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Lady agents wanted 8end for terms. ad: nisses gists and little of for 15s Teh *chie” effect not tain néd by other patterns Hav ¢ oe equal forstyleand ; ™ CALL 10; BAZAR Easily put together Only 10 and 15 cents each—none uly her Soild In yoarty every city and town, or by mail. for them, Absolutely very latest u; p-to-date styles. THE MeCA LL COM PANY . 95-248 Wess J3ib Strest, + o + » Kew York City, N. Yo THE QUAVITES HAD AT HANNA Because He Would Not Put Quay en His Campaign Com- wittee ANTI-QUAY VICTORIES GROWING. The Machine Now Has Its Grip on the Public Schools—Some Samples of Its Work—The Dairy and Food Department Again—Iis Cope Another Failure ?—Some Questions For Far- mers to Solve, (From Our Own Correspondent ) Harrisburg, July 24.—The refusal of National Committeman Senator Hanna to recognize M. S. Quay by giving him his former place on the national Re- publican campaign committee has maddened the Quay machine in this state. This becomes more apparent as the days go by. The machine in this state has no love for President McKinley, and it hates Senator Hanna, and all because Hanna refuses to place Mr. Quay on a pedestal and fall down and worship him as the machine lead- ers do. The defeat of the Quay machine in York county was one of the most over- whelming of its kind that has been seen this year. The anti-Quay men practically swept the county. When the convention assembled the machine men were so badly defeated, and knew it, that they did not make any con- test. A test vote, however, came on the adoption of a resolution, which showed the machine to have only 48 votes as against 113 for the anti-Quay men. The resolutions adopted by the convention were hissed by the Quay men, but they went through with a whoop. Among other things the reso- lutions said: RED HOT RESOLUTIONS. “We demand that the open and se- cret condonation of such violations shall case and that the law shall be executed without fear or favor, regard- less of the official or political alliances of the violator. The Republican party of Pennsylvania has been the consis- tent friend and promoter of the benefi- cent public schocl system of this great commenwealth, and we regret and condemn the action of the governor of this state in his effort unconstitution- ally to strike from the public appro- priation one million dollars in viola- tion and utter disregard of the posi- tion he had taken prior to his elec- tion as governor. This action and the needless delay in the distribution of state funds to the various school dis- tricts of the state are calculated to work unnecessary hardships and to en- tail needless burdens upon many com- mittees.” That the machine Is desperate is demonstrated by the tactics that it has employed in Lebanon county dur- ing the past week. The anti-Quay can- didates for state senator and repre- sentative cc ed the county. The ma- Jority for Senator Weiss was 63 ac- cording to the returns. As soon as this became known orders were re- celved by the machine leaders in Leb- anon to make a contest. The state machine is bitterly sore over the loss of the county, and it was declared that nothing should be left undone to secure at least one representative ator. With this end in v to throw out two districts { 1 ty, thus giving the nomination to ol Quay candidate by a majority of one vote. These disreputs Necessary carry the 3 It was the o court. intention of the Quayites to Y out from meeting of the return judges, wh the vote was canvassed, everybody representing the anti-Quay side. But a vigorous kick was made, and two attorneys, Messrs. Shirk and Woomer, were ad- mitted to represent Dr. Weiss and the other candidates. The fight in Leb- anon is still on, for the machine is des- perate over its losses in the state, and is likely to continue until it is set- tled in the courts. A new sensation is promised in Phil- adelphia. Like all disclosures of ma- chine methods, some vital point in which the public is interested is con- cerned. It is now generally demon- strated that the machine in Philadel- phia has put its clammy hands upon the public schools, and inconceivable as it seems has been dictating the ap- pointments of teachers and prac tically specifying what pupils shall and shall not be advanced to higher grades. In other words machine politics in Penn- sylvania have reached the stage where it dictates whether or not the chil- dren in the public schools shall be pro- moted from one class to another and from one room to another. A Phila- delphia newspaper, speaking of this, says: SCHOOLS RUN BY MACHINE. “As the teachers stand at present they are appointed and assigned to schools, and then they take ‘sugges- tions’ from Superintendent Brooks as to how they shall instruct the young Philadelphians in their charge. “Superintendent Brooks devotes his time to molding into shape the ma- terial which is given him by the politi- cal heelers of the sections. If it as pli- able in his hands as in that of its po- litical master the result is that after the process of ‘suggesting’ has been gone through, a good teacher is formed and the number of pupils is increased. “So Philadelphia is in the unenvia- ble position of having one of the best elementary courses of study in the United States given to machine-made teachers to execute. “This faling off, too, is not in all sec- tions. In some, right- iD citizens have stepped into the breach and res- cued the rising generation from the grasp of the