Se _ to reduce the pay of employees and officers tions. BY P. GRAY MEK. Ink Slings. —As little is heard of the KEELEY cure, nowadays, as of the KEELEY motor. —Under the light of her physical afflic- tion of being almost totally blind the great | jubilee for Queen VICTORIA must have | been an ‘‘out-of-sight’’ demonstration for | her. —The fellow who wrote the article on the non-explosiveness of gasoline and then sat down before the stove to take some grease spots out of his trousers with it, is keeping the register for ST. PETER now. —1It is common talk that the star com- monwealth witness against HANNA has been moving for an extra Thanksgiving day to commemorate his escape and her re- lease from telling a jury of awful men how brave she was. —The intention of the Canadians to com- memorate the Queen’s jubilee by the issue of a jubilee postage stamp would be a good idea for a fourth of July emblem for the | United States—a kind of refreshing of the | memory of licking England, you know. ! | —The death of captain Boycorr, at the age of fifty-five years, is evidence that death was impervious to the noted Englishman’s determination to hang onto life. His name gave a new word to the English language and a most obnoxious custom to the trades conditions of the earth. —There is a little jasper up at Lewiston, Maine, who has just discovered that he ought to be famous and is trying to make himself so by abusing Mr. BRYAN. Ital- ways is an amusing sight, on circus day, to see every little cur in town run out and bark at the elephant: : —With five-hundred million dollars to take care of it was little wonder BARNEY BARNATO jumped into the sea. A person: has no idea how much of a trouble it is to take care of a vast amount of money until he has experienced it. Come down and we'll | tell you all about it. { —Philadelphia has built a monument to | HARRY WRIGHT because HARRY WRIGHT | was a great base-ball . crank. Great is Philadelphia! But for STEPHEN GIRARD, | who has left the Quaker city an heritage | that will live as long as the oldest city in the universe, she has done nothing. —A bill passed the Legislature, on Wed- nesday, that should please the country school districts. It was known as the MER- | RICK bill and divides the public school fund | by giving one-third on the basis of the num- | ber of schools, one-third on the school children between 6and 16 years old and the | balance on taxables. It isin the interest | of the country districts. —The administration has decided on a | friendly foreign policy and that means | that Cuban butcheries are to continue to | be the price of Spanish friendship. Old | JOHN SHERMAN, who was fairly bristling | with bayonets before he was made secre- tary of war, seems to have gotten the chick- | en heart now that an opportunity confronts him. —The Pennsylvania Legislature went to the unveiling of the GRANT monument, in | New York, and of the WASHINGTON mon- ument, in Philadalphia. Just what the junkets had to do with the making of laws for Pennsylvania no one will be able to ex- plain, but the tax payers of the Common- wealth have been asked to foot a bill of ex- penses to the amount of $11,371.54. —MARK HANNA proved his complete dominance over Republican politics in ‘Ohio, at the recent convention in the Buck- eye State, by defeating the FORAKER— BUSHNELL wing,” without half trying. They practically denounced civil service reform in their platform and want to go back to the old spoils system. The fight in Ohio next fall will be between HANNA | and free silver and if HANNA wins it will | depend entirely on how free his silver is. | —The appropriations are receiving the attention of the lights at Harrisburg and just as every one expected the rascals down there are willing to cut on everything ex- cept their own salaries. On Wednesday. a Philadelphia’ Member introduced a bill of the Senate from $34,948 to $41,698 and every Democrat voted for it, though it was lost. fi the same session it was proposed to cut every hospital and charitable institu- tion in the State in amounts ranging from $2,000 to $150,000. —Since it is to cost the State $11,977.43 | for a committee to investigate the condi- tion of the miners in the anthracite regions ; $11,000 to investigate the condition of the miners in the bituminous coal regions ; $7,000 for information on the sale of oleomargerine ; $1,750.10 for the investiga- tion of the burning of the capitol ; $14,- and western penitentiaries and $4,734.81 | for an investigation of the auditor-general’s | office, it would not be out of place for the’! State to kiiow something of the investiga- | As to the looking into the condi- | tion of our coal miners there was no need of spending $22,977.43, as everyone knows that it, has been Republican ‘legislation for operators and discrimination against opera- tives that has reduced our mines to the | condition of poverty .in which they find themselves. | . 