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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—The Legislature adjourned gester-
day—Hereon bangs a tals.
—The summer girl will have plain
sailing with her sailor hat.
—Dr. BriGas’ trial has attracted much
attention because of its hear-say
nature.
—It is said that the Prince of Wales
is fond of punning. He is fond of
something else too.
—If you have nothing else todo don’t
try to improve your time by talking
~ about your neighbors.
«If Uncle SaM’s servants were only
like the average house servant we
would all get a taste of the public
pap.
—Indications all point to Republican-
ism as a synonym for bankruptey—Il-
lustrated in DELAMATER, McKINLEY
and FOSTER.
—With a temperance paper in the
county called the Maget there is no tell-
ing how many poor souls will be drawn
into the fold.
—Senator PFEFFER having decided to
take the lecture platform it is but nat-
ural to conclude that the wind will take
his whiskers.
—If every fellow who has an axe to
grind would put it on the market there
would soon be an end of the Ameri-
can edge tool trust.
—“The Lord loveth a cheerful giver,”
should not be interpreted as an order
for you to grin when you drop your
nickle in the collection box,
—And to think of it the Republicans
of Ohio are threatening to let ForRAKER
run their machine again. If wind is
what is needed they have found the
right man.
— What with a gold cure institute
and a temperance paper sprung on us
at the same time, have weto look for-
ward to a time when we’ll have to buy
our own drinks ?
—We have had plenty of warm
weather thus far, but as yet it has not
been made quite hot enough for some of
the rascals who are still in public births.
Turn on the steam, GROVER, turn on
the steam.
—Is it any wonder the government’s
finances are in as bad condition as they
are. Mr. HARRISON'S Secretary of the
Treasury, Mr. FosTER, made a bad go
at managing the finances of the United
States, but the care of his own was
much worse.
--Free text books in the public
schools of Pennsylvania should be a
great incentive to an improved mental
standard of citizenship. The school
boy is not to be fooled by the old adage
that “knowledge is power’ for he knows
it is not when he is whipped.
—The establishment of a precedent
in any kind of parliamentary procedure,
as well is the dispensation of offices is a
serious step. But when WasHINGTON
refused a third term as President, be-
cause he thought he had enough, be es-
tablished one which has cut a very little
figure since then.
—.It is a strange and inunderstandable
determination which keeps the doors ot
the Pennsylvania State building at the
Fair closed on Sunday, while in nearly
every town in the State, of any import-
ance, thousands of men are at work in
establishments that know no Sabbath.
—It must certainly be a very bitter
reflection for Governor McKINLEY to
look over the sad work his bill has made
of fortunes in Ohio. The stringency
of the money market can be traced
to the Republican high tariff system and
Mr. McKINLEY, as its father, must sure-
ly see some retribution in the failure of
so many of his own personal friends.
—Itis ridiculous to note the silly
toddying of some of our people to the
royalty now in the country. We boast. |
ful citizens of the United States, who are |
proud because we acknowledge no peer, |
blush for shame at such cringing!
sycophants who gather the flowers over
which EurArie has trod and press
them to their lips. Such actions must
seem disgusting to the Princess.
--After having served the purpose of
a fort, n concert hall, and the stepping
stone for immigrants to America, old
Castle Garden, in Battery park, New
York, is now to be converted into an
aquarium. Of all the fish that soon will
be seen within its remodeled walls ther
will be none half so big as some ot the
‘“'dagos,” who first peeped at “the land of
liberty” through its smoky windows,
have now become.
-—Notwithstanding the fact that the
state legislators receive $1000 for the
hundred days they imagine they put
in transacting state business it now
turns up that one committee alone, the
House committee on elections, wants
$26,871 for making places for four Re-
publican usurpers. It put in the whole
term perverting the will ot the people
of Crawford, Montgomery, Lackawanna |
and Lancaster counties and now hag |
the gall to ask $26,371 extra for such
dirty work.
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VOL. 38.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 2, 1893.
NO. 22.
An Ex-Rebel Secretary.
