Cat”
GRAY "” EEK.
Ink Stings.
——Wouldn’t the name be more suite.
ble ifit were RUDYARD STRIPLING?
—How can the old machine be ex-
pected to produce a new Philadelphia ?
~-It is believed by some that recip-
rocity would hasten the ripening of the |
Canada pear.
—Congressman BLAND’s sky is over-
cast by a cloud which may yet have a |
silver lining.
—Mr. BLAINE points with pride to
the barrel of pork he is about to diplo- |
matize into Brazil.
-—LADNER'S case is one in which the
office seeks the man. Tt is to be hoped
that it will find him.
—That the American people will not
' gloom over the entire country.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 36.
BELLEFONTE, PA. FEBRUARY 18, 1891.
Wanamaker’s Blasted Project.
Anything that makes good Jonx
Wanamaker unhappy should cast a
That
pious functionary is now grieving over
the failure of his postal telegraph
| schieme, and what adds to the poignan-
‘cy of his griefis that his pet project
be gored at the polls by the bayonet is
due largely to GORMAN,
has come to nanght through the mach-
inations of such an unregenerate world-
{ling as Jay ;
—The opposition to “blue laws” nat- | as Jay Govt,”
urally comes from people whoare in the |
habit of painting things red.
—-Every body is hoping that erysipe-
las won’t succeed in calling a halt on the
hero who marched to the sea.
—Short as February is,
comes in the midst of such nasty weath-
ec that everybody wishes it were shorter.
- In regard to the Treasury appoint.
ment, what a bad smell would result |
from the lightning striking so dirty an
object as Joe CANNON.
-~Mr. Braive spells Reciprocity with
the biggest kind of an R, notwithstand-
it usually !
© tagonized the telegraph companies, and
The Postmaster General proposed
that the government should do the tele-
' graphing of the country, his objeet be-
ing to bring all the lines under one vast
paternal system of electrical commu-
! nication, This project of course has an-
especially excited the ire of Jay GovLp
who is the heaviest stock-holder®of the
ing the fatality of that letter in “Rum,
Romanism and Rebellion.”
—Speaker REED’s “business congress’
will never do business again at the old
stand: Its sign will be taken down per-
manently on the 4th of March.
--The name of PEFFER, the new
Kansas Senator, translated into English,
means pepper. That may aceount for
his having made it so hot for INGALLS,
the State Department at Harrisburg will
remain long enough to give Secretary
HArrITY the opportunity of showing
how neatly he can administer the grand
bounce,
—Some months ago the Republicans
were rejoicing ‘over the passage of the
McKinley bill. Now they are praising
BLAINE for having knocked a corner
oft the new tariff with his Brazilian re-
ciprocity.
gp HANWInAY, HaMriN, who is 82
. 20s old, made an address at a public
HiEner in New York this week. The
senility of age is less observable in him
than in the party of which he was the
first Vice President.
—The report that Adjutant General
HastiNGs retired from the war depart-
ment of the State with a heavy shortage
against him, is all bosh. HAsTINGS is too
good a General to expose himself to a
fire in the rear.
—There is a report that Gautemala,
Salvador and Honduras are going to
fight again. These little republics have
been in a broil ever since they partici-
pated in the Pan-American congress,
Has the pan anything to do with it?
—*Southern colored people are en-
gaged in a weird voodoo dance in a
Tennessee swamp.” The Press says
this, and yet that paper would consign
the South to the political control of such
voodoo dancers, and would use thearmy
to effect it.
—The way that CLEOPATRA cut up
with JuLrus Casar and MARK AN-
THONY doesn’t seem to interfere with
her being the greatest stage attraction
of the present day. It is too frequently
the case that bad girls are more popular
than good ones.
~—The church authorities who attend
to such matters in Rome have refused to
make a saint of CHRISTOPHER CoLuM-
BUS. The great discoverer was a noted
sailor and the church people may have
acted upon the assumption that it is
impossible for a sailor to be a saint.
—Congressman GRIMES gave a for
tune-teller $5 to learn from her whether
a bill in which he was interested would
be signed by the President. It may be
safely wagered that the Prasident would |
give twice that amount to any seeress |
who should make it plain to his mind
that he will have a second term.
