VOL. LXVIs
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15
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NO. 15.
CAPITOL GOSSIP
NEWS OF A WEEK AT THE NA-
TIONS CAPITOL.
President | Cleveland Loaves Washington
for a Little Hest.~The Investign-
tion of the Weather Bareau,
WASHINGTON, APRIL 10.—President
Cleveland has a remarkable capacity
for standing long hours of hard work,
and it has been put to a severe test
since his inauguration, as it has been
the exception rather than the rule when
he has been able to retire before 2
o'tlock in the morning, and he is al-
ways at his desk again before eight
o'clock. Feeling the need of a little
undisturbed rest, he, in company with
Secretary Gresham, left Washington
Saturday afternoon and they will not
return until to-morrow. His destina-
was not made public for fear that he
might be followed by some of the im-
portunate office seekers, anxious to
personally present their claims. They
went to see Ambassador Bayard at his
home in Wilmington, Delaware.
The investigation of the Weather
Bureau, now being publicly conducted
after office hours at the Department of
Agriculture, is a very nasty mess as far
as it has gone, and it promises to grow
even nastier. The property of the bu-
reau has, according to the testimony,
been stolen and sold to junk dealers
whenever certain of the minor officials
needed a little extra whiskey money,
and the stealing was done in broad
daylight, the employees of the bureau
being used to load itupon wagons.
About everything seems to have been
included in the thefts, upon one ocea-
sion a stone step being taken from the
building itself. The principal men im-
plicated thus far are the foreman of
the press room and the captain of the
watch, but others higher up aresaid to
have received a portion of the money,
and it is expected that the evidence
will prove it. Secretary Morton is de-
termined to get to the bottom of the
filth and to see that every guilty man
is punished, regardless of who he may
be or who may be his friends,
Maj. General Bchofield and Major
General Miles have had a squabble at
long range over the trouble in Indian
Territory. The
to have occurred over the carrying out
of an order for the detail of an
officer to investigate the trouble,
U. 8. troops will be sent there
army
Noi
it.
to get the very best man in the ecoun-
Wm. Lochren, of Minnesota,
position indicates that he
Judge Lochren was not an applicant
for the position, indeed,
clined to accept it, but withdrew his
objections when his party duty and
loyalty were appealed to by the Presi-
dent. His war record is of the bravest, |
and although he is not a member of |
the G.
ganization has so far as known had a
for the position. He w
mont, but has resided; in Minnesota
since 1857, with the exception of the
time he served in the army. He will
take charge of the Pension’ Bureau
about May 1st.
Secretary Morton found not only in-
dividuals employed by the Agricultur-
al department who were not rendering
services in anything like a fair propor-
tion to the salaries they receive, but a
whole division of employes who have
been practically paid for doing noth-
ing for more than a year. This was the
quarantine divisien of the Bureau of
Animal industry, which Secretary
Morton has just abolished. Quite a
howl has been raised by the republi-
cans because the chief of the abolished
division happened to be the late Mr.
Blaine’s brother, although it is difficult
to understand why that should have
made theslightest difference. Surely
they did not expect that a democratic
administration would feel called upon
to take care of the poor members of
the Blaine family.
Secretary Lamont hasn’t been doing
much talking—he never does—but
that he has been doing some investign-
ting and thinking is shown by his
statement that no more army officers
will be detailed for ornamental pur
poses. This may be a little rough on
the army officers who have been caleu-
lating to spend the summer at the
World's Fair and the various summer
resorts, but no one ean deny that it is
Just to the people who pay these men
their salaries, and doubly just to the
officers without “pull” who have to
perform, in addition to their own, the
duties of the butterflies of the profes
sion,
Postmaster General Bissell has de-
cided that no fourth class postmasters
shall be removed, except for cause, un-
til they shall have served all or nearly
all of a four year term. This
rule, as these officials have never been |
considered to have a fixed term, but |
were removable at the pleasure of the |
department. The change is understood !
to have been made yg the direction of |
the President, and after all it will make
no difference in the end, because there |
are so many who have served four |
years or more that by the time they
are removed nearly all of the rest will
have become removable under the new
rule.
mss cfm fi
State Liquor Selling
Much is being published about the
result of the application of the Bwed-
ish or Gothenburg system of regula-
tion of the liquor traffic in Norway.
