Demortalic atc Ink Slings. When people, writing ,f the Holiday season Spell it Xmas, ’ And, you don’t know the reason ; There's a way to find out —If you have ihe wiil— By trying to shop with a five dollar bill. —A train that is always behind —that on a lady’s dress. —The fighting wait of the average small boy is usually behind his pap’s barn. —It took HARRISON and his advisors two months to conceal “I want a second term” in a six thousand word message. —Oune trouble about the gowns of the dress reformers is that there is not enough stay about them to make their use lasting. -—Speaker CRISP has started out in a way that should please the Prohibition- istsat least. His first appointee is Jorn WATERMAN. —The critic who says the new sub- siduary coin is an insult to good taste, has discovered an insult that every one is anxious to pocket. —The man who says the English spar- row is hetter dead than alive, will be cured of his delusion after trying a plate of Chicago “reed-birds”’ on toast. —The Weather bureau people pro- claimed to the world that a blizzard would be due on Wednesday. It cue without the usual three day’s grace. —That Snow Hill Whale, in the stomach of which was found a demijchn of whiskey, missed the opportunity of his life when he failed to find a curk- Screw. —If JiNeéo BLAINE could infuse some of his reciprocity ideas into his son, a1d his son’s wife, the divorce courts would not have so much trouble with their case. —English bar maids in New York city have proven a failure. They were all right on ale and gin but when it came to handling “‘cock-tails’ the girls would’nt do. ~—The Flemington, N. J., “bat” who scandalized the community, by her life of ill repute, is now flying around with a coat of new feathers. They’re stuck on with tar, —Itis not at all an uncommon thing to see a Bellefonte girl sailing along the streets with two undressed kids. In fact, it has become such an every day occurrence that no one notices it any- more. —If we only had free wool probably JERRY SIMPSON could then afford to wear socks, but oh! what a time Santa Claus would have in filling some of the stockings which would then be hung hy the fireside. ~The per capita debt of Canada is nine times as great as that of the Uni- ted States. The wonder is that it is not more, when we consider the class of peo- ple we have sent over the line to help run that government. —HEvery paper bears horrifying ac- counts of the awful ravages of “Yellow Jack” in Brazil, but if the new Repub- licdon’t brace up and behave itself we might add some ‘‘blue jackets” to help along the fatalities. --LEoNArD RHONE has been creating utopias again and now wants the gov- ernment to lend the farmers money on real estate security. His ideas are drift- ing towards the HENRY GEORGE theory and seem about as practical, —Miss St. John, the English actress, who sued for divorce has lost her case and the jury has come to the conclusion that both she and her husband were right. If thisis the case she can now keep up her love affairs with other fel- lows and Mr. St JoHN can beat her with impunity. ~-If the salary and patronage of the place were as good in DaviD’s days as they will be during the term of door kesper TURNER, we don’t wonder that the old veteran preferred that office, to being mosquito bitten and sun scorched out in a tent among the wicked. In ad- dition to a good fat salary TURNER, has patronage amounting to $130,000 to dis- pense. —The Pittsburg Dispatch has most of the prominent leaders, at Washing- ton, classed under the head: “Live Washington Waifs.” It was rot so far of when it applied the name to such -daflers as some of the new Repuolican members of Congress have already prov- en themselves to be, but when it calls chief justice FULLER a waif its down right libel. -—From the number of beer towns which have put in a request for the Democratic Nationul Convention, one would be led to suppose that we Demo- crats drink such vile stuff. Milwaukee is the latost and Rochester is said to be getting ready to spring her cinim on the party. The brewers are evidently re- tenting the slight HARRISON has given their product by drinking “hot scotch,” and are making up to the Democracy so us to bring BENNY to time. STAYc RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. __VOL. 36. BELLEFONTE, PA., DECEMBER 18. 