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Bellefonte, Pa., June 29, 1894,
P. GRAY MEEK, - Epiror
RE —
STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
. For Governor,
‘WILLIAM M. SINGERLY,
For Lieutenant Governor,
JOHN 8S. RILLING,
For Auditor General,
DAVID F. MAGEE,
For Secretary of Internal Affairs,
WALTER W. GREENLAND,
For Congressman-at-Large,
HANNIBAL K. SLOAN
J. C. BUCHER.
Democratic County Ticket.
; JAMES SCHOFIELD,
For Legistators, { ROBERT M. FOSTER.
For Jury Commissioner—JOSEPH J. HOY.
For Associate Judge—THOMAS F. RILEY.
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That ‘Surrender.’
Republicans do not seem to be aware
of the ridiculous figure they cut when
they denounce the Democrats of the
Senate for ‘surrendering to the sugar
trust.” When this so-called surrender
is analyzed it is found to consist in giv-
ing the trust but a fourth of the protec-
tion that the MoKinuey bill affords it.
Rather than such a “surrender” the
the Republicans would have the Mc-
KinLey bill stand, which gives the
trust the advantage of a duty of 50
cents per hundred on manufactured
sugar while the bill as amended in the
Senate provides for a duty of but 12}
cents per hundred pounds.
The bill as it passed the House did
not allow any duty whatever, on sugar
and that is the way it should have
stood ; but those who in framing the
McKINLEY tariff gave the sugar refin-
ers all they wanted, should be
ashamed to denounce as a surrender to
the trust a bill which gives it only a
fourth as much. The fact seems to be
that the Republicans were desperately
in need of a howl on the sugar ques-
tion, and commenced their howling
without thinking of the absurdly in-
consistent and self-condemning posi-
tion it puts them in. :
The relative advantage derived by
the sugar trust from the McKINLEY
bill and the WiLsox bill is made plain
enough by the testimony of treasurer
SEARLES of the trust, in his examina
tion before the Senate committee. Mr.
SearLEs by the way is a Republican.
When Senator ArLLen asked him
which was the more advantageous to
the sugar refiners, ‘the McKiNLEY
act or'the pending bills 2? he replied :
wher Et a U, — are
when farther aclzad Awe mano
advantageous,” he said : “I think one
half more.” The protection in the
margin to the refiner in the proposed
schedule is not one half what it is in
the McKINLEY bill.”
And yet there are fat-witted Repub
licans howling about the Democratic
surrender to the sugar trust.
Police Corruption in Philadelphia.
The Philadelphia Z%mes is doing the
city in which it is published, an ap-
preciable service in calling attention to
corrupt misdoings 1n the police depart
ment of that municipality, and expos-
ing such as it has been able to discover.
Merely the surface can be subjected to
newspaper exposure, as the deep-lying
corruption in cases of this kind can be
reached only by authorized and search-
ing investigation such as has been em-
ployed in New York; but the Times
has shown enough to remove any doubt
that at least a portion of the police of
Philadelphia are in league with crime,
and that wrong doers, for a pecuniary
consideration, are protected by those
who should check their evil practices,
or bring them to punishment. :
Bat to get to the bottom of this evil
and reform it will require some other
power than the authority that regulates
the police force of Philadelphia. The
entire structure of the city government,
is affected by a vicious political sys-
tem, and therefore it is vain to expect
that any serious effort to expose cor-
ruption and wrong-doing in the police
force will be made by those at once
in authority. Itis not to be believed
that the condition of affairs which the
Times exposes has existed ‘without the
connivance of the higher powers. It is
evidently known to those who should
not permit it to exist, and as they are
mn such relation to it, it is not likely
that they entertain a disposition to
bring about the correction of this evil.
It will only be when some outside
pressure, wholly independent of the
volition of the municipal authorities
shall bring the entire municipal ad,
ministration of Philadelphia to judg
ment, that there will be such an ex-
posure as will lay bare its rottenness
and enforce reform. This cannot hap-
pen while the city is under its present
political management, so long as the
public building plunderers, the coun-
cilmanic bribe-takers, the jobbing ring:
sters, and the police black-mailers
have the city government in their
grasp through the instrumentality of a
Republican majority, the ablest pews.
paper exposure of Philadelphia's mu.
nicipal and police corruption will have
no more effect than whistling to the
wind. It may count, however, in pro-
ducing a public sentiment that shall
eventually oust those who will mierule
and plunder the city as long as their
political power enables them to hold
on to its government,
State Cabinet Making.
