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This Argus o'er the people's lights,
Doth an eternal vigil keep
No soothing strains of Maia's sun,
Can lull its hundred eyes to sleep"
Vol. XVI.
GOIiDSBORO. N. C THURSDAY MAY 81, 1894,
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CALAMITY IN VERSE.
Another Plea for Sewerage.
Some cities boast largely on what they
have got,
And smile in darision on towns that
hj,ve not
So many line buildings and men that
are rich.
Goldsboro is not boasting though it has
tha "Big Ditch."
Its banks are not covered with hickory
and oak.
But a bountiful growth of jimson and
poke.
On it? slow Bowing waters swim the gan
der and drake.
And the weeds that spring up form tiro
homo of the snake.
Four times it is spanned in its course
through the town;.
You can cross at1 each place when tho
bridge is not down:
Try which place you may, the near or
the further.
You will wish before you cross you had
gone to the other.
Tho children think tho bailiing as nice
: s can be:
Like tho River of Life, its waters are
free.
'Tis a favorite resort for tho kids of
the town.
But unfortunately the water is too shal
low to drown.
And after a bath, and the children get
back,
Thoy are washed with "Sapolio" to tell
white from black.
Tho complaints of a moth jr are not very
mild
Who washes a dozen children to find
hor own child.
And after a rain and its bank overflows
And the water recedes, it don't smell
like a rose.
But it still has a charm to beguile and
bewitch
Goldsboro is not boasting, but is proud
of iho ditch.
J. M. II.
Goldsboro, May 2.'!.
TAUHLELS AT A BANQUET.
The Members of the North Caroli .
Scc:ety at the Kimball.
' It was a scene of rare fellow
ship presented at tho Kimball
house last night, when the mem
bers of the North Carolina So
ciety, in full quorum, entered the
S)acious banquet hall and took
their seats around the festive
board.
The repast was an elegant
spread, and was equally rich in
the charm of flavor and abund
ance. It soothed the patriotic
appetites of the sons of North
Carolina, and lulled them back
into the memory of the time when
under the pines of tieir native
state, thev last enjoyed their
naternal hospitality.
Every dainty which the market
afforded was trioutary to the
feast, and there was no end to
the How of wine and wit. It is a
hierh. though a wTell-merited.
compliment to say of the banquet
that from beginning to end there
was not a dull moment. It was
liternllv a feast of plenty and of
patriotism.
After the substantial part of
the banquet was concluded, and
which was voted by every one.
present as the most delightful af
fair ever attended, the toasts of
the evening were next in order.
In eloquent phrases and patri
tic fervor the members of the
socitv arave earnest of their love
for the old commonwealth and
showed that none of the devotion
had wasted in the state of their
adoption. The annual address
by Professor Winston was a gem
of oratory and the glory of the
old state was happily depicted in
the glowing fancy of the orator.
As he expressed himself, in fer
vid diction, the rapture of his
hearers mounted to their lips,
and every period ended with ap
plause. The address was one of
rare eloquence and was char
acterized throughout by a rich,
soulful beauty.
Hon. W. T. Dortch- was one of
the distinguished guests of the
occasion and in a happy and
brilliant manner he responded to
the toast. "The Day We Cele
brate." The other toasts on the
programme were as follows:
"Our Guests," Mr. F. H. Rich
ardson; "North Carolina," Mr.
W. W. Davies; "Woman," Mr.
Shepaid Bryan, and "Our
Adopted Home," Mr. W. P. An
drews. The entire event was decidedly
one of the most enjoyable that
Atlanta has known in a long
time.
The tar heels, like the Virgin
ians, are fond of their state, and
never does the occasion arise
that a North Carolinian does not
show his love for his native
state.
The address of Mr. W. T.
Dortch was one of the most elo
quent and chaste talks Atlantians
have heard in a lonjr time. His
address was full of good logic,
while his words and style were
captivating. It was with an easy
grace that Colonel Dorth caught
those present and his friendship
embraced all who were present
when he finished. Atla. Consti
tution,
I Mb. Piatt pleaded for the ad
iournment nf the Senate re
cently on the ground that Sen
ators should have . a change
- into the pure, open air. Some
of them are cgoing to be granted
the privilege of enjoying the
THE HABIT OF HAPPINESS.
It is just as easy to teach chil
dren the habit of happiness, says
the editor of the Woman's World
of the New York Ledger, as to
allow them, to grow up in a con
stant state of morose irritability
and fretfulness.
