3Yy PP. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
— Women suffragists are certainly
making men sufferers.
—How many women there are who,
for want of any other name, call them-
selves Kittie, when, alas, they are really
old cats.
—Some one has said “when in doubt
go to church,” which might lead to the
conclusion : when you are sure of any-
thing tell every else to go to the —.
— If the State is to appropriate money
to clean out the Delaware for Philadel-
phia why not complete the imposition
and ask for an appropriation to filter the
Schuylkill also ?
— Petticoats at elections were the or-
der of things in the Buckeye State on
Tuesday. Asa rule the women voted
intelligently since most of them voted
with the Democrats.
—Mayor WARWICK, of Philadelphia,
in his inaugural speech, declared for an
honest city government. It was quite
a declaration, but one which few people
will have much faith in.
—The Sultan of Turkey wants Amer-
ican teachers for his new schools at
Constantinople. The crafty old liber-
tine probably is looking for a fresh sup-
ply of inmates for his harem.
—So the monometalists claim that
gold is the “yard-stick of trade.” With
such a view of the yellow metal it is lit-
“tle wonder that they should consider
themselves so far above everyone else.
—McKiNLEY and his robber tariff
will never be heard of in the campaign
of 96. The man who will declare for a
cheaper and more voluminous currency
will be the leader of the winning
party.
—Fashion has worked a change in
woman’s figure. Instead of having a
waist nineteen inches around, it must
now be twenty-four. What a pity
man’s arm can’t be made to conform to
such changes.
—The fact that coal oil jumped from
75 cents to $1.12 within ten days after
Ha sTINGS signed the MARSHALL pipe
line bill shows all too well what interest
he served by attaching his signature to
the pernicious measure.
—Scientists are trying to prove that
peanuts are more nutritious than meat,
They have not explained what particu-
lar kind of meat they made the compar-
ison with, but it would not be surprising
to hear that it wasskunk meat.
—The Connellsville coke workers
were happy last week because they were
given an increase in wages. Now that
the rent of company bouses and store
goods have made a corresponding raise
they are mad all over and are getting
ready to strike.
—Tuesday’s elections throughout the
country indicate that the revulsion of
feeling that operated so disastrously to
the Democrats last fall has about all
worked off and that normal conditions
obtain once more. The people are
doubtless beginning to see what's
what.
— What will Mr. WHITE N1x0N and
his little paper, the Houtzdale Observer,
have to say about the appvintment of
DELANEY as custodian of public
grounds at Harrisburg. Surely such a
patriot (?) as the Houtzdale journalist (?)
will get the jaundice over this action
which he will call pandering to the
pope.
—The would-be assassin of Lt HuxNe
CHANG, the Chinese peace envoy to
Japan, has been sentenced to imprison-
ment for life and will be sent to the
mines in northern Japan, which in the
rigor of their regulations and severity
of their climatic conditions, are much
like the mines of Siberia. A life work
there will hardly lead the young fanatic
to look upon the cause of his exile as
having been for the good of his coun.
try.
—The view Republicans take of the
McKINLEY bill is nicely seen in the
way THoMAS BRACKETT REED, of
Maine, got mad wher Senator FRYE, of
the Pine Tree State, announced to the
public that Mr. REED had had as much
to do in framing the measure as the
Ohio protectionist. Now that the good
results of the WiLson bill are every-
where undeniably evident the Republi-
can presidential possibilities are trying
their best to disown the monopoly mak-
ing measure of McKINLEY.
—The bill now before the Legislature
to make military instruction, both prac-
tical and theoretical, a part of our pub-
lic school system is a most obnoxious
one indeed. What, with compulsory
education and military as one of its re-
quirements, would the difference between
our condition and that of the Germans
amount to ? If the advance of civiliza-
tion is to be what is claimed for it there
will be little need of armed forces any-
where and if school children are to bene-
fit at all from such study it will only be
in a physical way, then why not estab-
lish gymnasiums instead of compelling
all to bear arms ?
