BY P. G SBRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—The ghost of DALAMATER’S wrecked
reputation haunted the Republican
State convention on Wednesday,
—A¢t Bennington Grandfather’s hat
couldn’t compete with MoLLY STARK’S
night-cap as an article of patriotic head-
gear.
—We have no doubt that BENJAMIN
greatly regretted that the Bennington
shaft couldn’t be converted into a Har-
rison boom.
-—Grandfather’s hat, perched on {the
apex of the monument, would have been
a crowning feature of the Bennington
celebraticn.
—The dog-days terminated with the
Republican State convention, Every-
body has reason to rejoice that the pes-
tilent period is past.
-— With the prices of necessaries going
up and the wages of workingmen com-
ing down, it doesn’t look as if the tariff
is much of an all-around blessing.
—A burglars’ trust is the latest thing
reported in syndicates. It has some af-
finity to the embezzlers’ combine that
has so long prevailed in Philadelphia.
—BENNY went to Bennington this
week and helped to unveil the monu-
ment which is to commemorate the re-
volutionary patriotism of the maple su-
gar state.
—It is said that the Emperor of Ger-
many has a hundred pairs of white
trousers. * This announcement would be
more satis’actory if it should inform us
whether any of them bag at the knees.
— Lord WoLSELEY (England’s own
and only WoLSELEY,) who sets himself
up for a military critic, is a soldier
whose pen is mightier than his sword,
and it isn’t much of a pen, either.
—Never since the time when Erman
ALLEN stirred his hot Medford rum in
the barroom of the Catamount Tavern,
was there such a patriotic stir in Ver-
mont as there was on Wednesday.
—A plank in the Republican plat-
form this = year, vindicating BARDs-
LEY, would have been as deserved as was
the vindication of Quay last year, but
for some reason or other BARDSLEY was
overlooked.
—Governor PATTISON’S statement be-
fore the Philadelphia Council’s Investi-
gating committee, on Monday, was an
explanation that explained, although in
the Governor's case an explanation was
scarcely necessary.
—By the exaggerated stories which
they are circulating about the German
Emperor the French newspapers show a
disposition to discard the weapons of le-
gitimate sarcasm and descend to the
brutality ot personal abuse.
--If the foreign demand for grain shall
be as large as is'expected, no one need be
surprised to see the honest granger
try his hand at cornering the market.
The granger has a great deal of humaa
nature in his composition.
—The tariff on wool, under which
that staple has declined in price, has
made Ohio such an unfavorable locality
for sheep that McKINLEY, acting as
bell-wether, won't be able to lead; the
Republicans of that state out of the wil-
derness.
—Rev. JouN Brooks, a prominent
Prohibition leader of Connecticut, says
that ifhe is ever elected President he
will not allow wine on the tables {at the
White House. We don’t believe that
the executive mansion will ever be
struck by such a drought.
—Whisky was smuggled into the
Connecticut National Guard encamp-
ment under the title of “Balm of Gil-
ead.” Various and ingenious are the
names that have been applied to ardent
beverages, but we never before heard of
one with so scriptural a flavor.
—A party at Reading are going to
start a community on the Bellamy plan,
but when a lapse of time shall have giv-
en them a chance to look backwards
they will see what fools they were in
thinking that the Bellamy system con-
tained even a particle of feasibility.
—Rev. Sam Joxms’s expression in
one of his recent sermons, that “God
takes his augur and bores right down
through a fellow's head into his heart
and into his pocket, which should spurt
like an artesian well,” isn’t the sort of
gospel that would suit an intelligent and
reverent congregation,
—The experience of a newly married
couple in New Jersey, who went up in
a balloon and by an accidental collapse
fell a distance of two miles, is not calcu-
lated to make balloon sailing a popular
feature of wedding trips. Married peo-
ple often “fall out,”
much of it at the start.
—There is a rumor
SmirH will resign his place, and BrLatg,
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION,
VOL. 36.
An Emperor in a Bad Shape.
