The Johnitown Democrat. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING, No. 138 [FRANKLIN STREET, JO UN SO wN, CAMBRtA CO., PA. TERMS—•I.IIO per year, payable In advance ; outside the. couuty, lliteen cenls additional tor postage. If not paid within three months an 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 •onsldered a new engagement. .Vein Subscrtp- Itons must be accompanied by the CASH. 1.. 1). WOOUKUFF, Editor and Publisher, FRIDAY MAY 2!! 1890. THE GUESSING MANIA. Of all the absurd methods of raisiDg the wind byway of running up sub scription lists of daily papers, the guessing one is the most absurd. It suggests the question of what consti tutes legitimate journalism. The old idea of a newspaper was that of giving the news and of discussing questions perti nent to the times, and the success of papers depended on the enterprise of pub lishers in these particulars. But as time went on, this course not proving suffici i utly remunerative, recourse was had to premiums. Then followed the chromo mania, until households were fil'ed with a whole lot of apologies for pictures, such as soon disgusted everybody. The result was they had to be burned up, or else relegated to barns, stnblcs, wash houses and ot'ier back buildings. \Ye have now fallen upon the guessing era. A coupon is printed in every issue that is to be filled out and sent in. You are to guess what the census enumerator will make the population of a certain town, village, city or district. And the beauty of the thing is it differs from vot ing, as the law allows you to cast only one vole, but j'ou can guess as many limes as you please, or as often as you are disposed to buy, borrow or steal a paper. The ofteuer you guess, the better for the pub lisher. And to secure the prize offered and attain to the popular posi'ion of a shrewd gucsscr, you will feel like guessing a great many times, hence a great many papers will be required. Of what particular interest it will be to a community, or to I lie general public to know that Jones made a better guess than Brown, no paper has as yet felt equal to the task of telling. Be very careful to note thai the editor says the blank form can only be found in this paper —the Bladder, or Win Snapper up of Unconsidered l'rijles, or a paper of about the same gen eral character. Next to votiug for the most popular teacher, the guessing method comes in. What the next tl ing will be, who dare guess? Wouldn't it be a good idea to try this on. But before substituting some thing else, we suggest that some of our enterprisii g city dailies should give a chance to guess where the wheels of Pharoah's Chariots are, or who wrote the Junius' letters, oi who threw the Billy Patterson brick. Do give us something that will lead to researches. TUB County Commissioners of Blair county arc warned by the Altoona Tribune against allowing the court house at Holli daysburg to lie used for holding political conventions, particularly Democratic con ventions of such character as that which assembled there recently. We do not know whether permission was granted in the case or n it, but in this county the conventions are held in the court house, nevertheless, as was the Bepublican County Committee meeting lust year in our county. I hey simply walked into the arbitration room and held their convention, although they had never asked, much less got, a permit to do so. Perhaps Blair county people are not accustomed to such exhibitions of cheek. They might learn some things by coming to this side of the mountain. i . Gov. Bouts, of lowa, has appointed Miss Helen Louise Burr, of Cedar Hapids, a notary public. Miss Burr is a bright, energetic youug iady about twenty-tour pears of age. Iler father, 11. 11. Burr, has been court reporter for seventeen years, and for four yeais his daughter has been his able assistant, frequently taking her father's place in the court room. Not long since, at a term of court held in Cedar county, Miss Burr filled the posi tion of reporter, and Miss Shearer that of clerk. The Judge commended the work of thesj young women in the highest terms, saying that no.one had ever filled the posision so acceptably. THE way some of the Democratic poli ticians of Blair county have been raising the wind of late would make one believe that they had been taking lessons in polit ical methods of the Quay-Delamater people. The trouble with the Democratic party, so far as the bosses are concerned, is.that the rank and file are accustomed to having there say when primary elections are held. Not so, however, with our friends in the opposite party. The rank and file among them are used to being led, and when a county or a State is stolen tbeyjsimply submit as'a matter of course. THE city election Monday at Cumber land, Md., under the Australian system, resulted in a Democratic victory. Mayor, City Clerk and four out of five Council men were elected for the first time in six years. THE MORMON QUESTION. The United; States Supreme Court on Monday decided that the Edmunds' Anti- Mormon law is constitutional, and th e church property of the Mormon e hurch corporation in excess of $50,000 will therefore be contiscated according to the provisions of the law. The value of the church property is fully $1,000,000, which has been accumulated by years of labor and saving. What