Terms $2.00 A Year,in Advance
Bellefonte, Pa., December 12, 1890.
P. GRAY MEEK,
- - - Ep1ToR
An Insult to Its Readers.
The Keystone Gazette never had any
respect for the intelligence of its read.
ers. In all its arguments upon politi-
cal questions it has counted upon the
ignorance of those to whom it addressed
itself. Last week it gave additional
evidence of its belief that its readers
are a set of asses, in its assertion that
the recent financial difficulties were
caused by the Democrats carrying the
November elections. It charges the
Democratic victory with having brought
about the depression in the money
market, the failure of banking houses
that have recently occurred, and the
business stagnation which prevails
more or less in the country.
This idiotic charge pays but a poor
compliment to the effects of Republi-
can policy and measures. For twenty-
five years Republican policies have been
exclusively operating. No other than
Republican financial, economic and
protective measures have prevailed.
A Republican administration is now in
power and will certainly continue to
be for two years more. A Republican
President and Senate can check any
legislation that is not Republican, and
to crown all, the most thoroughly Re-
publican tariff that was ever passed has
just gone into operation; and yet,
with all these Republican assurances
and safeguards of prosperity, the Ga-
zette says there is a business collapse.
What a beautiful commentary on the
effects of: Republican rule.
The Gazette man is foolish enough to
attempt to make his readers believe
that this financial disturbance and
these business failures were brought
about by the election of a Democratic
congress which during its entire exis-
tence of two years will not be able to
originate or act upon a single measure
that will affect the finances or business
of the country. The business condi-
tion must go up or down with the
measures now operating; and to oper-
ate for some years yet, ‘or which the
Republican party, and that party alone,
is responsible. The monopoly tariff
wentlinto effect but a few weeks be-
fore the Democratic victory. Would
it not be more plausible to attribute the
business slump to causes emanating
from the McKinley bill? But if it
was not at fault, where, at least, are
its boasted beneficent rsults that it
should fail to brace up the financial
and industrial situation?
The Gazette especially insults the in-
telligence of its local readers by charg:
ing the failure of the Centre Irov
Company-o the Democratic victory.
He could with as much sense have
made it responsthle for the Sioux Indian
disturbance. There is not an intel-
ligent man in this neighborhood who
does not know that the causes which
produced that failure were doing their
.work from the very beginning of the
enterprise. If the Republicans had
elected every congressman and carried
every State in the Union, the Sheriff
would have come to that establish-
ment just the same. When creditors
want to push their claims they don’t
stop to consider what party is in pow-
er, or whether the tariff is high or low.
They didn’t in the case of the CURTINS
and others in this county who went
under a year before the Democrats
carried the elections. The CoLLINSES
and other operators who haven't gotten
into debt by bad management, haven't
been set back a bit by the Democratic
victory. /
The same causes brought to financi-
al grief the BarkERs, the JAMISONS,
the DeLAMATERS and other shaky bank-
ers who the Gazette says were brought
to ruin by the success of the Democrats
at the polls. They had invested their
money in speculations that didn’t ma-
terialize, contracted debts which they
couldn’t pay, and went down when the
day of reckoning came. Its coming
had as little to do with the late election
as with the last eclipse of the moon.
In one sense, however, the Demo-
crats may be said to be responsible for
DerLamater’s failure. It they had al-
lowed him to be elected Governor the
use of the State money which he would
have had access to on account of his
official influence, no doubt would have
tided his bank over its difficulties. The
Democrats may in this sense be charge-
able with DeraMATER'S financial col-
lapse, but wouldn’t it have been unrea-
sonable to ask them to forego the pleas-
ure and duty of electing a Democratic
governor in order to save QuAY's can-
didate from the consequences of his
own bad business management ?
—— Jay Gourp has bought a =alt-
works. Probably he has done this
with a view of salting down the innu -
merable dollars of which he is the pos-
8essor.
Invasion of the Household.
