Demorealiy Wald
not for a moment contemplate having to
part with his money. Not a little astonish-
ed was he, therefore, when his keen eye de-
Bellefonte. Pa., Oct. 5, 1900.
ES
H1S MOTHER.
Within her fond encircling arm
Safe slept her litt'e child—
A helpless wight, sweet breathed and warm,
Her eager look down-bent to scan
That face all lovely innocence,
The features of the full grown man,
She seized on with prophetic sense—
Foresaw the hero that should be,
Clothed in his manhood’s majesty—
And seeing, smiled.
Relaxed in every massive limb,
The man, sore-wearied, sleeps :
His bearded cheek is rough and grim,
She, hovering near him wistfully,
And gazing long, is fain to trace
One line of childhooa’s purity
In that toil-marred, world-hardened face.
Now once again she feels and sees
Her nursling warm upon her knees,
And seeing, wept.
THE COUNSEL AND THE NUN.
It was the opinion of Henry Tonkin, of
King’s Bench Walk, that the increasing
rotundity of his figure clearly suggested a
And the fee book and Thomas
Edy, the clerk, when called into consulta-
tion on the point, firmly supported coun-
Mr. Tonkin felt, however,
that so momentous a step required more
than common consideration, especially since
le could afford some delay without losing
a place among the most youthful of her
majesty’s counsel learned in the law. But
although no communication had yet been
made to the Lord Chancellor, it had some-
how got about in the Temple and Bedford
Row that ‘Tonquin was going to take
silk,” and learned friends offered congratu-
lations in the anteroom of judges’ chambers
on his approaching emancipation from sum-
Thomas Edy, who
has always cut a figure in the precincts of
the courts, felt the dignity of his position.
He was a man of culture, was Thomas Edy
who grew hollyhocks at Balbam, read no
“The Times,”’ and
among his fellow clerks—colleagues he
called them —on circuit had his opinion on
art and foreign policy. He, too, was con-
gratulated by friends, and asked when the
silk gown.
sel’s opinion.
monses and pleadings.
morning paper but
thing was to come off.
*‘Well, you see,”’ be replied, ‘‘the mat-
ter can hardly yet be said to be a chose
jugee; it is, in fact, still sub judice.’”’
‘‘And you and the guv’nor sitting as a
divisional court to determine it, eh ?”’
We have reserved judgment
“Just so.
till next term.”’
Next term came, and on a warm morn-
_ ing in May Henry Tonkin stood by the
open window in King’s Bench Walk. He
bad just tried on his silk gown and full
bottomed wig, and found them to suit his
The inflow of
junior briefs having ceased for some weeks,
he had unwonted leisure, which he was em-
ploying in dreaming cf the Woolsack,
when his thoughts were diverted by his
eyes falling on two Sisters of Mercy cross-
ing the gravel space between his chambers
He had often before
noticed gentle looking creatures of the nun
species gliding about the Temple, but had
never had the time togive them a thought.
It struck him now that these quiet black
figures, with their conspicuous headgear
and crucifixes suspended from their girdles
made a picturesque feature in the architec-
tural picture with the library in the back-
ample person to perfection.
and Paper Buildings.
ground. There was a piquancy,
the contrast between these peaceful women
of religion, with theirslow step and down-
and the busy barristers and
bustling attorneys’ clerks hurrying to and
A sudden curiosity
and interest in these women were aroused
He thought he
would like to hear their voices, to know
where they caine from, what they were col-
lecting for, and what sort of success they
had in gathering money in the dusty pur-
cast eyes,
fro across tae court.
in the learned counsel.
liens of the law.
**It you please, sir, two Catholic women
with a collection card ; I suppose I may
say you do not support Romanist chari-
ties 2"?
‘‘Show the ladies in.”’
Thomas Edy could not have been more
astonished had he been told to return a
brief his master could not attend to.
Mr. Tonkin felt considerably embarras-
sed when his visitors stood before him,
quietly declining with thanks the chairs
brought forward by the clerk before leav-
The two nuns were of very
One was well
past middle age, her features were coarse
and, as Tonkin thought a rather masculine
type; she was tall and thickly built, her
voice strong and deep. Her companion
was apparently quite a young girl, rather
pretty, with a timid look in her gray eyes
and a tremor on her lip; she seemed fright-
ened, and never lifted her eyes from the
ing the room.
different age and aspect.
carpet.
The elder woman handed a card to Ton-
“We collect for the Hospital of the
Stricken Heart’ she said; ‘‘perhaps, sir,
you will kindly give us a subscription.”
