ot a.
on.”
Ink Slings.
me.
—«Man wants little hare below” —He
has it, when the plumber, coal and gas
men go.
—A spirited parodox is the whiskey
trust, for though rum goes up, run down
it must.
—Oh, its nice to see the G. O. P., in
the bleeding Sunflower State ; being
knock-ed out by Populists, in a manner
up to date.
—An opportunity for some Legisla-
tor to immortalize himself lies in the in-
troduction of a bill to tax bachelors tor
the support of old maids.
--When furnishing the amount nec-
essary to meet the pension demands
Raum always fails to say anything
about his own propensities.
—If you feel funny laugh. It you
don’t feel that way just look at the fel-
low who has slipped up on the ice and
thinks no one has seen him.
—United States would be the gainer
in the annexation of Canada in more
ways than one. Canadian money bas
more silver in a dollar than ours
has.
— Fashionable women are beginning
to wear night caps again. = They have
been out of style a long time with the
fair sex, but men have indulged in
theirs right along.
—The messages of the governors of
all the States advise legislation for road
improvement. Ostensibly for the good
of the farming classes, but eventually
for their own glory.
—It required one Populist vote to
elect StepaEN D. WHITE to the
United States Senate from California
and a legislator from Mr. WHITE'S own
home, Tos Angeles, pressed the
button.
—TIt will keep the old ground hog
scratching to get out of his hole by
next Thursday. He is frozen in deep-
er than he has been for fifty years and
if he wants to keep his hand in on the
weather he’ll have to “get a wiggle
—In giving a sketch of the late JAY
GouLD an exchange remarks that ‘he
began life a bare-foot boy.” It isal-
together probable that he did and we
are of the opinion that the rest of us
were attired in the same way when we
began.
—Mrs. M. M. ANDERSON has been
elected sergeant-at-arms of the Arkansas
house of representatives. And it wiil
now be in order for the wives of the
legislators to go down to Little Rock to
keep their spouses out of the hands of
the fair official.
—HARRIET BEECHER STowE is
eighty-one years old, and is still quite
vigorous in mind and body. We fancy
if she had seen someof the companies,
that have produced the dramitization of
her great work the poor old lady would
have been dead long ere this.
—-In view of the fact that all the
great men who have died recently have
dropped off just after eating dinner we
have concluded todispense with that
part of our day’s routine. It is purely
a matter of precaution not so much for
your sake, kind reader, as for the
plumber.
—When the old woman’s party meets
in convention in Washington it had
better look out for itself or that strag-
gling Republican horde will ‘“hcok’’ on-
to it. It is not likely that the G. O. P.
would make any immediate gain by
such a fusion, but if the thing was kept
up long enough there can be little doubt
that there would be a material increase
of one sort or other.
—The old women who think the
country’s only salvation is in allowing
them to vote are going to hold their
convention in Washington soon. It
would do them no good if they were
given a vote in Pennsylvania because
so many of them would vote for them-
selves that under the BAKER system
they would never poll enough togeta
candidate on the ticket.
--According to the census of 1890
there are living just 1,212,705 soldiers,
sailors and widows of soldiers and sail-
ors, who were enlisted in the civil war.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
"VOL. 38.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JAN. 27, 1893.
NO. 4.
The Right Man in the Right Place.
If there is anything prospectively
connected with the incoming national
administration that especially gives
promise of benefit to the country ard
success to that administration, it is Mr.
CLEVELAND'S selection of a Secretary of
the Treasury. Johan G. CARLISLE at
the head of the Treasury Department
will in every sense of the phrase, be
“the right man in the right place.”
There could not be a better 1ndication
of Mr. CLEVELAND'S determination to
secure the most essential element of
success in his management of the gov-
ernment than his selection of so com-
petent an officer to direct the financial
department and to aesist in correcting
the disordered condition of the finances
and reforming an injurious and oppres-
sive tariff system.
