©he (Etnfre jgrmorrat. ■ ■ - BELLE FONTE, PA. Tk Largest, Okupsit and BtPpr PUBLISNAN IN CKNTHB COUNTY. Philips' Plight. Its Kffeeli upon the Political Campaign in This State. I'llii.ADKi.rnia, September ti. —The evening Telegraph says : It is gener ally conceded among politicians that the sudden flight of the ex-superinten dent of the almshouse and the startling disclosures which follow it have an important bearing on the fortunes of the candidates of the three great politi cal parties in the coming state cam paign. Wheu approached on the sub ject to day, Chairman Hensel, of the democratic state committee, said: "The democratic party doesn't propose to make partisan capital out of the efforts of houcst men of all parties to secure administrative reform. What ever Mr. 1 'attison's office lias contribu ted to the almshouse exposure, has been strictly in the line of his uninter rupted efforts to secure honest govern ment invery department of the city. From the outset of his career —and it has been watched by the people of tho whole state, he has been aggressively earnest in his purpose that Philadel phia should get value received for every dollar expended. He has de termined that the tax-eaters shall not rob the tax-pavers, and I believe every- j body acknowledges that to his admin- j istration the succcs of the reform movement is largely due. The expo sure of I'hinps' villaiuy will direct at tention to the fact that the same sys- , tem of plundering has been going on for years at Harrisburg. I have in vestigated this subject from time to time, ami I am well satisfied that by collusion between the officials on State Capital bill and the contractors for supplies there has been extensive plun der of the state treasury. I know a contractor who was caught some years ago delivering 1,200 pounds of coal to j the ton to one of the departments. In stationery supplies there have been i gross frauds. The Legislative Record publication has been accompanied with jobery and irregularity. The list ! of supplies furnished to thedenarments is prima facie evidence that there are immense perquisites for hangers-on around the hill. The prices paid for some of them are enormous, and the | character of them indicates that pri vates houses are furnisher! and store- j rooms and cellars filled out of the state's purchases. The people are asK- | ing why the state should buy hay runt and shaving mugs for senators, ami new cuspadores, chairs, solas, curtains and carpets every year. The large contingent funds cover a multitude of sins, Hrooras, buckets, etc., are fur- j nished in quantities sufficient to clean all the legislative halls in the country. Pasters and folders arc employed in numbers three times as great as neces sary, and paid six dollars a day for the work that they can employ a sub to do for six dollars a week. Four tons of soap, 1500 brooms, and as many more scrub brushes, 360 pails and 360 dust brushes, besides I*o feather dusters —for 10 dozen of which $39.50 a dozen are paid—not to speak of win dow brushes, long and short, sweeping brushes and chamois skins, ought to keep things from ever falling into dirt ' and tleeay around the departments and legislative halls. . Hut why should the state buy blacking and shoe brush es, clothes brushes and hair brushes— j at $31.60 per dozen —nail brushes j hair tonics, shaving mugs —$43.45 per dozen —for state officials ? What have become of the old spittoons, that eigh teen dozen of new ones are contracted for, some to cost S3O per dozen ? The people want to know. They are going to find out. I can goon with a column catalogue of this s.rt of pilfering nt Harrisburg. It is stealing, and the people know it, ami they see that the very rascals who have been iu it ami are living off it are Heaver's most ar dent supporters. There is a feeling that Pattison is the man to stop this thing. Newspaper artillery an 1 the declamation of reformers have prayed unavaling. Even well-disposed legis lators do not seem to be proof against the temptations which are offered them when the ring provides all these crea ture comforts for them. What is need ed is an executive of iron will, honesty of purpose, and inflexible courage, to clean house at Harrisburg. The almshouse expoeuree will have a great effect over the state in directing atten tion to Pattison as the fittest man to prosecute similar investigations at the state capital." Kmail-Pox In Itlrds. In the British Medical Journal, Dr. Wm. Clayton, Medical Superintendent of the small-pox hospital at Homer n, says: "Apropos of small pox in rds," I may, perhaps mention the