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Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-01-10

lHE January number of brakes Maya
zlne contains its usual amount of enter
tanning, instructive and amusing reading:
supplemented with timely illustrations,
Its frontispiece is very cleverly executed
picture entitled the Village Milkman,
The leading article is an interesting de-
scription of the City of Havana and its
people, fully illustrated, by E. Ida
Williams. Mittens Millett, the actress,
contributes an interesting story entitled
what the New Year Brought Her.
Theo. F. Wolf, A. NJ, of Columbia Col.
lege, describes BYron's school-boy DAYS
at Harrow, and relates many incidents
regarding the youthful days of the great
poet. New Year as it was observed in
New York thirty years ago, is treated
by Robert Morris. Zenas Dane, Nathan
Levy, Ella Higginson, Frank w. CASA.
way and other well known and popular
writers contribute stories, sketches and
poems calculated to please every reader
OF this popular monthly, brakes Quacks
leading feature of the Magazine, ere
always funny, and the January number
has Its full quota. One Dollar a year or
ten cents a copy.-The Drake Pu5listia,o
Company, 81 Park Row, New York City.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-01-10

/. oo4UztrIlCu' III tAAc tfeot. 1 tt INV ear >
IS really the older festival; Christmas
Eas added at comparatively late day.
1t was perfectly natural that all people
from the earliest times should celebrate
the beginning of the year, and if the do
mestic animals had any sort of fellow
feeling about them why shouldn't the
cows and the roosters pray for their
owners?
In Ireland the fairies and elves clus-
tered around the shrines on holy nights;
in England the dark shadow of Druidism
long rested on the holy days; but it was
in Scotland-the land of gloomy crag
and tarn and black mountain pass and
grewsome mist-pre-eminently the land
of superstition, that even birds and beasts
bowed to honor the New Years. From
the Highlands the exiles brought the
tale to sunny Maryland, but in that
region it soon took on bright and joyous
traits.
New Years observances are of very
ancient origin. The Romans on the first
day of the year were accustomed to ex-
change greetings and make presents.
These under the Caesars were a great
source of profit to the emperor and quite
burdensome to his subjects. The church
at first prohibited Christians from hav-
ing anything to do with it, but at last
made it a Christian festival.
Strange to say the custom of calling
on New Years day grew most nearly
universal among the Chinese and Amer
leans. The former celebrate the New
Year through three days, during which
they call on their friends, exchange
greetings in the streets, beat gongs, offer
paper prayers and make "Fourth of
July" Of it in fireworks.
In the days when little group of
frame houses with gable ends of Dutch
brick clustered about the fort adjoining
the point called the battery, Mynheer and
Vrouw. together with their children, the
youths and maidens of New Amsterdam
would go about making visits to each
other, celebrating the day as only a
primitive people could celebrate it, the
elders smoking their pipes and the
youngers making merry, aud all enjoying
themselves heartily
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-01-10
A Portuguese Explorer.

Portugal has been acting as if she
would fight England rather than yield
any part of her claims to African terri
tory, but those who know best say this
is only the bluster of the ruling class in
Portugal, who want to divert the peoples
minds from the movement towards a re-
public. The ''war feeling" is always
favorable to strong central government
and the party in power, and so the Mon
archists have acted shrewdly in backing
up Maj. Serpa Pinto in his somewhat
high handed proceedings. He was
major in the Portuguese army before
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-01-10

