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. R. ilelphla Dental « ollefce. is prepaml
t»do«iiyiliin« i;. th« line ol His profesoiou m a
*.ilisU<-;or. MiKiitter. . .. . .
Olrtoc on Main street, Uutlor. I nioii Block
IJT> stairs.
J. S, LDSK, IVI.D-,
Has n*niove«l from llsnxiooy to Dutler and Uas
1)13 office at No. 9, Mali, St.. tUrcfi- doors below
J.owry House. a - r ' 3ol '
Br. 8. A. JOHNSTON,
DENTIST, - - BUTLER, PA.
All work prrtJiinins t°> tlio profession execut
ed m liio iK-atest manner.
Siieeiallies «'.o! 1 1-iliiucs. and Painless hx
truction of Teeth. Vilallzeil Air administered.
OSl'-e on Jefferson Strevt. one ilnor East of I.oivrj
House, I'p Stair*.
Ofllc ' open daily, except Wednesdays and
Thursdays. Communications by mail receive
prompt attention.
N. H.— The only Dentist In Cutler using the
best makes of teeth.
JOIIN E. BYERS,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Office Xo. K South Main Street,
BUTLER, - PA.
SAMUEL M. BIPPDS.
Physician and Surgeon,
No. 10 West Cunningham St.,
BUTLEB,
, Bil. E. C. McCUEDY,
E*h}-Nlclait niuJ Surgeon,
Offlce on A! in St.. over Kemper's store.
Butler, - Penn'a.
iIIBHUEB HOfil,
Ho. 88 and 90, S. Main St.,
BUTLER* - - Pf
y< i\r Now Court Hou^e— formerly Donaldson
House—^ r »od accommodations for travelers.
/;<K>d Htri*u!iii2 coiinects«l.
xT-O-VU Vy i II KITENMUTXKB. Prop r.
Flßi FOR SALE
la surarcreek township, Armstrong county.
. mar Adams P. 0.. one aud oue-tourtti mile east
of the Lew oil development in suture reek t«\p.
i'arm contains
LOO ACRES,
with bant itarn. 32*00 feet;
BRICK HOUSES,
Jt.x.-a; fe».r. 2 s tories, with cellar, frame Kitchen,
l lxlo feet: il spring of water, farm well wa
i'T< a. j.'-.- :U orchard of milt. i?aria la a
-ix-i Bluto of cultivation. Aiwut
75 ACRFS CLEARED,
1 Entire in go t 111 or. Will sell extremely
low for cash. Fo: pa . iculai-s Inquire of
J. K. >\ 1< I\,
.
Clarion Co., Pa,
IHE ALLEN PATENT WASHER
WS>y it is Superior to aSi
Giiiers.
;,i its lw jnff enclosed It retains th" hU!i I
•CI. tfcciperr.ture so Becessary in removing
the dirt from the goods,
<•>_.! i liKiij: ix-injr no Friction on tl.c
--6B«1. cil.tiiirii,-1 u \.v.tr it.
Or'l THE t • -tillar action of the water In the
OrU. Maehlue (WlilcUcannot be uader.-.tooil
unless oil' .".Hit) forcing a strong current of
water tlurc.ujrl! the clothing at every virbratlon
of the Agitator, (which is caused by the peculiar
cunstruetloa of the top of the .Machine.
A*U AM) best of all is that a child of four } ears
*rl«l. can'io Ihe work it bflnjf so light that
the operator sii.) down while iloii'g it.<
.Machines an.l County und Township Itichts
throughout the State of Peniisilvanla. Hold Ly
SEIITA.S & HAYS,
Euller, Fa
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In Franklin twp., half wav between Prosp- et
ai;<! Whllestowu. on the Pittsburg and Fiaiiklin
road, contains fourteen and a quarter "icres, has
(?ood buildings—
A New Frame Houss,
c;o<w! bam and ail other nec<?6snry OUT building- ;
Land ul! level, a?id \u cood fctHte t:f eultivatlon,
o( i (| v.«*l! water, l:otfl hard and soft, and t;ood
Sn-haid of a!! kinds or fruit. For price and
teriiis ap|«to me at my furniture i»tor< 4 in I ros
' C. M. EDMUKDSON.
9 2-sm
Wanted.
Wo want u few live men
to take orders i'cr a full line
of choice nursery stock. Our
stock is all selected and guar
anteed first class. We lur
nisli a handsome Outfit FREE.
also fruit SAMPLES in SEASON.
A WOKKFR never fails with
us. Don't delay but write at
once for t'.Tins, tfr. to
£DW. O. GKAIIAM,
• KU^SERYMAN.
Rochester, N. Y.
CHOICE FRUIT.
Having tnkeii the for the ( holce I'ruit
. l'rees,
Ecauliful Shrubbery,
Ornamental Trees,
An" eveivthhijc «!-'• ill the Nursery line, or Hie
Ni w Knjilai -t Nur ; ries. Chase Bros. & Co., N.
