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Terms $2.00 A Year,in Advance
Bellefonte, Pa., Decembe
P. GRAY MEEK,
Cameron and the Force Bill.
Senator CaMeroN deserves credit for
his opposition to the| Force Bill. He
has no confidence in it as a party
scheme and objects to it as a measure
that would continue sectional feeling
and interfere with business relations
between the North and the South.
The stand he has taken upon this
question has brought down upon him
the condemnation of some of the ultra
party papers which back the Adminis-
tration in its unconstitutional purpose
of controlling the elections by forcible
means, and they can find no other rea-
son for his opposing such a scheme
than that he is affected by his intimacy
with Senator BurLer of South Caro-
lina. But CaMeroN gave a better rea-
son than this for his opposition to the
Force Bill in a recent interview with a
correspondent of the Boston Transcript)
in which he said :
I will vote against the Election bill whatever
form it may assume. Iam opposed to it in
principle and in its details. The South is
now resuming uiet condition. Nerthern
capital has been flowing into the South in
great quantities; ‘manufacturing establish-
ments have been created and are now in full
operation, and a community of commercial in-
terests is fast obliterating sectional lines and
will finally result, in the not far distant future,
in forming one homogeneous mass of people,
whether being in the North, South, East or
West. The Election law would disturb this
desirable condition and produce ill feeling
between the North and South. I am, there-
fore, opposed to the bill, and shall assert my
independence as a Senator and cast my vote
against the measure.
This is a manly and patriotic view
of the question and in taking it the
Senator certainly reflects the senti-
ments of a majority of his constituents.
———
A Holiday Benefaction.
The public is indebted to the Penn-
sylvania Railroad Company for a
means of enjoying the holiday season
which furnishes an appreciable addi-
tion to the delights of that festive pe-
riod. By its excursion rates which ma-
terially reduce the cost of travel,
friends at a distance areenabled at de-
creased expense to interchange visits
and come together in the enjoyment of
the festivities and pleasures of the sea-
son. The P. R. R. holiday excursion
rates enlarge the facilities for enjoying a
Merry Christmas and a Happy New
Year. This is a feature of modern civ-
lization which should not be overlook-
ed in contemplating the many benefits
which are conferred upon society by
rapid and cheap means of travel.
This winter the Pennsylvania Com
pany extends its benefaction by en-
abling the snow-bound denizens of the
North, at excursion rates, to get be-
yond the reign of winter bya visit to the
tropics. Itis now selling round trip
tickets to the Island of Jamaica,
which includes a sea voyage from
Tampa, Florida, thus affording the en-
Jjoyment of a sail over the sunny sea of
the Antilles. Nothing could be more
enjoyable to a resident of the North
than a winter sojourn in the balmy
climate of the West Indies, and the
Company avails itself of the occasion
of the Jamaica International Exposi-
tion to enable the people of the North
to have this delightful experience.
—-Wecall the attention of our read-
ers to the prospectus of the Harrisburg
Patriot in another column. Tt is the
central Democratic organ of the State
and as such does its daty faithfully
and well. There is no wavering in its
support of Democratic principles; no
uncertainty in its political expression.
Withal it is a good newspaper.
Its editor, Hon. B. F. MEvERs, is one
of the old sentinels who for years has
kept watch and ward on the outer walls
of Democracy, and who when he
dies will die inside the breastworks.
A Democrat who wants a daily parcy
paper can’t get a better one than the
Patriot.
———
A Useful Public Document.
We have received a copy of a com-
pilation entitled “Appropriations, New
Officers, ete,” made by Thos. P.