1891. NO. 49. It Will Be Bad Politics. Whether or not the present Congress intends attempting the work that busy newspaper correspondents are mapping out for it, we do not know. Our hope is that it has betterjudgment aud more political sagacity, in one line at least, and that is in what is said to be, its proposed action on the tariff question. Ifthe newspapers are correct, there is to be no attempt at general legisla tion oa this question during the present session of Congress. But separate bills are to be introduced covering specific articles such as ores, wool,coal, lumber, sult, binder twiae, cotton ties, etc., —mostly the articles that are known as raw material and against a duty on which the manufacturers of the country, have generally protested. It is the high duty imposed in the MeKinLey bill, upon some of thege ar- ticles that has aroused the manutac- turers and arrayed them against the tar- | iff as it now stands. They allege that in | consequence of these duties on the raw material, they are unable to compete, | in the original cost of the article man- | ufactured, with foreign manufacturers, | and for this reason many of them bave | been compelled to close their mills aud | from the present congress. the manufacturers, that have been the main-stay of the Republican party. to debauch voters and carry elections with the promise that their particular it had to be done at the expense of the to-day, would be the same unrelenting, bitter Republican partisans they were when submitting to Mr. Quay’s “fat. frying’” process of three years ago, but tration brought forth, and the effects al investments. | It is the opposition of the great man- ufacturtng interests of the country to | the tariff policy of the Republican par- | ty, so far as it effects them injuriously, that has weakened and demoralized | that organization and theatens event- ually its entire overthrow, With the objections these interests have to that legislation removed, would disappear their objections to the Republican pol- ley. They do not object to the protec- tive principles so far as it effects others or the general welfare ot the public; it is only their own individual benefits they are looking to, and as soon as they can secure free raw material, they will again join hands with the Republican party to fasten upon other interests of the country, all the iniquities, oppres- sions and taxation that a selfish pro tective policy insures, Although the Democratic party would be entitled to the credit that a change of the McKiNtey bill would would bring, yet under the condition of affairs, Republicans who would be benefited by having wool, ore, lumber, salt, and other raw materials added to the free list, would claim that inas- much as their party controled the Senate and had the President, that it had an equal claim on the thanks of the public for these changes, and so far as politics is concerned the whole matter would be a set off. A compromise, such as would have to be made to secure any tariff legisla tion at the the present time, and such as we believe the Republicans would now be glad to make, would simply eliminate from the McKINLEY bill its most objectionable features, re- lieve the Republican party from the adinm this measure is now casting up- on it and weaken the position of the Democrats in the Presidential contest just to that extent. The more unpopular the McKINLEY bill is in 1892, the surer the success of Democratic ideas. Any paring down of its odious features, only lessen the objection the public must have to the ideas embodied in it, and lessens the chances of success for the party that enters the campaign in opposition to factories, and are now waiting for such | relief from the injurious effects of Re- : publican legislation, as can be secured, | It is these now complaining interests They have furnished it with the money over the heads of the honest masses of | the country, in the expectation and euterprises would be protected and their | | individual interests cared for, though | great body of the people and the wel- fare of the country at large. They lave stood by it through thick and thin, through good and evil report and for the legislation their own adminis- of the McKiNvLEy bill on their person- Under the circumstances, to at'empt to change it, is the most suicidal kind of political tactics. ———— Deceptions that Don’t Deceive. This is a most admirable time for Republican papers and a Republican President to attempt to make the peo- ple believe the party they represent are in favor of honest and fair apportion- ment measures. In the States it control, and which, like Pennsylvania, are now gerrymandered in the most in- famous and unfair way, the legislaiures have adjourned, some not to meet for one, others not for two years; so that | by the time of the next assembling of Republican law-makers, this professed desire for honest apportionments, will have had ample time to be forgotten, and this old