BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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Ink Slings.
~—4Up to snuff’—The old man’s
‘nose.
Dr. GRAVES evidently wanted to find
out what’s in his name.
—KEELEY is to have a day at the
Fair and won't there be a glorious re-
union of ex-red noses.
—Some one has said that this is an
age of philosophy, but the trouble seems
to be that philosophers are at a discount.
—Bermuda onions came up for their
share of the tariff discussion the other
day. We had supposed that they were
strong enough to take care of them-
selves.
—Dear, oh dear. Those Nihilists are
going to kill the Czar again, but as long
as they are determined to do it he is an
excellent risk for life insurance com-
panies.
—Dr. GRAVES worn out by persecu-
tion sought shelter from his pursuers in
the grave. It is quite likely they
wont follow him there to try fastening
the crime of murdering Mrs. BARNABY
upon him.
—Foot-ball bullies are getting them-
selves in shape to have their heads brok-
en this fall. Itseems wonderful that
young men train themselves up for a
sport which annually maims scores of
ther “or life.
— Washington is being over run with
the medical profession this week.
Twelve hundred doctors are there in
conference and the chances are that the
undertakers of the capitol city will reap
a harvest accordingly.
~—A Norristown woman who had:
$685 in bank drew it out and hid it in
one of her bureau drawers. It did not
stay there long for some one promptly
stole it. She has less confidence in her
drawers now than she previously had.
—Continental Europe is again brist--
ling up for a fight which will undoubt-
edly end in wind. From the number of
humps Russia, France, Italy, Austria
and Germany get in their backs they
should be known in history as drome-
daria.
—Mr. CARNEGIE has at last permit-
ted himself to be interviewed and he
wound up a three column talk with a
Pittsburg Dispatch correspondent, on
Tuesday afternoon, in New York, with :
“With the spring I am sanguine we
shall see better times.” ANDREW, were’'nt
you making too great a concession for
good Republican uses ?
—The character song, that found such
favor on the stage during the last sea-
son, entitled “the ‘man that broke the
bank at Monte Carlo,” will be laid on
the shelf now for a young woman has
gone one better than the man in the
song and actually did break the bank
at the famous French gaming resort.
She won $300,000 in an hour last Satur
day. x
—This talk of introducing a bill in
Congress fo pension all government em-
ployees who have been in the service
twenty years, and provide for the wid-
ows and orphans of government em-
ployees who die in the service, is surely
nothing but talk. No reasonable mem-
ber of Congress could bring himself to
believe that the public will countenance
any such measure.
—How do you like it by this time
Mr. “calamity howler” and Mr. “I
told you so ?”’ Every departm ent of the
. Homestead mills resumed Monday
morning, and reports from many sections
indicate a general resumption in all
branches of trade, Stocks are looking
up and it won’t be long until the Re-
publicans will be looking down—
their noses.
—Poor old EMIN PAsHA, like the cat
must have nine lives. ‘We never
hear of him any more unless he has been
figuring in a death fight, and according
to reports has always come out under-
dog. His latest death has been more
disastrous than usual, however, as the
cannibals have eaten him now. This
cannibal story is probably only an ad-
ditional advertiser for the sale of his
obituaries.
—-It is said, that when BEN. FRANKLIN
wanted to start a newspaper his mother
tried to dissuade him because there were
already two newspapers in America. Of
course Mrs. Franklin was’nt successful
in her attempt to dampen BENJAMIN'S
ardor for fame in journalism, but if lat-
er day mothers had even made the at-
tempt that she did there would not be
fo many of us half starved editors in
the land to-day.
—‘“Gone Democratic’’ and ‘‘gone to
the devil,” are favorite, and almost syn-
onymous expressions, by which Repub-
licans accredit the financial depression
We are passing through as eminating
from Democratic success last fall, There
is one thing quite certain, we won’t deny
that the country has “gone Democratic’
and we'll assure the opposition that if
it goes to the latter they won’t find 1t
much hotter there than we intend mak-
ing it for them ere long.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. 2.
VOL. 38.
BELLEFONTE, PA., SEP. 8, 1893.
NO. 385.
Jmmeasurable Gall.