Upon the supposition that the elec-
tion of HasTINGS as Governor is a sure
thing, the cabinet makers are already
engaged in naming the persons who
will be his assistants in administering
the State government, The list of
these prospective officers that seems
plausible is -RicHarp Quay, Secretary
of the Commonwealth ; James A.
Beaver, Attorney General; and
Tuomas J. Stewart, Adjutant Gen-
eral.
If Dick Quay wants the position,
thus assigned to him, there is no doubt
he can get it in the event of HasTINGS
election. The Governor would be
indebted to his father forthe guberna-
torial office, and therefore what could
interfere with Dick's title to the highest
place in that Governor's administra- |
tion ?
The Secretaryship of the Common-
monwealth is a profitable aod an in-
fluential office, and well might young
Quay consider it worth having. His
father, in the earlier period of his polit-
ical career, regarded it as a desirable
position, and as its occupant, found it
useful not only as a source of revenue,
but a point of vantage from which to
step to the higher stages of boss-
ship.
The control of the Republican party
in this State has gotten to be a matter
of inheritance, handed down from
father to son, like royal dignities in
Europe. The younger CAMERON, by
right of birth, succeeded to ‘old
Simon's senatorial toga, and young
Quay, as heir apparent to the politi-
cal power of the reigning boss, is in
the legitimate line of succession.
Therefore nothing could be more regu-
lar and legitimate than that he should
have the very best place in a State
administration that will owe its crea.
tion and existence to the boss influence
of his dictatorial progenitor. Consid-
ering these circumstances, it strikes us
that there is plausibility in assigning
the Secretaryship of the Common-
wealth to Dick Quay, providing, of
course, that Hastings is elected. It is
reported that young Quay denies the
truth of the ramor that assigned him
the first place in the State cabinet, but
the prudential reason for such a de-
nial at this stage of the gubernatorial
game is quite obvious.
There would also be a good reason
for giving the Attorney Generalship to
ex-Governor Beaver. It is remember-
ed how a little less than eight years
ago. when he became Governor, he
picked np “our DAN" from the obhscur-
ity of & amar country lew practies «=a
made bim Adjutant General. That was
the beginning of HastING’s public prom-
inence, and was conferred for no other
visible reason than neighborly feeling.
But the position fortunately fitted in
with the Johnstown accident, which
was really the flocd-tide of the Gener-
al’s political fortune, He could not
decline the Attorney Generalship to
his old benetactor, if the latter should
want it, and ae itis quite a profitable
position, the ex-Governor’s circum-
stances may make it desirable for him
tobave it. These are considerations
which give additional plausibility to
the slate that assigns the Attorney
Generalship to BEAVER.
But in a case of this kind it may be
well to take into account the celebra-
ted maxim of the covk who said that
it is necessary to catch your hare be-
fore you cook it. The election of
Hastings will be necessary before he
can give out cabinet appointments, and
such a thing may happen as that he
will not be elected.
A Poor Prophet.
Senator Dave HiLL bas not only dis-
credited himself as a Democrat, which
he ouce claimed to be with unusual
swagger, but he is equally unworthy
of credit as a prophet. In the set
speech he made in the Senate against
the income tax be prophesied that in
event of its passage the Democrats at
the next election would, be defeated in
a number of States which he named.
Now, the Democrats may be defeat-
ed in those States, but apprehension
need not be entertained on that score
on account of HiLL's prophecy. His
political vaticinations have uniformly
been failures. When he took it into
his bead to be a candidate for Presi-
dent his propbetic vision flattered him-
self and his supporters with the pros-
pect of a nomination, and yet he had
not the ghost ot a chance in the nomi-
nating convention. After failing on this
point, he was sure that Mr, CLEVELAND
could not carry New York, and po
doubt he did what he could to reduce
the majority of the candidate towards
whom he entertained such decided
enmity, but Mr. CLEVELAND'S plurality
in the State was nearly 50,000. There
is no doubt that Hill was prophetically
cock-sure that MAYNARD would carry
New York, yet he missed it by more
than a hundred thousand votes.
