4 . The Centre Democrat, CHAS. R. KURTZ, - - - PROPRIETOR —— Be FRED KURTZ, SR, | £01 TORS. CHAS. R. KURTZ, } : OVER 3400. CIRCULATION TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : SUBSCRIPTION - $1.50 PER YEAR Persons who send or bring the money to the office, and pay In advance, $1 per year. The date your subscription expires is pian. ly printed on the label bearing your name, All credits are given by a change of label the first issue of each month. Watch that after you re mit. We send no receipts unless by special request, Wateh date on your label, Subscribers changing postofiice address, and pot notifying us, are liable for same Subscriptions will be continued, otherwise directed, We employ no collector. You are expected to send the money to this office, unless EDITORIAL, have Then Tug railroads complain they more freight than they can haul, why put up the freight rates? PRESIDENT Roosevelt went home from Mississippi without killing enough of bear | to fill a half thimble full of oil. THE eminent lawyers composing the | strike investigating commission, have | found their equal in President Mitchell, W. H. SwArTZz, the gifted editor of the Altoona Tribune, is an aspirant for the appointment of state librarian, to succeed Dr. Reed, who recently tender ed his resignation. He deserves recog: nition. THE machine carried the state in the late election, but somehow there is an absence of glorification and jubilation— not a single one anywhere. Of course, they are ashamed of the iniquities they perpetrated in the past few years—and well may they feel ashamed-—there’s nothing to feel glad over. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT is down in the | Mississippi wilds hunting bear, but no | luck, and a bruin that was hart by an- other and tied to a tree for Teddy to shoot and kill when he came by, he re. fused to do it. Let Teddy come to Cen- tre county, and our hunters can promise him better bear luck than away down in Mississippl. HERE is a sample of honesty that is rare, in these days of greed and grab: Seven years ago David Rothschild, of New York, who was head of the R. Rothschild Sons Company, which failed in the financial panic of "93 and 'o4, found that his personal fortune of $2,500," | 000 had been swept away, that he was penniless and owed nearly $700,000 Although legally freed of his debts by | the bankruptcy court, be has paid them all, and is today president of the Federal Bank of New York, which was opened | about a month ago at 590 Broadway. “THE republican party, though called to the performance, must proceed slowly | and carefully in the work of curbing the trusts. There must be vo radical or drastic action taken.’ Thus talks the Lock Haven Express, and other republican papers. Bless you the “go slow’ policy is what Roosevelt has adopted by proposing an amend. ment to the Constitution which will take seven years at least to get it passed, if at all. Then there is the anti-trust Sher- man law on the statue books for a dozen years, and never an attempt by Roose | velt to demand its enforcement. The Trusts don't “go slow” in skinning the | people, and the republicans are playing | the hypocrite in pretending to oppose | t bese iniquitous monsters. : Ix answer to the demand for a modi- | fication of the tariff, coming from all | sections, the high tariff and trust organs | answer, “We favor modification of the tariff ;but by its friends.” Exactly, and t hese “friends” of the tariff have been modifying it half dozen times since the war, and every time higher, higher, un. til now it is higher than the tariff impos- ed to pay the expenses of the war, These modifications [by ‘“‘the friends of the tariff” fhave been solely in the interest of the rich and have been the founda- tionlof the Trusts that are mow killing all the small industries and robbing the masses. ‘The friends of tariff are the trusts, and the modification they de- sire would Ibe the same as heretofore, put it up higher and skin the masses more thanever, TERR are numerous indications that the pressure to enact anti-trust legisla tion, which will be brought to bear on Con gress, will be exceedingly strong. The President favors it and is especially anx. jous that some means should be taken to enforce publicity so as to prevent the float” ing of what is called wild-cat stocks on the market. He is told, even by some of the financiers, that there is a grave element of danger in this now common practice and he apprecigtes that the result may mean a panic which, if it were to come shortly before election time, would be almost sure to mean republican defeat. Doubtless Mr, Roosevelt will urge the en. actment of a law in line with AttorneyGen- eral Knox's recommendations at Pitts. burg but that such a law will be passed is considered very doubtful. Some of the best posted politicians in Washington, how. ever, say that a compromise law will be the inevitable result of the present agita- tion and that law will merely take the form of enforcing a measure of publicity on the trusts, | steadily on. |are yielding a large supply of water | {there are today fertile oases amid the THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA, NOVEMBER 20, 1902. DROUGHT IN AUSTRALIA. Mr. Bray, our Consul.