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Terms, 82.00 a Year, in Ad
Bellefonte, Pa., July 2
, 1889.
P. GRAY MEEK, Eprror.
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Pemocratic County Committee, 1889.
Bellefonte, N. W.........
4 S.W
C M Bower
y Patrick Garrety
€ W.W. Joseph W Gross
Centre Hall Boroug J W McCormick
Howard Borough...
Milesburg Boreugh..
Man Hortons,
ilipsburg, ist
Pa % 2d W
M I Gardner
i'lis Weaver
C W Hartman
.J D Ritter
John Mechtley
PHip Confer
..T F Adams
L Barnhart
aniel Grove
T S Delong
T McCormick
Samuel Harpster jr
...Geo. B Crawford
Bocas J C Rossman
.J A Bowersox
...C A Weaver
; Wm Bailey
1 saeeed C C Meyer
Howard. Franklin Dietz
Huston. John Q Miles
Liberty. D W Herring
Marion . Henderson
Miles. J J Gramle,
Patton D L Mee
Penn.....,.. .W F Smith
Potter, N. . ..B F Arney
a Hugh Moan
ug
Bush, 8 b ih RC Nites
100, V William Kerrin
Gi Sed ol R J Haynes jr
BPN vt crisis crs asivesirtasiseasessssen N Brooks
aylor .Wm T Hoover
Union. ...Aaron Fahr.
c 7 H McCauley
Wali ae Levi Reese
Wu . C. HEINLE, Chairmam.
Tanner to be Whitewashed.
It is evident that the intention is to
whitewash Taxyer. The complaints
about the irregularity of his official
conduct can no longer be ignored, but
as it wouldn't suit to discharge him,
the only remedy for the awkward situ-
ation in which he has placed the ad-
ministration iis to get the public to be-
lieve that he ‘isn’t as bad as represent-
ed, and that his Democratic predeces-
sor was a good deal worse.
A committee has been appointed for
this purpose, and 1t can readily be
believed that it will find no difficulty
in exonerating the inculpated Com -
missioner.
An ex-parte investigation will be
made, the committee bearing closely
in mind the purpose for which it was
appointed,and asit is composed entirely
of Republicans, a report giving TANNER
a lovely certificate of character may be
confidently expected.
It!is said that it will extend its in ves-
tigations back to CommissionerBrack’s
term, and as they will be conduct -
ed strictly on the Star-chamber plan
the job of exonerating the Republican
Commissioner will be facilitated by im-
puting irregularity and malfeasance to
Brack’s administration of the offi ce.
Something has got to be done to
keep Taner in his place and retain
the favor of the army of Pension seek-
ers, and {his committee can be entrusted
with the ‘white-washing that will be
required to effect that object.
——It appears that in the cutting
down of wages, which is going on
all along the industrial line under this
high tariff administration, no respect
is paid to sex. The wages of the girls
employed in the highly protected silk
industry at Patterson, N. J., have bzen
cut ten per cent., although they were
getting but from $4.50 to $5 a week.
The consequence is that 600 of them
haye struck.
amounting to 50 per cent. for the pro.
tection of the silk manufacturers who
want to starve their female employe s
whose poorly paid labor contributes to
their wealth. If these girls had voted
last fall for the maintenance of the
robber tariff’ it could be said that they
are but reaping the fruits of their folly.
Their sex kept them guiltless of such
idiocy, but they must suffer just the
same.
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The Republican papers fail to
give an explanation why it was prac-
ticing free trade and catering to Brit-
ish interests for a Democratic adminis-
tration to buy army blankets in Eng-
land, and just the opposite for a Re-
publican administration to procure
from the same source a lot of bricks
to be nsed in constructing the Congres-
sional library building at Washington.
An explanation of this matter so soon
after the fuss about the importation of
the army blankets,would make mighty
interesting reading.
—It is reported that a great English
syndicate is trying to get control of a
number of Pittsburg steel works. They
are doing this with a full knowledge of
the amount of steal there is in a Trust,
with the assistance of a high tariff.
A ——
And It is Very Important.
