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FRIDAY MARCH 28, 181.0.
WHAT Johnsto ,vn needs at present is
government aitl to clean out and widen
the streams at that city. Certainly it is
as much entitled to this aid as dozens of
places which have received substantial
recognition.— Altoona Tribune.
WHILE in 1889 the number of homicides
in the Eastern States did not exceed an
annual average of one to every 150,000 of
their population, in California there was
one homicide to every 3,377 of the popu
lation. During the same year there was
in San Francisco alone one homicide to
every 6,881 of the population.
A SEW French law bestows certain ad
vaniages ou fathers of more than seven
children. The resulting inquiry shows
that there are 2,000,000 households in
France in which there has been no child ;
3,500.000 with one ; 2,300,000 with two
children; 1,500.000 with three: about
1,000.000 with four; 550,000 with live;
320,000 with six. and 200,000 with seven
or more.
Lauiiescb Hutton will contribute to the
uumber of Harper's Bazar to be published
March 28ih an article on "The First
American Society I'lay," accompanied
with a portrate ol the dramatic author
untl distinguished actress of the period to
which he rtfers, Anna Cora Ritchie
Mowatt. The same number will contain
a portrait of Mrs. Gladst mc, together
with it sketch of her bv R. D nald.
Tits Department of Agriculture reports
thai farmers have still in their hands SoO,-
000.0l)0 bushels of corn and 156,000.030
bushels of wheat—almost half the whole
crop in the first instance and almost a
thud of it in the second. The stock of
corn on hand is the largest ever reported
in March ol the largest crop after the
mildest winter.
The aver ige of eight annual returns is
677,000.000 bushels; that of last year7B7.-
000,000 bushels. The estimated consump
tion to March Ist is 1,143,000,000 bush
els, a figure exceeded only last year and
in 1836. The proportion of merchantable
corn of crop of 1880 is 85.7 per cent., ex
ceeded in recent years only by those of
1881 and 1888 The average value of all
corn on the Ist of December was 28 3
cents per bushels. The average on the
Ist of March was i7.il cents fo, merchant
able, making an aggregate of value $35.-
000,000 loss lb in the December estimate.
A POLITICAL OIUMK.
The stealing of Curtbria county from
General I>. H. Hastings and placing it in
the hands of Delamatcr, was a political
crime iinprecudciiiud in the history of pol
itics in tlie Northern States, ttr.d was
only equalled by the many political
crimes perpetrated in the South during
the reconstruction period after the war.
In reading the graplrc and truthful de
tails as published, after a thorough iuves
ligation,liy one of the editorial staff of the
Pittsburgh Ckrouiele Telegraph, the aver
age citizen is almost forced to say there
can he no honor in politics,
and the les* good citizens have
to do with party politics the better
it will be for their reputations. Such at
least would seem to he the case with Re
publican politics ill Cambria county. Was
there ever such an expose of corrupt and
dishonorable, high handed and demoral
izing, politics ? Can such tilings he an.i
not excite our won ler and indignation ?
Is it possible that fair minded people of
any p uty will tamely and supinely sub
mit to tiiis great wrong and political out
rage ? We trow not.
If this political fraud is submitted to
the power and prestige of the Republican
party in this county i what little it It s,
will be destroyed, and it can never again
enter a campaign witu any hopes of suc
cess. The story of the fraud is now being
published in the DEMOCKAT, the first chaptet
of which uppcarcs to day.
OJtK CLANS OK GOVERNMENT CON
TRACTS.
Commenting on tho new postal card
and the method of letting the contract for
the same the Pittsburgh Dispatch says:
"The universal testimony, boil, of admin
istration organs and of the opposition, is
that the new postal cards are about the
poorest specimens of their class ever furn
ished to the Government. If only the
Democratic papers made the charge it
might be regarded as inspire I by partisan
prejudice. Rut when it is supported by
so steady a Republican organ as the New
York Prut with a eoinpir i-on of the cards
to blotting paper, there is not much room
for doubt that the work is decidedly in
ferior.