The system provides that all the prof-
its above five per cent, shall be devot-
ed to public purposes, such as the build-
ing of roads, support of charities, ete.
A modification of the plan has been
tried in Clark county, Georgia. The
people of that county desired both to
regulate the liquor trafic and get good
liquor. A special act was passed by
the Legislature giving them control.
They decided as to the of sale,
who the barkeepers should be and
made the regulations which the latter
must follow under pain of dismissal,
The annual report of the county liquor
commissioner shows that during the
year there was bought $55,000 worth of
liquor, from which there was realized
$77,000, with $5,000 worth of stock
still on hand.
In Norway the sale is by companies
which have every inducement to sell
80 as to make the per cent profit;
nevertheless the amount of liquor sold
has been decreased, though its quality
is poor and there is much drunke n-
The profit above five per cent.
goes to the state or local government.
The Georgia plan of the two,
preferable, as the expenses will be no
greater than under the other, while no
individual hasany inducement to push
sales in order to make a 5 per cent.
profit, as all profits go to the public
treasury. Another consequence also
is that the quality of the liquor is *bet-
ter, and there is less deleterious effect
on those who use it.
places
5
Ness,
se ems
——
Want Employment
More THAN 10,000 women are
| didates for employment at the World's
{ Fair. They send stacks of le to
Mrs. Potter Palmer's office day
and have begun to
| who are likely to need saleswomen
At first Mrs. Palmer
i swered each application as it
{ with a personal letter.
Cat
tors
every
exhibitors
or
an-
Desjege
cashiers.
in
final-
came
1 has
For instance,
guides at
will be
G0) women want to act
{the fair. Only twent
ins
y-five
The catering company which has
i secured a monopoly of all the Ameri
can restaurants in the will
employ 1,000 waitresses at #8 per week.
| Over 7,000 applications are already on
file for the 1,000 places. On Sunday
500 girls who have accepted are
i to be photographed. Every free an-
| nual pass must bear a photograph of
the owner.
gro unds
been
§
|
—————
THE LEGISLATURE of Ohio has pass-
{ ed a bill imposing a fine of from $1 to
| $300, or imprisonment from six months
| to one year, on auy married man who
pays attention to a young woman, rep-
resenting himself to be unmarried.
Governor McKinley has not yet sign-
ed it. There should be no occasion for
the adoption of such legislation and
we have no hesitation in saying that
if all American girls had good homes
in which they received proper train-
ing, there would not be. We admit
that it is necessary to know many per-
sons of whose past one has little or no
information, but acquaintance is one
thing while friendship, which often
leads to something more intimate, is
another. No young lady should re-
ceive, much less encourage, the atten-
tion of a man of whom she knows
nothing.
A A pr ——
THE RAILROAD companies have not
shown liberality in their schedule of
fares to Chieago this summer. A re
duction of only twenty per cent. on a
round trip ticket from points on the
Atlantic const to that city, and this
rate good only on slow trains, is caleu-
lated to check eastern travel to the
World's Fair. We fancy that long be-
fore the fair is over the companies will
be obliged to overhaul this schedule if
they want to make the profits which
they are now contemplating on Worlds
Fair travel.
Great Advantages,
You will not make a mistake by
calling at the Philad, Branch, Belle
fonte, for clothing for men, boys and
children. They will give you greater
satisfaction for your money than any
other dealer. Unusual bargains will
be given. Give them a trial.
ANOTHER chance for » legal holiday:
Jthe du on which the Xeupp Epa.