Pictures Showing TO Some Extent the Cos
tuning Of the Characters. Together with
Highly Appreciative Article from an
English Paper.
| Pictures of Gilbert and Sullivan's new
opera, 1.-The Gondoliers," have come to
hand, and two of them are here present
ed. The English papers all speak highly
of the production, of course Here is
what The London Saturday Review had
to offer early in the London run of the
piece:
The story of The Gondoliers" may be
very briefly summarized. One of the
two, Marco or Giuseppe Palmieri, is be-
lieved to be heir to Barataria; they have
both married; but if either is king, he
was married in infancy to some one else;
so that there are two husbands and three
wives, and mystery attaches to the pro-
blem who is at once king and bigamist
A very neat end is, however, provided,
for it appears that the King of Barataria
is quite another person, and that he has
long been devotedly attached to the girl
to whom he was welded at the age of 6
months This is the main story, the
clever satire of "a monarchy tempered
with republican equality being inciden-
tai Casilda, daughter of the Duke of
Plaza-Toro, an impecunious hidalgo who
is being made into limited company,
loves her fathers suite" his drummer
Luiz, the sole attendant upon the i'm
poverished duke. Casilda learns that
she was married in infancy to the Prince
of Barataria, and as he lives, Luiz and
she must part. "Henceforth, she SAYS,
my life is another's." The dialogue con-
tinues:
Luiz-But stay--the present and the future
they are another's; but the past-that at least is
ours and none can take it from us. AS we may
reve in naught else, let us revel in that!
Cas.-I don't think grasp your meaning.
Luiz-Yet it is logical enough You say you
cease to love meg
Cas-. (demurely)-I say may not love you
Luiz-But you do not say you did not love mer
Cas.-I loved you with q frenzy that words are
powerless to express-aRd that but ten brief min.
utes since.
Luiz-Exnctly. Ny own--that is, until ten min
utes since, my own-my lately loved, my recently
adored-tell me that until, say q quarter of an
hour ago, was all IN all 10 theel (Embraoing
her)
Cas.-I see your idea. 1t is Ingenious, bat don't
do that. (Releasing herSelf)
Luiz-There can be no harm in reveiing in the
past
Cas.-None whatever, but an embrace cannot
be taken to act retrospectivey.
Luiz-PeThaps not.
Cas.-We may recollect an embrace-I recollect
many-but we must not repeat them.
IuiZ-Thpn let n q recnlleCt n few nomauffs
pause, rs they reoollect, then both heave deep
sigh)
Luiz--Ah, Clsi,da, you were to me as the sun is
to the earthl
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-01-10

coast of East Africa, and his countrymen
have ever since felt as if they owned it
all. The British concede them Mozam-
bique and the country west of it, but
claim equal rights on the Zambesi and
exclusive rights northward, with an open
field to the interior. Maj. Serpa Pinto
insists on greater rights for Portugal,
charges that the British consul at Mozam-
bique excited the Makololo to war against
the Portuguese, and is taking the most
energetic measures to expel all English
men from the region he dominates. In
Lisbon all journals of all politics are
loud in his praise, and insist on the gov
ernment sustaining him. He is compar-
atively young man, full of enthusiasm,
and remarkably successful in dealing
with the blacks. So the complication is
quite interesting.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-01-10
"cows KNELT AT MIDNIGHT"