One should think that in view of the
intelligence of the people of Pennsylva-
nia the Republican State Convention
would have been ashamed to say that
“swiftly upon the heels of Democratic
success in 1892 has followed unprece-
dented national distress.”
That in making this assertion the
Convention was indulging in deliberate
deception, was shown by a preceding
expression, placed first in order on ac-
count of its more urgent necessity, in
which the House of Representatives is
lauded for its ‘patriotism’ in voting
for the repeal of the SHERMAN act, and
the State's representatives in the Sen-
ate are urged to be equally patriotic in
their action against a measure gwhich
has proved to be so injurious in its ef-
fects. Here was an open acknowledge-
ment that there was something else at
work that produced the “unprecedent-
ed financial distress” which it said had
tollowed “swiftly upon the heels of
Democratic success in 1892.
If this legacy from the Harrison
administration was not baleful in its
effects, why was this Republican Con-
vention so urgent and emphatic in
asking that it be removed as a cause of
financial disturbance and business pros-
tration ? After showing its hand in
this way in regard to a measure that
originated with 1ts own party, it is evi-
dent to the simplest understanding that
it was playing a game when it put the
blame for the present troubles upon a
Democratic administration, that has
had scarcely time to warm the seat of
power, and no opportunity yet given it
to incur the responsibility of adminis
tration,
The good sense of the people was
held at a mighty low estimate if the
Convention expected them to swallow
the following stuff in regard to the ef
fect of the success of the Democrats at
the last election :
“A ruinous fallin the price of farm and oth-
A Damaging Reflection.
The repeal of the SmErRMAN silver
purchasing law is a Democratic meas
ure. It has been undertaken at the
earnest instance of a Democratic Presi-
dent, and its object is the annulment
of a financial policy proposed by a Re-
publican leader of the highest emi-
cence, passed by a Republican Con-
gress, and signed by a Republican
President. It is generally recognized
as having been attended by injurious
consequences,
Admittedly a Republican measure,
and maintained as such by a Republi-
can administration, which up to its
very last hour refused to repudiate it,
the State Convention of that party had
something extremely awkward im-
posed upon it when it was constrained
to “demand the immediate and uncon-
ditional repeal’ of one of its own party
measures, and to declare the action of
the Democratic House of Representa-
tives in voting for the repeal of the
SuerMAN law as being a “patriotic ac-
tion.”
It was hardly to be expected that so
soon after the accession of the Demo-
crats to power their opponents would
be compelled to pay such tribute to
measures they have adopted for the res-
toration of a sound financial condition,
and for the rescue of the country frcm
the ruinous effect of a Republican act of
legislation.
which a State Convention cast such a
reflection upon the action of its own
party, by implication stigmatizing it 28
having been injurious and unpatriotic.
If it is commendable conduct, if it is
an act of patriotism, for the present
Congress to “promptly and uncondi-
tionally” repeal the SHERMAN law, as
it is declared to be by the Republican
State Convention, how are we to char-
acterize the conduct and action of the
Republican Congress that passed that
There was never a case in |-
act, and the Republican President who |
“er products and manufactures, the closing of !
“workshops, factories, and mills; the redue- :
“tion of wages of labor, the discharge of work-
“ingmen from employment, the cessation of
“railroad extension and diminution in traffic,
“bankruptcy and the suspension of banks, are
“today the only monuments of their triumph.”
When the attention of the people is
thus called to this lamentable state of
affairs, they are incited to look for the
causes that have produced such results,
and what do they find? They find un-
repealed Republican laws, which ox:
tend into a Democratic administration, |
still exerting a malign influence upon
‘pled with the dangerous legacy left
the financial and economic situation. |
They find that the only agencies which |
up to this period of the new adminis-
same as the Republicans left them
when they weat out of power. They
find Republican tariff laws as yet un-
disturbed, and no change in the finaa-
cial measures that regulate and affect
monetary conditions, they remaining
just as the Republicans handed them
over to their successors, and will re-
main so until a Democratic Congress
can get in its work. In short when
the people look for the causes of the
present state of affairs, they see them
springing from no other source than
Republican laws and policies upon the
operations of which Democratic legis
tion has not yet bad time to call a halt.
