The Democrat. FRIDAY, MARCH, 28 1800. THAT Gulf stream must bave changed its course again, judging by the recent weather. Tn Executive Committee of the Penn sylvania Editorial Association will meet at Harrisourg on March 25tb and decide on a route for the usual summer outing and annual jamboree. GROMANY is iiKely to make history at a rapid rate under the young Emperor be fore many suns. The unprejudiced ob observer at a distance will not desire to either stand in his shoes or to stand in his way. TUB slow progress that Congress is making in legislating upon the important questions before it, which have vital bearing upon tiie business interests of the country, is having a depressing effect upon general business. Tim three men who seem the most probable candidates for Governor on the Democratic ticket at the next State elec tion are Wallace, Pattison, and Black, with the greater probabilities, at present, in favor of Wallace, whose friends throughout the Stale are actively at work in his interest. Chuuncy P. Black is us actively engaged in work for the interests of the party as any man in the State, and whether he becomes the candidate of the party or not, the organization of the State will owe much to him. Wallace, Black, and Pattison are all honorable men, are all true Democrats, and any one of them will receive the vote of the Democracy if nominated. It sometimes occurs that the man who is most hotly fought for is the one who is beaten at last, because of the opposition thus engendered against him. THE inconsistencies of Christians is a favorite theme, and many are the disqui sitions by men of the world on this topic. The inconsistencies must both be admit ted and deplored, but after all they only prove that human nature, even partially sanctifiedJhumaii nature, is still—human nature. Surely we all know that without argument or illustration, but what does the fact prove about religion ? Abso lutely nothing. Gups between theory and practice, due to human imperfection, are by no means confined to religion. Here is the latest " fad " of Christian socialism, lor example, and its prophet, Mr. Bellamy. " Looking Backward " is not only a very readable stoiy but a fas limiting social philosophy. The author io)ds that he lias found a remedy for the present oppressive system, in which " the nardest workers and chiefest producers are thejpoorest paid and worst treated." it does not appear, however, that Mr. Bel lamy has resigned any of the profits lie has received from the publishers of his book, which has sold over 800,000 copies, in favor of the printers, who certainly worked harder on the book than he and were as certainly worse paid. Mr. Bel lamy might rejoin that his mental labor is ,of a higher quality and therefore is worth more than that of the printer. We should heartily agree with him, and should apply the same argument to the mental labor of the capitalist, the superin tendent of labor, the director of large bus iness operations. Why is not the laborer as worthy of his hire if lie is a successful man of affairs, as if he is a successful man of letters ? Who will tell. Tin- lVople'K ISiillUiiik and Loan Assoclu tiou. At the regular meeting of the People's Building and Loan Association the follow ing officers were elected: President, Samuel E. Young; Vice President, John H. Waters ; Directors, Thos. E. Howe, P. L. Carpenter, Henry O'Shcn, E. O. Fisher, Gomcr Walters. The Directors at their meeting last night re-elected the,old officers as follows : F. J. O'Connor, Solicitor ; C. J. Mayer, Treasurer; Secretary. This association is in a flourishing con dition, having lost none of its loans in the great calamity, and has been doing an en couraging business ever since. A second series of stoek(has been issued, and, we understand, there are a few more shares for sale. The earnings last year were about #2,11 per share, and the indications are good for an increase this year. Charged Willi Libel. Westmoreland Democrat. Mrs. Smith, of f Bolivar, entered bail, Friday, to answer the charge of libel pre ferred by Mrs. JMargcry Hyan, of Johns town. The accused is a sister of Mrs. Hyan. She is charged with circulating slanderous stories and writing vile letters to Mrs. Ryan. Information will also be preferred for transmitting obscene matter through the mail, as it is claimed the letters were of such a character, as wcl as libelous.. .. + 0 - The Rev. Brooke Herford told a good story in his address at Cambridge the ft} i