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Ink Slings.
—It is easy to get married. Quite
different to get enough to keep a fam-
ily."
—If humane societies keep on, why
we won’t be allowed to pare our corns
after while.
—There is nothing to indicate that
the man who refuses to pay his debts is
destined to die rich.
—The century plant has bloomers
once in a hundred years, but the Cen-
tury wheel bears them daily.
—The great storm in the West was
not a FORAKER blow. His time won’t
come until he gets into the Senate.
—A machine to milk cows has been
invented, but it is not nearly as effect-
ive as the cow’s machine for kicking
the operator.
—The Valkyrie is for sale. She
would make a good garbage scow for
Philadelphia. They want something
slow down there.
—Tonsorial artists in all parts of the
land will experience a decided increase
of business to-day. The foot ball sea-
son ended yesterday.
—The everlasting fitness of things is
nicely illustrated in the arrangement
that brings the foot ball season to a
close on Thanksgiving day.
—The man, who sits around waiting
for a shower of silver dollars to fall into
his pockets, would be too lazy to pick
them up if they fell at his feet.
—Bad boys are beginning to hang
around Sunday school doors. That lit-
tle cornucopia of candy given out at
the Christmas festival is in sight.
—The horseless wagons that are
talked about now are very much like
the Chinaman’s electric car : there is “no
pushee, no pullee, car go alles samee
likee hellee.”
—When SCHLATTER, the unique
faith curer who appeared in Denver
last week, dubbed himself “the healer’?
few people realized the significance of
the cognomen:. When his sudden dis-
appearance was announced they knew
that he was indeed a heeler.
—They say a man’s residence for vot-
ing is always at the place where he gets
his washing done. BRICE has had his
political linen all rubbed to pieces in
the Ohio machine and is now going to
move to New York. He will not need
more than one car to carry his furni-
ture. :
—The Bethlehem iron works has just
received the largest order for armor
plate given to.any foreign nation in re-
cent years. The order comes from Rus-
sia and specifies 1,126 tons of HARVEY-
ized plate. We hava been trying to re-
member whether such a thing as this
ever happened while the McKINLEY
bill was in operation.
—JOHN SHERMAN has the reputation
of being a crafty man, but that quality
didn’t succeed in diverting the public
eye from himself to the characters he
assails in his book. On the contrary,
there seems to be a determination
among the people to examina the gun
before they become interested in the ac-
curacy of its shooting.
—The seal question has again become
a serious one to Uncle Sam. The close
of the season discloses the startling fact
that twenty-seven thousand pups have
been found starved, on the Pribylov
islands, because their mothers had been
taken by sealers. It is sad to contem-
plate, but the seal question will not be
settled until the last seal is killed.
—CORBETT’s latest : “I am disgusted
with the entire business and henceforth
will confine my enterprises to the
stage.” He was talking about his pro.
fession as a prize fighter when he made
the above declaration. While we are
glad to know that the brutal business
has no more attraction for CORBETT we
are inclined to believe that he has
grown sick of it only because there is
not much money in it any more.
—The McCORMICK-ROCKERFELLER
wedding at New York, on Tuesday, was
a very quiet affair, considering that the
young people’s daddies are millionaires,
away up in figures. The bride is a
daughter of the Standard oil magnate,
while the groom’s papa has grown
wealthy manufacturing the barvesting
machinery that bears his name. There’s
is a fitting union, indeed. With plenty
of the Standard oil to lubricate it the
McCormick machine ought to work
easier than ever:
—C. H. RoGERs the MCARTHUR,
Ohio, man who spoke disrespectfully of
a lady school teacher, was taken to the
fair ground in that place, on Monday
night, tarred, feathered, and ridden on a
rail. He appealed to the sheriff of the
county to know what to do with him-
self after he had been dressed in his
sombre plumage, and that functionary
advised him to take to the woods. If
RocErs followed the suggestion he bas
more than likely been shot for a
Thanksgiving turkey ere this.
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_VOL. 10
~ BELLEFONTE, PA., NOV. 29, 185%
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
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NO. 47.