The Force Bill is again under con-
sideration. The people who have it in
charge, true Bourbons that they are,
have not learned anything from the
lesson taught by the recent elections.
Last Tuesday2Senator Gray, of Dela-
ware, gave the iniquitous measure an
unmerciful raking, speaking particu-
larly of the domiciliary clause which
provides for an election supervisor to
go from house to house and inquire as
to names, politics, nationality, &ec., of
the male inmates.
Domiciliary visitation—the invasion
of the private hoasehold—has always
been a favorite practice of the tyrant,
and always the subject of execration
and resistance on the part of the free-
man. When Senator Gray properly de-
nounced this tyrannous clase Senator
SpooNER interposed with the claim that
it had been stricken out by the com-
mittee, but this assumption was upset
by its being shown that the objectiona-
ble clause was in the bill which the
Senate was at the time discussing;
whereupon Senator Hoar offered the
shuffling explanation that it “was only
a mistake of the clerk or printer,”
subsequently admitting that the “mis-
take’ might have been his own.
It is a nice commentary on the char-
acter of Republican legislation that a
clause of a bill subjecting the citizen to
the outrage of domiciliary visitation
should be excused as a mistake of the
‘clerk or the printer.” May not the
entire bill correctly be regarded asa
mistake of the Republican party ?
The man, woman or child who
fails to get and read Pomeroy’s Ad-
vance Thought, misses some of the best
things presented in cold type. The
rum-guzzler, wife beater, hypocrite or
sneak won't like it, for it is unmerciful
in its lashing of the vallainies and
vices of mankind, but other people
will. It is only one dollar a year.
Publisher, “Brick” Pomeroy, 234
Broadway, N. Y.
The Philadelphia Press declares
that gerrymanders by State Legisia-
tures can be prevented only by an appor-
tionment “in which congress shall ex-
ercise its full constitutional power and
lay out the districts in every State.” In
other words, instead of the State Legis-
latures doing the gerrymandering piece-
meal, congress shall make a wholesale
job of it. A Republican cougress of
course would eifect a Republican ger-
.rymander. In what respect is it supe-
rior in fairness and liberality to Repub-
lican State Legislatures that it should
do differently 1n this matter from what
they do upon every opportunity ? That
this is a Republican congress is the
reason why Republican organs are
clamoring for it to do the apportioning.
If it were a Democratic congress that
should attempt to assume such a pow-
er they would denounce it as an out-
rage.
Loose Use of the State Funds.
The misfortune of the State Treas-
urer in having placed large sums of
money with banking firms which have
recently failed—$25,000 with the Jam-
ison Company and $100,000 with the
Deramaters, should be a warning
against so loose a disposition of the
public funds. The Legislature ought to
act upon this matter by legisiation look-
ing to a better protection of such depos-
its made by the State Treasurer. Bat
this may be superfluous in view of the
fact that there is already a sufficient
law requiring the investment of super-
fluous state money in government se-
curities. This requirement appears to
be neglected, and it is even the fact
chat government bonds which had
been purchased with state funds, as
required by law, were sold and the pro-
ceeds returned to the treasury, no doubt
for the purpose of making the money
more available for such use as that in
which Treasurer Boyer has endanger-
ed so large an amount.
The money in the treasury consti-
tutes the assets by which the gang
running the State government make
the business of politics profitable.
The banks and banking firms favored
with this money use it for speculative
purposes and divide the profits with
those through whose official favor they
obtained the use of it.
It is thought by some that Treasurer
Boyer has discovered that he made a
mistake—has learned a needed lesson
—and nonsense of that kind. The
present State Treasurer and his prede-
cessors for some years past were put in
office to do this very kind of business.
They wouldu’t have been there if the
managers who derive most of their po-
litical profits from the use of the state
money hado’t been fully assured that
they could be used for this purpose
And this thing will go on until the
people of the State shall put a more
honest party into power, or the Legisla-
ture shall protect the treasury by laws
| 89 stringent that they can’t be defied or
evaded.