Philadelphia Record,
The Liquor and Beer Dealers’ As-
sociation -in-New- York will meet at
Rochester early in September. There
is one important sabject which ought to
enlist the earnest attention of the asso-
ciation,and that isthe vile adulteration
of vinous and malt liquora. This sys-
tem of fraud upon consumers has done
more to promote the prohibitory liquor
movement than any other cause.
There are tariff duties journal, shows that between 1846 and
The Tragic Side Of It. ~
Sed Sequel To Republican Ante-Elec-
tion Promises. Enfored Idleness,
Starvation and Misery the Product of
the Monoply Tariff Called Protec
tion—T/e Gocd Work of Relief by
Democrats.
[New York Globe.]
The monopoly tariff, insuring great
operators in this country against foreign
competition,encouraging trusts and com-
binations less compact to put up prices
on the one hand, or to stop production
and curtail work and wages on the other,
is, according to Mr. Harrison, Mr. Blaine,
and the Federalist-Republican-Trust
party, a great national blessing. ;
Previous to the last election American
industry in all its branches was promised
untold advantages from the support of
this barbarous iniquity. The rich being
made richer by their ability under this
arrangement to fix theirown prices upon
the necessaries of life, which we must
have, and likewise upon our labor, which
we must sell, or perish, were going, out
of their own sweet pleasure, to take the
most tender care of the American work-
ingman who thus placed himself at their
royal mercy!
The natural and logical result are al-
ready apparent all over the country in
the extreme distress of our laboring peo-
ple, and especially in the lockout and
strikes in such highly protected enterpris-
es as those of Mr. Carnegie and the
other fiancial chiefs of the trust party.
But probably the saddest case is that of
the bituminous coal miners in Illinois
and Indiana, who after numerous reduc-
tions, declined to submit to the fresh cut,
which brought them down to 60 cents a
day. Required to purchase the necess-
aries of life, clothing, bedding, utensils,
salt and sugar out of such wages at tar-
iff and trust pricas, they saw that it was
starvation whether they should strike or
submit, ard they chose to strike.
They are the same unfortunate miners
who were loaded into excursion trains
by their employers and carried to India-
napolis by the thousands to wait on Gen-
real Harrison and express their approval
of that worthy’s disinterested stand
against any reduction of the benficent
monopoly tariff. It is not likely that
many of these men were actually deceiv-
ed by the pretenses of the capitalists and
politicians who thus used them, but
their bread and butter depended upon
compliance, and they obeyed. The tales
of want and suffering which come up
from them now are enough to move a
heart of granite, while, for the blight
which has fallen on their industry, and
deprived them of the opporunit® ef ear-
ning their bread, they are as littic ssspon-
sible as are the inhabitants of she Cone-
maugh for the desolation of that val-
ley.
"A workingman of Pittsburg, a Demo-
crat, with a head and heart honestly de-
voted to the interests of his class, and
sympathizing with these minérs in the
calamity which has overtaken them, has
started for their relief the tariff reform-
ers’ fund, to which heand THE Prrrs-
BURG Post invite contributions of any
amount from any part of the country.
The response to this appeal ought to be
as great in proportion as that in the case
of Johnstown.—These men and their
families are in a state quite as sorrowful,
except forthe loss of life, as were the
others. In some instances, itis said,
they are actually starving. Tue Post
will receive and forward everything that
may be sent to it, and we devoutly trust
that the great-hearted Democracy from
the lakes to the guif will answer this
call to their humanity.
Michigan Wool.
Detroit News.
Those farmers in Michigan who own
sheep are now supposed to be getting
the benefit of the duty on wool in the in-
creased price they are receiving. They
are willing to be taxed on their tools,
their clothing, their food, their house
furnishings, their fence boards and even
the nails that hold them to the posts, for
the sake of the profit that the tariff ena-
bles them to pocket on their wool. |
And yet the record kept by F. A.
Dewey of Cambridge,- Mich., of the
prices for which he has sold his wool
during the past fifty years, and publish-
ed in “The People's Cause,” a tax reform
's
1860—low tariff years—his wool averag-
ed thirty-eight cents a pound, as against
an average of thirty-two cents a pound
between 1867 and 1877- ~high tariff years.
