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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-11
THE ANGELUS.
r. HopRlNsoN SMITHS OPINION OF
MlLLET,s GREAT MASTERPIECE.
An Interesting Chat with an Artist About
Art--American Artlsts-Tbe Best Fay
ing Kind of works., 900 for n
Portrait.
For the Dispatch-Copyriehted by Bachelor 81
- 10 fSsp1

For the Dispatch-Copyrehte by Bachelor g.
Co, 1881
ct cav Nillet's Angelus over IN life, y
said +. HOpkinson Smith, the noted
artist, the other evening. IL was tnee slSht
of lifetime. ] was walking WIN Won
summer afternoon several years ago IN
Holland. We had left the little town
of Dardrecht and were wandering
over the level country roads where-
over orr fancy led rs. The sun
wac inst going down and gray twi-
lioht WAS creeping over the landscape:
Ava, in the distance was the spire Oh
n VILLAGE church. Two old peasants, "A man
ard woman, were digging IN held at the
rnedsiJs when the soft pcals OF the eve
ming bell came 10 Us. The old man reVe-
rcntly took of his hat and the woman
clasped her hands in prayer. caught Eon
Reinsdvke by tie arm and wheeled nm
around. ,.,,,.
Look ~ It 4: Won never saw it before and
YOU will never see it again.
THE VALUE OF THE PICTURE.
He had mover seen the painting, and
when we cot home | made "A pencil sketch
of il and later on sent him an etching OF IL
from Paris"
What is the real value of the Ange-
lus - repeated Mr.. Smith, after me. no
can tell? It's value cannot be expressed
IN figures. Yes, it is worth 100000; 1t IS
worth $500. 600; it IS worth Sl,OOO,OOO. IL
is worth whatever any one chooses TO pay
for it. 1t tells story that had never been
told before and viii never be told again.
There will never he another Angelus."
In a paper read before the hembrandt
Club nm 1898, which has never before been
published, Mr. Smith drew tho following
picturesque sketch of Millet's great paint
ing and graphically coutrasted 1t with
other famous works Of art:
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-11

The eastern men were little back.
ward on accepting book figures, and want.
ed to count the stock. This Tom repre-
sented as impossible, the herd was toe
large there was no corral 10 hold them all
etc. but IL they so desired be would round
them up and drive them by certain spot.
40 the purchasers could view them. Thu
idea suited. aud the day was fixed
for the show. A little way back Of
the ranch were "a couple Of hog.
backs with a narrow cut between
them. Mendenhall got his men together
told them what he wanted, and promised
them each big sum If the scheme worked
all right. He got his twelve hundred
head rounded up behind the hogbacks
and then took bis purchasers out in wagon
20 the mouth Of the cut. The boys started
the cattle through the gap and as soon as
they had passed the wagon turned them
around and run them in behind the hog
back again.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-11
EDrCAtIOSAL.
REDWOOD SCHOOL,

or REV. WILLIAM DiNwlDDrg. o. d. v. 4
au ll-S, W&Figt ASS cfato prlnclpl
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-11
THE HIGHER GRADES OF CLOTHING
BIG sw1NDLEs IN TIE wEsT.

ayes, there have been q great many
horse and cattle-swindlers in the West
recently" said wellknown citizen of
Denver, Col, whom met IN the st. James
Hotel; "but l don't think there is any
such glorious career before tue young fell
lows who are going into tho business as
old Tom Mendenhall has enjoyed.
He is the man who used TO run the
tomahawk brand UP III Wyoming, and Is
now q big ranchman in Montana and o
rich man. Tom had a streak of bad
luck some years ago and had hardly u
dollar in ready money left. His herd
numbered about ten OF twelve hundred
head. aud he did some deep thinking
as 10 how he could turn them AT a
profit. BY and by some men came along
wanting 10 buy ranch and cattle. Men
denhan got hold OF them. They asked
him how many cattle he had. He pulled
out bis books and the figures showed TO- 900
head. about ten times as many "a he really
owned. Tom had act down every head hs
had ever bought or raised, but had failed
20 deduct the number that had died of or
been sold
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-12-13
The Great Cuspidor COntract.