What the People are to Expect.
Ex-Congressman CaLpweLL, of Ohio,
tells the people what they have reason
to look for as the result of the Repub-
lican victories. He says that a return
of the Republican party to power will
be followed by the restoration of the
McKINLEY tariff, and he especially de-
clares that- “it means a duty on wool.”
So the people can expect to have
business disturbed, and all the indus-
trial disorder resulting from another
tariff agitation, in order that the capi-
talistic beneficiaries of ‘protection’
may have a restoration of big profits at
the expense of consumers.
It can not be denied that under the
present reduced tarift business isin a
satisfactory condition. Nothing can be
more evident than that labor is now
in a better condition that it was under
the McKINLEY policy ; that it has
more steady employment and is getting
better pay. No interest is demanding
a higher tariff except the trusts, which
can practice their extortion with greater
effect aud security under the protection
of higher duties. Is the country to be
disturbed by another tariff campaign
for their advantage ?
As to the restoration of the duty on
wool it may be plainly stated that with
free wool the people are getting better
and cheaper clothing. The woolen
manufacturers have their mills in full
operation, have control of the home
market, and in consequence of cheaper
material are even sending their prod-
ucts to foreign countries; they are
paying better wages and are making
more money than they did when Mc-
KiINLEY’s bill was in operation.
In the face of these facts we are told
that when the Republicans return to
power there will be a restoration of the
economic barbarism ot a tariff on wool
that would deprive the country of all
this benefit.
|
We believe that the people will have |
something to say about this matter |
before it can be consummated.
—
Another Compulsory Law.
The effect of the new factory law
which is now in effect, will be far from |
being an unadulterated benefit. It be-
longs to the class of compulsory laws, |
which however good their object may
be, are ‘necessarily attended with a
good deal of harm. The factory law, |
as a gpecimen of compulsory legizla-
tion, is a companion piece to the edu- |
cational law that is intended to com- |
pel all the children of the State to go |
to school. |
There are thousands of youths in the |
State under sixteen years of age, em. |
ployed in mille, factories and shops,
who, by the terms of this law, will be
compelled to stop work and become
attendants at school. The general ef-
fect may be beneficial, although that is
problematical, but such are inflexible
rule is likely to work hardship in
many cases where the labor of boys
of fifteen and. sixteen is helpful to de-
pendent parents. It is doubtful whether
the little schooling forced upon reluc-
tant boys of that age will compensate
for the loss of wages brought about by
this compulscry interference.
That children of tender age should
not be put to daily labor cannot be
questioned, and is equally unquestion-
able that the children of the State
should have the advantage of the pub-
lic schools, but 1t is far from being cer-
tain that the interests of the rising
generation can be most effectually se-
cured by compulsory means.
—-We are loath to believe that such
is really the case, but it does look a
little as it the Governor was afraid the
people ot the Commonwesa!th are be-
ginning to imagine that some one,
other than himself, is writing his
speeches, proclamations, ete. Suan-
day’s Philadelphia Times made a long
route about the bush, but finally suc-
ceeded in working in a fac-simile of the
Governor's original draft of his recent
Thanksgiving proclamation. It took
a whole page in the Times to worm up
a sufficient excuse for publishing the
fac simile and when done there are
very few readers of that paper who
will be able to comprehend the motive
in its publishing an original draft,
nearly three weeks after it had pub-
| lished the text of it.
| SS———————
| ——The approach of a comet “that
{ will soon be visible to the naked eye”
. will be very apt to force some fellows
| made exempt from taxation, and main-
' to use “‘eye-openers.”
Destroying Forests — Exterminating
Game.
In a recent issue we called the atten-
tion of our readers to a condition that
confronts the people of this Common-
wealth and proclaims itself of vital in-
terest to us in many ways.
In writing of the destruction of our
forests we noted the growing frequency
of floods and droughts, as the result of
the gradually clearing of vast wooded
areas.
There is another consequence of this
devastation. The gradual disappear-
ance of the gamethat was once so
plentiful in all our mountain regions.
