Bema tan
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
— Havana must burn, said a Cuban
sympathizer, the other day, as ke light-
ed a three-for-a-quarter cigar.
—ZEngland still insists that she is for
piece and that is the very reason that
Venezuela and the Transvaal are kick-
ing.
—There is one thing very certain. If
old man MORTON proves not as easy
plucking as Republican leaders imagine
him to be he will not be the candidate
of that party for President.
—Poor Lorp TENNYSON would not be
able to rest easy if the trash that hissuc-
cessor is regaling the English people
with ever reaches his eyes. England
can make a poet laureate but she ean’t
make a TENNYSON.
—So FosTER thinks HARRISON would
not accept the Republican nomination
for President, even if it is tendered
him. We wouldn’t like to tack our good
looks onto such an offer if we ever cared
to be handsome again.
—GEORGE MOORE, the Altoona boy
who loaded bis gun to shoot the old
year out and the new year in, then shot
his big toe off instead, was almost as
good a marksman as the ‘‘supple Dick”
told about in nursery rhymes.
—They say there is a dearth
of marines in our navy. Secre-
tary HERBERT should send an enlist-
ing officer to Bellefonte. There are
plenty of men sitting” on store boxes
up here who can fairly eat the navy up.
—The RorHSCHILDS, Germany and
Russia have all expressed their inability
to take our bonds. This would indicate
that they don’t have the gold to purchase
them with. Where is the gold then; if
they don’t have it? Let us look about,
maybe some fellows like JERRE SiMP-
SON have their socks full.
—1It is rumored now that Queen Vic-
TORIA will demand an apology from her
recalcitrant grand-son, the Emperor of
Germany, for ruffling up in such war-
like fashion. It would just be like
‘WiLL1AM to tell his grand-mammy-in-
law that her apron string don’t bind him
in any way.
— Miss CLARA BARTON, and her aides
in the Red-Cross society, will sail for
Armenia next Wednesday to administer.
to the suffering Christians in that land.
If they get there in time to rescue any.
of those poor creatures from the heath-
en slaughter they will appear as angels
of mercy to those whom they will have
saved.
. —The Lancaster Intelligencer de-
votes nearly a half column of its editor-
ial space, in recent issue, to telling the
people of that town ‘how to get real
water.” Too much trouble, neighbor,
for you to go to. Let the milkmen and
liquor sellers of your town advise the
people where they can get real water.
They will know far better than you.
—*Crazy Horse” the Pawnee chief,
who thought his medicine man had dis-
covered a bullet proof decoction and
then invited his tribe to assemble to
witness its trial on his brother, killed
the latter at the first shot. Of course
the dead indian will parade the happy
hunting ground with all the airs of one
who has died for the promotion of
science.
— About the most note-worthy feature
in the recent BELMONT—VANDERBILT
wedding was their attempt to keep the
affair a secret. The country owes this
pair something, at least, for having
spared it a repetition of the gush that
over-slopped in many newspapers when
the now Mrs BELMONT’S daughter was
married to the Duke of Marlborough
last fall. ~
—The patriots continue capturing
mules and medicine chests on the island
of Cuba. Possibly this thing of leaving
80 many animals fall into the bands ot
the insurgents is a preconcerted scheme
of General CAMPOS’ to have them all
kicked into eternity when the proper
time comes. The hind legs of a Span-
ish mule are about as death dealing as
any of the modern engines of war.
—An English scientist has invented a
new light that is said to be simply mar-
velous in its intensity. It will shine
clear through a sheet of aluminum and
even penetrate 8 number of books. If
such a light ever becomes useful as an
illuminant we might as well make up
our minds to go back to ApaM and
EvE’s manner of dress. There will be
. no hiding our nakedness from view with
such a light pn the streets.
— Whatever else mean is said about
editor DANA, of the New York Sun, he
must be given credit for the promptness
with which he has endorsed President
CLEVELAND'S foreign policy. It is
well known that there is no love lost
between the two, but it has surprised
many that DANA didn’t change his
mind about what ought to be done with
regard to foreign complications rather
than find himself forced to applaud the
action of a man whose whole, career he
has tried to wreck.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
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VOL. 41
BELLEFONTE, PA., JAN. 17, 1896.