Such beiog the fact, as presented to
the plain understanding of the peoples
there is an immeasurable amount of
gall in the declaration of the Republi-
can State Convention, that the Demo-
crats, who have been in power but a
few mcnths, are responsible for condi-
tions that could have no other origin
than in the policy and management of
a party that had long control of the gov-
ernment, and up to six months ago ex-
clusively exercised the law making
power.
—The opposition is having a great
care about CLEVELAND'S physical con-
dition. Its latest bugaboo is that he
has cancer and has had most of his jaw
cut off, and that perhaps he will die soon.
Ere he dies, dear Republican alarmists,
you will have had occasion to talk your
jaws off explaining how it was that
notwithstanding your cries of ‘the coun-
try is going to the dogs" it has recover-
ed from the awful blistering of Repub-
lican thieves and is once more the land
of plenty and prosperity it was when
CLEVELAND left it in 1889.
————
—— People talk of hard times yet
base ball games, picnics and all kinde
of amusements haye been patronized
this year as never before,
| that the course adopted at President
tration could affect business, are the |
signed it; and what is to be thought of |
the patriotism of a party, whose admin- !
istration declined to remove such a!
cauge of financial disturbance, and was
willing to go out of power with a work |
of its own creation threatening the
prosperity of the country, and seem-
ingly well pleased with the prospect of
its embarrassing their successors in the
government, even at the risk of finan-
cial ruin?
The Democrats have manfully grap-
them by their predecessors; but when
their opponents are forced to declare
CLEVELAND'S instance for the repeal of
the SHERMAN act is “patriotic,” the ad-
mission thus wrung for them is a dam-
aging reflection upon their own party.
——The Democratic State Conven-
tion meets in Harrisburg on Tuesday
the 19th to nominate candidates for
Supreme Judge, and State Treasurer.
From present indications SAMUEL Gus-
TINE THOMPSON of Philadelphia, who
was appointed to the position by Goy-
ercor Parrison last Spring, will be
named for Judge of Supreme Court and
either J. HENRY CocHRAN, of Williams-
port; Caas. W. RaymonD, of Dauphin
county ; ex-Senator HanNmBanL K.
SLoan, of Indiana county; JonN
Kunns, of Greensburg; Frank C. Os-
BOURN, of Pittsburg; Captain WiLL
1aMs, of Oil City ; or JorN L. McoKinN-
NEY, of Titusville, will be chosen for
State Treasurer. The delegates from
this county to the Convention are: J.
H. Eskringe, of Philipsburg; Ww.
Worr, of Centre Hall ; Jorn Hoy Jr.,
of Jacksonville, and R. F. Hunter
and Geo. T. BusH of Bellefonte .
——1It is beginning to dawn on the
Republicans of the county that after
all there is not the chance of defeating
the Democratic nominee for sheriff,
they hoped for. They find that Mr.
Conpo is well known to the busioess
men all over the county as one of the
most obliging, gentlemanly and relia-
ble, men they have ever dealt with;
that his competency is beyond question
and that his character is. without re-
proach. He is just the kind of a man
who will make a considerate and care
ful sheriff, and the kind of a candidate
‘the Democrats of the county will take
pride iu giving their warmest support.
~——The Democrat who fails to reg.
ister to-day, may find trouble in voting
for the winning candidates in Novem-
ber,
Democratic Tariff Action,
It is not likely that the present extra
session of Congress will have anything
to do with tariff legislation. It was
called together for a different purpose,
and in all probability will confine itself
to the object for which it was spe-
cially convened. It will have done
enough if it shall annul injurious Re-
publican monetary measures, and put
the country on a safe financial basis.
But there are evidences of prepars-
tions being made for much needed ac-
tion on the tariff in the regular session
that will begin in December. It is
said that the Ways and Means com-
mittee will go right on with the work
of formulating a reform tariff bill, to
be reported when Congress shall regu-
larly assemble. To assist it in an in-
telligent and effective performance of
this duty, it will give brief hearings to
those whose interests are involved in
its proceedings. These hearings will
be different from those given when the
Republican committee was engaged in
converting the tariff into a monopoly
measure. » The representatives of
monopolistic interests were the ones that
had the ear of that committee. The
people who had to bear the burden of
taxation were not invited to attend
these bearings, which were prolonged
until every pampered trust had put in
its petition for tariff favors.