—The Philadelphia Record is mis- |
taken in saying that it is its size more |
than Toy REED that prevents the House
ofgRepresentatives from being a delib-
erative body.
is twice the size of the popular branch
of our congress and there is no hitch in
its deliberations ;
Rekp.
~-The Pailadelphia Record, which
isn’t settled in its opinion as to whether
the election of United States Senators by
a popular vote would be an improve-
ment or not, suys that an idea of the
kind of Senators it would produce may
be formed from the kind of Governors
that are elected. Applying this gauge
‘other on Broadway or on
Western Union. Ever since Mr. Wa-
NAMAKER ventilated Lis desire to wipe
out Gourp's telegraph iaterests by gov-
ernmental action, the great New York
stock operator and the great”Philadel-
phia dry goods merchant have been on
bad terms. If they should meet feach
Chestnut
street, or even on the principal avenue
ol the national casital where all Ameri-
feel fraternaily towards
cans shonld
(euch other, ten chances to one they
wouldn’t speak as they passed by.:Out
of revenge the Wall street magnate
cauzht Holy Joux in a Reading deal
and squeezed him badly, for it must
—The three Republican hold-overs in |
r
be remembered that, although he de-
, votes the hett of his time to the service
!
i STUART,
ot his God and his country, the Post
master Generali doesn’t object to in-
creasing his worldy store by “taning
chances in the stock market, and his
treatment by GouLp was in every re:
spect reprehensible,
It is reported that Gourp and Wawa-
MAKER had a meeting ar Washington
one day last week on the telegraph
question, but the particulars given are
80 misty as to be entirely unreliable.
However this may be, the Postmaster
General's postal telegraph bill was kill-
ed last week in the Post office commit
tee, and Republican congressman
BiNcrax, of his own city, chairman of
of the committee, is held responsible
for death. Maybe Gourp had
something to do with palling the wires.
His money may have exerted an elec
18
trical influence.
As to Democratic ~entiment on the
subject of postal telegraphs it is suffi-
cient to say that from the fact of its be- |
ing opposed to governmental parternal-
ism it is not in favor of the govern
ment doing business for the people
which they are abundantly able to do
for themselves,
The Press states on “the best
authority” that CrarLes S. Worre
will hereafter act with the Democratic
party. The same paper also seems to
regard Senator CaMEroN as having
turned Democrat. The old party |
which so long has dominated Pennsyl-
vania is certainly in a bad way when
it is losing men of such brains and
fluence as Carrey Worre and Dox
CAMERON.
———
He Should be Elected.
If Judge Lapyer, the Democratic
nominee, shall not be elected Mayor of
Philadelphia, it will not be because he
does not deserve it, or because the in-
terest of the city would notbe promoted
by his election. Ie is one of the city’s
most reliable citizens; has proved him-
self to be a wise and upright magis-
trate, displaying good judgment and
executive ability, and is
t> entertain the progressive
ideas which are required for the pros-
pective development of the city.
Lis Republican opponent,
makes fair promises, but promises
from a man who has been nominated
excellent
known
and would be elected Sy the old ma-
‘chine influence, are not worthy of the
The House of Commons |
confidence of a community that has
been so often deceived from that quar
: ter,
but it hasn’t a Tom |
“nominee of his party by the peopie of
Unlike Stuart, Judge LapNer was
n0t nominated by machine regulation,
but, withont solicitation, was made the
his party, and therefore is under no
obligations to any clique or special ia-
terest. If it is indeed the ambition of
the people of the city to have a new
Philadelphia it behooves them to aban-
don their old habit of electing mayors
> Sunni te
to Pennsylvania, would Beaver and! gnq other municipal officers that are
Parrison, as Senators, suffer any in a
comparison with Quar and CAMERON ?
required for the advantage of ring
managers,
, directing the
Strengthen Its Hands.
tis the daty of the people of Peun-
sylvania to encourage the purpose and
strengthen the hands of the State ad-
ministration. The tenor of their. de-
claration at the polls was is favor of a
certain line of policy
ures of the highest public importance,
which may not be carried out without
an insistence of the public demand.
