8Y P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —Sunday the Easter glutton will gorge himsel{ with eggs, then cackle about it all week. —TIt does not require the cry of the umpire to start the «bats’’ flying. They are at it already. — PRENDERGAST, the murderer of CARTER HARRISON, hangs in Chicago to-day. Peace rest his soul. _If the trans-atlantic telephone proves a success American exchange girls will have to get used tothe ‘ellos! from London, —The rod is no longer permitted in New Jersey schools and the infants down there are ruled by the suasion of pure love. ——If Senator GORMAN keeps on fight- ing the WiLsoN bill he will find out ere long that he can’t sing Maryland, My Maryland”, any more, — What has become of the WiLsoN bill and the income tax? We are thinking of striking for a raise and must gauge things accordingly. —Texas is the ‘Lone Star State” of the Union, but she is not alone in her visitations of cyclones and other kinds of blows. We have some of them right here at home. —And now to add to the * misery of poor Governor WAITE, of Colorado, his wife has called him a fool. If her state- ment be true he must look on her as his better-half indeed. —Artists who are on the hanging committee at any exhibition have an excellent opportunity to avenge them- selves on their rivals. They make it very cool for those exhibitors whose pictures are hung near the frieze. — BRECKENRIDGE is in tha soup, He is a hoary-headed old fellow ito be caught in such nasty business, says the Columbia Independent. We concur, em- phatically, and would suggest that the accent be placed on the ninth word. —The National editorial association is to meet at Asbury Park next June and for the life of us we don’t see how those editors and the Methodist ministers at Ocean Grove are going to get along with nothing but a miniature lake be tween them. _ Mr. CoxEY’s army promises to be nothing more than a ‘motley horde of tramps and vagabonds. Itisessy seen why the tramps are sympathizers with the great (?) CoxEx’s idea of procuring the appropriation of $500,000,000 for im- proving the roads of the country. —The morality of every community is at the mercy of the people who make it up. If they are honest people, who do not care for gossip, and prefer cov- ering up rather than magnifying the faulls of their neighbors, there will be happiness and a reciprocity of good fel- lowship. —-The next session of the Pennsyl- vania Legislature should pass a little Force bill just for operation in Monroe county. Some such Republican meas- ure is needed to protect the poor color- ed man of Pennsylvania, even though his brother in the South has no need for such legislation. — Mr. Coxgy and his band of Mas. silon followers, who are supposed to start their march on Washington, next Sunday, will hardly get so far away from home that they can’t hear thei, own dinner bell. The common-weal is what we are all striving for, but most of us have sense enough to stay at home and in that way serve the common- weal. 2 — The out-come of the Central Penn- sylvania Methodist Episcopal confer- ence, which had its final sitting in Har- risburg, last Tuesday morning, leaves very great room for doubt, in the mind of the conservative on-looker, as to whether Methodist ministers are not just as capable of doing just as unfair and unprincipled things as those who don’t pose as such great moralists. —Fgrp WARD, the New York part- ner of the late Gen. GRANT, who ser ved a term in Sing Sing for embezzlement, was married to a Staten Island girl, on Tuesday. Thereis one thing quite cer- tain, that is if there are any children to bless their union we'll bet their father will devote some of his time, at least, to teaching them honesty. There is nothing like a taste of the bitter fruits of dishonesty to open one’s eyes. — Where are the Republican harpies who are always charging the mob laws and lynchings of the South to the Dem- ocratic party ? Where are they, we say? They must surely be told ot that Stroudsburg lynching last week. To think that such an outrage should have been perpetrated right here in Pennsyl- vania scarcely before the echo of the last exultant cheer of Republican vic tory has died away. Pennsylvania con” stituents can protect the poor negro right at home hereafter and leave those selves. CO \ Temacralic HO STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. ant _VOL. 39. BELLEFONTE, PA., MARCH 28, 1894. NO. 12. The Shadow of a Dark Cloud. nn The savagery of lynch law, which is extending over the couatry, encour aged by the impunity with which it is allowed to practice its irregular vio- lence, has taken hold of Pennsylvania, and if not checked