Very few people realize that
irritability and fault-finding are
merely a habit, and that, too, of
the most disagreeable sort. It is
comparatively easy to see why
such an inclination grows upon
tins children. The parents are
worried and vexed, wearied wTith
the cares and responsibilities of
life, and thus not particularly
good-natured. They not only en
courage by their own conduct
the disagreeable practice of grum
bling and fretting, but are often
so irritable that the innocent
amusements of the children grate
upon their feelings to such an ex
tent that the youngsters are for
bidden to romp or play about
the house.
Away back yonder we remem
ber a woman whose soul was
burdened with care, who felt at
war with all the world, who used
to punish her children when they
romped, and rebuked them when
when they laughed, who charged
tliem with the most outrageous
ingratitude and cruelty because
thev could be merry and she so
unhappy.
Many a child has gone about
the house sullen and quiet for
this very reason. Many another
has gone out of the home circle
to seek pleasure elsewhere be
cause the atmosphere of home
was so depressing and gloomy
as to be intolerable. One of the
greatest mistakes of life is to
cultivate the habit of expecting
too much of circumstances.
There, is bound to be just so
many drawbacks, just so much
misery, pain and unhappiness in
the world, and those persons are
the wisest who make allowance
for this state of affairs. Very
few things in this life come out
as we desire, and it is only egre
gious folly to expect any such
thing as perfect happiness, and
that all things in this world will
come to us in our own way.
While it is not worth while to
cultivate a demeanor anywhere
approaching the hilarious or flip
pant, it is an excellent idea to
educate one'sself up to the be
lief that this a rather uncertain
existence, and the best one has a
right to expect is the middle
ground of comfort, and the ab
sence of afflictions.
One of the ablest of contempo
rary writers makes one of her
characters declare that the
greatest happiness she allows
herself to anticipate is that she
may be spared great sorrows.
Little troubles must come; there
is no such thing as avioding
them; and when one knows that
this must be the case, it would
seem the part of wisdom to so
prepare the mmd for them that
their coming will not disturb the
even current of life nor upset the
temper and nerves to such an ex
tent as to make the sufferer and
all immediate friends sharers
in the depression.
There is nothing more health
ful than real, genuine, hearty,
heart-felt fun: and if children
and young people were encour
as:ed to indulge in more of it, and
if parents would take even mod
erate doses of jt themselves, the
world would be in a much more
comfortable, Christian and prom
ising condition.
Washington News.
Yashington, May 24. The
President, accompanied by Sec
retaries Carlisle and Gresham
and Captain Robley Evans, of
the Lighthouse Board, arrived
in Washington on the Lighthouse
Tender Violet at 12.15 to-day.
The Postmaster General called
for the resignation of A. W
Bingham, of Maryland, chief of
the finance division of the Post-
office Department.
-Orders dispatching the Atlanta
and Marblehemd to relieve the
New York and San Francisco at
Bluefields have been prepared
by the Navy Department and the
commanders of those vessels
have been directed to prepare to
leave Hampton Koads the latter
part of next week.
Orders were issued from the
Navy Department to-day to put
the cruiser Cincinnati into com
mission at the Brooklyn yard on
June 14th, with the following
detail of officers: Capt. Henry
Glass, Commander ; Lieuten
ant-Commander J. D. Kelley,
Executive Officer; Lieutenants.
A. M. Mayor, G. A. Govek, Jno-
G. Caldwell, and A. C. Dilling,
ham;Ensign H. P. Huse: Chief
Engineer, J. S.Chasmei ; Passed
Assistant Engineers, R. R. Leach
and Geo. F. Bird; Assistant En
gineer, W. -S. Burke.
Ensign A, M. Beacher is de
tached from inspection "duty at
the Bethlehem Steel Works and
ordered to ordnance instruction
1 at the Washington Navy Yard.
GRADUATING EXERCISES
Yesterday of the Goldsboro Graded
chool.
Those of our citizens who at
tended the commencement exer
cises of the graduating cliss of
the Goldsboro Graded School,
which were held at that institu
tion Friday, were regaled with
a rare treat of intellectual pab
ulum and brought to realize with
growing pride and thrilling pleas
ure that our excellent Graded
School, under the efficient super
intendency of Prof. Logan D.