might. A North of England Bishop among his parishioners a worthy but ]ather rough fellow, who was in the habit of using a good deal of profanity in bis speech. Upon being remonstrated with, he exclaimed : " Well, d n it, I say what I mean, and I believe in calling a spade a spade." " Indeed," replied the bishop; " I thought you wouid call it a d d old shovel." ♦ ♦ ♦ Rev. Gideon H. Day, of the Central Pennsylvania M. li. Conference, gave up active duties last week, having preached fifty years, during which time his salary has not been sufficient to enable him to lay up anything for old age. Not much encouragement for others to enter the ministry. OLEOMAKOARINE. Secretary Cook After Dealers in This Arti cle—lM tub urgh Wholesale Houses on His Little List—Some of the Dodges Used lu E >adinß the Law. Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph. Mr. W. F. Cook, of Johnstown, Secre tary of the Anti-Oleomargarine Associa tion, of Pennsylvania, is in the city look ing after violators of the Oleomargarine Law. This Association was re-organized March 7,1890, at Somerset, Pa., anil the chief officers of the Association are located at that place. It has a constitution and by-laws and the officers are a President, Socretary and Treasure. It is composed mostly of merchants and dairymen. Its object is to protect the producers of but ter and the community in general. For the olfenses against the oleomar garine law there are two actions : One criminal, the other civil. Under the first a dealer can be sent to jail for not less than ten days nor more than thirty. Un der the other a tine of ijSIOO is imposed, half the flue to go to the informer. This half goes to the Association. Mr. Cook works on a salary. In a conversation this morning he said : " I have jnst secured the aid of a deputy from Internal Revenue Collector Warm castle. There is a violation in a number of cases, of the Internal Revenue law,and that is how I secure the Government aid. Numbers of the packages sent out are not stamped, and this brings them under the law. METHOD OK PROCEDURE. " In my own line of work I followed this plan. Samples of butter are pur chased Rnd sent to the Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory for analysis. If the tests show that it is oleomargarine I bring prosecu tions under Section 3, Act May 21, 1885. In Johnstown I have already brought two prosecutions, and in Connellsvillc one. All three were [convicted. Of the four samples of butter bought three were oleo margarine. I have three samples now being tested and will push them for all they are worth. 1 have on band a num ber of samples bought in Pliillipsburg, Centre county; Coalport, Clearfled county, and Dunbar, Fayette county. These will be tested as soon as possible. " The merchants, when the suits are brought, claim that they were imposed on, but this don't go. There is not a mci clmnt in this State who does not know that when he pays fourteen cents for but ter that lie is buying the bogus article. Most of the wholesalers buy the Inter nal Revenue stamp and place it on the box in which the oleomargarine is shipped. They manage, however, to cover it up in some way. I believe a great deal of this business is being done by some of the wholesalers and commis sion men of this city. " Tlicy bave a cute way of avoiding this stamp business. It requires seven tacks to fasten the stamp and caution labels to the keg. The oleomargarine, so long as it remains in the commission house, bears this stamp. Wlier. it'is sent to the retailer, however, the stamp is re moved and the seven tack holes filled up with putty and then varnished over. We find these putty holes and they are al most positive proof that the so-called but ter contained in the casks is oleomar garine. '1 lieu when oleomargarine is shipped in egg boxes, the stamp oil the. end is nailed over. CASES UNDER CONSIDERATION. " I have four cases on hand where an effort lias been made to evade the law by the purchase of Internal Revenue stamps. In two of thein I have secured con victions. I have samples from the stores of the other two. " The Association lias not brought any criminal action yet, but will on the sec ond offense. We have attorneys in many couuties now and will have them in every county in the State before long. I will commence work in Allegheny county very soon. " In Pittsburgh I believe a number of wholesale houses are selling bogus but ter. I have the list. From three houses I have the tubs sent out containing oleo margarine. One house I'm trying to lo cate, but it has no address in this city, but a lockbox at the postoffice. The man to whom the oleomargarine was sold has been fined and will get after the Pitts burgh company soon." Mr. Cook says there is an immense amount of oleomargarine being sold in this State. He thinks that 200 storekeep ers out of the 250 in Johnstown are selling it for butter. This, he adds, is a fair sample of the trade in the Western part of the State. It is bought at fourteen cents per pound and sold for butter prices. 