BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—There is nothing diseased about the
Blaine boom in Pennsylvania. It is
perfectly sound in wind, limb and
kidney.
—1It is not expected that the naval
contingent tobe furnished by the Na-
tional Guards will belong to the horse
marines.
—The G, A. R. willencamp in Wash-
ington next year, probably drawn there
by the increased attraction of the pen-
sion office.
—The fact that very little wheat is
coming east leads us to suspect that the
western farmers are succeeding in imitat-
ing the methods of “Old Hutch.”
—The development of a mud volcano
in California is an indication that the
Pacific slope is getting itself in shape for
the approaching Presidential campaign.
—Major McKINLEY'S visit to the
manufacturers of Pittsburg evoked such a
limited flow of “fat” that the campaign
in Ohio may not be as oleaginous as was
expected. *
—A negro named THOROUGHGOOD
was capitally punished in Delaware the
other day. Notwithstanding his name
he was so thoroughly bad that they had
to hang him.
—On the 18th inst. Buncombe coun-
ty, North Carolina, will celebrate the
hundreth anniversary of her organiza-
tion. There will be no lack of orators
to speak for Buncombe on that occa-
sion.
—The Blaine magnetism will have
the same effect on the Republican party
that a galvanic battery has on the legs
of a defunct frog, which makes them
kick without imparting any actual
force.
—There are such peaceful associations
connected with the name of Bethlehem
that it looks strange tc see the most de-
structive implements of modern warfare
tarned out from a town bearing that
name.
—The Prohibition party in Ohio
is divided. Even with multiplica-
tion, instead of division, the Prohibition-
ists of that State couldn’t cipher out a
sufficient number of votes to carry the
election.
—The failure of FRED DoUGLASS as a
diplomatist is largely owing to the fact
that the Haiti niggers would have been
wnuch better pleased if, as the minister
from the United States, he had been
of a color different from their own.
—The tarift organs shouldn’t be so
happy over the idea that the Me-
Kinley bill has afflicted the industries
of Europe with an attack of paralysis,
until they are sure that it won’t subject
the industries of America to a stroke of
apoplexy.
--The way CAMERON and QUAY have
fallen upon the bosom of JAMES G.
BLAINE, refusing to be comforted until
he shall take charge of the “grand old
party’ as its standard bearer, is one of
the most touching pictures ever present.
el in the shitting sceres of American
politics.
—The Swiss anniversary brings the
memory of WiLLiaM TELL again to
the front. Reverentially as the great
Swiss patriot is remembered, there is,
nevertheless, a disposition to regard his
great apple shooting feat in much the
same light as that in which Wasn-
INGTON’S adventure with the cherry tree
is viewed as a historical occurrence,
—The circulars which have been put
in circulation,abusing Mr. CLEVELAND,
evince such a degree of venom as gives
them the appearance of having been print-
ed in the New York Sun office. The term
“conceited and contemptiable ass,” ap-
plied to Mr. CLEVELAND, sounds very
much like an expression coined by
Dawa.
—-The Convention of the People’s
Party of Ohio decorated the hall in
which 1t met with a display of wheat,
corn and oats. But these productions
don’t count at an election. Itis the
crop of votes that does the business,
which, in the case of the People’s party,
is going to be very short—hardly
enough for seed.
—When the lady at camp Kensing-
ton, the other day, upon being introduc-
ed to Governor PATTISON, asked, “May
I kiss you, Governor ?”’ what would the
soldiers standing around have thought
if he hadn't replied, “Certainly, mad-
ame,” They would bave thought he
was no good, and they would have been
right in thinking so. The Governor
sizes up to all the requirements of his
position.
—Since JERRY RUSK took charge of
the agricultural end of the government
and the weather bureau, the grasshop-
pers have devastatel many parts of
the west, and the Farmers’ Alliance
are yelling for more paper money ; be-
sides, we are not having the kind of
weather we should have reason to expect
, from a steady old grrager Like Uncle
JERRY. Tt begins to look as if he isn’t
the right man in the right place.
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7 STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. .
VOL. 36.
