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Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-27
LAwLEssNEss IN OKLAHOMA.
Opposing Political Factions Begin a Reigi
of Terror.

Opposing Political Factions Begin Reign
of Terror.
WIoHITA, December 24.-United States
Marshal Jack Walker has been called to
Oklahoma to quell the rowdyism now so
prevalent there, and which threatens to
develop into a reign of terror. The Kick.
apoes and Seminoles, respectively the ms
and outs in the City Government, wage
continual strife, and, as the date of the
new election draws near-December 30
the feeling becomes more and more inten-
sifed. The appointment of a deputy mar.
shal as city marshal has added fuel to the
flames, and the reports of the trouble sent
out from here have still further separated
the opposing factions.
On Saturday evening party of masked
men, armed with Winchesters, stopped a
newspaper correspondent on the street
and asked him if he knew a man named
Thornton. That was the correspondents
name, and when they told him that they
intended to riddle Thornton and every
other newspaper correspondent with bull
lets, he sent them in one direction after
Thornton while he escaped in another.
Threats have been made against the lives
of the Deputy United States Marshals,
and Marshal Walker is calling for support
from all sections, in order to be fully pre-
pared for any emergency.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-27
Remembered by His Men.

Mr.. Henry Fullmer, for the past six
years foreman of the carpenter shop of
the Gauticr Mills, was Tuesday present
ed handsome gold-headed umbrella, a
smoking case and lot of choice cigars,
by his force of men, twenty-one in num-
Der. 1t is needless to say that Mr.. Full
mer feels highly elated in.the.thought tina
he so enjoys the respect and confidenc,
of his men that they make such acknowl
edgements of their good will
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-27
AN EXIEE's WIVES.
A Strange Romance Disclosed in a st. Louis
Divorce Case.

Strange Romance Disclosed in "A st. Louis
Divorce Case.
ST. LOUIS, December 24.-One of the
most pathetic separations that has ever
been legally ordained occuered here yes
terday, when Maria Miller received a di-
vorce from Louis Miller.
The latter is Russian, and was exiled
for political reasons. He left wife and
child in Russia, whom he supported for
five years after coming to America. Then
came the Russo-Tmkish war, and the
wife and child,were lost. Miller was no.
tihed that they were dead and he mourned
them as such He made a success in bus
mess here, and in 1894 married the woman
who secured the divorce yesterday. They
lived happily.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Miller, the original,
and her boy, now grown to manhood, ar
rived in this country and through some
mysterious influence came to st. Louis.
The same influence brought father and
son together and though neither suspected
the others identity for several months,
mutual friends spoke of the likeness and
suddenly the boy told his story and there
was denouement. Miller visited his
Russian wife, and there was a reconcilia-
ton. When wife No. 2 learned the story
she quietly sued for divorce and the hap
py union was broken. She bade Miller
an affectionate farewell to-day, and he
installed his first wife and son in his old
home.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-27
Across the Continent on a Goat Cart.

DENVER, Col, December 24.-Vivian
Edwards. after journey of thirty days
from Hastings, Neb., has arrived in Den
yer on his trip to the Pacific coast in a
miniature wagon drawn by four goats.
Edwards is cripple and is attended by
Charles Quackenbush, boy eighteen
years of age. Dick and Frank and Buck
and Jim are the two goat teams, well and
strongly harnessed, that have pulled the
little spring wagon and cripple from
Hastings to Denver, distance of four
hundred miles, making about twelve miles
per day. The boy Quackenbush walked
all the way, Edwards intended to remain
in Denver for the winter and then resume
his journey by goat power over the Rocky
Mountains to the Pacific coast and then
publish his thrilling adventures.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-27
who the Grumblers Are.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
Mr.. Carnegie, in his speech at the Bos-
ton merchants banquet, declared that if
he were the doorkeeper of heaven he
would keep the grumblers" out. He
could scracely have reflected how much
such a doorkeeper would have reduced
the population of the celestial land. The
part which the grumblers have played in
the history of the world is so important
that distinguished English writer has
called them tue " Prophets of Progress
Socrates, Cato, st. Paul, Galileo, Martin
Luther, William Tell, John Hampden
Marco Bozzaris, Paoli, Simon Bolivar
George Washington, Samuel Adams ant
the members of the famous Boston tet
party were all notable grumblers.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-27
Very strict PrenK.her.

