to
Terms, 82.00 a Yea r, i n Advance.
Bellefonte, Pa., January 10, 1850.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - - Epiror.
Meeting of Democratic State Committee.
HarrisgurG, Pa., January 7th, 1890.
The Democratic State Central Committee
will meet at the rooms of the Committee, Mark-
et Street, Harrisburg, Pa., on Wednesday, Jan-
nary 22d,1890, at twelve o'clock, noon, to elect
one person to serve as Chairman of Demoeratic
Committees, and one person to serve as Per-
manent Secretary of the State Central Com-
mittee, for the ensuing year; and to transact
such other business as may properly be brought
before the committee.
BexsayiN M. Ngan,
Permanent Secretary.
ELLIOTT P. KISNER,
Chairman.
A Possible Solution.
The establishment of an African
nationality on the great Congo river,
an enterprise of which the King of the
Belgians is the head and Staxrey the
chiet manager, may furnish a solution
of the problem of negro emigration
from this country. Liberia offers no
attractions to the American colored
man on account of iis insignificance,
but if the Congo nation should grow
to what its projectors intend it to be, it
may offer attractions to such of our
colored people as would prefer citi-
zenship in a country where they could
be at the top ofthe heap instead of at
the bottom.
Probably a Put up Job.
As was first believed, it is likely
to turnout that the O'Shea divorce suit
is but another attempt to injure Mr.
PARNELL’ private reputation and thus
assist the determination of his political
enemies to drive him out of public life.
The Irish leader evinces readiness to
meet the charge of criminal intimacy
in his relations with Mrs. O'Sura,
bearing himself in a way that by no
means looks like guilt. After the
scheme of the London Times to defame
him, almost any conspiracy may be ex-
pected of those who are interested in
destroying his prestige and influence
as the leader of the Irish cause.
The Kind of Life That Is a Failure.
We have received a letter from one
of our subscribers in the West, resid-
ing at Nantasket, Nebraska, on the
line of the Union Pacific railroad, in
which he gives the following schedule
of the prices the farmers of his section
receive for their productions: Shelled
corn, 12 cents a bushel ; oats 13 cents ;
wheat 45 to 50 cents; potatoes 15
cents; egzs 12 cents a dozen; butter
12 cents and pork 3 cents a pound,
and as to cattle they cannot be
given away. :
When the farmer on the productive
prairies calmly sits down and looks at
such figures as the price he gets
for the products of his toil, and then
contrasts them with the price which a
war tariff compels him wo pay for the
necessaries which he does not produce
himself, he is forced to the conclusion
that agricultural life in the wild and
woolly West is a most dismal failure.
Death Dallying With Two Distinguish-
ed Congressmen.
1t appears certain that the days which
remain to two of the oldest and best
known members of Congress, WILLIAM
D. Kerry and SAMUEL J. RANDALL,0ne
a Republican and the other a Demo-
crat, and both Pennsylvanians and
Philadelphians, are few. Mr. KeLLy,
in addition to th: impairment caused
by great age, he being seventy-six years
old, has for some time been suffering
from a malady which almost invariably
terminates fatally. He was hardly
able to reach Washington at the be-
ginning of the session,and has not had
sufficient, strength to take part in
the business of the House. Mr. Rax-
pALL's health, impaired for some years,
has reached a condition since he went
to Washington to attend the present
Congress that almost precludes the
hope that he will be able to continue
much longer in public service.
Both these gentlemen have been
useful and distinguished in their offi-
cial stations. Mr. KELLY is the oldest
member of the House. He has served
his country well so far as the policy of
his party would admit of good service.’
His persistent support of high tariff
measures has, in the aggregate, been
more of an injury than a benefit to the
public interest. Mr. RANDALL is al-
most as old in the congressional ser-
vice as Mr. Kerry. His career has
been one of great usefulness to his par-
ty and his country. It is true he has
Jagged in the movement for tariff re-
form, but there can be no question of
the sincerity ‘and honesty of the motive!
for any of his public acts. The popu-
lar branch of the federal legislature
can not well afford to lose a member of
such great experience and distinguished
service.
The True Pension Principle.
