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The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1890-06-14

Meets the secood and fourth Satur.
days In each month. Visiting brethren
cordially Invited.
II. q. PxrxRsoN, W. ~.
JAAxs LrTTLx. SECRETARY.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1890-06-14
NOTICE..

NOTICE.
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for reference ut the Public Library OF
Denver. In tho west wing Of the High
School. Ninetsenth and Stout streets.
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A ivertisc III THE HERALD.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1890-06-14
HOMH NEWS.

HON N il "S.
Reports from our local merchants To-
dictate . bstak and lively trade.
Regular communication os Aseke
I4ris~. U. D., A. p. h A. ~. tonight
Whaling brethren cordially Invited.
4 good shower Of rain nj tbs present.
time. would b . vesttah1s biessinA
" ovr soil.
Next week several parties coutem
p,Is commencing cutting their nrs'
crup OF alfalfa
A porch 10 being sdisd 70 the CON-
moiIoua residence VI Frank Sheridan,
an Main street
Would Il no< BE- . good idea fos
Marshal Wilbur to give the principal
streets thorough cleaninxS
-
boyd waibridsc received his cart On
Thursday. and will Join the ranks Of
our fashionable buggy riders.
Tho Gregory barn. the property OF
Ike Bacr. is now being uSsi ~ = store
house by }. ". Iiusus + 20.
-
Seven large rooms arc being built In
the MaI,inr hunting lodge. This will
make II very commoiious hotel.
Mrssts. MciIaiton aud Dfcifua arc
breaking some twenty head of their
eholcess hosses. for driving parposea-
Ths 6sst few loads Of lumber for the
nev church building arrived In town
On Saturday. frum The wcltv saw mill.
A vcry brilliant diap,ay u arsvosks
10 Wumissi for Tbs Fourth q July. by
the eommittss In charge u arrange
menss.
ASt1e3ee q incorporation Of tie Ds0
VT asphalt, oil and cnal company, wers
died In The county clesks otsce TIL.
moaning.
Nsekcr has curiosity In the shape Of
. man. who sleeps twenty hours every
day GOT u tho twcnty.four. And still
b. isat happy.
The removal Of the old buildings will
make the street running frum the river
IL the court house. oae VI our most at
tractivc bouievards.
A number Of New York gentlemen
arr proposing 10 club together and build
u hunting Lodge In tho ncighhoshood Of
the forks u upper White.
Meckcr IL the prrtticst and must pro-
grcssiyr town Of Its siks In northwest
cru Colorado. She Is building bones.
The foundation Of all cities q solidity.
-s
Nr. G. $. Ailsebrook 10 manipulating
the wood piles At the lumber yard at
psr~rnt. David Smith retired to the
ssclusion Of the shcep camp % Flag
creek.
On and after Monday next. = severe
sDurce OF contention amongst our local
heart smashers will be removed. the
"blondc" ono leaving on that dav fos the
east.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-02-28
Soon Over.

A sudden thaw in spring is a common
enough cause of the swelling and over
flow of rivers, but few people have ex-
perience of what might be called magic
rivers, which disappear almost as sud.
denly as they are born. One such, how
ever, is described b. W. II. Mallock in
his account of Cyp us, entitled "In an
Enchanted Island"
On certain evening there was a sue
cession of thunder showers, and then,
all the night, heavy and ceaseless
downpour, This" said my host, in the
morning, "ought to make a river"
asked what he meant by this, and he
answered that the river below us was
rarely any Sthing more than a dry bed of
pebbles, just as it was now.
But generally once--sometimes three
times-in the year it would suddenly fill
with water, flow for an hour or two, and
again become dry and silent. felt that
the sight must be curious and wished
that might he able to witness it.
About o'clock in the afternoon a
servant came to my bedroom and asked
me to go into the garden. There l found
my host with an opera glass, standing
on the bank.
"Look!' exclaimed he, pointing. 1T
is coming. Listen! You can hear it,
l listened and looked. at last caught
sound, faint and uncertain, as leaves
rustling in dream. Then suddenly, far
away on the plain, l saw something flash,
like the head of pointed spear. Grad
ually this prolonged itself into a slim
shining line, which presently took a
curve. For time its course was straight.
Then it curved again.
In ten minutes, over the brown surface
of the fields the water had stretched itself
like long, silvery snake, and the sound
1 had heard, growing every instant more
distinct. explained itself to the ear as the
voice of the stirred pebbles The river
channel skirted the bottom of the garden,
and thus, as the flood went by, we had
every opportunity of observing it, 1t
pushed itself forward, headed by mass
of bubbles and scum; it split itself into
fierce rivulets, which, moment later,
were drowned in the body of the stream;
it gurgled against banks; it circled into
transitory whirlPools.
Gradually, as we watched, its volume
seemed todiminish, and in an hours time
there was only a tricllling rill, over which
child five years old might have stepped.
Youths Companion.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-02-28
ieremoniOus.

