som a en: med . much since. CNR CTT ¥ > Aju 8Y P. GRAY MEEK. 52 "Ink Slings. — What a powerful organization a federation of lawyers and plumbers would be. —A Georgia man wears a 15 shoe. It is needless to say that his daughters are all old-maids. —The blowing up a fellow’s wife gives him is seldom of the kind that makes him feel inflated. --The Philadelphia ship yards are too CraMp-ed and if councils will permit it they will be enlarged. —MATBEW STANLEY QUAY has a “dead sure thing” of it for the U. S. Senate. Another tenpin up for Demo- crats to bowl at. —Put up the bars ageinst the deseas- ed “foreign cattle’ that are being herded on our shores by trans-Atlantic steam- boat companies. —Of the 67,365 Republican post masters in the country to-day, how many, do you imagine, will be serving Uncle SAM this time next year ? —GARzA has turned up again. JOHN- NY DAVENPORT, CARTER and the rest of the gang might find the climate of Mex- ico quite salubrious and keep their hands in by helping the renegade along. . —Mrs. LANGTRY has decided to re tire from the stage. She says she has grown tired of it. No more wearisome was it for you dear LILLY than it was for those who were deluded into attend- ing your performances. —The suggestion to publish the pen- sion roll in its entirety isa good one. Plenty of fraudulent pensioners would be detected by a public scrutiny of the list and unworthy ones would haul off rather than have themselves known. --The Montana statue committee had better displace the globe pedestal upon which a silver statue of ADA REHAN will pose as Justice and substitute a bald head. There would be more con- geniality between pedestal and statue then. , —Speaker CRISP is none the worse oft because he did not get to speak at the Tariff Reform club’s dinner, in New York, the other evening. What he had in bis pocket to say would have sounded just as well, in the papers; had he not presumed on his own importance quite so much. —Miss VAN NORDEN, tke York mil- lionairess who joined General Beorn’s Salvation Army last week, will have her hands full keeping the wily General from speculating with her money funds. It must be an odd sight to see such dainty hands pounding salvation out of the head of a tambourine. —LiLLiAN RusserLrn 1s said fo be mad because she couldn’t show off her shape as a statue- of Justice. She for- gets that it is only two years since she went to law with her manager because he wanted her to appear on thestage in tights. She swore then that nature had been too *‘propitious’”” with her for such things, and the seasons have’t changed —J. D. Hick’s, of Altoona, congress- man elect from the Twentieth district, hss written the New York Herald that he doesn’t approve of calling an extra session of congress, and farther that he is positively opposed to the repeal of the McKINLEY bill. Mr. Hicks can sitin a chair in the 53rd congress and ‘holler nay’ when the question comes up, but that is all the good it will do. — Wisconsin Legislators will close their eyes when they pass ADA REHAN'S statue at the World’s Fair. That is, they ought to, after having legislated against the expose of nether limbs eith- er on the stage or bill board. But we're very much afraid that when those old law makers from the Badger state catch a glimpse of that perfect silver woman, they’ll wink their “aller/ego” and size up the understandings as all the rest of us propose doing. -—Since “Sunset” Cox was there the Turks have never had the proper respect for the American ministers, perhaps be- cause of their inability to realize how such a vast difference in men could pos- sibly exist. Mr, THOMPSON, Harrison's latest appointee, will take a United States man of war along with him and if they don’t fall on their faces when he appears he imagine’s he’ll bring the whole country back for Uncle Sam’$ Christmas dinner. — What a lesson can be learned from the recent death of JAY GouLD followed so quickly by Pain D. ARMOUR’s, the millionaire pork packer of Chicago, munificent gift of $1,000,000 for a manual training institute for the Windy city. The former, having made his millions in questionable ways, died with his fingers clutched about them. The latter has grown wealthy through an honorable avenve of trade and now geeks to share his gain with humaniy Ennobling himself and doing for those who cannot do for themselves. RO STATE RIGHTS AN A eueraic D . D FEDERAL UNION. LE N “~OIL. 37. BELLEFONTE, PA., DEC. 16, 1892. NO. 49. Factory Facts. Factory Inspector, WaTcHORN, has