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..
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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 <fc Rutlcdgc, T. J. Brady.
Thos. D. Davis, Ed. F. Creed, G. W,
Moses, P. A.Cobaugli, J.D.Coleman & Co.,
L. W. Lane, Wm. Strauss, Adolph
Miller, Fockler & Levergood, J. L. Cald
well, Wright & Lcfller, S. C. Ream, B. F.
Stuhl, John Widman, M. D. Jones, Frank
Taylor, Schocnwolder & Skrehot, Mason
Bros., S. Sedlemeyer, George M. Thomas
& Co., A. W. Luckhardt, Julius
Shehlan, G. W. McGarry <fc Co.
HARDWARE.
G. W. Mapledoram & Co., Bantly &
Fronhtiser, Swank Hardware Co., W. B.
Dibert, F. W. Hay & Sous, Geo. K.
Schryock, Pine & Miller, Geo. Muchl
hauser, Henry Plack, F. A. Joy & Sons,
Wm. 11. Levergood.
.IKWEI.KIIS.
A. W. Luckhardt, J. A. Larkin & Co.,
Jacob H. Young, Isaac B. Cohen, J. B.
llolsiuger, W. A. Kraft, J. M. Ashbridge.
MILLINERS.
Mrs. L. Cohen, Mrs. A. Dauges & Co.,
Bennett & Crock, Mrs. J. Murton, Mr.
D. W. Custer, per. Mrs. N. Mildren.
DRY GOODS.
John Stenger, George Keiper, J.
Thomas A Sons, M. Wain, S. E. Phillips.
E. T. Schoff, Emil C. Roth.
CLOTHING.
L. M. Woolf A Son, John Thomas &
Sons, Economy Clothing Co., Abraham
Cohen, Geis A Schry, Thomas, Karr &
Ogilvie, (Clinton aid Main street stores,)
M. Landaw, Cohen A .Marx, Newman &
Co., Keystone Clothing Co., Fisher's
Gents' Furnishing Store.
BOOTS ASI> 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