Governor ParrisoNy was elected on ¢
elear and distinct issues in which the
p2ople
these were ballot reform, the equitiza-
tion of taxation and the. enforcement
of the provisions of the constitution
take a deep interest.
which have been allowed to fall into | ©
disuse. The Governor in his ingugaral
address declared his devotion to these
measures and he will bring them about
if it be possible. But he may be oppos-
el by zn adverse Legislature, There
is, at present, an appearance that the
majority which governs the law mak-
inz machinery are favorable to the
n:eded refcrms. Outwardly
peir to yield to the general demand
for an improved ballot system aud
more equal taxation. The popular ex-
pression at the polls has had at least
th it effect upoa them, Bat th
intricacies and subtle ways
tion which experts know how to Yesors
they ap-
e are
in legisla-
to when their purpose conflicts with
the
present a fair exterior wile smother-
popular requirenent. They can
ing the measures which the people
hive declared for at the polls. Ballot
reform and tax equalization bills have
been trzated this way, and therefore
there is no positive assurance that they
will not ba subjectel again to the same
treatment. There is no safety in en-
trasting anything ok an
For this reason the voice of
to the hands
enemy.
the people should continue to he heard
demanding obedience to the popular
dictun of November,
sion shonld maincain‘the clearness and
distinctness of the election utterance,
and in this the press can supply a pow-
erful me liam.
the executive can he strengthened in
its effores to effect the reforms which
the public welfare so greatly requires.
rm ——————
Cher expres
[oereby the hands of
Testimonials.
So highly appreciated is the ser-
vice rendered by Senator Gordan in
successful resistance to
tue Force Bili scheme, that it is pro
posed by admiring Democrats to give
| . . .. .
him a banquet in recognition of his
pre-eminent abilities as a leader, and it |
is also suggested that he should receive
a testimonial from the Democratic par-
ty in the form of a massive seryice of |
silver plate for his splendid leadership
in the memorable contest against the
subjection of the federal elections to
military force.
Senator GorMaN richly deserves such
a testimonial, but at the same time
thanks are due to the few Republican
Senators who rejected the bayonet
scheme and repudiated the gag. Sena-
tor CanMuRoN is one of the Republicans
who in this respect deserves the thanks |
of the Democratic party, of the more
patriotic portion of his own party, and
of all good citizens.
The. Bird Book.
There was never a book published
by the authority of the State that
proved so popular as Dr. B. H. Wag-
REN'S work entitled “The Birds of
Pennsylvania.” It may be questioned
whether it is of much practical use, but
it certainly has hit the fancy of the
people. It describes the birds that be-
long to the State, as well those that
are migratory as those whose perma-
nent habitat is within its limits, giving
their natural history, not as fully, how-
ever, a3 it might, and illustrating them
with chromatic pictures. The edition
of some thousands has been entirely
exhausted and the legislators are being
besieged from every quarter for more
of them. Citizens who never before
were known to bother their representa
tives for public documents are pester
ing them for the bird books. The
children cry for them, ro doubt on ac-
count of the pretty pictures. If the
Legislature should even dispense with
the printing of that highly interesting
and instructive publication, the Leg-
islative Record, and divert (he
money spent on it to the printing of
such an edition of the bird book
as would supply every citizen with
copy, we believe it would be a hi: ghly
pupular measure.
involving meas- |
Among «
Ineffectual Whirewashing.
The minority of the committee that
investigated the Raum case has given
the delinquent Commissioner of Pen.
, sions a deserved scoring which will re-
ceive more consideration from the pub-
lic than will be accorded the coat of
‘whitewash with which the m: ajority
have endeavored to conceal his faults,
| The minority report says that “the
‘evidence establishes that the present
“Commissioner of Pensions has de-
graded the by
| “official position to promotejihis pri-
“vate enterprises and personal gains,
“and that a wise, efficient and faithful
administration of the bureau de-
“ mands his removal.”
The facts elicited in the investiga.
tion fully sustain this declaration. The
majority report is -a burlesque “on the
honest and; iruthfulness of
pablic service using
intention
congression investigation, and notwith-
standingthat the whitewash was appli-
ansparing brash, a sense
of decency will yet compel Harrison
to turn Rau out of office.
ee ——
ed with an
Limited Free Trade.