These are illustrations of Dave
Hiwvu's ability as a foreseer of political
events. No one has occasion to be
alarmed by his prophecy that the
Democrats will lose State elections on |
, account of the income tax.
Singerly for Governor!
A Harmonious and Enthusiastic Convention
Nominates a Strong Ticket.—~The Able Edito”
of the Record at Its Head.—Many Prominent
Democrats in Attendance.~ Unity in the Sup
port of the Ticket May be Expected.
The Democratic State convention met
in Harrisburg on Wednesday and unan-
imously nominated the following
ticket :
Governor, William M. Singerly, of
Philadelphia ; lieutenant governor,John
S. Rilling, of Erie; auditor general,
David F. Magee, of Lancaster ; secre-
tary of internal affairs, Adjuant General
Walter W. Greenland, of Clarion ; con-
gressmen-at-large, ex-Senator Hannibal
K. Sloan, of Indiana, and ex-Judge
Joseph C. Bucher, of Union.
The convention was from point of
prominent Democrats in attendance one
of the most noteworthy ever beld by the
party. Every county in the State was
represented by leading party workers
and when chairman Stranahan let his
hickory gavel fall, to call the assemblage,
1200 good Democrats responded to his
‘order !” Everything passed off so
harmoniously that not one cause for
dissension was made. The ticket is
most satisfactory, well distributed, and
made up of men of decided prominence.
All factions in the party acquiesced in
its choice, hence there may be expected
nothing but unity in the fight against
Hastings.
The nomination of Mr. Singerly was
altogether unsought for, but a more de-
sirable man could not have been chosen.
He stands as the harmonizer of the dif-
ferent elements of the party and on this
account will receive its united support.
Besides he is a man of great prominence,
who has been singularly successful and
it is to be hoped his candidacy will have
the desired effect of pulling the 200,000
Grow majority down very considerably.
The other names on the ticket are
those of men well known in the councils
of the party and in public life as well.
The convention passed resolutions
condoning the murder of the President
of the French Republic, endorsing the
State and National administrations and,
after adopting the following platform,
adjourned.
THE PLATFORM.
Chairman Dewitt of the platform committee,
read the declaration of the Pennsylvania
democrats for 1894 as follows :
The democracy of Pennsylvania renew their
expression of faith in democratic principles
and their unfaltering confideses t BE
principles are efficient for good go¥*
mua :
municipal, state and federal, noainess, the
a — po
disturbances between labor and capiwl, the
reduction of wages, the unequal distribution
of profits in ec :nomic operations and the gross
disparity in social conditions which have re-
sulted from the operation of republican laws
will continue so long as they are unrepealed.
The McKinley tariff bill isin full force and
operation. he enactment of that tariff in
1890 impaired international exchange of com-
modities and reduced revenue arising from
duties, which, with vastly increased expenses
through improvident appropiations anticipat-
ing future revenues, led to a deficit in the in-
come necessary to support the government.
A democratic administration left $100,000.000
surplus in the federal treasury. A republican
successor, in four years converted this into a
deficit of $0,000,000. We declare that this con-
dition has followed republican administration,
and that business depression has resulted
from vicious legislation, for which the repub-
lican party is solely responsible. To correct
and relieve these a democratic president and
democratic congress are pledged; and their
efforts in that direction are entitled to the sup-
port of patriotic citizens regardless of party.
Second. We again endorce and Sppioye the
declarations of the democratic national plat-
form of 1892, upon which a democratic presi-
dent snd congress were elected, and we desire
and demaud that the tariff laws be revised in
accordance with that authoritative declaration
of jan principles.
Third. We declare that the consistent,
courageous aud inflexible determination of a
democratic president to maintain the credit of
the government terminated a financial panie,
restored confidence and composed disturbed
values. We are opposed to the reckless infla-
tion of the currency to $40 per capita demand -
ed by the republican state conventions of 1803
and 1894; and while we favor the circulation
of constitutional money, Sold and silver ata
panty of value, we are unalterably opposed to
any debasement of the currency or to the deg-
redation of any dollar issued by the govern-
ment to the people.
Fourth. We heartily approve and endorse
the Sprighi sd ssgacious administration of
President Cleveland, which has fulfilled the
pledges of his party and has satisfied the ex-
pectation of the people.