The Senate
Quay’s bill increasing to $72 a month
the pensions of such soldiers and sail-
ors as are totally helpless from inju-
ries received or from disease contracted
in the military service of the United
States. Such a provision embraces
the principle that should be carried out
in every pension system. If thebummers
and unworthy claimants could be elim-
inated from the pensionrolls there would
be more money to give to those who
really deserve and need it. This is the
Democratic idea of pensions, and Quay
happened to hit it.
The Effect of a Seared Conscience.
If the two individuals who have been
elected United States Senators by the
illegal Republican majority of the Mon-
tana legislature were honorable men
they would no more think of accepting
senatorial seats thus obtained than an
houaest man would think of receiving an
article which he knew had been taken
by a thief from one of his neighbors.
But the Republican conscience has
been badly seared since the great Pres-
identiat theft of 1876, its leaders being
willing to avail themselves of the ad-
vantage of any plunder they may be
able to lay their hands on, and the
rank and file of the party have become
so demoralized that such villainy ap-
pears to meet with their entire ap-
proval.
Not Explicit Enough.
Mr. PowperLy, head of the Knights
of Labor, is again manifesting interest
in ballot reform and recommending it to
his followers. Ina communication to the
Scranton 7ruth he enlarges upon the
has passed Senator
necessity of sucha reform to restore |
the purity of our elections. Speaking
in such general terms as he employs
will not produce any definite results.
Why does he not tell his followers that
the Republican party is interested in
maintaining the present rotten ballot
methods and that its leaders are set
against reforming them, while on the
other hand the Democratic party has
made ballot reform one of its leading
objects, and that its leaders, with a
few unimportant exceptions, are earn-
est in its support 2 With such an ex-
plicit pointer as this Mr. PowbERLY'S
manifestation of interest in purer
election methods may have some prac-
tical effect.
A Conclusion Jumped At.
When there is a climatic freak such
as we are experiencing this winter there
is sure to be a number of fantastic rea-
sons assigned for it. A change in the
course of the Gulf Stream is mentioned
by some anthorities as the cause of our
present winter's mildness, and the
Charleston earthquake is given as the
agency that change that stream. Of
course this conclusion was jumped at
without any positive knowledge that
such a'change had taken place, and
now Capt. Peeing, hydrographer ofthe
navyldepartment, says that no observa-
tions have been made concerning the
Gulf Stream that would warrant the
assertion that such a change in its
course has taken place.
There are reports from Asia of
the rapid spread of the cholera which
recently started in India, its usually
source, and has extended within the
past month through Persia to the
Turkish frontier. This is its accus-
tomed route when heading for Europe.
If it should continue on its way - it
would be a more dangerous visitor than
the grippe.
Her Own Detective.
A Wronged Wife Follows Her Hus-
band and Secures His Arrest.
Wirriamsport, Pa., Jan. 6.—The
wife of Rylie Miles, a resident of Wilkes-
Larre, has tracked her faithless husband
to this city and bad him arrested, to-
gether with his paramour, a Mrs, Jen-
kins. The man left their home, in
Luzerne borough, in June last, saying
he was going to Johnstown, where he
could get work. Lately he located at
Williamsport, and instead of sending
for his wife, as he had promised, he sent
tor Mrs Jenkins, who was a ‘‘grass wid-
ow.” and lived across the street. Mrs.
Miles Sipecisd the intimacy existing.
between the pair, and when she saw the
woman making preparation to leave the
city she followed the trunk and found
its destination to be Williamsport. She
followed Mrs. Jenkins on the next train
and succeeded, with the aid of a detective,
in locating the couple.
Mrs. Miles and the detective went to
a boarding-house of her husband, and
going directly to a room, found Miles
and Mrs. Jenkins about to retire. They
were both arrested and held for trial.
——Senator Butler proposes to
amend the bill proposed by Senator
Sherman to regulate the election of Con-
gressmen by requiring the Australian
system of balloting, as provided in the
Massachusetts Election law. If it be a
free vote and a fair count Senator Sher-
man desires, he had better accept the
Butler amendment. The Australian
plan would work nicely in the South. —
Record.
Attempted Outrage in a Lonely Farm
House.
BorpenTowN, N. J. Jan. 5.—A lone-,
ly farm house on the Jobstown turnpike
a few miles from here, was the scene of
a desperate struggle yesterday between a
young woman, about 25 years of age,
and a burly negro tramp, who attempted
to assault her.