Y.. I «iii call upon you It; the near future aud
solicit youroideis f> r ii»ss delivery.
A. M, FALLER, Agent,
IJvitiep, -
J. 11. DOUGLASS,
—DEALER IN
STATIONERY
OF ALL KINDS,
Books and Periodicals,
CHEAP TABLETS, -
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Eagle Building, Main St.,
BUTLER, - - I?^l,
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Invite your inspection ot their
stock of FALL and WINTER
Millinery Goods.
Receiving goods every week
their stock is always
FRESH AND COMPLETE.
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BUTLER COUNTY
Mutual Fire insurance Co.
Office Cor. Main & Cunningham Sts.
•3. C. ROESSING, PHKSIDENT.
WM. CAMPBELL, TKEASUREK
11. C. HiiINKMAN, SECRETARY
DIRECTORS:
,f. \. Purvis, Samuel Anderson,
William Campbell .1. \V. ISnrkhart,
A. Ttoutraan, Henderson Oliver,
(i.C. Roeftsliiif, .lamen Stephenson,
Dr. W. Irvln, N. Weltzel,
J. I''. Taylor. H. C. Heinetnan,
LOYAL M'JUNKIN, Gen. Aec'i-
BUTLER, PA.
THIS PAPER^*.^
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n, 'M. nVEft & SON, uul miltiorizeil atf> HU.
ADDRESS
OF THE REPUBLICAN STATE
COMMITTEE.
A Startling State Issue.
t 11::.' I)Q'T"bs IlErri'.i.ii STATE COMMIITTKE.
I ( ONri.NKN : At. Hotel. Phila.. Oct. 1-'. is*7
To the Citizens of Pe.tr,zytpanieL :
The Republican State Committee
hes no: in recent years felt it neces
sary to issue the customary address
to the members of the party through
out the State. It has preferred, in
each campaign, to perfect the organi
zation aud to_ rely on that for the
direction of r-n army so great of num
bers and so fine of discipline that it
is by many regarded as invinci
ble
Now, however, an emergency is
presented which if not bravely met,
may prove far-reaching in its conse
quences, one whicb threatens good
government throughout the State, its
municipalities, and may lead to a
complete revolution in previously ac
cepted policies employed in the direc
tion of the genera! government.
For the first time in the history of
Pennsylvania, and so far as we know
in the history of any other
State, regular political headquarters
have been opened by a privileged
business interest—by the united li
quor interests, comprising in the
order of their wealth and power
(Jrewers, Distillers, Wholesale and
Retail Dealers. With Philadelphia
aud Pittsburg before us as examples,
those not fuliy informed may ques
tion this classification as to wealth
and power, and a;k why the six thou
sand saloon keepers of Philadelphia
aud the two thousand of Allegheny
not piore powerful than the
smaller number ot brewers and whole
sale dealers? The explanation is in
the fact that nearly all of tho larger
brewing and wholesale houses practi
cally own the majority of the &aloous
in these cities. Fully four thousand
saloon keepers iu Philadelphia and
twelve hundred in Allegheny are sim
ply agents under contract to sell for
employing brewers aud wholesalers.
They pay high prices and live upon
commissions.
How strong then is the motive of
these men to seek the repeal of the
High License law! A brewer tinder
the old law had to pay for tha licenses
of all of bis agents and he could sup
ply the bonds of all of them A
small sum passed into the State treas
ury. The same brewer would now
have to pay SSOO in each case for like
privileges, four-fifths of which
amount goes into the local treasuries
to relieve local taxation. His agents
must now look elsewhere for bonds
men, the dealer being forbidden by
the law to go upon the bond The
first effect i 3 a hazardous outlay to
the actual keeper of many saloons.
The second effect is to make hereto
fore Jd< pendent saloon keepers inde.
pendent, for if they can get in
§2OOO, they can at least borrow SSOO
with which to pay for their own li
censes, and when they can do both of
these things they cannot be compelled
to take any and every quality of li
quor thrust upon them at prices dic
tated by employers, but can buy at
prices suggested by the lew ot sup
ply and demand. The brewers, dis
tillers and wholesale dealt rs, who are
directly responsible for this morbid
growth under an imperfect regulation,
proclaim unto each other and the
trade, that High License is worse
than Prohibition, and in their at
tempts to convince others of this fact
they have circulated far and wide the
impression, and so well circulated as
to make it a deep-seated predjudice,
that their only battle goes to the re
strictions which it imposes upon {per
sonal liberty.
