Jaldman
Terms 2.00 A Year,in Advance
Bellefonte, Pa., March 4, 1892.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - = . Epror
Where Most of the Trouble Lies.
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One of our leading newspapers has
taken a decided stand against theright,
which! husbands bave,in this country,
to claim damages for the alienation of
a wife's ‘affections. It claims that a
woman's affections are her own, ex-
clusively so, and that she has a right
to bestow them where she pleases.
This .position may be correct, to: a
certain extent, but the “right” to do
80, is seldom the cause that induces
the act to be done. It springs from an-
other motive or other causes entirely,
in winecases out of ten.
How can any man sow selfishness,
neglect and brutality ‘and expect to
reap kindness, devotion and love?
Every department of natural and moral
science teaches that ‘like begets like.”
Have the courts ever recorded a case
in which a kind husband, who led a
clean, sober life, needed to ask for a
compensation for the loss of his wifes
affections? = And how ' many, many
cases have they to deal with, in which
a forgiving; patient wife remains true
and faithful to a depraved tyrant.
Certainly some wives are unworthy ;
but they are few compared with the
unworthy husbands, who are largely
responsible for their defects. Many
men forget that marriage is a partner-
ship arrangement and think that wom-
en are the chief gainers thereby, while
in reality the disadvantages are all on
her side. After sacrificing her inde-
pendence and assuming duties that are
often innumerable and endless,—could
you blame a woman for ceasing to love
a lazy domineering creature, who on
the street corners, advocates the eight
hour system, while she at home cooks
for the boarders, Or the pale over
worked little wife, who pinches and
saves, that her liege lord may add to
his barn and acres. Many strictly
moral and prosperous husbands lose
their wives’ respect and affection by
perfect indifference to her comforts and
pleasures, and nothing so quickly
builds up a great barrier between the
two as the money question. It is
humiliating to any one to have to beg
or coax for money and when it is for
the general expenses. Is'nt azwoman
justified in enjoying her independent
sister ?
‘The marriage question is a subject
that will be discussed as long as the
hhman race exists ; but until busbands
treat their wives as they themselves
expect to be treated, the divorce courts
will be crowded and the newspapers
filled with Deacon tragedies.
——The individuals who can find
timeto write column after column of
charges against the proposed Reading
ing reilroad deal, to create public sen-
timent, and have not the time, disposi-
tion or courage, to go to Harrisburg
and furnish the State authorites with
the information upon which they base
their allegations, or assist them in se-
curing such knowledge as will aid them
in preventing its consumation, if wrong)
are not the people to talk about the
duty of others or the necessity of see
ing the eonstitution enforced. It is
the duty of every private citizen, as
well as every public official, to pre-
vent, if possible, any violation of any
constitutional provision, and the citizen
withholds information that would aid
in enforcing the mandates of the con-
stitution, is as guilty as he who violates
it. If he has no information it is a
deception on the public, to make be-
lieve he has. Mr. PowperLy and Mr.
Cassar, should both be at Harrisburg,
supporting the Attorney General in his
efforts to get at the bottom facts in this
big combine.
—
——Mr. BraINg's personal state-
ment as to the causes thatled to the
divorce suit that has just ended in the
lezal separation of his son and daught-
erin-law, while it throws much light
upon the unhappy afltair, is the kind of
information that in no way benefits
any one and satisfies only a prurient
public taste for private matters. While
it gives Mr. BLAINE'8 version of the un
fortunate affair in a frank and honest
manner, which shows that the short
comings of the young couple were not
on one side alone, and will secure to the
elder BLaiNes a sympathy which oth-
erwise might not have been felt, it can
in no way change the general impres-
sion, that his son, who deserted a
young wite and child and left them de-
pendent upon the charity of others, de-
deserves the contempt the, public has
for. him, as well asthe sentence impos-
ed by the couri granting the divorce.
A boy old enough to deceive a priest
into performing a marriage ceremony,
is too old to benefit by playing the
“baby act” when, it comes to main-
taining his wife and child.
