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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—If your children wear combination
under clothes it would be cheaper for
you to buy them stockings to hang up
on Christmas eve.
—The Lancaster church that offered
a medal to any one who would not miss
church or Sunday school during the
year only had to buy one medal, and it
was for the sexton.
— There is one thing certain and that
js if it were not for the church fights
that are continually going on some por-
tions of the congregations would never
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 39.
Carrency Reform.
Secretary CarLISLE's plan of cur-
rency reform is likely to increase in
popular favor the more its points are
find out how bad others are.
—McKiyLey and REeep are said to
be spunky at one another because of |
political jealousies. They would both
like to be used for presidential timber,
but it is not in the wood with them.
—Ttis strange that with the great
Republican sweep of last month not a
single colored Congressman was elected.
The Republicans needed the colored
vote, but forgot to pay for it in any
way at all.
_ Bex TILLMAN bas been elected to
the United States Senate from his
State, South Carolina. No more will
the Governor of North Carolina have
and opportunity to ask his fellow Gov-
ernor to ‘‘take something.”
— Towns that have ruled cows off the
streets should complete the good work
by ordering the loafers to go also.
Between the inoffensive cow and the
profane, tabacco squirter the balance of
favor should rest with the former.
—Many people spend more on Christ-
mas presents than their circumstances
warrant, thus embarrassing the re-
cipients more than if some simple re-
membrance were given them. It is
friendship not value that is the gift.
—_The fellows who are trying to sit
down on the income tax will jump
mighty quick when the collector gets
after them. Their feelings will be hurt
just about as mach too as if they had
squatted on the ordinary variety of tin
tacks.
—The Germans led the beer drinkers
of the world in 1893 by consuming
1,202,132,074 gallons. Withal there
are statistics to show that they did’nt
get as many ‘Jags’ out of it as the
Americans did out of their portion of
the entire consum ption.
— SEELEY, the clerk in the New York
Shoe and Leather bank, who robbod it
of $354,000, has been caught in Chicago:
There will be lots of the stockholders of
the institution who would be glad of an
opportunity to accent the name of the
bank under the defaulter’s coat tail.
— Since the finding of the imprint of
a female foot, 5} feet long, on a strata of
rock underlying the city of Chicago,
the Windy city archaeologists are hope-
ful of settling the question as to which
is the oldest Chicago family. They in-
tend to find a family trace for that
8poor.
—QCongress has been in session nearly
two weeks now and notwithstanding
the currency question seems to be up-
permost, not & single Republican Con-
gressman from our State has ventured
to suggest the $40 per capita idea, that
was so tremendously endorsed last
month.
—-When the Republicans get in pow-
er again in the State, next month, they
will doubtless begin figuring on a new
apportionment bill about the first thing
they do. It is still possible for them to
squeeze a few more Representatives,
Senators and Congressmen out of Penn-
sylvania and we will be greatly, disap-
pointed if they don’t do it.
-—In preparing for Christmas remem-
ber that a present to a friend will be ap-
preciated far more if its Gost is in keep-
ing with your circumstances. The idea
of a present is not of its value. The
monetary worth of your gift will never
be thought of by a true friend, who
could not appreciate an extravagance
which he knew you could not afford.
—When CHRISTOPHER L. MAGEE,
the king of Allegheny, came to town
Monday morning he wes met at the
train by General HASTINGS in person.
There were none of the clerks delegated
to receive the Pittsburg dictator. He
came and went in glory, and we have
dollars to doughnuts that he left his
mark on the books in which the list of
applicants for office is kept.
. —During the fiscal year ending June
30th, 1894, uncle Sam paid $139,804,-
461.05 to his 969,544 pensioners. While
there is no denying that among this
number there still remains many fraud-
ulent claimants who have escaped the
careful Democratic management of the
Pension Bureau we have the greatest
admiration for our government that
thus recognizes its obligation to the
vast army of people whose blood saved
it from falling. The pension is an a&c-
knowledgement to men who died for
their land and unlike the tariff it pags
bounty to those who upheld the govern-
considered. There is in it much that
commends it.