heard in any rural region of the central
west some forty years ago on any New
Years eve. And the ''setting up" was
the one and only point in which New
Years observances differed from those
of Christmas. The Knickerbockers have
so far impressed themselves upon Ameri-
can life that most of the present genera
ton think "calls and congratulations
have always been the great feature of
New Years.
Know then, innocent youth, that as
late as forty years ago "New Years
calls" as New York has known them,
were an unknown institution in three
fourths of the United States. But in The
border states, especially the southern
sections of the states just north of ;he
Ohio, the practice of watching the Did
year out and the new year in" was he
one thing peculiar to New Years.
Wonderful things were to be seen at tiat
hour. Cows fell upon their knees, fowls
went through sort of reverential per-
formance, the wild animals lost their
fear of man, and certain plants of mys-
OSitOho h'UuO oPiahS uP III bhS hpOA
yard.
81 have had the children pull and hy
on my lap shoots as long as my hant, "
was the testimony of one good old lacy,
and for aught any hearer could ever dis
cover, she honestly believed it. A little
later, when the old superstition died ott,
"Watch Night" became a religious po-
ceeding. The ordinary evening meeting
was followed by "song and praise" s.s-
sion. A few minutes before midnight
the members of the church gathered
around the "altar" Gt was merely tue
space in front of the pulpit, but the do
name remained), and sometimes joinad
hands in circle.
AS the minute hand of the clock neand
the XII mark the most profound silence
was observed-every Christian was sup
posed to be in silent prayer for pardon
for the sins of the closing year. When
the hew hour and new year began
all broke into a glad song, often mingled
with Shouts" in Methodist or United
Brethren churches, and after the song
closed the members pledged each other
to renewed devotion and greater faith
fulness to duty" for the coming year.
The negroes, always quick to adapt their
old African customs to their new reli-
gion, took special delight in this one,
adding many fanciful features; and it
still survives in the far south as "Walk-
ing Egypt"
But what of the original "Watch
Night?" Well, all we can say is that
some of our ancestors brought it from
Scotland with them, and as they told
of the wonderful things that had hap
pened i'll Scotland, so their children in
Kentucky and Indiana told the same
things as having happened in Maryland,
and by and Ivy their children in Illinois
and Missouri told of them as occurrences
in Maryland or Kentucky, and so the
superstition lived on in many neighbor-
hoods even to the outbreak of the civil
war.
All, the war-that iconoclastic wari
How many fine old traditions did it ban
ish at once and forever. How many
sweet illusions were utterly destroyed;
how many local customs, how many
racy local legends; how nightly did it
fuse all the people of the north into one
image and likeness. "There have bean
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-01-10

when ne pnrposely initiates always
with taste and gracefulness-the man
ner of a school. One of the most re-
markable and delightful features in the
score is its variety. Sir Arthur has a
marvellous aptitude for fitting his music
to the occasion, and can be gay or ten
der with equal ease and appropriateness,
while he has always struck us as the one
composer of the day, at any rate the one
English composer, who can extract gen.
uine humor from an orchestra. The
long opening number is full of melody,
and the Dukes entry with drum obli-
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-01-10

TEE Nicely boys, found gully of MUIR
der In the first degree by an impartial
jury OF their countrymen and sentenced
by the Court to be- hanged, arc still con.
fined in the old rickty Jail at Somerset
awaiting the action of our tardy Gov
ernor. 1t is now over half a year since
they were sentenced, yet Governor Beaver
has made no move. The Herald is get
ting impatient because the date for the
execution is not fixed. The old Jail is un-
safe, and keeping them too long might
result in more trouble.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-01-10

ideas are really GEUFGE d. AYHES.
identical with the secialistic ideas pro-
mulgated by Laurence Gronlund and al
ready partially crystallized in the Kaweah
colony, California, but they have gained
headway much faster since the publica-
ton of Mr.. Bellamy's book than they
were before able to make. The president
of the original Boston Nationalist club,
George d. Ayres, of whom portrait is
given, was of course an important figure
at the cecent Boston celebration
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-01-10

no witches in Germany since the wars
of Napoleon, was German saying d
the last generation-"Bonaparte killed
all the witches" And so there have been
since 1860 no visions of the "Watch
Night" no praying cows, no devotional
ROSTERS, no suddenly growing night
plants.
Christmas had its own riotous sports
and shooting matches in the early west,
Easter its ''calicoed eggs" and the
Fourth of July its cannon or anvils with
procession and speech; but New Years
had nothing peculiarly its own hut
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-01-10

the first Nation
alist club. The
Nationalists are
a body of theor-
lists W b o are
working hard to
put into practice
the ideas describ-
ed SO graphically
by Edward Bel
lamy in his now
fam ou s book,
Looking Back
ward. Th es Q
ill.,. v1,l1
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-01-10

and, like all edu-
catedPortuguese,
the burning de-
sire of his life is
to restore the glo-
ries of the Portu-
guese empire in
Africa and India.
Four hundred
years ago, nearly,
Vasco da Cana
made his wonder
full voyage and
a-nln-ad Eka
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-01-10
No Hurry to See the Elephant.