Limiting the Supply [is Nothing New. :
A number of our gRepublican ex-
changes are seeing all manner of wrong
in the Farmers’ Alliance of Georgia, |
because of its effort to limit the amount |
of cotton planted in jthe hope, that bet- |
ter prices may be obtained for that
which is grown. If there is anything |
wrong in this movement it is the same
kind of a wrong that has been for years
and still is perpetrated upon the pub-
lic, by every other interest in the coun-
try, under the blessed (?) times the
Republicanjparty has given us.
When coal threatens to get so plenty
that poor men have hopes of keeping
their families warm at a fair cost, the
companies;and corporations that own
and control the out-put, meet and
limit theJamount to be mined each
month, until the scarcity of the article
brings Sup the price to the desired
figure.
When [iron becomes so cheap that
farmers would be benefitted by the low-
er prices their agricultural implements
would cost, furnaces are stopped until
the supply is exhausted ‘and demand
puts prices up to the required point.
When the product of the manu-
factory becomes so abundant, that the
price paid for it does not pay the ex-
pense of making, the manufactory
closes down until scarcity makes a de-
mand that secures fair prices.
And so on through every manner of
financial enterprise or business inter-
este. Those in control attempt to limit
the supply, that demand may make re-
numerative prices.
This is the underlying principle of
the Republican protective tariff policy:
—to cause scarcity that prices may be
enhanced.
Does any one hear these Republican
papers cry out against other interests
that bave the power and are eter
nally limiting the out-pui of their
mines, mills and manufactories? Do
you hear these organs denounce their
own policy of protection, that is based
on this same principle of limiting the
supply. ?
If these are right, why is the cotton
grower or grain raiser wrong in his
efforts to do do the same thing ?
All that the cotton planter or wheat
producer wants, is the same chance
that is offered and insured to others.
This he is entitled to, if it should
double the price of every calico dress
in the country and every sack of flour
that goes through the dough-tray.
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Before us, on our desk, lies the
latest addition to the journalistic produc-
tions of Centre county. It is the first
number of Vol. VI of Agricultural
Science, which beginning with the cur-
rent issue, will be published under the
exclusive control of WILLIAM FREAR,
Ph. D., professor of Agricultural Chem-
istry and Vice Director and Chemist of
the Agricultural Experiment Station of
the Pennsylvania State College.
Dr. Frear’s advent as an editor is
marked by a fifty-six page publication
teeming with matters of import to agri-
culturists and those engaged in the study
of scientific agriculture. He has happi-
ly surrounded himself with a staff of.
eminent writers, in the fleld to the in
terests of which the journal devotes it-
self. Pres. GEorGe W. ATHERTON,
L. L. D. and H. P. ArMsBY Ph. D., of
the State College ; B. E. FERNow, chief
of Forestry Division U. 8. Dep't. of
Agriculture and Prof. H. W. WiLey
Ph. D., chief Chemist, U. S. Dep't. of
Agriculture are among the number, and
articles from their pens will always be
salient reading.
In undortaking the publication of
this monthly, which must neces-
sarily embody such a scope and breadth
of opinion as to give it national repute
in Agricultural circles, Dr. FREAR has
undertaken an enormous task,but if his
first issue is a fair criterion as to what
we may expect in succeeding numbers
we feel confident that the editor will
ably fill the sphere at which he aims.
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A Chance For Cranks.
It there is a disgusted voter, or po-
litical crank in either of the old parties,
who seeks an opportunity to join an
organization that has got a political
umbrella spread, large enough to cover
as many notions as it has members,
the way is open and the “People’s”
party offers to take him under. It or-
ganized in St. Louis, last week, and
has taken sides on every question that
has arisen since the day Noam waded
down through the mud off Mt. Arrarat,
to the date of its own meeting. There
was nothing too great for it to tackle,
nor any suhject too small to claim its
attention. In'its arms the common
crank will be happy, and in its plat:
form is promised a pannacea for every
ill humanity is heir. to, with te pos-
sible exceptions of the seven-years-itch
and an epidemic of dam phooliem.
A Vitrol Throwing Rifle.