-General at sel bourne, writes that the long continuance of the drought has so far diminished production that the purchasing power of the commonwealth has been considerably reduced. He sends an extract from one of the agricultural papers which says that the position of the country will soon be very critical unless rain relieves the distress. The drought has maintained its pitiless hold upon the country for sev- eral years. In the state of Victoria, the districts north of the divilling range are | parched, and the outlook for the harvest, { which it due in a few months, is ominous, A The situation is still worse in the back ! country of New South Walesand Queens: | { land. Stock is perishing and gquatters, as the ranchmen are called, have ng hope remnant of their animals. Large areas of grazing lands in Queenland have not a sign of greenness, Still the work of extending irrigation in the highland regions of inner New | South Wales and Queensland is going Wherever artesian wells deserts of unproductive land. There is one peculiarity about irriga- | tion in Australia ; very little of it is de- | rived from running streams, and {rriga- | tion improvements are, therefore, very those in | different, for example, from Egypt and California. The reason why the rivers are not very useful for irrigation is that the tributaries lose all, or a great deal, of their water by evaporation or percolation before | they reach the main streams. The result is that the Darling, Murray and other important rivers contain so little water du ring the summer and autumn months that it cannot be used to flood irrigation channels, We should never have heard of irriga- | tion in Australia if it had not been for a most interesting discovery. It found that the water which disappears Was from the many mountain regions is not by any means all lost through evapora- tion. A great deal of it sinks thromgh permeable strata of the rock and col- { lects deep under the ground in artesian reservoirs. It needs only be brought to the surface to cover many areas with fer. { tility. When it was found that a large part of the dry regions of Australia have im- mense resources in underground waters, the people began to sink artesian wells, The work began in 188: and is to-day being pushed more vigorously than ever. | The greatest centre of artesian well is a | vast region in Queensland, north of the sources of the Darling River. Along a | line which extends north, northwest, south and southwest in the form of a half circle are over 360 wells, ranging in depth from 100 feet to over J000 feel. | The quantity of water from these wells is variable, the majority of them yielding at least 100,000 gallons each every day. Some of them yield one, three and four million gallons a day. There are many wells in other parts of Queenland. In New South Wales the well are much fewer in number, though there are sev eral important centres, particularly at Bourke and Winton, where hundreds of thousands of sheep and cattle obtain their water supply from these artesian wells. In Victoria, South Australia and West Australia, the boring of wells has scarcely yet begun on an important scale though in the past two or three years water has been obtained in copious supply at a number of points. But in Australia there is nothing like the large areas of land restored to fer. tility that may be observed throughout southern California. In fact, the arte. sian waters are used more to supply the millions of sheep and cattle with the | drink they must have or perish than to spread over the grajn fields and fruit | farms. It remains to be proven whether | vast areas of the continent may be re. claimed for farm crops by filling irriga- tion ditches with artesian supplies. At any rate, the boring of these wells has | opened enormous areas of the interior | high lands, that were formerly useless, to the successful pursuit of stock raising. Fake, one of the democratic members of the legislature, elected fiom York county, who in the last session sold him. self to Quay and the entire batch of rip per legislation, has received his reward for his treachery. The York county bar association has resolved to expel him and that he be no longer permitted to practice in the York county courts, Fake