The bank water mark. If you want to know what baccarat is ask the Prince of Wales Some of Uncle Sam's sovereigns can rascality is reaching high buaek the tiger, while the Prince of Wales can only back-a-rat. I AIG Tv Philadelphia looses four million dol. lars in the shape of delinguent taxes, This, with the swind'es of the Keystone and Spring Garden banks, by which the city for over must make Philadelphia wonder when lightning will strike it next, “Our Hearts Delight,” is a large new, and elegantly bound music book, just published by H. J. Smith & Co., Phila~ delphia, The music in it will be found choice and of a high order; It is astore- house of sweet melodies of past and present, also comes in a million, SUI ———— CENTRE Wanamaker in it The federal administration is now badly smirched with suspicion arising from the connection of Wanamaker with the Keystone bank, declares the New York World. That institution granted unusal and illegal favors to the post master general. Its president loaned him money on his own personal note, His family’s accounts were often overs drawn. He received discounts to the amount of $100,000 more than the law permits, The rotten condition of the bank was known at Washington for three months before the comptroller of the carrency appointed a receiver, and both that of- ficer and the attorney general seemed to be charged with koowledge. In the meantitoe innocent persons deposited money in the concern, deceived by the appearance of sonpdoess which continu ance in business sustained; but Mr, Wana- maker acting on bis knowledge, drew out his own money, Bardsley’s counsel alleges that Mr. Wanamaker can make a very interesting disclosure about the bank and its ruin. It is to be hoped that he will’ As it is, there are, to say the least, indications that arouse the suspicion in some minds that the Pharisaical postmaster general It is rather rubbing it in on Philadel. | phia the fact just disclosed that Bards- | ley, the city treasurer, “honest John," as | the Republicdn boss was called, had not | paid taxes since 1877, and was in defanit| $12,000. The city a part of this time was paying him $15,000 a year for taking | care of the taxes paid by other people, | which he did with such thoroughness | that a million and a half he held for the | Btate and city has disappeared A i The Philadelphia grand jury found eighteen bills of indictment against Ex City Treasurer John Bardsley, charging him with appropriating to his own use city and state funds, Bardsley is now in prison in default of $50000 bail to ans ga er the charge of embezzlement of $30. 000. Tue eighteen bills of indictment were found on that number of specific charges under the three separate heads of “money laned by a public officer,” from deposit of converting public money “deriving rain public money,” and ° to Dis own vse by investment.” EE —————————— There is a water famine ia New Or- leans, of having fallen for 70 days, and the death-rale Las run vp to 36.8 per 1,000, or about doable the usual mortality in summer, Some portions of the city are entirely without water, the flaid sapplied to the remainder i8 unandrinkable. There talk of sinking artesian wells to meet the trouble, but this will take time, while the suffering meantime must in crease greatly unless relief comes speedily from the cionds. LO rain consequenca is In its bituminous coal product, accord ing to the census figures, Westmoreland leads the counties of the State with s valoe of $5,674,493; Clearfield comes next with $4,403,000, then Allegheny with $4,000,000, Fayette reports $3,705,000, Jefferson $2,117,000, while Washington, Tioga and Cambria each approach the million and a balf live, the first named a little excess. The value of the pros duet of the State is $28,000,000, and the wages paid $21,000,000, EA —————————————————] From India comes the news of anoths er uprising, this time in state of Keonjs hur. The rebels have swept everything before them, robbed the treasarer of the Maharajah, and are prepared to defend themselvéns against British interference, The Seventh Bengal infantry has started to put down the insurrection, which is strictly local in its character, and it is believed not to be formidable. The eanse of the outbreak appears to have been the conduct of the Maharajah, who has of late been oppressing his subjects with excessive taxation. He bas added to the discontent by receiving a Persian slave into his harem as a wife, thereby giving great offense to the orthodox Hin. doos. In the Italy that existed before 1860 there was no freedom save in the little kingdom of Sardinia. Austrian bayonets riled over the greater part of the coans try and to be suspected of loving liberty was to brave the dungeon and the scaf fold, Rome was governed by priests, Freedom of worship was denied. No man might worship God except in-the manner prescribed by the vatican. In the intervening years there has been tremendous development, Men are now at liberty to think and to speak as they please. The Protestant church dwells safely within the shadow of St. Peter's. The modern spirit has invaded Rome and men are free to think and act. The infidelity which is rampant is the natural reaction from centuries of intolerance aod repression. After while there pendulum will swing back and the