by legislative cor- rection, backed by public sentiment, may be expected to be of repeated oc- currence and ultimately rob the courts of their authority and power. The de- moralization naturally resulting from lawlessness always increases ag the public mind becomes familiar with it. The rapid growth of the disposition to supersede the operation of the law by the process of lynching is a proof of this fact. : The case of the negro murderer Pur- YEAR, who was lynched in Monroe county, last week, inaugurated this lawless method of punishing offenders in this State. That it set a precedent that was sure to be followed, was shown by an attempt to lynch a chick- en thief near Hazelton some days after, the original intention of the lynchers to hang him having been changed to the procedure of throwing him down a mine hole, inflicting injuries from which he cannot recover. When law- less punishment once becomes a tolera- ted practice it must be expected that it will show but little discrimination eith- er as to the grade of the offense it pun- ishes, or the method of its procedure. . Such a superseding of the orderly process of law by mob force, like that in Monroe county, is unjustifiable un- der any circumstances. The fact that the prisoner had attempted to evade lawful punishment by escaping from prison, furnished the lynchers no ex- .cuse for their proceedings; nor was that the incentive that impelled them to the taking of the law in their own hands, for at the time of the arrest of the prisoner, on the charge of the mur. der, it was with difficulty that he could be kept from being lynched by a mob howling for Bis summary punishmeat. In the rapid increase of such violent practices is seen a cloud that is throw- ing an alarming shadow over the civili- zation of our country. It is surprising that the press is so indifferent to an evil whose growth is evidenced by the frequently repeated occasions it bas to record the occurrence of this lawless and barbarous administration of pun- ishment, and it is not to its credit that it does not unitedly urge legislative and executive action for the punish- ment and suppression of a practice which by supplanting the orderly pro- cesses of the law, is undermining all le- gal authority and barbarizing public sentiment. Fresh Hope for Home Rule. When Mr. GLADSTONE resigned the Premiership it was natural that the supporters of Irish Home Rule should be uneasy about the fate of their cher ished project. Even under the leader- ship of the greatest living English statesman, their cause has had uphill work, and it isstill far from a success- ful issue. Therefore there was much to discourage the Home Rulers when he retired from the long continued struggle in their behalf. It is true his successor, Lord RosE- BERRY, had been one of his most ac’ tive lieutenants, and sufficiently earnest in all liberal measures, among which Home Rale could be numbered ; but there was out little to encourage the Irish leaders when the new Liberal Premier publicly declared that it would require & majority of English votes to decide the success of the Irish movement. Lf such a policy were lit- erally carried out the hopes of Ireland would have to be indefinitely post- poned. ’ Bat Lord Roseserry has since greatly modified the meaning of his ex- pressions, and has given such assur ance of his earnestness in the Irish cause that none, but the most captious friends of Ireland, can doubt that he will faithfully adhere to the Home Rule programe that had been adopted by his former leader. In the increasing Liberalism in Eng- land there is every appearance of a rapidly growing disposition among Englishmen to accord to Ireland her rights. The House of Lords has beea the obstacle in the way, and when there is a widespread determination to wipe out that effete body if it persists . in its obstruction of liberal measures, in other parts to take care of them- that fact in itself is very encouraging to the Irish cause. Prompt Action When Needed. Some weeks ago the leading Repub- on the demoralization and incomp etency of the Democrats in Congress, its remarks having been called forth by what it considered their incapacity to legislate, the prolonged hitch on the Seigniorage question in the House be- ing used as an illustration. The strictures of that organ on Democratic legislative incapacity some- what amused us at the time, and we ventured to remark in repy that when the Democrats put themselves earnestly down to congressional work, there was no want of ability in their efforts, and no lack of direct and effi- cient action. The resalt as regards the Seignior- age bill substantiates our assertion. It is now