I is gratifying to observe the good
impression which Secretary of the Na:
vy Herserr is making upon all who
take an interest in the workings of the
navy. When Mr. HERBERT was ap
pointed to his responsible position,
severe criticism was indulged in by those
who affected to see something dreadful
in placing the American navy under
the management of an ex-rebel, as they
called him. But this kind of talk has
been greatly changed, since the course
which Secretary HERBERT is pursuing
has become an object of public admira-
tion, even the Philadelphia Press ad-
mitting his superior qualifications for
the position he occupies. That paper,
with commendable candor, concedes
that he is better equipped for the per
formance of the duties than any of his
predecessors in the Navy Department,
not excepting those two most efficient
Secretaries, Messrs WHITNEY and
Tracy.
The Press assigns a very good rea-
son for Secretary HERBERT'S unusual
efficiency. All previous Secretaries of
the Navy, took charge of the depart
ment with “no more knowledge of the
navy than comes to a man in ordinary
public life.” This was the case with
WELLES, Borie, RoBesoN, THoMPSON,
Hunt, CzANDLER, Gorr, WHITNEY and
Tracy. All ofthem were men of gen-
eral intelligence, but having no knowl:
edge of naval matters, they had every-
thing to learn in the line of duty in the
department, It was otherwise with
Secretary HerBerT. For years he had
been Chairman of the House commit.
tee on Naval Affairs, and had applied
the closest attention to the operations
that were going on for the restoration
of the navy. In fact all the measures
that were adopted by Congress for the
construction of the new ships origina-
ted in the committee of which he was
the head, and were greatly promoted
by the zeal he displayed in providing
the nation with a respectable naval
force. In the performance of this duty
he made himself familiar with every
detail of the naval science. The carp.
ing Republican journals which con-
demned President CLEVELAND for plac:
ing Mr. HerBERT at the head of the
Navy Department, ignored the fact
that to the intelligence, the zeal and
the patriotism of this ‘“ex-rebel,” as
Chairman of the committee on Naval
Affairs, the country was largely indebt-
ed for the great work that was going
on in the restoration of the American
navy.
The action of the Secretary which is
now especially attracting public atten-
tion and commendation, is his determi-
nation to enforce discipline among the
officers. Under Secretaries less famil-
iar with the requirements of the service,
the officers did pretty much as they
pleased. If an Admiral, a Commodore
or a Captain preferred service on shore
to the less agreeable duty on shipboard,
he would manage to exert a “pull” in
the Department by which he would
succeed in escaping the rougher exper-
iences of naval service. Secretary Hgr-
BERT has set about breaking up this sys-
tern of favoritism, and he is going to do
it. He is moreover determined that
when he gives an order it must be
obeyed. This has been demonstrated
by his removal of Captain Hiceinson
from the command of the Atlanta, for
failure to get off at the time appointed
for his ship to sail, and there are other
delinquents who are being broagnt to a
prompt performance of their duty. The
old rule was to allow almost any ex-
cuse to exonerate the offense of dilitor-
iness. Secretary HerBerr evidently
can’t see the use of a new navy, unless
discipline is enforced.
We predict that this “‘ex-rebel” is go-
ing to prove himself the most con-
scientious, patriotic, and useful Sec:
retary that has ever been at the head
of the Naval Department,
—— Gain HaMILTON, one of ithe
ablest and most trenchant writers in
the country, and to whose care was en-
trusted all the papers of the late Jas,
G. BLAINE, is now engaged in writing
his life. It is the only authentic work
on this subject that will be given to
the public, and will be issued by the
Henry Bill, Pablishing Co.
emmy
—— Dr. Bricas lost his appeal to
the general assembly ot the Presby-
terian church and will now receive
what ever sentence the committee
imposes.
It Will Be a Success.
When General Don. M. Dickinson,
the staunch friend of President CLEVE:
LAND, was asked, the other day, what
the outlook was for the administration,
hereplied : “First rate. President CLEVE-
LAND’s administration will be a success.
The tariff will be revised, the pension
lists reformed, and the silver question
settled in some'satisfactory manner.”