" It is a cogent fact that tho contract for
the postal cards was awarded to a well
known New York politician, and there
does not seem to be much concealment
about the former fact that it was given as
a reward for political services. Of course,
in that case, the poor quulity of the postal
cards is inevitable, if Mr. Daggett should
give the full worth of the money that he
gets for his cards, in the quality of the
cards, he could not obtain any profit for
his political services. He would just get
the ordinary profit that the non-political
contractor docs, and that any industrious
and intelligent man can make in business.
That would make the business of politics
wholly unprofitable and sadly mar the
working quality of party machines.
"But the moral is not the less obvious
for these controlling considerations.
When Government work is awarded as a
return for political services, the quality of
the work done for the people is certain
to suffer."
And thus the interest of (lie brave, free,
generous, and patriotic American pi ople
are cared for by one branch of the Gov
ernment, under the management of a
Sunday School Superintendent, who gives
the public a blotter that a political debt
may be pai I.
INTERVIEWED MARY ANDERSON.
How 11 Kf porter Played the Part of a Hell
Hoy and Scored a Heat.
Among the well known men about
town in Brooklyn is Frank Cooper, who
at one time promised to be Hartley Camp
bell's right bower. Mr. Cooper was for
merly a Chicago newspaper reporter,
and it was while acting in that capacity
that he had a very singular adventure.
At the time Mr. Cooper was very young
and very ambitious to shine in his pro
fession, and when Mary Anderson, who
was then the craze of the theatrical
world, reached town, he thought he saw
his chance to ascend the first few rungs
of the ladder of fame. He would inter
view the noted actress.
This ile'i-ioii was reached in an instant,
hut III;::I passed lieforo the project
w:u j .11 i i vecution. Miss Anderson's
stepfather. Or. Hamilton Griflln, was
keeping his precious charge far from the
interviewer- in those days. Mr. Cooper
finally decided to apply for the honorable
position of bell boy in the hotel at which
the Anderson party stopped. His youth
ful appearance helped him and he soon
donned the appropriate uniform. Then
he lay in wait for a ring from Miss Ander
son's room. For over twelve hours he
dashed about 011 errands and carried
pitchers of ice water and glasses filled
with something stronger before Miss
Anderson made up her mind that she
wanted anything. Then the little flap
covering I he number of her room dropped
with a click. Cooper had his eye on it,
and almost before the clerk could cry
"Front!" be was at the desk.
"Number So and So!" Raid the clerk,
"quick."
The in*-t M-ngor needed 110 urging, but
flew up I lie stairs. His magnet wanted a
scuttle of coal and down Cooper rushed.
The next minute he was knocking at Miss
Anderson's door with one hand and hold
ing the bucket with the other. Once in
side lie made for the open grate, but in
his nervousness lie spilled most of the
coal on the carpet. Then lie sat down in
the midst of the ruin lie had wrought and
looking up found the actress standing
over him.
"What do you think of the future of
the stage?" burst from his lips.
Miss Anderson was impressed with the
humorous side of the situation at once
and began laughing. This reassured the
disguised reporter, and in a few minutes
he was carrying on a discussion with the
actress on matters pertaining to her art.
This lasted for some time, Miss Ander
son expressing great surprise at the
knowledge displayed by a bell boy, and
Cooper got an interview that all the old
hands in town had despaired of being
able to procure. How he got out of the
room, he says, lie never knew, but when
he reached the office lie threw up his job
and rushed for his desk in the city de
partment of a local paper. The next day
his interview and a description of the
6cene appeared. It was the talk of the
iiour. It was copied far and wide, and
the author was assured that his future
would be a bright one.
fsThe next day he paid for his temerity.
Ilis chief, the late Samuel Mcdill, a
brother of the present owner of the pa
per in question, was so tickled at the
"beat" he had obtained that he insisted
that Cooper should meet Dr. Griffin. So
that niglft he took the youthful imposter
down to the hotel, and, sending for Dr.
Griffin, formally presented him. For a
full minute Dr. Griffin looked the re
porter straight in the eye, and then,
drawing back his hand, struck him in
the face. The blow was a bard one, and
Cooper reeled and would have fallen to
the floor had not Mr. Medill caught him.