Tonkin had been thinking that their
superiors showed much worldly wisdom in
sending this pretty girl as decoy for coin,
and this old dragon as chaperon to the de-
coy. The spirit of mischief seized him.
Running his eye down the list on the card
‘in which he saw a fair number of shillings
and sixpences and an ocvasional half crown
he said, in a tone of profound gravity, ad-
kin.
dressing himself to the old nun :
“I do not belong to your faith, and I feel
no obligations to support its charities.
the same time I believe the object to be a
good one, and I see you have not had any
reat success as yet in your collecting.
Now, I’ll tell yon what I'll do’’—he stuc
his finger and thumb into his waistcoat
pocket—‘‘I’ll give you a couple of sov-
ereigns for your hospital on one condi-
tion.”
‘You are generous, sir,”’ said the nun,
with perfect sglf composure, though Ton-
kin noticed a flashing glance thrown at her
for an instant by the young girl beside her.
‘‘You are generous, sir; the Blessed Virgin
will reward youn.”
‘Unfortunately,’ replied the barrister
who was getting immensely tickled by the
diversion of the situation he was bringing
about, ‘‘I have nogreat faith in the Blessed
's power to do anything for me. I
am looking, therefore, for a more immedi-
ate reward. The condition on which I'll
give you these two sovereigns’’—he laid the
gold Soiue Wiha, click on the table—*‘is
that this young lady, or sister, as Is
1 should call her, reward me with ye
Vi
each of them.”
Henry Tonkin had the skilled cross ex-
aminer’s pleasure in reading faces. The
idea of proposing to kiss the pretty nun
had occurred to him simply that he might
watch the effect produced on the holy wom-
en by a proposal which, though in reality
innocent enough, would, he took for grant-
ed, be scouted by them as a prompting. of
the world, the flesh and the devil.
tected an almost imperceptible twinkle in
the old Sister of Mercy’s eye and just a
trace of curl at the corners of her mouth,
" instead of the quick revulsion of horror he
had expected. The girl remained impass-
ive as before. Tonkin could not feel sure
she so much as blushed.
After a short pause, during which the old
woman appeared to be meditating, she
said in her deep, hoarse voice, ‘‘My com-
panion, sir, is Sister Evangeline, of the
Stricken Heart. Sheis, as you see, young;
she has only just completed her novitiate;
she is an innocent and beautiful child of the
Holy church?’ —the speaker bowed her head
making the sign of the cross on her breast—
‘and I am convinced your better self will
regret having done or said anything even
thoughtlessly which might wouud her ten-
der soul. But she must learn that matters
of personal dignity are of no moment com-
pared with the work of the church. The
subscription you offer will be great assist-
ance to that work, while the condition
your whim attaches to it will harm no one
but yourself. Sister Evangeline—she turn-
ed and Jaid her hand on the girl’s shoulder
—you will permit this gentleman to kiss
you twice, since he finds it consistent with
his dignity to require you to do so.” So
saying, she quietly took the sovereigns
from the table and dropped them into a
cloth bag at her side. .
Henry Tonkin, Q. C., for the first time
in his life felt that he was making an ass of
himself. He bad been playing the part of
a silly schoolboy. He had not imagined
the situation could have so developed as to
make a fool of him, of all the people in the
world. But he was not going to admit, by
waiving the condition of his gift, that he
was stung by the woman’s dignified re-
proof. There should be no *‘failure of con-
sideration.”
Some days afterwards, when the new
Queen’s Counsel arrived at his chambers,
he found on the table a letter from one of
the metropolitan police magistrates, asking
him to be good enough to come to the po-
lice court that morning at noon. ‘‘An ex-
ceedingly clever impostor,’’ wrote the mag-
istrate, ‘‘isto come before me. In the sub-
scription list found on the prisoner your
name appears, and I shall be obliged if youn
will come and explain under what circum-
stances you parted with your money, which
seems to be by far the largest sum procur-
ed from any one person.”
Tonkin dropped the letter on the table
before him. Ho also dropped a curse on
the old nun and his own infernal folly.
He was to be ‘‘called within the bar in all
the courts,’’ the very next morning. What
if the facts of the incident got into tomor-
row’s paper? Henry Tonkin believed he
bad never in his life before done anything
foolish. Hehad an idea of his own dignity
corresponding to his figure, and he was in
the highest degree sensitive to ridicule.
The leaders of the bar were no doubt jeal-
ous of him already and some of them were
acknowledged wits. The judges were, of
course, all wits— ex-officio. How the
deuce was it possible for him to face their
winks and innuendoes and condolences?
