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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-04-20

sATrEpAY-The extra session Of the Sen.
ate, after running exactly six weeks, closed
to-day. The proposed investigation Jf the
charges against Senator Roach formed the
chief topic ut the days discussion. No dis.
position was made either OF that matter or
OF the question rs 10 the admission of the
ihtee appointed Senators from Montana,
Washington and Wyoming
Inc president sent 30 ~ his last nOmin.
ton 10 the senate. Joseph - Miller Of West
virginia 10 be commissioner Of internal
revenue. Mr.. Miller, IL will be remem hered
held THIS position under Mr. Cleveland In
his former term and gave good satisfaction.
Al he nominations made 10 the Bcnntc
including those scut IN 10 day, were hur.
Hcdly confirmed In an executive session OK
cept that of llewson T.. Lhnnan. OF Wi.
mington, 10 hc lniicI States marshal of
Delaware. which under the rules, went over
on objection bY Higgins whore action was
doubtless based Oh the tact that Attorney
General Olncy had to-day removed H. q.
Mnhhllcy. the Republican Incumbent. who
was appointed August 2. lsIJ. The inIunc.
Ton Of secrecy was not released from the
much discussed Russian treaty.
Authority was given committees Ia In,
yestlgnte the condition ~ affairs IN tho
Indian Territory, nnI also the Operations Of
the nptlp0gllng and long and short haul
causes of the inter state commerce law
~ b1D the doors we're TesOpened, aud
resolution offered by Mr.. MandorEon and
agreed ~, rendering tbs thanks ~ tbs
senate 10 the Vice President Tor the impair,
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Mongo1ian Camels.


The populor idea regarding "tse ship of
the desert" is completely at faait if ap-
piled to the camels of Mongolia and
Pechili. Juvenile natural histories talk
of the soft padded foot for which this
animal is SO distinguished, as if
SANDY bottom" were the only surface
upon which he could walk with comfort.
But the greater part Of all mercantile
transport in North China is performed by
camels, and. except in the immediate
neighborhood of Peking, sand IS an un-
known lu xury to this much-endur5ng beast.
How vast is the number of cahaels thus
employed may be guessed from the tact
that during our days journey we passed
more than 500 vending their dilasory way
from the Tartar steppes to ti.e plains
of Chill. They chiefly carried soda
soap, a kind of animal a:kali or
I've found on the borders of Mongolia.
and cut into blocks each weighing about
26O pounds. At no time IS the camel
prepossessing object. But here nature
provides him with SO shaggy acovering
that his ungainly form becomes even
more hideous. Camel's WOOL by the
way, used for padding clothes, is IN article
of considerable traffic hereaboBts, and
when spring zephyrs take the place of
winter blasts, the herdsmen of the plateau
shear their camels by process watch pre-
serves the merit of extreme simplicity,
pulling out by hand whatever has-not been
shed naturally. Many animals are
kept for the sole purpose of yielding
wool, but the amount obtainable from
each is singularly disproportioned to the
huge bulk of its producer. A heaa'y fleece
taken from full grown camel wia seldom
average over seven pounds, white IS is a
high price for the picul of 133 pous5ds.
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Revfling . Chicago Hotel Keeper Who
Denounced HoYseracinR.

