CLAY DISAPPOINTED. HIS DEFEAT FOB THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION IN 1839. Th Part Tak.a by Thai-low Wnd anil Roraoa Ofaal A 1'lnt Admitted -Row tha ftanator Raral.ad tha N.w. of tha Conrontlnn'a Artlon. Tho Whig convention of IR3H wn held In a nrw Lnthcrmi clmtvh In Hnr tUbnrg, and it in anafo afisuniiitinn Hint norcr brforp or lnoe hn a honco rf Hod been nindo tlio acrno of o much anil o adroit iHtlitirnl niimcnvrring n went on there, for the, purpone of preventing the, noiiiiilntloii of Ilrnry Clay for tho preaidoncy. Tho rhlef limnipulator u Thnrlow Word, who npix-nn-d there . tho friend of Governor Howard, mid tho fntnro member of tho powerful firm of Beward, Weed & Urn-ley. Thin firm wan indeed tho oiitromo of tho mim ing rHinpaign. Greeley wni at tho con vention, little, dreaming that tho cam paign which wan to follow would give him tho oppnrtnnity for developing the qualified which were to make him tho first editor of his time and lend to the foundation of a great newspaper to bo forever linked iiidisnolulily with hi name. Weed went into convention with t he determination of defeating Clay. Ho any in his autobiography that ho had had tho New York delegation in structed for Beott to keep it from Clay, bis real candidate being Harrison. He entered into an agreement with friends of Webster, on tho way to liar risbnrg from New York city, to act to geter for Clay's defeat. Webster wns in Enropo at tho time and had sent word to his friends declining to lie a candi date, primarily because of Weed's re fusal to anpport him. After detailing these facta Mr. Weed goes on to say that, on reaching Harrisbnrg, "wo fonnd a decided plurality in favorof Mr. Clay," but that, "in tho opinion of tho dele gates from Pennsylvania and New York, Mr. ClBy could not carry either of those states, and without them ho conld not be elected. " Weed admits a bargain in favor of Harrison with the friends both of Web ster and of 8cott, and says tho "final vote was Intentionally delayed by the friends of the stronger candidate (Har rison) for 24 hours" in order to placate the angry friends of Clay, "whoso dis appointment and vexation found excited expression. " Greeley makes frank admission in his "Recollections of a Busy Lifo" as to the plot by saying that tho parties to it, chiefly Weed, "judged that he (Clay) could not be chosen, if nominated, whilo another could be, and ax-ted ac cordingly," adding, "If politics do not meditate tho achievement of beneficent ends through tho choice and use of the safest and most effective means, I whol ly misapprehend them." This somewhat Jesuitical view did not strike Clay and his friends as an adequate justification of tho methods by which an admitted majority of the con vention had been prevented from ex pressing its will. John Tyler of Vir ginia, one of Clay's most ardent friends in tho convention, was so overcome with grief at Harrison's nomination that ho shed tears, and after several unavailing . efforts to get some ono else to take the nomination for vice president Tyler was named for it, his tears having con- . vluced the convention that the placing of so devoted a friend of Clay on tho ticket would go far to heal tho wounds that the methods of tho convention had caused. Clay's rage at tho outcome was un bounded. Ho had been assuming in the senate a lofty indifference to tho presi dency, his famous saying, "I would rather be right than be president, " hav ing been made, publio only a short time before tho convention met Thero was nobody in tho senate at that time of suf ficiently nimblo wit to think of tho bit ing retort which Speaker Reed many years later made to a congressman who or tho thousandth time was strutting about in Clay's cast off garments: "Don't give yonrself the slightest un easiness. You'll never bo cither." But Clay had given himself great uneasi ness, for he was most desirous of the nomination. Ho had been a candidate eight years earlier, when ho had no chance of election, and ho believed firm ly now that if nominated he conld be elected. When the news from Harrisburg reached him in Washington, ho lost all control of himself. "He had been drink ing heavily in the excitement of expec tation, " says Henry A. Wise, who was with him. "Ho roso from his chair, and, walking backward and forward rapidly, lifting his feet like a horse tringhalted in both legs, stamped hi boots upon the floor, exclaiming: 'My friends are not worth the powder and ahot it would take to kill them. It is a diabolical intrigue, I know now, which lias betrayed me. I am the most unfor tunate maniu the history of parties Always run by my friends whou sure to be defeated, and wow betrayed for a nomination when I or any one wonld be nure of an election." "Humor and Pathos of Presidential Conventions, " by loaoph R. Bishop, in Century. A Starr at Crocket. At the booksellers' dinner in London 6. R. Crockett told how he was recent ly introduced to lady to whom his proiosakat was mentioned. "Mr. Crock ett," she