Just now prices vary from fifteen to
twenty cents for unwashed and from
twenty-five to thirty-two cents for wash-
ed—an average below auy of the above
figures.
George W. Bond, a wool expert, agrees
with Mr. Dewey. He says “Our fine
wools have always been higher, other
things being equal, when we are able to
freely import wools of other countries at
a low duty or noduty at all.” This is
the secret of geod prices for American
wool under a low tariff. “The Amer-
ican manufactor must have the power,”
wrote the National Association of wool
Manufacturers to Secretary. Manning in
1885, “of selecting a portion of his raw
material from ail the world’s source of
supply,” in order to compete with foreign
manufacturers “for the possession of the
markets of this county.” Not for the
possession: of foreign market; that was
out of the question. But for the poss-
ession of the home markets.
The best result in wool manufacture
are attained by mixing different grades.
No two countries produce the same kind
of wool. Soil and climate create differ-
ences that cannot be overcome. The
foreign manufactures have the whole
world from which to choose their raw
material. The manufacturers of the Uni-
ted States are not granted this privilage,
and in consequence they depress the
home market by every artifice in their
power in order to compensate them for
the duty they are compelled to pay on
theirimports. Besides, an over-abund-
ance of one kind of wool makes that
kind cheap. There is more of it than
can be profitable used. So the price of
American wool is depressed by the very
instrument intended to make it more
valuable.
In 1867 there were 28,829,815 sheep in
Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New
York, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and
Towa. In 1887 the number had decreas-
ed to 12,850,563. What a wonderful
stimulus the tariff must have been to the
wool industry in those States! It has had
the same effect, also,*on the country at
large. In 1867 there were 39,385 386
sheep in the United States; in 1870 the
number had decreased to 35,804,200. In
1884 it was 50,656,624; in 1888 43,544 855
-—an increase of only 4,159,379 under
twenty years of protection. The wool
clip has increased from 160,000,000 in
1867 to 265,000,000 in 1887, the average
weight of fleeces being a pound more
heavier. But thisis due to improved
methods of breeding, and is as marked
in free trade asin protected countries.
The persistence of an economic error
is shown in no case more plainly than in
the tenacity with which the American
farmer clings to a system of taxation
that compels him to bear the greater
part of the burden of government, sad-
dles him with monopolies, and is rapid-
ly driving him into the class of tenant
farmers.
Lincoln's Pitiable Life.
[St. Louis Republic.]
Some anonymous philospher who was
wise in his generation Las remarked
that men are what women make them,
and someone else with even greater wis-
dom has proclaimed the truth that if
you wish to know what a man is to be
you must ask his wife. In his account
of the married life of Lincoln his law
partner, Mr. 'W. H. Hernden, gives ap.
propriate and curious illustrations of
these truths. In her girlhood, long be-
fore her marriage, Mrs. Lincoln had
asserted that her husband should be pres-
ident.” When she met Lincoln they
were both ambitious, and ripe for each
otherin that sense, at least. Lincoln
had been unfortunate in his real love
affairs; the first had driven him into
emotional insanity under the effects of
which he with difficulty refrained from
suicide. A subsequent affair left him a
victim of the blackest melancholia.
When he met Miss Todd, he courted
her for the influnnce of her family con-
nection, and was accepted, though the
much handsomer Stephen A. Douglas
was his rival.
Governing himself by his calculating
brain, he seems never to have been able
to master himself to any great emergency
without a struggle—such a struggle as
took place here; as a result of which he
failed to appear when his bride and her
friends waited for him at the altar. His
strong, emotional nature had triumphed
over his streng‘h of calculation, and he
had once more became irresponsible, in-
capable for the time of calculating at all.
‘When his mind cleared, a lady friend
reopened negotiations for the marriage
wl it was very privately celebrated.
"hen Lincoln, who had said nothing
about it at the house where he boarded,
was dressing for the ceremony, some one
asked him where he was goiug. “To ;
I reckon,” was his prophetic reply. «To
and the presidency,”” he might have
said with equal truth, for the match led
him directly into both, if his most inti-
mate friend is any authority.
