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Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-20
Publie schools of rsnnsylyanin.


HARRISBURG, December 20 The annual
report of the late Superintendent of Pub.
he Instruction, DR.. Higbec, is in the hands
of the State Printer. 1t says: The
schools now number 81 ,SS0, an increase
since last year of 547. The increase the
previous year was only $50. hencrease
in thenumber of pupils is 1916, differ
ing little from the increase of the previous
year" DR.. Higbec says now that the ap-
preparation from the State is double what
it was four years ago, the average salary
of the teachers should be raised 'Tae
want of proper remuneration he says,
is luiuring the status of our schools, and
he suggests that directors and parents re-
fuse to make the matter # selecting
teachers nothing more than the employ
mcnt of the cheapest candid ltes in the
market. He regrets that the bill for a
closer inspection Of our schools in rural
districts failed of passage at the last ses-
sion
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-20
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OUT IN THE COLD.
Borough VIII Not he Part OF
The New City at Fjrst.

Coopersdale Borough VIII Not he a Part of
the New City at Fjrst.
Ii is expected that the charter for the
new city of Johustown will be issued in a
day or so. Coopersdale not being con-
tiguous with the other boroughs that
voted in favor of consolidation. will, it is
stated, not be included in the incorpora-
ton, but may be annexed as soon as the
new city Council organizes and takes the
necessary steps. Other territory may also
be annexed, should the people so desire.
As now constituted the city will contain
sixteen wards, the Seventh which now
includes MoXham and the other territory
recently annexed to Johnstown borough,
being the largest.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-20
TO be lsung ut Christmas.

The large bell belonging to st. Johns
Catholic Church, an account of which
was given in the DEMocRAT some weeks
ago, is being put on temporary scafTold-
ing near the church, so that it can be used
to call the people together, 1t is ex-
pected that the bell will be in position
for use on Christmas.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-20

half water and contains only $40 per
cent, of fat; yet the public couldn't teP
the difference"
"What is milk sugar." asked the writer.
"Milk sugar is made by extraction
from whey, which contains IS per cent.
of milk sugar. II is not sweet, is insolu-
BILE IN water and will not decompose. 1t
is used great deal in medicine, mixed
with pepsin, for instance, and to make
those little pills homoeopathists use IL
comes to this country from Switzerland,
chiefly, crystalized ON thin sticks, just
as rock candy is on strings."-Boston
Globe
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-19
THE.EFFECT OF THE DISASTERS ON
BUSINESS,

As people recover from the shock
which attended the first announcement
of the extensive disasters and destruction
of property by the recent floods and the
Seattle fire, the question as to the effect
upon the business of the country natur-
ally arises. The loss Of life has been APP
palling, indeed, but this can have but
little effect upon business. But will the
loss of 70 to 800, 100000 in property be
sufficient to affect the prosperity of the
country at large? We think it will not.
1t will be some time before the devasted
sections fnlly recover from the setback
they have received, but the vastness of
this country and the aggregate volume
of its business is so large, that the losses
will have no appreciate effect upon
it as whole, and this comprehends the
idea that the burden will be distributed
in large measure over the entire coun-
try, in the contributions already made
and to be made for the relief of the i'm
mediate sufferers. The recruperative
powers of our people have been tested
time and again, and if we can judge the
future by the past the loss will soon be
made up, and the purchasing and con-
Stunning power of those sections become
greater than ever and the loss to the
country more than compensated for.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-19
THE VALUE OF EASTERN FARM
LANDS.

