P. GRAY MEEK, -
More Misfit Figures.
The Republican will discover, when
it is possibly too late to be of use to its
party, that the tax payers of the coun-
ty are neither knaves nor fools. For
three weeks back in its efforts to assist
the commissioners in covering up the
$1,566.60 of collected state tax, which
is unaccounted for in the county state-
ment, it has treated its readers as if
they were “Simon Simpletons,” ready
to believe any stuff told them, and to
be satisfied with any explanation made,
no matter how improbable, con-
tradictory or untrue.
Two weeks ago it explained the fail-
ure to show what had become of this
money, by alleging that “it had uot
yet been collected,” although the com-
missioners’ statement itself showed that
it had. Last week it discovered what a
bald headed mistake it had made, and
explained the deficiency by fixing up a
lot of figures purporting to show that
the cost of assessment,the commissions
for collections exoneration, and
“abatements,” (whatever the latter may
mean) make up this deficiency. When
asked which of these two statements is
correct, it answers flippantly “that both
are.” :
That neither one is, and that both
are fixed up to deceive the people of
the county, is shown by the commis-
sioners’ own figures. The amount of
state tax assesssed for 1889, according
to the county statement, was $9126.32.
The amount shown by the same docu:-
ment to be outstanding 1s $3,387.89,
showing that $5,738.43 was collected.
Of this amount, $4.117,83 was paid out
as state taxes, clerk hire, &c., and is
properly set forth in the statement,
leaving the balance, as we have stated,
of $1,566.60 unaccounted for. That this
money was collected is shown by these
figures, as given by the ‘commissioners
themselves, and shows as plainly as
any thing can the falsity of the first ex-
planation of the Republican.
In its second explanation the, figures
as given in the commissioners,stateme! ¢
show it to be as false as the first, In
this attempt to shut up the eyes of the
county tax-payers, they are told that
this missing money was expended as
follows : :
Abatements acc’t of State-Tax $203.64
Commissions for collecting 234 65
Assessors pa 603.00
Exonerations acc’t State-Tax 791.86
Total 1952.15
To show that these figures are fixed
up for a newspaper explanation, and
cannot possibly be the figures alleged
to be upon tue commissioners, books,
unless those books are terribly crooked
and false, it is but necessary to add the
amount the commissioners claim cradit
for as outstanding state taxes, and the
amounts they now say they paid ont, to.
gether, to show it as follows:
Outstanding state taxes for 1859 #2,387,£0
Paid out as state taxes, 4,117,83
a nL OT, collections, to as- ’
sessors and eronerations & 1,982,186
Total 9,387,87
Or T00 HUNDRED AND SIXTY-0NE DOL-
LARS MORE than the total assessment
for the year referred too. In addition to
this, we are told by the Lepublican that
there is a cash balance in the county
treasury to the credit of the State
amounting to $149.04 for this same
year. So that if these figures, as giv-
en by the Republican, are correct, they
show a most extraordinary state ofaffairs
viz : that out of a total tax-levy of £9.
126.32, the commissioners can account
for expending $9,387,80 and still have
a balance of $149.04 in the treasury ?
Is there a tax-payer in the county
fool enough to believe any such
thing ?
Is there any one, who after reading
the two improbable and contradictory
explanations of where the missing $1,-
566,60 is, as given by the Republican,
but will conclude that the. efforts of
that paper and its little ring of hackers
about the court House, are intended
only to deceive and cheat the people.
in place of trying to give them an in-
telligent idea of what became of this
money, where it is, or
now ?
who has it
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Retited to Private Life.
Brsmarex’s sudden and unexpected
dismissal from the high office which
he so long and ably filled, did not pro-
duce the excitement among the German
people that conld have been reasonably
looked for as the result of such an oe-
currence. He is justly popular with
all classes of his fellow countrymen,
who attribute the recently acquired
‘greatness of the Fatherland to him
more than to any other man. If ‘was
probably on account of the unexcitable
temperament of the Germans that they
regarded the removal of the popular
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favorite with apparent indifference,
and the Prince is said to have been
greatly mortified by what seemed to
bea lack of popular sympathy with
him in the hour of his undeserved hu-
miliation. Bat ample amends were
made for this apparent want of feeling
on the part of the people when, last
Monday, Bisamarck left the palace of |
the Chancellor to retire to private life. |
As Ire was driven through the streets
of Berlin on his way tothe railway sta-
tion he was greeted with a storm of
applause and with demonstrations of
esteem and affection which clea:ly
showed that he was still the idol of the
German heart.