Howell, and the ever zealous,
painstaking and competent in
struction of the corps of
teachers that compose the
faculty of this institution, is ac
complishing the highest possible
and most gratifying achieve
ments in the instruction and
training of the youth of this com
munity. All the exercises of the gradu
ating class Friday were of su
perior excellence and were char
acterized by a comprehensiveness
of study and by an ability for
grasping the strong points of
the subjects and a power of con
densation that could not but win
the admiration of all who heard
them and inspire pardonable
pride in the breasts of their par
ents, teachers and friends.
The address of welcome on the
part of the class was delivered
by Mr. Wm. Spicer, and was an
ornate and well-prepared paper.
He was the president of the class
and presided over the exercises,
which were rendered as follows:
Quotations from Virgil's Eneid
Class.
Analysis of Cicero's oration
against Cataline. Miss Kate Dar
den. The .Eneid Miss Mary Jones.
Pen Pictures from Virgil Miss
Annie Hardison.
Gehenna Miss Clyde . Den
mark.
Influence of Latin upon Eng
lish Miss Daisy Brown. t
Debate Query, "Resolved
that there should be an educa
tional qualification for suffrage"
affirmative. Louis Grant and
Dan Richardson; negative, Wm.
Borden and Willis Brogden.
At the conclusion of these ex
ercises fc uperintendent Howell
announced, that while no prizes
had been offered in any of the
studies of the class, and the pu
pils had studied for love of study
and from a sense of duty and
praiseworthy emulation, it was
hispleasur to confer upon the
leader of the class on the nart o
the girls and the leader on the
pare ot the boys an unexpected
prize the generous gift of Mr.
Henry Weil, who made the same
present last year, and who has
always been a staunch and val
uable friend of the school. It
was found on comparison of re
cords for the school year that
Miss Daisy Brown and Mr. Wil
lis Brogden wTere entitled to these
prizes, a $20 gold piece to each
The uipiomas were then con
ferred upon the graduating class
by Mr. Jos. E. Robinson, editor
of The Argus.
The following are the full
names of the graduating class :
Misses Annie Patience Hardi
son, Lula JJaisy Brown, Cather
ine Darden, Mary Best Jones,
Mary Clyde Denmark, Messrs.
Willis James Brogden and vV il
liam Spicer.
Messrs. Daniel White Richard
son and William Henry Borden,
J r. , received certificates, not hav
mg taken the full graduating
course.
The Argus wishes teachers
and pupils alike a happy and
joyous vacation.
Dr. Nouri's Claim.
Washington, May 26.
The "claim of Dr, Zamorin
Nouri, Archbishop of Babylon,
discoverer of the Ark and the
possessor of many other titles,
against the United States, which
seems to have excited a great
deal of interest in England,
where tne potentate is at pres
ent stopping, is well known to
the Department of State, - which
is by no means alarmed at the
rapid growth of the claim from
$5,000 in Washington to $5,000,-
000 in London.
jjr. JNouri was here last au
tumn and told the Turkish Min
ister a most extraordinary tale of
how he was victimized as a re
sult of a conspiracy in California
while on his way to take part in
le Congress of Religions at the
World's Fair.
He claimed to have been rob
bed of valuables and to have been
confined illegally in a lunatic
asylum. He demanded $50,000
in compensation. Without in
dorsing this claim the Turkish
minister referred it to the State
Department.
PEKIN DUCK EGGS,
For Sale. 50 cts per setting.
LYNDON HUMPHREY
AS YOU LIKE IT.
Now let the dominant party m
the Senate get a gait on and pass
the tariff bill through, it.
All these strikes don't in the
least-shake the general conviction
that the best time for striking is
the clock.
Dropping partisans may not
break them up to the extent of
breaking their bones, but it
knocks them out of place.
One of the sights of Congress
is to see the Spe-aker throwing
his eye over the House and the
various members trying to catch
it.
Senators may be falsely
charged with manipulating sugar,
but there is unquestionably a
large class of humanity prone to
take stock ill taffy.
Proposing to get over the grass
prohibition by talking from a
balloon is very suggestive of a
Coxeyite. They imagine they're
above the law. -
One of his disciples says Coxey
wants to be President. With Mc-
Kinley out for it, too, and the rest
of the State to hear from, Ohio's
going for monopoly in a new
direction.
Less gold going abroad has
shut up the calamity howlers in
that line. For that matter, as to
any effect they're having they
might as well be as dead as the
Doges of Venice.