CHICAGO, Jan "A sensational quarrel c.
cured this evening at the Wellington hotel be-
tween Edward Corrigan, OF the Hawthorne race
track, snd A. S. Gage, proprietor of the Yelling
ton Recently q bellboy at the Wellington was
arrested for stealing from guests. He ad mitted
his guilt and declared that betting on horse
races had caused his ruin. Gage thereupon de-
nouneed horse racing vigorously. and his re-.
marks, being published. had an irritating effect
on Corrigan, who freQuented the Well
ington. This evening Corrigan had hot
words with the clerk in securing a room, and
the matter was Immediately reported to Mr.
Gage. The latter at once wrote a note to Corri-
gan, saying that Ii he used the language at
gibuted to him he must Immediately yacate the
room to which he had been assigned. Corrigan
was also invited to apologize
The master of Hawthorne received the note
while at the telegraph DESC, Gage being within
few yards. On reading the note Corrigan
became wild with rage and called Gage a cur
and otherwise denounced him. A number
OF Cages friends who knew Corrigan's
reputation Is q fighter, being close by
and the presence also of two policemen
evidently prevented trouble. After giving iuli
vent to his rage, Corrigan left the Office and
went to his room, declaring that he would not
give ii up Later in the evening Corrigan reap
peared, demanded his bill and paid it. He
then had supper and sat around the hotel all
evening, with the evident intention of showing
that no would not leave until he was ready to
do So
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From paper on "Phiz" In the Century.
The history of the "Pickwick Papers"
the change in the original design, the
tragic death Of Seymour, the hasty ap-
pointment and dismissal of Buss, have
been graphically described by Foster in
his Life of Dickens" The work which
had started dependent for the most part
on illustration, and had gained success on
its letter-press, was now in a perilous
state. Its originator dead by his own
hand, mis- successor declared incapable,
the need of an illustrator was soon
noised abroad among the artistic fra
ternity. and two competitors sent in
their designs. Hablot Browne and William
Makepeace Thackeray. Thackeray, as We
know from his own lips, had at this time
the intention of becoming an artist.
With few sketches he called upon Dick
inson, vino told him that the choice had
fallen upon Browne. Leaving Furnival's
Inn, Thackeray made his way to New
man street to acquaint his rival with his
success, and to offer him the earliest con-
gratulations. Together these yonng men
Immediately repaired to neighboring
public house, where banquet consisting
of sausages and bottled stout was held for
the better satisfying of their appetites,
and to do greater honor to the
occasion. The feast finished. the good
wishes pledged, and Thackeray gone,
Browne started off to communicate the
news and to get the assistance of his
quondam fellow apprentice. Robert
Young, who was then boarding in Chester
Place. Bidding him bring back his latch
key. Browne hurried him back to Newman
street, and throughout that night the two
worked upon the plates, Brown etching
while Young bit them in. By morning
the first was finished. and in Sam Weller a
creation was given to the world, new
character had entered what may be called
the realm of historic fiction.
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Precedence in London Society.

Mark Twain in the January Century
Englishmen always eat dinner before
they go out to dinner, because they know
the risks they are running; but nobody
ever warns the stranger, and SO he
walks placidly into a trap. OF course
nobody was hurt this time, because we
had all been to dinner, none of us being
novices except Hastings, and he having
been informed by the minister at the time
that he invited him that in difference
to the English custom he had not
provided any dinner. Everybody took
a lady and processioned down to the
dining-room, because it is usual to go
through the motions, but there the dis
pute began. The Duke of Shoreditch
wanted to take precedence, and sit at the
head of the table, holding that he out
ranked minister who represented merely
a nation and not monarch, but / STOOD
for my rights and refused to yield. In
the gossip column ranked all dukes not
royal. and said SO. and claimed precedence
of this one. 1t couldn't be settled, of
course, struggle as We might and did, he
finally (and injudiciously) trying to play
birth and antiquity, and | seeing" his
Conqueror and raising" him with Adam
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The Arkansas PenIt.nt.rx ni.....

WASHINGTON CITY. Jan. 1.-The marine hos
plfai service has kept posted as to the progress
OF the disease among the convic;s at Little Rock
ana has taken steps to determine its nature
surgeon Giddins left yesterday and will make a
thorough examination and ascertain the exact
nature of the fatal disease.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, Jan. DIR. J. J. Robert
con. penitentiary physician, returned this
morning from St Louis, where he has been the
past week awaiting the result Of a chemical an
aiysis OF the vital organs of two convicts whose
mysterious death occurred On Monday. Dr..
Curtman made eight tests ana found no trace OF
poison in any of the organs. In his report he
suggests that bacteriologist be consulted for
further explanation OF the cause OF death. AS
soon as Dr. Robertson arrived this morning he
visited the mayors Office and suggested that
the peaitentiary be quarantined, and he would
go within the Enclosure and stay there until the
disease was completely stamped out Three
hundred convicts are in the prison and all are
in healthy condition except forty-eight, only
two Of whom are dangerously i'll Two new
cases developed this morning. The men were
taken with ciarrh oea and at once placed in the
hospital. Every precaution is being taken to
coDfns the disease to the penitentisry inclos-
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SCANDAL In SOCIETY.
A Prominent st. Louis Man
Shoots His BrOther-in-Law.
AFTER ABUSING HIS WIFE.
Accusing Her OF Adultery with Five
Society Leaders-Ed CorriEsn Has
Difficulty In . Hotel.

