— nH —
Ink Slings.
Down the hill went the bad youngster’s sled,
Skimming over the ice.
Aman and two women went heels over head;
That certainly was nice.
But the climax was reached at the foot of the
hill,
And with it a “song and dance,”
When the youngster’s papa midst a loud ha ha
Smote the seat of his prodigal’s pants.
—The colo(g)nial days are gone.
Every thing is from the extract now-a-
days.
—HARRISON can easily squar2 up to
Chili without being afraid that he is
getting something ¢bigger’n himself.”
—The fifty-second Congress is already
beginning to retrench, but its too late.
The billion dollars must all flow out be-
fore the treasury will begin to fill up!
again.
—-From the length of time that war
clouds have been hovering over Europe
one would think that they scarcely
know what a sun shine means over
there,
—1It is in order for some one to invent
a snow making machine. A little am-
monium solution in DYRENFORTH'S
“rain maker’’ might have the desired
effect.
— JACK the Slasher” has at last been
caught by the New York police and he
is not, as some supposed him to be, a
political heeler keeping his hand in for
the next campaign.
— When church choirs experience so
much difficulty in effecting a harmon-
ious organization why don’t the pastors
install their bands of hope, to make mu-
sic for the services,
—The Chilean spies who were dis-
covered making mapes of the Pacific
slope and its harbors are doubtless mak-
ing tracks by this time. The map bus-
iness never was profitable.
—Adj. General McCLELLAND might
have the N. G. P. try an overland
march to Chili. We venture to say
that they would be in plenty of time
for any battle that may be fought.
—Three hundred young women in
the Baltimore, Md., Normal School
have discarded their corsets and gar-
ters to adopt the “dress reform’ system.
The Delsartian idea is all right if it does
encourage looseness in the fair sex:
—About the only people who seem
happy over the prospect of a war with
Chili are the pension sharks. If the
poor little dissension torn, shoe-string of
South America can’t do anything else
she can make pensioners for Uncle Sam.
—TIt would be a good thing for astron-
omers to make their charts of the heav-
ens before the Chili troubles begin, for
there will be so many luminosities soar-
ing heavenward when we get at ‘em
that it will be extremely difficult to lo-
cate all the new stars.
—A Boston judge has decided that
lithographs of females in pink tight are
not immoral, The Bostonese evidently
intend encouraging every opportunity
of studying, even if it be only the sym-
metry and beauties of nature as depict-
ed on gorgeous show bills.
—1In spite of the “Philadelphia old
‘Women’s shocked society’”” the mana-
gers of the Academy of Fine Arts will
hang pictures of nudity in art. Ifthe
modest old ladies of the Quaker city
must go to the Academy they will have
to put up with fhe fig leaf clothing.
—BARDSLEY is growing tired of his
confinement at Cherry Hill and will
probably “toot” when the congressional
committee comes to investigate the
Keystone and Spring Garden bank trou-
bles. There is one thing certain if
JOHN “‘toots’’ some others wili scoot.
— While hunting and fishing at the
beautiful Louisana home of JuosErH JEP-
FERSON, the great comedian, Mr.
CrevELAND will play Mikado of JE¥-
PERSON'S wonderful Japanese room.
It is a marvel of oriental luxury and
beauty but Dana should be there to
take the role of Pooh-bah.
—An exchange remarks that:
“Washington scems to be the seat of the
Chili war.” Wedon’t care what place
may appear to them as the centre of the
struggle, but we do know that the real
seat is in Mr. EGan’s trousers and if it
had been kicked right well the unpleas-
antness would have been over long ago.
—“Wizard” Ebpison’s scheme to
electrocute Chili’s army by killing them
with a stream from a powerful electric
hose is quite a novel one indeed, but
quite in accord with the wendertul nie-
chanisms of the great electrician.
There is one thing the water battery
would do any how. It would wash the
dirt off the ‘greasers” and then perhaps
they’d die of exhaustion.
—-The play “the Paymaster” which
was produced in Lock Haven. on Mon-
day night, was minus “the terrific dive”
scene. Just before the time forits en-
actment the tank sprung a leak and
the water all ran out. Oar sister town
could surely have supplied the show
people with a natural “tank” which
would have filled the requirements, But
we fear it would have bankrupted the
YOY IV
STATE RIGH
| VOL. 857
Not the Bonanza it Promised To Be.