CLeavEs, Clerk to Appr. Com. of the
U.S. Senate, and Jas. C. Courts,
Clerk to Appr. Com. of the House of
Representatives. The volume em-
braces all the general appropriations |
as well as all other acts of Ist. Ses. of
the 51st Congress carrying with them
the expenditure of money from the
public treasury, together with the new
tariff law; a tabulated statement |!
showing at a glance the amount of |
money authorized to be expended by
the several departments; a list of new
offices created for the benefit of Repub-
lican office seekers, and also those abol-
ished. The increase of officials hy this
legislation is 1,354, with salaries
amounting to $1,450,348, besides the
increase of othersby an additional sum
of $1,446,500, while it abolished 121
offices with salaries amounting to
$174, 919.38, and reduced salaries $35,-
800. In addition to this they raised
the salaries of their pet retainers to the
number! of 1,108, by an increase of
$141,295.12, while they reduced the
pay of only 8, no doubt worthy fellows,
to the amount of $1,803,40. The gen-
eral appropriations for the year 1891 by
these acts are increased over those of
the previous year, $68,060,994 52. 1t
also gives a history of appropriation
bills from the time the estimates leave
the several departments until they
round up in laws for the tartherance
of public business. As a book of re-
ference and general information it sur-
passes all other government publica
tions. The gentlemen who compiled 1t
have made it their study to give to the |
public nothing but the facts, thus |
avioding the waste of time and Jiscour-
agement that usnally attend the
search for information through most
of oar government publications.
Senntor Wallace’s Fnancial Embar-
rassment,
The surprise of the week was the
announcement of the assignment of
Hon. WirLiam A. WaLLace who has
become financially embarrassed. As
the principal of the Clearfield County
Bank he made an assignment on Tues:
day and the doors of the Bank were
closed. Reports represent his liabili-
ties at about $400,000, while his assets
are valued at $600,000. His property
includes some of the best coal lands in
Clearfield county, and good judges be
lieve that they alone are worth the
amount of his indebtedness. Judge
Kreps, his son-in-law, being also in-
volved, has also made an assignment.
Mr, Warnace had endorsed his notes
and when he made an assignment the
Judge was forced to do likewise.
The Senator was led to the course
he has taken by his being loaded with
securities upon which he was unable
to realize without a great sacrifice,
and he honorably determined to give
his creditors the benefit of their real
value. He has the full sympathy of
the people of Clearfield who recognize
his integrity and have the utmost con-
fidence in his ability to extricate him-
self from the difficulty which has over-
taken him.
The people of the State can have no
other than a sympathetic feeling for
the distinguishea citizen who through
fortuitous circumstances finds himself
financially embarrassed.
——South Carolina has departed
from her custom of retaining the ser-
vice of her United States Senators
indefinitely, by electing Col. IrBy in
the place of Wape Hampron. The
latter has been one of her representa-
tives in the Senate for-a number of
years and there was every appearance
that he would be retained in that posi-
tion, but the Farmers’ Alliatce move-
ment introduced a new element which
has disturbed the old custom in regard
to the Senatorship. The new Senator,
Col. ry, is a young man, 36 years of
age, who, although a farmer, has had
considerable public experience. He is
a Democrat and probably will be of
more service to Democratic principles
than the older Senator whom we shall
succeed.
The offer of the attendance of
the National Guard at Governor Par-
TISON’S inauguration will not be whol-
ly accepted, but it is understood that
the Governor agrees that the Regiment
nearest Harrisburg, which is the
Eighth, and the Governor's Troop,
shall attend, which he thinks will be
sufficient for the occasion. It it be
thought proper to add a military feature
to the occasion one regiment and the
Troop will be enough for the purpose.
It eeems to be the popular wish that
the inauguration should be signalized
by some kind of demonstration, and the
Governor, who doesn’t like display,
has yielded to the public desire.
BS —
[t seems to be impossible to get
at the bottom ot Commissioner Raun's
delinquencies in the management of
the Pension Bureau. The charges
against him were sufficiently direct and
explicit, but there was great delay in
appointing the committee to investi-
gate them, and while in progress the
investigation looked as if there were
members of the committee who were
interested in shielding the inculpated
officer. Enough, however, has been
| person to be at the head of the pension
(office:
shown to prove that Rauvy is not a fit
——VYoung Husband ( meeting his
wife on the street)—‘‘Horror! is the
baby dead ?” Young Wife—What
nonsense ! Of course not. I just this
moment left him as well as ever. Why
did you think any thing had happen-
Teachers’ County Institute.
