CE ———
3Y PRP. GRA
v MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Seamen are said to be scarce, yet
nearly every man knows how to handle
a schooner.
—Corn is going down in price.
Whiskey continues to go down
but not in price.
—-The LexowinG of Philadelphia
has begun. We hope the way of the
transgressor will be hard.
—Suppose the Chinese government
were to send missionaries over here to
convert us to their faith —— What
then?
—Since the Harrisburg Patriot has
espoused QUAY’S cause it might be well
for the Beaver statesman to prepare for
defeat. .
—The uninstructed delegate to the
Republican convention at Harrisburg
will be very apt to set a good stiff prize
on himself.
—Mrs.. CorBETT, the wife of the
prize fighter, has procured a divorce
from her husband and now draws ali-
mony to the amount of $100 per week.
She gets far more than she gave up.
—Two West Virginia post-masters
eloped, on Wednesday, with other
men’s wives. Both of them were mar-
ried too. There is everything to indi-
cate that those women were working
the males.
--NEwTY BAILEY, of the Magnet, has
published a communication setting forth
the dangers of what is termed ‘‘picnic
kissing:” He wants to take in some pic-
nics next week and hopes to scare the
girls off in this way.
—1It appears, from returns that came
in on Saturday that the man who wrote
the modern version of ‘‘the Raven’’ for
a last week’s issue of the Philadelphia
Press, would have to eat his raven in
soup before QUAY gets through with
the ¢Combine.”
—QuAY is having a hard time of it
keeping the CAMERON pack off his-back.
It seems that every turn he makes the
Combine has some new burden to pile
on him, but, withal the old man is
heading for the goal with a determina-
tion that is sickening to the administra-
tion forces.
—Ex-secretary of the navy WHIT-
NEY says he is not a candidate for Pres-
ident, but the man who started the pow-
erful new navy for Uncle SAM, in such
a short time, would be able to launch a
presidential boom in a very few mo-
ments, if he once took it into his head
to do it. -
—Springfield, Missouri, has a woman
sheriff, the first one the country has ever
known. It might be thatshe will have
some murderer to hang during her in-
cumbency. In such an event she will
have become the world’s first woman
executionar, though not the first woman
to kill a man.
—It is reported that the national
capitol boasts only two women bizy-
clists who sport blocmers. That is, the
men riders have been able to find only
two and this seems to be evidence con-
clusive that that is the extent to which
the bloomer fad has grown in Washing-
ton. Dr. MARY WALKER introduced
male attire in that city, years ago, so
that folks down that way will not be
shocked with the bloomer girl.
—The sad death of THOMAS HoOVEN-
DEN, the celebrated young artist, at Nor-
ristown, on Wednesday, when he was
instantly killed, while trying to rescue a
little girl from in front of an approach-
ing train, will bring tears of genuine
sorrow to nearly every eye that has be-
held the simple solemnity of his ‘Break-
ing Home Ties.” An artist who could
portray such a scene as HovENDEN did
in that master work and die a hero’s
death leaves the world poorer, but
glorying in his memory.
—Since the militiamen have returned
from camp GREENLAND, at Glencairn,
many curious bits of gossip have been
afloat. The one topic among the men
being the cool reception and indifferent
manner with which Governor Hast.
INGs was treated during his visit to the
_ camp. They say there was no mistak-
ing the antagonistic sentiment evi-
denced on all sides and when some wag
dubbed the-street on which the Gov-
ernor was quartered, “hog alley” it be-
came popular at once.
—Itsmacks of idiocy for reputable
newspapers to condone the impromptu
meeting of CORBETT and FITZSIMMONS
at GREEN'S hotel, in Philadelphia, the
other evening. Their principal regret
is that it lowered the men in the public
estimation to the level of bar room
brawlers, just as if fellows who make a
business of prize fighting are not of the
lowest order of humanity. No, no,
contemporaries, there is no danger of
Messrs. CorBETT and Frrzsimamons
falling in the public estimation. It is
impossible for them to get any lower
than they are, unless they become brutes
altogether.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 40
BELLEFONTE, PA., AUG. 16, 1895.
