A; 3 / 4 Watchman BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, May 4 1889. NO. 19 The Genive Fewocvat, CHAS. R. KURTZ, - - =~ EDITOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Regular Price $1.50 per year, When Paid in Advance $1.00 © When subseriptions are not paid inside of three years $2.00 will'be charged. These terms will be strictly adhered to in avery case. ——————————————— Ed itorial. TEN years ago the superintendent of an Towa railroad booted a tramp out of his office for having the cheek to ask for a pass. To-day that tramp is the super- intendent of that same road, while the man who lifted him on his boot keeps a restaurant and sends him over lunches. NASR. Ea It is claimed that seventy-eight mil- lion dollars are annually paid out for in. toxicating drinks in this State. That is two million dollars more than is receiv. ‘Jed from all the miners products annual, ly mined both of iron and coal, that re- requires the labor of tens of thousand of men to produce, The Wilkesbarre News-dealer says: WASHINGTON LETTER. MAMMOTH COAST VESSELS TO BE BUILT AT SAN FRANCISCO, Okalahoma Land Grabbers in Trouble Harrison Gives His Brother an Office Extra Session of Congress (From our regular correspondent.) The Pacific coast bas captured the biggest thing yet given out by the pres. ent administration. It Is the contract to build the mammoth armored coast de- fense vessel that was provided for by the last Congress, which has been awarded by the Navy Department to the Union Iron Works of San Fran- cisco to the credit of having made it possible to build such a vessel on the Pacific coast by the recognition he gave to the enterprise of the California capitalists that established this plant for the build- ing of iron and steel vessels. The price of the new vessel is to be $1,628,000, The United States officials that went into the land-grabbing business in Okla. their actions to the Interior Depart. ment. Among the few appointments that ! GIVE THE Ex-Secretary Whitney is entitled | homa have been called upon to explain | SCHOOL CHANCE TEACHERS A Wisconsin is in advance in recogni. { tion of the superanuated school teach. | er, having passed a pension bill which pays the teacher & moiety of the pub. [lic fund after twenty-one years service. This is not in line with the best inter. | ests of the school teacher, Were they { properly treated while in effective ser- vice there would be wo occasion to place them on a pension list in their old age. What is most necessary in dealing with this most important of all the profess. fons is an assurance of responsible secur. | ity or tenure of position, capability and worthiness only considered. As it is, the public schdol teacher is at the ca. | price of the powers that be. This or that Controller, elected to his place by the grace of a political power, has his selfish ends to serve quite frequently, and oftentimes a faithful, competent teacher is obliged to give place to a fa. | vorite whose quali fications may be en. | tirely a matter of doubt, Hereby pecu. | liar hardships are sometimes precipita. ited and great injustice is done. The teacher has gone to much expense of | time and money to fit herse Iffor her vo. | cation, engages in it for her life work, | and is by reason of her singleness of “These are facts and figures that may | Harrison has found time to make since | purpose and special training, disquali- well startle and stagger every citizen of | his return from the New York celebra- | fied from earning a livelihood in any oth. this State. The question then naturally arises, what would be the result if this annual expenditure of so great an amount of money was taken from the liquor traffic and put into other chan- nels of business and trade ? field of study for some one who can give it time and thought. _- on IN many particulars President Har- rison’s era contrasts most favorably with that of General Washington a bun. dred years ago. The latter never saw a locomotive or a train of palace cars; pever dreamed of electric wires under the ocean, or their application to a thous. and uses over every nook and corner in the land. The ocean was still travers. ed by sailing vessels, requiring many eeks to make a voyage. There was neither gas no coal oil or electricy em. ployed in illuminating houses, The age of steasn had not vet come in. Coal had not vet become a factor in modern life, These are only a few of the things with which President Washington was un- acquainted. — Ex. - Tne New York newspapers didn’t take kindly to the Pennsylvania Nation. al Guard on the occasion of the centen- nial parade because our boys were not arrayed in gaudy attire. However, General Sherman, who knows a soldier when he sees one, and whose commen. dation is more va. unable than any news. paper gush, has this to say of the Na. tional Guards, *““The Pennsylvania di. vision is entitled to praise, for it came nearer to being a compact body of troops ready for the fleld than any other stata National Guard. They were no holiday