party of gerrymanderers and gerrymanders will go ahead and do just as it has been doing ever since it had the power to do anything—di- vide up States just as best suits the in- terests and promises the greatest success for the Republican party. If these papers and politicians, who are now clamoring so loudly for fair appor- tionments,are honest in their pretenses why was not some demand of this kind made while Republican legislatures were in session and when this professed desire for reform could have been carried out ? The trath is this whole pretense of favoring honest apportionments 1s the veriest bush. Of the States that can be re-districted the present winter, but oue, Olio, is Republican ; the rest are Democratic, and they fear the same ad vanitze may he taken in these, that they have always siezed hold of in the ones iliev controled. Here in Pennsylvania it is scarcely ten mouths sivee a legislature, Repub- Lican in both branches, had ander con- sideration the matter of apportioning the Stare. In their congressional divi- sion they proposed to give the Demo- crats =even uisiricte and take for them: seives twenty-three .—they to have one representative for every 24,000 voters, the Democcats one for every 66,000. Did any one hear any Republican speaker, or see any Republican paper that denounced this most outrageous gerrymander? Did a Republican president take the trouble to call public attention to this effort to continue a wrong long perpetrated upon the Dem- ocratic people ot Pennsylvania? For the proposed new apportionment was but a re-enactment of that which we have had for years and which is as vicious and wrong as it can be made, or it would have been changed for the worse long ago. Under the circumstances, it is no wonder that the present (demand of a Republican President and the hollow, but persistent clamor of the Republican press for fair apportionments, now that there are Democratic States throughout the South to be re-districted and New York promises to change its law-making power, meets with a smile of derision on every hand. Its empti- ness is known. Its purposes are ap- parent. Its sham and pretense has been verified by the acts of its own par- ty in every State in which it has the control. Let representatives of that party show by their works that they are honest in their present professions, before they attempt to instruct others as to the right thing to do. Anl here in Pennsylvania is a gool field in which te prove the sincerity of their words. Waen can we expect them to begin ? A Porrricar Straw. —The city elec- tion in Meriden, Connecticut, was held on Tuesday last and resulted in the election of a Democratic mayor and eleven of the fifteen aldermen. That city has always been a strong hold of Republicanism and this straw, small though it is, taken in connection with the increasing Democratic vote of Bos- tn and other New England cities, shows very conclusively, that the polit- ical wind in that section is blowing decidedly in the Democratic direc: ion. [tis livle things of this kind that makes the fellows who have never yet wakened up to the fact that the Republican party has served its ends, look so sick and hopeless, and that makes thoughtful, unbiased people all over the country certain of a Domo- its principles. cratic victory in 1892. Wait and See. We have sympathy for the man + whose honest, courageous efforts in the cause of right, goes unappreciated by the public. We can readily under- stand how deep, the failure of his par- ty to properly recoznize the earnest et- (forts put forth in its behalf, could wound the feelings of one who had de- voted a life time of labor and study, to its interests ; but if half that is told of the actions of Mr. MILs, since his de- feat for Speaker, is true, the party may be thankful indeed, for results that prevented his filling the Speaker's chair. For his own sake as well as for the | sake of the political policy he has so ably and-fearlessly advocated, we hope that the reports of his sulkiug over his defeat, are untrue. A man big enough | for Speaker of the House ; big enough | to be recognized as the leader of the great Democratic party, and bigenough to be followed in his efforts to release the masses from the thraldom of Re- | publican rule, is far too big to hang his lip and sulk because he is not given every position he might covet, or load- ed down with all the honors a party has at its disposal. It Mr. MiLLs wanted to prove that the judgment of the Democratic repre- sentatives in its selection of Mr. Crisp as presiding officer of the House, was correct, he could not do so in a more effective way, than to act