BY P. GRAY MEEK. om um— Ink Slings. —The Cuban war still goes on. The death rate has not Leen materially in- creased, however. —Since QuAY has a new son-in-law we wonder if the exalted RICHARD will be relieved of any cf his duties as agent, ~~" for his pap. —&'he doctrine that “all the world loves a lover’ is—~exploded so far aS McKINLEY and REED sare concerned with HARRISON. —A McKeesport theatre is being con-- verted intc a brewery. Not a very rad- ical change after all for the step from a concert hall to a beer brewing establish- ment is purely mecha nical. —Ezx-burgess McGLuckY, of Home- stead, who has undertaken the self-im- posed task of ruining ANDREW CAR. NEGIE will find that neither his bark nor his bite will have much effect on the millionaire iron manufacturer. —Fashionable New York is just now showing itself at a dog show and the pity is great that some of the simpering noodles over there are not caged and ex- hibited in the poodle class. Let us see, no, that would be a disgrace to sensible dogs. —HARRISON’S letter, in which he emphatically denies all rumors to the effect that he is out for presidential honors again, is the best evidence that he prefers tospend his declining years at’ the conjugal and not the political Mecza. —An exchange remarks that Quay has touched the Hon. WILLIAM A. StoNE with the finger of preferment for gubernatorial honors. If this be so what is to become of the ambition of that red plumed angel of peace, the hope- ful Tros. V. CoOPER, of Media ? —1It was a good deal easier job to pull the St. Paul off that Long Branch sand bar than it will be for the Repub- lican party to attempt to haul their craft, if it contains either. REED or ,Mc- KiINLEY, off the bar that public éenti- ment will heave up between it and the wharf in Washington. —An ex-State Senator has just turned |. up as defendant in a bribery case in Ohio who stated to the court that he was too poor to retain & lawyer to de- fend himself. Now, in Pennsylvania things are different. The State and not its Legislators becomes poverty stricken in Pennsylvania. — With SuLLivaAN falling from a fly- ing passenger train and CORBETT being thrown down stairs by an irate firemen pugilisticstock has been knocked about in a way that gives great public satis- faction and enjoyment. It is known now that there are some things in the world that can get ahead of such bruisers. —A new whistle that can be heard for a distance of thirty miles is to be placed on Sing Sing prison to sound a warning whenever any prisoners escape. It is said to have ear splitting power which, if true, will leave all that com- munity, within a radius of thirty miles, with the ear marks of Sing Sing the! very first time a blast is sentout from it. ’ —1It is probable that JUSTIN McCAR- ' THY will resign the leadership of the Irish parliamentary party at itd meeting in London tomorrow and tbat THos. SExTON will be chosen to succeed him. Ill health from over-work in the Irish cause will be the reason of the change, if it is made. Alas, how many men have worn themselves out fighting for the forlorn hope of the Emerald isle. —Ambassador BAYARD'S prompt denial of the statement that he bad au thorized President CLEVELAND to pre- sent his resignation, should a resolution censuring his official conduct be passed by Congress, proves him to be a good deal bigger than the body thal is trying to defame him. The United States bave few BAYARD’s, the greater pity that there are so many addle-pates like some who constitute the 54th Con- gress. : —If the report be true that the Em- peror of Germany is only waiting until grand-mother dies before he attacks England we certainly admire the chiv- alric forbearance that stays his hand against 8 woman. WILLIAM evidently has a more wholesome dread ot the fe- male tongue than of the booming of English guns, but we fear that the im- petunous young ruler will not have pa- tience to hold out until the demise of his long-lived grand-ma. —It was a noteworthy fact that the great American line steam-ship St. Paul ran aground on St. Paul’s day, the 22nd of January, which among superstitious people has always been regarded an un- lucky day. It will be remembered that the St. Paul stuck on her stays at Cramp’s ship-yaid, Philadelphia, at the first attempt to launch her and when the old sailors looked on her dogged de- termination not {o stick her nose into the Delaware they said: “Its a bad omen. A boat that sticks will always bave bad luck.” Verily, their super. stitious remark seems not to have been ill-grounded. VOL. 4 _ BELLEFONTE, STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. > Far