VOI. 1L.XIL FRED KURTZ, -- EDITOR 1t Don Cameron makes up his mind not to be a candidate for re-election to the senate, Gov. Beaver, no doubt, will be among a host of others, ready to step into Don's shoes. OTR AER SVC, The Osservatore Romano says that should the Pupe be forced to exile hime self from will not ask sove- reignty from any power, but will mere~ ly request temporary hospitality, as he will certainly return to Rome. Rowe he 1 STA Johnstown in New York state bad a flood a short time ago in which about 18 persons were drowned and much proper- ty was destroyed. It is eingular that two places of similar names should have such terrible visitations within so short a time. HOI IRETET THAAD Since the arrest of Sullivan ders by the Governor of Mississippi, it will be of interest to know what the law is against prize fighting in that state: An act of 1882 imposes a penalty not exceed- ing $1,000 nor less than $500, or imopriss onment for 12 months, or both, for prize fighting. Aiders and abettors are sub~ ject to a fine of not less than $1,000 or imprisonment for six months, or both, upon or- EN TR. A new danger threatens the farmers o Berks county. Many of them have stor. ed in their barns the moualdy, damp hay which could not be cured because of the frequent and recent rains, and this now emits a fearfal heat, threatening spons taneous combustion. The barn on the farm of Jacob Herbine, in Oley town- ship, was destroyed, with ita contents, from this very cause, entailing a loss of £5,000. What has become of Blaine ? He is not being heard from at all any more, although he holds the highest place in President Harrisons cabinet. What has become of the magnetic man from Maine, who for the last dozen years ma le more noise and called up more’ huzzas from the Republican ranks than apy half dozen leaders in the party 7? Has James (i. been extinguished? Has some one put a bushel over his light ? The trouble at Carnegie’s works, last week, took a serious aspect. The hands were on a strike and withthe backing of the women, took possession of the en- trances to the works and would allow no onetogo in. A considerable force of policemen were sent to the spot to pre, serve order, but some, after getling there resigned and others left. The cause of the trouble 1s a rednction in the scale of wages, Carnegie had promised higher wages in case a high tariff was maintain ed and the men are not prepared to acs cept a lowering of wages instead, Matters are going to an extreme in Hayti, for Legitime is arming women and placing then in the ranks. The women serving in the ranks of his troops can readily be picked out hy a close observer, as their faces do not pos segs the bardened featores of men. They dress in male attire and appear to stand the hardships well. They are said to be all young girls and many of them mis« tresses of soldiers, They may be able to hold their own in a battle of tongues, the ReronrteEr would think John Wanamaker, the merchant post- master general, has yielded to the be- guilments of politics and now aims to be a United States Senator. He covets the seat now occupied by Don Cameron. In alliance with him to secure it is Senator (nay and the acute coterie of political bosses who make Philadelphia their habitat, Mr. Cameron's seat will be va- cant on the 4th of March, 1891. The legislatare to choose the senator will be elected one year from next fallr The power of Cameron has always been cen~ tered in Philadelphia, which sends to the legislature a representation, numerically, at least, impressive, now stronger than ever, and his nomina- tion seems likely, The Johnstown flood washed considerable popularity into the net of our friend, and he is on a fair way to scoop in the Governorship, Well, he's a clever gentleman, snd the Reron. TER years ago predicted distinction in store for him, Bat, while we are in this business we insist on Col. Bpangler to go on the tick et for lieutenant governor, on account of ~#he dam disaster and the services he sub. sequently rendered, The Johnstown flood was a mighty big thing, but we predict that Dan and Jack have not yet reached their high water mark. Solid Sense on Prohibition. Francis Murphy, the apostle of total abstinence by moral suasion rather than by prohibitory laws, has no tears to shed over the defeat of prohibition in this and other States, but rather regards it as en. ccaragement to practical reformers. “The death knell of prohibition he says, adding that fraud and strong. is sounded,” it “is pharisesism, This We rather regard it as a delu of well meaning knowledge of hypocrisy.” 