Frenchmen are noted for their pune
tiliousness, but they have no monopoly
of that virtue. A nice sense of propriety
occasionally crops out in quite uneXpect-
ed quarters.
"Pat," said the superintendent of one
of our New England manufactures, "go
down to the firms office and wash the
windows."
Pat presently appeared in the outer
room with his bucket and sponges.
can was tould to wash the windys
in the firms Office" he said to one of the
clerks.
GAN right, that's it right in there"
answered the clerk, pointing to the
door.
"But they're in there" said Pat.
"Oh, never mind, go right in"
But Pat still hesitated. "Faith," said
he, IAN would ye plaze be after goin' in
an inthroducin meT-Youth's Com
panion.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-02-28
A SEMINARY IN FLAMES.
Narrow Escape of Forty Girls From the
Building.

A special dispatch from Austin, Texas,
saws: The Coronal Institute at San
Marcos, thirty miles from here, WAS de-
stroyed by fire yesterday morning at 8
o'clock. There were sixty persons asleep
in the building at the time. The flames
started on the second floor, and when dis
covered the whole of the floor, with stair
ways leading to the upper story, were in
blaze. Forty girls their ages ranging
from fifteen to twenty years, were ON the
third floor and were awakened by the
smoke. Rushing from their rooms IN
their night dresses they hurried down
the corridors to the stairway. but only
to find them mass of fire. The situation
was appalling and the girls lives were in
danger Many of them screamed, some
swooned, and others rushed to the win
dows and cried for assistance.
" San Marcos is a small town, poorly
equipped for fires, and very few people
had gathered around the burning build
ing, but those few encouraged the girls to
leay from the WINDOWS to the top of gal
lery fifteen feet below. They were 10th
to do so and stood huddled about the win
dows appealing for aid until the crack
ling flames warned them that the third
floor was being devoured and would soon
fall in. Mrs. d. S. Comb, one of the
teachers, finally let herself out of win
dow, and, dropping, landed safely on the
roof of the gallery and was greeted with
cheers by the crowd below, which had
greatly increased. Her success encour-
aged the girls and they made the leap,
and from the gallery reached the ground
on a ladder. Others escaped by sliding
down the bell rope of the institute, which
was dangling near the bell, being in the
tower at one end of the gallery. Many of
the girls fell from the rope, and several
were badly bruised, but none seriously
injured Ten minutes after the last girl
left the gallery the whole of the third
floor tumbled in and soon followed by
the roof Everything in the building was
destroyed, the inmates escaping with
their night clothes only"
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-02-28
Bunch Grass.

The bunch grass which grows so lux
uriantly upon the western plains is a
curious plant" said ranchman yester-
day. 1T grows everywhere throughout
the west wherever there is the slightest
rainfall, and in the greatest luXuriance
along the river bottoms. It's a godsend
to the grazing industry, and although a
homely plant, possesses more of the fat
tening qualities than the far famed blue
grass of old kentuck. Indeed, much of
the fast horsetlesh of the mountain dis
tricts owes its staying powers to n diet
upon this succulent grass. Spokane, for
example, took its full allowance of bunch
grass in his coltish days. Bunch grass
grows in thick hummucks, or punches,
as the name would Indicate
Half a hundred sharp pointed spears
often arise from a single hump, and often
to height Of eighteen inches. In the
spring it is a delicate green, but later on
dries up, but cures to perfection upon
the root. During the winter cattle dig
with their noses for this grass concealed
beneath the snow. However, if the
snow is covered with a crust, steers are
thus cut off from their usual food and
die Off in large numbers, as it is a pecu-
liarity of a steer that it never uses its
hoofs in removing the snow from the
familiar pasturage, Horses, however,
break the crust with their hoofs, and
thus stand the hard western winters bet
ter than cattle. The buffalo always
makes use of the hoofs in uncovering
the food, and somewhere down in Kan
sas there is a stock farm where this fac
ulty of using the hoofs is being devel-
oped by judicious crossing of bulfaloes
with the native cattle - Minneapolis
journal.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-02-28
DEM0CRAT.
JoHNsTowN, Pa, February %, 1890.