The forty-fourth annual Institute of
the Centre county common school teaeh-
ers was convened in the Court House in
Bellefonte on Monday morning of this
week, at 10 o’clock, Superintegdent
Etters presiding. The room was well
filled, a large percentage of the teachers
being present. The exercises were
opened by Rev. E. E. Hoshour reading
the 101th Psalm and making a prayer.
A hymn was sung, after which J.
L. Spangler delivered an address of wel-
come.
Dr. E. E. White, of Ohio, then took
the stand and spoke of the “Seven Ele-
ments of Power in the School,” or ‘‘the
Ladder of Success.” He pictured two
schools near to each other but very dis-
similar in the control which the teachers
exerted. These teachers used the same
methods precisely, but the results were
so different. Using these teachers as an
illustration he would ask, “What con-
stitutes power in a school.” He would
put aside some of the things often talked
about in institutes—natural aptitude,
personal magnetism, ete. The first ele-
ment to which he would call attention |
is “good scholarship’ on the part of the
teacher, by which he meant a thorough
and fresh knowledge of what is taught
as the result of recent study. This be-
gets the confidence of the child in the
teacher. The recipe he would give to
any teacher would be “See it it, my
Young friend, that you come to the class
with a thorough knowledge of the les-
son.”--A teacher had said to him that she
could not study because she was so
weary at the end of the day’s work.
While there is one teacher who has ill
health because of study there are nine
who suffer for want ofit. There is
rothing so fatal as the worry of school
life, and the teacher who will come to
the school with the confidence that all
the lessons can be imparted without a
text book will be the better physically.
Garfield, in his presence once said, “Do
not feed the pupils cold victuals.” Dr.
Arnold the great English teacher, said
more beautifully, “I prefer to have my
pupils drink from a running brook in-
stead of a stagnant pool.”
The second element he mentioned
was “Skill,” which he illustrated, and
this included skill of head and hand.
The third point was “Heart,” or love,
which is one of the strongest elements of
control. A fourth element was ‘“‘Back-
bone.” Without this the other elements
would lack force.
This address was followed by a song.
after which Mrs. Eastman, of Courtland,
N.Y. spokeon “Disciplining Primary
Classes.” She said: Have the children
tell you what they know. Keep them
busy. Don’t be afraid of enthusiasm.
Do not have the children do new work
when they are tired. Instead, havea
few minutes gymnastics to rest them.
Do not prompt the children during reci-
tation. Do not permit laughter at the
expense of a child. Correct every in-
correct expression which they may use.
Teach the children to keep pencils out
of their mouths, She prevented it once
by dipping the pencils in oil of penny-
royal. Speak quietly and give few or-
ders, and see that you are obeyed every
time. Don’t threaten. Don’t report
the children to the principal. She ex-
plained how, in school, she had prevent-
ed the habit of throwing paper wads:
also a method of preventing the child-
ren from playing with pins. Both meth-
ods were on the entirely effective.
In the evening Dr. White lectured
on “Character.” It was a fine effort in
which the speaker dealt with the highest
attributes of life and human conduct ;but
the conduct of many in the audience
was of such a noisy and disorderly char-*
acter that it was difficult to keep the run
of the discourse.
TUESDAY.
The morning session was opened with
prayer by Rev. Dr. Laurie and the
reading of a chapter from the Bible, fol-
lowed by the singing of the hymn,
“Sun of My Soul.” Dr. White con-
tinued his lecture on the ‘Elements of
Governing Power.” To the four points
he had previously spoken of he added a
fifth, ‘good eyes and good ears.” To
use these without spying is the idea.