The reports of hunters, who have gone
out this fall, indicate that game of all
kinds is unusually scarce. Deer, bear,
squirrels and pheasants seem to be dis-
appearing eatirely and where once the
Allegheny mountains were their nat-
ural home, now they are only occa:
sionally found.
The explanatisn is a simple one, and
is the same as that for the frequency of
droughts and floods of late years. The
destruction of the forest deprives its
denizens of a home and they either
live or are soon killed for want of
places of concealment and breeding.
Take the laurel thicket from the
bear, the virgin forest, with its protect-
ing undergrowth, from the deer and the
hickory bottom from the squirrel and
they will soon die out for want of nat-
ural surroundings. Each must have
the lair to which it is native if we want
the species to replenish itself and when
we cut the forests away we either drive
our game before the woodeman's ax or
expose it to the immediate destruction
of hunters.
The sportsmen’s associations of the
State have led a most commendable ef-
fort in the past to have the Legislature
buy large areas of wild lands in which
to establish and maintain game pre.
serves for the propagation and protec
tion of all kinds of game. We have:
our state fisheries, which have already
proved their usefulness, and it is not
unreasonable to assert that state game
breeding farms would go a long way
toward foreetalling the extermination
of our wild animals and fowls.
Wild land could be purchased at a
nominal sum by the State, it could be
tained and guarded at small cost. |
Preparatory to the establishment of |
such preserves all hunting should be |
prohibited for a period of at least five
years, then the woods would have
time to be restocked, and with the ad.
ditional protection rendered "by the
State's vast preserves, game would
abound once more as it did years ago.
——
An End of It.
In every attempt.of the natives to
throw off the Spanish yoke Cuba has
had the sympathy of the United States.
Though they haye never been official
ly recognized as belligerents they have
always been aided by the individual
interest of our liberty loving people.
There are many advantages in hav-
ing friends within a few hour's voyage,
but the insurrectionists ceem to have
forgotten this as well as the fact that
their junta is on the way to Washing:
ton, now, to ask the new Congress to
grant them belligerent rights. The
latest reports from the island bear the
information that, the iosurgents are
burning and pillaging American-owned
plantations there. They will have to
pursue a far different course if they are
ambitious to retain the friendship of
the people of the United States.
——There is nothing improbable in
the report that Georce GouLp gon-
templates buying a Senatorship. Why
shoulda’t he go into the market and
buy an article of that kind if he wants
it? They are for sale and he has the
money to make the purchase. His
sister used her casb in buying a French
nobleman for a husband, and GEeorce
could add to the distinction of his
house by purchasing a place among |
the plutocratic nobility that are be-
coming the predominant powe: in the
United States Senate.
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As far as the day itself was con-
cerned there could not have been a
more ideal one than yesterday. Holi-
days are nothing without suitable
weather. Christmas fails to satisfy our
greatest anticipation when there is no
An Abuse that Should be Stopped.
The Philadelphia Record calls the
British people to task because, while
raising money for a monument to Mrs.
Saran Scorr Sippoxs, the famous tra-
gedienne, they have left her great
grand-son die of starvation on. the
streets of London. The incident is a
sad one and has the sound of romance,
but there can be nothing of discredit
to the people of London in it.
England has humane societies, just
as we have, for the relief of the poor
aod needy. This boy, or young man,
could have applied for assistance to
any of them and received it. But the
Records insinuation does not include
him as an object of charity, but cen-
sures the English for not pampering
him because of his distinguished great
grand-mother.
This calls to mind a very question-
able practice, which it would seem the
Record endorses. Because a man has
bad an illustrious parent or relative is
there any reason for giving him credit
for qualities which he has never
possessed ? There are too many peo-
ple in the world, already, who are
shining by reflected light to encourage
this practice any further. Persons
have lost their individuality entirely
through being connected with some:
one whose name has become famous.
And while there is a constant danger
of pamperiog a class of indolents, who
are content to flutter about in the halo
of renown that illamines the name of
a distinguished ancestor, there is a
greater danger in our permitting ad-
miration for a distinguished personage
to totally blind us to excellent qualities
that are often found in their posterity.