NO. 3.
England's Numerous Foes.
The clouds of war have suddenly
gathered from an entirely unexpected
quarter and seem ready to burst upon
the nations of Europe. Some months
ago the probability of war presented
itselt in the East, where the powers
had assembled their naval armaments
to restrain the Turkish persecution of
the Armenians, and, if occasion should
require it, to fight over the division of
the dominion of the Turk. But al-
most as speedily as a scene can be
changed in a theatrical performance,
the scene of threatened hostilities is
shifted from eastern Asia to southern
Africa. The obscure Boers of the
Transvaal have fired a shot that is
heard around the world and maybe the
prelude to the bloodiest conflict that
bas stained the pages of modern
history.
If from this Transvaal incident a
war involving the European powers
should ensue, England will be respon-
sible for it. It is not merely this single
act of aggression on an obscure people
in South Africa that has excited the
enmity of other pations. When the
Emperor of Germany takes up the
cause of the Boers he means a good
deal more than that. His purpose is
to serve notice on Great Britain that
itis about time to cease the aggres-
sions by which she has been increas-
ing her dominions in every part of the
world, and such notice, coming from
Germany, is very similar in intent to
the position taken by President CLEVE:
LAND that Venezuela should not be
robbed of her territory by this grasp-
ing power.
The movement of the Emperor of
Germany in the Transvaal affair is
backed by the sympathy of every other
nation in Europe. The greed of Britain
in the acquisition of territory is a griev-
ance to all of them. The enmity of
France has been excited by it. She
remembers, with anger, that valuable
colonial possessions formerly held by
her are now in the possession of Eng
land, and she sees her old enemy con-
tinuing to exclude her from the ac
quisition of desirable territory. Russia
finds the same power barring her prog-
ress in
The Dutch Farmers’ Republic.
No man whose sense of fair play in-
clines him to take the part of the weak
against the strong can refrain from giv-
ing his sympathy to the Dutch Boers
of South Africa, who are struggling to
maintain their little republic against
the encroachment of English power.
The well wishes of every generous
mind, and particularly of every Ameri.
can, are extended to the Boers whose
right to own and govern their own
country has been assailed by a maraud-
ing nation that has seized upon all the
surrounding country and now designs
to include the Transvaal in its acquisi-
tion of the gold producing territory of
that region.
The Boers are the remnant of the
original Dutch settlers in South Africa,
who migrated to that region more than
two hundred years ago. When Eng-
land robbed Holland of its Cape Colony,
about the beginning of this century,
and brought the Cape of Good Hope
and the adjoining country under British
rule, a number of the Duch inhabitants
moved far inland to avoid a supremacy
that was uncongenial to them. They
were moved by the natural and laud-
able desire to be their own masters,
and that impulse led them to settle be-
yond the Vaal river, hence the name
of Transvaal. They are the Boers
(the Dutch name for farmers) of to-
day, who are maintaining their gov-
ernment and independence against the
encroachments of a nation whose rule
they endeavored to escape many years
ago by going into the wilderness far
in the interior of South Africa.
All the circumstances of this case
are of a character calculated to excite
the sympathy of Americans, and heace
the feeling of our people will be readily
enlisted in Senator MorGaN’s resolu-
lion that our government recognize the
Transvaal republic, as against the
suzerainty claimed by England. It of
urged against the Senator's resolution
{ that by its adoption our government
would be interfering in the affairs of
another coatinent, thus committing an
error similar to that which we com-
' plain of in England's interference with
which is becoming ambitious of pos:
sessing colonies, is equally incensed
at a power that has seized the choice
bits of this earth’s surface, leaving
very little to be occupied by other na-
tions as colonial territory.
It is this land greed of the English
nation, this overbearing determination
to grasp everything worth having,
that has turned the united enmity of
Europe against her. The Emperor of
Germany's movement is but an ex-
pression of this general seatiment.
Eogland has made herself the Ishmae-
lite of nations, and if she shall find the
hand of banded Europe raised against
berit will be the natural consequence
of her rapacious policy.