He has been in schools where the pupils
passeC answers to questions on paper
and slates from one to another and the
teacher did not see it. Two very strong
enforcements of this point were given —
one relating his visit to a noisy and dis-
orderly school. The other showed that
the teacher must see mischief in its very
beginning and nip it in the bud. The
sixth element is “Common Sense,”
which will correct at the right time and
in proper measure. But the crowning
element is “Character.” It is difficult for
the teacher to govern when his actions
or conduct is open to criticism.
Mrs. Eastman then gave a talk on
“How to Teach Reading.” It contain-
ed many points which were instructive
to teachers whose business is to give
rudimentary instruction in reading.
Dr. Lyte, of the Millersville Normal
School, spoke on “The Laws of
Thought,” Tt was a dry subject and
evidently wasn’t relished by many of
his hearers.
In the atternoon the room was crowd-
ed?” Young Husband (with a gasp of
relief) —Why, here I am only two
blocks from home and I don’t hear him.
ed. It was announced that 148 of the
154 teachers were in attendance.
| Prof. Pond, of the Pennsylvania State
i College, was announced to speak on the
subject 0: “Gas.” He began very hap-
pily, by referring to the invitation of the
Superintendent. who rather preferred the
| experiment to the remarks. He defined
| whut he means by gaseous matter, All
| matter is made of molecules. When
: these are placed the closest together the
- matter is solid. In the gaseous condi-
tion the molecules are spread far apart.
Too often we think of the atmosphere as
not material. But it sapports the eagle
in its flight. The atmosphere is matter.
A vessel he exhibited contained hydro-
gen gas, which is 14 times lighter than
air. He lighted it several times, each
time with quite a loud explosion. The
gas is colorless and not preceptible in
the jars until the explosion and flame oc-
curred, To prove that it is lighter than
air he inverted the jarand as the gas
went upward the explosion took place.
These experiments were beautiful and
satisfactory. The hydrogen gas will not
support combustion, the light of the
candle being extinguished when held in
a long jar filled with hydrogen atmos-
phere.
To illustrate oxygen he drew a circle
to represent all the material of the earth,
one half of which is oxygen. He also
placed the lighted candle in a globe fill-
ed with oxygen and it burned with a
very brilliant light. Even a spark was
brightly lighted in the gas. He burned
a particle of sulphur, which burned in a
very dull manner in the air, but with
much more vigor in the oxygen. Phos-
phorus in the oxygen made a wonder-
fully brilliant light.
the atmosphere only 20 per cent. is oxy-
gen and that the atmosphere supports
combustion only because of the oxygen
it contains. His next experiment was
with magnesium, which, even in air,
burns with an intense white light, and
was absolutely brilliant in the oxygen.
bustion of tke iron in the oxygen was
complete and quite startling to those
who are unfamiliar with the fact that
iron will burn.
In a jar which was filled with water
he put two parts of hydrogen and one of
oxygen. Before proceeding with this
he sent some hydrogen soap-bubbles in
the air and lighted them in their aerial
flight to the ceiling. Some exploded,
drogen alone burned, while those with
the neces:ary quantities of hydrogen and
oxygen ignited with a loud explosion.
After a further experiment of the same
principle hesaid that every explosion is
caused in the same way. Several amus-
ing experiments of this principle were
given. The Professor froze water in the
sulphur dioxide.
almost the entire audience to cough. A
gas known as carbon dioxide was placed
in a jar and every time a lighted candle
was'placed in it the flame was extinguish-
ed, showing that the gas will not sup-
port combustion. Its barriers were
proven by pouring the invisible gas
from one jar into another. By infusing
the gas into a jar containing lime water
the water became clouded. He after-
wards blew into another jar containing
the same quantity of lime water and it
also becam sligntly clouded, showing
that carbon dioxide is thrown off from
the lungs. The Professor allowed a
quanitity of gas to escape into a bag
when it immediately congealed into a
solid 108° below zero. He passed the
substance to those near him and no one
appeared to want to hold it very long.
