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re Lemocrat.,
CLEVELAND'S
STRONG VIEWS
He is Opposed to the Idea of Seiz-
ing Territory
HE URGES CONSERVATISM
Our Venture in the Philippines is With-
out Precedent—Sailing Without
Chart or Compass-—Sounds a Note
of Warning.
One of the most important events of
the past week was the remarkable speech
by
last Wednesday evening in New
city, at the Holland Society.
entire,
delivered Ex-President Cleveland,
York
We give it
Ex-President Cleveland said :
The cordial welcome you extend to me
is exceedingly grateful and comforting
for it gives me a grain of satisfaction in
the ordeal that confronts me. I am con-
vinced that the artof making an after
dinner speech without distress is for me
a sealed book ; and as the years pass I
am only saved from complete wretched-
pess in my efforts in that direction by
the kindness and toleration of those who
are good enough to listen to me. I can
not resent the charge that I am apt to
preach a sermon on occasions of this
kind for I am afraid this accusation is
justified. It has been my lot to
much on the sober side of life and to feel
the pressure of great
be
responsibilities.
Besides, I believe it sometimes happens
that an excess of light-hearted gayety
creates a condition of thought
that may profitably
popular
and impulses, be
steadied by sedate suggestions and the
expression of conservative sentiment,
even though it may be called sermoniz
ing.
take u humble place among the sermon
At any rate I am quite willing to
izers, in this time of headlong national
heedlessness, and to invoke the cultiva-
tion and saving grace of Dutch conserva-
tsm. This
that counts the cost, but for the sake of
is the kind of couservatism
tae
principle and freedom will disregard
the cost ; that lays out a voyage by chart
and compass and follows chart and com
that the
and national happiness which rests apon
sure and tried foundations ;
reve
pass to the end loves liberty
that teache=s
ice for national traditions and en.
courages the
their coun
conservatism in
had its bi
the
strengthens the conservatism of justic
people's satisfaction witl
try's mission, It is the kind
which our «¢
rth and which has thus f;
source of
of honor, of honesty, of industry, of fru.
gality and of contented homes
In this assemblage of those who know
80 well the meaning of these things, the
question is sugeested whether
this «
in present
conditions mservatism character
izes the conduct or guides the sentiment
of our people. There
answer to this question. C
has in a great degree, been jauntily cast
can be but one
aside, or condenmed as opposed to our
country’s welfare and glory. A strange
voyage has been entered upon, without
count of cost and without chart or com-
passs’
our liberty and national happiness have
been discredited
The tried and sure foundations of
Reverence for our nas
tional traditions has been relaxed and
with country’s
The
constitution
satisfaction our mission
has been undermined restraints
and limitations of our have
been galling and irksome under the temp.
tations of national greed and aggrandiz.
ment. Our old love of peace, honor and
justice has been weakened, and frugality
and contentment are not now traits in.
seperable from America character,
War even with the world's advanced
civilization may still be sometimes nec
essary and justifiable ; but whether nec
essary justifiable or not, the demoraliza
tion that follows in its train, can never
be evaded. Ii teaches bloody instruc.
tions, which, in a county whose citizens
do the fighting, cannot fail to leave their
impression for a time, at least, upon pub.
lic and private life in time of peace
Thirty years after the close of the war
for the preservation of the union, a treaty
of arbitration was formulated between
the United States and Great Britain,
which, if completed would have gone far
towards removing every pretext of war |
between the two countries. Thus these
two great BEaglish speaking nations then
pod in advocacy of the abolition of war,
with the hope and expectation that the
example would be followed by other na- |
tions and that a more general adoption
of arbitration as a means of settling 1n.
ternational disputes would resuit in a
of war thoughout the world,
ate of the United States,
champions of and arbitration are
still operating in “parallel lnes—one on
the Philippines and the other in South
Africa—but uo louger for peace and arbi.
| overseers of poor,
CHAS. R. Kuk1Z, Proprietor.