The Democratic committee will hear
briefly what all interests may have to
say on the subject, and will then frame
a bill in no special interest, but with
the object of giving the largest benefit
to the largest number of people.
The duty it will assume will be sim-
plified by its determination to carry
out the plain Democratic plan of tariff
reform. There 18 no design of free
trade, but the intention is to relieve the
peoplesof nunecessary tarift taxation.
This ean be done by reducing the
heavy duties imposed by Republican
tariff laws in the interest of favored
beneficiaries. The bringing of such
duties down to a revenue basis will be
, sufficient for this purpose, and in ac-
cordance with the Democratic policy
of reforming a tariff system that is une-
qual in its benefits. To this doubtless
will be added the placing of certain
raw materials upon the free list, so
that the industries may have the ad-
vantage of them, exempt from taxation
that increases their cost.
This is an outline of what may be
expected of Democratic action on the
tariff, and there is nothing in it but
what will inure to the general benefit
of the people.
———
—“We take pleasure in commending the
“manner in which the present board of coun-
“ty commissioners have improved the grounds
“in front of the Court House, and the work
“thus commenced we hope will be continued
“by renewing the walks all around the yard in
“front of the Court House.—From the report of
“the last Grand Jury.
Democrats when your officials are
thus complimented you have reason to
be proud of them. See to it that they
are their own successors.
——It ever there was a careful, con-
scientious office holder in Centre
county W. GaLer Morrison is that
man. For four years he has been Re-
corder of Deeds, and his incumbency
has been a source of gratification to
the Democratic party and the many
Republicans who put him there. He
is an aspirant for re-election and de-
serves your support. He must be his
own successor and every Democrat in
the county should work to that end.
——There is not a man on the Dem-
ocratic ticket who is not the peer of
any candidate nominated by either the
Prohibitionists or Republicansin mor-
als, intellect, sobriety, and general fit-
ness for the positious they are candi-
dates for. In addition to being just as
good men in every other respect they
are Democrats and, as such, deserve the
earnest support of every Democratic
voter in the county.
—-%A careful, industrious citi-
zen whom everybody likes” is an
expression we heard relating ' to
Jorn P. Conpo, Democratic candidate
for sheriff. Tt is true. Vote for him.
——You owe a duty to your country
and that duty isto vote. In order that
you may perform this duty without
trouble see that you are registered to-
day. It is your last opportunity.
Another Fraud in the Pension System.
From the New York Evening Post.
The demoralization caused by the
pension craze is illustrated by a re-
cent incident in Boston. A business
man, well-to-do in purse and vigorous
in body, who already carried a consid-
erable amount of life insurance applied
for $10,000 more. The medical
examiner found nothing whatever to
indicate any disease, past or present,
and his investigation was almost con-
cluded when the doctor asked the
question : “Have you ever been a
pensioner?” Thereupon the applicant
stammered and at last owned up that
he was drawing a pension of $12 a
month. Further inquiries drew from
him “a tangled series of admissions
that he had never really suffered any
injury or illness entitling him to a
pension, but he had made out some
sort of a case of nervous shock or
deterioration, at the instigation of a
pension agent, and had taken his $12
a month from the United States
government, rich man though he was,
on the principle that “they all do it.”
The company very promptly refused
to grant him insurance, on the ground
that a man who had perjured himself
to get $12 a month from the federal
treasury was capable of cheating an
insurance company if he got a chance
and consequently was not a good risk.
More than one life insurance company
now puts the query about pensions on
the list of questions which applicants
must answer, and this man is not the
only individual who will find that he
has forfeited the chance of getting a
large policy to which his physical
condition entitles him by fraudulently
obtaining a petty pension to which he
has no just claim.
Facts and Not Buncombe, Talk,
From the Altoona Times.
Does any one still claim that the
period of business depression was
brought about by a fear of Democratic
reform of the tariff ? If that were the
case why would we be recording the
resumption of industries every day ?