soldiers. The system in vogue by which the Pennsylvania troops can be mob. Yilized at short notice should be adopted by every state in the union.” NicerLy Staten. The Philadelphia Leader, Child's paper, which seldom says anything good about the Demo. crats, scored the following one day last week: ““The Democrats came up “smiling and hopeful in the municipal “elections throughout the West, It “is surprising what a degree of vital. “ity is possessed by the party even in “the strongest Republican cities, The “dispiriting defeat of last November “appears to have been forgotten, and “the Democrats, driven or about to be “driven out of the Federal offices, are “ready to comfort themselves with “municipal or other offices not saffici. “ently guarded against assault.” ——— : Mrs, Cleveland is still the admirered of all admirers. Read this incident of the Centennial ball : ¥ The Clevelands had occupied a box near the President during the reception and the opening quadrille. After the de partare of the President and Mrs. Har. rison, Mr, and Mrs. Cleveland came down on the floor to promenade. No sooner did the crowd catch sight of them than they were surrounded with people, as anxious to see Mrs, Cleveland Apparently as they had been when she was a "White House bride. Some one started the applause. It grew until with a cheer the entire erowd swept down on the Clevelands, forcing them against the boxes. At this moment some one in an upper box broke a bouquet and show. ered roses on Mrs. Cleveland's head. The crowd cheered again and again. For quite a time Mr. and Mrs Cleveland a room, ning alld were | Here is a | tion was that of his brother, Carter B. | Harrison, to be United States Marshal for the middle district of Tennessee. If | Mr. Cleveland had appointed his broth_ | er to a position every Republican editor in the country would have roared for months’ bat they will discreetly over look this little bit of nepotism. Verily it does make a difference whose ox is gor- ed. Army courts seem to queer ideas in regard “punishment fit the crime.” have rather to making the Maj. Ly- decker, who was the engineer in charge | of the Washington aqueduct tunnel has been found guilty by a court martial on | several counts or having {duty as an official ete. And the saig | neglect has cost a million dollars that neglected his { have been spent on the tunnel which has now been abandoned. Pretty serious { crime one would think and deserving of severe punishment, What the | Court Martial say ? That Maj. Lydeck | er shall be fined $100, per month for nine | mo: ths and be repremanded in general i | orders. Could anvthing be more ludi. { crous. An officer by neglect and care | lessness sacrifices §1,000,000 and deprives | dew a city of a much needed increase of wa. | ter supply, and is fined #900 therefore. | Reader perhaps you may wonder why this sentence was made so light. It can be answered in two words, social influ. ence which is the strongest of all powers in Washington. Senator orman it generally thought will succeed the late W. HH. Barnum as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Republican office seekers say that President Harrison has as much trouble to arrive at a definite decision as to making an appointment as did the hun. gry ass that fable says starved to death between two bundles of hay because he could not decide which to go to. in dent Harrison will call an extra session of Congress to meet early in October in order to get the House organized and in order before the Christmas recess. In. gall’s speaks as though the matter had been definitely settled by the President. “Ino it ever occur to you," said a dry goods man the other day, “what a great boom John Wanamaker's wholesale business must be nowadays ¥ There are some 60.000 or 70.000 in the country and I suppose that 50000 of them are in sniall country stores. Don’t you think that when John Wanamaker's drummer comes around to one of these stores he has a pretty good chance of getting an order ¥ « I'l bet that there are not a hundred such postmaster storekeepers within a thousand miles of Philadelphia who do not buy all they can at Wana. maker's; nowadays, and even in more distant parts of the country the post. masters will stretch a point whenever they can to send to Philadelphia for their goods. Suppose a man wants to be reappointed, don’t you think he will imagine that it will be a good thing for him to be able to refer Postmaster Gen. eral Wanamaker to Wholesale Merchant Wanamaker for information as to his credit and business standing. Of-course the postmasters in ninety-nine cases out of abundred will be wrong in it, but they have the idea all the same that Wanamaker will know the name and all about every man who buys goods of him and they will act accordingly, It will be Wanamaker's own fault if he hasn't 4 largest 2 According to Senator Ingalls, Presi | er way with comfort or profit to herself, | She should not be thrown out of her life work by a caprice of a School Board or the selfishness of a