NO. 32.
A Dream of Splendor.
There is something eo thoroughly
gorgeous in custodian DELANEY'S
management of the public grounds
and buildings at Harrisburg that it
has been aptly styled “DELANEY
Dream of Splendor.”
How the captain is spreading him-
self in the performance of his custodial
duties ie shown by the lavish manner
in which he is refurnishing and or-
namenting the executive mansion, at
the State's expense, and no doubt..to
his own profit in manipulating the
contracts.
In order that this building may be
made a fitting residence for a Governor
who is also “a favorite son’ and an as-
pirant for the Presidency, $30,000 are
being expended upon its refurnishing.
Rather a liberal sum, it must be ad-
mitted, considering that “appropria-
tions for charitable institutions and
schools had to be vetoed on account of
the scarcity of state funds.
The common glass and silver plated
ware that satisfied PaTrisoNn and had
to be put up with by BEAVER, are be-
ing substituted by the finest cut glass
and the solidest of silver. As it
wouldn’t do for a prospective President
to walk on the common kinds of car-
pet, that were good enough for his less
distinguished gubernatorial predeces-
sors, DELANEY has ripped them off
the floors and put down the highest
priced Wilton’s and the rarest Assy-
rian and Turkish rugs.
It is estimated that it will take a
Central American mahogany forest to
supply enough of that kind of high-
toned wood for the furniture which
the custodian is putting into the man-
sion. Everything is to be mahogany,
or some other wood equally rare and
costly, and in the royal style of Louis
XIV. :
A cluster of chaira in the centre of
the parlor will make a hole in the
state treasury to the extent of $186.
A number of sofas will abstract $175
each from the coffers of the Common-
wealth, which were represented to he
80 depleted as not to be able to supply
the school fund.
"Other tax consumers of this kind
are $135 arm chairs, $100 window
lounges, $250 pier glasses, $200 win-
dow curtains, a $1000 piano with a
$500 cover, $65 curtains for the sleep-
ing chambers, $75 brass bed conopies,
$385 bay window curtains, and a varie-
ty of other expensive bric-a-brac cal-
culated to get away with liberal sums
of the State’s money.
To give some idea ‘of the extent to
which custodian DELANEY has drawn
upon the mahogany forests of the trop-
ics for furnishing material, it may be
stated thatthe articles made of this
aristocratic wood, expressly for the
gubernatorial mansion, include cheval
wardrobes, bureaus, easy chairs, bed-
room chairs, rocking chairs, drawing
tables, clothes poles, chiffoniers, and
other articles of luxurious furnishing,
besides the articles more specifically
mentioned above, making the general
effect appear like a perfect symphony:
in mahogany.
Native wood, however, is not entire-
ly iguored, for among the expensive
furniture which the custodian has put
in the dining room is a cherry exten-
sion table at $150, another cherry ta-
ble at $100, a cherry china closet at
$200, cherry window grilles and arch-
ed grilles at equally modest figures,
and other articles in the same wood,
the cost of which shows that cherry
isn’t bebind mahogany in running up
a furniture bill and absorbing the
public funds.
The unsophisticated reader must not
think that all this new and expensive
furnishing is done because the old
furniture in the mansion was shabby
and worn out. It was in good enough
condition to satisfy the less aristocrat-
ic taste of Gov. PATTISON, but not be-
ing up to the higher toned ideas of
Gov. Hastings the custodian hustled
it out of the mansion, put it up at auc-
tion, where it was sacrificed at a nomi-
nal price, and drew on the state treas-
ury for $30,000 to replace it with more
gorgeous and expensive styles.
One can hardly believe that all this
high-priced splendor is intended for the
official residence of the individual who
canvassed the State last year with the
calamity argument of hard times.
The amount lavished on this furniture
is enough to buy several fine Centre
0
county farms, butgur Dax has grown
to be such an extraordinary public
character, combining a prospective
Presidency with a gubernatorial incum-
bent, that nothing in the line of furni-
ture can be too gorgeous and expen-
sive for his mansion.