Cousiderable jubilation 1s indulged
in by Republican papers over the re-
ciprocity treaty which Secretary BrLaing
has succeeded in making with the Re-
public of Brazil, By the reciprocal ar-
rangement he has effected we will al-
low certain productions of Brazil to
come into our ports free of tariff duties
in consideration of the Brazilians re-
ceiving some of our products on the
same terms.
This is limited free trade—an incipi-
ent stage of that commercial policy
which has been soundly abused by the
{ Republicans as calculated to destroy
the industrial prosperity of our country,
If Brazil is entitled to such commer-
eial consideration there is no reason
American nations should not be
included, with the logical inclusion of
European countries, and thus by grad.
ual progression the tariff gronnd be
cut from under the fect of the pro-
tectionists.
His Last Shot.
It was thought that the granzers
had finally retired IngaLLs from pub-
lic view and that nothing, or very lit-
tie more, would be seen or heard of
him. Bat he bobbed up to the surface
{in the Senate with a speech from
| which the accustomed pungency was
"in no way illiminated by defeat.
| that they “had conducted the most
powerful political organization known
in American history to the most stu-
pendous and overwhelming disaster,”
and as to the cloture scheme he spoke
of it as “revolutionary and subversive
of the fandamental principles of con
stitutional government.” His allu-
sions to the Force Bill were scarcely
| less severe, condemning the general
| objects of that measure. It was the
| first time that INGALLS ever made a
proper application of his vitriolic ora-
tory.
——After having passed a bill, al
most without opposition, allowing the
liquor dealers of New York city to
sell their noxious beverages at all
hours of the day and night, Sundays
excepted, the New York Republican
Senate, a few days after, passed anoth-
er bill submittinga prohibition amend-
ment to popular vote. This duplicity
accords with the general line of Repub-
lican action on the liquor quest’on. In
this case they know that a prohibition
amendment, which in every instance
has proved to be a futile and expensive
experiment in every State where it has
been tried, will be defeated in the
Democratic House; but they want to
impress the temperance people with
the idea that they are the morality
party. But this won't exactly tally
with their vote to supply New York
city with ram at all hours.
Oklahoma was rather an un.
promising strip of territory - when first
| thrown open to sett'ement, but it is im-
| proving. Its elections last week were
carried by the Democrats; the Alli-
ance people * ere second in the race,
while the Republicans were at the
tail of the procession. The tidal wave
' has reached even that remote district.
{ fore the Legislature.
Conflict of Sectional Interests.
Judge Yerkes, of the Bucks cointy
district, in an address to the Farmers’
Lostitute of that county, has advanced
the idea that the granger interest of !
the East is not compatible with the
line of policy that has been pursued
by the farmer organizations of the
West, and that the latter is detriment-
2 to the former, He makes the point
t the eastern farmers have been
ie wesiern agricultural inter-
ests, giving this as a reason why our
farmers are less prosperous at this time
than they were twenty-five or thirty
years ago. He says:
Gentlemen, the real cause of your depres-
sion lies west of the Mississippi. The Grange
influence of the Eastern States is largely re-
sponsible for its growth. Only a few years ago
they of the East responded to the call of their
fellows of the West and joined in their demands
and contributed their power in Congress and
elsewhere, in donating the public lands for
free homestead, to actual settlezs and railroad
companies, who in turn donated them to for-
eign immigrants and cheap liborers. Finally
the products of all this munificence were
brought to your home markets by these fos-
tered and competing railroads and as the re-
sult of the Granger cry of government control
and reduction of railroad charges. The farm-
ers of the East are not interested in the redue-
tion of freights from the West when the pro-
ducts of that section are brought to compete
with theirs in their own markets and in all the
markets of the world. Those who joined these |
demands are reaping the fruits. Have a care
that you do not repeat the mistake. The
Farmers’ Alliances of the broad South and the
great West are more powerful than you can
hope tobecome. Situated so far inland from |
the great seaports, are you sure their desires |
will satisfy your wants?
There is much truth in these re-
marks of the Judge, but unfortunately
it is predicated upon a conflict of sec-
tional interests that is not pleasant to
contemplate.