From Being a Certainty, The Philadelphia Times concedes entirely too much when it says that “it ia fortunate that the next Senate will be strongly Republican, so that a Republican President, who scems cer tain to be elected, can be in position to assume entire responsibility {for legis- lation,” etc. There is nothing in the political situation that wakes it appear sure that the Republicans will elect the next President. It is true that since 1892 there have been elections that were attended with sweeping Republi- can majorities, but their results were far from indicating a permanent politi cal condition, and their ultimate ef: fect, as bearing upon the next presi- dential election, is more calculated to be injurious than beneficial to the. party in whose favor they seemed to have been so decigive. The deceptive influences that pro. duced the tidal wave of 1894 will have entirely lost their effect by the time the next presidential election comes off. It will be impossible to make the average voter believe thatthe reduc- tion of the McKINLEY duties was the cause of the hard times. With the <industries in a satisfactory condition the calamity howler will be unable to influence the gullible by representing that the WiLson tariff ruined the country ;‘in fact he will not bave the face even to attempt to howl. There is quite enough intelligence among the people to reach the correct conclusion that other causes, independent of tariff influences, were largely instrumental in producing the financial and indus- trial collapse that overtook the coun- try, and that intelligence is every day | becoming more convinced of the fact | that Republican financial and cur- rency legislation, extending business interests. President will be a Republican than that recent elections were carried by large Republican majorities, the pros- pect loses its certainty by the disap- pearance of the influences that pro- duced those majorities. It is a mis take to suppose that the calamity ar. guments can have the effect this year that they had iwo years ago. There i8 a reserve of common sense among the people that will enable them to comprehend the truth of the situation. As to the mora! effect of recent Repub- lican victories, the mere fact that they carried the last general election by a sweeping majority, is no more of an assurance to them that they will carry the election this year than was the- Dem ocratic-victory'in 1892 a guarantee that the Democrats would be victorious the year following. The political situation never before furnie hed such good reason for a change of public sentiment. We can not agree with the Times that the next President seems certain to be a Repub- licao. The Colored Men are Not to Blame. The practice of Republican presiden- tial aspirants in buying the colored delegates from southern States is a most pernicious and degrading means of paving the way to the greatest office within the gift of the American peo. ple, yet it is eo common as to be given little attention by the public. It has already been announced that Rgep bas secured control of the Louisiana delegates, McKINLEY claims those from Arkansas and a special Morton emissary is now in Alabama negotia- ting for the representation from that State. If colored men can equeeze anything out of these aspirants they are certain- ly not to blame. For all the fidelity of their race to the Republican party they receive no recognition, whatever, and who will gaivsay these attempts at getting some share of the spoils upon which their white brethren have fat- tened after their votes have placed them in positions of public eminence. "Tis true that there is danger in the practice, that it will eventually react against the stability of our institutions, but when the crisis comes we musi remember the men and the party that precipitated it. ——— Subscribe for the WaTonMaN, | back | through a eeries of years, was the fac | *° ’ : a most en affected the | bis official seal to matters of which be r . i knows nothing, or can be made a tool, As there is no other reason why it of some power, to purpoly deceive should "seem vertain™ that the pext the public, by the assurance that such | an official is faithfully and fearlessly Might Have Been Worse. The people who had hoped for a dif- ferent result in the election of supreme court judges, last November, have rea- son now to feel that even a greater mis: take might have been made than the election of PETER P.SyiTH. Two or three weeks ago, judge YERKES, who, during last fall's campaign, seemed to be the popular favorite with the Democrats and who every one predicted would