finished his report for the year ending November 30, 1892, a summary of which has been given to the public: The number of establishments inspec- ted, the number of employees found at work, the number of orders given and complied with, all of which are set forth in the summary, are not the part of the publication the public will be most interested in, if Mr. WATCHORN has done himself and the people, his duties are intended to protect, the jus: tice to tell all that he found in the es’ tablishments visited. In the summary is given the fact that of the 134,446 operatives found at work, 33,217, or about one fourth the entire number, were children between the ages of 12and 16. 1f the Inspec tor has had the courage to tell in his re- port, what others have been informed he discovered, about the wages paid and the condition he found many of these children in, there will be no ne- cessity hereafter, for Republican news papers and speakers, to go all the way to England to find awful examples of poorly paid, over-worked, illy-clothed and half-fed, factory children. Under the lightning like system en forced by this state in issuing its offi- cial documents, we presume that this report will probably be ready for the pablic some time during the fall of '93 and probably not then, Until it does ap- pear, there will be no official state- ment setting forth the facts, that with- in the limits of our State—in the mills and factories benefitted by the highest rate of tariff protection, -and within sightof the newspapers of Philadelphia that are constantly setting forth the blessings of a protective policy—child- ren under the age of 16 are worked 60 hours a week for the paliry sum of $1.60. That some are worked as long as 14 hours per day, receiving for the extra hours a pro-rata increase of wag- es, averaging 2% cents per hour; that out of this money they must board and clothe themselves; that their dinners and suppers, what little they lave, are eaten cold onthe floor among the fuz and grease, and dirt, and smell of the factory ; that boys and girls, irrespect- ive of sex, are huddled together and that in many instances, no more con- veniences are furnished them than are provided, for the cattle about the stock yards of the city. These are facts which the report will set torth fully if Mr. WATCHORN is dis- posed to tell all that he saw and learned duriog his visit to these establishments j most of which are, compa ratively speaking, within the shadow of Inde- pendence Hall, and the rattle of whose machinery can beheard atthe offices of Republican newspapers that are eter- nally talking of the poorly paid labor of “iree trade England.” Farther facts that will probably no; appear as part of the official state ments, are, that the proprietors of these mills are as a rule, mem- bers of the Manufacturers’ Club of Philadelphia, an organization that prides itself upon the costliness of its surroundings, the luxuries it affords, and the princely incomes of those be- longing to it ; that for years the busi: ness industries belonging to its mem- bers have been. protected by the gener- al government, to an extent, that out of the profits earned by the labor of the poorly paid children referred to, they are enabled to live like nabobs, and to contribute hundreds of thous- ands of dollars, yearly, to the campaign fund of the party that promises to con- tinue this protection. These later facts will possibly not be set forth in the report, but when they are taken into cousideration with the 26% cent daily wages, paid to children who are compelled to accept this piti- ful price for a days labor, or starve, the need for some attention to the condi: tion of our own struggling poor, and less concern about the wages of work- men in England, ought to be apparent to the most bigoted mind. The annual meeting of the State Grange is being held in Harrisburg the present week. The report of the secre- tary shows that while tbe total number of Granges in the State have not inv- creased during the past year, the mem- bership in those already organized has been enlarged several thousand, and the organization is said to be in a most prosperous condition. An Affair of the Miss Nancys. The Republican papers are having a great deal to say over what they term the “snub Speaker Crisp received” trom the Reform club, at its dinner in honor of the president elect, on Satur- day night last. If the newspaper ver- gion of the affair is correct, there is no doubt but the Reform clubexhibited