Elephants have been known to live to
the age of 400 years.
Moral-Young man, do not be in too
much of a hurry to see the elephant.
He'll keep Boston Transcript.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-01-10
Tho Nationalist

1t was a very enthusiastic gathering
that celebrated the anniversary in Bos-
ton the other day of the formation of
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-01-10

"watch Night as 1t Was and Is-Nsw
York's Knickerbockers-Mode sweiIs
and Angiomaniacs-The Old Customs
Went Out All at Once.
"Goin' to sit up tonight"
81 reckon-yes, Ireckon l will. Moth
in in it, y know, but lots O. fun and
fresh cider"
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-15
BLOWN TO ATOMS.
HIS LIMBS FAR FROM THE PLACE Of
EXPLOSION.
Other Parts Of His Body Lodged In Trees
Three Other Men Have Their Heaas
Blown OF.
lps ,elerrnDh % the rIspalch.l

CoLuNBIA, S. c., August IA special 10
the DaiB Register from Nswberry. TINS STATE
says: The news reached here to-day OF .
terrible boiler explosion which occurred
this morning at county saw-miii Twelve
miles west OF Newberry. on Dr. W. N,
Dorroh's place. -Four men. one whlte ana
three colored. were killed and two colored
men seriously wounded. Pickens Z. Mat
thews (white). son OF the owner OF the
mill, met with an awful fate: He was me me;
rally blown % atoms. his limbs neins lou i'
some distance from the scene OF "a. eAilo-
sion and other portion oil Ms oo1t rs
pended in trees. Tie coloreu nse ,- ~,
Davis. Thomas Ellison. ,an9 Nliia' n
Chambers-had their heads blown on
and were otherwise terrloiy nut ~
lated. Milton Rabb (colored) haa MS
thigh badly mashed and Walt. DAVIS
was fearfully scalded. A coiore9 uoy
named Young. about twelve wears oid, VS.
the only one who escaped uninJureu. re
says that The pump was out OF Greer ana
the ENGINE had been stopped. Elils0h, the
colored engineer. and other coioreu men
were around the furnace OF the engine anu
Matthews was working with the pump WIEN
| the explosion occurred. The pump was
in front OF the engine and near the saw;
| being supplied with water IRON sihaii
stream alongside of winch the engine was
placed Matthew's shoes were tound 10y
| the stream with his feet in them, having
| been blown from his body. The noise OF
| the explosion was distinctly beard oy
several persons in Newbcrry and by other
persons at great distances in the country.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-15
BROTHERHOOD
ATLANTIC ASSOCIATION
FREDERICK eeRT,s MILLIONS.
A Philadelphia Managers Wonderfu
Iugk
philadelphia Inquirer.l