receive the highest vote on the Demo" cratic ticket, aired his judicial robes out-side his own district, by presiding over one of the criminal courts of Philadelphia. For some unexplained and, to us, unexplainable reason, when closing the business of the court, he spreads himself upon its records as a voucher for the promptness, the im- partiality and faithfulness, as a pub- lic official, of the district attorney of that city. — When it is remembered that’the rec: ords of the very court over which judge YERKES presided, show that an indict- ment, found by a grand jury against a police officer for “‘criminally assaulting a little girl,” has been pigeon-holed in the district attorney’s office for over five years ; that other indictments, found by grand juries against as sessors for the fraudulent registration of voters and against others for false reg- istration and padding the registry lists, have been virtnally set aside by the failare of the district attorney to do his duty ; that election officers who have flagrantly and opeuly violated the election laws go about that city uon- molested and without fear of prose- cution, and that to-day there are more | uncaught and unpunished criminals, within the city of Philadelphia and within the reach of the power of this! i same district attorney than in any city on this continent, it looks very much as if judge YERKES, is willing to put performing his duties. In either event, judge YErRkEs has made such an exhibition ot his care- lessness, or unfaithfuiness, as a judge that the Democracy of the State may congratulate themselves that even Peter P. Smith found more support- ers in the State last fall than he did. Foreign Entanglements, the United The government of States should be careful not to drift | away from one of its earliest principles. | It was WasHiNGTON who warned it | against the danger of toreign alliances, and during the whole course of our history up to this time the leading etatesmen of the nation have recog- nized the wisdom of that precaution. But there is no telling to what ex- tent some of our later-day statesmen may carry the government in a depar- ture from the wisdom of the founders in regard to foreign entanglements. The Senate has recently been a perfect hot-bed of schemes not only for the | regulation of the affairs of this con- tinent, but for a meddlesome inter ference in matters on the other side of the Atlantic. The Senate chamber has recently rung with the oratory of buncombe statesmen who have de- manded not only that the United States should snub the’ English in South America and-sit down on the | Spaniards in Cuba, but should also take a hand in the Transvaal difficulty, and give the Turks to understand that their conduct towards the Armenians ‘would not be tolerated. There is no question that in pre venting the encroachment of European powers upon this continent our gov- ernment has a duty imposed upon it by a regard for its own safety as well as by the claim which the weaker American republics have upon it es the strongeet representative of the system of (ree government which they have alike adopted. As long as this duty is discreetly performed, keeping within the limits of our obligation io our weaker neighbors, it accords with a wise national policy that’ has been recognized since.the time of President Monroe and recently confirmed by the action of President CLEVELAND . but when a position is assumed, as has recently been done in the Senate, that is calculated to encourage and lead to interference in European affairs, it looks like a dangerous disregard for the warniog of WasHINGTON. PA., FEB. 7, 1896. a & EY Co 1 A Logical Effect. 1 | A political fact that is plainly ob- {servable is the rapid decline of Mo- Kivrey as a presidential probability. | His chance of getting the nomination | is every day becoming less. This may | appear eingular in view of the circum. | stance that he has planted himself es- | pecially on the policy which is claim- (ed to be the leading principle of Re- | publicanism, and which, in considera- tion of his being the author of it, gave him the claim to being considered the { logical candidate. | Two years ago when the McKINLEY | bill wae repealed, and direful predic i tions were made as to the ruin which | that repeal was going to bring about, | McKiNLey was regarded as the cham- | pion who would lead the tariff forces i back to victory in the next presiden- [tial contest. Republican enthusiasm | for him was so great that no other | candidate was thought to have a chance +against him. That he was pretty thor- oughly convinced of this himself was shown by