It must be a source of very little
gratification for Governor McKINLEY
to see the pet measure upon which he
spent 80 much of his time, during the
sessions of the fifty-first congress, being
attacked in the first decisive move by
the fifty-second. One year of McKix-
LEYISM seems to be about all the coun-
try can stand.
Tastead of the greatly increased pro-
duction of commodities we find a de-
cided decrease, and the out-put in pig
ron alone for 1891 fell 1,331,028 tons
short of that for 1890. In the face of
the fact, that 1891 was one of the most
prolific years our country has ever
known, and that high tariff and reci-
procity promised so much, but two of
our staple exports show an increase
over the preceding year. Wheat and
wheat flour, both enormously stimula-
ted by the Russian famine and the par-
tial failure of crops in France and Ger-
many, are the only evidences of advan-
ced exports under the operations of the
McKinney billy and to credit their in-
crease to the Ohio Governor's measure
is far beyond the daring of the wildest
protectionist:
Out of the 321 members, in the fifly-
first Congress, 176 were Republicans,
while but 87 in the 324 now in session
at Washington, are representatives of
the g. 0. p. This is one of the most
forcible tariff arguments that can well
be present:d. When the very back-
bone of Republicanism was the issue
when the rich (?)fruits of a Republican;
adminirtration of affairs were held up
to the people as an incentive to con-
tinue that administration; when all
the power of the fat, sizzied from the
protected plutocrats of the land, was
brought to bear upon the army of iloat-
ing voters, 10 be found in every district:
Even then they lost 8) members of the
lower house.
Did Mr. McKiNLey then render his
party aud his country a service which
it may justly appreciaie and on ac
count of which it may herald bim the
champion of American industries?
Harvard and Yale are to have
an inter-University debate on: “Re-
solved that a college education uafits a
If they propose
giving a farce debate, on the question
man for business.”
chosen, they will have an elegant op-
portunity to display their oratory aad
make lots of fun for .their audience,
bat if they are really in earnest the al-
firmative side has won already. For
if there be men in these two leading
American Universities who are foolish
enough to think that a good education
is a disadvantage to anyone their place
is in an asylam. The question is far
more ridiculous and nonsensical than
was the ove “Resolved that a man
with a silk hat is a greater nuisance to
gocicty than a woman with bangs,”
taken by a State College literary so-
ciety.
RusseLn, Sage has the following
views on the subject and the affirma-
tive might do well to quote him:
“The boy who is wanted in the business
world of to-day must be educated. If
his parents cannot afford to give hima
high school or coilege education, he
mast learn to study without the aid of
a teacher, in the early morning before
business begins, and in the evenings,
after business hours. It can no longer
be truthfully said that an education is
out of anyone's reach. The main
thing is the beginning. Don’t be in a
hurry to get away from your school
books. ‘fhe cares and responsibilities
of business life will come soon enough.
Go to school as long 4s you can, and,
remember, every hour spent in study
in your youth will be worth money to
you in after life.
Read good books—the Bible ahove
all. Make yourself acquainted with his-
tory. Study the progress of nations
and the careers of men who have made
nations great. If you have no library
of your own join one of the numerous
‘associations to be found in all eities,
where good, healthful books may be
obtained. Study religion, science,
statecraft’and history. Learn to read
intelligently so that you may turn to
practical use in after life the reading of
your youth, Be sure you begin right.
Do not waste time in reading trashy
books."
manager if he had undertaken to fill it.
——Subscribe for the Warorman.
Is the Pinkerton Charter Constitu-
tional ?
Congressman WarsoN, of Georgia,
has offered a resolution to the Commit-
tee on Judiciary to investigate the
PinkurToN Detective Agency, and to
examine its charter, methods and pur-
poses.
It is a well known fact that this
great criminal hunting organization
has, in many instances, become a men-
ace to American citizenship, and the
fact that co great an army of armed
men, under the control of private par-
ties, exists in the United States to-day
has arcused universal comment as to
the constitutionality of its charter.