18 a little gion have little and its ways, of prohibition: to Mr. Mur- Here men who the world althoogh there is a class ists undoubtedly amenable phy’s caustic description, is good sense from Francis “The attempt tu State together » bring the church and again, The people When themselves together to get the leg Wii not permit it. preachers band to enact laws to regulate the people they are going counter to the will of God, stricted, and the man who f license must be known to be respectable and trustworth vy before he to sell liquor. In truth, the iS permite liquor traffic should be in the hands of good men sounds paradoxical to say mean it. A man of the right spirit, this, but judgment and with standing behind a bar, will refuse to sell to a man who is an has bitual drunkard. Statutory stop the sale of whisky, and t thing that can be done is to regulate and mitigate the evil in a legitimate way, In Maine, whisky issold in every town. Of course prohibition works splendidly in Maine, because the people there know that they can get whisky whenever they desire it. They are fraud that is going on. letter.” Mr. Marphy was long a resident of Maine and knows whereof he speaks as to the use and sale of intoxicants in that State, and besides that he has no motive to deceive any one, while his zeal in the cause of temperance cannot be questions ed, : he best the content with The law is a dead . —- The prediction has been made by sevs eral eminent geologists who have made a study of the oil deposits of Pennsylvania that all the oil field of this state will be exhausted in a comparatively few years, In an interview, Professor J. of the second geological survey of Penn- sylvania, expressed himself as entirely in accord with this prediction, Professor Lesley has based his predie- tion upon the oil P. Lesley, statistics of the geo- logical survey Pennsylvania, which show an unmistakable decline in the patural production of oil. Not only do they exhibit the approaching extinction of this great industry of , but the immense increase in the quantity of shipments is draining the oil fieids to the very dregs. Professor Heilprin, of Natural of eminent palaeontologist and geologist, does not coincide with Professor Lesley's views. In an interview, Professor Heils prin said: ‘In my opinion, we cannot rely on the present statistics as a proof positive that all our oil fields will soon be exhausted, either in five, ten, twenty, or fifty years, or longer still, While the approaching exhaustion of many fields hae surprised the various geologists and oil speculators, they have also been sur prised at the great number of very pro- ductive fields which bave been and are now being opened from time to time. So where one oil area is being exhausted another springs up to supply the want, “We are not yet sufficiently conversant with che conditions that make np an oil field ns to designate with any degree of accuracy at what time they will become extinct, the Academy of Sciences, Philadelphia, an a I An associated press dispatch from Pitts. burg says thst one hundred Pinkerton men, armed with Springfield rifles arris ved there Friday morning from Philadel- pbia and were tuken to the Homesiead bessemer steel works of Carnegie, Phipps & Co., at Homestead, Pa. They will be placed about the mill property to pro- tect it and the workmen from the strik- ers, If will be noticed that while the glorious tariff compels the American workiagman to buy in the “home mar- ket,” it does not prevent the monopolies tic employer from indulging in free trede #0 far as the employment of hands is concerned. In other words, when the wage worker refuses to toil for the com pensation as fixed by the protected manufacturers, the latter seeks employes elsewhere, assisted by Plakerton detec tives and their trusty Winchesters. A a It appears that Colonel Quay's candi date for governor, Senator Delamater, is to be opposed by Adjutant General Has tings who is being pushed to the front by C. L. Magee, of Pittsburg, General Has. tings is represented as saying, however, that he is not a candidate, A AI A ARAN Nothing but violent rain and thander storms from all parts of the country re- ported the past few days, from east and west, of males in the country entitled to vote, the New York Post, would rather be the victor in prize fight than be President of the United States, In fact, the honore ol Presi- dency are of small concern in their view compared with that brow of John L. Bullivan There are some thousands BAYS Evening wi 10 Monday's y tae those adorn the (M eourse evs ery exhibition of this kind, where the fighting is real and where mouey is staked on not 8 sham, and i Bt thie resull Yet has been a sensible decline in the public makes an appetite for more, there interest in these brutal . i Heenan-Sayers fight, which | enlisted the attention of in | Fuogiand and of society in both couniries, | Although to boards last evening, they were small the great siatesmen crowds went balletin ad straggled for the first news of that greater battle, Al though Boston “went wild” vesterd: was a lower Boston than that whicl was knocked around the wooden image, receiviog barm than a billet of hickory under like treatment, until finally be closed both of im off, The interest in the Sallivan-Kilrain engage ment ran in a lower stratum It is not to be supposed that apy match de igeaiy. pational or international, would now en- gage the thoughts of educated persons, unless the battle were fought in their im- mediate neighborhood. Moreover, quite certain that no such efforts would 34 im iv 18 have been made by the public authori- ties in the South a quarter of a century ago, to prevent the fight, as were by the QGovernor seems to have done his whole duty, the Sheriil of Marion county his orders, it is to hoped that he w punished according to made of Mississippi. He ve d iii De of this ¢ he measure The press report says that fanclionary put his head inside the ring, and said peace, but finding, like the law, Patrick Henry, that there was no peace, immes diately retired. .