When this programme is carried out,
which, there is no doubt, will be done,
all will have been accomplished that
could be reasonably asked of a reform
Democratic administration, and all that
could be expected of the pledges of the
Democratic party. Firstinimportance
is the revision of the tariff, This will
be accomplished in a way that will re-
fute the foolish charges of the Republi:
cans that the Democratic purpose is to
adopt the policy of free trade: In
many particulars the tariff will be sub-
jected to material modification. Where
duties are of that excessive character
which encourages and stimulates mo-
nopolistic combinations, they will cer-
tainly be reduced. The Democratic
policy is more in the line of public ben-
efit than in the promotion of favored
interests. But there will be no such
violent changes in the law as will dis-
turb established industries. A reasona-
ble measure of protection will be afford-
ed by such a taritf as will be required
to furnish revenue for the government.
In this respect the tarift policy of Presi-
dent CLEVELAND'S administration will
be a success. Both the revenue of the
Government and the industry of the
people will be maintained.
Next in importance will be the re
form of the pension lists. The evil of
extravagant and reckless pension legis
lation has been entailed upon the Ad-
ministration. The laws exist which
require immense expeaditure for this
purpose. Without being responsible
for the excesses that have attended this
legislation, the administration finds it-
self obligated to carry it out, but it will
do its duty in restraining the abuses
that have sprung up in the execution
of the pension laws. Thousands of
fraudulent names can be expunged
from the pension rolls. Vigilance can
be exercised in preventing that class of
claimants from being entered on what
should be a roll of honor. Raum-ism
can be expurgated from the system,
and a stop put to the dishonest prac-
tices by which the pension sharks
have managed to absorb so large a pro:
portion of the money intended for the
benefit of deserving veterans. The pen"
sion laws will, in all probability, remain,
but as many millions of dollars expend-
ed under those laws represent just that
much theft, the reform Democratic pol-
icy in regard to pensions, will consist
in preventing the further perpetration
of such robbery.
As regards the silver question, it
must be admitted that it presents diffi-
culties that are not so easy of solu-
tion. The heavy purchases of silver
required by the SHERMAN act are injur-
ious to a healthy financial condition,
but the question is made the more dif-
ficult by the fact that there are power-
ful interests in both political parties
that favor the continuance of this sil-
ver policy. But we believe, with Gen-
eral DickinsoN, that the administra-
tion will settle this question in some
satisfactory manner.
The Object of the Geary Act.
A mistaken notion ia regard to the
Geary Chinese exclusion actis based
upon the assumption that its object is
to expell the Chinese who are already
resident in this country. This 18 not
its object, although it is so represented
by those who wish to make the Geary
law appear worse than it is.
It is well known that there is a law
that prevents the importation of Chi-
nese into this country. This law is
believed to be a wise and just measure
as a barrier against the influx of an
undesirable class of immigrants. Not-
withstanding this restriction, a good
many Chinamen have managed to slip
into the country unlawfully, and to
prevent these leaks through the re
strictive barrier, a more rigid restric
tion was enacted in the first session of
the last Congress. To make this pro-
vision effective the act directed that
the Chinamen who had smuggled
themselves into the country contrary
to the exclusion act should be punish-
ed by imprisonment, to be followed by
deportation.
But to identify these surreptitious
immigrants presented a difficulty. How
was it to be done? The only practi
cable way of doing it was to require
that all the Chinamen who were law-
fully here should be registered, the reg-
istration of each one to be accompanied
by his photograph and certificate of
residence. This would serve as a means
of identification. Chinamen who
could not show such evidence could be
fairly presumed to have gotten into the
country subsequent and contrary to
the exclusion act. This was the purport
of the GEAry act.
It was not anticipated that the Chi-
nese lawfully in the country and ea-
titled to remain would refuse to regis-
ter and obtain certificates. By aceept-
ing the terms of the act they would
have secured perfect immunity from
the effects of its operations. But most
of them have preferred to adopt a dif-
ferent course, and if hereafter they are
treated like those who have come in
subsequent to and in defiance of the ex-
clusion act they will have to blame
themselves,
We will not discuss the ethics of the
Geary law. It is on the statute books
and will have to be enforced. The pre-
sumption of the act was that its provis.
ions would be complied with by those
to whom it related, and that it would
serve as a means of securing an abso-
lute exclusion of new comers, and not
as a meaus of driviug out those already
here. If the latter will have to go it
will be their own faults.
Incomprehensible to Americans.