The currency system, under which
the business of the government and
the country has been done since the
war, is defective in many particulars,
its defects being a necessary result of a
system that has been mere patchwork
and makeshift on the part of Republi-
can financiers. This fact is now being
generally recognized, and it prepares
the public mind for the acceptance of
the monetary reform proposed by the
President and the Secretary of the
Treasury.
One of the objects of this reform is
to get the government out of the bank-
ing business into which it was brought
by the exigencies of the war that oc-
casioned the doing of so many things
of doubtful constitutionality and ques:
tionable benefit. There was a time
when the government's paper money
answered a useful purpose in enlarging
and giving stability to the currency,
but that it can be troublesome and
dangerous when the government's
stock of gold is low, has been proven
by the recent embarrassment in main-
taining the reserve required to meet |
the obligation of such floating indebt-
edness. A difficulty of this kind on
the part of the government is enough
to derange the entire finances of the
country, as has been the recent exper-
ience.
There is noreason why the govern-
ment should continue to be the source
of any partot the country’s supply of
paper money. The proposed reform
will hand this function over exclusive-
ly to the banks. It will simplify the
carrency by making it of but one char-
acter, issuing from but one source, and
BELLEFONTE, PA., DEC. 14. 1894.
"NO. 49.
relief. It is proposed to remedy this
by the government keeping on hand a
supply of blank notes which will be
promptly furnished to any bank that
may bave occasion to meet a pressing
demand for more currency, upon its
giving the required security for this ad-
dition to its circulation. It is easy to
see the relief that would be afforded by
such flexibility of the circulating me-
dium.
The new currency plan no doubt has
points that may be modified, and im-
provement in some of its features may
be suggested, but its general character
is such as should commend it to the
people.
Does Quay Favor Addicks?
We can scarcely believe the dispatch
we see in the papers that Quay denies
the truth of the report that he favors
the election of Appick’s for United
States Senator by the Delaware Legie-
lature. There are reasons for our be-
lieving that there is more truth in the
original ramor than in the denial as-
cribed to the bess.
Appioks is a millionaire, without a
single qualification for Senatorial
office, but having furnished a large
portion of the money that was used in
carrying Delaware for the Republicans
this year, he demands the United
States Senatorship in consideration of
that service. No doubt it was prom-
jsed him in return for the outlay,
the transaction having assumed the
nature of a bargain. If he had not
supplied the boodle there would not
have been a Republican majority in
the Delaware Legislature to elect a
United States Senator. Having paid his
mouey for it, is he not eatitled to a de-
livery of the goods ?
The circumstances connected with
Appicks’ case are just such as would
atiract the sympathetic interest of the
at the same time greater flexibility will
be imparted to 1t asa circulating me- |
dium. Such provisions is made for its
validity as will render it secure in the
hands of the people for its full valua- i
tion in any event.
This is to be done by securing the
redemption of the notes, in the event
of bank failure, the same as in the!
case of national banks, but by different |
means. A guarantee fund for this |
purpose will be supplied by the banks |
depositing with the government legal |
tender or (reasury notes to the amount
of 30 per cent of the currency they in- |
tend to circulate, to which is to be
added the proceeds of a tax of one half |
of one per cent. on the general bank cir-
culation. As a primary, security how-
ever, the assets of a bank doing business
under this system will be liable for the
redemption of its notes, which will be
a preferred lien in case of its failure.
This security, directly bearing upon
the assets of the institution, in addition
to the 30 per cent. of legal tenders de-
posited with the government, would
ordinarily be sufficient to liquidate the
circulating notes of a broken bank ;
but if there should still be a deficiency,
all the banks under the system would
be liable to contribute to make it up.
