Dewi atin,
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Pin yourself to no maa’s coat-tail
for tailor never made one so strong that
it wouldn’t pull off.
—The barbers of the United States
-are talking of holding a monster con-
vention. They are scraping up dimes
for it now.
—It took sixteen hundred pounds of
silver to cast ADA REHAN, the actress,
into Montana's statue of justice.
‘Wouldn't you like to have a piece of
it?
—There is one thing quite certain the
Michigan Legislator who introduced
that bill making it a misdemeanor for
one man to treat another is not an edi-
tor anyhow.
——Among the painfully modest young
women bullion is destined to be left in
the cupboard ere long. If they could
call it male bovinion then their modesty
wouldn’t be so shocked.
—If you would be loved by every
one remember that every creature of
God, however miserable, has a heart
capable of being touched by a cheerful
greeting or an act of kindness.
—Come circus and gladden the heart
of the small boy and at the same time
fill the cup of the good church man,
who is compelled(?) to take the children
to see the animais, to overflowing.
—If General DYRENFORTH had been
in Rome during the past few days his
business instincts would undoubtedly
have led him to appear with a Mc-
INTOsH and an umbrella. Dynamite is
his cause. Rain his effect !
—The adjournment of the Kansas
Legislature will lift a great burden from
the heads of the people of the Sun
Flower State. The Republicans met,
fought, bled and died, but pot to im-
prove Legislation. They did it to
down the Populists.
-—The Supreme court judges of New
York have just been calied upon to take
action for self preservation. For fear
of bein talked to death they refused
BeLvA Lockwoop the permission to
practice before them, on the ground of a
trifling technicality.
— According to Lieutenant TorTEN,
the ex-Yale University professor, the
beginning of the millenium is here.
We are led to believe that the poor
prophet got his bearings mixed and
mistook the end of things politically cor-
rupt for the end of things earthly.
—The sudden death of ’Squire AB-
INGDON, the Eaglish sport, whose an-
nual income was over a million dollars,
leaves CHARLEY MITCHELL without a
backer. ‘ABINGDON might prevail
on Tom SAYREs and JouN C. HEENAN,
the old timers, to have a little bout down
there.
—It seems strange that sun-shiny
days should have come with the pieach-
ers and then departed with them also.
Perhaps that conference week of per-
fect weather and bright days was sym-
bolical of the sunshine of eternal life
into which that body of men are labor-
ing to bring their fellows.
—The Grand Army of the Republic
will rejoice that the man who besmirch-
ed 1ts roll of honor has gone from the
position which his incumbency dis-
graced. GREEN B. Raum knew that
his services us Pension Commissioner
were distasteful to the new administra-
tion and resigned to save his head.
—The patience of man is now being
tried with fitting unruly stove pipes,
tacking down carpets and undergoing
all thuse petty annoyancas incident to
moving. All because the female por-
tion of the family didn’t know what it
wanted. Man is a moral patriot if he
goes through it without breaking the
Third commandment.
— We had hoped that some matrimo-
nially inclined young American would
have annexed KaruLanr and her mam-
ma’s island before she left our shores,
but she sailed for England, on Wedaes-
day, where we trust she will do the next
best thing and reduce the number ot
disreputable ‘‘chappies,” who are lying
in wait for the fortunes of American
girls, by one.
--The newspapers of a community
are supposed to be oneof its principal
agents of education, yet the carelessness
which some writers display in the gram-
matical construction of their articles is
alarming und cannot but have a serious
effect on the easily impressioned minds
of their young readers. Too much cau-
tion cannoi be taken to keep the gen-
eral tone of the press pure and eleva-
ting.
—Ex-Commissioner of Pensions
Raum seems very solicitous about the
finunces of the government now that
his hittle pull on the Treasury is over.
It is a pity that be didn’t think of the
great expense to the government, in-
curred by using the Pension building
for Inaugural balls, when HARRISON
was inaugurated, for then there might
have been a tew thousand dollars more
left for him to cast to the rabble of
bounty jumperbogus pension claim-
ants he put on the list to the everlasting
disgrace of the worthy soldier.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 38.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MARCH 24, 1893.
NO. 12.
The Rules for Office Distribution.