Mr. CLEVELAND'S presidential term
will be judged as having been a success
or otherwise by the extent to which he
will be able to carry out his programme
of tariff reform. He is fully conscious
of this fact. He knows thatthe duty es-
pecially imposed upon his administra
tion is the rectification of revenue
abuses and the reduction of tariff taxa-
tion, and he is wisely preparing him-
self with the instrumentalities necessary
for the successtul performance of this
duty, first among which isa compe-
tent Secretary of the Treasury. And
what an ideal head of the Treasury
Department Jouy G. Caruisie will be.
In the entire range of contemporary
American statesmanship it may be
safely said that his equal .can-
uot be found in the qualities necessary
for that position. Mr. CLEVELAND hag
made the strongest possible bid for the
success of revenue and tariff reform
by the character of his selection of a
Secretary of the Treasury.
Ia the role which Secretary Car
LisLe will perform history will repeat
itselt on lines similar to those upon
which Secretary Rosert J. WALKER
acted in the administration of Presi-
dent PoLk. At that time there was oc-
casion for bringing the then existing
tariff down to a revenue basis, and it
was to the financial genius of the man
who in his boyhood was a scholar in
our old Bellefonte Academy that the
country was indebted for that Demo-
cratic revenue tariff which ‘would
have remained to-day as the chief fea-
ture of the fiscal policy of the govern-
ment if the intervening episode of the
rebellion had not required a higher
tariff as a war measure, the necessity
for which has longsince passed away.
Senator CaruisLE has been called
upon to act the same part to the
CLEVELAND administration that Ro-
BERT J, WALKER acted in the adminis-
tion of James K. Pork. A similar
task is presented in the readjustment
of our tariff laws, and judging from his
splendid abilities it may be confidently
expected that he will perform it equal-
ly ae well as did the illustrious author
of the Democratic revenue tariff of
1846.
Why Do This Thus ?
Adjutant General GREENLAND'S re-
port of the expense of the State Guard at
Homestead, shows that the transporta-
tion of troops amounted to $57,373,60
while the Commissary and ‘Quarter-
master’s expenses combined footed up
but $49,512.44. When we remember
the number of men and horses that
were called into service, and the month
after month that subsistence was re-
quired for them, the fact that the trans-
portation, to and from Homestead, cost
a greater sum than their supplies, and
equipments did during all the time they
were on duly is’ one of the results of
There are 870,888 pensioners of the, civ-
il war. There are 426,083 applications
waiting disposal. ‘Just 84,266 more
people who want pensions than there
are soldiers, sailors, or their widows liv- |
ing. What kind of government fosters
such open robbery any-bow?
that memorable campaign, that seems
strange to us who know but little of
the management of the State Guard
| and less of the system of railroad char-
ges for public services. Were the trans
portation eharges high? The Com.
| missary and Quarter-masters expendit-
— While congratulating California on’
the selection of STEPHEN D. WHITE to
the United States Senate the Evening
Herald, of Philadelphia, charges the
Golden State with being the chief of-
fender it diluting the intellectual capac: '
ity of the Senate. The Herald is all right
in encouraging the election of abie men
like WHITE, but if States will erris it
not better for them to send millionaires
without brains, than moderately poor
men of known mental short coming, as
Pennsylvania is doing. They are less
“dangerous,
ures low ? or is there some part of the
Homestead expenses vot incladed in
the report? Which is it?
I.
Annie Wilson, the nineteen
year old wite of an ‘Enghsh ‘rascal,
landed in New York, Sunday, from
Antwerp, - Germany; where she head
been deserted. ‘Annie was the first
female stow-a-way to cross the Atlantic
and thinks her stolen ride a most cn-
an American
joyable one. She is
girl.
Phillips Brooks.
We involuntarily measure the great
ness of a man by the good he has done
for humanity, but when it comes to
summing up a character as broad as
the late Pririps Brooks no man is
able to measure the greatness thereof,
for he was one that helped others by
all that he did, and said, and was.