presented bis case to Judge Bitting- er to test the validity of the action of the bar, and now the Judge rendered his opinion sustaining its action. Thus has the traitor met his reward, He bears the right name--fake. “Out friend John C. Rowe, of Philips. burg, has emerged from the landslide a winner for Register in that county. John is one of the best little fellows in the world and is the only" mick” to get any. thing in that county for 20 years from party.” Clearfield Republican, “Go slow in changing the tarif®’ isthe of saving more than a | PRISONER SHOT. | Charles Heslin is in Clinton county | jail awaiting trial for court. He is what | is called *‘a bad egg.” Friday afternoon Sheriff Loveland was absent from the | jail, A bottle of whiskey found its way | to the prisoners. Heslin imbibed freely | ! and when the fiery stuff took effect, his | quarrelsome spirit asserted itself. Being | in the corridor with the other prisoners, | a free for all fight was precipitated, | during which Heslin began throwing bot- | tiles and a lamp at the other men, | Deputy Sheriff Loveland was sent for, | but the prisoners were so turbulent and | their threats to do him bodily harm | were 80 menacing that Officer Brendel | was summoned, As the officer was about | to enter the corridor, Heslin threatened that he would kill hm. Suiting the | action to his threats he threw a bottle at the officer's head. the discharged his | revolver in the hope that it would fright. | en the man, many | It missed its mark, | whereupon officer It did pot have the desired effect, bowever, for Heslin threw another the The policeman then fited his revolver directly at Heslin, {| The ball took effect in the left side, | striking one of the ribs and following it | around into the back. Heslin ran into his cell and beame quiet. The wound is not | considered dangerous, | missile at officer. —————— RECENT DEATHS. | Miss MAY RoninNson :—died at ber | home in Warriorsmark, 14th, of heart {trouble, aged 17 years, She was a | daughter of Joseph Robinson. Cras. H. Sumx :—The only son of Harry and Elizabeth Shirk, died at his home at Boalsburg Sunday evening. He was 20 yearsold. The funeral services were held Wednesday noon. Interment in the Sprucetown cemetery. Wat. PERRY BRADY :—Son of the late Mrs. Margaret Brady, of Lock Haven, died at Chicago last Friday morning. Mr. Brady was well known in this sec: tion, having been a resident of Mackey- ville in his earlier life. 63 years old, He was about His wife and son, Wm. P. Jr., survive, Mrs. Cumistesa IL. Houser :—died on the morning of Nov. 3rd, at her home in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. She UL sur. vived by a husband and nine children, five sons and four daughters. She was 59 years old and a member of the Metho- dist charch She was a relative of the Housers of Centre county. PERCY Lirovp :—son of the late Robert Lloyd of Philipsburg, died Friday after- noon shortly after exhaustion, the result of typhoid pueumonia, at McGirk's Sani- tarium. Mr. Lloyd was at one time a member of Company B, and served with the “boys in blue’ through the Spanish American Campaign. Jacos McMoxXIGAL :~Diea in Altoona Sunday of cancer of the stomach. He was aged 75 years and was born in Cen tre county. He had beet a resident of He was a soldier in the civil war, serving as a member of Co. A, Two Hundred and Fifth regiment, Penn'a Vol. Mr. Mc- Monigal is survived by his wife and sey- Altoona and vicinity for 46 years eral children, two sons, John and James, living in Centre county. MRS, MARTHA Bryox:—Widow of Peter Breon, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Wm. Flory, at Centre Hall, ou last Saturday morning. Her maiden name was Ripka, her husband died a few years ago. She was a mem- ber of the Lutheras church and a good and useful woman and kind neighbor. A son, Perry, and two daughters, Mrs, Strohmeder and Mrs. Wm. Flory, both of Centre Hall, survive, Funeral on Monday afternoon. Her age was 77 years. She was a twin sister of John Ripka who died at Pine Grove Mills a short time ago. Watching Clocks. “When I was a boy in a printer's of- fice says Robert Bonner, and it came along about three o'clock in the after | soon, I would say to myself, '‘suppose the proprietor should come up where we | are at work and say, Robert, what have | you been doing today?’ If I could not | with pride and pleasure point to what I | had been doing, | would pack up at six |0'clock and leave the place. I consider | that kind of spirit is an element of suc. | cess, and there is always room for men WHAT WITCH RIDING IS LIKE Continued from Ist page. [unwholesome| to be talkin’ so much about witch folks even if she is dead. Another voice—They say it took twelve leads to kill her. It must have been thirteen. That's the number against witches, The witness —She’ll never witch naryun [amy one] no more, I ain't afraid of her She's done her worst on me, I'l] tell all I know. When the storm begun to die down she come back for us an’ rode us home again, Next mornin’ our hands an’ feet were full of burrs an’ They always are ridden of us. A Cottrell—Squire, 1 can swear havin’ set by Old Man while he was in bed sweatin’ an’ groanin’ an’ him asleep all the a-ridin’ now, briers. after she's {0 an’ I knowed she was him, time, of an’ seen him morinin’ with his hands an’ feet like as if bush, The Court-—Have often? The witness—Twenty, may be thirty, times. Every ha'sh night she'd be out, If it was moonlight she'd take the boy sometimes an’ leave me. We been to Hankee Dam an’ Strange Creek an’ Birch an’ Buffalo, an’ once to a place ‘way off that I never saw before. That was the time daylight was streakin’ the clouds before we got back. She like to bave killed me that night. If daylight had caught us I'd a had her, She run me $0 hard I couldn’t walk for nigh a week The Court—Then you firmly believe that there are such things as witches ? The witness—Why, Squire, it's in the Bible, church.day, not a month back. are believers, you been Preacher read out in meetin’ last We-all The Court—Have you ever attempted | to revenge vourself on this witch The witness killed me if 1 had? Don't you know she'd a-tied me to the top of a lightuin’. strucken tree an’ left me hangin’ there till I peaked away an’ died? They say there is a way to kill witches, but I don’t know what it is A voice— Thirteen lead slugs in the full of the moon. A woman's voice, complainingly—it's mighty oncearten to be talkin’ so much abouten witches, I wouldn't wonder that we was all ridden after this. A man’s voice—Not by Mother Boggs. That was a right good killin’. The witness—1 expect there's plenty would be glad to kill that old withch if they could. But I nor aryun of we-alls hadn't no doin’ of it. The nephew was called to the stand and confirmed Old Man Cottrell’s testi mony. He added that be himself had once been ridden to the moon, but that the light had been so the witch had blindfolded his eyes to veas severe that them, so he saw nothing of the place, He was of opinion, however, that he had attended a witch convention. Other witnesses swore that the hands and feet of both the Cottrells were badly scratched and pierced after their night rides, and that they were so spent and lame as to be unable to get about for hours after walking. It was evident to the court and to the few intelligent spectators that the clan was perfectly sincere in its belicf in witchcraft and that the death of Mother Boggs was heartily welcomed. Old Man Cottrell was indicted and will shortly be brought to trial. Tug President's bear bunt in Missis sippi didn’t produce a single bear. Now why does Teddy goso far from Wash- ington to kill bear, when he can find bruin so much nearer home? There is the big bear in Wall street, let him go gunning for it. Then there are those ugly cubs called Trusts, let him go gun- ning for them, it is game be does not need dogs to find their trail. PROF. J. ANGEL THE WELL KNOWN | who show that kind of disposition. The | | indolent man, who shiftlessly goes | EYE SPECIALIST, | through his day's work, will never reach the goal of success, The man who is constantly watching the clock, waiting until it shall strike six, and trying to kill time--well, it will not be long until time will kill him, so far as business is con. cerned.”’ - in freight rates of 10 per cent, many months ago the freight rates were raised 30 percent. This makes a total of 40 per cent, Now they are kind enough to give employees an addition in wages of ten per cent. After all then the people pay the go per cent. which does vot add much to the generosity of these corporations—they make jo per cent by the operation. Conorusaman J. K. P. Haul will resign his seat in congress next mouth in order to take his place as senator from the Thirty.cighth when the Legislature meets the first Monday of January, Tur railroads are announcing a rise | It is not | SS of Williamsport, Wil ake his monthly visit ore ' ONE DAY ONLY Larimer Building Tuesday, Dec. 9th, from Oa. m. to Spm. Prof. Angel's reputation for his ability and workmanship Is well established in Bellefonte and vicinity, He gives universal satisfaction, Those who want the best treatment for head ache, weak or defective eyesight, should go to no other but wait for him, I —————— At State College, Wed., Dec. 10th be'd beer tromplin’ aroun’ a brier | ridden Don't you know she'd a | Indian Summer. Indian summer is what folks called the two weeks of fine weather we enjoyed previous to last Monday, Many