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
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VOL. 40
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 5, 1895.
NO. 14.
New-County Projects.
A craze for the erection of new coun-
ties has broken out in various parts of
the State. The constitutional restraint
that was put upen such projects had
the effect of holding them in check for
quite awhile, as it bas been some years
since a new county was made in this
State ; but the assurance that ‘‘every-
thing goes” at Harrisburg just now,
whether constitutional or not, has en-
couraged the projectors of new coun-
ties to endeavor to cut and carve old
boundaries and patch the pieces to-
gether for the formation of new coun-
ties in the interest of aspiring towns
that want to be county seats.
The interest of a comparatively small
locality is found at the bottom of every
one of these enterprises. The advan-
tage of the larger part of the included
territory is a subordinate consideration.
In every instance, the active promoters
of such movements are . the citizens of
the prospective county seat. It is the
court house they are after, caring very
little for the expense that may be sad-
dled upon the balance of the new
county.
This craze fornew counties, that is
being so strongly developed at Harris-
burg, includes a number of projects of
that kind, among them being the for-
mation of a county out of parts of
Luzerne and Schuylkill, which has
been baited with the name of QUAY to
catch the henchmen of the boss who
compose the majority of the Legisla.
ture. Hazleton is pushing this project
for its local benefit. Another scheme
is to make a new county out of parts of
Allegheny and several of its neighbors.
An enterprise that might be facilitated
Ly calling it Dick Quay county, thus
doubling the honor paid the Quay
family in the county nomenclature of
the State. Nothing could be more
enticing to the Legislators who wear the
collar of the boes. A third new coun-
ty scheme is one to be made out of
parts of Montgomery and Berks, for the
benefit ot Pottstown, while Shamokin
18 starting a movement to slice off parts
of Northumberland and Schuylkill for
the formation of a county that wduld
have its court house in that aspiring
mining town.
These movements are not intended
to promote any public interest, or to
meet any want existing in the districts
intended to be affected by them. Their
object 1s to subserve the interest of
localities that would be specially bene-
fited. The general effect would in-
evitably be disturbing contentions over
the division of counties, and heavy
expense to the tax-payers involved in
such divisions.
A Legislative Product.
Kalamazoo has become famous for
the raising of celery, but for salary
raising Harrisburg is surpassing all
other localities. Big things are being
done in that line at the state capital.
Among other achievements in the way
of raising salaries the increase of the
pay of the superintendent of state
printing is worthy of notice for its
liberality. On this subject the Repub-
lican Lancaster New Era remarks:
“The present Democratic superin
tentent of public printing has resigned
and his Republican successor is to
have an increase of $1,000 in salary
when he is nominated. He must be a
yery poor sort of an official who can-
not get his salary raised at Harrisburg
in these days.”
Even the Republican newspapers
have their fun with the salary raisers
who are making such free use of the
people’s money. But what's the odds
when the people approve of it, as they
evidently did by a majority of nearly a
quarter of a million. But the raising
of salaries may eventually be followed
by the people raising h—Il with the
salary grabbers.
——The recent jump in the beef
market is the biggest on record since
the cow jumped over the moon. So
sudden a rise in the price of steaks and
roasts in the city markets is creating
alarm among economical housekeepers.
This beet inflation is said to be caused
by the scarcity of beef cattle among
western dealers. In view of this short
age it makes but little difference
whether the Germans and French ex-
| don’t
| spare.
clude our beef or not. Just now we
seem to have the animals to
Money That the State Should Not Fur-
nish.
Mr. Cramp, the head of the great
ship-building company of Philadelphia,
has been before the State lawmakers
and told them how the channel of the
Delaware river is obstructed by shoals,
in consequence of which the commerce
of Philadelphia has been greatly io-
jured, the object of this information
being to induce the Legislature to ap-
propriate a large amount of the State
money for the removal of those shoals.