A recent occurrence in England has
given additional emphasis to the weil
known fact that a vein of brutality runs
through the higher classes of that
country. With all their presumed cul-
ture and assumed superiority over the
common run of human beings, their
treatment of that greatest of English-
men, Mr. GLADSTONE, on au occasion
when the publicity of the affront aggra-
vated its enormity, proved how brutal
they could be when their prejudice and
animosity incited them to an offensive
demoustration.
We allude to the insult which this
higher class of Englishmen inflicted
upon the Grand Old Man on the occa-
sion of the opening of the Imperial In- |
stitute in London, which he attended as |!
the guest of the Prince of Wales, and in
the capacity of Premier of England:
His presence honored the occasion, giy-
ing it more distinction than was con-
ferred by the attendance of all the prin-
ces and nobles that were present. But
Mr. GrLapsToNE was obnoxious to the
aristocratic element that predominated
at the opening of the Institute. His
liberal principles, his leadership in the
Home Rule movement, were the objects
of their bitterest hatred, and, actuated
by their malignant feelings, they act.
ually hooted and hissed the great states.
man who represents all that is liberal,
enlightened, humane, and progressive
in English politics.
Such conduct as this can hardly be
comprehended by Americans, consider-
ing that it was committed by people
who stand at the head of English socie-
tv. Such a thing would be impossible
in this country. We have no class
high or low that would be guilty of
such brutality. There is no lack of po-
litical antagonism in the United States.
Party feeling runs as high here as else-
where, bus with all the clashing of sen-
timent and ebulition of feeling that oc-
curs in our party conflicts, personal in--
sults, such as disgraced the conduct of
those high born English Tories towards
Mr. GLADSTONE, have no place in the
incidents of our politics.
If possible, just think of such a thing
as Mr. BraiNe having been hooted at
and hissed in a public place by those
who differed with him in his political
views, or if such a conception can be
‘| formed, imagine Mr. CLEVELAND, or
JonN SHERMAN, or Senator HiLL, or
ex-Speaker REED subjected to treat:
ment of that character. Such a thing
is not within the range of imagination,
There is an entire absence of that brute
element in the American disposition
that would lead to the commission of
such an outrage. Yet the way in
which Mr. GLapsToNE was treated is a
common occurrence in England, and
it presents itself as offensively among
the nobility as among the rabble. In
this respect a Duke behaves as brutal,
ly as a costermonger.
Include the Gettysburg Field.
From the Doylestown Democrat.
In the S9propriation bill which fi.
nally passed the State Senate, on Thurs-
day, was the item of $25,000 for the
purchase of the Valley Forge property
for a Public Park. This does not carry
the bill which authorizes its purchase,
but only provides the money to pay for
it. The bill has already ed the
House and is now in the wn
we cannot look forward to its defeat af-
ter the passage of thé appropriation
without opposition. The purchase and
conversion of tkis Revolutionary piece
of ground into a Public Park we consid-
er one of the most praiseworthy acts of
the Legislature for years. It will re-
vive the memories and deeds of the
times that ‘tried men souls,” and be-
come a trysting place for the cultivation
of patriotism. There is a re-kindling of
Revolutionary fires all over the country,
and the possession of the Valley Forge
camp ground will do much to stimu.
late it.
A Pretty Fellow, Indeed, to Talk
Finances.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
Ex-Secretary Foster is still chipper
enough, notwithstanding his financial
collapse, to advise the country in finan-
cial matters. We are glad that he is so,
although his advice will not have with
it so much weight as it had. In one way
perhaps it should have more, as a man
who has suffered ought to be able to
learn by his experience enough to make
his advice valuable. But people gen-
erally donot incline to follow those who
have failed to save themselves by their
wisdom. They will rather give their
faith to men who have not yet shown
that their wisdom has not sufficed to
save their own bacon. Mr. Foster has
been an enterprising and is an intelli-
gent man, but he has been too much of
a failure as a financier to enable him to
lead the opinion of the country upon
financial matters.
—————
We'll Wait for a Wagon that Don’t
Run 1a the Mud.
From the Williamsport Times.