The truth of the matter is that it was
not a fear of Democratic modification of
the tariff but different other causes,
chief among which was the purchase
clause of the Sherman act, that have
been responsible for the depression
which is now nearing the end. This
resumption of business is so general
that it would be folly to deny that it
hae a close counection with the passage
in the house of representatives of the
Wilson repeal bill. It is anotable
fact that on Monday while our tele-
graphic columns announced thatthe
work of preparing the new tariff bill
had been begun, they also stated that
different industries, employing many
men, had resumed operations. Now,
admitting the logic of our Republican
friends to be correct, instead of these
industries resuming, there should be
fresh additions to the list of shut downs
The tariff scare never had any legs to
stand on and it was always a gross
imposition of the people. The reas-
suring tone on business bears no trace
of any apprehension on the subject of
revenue reform, but is each dayim-
proving in vitality, and in a short time.
the panic will be a thing of the past.
Rival Clowns in Harrisburg,
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
It isno cause for surprise that Bar-
num’s show in Harrisburg yesterday
proved more attractive to the averge
delegate than did the State Convention.
'I'ne morning session was delayed an
hour in order to give the rural dele-
gate an opportunity of witnessing the
street parade of the *‘Greatest Show
on Earth.”
The preliminary activity of Senator
Quay left nothing for the delegates to
do except to formally meet and ratify
in a perfunctory manner what he had
done. He dictated the platform and
nominations. Of course the delegates
preferred to see Barnum’s show.
Too Much Cotton.
From the New York Advertiser.
The Atlanta Constitution asserts that
the South has $700,000,000 worth of
products as the result of the season’s
labor and no purchaser for them. This
is probably true only in part. Butif the
South would turn its attention to pro-
ducing more of what the world wants
and must have it would not be obliged
to hunt so long for a customer.
Their Organs Play the Dirge of Their
Own Party. :
From the Lebanon Star.
Some, vears ago the Republican
complaint was that the party had too
few newspapers in New York City.
There are more now, and the Demo-
cratic’ majority increases with the
Republican newspapers.
By Comparison Bellefonte Must Be a
Metropolis Too.
From the Piladelphia Record.
It costs ‘something to be a metropo-
lis. The taxes levied in the city of
New York for 1893 are $34,444,154,
an increase of $1,562,849 over the
taxation for 1892.
——1If you want printing of any de-
scription the ‘WATCHMAN office is the
place to have it done.
Spawls from the Keystone,
--A forest fire is destroying much timber
near Tyrone.
—Berks county bee growers say this is a
poor heney year.
—The new Hotel Norwood will be the most
costly building in Lansdale.
—Aged John Mason, of Norristown, fell into
the canal Sunday and perished.
—Judge Mayer of Clinton county, Saturday
decided that water rent is not a tax.
—DMichael Albert, an aged Bethlehemite,
walked into the canal by mistake and drowned.
—A bad case of neuralgia caused David
Fournier, of Monongahela City, to hang him.
self.
_ —Four horses owned by John Todd, Lan-
caster, were struck by an express train and
killed.
—Farmer Cromwell Woolston, near Bristol,
shot an unknown thief who was stealing wat-
ermelons.
—DMaster Workman Powderly Saturday ad-
dressed a big meeting of laboring men at
Wilkesbarre.
—Over 100,000 persons attended the Grang-
ers’ convention at Williams Grove, which end-
ed Sat urday.
—Lievtenant G C. Foulk, who was found
dead in a Japan college, was a native of Lane
caster county.
—There is talk of abandoning the Pennsyl-
vania Telephone line between Harrisburg
and Carlisle,
—The Williamsport “Daily Times” has been
purchased by A. L. Scholl, the former busi-
ness manager.
—As an experiment, Bristol schools will
have but one session a day, lasting from §
o’clock until noon.
—Ex Republican State Chairman Reeder
Saturday sued the Easton Transit Company
for $1800 counsel fees.
—All but $300 of the $11,0(0 stolen from
Contractor Crage, in Potter County, by John
Billy, has been recovered.
~ —Cuptain George W. Skinner will take
charge of the Pension department of the Pitts.
burg district on September 11.
In mistake for mullen leaf tea Mrs. John
Hege, of Lancaster, gave her child a deadly
dose and it may not recover.
—The fire in Eureka coal mine, at Punxsu-
tawney, is extinguished, and the bodies of the
three fated men entombed were recovered.