Iv strikes us that the proper place
for Mr. CraMP to make this represen-
tation would have been before the city
councils of Philadelphia, which ought
to be told+in plain language that if the
city's money can be recklessly squan-
dered on objects that are of no public
benefit, the State should not be Jooked
to for means to improve the city’s com-
mercial facilities.
It is represented at Harrisburg that
$500,000 contributed by the State would
greatly assist in removing the shoals
from the Delaware river. This is com-
paratively a small sum. It issmall in
comparison with the amount that has
been stolen by jobbers in the construc-
tion of the $18,000,000 city hall. It is
insignificant when compared with the
annual stealings of the ‘‘combine”
politicians and city contractors who
manage to run the city expenses up to
the exorbitant yearly amount of $32,-
000,000. The exercise of but a little
moderation in their pillage would leave
enough to supply the means for dredg.
ing the river, which the State is asked
to furnish. The sum is a small one,
when looked at in this light, but it is
too large for the State to give, as it
would be a concession to the corruption
and extravagance in their city govern-
ment to which a majority of the people
of Philadelphia have deliberately con-
sented by their votes in the election of
municipal officers.
——1It is amusing to observe the airs
put on by some of the blue bloods of | {51 }ife?
Philadelphia on account of their
colonial and revolutionary descent.
Some of them have been appearing in
tableaux, dressed up in the archaic
habiliments of their alleged ancestors,
an exhibition intended to impress the
ordinary spectator with a proper sense |
of their ancestral importance. A large
bulk of the present American popula-
tion have descended from the three
millions of people who were colonials
and took part in the revolution, but it
appears that a select few claim’ the ex-
clusive distinction of such descent and
assume hereditary superiority on that
account. There isa good deal of snob-
bery in this blue blooded pretension.
——DLast week two bills were found
to have disappeared from the calendar
of the Legislature. One of them was
a bill regulating and reducing tele-
phone charges, and the other was for
the regulation of Pullman car fares.
Their being suddenly put out of eight
was considered queer, but there was
nothing queer about it. These bills af-
fected two rich corporations that didn’t
want to have their charges regulated,
and corporations of that kind have but
little difficulty in convincing the man-
agers of a Republican Legislature that
such legislation won’t do. A quiet way
of disposing of such bills is to drop
them trom tbe calendar. It attracts
less public attention than to kill them
outright in regular order.
——A project is before the Legis-
lature to establish a new court which
will be a sort of halfway house be-
tween the common pleas court and
the supreme court. There doesn’t ap-
pear to be any practical use for it ex-
cept to serve as a point in the course
of litigation where the parties may
take breath long enough to calculate
how much will be left for them by the
lawyers after they have gone through
the three courts.
——The passage of the bill that was
intended to provide Captain DELANEY
with a fat office in the superintendency
of the capitol grounds and buildings,
has been logically followed by his ap-
pointment to that high-salaried posi-
tion by Governor Hastings. DerLaNEY
engineered the bill and of course he
should have the usufruct. He gets his
reward for a dirty kind of political
service and the people pay the expense.
Pensioning Judges.
The bill, now before the Legislature,
to pension the judges of our courts, in
certain cases, is a proposition to make
a new class of pensioners taken from
civil life. Is this not a mischievous
departure ? Who next? 1f we pension
one class, why not anotner? Who is
to pay the bill ? For twenty-five years
this mendicant has been asking alms,
but our Representatives have not been
willing to lay this burden upon the
shoulders of the people.
It is a well known fact that the
judgeship is sought by the greater
number of lawyers, and that very un-
seemly scrambles are made to get it, It
is also known that every possible de-
vice is made use of by judges to retain
the position. They do not stop in
many cases at the use of the lowest
acts known to the politician, but fur-
ther, they resort to their official powers
and, by patronage to some and threats
to others, endeavor to compass their
re-election. The bill before the Legis-
lature proposes to pension judges who
have succeeded in being re-elected or
shall succeed in remaining on the
bench long enough. Why ? It is argued
that they should be pensioned because
while serving on the bench judges are
practically precluded from engaging in
business enterprises. Are not preach-
ers and teachers and others in like
manner precluded, and must they be
pensioned too ?