CE ———
Another Pipe Line Bill.
There is another Pipe Line biil be-
It is a repetition
[of the effort of the oil prodiners to |
why Canada, Mexico and the other |
| there is too much reason to fear that
He |
terribly rasped the party leaders who |
had managed the Force Bill, saying |
extricate themselves from the octopian
grip of the Standard Oil Company, bat
it will meet the fate of the Billingsley
bill, and that. the interests of the oil re-
gions will continne to suffer from the
Standard strangulation. It is true,
DELAMATER is not in the Senate to
serve the oil monopoly, but there are
other servitors equally willing and un-
scrupulous. ANDREWS, the chairman
of the Republican State Committee, is
on hand to head the lobby that will op-
pose the bill, and the policy of delay-
inz it in committee 30 as to prevent ac-
tion by the House is likely to be the
tactics that will be resorted to for its de-
feat.
Is It Fancy or Fact?
Is there warrant for the doleful pre-
dictions of the injurious effect that
would be produced by free silver coin-
age? It is impossible to answer this
question positively one way or the ot h-
er, but itis a fact that when Branp
projected his original silver bill, some
years ago, JOHN SHERMAN, Sho was
then Secretary of the Treasury, said
that when the silver coined in com-
formity with that act should amount to
$75,000,000 gold would go to a pre-
mium. There has been $450,000,000
coined and the gold premium is not
visible. Three times as much gold is
in the treasury as there was when the
coinage of silver began. There is a
a discrepancy between this fact and
the dolorous predictions of the anti-sil-
ver men. :
Chairman Kerr was in Harris- |
burg the other day and expressed his
entire satisfaction with Governor Par-
TISON'S appointments, especially with
the manner in which his committee-
men have been remembered. It had
been reported that Mr. Kerr was dis- |
pleased with the Governor's selection '
in making up his cabinet. The chair
man’s expressions indicated pleasure
rather than dissatisfaction. The ap-
pointments have been of such a char-
aster as can give aisplezsure to no rea-
sonable Democrat. They have been
made with the desire to put in office
only such persons as, in addition to
their competeney, will harmonize all
branches of the party, and their thor-
|
ough democracy cannot be questioned ! shire sleeve was canght by a revolving shaft
, and he only escaped death by instantly tear
' ing out hissleeve,
— Mrs. AsToR is said to be displeased
in a single individual instance.
————
with the duties imposed upon her gowns
imported from Paris ; but itis such cases
as hers that prevent a high tariff from
being entirely odious,
' Casselberry, for
| $13,000 was paid has been sold for $5000.
————— re]
Spawls from the Keystone,
—An Allegheny girl girl “eloped with her step-
father,
—A gang of burglars is operating suceessful-
ly in Lancaster,
—The rumored strike oF 'Pennsy” employes
is denied at Pittshuag.
—Two young men at Sharpsburg fought a
dual with coaching whips.
—Emmensite smokeless powder is to be
manufactured at Greensburg:
—Tax collector J. O. Sonnberg, of Bradford,
is charged with a $2000 shortage.
—The Scranton Board of Trade has declar-
ed itself against free coinage.
—John Bincely, a Greensburg giant, wilt
commence a thirty-days fast.
—Of fifty cases returned to Court in Fayette
county twenty are for illegel liquor selling.
—IErie’s Health Officer has spent his entire
time for several days in vaccinating children.
—The grounds of the Camberland Agricul-
turalfSociety were sold, Saturday, for $10,200
—A fox at York interfered with a fox chase
by hanging itself just before it was to be re-
leased.
—At fhe Union Depot in Pittsburg 56,000
pieces of baggsge were handled during Jan-
uary.
—David Heffner, who was killed by the cars
at Allentown was one ofa family of forty-one
children.
—A thief pried his way into the Central
Shool at Gwyneded and stole only the new
dictionary.
—Judge Harry White, of Indiana county, is
in the field for the United States District
Judgeship.
—William Brown, of 6reble, Lebanon
county, was scalped by his horse kicking him
in the head. .
—Edward Dagney, a Pittsburg tailor, had a
battle with a tomn-cat, and had his scalp slaved
and chawed.
—Reading boys were raided for pitching
pennies and quoits on a vacant lot and break -
ing Sabbath.