The Kind of Ballot Law We Should
Have,
If our State Legislature should con-
sider a reform ballot bill this winter,
and should entertain an honest inten-
tion of passing it, it should be careful
not to make its provisions so complicat-
ed and its requirements s0 cumber-
some as to render them difficult of com-
pre'.ension to the ordinary voter. To
make the new system effective it is not
necessary to deprive it of its simplicity.
They overdid the work of reforming
the ballot law in New York and Indi-
ana, and the consequence is that there
are complaints that thousands of vot-
ers were kept from voting by the com-
plication and intricacy of the aew
method. In New York State neither
the Republican Legislature nor Gover-
nor Hiri, between whom the election
law was produced, wanted a reform of
the ballot, and as a result there are
gerious defects which gave the voters
much trouble and prevented many from
exercising the right of suffrage. In
Indiana the same difficulty occurred
from the same cause.
There is no reason why a Legisla-
ture which honestly wants to protect
the ballot box from the influence of
fraud and intimidation should pass
any other than the Australian law pure
and simple. This method was origi-
nally designed to secure honest voting
without reference to party advantage,
and wherever it has been tried it has
answered the purpose for which it was
intended. Where defects have appear-
ed they are attributable to ballot re.
form bills having been doctored by
politicians with the object of securing
a personal or party benefit.
In view of the festive require-
ments of Thanksgiving and Christmas
we recently remarked that the Ameri-
can people had reason to be thankful
that the turkey was not subjected to the
exactions of the McKinley tariff. Had
we more thoroughly acquainted our-
selves with the minor iniguities of that
measure we should not have laid our
selves open to correction by the Phila-
delphia Record which says we erred in
representing the turkey as having escap-
ed the McKinley outrage. That pa-
per’s more intimate knowledge of the
details of tariff taxation enables it to
state positively that *‘cn a live turkey
that walks over the line into the Unit-
ed States the tax is 3 cents a pouad ;
when a dressed turkey is brought into
the country the tax is 5 cents a pound.”
It thus appears that even the holiday
festivities are not exempted from the
intrusion of the tariff taxer.
——The London Times, recognizing
that the financial trouble in the United
States had its origin in Europe where
the pinch was brought on by the Bar-
ing difficulty, calls upon London, Paris
and Berlin to go to the relief of New
York with an advance of money that
will relieve the stringency in the United
States. What would the Zimes think
if it knew that Republican papers in
this country were trying to get their
readers to believe that the financial
trouble was caused by a political vie-
tory of the Democratic party ?
Ex-President CLEVELAND having
written a private letter to a friend, af-
terwards made public, in which he ex-
pressed his honest opinion of INGALLS,
true in every particular, it is now said
that the Kansas Senator will make
“the greatest effort of his life” in scor-
ing the ex-President in the Senate. It
won't hurt the ex-President any. He
has been benefited by the venomons
blackguardism of Dana, and INGaLL's
will be also to his advantage. Time
out of mind the solidity of the file has
been proof against the fang of the ser-
pent.
——Senator Quay, who never did
like the Force Bill, is credited with
the intention of bringing in a substitute
bill of such outrageous character that
its rejection by even such a body as
the Senate will be certain. By 1ts in-
troduction he expects to create such a
diversion that both of the bills will fail.
This is the report, but we doubt whether
Quay is capable of doing his country
that much good.
Because the Farmers’ Alliance
has denounced the Force Bill the Re -
publican organs declare it to have been
influenced by Democratic politicians.
Such a charge should be offensive to
the farmers who surely have enough
innate patriotism to oppose a despotic
and revolutionary measure without
being moved by an extraneous agency.
——The Democratic rooster again
has occasion to awaken the echoes
among the granite hill of New Eng-
land. On Tuesday the Democrats
made a clean sweep in electing the
municipal officers of Boston, their
Mayor having a plurality of 13,000.