They declare that under the act the
bonds are entered of record, as in no
other forms of public eureties. This
is not true in fact; the bonds are only
entered when there has been a con
viction for a violation of the law, aud
this has been the rule under all pre
vious laws They say further, that
the forbidding of one dealer to go up
on tha bond of another is an attack
upon their persona! Ijbertv. Is this
true? Is a public officer, giwen a fran
chise or prerogative by the law,
mitted to supply the bonds of his fel
low officers? And if it were tho rule
to do this, what an absence of respon
sibility there would be in our public
officers. The sellers of liquor are
privileged under the la"' to do what
other citizens cannot do, *ad they are
bound to accept the conditions of the
law. Fancy that observance of the
law, in letter and spirit, which per
mits a single brewer to stand as the
bondsman for one hundred saloons in
the penal sum of two hundred thou
sand dollar.-! If that feature of the
High License law which prevents
this thing is an interference with per
sonal liberty,it is a form of interference
made imperative as the best means to
check a growing abuse, and a grow
ing power whicb, as w;U be shown
farther along, seeks the full control of
the law.
It is claimed that High License in
fringes personal liberty by forbidding
anyone to give liquor away upon
Sunday. This feature applies not to
the private person, but to the dealer,
and it applies to him solely for the
purpose of preventing evasion of the
Sunday laws. The Act simply regu
lates the sale of liijuora, and applies
to dealers. The ttme is true as to
minors; dealers may not give or sell
to them, but no lav* forbids the father
who is a private citizen, fror:) giving
beor or wine or brandy to his osvu
children—all assertions of the orators
of the Personal Liberty Leagues to
the contrary notwithstanding.
If there are unnecessary and pure
ly vexations features in the law, u
well-thinking legislature will remove
them, without political alliance or
agitation.
Most of the orators who sedulously
misrepresent the law, are employed
and paid from funds which conies
from the Headquarters of the Brew
ers' Association, at 1121 Arch St.,
Philadelphia, the receptacle for the
receipts of assessments from al! of the
Liquor Leagues, and the treasury
from which is paid the expenses,
legitimate and illegitimate, of the
most flagrant] and brazen political
campaign ever undertaken by a spec
ial interest. The leading brewers
are boasting of their ability to raise
$200,000 for the purposes of this cam
paign alone; the wholesalers are con
tributing throughout Philadelphia
and Allegheny one tenth of one per
cent, of their annual sales for the
same purpose, while the saloons are
to he assessed at sums to be determin
ed later on in the battle. To the fund
which these Leagues failed to npend
at liarrisburg in their efforts to de-
RI'TLRR, PA.. FRIDAY, OCI'OBKU 21. 1887
1 feat the passage of the High License
I bill —said to be a haudsame nucleus
I —these assessments are being added
I From this fund liberal and extraord
; inary sums Lave already been ex
pended. Canvsssers were employed
to find all not jet naturalized —to pay
r their taxes, and all expenses of natu
ralization. The various Democratic
headquarters supplied the machinery
— the liquor headquarters supplied
the fund?. In this way thirteen hun
dred men were made citizens in a sin
gle week in Philadelphia
On Friday, Oct. 7ch, Robt. S Pat
' terson, the Chairman of the Demo
cratic City Committee, after frequent
; consultations with Henry P. Crowell,
i the Secretary of the Brewers' Head
quarters at 1121 Arch street, made
an arranpement with him by which
the members of the Democratic City
Committee were upon the fol
j lowing day each to take a leading
j Democratic saloon keeper from each
Ward, and to satisfy Croweil that
i they were the parties selected for
• special work, they were given, to
hand to him, the card of Mr. Patter
son. They assembled pursuant to
programme, and were instructed in
dividually how to carry out tha pro
gramme of the combination, in behalf
of both the Democratic Slate and City
tickets, how to organize and secure
pledges, how to conduct themselves on
Election Day, and were finally guar
anteed the necessary means to meet
each and every feature of the work.