politician. In the struggle for a living she should be ac. corded an even chance with the mem. bers of any other vocation, mechanical commercial or professional. This un, der the present or ganization of society the | schoolmaster has not. He does not know how soon his professional head will be taken away. This should be remedied by law. A tenure of office act, having special application to teach: | ors against which the ortunes of polit. ics or special favor will have no effect, should be enacted at the earliest mom. | ent. With a reasonable chance in the contest for bread and butter the com. } petant school the age. Under other conditions a gratuity n the shape of a pension would bea lotion for the simply of 1] © whol ns ie who have not done their by their duty teachers. - -— - COMPULSORY EDUCATION, In a speech recently made in the Le «| Weber, of | islature by Representative Clearfield county, he showed that the population of Pennsylvania in ed 22 per cent. the number of schools per cent. and the n@mber of teachers 22 vance in public morality or in the bet terment of the conditions of living. Dur ing the same time there was an increase of pauperism and crime of 41 per cent. and an increase of crime pauperism, of 53 per cent. also an increase of 112 per cent. in the exclasive of | number of insane persons, It is no satis | faction to be further informed that there | was an increase of 18 per cent. in the | number of criminals who, having left | | school at an average age of 14 years, | were able to read and write, | proved education of these persons seems | to show that they grew in wickedness as they grew in knowledge. Representative Weber collated these statistics from the census and the re- | | ports of the State Board of Public Char- ities, They make a deplorable showing The teachers in the public schools are | teacher is willing to take | chances of a living in alvanced | while | the | ten years from 1570 0 1850 was increas | 1 per cent. there was no corresponding ad. | ] There was | The im- | eke ADDITIONAL LOCALS, ————— on oh ~You can save fully per cent. by visiting the Rochester Clothing House, ~All the latest styles in foot wear can be seen at Mingles shoe store. Prices lower than ever, —Editor Feidler is in Washington this week looking after that little p. m., boom and for the sake of having a time with the boys. - Rev, Chas, T. Steck, of South Wil. liamsport, has been selected as one of the lecturers for the course at Chautau. qua pext summer, ~$300 a month and expenses for a County Manager in each county in Pennsylvania. The Standard Book Co. 42 Coal Exchange, Scranton, Pa. j4. lock-up recently, broke up his bunk and, using one of the planks asa lever beneath the door, pried himself to freedom. ~—450 per month and board for a bright young man or lady in each town in Pennsylvania, The Standard Book Co., 42 Coal Exchange, Scranton, Pa. JA. ~Mr. G. B. Brandon, of the Brocker- hoff House, spent a week taking in the New York Centennial and is back chuck { full of new stories and amuseing inci” dents which he only can tell with effect, ~ Lieutenant Col. H. 8. Hale, of this | place, sent in his resignation to the 5th | regiment recently. He has not been en; { Joying good health of late and was un- able to attend to the duties of that posi. | tion, ~=Mr. Chas. Rhone, sonof Dr. J. W. | Rhone, is home again, expecting to re- { main, having been graduated from the Dental department at the University of He ex. | pects to remain with his father and as. sist him in the profession. | =Mr. R. B. Harrison, of PleasantGap, | Centre county, brother of W. T. Harri. § | y | Pennsylvania, Philadelphia i son, of this place, arrived in Hastings last Saturday. Mr. Hrrrison will engage in the bakery and confectionery with his brother, “Billy,” and as soon as the {| weather permits they will finish their Hastings Herald, J. Stanley Grimes, a temper 4 ore and Prof | ance lecturer was in town this week and Monday evening for the benefit of the cause, A few people con % dwelling. lectured on stituted the audience and on Tuesday evening some two or three dropped into the Y M.C. A ou, hs hall to hear his second add people of B llefonte are getting tired of temperance har «ngues, James O'Bryan, who has been kept at home the last month by a severe at. tack of rieumatisi is able to be about again, Jim says he can't understand { why such bard working and industrious | prople like himself should be afflicted when these worthless editors in town {ure allowed to go free. Jimmy, you { must have rats in your attic, One of the tinest grocery stors in Bellefonte is the one opened recently by Dunklegk Fortney, on Allegheny street | Their entire stock is new and fresh and tempting. They have everything ar ranged in a neat and tidy manner and are prepared to wait on their friends and customers, They pay the highest | market prices for all kinds of produce i and sell their goo s at the lowest figure, { When in Dellefoute don't fail to visit | Dunkle & Fortney's new store. i : ~ Bellefonte