It is useless to speculate npon the
the effect which Bismarck’s retire- |
ment will have upon European poli-
tics and upon the prospects of the Ger- |
man empire. He is certainly the!
ablest statesman that Europe has pro-
duced since the time of RicurLIEv.
The power which France attained un-
der the management of the great cardi- |
nal continued and increased after his |
death. So it is likely to be with the
German imperial structure whose mag- i
nificent proportions owe so much to |
the genius of the great chancellor. |
The German people are proud of it,
and are not of the character that will
allow it to be impaired either by their |
own doing or by that of n:ighboring
hostile nations.
England's Venerable Queen.
g since Queen
Victoria became the sovereign of |
Great Britain and Ireland, and there-
fore the government of that kingdom
without her as an attachment would
sem strange. Her reign has been one
of the longest in the history of England,
she having come to the throne fifiy-
three years ago. There is a report
that she intends to abdicate and give
the Prince of Wales a chance, who is
getting pretty well on in years and |
may not get hold of the scepter until he
is an old man if the Queen should hold
on until death shall remove her. She!
is now seventy years of age, and should |
she live as long as her grandfather, |
Georce the Third, who died in his |
eighties, her abdication might be the |
only chance of Wales becoming |
her suc essor,as ‘tis said that his |
health isn’t any too robust, which is |
altogether likely considering the |
amount of fun he has had of various |
kinds. Should he succeed his mother,
would he be Epwarp the Seventh,
or Auserr the First? The chances
are that he would be the latter.
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Men have grown old
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Shameless Proceedings.
Those who believed that the recent
exposure of Quay’s political and official
iniqunities would abash the Boss did!
not know the character of the man, |
and if any one entertained the idea that |
it would impair his influence with the |
party in this State over which he
exercises such complete control, it
was a mistaken impression. The Boss
comes up from Florida to resume his
autocratic power, in no way set back
by disclosures which showed him up
as a proper subject for the penitentiary,
and his party followers hasten to meet
him and learn what disposition he is |
going to make of the gubernatorial
candidates who jostle each other. for
his favor and look to him as the only
source from which a nomination can
be secured.
When it was learned that this rotten
politician, whose political prominence
is a disgrace to the State and a menace
to good government, had reached |
Washington on his return from Flori-
da, there was a rush of Pennsylvania
Republican henchmen to the national
capital, moved by a rivalry to be the
first to have an audience with the Boss
upon whose pleasure depended their |
political fortunes. Nothing has yet ap-
peared that has so conclusively proved
the utter debasement of’ Pennsylvania
Republicanism, or showed up in a
stronger light the shamelessness of the
party management. |
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The Dead Marine,
Captain Mark Welch, late of Belfast, |
Me., was an old time ship master,
and inany amusing stories are told of
his sea life. Captain Welch had a great
abhorrence of tobacco, and disliked to
lind tobacco “quids” about the vessel's
deck. One night he found an immense
“quid” on the quarter deck alongside
the house, which had been recently |
painted. The captain called all hands.
The watch below turned out, and as
the night was pleasant, they could not !
imagine what the difficulty was. “Get |
the watch tackle, straps and a hand-
spike, and bring them aft,” shouted the
captain. The crew obeyed in amaze-
ment. “Put a strap around the main
boom and hook on the watch tackle,”
said Captain Welch. “What is to be
done 77 asked the mate.
“Sling that dead marine lying
against the house and hoist him over-
board,” said the captain, pointing to the
tobacco “quid.” It was done. No
more dead marines were found lying
about the deck after that.—[ Lewiston
Journal,
| careful state
Bismarck’s Adieu.
Tears and Flowers Mingled With Great
Enthusiasm.
BERLIN, March 31.—Prince Bismarck
left Berlin for Friedrichsruhe, his coun-
try seat, Saturday. Friday he visited
the Imperial musoleum at Charlotten-
berg, in which the remains of Emperor
. William I are enterred, and placed a
i wreath upon the coffin of his old master.
