P. T BARNUM DEAD. ,. P; T.Karriim, the great showman, died at Bridgeport, Conn, last week aged 8 1 years. ' HIS EARLY VEN I't'RK.S. Phincas Taylor Barnum was born in Bethel, Conn., July 5, t8io. His father was a country innkeeper and a merchant in a small way. Phincas from the ae of 1 3 to 18 years, was in many different branches of business, part of the time in Brooklyn and part in New York city. 1 le gatherec' to gethcr a little money and came back to Bethel and started a little store. He took the agency for a lottery char tered by the state to build the Groton monument. He failed in business in 1829, got married and started a news paper called The Herald of Freedom. Jt was not long before he was in jail for libel. In 1834 he brought to New York a colored woman, Joyce Heth, said to be 161 years old and the nurse of George Washington. A post mor tem showed she had added eighty years to her age. TOM THL'MM AND JENNY 1.1NI). But Barnum had got a taste of the show business and never thereafter forsook it. He traveled through the south with one horse circuses which were generally unsuccessful. In 1841 without a dollar of his own, he brought out Charles S. Stratton 'Tom Thumb), then less than two feet high and weighing only sixteen pounds. He took the dwarf through the United States and Europe and made money. But it was in 1849, when he brought Jenny Lind over and got her to sing in Castle Garden, that he made a national reputation for himself. He paid her $1 000 a nigiit, and the gross receipts of a tour of ninety five con certs were $712,161. He retired from busines in 1855 and devoted bis attention to booming the town of East Bridgeport. In order to encourage a manufacturing company to establish itself there he indorsed their notes for nearly $1,000,000. The company failed and Barnum went into bankruptcy, but he had settled a for tune upon his wife and he started into the show business again. AS AN ADVERTISER. He took charge of his old New York museum once more. It was then ot the corner of Broadway and Ann street. While there he astonish ed the vestry of Trinity church by asking permission to stretch an adver tising banner from his museum to the steeple of St. Paul's chapel. This was the finest specimen of sublime nerve then known to the American people. On July 13, 1865, the museum burned down, and he got an unlimited quantity of advertising out of it by securing the publication of a most gaudy account of the way the orangoutang and the lion and other denizen of the tropical forests took the conflagration. He rebuilt it, and again it burned. In 1 87 1 he established a traveling museum and added numerous features like the hippodrome and elephant races, to the old circus. Never was a traveling show so advertised, and the country boys for weeks pored over his Advance Courier with more interest than that given to any yellow backed novel. He used to give temperance lectures from the ring and was himself a prom inent feature of the street parade. HIS SEASON IN LONDON. At the close of the season of 1889 Mr. Barnum transported his entire aggregation to London, at a cost of $650,000, and astonished the natives with a midwinter American circus. His attempt and failure to have his street parade on the day of the lord mayor's show gave him a great deal of gratui tous advertising, and the. receipts of his thirteen weeks' season aggregated $700,000. The Jumbo episode occured in 1882. Mr. Barnum's agents arrived in Lon don in .February of that year and pur chased the great elephant from the Zoological society for ,2,000 sterling. Mr. Barnum was four times a mem ber of the Connecticut legislature and a mayor of Bridgeport. He presented that city with a public park. He also gave a stone museum to Tufts college, near Boston. Among Mr. Barnum's literary achi evempnts were his autobiography, several times rewritten, "Funny Stories from P. T. Barnum," "The iiumDugs of the World" and "Lion Jack." The Trials of Winter. Winter is a trvinc period, even to those who have strong constitutions, butit is doubly trying to those who are weak and delicate, or who have a ten dency to the various diseases that are bred and fostered in the stagnant at mosphere of closed and heated houses. The system should be kept strength ened and toned up with a liberal course of S S. S the great blood ton ic and purifier. It acts like a charm. It increases the appetite, soothes the nerves, and beautifies the complexion in short, it makes life well worth living. Aged Applicant "I fought wiz ze gr-r and Napoleon at St. Helena." Young Man "Napoleon didn't fight at St. Henela." Aged Applicant "Monsieur ees meesinformed. I was his valet and he fought me all ze time when 1 dress him in ze morning." Fuck. Eeply of Hon- Giles D- Price, Secretary of the (lull nt v fl Mm i !..;.. ...... ... i. j """""'mu.iuin iissociaiion 01 1 omisylvania, and Hon- Leonard Rhone, Worthy Master of the Pennsylvania Stato Grange, to the Gritioisms Against "The Revenue Bill." 7' tfifi 1'coph of 'riinmloanta: Within the past few days there has begun a mot vicious, unfair, unwar ranted clamor against the so-called Grangers' tax bill, or revenue measure, now pending in the Senate at Harns burg. The biil has passed the House by a decisive majority, and as the Leg islature is not in session this week the recess is an opportune time of study and reflection upon the measure. If it is a bad bill it sVotild be defeated ; if a good measure it ought to be enacted. 