The Johnstown Democrat. hvj PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING, Sc. 138 [FRANKLIN STREET. JOUNSOwN, CAMBRIA CO., PA. TERMS—#I.SO per year, payable In advance ; outside the county, fifteen cents additional for postage. If not paid within three months Sii will be charged. A paper can be discontinued at any time by paying arrearages, and not otherwise. The failure to direct a discontinuance at the expiration of the period subscribed for will be considered a new engagement. A'eto Subscrip t tons must be accompanied by the CASH. 1.. D. WOODRUFF, Editor and Ihibllsher. FKIDAY MAY ~ 1890. MRS. CAROLINE 13. ALEXANDER and Mrs Annie E. Gill have been nominated by the Governor of New Jersey as Managers of the Home for Feeble-minded Women at Yineland. Mrs. Wanamaker, it is stated, has intro duced a new fad in Washington, and has a class of young ladies meet at her resi dence twice a week, where a professor of physical gruce from abroad tenches them how to walk, to go up and down stairs, to bow, to smile, to make eyes and to dis pose of the hands. THE New York World of Monday con tained serious charges on Senator Dela mater. This is what it says : " Dclamater bought his way into office, bribed enemies not to ex pose dark chapters in his life, fo'esworc himself when he took the oath of office, tried to defraud the people of his State in the interest of a mononoly and committed forgery as a crowning act of villainy." CONGRESSMAN AI.I.EN, of Mississipp 1 made a personal explanation in the House on Saturday. He had not characterized " Senator Quay as a tlilef, " as some reck less papers stated, but in reply to Mr. Cannon, Republican, who had arraigned the Democratic party because it had defaulting State Treasurers, he had sitnpl y said that " the Democratic party had never elected them to the United States Senate or made them chairmen of its national committee." The explana. tion was satisfactory all around. WM. F. HARRITY, ESQ., ex-postmaster of Philadelphia, has announced himself in favor of ex-Governor I'attison tor the Democratic nomination for Governor. lie substantially says : "1 am for cx-Gov ernor Robert E. I'attison for Governor. Why? Well, because I now candidly be lieve him to lie the strongest man we could possibly nominate. The man who can again wrest the control of this State out of the hands of a political ring, as valiantly us he did in that year of tidal waves, 1882. His strong and clean ad ministration is a platform of itself." THE President is reported to be alarmed at the uuionnt of money voted for public buildiugs. The bills that have passed both branches of Congress carry $1,165,- 000; bills carrying $16,500,000 have pass ed the Senate, and another million is pending on the Senate calendar. Bills appropriating $4,000,000 have passed the House, and bills appropriating $7,500,000 liayc been favorably reported to the House. One hundred and forty-five public building bills, have become laws, or passed one or both Houses of Cougtcss, or been favorably reported lrom the com mittees. THE Altoona Time* advises its readers to be ou the lookout for the latest danger ous article now being sold from house to house by agents , for it is a rival of the kerosene can. It is a liquid stove polish, concocted after the receipts of some ma lignantly ingenious individual, and being a mixture composed largely of uaptha—a more dangerous explosive than gunpow der, of which it is an ingredient—the re sult of applyiug it to a stove while hot, or even warm, may well be imagined. Al ready we have read of several explosions, accompanied by severe burning, as a re sult of Ihe use of the deadly compound. We have never seen the name of this par ticular brand of death-dealing stove pol ish, but the best sab guard would be to eschew all liquid preparations with which to blacken stoves, and thus be on the safe side. THE EIGHT-Hullit IJAY The general executive board of the American Federation ot Labor issued a manifesto on Moriday night addressed to !hc toiling masses. This is in part as follows: "The executive council of the American Federation of Labor having se lected the United brotherhood of Carpen ters and Joiners of America to make the demand for the enforcement of the eight hour work day, 1 ask you to refrain from any sympathetic strikes. Rather remain at your wo'fc and aid the carpen ters and joiners to win in the contest. To the carpenters and jo'ners my advice is to demand and insist upon the enforce ment of the eight-hour day. In the demonstration to be held May 1, turn out in vast numbers and by your presence manifest your unalterable determination to have the eight-hour work day enforced, though by one trade at a time, yet for all as the ultimate result. Allow no one to pro voke you to a breach of the peace. Main tain order, refrain from all violence, engage in no riots, let the watchword be the enforcement of the eight-hour work dnv ; Arm, pouceable and positive, with stout hearts and clear heads, let us eon centijatc all efforts for victory on the car penters and joiners. Men of labor, steady along the line to the achievement of the ciglit-hour work day." THE OLD TIME ANGLERS. COUNTRY FISHING WHILE YET THE FOREST LINED THE STREAMS. Civilization Too Hard on the Hoys —The Crystal Streams of Other Days—"Biggin* Worms"—Minnows for Bait—Also Toads and Grasshoppers. (Copyright, 1890.] Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic stream, and it will be A face more pleasant than the face of men. Thy waves are old companions; I shall see A well remembered form in each old tree And hear a voice long loved in thy wild min strelsy. These lines of Drake express tho long ing of the country born who now toils in the city. Hut it cannot be. The stream is changed. So let me, at least, revisit it in memory and picture the scenes of boyhood's angling. THE FISH OF WESTERN WATERS. Time: A bright Saturday morning. Era: In the early'so's. Place: The bor der of a creek in the middle section of the Wabash valley—the region where that stream, having long run southwest and "across the geological formation," as they now say, lias turned at last into the carboniferous region and flows tran quilly through broad and fertile "bot tom" lands, which end at lofty bluffs from half a mile to two miles away. Directly on the river one does not see that riparian scenery which charms the traveler about Logansport and thence to Lafayette and below; the banks are high and thence there is a slope towards the bluffs, near which are the black and stagnant bayous which offeiul the eye (and too often the nose) of the voyager on the Wabash and Erie canal, and in which the snaky, slimy looking "pond lisli" have their sluggish and worthless existence. But the blurt's once passed, a lovely, high and rolling, heavily timbered region extends to Wabash Mill creek, which, like all the other affluents of the Wabash, flows at a very acute angle to the river. Not then as now. Cultivation had not broken the natural surface of the riparian glades and left them so that every rain turned the crystal stream into a torrent of muddy water. Heavy timber still lined the creek for the most part—the cultivated tracts were further back—and the roots, reaching far down into the wa ter, created a whirl and hence a deep pool, where the sil very bass and the bright perch and still brighter sunflsh loved to lie in cool and cloudy weather, coming out upon the ripples chiefly when the sky was clear and the south wind blew softly. The "dead water" about the great drifts was tin) favorite haunt of cattish, but they were not esteemed like the bass and panfish. In fact, the old settlers had a prejudice against any fish that did not prefer running water. After the Wabash and Erie canal became the best fishing ground, it took them some time to get reconciled even to the products of that; and as to eating fish from a regular pond, a regular water pen made for breeding fish, the suggestion would have disgusted them. Going up any stream from the Wabash, soon after passing the "bottoms" one would find it of crystal clearness, with long, deep pools here and there, separated by short ripples rolling over clean, gravelly bottoms. Often the trees hung so far over the stream that opposite boughs intermingled, and in the growing season a faint but exquisitely delicate perfume floated down to the happy boy on the green bank, whose every sense was keen and all his being in harmony with nature. FLINGING OUT HIS FIRST FISH. What a blessed fact it is that almost every sound the country boy hears is a natural rhythm, almost every sight ho sees is restful to the eye. No carts rat tling over stony pavements, no scream of steam whistles, 110 whir of machinery, no roar of crowded streets: but instead the lowing of cattle, the twitter of birds, the ripple of brooks, the soft sighing of the wind in the tall trees. Sociologists tell us that after a few generations of continuous life in cities all the percep tive faculties become extremely dull; children are born near sighted, deficient in hearing, color Wind and sadly devoid of the natural sense of harmony—and no wonder. As the little fisherman watches his cork the hum of insects about the buds on the overhanging trees is borne to his ears. Sometimes a sudden gust of wind scatters buds and insects down upon the water, and then the speckled and silver sided beauties dart hither and yon for the first snap at the dainty food. The total outfit of the boy of 1850, or thereabouts, might fetch ten cents in a "bulled market." There is no jointed rod, no reel, no fancy cork, no artificial fly. The rod he cut as he came through the woods —a limber ash or water beech i Bprout. The hook is the simplest of old j fashioned barbs; the fishing line a very j small and tightly woven cord, which ; cost him five centsjat the country store. The cork (he never heard of a "bob") is ! a real cork, originally from Kentucky, j or "som'ers down