SY P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings.. —Time alone will tell what is to be- come of the rascals. —-Better, by far, be dead than let your wife know you are afraid of her. —The fellow who said : “MAXWELL is a mugwump,” must be contemplating suicide. —ZFor just two hundred and sixty- eight days more will we have to lick the Columbian stamp. —If that Chinese theatrical company appears at the World’s Fair everyone will get onto their cues. —4April showers bring May flow- ers”’—If it don’t soon rain we guess we'll have to get along without tha .posies. —A type writing machine trust is the latest combine. The fair operators are not to be affected however by the mo- ‘nopoly. — France seems to have about as much trouble with her ministry as the Republican newspapers do with our cabinet. —The electrocution of the colored preacher-murderer at Sing Sing, on Monday, was a kind of Easter offering to the poultry world. — When you see a fellow come down town in the morning with a patch of -court plaster looking like this X over his -eye, there is every indication that some -one got cross at him the night before. —There does not seem to be much ‘fuss about the chopping process at ‘Washington, but Democrats are de- lighted to see the ax unmercilessly fall- ing and the heads rolling into the bask- et. — Washington hotel keepers are anx- ious lest the appointments be made without mature deliberation. Their solicitude springs not so much from the fear of incompetent incumbents as from lack of time in which to bleed aspirants. —The people of the Windy city knew what they were about when they elected CARTER HARRISON to the may- oralty. They want a big man to pre- side ver the city during the Fair and they knew that only a Democrat could fill the bill. —Next Saturday what few new leaves remain of those turned over on New Years day will have to suffer. The trout fishing season begins and the length of the fish will be entirely in ac- cord with the time the resolution not to lie has been kept. --Gerwany has the highest tariff measures of any country on the globe; she has also the largest standing army; her soldiers numbering over half a million men, yet it costs only about half as much to support that army as it does to pay Uncle SaM’s pensioners. —The capture of H. A. BoTs¥orp, the Philadelphia embezzler, in the moun- tain fastness of Brazil, where he was liv- ing happily with a newly wedded wife, seems to be another clincher to the theory that when a woman 1s taken into ones confidence there is a general taking in to follow. —The State department is very much wrought up over the solution of the problem : Who is to foot the bills for Uncle Sam's royal guests during the Fair. Is there n:t some enterprising “freak” manager who will put up for the titled visitors for the privilege of showing them to the public? —For heaven's sakes what is the West coming too? Michigan will have a law prohibiting the custom of treating, and now a “wild and woolly” judge has decided that the free lunch counter is illegal. Isit a combine to enrich Chicago or are they trying to starve out their newspaper men out there. —The annual Easter egg rolling on the White House grounds, in Washing- ton, on Monday, was indulged in by " many thousand children and witnessed by equally as many office seekers., who would doubtless have had a keener rel- ish for the sport had GROVER been play- ing too, and the eggs have been appointments, —Ifever there was a piece of folly committed under the guise of legisla- tion it was the passage of the bill to ap- propriate $625,000 to be thrown away in trying to improve those 6x10 State buildings at Harrisburg. What Penn- sylvania wants is a new capitol building: worthy the magnitude of this great commonwealth. And when we have the new capitol, why a new class of law makers would not come amiss either. —This talk of pensioning judges has about as much common sense in it as a proposition to run an elevator to the moon. If the tax-payers are to be re- quired to pension every official who draws a fat salary for wearing out the gable end of his trousers on the judicial bench, when he gets too lazy tor further annoyance, it is high time that they be- gin pensioning themselves for paying taxes and remaining under the glorious ban of this republic. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. "VOI. 2%. BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 7, 1893. NO. 14. Ambassadorial Honors, We scarcely believe that the Ameri- can people will put on any extra airs on account of their government being at last represented at foreign courts by Ambassadors. Since the establish. ment of their government, they got along very well with representatives abroad who bore no higher title than Ministers Plenipotentiary, and who were abundantly able to attend to all the business we had to transact with the highest foreign powers. Some very important international questions were settled while ordinary Ministers were the only agents we had to attend to the points in dispute. We had a number of serious boundary ques- tions to be adjasted with Great Britain, and they were settled without having an Ambassador to take charge of them. It may be believed that although we now have an envoy to the court of St. James, with the exalted title, the Behring sea difficulty will not be rectified with any greater dispatch, or more satisfactorily, than if a plain Minister was our repre- sentative in London. The term Ambassador seems to be out of place when connected