' Republican News Item.
THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1898.
11 Ignorance is the mother of i
( scepticism. Ignorance does \
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County Seat Indices.
AND GLANCES AT THE TIMES.
—Now for a flag raising in San
Juan.
—Joe Cooper of llughesville has
opened a clothing store for a few
week in town.
—Supper ami ice ereani Will be
served in the grove opposite the
Court House 011 Thursday evening,
July 28. Proceeds for the benefit of
Rev. J. A. Patton, Pastor of .M. 11.
church.
—New arrivals at the Mountain
House this week are: Mrs. J. L.
Smith and son Victor, of Buffalo;
Mias Mary Muffley, of Baltimore;
Mrs. Ellen Barrows, of Philadelphia;
Misses Ella and Rebia Barrows of
New York, and Mr. C. F. Michener,
of Philadelphia.
—There are thieves and thieves;
but the most contemptible thieves
are those who prowl about when all
are asleep and carry away things.
Last week someone, evidently full
grown, gently "lifted" a nice large
beef steak from the Commercial
Hotel ice house. It is not the finan
cial value of the article but the style
of the thief that provokes the popu
lar landlord.
—The world moves—so does Land
lord Beahen. It is true "great and
growing bodies move slowly" but
they never fail to "get there;" slow
and sure is a good motto, and ac
complishes much more than spas
modic lightning rod efforts, and this
is proved by the methodical and
stymatic gait of Mr. Beahen in im
proving his property "The Maine."
Yellow and white paint have caused
an exterior effect and an investiga
tion reveals many interior causes and
effects.
—The never-to-be forgotten Chas.
Dickens in David Copperfield de
scribes a man who was so stingy that
when he would purchase a present
for his "best girl" his meanness
would get the better of him, and he
would keep the present for him
self! !! Certain revelations in La
porte since the advent of pretty
school mams and gallant youths have
made us wonder if any lineal descen
dents of the magnanimous "Barkis"
are scattered around in beautiful
seclusion awaiting the magic touch
of some Dickens to immortalize
them.
—Germany hardly knows what to
do next to draw the attention of this
country to herself and convey the
impression that she will have to be
considered when the final disposition
of the Philippine Island is made.
There have been a number of things
that have not set very well with this
country and Germany may find her
self quite ignored, if nothing worse,
by the time the present difficulty is
settled. Uncle,is not in a mood just
at the present time to stand much
fooling.
—Only about ten per cent, of the
men offering themselves at the re
cruiting stations have been accepted,
because of physical conditions. Now,
girls, with only 10 per cent, of the
men worth a continental and your
sex already in the majority by some
thing like three to one, some of you
are surely bound to draw a blank.
What really interests us is, how the
women would average up, and the
best way to get at this would be to
make a call for several millions of
them and see how many can pass
muster. I jet the requirements be a
thorough knowledge of household
affairs for instance.
10 MORE
ANDY JOHNSON.
How a Distinguished Friend of
the President Views
the Campaign.
OLD FEUDS ON THE SHELF.
While All Kinds of Republicans
Vote With the Flag.
NO OFF YEARS IN WAR TIME.
Unique Illustration of One Anti-Quay
Republican \Vho Says lie Will Leave
**tlie Old Man"in the Hauda of Prov
idence Till the War Ist Over-No
Hoom Kor Dlckerluif With the De
mocracy This Year.
(Special Correspondence.)
Washington, Jtily 19.—"1 am glad to
see that the Republicans of Pennsyl
vania have not forgotten Andy John
son, nor the terrible warning of his
career in the White House," said one
of the few members of the house ways
and means committee who still tarries
here in the summer smell of the hot
asphalt street pavements.
He says it Is to clear up some odds
and ends of departmental business. He
is known, however, to have the confi
dence of President McKinley to an
unusual degree, and it is more likely
that he foreswears the delights and
comforts of seashore and mountain at
the president's request, in order that
his advice may be had in any critical
situation which may arise out of the
present war. They were old associates
In congress, and have been close to
each other for many years.