This was followed by an address by
Prof. Lyte on “The Child,” in which he
spoke of the natural characteristics of
children.
“Language Training” was then the
topic of a lecture by Dr. White. He
said that the only way to give a child
training in language is to go back to
the ordinary use of language. You can
never learn a child to talk by rule. No
school art can be learned by rule. In
language training the end is not gram-
matical accuracy, but power to express
knowledge in powerful and clear lan-
guage. Grammatical accuracy can be
caught not taught. It will come in the
use of language. All power is the re-
sult of activity, and practicing is what is
necessary. The knowledge must be the
child’s own. To write about the clouds,
the dew and fog, the child must first
have knowledge of these things.
In the evening the Court House was
crowded to hear the Thomas Concert
Company whose performance was ex-
cellent.
WEDNESDAY.
Rev. J. O. Davis, of the Episcopal
church. conducted the devotional exer-
cises with which the session was vpened.
After the hymn, ‘Jesus, Lover of My
Soul,” Superintendent Htters named
the following committees :
On Nominations—W, P, Kuhn, E. R.
Holmes and G. W. Ward.
On Resolutions—H. C. Rothrock, S.
H. Hubbard, J. M. Thompson, Sara J.
Waite and Grace Moore.
The ushers for the afternoon session
were A. W. Gregg, J. K. Hosterman,
Walter Wrye, J. M. Thompson, E. Ar-
drey and John Buck.
Those of the evening session were K,
Haines, W. KE. Keene, H. Gilbert, A. C.
—
Ripka and J. Miller.
Mrs. Eastman then began a talk on
“Teaching Numbers.” By her method
the children are greatly assisted in learn-
ing the multiplication table. They are
taught to add rapidly. The only way to
acquire the habit of adding rapidly is to
compel the child to practice it regularly.
At one period in the course of instrue-
tion the pupils are permitted to play
store, which continues three days or a
week, according to the brightness of the
children. She combines addition and
multiplication in her work on the board,
and at the end of the second year the
childred can quickly solve quite complex
problems.
Prof. White took up the subject of
“Language,” saying that it was taught
by practice and not by rule. He said
that the five means of leading a child to
facility of expression is 1st, by means of
observation ; 2d, pictures ; 3rd, stories ;
4th, writing letters 5th; dictation, and he
enlarged upon and gave illustration of
these points.
Prof. L. S, Thompson, of the Jersey
City, N. J., school, made his first ap-
pearance and gave a lesson in “Draw-
ng.
Mr. Smith, of Gillett & Sons, the cele-
brated steel pen manufacturers, explain-
ed to the Institute how steel pens are
made.
In the afternoon on account of the
bad weather the court room was not
crowded. The opening song was “The
Voice Within Us.”
Prof. Wolf made a statement in regard
to the memorial to Dr. E. E. Higbee.
He said that in ;
To burn iron in the oxygen he fastened |
a match to an ron ribbon and the com- |
He explained that those filled with hy- |
centre of a red hot crucible by the useof
The substance caused
The monument is to be placed in the
i cemetery at Emmettsburg, Md., and
there will also be other memorials. A
steel portrait of the deceased Doctor was
| exhibited, and Mr. Wolf read a list of
| the schools ewtitled to the portraits and
, requested the teachers to come forward
| and get them.
Prof. Buckhout, of the State College,
was then introduced, who spoke on Bo-
tany,” which was certainly an instrac-
| tive subject and doubtless was interest-
“ing to his hearers. He was followed by
: Prof. Thompson on “Drawing,” who
gave some valuable instruction in the
practical details of that useful art. Mrs.
. Eastman continued her talk on teaching
children arithmetic and gave samples of
| gymnastic exercises. The lecture of Dr.
| White on “Efficient Moial Training”
| was replete with excellent suggestions.