We have organizations of society
whose only claim for recognition is
based on the valor of their member's
parents. We have secret societies, in
our colleges and universities, to which
wealth and parental distinguishment
is the ‘open sesame” and indeed it is
beginning to look as if the history of
our daddies, like “the dollar of our
daddies,” is the one thing every one
seeks.
An end should be made of such
practices. Many good men are un-|
manned and worthless ones given |
notoriety by continually speaking of |
them as relatives ot this or that dis- |
tinguished person. Would it not |
be better if ever mortal stood on his or |
her own legs ?
John Sherman’s Promise.
What an arrant old political hum-
bug Jory SHERMAN is, considering
that he is a mar of undoubted ability.
In his “Recollections,” just published,
he says: “If my life is prolonged I
will do all I can to add to the strength
and prosperity of the United States.”
How much did he add to their
strength and prosperity when he dralt-
ed and engineered the passage of the
silver purchasing act, by which the
government was saddled with a useless
and pernicious expense that depleted
the treasury of its gold, weakened
financial confidence, and contributed
more than any other cause to the busi-
ness panic which overwhelmed the
country, and which the Republicans
took advantage of by charging it to
the CLEVELAND administration ?
To what extent did he advance the
general prosperity by his anti-trust act,
which he drew up in such a way that
when attempts are made to enforce it
in the courts itis found to be utterly
inoperative ? Wasn't it more the in-
tention of “honest JoHN"' to strenghten
the interest of the monopolies by that
megsure than to promote the prosperity
the United States ?
Moreover he was always a leading
advocate and supporter of those finan-
cial and fiscal abuses that accumulated
through a long period of Republican
rule, calminating at the close of Har-
RISON’8 administration in immense gov-
ernmental liabilities as the result of
billion-dollar legislation; an empty
treasury, a depleted gold reserve, im-
paired public credit, deranged business
conditions and prostrated industries,
the whole situation having much the
character of a wreck which those who
produced it had the face to represep*
as having been caused by the election
of a Democratic President.
This is the way in which Jonn
SaerMaN helped to promote the
strength and prosperity of the United
States. It is too late now for him to
snow to add to the merriment of the
day.
i promise that if his life is prolonged he
A Good Joke on the Governor,
From the Philadelphia Times.
“There is a story told in connection
with Governor Garb-Bill-Hastings’
visit to the Atlanta exposition which
deserves to be printed. “General”
Hastings made a speech at one of the
gatherings, in the course of which he
dwelt in a clumsy sort of way upon
Pennsylvania's greatness. With ex-
treme bad taste and manners he spoke
disparagingly of all the states repre-
sented at the exposition, and coming
to Rhode Island, sneeringly eaid, ‘Well
I'll just put that state in my vest
pocket.
“He had no sooner concluded than
up jumped a bright young man--the
speaker of the house of delegates of
Rhode Island. He began very smooth-
ly by saying that the people of Penn-
sylvania should be proud of the physi-
cal specimen of man who presided over
the destines of the state. Then allud-
ing to the “vest pocket” remark, he
said that that could best be answered
_by telling of a wordy altercation that
once occurred between Robert Toombs
and Alexander K. Stephens, of Georgia
Toombs was a big, burly man;
Stephens very small, but all brains.
Toombs concluded a bitter speech by
eaying : ‘And as far as the gentleman
(Stephens is concerned I will take him
up and put him in my vest pocket.
Stephens arose and with much dignity
replied, concluding by saying. ‘And
I sincerely hope the gentleman will
carry out his threat of putting me in
his vest pocket, for if he does, he will
have more brains in his vest pocket
than he ever had in his head.” The
Rhode Island man referred this to
‘General Hastings without comment,”
Gaining Botlf¥ Ways.
From the Williamsport Sun.