Pars, March 2.—A French officer
has submitted to the War Ministry a
rifle that will project a stream of vitrol
for a distance of seventy metres. He
proposes that this weapon be used only
——The Shamokin Drift, a new
Sunday newspaper, which tas the in-
terests of that bustling cozl town at
heart, made its first appearance in the
morning of the 28th of February. In|
its greeting we find the following
which might be of interest to the
Piutsburg board of Sunday newspaper
suppressers:
“The necessity for an enterprise |
“which would lay before the people of |
“Shamokin and vicinity the news of
“the world before it ceased to be news,
“has long been felt. In these days of
“hurry and bustle, when steam is be-
“ing rapidly supplanted by electricity,
“that girdles the globe with the twink-
“ling of an eye, peorle are not content
“to wait until the twilight that’ marks
“the hours of a dying day for the news
“of its predecessor. That might have
‘satisfied a past age; it will not this.
“That its constituency may follow
“the sun as it recedes and view the
“revelations as they are gathered in on
“the scroll of ‘time, before it again
“illumines the doings of another day
“Shamokin Drift is given to the pub-
“lie?
The Waroman tenders its congratu-
lations to the publishers for the highly
commendable mauner in which they
have issued their first sheet.
The Railroad Consolidation.
[Below we publish two articles on
the recent Reading, Lehigh Valley and
Jersey Central combine. They have
been sent us by those opposed to the
deal and embody the sentiments of
others—not the WarcaMan—EDp.]
A New York Paper’s View of It.
From the New York Morning Advertiser.
The combination of the Reading, Le-
high Valley, and Jersey Central Rail-
roads is evently contrary to law, and is
clearly against public policy. The
resolution “introduced in Congress to
inquire into the “deal” should not be
permitted to slumber. Governor Pat-
tison of Pennsylvania also has a duty
to perform, and the promptness and
thoroughness with which he has acted
in similar emergencies inspire the hope
that he will shirk no respousibility in
the present instance.
The purpose of the amalgamation of
raidroads can be interpreted in no two
ways. It is to control the output,
transportation, and marketing of coal,
with a view of enriching a few railroad
magnates at the expense of the public.
President McLeod of the Reading, who
engineered this consolidation scheme,
does not occupy ‘a place among public
benefactors. He is working for him-
self and friends exclusively. To this
end he has conceived a gigantic and
dangerous monopoly, which will re-
quire prompt and vigorous measures
to control.
There is no meaner monopoly than
that which takes advantage of the ne-
cessities of the poor, as this Reading
coal monopoly promises to do. It
should be strangled at the start.
Too Much Suspension.
The Lock Haven Democrat of the
29th ult. contained the following edi:
torial on the recent big railroad -com-
bine:
“Now that Attorney-General Hensel
has taken official notice of the protests
of Messrs, Cassatt and Powderly
against the consummation of the Read-
ing deal, and has fixed a time for the
hearing of the case, judgment can be
suspended for a time,’
The trouble is that the process which
the Attorney-General has taken in the
case has tov much the appearance ot
being intended to not only suspend
judgement, but to obstruct action for
the correction of a clear constitutional
infringement. The law intends that
the initiatory motion for the vindica-
tion of the Constitution should come
from him as the law officers of the
State administration. Bat he evident.
ly wants to shirk this duty and dodge
this responsibility by shoving Messrs.
Cassatt and Powderly forward as the
prosecutors.
The Constitution prohibits railroad
companies from absorbing parallel or
competing lines by lease or purchase.
In this Reading transaction there is a
prima facie appearance of this unconsti-
tutional act having been done. There
is enough appearing on its face to at-
tract the attention of a faithful and
vigilant Attorney General. The Con.
stitution itself prescribes the course he
should pursue in the premises, He
should bring the case before a compe-
tent court and let it determine whether
the Reading deal has been an absorp-
tion of parallel and competing lines,
as other questions of fact are determin-
ed by a court and jury.
There is precedent, as well as con-
stitutional, injuncion for such a course
of procedure: Itis the way that At-
torney General Cassiday proceeded in
similar cases, and it is" the ‘way that
any Attorney General, who knows his
duty and is willing to do it, will adopt.
TE A,
A Date for the Free Silver Bill.
WasHINGTON, March 1,—The com-
mittee on rules has reported a rule fix-
ing the 22d, 23d and 24th of March to
consider the silver bill, but do not pro-
pose to take up the resolution in the
house until next Monday. This gives
the anti-silver men a full week to oper-
ate in the house in favor of amending
the resolution so as to send the bill
over to the next session,
State Treasury 's Statement.