Before any tiling could be done Dr. Grif
fin had turned and left the room, and
Mr. Cooper never saw liiin again.—New
York Times.
Th* \Vp;ikiieHft of Tall Men.
Tall men, as a rule, have bodies out of
proportion to their lower limbs—that is,
smaller than they ought to be—with the
natural result that they arc unable to
bear fatigue, or to compete in the
struggles of life with lesser men more
harmoniously proportioned. Army ex
perience bears out these observations. In
a long and fatiguing march the tall men
usually fall out first or succumb to cam
paigning. unless, as is very rarely the
case, they have well knit and symmetri
cal frames. A soldier between five feet
five inches and five feet eight or nine
inches is usually the man most capable
of bearing the strain of life.—New York
Telegram.
Over SIIOO,OOO for f'< e tago SL>UII|>„.
Tho most valuable of all private collec
tions belongs to M. Philippe do Ferrari,
of tiieOalliera family, who regularly at
tends the Paris mart to enrich his album.
Tills family souvenir has already cost
more than three hundred thousand dol
lars, or a million and a half of francs.
The acquisition of stamps seems to bo
the only object for which M. Ferrari
considered his mother's millions good
enough to lie spent, for lie lias been
known to pay from SSOO to §SOO for a
collection from which he wanted only a
single stamp. —Paris Letter.
A Sentence Containing tlio Alphabet. •
Noticing in one of your recent issues a
short paragraph relative to the shortest
sentence in the English language con
taining all the letters of the alphabet, I
would like to submit the following:
J. F. Grave, puck with my box six dozen quills.
The above sentence contains thirty
four letters and ten words only.—Cor.
New York Evening Sun.
Senator Vance says a constituent of
his in a pine woods district of North
Carolina, to whom lie sent a copy of one
of the patent office annual reports, spoke
to him of Lite occurrence in this way:
"Gineral, 1 got theni speeches o' yourn,
but I couldn't read 'em through. Thar
war a leetle 100 much Whig doctrin'
into 'em."
A bad habit broken away from is a
good day's work. The earlier a habit is
formed the stronger the hold it has.
Private personal habits are more diffi
cult to get rid of and have a more demor
alizing effect than public ones.
IMPROVEMENTS IN ENGLISH.
(taCgefttions About Wort In That May Ik)
Improved by Simpler Spelling.
We need not go the length of the fan
atics of phoneticism (who would spell
wife yf, knee nee, and write eye in the
same manner as the personal pronoun 1)
to desire a change in the spelling of many
English words which are a stumbling
block to foreigners as well as to natives.
The instances of "plough," "though,"
" enough," " borough," " cough,"
"dough," "ought," in which seven words
the letters ought to have seven different
sounds, are more than sufficient to prove
that a reformation in spelling is highly
desirable, and that plough out to lie writ
ten and printed plow; through, thru or
throo; enough, cnuf; borough, burrow or
burro; cough, cawf; dough, doe, and
ought, aut or ort with tiie r quiescent.
In like manner the verb "to do" ought
to bo written "to du" or "to doo," and
the past tense of "to read" ought not to
be spelled in exactly the same manner as
the present tense of the same verb; hut
I did read (pronounced I redd) should be
written phonetically; and I did eat (pro
nounced I ett, or I ate) should follow
the same rule. Why the double 1 should
necessarily be employed in the words
spell, well, bell, smell, fell, and many
others, while one 1 is considered suffi
cient in rebel, propel, excel, repel, expel,
etc., is not apparent to ordinary intelli
gence, or explicable by any philological
and etymological reasons.
Why English writers, talkers anil
printers should persist in ignoring the
past tenses of so many verbs in daily use
passes comprehension, so needless and so
anomalous is the lazy and incorrect
habit into which some good writers, as
well as the vulgar, have permitted them
selves to fall. "I bid him ilo it now," is
correct, but "I bid him do it yesterday,"
in which the present tenso is used in
stead of bade in the past, is an indefens
ible corruption. Among the verbs which
have been deprived of their past tenses
and their preterites may be specified to
bet, to beat, to let, to spread, to shed, to
cut, to put and to shut.