JoHNsTowN, Pa, February %, 1890.
TO The Editor Of the ,JohaStotgn Democrat.
was met to-day by gentleman who
takes an active part in politics in our town
ship, and he urged me very strongly to GO
to Ebensburg on Monday to represent our
district as substitute for the County
Committeeman at meeting of the Dem
ocratic Committee which is to be held
there. As / could not agree to comply
with his particular request, which was to
urge that the present mode of nominating
candidates for office be changed in favor
of the delegate system, he dropped the
question and sought some one else.
Now, | want to say word to the Dem
ocrat!e politicians and ringsters who are
evidently working hard to bring about
this result They say the party has suffer.
cd by the present system. How BY
their friends not being able to securs a
nomination when the people have a say
so? True, the party has suffered defeats
but that cannot be charged to the system
of nominating candidates. What has been
more disgraceful then the wranglc under
the delegate system between Kirby and
Nagle? And the subsequent defeat of Nagle
and Generalization of the party is
clearly attributed to the delegate system.
And now when the differences in the
ri oh NJ 10 10,
ticket in the county has been elected these
politicians want to return again to the old
system. One would think they were
workiu the in the interest of the Republi-
can party.
The present system is undoubtedly the
most fair, as each voter can express his
preferences for all the candidates. Take
a district of say 200 voters and under the
delegate system ninety-nine of them may
be practically disfranchised as if the del
egaIe of the 101 of them is elected, the
preferences of the others finds no express
sion. Is this Democratic {? Anyhow the
County Committee has no right to make
this change, but the question should be
left the voters, and though am convinc.
ed of the great evils of the delegate sys-
TEN, will acquiesce in it when a major
itY of the voters say so, but do not feel
that this County Committee has a right
to speak for us on this question. Let the
politicians beware, as the voters will not
submit tamely to have their rights tram
Piled upon as it is proposed to be done by
this committee on Monday
A DEMOCRATIC VOTER.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-02-28
For Comfy Trensnrer.

iC Wiz be noticed in our announcement
of candidates that Mr.. Henry j. Hopple,
of Barr township, will be an aspirant for
the Democratic nomination of County
Treasurer. MIR. Hopple is a farmer, and
one of the most prominent citizens of the
northern part of the county. He is Pres.
ident Of the Cambria County Agricultural
Association, and is gentleman of ability
aud energy. He is a steadfast Democrat,
and if nominated would add strength to
the ticket. The Ebensburg Freeman says
=" The name of Henry j. Hopple, of Barr
township, appears among the political an
uouncements this week as a candidate for
County Treasurer at the Democratic pri-
mary election. To the people of northern
Cambria, Mr.. Hopple needs no introduc
tion as he is known as an active working
Democrat, who at all seasons has been
contributor of his time and means to the
success of the Democratic party. No man
stands higher as citizen than Mr.. Hop
pie, and as a Democrat, he is worthy of
all honors the party can bestow."
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-02-28
HOW IT WORKED.