Fifth. We denounce the dereliction of the
republican majority in the legislative
branches of the state government ; we arraign
it for profligacy and condemn it for refusal to
enact wholesome laws demanded for the pub-
lic welfare, Itrefused to repeal the statutes
requiring the useless advertising of mercan-
tile appraisements at on enormous expense to
the state. It failed to make congressional
senatorial, representative and judicial appor-
tionments, as commanded by the constitution.
It refused to pass the legislation necessary to
rotect the Jublis from unjust diserimination
y corporations. It neglected to equalize tax-
ation in response to the demanas of over bur-
dened labor and of the agricultural interests
of the commonwealth, It persistently refus-
ed to adoptany methcd by which the enor-
mous depoeit of state moneys now scattered
among favored institutions should be made
amply secure and remunerative to the com-
monwealth. It failed to prescribe amend-
ments to the ballot laws necessary to promote
greater purity, secrecy and freedom of the
franchise, and for all this we arraiyn it.
Sixth. We cordially approve and com-
mend the faithful and efficient administration
of Governor Robert K. Pattison, which has en-
forced the laws of the commonwealth, upheld
the rights of all its people, and by fearless and
continuing exaction of official duty has col-
lected the revenues of the state and secured
promptness and fidelity from all its officials
Seventh. We deplore all differences be
tween employer and employe and we depre-
cate the resort to force for settlement of
questions that should be determined by peare-
fu! arbitrament. We recognize the right of
every citizen to be protected in the free en-
joyment of his property and of the privilege to
work when, for whom and at what wages he
will. It i= the duty of the state tc maintain for
him that right. The highways of the com-
monwealth should be open to all who lawfully
traverse thera, and the path to proper employ-
ment should not be obstructed by any unau-
thorized power.
Eighth. None the less we coudemn the
insincerity and inconsistency of those who
clamor loudly for protection to American in-
dustries and yet seek every occasion and lose
no opportunity to supplant it with cheap, im-
ported pauper iabor, We denounce the hypo-
crite who pretends zeal for the improvement
of the social condition of the American work-
ingmen and yet displaces and evicts them for
aliens, ignorant of our law s and foreign to cur
institutions. We stand for the rigid enforce-
ment of all the laws of the commonwealth,
enacted to protect the lives and preserve the
health of wage earners and to secure for
them the prompt and regular payment of their
wages in money of undiminished purchasing
wer.
Ninth. We reassert the old democratic doc-
trine of equal rights and religious liberty ; we
are opposed to all organizations which strike
at freedom of conscience ; and we declare that
no pasty can justly be deemed national, consti~
wutional or in accordance with American prin-
<iptes which is animated by a spirit of politi-
cal proscription or religious intoleranoe.
Tenth. Extravagance of expenditure in
municipal government is the direct result of
republican profligacy, and we urge upon the
people of every city to enforce the salutary
principles of no expenditures in excess of ap-
propriations and no permanent debts for tem-
porary purposes.
Eleven. In accordance with the recommen-
dation of the democratic national committee,
the democratic state, county and city organiza-
tions of Pennsylvania are advised and direct:
ed to further, by every means in their power,
the institution of regular democratic societies
in every election district, and the union of
such societies in the democratic society of the
State and the National Association of Demo-
cratic Clubs.
The convention sincerely deplores the
death of the president of the French republic
and desires to emphasize its sympathy with
the endeavor to perpectual democratic prinei-
ples in foreign lands, and it hereby condemns
all tendency to anarchy and assassination.
Since the convention Judge Bucher
has refused to run and in order to save the
reconvening of the convention his name
will be put up until twenty days before
theelection when, under the rules, the
executive committee can name a candi-
date.
France's President Fatally Stabbed at
Lyons.
An Italian Anarchist Did It.—He Pretended to
Have a Petition.~It Concealed a Knife,—
Dragged Away With the Dagger O:xly Half
Withdrawn.—Death Came Shortly After.—The
Populace Wild With Rage.—They Sack th,
Italian Quarters.
Paris, June 24.—Sadi Carnot, presi-
dent of the French Republic, was stab-
bed mortally at 9:15 o’clock this eve-
ning, in Lyons, by Cessare Giovanni
Santo, an Italian anarchist, 21 years
old.