HarRrIsBUrG, Pa,, March 1.—The
State treasury statemeat to-day shows
the , general fund to contain $6,503,-
285.80 against $5,606,524.24 a month
avo, The sinking fund has $325,683.
34 as against $701,383.34 on the 1st of
February. The total amount of the
against savages to prevent their making
| frenzied rushes.
February 1892, loan outstanding is
$140,000.
The Australian Wins the Great Fight.
In Twelve Rounds Fitzsimmons, the Middle
Weight Campion of the World, Whipped Pe-
ter Maher, the Irish Heavy Weight.
NEw ORLEANS, La,, MARCH 2 --The
fight to-night between Mater and Fitz-
simmons attracted fully 5,000 people.
Prof, John Daffy was seiected as referce.
The betting was about even. Arthur
Upham and Charlie Mitcheil were -an-
nounced to box four rounds; Frank
Slavin and Felix Vacquelin four rounds
and Slavin aad Charley Mitchell four
rounds.
Professor John Duffy entered the
arena at 8 o’clock and made a clsver ad-
dress, Mitchell was too much for Upham
as Slavin was for Vacquelin, but the bout.
between Mitchel, and Slavin was a pret-
ty exhibition. 'Lhisclosed the prelim-
inaries and every body. stretched before
settling themselves for the card of the
evening. The timers for the Maher-
Fitzsimmons contest were George R.
Clark, of Chicago, for Fitzsimmons, P.
J. Donohue for Maher, RB. M. Frank
for the club.
The men entered the ring at exactly
9 o’clock, Maher first, dressed in black
trousers with black stockings and black
fighting shoes, Gus Tuthill, Billy Mad-
den and Jack Fallon were his seconds.
Fitzsimmons entered a moment later
and grasped Maher's hand, and was
cheered to the echo forso doing. Jim-
my Carroll followed his principles exam-
ple. -.Choynski and Greggan, who as-
sisted Carroll in Fitzsimmons’ corner,
immediately began preparations for the
battle. Madden was as pale as death
during the preparations. The usual par-
ley in the centre of the ring took in ‘one
of the greatest pugilistic parties ever
seen, and the good fellowship that
marked the opening, chat. elicited very
favorable comment. Both men were
stripped to the waist. Fitzsimmons
wore scarlet breech cloth, with black
fighting shoes and black stockings.
The official weight announced was:
Fitzsimmons 165, Maher 178.
Time was called at 9.15, with the men
in the:centre of the ring. - Fitz. opened
the battle and honors we even up to the
seventh round, but the Australian’s su-
perior tactics and skill began to show
and Maher became very grogey. He
took his punishment gamely, though
suffering greatly from the bleeding at
his mouth, the objective point of all
Fitzsimmons’ rushes. When time was
called on the twelfth round Maher, see-
ing that further fighting would be use-
less, threw up the battle.
Fitzsimmons tought a fair fight, and
offered a flask to his beaten opponent.
Fitzsimmons took a hearty pull himself
of the red stuff, and then congratulated
Maher on his game fight. The cheer-
ing for Fitzsimmons was deafening in
the extreme, some people commented on
Maher's bravery when he gave up the
fight, but it is only reasonable to “think
that he should have done so when the
superior science and generalship of the
man from Australia is called to mind.
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Condition of the Iron Trade.
Oder Production Has Caused Idleness Among
Workers—Markets are Stocked.
Prrrssure, March 1.—The present
condition of the iron trade and the idle-
ness of so many puddlers continue to
occupy the attention of manufacturers
and workingmen. The general verdict
is that over production forced the now
existing state of affairs. In speaking
of the depression in the trade A. M.
Byers, the well known manufacturer,
said: “The whole difficulty is due to
over production. The markets are
stocked and the demand is not as heavy
as might be. The talk of Bessemer
steel taking the place of iron is all
folly, for the reason that steel is as
much in the dumps at present as iron.
Our works are idle because our stock
of steel is now quite heavy.
