Terms, 82.00 a Year, in Advance.
Bellefonte, Pa., Angust 9, 1889.
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Democratic County Committee, 1889.
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SET ETES.
Democratic State Convention.
The Democratic State Convention will as-
semble in the Opera House, in the city of Har-
risburg, on Wednesday, September 4, 1889, at
12 o'clock, M., for the purpose of nominaling a
candidate for the office of State Treasurer and
transacting such other business as may prop-
erly come before it.
The rules of the Democratic party of Penn-
sylvania provide that “the representation in
the State Convention shall consist of represen-
tative delegates, one for each 1,00 Democratic
votes cast at the last gubernatorial election, or
for a fraction of 1,000 such votes'amounting to
500 or more, in the respective representative
districts; provided that each representative
district shall have at least one delegate.”
ELLIOTT P. KISNER,
Chairman Democratic State Committee,
(Secretary.) BENJ. M. NEAD,
A Distressed Tariffite.
‘We pity the Pottsville Journal. It
is in a frantic mood about the designs of
the “free traders” and is no doubt feel-
ing very badly. Hear how it goes on:
Every indication proves that the treacherous
“Tariff Reformers’ are even now actively en-
gaged in forming their lines for a renewed on-
slaught upon the breast-works of protection.
The free trade organs are publishing long lists
of business failures, labor strikes, reductions
of wages, ete., with the object of showing that
the professions of Republicans in the campaign
of 1888 were a wilful fraud.
What would this tariif organ have
the Democratic papers say about these
failures, strikes and reduction ot wages?
Can it reasonably ask them to say
that all this industrial depression and
disturbance is proof of the beneficent
effect of protection and a verification
of the Republican assertion last year
that all that was neccesary to -insure
the prosperity of the working peop le
was to keep the tariff going rightalong?
It may be that the want and distress
that are now prevailing among large
classes of the working people are evi-
denee that tariff taxation is just the
thing to make the wage-earners pros-
perous and happy, but it doesn’t ap-
pear go to the Democratic mind.
A Kentucky Victory.
As a matter of course Kentucky
went Democratic in her election last
Monday, although the Republicans
were foolish enough to believe that
they had a chance of carrying the old
Democratic stronghold. There were
protection lunatics who thought that
the tariff reform principles of her De-
mocracy would drive the Kentucky
voters away from her standard, but in-
stead of that a majority bigz:r than
has been scored within the last decade
has been the reward accorded to the
Kontucky Democrats for entertaining
common sense views on the tariff ques-
tion. The returns give the State tick-
et a majority of from 30,000 to 40,000
and a Democratic gain of members of
the Legislature. The Kentucky re-
sult is the beginning of a succession of
victories which will indicate the rapid-
ity and thoroughness with which the
voters are learning their tariff reform
lesson. The school will be kept open
until every vestige of the thieves’ tariff
sophistries is dispelled.
Death of Harry Frank.
Many of the readers of the Warcn:
MAN will regret with us, to learn of the
death of Mr. Harry Frank, of Phila-
delphia, which occurred at his home
on Wednesday evening. We have no
particulars, nor do we know the cause.
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Unjust Valuations to Save an Increase
of Millage.
The injustice of the rece at assessment
of real estate as forced upon the tax-
payers by the county commissioners, is
very plainly shown in a letter from
citizens of Ferguson township, which
we publish elsewhere. It is not only
up in Ferguson that this wrong has
been done the farmer, but in nearly
every district in the county.
When property is valued af more
than :t will sell for,and taxes are based
upon that valuation, the excess of tax-
ation thusimposed is simply robbery,
and robbery of the basest kind. It is
robbing one class of citizens to lighten
the taxation of another class, and this
is just what the Commissioners are do-
ing.
Three years ago, when a Democratic
board of Commissioners were finishing
paying off the county debt, building
bridges by the half-dozen, spending
thousands of dollars on needed repairs
to the Court House and grounds, and
paying the ordinary expenses of the
county on a tax levy of but 2} mills,
the Republicans ra sed the cry that this
was too heavy a rate and that the coun-
ty should and could be run on a levy of
two mills. They pledged themsalves
through their papers and by promises
to do this, and the tax-payers foolishly
believing them turned the control of
the county finances over to them.