LooKPoRr, n. Y, December 24.-Rev.
E. p. Marvin. minister herr, entered one
of the public schools last week, and with
out much ado proceeded to give lecture
on heaven and hell. He brought maps to
illustrate this subject, and succeeded in
terrorizing the younger pupils so that
they were in a state of nervous excite
ment for some time afterwards. The
Board of Education promises that this
conduct will not be repeated. Marvin is
strict orthodox Presbyterian, and is
very severe on all amusements. He would
not even permit his daughter to have any
frills on her dress or skirts, and locked
her up for desiring to dress similar to
other girls.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-27
Christmas at the Postomce.

The Johns:own postoffice will be open
to-day from to II o'clock this forenoon.
One collection of mail will be made at 8
A. NJ. and another from the boxes on
Main, Clinton and Washington streets
will be made at 6P. N.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-27

After Church on Christmas Day
er's Magazine for January.


The Rector" You seem unusually
happy this morning. Miss Alice-the joys
of Christmas, / presume2"
Miss Alice" Yes, the joys of Christ
mas. received twenty more presents
than l gave. Isn't that enough TO make
me feel gaY?"
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-27
Mercantile Appraiser Appointed d.

The County Commissioners, on Mon
day evening elected MIR. Harry Engelhart
Mercantile Appraiser. There were about
twenty other applicants for the Office
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-27
The Iron Hand smites at Last.

Harrisburg Patriot.
At last, at last A man has been killed
by companion on whom he played the
McCinty gag. Let the good work 60 on.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-06-15
The Clay Cure for Cattle.

When came to Virginia and for
some years afterward, what was called
distemper was very fatal in the Pied
mont region. l lost some valuable
stock. The disease seemed to begin
with baking of the manifolds, the
spleen became congested and greatly
enlarged, the kidneys were inflamed
and the urine bloody. In some cases
the first knowledge we had of the pres
ence of the disease was from the color
of the water. Some victims lived for
several days, and few, treated with
large doses of calomel or strong tea
made of peach leaves, recovered. 1t
was found that cattle sailed on CLAW
did not take or have it. Now it is the
custom to mix clay and salt and keen
it where stock can get it whenever thez
choose, allowing them no salt in anv
other form. Since this practice has
been introduced, and as far as it has
extended, the disease has entirely dis
appeared. T. Leach, in Farm and
Home.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-06-15
The Chief Danger.

A proffered objection to a peculiar
form of evil may seem to imply an ap-
prevail of that evil under another
form. The man who objects to a
ballet performance in a particular
theater, for example, on the score of
the poor seating arrangements in that
building. seems to suggest that he
would not find so much fault with such
a performance if he could obtain q
clearer view OF it. A similar Infer
ence is a fair one in the case OF a
clergyman who objects to the average
drinking place on the score of its sup
plying adulterated liquors. 1t would
seem that he thought pure liquor not
a very bad thing for drinking; where
as the chief objection to Intoxicating
liquor is because it Is Intoxicating
liquor. Who supposes that Noah
drank adulterated wine. or that he
would have been any drunken on a
mixture of log-wood, fusil oil, whisky
and sweet water, than he was on the
pure juice of the grape from his own
home vineyard? The popular adul-
terations of brandy and whisky are
bad enough; but none of them are so
bad as brandy or whisky by itself.
The chief danger to the community is
not from adulterated liquors, but from
liquors which are unadulterated. The
purer they are, the poorer they are
for regular drinking. S. S. Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-06-15