Senator Hill's much-talked-of
fight against the Senate tariff
bill began Saturday. It appar
ently ended also. On his free
lead ere amendment one Demo
crat and one Populist voted with
him; the other forty-nine Sena
tors voted the other -way. As a
leader of a combine, Mr. Hill
seems scarcely a success.
By a curious freak of fate it
happens that Nova Scotia coal is
being imported to the United
States, not by the influence of a
free-trade law, but under the
operations of McKmley's sky
high protection. These blatant
t raads precrpitated the coal strike
by cutting down wages already
reduced by McKinleyism to the
starvation point, and now, in
furtherance of their war upon
American wages, they are doing
the very thing which for a gene
ration they have declared would
ruin them namely, importing
foreign coal.
From the remarks of some of
the minority Senators and of the
able editors who regard the Mc
Kinley tariff as the summit "of
statesmanship, we gather that
the tariff bill now pending m the
Senate is objectionable for two
reasons:
1. It is a free trade tariff, de
signed for the destruction of
American industries.
2. It is not a free trade tariff,
but affords protection to Ameri
can industries.
The apparent contradiction
in tlxese two objections is easily
reconciled by the third, which is
really the important one and
comprehends both the others:
It is a Democratic tariff, and
therefore to be opposed.
While the Commonwealers are
marching to Washington de
manding that Congress shall fur
nish them with wrork, the fruit
growers and gardeners of Dela
ware and Maryland can't get half
as many hands as they need to
pick strawberries and pull weeds.
The persistency with which these
armies of tramps look in the
wrong place for work furnishes
all the evidence needed that the
Commonwealers are not anx
ious to find the work they
pretend to be looking for. There
should be idle people enough
who really want work to pick
the berries and pull the weeds
01 the country, ana the journey
from town to country for this
purpose will be neither a long nor
a costly one if any desire to make
it. '
Trial of Labor Agitators!
Cumberland, Md., May 26.-
There has been no changes since
yesteraay in the mining situa
tion m this county. No inter
ference w ith the miners desiring
to work has been reported. Many
miners are in the city to-day,
drawn here by the proceedings
now in progress before Judges
Boyd and Hoffman against agi
tators Wilson, u JVlalley and
others for contempt ot court in
violating the order in the in
junction of the Consolidation
Coal Company not to interfere
m any manner with the opera
tion of their mines."
Gtl
ENTS' f astrlalack half-hose frcm
15c up. straw hats, all gradee,
at lowest prices. Tan Shoes,
$1,50, $2.50 and $4: patent leathe
bho&s, at Southerland. Brinkley & Co,
IS SAMOA TO BE SURREY-
, DERED.
The eternal Samoan question
comes to the fore again with two
or three cool propositions: first
to turn the whole control of the
islands over to Germany, Eng
land taking the Tonga Islands,
which don't belong to her, by
way of compensation, and the
United States being given leave
to withdraw.
That is the German proposi
tion. The London Pall Mall Ga
zette offers as a substitue arrange
ment, that England establish a
protectorate over the country
without paying heed to
or Araerican interests.
Sir George Gray,
Prime Minister of New
German
formerly
Zealand,
suggests as a third solution
the difficulty that the Islands
of
be
annexed to New Zealand; "not
from any motives of ambition (of
course not!) but simply for the
welfare of the Samoans." As he
j udiciousiy remarks :
"Although the United States
have not a single arsenal on their
West coast, they are absolutely
secure, but they would not be if
the Germans controlled Samoa.
The mere frown of the United
States was sufficient to prevent
the German nominee from super
seding King Malietoa."
If we have not a single arsenal
on our Western coast, while
Great Britain is completing one
of the strongest fortresses in the
world, at Esquimault, command
ing our whole Pacific border,
perhaps it would be as well for
us to look out for enemies nearer
home than bamoa; but there is
no good reason why our Govern
ment should be indiffierent to
possible danger in Samoa. Hawaii,
orVancouver. Secretary Gresham
is said to regard our interests in
Samoa as of little value. That
we can hardly believe. They
were deemed important enough
a few years ago to warrant a
sharp interposition by Secretary
Bayarch- and his successor
thought them worth the cost of
dispatching a fleet of war vessels
for their protection. The tragic
sequal of that expedition may
have been partly the result of
bad judgement; but if the send
ing of our fleet to Samoa was
wrong, its destruction was not a
blunder but a crime, the respon
sibility of which wTould rest
equally upon Mr. Bayard and Mr.