There are no grammatical or any
other reasons why they should not have
been among the verbs which have inflec
tions in other languages, but never had
in English, though they ought to have
had if intelligent grammarians had had
the original ordering of the language.
"Can" and "must" have not even the in
finitive "to can" and "to must." "Can"
iias a past tense ("could"), hut no future,
which cttn only be rendered by the para
phrase "I shall be able" or "it will bo in
my power." "Must" lias neither a past
nor a future—"l must do it today" has
to lie put into the past tense by the
roundabout locution, "I was obliged to
do it," or "It was necessary that I should
do it;" while the future of the verb fal
loir, which, in the corresponding case,
in the more precise language of the
French, is il faut, becoming il fuudra in
the future, is in English only to bo ex
pressed by a paraphrase, expressive both
of compulsion and obligation in futurity.
—Nineteenth Century.
Mi*. 1 1utcliiiiHon'rt rholoxrupli.
The cuts printed in some of the news
papers and labeled "B. P. Hutchinson"
were made from sketches taken on the
run. Not one of them dors him justice,
while some of them are little less than
caricatures. The sketches, I dare say,
were made when he was hurrying in his
business or when he was annoyed. Mr.
Hutchinson has no photograph of himself.
Whether he ever had one made or not 1
do not know. But I have it from his own
lips that lie hasn't a photograph, or a
painting, or a picture of any kind of him
self in existence. A gentleman asked liim
one day when they were at lunch if lie
had never iiad a picture taken when he
was a boy. Mr. Hutchinson's reply was;
"When I was a hov I had no time for any
foolishness of that sort."—Chicago Times.
Lov' UIIII TratiHfuHion of
Four years ago Frederick Ayres, of
Racine, Wis., became infatuated with
the lady who is now his wife, but she
preferred some one else. lie made way
for her more favored suitor. A few days
after her engagement she became ill and
grew worse rapidly. It was finally de
cided that the only thing that could save
her was the transfusion of blood. Her
favored suitor was sorry, but ho thought
he needed all the blood he hail in his
system. Ayres offered himself, and the
operation was performed with successful
results. The engagement was broken,
and six months afterward Ayres married
the woman.—Chicago Times.
A New White I'ltcli.
A new white pitch for shipbuilders
has been introduced, which, it is claimed,
supersedes Iho present laborious, expen
sive and inefficient method of white dock
seams by working putty into the seams
with a knife. The peculiarity of the
white pitch is that it is the only material
hitherto introduced of a white color that
can be run into deck seams in a hot state
like ordinary pitch. The material is es
pecially suitable for hot climates, as it
willstaiula sun heat which would cause
ordinary pitch to melt out of the seams.
—Philadelphia Record.
Art Notes.
Some of the pot boilers to be seen in
our art stores and in private collections
show so plainly why they were painted
that one cannot help thinking a kitchen
stove should go with every specimen.
Pictures are improving in Pittsburg.
So are frames, and if the artists do not
take care, the carver and gilder will soon
be in a position to demand that pictures
shall be painted to suit their frames, in
stead of the other way.—Pittsburg Bul
letin.
Hawarden, Mr. Gladstone's country
seat, was invaded one day by a little
olive colored man, making many gestures
and talking a strange jargon; so the ser
vants arrested him as a maniac and pos
sible assassin. Sir. Gladstone was sum
moned to see the wretch, who turned out
to bo a Greek professor, speaking no
English, who had como all the way from
Athens t<> congratulate the British states
man on knowing Homer's "Iliad" by
heart.
Thnnplan Saper*titlM.
The superstition of actors and actresses
extends to all the smallest minutiae of
their business, and one peculiar fad with
many of them is to seek out some little,
insignificant shop in some unfrequented
locality where they can buy their wigs,
their footwear, their powder and paiut,
and so on. Happy is he or she who can
discover some such place that has been
little known liefore, for is it not an au
gury of good fortune? Many theatrical
people abjure entirely the large and well
known establishments that deal in the
atrical supplies and givo their patronage
to less pretentious places down town.