people having habitaated thenselves to is one of the figures in this rascally busi. ness, and that Le has been assisted by the banking department of the treasury and by the department of justice. Mr. Wanamaker is all the more read- ily suspected because of the corrupt reas son for his appointment to the cabinet, and therefore an answer to these insinua- tious of Dardsley’'s counsel and an exs planation of the extraordinary facts that are known are absolutely necessary if he is to enjoy any of the reputation which his Sanday school has won for him. Mr. Wanamaker has since completely refated the above charges of the World, The Presbyterian General Assembly, on Wednesday of last week having diss question and the case of Dr. Briggs, took up the matter of worldly amusements, and more especials ly the game of progressive euchre, a form of amusement very much in vogue posed of the revision The committee on the general subject recommended that a deliverance against progressive euchre be adopted; bat, afi er much debate, the report was sent back to them with instructions to eliminate the clauses imposing discipline for ins dulgence in the game, and for dancing and theatergoing. progressive eas chre is a8 much a gambling gRine as draw poker or baccarat, It is played for stakes, aud the stakes give the zest to the game which makes it popular, hey are called prizes, but they are gam- bling stakes, all the same, If, then, any form of gambling is wick. ed, playing progressive euehre is wicks ed. It is also especially wicked because it stimulates the passion for gambling 80 easily kindled in the feminine breast more particularly. It isa woman's game rather than a man's, and the gambling spirit it excites is the cause of the femi- nine fondness for it. Morally, the party of men and women who played baccarat st Tranby Croft with such sad conse. quences to Sir William Gordon Cum ming were no worse thau is a progress. ive enchre party in the pious Presbytes rian household. The stakes were in money in the one case and in the other they consist of articles bought with money; but, of course, the principle is the same. It is gambling, pure and sim- ple, The committee were right in putting progressive euchre under the ban of Presbyterian discipline, unless the Gens eral Assembly is prepared to withdraw its condemnation of all sorts of gambling and to permit gambling ss an amuse- ment without sinfuloess, innocent, harm. less, and proper for every Presbyterian man or woman, minister, elder, or sims ple layman, I IT, The Boyer Bill a law, The governer has approved the Boyer revenue bill and the bills requiring the monthly return of state, county and poor taxes by collectors; providing for the re. covery of bounties by soldiers of the late war; to prevent pollution of streams sup plying cities; requiring county commisy sioners to provide the superintendent of schools with office and storage rooms, — tet ms Bardsley, Philadelphia's ex-treasurer. has plead guilty to all charges of misuse of state and city fants. He once stood high, but he goes down with the Key- etone bank. Yet The state medical society was in ses- sion at Reading last week, If the doc. tors will resolve to lower their charges it would help their patients far more than medicine, ~=No shelf worn stock is thrust upon customers at A. C. Mingle's shoe store, Bellefonte. His large trade enables Lim to constantly keep new goods, and als ways of the latest styles and at very freedom will become genuinely religious, moderate prices, as all costomers admit. HALL. PA. The Philadelphia From the New York World, The Philadelphia scandal is shocking, and apparently the end is not yet, It is certain that the city treasurer and his pals have embezzled nearly half a million doliars of city money and nearly a million dollars of state funds. Bat it is not yet completely known who his pals were It is certain that several banks of re- pute bave been involved, more or less criminally, in the illegal manipulations of the public moneys, but the exact ex- tent of their several offenses is not yet made clear, tis plain that the frauds have been perpelrated in close alliance with Re publican politics, local, state and nation- al, but the details of the alliance remain to be discovered. It is maifest that some powerfal poli- tical influence has for months shielded the robbers, abused official authority and caused the grossest neglect of official daty in the interest of the wrong-doers But it is not yet certain in whose person that influence resides, It is no wonder that Philadelphia is socially, financially convulsed by the re- velations already made, and stands aghast at what may come out of farther fact, In such circumstances there is but one right thing to do, and that is to explore the mystery to the bottom sand make the whole truth public, no matter who may be hurt. To cover up anything, to spare Boy man or avy institution, to shrink at at any point from the search for ultimate trath, will be to compromise with crime snd invite disaster hereafter. The case is one for thorough disinfection. RS A—— Scandal Cold Comfort for Boston Drinkers There has been turmoil in Boston for more than a year over a law which com- pelled persons drinking in saloons or bars to sit at tables, and made it illegal to sell