Blaine.
The country was sufficiently
disgusted by the way in which
the naval authorities stifled all
inquiry into the cause of that
shocking disaster; but if we make
the American sailor abi'oad ut
terly ashamed of his country we
needonlv adopt the policy of
scuttling out of Samoa and let
ting the Pacific islands in gener
al be looted by England, Ger
many, or any other free-booter
who may covet them.
Already the London Chronicle
nominates Robert Louis Steven
son, the novelist, for paramount
commissioner ot bamoa under a
British protectorate. Mr. Ste
venson used to hate the Yankees
in his early days but of late he
has been more kindly disposed,
and his book on the Samoan
question, barring a little slop
about the American Admiral who
lost his own fleet with serene for
titude. but rejoiced with great
joy that the English ship had es
caped, is a fair and ; just story of
recent events in that region. If
Mr. Stevenson should
become
first chief potentate of Samoa,
Americans would probably re-
ceive gentle toleration there; but
whv the United States should
submit to being deprived alto
gether of rights guaranteed by
solemn treaty within five years
is a mystery for diplomats to un
ravel. It passes the compre
hension of the ordinary patriotic
citizen.
Sanford Express: Near Fay-
etteville Thursday of last week
there was a remarkable electri
cal phenomenon. Four persons
standing m a yard near a- nouse
heard a whizzing sound and saw
a ball of fire descending toward
them. An instant later it ex
ploded with a stunning report,
and all four persons were knocked
down, and were insensible for
several minutes. One partially
paralyzed. Near them an ox was
killed instantly, yet its sKin was
not punctured nor were any bones
broken. When the explosion oc
curred there was no thunder,
lightning nor rain. ,
The Question of Adjournment.
Washington, May 26.
Nobody thinks about the Sen
ate committee on appropriations
at this time, but upon that com
mittee will largely depend the
length of the present session of
the Congress. Everybody sup
poses that when the revenue bill
is passed by the Senate adjourn
ment will be in sight. That is a
popular fallacy. When the rev
enue bill is passed by the Senate
there will be at least a month of
consideration of the bill in con
ference before it is finally agreed
to by both the House and the
Senate. -
But, even if the tariff bill could
be agreed to within a few days
after its passage by the Senate,
the Congess could not adjourn
for a month or more after the
revenue bill was out of the way.
The annual appropriations -for
the expenses of the government
must be made. The committee
on appropriations has reported
the pensions, fortifications and
military academy appropriation
bills, but that is a mere modicum
of the work before that impor
tant committee. The House has
passed and the Senate commit
tee is now considering the- agri
cultural, army, diplomatic, naval,
post office, sundry civil and Dis
trict of Columbia appropriation
bills. The legislative, Indian
and deficiency bills have not yet
come to the Senate from the
House.
All of these bills must be con
sidered and reported from the
committee on appropriation be
fore the Senate can consider
them. While the Senate meets
at 10 o'clock every morning it is
impossible to get the committee
together, and hence considera
tion of appropriation bills is daily
deferred. They cannot be con
sidered by the committee until
after the revenue bill is disposed
of finally. It will take the com
mittee at least one month to re
port the pending appropriation
bills, and it will take the Con-
ess at least another month to
dispose of the bills after they
have been favorably reported. It
is practically impossible for the
Congress to reach an adjourn
ment earlier than September 1
or the latter part of August.
Runaway Horses in Russia.
Several serious accidents have
occurred in the Park from run
away horses and many innocent
lives were m peril. Do you
know that in Russia a runaway
horse has a thm cord with a run
ning noose around his neck at
the neck strap, and the end is
tied to the dashboard. At Rome
I saw in the Cor so a phaeton
with two spirited horses bolt
They were driven by a lady, and
I expected to see instant destruc
tion. But the lady coolly grasp
ed the cord and within thirty
yards the horses came to a full
stop. I afterward met the lady
at Nice, and expressed surprise
at the skill with which she
stopped the runaways. She
treated it as a trifle, and told
me that accidents from runaway
horses were unknown m Russia,
as none but a lunatic would drive
without the cord. When the
horse bolts he takes the bit in
his teeth and the skill of the
driver is useless. The moment
the pressure comes on the wind
pipe the horse knows he has
met his master. Your paper
speaks to a larsre audience of
men and women who drive, and
this letter may save lives. Can
not New Yofk learn a lesson
from St. Petersburg.-Cor resjxmd
ence of .New York Advertiser.