politicians, but in wards where the schools are made havens of rest for the friends and relatives of di- vision workers, who always want to start at the top, the promotions are surpisingly few. In ithe Thirty-ninth ward the schools furnish some of the 800 jobs which the Vare brothers hold as pap for their heelers. There are two grammar schools in their control. | | I x¢ | | Chri The percentage of promotions in one | was 53 and in the other 50. This wa of the pupils examined. There Ww many who were held in reserve, so the average on enrollment was 45 per cent. In the Seventh ward, controlled by Senator Durham, the percentage of th: one grammar school! was 48. this speaks loudly against the sy Y of political manipulation, the fact th only 12 of 28 pupils yilled were sent to higher schools is a sghools. Though i | twentis r rebuke. a so, according to statistics, the condi- tion is in all sections where the poli- ticians have fixed their tentacles in the Jobs are wanted. aud it is| | Hemisph policy Press, i eiphia dairy and food commis- 1 2? K. Cope, is not that dispos ion to prosecute vi of the law regardless of conseq g which was hoped for wher he was ap- pointed. Commissioner Cope went into the office with the good wis « I ryhedy and an unusual opport to render the public, and in particular the dairymen and farmers of the state, an important service. “His first mistake was In rejecting | the offer of evidence and ass made by the Pure Butter Protective association in the prosecution of vio- lators of the oleomargarine law. If the department were in earnest to ex- ecute the law and punish violators it would accept evidence and assistance rom any reputable quarter. It should be only too glad to avail itself of any help in the proper direction, and all the more because the association in question has been able to secure evi- dence of the violation of the law which the state authorities pretend entire ig- norance of or inability to prccure. It would cost the state nothing to accept this offer, and yet the state is paying out many tens of thousands of dollars in failure to stop an unlawful busi- ness.” 8 new MAY MEAN WELL. “Commissioner Cope may mean well, but he will do nothing but discredit himself as badly as his predecessor did if he is to put himself under those in- fluences in the state administration and the agricultural department which have made it their business to see that those who are conducting an unlawful oleomargarine traffic to get protection they have boasted they were paying for. That they have been enjoying that protection is not doubted by any one familiar with the facts, and Com- missioner Cope cannot afford to allow it to continue unless he is willing to disgrace his office and dishonor him- self. If he is ignorant of the fact that dealers are protected and are not to be prosecuted by the state he is unfit for his office; if he knows the facts and consents he merely becomes a party to the corruption. “It must be understood by all cor- rupt officials that they cannot escape the final reckoning. The dairymen and farmers are not going to remain silent while they are robbed through the supineness and corruption of the very department of the state govern- ment that was created to protect them, and to support which they are taxed in common with the rest of the people of the commonwealth. The prosecu- tions will go on; dishonest officials will be attended to when their turn comes.” ee IMPERIALISM—WHAT IS IT? Imperialism may serve as acampaign scarecrow, but before the harvest of votes is garnered next November, the people will recognize that itis but a thing of straw. Imperialism presupposes an empire, and the magnificent domain over which our lovely banner flies is imperial in its beauty, in its products and its ex- tent. Such a wealth of hill, mountain, plain and prairie, such an abundance of crystal lakes and such a network of commerce-bearing rivers were never bestowed upon any other people. Every State is an empire; every county a principality, for which, as true Ame cans, we are proud, and for which, as s, recognizing God as the God deeply grate- fe of uations, we should be ful. This domain has been given to us by a power that is highor than any party or policy, though the Republican party was called into being in order to pro- test and battie against the division of this mighty empire, which Democracy declared, in the press, in its platform and on the bloody battlefields, should be divided. To this extent the charge of imperialism ean with truth be made against the Republican party. Abra- ham Lincoln was the embodiment of that imperial idea, and a marytr to the cause of ane flag, one country, and one imperial destiny. Imperialism, if it means anything the Democracy would have the people be- lieve, implies an emperor, a dynasty, a throne, a crown and a scepter. This feature of imperialism, by no stretch of partisan misrepresentation, can ever be charged against our honored Presi- dent and candidate for the Presidency. He was the choice of the people; he was honestly elected in a constitution- al manner and has been so loath to op- pose the will of the people, as express- ed by legislation enacted by Congress, that in the four years of his adminis- tration he has vetoed but four bills. He will serve his two terms as many other good Presidents, both Democrat- ic and Republican, have done, and will then give way to his successor, chosen as he was chosen, by the free votes of a sovereign people. The partisan