BELLEFONTE, PA.,, AUGUST 14, 1891.
An Ingenious Game. :
In the arrangement of the Republi-
can State nominations, which are to
have the appearance of being entirely
free of boss dictation, there appears to
be some misunderstanding as to the
places on the ticket that would best
suit the personal preference of General
Gregg and Mr. GiLes D. Prick, the
two gentlemen who have been slated.
They both seem to have a preference
for the Auditor Generalship, and have
expressed themselves to that effect.
This, however, will no doubt be satis-
factorily arranged.
Mr. Price professes to believe that
the fate of his party inthe coming
contest depends upon his nomination.
Claiming to be a representative of ag-
ricultural interests, he is impressed
with the fear that Republican farmers
will break away {rom the party if
something be not done to retain them
by the nomination of a farmer like
himself. With him at the head of the
ticket they will forget the neglect with
which they have been treated by their
party legislatures and managers, and
will march to the polls with their old
time enthusiasm. He says thisin a
letter to the Allegheny members of the
Legislature whom he asks to support
his candidacy for Auditor General. He
writes as follows :
I have been encouraged to enter the contest
for the Republican nomination for |Auditor
General by many stanch Republicans in dif-
ferent parts of the State, who foresee grave
danger to our party from the discontent preva-
lent among the agricultural and laboring
classes. These men believe that if I could be
nominated this element would remain in the
the party and labor for its success. The inci
dents of my canvass have seemed to justify
their judgment. My candidacy has been
heartily approved by the disaffected element
in every county from which I have advices,
and I have ample assurances that if I'am
nominated the party in this State could as-
sume the aggressive and roll up an old-time
majority in November.
Such language is calculateddo amuse
‘those who know that Mr. Price's
nomination has already been arranged
by the managing power. His letter,
which has been duly published, is in.
tended to give the appearance of his
making a canvass for the nomination,
of his being wanted by an element in
the party which the bosses cannot safe-
ly ignore. The effect will be so much
better to have it look as if he were put
on the ticket in deference to the wish
andjinterest of the honest, hard-fisted
grangers and workingmen, than that
it should appear that he was nomi-
nated in compliance with the pre-
arrangement of Boss Quay,
This is, indeed, an ingeniousigame,
and Price's part in it is being well
played. With a farmer on the ticket
to allay “the discontent prevalent
among the agricultural and laboring
element,” in conjunction with a soldier
to arouse the old war feeling, and a
Blaine boom thrown in to do the mag-
netic business, the bosses hope that by
such a conjunction of helpful influences
they may be able to avert the defeat
which threatens their political exis-
tence.
Se —
—— One thing very certain is that
if every county in the State presents a
candidate for Constitutional delegate
as conservative, careful and intelligent
as is the candidate named by this
county, there will be no one who can
object to a convention because of the
character of the men chosen to per-
form the important work expected.
Without Government Coddling.
The farmers of Virginia are demon-
strating their ability to promote their
business interests without being bol-
stered by a government subtreasury
system, such as Alliance visionaries
are dreaming about. Relying upon
themselves, they have gone to work in
a practical way by establishing at
Lynchburg a warehouse for the stor-
age and sale of tobacco. Up to the
30th of July the sales have amounted
to 5,500,000 pounds, upon which a
saving to the farmers has been made
to the amount of nearly $7.000. Tt is
expected by the end of the year to re-
port much larger sales, and itis an-
nounced that the business has grown
so rapidly in a single year that vastly
larger accommodations are demanded.
There is no doubt that the farmers, if
they will combine for common bene-
fits, and place their business in the
hands of capable and reliable agents,
can accomplish much in the way of
Saving expenses, and in that way pro-
mote their prosperity,
Applejack.
One of the incidents of this pro-
lific year will be the production of an
unusual quantity of applejack. From
all parts of the country we hear that
the apple trees are bending with their
load of fruit, and it is reasonable to ex-
pect that much of this product will be
converted into that finely flavored
liquor which was so popular with our
forefathers, but which on account of
the unreliability of the apple crop has
fallen into disuse.
