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Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-20
THE fwo FATHERS.

mind me OF TWO kind old men,
And both TO good intentions bent,
With genial smile and hearty grasp.
And much to life its joys they lent
And oft to see my wife and
They'd come TO chat, and joke. and dine
Dear loving fathers; gone, alas
And one was hers and one was mine
Their minds were just exactly one,
These good old fashioned, gentle creatures
They never told the same joke twice
Nor failed TO watch each others features
To note the proper time 10 laugh,
And wife and would watch these fine
Old fathers. In their harmless mirth,
For one was hers. and one was mine.
They'd talk about the herds and crops,
And often tell their old time stories,
OF Landlord Jones the taverner,
OF trainings, 'lections, Wings and TorIes
And wife and the evening through
Would listen TO their talk till nine,
And then they'd bid us both adieu,
For one was hers, and one was mine
They could not live alone, and so
They walked along life's way tog,sA:er
And hand in hand they graveyard went
And slipped the coil of earthly tether.
They claspad their hands in mute farewell
Aud clasped again where glories shine,
While wife aud together wept,
For both were hers. aud both were mine.
There are two graves on yonder hill
Aud side by side the fathers lie,
Their jokes are hushed. the mirth has flown,
And softly each has said Good by"
To earthly friends, and earthly homes
And wife and just sit and pine.
For these old gents. our fathers once,
And one was hers. and one was mine
Albert Lewis in Springfield Homestead
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-20
LItile Chnd mud Biz Dog.

An amusing scene occurred on Essex
street, near the Phillips schoolhouse, this
noontime Two large dogs, weighing
perhaps 100 and 1870 pounds respectively,
engaged in a short and savage battle,
which ended 10y the 100 pound dog re-
tiring Just as he turned tail little
girl about years old rushed in on the
scene, grabbed the 13O pound dog by the
collar, kicked him in the ribs, cuffed
MIN soundly over the ears, and then
dragged him triumphantly from the
scene, the big brute submitting with a
shame faced air, and his head and tail
down in an attitude indicating that he
realized his naughtiness, and acknowl-
edged the kicking and pounding as de.
served.-Salem News.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-20

Professor E. Ray Lancaster, having
recently expressed some doubts upon the
alleged powers of a boy water finder" i"
who has been in the employ of the Grin
ton Mining company, in the north of
England, the chairman of the company,
DR.. Mcclure, has replied to them, deny
ing emphatically that the boy, whose
name is Rodwell, is an impostor lie
says that the lad when tested never
failed to either find water or mineral
veins, the lodes having always been
found exactly at the places indicated
The divining rod which he holds only
moves in obedience to the muscular con-
fractions Of his hands, and a rod of any
kind of wood or even of any material
substance whatever can be used, pro-
vided it be a conductor of electricity.
Rodwell usually walks with his hands
tightly clasped before him, and as soon
as he steps upon a mineral vein of water
he is powerlcss to unclasp them until he
moves away from the region of the lode
or conduit. The lad is about II years of
age.-London Times.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-20
Tnld hR the Innhe.

4 rather unusual case Of a policeman't
sasacity is told by gentleman of cen.
tral Missouri. Some years ago Col. Will
lam f. Switzler, Of Columbia, in com
pany with an old gentleman of Howard
county and St. Louis physician, were
in this city together witnessing some ex-
hibition. During the performance lady
spectator exclaimed; I'm robbed!'' To
prevent the thief from dropping the
purse into another's pocket, Col. Switz-
ler exclaimed: Hold your pockets" A
policeman standing near by immediate,
ly and energetically ordered all the men
in the immediate locality to stand in a
line. Walking around the line twice,
he began at the gentleman from Howard
and said: you are carpenter;" to the
next, you are literary man." coming
TO the next he said: "Nou are the thief,
and, searching him, found the pocket
book. Asked 10y one of the gentlemen
how he could designate a mans calling,
the officer said: The doctor there has
caustic ON his fingers; the carpenter has
cuts ON his hands; the literary man has
ink on his fingers; the thief has hands
which show no evidence of good work
of anv kind. st. Louis Republic.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-20
A CHANGE OF BASE.