Frederick Bert, the stout, black bearded,
good natured manager of the Standard
Theatre. had quite a number OF visitors
yesterday. all eager 10 learn what ne
thought about the prospects VI beng part
heir TO an estate OF three million dollars.
Since the publication yesterday morning
of the dispatch from San Francisco an
nouncing the decease of the French VINE
manufacturer, who was an Uncle OF DIT.
Bert's father, and the fact that Mr. Bert
and his remaining relatives are the only
known heirs. nothing else was talked about
by those in and around the theatre and the
GENIAL managers large circle OF friends.
Il am yery loath TO speak about the. al
fair said Mr. Bert last evening: IN TACT,
| am very sorry il got out at all, Tor know
as little about II at present as yoursen:
believe myself there is not the slightest
truth in the report. man has to work
for a million dollars and ! doubt my good
fortune In getting that much SO easily. III
is too good 10 be true.
This morning a lawyer named semen
came to me and stated that he hau cialln
! of $50. goo against the estate OF my fathers
uncle. of which he could not collect pen
ny until the estate had been administered
upon. He said he had traced out the heirs
and pressed me TO procure the proofs OF
INV heirship aud lay claim TO the estate; L
| Immediately wrote to my mother, who,
with my brother Edward, resides in San
Francisco, asking who | AIN aud all about
it. Until that answer comes can say very
little on the subject. -
Il have retained my son, Eugene r.
Bert, who is lawyer IN San Francisco,
aud have also engaged counsel In this city;
shall leave the matter with my. counsel
entirely. and as yet have no plans OF nv own.
know nothing of my fathers uncle. In
any well-appointed saloon almost you Will
see Bert Wine and during my fathers
lifetime he said: BOYS. some day you viii
enjoy that know my mother never had
any correspondence with our rich reia-
| tive"
There are at present three heirs to the
Frenchman's millions. They are Frede-
rick. Charles, and Edward Bert.
Their father was French, his name being
Etienne Gustavs Bert. He emigrated to
this country when young man. coming %
Philadelphia and was known IS I'd. BERT.
The father hid An uncle 10 France whowas
4 wealthy landowner and manufacturer OF
wine and champagne. Their father died
and the three sons are, through him. the
direct heirs. The estate, IL Is said. con-
slsfs ct Thousands Of acres OF land II
France. Germany, and England. Their
estimated value Is given at tl2.0oo, 00
MOST o. the Bart family have oeen his-
long workers II the different rAnks of nc
tbeeevle4 psooeG1ieas the fathes beng tht
nm - bling 70 thls country UQupe o
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-15
mAaxsIs 81 IeLeoaAPn.
NEW YORK.

-. .. ~...~~ .s>~AS. snann
NEW lokt, Auguss IL o,sou s.s,y.
today. is osies -. e,en,os, 81 1890
le1ds " i-ioc.' Wieans' 49, .Ss. I'm
1s baies; expctu-io vreAs D ssss
balss; TO Tho continent, .. psles; 49, ss.ss
Oslce. soufnern nour nfm NM ousSs
unsettled sa1 dnti. ctosia9 Neaxe.' 80 49,.
SLoSss.Dt op;icnscioss1 wax ~ Hs7sx vsv
yesteri ~, no. ztcJ. Aususe s.oos. SSsySt
Der, si.oA Corn qu,et sha ose.' evs,ns ,ss'is.
NO. z, 3tafsc. opv"pss SsnSe 800, 80
august an1 September, SA~i veovof, ~.
Ost- dun end lower: no re-. s.snc ovsyss
quo, and weaker. HOPS qnies snu s'ront Sss,os
lss2ic. old, lOalA CoNee --opiions o.oeen p~foiy
steady, unchanged 20 ana ., points w ~"
active higher cables. Angus. yisSssiSV.
Der, flIsostiL1: SPOT Mo nrfner ana s,uve
At s2o.1s. suear-knw sc. higher tennc1 n,m
and fairy active. No'assss - rev Wissns
quiet Rice fairly active and urn. Petroieaw
frm and quiet; refined. t.& Wcos auii All
easy Pork quiet but steady. Beer o.u oss
etronR Beef hams quie; and unchanged Iiercea
beef quiet cutmcs.s stronger; gcod de-
Dsnd. Midditpgs weak and quiet lard weeksr
and dun western Steam. t,JN; CITY. NS'
August. sd35 asked: september. f6Hees ~
Freishts irregular and dun; cotton, o-e4d;
grain, "a.
CHICAGO.
cutrAao. August l4--Cash quotations were:
r,onr nyn' AMI ,Inchaaeei; No. 2spring wheat,
oec No rei pgkc. No. corn. 47tc. No oats,
sss.s.c Mesa pors. sii2a. Lard, Alt
shert.rtb.. Hscasa q. shoulders unchanged.
snorI-clear Is T0syssD whisEey, ti.ia
Wh.st-A large speculative business WAS
again transacted. aud sne feeling was unsettled
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-15
TURF AND DIAMOND.
Yesterdays Interesting Racing LVen's-
Yesterdays Games of Ball.
fpy telegraph to the Dispatch.l