ST. LOUIS. Jsu. "A little after O'Clock this
afternoon Harry II. Morgan, of the Lsclede Gas
Light Company, aign in society, shot and so
badly wounded his brother.in-law, A. r. Edger.
ton, that il cannot be told whether he will
live or die. The parties concerned are
among the most prominent society people
In the city. Morgan Is son of Judge Morgan,
Of New York. The trouble began some time
bsck with dissensions between Morgan and his
wife, Mrs Morgan charging her husband with
subiectiag her to indignities and cruelty
He in turn charged her with receiving
attentions from other men and said he
intended to bring suit for divorce, threatening
70 summon as correspondents five of the best
known society men in the city, whose names he
mentioned at the time. A separation was de-
termined upon. the only living child to remain
With the mother. Last November Morgan kid
mapped the child, and Mrs. Morgan sought legal
sdvice. On Saturday a warrant was secured for
abandonment and another for abduction. A
writ OF habeas corpus was also served upon
Morgan, requiring him 70 produce the child.
Tonight Edgerton. Mrs. Morgan's brother,
and Morgan met Hot and angry words fol-
lowed Morgan drew a pistol and fired. with
the result already told. Mrs. Morgan will sue
for divorce, ana it Is expected that the sensa-
tional allegations made by the husband will
take the nature OF cross bill.
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Tho Carpenters Speech at the Club.

DR.. Washington GLADDEN. in the Century.
'What wanted to say last week." SAYS
the carpenter, speaking slowly but di-
Iectly, has been on my mind ever since,
and it Is as clear to me now as it was then
that We must have organization, the organ
ization of the industrious and respect
able people Of this city, to secure good
government. You may say that we
have two organizations for this purpose
already-the Republican and the Demo-
cratic party organizations. / don't wish
to use any hard words about these two po-
Itical machines, but it is clear that they
are not intended to do the kind of work
that we want done here. Whatever Re-
publicanism or Democracy may stand for,
it doesn't stand for good municipal gov
eminent. These parties are organized for
other purposes; they have no interest in
local affairs beyond carrying elections and
dividing spells. When the Republican
party puts q presidential or a congress
sional candidate into the field, he is sup
posed to represent certain principles or
policies which can be discussed and COM
mended to the people: when the Repub-
lican party puts candidate for mayor or
councilmen into the field, he represents
nothing at all except the wish of the man
ayers to get possession of the offices. And
it is precisely 80 with the other party.
Municipal contests under these party BAN
ners are therefore destitute of meaning.
There are no principles on either side
that can be defined or. advo-
Gated; it is an unprincipled
scramble for spoils. that's all.
Now it doesn't need to be argued that such
a method OF managing municipal politics
will never give us efficient government.
It's just like taking the officers and clerks
of bank and setting them to
work, once a year, to run a laundry.
It's just at if you, Mr.. Tomlinson. should
try to transform your big establishment
for the manufacture of harvesters into
watch factory for one month of every
year. 1t is not less absurd to expect that
big party organization which was made
to do one kind of work will do equally
as well another and wholly different
kind of work When the national parties
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voting age, q years and over: native
born ss,SSo; foreign born, $3.50; coIored,
4,9S4.
The males of voting age in 1890 number
10, 940, 81 and have increased during the
past ter years 4, 109 o62 or s.. 0S per cent,
the whole number returned in 1850 being
IL, $50, 349 Washington shows the largest
increase, 96. more than double that OF
any other state. Nevada shows decrease
of 1907 per cent.
OF the males of voting age in Washing
ton 6o.o6 per cent are native born and
81. IL are foreign born.
For the United States as whole a. 33,,per
cent. OF the males OF voting age are native
born and 1857 per cent. are foreign born.
In the South Atlantic division but 6.55
per cent, of the males voting are foreign
born. In the Western division 4l67 per
cent. OF the males of voting age are foreign
born.
In the present census information re-
gardlng citizenship of foreign born males
OF voting age has been obtained fof the
first time as part of the decennial census.
giving q subdivision for this class of
persons according to the number
VINO have been naturaiized, who
have taken out first naturalization
papers. or who are aliens. For little less
than 10 per cent. of the whole number of
foreign born adult males no information
regarding citizenship was obtained by the
census enumerators. In addition TO the
above, further classification is given
regarding aliens as to the number
who can speak the English IAN
guage and the number who speak
other languages but cannot speak the
English language. OF Washington's 80 800
foreign born males of voting age, 10. 16S are
aissnS. and OF these 2,507 can speak Eng
Hsh; 29,654 have been naturalizeG, 6S65
have taken out first papers, and the con-
dltlon OF 5.665 is unknown. OF Washing
tons foreign males of voting age 27.21 per
cent. are total aliens, 51.17 per cent are
naturaliZed H. "a per cent. have taken out
first papers, and the condition of g. IS per
cent. Is unknown.
The whole number of foreign born
adult males in the United States in 1890
IS 4 ,3SS, 459. OF this number 1,16O, PA. or
266s per cent. are returned as aliens;
2,5i6,O37. or $3.50 per cent, have been nat
urallzed; 236, 06S, 5.43 per cent, have taken
out their first naturalization papers, while
Tor 400, l39, or 9.3i per cent, no information
regarding citizenship was obtained In
the North Atlantic division 81. 43 per cent.
and IN the Western division %. 90 per cent
OF the foreign born adult males are aliens
Classifying aliens according to their
ability to speak the English language or
not, II Is seen that for the United States as
whole 6S.25 per cent. can speak the Eng
hsh language. while 3l.75 per cent. do not
speak the English language.
The states showing the highest percent
ages Oh aliens who can not speak the Eng
lish language are Arizona, 65 81 per cent;
Texas, 60.54 per cent; New Mexico, 81 81
per cent; Oregon, 90 rs per cent; Cali
fornia, 43.43 per cent; Florida, IS. Il per
cent; Wisconsin. 4223 per cent; Penn
sylvania. Al. 40 per cent, and Idaho. 1888
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Press Opinions OF Jay Gould.
New York World.

