Potter County Journal

              Iflnnial
ESTABLISHED 1848.
COUDERSPORT, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1897.
VOLUME 49, NUMBER 22
F. C. LEONARD
FOR COLLECTOR.
The Collectorship of the Scranton District to be Given to Ex-Con¬ gressman Leonard.
DR. EATON FOR POSTMASTER.
At a conference at Washington last Saturday evening, at which were the two Pennsylvania Senators and others from this State, it was decided to recommend Fred C. Leon¬ ard for Collector of the Twelfth District (Scranton). Captain John W. Nesbit for Pension Agent at Pitts¬ burg, and Dr. E. U. Eaton for Post¬ master at Ulysses.
The friends of Ex-Treasurer Reed, of Luzerne county, who was also a contestant for the Collectorship, de¬ nies the report, olainiing the former has the endorsement of Senator Quay.
We sincerely trust the appoint¬ ment may go to Mr. Leonard, who is backed by a large section of coun¬ try that has had but little of the Federal patronage.
OBITUARY.
Again the death knell has sounded over the waters of the Sinnemahon- ing, and another of our respectable citizen has fallen. Mr. George Logue is uo more. He died at his home Thursday morning at 2 o'clock, Dec. 2, 1897.
Mr. Logue was born August 11, 1814. His age, therefore, was 83 years, 3 months and 22 days. He has lived at First Fork all his life, with the exception of about 10 years that he lived at Moore's Run. He was a man of good habits, a loving father and kind husband; was never known to quarrel with his neighbors, but has always tried to do to others as he would have them do to him. He was the father of six children, five boys and one daughter. One boy died when but six years of age, and another when about 23. He therefore leaves a wife, and three sons and one daugh¬ ter to mourn his departure. He was one of 13 children, and three broth¬ ers and three sisters survive him.
The funeral took place on Satur¬ day at 2 p. m. Though it rained hard, the schoolhouse was filled with relatives and neighbors who had come to pay their last respects to one whom they loved. His remains quietly rest in the First Fork ceme- etery.
Rev. E. E. Mulliner conducted the service, preaching from the te.xt found in Isaiah 64:6, "We all do fade as a leaf.'' ***
Advancing Wages.
Yesterday 2,200 men iu the iron ore mines of Michigan were given an increase of wages, with the an¬ nouncement that work would be steady all winter. Yesterday near¬ ly 7,000 men were given an increase of from 10 to 20 ])er cent, in wages iu the vicinity ol' Youugstowu. Yes¬ terday a new schedule of wages took elTort' in the textile mills of Rhodo Island, involving about 2.").000 oper¬ atives. These are the tidings thai have boon coming for weeks, and which come more abundantly as the year grows older. Tt is a repetition of the announcement, of increased wages at local mills, of the increased in miners" wages, of the increased demand for men on the railroads, and of more employment and belter wages everywhcr(\
For the first lime since the panic came, men i-an look forward to thc> approach of winter and feel some kiml of conhdcncc in the ability to get through il williuul encountering poverty and suffering at their fire¬ sides. Theranksof thiC unemployed ure rapidly dwindling, and whilethe conditions are nut yet what they will be they are sonuu-li better than they have been that congratulations can be indulged in. From now on the increase of wages aud the employ- nii'iit of more men may be looked upon as the regular practice, and wluMi winter gives way to spring it is entirely reasonable to expect that the season will open with the best times ahead that the country has ever   experienced. — Pittsbnig  Tinas.
PUSH AHEAD Wll H THE CAPITOL.
The last obstacle in the path of tiu> Cai)it.ol Commissioners has been re¬ moved by the Supreme Court. Those who have been blocking progress are unhorsed. The attempt of the Governor and his advisers to saddle upon the State a Capitol building that would cost very much more than the law calls for or the ap])ro- priation permits has been frustrated. The commissioners now have a clear track.    Let them push ahead.
Lot the commissioners see to it that the work is done speedily and economically. There is yet time to put the Legislative halls under cover for the meeting of the next Legisla¬ ture. The plans are ready, an arch¬ itect has beeu selected, everything is now in the hands of the commis¬ sioners, and to them the people will look for good service.—Inquirer.
WILLIAM H. HYDORN.
WILLIAM 11. HYDORN.
As one by one the pioneers of Pot¬ ter county are called to take their place among ' 'the great majority on the other shore," it becomes the sad duty of the journalist to make record of the closing scene and announce to his readers that the end of this or that life has come.