492 VOL mimes: STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 25. 1897. Depew and the Arbitration Treaty. CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW, who has heen ap- propriately dubbed ‘‘the court jester of king ! Plutus,” and is the spokesman for every ‘| trust in the country, is over in England, taking a part with the English loyalists and Americ#n snobs in celebrating Queen VicToRIA’S golden jubilee. It having been reported that he had said that a war was likely to break out between this country and England, he took the opportunity of assuring an English newspaper reporter that he never said anything of the kind. Such an expression, he declared, could not have emanated from him as he claimed to have been the originator of the arbitration movement, and he assured the English reporter that the arbitration treaty, which had received a temporary back-set, would yet receive the ratification of the American Senate. Surely no sénsible American wishes to have war with England. or is opposed to any honorable means of keeping the peace with that country ; but if England is real- ly desirous of settling difficulties with us by such means as the treaty would furnish, she certainly has a singular method of pre- paring for arbitration. ‘She has just completed great military and naval armaments in the West India island of St. Terica, that have cost her many millions of pounds. A Jamaica paper boasts of her having in course of construction equally extensive works on that island, the same paper declaring that these fortifications and naval establish- ments are links in a chain of armaments with which England is surrounding and confronting the shores of the United States. This chain is continued by her forts and dock yards in the Bahamas, threatening the coast of Florida and commanding the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico, a position which she continues to strengthen as glso her great naval and military station in Bermuda, which frowns, with no peaceful intent, upon our Atlantic coast, while the chain that surrounds our eastern shores is completed by her armaments at Halifax and St. Johns. On the Pacific coast of her North America territory she is expending millions of pounds in building a naval and military station at Esquimault, with which we have nothing that can compare in strenzth and completeness. Now these great preparations can be in- tended for no other eventuality than a future niisunderstanding with the United | States, and if such a misunderstanding is to be settled by arbitration England has cer- tainly a most remarkable way of preparing i for that kind of settlement. . _ CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW and the class he | represents are not the kind of men to whom this country could commit her safety and honor in the making of treaties with Eng- land. They are in two close sympathy’ with the English aristocracy. They are too completely under the thumb of the English monetary power that has forced gold monometallism upon the wold and |. left this country in subjection to the bank- ers of London who exercise their control through the medium of the gold standard. When CHAUNCEY DEPEW assures the English that the United States will soon accept the arbitration treaty, he is not authorized to speak for the Anierican people. How We Pay our Debts to England. It takes fully $10,000,000, yearly, to pay the interest on English investments in’ this country. As gold ie the standard, this must be paid in gold or its equivalent. “A | | comparatively small part is paid in cash. The bulk is paid by our exports consisting | chiefly of agricultural products. The pay- ment comes chiefly from the farmers. The equivalent of a dollar under the gold standard is twice as much as it was before the value of money was doubled by gold monometallism. This increase in the value of méney has diminished. the debt paying power of a bushel of wheat or a barrel of | pork about one-half. Therefore to discharge a given debt it takes twice as much of agricultural products and raw materials, with which we pay our debt to Great Britain, as it did twenty years ago, or-before the demonetization of silver. . This is why England adheres so tenacious- ly to the gold standard. It doubles the amount she gets in payment of the debts due her from a country like ours which pays chiefly in natural produets.. With gold standard prices it takes twice as much to pay the debt we owe her, consisting : | chiefly of interest on her investments in 893.15 for the investigation