"Under the present circumstances,"
he continued, with much earnestness,
"the election proclamations in the var
ious states ought to appeal to the
party spirit of Republicans as the
president's call to arms appealed to
the patriotism of the country. It
should meet with a like response. This
is especially true of Pennsylvania,
whose magnificent and unswerving Re
publicanism has so often stood the
keynote of party success. We of other
states do not forget that Pennsylvania
was the state of Curtln, nor fail to re
member how Lincoln leaned upon your
great war governor in all the darkest
hours of the rebellion, and it is among
the most gratifying signs of the times
to observe by the press reports from
what under other circumstances might
be discontented sections of your state,
that your leaders are patriotically lay
ing their rivalries on the shelf until
this war and its problems are settled."
"But with Santiago surrendered.
Manila under Dewey's guns, and the
Spanish navy either under water or
hunting a hiding place up the creek,
do you seriously think the war will last
past election day?"
"I sincerely hope not, so far as
actual fighting goes, but war is like
measles or diphtheria. The dregs It
leaves are often harder to deal with
than the disease itself. The greatest
and gravest problems of this war will
only begin to be set for the statesman
ship of this country when the last gun
is fired. It was so after the last war.
It will be doubly so after this one.
Some of these problems we have upon
us already: some we cannot even
predict. They have come without ex
pectation or warning, and they will
likely continue to come that way. Ad
miral Dewey's guns, in a couple of
hours of a Sunday morning, changed
the map of the world for generations
to come, and the few modest lines In
which he announced, In effect, that he
had an Island empire as large as New
England and Pennsylvania ready for
the American Hag, brought with it
questions of international and enduring
moment, such as have not confronted
us for a hundred years. Is this a time
to swap horses, or to quibble over local
grievances and differences? Is It a j
time for Republicans In states like !
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, or In any 1
Republican states, to speak with any- i
thing but overwhelming majorities?"
"You speak warmly."
"Every Republican who Is close to
national affairs feels warmly upon this
subject. I value above anything else
that has come to me in my life the es
teem of my neighbors, and the unfail- !
lng .confidence with which they have
returned me year after year to con
gress, but if it seemed to me tomorrow
that some other Republican, my bitter
est enemy even, could be elected next
November more certainly than I, or
that his election would be more signifi
cant of the loyalty of my district to the
president and the party, I would tele
graph my resignation from the ticket,
and urge his nomination with all my
might. I am by no means alone in this
feeling. Shortly after the war began
I received a call here In Washington
from a distinguished gentleman in my
district who made a vigorous cam
paign against my nomination two years
ago, chiefly urging that I had been In
congress so long that I had become
negligent of local Interests. He had
been openly pointed out as likely to run
on an independent ticket against me
this year with Democratic support. He
traveled all the way to Washington
to notify me that the war had changed
the situation. He offered togo Into
the convention as one of the delegates,
If I desired it, saying frankly at the
same time that he made no pledges be
yond this year. Said he:
"'I know I am throwing away (or j
rather Sagasta is throwing away for
me) my best chance. The next election
will be in a presidential year, and with
your well known closeness to McKin
ley you will be hard to beat. I had
been thinking that as this was natural
ly an off year we might make the land
ing. Hut there are no off years In war
times.' "
"And you think a similar feeling is
developing In Pennsylvania?"
"I know it,"he replied, "and so they i
do up at the other end of the avenue," j
Jerking his thumb in the direction of I
the White House.
"You know,"he continued, "we took
in unusual Interest In your affairs this '
| year, because two of the moat 41a-
I tingulshed Republicans In your delega
i tlon In the house were rival candidates
for the nomination. Those of ua who
had served longest with them and
knew their worth were In somewhat a
1 Quandary. We wanted both of them
i to get their desires, and yet we didn't
want to lose either of them from the
house. I am glad, by the way, that
I Charley Stone has been renominated
! for congress. Ills people have honored
themselves In showing their apprecia
tion of his distinguished party services.
So far as the colonel is concerned, If
he Is as untiringly faithful to the In
, terests of his state at Harrlsburg as
' he has been in Washington, you will
have a governor to be proud of. I
have known him In congress ever since
he came here, and so far as the party Is
concerned I feel confident that when he
I goes out of office he will leave the
party more free from faction and
! stronger before the people than It has
| been for years.