"Tis true that the PINKERTON men are
almost invaluable in terreting out the
criminals, whom our clumsy police law
would never reach and, at times, their
effective services have saved thousands
of dollars, in property, from the depre-
dations of mobbing strikers; but when
we are brought face to face with the
fact that the services of these men are
to be purchased by anyone, we then be-
gin to realize the dangers of the organi.
zation.
The past ten years of labor dissen-
sions have furnished many glaring il-
lnstrations of the over-zealous work of
these hired officers and the most alarm-
‘ing feature of the organization is that it
far out-numbers the standing army of
our country. With 25,000 enlisted
men Maj. Gen, ScHorIELD would hard:
ly feel warranted in making an attack
upon the united forces of thePINKgRTON
Agency, which numbers 35,000, especi-
ally since their keenness and daring is
s0 well known,
Is to allow an
armed force, large enough to complete-
it constitntional
ly wipe out the standing army. to be
controlled and maintained by private
parties? An organization whose ser-
vices are at any one’s disposal for stipu
lated sums.
For the Grand Jurors.
Warcnmax
contained some good advice for the
geutlemen who will assemble in the
Court House, in the capacity of Grand
Jurors next Monday. Itis in regard
to the propused improvement of the
Court House aud the expense which
will consequently be entailed upon the
Last week's issue of the
county if their report is favorable.
Graud Jurors, your action next
week will be final, as to whether the
oli Court House is to be fixed up—and
stl be an old Court House—even
though the tax-payers have been fore-
or whether it is to remain as it is uatil
the county is again out of debt and then,
if there be a necessity for it, build a |
new building which will be a credit to
the county. If you report favorably
the improvements will be made, so be
careful that you appreciate the wants
of the tax-payers.
President Harrison has held
back his message, on the Chilean mat-
ter, which was to have gone to Con-
gress on Wednesday. His purpose in
witholding an expression of his views
is in order that he may have more
time to consider the least indignity of-
fered our government. It is to be hoped
that when the message does come it
will urge Congress to prompt action in
the matter. For while there can be no
honor attached to warring with a coun-
try like Chili, vet there is far less in
allowing a little fifth rate power to ride
over us as she has done.
Meanwhile the Chilians might come
to the conclusion that they have been
decidedly hasty in their course and the
long looked for apoligy appear. It is
known that Minister MoNNT is exert-
ting every effort t» conciliate our gov-
ernment and it might be possible that
an amicableand honorable settlemert
of the atlair can yet be made.
—— The Harrisburg Patriot will be at
a loss for editorial matter
election of Wrignr and Harrrry.
For the past two months it has been
devoting pages to vituperative attacks
upon these gentlemen, and also upon
the administration, but now that they
have been chosen to the offices they
sought it will be rather hard for the
Capital sheet to train down to the
right kind of work.
since the
——Get your job work done at the
WarcaMaN office.
TS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JANUARY 22 1892.
NO. 3.
Curiosity and Religion.
Christianity, in the world, is divided
into twenty-three principal sects or de-
nominations, each observing a differ
ent creed, and carrying on religious
worship i. their ow;n prefered manner.
Man isnaturally religious, and if he
is ignorant of the true God, he must
make to himself false ones. He is
surrounded by dangers and difficulties ;
he seesthe mighty powers of nature at
work all around, pregnant to him with
hope and and fear, and yet inscrutable
in their working, and beyond his con-
trol. Hence arises the feeling of de-
pendence upon something more power-
ful than himself—the very germ of re-
ligion. 'Twas this feeling of depend-
ence, in man, which gave the Romish
church its wonderful pawer before the
fall of the empire and 'twas this{feeling
which brought the innumerable con-
verts to Catholicism and made the
spiritual far more powerful than the
temporal rulers, Butwhen the Roman
Empire had been overthrown and the
Goths and Vandals swooped down from
the north to plunder and pillage the
rich cities of Italy and southern Eu.
rope the only thing possible for the
Papacy to do was to charm them into
the Church also.
It was at this period that all the
pomp and splendor of the Roman Cath-
olic church was introduced into its
services. And it was not long until the
wild, nntutored nations from the north,
had been captivated by its beauty and
gradually gathered under the control of
the church, Curiosity led {them on
and their inherent dependence held
them captives.