his taking advantage of the logic of the situation by bringing him- self out early as a presidential candi- date. Why is it that the McKiNLEY boom, launched under such apparently au- gpicious circumstances, is peiering out, with a possibility of its not being long enough to reach the nominating con- vention? Tt is because the actual logic of the situation has turned against him. The tariff that has succeeded the one which he originated has prov- ed to be a benefit to the country in- stead of the injury upon which he based his claim of vindication. His {own party leaders are beginning to eee that they can make no fight in a presi- dential contest on the basis of a monopoly tariff, and the logical effect of such a eelf evident fact will be the shelving of Bie McKINLEY as a pres: | idential candidate. But is it not likely that the effect of such logic will extend still further ? measure upon ple, and was equally By the time their party’s nomi pating convention egy it will "be found unsafe to nomfoate any of | the mer who were leaders in the per- . petration of the McKINLEY fraud, and {the g. o. p. will try to save itself from | defeat by shelving Reep along with | McKiNrey. the American peo- Rather a Dear Price. The action on (he bond bill by the Senate has been a very costly piece of business to this country. It has not i even the excuse of effecting its object I by the passage of a free coinage bill, | for the coinage bill that was substituted | for the bond bill bas not the ghost of a I chancé of becoming a law. There is | no probability of its passing the House; ‘and even if it could go through that I body it would certainly be vetoed by | the President. oo tion will be to mske the taxpayers of the country ‘pay about fifty million dollars of excessive interest. This is paying rather dear for the privilege which the Republicans haye given half a dozen Senators from rotten- borough States to hold up the legisla- tion of Congress. A Wide Straddle. That is queer reasuning on the part of the Philadelphia Z¥mes, of last Saturday, that agrees with the minority of the Senate election’ committee in reporting that Dupont, of Delaware, is not entitled to a seat in that body. and yet concludes that the adoption of the report of the majority of that commit- tee, which would give him the seat would work no wrong or establish no dangerous precedent. As a straddler the Times makes every effort to be an unlimited success. ~——Minister TERRELL has demand ed $100,000 indemnity of the Sultan of Turkey for the destruction and pillaging of American miesions at Marash and Kharput. The high and mighty ruler of the Ottoman empire might put up a few of his wives to raise the wind for this demand. ——The importance of attending the spring elections is paramount to any other duty you may have to per- form. Self government is an Ameri can’s heritage and he should rot cast it away. ——— Simamomerar Tuomas B. Reep was a partner of McKINLEY in forcing that monopoly implicated. | The only effect of the Senate's ac- | It Costs Money to be Governed. From the Harrisburg Patriot. Secretary of internal affairs Latta bas prepared a report showing the taxes paid last year by the people of Pennsylvania for the maintenance of State, county, city borough, and town- ship governments. The report con- tains returns from the commissioners, of every county except Schuylkill, and is the most complete and comprehen. sive ever issued by the department on the subject of taxation. . ‘The consolidated returns show that the total amount of taxes collected for the support of the poor was $1,593,755,- 93. This amount Is levied and collec- ted directly and does not include all money expended for the purpose. There was appropriated during the year from the county treasuries for the support of the poor in counties having almshouses $742,664.06, which added to the amount collected directly makes a total of $2,336,410 99. The amount collected during the year fdr the con- struction and repair of streets, roads and bridges was $9,019,185,77. In the sixty-six counties making re- port it is found that the common schools have made necessary the levy and collection of $11,930,907.91. This does not include the amount received by the school districts direct from the state treasurer: The amount of taxes collected for purposes other than those already mentioned was $25,373,290.87. This includes the amount expended by the several boards of the county com- missioners for the support of the coun- ty governments. The counties mak- ing return collected $47,917,140.48 in taxes for all purposes during the year. Under special subjects of taxation it is found that personal property has been make to pay $2,733,279.33. There have been collected on occupations taxes to the amount of $1,084,828.60. The total amount received durin the year from licenses was $4,943,937. 