An eastern special trade journal in
discussing the relative value of eastern
and western farm lands takes up the re-
port of the New York state assessors,
who find that in fourteen counties so far
visited in that state in their work Of
examining valuations, there has been
steady depreciation in value of farms,
and with degree of frankness that has
not heretofore characterized such dis
cussion in that quarter admits the cause
of such decline and the corresponding
appreciation in value of western farms.
The discovery mentioned is not confined
to the portion of New York referred to,
nor to that state, but the same conditions
are admitted to exist by almost every
rural proprietor in the long settled states
of the union who has from any cause
made effort to sell his. Land. The first sig
nifcrnt admission is that the depression
is not a temporary one, produced by a
passing cause, but one that has been
going on gradually for q number of
years, and is due to permanent change
being apprehended tardily and reluc-
family by those unfavorably affected.
The disposition of owners is to cling to
the old ideas of values, in the hope that
in some way they will soon fit the facts.
A further admission is that probably
realization of the true level is not yet
reached, but that still further decline
there is in store. Then comes the full
unbosoming, the acknowledgment that
"the reason is easily understood 1t is
that farmers near the cities of the
eastern and middle states, and the sea-
board once had practical monopoly of
the markets. Products could not be
brought long distances except at great
expense. This advantage of locality is
now, through the wonderful growth of
transportation facilities, for the most
part lost The farms in the older parts
of the country are brought into competi
ton with those of Kansas, Nebraska and
Dakota"
The effect of this changed and chang
inc condition of affairs as between the
older and newer, or eastern and western
states, has long been recognized by OF
serving people of both sections, though
it is Just now admitted in the east. Nor
does it apply to farming and farm lands
alone. The same is true of almost all
the industrial lines. The sequel of the
whole matter will be q constantly in
creasing flow of immigration and CAPT
tai from the east to the west and conse-
quently the constant and rapid increase
in these essential points here. The fact
is not newly discovered one, but its ac-
acknowledgement in the east is just now
for the first time made public.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-19
COMMENDABLE PUBLIC SPIRIT.

The Scripps League, an association of
western newspapers, has determined to
send delegation of fifty trained Ameri-
can workingmen of the artisan class to
make tour of Europe, and especially
to study carefully the mechanical arts
in the Paris Exposition from the work
ingmen's standpoint. The British gov
eminent agreed TO send one hundred
men of the same class to Paris on the
same mission, and our congress having
failed to make any appropriation for
that purpose, the league named steps
forward and takes the place of the gov
eminent and proposes to do half as
much as the English government does.
By this means the world may be given
the benefit of the scientific research and
attainment of the arts that otherwise
would be almost wholly lost, since it is a
fact that almost all who visit such ex-
hibitions at their own expense are per-
sons of leisure and wealth who are at
tracted by curiosity and a
desire for passing entertainment and
pleasure, not one in one hundred of
whom makes a practical application of
the knowledge and information thus OBJ
tanned whereby the public or individuals
gain any benefit.
To provide such means of acquiring
valuable information for individuals by
the government may be questioned by
some, as to its propriety, but it is I'M
questionably in the line with the princi-
pies of protection as maintained by this
government, because it equips our own
people to compete with the most con-
summate skill of the world, an equip
ment that could not be obtained other
wise, because those who thus obtain and
afterwards imparts the desirable and
valuable knowledge are in the main SO
situated that they could not meet the
necessary expense of such a trip. 1t
therefore becomes at once a matter of
public interest.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-19
Had Cut His Eve Teeth, Anyhow.

There was a very old man from Heriwether
county in attendance at Pike superior court
He was feeble in appearance, and, indeed,
some of his old acquaintance asked him his
age. well" he said, III i live to see Feb
81 viii be lis years old. Another remark
able fact connected with my construction is
that haven't tooth in my head Opening
his mouth and pointing 10 his smooth, tooth
less gums. be continued: II was born that
way. Wonderful as it may appear, my
Youngest son and eldest daughter were born
that way also" Tho same old fellow, looking
as II he were standing at the other end Of ths
corridor Of HE, With all the gravity Of over
q century hanging over hin, seriously says %
an acquaintance:
You mark a dollar and give II 20 me, and
win put it with ono Of mine, and you cant
tell for the hfe Of you which one you
marked" ''You are uaistakea, says the Ac-
orlaintance, and the silver dollar Is forthoon-
ing. marked and handed over. Then the
crave old man rattles IL with one Of hts own
and pockets 10th, ''GiSo my dollar back, ="
says tho acquaintance. NO." interrupts tie
old man. II aid that II you would marx a
dollar and give I. 10 me yol could not tel -
from one OK my own-thGt u, bechuse ] am
not going % give you q chaooe- EeEncrlb-sr,
! did not ask you % loan mo dollar, but
give It 70 me; yo1 did 30, end nov don't
care 20 have any joking Tho fellow grtsnts
and goes away with a blank exprnsziou q
coun.erance Savannah Se-E
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-19
CONGRATULATIONS.

