The Democrat.
FRIDAY. JI'NEO. 18' JO.
Trig Democracy of Cambria county has
declared for Bobert Emory Pattison lor
Governor.
POSTMASTER GENERAL VVASAMAKER'S life
and accident insurance now amounts to
♦1,300,000, the largest insurance carried
by any individual in the world.
AN Ohio paper says that "Mr. Rocke
feller, head of the Standard Oil Company,
has an income of $750 per hour, and is a
very pious man." lie ought to be. He
can afford it at that price. Lots of men
would try to be very pious ou an income
of a dollar a minute.
IT IS understood that some ot the West
ern towns which have been sounding the
hewg&g and calling atteiition to their
tremendous population arb awaiting the
footing up of the census returns with a
feeling akin to a fearful dread.
If AYEK, Fitzharris, McMeells, Dillon.
Kirby, Berry, Hipps, and Miller. The
free expression of the wishes of over
4,500 of the Democratic voters of Cambria
county. The Crawford county system
retained as the popular method of muk
ing nominations. The ticket nominated
will prove too much fur anything that
cau he fitted against it by the opposite
party.
RECENT statistics in England seem lo
show a very marked decrease in crime in
that country. In 1808 one person in
every 400 obthe population of the nation
was either considered a criminal or under
police surveillance. Twenty years later,
in 1888, the proportion of the criminal
population was only one in 871, while the
number of indictable offenses reported by
the police force was smaller by 35 per
cent, than twenty years before.
C. A. Pillsbcky, the millionaire miller
of Minneapolis, says that the price of
wheat reached its bottom figure the last
year. The increase of population in the
United States and throughout the world,
with the increased demand for wheat
fiour and the exhaustion of the surplus of
tormer years, has made firmer prices pos
sible. He believes that in the next live
years the mills of Minneapolis will grind
more flour at $1 a bushel than under.
"Toe advance in civilization," he said,
" creates a greater demand for better
food. Black bread gives away to wheat
bread. This is the case the world over.''
OBSERVES the New York Netm : " The
Maryland Legislature very neat ly passed
a bill to abolish the absolete custom of
kissing the Bible in taking an oath. The
bill passed tl:e Senate almost unanimously
but failed in the House. This custom of
kissing the Bible adds nothi >g to the
binding force of th" oath, and is usually a
perfunctory act, and often an irreverent
mockery. It was proposed to substitute
for it the raising of the hand as a formal
recognition of the solemnity of the oath,
and to strike out the words ' so help me
God,' as being an unnecessary impreca
tion and lacking in the reverence which
should be paid to the Almighty name.
The phraseology of the oath exists
in this country is part of the machinery of
mediteval customs for investing all sucli
acts with the utmost impiessiveuess.
But in these times the original purpose is
lost sight of, and the effect is too often a
travesty upon sacred things. Judge Ar
nold, of Philadelphia, has substituted the
raising of the hand for kissing the Bible,
which is an enlightened innovation."
THE VALUE Ot' A TRADE.
Of the 554 convicts received at the East
ern Pennitentiary last year, according to
the report of Inspector Vaux, now a
member of Congress, but thirty-three had
acquired trades by apprenticeship, and
fifty seven learned trades by working at
them, making only ninety who were in
the possession of a trade. Such a dis
proportion exists among the old convicts
in the penitentiary as well as at other
penal institutions throughout the country.
Commenting on these facts, the Easton
Krprtxn in evidently much impressed with
a still other important fact, that a man
who lias a trade_ is less liable to theft
than one who has none is easily apparent,
the more so when it is remembered that
most of the convicis are young men. The
world is moving forward rapidily, and the
young men arc trying to keep up with
it, in appearance, ut least. To do this re
quires money. When a young man has a
trade he is apt to have work, which not
only enables him to meet his wants,
but it will ulso serve us a whole
some restraint from evil. On the con
trary, a young man who has no trade is
less liable to have employment, though
lie will have tbejsame need for money as
has the other, and possibly for more, be"
cause of bis idleness. And this money he
will strive to secure, the means frequently
being a matter of minor consideration.
Then he falls.
Manhood and morality strongly encour
age the learning of a trade. Indolence
militates against it: and so does a shallow
sentiment{among a certain class of people
who have more regard for a coxcomb
than a mechanic, and who esteem foppery
a greater virtue than lusty manhood. A
young man inclined to effeminacy is apt to
be deluded by these silly notions, and, to
ingratiate himself with this kind of peo
ple, will do what, if it does not wreck his
manhood, will eventuate in lessening the
good he might do to himsc# and the
world. A young man who learns a trade
has nothing to regret srve he did not learn
it better.