THOUSANDS GO OUT
The First Great Strike at the World's
Falr
At the most critical time possible
World's Fair, the big exposi-
{ tion on Monday encountered its first
| gre A thousand men quit
that 4.000 more
stampede, The
culmination
reat strike.
might join in the
stopage of work was the
of much
elaimed to be
what is
between
controversy over
an agreement
crepe
resentatives of union labor, by which
all disputes between employers and
employes on exposition work were to
be settled by arbitration. The men
contend that of the exposition
officials have
sition, now that the fair is nearly com-
pleted, to deny point blank anything
ked, and that this has notably been
the in the troubles
which have been for
time,
The strike amicably settled on
Monday night at cf the
council of administration with the ex-
ecutive committee of the building
trades council, The whole
settled so far as the ex position compn-
but there are,
contractors
SOI
recently shown a dispo-
ns
Case carpenters’
pending BONE
was
a meeting
trouble is
ny is concerned, how-
ever, the
grounds who must sign the agreement
will return
2.000 men who did
the
at work en-
to
put
several on
before their to tl
work. There
not return
morning,
deavoring to get
the
these men at
enterprise to be pushed to an early con
pletion,
men ie
were
to
A committee
these
which
work and enable the great
work following
is
contractors
will
sign agreement,
i=
yr ite
was a long one, and | sides
trouble were thoroughly
Director of Works Burnham
President Ru I, of the tr
cil, that the
ing trades
when work on the fair was com
The session of the two ©
1
Wit i
ades
ER 11-
had agr
i
build
wuld |
discrimina-
that union and non ion men sl
work t
tion.
41n
wether without
It was this question of hiring
non-union men that was the real
cause of the strike. President Russell
finally acknow ledged that is
particular the bu
wrong. The
ff. The
very friendly
the strike
meeting
manner.
By -.
Demos
is intended to make :
ley the next Democratic
governor, Th ©
Mr. Nibley 80 strong
ghenles that he
the nomination, bi
The admi
eastern section
IN CERTAIN
intention
Wosy
will
it will be
after the
and be
to defent
nistration will look
of the State,
lieves itself enough
any man that Quay may put up.
reported, will
General Hastings, but
William A. and it
that another turning down
hero of Johnstown will make :
angry enough to murder Quay politi- |
eally if he ean. Chairman of |
the Republican State
given as authority for the
that Hastings is to be turned
and Reeder generally knows what
is talking about.
————— -
Tue C oLuMBUS Liberty
east at Troy, N. Y., willbe
of patriotic souvenirs of all conceivable |
Kinds, including a bit of the original
Liberty bell, contributed by a Quaker |
lady of Philadelphia. Other bits!
of precious metal, many of |
them precious in the best meaning of |
the word, will enter into the cast; and |
since the bell will be dedicated to the
heroes of liberty in a world-wide sense
it will probably constitute the most
truly typical emblem of human broth- |
erhood and aspiration for freedom to |
be seen—and heard—at the Columbian |
Exposition.
— colons
Waex Mr. Cleveland desires to
make an appointment he makes it, no
matter who recommends the other
feller. Sometimes he appoints one
who does not ask for anything; and
again he appoints an applicant to a
position he has not applied for. The
President has his own way of doing
things.
strong
his
man, it is now not be
CONEressIan
Stone, ia expected :
i
for the}
him |
weder
commitiee is
statement |
down, |
he
bell to be
composed |
La As os
The postoffice department has called
a halt upon the Legislative Record, by
ruling it out as second class matter,
which will make it pay higher post.
age. The Record containing nothing
but the proceedings of the legislature,
it can algo be ruled out as obscene lit-
erature, © “Hit it again, it's got no
friends.”
NO APPOINTMENTS have yob been
made for Centre county, notwith-
standing we have enough of men here
fitto run the entire United States
government. Give old Centre a swig-
ger from Uncle Sams jug.