He told a great truth when he said “It
is vastly better that children'should come
: from the schools with a greater love for
{ honor and truth than for arithmetic and
| geography.” He classed the moral in-
| centives as follows: 1, the desire to
i stand well ; 2, approbation of friends
"and of God ; 8, a desire for knowledge ;
4, a desire for future usefulness; 5, a
sense of right; 6, a sense of honor; 7, a
sense of duty.
The evening was taken up with the
lecture of Colonel Sandford.
THURSDAY.
Thursday morning's session of the In-
stitute was opened with song, after which
Prof. Buckhout, of State College, spoke
again. Mrs. Eastman then entertained
and instructed her audience with a neat
talk on child training, etc. The next
speaker was Prof. Thompson. The
Profes:or’s theme was free hand drawing
and he illustrated with a number of lit-
, tle blackboard sketches, showing the
beauty and grace of free hand move-
ments in curves, and impressing the ne-
cessity of interesting the scholar early in
its course, The talk was highly enter-
taining and instructive. Dr. White,
principal of the Cincinnati schools, fol-
lowed with another of his delightful
talks on work in the sthool room. The
Dr. is one of the most pleasing talkers
in attendance and his efforts have been
very much appreciated by all who heard
him. Ciear and forcible in argumenta-
tion and with a vast amount of experi-
ence With children he is certainly an
able instructor.
At the afternoon session Prof Thom-
8)n again took up the subject of free
hand drawing and was followed by Mrs.
Eastman who took up her talk of the
morning and continued for some time.
Dr. White was called again and con-
cluded the list of speakers for the after-
noon. -
THE DIRECTORS’ MEETING.
The calling of the meeting was some-
what retarded by the lateness of the
morning trains, but when it was brought
to order, in the new brick school build-
ing on Bishop street, a goodly number
of Directors had assembled. The follow-
ing officers were elected for the ensuing
year: Pres.G. Taylor, Boggs twp; Vice
Pres., G. W. Hosterman, Centre Hall;
Sec. and Treas.,, Wm. B.
Bellefonte, and Ex. Com.,
ney, Bellefonte, J.C. Steer, Union
Twp.. J. H. Keller, Potter twp., Henry
son, College. The regular routine of
business was then gone through with,
and a number of resolutions passed. Two
very interesting lectures delivered by
Prof. Wm. H. Buckhout, of Pennsyl-
vania State College, and Prof. G. Groff,
of Buckwell University at Lewisburg,
were listered to. The most important
business transacted was the adoption of
wu new system by which country
schools are to be graded. It was intro-
duced by Prof. D. M. Lieb, principal
of the Bellefonte Schools, ex-cojinty
Sup. Wolf, and Prof. Hosterman, of
Center Hall,and is said that it will fill a
long requirement in the country school
districts.
On Thursday evening Dr. Hammers
delivered a highly illustrated and in-
structive lecture on “From Paris to
Pompeii.” It was much enjoyed by a
a fair sized audience, but many of the
teachers were to be found at the Opera
House seeing “Old Jonathan Coburg”
played.
TEACHERS IN ATTENDANCE.
Bellefonte—D. M, Lieb, G. W. Johnsonbaugh,
D. M. Wolf; J. F. Harrison, Ella Levy, Lizzie
Bottori, Kate Hewos, Kate Powers, Annie Me-
Cafferty, Jennie Strickland, Anna McBride,
Carrie Weaver, Rosie Fox, Laura Wright,
Bella Rankin, Bessie Dorworth.
Benner twp.—Jno. W. Clark, T. L. Crust, D.
W. Geiss, H. N. Hoy, S. H. Hoy, Jas. G. Mar~
shall, H. G. Mease.
Boggs twp.—T. 8. DeLong, Nannie DeLong,
Florence Orris, Edith Zimmerman, Lydia
Spangler, stella Edminson, Bridgie Curry,
Nina Walker, Bertha Leathers, Nettie Lucas,
Lide Earov, Elias Hancock, E. R. Hancock, \V
P. Kuhn. ,
Burnside twp.—L. W. Musser, Emma Mildan,
Nettie Perry.