"After.the convention,"he added, "I
j talked with all of the Republican mem
bers of the Pennsylvania delegation,
and some Democrats. At the request
of a friend who Is deeply concerned to
| see a wholesale Republican victory I
; wrote to a number of business men In
! your state with whom I had become
' intimate In the course of tariff leglsla
\ lion. My Information, coming from
! one and all, is the same, although many
of them had been in favor of another
candidate for governor, and some of
them were rather Umber heeled In their
Republicanism, except in presidential
years. Here, for Instance, is a letter
I got from one of them only a few
> days ago. After apologizing for delay
' in answering, owing to absence from
! home, he says:
" 'I don't take back anything I have
said, remember, but I am going to put
1 a cross in the circle tills year, and vote
1 for the flag- 1 don't approve of some
| things that were done In our last legis
! lature, but while a Republican ad
; ministration is In the midst of the
i prosecution of a foreign war these
j things which in ordinary times would
' be fair occasions for vigorous rebuke,
' seem to me trivial beyond expression.
When I was a younger man we used to
1 have volunteer fire companies in our
I city. The rivalry was intense between
them, and fights were frequent. Some
| times two of them happened to come
j together on their way to a fire and
then there was a battle royal. All the
old grievances were recalled, and the
oid grudges satisfied. They had an
elegant and stirring time to them
selves, but my recollection Is that the
house usually burned down white they
were at It. Our house is afire this year,
•so to speak, and so among Pennsyi
' vanla Republicans when election day
| conies around you will hear of very
: few Quay or anti-Quay, Wanamaker
; or antl-Wanamaker, Martin or anti-
Martin. Magee or anti-Magee Republi
cans. We will just be one kind of plain
Republicans until this war is over and
its issues are settled. You are at lib
erty to show this letter to the presi
dent if you think it necessary. As to
Quay, he is getting pretty well up In
years, and can't live forever. I have
made up my mind to leave him to
Providence until the war is over. Then,
if he is still running the machine, I'll
take another whack at him myself.
Anyhow, I don't see anything to be
gained, even if there was no war on
hand, by colleaguing with the Democ
racy this year. Their state convention.
In addition to kicking Itself up and
down stairs on the money question, de
feated its most promising candidate,
solely upon suspicion that he had not
voted the straight Democratic ticket
two years ago. And yet while they
brandish his scalp before our eyes, In
our ears they whisper that this would
be a good year for Republicans to vote
for Democrats. Nay, nay.'
"This," continued the congressman, "I
find to be a fair sample of the feeling
of Republicans all over the country.
The unfaithfulness of Andy Johnson
after our last war cost the country be
yond expression. We have a man In
the White House now who Is as differ
ent from Johnson as day Is from night,
and the election returns next November
will serve notice to the watching courts
and crowns of all creation that the peo
ple of the United States are as loyal
to their president as Its soldiers are to
their flag."
And then we drifted off politics and
began to talk about the war, and the
harvest thereof.
CIEORQE H. WELSHONS.
Uoll Jewelry.
Golf has invaded the realm of jewel
ry. Some of the presents that would
be most acceptable to men and women
who play golf have designs of golf
clubs upon them. Gold and ailver
clubs are used as stick-pins, miniature
bundles of clubs crossed somewhat af
ter the fashion of rifles on a soldier's
cap as brooches, and a small putter
clasp pin Is Just the thing for the white
puff tie. Match safes, cigarette cases,
link cuff buttons, tankards and loving
cups, silver-backed brushes and silver
topped tobacco Jars, all with golf de
signs upon them in relief, are coming
more and more to be a part of the gentle
men's outfit. For the women there are
dainty silver score-card frames, chain
belts, purses, small cupe, silk belts with
silver buckles ornamented with golfing
paraphernalia. As prices in local and
inter-club matches these convenient
articles are finding much favor.
lilMnlitr «■ t»* aniUM.
The Sultan of Turkey is more than
liberal to his daughters, as the recent
marriage of Princess Naime reveals. In
addition to about $90,000 a year the
princess has a palace decorated in the
most lavish style and a retinue of ser
vants. who are all paid by tbe father.