There are some startling reports
aboat the physical and mental condi-
tion of the Emperor of Germany, but
as they come, in a large measure,
through French sources, they should
be accepted with caution. It is said
that after he left England, where in
the early part of the supnmer he had
met with such a flattering reception,
he conducted himself on board his
yacht, the Hohenzallern, in a way that
indicated either intoxication or mental
aberration. He must have been either
druck or bordering on lunacy if itis
true that he appeared before the crew
of the ship, with a crosier in his hand
and a mitre on his head, reading war-
like passages from the Old Testament,
and to no other cause could be attri-
buted his demand. that the sailing of
the ship should be committed to his
charge, and his striking the command-
er of the vessel upon his protesting
against his Majesty assuming so dan-
gerous a duty. All this may be exag-
geration, but there is no question that
something occurred on the Hohenzol-
lern, concerning the Emperor, which is
assiduously concealed by the German
authorities.
Iv would certainly be a great calami-
ty to Germany if insanity should have
overtaken her sovereign, particularly
at a time when her situation requires
wise and careful management. Physi
cally the young Emperor is far from
being in sound condition, Since his
childhood one of his arms has been
palsied and he suffers greatly from an
effection of one of his ears. It would
not be surprising if his mind were af-
fected, for his great-great-grandfather,
on his mother's side, Grorce the
Third of England, was afflicted with
lunacy, while his grand-uncle, on his
father’s side, Frederick William IV,
was retired from the throne and a re-
gent appointed on account of iucapaci-
ty arising from mental aberration.
There - being insanity in both the
Guelph and Hohenzollern families,
that the mind of the present Emperor
of Germany should be unballanced
might be locked for as a matter of
heredity.
At this juncture, when the fate of
the new Empire 1s linked with the most |
delicate issues involving tremendous
results, nothing could present a more
untoward situation than a crazy soy-
ereign on the throne, or the necessity !
that would compel his removal. Prob- |
ably the complications that would |
arise would be the best for the ;Father- |
land ga that it might bring about a
Republican German Confederation.
re:
Judge Parrerson, of Lancaster,
recently indulged in some verv free
talk from the bench about the State
Legislature. Ie had occasion to refer
to the new election law, and in his re- |
marks said that before the Legislature
was in session a week he came to the
conclusion that the members were a
pack of fools and bythe time of ad-
journment he saw no reason to change
his mind. There is no doubt that
some foolish things were done at the
last session, as there have been at
many a previous session, but it was not
becoming in a Judge to make so sweep-
ing a condemnation of the members of
the law- making body of the State.
anim ————
Beer and Saicide.
It may be some consolation to
Americans whose kidneys suffer from
the drinking of bad beer, to learn that
the people of Germaay, who are sup-
posed to be blessed with good beer, also
suffer from impure and uwawhalesawe
malt liquor. It is the popular impres-
sion in this country that German beer
but this was too |
| our own.
| ; :
that Minister | Of 80 sloppy'a character, taken in such
whom the Chinese rejected, will be sent :
to Russia,
which BLAIR said about the Russians are
being unearthed, and he may prove to
be as objectionable to the Muscovites as
he was to the Mongolians, It is a disad-
vantage for a public man to have a
mouth that shoots off too read ily.
But some nasty things
' wonder that men who during the course
is above suspicion as to its purity and
whofesomeness, and regrets are fire-
quently expressed that we can’t have
as good an article; but when we learn
that 147 suicides were committed in
Berlin alove in the first half of July,
directly attributable to the effects of
beer, we must abandon the idea that
German malt liquor is any better than
The fact is that a stimulant
quantity as is required to satisfy an
inveterate beer drinker, can’t be any-
thing else but mjurious, and it is no
of aday put themselves aroand twenty
or thirty glasses of beer,on an average,
should want to kill themselves. They
would be happier, and live longer,
with water as their only beverage,
“Calico” Financiering.
Secretary of the Treasury Foster
has a queer notion of the purpose for
which public revenue should be col-
lected—a notion well befitting a states-
man of his “calico” character. Speak-
ing of the depleted condition of the
Treasury he says: “While there is
“less money in the Treasury than for
“many years past, it is in comfortable
“condition. Because of less money in
“the Treasury it follows that more
“money than ever before is in the
“hands of the people, thus facilitating
“the conduct of the business of the
“country.”