Prior to his departure from Berlin Sat:
urday he paid farewell visitsto the
Royal Princes. Later in the day
thousands of persons gathered in the
Wilhelmstrasse and along the route to
the railway station to witness the final
scene in the Bismarck drama. Wear-
ing the uniform of the Cuirassiers, Bis-
marck left the Palace of the Chancellor
at 5 o'clock in the afternoon and entered
‘anopen carringe thatstood in waiting.
Assoon as heappeared he was greeted
with stormy enthusiasm. The windows
of the houses in the vicinity were croyd-
ed with spectators.
All the Ministers, the Diplomatic
Corps and the Court and Stute officials
were waiting to bid farewell to the
Prince. Mr. Phelps, the American
Minister,and Chancellor von Caprivi be-
ing among the last to shake hands with
him. Many tears were shed, and it
was altogether an affecting scene. At
1 5:40 the train started amid renewed
cheering, singing and the strains of the
band. In connection with the regard
evinced by Prince Bismarck for Mr.
Phelps it is worthy of note that on Tues-
day last he denied himself to all others
and received the Mimster ata private
audience. They spent a large part of
the afternoon in a discussion, the object
of which has excited curiosity here.
Rumor says that the Prince made a
ment of recent events with
a view, to the future.
The real history of the Chancellorship
crisis is still wrapped in mystery, which
the Emperor shows no intention to un-
veil. The intervention of the Grand
Dake of. Baden and other influential
{ personages has, to a large extent, stopp-
ed the newspaper polemic on the subject.
The North German Gazette, Prince Bis-
marek’s organ, announced on behalf of
the Prince that the addresses and as-
surances of sympathy received by him
have been so numerous that without of-
ficial assistance, and in the trouble and
confusion incident to his departure, it is
impossible to reply to them singly. He
requests the senders cellectively to
accept his thanks.
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Will They Heed?
Philadelphia Times.
The special attention of Messrs. O’-
Neill, Harmer, Bingham and Reyburn,
now assuming to represent the industries
of Philadelphia in Congress, is called to
the fact that a committee of the fruit and
vegetable canners stated to the House
Committee on Saturday that if they had
free tin they would want no protection
on their canned fruits and vegetables.
Did our Philadelphia Congressmen hear
this important declaration ? Will they
heed it ?
The canned fruits and vegetables pro-
duced in this country now amount to
many millions of dollars, and they are
in universal use. The workingmen of
every State and Territory of the Union
largely use canned fruits and vegetables
as common articles of diet. They are
now taxed over $6,000,000 a year on the
tin plate used for cans, and taxed also
on imported fruits and vegetables ; but
now itis proposed to increase that tax to
some $15,000,000, a large part of which
must be paid by the growers and the
consumers of canned fiuits and vegetu-
bles. Are our Philadelphia Congress-
men ignorant of these facts ? or are they
indifferent about the multiplication «f
taxes upon the small farmers who grow
fraits and vegetables and the working-
ingmen who consume thet ?
But for the blindest servitude to party
no. Congressman would hesitate for a
| moment to accept the proposition of the
| Amcricans producers of canned fraits
and vegetables to make both the can-
ned diet and tin plate free of duty. That
would harm no industry ; it would great-
ly cheapen one of the most common nee-
essaries of life, and enable every work-
ingman to increase thesupply of good
fruits and vegetables for his family
withont increased expenditure, and what
more should tariff laws aim $o accom-
plish ? To cheapen healthful food when
it can be done without impairing an;
industry should he one of the first aims
of tariff Jaws, and why de our Philadel-
phia Congressmen seems to be entire'y
forgetful of their duties to the
greatest industrial city of the world ?
Will not our Philadelphia Corgress-
men hear, understand and act? The
workingmen of the country, who have
been long promised relief from oppres-
| sive taxes, are now threatened with a
wanton, wicked increase of taxes in
many torms, by increased tariff duties on
hides, tin plate, raw silk, carpet wool,
ete., and the million in this city, most of
whom are industrial people, have not
heard ore word of protest from Phila-
delphia Congressmen. They must
know the trath ; will they not heed iy?
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A Bait for Hastings.
WASHINGTON, March 8l.—A new
movement has been started which may
| have some bearing upon the contest for
the Republican nomination for the Gov-
erncrship in Pennsylvania. A bill has
passed this Congress, and is now a law.
creating the office of Assistant Secretary
of War. The new office is a high and
responsible one, as whoever holds it will
be in command of the War Department
whenever the Secretary is absent, and
will rank next to the Secretary himself.