Much has been said in praise of the
present national banking system in
that it furnishes the people a paper
money that 1s always good. But the
new system would supply a currency
equally reliable, and would also do
away with defects that are serious ob-
jections to national banks as now con-
stituted. The substitution of legal
tender notes for government bonds as
security for the redemption ot the cir-
culating notes in case of bank failures,
would do away with the unfairness
which has always appeared to be con-
nected with the national banks draw-
ing interest on the bonds that furnish
the bais of their circulating on which
they also make a profit. It was this
feature that gave much force to the
contention of the Greenbackers against
the national banks some years ago.
The new system, moreover, would
give greater flexibility to the currency.
Under the present arrangement there
is a rigidity that prevents the imme
diate relief that is needed when there is
found to be a deficiency of currency in
any particular section or locality. The
amount of paper money which the gov-
ernment may isine is fixed by law, and
the increase of the circulation of a na-
tional bank is attended with formality
ment instead of to thosa who are trying
to break it down.
and delay. Immediate necessity for
Pennsylvania boss. They are enoigh
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UY wes ve werd da fa LAS,
he recognizes the usefulness of boolle
as a political factor, and relies upon it
asthe most potential agency io Repub-
| lican politics, was evidenced in his
management of the campaign of 1888.
Boodle being regarded by him as indis-
pensable in accomplishing party ends,
and having an instinctive and general
liking for corrupt politics, it is entirely
nataral that Quay should find in Abp-
picks’ case the strongest reasons why
he should have the Delaware United
States Senatorship. The connected
circumstances being such as would
make the Delaware aspirant a candi-
date after his own heart, we are not
disposed to believe that the Pennsyl-
vania boss is not for him.
AC ECA ST
—— The Philadelphia Press would
like to see QUAY the Republican nomi-
nee for President in 1895, so the How-
ard Hornet says. Just what source the
Hornet got its information fromis hard to
tell, bat we rather think it misconstru-
ed some fine sarcasm which the Press
had possibly flung at MATTHEW. The
Press only said such things with the
idea of raising hopes that it would
take so much satisfaction in helping to
blast.
SS
Something for the People to Correct.
The business like way in which
Appicks' claim to a seat in the United
States Senate is put forward is an
astounding evidence of the demoraliza-
tion that has overtaken public genti-
ment in regard to such elections. His
claim is coolly spoken of as a right ac’
quired by purchase. He advances it
upon no other ground. No one cou:
tends that he is competent for the po-
sition. He is only a vulgar millionaire,
grown rich in the manufacture of gas,
who wants the distinction of being in
the Senate, but he furnished the
money that helped to bring about a
situation 1m the Delaware Legislature
that enable the Republicans to elect a
United States Senator, and in all like-
lihood that Legislature will take a bus:
iness-like view of the matter and give
him the worth of his mouey.
In view of the base use to which the
United States Senatorship is being put
is itnot about time that the people
take this abuse in hand and correct it
by the popular election of United
States Senators ?
EU SSE
—The days of hero making are gone.
Men don’t bother themselves boosting
others now-a-days. Hveryone wants to
more currency cannot have immediate
be pushed up himself.
Trouble About the Penn Statue.
Philadelphians are not satisfied with
the way the statue of WiLLiam PENN
is posed on the tower of their City Hall,
and considerable feeling exists in re-
gard to it. The position is such that
the sun shines on WirLiam's back in-
stead of illuminating his benignant
Quaker countenance, and those who
take account of such matters com-
plain that this defect detracts from the
artistic expression of the figure. There
is a good deal of kicking about it, but
it will do no good, for it can’t be ex-
pected that anything will be done to
alter the incorrect posture by the low-
down political gang who control the
work on the public building and have
about as dim a conception of artistic
propriety as they have of official in-
tegrity.
Some of the critics contend that in-
stead of facing north, with his weath-
er-eye oo New Jersey, the great founder
ghould have been given a position on
the tower that would have brought the
State of Pennsylvania more fully with-
in the supposed range of his vision.
This would have been effected by giv-
ing him a northwestern facing, as in
that position the great State he found-
ed would be spread out before him,
looking over it from its eoutheastern
corner, and there would be a fuller
meaning in the benevolent manner in
which he extends his right hand, as if
conferring a blessing upon the people
of his State. But as they have placed
him the benediction has more the ap-
pearance of being intended for the Jer-
seymen across the river.