Who would have thought it? The
somewhat notorious Sam Small, who
gained his notoriety by setting al naught
all the rules of propriety, and by brush.
ing aside all that is implied in doing
things "dccenty and in ORDER has
vaulted from the free and easy modes OF
a Methodist to the stiff aud hampered
ones peculiar to "A staid Episcopalian,
concerning which, an Eastern journal
says, this may be to the mutual advan-
tage Of both preacher and church, us a
little expansion Of the one and a Slight
impression of the other would do no
harm"
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-20
Comfort for the Patient

Are you feeling better this morning,
Uncle Henry:' Yes, Angie. dear
you'll soon be well now, won't you,
Uncle Henry" II don't know, dear;
may never set up again; Uncle Henry is
very 1ick man" "Oh, yes, know;
but youn soon get well. l heard the
loctor tell pa this morning that all the
doctors in America couldn't kill as mean
man as you" (Uncle Henry rallies
and is well enough the next time the
doctor calls to get his head under the
sofa and maui him till the police break
into the raonL The diagnosis was cor
.eet.)--Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-20
Ernn AshNille.

Civil Service Reform (?) necessitates the
removal of the post Office in this place.
Immediately after the election, three
prominent Republicans applied for the
position. Each thought he had better
right than anyone else, and did all in his
power TO gain the end Each oae, too,
felt that he would win. But great was
their dismay when official notice came
that an entirely different man had secured
the prize, and that too, in the face Of the
fact that he had been in town few
weeks-not long enough to be voter.
The disappointed parties feel very in
dignant toward certain powers.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-20

His highness the gaekwar of Baroda,
Bombay paper remarks, is a man whom
fortune has smiled upon from his youth.
The romance of his life would read al
most like dream from the ARABIAN
Nights. Taken from the hills a poor
little herd boy, adopted by princess, he
is clad in purple garments, decked with
jewels, and has a scepter thrust into his
hands With loyal and peaceful sub
iects, beautiful stretch of country for
his state, magnificent palaces and well
filed Golfers from which he can afford
to indulge his artistic tastes and his love
for what is beautiful, be is a prince
whom even princes might envy Mon
trenl Stnr
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-20
Secular Education in Japan.

A returned missionary, who has been
many years in Japan, has just been
showing some curious effects of culture
in that country. 1t seems that the
japanese have seized upon the idea OF
secular education with great avidity.
While only 1000 children 90 to school
where religious knowledge is a part of
the curriculum, over 100000 attend
where the teaching is purely agnostic.
The young men develop keen love for
metaphysical doctrine and research, but
their favorite authors are Mill, Spencer,
Darwin and Huxley. As this tendency
is accompanied by a great demand for
English teachers, however, one would
think that the missionaries bad the
means of opposing it in their own hands.
New York Star.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-20

Fingers which are smooth denote II
tendency to act upon instinct, impulse
or intuition, rather than by reason, cal
culation or deduction. Kuotty fingers
denote tendency to order and arrange
ment People with short fingers are
quicker, more impulsive, act more on the
spur of the moment than people with
long fingers. If the fingers are very
short it signifies cruelty and want of
tact. ct.--Phlndelphi Record.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-20
THE WEAVER.

Beside the loom of life stand
And watch the busy shuttle go;
The threads hold within my hand
Make up the filling strand on strand
They slip my fingers through, and so
This web of mine fills out apace
While stand ever In my place
One time the wool is smooth and fine
And colored with a sunny dye;
Again the threads 80 roughly twine
And weave so darily line on line
My heart misgivcs me. Then would
Fain loose this web-begin anew
But that alas cannot do.
Some day the web win all be done,
The shuttle quiet in its place,
From out my hold the threads be run:
And friends at setting Of the sun
VIII come 10 look upon my face,
And say Mistakes she made not few,
Yet wove perchance as best she knew"
Mary Clark Huntington in The Independent
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-20
PUTTING TIE BOOT ON THE OTHER
LEG.