with a dip- Jomatic agent of the United States. As it is understood in European diplo- macy it means the personal represen- tative of a sovereign. Thus, when Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, and Empress of India, sends an Ambassa. dor to the German court, that high functionary sta: ds in the place of his sovereign in the relations that exist be- tween her and the Emperor of Ger- many, and in that capacity has privi- leges in his intercourse with his Ger: man majesty that are personal to the Qneen herself. He can be on terms of greater familfarity ; he is unrestrained from approaching the imperial pres. ence; he can address the Emperor without being compelled to wait un- til he is first addressed. He is placed on a more familiar footing, because he personally occupies the place of his sovereign. To plain Americans such privileges have been but a paliry appearance, al- though they are highly esteemed by the flunkeys who dance attendance on the crowned heads of Europe. But still a disadvantage was experienced by our foreign Ministers in the fact that, being ot a lower grade than Am- bassadors, the repres-ntatives of insig- nificant kingdoms like Portugal, Den mark, Sweden and countries of that | order, who have rank take precedence of them in court functions, the great United States com: ing in at the tail of the procession. That really is all that is in it, it being more a matter of pride and ceremony than a substantial disadvantage. Il was probable that Uacle Sax might hold his head as high as any ot them. The last Congress passed a law that the President could appoint Ambassa- dors to such countries as should send Ambassadors to Washington. Eng. land immediately raised its American Minister to the ambassadorial rank, and asa return to this advance surely President CLEVELAND has made a splen- did selection in accrediting Mr. Bay. ARD to the Court of St. James, and making him the first American A nu. bassador. France has also raised the rank of her Minister at Washington, and no doubt Mr. Eustis, who has al- ready been appointed Minister to France, will be made an Ambassador. After all, there seems to be some- thing incongruous in the ambassadorial idea as associated with the Uuited States. Functionaries of that class, as has already been stated, are the per- sonal representatives of the sovereigns who send them. It was for this rea- son, no doubt, that the founders of our government made no provision for Am- bassadors, as there was no sovereign heré that was to be personally repre- sented. We believe that their ideas were more strictly in conformity with the spirit of Democracy. A ——1It is rather a broad assertion to make but we firmly believe that next to alcohol, the cause of most of the un- happiness of mankind can be found in these remarks of Colonel Henry War. TKRSON, the Kentucky statesman and journalist : “What a struggle it is for money, money, money ! there is more happiness to be had in this world and more interest in the world to come in coining one kindly thought than a million dollars in mon- ev.” the ambassadorial | Believe me, Objectionable Propositions. The judges are again attracting the attention ot the Legislature. It is pro- posed to increase their number in coo- nection with the question of judicial apportionment. Interests are at work to give the people more judges, on the assumption that there are not enough of these judicial functionaries to prop- erly dispense the law. The deficiency is to be supplied not only by the cre: ating of additional districts, but by the increase of the number ot judges in some of the districts already existing. We doubt if the people see the ne- cessity for this increase of the judiciary, or whether they can see in it any oth- er object than to supply more places for judicial aspiranw. To any one who will use his power of observation, it must be evident that there are quite enough judges for all the requirements of the machinery of justice, if they were to apply themselves as closely to their official duties as men ordinarily apply themselves to their business, or as lawyers off the bench devote them- selves to the requireme.ts of their prac tice. But the tact is in many of the districts the judges have not official business enough to engage more than part of their ume. They are found bolding court in other districts, and as they get exira pay for this service there is policy in exchanging benches with their brother jurists. In the annual statements of the expense ol paving the judges of the State, it is found that a large portion of the cutlay is for this service outside of their districts, which is so much added to their regular sala- ry. Doubtless there are cases in which it is necessary for a judgeto have his p'ace supplied on the bench by a judge from another district, but there i8 equally no doubt that such substitu- tion is needless in many cases, and that the privilege is much abused, to the great expense ot the State, and to who thns exchange benches. The L-gislature is also being asked tor an increase of the judicial torce in districts which apparently have ahout as many judzes as they need. To the usual fanetionary of that class that be- an additional law judge. or one to at- tend to @ arter Sessions or Orphan's Court business, be supplied. In most cases these additions are not necessary and are asked for noother than a person- i al ohject. If each district paid its own judicial expenses, it would make but {litle difference to people living outside