Centre Hall. —H. C. Rothrock, J. G. Dauber-
man, Maggie Hanna.
College twp.—G. W. Williams, J. H. Jacobs, J.
D. Miller, Sallie Barr, H. F. McGirk, J. L.Tres-
sler, Grace M. Moors, J. M. Hartswick, Carrie
Hunter, Edith J. Irwin.
Curtin twp.—D. E. Robb, Sadie E. Bechdel,L..
O. Packer, Mollie E. Kelly, Jas. P. Wagner.
Ferguson twp.—Jacob Rhone, Sue Dannley,
Nannie Thomas, A. G, Archey, J. B. Krebs, W.
H. Roush, Annie McWilliams, Clara Walker,
Hannah Meek, Nettie Ewing, Cooper Miller,
Carrie Miller, Jacob Harpster, Geitie Osman,
Jas. A, Miller.
Gregg twp.—C. R. Neff, Chas. Royer, Annie
C. Grove, I. F. Jamison, W. A. McClellan, W.
W. Bible, W. A. Krise, J. P. Heckman, Mary
Guise, Geo. F. Weaver, Carrie Secrist, Harry
Grove, A. L. Duck, E, M. Duck.
Haines Twp.—W. E.Keene,Z Thomas, A.
Martin, F. A. Foreman, Kate Bollinger, W. T.
Winklebleck,H, Detwiller, T. A. Auman, Ab.
Bierly.
Harris Twp.—S. D. Gettig, A L. Auman, Flor-
ence Riley, W. P. Hoover, C.Coxey, R. Harri-
son.
Half Moon twp.—W.B. Mattern, E. Lytle,
Sarah Waite, Irene Beck, Franc Thompson,
Walter Wrye.
Howard twp.—J. L. Gardner, W. Leathers,
T. Pletcher, H. W. Reeder, Mary Zimmerman,
Temple Hall, Fannie Gardner.
Howard bor.—E. W. Kline, P.
Kline.
Huston twp.—T. Tellhelm, E. Williams, Alice
Heahen, Mary McClellan.
Liberty twp.—I. N. McCloskey, R. Haines, J.
T. Bowers, Lacra Foreman, Henry Spangler,
W. Haines, N. L. Pletcher, I. Spangler, R.
Pletcher.
Marion twp.—E. Holter, 8. Butler, W. Smith,
C. W. Bartley, Lila Krise.
Miles twp.—C. Grove, C. E. Emerick, Alice
Wolf, Mrs., C. L. Gramley, W. Limbert, H. L.
Gilbert J. Morris, J. DeLong, A. J. Hazel, Rev
Dotterer.
Milesburg —J. D. Hunter, A. M. Butler, Lida
Taylor Emma Martin.
a Xie M. Kennelly, W. L. Goodhart, Ida
Small.
Patton twp.—J. W. Blair, R. Hartsock, Ed.
Bowersox, M. E. Heberling, G. Seibert.
Penn twp.—A. Ripka, B. F. Edmunds, J. F.
Garthoff, R. U. Bitner, W. E. Bracht, Ella Mer-
singer. . .
Philipshurg.—H. W. Weber, Lena B. Carleton,
Jennie Morrison, W. F. Elkin, Emma J. Her-
riotte, Carrie E. Vaughan, Alta M. Smith, Mol-
lie B. Ward, Lida E.Holt, Cora E. James, Ella
M. Ward, Clara B. Lukens, Nellie Matherson.
Potter twp.—A. C. Williams, Hiram Grove,
Tammie Evans, David K. Keller, W. R. Neff,
Maggie J Spangler, Loyd Kerlin, Grace Durst,
W. G. Runkle, Jno. B Fortney, U. S. Fleisher,
R. D. Foreman, Jas, K. Hosterman. Jas. Gregg
J. F. Miller.
Rush twp.—J. S. Reid, Jennie Talhelm, Anna
Cresswell, J. E. Richard, Harry Waite, J. M.