President Carnot went to Lyons to
visit the exhibition of arts, sciences and
industries. He left the chamber of com-
merce banquet, given in his honor,
shortly after 9 o'clock and walked to
his carriage, which was waiting in the
place de La Bourse, he had hardly
taken his seat when Santo, a news-
paper in his hand, pressed through the
crowd and sprang upon the carriage
steps. President Carnot started slightly.
Santo snatched a dagger from the news-
paper and plunged it into the president’s
abdomen near the liver.
The President sank back urconscious.
He was at once taken to the Prefecture
and the most skillful surgeons in the
city were summoned. Meantime Santo
was arrested.
The news spread swiftly to every
part of the city. Infuriated crowds filled
the streets. Before 10 o’clock the Ltalian
quarter had been sacked and the police
were obliged to strain every nerve to
protect the Italian consulate-
When Santo was within a few feet
of the carriage he waved a paper as if
intending to present a petition and thus
nL %
a8 he was about to jump from the step,
and had but half withdrawn the dagger.
The president had repeated hemor-
rhages after he was removed to the pre-
fecture. He sank gradually but steadily
until 12:45 o’clock this morning he
died.
Mme. Carnot and her two sons left
Paris at 11 57 o'clock last evening by
special train for Lyone.
All the ministers who did not go to
Lyons with the president were in coun-
cil at the Elysee at midnight. The
senate and chamber will be convened
to-day.
A dispatch received at midnight
from Lyons gives this account of the
assassination.
“President Carnot had already enter-
ed his carriage when the attack was
made upon him by Santo. He had
partaken of refreshments at the Cham-
ber of Commerce and the procession
which had escorted him from the exhi-
bition had been reformed in the Place
des Cordeliers and had started for the
Grand theatre, where a gala perform-
ance had been arranged in his honor.
The carriage had hardly more than
started along the Rue De La Republi:
que, amid the acclamations of thou-
sands of spectators, and President Car-
not was acknowledging the enthusiastic
greetings of the people.
In tront of the: Credit Lyonnais a
man suddenly ran forward to the car-
riage, jumped to the steps and stabbed
the president to the heart with a dag-
ger which he had concealed under his
coat. An eye witness who was walking
abreast of the Presideut’s carriage with
Adrien Dupuy, the Premier’s brother,
says that as the President's carriage
approached the Credit Lyonnais, his
own attention was attracted by a slight
disturbance in the tront line of the
crowd.
They saw the carriage stop. The
president had fallen back against the
cushions and his face had become livid,
and hundreds shouted that an attempt
upon the president's life had been made,
and the crowd seemed suddenly to go
mad with excitemeut.
“Meanwhile the assassin had been
felled to the ground by a blow by M.
R'vaud, prefect of the Rhone. He
was surrounded by an angry mob.
Cries of lynch him were heard on all
sides. It was only with the greatest
difficulty that the police were able to
protect him from the fury of the peo-
ple. *‘In tact had not a mob of mount-
ed guards surrounded and protected the
police oun their way to the station, the
prisoner would have been taken from
them and beaten to death.”
At 11:30 o'clock Sunday evening the
surgeons at the prefecture issued this
bulletin : “The president's condition is
alarming but not hopeless. The wound
is in the region of the liver. The hem-
orrhage which at first was very copious
has now ceased.”
A little more than an hour later the
president was dead.
Marie Francois Sadi Carnot, presi-
dent of the French republic, was born
at Limoges in August, 1837. He was
a grandson of Carnot, “the organizer
victory’ under the French convention,
and was a civil engineer by profesgion.
At the age of 20 he entered as a
student the Ecole Polytechnique, and
passed with distinction to a school for
special instruction in the building of
roads and bridges. During the siege of
Paris, in 1871, be was appointed pre-
fect of the Seine In-ferieure, and as
commissary general gave ‘valuable
assistance in organizing the defences
of that department.
In February 1871 he took his seat
in the national assembly as a deputy
for Cote d'Cr and subsequently for
Peaune. In 1886 he took office in the
Brisson cabinet as finance minister. On
the resignation of M. Grevy, in Dec-
ember 1889, M. Carnot was elected
president of the Republic.
President Carnot’s Funeral.
Paris, June 25.—President Caruot’s
body was taken to Paris on a special
train this afternoon. The grand salon
in the Elysee Palace has been trans-
formed into a funeral chamber. A
military guard will be on duty in the
chamber until the funeral which will
probably take place on Friday.