Let not the future historian of Ben
jamin HarrisOn's Administration omit
TO note the patriotic earnestness with
which the Postmaster General is CO.
operating with his colleagues. the Secre-
tary of the Navy and the Secretary of
War, in their endeavor 10 build up a
system of national defence.
Secretary Tracy is bent on giving Us
ships OF war. and first-class ships too
Secretary Proctor is devoting a good
part of his energy and practical bust
ness sense TO the question of improved
steel guns Cor our coast batteries. The
employment of more terrible explosives
than gunpowder is also occupying the
attention OF the Secretary of War.
Wanamsker is a man of peace. and
his only weapon in the past has been
the yard stick ; yet he too, is alert on
the subject.of national defence. HIS
unIivalled apprehension of the impor-
tance OF details, and his uneIring sa-
gacity for discovering the exact point
at which the stock on hand needs re-
plenishing, are exhibited in the sub
Joined contract with his colleague, Sec
retsry Proctor, officially recorded in the
United States Government AdUertiSer OF
Oct. "a:
n III
cuspidors, brass, 40. each, Bidder So, JoBS WAN
MAKER.n
No one can doubt that Wanamaker's
thirteen brass cuspidors are as trust
worthy pieces of ordnance, as ornamen-
Ia! as efficient a. long range, as patrio-
tism can suggest or thrift provide and
they are supplied TO the Government
which Wanamaker loves ard serves at
price that knocks competition silly.
The thirteen cuspidors strengthen
our coast lines where they were weak.
We need fear no foreign foe. We can
defy the world
I'VE don't want TO night but. by lingo, five DO
We've got the.ships we've got the guns we've
got the cuspidors, too"
marked down by the PostmaSter-G Gen.
eral of the United States and sold to
the War Department at forty cents the
cuspidor.-N. Y. Sun.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-12-13
GettingtO the Tail End.

The National Farmers Alliance, sit
ting in -. Louis, has adopted resolu.
tions endorsing the Australian system
OF voting.
The Portland -Adrertiser Tuesday
published letters from the Mayors OF
cities IN Maine, countY attorneys and
prominent Republicans, on the subject
OF Ballot Reform. All except four re-
pies favor the adoption OF the Austria
liar system. The 1dUeItiSer saws.
ecitOrIaily Now that this system
has operated successfully in Massachu-
setss, there can no longer be any doubt
that the next Legislature in Maine will
pass h similar law without serious op-
position"
Pennsylvania still holds hack and is
fast grayitating toward the tail end OF
the procession. But it all depends on
The people. IL they want the privilege
of voting as their conscience dictate,
they will have TO elect representative
10 Harrisburg who will put the Austria.
lian system through. Pl6la. Herald
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-12-13
Taking the Census.

The machinery for taking the census
IS comparatively simple. The Superip>
tendent has divided the whole country
into 115 districts. There are ten of
these districts in Pennsylvania. For
each district Supervisor will be ap-
pointed in January. The duties of a
Supervisor are many and vafied. He
subdivides his district into enumera>
tors divisions, He recommends lists
of persons for appointment as enumer-
ators (; He scrutiniZss their work and
furnishes them their schedules. and
forwards the completed returns to Su-
perinteLdent Porter. An enumerstor.
as rule, comes into contact with oulv
about one in seven of the population
He carries with him schedules OF popu-
lation of agriculture, manufactures. of
morality and vital statistics, and sched-
ules relating TO deaf, blind and insane,
as well as of criminals. At the close of
every day of labor he mus, as has been
stated. report By postal card to his
supervisor and 10 superintendent I'or-
ter. The census will be taken in June
The enumeration must perform his work
IN fifteen days in the city and thirty
days in the country. Every citizen is
obliged TO answer his questions. or suf-
fer fine of 500. Next year several
million family schedules Will De distri-
buted in advance of the enumsrator's >
visits and 1T many houses they will find
these blanks already GIled out, thus
greatly facilitating the work. In
special cases, where money is needed
for horse hire and other expenses, an
enumeration may be paid by the cav.
not 10 exceed Sc. The great body of
enumerators will be paid For every
living person, two cents for every
death, Two cents for every firm fifteen
cents for every factory, twenty cents ;
Ioi each veteran or veterans widow,
i've cents.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-12-13
Bearer,s Chance TO Explain.