Moreover, he had just been selected asa
candidate for a constitnency. What was
to hinder those two wretched women from
giving a complexion to his frolic that would
altogether damn him betore the tribunal of
the Nonconformist conscience? He felt
his dignity and his future evaporat-
ing together as he drove to the police
court.
When the case was called, Tonkin look-
ed apprehensively for the appearance of the
pretty nun and her chaperon. Picture his
amazement when a boy of about 15 stepped
into the dock, followed hy a man of 60,
whose appearance was not improved by two
days’ growth on chin and lip!
Tonkin vaguely heard some evidence
about the elder prisoner having ‘‘seen het-
ter days,”’ a ‘‘man of education who bad
been intended for the church,’’ but a ‘‘most
accomplished impostor,’’ and much else.
Presently he was called to give evidence.
When he stepped into the box and his
name was announced ‘‘Mr. Henry Tonkin,
Q. C.,—both prisoners looked at him and
grinned from ear to ear. Assuming com-
posure, he said his evidence was short and
simple. He had believed theappeal of the
prisoners to be genuine and had responded
to it. That was all.
All? Not quite. It was when the pris-
oner began to cross examine the counsel
that the fun began.
The magistrate smiled, even the police-
man relaxed, ‘and reporters woke up and
began scribbling for all they were worth
accounts of the ‘‘startling evidence,’’ the
‘“‘diverting scene,’’ punctuated with plenty
of “‘sensation’’ and ‘‘roars of laughter.”
At last having brought out the facts in
a way Mr. Tonkin, Q. C., himself might
have envied, the soi-disant Sister of the
Stricken Heart dismissed the aspirant to
the Woolsack with a parting shot.
“It T had only taken my girl instead of
the boy, blest if we wouldn’t have sued
you for breach of promise.”
Mr. Tonkin did not return to the Tem-
ple. In most ways he could face the music
as well as another; but he couldn’t face
ridicule. He would have heen a eriminal
sooner than a laughing stock. id
Next morning Thomas Edy—who had
not seen the evening papers and their pos-
ters with the enormous headline, ‘‘The
Counsel and the Nun; a Q. C. at the Police
Court’’—proudly laid out his master’s fail
bottomed wig and silk gown. But Henry
Tonkin was no called within the bar that
term, and the next time his name appeared
in the paper was when it was announced a
few days afterward that he had broken
down from overwork, and had gone abroad
to recruit.— From the St. James Gazette.
too, in
At
Persistency Wins.
Persistency is the characteristic of all
‘men who have accomplished anything
great. They may lack in some other partic-
ular, may have many weaknesses and ec-
centricities, but the quality of persistence
is never absent in a successful man. No
matter what opposition he meets or what
discouragements overtake him, he is aiways
istent. Drudgery cannot disgust him,
abor cannot weary him. He will persist,
no matter what comes or what goes. It is
a part of his nature. He could almost as
easily stop breathing. It is not so much
brilliancy or intellect or fertility of re-
‘source as persistency of effort, constancy of
purpose that gives success. Persistency
always inspires confidence. Everybody be-
lieves in the man who persists. He may
meep misfortunes, sorrows and reverses,
‘but everybody believes that he will ulti-
mately triumph because they know there is
no keeping him down. ‘‘Does he keep at
it—is he persistent:?’’ = This is the ques-
tion which the world asks about a man.
Even a man with small ability will often
succeed if he has the quality of persistence,
where a genius without it would fail.
He did ——Suhscribe for the WATCHMAN,
Croker Raps the Trusts.
He Declares that Because ef their Existence the
Young Men of the Country Stand Little Chance of
Rising.—Says that Money Rules this Administra-
tion.—Points Out that 25 Men have it in their
Power Absolutely to Control the Combined Wealth
of this Nation.—Evils of a Great Army.
+] state my position regarding the gravity of
the present National political situation through
the nographie, because I know that my opin-
jons will be presented exactly as I have uttered
them.”—Richard Croker.
The country has become a close
corporation, in which the man with
his way to make in - the world
has no part or prospective place. The
President and his cabinet is a trust. Han-
na is the real President, and the money
getter engaged in destroying the privileges
and rights of the ballot. Combined capital
dictates the policy of the present adminis-
tration. This power of the trusts is a pres-
ent and growing menace. Twenty-five
men can tie up this country with thir vast
wealth. Mr. Rockefeller has money
enough to take all the gold in circulation.
Hanna recognizes the value of these trusts
for political purposes and is now levying
large sums of money with the intent to ut-
terly destroy the sacredness of the ballot.
I am told there are to be $25,000,000, all
obtained from trusts, poured into the
doubtful States jast before election day.
We already have a government hy the
rich. 1f the people are to tolerate this we
might better have an empire at once.