One of the reasons assigned by anti.
smokers against the habit tEat it creates
an appetite for strong drink therefore il
is alleged If there was less smoking there
would be less drunkenness. Illogical a,
this is, and as far from the facts in the
case as it is, yet it is theory with some
of the denounccrs of tobacco. But now
comes an aged divine forward, one that is
not only full Of years but of honors, (the
Rev. DR.. w. II, Furness) and says, :" !
am now eighty-eight years old, and con
tinue to smoke cigars daily" He gives ii
as his opinion, founded on observation.
that instead Of causing intoxication it is a
preventive; and that if smoking tobacco
were abolished there would be ten drunk
ards where there is now only one.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-20

Thereare many wonderful transforma-
tions in nature besides those which are
common to the eye of the ordinary OBJ
server. Take for example the Medusa
or common jelly fish Born of the sea,
the young hydrozoon becomes primarily
a distinct free germ, resembling a grain
of rice, next q fixed cup having four lips,
which subsequently turn to tentaeles,
and it becomes a hyatine flower which
presently splits across the calyX into
segments, whereupon it is made to re-
semble pine cone crowned with tuft
of transparent filament Now the cone
changes into a series of sea daisies
threaded ON a pearly stock, and these
one by one become detached and float
away, each a perfect little Medusa with
purple bill and trailing tentacles.-Hall's
Journal of Health
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-20
DO You Want n job?

There are only five professional lion
tanners in this country, with over 200
lions to be kept tame and in a peaceful
state Of mind. The salary of a tanner is
never less than $50 per week, and some
of them get $780, 1t is a light and easy
employ ment, no regular hours, and al
ways brings free tickets with it. Detroit
Free Paess.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-20
From Foreign Land ;.

The money received from foreign
countries by the Flood Commission is as
follows Ireland, Sls, ,252 "a Mexico,
S130 40; Canada SAGA G5; England,
$33 1853 80 Turkey, $3.50 81; Italy,
50 &c; Austria, S451 70; Germany, S34,
1919 So; Prussia, $1OO; Wales, S68 60 /;
saxony, So, G37 20; Persia, $50; France,
S24,5t1 10. Total, S11S, $50 67,
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-20
Circumstantiai Evidence.

Clara-Yes, l knew you were there
last night, though did not see you
Hayrlcsso-Darling girll 1t was a man
Hesitation Of that subtle influence which
is felt by the souls Of those that truly
love
Clara-No. | saw the reflection on
the ceiling, caused by the light falling
On your head. Pittsburg Bulletin.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-09-26

Ithappcned in Chelsea and on the day
of the great Sullivan-Kilrain fight, says
the Boston Courier A little boy, the
son of highly respectable citizens.
questioned his father as follows:
Papa, who do you think is going te
win, Kilrain or Sullivan"
What is that?" exclaimed the as.
tOnished parent. You talking abou;
prize-fighting? What company have
you been in? Mary Ito the mother)r
do you hear this boy? Do you hear hin
asking me about this prize-ight?n
"Oh!n replied the mother-mother'
LIKE suppose he has heard some o.
his playmates talking about it. Boy:
will be boys, you know"
He has no business to be with such
playmates. He never hears me speak.
ing of any such low and disgraceful eX
hibitions, such brutalizing spectacles
| would have this prize-fightins
business put down by the strong arm o
the law, swept off the face OF the earth
My lad, if lever hear you talking abou
anything of the kind again rll-Pll-
well, you'll yet into trouble, that's all.
! Next morning when he went down
stairs his wife handed him the paper
saying:
Il had the curiosity to look TO Sc,
how the prize-tight came out, and i
appears Kilrain YVES whipped"
| "Whippedn' exclaimed the denounc
er of prize-fighting, then by jings ",
| lost $40"
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-09-26