Ofall the sisterhood of States New
Jersey is the only one that has main-
tained a reputation for the production
of this liquor, and there may be traced
an affinity between the vigor of her
Democracy and the stanchness of her
applejack. Jersey justice, Jersey De-
mocracy and Jersey applejack are
equally renowned for their unadulter-
ated character and vigorous action.
But the production of the spirituous
extract of the apple will not be con-
fined this year to New Jersey. All
through Eastern Pennsylvania the ap-
ple trees are bending under an unpre-
cedented yield of fruit, and the farmers
are counting upon a distillation of the
surplus, which is exceedingly profitable
in good apple years. In Berks county
alone seven distilleries, which went
out of business when the apple trees
stopped producing their old-time crops,
are being put in running order, and
such will be the demand on their ca-
pacity that it is thought that several
new ones will be started. The stock
of this liquor on hand being much re-
duced, it is expected that a good price
will be obtained for the new run, as
much as $2.50 per gallon. The goy-
ernment tax is 90 cents a gallon.
The morality of the question of ap-
plejack we will leave to the Prohibi-
tion philosophers. The fruit is here in
immense quantity and the owners are
pretty sare to put it to the most pro-
fitable use. It 1s natural for them to
do so. Human uatureis weak and ap-
plejack brings a good price. And
when it is of good quality, without too
much of the lightning characteristic, a
little of it token hot, with the proper
admixture of sugar and a roasted apple
floating on the surface to reinforce the
flavor, is not a bad thing on a cold
winter evening.
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——It is the heighto‘ impudence for
Bavryacepa, the President of Chili, to
ask the United States goyernment to
sell him the cruiser Baltimore. The
great United States isn’t go hard up as
to sell the ships she has built to whip
her enemies with, ‘and if she should
ever be required to huckster off her
navy, BaLmacepa isn’t the person she
would want to deal with.
ens
The G. A. R. Reunion.
The twenty-fifth reunion of the Grand
Army of the Republic at Detroit last
week exceeded in magnitude of attend
ance any previous gathering of the old
soldiers. It was a great occasion in
all respects, but unfortunately the race
question was allowed to come up,
some of the white veterans objecting to
the “colored troops” being allowed. to
take part in the proceedings cf the G,
A. R, on an equality with their white
compatriots. When it is considered
that the “colored troops fought nobly,”
the injustice of this demand 18 mani-
fest, and it is to the credit of the Grand
Army that it was voted down. The
proposition that was made at this re-
union that the already large pension
expense saddled upon Uncle Sam should
be increased by allawiag peasions (o all
the surviving soldiers who were ever
in rebel prisons, would seem to indi-
cate that some of the old soldiers be-
lieve that because they saved the
country they have now aa unquestion-
able right to rob it.
S—————————————
——At the farmers’ encampment at
Sulphur Springs, some days ago, Sena.
tor PEFFER, of Kansas, with the breeze
carelessly dallying with his whiskers,
and in his off-handed breezy Western
manner, declared that he wanted the
government to loan the people money
at 1 per cent interest to lift nine mil:
lion mortgages, and “to pull the teeth
and close the mouth of the great red
dragon in Wall street.” It might be
well to have the teeth of jthe Wall
street dragon extracted, but to have it
done as PErrFER proposes would be a
mighty dear piece of dentistry,
NO. 31.
The Bliine Boom in Pennsylvania.
All the signs point to the launching
of a Blaine boom in Pennsylvania
which will sweep the Republican or-
ganization into the camp of ‘the Bar
Harbor invalid. Quay entertains a
bitter feeling toward Harr1sox in whom
he sees an ingrate who has willingly ac-
cepted the fruits ofthe corrupt cam-
paign of 1888 while he affects a
repugnance to the corruptionist who
made that campaign successful. It
is with such a feeling that the great
boodler resigns the chairmanship of
the Republican National Committee
places ;bimself in a position to
have full swing at Harrison. Can-
ERON will co-operate in the move-
ment, for although he has never been
friendly to Braixg, his dislike for Hag-
RIsoN is well known and undisguised.