There is a sort of Freemasonry in the
profession by which the news of the find
ing of these small shops is passed from
ear to ear, so that a considerable patron
age in time accrues to the lucky proprie
tor. On the other hand, there are those
who are more selfishly inclined and keep
their lucky "finds" to themselves as far
as passible, believing that the "spell"
will be broken if they say much about
it or advertise it even to their friends.—
New York Star.
The Charm of Music.
A new mode of calming the nerves was
one resorted to by a little girl who had
to have two large teeth extracted. The
dentist who wus to pull the teeth has a
piano in his reception room. His patient
came and brought a little friend. Instead
of proceeding to the chair, however, she
paused at the piano. "Would you like
me to play for you, doctor?" said she. On
receiving an affirmative answer she exe
cuted a gay waltz, and then said: "Per
haps you would like to hear both of us
play. Shall we try a duet?" This ac
complished, the young diplomat offered
to sing, and the doctor expressing great
delight at the prospect she did so; then
the two little girls sang together, and
then, having either gained courage
enough or recognizing that the evil hour
could not be further delayed, sho arose
from the piano, walked composedly to
the chair and stood tire tooth pulling
without a murmur,—Detroit Free Press.
To Free II is Mintl.
Grim Stanton, his war secretary, never
quite knew how to take Lincoln. Stan
ton was for exterminating such elements
as dared to ask questions. It is related
that once some one had refused to under
stand an order, or, at all events, had not
obeyed. "I believe I'll sit down," said
Stanton, "and give that man a piece of
my mind." "Do so," said Lincoln;
"write him now, while you have it on
your mind. Make it sharp. Cut him all
up." Stanton did not need a second in
vitation. It was a bone cruncher that he
read to the president. "That's right,"
said Abe; "that's a good one." "Who
can I get to send it by?" mused the secre
tary. "Send it!" replied Lincoln; "send
itl Why, don't send it at all. Tear it
up. You have freed your mind on the
subject and that is all that is necessary.
Tear it tip. You never want to send
sucii letters; I never do."—San Francisco
Argonaut.
Wlicif I'tunice Stout* I* found.
We often hear it remarked, and par
ticularly alter the eruption of a volcano,
that pumice stone ought to lie plentiful
and cheap, as quantities must have been
ejected during the volcanic disturbance.
As a matter of fact, however, none of
the wliito stono in general use is obtained
from active volcanoes. It comes from
deposits of the article discovered in one
or two quarters of tiie globe, the best of
which is at present to be found in the
island of Lipari, situate in the Tyrrhen
ian sea. The island is mountainous in
character and consists of tuffs and lavas
and of highly siliceous volcanic products.
The district where the stone is found is
called Campo Blanco or Monte Petalo
(1,500 feet above the level of the sea). —
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Co-opnrMtlvo Cooking.
In both New York and Boston there
have been formed during the last few
years "cooked food supply companies,"
which have served families over a wide
area with perfectly well cooked food, in
large variety, hot or otherwise, accord
ing to order. Some families who have
patronized the New York company ac
cord it the highest praise, not alone for
the excellence of the food, hut for the
reduced cost as compared with the ex
pense of the home cooked food. And in
Boston 1 know the company has fur
nished meals lo ita patrons at greatly
reduced expense in as perfect a state as
at the best managed hotels.—Miller's
Journal.
American Chewing (iimi in f.omlon.
Gum chewing is an American vice
exclusively, and it is very likely to re
main so. There are several American
candy shops in London, hut they are
veritable robbers' roosts. In America a
small package of Yucatan chewing gum
costs live cents; here the exorbitant sum
of sixpence (twelve cents) is demanded
ftjr the same size of package and kind
of goods. We cannot hope to introduce
the vice into England so long as we ac
company the vice with such flagrant ex
tortion.—Eugene Fields' London Letter.