—— A Flexible Stone. What is described as a geo.ogical cur. fice of the acling chief i ates rk of the Unites f ment, Washington. weighing about War Departs It ina piece of stone pound, FAs Gee, id i0¢ hie # in and Xi There is no doubt about its but it length, 24 inches in thick, & genuine stone, 1 veiling nevert hele 48 DOs. 1 gene the fl ece of India end exibility ofa When shaken in the direction of ita flat surface rabber ana Laken 10 the hom es, it wi and forward movement 1 bend kackward with adull sound. The more ofa laxity in the adhesion, parently, than an elasticity borizontally by one end, the drop and remain in that position the two ends other will With supported free | a reste, Lhd centerjcan be pressed § inch bel With end held the other end can be beut The movement is uot confined to the one direction—in the yw the middle line, one firmly on the desk, upward over 1 inch, piace of the fiat surfaces—but the entire be constructed universal joint, movement perceptable in all under pressure, what is known as itacolamite, or elastic sandstone, It is stated that a whole mountain of it ex stone seems to on the principie of a with a directions This is ists in Southern Nevada, a short distance east of Death valley, It ia found in Oali- fornia, Georgia and other localities in the United States. One of these stones can be seen also in the museum of the Lewisburg Univer. sity where the editor has seen dled it, and ban- a uli— Ex Senator Wallace was interviewed the other day at Atlantic City. He said be had no intention to again enter po. litical life. “It doesn't pay,” was his plaint. “Moreover,” he added, “the man in public life at Washington who seriously devotes his energies to the real questions which involve statesmanship acquires not fame or landation, but sim- ply abuse. There isno inducement in pablic life to a man of energy and ambi tion. I would rather,” he said, “for the real good 1 could do my State, represent the district in which I live in the legisla~ ture of any State than to be a mem ber of the United States renate.” The people of Clearfield should act on this Lint, —————" IAI Governor Lowry, of Mississippi, means business. Arrangements for the prose. cution of all persons and corporations connected in any way with the late Bullivan-Kilrain fight are progressing: and a big affair it will prove to be, Sher iff Cowart, who witnessed the fight, and Mr. Rich, of Richburg, are likely to be participants, as well as other prominent parties in New Orleans and elsewhere. The governor does not doubt that he will eventually get the principals, Sullivan or Kilrain, together with the gangs, or some of them. " . —— ws A bullet was fired at the emperor of Brazil the other day, which missed and the assassin was arrested. Cur Monopoly Combines. While the have a knowledge of the growth of people genern monopoly they be startled to learn the power of rome of trusts, says the Philad, Times will these combines as official the Nev York Stock Exchange required by the Board to yr ax hibited io Being the HIOW furnish amount of their certificates, the fi ing varied trusts have made those ree tarne Capital $1 5 00 f i The parent trust of all, the Stacdard | Oil Company, sells no certificates on the | 4 makes no returns. Bat! the every | he loregoing astoand hat figures will public wheao it is remembered t one of the trusts named deals in the com- | mon necessaries of life, Every one of thease trusts is capitalized at from double to treble t invested, and it make them pay large act- Lo} upon he capital nally intended dividends the inflated capital at the cost of consumn- ers. How long will the people submit Can any doubt that the come, and that it reckoning will will come the whirlwind in the near fature. with a Chicago, by the annexation of Hyde Park, Lake View, Jefferson and Cicero of ( has be come territorially the largest city in the Union. It now covers an area of 150 square miles, and with this annexation, has a population of about 1,100,000, which makes it io population the third the second city in the United Slates, Philadelphia claims a population of 1,. 200 000 previously suburbs hicago, if not ;and if thisis a correct estimate, as is probably the fact, Chicago must, for the present at least, be content with being the third instead of the fourth city in the Union, and in this respect with having changed places with Brook- lyn, whose population down at 0.000, The growth of Chicago then net avout WOUL within the las wd y years is a marve } Ita a development in the history of cities area admits of increase in population; and present territorial a vasi in the next fifty years the population will probably A country that ymparatively short time, pros New York, hia, Chicago and Brooklyn, has » giements of great indostrial and be more than doubled, CAll, IDA « due great cities as commercial thrift. Cities in this coun. try 3 , more than in Eorope, are the pro- ct of purely natural causes. oo Liberty county, Ga., is greatly