In writing of the death of William H. Hydorn, whose portrait accom¬ panies this sketch we feel a pecu¬ liar sense of satisfaction in the con¬ viction that he died as he had lived, peacefully, patiently, bravely. And we speak of him thus as one that was near and dear, for since boyhood we have known the man as a sturdy example of probity and true nobility.
His death occurred Saturday after¬ noon, Dec. 4th, following a gradual breaking down of the strong vitality that had carried him through many hardships of pioneer life, and he dropped quietly to sleep, conscious that death had come to end his suf¬ fering, which for many weeks had been severe, and, smiling at those gathei^d about his bedside whis¬ pered to them that the end was near. He died the death of the righteous. On Mouday his remains were followed by many frieuds, rel¬ atives and neighbors to Hebron, where Rev. Ken yon preached a fu¬ neral sermon aud the mortal part of this good man was laid beside the other members of his family in the beautiful cemetery on the hill.
Deceased was born in April, 1808, and moved to Hebron iu 183H. where [le had taken a farm two years be¬ fore. Here he contended with the rigors of winter and the trials of the backwoods life till he could look over his own broad acres and see the ¦iettlement enjoying nian\' of the privileges of older communities.
He married Eleanor Burdick at (jrrafton. N. Y.. in 1882 and six chil¬ dren were born to them, of which i)ut one Louisa, is living. Mrs. Syl¬ vester Greenman. uow a widows iu Boulder. Colorado. Cordelia the eld¬ est of the children, one of the most capable of teachers for many years, died in Illinois in 1871. Jane Green died in 1877. Her daughter Grace has kept the cosy home in Couders¬ port where her grandfather spent Ids last days, giving him the kindest care. Charles the eldest son was killed at Chaucellorsville, in 1863. Sullivan the youngest died at the age of 22 and he and Mrs.Green are buried beside theirfather and mother.
IMr. Hydorn. with all the priva¬ tions of early life in Potter, held aloft high ideals, and no man in the county was more zealous in the cause of education than he. His family imbibed the same spirit and we find his children and grandchildren in¬ heriting that love of "freedom which the truth makes free." that distin¬ guished William Hydorn from many of his fellows. He was a diffident man, extremely so. and hence not ••prominent" as many are' who have less title to fame, but in every positiou he occujiied Mr. Hydorn discharged his duty faithfully, intelligently, winning the esteem of all men with whom he had dealings. He was a ready writer and a pro¬ found and accurate thinker. His contributions to the early Jouhnal of which he was a subscriber for nearly fifty years, bear testimony to his enthusiasm for the diffusion of knowledge as well as to his ability as a writer. He took great interest in political affairs and in a modest way exerted in his prime a very considerable influence in^ county politics, always true to principle.
TEMPERANCE.
Edited   by lira Non-Partisan  Women'* Christian Temperance Union.
The reguIarmeetingBof the Coudersport Non- Partiean W. C. T. U. will be held at the Tempera, ice Rooms, Corner West and Third Street«, at 4 o'clocli, P. M., on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month
Sfaisins in the Rain.
Hear my happy little bird
Singing In the rain- Singing while the fitful showers
Dash against the pane. "Blue sky somewhere," carols he
From bis fearless heart, Though the clouds are gathering thick,
And the chill winds start.
Sing tliy sweetest, merry bird^'
Comforter of mine, Bringing in thy little way.
Help from love divine. Thou hast given me the clasp
Of a golden chain Let from Heaven into my hand
Through the clouds and rain.
Therefore, with undaunted front,
Trusting In my King, , Shall I face whatever loe
In the path may spring. So I hear a note of cheer
In the brave retrain Of my merry little bird. Singing in the rain.
—Margaret Sangster.
How Congress Begins Work.
At an ordiuary session the Speaker of the House of Representatives, who has been waiting in the Speak¬ er's room for the right moment, raps the House to order at 12 o'clock noon on the opening day of Congress. At the first session of the Fifty-fifth Congress,Jast March a Speaker was elected and lots were drawn for seats, so that now the members have only to take their places where they belong. The Speaker says: "The House will come to order. The chap¬ lain will offer prayer." This being done, the roll of members is called. Then the Speaker announces th§t a quorum being present the House is ready for business. The first busi¬ ness is the swearing in of new mem¬ bers, if there are any.