At the inception of the movement
employed agents of the Democratic
Liquor League combination canvass
ed the Singing Societies and other so
cial organizations of foreign-born
citizens, and through misrepresenta
tions of the High License Act aud
of the Republican Administrations
of Philadelphia and Pittsburg, in
duced many of them to aeud a dele
gate each to a central city conven
tion. These conventions have been
meeting every Sunday and preparing
for the inauguration of Personal Lib
erty Leagues, to be known as allies
of the Democratic party, aud in fact
to be directed by the various Liquor
Leagues. In the early conventions
of Philadelphia there appeared a dele
gate from e&clj Singing Society will
ing to be represented, and in Phila
delphia less than one-third of the
three hundred and fifty Societies sent
a delegate. Societies like tjje Mien
norchoir and the Saengerbund, with
a membership of nine hundred aud
one thousand, respectively, were per
mitted but two delegates, while new
ly created and small societies with
but ten or twenty members enjoyed
what was practically superior repre
sentation. The design was to give
the Democratic saloon combination
sure and easy control. The early
representation of the convention com
prised, as shown by our cauvass, 43
Democrats, 44 Socialists, 46 Repub
licans. The Socialists and Demo
crats, pursuant to the programme of
the Leagues, elected an Executive
Committee of thirty, the Republicans
vainly demanding representation
They were in each and every instance
out-voted aud denied representation,
notwithstanding the Presidents of the
Miennorcboir and Sujigerbund. (the
membership of which out-runs nearly
all others combined) repeatedly de
manded representation on the Com
mittee, which by the same union of
Socialists and Democrats, wa3 given
full power to direct the entire mem
bership, delegate and comiituent, how
to cote. The President of the Steager
buud. at two subsequent conventions,
vainly offered a resolution declaring
in substance that Personal Liberty
implies tho right to vote as
one pleases, and though he was sus
tained by the forty-six Republican
delegates present, his resolution was
ruled out of order and all appeal de
nied. What a travesty is this upon
Personal Liberty! Men employed by
the Jjiquor leagues create i*ud p in
trol a convention, one-third of which
was drawn into its membership upon
pretenses, and then they constitute a
cabal of thirty unanimous Socialists
and Democrats who are to direct given
uationalitics in Philadelphia how to
vote, and who boast that they will
extend their power to all the cities
and coqnties of tjiij State
A precisely similar movement
been inaugurated in the cities of New
York State by the National and
Staie lirewers' Leagues. The recent
Slate Convention of the Personal
Liberty Leagues at Albany endorsed
the Democratic platform upon the
liquor question ami thus openly ad
vertised their combination with the
Democratic party. There the battle
is against the Sunday laws and the
efforts of the Republican party to pass
a High License Act. The ministers
of ail denominations in New York,
are now exposing and denouncing
the movement as a war upon the
peace and welfare of society. What
have tjje religions influences of Penn
sylvania to say of the same move
ment here? It is only a little less
open; it is as powerful in money, in
organisation, and as radical of pur
pose as that in 3jew York pity.
In Pittsburg and Allegheny the
programme and proceedings are prac
tically the same as in Philadelphia,
and have reached co extensive devel
opment, with the simple exception
that the Headquarters of the Brew
ers' Association, 1121 Arch street, is
in fact a State Political Headquarters
for all of the Leagues.
As though to perpetrate a thin dis
guise like that thrown off in New
York, a Political Annex has been es
tablished at 1015 Arch street. Phila
delphia, tbo ostensible Headquarters
of the Personal Liberty Leatruea,
which draw alike their inspiration
and their cash from the rooms a
square above,
rio roon as the gombination with
the Democratic organisation was
completed, through the understand
ing that the futuro power of the
Democratic organizations is to be
wielded for the repeal of the High
Liceusi; ancj Sunday laws, the Arch
street liquor beadquarteiß became
busily engaged iu the search for or
gauizers of the so called Personal
Liberty Leagues. The Democratic
local organizations and saloonkeep
ers lurnished the bulk of it, and will
iug organizers were rapidly fouud in
the ranks of the Socialists and An
archists. The lirst object of the So
cialist or Anarchist is to break down
the Sabbath, and the agreement upon
a combined effort for the repeal of
the Sunday laws between the Demo
cratic and Liquor organizations, nat
urally brought to the front all who
are willing to war upon society.
With surprising powers of organiza
tion and concentration, Personal Lib
erty meetings were held and Leagues
organized in Philadelphia and Alio
gheny,and these have in one instance
been followed bv mass meetings, call
ed to rally to the aid of the Democra
cy avery agency of the saloon and
every form ot Free Thinking and So
cialistic sentiment.
If these uewly arrived citizens do
not know, the political headquarters
which is usiDg them for a dangerous
purpose can tell them that the laws
of Pennsylvania are intended to bear
equally upon all citizens .and that the
man who demands the right to pur
chase his beer on Sunday is not en
titled to any better treatment than the
man who demands his right to pur
chase whiskey, and that both and all
to be justly restricted, must be re
stricted alike — that proper Sabbath
restrictions are a3 old as our govern
ment, and their propriety was never
seriously questioned until this newly
organized force backed, by the power
of money and the all-too prevalent
motives for disorder, rose in behalf of
so-called personal liberty.
Let us glance at this auxiliary
power to the combined Democratic
aud Liquor organizations, It is a
mistake to suppose that any national
ity in Philadelphia and Allegheny
have rushed pell-mell into it. As a
rule only the uneducated, socialistic
and Anarchic portions of the two
great cities remain in it.
It would also do injustice to many
law-abiding men in the trade to say
that all forms of liquor dealers are in
this combination. None of those
who favor High License have any
sympathy with it, nor us a rule do
those who own their hotel furniture
or property. These constitute more
than one-half of the total number in
the country, and about one-third in
the city districts. Many of these are
now refusing to pay the current as
sessments for political purposes. The
State and City Committees find evi
dence of the truth of this.
We haye thus summarized and
given a few running comments upon
the facts, as presented in the great
cities of Pennsylvania, Whoso
doubts, let him with equal care em
ployed by the representatives of tne
Republican State and City Commit
tees inquire for himself, and be will
learn their truth, The Republicans
of the Nineteenth Ward of Philadel
phia early discovered the situation,
and prepared to guard themselves by
notice to all Republican dealers—
whether brewers, wholesalers, or re
tailers—that they regarded this com
bination as extraordinary, corrupt
and in fact a conspiracy, and that they
would oppose in the Courts, which
now grant or rofuse all classes of li
cense, the application of any man
who subscribes to a corruption fund.