'Squire Wm.F. Cook ; Seerelary of the Anti-Oleo Society, relumed from Pitts burgh Saturday eve. on Philadesphia Ex press. lie says not much was done on that trip, but a number of parlies arc listed, and as soon as matters are in shape they will be prosecuted. Two Johns town parties will be treated to legal pro ceedings to day. Foxy IlutNot Fisliy. On Thursday afternoon Mr. J. 15. Strayer made a big haul in the Laurel woods on farm in West Taylor township. While scouting through the woods he tracked a fox to her den and succeeded in killing the old one and cap turing four young oDes. Three of the little fellows are alive, and , Mr. Strayer hopes, by tenderly caring for them, to raise them until they grow strong and large. They aro cunning looking nni mals. CORPORAL TANNER is clearing #20,000 per year at Washington. That is better than being Pension Commissioner. Still Tanner is lying low for Harrison in 'O2. HIGH WATERS. The Melting Snow till* the River*, Which Kino Rapidly and Catnte Alarm—lron Street Overflown and the Steel Work* Shut Down—The Bridge* in Danger. The warm weather Saturday and the rain the night before caused the recent heavy fall of snow to melt very rapidly, and in the early afternoon the rivers began to rise perceptibly. The volume of water steadily increased and about dark it began to cover the street at the stone bridge and all the traffic to Miners ville by the wagon road was stopped. Persons going to Cambria had to cros# the stone bridge and by recrossing the river at the Cambria bridge they could get to Minersyille. About 7 o'clock the Poplar street bridge was disabled and ropes were stretched across the way to stop travel across it. The Kernville structure is considered to be safe unless there is enough rise to bring down the driftwood, but there is said to be very little of that left since the Hood of May 31st. The waters rose rapidly about dark and there was much alarm among the residents of the low-lying districts for a time. A very heavy fog which settled over the town make it very unpleasant to be out. At 11 o'clock a DEMOCRAT reporter made a tour along the streams. At this time the water was over two feet deep on Iron street at the stone bridge, and the Conemaugh, along the Millville side, was almost bank full, and at a few places it was running over. At the Company's offices the water was within a foot of the top of the stone coping. Along by the site of McConaugliy's brick row the bank was overflowed in several places. At this hour the new Government guage at the Franklin street bridge showed a depth of eleven feet six inches, and tLe water still rising, i lie Steel Works and other departments at the Cambria Works were forced to shut down on account of the water. As the fall of snow was very heavy it is hard to predict how much higher the waters may get, but if the warm weather continues there may be very grave cause for alarm, especially for the safety of the bridges and property in low parts of the city. MAKIIIAGE LICENSES. TLIE Following Have ISeen Granted Since Our Last lienor!. fOracome Talarlo Ilemloek \sadle Warner Hemlock ) I.uke A. Boloney Delaney (Oda Burgeon Allegheny twp I Harry W. Campbell Keade twp (Lauia M. Davis Keade twp (William 11. Ilowe lohnstown (Maud 1,, (drove .Johnstown (Thomas Younker Johnstown "(Nannie Jackson lohnstown (S. J. Wallace Johnstown (Henrietta beam lohnstown j George H. Felix Morrellvllle (Cora B. sturgeon Martlnshurg. Blair co (Samuel Flenner. Adams twp (Susan A Miller Huntingdon co (John Walters Johnstown I Elizabeth Bowers Johnstown j James A. Cowley l.lttle Falls, X. V. (Mary C. Baumau Johnstown (John F. Wilson Morrellvllle (Henrietta Bush West Taylor twp (W. D. (dalbralth Coopersdale (Jeuny C. l.oughry West Taylor twp IT'hlllp Kepp Johnstown (Mary Feg lohnstown (Harry L. Tliotnas Johnstown (Ann M. Sllek Johnstown W C.Wolfe's Extensive Machinery Itiislness I W. C. Wolfe, of this city, has