Mrs. Lincoln revenged on him to the
full the shame and disgrace he had put
upon her. He felt he deserved it, and it
is the most admirable trait of his charac-
ter that he bore it with a Socratic pa-
tience. Tt is not quite so admirable that
he made little attempt to conceal either
his patience or his provoeation, but too
much is not to be expected from his lack
of training in the direction .of the finer
feelings. In illustration of what his
family life was, Mr. Hernden relates
that on one occasion a man who had
called at the Lincoln house to see Mrs.
Lincoln on business angered her and
was overwhelmed with such a torrent of
abuse that it does not strain metaphor to
say 1t swept him hopelessly off the pre-
mises. In the proportion that he re-
covered from it, he grew violently angry
himself, and in that condition he search-
ed for and found Lincoln, of whom he
demanded instant “personal satisfac-
tion.” By no means a. stranger to
brawls, Lincoln had no thought of
fighting here.
“My friend,” Ite said, with his mild-
est and saddest looks, ‘can’t you stand
for a few minutes what I have stood for
many years?’
Before the pathos of the appeal fury
melted into sympathy and sympathy he-
came friendship. The fellow-sufte rers
were always friends afterwards.
Lincoln never had a home or home-
life. Even his children could not make
one for him. “He touched the ground
only to gatherstrength for a new fight,”
as his biographer expresses it, evidently
with Goethe's idea in his mind. He re-
laxed to play with his children,and then
immediately fell into his usual state of
introspection. His only sympathy with
his wife seems to have been in their
common ambition—the White House, in-
to which she drove him from home.
Would it have been possible otherwise
for a man of his deeply emotional na-
ture: a man who could ‘fall in love” so
deeply as to become mentally unbalanc-
ed? Could such a man have so resisted
tke charm of domestic happiness as to
sacrifice it to ambition? It is in all
probability impossible. Mrs. Lincoln
made President Lincoln and taught him
patience. And when the poor woman
died the physicians found that all her
life she had been the victim of disease
by which they accounted for her violent
temper. They did not attempt to ac-
count for her ambition or for his.
———
Deatns BY LiGHTNING.—At the
meeting of the Royal Meteorological
Society, ‘held recently in England, a
paper ‘On the Deaths caused by Light-
ning in England and Wales from 1852
to 1880, as Recorded in the Returns of
the Registrar-General,” was read hy.
Inspector General R. Lawson, L. L. D.
The total number of deaths from light-
ning during the 29 years amounted to
546, of which 442 were of males and 104
of females. Tn consequence apparently
of their greater exposure the inhabitan(s
of rural districts suffer more trom light-
ning than those of towns. It appears
also that vicinity to the west and south
coasts reduces the chances of injury by
lightning, and that distance from the
coast and high land seem to increa e
them.
ER ————
An Important Element
Of the success of Hood's Sarsaparilla is
the fact that every purchaser receives a
fair equivalent for his money. The fu-
miliar headline “100 Doses One Dollar,”
stolen by imitators, is original with and
true only of Hood's Sarsaparilly. = This
can easily be proven by any one who
desires to test the matter. For real
economy, buy only Hood's Sarsaparilla.
Sold by all druggists.
Teachers’ Salaries.
Dr. Higbee, State Superintendent of
Public Instruction, believes that teach-
ers’ salaries should be increased twenty
per cent. and that the standard be raised
accordingly. This is a good suggestion.
As things are now, possibly the ma-
jority of teachers get all theyare worth,
but better men and women would enter
the profession if paid well. The Lan-
caster Kzaminer would like to see Dr.