of the eastern | | this country. As the amount of that in- terest is fibout $100.000,000 a year it is the loss to which our farmers Al producers are subjected. This an excellent arrangement for Eng- land. She is getting wonderfully rich by it, but as it is yearly making us poorer are we not great fools for submitting, to it ? Should we not insist upon a standard of value that will enable our farmers to pay with. one bush@® of wheat a debt which under the British gold standard requires two bushels for its payment ? The Motive for the Annexation of Hawaii. The eagerness with which the McKIN- LEY administration takes up the scheme of annexing Hawaii is a decided surprise to the public. There is no apparent reason why there should be precipitate action in this matter ; butall at once a treaty, ready- made for the occasion, and providing for the immediate acquisition of the islands, is launched from the state department, fully shaped to receive the confirmation of the Senate. _ It is unnecessary to go into a discussion of the expediency or propriety of such an- nexation. There is a difference of opinion on that point, the weight 'of conservative opinion, however, being against such a territorial extension, as a dangerous prec- edent, and an experiment that would like- ly be more expensive than profitable ; hut the: query is what the motive of the ad- ministration can be in rushing this project to the front ata time when it should he thought that, with the Cuban trouble and the DINGLEY tariff bill, it has quite enough on its hands. It may not be unreasonable to believe that one of the objects of this movement is to divert public attention from the failure the cheap glory of territorial acquisition in the Pacific ocean. When the new tariff shall turn out to be a fiasco, and pros- perity shall refuse to put in an appearance, the administration may be able to point to other matters. / But there is a colored individual under the Hawaiian wood-pile whom it is not difficult todiscover. The nigger concealed thefe is associated with the sugar trust. It is impossible for its projectors to avert the reasonable suspicion that the annexation of Hawaii is being pushed in the interest of one of those monstrous monopolies that exercise a controlling influence in shaping epublican policies. 2 One of the leading products of Hawaii is sugar, controlled entirely by CLAUS SPRECKELS, who, although not a member of the trust, has an arrangement ‘with it in dividing the profits of the sugar monopoly. The spoils that are assigned to SPRECKELS are exacted of that part of the" United States west of the Mississippi, including the Pacific States, a section which he sup- plies chiefly from his sugar plantations in Hawaii, the product of which is some hun- dred thousands of tons annually. By thus dividing the field of spoliation the sugar trust and SPRECKELS can prac- tice ‘their monopoly without conflicting with each other ; and when a new tariff is being framed that isto enlarge the ad- vantage of. this monopolistic’ combination, increasing the differential duties imposed to augment its profits, the annexation of the islands which furnish SPRECKELS with his raw sugar would exempt him from pay- ing duty on it, an advantage which he can demand as a parfper in the monopoly that is powerful enough to control Republican legislation and exact the service of a Re- publican administration, and which is due him in return for contributions he has made to Republican campaign funds along with the other sugar barons. So disgraceful a thing is hardly credible, but it is being recognized as the most plaus- ible solution of the movement for the an- nexation of Hawaii, that it is intended to serve the interest of «a- ‘ebmbination of greelly monopolists. 4 School Directors Need mot be Alarmed. On Monday the report was sent out from Harrisburg that the Legislature, being unable to provide for the expenses of the government in any other way, had decided to cut the annual public school appro- priations down $500,000. Instead of curtailing in salaries or useless offices this blow at the most needful beneficiary of the State necessarily excited no little ‘indigna- tion among the people and alarm among directors. It is with pleasure, however, that we inform you that a canvass of the House has been made and one hundred and thirty- three of the two hundred and four Mem- bers have pledged themselves ‘‘to use all honorable means to prevent a reduction in the public school fund.” Every Democrat in the House signed the pledge and it will be a gratification to Centre countians to know that our Members were largely in- strumental to promoting the project. ro —— If the Rev. HORACE LINCOLN | JAcoss, of Tyrone, had dévoted