A Matter ot Small Consequence.
There may he some truth in the re-
marks of the Philadelphia Record that
Senator Jones, of Nevada, would ren-
der a service to the Republican party by
emothering the REED—DINGLEY tariff
bill in the Senate committee on finance.
As a revenue measure this bill is a
thorough fraud, both for the reason
that there is no need for revenue that
is not sufficiently supplied by the WiL-
soN tariff, and that if more revenue
was really needed, this bill would
rather diminish than increase it.
Therefore the Record believes that
JonEs would put the Republicans un-
der obligations by preventing them
from perpetrating such a fraud.
But has not the reputation of the
old party been so damaged by its
fraudulent practices in tariff legislation
that it could be made any worse by
such a fake as the RErp-DINGLEY
revenue bill ? It makes but little dif-
ference, however, whether this bill is
tied up in the Senate or not. Presi-
dent CLEVELAND would give it the prop-
er attention with his veto if Congress
should pass it.
——The Philadelphia Times al-
wanac for 1896, a compendium of
statistical intormation that makes it of ,
particular value to everyone, is out ;
bearing the ear marks of the excellent-
ly executed journal. It is gotten up
on the multum in parvo plan, so con
cige that there is no danger of con-
founding those who seek the informa.
tion within its covers. :
i the United States
southern Asia, and Italy, : in the two cases.
But there is a difference
In the English case
there is an attempt to steal Venezue-
la’s territory, while the interference of
in the Transvaal
matter (if the resolution éould be con-
sidered an interference) would be noth-
ing more than the exercise of the un-
doubted right to recognize a sister
republic.
Venezuela.
The Spring Elections.
We presume that the chairman of
the Democratic county committee has,
or will, notify the committeemen of the
respective districts throughout the
county, as to the necessity of giving
due notice to the: Democratic voters of
the time and place of bolding the
caucus’s for the nomination of local
officers. Too often this matter is over-
looked aad it is left to a few men to
meet, at their pleasure, and name the
ticket the balance of the Democratic
people are expected to support. Out
of the disappointments that spring from
the attempted dictation of the few, to
name who the masses of the party shall
support, comes the divisions that even-
tually bring defeat and disaster to the
party. To preyent these disappoint
ments, to give every voter an oppor-
tonity to express his preference for
local candidates, the time and place of
holding the caucusses should be an-
nounced long enough before hand for
every elector to have due notice, and
then those who fail to be on hand can
have no reason to “kick,” or com:
plain.
This year the election will be held
Tuesday February 18th. The local
tickets must be certified to the com-
missioners eighteen days prior to that
date ; consequently there is now but
little time in which to issue a call for
the caucusses end to give such notice
as should be given to the voters as to
the time and place of meeting.
In the WATCHMAN to-day will be
found the names of the new commit.
teemen for 1896. It is their- duty to
see that these local caucusses are held.
We have every reason to believe that
they will attend to this duty properly,
and will see to it that every Demo:
cratic voter in their respective districts
has the opportunity of attending and
expressing his opinions as to the prop
er men to nominate for local officers.
Intended Only for Votes.
The extent to which it is being al-
tempted to work the tariff humbug in
the present Congress, preparatory to
the coming presidential election, is
shown by the amendments to the
DiNGLEY bill that are being offered in
the Senate. The bill was started in
the House as an emergency measure,
the emergent necessity it was intended
to meet being REED's election to the
Precidency, and it was claimed that it
bad no other design than to supply a
deficiency of revenue. Since its ap-
pearance in the Senate it is being load-
ed down with additional provisions that
are intended more for the raising of
votes than the raising of revenue,
As it is a desirable object to get the
farmer vote, and tariff humbug may
be useful in that direction, Senator
GER, of Iowa, steps forward as the
champion of the agricultural interest
and offers an amendment. to the effect
thata duty of $1.75 per bead be im-
posed on imported cattle, $1.50 per
head on hogs, 4 cents per dozen on
eggs, 25 cents a bushel on wheat, and
15 cents on corn.