Besides, the office of custodian was
expressly made to reward DELANEY for
his party services, and the opportunity
to handle $30,000, in contracting with
the furniture dealers, will enable him
to convert his “dream of splendor” in-
to something of a substantial charac-
ter.
The Boom in Copper.
The new tariff is producing effects
that are even surprising its most san-
guine friends, and gratifying as much
as surprising them.
The booming effect it has had on
the tin manufacture has already been
observed and mentioned, a sickly in-
dustry having béen made vigorous and
tin-works increased more than four
fold in consequence of reducing the
duty more than one half on imported
tin and entirelv removing it from tin
ore.
But the effect on copper manufac:
ture has been even more remarkable.
In respect to this commodity the
McKinley tarift was as absurd as it
was abominable. Although we were
exporters of copper and the mine own-
ers had made large fortunes out of this
product McKINLEY put a heavy duty
on copper ore, :
The Democratic tariff removed this
duty, putting copper on the free list.
It was predicted that this would ruin
that industry, but instead of ruin, the
exports of copper to other countries
have largely increased sincé the new
tariff went into effect, the pride of the
metal has advanced more than two
dents a pound, and the market value
of the stocks of twelve leading com-
panies has increased $30,000,000.
Probably there was never such a
humbugged set of people in the world
as those manufacturers who believed
that their industrial salvation depend-
ed upon a high tariff. They sincerely
believed it; the Republican politicians
had pumped it into them for political
effect,-and how greatly muet they be
surprised to find that a reduction of the
tariff has not only not ruined them,
but has been highly beneficial to their
interest.
Should Settle Waller's Case.
The fine Roman hand of Governor
Hasrtincs’ Attorney General McCor-
MICK was seen in a meeting of the col-
ored Republicans of Williamsport in
support of the HastiNgs=MARTIN com-
bine as against the Quay faction. The
leading spirit in this meeting was the
Attorney General's colored coachman,
who introduced the resolutions, which
no doubt were furnished by McCor-
MICK ‘himself, which goes to show that
he can use his coachman for political,
as well as domestic purposes. These
colored politicians working in the in.
terest of the Combine, demonstrated
their ability to deal with foreign, in ad-
dition to home, questions by resolving
that Secretary OLNEY should insist
that France should give Jomx L.
WALLER, ex-counsul to “Madagascar, a
fair trial. Such an expression, coming
from such a source, ought to have its
influence (?) both with the Secretary
of State and the government of France.
. —In mentioning the compliment
paid C. M. Bower Esq., of this place,
last week, by the Huntingdon county
Democratic convention, in its endorse-
ment of him for the new Superior court
judgeship nomination, we inadvertently
overlooked the fact that the Centre
county Democrats had done the same
thing in convention here on June 11th.
This statement is made to correct any
misapprehension that might have been
caused by the article in our recent is
sue. It shows, also, that Mr. Bowker
will go before the convention with the
endorsement of the old 49th judicial
district.
SE
Congressman BouTELLE has left
the country for a needed rest. It is not
stated how badly the garulous'repre-
sentative from Maine may need a time
off, but it is a certain fact that the
country is entitled to and will enjoy
the needed rest his absence is sure to
give it.
Nonsense on an Old Subject.
Nothing could be more foolish, in
the light of present experience with a
reduced tariff, than the Republican
talk about a return to the McKINLEY
duties. Senator Dusors indulges in
such nonsense when he suggests that
“the restoration of wool to the dutia-
ble list is the thing in which the
West is most interested.”
Neither the West nor any other
part of the country is interested in
any such thing. The short experience
we have had with the WiLsox tariff is
"quite sufficient to satisfy any observ
ant person that great benefit is being
derived from the placing of wool
among the free raw materials and the
reduction of the duties on woolen
manufactures. =
A prominent fact that presents it-
self in thie connection is that since
this change in the tariff was made
there has been a great revival of the
woolen industry. Mills that were
idle or working to a limited extent un-
der the High duties of the McKINLEY
law, are now being actively and fully
operated ; the number of workmen con-
nected with the industry has been in-
creased, and there has been an equally
marked increase in the wages paid
them. :
This is one fact that makes it ap-
pear foolish to talk about the restora-
tion of the McKiNLey duties in the
line of wool and woolens.