liquor to any one standing up. The law was scarcely conducive to tems perance, since persons sitting at ta bles almost invariably ordered more “rounds” than they could stand at the bar. The agitation against the law be- came so great that the Massachusetts Legislature repealed it and in its stead made an enactment which reverses its provisions, It is now legal only to buy liquor and drink it standing up, and is illegal to drink it sitting down. This is rather cold comfort tq Boston drinkers, we apprehend, for if they are like their fellow drinkers elsewhere they want the option of drinking either sitting or stand. ing. The reversal of the law is one of the supremely ludicrous legislative events of the year, and we shall proba bly now see a year's agitation for its res peal, followed by a return to the old, old castom which leaves the choice of sits ting down or standing up to the man who pays for the beverage - —- Depopulating a Country. The censns of the United Kingdom {just completed, shows the total populas tion of Ireland to be 4,706,162, a de- jerease of 9.05 per sent, since 1881, This |is a greater ratio of decrease than was shown by either of the two preceding censuses, though the depopulation of Ire. land has been going on steadily for the past half century, and with a rapidity unknown in any other part of the civil ized world. The population of Ireland in 184] was 8,196,608. By 1851 it had fallen to 6, In London and England the baccarat | scandal overshadows everything else. Gossip is rife about the obligations of the| Prince of Wales to Mr. Arthar Wilson. | It is reported that his Royal Highnes i is indebted to him to the amount of $200,000 borrowed money. While the| Prince's connection with the affair and| his behavior in court have not impaired his popularity, there is no doubt that among serious and thoughtful people who Lave their gountry’s inferest at heart, the scandal has cast a shadow on the throne, and the frivolous pursuits of the heir, 80 broadly revealed in this tri. al, have not tended to strengthen his reputation, The Queen continues to take an inter. est bordering on anxiety in the case and receives complete reports of the trial as it progresses. No one feels more acutely than Her Majesty that, in a measure. royalty in England is on trial, and any- thing that tends to impair respect for it is dangerous, What mortification she may feel at the exhibition of her eldest son as banker in a game of cards, carry. iog around his own counters, is confined to the royal breast, for she is not in the habit of expressing her feelings on such matters, A Ms ——— The Emperor William bas made another of his characteristic epeoches, which will attract aniversal attention and provake endless comment. If was not intended for the public ear, and every effort was made under stringent orders to keep it from publication, but it bas leaked out and is now published for the first time. It was delivered on the occasion of an address toa body of spring recruits for the army. In the course of it the Emperor said: “I warm you, who are mostly young country men, against the Social Demo- crats, Alwayg remember, the oath you have iaken binds you to ne. The Bible says the girl who marries leaves father and mother and follows her husband. I say to you, having taken the oath of! soldier, follow me implicitly, shooting even father or brother without question or hesitation, when ordered.” This language startled even the young men to whom it was addressed, but was received with a loyal outburst of cheers. It spread like wildfire through the army and was talked about in all the barracks. Such an utterance could not long be kept secret, and it is now being seat over the wires to all parts of world, but nowhere will it create more astonishment than in Germany. Rain, Sunday was a dreary day, but a grand one for the rain it brought, which set in the previous night, continning all day on Banday, and the gronad is now thor oughly soaked. A rain like this was wished for the past three weeks, and its benefits are incalenlable, ~Contrary lo the general run, we are busy, why ? Good goods at very low prices, Challis, 5, 6, and 8 cents. Lace curtains Ginghama from 6 cents up, their 10° cent country friends will accept our thanks for 574, 271, the loss of nearly one-fifth bes ing largely by emigration to the United States. In the following decade the loss was 11.50 per cent; from 1861 to 1571 it was 6.65 per cent, and from 1871 to 1881 In fifty years Ire- land bas lost 4,708,192 from a population of 8,196,507, or 458.58 per cent. The act- ual loss is, of course, greater than this when allowance is made for the natural increase by births. And still naut that are left find it living. These bare figures constitute in thems selves one of the strongest indictments that could be framed against the politi. cal conditions to which Ireland has been subjected —conditions which bave made expatriation the only resort of more than one-half the people of the country. Fifty years more of the same policy will depopulate Ireland entirely, and then the English will doubtless be able to gov. ern it to their satisfaction, ——- A Great Crop This Year, Every man and woman is interested io the great corn and wheat crop now growing in the West: bountifal harvest means cheap