Last year without spending a single
centon public buildings without build-
ing a bridge, without a penny’s outlay
except the ordinary running expenses
of the county, they managed to use up
all of the increase from the full 2%
mill tax, and part of the Democratic
surplus besides. Another year of the
same kind of management would leave
the county largely in debt, with the
same basis of taxation.
This the Republican managers un-
derstood and the Republican Commis-
tioners could not cover up, and to pre-
vent an increase of millage they have
unjustly, unfairly and unreasonably 1~-
CREASED VALUATIONS to an extent that
puts the tax value of farms higher than
their real value.
This is the way they are squeezing
out of the farmers an increase of taxes
when they promised to reduce them.
It is the way they are fulfilling their
pledges to reduce the tax of the citizens
and run the county more economically
than it was run under Democratic con-
trol.
——Ex-Secretary WHITNEY has gone
to sometroubleto let it he definitely un-
derstood that he is not and will not be
a candidate for President in 1892. The
late Secretary of the Navy did his
country great service, and it is not sur-
prising that many people should think
that he would make a very available
Presidential candidate and a good
President, but he does not favor any
movement to present him for that high
distinction. It is probable that Mr.
WairNey does not want to complicate
the question of the next Democratic
nomination, believing, as the large
majority of Democrats believe, that
justice, as” well as the best chance of
success, point to the nomination of
Grover CLEVELAND.
——A funny incident was connect-
ed with the capture of the Canadian
sealer Black Diamond. After the
Uni ed States revenue cutter took
charge of her an American sailor was
put on board with directions to take
her to Sitka as a prize. Aftershe got
under way the Canadian crew didn’t
fancy the idea of being the prisoners
of one Yankee sailor and they accord-
ingly laughed at his authority and ran
the ship to the Canadian port of Vie-
toria where she belonged. By this
change of programme the captor be-
came the captive and the British flag
continued to flap defiantly ac the mast-
head of the Black Diamond. The
British lion can afford to laugh at
this kind of tail twisting.
M.S. Quay isurging the appoint-
ment of one of his political henchmen
as Postmaster at Pittsburg, and a Re-
publican paper of that city says that
in asking for this appointment the
Pennsylvania Boss told the President
that “if you feel under any obligations
to me for the work I did in the cam-
paign you can repay me by doing what
I wantin the Pittsburg post office.”
Mr. ITarr1s0N no doubt readily under-
stood what campaign work the Boss
alluded to. The President of the na-
| tion certainly occupies a disgraced posi-
i
Mr. Frank was well known through-
out this entire section of the State, and |
wherever known was recognized as an
intelligent, progressive citizen, and one
of the truest and most honorable of
men. Among scores of young men,
whom he has assisted to start in busi-
ness, as well as among his large circle
of personal friends, his death will be
sincerly mourned.
tion when offices can be demanded of
him in payment of corrupt service ren-
dered in securing his election.
-——Shortly after 9 o’clock Monday
evening, says the Johnstown Tribune, a
man by the name of James McCormick
was shot and almost instantly killed by
Harry Moyer in one of the tents of the
camp in which the carpenters who work
for Mr. M. V. Hughes are quartered,
and of which Moyer is superintendent.
He did the killing in self-defense. Me-
Cormick, who is a quarrelsome fellow,
attacked him,
The Republican State Convention.
It is hardly necessary to publish
what the Republican State Convention
did at Harrisburg on Wednesday.
Everything had been cut and dried
weeks before, and everybody knew
what it was going to do. The work
had been prepared for it by Quay.
This is an advantage enjoyed by a par-
ty that has a boss. He said that Boy-
ER should have the nomination for
State Treasurer and nobody else
thought of being a candidate or of set-
ting anybody else up against him. The
Boss enforced unznimity and the party
papers point with pride to the unani-
mous spirit that pervades the party.