There has been too much haste in
construing the President's intentions in
regard to the offices, with the result
that erroneous statements have been
published in regard to them. Wash-
ington now is full of office-seekers, great
pressure is being brought to bear upon
the » ppointing power, and words that
may have been said by the President
or members of his cabinet, in regard to
the distritution of the patronage have
had as different constructions put upon
them as there are different interests
contending tor the official prizes.
Of course those who did not share
the favor of the appointing power un-
der the last administration believe that
it should now be their turn and that
the office hunters during Mr. CLEVE
LAND'S first term should not be the
repeated objects of official favoritism.
Their claim does not seem to be de-
void ot justice. There is something
fair about it, and it is encouraged by
an announcement on the part of the
President that it is not his intention
to appoint those who held office in his
first term. But there is a sufficient in-
timation that this will not be an inflex-
ible rule, there are circumstances un:
der which the public services would
be benefired by the reappointment of
former incumbents. All rules are liable
to exceptions.
The announcement that no offices
will be given to businessmen is of a
similar character. As a rule it may
be in conformity with sound official
policy, for it is not among the business
man that the most efficient and service-
able public officers are lound, but in
exceptional cases the public interests
may be benefited by going to that class
could not be carried out in regard to
fourth-class post offices, for frequently
the country store-keeper is the ouly cit-
izen ot a rural neighborhood who can
able accommodations for a country
post-office.
Among che other reports about what
the President intends to do in regard
to the dis.ribution of the offices was
one to the effect that he proposed to
exclude the editors. For this remark-
able determination the reason was giv-
en that editors when holding a govero-
ment office are muzzled ; that they are
subjected to an influence that tramwels
their expression ot political sentiment,
anf the President did not want them
to be subjected to such an fluence
and was averse to having it appear
that he bad subsidized the press. Such
an explanation could not help but be
unsatisfactory to those who take a
common sense view of such matters.
As a class the editors are not affected
in their political sentiments, or in-
fluenced in their political fidelity, by
the circumstance of their holding or
net holding offices. Too seldom rec-
oznized by those who dispease official
favor, they go right on in the perform.
their party and its principles, whether
they are rewarded or unrewarded. It
could not be believed that the Presi-
dent was unaware of this fact, or that
he feared that by giving offices to the
editors he would be subsidizing them.
Tuat such an impression is erroneous,
and that he dues not entertain an idea
of that kind is proved by the circum-
stance that the very first appointments
he has made were those of two news-
paper men as post masters.
Those who give publicity to Presi-
den CLevELAND'S policy in regard to
the Federal appointments may koow
something about it, but it is evident
that they don’t know all about it.
——It’is the mistaken idea of some
people, throughout the State, that the
N. G. P. was taken to Washiagton to
participate in the Inaugural parade at
the public expense. Such was not the
case. TheP.R. R.,, B. and O. and
the Reading rail-road companies car-
ried the entire Division to Washington,
free of charge ; the Inaugural commit-
' tee furnished sleeping quarters and the
' soldiers, who constituted the ‘most im-
posing spectacle in the great parade,
paid for their own boarding, The
Guard had a jolly time, won fresh
laurels for iwselt and incurred not a
penny’s expense to the taxpayers o.
the State.
The Sunday edition of the
Philadelphia Times was a marvel of
journalism,
Wise Deliberation.
It is the purpose ot President CLEVE:
LAND to treat the Hawaiian question
in a practical manner. Sufficient time
has passed since the last administrations
feverish attempt to force annexation by
precipitate action, and now a cooler
judgment will assert itself in the treat
ment of a matter in which such great
interests are involved.
The President is determined to have
all the information on the subject that
it is possible to obtain, and he wants
it to be reliable and from an authentic
source. As the question now stands
the administration has the conflicting
statements of the two opposing inter:
ests. The provisional government rep-
resents the annexation side, having
its agents at Washington pushing that
interest. On the other hand the re-
presentatives of the depo-ed Queen are
at the national capital with an entirely
different presentation of the case. Mr.
Harrison made the mistake of acting
hurriedly upon the first information he
received, and rao the risk ot taking an
ex parte position oa a question in which
every point should be considered.