President Weihe, of the Amalgamat-
edlassociation, does not appear to be dis-
turbed over the talk of a reduction in
this year’s scale and the report coming
from Wheeling to the effect that 10,-
000 puddlers in the Ohio Valley were
about tosecede from the Amalgamated
association and reorganize the Sons of
Vulcan. He said there was nothing in
the secession story.
Concerning the iron trade he said:
“When the association meets next
June it will be equal io whatever emer-
gency occurs. In 1890 there was a
production of steel of 61 per cent. to 38
of iron, At thesame time there was
more iron preduced that year than in
1889. The puddling furnaces now
standing will do to supply the increas-
ing amount of iron used in this coun-
try. Each year more is consumed than
before, and there will be no necessity
of tearing down works. A few years
ago, when the puddlers who made iron
for nails were thrown idle by the in-
troduction of the steel nail, they soon
found work making iron in other lines,
such as skelp and bar.”
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The Behring Sea Question.
The Controversy Has Reached the Arbitration
Stage.
WasHingron, March 1.—The nego-
tiations between the United States and
Great Britain, looking to the submis-
sion to arbitration of the long pending
controversy between the two countries
in regard to the Behring sea seal fisher
ies, reached a favorable conclusion
yesterday. Sir Julian Pauncefote, the
British minister, met Secretary Blaine
by appointment at the state depart-
ment and signed the treaty arbitration
on behalf of Great Britain. He said
he had been fully authorized by Lord
Salisbury to take this action.
Mr. Blaine signed the document on
behalf of this governmert, and the mat-
ter was consummated so far as the
diplomatic part of the businesgis con-
cerned. The treaty is still subject,
however, to the action of the British
parliament and the United States Sen-
ate. The exact terms of the treaty
cannot now be stated, but it 18 known
that the board of arbitration will con-
sist of seven person, two representing
the United States, two Great Britain
(one of whom is to be a Canadian) and
one each representing the neutral
governments of France, Sweden and
Italy.
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The Debt Statement.
Wasmixagrox, March 1.—The public
debt sta‘ement issued this afternoon
shows that the interest and non-inter
est bearing debt decreased $5.703,403,-
50 during . the month ot February.
Total cash in the treasary, $790,547,
518.17.
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Reciprocity With France.
Parts, March 1.—Mr. Whitelaw
Reid, the American minister; and M.
Jules Roche, minister ot commerce,
have arrived at a definite agreement
for the establishment of a commercial
treaty between France and the United
States. M. Roche will on Thursday |
introduce ‘a bill in the chamber of
deputies to ratify the agreement.
A Much Wanted Man,
From the Montrose Democrat.’
If there be one single workman in th e
United States whose wages have been
raised 1 cent by the McKinley law he
should make haste to communicate with
the chairman of the house committee on
manufactures, at” Washington, as that
committee has been instructed to hunt
for him, in connection with its investi-
gation of the “sweating system.” He
will also find’ profitable ‘engagements
with the dime museums of the country.
Neither Startling nor Strange.
From the Altoona Times.
It is not at all strange to us that Re-
publican journals are so venomously an-
tagonistic to Senator Hill,of New York.
They cannot forgive him for the adroit
manner in which he checkmated their
game to secure the control - of the New
York senate, by which, if successful.
they could have continued their uncon-
stitutional power in the Empire state for
some years at least. It required a man
like Senator Hill to hedge off one of the
most determined games ever ‘concocted
to unlawfully retain possession of a
State legislature.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
~—- Neither the farmer, the merchant
nor the mechanic ever stops to consider
that at present it actually costs more to
move a ton of freight over a. mile of our
average roads than to move it twenty-
five miles by rail. Get the figures, make
your own ealculation and see if this
statement is not correct. Thousands of
dollars might be annually saved to the
farmers of thisand the balance of our
counties, if we had good solid road beds,
easy grades and all that is meant by a
good, serviceable, property constructed
highway.
| A ScrHooL For VorErs :—The Pitts-
burg Times, in order to instruct the
people how to vote under the new Baker
law, has concluded to open a school to
introduce the system. -A: room will be
equipped with a booth constructed upon
the plan officiallyjadopted by the state
authorities and all the approaches, boxes
and accessories contemplated by the
new law. An election board will be in
attendance daily to conduct the election
and instruct voters in the operation of
the system. This is not a bad idea and it
would hardly be out of place to pattern
after it all over the state.