who did not live in the days of Indian sum- mers, 30 and 40 years ago and previous to that, wondered whether the past two weeks spoken of, were Indian summer, Well, yes, just about it. Indian sum. mers of the times past, were also called the “smoke days” by many, because with Indian summer the atmosphere was there are This to | fires which | swept over millions of acres of heavy | grass, dead and easily devoured by the | flames that often traveled as fast as the | Indian could with his pony to escape the danger, fires was mountain smokiness attributed on the western prairies, was invaribly swept over an empire of terri. tory in the fall of the year. hazy with smoke nigh what itis when | nowadays. | This cause for the smokiness | piaunsible, as the vast prairie fires | If we have an Indian Summer occa’ sionally now, it is not with an atmosphere filled with smoke, and the absence of if can be accounted for in that the prairie country is now cultivated and no more a vast field for wild grass that would feed flames until the last acre of dead veget- able matter had been consumed, ee ——————————— Fishing for Oil Well Tools. | The drilling tools which were lost in { the Gummo oil well near Lock Haven some time ago were still at the bottom of the hole last night and the driller is still | fishing for them. i be suc- ceeded in raising the whole outfit to within about 200 feet of the top of the well when the hold slipped and the heavy iron drill dropped back again to the bottom. It is stated that an order has been given for lumber for the erec- tion of three one time more derricks. - It is natural that a woman should feel | helpless when her servants leave her, next | CAN YOU If you can, in 200 words or 2 re SHOE ror $5,000.00 ered by the 1 {Ui And there w= in the world. 0000000000000000000000000000000000 775400000000 0000 WORDS ? your experience veer JOoMEN Have proved to be supe rior to any other hope to win one of the Hu makers juired—merely pi i The First Prize is $1,000 Fast Color Eyelets are used exclusively in Queen Quality Shoes. MINGLE’S SHOE STORE, Bellefonte, Pa. Agent for W. L. Douglas $3.00 and $3.50 Shoes. Union made, best 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 WRITE 200 1 4 * r ® “ ® ® * * ® ® % less, state the reasons why in 4 * MA * MM a * » ® n Shoes, VO : 2 area Pr YOR Ary GOLD, IN in every-day ' 51 Y » i On One aiid Pi are 99 others. : ol : \d A SP ] twice, or even three times a year tinual practice of. Goods are so come here—enjoy and are of the label “Special Sale.’ at undervalue orices. We are able Though lower that we expected, mers and the many new ones season prices, they go to ite 4 $5.75 $8.50 Men's and Young Men's $12 Suits, sale price Men's and Young Men's §12 Overconts, sale price. ..... Swagger plain blue and black, top or slash ein, where in the neighborhood of fous hundred This sale is without an equal for the Overcoat or Suit of this kind interest you ? from what we say. TEMPLE GOURT, sale is something this store benefited It's that way in the Clothing line just now. Suits of plain black fand blue and brown and “black en white,’’ with blunt or round corners, three or four-button Sack Suits, and two and three-button double-breasted Sack Saits—about five hundred in ; variety enough to warrant good selections. Men's and Young Men's £10 Overcoats, sale price $9.50) Overconts, mediam length Overcoats, mixtures of oxford, green, brown, LUOKY PUROGHASE maybe once, S esn’t make a con- mething it de priced that people are induced to by the savings— without the use But there's times when we get something to sell them at specially low prices. A demand for t kind of Clothing that has made Sim's store within two and a half years from the smallest in Central Penn'a to the largest, has run our stock we purchased larger than any pre- vious season, there wasn't enough to supply the army of regular custo- So we have just purchased from one of New York's Best Clothing Manufacturers—a maker whose goods we have been selling so successfully to pleased customers throughout Centre county— the remainder of his entire stock of dll and Winger Glothing for Men and Young Men. Bought late at after/ you the same way : Men's and Y Men's $10 Salt ale ries 1001 ves 32.5% Men’ d Y Men’ on ene 311.8 swell combination of green, | olive, $7.50 Men's and Young Men's $15 Overconts, sale price $11.50 suff on sleeves or plain, dress conts, selling of none but high-class not to be thought of as “common job lots” but new, desirable goods, tailore? in a good manner into this season's newest styles. Does a saving of from one-seventy-five to three dollars and fifty cents on Eh Then come and see if things are different SIM, THE GLOTH - p*
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