received an order from the Johnstown Passenger ltailway Company for three " Ball Auto matic Engines," of 125 horse power each. These engines will be used at their power house for running the dynamos to gener ate the electricity transmitted to the moter on the car for propelling it. Mr. Wolfe, who is agent for these en gines and also for another class of en gines, boilers, and saw mills, built by the Erie City Iron Works, and for wood working machinery built by the Egan Company of Cincinnati, represents only the best grade of new machinery. He has sold an immense amount in this place and throughout the State since his location lure in the last five years. He has a number of orders to fill at present,among which are the boilers for Mr. Emmerling's ice machine, J. It. Marshall's planing will and for steam heating, J. H. Waters & Bros, new building. Haying lost his place of business in the flood he has since temporarily occupied one of the Park buildings, and will con tinue to make Johnstown his headquarters. Although he ha 9 erected a ware room and machine shop at Lilly Station for repair ing and building other machine. / oc casionally taken in exchange for new, more space and better railroad shipping facilities being obtained at Lilly, and no interference by floods. But all new machinery will be shipped to purchasers direct from the manufacturers' works. Ten years practical experience in build ing the best grades of engines, boilers, saw mills, and other machinery success fully, previous to bis location here, while in charge of some large manufacturing i concerns in other States, enables him to promptly dispose of any mechanical or scientific problem arising in the con struction or operation of machinery, as well as to practically correct any defects in design or construction, and properly repair damages from wear or accident. His card will be found in another column. Cut Willi n Ilatc.liet. William F. Otto lives in the Twelfth ward, where lie is well known. A man named Felix McCugli boarded with him and on Monday night they had some trouble resulting seriously for Otto. He was cut in the head several places with a hatchet, besides being otherwise injured. No arrests have yet been made. As to the discussion on decolete gowns —cut it short. A QUEER GANG. Burton Discharged For Want ot Evidence, But Samuel Eastgood, the Other Colored Man, Committed to Jail. The hearing of George A. Burton, the colored cook at Bridge No. 6, took place at 'Hquirc Hart's office, in Alma Hall, Sat urday night. Forwant of evidence he was discharged. The other colored man, Samuel Eastgood, who was brought down on Wednesday night on a charge of surety of the peace for threats made againet Burton, was committed to jail in default of S2OO bad. 'Squire Hart, after the hoaring, spoke of some of the witnesses as a queer gang. One of them wouldn't testify that amounted to anything. The whole set seemed to be clubbed together, aud all told the same story in away that seemed ruther queer in the light of some things that are known. The Justice had no means of compelling the witnesses to tes* tify and consequently they have been able to baffle the attempts to bring to justice the perpetrators of the crime. The Nutional Capital at its Gayest. What season of the year is more ad vantageous than spring, to mnke a tour to the Nation's Capital ? The Capital is the centre, around which clusters bright minds of our own and foreign govern ments ; it is the National barometer of social movements. To witness the activ ity of a working Congress would alone compensate one for the trip, to say noth ing of Hie thousand and one points of in terest and instruction in and about the city. Those embracing tho opportunity presented by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's excursion to Washington, April 3d, cannot fail to review it after wards as time profitably spent. A choice of trains may be made be tween the special of Parlor Cars and Day Conches, the schedule of which is given, or the regular night trains leaving Pitts burgh at 7:15 and 8:10 P. M. Tickets will be sold, and special train will run as follows : Huh'. Train leaves. Pittsburgh $!l on sonA. M. East Liberty 8 r> slO •• Hraddock 880 Ban " Irwin 7on 840 •• t'nloutown 7 (15 it 58 '• connellsvtlle 735 788 •' Scutulata 78> 754 " Greensburg 735 850 " Indiana 845 (1 30 '• Latrobe 785 015 " Perry 786 OS3 " Blalrsvllta 755 088 •• Johnstown 785 10 13 " t'resson 735 11 OS " Murtlnsburg 785 1000 " Ilollldaysburg 735 11 10 " Altoona 785 114X1 " Bcllwood 785 IS 08 J. M. Belleronte 7as 10 85 A.M. Clearlleld. 