of its limits, how much money its peo- ple might spend for the luxury of a large assortment of judges, but as the expense is paid by the State, such in- dulgence affects all the tax-payers. Bat the most objectionable proposi- tion that is being made in the Legisla- ture relative to the judiciary is to pen- sion the judges for life after their re- tirement from the bench. It is argued that after a judze has spent his best years in the judicial service, depriving himself of the big fees which he would have made if he had continued in the practice of the law, he ought to be re warded for such sacrifice by being made a pensioner. The laughable feat- ure of this proposition is that there are few lawyers who are not anxious to make such a sacrifice, and to many of them the salary of a judge is more than they are able to make in their practice. The pension idea is exercis- ing a demoralizing effect upon the pub lic mind. Have we not enough pen- sioners saddled upon the country, with- out creating a roll of judicial pensioners to increase the public expense? If this idea is encouraged much farther, some law-makers of extraordinary lib- erality with the people's money, will be proposing that Members of the Leg- islature and State Senators should re- tire to private lite, with snug pensions, for the balance of their natural exist- ence. Itis time that the people put their feet down on the pension idea. They have had enough of it. Two Versions. There was a man in Washington, And CrLarksoN was his name ; Who with an ax and many whacks , Democratic necks did maim. There is a man in Washington, Maxwerw is what they call him, By whose ax and many whacks, Republican headsare fallin’. — If you want printing of any de- ‘scription the WATCHMAN office is the “place to have it done. : longs to every district it is asked that | A Barbarous Prejudice. NotkLing could be more unreasonable and bigoted, than the feeling that pre- vails in some of the countries of Europe against people of the Hebrew race. It is a relic of barbarism that could be ex- cused in the dark ages, but is entirely out of place in the nineteenth century, when the most enlightened nations of the world, such as the United States, England and France, have set an ex- ample of just and liberal treatment of the Jewish people. Russia is the chief offender in subjecting the Jews to per- secution that ie as unjust as it is unen- lightened. But when the Russian peo- ple themselves are the victims of a ty- rannical government the oppression of the Semitic subjects of the Czar is not so much of an anomaly. But it is really astonishing that in a country in which so much intelligence prevails as in Germany, the Jew-bait- ing disposition should be so strongly developed. The same amount of in- telligence exists in the capital of Aus. tria, and the same unreasonable and unenlightened disposition is found in even a more rampant degree. This face has been demonstrated by the trouble our government had with that of Austria on the Jewish question. 1t will be remembered that in President CLeveLanp’s first administration American Minister KEILEY was objec: ted to on account of his having a Jew- ish wife, and such was the opposition to him at Vienna, on that account, that he resigned the position and the Amer- ican Legation at the Court of the Austrian Emperor was left to the care of the Secretary of Legation. The po- sition taken by the Austrians was en- tirely inadmissible to the epirit and policy of the American government which recognizes no religious distine- tions, and places all denominations on the same political level. And now in Mr. CLEVELAND'S sec the pecuniary advantage of judges "ond administration, there is likely to arise a difficulty with the Vienna an- thorities similar to that in which Min- ister KEILEY was involved. The Presi- dent bas appointed Mr. Max Jupp as consul at the Austrian capital, and re- ports from that quarter are to the effect that a strong feeling has been aroused against receiving Mr. Jupp in his consu- lar capacity on account of his belonging to a race that seems to be so obnoxious to the Austrians, He has not been ap- pointed as Minister, in which capacity | Mr. KEILEY, or rather his wife, was so offensive to the Vienna Jew-haters, but merely as the resident consul in that city, but the fact of his being a Hebrew has aroused opposition to his , occupying even that inferior position. | Itis difficult to determine how to deal | with sucn unreasonable and prejudiced | people on a question of this kind. The | American government cannot recog- nize such barbarous discrimination against any of ber citizens, on account of their religion and, under the circum. stances woulduo’t it be just as well if the Preeident should conclude that it is not necessary for this free and enlight- ened country to be represented ata cap- ital where people do not appear to have emerged from the prejudice and bigotry of the dark ages. 3 ——The senseless quibbling of the Austrian government over the appoint- ment of Mr, Max Jupp to be United States Consul to Vienna, simply on ac- count of his religious professions, seems far beneath the dignity of a country at- fecting the broadening influences of modern civilization. Had it deemed Mr. Jupp in any way incompetent to fill the consular appointment or have been able to show the possibility of any unfavorable results from his commis. sion the protest against accepting him, raised by the anti-Semitics would not have appeared so small. Mr. Jupp's predecessor, Mr. Jurius