But is it a fact that judges do not
engage in business enterprises ? Is it
not notorious that judges do engage in
business enterprises ? There are judges
who have a high appreciation of official
duty and who hold themselves aloof
from business, and consecrate their
minds to the duty of sitting in judg-
ment upon the affairs ot their fellow
men. And doubtless there are cases of
judges to whom it would be a merciful
act to extend the helping hand, but
i does this exception prove that all
should be quartered upon the public
The constitutional convention of
1873, took cognizance of this impor-
tunity and expressly prohibited all
pensions except for military services.
See section 18, Act 111.
“No appropriations, except for pen-
sions or gratuities for military ser-
vices, shall be made for charitable,
educational or benevolent purposes to
any person or community, nor to any
denominational or sectarian institution
corporation or association.”
What is the proposed pension but a
charitable or tenevolent gift? That
it issuch is set out in eyery argument
made in favor of the passage of the
bill. But the astounding answer is
made that as the judges of the su-
preme court will get the advantages of
this law, they will find a way to pro-
nounce it constitutional. Itis further
said that this bill has the sanction of
the judges of said court—and that they
desire its passage. We have higher
regard and respect for our court of last
resort than to believe any such aecusa-
tion. But that anyone should express
such thought, shows to what extremes
the advocates of this bill may go.
By section 2, of Act III, the “Legis-
lature is prohibited from passing any
bill giving any extra compensation to
any. public officer)’ * # * % % ® giter
services shall have been rendered, and
yet judges are asking to be compen-
sated from year to vear after they have
ceased to be judges, or to render any
service. Surely the people are not in
favor of any snch additional tax. No
lawyer need become a judge if he does
not want to. Poor fellow ! %
The political history of the
country hasn’t anything to show in
the way of office hunting that equals
MoKiNLEY’s case. Having commenced
chasing the presidential bee last sum-
mer he has pursued it in every section
of the country and keeps on pursuing
it still. The high priest or protection is
entirely too anxious for the presidential
office ever to get it. The object of his
ambition is beyond the reach of a can-
didate who bases his claim on a repu-
diated policy. By the time the next
Republican presidential platform is
framed a high tariff claimant will find
in it no plank to stand on. With the
tariff timber thrown out of the plat
form as superannuated and useless,
poor McKiNrey will be found thrown
out with it.
Democratic Victories—Their Portend.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
The elections in the Ohio towns
seem to show a revulsion toward the
Democracy ; which is a very natural
process. The Republican party made
80 great a sweep last year because ot
the phenomenal depression of the
times, that it is not likely to be able to
maintain the position given it by the
deep disgust of the people with their
condition.
Then it has become apparent to - the
voter that the business depression was
in no way caused by the Democratic
administration, its rise and fall being
independent of political changes. The
Republican victories of last year failed
wholly to better the business condition,
which steadily fell from bad to worse,
until now it has reached its lowest, and
what the prophets proclaim to be its
last stage, before business revival. The
newspapers which have been arduous-
ly predicting better times for two years
past, are particularly certain now that
they have come. The Wall street brok-
ers have raised prices, in apparent be-
lief that the winter of their discontent
has passed ; although the fact seems to
be that the bond syndicate is pegging
the market up in order to save those
ten millions of profit that they made
on paper, from the burning. Cotton
and wheat are higher; but manufac-
turers are lower. Iron never sold as
low as it sells to-day ; but it may be
that the widely prophesied better times
a-coming will shortly inspire a con-
sumption of goods that will relieve the
market from the weight of its over-
production. With better times estab-
lished, no one will doubt that the
Democratic party will be in position
for a lively wrestle for supremacy in
the autumn ; and with a fair chance
of success.