President CLEVELAND, in his determin-
ation to avoid such dangerous precipi
tation, has recalled the treaty and
| adopted the safer policy of finding out
all the particulars before finally acting
tor an official incumbent. The rule
furnish a convenient location and suit- |
auce of their duty as supporters of
upon a matter of such importance.
i For this reason he has sent a special
agent to Hawaii in the person of ex:
| Congressman Brount, of Georgia, who
| will investigate the status of the ques-
| tion as it appears in the islands. He
will discover what the actual feelings
of the people are in regard 10 aonexa-
tion. His obhservatious on the ground
will enable him to determive whetner
or not the ageots of the provisional
| government correctly represented tue
| situation, ana will make such observa-
‘tions as will enable our government to
decide whetber it would be to the ad-
vaniage or disadvantage ot this coun:
try 10 acquire the ownership of the is
lands. Ol course it it shall appear upon
a thorough investigation by Mr.
BLounT that the acuon of the provis-
lunal gove wiment is backed by a wa-
jority of the respousibie peopie of
Hawaii ; that the business interests of |
tue 1slauds are enlisted on the side ot |
annexation, and that the couditious
are such that the ownership of such a
possession would not impuse a profit:
less aud injurious burden upon the Un-
ited States, then it may be presumed
that Mr. CLEVELAND, with the assis-
tance of the Senate, will proceed to do
| with proper deliberation aud intelli:
' gence the work ol anuexation which
Mr. Harrison hastened to do without
sufficient 1niormation and in an ill-ad
vised and slip-shod manuer.
— Not for years has a criminal pro-
ceeding attracted as wide-spread 1uter-
est as has the trial and conviction of
CarLyre W. Harris, of New York,
for the poisoning of Lisschool-girl wile,
HeLen NetusoN Ports. The exireme
youtn and hign social standing of the
condemned an and his victim arous.
ed a morbid curiosity on all sides. His
trial before Recorder SMYTHE was sen-
sational aud nis conviction, on purely
circumstantial evidence, has left a
doubt in the minds of many as to the
justice of our courts, which would be
heightened no doubt by a backward
glauce to the three Lingo trials in
waich the Camden negro was allowed
to go scott free in the face ot a better
consected chain of evidence than was
cast about Harris.
The court having refused a new trial
Harris will be electrocuted, at Sing
Sing, during the week beginning May
8ih. Tune course of those fanatics who
stood on the pavement and cheered
him as he was passing from the court
to the Tombs prison, on Tuesday, is
certainly not to be emulated, for the
case is one of entirely too grave a na-
ture to allow of any such manifesta:
tions of approval. Our courts are
sacred and should not become a mock-
ery. Besides they have just declared
Hargis guilty of the most cowardly ot
crimes, poisoning.
——The Kerns anti- PINKERTON bill
passed the house finally, on Tuesday,
without a dissenting vote. As did also
the bill prohibiting the killing of wild
deer within this State, or having the
same in one’s possession, for a period of
Encouraging the Wrong Class of People.
The bill which Representative PAGE,
of Dauphin county, has just introduc-
ed in the Legislature is one which
should be promptly defeated should it
be reported favorably from the com-
mittee. [t isone which has for its
purport the payment of public school
directors for their services, at the same
time requiring them to visit every
school in their District at least twice a
year.
_ While it may seem, at first glance,
to be an incentive to better work on
the part of those who have our public
schools under their supervision, a
moment's thought will prove quite the
reverse.
Mr. Pace has inserted a clause in
his measure which fixes a salary for
directors, at twenty-four dollars per an-
num, provided they make the required
number of visits to each school in their
District. This trifling sum would be
no encouragement whatever to the as-
pirations of the most capable men to
become school directors and would
only prove the plum for which all the
illiterate, irresponsible characters in
the country would scramble,
As long as the office of school direc:
tor is kept free from emoluments of any
sort just that long will the men, who
are really interested ia the education
of the children and who are at all cap-
able to direct the training of their
minds, be ready to accept the office,
but the instant you attach any remun-
eration for such services there will be
an incentive for all the rabble of ne'er-
do-well politicians and others, who
have no sympathy for educational in-
terests, and no desire to serve as long
as it is without salary, to jump into
the office solely for the trifling revenue
to be gained.