said dnriug the evening, "I hear yon are an author. Have yon pub lished any of your works yet?" Mr. Crockett enjoyed tolling the story, though it was at his own expense. Bnt fee was decidedly nonplused for a mo ment when glee club which was pres ent immediately burst forthwith the tlee, "Strike the tyre." All Thar. Mr. J. (Idoal) My love, did yon lave a fluger in this pie? Mrs. J. (Practical ) Why, no. In deed. None of my flnfen if mlsainft" Est? Jfrw Pram FLASHED INTO EXISTENCE. Bow Danblcnr Rtaitlcd a Door All Day ta Paint Mature. Charles Noel Flngg of Now York tells interesting stories of bohemian life in Paris in the seventies. "I was at Honflenr one summer," said Mr. Flagg, "when the Danbignys father and son were there I have al ways thought Danhigny tho strongest and snnest landscape painter in the Bar' bizon group, and it was interesting to see how ho worked and how ho taught nis son. This son was a man of brilliant talent, who died soon after, nnfortn nately. He wonld take an enormous canvas out into tho field and cover it in an hour and a half this was to get composition, massing of light and shade, etc. and then his fnther wonld come and criticise it. 801110 of these big swift things wore shown in tho salon after ward Tho painters used to contrilmto in ono way or another to the fine old inn where wo stopped, and tho landlord wanted young Daubigny to paint tho panel of n certain door. At last tho painter promised to do it the next mom ing. I resolved to see that thing done, so I got up before dawn, planted myself in tho ohl dining room nt good point or view and preteniled to sketch from the window. Pretty soon young Dan bigny came down professed to bo not in tho least disturbed by me, so I staid, Ho sat down in front of tho door and looked at it hard for an hour or six Then ho got up and viewed it from dif ferent angles. Then ho gazed at it from tho end of U10 room. Then ho sat down again. The hours camo and went, nnd still ho was studying that door, with scarcely a pause for meals. By afternoon I was nearly wild; if he didu'topen his paintliox soon, I would smash tho door. At last, at tho beginning of twilight, presto! 1 was too excited to see. All in a minute a few lightnings flashed nut from him, nnd thero was tho miracle) And breathlessly I realized that he had been painting that picture all day." Chicago Times-Herald. MAKING A MINE. In Some InManc. It Cant Nothing In Othrm tlm Coot Is Millions. Thero uro no hard and fast rules in regard to making a mino from tho tinm it passes into the prospector's hands un til it become a dividend payer. Many mines are such, as the miners say. "from tho grass roots," and turn ont largo quantities of ore from tho beflf li ning. J. B. Hnggin, the millionaire mino owner, took ja, 000, 000 from the Custer mine, in Lemhi county, Ida., before it becamo necessary to use a candle (giant powder). This mino was known as the Mineral mountain. A man came along one day, and after looking at it remarked, "Why, the hanging wall is gone. This was trno. Nature had as sisted the miner in this case: the moun tain sido had been eroded, leaving tho mineral standing there. Mr. Haggiu also spent about 11,000,000 in develop ing tho Anaconda mine before it was on a paying basis. Mines have been discovered contain ing fabulous wealth, although a pros pector would starve to death in trying to work them. This was truo in regard to the Homi-stake, mine, in the Black Hills. Tho prospectors who niado tho discovery could do nothing with it, and it passed into the hands of Senator Hearst and other California capitalists. They concluded that, unless it was worked on a large Bcalo, it could not be made profltablo. An 80 stamp mill was ordered and shipped in from Cheyenne, at acost of 1135,000, as an experiment Tho mino has paid in dividends f37, 600 a mouth for 17 years. It requires a large amount of money usually to put a mino on a dividend paying basis, and, as a rule, this tho prospector cannot do, although prospect ors havo made fortunes with their prop erties. Spokane t, kcsmau-Reviow. Veaatabla Flower. The far famed viuoyards of the Rhine are a great disappointment to tourists who see them for tho first time. Vino clad hills may havo pleased the poets, bnt apart from the sentiment aroused by the remembrances of the exaggera tions of such writers they are not in teresting and it is difficult to sco how any ono could have raved over thoir beauty. "A potato field is hotter," said ono disenchanted traveler. Many flow ers produced by edibles are worthy of place iu our gardens. The scarlet run uer is too well known to need commen dation. An innovation recently soon is What is known as the broad bean. Farm ers use them for food for cattle, though they are considered a table delicacy in foreigu countries. The flower is one of the most peculiar seen in the vegetable world, being white with jot black mark ings. The white being as pure as that of the sweet pea, the effect is striking. Brooklyn Eagla Catnparlaaa. "HOW