There is much interest in the report
that Governor Beaver IS shortly TO re-
duce his view of the JOhnstown relief
business to cold type The way in
which the Governor looked at that mat
ter is likely TO contain a numteI of in
teresting and novel features and the
public will await with wild expectation
the appearance of the Executive docu-
ment foreshadoWed in our Washington
dispatch.
Asto the relative positions OF the
Governor and his Adjutant General,
they are by no means the most impor-
tant aspects on which the Governor can
throw light. Whether Hastings tried
II make capital by his presence at
Johnsto@n, or Bhei her Beaver tried to
deem the capital that he had lost, by
rushing up TO WillismspOrt and repre-
seDt:ug that ne had rescued stricken
city from starvation there, We can af-
ford 10 leave 10 be fought out bttween
these gentlemen.
But there are some points on which
the Governor can, If he will, afford a
good deal of explanation. Thus he
may state the view by which he was led
TO advocate taking money from the
State Treasury in an unconstitutional
| and unauthorized manner rather than
duOpI luo COuotiluiiOudl hctuoo VI Csii-
! ing special session of the Legislature
| TO meet an unparalleled emergency.
Having done that, he may next venti-
| late an interesting subject by showing
how he came to represent that he had
| 81 600, 900 available for the State Work
at Jobnstown. while subsequent events
showed the sum to be but $500, 600.
These points made clear, the Govern
or will have accomplished a task big
! enough to warrant his adjourning the
job of making mincemeat of General
Hastings to future day. Some things
are difficult to explain but until the
Governor has smoo,hed out these little
points, he had better abstain from other
controversial MISUNDERSTANDING DIS
patch.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-12-13

SENATOR DEuANIATER, saws the
Pittsburg Post, has been turned loose
as the guberuatorial candidate with
the Quay brand and Endorsement. The
Beaver boss has also told Hastings to
go in and win il he can, and IL be turns
up az Harrisburg next June with
enodgh delegates he Quay will see
him through. This is all very good
enough In It's way, but at the same time
Quay proposes 10 see hat Hastings
DOESN'T have enough. The Eight for the
control Of the convention will be In
Philadelphia, and the contest against
Quay's slate will b. led in that city by
James McManes. That's quite settled
and what Quay wants TO do is to pre-
vent a combination OF McManes's
friends and the friends OF Mayor Filler.
That would be dangerous. II The anti
Quay people should carry Philadelphia,
Lancaster and Allegheny, Delsmater's
chances of the nomination would be
slim, indeed. Neither Hastings nor
Montooth would stand much show. l.
there possibility a situation is to be
created that will call for the nomina-
tion of Quay. to relieve the pressure
and restore harmony +?
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-12-13
On With The Dance.

The cOntes. for the Republican norn>
inatlon for Governor may be said to be
fairly started, and from now until the
day OF the convention il will gradually
grow warmer. The leading candidates,
Delaneter and Hastings, have an
nounced themselves as being in the
hghs to win and each is gathering his
followers about him.
L; IS plain that the party machine is
at work in the interest CT the ambitious
Senator from Crawford, and the fact of
the matter is il was put together by
DelamaieT's friends when his candidacy
was IN an embryotic State.
General Hastings will virtually have
the support of the soldier element and
ant'Quayites viii naturally drift 10
MS side when Quay boldly shows his
line Roman hand, as there is no doubt
he will do at the proper time.
AS 10 Major MontOoth, General
Goblin, General Rceder, Colonel Coopgr
and the various other military aspirants
for Beavers chair, this seems to be AN
of year for them. An off the-ticket
year, so 10 speak.-HdrriSblarq Patriot.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-12-13
A Mathematical Prodigy.

Sam Summers. ;he negro prodigy,
was IN Shelbyville, and, as usual, enter
tanned large crowd, VINO were testing
him with all kinds of mathematical
problems. Summers is a negro. thirty
Iour years old, without the slightest
education. He cannot read or write,
and does not know one figure from
another. He is a common, everyday
farm hand, and to look at him and
watch his actions he seems TO be abou:
half witted, but his quick and invaria-
bly, correct answer to any example in
arithmetic, no matter how difficult, is
simply wonderful. With the hundreds
of tests that he has submitted to, not a
single time has he failed to give the
corre-t answer in every instance.
Soma examples given him on WednesS
day were {: How much gold can he
is worth 81 65 Multiply 597. .31l by
13s. IL grain of wheat produces
seven grains. snd these be sowu The
src0Ud year. each yielding the same IN
crease. how many bushels will be pro-
ductd at this rate in II years if 1000
grains make a pint? II the velocity o!
sound IS 1l42 feet per second, the pu!-
sation of the heart 40 per minute, after
seeing flash of lightning there are 20
pulsstions counted before you hear
IL thunder, what distance is the cloud
from the earth, and what is the tins
after seeing the fash OF lightning until
you hear tn thunder ? 4 commission
merchant received 20 bags of wheat,
each containing three bushels, three
pecks an1 three quarts how many
bushels did he receive ? And so on.
With RObinson's, Rays and other
higher arithmefics before them, those
who have tested him as yet have been
una bic To find any example that with a
few moments thought on bis part he is
not able TO correctly answer.--LOaS
s-syT1
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-12-13