As much as the state needs good roads
there is some doubt about their being
obtained under the provisions of the bill
now before the legislature. The pro-
visions may not be rightly understood,
but there is ground for the suspicion
that the money appropriated may be
handled primarily for political “ends
and that roads will be of secondary
importance. The attention of the gov-
ernor will undoubtly be attracted by the
machinery of the measure, and if it
strikes him as others, he will veto the
scheme in toto, and wait for a bill
which says roads first, last and always.
————
What Liars Some People Are,
| From the Clearfield Public Spirit.
Pa Sackett got a letter from the head
of the canine department of the World’s
Fair stating that he was authorized to
offer Pap $500 for his dorg, a German
Duke wanted him and would pay that
price. Mr. S. declined that offer and
answered that he would not sell for less
than $800. This is the same dog that
followed a fox from Walnut Hollow to
Potter county last fall and brought the
scalp back in time to get the bounty be-
fore the Auditors closed the settlement
of 1892.
ERT,
Ringing in the Chippies.
From the Williamsport Republican.
The curfew is again being rung in the
cities and towns of Canada, not at sun-
down, as was the old time custom, but
at 9 o'clock, and all persons under 17
years of age found on the street at that
hour or after, are liable to arrest unless
able to furnish some very good excuse.
The idea is certainly a good one, though
it seems like returning to ancient cus-
toms. Ifit was in vogue in this coun-
try a great many lives would be saved
the blight that is now the result of gad-
ding the streets at night.
But They Won't.
From the Philadelphia Evening Herald.
Sabbath day at the World's Fair was
quiet and orderly. It was a grand day
for the working classes—for the people
generally—-125,000 visitors being in at-
tendance. The laboring classes have
had their day for needed recreation,
harmless amusement and religious in-
struction. They should have the advan-
tage of the great educational features of
the Exposition until the closing day in
November. Every State building at the
Fair should have open doors Sunday
next.
A ICTS I
Right You Are. It Would Have Come
Home Some Day.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Naturally some one is found to blame
ex-Secretary Foster's business reverses
to the “good old Democratic times.”
Yet if we are to understand that con-
tinued Republican supremacy would
have sustained Mr. Foster in the task of
bolding up Fostoria by the tail the argu-
ment might exhibit the operation of a
boomerang.
A Voice from the North-West,
From the Grand Forks, North Dakota News.
The trial of a man for heresy is a lit-
ile out of joint with the- spirit of the
times. So long as Dr. Briggs preaches
the things that Christ taught he can
violate all the church creeds he pleases
and the world wiil sustain and applaud
him in so doing.
i
Spawls from the Keystone,
—R eading citizens kick against, trolley
poles.
—Bethlehem Iron Works have just turned
out four 13-inch guns.
—The body of an infant was found in Chester
creek, near Chester, Friday.
—A locomotive crushed out the life of H. J.
Weasner, of Williamsport.
—A vicious stallion nearly tore an arm off
Henry Grubb, of Morgantown.
—As he was whitewashing at Wrightsville,
John Bair fell 45 feet and will not live.
—The Ancient Order of Hibernians of Penn-
sylvania are in convention at Altoona. 8
—Ministers of tha Reformed Synod filled
nearly every pulpit in Reading Sunday.
—Thirty.one members of the Union League,
of Philadelphia, spent Sunday at Gettysburg.
—All contributions made in the York
churches were donated to the hospital of that
city.
—John W. Fielder, who shot Edward Wise
in Chicago, was formerly a resident of Brad-
tord.
—The pipe that he was enjoying set fire to
John Phillips, at Stroudsburg, burning him to
death.
—As theresult of alleged cruelties, the wife
of Martin Kane, an Allegheny barkeeper is in-
sane.
—Big improvements are being made at the
Thomas Iron Company’s furnaces at Heller-
town.
—While attending a meeting of Heavenly
Recruits in Reading, George Gorman dropped
dead.
—Dr. Buffman, accused by his wife of as-
sault and battery, surrendered to Pittsburg
officers,
—A new worm which spins silk like a spider
is ruining many acres of corn in Berks
county.
—Augusta Moses, of Carbondale, attempted
suicide by putting a bullet through his head
Saturday.
—President Roberts, of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, was Friday in Shamokin inspecting
collieries. .