Many men have wondered what their
fellows would say of them after their
death. Jay Gould had this weakness. He
once confessed it. II don't thins I ever
hak an ambition" he said. except to
break the world and to see what
it will say about me when am dead.
No man will be cruel enough to say what
he really thinks of me when ann dead"
If the dead millionaire could gee the
stacks of clippings which his son. Edwin
has collected he would hardly undertake
the task of reading them for two very good
reasons. It would take him several years
to accomplish the task and the tone of
most of the comments would not have
pleased him.
Shortly after his fathers death Edwin
Gould arranged to have sent him a copy of
every nespaper article printed about his
father. He has since Dec. received %, 900
clippings, which combined make az obitu-
airy notice some six miles long. of these
1900 have been taken from the press of this
country and Canada, 3, 900 from the Brit
ish newspapers and the remainder from
those of France, Italy, Germany, Sweden,
Holland and Spain. Two clippings have
been made from Turkish publications..
Weak stomach strengthened by BEscHAx's
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The social laws which govern girls at tho
theater, opera and concert form the third OF
Mrs. Burton Harrison's excellent papers
The Well-Bred Girl in society," in the Janu-
airy Ladies Home Journal, and Mr.. Will
lam Dcan Howells itly supplements
this article with his story OF American
girl life, 1.-THE Coast OF Bohemia" which gains
much ill brightness and spirited action as IL pro-
ceeds. "How Dumas Wrote Camille is told bv
Dumas himself through Lucy Ii. Hooper,
and splendid companion article -
that by Mamie Dickens, in which she
tells the complete story OF "acw
My Father Wrote His Books" Two other az
ticles thai fit well together are Mrs. Ad.a-
raj Dahlgren's exhaustive and clear-cut de-
scripIion of ''Sociu Life in Washington"
ana Mrs. Burton kingsland's succinct
reasons for the Dangers OF Social Ca
reer." The first instal lment of "Mr. Beecher's
Imprinted Words is given, and will appeal
strongly in its direct interest to all admirers of
the great preacher. Edward Box writes well
and wisely on "The Literary Chances in New
YORK; a sketch which Ruth Ashmore supple
ments by giving an admirable idea of "Giri
Lie in New York CITY"
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enter the municipal field, they leave all
their principles behind them. And q
party without principles party whose
only reason for existence is the spoiis-is
always an unclean thing and must pollute
everything that it touches This is, in
my Judgment, one main reason of the
corruption of our municipal politics the
country over. We have no organizations
tor municipal politics that have any
relation whatever to municipal affairs.
Therefore We have no intelligent or we'll
considered action upon municipal affairs.
We must find some way of bringing our
people together upon a platform broad
enough TO include all well-disposed citi-
zens. and train them to cooperate for the
promotion of good government in the
city"
. Right you arel" cries Reginald Payne.
''It takes a carpenter to hit nail on the
head. You've said exactly what I meant
to say. but forgive you. Give m your
hand, Sam Hathaway."
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whose direct posteritv was a, shown bv