Ouly the best men ofa community,
the very best men, are wanted for
school directors and they are of a class
awhich finds profit enough in being
able to improve the standards of edu-
cation without having a salary ot
twenty-four dollars as a bait.
The Methodist Episcopal Conference.
During the week that ended with
last Tuesday, Bellefonte was visited by
the memoers of the Central Pennsyl-
vania Methodist Episcopal Conference,
a representative body of men, which
daring its visit doubtless lett a lasting
influence for good on our town. Many
eminent ministers of the gospel were |
with us during the week and the ele- |
valing tone which contact with such
personages invariably engenders was |
noticeable in more ways than one.
Never in the history of the confer-
ence had its sessions been watched
with such acute interest, as character-
ized those held here, and never betore,
in the history of Bellefonte did her peo-
ple so crowd the churches with the
same earnestness. Doubtless the bean-
tiful weather, that commenced with
the advent of the diviaes and ended
with their departure, had something to
do with the over flowing meetings, but
the principal attraction was the clean
cut, modest parliamentary procedure
that characterized the conduct of rou-
tine business and the inspiring elo-
quence of those who were called upon
to address the assemblage during the
centennary, consecration and other
special services,
Bishop WargeN, of Denver, as pre-
siding officer, was at once the ideal ex-
ecutive and the earnest guardian of the
sacred rites of the ministry. His
pleasing address, the depth of thought
and that strange voice that betrayed
every emotion of the great soul,
whence it came, all combined to lift
him above the ordinary and mark him
for the position he so gracefully hon
ored.
The coming and going of nearly
three hundred men, all zealous in their
work for God, has no little significance
attached, and our citizens may expect
to see evidences of their sojourn with
us cropping out long hereafter. The
contact with such people and their en.
try into our homes broadens the mind,
and an insight into their simple lives
encourages for the better. Who can
gainsay the harvest which the germs
of christian faith sown in the family
prayers, conducted by those men in
homes where christian worship was
comparatively unknown before their
advent, will bring torth,
EIR IRR EA,
-—Yes, tuis 1s Spring | wny didn’t
three years.
yo1 know it?
A Difference Exists Only in the Fancy
of Perspicacious Correspondents.
From the Philadelphia Times.
It is altogether probable that the
line of battle between the President
and the Senate, of which's6' much has
been said in the last few: day, exists
only in the fancy of perspicacious cor-
respondents and in the gossip of tne
hotel lobbies at Washington. That Mr.
Cleveland is likely to make his own
appointments—appointments, that is,
that satisty his own judgment, even
though they should not always satisty
the individual preferences of members
of Congress—there is no need for any
one to tell us. That he is going out of
his way to make needless antagonisms
and to create friction where it is his in-
terest to avoid it, not even the best in-
formed correspondent will persuade us,
Nor is there any indication that the
Senate is minded to antagonize the
President. No doubt Mr. €leveland
would have been glad, as many other
Democrats would have been, to see
some of the committees made up a lit.
tle differently ; but that is the Senate's
business entirely, and that he has con-
cerned himself upon the subject is in
the highest degree improbable. As to
all the talk about the Senate hanging
up nominations, that seems sufficiently
disposed of by the fact that as soon as
the committees got to work all the
nominations sent in were promptly re-
ported and confirmed.
In fact, the nominations that have
teen made thus far have been of a
character that would not admit of op-
position, even if Senators had the dis-
position attribated to them. The
President is taking his time, but he is
making his selections for the impor-
tant places with a great deal of judg-
ment. He will probably disappoint a
good many Senators by his slowness in
making removals, but as regards ap-
pointments the Senate’s advice and
consent is just as essential as the Presi.
dent’s nomination, ard the assumption
that there must be trouble between
them appears thus far to be entirely
gratuitous.
IAT A ETSI
| The Stars and Stripes, and Cleveland.
From the New York Sun.
Captain Nicholas Ball, of Block
Island, visited the White House a few
days ago to pay his respects t@'the Presi-
dent. Captain Ball 1s an old sailor.