The platform isin keeping with the
character of the boss-ridden and truck-
ling aggregation of subservient hench-
men and hungry place-seekers that
composed the convention. Their utter
lack of shame was shown in the resolu-
tion complimenting their master on
the “honorable” manner in which he
conducted the campaign that elected
Harrison. Their endorsement of the
administration displayed a lively sense
of anticipated favors in the shape of of-
fices. Nothing could have more strik-
ingly exhibited their inexhaustible sup-
ply of gall than their resolution which
represents the tariff as ‘the greatest
blessing to the American laborer” in
the face ofthe fact that thousands of
Pennsylvania laborers are either out of
employment or working at reduced
wages. Their resolution endorsing
TANNER's indecent squandering of the
public money was in ridiculoue contrast
to the administration's attempt to palli-
ate his conduct through the instrumen-
tality ofthe whitewash brush, and their
abandonment of Prohibition for the
High License law showed how easily
they can shift their position on the li-
quor question.
Taking it all in all it was just such a
a convention and gave utterance to just
such sentiments as could have been ex-
pected of a set of time-serving and of-
fice-seeking politcians who wear the
collar of such a Boss as MAT Quay.
French Resistance to Monoply in Salt.
Rebellion
against What Americans
TamelyS ubmit To.
Philadelphia Record.
It is interesting, in taking a survey of
the history of France, to note the deter-
mined opposition that has always been
made by the people to the duty on salt.
In 13855, when John I I, convened the
States-General to meet the requirements
of his courtiers, that body, in order to
pay the men-at-arms, voted animpost of
$1,000,000 “on all folks,” and the gabel,
or tax on salt, “over the whole kingdom
of France.”” The latter impost met with
great opposition. Frossart says that when
the news reached Normandy thecountry
people were very much astounded at it,
for they had not learned to pay any such !
thing. “The Count d’ Harcourt told
the folks of Rouen, where he was puis- |
sant, that they would be very serfs and
very wicked if they agreed to this tax,
and that, by God’s help, it should never
be current in his country.” The King
of Navarre used much the same lan-
guage. Close to Paris itself payment was
peremptorily refused; and at Arras the
people of the town rose upon the rich
burghers and slew fourteen of them, the
King afterward sending his cousin, who
beheaded the leaders of the revolt. When
the States-General reassembled it abol-
ished the salt tax, but substituted for it
an income tax, imposed on both nobles
and burghers.
In 1548 a viclent outbreak took place
at Bordeaux on account of the salt tax,
and in the course of it the Kings lieuten-
ant was slain. Montmorency, whom
Francis I had made Constable, repaired
to Boreaux at once, took the city, and
hanged all who had been engaged in the
uprising. Toward the close of 1542 a
grievous aggravation of the salt tax caus-
ed a violent insurrection in. the town of
Rochelle, which was extempted from
that impost, it was claimed, by its tra-
ditional privileges.
ment refused, but the Commissioners
were maltreated and driven away. Fran.
cis I went to Rochelle with alarge body
of troops, and the people, terrified into
submission, agreed to pay a fine of $40,-
000.
But the ordinance as to the salt tax
were still maintained in principle, and
their extension led to a rising of the
most serious character, and one which
was with great difficulty suppressed. In
1548, hardly a year after the accession of
Henry II, a general insurrection against
the tax broke out in the Provinces of
Guienne, Angoumois and Saintonge, in
which Francis 1 had shortly before his
death make the duties heavier.
most atrocious excesses of which a mob
is capable were committed; the Direc-
tor General of the gabel was killed, and
two of his officers were strapped down
naked on a table and beaten to death,
and their bodies were cast into the river,
with the remark: “Go, wicked gables,
and salt the fish of the Charente.” The
King of Navarre’s lieutenant attempted
to summon the Parliament of Bordeaux,
but was forced to take refuge in a chat-
ena, and was killed whilst he was try-
ing to get out and the President of the
Parliament only saved his own life by
taking the oath prescribed by the insur-.
gents, Montmorency offered to put
down the insurrection, and was as good
as his word. He entered Bordeaux by
way of a breach which he had opened in
the walls, and ordered the inhabitants
to bring all their arms to the citadel.