The woman whose pluck and nerve
probably saved her life is Mis. Harry
| Harker, who has been married only a
few months, and lives with her husband
in a farm house just off the public road.
Sheis aslight-built frail looking woman,
but has more courage than most men.
Yesterday morning her husband went
away at an early hour, expecting to be
absent all day.
Between 8 and 9 o'clock, Mrs, Harker
heard a knock on the rear door. As she
stepped into the adjoining room she was
surprised to see a strange negro in the
room, a short, thick set man, very dark
and of a villainous countenance. He
was not at all disturbed at Being det~ct-
cd, and on being asked what his-errand
was said :
* Mr.
work.”
The woman mistrusted him and feared
there was trouble ahead. The nearest
neighbor was several hundred yards
away, and out of hearing. So she re-
solved to put on a bold tront and tell
the fellow to leave. He refused to go.
He said he wanted his breaskfast and
was willing to chop wood enough to pay
for it.
There was no alternative but to pre-
pare the meal. The negro watched hei
all the time, and as she attempted to
leave the room hesprang toward her.
Quick as a flash she slammed the door,
and seizing an iron poker hit the fellow
several times. A blow: from his fist
sent her reeling, followed by a kick
which hurt her terribly. Still she
fought with the energy of desperation.
Finally she gave vent to a series of
screams that alarmed the intruder. He
threatened to kill her it she did not
desist, but she kept on, at which the
negro became alarmed and made his
escape. No trace of the rascal has been
obtained.
Harker sent me to do some
The Township Roads.
Philadelphia Press.
The interview with members of the
Pennsylvania Road Commission, pub-
lished yesterday in the Press, shows at
least that the commissioners are fully
imbued with the idea that our present
county roads are a disgrace to the State,
and that it is sound economy to repiace
them by something much better. How
much better will probably turn on the
question of cost. If the townships
through which all the roads run must
pay all expense of making them first
class highways the whole scheme will
be resisted strongly by the very people
who would be most benefited by the im-
proved roads, but who shrink from the
prospective expense. In sparsely popu-
lated townships, this method of assess-
ment would make great hard:hip.
Though the residents of a particular
township desires the largest share of the
benefit from the improvement of its
highways they donot get it all. The
benefit is a public one and there is force
in the suggestion that at least a part of
the cost of making a comprehensive im-
provement in our State roads should be
paid out of the State treasury. The
roads belong to the State by law and it is
not aitogether just that it should impose
the whole cost of maintaining and im-
proving them on the farmers and other
country people through or near whose
lands the roads may pass, but who have
no exclusive title to their use.
The Whiskey Question in Arkansas.
It may not be generally known that
in Arkansas the whiskey problem,which
so much vexes the people of other States,
has been solved for many years. This
solution has been so eminently satisfuc-
tory that it has completely eliminated
the temperance question from State poli-
tics. The legislation which has accom-
plished this has proceeded trom two or
three leading ideas. The first is that
the road to prohibition is through high
license. The license tax has been in-
creased until it is $1200 per annum in
the cities and $700 in the rural districts.
In addition to this each county must
determine biennially at the general elec-
tion whether licenses shall be granted
for the next ensuing two years, and an
affirmative vote in favor of license must
be cast to authorize the sale of whiskey
in the county. Inone county ata ve-
cent election the people forgot to vote on
the question, and the Court held that
no license could issue. After license is
voted for a given county, it is still with-
in the power of a majority of the adult
men and women living within three
miles of any church or school house 1n
the county by petition to the county
Judge to have the sale of intoxicants
excluded from the limits of such local
territory. :
The advantage of leaving the matter
of license or no license to the county
rather than to the State is that the State
has no power to punish. The county
has. The county which has determined
by a vote to stop the sale of whiskey
may be counted on through her Courts
and local officers to enforce the law.
The selection of grand and petit jurors
is confided to the Judge of the Trial
Court, who acts through a commission.
If jurors fail in their duty the people
know exactly where to place the blame.
The law as we have it is so purely.
democratic and so efficient in its work-
ings that neither whiskey men nor
Prohibitionists are able to find ground
criticism.— W. S. McCain in N. VY.