GoLpsCHMIDT, is & Hebrew by birth, yet Austria found him entirely satisfactory as a consul. ——It seems that the Legislature, that is the House part of it, has at last wakened up to a realization of the fact that unless bills are acted upon. with greater dispatch or something is done to stop the introduction of more, it will take all year to get through with the work. To expedite matters the House has decided that without unanimons consent no bill can be read in place after April 18th, The End of the Boycott. From the Philadelphia Record. The decisions of the United States Circuit Court at Toledo in the case of 4 the Lake Shore engineers who refused to handle freight from the Ann Arbor Road, whnse employes were non-union men, and in the appeal of the Aon Ar- bor Company for an injunction against Chief Arthur to restrain him from or- dering a boycott against freight oftered by the Ann Arbor Company to con- necting railroads, are of great impor- tance. Judge Ricks does not deny the right of employes to quit work when they choose todo so. But an engineer on the Lake Shore Road—who, alter that road had been ordered by the Court to accept and carry forward Anu Arbor freight cars, withont quitting the em- ploy of his company. twice refused to move Ann Arbor cars, only complying with theorder after the boycott had been abandoned—was adjudged to be in con- tempt. In effect this is a declaration that engineers cannot stay ou their en- gines and defy the order of the Court as applied to the company they serve. Tue decision in the case of the in- junction asked for against Chier Arthur as the representative of the Brother: hood of Locomoiive Engineers, re- straining him from ordering a boycott against the Ann Arbor Ruad, ¢overs more important matter. It is decided that the Brotherhood cannot make a rule nullifying a law of the United States which compels common carriers whose lines traverse different States to accept and carry all freight offered them by connecting railways. In short it is held that a boycott is a criminal conspiracy against the public welfare. This decision will be immediately carried to the Supreme Court of the United States on appeal. If it shall be sustained, the ‘boycott’ as an ad- Jjunct of the “strike” will no longer be a permissible rule of action on the part of labor organizations. There is no apparent flaw in the reasoning by which Judge Taft has reached the conclusion that a precon- certed stoppage of business on a railway whose employes have no grievance, brought about because the company insists upon complying with the re- quirements of its charter and the laws of the land amounts to a conspiracy. Toe final decision of tie matter by the United States Supreme Court will now be awaited with profound public in- terest. Immigration Restrictions the Question of I'o Day, From the Williamsport Sun. It seems that the day when this coun- “try will pay dearly for permitting tor- "eign cut throats to land isnot far off. | The murders of the Chinese high— | binders, the threats of the anarchists rand [talian mafians are but the mur- murings of the storm that must sooner lor later break upon our heads. And, lin the face of this certain fact, the United States government continues to allow foreizn nations to dump their criminals on our shores. There are greater evils than the cholera to be feared unless this foreign immigration is restricted. The Fewer the Better. From the Altoona Times. The legislature has been remarkably slow this year, although it has been in session for about three months, only a few bills bave yet reached the governor. There is, it is true, a large number of measures nearing the completed stage as far as the legislature is concerned, but, in general, there is a backwardness in the work. There is no disposition to hustle the bills through, and, either the legislature will hold a long session or else there will be few new laws. From the Philadelphia Record. More than half of the $200,000 ap- propriated for the expenses of the Ber- ing Sea Commission’s trip to Paris has been spent, and the Commission has only been gone a month. At this rate a special disbursing officer with the party, at an extra salary ot $15 per day, would soon become a superfluity, as there would be nothing left for him to disburse. Alike in Name Only. From the Pittsburg Post. The William E. Curtis, of New York who was yesterday appointed assistant secretary of the treasury is not the Wil- liam E. Curtis who sume years ago steered the tariff commission aYout the country and who is now engineering the bureau of American republics. The New York man igs a reformer and the other is a Republican. Alas, We Have too Many of Them. ‘ From the Milton Record. When you hear a Democratic croak: er denouncing Cleveland, set it down that he is a Democrat for an office on- ly, and that he has failed to connect with a government job. We Hope to be in With Holman. From the Washington Star. The World's Fair managers ‘have calculated that there will be one hun- dred thousand deadheads at the World’s Fair—Mr. Holman -and - 99,~ 999 others. Spawls from the Keystone, —Welding is done by electricity by the Johnstown Iron Company, Johnstown. —Smallpox is dying outin Reading, and the the infected houses are being fumigated. —Allegheny City and Pittsburg may join hands to build a big water supply reservoir. —St. Patrick’s Catholic Church® which cost $75,000, was dedicated in Pottsville Sunday. —The Neilson shaft horror investigation has begun before the Coroner's