OFFICIAL RETURNS.
RESULT OF THE DEMOCRATIC PRI
MARY ELECTION ON SATURDAY.
A V*ry l.nrge Vote Polled—Tle Nomina
tions—The Delegates to the State Con
vention Instructed Tor l'attison—Ex-
Sherlfl' Gray Retained as Chairman or
the County Committee.
The return judges of the Democratic
primary election met in the Opera House
at Ebcnsburg yesterday af'ernoon.
county-Chairman Gray presided. Geoige
A. Meats and Thos. J. Itell were chosen
secretaries. VV. A. B. Little acted as
reading secretary.
The sealed returns from the several dis
tricts were then opened and the vote
counted with the results as shown in the
following tables :
ASSEMBLY.
15" I I
•J K 3 * N
DISTRICTS. I I | 1 \
vi £ * 3 *
.XH X K
X . >
• z
Adams 11l 'W 46 5 33
Allegheny T 84 8 11 47
ASbvllle 31 37 1 3 1
Harr sr> S3 34 11 18
I 5 11 7 3
cambrla .. 3u 18 5 a 3
caiTolttown 36 no ti -6 35
Carroll 77 97 34 511 38
chest 47 3 86 14 l
cuest Springs 14 37 4 l 18
Cieartleiu 59 13 il 33 i
Cuneinaugli 3 9 4 3 3
coopei"=ttale 7 5 10 8 4
croyle . 63 29 r> 14 51
Dean 34 36 1 7 0
Eus ic'onemaugh 7 33 15 5 9
Ebehstmrg, Eastward.... 7 13 11 3 7
Ebensburg. West ward.... 39 33 3a 6 38
Elder 43 33 35 15 10
Eraukllu 33 31 8 6 3
liallliztn Bor 238 SHI 9 1 33
oallllzlll 'J \vp 33 33 0 6 3
nasi lags 33 59 31 3D 16
Jacksou 11 13 3 d 1
Johnstown City, Ist W ant 31 31 13 Id 38
Johnstown City, 3d Ward. 34 3d l 6 14
Johnstown city, 3d Ward. 33 49 is 80 39
Johustowu city, 4th Ward in su 16 so 60
Johnstown clty.sth Ward 94 31 i is 43
Jonnstowu City, Ota Ward 31 66 in so oo
Johnstown City, 7th Ward 43 110 39 75 79
Joiinstowuclty, Bth Ward 3 40 l 46 8
Johnstown City, 9th Wai'd nil 169 ti 79 65
Johnstown city, loth Wtt. 108 130 33 33 HI
Johnstown city, 11th Wd . 13 si ; 7 15
Johnstown City, lsi li W'd.. 58 69 10 18 6
Johnstown city, 13th W'd.. 34 41 3 is 1
Johnstown City, 14th W'd.. 46 88 1 39 6
Johnstown city, 15th W'd.. 47 71 13 15 16
Johnstown City, 16th Wd. 138 119 17 137 10
Lilly 58 49 6 6 36
LoretlO 35 33 4 3 9
Minister 43 IKI 14 31 14
1 ortuge 46 65 18 9 w
Keade 10 9 0 33 5
Kichluud 38 16 13 7 56
south Fork 18 io 3 1 33
8 tony creek 9 44 34 18 18
Sumiiterhlll 19 9 36 o 11
susiiuehaiiua 44 48 11 88 19
Tayior, East 8 36 4 31 3
Taylor, west 4 9 5 96 31
Tuuneihill u "3713
.Washing.on, Upper 53 61 8 31 3
Washington, Lower 36 ■ 4 5 13 9
White 8 9 3 17 1
Wllmore. 45 15 11 3 3
Voder, Upper 35 16 3 8 15
Voder, Lower. 43 90 16 85 11
Total 3361 3748 748 1361 988
TREASURER.
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5 I - 1 " £
DISTRICTS. 5 ? ? * ?
z • x
:21 : r
Adams 10 .. 17 ...
Aliegu-ny 8 17 88
Ashville 9 1 34 1 3
Burr 3 .. 113 1 ...
Blackllek 4 ... 9
Cambria I 13 1 13
Carroiltown 1 ... 68 83 5
Carroll twp 4 2 108 as 5
Chest 48 ... 6
Chest Springs 6 1 7 1 15
ciearfleid 30 2 87 6 91
conernaugh 3 .. 9 ...
Coopersdaie 1 15 ...
croyle 15 33 5 83 6
Dean 7 .. 14 9 1
East conernaugh 7 1 3 19 5
Ebelisbuig, E. W 1 18 3 7
hbensblllg, W. W 3 3 38 31 14
Elder 8 1 43 is 7
Erankltn 10 5 ... 30 ..
liallitzlu bor is 3 31 ljtj 55
uallltzintwp 1 .. 11 5 34
Hustings 31 3 41 8 3
Jacksou 3 6 13 ...