beer-drunkenness and wine drunken,
ness in our own and notably in the
beer and wine countries of Europe.
The Sunday beer excursions which go
out from this city, or such as latterly
have gone from Philadelphia by the
thousands to Gloucester, n. j.. for beer
drinking bouts. are attended with
much disorder and many disgraceful
scenes bordering upon the riotous. In
France, pre-eminently wine country,
a Government commission is now at
work trying to devise some means Of
lessening the acknowledged and in
creasing evil of alcoholism. OThe dis
graceful drunkenness at the Centen-
NAL ball, where only wines were
served, was striking illustration of
the fact that wine, freely consumed,
leads to drunkenness quite as certain
ly as whisky, brandy and the stronger
liquors. And the same is equally true
of beer.
The change in drinking habits from
which alone the Nation can derive
permanent benefit is the change from
the use to the disuse of intoxicants OF
all kinds, the lighter as we'll as the
stronger alcoholic beverages. If the
Temperance reform continues to adj
vance during the new century as DUR
ing the one just closed, as it quite GER
tainly will, the United States will, we
doubt not, 1T the end of another hun
dred years be essentially q Nation Of
abstaiuers. Drunkenness has now be-
come, socially, vulgar offense. In
much less than hundred years not
only the ''stand-up drinking" in rum
shops but also the providing of wines
or any other intoXicants for social
or festive occasions of any kind will
be considered among all reputable
people to be very dad form" TO
this beneficent end all genuine educa-
tional Temperance work in this era
tends. Let it be prosecuted to the ut
termost
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-06-15
Changes in Drinking Habits:

The New York Evening Post con-
cludes recent article on the Changes
in Drinking Habits" as follows. after
abiding to the late Centennial cele-
bration in that city and the notable
absence of drunkenness among the
crowds of people in attendance:
"That the next Centennial celebration will
and the United States Nation of total alb
stainers is in the highest degree improbable;
but 1t is not too much to hope that it may find
the country, although consuming large
amount of liquor, freed from the demoralizing
Influences OF 'stand.up drinking in rum
shops"
The increase of total abstaiuers is
recognized, says the National Temper
ance Advocate. but the Post claims
that the increased sobriety on the part
Of the masses of the people, such as
crowded our streets on the Centennial
aays, is due more to the change in the
drinking habits of the non-abstainers,
who now take beer and wine instead
II the stronger liquors. But there is
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-06-15
A Mirror of Your Mind.

Starting with the word Washington,
write down one hundred words Just as
they occur to you. Let your second
word be the one which Washington
naturally suggests to you. Possibly it
will be capitol. 1t may be President.
Take the word which first comes into
your mind. In the same manner let
the third word be suggested by the
second. the fourth by the third, and so
on. Be careful that the third word is
not suggested by both the first and
second. Drop the first entirely and
let your mind go from the second alone
to the third. Having written this list
of words you will have furnished your
self with q cheap but very useful mirror
of your mind. II you are able to use
this mirror you may discover some
very serious defects in your mental
processes. You may discover that you
think along certain lines too frequently.
You may discover that you are using
superficial principles quite too much,
to the neglect of more important laws
of mind. You will thus be led to avoid
certain linkings, and to encourage
others of more philosophical nature.
-Des Moines Ola. Register.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-06-15
TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

SIX years ago in Southern California
there was not solitary organization
of the w. G. L. u; to-day there are
eighty unions, with a membership Of
1000.
lHAvE prescribed no form of alco-
holic drink, fermented or distilled, for
internal use in the treatment of disease
for forty years, and find no need for
any.-Dr. n. S. Davis.
HAS not science distinctly told us
that alcohol is a poison? Should it
ever be a question at all whether there
should be poison offered at the sacra-
mental table?-Rev. DR.. Rutherford.
Canterbury, N. H., has Quaker
church that was built in 1892 and has
not been shingled since that time. Tho
shingles then put on the roof were Of
heart pine, and were fastened on with
wooden pegs.
THE Toledo Blade has a signature
Temperance Legion" composed Of
young people. who sign q total absti-
hence pledge, good until they arc
twenty-one. The Legion" now num-
bers over $4,000.
AN old English publican" who had
grown rich on the peoples vices was
deprived Of his license to sell liquor
and demanded compensation. A cele-
brated judge declared that in his opin-
ion it was fine case for damages, and
that il the matter should come before
him he would award compensation
the verdict for the publican to be five
years of penal servitude.
AN appalling statement is made by
the committee on minors, in the
twelfth annual report of the Society
for the Prevention of Crime in New
York City. 1t is as follows: Care
full investigation shows that at least
1900 children, mostly very young.
are in the habit of daily visiting the
saloons of the city. 1t is fact well
known to your committee that in a
large number of drinking places bar
tenders are in the habit of giving
little ones candies and pennies to in
duce them to patronize their places"
HAVE moved much among the de-
voted friends Of Temperance in Amer
lea, and among the tried veterans Of
the cause, and am convinced that
in that great and growing center of
the worlds civilization the Tenn
perance question is rapidly being roc
ognized as transcending all others in
Importance. Intelligent Americans
are awakening to the fact that unless
they conquer the liquor traffic tho
liquor traffic will conquer them, and
they are fighting it resolutely and
coura geously over the whole continent
canon Wilberforca
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-06-15