THE NITTANY VALLEY TURNPIKE,
—Last Saturday the viewers in the Nit-
tany Valley turnpike matter heard
argument by T. C."Hipple, Esq., for the
county, Charles Corss and C. S. McCor-
mick for the petitioners, and C. G.
Furst, for the Turnpike Company. The
viewers adjourned to meet on Tuesday
afternoon at 2 o’clozk. At that hour on
Tuesday after receiving instructions
from General Jesse Merill, the Master
appointed by the Court, and after con-
sulation, the viewers reported that they
refused to take the turnpike and make it
acounty or township road free of tolls.
The report of viewers is final.— Lock
Haven Ezpress.
MARRIAGE Licenses—Issued during
the past week—taken from the docket.
Samuel R. Gillam, of Philipsburg,
and Nora Morarty, of Ashcroft.
Wm. T. Fredericks, and Lydia Mus-
ser, both of Penn Hall.
E.J. Yearick, of Walker, and Elri
Decker, of Nittany Valley, !
H. M. Allison, of Lamar, and Clara
A. Steele, of Zion,
D. W. Garner, and Hannah C.
Neidigh,both of Ferguson twp.
George Heverly, of Liberty, and
Mariah Creek, Clearfield Co.
Johnson Warner, ot Snow Shoe, and
Hannah Miller, of Milesburg.
Wm, W. Souselman, of Punxs-
tawney, and Cord C. Baker, of Ingleby.
Tae. Liceys® Courr.—The License
court has been in session here since
Tuesday morning and petitions and
remonstrances, in great adbundance,
have been presented. When the tak-
ing of evidence closed, on Wednesday,
afternoon, the court made known that
all of the old licenses would be regranted
except those having remonstrances
against them,
In the case of the Central Hotel, of
Philipsburg, Peter Ashcroft, its pro-
prietor, having died on the 22nd of
February, Judge Furst ordered his wid-
| ow to file a new bord and make appli-
cation on March 26th,
Action on all of the new applications
has been witheld until tomorrow, Satur- |
day, when the court will make known |
its despositon of them. Itis impossible !
to say what the out-come will be.
—Put our rouds in the condition
the roads of France are in and you have
at once affected u saving in freight equal
in any view of the case to at least 20
per cent. of the total cost of roving our
farm products seven wiles by wagon.
Yet this is only a part of the showing.
Itis not farm products alone that are
transported by wagons. Millions of tons
of other forms of merchandise are
annually transported over our high-
ways, by wagon, under the sume condi-
tions of delay, annoyance and cost.
——Coul{ Miss Carrie Hunter, from
whom a bright and interesting letter
was received yesterday, take a glance at
old Centre county to-day, she would see
everywhere, a mantle of snow two or
three feet deep, instead of the beautiful
flowers and climate “that she writes of
from the sunny south. Miss Carrie,
who is a daughter of Capwin John
Hunter of Stormstown, was graduated
from the State College in 88. For
three years’ she taught successfully in
our county and has now a good position
in a school at Macon, Ga.
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Pine Grove Mentions.
Petitions against the granting of license af
this place have been circulated and legally
signed.
Mrs. H. B. Smith, who has been’ confined 0
bed by a relapse of grip, is now considered
out of danger.
Dr. Livingston is boasting of a young dentis®
at his house. He came to stay and for the pre-
sent they call him cryer.
Our M. E. neighbors are rejoicing over the
financial success of their last week's festival
in which they cleared forty dollars.
Mrs: Hannah Glenn, the oldest lady in this
section, is suftering from an attack of iritis
For a time it was thought the sight of one eye
would be destroyed, but at this writing a turn
for the better is noticeable.
The greatest body of snow that has be-
decked mother earth at any one time for
years fell on the firstof March, almost sus_
pending travel in all directions. The old
adage is that if March comes in like a lion it
will go out like a lamb.
The death of Miss Lettie Ross occurred at,
the residence of ‘J. H. Ross, Linden Hail, of
that dreaded and fatal disease consumption
on the first day of March. Aged 17 years. The
funeral cortege passed through here. on the
2nd inst. enroute for Ross's church where in -
terment was made.