is left of this plunder after the officials get through with it will be devoted to the establishment of a common school fund for Utah. That stringent and effective measures to abolish polygamy should be taken, no one will question, but how that is to be done by seizing the property of the Mor mon Church corporation is not by any means clear. It is true that most Mormons advocate and many practice polygamy 'onflscating their church property need not stop the practice. And besides tliet it is a had, if not dangerous, precedent. It is of such doubtful constitutionality as 11 cause three of the justices to dissent from the opinion—a thing which makes it not only impolitic, but which will make it in effective, the Mormon press having al ready denounced the measure as an out, rageou their rights. They will regard themselves as oppressed and it will in crease their fervor. It will drive anti polygamous Mormons—and they form the majority of that sect—into opposing the measure. A law requiiing a complete registration of the population of Utah public marriage licenses, with an inhibi tion on all other forms of marriage except by the form and manner prescribed by law, would prove more effective than a dozen schemes of confiscation. THE LEFT LEG. In the Mav Nineteenth Century Mr Walter K. Sibley most curiously treats of " Left-leggedness." He starts with the suggestion that, cou. trary to the common notion, the left leg in most people is stronger than the right. Where the right hand is most used in manual labor, the left leg is employed, on the principle of equilibrium. In walking, the left leg is more used than the right. Skaters perforin more figures on the left than the right foot. Rope dancers perform their balancing tea's mainly on the left foot. Why men keep to the right in walking is attributed to a like cause, and gyrate in dancing to the right. Troops in England, Germany, France always start off with the left foot. In mouuting horses or bicycles it is the left foot which is placed in the stirrun or on the step. In jumping most men take off from the left foot. The chief propelling power in swimming laces is the left leg. Then come measurements of limbs and feet indicating greater strength of left leg and size of lift foot. And the conclusion is that right-hand edness and left-leggedne.-s are attempts of nature to preserve a bi lateral individual. Man beiug naturally or artificially right handed or left footed tends unconscious ly to bear to I lie right ; lower animals to circle to the left. ♦ ♦ A HI Tonic SCENE. A Tliril iik Kepioclaction of the Attrociou* Mountain Meadow .IIUMICI'P. The great Forepaugh aud Wild West combined shows, which exhibit in Johns town, Friday May 23d, on the old show grounds on the Point, brings the unwrit ten history ol the far west to the door of civilization. There is nothing more ter rible in history than the Mountaiu Meadow Massacre, and this is illustrated by Cupt. A. If. Hogaidus, the world's champion shot, and soores of scouts, co a boys and Indians, in away that vividly pictures the awful horrors of the scene. The Mountain Meadow Massacre occurred in in 1857, and the victims were u band of emigrants on tiieir way across the plains. They were ambushed by a party of Indians and Mormons under the command of John D. I.ce, chief of Brig ham Young's infamous "Destroying An gels," and, though they fought desperate ly, were outnumbered, and on promise of protection surrendered. Lee was false to iiis promise, and the entire company, in cluding 120 men, women and children were massacred in cold blood. The mam moth quarter-mile hippodrome track gives abundant room for the reproduction of this thrilling border drama, which is given with all the accessories necessary to make the performance life like and complete. Adam Forepaugb, Jr.'s $50,000 troupe of trained bronchos; Bloudin, the equine acrialist; the trapeze horse, the trapeze Eclipse, and a triple arenic exhibition, are among the other features of this unap proachable big dual show. Death of Tlioman Brown. On Tuesday afternoon the subject of this notice died at his residence in the Fourth ward, No. 480 Bedford street, after a brief illness. Mr. Brown came to Johnstown when he was quite young, having been born in the county of Dur ham. England in 1847. Soon after coming here he entered the employ of the Cambria Iron Company. Later he was foreman of Haws' mines, aud for the past several years he operated the Horroks coal mines in what is now the Ninth ward. He was for three years a Councilman in Johng town borough and served in several minor offices. He is survived by his wife and two brothers, John and George, both of whom live in this city. The funeral of the deceased will take place to-morrow afternoon, when Alma Lodge I. O. O. F., No. 523, of which he was until his death a prominent member, will turn out to pay their last tribute of respect to their late brother. BY lfll TO 143. The McKinley Tariff Bill Panne* the House an First Reported. WASHINGTON, May 21.