The salary, however, is only $4,500 a
year.
It is now suggested that an appoint.
ment to this position be offered to Adju-
tant General Hastings, of Pennsylvania,
State Senator Delamater's principal ri-
val for the gubernatori 1 nomination.
The suggestion is said t» come from
Postmaster General Wanamaker and it
is reported has already been brought be.
fore the President. Senator Quay was
informed of this proposition while here
but declined to express any opinion in
regard to it Friends of General Hast.
ings here say that his business interests
in his own State would prevent his ac-
cepting such an appointment if it were
tendered to hin,
An Appalling Cyclone.
Louisville a City of Ruins and Mangled
Corpses.
LouisviLLe, March 28.—The awful
results of the cyclone which devastated
this city last evening almost bafile de-
seription. Still exaggeration is almost
impostible, as the human imagination
can scarcely depict the scenes of horror
and desolation with which the city is
filled. The dead, the dying, ard the
suffering are everywhere, and the ruins
of what was yesterday a beautiful and
busy portion of the city, stand out in
bold relief, a veritable scene of chaos.
Everything is confusion and excite-
ment, wailing and weeping. The au-
thorities are doing their best to cet mat-
ters in proper shape, and to-night the
people are showing a calmer spirit,
brought about more from exhaustion
than any other efforts.
THE FIRST SHOCK OF THE STORM.
The storm struck the city beiween
eight and nine o'clock last night. It
entered the southeastern portion ot the
city at Eighteenth street, and swept a
path five blocks wide, diagonally reach-
ing in a ragged line to Seventh street,
leveling every building in its path—
probably 2,500 houses. The city is filled
with a crazed mass of people wildly
seeking friends. A large force of men
is at work on the ruins.
The buildings on Main street from
Eight to Fourteenth street are in ruins,
not one of the handsome wholesale
houses being left, and all the tobacco
warehouses were swept away. On
Market street, Falls City Hall, a four
story building, was blown down while
several Masonic and Knights of Honor
lodges were gn session, and 100 men and
women are buried in the ruins. Every
other house on Market, Jefferson and
Walnut streets from Tenth to Sixteenth
street isin rains, Parkland, a suburb,
is swept away. At the union depot, at
the foot of Seventh street, the Chesa-
peake and Ohio train for Washington
was just starting out filled with passen-
gers. The building was prostrated,
crushing in on the train. All the pas-
sengers, however, were rescued, except
one newshoy. Such desolation no city
has known in this century. Every
building, tree, and telegraph pole in the
district struck was levelled.
CAME WITHOUT WARNING,
The cyclone came with scarce a warn-
ing sound, and in all the buildings
struck the inhabitants were engaged in
their usual avoeations, without an effort:
to escape when their homes collapsed.
The district laid waste comprises an area
of the city three miles long and nearly
half a mile wide. The cyclone crossed
the river, striking Jeffersonville, Indi-
ana, badly wrecking Front street, which
is on the river front, but no lives were
lost. Hundreds of wounded have been
taken to their homes and the hospitals.
All the physicians of the city areen-
gaged in attending them. At 8 o'clock
seven fires were burning. They were
all extinguished. No trains arrived
from Cincinnati, Lexington or the south
on the Louisville and Nashville or
Chesapeake and Ohio roads last night.
All the railroads, with the exception of
the Pennsylvania lines, are compelled
to suspend operations, The wrecked
portion of the city lies between Kigh-
teenth, Broadway, Seventh, and Main
streets. The destroying element passed
diagonally across the section, which is
probably a square.
The storm came up from the south-
west and seems to have been a veritable
cyclone. The force of the wind was
hardly felt above the Galt House, but
below that, so far as could be seen by
the light of the blazing ruins, every-
thing was laid dat on the earth. On
Fourteenth street at Eight and Main, on
Jefferson above Twelfth, on Wainat be-
tween Seventh and Eighth, a big foun-
dry on Fourteenth street, the Kentucky
Flouring Mills, and the Falls City Hall,
in which two or three secret societies
were holding meetings, were laid flat on
the ground. In the main hall a dance
was 1n progress at the time, and it is be-
lieved many lost their lives in this build-
ing alone. The sheds at the Seventh
street depot were blown down, covering
the Louisville and Southern trans,
which were being made up, and injur-
ing large numbers of people, Street cars
were blown from their tracks in many
cases and crushed against the walls of
buildings.