has been selected by the Faculty of Princeton Collegeas one of | the places where local examinations for {entrance into that college will be held. | sufficiently burdened in imparting the | These examinations are held in Chicago, | rudiments of knowledge. They canno | be expected to inculcate the virtues, | This is the neglected office of parents | and of the churches. They are to blame | expenses of students living at remote | | for the falling off. To teach children to | read and write will not keep them from lying or stealing. A wicked man may be all the more wicked and dangerous by | San Francisco, St. Louis , Washington, | New York and other cities and large | towns for the purpose of lightning the | points from Princeton. The first exam. {ination will be held in Bellefonte on | June 20th, under the supervision of J. | P. Hughes and all young men ~—A rowdy who was put in Tyrone | © A BITOF HISTORY. | MILLIONAIRE DUROISEOF CLEARFIELD AND COAL OIL JOHNNY, A Short Sketch of Their Barly Career snd How They Made VFortunes-By One Who Knew Them. | The following article is taken from | the Philadelphia Inquirer and will be of | interest to many of our readers : { Alittle man, with a heavy, drooping mustache on his lip and light slouch hat { pulled down on his forehead, sat in the | reading room of the Washington House | last night vigorously puffine gway at a {strong cigar. The little man was ex- { hotel-keeper Dick Evans, of Dubois, one of the most pictaresque characters of | Clearfield county. Mr, Evans was in a | communicative mood, and anecdotes of the founder of DuBois leaked from him { like water through a seive. | He remembered the old man ZuBois for years back, and said the old million. | aire was one of the greatest characters { he had ever met. It was forty years ago | when John DuBois came into Clearfield | county from Elmira, N. Y., and began peddling needles and thread. He was thrifty, and in time owneda horse and wagon. Then he began buying up land, and in 1873 he built a mill and founded the present city of DuBois, which. now has a population of 8.000 souls. When the old man died, a short time HUMES TO BEAVER, The Governor Called ts Account for Wek. ing Fund Mismsnagenient, Ex-State Senator H. J Humes, of Meadville, has written an open letter to Governor Beaver regarding the alleged mismanagement of the State Sinking Fund, in which he charges that the low is mistated inthe defence put forth bs the Governor, and that the letter and | » “observam Commissioners have vielatd both the letter and the spirit of the Constitution and the act of Assembly Mr. Humes goes at length into figum and the law to prove his statements and concludes in this lively fashion: What conclusion can the people dea from these facts except that you so the bonds to distribute their proceed among favored banks? The law sumes a reasonable creature knows as intends the actual results that follow & acts. Applying this rule to you am the Commissionersof the Sinking Fue you and they should have been prosecs.- ted for this flagrant violation of the law or self respect should compell you to resign because of incompetency. This, Governor, is the case of the peopleof the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania against the State Treasury ring that is using their money; the man whom they elected Governor. who refuses toe see that the laws are executed and has be come a servant of that ring, and that Commissioners of the Sinking Fund. who violate the law with their Govern ago, he left 11.000 acres around DuBois, | containing 300,000,000 feet of pine lum. | ber, besides the hemlock, and an 8.foot vein of coal, which is twenty miles in|. od . pe :.. | State Treasury ring. circumference. The estate also includes | in Beaver | land meadows with a soll seven feet deep. nine miles of farming Just before the old man died he sold all this valuable property, which worth over #8 000.000 as it stands, to his nephew for This was to avoid paying the inheritance tax, which one dollar would have been necessary had he left | the property to his heirs. The Mr. MAYS is a rough unassuming young fellow of 24 yeas, who though was working for a dollar a day, nephew, Evans goes around as he though he owns the fastest pacing mare in the state be nearly always walks, and instead of living in grand style he sleeps in his uncle's old house and takes his ¢ #1] als atl the DuBois Hotel. “Io fact he's a Oil diamond like Mr. without Johuny's extravagances.” up the rough Coal Johnny,” said Evans This naturally brought sub. ject of Coal Oil Johnuy, and on thissub. | Mr. | Je Mr. Evans began by saying that Evans grew eloquent. he hauled 1864, he said, “took his nape from his mother, who was a Miss Steel It was always believed that he was the son of old John MeClintock. “Johnny,” McClintock sold a lot of oil land to spec | ulators in 1864, and shortly afterwards died, leaving his money to his wife and on her death to Johnny Steel. Seth Slo. cum, of Erie, was appointed executor. The old woman died