just 2s the Republican press of the conatry is re- presenting him as doing. A man who is small enough to sulk oecause all he wants is not harded him, is too small to occupy the position of leader of any party. There is a litle ness about such business that destroys all respect for,aud all confidence in, his ability to lead or his fitness to be fol- lowed. We cannot bring ourselves to believe The American Tin Swindle, Philadelphia Record. A fitting commentary upon the fabu- lous assertions with which the tinplate duties in the McKinley tariff have been propped up, is echoed from London, in the report of a suit for libel which has just ended there. In 1887 a company was organized in London, with a capi- tal of $10,000,000, calling itself “The Harney Peak Tin Mining Company.” The object of this company was to ex- ploit the mines of tin which were said to exist in South Dakota in such rich ceo- posits as to supply the world with the metal, In order to expose the fraud and pro- a ———— Spawls froin the Keystone, —A train ran over Mary Langdon, at Port land Friday. —Masie has been ruled oui of Pottsville’s schools as an illegal luxary. —A Rest Day ¢League to enforce Sunday laws, has been formed at Butler. —Hazleton’s city charter has arrived and been bung in the orough building. —Brakeman John King broke his skull and died on a freight car, at Shippensburg: —Mrs. Elizabeth Lou, of Codorus township York county, is 103 years old this month. —dJoseph Diggs, colored, fell off a wagon at { Chambersburg Friday night and was killed. —The jury hes acquitted Joseph Rhody of the killing of Solomon Guinter near Clear- field. —At Riddlesburg, in Bedford county, mos t of the inhabitants are afflicted with typhoid fever. —Three strangers held up and robbed Mail Carrier James Carson en his route near Tionesta. —Mary Emma Davis has been vietimizing various Lancaster merchants in her shoplift- ing rounds. —Dogs cost Salisbury township, Lancaster county, $700 a year, exclusive of the sheep they kill. —A ghostly white-robed figure nightly haunts the vicinity of the Arch street planing- miil, Pottsville. —An explosion of gas in a Wilkesbarre tect theinnocent Mr, Thomas H. White, a mining engineer of Deadwood, wrote | a series of letters to the London Finan- | cial News showing that tin did not exist | in paying quantities in South Dakota. | Mr. White's exposure of the swindle was $0 complete that “Tke Harney Peak Tin Mining Company” was suddenly | collapsed. In return for this service he was soundly abused in the tariff organs in this country, and was subjected to criminal prosecution in Dakota. The London edition of the New York Hes- ald made charges seriously reflecting up- on his personal character” and asserting that bis letters in regard to Dakota tin were false and malicious. Upon this Mr. White, leaving his | home enemies fcr a while, went to Lon- | don and brought an action agaiust the | Herald for damages. The case was tried before Baron Pollock on the 13th inst., with the result says the Engineer- ing and Mining Journal, “that the plaintiff was completely vindicated, the defendant apologizing, withdrawing the libelous statements, and paying Mr. White $2,500 damages and $1,250 costs, the ease being settled before going into court.” The Mining Journal observes. that “the case of Mr. White was not so much of damages as it was of character, and his friends in the west will learn of’ his vindication with pleasure.” But what of “the Harney Peak Tin Mining company’’ and its rich deposits. of tin ore? If tin existed in paying quantities in Dakota, nothing would bave been easier than for the defendant. to have produced the evidence and sent Mr. White out of court. John Jarrett, late secretary of the “Aumerican Tin. PlatejAssociation,” who is now United that Mr, MILL is such a man. Is it | possible that a conspiracy has been | formed: to lessen his inflnence, in the | hope that the cause he has so ably championed, may be injured thereby, and that these stories are circulated for | that purpose? | Beiore believing what is said about | Mr. MiLLs® actions or purposes, let Democrats patiently wait and see what they are. He is too brave a man to be cried down for a single offense or through any false accusations. Wait and see. If the Northwest News is a fair sample of the way things looks up in Dakota at this time of year, it would give one the blues terrible to live in that section. A faded indigo bag, or a Centre county Republican on election night, is nothing in blueness, compared to the shade of the paper used by our Grand Forks contemporary for the past month. Young Merchant Marines. On Last Friday