Hanna's only issue is the check book.
The young man leaving college or home
to go to work finds every avenue closed to
him unless he becomes the servant of a
trust in a hired capacity, from which there
is little hope to rise. I have received
more than a thousand letters from young
men in all walks of life, asking what they
shall do to make a living. I am fond of
young men and would go far to serve the
humblest who earnestly means to make
something of himself; but I cannot answer
these letters with encouragement, because
there is no open door through which the
young man of to-day, without capital, can
enter commercial life with any future
prospect.
FACT BROUGHT NEAR TO HIM.
This fact was recently brought very near
to me. Several young men came to me
and said they were ready to go into busi-
ness—to begin the battle of life on their
own account. It was the cruelest thing I
ever said when I told them frankly that all
avenues for independent endeavors were
closed ; that, strive as they might, success
was impossible to them without the con-
sent of the confederated combinations of
capital. I said to them : ‘“Yon cannot go
into business on your own account. The
small tradesman is doomed—department
stores have destroyed him. You cannot
become a coal merchant unless you obtain
the permission of the trusts that control
that product of the earth.’
Every American, however slender his
own opportunities, wants his boy well edu-
cated, but when that son has received the
best his father can give him he finds every
industrial avenue shut. The situation is
almost wholly the outgrowth of the last
four years’ fostering care of protective mo-
nopolies that now dominate the country.
A bright hope and a remedy is found in
the new voters. Each four years produces
1,000,000 young men who cast their first
votes for presidential electors. The young
man of this hour who votes for the first
time wields the halance of power.
Do you realize what is in the immediate
future? All the railroads, steam and elec-
tric, will soon be united into one great
trust. Let me illustrate what that will
mean : the other day a committee from
the Central Labor Union came to see me
in this room; and I casually mentioned the
good service the public was receiving from
the Metropolitan Traction oompany, be-
cause I did not consider 1t a trust.
CONTROLS ALL LINES.
‘‘But it practically controls every tract-
ion line on Manhattan island,”’ replied
the chairman of the committee. ‘If any
one of its men should lose his place he
would have to leave New York if he con-
tinued in the business, because there is no
other company to employ him. Where
politan may combine with the traction
lines throughout New York, and, there-
fore, he’d have to leave the State. The
traction trusts of all other cities will have
unitéd, and to get work this man would
have to leave the United States. How
long will it be, it this things go on as they
are now, till a single trust will control the
traction roads of the world, and this man
have to get off the earth ?”’
These are the plain words of the toilers,
who are at the mercy of the trusts. They
have reasoned this out themselves and
state the cases of several millions of their
fellow workers. From men like these I
get my information, and it applies to all
combinations of capital. History shows
the fate of nations that fall into the
clutches of the sordid rich !
You ask my views on expansion. I give
them to you. Everybody I know wants
this country to grow, but in the right way
—certainly not trust expansion. The
great danger of imperialism arises from the
necessity of a standing army. Continual
warfare is inevitable, and we must hire
from our own countrymen.
FAVORS A STRONG NAVY.
I favor a strong navy, because ships can-
not be built in a few weeks, but we don’t
want a standing army to fight our battles
with other nations. Since the time of
George Washington, this government has
always been able to rally enough volun-
teers to protect it in any emergency. This
is our situation to-day, if menaced by a
common danger ; but to call for volunteers
to go to the ends of the earth, to kill and
he killed by savages, is very different. If
this warfare is to be kept up we must ex-
pect sooner or later, enforced military ser-
vice. This, too, in the face of the unde-
niable fact that nobody on the.earth wants
to SEhs us.
I have decided objection to expansion
beyond our continental limits. Spain was
the richest nation in the world until she
made the mistake of attempting to rule
over alien nations against their wills. She
forced her commerce upon them, and shut
out from them the markets of the rest of
the world.
England is the only empire that ever
mastered the colonial problem, and she has
learned it since the days of Lord Clive.
The keystons of the British colonial policy
is that her subjects are accorded the right
of buying where they please. England has
reversed herself, recently, in South Africa,
and is about to impose a form of govern-
ment upon the Boers that, they do not
want. It may be the turning point in her
imperial career.
"In this connection we must not forget
that the Filipinos assisted ms in the war
have the
hat war on the is-
lands might be gol
‘on yet but for the
help they gave us. ould they have given
would he go? In another year the Metro-'
soldiers to do the fighting, or draft them |!
began the conquest of far away races. She |
against Spain, believing that they were to |
Dan ng :
us their aid had they have tbought their]
freedom imperiled ? If the Cubans are to
get freedom, why shouldn’t the Filipinos
enjoy the same blessing ?