However, itis doubtful whether the
statue, whatever its pose might be, if it
were conscious would view either the
State or the city of Penn with unalloy-
ed satisfaction. It would see right
down beneath it the most corruptly
governed municipality on the continent,
managed by a thievish combine whose
‘pageally PFACLIGES win uswuion wav
world when once the cover that con-
ceals them is fully removed, and it
would look out over a State whose pco-
ple have surrendered its governmen!
into the hands of political bosses.
SE A SEL STR
~The Philadelphia Record Alia:
nac for 1895 is the first to reach us
and while its appearance gave us a
moment's sadness, for it recalled the
end of the old year, a glance over its
ninety-six pages quickly brought back
a feeling of satistaction. Since we
realized, from its excellence, that our
valued contemporary is impatient for
the new year to come in order that it
may show more of the energy that has
already made it the leading penny pa-
per of America and the equal of all
the others.
TI SCAR A
Its Magical Effect.
“Tin, tin, American tin,” was a Re-
publican campaign cry, but when re-
sults were looked for very little was
found to have been produced by the
alleged protection of the tin industry
by the McKINLEY tariff. A few small
factories were erected, which gave em-
ployment to a limited number of work-
men, most of whom were imported, as
was most of the material used in the
business.
The WiLsox tariff gives quite differ-
ent treatment to the tin industry. It
reduced the heavy duties which the
old tariff had puton tin plate, and
placed pig tin on the free list. The
beneficial effects of this action have
been two-fold. The people have been
relieved by the reduction of the
cost of a necessary article, and the tin
manufacturers have been relieved of
the expense of paying a heavy duty on
the pig tin which they are compelled
to import, as it is nota natural pro-
duet of this country.
The WiLsoN treatment of the tin in-
dustry has already produced some re-
markable results. A number of large
tin factories are springing up in various
parts of the country, the building of
some of which has been commenced
since the new tariff weat into operation,
and there is every indication that a
business that was merely a tinkering
gort of thing under MoKINLEY'S pro:
tection, will soon develop into a vigor-
| ous and permanent industry. The
| trouble with it under the Republican
| arrangement was that it had too much
tariff.
“Tin, tin, American tin,
become a reality.
will now
Some Day We'll All Go Sailing Through
the Air,
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
It is interesting to learn that the ex-
periments of Prof. Langley in solving
the problem of aerial navigation have
brought him abreast with Maxim. In-
deed, Prof. Langley seems to be 2 little
ahead, as Maxim has not yet reached
the point of letting his machine soar
away from the track to which it 1s con-
fined, while Langley’s model has taken
a flight by itself, albeit ending some-
what ingloriously. Per contra, Max-
im’s machine has shown its ability to
overcome gravitation with the engineer
and one or two passengers cn board,
while Langley’s was only constructed
of a size to carry itself.
Nothing is more typical of the pro-
gress with regard to the solution of the
art of flying than the fact that twenty
years ago the flying machine man was
unanimously set down as mentally un-
balanced, while to-day two of the best
recognized scientific minds of the world
are competing as to which will first
reach complete success. That there is
such a solution, both have demonstrated
when they constructed mackinery able
to use the atmosphere to mount above
the earth. They may still be a long way
off from the perfection of their inven-
tions that will make aerial navigation
safe and commercially possible, but the
first step to that goal has been taken
when their machinery has demonstrated
its ability to leave the support of terra
firma and mount into the air.
‘We may hope that this generation
will see it or we may fear thatit will
be centuries before airships are as suc-
cessful and safe as transatlantic steam-
ers or vestibule express trains. But
when Langley and Maxim made their
machine fly, even for a short distance,
they took the first steps along the path
that leads to the day of airy navies, and
flights where heretofore man has travel-
ed only in dreams.
He'll Write Mean Things About Us After
He Gets Home.
From the Philadelphia Times.
