fellow-Republicans in this
hour of great peril to the party. There are
indeed, many unwilling to follow further a
machine flag. The hopes of tens of thousands
of Pennsylvania freemen that centered hope-
fully upon this convention, should it shut its
ears to the plain call of duty and simply
give protection to bosses and their slate,
will be found to be a narrow policy threat-
ening party destruction.
For the convention to seem to be looking
for duty and inventing ways of escape from
the people’s will may be carried once too far.
By the judgement of to-day’s convention
upon the last legislative record and its ma-
chine methods, the people will pass judge-
ment on the candidates after the convention
adjourns. It could have, if it pleases, as fine
a medal from the people as any Admiral
Dewey will deservedly get if it will sink the
fleet of politicians who run the State for po-
litical revenue only. There are many who
believe that unless it does this, and very soon,
there will be a great storm to break upon the
Republican party from every corner of the
sky. Sincerely yours,
JOHN WANAMAKER.
When the letter had been read David H.
Lane, of Philadelphia, with a considerable
display of feeling said : “Mr. Wanamaker
denounces bossism, and yet there has never
been displayed in a Republican convention
such an arrogant exhibition of hossism as
is shown in the written words of the Phila-
delphia candidate who had just withdrawn
from the contest.
Fred W. Fietix, of Scranton, chairman
of the resolutions committee, presented
the platform, which was read from the
stage and unanimously adopted.
Ex-State Senator O. C. Allen, of Warren,
county, offered the name of Congressman
Charles W. Stone for the gubernatorial
nomination, which was seconded by New-
ton W. Black, of Butler.
The nomination closed with the two
Stones and General Reeder in the Field.
The roll call showed 198 votes for W. A.
Stone and 163 for C. W. Stone. Before
the result was announced the five votes
cast for General Reeder were given to the
Allegheny aspirant, the general’s name
having been withdrawn.
Colonel Stone having received a majori-
ty of the votes he was declared the nomi-
nee amid considerable enthusiasm.
The nominating speeches for other candi-
dates were limited to five minutes. Major
M. A. Gherst, of Lebanon, named Gen.
Gobin for lieutenant governor, Major A.
C. Reinod, of Lancaster, seconded the
nomination. William M. Bunn, of Phila-
delphia, presented the name of Senator
John C. Grady, of Philadelphia. A. C.
Robertson, of Allegheny, made the second-
ing speech. George S. Schmidt, of York,
named Richard E. Cochran, of York. J.
W. Brown, of Lancaster, seconded Coch-
ran’s nomination. The nominations
closed and a vote was taken with the fol-
lowing result :
Gobin, 226 ; Grady, 70; Cochran, 32;
General Gobin having received a majority
of the votes was declared duly elected.
By this time the delegates left in the
hall were too tired to listen to speeches or
undergo roll call and everybody therefore
agreed to the suggestion that the nomina-
tion of James W. Latta,of Philadelphia,
for secretary of internal affairs, and W. W.
Porter, of Philadelphia, for judge of the
Superior court, be made by acclamation.
The ticket was completed by the re-nomi-
nation of Galusha A. Grow and Samuel A.
Davenport for congressmen-at-large. A
roll call however, was necessitated by the
friends of Congressman W. C. Arnold, of
Clearfield, insisting that their favorite’s
name should go before the convention as a
contestant against Grow and Davenport,
the slated candidates. The vote was an-
nounced as follows: Grow, 285; Daven-
‘port, 217 ; Arnold 148.
Following is the platform adopted :
First—The Republican party of Pennsyl-
vania in convention assembled, ratifies and
reaffirms the doctrines enunciated in the Re-
publican national platform adopted at St.
Louis in 1896, and approved by the people at
the last presidential election.
Second—We declare emphatic approval of
the wise and patriotic course of the president
and congress in the present war. We appre-
ciate the high statesmanship which led the
president to resort to every honorable means
to avoid the necessity of a war with Spain.
The conditions prevailing in the island of
Cuba under Spanish control had become se-
riously injurious ta our important commercial
interests, and the suffering, misery.and death
occasioned by Spanish cruelty and bar-
barity bad incurred a sentiment of resent-
ment among the American people, who can-
not help but feel a generous sympathy with
people so near our own border. The destruc-
tion of the Maine by Spanish agencies, in the
opinion of our people, demanded atonement,
and our negotiations with Spain clearly de-
veloped the fact that but one alternative was
left to the United States, that;Spain should re-
linquish her soveréignty over thatisland and
that ihe freedom of Cuba should be recog-
nized,
VIGOROUS PROSECUTION OF THE WAR.