At the present conjuncture the senior
Senator finds himself in a situa-
tion in which the man from Maine is
preferable to the individual from Indi-
ana for the purposes of practical poli-
tics.
There can scarcely be a doubt that
both Quay and Cameron are in the
Blaine movement. The alacrity with
which their organs and henchmen are
tumbling over to Brave is evidence
of it, and if further proof were wanting
it is furnished by the circumstance that
the Philadelphia Press opens its vials
of wrath on the two Pennsylvania
leaders for deserting Mr. Hagrrisox.
The Press is edited by the President's
Minister to Russia, who is home on a
furlough and keeps his eye on Quay
and CAMERON with sensitive watchful-
ness. He accurately gauges the mean:
ing of suck a conference as the one re-
cently held at Donegal.
And there is another reason why the
two bosses should give a zealous sup-
port to a Blaine boom. They do it
for their own political salvation. The
old party ic in extremely bad shape in
Pennsylvania. Its reputation is com-
pletely bazakrupt. Its rottenness has
created such a stench that even many
of its oldest members are turning away
their noses with. undisguised disgust.
Ifit goes down the two bosses go with
it. The magnetism connected with
BraINE’s name offers the only remedy
for an otherwise hopeless case. He
has always been able to fire the Penn-
sylvania Republican heart, and both
Quay and CaMERroN hope to be able to
carry the State this fall by the hurrah
which is to follow the launching of a
vigorous Blaine boom in the next State
Convention. But it will be a vain at-
tempt to hide the corruption of Repub-
lican State rule behind the tattooed
igure of the man from Maine.
——The recent visit of Major Mc-
KiNLeY to Pittsburg was made with
“fat” frying intentions, but it is said
that he did not meet with the encour-
agement which he had a right to ex-
pect from the manufacturers who are
so greatly indebted to him for “pro
tection.” In answer to his demand for
more “fat,” which is needed in his
gubernatorial campaign, they are said
to have replied that the $80,000 they
dumped into the Major's district Jast
year covered the extent of their obli-
gation to him.
They Will Do Their Duty.
The committee of private citizens se-
lected by Governor Parrison to exam.
ine the books of the Keystone bank
for the purpose of ascertaining how
much has been lost to the State by the
Bardsley default, are worthy of public
confidence. Fach of the five gantle-
men can be depended upon to pursue
the investigation in a thorough and
business-like manner. What may
be excavated from the mass of fest
ering rottenness will be given just as
the committee finds it. There will
be no halt in any direction through
fear that thetrial may throw suspicion
upon those who hold their heads high
in the community. The committee
will find out the truth, ifsuch a thing
is possible.
While delving among the items in
the books for the purpose of ascer-
taining the amount lost to the State,
it is probable that the committee may
unearth matters which more closely
concern the city, But no matter what
may be disclosed by the books, there
will be no evasion, no attempt at con-
cealment when the committee presents
"its report,
It Can't Be Allowed.
The German government is reported
as wanting to buy the island of St.
Thomas, one of the West Indies, be.
longing to Denmark. Itis of no par-
ticular value to the Danes, but as a
coaling and general naval station it
would be of great use and importance
to a nation of Germany's commercial
and naval aspirations.
If the German government should
make a bargain for the purchase of the
island,would the United States consent
to its taking possession? What would
become of our Monroe doctrine if we
should allow a European power to
pick up so valuable a piece of property
at our very door?” That doctrine de
clares against further European en
chroachment on this side of the water,
and in this case Germany would; plant
herself at a point where her ships
could command our Southern | coasy
and threaten our West India and
South American trade.
If the purchase should be made it is
altogether likely that the United States
would object to Germany’s taking pos-
session of the goods. It would be con-
trary to the Monroe doctrine. It would
be offensive to the pride of the Ameri-
can Eagle. It would conflict with our
commercial interests, endanger our
seacoast, and couldn’t be allowed for
various other reasons.