There is another kind of curiosity
however, which stands in very close
relation to tlie relizion of several of
our churches, and that it is which
leads unprincipled people into the dif-
erent houses of God where professions
of faith ave being made. Their incen
| tive 13 not that simple ignorance which
‘affected those barbarians of ancient
times, nor the gaping wonder {which
led them on to Christ, but it is a self-
willed, malicious curiosity which must
L gamble out of which Wall street wculd
"the funeral of Senator Wilson the cost,
be satisfied at the risk of their own
souls,
Itis with a feeling of deep regret |
that we notice the growing tendency—
among both young andjold—to jattend
religious services from the mere want
of some place to spend their time and |
of something to talk about. We need |
20 no further thav the sacred precincts |
}
| of one of oir home churches to find |
Lea : |
many of this kind and, be it to our |
I shame, ti ber is eve the io- |
ed to pay almost enough for a new one, | PINS BWRNOPIS ever On the In
crease.
Hypocrisy doth not merit the con-
tempt which is inspired by the [action |
of those, whose only charm the church |
coutains is in the sincere—though at!
times wild—protestations of the re-
pentant sinuver.
A Doycott on Prospective Women Phy,
sicians.
The male students of one of the medi-
cal schools of St. Louis, have gained
considerable noteriety, and much cen-
sure from the public, by a recent move-
ment to remove women from the courses
of instruction. They have decided—
woman’s sphere is at home, where they
will allow her, we presume, the privil-
edge of spending her time, if bread and
butter she needs, at the lucrative and
soul-inspiring wash-tub, if sewers and
teachers are not needed 'in her commu-
nity. The school bas always admitted
women to all its classes, but this year
the boys determined to reconstruct mat-
ters and began boycotting the girls
with the purpose of driving them from
the institution. However the Dean of
the faculty did not appreciate the move-
ment and expelled every student who
did not formally take his name from the
petition. This subject of individual
rights has been so thoroughly discussed
by the great minds of to-day that merely
to mention the threadbare question seems
useless ; but when sixteen boys, in that
part of the west, where they look for
greater liberality, quicker insight and
fewer conventional restrictions take such
a stand against higher education and the
opportunity of self-support for women,
we conclude the wrongis all in home
training, for had their mothers and sis-
ters, who possibly are now sacrificing
every comfort that their boys may be
fitted for life, taught them good common
Sense, we would not bear this old story
of woman’s inability and unfitness for
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{ nothing more appetizing for the be-
professional life.
A Plea tor Free Silver.
“We hear the foolish cry that it is
Wall street which would suffer by free
coinage. How silly this when we re-
member that the profits of Wall street
are made by the fluctuations of the
market, and that the change from a
stable standard of value to a fluctuating
and uncertain one, such as the silver
ring proposes, would throw the entire
business of the country into a kind of
make its millions, its tens of millions,
yes, its hundreds. The farmers, the
business men, the working people, the
widows and the orphans in our Con-
gressional districts, would simply lose
what Wall street would make.” —Rep-
resentative M. D, Harter, of Ohio.
re —
A Judge to be Honored.
From the New York Sun.
Judge Gordon deserves the thanks of
all American citizens, whether by birth
or adoption, in refusing to naturalize
applicants whose ideas of the Govern-
ment they were ready to swear fealty
to were as vague as a beetle’'s ideas of
originailsin. It is well known that the
average Judge the country through is
neither as considerate as Judge Gor-
don nor as watehful of the rights of
those who are citizens, In New York
that whole batch of ignorant appli-
cants would doubtless be now enjoying
the delights of citizenship, if not made
a municipal officer,
—
Meeting the Issue.
From the Phila. Times,
Rodney A. Mercur, of Bradford
county, has announced himself as a
candidate for the Republican nomina-
tion for Senator in the Bradford and
Wyoming district, and with his, an-
nouncement he makes the public dec-
laration that he is opposed to the reelec-
tion of Quay to the United States Sen-
ate. This was a bold and manly acton
the part of Mr.Mercur. The people can
thus have an opportunity of deciding,
by accepting or rejecting his aspirations,
whether they desire the eleetion of
Qnay to another term in the Senate,
sna r———
Pampered Senatorial Appetites.
From the Phila. Record.
A delve into the archives of Senate
luxuries has found that funerals are
among the most expensive of all. For
exclusive of the undertaker’s bill, was
$2020.58—the meals alone being $845.