Johnstown, Ist ward 1 15 4 34 3
.Johustowu, ,'d ward 14 5 ... 18 ...
Johnstowu, 3d ward 3 14 .. 70 ..
Johnstown. 4tli ward 4 1 69 ...
Johnstown, sth ward 5 35 ... 21 ..
Johustowu, 61U ward 1 17 1 so 1
Johnstown. 7th ward. j 13 ... 167 1
Johustowu, sib ward 9 6 .. 41 ...
Johnstown, 9th ward 3 58 1 199 ..
Johnstowu, luili ward w 39 .. 117 ...
Johnstown, llthward 1 21 2 19 ..
Johnstown. 12th ward 30 1 3 48 1
Johnstown, lath ward 12 3 1 3U 1
Jonnstowu, 14111 ward 48 is ... 88 2
Johustowu, loth ward 66 7 .. 25
Johnstown, 16th ward HI 16 ...Bio 1
Lilly 27 8 8 31 11)
Loretto 8 5 21
Monster 1 14 62
Portage 25 14 3 12 24
lteade 27 ... 14 ... 8
Richland ... 13 6 .. 45 ...
south Fork 6 15 .. 5 1
stonycreek 5 18 ... 89 ..
suminerhiu 1 ... 21 9 2
Susquehanna J 5 3 69 6 ...
Tayior, East 16 111 ... 3 ..
Taylor, West 21 1 .. 6 ...
Tunneihlll 13 .. 23 32 16
Washington, Upper 5 3 22 7 hi
I Washington, Lower 24 1 3 3 31
White 1 .. 17 ... 1
1 Wllmore t 1 1 6 82 ..
Voder, Upper 1 77 23 ..
Yi der. Lower 37 12 1 83 1
Totals 651 419 817 1938 518
Tlie Baby .Market
I I let Free Press.
j "Girl babies ate in demand," said he
matron of a foundlings' home yesterday.
" If you want to place a child for adop
tion you will have no trouble us long as
the child is—a girl."
" Have boys gone out of fashion ! "
•' Oh, no. Boys will be boys you know-
But then somehow the popular fancy
seems to run towards a girl."
" But a girl is more expensive to raise.'i
'* Not at all. Another popular fallacy.'
"But girls squall more and are a
greater nuisance generally; and when
they grow up "
•• And when they glow np they are the
idol of the household. Those dear girls,
what would the world do without them ?
There may be a few, a select few, who
are inclined to be a trifle vain, proud,
dressy and giddy, but they are the excep
tion. I'm no woman if Ido not stick up
for my sex. Yes, sir; girl babies are in
demand, while boyß are at a discount."
The foundation for Fockler & Lever
good's new building, on Morris street, is
row completed and work will begin
on the building in a few days.
FOR COMMISSIONER.
X X -i X * -i K
X X X X X
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n w ~ * n
DISTRICTS. % X W 2 C "
5 * *' -i 33 3
* * 33 2 3 :
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Adams "77" at 5# 8 90 77 ...
Allegheny 17 ... 44 8 8 48 88
Ash vine 8 38 8 a si a
Barr as ... 8 si 5 ...
lllack lick 1 a 1 H 8 4
cam hria 8 1 5 4 6 7 85
CanolltowD ... til 1 81 5 li 7 aa
Carroll ... 87 1 137 3 85 9 50
Chest 8:1 1 51 11 5
Chest springs... 5 t as l th) 8
Clearfield as 4 70 4 4 aa 51
conemaugh 5 10 4 1 .. a ...
Coopersdale.... 1 1# l4 1
croyle 4 37 b tt 4 it
Dean 13 3 14 14 ' Id a
E. conemaugh.. 18 a 18 4 .*> 6
EOensburg, K. w s> 7 8 1 a 7
Ehensourg, w. w 3B 17 38 17 5 7 ai
Elder 30 1 7B .. 33 77
Franklin 5 33 3 37 ... .. I
Gal.ltzlnbor.... 14 .. 8 13 11 383 33
Gallium twp.... 5 3 7 1 3 3a 7
Hastings 33 ... 79 a 83 IB 8
Jackson 4 B 4 7 5
Johnstown,
First ward 3 35 18 33 11 3 3
second ward I 7 IB 33 3 3
Third ward 10 54 10 lis 18 7 0
Fourth ward. .. 8 47 a ax at 15 a
Firth ward it 4ii ... ta as a it
Sixth ward... . 31 B5 BB 37 I 3
seventh ward... 37 toa 37 tat 37 5 17
Eighth ward.... 38 8 ... 48 7
Math ward ia ail 13 am la la aii
Tenth ward a 140 13 131 to ia 13
Eleventh ward... 4 3U .. 30 3 3 5
Twelfth ward... 1 31 13 75 .. IB at
Thirteenth w'rd t 34 13 40 a 7 3
Fourteenth wrd ... 05 a 74 ... as 10
Fifteenth ward 3 31 17 64 1 43 33
Sixteenth ward 5 83 31 188 7 73 70
Lilly 3 3 7 30 0 38 35
LOielto B 3 33 ... 1 15 IB
Minister... B 4 47 8 8 43 37
POitage 4 8 55 48 1 33 3
Heinle a 1 3a 37
Klchland. li 33 48 40 10 a ...