Dr. Conan Doyle is to be congratu-
lated on his self-control. He was giv-
en a little dinner in New York betore
gailing for home, and on getting on
his lege to return thanks—did not tell
his hearers what he thought of
America.
It was in the early days of our in-
were first encouraged in the dangerous
practice of offering their opinions on
what they had seen. Visitors and the
opinions of visitors were then & novelty,
and our honored grandparents were
glad to get them.
Times have changed, however, and
we are beginning to feel, not that we
should like to discourage the visits of
our friends and kinsfolk, buat that it is
immaterial to us whether they are sat-
isfied with us or not. Itis impossible
not to feel that Dr. Conan Doyle must
have noticed this. It would be depress-
ing to think that be really had met
people who asked him how he liked
America.
Dead Heads Count for Something
There.
From the Philadelphia Times.
The Japanese Government has lost
its head if its demand for the execution
of Chinese officials who offered re:
wards for Japanese heads is true. This
practice is familiar in Oriental warfare
and a bounty on Indian scalps has dis-
graced our own recent history. For-
bidden as such a practice is in eiviliz-
ed warfare, no power has ever made
the demand credited to Japan, and the
only similar demands have been in the
case of officers guilty of exceptional
barbarity to prisoners. A refusal to
give quarter is within the accepted
discretion of every military command-
er, civilized or uncivilized.
IIS
What Pattison is Expected to Say.
From the Mifflintown Democrat.
Gov. R. E. Pattison’s biennial mes-
sage to the legislature, on which he is
at work, will make special reference
to the large increase in the state rev-
enues and to the redemption of over
$2,000,000 bonds within the past year.
He will recommend changes in the
ballot law, so as to provide uniform
blanks.
The governor is expected to indorse
the granger’s equalization tax scheme
unless the bill prepared by the tax
conference should be acceptable to the
grangers.
We Are the Fashion in Hawaii
From the New York Sun.
Hawaii becomes more and more a chip
of the old block. The first Thanksgiving
Day of that republic was celebrated
this year, and President Dole appointed
it for the day that we observed in the
United States. May 80, Decoration Day,
had not been forgotten at Honolulu,
and the Fourth of July also received a
good share of honor. Pretty soon we
may expect election day to be the same
there as here, in spite of Cleveland axd |
| tic fit of which she was subject and being
Gresham.
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Dan Is Real Funny.
From the Pittsburg Post.
If General Hastings said what was
spawlis frowa the Keystone,
—Williamsport is to have a new electric
light plant.
—The Williamsport wire rope company
will enlarge their plant.
—The Pennsylvania State Sunday School
Board met at Pottsville, yesterday.
—Eighty applications for license haye
been filed in the Clearfield county court.
—Wilkesbarre hunters killed two bears
| in Sullivan County, the largest weighing
250 pounds.
—Daniel Sheckter, aged 30, of Lehighton
was ground to pieces at Easton while
shifting cars.
—Silver Brook Colliery No. 1, near Haz,
elton, has been abandoned, and 300 men
are thrown idle.
—Hog cholera is prevalent around
Friedensburg, Schuylkill County. One
farmer lost 37 hogs.
— Eighteen janitors of Reading public
school houses have been sworn in as spec
ial school police officers.
—DuBois hosiery factory resumed op-
erations Monday, giving employment to
fifteen or twenty persons.
—Schenley Park, Pittsburg’s pride,
which now embraces pearly 400 acres, is
to be almost doubled in size.
—Samuel Trego, aged 53, of Gilberton,
accidentally shot himself while gunning
Saturday, and will probably die.
— A reward of §100 is offered for any in.
formation concerning George Jones, who
disappeared from Tamaqua several weeks
ago. _
—Sheriff Cardon, of Clearfield, expects
to gointo the hotel business in the Dill
Mansion after the close of his term of
office.
—Ex.Poor Director Daniel Reichart, of
near Pottsville, was fatally hurt Satur-
day by being dragged by a pair of runa-
way mules. \
—The York Young Men's Republican
Club house was broken into Friday night
and robbed of a case of cigars and a small
sum of money.