58; so that, allowing twenty Senatorial
wourners in the party, each was com-
pelled to eat $42 worth of provender.
This, however, was a cheap funeral.
The interment of Senator Iearst cost
the people not less than $20,000. On
the whole there would seem to be
reaved fellow Senators than the obse-
quies of one of their number.
Oem
Encouragement fur Denjamin,
From the Lock Haven Democrat.
President Harrison has so much
Chili business on his hands vow that
we really fear that Mr. Blaine will eir-
camvent him and get the nomination.
Confound those Chilians—why couldn't
they have waited until the political
kettle was doue boiling. With putting
on and off his uniform, spitting on his
hands, drawing his sword and saying
to himself tete d' armee, we apprehend
that our President may get behind in
the great political struggle with his
arch enemy, Mr. Blaine. It is hard
for aman to fight a mighty war and
achieve a presidential nomination at
the same time. But for the encour-
agement of the grandson of his grand-
father we would remark that the thing
is not an impossibility. Lincoln did it.
Why not Harrison 2 Spur up,
Benjamin! Spar ap!
How They Look Upon It.
From the Evening Telegraph, Phila.
Our late esteemed neighbors in Chili
are said to look on the possibility of a
war with the United States with much
unconcern, not to say joyfulness. We
are assured that the rank and file of
the people are aching in their little
stomachs to have a bout with the Yan:
kees, and that any action on the part of
the authorities which savors of apolo-
¢y would be met with great popular
disapproval. Itis extremely probable
that this statement of the case is near-
ly an accurate one. Whatever wit and
caution in a time of such international
extremity President Montt and his ad-
visers may be possessed of is to all ap-
pearances not participated in by the
people. The ignorant cut-throat char-
acter of the lower classes in South
America is to blame for all this inter
nal strife and revolution that have be-
come so peculiar to the Spanish Amer-
ican Republics. Such a set of people
are not fit to rule themselves. Repub:
lican government in such an incompe-
tent civilization is a misfortune. If
these semi-savages want to fight it
would seem as if they ought to be ac-
commodated. It would be a pity
though, for good United States soldiers
to dirty their hands at such a job. It
would be cheaper aud a sight pleasant-
er to hire a few regiments in Peru to
Spawis from the Keystone,
* —A brick famine menaces Reading building
industries.
—The State Horticultural Association met at
York on Wednesday.
—Hazleton still wants to get out of Luzerne
county and run a county of her own.
—Dangerous curves are being taken out of
the Neversink Mountain Railroad at Reading
—Dairyman F. W. Hoopes was hurled sixty
feet by a train at a York crossing. He may
die.
—Cofrode & Saylor will erect a new steel
plant at Reading with a capacity of 400 tons a
day.
—Lancaster citizens meet to-night to demand
that none but Americans be employed on city
work.
—The Moravians’ 152-year-old church near
Milton Grove, Lancaster county, has just been
torn down.
—A decision of Judge Reeder frees South
Bethlehem from paying $10,000 damages in
opening streets.
—Rev. Dr. C. K. Nelson, of Bethlehem will
be consecrated as Bishop of Georgia on Wash-
ington’s Birthday.
—The icy sidewalk got a victim in the per-
son of Miss Alice Kern, of Bath,who died from *
injuries Monday.
—Firas were lighted at the Catasaqua Man-
ufacturing Company’s Mill B Monday, after 6
months idleness.
—Berks Republicans have adopted a new
set of governing rules and made Matthew
Rhoda president.
—John A. Rigg, chairman of Reading Coun-
cils’ Finance Committee was stricken with
paralysis Tuesday.
—Dr. B. H. Throop and wife, who built and
occupied Scranton’s first house, have just en-
joyed a golden wedding. s
—Avoiding a passing engine, Wallace Wujal
a Shamokin miner, stepped in front of a pas-
senger train and died.
—Mrs. Lucy Shiudle, of Grordonville, fell and
caught by her eyelid and eyebrow on a meat
hook in a smoke-house.
—Aged William R. Haneuif, of Altoona, miss-
ing for weeks, has been found dead on the ice
of a pond near the city.