SOUlh Fork.... 4 IB 17 .. 5 • B B
stonycreek 33 44 1 38 14 1 1
Suminerhlil 1 4 33 37 3 8 ..
Susquehanna.... 43 1 64 4 3b 1
Taylor, East. 15 1 34 1 11 7
Taylor, West 17 t a 13 17 ... 3
Tuunelhlll IB ... 17 31 ! 8! 3
wa.-hngion,U.. a 5 5a 4 5 58 18
\\ ashtngton, L.. 3 1 13 5 8 57 5
While 17 ... I 1 7 8 B
Wllmore a 0 T 48 1 a l
Yoder, Upper.. 3 3 36 5 85 1
Yoder, Lower... ill 83 1 8U 1 7 18
01a15...... 837 1888 1458 1741 870 1090 735
AUDITOR. P. 111). C.OF-K.
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DISTRICT. 5 § 3 5 S ■* =
5 5 ~ X n f
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Adams 58 36 33 83 1 73 47
Allegheny sa 53 58 50 IB 68 35
Ashvllle 81 B 35 13 34 18 13
Barr 58 ta 100 84 40 18 mi
Biackikk to 4 7 n a ... 18
cambila 36 13 88 31 B 13 14
Carrolltown 37 :.a 98 87 30 .57 34
Carroll 77 ta 148 115 40 77 70
Chest 14 14 53 39 15 43 3
Chest springs... 3t 5 39 8 30 15 14
Clearfield 63 Bl 5 4 39 58 as Bi
conemaugh.. . is to 4 ll I 10 0
Coo.-ersdule. .. 1 16 17 ... IB ... li
croyle 74 33 55 33 47 10 1
Dean IS 15 34 13 IB IS 9
E. conemaugh, 31 30 33 33 10 t 35
bensb'g, K.W. 14 13 10 13 8 6 7
Ebensb g, W.W. 46 41 33 sa as 33 39
Elder 33 31 74 64 13 47 35
Franklin 34 13 30 Baa aa 6
Galliumbor.... sao 78 iar> S4 157 1-.6 s.
Gallium twp.... 39 li 11 18 13 17 13
Hastings .0 'Bl 7 6 60 111 49 35
Jackson 1 .3 11 a 11 13 ..
Johnst wu.
First ward 38 13 33 47 8 30 17
Second ward 33 19 33 33 10 10 IB
Thlid ward.... 41 78 44 75 10 3S 39
Fourth ward.... 37 BO 43 59 U aa 33
Fifth ward 89 39 13 si 10 63 B
stxik ward BB BU 64 93 B 74 18
seventh ward... 107 188 71 174 s 73 41
Eighth ward.... 88 49 1 3 44 8 8 31
Ninth ward 170 isa 137 lo.> 51 a-l ms
Tenth ward 109 I3i 75 140 31 B 130
Eleventh ward. 39 IB 3d 33 3 a 34
Twelfth ward... 76 68 16 60 33 8 80
Thirteenth w'l'd 38 3d IB 36 11 8 38
Fourteenth wrd 59 65 59 56 40 7 8i
Fifteenth wa d. BB 17 14 H7 S3 13 60
lxteenth ward. 37 188 i"7' U4 100 1-1 53
Lilly 69 30 :48 37 45 13 48
Loretto 38 11 18 30 13 31 9
Munster 63 81 58 33 43 14 to
I'ortage 75 30 35 6 70 39 87
Reade 33 I 41 37 3 8 39
Richland 51 17 55 MI 5 V 45
South F'ork 36 7 30 5 33 8 15
Stonycreek 38 31 3S ',7 8 1 43
summerhlll.... 38 3 5 7 35 16 is 1
Susquehanna.... 88 57 53 40 41 3"> 4S
Taylor. East.... 14 36 15 7 30 1 16
Taylor, West 15 39 13 IB 15 30 •>
Tunnelhlll 75 7 73 15 05 is ,19
Washington, t'. 7(1 35 50 35 55 13 64
Washington, L. 58 HI S 36 37 8 43
White 11 1 19 7 10 3 17
Wllmore 46 6 7 13 31 6 3S
Yoder. Upper... 10 33 31 81 7 31 3
Yoder, Lower... 84 8J 88 96 88 48 51
Totals 8818 8346 8671 8888 1397 1576 1913
Thomas H. Greevy received 4,217 voles
for Congress, there being no opposition.