accusation of imperial- ism, when translated into plain every- day English, in the light of the history made during the brilliant administra- tion of President McKinley, is simply this: The Republicans declare that it is their pnlicy not to blindly abandon the islands transferred from Spanish to American sovereignty by the Treaty of Paris. The Democracy, so far as it has a policy, would have the master nation builder of the world abandon its plain duty, furl our triumphant flag and hunt an easy future rather than a working future. Porto Rico, recogniz- ing the fact that she can not stand alone, does not wish to become an in- dependent power, and the only thing is for the United States to continue its sovereignty, which is Republican. or to invite Spain to re-enter the Western ere and commence anew her of ile, of robbery and extor- tion from which we have delivered Cu- ba. To plant the customs of the seven- teenth century in the dawn of the th cen tory! is Democratic. This th logical conelusion Lemocratic : Democratic plat- form is auvalyzed. The same is as true of the Philip- pines Will the Dem- qcrats dare to fix a date for the evacu- f Porto Rico. when the | {5 tnis purpose, rather than to edu- ation of either? They are under the ¥ 1 1 2 1 dire and there they means work and it and statesmanship for the pea- ited States, bat it means flag of the Republic II remain. This rds placed under our treaty obligations that ys by the Senate of the ited States, and urged by Mr. Br ods of administration and of gov- were | ernment are legitimate objects of par- ty differences. But annexation is a fact. It is for all purposes as much an accomplished fact as is the abolition of slavery, another Republican measure for which that party was hated and misrepresented. The people will learn that imperial- ism, as employed by the Democrats, means that they would have the eoun- try shirk its duty, turn its back an destiny, count all bloodshed as lost, furl the flag and withdraw ifs protect- ion from people who need it to-day more than ever before in all their his- tory. The charge of imperialism, when properly translated, means duty. And the party of Lincoln, of Grant, of Har- rison, and of McKinley, is willing to be charged with doing its duty no matter how hard that duty may be. Stripped of all glamor, the Democrats have entered upon a flag-furling cam- paign, They condemn expansion, yet welcome Hawaii, because its one vote alone enables them to again attempt to overthrow the stable currency of the country. They decry “imperialism,” yet shout themselves hoarse over an Hawaiian “prince.” They are wel- come to all the votes and glory they can make out of such duplicity and treachery, which will nauseate, but never deceive, the true American peo- ple. a IT’S KOONTZ AND KENDALL. Judge Simonton Decides the Con- test in Their Favor. The Dauphin county court has decided the election contest that was made by Koontz and Kendall on the one side and Sanner and Rowe on the other, by declaring the two K’s the legally nominated Kepublican candi- dates for the Legislature from Somer- set county. At the time of going to press (Wednesday evening) the full text of Judge Simonton’s decision, which is said to be very lengthy, has not been received in Somerset, hence we can not give full details of this mat- ter before next week. However, enough is known to give the Scull-Quay bolters of this county a very severe case of political bellyache. Hip, hip, hurrah! TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT. Editor Begley of the Windber Jour- nal Seriously Injured, His Wife Lost a Limb and Their Child Killed. One of the worst railroad accidents in the history of Johnstown occured at the passenger station in that city,Wed- nesday morning, July 18th, when a freight train plunged into a crowd of 3,000 people who were in the act of boarding an excursion train for Lake- mont, near Altcona. Five persons were injured, two of whom are dead, and the life of Mr. Begley is still hanging in the balance, although hopes are entertained for his ultimate recovery. He is lying at the Memorial hospital, suffering from con- cussion of the brain and a number of cuts and bruises. Annie Begley, wife of the above, had her left foot severed from her body, and the leg was so badly crushed that the physicians were obliged to ampu- tate it at the hip. She underwent the operation with remarkable courage and fortitude,and no doubts are enter- tained of her recovery. Louther Begley, their son, was so badly crushed that death resulted be- fore he could be removed to the hos- pital. Frank Urbach, aged 13,0of Johnsto 'n had his skull crushed and died the same afternoon. Frank Urbach, Sr, father of the above, was cut and bruised, but his in- juries are not serious. After Mrs. Begley’s leg had been am- putated she told the operating surgeons that she had $100 in bills in her left stocking and a $5 bill in her other stocking at the time the accident oc- curred. The $5 note was found by a nurse, and the loss of the $100 was re- ported tothe police, who traced it to two lads named Clare and Paul Hipler, aged 16 and 14, respectively. When arrested and taken before an alder- man the lads admitted their guilt, but claimed that the money was found a few feet from Mrs. Begley’s severed limb, which was not taken to the hos- pital until some time after the injured woman had been conveyed to that in- stitution. They had spent $21 of the money, and the remaining $79 was re- covered at their home. The young rascals were held under $500 bail each to answer at court a charge of larceny. No Longer a Democratic Party. This paper has for some time con- tended that the Democratic party has ceased to exist. There are, of course, still some Democrats, but they have no organization. The Bryan aggregation is not the Democratic party by a long way. The Democratic editor of the Frostburg Mining Journal sizes up the situation as follows: Nobody Js complaining of the nar. rowness of “the democratic platform.’ Nobody can. A platform that accommodates all sorts of democratic, silver republican, populistic and some socialistic 16 to lers, to the exclusion of real demo- crats, suffers with broadness, squirms i Aberality and writhes with hospi- ee Tuere are now at the tion five township. prosperity. Paris Exposi- Kansas farmers from one This is merely a sample of justice and oppor- | How a Show Came to Grief in Salis- bury on Aceount of too Much | Amazon BROTHERS’ U. T. C. CO | _ | | Patronage. I. J. Beac 1e borough limits. The show people, like many others n during the mid-day hours, pronounced Salisbury a rather sleepy looking place, and so it is in daytime when all our works are run- ning full blast, and all our people are at work. Strangers who know nothing of the nature of our idustries are al- ways surprised to find the town so dead during the day, but when evening comes, and people begin to flock home from the mines and mills in great mul- titudes, they are amazed at the hustle and bustle on our streets from 6 to 11 o’clock. The show people were sore afraid that they had struck a poor town, but the editor, who had given the show a good send-off in these columns, just laughed in his sleeves when he thought of how the show people would be taken by storm and completely overwhelmed by the erowd that would be on hand when the hour arrived for opening the ticket wagon. It was just as we predicted. People flocked to the show in pairs, in dozens, scores, hundreds and multitudes. At first the ticket man smiled, then he turned red, and from red he turned pale. The seats were soon all filled, some of them even breaking down, and every available inch of standing room, and some that was not available, was also taken up. The ticket man became nervous when he heard the people inside swearing at each other for treading on each others, corns, while he was beseiged on the out- side by a seething mass of people who wanted tickets. In vain the frighten- ed ticket man tried to explain that he could sell no more tickets, owing to the fact that the tent was already crowded with people after the manner that sar- dines are packed in a box. People swore by the great horn spoon that they came to see the show, and see it they would or feed the pulverized re- mains of the ticket agent to the blood hounds. While this was going on out- side, the people on the inside were sending out messengers notifying the ticket agent that the people in the tent were already compelled to sit on each others heads and shoulders, and that if he did not at once stop selling tickets they would smash the entire show out- fit to atoms. So you see it was a case of be d——d if you don’t and be d d if you do. After the ticket man quaked with fear until his suspender buttons began to drop off, he cried out in a loud voice: “A rivederci,” which translated from Italian to English means—adieu until we meet again. With this he took to the woods, closely followed by the blood hounds, while the stage don- key climbed a sour apple tree that stood near by. The inder of the troupe being surrounded hy about 1,000 people that had assembled to see the show, having no way of escape open to them, proceeded with the performance. But they were so badly frightened that they couldn’t tell little Eva from black Topsy, on account of all the “coons’ turning white through fear, and as a result the performance was a flat fail- ure. The next morning Constable Charles R. Snyder arrested the manager for showing without a county license. Ie was arraigned before Esquire Samuel Lowry, where he pain $30, the full who visit this tow { amount of the license fee, and was al- lowed to depart in peace. Some of the | people who patronized the show de- | manded the return of their money and got it, but the great aggregation never- theless left the town with a large amount of money. They gave nothing for it, of course, but they deserve some- thing for being nearly frightened to death, and they are invited to call again with a larger tent, when we will endeavor to get them a larger crowd and have all the fun over on a still larger scale. Goo Hence, The missionaries like most of the preachers of today, do not use the net that Christ gave, nor cast it as Iie told, and hence they do not catch the fish, but only a minnow now and then. The heathen have not the reverence for them that used to belong to the old “martyrs” of the church who faced danger without relying on their citizen- ship of any nation to protect them. The heathen have a proverb in the East—“first the missionary, then the Consul, then the general.” In old times they relied only upon citizenship in Heaven.—Cumberland Courier. If it be true that the message,“avenge us,” framed on the eve of anticipated massacre in Pekin, came from mission- ary headquarters, how vastly it differs from St. Stephen’s last prayer—“lay not this sin to their charge!” Verily, the day of enthusiastic mar- tyrdom, like “the day of miracles,” is past.