Is it a corruption fund? Tho de
mands and assessments made will
reach in the two cities to more than a
quarter million of dollars, this with
out counting the ability of the Demo
cratic side of the combination to raise
many thousands more from its un
usually heavy assessments upon the
incomes of all National office-holders.
These vast sums of rnouoy are to be
directed to a common end — the de
feat of the Republican State and City
tickets, so that possession may be
gained for the buttle cf next year.
Then the hopa t3 entertained upon
one side that the National power of
the Democrats may be again assured
and upon the other that With suuh a
political alliance tho Hund ty an i the
High License la.v.'a n;qy be repeals
ed.
In the three great cities of Phila
delphia, Pitttsburg and Allegheny,
comprising a million and a half of
people, and said to have in all fifty
thousand Salooq and Personal Liber
ty voters, organisations are being ef
fected iu each and every Ward, and
pledges are about to be circulated for
signatures authorizing the Conven
tion to direct all who sign HOW TO
VOTE.
In Philadelphia this is known ag
the Jiighih Rule of the personal Lib
erty Convention. Formal Ward
meetings will be organized to assem
ble on Sunday preceding the election
to receive aud '-pass the word" to the
members of all the Liquor and Per
sonal Liberty Leagues. Instructions
will be given to vote the full Demo
cratic State and City tickets. These
ipfetructjqns t>rp "noqiiniftet} if) tJte
bond,"
The Republican State Committeo
would not trifle with its great con
stituency, nor yet with any portion
of the citizens of Pennsylvania, by
submitting any known misstatement
or by submitting known facts like
the above, solely far ft partisan pur
pose. The importance of the factß
ascertained leap the bounds of auy
partisan purpose and appeal directly
to the fireside. They appeal to all
good citizens, to all Christians of
whatever denomination, to ali of our
people who value the liberty of the
law, even to all partisans who can
forget their party when the welfare
of societv is threatened.
To any and ail such we direct at
tention to the fact it is the Republi
can party which is assailed by this
startling State issue—not directly be
cause of itß National principle?-, not
dirortly bcouise of its administration
of State or Mun : eipality; but because
it stands for good government, in
both State and Municipality. It is
charged with preserving the Suniay
laws which forbid the sale of liquors
upoc that day. In answer, it ac
cepts the responsibility. It is charg
ed with having passed the High Li
cense law. Itjustas freely accepts
that responsibility, for nearly all of
its members in the House and Sen
ate voted for the measure, while but
few democrats in the House and half
of tbe Democrats in the Senate sus
tained it on final passage—most of
these being willing to cripple it in
advance of fiual passage. The State
Committee might, in this connection
truthfully say that it wus not a party
measure, and that the Republican
Representatives aud Senators who
voted for it but reflected the views of
their immediate constituencet; aud
we might deny tbe right of city Lea
gues to question and punish men be
yond their jurisdiction for having
voted in accordance to home senti.
ipent. And in facing tbe issue the
puramount desire is to brush aside
every form of subterfuge which is
lacking in strength, and every form
of subterfuge which <s lacking in the
highest courage. The issue is ac
cepted. No responsibility shall be
evaded, and come defeat or victory
to cur standard we intend to carry
with us the reflection that our State
flag was maintained throughout this
contest as bravely as the National
one. The Republican party is charg
ed with having in State convention
and caucus ordered tho
submission to a vote of the people
the amendment to prohibit the sale of
liquor, and with afilrming a like de-
termination this year. Tha charge
is true—so llarly true that no Repub
lican will evade it. It has become
a cardinal principle with the Repub
lican party that the people shall have
precisely the same right to make
their own laws upon liquor, as upon
other questions. That sentiment
covers every fold of our flag, and op
eus the door to our State platform.
The Republican party will not lie
down iu fear and trembling because
of the new issues which have beeu
thrust upon it— and this year aad
throughout this State thrust by a
combination more powerful, and we
may with truth say, more unscrupu
lous than any ever before known.
The combination has been truth
fully and plainfully described. It is
affirmed upon every street corner—it
is discussed in every saloon;—it is
boldly proclaimed by blatant Perso
nal Liberty Leagues; —it is ordered
directly from the common Political
Headquarters of the various Liquor
Leagues on Arch street; it is repeat
ed from their Annex, and accepted
with the tenders of money at each
and every Democratic Headquarters.
And now, theßspublicans of Penn
sylvania, and all of the good citizens
thereof, should at once prepare for
this greet battle. Tho allies arc well
organized, with an abundance of the
munitions not uncommon to political
warfare. The Republican party of
Pennsylvania has a magnificent or
ganization, which reaches and perme
ates and has kuowledge of each and
every voting district iu the State.