food next winter. The crops never looked better in Ill. inois, Kansas, lows and Minnesots than they do to-day. A year ago at this time the weather was hot and dry. Oats and spring wheat were making rapid growth. The corn crop was late. Only here and there to a limited extent had there been any winter wheat cut. To-day however the situation is greats ly changed for the better over a yonar go. The country has had during the past week a low temperature and very heavy rain storms have swept over a wide ter- ritory. These rains were most timely and beneficial. The continued drought of May had left a mark upon the winter wheat, It bad also seriously injured the oat crop. Spring wheat was beginning to suffer and vast areas of the corn crop were refusing to come out of the ground on acoount of the dry soil. In the main, now all conditions affects ing crops have been materially changed and the first week of June closes with the earth wonderfully refreshed and with the general prospects of the West greatly improved. - i a Straight Facts, An exchange remarks that “a man can start out any day in the week and ine side of an hour and thirty minutes he can engage woman to work for him for life at nothing per week while it will take two weeks of solid search to get one to work at fair wages on board, with three nights out and a fire for a bean two nights a week. And then talk of marriage being a failure.” a Fingers Cut Off. Scott Kerstetter, employed on the Huyett & Co's, saw mill at the east end of Brush Valley, had two fingers of his right hand amputated by coming in cons tact with the saw, a few days ago. Three Fingers Loss, Charley Bartges, son of A. D. Bartges, near Sugar Valley, had the misfortune a few days ago to have three first on his right hand accidentally amputate« the rem hard to make a their liberal patronageq—Garman’s Store, ed, 11, 1891. An Ancient Clock. Not on account of its intrinsic worth, but owing to its historic value W. H. Woods, esq., of Huntingdon, has in his possession a clock that would com- mand perhaps as high a figure as any other timepiece in the country, It was built at Paisley, Scotland, by Eavin Bkeoch, in 1560, and was owned by John Knox, the great Scottish reformer from whom Mr Woods is a lineal des scendant. Jobn Knox died in 1572. His big eight day clock was handed down to his family for nearly one hundred and fifty years, when it finally came into the hands of John Whitherspoon, falker of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, When John Witherspoon, the son, left Beotland in 1768 to take charge of Prince- ton college, he brought the old heirloom with him and when he was elected to the continental congress, the old time- piece was ticking in his parlors and in» dicated the bour of Lis departure to tran- sact his patriotic duties. Dr. Wither spoon prized the clock very highly. He cleaned it himself at regular intervals and took pleasure in showing it to his friends and the member of congress, When he died he requested that it should remain in his family snd descend to the first-born of succeeding generations At the the death of Dr, Witherspoon, which occurred in 1794, the clock came into the possession of his danghter Marion, who subsequently married the tev, Dr. James 8B. Woods, of Lewistown this state, who died in 1862. At the death of Mrs. Woods, shortly after, the clock came into the possession of the present owner, W,. H. Woods, in whose parlor it pow stande, a The Fascination of a Show. ibtiry Democrat, Sus The fascination that a big circus like Barnum’s exercises the average buman biped is remarkable, but several cases have come to our knowledge that are extraoridinary. A young fellow started to walk from Lewistown to Bun. bury on Tuesday and when he arrived here Wednesday his shoe solves were worn through to his feet. He was a washerswoman's sop, and now the in- dulgent mother will have to put in more than ordinary time at the wash board tobuy her darling another pair. Two other young chaps from Thompsontown started on foot from their home to tramp it here. Each one had a new phir of shoes strung over his shoulders, and they needed them, too, after they arrive ed as the “stogies” they wore on their feet were badly used up when they are rived, There is mo doobt that there were any number of soch cases, which show the effect of the glitter and tinsel of the “greatest show on earth.” -——— over “Feast of Weeks,” “The Feast of Weeks” of the year 5631 will be celebrated in all the Jewish hous- es of worship beginning this evening, or with the eve of the next day of the third month of “Sivan,” according to the Scriptural computation of time. It is called “Feast of Weeks” and also feast of the “First Fruits,” because seven weeks were counted from “Passover” until this festival, where there were brought the first fruits to the temple at Jerusalem, Batitis and was chiefly celebrated through all times as the Feast of the Revelation of the Sinaic legislas ture, While on Passover Isrsel cele- brated the anniversary of its independs ence as a nution, of the beginning of its career as & messenger of divine tidings, cl ansstu— The Whole Truth, Here you have it in a nut shell: “There ia no safeguard like a newspaper. Nothing can do more to keep up a town and help business. The town that sups