Higbee's suggestion carried into effect
in the primary schools at least. Here is
where the most talent and learning are
required, and therefore, the bcs: salaries
should be paid. Unfortunately we grade
salaries according to the assumed digni-
ty of the grade taught. High schools
and grammar schools are looked upon as
something wonderful, and teachers all
want to ‘et there, partly for the salary,
and chiefly from the sentiment thatsuch
a position is more dignified. All this is
very funny, of course, as every man
with two grains of semse should know
that the child mind is the hardest to in-
struct. So in the primary schools the
merest tyro is placed or the last graduate
from the High School. The country
districts, especially, should think of what
Dr. Higbee has said, as the majority of
children there are small and, therefore,
should have the best and wisest instruc-
tors. If you want good ability you
must pay for it, and when you do pay
forit you can insist upon it being of
good quality. If our rural friends
should agree to pay twenty per cent.
more salary they could get teachers with
better certificates and the schools would
improve accordingly.
Sm ——
Round Shoulders Squared.
A stooping figure and a halting gait,
accompanied by the unavoidable weak-
ness of lungs incidental to a narrow
chest, may be entirely cured by a very
simple and easily performed exercise of
raising one’s self upon the toes leisurely
in a perpendicular position several times
daily. To take this exercise properly
one must take a perfectly upright posi-
tion, with the heels together and the toe
at an angle of forty-five degrees. Then
drop the arms lifelessly by the sides, an-
imating and raising the chest to its full
capacity muscularly, the chin well drawn
mn, and the crown of the head feeling as
ifattached to a string suspended from
the ceiling above. Slowly rise up on
the balls of both feet to the greatest pos-
sible height, thereby exercising all the
muscles of the legs and body; come
again into a standing position without
swaying the body backward out of the
perfect line. Repeat this same exercise,
first on one foot, then onthe other. It
is wonderful what straightening-out
power this exercise has upon round
shoulders and crooked backs, and one
will be surprised to note how soon the
lungs begin to show the effect of such
expansive development.—[The Family
Doctor.
Referred to the G. A. R.
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph (Rep.)
The story now is that Secretary of the
Interior Noble, Assistant Secretary Bus-
sey, and the cockalorums of the Interior
Department have been up to the White
House talking the plainest sort of plain
talk to the President about the energetic
Tanner and his ways: and thatthe Presi-
dent has told them that he can’t afford
to dissmiss Tanner, because to do so
would be to make the G. A. R. ‘‘agin
him.” Well, all we have to say to that
is that if Mr. Harrison said anything of
the kind it is the worst indignity that
has ever yet been put upon the real
veterans and decent men who are con-
nected with the Grand Army of the
Republic. "We know very well that the
members of that organization are not—
taking them as they come—gifted with
supersensitive natures. If they were,
some of them that belong to this city
would scorn to occupy their post rooms
at the public expense. But this kind of
a tribute to their political potency is one
that is calculated to make such of them
as have not been completely demoralized
by the pension legislation and the pen-
sion talk of the last few years squirm a
little.
“Timely Questions.”
The Johnstown Democrat, under the
caption of “Timely Questions,” asks
the following.
“How much of Governor Beavers million
and a half has been wasted in paying a horde
of officials, bosses and clerks for doing com-
paratively little and others for doing nothing?
I'o what extent is the relief fund depleted by
holding meetings at Cresson? Why not prac-
tice a little economy in handling money that is
[remin for people of the valley who suffered
osses?
The general jpresioy is that the detailed
statement given by the governor, instead of
explaining anything,only serves to mix things
uy; and the indignation of the Johnstown peo-
ple is growing greater and greater.
The Pittsburg Times,(Rep.) in com-
menting editorially upon the ‘statement
by the governor, says:
The whole business, so far as Governor Beav-
er has anything to do with it, is becoming a
huge scandal, taking his statements as they
stand. We may say there are things about it
that are disgracefully discreditable—the neces-
sary outcosne of Governor Beaver’s stubborn
refusal to be advised, and of the pursuit of ob-
jects wholly foreign to objects of benevo-
ence.’
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A Woman's Strange Tas te.
“How much are slate pencils?’ asked
a woman as she stepped into a stationery
store yesterday morning.
“Ten cents a dozen.”
“Give me one dozen.”
Then unwrapping the package, she
deliberately began to eat the pencils.