the time he spent in writing an article for the Christian Advocate, reflecting upon the usefulness of The Pennsylvania State Col- lege, because of the imaginary misdeeds of a legislative committee of visitation to that institution, in good christian talk with the pack of questionable characters that have long heen a disgrace to one section of his home town, he might- traly be considered a good minister. As it is there is the ap- the foundations of a great College for the building up of mankind. of the administration’s fiscal measures by | the annexation of the Sandwich islands as | something to compensate for its failure in pearance of a whipper-snapper tearing at | Cuba and the Republican Jingoes. It is quite evident that the McKINLEY administration \lges nog propose to do more for Cuba than was done by its predecessor. So far it has followed the CLEVELAND policy in the treatment of the Cuban ques- tion, and there is no appearance of its in- tention to adopt any other course. There is the same vigilance exercised in preventing the Cuban patriots from receiv- ing material assistance from American sources. Our navy is as zealously em- ployed in intercepting filibustering expedi- tions. with the same co-operation on the part of our navy in obstructing the aid which their sympathizers in this country want to ex- tend to the Cuban patriots. In these respects there is not the slight- est change in the policy of the present ad- ministration from that which preceded it, And therg is no difference in other respects, There is considerable pretension of afford- ing relief to American citizens in Cuba who have been subjected to Spanish out- prose but these pretensions have material- izéd: in no measures calculated to redress . their wrongs. A few weeks ago the report of Consul General LEE, which gave a detailed ac- count of Spanish ill treatment of American citizens, excited the expectation of vigorous measures on the part of the administration in defence of the rights of American citi- zenship, and the Washington newsmongers sent out to the press an outline of what was going to be President MCKINLEY’S action, based on the report of the accredited agent of our government in Cuba. But in- stead of any decisive action in the matter, which the people were led to expect, the President went off to the Nashville exposi- tion to talk to the multitude assembled there about the prosperity that is to be in- sured by the passage of a monoply tariff bill. There are no indications, whatever, that anything will be done for the outraged Americans in Cuba more than was done by CLEVELAND'S administration. Moreover, the resolution passed by the Senate upon Consul General LEE’S report, recommending the interference of this gov- ernment in behalf of the Cuban cause, was fent to the House with the understanding that speaker REED should not allow that bedy to act upon it. We do not say that the course pursued by President MCKINLEY in regard to Cuba is a wrong one, as that is not the point we wish to make by these comments. But we want to call attention to the fact that the howling Republican jingoes, who so fierce- ly denounced CLEVELAND'S Cuban policy, areas quiet as lambs about McKINLEY’S action in regard to Cuba, which is almost identically similar.’ The Senatorial Minions of the Sugar Trust, The mapagers of the tariff bill are great- ly pleased with the progress it is making and expect to have it passed by the middle of July. The Senate got through with its labor cn the sugar schedule without much difficulty, asit yielded to every demand of action 4 disgracelul submidsion to the in- terest of that monopoly. The bill, as originally framed by the DINGLZY committee, increased the WIL- SON difierential duty on refined sugar from an eighth ‘to a fifth of a cent per pound. This"would have heen a clear bonus to the trust of eight or ten million dollars a year at the expense of consumers with no increase of revenue to the government. When the bill got before the Senate com - mittee this benefit to the sugar monopoly was mot sufficient, and so the differential duty was raised from a fifth to three eighths of a cent per pound. This was actually plundering consumers to the amount of some. $20,000,000 a year to increaset he wealth of the sugar barons, and there was some kigking in the Senate agaist such an enlarge! rent of the sugar trust steal. A re- cast of the sugar schedule was then made, but the differential duty finally agreed upon, and passed by the Senate, differs but littl, if any, from the bonus originally allowed by the ALDRICH committee. In thee proceedings the pull which the trust exrted upon the Senate of the United States isas plain as anything can be to the perceptien of the people. : But