The mimes of the Committeemen-elect
from the different districts were also an
nounced, but lor tlie present, owing to
want ol room, they are omitted.
After the calling of the vote a recess
was taken, during which time the result
was footed up.
Upon re-assembling, the new commit
tee was organized by the unanimous re
election of ex-Sheriff Joseph A. Gray as
Chairman for tlie ensuing year.
Business began by the announcement
that tlie election of delegates to the State
Convention to be held at Scranton, July
2d, was 111 order. Nominations came
faster tlmn flic clerks could record them.
Col. John P. Linton, Herman Baumer, H.
A. Engelhart, F. J. O'Connor, H. A-
Shoemi.ker, Wm. 11. Thomas, Geo. W.
Wagoner, F. P. Martin, Richaril/llowen,
Caron Leahy, P. J. Dietrick. C. N.
Crouse, and A. J. Christy were placed in
nomination.
A resolution was offered by Capt. John
Downey, substitute committeeman from
tlie Fourth ward, Johnstown, declaring
the first five of the above named gentle
men the representatives of.Cambria coun
ty in the coming State Convention. In a
moment a dozen delegates were on their
feet. Gen. Joseph Mi Donald declared
against the wholesale business, as he
called it. The proposition was so vehe
mently opposed that it was withdrawn.
This took place before all the names for
delegates had been placed in nomina
tion.
About the time the committee was
ready to vote, Dr. G. E. Conrad, commit
teeman from the Fifth ward, Johnstown,
handed the Chairman a resolution in
structing the delegates to be elect
ed to vote for Robert E. Pattison
for Governor. The Chairman was
not sure that it was the proper thing
to put the resolution before or after the
delegates were elected. He finally ruled
that the delegates should be elected first.
To this there was much opposition, result
ing in considerable confusion. At times
half a dozen members were on their feet
at one t'nie.
Order was eventually restoied and the
voting for delegates proceeded, the com
mitteemen in most cases not knowing the
prefeiences of the men for whom they
voted for delegates. The vol ing resulted
as follows : Linton 20, Haunter 10, Kn
gelhart 20. O'Connor 17, Shoemaker 27,
Thomas 20, Wagoner 15, Martin 11.
Bowen 33, Leahy 14, Dietrick 30, Crouse
5, and Christy 7. Messrs Limon, Dietrick,
Bowen, Englehart, and Shoemaker were
therefore declared'elected.
Mr. Chas. M. Swank, of the Sixth ward,
Johnstown, then moved that the dele
gates be instructed to vote for Robert E.
Pattison for Governor. Capt. Downev
moved to amend by substituting I he name
of Win. A Wallace. Again a dozen men
were demanding recognition of the chair.
Finally a rootiou to call the roll, and have
each delegate express his preference as to
whom the delegate should be instructed
for, prevailed. The vote was according
ly taken with the result of nineteen for
Wallace and thirty six for Pattison, live
districts having no committeeman present.
The Pattison men were jubilant over their
victory.
In the matter of choosing congressional
conferees Mr. Greevy, having received
the vote of the county, was voted the
privilege of naming his own men.
The meeting of the committee having
finished its work adjourned, it being after
(i o'clock. A special train leaving Ebens
burg at 7:15 conveyed the crowd to
Cresson, wheie they took their respective
rou'es for home by the night trains.
Heath of Nicholas K. Carroll.
Yesterday morning Mr. M. J. C.irroll,
of this place, received a message that his
brother Nicholas, of Salina, Kas., could
not possibly live and on the early after
noon train he left for that place. Later
in the evening his brother John received
another message, stai ing that he had died
at 12:23.
Mr. Carroll was well known in this
piace and was a son of Patrick Carr.ill,
late of Conemaugh borough. II s mother
and one brother, Thomas 13., and sister
Rose were drowned in the flood. Mary,
who survived the flood, went to Salina
last summer, and Michael J. and John
have been living here. Nicholas had for
merly been in bush ess here, and for
some j ears kept a dry goods smre In the
old Merchants' Hotel building. About
nineteen y ars ago he moved to Salina,
where he engaged in the real estate busi
ness and also conducted a mercantile
bas'ness. He was prosperous in his new
home and was appointed postmasur at
Salina by President Cleveland, which
position he held at the time of his death.