Yeseat them, not justchip the ends
with her teeth, as do school children,
but biting off’ substrntial quarter-inch
pieces and crushing and swallowing them
with infinite relish. This was a remarka-
ble achievement for a staid, matronly
person, such as she appeared to be,
|
1
and naturally was questioned concerning
5)
this strange propensity. From
she had said in replying it seems that
this unu ul system of diet was by no
means confined to slate pencils. &ravel
is a staple article of food with her,
properly stained and assorted; oysters
and clam shells and friable sandstone
she masticates as a man eats soda
crackers and asks tor more.— Auburn,
Me. Gazette.
—Dinkelspiel (to thé waiter.) “(et
von bortion ohf mudden-chops, mit two
shmall Rhinevines, und der dice-box.
Dis vas Misder Ickstein, mine vrent from
St. Louie, who T vos enderdainin’ in
der citys.”
what |
The American Farmer.
Harrisburg Patriot.
During the hot, sultry season when
the president is resting at Deer Park,
Blaine sniffing the cool breezes that play
about Bar Harbor, and the Disstons,
Dobsens and others of the tariff-fed
monepolists are enjoying the salty air of
the watering places that line the shores
of the middle and lower Atlantic, the
“American farmer” is busy at work.
To him there comes no week of rest
from work and care, for surcease of labor
with him means loss of erops and inevi-
table ruin. While he is sweating be-
neath the boiling sun of July and Au-
gust, the editors in the employ of salt
trusts, sugar trusts, steel trusts and
various other combinations, are busy ar-
ranging the figures of the crop report.
One of these tells us that “Trade is un-
usually dull for this season, but the ex-
cellent condition of the crops gives a
comfortable assurance to us that agri-
culture, the basis of all our wonderful
prosperity in the past,will again lighten
the dark gloom of despondency which
at present lowers upon our manufac-
turing fand mining enterprises.” Ex-
actly so.
It is the agriculturist and not the
manufacturer that furnishes “the basis
of all our wonderful prosperity.” And
for this,how is he rewarded ? Taxed on
his coal, his salt, sugar and soap.
Taxed on his nails, fence-posts, harness
and wagons. Taxed on his mower and
reaper, and on the twine that-is used to
bind his sheaves of grain. Taxed on his
straw hat and cotton shirt, his shoe-
strings and pants buttons. Taxed on
his rain barrel, wash tubs, tin dippers
and butter crocks. Karthenware, glass-
ware, hardware, bricks, store and lum-
ber, glass jars for holding fruits,and wax
for sealing them, are each and all taxed
to the farmer who must sell his products
in the markets of the world, taking
Liverpool, England, prices, because the
price in that market fixes the maximum
price in this country. Some day the
farmer will understand the scheme of
tariff robbery that consigns him to un-
remitting toil,the workingmen to strikes
and lockouts, and the syndicates of
manufacturers to the seaside or jour-
neyings to Europe. In the meanwhile,
let the farmers of Pennsylvania ask
themselves the question—“how doth it
profit a man to gain the whole of noth-
ing and lose the results of his labor by
unnecessary taxation ?”’
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Another View «of John Wanamaker's
Soul.
Saturday Globe.
There is absolutely no excuse for the
Post-master-General. Nobody has any
special love for telegraph companies or
other corporations, but they are entitled
to fair treatment, something which they
do not get in a great many cases where
power is lodged temporarily in the hands
of some unfair or ignorant man. This
seems to be the title with which Mr.
Wanamaker has been content to decorate
himself. Neither in justice nor equity
is there anything which would justify
the Postmaster-General in using his
power in the way he has done. Such a
rate is simply ridiculous when itisknown
that the average cost of messages is
probably ten or twelve times as much
as the rate fixed in the new order.
The real motive of the reduction. is not
at present known. It may be that the
Western Union Company, which is the
principal of all these corporations, had
refused to contribute to Mr. Wana-
maker’s Half a Million Dollar Corrup-
tion Fund last year, or it may have de-
clined to give the desired number of free
passes to the Postmaster-Genl’s assistants,
or other officials. Whatever the motive
may have been, it is certainly not a
business one, so that all the talk of the
advantage of having a business man in
the office of Postmaster-General turns
out to be futile. No just man, even if
he were not a professor of religion who
stood on the street corners and uttered
loud prayers where the publiccould hear
them, would ever have thought of try-
ing to inaugurate such an unjust policy
as this.