Evening Post,
——The Cape Cod cranberry’ crop
for the year 1889 has been in excess of
any season for the past eight years.
The total shipments from stations on !
the Cape division of the Old Colony
Railroad, exclusive of, Middleborough,
foot up 90,805 barrels, with an estimate
of 1775 barrels not shipped up to De-
cember 1, i
—————
——A Missouri tramp who was at the
end of his rope gave himself up as a
murderer wanted in Maine, and he thus
got five months of food and shelter and
lionizing before it was ascertained that
he had never been as far East as Chica-
go in his life, :
——,_——— A
Crazed By Religion.
Brother and Sister Who Wanted to
Burn Themselves to Death.
LeaveNxwortH, Kan., Jan. 5.—The
vicinity of High Prairie, ten miles from
this place, has lately been the scene of a
religious revival that has greatly excited
the people of that community. In some
instances persons have gone crazy with
enthusiasm. Word was received here
yesterday of two cases of insanity, and
the insane persons came near losing
their lives. During the revival, about
two weeks ago, a brother and sister—
Frank and Minnie Boland—became so
enthusiastic and excited over religion
that they lost their reason. As they
were living alone no onenoticed their
condition.
On Tuesday evening two persons who
were passing Boland’s house noticed
smoke issuing from it, and on gaining
entrance found a well-kindled fire on
the floor of one of the rooms, with the
brother and sister in an almost nude
condition, singing religious songs and
dancing around it seemingly getting
ready for cremation. The fire was final-
ly put out, and the brother and sister
were overpowered. When questioned,
Minnie said the Lord had msde the fire,
and they would not put it out. Late
vesterday afternoon they were placed in
jail where they will remain until a
method of treatment for them has been
decided upon.
Crowding The Learned Professions.
The rush to the learned professions
began, it is sometimes affirmed, after
the depression in agriculture and the
corresponding rebound from the com-
mercial prosperity of fifteen or twentv
vears ago. This may no doubt be
partially true. But as the same phe-
nomenon has been noticed in every
other country, the explanation must be
sought a little deeper. The real cause
will, we venture to think, be found in
the ever increasing tendency on the part
of the parents and their sons to look
to the “gentlemanly professions” in-
stead of the more lncrative and more |
cer:ain callings of a less “genteel” de-
scription. fu Germany and America
this trait is perhaps exhibited in its
most exaggerated form, simply because
in those countries professional traic-
ing is cheap and the preliminary ed-
ucation® abundant or easy to attain.
Since the School Board brought the
three R's within the reach of every
child it is notorious that these youthful
graduates have displayed a repugnance
to the useful lives in which they have
been born. They want to “better
themselves,” becoming city ‘clerks or
nursery governesses. It is the first re- |
sult produced by an unwonted state of |
affairs, By and by education will be- |
come too common to be marketable. |
It will then be regarded simply as a |
preliminary to any calling, and not as |
a necessary antecedent ot
what the !
Germans call “bread studies.” . A car- |
penter, ora blacksmith, or a machinist, |
or a shop keeper, will discover that he !
is none the worse for being a good
scholar, and will even find that in the !
enhanced esteem, the greater pleasure |
and the enlarged chances in life which
it gives him, he is quite as much ben- |
fited by his education as if he sought to
earn his living by means of it directly.
— London Standard.
Fatal Accidental shooting in Wil-
liamsport.
Mrs. George Bohart, of Williamsport, |
17 years old, was fatally shot on Satur- |
day afternoon in a most singular and
distressing manner. The young woman
and her husband were handling a shot- |
gun and playfully pointing it at each
other for the purpose of trightening the
wiie’s mother, quite an aged lady. The
latter became excited and, seizing a
broom, ran at the man, who still held
the gun, and began pummeling him. |
One of the blows from the broom handle
struck the haramer of the gun, which
was discharged. The contenis, a heav
load of shot, struck Mrs. Bohart in the
side, making a gaping wound around
and tearing away a portion of her arm.
The physicians say there is scarcely any
hope of her recovery. The husband and
mother are almost crazed with grief.
Under A Snow Slide.