IjOK (iIIVHKNOK'XMI
rattinon and Delamufer for the Former
l'lace, and Clfvrlaim and OIM.V fr the
Latter.
Coming down to Cresson from Ebeus.
burg on Monday evening, in one of the |
cars of the special train, was a crowd,
not allot whom were Dentin rats, although
the majority were cotnnii lei men on their
retuin home. A straw vote was
taken on Pattison and Wallace as the
choice for Democratic in.minee for Gov
ernor, with the result ot 33 for Pattison
and 3 tor Wallace. A vote on Hastings
an I Del unater as the choice f >r the Re
publican nominee was then taken. The
resu't was 30 for Delanmter and (i foi
Hastings. The vote on Hill and Cleve
land as Democratic nominee in 1892 re- i
suited in 30 for Cleveland and 4 for Hill, j
and the choice betw en Blaine and Quay j
as the Republican uoniiuce ell to the la - j
ter by a vote of 32 tol. No doubt the
several gentlemen whose fate was thus
determined will be interested to hear of
the result.
THE FBtslt I INS.
Meeting of'the State Medical AsMociatioii in
rtttMburgli—Taper I y Dr. eo. W.
Wagoner.
At the session of the State Medical
Society cf Pennsylvania in Pittsburgh
yesterday Dr. Wagoner, of Johnstowon,
read a paper that proved .<> be interesting
throughout, and, at some passages, thrill*
iug and m iving.
Dr. Wagoner, the reader, himself, lost
his sister and parents in the Johnstown
disaster, and many an eye was tearful
when he referred to that incident. He paid
a glowing tribute to the Pittsburgh physi
cians, to the Allegheny County Society,
the Red Cross Society, the State
officials, and all who aided the sufferers.
He spoke of '.he six pbysiciaus who
found their death in the flood, described
the wont of those who treated the wound
ed under such awful circumstances, and
grew eloquent in the sincereity of the
thanks lie rendered to them all.
Joker*' Kevels.
Terrc Haute Express: You can easily
till the public eye if you only have the
dust.
SomertiUe Journal: The vain man never
can see any excuse for vanity in the men
he knows.
Racket: " Avoid whiskey and water,
my son," said the fond father. "Itis a
dilution and a snare."
Chicago Times : " I hear lhat.'your pic
nic was a swell affair." "It was. Wc
all got stung by hornets "
Pittsburgh Chronicle : If words always
meant what they said, articles would be
deer when trade is stagnant.
Boston Bulletin; Strange to say very
few fanß are pawhed, ulthough it is very
easy to " raise the wiud " witli them,
Washington, Post : In the bright lexicon
of yohth there may be no such word as
fail, but it's with Brad
st) eet's.
•JIM -
Tlie InMcriptlon llvei a .IIIIIIIHIIIWII Clr.vr
anil tli. Ktnry • lint Gnen Willi 11. I
New York Sun. June s 11.
After the toasts at the dinner of the '
Johnstown coirespondents at ttie Fellow j
craft Club oil Saturday-night, and when !
reminiscenses we<*e in order, some chance j
remark brought out from General 1). H. j
Hastings, who, having been the henefac- I
tor of the newspaper men at Johnstown, |
had become their guest in New York, a 1
story of the ti nd, hich. though t lias i
wailed a fuli year for the telling, has the
freshness and delicacy of a newly-plucked
flower, ami die always new odor of hero
ism inseparable from a tale of noble
actions, even though the hern lie hut a
tramp. This is the way the General
told it:
• It was the night after the flood, and I |
hud arrived on the spot only a short time I
before, after driving sixty miles over the
mountains. You know what a horrible
thing darkness was in Johnstown, any
how, and that was the first night, and the
worst. A few of us were standing on the
bank overlooking the plain and the
smouldering debris at t lie bridge, saying
nothn g and trying not to think. Pres
ently some one pulled a few pieces of
wreck together and built a fire. We could
see each other then, and one of the tough
est looking men I ever saw in my life,
and it took a pretty ragged and dirty and
miserable man to attract attention at
Johnstown then, hunted around utit'l he
found a battered ol i can, and in it he
made coffee over the fire and handed it
around to us. I said, when he handed
me mine:
'■' I suppose you've lost everything?'
•• We always made some remark like
that to a stranger then ; it sei metl about
the only natural thing to say.
••' No,' said he, ' didn't lose anything.'
" ' You beio: g here' said I.
" ' Nop,' said he.