785 040 •• Phlllipsburg 785 10 38 •' Osceola 785 10 43 " Tyrone 785 18 15 v. M. Huntingdon 805 18 18 '• Bedford 885 955A, M. Mt. Union 8 30 1 oo p. M. McVeytown 595 188 " Lewlstown Junction 500 145 " MinilD 585 805 ' Port Hoynl 515 800 '■ Newport 480 885 " Puncnnuon Iso 858 •• Washington Ar 815 " Return coupons will he accepted on any train within the limit, r\ivt the Penn sylvania Limited. The next and In -i tour id he series is fixed for April 24' li To the l'rohihitj#niti l" (j.imhritt County. As President of the Prohibition Party Luguc of Pennsylvania, I am instructed to hold a general conference in every county in the Sate, with a view of having the League thoroughly organi/.ed. Accordingly,a conference of all those in favor of the Prohibition parly, regardln-s of age, sex or eolor, will he held in Lay. toil's Hall, at Johnstown, on Thursday, March 27, 1890, at 2 o'clock, i\ si. I trust that every election district in the county will be represented, as the thoi ough organization of this League is the most important work that can he accom plish ed. Over half the counties of the State are now working successfully on the League plan. A County President is to be elected apd Secretaries are to be appointed for eviry election district. Let us have a large aud enthusiastic conference for this county. Yours in the work. TALUB Motto AN, Pres. P. P. L. of Pa. Tlie Oldest Man. William Pringle, of Croyle township, was born August 14, 1797. He cast his first vote for President in 1821, for James Monroe, and has voted for every Presi dent since, voting on the Democratic side before the war, and with the Republicans after it. Mr. Pringle still lives on the farm on which he was born. He is the father of six children, three sous aud three daughters. He was among the most renowned hunters of early days, and one fall killed thirty deer with thirty-one shots. At the age of ninoty-three, Mr. Pringle walks a distance of two miles for his mail, and his faculties are all good ex cept his sight and hearing which have failed slightly. Ho is probably the oldest man now living born in the limits of what is now Cambria county. Fatally Hurt. Saturday morning at about 5 o'clock, Henry A. Hess, who worked in the Cam bria Iron Company's rail mill, was fatally hurt by some cars, through under .which lie was attempting to crawl after he had finished his work, not wishing to wait until they moved out of the way. When fairly under the train it started and cut off one of his legs at the hip and smashed one of his arms. Death resulted before medical assistance could arrive. Iless's body was taken to his late home on Rail road street, Fifteenth ward. He was about forty-five years of age, and leaves a wife and a family of children. The Time Approaches*. Annlston Hot Blast. The New York World says Jay Gould is engaged to be married to the widow of Maurice B. Flynn. We presume the mar riage will take place as soon as Gould feels that he is able to support a wife. IN FAVOR OF CLOSING KAKLY. The Salesman Present the Lint of the Mer chants Who Have Signed. The salesmen are meeting with very flattering success m their efforts in be half of the early closing movement, as will appear from the following which they furnish for publication : In the presentation of the list we wish to say that every merchant in the new city that is worth consideration has un hesitatingly, and in bold characters at tached his signature as will be seen by the following list, with the exception of one. It would indeed be remarkable if such a reform had become a success without op position. This "one" has no argumen' to offer against the justice of the move ment. He offers dire insinuations of possible disaster to the clerical force of Johnstown, and suggests that it will fill the saloons with wine bibers and the cem eteries with drunkards graves. These insinuations arc too flimsy and incongru ous with facts to require answer. The greatest argument wc can offer against it is the long list of honorable men whose names appear below who believe other wise. UIIOCBBS. J. H. Decker, R. P. Miller, J. M. Wil son & Son, W. R. Barrick & Co., Fon delicr & Keene, E. Michel, John H. Bowser, McKee Bros., J. 11. Beckley, B. Roudabush, A. B. Petrekin, Nathan Mil ler, John Thomas & Sons, John W. Owens, Lou. Baumer, C. B. Cover, J. M. Young, D. R. Jones, Chas. Brown, J. C. Miller, Ryan SHOES. K. Zuug, V. Lout her Estate, K. 0. 