jury at Shamokin. —Havying set fire to his clothes, Ralph Shot- well, of Wilkesbarre was, Friday, burned to death. —Over a hundred new students were regis- tered at the Shippensburg normal school this , spring. —Robert McGee, of Philadelphia, was found dead 1n a shanty near Lancaster from ap- poplexy. —George Ziegler, of Philadelphia, committ= ed suicide at the Norristown Insane Asylum Monday. —A disease which causes the-eyes of poul try to drop out is alarming Berks county poultry raisers. —PForty-five title examiners for the Altoona Trust and Title Company, have struck af Houllidaysburg. —The death warrant was Friday read to Pietro Bu:cieri, who murdered Sister Hildal- garta in Reading. —Summonred across the street to meet her mother, little Elsie I. Mutzig, Pittsburg, was killed by a street car. —An unknown Italian walked in front of a Pennsylvania Railroad express at Lancaster and was instantly killed. —Two Italian laborers on the Wilkesbarre and Eastern Railroad perished in the flames of a shanty at Spring Brook. —The jury in the case of William Beergner, charged at Pittsburg with the murder of James Y ung acquitted him. —T'he fire in the Latimer mine, near Wilkes. barre, has broken out afresh and is being fought by a large force of miners. —The explosion of the boiler of a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad locomotive at Connellsville scalded terribly three brakemen. —It is rumored in Pittsburg that the “Pennsy” will put on a train to run from Phil adelphia to Chicago in 19 hours. —Rector Henry Jones, of Christ Episcopal Church, Media, may be asked to resign by tha re-elected vestry, which opposes him. —Railroad Agents mat on Saturday and de~ cided td advance ore freight rates to the West" ern Pennsylvania districts 10 per cent. —The people of the Seventh ward of Potts_ town have gone into court to have Constable Mahlon H. Engle removed from office. —The little daughter of an Ebervale Hun- garian, Louis Pecakela, set fire to her clothes with matches and was burned to death. —Two passenger trains on the Philadelphia & Reading collided at Bethlehem, disabling one locomotive. No person was injured. —Because Henry Collins refused to hurrah for Cleveland, George Rapp, of Chambersburg, knocked him down aad both are in jail. —A Coroner's jury censured J.S. Wentz & Co., because Daniel Baillig was ground to death in rollers at their Hazelbrook mine. —The Philadelphia syndicate that bought one big railway line in Reading is trying to purchase the East Reading Electric Read. —Hugh O0'Dounell, the Homestead leader, is in Upper Schuylkill Valley trying, it is said, to reorganize the Amalgamated Association. —Ellsworth Criswell, who is wanted in Har-, risburg for embezzling $400 from John W Young, was arrested yesterday at Dayton, Ohio. —It has been definitely determined that Patrick Ford, who was supposed to have been murdered near Mt. Carmel, perished from ex- posure. —A hot coal from an engine caused the burning of the Philadelphia and Reading Rilroad bridge at Job's ice dam,near Barnes" ville, —The Poor Directors on Saturday elected Dr. O'Hara resident physician of the Schuyl- kill connty Almshouse, and Daniel Sweeney, foreman. Mrs. Sarah Coleman who died recently in Washington, was the owner of an estate in Lebanon and Lancaster counties valued at $2,000,000. —Of the $13,000 deficit in the Reading treas- ury accounts, $5200 has been cut from the Water Department and the remainder from the city funds. —Controller Morrow, of Pittsburg, by ap” pointment, on Monday, became Assistant Con- troller, when ex-Mayor Gourley shall have be- come Controller. —After a jury at Uni ntown had been sworn in, last Saturday. Judge Ewing adjourned Court and ordered the jury to return to the jury box May 31. —At Milton Grove, Lancaster county, last week, twelve dog: were bitten by a mad dog owned by Isaac Kelchner, It is thought that all the dogs bitten have been killed. — A new Masonic hall on Dickson avenue, Scranton, has just been completed, and is one of the handsomest in the state. The lodge room is occupied by the Masons, Odd Fellows and Heptasophs. —Owing to the frequent thaws a great cave. in occured in a deep cut at Conewago, Colum- bia county. Rocks containing 8,000 cubic feet came along. About 10,000 cubic yards of earth in what must again be removed. —A car loaded with coal and miners tools was shipped from Pottsville to Chicaro for ex- hibition at the World’s Fair. There were 163 boxes of coal in the shipment, and all the tools and implements used by miners in re- moving the coal. —The Cartwright Lumber company which has go successfully opened up the resources of the Toby district of Elk county. changed its management, Mr. Cartwright, retiring from the active management and his place being taken by 8. 8. Bulls, of Olean. —The post office inspector in the postal guide for February says: Dauphin county contains fifty-one postoffices, eleven of which are graded as “excellent.” Lancaster county has 193 postoffices and sixteen are marked “excellent.” Lebanon county has thirty. nine postoffices and four are “excellent, —The Odd Fellows of Pittston and West Pittston have taken steps for the observance in those places on April 26 of the seventy-first anniversary of the foundat.on of the order in this country. Invitations have been extended tolodges all through northeastern Pennsyl- vania to participate in the parade during the afternoon, and it is evident that the local loiges propose making the event a most an- spicious one. LE AR BS