This attempt to play it off on the
farmers will hardly work. With the
exception of a few eggs imported from
Canada, which do not appreciably af-
fect the price which the American
farmer gets for his eggs, all the other
articles included in Gear's amendment
never were and never will be affected
by foreign competition, They in fact
constitute the great bulk of our ag-
ricultural exportations to foreign coun-
tries. Do these tariff tricksters think
that the American farmers can be
made to believe that they need pro-
tection on products which they send
abroad to the amount of millions of
dollars worth annually ?
This offer of protection is made
where it is not needed, but under the
cover of such deception the same tariff
bill proposes to increase the cost of the
farmers’ clothing by _increasing the
duty on woolen goods.
Hill's Defence of the Administration’
It is gratifying to observe the master-
ly manoer in which HiLL has come to
the Jeferice of the financial policy of the
administration, and his success in meet
ing and refuting the attacks of those
who while they are doing all they can
to defeat the measures’ that sre ne-
cessary to maintain the public credit,
are unsparing in their abuse of the
officials who are devoting their efforts
to the performance of that duty,
His answer to the unmanly attack
of TELLER upon the integrity and ca-
pacity of Secretary CARLISLE complete:
ly unhorsed the Senatorial champion
of the Colorado silver kings, and when
he spoke of the Secretary being a poor
man after twenty years of public ser-
vice, that would bave afforded men like
TELLER opportunities for the accumu.
lation or millions, atthe public expense,
such a vindication of the Mr. Car:
LIeLE's honesty as a public official
should have brought the blush of
shame to the cheek of the bonanza
champion.
He defended ,with great effect the
measures adopted by the administra-
tion to protect the gold reserve, turn-
ing the table completely on Jomwn
SHERMAN in regard to syndicates being
given the contracts for the gold loans,
showing that when SHERMAN was sec-
retary of the treasury he resorted to
the very same method, and no objec:
tions were made to it by the men who
are now abusing Secretary CARLISLE
for adopting the same plan. The Sec-
retary gave the last loan to the Mor.
GAN syndicate because they were the
only lenders who would guarantee to
protect the reserve afier the gold had
been delivered to the government, and
they faithfully performed their guar-
anty. The Senator declared that the
Secretary would be glad to accent more
favorable terms for bonds than any
that have yet been offered, but where
were they to come from? The tra-
ducers of the Secretary take no ac-
count of the difficulties of the service
he bas to perform, their only object
being to embarrass and misrepresent
him.
—With war a probability in thirteen
countries on the face of the earth to-day
surely there ought to be something for |
map makers to live for. :
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He Would Be a Winner in the West.
From the Columbia Independent.
The Sunbury Demacrat strikes the
key-note of the coming campaign in
Pennsylvania by placing the name of
ex-Governor Pattison at the head of
its editorial columns as the next Dem-
ocratic candidate for President. In so
doing the Sunbury Democrat but ex-
presses a decidedly popular desire
which will, we predict, before many
moons, assume the proportions of a
general demand. There is no doubt of
the fact that ex-Governor Pattison is
the coming man. His popularity is
not by any means confined to his own
State, for already other States are turn.
ing to him as the strongest and most
available candidate. For example,
the Charlotte (North Carolina) 03-
server, in referring to him says: “It
18 not surprising, in view of his popu-
larity in his own State and his splendid
standing in the eyes of the Democracy
of the Union, that he is much discussed
in connection with the presidential
nomination next year.”
Ex-Governor Pattison stands to-day
one of the ablest and foremost Dema-
crats in the land, and when the cam:
paigo fully opens no doubt many States
will endorse him as the standard bear-
er of the Democracy for 1896. Whether
he would accept the nomination we do
not know, but in any event be should
be the unanimous choice of the Penn-
sylvania delegation to the next Na.
tional convention. If the sentiment
in his favor is general throughout the
State, a8 it is in Perry county, there
will be little doubt of this result,
ta ——————————
He Scared Her to Death.
From the Easton Sentinel.
The practical joker who finds great
fun in alarming people, pulling chairs
from under them and kindred pleas
antries, lives and continues to live.