itvas also shown by other circum- stances. | The proposition that duties on ar- ticles controlled by trusts should be re- mitted, which would have heen the most effective means of breaking down those monopoli¢s, was unanimously rejected by the Republican majority. The further propositioh that, the preferential duty should bd suspended for a year in order that the what the {rust cheated it out of by run- fing thousands of tons of raw sugar in ahead of te new tariff, was also rejected. When tolthese evidences that the sugar trust contwls the United States Senate is added thathody’s refusal to investigate the scandals cdnnected with its dealings in sugar truststock, and its determination to allow no dilclosures that would expose the influences that are affecting its action in re- gard to sugdr, it becomes evident to the commonest gnderstanding that the United States Senale is controlled by one of the greediest trists that robs the American peo- ple. | The Spanish authorities are favored the trust, displaying in every stage of its, vernment might make up for. | The Queen’s Jubilee. Pages of History Scanned in Vain to Find the Equal of London's Delirious Conglomeration—Bringing Tribute to Their Aged Ruler—Gorgeous Decorations Beautifying the Meanest Hovel and the Costliest Palace, Present an Everchanging and Bewilder- ing Kaleidoscope. : LoxDON, June 21.—Newspapers call this jubilee eve and to-morrow they speak of as jubilee day. Nothing could give a better idea of delirium-seized millions of English- men, who at midnight are still squeezing through the streets to form for the proces- sion. The big town is so crowded, .he very atmosphere is charged with perspira- tion and the fumes of Scotch whisky, and the crowds are so noisy, so full of happy drunkards, that I found my head reeling and my steps growing unsteady, before I had been two hours in the crush. Such un- heard of multitudes, the largest ever gath- ered in the world’s history, literally mag- netize the air, and each individual feels as one does in the midst of a grand electrical disturbance. Street decorations are keep- ing millions out of bed, and yet they are vile, to use a favorite English word.. First and foremost I will speak of the crowd. Itis an addition of four million visitors to London’s five million popula- tion that sounds the distinctive note of to- ddy’s spectacle. It is not the silly tawdry and jumble of flags and paper flowers, not the presence of a great variety of gaily cus- tomed soldiers, not the constant movement of royal princes and princesses through the streets. The main thing, thesole thing, the thing of prime cousideration, is the fearful, seething, roaring, singing, surging mass of millions of men and women out- doors. It is said there is not a single household in London but is swelled by the arrival of all their relatives and connections from the farthest corners of the kingdom and from foreign climes. Almost a famine has reached out to a distance of forty miles from town, because London has heen or- dering and devouring all the provender usually fed to suburban towns, ten, twenty and thirty miles from London. Fruit is not to be had, meat is scarce and dear, milk, eggs and poultry are only for the wealthy and well-to-do, and the mass of small householders are living on bacon and bread. Think of what nine million people can eat, try to picture the size of a human mouth magnified nine million times and its normal size. The American maw and and stomach play an uncommonly small part in the make-up of this huge beast that devours the produce of half a kingdom in a week. Ten days ago’ the hotels most popular with Americans drove them from the doors, saying that not a bed was to be had, but last Thursday and Friday they were eager to have Americans, who found more rooms than lodgers. a QUEEN WORE A WHITE BONNET. The queen arrived at noon at Padding- ton station, quite well in appearance, cre- ating a mild sensation by wearing a white bonnet, but otherwise dressed in black as usual, and which made Princess Christiana in her suit of bright blue, look very gay indeed, as she appeared behind her mother and the dowager Empress of Germany, also a solemn, black old lady. She came ina brand new royal train, made to celebrate the season’s rejoicing. Stands had been erected at the station and a few favored hundreds had a chance to see how very short and dempy is the monarch whose virtuous long life it; is declared by hundreds of mottoes on London walls has been one continuous blessing to all her people. Some very pretty big wigs of the parish handed her an ‘address, and she replied in one of those womanly, simple speeches about her son and her other dear children, which so delight the. hearts of