frightful crime you have committed. n
you are too cowardly to kill yourself.
will execute you in the name of the coun.
tryn'
She raised her pistol and aimed at he,
wretch's breast; he threw himself on n,
knees and implored her pardon in agonizips
cries. The determined woman looked a.
him with inexpressible scorn; then shs
lowered her arm, and said: Eyes, you are
right; you are not even worth the powders
Egla returned to her room and locked the
door. When she felt sure that her husband
was asleep, she threw shawl over her head
and left the house.
The day had scarcely dawned when mum.
Der of cavalrymen appeared before Sonnen.
fields abode. The door was soon broken in
and some Hungarian hussars, guided BY
Egla, went up to the chamber where the
Jew was calmly sleeping.
There is the spy!' she cried haughtily:
II want to see him hangedw Sonnenfed
still begged her to be merciful, but she re.
mainod inexorable. The hussars bound his
hands behind his back and led him out
With an imperturbable calm his wife saw
him hanged to branch of the linden tree In
front of his house. AS soon as the execution
was finished, she mounted horse that the
hussars gave her and started off with them
on the gallop.
At the attack on Waitzen awoman, carry.
ing the Hungarian banner, led one of the in.
fantry battalions. 1t was Egla. the valiant
Jewess ofNagy-Nemethy. When the Poles Of
the Mazuchelli regiment carried the Komon
hill at the point of the bayonet, it was Egs
who encouraged them. Already struck WY
two balls she fell, pierced by a bxye
net stroke, on the tattered flag and dyeeft
with her blood.-From the German Of Sa-
cher Masoch, in The Argonaut
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-06-15
HOW TO GET AHEAD.
The Way to Prepare oue's Self for Great.
UScfulnesS.

CScfulueSS.
There are people who do not exert
the powers they suppose they possess,
because they do not occupy a position
adapted to call forth those powers.
They stand idle, because, they say, no
man has hired them. When asked if
there is nothing for them to do. they
reply, in effect, nothing worthy of their
powers. Those who thus wait for sta
lions worthy of their supposed powers
may spend life in idleness.
The true man does vigorously what
soever his hand findeth to do. He is
never out of employment, because he
is ever ready to accept any work which
he can obtain.
A merchant in this city had made
what was then regarded as handsome
fortune. In consequence of losses oc-
casioned by the late war he failed. He
surrendered all his property to his
creditors. He was not out of employ
ment week. He took the first thing
that offered. Though he had been the
head of large jobbing establishment,
he took a clerkship in mparatively
small one. He attended to the duties
of his clerkship as faithfully as he had
attended to the duties of the firm of
which he was the leading partner. OF
course, it was not many years before
he was among the merchant princes of
the city.
Let no young man wait in idleness
for a situation worthy of his powers.
Let him do with his might whatsoever
his hand fndeth to do. The way to
get better place is to perform in a
tirst-rate manner the duties OF your
present one. The way to prepare for
greater usefulness is to make yourself
as useful as possible in your present
caliing.-N. Y. Ledger.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-06-15
ALARMING STATISTICS.
What the Pianos Have Done and Arc Ca
p2ble of Doing.