a fyrther source of amuse ment to us to see that the organ which spoke so contem ptuously of Democratic congressional inability, as shown by their “incapable and incoherent” ac. tion on that measure, is now hysteric- ally denouncing the Democrats for hav- ing passed the bill which it said they were incapable of passing. The fact is that when they were ready tor final action, and saw the scheme which the enemies ot tariff reform had planned, they put the Seigniorage bill through with a promptness and decision that have dazed the Republi cans, who intended to use it as a ques- tion upon which a great deal of time could be wasted acd action on the tariff bill staved off. It having passed both Houses, what will the President now do with it? By the time this article shall appear in print he may have determined the fate of the bill by attaching or with- holding his ‘signature: but we would greatly like to see him sign it. His position in regard to the silver purchasing act, whose repeal he urged, covered quite a different aspect of the, silver question. Tbe bill just passed authorizes the monetary use of the met- al whose purchase as useless pig silver the President could very probably ob- ject to. That objection cannot be re- garded as necessarily applying to its being converted into money. The question is whether more silver mon- ey will be detrimental to the business of the country? We believe that it will be just the opposite, or at all events, will not be hurtful, and we trust thdt the President will look at it in the same light. ; A very important question in “con. nection with this silver bill, if it should become a law, is, what would be its political effect upon the Democratic party? Ifit should help the Democra- cy in the next congressional elections’ and strengthen the vote in the Senate for the reform tariff bill, by enlisting the aid of the Senators from the silver States, then the bill, should be placed as a perfected measure upon the stat- ute books, Its most beneficent effect would be in the service it might render the Democratic cause. : Beatenat Their Own Game, When the opponents of Tariff Re- form in the Senate helped the silverites to bring the Seigniorage bill into that body ahead of the tariff bill, they had in- terposedan obstacle which would great ly disconcert the movement of the tariff reformers, and no doubt they chuckled among themselves over what they con- sidered a very smart game. Their belief that they had indefinite ly blocked the WiLson bill was not unreasonable, for the silver question was one on which the Senate had stuck for monthe during the extra ses- sion, and as all the conflicting ele- ments involved in thie metallic issue were likely to be aroused over the Seigniorage, a protracted wrangle was confidently looked for by these obstruc- tionists, with the result of deferring the tariff bill, and possibly defeating, it. That their obstruction would post- pone the revival of business mattered little to these tricksters. A prolonged prostration ot the industries in conse- quence of the unsettled condition of the tariff question was of small ac- count to them in comparison with the political advantages they proposed to gain by hanging up the Democratic tariff bill. Therefore it is easy to imagine how they congratulated themselves on hav" lican organ of Philadelphia expatiated | headed off the tariff reformers by the | interposition of the Seigniorage ques- ton, But a more dumbfounded and con- fused set of political couspirators were never seen thao they were when they saw that the Democrats had “got onto their game,” and were going to beat them at it. There was something real- ly amusing in JorN SHERMAN and oth- ers of them protesting against the pae- sage of the bill in whose introduction they had assisted with obstructive in- tent; but the Democrats speedily got it out of the way by passing it, making the McKINLEY obstructionists the laughing stock of the country. Treading on Dangerous Ground. The singular attitude of Senator Gorman, of Maryland, toward the Democratic tariff bill, has for some time attracted public attention, and has at last aroused the indignation of the Democrats of Maryland. There can be no other than personal reasons for the Senator’s disposition to obstruct the progress of the Wirson bill, for such obstruction is not in line with either the wishes of the Democrats of Maryland, the policy of the party to which he owes allegiance, or the gen- eral interests of the country. When he declared from his seat in the Senate that he was determined to interpose objections to certain features of the tariff bill, which, if persisted in, would indefinitely