Among the exhibits at the Indianapolis
meeting of tlio Western Canned Goods
association were two cans containing
beef soup, part of a lot prepared for the
United States navy in 1819. They are
owned by William Daggett, of Indian
apolis, whose grand father was at the
head of Dagget t & Kenslett, of New Ha
ven, Conn., in the early part of the cen
tury. The contents are supposed to bo
in good condition; if not, the fermenta
tion and creation of gases within would
break the seal. The soup is therefore
seventy-one years old.
The meanest man in Maine lives near
Lewiston. Ho had an only son, who
was drafted and killed in the war. The
fa titer now savs: "I was short sighted in
not paying §IOO for a substitute, for I
have been forced to hire a man ever
since to help carry on the farm, and it
has cost me thousands above the price
of a substitute. Besides, ho was a master
hand to work and the smallest eater I
ever saw."
ABOUT CLOTHES PINB.
9van* Talk with a Dealer in Theee Ad
junct* of a High Civilisation.
"The longer you lif," as a philosophic
German once remarked, "the more you
findt, by chimineddy, oudtl" During a
desultory walk about the city the other
day the writer was more than ever struck
witll this triple shod truth.
For instance, there's the common,
everyday clothes pin—the reliable old
bisected clothes pin of our mothers,
which no man lias ever been able to im
prove on any more than he has improved
upon the wheelbarrow or the old fash
ioned wooden rolling pin. Who would
imagine that there was anything about
the clothes pin that was worth finding
out? Nobody I But there is.
In his walk the writer was passing a
little grocery, where a box of clothes
pins was among tho things displayed
outside.
"How much for clothes pins today?"
he asked of the grocer.
"Four cents," was the reply.
"Four cents apiece?"
"Apiece! Great Hickory! no. Four
cents a dozen!"
"Ah-h-h! Are you a good judge of
clothes pins?"
"Should say so! I've made more than
a million of 'cm!" replied the storekeeper.
"I've followed the clothes pin, sir, in all
the processes of its evolution, from ttie
growing tree to the polishing box. Say!"
exclaimed the dealer, in a sudden burst
of confidence and picking up a clothes
pin. "To look at that pin you'd scarce
ly believe that the manufacturer could
make and sell twelve of them for a cent,
and have profit of more titan 50 percent,
on them at that; now, would you?"
"Not to look at it, I wouldn't."
"But lie can do it, sir," exclaimed the
grocer. ••He can do it. lie can whittle
out clothes pins at the rate of eighty a
minute. How? Easy enough. All he's
got to do is to take his maple or birch
log and go to work. Say his log is ten
feet long and a foot through. He won't
have to pay more than $3 for it. If he
pays any more than that ho don't know
his business. That log will whittle up
into 13,000 clothes pins as certain as the
tree the log came from grew. It will
take the man two hours and a half to
chew that log up into clothes pins, which
is at the rate of 4,800 an hour. But when
they are all cut out they are wortli §00.40
to the maker. He will work ten hours a
day, if ho is smart, and will get away
with four of those logs. It's easy ligur
ing to find out that he will then have on
hand 48,000 clothes pins, worth $380.00
if they're worth a cent.
"The lumber for those pins has cost
only SB, providing the man wasn't stuck
in buying it. Now, if that was ail the
expense, a man with a clothes pin fac
tory would be a blamed sight better off
than if he owned a coal mine. But those
logs have to run the gauntlet of a good
deal of machinery before they are full
fledged clothes pins. A saw separates
the log into lengths of sixteen inches;
another one saws these blocks into
boards three-quarters of an inch thick;
a third saw reduces the boards to strips
three-quarters of an inch square. These
little strips are pushed to a big wheel,
which hurries them to a gang of other
saws, where they are chopped into
clothes pin lengths quicker than a sau
sage machine can chop up a pound of
beef.
"These lengths arc carried by a swift
moving bolt to a machine that grabs
them and sets them in a lathe. The
lathe gives them their shape in the
twinkling of an eye and throws them to
the man, who feeds them to still another
saw, which moves backward and for
ward as if it were madder than a snake.