Seven Persons Killed and Several Houses
and a Church Wrecked,
SrerrA Criry, Cal, January 4.—A |
fatal and destructive snow-slide occurred .
here yesterday by which six women and |
a boy were killed, two other persons!
may die and several houses and the
Catholic church were wrecked. The
slide commenced at the Sierra Buttes |
Flume and swept with terrific force |
down the valley, carrying everything in |
its path before it. Stout trees were '
snapped off at the gronnd like pine sticks. |
Several people had narrow escapes from !
death, as the slide came without the
slightest warning. It is believed that
a Chinaman and a little girl are still in
the mass of snow and debris.
Fears are entertained that another |
slide may occur at any moment, and the
people are in a great state of anxiety. |
As soon as possible after the slide yester-
day a number of men began the work |
of digging out the unfortunates who had |
been caught in it, and in a few hours |
had taken out the bodies of Mr=. Rich, |
her two daughters, and a son; Miss
Ryan, of Downieville, and Mrs. I. T. |
Mooney, with her daughter, Miss Ethel
Langton. The two last named were |
still breathing when removed from the |
snow, but efforts at resuscitation proved |
unavailing. © The search for others is |
still going on, and it is feared that more
than are now known may have been
swept out of existence in the avalanche.
Don't Want Any Politics in Theirs.
dee
A number of non-partisan “Christian
Temperance, Women of Pennsylvania
have determined to withdraw from the
National W. C. TU. and for the pur-
pose have called a meeting of all who
are opposed to the partisan policy of that
body to meet in convention at the hall of .
the American Sunday School Union,
Philadelphia, on the 16th and 17th of
January, 1890, at 10 o'clock a. m., for
the purpose of organizing an indepen-
dent branch.
| which is the most valuable of our
products. To
The Dress Qur Fathers Wore.
One hundred years ago the leading
men of the United States read in their
Bibles that the body is more than rai-
ment, but they dressed according to the
advice of worldlywise Polonius .
“Costly thy habit as thy purse can bay,—
For the apparel oft proclaims the man.”
‘When Governor Bowdoin, a tall, digni-
fied man, reviewed the troops assembled
at Cambridge, in 1785, he was dressed
ina gray wig, cocked hat,a whit: broad-
cloth coatand waistcoat, red small elothes
and black silk stockings.
John Hancock, thin in person, six
feet in stature, was very fond of an orna-
mental dress. He wore a wig when
abroad, and a cap when at home. A
gentleman who visited Hancock one day
at noon in June, 1782, describes him as |
dressed in a red velvet cap lined with
fine white linen, which was turned up
two or three inches over the lower edge
of the velvet. He also wore a blue dam-
ask gown lined with silk ; a white stock,
a white satin embroidered waistcoat,
black satin small clothes, white silk
stockings and red morocco slippers
Washington, at the receptions in
Philadelphia, was dressed in black vel-
vet ; his hair was powdered and gathered
behind in a large silk bag. His hands
were encased in yellow gloves; he had a
cocked hat with a cockade on it, and its
ed -es adorned with a black feather. Ie
wore knee ani shoe buckles, and at his
left hip appeared a long sword in a
polished white leather scab ard, with a
polished steel hilt.
John Adams, on the day of his inaug-
uration, was dressed in a full suit of
pearl-colored broadcloth, and his hair
was powdered. Chief Justice Dana, of
Massachusetts, used to wear in winter a
white corduroy surtout, lined with far,
and held his hands in a largemuff. The
Judges of the Supreme Court of Mass-
achusetts wore till 1793, robes of scarlet,
faced with black velvet, in winter, and
black silk gowns in summer.
At the beginning of this century pow-
der for the hair became unfashionable,
, tying up the hair was abandoned, colox-
ed garments went out of use, buckles
disappeared, and knee breeches gave
place to trousers.
What the Cows Give Us.
American dairy interests are startling
y enormous. They represent a total
investment of several times the entire
bank capital which is a little less than
$971,000,000, while the dairy interests
amount to more than $3,000,000,000.
Of course our readers cannot swallow such
frightful figures in a lump, and we will
therefore, arrange them in several smal-
ler but still heroic doses. The number
of milch cows is estimated at 21,000,000.