Nearly 200 person were put to death,
and when the executioncrhad in his hands
the three insurgunts who had beaten to
death and thrown into the river
the two collectors of the gabel, he
cast them all three into a fire which
was ready on the spot and said,
“Go, rabid hounds, and grill the
fish of the Charente which ve salted
with the bodies of the officers of your
Not only was pay- |
The
King and soverign lord.” Nearly all
of the inhabitants suffered the loss of
their civil rights; many of them, on ac-
count of their youth, were simply whip-
ped, and astounding fines and interdic-
tions were laid upon the Parliament,
the Town Council and private individ-
uals. ;
And so the story goes on. Revolt fol-
lowed revolt; the power of the monarchy
was assailed; there was rebellion in the
very atmosphere, and the tax undoubted -
ly tended to hasten the revolution of
1789. History has a strange way of re-
peating itself; and even in America the
men who are to-day enforcing like im-
posts and combining together to grow
rich out of the necessities of the poor,
might study with profit the story of a
people who, whilesuffering greatly them-
selves, wrought dire punishment on their
oppressors.
How a Congressman Made Himself
Useful to His Country.
Tanner’s Crooked Business Discoverd by
an Indiana R presentative.
‘WasHINGTON, Aug. 8.—There is no
love among Corporal Tanner’s employ-
ees in the Pension Office and his special
friends among the pension attorneys for
the Congressman who originally made
the stir which brought out the scandal-
ous condition of affairsinTanner’s office.
Not many of them have known, howev-
er, who the Representative was. It has
leaked out that his name is Joseph B.
Cheadle and that herepresents the Tenth
Indiana district in Congress. Mr. Chea-
dle, who is a Republican, happened to
were being done in the Pension Office.
He paid several visits to the place and
kept his eyes and ears open. He found
that it was the settled conviction among
the employees that one could not get in-
to trouble by reporting claims favorably,
but that.
TO REJECT A CLAIM WAS TO RUN GREAT
DANGER
of incurring the Commissioner's anger.
He found also that under this impression
all hands were hard at work grinding
out “medical opinions,” in favor of ap-
plicants with mighty little regard to the
evidence on file, which were approved
by Tanner as fast as they could be laid
before him. J
Mr. Cheadle discovered that ‘forty-
eight-hours cases” were being rushed
through by wholesale for the benefit of
Brooklyn and New York pensioners in
general and a
NOTORIOUS LOCAL PENSION ATTORNEY
in particular. In addition to all this he
learned that certain attorneys were in
the habit of naming the employees they
wished to write opinions on claims pre-
sented by them, and he obtained some
hints about the rerating of each other’s
pensions by thess employees. It did not
take long for Representative Cheadle to
conclude that this sort of thing had bet-
ter be stopped. He laid the matter be-
fore the President and was told to put it
in writing. He did so, and by the Pre-
sident’s direction the communication
was referred to the Secretary of the
Interior.
In Mr. Noble's office the Cheadle let-
ter appears to have been pigeonholed and
to have remained unacted upon until
Dr. Charles McMillan was appointed to
his present position in the Pension Office.
Dr. McMillan soon made similar dis-
coveries to’ those made by Mr.
| Cheadle. He was alarmed as the Con-
| gressman had been, and as the result of
his report the Cheadle letter was
PUSHED OUT OF ITS PIGEON-HOLE,
and its allegations were investigated.
Then followed the dismissal of a number
of medical experts in Tanner's absence,
| the exposure of the rottenness which had
come in with Tanner, and the appoint-
ment of an “investigating” committee
which is now engaged in preparing a
Tanner.
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LAL I HET
| Personal Popularity of Mr. Clevela nd
and His Wife.
| Philadelphia Telegraph (Rep.)
1
| The personal popularity of the Cleve-
{ lands is something phenomenal. The
| president dropped out of the White
ouse into his law office with the easy
| rapidity and comfort ofa philosopher,
{ but he retained a wonderful hold upon
| the personal regard of the American
| people, and it is evident that he still has |
a good steady grip upon the average cit-
{ izen, regardless of creed, race or politics.