This saw chews out the slot that the
washerwoman is to shove down over the
clothes on the lino one of these days, and
the clothes pin is ready, all hut kiln dry
ing and polishing. Kiln drying knocks
the sap out of the wood, and the polish
ing is done by letting the elotiies pins
rub against themselves in a revolving
iron cylinder.
"All these processes cost money, and
when the manufacturer comes to put up
his goods for sale lie iiuds that his profit
on the 48,000 pins, or a day's hard work,
is only about $193. I pay the manufac
turer 1 cent a dozen, or about 84 cents a
thousand, and, really, sir, I am com
pelled in these tight times to sell them
for 4 cents a dozen, or $3.30 a thousand,
which wouldn't he so had if I sold a
thousand every hour or so. But, with
care, a thousand clothespins will stay by
me for a month or two, and I have even
had them with me a whole year. Chi
nese cheap labor is pelting the life out of
the clothes pin trade, for Ling Sing and
Wun Lung don't use clothes pins in their
laundries, and they're washing about all
the clothes that are washed, it seems to
me, nowadays. How many dozen shall
Ido you up, sir?" "
"Half a dozen'll do," said the reporter,
and the man looked disappointed as he
counted them out.—New York Sun.
Convenience* for House Hunters.
The house hunter must have observed
that within a few years the real estate
agents of the city have shown a tendency
toward the adoption of trade marks or
distinguishing emblems on their "for
rent" signs. For a long time these pla
cards were all of uniform design. One
firm adopted the plan of covering hair
of the placard surface with red'paint or
ink. Such a placard could be readily
identified a block distant. The idea
caught on, and now there are stars, an
chors, shields and cross bars, white let
ters on a black ground, clubs and disks
on red, white and blue; crosses, dia
monds, triangles—in fact every form of
simple design and outline. Another re
form that is much appreciated by house
hunters has been introduced by enter
prising agents, and that is to have at the
office photographs of the exterior of the
buildings for rent and a floor plan of the
house, shoving the location of the closets
and stairways, the size of the rooms,
etc. A lady can toll by a single glance
at the plan whether the house will suit
her or not, and it saves her the labor of
running all over tbe city on an errand
chat is full of disappointments.—lnter
view in Si. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Old Doctors
Drew blond, modem doctors cleanse it j
lieucc the increased demand for Altera
tives. It is now well l.uown that moat
diseases so due, not to ovec-abundanai,
hut. to i,u i)l! riiy. of the 1'lood; and it
is HI tally v.... attested that no blood
tnetii. in is so ei'.h actons as Ayer%
Sarsoparilla.
"''e of icy , 'in' ml a large aero
In- ■. We applied
s. • icon •. e v ih, thinking
t' -oil 11.. i. i. in: it.grew
Iv'ee, and
Wt ,o tc'l I: ..I " I VI I edieino
wes access • b..r<>npariUa
llV.llg
u c r ded
above a'l "I ,v ! maa
vi "is e . d iad
lie : d."
J.J. Am;
" I till I '• <n
ml rn i ii I !.,od
dise.K s. i ha
work every . ii. D..
Manhattan. in •••■
"We linn .. ? r.irilla
here for over i i> i..id tiwaja
reeoumien I n, name the
best blood-put T. .'lclaiaa.
Druggist, At .... i;
" A.ver's m enutinne to be tte
Rtnndard re.iei di"n ill spile of all coaa
petition."— T. \V. ■ Jin hutoud, Boar
Luke, Mich. •
Ayer's Sarsaparilla,
I'IU.PAUBD BY
Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co v Lowell, Mm
Prioe $1; six bottles, $6 WoiLh $5 s bottto.
i£rp frsjicnal Cards.
HENRY H. KUHN, Afctorney-ai
Law. omce opposite first National Bui.
No. 15 Locust street, Johnstown, I'a.
JAMES M. WALTERS,
A TTOR.VEY-A T-LA IF.
otllcs No. 2, Aim* Hall, Main street, Jnhntfc.
town, Pa. All business given faithful and prompt
attention. Janll
F. J. O'CONNOR. j, B. O'CONNtfC.
Q'CONNOR BROTHERS,
A TTORSEYS-A T-LA IF.
office on franklin street, over Petrlkln A Mil
ler's store, opposite Postofflce, Johnstown, I'a
mars
JOHN S. TITTLE,
JUSTICE OF THE TEA CE
ASD .VOTARY I'UBLTU.