Then by resolution the House au¬ thorizes the Speaker to appoint a committee which, jointly with a similar committee from the Senate, shall wait on the President of the United States and inform him that Congress is ready to transact busi¬ ness and to receive any message fromJiim conveying his recommend¬ ations as to measures which it shall consider at the coming session.
Meantime in the Senate, at the north wing of the capitol, a similar scene has been passing. The Vice President of the United States, who by virtue of his office is President of the Senate, calls that body to order. Prayer is offered, new mem¬ bers are sw^orn in. if there are any, and a committee is appointed to wait on the President conjointly with the House committeeand inform him that both bodies are ready for his mess¬ age. The message is ready, waiting for this particular announcement. At exactly the same moment one of the President's clerks appears at the door of each House, bearing a copy of the message, which is formally received.    Congress is open.
The scene at the opening of a session is always a most picturesque and interesting one. The desks of popular Senators and Representa¬ tives are loaded with flowers sent . there by their families and admirers. Many spectators are always j^resent in the galleries at such a time.
I LAW AND JUSTICE.
;    The   difference  between   law   as ; it is   sometimes   administered   and ¦ justice, a   sense   of   which   dwells I innate  in the mind  of everj^  civil¬ ized man. was well  illu.strated by a ease that occurred not many miles from Coudersport.
I    A poor man   bought an  old '•far- : row''cow of a neighbor •'on a lease" for S20, in  April.    She was bought : for the  express purpose of turning ; into beef in the fall.    §15  was to be i paid   "for the use" of the cow. §10 ; in July  and S5 in November.    Then ; the   man,   according   to the   terras jOf the lease, had the right to buy the cow   on or   before   December,   for §5 more.    He failed to pay the SlO, i and after the cow was well fatted^ I the •'neighbor" took the cow when i the other man was away from home, ^ and, beef having risen in the market, '¦ sold her for a good price. Not content with getting his cow fatted, he then I issued an execution on the lease to j compel his neighbor to pay the $15 'rent. "    The law permits him to do that, but every man's sense of jus¬ tice revolts at such action.
The attention of Mr. Bryan is re¬ spectfully called to the fact that there are whispered rumors from Mexico that its statesmen and financiers are seriously contemplating the adoption of the gold standard.
From Wasliington.
The facts presented in the annual reports and bi-monthly bulletins is¬ sued from the Labor Bureau, Wash¬ ington, by Hon. Carroll D. Wright, Commissioner, are of value to every citizen of the Republic, and certainly worthy a place in any journal claim¬ ing to give information concerning current events. No newspaper man¬ ager could with any propriety refuse them a place in his columns. These reports and bulletins contain statis¬ tics which are profoundly pertinent to many phases of the temperance question. This is evident from the following extract, taken from the in¬ troduction to Eteport of Labor Bureau submitted to President McKinley, February 1, 1897. Commissioner Wright says: "Congressordered in¬ vestigation relating to the economic aspects of the liquor traffic; the de¬ partment is now in the midst of the field work in connection with this subject, three lines of work having been already taken up.    These are:
1. The Liquor Problem in Rela¬ tion Industry. Under this head consideration of the effect of the use of intoxicating liquors by employes in manufacturing establishments, upon railroads, and in other forms of industry.
2. The Revenue Derived from the Liquor Traffic. Under this head the department is collecting from evei'y source, including the Federal, State, County and Municipal govern¬ ments, ali the information relating to revenue from the tariffic.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
3. The Liquor Traffic. Under this head the department is attempt¬ ing to secure information as the cost of carrying on the liquor traffic, the number of persons employed, the capital invested, etc.
Can it not easily be seen that the results of investigations made by this department along these lines will give material for the work upou public sentiment which we must do before the traffic in intoxicating bev¬ erages cau be outlawed.
There is another series of investi¬ gations now going on, wider in scope and conducted also by exjjerts The ••Committee of Fifty "composed, as you know, of the most distin¬ guished scholars, jurists, men of the highest social and intellectual rank. IS from time to time giving to the Dublic the results of its investiga¬ tions into the following aspects of the liquor traffic: .Physiological. Legislative, Economic, Ethical. These published reports, whether in book form, or in magazine articles, if not otherwise obtainable, can be fouud in every well-appointed public library. Women go considerable distances and spend hours in city libraries gathering the material needed for their Cuba p-apers: why not take equal pains to get what will make work in the temperance column of their newspapers valuable?