—Robert Comfort, agent for Kutz Broth-
ers, installment dealers, Reading, was ar-
rested at Wilkesbarre Saturday, charged
with fraud.
—Elias Peters, alias Brooke, of Union-
town, aged 43, an outcast from a promi-
nent family, shot himself through the
head Saturday.
—S8chuylkill County politicians will try
to have the Legislature give the county
an Orphans’ Court Judge, to which it is
entitled by population.
—The employes of the H. & B. T. R. R.
shops at Saxton are again happy, all the
suspended men having been put at work
and all hands on full time.
—A bear was killed in Clinton county
the other day which weighed 369 pounds
| when dressed. Fifty four shots were tired
at it before the animal was killed.
—One evening last week a wild cat got
among a flock of geese at Flowing Spring,
but before 1t succeeded in securing a
meal was shot. It measured three feet in
length.
—Meeting again, near Homestead, after
a lapse of a year, Thomas Morgan and
James MaCormick. hath of Harriahnwve
probably fatally shot the latter.
_A Western New York & Pennsylvania
freight train ran into a landslide near Oil
City Saturdays The engine and a dozen
cars were overturned and Brakeman
Kierk was probably fatally injured.
_ After being in the woods three days
without food Harry Devoy, of Pittsburg,
and Frank Taylor, of Elwood, horse
thieves, were surrounded and captured,
near Wurtemburg, Lawrence County.
__1t is rumored that the “Dill Mansion’?
at Clearfield, has been purchased by &
Clearfield citizen of county prominence
and will be converted into a hotel. It is
the most complete building in the county.
—The trunk of a newly wedded couple
which arrived at the Holidaysburg sta.
tion one day last week bore the following
inscription: “What New Jersey hath
joined together let no Pennsylvanian put
asunder.”
—Isaac Roth, the self-confessed incen=
diary of Brunnerville, Lancaster County,
was given a hearing in Manheim, Satur-
day, on the charge of arson, and discharg-
ed, the statue of limitation having barred
criminal action.
.
—In a recent conversation Judge Gor-
don is said to have expressed the opinion
that there are too many licensed houses
in Clearfield county. The question of
licenses in various parts of the county
was being generally discussed.
—Chairman Gripp, of the Allegheny
County Committee, Saturday appointed
the sub-committees, with C. L. Magee as
chairman, to extend an invitation tothe
Republican National Committee to hold
the national convention in Pittsburg in
1896.
—The Bucks County Farmers’ Alliance
adopted resolutions requesting the Leg-
jslature to pass an act prohibiting the
sale of intoxicating liquors at primary
elections, and requesting the Legislature
to revise the present laws in regard to
costs in trivial cases.
—1In Norristown Saturday Frank Smith,
for attempting to feloniously enter a
railroad station, was given two years;
William Koch, for working the flim-flam
game, two years and two months, and
Charles Van Allen, same charge, two
years, all in the Eastern Penitentiary.
Horace C. Hand, cashier of the Wayne
County Savings Bank, says that bank has
none of the H. E. Simmons paper said to
have been negotiated by D. L. Kellam,
for which Kellam is now under arrest in
New York for conspiracy to defraud
Henry E. Simmons in the sum of $85,009.
— Mrs. David Ake, an aged lady living
at Osterburg a few miles from Bedford,
was found lying face down in a small
stream of water Friday. While crossing
a foot log between her home and that of
her son she was attacked with an epilep-
unable to help herself, was drowned.
__The Clearfield Law association will
hold a meeting at the law library room
| at Clearfield on Monday, December 17th
| at 10 a. m., and will complete the organi.
credited to him, thai there was noth- | zation. Itsobject is the social and pro-
ing political in C. L. Magee's visit to
Bellefonte, he either thinks the public
quite innocent, or is gatting quite jokey
himself.
| fossional advancement of the bar, and to
have an organization eifective and ready
to break up corrupt practices and non
professional work.
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