ADVANTAGE WITH SPAIN.
Look at our position in those islands to-
day. Congressman Grosvenor, a McKin-
ley mouthpiece, says that ‘‘we have taken
possession of the Philippines for the reve-
nue assured from them.’”’” Let us see if we
have :—Under the treaty with Spain the
United States pledges herself to the ‘‘open
door’’ policy and grants to her conquered
foe the same privileges she has herself.
The fourth article of that treaty says, in
effect, that ‘‘For ten years from the date of
the ratification of the present treaty Span-
ish ships and merchandise are to be admit-
ted to the ports of the Philippine islands
on the same terme as ships and merchan-
dise of the United States.”’ What's the
outgrowth of this policy ? Simply that
Spain is doing ‘the great bulk of the busi-
ness with Manila--ontside of stores going
there to feed and equip our invadingarmy!
Merchandise entering the port of Manila
in Spanish boats does not all hail from
the peninsula. German and English goods
are going therein large quantities in the
disguise of Spanish products. Marks are
removed and detection is well nigh impos-
sible. But that is a small matter, if the
acquisition of the islands is to prove a valu-
able source of revenue to us. I will show
that they never can become so.
The Philippine islands are riot consum-
ers of the world's products. I have before
me their imports from the United States
from 1886 to and including 1898, and the
average is not more than $140,000 per
annum. In 1892 the imports from this
country ran as low as $61,000; and in the
year immediately preceding our acquisition
we gold their people only $128,000 worth
of goods. The sum grew to $404,000 in
1899, and in the fiscal year ending June
last we sent to the islands $2,640,000—
about three-quarters of which was repre-
sented by army supplies and private pur-
chases made by our soldiers and their fami-
lies. When we look for our manufactured
goods we discover among the remainder of
the exports $225 worth of agricultural im-
plements sent to Manila, Evidently the
arts of peace had no part in the commerce.
As our army of occupation now exceeds
60,000 men, and 10,000 more have been or-
dered thither, we shall observe an apprecia-
ble increase in the consumption of canned
beef, hay. mules and war equipment.
All such subterfuges to deceive the
American people are unworthy the shallow-
est political charlatan.
WILL PAY DEARLY FOR IT.
We are paying too dearly for this bauble
of empire in the South Seas! Twenty-
five hundred decent American citizens
have been killed in action or died from
disease in that miserable country since our
invasion ; 2,000 more have been wound-
ed, many of whom will not recover in that
deadly climate. Our expenditure of mon-
ey for this imperial pipe-dream already ex-
ceeds $185,000,000 ! I’d like to ask how
many years of this kind of bookkeeping
on the debt side will be neecessary to show
a profit on our original $20,000,000 invest-
ment ?
I have grown tired of hearing talk from
people who are unaware of the utter ab-
sence of reliable iuformation about the
Philippines. We don’t even know their
area. The highest geographical experts
cannot agree within 40,000 square miles.
One places it at 100,000 square miles. and
another positively names 140,000. Idon’t
care which is right, because I know that
Arizona has 113,000 square miles, New
Mexico 122,000, and that Alaska is credit-
ed with 549,000. Surely there is plenty
of room in these territories. Accepting
the‘highest guess, the Philippine area is
only one quarter that of Alaska ! Nobody
knows whether the population of the Phil-
ippines is seven or ten million. Countless
islands are unexplored. Many savage
tribes exist, about which Spain knew
nothing, though ¢he had been inoccupation
since 1665. The largest estimated number
of Europeans ever resident on the islands
prior to our invasion. was 25,000, and this
was after more than three hundred years
rule of a European nation.
AN UNKNOWN QUANTITY.
The Philppines are composed of nine
large and 1,200 to 2,000 small islands.
Nobody seems to know any more about the
number of the small islands than do I.
Most of them are only large rocks in the
sea. Afterall, we haven't acquired anything
worth holding, and are retaining some-
thing neither profitable nor useful to us, at
a terrible loss of life and money. It wasa
great bargain for Spain to throw off the
burden of 300 years of warfare !
One word more about ‘‘the advantages
of Philippine commerce.’”” Our total ex-
port trade with the entire world in the
fiscal year ending June 30th last, was $1,-
394,000,000. Of this $2,640,000 went to
‘the Philippine islands, or one-fifth of 1 per
cent ! Figuring the profit of these exports
at 10 per cent, our commerce was benefited
exactly $264,000 as a compensation for our
expenditure of $185,000,000.
Seriously, it is the greatest farce of all
modern history. RICHARD CROKER.
Largest Dog in the World,
He Lives in Vermont, and Weighs 235 Pounds.