With these purposes in view, we demand a
vigorous prosecution of the war to a success-
ful conclusion and we pledge our earnest
support to the president of the United States
in whatever measures he may deem neces-
sary.
Third—We rejoice with the people of the
nation upon the brilliant record which the
American navy has made in the present war.
The splendid victory of the ‘American fleet
under Commodore Dewey at Manila has not
been rivalled in the history of naval warfare
and our people have such confidence in the
bravery, skill and efficiency of the officers
and men of our navy that they confidently
look forward to equally brilliant victories in
Cuban waters. We demand that the national
government shall, as rapidly as possible, in-
crease and build up our navy, so that we shall
be at all times prepared to meet the necessi-
ties of our national defense, to protect our
merchant marine and our growing foreign
commerce, and, with the same object in view,
we demand that the national government
shall provide adequate coast defenses upon
our seaboard of the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans. We congratulate the state upon the
promptness with which Pennsylvania filled
the quota required by the national govern-
ment with trained and efficient volunteers.
CONFIDENCE IN PENNSYLVANIA SOLDIERS
Our people will watch the career of the
Pennsylvania volunteer soldiers with abso-
lute confidence in their patriotic desire and
ability to uphold the honor and the dignity
of the state of Pennsylvania.
Fourth—The Republicans of Pennsylvania
reaffirm their adherence to the doctrine of
protection to American industries. Two years
ago our mills were closed and our manufact-
uring, commercial, agricultural and business
interests were prostrated. To-day our mills
are opened, labor is given full employment
and a general revival of industrial activity
promises renewed prosperity to our state. We
affirm the declaration made to the last Re-
publican national platform in favor of the
construction of the Nicarauga canal. We
believe that the present war has demonstrated
beyond question the imperative necessity of
this canal for purposes of national defense
and for the benefit of our foreign and domestic
commerce, and we call on congress to push
this work as speedily as possible.
We express our gratitude to our senators
and to the congressmen of this state for their
efforts in securing such appropriations from
the national government as will insure the
final completion of the improvements upon
the Ohio, the Allegheny and the Mononga-
hela rivers, so that free slack water naviga-
tion will be secured by the peopie of that
great manufacturing and industrial region
and we demand that the national government
shall continue the appropriation for the im-
provement of the Delaware river until its
channel shall be of sufficient depth and width
to receive the largest battleships and the
biggest vessels of our merchant marine into
the port of Philadelphia.
CONSTRUCTION OF A WATER WAY.
Recognizing that western Pennsylvania is
destined to become the manufacturing center
of the world, we demand that congress shall
make adequate provision for the construction
of a water way between the slack water nav-
igation of the Ohio and its tributaries and
the Great Lakes, and we express our cordial
approval and pledge our earnest support of
the proposed canal connecting the Great
Lakes with the seaboard.
We reaflirm the declaration in the platform
of the Republican party in this state in 1897
in favor of the law restricting immigration of
cheap foreign laborers, who are unwilling
and unqualified to assume the duties of
American citizenship, but who enter into
competition with our American working-
men.
We heartily and cordially endorse the ad-
ministration of President McKinley. The
people df Pennsylvania appreciate his pa-
triotism and statesmanship, and have implicit
confidence in his ability to guide the nation
at this time. His judicious and patriotic
course in the present war has won for him
the admiration and respect of statesmen
throughout the world. The purity of his
patriotism and the wisdom of his statesman-
ship are such that in the conduct of the pres-
ent war sectionalism has disappeared and he
receives the earnest support of the American
people. °
We commend the wise, careful and efficient
administration of the state government in
its various departments, and heartily approve
of the fidelity with which our state officials
have discharged their duties.
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Our Debt to Bumble Bees.
The Part these Busy Workers Play in the Fertiliza-
tion of Flowers.