LouisviLLe, March 28.--The work of
rescuing the mangled dead goes bravely
on. A hundbed anxious men worked as
they never worked before for the bodies
of their wives, fathers, mothers, brothers
and sisters, that lie buried in tha shape-
less mass of brick and mortar that covers
the site were yesterday stood the Falls
City Hall. The criss of the men and
women and children rend the air on ev-
ery side, A surging crowd of ten thous-
and people block the streets for squares
about the scene of the tatastrophe. A
large foree of police guard the avenue to
%eep buck the pressing masses of curious
humanity that are gradually forcing
their way to the awful scene of the cal-
amity.
Five hundred men stand by the wreck
dazed and helpless, too weak or too
lazy to len i a helping hand to the brave
squad of rescuers, It isa sight to strike
anguish to the soul ; of the bravest.
Words are powerless to express the aw-
ful scences that each succeeding min-
ute rolls through the ghastly panorama.
Bodies mangled and shapeless beyond
recognition are being dragged from be-
neath the rains every fo minntes,
Men, women and children linger about
the scene with faces filled with dread
anxiety lest they recogrizein the shape-
less mass of flesh and bune the semblance
of the features of some relative or
friend.
Coroner Miller stands at the door of
his temporary morgue in the McGrath-
ian saloon opposite the wreck, directing
the disposition of the bodies.
A Town Swept Out of Existence.
GALLATIN, Tenn., March 31.—The
news of the terrible storm ‘Thursday
night is slow to arrive, and it will be
several days before a full list of the dead
and injured can be had. It is positive-
ly known that every house and building
between Bledsoe and Eulia in the path
of the storm are blown away, and hun-
dreds of people age injured and without
food, shelter or raiment. Tis reported
that the whole town of Dixon Springs,
in Smith county, thirty-five miles dis-
tant, was swept out of existence by the
angry cyclone.
Sketch of Hon. Leonard Rhone.
The Philadelphia Times of Saturdays
gives &s No 23 in its Gubernatorial
Gallery, an excellent picture of Hon.
Leonard Rhone, the “Farmer States-
man’ of this county, with the following
interesting sketch of his lifa:
Leonard Rhone was born on the
farm on which he now resides, part of
the old manor of Nottinghaw, once
owned by the Penns, on the 2st of
July, 1838. The farm is a part of No. 1
of the divisions of the manor sHld by
the Penns to Jacob Straub under deed
of June 24, 1794. Michael Rhone,
Leonard’s grandfather, purchased it
Septen ber 15th, 1794, removing thither
from the eastern end of Penn’s Valley,
and iv has been in possession of the
family ever since.
Leonard was one of the sons of Jacob
and Sarah Rhone and during his early
life worked upon his father’s piace dur-
ing the summer and attended a public
school in the winter, thus acquiring a
taste for farm life, to which he is de-
votedly attached, and at the same time
obtaining the rudiments of an education
which he has not failed to vastly im-
prove.
His father died in 1853, and Leon-
ard remained on the farm with his
mother, who, with true womanly cour-
age, continued to carry on its opera-
tions, keeping the family together and
securing for them ail the educational
aavantages the neighborhood afforded
until its members arrived at a proper
axe to enter upon hizher coursesof study
at seminaries und colleges.
In 1857 Mr. Rhoneserved a voluntary
apprenticeship of some months in a
coachmaker’s shop in order to acquire a
more pratical knowledge of mechanie
arts to aid him in farm management.
But deeming a better education in the
science and learning of the schools of
great importance to his success, in
November, 1857, he entered Kishaco-
quillas Seminary as a student. When
asked by Mr. Alexander, the principal,
what pursuit or profession he proposed
to select for life, he promptly responded,
“that of a farmer.”
After pursuing his studies—in which
he made great progress—for a year, he
was again approached with the question
of his intended pursuit, with the sugges-
tion that greater opportunities for dis-
tinction awaited professional men. Bat,
firm to his resolution, he refused to give
up his choice of a calling. His bent
was shown in his essays, which were
upon agricultural subjects, and his ex-
hibition oration had for its topic
“Agriculture.”