fact that some years ago a former Stewart of this hospital was in the habit of breeding a large number of canaries. As these arrived at maturi ty it was a common occurrence to And many of them dead and presenting evidence of having suffered from some eruptive disease. It was further b --served that when the hospital contain ed a somewhat large number of pa tients the mortality among the birds increased, and vice versa. NOTHIXO is rarer in literary titan a scholar who confesses that he has been refuted in anything. The Assassin's Skeleton. Plnlagan was |oj ular aUo among retire id employes, and every tnt-n v ta I f- r him. lhat won him the contest. Sir. ' irk w* defeated by 400 vote* in a district tlial tn the election of the succeeding yr g*ve other Republican candidate* 2000 majority. Judge l,ngan sutned tfie ermine, Mr. Clark practised under him for year*, and the other day paid hitn Ihi* well merited compliment : "Judge I.ogan was a good, able and jut judge." Judge I.ogan resigned nonte time ago to accept the position of as*itant gene ral counsel of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., andia now serving in that capacity at Philadelphia. IW TUtt POKBTITITIOJUI, COMVIMTIOIV. In 1H72 Mr. Claik wa a candidate for delegate to the Constitutional Conven tion, and having been elected heastum cl the duties of that office. He proved one of the ablest metnbea* of Ihe Con vention. Ha served cn the committee on l>eclaralion of Uighta, on private Corporation* and on Reviaion, hodiea entruated with perhaps the most impor tant work accoropliaharl by that great body of representative men. Mr. Clark waa added to the latter committee at the special request of its chairman, Hon. l/enry W. Palmer, Attorney (Jen eral of Penneylgania. In 1874 Mr Clark friends again of fered his name before the Democratic State Convention, and he received for ty -one votes for Supreme Judge Jus tioe W. J. Woodward waa nominated and elected. When Mr. Clark waa named before the recent Rtete Conven tion at iiarriaburg. delegate* from every eection locked to bis support, lie was unanimously nominated by acolamation on thaaecond ballot. The nomination earns to him unsolicited and unsought. Several day* afterward he wrote a pri vate note to a personal friend, in which heaaysi " I had no hope of receiving the nomination, was not thinking of it: ex peeled only complimentary mention." lie reaorted to no trioks to secure it ; there were no bosses to promise it to h^m; it was given to him by a oonven li'in w hov i id uiii-i freely admit thai it " committed no blunder*;' Sueii isHilai If. Clark 'b political rec or I Mr. Clark i* net disappointed office -1-eker. no broken down | -liticai hack ; he i* it man who always scorned tin trick* of demagogue, an honest Demo crat, but no | iltlii -I f-igol a tnnit to chnlleng the n-lmir.ition of every voter who believe* politic* should not be brought into the ennv -s for Sut rente Judge. TIIK I RICM) oi |-.i|-i | IK n-l i ATI--V. Mr. < -rk ha* the merit of being a elf tnade an-l a *e| culture-l man ; In fia* achieve-l hi* |r- ent .-jccc-- in h'c through no family it.rtiiem wealth or Other adverililiou* circumstances ; he comes up fr->m the ranks of the | • --pie, from a parentage ami (minis which i highly respectable but of humble pr tension*. He acquired tin- elementary part of hi- knowledge in the ('- mmon "schools, t-ut at the age of fourteen tears fie entered the Indiana Academv, w here he fiegsn the course of study which dc veloped hi* capacity for success. Whilst he attended the Academy, he In* ore-l at titm-s ujMin the farm, ami for or e year ctrried the mail between Indiana *nd Rl.ursville ; reciting it the Academy one -l*v and serving as mad carrier the next, alternately. It wa a matter of s-.tnc curiosity an-l Mirpr— to some of the student* -if tin- I'-lairsville Academy on one occasion when they found that the mail carrier toy from Indiana carried a roj-v of Horace's ode* in his pocket to whde aw sy the time of his delay in Rlairsvtlle. In rather a rude language thev twitted the friend!*** lad about hi* I.son. an-l in di limit manner challenged him to measure his knowledge with their'*; full of pluck, the little post boy accep ted. and he proved more than a match f--r the most proficient l.atin scholar among them. And, perhaps, the worthy preceptor of the Rlairsville Academy w.