Barney Hoskin Standish writes an article
on‘‘The Bumble-Bee’’ for the June St. Nich-
olas. Mr. Standish says: “The work of
the bumble-bee in bringing about the cross
fertilization of flowers is as important as
that of the honey-bee,and these two stand at
the head of the list of insects useful in
their respect. Each has its flower, which
it alone visits, but there are many flowers
on neutral ground, visited by both. So we
may say of the bumble-bee, as of the honey
bee, the more bumble-bees the more seeds 3
the more seeds the more flowers—especially
wild flowers; as the tall bell-flower, touch-
me-not, Solomon’s-seal, gentian, Dutch-
man’s breeches, and turtle-head. But
probably the most important work this in-
sect does for agriculture is upon the fields
of red-clover. There is abundant proof
that the plant will not produce seed with-
out the co-operation of the bumble-bee. It
is impossible for the wind to bring about
the fertilization of the seed, as it may do
in the case of India corn, grain and some
forest trees. The tube of red-clover blos-
soms, £00, is so long that other insects (in-
cluding the honey-bee) are not regular
visitants.
Here is proof that this plant must have
visits from the bumble-bee. This insect is
not a native of Australia. and red-clover
failed to produce seed there until bumble-
bees were imported. As soon as they be-
came numerous the plant could be de-
pended upon for seed. Again, the blos-
soms of the first-crop of the “medium red-
clover’’ of our own country are just as per-
fect as those of the second crop, but there
are too few bumble-bees in the field, so
early in the season, to produce fertiliza-
tion ; hence little or no seed is in this crop.
If bumble-bees were sufficiently numerous
there is no reason why much larger yields
of clover seed might not be expected than
at present.’’
Here is what a well-informed farmer says
about it :
“It was formerly thought that the world
rested on the shoulders of Atlas. I can
prove that its prosperity rests on the bum-
ble-hee. The world cannot prosper with-
out the farmers’ product. The farm will
not be productive without clover. We
cannot raise clover without seed, and we
cannot have clover-seed without the hum-
ble-bee, because it is this insect that car-
ries the pollen from flower to flower, se-
curing its developement and continuance.
Let us learn to know and to protect our
friends.”
Two Needs.
" There are two works of international im-
portance that are greatly needed in the in-
terest of commerce and of civilization. One
is the Nicaragua canal. The other is a cable
across the Pacific connecting the United
States with the Hawaiian Islands and with
the countries of the far east. The existing
war is likely to prove of incidental benefit
in leading to the early construction of both.
The voyage of the Oregon from Califor-
nia to the Atlantic coast of the United
States by way of the Straits of Magellan
demonstrated as few things could the need
for a canal across the isthmus joining the
two oceans. While military necessity may
be the most powerful impelling motive
leading to the early building of such a
canal, the chief benefit to accrue from its
construction doubtless would be com-
mercial.
In its way the need for a Pacific cable is
just as great. If the United States is to
have permanent interests in Asiatic waters
it certainly should have cable connection
of its own with them, and not be obliged
to depend for intelligence upon lines run-
ning through the ports of many other coun-
tries. But even if the United States should
not hold the Philippines, as it is to be
hoped it may see its way clear not to do, a
cable line to the Asiatic coast would never-
theless be of much importance. Trade to
a considerable extent follows lines of com-
munication, and a Pacific cable would do
much to develop better commercial rela-
tions with the peoples of the orient. In
many ways it would be an advantage to
the United States to have a direct means
of speedy communication with these peo-
ple, instead of being compelled to use Euro-
pean cables. The laying of such a cable
would in itself be an act tending to stimu-
late closer relations between the peoples of
the two shores of the Pacific. The con-
struction of a Pacific cable, too, would be
an accomplishment of civilization of which
the United States would have cause to be
proud.
Axe Wound in Head,
A Woodsman Killed Near Hoytuilie.
Samuel Comstock and Frank Thomas
were working in the bark woods at Nauvoo,
near Hoytville, Friday. While Thomas
was standing on a fallen tree, chopping a
knot, his axe slipped and flew over, strik-
ing Comstock, who was spudding bark,
under the car. A deep gash was inflicted
and veins were severed. Comstock clapped
his hand to the wound and fell over.
Thomas picked him up and a doctor was
hastily summoned. The physician could
not stop the flow of blood, and Comstock
died about an hour after the accident. He
was 45 years old and leaves a wife and six
children.