I have one more suggestion as to the matter suitable for  use  in  this department.     That is  the publica¬ tion of the laws of Ohio which  bear upon this   subject.     Give   two   or three at a time,   grouping them ac¬ cording to the cases covered; and if it should happen that a violation of any particular statute is knowu  to have occurred iu the community, do not fail to give that statute a place iu your column in  the  next  issue. I In this way we ma}'^ stir up a laggard : public sentiment to demand  of the ' sworn executors of the law its strict • enforcement.
We have seen there is no hope of improving, in any shape or form, the liquor traffic. There is nothing now to be done but to wipe it out com¬ pletely.—Bishop John Ireland.
PROM OUK RBOULAR COBBBSPONUKNT.
In every life there must be sorrow! If not today, then tomorrow, But of all sorrows there's no other liike the loss ot mother. The great sympathy felt for  the bereavement of President McKinley tinged the assembling of Congress with   unusual  sadness,   which  not even the great interest felt in the strong   message   of   the   President could   dissipate.     There were the usual crowds in the galleries of both House and Senate,   but the sorrow expressed in the faces of Senators and  Representatives  was  reflected in the faces of the visitors above them.    There is something  in the death of one's mother that appeals to the sympathies of others as does the death of no other relative.
Had President McKinley followed the example of his immediate prede- c^sor, who rarely finished one of his messages to Congress until the day before Congress met, his mes¬ sage would not have been ready,but he completed the message a week ago, and did not have that on his mind while traveling to the bedside of his stricken mother, from which he returned to Washington to per¬ form the duties incumbent upon him at the opening of the session of Con¬ gress. As soon as those duties were performed he started for Can¬ ton again, to perform a more painful duty, carrying with him the sorrow¬ ful sympathies of the whole country. Three P's, patriotism, peace and prosperity form the keynote of Pres¬ ident McKinley's annual message to Congress. His treatment of the an¬ nexation of Hawaii, the Cuban and other foreign questions, including that of commercial reciprocity, is patriotic to the core, without the slightest trace of jingoism, and his treatment of the financial and other domestic questions is that of a man who only desires that which will continue and increase the prosperity the country is now beginning to enjoy. In addition to getting a first-class man to fill the important position of Attorney General, Piesident Mc¬ Kinley's choice of Gov. John W. Griggs, of N. J., to fill the vacancy in the Cabinet that will be made by the nomination of Attorney-General McKenna to succed Justice Field, who retired from the U. S. Sup'-em Court last week, after having served there longer than any of his prede¬ cessors, is eonsidered to be a good political move—one that will aid ma¬ terially in keeping New Jersey in the Republican column, and the wish is general that Gov. Griggs will ac¬ cept the tendered portfolio.
The activity in certain quarters in efforts to make the public believe that th^^e is some doubt about the annexation of Hawaii, indicates that some money is being spent for the purpose of creating anti-annexation sentiment. If so, it is being thrown away, as annexation is absolutely sure to come before the close of this session of Congress. Two-thirds of the Senate are ready at any lime to vote for the ratification of the annex¬ ation treaty, but the rules of the Seuate put it in the power of the op- pouents^not more than twenty at the outside—to delay the vote. Should it become apparent that this power is being used for filibustering purposes, annexation will be secured by legislation which will only need a "majority vote.
The more conservative element in Congress is ^strongly in favor of making this session as short as pos¬ sible. This sentiment was voiced by Representative Heatwole, of Minn., Avhen he said: "In my opin¬ ion, this Congress should get through its routine work by May 1, and adjourn. The smallest amount of legislation will be of the greatest benefit to the country, and if we can finish and go home by that date, a good mauy millions of our country¬ men will rise up and call us blessed.'' Speaker Reed says he seesnoexcu.se at present for making the session a very long one.
Nothing of more general benefit to the moi'als of the country has been done lately than the official announce¬ ment of the Post Office Department that the mails would hereafter be closed to newspapers that print missing-letter word contests, or any other kind of advertising matter containing chance or lottery schemes. Some of the most daring swindling of the age has been conducted by this class of advertisers, all of which violated the spirit, if not the letter, of the anti-lotterv law.