As he entered the White House grounds
be observed that the flag displayed there
was afoul of the staff, and so twisted
around the pole that it appeared to be at
balf mast. The Washington Star pub-
lished the Captain’s account of his inter-
view with the President :
“I have bad the pleasure of meeting
Mr. Cleveland several times, and my
nautical instinct was so strong that flags
| should fly tull in the breeze that I suid
| to him ; ‘Mr Cleveland,’ said I, ‘your
| flag appears to be flyiug at half mast.’
|“ ‘What flag ?’ queried Mr. Cleve-
land in an interested manner.
“The flag on the White House, sir’
Ianswered. ‘It1s twisted around the
! pole so that it looks as if it were flying
at balt mast.’
“I left bim a moment later and passed
out of the building. As I walked down
through the grounds towards Penosyl-
vania avenue I looked back. A man
was at the base of the flagstaff on the
top ot the White House hauling down
the colors. Shaking them loose so that
the stiff breeze could catch them, he ran
them up to the peak and the stars and
stripes floated out straight in the stiff
breeze which was then blowing.”
This is an encouraging and significant
incident. Mr. Cleveland gave imme-
diate attention to the flag as soon as
Captain Ball informed him that it was
not flying free. He was unwiling that
the stars and stripes should appear to be
at half mast, even to the casual visitor
or office seeker who entered the Execu-
tive Mansion.
Let the Hon. Grover Cleveland keep
the American flag before the eyes of all
the world, flying free and straight in the
stiff breeze, and well up to the halyard
block, and his Administration will be
all right. It will be an American suc-
cess.
Confidence Begets Prosperity.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The confidence of the financial world
in the new Administration is attested by
the large increase of free gold in the
Treasury. But it will not notdo ‘to
trust to such symptoms. The laws
of finance are more potent than any in-
fluence which the Government might
exert in behalf of the public credit. So
long as the Sherman act shall remain
in operation the drain of the dearer
metal will continue. Gold will not stay
in a country in which its use is dis-
couraged by accumulations of silver
bullion to the amount of 54,000,000
ounces & year.
Soldiers Have a Friend in Democracy.
From the Columbia Inuependent.
Corporal Tanner made a very sensible
speech before the State Encampment of
the G. A. R. of New Hampshire, a few
days ago, in which he declared that the
real veterans of the war have nothing
to fear from Cleveland or a Democratic
Congress, but that some who are now
drawing pensions, who did no fighting,
may suffer. This, he thinks, the real
veterans will be able to stand. Soldiers
with records hke Tanner are no longer
being led around by the nose by Rep-
lican stay-at-home politizians.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—North Wales Iron Works have been great-
ly enlarged.
—A passenger train smote and killed J. Her-
ron vear Ashland.
—Ia 1892 the railroads in. Penasylvania
killed 1439 persons.
—Reading Councils have appropriated $165,-
000 to improve sewers.
—John Moran was knocked: into eternity by
a train at Marysville.
—The election of George W. Loucks as May-
or of York is to be contested.
—Disciples of 8t. Patrick, 5000 strong, Fri-
day paraded at Lansford.
—The centennial of Methodism at Washing-
ton was celebrated Sunday.
—The scaffold upon which Dennis Cloonan
will be hanged April 6 cost $99.
—The Lackawanna county court has granted
505 licenses out of 590 applications.
—Two of Carnegie’s big. Homestead mills
will be operated shortly by electricity.
—Not seeing an approaching train, Thomas
McAndrews was killed by it at Jermyn.
—It cost but $98 to maintain each of the
soldiers’ orphans at the schools last year.
—In granting liquor licenses in Allegheny
county, Judge Magee favors the old men.
—A Pennsylvania Railroad train struck and
killed Frank Threisenger, of Harrisburg.
—Death met Isaac Wagner, a boss miner at
Excelsior, as he stepped from a coal train.
—Miss Mollie Neilson, a trained nurse, Fri-
day night began a 30-day fast in Pittsburg.
—An oil lamp which he carried exploded and.
burned to death George W. Alsbach, of Read.
ing.
—The Blair County Democrats Friday selec-
ted F. P. Malley, chairman of the County Com-
mittee.
—Thirty collieries in the Shenandoah region
were idle Friday while the miners honored. St.
Patrick.