Bishop Brooks unconsciously outlin-
ed hisown career in a passage he wrote
a year ago on Masson’s ‘“‘Life of Mil-
ton :"’'—*‘Great is he whoin some spe-
cial location, as a soldier, a governor,
a scientist, does good and helpful
work for fellowmen. Greater still is
he who, doing good work in his special
occupation, carries within his devotion
to it a human nature so rich and true
that it breaks through his profession
and claims the love and honor of his
fellowmen, simply and purely as a
man. His is the life which some true
human eye discerns, and some loving
and grateful hand makes the subject
ofa picture to which all men enthu-
siastically turn,” for he was not only
a distinguished preacher, but a
“twelve sided man.” He arrested at-
tention from the beginning of his mia-
istry, in a little hamlet in Virginia,
composed of poor whites and negros,
while yet a student at the Theological
Seminary, and held it by his remark-
able gifts which were controlled until
the end of his lite by great simplicity
and a warm and earnest devotional
life.
PriLips Brooks, the greatest preach-
er of the Kpiscopal church and
one of the foremost preachers
of the world was one of the few
men who nuever surrenderel to
the party what was meant ior mankind.
His large heartedness recoguized the
good work done by all the churches
and if ever one person took up the
fences of religious separation and laid
who made more of Christianity and of
what all Christians hold
share than hedid of sect.
Just in the prime of his noble
lifeand at a time of great confusion
in thought and great doubt over
in common
fundamental spiritual conceptions
Bishop Brooks can ill be spared.
For the men who can compell
the suspension of business in Wall
street on week days in order that the
brokers and tankers might bear their
noou-day sermons as PHILLIPS BROOKS
did three years ago in New York city
and as he did every Lenten season in
Boston and at the same time be hum-
ble and devout servants of their Mas-
ter are not many in this generation.
——Massachusetts Legislators will
soon vote on a proposiiion to amend
the Constitution of the Bay State so as
to make her elections of a State ticket
biennial instead of annual as they
have always been. The general unset
tled condition of things political and
the annoyance incident to yearly elec-
tions should appeal to the better judg-
ment of the Legislators in this matter.
Ouly machine politicians and spoils-
men see anything but unsatisfactory
results in putting State issues before
the people every year.
——The action of the District Con-
vention of the U. M. W. of A,, in ses-
sion at Lilly last week, in endorsing a
petition praying that Governor PaTTI-
soNappoint Honorable Davip,L. Kress,
of Clearfield county, one of the judges
to appoint a member of the examining
board of mine inspectors, is a high tes-
timonial of the esteem in which Judge
Kress is held by the workers of the
Clearfield region. ' In him they recog-
nize a friend of labor and at the same
time a man who traly fulfills the
mandate : “the judiciary should be be-
yond reproach.”
The price of steel rails for, 1893 has
been fixed at twenty-nine dollars per
ton by the leading American mills.
The English product ¢annot be sold at
home under twenty dollars aton. The
{ McKisLey bill makes us pay a tariff of
| thirteen dollars and forty-four cents per
| ton to protect home industry. Now
our curiosity is aronsed to know why we
should pay tribute to American monop-
~olists even when there is no chance of
i foreign product coming in’ competition.
AT ————
There will be a short crop. of
spring chickens unless the hens tegin
laying pretty soon,
them low it was the liberal churchmany
They Will be Disappointed.
Those who are anxious to see misun-
understandings and contentions arise
among the trininphant Democracy, are
likely to be disappointed with the out-
come of the recent United States Senato-
rial election in New York, which they
hoped would be a rock upon which the
Democrats of that State would split,
They thought they saw in it an unavoid-
able rupture between the President-elect
and the controlling Democratic leaders
of the State.
It is true that Mr. CLEVELAND had
his views on the Senatorial questions,
but they were views that were expressed
without any disposition on his part to
personally interfere in the matter. On
the other hand the preponderance of
Democratic sentiment in the State, as
expressed by the the action of the ma-
jority of the Legislature, differed on
this question with the President-elect,
as it bad a right to differ, resulting in
the election of a senator who in every
particular fills the Democratic bill, and
who in all respects may be depended
upon to sustain the Democratic causes.
It is difficult to see how even the
most ingenuous ill-wishers of Democ-
racy can extract from this situation
the hope that a difficulty will spring
up between President CLEVELAND and
the New York State leaders similar to
the GaRrFIELD-CONKLING contention.