—The Y. W. C. T. U. gave a din-
ner and supper in the room adjoining
the post office, yesterday, Thursday.
wv
Killed By Too Big a Dose of Whisky,
KinasToN, Nov. 21.—At Shavertown
a little hamlet about six miles from this
place, John Holley, a son of Robert
Holley, a respectable farmer, died on
Saturday night from an overindulgence
in whisky.
A party of twenty young men, of
whom Holley was one, started out about
9 o'clock to serenade a- newly-married
couple in the same neighborhood. In
order to get rid of the unpleasant noise,
the groom came to the door and offered
if they would go away to furnish them
with a jug of whisky. This being agreed
to, he gave them a jug containing two
gallons of the stuff, which they took.
The party at once repaired to a black-
smith shop near by, and entered on a
prolonged revel. They dropped away
one at a time as they got saturated, and
went to their homes, until about 11
o'clock only five or six remained, and
of these young Holley was the only one
unable to walk. He bad imbibed in
such quantities that he was literally
paralyzed, but, as his companions were
greatly under the influence ot the liquor,
they did not appreciate his condition.
It is said by sowe of the boys who left
early that he began drinking the stuff in
large tumblerfuls, and during the first
half hour had swallowed three or four of
these, making in the aggregate tully a
quart. During the evening he undoubt-
ly drank two quarts of the whisky.
Shortly after 11 the liquor was finish-
ed and a start was made for home, but
poor Holley was unable to stir. The
boys were in a quandary, as they dared
not take him to his home, and could not
leave him where he was. After a con-
sultation it was decided to take him to a
barn about a quarter of a mile distant,
and leave him there to sober up. After
considerable difficulty he was carried
there, and, when they had wrapped him
in several horse blankets, he was laid on
a pile of straw and left alone.
The wife of the farmerowning and oc-
cupying the farm was the first to discov-
er him when she went to the barn at
about 8 o'clock Sunday morning to feed
the chickens. Without disturbing the
body, she alarmed the men of the housa-
hold, who found when they arrived that
he was dead.
The Coroner empaneled a jury on
Sunday afternoon, which, after veiwing
the body, adjourned to meet and hold
the inquest on Tuesday evening.
Dr. Koch's Cure in Kansas.
Wonderful Effect of its Use on a Pa-
tient.
Kansas Ciry, Nov. 24.—Dr. Baum,
of this city, has received from Berlin
some of Dr. Koch’s consumption virus,
and yesterday inoculated S. T. Austin,
of Kansas City, Kansas, a man in an
advanced stage of consumption. The
doctor made the first injection of lymph
under the shoulder blade of Austin. The
amount was one-half drachm. The ef-
fects were almost immediate. The cir-
culation was better, and in a few min-
utes the cough decreazed and the ex-
pecteration of the patient was much
easier.
Later in the day he found Austin
much improved in health, and adminis-
tered another half d.achm. The same
good effects were noticed and the circula-
tion was inereased and breathing became
easier and the cough continued dimin-
ishing. Dr. Baum had not seen the
patient up to a late hour this afternoon,
but he has been reported as improving.
Another injection was administered this
evening.
She Undid the Dog-Catcher,
A Broadway Belle Who Grabbel Her
Pet Justin Time,
New York, Dec. 5.—Dr. Robert F.
Kemp, of Roosevelt Hospital, took a
stroll on Broadway yesterday afternoon |-
with a young woman who led a pet dog
by a chain. Just as they passed Sixty-
fifth street a dog-catcher seized the dog
and threw it into his wagon. Dr. Kemp
seized the horse’s head and demanded the
return of the dog. The driver struck the
doctor in the face. The latter returned
the blow, and the two had a lively tus-
sle on the sidewalk. The driver,s assis-
tant ran to his aid, and the young wo-
man, with presence of mind, stepped
into the road way, unfastened the door
of the dog-pen, and carefully picked out
her imprisoned pet. She didn’t take
the pains to fasten the door again, and
the other dogs sprang to the street and
escaped, and this ended an adventure
that would, on the stage or anywbere
else, have brought applause from the
parquet to the gallery.