Office corner Market and Locust streete,
s 'it Johnstown, P*.
RUTLEDGE,
JUSTICE OF THE J'EACE.
office on Hlverstreet.neartlie Kernvtlle Bridge
in the fifth ward, Johnstown, Pa. t oUectloaa
and all other business promptly attended to,
mart)
A N. WAKEFIELD, M. D..
RURSICIAX AXD SURGED*
office No. 43 Morris street, Johnstown, N.
YEAGLEY, M. 1) ,
I'LLRSICIAK AX J URGEUS.
Office No. syi I.ocust . Johnstown, rs
JOHN DOWNEY,
CI 111 ESUISEEH.
_Officeon stonyereek street, Johnstown, Pa.
Q A. PEDEN, SURGEON DEN-
O. TIBT. office In [(order's new building, on
Franklin street. All kinds ot Dental work so
licited. norl4
J P THOMPSON, M. D.,
SURGEON DENTIST,
JOHNSTOWN, PA.
lias hud a professional experience of over sc
years.
Fill IIIR: Teetli i specialty.
OHlce Rooms, No. 114 Napoleon at reel.
JOHNSTOWN
SAVINGS BANK
NO, 192 MAIN STREET.
HARTSa ED SEPTEMBER 12. 1870
DEPOSITS received of one dollar and upward,
no deposits exceeding a total ot fS.iXH) will
be received from any one person. Interest Is due
In the months ot June and December, and It not
withdrawn Is added to the deposit, thus com
pounding twice a year without troubling the de
positor to call or oven to present the deposit
book.
Money loaned on Heal Estate. Preference with
liberal rates and long lime given to borrowers
offering ftrst mortgages on farms worth (our or
ttore times the amount of loan desired; also,
moderate loans tuude on town proper!y wnere
ample security Is offered. Good reference, per
fect titles, etc.. required.
This corporation Isexcluslvoly a Savings Bank
No commercial deposits received, nor discount
made. No loans on personal security.
Blank applications for borrowers, copples of
the rules, by-laws, and special acts ot the Legla
lature relating to deposits ot married women
and minors can be obtained at the Bank.
TRUSTEES— Herman Baumer, B. L. Yeaglcy,
John liannan, John Thomas, C. B. Ellis, Pear
son Fisher, James J. Fronlrelscr, John Lowinan,
W. B. Lowntan, James McMlUen, James (julnn,
Howard J. Koberts, Wm. A. Stewart. Geo. T.
Swank, Jacob Swank, W. W. Walters. James
McMMlen, President; John bowman, Herman
Baumer, Geo. T. swank. Vice Presidents; W. c.
Lewis, Treasurer; Cyrus Elder, solicitor mart!
DISSOLUTION OF PAR TNEII
SHIP Notice Is hereby given thut the
i partnership heretofore existing b . tween JOHN
j I). EDWAKDS and A. ADAIK under the ttnn
name or J. D. EDWAKDS & CO.. was dissolved
! on the iiith aav of February, IS!*), by mutual
I consent, all debts due to the said partnership
I are to be paid and those due from the same will
Ihe discharged by John I). kdwards. Business
will be continued by lite said John D. Edwards.
J. D. EDWAKDS,
marl-tf A. ADAIK.
1 EXECUTOR'S NOTICE. ES
TAPE "F JANE 11. HESS, DECEASED.—
Letters Testamentary on the estate of .lane
11. liess. late of coopersdate, cambrta county,
deceased, having been granted to the under
signed, all persons knowing themselves In
debted to said es'nte are hereby notllled to
I make Immediate payment, and those having
claims against salt! estate are requested to pre
sent them duly authenticated tor seet tement o
I). K. IIICSS, Executor. •
1 109 Seventeenth st„ South side, Pltttburgh