The money that is run into the
Treasury by enormous and unnecessary
taxation, is put again in circulation
by extravagant public expenditure.
What is gained by this method in the
way of facilitating “the conduct of the
business of the country?’ Wouldn't
the money have performed its function
just as well if it had been left in the
pockets of the people without being
subjected to the tolling that isinsepar
able from the process of taxation ?
Mr. Foster may be able to under-
stand the profit there is in calico’s go-
ing through the hands of the middle-
man, but he will fail to make the
American people believe that it is pro-
fitable to them to have their money
gathered into the Treasury through
the medium of unnecessary taxation
and then returned to them through
the extravagant appropriations of a
Billion Dollar Congress. They not
only lose in the toll which the tax
gatherer requires, but they are also
injured by the demoralization of such
a system.
—
Money in the Ohio Campaign.
MoKiNLey is dissatisfied
with the amount of money that is be-
ing raised for his campaign. It isn't
liberal enough. It has leaked out that
he has written a letter to Secretary Fos.
TER complaining of the meagerness of
the contritutions. In this letter Mc-
KiNuey was particularly bitter against
the Pittsburg glass manufacturers, who
he said had promised to contribute
$25,000, but had given only $1300.
Mr. Foster's own tongue gave this
away. In spite of the statement of
Chairman CrarksoN that the Republi-
can National Committee would take
no part in any of the State campaigns
this year, itis known that it has al-
ready sent a large amount of money to
| Ohio, and that it is now engaged in
Major
| raising mcre, 1ntended for the same
di ots. Republicans near to the
committee have boasted also that they
would buy up the People’s party of
Ohio, as they knew many of its leaders
were for sale.
——————
A Singular Endorsement.
It is said that Mr. Harrison has
made up his mind not to be a candi-
date for re-election if the following con-
tingencies should present themselves :
First, it the present bitter opposition
within the Republican party to Mr.
HarrisoN’s nomination shall continue
till next spring he will withdraw.
Second, if Mr. Brave shall be well
and strong enough to take the nomina-
tion, and the party's demand for him
continue as strong and sincere as it
appears at the present time, Mr. Hag-
risoN will withdraw. Third, if Mr.
Braixg, having sufficient health and
strength, shall be willing to take the
nomination, Mr. Harrison will with-:
draw.
Lt is farther said that information
from a source not 10 be quesnoned is
to the ‘effect that in case of the occur-
rence of any of these contingencies Mr.
Hargisox will, before the meeting of
the Republican convention of 1892,
declare aver his awa signature, in Hie
most emphatic manner, that he will
not be a candidate for the nomination
to be made by the convention.
This will be a strange outcome of
the triumph of the high tariff princi-
ple. Harrison was elected in viadi-
cation of that principle. The monopo-
ly tariff was passed as a result of his
election, It is claimed that it is doing
immense good to the country, aud yet
the President, whose election was asso-
ciated with the vindication and triumph
of proteetion, must step down and
make way for BLaINE who champions
the free trade principle of Reciprocity.
This is indeed a pretty. endorsement of
the McKinley tariff,
BELLEFONTE, PA., AUGUST 21, 1891.
NO. 32.
Negro Pensioners.
Mr. Frep DoucLass had better staid
among the Haiti niggers than to have
come back to the United States to as-
shme the championship of the new pen-
sion scheme which proposes to pension
all the emancipated negroes. A bill to
this effect was introduced at the last
session of congress by Representative
CoNweLL, of Nebraska. Frep has
zealously thrown himself into this job,
and will go to the full extent ot his
ability in persuading the Billion Dollar
Party that there should be more money
spent in pensions, and that the eman-
cipated slaves would be the deserving
recipients of such a bounty.