The rulers of all civilized countries
have sent telegrams expressing to
Madam Carnot their sympathy and sor-
row. The concert halls are closed and
the races have been postponed.
In all places frequented by politi:
cians the succession to the presidency
is discussed.
Casimer-Periers chances seem to
improve steadily. This evening he is
a more conspicuous favorite than ever.
France's New President.
Paris, June 27.—The total number
of votes cast for president was 851, of
which six were cancelled because of
irregularities, leaving 845 valid votes.
Of these 451 were cast for M. Casimir-
Perier ; 191 for M. Brisson ; 99 for M.
Dupuy ; 59 for General Fevrier; 27 for
M. Arago,and 18 scattering. Necessary
for choice, 432.
President Cleveland Gives His Opinion
of the Situation.
Offer of the New York Banks.— He States It isa
Very Thoughtful, Patriotic and Important
Action and Tends to Maintain the Treasury's
Gold Reserve in Good Condition.~Some In”
teresting Statistics.
WasHINGTON, June 25.—The presi-
dent in speaking of the financial situa-
tion said : “The offer of certain of the
New York banks to replace from their
vaults gold drawn from the govern-
ment treasury for shipment abroad is
certainly thoughtful and patriotic. It
not only tends to maintain the treas-
ury’s gold reserve in good condition,
but it adds to the stock of popular
confidence, which is at all times im-
portant.
“The elements which make up our
actual situation do not justify any ap-
prehension, and the administration
still adheres to its pledges and deter
mination to protect our national credit
at all hazards and to keep the quality
threw off their guard the persons pons ok HE TRAPSE 60 al ductbE iflreio pT
mit.
“Of course croaking and the spread
of disquieting tales is calculated to in-
jure the strongest financial condition.
I assume, however, that there is too
much patriotism among our people and
too much familiarity with our resources
and capabilities to permit our reserved
force and financial vigor to be discredit
ed. When the last government bonds
were issued to replenish our stock of
gold, we had no available money to
pay ordinary expenses of government,
only about $19,000,000, we have now,
beside our gold and in money applicable
to government expenses more than
$53,000,000. I understand it is charg-
ed in certain quarters that the payment
of matured obligations is postponed to
the amount of $50,000,000, or $75,000,
This ia not true. We are paying as we
go in the nsual way. Last year, up to
June 1, the balance against us arising
from the export and import of mer-
chandise, exclusive of gold and silver,
was over $64,000,000.
The balance in our favor from the
same period this year, was $62,000,000,
representing a change in our favor of
over $126,000,000. These conditions
taken in connection with the willingness
of our banks to help the treasury dur-
ing the temporary and unusual drain
of gold ought to satisfy the most con-
servative of our safety. It must not be
forgotten as another favorable feature
in the situation that we are no looger
purchasing silver and issuing gold ob-
ligations in payment theretor.
A Summer Vacation Suggestion.
July 17th’ and August 21st are the
dates selected for a series of personally-
conducted tours to the North under the
auspices of the Pennsylvania railroad
company. Watkins Glen, Niagara
Falls, Thousand Islands, Montreal, Au
Sable Chasm, Lakes Champlain and
George, Saratoga, and the Highlands
of the Hudson are among the many at-
tractive places to be visited. This sec-
tion is unquestionably the finest sum-
mer touring ground in eastern United
States, and abounds in the most iater-
esting and charming scenery.
A rate of $97.50 applies from Pitte-
burg, $90.00 from Harrisburg, and cor-
respondingly low rates from other
points. These rates include every item
of necessary expense during the entire
time of fourteen days spent on the trips,
and is remarkably low considering the
large territory covered and the luxur-
ious entertainment afforded at the dif-
ferent places.
For detailed information address
tourist agent, Philadelphia, or apply
to Thos. E. Watt, passenger agent,
Pennsylvania wh gin ly 110
Fifth avenue, Pittsburg. :
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Possibly to Some Other Men's Wives.
From the Wayne County Herald.
“If it is true, as the Census Burean
alleges,” asks the Chicago Record,
“that there are 100,000 more married
men in the country than there are
married women, what, in the name of
Hymen, are those 100,000 men mar-
ried to 7?"
Strubinger to Succeed Beltzhoover.