And the nation’s bride is still the one
looked for everywhere, and her appear-
ance thesignalfor the heartiest welcome.
| The pleasant little story that comes from
the quiet seaside resort or the New Eng-
land coast (referring to the reception at
i Marion) will be read with more than
passing intesest, and the feeling is gener-
+ al that it could and would be duplicated
at any point in the country, North,
{ South, East, or West.
, land, but it is also to the infinite credit
of the Ainerican people. 1t shows that
we can rise above the petty jealousies
and animosities of politics and honestly
; and manfully appreciate the service and
, worth of those who have acquitted them-
selves in high place with ability and
honor.
Leap of an Insane Man,
Last priday when the Western Ex-
press was nearing Huntingdon, Michael
Ryan, who belongs to New London,
Conn. jumped from a car window. He
was on his way to Dayton, Ohio. The
man is evidently partially insane. He
says that when the train was near Hunt-
ingdon he heard a voice telling him to
throw his money out the window and
then jump out himself. Believing it to
be the voice of God he obeyed the com-
mand by throwing his money out and
going head foremost himself through
the car window. The train was going at
the rate of about 80 miles an hour. The
train was immediately stopped and the
crazed man picked up and taken in the
car to Huntingdon. He was afterwards
taken to Altoona and conveyed to the
Hospital. His head was badly cut and
no doubt he has received internal injur-
ies. He hasabout $80 which is in the
hands of the railroad officials at Hunt-
ingdon and which will begiven him
upon his recovery. :
hear one day that some queer things:
thick coat of whitewash for “Corporal” :
This must be
highly gratifying to Mr. and Mrs. Cleve-
Stronger Than It Was a Year Ago.
Philadelphia Record.
So far as the issue of the Presidential
campaign of 1888 is concerned the posi-
tion of thetwo great political parties of the
country remain unchanged. Both par-
ties stand in their old tracks—the Repub-
licans resolved to prevent any substan-
tial revision of tha tariff; the Democrats
more united and determined than ever
in the demand for free raw materials
and for a reduction of the oppressive
duties upon the necessaries of American
households.
In New England the workingmen in
the shops and factories have not ceased
agitation, even in midsummer, but are
making active preparations for discussion
in the coming fall and winter, when the
opponents of Tariff Reform will be in-
vited to defend their views.
Leading Eastern manufacturers have
issued circulars in which they demon-
strate the detrimental influences of taxes
on raw materials, especially upon the
woolen and iron interests.
In numerous cities and towns of Mas-
sachusetts ‘‘Question Clubs” have been
formed for the purpose of making in-
quiries relative to the operation of the
tariff, and some of these questions have
proved extremely embarrassing to the
statesmen to whom they have been sent.
As the great object of discussion is to
elicit the truth, these methods of agita
tion in a season when party passions and
prejudices are lulled cannot but prove
advantageous to the cause of Tariff Re-
form.
In the fury of a partisan conflict there
{is neither time nor opportunity for a
{ calm consideration of economical ques-
tions. . The best arguments are unheeded
or their meaning perverted by the “spell-
binders,” whose chief tasks is to misre-
present the issue of the campaign. But
in quiet times, when the people have
leisure to reflect, the cant phrases of tar-
iff-mongers have slight influencs, espec-
ially when illustrated by daily reductions
of wages in the most highly protected
industries. The forged extracts from
English newspapers, the pay envelope
legends, and similar devices, more or
less fraudulent and dishonest, for mis-
leading the public mind would be treat-
ed with the contempt they deserve on
any occasion exceptin the storm and ex-
citement of an electoral conflict. In
such a time the average citizen, instead
of considering the issues of the contest,
becomes converted by the demon of par-
ty into a combatant bent only on vic-
tory.
The unshaken firmness, activity and
confidence of the party of Tariff Reform
throughout the country in the face ofso
recent a reverse are not hard to account
for What wasan apparent defeat by
a strain upon the elective principle was
not a defeat at the hands of the Ameri-
can people. The election revealed as
plainly as the votes could proclaim it
that a majority of the people of the Un-
ited States are in favor of Tariff Reform
on the lines laid down in Cleveland’s
famous December message.