prolong the contest over that measure, he announced a purpose that could not be approved by his party, but was the source of much eatisfaction to those who are interested in the defeat of tariff reform. What is the matter with Senator GormAN anyhow ? Does his intention to continue his obstructive objections even “if it takes all summer” to effect his purpose, represent the sentiments of the Democrats of his ‘State? Does it please any but the McKINLEYITES ? Isiit calculated to assist the Democrats in fulfilling their pledge of tariff re- form? Has it not rather a tendency to disgust the people with the dilatory action upon the tariff bill, and to bring hamiliation |. and defeat ' upon the Democratic parly in the next congres- sional elections ? : San The Maryland Senator must be in- fluenced in this matter by ambition or pique. His conduct certainly does not comport either’ with the sentiment or the interests of his party. He is tread- ing upon dangerous ground, there be- ing no better evidence ofthe peril of his adventure than the rising indigna- tion of the Democrats of Maryland, to which has been added the denunucia- tory tones of the Baltimore Sun, a journal which heretofore has been his staunchest and ablest supporter. Senator GorMAN should change his attitude in this matter. By persisting in it he is not only censurable for un- gracious and ungrateful treatment of his party, but he is getting himself in- to a difficulty that will be disastrous to his political career. i 3 A Burlesque Rebellion. The sudden collapse of the Brazilian rebellion shows up in a stronger light the burlesque character of the whole aftair. History cannot show a more ludicrous case of belligereney. For more than six mouths the rebels were blazing away in the harbor of Rio, bombarding the city at their leisure; overhauling the merchantmen of other nations, and enforcing a blockade that paralyzed the commerce of the port. The funny part of the business was that the nations whose commercial in- terests suffered from this burlesque warfare so long submitted to it. Now means, have scattered in different di- rections to escape punishment, the in significance of their revolutionary pre- {ensions becomes apparent, and the world laughs to think that such shab- by belligerents managed to secure the recognition that is accorded to legiti- mate and regular belligerency. Since the rebellion has gone to pieces it is discovered that the rebels, whose operations were chiefly confined to the water, were most ot the time in a half starved condition, and were as- sisted in their straitened circumstances by supplies of English provisions. England had a sinister motive in back- ing the rebellion, but it failed, and no one contributed more to its failure | American navy. that the rebels, exhausted for want of Why Move, So much? From the Pittsburg Times. The first of April is close at hand and the annual flitting has begun. Wagons loaded with furniture may be seen on every hand. This spring the flitting 1s necessary in most eases, something which cannot ordinarily be said of it. One may affirm that many a family has been kept poor by useless moving. The idea of it is usually thatsomething bet- ter can be had in some other place for the same money, and a falser idea peo- ple seldom take up. They are no better satisfied with the new place at the end of the year than they were with the old, and so it is move again, which means loss of time, of patience and often of re- ligion, to say nothing of the outlay for new carpets and for furniture smashed in the moving. A score of things are pointed to as indicating the restlessness of the American, but none indicates it better than this flight to new homes which have no advantage over the old. There are meu in this city who have spent enough in this way since they be- gan their married life to buy them homes of their own. In view of this fact there seems to have been & sort of grim humor in making All Fools Day the day for moving. Almost every time one of these men declares and some of them swear as they wrestle with the stove pipe, or bruise their fin- gers with the tack hammer, or wrench their backs putting up the bedstead, that they will not move again until they have to, but as certainly as All Fools Day comes around the fate of flitting befalls them. It would seem that only fate could compel them to go contrary to their sore experience. Nobody more willingly than they admits that moving day is appropriately All Fools Day. Is There No Move Honor Among Us? From the Clearfield Public Spirit. The insincerity of the Republicans in both houses of Congress is seen in the filibustering they are doing every day