1.0-j j rent/.. J. D. Edwards, K older & AlcOce, Scott Dibcrt, 1.. M. Woolf & Son. Jonn Thomas A Son, it. Simon, Louis VYehn. Charles I'ribek, P. A. Cobaugh, Charles Cook, Mrs. M. S. Maloy. The furniture and novelty men have also agreed to sign, but their signatures have not yet been obtained. The u< xi meeting will be h"| | on Monday night at 9:30 o'clock. . COMMITTRE. .mi nted Woman's Terrible Death. The Indiana Mmtnger says : Living i.i West Lebanon for ten years past has been a family named By era, consisting of two maiden sisters, two brathcrs and Ihe mother. The sisters have been slightly demented for many years, and h\ve been confined more or less closely in aroippcr room in the house. Wednesday afternoon a few minutes after a member of the fam ily had left them screams were lieai d coming from the room. The brothers sprang up the stairs at a bound and on entering the room beheld an appalling sight. The clothing of the elder sister was a mass of The brothers, in their efforts to extinguish the flames,were botli badly burned. The unfortunate woman a moment later fell to the floor and a little later expired. Parts of the body were burned to a crisp. The other sister could give no account of liow the accident occurred. A stove was in the. room, and it is likely the fire was com municated from this to the woman's cloth ing. Local luMtltute. The following ia the programme for the Teachers' Local Institute to be held at Stutzman's schoolhouse, Upper Yoder township, April 4, IH9O, commencing at 7 p. M. Opened by Music ; How to Teach His tory, O. M. Young ; Select Heading, J. C. McCrory ; Queries, Should the Teacher Require the Scholars to bring a Written Excuse for Absence from School ? C. F. Livingston, Music; Select Heading, 11. G. Campbell ; What Qualifications Should a Teacher Have ? U. W. Berkley , Quer ies ; Oration, L. S. Livingstone; Wetzel Class, J. C. McCrory; Music; Select Heading, Miss Ella Hammer ; The Prin cipal of Mensuration Developed by Means of Blocks, Prof. Geo. Marsden ; Queries ; Select Reading, C. F. Livingston ; Re solved that foreign immigration should be prohibited. Affirmative, A. W. Myers, J. C. McCrory ; Negative, O. M. Young, U. W. Berkley. General debate. A Florida paper suggests that oranges should bo sold by weight. It is a good suggestion. Good oranges, packed with juice, are always heavy, and ought to command a better priee than light-woiglit dry ones. lIOW SOME MEN GET RICH. The Way Miner* Are Squeezed That the Coal Baron* May Swell Their Pur*e*. During the labor troubles at Punxsu tawney the New York Worid sent a special correspondent there to investigate matter. This is a sample story of what he found : I wanted to see, r.ow that the strike is fully on, how the strikers are ready far ing ; in what sort ot condition they were starting of upon this new test of endur ance. So in the afternoon I set off on foot, with the master workman, to visit the huts where some of the strikers had taken shelter. Out over roads where lhe mud and water stood half-knee deep we climb ed, and reaching the open country cut into the fields, w here the snow lay. At a red house on the skirt of a wooJ, we stopped. Within the shabby house was a tall old woman, with her* widowed daughternnd two grandchildren. The old lady had the accent ot Durban} and Northumberland, and lrom her tiery talk and exultation when told that the men, in meeting, hud decided not to back down, I learned that it isn't the men who are the backbone of the Buffalo, Rochest er and Pittsburg strike. Her son, she said, had died from miner's consumption, and now that tier eld husband was out on strike all they had was $2 a week for the five of them. The last wages the old man drew, she said, was $12.41) for fifteen day's work. "We came here in July, an' I promise ye we huiii't had $7 in cash a-comin at pay days altogether. The, last two times there was nothin, at all,' an' ye may be sure ye'll get no goods at the company's stores unless ye've the coal already to show for 'em. Muny's the one's gone after a little sugar or tea before the strike, and been told they couldn't get it—there was nothin' cumin' to em, We had to pay $5 for our wee bit house, and then the hospital and doctor — there was a sl.lO for nothin'. We never saw the doctor, and if my mail was sick d'ye think I'd let him go to the 'ospital? No says 1. I keep him here and care foi him myself. Why, sir, only one man ever