whose direct posterity l was. as shown by
my name, while he was of q collateral
branch. as shown by his. and by
his recent Norman origin; so
we all processioned back to the
drawing-room again and had perpen-
dicular lunch-plate OF sardines and q
straw berry. aud you group yourself and
stand up and eat il. Here the religion OF
precedence is net so strenuous; the two
persons of highest rank chuck up a shilling.
the one that wins has first go at his straw
berry, and the loser gets the shilling:
The next two chuck up. then the Next
two. and so on. After refreshment. tables
were brought. and we all played cribbage.
Cd game. The English never play any
game for amusement. Ii they can't make
something or lose something-they don't
care which-they won't play.
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The Childhood Of Great Artist.
'rOm 1He otory OF MIIIut EarIy LIE
Century.

Century.
The young people had nine children.
The first was a girl, whom they named
Emile; the second boy, Jean Francois.
In the family they always called him
Francois. My grandmother took the
greatest care of her grandchildren. When
Francois was old enough he studied Latin
with the cure of the parish. which enabled
him to cultivate his taste by reading good
works, either in Latin or French-among
them the Bible. lives of the saints. Virgil,
Horace, Boileau, Racine. etc. He espe-
cially enjoyed Virgil, and l remember
hearing him say later. when 1 was living
with him. that Virgil kindled the imag-
ination by his beautiful, simple and
clear style of presenting an image.
He read the Bible great deal. also the
lives of the saints. and the impressions he
received from these books were never eff
faced. l have heard him say that he
looked upon some of the sentences of the
Bible as gigantic monuments.
On his way to school, if he met any one
having some popularity of appearance, he
would be struck by it and reproduce his
impression on the first object having an
available surface. These drawings were
made in a strikingly lfe-like style and
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were Enthusiastically the portrai.s of those
whom he thus represented.

were Enthusiastically the portraits of those
whom he thus represented.
About this time a man nametS Beneville,
of the neighboring county, il company
with his two sons, passed through GreviiIe
every Saturday, on his way to Fhe market
of Beaumont, which was aboes a league
farther. in order to show SONG donkeys.
These three men had large hgJEfes, and to
see them mounted on their don kays, which
they had ornamented with fal.e ears. ap-
pealed to the Imagination oS Francois.
He began one day to represens this gro-
tesque little cavalcade. and didsit success
fully. A short time after he ND finished
it the blacksmith of the neight.oring vii
iage, who had seen the drawingsasked and
was allowed TO take it for a few=days, and
he put it IN conspicuous plsce in his
shop, that the men with the doixkevs, who
came often to his place, might gee it. At
their next visit the first oeject shey spied
was this picture, and they at o.lce recog-
nized the party. The father Immediately
asked who in this place had eno5gh talent
to make such things. He was told it was
the little Millet.
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a scapegoat in order to shield the man who did.
who Is prominent man still In Chicago and
has spent a fortune in covering up the crime
Dyer further declared that Beauvis knew Tss-
colt In Chicago and therefore should know what
ne Ii talking about He says the real murderer
hired Iascott to go with him 10 rob the smell
residence; that Smell heard them and came
down stairs, and that the man mentioned killed
him. Tascott, he declares, could have been ar.
rested many times over if really wanted