INCREASING SALARIES,
The legislature at Harrisburg is con-
sidering the question of salaries. The
’
tion clerk in the auditor genera
fice. When the bill reached the
it was promptly referred to the judiei-
ary committee, some members of
thinking that there should be a
al instead of ‘al hi
bill referred to a sub-committee.
sub-committee uf
or two, has
Lill which
lieutenant
£5,000: see
M of:
gpec ine rease,
reported an entirely new
the ] of the
increases salary
from £3.000 to
goveraor
retary of the
from $4,000 to $8,000: attorney g
from £3,500 to state
from £5000 to §7 auditor ge
from $3,000 to $5, secretary of
nal affairs from £3,000 to $5,000 and
adjutant general from $2,500 to $3
The bill also raise: the sularia
and employes, so that it creates
incre in the salaries of all p
affected of $258,000, not =a
sum in the f many of the
payers of nonweslth,
We that the
Sens! the agriculliural
hink favorably of any
ary; if the
tions mentioned are
with the let them
others, equally competent,
COImonY
£8.000: tres arer
500: neral
Oo: tater
00.
‘erk
total
BONS
of «
ABE
mall
tax
about
eves
the cor
hardly thi peo
portion
increase i
the
not sa.
person holding posi-
sfied
out
is above
salary, ste)
y
will gladly
siep in.
co An es mn
for the Warld's Falr on the Penn
sylvanis Railroad,
The
any
pan)
tailroad
arrangen
Pr
Chiecag
Pennsylvania
that
Announces ents
gers intending
reserve their Pullman ear acoom
to go to is
ioda-
Passengers tal
s the
moni
Y Ot k ni AY Tosers re
Pullman space in
nre,
points on the system two weeks in ad-
arrs ber
made upon appli ents
of the af-
€r a
Pas-
one
those from
vance. This ngement may
ition to ticket
in Railroad, who,
will del
the passenger,
Pennsylvau
the space,
reserving space in
required to Mm
ven days befor
the res
Vance will
{ departure, otherwise
Acc
sation in Pullman eas for
be
MINT
urn
apy
[sO
ticket
or
sip
may
ication to
upon
This arrangement
fit to vis
will prove a
A,
CURRENT issue of the
Advocate
Tur Western
full
devotes two
Super writes of
pupils demonstr
no difference betwes
Indian and a white man when
its
1 an
both
are given a chance,
ia
has alre ady been shown in these
willing and anxious to work, and that |
of money. He shows that savagery is |
not a hereditary instinct but that all
Indian wants isan opportunity.
part of the paper Captain
{PP ratt gives an account of the seve
| Indis ans who were the first inmates of
the Carlisle admitted more
than thirteen years ago. Of these In-
school,
some of them remarkably well, and
{only one is reported as having tu ned
out badly. Where can seventeen
white children found concerning
whom better could be said ?
be
Mo
Wall 2 Paper stains Removed.
lean-
wall
liter
¢ pa
er it
tight
The soiling caused by persons
ing their heads against a papere
may be greatly lc soned, if not o
ated, by laying a sheet of blottin
per upon the spot and passing o
a maderately warm flat iron. A
disfigurment of this kind may some
times be removed by rubbing it light.
ly with a soft rag dipped in prepared
chalk. Rubbing the spot gently with
the soft edge of a thick alice of stale
wheat bread will sometimes prove ef-
ficacious in such a case; the surface of
the bread should be cut away as soon
as it becomes soiled. Dust of” the
crumbs lightly with a soft cloth or
brush.
All Right.
Farmers from all sections assure us
that the grain and grass fields in their
respective localities look well. Our
own observation in this and adjolning
counties confirms these reports
Spring, thus far, has set in fave ably
for the agriculturist. Wish we could
say the same of wheat prices,
The promptness and certainty of its
cures have made Chamberlzin’s Cough
Remedy famous. It Is intended espe
clally for coughs, colds, croup and
Whooping eougiie and is the most of
INDANGER,
The tribulations of the people who
| have made their homes in that part of
Unele Bam's domain known Kan-
BOK are added to by apprehen
flying meteors. Kansas
survived such unpleasant visitations
as blizzards, earthquakes,
armies grasshoppers,
swarms of locusts, alternate
and scorching heat; with
fires thrown in to devour
that may
is was bad
EL]
being
sions of has
cyclones,
tornadoes, of
zero cold
big prairie
what little
have survived.