| tration. Both are killing natives in an
effort to possess their lands,
This indicates a sad relapse; and in
our case it is a most serious one, If
England succeeds in her attempt in
South Africa, she will but add another to
her list of similar acquisitions ; so a brave
people be subjugated, and because of our
engagement, in a similar engagement in
another quarter, they will miss the ex
pressions of American sympathy which
we are accustomed to extend them who
struggle for national life and indepen
dence. On the other hand, with success
in our snbjugating effort, a new untried
and exceedingly perilous situation will
be forced upon us. We can conquer the
Philippines, and after conquering them
the
strain upon our institutions, the demoral
can probably govern them. It isin
lization of our people, the evasion of our
constitutional limitations and the perver.
sion of our national mission that our
danger lies. bishop
bas said:
“The question is not what we shall «
As a distinguished
lo
with the Philippines, put what the Phil.
ippines will do to us?"
Our country will never be the same
again.
passed beyond the old lines,
For weal or woe we have already
The republic will in some sort be saved,
Shall it be only in name and semblance
with fair external appearance but with
the germs of decay, or shall it, though
changed, still survive in such vigor and
strength as to remain the hope and pride
of free Americans?
Its
upon the extént to which the ol
The problem is a
momentous one solution
ism and good sense of our e
can be rescued from impen
Thus these are sober days for thoughtful
for
citizens—days sermonizng If we
are to be saved from disaster, |
through the cultivation and enfor
of that sort of couservat that
sm
find a congenial home in the Ho
In the midst of reckless
the
greed and
society,
and in confused rage
bloodiness this conser
should defiantly stand forth and
a hearing. Let it be proclain
American freedom and popular ru
Pog
net perish except through t he
net perish pt throughth
those who have them
and by the blood and sacrif
father, by the lofty achieve n
free institqtions they established, by our
gloriod® victories of |
ance on the pr
letters and packages
from
the
the ofh
last
escaped
Pp a
disappeare
Stone
and it
was immediately he
and the decoy was
He was
of
et imme
extent Wise
known
A Shot Gun on the War Path
A few days ago an old
h me
Valley, fk over
hot gun that
stood in the of Rufus Sheats in
SURAT irom some un
known cause and went own
the stairs into the
tumbling
kitchen where four
ladies were sitting engaged in conversa
tion. Tu each barrel ofvthe gun was a
cartridge and both were discharged dur
ing the stair descending act. Fortunately
none of the ladies was injured but they
ran out of the house 1 a hurry.
the
all No
reason for the falling of
given, Cl
gun can be
Democrat
His Neck Broken.
A young man named Elmer Harry was
taken to the home of his sister, Mrs. Har.
ry Stoner, at Salona. Mr Harty is suffer.
‘ng fron a broken back and the lower
portion of his body is paralyzed. He was
jujured by having a tree fall on him while
he was working in the woods in Potter
county a few months ago. Siuce the acc
dent he has been in the hospital at Austin, |
His home isin Rebersburg, where he was
taken on Monday, ou the train as far as
Coburn,
-
Poor House for Clinton.
March 30, the people of Clinton county,
outside of Lock Haven, will vote for or
| against a poorhouse, A petition to this
assumed leadership in the path of peace |
request was signed by all but one of the
Lock Haven being an
incorporated city, cannot participate in
the election, however, should a poor
house be decided upon, the city can
| place its paupers therein for compensa
| tion,
gread advance towards the abandonment |
This |
treaty failed of confirmation In the sen. |
Less than five |
years passed, and these Foglish-speaking
Former Loganton Man Killed,
Charles A. Weaver, who for several
years was a miller at Loganton, but who
has been working near Readivg, was
caught in the machinery Thursday and
killed. His remains were taken to Re.
bersburg, where the funeral was held
Saturday morning at 10 o'clock,
| & short way from it
OUR HISTORICAL
REVIEW
Further Account of Indian Invas
ions in Central Penna
MANY SETTLERS MASSACRED
I'he French Incited Them to These Acts
to Exterminate the Early English
Settlers —It was a Time of Danger
and Great Hardships.