•'' Got friends here ? '
" ' Nop.'
" ' Look here,' said 1, ' aho are you
anyhow?'
"'Well,' he sort of muttered, 'l'm
what they call a tramp.'
" Then he seemed to brighten up and
said :
"I'll tell ye; i ain't done a stroke o*
work in more'n four j ear, but 1 just hap
pened to come avng here, an' 1 tell you,
it just knocked me out. 1 seen all these
people with nothin' left an' nobody to
help 'em, an' I just pitched in 'fore J
knew it. I ain't much good, out 1 done
all 1 could, an' I'm goin' to stay here now
as long as I kin he of any help.'
'' I sort of took an into.est in the fellow
at that, and told I im who i was, and that
if he'd come around to headquarters next
day I'd give him some w irk to do. He
was on hand i arly next morning, and said
he didn't mind wlu t tie did, so we tied a
while piece of cotton about his ha'.,
market! ' Morgue' on it t i big litters,
ami ti l 1 1 im to n help Handle lite dead.
| You know what awful work tl at
hut he lo"ki d like a ghoul auynow, and
lie dtith't kicu at (heussigiimeiii. After a
it ■ y or nto we not c, d that .te was one of
the hi si nun we nan. ;.e was patten',
industrious, and km it. ami a-, taiihful as
a wont in. 11 incr Miiikci , tn-k, no
, matter how to n ,n.l nt m vet - jo u
j as long H- lliete was w-oa to no, itoy o
rllig"!. Willi we ii. . in./.eii a rign at ton i
1. wu..'ed to jat >■ iin n , i pn\-io||, ami
asked iii.ti :
" \V Hal's I Sir II . 1.l
"l)i, jits, pu, Ills' n WII ",! in." In
said : ' Uliti'i. i. .
" t-o as J lilt lie v. iat dow'ti m I.a i i .
ami that was '.he I tiattti wretri'kiiCW
him lit. We k pi niu at woik uliou
headquarters i ost of the liitie, an t for
forty live of the forty seven days 1 was in
Johnstown 1 had no more steady, hard
working faithful, and lion si man among
ail tile thousands that Were tnerc. tie
did everything lie was -el to do patiently,
intelligently, and uueoniplairtiniugly, and
we all got to think a good deal of him. He
remained in appearance, a very tou.'ll
lo 'king citizen, but a- lie worked among
t'lie sic-K and suffering and miserable, a
good deal of bis tour hness wore off. lie
got more refined, somehow, although we
didn't think mccli about it til; atteiward.
" One day the last of the nteu were
paid oil', and he drew t ie first money lu
bad since lie began to work.
•"Wlmt are you going to to now,
j Jim ?' I asked him.
" • Well, I'll tell you,' he said. • You
know I ain't always been a tramp; I used
to have a nice home in Massachusetts and
a wife anil children, but five years ago I
had some trouble with my wife, ttnd I
wont away, and —well, 1 ain't becen good
lor nothing much since.'
" 'Now, Jim, look here, said I, " what
you want to do is to go right back to Mas
sachusetts and sec if your wife's alive and
look up your children aud live like a man
again.'
" ' General,' he said, ' that's iust what I
was comin' to. You see, I ain't been
caring much what became of me since I
got to trainpin' around, but seem' all these
people so miserable au' workiu', you
know, an' helpin' em what I could, its
kimlo' changed me, somehow, an' I want
to sec if I can't be somebody myself. So
I've got some money now, an' I'll go back
au' hunt up my folks, an' I know I can get
work, an' maybe I'll get along all right
again.'
" - Jim, you're justright.n said. ' How
much money have you got ?'
" 'Sixty-eight dollars, General.'
" 'Now, I'll tell you what you do; we're
all going away in a day or two, you know,
and you go down to the Commissary De
partment and tell 'em to trive you a suit
of clothes, and fix yourself up some, and
when I go h'in.v I'd take >■ 11 with roe,
hiul you run slay a 'lay or two with
me, and tin. n g" n to Massachu
setts.'
"He seemed very grateful. 1 asked
him :
•• • What will you do wkwi. vou get
there?'
•• • Oh, Til eet work again '
" ' Wi-'l', all right: now you go off and
get a new suit, and I'll take you home
wi'h me when I go,' I said, and .lint hur
ried off toward the Commissary Depart
me't.
•• Liter in the day he came back. ou
wouldn't have known him. Of course
the suit wasn't much, but it was neat and
clean, and he'd got Itis hair cut and his
heard shaved off, and he iiad on a boiled
shirt and 11 necktie. He was a big, stal
wait f. llow, with a handsome, waving
moustache, and he looked really hand
some, but them was something the
matter with him. and it a minute I knew
what had spoiled Jim's life.