Where Republicanism Should Hide Its
Head.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The legislative session in New Hamp-
shire wound up on Friday last with war
between the two Houses, the hostilities
having been precipitated by the Re-
publican leader in the lower branch,
who, incensed at the killing of his pet
measure in the Senate, opened an ad-
dress to the members of that Chamber,
before whom he appeared by ingitation.
with the words : “Gentlemen, I have
documentary evidence that two-thirds
of the members of this honorable body
are liars.” This was more than Sen-
atorial courtesy could stand, and pan-
demonium pnt a closure upon the pro-
ceedings. It is fortunate for the good
repute of the country that the episode
occurred in the staid old Common-
wealth of New Hampshire—a Com-
monwealth of high moralists such as
Blair and Chandler, and one not to be
suspected of ‘plantation manners.”
But it would have been awkward had
the affair happened in the South.
Are.
From the Walla Walla, Wash. Statesman.
near a realization of their ambition
that they are now considered a pro-
position to get a judicial ruling which
voter’s exact age. They think that the
admission that they are twenty-one
vears of age ought tobe sufficient. What
age of any person who proposes to
vote? If the voter makes affidavit
that be or she is twenty-one or over,
complied with. Among men itis un-
derstood that a statement of age is re-
quired as one means of identification.
But no one contends that a woman be-
tween twenty-one and fifty can be
identified by her apearance as to age.
She may be identified by other means,
but after a woman has reached ma-
turity she practically chooses the age
which best suits her general style.
Yes, Let Us Have Harmony.
From the Clearfield Public Spirit.
Our Democratic exchanges deprecate
very much the fact that Hon. James
Kerr has seen fit to go bunting for
party “harmony” with a brass band
and sharpedged sword. They all ask
pertinent questions about the condition
of the Democratic party in Clearfield
county and even inquire why Mr. Kerr
has not been spending some time in
saving his own county before under-
taking to turn the State upside down.
One exchange goes so far as to inti-
mete that if he had spent half the
money and energv in the judgeship
fight a year ago, as he has in his pres-
ent little by play, D. L. Krebs might
now be on the bench. But let us have
heaps of harmony, if we have to fight
for it.
Carrying Weight With It,
From the Williamsport Sun.
Uncle Sawn has sent a thousand ton
war vessel to Chinese waters to protect
American interests. Surely no tea
drinker will incur the danger of being
blown to pieces by attacking Ameri-
cans so long as such a formidable ves-
3 carrying the American flag menaces
im.
——Read the WATCHMAN,
It is No One's Business How Old They |
The woman sufiragists have got so |
will dispense with a statement of the |
Spawls from the Keystone,
—After May 1, Altoona will nave a paid
fire department.
—Councils in the cities A the State re-
organized Monday. g
— Ina Pottsville coal mine, John Walgo
fell 150 feet to his death.
—Lafayette College, at Easton, has
more students than ever before.
—Governor Hastings will make the Me-
morial address at Allegheny City.
—Dr. Morris F. Crawley has been made
Medical Inspector of Lehigh County.
—A Catholic church will be built at
Glen Campbell the coming summer.
—Robbers got #500 worth of clothing in
J. M. Gidding’s store, at Bloomsburg.
—Reading’s ministers havetaken to de
bating against flashy theatrical posters.
~The Ross Club, at Williamsport, will
entertain Governor and Mrs, Hastings to.
day.
—The towns of Franklin, Warren and
Erie celebrate their centennials this
year.
—At Eaglesmere, Lycoming eounty,
sleighing is good and the ice is two feet
thick.
—Northumberland is getting some new
industries and is enjoying a big boom this
spring.
—Financial trouble induced Henry Kile
more, at Lewisburg, York county, to hang
himself,
—Arguments were begun in the Blair.
White Judgeship contest, at Indiana
Tuesday.
—An express trainat Altoona ran down
and seriously hurt two men named Trox-
ell and Miller.
—Mrs. Mary Miller, of Clearfield, died
from heart failure at the advanced age of
80 years, Thursday.
—A wall collapsed at Shenandoah, badly
injuring John Stauffer, William Thomas
and Joseph Lehmler.