th of Feb. 1
Captain Patterson wi
On the 2 s Gordon,
party,
ne Indians at Middle
in with sor
in Comberland county
f whom they ilped and
put
others to flight ving one of hi
men wounfe
from J
with cckin plunder and
scalps, and burning the houses, and
destroying the grain in the
The
probably
Indian whom they scalped was
Shecalemy's sister's son, as
the following
“Fort
from
McKee,
(SIX OF seven
April 5, 1756
Shipp
will appear etter
from Thomas dated at
Hunter's mill, miles above
Harrisburg and ad.
dresed to Ed at Lan-
caster,
“I desire to let you know that John
Shecalemy, Iudian, is come here in the
afternoon, and gives me an account that
great
there is on amongst the
1 '
ing
}
i
{ies was fo
McA
jane (
d, Alexander
hrat ar
missed. McA
burnt, and
Adams,
James
two clyldren were
ers
house had been a number of
cattle and horses had been driven off
The
ous, as they «
enemy was supposed
Id eat and
to b¢ numer
carty off a great
deal of beef they had kille
rette
The place where Fort Granville had
been erected, was called "Old
the bank of
near Lewistown, Mifflin county, where a
Town,
on left the Juniata river,
company of enlisted soldiers were kept
under the command of Lieutenant Arm
strong. The position of the fort was the
most favorable. The Indians who had
been lurking about there for some time,
and knowing that Armstrong's men were
few in number, sixty of them appeared,
July 22nd, before the fort, and cha!
lenged the garrison to combat : but this
was declined by the commander, in con.
sequence of the weakness of his force.
The Indians fired at and wounded one
man belonging to the fort, who had been
vet, he got 1a safe ;
after which they divided themselves into
small parties, one of which attacked the
plantation of one Baskins, near Juniata,
whom they murdered, burnt his house
and carried off his wife and children :
and another made Hugh Carrol and his
family prisoners,
On the goth of July, Capt. Ward left
the fort with all his men, except twenty.
four under the command of Lieut. Arm-
strong, to guard some reapers in Shear
man's valley. Soon Rfter the Captain's
| departure, the fort was attacked by
about one hundred Indians and French,
who having assailed it in vain during the
NM
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 24
1001,
| afternoon and night of that day, took to
the Juniata creek, and, protected by its
bank, attained a deep ravine, by which
they were enabled to approach, without
fear of injury, to within ten or twelve
yards of the fort, to which they succeed
Through a hole
the
ed in setting it on fire,
thus made they killed Lieutenant
and private, and wounded three others
while endeavoring to extinguish the fire,
The enemy offering quarters to the
besciged, if they would surrender, one
Torper immediately opened the gate to
them. They took prisoners, twenty-two
chi
burdens
soldiers, three women even
dre whom they loaded with
The fort was burnt
pur
commander
and drove them off
rAet
suant to the order
When
they
by Captain Jacobs,
the |
Indians
of rench the
reached Kittaning, put
y death with the most horrid
They
Turner te
tortures tied him to a post,
danced around him, made a great fire,
and having heated gun-barrels red-hot,
th his
him three
yagh body Having
for
scalped him alive,
ran them
tormented hours, they
at last held up a
give
ana
boy with a hatchet in his hand, to
him the finishing stroke
The di
nearly reached its acme
depict their sufferings, alarms, and fears,
the
of the Susque-
tress of the frontier settlers had
Au attempt to
would prove a failure n fall of
1755, the country west
bhavna possessed CAree thousand men fit
¥
to bear arms; and in August 1756, ex
sive of the Provincial forces, there
‘re not one hundred ; fear baving Ariv.
the greater part from their homes
the province. — Gor
conting
murders were occasiona
pon the frontier settlers,
by
till near the ose of the war
the English and the French
had
amoung
between in
62 for there been a secret con.
rderacy formed
Shawanese,
the
ibes on the Ohio i its
and
ahoul
I setliements on
1 was deliberate
Cumberland was
* Savages, io 17¢ who set
houses, barns, corn, hay and every
thing that was combustible ; the inha!
tants were surprised and murdered with
the utmost [bose
Bedford
1a gar.
cruelly and barbarity
who could, escaped-—-some to
where Captais Ourry commande
rison at the same time, some went to
Shippensburg, others to Carlisle, where
houses and
Late in t fall of 1777
ing he
on the head waters of the S isquehanna
A
stahles were crowded
Al some marand.