To the Editor of the Eagle.
Exult then, 0 Kansan, IN the
strength of thy youth!
Lovely art tEou, as the mountain
flower when the ruddy beams of the ris-
ing sun CLEAN on its dew covered sides.
Age is dark and unlovely.
The clay colored hills and beer stained
vaults of the Sni Hills are wrapt in
mourning.
Thy champion has arisen and the
voice of former years hath summoned
thee to fight the foe that shot thy early
settlers, when sons of freedom sought
thy soil-for liberty's sake.
The days of thy youth though
few are evenful and thoro'-
out times never ending chain
DER and DER thy story II be told.
The rule of the Missourian in thy do
main is over, if thy children are de-
scendants of worthy sires.
No more shall we behold moving trains
of ripened grain across our fertile plain
obey the viper's CALL
Distant, sullen murmurs rise. lis but
the resounding maudlin cries Of the beer
Guzzlers along the beer-stained rills, who
in discomfort and rage curse thy officials
On account of the freight rate" ..
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-19
T-es of Mirrors.

TIE use Of mirror for rejecting the sun
seems 10 run from the extremes Of boJikh
ROBUSTNESS In flashing tbs suns rays upon
the eyes Of some compaIllon--or even older
persons, II the distance be suficieut-and
then reaches to the other extreme OF using i
to fast the suns rays for heliotrope signals
in the coast survey or army service, or TO
measure the DETECTION Of galvano-neter
needle But there Is q vast middle space Of
practical usage Of mirrors, apart from
that Of individual vanity, which il rarely
thought OF
L. the boyhood days Of t5e writer lie re-
members looking into new pump which
had been thoroughly spiked the night before
/. was 20 b. placed in The well, By means q
soras rocks which were pushed IL about mid
way and wedged against each other.
Various plans for their retnOvgl lad h<sso
suggested, the rscs. practicable q which was
70 saw the pump in two and toin & together
again somehow. Tbs writer suggested ssat
q mirror be b-ought. and The ssrligh. easeed
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-19
Reciprocal Sympathy.

The lord mayor of London has posi-
lively refused TO start fund in aid of
the sufferers from the Jamestown dis
aster. The enthusiasm various Irish
municipal bodies have shown in dis
playing their sympathy stands out in
strong contrast with the spirit mani
tested by the mayor of London. When
the cable flashed the news TO Ireland
that several American towns had been
submerged, and that more than ten
thousand lives had been lost, the cor
porations of Dublin, Cork, and other
municipal bodies throughout Ireland,
fastened to send across the Atlantic
messages of sympathy. Meetings were
also held for the purpose of collecting
money to aid the sufferers. At one OF
these meetings, held in Dublin, the sum
OF 5000 was pledged.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-19

''coIored people," as slaves were frequently
called When Mr.. jefferson Davis and his
brother Joseph left their homes, one as the
president Of the Southern Confederacy and
the other as a brigadier general, they put
everything under Ben Montgomery's charge
He made the crops OF 1S6l-G2 and lo62-63,
about 5000 bales of cotton, and shipped 1t to
New Orleans and sold it to foreign buyers for
gold This money ne carefully sent TO Mr.
Davis. In 1868, when the slaves were enan-
cipated, Mr. Davis sold the Hurricanes" to
Ben Montgomery for $500, 600 in gold. 1t
has been said that this sale was only ruse to
save these splendid estates from confiscation.
Whether this was true or not, when the
Federal ''agents for the protection OF absn-
doned property and lands" came to take posses
sion of the Hurricanes they found Ben Mont
gomery with title so strong and valid that
it could not be upset, and they left him alone
In peaceable possession.
After the war he continued to plant these
places with great success, making every year
from 100 to 1900 bales of cotton, besides an
abundance of corn and hay. In 1874 or 1919.
there still being balance due on tie pay
ments, Mr. Davis took the property back, but
left Ben Montgomery in full charge These
places yield very handsome annual income
now to Mr. Davis, who, though he prefers TO
live on the Mississippi seashore at Beauvoir,
ye: visits his old home once year and spends
q few weeks with his friends Of fifty years
ago. As l bave said, be was very kind
master, and, therefore, whenever he goes
back TO bis former residence, al the old time
Davis negroes within fifty miles around come
to see 'Old Marse JEFF and have q great
time. When Ben Montgomery died, In 1881,
Mr. Davis went up to his funeral, and there
was no sincerer mourner than be who once
bad the fate Of people upon his shoulders at
the grave OF his old and life long friend,
though his slave.-Washingto Letter.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-19