—Irostburg Journal. Yes, and the day of a good many oth- er things pertaining to pure and unde- filed Christianity is past. Many church- es these days are turned into ice cream saloons, house of merchandising and places noted for gluttonizing, festivals and games of chance. If the Master should walk into some of these places of midnight revely he would likely do as he did when he entered the temple in Jerusalem. Whither are we drift- ing? Tur Republican platform equivocate or dodge. Every fairly met and frankly treated sre The Goebelites are now in posse of all the Kentucky State oflices. delivery of the s accomplished. tolen goods has heen | .. | A RepusricaN surplus of $81,229,776 in time of war is better than a Demo- cratic deficit of $146,701,915 in time of | peace. | An Anti-Merit Performance, Cumberland 1at— to party pts, obey party or who ) the regular ght t i by the heels wn and kicked to death by icked twiteh of his long - And I am just the one it I— Frostburg Journal An Absurd Claim. The Frostburg "or that a new fluence can be deter ber of patent mec that can do ts up the clainy ation and in- ned by the num- advertisements 1 it carries, s the line that the greater the greater the ence of a newspaper. It occurs to Tug Star that Editor Cronin has undertak- en a big job in trying to prove his as- sertion, for the very opposite of what he says is true. Tue Star has on its exchange list some papers that do not elaiin to have over 200 subscribers, and invariably such papers are little more than patent medicine bulletins, for the reason that nearly all patent medicine companies try to get their advertising for as near nothing as possible, and for that reason there are very few medicine concerns: advertising in newspapers of the bet- ter class. The Forum elaims that it could fill four or five of its columns with medi- cine “ads” at its regular rates. Now, it may be that the Forum is not lying, but if it makes no particular difference to the editor of that paper, we won’t believe a word of that ertion, unless the Forum’s advertising rates are ridic- ulously low Tne Star could also fill its columns with medicine “ads,” and while we could not fill them with such matter at our regular rates, we are positively certain that we could get as good rates for medicine “ads” as it is possible for the Forum or any other Frostburg pa- per to get. The Frostburg Mining Journal does not agree with its local contemporary on this subject, and neither will any other newspaper in the United States agree with the Forum on this topie. r of such “ads” lation and influ- The following from the Mining Jour- nal concerning medicine advertising agents, is a truth as firmly establishea: as the eternal hills, and well does the Forum know it, whether it will admit it or not: Then the Forum pays a shining trib- ute to the ability, cuteness and “dis- crimination” of the “traveling agents,” than whom there are no more unprin- cipled, conscience wd abandoned liars on the road. These people are selected for but one other purpose than placing patent medicine goods in drug stores, 20 that is to get advertising for as near nothing as posite. Lost Brother’s Voice in Grapho- phone. On the 14th of May, 1881, Hemming a brother of Peter Hem- ington, of Galesburg, Mich., enlisted in the regular army and disappeared. Persistent inquiry failed to discover his whereabouts, the only fact to be ascer- tained being that of his discharge for disability soon after his enlis Three n George ant, hs since Peter was in 2 DY ¢ ition of which a grapho- :d a part. Among other features was a fragment from the play, “The Three Guardsmen,” during the rendering of which ona of the eharae- ters developed a peculiar and scarcely noticeable stammer. Upon the request of Mr. Hemington this part was re- peated, and that gentleman became convinced that it was the voice of his Jong absent brother, who had a pre- ly similar impedimen is speech. above occurre: ice the clew ance, he took phone for ince the 1as been persistently followed, and cently the two brothers wer after nineteen years.— Lanark (Ill) Ga- zelte, See ou Tie Democratic shatter can be read in three words—“Ag’in the Gov- ernment.” ee Hox. Jonx 1H. Reacaxy made a stir- ring expansion speech to the Texas Democrats, but Bub Bailey carried the day, and the resolutions favor Agui- naldo. —— Sixce the 4th of March, 1897, Con- gress has authorized the construction of forty-nine ships, with a total dis- placement of 245484 tons. This in- cludes eight battleships of the first- class ; six armored cruisers of the first class; four monitors and nine protect- ed cruisers. There have been com- pleted and placed in commission, in the same time, a total of thirty-two vessels, with an aggregate displace- ment of 52,681 tons. This is an unex- ampled record, and it could anky have been sosomplished | by a Republican ad- ministration. Mg. Epwarp Kein, of Nebraska, who is here visiting friends, says Nebraska can be counted on sure, this year, for a majority vote for McKinley. He says the people of Bryan’s state are coming to their senses and ean no long- er be misled by wind or chin music. The present good Republican times suit the West as well as the East, and the farmers of the great West have had it plainly demons trated to them that the price of agricultural pro ducts does not So on the price ¢ 3 calamity you want to vote perity, vote for McKinley. to vote for closed mills 5 and free soup kitchens, vote for Bryan ho \ reunited
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