— The vote in the House on the third reading and engross ment of the tariff bill resulted : Yeas 161, nays 143. The scene in the House this morning when the McKinley tariff bill approached a final vote was the most exciting that has yet taken place with the exception of the uproar that occurred on Saturday night between Wilson, Bynuin and Bayue. The galleries were crowded and the House on both sides showed that both parties had exerted their energies to bringing out their respective votes. As the time ap psoached for the calling of the previous question botli Democrats and Republicans crowded into the pit in front of the Speaker's chair and many turbulent scenes were enacted. Sir. Farquhar, of New York, on the Republican side, astonished his party with a one minute speech, in which he said : " I pro test against this kind of protection that this bill carries." Mr. Farquhar was speaking for the bcuefit of a delegation of Buffalo farmers, which was in the gallery, and which has been demanding a lower rate of duty on barley. This unexpected drive at the bill brought half the members of the House on their leet anu another scene of confusion ensued. Major Biggs, of California, the great anti-civil service reformer, got the recognition of the chair and standing in the pit made a speech which was not heard owing to the turbulence and uproar that prevailed. Major McKinley at noon demanded the previous question. Mr. Gros venor left the chair, as the pre siding officer of the committee of the whoie, and Speaker Reed look the gavel. He rapped the House, vigorously to order, when Mr. Grosvenor reported the bill to the House from the committee of the whole with amendments. A vive voce vote was ; then taken, the chair de ciding in favor of the bill. Mr. Coleman, of Louisiana, was the sole Republican who had the couiage to face his party and vote against the bill. Mr. Whitthorne (Dem.) cast his first vote of the session, he having' been sick at home. On the vote on the previous question the result was 101 ayes to 143 nays. There jwere a number of Hepubliciuis who dodged the vote. Among them were Mr...Adams, of Illinois ; Anderson, of Kansas ; Butter worth, of Ohio; Buchannan, of New Jersey, aud Dehaven, of California. The only change the House has made in the bill was a mere tcchical one in the schedule on type. A Freight Wreck in Which the Engineer is Killed. One of the most disastrous freight wrecks that have occurred on ihe Middle Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad tor a long time, happened at Elizabeth Furnace, a few miles east of Altooua, Tuesday night. William Boyd, one of tiie eugiueers, was almost instantly killed. He was 05 years old, and was oue of the most thor ough and trustworthy in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Mr. Boyd lived at Harrisbnrg. Brakeman Baker was injured, as was also Flagman McCliner. The wreck is what is known us a " side wipe." Engine No: 882 was pulling oil the siding and was going east with a big load of dressed beef, and Engine No. 507 was running west with through line freight, and a terrific collissiou followed. Engine 882 was totally demolished, and the sides ripped out of six freight cars, scattering beef along the lire for a distance of a quarter of a mile. A great deal of the meat was crushed beneath the wheels. Boxes and crates of fruit and vegetables from the smashed up cars, drawn by engine 507, added much to the general confusion of the mass of food. Of the latter train ten cars were destroyed and piled up in a nondescript mass of rubbish. The fires wli ch ensued were put out by the train men, and tlie body of the dead engineer was taken from the wreck before it was badly scorched. The wreck paralyzed traffic until 7.20 this morning. The roads, both ways, were so completely blocked that an engine could not get cither way until the tracks were par tiully cleared. Iteut tlie Hem,ril. The Edgar Thomson Steel Works at Braddock have been giveu the champion ship in the manufacture of steel rails by tho South Chicago Works. About a year ago Capt. W. It. Jones, late manager of the Works at Braddock, with some of ficials visited the Chicago works, which was then the largest producer in rails. During their stay a broom made of iron, and about fifteen feet high was shown them, which was emblematic of the fact that Chicago had swept the world's record. An agreement was there made that which ever mill came out ahead was to have the broom. During the month of March, the Edgar Thomson eclipsed the record, and Tuesday Mr. C. M. .Schwab, the Superintendent, received the broom. It will be erected in the works. A llrakeuiau Killed. GREKNSBCUO, Pa., May 21.- Frank S. Westbrook, of Altoona. a main line brake man, fell from bis train near New Flor ence last night between 11 and 12 o'clock, and was so badly injured that he died this morning. He was twenty-one years old and married. Sergeant at Arms Canada} TandersHU Resignation. WASHINGTON, May 21.