ny telegraph to the Dispatch.l
SARAroGA. n. T., August 1i.-Weather
and track fine.
First receive furlongs-Lady Pulsifer
won: Objection second. Ocypete tnrd.
Time. 1:024.
Second race-Tennessee stakes, SIX fur
longs-Monterey won NaIero second
Bertha Cambell third. Time 1888.
Third race--free weller handicap sweep
stakes one mile-Clio won; Allan Bane
second. Miss bennett third. Tine. l:ii9.
Fourth race-Hotel BalmOral stakes,
one mile and a half-layinia Belle won;
Los Angeles second, Floodtlde thlrd.
Time, 2.37.
Fifth race-one mile and seventy yards
Over won: Corticelli second, Satisfaction
third. Time, l:4S3s.
At MONMOUTH PAEK. o
MONMOUTH PARK, n. j., August 14.-Wea-
ther perfect; track fast. ooo
First race-Orange stakes and $1,000
added. seven fuTlongs won
Volunteer second, kempland thrd. lime,
1:271l.
won: St. Charles second. HOodlum third.
Time. Ills. -
Third race-sweepsiakes 1000 added,
one mile-Fanfau colt won; lula Black
| burn second. Demuth third. Time. 1924.
Fourth race-fiye furlOngs-fearless
| won: Emma j. second, Adelina third.
Time. 1:0l]s. --o
Fifth race-sweepstakes $1,000. $3.50
added. one mile and a furlong-My Fellow
won: Tristan second. Grlmaldi tnlrd.
| Time. l:55.
sixth race-sweepstakes. $1,000 added.
one mile and Quarter-tiray Dawn won I;
| Lotion second. Sam Wood third. Time
2:094.
New York Oeague): New Yorks, 8;
| base-hits, 10: errors, ,. Philadelphlas. o;
| baee-hits. II: errors, \. Batteues-Rusle
and Buckley; Vickery and Clements.
| Boston Neague): Bostons, 2; base-hits,
7: errors, /. Brooklyns. l. base-hits. ,;
errors. !. Batteries GARRISON and Camel
Caruthers and Clark.
| Cleveland 6Lesgue): Clevelands. II ;
base-hits. 10; errors, l. Pitssburghs. O.
base-hits. IL; errors. 8. Batteries-Dea'in
| and Zimmer; Phillips and Decker.
Cincinnati League): Cinclnnatis, u
basel hits. 4: errors, /. Ghicagos. /; base,
| hits. 6; errors, o. Bat ies-R hines AUD
| Harrington; Stein and aittridge..
| Cleveland CBrotherhoodl Cleyelends. 81
| base-hits IA: errors. g. Bufalos. g. base
| hits. II: errors. D. Batteries --McGill and
| SutchfTe: Haddock and Mack.
| Chicago (Brotherhoodli thicas9S, ~
| base-hits. s; errors, 5. Pittsburghs,
| base hits, 7 ; errors, &. Batterles-king and
| Blyte; Tener and Quinn.
New York (Brotherhoob: New Works, .
base-hits. II; errors, 3: Brooklyns; 4
| base-hits. 6: errors. 0. Batteries-ODay
and Ewing; Ewing aud Kinslow.
Boston (Brotherhood Bostons. 2; base
hits, 4; errors, u. Philadelphias, 10 base
hits 21; errors, 3. Batteries-Gumbert
Madden, and Murphy; SWEET, hnell, anc
| Hallmann.
Toledo: Toledos, 5; base.hits. 10 errors
4. Brooklyns. 2; base-hits, 4; errors. 3
IIealy and Rogers; Ford and
81. Louis st. Louis. G;base-hits, 6; er
rors. 3. Athletics, 8; base-hlts. g.; errors
5. batteries Ramsey and Munyan; Nc
Mahon and Baldwin.
Louisville Louisvilles, IL; 6ase-hlts
f6 .errors, 3. Rochesters, 8; base,hits
| 10; errors. 8. Batteries -Stratton, Good
all, and Bligh; Ttcomb and MCGUIRE.