Do the workingmen ever stop (©
think that their condition would be
very much better it the highly pro-
tected Pennsylvania manufacturers and
mill owners had not believed in and
practiced free trade in labor ? These
manufacturers, while demanding pro-
tection for their product, were not
averse to importing cheap foreign labor
out of employment. Fifteen years
have made a big change in the labor
market of the country, and the Amer-
ican workmen should have ng difficulty
in discovering that while the protected
manufacturers have growo rich by the
employment ot cheap labor the Amer:
ican workman has grown poorer. The
friends of a home market are not the
friends of home labor.
Great in a Modest Calling.
-
From the Doylestown Democrat.
The death of Calvert Vaux, the land-
scape architect of New York, which
occurred by drowning, 1s universally
regretted. He had been in charge of
the Central Park improvement, almost
from the first, and while he had as-
sistants, all the attractions of that
great pleasure ground which make it
probably the finest in the world, were
his inspirations. He was modest to a
fault, and loyal to the trust reposed
in him,
_mendatory.
The Tariff Bugaboo Still Haunts Them.
From the Pittsburg Post.
Congressman Acheson says he is
going to have a duty on wool, “else the
wool industry will be killed.”” There
are 50,000,000 sheep in the country, and
there will be no tax put on wool, and the
industry will not be killed. For a man
suspected of common sense talking such
irrepressible nonsense as killing the
the woolon industry shows a dense state
of ignorance or political humbug. Mr.
Acheson knows he talks nonsense, and
he knows that other people know what
he says is all gammon, yet he will per-
sist.
A Sure Riddance.
From the Mifflinburg Times.
The Berry Detective Agency of Chi-
cago is composed of ex-convicts. They
decided to kill a bad man, but killed
his brother, who was not a bad man.
The best thing Chicago can do is to
bang everybody connected with the
agency except Charles F./ Berry, who
was absent in New York atthe time
of the cold-blooded murder, but he
Dron be sent to the penitentiary. for
ife.
The Height of the Silver Craze.
From the Wilkesbarre Sun.
If a man or a woman were to find a
silver ‘dollar and a ticket to heaven,
and they had their choice as to which
they would keep, these are the days
when nine out of ten would take the
dollar and run their chances of crawl-
ing under the canvas.
A —————————
Give Him the Appendicitis Through
Some Well Aimed Grape Shot.
From the Altoona Times.
The “sick man of the east’’ does not
appear to be recovering under the medi-
cine which has been given him by
the powers of Europe. Evidently some-
thing stronger is what is needed.
The Reason Why.
From the Kansas City Journal.
The strange case of the Wichita man
who refused to drink a glass of beer
when ordered by the court to do go is ex-
plained. It wasn’t beer.
" will do better in the future.
All criticism on bis life and
work is in the highest degree com-
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Milton shops are busy on an order for
500 cars.
—The rains have made a slight raise in
the Schuylkill river.
— United Evangelicals will today dedi-
cate their new church at Pottsville.
—A spider bit Philip Beideman, of Nor
ristown, causing blood poisoning.
—Danlel Erhart, a farmer, residing near
Mahantongo Station, hanged himself.
—Peach Howard was sent to Carlisle
jail for giving liquor to an Indian school-
boy.
—Girardville citizens have agreed to
club together to employ a night police-
man.
—Adam Burke, of Minersville, was
killed by a fall of coal in Glendower col-
liery.
—Three of Olive Reinhard’s four child.
ren, at Allentown, died last week of diph-
theria.
—A heavy casting in Scaif’s foundry, at
Pittsburg, fell upon and killed Frank
Berry.
—In a fight at West Newton John O?
Grady was dangerously stabbed by James
Berger.
—The Executive Committee of the At.
lanta Commission will met Tuesday at
Harrisburg.
—Falling 45 feet from a roof at South
Pittsburg, F. A. Smith, of Somerset, was
fatally hurt.
—While climbing over a fence with his
gun, near Uniontown, Isaiah Whitby fa-
tally shot himself.
—It has been discovered thatthe man
killed near Tamaqua on Sunday was John
Wessner, of Reading.
—Philadelphia capitalists will develop
a newly discovered ten-foot vein of an-
thracite at Gordon.