Good morning Jack why / haven't
seen you for month past. What in the
world is the matter with you ? You seem
to have renewed your youth"
Well Phil. have. Don't you remem-
Der the last time | saw you. how msera-
bic | was ? Sick and blue, and in that
sort of mood man gets sometimes when
he feels the most noble thing in life is to
go straight to the devil"
Not so bad as that, hope at all
events you didn't go that way you arc
looking far too happy and hearty"
Thank goodness, no or rather. thank
Vinegar Bitters. Do you remember that
day | saw you last, when you recommend
ed that remedy to me so persistenty, and
| was first yeX4d and then half convinced.S
| remember it perfectly, and you
needn't say another word upon the sub
iect; your looks tellme that you took the
medicine"
mo doubt of it: everybody remarks
upon my improved looks and temper but
must really tell you all about it. / got
the old style, as you recommended. and
didn't mind the bitter taste at all. | fin
ished the bottle in about two weeks, and
was greatly improved, 50 much so that
| determined to change oil and try the
new style.
" Well, how did you like it?"
" You told me your wife preferred tn
new style, believe; well, must say Iagre
with her. like the old style very much
but the new is a finer, smoother, more eX
pensive preparation"
3" believe ii is in fact, l have heard
50, and | wonder the Mcdonald Drug
Company sell it for the same price they
do the old style, because ii is really avery
costly preparation"
Well, that dosn't concern us Who
was it said that people fancied themselves
pious sometimes when they were only
bilious? No matter was only going to
say that believe people often seem wicked
when it is only their liver, or their stom-
ach, or some other cantankerous organ of
the body so out of order they couldn't be
good if they tried"
And if all the miserable dyspepsia.
and victims of biliousness, headache and
the thousand and one ills that flesh is heir
to would only take Vinegar Bitters, what
a happy world this would be :"
g shonld recommend the new style"
" never go back on the old style"
Well, they can pay their money and
take their choice, for both kinds work ad-
mirably."
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-02-28
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY COMMITTEE.
Proposed Change in the Rules Governing
the Primary Elections.

Proposed Change in the Rules Governing
the Primary Elections.
JoHNsTowN, Pa, February 90, 1880.
To The Editor or The JohRstotpH Democrat.
notice that some of the party leaders
are particularly active in urging commit
teemen to attend the meeting of the Dem
ocratc County Committee, which will be
held IN Ebensburg to-day, and strong ef-
forts are being made to have that body
take action to return to the delegate sys-
tenn of nominating candidates for office.
Now this question has been submitted
twice TO the people, at the Democratic
primaries, and each time there has been
an overwhelming majority in favor of re-
tanning the present system.
According to the call of Chairman
Gray, however, it seems that it is con
templated to have the County Committee
make this change, thus taking it out of
the hands of tho voters to determine the
matter. Such action on the part of the
Committee is surely undemocratic and it
is very doubtful if it could be considered
legal.
Let the County Committee, if it sees fit,
su nit the matter again to the voters, as
that is the only proper manner in which
it can be changed
There are good arguments in favor of
returning to what IS called the increased
delagate system, and | have voted for
that plan each time the question has been
submitted, but | am strongly opposed to a
change being made by any arbitrary
method, such as is proposed now. Before
Chairman Gray and his committee take
any such action to-day, they should con-
slider well that the voters have rights
which should not be taken from them,
Put the question again to the people but
do not arbitrarily force a system upon
them which by their votes they have re
peatedlY said they do not want.
DEMOCRAT.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-02-28
The Wells of TriDoli.

The Friday market in Tripoli, Barbary,
held in the oasis, little distance from
the town, is picturesque in the extreme.
On all sides the eXasperating grating of
well pulleys produces a motif too Wag-
merriam for uneducated ears, in a pastoral
symphony played by full orchestra of
buzzing insects, grasshoppers whirring
shrilly, and the sun scorched palms
cracking their dry branches. In each
garden rise the two arms of a well, be-
tween which an enormous leathern bag
mounts and descends on a rude wooden
pulley, the chief instrument of the above
mentioned music, discharging at each
trip food of water.
The negro laborer uses a camel, an OK,
sometimes his wife, to give the motion
to the machine by going up and down
an incline plane. The movement does
not stop day or night during the nine
months of the dry season, and it is
thanks to that water, which is life
thanks to constant care, that the ver-
dure of a semi-tropical vegetation blooms
gayly in the sand.
Under the protection of pomegranate,
fig, orange, lemon and banana trees,
through whose heavy foliage the sun
percolates, flourish maize and wheat,
vegetables and flowers of all sorts.
Above it all the stately palms balance
their heads in the superheated atmos.
phere -Scribner's Magazine.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-02-28
omcial History of the Johnstown Flood.