——The Elk County (Kansas) Farm-
ers’ Alliance want a 2 per cent loan
from the government with which to
lift their mortgages, and they want it
badly, and right now. They are not
satisfied to wait until congress can con-
vene at the regular time and|pass a
law for such a loan, but they demand
that it shall meet immediatelyiandten-
act that the money shall be handed
over without further delay. But why
confine themselves to a loan for the
payment of mortgages? Many of
them, no doubt, need larger barns,
better. houses and. other improvements,
and if the government is to go into the
paternal business why should it not
furnish money to meet all the urgent
wants of the Kansas grangers?
How They: Do It in Persia.
The Shah of Persia has adopted a-
method of punishment which should
have the effect of stopping the practice.
of embezzlement in his
Recently he discovered that the gover-
nor of one of the districts of his empire
was making private use of the taxes
he had collected, in a way pretty
much the same as that of Republi -
can financiers of the Bardsley stripe.
The Persian potentate became high-
ly incensed at such a breach of trust,
but instead of appointing an investi-
gating committee that would probabl y
have white-washed the case, he adopt-
ed the Asiatic way of treating such
offenses by immersing the embezzler
in a.caldron of boiling water. That
officer will never embezzle again, for
both his official term and his life were
brought to an end by this hot water
treatment.
Although it would not accord with the
American system of penology, yet if the
hot water method of punishment were
adopted in Philadelphia it might stop
some of the stealing that has so long
prevailed among the Republican func-
tionaries of that city.
A Naval Militia.
Almost everybody in Pennsylvania
bas become proud of the State’s or-
ganized militia. Those who formerly
regarded it with suspicion have
overcome that feeling as they have
gradually learned to look upon the
Guards asa body of citizen soldiers
who are capable of being useful with.
out being dangerous. But the im-
pression is now being made upon the
reflecting citizen that the usefulness of
the National Guard would be greatly
enlarged by adding to it a naval bri-
gade, to be formed in Philadel phia and
the Delaware river section, and in Erie
county, which would be of great service
in the naval defence of the State against
a foreign power, New York and Mas-
sachusetts have such naval reserves as
adjuncts to their organized militia, aad
their drill in connection with the
squadron of evolution this summer
showed to what proficiency such ma.
rine volunteers may be brought.
———Subscribe for the WarcrMaN,
dominions. |
Spawls from the Keystone,
—The crop of.apple jack will be heavy this
fall.
—Eighty-one tents are at the Litiz anti-Bow «
man camp.
—The Paoli W..C. T. U. camp meeting was g
financial failure.
—Harry Mindorf, of York, was badly injured
by being dragged by a horse.
—Pittsburg organizations will not celebrate
Labor day because of recent troubles. .
—Reading school Directors are going to-
plant thirty large trees, costing §18 each.
—An electric car at Allenton got unmanage«
able on a hill, and several women fainted.
—The deaf mutes of the Lehigh Vally held
their fifth annual picnic near Bethlehem,
—A horse kicked and killed Joseph Conlan,
aged 6 years, son of F. J, Conlan, of Pittston,
—DMathias Sneleskya, Hungarian, of Shenans
doah, cut his throat with a razor, and may die,
—A Reading school director, Frederick w,
Cranston, has been arrested for disorderly
conduct.
—The Patriotic Sons of America, of Tower
City, havejbegun the erection of a $6000 opera
house.
—Two daughters of James Lamb, New Han
over, died of scarlet fever within two hours
on Monday.
—A dog bit” Dora Davis, of Reading, twa
weeks ago, and blood poisoning now threatens
to kill her.
—Scranton people will cause the indictment
of the City Council ifthey do not keep the
streets cleaner.
—Augustus Wilhelm; of near Myerstown,
has a tree which bears apples having one
stem and two cores.
—The Reading Railroad has already stored
15,000 tcos of buckwheat coal at Reading, and
will add 85,000 tons-more.
—All the West Chester churches will unite
in a monster prayer meeting to pray for pere
secuted Jews in Russia.
—Jacob Shively, a Johnstown flood sufferer,
attempted suicide, at Williamsport, by getting
in front of a freight train.
—Haxry Saylor won praise on Tuesday, at
Pottsville, by the rescue of Charles Buckley's
young son from drowning.