fell upon the ear OF this cal
lous copperhead, as the dew Of mercy
falls on the migrate, and he denounces
them as "bitter invectives, insults to the
women and totally unworthy OF man
who has filled the governors chair in
Kansas"
The Topeka Democrat, the champion
of the saloon, beer garden and the
brothel, takes it up and naturally gravi-
tates to the conclusion that the man who
could offend the tender sensibilitles of
the Journal in sucn manner lis not
possessed of that degree OF intelligent
patriotism to be useful on any memorial
occasion"
1t may not be out of place to set over
against this denunciating criticism evil
dence of its treason-tainted malice, in
the opinion of loyal men. The EAGLE
said Of this same address:
The speech was certainly one OF the finest
ever made in the city, and was highly ap-
preciated by the immense audience. 1t
was an occasion that finished orator
feels most at home. The audience was
ready for speech, and expecting rare
treat in that line it was not disappointed
A correspondent of the same journal
says of it:
l heard George T. Anthony deliver his
excellent address in the Crawford Grand
opera house in this city on memorial day.
He painted with master hand the con-
fiicts for self government. l saw the great
sea of humanity before him one moment
as quiet as the chamber of death, and the
next roaring like boundless forest sway
ed by terrific storm. said in my own
mind, what motive moves the great heart
of Kansas that this man has been so long
retired to private life.
And to this may be added the follow
ing from Adjutant John A. Wallace, Of
Garfield post, Grand Army Of the Re
public, under whose auspices the cere-
monies were conducted:
At regular meeting of the post held
June 9th, motion to extend to you vote
of thanks for your delightful memorial
address was unanimously adopted, and
the adJutant instructed to convey this
action of the post to you. There is but
one sentiment in regard to it among ''the
boys"
That the plain words used were wisely
and we'll chosen is sustained by those
quotations, but their real merit is found
in the offense they gave to the ragged
remnant Of confederate despair repre-
scented by the Wichita Journal and
Topeka Democrat. Thank God, memoir
ial day is a growing day in the hearts of
the people, and as it grows it will be-
come more and more "a remembrance
day" and less and less ''a forgetfulness
day" with the men and women of our
country. 1t will be sign standing by
the roadside of the nation to condemn
and warn treason, as the cross stands by
the path of life to condemn sin and warn
sinners.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-19
For the Eagle.
NIGHT SOUNDS IN THE COUNTRY.

Under the oak trees sheltering arms
The summer eve goes by;
The night has settled down to rest
Beneath the starry sky.
The rats crawl out from meath the barn
And in the moonbearns play
At hide and seek, until the cat
Doth skurry them away.
And then the cat slow moves him on,
His numerous friends to invite,
And in stentorian tones he yowls,
There's revelry tonight"
The wide-eyed owl sits overhead;
His cog-wheel screech he tries,
Then listens till his lonely note
In echo family dies.
Yet once again his quivering voice
Breaks on the still night air;
Electrifies your ghostly Thoughts
And eleyates your hair.
The billy goat, penned in the barn,
Bleats mournfully his fate.
Then sounds of Changing hoof and horn
Proclaim his thoughts irate.
The cows lie in the pasture lot,
Deep breathing, full and long,
In natures quiet, sweet repose
They dream the herd-boy's song.
The cock arising on his perch,
Crows loud his guarding call,
His ruffled feathers softly sink,
And safely hovers all.
Such are the sounds that oft are heard,
At country homes at night,
Where the meadow lark and cooling dove
Announce the morn's gray light.
The farm has arduous tasks in store
For those who love her joys,
But other paths have sorrows sore,
So be encouraged, boys.
w r CHIP
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-19
aHAul wICHITAr
All Southern Kansas Benefited Throug
Haf,