I WOn 1(1 HtrA In lira in . house," said Miss Flatdweller, "whore there was room to go about, and where I could go up and down stairs. " "How delightful it is," said Miss Boardiiio-hnnsAilwAllaf n ua- 4An,i u - . . . . . i;ini, Miss Flatdweller, whom she waa visit ing, "to have room to move about in, to be able to go from one room to an other when yon get up in the morning I" new xotk eun. It Fall ad ta Walk. - "Sneakino-of 'Hamlet' with H.mW left ont," said the weary and wayworn erstwhile Polonius, "it ain't a marker to 'Hamlet' with the ghost left out " - And the Rialfo waa d(M milna a f w Iudian a polls Journal. An Italian patent including fees nnd taxes for ono year, costs 11 00. It is granted for IS years and must be worked within two. The leaden of a flnnlr nf mlo--ain- wild aeeaa heonma tirtJt annn than others and are frequently relieved by tanr mum Karrlaaa. Earrings have always been among the most favorite ornaments of nearly all the nations of the world, certainly with those which are called civilised. Indeed among the Persians, Babylonians and Carthaginians they were worn by men as well as women. They were always worn by Greek women from Hera, in the "Iliad" down to the Venus do Medici, whose ears are pierced for the reception of earrings. Pliny tells ns that thero.was no part of dress upon which greater expense was lavished among the Romans. Many Egyptian earrings of very beautiful design have been preserv ed, and these antique designs have been imitated in modern times. All jewels are, no doubt, of barbario origin, and earrings among the rest, so why discard them on that ground? Wo preserve what wo admire, even if it comes to ns through this source. And if piercing tho ears is barbarous what can we say of shaving, which is dono simply for fash ion, and causes much more nneasiness to the flesh than simply piercing the ears once and for all? Few wonld venturo to advocate tho abolition of shaving. Why, then, pro test against earrings on this ground? Care should, of course, be exercised that ears nro carefully pierced and allowed to heal properly before ornamental ear rings are worn, but when once this is dono they cause no further trouble. They are now fashionable, and this with the largo majority of peoplo is enough to say for them, but some venture to think, as they are essentially. a wom anly ornament and add grace and charm to a trno womanly face, they should be preserved. Chicago Times Herald. The Puritanical lanriay. From early childhood we were per plexed with doubts about the things which might or might not bo lawfully done on a Sunday, and were hemmed iu by rules of the "touch-not-tiwte-uot-handle-not" order, at variance with many healthy instincts, quite uncon nected with any morality except that of implicit obedience, and not com manding rational a sent When I speak of a Puritanical Shu day, I am not using tho tenn aa ouo of disparagement, bu simply as presenting a historical fact I recognize, the Puritan creed as ono that has influenced many powerful and noble minds and has con tributed most valuable elements to our composite English character. Even the Puritan Sunday, mistaken though I think it, and of a strictness too narrow and exaggerated for ordinary human nature to bear, has so excellent a sido to it, and has been so closely bound up with customs and habits of great social value, with definite times for general rest and defluito times for general wor ship, that I always think and speak with great respect of its supporters. I only blame those of them now I think few in number who load with epithets intended to excite odium, other men who are striving to make tho use of Suudny more beneficial and more adapt ed to varieties of human character and conditions. Westminster Review. Tha RuMlan's Kar Kxlutanea. Joined to exceedingly high living, late hours and all sorts of enchanting but enervating dissipations, tho Russian system of easy existouco absolutely re fuses to admit of the necessity of bodily exercise. It is no exaggeration to say mat tho well to do Russian never, to use a homely but expressive ulirase. walks a yard. His person, moreover, is nearly always loaded and incumbered with furs, even in summer time, and as he heats his house and restaurants to a positively preposterous extent, the bad effects on his health of the combination of these evils may be easily imagined if less readily described. The common people, on the other hand, lead a com paratively healthy existence, because from sheer poverty, and not by any means from choice, they are forced to be abstemious. Though they heat thoir houses to as high a temperature as their social superiors, yet they are of neces sity more iu the open air than these last Thoir staplo food, moreover, the nutritious and easily digested black bread of the country, is an exoolleut means of preserving thoir health nuder the very severe social and sanitary con ditions under which they live, and of building up, as It were, muscle aud bone. Pall Mall Gazette. Rusalaa