excited man himself Dupont Bell, who claims the New Messiah. over the proceedings of a calling to He has succeeded in f that section up the white people trouble. The ne groes kneel before him and struggle with each other for the privilege of kissing his feet. He has told them that the Judgment Day will be here August 16, On the eagerly-looked-for 16th every white map will be turned black and ev- ery black man will become white, His schemes for raising money are varied apd peculiar. The last effort of his ge- nius wae to declare that he had sent to his august Father for a consignment of wings which the negroes will need on and after the 16th of August. There was a corner on wings when his requisis tion reached heaven, and the Almighty was only able to send him 360 pairs, These, he claimed, would be delivered on the Judgment Day, and in the means time he would sell them at $5 a pair. Every pair has been bought and paid for, and now the lucky ones are practic ing the flying motions. be rking the negroes to such a point that are afraid of serious » ——— A. D. 1889 might properly be designas ted as the year of heavy rains, water spouts, c'oudbursts and floods, There is certainly no year within the recollection of thisgeneration in which these phe- nomena of nature so much abounded as in the present year, and itis only half over. Taking it from last September, Centre county and this state, have had copious rains all the time. From last Beptember on it rained almost every day for ten weeks, with only an occasional off day and a peep of sunshine. Since January we have had showers about every few days up to this writing. In the last five weeks the aqueous precipic tation from the clouds was not confined to showers, but assumed the forms of cloudbursts and waterspouts,. With all this outpour the reservoirs in the clouds soem to have as large a supply yet as over, The meteorologist, weather wise and such as are other wise, might theorize upon all this extraordinary wetness and find whether there might possibly be a leak somewhere, ng SAO A Gov, Beaver in getting a good round of Er scoldingon account of the Johnstown relief fund. A Bismarckian Measure. Mention has been made of Bismarck's favorite plan for abolishing pauperism in empire. The downright state socialism, pure and gim- ple. It originates with self, however, and not with some poor, the German Jismarck him- half starved, long haired creature, « at elbows and mikes all the difference in the world. The chancellor's system for abolishing the poor consists of three different laws, tag. of the During health a sum, amounting to 14 or 2 for the insurance y cent. | r NO. 28 Horseback Riding for Health, Dr. David N. Patterson contr: i on h riding whick has some points of He says that for both conned exercise which imparts tone to the whole physical system and at t Such a wide horsebas A rider must have a genuins for his horse, From horse to rider in this r current of fine a stead netism. “The borse is ¢ paid into the sick fund. His employer is obliged to pay one-third of the sum. During illness the workingman receives half pay for a term not exceeding thir- i teen weeks. If he goes to the hospital The next step on the road to state so- cialism was an accident insurance law 1684 enacted in Its operation extends to sailors, tillers of the soil and to work- men in the building trades. Employers must pay all of the guarantee fund in accident insurance, The workman who is entirely disabled by accident receives as a pension two-thirds of his regular pay and a proportional sum disablement. 1f receives as pensi for partial he is killed his widow m 20 per cent. of his illd 15 per cent., up to wages and each ci 60 per cent., which is the limit. A man's fellow workmen are the jury to pass on the amount of injury he has received It will have a tendency to make employ- ers careful of those in their hire, The third and last law is the old age insurance got. 1591. 1% goes into operation in Under its provisions all Germans, male and female, above 16 years old, who work for wages, must pay regular- 1 to ly into a state take » ; } yu haw a nl #4 care of them when the y are too old to insurance func labor or become invalid. Employers pay half the sum required for this fund and employes half. Tho payments are very 3 Ronn] ; email, being from 8 to 74 cents a week. From these insignificant sums will be secured pensions ranging from §15 to §61. Tho state adds in each case §10 a year to the pension. The government pays the insurance of men while they are in mili- Ary service In a free republic, where working poo- ple get good wages, why can they notdo for themselves what Bismarck and the government are doing for the laboring classes in Germany? Foreigners in America. The New Orleans says: It is clearly evident that national sentiment is opponnd 0 the paturalisetion of Lareigners by the logss aud speedy methods which now prevail It the fro conviction of the people of the Union that a long tern of residence in this country must be required before the alien born can be fully clothed with the gard of American citizenship. Time ust be githa to develop a patriotic spirit in the man that knocks at our doors for admission into the national