'Murphy's" the mountain sta
tion celebrated by Bret Harte
in the legend beginning, "Wal
ker, of Murphy's, blew a hole
through Peters for tellinghim
ho lied," was a scene last week of
another episcode suggesting
early Argonaut days, when the
stage from that place was ' 'held
11tV, hv two masked "robbers and
a pretty fight ensued. Messenger
Hendricks, one of the old-time
heroic stripe, resisted the assail
ants with the help of a sawed-off
shot-gun, and succeeded in kiL
insr one of the robbers. The
other returned the fire, fatally
wounding one of the passengers
On the same day, "African
Jack," a noted desperado, was
arrested in San Francisco for
robbing the stage at Angels, an
other of Bret Harte's pictures
quely "named localities. Call
f ornia has always resented Mr,
Harte's dramatic stories,
"tending to keep away immigra
tion"; but the news from the Go
den S hows that there
is
plenty of exciting adventures
still there for anybody who finds
life monotonous in the effete
East. '
Henry Blount in Snow Hill.
Snow Hill, N. C, May 25.
Editor of The Argus : On
Tuesday, May 22nd, the people
of Snow Hill and Greene county
enjoyed an intellectual feast of
the rarest kind. Henry Blount,
of Wilson, had been invited to
deliver his famous lecture en
titled "Beyond the Alps Lies
Italy, " and a large and apprecia
tive audience of ladies and gen
tlemen greeted him at the ap
pointed time. The lecture was
free, but the object in view was
the raising of funds for the erec
tion of the Confederate monu
ment in Raleigh, and after the
lecture was Over a very good
sum. was raised for this laudable
and patriotic purpose by private
contributions. The lecture was
a success in every way and was
greatly enjoyed by all present.
Mr. Blount has a wonderful
lower for controlling the emo
tions of his auditors. He car
ries them m quick succession
from the most uproarious laugh
ter to sadness. His humor is
very fine and some of his recita
tions from the great tragedians
are very grand. He has studied
his subject very thoroughly and
with a masterly hand portrays
the lives of several fine charac
ters wTho, without money or in
fluence, have by the force of
pluck and energy surmounted
the Alps of treir difficulties and
made a grand success of life.
Yours truly,
M.
Freight Train Captured.
Terre Haute, Indiana, May
. Liight hundred miners
in the isig Jbcur yards here
are holding a captured treight
train on which they propose to
ride to Pana, Illinois.
Mayor Ross refuses to inter-
tere unless the company swears
out warrants. Sheriff Stout has
appealed and gave the same
answer. The men are peaceable,
but do not propose to leave the
tram on which they came from
Fontaine,
At Fontaine a few miles from
Terre Haute, 1,500 miners have
gathered about the coal chutes
and refuse to allow freight en
gines to take coal. Passenger
trains" are not molested and
pass through on time. Super
intendent Neel hcts wired that if
the men are taken to Pana there
will be bloodshed and rather
than move the men all the trains
will be abandoned.
Last night about two hundred
men left Brazil for this city to
loin the striKors sidetracKed
here, and accompany them to
ana, Illinois.
A report has reached Brazil
that 250 miners from the south
ern part-of the county left to-day
for Pana. This will augment
the number from that district to
over 1,000 determined men.
Last evening a flat car of slack
was captured on the C. & 1. C.
near Kosedale, by the miners
and side-tracked. The men de
siring to attend to other busi
ness left women armed with all
sorts of missiles in charge of
the car, and they dilligently re
sisted all attempts made to cap
ture it,
Looses by the Flood.