afternoon, fifty-one trim little sailors from the- schoolship Saratoga, received their diplomas from the hands of President LawRENeE, on the stage of the Chestnut street Opera House, Philadelphia, which will enti- tle them to take precedence over other applicants for positions in the merchant marine. A few years ago, men who were interested in nautical aflairs, realized that well trained American seamen were almost a thing of the past, simply: because the iron and steel steamships that have superseded the old fashioned clippers have very little need of boys and few opportunities were offered for either a theoretical, or practical knowledge of navigation, and that if we would have a navy, well drilled men were as essential as well fitsed ships. After years of thought and labor Congressand the Legislature were prevailed upon to make the Penn- sylvania Schoolship a certainty and on December 11th 1889 the first crew, of eighty-four lads, was received aboard the Saratoga. From that time until to-day the experimert has been watch- ed with interest by many people out- | side of marine circles. Daring the two | years three voyages were made cover- ing 2200 miles and the examination | proved that the academical as well as ! the nautical training had been thor- { ough. People in thisinland town were not so much interested in the general result of the school as they were in ‘the well being of one of its young pu- i pils, HarrY A. JacksoN, Mr, GEORGE . JACKSON's son, who is now a full fledged “little tar,” having passed an i excellent examination for a bey of his States consul at Birmingham, England, was within easy reach, and might have proved a useful witness if his own stories about tin had been true. Mr. Jarrett’s. tin mining, however, consisted mainly in exploiting the Washington lobby and in working up doubtful congress dis tricts for his employers. To protect this fairy tin in Dakota the duty of $80 a ton was imposed by the McKinley tariff on toreign tin. “We must also amply protect the tin miners,” said the tariff statesmen, “while we are more than doubling the duty on tin plate to protect the manufacturers,” The manufacturers whom they meant are the manufacturers of galvanized sheet | iron, who constituted: the ‘American Tin Plate Association.” These manu- facturers were abundantly protected by | high duties on sheet iron; but they in- sisted that tin plate should be taxed out of competition with their product. If they make no tin plate themselves they will compel American consumers to use less of it for roofing and to pay them more for their galvanized sheet iron. In the whole history of tariff legislation there is nothing more iniquitous than this tin plate schedule in the McKinley act, except the frauds and falsehoods with which it is bolstered up. ————————————— Food Eer Thought. From the New Yozk Sun. The year before the Presidential elec- tion of 1888 the BPemocrats carried the State of New York by a majority of 17,- 000. The year before the Fresidential election of 1884 the head of the Repub- lican State ticket carried the eleetion by 18,000. The year before the Presiden- tial election of 1880 the contest on most of the State officers was so elose that it required an official count to determine who bad won. Thé Republican Lieu- tenant-Governor had a plurality of 280. The Republican Secretary of State had a plurality of 1,89&% The Demo- cratic candidate for Surveyor had a pla- ralsty of 12,000, and the Republican At- torney-Gieneral won by 4,000. @ne can’t always tell what is going to follow by what has gone before. A FEhiladelphia Architect Sucecgssful. | HARRISBURG, December 14.- ~Profes- sor Merriman, the expert selected to ex- amine the merits of the different designs submitted for a state building at Chica- go, to-day made his report to the exam- ining committee of the World's Fair commission. He recommends the award of the first prize of $1,000 to Theo P- Lonsdale, of Philadelphia ; second prize of $500 to A. S. Wagner, of Williams port, and third prize of $300 to Hillman & Shirk, of Philadelphia. The recom- mendations were adopted and will be favorably reported to the state board to- morrow. American Tin Plate. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. A The assistant Secretary of the Treas- ury has ruled that if the sheet tin is laborers are brought from Europe, and if the European tin is smeared over the European steel by European labor in this country, the product is then, with- in the meaning of the McKinley law, “American tin plate.” The ‘‘Assistant brought from Europe and the pig tin is | brought from Europe, and the expert | Mass: —During an altercation at Johnstown over a : eharge for hauling goods to Moxham, Satur. mine burned James Kitterick to death and Hugh Jones mortally. —While trying to stop arunaway team J Robert Lang, a Lancaster farmer, dropped dead from heart disease. . —PZ%. Charles Williams, of Philadelphia, fell down a flight of stairs in an Easton hotel and was badly broken up. ; —Three shots from a pistol fired by Mrs. BE. H. Gingerich, Lebanon, frightened a bunly burglar from her window. —T. H. Mahon, of Chambersburg, isa Re - publican candidate for the Eighteenth District Congressional nomination. —Beginning on Wednesday next the Read- ing Railroad paymaster will disburse $110,000 in Reading before Christmas. —Johnson Wareham and P%.J. Spotts, Car: lisle sportsmen, had a terrific encounter with a catamount on South Mountain. —Organized gangs of Berks county horse thieves are saidto be running their stolen: stock to Philadelphia and selling it, —William Moners, aged 72, has taken out a marriage license at Carlisle to marry Mrs: Libbie Kauffman, aged 74 of Shippensburg, —Having been blown to pieces by dyna“ mite, the man killed near Carlisle is pro nounced by the Coroner to have died accident- ally. 2 —A Liverpool township (Perry county) dis - trict has had to close its schooi, no child hay - ing been born in the district for sixteen. years. —Missing Music Daaler G. H. Weller, of Reading, eyen sold his wife's sewing. machine before absconding. He was $4500 short. —The trial of the case against ex-President. -Diil of the Clearfield National Bank for em = bezzlement has been postponed until Jan. uary. —Mayor Nole, of York Pa., has been warned in writing by an alleged dynamiter that if ‘not forthcoming when demanded he will be blown up. —Presumably beaten by thieves, Miner. Frank McGovern fell dying at his own door near St. Clair, Schuykill county. Fe had been robbed of $30. —With $80 of her husband’s eash, his little girl and some furniture, Mas. John Albert has Left her Lebanon home:for Chicago without a. word of warning. —For the alleged jkilling of Miss Alpha ' Ellis by malpractice, Attorney E. L. Peckham, . of Reading, is being tried a second time. The jury once disagreed. . — Colonel Manter, the-onty Republican clerk in the insurance department at Harrisburg, has been notified his resignation will be ace cepted January 1 next.. —The heirs of Franklin B. Gowen, the law. yer, have sued the Pittsburg, Shenango & Lake|Erie road, at Erie, to recover $30,000.00 for professional services. —John Gunpzenhauser, a 15-year-old Lan- caster boy without:a known enemy, was mys- teriously stabbed. in the abdomen at night by some stranger on, the street. —Fifty-seven. witnesses read and. signed the Quaker marriage certificate of. Amos C* Hartman and Mrs. Emma C. Baer, ata. Wash- ington (York county) wedding. —Pennsylvania. fourth-class postmasters appointed Friday R.H. Fife, Boyes. Station ; A. E. Clark, Cherrv Ridge; C. M. Dinges, Savoy ; B. A. Buek, Winterburn. —Thomas- Ludlow wason hspdi to marry Rena Degler, at Pottsvill, as per engagement ; but she had;just been married to: A. N. Jacobs, of Giraraville, snd Thomas was glad. —Reading dealers buy andisell#o furriers each year from 25,000 to 30,000: fox, skunk: oppossuin, raceoon, muskrat and other skins They are getting more than usual this year. —Butcher William Fessler's little son, Daniel, played with matches in Bis William- sport home, set fire to the bed, and fatally burned his baby brother, Fred, aged 8 months» —On. Saturday George Down, while disguis, ed, attempted to rob Miss. Maggie Eichorn’s house, near Erie, but the-lady unmasked him and;procared his arrest. Both are well eon* nected. -~Farmer James Loag, of Fayettee county while in the hands of three eard monte sharps, and about to draw $3,000 from bank for their inspection, was told of his error by friends on Saturdsy. —The.Georgetown. rioters, George Sentman® Joseph Livingston, William Bachman and William Evans weve sentenced at Lancaster to four months imprisonment each, payments of fines and costs. Alliance and an agricultural school will be held in New Castle, Pa., January 13 to 18, in- clusive, the same date as the State convention of the same body. —BreworG. F. Lauer, of Reading cast out in a bottle 100 miles at sea a note saying that the finder would receive $5 upon return of the note to him. It has just come from a very poor fisherman, John F. Gifford, Westport, day afternoon, George Fleck shot Richard Cobaugh with a revolver. He was arrested. The ball lodged in Cobaugh’s kidneys and will age. Secretary” is an artist. prove fatal. Fleck was to have been married on Tuesday. —A national eonvention of the Farmers’