At recent meeting of the piano
makers in New York, statistics were
brought forward showing that since.
May 6, 1889, 3, 2S7, 063 pianos have been
started on their work of destruction,
and that only 2,S14 have so far been
destroyed-mostly by incendiary fires
started by persons living in the house.
to which the piano belonged and
whose feelings got beyond their con-
troll. The Historical Committee asserts.
that, after thorough investigation, it
is prepared to certify that of the 49,
4S7 pianos manufactured in this coun-
try prior to the war of 1912 only one To-
not now in existence, having been ao-
cidentally lost by ferry boat explo-
sion while being transported to Jersey
City. but all the rest are in active use,
chiefly in hotel parlors and in board
ing houses kept for the sake Of
their friends by ladies who have
seen better days. The commit
tee further asserted in it's report
that no piano ever dies natural death,
but will remain bright and active and
within half an octave of being in tune.
and be loud and penetrating when lift.
ing up its voice. six generations after
the original purchaser has gone to his
long account.
The statement that there is one pi.
ano to every twenty persons in the
United States is proudly pointed to by
the Piano Makers Society, and it
hopes now to see the day when tho
pianos will outnumber the population.
Men, it says, contract nervous disor-
orders, insomnia and brain troubles,
much Of which is due to the prevalence
of discordant sounds, but pianos live
on and on, and get louder and stronger
with age, and nothing short of con1a-
grafton OF, "a cyclone ever incapacitdtes
them for service.-N. Y. World.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-06-15
HOUSES VERSUS HOMES.
The Difference Between Them Definc'
in Convincing Words.

The Difference Between Them Defined
in Convincing Words.
Though one needs a house within
which to create a home, yet commo-
dious house, even richly furnished and
well kept, does not always include even
single element of true homei-ness. 1t
is of the spirit that permeates all these
material points that makes it at all a
home, or destroys the possibility of its
being one, and makes of it mere shell
ter from the elements of nature, sort
of private hotel or caravansary, run at
ones own expense.
House, furniture, paintings, rare
statuary, with bric-a-brac, handsome,
well-dressed people, well-bred per-
sons, all form the component parts Of
what may make home, and yet all
these may be present, and still there
is no home, even though all Of these
may occupy a fine corner lot"
Orators have loudly grated of the
joys of home, poets who have described
home have loudly sung sweetest song
in its praise, and vet the full sweetness
of the dream of bliss it might and
should be, is as yet unspoken. unsung.
A true home is added to by wealth,
but may easily exist with but narrow
means.
1t is the spirit of mutual love, mutual
of 1Nay, IF ha far ilty
with themselves and with each other;
the spirit of mutual helpfulness and
forbearance, the spirit of true altruism.
Of mutual concession and self-el sion
each for the greater comfort and Joy Of
their companions, that makes even
with small income, the home life to
which the heart is ever true; where
such q home exists. the man of business
rejoices when his hours of exile permit
his quick return. When business com
pels weeks absence, the wife or hus-
band feels that they can sympathize
with one condemned to part for life!
A week! Why, it is an eternity to fond,
loving hearts, bound up in each other,
and home worthy of it's name.
The vocation of home-maker belongs
not alone to either man or woman;
both must work together or there can
be none Of that pure, sweet. whole.
some life in the house that embodies
all the real joy of human life, and
typifies the blessings in store, in the
home of the future-across the river.
He who has the best and dearest
home, is also he who has the noblest,
grandest feelings Of patriotism, of love
of his country and his nation. To him
the country and the nation are but an.
other name for homes like his, and
when their safety is assailed, he Springs
first to arms!
Ills home where'er the heart is"
and heart will not center in the family
nor house, simply because both are
ours by right Then, right makes but
letters of what should be chains of
roses. so sweet and dear that loving
hands should ever be twining them
closer, not striving to break a weak
link, that even temporary escape may
be made possible.
Have we houses or homes? Let each
one seek an answer; and if not homes,
is it too late to create them? It's wei
worth questioning at Work.