The West Branch watershed,
through which the deluge of the
past few days coursed onward in
ways ot destruction ana rum
equal to that caused by the flood
of 1889. is -exceptionally located
to become subject to periodical
visitations of the elements with
out means to avert calamity and
danger. That section of the
State is now without the forests
that formerly held back the wa
ters. It is doubtful if one-tenth
of the virgin timber territory of
thirty years ago remains as a
remnant of "what were at one
time considered illimitable for
est areas, so' rapidly have the
mills worked up the pine and
the hemlock, and the sole remedy
exists in replanting the barren
hill and mountain sides, and by
this slow process returning to
original conditions
The counties of Clearfield,
Cameron, Centre, Clinton, Pot
ter, Elk, Lycoming and Tioga
embrach-gan area of 7,777 square
miles containing a population of
316,666 of the 5,258,01s credited
by census to the State com
prise the flood stricicen sec
tion. In them the losses sustained
by. ruined farm lands bridges
swept away and cities covered
by the waters will aggregate
from 7,000,000 to $12,000,000
The principal sufferers will be
the cities of Williamsport and
Lock Haven. A city under 8
feet of water the very unfortu-
nrte condition of Williamsport
for nearly two days is not likely
tr emerge from tho slime
and mud exceptVat great cost to
every household and industry,
The calamity is shared by all
alike. In proportion Lock Haven
has had just as great a trial. The
county of Lycoming loses $325,-
000 in bridge values alone.
Pltila. Times. .
United on the Tariff.
Senator Gorman's speech on
the tariff is significant, not
merely as a defense of the meas
ure now pending in the Senate,
but particularly as an intimation
that its early passage may be ex
pected. Senator Gorman is one
of the shrewdest of the Demo
cratic leaders. He is not a leader
in debate nor in the advancement
of abstract principles. He works
by concessions and combinations.
but he always works for results,
and when he appears upon the
floor it is generally accepted as
an indication that the result is
clearly v.nii'n rer "h. r
As long as we have large in
dustries that have been fostered
under an artificial tariff system.
any measure of revenue reform
must be hampered by the obliga
tion to conform to existing facts,
just as it must be hampered on
the other side by the necessity of
providing the large revenue re
quired by the fixed expenditures
jhe government. Under such
conditions a tariff cannot be
framed upon theory alone: the
most that we can demand is that
it shall have a just and compre
hensive theory at its foundation,
and this the present tariff bill un
questionably has. It is that which
separates it essentially from the
McKmley act, which was a com
pilation of separate schedules
made up in the interest of indi
viduals and combinations, and it
will be a great gain to have put
such a tariff on the statue books,
even though many of its details
falls far short of a theoretical
ideal.
If it is true, as Senator Gor
man s speech indicates, and as
the vote on Mr. Teller's motion
attests, that the Democratic
Senators have at last united in
support of the pending bill, their
one clear duty is to press its
passage with the least possible
delay. It must be an improve
ment on the tariff now in force,
and there is every reason to ex
pect that it will abundantly meet
the present requirements of the
country. Once finally adopted,
it will give the needed assurance
of stability, and we may confi
dently look for an immediate and
steady revival of industry and
trade.
Fine Satire.
Ws have seldom seen a neater
piece of satire than the follow
ing from the New York Evening
Post :
"We are glad the platform of
the Pennsylvania Republicans
recommends an expansion of
the circulating medium of tho
country until the same shall
amount to $40 per capita of our
population. ' It is now only $134
per capita. Six dollars more
per capita wonld, we think, lift
us promptly out of our present
slough of despond. But it ought
to be distributed at the treasury,
sub-treasury and postoffices 'di
rectly to the people.' The rea
son why the present $34 per
capita does so little good is that
the banks and goldbugs have
t hold of it all and refuse to
give it for goods, or what is the
same thing as goods, collateral.
Consequently it is useless to the
eat body of the people, for
how few of us have got any
collateral. With six dollars
more apiece put into every man's -
and woman s pocket by the
United States marshal or other
Federal oflicial, we think we see
a bright future for America.
Having 'got them, however, we
must hold on to them. If
we
part with them the goldbugs
are
sure to get hold of them,
and
we should be no better off than
ever. They should be hidden
somewhere about the house, and
not be allowed, as is too often
the case, to dribble into banks
and trust companies."
No better commentary could
be made on the vicious folly of
those demagogues who proclaim
that 'more money" is all that is
needed to save, the country.
We don't want any more unless
it is good money, and no honest
way has yat been discovered by
which any one can get money
without giving its equivalent for
it. Some of our newspapers
and politicians talk as if the peo
ple were a set of blasted idiots.
Paul Bourget says that he.
likes America, but confesses that
he has advised Zola to come over
here and lecture, saying that
halls big enough to holdhis ad
mirers could not be found. Pos
sibly the secret of this advice is
M. Bouget does not like M. Zola
and wants to get him into trouble.
The American admirers of Zola
are few and far from representa
tive. They will not be increased
by his dull and nauseous serial,
"Lourdes," now oozing through
the columns of the New York
Herald.
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