Method, Goorg Brandos, the Danish critic, re lates an amusing incident of his recent travels through Russia in his "Indtryk Fra Polon"(" Impressions In Poland"), pnblished at Copenhagen. Passinir the German frontier, he relates, tho first thing which attraoted the attentlonof the Muscovite custom house officer Was two numbers of the Paris Nouvello Revue. "What is this?" asked the official in Gorman. "A Frenoh monthly. " ' 'What are its contents?" "It's Impossible to give them in a minute," "Very well, then, it will go to tho censor general at Warsaw. " "Is this review prohibited?" "Prohibited is everything that I do not understand," replied the Russian, and all Danish books of Uorr Brandos, even his Chinese-French dictionary, were consequently confiscated. a. "We are apt, many of ns. to think." aid Mr. Gratobar, "that we could do better if we had abetter chance or conld get started in some new field ; bnt tho fact is that the man who is likely to succeed at all is pretty sure to succeed wherever he may be. Success is crop that depends for its return less upon the oil that is cultivated than upon the tnanner of cultivation. "New York Son. Tha Maatllaa. The idea of airtight mmnavtmAnta In hip was suggested by the peonliar con struction of the nautilus. The shell of this animal baa 40 or 60 compartments, into whioh air or water may be admitted, to allow the ooenpant to sink or float, M it pleases. A 8hort Cut to Health. To try to cure constipation by taking pill la like going round in a circle. Yon will never roach tho point sought, but only get back to tho startlnir nolnt. A perfect natural laxative is Hacon's Celery King, tho celebrated remedy for all nerve, blood, stomach, liver and kidney diseases. It regulates the bowels. Reynolds Drug Store will give you a sample package free. Large sizes Z cents and 50 cents. The motto of tho proprietors of Dr, Henry Haxtors Mandrake Hitters is, me grentesi goon 10 tins greatest num ber," and so sell a lariro bottle nf a vnl uablo remedy for the small price of 2T cents, and warrant every bottlo to give satisfaction or money refunded. For sale toy H. A. Stoke. m. w. Mcdonald, FIRE, insurance. LIFE ncc I have a largo lino of Companies and am prepared to handle, largo or small lines of Insurance. Prompt attention given to any business Intrusted to my care. Office In Nolan Ulock, Reynold- vllle, Pa. Facts nnd not "fart" are ele ments the thoughtful buyer is looking for in these days of close com petition, and these are found in purchasing UKUUKKIKS where you get the best returns for your money and this you can do at the GROCERY - STORE -HIF W. R. Martin, Dealer in Fine Groceries, Canned Goods, Tobacco nnd Cigars, Flour, Feed, etc., Fine Teas and Roasted Coffees. W. R. MARTIN, Main Street, Keynoldsvilxe, Penna. I have bought the Finest and Best line of Goods ever brought to Reyn oldsville. A line of novelty goods from 10 to 50 cents a yard; dress goods in all colors nnd nt nil prices; plaids from 8 to 75 cts a yard; Shepherd plaid from 124 to 75 cts; cashmeres in nil colors and nt prices to suit the times; forty -five inch Henrietta in blnck, blue, green and rose at 48 cts a yard; former price $1.00. A large line in wash goods; Dimity, Percale, Gesmonda and Moire Esistal, Dotted Swiss in white, blue and pink at prices lower than ever; white goods at all prices; satines in plain, striped and figures. Large line of embroideries from 2 cts up to 75 cts a yard. Ladies' waists from 48 cts to $1.25. CLOTHING. You will save money by buying your clothing at Hanau's. Men's all wool cheviot suits at 6.50, worth 10.00; men's all wool cheviot suits at 5.00; men's clay suits from 6.50 to $14; youth's suits in cheviots, worsteds aiyl clay, all colors, at all prices. Boys and children s suits from 75c up to 5.00. A larcre line of laundried shirts, white and colored, from 50o to 1.25. A fine line in neckwear. hats and caps. Please call in before buy. ing elsewhere. No trouble to show goods. 1ST. Hanau. Priester Bros, ALWAYS LEAD 4 FURNITURE, Carpets and House Fur nishing Goods. beautiful line of Iron nnd Brass Dedsteads just received. A. beautiful line of Bed Room Suits. Do not buy before see ing them. Our line of Dining Room Furni ture was never so complete as it is now. We also have a line line of MATTING, just the thing for warm weather, at prices to suit the times. In Carpets, Oil Cloth and Window Shades our stock is always complete and prices the lowest. We also handle the celebrated Femcliff Stoves and Ranges. Get our prices before buying. Commencing this week, DEEMER'S are reducing all Wash Dress Goods. Only three weeks since they received a large in voice of the latest pat terns. They are go. Not often you will find such choice pat- x terns we offer them. Shirt Waists! Everyone must don't from one season next. price down on them to good styles. A. D. v. all to at the low price go. We carry any over to the We've put the cost and below. All Doomor & Go,
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