—The new William Penn colliery, near
Shenandoah, resumed operations Monday
with 700 men.
—Ina quarrel at Elliotborough, Allegheny
county, Michael Fleckenstein shot Patrick
O'Donnell dead.
—As he stepped from one track to another
to avoid a train, Garfield Bachman, a Conewa-
go boy, was killed.
—Wahile sitting on the curbstone in Shamo-
kin, little Robert Zonker was ground to death
by a runaway team.
—The summer meeting of the Pennsylvania
Board of Agriculture will be held in Bethle-
hem, June 14 and 15.
—A. Wilson McGahan, a Pittsburg plumbe 1?
is missing and $10,000 in paper ‘against him
has already turned up.
—The Moravian Synod at Bethlehem refus-
ed to adopt resolutions favoring Sunday close
ing of the World's Fair.
—Edgar Campbell, an Elk county rector,
was Sunday ordained tothe priesthood] of the
Episcopal church, at Bethlehem.
—Charles Larsen, employed on the steamer
Codorus at Erie, missed his footing and fell
from the rigging, killing himself,
—Because his wife neglected to call him to
dinner, Henry Kuhns, of Lancaster, took Jau-
danum and cut his throat Sunday.
—The “rolling mill, nail factory and sheet
mill of the Brooke Iron Company, at Birds-
boro, has been closed by dull times.
—A rock fell upon Zand crushedjjone of
James Senior's legs while working |on the
railroad at Conewago, and he expired.
—Professor W. M. Irvine, of Franklinjand
Marshall College, has been chosen president
of Mercersburg College, at Mercersburg.
—All the Democratic ward organizations of
Reading have indorsed ex-Mayor Merritt for
Superintendent of the Philadelphia Mint.
—There is considerable agitation over an al-
leged fraud in the recent electionsfat Chester.
It is said that the ballot box was doctored.
—A long fight has ended in the selection of
Professor G. W. Bible, ofjIndiana, as principal
of the new Stroudsburg State Normal School.
—Hundreds of Easton's best citizens gath-
ered to honor Dr. Traill Green, the noted
chemist of Lafayette College, on :his 80th
birthday.
—Mary E. Mallaired was granted $1,200 dam-
ages in the court at Meadville last week, in a
breach of promise suit against !Gustave] Leon
Dueray.
—Harry Evans, a well known andjheretofore
highly respected young man of DuBois, ob-
tained money on worthless checks and cannot
be found.
—By failing to advertise their primaries, as
required by rule, the Fayette county Repub-
licans, it is said, will not beable to hold a
legal election this fall.
—Nearly 19 tons ot angle iron, the first ever
made in America, has been shipped from the
Pottsville Iron Jand Steel Works to Cram ps’
shipyard, Philadelphia.
—By Medical examination it was discovered
that Peter Haley, of Girardville, had a{lizzard
in his stomach. It was about 7 inches long
and of the spotted species.
—Contractor White, of §McKeesport, has
brought a suit for $5,000, against the school
board of Braddock, moneysduejon his contract
for erecting the school building.
—Six ice wagon drivers were arrested at
Reading for “making night hideous” and
aisturbing the early morning slumbers of
Lawyer J. Howard Jacobs and others.
—A subscription has been started ar ong
the employes of the Allegheny Valley railroad
to aid Mrs. Fox, the widow of the telegraph
operator who was murdered near DuBois.
—Mrs. Schaule, widow of Maximilian
Schaule, entered suit against the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western at Wilkes-Barre for
$20,000 damages for the death of h er husband
—David R. Jenkins, superintendent of a
large tinplate works in Wales, and one of the
best authorities on tinplate in the world, is at
the office of the Pittsburg Department of
Charities, demented and penniless.
—Professor R.B. Youngman, of Lafayette
College, was elected moderator of the Lehigh
Presbytery, at Easton, and Rev. T. J. Lee and
Rev. E, J. Rineke, of that city were sent to
Newark and Greenwich, N. J., respectively.
—Mrs. James Baumgardner, who was buried
Monday in West Bridgewater, near Beaver:
was born on Christmas day, 1786. Last Fourth
of July she walked four miles to see the cele-
bration, and during the last year she made
her clothes in which she was buried.