The President will be so strongly
backed by the sentiments of the party
at large, which will take the liveliest
interest in the success of his reform
policies, that the New York leaders,
who are shrewd politicians, are not
likely to put themselves in a position
of antagonism. They have gained
their point in State politics, with such
advantage for future effect as they evi:
dently aimed at, and prudence will lead
them to refrain from carrying their op-
position into the field of national poli-
tics, which is the President's legiti-
mate domain. In the difficulty which
CoNkLING had with GARFIELD, the Sen-
ator’s excessive personal vanity was
the chief motive of his conduct, but
the New York Democratic politicians,
who differed with Mr. CLEVELAND in
the Senatorial question, are of too po-
litical a disposition to be influenced in
their future action by the weakness
that made CoNkLING the enemy of GAR-
FIELD,
What Might Have Been.
The Anxprews-Higey affair in the
Legislature recalls the gubernatorial
campaign of 1890, and with it the re-
flection of what might have been had
the result of that Fall's election been
just the reverse of what it was.
If GEORGE WALLACE DELAMATER had
been chosen governor of the Pennsylva-
nia there is every reason to believe
that the Meadville bank scandal would
never have startled the country and
given to light the corruptioa in which
a man who aspired to the highest hon-
or within the gilt of the State, was
plunged. Aside from that it is just as
reasonable to suppose that WiLLiay H.
ANDrEWS, his campaign general, would
have fallen into gome of the many
snaps with which the G. O. P. was ac-
customed to reward its successful work-
ers, and would have been dispensing
patronage now, instead of occupying
the ignominious position for which he
has lately displayed the requisite asi-
nine qualifications.
The present situation simply goes to
show how soon a man whose usefulness
is gone is dropped by his constituents.
If Mr. ANDREWS was of any earthly
use to his party there would be a decid-
ed'change in the tenor of the articles
which leading Republican papers are
publishing daily about him, If his
vote was an absolute necessity to make
a Republican house the Republican
press would not beslow in heaping the
abuse, now applicable to ANDREWS, on
Mr. Higsy, the lawfully elected mem-
ber (rom Crawford county. But as it
is the large Republican majority in the
House and the rankling sore of having
had the gubernatorial chair taken from
them fires Republicans to vent their
spleen on the poli‘ical corpse who is at
the merey of his ungrateful party. Not
becau-e his ambition to nsurp another's
place is too disgraceful tor his party,
but because he failed to inflict on the
people a man they did not want for
ZOVErnor.
Thus it is that WILLIAM ANDREWS
finds himself a despised political beg-
gar at the doors of the Houee of Repre-
sentatives.
Where the Danger Lies.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The amount of negotiable securities
of the United States held by foreigners
is probably over $900,000,000. This
is the peril of the present financial sit-
uation. The holders of these securities
will continue to send them back, and
to draw upon our stock of gold to pay
for them, as long as the danger shall
hang over the country that it may be-
come unable to maintain its vast issues
of silver dollars and silver certificates,
at par with gold. Every day that we
continue to pile up bar silver, against
which we issue silver certificates, the
danger of the situation will be increas-
ed. Gold goes out of the country
quite as fast as the silver certificates
are issued from the Treasury. It
would require no gift of prophecy to
foretell the end of such finaunciering.
For His Country’s Good Alone He
Worked.
From the Clearfield Republican.
Samuel Randall, after a life of useful-
ness and honor, died very poor. His
Administratrix filed her account two
weeks ago in Philadelphia, showing his
entire estate to be only $780.94. His
physician’s bill was $1,190.15, and the
undertaker’s charges were $56.65. He
left a shining record of integrity and
patriotism, but unfortunately it would
not pay doctor bills.
ETT
Figuring on Futures.
From the Watsontown Record and Star.
Though the war of 1812 has been
over eighty years there are still 165 sur-
vivors of that struggle living. Thesuc-
cess of those old soldiers in marrying
pretty young girls is shown by the fact
that 665 of them lett widows who still
live and draw pensions. If this propor-
tion should hold trus the year 1940 will
see 100,000 widows drawing pensions on
account of the civil ‘war.
Young Leaders Wanted,
From the New York Recorder.
If the old, discredited crowd of spav-
ined war-horses are not retired the re-
sult will be a counter organization that
will bury them too deep for resurrection.