All Southern Kansas Benefited through
Her.
From the Pratt County Times.
The state board of railway commits
sioners, after patient rehearing OF the
Wichita freight rate case, has reaffirmed
its decision of the 29th of March, asking
the roads to give the Peerless Princess"
the same rates as they do Missouri river
points. When the order of March 20 was
made nearly every paper In the country
straddled the board for making 1t, and
Wichita for asking it, going so far some
of them as to intimate most strongly
that undue influence of some kind had
been used in the premises. Now that
the board has given to the world the
"facts and figures" the only wonder is
that Wichita has stood the outrageous
discrimination SO long. These figures
are simply unarswerable and prove
that Wichita as well as other
towns of Kansas, has been paying
about 16 1-2 per cent. more to get
freight out and IN than the towns on
the Missouri river. That the order
will be big thing for Wichita, to the
detriment, perhaps, Of some other
towns, no one will care to dispute, but
we plain people of Pratt who do not
expect to build city at home of more
than 20, 900 or 25, 900 people in the next
decade, hail the order with delight.
It means that Pratt county merchants
will be enabled to sell their customers
cheaper dry goods and groceries. 1t
means that Pratt county farmers Will
get more for their hogs, corn cattle
and wheat. In short, it means that
Pratt county is $50 miles nearer great
market than she was at the beginning
of the year 1885, The benefits accru-
ing to the farmers and laborers of this
county, in view of the commissioners
decision, are simply incalculable, and
for this we should all thank Wichita
for bringing about such glorious re-
suits.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-19
All Depends on the Spirit.

Chicago Tribune.
A Chicago faith healer refused to treat
longer a man who had or rather thought
he had chronic dyspepsia because he
would keep on eating pickles. This
shows that she had not learned the the
cries of faith healing fully. If a man
eats pickle or cucumber and thinks
the stomach therefrom it does not come
of the fact that he ate those things, but
of the fact that he ate them thinking
they would grieve his inward parts. 1t
all depends on the spirit In which one
eats cucumber. If done with serene
and unfaltering faith that no harm win
come of it. none can come. but if eaten
in fear and trembling, spasms will en-
sue. The faith healer should have said
to her patient: Eat everything you
want to and if you will only have faith
that it will not disagree with you it will
not. Faith, which can move noun
tains. can make short work of pickles. >
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-19
1T HURT THEM.
m the Ottawa Daily Journal,

From the Ottawa Daily Journal.
There is no middle ground between
potriotism and treason, more than there
is common plain midway between
Heaven and hell, wherein angels and
devils meet on q common level and revel
in a forgetfulness of their origin. Hence
the man with courage of his convictions
can never discuss any question relating
to The late rebellion without mourning
censure from those who are condemned
by such discussion.
The memorial service, on Decoration
day, is an occasion when the issue be-
tween patriots and traitors becomes a
living one. 1t is a day set aside to re-
member, not to forget, that awful strug-
gle which filled the graves which are to
be decorated with fragrant flowers, as
an expression of grateful homage to the
men who died that we might be free.
The man who can stand on such an
occasion and apologize for treason, in
rhetorical platitudes of demagoguery, is
a moral coward of doubtful loyalty to
his country: and those who are offended,
if that sacred day is used for the conse-
Grafton of the living to the maintenance
of the priceless boon for which the dead
gave UP their lives, are themselves the
living seeds of treason only waiting OPP
portunity to spring into life and bear the
accursed fruits of re- elton.
1t was the pleasing duty of the editor
of the Republican to participate with
comrades in decoration services at Wlch-
tia. few days since. 1t was grand
and inspiring occasion, As if moved by
some supernatural impulse the entire pop
ulace banished all thoughts of business
ana pleasure to join in an expression OF
love and gratitude 10 the men, living
and dead, to whom they were indebte d
for breath of liberty, 8 measure OF
equality. and condition of peace and
| prosperity known TO no other people
upon the earth today. or who are known
TO history.
1t now transpires that words spoken
on that occasion, which in the simple
force of the truth and justice they bore,
gave offence to some unreconstructed
traitor, or gushing apologist for treason,
and inspired a bitter denunciation IN the
| columns of the Wichita Journal. Senti-
ments that unadorned by arts of rhetoric
or the charms of oratory. went deep into
/ the hearts and moved 10 tears the
men and women of that great
refined and thoughtful audience