An impressive incident of the recent
royal wedding in England was the TN
expected appearance of the queen for
the first time in the capacity of "A speak
er. 1t had been originally arranged
that only two toasts should be proposed
those OF The Bride and Bride
groom and The Queen''-and that
these, according to custom. should DO
given by the lord steward Qhe earl of
Mount Edgcumbc), standing on her
maiesty's right. Almost at the last
moment it was decided to add third
toast this coming between the other
two and being in honor Of the king of
the Greeks. But wher the guests were
wa ting for the first to be given they
were startled almost out of their de-
corus bearing by the altogether unex-
pected appearance of the queen as its
proposer The Official Court Circu-
lar" has summarized the interesting
incident, but only tells I'm inquisitive
public that her majesty proposed the
toast with every wish for the welded
pairs happiness; but it would have
been far more interesting il it had
given the text of the words employed.
The circumstance is the more note
worthy as showing how thoroughly the
queen sympathized with the union.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-09-26


The elephant is being killed on 80 fast
That twelve more years win see the last one
wiped out
A petrifed tree was recently unearthed
1t Pennington, MI, sixteen feet below
:he surface.
The great sheep-raiser, Mr.. Mitchell, OF
Elko, New, will have wool clip Of $4,000
pounds this season.
A boy preacher named Lee, Of Stockton,
Cal, has been committed to the lunatic asy-
tum. This should be warning to infant
prodigies.
A cat kept in swimming bath at Albany
IS said to be an excellent swimmer, and to
ike the water, into which she will dive in
pursuit of fish
Australia is as cosmopolitan as the United
States. At the hotel in Sydney the other
week there were thirteen different national.
ties represented at one table.
The berry patches of Florida seem to be
picnic fields for the bears. Three were
killed while helping themselves TO the fruit
N Madison county in one week.
It's reported from the Pacific coast that q
yang Of counterfeiters there have been en-
ploying two Japanese coiners, unable to
speak English, to help them in their work.
''See Naples and die" There were $3.50
suicides in that city last year, and the
leaths arising from the filthy condition OF
certain quarters counted up into the thou
sands.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-09-26
4 -Four Legged Smuggler.

A story is told at Police Station 3 OF
small gray kitten, which belongs
there. Three prisoners were brought in
one night and locked up. Two OF them
were women and one was a man. The
cellroom is q large apartment, the iron
pens placed in the center, with open
ings facing the four walls. The wo-
men were. on one side and the men on
the other Soon after they had been
locked up the women tried TO relieve
their feelings by preparing to smoke
cigarettes, but they had no matches.
The man, on the other hand, had
matches, but no tobacco. While de-
batting what to do, the kitten came in
the woman's apartment and warm
friendship Immediately sprang up be-
tween them. Then came the idea of
turning their new found friend to some
practical use. The women took some
tobacco and. tying it in small bundle.
fastened it TO the Kittens neck, and the
man on the other side called the little
animal, which Immediately ran to him
with its burden, which was removed
and some of his matches were placed
about its neck and a call from the wo-
men brought it back 10 them. Buffalo
Express.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-09-26

antique volumes. Here, with every
side of the house open to the day, she
will spend the summer and defy the
dog star She is woman OF vigor-
Gus mind and keen intellectual tastes,
and she keeps up with the current
thought of the literary world.
The wife OF Gen. Noble, secretary OF
the interior, has given Washington a
glimpse of her only at the two or
three receptions of the spring. 1t
found her agreeable and progresses
ing: but she is said TO be also schol-
arIy, and TO have we'll defined ambi-
ton to know something OF the worlds
best books. In st. Louis the Noble
household has been a sort OF intellect
ual and literary center, where thought
full people of congenial tastes meet to
consider the latest utterance concern
ing science, art, philosophy or imagi-
native literature. Mrs. Noble has no
children, but will be accompanied in
Washington by two brilliant sisters,
one of whom has published book
and the other of whom is the wife OF
one of our wealthy citizens.
w. A CRoFFUT.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-09-26