Aid it with your means in modest
ways and for legitimate purposes; aid
it with your personal activities — with
your counsels, and enter into its dis
cipline to the end that what may
prove the ino3t momentous battla in
the history of the State may bo won,
and won so gloriously that tho va
rious elements which threaten the
integrity of the law and the welfare
of society, will be careful how in fu
ture they comtemplate and proclaim
purposes formed for no higher object
than the promotion of disorder and
anarchy.
Though the Republican candidates
are unexceptionable, it should be
borne in mind by all that candidates
are simply the representatives of a
policy in a battle like this. The
Democratic SalooD combination will
ask no questions as to men, but will
vote for objects which have been
plainly stated. If they succeed every
effort will be qjado to roach these ob
jects, and they may reach them, If
the Republican tickets succeed, it is
the success of a policy which stands
for the rights of property, for the lib
erty of the law, for good government,
and for that form of personal freedom
in which each individual sacrifices
something for the good of all.
Ry order of the Republican State
Committee.
THOMAS V. COOPER.
CHAIRMAN.
Danger of Electric Light Wires.
At Lincoln, Neb., on September
21, a named Smith was
horribly mutilated in a remarkable
manner. On 0 street, at the corner
of Ninth, hanging from a telegraph
pole and lying along the ground for
a distance was a broken telephone
wire, which had ia some manucr be
come crossed, or in connection with
one of the electric light wires. As
Smith was passing along the street
he saw the wire burning, and, attract
ed by the strange appearance, and
not realising what it was, evidently
took hold of it to ascertain what it
meant. The shock he roceived was
terrific, and his shrieks brought hun
dreds to the street. He could not
loosen his hold on the wire, and it
burned his hands to the bone. In
his writhings and contortions tho
Charged wiro came in oontact with
his head, burning out one of his eyes
aud laying the side ot his face opon,
Wherever it struck his body it cut
like a knife. A bystander, realizing
the peril of the man, ran to him,
grabbing him to pull him from the
wire, but by the shock he received
when he came in contact with the
body of the man he was knocked ten
feet into the streot aud utterly pros
trated, so that it was feared he was
also killed. By this time the electric
ity had either burned the man Smith
loose from the wire or he had succeed
ed in hi 9 struggles in breaking away.
He was picked up and carried into
adjoining restaqraqt and a half dozen
physioians summoned. The man
presented a horrible appearance, and
despite the physicians' efforts to put
him under tho influence of nurphine
he shrieked and writhed in tea a#ony
be suffered until taken to the hospi
tal. The doctors express tho opinion
that he may survive his injuries, al
though it appears impossible.—Kan
sas City Journal.
Driving a Spike under Water.
In mill work, especially making
repairs, it is often necessary to drive
large spikes in water to the depth of
two, three, and even four feet
Starting a spike by hand, and then
attempting to drive it by means of a
crowbar, is au unmechanical proceed
ing, to sav the least. Tho Manufac
turers' Qazette says one of tho neat
est and also the best ways of effecting
tho desired object is to get a piece of
steam pipe of sufficient size to permit
the spike to drop easily through it
Place one end of this pipe upon the
spot where the spike is to be driven,
drop the spike into the pipe, point
first, and then follow it with aa iron
rod just large enough to slide easily
iu the pipe. By using the iron rod
as a battering ram, or like a churn
drill, the spike can be easily and
quickly driveu hom.e without spat
tering tho person with mud and wa
ter.
An improvement on this spike
driving rig may be made be made by
getting a cast iron ball of two, four,
or, six pouuds weights, drilling a hole
through tlio ball sufoeient to receive
the receive the iron rod, also drilling
another hole to receive ti set screw.
By aorewiag the set screw down up
on the rod, the ball can be held in
any desired position This ball gives
extra weight to the driving rod, and
in fact forms a kind of hammer where
by the spike can bo more quickly
drivon home. It will not work well
if you try to drive the spike by means
of the rod aud sledge hammer. It is
better, by all means, to rig up the
ball above mentioned, which will do
the work well and quickly. — Sci-
American.
—There are in New York City
something like 160 women physicians.
Half a dozen or so muke incomes of
about SIO,OOO a year.
Two Speeches.
Harrisburjj Telegraph.]
The old attorney was in a talking
mood the other day when I asked
him what was the mr*-!, impressive
speech he ever heard in the court
room.
"There were two of them,'" he
said, "and I can't teil you which im
pressed me most, but from aiuoug all
the speeches I have heard in a court
these two stand out ns most impress
ive. The first was that of a wousao,
frail, delicate and intellectual, with
that sweet, charming tbiug iu wo
man, a low, sweet voice,, who was
trying to get her children from a
cruel husband, who had taken them
from her, aud was at the tiai<>, living
with another woman. The case
came up before Judge Pearson
and the husband was represented by
distinguished couusel. She was
placed in the witness stand and one
of the attorneys, no longer a resident
of Ilarrisburg, but at present Presi
dent of a big university, put a ques
tion to her that brought up a flood of
bitter things to the poor woman's
memory. Turning to the attorney
she said, mentioning his naun :
"Mr. , you have children aud
you love them. They are \our
pride, and your heart would break to
lo3e them. Listen. This man de
serted me and left me iu poverty
with my two children. I toiled for
them, starved for them—that they
might live and grow up virtuous and
lovable, that they might love and
honor me. Time and again I appli
ed to that man fpointing to her hus
band] for assistance, but as often
was 1 refused. I fallowed him to
Ilarrisburg, aud my uJv,iuee3 were
rejected with sneers and taunts.