Cleveland on Ingalls.
Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 24. —Nel-
son F. Ackers, Internal Revenue Collec-
tor of Kansas under President Cleve-
land, has received a letter from the ex-
President, which says :
There is no one thing of the same
grade of importance which has resulted
from the recent election which ought to
please Democrats and decert people so
much as the prospect of the retirement
of Ingalls. J do not know what kind
of a Democrat it would be who would
not labor in season and out of season to
prevent the return to the Senate of this
vilifier of everything Democratic, who
has been put forward by the Republican
party to pour abuse too bad for even de-
cent Republicans. and who was made
Presiding Officer of the Senate to crown
their insults to our party.”
“Biddeford Pool,” reports a
Maine contemporary, ‘is at present in-
vaded by a troop of snowy owls from
the Arctic wilds. The life-saving crew
has been belying its name during the
past week to the extent of thirty owls.
They aresent to Boston and sold for $3
or $3.50, according to their whiteness and
the work necessary to mount them suc-
cessfully.”
Scientrric FARMING. —‘Mine is a
model farm,” said Barrows. “I raise
potatoes of all kinds. In this field I
plant onions and potatoes together. Re
sult, 300 bushels of lyonnaise potatoes
to the acre. Over in that field I plant-
ad fifty bushels of potatoes. In the
spring I ran a stone crusher over the
surface Result, 250 bushels of mashed
potatoes to the acre.”’--New Yark Sun.
Se a
.was unmarried and lived
in
Calling a Halt.
The Columbia Tndependent, whose ed-
itor was a gallant soldier in the war of
the Rebellion on the Union side, writes
as follows :
“The Lancaster Examiner is nothing
if not radical, and when it says, itis
time to call a balt in the pension line,
it is enough to make one open his eyes.
It knows us well as any one knows, that
the demagogues in Congress fave been
using the pension as a bait for old sol-
diers for years, and will do it for years to |
come: The dependent pension bill is
one of the most iniquitious measures
ever passed. It was vetoed by President
Cleveland, but was re-enacted by a Re-
publican Congress and signed by Presi-
dent Harrison We have some little
knowledge of the business, and 1t is sur- |
prising to see with what avidity the |
short term soldiers go for a dependent
pension. It would seem as if the enfire
lot of three, six and nine months’ men
were invalids when they went into the
army and that their short service in-
creased their disability to such an extent
that not one can to-day do a day’s work.
The dependent pension bill bids fair to
bankrupt the nation, and is an act of
gross injustice to the old soldier. That
it places a premium on perjury cannot
be doubted, and that to pass a great ma-
jority of the claims will cause perjury to be
committed is a fixed fact. A service
penson bill, at the proper time, would
not compel perjury. The record alone
would have been evidence of the sol-
dier’s service, and on that he would have
been paid. We agree with the Examiner
when it says, ‘it never was the true sol-
dier who fought to save his country,
who tried to bankrupt it.” It has been
the persistent claim agent and the
demagogues in Congress, and had Cleve-
land been re-elected in 1888 the old
soldiers would have had a friend in
power who would have prevented the
dependent pension bill from becoming a
law.”
A Monster Machine.
The Biggest Stationary Engine in the
World.
ALLENTOWN, Pa, Dec. 6th.—At the
Friedensville Zinc Mines, six miles
south of Allentown, there is in opera-
tion the largest stationary engine in the
world. During the past few months it
has pumped dry by underground drain-
age nearly every ore pit, spring and
small stream within a radius of five
miles.
The engine is known as the ‘“Presi-
dent,’ is of 5000-horse power and is run
by sixteen boilers. At each revolution
of its ponderous wheels a small stream
is thrown out, the number of gallons
raised every minute being 17,500. The
driving wheels are 35 feet in diameter
and weigh 40 tons each. The sweep-
rod is 40 feet long. The cylinder is 110
inches in diameter, while the piston-rod
is 18 inches 1n diameter and makes a 10-
foot stroke.