Another fact that prominently pre-
sents itself in this co. section is that
while the WiLsox tariff has benefit
ed the woolen manufacture the entire
removal of the duty on raw wool has
not injured the wool raisers. If we
are to judge from the circumstances
that the price of wool has advanced on
an average of two cents a pound since
the new tariff went into effect, the in-
terest of domestic sheep owners has
really been promoted by putting wool
on the free list. -
To fully appreciate this effect of the
new tariff a comparison should be
made with the fact that the price of
wool declined 40 per cent. during the
four years of the McKiNLEY tariff,
When it is seen that in the woolen
industry there is more labor and bet-
ter pay under the Democratic tariff
law, with an actual increase in the
price of domestic wool as a benefit to
sheep owners, and that. moreover, we
are getting more clothing, better cloth-
ing and cheaper clothing as a conse-
quence of lower duties, Republican
talk about a restoration of the Mo-
KixLEY policy sounds like the kind of
talk that is excusable only in a luna
tic asylum.
TE i HEATER.
Too Thin to Fool Even an Idiot.
Nothing could be more absurd than
the argument used by the supporters
of Quay in the faction fight, that a
debt of gratitude is due him, as one of
his organs put it, for “his splendid
work in the Senate that made it possi-
ble to run the great mills upon which
80 much of the prosperity of the coun-
try is dependent.” Quax's work in the
Senate, which was simply work of ob-
struction, was in support of a tariff un-
der which ‘the great mills” either
shut down, or reduced their time and
the wages of the workmen ; and it was
in opposition to a tariff under which
the great mills have again started their
operations and the workmen are get.
ting higher wages. It is difficult to
see in what way his work was splen-
did, and where the gratitude to him
should come in.
Lord Help the “Better Politics.”
QUAY gives the other faction notice
that there is to be no burying of the
hatchet. The fight is to be fought to
a finish in the convention. It is to
gO on, he says; ufitil either he is elimi-
nated from Pennsylvania politics or
the Hog Combine becomes a night-
mare of the past. These are brave
words that come from the old Poss,
but they assume a shade of Lumor
when he says that tue battle he is
waging is ‘for good government and
better politics.” There is a good deal
in this fight that affords amusement
to the public, but nothing that is ca.
pable of causing as much merriment
as this declaration of the old machine
politician and boodle handler.
{ ——Subscribe for the Warcaman
and get all the news of the county.
The Ruling Temperature Is *96.
From the New York Sun.
In the State of Maine, where the spruce gum
Blooms like the summer rose,
And the rough and hardy sawlog
In tropic richness grows ;
Where the frost can’t hurt the ice crop,
Where they spade the ground with picks,
There Tom Reed feels the weather
And finds it 96.
In the State of Indiana,
Out in the boiling sun,
Where the agus gets a foothold
And goes it on a run ;
Where the Hoosier and his grammar
Are never known to mix,
Ben Harrison feels the weather
And finds it 96.
In the State of thriving Buckeyes,
Where great men are a crop,
That will always come to harvest,
And freeze-outs do notstop ;
Where the clip of wool is second
Only to politics,
McKinley feels the weather
And finds it 96.
In Iowa, where the bottle
Has never held its own,
Where the G. O. P. has always
Got all the meat and bone ;
Where the simpie guileless rustics
Have never swiped the tricks,
There Allison feels the weather
And finds it "96.
All through the blazing country,
We find the red-hot sun
Is melting what it touches,
So as to make it run,
And thus it is not surprising,
When things are in this fix,
That thqgse herein recorded
Should find it '96.
SET CE
Morality Has Had Its Sustentation.
From the New York Sun.