—Two men caught by the Reading detecs
tives at Birdsboro, and handcuffed, leaped off
a freight train and escaped,
—Reading’s councils asked the Trolley Wire
Railway Company to pay 14 a cent to the city
for every passenger carried.
—The Pottsville 1ron and Steel Company
will surely resume next week with non- union
men, says President Atkins.
—Emancipation day, under the auspices of
of the Charles Sumner League, was royally
celebrated at Williamsport.
—After an Italian wedding at Norristown,
the participants whipped out stilettos, and one
man was dangerously. wounded.
—During a quarrel on Saturday, Mrs. Peter
Thompson, of Pittston, stabbed her husband
in the head with a butcher knife.
—(arpenters who tore down an old school
house at Hummelstown found love letters -
written by the pupils 100 years ago.
—Lewis Beckerand Herman Lichtensteing .
of Philadelphia, have been heid tn bail fop
setting fire to a store in Allentown.
—George Wagner fell down a coal shaft ab. \
Mahanoy Plane, but a beam prevented him.
from going to the bottom—100 feet, #
which have been idle for many seasons, are
getting into repair and greasing up.
—Farmers in Eldridge township, Schuylkill
county, find on harvesting their oats crop that
it was ruined by arecent hail storm.
—A large number of shoes stolen front
Rhoads, Lair-& Henderson's factory at Birdse
boro were found in a railroad culvert.
—Another large meeting of miners in Lue
zerne borough insisted upon the operators
complying with the two weeks-pay law.
—Mrs. William Newlin, of Coatesville, wha
eloped a week ago with Carrol Stokes, has res
turned to her husband and been forgiven.
—Samuel Plummer, bank presid nt, of
Franklin, claims to have conversed with des
ceased relatives at Cassadaga Lake, N.Y.
—Lee Rawkin, a Johnstown flood sufferer,
has been. sent to an insane asylum, his mind
being shattered by his terrible experience.
—Treasurer Blanchard, of the Williamsport
school board, has been required to give a
$150,000 bond instead of §25,000 as heretofore;
—Mrs. Yanes, of Kline township,was beaten
by aneighbor with a shovel, and for a time if
was feared that her injuries would prove fatal,
—A convention of German singing societies
from the various cities and {owns in Pennsyls
vania will meetin Readiug on the 26th instant,
—Mprs. James Maloy, of Locust Gap, whila
on her way home at night from Mount Carmel,
was set upon by a gang of toughs and badly
beaten.
—A lad named Buechley, of Jalapa, near
Pottsville, fell into Tumbling Run, but wag
rescued by a companion.who could not swim:
a stroke.
—The Pennsylvania Company is pushing
its new line to Bedford Springs by way of
South York. The ideais to tap the coal and
‘ore beds.
—A gang of young.roughs enticed Amanda
Allbright, aged 19 and insane, from the Reade
ing almshouse, and they now have her-a cone
cealed captive.
—Bucks county’s Orphan Court €lerk is
warning ministers that they are not returning
marriages as the iaw requires, and are fiabie
to a penalty of $50.
—A cancer had eaten away most of Hiram
Troxel’s face, and the pain made him escape
from the Reading hospital and drowa himself
in a watering trough.
—A 6-year-old New York boy and his 4-years
old sister passed through Allentown en route
for Gettysburg, a 200 mile journey, which they
are making alone.
—Professor Kremmer, of Summit, Schuyl
kill county, had his arm crushed while riding
ina car by the corner of a freight car that
stood on a siding.
—Eva Ray Hamilton has broken out again at
Wilkesbarre. She laughs atthe idea of any
one poisoning her, and asks people toattend
to their own business.
—Lewis Lewin, a Philadelphian, who caused
twelve peddlers to be arrested for peddling
without licenses, has recovered $30 reward for
each of three cases heard.
—Ida Reiber, aged 18, a domestic ¢mployed
at Harrisburg, swallowed paris green on Sune
day night,but a stomach pump saved her,
Her home is at Fairyiew, and she had troyhla
in a love affair,
—The old cider mills in Berks ‘county, _
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