We want young leaders tor the cam-
paigns of the future, not ancient fossils
whose smirched records are so many
millstones hung around thé party’s
neck to drag it down into the waters of
defeat once more.
Major Halford’s Accomplishments.
From the Kansas City Star.
President Harrison has conferred up-
on his private secretary, Elijuh W.
i Halford the desirable appointment of pay-
: master in the regular army, with therank
of major. It is virtuaily a life position,
with emoluments quite commensurate
with its responsibilities. It advances to
an honorable station a native of Indiana
and one of the most artistic whistlers in
America.
An Insult to Uncle Sam.
From the Minneapolis Tribune.
Get your gun! The President of
Venezuela gave a State ball on New
Year's eve and omitted to invite the
American Consul. Our Consul had
purchased a dress suit for the occasion
and has, therefore suffered great humil-
iation and expense.
A Complimentary(?)Vote for Mutchler.
From the Easton Sentinal. :
Senator Rapsher, of Carbon county,
voted for Mr. William Mutchler for
United States senator last Tuesday at
Harrisburg. From his reported condi-
tion at the time it would not have been
surprising if he had voted for John Bar-
leycorn.
The Election of Senators.
From the Boston Globe—Dem.
The New York World thinks the
the United States Senate is distinctly
deteriorating. Well, as soon as the
people are given the privilege of direct-
ly electing their own Senate it will
‘come up to its old time grade again,
A Silly Phrase.
From the Louisville Western Recorder.
That ‘heart failure’ has become a
farce. Heart disease can killas can
lung disease. But, of course, a man
cannot die until his’ heart ceases to act.
The papers might as well say he died
for lack of breath.
AL SUH RATTAN,
Some One Will be Well Greased.
From the Montrose Democrat.
The farmers and 'dairymen of the
State are preparing for a bitter fight
which will be made in the Legislature
this winter by the oleomargarine men
to repeal the oleomargarine law passed
in 1885.
Do You Hear, Mr, Hill ?
From the ‘DuBois Express.
Says Colonel Henry Watterson pro-
phetically : © “The next Democratic
nominee for President of the United
Stutes must not bail from the State of
New York.
ETE IS TREO AR
The People Will Down It.
From the Wiiliamsport Republican.
The combine to put up the price of
whiskey cannot by that method change
the flow of the liquor,
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Smallpox at Hamburg is abating.
—George Durr was instantly killed by a
train at 8teelton.
—Jack Frost has shut down many flour
mills in Berks County.
—At Washington, Pa., there will be no col-
lege cane rush this year. -.
—While at Indianapolie, Harry Pierson of
Meadville, dropped dead.
—An explosion of powder at Annville blew
off one Thomas Brua’s legs. i
—To run the Schuylkill County Alms-house
this year $67,000 has been appropriated.
—The body of Mrs. Margaret Mumna was
found close to the railroad track near Mt. Joy.
—Monday the Edgar Thomson Steel Works,
at Braddock, returned to steel rail manufac:
ture.
—Sixty cases of diphtheria are reported from
upper Bucks County, 30 being around Doyles”
town.
—Annie Wisenell awoke in bed in York to
find by her side her mcther, Susan BE. Wise-
nall, dead.
—Mayor Merritt, of Reading, has begun
hearing arguments for and against the trolley
ordinance.
—Frank E. Place, a Philadelphia and Read-
ing freight conductor, was crushed to death
at Norristown.
—While fox hunting, Simon Stroup, of
Oriental, Juniata county, accidentally shot
himself to death.
—Two young men and a girl at different
times, each had a leg broken Friday while
coasting in Pottsville.
—Major John D. Worman has stirred up the
Democratic societies of Pennsylvania with a
vigorous circular.
—At Wilmerding, the Westinghouse Air-
brake Company has forbidden employes to ac-
cept borough offices.
—Colonel James Young has just had27
miles of fence upon his famous Middletown
farms painted white.
—The first arrested of the alleged Home-
stead prisoners, Robert F. Beatty, was put
on trial Tuesday morning.
—While Samuel Miller, of Mechanicsburg,
was at church, his wife hung herself to the
rafters of their dwelling.