The only hitch in this scheme may
be found in the fact that the negroes of
the North, who constitute the voting
force that keeps the Republican party
in power, do not to any material extent
consist of ex-slaves, and consequently
are not interested in such a pension
scheme. But if they were interested,
and should let the Republican leaders
distinctly understand that they would
hand half a dozen Northern States
over to the Democrats if they were not
pevsioned, there is no ‘doubt that the
expediency and utility of such pensions
would be recognized by the party
managers. There can be no question
as to this, in view of the fact that the
use of pensions as a means of securing
votes is an established policy of the
Republican party.
en
——President Pork, of the Farmers’
National Alliance, has been ventilat-
ing himself in the newspapers. He
says that the organization of which he
is the distinguished head, is now en-
gaged in sending millionaires out of
the United States Senate. This 1s a
good worl if dove with discrimination,
but if, as he says, INeaLLs, of Kansas,
and Haxeron, of South Carolina, were
bounced in compliance with this pur-
pose, there was a mistake made, for
neither of them is a millionaire, al-
though INGaLLs was always ready to
work in the interest of the plutocrats.
President Pork hardly expects that the
Alliance will be able to name the suc-
cessor of Senator Quay, but thinks it
will be strong enough to lift Senator
CayEroN's scalp when the time comes.
He says there will be no Alliance fight
against MoKiNLey this year because
the time hasn’t come yet to look after
Governors.
———————
“Speak-Easies” of Different Qualities.
Last Sunday the police of Philadel
phia made an extensive raid on the
speak-easies of that city with the os.
tensible object of breaking up the illicit
liquor business and bringing the of.
fenders to punishment. ' It was a’ well-
planned raid and succeeded in 8coop-
ing in many dealers who were doing
business on the sly and in defiance of
the law. But itis noticed that only
the small offenders were captured. Tn
nearly all the cases it was the place
where the poor man goes to get his
Sunday nip that was pounced down
upon. There are social clubs all over
the city, known to the police, where
rich men go to get their whistles wet on
the Sabbath and liquors are furnished
in violation of the license law, but
these were not disturbed, while the
little dealer with his box of beer,
who catered to the thirst of less aristo-
cratic drinkers, was hustled off to the
station honse and made to know that
he was a great transgressor of the law.
They have a queer idea of equal justice
in the Republican city of Philadel-
phia.
——The Democratic State Conven-
tion, which will meet on the third day
of September, next, will be composed
of 461 members. This increase of
membership is due to the large guber-
uaforial vote last year, the representa.
tive being graduated by the number
of votes cast for Governor. The num-
ber, which so closely approaches 500,
may look unwieldy, but it is a gratify-
ing indication of the growth of Demo
cratic strength in this State.
—-Pennsylvania ‘Democrats are
expressing their preference for Grover
CLEVELAND as the next Democratic
nominee for President. Last week the
convention of Delaware county declar-
ed for him, and on Monday the Demo-
i crats of Snyder county did likewise.
Mer. CLevELAND is high up in the csi
" mation of the Democracy.
A Great Day in Vermont.
The people of the New England
States, particularly of the Green Moun-
tain State, had a big time on Wednes-
day dedicating the Bennington monu-
ment. This imposing shaft, over three
hundred feet in height, has been erect.
ed to commemorate the battle in’ which
the patriotic Yankee farmers of the
revolutionary period wiped up the
sacred soil of Vermont with Bauvw's
Hessians, That battle was one of the
neatest performances of the Revolution
and had a strong preliminary effect in
bringing about the surrender of Bug-
GOYNE at Saratoga. No wonder the
Vermonters regard the event with
pride, and cherish the memory of their
revolutionary heroes who brought it
to so glorious a consummaticn.
Intrepid Jou~ Stark, who declared
that the invader should be repelled
even at the risk of his MoLry being
made a widow, occupies a place in the
heart of every true son of the Green:
Mountain State next only to’ Ernan
ALLEN, of Ticonderoga “celebrity,
whose failings even are affectionately
regarded by the people of his State, as
is evidenced by the fact that his unpaid
liquor bill at the Catamount Tavern
has been framed and hung up in the
State capitol, and is pointed to with
pride and admiration by the present
generation of Vermonters.
In erecting the Bennington monu-
ment the people of Vermont have hon:
ored themselves by honoring their
revolutionary sires.