below," and imported | in the grand old big bellied demijohn which contained the strong water of Bourbon county. Through it he punches I a small hole and is careful to double his | line in it while fastening, in such away that he can easily readjust it to various i depths of water. The "sinker" is made j of two or three bullets hammered into a j mass. His bait —well, it is various. "Diggin' worms" was probably his last occupation the night before his holiday, for "fishin' worms" were thought to im prove a little by being kept in a box of loose earth for a night. For the canal and river, minnows seined from the branch were thought the best bait. For catfish, live frogs or toads were occa sionally used, the hook being very light ly inserted in the loose skin along the back. But it was reprobated. Indeed, it was a subject at times of heated dis cussion, and many a tough old fisherman has wasted valuable time trying to con vince a tender hearted boy that it did not hurt the frog. Maybe it didn't, but the frog squirmed around all the same and imitated a hurt creature remarkably well. And now all is set, silence is enjoined —"Don't swear or you won't catch a dashed fish"—and there is eager rivalry for the first fish. The morning sun shin ing through the trees casts great feather edged scollops of light and shade upon the water; the wind is from the south, and just strong enouglx to make the fish bite well. The worm is impaled, the line is thrown, the cork spins around a few times and floats on the placid poql. All at once it bobs and the eager boy leans forward with delighted eye and di lated nostril. Once, twice, three times it bobs. "A nibble, a nibble," lie whis pers in a hiss that might bo heard twenty yards. "First nibble for me!" Once or twice more perhaps it bobs. "Gosh dang it, he's tuck my bait!" No, the cork bobs but once more and then takes a dive. The fish is hooked. With more than "WILL THE FISH BITE TODAY?" boyish strength the rod is whirled up ward and backward, the lino (lies out to its greatest length and the fish is thrown, perhaps, into a bush or tree in the rear, while the exultant boy, all injunctions to silence ignored, yells in a tone tiiat echoes far along the stream: "First fish for ME!" "Shut up, gosh blame ye," is the only response, "you'll skeer all the fish out o' the creek." And it does look like it, for there is generally a long wait after the first fish. But it's a good day, and soon the sport is on the full tide of success. It is wonder ful how rapidly fish were taken in those times when conditions were favorable. "Twenty-four fine bass in two hours" was the best record I ever saw made by one person; but of course I have reliable testimony (that of fishermen) to much more lively sport. This abundance of fish food was a great advantage to the early settlers. The country boy, as aforesaid, had none of the modern con veniences; but he had what was far bet ter—a sense of the right time to go fishing, which was a science in itself. If he w;., too young to have acquired it, his fath-Tor the hired man had it. One hired man we hail was a prodigy in this and similar lines of wood craft. He had a keenness of perception as to na ture's doings that amounted to a sixth sense. Often I have walked through the deep woods with him and seen him pause and raise his gun, and then squirrels or birds that I could not see would come tumbling from the tops of the tallest trees—and the squirrels in most cases were shot in the head. He could examine the night sky and note the evening air and tell almost to a certainty whether fish would bite the next day. If the morning left it still in doubt he would blow up a little tobacco smoke and watch its drift and gradual dissipation, and rarely indeed did he fail in this test. My reverence for him was unbounded until one day, when I was about 0 years old, I handed him a copy of The Indiana State Journal to read something that had amused me, and discovered that he could not read. It was quite a shock. Down to that time I had thought he knew every thing. If the fish bit very well at any time they did not usually keep it up long. Three hours was a long season of good fishing; then the wind changed, or the sky was overcast, or, as we used to think, we had caught all the fish in that part of the creek, though the real reason proba bly was that it was a good day for their feeding and they had got enough and "gone up under the roots." After the fishing came the fun, if we were not too anxious to hurry home and show our spoils. Now, alas , all the broad and fertile tracts along the creeks are cleared of timber; no lofty trees, or very few. hang over the stream, and in places the banks have to bo "rocked up" to prevent de structive washing. There are no more Hoating logs and no drifts, and, with very rare exceptions, no deep holes for fishing or swimming. Many of the creeks are of one uniform depth, or rather shallow, from source to mouth, and few indeed are the places where the boys of 1850 can renew their youth with hook, line and rod. J. H, BEADLE. THE FAT;;Z.