the British people. Then she drove away to Bucking- ham with an escort of troops, anda little newshoy ran after the carriage, yelling : “Extra ; all about the queen ; alarming rumor.” After she had gone, flunkies rolled up a-purple carpet on which she had walked across the platform to her carriage, then some royal vans drove up and were loaded with many mysterious, long, fat black bags, and those who got near them read on each bag some such words as these, H. M., the queen’s newspapers, H. M., the queen’s rugs ; similar bags were mark- ed with the names of royal princesses. People generally discounted the rumors of abdication as a thing not to be permitted by the government, on account of the ex- pense and confusion, but I heard two stock exchange brokers make a bet of five guineas that the queen will not be alive at the end of a week, the man making the bet saying the excitement would kill- her. Nobody Spayls from the Keystone. —York county’s agricultural society has re- ceived a new chartex. —Reading Masons laid—the corner-stone of their masonic temple yesterday. 7 —Christian N. Stauffer was frightened to death in a runaway near Lancaster. —Bishop O'Hara confirmed 600 children in St. Mary's Catholic church, Wilkesbarre. —The big Lutheran reunion held annually at Emig's Grove, will occur this year July 8th. —Near Kittanning William Steffy’s baby fell forty feet into a well and was rescued alive. —Charged with frightening women after dark, Charles Yorty, of Annville, -will an- swer at court. —VWilliam Mitchell, a miner of Lansford, had a hand blown off by the explosion of a dynamite cap. : —Frank Miller, of Gilberton, had his back and right leg broken by a fall of top coal at Draper colliery. : —One hundred men returned to work at the Reading iron work's plate mill. Nearly 1300 men are still idle. . —President E. C. Felton denies that the old wages are to be restored at the Pennsyl- vania steel works July 1st. —While shifting cars at Newberry Junc- tion, Andrew Leffler, recently married, of Tamaqua, was cutin two. : —The window glass workers will be given an opportunity to vote on a proposition to re- turn to the Knights of Labor. As the result of Berks criminal court, 11 new inmates will be added to the Eastern penitentiary this week. : —The Lehigh coal & navigation company’s collieries in Panther creek valley suspended last night for the month. —Arbitrators are hearing the claims of twenty building associations against the Lou- is Kremp estate, at Reading. —Williamsport's share of the firemen’s pension fund, derived from tax on foreign insurance companies, is $1340.69. —While stealing a ride near Duncannon, Isaac Garman fell beneath the wheels of a train and sustained fatal injuries. —At Ehrhart’s sand hole, near Lancaster, a cave-in fatally crushed Harry Lyons and seriously hurt Edward Phillips. —Poor directors Dietrich and Adrensfield, charged with bribery, were put on trial in Schuylkill’s criminal court Monday. —Nearly 60 Berks country merchants have appealed to county treasurer Kutz from the work of the merchantile appraiser. —Mormons are making a house-to-house canvas in the southwestern section of rthe State, and have gained a few: converts. —Patrick Cronin pleaded guilty to killing jail warden McCrea, of Erie, and was given two years in the western penitentiary. —John Brown, a Huntingdon reformatory escape, but was taken near Harrisburg. —The camping ground of the third brigade, selected by General Gobin at Mt. Gretna Mon- day will be known as or Lewis Merrill. —In a fit of despondency Mrs. Clara Thompson, of Ingomar, swallowed paris green. Physicians tried in vain to save her life, —Some companions dared Harry McCon- nell, aged 22, to venture further into the water at Grove City. McConnell was drowned. —~George Lytle was fatally shot by John Honocker, his father-in-law, at Erie. The latter tried to demonstrate how he failed to shoot a rat. —Blair county's grand jury ignored the bill charging Colonel Wilham Jack with re- ceiving deposits, knowing the Gardner bank was insolvent. : . —The 100 men who returned to work “at the Reading iron company’s sheet mill Mon- day‘ struck again Tuesday, and the mill” closed down. .—At Pottsville judge Gordon overruled the motion to quash the indictment against poor ’ directors Dietrich and Ahrensfield, charged with bribery. : —Confessing the theft of white léad from the burned Jenkins building, Pittsburg, fire- men John Moore and Isa%e Dodson have been suspended. ” . —Everett Broyles, of Ohio, addressed a mass-meeting in York's court house in favor of Cuban independence under the auspices of the Cuban Junta. —Gleason’s tannery at Gleasonton.is being enlarged. Two new rolls will be placed in position and general repairs