for the sole purpose as they say of ‘‘put- ting the Democrats in a hole.” Outside of Congress the same kind of patriotism characterizes the conduct of the Repub- lican politicians. The press of the party keep on howling calamity and studious- ly avoiding mention of the thousands of men who have been put to work in the various manufacturing industries since the November and February elections and with secret glee give only the dark side of the situation. They, resent as an insult every evidence of returning pros- perity when shown to them and mis- represent and torture the facts to keep the public from catching onto the lively spirit of improvement in the times. All the filibustering and all the howling is done only for the purpose of tiding the panic past the coming November elec- tion after ‘which the old Republican songs will be.sung by Vanderbilt and other monopolists “The people be damned.” : 4 Mr. Singerly Should be the Candidate. From the Philadelphia Record. 1 . Some political ignoramus who writes to the New York Sun from this city de- clares that there will be no Democratic candidate for Governorin Pennsylvania this year. There are not three States in Democrats than in. Pennsylvania. When they shall fail to.run a candidate for Governor the moon will have four horns. That a Demoeratic candidate ‘will bein the field is sure. He will not be certain of his election ; but until the vote shall have been counted no one can. tell what may happen. And in Illustrating: the Breckenridge Pollard Divorce Telegraphic News. From the Hollidaysburg Standard. Wizard Edison has perfected an in- strument that he calls a kinetescope,. by - which he is enabled to take what may be called a continuous photograph. ' A. hundred successive impressions are taken with such rapidity as to give the resulting portrait & mobility of expres- sion exceedingly life-like. The Kkinete- scope might. be utilized in catching the lightning changes effected by the gentle~ men in the Senate who are manipu~ lating the Wilson Tariff bill. Sweet News for Red-Headeds Soldiers. From the Wayne County Herald. ‘White horses are to be barred from military service in Germany. The Em- ror has ordered that no more be pur- chased for the army, and those now in use are to be sold. He thinks that in war white horses would be especially conspicuous because of the useof smoke- less powder, and would afford an easy mark for the enemy. This decision as to white horses was made also by the French immediately sfter the Franco Prussian war, as 2 result of their exper- ience therein. The Beginning of a Great Revolution. From the New York Evening Post. The Wilson bill is the beginning of a fiscal revolution which Republicans themselves will soon recognize as inevitable at this stage of our nation’s development and which they will event. ually help to complete. Include Governor Penoyer in the Con- signment. From the Montesano, Wash. Economist, ‘Woe propose to send the republican party to the reform school—some of our friends say the insane asylum would be than gallant Admiral Bunuay of the | better bui we hope it is not 80 far gone ' as all that, ADs of ; has no ground: for his suit for $650. the Union in which. there are more | ; hn ; i —Alandslide-at Sample Station. overturned ‘Pittsburg and Western Railroad: locomotives Spawls from the Keystore, —Nine strikers of Apollo were on Saturday convicted of rioting. —The Rainbow Fire Company, of Reading was 121 years old Friday. —Five tons of turkeys were sold at Reading Friday at five cents a pound: —Vandals broke into several Erie churches and wrecked the pews and furniture. —The first timoer raft of the season passed down the Susquehanna River at Fort Hunter Friday. —An investigation of the accounts of the Williamsport Poor Board has been ordered by Couneils. —The Democratic Central Association, of Reading, reorganized by electing Alfred Kun kle president. —It required 300 cars to haul away one order of steel rails from the Pennsylvania Works, at Steelton. —Smallpox has appeared at Pottsville and everybody must be vaccinated, the Board of Health declares. --As yet there is no trace of Henry Harding” the Tunkhannock lawyer who disappeared three weeks ago. —Lawyer Paul R. Weitzel Monday had a hearing, at Scranton, on ajcharge of fraud and embezzlement. —Puddlers in the Lebanon iron mills, who are idle, say they will not return to work for less than §3 a ton. —A threatening tax on electric poles in Scranton has brought down the poles in large numbars. | —A strike of the boy slate pickers, who want shorter days, closed the Parker Colliery, at Pottsville, Friday. —A charter has been granted] to the Hall- stead