The marriage of Miss Laura Ross to James.
Lytle took place at the home at of the bride's
father Major J. S. Ross, on the 20d inst., in
presence of a few invited guests and the fam-
ily. Rev. George Elliot performed the mar”
riage rites. The bridal party is spending
the honey moon in Philadelphia.
The Teacher’s local institute, held in th se:
Academy Hall last Friday evening, and Satur
day, was one of much interest, judging by the
crowded attendance at every session. The in
fluence derived from these meetings should be
of lasting benefit toall who took part in the
several educational sudjects under discus
sion.
Most excellert music was furnished. Mis"
Mary Ward presiding at the organ, and choj
rendered some of their best selections which,
were highly appreciated. At 7 o’clock sharp.
chairman John Dale and secretary of the as"
sociation, J. L. Holms, were at their desks, and
the house was rapped to order. Roll was called
and all of Ferguson township teachers re.
sponded present but one. Centre Hall borough
teachers present were Rothrock and Spang =
lers. College twp., Harrison, Wasson, Roush, J
D.and Clem Dale and Holmes, Harris twp.
Gettig and Coxie. Potter twp., Gregg, Keller"
Neft and Miss Messinger.
The Friday evening sessionwas taken up.
by the Principal of the prepratory department.
of Penna State College. Prof. 3parks ‘held.
the audience for an hour and a half with
his humorous recitations in which he per--
sonated the english dude with perfection to.
the gratification and delight of his hearers,
The closing day’s work, of Saturday, eom-
menced early as their was an anxity to get
through soon as possible so as to enable teach .
ers from adistance to return to their homes.
When the chairman had called the assem”
blage to or der the choir favored the audience.
with some of its best renditions, then secre_
tary Holmes ran over the roll, very few fail_
ing to respond to their names. As the success
of such occasions is very largely aependent on.
the attendance so the prospect for the day and
evening session, was bright. The number of
sober, intellectual countenances, as seen from
the presidents chair augured that the subjects .
for discussion would be carefully sifted. The
first subject was “ United States History” open--
ed by Teacher Gettig, ot Harris township and .
followed by Miss Sue Danley, A. G Archy, J
L. Holmes and Prof. Sparks. “Penna State
History” was opened by Justice A. G. Archey*
The squires lecture on our Keystone was high_
ly instructive and contained a grist of whole
some thought and our schelars, boys and glils
want to stick a pin right here. “Centre coun-
ty History” was very ably outlined by Prof
Sparks, who urged the instruction of history
by map out-lines ; the important settlements
battlegrounds ect. by different colored chalk of
pencil. A good recitation on Pedagogism was
rendered by Miss Spangler, who ia fine, well
couched sentences extolled in a true light, one
of the most honored and respectable of al)
professions. Next subject “how toget aloug |
without the rod in the school room” led off by
the champion whaler who thought it best to
first obtain if possible the good. will «f the .
scholars and if possible to govern with love .
and in case the rod became a necessity then to .
use it according to regulations, but not to ,
batter the finger nails which were made for g
protection. He was followed by Prof. Sparks:
Holmes and Gettig all voicing the sentiments
of the first speaker. The entire program was
strictly adhered to especially the order of
“dinner.”
At 1:30 sharp chairman Dale's gavel fell and
while the audience was hustling for better
seats the sweet tones of the organ choir pealed
forth. Then “supplementary reading” was dis®
cuseed by teachers Rothrock, Gettig, Coxie,
Dale, Holmes and Miss Spangler all of whom
difference in opinion, nevertheless the grist
of interesting thoughts were highly entertain
ing. Subject of Penmanship” was opened by
teacher Edgar Bowersox why urged the mus"
cular movement and not the slow finger move”
ment of the beginner, and teacher to set copies
and exclude copy books from the school. He
! was followed by Roush and Danley and the
meeting of pedagogues which has been,
looked forward to for months was closedt
While here we trust our visitors had a pleasanr
time and extend a cordial invitation a fo
newal of the institute at their earliest desire,
Itwillmeet at Centre Hall on the 18th inst,