The fearful flood that swept with sud.
den and remorseless power through the
beautiful Couemaugh valley and well
nigh wiped out of existence the opulent
and populous City of Johnstown, destroy
ing millions of property and thousands of
human lives, startled and shocked the
world beyond anything known for ages, if
ever. Long and tedious has been the la.
Dor of recovery and restoration. The ex-
pericnce of actual sufferers, ---clergYmen,
lawyers, physicians millionaires and Ia
borers, whith their dearly loved famiI les,
some utterly lost, others separated for
ever others saved as by miracle from
the overwhelming flood, ---eXceed in thrill
ling interest the power of romance and
can only be told in their real intensity
of feeling by those who went through
the fearful ordeal and came out alive.
Hasty, premature, imperfect descrip-
tions have been written by outsiders, but
finally there comes to us a true official
history of the whole momentOus affair,
prepared by no less eminent a survivor
than the Rev. DR.. David J. Beale, who,
after the flood was chosen as superinten-
dent of all the morgues, and hence had
accurate knowledge of all the dead re-
covered, and OF the most remarkable ex-
periGnces.
BY the urgent request of the leading
citizens of Johnstown and of many emi.
nent men oil the nation, such as Cover
nor Beaver, Adjt. Gen. Hastings, T. De-
Witt Talmage, d. D., John Hall, d. D.,
Howard Crosby, D. D., Chauucey NJ
Dcpow, Mayor Grant, of N. Y, Jas. b.
Scott, Postmaster.General Wanamaker,
Rev. Theo. L. Cuyler D. D., and host
of others, he undertook this arduous
work and in its preparation he has had
the assistance of all the officials connect
ed with the different departments OF the
work of relief
This book, therefore, Is not only ably
prepared and intensely interesting, but is
the first and only official work descriptive
of the most stupendous disaster OF
modern times
1t is elegantly gotten up, splendidly
illustrated, and is published by the en-.
prising house of Faulkner & Allen, Phila-
delpbia,
We have no doubt that all who bought
the hastily issued, inferior books (the sale
of which was so immense) will be eager
to procure the genuine official history,
and thousand who did not buy the others
will surely want this, The sale by sub
scription win afford active young men and
women an unusual chance to make money
fast. We hope some one IN our commun-
ity will speedily procure the agency and
give our citizens chance to secure this
deeply interesting and meritorious work.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-02-28
LOVES WAY.

They say it's an old, old story,
That the soul of nature came
OF old, in an hour of glory,
As a loving heart of flame;
With tenderest human feeling,
For the proud, the hardened slave
OF lust, for the outcast, reeling
Through shame TO a nameless grave.
And that still this old, old story
Is only mystic dream;
That creations brightest glory
Is science and law and steam
But love has its science, older
Than the oldest worlds OF time;
And its laws and forces, bolder
Than the heroes called divine
1t loves, and dies, and comes again;
Rejected, il flies away;
But conquers life through joy or pain,
Is god of each night and day.
w IL. Thorne in Philadelphia Times.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-02-28

A peculiarly pathetic incident marked
the closing of the life of Alonzo E. Stod-
dard, the well known Boston baritone,
who died with typhoid fever AS he lay
on his cot in the hospital breathing his
last, a sudden inspiration seemed to re-
vivify him, and, to the wonder of all, he
sat upright in his couch and began to
sing in his familiar, robust voice one of
his favorite operatic solos. He never
sang with more feeling or with more
beauty of tone. The song was sung
from beginning to end, the last notes
died away, and just as they ended the
singer fell back in his bed, dead.-Peoria
TRANSCRIPT.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-02-28
Scientific ParaIoxes.

These scientific paradoxes are grouped
together in Blackwoods Magazine: The
water which browns us, a fluent stream,
can be walked upon as ice. The bullet
which, when fired from a musket, carries
death, will be harmless if ground to dust
before being fired. The crystallized part
of the oil of roses, so graceful in its fra
GRANGE, solid at ordinary temperatures,
though really volatile, is a compound
substance containing exactly the same
elements, and in exactly the same pro-
portions, us the gas with which we light
our streets. The tea which we daily
drink with benefit and pleasure produces
palpitations, nervous tremblings, and
even paralysis, if taken in excess; yet the
peculiar organic agent called theme, to
which tea owes its qualities, may be
taken by itself (as theme, not as tea)
without any appreciable effect
The water which will allay our burn
ing thirst augments it when CONCEALED
into snow, so that it is stated by ex-
plorers of the Arctic regions that the ma
tiyes prefer enduring the utmost ex-
tremity of thirst rather than attempt to
remove it by eating snow" Yet if the
snow be melted it becomes drink
water. Nevertheless, although if melted
before entering the mouth it assuages
thirst like other water, when melted in
the mouth it has the opposite effect. To
render this paradox more striking, we
have only to remember that ice, which
melts more slowly in the mouth, is very
efficient in allaying thirst.