1 laving the sanction of a large major ity of the Assembly, the presumption arises that the measure is in the main a good one, and the burden of.proof is upon those who assert the contrary. Thus far attacks upon the bill have been too vague and general in their character to command serious atten tion. It is true that the State has been flooded with posters amlhandbills, set ting forth in part some features of the measure and condemning in unmeas ured terms those portions thusrcfeired to. But after a careful and unpreju diced review of the entire act as it passed the I louse every fair-minded citizen is bound to say that the bill as a whole is fair, that the object it seeks to attain is a worthy one, that the injus tice it will correct is admittedly grave, and that its provisions arc not so inimi cal to the people's interests as its ene mies would teach the public to believe. It should be understood, at the start, that this is a measure "to provide re venue for local purposes, by the taxa tion of real estate, personal and cor porate property." It does not inter fere with the levy and collection of taxes for State purposes, but aims to relieve the burden of local taxation, which is confessedly too heavy upon real estate. The people are clamoring for the equalization of taxation. Nobody claims that our present tax laws are just or equal. Real estate now bears an unjustly large portion of the cost of maintaining schools, courts, jails, hospitals, city and township govern ments, etc. The only way to equalize this burden is to extend the taxing power to other forms of property. And if, therefore personal property is made to bear a small share of local expenses as no one doubts it should, the law must be so framed as to make a fair and full return of taxable property. Taxpayers are generally honest, but a tax law which fails to secure a full return from dishonest tax payers is unjust to the honest portion. A law which compels an honest return of tax able property must be somewhat in quisitorial, as are all. tax laws more or less. The proposed law is no more in quisitorial than the present laws. The clamor against it is raised by those whose taxation it increases. 1 hat is selfish, although natural. Man is a self ish animal at best, and would much rather have his neighbors pay the ex penses of government than to assist with his own money. Take the railroads, for instance. The proposed law imposes a tax of four mills, to be paid directly to the several counties, upon the average value of each railroad, telephone, telegraph and other transporation or transmission company, apportioned per mile upon the line, buildings, lands, rolling stock, etc., in each county, which under ex isting laws pay nothing to the local governments, yet it uses the courts more than any other class of property. Such a tax would reduce the county levy in most counties by at least one half, probably more, and this lighten ing of the burden would be felt by every property owner, whether farmer, mechanic or millionaire. It would be especially welcome to owners of small properties, whether in city or country, who find it hard work to sup port their families, pay their taxes and hold their little homes clear from in cumbrance. The school revenues are proposed to be helped out by a two-mill tax on mortgages, bonds and other interest bearing securities, and by a ten-mill tax (less the State tax) upon the gross earnings of all private Dankers and unincorporated banks ana savings in stitutions. The bankers and money lenders object to this provision, of course ; but the hard working mecnan ics and laborers, the toiling farmers and small property owners of every class will be glad of a law which pro vides new sources ot revenue tor school support, and thus lightens the burden of taxation for that purpose. Tangible personal property of every description is made taxable at the same rate as real estate, for local purposes, excent that $ioo worth is exempted. Those who own less than that amount of personal property will not be taxed for it. Those who own more are able to pay the small rate that will be neces sary. Under this provision of the law it is entirely probable that the county levy in nearly all counties will be re duced to one mill; that the local levy will drop to half its present rate. Who dare assert that the accomplishment of this result is not a positive and sub stantial gain to the people at large ? The proposed law is liberal in its ex emptions. All government and mu nical property, publ'c institutions, hospitals, schools, churches, parks, cemeteries, public monuments, benevo lent and charitable institutions, with their furniture, apparatus, books, etc., are exempt from taxation for all pur poses named in the act except for light ing and paving the streets and build ing sewers in cities and boroughs. Nothing more could be asked under this heading Penalties are provided for fraudulent returns