Thompson, Agnes Suhrie, Mattie Wilson, Dol-
lie Stine, Nora Myers, Gertie Vroman, Jane
Woodring, T. V. Stevens.
Spring twp.—A. W. Gregg, Maria Marshall,
Boyd A. Noll, S. C. Bathgate, Jas. Corl, E. H.
Zeigler, W. C. Smeltzer, Aggie Rearick, E. E.
Ardery, Juo. A { Steele, J. R. Sheffler, Bella
Barnhart, Bertha Davidson, J. C. Dale, Anna J.
Stott, I. M Barnhart.
Snow Shoe —~Jas. Shaw, H. E. Leathers, P.
M. Bennison, Mollie E. Pile, J. K. Johnson,
Maggie Smith, J. F. Leathers, BE. R- Holmes,
Mollie Bing, Lena Roth.
Taylor twp.—G. W. Ward, Emma Beck, Jodie
Erhard, J. F. Goss, J. M. Beck.
Union twp.— Elda Hoover, Amelia Rumber-
ger, /. C. Thompson, Cyrus Calhoun, Dora G,
White, Sallie Davidson.
Unionville.—G. H. Hubbard, Ella Fleck.
Walker.—T. B. Rupert, I). A. Deitrick, H. De-
Sylvia, W. H. Markle, R. Holmes, Nelson Robb,
L.H. Yocum, R. J. Snyder, W. J. Weaver.
Worth twp.—W. Woodring, Candace Wood-
ring, Ida Williams, J. O. Harpster, J. H. Harp-
ster, Joshua Marhoof.
It is reported that President
Harrrsox will soon send a message to
congress in which he will recommend
legislation that will ease the present
financial strain. If Mr. Hagrrisox
had a mind capable of comprehending
the causes of the strain, recommenda-
tion of remedial measures coming from
him wouldn’t have quite so much the
appearance of absurdity. It would
about size up to his mental caliber if he
should recommend giving the tariff
screw another twist as the remedy
needed to ease the present difficulty.
The Death of Sitting Bull,
B. Loder, Amy
He and His Son Killed by the Indian
Folie.
Sr. Paurn, Minn., Dec..15.—The
news of the killing ot Sitting Bull has
been confirmed by the advices received
by General Miles at military headquar-
ters in this city. He received two dis-
putches this evening, the first was from
Pierre, 5. D., stating that Sitting Bull
and his son had been ki.led, but giving
no further particulars. The other dis-
pateh was from Standing Rock agency
and stated that the Indian police started
out this morning to arrest Sitting Bull,
having understood that he proposed
starting for the Bad Lands ‘at once.
The police were followed by a troop of
cavalry under Captain Touchet, and the
infantry under Colonel Drum. When
Rankin, of |
D.F. Fort- |
the police reached Sitting Bull's camp.
on the Grand river, about torty miles
from Standing Rock, they found that
atrangements had been made for depart-
ure. The cavalry had not yet reached
the camp. When the police arrested
Bull and started back with him his fol-
"lowers quickly rallied to his rescue and
| tried to revake hin,
Lee, Patton Twp, and Hiram Thomp-
President of the State Board of Health,
In the melee that
ensued the wily old chief is smid to have
been killed and five of the Indian police
were also Killed. One of the police
jumped on one of Sitting Bull’s horses
and rode back to the cavalry and infan-
try, telling them to hurry up to the sup-
port of the police, and then hurried on
to the agency with the ‘news of the
battle.
wo
——“Now, children, 1 tell you, you
must ever steal, When you want new
clothes the way to do is to buy them on
credit. “Then you will always be well
clothed ; you wont have’ puid out any
‘money for them, and you will be look
ed on as honest, respectable people.”