One day he secured possession of the
of the children, promising to returu
them when evening came. But night
came and the children did not re
turn." Aud then she told how she
weut to the house, and was refused
admittance and denied the privilege of
seeing her children, and she begged
and prayed that she might kiss them
good-iiiuht. How, kneeling on the
steps in the cold night, she had pray
ed to God for her babies, and that He
would help her to get them, aud then
how she wa3 rudely driven away;
and about the horror of that awful
night when she separated from them.
When she ceased talking there was a
silence that was painful. There were
tears on the face of the venerable
judge, tears in the eyes of the attor
neys and on cheeks of the spectators.
She had won her case and walked out
of the court house leading her babies
by their hands. This ended the at
tempts of the husband to get the chil
dren.
"And the second speech?' I asked.
"It was that of a colored man.
He had served a term in the peniten
tiary upon conviction of murder in
the second degree for killiug a man
near Highspire, and came home to
settle dowu. He meant to do right,
and he was doing well, when in aa
evil hour he joiued in a game of
cards, there was a dispute, aud a
knife lying on a table, used to cut to
bacco with, was eeized by him aod
plunged into toe breast of his oppo
nent. Then he arose and walked
away, aud the wounded man died in
five minutes. Ho was tried and
found guilty of murder in the second
degree, aud in this State the offense
of this character is punished with im
prisonmeut for life. When aaked if
he had anything to say why sentence
should uot be pronounced upon him
ho made a plea that I shall never for
get Of course I can't give it to you
verbatim, but it was tho most pa
thetic plea that I ever listened to.
He begau by referring to tho time ho
was a slave when he gr< w up ignor
n&nt and untutored until the war set
him free. Then be told of his strug
gles to get knowledge, and his suc
cess, meanwhile the court room grew
hushed and the low tones of the pris
oner's voice could be heard at the
door of the room. He referred to
his first crime, f»r which had
served so long, and depleted his life
in the penitentiary, his hopes, his
fears, his longings for freedom, and
how he had determined to be a good
man when he got out, nnd show the
manhood in him. Then he told of tho
joy he felt on crossing the threshold
of the penitentary to liberty, and the
cry he raised to heaven as he again
aaw tho bluo sky and felt that he
was a free man. He spoke of his ef
forts to get work, how ho succeeded
aud attended to business; how he
put away evil things and shunned
evil companions With hushed
voice he told of his fall, how the man
he killed had been his enemy all
through life, had houuded him with
out mercy and sought to drag him
rjown, and yet he did not mean to
kill him 'And now,' he said, 'you
can put me in prison for life, but oh,
don't do it, kill me at once for to go
back again to a prison cell for me
means a slow, lingering death.'
When he had ceased there was a
sigh from every breast in the court
room. Poor fellow, the judge had to
do his duty, and sontenced him to the
penitentiary for life. He died there
iu a few years. And these are the
two most impressive speeches 1 ever
heard in a court room."
Another Boom.
'•The horrid brute !" ejaculated
Mrs. Stifl'neck as she threw the paper
to the floor.
"What'd the matter, my dear ?"
asked the wondering husband.
' The matter ? YVhy I see by that
paper that an Ohio man Hold liis wife
for $<;oo."
"Well, I swan," replied the hus
band with great surprise, "they must
be having a pretty wild boom in
Ohi—"
But before he could finished his
sentence the battle had commenced
and he was right in the thick of the
fight.
—Brick works are to be establish
ed this fall and winter in forty cities
in the West and South.
—lt is stPted that there are 40 He
brews in New York each of whom is
possessed of the if 1,000,000 in cash.
—Postmasters say that more let
ters are mailed iti the month of Sep
tember than in any other month of
the year.
—Never defer until tomorrow what
r-hould be attended to to day. A
slight cough shouldn't bo neglected
when Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup will
cure it.
The readers of our publication are
requested to use Salvation Oil for
any and all puins. It is a sure cure
and costs only 2. r > cents.
Fro r . Tyndall on Ligblning
Rods.