by the assessor or taxpayer, and the usual machinery of the law made available for the enforcement of all the provisions of the act. Now what is there in this to kick up a great row about ? Corporations must pay more taxes than before if this bill passes; but that is only simple justice. Money loancrs and bankers must pay more tax upon their "moneys and credits," but the load upon their real estate will be lighter. Manufacturers, merchants and other business men pay more in one direction and save it in another. No more money is collected from the people than before ; less, in fact, by the increased taxation of, cor porations. Is this a measure to be scoffed at and ridiculed ? Is it not rather just what its framers sought to make it-a law to equalize the burden of taxation, to shift some of the load from the weary shoulders of certain classes to other and abler support ? It is timely and important. Our legislators want to know the public sentiment toward tax equalization, as attempted in this bill. Talk up the situation, tax-payers. Yours respectfully. Giles 1). Prick, Leonard Rhone. By reference to the Report of the Auditor General and Secretary of In ternal Affairs, it will be seen that the value of transporation and transmis sion companies is $1,873,575,000. This the Revenue bill compels to pay a tax of 4 mills, which would realize $7, 492,300, andjthat sum would be de ducted from the taxes assessed for county purposes. Mercantile property, money on in terest, banking capital, etc., aggregate according to the same reports $1, 452,000,000. On this the Revenue bill will assess a tax of two mills for school purposes, making a total of $2,904,000. Consider these facts well, farmers, they are of vital interest to you. Respectfully, Leonard Rhone, Master State Grange of Pennsylvania. Spotted lever. IT IS RECEIVING ATTENTION KROM THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH. Notices have been sent out by the State Board of Health that the dread ed disease spotted fever lv-is appeared at several points in Western Pennsyl vania. It is a fearful disease and one which, if it spreads at all, spreads rapidly. The patients are taken with convulsions and vomiting and in forty eight hours brown spots appear on the body and death ensues in eighty cases out of one hundred. Some linger a little longer but the end is the same. It is an epidemic disease, and many eminent doctors say it is contagious. To say the least it is considered a ter rible disease and all doctors dread the prospect of an epidemic whether it spreads by communication from per son to person or by the unexplained channels which makes any disease epi demic. It is a malignant epidemic in reality. The persons attacked are taken with headache, vomiting, con traction of the muscles in the back of the neck, have a tenderness of the spine and limbs, and often have wild est delirium. It attacks' usually the strongest and most healthy persons, and is no respector in that regard. Males, according to studies made, are more subject to it than females, and young persons under fourteen years are especially victims of its ravages. The patient sometimes lives seven days, but very rarely, unless its fatal ity is counteracted. As precautions, all refuse, garbage, decayed matter of all kinds, should be disposed of, and houses and cellars thoroughly renova ted and kept clean and ventilated. Louise Arnot Not Dead- The Shamokin Dispatch says: Miss Louise Arnot, the actress, who played to small houses in Shamokin, several weeks aco, has organized a new com pany and is now making a tour of the oil regions, bince her depart ure from Shamokin the actress has been staying at the home of Mrs. James Deegan of Ashland. She was suffering with a severe cold, and was compelled to break several important engagements. In the new company Miss Arnot will appear in the leading role of "The County rair. It had been reported that Miss Arnot died. Stop And Think. How much money you have thrown awav buying worthless medicines, pre pared by unprincipled parties, who care not what harm they may do to your system. You can depend on every bottle of Sulphur Bitters as be ins a reliable medicine. It searches out and cleanses from the blood I ah feel imimre matter, and makes vou like a new person. Jioston Daily Globe. It is said that the fumes of kerosene, when a lamp is turned down, are liable to cause diphtheria. The New York Board of Health, a few days ago, deci ded that to this more than any other cause the prevalence of the disease is to be attributed. SPUING rRIM.IEO a v 1 . nnnrcTc mil u Tuesday, March 24, 1891. MISS H. E. WASLEY. Next door to I. W. Hartman, Main street. Many People Look forward to Spring taforo they will think of taking any thing for the blood. rut now in th time to U-e'm and thn you will be ready with a good ch ar brain to do in tho Spring what you would have to do later on, ai the system is in good condition for bright prospect. :o: DOUBLE EXTRACT SARSAPARILLA! -IS GREATEST BL00DPURIF1ER ofthe DAY and easily cures all diseases arising from bad blood, sneh as ECZEMA, ITCH, SALT RHEUM, ERYSIPELAS, SCROFULA, PIMPLES, BOILS. 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