—Robert J. Hennessy, tenor at St. Peter’s
Church, Reading, becomes a member of the
MeCaull Opera Company.
—Relatives are contesting the will of the
late Joel Texter, near Lebanon, who bequeath.
ed $200,000 to former employes.
—Women’s World’s Fair Committee for
Berks county orgavized, on Wednesday , at
the Reading Board of Trade rooms. ;
—A section of the Standard’s pipe line was
blown up with dynamite in Clinton county ,
and 1000 barrels of oil were lost.
—The Reading Railroad is sending 1000 car-
loads of coal to Philadelphia and 500 carloads
to Buffalo via Williamsport every day.
—Nicholas Hoefter, and wife of Catasauqua
were interred in the same grave Tuesday.
They died at the same time last Saturday.
—Suit for $5000 for board and house hire has
been brought agaiust the estate of the late
Mahlon Miller, by Israel Miller, of Reading.
—Nearly all of Berks county’s famous old
thousand and two tuousand acre farms have
recently been divided by their owners’ wills.
—Eleven-year-old Michael Kushi, of Bethle-
h:m's “Gold Gang,” has been arrested for
snowballing Morris Glassowiki black and blue.
—A stranger rushed into Peter Martin's sa-
loon, Reading, and threw a bottle of expiosive
liquid on the floor, doing great damage, then
fled.
—Boyertown people are moving again for
the pardon of the convicted liquor dealers,
Moser and Diebert, who sold in Montgomery
county.
—Young Albert Hackman, of Brunerville,
has been brought back from Lebanon to Lan-
caster charged with two forgeries aggregating
£95.
—George W. Clark, of Limestone, got a di-
vorce in just nine minutes alter his case was
called in Court, at Wiliiamsport. Desertion
was proved.
—Jazob Bau-man, President of the Farmers’
Bank, of Lancaster, for a quarter of a century,
retired Monday his successor being his Son, J.
W. Bausman,
—Slatington childrenborrowed Captain Me -
Dowell’s horse and rig,when the Captain wasn’t
looking, and drove the horse over an embank-
ment to death.
—By a majority ¢f only three votes, the
Moravian Church Council of Lititz, has reject-
ed a proposition that women be allowed to vote
in church matters,
—Rev. Enoch Smith resigned from Salem
Lutheran Church, Lancaster, for a lacz of
funds and a Jack of English in the services
among other reasons.
—Rev. H. W. Tolson, of Port Carbon, will
have a practical text, with illustrations. While
he preached on Sunday night bur lars ran.
sacked his residence.
—At a special term of court in Harrisburg,
in February, sixty-eight State tax cases, in-
volving $300,000, will be tried, two of them be-
ing against Philadelphia.
—In attempting to mount mine cars that
his companions sped down an incline at Mae
hanoy City, Thomas McCarthy received fatal
jnjuries ander the wheels.
—~Convicted murderer Keck promises to
cheat the gallows by starving himself in the
Allentown jail. Meanwhile counsel are mov-
ing to have anew trial for him.
~Christian Klitsch, aged 27, a Philadelphia
barber, has been incarcerated at Pottsville for
cruelly betraying Manie Stricker, an orphan
not yet 15, whose love he had won.
~—A Methodist minister at Jermyn, Lackaw-
anna county, has refused to hold union revival
mecting with Episcopalians ‘because they
uphold card-playing and dancing.”
—Bowmanite Evangelicals Jacob Xnease,
Jr., Jacob and Oscar Strauss and William Zim-
m rman were convicted of disturbing their
opponents’ meeting at New Mahoning.
—A. L. Storm, of Bethlehem, denies that he
planned to elope with Lizzie Litsch, whose
brothers hai her arrested on suspicion. He
declares he knows nothing of the affair.
—Mrs. E. Wagner, of Erie, has written to
the police of Dayton, O., asking for informa-
tion as to her brother, A. D. Keeley, who was
last heard of in that city 10 years ago. He is
said to have tallen heir to a considerable for-
tune.
—A Pittsburg magistrate refused without
a license to marryjBrakeman James Cochran
and Florence, daughter of Iron Manufacturer
De Hopper, of Cleveland, although Cochran
go down and give them three or four
square lickings,
had rescued Miss De Hopper from a railway
wreck years before he eloped with her,
a