Indians disturbed frontier settlers
all the frontier settlements
Wet
Allegheny
and along
the Branch, and westward to the
river Families were mur
dered or carried into captivity dwell
ings reduced to ashes—crops destroyed
the settiers exposed to the most unheard
:
of Indian cruelties. None dared venture |
forth, without a loaded rifle as his con
stant companion ; for it was a time when
they had reason to expect 10 meet a
savage concealed in every bush and
thicket
field and church ;
fire arms were carried to both
and their lives were |
only secure by untiring and constant |
vigilance ; and even then, at an unwary
some victims to the blood
thirsty Indian. Blockhouses were built
dlong the West Branch, under the pro
tection of which, the first settlers alone
in safety against the prowling, |
tawny foe. With all these necessary
precautions, several persons were sur.
prised, through this region of country,
by the enemy. A man named Saltzbarn,
on the Sinnemaboniog, and Dan Jones,
al the mouth of the Tagascootac, were
cruelly murdered late in 1777
FEA
hour, fell
were
“In the spring of 1778 Col. Hepburn, |
Afterwards Judge Hepburn, was stationed
with a small force at Fort Muaucy at the
mouth of Wallis’ run, sear which several
murders had been committed. The In.
dians had killed Brown's and Benjamin's
families, and had taken Cook and his
wife prisoners on Lovalsock creek. Col,
Hunter of Fort Augusta, alarmed by
these murders, sent orders to Port Man.
cy that all the settlers in that vicinity
[should evacuate, and take refuge at Sun. |
| bury,
Col. Hepburn was ordered to
Contiffued ou page 4, column 4,
| tary; J. 1
| Emanuel Malick,
OUAY DEMOCRATS
DENOUNCED
Democratic Representatives Score
Traitors
READ
OUT Or
THE PARTY
A Series of Strong Resolutions Adopted
Action is Approved In All Sec-
of the State No Room
Iraitors
tions for
ay Succ
election to the 1
the
These
tion of Marshall as
the control of all the le
senate was
largely
due to work of a few democratic
traitor men voled for the ele
peaker and that put
4
Rislative machin
ery and the “plum as well in the
hands of and enabled
for
3
cowardly tra
the Quay people
them to give
This
what gave the Quay people
For this
patronage insurgent
voles 1HOrous work
the victory
work, the of the
balance woyal
democrats at Harrisburg, of the senate
and house, assembled and passed the
following appropriate resolutions read-
ing the traitors out of the
“Whereas, Wi
first legislative
county,
elected as a democrat
represent faithfully a
stituency and,
“Whereas
betraved
party
of the
Schuaylki
last November,
and pledged to
democratic
Ham J
district
ted
Galvin,
of
was cle
con -
Galvin has basely
AS well as Lhe
organization of the democratic
by voting with the
Marsha
and again
the said
his constituents
state
party, ust repat
Cans or sg er of the
house
4 '
LUay jor Lhe
therefore
wolved
man ul
sh
with an
who
spons
of A. H
who perm
Resolve
Squier
ted himse cou
as
pair
the vote for senator with a man who was
not a member of the house, and
when arrangement whates
been = ie for thus
no
paring
of th eC
re
hat
every WAL GEmOoCTat
should
Lo €
That ex Rev
the fiftieth
i who for
Kesolved
who
district
represents
ar been most
: wd)
Las by
to the Usited Stat
80 doing they base
the ad
desired bs
Juay
but that in
their party, retarded
much
peopie of the
reforms
communwealh
condemva
unqualified
That
he speaker making
tiees not 0 regard Messrs
Kain, Fake
and Galvin as democrats
we respectfully re
f the house in
Rothrock
- ——
01
rs of the ©
Directors
Fe
d their
id
.
uryghe
ws Nn
phan Home near Sunt an
4
nual meeting and elected the follow
ers for the ensuing year
Ine W.H. }
first vice president; E. C
er, president Holman
Wagner, sec.