The engine has a ballast box capable
of holding sixty tons, and to feed the
boilers twenty-eight tons of coal are re-
quired daily. On the engine is the larg-
est nut in the world. It is hexagonal
in shape and weighs 1600 pounds, To
tighten or loosen this nut twenty men
are required, while the wrench that fits
itis twenty feet long. From the end
of the walking beam of the engine to the
bottom of the shaft the distance is 800
feet. The masonry on which the en-
‘gine rests is 108 feet deep, some of the
foundation stones weighing five tons.
The engine operates four pumps, three
of which are thirty inches in diameter
( and the fourth tweaty-two inches.
A Fortune from Beans and Beef.
Oliver Hitchcock, the Park Row
beans and beef man, has made more
money from the sale of the two articles
of diet mentioned than any man in the
world. His fortune is estimated to be
$750,000. He 1s said to own consider-
able stock in the New York Central
railroad and to have a large sum in-
vested in bonds and mortgages. He is
a remarkably sturdy man for his age—
he being 74 years old. Every day finds
him behind his counter, at the corner
of Beekman street, slicing the juicy
cornbeef or ladling out the Boston vege-
table. He works only four hours a
day now.
. Mr. Hitchcock began selling beef
and beans forty years ago, and he has
been at it continuously ever since.
Some of the most famous newspaper
men of New York city have dined at
his humble restaurant. Horaee Gree-
ley was one of Hitchcock's regular cus-
tomers. Hitchcock cannot remember
why he made a specialty of beef and
beans, but he has tangible evidence
that ir these articles are properly cook-
ed and decently served they will bring
a handsome remuneration.— New York
Journal.
A Teamster Killed at Jersey Shore
WiLLIAMSPORT, Dec. 1--George
Reese, a teamster, aged 40 years, was
killed at Jersey Shere this afternoon he
being thrown from the top of a load of
lumber which he was driving. In des-
cending an incline he lost his balance,
and was precipitated to the ground,
alighting on his bead. His neck was
broken, death being instantaneous. He
in Mifflin
township, this county.
.
Buffalo Bill as a Quaker.
Buffalo Bill was born in Chester
county, Pu., and comes of good old
Quaker stock. Both his father and
mother were Quakers and estimable
people. The futher was a mild-man-
nered, quiet little man in a broad-brim-
med hat, and his mother a sweet-faced
old lady with a soft voice, who always
said “thee’” and ‘thou’ and wore a
gray gown and a white cap.
A Baby Smothoered to Death.
WiLLiaMsrorT, Dec. 1—The 3,
months old child of Lewis Linesey was
smothered to death in bed lastnight
The mother put her three children to
bed-and went out to visit a neighbor.
During her absence, the litte one turned
over on its face, and was held down by
the weight of the covering. When
found, it war breathing its last.
Congressional Twins.
There are two men on the Republican
side of the House who look enough alike
to be twin brothers. Lhey are Louis E.
McComas, of Hagarstowr Md., and
William D. Owen, of Logansport, Ind.
McComas is # sharp, shrewd lawyer,
and Owen has been a Minister of the
Christian church, The former is a
member of the committee on appropria-
tions and the latter is chairman of the
| committee on immigration and natural-
ization, The District of Columbia ap-
propriation bill was the first appropria-
tion bill passed. McComas drove it
through the House with lichtning like
speed. Itis said that several Washing-
tonians congratulated the Rev. Mr.
Owen on the ability he had displayed
in securing the appropriations for the
| District and asked him into the restaur-
| ant to have something.
|! McComas’ experiences are, however,
not so pleasant. The doorkeepers say
| that he was recently stopped in the cor-
| ridor by a matronly lady, wearing black
lace mitts and gold eye-glasses, who
threw up both hands on seeing him and
said : ‘La! Brother Owen, how do you
do? Why, I haven'tseen you in a
dog’s age I"’—Cor. Chicago Times.
Quay Says He Lost Nothing.
WasHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 9.—Sena-
tor Quay emphatically denies that Le is
on any of Delamater’s paper, or that
he has any feeling against the recent
candidate for Governor. “On the con-
trary.” he says, “I trust he may come
out of this creditably.”
Twenty Millions for the Strip.
Kaxsas Crry,Mo., Dee. 9.—John A.
Blair, Secretary of the Cherokee Strip
Live Stock Association, and a son of
Millionaire John I. Blair, of New Jer-
sey,to-night telegraphed to Chief Meyas
of the Cherokee Nation, an offer of $20,-
000,000 for the Cherokee strip.
——An Italian was making up pow-
der on the stripping at Jeanesville, on
Monday afternoon, when a spark from
the fire ignited a cartridge. Throwing
it on the floor he jumped on it for the
purpose of putting it out, when the
friction of his boots set the cartridge off,
which shattered one of his feet so that
it will have to be amputated.
Sr —— I ————
There is scarcely anything wo-
men cannot do with a hair pin. They
use it to pick their teeth, button shoes,
clean finger nails, punch bedbugs out
of cracks, fasten up stray bangs, clean
out their husband’s pipe, scratch their
heads. run it into cakes to see if they are
done, and about a million other things
that the poor deluded men know noth-
ing about.
EA ———
For hives in children, rub the
irritated skin or the pustules with castor
oil, applied with the tip of the finger.
Baby will pass from fretting to slumber
while the process is going on, the relief
will be so great and quick. For inflamed
eyes, bumped heads and sprained ankles
use abundantly water as hot as can be
borne,
Books, Magazines, etc.
An elegant Gift book ; Golden Thoughts on
Mother, Home! and Heaven. Edited by Rev.
Theo, L. Cuyler, D. D.; and others. From an
examination of its merits we heartily endorse
the sentiment of William M. Taylor, D. D.,
Pastor of Broadway Tabernacle, expressed in
a personal letter to the Publisher, E. B, Treat,
5 Cooper Union, N. Y.
. “This book is as valuable 1n its contents as it
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AN INSTITUTE IDYL.
The country school marms, gay and fine,
Will come to town next week,
To “mash” all Bellefonte’s frayed-out dudes,
And hear the speakers speak.
Our best hotels-will overflow
With pedagogic “sweets,”
And airy, fairy, gushing girls
Will promenade our streets.
The adolescent sap-head youths,
Whose hearts young Cupid rules,
Will all be caught by the lovely ones
Who teach the country schools.
The thaw of Wednesday and
Thursday put an end to the sleighing
for the time being.
The “Old Jonathan Coburg” Co.,
carries on imperial band and orchestra.
It is a good show, So the papers say.
Don’t miss seeing Old Jonathan
Coburg,” played by the Moore and
Vivien Co., in the Opera House on
Thursday night, Dec. 18th,
——Last week we stated that Mr.
Josh Folk had been bounced from the
police for getting drunk and abusing his
family, Mr. Folk has since called to
inf rm us that we were in error as to
one of the charges, at least, that ot abus-
ing his family, and requests the publica-
tion of the following affidavit affirming
his innocence of that charge:
Centre County, Ss:
Personally appeared before me a
Justice of the Peace, in and for said
county, came Melitia J. Folk, Hdith
Folk and Sadie Sheridan, all of Bolle-
fonte Borough, who on their oath say,
that certain charges have been in ¢i cala-
tion that on the 18th day of November,
A. D. 1890, Joshua Folk of said Belle-
fonte Boro., did come to his home in
said Boro., intoxicated, and did then and
there abuse his family. Said Joshua
Folk was at that time off of duty as
policeman, did come home slightly in-
toxicated, but did notin anyway act
indecently or was he abusive to his fam-
ily ; and further say that we never knew
of said Joshua Folk at any time to be
abusive to his family.
Sworn to before Her
me, this 6th id MEeLiTia XJ, Fork
of Dec. A.D. 1890. | Mane
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Sawmr F. K Gi" | SADIE SPERIDAN.
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