" Jim." 1 said, ' you've been drinking.'
• • Well, General,' he said. ' you know
I'm through work now, an' I hadn't tasted
a drop ever since 1 been here, so 1
thought I'd just get a quart of whiskey
while 1 was down there, and —and-1 guess
I've drunk a pint or so of it, but 1 ain't
drunk.'
•••Now see here, Jim,' said 1, 'this
isn't right: you'll never get back to your
wife and children if you start in this way.
Quit it right where you are, and don't
spoil everything just as you are ready to
begin over again.'
" He sort of half promised and weut on
down the road, but 1 noticed that lie met
some friends and that there was a deal
of tilling of elbows, I wa'ched htm until
lie met another party o! friends and saw
the elbows go up again, and then Jim
went oil out of sight.
•• tome time afterward one of my aides
came to the tent, looking very queer, and
said :
••'General, there's an accident liap
pitieil to Viiii, and I 1 ucss you'd better
e-une.
" 1 hurried off aflet him, and away up
the railroad track 1 came to a little gtonp
of men, and in the midst of them po >r Jim
lyiug on the ground. He bad got in the
wy of the freight train somehow, and
both tiis legs wcrexut off above the knee.
We picked him up and carried him to
the Hospital We did what we could f>r
1 him but it wasn't much. Two or three of
us sat bv his bedside ail night, and when
day he broke died. We picked out the
tines' coffin we had for Jirn ; we dug bis
grave iu the iiretiiest spot there was left
iu the cemetery, and he had the biggest
funeral that there had been in Johnstown
at ail. And the day we le.t we took a
board and set it up at the head of his
grave, and all we put 011 it was one word,
Jitn.""
-I'iint'N tIEA,UK. KI>\VAIU> H.
•lITKtt.
He **. eat to lied Well Saturday Keen
it)£ ami at ;:lO O'clock
Vi slfidny Moriiini;.
(in Sunday morning at 2:30 o'clock Mr,
Edward H. biter, a well-known and es
teemed citizen of the Sixth ward, died
suddenly of apoplexy at his residence,.
Xo. 151 Mo ris street. South Side. He
wetit ' • "id iu Ins usual health on Sstur
!a\ evening and rested well until shortly
jet 'he hour named, when he awoke*
, f. cling tin.ell. He died almost inslauiy.
j Mr. -ti r was horn at Chestir, Dels
; .vat 1 win' v, Marcn 20, 1831. In 1854 he
| w- 111:0 rieifaul it-moved with bis family
j;o Joiiioriowii in 1857. He obtained em-
I piu< 11.ent with the Cambria lion Com
-1 uit>, t.i who e service he was engaged,
exciptitig id shirt intervals, until his
death.
At his country's call for volunteers in
April, 1801. when Fort Sumpter Vus
011 tired, Mr. Siker responded. His term of
enlistment was for three months. He
mming hi-me at the expiration of that
time, he continued at his work. But
when another call was made later in the
same year lie enrolled nimseif in the nine
months' service. He agaiu returned to
his woik at the mills here, but removed.
V Bethlehem. Fa., remaining there only
ten months, wheie he again took up his
residence in Johnstown.
While ins country needed able-bodied
men in the held. Mr. biter could not con
tent himself at home. He enlisted a third
time ami remained in tile service until the
end of the war. Since the orgsnieation of
the G. A. K. in Johnstown lie lias been a
prominent member.
The deceased has been employed at the
Bessemer Steel Department of the Cam
bria Iron Company's works since it was
started, having been a foreman in that
department since 1870.
At the time of the flood Mr. Siter dwelt
at No. 101 Vine street. Ilis residence
was swept away. He then removed to
the house where he died. For some time
past he hail not been quite as well as
usual, although he lost no time from
work. He was at work on Thursday
night, returning about 1 o'clock at the end
of his turn. On Friday he went to Pitts
burgh. reluming Saturday evening.
The deceased is survived by his wife
and two children—a son and a daughter.
The daughter is the wife of Mr. James P.
Thomas, cf the firm of John Thomas A;
Sons. The son, William, is at Chat
tanooga, Tenu. Another daughter, now
deceased, was the first wife of the late
Thomas Kirlin, anil one died at home
several years ago.
The funeral will take place ou Tuesday,
but the hour has not yet been determined.
The Y. W, C. r l\*~U., of Morrellvllle,
gave a reception at the home of Miss
Lizzie Hill, Tuesday evening, June 3d.
About ninety young ladies and gentle
. men were present, and a most deligbiful
t time is reported. Quite a number of new
I members were added to the society.