Inasmuch as about" $20;000,000 v.-ill be expended upou River and Harbor improvements, under con¬ tracts previouslj'^ made, during the next fiscal year, there is quite a strong feeling in Congress in favor, of omitting tlie usual River and Harbor Appropriation Bill at this session. No agreement to that ef¬ fect has actually been made, but it will not be surprising should that be the result of the exchanges of opinion on the subject now going on.
We must destroy this evil or be destroyed by it.—Albert G. Laioson. D. D."
ABOUT PENSIONS
With the approach of the meeting of Congress and the publication of advance extracts from the reports of the heads of the departments oomes the usual annual kick from Some sources regarding the expenditure of monej' for pensions. It is true that pensions take some money. But the men who are gettingthem earned what they get. The United States escaped easy with its payment to the men who fought the battles of the Civil war. The Nation hired men at $13^ a month to stand up and be shot at, when the average man at home could earn three times that amount working in the railroad construction gang. If the country had paid cur¬ rent wages, the 2,330,000 men who served in the war, taking the figures on a three-year basis, would have received fully $1,250,000,000 more pay than they did. And if they had been paid in proportion to the haz¬ ardous nature of the work they would have been given a mortgage on the Union at the start.
There is not much occasion to com¬ plain of the pension roll. Leaving out of consideration that the money paid was earned long ago, the man who objects to paying pensions has au easy way to avoid it. The income of the government is received from liquor, tobacco, oleomargarine, play¬ ing cards and import duties. He who is averse to pensions can be sure he pays none of them if he; will eschew liquor, keep his hand's off. playing cards, avoid tobacco and buy his goods from an American mill or factory, thus encouraging American industry. There is no tax collector to hold us up, as is the case with state, county and other taxes. The man who is paying the pensioners is the man who uses for¬ eign goods, or pays his taxes at the bar or at the tobacco store. And as a rule these are not the ones who are doing the most of the complain¬ ing.—Pittsburg Time^^.
There is every reason to believe that Congress will promptly ratify the Hawaiian annexation treaty, as has already been done by the Ha¬ waiian Congress.
THE LATEST OFFENSE.
The most i*epulsive story of sensu¬ ality and murder which has come to light in a long time in this part of the world has been seized upon dur¬ ing the past week by the sensational aewsj^apcis v/ith a greedy satisfac¬ tion repulsive to all decent people. The New York .lovrnutl of last Thurs¬ day inorning, for instance, devoted its entire first five pages to tbe tell¬ ing of this horrible tale, with por¬ traits of the persons connected with it in One way or another, with minute studies of the murderer's eyes and hands, and with a verbatim report of the testimony of the murderess. The two people concerned in this trial are of the lowest possible type, vulgar, brutal, uninteresting to the last degree; they are the sort of per¬ sons whom everybody would avoid in real life—the "kind of people whom everybody would fear; but the sen¬ sational journals, of which the Jour¬ nal is only a typical representative, have carried the story of the immoral relations of these people and their bloody and sickening crime into hundreds of thousands of homes. Wherever this story 'r.as been read it has blunted a little more those finer feelings and tliose higher sus¬ ceptibilities whicli it is the chief function of the sensational newspaper to trample under foot. The impor¬ tance which those newspapers at¬ tach to such offenders aud their orfeuces. by surrendering such an immense amount of space to them, conveys the idea to boys and girls that there is a certain heroism about crime, and th-at there is somethiug worth while in being a human bucth- er, since it gives one notoriet3^ The sensational press is probably to-day the worst enemy of the higher civil¬ ization in this country. It is doing more to degrade national character, ^ to lower national taste, and to mis¬ represent the couutry in the eyes of the Old World than auy other single agency. The time cannot be far dis¬ tant when au organized effort will be made in some foriii against this brutalization of great masses of peo¬ ple by newspaper enterprises which are striving to ir.c.lic a profit out of the lowest instincts of the human race.—The Outlook.
He Helped Pay Taxes.
John Harvey, a coal miner famil¬ iarly known as •'Buckshot, ' was fouud frozen to death near Dagus Mines, December 1st. Harvey was a dissolute character and in the habit of becoming intoxicated. Sat¬ urday was pay day at the mines and as was his custom he went on a spree after receiving his money.
Mr. Bryan made uo effort durin.',' his four years in Congress to obtain legislation on the subjects which he now so uproariously supports as the chief feature of his political faith. He had not a word to say about arbi¬ tration, government by injunction, anti-trust legislation, or any of the other subjects on which he new ap¬ peals to the public. But of course he endorses all of them now that the party advocates them.