Textile Company, of Susquehanna County ; capitol, $25,000. —Afflicted with catalepsy, Jesse Eichel- berger, of near Bedford, has for two months been practically unconscious. —The man cut to pieces by a train in Car lisle Saturday night was Daniel Hornbraker an undertaker, of Plainfield. —Suit was Friday begun in Wilkesbarre by that city to recover $51,000 from the bondsmen of ex-Banker F. V Rockafellow. —J. W. Maits, superintendent of a life im= surance company, in Alegheny City, was found dead in a Columbus (0.) hotel. —About 200 tons of Harveyized steel armor plate for the monitor Puritan was shipped Fri- day from the Bethlehem Iron Works. —The Berks County Court settled a suit be- tween Charles Shoaber and his wife by award- ing each the custody of two children. —The Current Publishing Company, of Cam- den, N. J., hag received the State’s permission | to open a branch office in Philadelphia. —The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad will remove the headquarters of the Sunbury division from Williamsport to Shamokin. —Lebanon claims to lead the cities of the girls who are employed in manual labor. —Robert Nelson Clark, an iron manufacturer at Pittsburg, was overcome on Saturday by coal gas while reading and was found dead: ; —The young Shamokin lovers, William Walker and Lillian Hornberger, were captured in Williamsport: betore they had been. mar- ried. for the relief of the wives of miners who re- cently were imprisoned for rioting at Mans- field. : —Augnst Kauffman, for 25 years an inmate of the poorhouse, was Friday arrested inJRead- pocket. : —In a collision.of a passenger and a freigh train on the Fall Brook Railroad, near Jersey Bhore, the locomotives were smashed, but pas< sengers eseaped injury. . oi —Oharles Carter: has notified his- father, in Johnstewn, that he was thrown into a:Mexican dungeon andsis-now seeking redress. through the United States Consul. . y —Ex-Executive Commissioner: Farquhar says Florist Robert Craig, of Philadelphia, re- ceived full pay for his World's Fair work, and slightly. injured Engineers Ross. and Deylin, and blocked th road for 12 hours. ] —At the hearing of J. W. Beamesderfer in Lebanon Friday, Miss Cora Fisher said they had been very good on thei: trip, to Altoona, and eceupied separate rooms. This reduced. the lover's. bail. —The editor of the Bradford Em came near being arrested for an Anarchist in Washing» ton. He attempted to earry. his lunch boxs: into the gallery of the Senate amd was called’ dewan by the door-keepen:. —A local preacher out in.Armastrong cou niy whose congregation was very reluctant aben puiting anything into.the cellection basket had am unusually good: collection the other" night. He had grown tired: pleading with his audience to open their hearts, explaining. to thems the blessedness. of giving. Some one: had stolen a hog from, ome of his members, and before passing the: basket the preacher said: “Now, I want. everybody in this com. gregation to-night to, eontribute something excepting the man, who stole Deacon. Jones’ hog.” The baskel:them went around, and: no ene failed to giwe.. —The counties. in. Pennsylvania, with no debt are Bradford, Butler, Cenf¢re, Clarion Erie, Franklin, Greene, Lawrence; Lehigh Luzerne, Northumberland, Pike, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Vemango, Washington and Wyoming: The tetal of all county debts in” creased last year from $63,602,502 to. §63,892,537" an increase of $380,034. In 1892 there wasa decrease ofiover $21,000,000 in the total county indebtedness. Twelve counties have increas. ed their debs, the largest increases being Philadelphia, $455426; Schuylkill, $194,100: Juniata, $38,132; Perry, $19,879; Huntingdon, $11,320, Allegheny’s indebtedness was de- creased $26,556 and Lackawanna’s $20,000. —The entire number of taxables in the State inereased from 1576,149 in 1892 to, %1,662,~ o56.in 1893, an increase of 6,447. Blair county made an increase of about 50 per cent., or from 19,910 to 49,527 or 9,587, which is the largest percentage of increase in the State and shows clearly that the number of taxables was not correctly veported in former years, particularly in 1892. Dauphin county in. creased from 28623 to 34,5673 or 5,950. Alle- gheny, Berks aud Lackawanna also show large increases, Allegheny increasing from 153,136 to, 107,255. Showing the greatest de- creases are Butler, Clinton, Fowest, Fulton, Huntingdon, Lycoming, McKean, Northamp- ton, Philadelphia, Venango and Warren, the doerease in Philadelphia holag 22,160, State in the ratio of the number of women and —A meeting was-held Sunday to raise fonds ing, and had $330-cash aud a $600 note: in his '- EE —