I AT RR TR,
The Best Snake Story of the Season.
The following snake story is from the
Tyrone Herald. Its truth cannot be
questioned.
The other day some railroad men on
the mountain near Tyrone noticed a
large snake with a mouse in {its mouth.
As the snake crawled along the observ-
ers thought it looked like a rattlesnake
but saw that 1t had no rattles. The
men concluded to follow the reptile and
see what it would do with its prey, and
after while they saw it reach its nest
where several little snakes were in wait-
ing. The old snake tore the mouse in-
to small morsels which it fed to the Jit-
tle ones, and while they were busily
eating, it gathered up its rattles and
put them in their place on its tail. It
was then evident that the old snake had
given its rattles to the young snakes for
playthings while it had gone in search
; of food. This is a tough story but rail-
road men always tell the gospel truth.
Look Out for the Comet.
. The comet recently discovered will
| probably be visible in this latitude in a
| few days. When seen by Pro. David-
i son, of Queensland, Australia, on the
: 21st inst, its motion was rapidly north-
| east, equal to over three degrees a day,
; which will bring it into the celestial
equator about the end of the month.
| Its motion indicates nearness to the sun
and its direetion shows thatit has complet-
. ed the circuit of that orb and is now on
its return to space. Itis probably ap-
i proaching theearth, and, as it is describ-
| ed as a “bright” comet, it may possibly
be seen with the naked eye. Observers
hunting for this celestial visitor should
| direct their attention to the south-west
| horizon, where the comet will make its
| appearance. A report from Southern
| Maryland says the comet was seer. in-
distinctly on Monday evening.
The Tramp Ahead.
A dressy young man went to a seclud-
ed portion of Rutter Grove shore, at
Scranton, for a moonlight bath in the
river afew nights ago, says an exchange.
His ecstatic splashing caught the atten-
: tion of a tramp, who softly divested him-
self of his seedy attire, robed him-
self in the swimmer’s garments, which
chanced to fit him admirably, and then
vanished trom the moonlight scene.
‘When the swimmer came out he was
. speechless for a minute, but having no
"other recourse, he put on the tatters and
stole homeward through. cornfields and
across barb fences.
RC ————CE A
——The other day the people who at-
tended the weekly market in" a certain
French town were surprised to see a
peasant woman who was offering for
sale a horse, which was taritfed at 4s.
The same woman was selling a dog for
which she demanded £20. They thought
she must be mad, and told her so. ‘Be
that as it may,’’ she said, “the man who
wants to have a horse for 4s, must first
take the dog at £20.” A purchaser
eventually secured the twe, and after-
ward would have the explanation. It
transpired that the deccased husband of
the artful peasant woman had charged
her in his will to sell his dog and his
horse. The price of the dog was to be
hers, and that ot the horse she was to
pay over to his family.
Iran —————
——For all the{news read the WATcH-
MAN.
Rich Pension Beggars.
Nobody begrudges a pension to any
old soldier who was disabled in the
country’s service and 1s in need of help.
On the contrary, every right minded
man wishes that the pensions of such
might be more liberal thun they are.
The reason that they are not more
liberal is that a great host of men are
borne upon the pension rolls who are
not disabled and notin need of help.
These make long division of the pension
fund, and cut down the amount it is pos-
sible to pay to the really needy and the
actually disabled.
We have already cited the case of
General Spinola as one of them. A
recent news dispatch directs attention
to another illustrative case. It is related
that Senator Manderson, who has long
been 1n receipt of a pension, has discov-
ered that the amount paid him is not so
great as that to which the law entitles
him, and so his case has been passed
through Tanner’s hands, and in addi-
tion to an increased pension for the fu-
ture he is to receive the sum of $4,000
as arrears.