The progress that has been made in every
thing within the past few years Comparatively
speaking) has been wonderful and it would al
most seem as If 1t could not go very much far
ther, but who can tell If the advances that
are to be made during the next hundred years
are to be compared with what has been done
during the past century we might truthfully
say that the nineteenth century was merely the
beginning and not the end of progress. Liter
ature, art, science, music and everything has
moved on with gigantic strides. In perhaps
nothing has there been so much and such won
derfu progress made as In the art flor art IL is)
of travelling. 1t never entered into the calcu-
lations of Fulton or Stephenson or other inven-
tors of earlier years that steam power would
ever be utilized to the extent tbs, and has been
during the past twenty years. No doubt, in
the system of railroad travelling progress has
advanced more rapidly than in anything else.
Difficulties and obstacles have been overcome
that would have discouraged any one else except
those who were engaged in this particular line.
This is well known among railroad men.
Noticeably so is ii in the ease Of the Chicago,
st. Paul IL Kansas City Railway. Differed,
managed and engineered from its inception by
men who were emnently fitted for the difficult
positions they were called upon to fill this road
has gone steadily on, overcoming obstacle after
obstacle, always advancing EDWARDS and up
wards until now 1t can lay claim to being one
of the leading roads In the West. And travel
ers and experts say that the Chicago, st. Paul
81 Kansas City Railway Is one of the safest and
best lines in the country to travel over.-Ex-
change.
For any information regarding, this railway
address j. II. GREEN,
Pass. & Ticket Agt. Des Moines.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-09-26

rare editions of Don Quixote and
Thackery, of Omar Kharzam and the
Vedas, and the Zend Aresta, and Elihu
Vedder's grotesqueries. and books
written and painted on vellum. He is
a good French and German scholar,
| reading and speaking both, as does
Mrs. Hay, and, by the way there Is
scarcely noted dwelling in Washing
ton in which French novels are not
read It's a greater reproach here
and a greater Inconvenience, too, not
be able to read and speak French, than
in any other American city. Every
Washington society woman is supposed
to speak French, as every educated
man and woman in London is. Score
taries Bayard, Whitney and Endicott
| all read French novels in their little
| leisure, and Robert Lincoln's great
| familiarity with French will help him
| to scintillate on both sides of the chan
mel. Sam Cox. congressman, diplo-
mate, author, traveller. brought load
OF French books when he returned to
this city from the east, filed with ORR
entail poetry.
One of the most discriminating read
ers OF the senate is Cash. X. Davis of
Minnesota. He is good Latin scholar
and doesn't permit his knowledge to
rust; he is well acquainted with the
French and German languages and
literatures; is an expert on Shakespeare
and has more comprehensive knowl-
edge of the literature of the NapoleOnic
wars than any other congressman, per-
hapS than any other American. He
buys all rare books of NapOleonana
that he hears of. His book, The Law
in Shakespeare" has been widely read.
Prof. Simon Newcomb one of the
country's most renowned scientists, has
his library in his wife's great parlor,
his desk occupying q large bay window.
Few literary workers could avoid being
out of place in such elegant surround
ings, but Prof. Newcomb keeps his
desk marvelously neat. His library is
largely of mathematics and political
economy. and A Plain Mans View of
the Labor Question. one OF the twenty
books he has written, is an admirably
clear treatise and hsa very large cir
culation.
Prof Lester +. Ward, who stands at
the head of the paleontOlOgists of the
country, replied to my question,
What do you read?' by saying, Il
read nothing but what my work re-
Quires me to read. never read novels
or poetry. Before taking the time to
read any book | thoroughly canvass
the necessity for it, get the opinions of
others who have read it, and satisfy
myself that it is Indispensable. And
never permit myself to read transla-
tion. If | conclude TO read Il book
written in a tongue unknown to me |
go and study the language for the pur-
pose"
Major j. w. Powell director OF the
geological survey, in answer to a ques-
ton as to his favOritC novels, said:
Here are the dozen preferred:
'Bunyau's Pilgrims Progress Vicar
of Wakefield, A Man Made of Money
Douglas Jcrrold,' 'lvanhoe, David
Copperfeld,' The Three Guardsmen,
Les Miserable7' Gf You could cut out
Hugo's preaching this book would be
grand), Uncle Toms Cabin The
Cloister and Hearth, A Strange
Story Lorna Doom aud Middle
March Neither ThaCkeray nor
WiIkie Collins ever had masterpiece.
| think, George Sand repels me with
her wildcat philosophy