In the town of Rutland, Vt., lives Nero,
a huge German and English mastiff, who
enjoys the distinction of being probably
the largest dog in the world.
Nero is owned by Judge Wayne Bailey,
of Rutland. From tip to tip Nero meas-
ures seven feet four inches, and be tips the
scales at 285 pounds. :
He stands nearly three feet in height,
and he measures round his girth 52 inches.
The circumference of his brass collar is 32
inches, and his foreleg measures I6} in.
Nero is very fond of the fair sex, and is
a special favorite with ladies and chil-
dren. it]
Nero’s daily rations consists of a big
pan of corncake and milk. This is his on-
ly meal, and strange to say, for so large a
dog he has a light appetite.
Just Whata Sigh Is.
Sighing is but another name for oxygen
starvation. The cause of sighing is most
frequent worry. An interval of several
seconds often follows moments of mental
disquietude, during which time the chest
walls remain rigid until the imperious de-
mand is made for oxygen, thus causing the
deep inhalation. If is the expiration fol-
lowing the inspiration that is properly
termed the sigh, this sigh is simply an ef-
fort of the organism to obtain the necessary
supply of oxygen.
Between the Lines.
Miss Passay-=Yes, when he proposed 1
ksied to pretend that I didn’t care for him
at all.
S07 Sneiyuagemine in my face, but he
Miss Peppery—Ah ! I suppose he could
read between the lines.
I tried hard not to let him read | for
‘challenge.
Lucky Baldwin, Broke a Year Ago, a
Millionaire Again.
Lucky Baldwin bas struck it again.
Advices from Cape Nome are to the effect
that he has discovered gold mines of fabu-
lous value in the wilds of the interior of
Alaska ; that he has returned from a secret
prospecting trip with the proofs of one
hundred claims in his pocket, and that the
old man whose history is so strongly link-
ed with the exciting story of the days of
the growth of the Pacific slope is once more
floating on the tide of prosperity.
After the destruction by fire of Bald-
win’s Hotel in November,1898, it was pop-
ularly supposed that the old man was ‘‘flat
broke.” But he still owns more than 50,-
000 acres of land in one of the garden spots
of the earth—San Gabriel Valiey, in lower
California—although the land isiimortgag-
ed.
The Baldwin Hotel property :was mort-
gaged and the building was not insured.
He was finally compelied to sell the ground
for $1,425,000 to James L. Flood, It is
supposed that it went toward paying off
mortgages and other debts.
Last Christmas Baldwin announced that
he was going to Cape Nome to get into the
whirl of a mining camp. He said that the
money was there for the man who knew
how to get it.
* After the destruction of his hotel he had
put a tin roof over the structure and rigged
a sort of theatre in what had been one of
the most gorgeous places of assemblage in
the United States. In this tin covered
monstrosity he installed a company of
Hawaiian dancers, who made him money.
He engaged them to play a season in the
mining camp. He engaged many other
features of the vaudeville kind, fitted out
a ship with provisions for eight months,
put a theatre ready to be nailed together
in its hold, loaded the cabins with his per-
formers and sailed away for Cape Nome.
It appears that this restless old man
could not be content with the excitement
of managing a theatre, even in such sur-
roundings as those which exist at Nome.
He must needs take picks and provisions
and go out into the bleak wilderness.
“Lucky” Baldwin has insisted of late
years that it was pluck and not luck that
built up the great fortunes he has won and
lost; that he should be known as ‘‘Plucky?”’
Baldwin. There is no doubt about his
pluck. The annals of California bristle
with references to it. Nothing but a super-
abundance of pluck could possibly start a
man of his age on such a voyage as he un-
dertook last spring.
E. J. Baldwin was born on a farm near
Racine, Wis. When he was 18 years old
he took a race horse in South Bend, Ind.,
and with the assistance of some farmer
friends secured possession of the money of
two sharps from Chicago who had a horse
they thought could run some. He started
a grocery store, prospered, bought a string
of wagons and horses and started for Cali-
fornia.
By judicious trading on the way he add-
ed largely to his capital, and after a nar-
row escape from Indians in Utah reached
San Francisco in 1853. He figured that
many millions of bricks would be needed
in the town, bought a partnership ina
brick yard, learned the brick making busi-
ness, started a brick yard of his own and
made a fortune. Then he started a livery
stable, and within five years bad accumu-
lated money enough to warrant him in tak-
ing a trip around the world.
In Japan he secured a company of acro-
bats. He brought them to San Francisco,
played them to immense business and took
them ou a tour throughout the mining
camps of the State. Finally he played them
in New York at the Academy of Music to
enormous prices. ie
He got wind of their plans half an hour
before they were to be put into execution,
confronted the schemers at a meeting, and
fought them with his fists, cuspidors,
chairs and a revolver for nearly half an
hour, until his attorney arrived with an
injunetion.
