Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-05-08

city and while Martin, GrtpSt, lands and
Aaron SUNNY were working tho snti-Steh-
man racket, the Hempneld statesman had
Myliu, Cochran, Brown, Fridy, Seuseuir
and possibly Hartman running his boom, |
think the literary bureau and POSSIBLY even
the special artist " have been set i'm motion
against Stehman, and that he NAV Cxrect IL
to be made pretty hot Tor him within the
next two weeks. Viewers friends not to
he gone over rough shoi, will make common
cause with SUNNY, and they will give him
nn'-theN can only deliver part Ut it-nf
the heavy vote In their districts For the
legislature the Stehman combination viii
run smith and kemper and Kaufman in
'olnnola the slate OF the other side now
promises TO I've Boyd, Blough and Ranck,
m, mem uistrlouted geographically. | reckon
hrusius ana Heidelhaugh will run together
mostly below, on platform of " for anti dis
nlnilhanon and against It's enforcement"
haldwln Is no slouch and Hiram peoples Il
IN ,ne race. No fight is over until it is won
or lost and l wouldn't be a bit surprised to
see the fur tly in the coming fortnight
Where's Quay
Ken and eccentric old John Dubois, who
died up the country the other day was one
OF the dozen clients OF Geo \. jerks with
whom he counselled when he was offered
tire place of assistant secretary of interior
not second assistants to whether he ought
to give up his law prartice-to accept it, Du-
bois said no, but finally asseuted when
jerks promised to counsel Dubois whenever
ne went to Washington for advice and to oC.
casionally come to Pennsylvania to try his
law suits.
Nohody seems To have yet "tumh,ed" To
the sll too obvious purpose ot Dubois late
deed Of eight million dollars worth of pro.
perry to his nephew it was made to save
the collateral inheritance tax. Otherwise
al "a Al. iNaNH.. =
While the clergy have their discussion
pro and con over the methods Of sam Small
ana Sam Jones and must saw it is mostly
con that hear,-l want to put on record the
prevailing opinion of the editorial profess ior
to which Small lately belonged, that hi :
abandonment of it for evangelism il ~oner
ally regarded As for revenue only. II tho
brace OF strnlling PLAYERS were not "a in.
| deiatigable in taking up and pnrE attn, :,
collection as in any other exercise, thcir
sincerity would be more universally V credited.
Since | published in these columns a
sNe'cnS ahu not at all worthy account oi
some phases of the Eastern uenltentiary |
naNea s"on many letters, appreciative and
lnquiring, commendatory and critical But
none of them is more direct than this from
the "old man at the gate" whose aritbmeti,
couid not understand when he told me re
hai been at that post "thirty-three ye,rs
counting emily days and iOrtv.nine and a balf
counting the nights" His O. Nota Eena'' IL
particularly good
hAsIERN PENiTENTGARY. Phlladelpbi1.
April %, lS>G.-De0r .Str. / seq iron, tLa
article IN your paper, You cannot compre-
memo my arithmetic or you cannot see how
80 much time can be Incorporated into one
year now, IN the first place. one wear has
as many nights as days and ont of them my
sell and assistant have to take alternate
nights Consequently it gives me one-haIt
OF the nights and he the other. We arc
poth here all day, every day and only Gel
OH QUO sunday in two weeks | came on
dnty at this morning and will have to stay
all day and all night until a. m, next dav
go nome and get break fast, return and stay
uhtii 90 p. m., and then go home and STAY
uhtl the same time next morning, 10 90 tEf
same over again. And my pard has TO dc
the same. Now 10 make it more plain
came here April Is, ls5}; up to same date
1850 Just makes 30 years. Now take hall
lor nights makes lGis. Total ~ add IA p
total i9'3. From Your brother Democrat.
| - OLD MAN AT THE GATE
~, B.-lhis Is an explanation of my
| arithmetic l hope you can Understand IL
OUT ON several occasions during the different
campaigns ! thought l understood your.
nut after the vote was counted found il no
go.
think this is good place to quit
SINpBkU.