Coat •(
Spain's bull-fighters made money last
year. Mazzantini in 66 fights killed
168 bulls and made 396,000 pesetas;
Reverte's score waa 71 fights, 160 bulls
and 276,000 pesetas; while Guerrlta,
with 76 fights and 147 bulla slaughter
id, earned 456,000 pesetas, or |91,000.
To RIMIr m Pane •( Glaaa.
A musket ball may be fired through
i pane of glass, making a hole the size
jf the ball without cracking the glass,
if the glass be suspended by a thread;
t will make no difference and the
thread will not even vibrate.
WHAT A WAR MEANS.
Loaa to the Wealth of the World ii
the Blood and Aahea of Battle.
What has actually been lost to the
wealth of the world In the blood and
ashes of the war since authentic his- 1
tory began is beyond all estimate. It!
has been computed that the loss of hu-j
mau life alone in that time from war!
amounts to fourteen thousand
souls—a number equivalent to the en
tire population of the globe for the last
330 years, says a writer in Leslie's
Weekly. It should be noted here that
the class of men who are drafted or ac-'
cepted for military service are Invar
iably tihe very class who, by reason of
ftge, health and strength, are the most
valuable to the world from the purely;
economic and material standpoint.'
They are the stalwart, intelligent, ca-|
pable men. In this country economists
have set the definite value of $5,000 up- :
on the average man, considered as a
wealth producer. Taking this figure
as the general standard of the value of
man, it can be seen what aa inconceiv
able amount of wealth in the shape of
men has been destroyed on tbe battle
fields of the worid since time began.
The war losses of the United States
have not been as great, comparatively,
as those of other civilized nations in
recent times, but even the totals here
are sufficient to show the absurdity of
the supposition that either now or at
any other time we may reap financial
gain by the sicklvs of battle. The an
nual expenditure of the United States
during the war of the revolution was
120,000,000 la specie. Most of the
money was raised by public loans in
the form of paper currency. The dimin
ishing value of this slender security in
evitably brought about the hoarding of
gold. The consequent scarcity of real
money, as a matter of course, was fol
lowed by suffering widespread and in-,
tense.
Our second war with England lasted
only two years, but it cost us $72,000,000
tovindlcateour cause, just and righteous
fts it was. And this did not Include the
losses to our merchant marine from
English privateering, a loss beyond
computation, even in thoae times of
our comparative commercial poverty, i
For t'he folly of the Mexican war we
had to pay dearly in men and treasure,
a loss for which our acquisition of ter
ritory did not compensate. The lives
of more than C,OOO American citizens
were a part of the price we paid for
that display of power, and something
more than $25,000,000 for military dis
bursements was another part.
For the civil war the figures of loss
fcll around mount up to stupendous
totals. The immediate financial losses
were $4,600,000,000 to the north and $2,-
300,000,000 to the south, with such after
results as a national debt of $3,000,000,-
000, a crippled merchant marine, a
ruined agricultural community, besides
the losses occasioned In other partsof the
world, including those consequent up
on the cotton famine of Lancashire,
and the loss of employment to more
than 100,000 European laborers. Such,
at least, are the losses computed by
Leroy-Beaulleu in his "Lea Guerres
Contemporalns," causing him thus to
close his chapter on our civil war:
"Such is war. Its nature is so homi
cidal that it slays thousands of victims
•veu at a distance of thousands of
milss from the battlefield."
Administrator's Notice.
h'xfatr of Mary McOnr/i/, /ot< <>/ /•;// -
land toirnn/iip, decerned.
Letters of Administration having oecn
granted to I lie undersigned, Administra
tor in the estate of Mary McCarty late ol'
Elkland township, deceased, notice i*
hereby given that all persons indebted to
said estate are requested to make unmed
iate payment, and all person? having
claims against it must present them duly
authenticated lor settlement.
DOWNS, Atty. JOSEPH PARDOK, I . ,
THOB. MCCARTY /AUUHS.
Harrison |Krips.
PHOTOGRAPHER.
1500 Columbia Ave. PHILADELPHIA.
Begs to announce to the public that
after a year's absence lie will re-open his
branch Photographic Studio at
Eagles Here,
for the season of 1898, on JULY 4th.
Mr. Powell who has managed the bus
iness heretofore will be on hand.
In and outdoor photography executed
in an artistic and satisfactory manner.
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