65. Of this amount Philadelphia col- lects $2,484,181.56 and Allegheny coun- ty $993,898.26. The total amount of taxes for the year collected on the real estate of rail. way corporations was $741,293.66. Philadelphia and Pittsburg are the only localities in the State where real estate of railway corporations is sub- ject to taxation for certain local pur- poses. The taxes on real estate of cor- porations other than railways amount- ed to $1,863,835.41. I ————— Has the Zenith Been Reached? From the Philadelphia Times. The pension appropriatioa for the en- i suing fiscal year amounts to $141, 000, 1 000 in round figures. As the reduction | from the previous year is nearly $3,000, 000 the indication is that the maximum ' has been reached unless new legislation is adopted extending the pension system. During the last fiscal year the total pan- sions paid aggregated $140,000,000, and $9,500,000 of this amount was disbursed in the Southern States. The greatest state credit is that of Ohio, the pension. | payment reaching $15,553,567. Than i comes Pennsylvania with $12,469,416, { New York $12, 321.771, Indjana $10, | 534,082, 1llinois $9,927,647, and Mis- souri $7,834,876. The paymerts in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Indiana amounting to $50,983,836, were almost double the disbursements during the first year of the Hayes administra- tion, which were covered by $26,544,415 for the entire country. The $28,027,983 required for total payments during the last year of Grant’s second term, which amounted to $28,580,157. 3 Fragrant Flowers Plucked from an Orator's Bed. From the New York Sun. The garbage talk of Mr. Tillman should not make the country forgetful of the jets of Jioneyed and perfumed speech spirited by the Hon. William F. Vilas. He'took the bad taste out of the mouth of the country and filled it with the milk of paradise. His similes trooped sweetly by with choco- late pistache on their lips like school: girls going to a matinee. His meta- phors rustled along on wool slippers, soft as the snow and brilliant as the rainbow. A speech that moved on golden casters to the mood of flutes and soft recorders. “Like dreams that wave before the halfshut eye or gay castles in the clouds that pass, forever flitting in the summer sky, always dancing before the vision,” so, to bor- row hie own words, his speech flitted and danced. Official Absentees. From Herbert Welsh's City and State. Auditor general Mylin was the first to retura from the jaunt with Quay to the latter's retreat in Florida. He turved up for duty to-day, and the others of the Hastings cabinet, who were off while the Governor was brac- ing up in the southwest, are expected tomorrow. There has been coosider- able comment about the course of sec- retary Reeder in absenting himself so long after hus recent trip to Europe and the going away of the state officials at one time has created much discussion in the line of multiplicity of offices and the cutting down of expevses. Those who are here and see the methods of work at the capitol are outspoken in their criticisms of the profligacy of the party in power. 2 \ paid out in Pennsylvania and Ohio dur- ing the year 1895 nearly equals the suni’ Spawls from the Keystone, —Eagle Hill coal mine at St. Clair is on fire. —Thereare in Pennsylvania 33 tin piate establishments, : —A powder mill will be built at Brad. ford by S. M. Johnson, of New York. 4 —It snowed over the greater part of Pennsylvania Monday and Tuesday. —Stepping in front of a train at Easton Jacob F. Richter’s life was snuffed out in. stantly. y —The Homestead prisoner, Hugh Demp- sey, was released from penitentiary on Friday last. —Berlin, Somerset county, will vote on the project of new water works at the coming election. —Joseph Cregle and John Gable were killed by a fall of coal in the West End mine at Mocanaqua. —The court decided that the Union rail- way company must sprinkle Chester streets, as provided by ordinance. —Being chastised, S. Williams, a Pitts- ton miner, shot at coal inspector George Bryant three times, but missed him, —Thompson Bros, of Milroy, have leased the Keller planing mill in Lewig- town, and will use it for a knitting fac- tory. —The strike at the Eleanor iron works, Hollidaysburg, was declared off, the pud- dlers returning to work at the former price, $3 a ton. —Governor Hastings has issued a requi- sition on the