—The personal rancor that actuates
the Harrisburg Patriot leads it to the
sneaking expedient of republishing the
following from a Republican paper : “It
the devalopments in the Bardsley steal
should lead to the retirement of Parri-
soN from the governorship, he will be
succeeded by Lieutenaut Governor Wa-
tres, a Republican.” This is as malicious
as the New York Sun's attacks on
CLEVELAND, but it lacks the brains
which characterize the malice of the
Sun.
Discrediting a Martyr.
Itis the custom to regard the late
President GARFIELD as a martyr, and
there are many who think of him as
having been almost too good for this
world. The feelings of these will be
shocked to hear what Doxy Pratt has
to say about him. Over his signature
in a three column article in the Cleve-
land Plaindealer, Pratt makes serious
charges against the “martyr.” He
says that GARFIELD, while Rosecrans
chief of staff, won the General’s confi-
dence and then betrayed him by
writing a letter to Secretary Chase
calling him an imbecile incapable of
commanding the Army of the Camber-
land. CHase had been Rosecrans’s
best friend at Washington, but he
dropped him after receiving GARFIELD'S
letter. The result was that Rosecrans’s
was not given the reinforcements he
asked and which would have enabled
him easily to have occupied Chattanoo-
ga and thus prevented the two days’
fighting. Mr, Prarr speaks of this as
GARFIELD'S crime and says both Rosg-
craNs and TrHoMmas deserve far more
houor than the man raised to fame by
the accidental aceuracy of a -ecrazy
man’s pistol. :
They Are Indignant.
There is no mistake about Attorney
General HENSEL meaning business in
his proceedings against the parties who
participated in BArDSLEY'S robbery: of
the State. If any of the plunder can
be recovered by process of law the At-
torney General intends to recover it,
Hé has notified these Philadelphia
newspapers, including the Press, North
American, Inguirer, German Democrat,
Bulletin and Telegraph, which got a
ghare the mercantile appraiser swag,
that they must refund the rebate of 40
per cent. paid an alleged agent of the
State for securing the advertisements,
The newspapers that were in the deal
evidently do not relish Mr. Hevsur's
proceedings. The Inquirer is very in-
dignant at the Attorney General's con-
duct, calling it “bluff” and “bun-
combe,” declaring that it is “nobody’s
business” what became of the money
which the newspapers chose to pay as
a bonus to BarbsLey for the advertis-
ing, and expressing its belief that Mr,
HENSEL can never recover a cent of it.
Possibly not. But it is not likely that
the State will be fleecedjin that way
again,
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Fatal diptheria is epidemic at Easton,
—Sunstroke ended the life of Jeremiah
Bosto, Myerstown, iA
—Over $600,000 was paid into the State
Treasury last week.
—Peter Kinney, of Conemaugh, ad
his 100th birthday.
—Expert burglar Fred, Grant has escaped
from Hazleton jail.
—A Lehigh Valley train at Centralia behead.
ed Anthony Dougherty.
—Henry Seiffersein fell down a coal slope
140 yards at Pottsville.
—Two inexhaustible veins of coal were
struck at Yorktown Colliery.
—Katie Eichner, aged 16, tell down a stair
way at Reading and may die.
—William Martin, aged 70, has been found
dead in a barn near Lewisburg.
—Four Hungarians were so badly beaten at
Donaldson that they cannot recover.
—Boys set a big load. of oats on fire in Leb
anon and the horses nearly perished.
—The slump in sugar prices has caused
Pittsburg grocers to give short weight.
—John Smith, of Wilkesbarre, called John
Miller out of bed and stabbed him. to death.
—Neil McCaffrey, who claims to be a “Son
of God,” was adjudged a (JunAtic in Norris.
town.
—Allentown City Council has decided to tax
the electric raitway company $25 for each car
in use.
—Levi Franklin, Carlisle, walked out of a
second-story window in his sleep and wag
killed.
——Samuel Reber, of Bernville, is in jail for
an alleged assault upon 8-year-old Lydia
Miller.
—The Sinking Springs iron mines are to be
developed, 2000 tons of ore having, already
been mined.
—Thomas Kleintop, an old man of Strouds-
burg, while fishing in a mill dam fell in and
was drowned.
—The anti-Bowman evangelical camp meet.
ing at Royers’ ford was attended by 6000 pea.
ple on Sunday.