-is not |e-, surprised when Ibe same mail l-oy, in 1 H.'l, cam to old Jefferson ' ollege at f ononsburg. I'a., and upon examination of the faculty int-i tlie Junior class a* *rlsssmate. Mr. ' lark graduated from this excellent an-l then mot i rosperou* institution in the class of 1852. He had enjoyed very ine are advantage* compared with the rich men's *on* wfio were hi* ela**mate*. but he gra-luated fifth in a cla* of silly member*. He wa* a clear thinker, a strong reason-r and a good speaker, wbos,. efforts generally excelled in the college hterarv organization. For this re*nn he wa- circled I v the I'hllo Socle ty to deliver the valedictory at the semi centennial anniversary of the organiza tton of the colli ge. For l*.i year* young ( lark *erve-l r* insttuctor tn the .tne academy in which he himself allrmhd prior to entering college ll* taught forty-five young tt.ee. most of whom were older thati himself, lie wa* a kind in i successful instructor, end (toil! that ttpie he prov ed himself to b a m-ahm* and fntli.lol friend of popular education ; for tw<-lve uccr*ive yeais lie was a director in the public school*. Hi* own triais and -lis advantage* bad taught him the value of good school*, and he threw hi* whole enorgv into the work, and wa* the kigd of man. above all others, to guard the school interest*. To hi* judgment and energy ar- the public school* of the pretty little borough largely indebted for their present pro|>erity. In 1851 the first Tesclter's Institute of In-ltsna county wa* organized. Stla* M. Clark "it present to lend encouragement and give counsel. In 1872 the State Normal Schoonl at Indiana w* orgtnized. Mr. Clark waa a *ub*criler p, tl,o project, and one of the mo*t active and men successful canvasser* for other (übscrip tions. He whs elected a member of the fiist Hoard of Ttnstee*. and after Ihe death of Mr. John Mutton was chosen President of that Hoard, which position he still occupies. In the sad trial* of of the institution Mr. Clark wa* it* ataunchest suporter, and to his work more than to that of any other man ia due the preaent succea* of the Indiana Mute Normal School. His friendly aid and warm encouragement to officer, teacher and pupil* waa like "bread east upon the water*," that will return to him at the b'ovetptter election* ; for no a man ever connected with the itiHtitu tion, and not a peraon in Indiana coun ty interested in popular education, hut ia numt-ered among his warmest friend*. CoPPKROObOtKT) table cloth* are now the fashion, but hoarding bouses won't use them for fear that boarder* might find out what color coffee actual; ly i*. Mk.n who think themselves equal to the rule are often found unequal to obedience. EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT. Til' con>mti mhnul u a |.rr*lurtlo of mutrm 111 .>., Ato loot aii.l Mhldla agM a..,ulii Mm. I ami amount of wtnalion l.nl It ... Ml for IH.al.Tll llm I" miaall, ll,a U,might „f „|, r •■.lnrall.n, and |iruvl, IHB2. Will we have a full attendance? 'I'll: person w hose stock of cduca liotial knowledge i* hut ju*t sufficient to carry liiin through an Institute of live days, is not a lit person to (><• <-n --tru-ti-d with the training of teachers lor even live days. -M I.Tito i h id° teaching must of course j he adapted to the re(|uiretneuLs of in | diviilual cases. lii primary school*, ; only the oral method can Is* etnpl ved. I*, the higher classes of ungraded schools a l>o k may he given. Il there is one iiuestioti upon which tie* people of the I nited States arc ; practically unanimous, it is in tie support of the common school-. Well may an intelligent foreigner say: 'Those who have known America long.-t and hest, will agr-u that j .Vln tli' r tin* attachment of American* j lor Ircc school* i- loUluled oil good, -oh.l rcosoua fir otherwise, there can not Is- the slight' -t doultl that it X- I i-ts, and thai it form* one of the most -Hiking hut urea in the national char ; acter.'' 11 i- hut to utter a common-place to uv that every teacher should l .c'|Uaintcd with all the branch) - he iscalhd upon to tcuch, and with the theory and practice of the hest meth od" "f tcii' hing ; that h ■ should know human nature, and should have a I* i ulinr combination of in iral and executive |siw r ; that he should Is aide to cuter into his v< ate n with that healthy vitality of !■<]', mitnl mill heart which radiate- power like •untight throughout hi- whole realm ■if activity. In no one of the dilh rent stage* of life i- the possibility "f ad range of studies, and Ih thoroughly acquainted with nil tlic powers and faculties "f the human being. Often, generally, the pro t' uiid' st knowlelge of px*chelogy and the most completely cdueatcd mind arc needed to conduct the smallest child in the infant da-.