—Both legs having been cut off dy his train
at Locust Summit, brakeman Edward Beni-
gan, of the Philadelphia and Reading, died.
—Pittsburg will send several big delega-
tions of iron and steel makers to Congress to
protest against changes in the darling tariff.
—Driver-boy James T, Apgar, of Mauch
Chunk, fell from a bridge at Raubsville while
his canal boat was passing under, and was
drowned.
—Orders were issued from State headquar-
ters Friday permitting the Philadelphia City
Troop and the Naval Battalion to visit the
World’s Fair this week.
—The Carnegie Steel Company has leased
Mrs. Lucy Carnegie’s big office building,
about to be erecied in Pittsburg, for 200 years,
at an annual rental of $37,500.
—To decide whether a dog which bit a
daughter of John Martin, near Lancaster, had
hydrophobia, its brain has been sent to the
University of Pennsylvania for an analysis.
—Among the cases to be tried this week in
the United States court at Williamsport are
those against president Cowman and cashier
Green, of the Defunct Muncy National bank.
—In order that he might not be deprived of
his cigar, Hugh Maxwell, sentenced to a year
in the workhouse in Washington county ,
pleaded to go to the penitentiary, and he went.
—A mysterious document is on file at the
State Treasury which cannot be opened until
July 4,2000. It gives notice of a certain sum
deposited with the Girard Trust Company,
Philadelphia, to the credit of the State, by a
peculiar testator, who stipulated that the let-
ter should not be opened until the year 2000.
—The growth of the order of Odd Fell ows
has been phenomenal. In 1830 there were 1,-
000 members; in 1840, 11,1666; 1850, 139 ,242 ;
1860, 149,250; 1870, 297,637; 1880, 440,783 ; 1890,
649,702, and at this time the membership is
more than 800,000, There has been expended
by them in all these years $30,000,000 for re-
lief. Pennsylvania has 1,065 lodges at this
time, with 166,113.
—Peter Shearer, aged about 77 years, died
at his home, neat Fritztown, Berks county,
Friday. Deceased was the oldest member of
the Berks county bar, but did not practice
law for many years. He lived with his broth -
er, Solomon Shearer, and devoted the later
years of hig lite to the preparation of a book
on algebra. He was a widely known mathe-
matician and a deep student.
—A land, or box tortoise found by George
Williams, on the Hart farm near Milford, sa ys
the Pike County Dispatch, gives an idea of the
great age attained by reptiles of this species.
Upon the shell were the name and date, “M-
Brodhead, 1852,” the letters almost obliterated ,
89 long ago were they made. The tortoise was
found adjoining the Colonel Brodhead (now
Van Auken) farm, and the presumption is
that Mark Brodhead, now of Washington, D.
C., was the youth who engraved the initials
and the year it was done, on the shell. The
tortoise was found within a few hundred yard s
from where, no doubt, it was released over
forty years ago. ‘
—Last spring John D. Osmiin, of Catasau-
qua, trimmed a young grapevine and the
branch began to bleed profusely. In order to
stop the flow of sap he took a potato and in-
serted the severed twig to it. The potato and
vine both maintained life a id to-day the form.
er has seven green sprouts greatly resembling
green grapes upon it, and the sight is a pecu-
liarly interesting one, says the Allentown
City Item. A potato yielding grapes is a nov-
elty and will be intently watched through out
the ripening season. Mr. Osmun will sever
the curiosity in the fall with the idea of plan t-
ing it again in the spring and witness the va-
riety of grapes it will bear next year.
—Bucks county, which is ever prolific in
freaks, now coms to the front with a new va-
riety of cats. The honored founder of this
tribe made her first recorded appearance one
day last summer, when she strolled into the
yard of Charles B. Livezy, of New Britain,
while Mr, Livezy and his wife were sitting on
the front porch, records the Democrat. The
eat was black, but the most striking feature
about her was that about four inches from the
body the tail went back for a short distance
and then turning went on straight again, mak-
ing a zigzag. The cat gave birth to five kit-
tens this spring. One of them had a tail near-
ly twice the usual length, another had a nat-
ural tail, while the other three had no tails at
all to speak of. These latter will be carefully
raised to start a breed of tailess cats in Bucks
county.