Baldwin has been unfortunate with
women. Numerous litigations were fought
out by him. He was shot in a court room
in San Francisco by the sister of the wom-
an who had sued him for breach of prom-
ise. Another woman, Louise Perkins, of
Elmonte, near his ranch, after compromis-
ing with him for $15,000 in a breach of
promise suit, went to New York and killed
herself.
Always a lover of horses, ‘‘Lucky’’
Baldwin, as a breeder and a racer, has car-
ried off some of the richest stakes on the
turf. His Santa Anita ranch is in good
shape and should he return with wealth
the old Baldwin colors will doubtless be
seen again on the Eastern tracks next
season.
English Woman Will Stump for Bryan.
The Democratic nominee for the Presi-
dency may or may not congratulate him-
gelf upon the fact that Mrs. Harriet Stan-
ton Blatch, the daughter of Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, will stump the country in his he-
half. :
Mrs. Blatch is now in England, but she
expects to arrive here about Oct. 1st. She
has written her mother that she sees the
safety of the country in the Democratic
party, containing, as it/does, all the reform
elements.
Mrs. Blatch sees nothing for the woman’s
cause in the Republican party. "
Up to the present time party managers
have not manifested any remarkable in-
‘terest in Mrs. Blatch’s movements, but the
date she fixes for her arrival in this coun-
‘try is about that when active stump speak-
ers will be much in demand. Mrs. Blatch’s
mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the
widely known woman sufliagis , is not ex-
pected to take any part in the campaign.
Mrs. Stanton is uow retired from the
head of the woman suffragist cause, ber
retirement having been due to her age,
which is close to 80 years. Practically few
persons in the general public knew that
- Mrs. Stanton had a daughter who inherited
her oratorical gifts—indeed, to many,
Mrs. Blatch’s announcement that she will
stump the country for the Democratic party
is the first intimation that Mrs. Stanton
had a daughter at all. The old adage that
statesmen have no children may need
modification to make it fit the case of Mrs.
"Blateh, if she succeed—for Mrs. Stanton
‘may well be considered a stateswoman,and
Mrs. Blatch may prove to be another. In
that case, the Democratic party may con-
ratulate itself upon being the means of
introducing her to the public.
Whether Mzs. Blatch is particularly im-
pressed with the silver plank or the anti-
imperialistic plank or the anti-trust plank |
in the Democratic platform has not yet
been made known. It is said that on her
“arrival in this country she will immediate-
‘ly challenge, ‘Senator Hauna to a joint
debate. ¢
known of the Ohio Senator’s fondness for
disputations public argument, it is in-
red that he will promptly accept her
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| “I am Innocent,” He Exclaimed When Addressed by
Judge Cantrill. New Trial Not Granted.
“Jim?” Howard to be Hanged.
FRANKFORT, Ky., Sept. 20.—“I am in-
nocent.’’
In firm words and with a clear voice
James Howard, convicted of being directly
implicated in the murder of William
Goebel, of Kentucky, faced Judge Cantrell
today and spoke these words.
A new trial bad been asked for and the
motion was overruled by the Court and
Judge Cantrell sentenced Howard to he
hanged, setting the date as December 7th.
Howard, erect and listening attentively
as the Court addressed him, did not appear
agitated nor did he show a sign of emotion
other than a shade of pallor which over-
spread his face for a moment as the fatal
words were pronounced. And when asked
if he could show cause why sentence should
not be pronounced he answered firmly :
“I am innocene.”’
VOICE CHOKED WITH EMOTION.
Howard was brought into court, and he
was no sooner seated than the Court asked
him te stand up.
Howard arose and faced Judge Cantrell,
who was visibly affected by the solemnity
of the occasion and who spoke in a voice
chocked with emotion.
‘At the April term of the Franklin coun-
ty grand jury you were indicted charged
with the wilful murder of William Goebel’?
said the Court. ‘‘You have been represent-
ed by able counsel, but in spite of this you
have heen found guilty. Have you any
reason to offer why the Court should no$
pronnouce sentence upon you?’’
After a pause Howard, who had stood
motionless, replied :
**T am innocent.”’
‘“That is a matter,’”’ continued Judge
Cantrell, ‘‘that was with the jury and over
which the Court had no control. I there-
fore order that you be taken back to the
jail and there safely confined until Decem-
ber 7th, when you will be taken by the
Sheriff and hanged by the neck until dead,
and may God have mercy on your soul.”