household; there must be no Irish Americans, no German Americans, no Brit h-Americans, 50 Swedish-Americans, but plain, simple, every day Americans. It must arouse the anger of every true son of the pation to witness the horde of aliens—alicns to the very spirit of our institutions-—who crowd our shores year after yoar, eager to wrest from America sufficient wealth to enable them to re turn 0 their respective climes, and there end thelr days eawrapped In their native flag. To soch as our laws will bot long extend a wel cone. We have tasted the bitter fruits of indies criminate immigration, and the country is ripe for a policy of restriction. Those who will be welcomed will be thabe only who fuse with the American spirit; who burn thelr native bridges behind then when they come upon American soil Times- Democrat In New York city there are 2135 good clags hotels. They accommodate ordi- narily 40,000 persons. If crowded they can stow away 75,000, The boarding and lodging houses of the city can accommo- date twice as many more. These facts are urged in favor of New York as the sito of the American world's fair in 1802, Buildings can be erected in one of the parks, it is said, and New York has never had a great international exposition as yot, Dr. Andrew D. White, ex-president of Cornell university, lays before the coun- try the plan of a gigantic university at Washington, which should stand at the head of high education in this country and be on a level with Oxford and Cam- bridge and the great German universi- ties, yet different from them. The faculty would be a board of trustees and exam- iners, who would encourage original re- search. They would examine scholars in different departments of education and then give them money to support them while they devoiad themselves en. tirely to investigation iz their separate T¢ ds 80 1 Professor+Carl Vignal claims to be the Inventor of an air ship which can be suc. cessfully driven and steered by moans of a screw propeller, The Tammany Hall organization is a contury old this summer. and 195 feet deep. For invalids, too aluable. It will broken down, fn th tion getting too f: up will bring ¥ are too thin, it will muscles from ins If you have will make yo nails. Best of all, it takes ve in That horsetack riding | vation of good 1 “small, sweet courte eYyen BERG Glew parts a healthy %one of u with a» manliness aod @ fsveryravtofind a g Aaali 87 pu most © "ri 2 of the {ew 5 will Tenement House Life. § 4 of New York city isnow Ereal mass « f Poo in tenement A tenemi * u houses. RIN OYETr IR Aili that oon the 400.000 who hive outside fe : houses, by {a boarding hous flats and apartn with the tencines thesa, there remain : pumber of families indeed wh Ives, thers tents al a bouse to estate are 80 millionaire to has In the tenement been found in which human beings twenty-two ina room. Th 15 15% CRI CIA true of the Italian In several quarter, i £ 9 of the streets of the east side of the city it is literally and absolutely i to pass along the sds ithout } 13 Ii WaIKS eariy i ishing of ishing FUmIner evening w dren and women aside iman beings are packed together even on the side walks. A recking smell strikes the nos- trils as one passes the corners of the streets. As New Yor other large cities of coming with respect to gystemn. Murder, and pestilence have their feeding ground and breeding places here. Not a day passes but some desperate deed is record. ed. Even in several of the smaller cit pos it is dangerous to pass along certain streets in the evening unaccompanied by a policeman, These streets are always the ones on which the pestilential tene- ment honse is situated. If the railway companies and philanthropists could only devise some plan of thinning out these seething masses of humanity and breaking up the hotbeds of crime, what a blessing to civilization it would be. Several large parties of American school teachers, numbering nearly a thousand women and men, are in Europe this summer enjoying their vacation. They are from all parts of the Union, south as well as worth and west. The good wishes of millions of their fellow countrymen, large and small, go with them, They have earned their vacation bravely and well, and the millions hope they will come back to school full of fresh, electric life and new ideas. For the hope of the country rests with the teachers. And wo are glad America pays her teachers well enough for them to take this little outing over seas, a k city is already, 80 the the Union are be +5 the tencemen death, crime, sulcide The Boston Herald believes that the time is very near when the steam rail road companies will build electric car tracks two or three miles out into the country from their suburban stations, These will enable working people to scat ter out of the tenement houses into the country along the lines of the electric stroot cars, They can reach the station by the electric car, and the city and their work by the steam car, More laurels for America. Buffalo Bill has been engaged by the French gow ernment to teach 100 officers of cavalry to ride American style. Col. Cody in about the most graceful higrseback rider alive, i i
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