The announcement is published that
Col. W. C.P. Breckinridge of Ken-
tucky is out of politics and will never
again accept or apply for a public of-
fice. :
~ The punishment of this brilliant
Kentuckian has been severe; but it
has been rendered severer than it need
have been by his persistent defiance of
the healthy sentiment demanding his
immediate retirement to private life,
He apparently believed that he
could live down his shame just as well
in a conepicuous station as in obscuri-
ty ; and for that reason he has been
treated a little more harshly than
would otherwise have been the case by
a world which certainly does not lack
charity for sinners when they have
once bent the knee.
Will They Win by Foul If Fair Means
Are Impossible ?
From the Pittsburg Post.
The Philadelphia Press estimate giv-
ing the combine 157 delegates, or 12
more than a majority, with 11 delegates
doubtful, is a clear give-away, for to
make up its 157 it includes a consider-
abl number of delegates regarded as cer-
tain for Quay. Those it sets down as
doubtful are for the senator, according
to all probabilities. The combine is
preparing the way for the necessities by
announcing a number of contests. And
in some instances it is bolting the action
of local district conventions. A. favor-
ite maxim with Mr. Magee is that ‘‘ma-
jorities never bolt,” which he seems to
have forgotten in this savage array of
hostile factions.
In Union There is Strength.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The “Cleveland Democrats” and the
“Hill Democrats,” who have for so
long a time been making war against
one another in New York, have put
aside their banners and rallied around
the party of “plain Democracy’’ regard-
less of individuals. Old wounds are
healing rapidly ; the organization of
‘the party is steadily being perfected,
and the Democrats of the Empire
State, which is by right and tradition
thoroughly Democratic, are making
ready for a united and successful cam-
paign against the common enemy at
the polls in November next.
They Can Hardly Bring the Dead Mis-
sionaries to Life Again.
From the Altoona Tribune.
That is cheering word that comes
from China to the state department at
‘Washington to the effect;that the out-
breaks against the foreigners appear to
have ceased, and that Minister Denby
secured promises from the Chinese gov-
ernment for redress of grievances and
future protection, but the average Amer-
ican will place more reliance upon. the
fact that an American gunboat has by
this time reached the vicinity of the
scene of disturbance. :
A Cause of Pride.
From the Wilkesbarre Sun.
‘Big ‘“‘dan hastings’ will be swelled
with pride over the sweeping victory
he achieved in his fight against space
for office to which he had no opposition,
rnd the balance of the ‘‘Hog Cabine’’
will sneak away from Harrisburg dis-
nad with themselves and all man-
ind.
There is Nothing Like Candor.
From the Duboise Express.
A school at Mount Pleasant sends
us a catalogue, which it had printed in
York State, for review. So far as we
are concerned it is at liberty to get its
free advertising in the State where it
got its printing.
——If you want printing of any dis-
cription the WarcaMAN office is the
piace to have it done.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Diphtheria is prevalent in Orwigs-
burg.
—Lebanon is threatened witha water
famine.
—A tramp at Pittston attempted to
murder Chief of Police Williams.
— William Specks dropped dead on the
veranda of his residence at Bristol.
—Rain in the Schuylkill Valley Sunday
was of great value to the corn crops.
—The baby daughter of A. C. Shafer
was killed by a trolley car at Altoona.
—While boarding a train at East
Stroudsburg Thomas Roland was killed.
—Wilson Klein, of Blandon, Berks
county, was struck by a train and killed.
—Mrs. Peter Campbell made an unsuc-
cessful effort to drown herself at Milton. -
—Ex-Senator William Kinsey’s funeral
was very largely attended at Bristol
Tuesday.
—Sawmill Run coal miners, near Pitts.
burg, struck, 500 strong, against a com.
pany store.
—While trying to passa worthless check
at Lebanon, Wnr'J. Ardry, of Harrisburg
was arrested.
—The Pittsburg miners begin to see the
advantages in the recent settlement and
are more satisfied.
—The Grand Circle of Pennsylvania,
Brotherhood of the Union, is in annual
session at Lancaster.
—Despondent because he was out ‘of
work. -William H. Schitler committed
suicide at Reading.
—The President Monday appointed Jes.
se Hollister as postmaster at Mount Car.
mel, vice Isaac H. Hollister.
—The Post Office Department Tuesday
made an allowance of $3324 for clerk hire
in the office at Meadville, Pa.