-: CF PHOTOGRAPHY. A Monument to Perpetuate tlie Name and Fame of Dagvarre. Fifty years ago last summer Louis Jaques Maude Daguerre gave to the world the discovery which was to be the forerunner of the photograph of today. He received in return from the govern ment of France a life pension of $1,200 a year, and now that a half century has THE ACCEPTED DESIGN, gone by the photographers of America, very properly, have decided to erect a monument to the man who may well be called the father of an art. The memo rial project was set on foot last fall at a convention in Washington. It was de cided to honor the memory of Daguerre with some lasting tribute to iiis genius, and when details came to be discussed the principal points settled upon were: The memorial should be a monument; it should Btand.in front of the Smithsonian institution, and the limit of cost should be SIO,OOO. J. S. Hartley, of New York, is the sculptor. lie is now making a model in clay of his design. The monument will show Daguerre crowned by Fame with the laurel which reaches around the globe, emblematic of the world wide benefit which photography has been to mankind. The monument proper will stand 11 feet high. The pedestal and globe will be in granite, the head of Daguerre in bronze. Cormeilles, a little town near Paris, was the birthplace of Daguerre, and he first saw the light in 1787. In early life he was a scene painter, and in 1822 opened a diorama in Paris, for which he painted pictures on an enormous scale. He frequently employed the camera obscura in the sketches which he made from nature, and the idea occurred to him that some means might be discov ered by which these camera obscura pictures might be permanently retained. About 1821 he began his experiments, and toiled incessantly for years. Acci dent brought his experiments to a tri umphal issue. He found that iodide of silver on a polished copper plate was sensitive to light, and when exposed in a camera faint images were impressed, which would gradually fade away, and could not be retained. "One day," says a recent writer, "Da guerre removed from his camera a plate which, cither Horn the shortness of ex posure to the light or the darkness of the day, showed no sign of an image. He laid this plate aside in a cupboard, in tending to clean the surface and use it some time again. What was his surprise on taking out the same plate the next morning to find upon its surface a dis tinct and perfect picture! Another plate was quickly exposed for an equally short time in the camera, and again placed in the magic cupboard to remain over night; and on going to it the second morning he discovered another beautiful picture. L. J. M. DAGUERRE. "The question now was which of the numerous chemicals stored in this cup board produced the marvelous effect. He finally learned, by taking out one chemical each day, that it was a dish of mercury whose vapors produced the magical result, and he at once proceeded to apply the discovery practically." To "fix" the developed images Daguerre employed hyposulphite of soda, and one day the "mad inventor" introduced his new process to the Parisian world. He created a sensation, gained honor and renown and will live in history as the founder of an art that is year by year approaching nearer to perfection. All Knglitih l.tid'H Novel Mount. The most enterprising sportsman in England is believed to be the youth who rode a bull for an hour the other day with Sir Wat kin AY villi's hounds. AVliile |f HIDING A BULL TO HOUNDS, the pack were in full cry, running past a farm near Wyches, the field were aston ished to see a lad mounted 011 a bull join the hunt and take fences in fine style. The bull was not saddled or bridled, and the rider sat him with as much grace as possible when the width of the bull's back is considered. The rider and his steed were, of course, the heroes of the day. ~ —• Ho Brushed a Lire Dummy. One evening I was out with a party of young friends. It had been trying to snow all afternoon and had cleared off cold. As we passed a ready made cloth ing store we noticed a couple of dum mies out in front covered with snow. One of these two particular dummies was looking in the window, probably watching the cashier inside, while the other was faced toward the street, pos sibly to draw trade. On the breast of his long, snow laden ulster he wore a banner with the strange device, "Buy me, only §7.33.'' Just as we were pass ing we saw a young clerk approaching the door, whisk broom in hand, to brush the snow from the dummies. One of my friends, who knew the clerk, said, "Imitation of a dummy," and he jumped into a rigid position between the papier mache men. We ran across the street to watch things. Out came the clerk and brushed the snow from the nearest figure, turning it around 011 its well greased standard as he did so. Then he reached