ill manners towards 1ts distinguished guest, but that the party is going to be rent in twain or the country go bead- long to the devil, because E. ELLERY AxpEersoN dido’t know what good man- ners were, or because Speaker Crisp did not have an opportunity to make a speech, is the veriest kind of fudge. The Democratic party is not a ‘‘sis- sy’ organization. A lack of common civility on the part of some swallow- tailed member, or the failure of one of its leaders to get an opportunity to spread himself, may disturb the equa- nimity of a few Miss Nancys belonging to it, and develop a little gall on the part of those who wanted to be heard, but further than this the Reform club incident will disturb no one. The incivility of Mr. ANDERsON and his club, or the disappointments of Mr. Crisp, are small matters indeed com- pared with the purposes, the work and the expectations of the Democratic party. The individual who has an idea that this side show trouble, such as this New York affair is attempted to be made our, will effect either the aims, the earnestness, the harmony or the ultimate success, of Democratic ideas and Democratic efforts, has but little conception of the determination of the masses, or the intent of the people of this country, to have their government administered as they desire it to be. sna Not Smart Encugh for That. Oae would have thought that chair- man CARrTER’S experience in buying votes, and stealing political success through fraudulent methods, would have taught him the folly of depending upon such means to thwart the wil) of the people. But some persons never learn auything, and this “wild and wooly” western prodigy, who was to teach eastern people the way to carry elections, whether the voters wanted them that way or not, seems to he one of the them. Since his dismal failure to carry out Dave Martin's plots, be has gone back to the sands and sedge: brush of Montana to try bis efforts, at stealing elections, oa a smaller scale, and is now attempting to have Repub- | licans, here in the Ezst, believe that he i can change the result of the 8th of No- | vember so far as to secure a United States Senator from that State. Possi- bly he can, but if he does it will be a surprise to himself as well as to every one else who knows his capacity. He may be smart, but if he keeps on in his attempt to overturn the will of the peo- ple of his adopted State, his “foot prints on the sands of time,” will be nothing compared to the “tracks” he will make in getting away from the vengeance of the voters he would defraudof a fairly won victory. As a stealer of elections Mr. CARTER i8 not a success, as yet. Work for the School Teacher. Ignorance among Massachusetts Re- publican voters must be increasing at a lightning like pace. The fact that the Democrats elected their governor in November by some three thousand ma- jority, was attributed, by the Republi can press, to the inability of Republi- can voters to correctly mark their tick- ets. On Tuesday Boston held its mu- nicipal election and the majority for Maraews, the Democratic candidate tor Mayor, is about 13,000. If Repub- licon ignorance, caused this increase in the Democratic majority, it will soon be necessary to do something to dispel the dense darkness that seems to have settled down on the heretotore enlight- ened Massachusetts mind. Certainly such an unusual development of dumb- ness needs looking after. — In referring to the idiot who jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge the other day, the Press declares that “the fools are not all dead yet.” To prove that our Philadelphia contemporary is right in its conclusions, one does not need to stand out in the cold to watch for bridge jumpers. The editorials of almost any Republican paper, since the election, gives abundant evidence that such is the fact. Pennsylvania and the Treasury Deficit. It is probable that the Republican profligacy of the past four years, that has caused the deficit in the Treasury at Washington, will effect Republican Pennsylvania in her requests for appro. priations as much, if not more, than any other State in the Union. At present there are two demands for appropriations pending in congress, from this State, in which our people are deep- ly concerned, but whicb, the condition of the Treasury, may require to be with-drawn for the present. They are for money to purchase additional grounds and erect a new Mint in Phil. adelphia, and for the payment of the Border Raid claims. Tt is quite