They give each an average of 850 gal-
lons of milk annually. This would
make an aggre gate milk production of
7,350,000,000 gallons, a miniature ocean,
a fair sized Niagara. Four thousand
millions are used for cheese, and the re-
maining 2,650,000,000 pass through the
adulterating hands of the milkman and
grocer, and down the throats of 60,000-
000 men, women and babies in this land of
freedom. Tke quantity of butter manu-
factured and used is about 1,350,000,000
pounds, and of cheese 6,500,000 pounds.
| the value of our dairy products for the
last year was nearly $500,000.000.
This is $20,000,000 more than the value
of our annual wheat vield; while it,
closely approximates that of oureorn crop
farm
support this immense
dairy herd 100,000,000 acres of pasture
i land are required, worth $250,000,000.
It is easy enough to see, therefore, that
4,000,000 farmers in this country are
| an important element of our national
| welfare and prosperity. — Holstein Fries-
ian Register,
. Experience and Training in Mechanical
Work.
To be a good mechanic, said Sir Ben-
jamin Brown, at the recent meeting of
the British Scientific Association, long
training is necessary ; and work from in-
ferior work. A regular course of pro.
gress from one branch to another should
Y | be carefully followed. so as to teach
every class of work up to the most diffi-
cult: In this the real interest of the
employer is the same as that of the lad,
viz, to learn every step thoroughly, and
then pass on to something more difficult.
| The author contended that a long train-
ing in a manufactory is absolutely ne-
cessary, and this should be supplement-
ted by theoretical and technical instrue-
tion. “It would probably be a good
| gain to give a lad six or eight months
of theoretical teaching after he is out
of his apprenticeship. The old fashion-
ed system of apprenticeship, not much
shortened, and with very slight mod-
ifications, is the only reliable method
for either employer or mechanic to learn
his business; but, as work has become
more scientific and elaborate, it is
necessary for any young man who
wishes to excel to have a good theoreti-
cal and technical training in addition
to his factory experience.”
A EE
An Amorous and Irate Hun Uses His
Pistol.
HazLETON, Pa., Jan. 2.—Peloc John,
a Hungarian of Lewistown, eloped yes-
terday with his boarding mistress, but
was overtaken by the woman’s husband
(Henoc Peter,) who carried his wifz back
home with him. John remained in
town all day, drank a quantity of bad
whisky, and went to Lewistown in the
evening, swearing that he would again
steal Mrs. Peters. When he arrived at
the house he was set upon by the hus-
band and thrown outdoors, whereupon
he pulled his pistol and began firing
through the door. One. shot struck a
boarder, Wassil Meten, in the right
breast, inflicting, it is thought, a fatal
. wound. John has notbeen captured.
Had No Idea of Time.
A Milwaukee clergyman - who is ac-
quainted ‘with Rev. Mr. Milburn, the
blind Chaplain of the House of Repre-
sentatives, states that the Chaplain has
no idea of time. He is liable,'it is
said, to preach for three straight hours,
and he is so confused in regard to day
and night that he is likely to start out
at midnlght for the purpose of making a
* social call.
——The trouble with a man covering
up his tracks is that Lhe makes new ones
in doing it.—Atchison Globe.
The “Russian Grip.”
In the form in which this disease is
now making the circuit of the globe, it
is nothing,so far as syfaptoms and effect
go, but a bad cold. It begins with
watering of the eyes,running of the nose,
and ceneral irritation of the muecons
membrane of the throat and nostrils. It
1s attended with the aching bones,burn-
ing eves,dull head,and general weariness
and disgust with life that attend a bad
cold. 1tis like hay fever, except that
its course is shory and it does not ap-
pear to have the tendency toward
asthma that gives added terror to hay
fever. Its indirect effects upon the
patient depend upon the circumstances
of the attack and the temperament of
the victim. It has in many cases abroad
been followed by the breaking out of a
rish,and other indications of serious affec-
tion, but the doctors say that the rash
is really only an indication of a feverish
tendency in the patient, heightened by
the influenza. 1t has alse been stated
that pneumonia and pleurisy were nat-
ural results of the influenza, but here
again the doctors insist that those di-
seases, where they have followed the in-
fluen-a, have been due to other causes
with which the influenza has slight if
any connection. All doctors of eminence
here and abroad seem to agree that
there is nothing dangerous about the
epidernie, and that even its unpleasant
cifeets will last but a short time in each
case. From four to ten days is the
general period of the disease in Europe.