On Tuesday night Johnstown was
visited with another horror which
caused the death Of eleven people ard
and about thirty more were badly in
jured, some OF whom VIII probably die.
Stetson's Uncle Toms Cabin troupe,
that played in this place on Monday
night went TO Johustoxn on Tuesday
morning and played to a crowded house
in Parke's Opera House on Tuesday
night. Between five and six hundred
people were in the building and the
performance was nearly over, when
some one in the upper gallery started
an alarm OF fire. The auuiance, com
posed OF men, women and children at
once became panic stricken and a rush
was made for the door. which is reached
by a narrow stairway and which was
soon packed solid with a struggling
mass OF human beings. Some fell,
others were crushed down by people
scrambiing over them eager TO get out,
while people from the outside were tTy>
ing to get IN to see what was the mat
ter. The screams OF those who were
being crushed to death were heart
rending and their piteous cries for
help were unavailing. After the ex
citement had subsidized and through the
efforts OF come Of the cooler headed peo-
pie the fears of the audience calmed,
the work of extricsting the unfortunate
peop'e from the stairway began,
and the scene was APPALLING. Eleven
dead were taken from the mass while
the injured. is estimated at from fifty
TO one hundred. The list of dead is as
follows
John Miller, colored. Chambersburg,
Pa.
George Slonicksr, Mt. Pleasant, Pa.
Lizzie Claycomb, aged 10, from Bed
ford county.
Mrs. Wesley Burns, 40 years, Johns
town.
Clara Blu ms, 10 years, daughter OF
Mrs. Wesley Burns.
Isaac FohIer, GO years, Conemaugh
borough.
George Horner, aged II years, Johns
town.
Mrs. John w. Nestor, Johnstown.
Eddie Bigler, aged s. son of John
Bigler, Conemaugh borough.
George Frischhorn.
The injured as far as known are as
follows
Albert Owens, Lottie Jackson, Lewis
Buudy, John Werner, Charles Vaugn,
Steward Blackburn, Richard Worth
ington, Edward Stauffer. Wesley Burns,
Mrs. Ciauson, Mrs. NJ. ). McGarry,
Clarence Engelberth, John weimer,
Martha Owens. John Dsviue, Mrs.
! William Piatt.
The JOhnstown Tribune. of Wednes-
day, gives the following explanation I
| the origin OF the FIRE alarm at seems.
from the statement OF Charles johnson,
DR.. y. y. Wakefeld's coIorsd man.
| that John Best was the frs. mar 20 cry
"hre - Johnson says that between 10
and y O'Clock be heard somebody liz
the alley alongside the Doctors resi-
/ deuce calling fire :" Looking out of
tn, window be saw Best and heard him
/ give the alarm. Best said the Doctors
frame kitchen in the rear Of the house
was on fire. Johnson made an exam.
ination and found that the only founda-
/ tion for the alarm was the volume OF
smoke issuing from the chimney, which,
owing TO the fact that he had put some
sack Goa! in .he fire, was greater than
usual Best's cries of fire started the
bells TO ringing. which. being heard in
the Opera House. prompted some one
in the upper gallery-as before stated
TO utter the cry which caused the panic.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-12-13

Mr. REED. of Nashville. said in
New York few DAYS ago "Iron made
in Birmingham, Ala, can be laid down
in Glasgow and sold at a profit at less
price than is now being paid there for
English or Scotch Iron. 1t isn't every
body that knows how chesply iron can
be made IN Alabama. 1t hugs s. q ton
pretty close. 1t is between IS and IS 80.
Iron is selling ir Glasgow now at S2l 80.
There is the margin for transportation
and proat, am sure"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-12-13

Mrs. SCoTT Lord, sister of the wife
OF President Harrison, died at her resi-
dsnce in Washington city a, o'clock
on Tuesday morning. Although not
unexpected her death was sudden, and
at the time only her daughters, Mrs.
Dimmock and her sou-in-law-, Lieu
tenant John T. Parker Of the navy were
with heI.
Mrs. Harrison was with Mrs. Lord
until midnight, in company with her
father, Dr. Scott, and only half an hour
before she expired Major and Mrs.
Richard Parker had been sitting up
with Mrs. Lord. aud when they left she
was in an apparently painless sleep. It
has been known for severa! days thar
she coulu not recover.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-12-13