certain that, if it is actually necessary, Philadelphia, and the coun- try at large, can shift along with the old Mint and its present facilities for a few years, or until the the condition of the Treasury would justify the appro priation required to erect a new one. But every feeling of justice demands that the citizens of the border counties, whose claims have been put off time and again for almost thirty years, be paid, even if the Mint should be re- quired to remain as it now is for the next decade, or]League Island fail to get a penny jfor improvements for years to come. Of all the claims that have been be- fore congress since the war, there is none more just than the Border Raid claims, nor are there any ones that has been given so little attention or consid ation. Inthe first place, Pennsylvania should { have paid these claims at the time of their adjudication years ago. It was the State's duty to protect its people, . and failing to do so, it should have | made good their losses at once, and re. | quired the General Government to re fund the amoust to it. In this it failed snd now when the people themselves ask that the losses they suffered through the failure of the State and General (rovernment to! furnish that prcte tion, of “life, liberty and property,” that their The Luck of the New Moon. From the London Spectator. A somewhat remarkable illustration of the ancient and deeply rooted origin of or Western superstition of bowing turning money, etc., on the appearance of the new moon has been brought to my notice at Old Umtall, South Africa. At sunset two evenings ago I suddenly heard an outcry among my boys in their huts at a little distance from my own. On looking out I saw them one after another take lighted brands from the fire and throw them towards some object in the eky. They then regard- ed the same object standing in & preca- tory attitude, stretching forth their hands and loudly shouting certain sentences. One sentence, ‘Nica men- nigi mail” (give plenty money), was clearly intelligible. In reply to my in- quiries the boys pointed to a new moon just faintly discernible in the clouds. (all) boys thus greeted the new moon, the emphasis on the “zouke” Gall) im- plying that it was a universal native custom. I may mention that two of these boys came from north of Whim- ba ne, three were subjects of Gunguo- ghama and three were Mashonas. The incident is not without some eth- nic significance and may be of interest to some of your readers. Well Up in Thievery. From the Chicago Herald. Nebraska Democrats believe the Republicans of that State are prepar- ing to steal the Legislature in order to elect the next United States Senator. The Nebraska Republicans can prove by the Record that they have been fairly successful in the line of ‘political theft. They have never look- ed upon the stealing of a few seats in the Legislature as being a very difficult undertaking, and bave accomplished such a feat frequently. They snatch- ed the Governorship once when Gov. Boyd wasn’t looking, and they kept it, too, until the United States Supreme Court compelled them to restore 1t to the rightful occupant. If they are really determined to steal enough seats in the present legislature to assure the return of a Republican to the United States Senate they must be closely watched or they will be successful. The Democrats and Populists in Ne braska cannot afford to sleep until the next Senator is elected. an————— Judge Waxam's Proverbs. constitutions guarantee, be paid there | | onesty when you see 1t. should be no longer any delay about it, nor should any condition of the Treas- ury be plead as an excuse for failure to make the necessary appropriation. We do not know that the fact that | the Treasury was looted by the party about retiring from power, or, that the Republican deficit, from which it now further delay in a matter as just and as pressing as these Border Raid | claims are; but if it ig, our Republican friends, who live along the border and are proud of the actions of their party, can console themselves with the thought that it it was themselves their party robbed, when itdepleted the Treas- ury of its surplus, to gratify the de- mands of public theives and to make a miserable excuse for continuing an op- pressive tariff tax. Results of Republican rule, like chickens, are “coming'home’’ to Repub. lican Pennsylvania “to roost.” Plenty of That Kind. Mrs. or Miss Kirsy (we do not know which she is) in her address at the ded- ication of the