—Loaders and breakboys, then quarry.
men. struck and tied up the Excelsior
Slate quarry at Bangor.
—The fourth victim of the Jeanesville
trolley runaway, Mrs. Joseph Evans, of
Hazleton, died Sunday.
—At DuBois a thief stole the silver com*
munion service from the altar of the Epis-
copal chureh in that place.
—Shenandoalh merchants have an anti.
peddler league, and Monday drove out of
town a number of itinerants.
—Grace Bell, an actress, had a revolver
takenaway fromr her at Lancaster, as a
suicidal purpose was suspected.
—The Pottsville United Evangelical
congregation has purchased a $6000 site
and will erect a $20,000 church.
—Farmers in the State say the wheat
crop looks excellent, owing to the great
amount of snow during the winter.
—Lancaster enjoyed one of its famous
settlement days Monday, the banks doing
a bigger business than ever before.
—Edward Kelly, a Chester hotel man,
recently convicted of forgery, was Mon-
day sent to prison for nine nronths.
—Ot the 110,000 Odet Fellows in Penn-
sylvania, it issaid 50,000 will march in the
great parade in Philadelphia May 21.
—The architect who planned Luzerne
County's proposed new Court house will
receive $20,000and 5 per eent. of the total
cost. .
—A. young woman living at Overbrook
calls her saddle-mare “Trilby” because
she has a pretty foot and a rather fast
record.
—Wanted for burglary in Clearfield
county three years age, William Shultz
has recently been arrested near Jersey
Shore.
—Altoona negroes held a meeting Mon-
‘day night to honor Fred Douglass’ mem--
ory, and Congressman Hicks made a
‘speech, :
—The Williamsport Turn Verein cele-
brated Prince Bismarck’s birthday Mon-
! day night with a parade, speeches and &
; big bonfire:
—It is feared that two little daughters
‘of Benton Beal and Nicholas Downs, at
Dunbar, who were lest on a mountain,
have perished.
—While cleanimg a revolver, a son of
accidentally shot bis little sister,inflicting
| a dangerous wound.
right has the public to know the exact |
—Ina cabin ten feet long and six: feet
wide, George Braun and his wife, with
eight children, live near Colebrookdale,
' luntingdon county .
the purpose of the law, they say. is |
—The Lackawanna county jail contains
| 113 persons at the present time. Three of
these are murderer and two or three are
under sentence of death.
—The fourth annual reunion ofthe sur-
viving comrades of Co F, 8th Pa. Re-
| serves, will be held at Hopewell Tuesday
afternoon and evening, April 13:
—Judge Barker has decided that the
Scalp law is unconstitutional, therefore
no bounty will be paid by the gomamission-
| ers of Cambria county tor fox sealps.
—Officers John Hess, W. & Keys and
Michael Kimmell, of the Altoona Turner
Singing Society, were held for trial, ace
cused of selling liquor without a license.
—Newton Hamilton's geld craze has.
panned out nix, the assayer finding no
precious metal in the sample sent him.
The streets of the town will not be torn
up.
—A mortgage for $156,010 from the Loek
Haven Traction company to the West End
Trust and Safe Deposit company, of Phil.
adelphia, was entered for record Thurs:
day morning.
—The Bellwood postoffice was robbed
Thursday morning of 5) cents in pennies,
over $100 worth of stamps and two regis-
tered letters. The work was supposed to
have been done by a gang of five men.
—The heirs of Solomon Diehl, an aged
bachelor of miserly habits, searched his
late residence near Shamokin and found
over $4,000in gold, silver and copper coins
The money was tied up in old stockings
and hiddenaway under floors and in creve
jeces and cracks about the building.
Diehl died a week ago.
—H. A.Gripp, a German artist at Ty.
rone, who has b2en earrying on an exten
sive business of teaehing crayon portrait
work by mail, bas been notified by the
postal authorities to suspend business and
all mail de'ivery to him is stopped. He
has been under bail for his appearance at
the United States court in May.
John Pearthree, at Delta, York county, .