During the winter of 1858-59 he
taught school, thus firmly grounding
his knowledge in efforts to instruct
others, and at the close ot school returned
to his home and assisted his mother on
the farm.
In 1864 Mr. Rhone was married to
Miss Maggie Sankey, daughier of James
Sankey, of Potter's Mills, a lady of
extraordinary energy of character and
rare mental worth. His mother, re-
linquishing charge of the farm, became
the lessee of the old homestead, and in
May, 1865, upon a sale of the place, on
mutual agreement of the family, he
became sole proprietor of his father’s
property.
During these years of furm-life, while
actively engaged in his favorite pursuit,
he began to see the importance ang
necessity of some organization among
farmers of a social and educational
character, for the purpose of breaking
up the monotony of rural life and
cemerting the tillers of the soil together
in one fraternal brotherhood. This
was not only a theory with him, but
a real principle. He felt it and as he
‘pondered over the situation the idea
burned itself into his very soul and he
longed for the day when the isolation of
the farmer and his family should be
broken up and they could meet upon a
fraternal platform for mutual benefit
and protection. He saw. other pursuits
and professions banding together for
like purposes, realizing the benefits of
combined efforts to their respective
classes and earnestly desired to sce the
the same principles introduced among
farmers. While absorbed with the
thought the Patrons of Husbandry be-
gan to formulate their ideas in the same
direction. He discerned the wisdom of
the new organization and its adaptation
to the wants of the agriculture people
and at once entered into the work and,
Jin connection with a few of his neighbors,
made application fur a charter, and on
the 8d day of February, 1874, Progress
Grange, No. 95, was duly organized at
Center Hail, he being a charter mem-
ber of the first subordinate Grange in-
stituted 'n Centre county.
Once inside the gate, he saw still
more cleaily the power of the organiza-
tion for good. He applied himself with
great zeal and energy in the new field.
wo faithtul and earnest were his efforts
that on the on the 9th of April follow-
ing he was commissioned by D. B.
Mauger,the Worthy Master of Pennsyl-
vania State Grange, Deputy for Centre
county, which position he continued
to hold ty consecutive annual appoint-
ments for seven years, during which
time he displayed most untiring activity
and performed an immense amount of
labor in behalf of the orgamzation.
And so successful were his labors that
the organization in Centre county to-day
is admitted to be more complete than in
any other county in the State.
At the organization of the Centre
County Pomona Grange, No. 13, Sep-
tember 15, 1875, he was elected Mas-
ter fur one year and re-elected five conse-
cutive terms. In December, 1877, he
was chosen Master of his own Grange,
No. 96, and served his term with great
acceptability.
In December, 1878, he was elected
Overseer of the Peunndylvania State
Grange, which position he held for
two years, and at the close of his term,
at the session of the State Grange,
held in Greensburg in December, 1880,
was unanimousely chosen Master, to
succeed Colonel V. KH. Piollet, and is
now serving as Master of the Pennsyl- |
vania State Grange, having been re-
clected for five consecutive terms, In
his administration of the State Grange
he hus displayed great skill and execu-
tive ability in the organization and
management of its affairs ; perhaps no
organization ever had a more popular
and successful leader.
In June, 1880, he
elected a
trustee of the Pennsylvania State College,
and re-elected in 1832,
In 1882 Governor Hoyt appointed
was
him a delegate to the National
Agricultural Convention held in the
city of New York.
in December, 1883, Governor
son appointed him one of the seven
Building Commissioners of the Hun-
tingdon State Industrisi Reformatory,
and in 1884 Governor Pattison appoint-
ed him a member of the State Board of
Agriculture.
In November, 1834, the Democratic
party of Centre county nominated and
elected him to the State Legislature,
and in 1886 he was re-clected, serving
with distinetion and acceptability.
In 1889 he was, by an act of the
Legislature, selected by the State
Grange as one of the seven Revenue
Commissioners appointed to revise the
“tax laws’ of the Swate. Upon this
commission he is servinz at present, re-
presenting the agricultural interests.
Patti-
In" stature Mr. Rhone is five feet
eight inches high, erect, compactly
built, capable of great endurance. The
immense amount of lubor he performs
us Master of the State Grange in
correspondence, public duties in connec-
tion with bis own personal business, is
safficient to break down any ordinary
man, but he is untiring in his efforts.