DeLEPLAIN-McDANIEL school invoked the teachers to ‘make patriots of their boys and girls.” The Philadelphia Times, with this fora text, gives us a column editorial on the nec- essity of training the children in the public schools, to be patriots. Mrs. or Miss Kirsy. The Times, and Patriot ism may be all right, but when we come to think of the number of pat riots we had in '61,’62 and ’63, and then remember that $180,000,000 a vear in pensions only partially satisfies their demands, thirty years after that patriotism was exhibited, one is almost compelled to conclude that it might be better for the country if it didn't have s0 many at one time. ——What are we coming to when a Republi can cabinet officer publicly defends that noto- rious election broker, JohnI. Davenport?— Butler Herald. After a careful survey of the surroundings, and noting all the finger boards along the political highway, we judge we are “coming to” a time when cabinet officers, such as is referred to, will be known no more fore. er, and when whelps like Daven: port will have less power than a billiard ball has hair. suffers, will be used as an excuse for | From the Detroit Free Press. It's a purty hard job to tell-political The candidate that got ‘em ain’t ooin’ to worry about how sertain votes wuz got ef nobody elee don’t. Sivil servis reform gethers no moses. Some statesmen air small pertaters and few in hill. When the offis wates fer the man in these United States somethin’ ain’t rite. Napolyan Bonypart couldent a been President of the United States. Wimmen that air well treated at home mostly ain’t hankering for votes. A patriot may die for his country, but ez a rule he'd rather not. Purifyin’ politicks is upbill work. The main qualifikashun of a candi date is, can he git thar? HE IST Sn Cotton Spinning Dull From Protection. From the London Daily News. “In four years,” said the president of the Manchester Statistical Society last night, “the United States, with cotton on the spot and ‘protection,’ has only increased her spindles 7.7 per cent., while India, in the same four years, with cotton on the spot and ‘free trade,’ has increased her spindles 23.1 per cent. Following the two poli- | cies of ‘protection’ versus ‘free trade,’ | we find that the United States, with a a wall of high tariffs, is effectually shutting herself out from competition in foreign markets, and causes us no trouble, while India successtully takes our customers from us.” A REST. A Typical Mourner. From the Boston Courier. Consistency is a jewel, even in a wo- man’s ear. A New Hampshire Re- publican, a woman, was in town last week to do shopping. “Oh, this Mug- wump Boston I” she exclaimed ; “here are stocks going down on account of this wicked election, and I have got to buy a cloak here, for I could’t possibly get over to the other side to buy one this summer.” And she supposed herselt to be consistent when, being the wife of a manufacturer whose in- terests are shamelessly fostered by the McKinley bill, she was angry that she could not do her shopping in Eng: land. B—_—-. a ————————— A Fair Warning. From the Louisville Courier-Journal. Senator Quay hopes to save the Sen- ate to the Republicans. It would be just as well to see that all the burglar- alarms are in good working order and double the guards. More Austral From the St. Louis Republie. It Ohio will iuject a little more Aus: tralian ballot law the Democrats will elect the other twenty-three Electors next time, They also informed me that ‘‘zouke”, Spawls from the Keystone, —Lebanon again thirsis for water. —Schuylkill County’s taxable property is $48,740,129. —An electric railway will soon join Tama- qua and Langford. —The State debt has been diminished $14,- 17,106 this year. —A rich vein of coal was struck at Ashland by Barron and Co. —A stick of wood broke John H. Eisenhard’s skull in an Allentown shop. —The fire has been subdued in the Prim- rose mine at Minersville. —38ilver ore fever has put Dubois and Ridge- way people in a delirium. —A Northern Central train struck and kill. ed Eruey Barnitz at York. —Diphtheria has killed three of John Sny- der’s children, at Alburtis. —Grocers organized in Pittsburg to fight profes sional credit-seekers, —The four small pox patients in one family at Gouglersville will recover. —Domestic troubles induced David Weider, a farmer near Easton to hang himself. —An electric car ground to death Jacob Bixler, road supervisor, near Lebanon. —By a premature explosion in a Hazleton colliery William Bugans