—At Uniontown, a company is organizing
with $25,000 capital stock to purchase the
old Warren Glass Works.
~—Lehigh Valley Brakeman Elmer Thorn-
ton had both legs cut oft by a Lehigh and
Hudson train at Easton.
—The cost of maintaining troops at Home-
stead as officially computed, was $434,818,39,
which the State must pay.
—Chester N Farr, of Philadel phia, has been
secured to audit the accounts of ex-Treasurer
Obold, of Reading, for $600.
—Having but recently gone from Philadel-
phia to the mines at Pottsville, W. E. Stevens
was fatally crushed by a car.
—With his skull and one arm fractured by
a collision, Elmer Mayberry, of Schuylkill
Haven, a fireman, may survive.
—The Republican committee, of Carbon
County, have elected George M. Davies, a
wealthy contractor, as chairman.
—Seventy bogus names, it is alleged, have
been found on the registry list on Republi-
can election division of Pittsburg.
—President-elecl Cl eveland, by request sent
a porwrait of himself to the Sigma Chi frater-
nity at Bucknell University, Lewisburg.
— With $150 and a gold watch, stolen from
his boarding master, in his pocket, Michael
Mulaskie fled from Gillerton with his sweet.
heart.
—Although once convicted, Joe and Sam
Lewis were Friday acquitted at Lancaster of
the charge of torturing Larry Reynolds to get
his money.
—It has prastically been decided that the
bondsmen of ex-Treasurer Oboiil, of Reading,
will have to make good the deficiency of near
1y $19,000.
—The city of Lancaster will appeal from
the decision of the 8 ipreme Justice McPher-
son, by which it would have to pay $120,000 to
the county.
—The 7-year-old Committoe en Revision of
the Constitution of the Reformed Church in
the United States is in session at Lancaster
for final action.
—The office of 3uperintendent Donnelly, of
the Lehigh and New Jersey divisions of the
Lehigh Railroad, is to be removed from Perth
Amboy to Easton.
—A fine of $100 and. a year’s imprisonment
were the penalties inflicted upon J. K. Blat’
tenburger, hotel man of Duncannon, for tam
pering with a jury.
—Learning that her lover in Austria had
married another girl, Esther Hobrand, 23
years old, of Braddock, drowned herself in the
Monongahela River.
—After 12 years’ exile, ThomasS. Ambrose,
indicted for embezatement while District
Court clerk at Cincinnati, has returned and
surrendered himself. -
—At Beaver Falls, the grinders at the
American Ax and Too} Works have been noti-
fied that a sweep ing. reduction is to be made
in their wages February 1. A strike is threat-
ened.
—At Rochester, Pa., Rev. T.B. Anderson
has been installed pastor of the First Presby-
terian Church; which has been without a pas-
tor since Rev. J. Bausman was removed. from
the pastorate.
—The Pittsburg police authorities. have
been requested by officials of the Austrian
Government to suppress the Amerikanskoe
Slovenske Noviny, a Hungarian weekly paper,
issued there,
— In her first suit for damages for the death
of her husband, Mrs, W. McKinney, of Leban-
on, got a verdict of $1500.. She appealed and
got only $500, and her third trial ended Satur.
day and she got nothing.
Members of the Ladies Auxiliaries ‘of the
World's Fair of Lebanon. Dauphin, Berks
and Lancaster Counties met. at Lebanon and
permanently organized and seleeted Mrs Hor-
ace Brock, of that city, president.
At Indiana, Pa., John B. Mosely was lodg-
ed in jail Monday, charged with burglary.
Saturday night the safe in the office’ of the
McCreary Coke Company, ab Graceton, was
blown open and between §600 and §700 in cash,
about $100 wortly of ‘postage stamps and {we
gold watches were stolen.
— At Washington, Pa., the Western Union Tel-
egraph linemen were tried last week for break-
ing the Sabbath by repairing the line on that
day, were convicted Monday and sentenced
to pay a fine of § and costs. The Justice's
decision states that the work in regard to the
wires was necessary, but that other work, such
as digging trenches, was done, that might
have'beer) dane at another time,