—A falling wire at Lancaster wrapped itselt
around the top of a buggy and tore away the
frame worked covering.
—Sheriff Rorer has- seized ;the parsonage of
St. John’s Lutheran church at Centre Square
on an execution for $4702.
—Washington county with 71,000. population,
has 123 postoifices, while Fayette with 80, 000
souls, has only 74 offices.
—Seven of Farmer Henry Shirk’s eight
children are ill of measles at their Spring
township home, Berlss county.
—Three valuable horses belonging to C. E.
Rumsey died of a peculiar disease on his stock
farm near Vaneman’s station.
—Jonathan Spotts, an aged citizen-of Hep-
burn township, Lycoming county, on Monday
day committed suicide by shooting.
—Five hundred arcs and 200 incandescents
will light Reading this year, at $22and $120
er light per annum respectively.
—James Stratton, of Sharpsburg, a T0-year-
old storekeeper, attacked and beat. a bully
| Who entered his store a few days ¢ go.
—During a fight ina Reading saloon a man
anda chair, to which he was holding, were
turown together through a $75 plate-glass.
—A 75-year-old womun, traveling alone ,at
| tracted attention as she smoked her pipe von
tentedly in the Allentown Terminal depot.
—Dr. H. H. Philips, a survivor of the Johns-
town flood, in whieh fifteen members of his
family perished, died in Pittsburg, on Monday.
—Robert Kurtz, serving a sixteenyears sen-
tence in Easton jail for killing John Weidman,
of Williamsburg, escaped on Tuesday even-
ing.
—The Presbyterian and United Presbyterian
Church of Western. Pennsylvania have taken
up the cudgels in behalf of the blue law of
1794.
—Robert Wallace, of West New Castle, fell
and broke his leg and was compelled: to crawl
to his home, half a miie away, over the rough
road.
A Valley accomodation killed Fireman Ed-
ward McGeary, of the Wilmington Road, just
as he stepped from his engine to the parallel
track.
Thomas Egan, an old resident of Shendoah
and ex-member of legislatnre, died. Tuesday
morning very suddenly, after two days illness,
aged 45 years.
—A. T. Hoffman, of Latrobe, h as received a
fine gold watch froma New York trade journals
as a prize for the best essay on carriage
painting.
—Harry Marsh, who is under. sentence to
death in the Ebensburg jail, says that he is
anxious for the day of execution to come’
February 26.
—While Mrs. Lawrence, of Shots, was
preparing supper, on Monday; she fainted and
fell across the stove, receiving injuries that
will result fatally.
—Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Keller, of Euphrata,
were nearly overcome by coal-gas oa Thursday
night. Mrs Keller fell out of bed and broke
her shoulder-blade.
—Hamburg tradespeople will pay J. H, Stern-
berg liberally to build his. new wnt and bolt
works. at their place instead of Reading, where
the works were burned.
—Burglars got $590 in. gold and bills from
Joseph Fisher's house, Allentown, on Sunday
night, and the Sheriff seized the place ona
$250 execution yesterday.
--Hilltown boasts ef a farmer boy, sged 15
years, who is a model. He daily milks ten cows
| and takes to the creamery and then visits his
muskrat traps before breakfast.
—While a two ton. flask of sand was being
| hoisted at the Pottstown Bridge Works on
Friday the flask broke and three men were.
buried in the sand, but not hurt.
—The farm of 450. acres in Amity township,
Berks county, belonging to the late John W.
which twenty years ago
—At Hogestown, Cumberland eo unty, diph-
theria has become epidemic. Several child-
ren have died of the disease, and the pub lic
schools have been closed to prevent the
spreading.
—Samuel Stone, ot Bathiehem! who is &
Fort Reno, was thought to have been killed
during one of the skirmishes, but he writes
home to say that it was another follow with
the same name.
—While Clarence Hoist was oiling the ma-
chinery at the Colbrookdale Iron Works his
—A iar of water was placed by, Isaac Kline
of Allentown, in the oven of a Kitchen stove
to heat so that it might warm his sick child.
He fell asleep, the jar explodea, the stove,
was blown up and set the house afire. Firemen
saved the building,