He should in all cases have his share
of the serious part of his amusement
endeavors when they are contributory
to injury. A recent case of ‘the joker
is reported from Double Springs, Ala-
bama. Joseph Wheeler went hunting
with his cousin, Archie Fletcher. He
returned to the latter's house for din
ver in advance of him, and, when Mrs.
Fletcher asked him where ber hus
band was, he jestingly pointed to his
gun and said it went off accidentally
and killed cousin Archie. Mre. Fletcher
screamed and fell to the floor aad died
almost immediately. The jokér fled
and the husband is looking for him.
If found he should be turned over to
the law aud adequate ' punishment
should follow. And all practical jokers
should be punished according to the
injury they are responsible for.
More Tars Wanted.
From the Harrisburg News.
Secretary Herbert's recommendation
for an increase in the personnel of the
navy is founded on the urgent needs of
the service. At least 1,000 more en-
listed men should be permanently
added to the navy establishment, and
there seems to be no good reason why
the administration should not have au-
thority to enlarge temporarily the
number of seamen and officers when-
ever a special emergency arises. So
long as Congress retains the power to
command peace this provision can do
no harm, and in the case of a sudden
and unexpected crisis it might prove
of incalculable value. It is certainly
ridiculous to build modern battleships,
cruisers and gunboats without provid-
ing for a sufficient force to man them.
Every measure of this sort is in the in-
terests of peace and safety. The cost
of maintaining an adequate navy and
well equipped system of coast fortifica-
tions is the cheapest form of national
insurance.
The South 1s Getting Stuck on the Ex-
position Business. !
From the Williamsport Sun.
Tennessee will be the first State of the
Union to celebrate the one hundredth
anniversary of its admission into the
Federation, and she will do it on a grand
scale. The State was admitted into the
Union on June 1, 1796. For several
years the people of Tennessee have been
planning to. honor the event in a fitting
manner, and they are now building at
Nashville, the capital city, an exposi-
tion that will be larger and more beauti-
ful in detail than any exposition ever
held in this country except the World’s
Fair at Chicago. The exposition will
open Sept. 1, 1896, and continue one
hundred days.
_ John Bull's Nose is Long Enough.
From the York Dispatch.
Someone has suggested that the troub-
les which Great Britain now has on
account of certain of her colonies are
due to the fact that the world has come
to the unanimous opinion that Great
Britain is now great enough and that it
is about time for her to attend to her
own business and let other people alone.
This seems to be a pretty fair estimate
of the situation.
Out of Foraker’s Head.
From the Cincinnati **Tribune” (Rep.)
It is comforting to know that the
Ohio Legislature will be controlled by
a gavel made of ten kinds of wood,
nine of which came from Hawaii. But
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Counterfeit $3 bills are numerous at
Pittston.
—Natural gas is practically exhausted
at Pittsburg.
—Berks county’s 6000 dogs will not be
taxed this year.
—Bradford county will ‘have a new
$150,000 court house.
—Thcre are in Lebanon county 107 lq-
uor license applicants. et
—Aged Daniel Fleck was suffocated in
Shartlesville limekiln. 3
—A telegraph pole fell upon and killed
George Bagley, at Bedford.
—A Philadelphia syndicate will intro.
duce cheaper gas at York.
—The till of the Hastings hotel was re-
cently relieved of $35 in cash.
—Plitsburg will spend $47,000 less for
schools this year than in 1893,
—A silk mill is to be erected at Sunbury
by a company of New York capitalists.
—The remains of the actor, John An
derson, were buried Saturday at Bristol-
—The First Methodist church of York
was re-opened Sunday after extensive
alterations.
—Domestic woes induced Mrs. Clem
Welker, of Sunbury, to try suicide with
laudanum.
—All Pennsylvania window glass fac.
tories in the trust closed Saturday {to be
idle a month.
—A cave in at Plymouth did extensive
damage tothe Delaware and Hudson's
No. 5 colliery.
—It cost 10 cents a day, last month, to
feed each of the 162 prisoners in Schuyl-
kill county jail.
—Secretary Edge says the 75,000 miles
of roads in Pennsylvania cost $000,000
yearly for repairs.
—Governor Hastings sent a letter and
photograph to Harrisbfirg to prove shat
he is quite robust.