came out of the 'ospital alive." Iu the next house, half a mile away r lived a young fellow and his wife. Tbey were sitting before the cook stove in the one room they could call theirs. There was no carpet on the floor, but it was neat and clean. There were cracks be tween the boards on the oulside of the house, through which, as I sat there, 1 could see the blue sky and the waving branches of the pines in the wood hard by. The cold wind came up briskly through the flooring, and 1 believed the young miner when lie told me " the 'ouse was kinder cold." ~ The small housewife, when asked what sort of living they had been able to make out, said it was pretty slim, but that there beiug only two of them they did better than others who had big families. " But the mine people tell me the men can average from SO3 to $ 100 a month." The young fellow and his wife both looked at each other and laughed feebly in derision. "Well," he said, " figures won't lie, especially when they're in the company's writing. Here's something that'll come near sliowin' the truth." lie pulled from the cupboard a lot of cheeks of the semi-monthly payments,at the mine. These dirty scraps of paper showed the amount he had earned and the sum that hud been paid him iu cash out of it. One two weeks when he had earned £B, there had been $1 05 remain ing out ot it to be paid in curr.iicy ; out of #17.30, a balance of $4.05; out of #5.46, #5.16; out of $13.92, #1.83; out of $13.50, $2.35 ; out of $11.70, nothing. That last is what tiiey called a " blacksnake" On up the suowy road. " Wilson," said 1, "a man told me yesterday that be had made many a meal, since the Strike, of bread and water. " '• Well," the young leader answered, " that's not uncommon. You will find that there are 11 sip lit of strikers who have been doing that. Turn to the right here." There was a low one story building, unpainted and stormbeaten, which was half like a tenement and half like a the hoiierhouse at an oil well. Two or turec chickens were picking in the dirt before ttie door, and there were scraps of broken furniture and crockery and a few bits of coal. In this little sbed—for that was ail it amounted to—there were two families quartered, and under its low roof 1 saw a sight which could not fail to iuspire pity. In oue room, and a clip board which passed under the name of bedroom, a woman, shabbily dressed and with a worn, tired face, sat nursing from the breast a babe born since the beginning of the strike. About her were six other children, all girls, ragged and wan. The eldest could not have been more than eleven, and, except some photographs taken during famine in India and the horrid pictures which hang on the walls at the rooms of the 8. P. C. C., on Tweuty-third street, I have never seen more wretched emaciation. Of the ofher children two were simply beautiful. " The strike is hard on the. children, " said the woman, looking around upon her flock. " There are a great many things they ought to have, but which we can't get for them. They need clothes and they need milk. We are virtually starving to death here." The woman's voice, her appearance and the wretched room where they were told a sad story of utter want, dejection and despair. There wa9 a stove, a table, a wash bench, two chairs and a box on which the children sat, feebly amusing them selves witli the tattered covers—the covers | merely—of an old picture-hook. A\ scant tire was in the stove. I asked tlye woman where her husband was. "O, " she said, " he only comes home to sleep. We have so little food that it's not enough for the children and me, let alone the man. He's a good soul, and he manages to get a meal of some sort away somewhere, so as to let us have all the relief committee furnishes." For County Treasurer. Mr. Charles Hofmann, a well-known and popular business man of this city, announces himself in to-day's paper as a candidate for the Democratic nominatio'n for County Treasurer. Mr. Hofmann was one of the sufferers by the great flood, and was saved by drifting into Alma Ilall. His experiences on that fatal day were remarkable anil interesting. He is an active and deserving Democrat, and has the ability to perform the duties of that ollicc in away that will be pleasing to the people. He is deserving of the fav orable consideration of the Democracy," and if he should be nominated would be elected by a large majority. If Bismarck should be refused a license now lie would he out of a job altogether