Doctors also say that there is nothing in
the climate to make the epidemic par-
ticularly severe here. Tt will probably,
they say, be a little milder here than in
St. Petersburg, and a little more severe
than in Paris. :
Last week the New York board of
bealth recommended the following re-
medy for the disease : “Spray the affect-
ed membrane with 10 per cent, solution
of quinine freely and frequently, and
take four or five times a day a pill made
as follows : Quinine, 3 grains ; camphor,
4 grain; extract of belladonna, } grain.”
But doctors, as usual, differ, and some
of them assert that this prescription is
not only useless but dangerous.
The Iascality of Some Boys.
Their Latest Devicefor Making a Panic
at a Supper Table.
Chicago Herald.
It takes the average small boy tc con-
coet schemes to surprise his elders. One
of the newest schemes of this sort is be-
ing practiced by a select coterie of -
youngsters who reside up on one of the
South Side avenues. If they keep it up
they will doubtless acquire one of the
soundest * cases of thumping ever ad-
ministered to a boy ora set of boys.
Their modus operandi is this : They first
steal, bea or borrow some laths, and on
the end of each lath they bunch the re-
mains of a newspaper. Then they prowl
about their neighborhood, somewhere
near 6 P. M., and peer into unprotected
windows. When they see a family at
supper they quietly strike matches and
ignite their newspapers, after which
they elevate their laths in front of the
windows and utter the most fiendish
yeils
This noise attracts the attention of the
supping family, and, of course, they see
the flaming papers just outside of their
windows. Fora moment or two they
are alarmed by the unusual spectacle,
but when the head of the house realizes
that he has been scared by a boyish
prank he grabs a heavy cane and starts
for the door, only to find that the young-
sters have made good their escape, ac-
companying their departure with de-
risive yell. But some night the man of
the house will get a good start, and when
he does he will warm the jackets of the
youthful creators of a new sensation.
Powderly for Ballot Reform.
General Master Workman T. V.
Powderly, of the Knights of Labor, has
published in the Scranton 77uti a long
article in favor of ballot reform. In
order to bring it about he recommends
that citizens should organize ballot re-
form clubs, pledge every candidate for
the Legislature to vote for the Austra-
lian system, and at the same time exact
from him a pledge not to enter a caucus
on this measure. Under the Australian
system secrecy will be attained, intimi-
dation will be impossible, attempts at
perpetrating fraud will be useless; the
occupation of the ward heeler will be
gone for he cannot ‘deliver the goods,
and the citizen will rule.”
What Xs Meant by Tariff Reform,
Philadelphia Record,
THE organs of protection unceasingly
assert that Tariff Reform and Free Trade
mean thesame thing. "What the friends
of Tariff’ Reform do mean is best shown
by the practical measures of legislation
which they have presented in Congress.
Whether these shall lead ultimately
to free trade will be for the people them-
| selves to determine. Every measure
for reforming the tariff should stand on
its merits. What the tariff beneficiaries
fear is that if the people should get a
taste of Tariff Reform they want more
of it. This accounts for the furious
opposition in the tariff camp to every
measure for mitigating the abuses and
iniquities of the existing system.
Harrison Protecting Dudley.
i Chicago Herald. i
The man at the White House who
permits and aids the escape of this villain
is. the same person that is harping
about ballot box frauds in the South.
The frauds, even in the ‘shoe string
district’’ of Mississippi in its worst days,
were not so famous a3 the frauds prac-
ticed at every precinct in Indiana at
his own election last year. Yet, while
profoundly moved by the irregularities
mn the South, he uses his power to
‘shield ‘and protect tha author of the
frauds in Indiana, where bribery was
rife and the ballot-box’ corrupted to an
extent never before known in politics.
Are Benjamin Harrison’s views of bal-
lot-box fraud affected by his personalin-
terest in the result?
1 RW GI
—— Little girl(who is traveling with
her mother in the sleeping car)--I guess
I'won’t have to say my prayers to-night
mamma. Mother—Certainly ; why not,
Flossie? Little girl— Why, in all this
noise, mamma, God couldn’t hear a
word I said. .