in all
that
venting
vegetation
Th
and yet it
worlds than
enough reason;
other
their
we
would appear
ours are
wrath on the unhappy
are ed that
from & recently
arm from old J«
Ossawattomie,
people,
as
meteoric visitor
knocked off
statue
i1 fi
an
al
be-
hn Brown's
In future it may
for Kansas farmers,
10 themselves
showers by carrying
bullet-proof
COME Necessary
while plowing, protect
meteoric
umbrellas,
| from
stecl-clad or
is PF
visiting
aris editors
dueling
suits of clothing such
find useful
| ground,
when he
A
Clean Up Your Premises
The following from the Harrisburg
Telegraph is appropriate to every com-
munity: “Clean up your premises.
lots of disinfectants in the
and in the They don't
| much and they are conducive to good
{ health. As an exchange says: Dur-
ling the long weat her
and heavy snows people did not go far
their back door to throw out rub-
and matter. Now
{that the disappeared and
| warm weather approaches, many back
Use house
yard. cost
continued cold
{ from
other refuse
| bish
sHoOow has
| yards are in a condition to breed dis-
ease unless promptly cleaned up and
| disinfected. With cholera threaten-
next summer should not
the most trifling thing that would
dread bay,
we all not a particle
1d be 10
premises that would foster the
Ling us we
Lomi it
{ help keep the soourge at
of matter
our
{and alx
shou allowed remain on
germs
their
be-
cel
of disease. Let everybody give
: Ove rhauling
Let
1ighly cleaned
a complete
the
white
prinkled around
and let the
Hisar that
t weather comes,
hore and
, det lime be #
# and damp places,
i abate
By #0 (0 ye may
"sick ne
strong
-
Wh gain
| hold.”
i tp
A Fine Work
The Rerorrer is in of |
“Shepp'
fecal pt t
# Photographs of the World,’
hundred pho-
in|
i 8 collection of over two
POM
repr duced
paged illustrations,’
accurately
which’
portfolio of travel in the
tographs,
{ full-
| 8 handsome
| tourists. “Shepp's
i the World.” selected
| and
Photographs of
with much
discrimi represents
it today."
{ buildings, street scenes, lake and moun-
ation,
iworld as exists
| tain scenery, ruins,
j and works of statuary are copied with
| photographic a ecuracy; yet,
there is no confusion, owing to the
clearness of the arrangement and ex-
| planations by the editors, James W,
Daniel B. The
book will an admirable guide to
home students who study the world
without the exertion of a tour. Globe
Bible Publishing Company, Philadel-
phia, Penna.
mnmm———— A“ rp
| Shepp and Shepp.
be
Farm Notes,
Farmers have done considerable
plowing and quite a number of gardens
have been prepared for planting.
The fruit trees have not been harm-
ed thus far, and the outlook is for a
fair coop of apples, berries and other
fruits,
Many of our farmers are cogitating
what to raise that will be more remu-
nerative than wheat. Hay, potatoes,
truck of any kind, will be found to
bring more money to the farmer's
purse than wheat, so will beef cattle
and sheep,
Nince the repeal of the fence law
farmers will gradually spend less mon-
ey and less labor on fences.
Horses, like wheat, are under par,
There is no upward movement in
the grain market, and the prospects
for the coming crop are fair.
AT THE recent term of Elk county
court, Judge Metager, of Lycoming,
being on the bench, the question was
raised whether or not a hotel-keeper
had a right to have two bars in the
same house, The Court decided that
as long as the license had been grant-
ed without restrictions, the hotel
keeper could sell liquor in every room
in his house if he desired to do so, and
he could not be convicted of violating
the law.