Manderson is neither a disabled man
nor a needy one. As compared with
the great majority who pay the taxes he
isrich. He is a Senator of the United
States at a salary of $5,000 a year. He
ought to be ashamed to be a beggar, a
pensioner Bpon the bounty of men poorer
than himself. Every dollar of his pen-
sion is paid by the working people and
not one in ten thousand of them ever
had an income of $5,000 or half of it,
The thing is monstrous. The whole
pension system should be reformed. Ev-
ery disabled and really needy veteran
should have a sufficient pension to keep
him decently, and to that end every
mere begger, every man who has money
or the capacity to earn it in sufficient
amount for his support, should be
stricken from the rolls. When such
men accept pensions they not only
‘sponge,’ upon the substance of poorer
people, but they rob thefactually needy
and disabled veterans of what is justly
their due.
Every member of Congress knows
this. But members of Congress are
mostly cowards and self seekers and
they fear to offend the “soldier vote,”
by oppasing any pension measure what-
ever.— New York World.
Excursion To Niagara Fars
via PENNsYLvANIA Rainroap.—The
excursion to be run to Niagara Falls
under the auspices of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company on Thursday, Au-
gust 15th, will afford the residents of
this section a grand opportunity to vis-
it America’s greatest wonder at a nom-
inal cost and under the most favorable
circumstances. This excursion will be
conducted on the same high grade that
all the other personally-conducted tours
of the company are carried out. It
will be run under the direction of the
Tourist Agent, and the party will go
by special train of day coaches and
Pullman parlor carsthrough to Niaga-
ra. The date is without doubt well
chosen, as the ten days contemplated
in the limit of tickets will cover a
period of the year that people like to
indulge in a little rest and recreation.
Stop off at Watkins, with an opportu-
nity to visit the famous glen, will be
allowed either going or returning.
Excursion tickets good for ten days
will be sold from Washington and Bal-
timore at $10.00, and from principal
stations in the following territory at ex-
tremely low rates: Stations on the
main line between Coatesville and Ty-
rone both inclusive; Frederick Divis-
ion between Hanover and Wrights
ville, both inclusive ; stations on Cum-
berland Valley Railroad; stations on
Sunbury and Lewistown Branch and
Lewistown and Tyrone Branch; sta-
tionson the Northern Central Railway
between Harrisburg and Williamsport,
including Shamokin Division ; sta-
tions on Philadelphia and Erie Rail-
road between Driftwood and William-
sport, including Tyrone and Clearfield
Branch. The special train will leave
Washington 7.10 A. M., Baltimore
8.15, Harrisburg 11.15 A. M., stop-
ping at principal stations and junc-
tion points, where connection from sta-
tions off the main line may be made
by re_ular trains.
Protection and Horse Flesh.
Boston Globe.
A year ago, when Benjamin Harrison
was a candidate for President, a delega-
tion of miners from Illinois visited him
at Indianapolis. They bore a banner on
which was inscribed ‘Protection and
Beefsteak.” Gen. Harrison compli-
mented them on their understanding of
thesituation. If they wanted beefsteak
they must have protection, he said—the
Republican party’s peculiar kind of pro-
tection. Gen. Harrison was elected, as
the miners hoped he would be. ¢Pro-
tection” was saved. But about the
beefsteak. The newspapers have lately
been relating ‘the ghastly sufferings of
Illinois winers who have been since
May 1 on strike against their protected
employers. And the other day the pa-
pers told how a horse dropped dead in
the mining district, and before the body
was cold the raw flesh had been literally
stripped from the bones and devoured by
the ravenous mulitude of strikers.
Perhaps among those poor fellows were
some of the same men who paraded the
banner before Candidate Harrison a year
ago. They made a mistake in the in-
scription, that was all. Instead of
“Protection and Beefsteak” it should
have been ‘Protection and Horse flesh.”
Crushing Out the Rebellion.
One of the things President Harri-
son was elected for was to crush out
the Rebellion. It is true there has
been a long prevailing notion that the
ugly thing was about crushed by the
apple-tree conference at Appomatox,
but the office hunters never believed
this. Gen. ilarrison in the campaign
before his election agreed to crush out
what was left and the last blow given
by him was that of the appointment a
few days ago of an ex-Rebel soldier
and duellist, Elan, to a high position
in the Land office. Such death-deal-
ing blows must much gratify all Un-
10n veterans.