In the course of a recent letter oa
protection from lightning by the use
of rods, Dr. Tyndall says: • The aba
litiou of resistance is absolutely nec
essary in connecting a lightning con
ductor with the earth, and this is
done by closely imbedding in the
earth a plate of good conducting ma
terial and of large area. The large
ness of area makes atonement for the
imperfect conductivity of earth. The
plate, in fact, constitutes a wide door
through which the electricity passes
lree y into the earth. Its disruptive
and damaging effects being thereby
avoided. The truths are elementary,
but they are often neglected. I
watched with interest,some time ago,
the operation of setting up a light
ing conductor on the house of a
neigbor of mine in the country. The
wire rope, which formed part ot the
conductor,was carried down tbe wall,
and comfortably laid in the earth be
low, without any terminal plate
whatever. I expostulated with tbe
man who did the work, but he obvi
ously thought be knew more about
the matter than I did. lam credibly
informed that this is a common way
of dealing with lightning conductors
by ignorant practitioners, and the
Bishop of Winchester's palace at
Farnham has been mentioned to me
as an edifice 'protected* in this fash
ion. If my informant be correct, the
'protection' is a mockery, a delusion
aud a snare."— Ex.
A Dialogue Reprinted.
"Returning from a council the
other day, I overhead a discussion
between my delegate, Deacon Grum
bole, and Deacon Webfut, of the Hap
tist Church at Riverside. Of course
the topic was immersion, and it was
introduced by Deacon Webfut re
marking that bis pastor, Dr. Jordan,
had baptised five persons the previous
Sunday. Deacon Qrumbole, who
will never be outdone if he can help
it, quietly replied that Cyril baptized
on that day nine persons."
'•Well, 1 hope he did it in the spir
itual method."
"Certainly; our pastor always does
according to Scripture."
"Well, now, Brother Grumbole,
what is your idea of the Spiritual
method ?"
"O, I got my notiou of it from the
first case of baptism on record."
"What was that ? Not Philip
aud the eunuch ?
"O, no; it was centuries before
that. I mean the Israelites when
they were baptized in the Red Sea."
'Well, brother that was a clear
case ot immersion. They were, as
Paul says, all baptized in the cloud
and in the sea."
"You were satisfied, brother Web
fut, thatthey were really baptized?"
4 Certainly; the Apostle says they
were, and tells how it was done."
"Well, then, 1 have just one ques
tion to ask ? Did they get their feet
wet ?
"They were immersed, that is
plain enough. As Paul says, they
were under the cloud and passed
through the sea, and were all baptiz
ed iu the cloud and in the sea; if
that wasn't immersion what was it ?"
"Well, brother Webfut, did they
get their feet wet ?"
"Why, that's nothing to do with
it; they had water on all sides of
them, and water above them; they
were completely surrounded by
water "
Well, Brother Webfut, as I under
stand, they went 'on dry ground thro'
the midst of the seas; and if you can
immerse me on dry ground, I am will
ing to be immersed. I believe in
dry ground baptizm, where you
won't get your feet wet."
The First Cook.
If you go to the Cafe Royal, in Re
gent Street, between twelve and one.
you may almost every day see, seated
at oua of the tables, a tall, thin, gen
tlemanly Frenchman of about fifty,
enjoying the excellent cookery of that
etabliahmeut. This is no less a per
sonage than the first cook in London.
It is said that he makes an income of
over 112000 a year. Ho is attached
to no house. In his own brougham
he sets out toward evening for the
house ot some rich man who is going
to give a dinner at which every dißh
must be above criticism. Here he
alights, and making for the kitchen,
goes through the process of tasting
all the soups, sances, and made dish
es, advising, when bis palate sug
gests, a little more salt here, a pinch
of herbs there, a dash of sugar in this
entree, a suspicion of onion in that
nahnis, etc.
This done, be pockets hie fee of two
guineas, aud drives on to the next
dinner-giving patron who has bidden
bim to his feast in this strange fash
ion. His nightly list comprises many
bouses all through the London sea-
SOD.
Thoroughly Characteristic.
"What's all this racket?" asked a
traveling man, as begot off the train
in Philadelphia.
They're celebrating the signing of
the I'nited States constitution."
Why, that happened a hundred
years ago !"
"Yes."
"And they are just getting on to it?
Well, if that ain't Philadelphia all
over.
—The attorneys of the Blair Co.
Liquor League are quoted as saying
that "it would be about as safe for a
man to undertake to peddlo powder
through sheol as to engage in the
liquor business under the existing
laws." This somewhat remarkable
utterance was made after contenplat
ing the work of the last court and
the "irrepressible conflict between
the home and the saloon." If the
attorneys are correct, the enforcement
of the present license in JJlair
county amounts to the practical pro
hibition. The Altoona . Tribune
thinks that "the friends of temperance
sbouid be greatly encouraged and
their diligenee redoubled, as under
the new law, with an upright judici
ary and intelligent jarors, it has been
demonstrated that the man who vio
lates that r& w does so at hie peril."
Many of the principal streets in
the central part of Paris are having
their former stone pavements changed
to wv>oden ones.
—An Illinois farmer has attached
a i.'hurn to bis wagon in such a way
that the movement of the wagon
churns his milk.
—Congressman S. S. Cox. obliges
societies in New York by locturing
before tbern on Bnndays. •
NO. 4*