Deplorable Destitution.
In a state of destitution a Pennsyl-
vania coal miner laid down and died a
few days ago and it is said that the only
thing found on the corpse was a Republi-
can campaign promise of better times,
and on this thin diet aided by a little
whisky he had been living ever since
last November, when he voted for a
high tariff. But he found the Republi-
can campaign promise getting thinner
and thinner until finally there was no
more sustenance in it and hope itself
perished. Then taking his last drink of
whisky, in which he always found more
comfort than in the promise, he gave up
the ghost. And that is the way it will
be with hundreds of thousands of Re-
pnblican voters; they will all be gather-
ed to their fathers ere the promises of
better times made to them by that party
are realized.
The Iniquity of the Sait Trust.
Philadephia Record.
The promoters of the Salt Trust
boastfully assert in their prospectus that
their combination has a “marked differ-
ence” from the “transient forestalling
operations” recently witnessed © “in
grain, copper and other'staples.”” There
is, indeed, a marked difference in that
the conspiracy to control the price of
salt is’ worse than all the rest. Itisa
plot against the health and life of the
people in attempting to limit the supply
of an absolute necessary of human ex-
istence. In all other material respects
the Salt Trust does not differ from its
! congeners, exeept that it is more bold |
and impudent in its character and pre-
tensions than most of the others.
A a ———
Harrison, Morton and 20 Per Cent.
Less Wages.
Wilmington (Del.) Every Evening,
Tt is a relief to learn that Carnegie
and his striking employees have come to
an agreement without bloodshed, but
will the duped operatives who have sud-
mitted to a cut-down of 20 per cent, be
ready to fall in line*in the next presi-
dential campaign behind banners glori-
fying high tariff and “protection to
American labor?” How much of the $17
per ton “protection” on steel rails goes
tothe workingman under this reduction?
And would he have hurrahed last full
for “Harrison and Morton and the whole
Republican ticket and 50 per cent. low-
er wages?’
A Young Man Yet.
Washington Post.
The most notablecontest in South Car-
olina politics over federal patronage has
been ended by the appointment of ex-
Congressman Robert Smalls as Collector
of the Port of Beaufort. The salary is
comfortable. There is not much import-
ing done, but the clearance of vessels
with cargoes of phosphate is heavy. It
is one of those ports where tne receipts
will hardly pay the expenses of the Cus-
tom House. But it needs a vigilant and
scrupulously honest coll ctor, for the in-
bound phosphate ships have a way of
packing away snug little cases of light
goods with high duties. Under one col-
lector the finest French brandies were
retailing in Beaufort for less than they
were wholesaling in New York.
Smalls isa man of strong native
shrewdness, and though factional fights
have shaken his hold in Beaufort the
neg oes look upon him as a colored
Moses. The following story is vouched
for by the gentleman who. overheard it:
Two negroes were fishing off the dock
at Beaufort.
“Tell you,” said the younger one,
“Bob Smalls greatest mahn in dis lan’.
“Oh, no," said the other,“not de great-
es’ mahn. Hesmart nahn, dough.”
“Tell you, he greates’ mahn,”’ replied
the first-speaker. ¢“rirs’ he ran out de
Planter, di’'n he?”’ :
Yeah.’
“Den he wuz made cah’p’n.”’
“I di'n’ tink o'dat.”
“Den he run fer shurff, di’n’ he?”
“I ‘clar’ I done forgot dat. Yes, he
run for shurff.”
“Den he run fer legislater?”
“Yeonh.”
“Den Gub’ner Scott mek im Braga-
dier-Gin’1?”
~ “I done forgot dat, too.”
“Den he run fer de Newnited States
Cong’ess fer to set cross-laigged’ n’ tawk
politics wid Gin’l Grant?”
“Forgot all dat, ’clar’. He big mahn,
suah, but he an’t bigger'n Gawd.”