for our friend, who stood stiff and still. He carefully brushed the snow from the back of his long ulster, and then took hold of his arm to turn him around. As he felt flesh and blood he dropped his whisk, uttered a horrible yell and disappeared behind a pile of coats in the store. —Chicago Herald. Horace Greeley's Favorite Cut. Hall, the chief messenger at the cus tom house, cultivated his suave manner when he was the head waiter at the Astor house. Nothing pleases him more than to recall the days when he served Horace Greeley, who dined for years at the Astor house. Dinner there at that time was served 011 the American plan and was from 13 m. until 3 p. 111. "I used to carve," said Hall, "and when I had reached the twenty-fourth or twenty fifth cut in a rib of roast beef I knew that it was time for Mr. Greeley to come in. He liked the twenty-fourth or twenty fifth cut because, I suppose, the meat in that part of the roast was done exactly to suit his taste. When I had got to Mr. Greeley's cut I used to run iny knife around the rim of it and remove all the overdone edge or fat, which he did not like. We heaped up the plate with pota toes, green peas and beans—Mr. Greeley was a great hand for green peas—and sent it in to him."—New York Tribune fluttered Toast for Potatoes. M. Taine, the eminent- French litera teur, was recently at Oxford and he or dered plain roast beef and potatoes for dinner. The waiter brought M. Taine roast beef and buttered toast. 51. Taine exclaims, "Waiter, some potatoes." The waiter brought more buttered toast. 51. Taine, in pronouncing "potatoes," laid stress on the last syllablo of potatoes and gave the "s" more sibilation than was necessary, so to the waiter's English ear he was asking with tolerable clear ness for buttered toast. When fresh lots of buttered toast began to appear, 51. Taine blandly demanded "some pota toes,"' with the result that his table was literally covered with plates of buttered toast; however, a well known Oxford professor happened to enter the room at this juncture and succeeded in clearing up matters. —London Cor. of New Or leans Picayune. Hospitable. "Good morning. I should like to ask for a little information, if you please." The speaker was a northern tourist in the Ozark mountains of southwestern slissouri. He had halted near a small, windowless cabin, in front of which a sallow, shrewd native sat smoking a cob pipe. "Wull'f" came the slow reply. The man did not move nor did he take his pipe from his mouth or his hands from his pockets as lie surveyed the elegant young man in corduroys. "I should like to inquire," said the tourist, "if this isn't the region where the clay eaters live? I was told I should reach it about noon." The stissourian rose slowly, and, ad vancing his lank figure, a gleam of fun in his eye, asked in his turn: •'('lay? Be you hungry for some, young feller?"- -Youth's Compan ion. Winil Motor# for Klectriciil Purpose*. The use of wind power for producing the electric light possesses the recom mendation that it is cheap. A wind motor has been in successful operation for some time at the northernmost light house at Cape de la Hague, where it drives two dynamos supplying accumu lators. The windmill restsupon a timber framing, and transmits motion by means of a vertical shaft and two pairs of con ical cog wheels to a horizontal shaft. Pulleys are fixed to the latter, which drive the dynamos by means of belting. The windmill works automatically, both during light winds and gales,—Electri cian. BONE MEAIEm lleef Scraps. Send tor new nrlce list. YOKK CHEMICAL WOKKB. YOKK. PA. OMR flit Til OF REAL ESTATE. BY virtue of an order issued out of the orphans'court ot Cambria county, ana to me directed, I will expose to public sale on Wednesday, May 14, 1890, ATS O'CLOCK P. M.. on the premises, an that certain lot ot ground situate In rbe Fifteenth ward of the city of Johnstown. (Cambria borough) fronting thirty seven feet (37) on Front street, and extendtng back at an average depth or one hundred and forty-three feet (143) to an alloy, bounded on I lie one side by lot No l), on the ot iter side by lot of P. .1. McLaughlin. Also. Alt the remaining piece of ground at t he rear of P. .1. McLaughlin, and Joining said Mc- Laughlin on the north ibyan alley.and on lite rear by an alley, on the soulli bv the above de scribed lot. TEKMS OF SALE: Ten percent, on day sale, one-third on confirmation; balance In six months with interest, secured by Judgment note or mortgage. The (purchaser to have the privilege of paying all at confirmation. F. P. 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Notice Is hereby given that t will stt tor the j , purpose of said appointment, at my office, In tho I ' city ot Johnstown, on Friday, the 9d day "t May, 1890, at 10 o'clock of said day, where all j parties interested may attend It they see proper, or be forever debarred from coming In on said fund. M It. STEPHEN'S | April JO, 1890. dl9-wß*-dßp a