Governor of Ohio for Her. man Walter charged with larceny in Westmoreland county. —John White and his wife Amelia, at Wilkesbarre, have separated, after 14 years of wedded life, she claiming that he has been living with another wife 30 years. —There is a man 50 .years old in the Montgomery county almshouse, who boasts. that he has never done a day’s work in bis life, and he says he never will, —The superintendent of public instrue. tion has completed his appointments of committees on permanent eertificates for the several counties, under the provis- ions of the act of 1895. —Thirty prisoners werc brought to the Huntingdon reforniatory from Philadel. phia on Saturday, which swelled the number of inmates to over 503, and total eonsecutive number to 2,001. —At Atkinson’s Mills, Mifllin county, a woman claims to have made a fine quali- ty of molasses from corn cobs. One who has partaken of the product pronounces it superior to the best maple syrup. _ —At the request of physicians who be lieve that many of the articles of infants’ food contain deleterious materials the department of agriculture at Harrisburg has ordered the analysis of a large num- ber of samples of this class of goods on sale within the State. --After living to the age of 105 years, Mrs. Reidy, of Wyoming, Luzerne county on Saturday sufferad a paralytic stroke: which temporarily affected her speech and right rand. She was very much im- proved to-day, had recovered her speech and talked cheerily with those around her. —Willinm Gahagan, an aged and re- specteds citizen of Walker township, Huntingdon county, died on Friday, 21st aged about 83] years. Funeral services were held Sunday morning at his resi- dence, at 9 o'clock, conducted by Rev. Slinghoft, his pastor, after which the body wasinterred in the eemetery at Mec- Connellstown. ol —The secretary of agriculture is nre- paring for the Governor 2 brief state. ment of the status of the agricultural so- cieties of the commonwealth. ' His books show 161 county organizations, sixty threé being represented by members on the state board of agriculture, and which under the act of 1851, are entitled to a county bounty. —It is reported that the Bhitalo and St. Mary’s railroad, which Hall & Kaul are building from Clermont to St.Mary's will also be extended to connect with the Erie somewhere in the vicinity of Mount Jew- ett. With the completion of the pro- posed extension the Erie will have a di. rect line into the Toby Valley via the Buffalo, St. Mary's and Southwestern. —On the evening of the 31st ult., a large number of friends and members of the Reformed church, at McConnellstown,. Huntingdon county, gathered at the par- sonage for the purpose ot giving a recep. tion to Rev. C. H. Slinghoff, and bride, who arrived on the evening train, and af- ter congratulations an elegant supper: which had been prepared was partaken of. After an hour or two of social enjoy- me nt they all retired to their homes, feel. in that it was good to be there. —The Pennsylvania railroad has just is. sued orders for the construction of twen- ty-eight new locomotives at the Altoona and Juniata shops. Six class U switch engines and twelve class M heavy shifters will be built at the Altoona shops, and eight class L heavy fast passenger en- gines and twelve of the new compound moguls will be built at the Juniata shops: A number of the shifting engines and mo- guls will be for lines west of Pittsburg, and five. of the new class L engines will be for the Panhandil¢’ —William O’Brien, aged abeut60 years, an unele of Mr. William O’Brien, the city clerk of Johnstown, was found dead in bed at his boarding house, 174 New street, Johnstown, at an early hour Monday morning. He boarded with his relative, Mrs. Ann Highland. His wife and one of his daughters were among the persoas who perished in the great flood, and his son John dropped dead in the Twelfth ward, Johnstown, a few days ago. He was a life-long member of St. John's Catholic church. f— —We received oflicial notice this week that the directors of of the Juniata Val- ley campmeeting association have made arrangements with Rev. A. R. Lambert, of Huntingdon, to take charge of the meetings this year, with the full under- standing that the gates will be open on Sunday and everybody invited to tent, and those who cannot make it suit to tent to &t least attend some of the ser- vices on the ground. * * * Lambert is the right man in tho right place, and, if he is accorded the proper ministerial and financial support he desérves, there will be much good done at the coming campmeeting. 4
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