shortly after her husband's death, and the exact amount of money Johnny got was$56,000 in gold and 844,000 in demand notes, known as “gilt edges.” “With the high preps: at that time the money was worth #24000, Slocum shortly afterward got in trouble through shooting a colored man in Cleveland, but Johnny got him off, and then John. | ny and Slocum went to Elmira, where Johnny vegan passing the demand notes, dollar for dollar. As they were worth a high premium Johnny was suspected of | stealing them and was arrested, but Bill | tlackiston, who managed some of his property, and who is now a wealthy | iron manufacturer in Sharon, got him off." Johnny then came to Philadelphia and | made his big splurgo here. Evans, who | accompanied him, said that he remem. | bered well how Joonny bought a hack is | that are Al | 3 | every woman owns, was a beon to the | The man who or's consent and approval. Would thes you and they loved the people and garded their rights than you fear your interests more ical masters the and polit EN A ————— RICH AT AJUMP. How Big Vortunes Have Been Made Out of Little Inventions, The New Jersey the man who hit upon ng a rubber emsing tipto the end of lead pencils is wart £200 000, Fg idea of atta seen the metal plates the heels and ut everyone does pot know that within ten years the mas who hit upon the idea bas made $258, Fn, As large or any mvention Yankee who bell ceilings Eve ryone has t] ised to protect soles of rough shoes, } ever obtained vas enjoyed by the ted the inverted glass bang over gas jets to prolect from being blackened In WR Was nve 10 smoke. The inventor of the roller skate has made $1,000 000 The 2 mlet-poin 4 iA ted screw has preduc- han most silver mines, who first thought of puttiug copper tips on shoes of child. be had it 1 rited $1,000,000, for that’s the amount has realized for him in cold, ed more wealt and the Conn., man oil with Coal Oil Johnny, away back in | | ren's shoes is as well off as if his idea | : | clammy coin. : threader, which sale, and which The common needle | everyone has seen for | needle user. The man who. invented it | has an income of $10,000 a year from his | invention. | A minister in England made #0000 | by inventing an odd toy that danced by | winding it with a string. invented the retwn | ball, an ordinary wooden ball, with » | rubber string attached to pull it tack, made #1.000000 from it.—Pittsbug | Press, td ——— Ax Allegheny butcher has discoversd { that rats have been stealing from his till for the lest year. Saturday a $16 dol lar bill disappeared: and #5, which be | then placed in the deawer as a bait, was | also soon among the missing. He made | an examination and found part of the fiveddollar note ina mt hole leading from the back of the drawer to the ice | box. This encousaged him and he made | further searches, opening the side of the i | of currency to fill & half peck measure. of the | and team for a cab driver, which killed | He took the “find” to the custom house box, where he found enough fragments reason of his education. Mr. Weber is | central part of Pennsylvania who desire | the cab driver in eleven months, and | and the officials there in a short Sime i right In asserting that compulsory edu. | | eation is no eure for crime. «Messrs. R. G. Davies and Harry Bush, the Union Roofing Co., of Ty. rone, whose ad, can be found in the DEMOCEAT were in town Saturday last looking after business matters and tak- ing orders. They report business brisk and have all the work they can attend to. If you intend to build get their prices for slate roofing. «Major D. B, Kurtz, of San Luis Ray, California, paid us a pleasant call on mitted to these examinations held in Bellefonte. . ~On Thurs ‘ay, April 18th, at her residence in Zion, this county, Mrs, Mary Decker, wife of Samuel Decker, deceased lady was born near Zion anda few years ago became a resident of Zion where she lived until her death. She be, came a member of the Lutheran ehurch when 18 years old and was an exem: plary lady. The deceased enjoyed the love of a large circle of friends as well as the confidence and esteem of all who were fortunate enough to enjoy her ac- a husband to urch on Mon. died after an illness of buta few days, | having attained the age of 53 years, The | | spernlings were greatly exaggerated, {said Mr. Evans, and the total amount he got away with was about $255,000, His wife managed to save about #5000, Johnny then worked at Roeuseville, in a freight depot, for several years and hig wife saved his earings and added them to the #5000 she had saved from John. ny's fortune. They then went West, and when Mr. Evans last heard from John- ‘ny he was running a big cattle .anch in Nebraska and was worth nearly a cool hundred thousand dollars. Tis was a a Fifth Avenue, N, Y io to enter Princeton this June will be ad- | Johnny's other extravagances, but his | sucoseded in matching bits to the ex: tent of #119, . i UIMTOR'S NOTICE. ~IN THE © Common "eas Duty,
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