WHILE the lawyers and experts OF
New York are endeHvoring to discover
whether or not criminal can be killed
surely and satisfactorily by electricity,
several men have been accidently killed
by coming in contact with electric
wires. The latest victim was Peter
Clausen, lineman OF the New York
Electric Light Company. He met his
death last Monday at the top of a pole
at Third Avenue and One Hundred and
Fifty-six street, New York City, while
repairing the wires.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-12-13
No End 10 Extravagant Expenditure.


Secretary Windows report shows
that as fast as we reduce the interest
charge on our national debt we propor>
tionately increase the payments for
pensions. THUS Government eXpendi.
ture Is kept up 10 the war point twenty
i've years after the end OF the war and
the suggestion that taxes should be re>
duced is denounced as an urpatriotic
assault upon the industries of the
country.
So excessive is the drain OF taxation
that the ingenuity of statesmen has
been constantly taxed during the last
quarter OF century TO spend the mon
ey In the Treasury as fast as 1t should
accumu ulate. The salaries of nearly
every official in the Government service
have been largely increased vast sums
have been expended in the erection of
costly custc m-houses, post offices and
other public buildings in II parts of
the country an equal profusiou has
been lavisbed upon internal improve
ments and what could not otherwise
be disposed Of has been devoted to the
most extravagant system of pensions
ever DEVISED in any country under any
form OF government since she world be-
gan.
The recommendations In the message
OF President Harrison In favor of en-
larged expenditure for pensions. coast
defenses, national education, steam
ship subsidies, and for other purposes.
prove that the hope for auy relief of
the public burdens at the hands of a
Rspublican Administration is hopeless.
The President has no positive plan of
emitting down the revenue and IL his
schemes OF expenditure should be ap-
proved by Congress ourtailment would
be impossible. There seems to be no
hope of return to frugal and econom-
icsl public Administration until the
Republican party shall have been again
hurled from power.-Phild. Record.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-12-13
Pretty Fast in the MIre.

The nine months of Mr. Harrison's
Administration have confirmed the
opinion that there are few great men
left IN the Republican party. With all
its leaders gone. and no new ones in
sight, the period Of its dscadence ap-
pears TO be al hand. With none to
guide it, it will, IL iet alone. accom-
plish its own destruction. Under the
leadership of Mr. Harrison iI is pretty
fast IN the mire. Already suffering
from a dead weight, il received a tre-
mendods blow at the late State eIec-
tous, and unless some life is speedily
oreatbed into the inert msss a re-
nomination viii hardly be worth Mr..
HaTTesOn's trouble.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-12-13

THERE is an endemic OF infuenza
in Russia and other parts of the couti-
nent causing widespread fear in
England that the disease will extend
throughout the United Kingdom. In
many parts OF the continent business is
almost wholly suspended, owing to the
prevalence of the disease. The plague
Is spreading all over Germany and at
Spanday 100 workmen in a single facto-
ry are affected. 1t has appeared in
violent form at Lemburg and Cracow
-Four hundred employees Of the Louvre
in Paris are Ill with fever that closely
resembles the influenza
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-12-13

THE Rev W. II. Milburn. the blind
Chaplain of the House of Representa-
tives Is native of PHILADELPHIA
and was born in 1922. He lost the
sight OF one eye when quite young, aud
the other soon became practically use
less. He mastered the blind alpha bet,
and AT the age of 20 was ordained a
minister. After that he had travelled
over 2OO, 600 miles. filling appointments
70 preach IN all the Southern States.
Within ths last 80 years he has preach
cd 10 nearly every Ssate in the Union
ana IN some European countries. He
has been Chi plain of the House since
1888 aud can, in all probability, hold
the place indefinitely.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-12-13

THE County Commissioners and their
engineer have completed a new bridge
at South Fork. We understand that
they are about commencing the erec-
tion OF bridge at Mineral Point. OF
course, there was no letting for the
building OF either OF these bridges, as a
letting has a tendency to bring down
prices and ives the people a chance to
know what bridges should cost. There
will likely be a let ing, however, hen it
comes to select a new board OF Com
missiouers.