ports a good local paper in the town that is successfully growing, and the news- paper that is up withia little in advance of the town's growth, is the one that will live long and prosper, to ——— About Right A well-known physician has a good word to say for the much condemned practice of lacing. He thinks that tight lacing is really a public benefit, because it kills off the foolish girls and leayes the sensible ones to grow up into women of use and service in the world, A SI MS For Bale, The entire stock and fixtures of the McFarlane hardware store in Bellefonte, Pa., is offered for sale. For persons de- siring to go into the hardware business this is a good opening. Inquire of Wm, McFarlane, Boalsburg, Pa, and J, Kyle McFarlane, Bellefonte, Pa., administra tors of Robert McFarlane, dec’d, Granted a New Trial. Paul B, Swartz who was convicted of the charge of forgery at the last court held, was granted a new trial at the ar- gument court held at Bellefonte on Sate urday. % The streams of financial rascality in Philadelphia are now bank high, NO. 23 Additionad Lee. 3 ~—Bubscribe for the Rerorren. ~~ Nine prisoners in onr conuty jail ~—~Let us have new streets in Centre Hall. ——Bumzer Hosterman bad his wrist sprained from a fall while at play. ~—Evangelical Bunday school conven tion at Woodward, July 29 and 20. ~—Mre. James Herring, of Altoona, is visiting friends in town. ~—Bellefonte enterprise is pushing for the establishment of a fair ground near that town, ~Mies Mary Kreisher, of Lewis« burg, spent several days of last week with friends in Centre Hall. ~Mr. Fred Decker, of Lemont. gave us a pleasant visit this morning. He is & very courteous gentleman and hope to have him repeat his visit soon again, Bellefonters are making an effort to have a race course, to be located near Roopebarg, on the Haas distillery prope erty. The distillery, of course. bas run its race. ~The Governor has signed the bill appropriating $1 500 for medals for the first troops to arrive in Washington in 1861, of which the Logan (Guards, of Lewistown was one of the four com - panies, — New clothing, new hats, new fur- nishing goods, everything pew for the coming season is now opened and ready for your inspection at the Philad, Branch, Bellefonte. ~——Alexander Stover, missing from Hartley township, Union county, was formerly trom Haines township, and was married to a daughter of Jacob Freder- ick, formerly of Asronsburg, ——(00d shoes, at very low prices can be found at A, C. Mingle’s shoe store, Bellefonte, and a very large assortment to select from. He handles no shoddy goods and full return guaranteed, ~—On the 16th of August the grand Farmers’ Encampment will open at Mt, Gretna. A very large additional space bas been added to the area devoted to the exhabits of machinery, which will far excel in proportions that of last year. ~——May term of court was the shori~ est in the history of Snyder county. The grand jary having no work to pers form, was discharged after an hour's ses sion, and the petit jury on Tuesday morning. There was only one case brought before this jury and that res quired but a few hours work. ~J. B. Mayes & Co., of the Housers ville marble works are pushing their business right along, Persons wanting Marble or Granite work shou!d write to them for particulars. They handle the very best material at prices thet will as- tonish you, 7jundt — Parents should be very careful not to permit their children to eat locust. blossoms, Several Daubhinand Frank lin county chiidren who did so grew crit. ically ill trom the effects of the same. The dangerous habit of eating locust and other blossoms is a very common one, and if not dus re- sult, ~=To show how desi.y nicotine is it is told that two men found an adder in a Wilkesbarre cemetery one day last week. Ope Leld the reptile to the ground with a strick while his companion ran a timothy stalk through the stem of his clay pipe and deposited the nicotine in the snake's mouth. In three minutes the snake was dead. ~ Ralph Catherman, little son of our r. r. agent, being out with a fishing par- ty the other day, tumbled into Penns creek, where the water was not drown ing deep, and there was a sp/ash and— a dash for the shore, which Ralph made, but with wet breeches, which kind sun- shine dried for him as he paraded in its beams. ~Several months ago, a business like chap visited different parta of Co. lumbia county, and’ bought all the Walnut timber he could find, promising the owners a good price when delivered at the railroad. The owners have tired of the agent, and to keep the lumber from spoiling, are now hauling it to saw mills to have it cut up into boards, A doctor will sit down andwrite a pres scription; time, five minutes; paper and ink; one-fourth of a cent, and the patient pays §1, $5, $20, as the case may be, A lawyer writes 10 or 12 lines and gets from $10 to $50 from his client. An editor writes a balf column pul for a man; pays a man 50 cents to §1 for putting it in type; prints it on $7 worth of paper sends it to several thousand people and surprises the puffed man if he makes any charges, EE i ——— Teacher's Examinations Prof. Etters. county superintendent, on Friday last, held the teacher's exam- ntinned fatalities will ’
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