A Homestead Man and Wife are Brother
and Bister,
A romance of unusually unfortunate
and pathetic detail was discoved at
Homestead when two detectives from
Toronto, Canada, discovered in Mr.
and Mrs. Asa Barr, the relationship of
brother and sister and the heirs to a
fortune left by a relative of Mrs. Barr's
deceased mother by adoption. Twenty-
five years raifs, mere babies,
brother and sister, were abandoned by
German immigrants at Castle Garden,
They legally adopted, one by a
man named Asa Barr, the other by a
Mrs, Evans, latter moved
afterward to Philadelphia, where she
brought up her adopted daughter, giv-
ing her all tl of a home and
a good education.
Twenty years la
to manhood, and
adopted fathers name,
Philadelphia, where he
trade of a painter. Chance
brother and sister together,
captivated with the girl,
won and married her. During the late
strike they moved Homestead,
where Barr found employment.
Not long Mrs. Evans
Quickly following her death occurred
that of a wealthy relative in London,
Canada, who died intestate. His for-
tune would have passed to Mr, Evans
as the nearest relative, but her death
having occurred, her adopted daughter
became the heir. The attorney sent
detectives to trace the heiress, and in
their investigation of the discov-
ered the true relationship of Mr. and
Mrs. Barr to be that of brother and
sister. The detectivesarrived thereand
related to the unfortunate couple the
facts. The terrible knowledge pros-
trated Mrs. Barr, and her husband is
grief stricken. No issue has resulted
from their marriage.
Legal proceedings will be instituted
to sever the marriage bond, and the
couple will leave for London, Canada,
to claim the sister's fortune.
ago two w
were
The BOON
he comforts
ter the boy, grown
having taken his
moved also to
2 followed the
drew the
Barr was
and wooed,
{0
ago died.
case
rit lis
Excursion Tickets to the World's Falr via
Pennsylvania Railroad
tailroad Compa-
Trunk Line
authorized
The Pennsylvania
ny announces that the
has
cago on account of
the World's Columbian Exposition on
York by fast
ond $32 by express
make the run in
thirty-five hours or more. Propor-
tionate rates will prevail from all sta-
in Trunk Line territory. The
trains,
| tions
|
i
and $26.20 by
hour trains, starting
From Washington
will be $34.50
and $27.60 by
the thirty-five
| from New York.
by fast express trains,
slow trains.
These tickets
stop-off en route, used for
a continuous passage only. The tick-
¢ts will be on sale from April 15th to
October 30th inclusive, and will be val-
will not admit of a
and can be
1863,
All the lines leading to Chicago will
one route returning by another, so that
a person may go out by the Pennsylva-
nia Railroad, and, if he wills, return
by the New York Central, Baltimore
and Ohio, Erie, or any other trunk
line, or go out by any other line, and
return by the Pennsylvania.
Ls AMA AANA
For a number of years I have been
subject to violent attacks of inflamma-
tory rheumatism which generally last-
ed about two months, On the first of
this month I was attacked in the knee
and suffered severely for two days,
when I procured a bottle of Chamber-
lain’s Pain Balm and it relieved me al-
most instantly. I therefore most
cheerfully recommend it to those who
are similarly afflicted everywhere. —
R. D. WarrLey, Martindale, N. C,,
Feb, 1888, Mr. Whitley is a very
prominent man in this place snd his
disease was very widely known as he
suffered such severe pain. W. M.
Houston & Co., Merchants, Martin.
dale, N. C. 50 cent bottles for sale by
J. D. Murray, Druggist.
Heavily Tolled,
Millheim is the most extensively
tolled town we know of. If you enter
it from the north, you are hailed by
gate-keeper Ocker, who cries, “Toll”
if you enter it from the south Adolph
Miller cries, “Toll; if you enter from
Anronsburg, on the east, you are greet-
ed with the ery, “Toll; if you enter
it from the west, again there is a gate
keeper who cries, “Toll.” Toll gates
on four sides, and all within a mile
from town. If we were the Millhehm-
ers, we'd build a railroad just for spite,
and stop this ery, of “Toll.” |
Aa of fA
to line of horse collars at