TAKEN BACK TO JAIL.
After sentence had heen pronounced
Howard had been taken back to jail and
placed in his cell.
The case of Henry Youtsey, also charged
with being a principal in the murder of"
Governor Goebel, will be taken up at
Georgetown on Monday. The prosecution
claims that Youtsey was in the Secretary
of State’s office with Howard when the
shooting occurred. Youtsey is represented
by L. J. Crawford and R. W. Nelson, two
of the ablest criminal lawyers in the State.
Colonel Nelson sent the following telegram
here to-day : ;
‘All publications in newspapers that
Youtsey would make sensational dis-
closures and as to agreements with the
Commonwealth are false.”
Sensational dispatches have appeared in
various papers this week to the effect that
Youtsey would make statements incrimin-
ating Governor Tsylor and throwing great
light on the assassination mystery.
Six Millions in the Treasury, But Schools
Suffer.
Barnett Not Uujustified in Holding the State Fund.
HARRISBURG, Pa., September 30.—The
September statement of State Treasurer
Barnett shows a balance of $6,011732, in
the general fund, exclusive of the sinking
fund at the close of the month. This un-
usually healthy balance proves that Col-
onel Barnett was not justified in waiting
until Sept. 1st to hegin the distribution of
the school appropriation which became due
the first Monday of June.
While it is true that nearly 1700 of the
2500 districts have received their share of
the fund, the amount turned over to each
is very small compared with that to which
Philadelphia and other large districts are
entitled. None of the larger districts have
been paid their full share of the appro-
priation, and that the public funds may be
retained by favorite State depositories,
Colonel Barnett will pay these districts in
installments.
STONE’S EXCUSE VERY WEAK.
The condition of the State Treasury is
abundant proof that Governor Stone was
not jnstified in lopping $1,000,000 off the
school fund on the specious plea that his
action was necessary to ‘‘maintain the
credit of the State.” The increase in the
State revenues the past twelve mouths has
been due almost entirely to the increased
business and the corresponding increased
in taxes of Pennsylvania corporations, and
not to the collection of delinquent taxes
from corporations by the Attorney General
and Auditor General as claimed by the
State Administration.
Among the banks holding deposits are
the following :
Allegheny National Pittsburg, $802,
247.23; Commonwealth Trust Company,
Harrisburg, $316,963.31; Chester National
Bank, Chester, $20,000; Charter National
Bank, Media, $10,000; City Savings Fund
and Trust Company, Lancaster, $20,000;
Corn Exchange National, Philadelphia,
$255,000; Enterprise National, Allegheny,
$67,000; First National, Harrisburg, $178,-
000; First National, Bangor, $25,000;
Freehold Bank, Pittsburg, $239,710.03;
Farmers’ National, West Chester, $30,000:
Farmers’ Deposit National, Pittsburg,
$369,000; German National, Allegheny,
$50,000; Harrisburg National, Harrisburg,
$120,000; Harrisburg Trust Company,
Harrisburg, $200,000; Lancaster Trust
‘Company, Lancaster, $15,000; Lincoln Na-
tional Bank, Pittsburg, $5000; Mechanics”
Bank, Harrisburg, $30,000; National Bank,
Germantown, $25,000; National Bank,
Coatesville, $10,000; Quaker City Na-
tional, Philadelphia, $789,256.92; Read-
ing National, Reading, $10,000; Second
‘National, Pittsburg, $25,000; Second Na-
‘tional, Allegheny, $140,000; Union Trust
Company, Pittsburg, $40,000; Spartans-
burg National, Spartansburg, $3000; Oil
City Trust Company, Oil City, $3000;
Farmers and Mechanic’, Philadelphia,
$2,189,170. ih :
Women Butchered in Cold Blood.
HoNG KoNg, Sept. 29.—Advices from
Canton say thata boat load of native Chris-
tian women at Kum Chuk (?), on West
river, was fired upon and that the women:
were then taken ashore and butchered in
cold blood.
Native Christians are flocking to Canton:
from the sugar country. Canton itself is
quiet. The native city is full of bad char-
acters anxious to vicate trouble, but they
lack nambers.
EO
‘She Had Changed.
“This isall I have,” sighed the love-
lorn swain, who had fallen into a confiden-
tial mood. “This is a lock of Miss Gid-
k ‘hair ?”’
From what has recently ‘become Wigs ba
“You don’t say ?’’ exclaimed his friend
‘in some sarprise.. ‘‘Is it really ?”’ i
“Do yon doubt my word ?”’
‘‘Not at all. But, say, you haven’t seen
her lately. You’d better have that lock
bleached before you show it to any one
again.’’