—Samuel Green, who escaped from the
Harrisburg lunatic asylum, has arrived
at his Altoona home.
—Falling between Lehigh Valley cars at
Mahanoy city; brakeman Oliver Frank-
ner was decapitated.
—Bethlehem iron works shipped 13¢
tons of .turrent armor to San Francisco:
for the battleship oregon.
—Theodore Snyder, who shot an arm off
while gunning, is in a critical condition
at the Williamsport hospital.
—Elk horn tannery at Stroudsburg, and
others in the State owned by the tannery
trust, have resumed operations.
—A Bradford county creamery made
75,000 pounds of butter last year, charging
3 cents a pound for churning it.
—About 180 cars of coal per day are now
being shipped from the mines in the vi.
efnity of Spangler and Barnesboro.
—Temperance folks at Bloomsburg
fayor relicensing all old saloons, but are
vigorously opposing any new ones.
—The Juniata county agricultural so-
dent, and W. R. Wharton, secretary.
—The richest child in Allentown is 7-
year-old Martin Kemmerer, whose father
died last week, leaving him $25,000 cash.
| ~—Solomon Frank, who represents a
Philadelphia china store, is said to be the
oldest traveling salesman in the State.
—Congressman E, M. Woomer, who re.
cently fell and broke a‘'leg at Washington,
is now at his Lebanon home canvales¢ing,
—Luzerne eounty is still wrestling with
a site for & new court house, and there is
a row over the grand jury’s recommenda.
tion. ’
—United American Mechanics from
Dauphin, Perry, York, Cumberland and
Franklin countigs, met, Monday, at Har-
risburg. i
—The centennial of the borough of
Huntingdon will be celebrated om Sep-
tember 8, 9and 10. Great preparations are
under way. Lie
—The two-story frame house of William
€ree, near Mill Creek, Huntingdon coun.
ty, was totally destroyed by fire on Mon-
day afternoon.
—Collector Shearer, reports an increase.
of $33,642.75 in the internal revenue re.
ceipts of the Ninth Pennsylvania dis.
trict for the last quarter.
—It is claimed that the electric wires of
the railways have recently destroyed
$50,000 worth of underground cables and
conduits in Allegheny city.
—District attorney Fox, who is sifting
the charge of alleged bribery in connec~
tion with the Delaware river boule-vard
at Easton, found no basis for the allega"
tions.
—A. K. Kepple, aged 21, a brakeman in
the empley of the Pennsylvania railroad
company, was instantly killed at Morrell-
ville Monday night. He was setting a
brake when the wheel broke and he fell
to the tracks. His body was terribly
mangled. -
—Miners at Gallitzin have held a meet--
Sm
trary to the action of the strike commis.
tee The notices to resume were torn.
down. Notwithstanding this action on
part of the miners, Taylor & McCoy haxe-
sixty-five men at work.
~The Bedford division of the Pennsyl,
| vania railroad closed the year 1895 with,
quite an increased business over any. pre-
vious year, says the Inquirer. The total
number of cars delivered to the Hunting-
don broad top railroad during the past
year was 74,924, an increase of over 9000.
—At Big Run, near DuBois, Tuesday,
Samuel Green, after entering the house
from a hunting trip, stood his gan in the
«| corner. His two boys were play ing in the
room, and shortly after the parents were
startled at hearing a loud report and
looking around they were horrified to see
that the youngest child had discharged
the weapon, the shot entering the head of
the older boy, killing him instamtly.
The dead child was about 4 years old.
. —A telegram sent from Punxsutawney
says that F. J. Norton, of that place, was
at Sinnemahoning last week to assist his
father in-law, Mr. Foltz, to investigate
a claim to the Vondersmith estate, worth
$23,000,000, and to which Mr. Foltz is an
heir. They claim to have a olear title.
The bulk of the property is in Germany.
A man who has been acting as agent for
the estate, without legal authority,and
appropriated everything to his own use,
fled to South America three years ago.
No rents have been ollected since that
where did the other piece come from ?
time.
ciety elected James N. Graninger, presi:
ing and coneluded not to go to work, con-