—Owing to the illness of a juror the
Fisher murder trial at Wilkesbarre was
postponed until Monday.
—Williamsport is agitating the ques.
tion of dikes to keep the Susquehanna
from flooding the town.
—A new rail for street railways is being
made at Johnstown, the difference being
in the greatly broadened flange.
—Colonel A. K. McClure, of Philadel-
phia, lectured before the York county
teachers’ institute Monday night.
—Young John Ward, accused of poi-
soning Miss Lizzie Dugan, of Milmore,
Cambria county, has surrendered.
—Col. James M. Scoval addressed a
large meeting of the Young People’s As-
sociation in Reading last evening. °
—An explosion of powder ina Wilkes"
barre county mine critically burned Mar.
tin Kanicski and Jacob Muckavitz.
—The Carnegie claims tor coal lands
were postponed for consideration by the
State Board of Property until Monday.
—The Allentown and Bethlehem Trac-
tion Company sells street car tickets in
packages of 100. for just half the regular
fare.
—While playing doctor, the children of
Daniel Solzfus, near Morgantown, gave a
ehild carbolic acid, badly burning its
mouth.
—Evan’s Colliery, at Beaver Meadow,
now in a receiver’s hands, resumed opera-
tions Monday with several huadred
hands.
—Rev. C. E. Walters, assistant pastor of
a Philadelphia Lutheran church, has
been called to Hughesville, Lycoming
county.
—Accused of threatening the life of
Mattie Kimbrough, of Limerick, John
Collum was held under bail at Norristown
for trial.
—Jake Bricker, of Rauchtown, says
that a peculiarity of wild turkey not com -
mon to the domestic fowl is a lead col-
ored streak on his back.
—By a codicil of Eckley B. Coxe's will
$26,000 is divided among about a dozen
foremen at his collieries, and $6,000 goes
to Lehigh University.
—Rev. Peightal, formerly of McCon.
nellstown, Huntington county, pastor of
the Reformed church at York, has accep-
ted a call to the Reformed church at
Greencastle,
—On the night of November 16th, the
mill of Clark & Watson and the barn of
Mrs. Clark Conners, of near Glen Camp-
bell, Indiana county were totally con
sumed by tire.
—A Scranton gentleman and Mike Wel-
ghans, the veteran hunter, since Tuesday
have been in the Little Pine creek region
with the result that by Friday the hunt.
ers had bagged fifteen pheasants.
—Reamer Hoke, who has been the as-
sistant postmaster in Altoona for a num-
ber of years, has been appointed acting
postmaster of Altoona, to serve the unex-
pired term of postmaster MacDonald,
who died recently.
—The building oecupied on the first
floor by Charles Brion asa general store.
and the second floor by David Foltz and
family located -at Crescent, Lycom-
ing county, was lotally consumed by
fire Friday night }ast. Loss about $12,000
—Mr. R. Heck, son of Rev. Levi G. Heck,
formerly of Cromwell township, Hunt.
ingdon county, has been elected district
attorney of Potter county by a vote ex-
ceeding that of any candidate on the tick «
et. Mr Heck polled 188 more votes. even
than Haywood for state treasurer Cou-
dersport, the eounty seat, containsa popu.
lation of 46,0 and Mr. Heck located there
recently after his graduating.
—On Saturday the New York and Chica-
go limited express on the Pennsylvania
railroad struck and killed Io Correll
at the McVeytown station. e had
climbed overa freight train standing at
the depot and had his back toward the
oncoming train, which he did not see un-
til it was too late. He only lived about
two hours after being struck. He was a
son of A, Correll, postmaster at Matta.
wana, Pa. 7
—While Mrs. Elizabeth MoElwain and
her son, aged 10 years, of Henderson
township, Huntingdon county, were ree
turning home on Friday afternoon, her
horse frightened at sorie object near the
the gravel pit point, at the northeastern
end of Huntingdon, and ran off. Mrs.
McElwain and son were thrown down
the embankment and sustained severe in.
juries. The boy is believed to be hurt in-
ternally and his injuries are serious.