Intelleetually Mr. Rhone is a plain,
practical thinker,and only arrives at con-
clusions after mature = consideration
His enthusiasm is always tempered with
good and careful judgment. He may
justly be considered a safe counsellor.
His administration of the State Grange
and other public official duties have
been eminently successful. As a pre-
siding officer he is calm, courteous and
firm, and wields the gavel with grace.
As a speaker he is earnest and en-
thasiastie, fortifying his positions with
facts and figures.
Personally Leonard Rhone is a warm.
hearted, generous and true man, never
forgetting a favor or forsaking a friend.
Appeals to his generosity are never
made in vain. His moral character is
unsullied and his Christian conduct
above reproach, Ina word, he is one
of “nature’s noblemen.”
. H. THOMAS.
ren me—— -
Freaks of the Atmosphere.
mes
The atmospheric conditions of the
deserts and plateaus at certain seasons of
the year produce strange phenomena.
The dry weather in Nevada has pro-
duced a host of giant dancers in Lyon
county. These appearances are puzzlers
to all scientists. How they brace up
and hold togetherso long is a mystery.
On a quiet, sunny day you see a little
handful of sagebush soar aloft on a
light breeze. Some more joins it, until
it is as big as your hat, and then your
body, and then sand and rocks and soil
by the bushel begin to roll into the mass
from the ground, ascending upward like
a column. Ttissoon as big as a tele-
graph pole and all the time gaining,
and ere long its top may be reaches 1,000,
may be 5,000 feet. While you are
watching this one probably three or
four others will spring up, or half a
dozen will come waltzing down from
the upper end of the valley, having
traveled probably twenty-five miles and
torn up the soil like a steam plow in
their waltzing and zigzacving. Thev
tear up the hill sides, smash houses and
suck up men like waterspouts. They
go to pieces 1n as strange a way as they
are formed. —San Francico Examiner,
The New Tarif, :
‘WasaINGgToN, April 1.—Mr. Mec-
Kinley and his colleagues got their
bill before the full committee. The
treasury estimates put the reduction of
the bill at $60,000,000, but this does
not take 1nto consideration reduetions
that will occur from increised duties.
Mr. Lafollette, ot the committee, says
he other reductions by prohibitory du-
ies and increased duties will put the
knife in deep. On wool, he thinks the
revenues will be reduced $10,000,000 by
increased duties. ;
Similar effect will follow other in-
creases. Paintings in oil and water
colors and sculpture by American ar-
tists are put on the free list. Etchings,
engravings, etc, are not. Hides,
which have heen shifted back and
forth many times, are put on the duti-
able list at 15 per cent.
The general effect of the woolen
schedule is to increase duties immensely
and a corresponding increase is made in
the manufactured products. Nols, tops
and wastes are increased from 10 cents
per pound to 30 cents. A very large
increase is made in the duty on finest
woolen cloths, the duty being fixed at
from three to four times the duty
on raw wools entering into the cloths
and 40 per cent. additional.
Carpet wools have been increased
from 22 to 82 cents and from 5 cents to
8 cents per pound according to grade,
and the dividing line put at 12 cents
per pound instead of 15 cents, all carpet
wools vaiued at above 12 cents paying
a duty of 8 cents. No duty is put
on raw silk, but a bounty of $1
per peund is put on reeled and 7 cents
on cocoons. This bounty is to run
for ten years.
The free list is increased by additions
taken from the senate bill. Nickle ore
is put on the free list. The duty on
silver lead ore is fixed at 1} cents per
pound on the lead. Lumber is reduced
from $2 to $1.50 per thousand.
An increase is made all along the
line on farm products, to prohibit,
mambers ot the committee say, the
importation of $75,000,000 worth of
farm products. The New England
.men and all those interested in sugar
production are indignant over the bill.
Severe criticisin is passed upon it in
many quarters.
Money lenders in Dakota are
charging the farmer in the famine dis-
trict as much as 60 per cent. a year for
loans. If the farmer borrows 81,000 to
keep his family alive, and to work and
seed his land for the next erop, he must
pay the lender $1600 in one year, .and
must give good security that he will do
+0 before he can get the money. All
human experience shows that this can-
not be done, and the inevitable conse-
quence must be that the money lend-
ers will acquire great tracts of land at
about half their value, while the pres-
ent owners will be reduced to penury