lost his life. —An electric light safety lamp for miners will be experimented with at Scranton. —Carlisle Town Council is investi gating the accounts of Burgess Orney, who is missing. : —With an ounce of laudanum, Henry Bril. linger, of East York, ended his earthly wozs. —Rich coal deposits were discovered in Jackson township, Northumberland county. —Pittsbur g liquor dealers organized to fight the whiskey Trust, which has put up prices. —Highwaymen nearly killed John Burke, at Shamokin, and stole h is watch and money. —Supreme Judge-elect Dean was banqueted in Williamsort Wednesday night by the law- yers. —In a runaway at Latimore, Cumberland County, James A. Rinehart, a merchant, was killed. —Four children of Henry Shade, Hegins = ville, Berks County, have succumbed to diph- theria, —Lard boiled over the kettle, fatally burn- ing Mrs. Gottleib Foltz, of Latimer, Luzerne county. —The alleged abuses by dockage bosses caused astrike of miners of Loflin, T.uzerne county. —A bear weighing 590 pounds was shot by Philadelphia hunters on the mountain near St. Peter's, —While waiking upon the railroad track at Lancaster, Edward McKinsley was hurled in- t ac eternity. —Cheap corn and high priced butter have driven many Berks ccunty farmers into the dairy business. —Post-mortem evidences show that Murder- er Kerner, who i.anged himself in Reading jail, was insane. —The remains of H. M. Clay, of Easton , were sent to Philadelphia Wednesday to be cremated. —Prothonotary Hartman, of Lancaster County, was acquitted of the charge of taking legal fees. —The nail cutters in the Brooke works, at Birdsboro, who has been idle for weeks, began work Tuesday, —The Bradford Wooden Ware and Ename 1 Company, of McKean County, capital $20,000, was chartered. —The Pennsylvania Railroad's branch to William Penn from Shenandoah is nearly ready to be opened. —Wages of 60 machinists in the Philadel- phia and Reading shops in Reading were in- creased 10 cents a day. —For failing to marry Rosa A. Trostle, after courting her, Reuben Miller, a farmer near Gettysburg was fined $200. —The St. Mary’s- Polish Church war, at Reading, may be carried to Mosignor Satolli, now in Washington, D. C. —A train at Lancaster snuffed out the life of Brakeman John Lamb, of Philadelpha, who worked for the Reading. —A boiler exploded in Lewis Frederick's slaughter honse, in Reading, and blew the roof off the building. —C{itizens of Abington township, Montgom- ery county, have formed an association to im- prove the public roads. —John C. Grey, a Butler county farmer, says he was driven from his 1000-acre farm, in Alabama, by the Ku-Klux. —William Rulof’s skull was fractured while walking in the street in Reading, but he doesn’t know how it was done. —Four hundred hands were thrown out of work by a strike of the slate pickers and driv- er boys in a colliery at Oliphant. —Accidentally shot while butchering for a neighbor, William Trout, of Springfield town- ship, York county, expired Tuesday. —The gun which Irzin Koch, of Princeton, Berks county, aimed at a rabbit, exploded, tearing off his hand and killing the rabbit. —After borrowing $900, Joseph Hollick’s house, near Wilkesbarre, burned down, and the money ienders have had him arrested. —Nollie Carr, whose Scranton home was a trifle gay, fled to Binghamton, N. Y., after being convicted by the Court, but she was cap- tured Friday. —The Emaus blast furnace, which will here- after turn out 1000 tons of iron a week, resum- ed operations Tuesday after idleness sev- eral years. —Burglars captured a valuable express package and a great quantity of tickets in the Gillerton station of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad. —Mrs. Mary Kreeo, who sued Northampton and Lehigh counties for $10,000 because her husband fell through a bridge and was killed, received nothing. —Andrew Wisler told John C. Pepple, of near Gettysburg, to be “a man, a monkey, or a long tailed rat,” and was ordered by the Judge t> pay $300 damages. —J. B. Fullerton, a noted crook, who recent- ly escaped from the New Castle, Del., prison, wis Tuesday sent to penitentiary for four years from Scranton. —A preliminary report of the auditors who went over the books of the Order of Solon at, Pittsburg shows the assets to be about $500, 000 and the liabilities nothing. —For the death of his son wh o shot him self because he was arrested for stealing a car- riaze, Reuben M. Rehrig, of Catasauqua, has brought a suit for big damages against Police~ meu Sheckler and Lamb.