“Naw,” said the first speaker, some-
what nonplussed, “but” (slowly)—¢“but
Bob Smalls, he young mahn yit.”
In “Early Days.”
Terre Haute Express.
Somebody asked Unc’ Joshua if he
was not in Leadville in that interesting
period of the city’s history generally
known as the “early days.”
“I war dar fur ’bout free weeks befo
I could git away; the old man replied,
“but it wa’nt no place for a coon in dem
times.” :
“They never gave you any trouble,
did they, Uncle Joshua” asked one of
the hearers.
“Oh, nuffin’ serious to speak of,” the
old fellow answered; ‘but dat dey didn’t
is mo’ de kindness of the Lawd than de
fault of dem miz’ble reskils what was
dar in dem times. I ‘members one oc-
casion distinctly, sah, mighty distinctly
indeed, sah. Dey was a dance er some-
thin’ of de sort one night, and, of cose,
a feller he gets killed.” Dey starts out to
bury him an’ laik a fool I starts to fol-
ler de crowd. Gwineup de hill to de
buryin’ ground de dead man he roll out,
an’ none of dem drunken fools never no-
tices it until dey gitsdar. Den dey was
a time, 'n no mistake. Everybody cus-
sin’ an’ a-hollerin’ and me laughin’ fit
ter kill. ’Bout dat time a big, slabsid-
ed-lookin’ feller from Missouri says to
me. What you laughin’ at nigger?
If you think we come out here to be
fooled you is a little bit off you base.
Welll jis’ have a funeral anyhow now
we is heah.’ An’ wid dat he opens out
on me wid de ole forty-five, an’ in less
dan an instance every one of dem fools
was a-crackin’ away at one poah nig-
ger. An’ you ought ter nl me go.
An’dat was my last ’speeriunce of Lead-
ville.
I —
Uncle Sam as a Free Trader.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Our high-tariff administration isim-
porting from England 550,000 enamel-
ed bricks to be used in the construction
of the Congressional Library building.
As government imports these bricks free,
it buys them abroad because it can get
their much cheaper there. The piea is
that the administration is dutifully sav-
ing the people's money by buying on a
free-trade basis wherever it can buy
cheapest. But what is right and politic
for the government to do in a business
matter this same administration would
prevent the people from doing. They
are not allowed to save their money by
buying where they can buy cheapest.
BE ———
A Serious Problem.
Boston Post.
It is difficult to conceive a situation
more humiliating than this: On one
hand Mr. Harrison has his Commission-
eof Pensions depleting the Treasury for
the profit of the claim agents to the dis-
may of the party, and on the other he
has the threatened “dissatisfaction among
the soldier element” in case of interfer-
ence with the “policy” of his incompe-
tent official. It is indeed, as the “Jour-
nal” says, “a serious problem; a very
serious one for the administration.
SE —————————
Biren BreEr.—One gallon, of water,
one quartof molasses one-quarter ounce
of wholecloves, one-quarter ounce of
white ginger root, one-half ounce of
whole allspice, one ounce of birch,
one-half ounce of sassafras. Boil all for
three hours. After taking it from the fire
pour it into a clean tub and add one and
a half gallons of water. Let it stand
until milk-warm; then add two table-
spoonfuls of bakers’ or brewers’ yeast.
Stand away in the celler or some cool
place during the night, covering it. The
next day it will be fit for bottling. Cne
or two raisins with a few holes punched
in them with a fork add greatly to the
flavor. Put it in strong bottles, cork
tightly and tie down with twine. Set
lit in a cold cellar, and it will be fit for
"use in four days.
SpIcED RED CURRANTS.—For every
five pounds of currants, take three
pounds of brown sugar and a quart of
vinegar; one heaping tablespoonful of
ground cinnamon; two round teaspoon-
fuls of ground cloves; one round tea-
spoonful of ground allspice; one round
teaspoonful of powdered mace. Boil
the currunts with the sugar as for jam.
When quite thick, add the vinegar and
spices, and boil, stirring well, from ten
to twenty minutes more, or until like
jam.