—A train overtook Frank. Reeser, as-he was
walking home from Topton, mungling him to
death,
—The first trainload from the new mines at
Patton was taken over the Beech Creek, on
Monday.
—Driver Hugh Dougherty, of Shenandoah,
was killed by a fall of lumber at Turkey Run
colliery.
—Drunken Ambrose Sweeny, of St. Clair, at-
tempted to bathe inthe creek and died from.
exposure.
—While picking coal from the railroad track
at Scranton, Michael Welsh was cut in two by
a train.
—The golden wedding of Rev. and Mrs.
Stockton, of Pacenixville, was celebrated on
Thursday.
— Ex Clerk of Luzerne county court George
P. Richards was run over and killed by a train
at Plymouth.
—Red-hot metal from a. broken mould pour-.
ed over and fatally burned Patrick Moore, of
Pittsburg.
—Six Chinamen of Luzerne county have
regisiered officially and are now children of
Uncle Sam.
—Seamless steal tubing by a new process
will be made at Reading by the Miltholland
Tube Company.
—Jumping from one train in front of anoth-
er Saturday, Fred Vickney, of Scranton, was
crushed lifeless.
—Most of the Philadelphia and Reading
Coal and Tron C.mpany’s colleries at Pottsville
are working.
—Charged with taking illegal tees, Justice of
the Peace M. B. Barwick, of West Bethlehem,
has been arrested.
—The St. John the Baptist Catholic Church,
of Pottsville, will erect an asylum for German
Catholic orphans.
—Reading’s Board of Health has condemned
the pest house from which a smallpox patient
escaped on Thursday.
—Wages at the Elba Iron Works, Franks-
town, have been cut 10 per cent. and a strike
of 400 men: is probable.
—Over 1800 cubic \ ards of earth were depos-
jt2d by a landslide Friday might in the Albion
quarry at Pen argyle.
—Caught in the. elevator shaft at the Steel.
ton Iron Works, Steelton, John C. Hummer
was erushed to death.
—FWatal burus upon his body were the resul
of little Samuel Fitzpatrick’s playing with
matches, at Pottsville.
—An explosion in a quarry, near Slatington,
hurled a stone against Paul Gambetta's head,
knocking him speechless.
—Several tons of dislodged coal crushed to
death Minor George Boylinke, at Oak Hill col
liery, near Minersville.
—Half a mile from, where he had drowned
in the river at Lock Haven, John Joyce's
body was fished out Friday.
—James Fox, of Pottsville, beat widow Allote
into insensi ility, because she urged him to
settle an 83-cent tobacco bill.
—Judge E. R. Ikeler, of Lebanon county,
will, in view of Judge Pershing’s illness, as-
sist at the Schuylkill civil trials,
—Iron mill owners of Western Pennsylva-
nia complain that great numbers of their
workmen are flocking to Indiana.
—For failare to pay taxes, Ellis G. Kerr, a
Johnstown lawyer, was arrested, but on the
way to jail he weakened and paid.
~All the lawyers of the Franklin county
bar signed a letter at Chambersburg, indorsing
Judge Stewart for the Supreme Beneh.
—Bank Robber W. J. Ryand was convicted
of manslaughter at Kittanning and sentenced
to 12 years in the Western Penitentiary.
—The close of this 50th ynar as an Odd Fel-
low was on Saturday celebrated by ex-As-
semblyman, C. E. Pysert, of Bethlehem.
—Henry Heist, the suspected murderer of
Emanuel Monn, surrendered Saturday at
Gettysburg, although he says he is innocent.
—A fall from a swing in 1874 caused mid in-
sanity which ended Saturday in the suicide by
hanging of William H. Eisenbise, of Reading.
—Experts from Philadelphia are testing
Pottsville’s electrie lights, which oughtto be
of 2000 candle-power, but are said to fall 1300
short.
—Forty Pottsville families will be homeless
April 1, owing to a builder's failure to erect
houses for the Lehigh Valley Coal Company's
employees.
—George Klopfer, a former clerk of Mills
Bros.’ jewelry store, at Phoenixville, has been
arrested at Willkesbarre, with stolen jewelry
on his person. :
—The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
has cleared up its sidings in the Pottsville re-
gion, and will, on Sunday, haul an immense
amount of coal to Philadelphia.