Hillard,
Shoemaker, assistant secretary
There
at present thirty boys and eighteen girls
md vice president; S B secre
|
treasurer Are
cared for by this institution, rangiog in
age fron five to fifteen years. A committe
was appointed to devise means whereby
a home for the aged Odd Fe
their wives may be established
ows and
Embalmed Milk Barred
In a test prosecution brought by the
state pure food department agents in the
Blair county court a jary convicted
Stephen Kirsch, an Altoona dairy mers
chant Jof adulterating milk with formalin,
A substance injarious to health. The
state proved that the proper use for
formalin was in embalming dead bodies.
The pure food agents sav that this con.
viction will stop the adulteration with
formalin, now preyalent among the
dairy merchants of the state.
Rabbies Killed Cattle.
Some time ago some of the cattle near
Manor, Westmoreland county, went mad,
and Dr. M. A. Griffin removed the brain
for examination, Unfortunately he had
A sore on his finger, and a few days ago
be begon to act queerly and showed
signs of rabies, Wednesday he was
taken tothe Pasteur institute, New York,
for treatment, in hopes the ravages of
os n—
VOL. 23, NO, 4
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FACT, FUN AND FANCY.
Iright Sparkling Paragraphs Selected
and Original
A TREAS!
The homeless
girl are alike |
beauless
nowhere
to lay their heads
“For men must work men must
weed," else how would seal.
skin sacks and things
When a poor young man marries a
he women
rich girl all
cenary
mer.
but when a
marries a poor girl tk
1s the most beant
SOME OF JOSH BILLINGS’ PROVERBS
¢ Rostet Nicht
rsey Shore,
red the wed-
{ of Palmer Chumway
and Mrs. Harrie
Filly sever
176 years
5 YEArs.
age
t Francis, aged
YECATS Ago the couple were
engaged to wed, but a quarrel estranged
them Both
MArTie
became the mothe:
father
MM»
ago Mrs, }
Three weeks ago Chum.
) the home of Mis
Potter county A reconcili
and Wedne
Francis
Chumway the
Seven years ago
and three years rancis
came a widow
way went t Francis,
at Ulyssess
was effected
Mrs
tion
home of son
marned
- -
For School
Wilkesbarre, on
Directors
At Thursday Judge
Halaey handed down an opinion which
determines the powers of Schoo! Diree.
tors. The president and secretary of the
School Board of Wyoming borough con.
tracted for song books, music, etc The
bill amounted to $474 20
A taxpayer took the matter into
Court, claiming that two members of the
Board could not make a binding contract.
Judge Halsey sustained the objection,
In his opinion the Judge savs a School
| Board must exercise its powers by joint
action as a Board and not as individuals.
The contract is declared invalid.
NOT DEAD YET.
Two weeks ago the Democrat ane
nounced, apon what was given as rellab’e
authority, that Jeff. Shaffer, had died of
typhoid fever. Jefl. writes us, not from
the grave, but from terra firma, the fol.
lowing :
“lawistown, Jan 16, 1990 :Mrs,
Shafl+r has received several letters from
friends wanting to know the trath of the
statement in toe Centre Democrat, re.
fering to the notice of my death. [am
the threatened malady might be prevent. | bot dead and if | am dead [am certainly
ed.
The poker player who is given the top
cards on the deck gets the upper hand,
a very lively corps; where | work the
boys have named me Lazarus,
Very truly yours,
C. J. Suarrun.”