—After a deadlock involving 50 ballots
the Port Carbon School Board re-elected
Professor C. H. Moyer principal.
—Mrs. Rhoads, housekeeper for Elain
Trout, a Pottstown invalid, bravely
drove a burglar out of his house.
—John Welsh, of Scottdale, was stabbed
to death by John Gallagher, of Everson,
during a quarrel at Scottdale picnic.
—Additional land has been purchased
adjoining the Norristown Hospital tract,
and it will be used for sewerage purposes.
—Bad boys in Pottsville string wires
across the principal sidewalks of the city
endangering the limbs of the pedestrians.
—The Reading Firemen'’s Union has in-
vited Governor Hastings and staff to at-
tend the Firemen’s tournament in Octo.
ber.
—After five years’ pumping at the
Wolf Creek mine, near Minersville, coal
was again broken at the old colliery Mon.
day.
—A slick stranger robbed Jonathan M.
Ruth of a bank book and all his cash
while trying spectacles on Ruth’s eyes at
Reading.
—Schuylkill county had in July an av.
erage of 11614 prisoners per day, whose
average cost of maintenance was 1414
cents per day.
—The Carbondale Traction Company
is asked to pay $25,000 by Miss Lizzie Gil.
martin, who was run down by a car and
lost a foot. >
~The base ball league formed a few
weeks ago by the clubs in Williamsport,
Milton, Sunbury and Shamokin, has
proven a fizzle.
—Miss Mary Garrett, of Philadelphia,
was chosen secretary of the Ladies’ Aux.
iliary of the Atlanta Exposition Com.
mission, at Harrisburg.
—The Anthracite Electric Light and
Power Co., of Pottsville, has asked for an
injunction so that it may: bid for city
lights against the Edison Company.
—Reading Councils have settled a dis-
pute between therival trolley companies
by granting them both the right to lay
tracks on the streets they fought over.
—Ulysses Coffman, of near Uniontown,
was probably fatally stabbed by a neigh-
boring farmer named Huffman, with
whom he quarreled over the division of
some apples.
—An investigation of the free dispen-
sary connected with the Reading Hospi:
tal discloses the fact that many people
who were able to pay have been among
the most frequent callers.
—Peter Schmidt, the old soldier who
was turned out of the almshouse of
Schuylkill county by the officials, and
who was provided with a place at the
Erie Soldiers’ Home has been returned to
the almshouse, violently insane.
—William Hoover will ship his lumber
mill to Oregon next month. The freight
on the mill from Clearfleld to destination
will be $600, yet he says he can save some-
thing at that as the mills in that country
cost about twice what they do here.
—The pupils of the Mission School of
Pottsville were given a fresh air ride over
the trolley road and an outing at Tumb-
ling Run by Mrs. Paul Gruenke, the wife
of the Hotel Tumbling Run, and her
friend, Mrs. Herman Harker, of Philadel.
phia.
—A dispatch from Williamsport says,
Hon. Henry Johnson, the oldest practic.
ing lawyer in this section of the State.
died Sunday, aged 86 years. He was the
nestor of the Lycoming bar, and for
many years had been prominent in pub.
lic affairs.
—Another victim has been added to the
list of those who have met death by the
trolley cars in Williamsport. Florence
Verry was struck by a fenderless car
and instantly killed Friday afternoon.
The upper part of the body was terribly
mangled; the head being cut completely
off, while both arms and shoulders were
broken and crushed. The little girl was
but three years of age.
—A Westover dispatch says: Mrs. Bar-
bara Baum, the oldest person in Cambria
county died on Monday last. She was
born in 1791, having attained the ad-
vanced age of 104 years. This remarka-
ble woman despite her age, enjoyed good
health until the illness which preceded
her death. In her early life she was re-
nowned for her great physical strength
and endurance, performing fgats that
would tax the strength of most able-bod-
ied men. One was that of standing in &
half-bushel measure and shouldering a
bag containing three bushels of wheat.
She cleared many an acre of Cambria
| county forest, for which she received 25
cents per day.