CARLISLE, Pa., June 25.—The Demo-
cratic conference of the Nineteenth
Pennsylvania congressional district
met at Mt. Holly Springs to-day and
unanimously nominated P. H. Stru-
binger, of Adams county, for Congress
to succeed F. E. Beltzhoover.
ADDITIONAL LOCA LS.
The Centre Magnet will do like the
rest of the weekly papers in the county,
take a rest next week. Mr. Bailey did
not make up his mind to suspend publi-
cation next week until it was too late to
put a notice in the Magnet to that effect,
so this it intended to notify his sub-
scribers that they need not look fora
paper, as the editor and the compogitors
are going to teke a rest.
A NEw STATION AGENT AT HUSTON,
—The town of Huston on the new Cen-
tral railroad of Pennsylvania is hust-
{ ling right along, but we had no idea
that it had so much rail-road business as
to require two station agents. This is
the case, however, for a great big boy
came to the home of Ed. Peck, last Sun-
day night, and if he was only about
one-te nth as big as Ed. feels now he
would be able to ‘tend to all the work
along the line. It is hard to tell wheth-
er Ed. or grandpa Sol. Peck, over at
Nittany, is the happiest as neither one
of them has gotten his face straightened
up yet.
JUNE A PrcuLiAR MonTtH.— With
the closing hours of tomorrow the
month of June, fraught with so many
pleasant anticipations for the lover of
nature, who awaits the warm sunshiny
days of the month of roses for the ful-
fillment of his dreams of the ideal sum-
mer hours, will have become historical
and never to be lived again. Little do
we think of the solemnity of fleeting:
time. A day once gone can never
be recalled, therefore let us live so that
we will have no regret at the time that
is passed.
But this month of June.— Why does
it seem more remarkable than any of its
predecessors ? Because of its peculiar:
climatic conditions. It came on us
from May with weather that reminded
one more of the late fall than an early
summer month, then from weather in
which frosts were not unknown the
temperature climbed up so suddenly
that within the first week of the month
the mercury was playing ‘peep
—O” with the 100° mark. Of course
such heat could not fail to bring violent
electrical storms and they came with
almost unprecedented destructiveness.
In this county houses, barns, trees,
eario anw wramanyelngs all. have. suf-
fered the deadening effects of the elec-
tric bolt and with such frequence as to
cause general consternation whenever
the storm clouds appear.
Floods have played no small part in
making this month one that will be re-
membered and the sud’jn rising of
brook and river, carrying death and
devastation on their raging currents has
started many a brain to wondering as to
the cause. The invariable conclusion is
that the gradual clearing away of the
forests has more to do with the sudden
rise and fall of the water than any other
factor. This must be remedied else as
the timber continues to be cut the des-
tructiveness of water will increase.
When the forests are all gone springs
and streams will dry up, climatic
changes will be effected and there is no
conjecturing what the end will be. Is:
it not time for the State to undertake
some means of preserving or reforesting
the mountain districts ?
Ir conclusion, if you glance over the
following prediction of the prophet
Foster for the last week in this month
you will see that the storms were fore
told, and pretty correctly too :
“My last bulletin gave a forecast of the
storm wave to cross the continent from
June 25 to 29, and the next will reach
the Pacific coast about the 29th, cross the
western mountains by the close of 80th,
the great central valleys from July 1 to
3, and the eastern states about the 4th.
This is a danger period, but asit isan
earthquake date, the storm may be only
moderate and the earthquakes great, or
the storms may be great and the earth-
quake moderate. Seismic and atmos-
pheric disturbance of more than ordi-
nary force and of wide extent may be
confidently looked for.
The warm wave preceeding and south-
east of the low will develop extreme
heat, and in the northern states the cool
wave will cause a a fall of 20° to 40°.
Ot course earthquakes and tornadoes
are expected only in countries where
they are common.
The warm wave will cross the
western mountains about the 29th,
the great central valleys about July 1
and the eastern states about July 3.
The cool wave will cross the western
mountains about July 1, the great cen-
tral valleys about the 4th and the east-
ern states about the 6th.
The eastern states, lower lakes, upper
Ohio valley and the east gulf states will
probably have threatening weather, the
great central valleys cool and clearing
and the western mountains and Pacific
coast from moderating to warm and
threatening weather for the Fourth of
July.