—A bullet fired through a Lehigh Valley car
window near Orwigsburg pierced a passeng-
er’s newspaper.
—Willie Mease pointed a “didn’t-know-it-
was-loaded pistol” at Edward Hogan ang
wounded him badly.
—Searching parties are dragging the Schuyl.
kill Canal near Reading for the body of misses
ing Samuel Dickinson,
—John Madden, who robber the Farmers’
Hotel, Shenardoah, in July, has been’ capturs
ed by Constable Tosh.
—While trying to rescue his little: ‘sister
Edna, Harry Coursen, of McKeesport, was
drowned, as was the gr,
—At Park Place, near Mahanoy City, a deaf
and unknown walker on the Lehigh Valley
Railroad was beheaded.
—The Douglassville Rolling Mill, which _
shut down six weeks ago because its workmen
had typhoid fever, has resumed..
—Conductor Jerome T. Rowe, who slashed
his neck with a razor and nearly bled to death,
says the cutting was accidental.
—Governor Pattison,as Commander-in-Chief,
has issued an order complimenting the Na.
tional Guard for ifs efficiency in camp.
—The son of Zenis Koch, East Allen town.
ship, Lehigh county, plunged a knife into a
horse’s shoulder, ruining the animal.
—Prosecuted for stealing fellow-student’s
books at the Keystone Normal School, Read.
ing, student Mickey has gone insane.
—A large number of foreign corporations are
applying at the State Department for permis.
sion to transact business in Pennsylvania.
—Peter Perry, claiming to be a descendant
of the great Commodore Perry, of Lake Erie
fame, has applied for a pension at Mahanoy
City.
—Two coal trains were wrecked in quick
succession at Glendon and Champagne Grove
respectively, on the Lehigh Valley. Nobody
was hurt.
—Policeman Deihl, of Pittsburg, killed him-
self because a pretty girl he loved would not
elope with him. Deihl’s wife threw herself
into the river.
—George W. Anderson, an insane molder at
Lebanon, laid his neck on the Lebanon Rails
road track, but the engiveer stopped his train
within a yard of it.
—Bad whisky made Hungarians so happy at
a Good Spring Colliery baby’s christening near
Pottsville, that several of them pounded each
other almost to death. ‘
—James Duan, a trgmp. in the Harrisburg
jail, alarmed at the ex of machine politis
cians, worked his way out of the prison and
left for parts unknown.
—Miss Norma D. Crawford, of M inersville,
has been offered the Professorship of Oratory
in “Honolulu University, Sandwich Islands,
She is a Philadelphia graduate. 1
—While running into the houte after being
frightened by a thunderclap, Mrs. Maggie
Meyer, of Reading, fell and fractured a wrist
that had been broken previously.
—Two unknown men, believed to be the age
sailants of Mrs. Frederick Gotwald, Lancaster,
were killed by strain while they walked on the
Pennsylvania Railroad near Dillerville.
—Edgar T, Collins, Williamsport, and Fran.
cis R. Huliek, Easton, huve been appointed to
cadetships at West Point to represent the Six.
teenth and Eighth districts respectively.
—Professor George W. Gilbert, proprictor of
of an extensive music establishment at Iotts.
town, disposed of all his property early this
week, and since that time has been missing.
—John Kral), of Prescott, attended a picuio
on Saturday night, and had a valuable teim
stolen, and Samuel Bell, of Lebanon, had a
mare stolen from a boarding-stable on Sun.
day night.
—Aght is being made on hucksters of all
kinds in West Chester just now, and for a man
to drive into town with aload of peaches or
bananas to sell from door to door is to insure
his arrest.
—Foul play is suspected as being connected
with the death of Anthony Dougherty, of Cen.
taalia, who was run over and had his head eut
off on last Friday night. There are evidences
of foul play, and a thorough investigation is
being made.
—Paschall W. Ingram, a “prominent farmer
of Cain township, Chester countp, is suffering
from the effects of a peculiar accident. He
was loading oats in the mow of his barn, and
when it was nearly filled the floor gave way,
and Mr. Ingram fell withithe grain. He was
covered with oats and made a narrow escape
from being smothered.