* towards true culture. The educator should lc col lege -educated or self cflucatf d, the same in the end. because collcgi** HIT onlv so many opportunities for the i fnrne*Mn tided to grow, and many grow outside nil wall* hy 110-ir in herent lore of learning ; hut educated he must lie, always, who educate* oth i ers; educated before he studies meth od*. He must have something to im part before he learns how to impart it. F.VEKY Kuropenn government that has attempted to eflucale its people, ha* laid the foundations of its system in thorough training schools for its teachers. In the I'isitcd States we have 100 often nwumol that an Ameri can citizen isn being of such wondrous versatility of genius that he can step into any position, from the sovereignty of nn infant school to the presidency of the republic, at a moment's warn ing. There is little doubt but that our people are more versatile, and bet ter fpinliftcd to assume untried duties than those of other lands. Our re publican institutions constitute the most admirahln training-schools for general intellectual activity and prac tical efficiency ever yet invented, and the couutry has consequently not suf fered from this lack of special train ing, to the extent that foreign ohserv* ers suspect. It is also true that many admirable teachers have been pro duced hy the eflorts of genius making its own way through obstacles to emi nent success. But no methods of in struction anywhere contemplate the few extraordinary cases of genius. Genius is simply an excess of vital, spiritual power, whereby its possessor sere the great laws of human life, and loses no lime in getting upon the high way to success. With or without schools or teachers, such minds would vindicate their high originality. It Was u Cigarette Smoker. It wifV immiHtakttl.lv n male biped, but Hijcli a rig! Over nix feet mil, suit of while flannel, baggy breeehc-, coat cut of! at hip-, *heniriiig front shirt, No. 11 russet feather *h'.<-" with rubber soles, white skull can with . knot of white lace fulling to the i shoulder, button hole bouquet, board j I CM* face and a lawn tennis stick that j would make a nice plaything for a j three-year old boy. ii< i-rit.nd the ! cigar Htore. Ibt a dollar be buy-a cigarette." "Take the bet ? " And the necond-jK-aker won. Ibr.- in what took place in the-tore; Have you any cigarette " Lota of VIM. ' What kind do you j want." 1 lie be-t you have." M'-.e arc A- good a- any MI the market." Hive me two of them " (laying a pennv upon Die „| 1()W j " Wo don't br ak buncb. * " Hon't you >c|| two f,.r a is-oiiy*" " No, Aii . In that ea-e | -hall not put roiii/,- you!" and it rmlkcd out. A omiUM of the di|.o ,1 of Die I public land* during lh* fiscal ymmr rail ml lone ~0, l-VJ. | t H- le-1-n prepare.! !,l Die •Deiieral I. .0.1 office *ri>i -ho Dn.t Die "It,| riumter of acre- .1 ( o*.-.| of I', 'iff"*!*. an inrree m-. !„.t „> -tout ...(Hum , rrr .-. j j,,. t ,. c „ iv . ••.If r thin lnn.l iitnnunl- in D. ". .-.t.i.ut .01,(r.D. a- ifMin-t u t *\ 000,000 during tb laat n,, I number of-acre* entered for ajtri ullurai l' ur l '"<• * "cad. -ale,",| u ,,. . ~ "•mounted in?,i,w>;i;.„,, , for miner ] purpn-c-. IT ]. acre* n< r. roved tip" iin"l< r Die none law- I nd.-r the timb.-i . fjfiu • iCt*lf.f-i.'t.TtC *cr"vrer- entered and "proved tip ; under the varinoH lar.'i ••>r ri.rit. railroad p'r.tnt. achool and Str.tea -e|. ction a.iriclii lir.K v irioua kio l of y rip, 01*),-//. acre- w. re di-po.od of. fhe toe,l incre—.• ir. the di-f -it; m of pu be land* during the p*t fical v* -ni l r.i owing r.. Die immen-e io >f immigr.tion in the Nortbw.nt- In I ikota the inrreaae i- more noticeable than in any oDier State or Territory. A very large inrre -e i- *>.o noticeable • n Louinan.l and Florida. The ;.re aof State and railroad -elections i more complete than ever h. fore, and thie add* tfreatly toti.e aggregate di-| iof dur ing tin- pa*! y<",r. The acre- of eah ah- in Ilikota alone were oti- i.'.D aere-. "• i the home.tend entie* in the -.itne ferritory were ruore than two million I er" *. I I!"MK.Sept-inlKr3l—A letter from j the Pope to the Irich l.i-hop-, dated ; Augu-t 1. in ptibli-ht-d here. Hi* I Holiness, * Xpre—ing hi- prof'.untl re gret that tranquility ha- not been re -tond in Ireland and that murder* continue to be committed, -nv* : "The Iri-h people, by following the advice of th.f Ireland constitute* an clement of tr:m 'quility in the whole Empir . How to spoil n It ti-ii.i:i.|. Sunt ! at hint. 11. it peck bint. Eiml fault witlt him. K'-ep au tmti.lv h>>ii<. Humor hitn half to death. Ikw bint out of hi- boot*. Always have the lu-t wort). Ib* extra cm** on wa*h ,