—1n the Senate to-day the resignation of Sergeant at Arms Canaday was presented, to take effect June 30th. ROMANCE AND INSURANCE. A PLOT TO SECURE SIO,OOO THAT WAS FINALLY EXPOSED. The Secret of Hums' Reappearance After He Had Been Mourned For by His Best C.trl—The Doctor and Matilda Overshoot the Mark. About eight years ago a man living in Pecatoniea, Ills., who may be called BuriA for short, insured his life in the Provident Savings Life Assurance com pany of New York for $6,000. He made the policy payable to a young lady for whom lie had developed a singular de gree of fondness, but had never married. Shortly afterward he took out an addi tional $4,000 policy in another company, and proceeded thereafter about tiis regu lar business. He was in good health, and one day in December he went to the river for a season of skating, declining any company. He went skimming over the smooth surface of the river till lie reached a point three miles from town, where he passed a group of men loading wood, shouted a greeting to them, and passed out of sight. They recognized him, and remarked on bis grace as a skater, but they never saw him again. A CLEAR CASE. Burns never came back to town. His Pecatoniea friends never saw him again aud his loss was mourned bitterly. In a day or two a groupof boys came up from the country along the river, four miles from town, and said they saw a man whose description answered that of Burns come skating toward them the morning of his disappearance while they were at tending to some muskrat traps; that lie was performing some marvelous gyra tions and that he suddenly disappeared in an opening in the ice. Burns' friends found the marks of his skates from the very point where he had put tiiem on down to within 200 yards of where the youthful trappers had treed a muskrat. Here they found a hole about ten feet across, formed bv a spring, which pre vented the water from freezing. The skate marks led to the very edge of the hole, and there were lost. It looked like accidental death,'and Miss Matilda, the charming beneficiary under the policies of life insurance, asked that the money be paid her. But until the body was produced and identification fixed beyond a doubt the soulless corpor ation decliued to contribute. Along in April the ice was well out of the river, and the bed was dragged for the body of Burns. The body of a man was found some distance down the river. He had on Burns' clothes. Bums' skates were on his feet, and in one of the pockets was found Burns' open faced watch. The identification seemed complete. But chief among those who examined and identified the body was Dr. Pills, who had passed upon Burns' application for insurance. He seemed exceedingly interested in the case, making many trips to Pecatoniea and comforting Ma tilda by almost daily visits. He cheered her so effectually that on the Fourth of July they were married, aud the girl laid aside her weeds the day she was wed. For some reason the company still ob jected to paying the insurance money, and suit was brought to compel them. They found Burns had made a will by which the doctor inherited all liis little worldly wealth, and this, with some other facts, still induced tiiem to ques tion the validity of the claim. The case did not come to trial until the following winter, and then the defeudants' attor ney asked for an adjournment until the following day. Was he going to offer a compromise? Next morning the court room was filled and every one was on tiptoe to see how much of tiie SIO,OOO Matilda secur ed. Bill Evans, a barber, was placed in the witness chair by the defense. Wore you acquainted with John Burns?" he was asked. "1 was," he replied. "Is he living?" "He is." "How do you know?" "Because I am looking right at him now!" WHY BURNS TURNED UP. All eyes followed the barber's keen glance. Judge, jury, lawyers, witnesses, everyboy rose up and gazed in horrified interest at an apparition near the door. There stood John Burns sound aud well. Tiie barber was discharged and lie took the stand. His identification was in stantaneous, complete, unquestioned. Even Matilda broke down and wept, though something more than joy at see ing him may have moved her. The doc tor grew white and red and white again, then fainted outright. Burns told his story. He and the girl and the doctor formed the scheme to get SIO,OOO from the insurance companies. He was young and careless, and willing to take some risks. The doctor was to take $2,000, the girl $2,000, and ho was to have the balance. Then he was to marry Matilda, and with her leave the country. He passed the wood haulers on the ice, and almost immediately after took off his skates, went ashore and struck off through the woods, which were hare of snow, and got a train at a station ten miles from home, and went to Chicago. Then he went up to Wis consin and found work in a sawmill. He corresponded with the doctor, taking an assumed name. When the company de manded the body the doctor wrote ask ing for his skates, watch and the clothes lie wore on that fatal morning. He sent them, but saved the letter, which was now produced in court, and in which the statement was made: "I have a good 'stiff' about your size which I can use." Burns accidentally learned that Dr. Pills and Matilda were married, and lie at once returned to Pecatoniea. lie said that he would not have cared if his girl hadn't married, hut her weakness and the doctor's evident treachery led them to overreach. The sequel was that the doctor spent two years in prison for his share in the fraud. Burns got off lighter, and the woman was not prosecuted. But how about tho man whom the boys saw skate into a sink holiin the river? Well, they simply lied.—(Aicago Herald. JOHNSTOWN SAVINGS BANK WO. 192 MAIN STREET. HABTERED SEPTEMBER 12. 1870 DEPOSITS received of one dollar and upward, no deposits exceeding a total of $2,000 will be received from any one person. 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